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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01890	Babels balm: or The honey-combe of Romes religion With a neate draining and straining-out of the rammish honey thereof. Sung in tenne most elegant elegies in Latine, by that most worthy Christian satyrist, Master George Good-vvinne. And translated into tenne English satyres, by the Muses most vnworthy Eccho, Iohn Vicars.; Melissa religionis pontificiae. English	Goodwin, George, fl. 1607-1620.; Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1624 (1624)	STC 12030; ESTC S103245	56,801	130

BABELS BALM OR THE HONEY-COMBE OF ROMES RELIGION WITH A neate draining and straining-out of the rammish HONEY thereof Sung in tenne most elegant ELEGIES in Latine by that most worthy Christian SATYRIST Master GEORGE GOOD-VVINNE AND Translated into tenne English SATYRES by the Muses most vnworthy Eccho IOHN VICARS AVGVSTINE Pride hath an appetite of Vnitie and Omnipotency Imprinted at London by George Purslowe for Nathanaell Browne and are to be sold at his Shop at the vpper end of the long Walke neere Little S. Bartholomews 1624. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE WILLIAM LORD HERBERT of Cardiffe Marmion St. Quintin and Parr of Kendall EARLE of Pembrooke Chamberlaine of his MAIESTIES Household Chauncelour of OXEFORD Knight of the Noble Order of the GARTER and one of his MAIESTIES most Honorable PRIVIE-COVNCELL WIse Counsellours great Lord as Sages say Haue three faire Markes to make their best blest aime First Gods due glory next their Princes Fame Lastly to be their Countries Staffe and Stay God His exacts by whom they 're first elected Kings Theirs expect vnder whom they haue Grace States Hence their Fates extract for whom that Place They exercise to see them safe protected How well your Lordship hits this triple White How well your Worth's approu'd to God and Man Your God your King your Countrey witnesse can Whose Goodnesse Grauenesse Greatnesse All delight Your Goodnesse to your God your Faith makes knowne Your Grauenesse to your King your Wisedome showes Your Greatnesse to the State in Vertue flowes Faith Wisedome Worth combin'd conioynd in One. A faire Paire-Royall in a Loyall Peere Whom Heauen hath happifi'd for 's Piety Whom his great King loues for his Loyalty Whom all his Countrey iustly holds most deere O may this three-fold Twist be ne're vntwin'd May Piety your Pilot euer bee O may your Prince your Prudence euer see Long may your Countrey your good Counsaile finde That as you GOD GOD may you euer houour That as you grace your King your King may grace you That as you fight vnder Faiths blessed Banner Your God your King your Countrey may embrace you His humble Heart and Voice this sayes thus prayes Who in his Prayers his Best doth rest alwayes Your Honours most humble Votarie to be commanded IOHN VICARS TO THE IVDICIOVS AND COVRTEOVS READER THou hast here courteous Reader my Authours Epistle Dedicatorie which both for the Elegancy thereof and proprietie to this present Discourse I haue translated into English the rather for that the Authour hath learnedly laid-downe his Motiues both to the Matter and Metricall Method thereof Which as they most iustly may and doe protect him from the Prauitie of detracting Malignitie So I hope they will with no lesse indifferencie my Cause and Case being the same in the Matter though farre inferiour in the Manner Patronize me and Apologize for me against the Malice of muttering Momus Thus hoping the best in the generous and iudicious disdayning the worst in the degenerous and inscitious I rest Thine Io. VICARS The Authours Epistle Dedicatorie to the right Honorable Sir ROBERT NANTON Knight Principall Secretarie to the State and one of his Maiesties most Honourable priuie Councell MAny things there be right Honourable which vilifie and diminish the faith of Romes Religion which fortifie and garnish ours And yet indeed it is a very miserable and deplorable thing that in matter of Religion mens mindes and iudgements should still hang wauering and anxiously tottering as a Wedge of Steele betweene two attractiue Loadestones and not to be maturely and firmely confirmed in the indubitable orthodox Faith and Religion When therefore I had adapted and addicted my mind to the studie of Diuinitie and afterward setled my serious inquisition vpon Controuersies of Faith Poperie most perspicuously seemed to me to be nothing else but a certaine pompous Maiesticke Monarchie begotten by Ambition bred and fed vp by Superstition blocked-vp and fortified by Tyranny enlarged and propagated both by the Mammon of the World and fraudulent Fabrication of the Pseudo-Clergie Many most learned Authours haue by their worthy Writings notably shaken this I say not Religion but Relegation or Banishment of true Religion and may It now with your Honours good liking put on a versified Vesture and by this my Edition and Dedication to your Honour come forth yet more grossely guiltie from me Theodorite writes of one Ephres of Syrus an Iland in Asia who long since composed in diuers kinds of Verses whatsoeuer appertained to Pietie and Religion That so they might the more feruently be affected and earnestly desired The same doth Socrates and Sozomen affirme of Apollinarius And Gregory Nyssen of Basil and of Nazianzen Of more proximious and moderne times also Eobanus of Hesse Beza Bucanan and very many more did accomodate themselues as it were with a certaine kinde of delightfull Sawce and Seasoning of the Truth to the illustration and setting forth of the Booke of Psalmes in Verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Pindarus Let not then the stormie Stones of dire Detraction be throwne at me if I in imitation of those worthy imitable Authours haue in verse composed Hoc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Religionis argumentum This often controuerted Subiect of Religion The most exquisitely learned Interpreters doe call the Booke of Psalmes the most sacred sugred Poeme of Gods blessed Spirit And they giue the reason why Almightie God would haue so excellent a Treasure of his Church to be contriued and contained in verse viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that it might be as a Bait to allure and entice men to facile obedience thereunto The same also is most manifest that Satan as he is Operum Dei 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Ape of Gods Actions was wont to enfold wreathe and winde-vp in Verse all his Oracles which in former ages he vsed to deliuer by his Pythons or Sybils that by this meanes they might be the more pleasant and acceptable to those which enquired after them I omit that Saint Paul out of certaine Poets as Aratus Menander and Epimenedes quoted diuers Testimonies or amplifications and not out of any other Heathenish Authors as neere as I can obserue in his Epistles Once also heretofore I my selfe composed a Module in Latine-Verse vnder the Title of A Combate betweene the Flesh and the Spirit or The Warfare of a Christian Souldier Of our holy Martyrs And of The miseries of this miserable Life Since which time I with Nazianzen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haue cast and prostrated this my Muse at my Sauiours feet submitting and addicting it wholly to his seruice and to the setting forth of his pure Doctrine And whilest I read the elaborate Labours and Diatribae of Diuines and at intermissiue houres ruminated what I had read with most feruent desire and full delight I forthwith put my selfe vpon a versifying Veine thereby as well as I might to strengthen and assist my weake and vntrusty memorie The Fruit of this my Labour I humbly Deuote Dedicate and