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A11625	The second part of Philomythie, or Philomythologie Containing certaine tales of true libertie. False friendship. Power vnited. Faction and ambition. / By Thomas Scot Gent..; Philomythie. Part 2.	Scot, Tho. (Thomas), fl. 1605.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626, attributed name.	1616 (1616)	STC 21871A.7; ESTC S116842	14,994	40

Such one sleepes safe within the armes of loue Diuine regard doth all his subiects moue To due obedience and with sacred awe Binds conscience with a stronger bond then lawe Such heauen informes whilst hell doth vndermine And spite of darkest plots with grace diuine Doth hedge about that naked in the armes Of enemies he is preseru'd from harmes They sleepe securely feed on holesome cates Angels their beds make cookes their delicates Giues Antidotes gainst poysons doth defend Gainst damned witches and their God the fiend No Iesuits at their elbowes can do hurt Nor troopes of Papists that their courts ingirt For God doth them in his blest armes inclose Safe though their chiefest fauourites were foes O happy then good Kings proceed Psal 45. ride on Grow vp in glory as you haue begun Ride on for truths sake looke on either band How you are guarded with a heauenly hand Of blessed spirits who shall lead you still In holy paths and guide your steps from ill These being with you Psal 91. you shall boldly tread Vpon the Lyon and the Dragons head And trample danger vnderneath your feete As men tread stones or dirt within the street Which only spraids them your heauen-garded state Is safer far then that of Mithridate The King of Pontus vnto whom befell What strange aduenture in this tale I tell This King perceiuing well there was no band Of duty loue or nature AElianus could withstand The strong inticement of corrupting gold Or baser lust or humor ouerbold Or fond ambition which makes empty slaues Swim bladder borne vpon the floting waues Of false Opinion with the arme of pride Of borrowed power and ignorance beside But that these would peruert the faith they had And cause them after farther hopes run mad Did to preuent all this a guard prouide Of faithfull beasts whose strength had oft been tried A Bull a Horse a Hare the Captaines were Of this strong guard whose force did nothing feare But falshood and Ingratitude and Treason From which they were as free as man from reason Why knowing more then beasts he should not hate As they doe to be treacherous and ingrate These three together being put to feed And sport themselues till there were farther need Of their knowne faith together long did dwell In peace and loue till on a time it fell That they with rest and ease full fed and fat Had time to play to dally and to chat Then did the wanton Hart propound a course Betwixt himselfe and the couragious Horse The warlike Horse did dare the horned Bull To make one in the race who straight way full Of burning choller and adusted blood Bad cowards run he for no footman stood T was meet for them that durst not stand it out To vse their heeles his heart was too too stout The angry Hart replies ther 's none of you But may to me as to your better bow I swifter then the Horse my feet can vse And for my head the Bull I le not refuse To combat with my courage I am sure Is like my strength as able to indure And doe as either of you dare or can And more I am esteemd by royall man Those Serpents which you run from I seeke forth And teare them with my teeth as nothing worth And as my life to man is sweet and pleasing So is my death each part some sorrow easing My hornes all mortall poyson can expell My marrow makes stiffe ioynted misers well My fat yeelds strength and sweetnesse that fierce lad Achilles neuer otherspoonemeat had Which made him such a Captaine euery part Is physicall and comforteth the heart Yea euen my excrements the dropsie cures My teares like precious lewels man allures To seek them vp wheres'euer they be shed My skin great Captaines weare when I am dead And boast that they haue such a coat of proofe Which wounds withstands whence venome stands aloofe Then why O baser creatures dare you brag And match your selues with the long liuing Stag My life is long cause I with cost am wrought But nature slights your liues as good for nought The crested Horse with fiery eies did show What inward rage did in his hot blood flow To heare this bold speech vttered and with head Tost in the ayre his hardned hoofes doth tread The sc ornd earth with contempt then thus breaks out O thou the fearefullest of all the rout Of hunted beasts how haps it that you dare With me your master and your Lord compare Forget ye my preheminence the loue Man beares me how one spirit seems to moue Me and my rider that we start and run Stop turne trot amble as we were but one Haue you at any time been calld to war Where none but Captaines and great Souldiers are Trusted to heare their Councels on your backe Borne the Commander of that royall packe I haue done this and more borne him about Through worlds of danger and then bornehim out He trusts me when his legs he dare not trust And when his hands faile then performe I must Nay when he failes himselfe in euery part I adde another life another heart In war I thus befriend him in his need And so in peace I helpe his wants to feed I till his land that else would barren be Beare all his carriage and am sildome free From sum imploiment but must neere him stand As being fit and apt for his command If he to visit friends abroad doth fare I must along with him true friends we are If he intends to hunt such beasts as you For sport or hate or need he lets me know The time the place the end and we agree I see the sport and hunt as well as he How often haue I seene some fearefull Hart Perhaps your sire at my dread presence start Fly hence with vtmost speed and neuer slacke His willing pace when I vpon my backe Bearing my noble master haue at length O'retane the lubber hauing lost bis strength Whilst I still forming courage breathing sprite Haue sought another conquest long ere night And after that a third vnwearied yet Yet you your selfe as Paralell will set To match and ouermatch my worth my force As if weake Stags might braue the peerlesse Horse For physicall receipts I le easily yeeld Aliue I profit man you being kild This makes him seeke your death my liue to saue Yet being dead my parts their vertues haue Which I refer to others to relate As scorning Hog-like to doe good so late This only I conclude If man should choose To saue but one hee 'd both of you refuse The armed Bull sweld puft and roard alowd To heare the Hart so bold the Horse so proud And all the while they spake he tost about With hornes and hoofes the dust then bellowed out This bolder braue What ignorance is this That causeth both of you so much amisse To boast yourfalse worths and neglect the true Which rests in me belongs to none of you The

being exempt from the temporall sword are free of this company But the child of God whose affections are mortified who obeis law for conscience sake who is a law vnto himselfe is the onely freeman for to him the Magistrate bears the sword in vaine He would be honest without law and wil be honest if the law should forbid him Yet vvould he not resist but submit himselfe to power He is free of that company whereof S. Paul professeth himselfe one when he saith I I haue learned in al estates to be contented How much more happy are they who liue vnder the protection of a good king and wholesome lawes then these are who liuing here like outlawes goe without contradiction out of momentany pleasure liberty into eternal slauery punishmēt The Cony-burrow ¶ Dedicated to the louers of worth and friends of vertue who follow truth with a single heart and speake it with a single tongue Be innocent but circumspect withall The Turtles mate may be the Turtles stall Be wise yet trust not wit The traps we make For others first doe our false fingers take What we delight to vse take pride to weare Takes vs as Absalon hangd with his haire Then walke vpright to neither hand encline There 's nought frees innocence but grace diuine THe Polcat Ferret Lobstar Weasel made A secret match the Cony to inuade Which no way they could compasse whilst he kept Himselfe abroad when as he fed or slept At last the Polcat to the Cony went With this smooth speech Good cousen my intent Hath been long since t' acquaint you with our kin And tell ye how our cousenage came in Your Grandame was my carefull fostermother To your kind sire I was a fosterbrother My education nurture and my foode I from my youth receiued from your sweet brood In recompence whereof my thankfull mind A fitte requitall long desired to finde The time is come for I haue lately found A secret plot wherein the cunning hound The close dissembling Tumbler Lurcher swift With Raynard that knowes many a subtill shift The Eagle and the Goshauke haue agreed Their stomacke with your dainty flesh to feed First they intend the hound shall hunt ye out And by your footing heate ye once about Then shall that hypocrite the Tumbler trie To cheare you of your life with his false eie But if he faile the Lurcher with his speed Will snatch yee vp they hope and doe the deed If not the Eagle Fox and Goshauke sweare To eat no meat till on your lims they teare The harmlesse Cony at this dire report Ready to sound besought in humble sort The wary Polcat him t' instruct and teach A way how he might scape his foes long reach Faith quoth the Polcat you perhaps might hide Your selfe among thicke bushes vnespide But that the Hounds and Lurcher both are there Whose sents will quickly find ye out I feare Againe vpon the rocks you might remaine But that the Eagle Fox and Goshauke saine Thei 'l watch ye there so that no other way Remaines to scape with life but night and day To scrape and grate with your forefeet a den Within the earth where safe from beasts and men And foule and euery bloody foe you shall Your life securely lead in spight of all The simple Cony doubting no deceit Thought treason had not councell for a bait And therefore thanks his foe and glad at heart To dig his owne graue vseth all his art A sandy place he seeks and finding one Free from all clay or flint or other stone He with his forefeet grates and makes a burrow As deepe as if he ment to trauaile thorow The body of the earth and meet the Sunne When it vnto the Antipodes doth run Which hauing finisht he prepares a feast And there the Polcat is the chiefest guest The Lobster Ferret Weasel too must goe To ioy him in his house they loue him so And their great friend the siluer-suited Snake Must needs along with them and merry make He welcomes them and doth before them set What iunckets he with purse or paines could get The Lyons Court hath not a dainty dish But he prouides it euen beyond their wish Yet they that long for blood till blood be shed Cannot be satisfied though fully fed Ingratitude thou monster of the minde Art thou not only proper to mankind Is there a beast that can forget his friend And for his owne ends worke his fellowes end Is there a beast whose lust prouokes him kill The beast that did him good nere wisht him ill Is there a beast who vnder kindnesse can Dissemble hate O then thrice happy man Thou art not only he that kilst thy brother Some beasts there are that murther one another Some foules some fishes Serpents some there are Who pray vpon their kind in open war And some that vnder friendship falsly faind With fellowes murther haue their natures staind Nay there is one who can so couer euill That man may iudge him Angell find him diuell He first with sweetmeats poysond Adams seed Since when of sweet meats wisest men take heed So need not these bould guests they eat and drink And then rise vp to play but neuer thinke Ought fadgeth right till they haue brought to passe The purposde plot for which this meeting was Therefore dissemblingly the Polcat gins To licke and catch the Cony and so wins Hould vnderneath his throat which hauing fast The tragedy begins the sport is past For all assault him then on euery part Some at his sides some at his head and heart Some at his belly but the poisonous Snake Doth at his tayle a deadly issue make The helplesse Cony sues intreats and striues But he must die had he ten thousand liues Each foe his greedy gorge with blood doth glut And with his fweet flesh cram each hollow gut But blood that 's sweet in tast is not so sound To feed vpon as milke that 's easier found The Snake with poisonous touch had venome spred Through all the swelling vaines from taile to head And they had suckt the blacke infection in A fitting vengeance for their crying sinne Straight they their stomackes find not well at ease And something feele that doth their minds displease The Weasel first suspects the Snake for he Can neuer with a Serpent well agree Saies they are poisond all by one base slaue Whose company the Ferret needs would haue The Snake replies he did no more but what He was appointed to performe by plot And if they foolishly had eat their last He could not mend with sorrow what was past They find it true but find it now too late Each rauing dies and yeelds constraind by fate Yet ere they die all doe their farewell take By shaking teeth together on the Snake Who deadly wounded crawles but faintly thence Confounded with the guilt of his offence And heeding not his way by good mishap Became a prisoner to the warriners trap This feast

was ended thus death tooke away And where they did not well we mend it may Epimythium Some are of opinion that wisedome consisteth in the ability to giue good counsell But I think the knowledge how to take good counsell and how to discerne the differencs of aduise is the principall part of wisedome That Frog in AEsope which in a great drought spying water in a deepe pit aduised his fellow to leape downe that they might be satisfied and liue there gaue good counsell and seemed to be a patterne of the first wisedome spoken of But the other Frog that refused his aduise and diued deeper then the present time then the bottome of the pit with this question But if the water faile vs there how shall we then get out or how shall we liue there was a figure of the second wisedome and teacheth vs that it is harder to take good counsell then to giue it Let vs therefore beware in this point and learne to looke a little beyond that good which is first and most apparant in euery proiect The second and third good is that which we must rest on for truth is often most remote and neerest the bottome all that swims vppermost is the froth and false good and fraud The House of Fame Dedicated to all the noble attendants of Royalty in the Campe of Vertue who fight for the honor of the Church and Common-wealth Till now of late we feard that lowd report Of Cressy field Poicters and Agincourt Fought by our Kings and Princes heretofore Had not been true or should be tould no more We wondred if those Nobles euer were Whom fame for armes and bounty did prefer We doubted all our Countries had forgot The deede of Audely or beleeud it not We thought our Nation was of worth bereft When bowes and arrowes and brown bills were left But see occasion now hath turnd our eyes To inward wars where greater wonders rise To see affection conquerd lust chastisd'e Pride humbled Murther slaine all vice despisd'e And all old vertues freshly now reneude By faire examples as the Sun ere vewd In which braue war of wonders passing far All other conflicts that compounded are Of loue and hate each Lord who lends a hand To fight gainst vice for vertue doth this land More honor then his Ancestors before In conquering France and shall be famd for 't more Some for their Prudence who found out and led Others for zeale through whom the enemy fled Others for Art whose skill the squadrons placed Others for Iustice who the enemy chased And some for Constancy who held it out And still vnwearied not vn wounded fought But none more fame attaind then mercies squire Who begd to giue all sauing in desire He Audely-like taught Courtiers how to craue What they might giue away and giuing saue Saue free from feare of forfeiture or losse Or the re-begging or the next yeeres crosse Or enuies eye-sore or the Commons hate Or poores complaint or gre uance of the state To him and to the rest this tale is sent How soeuer taken with a good intent FAme that in Homers time a vagrant was Without a house aud home did after passe In stately structures all the mixed race Of Semdeities and euery place Built her a Court assisted by the Rages Of sundry Poets in succeeding ages For euery one did something ad to frame More space and room for their friends narrow fame Which as they purchast still to her they gaue And that 's the cause themselues so little haue This Fame hath now her house glazde al with eies The rafts beames balkes nerues sinewes arteries The dores wide open eares hangd round about With nimble tongues and couerd so without All things are seene and heard the wide world ore Which touch that place and farthest off the more The House of Fame built vp foure stories hie Stands in an open plaine in which doth lie Foure sister twins True fame and good the first And eldest are false and bad fame the worst And yongest payre yet swiftest are in flight And though last borne yet oft come first to light These last dwell in two darker roomes below Among the thicke Crowdes where all errors grow There keepe they Court where Scandals Libels lies Rumors Reports Suspicions calumnies Are fauorites and Gouernors of State Whose practise 't is true worth to ruinate False fame liues lowest and true Fame aboue Bad Fame next false good fame next true doth moue Yet good fame somtime doth with false fame stay And bad fame sometime doth with true fame play But false and true opposd will neuer meete Nor bad and good fame one the other greete It so fell out as oft strange things befall A gallant Knight ariued at that faire Hall Attended on with such a noble sort Of warlike squires as fild this spatious Court Who curiously enquiring o● the rout Whose Court it was could no waies find it out For contradictions crost each other so As truth from falshood he could no waies know Bad fame did call it hers and said she was A guide to such as vnto glory passe False Fame did call it hers he saw they lide For ' boue their heads two brighter Queens he spide True fame spake to him then and let him know That she and good fame did the building owe Being eldest borne to Titan and the Earth Before the Gyants war when th 'others birth Long since was subiect to their parents sinne And heauens curse which now they liued in For as those Gyants gainst the Gods did war So these to truth professed enemies are Had by strong hand and fraud vsurpd her state And to expresse to vertue vtmost hate Had bard all passage to their houses hie That mortall men might in obliuion die Or haue their memories blasted glories kild By eating time with lies and slanders fild She wisht him then if he his good desired To haue repeated or his spirit aspired To worthy honor as old knights had wont Whose swords not rust but too much vse did blunt That he would vse some meanes to set them free Whereby his blest name might eternizd be Good Fame then told him that the only way How he this enterprize accomplish may Was by the helpe of mercy prudence art Iustice and zeale and Constancy of heart All their knowne friends to summon vp in armes To force the place and to disperse those swarmes Of idle vagabonds who kept below And hated good Fame would not true fame know Then since the stayres of fame were broken downe And dores stopt vp to glory and renowne She wild him make an engine wherewithall He might her lodging and her sisters scale And so himselfe in spite of perill raise Aboue the reach of enuy or dispraise The Knight in spirit rauisht with delight To heare their speech to see their goodly sight Mounts his fierce Coursers backe with which at hand His Squires attend vpon his strict command Wils euery one of them to take