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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02475	Visiones rerum. = The visions of things. Or Foure poems 1. Principium & mutabilitas rerum. Or, the beginning and mutabilitie of all things. 2. Cursus & ordo rerum. Or, art and nature. 3. Opineo & ratione rerum. Or, wealth and pouertie. 4. Malum & finis rerum. Or, sinne and vertue, concluding with the last Iudgement and end of all things. Wherein the author expresseth his inuention by way of dreame. By Iohn Hagthorpe Gent.	Hagthorpe, John.	1623 (1623)	STC 12604; ESTC S105951	64,913	148

externall gif●…s are poore and small Compard with other benefits of mine Who as a Gnomon doe direct them all To looke from shadowes on that Sunne diune Which through the world both Light and Life doth 〈◊〉 Since 〈◊〉 beauties only shadowes be Of that true compleate Beauti●… One and Three 72 This said her finger lockt her lip and me She beckned streight-way with her other hand That I enformd now sentence should decree Because her modestie did here command Her silence and that we might vnderstand How much selfe-praise doth true fame interest She ceast well hoping I would speake the rest 73 A taske which pondring mine owne weakenesse right I found my selfe lesse fit to vnder-take Then Pigmies be with Giants for to fight And crauing they some fitter choice would make Euen here me thought euen while these words we spake A reuerend Matron entred into place Call'd Alethia her I shewed the case 74 Requested her the matter to decide To heare weigh iudge with best discretion To which me thought she instantly replide Friend for that purpose am I hither come Therefore obserue and lis●…en to my doome Tho bodies great we cannot wholly view We iudge the whole by a part one thread the clew 75 Nature is saire but Art it makes her shine Nature is great but Art she makes her more Nature is wise Art makes her seeme diuine Nature is rich but Art still mends her store Nature is strong yet doth she aide implore From Art Art better then by consequent Since she her strength wealth beauty doth augment 76 Nature is of her selfe but a rude masse VVhich of it selfe each day to ruine tends VVhom Art still ●…triues to beautifie and grace And to preserue and forme it euer bends Her chiefe endeauour tending still to mend VVhat errs or wants in Nature and to plaine Her ruder workes with some more pollisht frame 77 Since Nature brings Man forth imperfit then VVith sense relucting alwaies to the mind And Art she tills and formes the soules of men Giuing them light whom Nature hath made blind My sentence is to Art wholly enclin'd Since as the ancient sages truly tell T is better ne'er to be then not be well 78 This said my Vision vanisht nothing staid But th'airie clouds vast sea demoli●…ht Phane My selfe and my sad thoughts but ill appaide VVith certaine gifts they gaue me for my paine For Nature angry and incenst with shame Warded me sicknes Art for all my toyle Pouertie cause I did her praises soyle 1 These three Nauall Battailes were the greatest of the World for the prime Forces both of the East and West were drawne into them the first was that wherein Zerxes the great Mo●…arch was ouercome by the small forces of 〈◊〉 who was so puft vp with conceit of his great but vnprofitable Army that hee raged against the Elements as appeares by that of the Poet. Ille tamen qualis rediit Salamina relicta In corum atque Eurum sollitus seuire flagellis Barbarus Eolio nunquā hoc incarcere passos Ipsum compedibus qui vinxerat Ennosigaeū Nempevna naue The next was that of Augustus Caesar and Anthony Marcus Anthonius brought all the forces of the East Augustus those of the West and in this Anthony lost the Empire The last was that of Lepanto fought in the Bay of Corintho wherein Don Iohn of Austria Generall for the Christians gaue the Turkes a great ouerthrow 2 This bea●…t is found in the Northerne parts of America when she is pursued she takes vp her young vpon the hollow of her backe and with her broad bushie taile couers them as in a tent and so flies with them 3 The Chyurca is bred in the Southerne parts of America shee hath certaine lappets of skin vnder her belly which she opens and shuts at her liking and in the same she receiues and harbours her young ones and so beares them till they grow vp Scalig. Exer●… 206. They tearme it Obassom in Virginia Maffeus calls it Cerigon lib. 2. pag. 73. 4 The Crocodile hath such hard Scales all ouer his body sauing vnderneath his belly that no Sword or Speare can hurt him nor small shot hardly slaine with a Falkonet Scal. 5 There be Tortoyses in India whose shells weigh three hundred pound weight They couer houses with them in some places of the Indies Plin. lib. 6. Scal. Excercit 196. In the same place Scaliger relates a storie of a Traueller who being benighted in the I le of Trapobana wearie and seeking some conuenient place to take vp his lodging in vpon the bare Earth for that night and espying hard by a thing like an old Tombe all Moss-begrowne about the sides of it and supposing it indeed to be such as it seemed he lay downe vpon it for to rest all night and slept soundly But in the morning perceiuing himselfe borne farre out of his way a●…d from the place where hee lay downe he began to marueile very much looking about as a man affeard of an Earthquake till at last he spies the pernicious head of his supposed Tombe where hee had mistaken his lodging and perceiued it to be a great Tortoyse Scalig. Excercitations 196. They vse the lesser Tortoyse shells in stead of Shields 6 The Rhynoceros hath his body all ouer armed with impenitrable Scales or rather shields of y●…llow colour spotted all through with purple spots diuers haue mistaken him for the Vnicorne for the Rhynoceros hath two hor●…es one vpon his nose the other on his brow Scal. Exercitations 204. 7 The El●…phants be at this day vsed in the warres as formerly they set Souldiers vpon them in small Turrets with some small pieces of Ordnance his skin will beare the thrust of any weapon and push of Pike the Indian Kings ride vpon them There bee of them 〈◊〉 foote high the Ethiopians are lesse then those of India but those of India lesse then those of Saint Laurence Scal. Excercitation 204. Plin. lib. 8. Linsc 8 The Armadillo is a little beast of the West Indies all couered ouer with hard shields Lerius 9 Attilius Regulus Generall of the Romans in Africk assailed one of these Serpents neere the Riuer Bragada of one hundred and twentie foote long whereon he was forc't to spend his Darts and Arrowes and to vse all his Brakes and Slings and Engins of Artillerie as if he had giuen the assault to some strong Towne of warre and the proofe of this was to be seene by the markes in his skinne and chawes which till the warre of Numantia remained in a Temple of Rome Plin. l. 8. cap. 14. 10 Pliny would perswade vs that if the Hyenna compasse or circle in any thing Man or Beast they shall not be able to stirre from the place lib. 8. cap. 30. 11 The Torpedo sends forth a benumming humour vp the Line the Rod and euen to the Fishers hand and ouer his whole bodie sometimes so that diuers haue fallen downe therewith into the Riuers and in stead of