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Euthymiæ raptus; or The teares of peace with interlocutions. By Geo. Chapman.
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Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.
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good life is all Liue well ye Learnd and all men ye enthrall Interlâ— Alas they are discourag'd in their courses And like surpris'd Forts beaten from their forces Bodies on Rights of Soules did neuer growe With ruder Rage then barbarous Torrents flowe Ouer their sacred Pastures bringing in Weedes and all rapine Temples now begin To suffer second deluge Sinne-drownde Beasts Making their Altars crack and the filde Nests Of vulturous Fowles filling their holy places For wonted Ornaments and Religious graces Pea. The chiefe cause is since they themselues betraie Take their Foes baites for some particular swaie T' inuert their vniuersall and this still Is cause of all ills else their liuing ill Int. Alas that men should striue for others swaie But first to rule themselues And that being waie To all mens Bliss why is it trod by none And why are rules so dully lookt vpon That teach that liuely Rule Pea. O horrid thing T is Custome powres into your common spring Such poyson of Example in things vaine That Reason nor Religion can constraine Mens sights of serious things and th' onely cause That neither humane nor celestiall lawes Drawe man more compasse is his owne slacke bent T' intend no more his proper Regiment Where if your Actiue men or men of action Their Policie Auarice Ambition Faction Would turne to making strong their rule of Passion To search and settle them in Approbation Of what they are and shal be which may be By Reason in despight of Policie And in one true course couch their whole Affaires To one true blisse worth all the spawne of theirs If halfe the idle speech men Passiue spend At sensuall meetings when they recommend Their sanguine Soules in laughters to their Peace Were spent in Counsailes how they might decrease That frantique humour of ridiculous blood Which addes they vainely thinke to their liues flood And so conuerted in true humane mirth To speech what they shall be dissolv'd from Earth In bridling it in flesh with all the scope Of their owne knowledge here and future hope If last of all your Intellectiue men Would mixe the streames of euery iarring Penne. In one calme Current that like land flouds now Make all Zeales bounded Riuers ouer-flowe Firme Truth with question euery howre pursue And yet will have no question all is true Search in that troubled Ocean for a Ford That by it selfe runnes and must beare accord In each mans self by banishing falshood there Wrath lust pride earthy thoughts before elsewhere For as in one man is the world inclosde So to forme one it should be all disposde If all these would concurre to this one end It would aske all their powres and all would spend Life with that reall sweetnesse which they dreame Comes in with obiects that are meere extreame And make them outward pleasures still apply Which neuer can come in but by that key Others aduancements others Fames desiring Thirsting exploring praysing and admiring Like lewd adultererers that their owne wiues scorne And other mens with all their wealth adorne Why in all outraying varyed ioyes and courses That in these errant times tire all mens forces Is this so common wonder of our dayes That in poore foretimes such a fewe could raise So many wealthy Temples and these none All were deuout then all deuotions one And to one end conuerted and when men Giue vp themselues to God all theirs goes then A few well-giuen are worth a world of ill And worlds of Powre not worth one poore good-will And what 's the cause that being but one Truth spreds About the world so manie thousand heads Of false Opinions all self-lov'd as true Onely affection to things more then due One Error kist begetteth infinite How can men finde truth in waies opposite And with what force they must take opposite wayes When all haue opposite obiects Truth displaies One colourd ensigne and the world pursues Ten thousand colours see to iudge who vse Truth in their Arts what light their liues doe giue For wherefore doe they study but to liue See I Eternities streight milke-white waie And One in this life 's crooked vanities straie And shall I thinke he knowes Truth following Error This onely this is the infallible myrror To showe why Ignorants with learn'd men vaunt And why your learn'd men are so ignorant Why euery Youth in one howre will be old In euery knowledge and why Age doth mould Then As in Rules of true Philosophie There must be euer due Analogie Betwixt the Powre that knowes and that is knowne So surely ioynde that they are euer one The vnderstanding part transcending still To that it vnderstands that to his skill All offering to the Soule the Soule to God By which do all things make their Period In his high Powre and make him All in All So to ascend the high-heauen-reaching Skale Of mans true Peace and make his Art entire By calming all his Errors in desire Which must preceede that higher happinesse Proportion still must trauerse her accesse Betwixt his powre and will his Sense and Soule And euermore th'exorbitance controule Of all forms passing through the bodies Powre Till in the soule they rest as in their Towre Int. But as Earths grosse and elementall fire Cannot maintaine it selfe but doth require Fresh matter still to giue it heate and light And when it is enflam'd mounts not vpright But struggles in his lame impure ascent Now this waie works and then is that waie bent Not able straight t' aspire to his true Sphere Where burns the fire eternall and sincere So best soules here with heartiest zeales enflam'd In their high flight for heauen earth-broos'd and lam'd Make many faint approches and are faine VVith much vnworthy matter to sustaine Their holiest fire and with sick feathers driuen And broken Pinions flutter towards heauen Peace The cause is that you neuer will bestowe Your best t' enclose your liues twixt God and you To count the worlds Loue Fame Ioy Honour nothing But life with all your loue to it betrothing To his loue his recomfort his rewarde Since no good thought calls to him but is heard Nor neede you thinke this strange since he is there Present within you euer euery where Where good thoughts are for Good hath no estate Without him nor himself is without That If then this Commerce stand twixt you entire Trie if he either grant not each desire Or so conforme it to his will in staie That you shall finde him there in the delaie As well as th' instant grant And so prooue right How easie his deare yoke is and how light His equall burthen whether this Commerce Twixt God and man be so hard or peruerse In composition as the Raritie Or no-where-patterne of it doth implie Or if in worrhy contemplation It do not tempt beyond comparison Of all things worldly Sensualitie Nothing so easie all Earths Companie Like Rubarb or the drugges of Thessalie Compar'd in taste with that sweet O trie then If
men they study hard Not to get knowledge but for meere rewarde And therefore that true knowledge that should be Their studies end and is in Nature free Will not be made their Broker hauing powre With her sole selfe to bring both Bride and dowre They haue some shadowes of her as of me Adulterate outward Peace but neuer see Her true and heauenly face Yet those shades serue Like errant Knights that by enchantments swerue From their true Ladyes being and embrace An ougly Witch with her phantastique face To make them thinke Truths substance in their arms Which that they haue not but her shadowes charmes See if my proofes be like their Arguments That leaue Opinion still her free dissents They haue not me with them that all men knowe The highest fruite that doth of knowledge grow The Bound of all true formes and onely Act If they be true they rest nor can be rackt Out of their posture by Times vtmost strength But last the more of force the more of length For they become one substance with the Soule Which Time with all his adiuncts shall controule But since men wilfull may beleeue perchance In part of Errors two-folde Ignorance Ill disposition their skills looke as hie And rest in that diuine Securitie See if their liues make proofe of such a Peace For Learnings Truth makes all lifes vain war cease It making peace with God and ioines to God Whose information driues her Period Through all the Bodies passiue Instruments And by reflection giues them Soule-contents Besides from perfect Learning you can neuer Wisedome with her faire Reigne of Passions seuer For Wisdome is nought else then Learning fin'd And with the vnderstanding Powre combin'd That is a habite of both habits standing The Bloods vaine humours euer countermaunding But if these showe more humour then th'vnlearn'd If in them more vaine passion be discern'd More mad Ambition more lust more deceipt More showe of golde then gold then drosse less weight If Flattery Auarice haue their soules so giuen Headlong and with such diuelish furies driuen That fooles may laugh at their imprudencie And Villanes blush at their dishonestie Where is true Learning proov'd to separate these And seate all forms in her Soules height in peace Raging Euripus that in all their Pride Driues Shippes gainst roughest windes with his fierce Tide And ebbes and flowes seuen times in euerie daie Toyles not on Earth with more irregulare swaye Nor is more turbulent and mad then they And shine like gould-worms whom you hardly finde By their owne light not seene but heard like winde But this is Learning To haue skill to throwe Reignes on your bodies powres that nothing knowe And fill the soules powers so with act and art That she can curbe the bodies angrie part All preturbations all affects that stray From their one obiect which is to obay Her Soueraigne Empire as her selfe should force Their functions onely to serue her discourse And that to beat the streight path of one ende Which is to make her substance still contend To be Gods Image in informing it With knowledge holy thoughts and all formes fit For that eternitie ye seeke in way Of his sole imitation and to sway Your lifes loue so that hee may still be Center To all your pleasures and you here may enter The next lifes peace in gouerning so well Your sensuall parts that you as free may dwell Of vulgare Raptures here as when calme death Dissolues that learned Empire with your Breath To teach and liue thus is the onely vse And end of Learning Skill that doth produce But tearmes and tongues and Parrating of Arte Without that powre to rule the errant part Is that which some call learned ignorance A serious trifle error in a trance And let a Scholler all earths volumes carrie He will be but a walking dictionarie A meere articulate Clocke that doth but speake By others arts when wheeles weare or springs breake Or any fault is in him hee can mend No more then clockes but at set howres must spend His mouth as clocks do If too fast speech goe Hee cannot stay it nor haste if too slowe So that as Trauaylers seeke their peace through storms In passing many Seas for many forms Of forreigne gouernment indure the paine Of many faces seeing and the gaine That Strangers make of their strange-louing humors Learn tongues keep note books all to feed the tumors Of vaine discourse at home or serue the course Of State employment neuer hauing force T' employ themselues but idle complements Must pay their paines costs slaueries all their Rents And though they many men knowe get few friends So couetous Readers setting many endes To their much skill to talke studiers of Phrase Shifters in Art to flutter in the Blaze Of ignorant count'nance to obtaine degrees And lye in Learnings bottome like the Lees To be accounted deepe by shallow men And carue all Language in one glorious Pen May haue much fame for learning but th' effect Proper to perfect Learning to direct Reason in such an Art as that it can Turne blood to soule and make both one calme man So making peace with God doth differ farre From Clearkes that goe with God man to warre Int. But may this Peace and mans true Empire then By learning be obtainde and taught to men Pea. Let all men iudge who is it can denie That the rich crowne of ould Humanitie Is still your birth-right and was ne're let downe From heauen for rule of Beasts liues but your owne You learne the depth of Arts and curious dare By them in Natures counterfaits compare Almost with God to make perpetually Motion like heauens to hang sad Riuers by The ayre in ayre and earth twixt earth and heauen By his owne paise And are these vertues giuen To powrefull Art and Vertue 's selfe denied This proues the other vaine and falsified Wealth Honour and the Rule of Realmes doth fall In lesse then Reasons compasse yet what all Those things are giuen for which is liuing well Wants discipline and reason to compell O foolish men how many waies ye vex Your liues with pleasing them and still perplex Your liberties with licence euery way Casting your eyes and faculties astray From their sole obiect If some few bring forth In Nature freely something of some worth Much rude and worthlesse humour runs betwixt Like fruit in deserts with vile matter mixt Nor since they flatter flesh so they are bould As a most noble spectacle to behould Their owne liues and like sacred light to beare There Reason inward for the Soule in feare Of euerie sort of vice shee there containes Flies out and wanders about other mens Feeding and fatting her infirmities And as in auntient Citties t' was the guise To haue some Ports of sad and haplesse vent Through which all executed men they sent All filth all off all cast from what purg'd sinne Nought chaste or sacred there going out or in So through mens refuse