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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70281	Poems on several choice and various subjects occasionally composed by an eminent author ; collected and published by Sergeant-Major P.F.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Fisher, Payne, 1616-1693.	1663 (1663)	Wing H3103; Wing F1035; ESTC R18936	41,382	172

Or to forbear from Flesh Fowl Fish And eat Potatoes in a Dish Done o'er with Ambar or a Mess Of Ringos in a Spanish Dress Or to refrain from each hot thing Which Water Earth or Air doth bring And play a hundred pounds at Gleek Or be at Saunt when we shold sleep Or to leave play with all high Dishes And feed our thoughts with Wanton Wishes Making the Soul like a Light Wench VVear Patches of Concupiscence This is not to keep Lent aright But play the Juggling Hypocrit He keeps Lent more who tames the inward Man Then he who makes the outward feed on Bran. Before the History of Lewis the 13. with his Cardidinal Richlie● called Lustra Ludovici HISTORIAE SACRUM IMmortal Queen great Arbitress of Time Bright Torch and Herald of All-conquering Truth Which Things years thousands since keepst still in prime And so maintain'st the World in constant Youth Making that Morn Man first was made of Clay Appear to us as fresh as Yesterday Rich Magazin of Patterns which may serve As Spurs to Vertu or as Curbs to Vice Which dost Brave Men-embalm and them conserve Longer then can Arabian Gums or Spice And of their Memories dost Mummy make More firm then that hot Lybia's Sands do 〈◊〉 Rare Garden and rich Orchard wherein grow Fames golden Apples Vertues choicest flow'rs Who twistest Garlands for the learned Brow And with thy Branches mak'st triumphant Bow● Inoculat this Bud on thy great Tree That it may bourgeon to Eternity Before LONDINOPOLIS OR A new History of London Parallell'd with the greatest Cities on Earth Of London-Bridge WHen Neptun from his Billows London spyde Brought proudly thither by a High spring Tyde As through a Floating Wood he steer'd along And Dancing Castles cluster'd in a throng When he beheld a mighty Bridge give Law Unto his Surges and their fury aw When such a shelf of Cataracts did roar As if the Thames with Nile had chang'd her shoar VVhen he such massy Walls such Tow'rs did eye Such Posts such Irons upon his back to lye When such vast Arches he observ'd that might Nineteen Rialto's make for depth and height When the Cae●ulean God these things survay'd He shook his Trident and astonish'd said Let the whole Earth now all her Wonders count This Bridge of Wonders is the Paramount The same in Latine which for their weight I also insert De Ponte Londinensi ejusque stupendo situ structurâ CVm Londinense● Neptunus viderat urbem Vectus ibi propriis atque revectus Aquis D●m densam penetrat Sylvam Lucósque ferentes Pro ramis funes pro foliisque Cruces Cum superimpositum Torrenti in Flumine Pontem Viderat rapido ponere Jurae Freto Cum tantos muros ferrumina Castra tot Arcus Spectat haec tergo cuncta jacere suo Arcus qui possent totidem formare Rialtos Metiri si quis summa vel Ima cupit Haec Deus Undarum aspiciens Fluxusque retrorsum Tundere horrendos inde boare sonos Nunc mihi quanta velis Terrae Miracula pandas Est primus Mundi Pons ait Iste stupor Before Bishop Andrews most holy Meditaaions 〈◊〉 Prayers IF ever any merited to be The Vniversal Bishop this was He. Great Andrews who the whole vast SEA did 〈◊〉 Of Learning and Distill'd it in his Brain These pious Drops are of the purest kind That trîckled from the Limbeck of his Mind Before that large and claborat Work called The German Diet Which in many Princely Orations displays The Power and Weakness The Plenty and VVant The Antiquity and Modernness The Advantages and Defects The Glory and Reproche The Vertues and Vices of all the Countries of Christendome AXIOMA Contraria juxta se posita magis elucescunt BLack sidelong put or standing opposite Doth use to add more lustre unto White A Perl shines brighter in a Negro's Ear Some Ladies look more fair who Patches wear So Vice if counterplac'd or seated near Makes Vertu show more lovely strong and clear This Book hath Vice and Vertu White and Black 'T is like a Crystal-Glass foyld on the back 'T is like a Chessboard or an Ermins Skin Checker'd with two Extreams both out and in It weighs and winnows good from bad which any Of Europes Kingdoms have and they have many Now if those purer Regions of the Sky Where ev'ry Star's a perfect Monarchy If the bright Moon and glorious Sun above Have Spots and Motes as Optick Glasses prove How then can these gross earthly Regions be And We that peeple them from taintures free This were for us to arrogat that Bliss Which Adam could not keep in Paradis Before my Lord of Cherberry's History of King Hen. 8. VIces in Kings are like those spots the Moon Bears in her body which so plain appeer To all the world so Vertues shine more clear In them and glitter like the Sun at Noon This King had both yet counter-balance all You 'l find th' out-poising Grain in Vertues Scale He was more King then Man his Gallantries Surpass'd his Frailties Had his Passions bent To Him as France did and his Parlement Or had his Set been equal to his Rise Of all those glorious Kings wore Englands crown He had march'd with the foremost in Renown This learned Lord this Lord of VVit and Art This Metaphysick Lord gives us a Glass VVherein we may discern in ev'ry part This boystrous Prince He cuts Him out in Brass In everlasting Brass so that I may avow Old Harry never had a Monument till now An Analytical Character or Dissection of Hen. 8. THis great King may be considered 1. In his Person and outward Proportion 2. In his Properties and inward Disposition 3. In his Political Capacity and Actions Civil and Martial Touching the first he was of a goodly Stature of a Majestic awing Presence of a clear sanguin Complexion which made him apt to give and take Tentations of that Sex which was too hard for the First the Strongest and Wisest Man He had a competency of spirit to manne that large Bulk throughout for he was vigorous and robust witness his overthrowing Sir William Kingstone horse and man in the presence of three Queens His Dexterity at Tilt the Barriers and all other heroick Exercises at his interviews with the French King and Emperors for when he appeered in any Action He out-went all others Touching the second it sub-divides it self into his Vertues and Vices For his Vertues by advantage of Education being designed for the Church he was well vers'd in the Arts a good 〈…〉 Divine He had an harmonious soul for he was a good Musitian having among other things composed two Anthems which were usually sung 〈◊〉 his Chappels Touching his Vices being of a replete sanguin Constitution he had more matte● 〈◊〉 the heat of Concupiscence to work upon 〈◊〉 were his two Contemporaries Charles the Emperour and Francis of France less peccant in this kind for they also had their Amourettes their 〈◊〉 debita vasa and

into his Cabal pries The Chymik says In Stones in Herbs in Wor●● Nature for ev'ry thing a cure affords Nay some have found the Glorious Stars to be But Letters set in an Orthography The Fate of Kings and Empires to foretel VVith all things els below could we them spell That gran distinction between Man and 〈◊〉 VVe may to Language chiefly attribute The Lyon roars the Elephant doth bray The Bull doth bellow and the Horse doth 〈◊〉 Man speaks 'T is only man can Words create And cut the Air to sounds articulate By Natures special Charter Nay Speech ca● Make a shrewd discrepance 'twixt Man and 〈◊〉 It doth the Gentleman from Clown discover And from a Fool the grave Philosopher As Solon said to one in Judgement weak I thought thee wise until I heard thee speak For Words in man bear the most Critick part VVe speak by Nature but speak well by Art And as good Bells we judge of by the sound So a Wise man by Words well plac'd is found Therefore it may be call'd no vain pretence VVhen 'mong the rest the Toung would be Senee The Toung 's the Rudder which mans fancy guides VVhilst on this worlds tempestuous Seas he rides Words are the Life of Knowledge They set free And bring forth Truth by way of Midwifry The activ'st Cretures of the teeming Brain The Judges who the inward man arraign Reasons chief Engin and Artillery To batte● Error and make Falshood fly The Canons of the minde who sometimes bounce Nothing but VVar then Peace again pronounce The Rabbins say Such is the strength of VVords That they make deeper VVounds then Spears or Swords This Book may then be call'd a Magazine Of Arms and Words It keeps and doth combine Four Toungs 't is like a Frame on divers VVheels One follows still the other at the heels The smooth Italian and the nimble Frank The long-lung'd Spanish march all in a rank The English heads them so commands the Van And reson good in this Meridian But Spain brings up the Rear because we know Her Counsels are so long and Pace so slow Vpon the great Drammatical Work of B. 〈◊〉 Fletcher publish'd 1646. WHat Now the Stage is down dar'st tho● pear Bold Fletcher on this tott'ring Hemisphear Yes Poets are like Palms which the more 〈◊〉 One casts upon them grow more strong 〈◊〉 'T is not Joves Thunderbolt or Mavors Spear Nor roaring Neptunes Trident Poets fear Had now Grim Ben been breathing with what 〈◊〉 And high-swoln fury had he lash'd this Age Shakespear with Chapman had grown mad 〈◊〉 The gentle Soc and lofty Buskins worn To make their Muse welter up to the Chin In blood Of fained Scanes no need had bin England like Lucians Eagle with an Arrow Of her own Plumes piercing her heart quite thorow Had been the Tragic Scoene and subject fit To exercise in real Truths their wit Yet none like high-wing'd Fletcher had bin found This Eagles dismal Destiny to sound Rare Fletchers Quill had soar'd up to the Sky And drawn down Gods to see the Tragedy Live famous Drammatist let evry Spring Make thy Bay flourish and fresh Bourgeons bring And since we cannot have Thee tread the Stage VVe will applaud Thee in thy silent Page To his late Majesty at the Dedication unto Him of DODONAS GROVE OR The VOCAL FOREST Wherein there were many Prophetical Passages IN times of yore when Earth was yet but Clods Trees for their Gardians had no less then Gods Jove did protect the Oke Bacchus the Vine Minerva said The Olive shall be mine Venus the Myrtle for her Minion took Apollo would the Laurel overlook My Trees need no such Patrons one mild glance Of Caesars eye will best their Buds advance To her Majesty now Queen-mother BOurgeon da Gran Bourbon qui soubs ses doux rameaux Maintint la France en Paix apres tant de travaux Vint Ans entiers ayant en bonne guerre Les Princes Brouillons mis quatre fois enterr● I' ay veu souventes fois son Nom luysant en 〈◊〉 Mais non pas engravè jusqu ' à present en Arb●● Parmi ces Bois icy l' on trouvera peut estre Madame Votre Nom taillè en grosse Lettre To Prince Charles now King TO correspond now with the Verdant 〈◊〉 And your Green yeers the Top-branch of a 〈◊〉 A Bud shot from the Rose and Flower 〈…〉 The best of stems Earth yet did e'er prod●●● VVhat Present can I bring that more agrees Both with the season and your yeers then 〈◊〉 They soon will cast their leafs and Autumn find But may You shed nor leafs nor blooms nor rin● Till muff'd with hoary Moss you do behold Fair Cions from your self grow tall and old Before the VOCAL FOREST To the knowing Reader Touching the Progress of Learning SCience in India first her beams display'd And with the Rising Sun her self convay'd Through Chaldee into Egypt then She came Among the Greeks and so to Tyber Swam Whence clammering ore the Alps these Northwest parts She civiliz'd and introduc'd the Arts. In Albions woolly Isle she welcom found Which for her Bards and Druyds grew Renown'd So call'd because they commonly did use On God and Natures works 'mongst Trees to Muse And fix their Speculations for in Rind Of Trees was Learning swadled first I find Th' Egyptian Priests and Brackmans us'd of old Their fancies in dark Characters to fold The Greeks and Latines us'd to Poetize By Emblems Fictions and Mythologies For it was held a pleasing piece of Art Things Real under Shadows to impart Then be not rash in censure if I strive An ancient way of Fancy to revive While Druyd-like conversing thus with 〈◊〉 Under their bloomy shade I Historize Trees were ordain'd for shadow and 〈◊〉 Their Leafs were the first vestment of 〈◊〉 To the Common Reader OPinion is that high and mighty Dame Which rules the World and in the 〈◊〉 doth frame Distast or liking for in Humane Race She makes the Fancy various as the Face Sometimes the Father differs from the Son As doth the Gospel from the Alcharon Or Loyola from Calvin which two brands In strange Combustions hurl fair Europes Lands So that amongst such Atomes of Mankind You scarce can two encounter of one mind This makes my Trees all Aspen 'cause they 〈◊〉 Lie ope to ev'ry Wind and vulgar Gust Yet much they fear not any Criticks knock Unless they chance to stumble 'mong the bl●●● Ex quovis Stipite non fit Mercurius To the Critical Reader IF Satyres here you find think it not strange 'T is proper Satyres in the Woods should range And for free Speech why may not Verse or Prose Sit under Trees as safely as the Rose Yet here is nothing though a Grand Inquest You should Empannel but may bide the Test For Petty Juries let the Reader know Composures of this kind stoop not so low Touching the Vertu and Vse Of Familiar Letters LOve is the life