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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02823	Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes symbolically set forth and enriched with pious deuises and emblemes for the entertainement of deuout soules; contriued al to the honour of the incomparable Virgin Marie mother of God; for the pleasure and deuotion especially of the Parthenian sodalitie of her Immaculate Conception. By H.A.	Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.; Aston, Herbert, b. 1614, attributed name.; Langeren, Jacob van, engraver.; Langeren, P. van, engraver.	1633 (1633)	STC 12958; ESTC S103886	142,987	288

of Heauens and she as manie points It is a verie Mart of silks sarcenets taffeties and satins al of Gingeline in graine because in fashion If the Rose excel in sauour which she professes not to vtter in her shop she vowes to be more loyal and constant to her Paramour then it She is so amourous dotes so much vpon him that she can not liue without his conuersation which she hath so much as she almost is turn'd and quite metamorphosied into him and now become already in the Garden what he is in his Zodiack the true and real flower of the Sun or Sun of Flowers as he himself the Sun of starres or that great Starre they cal a Sun It is the true Alferes of hearbs bearing vp the standard of Flora amidst the rest of flowers the Pharus to direct the Gardē-Nimphs whē they loose themselues in the labyrinth of flowrie knots or Maze of flowers the Beacon al on fire to giue warning to the rest of flowers of the arising of the Sun to beware of his parching rayes for feare of withering before their times It is euen the Daphne of flowers whom Phoehus followes al the day and if she fly she hath her eye on her shoulder to looke behind her as she runnes THE MORALS AD ME CONVERSIO EIVS PIctures likely are so framed that be you in the roome in anie part they wil seeme to look vpon you Looke where the Panther is in woods and forests there wil commonly other beasts resort to look and gaze vpon him whether it be the beautie of his spotted coat or sweetnes of his breath which attracts I know not but this is sure the effect is so as I haue heard The Turtle seemes to haue no eye but for his mate and where they sit togeather their eyes wil be as glued vpon each other The Pole that drawes the Needle to it the load-stone that attracts the iron the ieat that puls the fescue what is it el's but a natural instinct or Moral rather I may say of more then mutual loue that makes the one so powerfully to allure and the other to be so easie and wiling to be drawne This I am sure of Vertue is so specious and so goodlie a thing that it drawes the eyes of al to look vpon her and where they haue not harts to follow her faire steps yet wil they stand to gaze vpon her and admire at least The litle IESVS lying in the Crib like a Loadstone drew the Shepheards from their flocks Kings from their peoples a Starre from the rest of the fellowship of starres yea euen the Angels from the Heauens to sing a Gloria in excelsis vnto God and peace to men What trow you but a secret instinct that could be no lesse then Heauēlie and Diuine made so great a conuersion of Terrestrials and Celestials to a litle Infant And as for the Mother her self that held him in her lap the while she before sitting in her little Nazareth obscure drew so the eyes of the Almightie to her that He could not choose but so conuert himself vnto her as to descend and lodge within her and she truly say AD ME CONVERSIO EIVS THE ESSAY THE honour of our Gardens and the miracle of flowers at this day is the Heliotropion or Flower of the Sun be it for the height of its stem approaching to the heauens some cubits high or beautie of the flower being as big as a man's head with a faire ruff on the neck or for the number of the leaues or yellow vying with the marigold or which is more for al the qualities nature and properties of the Flower which is to wheel about with the Sun there being no Needle that more punctually regards the Poles then doth this Flower the glorious Sun For in the morning it beholds his rising in his iourney attends vpon him and eyeth him stil wheresoeuer he goes nor euer leaues following him til he sink downe ouer head and eares in Tethis's bed when not being able to behold him anie longer she droops and languishes til he arise and then followes him againe to his old lodging as constantly as euer with him it riseth with him it falles and with him riseth againe Nature hath donne wel in not affording it anie odour at al for with so much beautie and admirable singularities had there been odour infused therinto and the sweetnesse of odoriferous flowers withal euen men who are now half mad in adoring the same for its excellent guifts would then haue been stark mad indeed with doting vpon it But Nature it seemes when first she framed a pattern for the rest not being throughly resolued what to make it tree or flower hauing brought her workmanship almost vnto the top after a litle pause perhaps at al aduenture put a flower vpon it and so for haste forgot to put the Musks into it Whervpon to countervaile her neglect heerin the benigne Sol of meer regard and true compassion graced her by his frequent and assiduous looke with those golden rayes it hath And as the Sun shewes himself to be enamoured with her she as reason would is no lesse taken with his beautie and by her wil if by looks we may guesse of the wil would faine be with him But like an Estrich with its leaues as wings it makes vnprofitable offers to mount vp vnto him and to dwel with him but being tyed by the root it doth but offer and no more It is like the Scepter which the Payn●ms attribute to their Deitie that beares an Eye on the top while this flower is nothing els but an Eye set on the point of its stem not to regard the affayres of Mortals so much as to eye the Immortal Sunne with its whole propension the midle of which flower where the seed is as the white of the eye is like a Turkie-carpet or some finer cloth wrought with curious needle-work which is al she hath to entertaine her Paramour THE DISCOVRSE COuld there be deuised a more noble Symbol of our Incomparable LADIE then this flower regarding indeed the true Sunne 〈◊〉 Iustice whom she followed stil in the whol● course of her life vnto her death Therefore whom we haue already represented as a Rose Lillie and Violet let vs now contemplate as a true Heliotropion Compare we then first by certain Analogies the Sunne being the king of Planets with the Sunne of Iustice King of the Sunne and Planets and the Heliotropion with the Virgin Marie The Sun chief of Planets fils the earth with his influences the Sun of Iustice the world with the effects of his power The Sun of Planets is the First cause among the Seconds the Sun of Iustice the First before them al that trauerses al places this penetrates al harts that lends his light to the moon and starres this giues both life and being to al creatures The Sun the Planet is the origin of life the Sun of Iustice

ouercast and ful of sorrow And yet notwithstanding she shined euen then likewise because she kept the light of Fayth vnextinguished in her Her light shal not be extinguished in the night Surely two Heauēs there are which yet neuer lost their light nor euer are like to doe to wit Christ for one who neither with death did forgoe the light of his Diuinitie but his Deitie was both with his bodie in the Sepulcher and with his soule in Limbus and his Mother the other who neuer lost the light of grace and fayth within her THE EMBLEME THE POESIE THe Empresse of the Sea Latona bright Drawes like a load-stone by attractiue might The Oceans streames which hauing forward runne Calles back againe to end where they begunne The Prince of darknes had ecclipsed Eues light And Mortals clowded in Cymmerian night Were backwards drawne by Eue as is the Maine ●T was only Marie drew to GOD againe 〈◊〉 chast Diana with thy siluer beames Fluse reflux as in the Oceans streames ●Tis thou canst cause O draw and draw me so That I in vice may ebbe in Vertue flow THE THEORIES COntemplate first that if the Moon being so faire beautiful and perfect be so accounted of Mortals and for the manifold influences and fauours which she continually imparts to creatures be held in so great veneration as to share in their opinion with the Sun himself in the gouerment of the world whom the Paynim Gentilitie holds to be a GOD and her Brother and she his Sister notwithstanding she hath yet so manie blemishes defects and spots appearing in her who can except against the Churches deuotion in so magnifying our Ladie who is truly so faire beautiful perfect indeed without any the least blemish or spot in her so beneficial withal as to communicate her graces vnto vs in a far higher nature and those in a measure so immense Or who can tax vs for stiling her the Queen of heauen who is not only the Sister the Friend the Doue and beautiful Spouse of the Sun o● iustice but euen his most immaculate Mother the fountain of al her prerogatiues besides when especially we afford her no more honour then may worthily be due to a meer creature Consider then that as in the opinion of such as hold the Moon encreasing to haue her horns directed towards the rising of the Sun but decreasing or being in the wayne to haue the horns pointing to the setting of the Sun So our heauenlie Angelical and spiritual Moon the Incomparable Virgin-Mother had certain addresses and preparations of humilitie and Virginitie wherewith she disposed herself to embrace her Sun in her armes in the morning of his birth as he lay in the Crib And at his setting againe that is at his Passion regarded him with two other horns as it were to wit with the sorrow she had for his death of the one side and the ioy she receaued of the other for the Redemption of the world Ponder lastly how though the Moon while it is iust ouer the earth and the Sunne in oppositiō thervnto in a right diameter beneath the same is shadowed obscured or ecclipsed Yet our mystical Moone when Christ our true Sun indeed descended and abid in hel which is vnder the earth and our Moon remayning there ouer it lost not the light of Fayth of his present Resurrection for that the shadow of the earth that is the infidelitie of terrene things could not ascend vnto her whereby the darknes of Infidelitie comprehended her not THE APOSTROPHE O Empresse of the world Ladie of the Vniuers Queen of Angels standing in the Moon and crowned with Starres in Heauen by God Almightie most wise most good Oh regard me I beseech thee from the top of the heauens with thy sacred influences from thence and haue pittie vpon me most miserable wretched sinner in al points Present O sacred Virgin-Mother al my pouerties to GOD al my perils al my miseries and necessities to thy Sonne For so wil he take pittie on me and open his hand and afford me his Benediction through thy gracious intercession This grant I beseech thee most radiant and resplendent Moone who shinest in heauen and shal for al eternitie THE XI SYMBOL THE STARRE THE DEVISE THE CHARACTER THE Starres are the glittering lāps of Heauen set vp as so manie lights in the close or vpper seeling of the ample Theater of the world They are as sparckling Diamants strewed in the Firmament to entertaine the World with as a goodlie maister-piece of the great CREATOVR They are the siluer Oes al powdred heer and there or spangles sprinckled ouer the purple Mantle or night-gowne of the heauens the seed of pearle sowne in the spacious fields of the Heauens to bring forth light Haue you seen a statelie Mask in Court al set round and taken vp with a world of beautiful Ladies to behold the sports and reuels there Imagin the Starres then as sitting in the Firmamēt to behold some spectacle on Earth with no other light then their owne beauties If that great Pan they speake of were that man sitting in the Cabin of the Moone the Starres would be his Sheep and lambs feeding in those ample downes of heauen which not appearing by day their proper night you must suppose to be lockt-vp in their folds for feare of those Beares and Lions in the Welkin As Cinthia in the Heauēs is euen the very same that Diana is in the woods and forests the Starres by cōsequence are her Nimphs who encompas her about and dāce the Canaries in her presence while so they seeme in twinckling to dance and foot-it in the same place They are extremely giuen to mortification and to a strange annihilation of themselues that being so great as they are they appeare to be so litle in the eyes of men yea manie of them are so passionatly addicted to it as they appeare not at al. They affect equalities amongst them and be anie of them neuer so great they wil shew to be no greater then the rest Their greater height and eminencie in degrees swelles them not a whit or puffs them vp but diminisheth their creasts and abates them rather In fine they are a happie Common-wealth deuoyd of enuie or ambition where wel may you heare of coniunctions of Houses but no iarres and discords amongst them that euer I could heare of THE MORALS IN ITINERE PHARVS WHEN Theseus was puzled and entangled in Minos Labyrinth he found the twist of Ariadne to deliuer him thence The little Bird with the red breast which for his great familiaritie with men they cal a Robin if he meet anie one in the woods to goe astray and to wander he knowes not whither out of his way of common charitie wil take vpon him to guide him at least out of the wood if he wil but follow him as some think This am I sure of it is a comfortable and sweet companiō insuch a case