Tayle Sagitarius the Archer bringeth Three And the Centaur twise as many as hee Twentie three starres the noble ship of Greece Bring 's in as Lamp's to spie the golden fleece The Twinn's eighteene The Wagâ—â—er seauen Perseus seauenteen to lighten this heauen All these Starres maken one hundred and eight Bright and conspicuous without deceite Sporades also dispersed Starres been Confusedly mixing their glimmering Sheem These beene the starres that maken so bright The welkins broad way which seemeth so white Yet not in any sort colour verament For no colours hath the starrie Firmament Nor is the Rayne-bowe a firie Meteor Though there appeare in it colours store But is a mystie exhallation By great Phoebus without inflamation After a Shower appearing in the ayre Shewing the weather thence foorth to be fayre And euer appeareth halfe circlewise Opposâ—te to Phoebus alwayes doth rise Hauing three colours seeming in our eye Red Yellowe Greene in the low Region Aerie Red highest as neerest th' Elementall Fyre A white waterish Yeallow next place doth require The lowest like Emeraulde greene as the grasse Reflecting such colours to vs like a Glasse Taking the forme as it is obiected Presently sending the same forme reflected Backe to the Author and doth not containe Any such forme till you showe it againe Sometimes a Rayne-Bow sheweth in the night After a shower of Colour watrish white Not red nor greene to the Moone opposite Thus glorious Pan discouereth his Mighte But diuine Shepheards soothly sayen In their high Layes with wordes plaine That though it be one thing by generation Yt's another thing in contemplation Representing to vs all sickerly A sealed eternall Testimonie That this center of the vniuersall round As once it was should not againe be drownde Nor cloudy waterâ— hi◠〈…〉 belowe Should dare presume the earth to ouer-flowe But should them holde in their habitation That man and beast should haâ—â— a quiet Station Thus blessed glorious euerlasting Pan Safely prouided for the life of man Some other things the Philosopers haue named That Firie beene and are not yet inflamed The burning Thunderbolt the lightning flash That Trees Beasts and buildings in peeces dash Wreaking by fell spite on the world this injurie Confounding all things in their spightfull fury That mortall wights takne them for Fiends of Hell That in a moment simple creatures quell Of so swift and forceable penetration Of so sudden motion and operation Yea of so wonderfull a qualitie By reason of their hotte agilitie That things incredible by them been done As sowring the Wine and sauing the Tonne Breaking the sword not hurting the sheath The stemme of an Oke in peeces they wreath And vpon the world bring desolation Seeming to spoyle the frame of creation The fiery whirle-windes which we Prester call Of fearefull wonders exceeden All. VVhich beene hote dry vapours whirled together From th' earth to heauen no man knowes whither In forme of a circled Piller they wend And through our Region of thâ— Ayre ascend with violent motion making a praye Of each loose parcell that stands in their waye Gyring and whirling it vp to the skie Some Laundresses seene their â—ynnen so â—lye Brute beasts at the comming thereof doe crye As fearing their immynent ieopardy These taken ships out of the Ocean And caryen them beyonde the skill of man Letting them fall from the Ayrie region To their vtter Ruine and Subuersion Whole Flouds of waters from the brynish-store Of Thetis they sucke vp for euermore Carrying them to the Ayers middle region The coldnes whereof stoppeth them Anon. Driuing them downe headlong to the Center Not suffering them that Region to enter So all at once they fall downe suddainly As a great Mountaine by extremitie Drowning whole ships vnder-sayle in their Rage For nothing but death may their furie asswage The profit we get by this consideration Is to haue Gods workes in Admiration And to bethinke vs with what facilitie Pan can destroy all humane Hostilitie And so to humble vs vnder his hand That free from dangers wee may safely stand Stedfastly hoping to stand vnreprooueable As mightie Mountaines vnremooueable Now hence must we proceed incontinent To discant of the Ayery Element Being simple and subtile thinne rare and quicke Pierced by grose substance heauie and thicke Capable of all formes and Figures jniected VVhererby her body is often jnfected Scituate next to the fire in degree By reason of his transparant Leuitee Receiuing Meteors elementarie According as ascending vapours varie Affording breath to euery earthly thing That openeth mouth or flyes with feathered wing Yea the Fishes in the Ocean were dead If colde thicke-yce the Ocean ouer-spread Which ioyeth in Ayres respiration To keepe the waters from corruption For Fishes in the deepe beene murdered If Ayers refreshing Gales been hindered Hotte and moyst by essentiall qualitie Yet hath a coole-refreshing propertie By reason of the waters vicinitie Sending forth vapours colde continuallie VVhich by the Ayers Agitation Are made a temperate respiration Ayded by the cooling of the breathing winde VVhereby this Element is oft refin'de And man and beast and euery thing that liu's Is nourished by the temperature it giu's And Wormes abandoned from budding trees And extreme heate allayed by degrees Thus was this splendent Ayrie Element Placed by Pan with perfect Complement Distinguished into Regions three As bookish shepheards euidently see The highest next the firie Element The middle second 's it incontinent The lowest is that space wherein we dwell VVhereof great Philosophers wonders tell The first is hotte the middle extreme colde The third is temperate for reasons tolde The lowest Orbe the Fowles â—oon glorifie And with sweet Notes great 〈◊〉 doe magnifie The Eagle Griffin Falcon Marlion The Nightingale and turtle Pidgeon The Thrush the Lynnet and mounting Larke Besides the Fowles that flyen in the darke The Bittour pyping in a Syrinâ— Reede VVayling that virgins losse in mourning weede VVith Fowles of Price and worth Innumerable VVhere-with great states garâ—ishen their Table These take delight to sporte them in their Ayre Cheefely if Phoebus make the Region fayre The middle Region's coldest in his Place For Phoebus there yet neuer shewed his Face VVhich is the cause of Sleeâ—e of Hayle of Snowe All which by vertue of this Region growe The highest Region of the Ayre is hot Where all the fiery Meteors are begot Being placed next the fiery Element VVhich doth inflame with heate that Regiment The Meteors to the Ayre destinated Are simply windes and Earth-quakes nominated Included in a vapor others there be Which yet are Meteors in their degree As stormes whirl-windes and the mightie Thunder Rumbling as if heauen would cleaue a sunder Windes are vapors included in a Caue Whence by Phoebus force they issue haue And drawne by heate to the mid Region Which is all colde by constitution There they would enter but being expelled To be dispersed they
seemeth nothing comfortable Is a Meteor watrie amongst the rest And for mans auaile is not reckned lest Of a thinne watrie vapour is ingendred Which to the wintrie Aire soone is tendred And by the same in crustie Pearles concreate Falles on the grasse and pincheth vitall heate It crusheth and abateth Floras pride Stripping her naked as a naked bride Spoyling her flowers discolouring her greene Imprisoning her as if she were no Queene All these be discommodities I trowe Obserue the commodities which doe growe By this Meteors vertue and qualitie Which grow'n by his forces abundantly All hurtfull wormes in the earth it doth kill And all noxious humors in the bodie spill These are the benefits which Pan doth giue To a colde frost that mortall man might liue The name of a Clowde is so commonly knowne That labour is lost if more should be showne For it is a vapour moyst grosse eleuate By Phoebus force to the Region scituate In the middst of the Aire where being compact By the colde circle till it be ransact by Phebus heate so moystned againe Is squeezed into a shower of raine As a Sponge in water deeply sunken Vntill it hath the whole moysture drunken If with force of hand you squeeze it suddainly Water from sundrie parts thereof will fly Raine is an issue from a Clowde watrie By drops discending from a Region ayrie The middle Region of that Element To moysten this habitable Continent Where man and beast receyuen nourishment And Flora makes her mantle orient When a moyst vapour thicke eleuated And by the colde Region maceâ—â—â—ed Descendeth downe vpon the earth belowe It is then called a Meteor of snowe The drops that done fall resemble a feather Not as rain's-round-drops contracted together The feathered-flakes dispersed are bound To couer the lower circulare round Shepheards at this time fodderen their â—â—ocke With the prouision of the Sommer â—tocke Boyes setten Lime-twigs and diggen pit-falles Watching hungrie Birds behind trees and walles Which comming thither for food vnawares Are tangled in lyme or taken in snares Shepheards weare Freezes and Ladies vse furres To keep them from Rewmes Caâ—arres cold Murres snow- Snow water Hus-wiues at euerie turning Saue in a glasse gainst scalding or burning So farre is the snow from doing of harme That rootes of trees corne and grasse it keepes waâ—â—e As with a mantle the earth it enfoldes Preseruing the same from violent coldes It fattons the Fallow as Shepheards rehearse Mellowing the ridges for Coulters to pearse In the highest mountaine and frozen hill Snow gendreth Cristall and shyning Berrill Thus is Snow not the meanest ornament For vs that in the earth are resident The Haile is reckoned as a mightie cursse Making all worldly creatures much the worsse And in Sommer season is ingendred When grasse and corne is chiefly tendred The reason why it is hard compacted Is because it hath his cold contracted For when it came to the middle region He found it colder in disposition Then it was wont to be because the heate Of Phoebus beames doth now more strongly beate Which when it cannot beare it gathereth round It selfe least Phoebus should his force confound And so dissolue it into raine or sleete To do some good for which Haile is not meete Therefore round colde and hard it doth discend Of purpose princely Flora to offend For there can be no perfect conâ—enience Twixt noble Nature and maleâ—olence Vpon her fruits it makes intrusion Beating in peeces with confusion The buds of trees the hearbs the corne the flowers Which Tellus kept for Floras Paraâ—ours There is no watrie Meteor in the Ayre But is profitable and debonaier Except this crabbed and furious Haile That fiercely our nourishment doth assaile For Sleete is not so forcible or strong To doe Dame Flora and her Babies wrong Discending in March or in Februarie When Phoebus shews his burning luminarie But here some may a question propound Requiring a Philosopher profound Why is the Ayres middle Region Coldest in the burning Sommer season And in the Winter time more temperate Raine and not Haile fitter to generate Answere Two contraries doe alwayes flie The one from the other naturally So when it is extreame hottest weather The cold collecteth his forces together And keepes himselfe close in his owne defence Least heate should surprize or expell him thence Then is he colder then he was before Hauing abundance of coldnesse in store But if that heate be from him deuided His force is dissolued Our poynt decided Now is the discourse of the water ended And the shepheard to the earth discended The Centre of the whole vniuersall Whose circumference is Emperiall Whose bodie is round wholy considered Though of other forme in peeceâ— seuered Colde and dry by naturall propertie Seated permanent on her Axeltree Aequallie standing no way declyning Solid and heauier not bright or shyning Full of Creatures of Diuine Excellence Gracing high Pans might and magnificence The mother of all grosse and heauie things That grow creepe or goe or fly'n with wings Fynnie footed fowles excepted and fishes VVhich â—eruen for Thetis banquetting dishes Although their might arise some difference VVhether Sea or Land hath the preheminence For fethered fowles first Generation Which in the seas haue propagation For that Sea-fowles as Shepheards vnderstand Layen and hatchen their eggs on the land And also neuer to Saylers appeare But it is certaine some Yland is neere Yt seemes I might conclude in generall Tellus is mother of Fowles vniuersall A mother adorned with vertues excellent In Action Passion and habit different From all other Elements supernall The Center of Creation-naturall Hauing seuen rare speciall properties Whereof each-one a Mother glorifies Fruitefull Good Neuer-weary Patient Most Constant Faithfull liberally-bent Fruitfull alwayes parturient and teeming VVhat heauenly Forces beget to our seeming Shee dayly produceth and bringeth to light Shee 's alwayes with childe in winters despight Good of nature and kinde by creation To all her Babyes by generation Cherishing them all in their infancie Till they may shift for themselues hansomlie Neuer wearie of worke still dooing well Cheerefully viewing each place of her Cell Swathing and Bathing well the tender Limmes Of all her yonglings and with butter Tâ—â—mmâ—s The chafed Places of their Fylmy-skinne Curing their Bodies without and within Patiently suffring sclaunderous words VVhich wounden the mind more deeper then swords She suffereth worldings to spit in her face To disgorge to trample spurne and disgrace To wound with ploughing where they liken best To search her bowels her belly her brest To steale her iewels and deepe hidden treasure Both for necessitie and for pleasure Constant not wauering alwaies the same Immooueable keeping her glorious Frame Faithfully sauing what to her you tender Vntill you require her the same thing to render If wheate you deliuer wheat shall you receiue Shee meanes not with Darnell your Barne to deceiue
are compelled To euerie part of this our lower ayer Whereby they purge it And make it soe fayer All Merchants and Saylers are highly bound To the time when first this Meteor was found Two and thirtie windes Maryners finde out By which they saylen the round worlde about To east and west Indies fayre Virginia Guyana Chyna Pâ—ru and Gynnea And whatsoeuer the Southerne Pole descryes VVhat hidde treasure in America lyes The winds discouer to great Brittania The noble Empire of old Albania Another commoditie Shepheards finde By the excellent nature of the winde When a watry-cloude from the sea is taken By the winde it is all-in-peeces shaken And so disseuered into drops of rayne To comfort the withered and parched plaine The scorched-grasse on the loftie Mountaine Reuiu's it selfe and getteth life againe For if this watry clowde should whollie fall The weight would destroy and ouer-whelme all These are not winds of monstrous generation But naturall windes of gentle inclination The earth-quake is a simple Meteor Ayrie and vncompounded as before An Ayrie vapor closed in some deâ— Or concaue of the earth remote from men Serching for an issue and finding none Beateth vp and downe seeking to be gone But all in vayne then being fast enclosed It shak's the earthe in searching to be losed This is the cause of great Tellus trembling A man in a shaking Feuer resembling What future euents it doth prognosticate I will not presage th' effect is intricate But if a smale vapor be of that power To shake the whole frame of the earth in one houre How may proud man full of infirmitie Susteine the furie of the Deitie Of the Whirle-windes we haue spoken before Neyther will we as now adde any more But that they be not Meteors contaâ—ned In the Fire or Ayre but to both restrained A storme is of a windie propertie With force dispersing vapors watery With great droppes of rayne so beating the place As if it would beate the skin off a mans face Such fearefull stormes are hurtfull to the Tree's They pinch the Cattell and destroy the Bees Beate down the Hearbes and grasse blades of graine Wherewith the Shepheards must their flockes sustaine The fearefull Thunder must not be forgot Of ayerie and watry vapors begot Drawne by force to the highest Region where it may haue no perfect Mansion Rowleth in the ayer with fearefull sound Till water gets issue to moyst the ground Then downe it falleth with drops violent Therefore be sure it cannot bee permanent Now comes the watrie Element in hand Enuroning round the habitable-land A bodie moyst fluent circular and thinne Penetrable and colde containing therein Innumerable fishes of great varietie Differing in magnitude and qualitie Continually moouing in forme circular About the brim of this earth particular The substance of this Element ouerspred And the bodie of this earth enuironed So that the face thereof could not be seene But hidden lay as if it had not beene Till almightie Pan this watrie Element Gathered togither from the Continent Into one vaste-roome station and place Leauing faire Tellus with vnuailed face Drie and vnmantled without viriditie Hard and solide without humiditie Then gan the mountaines of Armenia Burning Tartarus Aetna in Sycillia Sacred Olympus Parnassus Crowned By the Muses Hermon renowned Tabor Horeb euer blessed Syon Sometime Iehouah's habitation All rocks and hilles though they were farre distant Appeared eminently at one instant The Dales and Plaines and barren Wildernesse Appeared drie all voyd of comelinesse For Flora yet was hidden in her Bower Grinding her colours fit for euerie flower Greene Vitrioll Violet Vermilion To garnish vp the Queenes Pauilion The siluered Ceruse and Cuchenella The azured Blew and Purpurella With these colours must be enamiled The flowers which Tellus haue apparelled Naked therefore and void of Ornament Pan discouereth this earthly Element And these huge waters he diuided That some in Clowds aboue th' earth should go That with distilling drops of moysthâ—ng raine Might comfort Tellus parched face againe The rest might keepe their perfect â—â—ation T' ingender fish and further nauigaâ—ion He made it of continuall motion To keepe the fishes from corruption He made it salt aboue for speciall reason That it might the slymie fishes season In twentie fower howers it ebbs and flow's twise Impossible therefore to be ouerflowen with ice The cause of this swift agitation Is mightie Phaebes alteration For as she wanes or doth in light encrease So doth the Sea her floods augment 〈◊〉 cease The cause of her saltnesse is by accident Of Phoebus piercing beames so vehement Bringing from the Seas foundation Drie vapours which by inflamation Are burn'd to salt by the heate of the Sunne And hence the saltnesse of the Sea begunne For waters themselues haue no sauâ—â—r at all But as it comes by cause accidentall Hence are ingendred moyst Meteors Almightie Iouah's strong Ambassadors The Mist the Deaw the Frost the hollow Clowd That doth the Elementall vapors shrowd The Raine the Snow the fearefull Haile the Sleete Wherewith in Februarie or March we meete The Sleete can neuer in the Summer fall For then the middle Region's coldst of all The Mist is a vapour which all men knowe And doth of watrie Exhalations growe If it ascendeth before it doth raine Of much Raine it is a token certaine But if it doth rise when shower is eâ—ded Fowle weather 's gone and th' aire amended It is the matter also of the falling Dewe Which doth the face of great Flora renewe And if this vapour be foggie and thicke The raine will ensue then speed away quicke If not raine then snow or haile without doubt Shall be the issue therefore looke about But if this myst appeare subtile or thinne Then shall the sweete Deawes or sharpe Frosts begin But in Summer Deaw in Winter the Frost Do follow the myst in euerie coast The cause of the Deaw as Shepherds do finde Is Luke-warme breathing of the Southern winde The cause that hindereth the Deaws generation Is the Northren winds cold inflation The aptest times for the Deaw to abound Spring Haruest faire-day when no winds do sound This Meteor worketh mightie effects And is high prized for many respects When hearbs and grasse are parched and combust And Phoebus burning flames colours them like dust Then comes the Deaw and doth them recreate Making them fresh virent and fortunate The bowels of the beasts it maketh soluble And all the grasse more sweete and voluble A wonder yet heâ—e-hence is collected Which some Wise shepheards hau'n obiected How Manna a Deaw which is hot and drie Withering the hearbs and making them die And now is taken for purgation Should haue a contrarie operation And nourish th'Israelites in the Desert The solution is for men expert This is wonderfull to a mortall eye Yet is no matter in th' Almightie The Frost to vs men most profitable Though it
great Arte and skill least thou â—e detected Vpon a peece of Brasse as bigge as a house Shall make a peece of golde as bigge as a louse Goodly Mannors and Possessions are solde To make simple Brasse artificial Golde But as a Veluet Ape remaines an Ape Though he be attired in golden shape So shall a peece of Brasse be perfect Brasse Though it be somewhat purer then it was Well this that is spoken proueth euident That this Mettall of Golde is exceâ—lent For which all states and sexes macerate Themselues and theirs with labours intricate Though Golde it selfe as by creation Is not the cause of such corruption But mans vile infatiable desire To lade themselues with this thicke earthly mire Brasse for vessels and fodder fast our Steele To make Canons whose force our foes doe feele Iron and Steele are mettals of dignitie Of great esteeme vertue and qualitie The one with th' other may so be tempered That by no Arte they may be entered They make mightie instruments of warre Bellona and Pallace with these armed are With these the Captaines of Britannia Beard the proude Monsters of Romania The force of these hath conquered India These fright the Muses and faire Cynthia And all young Ladies that delight in peace Whereby their ioy their loue their sports encrease Praying great Mars no more to manage armes That they might claspe him in their Iuory armes The vse of these for which they were intended Was that our confines might be defended From foe mans force and fierce Inuasion That blessed peace might build her station That there might bee no fell corrasion Death nor bloodie depopulation But out alasse Sacred intent of Pan Is quite peruerted by the minde of man By a malitious disposition That turne these Mettals to pardition They kill destroy and murder one another The Father kils the Sonne the childe the Mother Man killeth man whome he ought to defend Kniues were ordained to a better end Woe worth the man that first the sword inuented Neuer sufficiently to be lamented For since the time these weapons first began In small regard was had the life of man Each swaggering Ruffin now that walk's the streetes Proud as Lucifer stabbeth whome he meetes Trampling the Guts of men vnder his feete Tryumphing in his brothers winding sheete O blessed region where no Iron growes Where no man Steele nor golde nor siluer knowes Where Guns and swords beene reputed wonder Where roring Cannon is holden thonder Where neuer wonned any martiall Man Where men doon neuer cuâ—sse nor sweare nor ban For Golde but ledden a contented life Voide of pride Mallice contention strife Giuing a lumpe of Golde for a small Bell A needle or a pinne contents them well Thou Salomon renowned prince of peace How did thy kingdome flourish and increase When Siluer was compared vnto dust Voide of contention malice and distrust Golde was as plenty as stones in the streete Neighbour vsed neighbour solemnlie to greete Saying Shalumleca peace be vnto thee Then was Ierusalem in high degree But after he was dead then warres began Peace was exiled waxed sick and â—an Ciuill sedition and dichostasie Clangor of Trumpets noyse and fearefull crie Trampling of warlike Steedes Banners displaide Beating of Drums Armor rustie Assayed Mightie men at armes raunged in array Townes full of clamor women ran away Lamenting of Mothers wiues wringing hands Blood-breathing Mars at each corner stands Two Kings in one Land each clayming right Souldiours ignorant on which side to fight The whole land full of desolation Expecting nothing but diuastation A lamentable wofull Spectacle When closed was the blessed Tabernacle The lawes worship and Sacrifice dâ—d cease Exterminated quite with sacred Peace The champing horse vp to the Footâ—locks stood In flowing streames of dying Souldâ—ers blood No reuerence to the aged man at all The wife doth dye to see her husband fall The Children weepe to see their Fathers death The aged Matron yeeldeth vp her breath Young virgins without regard deflowred Studies decayed Students deuoured Merchants spoyled and their goods deuided Iustice dispised Iudges derided The whole Kingdome brought to confusion Thy house thy good 's thy land 's by intrusion Of a godlesse impudent companion Taken by force from thy possession Thy wofull wife rauish'd before thy face And presently thou murther'd in the place Tell me now if thou hast any conscience Yf this in making Steele were Pans pretence The armed Plough-Share in making Furrowes long Our Horses Yron shodd to footen strong Boord's strong nail'd to couch together close Keyes and artificiall locks to shut and lose With other infinite commodities Which by this Mettals principally rise Of these two Mettals shewn vse principall For deadly warres beene thinges accidentall The leaden mines are now in chiefe request For which we riuen sacred Tellus brest And turne them to bad vses contrary Vnto their first created destiny We vse it now to make Bullets round To gorge our Pistols Christians to wound Caliuers Muskets and such Trumpery Executors of humane crueltie Are stuf'd with Bullets of the purest Leade To kill a harmlesse Man vnfurnished Wee vs'd them first holy Church to couer At the charge of many a Christian Louer To couer close the Pallaces of Kings Least raine might enter which corruption brings Glasiers can tell of vses manifold That neede not in our storie bee enrould This prooâ—'s there is a strange mutation Of all things from their first creation Excepting Tinn formed for Vtensils Which sculleries of Noble Ladies fils This mettall receiueth corruption By Pewterers sophistication Chargers Basens Platters Pots of Tinne Mixed with leade craftily foysted Inne Making them heauie and of colour blew But Tinn's light and white if Substance be trew If otherwise it is adulterated And by Cosonage sophisticated Thus is rich Tellus glorious within In deeper search if thou wilt wisdome winne Stones doon occurre next to be surâ—ey'd As nature hath them orderly conueâ—'d Gems Marble whetstones Flmt's building bones Are ribb's of this Ladie or our Mothers bones Hearken the musicke of mine Oaten Reed As Endymion doth orderly proceed Gems are principally memorable As Iewels of price inestimable In barryne Rocks and mountaines engendred And by great Pan to Ladies tendred To garnish all their Princely Ornaments Tyres for their heads vailes and Abbillements Their caules their haire their neckâ— their brests their hands Whose price none but the owners vnderstands Of watry substance beene they composed And by the burning heate of Phoebâ—â— disposed Into diuers colours hard orientall Shining throughout not superficialâ— The thicker they beene the more of regard So they beene impenetrable and haâ—d This watryâ—substance by colde is congealed And then by Phoebus long time Aâ—ealed Yea hardned so by the heate of the Sunne By continuall Reuerberation So hard compact by Phoebus burning charme That the flaming fire can doe them no harme These beene called precious for their qualities Not for their Maginitude or quantities