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A90256	Ovid's Invective or curse against Ibis, faithfully and familiarly translated into English verse. And the histories therein contained, being in number two hundred and fifty (at the least) briefly explained, one by one; with natural, moral, poetical, political, mathematical, and some few theological applications. Whereunto is prefixed a double index: one of the proper names herein mentioned; another of the common heads from thence deduced. Both pleasant and profitable for each sort, sex and age, and very useful for grammar schools. / By John Jones M.A. teacher of a private school in the city of Hereford.; Ibis. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Jones, John, M.A.	1658 (1658)	Wing O678; Thomason E1657_2; ESTC R208994	89,564	191

best Saints was advised by his Ghostly Father to drink a little wine 1 Tim. 5. Why then should the dry Goatly Fathers of his Holiness rob their Lay-children of their due share in that cup of blessing in the Sacrament They may as well make them vow with the Reckabites not to drink wine for ever 345. Oetous and Dragons son in law be thy fate Tissamens Father and Callirhöes mate 1. Hercules suspected by his wife Dejanira that he loved Iole more then her sacrificing on the hill Oete in a garment dipped in the bloud of the Centaur Nessus sent as a token by his wife fell mad and burned himself 1 Womens Jealousie is like their Lust and both like the fire of hell unquenchable Some think that Dejanira sent her husband that token not in revenging hate but to gain his love So often an ill event follows a good intent Thus a cockering mother kills her best beloved child with kindness Thus the Ape by hugging strangles her dearest darling 2. Athamas husband of Ino daughter of Cadmus that was turned to a Serpent having in his madnesse killed his son Learchus at last killed himself 1 Unreasonable creatures do not onely procreate but preserve their issue why then should man be so mad with reason to murder his own child 2 Let us strive to give deadly wounds to our sins those bastards begot by the Devil upon our flesh Happy is he that can dash these Babylonish brats against the stones 3. Senec. Trag. Orestes father of Tissamenus son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra having killed his mother that committed adultery with Aegysthus fell mad 1 If a parent sins how dare a child or any private person take up the publick sword to punish This Matricide Orestes ran mad after the fact Parricides voluntarily are mad before The end of such is by their own or by anothers hand 4. Alcmeon husband of Calirhoe going to his other wife Alphesthaea whom he had deceived for a jewel was slain by her brothers 1 Polygamie is double Misery One may as easie serve two maste●s as please two wives One at once is enough if not too much 2 Achans golden wedge procured his untimely death Covetousness endangereth body and soul Thy wife to thee no chaster prove then she Of whom old Tydaeus might ashamed be Diomedes son of Tydaeus married Aegiale whom Venus caused to make her body common because her husband happened to hurt Venus when she defended Aeneas 1 An adulterous wise is Acteons park dispal'd a whole pound of Harts-horn infused in Nectar will scarcely cure her husband of the head-ache The urine cast by scolding Zantippe upon the head of her husband Socrates was less dangerous then an harder thing A loose wife makes her husband horn-mad and heart-sad Faelix quem faciunt aliorum cornua cautum Or Locris lass that with her husbands brother 350. Lay and kill'd her maid the fact to smother Hypermnestra of Locris lay with her husbands brother and killed her maid to make the world think that she not the mistriss was guilty of the offence 1 Sin scornes to go alone Adultery hath Murder waiting at her heels she that dares destroy her own soul by Adultery will not stick to destroy anothers body by Murder 2 Committing a second sin to cover the first is to take a remedy worse then the disease Boyes will excuse the fault of Treuantnes by the sin of lying Adam to quit himself will lay the fault on God The woman Thou gavest me c. Gods grant thy life be faithless and so bad As Taläus and Tyndar's son in law had 1. Amphiaräus husband to Eriphele daughter of Talâus one of the seven Kings that besieged Thebes at first for fear of the war hid himself his wife for jewels discovered him he went to the siege and there was slain 1 An army of valiant Lions led by a cowardly Hart is not so prevalent as an army of Harts led by a Lion Like Captain like company 2 God made husband and wife one flesh No man ever yet hated his own flesh but woman doth hers The Philistines could not plough without Sampsons Heifer He was never taken but by means of a wife Neither can the Devil tempt us to evil without the Dalilah of our own flesh We have good cause then to pray in the sense of the Spanish proverb O Lord deliver me from my selfe 2. Agamemnon husband of Clytemnestra daughter of Tyndarus returning from Troy was killed by his own wife and her Adulterer Aegysthus 1 My own house should be my castle of defence not offence Women chiefly a wife should be not woe to man but a helper 2 A sheep shunning a storm shelters under a bush where he loseth his fleece perhaps his life So the foolish fish leaped out of the frying-pan into the fire A window wholly opened brings in less dangerous cold then a small chink Open enemies abroad overcame not this royal Agamemnon but that bitter-sweeting his wife at home Or Belus Neeces that did dare to kill Their Husbands Therefore carry water still Fifty daughters of Danâus son of B●lus marr●ed to fifty sons of their uncle Aegyptus Ovid. Met. in the first night killed all their new husbands but one wherefore they are condemned to draw water in hell till they fill a sieve or a pitcher full of holes 1 Husband-mens toyl is like these wenches their work is never at an end 2 Learn with the one sister Hypermnestro rather to obey the command of your Heavenly then Natural or Civil fathers 355. With lust of thee thy sister burn and be True but in vice as Biblis Canace 1. Biblis daughter of Miletus and Canace lustfully loved her brother Caunus Natal Comes travelling many Countreys and not finding him she dissolved into a fountain the monument of her punishment and perpetual sorrow 1 Here we may observe the impotency of passion and wicked affection Woman is naturally of a more cold complexion and tempered with less impudency then Man yet that devillish Cupid findeth the weaker vessell to be the fittest instrument to kindle his fiery darts 2 It is true that Cain and his sons out of necessity married their own sisters which was afterwards forbidden by the law of Nature acknowledged by all Nations Justin But Cambyses perswaded by his sycophants that a King was liable to no law durst infringe it Nay among the Romans Claudius was the first that married his Neece Tacitus 2. Canace daughter of Aeolus brought forth a child begotten by her own brother Macareus her father discovering the child by the crying going to nurse killed it with his doggs 1 All kinds of sin by the law of Heathens so by the law of God were accounted equal yet by the laws of Man Fornication is a great sin Adultery greater Incest greatest of all in that kind A great folly was committed in Israel when Judah lay with Thamar his daughter in law Gen. 38. A greater when Ammon defiled his sister

Christians there is but one God represented under those fictious names He is All in All our Help Wisdom Captain and Comfort To me to me with ears and hearts attend And let my prayers have their weight and end Hear me O Earth hear me O boysterous Main Hear me O skie let me your favours gain O Starres O Sun most glorious in thy rayes O Moon appearing not alike alwayes 75. O Night renown'd for shade O Triple Fate That spin our lives to the appointed rate The Gentiles made Night a Goddess but gave her no Temple nor sacrifice She is painted like a woman because that sex is more fearful and so are men by night more then day She bears a white child in the right hand that is Sleep and a black one in the left that is Death The three fatal Sisters are Clotho that holds the distaff Lachesis that spins the thred of mans life and Atropos that cuts it off 1 There is a three-fold estate of man Birth Life Death Hence the first Fate is called Nona because man is born in the ninth moneth the second Decima because man liveth ten times ten years the third Morta Death They are called Parcae because Death spares none They are the daughters of Jupiter and Themis God of Heaven and Goddess of Justice for Death is Gods just decree for sin Styx whom the Gods do swear by that dost glide With murmuring noise through valleys by Hell side Styx indeed is a Well in Arcadia whose water is strong poison so cold that nothing can contain it but a Mules hoof with this Alexander is thought to be made away by Antipater not without some aspersion upon Aristotle The Poets feign that this is a river in Hell that the Gods did swear by it which oath if any brake he was for certain years debarr'd from Nectar and Ambrosia the food of Deities 1. Styx signifies Hate because men dying begin to hate their former sins Heathens durst not take the name of Styx in vain but Christians take the name of God in vain what then may such sinners expect but to be debarr'd from Nectar and Ambrosia life and immortality Furies whose tresses winding snakes do tie 80. Who at the gates of that dark prison lie The three Furies Alecto Megaera and Tisiphone daughters of Pluto and Proserpina were called in heaven Dirae in earth Harpyae in hell Furiae 1 These are taken for the tortures of a guilty conscience where the torments of hell begin or for the commotions of the mind Covetousness Envy Discord or for Gods three judgments Megaera Plague sweeping all away Alecto Famine never satisfied Tisiphone Sword a murtherer and revenger of sin These are worshipped not because they can do good but lest they should do hurt Fawnes Satyres Lares Gods of low degree Rivers and Nymphes and you that half-Gods be 1. Faunus king of the Latins had a wife called Fauna or Fatua from prophecying she read fortunes Hence foretellers of things are called Fatuarii and inconsiderate speakers Fatui The Faunes are thought to have sent the disease called Ephialtes or Night-mare which Pliny terms Faunorum ludibria Faunus was worshipped as a God for teaching Tillage and Religion much more should we worship the true God that giveth all good things These Gods had hornes to fright men to religion whom reason would not draw Primus in orbe Deum fecit timor 2. Satyres were lascivious creatures their descent I find not they were like the Faunes with a m●ns head horned all hairy with Goates feet they were Deified because they should not hurt the catel 1 These are but rude rustick clownes given to drinking wenching and dancing ●acchus is said to be their companion because ●ine provokes lust This conception of Satyes may proceed from savage men discovere● in woods by the civil wearing beasts skins on ●heir tawny bodies with the tail hanging do●n behind and hornes on their heads either for ornament or terrour such are yet amo●g the West-Indians Mr Sandys to these ignorance and ●ar ascribed a celestial Deity 3. Lares ●ere begot of Mercury and Lara Some think the L●rvae and Lemures to be the same they are as Penates Gods of houses and Lar is painted like a dog a good house-keeper which is kind to the houshold fie●e to strangers Men sacrificed to him in the ch●ney hence the house and so the fire is called La. 1 Th●se were Gods of low degree among the ancient Romans and what higher have the new 4. Nymphae quasi Lymphae were Deities of the Waters if sprung from Mountains they were called Oreades if from Woods and Trees Dryades and Hamadryades if from moisture of flowers Napeae if from the Sea Nereides if from Rivers Naiades 1 These Nymphs were daughters of Oceanus because Rivers return into the Sea fro● whence they came So should we return thanks to God from whence comes all These Nymphs are painted spinning It is no sh●me for a Lady to be a Spinster or a ●uswife 2 In Poets there be Gods of Haven Earth Hell Woods Waters c. T● shew that Gods power and providence d● reach unto every place If I climbe to ●eaven thou art there if to Hell thou art t●ere also Enter presenter Deus hic ubiq potenter Gods old and new that do remain till now From the first Chaos listen to my vow 85. While ' gainst this hateful wretch with c●●rms I pray While grief and wrath their several parts di●play Gods of each rank let power my wish att●in And let no jot nor point of it prove vain As I do wish Gods do that all may be 90. Thought by Pasiphäes step-son said ot me Theseus son of Aegeus that took ● wife Ariadne daughter of Pasiphäe whom Bacch● after married being too credulous to the false acusation of his son Hippolitus made by Phoedra ●s Mother-law prayed Neptune to destroy him ●e caused a Sea-calf to startle his Coach-horses they threw him dragg'd him and kill'd him 1 If Theseus his curse prevailed against his own son why not Ovids against his foe 2. Note the malice of a Stepmother 3. Take heed of a parents curse Let him endure those pains which I omit And let his torments far exceed my wit I feign his name but let my vote no lesse Vex him or with the Gods find less success 95. He whom I curse goes now on Ibis score That knows he hath deserv'd these plagues and more I le not delay but speedily proceed To sacred Rites all people hear and heed Utter such dolefull words become a Herse 100. And let your faces overflow with tears Come to him with bad Omens and left feet Put on such robes as be for Mourners meet Ibis put on thy sacrificing weed Here stands the altar for thy death make speed 105. The pomp's prepared for thy Obsequies Hasten lay down thy throat curs'd sacrifice Earth thee no food no water streams allow A prosperous gale wind on thee never blow Let neither

till they drink and then can much less rest till they die It is a fools paradise and wilful unquietness 2 Ambition is still climbing but not on Jacobs ladder for the higher it mounts the farther it is from heaven yet this sin doth ambitiously insinuat among the best as Satan among the children of God Joh 1. It crept into the very hearts of Christs own disciples they strove as Lycophron who should be the greatest Let kinsfolks through a wood thy torn limbs rake As him at Thebes whose grandsire was a snake Pentheus grand-child of Cadmus that was turned into a Snake despising the religion in Thebes established by Bacchus the God of wine notwithstanding the counsel and requests of Cadmus and Athamas with all speed would alter it His mother with his Aunt 's Ino and Autonöe all distracted with the fury of Bacchus supposing Pentheus to be a Bore transfixed him with Javelins and tore him in pieces 1 Noah was first after the flood that planted vineyards and taught men the use of wine therefore some write that of Noachus he was called Boachus Sandys and afterwards by the Heathens Bacchus by contraction or ignorance of Etymology 2 Nothing as King Pentheus well perceived can more please the vulgar then Innovation of government and religion to this they do throng in multitudes 3 Wise Princes should rather endeavour to pacifie then violently oppose a popular fury which like a torrent breaks all before it but being let alone exhausteth it self and is easily suppressed Reformation is therefore to be wrought by degrees lest through their too forward zeal they encounter too strong opposition and ruine themselves and the cause as this Pentheus did 3 The blind rage of superstition extinguisheth all affection Agave murders her own son and their Aunt their Nephew Nor have the latter ages been unacquainted with such horrors Or as th' imperious wife of Lycas thou Be dragg'd by Bulls along a mountain brow Lycas King of Boeotia first married Antiopa she was got with child by Epopus and was brought to bed of Zethus and Amphion whom she fathered upon Jupiter Dirce second wife to Lycas caused Antiopa to be bound with chains by prayer to Jupiter her chains are loosed and she freed her sons drag Dirce at Bulls tailes the Gods turn her into a fountain 1 Many sin willingly as Antiopa and lay the blame on God whereas God tempteth no man to that which he hateth forbiddeth and punisheth but every man is tempted of his own lust 2 Adultery overthrows whole families Antiopa was the cause of her own divorce and imprisonment or her husbands death and the murder of Dirce. 3 In distress as Antiopa pray unto God he will not onely loose thy chains and open the prison gate as to Paul and Sylas but in the end he will loose the chains of death and open the prison of the grave 535. As th' Harlots to her sisters husband let Thy tongue cut out fall down before thy feet Tereus ravished Philomela his wises sister and cut out her tongue Progne revengeth it by killing their son Itys Tereus is turned into a Lapwing Philomela into a Nightingall and Progne to a Swallow of this read more before 1 Pausanias observeth that no Nightingall doth sing nor Swallow build in Thracia as hating the countrey of Tereus But where Swallows build the Archietecture of their nest is admirable and to rob it or pull it down was among some people held not onely unfortunate but sacrilegious When cold weather comes and Flies which are their chiefest food be gone they creep into the clefts of rocks or sink to the bottom of a water Mr Burton and Mr Sandys do report that it is not extraordinary to draw Swallows out of some ponds with the fish which do seem dead but being put in a stove or to the fire they revive and take them to their wing As Blesus that knew Myrrha dull'd to a tree So childless found mayst thou in all parts be Blesus it seems first knew the virtue of the Myrrhe tree for he was childless And Dioscorides saith that Myrrhe openeth the Matrix and helpeth child-birth and why not child-begetting Ovid here wisheth Ibis that though he should change many climats and many wives yet he should still be childless Which doubtless is an heavy curse and reproch to man as Barrenness among the Jews was to a woman For he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them See more of Myrrha before 1 Myrrha is feigned to be turned into a tree because after that horrid fact in the fruition of her own fathers bed she ever after hid her self and though unsensibly she shed bitter tears for her transgression signified by the gumme distilled from that tree 2 This tree doth prosper the better when the root is boared and distills most juyce in blustering winds So an upright setled mind remains immoveable and I bears most fruits of virtue in the stormes of envy and affliction appearing more comfortable and glorious being oppressed Virescit vulnere virtus Let busie Bees fix in thine eyes their stings 540. Such creatures to Achaeus did like things Achaeus devising a Poem in his garden was stung in the eyes with bees and so made blind 1 Thus envious enemies of the Gospel of peace as busie bees or rather wasps put pricks in our eyes to blind us that we might not see the truth But behold and tast that honey-like comfort of the sweet singer of Israel They came about me like bees yet they are extinct as the fire among the thornes for in the name of the Lord will I destroy them Nay they will destroy themselves As wheresoever a bee stings she leaves her sting behind and then turns a buzzing idle drone despicable to all ingenious industrious bees Fixt to a rock gnaw'd be thy bowels as He to whom Pyrrha brothers daughter was Prometheus brother to Epimetheus that was father of Pyrrha for his bringing fire out of heaven unto earth was bound on the hill Caucasus where an Eagle fed upon his heart 1 Menander the Greek Poet thinks that Prometheus was thus tormented not because he brought fire from heaven but because he bought woman which is worse into the earth 2 Our daily labours be refreshed by sleep at night as Prometheus heart Cura cor urit Renew the pattern of Thyestes meat Thee like Harpagus son thy father eat Harpagus because he killed not Cyrus as his grand father King Astyages had commanded him was invited by the King to a feast where Harpagus own son was the chiefest dish being killed and his limbs sod and rost Read this history at large in Justin l. 1. So was Thyestes served by his brother Atreus Good Authors do relate this of Harpalice who being forced by her father Clymenus when she was delivered killed the child and made it for her fathers table Of Thyestes read before 1 Maugre all the bloudy malice and preventing plots of Astyages Cyrus his grandchild and