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 Mr. M. CLIF FORD. 
 
 sill, 
 
 R. CoTuley in his W ill recommend- 
 ed to my care the reviling of all 
 his Works that were formerly 
 printed, and the collecting of 
 thole Papers which he had de- 
 fign’d for the Prels. And he did it 
 with this particular Obligation, 
 That 1 jhould be Jure to let nothin? 
 pufs, that might feem the lea/l ojfence 
 to Religion, or good Manners . A Caution which you will 
 judge to have been altogether needlefs. For certainly, 
 in all Ancient or Modern Times, there can lcarce any 
 Author be found, that has handled fo many different 
 Matters in fuch various forts of Style, who lefs wants the 
 correction of his Friends, or has lefs reafon to fear the 
 leverity of Strangers. 
 
 According to his defire and his own intention, I have 
 now fet forth his Latine and Englifh Writings, each in a 
 
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 Volume apart* and to that which was before extant in 
 both Languages, 1 have added all that I could find in his 
 Clofet, which he had brought to any manner of perfecti- 
 on. I have thus, Sir, performed the Will of the Dead : 
 But I doubt I (hall not fatisfie the expectation of the Li- 
 ving, unlefs iome account be here premis'd concerning 
 this excellent man. I know very well, that he has gi- 
 ven the World the beft Image of his own mind in thele 
 immortal Monuments of his Wit. Yet there is ftill room 
 enough left, for one of his familiar acquaintance to lay 
 many things of his Poems, and chiefly of his Life, that 
 may ferve for the information of his Readers, if not for 
 the encreafe of his Fame ; which without any fuch helps, 
 is already fufficiently eftablifh'd. 
 
 This, Sir, were an Argument moft proper for you to 
 manage, inrefpeCiof your great abilities, and the long 
 friendfhip you maintain’d with him. But you have an 
 obftinate averfion from publifhing any of your writings. 
 I guefs what pretence you have for it, and that you are 
 confirm'd in this refolution by the prodigious multitude 
 and imperfeClions of Us Writers of this Age. I will not 
 now dilpute, whether you are in the right, though I am 
 confident you would contribute more to our reforma- 
 tion by your example, than reproofs. But however, fee- 
 ing you perfiftin yourpurpofe, and have refus'd to adorn 
 even this very fubjeCf, which you love fo well ; I beg 
 your affiftance while I my felt undertake it. This I do 
 with the greater willingnefs, becaufe I believe there is 
 no man, who lpeaks of Mr. Cowley , that can want either 
 matter or woids. I only therefore intreat you to give me 
 leave to make you a party in this Relation, by ufing your 
 Name and your Teftimony. For by this means, though 
 the memory of our Friend fhall not be delivered to po- 
 flerity with the advantage of your Wit, which were moft 
 to be defir'd ,* yet his praile will be ftrengthen’d by the 
 content of your judgment, and tire authority of your 
 approbation. 
 
 Mr. A- Cowley was born in the City of London , in the 
 Year One thoufand fix hundred and eighteen. His Pa- 
 rents were Citizens of a virtuous life and fufficient F„ftate, 
 and fo the condition of his Fortune was equal to’ the tem- 
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 per of his mind, which was always concent with mode- 
 rate things. The firft years of his youth were (pent in 
 Wejhninfter School, where he loon obtain'd and increas'd 
 the noble Genius peculiar to that place. The occafion of 
 his firft inclination to Poetry, was his cafual lighting on 
 Spencers Fairy Queen, when he was but juft able to read. 
 That indeed is a Poem fitter for the examination of men, 
 than the coniideration of a Child. But in him it met 
 with a Fancy, whole ftrength was not to be judged by 
 the number of his years. 
 
 In the thirteenth year of his age there came forth a lit- 
 tle Book under his Name, in which there were many 
 things that might well become the vigour and force of a 
 manly wit. The firft beginning of his Studies, was a fa- 
 miliarity with the moft iolid and unaffected Authors of 
 Antiquity, which he fully digefted not only in his memo- 
 ry but his judgment. By this advantage he learnt no- 
 thing while a Boy, that he needed to forget or forfake, 
 when he came to be a man ; His mind w 7 as rightly feafon'd 
 at firft, and he had nothing to do, but ftill to proceed on 
 the fame Foundation on which he began. 
 
 He was wont to relate that he had this defeCt in his 
 memory at that time, that his Teachers could never bring 
 it to retain the ordinary rules of Grammar. However 
 he fupply’d that want, by converting with the Books 
 themfelves, from whence thole Rules had been drawn. 
 That no doubt was a better way, though much more dif- 
 ficult, and he afterwards found this benefit by it, that ha- 
 ving got the Greek and Roman Languages, as he had 
 done his own, not by precept but ule, he practis’d them, 
 not as a Scholar but a Native. 
 
 With thele extraordinary hopes he was remov’d to 
 TWwfj-College in Cambridge, where by the progrels and 
 continuance of his Wit, it appear'd that two things 
 were joyn d in it, which leldom meet together, that it was 
 both early-ripe and lafting. This brought him into the 
 love and efteem ot the moft eminent members of that 
 famous Society, and principally of your Uncle Mr. Fo- 
 therby , whole favours he fince abundantly acknowledg'd, 
 when his benefactor had quite forgot the obligation. His 
 Exercifes of all kinds, are ftill remembred in that Uni-* 
 
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 verfity with great applauie, and with this particular praife^ 
 that they were not only fit for the obfcurity of an Acade- 
 mical life, but to have been fhown on the true 1 heater 
 of the World. There it was that before the Twentieth 
 year o! his age, he laid the defign ol divers ol his moft 
 Mafculine Works, that he finith'd long after. In which 
 I know not whether I (hould moft commend, that a mind 
 Co young {hould conceive fuch great things, or that it 
 fhould be able to perfeCt them with Inch felicity. 
 
 The firft occafion of his entring into bufinefs, was the 
 Elegy that he writ on Mr. Harvey s Death ; wherein he 
 delcribed the higheft Characters of Religion, Knowledge, 
 and Friendfhip, in an Age when moft other men fcarce 
 begin to learn them. This brought him into the acquain- 
 tance of Mr. John Harvey , the Brother of his deceafed 
 Friend, from whom he received many Offices of kind- 
 nefs through the whole courle of his life, and principally 
 this, that by his means he came into the fervice of my 
 Lord St. Albans . 
 
 When the Civil War broke out, his affeCtion to the 
 King's caufe drew him to Oxford, as foon as it began to be 
 the chief feat of the Royal Party. In that Univerfity he 
 profecuted the fame Studies with a like fuccefs. "Nor in 
 the mean time was he wanting to his duty in the War it 
 lelf, for he was prelent and in fervice in feveral of the 
 King's Journeys and Expeditions. By thefe occasions and 
 the report of his high deferts, he fpeedily grew familiar 
 to the chief men of the Court and the Gown, whom the 
 Fortune of the War had drawn together. And particu- 
 larly, though he was then very young, he had the entire 
 friendfhip of my Lord Falkland one of the Principal Se- 
 cretaries of State. That affeCtion was contracted by the 
 agreement of their Learning and Manners. For you may 
 remember, Sir, we have often heard Mr. Cowley admire 
 him, not only for the profoundnefs of his knowledge, 
 which was applauded by all the World, but moreelpeci- 
 ally for thofe qualities which he himfelf more regarded, 
 for his generofity of mind, and his negleCt of the vain 
 pomp of humane greatnefs. 
 
 During the heat of the Civil War, he was fetled in 
 my Lord St. Albans Family, and attended her Majefty 
 
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 the Queen-Mother, when by the unjuft: perfecution of 
 her Subjects, fhe was forc'd to retire into France. Upon 
 this wandring condition of the moft vigorous part of his 
 life, he was wont to refleft, as the caule of the long inter- 
 ruption of his Studies. Yet we have no realon to think 
 that he loft: lo great a fpace of Time, if we confider in 
 what bufinefs he employ’d his baniflhment. He was ab- 
 fent from his native Country above twelve years ; which 
 were wholly (pent either in bearing a fhare in the di- 
 ftreffes of the Royal Family, or in labouring in their Af- 
 fairs*. To this purpole he performed leveral dangerous 
 journies into Jerfey, Scotland , Flanders , Holland , or when- 
 ever elfe the King's Troubles requir'd his attendance. But 
 the chief Teflimony of his Fidelity, was the laborious fer- 
 vice he underwent in maintaining the conflant corre- 
 Ipondence between the late King and the Queen his Wife. 
 In that weighty Trufl he behaved himfelf with indefati- 
 gable integrity, and unlufpedted lecrecy. For he cypher'd 
 and decypher’d with his own hand, the greatefl part of 
 all the Letters that paffed between their Majeflies, and 
 managed a vaft Intelligence in many other parts : which 
 for lome years together took up all his days, and two or 
 three nights every week. 
 
 At length upon his prelent Majefly's removal out of 
 France, and the Queen-Mothers flaying behind, the bufi- 
 nels of that nature palfed of courle into other hands. 
 Then it was thought fit by thofe on whom he depended, 
 that he fliould come over into England , and under pre- 
 tence of privacy and retirement, fliould take occafion of 
 giving notice of the poflure of things in this Nation. Up- 
 on his return he found his Country groaning under the 
 oppreffion of an unjufl Ufurpation. And he loon felt the 
 effe&s of it. For while he lay hid in London , he was feiz'd 
 on by a miflake, the fearch having been intended after 
 another Gentleman, of confiderable note in the King's 
 Party. Being made a Prifoner, he was often examined 
 before the Ulurpers, w 7 ho tryed all imaginable ways 
 to make him ferviceable to their ends. That courfe not 
 prevailing, he was committed to a (evere reflraint ; and 
 lcarce at lad obtained his liberty upon the hard terms of 
 a Thoufand pound Bail, which burthen Dr. Scarbrough 
 
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 very honourably cook upon himfelf. Under thele Bonds 
 he continued till the general redemption. Yet taking the 
 opportunity of the Confufions that followed upon Lrom- 
 ml ’ s death, he ventured back into France , and there re- 
 mained in the lame Station as before, till near the time of 
 the King's return. 
 
 This certainly, Sir, is abundantly fufficient to juftifie 
 his Loyalty to all the world ; though lome have endea- 
 voured to bring if in queftion, upon occafion of a few 
 lines in the Preface to one of his Books. The Objection 
 I muft not pafs by in filence, becaufe is was the only part 
 of his life, that was liable to mif-interpretation, even by 
 the confeffion of thole that envied his Fame. In this cafe 
 perhaps it were enough, to alledge for him to men of 
 moderate minds, that what he there laid was publifhed 
 before a Book of Poetry , and fo ought rather to be 
 efteemed as a problem of his Fancy and Invention, than 
 as the real Image of his Judgment. But his defence in 
 this matter may be laid on a Purer foundation. This is the 
 true reafon that is to be given of his delivering that opi- 
 nion. Upon his coming over he found the Hate of the 
 Royal Party very delperate. He perceived the ftrength ’ 
 of their Enemies fo united, that till it fhould begin to 
 break within it lelf, all endeavours againft it were like to 
 prove unfuccelsful. On the other fide he beheld their 
 zeal for his Majefty's Caule to be ftill fo a&ive, that it 
 often hurried them into inevitable ruine. He law this 
 with much grief. And though he approv'd their conftan- 
 cy, as much as any man living, yet he found their unfea- 
 fonable fhewing it, did only dilable themfelves, and give 
 their Adverlaries great advantages of riches and ftrength 
 by their defeats. He therefore believed that it would be 
 a meritorious lervice to the King, if any man who was 
 known to have followed his intereft, could inlinuate into 
 the Ufurpers minds, that men of his Principles were now 
 willing to be quiet, and could perfwade the poor oppref- 
 led Royalifts to conceal their affections, for better oc- 
 cafions. And as for his own particular, he was a dole 
 Prifoner, when he writ that againft which the exception 
 is made ; lo that he faw it was impoffible for him to pur- 
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 iome kind of declaration of his peaceable intentions. 
 This was then his opinion. And the liiccels of things 
 feems to prove, that it was not very ill grounded. For 
 certainly it was one of the greateft helps to the Kings 
 Affaiis, about the latter end of that Tyranny, that many 
 of his beft Friends diflembled their Counlels, and a di- 
 ed the fame defigns, under the Dilguifes and Names of 
 other Parties. 
 
 This, Sir, you can teftifie to have been the innocent 
 occTon of thele words, on which lo much clamor was 
 rais’d. Yet feeing his good intentions were lo ill inter- 
 preted, he told me, the laft time that ever I law him, that 
 he would have them omitted in the next impreffion : ol 
 which his Friend Mr. Cook is a witnefs. However, if we 
 fhould take them in the worft lence, of which they are 
 capable : yet methinks for his maintaining one falfe Te- 
 nent in the Political Philolophy, he made a fufficient 
 atonement by a continual fervice of twenty years, by 
 the perpetual Loyalty of his difcourle, and by many of 
 his other Writings, wherein he has largely defended, and 
 adorned the Royal Caule. And to fpeak of him not as 
 our Friend, but according to the common Laws of Hu- 
 manity ; certainly that lifemuft needs be very unblamea- 
 ble, which had been tryed in bufinefs of the higheftcon- 
 fequence, practis’d in the hazardous lecrets of Courts 
 and Cabinets; and yet there can nothing difgraceful be 
 produc’d againft it, but only the errour of one Paragraph, 
 and a fingle Metaphor. 
 
 But to return to my Narration, which this Digreflion 
 has interrupted : Upon the Kings happy Reftauration, 
 Mr. (Rowley was pad the fortieth year of his Age ; of 
 which the greateft part had been fpent in a various and 
 tempeftuous condition. He now thought he had lacri- 
 ficed enough of his life to his curiofity and experience. 
 He had enjoyed many excellent occafions of obfervation. 
 He had been prelent in many great revolutions, which in 
 that tumultuous time difturb’d the Peace of all our 
 Neighbour-States, as well as our own. He had nearly be- 
 . held all the (plendourot the higheft part of mankind. He 
 ftad lived in the prelence of Princes, and familiarly con- 
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 ry for one that would contemn it aright : lor to icorn 
 the pomp of the World before a man knows it, does 
 commonly proceed rather from ill Manners, than a true 
 Magnanimity. 
 
 He was now weary of the vexations and formalities of 
 an active condition. He had been perplexed with a long 
 compliance to Foreign Manners : He was iatiated with 
 the Arts of Court : which fort of life, though his virtue 
 had made innocent to him, yet nothing could make it 
 quiet. Thefe were the reafons that moved him to forgo 
 all Publick Employments, and to follow the violent in- 
 clination of his own mind, which in the greatefl throng 
 of his former bufinefs, had ftill called upon him, and re- 
 prefented to him the true delights of iolitary Studies, of 
 temperate Pleafures, and of a moderate Revenue, below 
 the malice and flatteries of Fortune. 
 
 At firft he was but flenderly provided for fuch a retire- 
 ment, by reafon of his Travels, and the Afflictions of the 
 Party to which he adhered, which had put him quite out 
 of all the roads of gain. Yet notwithftanding the nar- 
 rownefs of his Income, he remained fixed to his refoluti- 
 on, upon his confidence in the temper of his own mind, 
 which he knew had contracted its dei res into lo fmall a 
 compafs, that a very few things would lupply them all. 
 But upon the fettlement of the Peace of our Nation, this 
 hinderance of his defign was foon remov'd : for he then 
 obtain'd a plentiful Eftate, by the favour of my Lord 
 St. Albans , and the bounty of my Lord Duke of ‘Bucking- 
 ham ; to whom he was always mod dear, and whom he 
 ever refpeCled as his principal Patrons. Thelaftof which 
 great men, you know, Sir, it is my duty to mention, not 
 only for M. Cowleys fake, but my own : though I cannot 
 do it, without being afham'd, that having the fame En- 
 courager of my Studies, I flhould deferve his Patronage 
 fo much lefs. 
 
 / Thus he was fufficiently furniflied for his retreat. And 
 immediately he gave over all purluit of Honour and 
 Riches, in a time, when, if any ambitious or covetous 
 thoughts had remain'd in his mind, he might juftly have 
 expeCted to have them readily fatisfied. In his laft feven 
 or eight years he was conceal'd in his beloved oblcurity, 
 
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 an d poffelVd that folitude, which from his very childhood 
 he had always mofl paffionately delired. Though he had 
 frequent invitations to return into bufinefs, yet he never 
 gave ear to any perfwafions of Profit or Preferment. His 
 vifitsto the City and Court were very few : his flays in 
 Town were only as a Paffenger, not an Inhabitant. The 
 places that he chofe for the feats of his declining life, 
 were two or three Villages on the bank of the Thames . 
 Duringthis recels, his mind was rather exercifed on what: 
 was to come, than what was pad ; he differed no more 
 bufinefs, nor cares of life to come near him, than what 
 were enough to keep his foul awake, but not to difturb it. 
 Some few Friends and Books, a chearful heart, and inno- 
 cent Confcience were his conflant Companions. His 
 Poetry indeed he took with him, but he made that an 
 Anchorite, as well as himfelf : he only dedicated it to 
 the fervice of his Maker, to defcribe the great images of 
 Religion and Virtue wherewith his mind abounded. And 
 he employed his Mufick to no other ufe, than as his own 
 David did towards Saul, by finging the prailes of God and 
 of Nature, to drive the evil lpirit out of mens minds. 
 
 Of his Works that are publifh'd, it is hard to give one 
 general Character, becaufe of the difference of their fub- 
 jefts ; and the various forms and diflant times of their 
 writing. Yet this is true of them all, that in all the le- 
 veral lhapes of his flyle, there is dill very much of the 
 likenefs and impreffion of the fame mind : the fame un- 
 affected modefly, and natural freedom, and eafie vigour, 
 and chearful paffions,and innocent mirth, which appear'd 
 in all his Manners. We have many things that he writ in 
 two very unlike conditions, in the Univerfity and the 
 Court. But in his Poetry, as well as his Life, he mingled 
 with excellent skill what was good in both flates. In his 
 life he joyn'd the innocence, and lincerity of the Scholar, 
 with the humanity and good behaviour of the Courtier. 
 In his Poems he united the Solidity and Art of the one, 
 with the Gentility andGracefulnefs of the other. 
 
 If any fhall think that he was not wonderfully curious 
 in the choice and elegance of all his words : I will affirm 
 with more truth on the other fide, that he had no manner 
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 made to his hands ; he neither went before, nor came 
 after the ufe of the Age. He forfook the Conversion, 
 but never the Language, of the City and Court. He un- 
 derftood exceeding well, all the variety and power of 
 Poetical Numbers 5 and practis’d all lorts with great 
 happinels. If his Verles in iome places leem not as (oft 
 and flowing as (bme would have them, it was his choice 
 not his fault. He knew that in diverting mens minds, there 
 fliould be the fame variety oblerv'd as in the profpe&s of 
 their Eyes : where a Rock, a Precipice, or a rifing Wave, 
 is often more delightful than a Imooth, even ground, or 
 a calm Sea. Where the matter required it, he was as gen- 
 tle as any man. But where higher Virtues were chiefly 
 to be regarded, an exaCt numerofity was not then his 
 main care. This may lerve to anfwer thole who upbraid 
 fome of his Pieces with roughnels, and with more con- 
 tractions than they are willing to allow. But thele Ad- 
 mirers of gentlenels without finews, fhould know that 
 different Arguments mull have different Colours of 
 Speech : that there is a kind of variety of Sexes in Poe- 
 try, as well as in Mankind : that as the peculiar excellence 
 of the Feminine Kind, is Imoothnefs and beauty ; lo ' 
 (Length is the chief praile of the Mafculine. 
 
 He had a perfect maftery in both the Languages in 
 which he writ : But each of them kept a juft diftance from 
 the other : neither did his Latine make his Englifh too 
 old, nor his Englifh make his Latine too modern. He 
 excelled both in Prole and Verle ; and both together have 
 that perfection, which is commended by fome of the An- 
 cients above all others, That they are very obvious to the 
 conception, but moft difficult in the imitation. 
 
 His Fancy flow’d with great fpeed, and therefore it 
 was very fortunate to him, that his judgement was equal 
 to manage it. He never runs his Reader nor his Argu- 
 ment out of breath. He perfectly praCtiles the hardeft 
 fecret of good Writing, to know when he has done 
 enough. He always leaves off in Inch a manner, that it 
 appears it was in his power to have faid much more. In 
 the particular expreffions there is ftill much to be Ap- 
 plauded, but more in the difpofition, and order of the 
 whole. From thence there iprings a newcomeline(s,be- 
 
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 fide s the feature of each part. His Invention is powerful, 
 and large as can be defir'd. But it feems all to arife out 
 of the Nature of the (ubjecf, and to be juft fitted for the 
 thing of which he Ipeaks. If ever he goes far for it, he 
 diftembles his pains admirably well. 
 
 The variety of Arguments that he has manag'd is fo 
 large, that there is Icarce any particular of all the paftions 
 of men, or works of Nature, and Providence, which he 
 has pals’d by undefcrib'd. Yet he ftill obferves the rules 
 of Decency with fomuch care, that whether he inflames 
 his Reader with the fofter Affections, or delights him 
 with inoffenfive Raillery, or teaches the familiar manners 
 of Life, or adorns the dilcoveries of Philofophy, or in- 
 ipires him with the Heroick Characters of Charity and 
 Religion : To all thele matters that are lo wide afunder, 
 he ftill proportions a due figure of Speech, and a proper 
 mealure of Wit. This indeed is moft remarkable, that a 
 man who was lo conftant and fix'd in the Moral Ideas of 
 his mind, flhould yet be fo changeable in his Intellectual, 
 and in both to the higheft degree of Excellence. 
 
 It there needed any excule to be made, that his Love- 
 verfes fhould take up lo great a fhare in his Works, it 
 may be alledg'd that they were compos’d when he was 
 very young. But it is a vain thing to make any kind of 
 Apology for that lort of Writings, if Devout or Vir- 
 tuous men will lupercilioufly forbid the minds of the 
 youngAo adorn thole lubjeCts about which they are moft 
 converlant : They would put them out of all capacity 
 of performing graver matters, when they come to them. 
 For the exercifes of all mens Wits, muft be always pro- 
 per for their Age, and never too much above it : And 
 by practice and ule in lighter Arguments, they grew up 
 at laft to excel in the moft weighty. I am not therefore 
 afham'd to commend Mr. Colleys Miftrift. I only ex- 
 cept one or two Expreffions, which I wifh I could have 
 prevail'd with thole that had the right of the other Edi- 
 tion, to have left out. But of all the reft I dare bold- 
 ly pronounce, that never yet lo much was written on a 
 Subject lo Delicate , that can lcls offend the levereft 
 rules of Morality. The whole Paflion of Love is inti- 
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 and Joys, and Dilquiets. Befides this amorous tender- 
 nefs, I know not how in every Copy, there is lomething 
 of more ufeful Knowledge very naturally and gracefully 
 infinuated, and every where there may be lomething 
 found, to inform the minds ol wile men, as well as to 
 move the hearts of young Men, or Women. 
 
 The occafion of his falling on the Pindaric way of wri- 
 ting, was his accidental meeting with Pindar ’ s Works, in 
 a place, where he had no other Books to direct him. Ha- 
 ving then conlidered at leifure the height ol his Invention, 
 and the Majedy of his Style, he try’d immediately to 
 imitate it in Englijb . And he perform’d it without the 
 danger that Horace prefag'd to the man who fhould dare 
 to attempt it. 
 
 If any are dilpleas'd at the boldnels of his Metaphors, 
 and length of his Digreffions, they contend not againft 
 Mr. Cowley j but Pindar himfelf : who was fo much reve- 
 renc'd by all Antiquity, that the place of his Birth w 7 as 
 prelerv'd as Sacred, when his Native City was twice de- 
 ftroy'd by the fury of two Conquerours. If the irregu- 
 larity of the number difgud them, they may oblerve that 
 this very thing makes that kind of Poefie fit for all manner 
 of fubje&s : For the Plealant, the Grave, the Amorous, 
 the Heroic, the Philofophical, the Moral, the Divine. 
 Befides this they will find, that the frequent alteration 
 of the Rhythm and Feet, affedts the mind with a more va- 
 rious delight, while it is loon apt to be tyr'd by the let- 
 led pace of any one conftant meafure. But that for which 
 I think this inequality of number is chiefly to be preferred, 
 is its nearer affinity with Prole : From which all other 
 kinds of Engli/h Verle are fo far didant, that it is very 
 feldom found that the lame man excells in both ways. 
 But now this loofe and unconfin’d meafure has all the 
 Grace and Harmony of the mod confin'd. And withal, 
 it is (o large and free, that the pradlice of it will only ex- 
 alt, not corrupt our Prole : which is certainly the mod 
 ufeful kind ol Writing of all others : for it is the dyle of 
 all bufinefs and conversion. 
 
 Befides this imitating of Pindar , which may perhaps 
 be thought rather a new fort of Writing, than a redoring 
 of an Ancient 5 he has alfo been wonderfully happy in 
 
 Tran- 
 
Mr. Abraham Cowley, 
 
 Tranflating many difficult parts of the nobleft Poets of 
 Antiquity. To perform this according to the Dignity 
 of the attempt, he had, as it was necefTary he (hould have, 
 not only the Elegance of both the Languages ; but the 
 true Spirit of both the Poetries. This way of leaving 
 Verbal Tranflations, and chiefly regarding the Senfe and 
 Genius of the Author, was lcarce heard of' in England 
 before this prefent Age. I will not prelume to (ay, that 
 Mr. Qovoley was the ablolute Inventor of it. Nay, I know 
 that others had the good luck to recommend it firft in 
 Print. Yet I appeal to you, Sir, whether he did not con- 
 ceive it, and difcourle of it, and praCtife it as loon as 
 any man. 
 
 His VaVideis was wholly written in lo young an Age; 
 that if we fhall reflect on the vaftnels of the Argument, 
 and his manner of handling it, he may feem like one of 
 the Miracles, that he there adorns, like a Boy attempting 
 Goliab. I have often heard you declare, that he had fimfli’d 
 the greateft part of it, while he was yet a young Student 
 at Cambridge. This perhaps may be the reafon, that in 
 fome few places, there is more youthfulneis, and redun- 
 dance of Fancy, than his riper judgment would have al- 
 low’d. I know, Sir, you will give give me leave toule this 
 liberty of cenfure ; for I do not here pretend to a profefi 
 fed panegynck, but rather to give a juft opinion concern- 
 ing him. But tor the main of it, I will affirm, that it is 
 a better inftance and beginning of a Divine Poem, than I 
 ever yet fa w in any Language. The contrivance is per- 
 fectly Ancient, which is certainly the true form of He- 
 roick Poetry, and fuch as was never yet outdone by any 
 new Devices of Modern Wits. The lubjeft was truly 
 Divine, even according to God's own heart. The matter 
 of his invention, all the Treafuresof Knowledge and Hi- 
 ftories in the Bible. The model of it comprehended all 
 the Learning of the Eaft. The Characters lofty and vari- 
 ous : T he Numbers firm and powerful : The Digreffions 
 beautiful and proportionable : The Defign to fiibmit 
 mortal Wit to heavenly 1 ruths : in all there is an admi- 
 rable mixture of humane Virtues and Paffions,wfth religi - 
 ous Raptures. 
 
 The truth is, Sir, methinks in other matters, his Wit 
 
 excell’d 
 
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 excelfd mod ocher mens : hut in his Moral and Divine 
 Works it out- did it felf. And no doubt it proceeded from 
 this Caule, that in other lighter kinds of Poetry, he chief- 
 ly reprefented the humours and 2ffeftions of others • but 
 in thefe he lat to himfelf, and drew the figure of his own 
 mind. I know it has been objected againft him by fome 
 morofe Zelots, that he has done an injury to the Scri- 
 pture by fprinkling all his Works with many Allufions 
 and Similitudes that he took out of the Bible. But to thefe 
 men it were a fufficient reply, to compare their own Pra- 
 ctice with his, in this particular. They make life of Scri- 
 pture Phrafes and Quotations, in all their common Dii- 
 courfe. They employ the Words of Holy Writ, to 
 countenance the extravagance of their own opinions and 
 affections. And why then might not he take the liberty 
 to fetch from thence fome ornament, for the innocent 
 Paflions and natural Truths, and moral Virtues which he 
 defcribes ? 
 
 This is confutation enough to that fort of men. As to 
 the thing it lelf, it is lo far from being a debafing of Di- 
 vinity, to make lome parts of it theiubjeCts of our Fancy, 
 that it is a fure way to eftabliflh it familiarly on the hearts 
 of the people, and to give it a durable impreffion on the 
 minds of wife men. Of this we have a powerful inftance 
 amongft the Ancients. For their Wit has lafted much 
 longer than the PraCHce of any of their Religions. And 
 the very memory of moftof their Divine Worfhip had 
 perifhed, if it had not been expreffed and preferved by 
 their Poets. But Mr. Loivley himlelf did of all men living 
 abhor the abufe of Scripture by licentious Raillery : 
 which ought not only to be efteemed the meaneft kind 
 of Wit, but the world fort of ill Manners. This perhaps 
 lome men would be loth to hear proved, whopraClile it 
 under the falle title of a Gentile Quality : but the truth 
 of it is unqueftionable. For the ordinary ill breeding is 
 only an indecence and offence againft lome particular 
 C.uftome, or Gefture, or Behaviour in ufe : But this pro- 
 fanenels is a violation of the very lupport of humane So- 
 ciety, and a rudenels againft the beft manners, that all 
 Mankind can praClile, which is a juft reverence of the 
 Supreme Power of all the World. 
 
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 Mr. Abraham Cowley. 
 
 In his Latine Poems he has exprefled to admiration, all 
 the Numbers of Verfes, and Figures of Poefie, that are 
 fcattered up and down among the Ancients. There is 
 hardly to be found in them all, any good fafhion of 
 Speech, or colour of Meafure,.but he has comprehended 
 it, and given inftances of it, according as his feveral Argu- 
 ments required either a Majeftick Spirit, or a pafiionate,or a 
 pleafant. This is the more extraordinary, in that it was ne- 
 ver yet performed by any fingle Poet of the Ancient 
 mans themfelves. They had the Language natural to them, 
 and io might eafily have moulded it into what form or 
 humour they pleas’d : Yet it was their conftant Cuftom, 
 to confine all their thoughts and pradtice to one or two 
 waysoi Writing, as deipairing ever to compafs all toge- 
 ther. This is evident in thole that excelled in Odes and 
 Songs, in the Comical, Tragical, Epical, Elegiacal, or Sa- 
 tyrical way. And this perhaps occafioned the firft diftin- 
 btion and number of the Mules. For they thought the 
 task too hard for any one of them, though they fancied 
 them to be GoddeCTes. And therefore they divided it a- 
 mongft them all, and only recommended to each of them, 
 the care of a diftinft Character of Poetry and Mulick. 
 
 The occafion of his chufing the lubje<3: of his fix Books 
 of Plants, was this ; when he returned into England, he 
 was advifed to dilFemble the main intention of his com- 
 ing over, under the dilguife of applying himlelf to fome 
 fettled profefiion. And that of Phyfick was thought moft 
 proper. To this purpofe, after many Anatomical Difle- 
 dtions he proceeded to the confideration of Simples ; and 
 having furnifh'd himfelf with Books of that Nature, he 
 retir'd into a fruitful part of t\ent^ where every Field and 
 Wood might fliew him the real Figures of thofe Plants, 
 of which he read. Thus he fpeedily matter'd that part of 
 the Art of Medicine. But then, as one of the Ancients 
 did before him in the ftudy of the Law, inftead of em- 
 ploying his Skill for praftice and profit, he prefently di- 
 gefted it into that form which we behold. 
 
 The two firft Books treat of Flerbs, in a ftyle relem- 
 bling toe Elegies of Ovid and Tibullus , in the fweetnefs 
 ana ireedom of the Verle : But excelling them in the 
 ftrcngth of the Fancy, and vigour of the Sence. The 
 
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 third and fourth dilcourfe of Flowers in all the variety of 
 Catullus and Horaces Numbers : For the laft of which 
 Authors he had a peculiar Reverence, and imitated him, 
 not only in the (lately and numerous pace of his Odes and 
 Epodes, but in the familiar eafinefs of his Epidles, and 
 Speeches. T he two laft (peak of Trees, in the way of 
 Virgil's Georgicks. Of thefe the fixth Book is wholly Dedi- 
 cated to the Honour of his Country. For making the Dri- 
 tifl ; Oak to prefide in the Aflembly of the Fored Trees ; 
 upon that occafion he enlarges on the Hiftory of our late 
 Troubles, the King's affliction and Return, and the be- 
 ginning of the Dutch War : and manages all in a ftyle, 
 that (to (ay all in a word) is equal to the Greatnels and 
 Valour of the Englip b Nation. 
 
 I told you, Sir, that he was very happy in the way of 
 Horace's Speeches. But of this there are but two Indan- 
 ces prelerv'd : that part of an Epidle to Mr. Crefwel , with 
 which he concludes his Preface to his Book of Plants ; and 
 that Copy which is written to your lelf. I confels I 
 heartily wffli he had left more Examples behind him of 
 this kind : becaufe I edeem it to be one of the bed and 
 mod difficult, of all thole that Antiquity has taught us. 
 It is certainly the very Original of true Raillery ; and 
 differs as much from lome of the other Latine Satyrs , as 
 the pleafant reproofs of a Gentleman, from the (everity 
 of a School-mader. I know fome men difapprove it, 
 becaufe the Verfe lee ms to be loofe, and near to the plain- 
 nefsof common Dilcourfe. But that which was admir'd 
 by the Court of Augufim , never o ght to be edeem'd 
 flat or vulgar. And the fame judgment fhould be made 
 of mens dyles,as of their behaviour, and carriage : where- 
 in that is mod courtly, and harded to be imitated, which 
 confids of a Natural eafinefs, and unaffeCted Grace, where 
 nothing feems to be dudied, yet every thing is extraordi- 
 nary. 
 
 This familiar way of Verfe puts me in mind of one kind 
 of Profe wherein Mr. Cowley was excellent ; and that is 
 his Letters to his private Friends. In thefe he always ex- 
 prefs’d the Native tendernefs, and innocent gayety of his 
 Mind. I think, Sir, you and I have the greated Collecti- 
 on of this fert. But I know you agree with me, that no- 
 
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 thing of this Nature fhould be publifh'd : And herein 
 you have always confented to approve oi the model! 
 Judgment of our Country-men above the pra&ice oi 
 iome of our Neighbours, and chiefly oi the French, i 
 nuke no manner of queftion, but the Enghjb at this time 
 are infinitely improv d in this way, above the Skill oi for- 
 mer Ages, nay, of all Countries round about us, that 
 pretend to greater E'oquence. Yet they have been al- 
 ways judiciouily fparing in Printing fuch compolures, 
 while Iome other Witty Nations have tir'd all their Prei- 
 les, and Readers with them. The truth is, the Letters that 
 pafs between particular Friends, if they are written as 
 they ought to be, can lcarce ever be fit to iee the light. 
 They fhould not confifl offullom Complements, or te= 
 dious Polities, or elaborate Elegancies, or general Fan- 
 cies , but they fhould have a Native clearnels and fhorc- 
 nets, a Domeftical plainneis, and a peculiar kind of Fami- 
 liarity *, which can only afleft the humour of thole to 
 whom they were intended. The very lame palTages, 
 which make Writings of this Nature delightful amongft 
 Friends, will lole all manner of tall, when they come to 
 be read by thole that are indifferent. In luch Letters 
 the Souls of Men fhould appear undrefs'd : And in that 
 negligent habit, they may be fit to be feen by one or two 
 in a Chamber, but not to go abroad into the Streets. 
 
 Thelaft Pieces that we have from his hands, are Dif- 
 courfes by way oi Effays, upon iome of the graveft Tub- 
 jeCts that concern the Contentment of a Virtuous Mind. 
 Thefe he intended as a real Character of his own 
 thoughts, upon the point of his Retirement. And accord- 
 ingly you may obferve, that in the Profe of them, there 
 is little Curiohty of Ornament, but they are written in a 
 lower and humbler ftyle than the reft, and as an unfeigned 
 Image of his Soul fhould be drawn without Flattery. I 
 do not ipeak this to their diladvantage. For the true per- 
 fection of Wit is, to be plyableto all occafions, to walk 
 or fly according to the Nature of every iubjeCl. And 
 there is no doubt as much Art, to have only plain Con- 
 ceptions on fome Arguments, as there is in others to have 
 extraordinary Flights. 
 
 To thefe that he has here left fcarce finish'd, it was his 
 
 c defign 
 
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 defign to have added many others. And a little before 
 his death he communicated to me his refblutions, to have 
 dedicated them all to my Lord St. Albans , as a teliimony 
 of his intire reipe&s to him : and a kind of Apology for 
 having left humane Affairs, in the ftrengtb of his Age , 
 while he might ftill have been ferviceable to his Country. 
 But though he was prevented in this purpole by his death : 
 yet it becomes the office of a Friend to make good his 
 intentions. I therefore here prefume to make a Prefenc 
 of them to his Lordfhip. I doubt not but according to 
 his ufual humanity, he will accept this imperfect Legacy, 
 of the man whom he long honoured with his domeftic 
 converfation. And I am confident his Lordfhip will be- 
 lieve it to be no injury to his Fame, that in thefe Papers 
 my Lord St. Albans and Mr. Cowleys name fhall be read 
 together by pofterity. 
 
 I might, Sir, have made a longer Dilcourfeof his Wri- 
 tings, but that I think it fit to direct my Speech concern- 
 ing him, by the fame rule by which he was wont to judge 
 of others. In his efteem of other men, he conftantly pre- 
 ferr’d the good temper of their Minds, and honefty of 
 their Aflions, above all the excellencies of their Elo- 
 quence or Knowledge. The fame courfe I will take in 
 his praife, which chiefly ought to be fixed on his life. For 
 that he deferves more applaufe from the moft virtuous 
 men, than for his other abilities he ever obtained from 
 the Learned. 
 
 He had indeed a perfect natural goodnefs, which nei- 
 ther the uncertainties of his condition, nor the largenefs 
 of his wit could pervert. He had a firmnels and ftrength 
 of mind that was proof againft the Art of Poetry it felfi 
 Nothing vain or fantaflical, nothing flattering or infolent 
 appeared in his humour. He had a great integrity and 
 plainnefs of Manners ; which he prelerv'd to the laft , 
 though much of his time was fpent in a Nation, and way 
 oflife, that is not very famous for fincerity. But the 
 truth of his heart was above the corruption of ill exam- 
 ples ; and therefore the fight of them rather confirmed 
 him in the contrary Virtues. 
 
 There was nothing affected or lingular in his habit, or 
 perfon, or gefture. He underftood the forms of good 
 
 breeding 
 
Mr. Abraham Cowley. 
 
 breeding enough to pradtife them without burdening 
 himfelf, or others. He never oppreft any mans parts, nor 
 ever put any man out of countenance. He never had any 
 emulation for Fame, or contention for Profit with any 
 man. When he was in bufinels he luffer'd others impor- 
 tunities with mucheafinefs : When he was out of it, he 
 was never importunate himielf. His modefty and humili- 
 ty w 7 ere fo great, that if he had not had many other equal 
 Virtues, they might have been thought diffimulation. 
 
 His Converlation was certainly of the moft excellent 
 kind ; for it was fuch as was rather admired by his familiar 
 Friends, than by Strangers at firft fight. He lurpriz'd no 
 man at firft with any extraordinary appearance : he ne- 
 ver thruft himielf violently into the good opinion of his 
 company. He was content to be known by leifure and by 
 degrees : and lo the efteem that was conceiv’d of him, 
 was better grounded and more lafting. 
 
 In his Speech, neither the pleafantnefs excluded gra- 
 vity, nor was the fobriety of it inconfiftent w T ith delight.* 
 No man parted willingly from his Dilcourfe ; for he fo 
 ordered it, that every man was iatisfied that he had his 
 fihare. He govern'd his Paffions with great moderation. 
 His Virtues were never troublefom or uneafie to any. 
 Whatever he difliked in others, he only corrected it by 
 the filent reproof ofa better practice. 
 
 His Wit was lo temper'd, that no man had ever reafon 
 to wifti it had been lefs ; he prevented other mens ieve- 
 rity upon it by his own : he never willingly recited any 
 of his Writings. None but his intimate friends ever dis- 
 covered he was a great Poet, by his dilcourfe. His Learn- 
 ing was large and profound, well compos'd of all Ancient 
 and Modern Knowledge. But it fat exceeding clofe and 
 handiomly upon him 3 it was not imboffed on his mind, 
 but enamelled. 
 
 He never guided his life by the whifpers, or opinions 
 of the World ; Yet he had a great reverence for a good 
 reputation. He hearkned to Fame when it was a juft 
 Cenfurer ; but not when an extravagant Babler. He 
 was a paffionate lovet* of Liberty and Freedom from re- 
 ftraint both in A&ions and Words. But what honefty 
 others receive from the direction of Laws, he had by 
 > c * native 
 
o_yfti Account of the Life of 
 
 native Inclination : And he was not beholding to other 
 mens wills, but to his own for his Innocence. 
 
 He perform’d all his Natural and Civil Duties, with 
 admirable tendernefs. Having been Born after his Fa- 
 ther’s Death, and bred up under the Dilciplineof his Mo- 
 ther, he gratefully acknowledg'd her care ofhis Educa- 
 tion, to her Death, which was in the Eightieth year of 
 her age. For his three Brothers he always maintain'd a 
 conftant affection. And having furviv'd the two firft, he 
 made the third his Heir. In his long dependance on my 
 Lord St. Albans , there never happened any manner of 
 difference between them ; except a little at laft, becaule 
 he would leave his fervice : which only fhewed the inno- 
 cence of the Servant, and the kindnefs of the Matter. 
 His Friendfhips were inviolable. The lame men with 
 whom he was familiar in his Youth, were his neareft ac- 
 quaintance at the day of his Death. If the private 
 Courfe of his laft years made him contract his Conven- 
 tion to a few, yet he only withdrew, not broke off from 
 any of the others. 
 
 His thoughts were never above or below his conditi* 
 on. He never wifhed his Eftate much larger. Yet he en- 
 joyed what he had with all innocent Freedom : he never 
 made his prefent life uncomfortable , by undue expecta- 
 tions of future things. Whatever difappointments he met 
 with, they only made him underftand Fortune better, not 
 repine at her the more:His Mule indeed once complain'd, 
 but never his Mind.He was accomplifh’d with all man* 
 ner of Abilities, for the greateft bufinefs, if he would 
 but have thought fo himielf. 
 
 If any thing ought to have been chang'd in his Tem- 
 per, and Difpofition; it washisearneft AfieCtion for Ob- 
 icurity and Retirement. This, Sir, give me leave to con- 
 demn, even to you, who I know agreed with him in the 
 lame humour. I acknowledge he chofe that ftate of Life, 
 not out of any Poetical Rapture, but upon a fteady and 
 fober experience of humane things. But however I can- 
 not applaud it in him. It is certainly a great dilparage- 
 ment to Vertue and Learning it felf,that thofe very things 
 which only make men uleful in the World, fhould en- 
 clinethemto leave it. This ought never to be allow'd 
 
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Mr. Abraham Cowley. 
 
 to good men, unlefs the bad had the lame moderation , 
 and were willing to follow them into the Wildernefs. 
 But if the one fhall contend to get out of Employment , 
 while the other ftrive to get into it, the affairs of Man- 
 kind are like to be in fo ill a pofture, that even the good 
 men themfelves will hardly be able to enjoy their very 
 retreats in fecurity. 
 
 Yet I confefsif any deferv'd to have this priviledge, 
 it ought to have been granted to him, as foon as any man 
 living, upon confederation of the manner in which he 
 lpent the Liberty that he got. For he withdrew himfeli 
 out of the Crowd, with defires of enlightning,and inftru* 
 ding the minds of thole that remain'd in it. It was his re- 
 folution in that Station to learch into the Secrets of Di* 
 vine and Humane Knowledge, and to communicate what 
 he fhould oblerve. He always profels'd, that he went out 
 of the world, as it was man's, into the fame world as it was 
 Nature's, and as it was God's. The whole compafsof the 
 Creation, and all the wonder! ul effeds of the Divine 
 Wildom, were the confiant Prolped of his Senfes, and 
 his Thoughts. And indeed he enter'd with great advan- 
 tage on the ftudies of Nature, even as the firft great Men 
 of Antiquity did, who w 7 ere generally both Poets and 
 Philolophers. He betook himfelf to its Contemplation, 
 as well furnifih'd with found Judgment, and diligent Ob* 
 fervation, and good Method to difcover its Myfteries , 
 as with Abilities to fet it forth in all its Ornaments. 
 
 This labour about Natural Science was the perpetual 
 and uninterrupted task of that obfcure part of his Life. 
 Befides this, we had perfwaded him to look back into his 
 former Studies, and to publiflh a Difcourfe concerning 
 Style. In this he had defign'd, to give an account of the 
 proper forts of writing, that were fit for all manner of Ar- 
 guments, to compare the perfedicns and imperfections of 
 the Authors of Antiquity, with thofe of this prefent Age, 
 and to deduce all down to the particular ufe of the En* 
 glifih Genius, and Language. This fubjeCt he was very fit 
 to perform : It being moft proper for him to be the 
 Judge, who had been the beft PraCtifer. But he fcarce 
 lived to draw the firft lines of it. All the footfteps that I 
 can find remaining of it, are only fome indigefted Cha- 
 racters 
 
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Account of the Life of 
 
 rafters of i\ncient and Modern Authors. And now for 
 the future, I almoft defpair ever to fee it well accom- 
 plifhed, unlefs you, Sir, would give me leave to name 
 the man that flhould undertake it. 
 
 But his laft and principal Defign,was that which ought 
 to be the principal to every wife man ; the eftablifhing 
 his mind in the Faith he profefled. He w 7 as in his practice 
 exaftly obedient to the Ule and Precepts of our Church. 
 "Nor was he inclined to any uncertainty and doubt, as ab- 
 horring all contention in indifferent things, and much 
 more in facred. But he beheld the Divilions of Qiriften- 
 dom : he law how many controverfies had been introdu- 
 ced by Zeal or Ignorance , and continued by Faftion. 
 He had therefore an earned: intention of taking a Re® 
 view of the Original Principles of the Primitive Church : 
 believing that every true ChritFian had no better means 
 to iettle his fpirit than that which was propofed to ^Eneas 
 and his Followers, to be the end of their wandrings, An- 
 tiquam exquirite Matrem, 
 
 This examination he purpoied fliould reach to our Sa® 
 viour's and the Apoftles lives, and their immediate Suc- 
 cefiors, for four or five Centuries ; till Intereft and Po- 
 licy prevailed over Devotion. He hoped to have abfo- 
 lutely compared it in three or four years, and when that 
 was done, there to have fixed for ever, without any (ba- 
 king or alteration in his judgment. Indeed it was a great 
 damage to our Church, that he lived not to perform it. 
 For very much of the Primitive Light might have been 
 expected from a mind that was endued with the Primi- 
 tive meeknels and Innocence. And befides, fuch a Work 
 coming from one that w 7 as no Divine, might have been 
 very ufeful for this Age ; wherein it is one of the princi- 
 pal Cavils againft Religion, that it is only a matter of in- 
 tereft, and only fupported for the gain of a particular 
 Profeffion. 
 
 But alas ! while he was framing thefe great things in 
 his thcughts, they were unfortunately cut off together 
 with his life. His Solitude from the very beginning , had 
 never agreed io well with the conftitution of his Body, 
 asofhisMind. The chief cauie of it was, that out of 
 hafte to be gone away from the Tumult and ISJoife of 
 ; /■ the 
 
Mr. Abraham Cowley. 
 
 the City, he had not prepar'd io healchful a fituation in the 
 Country, as he might have done, if he had made a more lei- 
 lurable choice.Of this he foon began to find the inconveni- 
 ence at Barn* Elms j where he was afflicted witnadangetom 
 and lingnng Fearer. After that he fcarce ever recover'd his 
 former health, though his mind was reftor d to its perfect 
 vigour, as may be leen by his two laft Books of Plants, 
 that were written fince that time, and may at leaft be com- 
 par’d with the beft of his other Works. Shortly after his re- 
 moval to Qbertfea , he fell into another confuming Difeafe. 
 Having languifh'd under this for fome months, he feem'd 
 to be pretty well cured of its ill Symptoms.But in the heat 
 of the fiift Summer, by Paying too long amongft his La- 
 bourers in the Meadows ; he was taken with a violent De* 
 fluxion, and floppage in his Breaft,ar,d Throat.This heat 
 firft negle&ed as an ordinary Cold, and refus'd to fend for 
 his ufual Phyficians, till it was paft all remedies ; and fo in 
 the end after a fortnight ficknels, it prov'd mortal to him. 
 
 Who can here, Sir, forbear exclaiming on the weak hopes, 
 and frail condition of humane Nature?For as long as Mr. 
 Cowley was purluing the courle of Ambition, in adtive life, 
 which he fcarce efteem'd his true life ; he never wanted a 
 confiant health and ftrength of body.But as foon as ever he 
 had found an opportunity of beginning indeed to live,& 
 to enjoy himfelf in fecurity, his contentment was firft bro* 
 ken by ficknels, and at laft his death was occahon'd by his 
 very delight in the Country and the Fields, which he had 
 long fancied above all other Pleaiures.But let us not grieve 
 at this fatal accident upon his account, left we fhould feerxi 
 to repine at the happy change of his condition, and not to 
 know that the lois of a few years which he might longer 
 have liv'd, will be recompenc'd by an immortal Memory. 
 II ve complain, let it only be for our own iakesjthat in him 
 we areat once depriv'd of thegreateft natural 5 & improv'd 
 abilities, of the ulefulleft converlation, of the faithfulleft 
 1 dfhip,of a mind that practis'd the beft Virtues it lelf, 
 and a \\ it that was beft able to recommend them to others. 
 
 FisBody was attended zoWcftmmfter^Abby ^by a great num- 
 ber of Perfons cfthe rnoft eminent quality, and follow'd 
 with the prailes of all good and Learned Men.lt lies near 
 theAfhes of Chaucer andSpe«av,the two moft famous EnAifb 
 Poets, of former times. But whoever would do him right, 
 
 ‘ fhould 
 
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 fhould not only equal him to the Principal Ancient Writer 
 of our ownNation, but fhould alfo rank hisName amongft 
 the Authors of the true Antiquity, the belt of the Creeks and 
 (Romans. In that place there is a Monument defign'd tor 
 him, by my Lord Duke of ‘Buckingham , in teftimony of 
 his affedtion. And the King himlelt was pleas'd to beflow 
 on him the belt Epitaph, when upon the news of his 
 death his Majelty declar'd, That SWr. Cowley had not left 
 a better Man behind him in England. 
 
 This, Sir, is the account that I thought fit to prelent the 
 World concerning him. Perhaps it may be judged, that I 
 have ipent too many words on a private man, and a Scho- 
 lar : whole life was not remarkable for fuch a variety ol 
 Events, as are wont to be the Ornaments of this kind of 
 Relations. 1 know 7 it is the cuftom of the World to prefer 
 the Pompous Hiftories of great Men, before the greateft 
 Virtues of others, whofe lives have been led in a courfe Ids 
 illuftrious.This indeed is the general humour.But I believe 
 it to be an errour in mens judgments. For certainly that is 
 a more profitable inftru&ion, which may be taken from 
 the eminent goodnefs of men of low 7 errank, than that 
 which we learn from the Iplendid reprefentation of the 
 Battels, and Victories, and Buildings, and Sayings of great 
 Commanders and Princes. Such fpecious matters, as they 
 are feldom delivered with fidelity, fo they ferve but for the 
 imitation of a very few, and rather make for the oftentation 
 than the true information of humane fife. Whereas it is 
 from the practice of men equal to our felves, that we are 
 more naturally taught how to command otirPaffions, to 
 dired our Knowledge,- and to govern our Adtions. 
 
 For this reafon I have fome hope, that a Character of 
 Mr. Cowley may be of good advantages our Nation. For 
 what he wanted in Titles of Honour, and the Gifts of 
 Fortune, was plentifully fupplied by many other Excellen- 
 cies, which make perhaps lefs node, but are more bene- 
 ficial for Example. This, Sir, was the principal end of 
 this long Difcourfe.Befides this, I had another defignin it, 
 that only concerns our felves ; that having this Picture of 
 his life let before us, w 7 e may ftill keep him alive in our 
 memories, and by this means we may have fome fmall 
 reparation, for our inexpreffible lofs by his death. 
 
 Sir, I am 
 
 Your moft humble, and moft 
 ' affectionate Servant, 
 
 T. S P RAT. * 
 

 DEDICATORI A: 
 
 A D 
 
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 ILLUSTRISSIMAM 
 
 Academiam 
 
 Cant ab ^igiENSEM. 
 
 H O C tibi de N ato ditiffima Mater egeno 
 
 Exiguum immenfi pignus Amoris -habe. 
 Heu meliora cibi depromere dona volentes 
 Aftringit gratas parcior arca manus. 
 
 Tune tui poteris yocemhdc agnofcere Nati 
 Tam male formatam, diflimilemq; tu& ? 
 
 Tune hic materni veftigia facra decoris, 
 
 T u Speculum poteris hic reperire tuum ? , 
 
 Poft longum, dices, Coulei , fic mihi tempus ? 
 
 Sic mihi fperanti, perfide, multa redis ? 
 
 Quae, dices, Sag# Lemur efq\ T)e&q\ nocentes 
 Hunc mihi in Infantis luppofuere loco ? 
 
 At Iu, landa Tarens, crudelis tu quoque Nati 
 Ne trades dextra vulnera cruda rudi. 
 
 Hei mihi, quid Fato Genitrix accedis iniquo ? 
 
 Sic Son, led non fis Ipfa Noverca mihi. 
 
 Si mihi natali Mufarum adolelcere in arvo, 
 
 Si bene diledo luxuriare folo, 
 
 Si mihi de doda licuifiec plenius unia 
 Haurire, ingentem fi fatiare fitim, 
 
 Non ego degeneri dubitabilis ore redirem, 
 
 Nec legeres Nomen fula rubore meum. 
 
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Scis bene, fcis quae me Tempe ft as publica Mundi 
 Raptatrix veftro luftulit e gremio, 
 
 Nec pede adhuc firmo, nec firmo dente, negati 
 Polcentem querulo murmure Laffis opem. 
 
 Sic quondam aerium Vento bellante per aequor, 
 
 Cum gravidum Autumnum laeva flagellat Fiyems, 
 Immatura lua velluntur ab arbore poma, 
 
 Et vi vidta cadunt ; Arbor &c ipfa gemit. 
 
 Nondum fuccus ineft terrae generofus avitae, 
 
 Nondum Sol roleo redditur ore Pater. 
 
 O mihi jucundum Qrant # luper omnia Nomen ! 
 
 O penitus toto corde receptus Amor ! 
 
 O pulchrae fne Luxu AEdes, vitaeq^ beatae, 
 
 Splendida Paupertas, ingenuuiq; decor ! 
 
 O chara ante alias, magnorum nomine %egum 
 Digna Domus ! I rini nomine digna Dei ! 
 
 O nimium Cereris cumulati munere Campi, 
 
 Pofthabitis Enn* quos colit illa jugis / 
 
 O facri Fontes ! & Iaerae Vatibus Umbrrt, 
 
 Quas recreant Avium Pieridumtfr chori ! 
 
 O Camus ! Phoebo nullus quo gratior amnis ! 
 
 Amnibus auriferis invidioius inops ! 
 
 Ah mihi fi veftrae reddat bona gaudia ledis, 
 
 Detq; Deus dodta pofle quiete frui ; 
 
 Qualis eram cum me tranquilla mente fedentem 
 Vidifti in ripa, Came ferene, tua *, 
 
 Mulcentem audifti puerili flumina cantu ; 
 
 Ille quidem immerito, fed tibi gratus erat. 
 
 Nam, memini ripa cum tu dignatus utraque, 
 
 Dignatum eft totum verba referre nemus. 
 
 Tunc liquidis tacitilq; fimul mea vita diebus, 
 
 Et fimilis veftrae candida fluxit aquas. 
 
 At nunc coenoiae luces, atque obice multo 
 Rumpitur astatis turbidus ordo meae. 
 
 Quid mihi Sequana opus, Thameffve aut Tjbridis unda ? 
 
 Tu potis es noftram tollere, Came , fitim. 
 
 Foelix qui nunquam plus uno viderit amne ! 
 
 Quiq; eadem Salicis littora more colit! 
 
 Foelix cui non tentatus lordelcere Mundus , 
 
 Et cui Pauperies nota nitere poteft ! 
 
 Tempore 
 
Tempore cui nullo mifera experientia conflat, 
 
 Ut res humanas fentiat effe Nihil ! 
 
 At nos exemplis Fortuna inftruxit opimis, 
 
 Et documentorum fatq; fuperq, dedit. 
 
 Cum Rapite avulfum Diadema , infra&aq; Sceptra , 
 Contufafq; Hominum Sorte minante minas, 
 Parcarum ludos , &c non tr affabile Fatum , 
 
 Et verfas fundo vidimus orbis opes. 
 
 Quis poterit fragilem pofl talia credere puppim 
 Infami fcopulis naufragiifq; Mari ? 
 
 Tu quoq; in hoc Terra tremuifli, Mcademia , Motu y 
 (Nec fruftra) atq; aedes contremuere tuae. 
 Contremuere ipfa z pacata Palladis arces ; 
 
 Et timuit Fulmen Laurea fan&a novum. 
 
 Ah quanquam iratum, peftem hanc avertere Numen , 
 Nec faltem Deliis ifta licere, velit ! 
 
 Nos, tua progenies, pereamus ; & ecce, perimus ! 
 
 In nos jus habeat : Jus habet omne malum. 
 
 Tu flabilis brevium genus immortale nepotum 
 Fundes ,* nec tibi Mars ipfa fuperjles erit. 
 
 Semper plena manens uteri de fonte perenni 
 Formofas mittes ad Mare Mortis aquas. 
 
 Sic Fenus humana quondam, Dea Crucia, dextra, 
 (Namq; folent ipfis Delia nocere Deis) 
 
 Imploravit opem fuperum, queftufq; cievit, 
 
 Tinxit adorandus candida membra eruor. 
 
 Quid quereris ? contemne breves fecura dolores; 
 Nam tibi ferre Necem vulnera nulla valent. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE PREFACE 
 
 Of the sJVTHOR. 
 
 f my return lately into England , I met by 
 great accident (for Inch I account it to be , 
 that any Copy of it fliould be extant any 
 where fo long, unlefs at his houfe who print- 
 ed it) a Book enticuled, The Iron Age , and publifhed un- 
 der my name , during the time of my abfence. I wondred 
 very much how one who could be (ofooltfh to write fo ill 
 Verfes, fliould yet be fo wife to fet them forth as another 
 Mans rather than his own ; though perhaps he might have 
 made a better choice, and not fathered the Bajlard upon 
 fuch a Perfon, whole flock of Reputation is, 1 fear, little 
 enough for maintenance of his own numerous Legitimate 
 Offering of that kind. It would have been much lefs in- 
 jurious, if it had pleafed the Author , to put forth lome of 
 my Writings under his olfcn name , rather than his own un- 
 der mine : He had been in that a more pardonable Pla- 
 giary, and had done lefs wrong by jobbery /, than he does 
 by fuch a Bounty; for no body can b ejuftified by the im* 
 putation even of anothers SMerit ; and our own coarle 
 Cloaths are like to become us better, than thofe of ano- 
 ther mans, though never fo rich: but thefe,to fay the truth, 
 were lo beggarly, that I my lelf was afliamed to wear them. 
 It was in vain for me, that I avoided cenfure by the con- 
 cealment of my own Writings, if my reputation could 
 be thus executed in Effigie ; and impoflible it is for any 
 good Ts[ame to be in fafecy, if the malice of Witches have 
 the power to confume and deftroy it in an Image of their 
 own making. This indeed w T as fo ill made, and (o unlike y 
 that I hope the Charm took no effect. So that I efteem 
 my felf lels prejudiced by it, than by that which has been 
 done to me fince, almoft in the fame kind, w’hich is the 
 publication offome things of mine without my content 
 or knowledge, and thole fo mangled and imperfect, that 
 I could neither with honour acknowledge, nor with ho- 
 nefty quite difavow them. Of which fort was a (fiomedy 
 
 called 
 
The Preface. 
 
 called the Guardian, printed in the year 1650. but made 
 and aded before the Prince , in his paffage through Cam- 
 bridge towards York , at the beginning of the late unhappy 
 War; or rather neither made nor aBed, but rough-drawn 
 only, and repeated ; for the hafte was lo great , that it 
 could neither be reYifed or perfected by the Author , nor 
 learned without book by the ABors, nor let forth in any 
 meafure tolerably by the Officers of the College. After 
 the eprefentation (which, I confels, waslomewhat of the 
 latefi ) I began to look it over, and changed it very much, 
 ftriking out fome whole parts, as that of the Poet and the 
 Souldier ; but I have loft the Copy, and dare not think it 
 deferves the pains to write it again, which makes me 
 omit it in this publication ; though there be iome things 
 in it which! am not afhamed of, taking the excufe of 
 my age and fmall experience in humane convention 
 when I made it. But as it is, it is only the hafty firfl fit- 
 ting of a PiBure , and therefore like to refemble me ac- 
 cordingly. From this which has happened to my felf, I be- 
 gan to refled: on the fortune of almoft all Writers , and 
 efpecially Poets, whole Works (commonly printed af- 
 ter their deaths) we find fluffed out , either with counter- 
 feit pieces, lik efalfe Money put in to fill up the Bag, though 
 it add nothing to the fum ; or with fuch, which, though 
 of their own Coyn, they would have called in themfelves, 
 for the bafenefs of the Alloy : whether this proceed from 
 the indifcretion of their Friends , who think a vaft heap of 
 Stones or Rubbifh a better Monument, than a little Tomb 
 of Marble , or by the unworthy avarice of fome Stationers , 
 whoareconteat to diminiffi the value of the Author , fo 
 they may encreaie the price of the Book ; and like Vint- 
 ners with fophifticate mixtures, fpoil the whole Veflel of 
 Wine to make it yield more profit. This hath been the cafe 
 with Shakefiear , Fletcher, Johnfon , and many others ; part 
 of whole Poems I fhould take the boldnefs to prune and 
 lop away, if the care of replanting them in print did be- 
 long to me ; neither would I make any fcruple to cut off 
 from fome the unnecelfary young Suckers, and from others 
 the old withered Branches ; for a great Wit is no more 
 tyed to live in a Vafi Volume, than in a Gigantick Body ; on 
 
 the 
 
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 The ‘Preface . 
 
 the contrary, ic is commonly more vigorous the lels fpace 
 it animates, and as Statius lays of little Tydeus. 
 
 Totos infufa per artus : 
 
 Major in exiguo regnabat corpore Virtus. 
 
 I am not ignorant, that by faying this of others, I expofe 
 my felf to fome Raillery, for not ufing the fame fevere 
 difcretion in my own cale, where it concerns me nearer : 
 But though 1 publifh here, more than in drift wifdom I 
 ought to have done, yet 1 have fuppreft and caft away 
 more than I publifh , and for theeafe of my felfand others, 
 have loft , l believe too, more than both. And upon thefe 
 confiderations 1 have been perlwaded to overcome all the 
 juft repugnancies of my own modefty , and to produce thele 
 (poems to the light and view of the World, not as a thing 
 that I approved of in it felf, but as a lefs evil, which I 
 chofe rather than to ftay till it were done for me by fome 
 body elfe, either furreptitioufly before, or avowedly af- 
 ter my death : and this will be the more excufable, when 
 the Pleader fhall know in what refpefts he may look upon 
 me as a Dead , or at lead a Dying Perfon , and upon my 
 SMufe in this aftion, as appearing, like the Emperor Charles 
 the Fifth , and afftfting at her own Funeral. 
 
 For to make my felf ablolutely dead in a Poetical ca- 
 pacity, my refolution at prelent, is never to exercife any 
 more that faculty. It is, I confels, butfeldom feen that the 
 Poet dies before the Man ; for when we once fall in love 
 with that bewitching Art, we do not ufe to court it as a 
 Miftrcfs , but marry it as a Wife , and take it for better or 
 worle, as an Irreparable Qompanion of our whole life. But 
 as the Marriages of Infants do but rarely profper, fo no man 
 ought to wonder at the diminution or decay of my affe- 
 ftion to Poefie ; to which I had contracted my felf fo much 
 under Age, and fo much to my own prejudice in regard 
 of thofe more profitable matches which I might have 
 made among the richer Sciences . As for the Portion 
 which this brings of Fame , it is an Eflate (if it be any, 
 for men are not oftner deceived in their hopes of Widows , 
 than in their opinion of, Exegi monumentum Are perennius) 
 that hardly ever comes in whileft we are Living to enjoy it, 
 
 but 
 
‘/ he ‘ Preface . 
 
 but is a fantajtical kind of P everjion to our fclves : neither 
 ought any man to envy Poets t his pofthumousand imagi- 
 nary happinels, fince they find commonly lo little in pre* 
 lent, that it may be truly applied to them, which S.Paul 
 Ipeaks 'of the fir ft CbriJUans , If their rewaul he in this life , 
 they are of all men the mop infer able . 
 
 And if in quiet and flourishing times they meet with lo 
 fmall incouragement, what are they to expert in rough 
 and troubled ones ? if Wit be fuch a Plant , that it lcarce 
 receives heat enough to prelerve it alive even in the Sum- 
 mer of our cold Climate , how can it chule but wither in a 
 long and (harp Winter ? A warlike, various, and a tragical 
 Age is beft to write of, but worft to write in. And I may , 
 though in a very unequal proportion , ailume that to my 
 felf, which was ipoken by Fully to a much better perlon, 
 upon occafion of the Civil Wars and Revolutions in hils 
 time, Sed in te intuens, Brute, doleo, cujus in adolefcentiam per 
 medias laudes qua fi quadrigis Vehentem tranfverfa incurrit infer a 
 fortuna Pei public 
 
 Neither is the prelent conftitution of my Mind more 
 proper than that of the Times for this exerciie, or rather 
 divertifement. There is nothing that requires lo much 
 ferenity and chearfulnefs of Jpirit j itmuft not be either 
 overwhelmed with the cares of Life, or overcaft with the 
 Clouds of Melancholy and Sorrow, or fhaken and difturbed 
 with the ftorms of injurious Fortune ; it muft like the 
 Halcyon, have fair weather to breed in. The Soul muft be 
 filled with bright and delightful Ideas , when it under- 
 takes to communicate delight to others 5 which is the 
 main end oiPoeJie. One may lee through the ftileof li- 
 vid deTnfl . the humbled and dejected condition of Spirit 
 with which he wrote it ; there fcarce remains any foot- 
 fteps of that [ jenius , 
 
 Ouem nec fovis ira , nec ignes, <src. 
 
 The cold of the Country had ftrucken through all his fa- 
 culties, and benummed the very feet of his Verjes . He is 
 him felf, methinks, like one of the Stories of his own Meta - 
 morphofis ; and though there remain lome weak refemblan - 
 cos of Ovid at ( I{pme ) it is but as he lays of Niobe, 
 
Ol id. Met* 
 lib. 6. 
 
 The Preface ;> 
 
 In Vultu color eft fine j anguine , lumina moefiis 
 Stant immota genis j nihil eft in Imagine VtVum, 
 
 Flet tamen — 
 
 The truth is, for a man to write well, it isneceflary to be 
 in good humor ; neither is Wit lefs eclipled with the un- 
 quietneis of Mind , than Beauty with the Indijpofition of 
 Body. So that ^cis almoft as hard a thing to be a Boet in 
 defpight ot Fortune , as it is in defpight of Nature . For 
 my own part, neither my obligations to the Mufes , nor 
 expeditions from them are fo great, as that I fhould differ 
 my felf on no confiderations to be divorced • or that I 
 fihould lay like Horace , 
 
 Quifquis erit vita, Scribam , color . 
 
 Hor. Sat. i , 
 /. 2 . Sir. 
 
 I flhall rather ufe his words in another place, 
 
 
 Vixi C amoenis nuper idoneus 
 
 C. ^ • CuT • 
 
 Et militavi non fine gloria , 
 
 Ode 2 6. 
 Vixi pueU 
 
 Nunc arma defun&umq ; bello 
 
 t 
 
 Iit) &c. 
 
 Barbiton hic paries habebit. 
 
 
 And this refolution of mine does the more befit me , be- 
 caufe my defire has been for lome years pad (though the 
 execution has been accidentally diverted) and does dill 
 vehemently continue , to retire my felf to fome of our 
 American Plantations, not to feek for (fold , or inrich my 
 felf with the traffick of thole parts (which is the end of 
 mod men that travel thither ; fo that of thefe Indies it is 
 truer than it was of the former, 
 
 Improbus extremos currit Mercator ad Indos , 
 
 Pauperiem fugiens ) 
 
 But to forfake this World forever, with all the Vanities 
 and Vexations of it, and to bury my felf there in fome 
 obfeure retreat (but not without the confolation of Let- 
 ters and Philofopby .) 
 
 Oblitufq ; meorum , oblivifeendus Or illis . 
 
 As my former Author fpeaks too, who has indeed me here 
 I know not how, into the Pedantry of this heap of Latine 
 Sentences. And I think VoHor Bonnes Sun-Dyal in a Qrave 
 
 / 
 
The Preface . 
 
 is not more ufelels and ridiculous than Toetry would be in 
 that retirement . As this therefore is in a true lenle a kind * 
 of Death to the Mujes , and a real literal quitting of this 
 World : So, methinks, I may make a juft claim to the un- 
 doubted priviledge of DeceafedToets , which is to be read 
 with more favour , than the Living ; 
 
 Tanti eft ut placeam tibi , Ter ire. 
 
 Having been forced for my own neceflary jujiification 
 to trouble the Trader with this long Dilcourle of the Tea- 
 Jons why I trouble him alio with all the reft of the Took ; 
 
 1 flhall only add fomewhat concerning the leveral Parts 
 of it, and lome other Pieces, which l have thought fit to 
 rejeCt in this Publication : As firft, all thofe which I 
 wrote at School from the age often years, till after fifteen ; 
 for even lo far backward there remain yet fome traces of 
 me in the little footjleps of a Child ; which though they 
 were then looked upon as commendable extravagancies in a 
 Toy (men letting a value upon any kind of fruit before 
 the ufual feafon of it) yet I w T ould be loth to be bound 
 now to read them all over my [elf ; and therefore fhould do 
 ill to exped that patience from others . Belides, they have 
 already paft through leveral Editions , which is a longer 
 Life than ules to be enjoyed by Infants that are born be- 
 fore the ordinary terms . They had the good fortune then 
 to find the world fo indulgent (for confidering the time of 
 their production, who could be lo hard-hearted to be 
 fevere ? ) that I Icarce yet apprehend fo much to be cen- 
 fured for them , as lor not having made advances after- 
 wards proportionable to the lpeed of my fetting out , and 
 am obliged too in a manner by Dilcretion to conceal and 
 fupprefs them, zsTromifes and Inftruments under my own 
 hand, whereby I flood engaged for more than I have been 
 able to perform ; in which truly, if I have failed, I have 
 the real excule of the honefteft fort of Tankrupts , which 
 is, to have been made unfolvable , not fo much by their 
 own negligence and ill-husbandry , as by fome notorious 
 accidents and publick difafters. In the next place, I have 
 call away all fuch pieces as I wrote during the time of the 
 late troubles, with any relation to the differences that 
 
c Ihe Preface . 
 
 .caufed them ; as among others, three Books of the Qvil War 
 it [elf reaching as far as thefirft Battel at Newbury , where 
 the fucceeding misfortunes of the party ftopt the work . 
 
 As for the enfuing Book, it confifts of four parts : The 
 firfl: is a Mifcellanie of ieveral Subje&s, and lome of them 
 made when I was very young, which it is perhaps fuper- 
 fluous to tell the Reader ; I know not by what chance I 
 have kept Copies of them ; for they are but a very few in 
 comparifon of thole which I have loft, and I think they 
 have no extraordinary virtue in them, to delerve more 
 care in prefervation, than was beftowed upon their Bre- 
 thren ; for which I am fo little concerned, that I am afha- 
 med of the arrogancy of the Word , when 1 laid I had lofl 
 them. 
 
 The Second , is called, 7 he JMiftrefs , or Loye-Verfes \ 
 for fo it is, that Boots are lcarce thought Free*men of their 
 Company , without paying fome duties, and obliging them- 
 felves to be true to Loye. Sooner or later they muft all 
 pals through that Tryal, like lome J Mahometan Monks ,that 
 are bound by their Order, once at leaft in their life, to 
 make a Tilgr image to Meca. 
 
 In furias ignemque ruunt ; Amor omnibus idem. 
 
 But we mud: not always make a judgment of their man* 
 ners from their writings of this kind ; as the %omanists un- 
 charitably do of for a few lalcivious Sonnets com- 
 pofed by him in his youth. It is not in this fenfe that Toe fie 
 is faid to be a kind of Tainting ; it is nor the TiCture of the 
 Toet , but of things and perfons imagined by him. He may 
 be in his own pra&ice and difpofition a Thilofopher , nay, 
 a Stoick , and yet fpeak fometimes with the fofcnefs of an 
 amorous Sappho . 
 
 Feret rubus afper Amomum. 
 
 He profeffes too much the ufe of Fables (though with- 
 out the malice of deceiving) to have his teftimony taken 
 even againft himfelf. "Neither would I here be mii- 
 underftood, as if I affe&ed lo much Gravity, as to be 
 afhamed to be thought really in Loye. On the contra* 
 ry, I cannot have a good opinion of any man who is not 
 
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 The v Preface. 
 
 at leaft capable of being lo. But l ipeak it to excuie 
 iomcexpreffions (if inch there be) which may happen 
 to offend the leverity of fupercilious Readers ; for 
 much Excefs is to be allowed in Love and even more 
 in Toetry ; To we avoid the two unpardonable Vices in 
 both, which are ObfcenityzndTrofancnejs , oi which I am 
 iure,.i{ my. words be ever guilty, they have ill reprelented 
 my, thoughts and intentions . And it, notwithftanding all 
 this, the lightnefs of the matter here difpleaie any body, 
 he may find wherewithal to content his more ierious in- 
 clinations in the weight and height of the enfuing Argu- 
 ments. 
 
 For as for the Tindarick Odes (which is the third part) 
 I am in great doubt whether they will be underffood by 
 mod Readers ; nay , even by very many who are well 
 enough acquainted with the commonRoads,and ordinary 
 Tracks of Toe fie. They either are, or at leaft were meant 
 to be, of that kind of Stile which Dion. Malic arnaffeus calls 
 MeyzXoqvk xj vftl $ favo™!©*, and which he attributes to AT 
 Ccetis : Thedigreffions are many, and iudden, and iome- 
 times long, according to the fafihion of all Lyriques, and 
 of Ttndar above all men living.The Figures are unufual and 
 bold , even to Temerity , and luch as I durft not have to do 
 withal in any other kind ot Toetry : The Numbers are va- 
 rious and irregular, and lometimes (efpecially lome of the 
 long ones) feem harfh and uncouth, it the juft meafures 
 and cadencies be not oblerved in the Tronunc iation. So 
 that almoft all their Sweetnefs and Numerofty (which is to 
 be found, if 1 miftakenot, in the rougheft, if rightly re- 
 peated) lies in a manner wholly at the Mercy of the Tra- 
 der. I have briefly deferibed the nature oithele Veries, in 
 the Ode, entituled, The fur re Elion : And though the liberty 
 of them may incline a man to believe them eafie to be 
 compoled, yet the undertaker will find it otherwife. 
 
 Ut Jibi quivis 
 
 Speret idem , inultum Judet friiftrdq ; laboret 
 Muftis idem 
 
 
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i come now to the laft part, which is Davidcis , or an 
 fieroical Poem of th el roubles of David ; which I defigned 
 into Twelve (Books ; not for the Tribes lake, blit after the 
 (pattern of our Matter Virgil ; and intended to dole all with 
 that mod Poetical and excellent Elegie of David' s on the 
 death of Saul and Jonathan : For I had no mind to carry 
 him quite on to hi s Anointing at Hebron , becaufe it is the 
 cuftom of Herokk Poets (as we lee by the examples of 
 Homer and Virgil, whom we fiiould do ill to forfake to 
 imitate others) never to come to the full end of their Sto- 
 ry , but only fo near, that every one may fee it ; as men 
 commonly play not out the game, when it is evident that 
 they can win it, but lay down their Cards, and take up 
 what they have won. This, I lay, was the whole Dejign , 
 in which there are many noble and fertil Arguments be- 
 hind ; as, The barbarous cruelty of Saul to the Priefis at 
 Nob, the feveral flights and elcapes of David , with the 
 manner of his living in the Wildernefs , the Funeral of 
 Samuel , the love of Abigail, the lacking of Ziglag , the lofs 
 and recovery of David’s Wives from the Amalekites , the 
 Witch Gf Endor, the War with the Philijlines , and the 
 Bartel o { Gilboa j all which I meant to interweave upon 
 leveral occalions, with moll of the illuftrious Stories of 
 the Old Te ft ament , and to embellifh with the mod remark* 
 able Antiquities of the JelVs, and of other Nations before 
 or at that Age. But I have had neither Leijure hitherto , 
 nor have Appetite at prelent to finifih the work, or fo much 
 as to revile that part which is done, with that care which! 
 relolved to beftow upon it, and which the Dignity of the 
 Matter well deferves. For what worthier fubjett could 
 have been cholen among all the Treafuries of pall times , 
 than the Life of this young Prince ; who from fo Imall 
 beginnings , through fuch infinite troubles and oppofiti- 
 ons, by luch miraculous virtues and excellencies , and 
 with fuch incomparable variety of wonderful a&ionsand 
 accidents, became the greatefl Monarch that ever lac on 
 the moll famous Throne of the whole Earth ? Whom 
 fiiould a Poet more juftly leek to honour , than the higheft 
 Perfon who ever honoured his Profeflion ? whom a fthrtfttan 
 Poet , rather than the man after God’s own heart , and the 
 
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 man who had that facred pre-eminence above all other 
 ( Princes , to be the beft and mightieft of that Royal Race 
 from whence Chrijl himfelf, according to the flefh, dii- 
 dained not to delcend ? When I confider this , and how 
 many other bright and magnificent fubje£ts of the like 
 nature, the Holy Scripture affords and proffers , as it were, 
 to c Foefie , in the wile managing and illuftrating whereof, 
 the Cjlory of God Almighty might be joined with the fin- 
 gular utility and nobleft delight of Mankind It is not 
 without grief and indignation that I behold that DiYme 
 Science employing all her inexhauftible riches of Wit and 
 Eloquence , either in the wicked and beggarly Flattery of 
 great perfons, or the unmanly Idolizing of Foolijb Wo * 
 
 * men, or the wretched affe&ation of fcurril Laughter , or at 
 beft on the confuted antiquated Dreams of lenfelefs Fa- 
 bles and Metamorphofes . Amongft all holy and confecra- 
 ted things which the Devil ever ftole and alienated from 
 the fervice of the Deity ; as Altars , Temples , Sacrifices , 
 
 1 Prayers , and the like ; there is none that he lo univer ally, 
 and fo long ufurpt, as Doetry. It is timeto recover .t out 
 of the Tyrants hands, and to reftore it to the Kingdom of 
 God , who is the Father of it. It is time to Baptise it injor* 
 dan , for it will never become clean by bathing in the Wa* 
 Ur of Damafcus. There wants, methinks, but the CortVerfion 
 of That ,and the Jews fox the accomplishment of the Ring* 
 d'm of Chrijl. And as men before their receiving of the 
 Faith, do not without fome carnal reluctances, apprehend 
 the bonds and fetters of it, but find it afterwards to be 
 the trueft and greateft Liberty . It will fare no otherwite 
 with this Art, after the Regeneration of it j it will meet 
 with wonderful variety of new, more beautiful, and more 
 delightful Objetts • neither will it want by being 
 
 confined to Heaven. There is not fo great a Lye to be found 
 in any Doet , as the vulgar conceit of men, that Lying is 
 Effential to good Toetry. Were there never fo wholfom 
 jffourifhment to be had ( but alas, it breeds nothing but 
 Difeajes) out of thete boafted Feajls of Love and Fables , 
 yet, methinks, the unalterable continuance of the Diet 
 Should make us FJaufeate it: For it is almoft impoffible 
 to ferve up any new Difh of that kind. They are all but 
 
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 the fold meats of the Ancients , new- heated, and new-let 
 forth. I do not at all wonder that tne old Toets made 
 lome rich crops out of thefe grounds; the heart of the* 
 Soil was not then wrought out with continual Tillage: But 
 what can we expert now, who come a Gleaning, not after 
 the firft Reapers , but after the very Beggars ? Belides , 
 though thole mad ftories of the Gods and Heroes , leem 
 in themlelvesfo ridiculous ; yet they were then the whole 
 Body ( or rather Chaos ) of the Theologie of thole times* 
 They were believed by all but a few Thilojophers , and 
 perhaps fome Atheijls , and lerved to good purpole among 
 the Vulgar (as pitiful things as they are) in ffrengthening 
 the authority of Law , with the terrors of fonjcience , and 
 expectation of certain rewards, and unavoidable punifh- 
 ments. There was no other Religion, and therefore that 
 was better than none at all But to us who have no need of 
 them, to us who deride their folly , and are wrearied with 
 their impertinencies , they ought to appear no better argu- 
 ments for Verfe, than thole of their worthy Succeffors , the 
 Kyughts Errant . What can we imagine more proper for 
 the ornaments of Wit or Learning in the ftory of 35 eucali* 
 on , than in that of Noah ? why will not the actions of Sam - 
 [on afford as plentiful matter as the Labours of Hercules ? 
 why is not Jephthas daughter as good a woman as Iphigenia ? 
 and the friend fhip of David and Jonathan more worthy 
 celebration, than that o f The feus and Terit horn ? Does not 
 the paflage of J/Vofes and the Ifraelites into the Holy Land , 
 yield incomparably more Poetical variety, than the voy- 
 ages of Ulyffes and JEneas ? Are the obfolete thread-bare 
 tales of Thebes and Troy, half lo ftored with great, heroical 
 and lupernatural a&ions (lince Verfe will needs find or 
 make fuch) as the wars of JoJhua, of the Judges, of David, 
 and divers others * Can all the Transformations of the 
 Gods give fuch copious hints to flouriflh and expatiate on, 
 as the true Miracles of Chrift , or of his Trophets , and 
 Mpojlles ? What do I inftance in thele few Particulars ? 
 All the Books of the Bible are either already mod admi* 
 rable, and exalted pieces of Toefie , or are the bell Materi* 
 als in the world for it. Yet though they be in themfelves 
 fo proper to be made ufe of for this purpofe, None but a 
 
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 good Artiji will know how to do it: neither mult we 
 think. to cut and polifh Diamonds with io little pains and 
 skill as we do Marble. For if any man defign to compole 
 a Sacred Toem , by only turning a ftory of the Scripture , 
 like Mr. Quarles 7 s, or lome other godly matter, like Mr. 
 fdaytvood of Angels into TJdme ; he is^ lo far from eleva- 
 ting of Toe fie , that he only abafes Divinity. In brief, he 
 who can write a Tropbane Toem well , may write a Divine 
 one better ; but he who can do that but ill, will do this 
 much worle. The lame fertility of Invention ; the fame 
 wifdom of Difpofition ; the fame Judgment in oblervance 
 of Decencies $ the fame luftre and vigour of Elocution ; 
 the lame modefty and majefty of Tsfumber ; briefly the 
 fame kind of Habit , is required to both ; only this latter 
 allows better jluf and therefore would look more defor- 
 medly, if ill dreft in it. I am far fromalfuming to my 
 felf to have fulfilled the duty of this weighty underta- 
 king : But fure 1 am, that there is nothing yet in our 
 Language (nor perhaps in any) that is in any degree an* 
 fwerable to the Idea that I conceive of it. And I fhall be 
 ambitious of no other fruit from this weak and imperfect 
 attempt of mine, but the opening of a way to the cou- 
 rage and induftry of fome other perfons , who may be 
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 U^Wit, till Cowley did its lujlre wife , 
 May be rejembled to the fir ft three ddys y 
 In which did jhine only fuch f breaks of light 
 As ferVd but to diflinguifh Day from Night : 
 l 'But Wit breaks forth y in all that he has done y 
 Like Light when 9 tit? as united in the Sun. 
 
 The Foets formerly did lye in It ait 
 To rifle thofe whom they would imitate : 
 
 We Watcht to rob all fir angers when they writ , 
 
 And learnt their Language but to fleal their Wit . 
 
 He from that need his Country docs redeem y 
 Since thofe ivho want may be /apply’ d from him ; 
 
 And Forreign Nations now may borrow more 
 From Cowley than we could from them before : 
 
 Who though he condefcendcd to admit 
 
 The Greeks and Romans for his Guides in Wit - y 
 
 Yet he thofe ancient Foets does • pur fue 
 
 (But as the Spaniards great Columbus do y 
 
 He taught them flrfl to the New World to fleer , 
 
 (But they poffefs all that is precious there . 
 
 When flrfl his fpring of hnt began to flow y 
 It rais’d in fome y wonder and forrow too y 
 That Qod had fo much wit and knowledge lent y 
 And that they were not in his praifes f pent . 
 
 But thofe who in his Davideis look y 
 Find they his BlofToms for his Fruit miflook : 
 
 In differing Ages dijf rent Mufes jhind y 
 His Green did charm the Senfe y his Ffpe the Mind . 
 Writing for Heaven he was infpir’d from thence y 
 And from his Theam deriv’d his influence . 
 
 The Scripture will no more the wicked fright y 
 His Mufe does nuke Religion a delight. 
 
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 The covetous toil long for an Eft ate y 
 
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 lout Learning ( in which none can have a fa are, 
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 Learning , the truejl wealth which man canlaVe ) 
 Toes, with his Body., peri fa in his Grave : 
 
 To Tenements of Clay it is confin'd , 
 
 Though 'tis the noblejl purchace of the mind : 
 
 0 why can ire thus leave our friends poffejl 
 Of all our acquiftions but the befl ? 
 
 Still when we ftudy Cowley, we lament , 
 
 That to the world he was no longer lent ; 
 
 Who , like a Lightnings to our eyes was faown. 
 
 So bright he Jbm'd , and Iras fo quickly gone. 
 
 Sure he rejoic'd to fee his flame expire , 
 
 Since lye himfelf could not have rais'd it higher ; 
 
 For when wife Toets can no higher ff\e. 
 
 They Would, like Saints , in their perfeBion die . 
 
 Though beauty Jome affeBion in him bred. 
 
 Yet only J acred Learning he would wed ; 
 
 (By which th'tllufirious off- faring of his brain 
 Shall over Wits great Empire ever reign : 
 
 His works faall live , when Tyranuds of Tride 
 Shrink to fuel? afaes as they long did hide. 
 
 That facrilegious Fire ( which did lafl year 
 Level thofe Tiles which Tiety did rear) 
 
 Dreaded near that )najejlick Church to flye 
 Where Englifh Kjngs and Englifh Toets lye : 
 
 It at an awful dijtance did expire , 
 
 Such pow'r had J acred Ajhes ore that Fire 5 
 Such as it durfl not near that StruBure come 
 Which Fate had order'd to be Cowley^ Tomb •, 
 And 'twill be flill preferVd , by being Jo, 
 
 From what the rage of future Flames can do. 
 Material Fire dares not that place infefl 
 Wl?ere he who had immortal flame does reft. 
 
 There let his Urn remain ; for it was fit 
 Amongft our Kjngs to lay the ffing of wit : 
 
 !By which the StruBure more renown d will prove 
 For that part bury'd than for all above. 
 
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 But who can fuel? majejlick Numbers write ? 
 With fuel? inimitable light ? 
 
 His high and noble flights to reach 
 ’Tis not the art of Precept that can teach'. 
 
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 But that the fir ft in Greek , a conquering Language , fung , 
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 Wit , thought, indention in them both do flow 
 As Torrents tumbling from the Mountains go. 
 Though the great Roman Lyrick do maintain 
 That none can equal Pindar s ftrain ; 
 
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 As ever Pindar H did, does fiie , iV 
 Of Kings and Heroes he as boldly flings y 1 
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 As fwift as Lightning in its courfc , 
 
 And as nftftlefs in his force . 
 
 Whilft other Boets, like (Bees who range the field 
 To gather what the Flowers Trill yield, 
 
 Glean matter with much toil and pain 
 To bring forth Verfes in an humble flrain $ . 
 
 He fees about him round, 
 
 Boffeft at once of dll that can be found : 
 
 To his illuminated eye 
 All things created open lye , 
 
 That all his thoughts fo clear and fo perfpicuous be, 
 
 That what fever he defcribes we fee ; 
 
 Our Souls are with his pafpons Jird , 
 
 Jmd he who does but read him, is infpird . 
 
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 Though for his fake his race was f ay d from death, 
 
 By tV Macedonian Touth, did not more honour do. 
 
 Than Cowley does his Friends and Country too . 
 
 Had Horace liv’d his wit to mderftand. 
 
 He nere had England thought a rude inhofpitable Land; 
 Rome might have blufh'd, and Athens been afkam’d 
 To hear a remote Britain nam’d, 
 
 Who for his parts does match, if not exceed. 
 
 The greateft men that they did either breed. 
 
 If he had flourifh’d when Auguftus fwayd, 
 
 Whofe peaceful Scepter the whole World obey’d , 
 
 Account of him Mecoenas would have made ; 
 jind from the fountry fhade. 
 
 Him into th* Cabinet have tone 
 
 To divert Caefar 9 s cares, and charm his pain : 
 
 For nothing can fuch Balm infufe 
 Into a "Wearied mind as does a noble Mtife . 
 
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 When all the Streets of Rome were ftrow*d with Bays 
 To receive Petrarch, who through Arches rode. 
 Triumphal Arches , honour d as a Demy -God ; 
 
 Not for Towns conquer'd y or for Battels y?on, 
 
 But Victories vfhich Were more his own y 
 For ViHories of Wit , and Victories of Art , 
 
 In which blind undifcerritng Fortune had no part* 
 
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 Though Cowley nere fuch honours did attain^ 
 
 As long as Petrarchs, Cowley’* name [hall reign ; 
 
 Tis but his drofs thats in the Qrave , 
 
 His memory Fame from Death fhall faVe ; 
 
 His Bayes fhall flourfh, and be ever greeny 
 When thofe of Conquerors are not to be feen . 
 
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 O LD Chaucer, like the morning Star , 
 
 To us difcovers day from far, 
 
 His light thoje SViijls and Clouds diffolvd, 
 
 Which our dark Nation long inVolvd ; 
 
 (But he defending to the (hades, 
 
 Darknefs' again the Age invades. 
 
 Next ( like Aurora ) Spencer rofe, 
 
 Whofe purple blufh the day forejhews y 
 The other three , with his own fires, 
 
 Phoebus, the Poets God , infpires ; 
 
 By Shakelpear, Johnfon, Fletcher’s lines , 
 
 Our Stages lujlre Romes outjhmes : 
 
 Thefe Poets mar our Princes fleep , 
 
 And in one Grave their JManfion keep ; 
 
 They liv'd to fee [o many days , 
 
 Till time had blafted all . their Bays : 
 
 But curfed he the fatal hour 
 
 That pluckt the faireft , fweetejl flower 
 
 That in the Mufes Garden greV>, 
 
 And amongfi: wither'd Laurels threw . 
 
 Time , which ?nade than their Fame outlive, 
 
 1 o Cowley fcarce did ripaiefs give. 
 
 Old Mother Wit , and Nature gave 
 Shakelpear and Fletcher all they have ; 
 
 In Spencer, and in Johnfon, Art , 
 
 Of flower Nature got the fiart ; 
 
 But both in him fo equal are, 
 
 None knows which bears the . happy' ft JJ?are ; 
 
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 He melted not the ancient Cjold y 
 Kor with Ben Johnfon did make bol<f 
 To plunder all the Roman flores 
 Of ffoets , and of Orators : 
 
 Horace his tbit y and Virgil’* flate y 
 He did not fleal y but emulate y 
 And Vvhen be would like them appear , 
 
 Their (Jarb y but not their Cloatbs , did wear i , 
 He not from Rome alone y but Greece, 
 
 Like Jaion brought the Golden Fleexe ; 
 
 1o him that Language ( though to none 
 Of tl) others) as his own was know \i. 
 
 On a fliff gale ( as Flaccus fmgs ) 
 
 The Theban Swan extends his wings , .<• 
 When through th Atherial Clouds he flies , 
 
 To the fame pitch our Swan doth rife j 
 Old Pindar'* flights by him are reacht y 
 When on that gale his Wings are flretcht i 
 His fancy and his judgment fuch y 
 Each to the other feemd too much y 
 His feVere judgment (giving Law) 
 
 His modest fancy kept in aV?e : 
 j(s rigid Husbands jealous are y 
 When they believe their Wives too fair $ 
 
 His Englifl? flream fo pure did flo7V y 
 As all that jaw y and tafled y know ; 
 
 But for his Latin Vein y fo clear y 
 Strong y full y and high it doth appear y 
 That were immortal Virgil here y 
 Him y for his judge y he "Would not fear 5 
 Of that great (portraiture y fo true 
 A Copy Pencil never drew. 
 
 CMy Mufe her Song had ended here y 
 Put both their Geqii flrait appear , 
 
 Joy and amazement her did flrike y 
 Two Twins [be never faw fo like s 
 Such a refemblance of all parts y 
 Life y T>eath y Age y Fortune , Nature , Arts y 
 Then lights her Torch at theirs y to tell. 
 
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 Fixt and contemplative their looks , 
 
 Still turning over Matures Books : 
 
 Their works chaft , moral , and divine , 
 
 Where profit and delight combine •> 
 
 They gilding dirt , in noble Verfe 
 (fiuftick Thilofophy rehearfe ; 
 
 Nor their affions fall behind 
 Their words, but with like candour Jhin'd 7 
 Both by two generous Trinces lov'd, 
 
 Who knew, and judg'd what they approv'd ; 
 let having each the fame defire. 
 
 Both from the bufie throng retire ; 
 
 Their Bodies to their Minds refign'd. 
 
 Car'd not to propagate their Kjnd : 
 
 Yet though both fell before their hour, 
 
 Time on their ojf-fpring hath no power. 
 Nor fire, nor fate their Bays Jhall blajl , 
 Nor Death's dark Vail their day o'recaft . 
 
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 The Preface of the Author . 
 
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 MISCELLANIES. 
 
 T he Motto. p. i 
 
 Ode of Wit . cl 
 
 To the Lord Falkland, for his fafe return from the Netherland 
 Expedition againfl the Scots. 4 
 
 On the death of Sir Henry Woottoil. £ 
 
 On the death of Mr. Jordan , Second Majier at Weftminfter- 
 School . 6 
 
 On His M.tje flies return out of Scotland. 7 
 
 On the death of Sir Anthony Vandyke* the Famous Painter , 9 
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 Ode 
 
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 Ode 1. 10 
 
 Friendjhip in Ab fence. 1 1 
 
 To the Bifhop of Lincoln, upon his Enlargement out of the 
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 To a Lady who made Poefies for Rings . 
 
 Prologue to the Guardian before the Prince. 
 
 The Epilogue- 
 
 On the death of Mr. William Harvey. 
 
 Ode. In imitation of Horace’/ Ode. Lib. 1. Ode 5. 
 
 In imitation of Mar tiaP/ Epigrams. L. 5. Ep. 21. 
 
 The Chronicle. A Ballad. 
 
 To Sir William Davenant, upon his Two Firfi Books of Gon- 
 dibert, finijhed before his Voyage to America. 24 
 
 In Anfrver to a Copy of Vetfes jent to me to erfey. 25 
 
 The Tree of Knowledge \ That there is no Knowledge , again ft 
 the Dogmatifts. 2 6 
 
 The Reafon , the Dfe of it in Divine Matters. 27 
 
 On the death of Mr. Cra£haw.- 29 
 
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 T>avideidos , Liber Primus. i 
 
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 Ode. On Orinda’s Poems. 2 
 
 Ode. Dpon occafion of a Copy of Vtrfts of my Lord BrOghii’s. 4 
 M r. Cowley’s Book, prefenttng it ftlf to the Denver fity Librari 0 / 
 Oxford. 6 
 
 Sitting and Drinking in the Chair made out of the Reliques of Sir 
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 Dpon the death of the Earl of Balcarres. 
 
 Ode. Upon Dr. Harvey. 
 
 Ode. Acme and Septimius out of Catuilus 
 Ode. Dpon His M a j efiles Refi aur at ion and Return. 
 
 On the Queens Repairing Somerfet- Houle. 
 
 7 he Complaint. 
 
 The Adventures of Five Hours. 
 
 On the Death of Mrs. Katharine Philips. 
 
 Hymn to the Light. 
 
 To the Royal Society. 
 
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 Several Difcourles by way of Eifays, in 
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 Martial Lib. i. Vota tui breviter, 8 ? c. 
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 Quod te nomire, &c. M. L. 2. 
 
 Ode. Dpon Liberty . 
 
 2. Of Solitude. 
 
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 The Change. 
 
 Clad all m White. 
 
 Leaving One , and then Loving many. 
 My Heart D ij covered. 
 
 Anfwer to the Platonicks. 
 
 The J r ain-Love. 
 
 1 he Soul. 
 
 The Pajjions . 
 
 Wifdom. 
 
 The Defpair. 
 
 The W/fb. 
 
 My Diet. 
 
 The Thief. 
 
 All- over •Love, 
 
 Love and Life. 
 
 The Bargain. 
 
 The Long Life. v 
 CounfeL 
 
 Rtfolved to be Beloved. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 The Dijcovery. 
 
 A gain ft Fruition. 
 
 Love undifcoverd. 
 
 The Given Heart. 
 
 The Prophet. 
 
 Calf d Incon/lant. 
 
 The Refolution. 
 
 The Welcome. 
 
 The Heart fled again. 
 
 Womens Superftition. 
 
 The Soul. 
 
 Echo. 
 
 The Rich Rival. 
 
 Again [l Hope. • 
 
 For Hope. 
 
 Loves Ingratitude. 
 
 The Frailty. 
 
 Coldnefs. 
 
 Sleep. 
 
 Beauty. <i 
 
 The Parting. 
 
 My Picture. 
 
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 Tbs Concealment, 
 
 The ITio nopoly. 
 
 The D fiance. 
 
 The lncrtafe. 
 
 Loves Visibility, 
 
 Looking on , and Difcoitrfing with his Mifrefs. 
 Refolvedto Love. 
 
 My Fate . 
 
 The Heart breaking . 
 
 The TJf urpation. 
 
 Maidenhead, 
 
 Imp of Abilities. 
 
 Silence . 
 
 The D JJembler. 
 
 The Inc on flant. 
 
 The Conflant. 
 
 Her Name. 
 
 Weeping, 
 
 Difcretion. 
 
 The Waiting-Maid. 
 
 Counfel. 
 
 The Cure, 
 
 The Separation, 
 
 The Tree. 
 
 Her Unbelief. 
 
 The Gazers. 
 
 The Incurable, 
 
 Honour. 
 
 The Innocent III, 
 
 Dialogue. 
 
 Verfts lofl upon a wager. 
 
 Bathing in a River. 
 
 Love given over. 
 
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 pindarick Odes, Written in imitation or 
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 The PREFACE. 
 
 T H E Stcond Olympick Ode of Pindar. I 
 
 The Firjl Nemaan Ode of Pindar. n 
 
 1 he Praife of Pindar, in imitation of Horace his Second Ode. B.4. 
 
 T he Refurreclion. 
 
 The Mufe. 
 
 1 0 Mr. Hobs. 
 
 Deflinies . 
 
 Brutus. 
 
 To Dr. Scarborough. 
 
 Life and Fame. 
 
 The Ext a fie. 
 
 7 0 the New Tear. 
 
 Life. 
 
 The 34 th Chapter of the Prophet Ifaiah. 
 T he Plagues of Egypt. 
 
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 Davideis , A Sacred Poem of the Trou- 
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 In Four Books. 
 
 D A vide is, The Fir ft Book. 
 
 , Davideis, The Second Book: 
 Davideis, The Third Book. 
 Davideis, The Fourth 5 Book. 
 
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The T A B L E. 
 
 7 he Qountry-Moufe. A Paraphrafe upon Horace’.* 2 Book Saty r. 6 
 
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 A Paraphrafe upon the 10 th Epiftle of the Firft Book of Horace. 
 
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 5 The Country Life. 1 I £ 
 
 The Garden. To J. Evelyn Efq; . 114 
 
 6 Of Great nefs. 1 20 
 
 Horace, Lib. 3. Ode 1. ' 125 
 
 7 Of Avarice. * 127 
 
 A Paraphrafe on an Ode in Horace’s Third Book , beginning thus ; 
 
 Inclufam Danaen turris ahenea. 130 
 
 8 The dangers of an honefl 'Man in much company. 1 ]2 
 
 Claudiani old Man of Verona. 1*35 
 
 9 The [hortnefs of Life , and uncertainty of Riches. 1 36 
 
 10 I he danger of Procrafiination : A Letter to Mr. S. L. 
 
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 11 Of my Self. 14 j 
 
 Martial L. 10. Ep. 47. Vitam quse faciunt beatiorem, &c . 
 
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 Martial Book 10. Epigram 96. 147 
 
 Epitaphium vivi Audoris. 147 
 
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 Mifcellanies 
 
 THE 
 
 MOT 
 
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 Tentanda 'via eft, &c. 
 
 W HAT (hall I do to be for ever known. 
 
 And make the Age to come my own } 
 
 I (hall like Beajis or Common People dy, 
 
 Unleft you write my Elegy 5 
 Whilft others great by being born are grown 3 
 Their Mothers Labour, not their own. 
 
 In this fcale Gold , in th ; other Fame does ly, 
 
 The weight of that mounts this fo high . 
 
 Thefe men are Fortunes Jewels , moulded bright 5 
 Brought forth with their own fire and light. 
 
 If I 5 her vulgar ftone for either look $ 
 
 Out of my felf it muft be fir 00^. 
 
 Yet l muft on j what found is’t (hikes mine ear? 
 
 Sure I Fames Trumpet hear. 
 
 It founds like the laji Trumpet 5 for it can 
 Raife up the buried Man. 
 
 Unpaft Alpes ftop me, but I’ll cut through all. 
 
 And march, the Mufes FlannibaJ. 
 
 Hence all the flattering vanities that lay 
 Nets of Rofes in the way. 
 
 Hence 
 
MISCELLANIES . 
 
 
 Hence the defire of Honours, or Eft ate 3 
 And all, that is not above Fate. 
 
 Hence Love himfelf, that Tyrant of my days, 
 
 Which intercepts my coming praife. 
 
 Come my beft Friends , my Booty , and lead me on 3 
 Tis time that I were gon. 
 
 Welcome great Stagirite , and teach me now 
 All I was born to know. 
 
 Thy Scholar s Victories thou doft far out-do 3 
 He conquer’d th’ Earth , the whole World you. 
 
 Welcome learn’d Cicero , whofe bleft Tongue and Wit 
 Preferves Romes greatnefs yet . 
 
 Thou art the firft of Orators 3 only he 
 Who beft can praife Thee , next muft be.' 
 
 Welcome the Mantu an Swan, Virgil the Wife , 
 Whofe Verfe walks highefl , but not flies. 
 
 Who brought green Poefie to her perfect Age 3 
 And made that Art which was a Rage. 
 
 Tell me, ye mighty Three, what (hall I do 
 To be like one of you. 
 
 But you have climb’d the Mountains top, there fit 
 On the calm flourifhing head of it, 
 
 And whilft with wearied fteps we upward go. 
 
 See ZJs, and Clouds below'. 
 
 ODE. 
 
 Of WIT. 
 
 1. 
 
 T E 11 me, O tell, what kind of thing is Wit, 
 Thou who Mafier art of it. 
 
 For the Firft matter loves Variety lefs 3 
 Lefs Women love’t, either in Love or Drefs. 
 
 A thoufand different fhapes it bears, 
 Comely in thoufand fhapes appears. 
 Yonder we faw it plain 3 and here ’tis now. 
 Like Spirits in a Place , we know not How. 
 
 2. 
 
 London that vents of falfe Ware fo much ftore. 
 
 In no Ware deceives us more. 
 
 For men led by the Colour, and the Shape , 
 
 Like Zeuxes Birds fly to the painted Grape 3 
 
 Some things do through our Judgment pafs 
 As through a Multiplying Glafs. 
 
 And fometimes, if the Ohjeft be too far, 
 
 W e take a Falling Meteor for a Star. 
 
 Hence 
 
MISCELLANIES, 
 
 ?• 
 
 Hence ’tis a Wit that greateft word of Fame 
 Grows fuch a common Name, 
 
 And Wits by our Creation they become, 
 
 Juft fo, as Tit'ular Bifiops made at Rome. 
 
 5 Fis not a Tale , tis not a J eft 
 Admir’d with Laughter at a Feaft, 
 
 Nor florid TalL which can the l itle gain 3 
 The Proofs of Wit for ever muft remain. 
 
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 Tis not to force fome lifelefs Verfes meet 
 With their five gowty feet. 
 
 All ev’ery where, like Man s muft be the Soul, 
 And Reafon the lnfcriottr Powers controul. 
 
 Such were the Numbers which could call 
 The Stones into the Iheban Wall. 
 
 Such Miracles are ceas’d 3 and now we fee 
 No Towns or Houfes rais’d by Poetrie. 
 
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 Yet ’tis not to adorn, and gild each part 5 
 That (hows more Coft than Art. 
 
 Jewels at Nofe and L ips but ill appear 3 
 Rather than all thing Wit , let none be there. 
 Several Lights will not be feen, 
 
 If there be nothing elfe between. 
 
 Men doubt, becaufe they ftand fo thick i’ th’ skie, 
 If thofe be Stars which paint the Galaxie. 
 
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 ’Tis not when two like words make up one noife, 
 Jefts for Dutch Men , and Engliff) Boys . 
 
 In which who finds oijt Wit, the fame may fee 
 In Anagrams and Aero (liques Poetrie . 
 
 Much lels can that have any place 
 At which a Virgin hides her face. 
 
 Such Drofs the Fire muft purge away 3 ’tis juft 
 The Author blufj there, w 7 here the Reader muft. 
 
 ♦ 7* - a- * ■. . 
 
 ’Tis not fuch Lines as almoft crack the Stage , 
 
 When Bajazet begins to rage. 
 
 Nor a tall Metaphor in the Bombaft-way , 
 
 Nor the dry Chips of ftiort- lung’d Seneca. 
 
 Nor upon all things to obtrude, 
 
 And force fome odd Similitude. 
 
 What is it then, which like the Power Divine 
 We only can by Negatives define ? 
 
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 MISCELLANIES. 
 
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 In a true piece of Wit all things muft be, 
 
 Yet all thing? there agree. 
 
 As in the Art \ , ioyn’d without force or ftrife, 
 
 All Creatures dwelt .5 all Creatures that had Life. 
 Or as the Primitive Forms of all 
 ( If we compare great things with fmall) 
 Which without Difcord or Confufion lie, 
 
 In that ftrange Mirror of the Deitie. 
 
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 But Love that molds One Man up out of Two, 
 Makes me forget and injure you. 
 
 I took yon for my felf fure when I thought 
 That you in any thing were to be Taught. 
 Correft my errour with thy Pen 3 
 And if any ask me then, 
 
 What thing right Wit, and height of Genius, is, 
 I’ll only (hew your Lines , and fay, ’ 7 *r this. 
 
 To the Lord Falkland. 
 
 For his fafe Return from the Northern Expedition againjl the 
 
 SCOTS. 
 
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 G Reat is thy Charge, O North 3 be wife and juft, 
 
 England commmits her Falkland to thy truft 3 
 Return him lafe : Learning would rather chufe 
 Her Bodley , or her Vatican to lofe, 
 
 All things that are but writ or Printed there, 
 
 In his unbounded Breaft engraven are. 
 
 There all the Sciences together meet, 
 
 And every Art does all her Kindred greet, 
 
 Yet juftle not, nor quarrel 3 but as well 
 Agree as in (ome Common principle. 
 
 So in an Army, govern’d right we (ee 
 ( Though out of feveral Countries rais’d it be ) 
 
 That all their Order and their Place maintain, 
 
 T he Fmglifi, Dutch , the Frenchmen and the Dane. 
 
 So thouland divers Species fill the aire, 
 
 Yet neither crowd nor mix confus’dly there 3 
 freafts, Houfes, Trees, and Men together lye, 
 
 Yet enter undifturh'cl into the Eye. 
 
 And this great Prince of Knowledge is by Fate 
 Thruft into th’ noife and bufinefs of a State, 
 
 All 
 
M I SC ELL AN IE S. 
 
 All Vertuej , and fom eCuftoms of the Court , 
 
 O r her nens Labour, arc at leaft his Sport. 
 
 Whilft we who can no a&ion undertake, 
 
 Whom I diene fs it felf might Learned make. 
 
 Who hear of nothing, and as yet fcarce know, 
 
 Whether the Scots in England he or no, 
 
 Pace dully on, oft tire, and often ftay, 
 
 Yet fee his nimble Pegafus fly away. 
 
 Tis Natures fault who did thus partial grow, 
 
 And her Eft ate of Wit on One beftow. 
 
 Whileft we like younger Brothers , get at bcffc 
 But a final/ ftoc\, and muft work^ out the reft. 
 
 How could be anfwer ’t, (hould the State think fit 
 To queftion a Monopoly of Wit .<? 
 
 Such is the Man whom we require, the fame 
 We lent the North , untoucht as is his Fan/e. 
 
 He is too good for War , and ought to be 
 As far from Danger , as from Fear he’s free. 
 
 Thofe Men alone (and thofeare ufeful too) 
 
 Whofe Valour is the only Art they know. 
 
 Were for fad War and bloody Battles born 5 
 Let Them the State defend , and He adorn. 
 
 On the Death of Sir Henry Wootton. 
 
 W Hat (hall we fay, fince filent now is He , 
 
 Who when he Spake, all things would Silent be > 
 Who had fo many Languages in ftore, 
 
 That only Fame fhall fpeak of him in more. 
 
 Whom England now no more return d muft fee. 
 
 He’s gone to Heaven on his Fourth Embajfie . 
 
 On Earth he travelled often ; not to fay 
 H’ had been abroad, or pafs’d ioofe time away. 
 
 In wbatfoever Land he chanc’d to come, 
 
 He read the Men and Manners , bringing home 
 Their Wifdom , Learning , and their Pietie, 
 
 As if he went to Conquer , not to See. 
 
 So well he underftood the moft and beft « 
 
 Of Tongues that Babel fent into the Weft, 
 
 Spoke them fo truly, that he had (you’d fwear) 
 
 Not only Liv'd, but been Born every where. 
 
 Juftly each Nations Speech to him was known, 
 
 Who for the World was made, not Us alone. 
 
 Nor ought the Language of that Man be left 
 Who in his Breaft had all things to exprejs. 
 
 We fay that Learning's endlefs, and blame Fate 
 For not allowing Life a longer date. 
 

 MISCELLANIES . 
 
 He did the utmoft Bounds of Knowledge find. 
 
 He found them not fo large as was his Mind. 
 
 But, like the brave PeUan Youth, did mone 
 Becaufe that Art had no more W orlds than One. 
 
 And when he faw that he through ail had pafi, 
 
 He d/d , left heftiould Idle grow atlaft. 
 
 On the Death of CAAr. Jordan 
 Second Mafter at Weftminfter School. 
 
 H Ence, and make room for me, all you who come 
 Only to read the Epitaph on this Tombe. 
 
 Here lies the Majier of my tender years, 
 
 The Guardian of my Parents Hope and Fears , 
 
 Whole Government ne*r ftood me in a Tear 3 
 Ail weeping was refer v'd to fpend it here . 
 
 Come hither all who his rare Vertues knew. 
 
 And mourn with Me 3 He was your Tutor too. 
 
 Let’s joyn our Sighs , till they fly far, and (hew 
 His native Belgia what Che’s now to do. 
 
 The League of grief bids her with us lament 3 
 By her he was brought forth, and hither fent 
 In payment of all Men we there had loft. 
 
 And all the Englijh Blood thofe Wars have coft. 
 
 Wifely did Nature this learn’d Man divide 3 
 His Birth was Theirs , his Death the mournful pride 
 Of England 3 and t’ avoid the envious ftrife 
 Of other Lands , all Europe had his Life, 
 
 But we in chief 3 our Country foon was grown 
 A Debtor more to Him , than He t his Own. 
 
 He piucktfrom youth the follies and the crimes, ' 
 
 And built up Men againft the future times. 
 
 For deeds of Age are in their Caufes then, 
 
 And though he taught but Boys, he made them Men. 
 Hence twas, a Majier in thofe ancient days 
 When men fought Knowledge firft, and by it Praife , 
 Was a thing full of Reverence , Profit , Fame 3 
 Father it felf was but a Second Name. 
 
 He fcorn’d the profit 3 his Inftru&ions all 
 Were like the Science , Free and Liberal. 
 
 He defervd Honours , but defpisd them too 
 As much as thofe who have them, others do, 
 
 He knew not that which Complement they call 3 
 Could Flatter none, but Himfelf leaft of all. 
 
 So true, fo faithful, and fo juft as he. 
 
 Was nought on earth, but his own Memorie, 
 
MISCELLANIES. 
 
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 His Memory , where all things written were 
 As Cure and fixt as in Fates Bookj they are. 
 
 Thus he in Arts fo vaft a treafure gain’d, 
 
 Whileft ftill the Z)fe came in, and Stoci^ remain’d. 
 And having purchas’d all that man can know, 
 
 He labour’d with’t to enrich others now. 
 
 Did thus a new, and harder task fuftain. 
 
 Like thofe that work in Mines for others gain. 
 
 He, though more nobly, had much more to do, 
 Tofearch the Vein , dig, purge, and mint it too. 
 Though my Excufe would be, I muft confefs, 
 
 Much better had his Diligence been left. 
 
 But if a Mufi hereafter (mile on me, 
 
 And fay, Be thou a Poet, men fhall fee 
 That none could a more grateful Scholar have *, 
 
 For what 1 ow’d his Life , 1 11 pay his Grave. 
 
 On His C/Majefties Return out of Scotl a n d. 
 
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 % % TElcome, Great Sir, with all the joy thafsdue 
 \ \ To the return of Peace and Ton. 
 
 Two greateft Blejjings which this Age can know, 
 
 For that to Thee, for Thee to Heaven we ow. 
 
 Others by War their Conquefts gain, 
 
 You like a God your ends obtain. 
 
 Who when rude Chaos for his help did call, 
 
 Spoke but the Word, and fweetly Order d all. 
 
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 This happy Concord in no Blood is writ, 
 
 None can grudge Heaven full thanks for it. 
 No Mothers here lament their Childrens fate, 
 
 And like the Peace , but think it comes too late . 
 
 No Widows hear the jocund Bells, 
 
 And take them for their Husbands Knells. 
 
 No drop of Blood is fpilt which might be laid 
 To mark our joyful Holiday with Red . 
 
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 Twas only Heaven could work this wondrous thing, 
 And only work’t by fuch a King. 
 
 Again the Northern Hindes may ling and plow, 
 
 And fear no harm but from the weather now. 
 
 Again may Tradefmen love their pain 
 By knowing now for whom they gain. 
 
 The Armour now may be hung up to light, 
 
 And only in their Halls the Children fright. 
 
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 MISCELLANIES. . 
 
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 The gain of Civil Wars will not allow 
 Bay to the Conquerors Brow. 
 
 At fuch a Game what fool would venture in, 
 
 Where one mud lofe, yet neither fide can win ? 
 How juftly would our Neighbours fmile 
 Av thefe mad, Quarrels of our Isle 
 Swell’d with proud hopes to fnatch the whole away, 
 Whil’fi: we Bet all , and yet for nothing pay ? 
 
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 How was the filver Tine frighted before, 
 
 And durft not kifs the armed fhore ? 
 
 His waters ran more fwiftly than they ufe," 
 
 And haded to the Sea to tell the News. 
 
 The Sea it felf, how rough fo ere, 
 
 Could fcarce believe fuch fury here. 
 
 How could the Scots and we be Enemies grown ? 
 That , and its Mafter Charles had made us One. 
 
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 No Blood fo loud as that of Civil War 3 
 It calls for Dangers from afar. 
 
 Let’s rather go, and feek out Them , and Fame 3 
 Thus our Fore- fathers got , thus left a Name . 
 
 All their rich blood was fpent with gains, 
 
 But that which fwells their Childrens Veins. 
 
 Why fit we (fill, our Spirits wrapt up in Lead? 
 
 Not like them whileft they Liv'd , but now they re Dead. 
 
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 This noife at home was but Fates policie 
 To raife our Spi rits more high. 
 
 So a bold Lion^ e’re he feeks his prey, 
 
 Lalhes his (ides, and roars, and then away. 
 
 How would the German Eagle fear, 
 lo fee a new Guftavus there ) 
 
 How would it fhake, though as ’twas wont to do 
 For J ove of old, it now bore Thunder too ! 
 
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 Sure there are a&ions of this height and praife 
 Dedin’d to Charles his days. 
 
 What will the Triumphs of his Battels be, 
 
 Whofe very Peace it felf is Vittorie .<? 
 
 When Heaven beftows the bed of Kings , 
 
 It bids us think of mighty things. 
 
 His Valour , If ifdom , Ojf-jpring fpeak no lefs $ 
 
 And we the Prophets Sons , write not by Guefs. 
 
 On 
 
MISCELLANIES. 
 
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 On the Death of Sir Anthony Vandike, 
 
 The Famous Painter, 
 
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 V Am dike is Dead $ but what Bold Mufe (hall dare 
 ( Though Poets in that word with Painters (hare) 
 T’ exprefs her fadnefs ? Po'ejie mud become 
 An Art 9 like Painting here, an Art thaPs Dumb . 
 
 Let’s all our folemn grief in filence keep, 
 
 Like fome fad Picture which he made to weep, 
 
 Or thofe who faw’c, for none his works could view 
 Unmov’d with the fame Pajjions which he drew* 
 
 His pieces fo with their live Obje&s drive, 
 
 That both or Pictures feem, or both Alive. 
 
 Nature her felf amaz’d, does doubting dand, 
 
 Which is her own, and which the Painters Hand , 
 
 And does attempt the like with lefs fuccefs, 
 
 When her own work in Twins (he would exprels. 
 
 His All-refembling Pencil d\d out-pafs 
 The mimick Imagery of Loo king- Glafs. 
 
 Nor was hi* Life le(s perfect than his Arty 
 Nor was his Hand lefs erring than his Heart. 
 
 There wasnofalfe, or fading Colour there, 
 
 The Figures fweet and well proportion’d were. 
 
 Mod other men, fet next to him in view, 
 
 Appear’d more fbadoxvs than the Men he drew. 
 
 Thus Hill he liv’d till Heaven did for him call, 
 
 Where reverend Luke falutes him fird of all : 
 
 Where he beholds new lights, divinely fair ? 
 
 And could almoft wi(h for his Pencil there } 
 
 Did he not gladly fee how all things (hine, 
 
 Wondroufly painted in the Mind Diviney 
 Whilft he for ever raviflat with the (how, 
 
 Scorns his own Art which we admire below. 
 
 Only his beauteous Lady Hill he loves? 
 
 (The love of heav’enly Obje&s Heav*en improves) 
 
 He fees bright Angels in pure beams appear, 
 
 And thinks on her he left fo like them here. 
 
 And you, fair Widow, who day here alive, 
 
 Since he fo much rejoyces, ceafe to grieve. 
 
 Your joys and griefs were wont the fame to be 5 
 Begin not now, bled Pair, to Difagree. 
 
 No wonder Death mov’d not his gen’erous mind 3 
 Tony and a new bornToUy he left behind. 
 
 Even Fate expred his love to his dear Wifey 
 And let him end your Picture with bis Life . 
 
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 MISCELLANIES. 
 
 ( Prometheus ill-painted . 
 
 H OW wretched does Promethus ftate appear, 
 Whileft he his Second Misery fuffers here! 
 Draw him no more, left as he tortur’d ftands. 
 
 He blames great Jove's lefs than the Painter's hands. 
 It would the Vultur s cruelty outgo, 
 
 If once again his Liver thus Ihould grove. 
 
 Pity him, J ove, and his bold Iheft allow , 
 
 The Flames he once fiole from thee grant him now. 
 
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 H Ere’s to thee Dick, , this whining Love defpife $ 
 
 Pledge me, my Friend , and drink till thou beft wifi. 
 It fparkles brighter far than She : 
 
 Tis pure, and right without deceit 5 
 And fuch no woman e’re will be : 
 
 No, they are all Sophifiicate . x 
 
 With all thy fervile pains what canft thou win, 
 But an ill-favour d, and uncleanly Sin <? 
 
 A thing fo vile, andfo Ihort-liv’d, 
 
 That Venus Joys as well as fhe 
 With reafon may be faid to be 
 From the negletted Foam deriv’d. 
 
 3 * 
 
 Whom would that painted toy, a Beauty, move. 
 Whom would it e’r perfwade to court and love, 
 Could he a Woman s Heart have feen, 
 (But, Oh, no Light does thither come) 
 And view’d her perfe&ly within, 
 
 When he lay (hut -up in her womb > 
 
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 Follies they have fo numberlefs in ftore, 
 
 That only he who loves them can have more. 
 Neither their Sighs nor Tears are true 5 
 Thofe idlely blow, thefe idlely fall, 
 Nothing like to ours at all. . 
 
 But Sighs and Tears have Sexes too. 
 
 Here’s to thee again 5 thy fenfelefs forrows drownd $ 
 Let the Glafs wall till all things toogtf round 5 
 
MISCELLANIES. 
 
 Again, till thefe Two Lights be Four 3 
 No error here can dangerous prove 3 
 Thy Pafjion, Man, deceiv’d thee more 5 
 None Double fee like Men in Love. 
 
 Friendjbif in Jb fence. 
 
 1. 
 
 \ II /"Hen Chance or cruel bufinefs parts us two, 
 \ \ What do our Souls I wonder do ? 
 
 Whiift deep does our dull Bodies tie, 
 Methinks, at home, they (hould not day. 
 Content with Dreams, but boldly Hie 
 Abroad, and meet each other half the way. 
 
 Sure they do meet, enjoy each other there. 
 
 And mix l know not How, nor Where. 
 Their friendly Lights together twine. 
 Though we perceive’t not to be fo, 
 
 Like loving Stars which oft combine, 
 
 Yet not themfelves their own Conjunct ions know. 
 
 Twere an ill world, I’ll fwear, for every friend, 
 If Diftance could their Union end .* 
 
 But Love it felf does far advance 
 Above the power of Time and Space. 
 
 It fcorns fuch outward Circumflance , 
 His Tim's for ever , every where his Place. 
 
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 I’ am there with Thee , yet here with Me thou art, 
 Lodg’d in each others heart. 
 
 Miracles ceafe not yet in Love , 
 
 When he his mighty Power will try, 
 Abfence it felfdoes Bounteous prove, 
 
 And ftrangely ev’n our Prefence Multiply. 
 
 Pure is the flame of Friendfhip , and Divine 
 
 Like that which in Heay’ens Sun does Aine 3 
 He in the upper Air and Sky 
 Does no effe&s of Heat beftow. 
 
 But as his beams the farther fly 
 He begets Warmth , Life , Beauty here below. 
 
 Friendfhip is lefs apparent when 
 Like Obje&s, if they tone 
 
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MISCELLANIES. 
 
 Lefs Meritorious than is Love , 
 
 For when we Friends together fee 
 So much, fo much Both One do prove, 
 That their Love then feems but felf-love to be. 
 
 7 - 
 
 Each day think on me, and each day I (hall 
 For thee make Hours Canonical . 
 
 By every Wind that comes this way, 
 Send me atleaft a ftgh or two, 
 
 Such and fo many I’ll repay 
 As (hall themfelves make Winds to get to you. 
 
 8 . 
 
 A thoufand pretty ways we’ll think upon 
 To mock our Separation. 
 
 Alas, ten thoufand will not do 5 
 My heart will thus no longer ftay, 
 
 No longer ’twill be kept from you, 
 
 But knocks again ft the Breajl to get away. 
 
 9 - 
 
 And when no Art affords me help or eafe, 
 
 I feek with Verfe my griefs t’ appeafe. 
 Juft as a Bird that flies about 
 And beats it felf againft the Cage , 
 Finding atlaft no paffage out, 
 
 It fits and fings, and fo o’recomes its rage. 
 
 To the Bijhop 0 f Lincoln, 
 
 Vp on his Enlargement out of the Tower. 
 
 P Ardoh, my Lord, that I am come fo late 
 T’ exprefs my joy for your return of Fate. 
 
 So when injurious Chance did you deprive 
 Of Liberty , at firft I could not grieve 5 
 My thoughts a while, like you, imprtfond lay 5 
 Great Joys as well as Sorrows make a Stay , 
 
 They hinder one another in the Crowds 
 And none are heard, whilft all would fpeak aloud 
 Should every mans officious gladnefs haft, 
 
 And be afraid to (hew it felf the laft } * 
 
 The throng of Gratulations now would be 
 Another Lofs to you of Liberty . 
 
 When of your freedom men the news did hear 
 Where it was wiftitfor, that is every where, 
 
 T was 
 
MISCELLANIES. 
 
 Twas like the Speech which from your Lips does fall, 
 As (oon as it was heard it ravifttt all. 
 
 So Eloquent Tully did from exile come $ 
 
 Thus long’d for he return'd, and cherilht Rom <?, 
 Which could no more his Tongue and Conn fils mils? 
 Rome , the Worlds head , was nothing without Hit. 
 Wrong to thofe facred Afhes I (hould do, 
 
 Should I compare any to Him but Ton ? 
 
 You to whom Art and Nature did difpence 
 The Confulfhip of Wit and Eloquence. 
 
 Nor did your Fate differ from his at all, 
 
 Becaule the doom of Exile was his fall, 
 
 For the whole World without a native home 
 Is nothing but a Pris 3 on of larger room. 
 
 But like a melting Woman fuffer’d He, 
 
 He who before out-did Humanitic. 
 
 Nor could his Spirit conftant and ftedfajl prove, 
 
 Whofe Art s t had been, and greateft end to Move , 
 
 You put ill-Fortune in fo good adrels 
 That it out-flione other mens Happineft. 
 
 Had your Proffer ity always clearly gon 
 As your high Merits would have led it on, 
 
 You ’had half been loft, and an Example then 
 But for the Happy the leafi part of men. 
 
 Your very fufferings did fo graceful (hew, 
 
 That fome ftraight envyd your Affliction too. 
 
 For a clear Confidence and Heroic/^Mind 
 In Ills their Bufinefs and their Glory find. 
 
 So though lefs worthy (tones are drown’d in nighty 
 The faithful Diamond keeps his native Light , 
 
 And is oblig’d to Darknefis for a ray 
 
 That would be more opprejl than helpt by Day. 
 
 Your Soul then moft ftiew’d her unconquer’d power. 
 Was ftronger and more armed than the Tower. 
 
 Sure unkind Fate will tempt your Sprit no more, 
 
 She has try’d your Weaknefis and your Strength before. 
 T’ oppofe him ftill who once has Conquer d fo, 
 
 Were now to be your Rebel not your Foe. 
 
 Fortune henceforth will more of Providence have, 
 
 And rather be your Friend , than be your Slave, 
 
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MISCELLANIES. 
 
 To a Lady who made Pofies for Rings. 
 
 i. 
 
 I Little thought the time would ever bee, 
 That I fhould Wit in dxvarfijh Pofies fee. 
 
 As all Words in few Letters live, 
 
 Thou to few Words all Senfe doft give. 
 Twas Nature taught you this rare Art 
 In fuch a Little Much to (hew, 
 
 Who all the good (he did impart 
 To Womankind, Epitomiz'd in you. 
 
 2 . 
 
 I fas the Ancients did not doubt to (ing, 
 
 The turning Tears be well compar’d to a Ping, 
 We’ll write whate’r from you we hear, 
 For that’s the Pofie of the Tear, 
 
 This difference only will remain. 
 
 That Time his former face does (hew. 
 Winding into himfelf again, 
 
 But your unweari’d Wit is always New, 
 
 3 - 
 
 Tis faid that Conjurers have an Art found out 
 To carry Spirits confin’d in Pings about. 
 
 The wonder now will lefs appear 
 When we behold your Magici ^ here. 
 
 You by your Rings do Prisoners take. 
 
 And chain them with your myftick Spells, 
 
 And the ftrong Witchcraft full to make, 
 
 Love> the great Device harm’d to thofe Circles dwells, 
 
 4 » 
 
 They who above do various Circles find, 
 
 Say like a Ring th’ I. Equator Heaven than ’tis will be) 
 When Heaven (hall be adorn’d by thee 
 (Which then more Heaven does bind. 
 
 Tis thou rauft write the Pofie there. 
 
 For it wanteth one as yet, 
 
 Though the Sun pafs through ’t twice a year* 
 The Sun who is efteem’d the God of Wit, 
 
 Happy the Hands which wearthefe facred Rings ^ 
 They'll teach thofe Hands to write myfterious things. 
 
. 
 
 "" M IS CEL LAN I ES. 
 
 Let other Rings with Jewels bright, 
 
 Caft around their coftly light, 
 
 Let them want no noble Stone 
 By Nature rich, and Art refin'd, 
 
 Yet (hall thy Rings give place to none, 
 
 But only that which muft thy Marriage bind. 
 
 Prologue to the Guardian . 
 
 Before the Prince . 
 
 W H O fays the Times do Learning difallow? 
 
 ’Tis falfe 3 Twas never Honour'd fo as Now. 
 When you appear, Great Princedom Night is done 5 
 You are our Morning Star , and (hall be our Sun . 
 
 But our Scene’s London now 3 and by the rout 
 We peri(h, if the Roundheads be about. 
 
 For now no Ornament the Head muft wear, 
 
 No Bays , no Mitre , not fo much as Hair . 
 
 How can a Play pafs fafely when ye know 
 Cheapfide Crofs falls for making but a Show .<? 
 
 Our only Hope is this, that it may be 
 A P lay may pafs too, made Extempore. 
 
 Though other Arts poor and negle&ed grow, 
 
 They’i admit Po’efie which was always To. 
 
 But we contemn the fury of thefe days, 
 
 And fcom no le(s their Cenfure than their Praife. 
 
 Our Muje, bleft Prince , does only on you relye 3 
 Would gladly Live , but not refufe to Dye. 
 
 Accept our ha fly zeal \ a thing that’s play’d 
 Ere ’tis a Play , and Acted ere’tis Made . 
 
 Our Ignorance , but our Duty too we (how 3 
 I would all ignorant People would do fo! 
 
 At other Times expert our Wit or Art 3 
 This Comedy is Affed by the Heart. 
 
 The 
 
MISCELLANIES. 
 
 1 6 
 
 The Epilogue. 
 
 T HE Play, Great Sir, is done 5 yet needs muft fear, 
 
 Though you brought all your Fathers Mercies here, 
 It may offend your Highnefs , and we ’have now 
 Three hours don eTreafin here, for ought we know. 
 
 But power your Grate can above Nature give, 
 
 It can give power to make Abortives Live. 
 
 In which if our bold wifhes (hould be croft, 
 
 5 Tis but the Life of one poor week ’t has loft 5 
 Though it (hould fall beneath your mortal (corn, 
 
 Scarce could it Dye more quickly than ’twas Born. 
 
 On the Death of Mr. William Harvey. 
 Immodicis brevis ell <£t as , & rara Sem&ns. Mart. 
 
 1. 
 
 I T was a difmal, and a fearful Night, 
 
 Scarce could the Morn drive onth’ unwilling Light, 
 When Sleep, Deaths Image, left my troubled breft 
 By fomething liker Death polled. 
 
 My eyes with Tears did uncommanded flow, 
 
 And on my Soul hung the dull weight 
 Of fome Intolerable Fate. 
 
 What Bell was that ? Ah me ! Too much I know. 
 
 2. 
 
 My fweet Companion , and my gentle Peere , 
 
 Why haft thou left me thus unkindly here, 
 
 Thy End for ever, and my Life to mone ? 
 
 O thou haft left me all alone ! 
 
 Thy Soul and Body when Deaths Agonie 
 Befieg d around thy noble heart, 
 
 Did not with more reluftance part 
 Than I, my deareft Friend , do part from Thee . 
 
 3 * 
 
 My deareft Friend , would 1 had dy’d tor thee ! 
 
 Life and this World henceforth will tedious be. 
 
 Nor (hall I know hereafter what to do 
 
 If once my Griefs prove tedious too. 
 
 
 Silent 
 
MISCELLANIES. 
 
 Silent and fad I walk about all day, 
 
 As fullen Ghofts ftalk fpeechlefs by 
 Where their hid Treajures ly 5 
 Alas, my Treafures gone, why do 1 ftay ? 
 
 4 * 
 
 He was my Friend , thetrueft Friend on Earth , 
 
 A ftrong and mighty influence join’d our Birth . 
 
 Nor did we envy the raoft founding Name 
 By Friendship given of old to Fame. 
 
 None but his Brethren he, and Siflers knew. 
 
 Whom the kind Youth preferr’d to Me } 
 
 And even in that we did agree, 
 
 For much above my felf I lov’d them too, 
 
 . 5 - 
 
 Sav, foryoufawus, ye immortal Lights, 
 
 How oft unweari’d have we fpent the Nights? 
 
 Till the Led tan Stars fo fam’d for Love, 
 
 Wondred at us from above. 
 
 We fpent them not in toys, in lulls, or wine 5 
 But fearch of deep Philofophy , 
 
 ^ it, Eloquence, and Poetry 5 
 Arts which I lov’d, for they, my Friend , were Thine . 
 
 6 . 
 
 Ye fields of Cambridge , our dear Cambridge , fay, 
 
 Have ye not feen us walking every day ? 
 
 Was there a Tree about, which did not know 
 The Love betwixt us two .<? 
 
 Henceforth, ye gentle Trees, for ever fade , 
 
 Or your fad Branches thicker join, 
 
 And into darkfome (hades combine 5 
 Darl^ as the Grave wherein my Friend is laid. 
 
 7 - 
 
 Henceforth no learned Youths beneath you fing, 
 fill all the tuneful Birds to’ your Boughs they bring 
 No tuneful Birds play with their wonted Chear, 
 
 And call the learned Touths to hear $ 
 
 No whittling Winds through the glad branches fly, 
 But all with lad folemnitie, 
 
 Mute and unmoved be, 
 
 Mute as the Grave wherein my Friend does ly. 
 
 8 . 
 
 To him my Muje made hatte with every ftrain 
 Whilft it was new, and warm yet from the Brain, 
 
 He lov d my worthlels Rhimes , and like a Friend 
 Would find outiomething to commend. 
 
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MISCELLANIES. 
 
 Hence now, my Mufe, thou canft not me delight 
 Be this my lateft verfe 
 With which l now adorn his Herfe , 
 
 And this my Grief, without thy help (hall write. 
 
 9 * 
 
 Had I a Wreath of Bays about my Brow, 
 
 I (hould contemn that flour’ifhing honour now, 
 Condemn it to the Fire , and joy to hear 
 It rage and crackle there. 
 
 Inftead of Bays , crown with fad Cyprefsmet, 
 Cypreff which Tombs does beautifie 3 
 Not Phoebus griev’d fo much as I 
 For him, whofirft was made that mournful Tree . 
 
 10. 
 
 Large was his Soul 3 as large a Soul as ere 
 Submitted to inform a Body here. 
 
 High as the Place ’twas ftiorcly’ in Heaven to have, 
 But low, and humble as his Grave . 
 
 So high that all the Vertues there did come 
 As to the chiefeft Seat 
 Confpicuous, and great, 
 
 $0 lovo that for Me too it made a room. 
 
 He fcorn’d this bufie World below, and all 
 That we, Mtjiaken Mortals , Pleafure call 3 
 Was fill’d with innocent Gallantry and Truth , 
 Triumphant o’r the fins of Youth. 
 
 He like the Stars , to which be now is gone, 
 That (hine with Beams like Flame , 
 Yet burn not with the fame, 
 
 Had ail the Light oiYouth , of the Fire none. 
 
 12. 
 
 Knowledge he only fought, and fo foon caught, 
 As if for him Knowledge had rather fought. 
 
 Nor did more Learning ever crowded ly 
 In fuch a fhort Mortalitie . 
 
 When e’r the skilful Youth difeours’d or writ. 
 Still did the Notions throng 
 About his elo’quent Tongue, 
 
 Nor could his Ini ^ flow fafter than his Wit, 
 
 1 3 - 
 
 So ftrong a I l it did Nature to him frame. 
 
 As all things but his ‘judgment overcame 5 
 His Judgment like the Heavenly AW? did (how 
 Tempting that mighty Sea below. 
 
MISCELLANIES. 
 
 O had he liv’d ia Learnings Worlds what bound 
 Would have been able to concroul 
 His over-powering Soul } 
 
 We ’have loft in him Arts that not yet are found. 
 
 14. 
 
 His Mirth was the pure Spirits of various Wir, 
 
 Yet never did his God or Friends forget. 
 
 And when deep talk and wifdom came in view, 
 Retir’d and gave to them their due. 
 
 For the rich help of Books he always took, 
 
 Though his own fearching mind before 
 Was fo with Notions written o’re 
 As if wife Nature had made that her Book, 
 
 * 5 - 
 
 So many Vertnes join d in him, as we 
 
 Can fcarce pick here and there in Hijtorie. 
 
 More than old Writers Practice ere couid reach. 
 
 As much as they could ever teach . 
 
 Thele did Religion , Queen of Vertues fway. 
 
 And all their facred Motions ftear. 
 
 Juft like the Firftand Higheji Sphere 
 Which wheels about, and turns all Hearten one way. 
 
 16. 
 
 With as much Zeal, Devotion, Pietie, 
 
 He always Lirtd , as other Saints do Die. 
 
 Still with his Soul levere account he kept. 
 
 Weeping all Debts out ere he llept. 
 
 Then down in peace and innocence he lay, 
 
 Like the Suns laborious light, 
 
 Which ftill in Water fets at Night, 
 
 TJnfullied with his Journey of the Day. 
 
 ' 7 - 
 
 Wondrous young Man, why wert thou made fo good 
 To be fnatcht hence ere better underftood .<? 
 
 Snatcht before half enough of thee was feen 1 
 Thou Ripe , and yet thy Life but Green ! 
 
 Nor could tliy Friends take their laft fad Farewell, 
 
 But Danger and infectious Death 
 * Malicioufly feiz’d on that Breath 
 Where Life , Spirit , Pleafure always us’d to dwell. 
 
 18. 
 
 But happy Thou, tan from this frantick Age ! 
 
 Where Igno 0 ranee and Hypocrifie does rage I 
 A fitter time for Heav’n no Soul erchofe, 
 
 The place now only free from thofe. 
 
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 MISCELLANIES. 
 
 There ’mong the Bleft thou doft for ever fhine. 
 
 And wherefoe’r thou caft’ft thy view 
 Upon that white and radiant Crew, 
 
 See’ ft not a Soul cloath’d with more Light than Thine. 
 
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 And if the glorious Saints ceafe not to know 
 Their wretched Friends who fight with Life below 3 
 Thy Flame to Me does ftill the fame abide, 
 
 Only more pure and rarifi’d. 
 
 There whilft immortal Hymns thou doft reherfe, 
 Thou doft with holy pity fee 
 Our dull and earthly Poefie , 
 
 Where Qrief and Misery can be joyn’d with Verfi. 
 
 i-i - . j A V: - 'Z. 
 
 ODE. 
 
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 In Imitation of Horace"* Ode . 
 
 guis mult a gracilis te puer in rosL 
 Perfufus j &c. Lib. 1. Od. 5. 
 
 1. 
 
 T O whom now Pyrrha , art thou kind > 
 To what heart- raviflat Lover 
 Doft thou thy golden Lock unbind, 
 
 Thy hidden fweets difcover. 
 
 And with large bounty open (et 
 All the bright ftores of thy rich Cabinet ? 
 
 2. 
 
 Ah fimple Touth, how oft will he 
 
 Of thy chang’d Faith complain } 
 And his own Fortunes find to be 
 So airy and fo vain. 
 
 Of fo CanteleonAike an hew, 
 
 That ftill their colour changes with it too £ 
 
 3 * 
 
 How oft, alas, will he admire 
 
 The blacknefs of the Skies ? 
 Trembling to hear the Winds found higher 
 And fee the Billows rife 5 
 Poor unexperienced He 
 Who ne*r, alas, before had been at Sea ! 
 
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MISCELLANIES 
 
 4 * 
 
 He enjoys thy calmy Sun-fhtne now, 
 
 And no breath ftirring hears, 
 
 In the clear Heaven of thy brow 
 No fmalleft Cloud appears. 
 
 He fees thee gentle, fair, and gay, 
 And trufts the faith left April of thy May. 
 
 5 * 
 
 Unhappy! thrice unhappy He, 
 
 T’whom Thou untry d doft (hine ! 
 But there’s no danger now for Me, 
 Since o r Loretto s Shrine 
 In witnefs of the ShipwracJ^yiPt 
 My confecrated Vejfel hangs at laft. 
 
 In Imitation of Martial'i Epigram. 
 
 Si tecum mihi chare Martialis , &c. L, 5. Ep. 2 1. 
 
 I F deareft Friend it my good Fate might be 
 T’ enjoy at once a quiet Life and Thee 3 
 It we for Happinefs could leifure find. 
 
 And wandring Time into a Method bind, 
 
 We fhould not fure the Great mens favour need, 
 
 Nor on long Hopes , the Courts thin Diet , feed. 
 
 We fhould not Patience find daily to hear 
 The Calumnies , and Flatteries fpoken there. 
 
 We fhould not the Lords Tables humbly ufe, 
 
 Or talk in Ladies Chambers Love and News 3 
 But Books, and wife Difconrfe , Gardens and Fields, 
 
 And all the joys that unmixt Nature yields. 
 
 Thick Summer (hades where Winter ftill doesly, 
 
 Bright Winter Fires that Summers part fupply. 
 
 Sleep not controlfd by Cares confin’d to Night , 
 
 Or bound in any rule but Appetite. 
 
 Free, but not favage or ungracious Mirth , 
 
 Rich Wines to give it quick and eafie birth. 
 
 A few Companions , which our (elves fhould chufe, 
 
 A Gentle Mijirejs, and a Gentler Mufe. 
 
 Such, deareft Friend, fuch without doubt fhould be 
 Our Place , our Buftnefs, and our Companie. 
 
 Now to Himfelf alas, does neither Live, 
 
 But fee9 good Suns, of which we are to give 
 A drift account , fet and march thick away 3 
 Knows a man how to Live , and does he Jiay <? 
 
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 MISCELLANIES . 
 
 The Chronicle. 
 
 A Ballad . 
 
 i. 
 
 A Ji Ar gar it a fir ft pofl’eft, 
 
 JlV A. If l remember well, my breft. 
 Margarita firft of all 5 
 
 But when a while the wanton Maid 
 With my reft left heart had plaid. 
 
 Alar t ha took the flying Ball. 
 
 2. 
 
 Alartha foon did it refign 
 
 To the beauteous Catherine. 
 Beauteous Catherine gave place 
 (Though loth and angry (he to pare 
 With the pofleffion of my heart) 
 
 To Elifas conquering face. 
 
 3 ’ 
 
 Elifa till this Hour might reign 
 
 Had (he not Evil Counfels ta'n, 
 Fundamental Laws fhe broke. 
 
 And ftill new Favourites (he chofe, 
 
 Till up in Arms my PaJJions role, 
 
 And caftaway her yoke. 
 
 4 ’ 
 
 Mary then and gentle Ann 
 
 Both to reign at once began, 
 Alternately they fway’d. 
 
 And fometimes Mary was the Fair , 
 
 And fometimes Ann the Crown did wear, 
 And fometimes Both I ’obey’d. 
 
 5 - 
 
 Another Mary then aro(e, 
 
 And did rigorous Laws impofe. 
 
 A mighty Tyrant (he ! 
 
 Long, alas, (hould I have been 
 Under that Iron-Scepter d Queen, 
 
 Had not Rebecca fet me free. 
 
 When 
 
MISCELLANIES. 
 
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 6 . 
 
 When fair Rebecca fet me free, 
 
 Twasthen a golden Time with me. 
 But foon thofe pleafures fled, 
 
 For the gracious Princefs dy’d 
 In her Youth and Beauties pride, 
 
 And Judith reigned in her fled, 
 
 7 - 
 
 One Month, three Days, and half an hour 
 Judith held the Sove'raign Power, 
 Wondrous beautiful her Face, 
 
 But fo weak and fmall her Wit, 
 
 That (he to govern was unfit, 
 
 And (o Sufanna took her place. 
 
 8 . 
 
 But when lfabella came 
 
 Arm’d with a refiftlefs flame 
 And th’ Artillery of her Eye, 
 Whilft (he proudly marcht about 
 Greater Conquefts to find out, 
 
 She beat out Sufan by the Bye. 
 
 9 - 
 
 But in her place I then obey’d 
 
 Black-eyM Be ft, her Viceroy- Maid , 
 To whom enfu’d a Vacancy. 
 Thouland worfe Pajjions then polled 
 The Interregnum of my breft. 
 
 Blefs me from fuch an Anarchy ! 
 
 10. 
 
 Gentle Henrietta than 
 
 And a third Mary next began. 
 
 Then J one; and Jane , and Andria. 
 And then a pretty Thomafine , 
 
 And then another Katharine , 
 
 And then a long Et catera. 
 
 11. 
 
 But (hould I now to you relate 
 
 Theftrength and riches of their flate. 
 The Powder, Patches , and the Pins , 
 The Ribonds , Jewels , and the Rings, 
 
 The Lace, the Paint , and warlike things 
 
 That make up all their Magazins : 
 
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MISCELLANIES 
 
 24 
 
 12 . 
 
 If I {hould tell the politick Arts 
 
 To take and keep mens hearts, 
 The Letters, Embafiies, and Spies, 
 The Frowns, and Smiles, and Flatteries, 
 The Quarrels, Tears, and Perjuries, 
 
 Numberlefs, Namelefs Myfieries ! 
 
 I 3- 
 
 And all the Little Lime-twigs laid 
 
 By Matchavil the Waiting-Maid , 
 
 I more voluminous (hould grow 
 (Chiefly if l like them (hould tell 
 All Change of Weathers that befell) 
 
 Than Holinjhead or Stow. 
 
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 But I . will briefer with them be, 
 
 Since few of them were long with Me. 
 An higher and a nobler (train 
 My prefenc Emprefs does claim, 
 
 Hekonora , Firfi o' th 1 Name 5 
 
 Whom God grant long to reign . 
 
 To Sir William D'avenant. 
 
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 Upon his two JirJl Booths of Gundibert, finifhed before\his 
 
 Voyage to America. 
 
 M Ethinks Heroic^ Poe fie till now 
 
 Like fome fantaftick Fairy Land did (how, 
 
 ( Jods , Devils , Nymphs , Witches , and Gyants race , 
 
 And all but Man , in Mans chief uw^had place. 
 
 Thou like fome worthy Knight with facred Arms 
 Doft drive the Monjiers thence, and end the Charms. 
 
 In ftead of thofe doft Men and Manners plant. 
 
 The things which that rich Soil did chiefly want. 
 
 Yet even thy Mortals do their Gods excell, 
 
 Taught by thy Mufe to Fight and Love fo well. 
 
 By fatal hands whilft pre r ent Empires fall, 
 
 Thine from the Grave paji Monarchies recall. 
 
 So much more thanks from humane kind does merit 
 The Poets Fury, than the ’Zealots Spirit. 
 
 And from the Grave thou makeft this Empire rife, 
 
 Not like fome dreadful Ghofi t’ affright our Eyes, 
 
 But with more luftre and triumphant ftate, 
 
 Than when it crown’d at proud Ferona fate. 
 
 
 So 
 

 MIS C E LLANIES. 
 
 2 5 
 
 So will our God rebuild man’s perifht frame, 
 
 And raife him up much Better , yet the fame. 
 
 So God-lihe Poets do paft things reherfe, 
 
 Not change, but heighten Nature by their Verfe. 
 
 Withftiame, methinks, great Italy muft fee 
 Her Conquerors rais’d to Life again by Thee . 
 
 \\ ais’d by fuch powerful Verfe, that ancient Rome 
 May blufh no lefs to fee her Wit or come. 
 
 Some men their Fancies like their Faith derive, 
 
 And think all 111 but that which Rome does give. 
 
 The Marks of Old and Catholic ^ would find, 
 
 To the fame Chair would Truth and Fi&ion bind. 
 Thou in thofe beaten paths difdain’ft to tread, 
 
 And fcorn’ft to Live by robbing of the Dead. 
 
 Since Time does all things change, thou think’ft not fit 
 This latter Age fhould fee all New but Wit. 
 
 Thy Fancy like a Flame its way does make, 
 
 And leave bright Traces for following Pens to take. 
 Sure ’twas this noble boldnefs of the Mufe 
 Did thy defire to feek new IVorlds infufe, 
 
 And ne’r did Heaven fo much a Voyage blefi. 
 
 If thou canft Plant but there with like fuccefs. 
 
 
 An Anfoer to a Copy of Verfe $ fent 
 
 Jerfey. 
 
 me to 
 
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 A S to a Northern People ( whom the Sun 
 Ufes juft as the Romifi Church has done 
 Her Prophane Laity , and does affign 
 Bread only both to ferve fpr Bread and Wine ) 
 
 A rich Canary Fleet welcome arrives 5 
 Such comfort to us here your Letter gives, 
 
 Fraught with brisk racy Verfes , in which we 
 
 The Soil from whence they came, tafte, fmell and fee i 
 
 Such is your Prefent to us s for you muft know, 
 
 Sir, that Verfe does not in this lflandgrcvo 
 No more than Sac^ One lately did not fear 
 ( Without the Mufes leave) to plant it here. 
 
 But it produc’d fuch bafe, rough, crabbed, hedge 
 Rhimes , as ev en fet the hearers Ears on Edge , 
 
 Written by Efquire , the 
 
 Tear of our Lord fix hundred thirty three . 
 
 Brave Jerfey Mufe ! and he’s for his high ftyle 
 Calld to this day the Homer of the Jfle. 
 
 Alas to men here no Words lefs hard be, 
 
 To rhyme with, than * Mount Orgueil is to me. 
 
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 name of 
 one of the 
 Cafties in 
 
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 Mount 
 
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 2 6 MISCELLANIES. 
 
 Mount Orgueil , which in fcorn o’ch’ Mufes Law 
 
 With no yokg-fellow Word will deign to draw. 
 
 Stubborn Mount Orgueil ! Yis a work to make it 
 Come into Rhime , more hard than ’twere lotake'it. 
 
 Alas, to bring your Tropes and Figures here, 
 
 Strange as to bring Camels and Elephants were. 
 
 And Metaphor is fo unknown a thing, 
 
 T would need the Preface of God Jave the King, 
 
 Yet this i’ll fay for th’ honour of the place, 
 
 That by God’s extraordinary Grace 
 
 (Which fbows the people have Judgment if not Wit, 
 
 The Land is undefiPd with Clinches yet. 
 
 Which in my poor opinion I confefs, 
 
 Is a moft fing’ular blefling, and no lels 
 Than Ireland's wanting Spiders. And fo far 
 From th’ AEtual Sin of Bombaft too they are, 
 
 ( i hat other Crying Sin o’ th’ Englift, ) MuJeJ 
 1 hat even Satan hlmfelf can accule 
 None here (no not fo much as the Divines J 
 f or th’ Motus primo primi to Strong Lines. 
 
 Well, fince the Soil then does not natu’rally bear 
 Verfe , who (a Devil ) (hould import it here ? 
 
 For that to me would feem as ftrange a thing 
 As who did firfl: Wild Beajls into’ ljlands bring. 
 
 Unlefs you think that it might taken be 
 As Green did Gond'ibert , in a Prize at Sea. 
 
 But that’s a Fortune falls not every day 3 
 ’Tis true Green was made by it 3 for they fay 
 The Par ? lament did a noble bounty do, 
 
 And gave him the whole Prize , their Tenths and Fifteenths too. 
 
 The 
 
 Again ft the Dogmatifts. 
 
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 ^ H E Sacred Tree ’midft the fair Orchard grew. 
 The Phoenix Truth did on it reft, 
 
 1 
 
 And built his perfum'd Neft. 
 
 That right Porphyrian Tree which did true Logic\[ 
 Eacn Leaf did learned Notions give. 
 
 And th‘ Apples were Demonftrative. 
 
 So clear their Colour and Divine, 
 
 The very /hade they caft did other Lights out-lhine, 
 
 
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MISCELLANIES. 
 
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 2, 
 
 Tafte not, faith God, ns mine and Angels meat, 
 
 A certain Death doth lit 
 Like an ill Worm i’th’ Core of it. 
 
 Ye cannot Know and Live , nor Live , or KnowdSid Eat , 
 Thus fpake God, yet did go 
 Ignorantly on to Know , 
 
 Grew fo more blind, and Jhe 
 Who tempted him to this, grew yet more blind than He . 
 
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 The only Science Man by this did get. 
 
 Was but to /{now he nothing knew : 
 
 He ftraight his Nakgdnejs did view, 
 
 His ign orant poor eftate, and was afiiam’d of it. 
 
 Yet fearches Probabilities, 
 
 And Rhetoric^, and Fallacies , 
 
 And fetks by uielefs pride 
 
 With flight and withering Leaves their Nakednefs to hide. 
 
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 Henceforth, faid God , the wretched Sons of Earth ? ; 
 
 Shall Tweat for food in vain. 
 
 That will not long fuftain, 
 
 And bring with Labour forth each fond Abortive Birth . 
 
 That Serpent too their Pride , 
 
 Which aims at things deny’d, 
 
 T hat learn’d and eloquent Lufi 
 1 >ead of mounting high , (hall creep upon the Daft. 
 
 1 he ^ eafon . 
 
 The ZJfe of it in Divine Matters . 
 
 S Ome blind themfelves, ’caufe poffibly they may 
 Be led by others a right way 5 
 They build on Sands , which if unmov’d they find, 
 
 ’ fis but becaufe there was no Wind. 
 
 L ft hard ’tis, not to erre our [elves, than know 
 ff our Fore-fathers errd or no. 
 
 When we truffc Men concerning God , we then 
 Truft not God concerning men. 
 
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 MISCELLANIES. 
 
 9 
 
 2 . 
 
 Fifi on s and lnfpirations fome expert 
 Their courfe here to direft. 
 
 Like fenfelels Chymfts their own wealth deftroy, 
 Imaginary Gold t* enjoy. 
 
 So Stars appear to drop to us from Sky, 
 
 And gild the pafiage as they fly : 
 
 But when they fall, and meet th’ oppofing Ground, 
 What but a fordid Slime is found? 
 
 Sometime their Fancies they ‘above Reafon let, 
 And faft that they may dream of meat. 
 Sometimes ill Spirits their fickly Souls delude, 
 And Bafiard-F ornes obtrude. 
 
 So Endors wretched Sorcerefs , although 
 
 She Saul through his difguife did know, 
 Yet when the Devil comes up difguis'd, (he cries, 
 Behold the Gods arife. 
 
 In vain, alas, thefe outward hopes are try’d 3 
 Reafon within s our only Guide . 
 
 Reafon which ( God be prais’d ! ) ftill walks , for all 
 Its old Original Fall. 
 
 And fince it felf the boundlefs Godhead join’d 
 With a Reafonable Mind , 
 
 It plainly (hows that Myfteries Divine 
 May with our Reafon join. 
 
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 The Holy Book , like the eighth Sphere , does Chine 
 With thoufand Lights of Truth Divine . 
 
 So numberlefs the Stars , that to the Eye, 
 
 It makes but all one Galaxie . 
 
 Yet Reafon muft aflift too, for in Seas 
 So vaft and dangerous as thefe, 
 
 Our courfe by Stars above we cannot know, 
 
 Without the Compafs too below. 
 
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 v • Though Reafon cannot through Faiths Myft' cries fee, 
 
 It fees that There and fuch they be 3 
 Leads to Heavens Door , and there does humbly keep, 
 
 And there through Chinks and Key-holes peep. 
 
 Though it, like Mofes by a fad command 
 Muft not come into th’ Holy Land , 
 
 Yet thither it infallibly does guide , 
 
 And from afar ’tis all defcry d. 
 
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MISCELLANIES. 
 
 2 9 
 
 On the Death of SMr. Crafliaw. 
 
 P Oet and Saint ! to thee alone are given 
 
 The two moft facred Names of Earth and Heaven. 
 
 The hard and rareft ZJnion which can be 
 Next that of Godhead with Humanitie 
 Long did the Mufes banifht Slaves abide, 
 
 And built vain Pyramids to mortal pride 3 
 
 Like Mofes Thou (though Spells and Charms withftand) 
 
 Haft brought them nobly home back to their Holy Land, 
 
 Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth ! but Thou 
 Wert Living the fame Poet which thou'rt Now . 
 
 Whilft Angels ling to thee their Ayres Divine, 
 
 And joy in an applaufe fo great as 7 hine . 
 
 Equal Society with them to hold. 
 
 Thou need ft not make new Songs , but fay the Old. 
 
 And they (kind Spirits ! ) (hall all rejoyce to fee 
 How little lefs than They , Exalted Man may be. 
 
 Still the old Heathen Gods in Numbers dwell, 
 
 The Heavenliefi thing on Earth ftill keeps up He//. 
 
 Nor have we yet quite purg’d the Chriftian Land 3 
 Still Idols here, like Calves at Bethel ftand. 
 
 And though Pans Death long fince all Oracles broke. 
 
 Yet ftill in Rhyme the Fiend Apollo fpoke : 
 
 Nay with the worft of Heathen dotage We 
 ( Vain men ! ) the Monfier Woman Deifie 5 
 Find Stars , and tye our Fates there in a Face , 
 
 And Paradife in them L/ whom we lojl it, place. 
 
 What different faults corrupt our Mufes thus > 
 
 Wanton as Girks, as Old Wives, Fabulous / 
 
 Thy fpotlefs Mufe, like Mary , did contain 
 The boundlefs Godhead 3 fhe did well difdain 
 That her eternal Verfe employ’d (hould be 
 On a lefs Subjed than Eternity 5 
 And for a facred Mifiaefs fcorn to take, 
 
 But her whom God himfelf fcorn’d not his Spoufe to make. 
 
 It ( in a kind) her Miracle did do 3 
 A fruitful Another was, and Virgin too. 
 
 * How well (bleftSwan) did Fate contrive thy death, 
 
 And made thee render up thy tuneful breath 
 In thy great Miftrefs Arms } thou moft Divine 
 And richeft Offering of Loretto* s Shrine ! 
 
 Where like fome holy Sacrifice t’ expire, 
 
 A Fever burns thee, and Love lights the Fire. 
 
 Angels (they fay) brought the fam’d Chappel there, 
 
 And bore the facred Load in Triumph through the Air. 
 
 Tis 
 
 * Mr. era- 
 fha.iv died 
 of a Fever 
 at Lornto, 
 being new- 
 ly cliofen 
 Canon 
 of that 
 Church. 
 
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 MIS C ELL AN l ES. 
 
 ’Tis furer much they brought thee there, and They, 
 
 And Thou, their Charge, went figging all the way. 
 
 Pardon, my Mother Church , if l confent, 
 
 T hat Angels led him when from thee he went, 
 
 For even in Error fure no Danger is 
 When join’d with fo much Piety as hit. 
 
 Ah, mighty God, with (hame I fpeak’t, and grief, 
 
 Ah that our greateft Faults were in Belief! 
 
 And our weak Reafon were even weaker yet, 
 
 Rather than thus our Wills too ftrong for it. 
 
 His Faith perhaps in fome nice Tenents might 
 Be wrong , his Life, I’m fure, was in the righto 
 And l my felf a Catholic T will be. 
 
 So far, at leaft, great Saint . to Pray to thee. 
 
 Hail BardTriumphant ! and fome care beftow 
 On us, the Poets Militant Below ! 
 
 Oppos’d by our old Enemy, adverfe Chance , 
 Attacque’d by Envy , and by Ignorance , 
 
 Enchain’d by Beauty, tortur’d by Defire /, 
 
 Expos’d by Tyrant-Love to favage Beajls and Fires . 
 Thou from low earth in nobler Flames didft rife, 
 
 And like Elijah , mount alive the Skies. 
 
 Eli/ha-Wke (but with a wi(h much lefs, 
 
 More fit thy Greatnefs , and my Littlenefsj 
 Lo here I beg ( i whom thou once didft prove 
 So Humble to Efteens, fo Good to Love j 
 Not that thy Spirit might on me Doubled be, 
 
 I ask but half thy mighty Spirit for Me. 
 
 And when my Mufe foars with fo ftrong a Wing, 
 
 ’Twill learn of things Divine , and firft of Thee to ling. 
 
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MISCELLANIES. 
 
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 Anacreontiques 
 
 o R, 
 
 Some Copies of Verses Tranflated 
 Paraphraftically out of <? Anacreon . 
 
 I 
 
 LOVE. 
 
 I ’ll fing of Heroes , and of Kings 5 
 In mighty Numbers, mighty things, 
 Begin, my Mufe , but lo the firings 
 To my great Song rebellious prove } 
 
 The Brings will found of nought but Love . 
 I broke them all, and put on new 5 
 5 Tis this or nothing fure will do. 
 
 Thefe fure ( faid I ) will me obey 5 
 Thefe fure Heroick. Notes will play. 
 Straight I began with thundering Jove, 
 And all th’ immortal Powers but Love. 
 Love fmil d, and from my enfeebled Lyre 
 Came gentle Ayres, fuch as infpire 
 Melting Love, foft defire. 
 
 Farewel then Heroes , farewel Kings , 
 
 And mighty Numbers, mighty Things. 
 Love tunes my Heart juft: to my firings. 
 
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 H E thirfty Earth foaks up the Raw , 
 And drinks, and gapes for drink again. 
 The Plants fuck in the Earthy and are 
 With confiant drinking frelh and fair. 
 
 The Sea it felf, which one would think 
 Should have but little need of Drin \ , 
 
 Drinks ten thoufand Rivers up, 
 
 So fill’d that they o’rflow the Cup. 
 
 The bufie Sun ( and one would guefs 
 By’s drunken fiery face no lefs ) 
 
 Drinks up the Sea, and when h’as done, 
 
 The Moon and Stars drink up the Sun. 
 
 They drink and dance by their own light, 
 They drink and revel all the night. 
 
 Nothing in Natures Sober found. 
 
 But an eternal Health goes round. 
 
 Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high. 
 
 Fill all the Glaffes there, for why 
 Should every Creature drink but /, 
 
 Why, Men of Morals , tell me why ? 
 
 Ill 
 
 Beauty 
 
 L iberal Nature did difpenfe 
 
 To all things Arms for their defence $ 
 And fome (he arms with fin’ewy force, 
 
 And fome with fwiftnels in the courfe , 
 
 Some with hard Hoofs, or forked Claws, 
 
 And fome with Horns, or tusked Jaws 5 
 And fome with Scales, and fome with Wings, 
 And fome with Teeth, and fome with Stings. 
 Wtfdom to Man (he did afford, 
 
 Wifdom for Shield , and Wit for Sword. 
 
 What to beauteous W oman-l^nd. 
 
 What Arms what Armour has file’ afiign’d } 
 Beauty is both $ for with the Fair , 
 
 What Arms, what Armour can compare ? 
 
 What 
 
MISCELLANIES . 
 
 33 
 
 Wha f Steil, what Gold , or Diamond, 
 More ImpXjjible is found ? 
 
 .And yet what Flame , what Lightning e’r 
 So great on Attive force did bear } 
 
 They ; ; re all weapon, and they dart 
 Like Porcupines from every part. 
 
 Who can, alas, their ftrength exprcfs, 
 Arm’d, when they themfelves undrefs 3 
 Cap-a pe with Nakednefs .<? 
 
 IV. 
 
 The Duel. 
 
 Y ES, I will love then, I will love, 
 
 I will not now Loves Rebel prove, 
 Though I was once his Enemy , 
 
 Though ill- advis’d and ftubborn I, 
 
 Did to the Combate him defie, 
 
 An Helmet, Spear, and mighty Shield, 
 
 Like (ome new Ajax I did wield. 
 
 Love in one hand his Bow did take, 
 
 In thfother hand a Dart did (hake. 
 
 But yet in vain the Dart did throw, 
 
 In vain he often drew the Bow. 
 
 So well my Armor did refift, 
 
 So oft by bight the Blow I mift. 
 
 But when l thought all danger pall:, 
 
 His Quiver empty ’d quite atlaft, 
 
 Inftead of Arrow , or of Dart, 
 
 He (hot Himfelf into my Heart. 
 
 The Living and the Rilling Arrow 
 Ran through the Skin, the Flefh, the Blood, 
 And broke the Bones, andfcorcht the Marrow, 
 No Trench or Worh^ of Life withftood. 
 
 In vain I now the Walls maintain, 
 
 I fet out Guards and Scouts in vain. 
 
 Since th’ Erf my does within remain* 
 
 In vain a Breaflplate now I wear, 
 
 Since in my Breafl the Foe I bear. 
 
 In vain my Feet their fwiftnefs try 5 
 For from the Bjdy can they fly ? 
 
 
 
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 MISCELLANIES. 
 
 V. 
 
 AGE. 
 
 I 
 
 O FT am I by the Women told, 
 
 Poor Anacreon thou grow’ft old. 
 Look how thy Hairs are falling all 3 
 Poor Anacreon , how they fall ! 
 
 Whether I grow old or no, 
 
 By th’ effe&s I' do not know. 
 
 This I know without being told, 
 
 ? Tis time to Live if I grow Old . 
 
 ’Tis time fhort pleafures now to take, 
 
 Of little Life the beft to make, 
 
 And manage wifely the laft flake. 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Account . 
 
 W Hen all the Stars are by thee told, 
 
 (The endlefs Summes of heav’enly Gold) 
 
 Or when the Hairs are reckon’d all, 
 
 From fickly Autumns Head that fall, 
 
 Or when the drops that make the Sea, 
 
 Whilft all her Sands thy Counters be 5 
 Thou then, and Thou alone muft prove 
 Th’ Arithmetician of my Love, 
 
 An hundred Loves at Athens fc ore. 
 
 At Corinth write an hundred more. 
 
 Fair Corinth does fuch Beauties bear. 
 
 So few is an Rfeaping there. 
 
 Write then at Chios feventy three 3 
 Write then at Lesbos (let me fee) 
 
 Write me at Lesbos ninety down, 
 
 Full ninety Loves and half a One. 
 
 And next to thefe iet me prefent 
 The fair Ionian Regiment 3 
 And next the Carian Company , 
 
 Five hundred both Effectively. 
 
 Three hundred more at Rhodes and Crete 3 
 Three hundred 7 tis I am fare complete. 
 
 For arms at Crete each Face does bear* 
 
 And 
 
 
MISCELLANIES. 
 
 And every Eyes an Archer there. 
 
 Go on j this ftop why doft thou make ? 
 Thou think’ft, perhaps, that I miftake. 
 Seem this to thee too great a Summe £ 
 Why many Thoufands are to eome * 
 The mighty Xerxes could not boaft 
 Such different Nations in his Hoff 
 On 5 for my love, it thou be d weary, 
 Muff find fome better Secretary. 
 
 I have not yet ray Per ft an told. 
 
 Nor yet my Syrian Loves enroll’d, 
 
 Nor Indian , nor Arabian $ 
 
 Nor Cyprian Ldves, por African j 
 Nor Scythian , nor Italian dames $ 
 There’s a whole Map behind of Names , 
 Of gentle Love i’th’ temperate Zone , 
 
 And cold ones in the Frigid One, 
 
 Cold frozen Loves with which l pine, 
 And parched Loves beneath the Line . 
 
 VII 
 
 GOLD 
 
 A Mighty pain to Love it is, 
 
 And 'tis a pain that pain to tnifs. 
 But of all pain the greateft pain 
 It is to love, but love in vain. 
 
 Vertue now nor noble Blood , 
 
 Nor Wit by Love is underftood. 
 
 Gold alone does Padion move, 
 
 Gold monopolizes Love ! 
 
 A curfe on her, and on the Man 
 Who this traffick firft began ! 
 
 A curfe on him who found the Ore! 
 
 A curfe on him who digg’d the ftore! 
 A curfe on him who did refine it ! 
 
 A curfe on him who firft did coyn it ! 
 A curfe all curfes elie above 
 On him, who us’d it firft in Love ! 
 
 Gold begets in Brethren hate, 
 
 Gold in Families debate 5 
 Gold does Friendftiips feparate, 
 
 Gold does Civil Wars create. 
 
 Thefethe fmalleft harms of it \ 
 
 Gold , alas, does Love beget. 
 
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 VIII. 
 
 The Epicure . 
 
 F ILL the Bowl with rofie Wine, 
 Around our temples Rofes twine, 
 And let us chearfully awhile, 
 
 Like the Wine and Rofes fmile. 
 Crown’d with Rofes we contemn 
 Gyges wealthy Diadem. 
 
 To day is Ours 3 what do we fear ? 
 
 To day is Ours 3 we have it here. 
 
 Lets treat it kindly, that it may 
 Wifi) at leaft with us to ftay. 
 
 Let s banifh Bufinefs , banifh Sorrow 5 
 To the Gods belongs To Morrow . 
 
 IX. 
 
 JN0THE% 
 
 U Nderneath this Myrtle-(hade, 
 
 On dowry Bedsfupinely laid, 
 
 With od’orous Oyls my head o’rflowing, 
 And around it Rofes growing, 
 
 What (hould I do but drink away 
 The Heat and troubles of the Day <? 
 
 In this more than Kwgly date, 
 
 Love himfelf (hall on me wait. 
 
 Fill to me, Love, nay fill it up 3 
 And mingled caft into the Cup, 
 
 Wit , and Mirth , and noble Fires , 
 Vigorous Health , and gay Defires . 
 
 The Wheel of Life no lefs will ftay 
 In a fmooih than rugged way. 
 
 Since it equally doth flee, 
 
 Let the Motion pleafant be. 
 
 Why do we precious Oyntments fnower, 
 Nobler Wines why do we pour, 
 
 Beauteous L lowers why do we fpread. 
 
 Upon the Monuments of the Dead ? 
 Nothing they but Dufi can (how, 
 
 Or Bones that haften to be fo. 
 
 Crown 
 
MISCELLANIES. J7 
 
 Crown me with Rofes whileft 1 Live , 
 
 Now your Wines and Oyntments give. 
 
 After Death I nothing crave, 
 
 Let me Alive my pleafures have, 
 
 All are Stoickj in the Grave. 
 
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 T he Qr a (hopper. 
 
 H Appy Infeed ^ what can be 
 
 In happinefs Gompar d to Thee .<* 
 
 Fed with nourifliment Divine, 
 
 The dewy Mornings gentle Wine ! 
 
 Nature waits upon thee ftill, 
 
 And thy verdant Cup does fill } 
 
 * * is fill’d wher ever thou doft tread, 
 
 Nature felPs thy Ganymed. 
 
 Thun doft drink, and dance, and fing 5 
 Happier than the happieft King ! 
 
 All the bields which thou doft fee, 
 
 All the Plants belong to Thee , 
 
 All that Summer Hours produce, 
 
 Fertile m^de with early juice. 
 
 Man for thee does fow and plow 5 
 Farmer He. and Landlord Thou ! 
 
 Thou doft innocently joy 5 
 Nor does thy Luxury deftroy $ 
 
 The Shepherd gladly heareth thee, 
 
 More Harmonious than He. 
 
 Thee Country Hinds with gladnefs hear, 
 Prophet of the ripened Year! 
 
 Thee Phoebus loves, and doesinfpire^ 
 
 Phoebus is himfelf thy Sire. 
 
 To thee of all things upon Earth, 
 
 Life is no longer than thy Mirth. 
 
 Happy Infe&, happy Thou, 
 
 Doft neither Age, nor Winter know. 
 
 But when thou’ft drunk, and danc’d, and fung 
 Thy fill, the flowry Leaves among 
 ( [Voluptuous , and Wife withal, 
 
 Epicures Animal!') 
 
 Satiated with thy Summer Feafi , 
 
 Thou retir’ft to endlefs Reff. 
 
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 The Swallow. 
 
 F Oolifh Prater , what doft thou 
 So early at my Window do 
 With thy tunelefi Serenade .<? 
 
 Well ’t bad been had Tereus made 
 Thee as Dumb as Philomel 5 
 There his Knife had done but well. 
 
 In thy undifcover’d Neft 
 Thou doft all the Winter reft, 
 
 And dreameft o’r thy Summer joys 
 Free from the ftormy feafons noife : 
 
 Free from th’ 111 thou’ft done to me 5 
 Who difturbs or feeks out Thee .<? 
 
 Had’ft thou all the charming Notes 
 Of the Woods Poetic 4 Throat s 9 
 All thy Arts could never pay 
 What thou’ft ta’n from me away. 
 
 Cruel Bird , thou ft ta n away 
 A Dream out of my arms to day, 
 
 A Dream that ne’r muft equall’d be 
 By all that waking Eyes may fee. 
 
 Thou this damage to repair, 
 
 Nothing half fo fweet or fair. 
 
 Nothing half fo good can’ft bring, 
 Though men fay, Ihon bring ft the Spring. 
 
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E L EG I E 
 
 UPON 
 
 ANACREON 
 
 Who was choaked by a Grap e-S tone. 
 
 Spoken by the God of Love. 
 
 H OW (hall I lament thine end, 
 
 My beft Servant , and my Friend £ 
 
 Nay, and if from a Deity 
 So much Deified as I, 
 
 It found not too prophane and odd. 
 
 Oh my A lafier, and my God ! 
 
 For ’tis true moft mighty Poet, 
 
 (Though I like not Men (hould know it) 
 
 I am in naked Nature lefs, 
 
 Lefs by much than in thy Drefs. 
 
 All thy Verle is fofter far 
 Than the downy Feathers are 
 Of my Wings, or of my Arrows, 
 
 Of my Mothers Doves or Sparrows. 
 
 Sweet as Lovers frefheft hfijfis. 
 
 Or their riper following Blifles, 
 
 Graceful, cleanly, fmooth and round, 
 
 All with Venus Girdle bound. 
 
 And thy Life was all the while 
 Kind and gentle as thy Stile. 
 
 The fmooth-pac’d Hours of ev’ry day 
 Glided numeroufly away. 
 
 Like thy Verfe each Hour did pafs, 
 
 Sweet and (hort, like that it was. 
 
 Some do but their Youth allow me, 
 
 Juft what they by Nature owe me, 
 
 The Time that’s mine, and not their own^ 
 
 The certain Tribute of my Crown $ 
 
 When they grow old, they grow to be 
 Too bujie, or too wife for me. 
 
 Thou wert wifer, and did’ft know 
 None too wifi for Love can grow. 
 
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 MISCELLANIES, 
 
 Love was with thy Life entwin’d 
 Clofe as Heat with Fire is joyn’d, 
 
 A powerful Brand prefcrib’d the date 
 Of thine, like Meleagers Fate. 
 
 Th’ Antiperiftafis of Age 
 More endara’d thy amorous rage, 
 
 Thy fiver Hairs yielded me more 
 Than even golden Curls before. 
 
 Had 1 the power of Creation , 
 
 As 1 have of Generation , 
 
 Where I the matter rnuft obey, 
 
 And cannot work Plate out of Clay, 
 
 My Creatures (hould be all like Thee, 
 
 ’Tis Thou (hould’ft their Idea be, 
 
 They like Thee, fhould throughly hate 
 Bus’inefs, Honour, Title, State. 
 
 Other wealth they (hould not know 
 But what my Living Mines beftow 3 
 The pomp of Kings they (hould confefs 
 At their Crownings to be lefs 
 Than a Lover’s humbled: guife, 
 
 When at his Mijlrefs feet he lies. 
 
 Rumour they no more (hould mind 
 Than Men fafe*landed do the Wind , 
 
 Wifdom it (elf they (hould not hear 
 When it prefumes to be Severe . 
 
 Beauty alone they (hould admire 3 
 Nor look at Fortunes vain attire 5 
 Nor ask what Parents it can (hew 3 
 With Dead or Old’t has nought to do. 
 
 They (hould not love yet All or Any , 
 
 But very Much and very Many. 
 
 All their Life (hould gilded be 
 With Mirth, and Wit, and Gayety, 
 
 Well remembring, and Applying 
 The Necejjity of Dying. 
 
 Their chearful Heads (hould always wear 
 All that crowns the dowry year. 
 
 They (hould always laugh, andfing, 
 
 And dance, and (trike th 1 harmonious (tring. 
 Verfe (hould from their Tongue fo dow. 
 
 As if it in the Mouth did grow , 
 
 As fwiftly anfwering their Command, 
 
 As tunes obey the artful Hand. 
 
 And whilft 1 do thus difcover 
 Th’ingredients of a happy Lover, 
 
 Tis my Anacreon , for thy fake, 
 
 1 of the Grape no mention make. 
 
 Till my Anacreon by thee fell. 
 
 Cur fd Plant, l lov’d thee well, 
 
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 And *twas ’oft my wanton ufe 
 To dip my Arrows in thy juice. 
 
 Curfed Plant, ’tis true l fee, 
 
 Th’ old report that goes of Thee, 
 
 That with Grants blood the Earth 
 Stain’d and poys’ned gave thee birth, 
 
 And now thou wreakft thy ancient fpight 
 Oil Men in whom the Gods delight. 
 
 Thy Patron Bacchus, ’tis no wonder. 
 
 Was brought forth in Flames and Thunder 3 
 In rage, in quarrels, and in fights, 
 
 Worfe than his Tygers he delights 3 
 In all our Heav’n I think there be 
 No fuch ill- natur* d God as He. 
 
 Thou pretendeft, Tra/trous Wine, 
 
 To be the Mufes friend and Mine. 
 
 With hove and Wit thou doft begin, 
 
 Falfe Fires , alas, to draw us in. 
 
 Which, if our courfe we by them keep, 
 Mifguide to Madnefs, or to Sleep . 
 
 Sleep were well 3 thou’haft learnt a way 
 To Death it felf now to betray. 
 
 It grieves me when I fee what Fate 
 Does on the beft of Mankind wait. 
 
 Poets or Lovers let them be, 
 
 ’Tis neither Love nor Poefie 
 
 Can arm againft Deaths fmalleft dart 
 
 The Poets Head , or Lovers Heart. 
 
 But when their Life in its decline, 
 
 Touches th’ Inevitable Line , 
 
 All the World's Mortal to ’em then. 
 
 And Wine is Aconite to men. 
 
 Nay in Death* s hand the Grape Jlone proves 
 As ftrong as Thunder is in Jove's. 
 
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 I * Have often wilht to love 3 what (hall I do ? 
 Me ftill the cruel Boy does [pare 3 
 And I a double taske rauft bear, 
 
 Firft to woo him , and then a Miftrejs too. 
 Come at laft and ftrike for (hame 3 
 If thou art any thing befides a name 3 
 I’ll think Thee elfe no God to be 3 
 But Poets rather Gods , who firft created Thee , 
 
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 I ask not one in whom all Beauties grow, 
 
 Let me but love , whate’r (he be, 
 
 She cannot feem deform d to me 5 
 And I would have her feem to others fo. 
 
 Defire takes wings, and ftraight does fly. 
 
 It ftays not dully to enquire the Why» 
 
 That Happy thing a Lover grown, 
 l (hall not fee with ethers Eyes, fcarce with mine own* 
 
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 IF the he coy and fcorn my noble fire. 
 
 If her chill heart I cannot move, 
 
 Why I’ll enjoy the very Love, 
 
 And make a Miftrefs of my own Defire. 
 
 Flames their moft vigorous heat do hold, 
 
 And pureft light, if compafs'd round mxhcold: 
 
 So when (harp Winter means moft harm, 
 
 The fpringmg Plants are by ihzSnow it felf kept warm. 
 
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 But do not touch my heart, and fo be gone 5 
 Strike deep thy burning Arrows in : 
 
 Lukywarmnefs I account a fin, 
 
 As great in Love , as in Religion. 
 
 Come arm’d with flames, for I would prove 
 All the extremities of mighty Love. 
 
 Th’ excels of heat is but a Fable 5 
 We know the torrid Zone is now found habitable . 
 
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 Among the Woods and Forefts thou art found, 
 
 There Bores and Lions thou deft tame 3 
 Is not my heart a nobler Game ? 
 
 Let Ventts, Men 3 and Bealls, Diana wound. 
 
 Thou doeft the Birds thy Subje&s make 5 
 Thy nimble Feathers do their wings o’rtake 3 
 Thou all the Spring their Songs doft hear, 
 
 Make me Love too, I’ll [mg to’thee all the Tear. 
 
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 What fervice can mute fifhes do to Thee ? 
 
 Yet againft them thy Dart prevails, 
 
 Piercing the Armour of their Scales 3 
 And ftill thy Sea-born Mother lives i’th’ Sea. 
 
 Doft thou deny only to me 
 The no-great priviledge of Captivitie 
 I beg or challenge here thy Bow 3 
 Either thy pity to me, or elfe thine anger (how. 
 
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 Come 3 or I’ll teach the World to fcorn that Bow: 
 
 1*11 teach them thoufand wholfom Arts 
 Both to refift and cure thy Darts, 
 
 More than thy skilful Ovid e’r did know. 
 
 of Sighs thou (halt not hear, 
 
 Nor drink one wretched Lovers tafteful Tear : 
 
 Nay, unlefs loon thou woundeft me, 
 
 My Verfes (hall not only wound, but mnrther Thee. 
 

 The MISTRESS . 
 
 The Thraldom. 
 
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 I Came, I flaw , and was undone 5 
 
 Lightning did through my bones and marrow run 5 
 A pointed pain pierc’d deep my heart, 
 
 A fwift, cold trembling feiz’d on every part 3 
 
 My head turn’d round, nor could it bear 
 The Poifon that was enter'd there. 
 
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 So a Defiroying Angels breath 
 Blows in the Plague and with it hafty Death. 
 
 Such was the pain, did fo begin 
 To the poor wretch, when Legion entred in. 
 
 Forgive me, God , I cry’d 5 for I 
 Flatter'd my feif I was to die. 
 
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 But quickly to my Coft I found, 
 
 ’Twas cruel Love> not Death had made the wound 
 Death a more generous rage does ufe 3 
 Quarter to all he conquers does refute. 
 
 Whilft Love with barbarous mercy (aves 
 The vanquilht lives to make them flaves. 
 
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 l am tby Slave then 3 let me know, 
 
 Hard Mafter , the great task I have to do .* 
 
 Who pride and fcorn do undergo, 
 
 In Tempefts and rough Seas , thy Galleys row 3 
 
 They pant and groan, and (igh, but find 
 Their fighs encreafe the angry wind. 
 
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 Like an Egyptian Tyrant , fome 
 Thou wearied out, in building but a Tomb. 
 
 Others with fad and tedious art, 
 
 Labour i’th 5 Quarries of a flony Heart 5 
 Of all the works thou doft affign, 
 
 To all the feveral (laves of thine, 
 
 Employ me, mighty Love , to dig the Mine. 
 
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 The (j inert Lone. 
 
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 I 'LL on 3 for what fhould hinder me 
 F rom Loving , and Enjoying Thee ? 
 
 Thou canft not thofe exceptions make, 
 
 Whirh vulgar fordid Mortals take, 
 
 That my Fates too mean and low 3 
 Twere pity I (hould love theefo, 
 
 If that dull caufe could hinder me 
 In Loving , and Enjoying thee. 
 
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 It does not me a whit difpleafe* 
 
 That the rich all honours feize 3 
 That you all Titles make your own, 
 
 Are Valiant , Learned , Wife alone. 
 
 But if you claim or Women too 
 The power which over Men ye do 3 
 If you alone muft Lovers be 3 
 For that, Sirs, you muft pardon me. 
 
 Rather than lofe what does fo near 
 
 Concern my Life and Being here, 
 
 FU fome fuch crooked wayes invent. 
 
 As you, or your Fore-Fathers went : 
 
 I’ll flatter or oppofethe King , 
 
 T urn Puritan , or Any thing 3 
 
 I’ll foice my Mind to Arts fo new : 
 
 Grow Rich , and Love as well as Ton. 
 
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 But rather thus let me remain. 
 
 As man in Paradife did reign 3 
 When perfedt Love did fo agree 
 With Innocence and Povertie. 
 
 Adam did no Joynture give, 
 
 Kimfelf was Joynture to his Eve : 
 
 Untoucbt with Av’arice, yet or Pride, 
 
 The Rib came freely back to’s fide. 
 
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 A curfe upon the man who taught 
 Women, that Love was to be bought 5 
 
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 Rather dote only on your Gold 3 
 And that with greedy avarice hold 5 
 For if Woman too fubmit 
 To that, and fell her felf for it. 
 
 Fond Lover, you a Miftrefs have 
 Of her, that’s but your F ellow-flave . 
 
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 What fhould thofe Poets mean of old 
 That made their God to woo in Gold ? 
 Of all men fure they had no caufe 
 To bind Love to fuch coftly Laws 3 
 And yet I fcarcely blame them now 3 
 For who, alas, would not allow, 
 
 That Women (hould fuch gifts receive, 
 Could They, as He, Be what They give? 
 
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 If thou, my Dear, Thy felf fhould’ft prize, 
 Alas, what value would fuffice ? 
 
 The Spaniard could not do’t, though he 
 Should to both Indies joynture thee. 
 
 Thy beauties therefore wrong will take, 
 
 If thou (houldft any bargain make 3 
 To give All will befit thee well 3 
 But not at Under-rates to fell, 
 
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 Beftow thy Beauty then on me. 
 
 Freely , as Nature gavet to Thee 3 
 Tis an exploded PopifJ) thought 
 To think that Heaven may be bought. 
 Prayers , Hymns , and Praifes are the way 5 
 And thofe my thankful Mufe (hall pay 3 
 Thy Body in my verfe enfhrin’d 
 Shall grow immortal as thy Mind. 
 
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 I’ll fix thy title next in fame 1 
 
 To Sachariffas well-fung name. 
 
 So faithfully will I declare 
 What all thy wondrous beauties are, 
 
 That when at the laft great Ajfife 
 All Women (hall together rife, 
 
 Men ftraight (hall caft their eyes on Thee 
 And know at firfi that Thou art Jhe . 
 
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 The Spring. 
 
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 T Hough you be abfent here, I needs muft fay 
 
 The Trees as beauteous are, and Flowers as gay 
 As ever they were wont to be 5 
 Nay the Birds rural Mufick too 
 Is as melodious and free, 
 
 As if they fung to pleafure you : 
 
 I faw a Rofe-bud ope this Morn } I’ll fwear 
 The bluftiing Morning open’d not more fair. 
 
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 How could it be fo fair, and you away .> 
 
 How could the Trees be beauteous, Flowers fo gay } 
 Could they remember but laft year. 
 
 How you did Them, They you delight. 
 
 The fprouting leaves which faw you here, 
 
 And call’d their Fellows to the fight. 
 
 Would, looking round for the fame fight in vain. 
 Creep back into their filent Barks again. 
 
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 Where e’ryou walk’d, Trees were as reverent made. 
 As when of old Gods dwelt in every (hade. 
 
 Is’t poffible they (hould not know, 
 
 What lofs of honour they fuftain. 
 
 That thus they fmile and flourifh now, 
 
 And ftill their former pride retain 5 
 Dull Creatures! ’tisnot without Gaufe that (he. 
 
 Who fled the God of Wit, was made a Tree . 
 
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 In ancient times fure they much wifer were, 
 
 When they rejoyc’d the Thracian Verfe to hear 5 
 In vain did Nature bid them flay, 
 
 When Orphests had his Song begun, 
 
 They call’d their wondring roots away. 
 
 And bad them filent to him run. 
 
 How would thofe learned Trees have follow’d you ? 
 You would have drawn Them, and their Poet too. 
 
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 But who can blame them now >for fince you’re gone, 
 
 They’re here the only Fair , and Shine alone. 
 
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The Ml S I K E S S. 
 
 Yoa did their Natural Rights invade , 
 Whereever you did walk or fit, 
 
 The thickeft Boughs could make no fiacle, 
 Although the Snn had granted it : 
 
 The faireft Flowers could pleafe no more, near you, 
 Than Painted Flowers let next to them, could do. 
 
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 When e’r then you come hither, that fball be 
 The time, which this to others is, to Me. 
 
 The little joys which here are now, 
 
 The name of Punifhments do bear $ 
 
 When by their fight they let us know 
 How we depriv’d of greater are. 
 
 Tis you the beft of Seafens with you bring 3 
 This is for Beafis , and that lor men the Spring. 
 
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 W Hileft what I write I do not fee, 
 
 l dare thus, even to yon , write Poetrie. 
 Ah foolifh Mufe, which doll: fo high alpirc, 
 
 And know’ft her judgment well 
 How much it does thy power excell, 
 
 Yet dar’ft be read by, thy juft doom, the Fire . 
 
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 Alas, thou think'ft thy felf fecure, 
 
 Becaufs thy form is Innocent and Pure : 
 
 Like Hypocrites , which feem unfpotted here 5 
 But when they fadly come to dye, 
 
 And thelaft Fire their Truth muft try, 
 Scrawl'd o’r like thee, and blotted they appear. 
 
 Go then, but reverently go, 
 
 And lince thou needs muft fin, confefs it too : 
 Confefs’t, and with humility clothe thy ihame 3 
 For thou who elfe muft burned be 
 An Heretic if (he pardon thee, 
 
 May’ft like a Martyr then enjoy the Flame. 
 
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 But if her wifdom growlevere, 
 
 And fuffer not htvgoodnefs to be there 5 
 
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 If her large mercies cruelly it reftrain 3 
 Be not difcourag’d, but require 
 A more gentle Ordeal Fire , 
 
 And bid her by Loves-F lames read it again. 
 
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 Strange power of heat, thou yet doft (how 
 Like winter Earth, naked, or cloatFd with Snow. 
 But as the quickning Sun approaching near, 
 
 The Plants a rife up by degrees, 
 
 A fudden paint adorns the trees, 
 
 And all kind Natures Char afters appear : 
 
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 So, nothing yet in Thee is feen, 
 
 But when a Genial heat warms thee within, 
 
 A new-born Word of various Lines there grows 3 
 Here buds an A, and there a B, 
 
 Here fprouts a V, and there a T, 
 
 And all the flourifhing Letters Band in Rows. 
 
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 Still, filly Paper, thou wilt think 
 That all this might as well be writ with Ink. 
 
 Oh no 3 there’s tenfein this, and Myjierie 3 
 
 Thou now may’ft change thy Authors name. 
 And to her Hand lay noble claim 3 
 For a ^ She reads , (he makes the words in Thee. 
 
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 Yet if thine own unworthinefs 
 Will (till, that thou art mine, not Hers confefs 3 
 Confume thy felf with Fire before her Eyes, 
 
 And fo her Grace or Pity move 3 
 The Gods though Beafls they do not love, 
 Yet like them when they’re burnt in Sacrifice. 
 
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 F ive years ago (fays Story ) I lov’d you, 
 
 For which you call me moft Inconjiant now 3 
 Pardon me, Mad am, you miftake the Man 3 
 For I am not the fame that I was than 3 
 No Flefh is now the fame ’twas then in Me, 
 
 And that my Mind is chang’d your felf may fee. 
 
 The fame Thoughts to retain ftil), and Intents , 
 
 Were more inconftant far 3 for Accidents 
 
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 The M i S l RES S. 
 
 Muft of all things moft ftrangely dnconjiant prove, 
 
 If from on tSubjeft they t’another move j 
 My Member j then, the bather Members were, 
 
 From whence Thefe take their birth, which now arc here. 
 If then this Body love what th’ other did, 
 
 ’Twere Incefi $ which by Nature is forbid. 
 
 You might as well this Day inconftant name, 
 
 Becaule the H eather is not (till the fame, 
 
 That it was yefterday ; or blame the Tear , 
 
 ’Caufe the Spring , Flowers 5 and Autumn, Fruits does bear. 
 The IP or Id's a Scene of Changes , and to be 
 Conftant , in Nature were In conflande 3 
 For’twere to break the Laws her (elf has made : 
 
 Our Sub fiances themfelves do fleet and fade } 
 
 The moft fixt Being ftill does move and fly. 
 
 Swift as the wings of Time ’tis mealur d by. 
 
 T imagine then that Love (hould never ceafe 
 a ove which is but the Ornament of thefe) 
 
 Were quite as fenflefs, as to wonder why 
 Beauty and Colour ftay not when we dy. 
 
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 Not Fair. 
 
 ’’ I 'IS very true, I thought you once as fair, 
 
 1 As women in th’ Idea are, 
 
 Whatever here fetms beauteous, feem’d to be 
 But a faint Metaphor o {Thee. 
 
 But then (methoughts) there fomething (hind within 
 Which caft this Luftre or thy skin. 
 
 Nor could I chufe but count that the Suns Light 
 Which made this Cloud appear fo bright * 
 
 But fince I knew thy falfhood and thy pride 
 And all thy thoufand faults befide 5 ’ 
 
 A very Moor (methinks) plac’d near to Thee, 
 
 White as his Teeth , would feem to be* 
 
 So men (they fay) by Hells delufions led 
 Have ta’n a Sue cubus to their Bed 5 
 Believe it fair, and themfelves happy call, 
 
 Till the cleft Foot difeovers all ; 
 
 Then they ftart from’t, halfG&yfr themfelves with fear a 
 A nd Devil , as us, it doth appear. 
 
 So fince againft my will I found Thee foul , 
 
 Deform’d and crooked in thy Soul,' 
 
 My reafon ftraight did to my Senfes fhew, * 
 
 That they might be miftaken too : 
 
 Nay when the world but knows how falfe you are 
 There’s not a man will think you fair. 
 
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 Thy (Tape will monftrous in their fancies be, 
 They’ll call their Eyes as falle as Thee. 
 
 But what thou wilt} Hate will prefent thee fo, 
 As Puritans do the Pope , and Papijis Luther do. 
 
 Platonick Lo\e . 
 
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 I Ndeed I muft confefs, 
 
 When &>//// mix’tis an Happinefs 5 
 But not compleat till Bodies too combine, 
 
 And cltfely as our minds together join. 
 
 But half of Heaven the Souls in glory taft. 
 
 Till by Love in Heaven at laft, 
 
 Their Bodies too are plac’r. 
 
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 In thy immortal part 
 Man, as well as 1, thou art. 
 
 But fomething ’tis that differs 7 bee and Me $ 
 
 And we muft one even in that Difference be. 
 
 I Thee, both as a man, and woman prize 5 
 For a perfedt Love implies 
 Love in all Capacities. 
 
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 Can that for true love pafs 
 When a fair Woman courts her Glafe > 
 Something unlike muft in Loves likenefs be, 
 
 His wonder is, one, and Varietie . 
 
 For he, whofe Soul nought but a Soul can move, 
 Does a new Narciffus prove, 
 
 And his own Image love. 
 
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 That Souls do beauty know, 
 
 ’ Fis to the Bodies help they owe } 
 
 If when they know’t, they ftraight abufe that truft, 
 And lliut the Body from’t, *tis as unjuft, 
 
 As if I brought my deareft Friend to fee 
 My Mi ft reft, and at th* inftant He 
 Should fteal her quite from Me. 
 
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The Change. 
 
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 L Ove in her Sunny eyes does basking play 5 
 Love walks the pleafant Mazes of her Hairs 
 Love does on both her lips for ever ftray 5 
 And fom and reaps a thoufand ktffes there. 
 
 In all her outward parts Loves always feen 5 
 But, Oh, He never went within. 
 
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 Within Loves Foes, his greateft Foes abide, 
 
 Malice, Inconstancy, and Pride. 
 
 So the Earths face. Trees, Herbs, and Flowers do drefs, 
 With other beauties numberlefs: 
 
 But at the Center , Darknefs is, and Hell 3 
 
 There wicked Spirit /, and there the Damned dwell 
 
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 With me, alas, quite contrary it fares 3 
 Darknefs and Death lies in my weeping eyes, 
 
 Defpair and Palenefs in my face appears, 
 
 And Grief and Fear, Love’s greateft Enemies 3 
 But, like the Perfian Tyrant , Love within 
 
 Keeps his proud Court , and ne’r is feen. 
 
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 Oh take my hearty and by that means you’ll prove 
 Within tooftor’d enough of Love: 
 
 Give me but Yours, I’ll by that change fo thrive, 
 
 That Love in all my parts (hall live. 
 
 So powerful is this Change, it render can 
 My outfide Woman , and your infide Man . 
 
 
 Clad all in White. 
 
 F Aireft thing thatfhines below, 
 
 Why in this Robe doft thou appear .<? 
 
 Would ft thou a white moft perfect (how, 
 
 Thou muft at all no garment wear : 
 
 Thou wilt feem much whiter fo, 
 
 Than Winter when ’tis clad with fuow. 
 
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 Tis not the Linnen (hews fo fair : 
 
 Her skin (hines through, and makes it bright j 
 So Clouds themfelves like Suns appear, 
 
 When the Sun pierces them with Light .* 
 
 So Lilies inaGlafs enclofe, 
 
 The Glafs will feem as white as thofe. 
 
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 Thou now one heap of beauty art 5 
 Nought outwards, or within is foul : 
 Condenfed beams make every part 5 
 Thy Body s Clothed like thy Soul. 
 
 Thy Soul, which does it felf difplay, 
 Like a Star plac’d i’th’ Millie way. 
 
 Such Robes the Saints departed wear, 
 Woven all with Light Divine 5 
 Such their exalted Bodies are, 
 
 And with fuch full Glory Chine. 
 
 But they regard not Mortals pain 5 
 Men pray , I fear, to both in vain. 
 
 Yet feeing thee fo gently pure, 
 
 My hopes will needs continue ft ill 5 
 Thou would ft not take this Garment fure, 
 When thou hadft an intent to kill. 
 
 Of Peace and yielding who would doubt, 
 When the white Flag he fees hung out .<? 
 
 
 
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 LeaVmv Me, and then LoVmg Many. 
 
 
 
 S O Men, who once have caft the Truth away, 
 Forfook by God , do ftrange wild lufts obey 5 
 So the vain Gentiles , when they left t’ adore 
 One Deity , could not flop at thoufands more. 
 
 Their Zeal wasfenfelefs ftraight and boundleft grow ? n 
 They worfhipt many a Beaji^ and many a Stone. 
 
 Ah fair Apojlate ! couldft thou think to flee 
 From Truth and Goodnefs , yet keep Unitie } ~ 
 
 I reign’d alone } and my bleft Self could call 
 The Univerfal Monarch of her All. 
 
 Mine, mine her fair Eafi Indies were above, 
 
 Where thofe Suns rife that chearthe world of Love 5 
 
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 Where beauties fhine like Gems of richeft price 5 
 Where Coral grows, and every breath is [pice : 
 Mine too her rich Weft- Indies were below, 
 Where Mines of gold and endlefs treafures grow. 
 But, as when the Pelican Conquerour dy’d, 
 
 Many fmall Princes did his Crown divide; 
 
 So, fince my Love his vanquifht world forfook, 
 Murther’d by poyfons from her fallhood took, 
 
 An hundred petty Kings claim each their part, 
 And rend that glorious Empire of her Heart. 
 
 My Heart Difcovered. 
 
 X_TER body is fo gently bright, 
 
 ¥~\ Clear and tranfparent to the fight, 
 ^Clear as fair Cryftial to the view, 
 
 Yet foft as that, e’re Stone it grew, ) 
 
 That through her flefh, methinks, is feen 
 The brighter SohI that dwells within : 
 
 Our eyes the fubtile covering pals, 
 
 And fee that Lily through its Glafs. 
 
 I through her Breaft her Heart efpy, 
 
 As Souls in Heatrs do Souls delcry, 
 
 I feet with gentle Motions beat 3 
 I fee Light m t, but find no Heat. 
 
 Within, like Angels in the sky, 
 
 A thoufan d gilded thoughts do fly; 
 Thoughts of bright and nobleft kind, 
 
 Fair and chaft, as Mother-Mind. 
 
 But, oh, what other Heart is there, 
 
 Which fighs and crouds to hers fo neer ? 
 Tis all on flame, and does like fire , 
 
 To that, as to its Heaven , afpire, 
 
 The wounds are many in’t and deep 5 
 Still does it bleed, and ftill does weep. 
 Whofe ever wretched heart it be, 
 
 I cannot chufe but grieve to fee 3 
 What pity in my Breaft does raign ? 
 Methinks I feel too all its pain. 
 
 So torn, and fo defac’d it lies, 
 
 That it could ne’re be known by th’ eyes 3 
 But, oh, at laft I heard it grone, 
 
 And knew by th’ Voyce that twas mine own. 
 So poor Alcione , when the faw 
 A (hipwrackt body tovv’ards her draw 
 Beat by the Waves, let fall a Tear, 
 
 Which only then did Pity wear : 
 
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 But when the Corps on (bore were cad, 
 
 Which (he her Husband found at lad 5 
 What (hould the wretched Widow do ? 
 
 Grief chang’d her ftraight , away (he flew, 
 Turn’d to a Bird : and fo at lad (hall I, 
 
 Both from my Murtherd Htart , and Murth'rer fly. 
 
 Anjwer to the Tlatonicks. 
 
 S O Angels love } fo let them love for me $ 
 
 When Tarn all foul , fuch (hall my Love too be: 
 Who nothing here but like a Spirit would do, 
 
 In a lhort time (believ’t) will one too: 
 
 But (hall our Love do what in Beads we (ee ? 
 
 E ven Bealls eat too, but not fo well as We. 
 
 And you as juft ly might in third rtfufe 
 The ufe of Wine, becaufe Beajls Water ufe: 
 
 They tafte thofe pleafures as they do their food 5 
 Dndrefi they tak’t, devour it raw and crude : 
 
 But to us Men , Love Cooky it at his fire, 
 
 And adds the poignant fawce of (harp defire. 
 
 Beads do the fame : ’tis true j but ancient fame 
 Says, Gods themfelves turn’d Beajls to do the fame. 
 The Thunderer , who, without the Female bed. 
 Could Goddejfes bring forth from out his head , 
 Chofe rather Mortals this way to create $ 
 
 So much he’tfteeme’d his pleafure , ’bove his Jlate. 
 
 Ye talk of Fires which (hine, but never burn 5 
 In this cold world they’ll hardly ferve our turn 5 
 As ufelefs to defpairing Lovers grown, 
 
 As Lambent flames , to men i*th* Frigid Zone. 
 
 The Sun does his pure fires on earth beftow 
 With nuptial warmth, to bring forth things below ; 
 Such is Loves nobleft and divined heat. 
 
 That warms like his, and does, like his, beget. 
 
 Lujl you call this , a name to yours more juft. 
 
 If an Inordinate Dejire be Luji : 
 
 Pygmalion , loving what none can enjoy, 
 
 More lujlful was, than the hot youth of Troy . 
 
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 The Vain Love. 
 
 
 
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 Loving one firjl becaufe fie could could love no bod ) , afterwards 
 
 loving her with defire . 
 
 W Hat new-found Witchcraft was in thee, 
 
 With thine own Cold to kindle Me C 
 Strange art ! like him that fhould devife 
 To make a Lurning-Glajs of Ice $ 
 
 When Winter fo, the Plants would harm. 
 
 Her [now it felf does keep them warm 5 
 Fool that t was ! who having found 
 A rich, and funny Diamond , 
 
 Admir’d the hardnefs of the Stone , 
 
 But not the Light with which it Ihone : 
 
 Your brave and haughty fcorn of all 
 Was ftately, and Monarchical. 
 
 All Gentlenefs with that eftecm’d 
 A dull and Jlavifi virtue teem’d 5 
 Should ft thou have yielded then to me, 
 
 Thoud’ft loft what I moft lov’d in thee 5 
 For who would frve one, whom he fees 
 That he can Conquer if he pleafe } 
 
 It far’d with me, as if a fiave 
 In Triumph led, that does perceive 
 With what a gay majeftick pride 
 His Conqueror through the ftreets does ride, 
 
 Should be contented with his wo, 
 
 Which makes up fuch a comly fiow . 
 
 I fought not from thee a return, 
 
 But without Hopes or Fears did burn 5 
 My Covetous Pajfion did approve 
 The Hoor cling up, not Z)fe of Love. 
 
 My Love a kind of Dream was grown, 
 
 A Foolifi , but a Pleafant one : 
 
 From which I’m wakened now, but, oh, 
 
 Pri [oners to dye are wakened fo. 
 
 For now th* FffCts of Loving are 
 Nothing, but Longings with defpair. 
 
 Dejpair , whofe torments no men fure, 
 
 But Lovers , and the Damn'd endure. 
 
 Her fcorn I doted once upon, 
 
 111 ObjcCt for Ajfettion , 
 
 But fince, alas, too much tis prov’d, 
 
 That yet ’twas fomething that I lov’d 5 
 
 Now 
 
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 The ML STRESS. 
 
 Now my defires are worfe, and fly 
 At an Impojfibility : 
 
 Defires, which whilft fo high they (oar, 
 Are Proud as that l lov’d before. 
 
 What Lover can like me complain. 
 
 Who firft lovd vainly , next in vain ! 
 
 7 he Soul. 
 
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 i. 
 
 I F mine Eyes do e’re declare 
 
 They have feen a fecond thing that’s fair 5 
 Or Ears , that they have Muftck L found, 
 
 Belides thy Voice , in any Sound 3 
 If my Taft do ever meet, 
 
 After thy Kifs , with ought that’s Jweet$ 
 
 If my 'abufed Touch allow 
 
 Ought to be fmooth , or foft i but Ton 5 
 
 If, what fealonable Springs, 
 
 Or the Eaftern Summer brings, 
 
 Do my Smell perfwade at all. 
 
 Ought Perfume , but thy Breath to call 3 
 If all my ftnfes Objeffs be 
 Not controlled into Thee , 
 
 And fo through Lhee more powerful pals, 
 
 As Beams do through a Burning-Glaji 3 
 If all things that in Nature are. 
 
 Either foft, or fweet, or fair, 
 
 Be not in Thee fo ’ Epitomiz'd , 
 
 That nought material's not compriz’d 3 
 May I as worthlefs feem to Thee 
 As all, but thou , appears to Me . 
 
 • 
 
 2. 
 
 If I ever Anger know, 
 
 Till fome wrong be done to You 3 
 If Gods or Kings my Envy move, 
 
 Without their Crowns crown d by thy Love 3 
 If ever I an Hope admit, 
 
 Without thy Image ftampt on it 3 
 Or any Fear , till I begin 
 To find that You 're concern’d therein 3 
 If a Joy ere come to me, 
 
 That Tafts of any thing but Thee 3 
 If any Sorrow touch my Mind, 
 
 Whilft You are well, and not unwind 3 
 If I a minutes fpace debate, 
 
 Whether I (hall curfe and hate 
 
 
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The MISTRESS. 
 
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 The things beneath thy hatred fall, 
 
 Though all the Worlds My felf and all 3 
 And for Love , if ever I 
 Approach to it again fo nigh, 
 
 As to allow a Toleration 
 To the leaft glimmering Inclination 3 
 If thou alone do’ft not controul 
 All thofe Tyrants of my Soul, 
 
 And to thy Beauties ty’ft them fo. 
 
 That conftant they as Habits grow 3 
 If any Pajfion of my Heart, 
 
 By any force , or any art , 
 
 Be brought to move one ftep from Thee , 
 
 May ft Thou no Pajfion have for Me . 
 
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 If my bufie Imagination , 
 
 Do not Thee in all things fafhion 3 
 So that all fair Species be 
 Hieroglyphic 4 marks of Thee 3 
 If when She her fports does keep 
 ( The lower Soul being all afleep ) 
 
 She play one Dream with all her art, 
 
 Where Thou haft not the longeft part. 
 
 If ought get place in my Remembrance, 
 
 Without fome badge of thy refemblance 3 
 So that thy parts become to me 
 A kind of Art of Memory. 
 
 If my Underftanding do 
 Seek any Knowledge but of You, 
 
 If (he do near thy Body prize 
 Her Bodies' of Philofophies , 
 
 If She to the Will do (how 
 Ought de fir able but You, 
 
 Or if 7 hat would not rebel , 
 
 Should (he another do&rine tell 5 
 If my Will do not refign 
 All her Liberty to thine 3 
 If (he would not follow Thee , 
 
 Though Fate and Thou fhouldft difagree 3 
 And if ( for I a curfe will give, 
 
 Such as (hall force thee to believe ) 
 
 My Soul be not entirely Thine 3 
 May thy dear Body ne’er be Mine, 
 
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 The Tajpons. 
 
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 I. 
 
 Horn Hate, Fear, Hope, Anger, and Envy free, 
 And all the Pajfions elfe that be, 
 
 In vain I boaft of Libertie , 
 
 In vain this State a Freedom call , 
 
 Since I have Love , and Love is all : 
 
 Sot that I am, who think it fit to brag, 
 
 That I have no Difeaje befides the Plague ! 
 
 2 . 
 
 So in a zeal the Sons of Ifrael, 
 
 Sometimes upon their Idols fell 5 
 And they depos’d the powers of Hell, 
 
 Baa/, and Ajiarte down they threw., 
 
 And Accaron and Molock^ too: 
 
 All this iwperfeff Piety did no good, 
 
 Whilft yet, alas, the Calf of Bethel ftood. 
 
 3 - 
 
 Fondly I boaft, that I havedreft my Vine 
 
 With painful art, and that the Wine 
 Is of a taft rich and divine, 
 
 Since Love by mixing Poyfon there, 
 
 Has made it worfe than Vinegere. 
 
 Love even the taft of Neffar changes fo. 
 
 That Gods chufe rather water here below. 
 
 4 * 
 
 Fear, Anger, Hope, all Paffions elfe that be, 
 
 Drive this one Tyrant out of me, 
 
 And pra&ife all your Tyranny. 
 
 The change of ills fome good will do : 
 
 Th* opprefifed wretched Indians fo 
 
 Be’ing flaves by the great Spanifi Monarch made, 
 
 Call in the States of Holland to their aid. 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 T IS mighty Wife that you would now bethought 
 Wiih your grave Rules frommufly Morals brought 
 Through which fume ftreaks too of Divinity ran, 
 Partly of Mon 4, and partly Puritan 5 
 With tedious Repetitions too y’ave tane 
 Often the name ot Vanity in vain. 
 
 Things, which, I take it, friend, you’d ne’re recite, 
 Should (he 1 love, but fay t’you, Come at night. 
 
 The Wifi ft Kwg refus’d all plealures quite. 
 
 Till Wijdom from above did him enlight $ 
 
 But when that gift his ign orance did remove, 
 
 Pleafures he chofe, and plac’d them all in Love . 
 
 And if by event the Counfels may be feen, 
 
 This wifdom *twas that brought the Southern Queen. 
 
 She came not, like a good old Wife , to know 
 The wholefome nature of all Plants that grow : 
 
 Nor did fo far from her own Country rome, 
 
 To cure (call d heads, and broken Chins at home j 
 She came for that, which more befits all Wives , 
 
 The art of Giving , not of Saving Lives. 
 
 The Defy air. 
 
 B Eneath this gloomy (hade, 
 
 By Nature only for my forrows made, 
 
 1 11 fpend this voyce in crys, 
 
 In tears I’ll wafte thefe eyes 
 By Love fo vainly fed $ 
 
 So Luji of old the Deluge puniihed. 
 
 Ah wretched youth ! (aid I, 
 
 Ah wretched youth ! twice did I fadly cry : 
 
 Ah wretched youth ! the fields and floods reply, 
 
 2. 
 
 When thoughts of Love I entertain, 
 
 I meet no words but Never , and In vain. 
 Never (alas) that dreadful name 
 Which fewels the infernal name : 
 
 
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 The MISTRESS. 
 
 Never , my time to come muft wafte , 
 
 In vain , torments the prefent, and the paft. 
 
 In vain , ;# vain , raid i 5 
 2/47*7, 7« 2/47« / twice did I fadly cry 5 
 In vain , 7# vain 5 the fields and floods reply. 
 
 3 - 
 
 No more (hall fields or floods do fo 5 
 For I to (hades more dark and filent go : 
 
 All this worlds noife appears to me 
 
 A dull ill-a&ed Comedy : 
 
 No comfort to my wounded fight, 
 
 In the Suns bufie and impertinent Light. 
 
 Then down I laid my head 5 
 Down on cold earth 5 and for a while was dead , 
 And my freed Soul to a flrange Somewhere fled. 
 
 4 - 
 
 Ah fottifti Soul 3 faid I, 
 
 When back to 'its Cage again I faw it fly 5 
 
 Fool to refume her broken Chain / 
 
 And row her Galley here again ! 
 
 Fool, to that body to return 
 Where it condemnd and deftin’d is to burn ! 
 
 Once dead , how can it be, 
 
 Death (hould a thing (o plealant (eem to Thee, 
 
 That thou (houldft come to live it ore again in Me £ 
 
 1. 
 
 W EI 1 then , I now do plainly fee, 
 
 This bufie world and I (hall ne’re agree j; 
 The very Honey of all earthly joy 
 
 Does of all meats the fooneft cloy , 
 
 And they (methinks) defervd my pity, 
 Who for it can endure the flings. 
 
 The Crowd , and B»z, and Murmuring* 
 
 Of this great Hive , the City. 
 
 2. 
 
 Ah, yet, Ere I defeend to th’ Grave 
 May I a / mall Houfe , and large Garden have ! 
 
 And a few Friends , and many Books , both true. 
 Both wife, and both delightful too ! 
 
 And 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 2 
 
 And (ince Love ne’re will from me flee, 
 
 A Miftrefs moderately fair, 
 
 And good as Guardi an- Angels are, 
 
 Only belovd, and loving me ! 
 
 3 * 
 
 Oh, Fountains , when in you lhall I 
 My felf, eas’d of unpeaceful thoughtsefpy > 
 
 Oh Fields! Oh Woods ! when, when (hall I be made 
 The happy Tenant of your (bade ? 
 
 Here’s the Spring*head of Pleafures flood 3 
 Where all the Riches lie, that (he 
 
 Has coyn’d and ftampt for good, 
 
 4 * 
 
 Pride and Ambition here, 
 
 Only in far fetcht Metaphors appear 3 
 Here nought but winds can hurtful Murmtirs fcatter. 
 And nought but Eccho flatter. 
 
 The Gods , when they delcended, hither 
 From Heaven did always chufe their w 7 ay 3 
 And therefore we may boldly fay, 
 
 That ’tis the way too thither. 
 
 5 - 
 
 How happy here (hould I, 
 
 And one dear She live, and embracing dy ? 
 
 She who is all the world, and can exclude 
 In de farts Solitude. 
 
 I fbould have then this only fear. 
 
 Left men, when they my pleafures fee, 
 
 Should hither throng to live like me, 
 
 And fo make a City here. 
 
 My Viet, 
 
 N O W by my Love , the greateft Oath that is. 
 None loves you half fo well as I : 
 f do not ask your Love for this 3 
 But for Heave’ ns fake believe me, or I dye. 
 
 No Servant e’re but did deferve 
 His Mafter (hould believe that he does ferve 3 
 And I’ll ask no more wages , though I flarve , 
 
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 The MISTRESS 
 
 2 . 
 
 ’Tis no luxurious Diet this, and fare 
 
 I diall not by’t too Lufty proves 
 Yet (hall it willingly endure, 
 
 I ft can but keep together Life and Love. 
 
 Being your Phfi'ner and your flave, 
 
 I do not Feafts and Banquets look to have. 
 
 A little Bread and Waters all I crave. 
 
 On a Sigh of Pity l a year can live, 
 
 One Tear will keep me twenty at lead, 
 Fifty a gentle will give 5 
 An hundred years on one kjnd word I’ll fead : 
 
 A thoufand more will added be. 
 
 If you an Inclination have for me 3 
 And all beyond is vaft Eternity. 
 
 1. 
 
 T Hou rob’d: my Days of bus’nefs and delights. 
 Of deep thou rob’d: my Nights 3 
 Ah, lovely Thief wbat wilt thou do } 
 What ? rob me of Heaven too <? 
 
 Thou even my prayers dod deal from me : 
 And I, with wild Idolatry , 
 
 Begin, to God , and end them all, toThee. 
 
 2. 
 
 Is it a Sin to Love, that it (hould thus, 
 
 Like an ill Confcience torture us ? 
 Whate’rel do, wheree’rel go, 
 
 (None Guiltlefs ere was haunted fo) 
 
 Still, dill, methinks thy face I view, 
 
 And dill thy fiape does me purfae, 
 
 As if, not^tf« Me, but I had furthered Ton. 
 
 3 - 
 
 From Book? I drive fame remedy to take, 
 
 But thy Name all the Letters make 3 
 What e’re ’tis writ, I find That there, 
 
 Like Points and Comma's every where 5 
 Me bled for this let no man hold 5 
 For I, as Midits did of old, 
 
 Periff) by turning ev’ry thing to Gold. 
 
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 4 * 
 
 What do I feek, alas, or why do I 
 Attempt in vain from thee to fly ? 
 
 For making thee my Deity , 
 
 I gave thee then Ubiquity . 
 
 My pains refemble Hell in this 5 
 The Divine Prefence there too is, 
 
 But to torment Men, not to give them blifs . 
 
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 All over LoVe . 
 
 Of, 
 
 
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 T I S well, ’tis well with them (fay I) : - 
 
 Whofe (hort-liv’d Pajfions with tbemfelves can dye. 
 For none can be unhappy, who 
 ’Midft all his ills a time does know 
 
 (Though nere fo long) when he (hall not be Co. 
 
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 2 . 
 
 Whatever parts of Me remain, 
 
 Thofe parts will ftill the Love of thee retain 3 
 For ’twas not only in my heart. 
 
 But like a God by pow’rful Art, 
 
 Twas all in all , and all in every Part. 
 
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 My ’ Ajfeftion no more perifli can 
 Than the Firft Matter that compounds a Man. 
 
 Hereafter if one Dufi of Me 
 Mixt with anothers fubftance be, 
 
 Twill Leaven that whole Lump with Love of Thee, 
 
 4 * 
 
 Let Nature if (he pleafe difperfe 
 My Atoms over all the Univerfi 9 
 At the laft they eali’ly (hall 
 Themfelves know, and together call, 
 
 For thy Love , like a Marfa is (lamp’d on all 
 
 M 2 Love 
 
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 Loye and Life . 
 
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 i. 
 
 
 
 N OW Cure within this twelve-month paft, 
 
 Fhave Wd at leaft fome twenty years or more 
 The account of Love runs much more faft 
 Than that, with which our Life does (core : 
 
 So though my Life be fhort , yet I may prove 
 The great Methufalem of Love. 
 
 2 . 
 
 Not that Loves Hours or Minutes are 
 Shorter than thofe our Being's meafur’d by : 
 But they’re more clofe compared far. 
 And fo in lefler room do lye. 
 
 Thin airy things extend themfelves in fpace. 
 Things [olid take up little place. 
 
 Yet Love , alas, and Life in Me, 
 
 Are not two feveral things, but purely one, 
 At once how can there in it be 
 A double different Motion ? 
 
 O yes, there may .* for fo the felf fame Sun, 
 At once does flow and fwiftly run. 
 
 4 * 
 
 Swiftly his daily journey he goes, 
 
 But treads his Annual with a ftatelier pace. 
 
 And does three hundred Rounds enclofe 
 Within one yearly Circles fpace. 
 
 At once with double courfe in the fame Sphare, 
 
 He runs the Day, and walks the Tear. 
 
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 When Soul does to nty felf refer, 
 
 ’Tis then my Life , and does but (lowly move 3 
 But when it does relate to her, 
 
 It fwiftly flies, and then is Love . 
 
 Love's my Diurnal courfe, divided right 
 
 Twixt Hope and Fear , my Day and Night. 
 
 
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 T Ake heed, take heed, thou lovely Maid, 
 Nor be by glittering ills betraid 5 
 Thy felf for Money ? oh, let no man know 
 The Price of Beauty fain fo low ! 
 
 What dangers ought’ft thou not to dread, 
 When Love that’s Blind is by blind Fortune led? 
 
 , 2. 
 
 The foolifh Indian that fells 
 His precious Gold for Beads and Bells, 
 Does a more wife and gainful traffick hold, 
 Than thou who fell’ft thy felf for Gold. 
 What gains in fuch a bargain are ? 
 
 Hee’l in thy Mines dig better Treafures far 4 
 
 3 - 
 
 Can Gold , alas, with Thee compare ? 
 
 The Sun that makes it*s not fo fair 5 
 The Sun which can nor make, nor ever fee 
 A thing fo beautiful as Thee, 
 
 In all the journeys he does pafs, 
 
 Though the Sea ferv’ed him for a Loofyng-Glaji, 
 
 4 * 
 
 Bold was the wretch that cheapned Thee* 
 Since Magus , none fo bold as he : 
 
 Thou’rt fo divine a thing that Thee to buy, 
 
 Is to be counted Simony 5 
 Too dear he’l find his fordid price, 
 
 Has forfeited that , and the Benefice. 
 
 5 * 
 
 If it be lawful Thee to buy. 
 
 There’s none can pay that rate but /5 
 Nothing on earth a fitting price can be, 
 
 But what on earth’s moft like to Thee. 
 
 And that my Heart does only bear 5 
 For there Thy felf, Thy very felf is there. 
 
 6 . 
 
 So much thy felf does in me live, 
 
 That when it for thy felf l give, 
 
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 The MISTRESS. 
 
 Tis but to change that piece of Gold for this, 
 Whof bfiamp and value equal is. 
 
 And that full Weight too may be had, 
 
 My Soul and Body 5 two Grains more, I’ll add. 
 
 The Long Life. 
 
 1. 
 
 L Ove from Times wings hath ftoln the feathers fure, 
 He has, and put them to his ovsn 3 
 For Hours of late as long as Days endure, 
 
 And very Minutes , Hours are grown. 
 
 3. 
 
 The various Motions of the turning Year, 
 
 Belong not now at all to Me : 
 
 Each Summers Night does Lucies now appear. 
 
 Each Winters day St. Barnaby. 
 
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 How long a fpace, fince firft I lov’d, it is } 
 To look into a glafs I fear 3 
 And am furpriz’d with wonder when I rails, 
 Grey heirs and wrinkles there. 
 
 4 * 
 
 Th’ old Patriarchs age and not their happ'inefs too 3 
 Why does hard Fate to us reftore .<?' 
 
 Why does Loves Fire thus to Mankind renew, 
 What the Floud vpafit away before } 
 
 5 * 
 
 Sure thofe are happy people that complain 
 O’th’ (hortnefs of the days of man : 
 
 Contra# mine, Heaven, and bring them back again 
 To th’ ordinary Span. 
 
 6 . 
 
 If when your gift, Long Life I difapprove, 
 
 I too ingrateful feem to be 3 
 Punilh me juftly, Heaven 3 make Her to love, 
 And then ’twill be too fiort for me. 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 Counfel. 
 
 I. 
 
 G Ently, ah gently, Madam, touch 
 
 The wound, which you your (elf have mades 
 That pain muft needs be very much, 
 
 Which makes me o {your hand afraid. 
 
 Cordials of Pity give me now, 
 
 For I too weak for Purgings grow. 
 
 2. 
 
 Do but a while with patience (lay 5 
 For Counfel yet will do no good, 
 
 Till Time, and Reft, and Heaven allay 
 The violent burning of my blood : 
 
 For what effeft from this can flow. 
 
 To chide men drunk# for being fo $ 
 
 3 - 
 
 Perhaps the Phy fields good you give. 
 
 But ne’re to me can uleful prove 5 
 Med' cities may Cure , but not Revive 3 
 
 And lam not SicJ^ but Dead in Love. 
 
 In Loves Hell , not his World , am 1 3 
 At once I Live , am Dead , and Dye , 
 
 4 - 
 
 What new found Rhetorical s thine ? 
 
 Ev’n thy Difeoaftons m eperftvade. 
 
 And thy great power does cleared (bine, 
 
 When thy Commands are difobeyd . 
 
 In vain thou bid A me to forbear 3 
 Obedience were Rebellion here. 
 
 Thy Tongue comes in, as if it meant 
 
 Again A thine Eyes t’ afiift my Heart 3 
 But different far was his intent : 
 
 For Araight the Traitor took their part. 
 And by this new foe I’m bereft 
 Of all that Little which was left. 
 
 6 . 
 
 The aft I muft confefs was wife, 
 
 As a dilhoneft aft could be .* 
 
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 The MIST RE S S. 
 
 Well knew the Tongue (alas) your Eyes 
 
 Would be too ftrong for That , and Me. 
 And part o’th’ Triumph chofe to get, 
 
 Rather than be a part of it. 
 
 ^efohed to be Beloved . 
 
 Hr I S true, Thave lov’d already three or four, 
 And (hall three or four hundred mores 
 I’ll love each fair one that I fee, 
 
 Till I find one at laft that (hall love me , 
 
 2. 
 
 That (hall my Canaan be, the fatal foil, 
 
 Thatend9 my wandrings, and my toil 
 Til fettle there and happy grows 
 The Country does with Mill$ and Honey flow. 
 
 3 * 
 
 The Needle trembles fo, and turns about, 
 
 Till it the Northern Point find out : 
 
 But conflant then and fixt does prove, 
 
 Fixt, that his deareft Pole as foon may move . 
 
 . 4. 
 
 Then may my Vejfel torn and (hipwrackt be, 
 
 If it put forth again to Sea: 
 
 It never more abroad (hall rome, 
 
 Though’ t could next voyage bring the Indies home. 
 
 5 - 
 
 But I muft fvveat in Love, and labour yet, 
 
 Till I a Competency get. * 
 
 They’re (lothful fools who leave a Trade, 
 Till they a moderate Fortune by’t have made. 
 
 6 . 
 
 Variety I ask not s give me One 
 To live perpetually upon. 
 
 The perfon Love does to us fit, 
 
 Like Manna , has th zTajl of all in it. 
 
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 1. 
 
 F O Pv Heavens fake, what cT you mean to do } 
 Keep me , or let me go , one of the two ? 
 Touth and warm hours let me not idlely lofe, 
 
 The little Time that Love does chufe 5 
 If always here I muft not fray. 
 
 Let me be gone, whileft yet ’tis day 5 
 Left I faint, and benighted lofe my way. 
 
 2. 
 
 Tis difmal, One, fo long to love 
 In vain ^ till to love more as vain muft prove : 
 
 To hunt fo long on nimble prey, till we 
 Too weary to take others be , 
 
 Alas, ns folly to remain, 
 
 And wafte our Army thus in vain, 
 
 Before a City which will ne re be tane. 
 
 At feveral hopes wilely to fly, 
 
 Ought not to be efteem’d Inconflancy j 
 Tis more lnconflant always to purfue 
 
 A thing that always flies from you 5 
 For that at laft may meet a bound, 
 
 Bu; no end can to this be found, 
 
 Tis nought but a perpetual fruitlefs Round . 
 
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 When it does Hardnefs meet and Pride 0 
 My Love does then rebound t’another fide j 
 But if it ought that’s (oft and yielding hit 5 
 It lodges there, and flays in it. 
 
 Whatever tis fha'l firft love me, 
 
 That it my Heaven may truly be 5 
 l fhall be fure to give’t Eternity. 
 
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 I. 
 
 B Y ’Heaven I’ll tell her boldly that Vis She 3 
 Why (hould (he alham’d or angry be, 
 
 To be belov’d by Me ? 
 
 The Gods may give their Altars o’re 3 
 They’l fmoak but feldom any more, 
 
 If none but Happy Men muft them adore. 
 
 2. 
 
 The L ightning which tall Oaks oppofe in vain, 
 
 To ftrike fometime does not difdain 
 The humble Furzes of the Plain. 
 
 She being fo high, and I (o low, 
 
 Her power by this does greater (how. 
 
 Who at fuch diflance gives fo fare a blow. 
 
 Compar’d with her all things fo worthlefs prove. 
 That nought on earth can towards her move, 
 Till’t be exalted by her Love. 
 
 Equal to her, alas, there’s none 3 
 She like a Deity is grown 5 
 That muft Create , or elfe muft be alone . 
 
 4 * 
 
 {f there be man, who thinks himfelf fo high, 
 
 As to pretend equality. 
 
 He dtferves her lefs than 1 3 
 For he would cheat for his relief 3 
 And one would give with lefler grief^ 
 fo’an undejerving Beggar than a Thief. 
 
 dgainft Fruition. 
 
 N O 3 thou rt a fool, 1 11 fwear, if e re thou grants 
 Much of my Feneration thou muft want. 
 
 When once thy kindnefs puts my Ignorance out 3 
 For a learn d Age is always leaft devout. 
 
 Keep ftill thy diftahee, for at once to me 
 Qoddefa and Woman too, thou canft not be 3 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 Thourt (Queen of all that fees thee 3 and as fuch 
 Muft neither Tyrannize , nor yield too much 3 
 Such freedoms give as may admit Command, 
 
 But keep the Forts and Alagazines in thine hand. / 
 
 Thou rt yet a whole world to me, and do’eft fill 
 My large ambition 3 but ’tis dang’rous ftill, 
 
 Left 1 like the Pelican Prince fhould be, 
 
 And weep for other Worlds , hav’ing conquer’ed Thee 5 
 When Love has taken all thou haft away, 
 
 His ftrength by too much riches will decay. 
 
 Thou in my Fancy doft much higher ftand, 
 
 Than Women can be place’d by Natures hand 3 
 And I muft needs, I’m fure, a lofer be, 
 
 To change Thee, as Thourt there , for very 7 hee. 
 
 Thy fweetnefs is fo much within me plac’d, 
 
 That fhouldft thou Nectar give, ’twould fpoil the taft. 
 Beauty at firft moves wonder, and delight 3 
 Tis Natures juggling tricato cheat the light, 
 
 We admire it, whilft unknown, but after more 
 Admire our felves, for liking it before. 
 
 Love like a greedy Hawl^, if we give way, 
 
 Does over-gorge himfelf, with his own Prey 3 
 Of very Hopes a furfeit he’ll fuftain, 
 linlefs by Fears he C3ft them up again : 
 
 His fpirit and fweetnefs dangers keep alone 3 
 If once he lofe his fling, he grows a Drone. 
 
 Love undtfcoyered . 
 
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 1. 
 
 S Ome, others may with fafcty tell 
 
 The moderate Flames, which in them dwell 3 
 And either find fome Med’icine there, 
 
 Or cure themfelves ev’en by Defpair 3 
 My Love’s fo great, that it might prove 
 Dangerous, to tell her that l Love. 
 
 So tender is my wound, it muft not bear 
 Any falute, though of the kindeft air. 
 
 2. 
 
 I would not have her kyiow the pain, 
 
 The Torments for her I fuftain, 
 
 Left too much goodnefs make her throw 
 Her Love upon a Fate too low. 
 
 Forbid it Heaven my Life fhould be 
 Weigh’d with her leaft Conveniency : 
 
 No, let me perifi rather with my grief, 
 
 Than to her difadvantage find relief. 
 
 N 2 Yet 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 Yet when I dye, my laft breath (hall 
 Grow bold, and plainly tell her all. 
 
 Like covetous Men who ne’ re defcry 
 Their dear hid Treafures till they dye. 
 
 Ah faireft Maid, how will it chear 
 My Ghoft , to get from Thee a tear I 
 But take heed j for if me thou Pitieft then, 
 T wenty to one but I (hall live agen. 
 
 The given lie art. 
 
 i. 
 
 I Wonder what thofe Lovers mean, who fay, 
 They have giv’en their Hearts away. 
 Some good kind Lover tell me how } 
 
 For mtoe is but a Tormnt to me now. 
 
 2 . 
 
 If fo it be, one place both hearts contain, 
 
 For what do they complain ? 
 
 What courtefie can Love do more 
 Than to join Hearts , that parted were before } 
 
 Wo to her ftubborn Heart , if once mine con^e 
 Into the felf fame room 5 
 Twill tear and blow up all within, 
 
 Like a Grannado (hot into a Magadan. 
 
 T 
 
 Then (hall Love keep -the albes, and torn part^ 
 
 , % Of- both our broken Hearts*: ' 
 
 Shall out of both one new one make, 
 
 From hers, tW Allaty 5 from ritine, the MetaJ take. 
 
 V *■ * * 
 
 V 5- , ... 
 
 For of her heart he from the flamesiwill find 
 Btit little left behind 
 Mine only will remain entire 5 
 No drofs was there, to perifh in the Fire . 
 

 » 
 
 The MISTRESS. 
 
 T he Prophet» 
 
 i. 
 
 X Each me to Love .<? go teach thy felf more wit 5 
 I chief Profeffour am of it. 
 
 Teach craft to Scots , and thrift to Jews , 
 Teach boldnefs to the Stews 5 
 In Tyrants Courts teach fupple flattery , 
 
 Teach Jefuits , that have travell d £>, to Lye. 
 
 Teach Fire to burn, and Winds to blow* 
 Teach reftlefs Fountains how to flow, 
 
 Teach the dull earth, ftjfct, to abide, 
 
 Teach Woman-kind Inconftancy and Pride. 
 
 See if your diligence here will ufeful prove 3 
 But, pr ithee, teach not me to Love . 
 
 2. 
 
 The God of Love * if fuch a thing there be, 
 
 May learn to love from Me. 
 
 He who does boaft that he has bin 
 In every Heart fince Adam's fin, 
 
 Til lay my Life , nay Mijlrefs on’t, that’s more 3 
 Til teach him things he never knew before 3 
 I’ll teach him a Receipt to make 
 Words th3Mp’/>, and Tears that flpeah^ 
 
 I’ll teach him Sighs, like thofe in Death , 
 
 At which the Souls go out too with the bre'atk : 
 
 Still the Soul flays , yet (fill does from me run 3 
 As Light and Heat does with the Sun. 
 
 3 ’ 
 
 Tis I who Love's Columbus am 3 ’tis I 
 
 Who muft dew Worlds in it defcry : 
 
 Rich Worlds, that yield of Treafure more 3 
 Than all that has bin known before. 
 
 And yet like his (1 fear) my Fate muft be, 
 
 To find them out for others 3 not for Me. 
 
 Me Times to come, I know it, (hall 
 Loves laft and greateft Prophet call. 
 
 But, ah, what’s that, if (he refule 
 To hear the wholfome Doffrincs of my Mufef 
 If to my (hare the Prophets fate muft come 3 
 Hereafter Fame , here Martyrdome , 
 
 r, 
 
 
5 6 
 
 The ML STRESS. 
 
 The d{efoIution . 
 
 i. 
 
 TpH E Devil take thofe foolifh men, 
 J Who gave you firft fuch pow'ers } 
 We flood on even grounds till then 5 
 If any odds, Creation made it ours. 
 
 2. 
 
 For (hame let thefe weak Chains be broke 3 
 Let’s our (light bonds, like Samjbn , tear } 
 And nobly caft away that yoke. 
 
 Which we nor our Forefathers e’re could bear. 
 
 • * - i 
 
 3 - ' 
 
 French Laws forbid the Female Raign j 
 
 Yet Love does them to Jlavery draw : 
 
 Alas, if we ll our rights maintain, 
 
 ’ris all Mankind muft make a Salique Law. 
 
 Called Inconjlant. 
 
 1. 
 
 H A! ha ! you think y’have kill’d my fame , 
 
 By this not under floods yet common Name: 
 
 A Name that’s full and proper when aftign’d 
 To Woman- kind : 
 
 But when you call us fo, 
 
 It^can at beft but (or a Met’aphor go. 
 
 2. 
 
 Can you the Chore Inconjlant call, 
 
 Which Bill as Waves pafs by, embraces all 5 
 That had as lief the fame Waves always love, 
 
 Did they not from him move ? 
 
 Or can you fault with Pilots find 
 For changing courfe, yet never blame the wind? 
 
 3 * 
 
 Since drunks with vanity you fell : 
 
 That things turn round to you that (ledfaft dwell} 
 
 And 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 And you your (elf, who from us take your flight, 
 Wonder to find us out of fight. 
 
 So the fame errour feizes you, 
 
 As Men in motion think the Trees move too. 
 
 A he Welcome . 
 
 i. 
 
 G O, let the fattedXalfbe kill’d 5 
 
 My Prodigal’s come home at laft j 
 With noble refolutions fill’d, 
 
 And fill’d with forrow for the paft. 
 
 No more will burn with Love or Wine : 
 But quite has left his Women and his Swine. 
 
 1 
 
 2. 
 
 Welcome, ah welcome my poor Heart 5 
 Welcome $ I little thought, I’ll fwear, 
 (Tis now fo long fince we did part) 
 
 Ever again to fee thee here : 
 
 Dear Wanderer , fince from me you fled, 
 How often have l heard that Thou wer’t dead ! 
 
 3 ’ 
 
 Haft thou not found each womans breaft 
 
 ( The Lands where thou haft travelled ) 
 Either by Savages poflfeft, 
 
 Or wild, and uninhabited .<? 
 
 What joy couldft take, or what repofe 
 In Comtrys fo nncivilizd as thofe ? 
 
 4 - 
 
 Luft , the fcorching Dog-jiar , here 
 Rages with immoderate heat 5 
 Whilft Pride the rugged Northern Bear , 
 
 In others makes the Cold too great. 
 
 And where thefe are template known, 
 
 The Soil’s all barren Sand, or rocky Stone. 
 
 5 - • 
 
 When once or twice you chanc’d to view 
 A rich, well-govern’d Heart, 
 
 Like China , it admitted You 
 But to the Frontier-part. 
 
 From Paradtfe (hut forevermore, 
 
 What good is’t that an Angel kept the Door .<? 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 W ell fare the Pride , and the Difdain , 
 
 And Vanities with Beauty joyn’d, 
 
 I ne’re had feen this Heart again. 
 
 If any t air One had been kind : 
 
 My Dove , but once let loofe, I doubt 
 Would ne’re return, had not the Flood been out. 
 
 The Heart fled again. 
 
 i. 
 
 Alfe, fodifh Heart ! did ft thou not Jay, 
 That thou wouldft never leave me more ? 
 Behold again ’tis fled away, 
 
 Fled as far from me as before. 
 
 I ft rove to bring it back again, 
 
 I cry’d and hollow’d after it in vain. 
 
 2 . 
 
 Even fo the gentle Tyrian Dame , 
 
 When neither Urief nor Love prevail, 
 Saw the dear objeft of her flame, 
 
 Th’ ingrateful Trojan hoift his fail ; 
 Aloud fhe call’d to him to ftay $ 
 
 The wind bore him , and her loft words away. 
 
 / ( 
 
 3 • 
 
 The doleful Ariadne fo 
 
 On the wide (bore forfaken ftood : 
 
 F a If e Theleus, whither doji thou go .<? 
 
 Afar falfe Thefius cut the flood. 
 
 But Bacchus came to her relief: , 
 
 Bacchus himfelf s too weak to eafe my grief. 
 
 4 - 
 
 Ah fenfelefs Heart , to take no reft. 
 
 But travel thus eternally l 
 Thus to be frozn in every breajl ! 
 
 And to be fcorcht in every Bye ! 
 Wandring about like wretched Cain , - 
 Thruft out, ill us d by all, but by none jlain ! 
 
 5 - 
 
 Well , fince thou wilt not here remain, 
 
 I'll even to live without Thee try s 
 My Head {hall take the greater pain, 
 
 And all thy duties fha!l fupply $ 
 
 I can more eafily live l know 
 Without Thee , than without a Miftrefs Thou. 
 
 Womens 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 « 
 
 Womens Superjlition . 
 
 O R. I’m a very Dunce, or Womankind 
 fs a moft unintelligible thing : 
 
 I can no Senfe, nor no Contexture find, 
 
 Nor their loofe parts to Method bring, 
 
 I know not what the Learn d may fee, 
 Rut they’re ftrange Hebrew things to Me, 
 
 2. 
 
 By Cufloms and Traditions th gy live, 
 
 And foolith Ceremonies of antique date, 
 
 We Lovers ,new and better Doctrines give. 
 
 Yet they continue obftinate 3 
 
 Preach we, Loves Prophets , what we will. 
 
 Like Jews, they keep their old Law (till. 
 
 Before their Mothers Gods , they fondly fall, 
 Vain Idol-Gods that have no Senfe nor Mind .* 
 Honours their Afbtaroth , and Pride their Baal, 
 The Thundring Baal of Woman- kind, 
 With twenty other Devils more, 
 Which Thej , as we do Them, adore. 
 
 4 * 
 
 But then, like Men both Covetous and Devout 
 Their coftly Superjlition loth t* omit, 
 
 And yet more loth to iffue Moneys out, 
 
 At their own charge to furnifh it. 
 
 To thefe expenfive Deities , 
 
 The Hearts of Men they Sacrifice. 
 
 The Soul 
 
 i. 
 
 Nor has of late inform’d my Body here, 
 
 Butin anothers breaft does ly. 
 
 That neither A, nor will be /, 
 
 As a Form Servient and Ajftjling there 3 
 
 Will 
 
 / 
 
 or\ 
 
4o 
 
 Th e MISTRESS 
 
 Will cry, Abfird ! and ask me, how I live : 
 
 And Syllogisms againft it give , 
 
 A curfe on all your vain Philofophies , 
 
 Which on weak Natures Law depend. 
 And know not how to comprehend 
 Love and Religion , tbofe great Myfleries. 
 
 ‘ 3 - 
 
 Her Body is my Soul 5 laugh not at this, 
 
 For by my Life I fwear it is. 
 
 Tis that preferves my Being and my Breath , 
 From that proceeds all that I do. 
 
 Nay all my Thoughts and Speeches too, 
 And Separation from it is my Death. 
 
 Eccbo. 
 
 I. 
 
 T ir’d with the rough denials of my Prayer, 
 From that hard (he whom I obey, 
 
 I come, and find a Nymph , much gentler here, 
 That gives conflent to all I (ay. 
 
 Ah, gentle Nymph who lik’ft fo well, 
 
 In hollow, Solitary Caves to dwell, 
 
 Her Heart being fuch, into it go. 
 
 And do but once from thence anfwer me fo. 
 
 2. 
 
 Complaifant Nymph , who do’eft thus kindly (hare 
 In griefs, whofe caufe thou do’ ft not know ! 
 
 Had ft thou but Eyes , as well as Tongue and Ear , 
 
 How much compajfion wouldft thou (how ! 
 
 Thy flame , whilft living , or a flower. 
 
 Was of lels beauty, and le(s rav’iftiing power 5 
 Aias, I might as eafilie, 
 
 Paint thee to her, as defcribe Her to Thee . 
 
 3 * 
 
 By repercufiion Beams engender Eire , 
 
 Shapes by reflexion Jhapes beget $ 
 
 The voyce it fcif, when ftopt, does back retire, 
 
 And a new voyce is made by it. 
 
 Thus things by oppofition 
 The gainers grow 3 my barren Love alone, 
 
 Does from her fiony breaft rebound. 
 
 Producing neither Image, Fire, nor Sound. 
 
 The 
 
 I 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 The tf^ich ^iVdl. 
 
 I. 
 
 T Hey fay you’re angry, and rant mightilie, 
 Becaufe I love the fame as you 5 
 Alas l you’re very rich 3 ’tis true 3 
 But prithee Fool, what's that to Love and Me } 
 You’have Land and Money , let that ferve 5 
 And know you ’have more by that than you deferve. 
 
 2. 
 
 When next l fee my fair One , file (hall know 
 How worthless thou art of her bed 3 
 And wretch, I’ll ftrike thee dumb and dead 9 
 With noble verfee not underftood by you 5 
 Whil’ft thy foie Rhetoric fhall be 
 Joynture and Jewels , and Qtsr b riends agree. 
 
 3 - 
 
 Pox o’ your friends that dote and Domineere : 
 Lovers are better Friends than they: 
 
 Let’s thofe in other things obey 3 
 The Fates, and Stars, and Gods muft govern here. 
 
 Vain names of Blood ! in Love let none 
 Advife with any Blood, but with their own. 
 
 4 * 
 
 Tis that which bids me this bright Maid adore 5 
 No other thought has had accefs ! 
 
 Did (he now beg. I d love no lefe. 
 
 And were (he’an Emprefe, I fhould love no more 3 
 Were fhe as juft and true to Me, 
 
 Ah, fimple foul, what would become of Thee ! 
 
 Jgamjl Hope* 
 
 • 1. 
 
 H Ope, vvhofe weak Being ruin’d is, 
 
 A like if it fucceed, and if it wife 3 
 Whom Good or 111 does equally confound, 
 
 And both the Horns of Fates Dilemma wound. 
 V.-in feadow ! which doft vanifh quite, 
 Both at full Noon, and perfeft Night ! 
 
 O 2 
 
 The 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 The Stars have not a pojjlbility 
 
 Of bleffing Thee 3 
 
 If things then from their End we happy call, 
 Tis Hope is the moft Hopelefe thing of all. 
 
 . 2. 
 
 Hope , thou bold Tafter of Delight, 
 
 Who whilft thou ftiouldft but taft , devour* ft it quite ? 
 Thou bring’ft us an Eftate, yet leav’ft us Poor , 
 
 By clogging it with Legacies before ! 
 
 The joys which we entire (hould wed, 
 
 Come deflowrd Virgins to our bed 3 
 Good fortunes without gain imported be, 
 
 Such mighty Cuftonts paid to Thee. 
 
 For joy , like Wine, kept clofe does better taft 5 
 If it take air before, its fpirits waft. 
 
 5 « 
 
 Hope , Fortunes cheating Lottery l 
 Where for one prtze an hundred blanks there be 3 
 Fond Archer , Hope, who takft thy aim fo far, 
 That ftill or Jhort , or wide thine arrows are ! 
 Thin, empty Cloud , which th s eye deceives 
 With (li3pes that our own Fancy gives ! 
 
 A Cloud , which gilt and painted now appears, 
 But muft drop prefently in tears / 
 
 When thy falfe beams o’ re Reafons light prevail, 
 By Ignes fatui for North-Stars we fail. 
 
 4 * 
 
 Brother of Fear , more gaily clad ! 
 
 The merEier Fool o’th* two, yet quite as Mad : 
 Sire of Repentance, Child of fond Defire ! 
 
 That blow’ft the Chymickj , and the Lovers fire l 
 Leading them ftill infenfibly ’on 
 By the ftrange witchcraft of Anon ! 
 
 By Thee the one does changing Nature through 
 Her endlefs Labyrinths purfue, 
 
 And th’ other chafes Woman , whilft She goes 
 More ways and turns than hunted Nature knows. 
 
 For 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 For Hope. 
 
 ( 
 
 i. 
 
 * 
 
 H Ope , of all Ills that men endure. 
 
 The only cheap and Univerftl Cure l 
 Thou Captives freedom, and thou fick mans Health / 
 Thou Lofers Victory, and thou Beggars wealth! 
 Thou Manna , which from Heav’n we ear. 
 
 To every Tafi a feveral Meat ! 
 
 Thou ftrong Retreat ! thou fure entail’d Efiate , 
 Which nought has power to alienate ! 
 
 Thou pleafant, honefl Flatterer 1 for none 
 Flatter unhappy Aten, but thou alone ! 
 
 2 . 
 
 Hope, thou Fir ft -fruits of Happinefs ! 
 
 Thou gentle Dawning of a bright Succefs ! 
 
 Thou good Preparative , without which our Joy 
 Does rvorkj.00 ftrong, and whilft it cures, deftroy 5 
 Who out of Fortunes reach doft ftand, 
 
 And art a bleftang fiill in hand ! 
 
 Whilft Thee, her Earnefl- Money we retain, 
 
 We certain are to gain, 
 
 Whether (he ’her bargain break, or elfe fulfill 5 
 Thou only good, not worfe, for ending ill! 
 
 3 - 
 
 Brother of Faith , ’twixt whom and Thee 
 The joys of Heav’en and Earth divided be ! 
 Though Faith be Heir , and have the fixt Efiate , 
 Thy Portion yet in Moveables is great. 
 
 Happinefs it felt’s all one 
 In Thee , or in poffejjion ! 
 
 Only the Future’ sThine, the Prefent Hi s ! 
 
 Thine’s the more hard and noble bills 5 
 Beft apprehender of our joys, which haft 
 So long a reach , and yetcanft hold (ofaSi ! 
 
 4 * 
 
 Hope, thou fad Lovers only Friend ! 
 
 Thou Way that tnayft difpute it with the End l 
 For Love I fear’s a fruit that does delight 
 The Taft it felf lefs than the Smell and Sight. 
 Fruition more deceitful is 
 Than Thou canft be, when thou doft mifs 5 
 
The MISTRESS . 
 
 Men leave thee by obtaining , and ftrait flee 
 Some other way again to Thee , 
 
 And that’s a pleafant Country, without doubt. 
 To which all foon return that travel out. 
 
 Loves Ingratitude, 
 
 i. 
 
 I Little thought, thou fond ingrateful Sin 9 
 When firft l let thee in, 
 
 And gave thee but a part 
 In my unwary Heart , 
 
 That thou wouldft e’re have grown 
 So falfe or ftrong to make it all thine own. 
 
 2. 
 
 At mine own breaft with care I fed thee ftill, 
 Letting thee fuck thy fill, 
 
 And daintily I nourilbt Thee 
 With Idle thoughts and Poetrie 1 
 What ill returns doft thou allow ? 
 
 I fed thee then, and thou doft flarve me now. 
 
 3 - 
 
 There was a time when thou waft cold and chill. 
 Nor had ft the power of doing ill 5 
 Into my Bofomd’xd I take 
 This frozen and benummed Snake, 
 
 Not fearing from it any harm } 
 
 But now it flings that breaft which made it warm . 
 
 4 * 
 
 What cur fed weed's this Love ! but one grain fow„ 
 And the whole field ’twill overgrow 5 
 Strait will it choak up and devour 
 Each wholefome herb and beauteous flour £ 
 
 Nay unlefs fomething foon Ido, 
 
 ’Twill kill I fear my very Lawrel too. 
 
 5 - 
 
 But now all’s gone, I now, alafs, complain, 
 Declare, proteft, and threat in vain. 
 
 Since by my own unforcd confent , 
 
 The Traylor has my Government , 
 
 And is fo fetled in the Throne , 
 
 That ’cwere Rebellion now to claim mine own . 
 
7 be MISTRESS. 
 
 The Frailty. 
 
 I. 
 
 I Know Vis fordid , and ’tis low $ 
 
 (All this as well as you I know) 
 
 Which l fo hotly now purfue* 
 
 (I know all this as well as you) 
 
 But whilft this curfed flefh I bear, 
 
 And all the Weaknejsy and the Bafenefs there, 
 Alas, alas, it will be always fo. 
 
 2. 
 
 In vain, exceedingly in vain 
 I rage fometimes, and bite my Chain 3 
 For to what purpofe do I bite 
 With Teeth which ne’re will break it quite £ 
 For if the chiefeft Chrifiian Heady 
 Was by this fturdy Tyrant buffeted , 
 
 What wonder is it, if weal^l be (lain ? 
 
 Coldnefs. 
 
 1. 
 
 A S water fluid is, till it do grow 
 Solid and fixt by Cold 5 
 So m warm Seafons Love does loofely flow, 
 Frofi only can it hold. 
 
 A Womans rigour , and difdain, 
 
 Does his fwift courfe reftrain. 
 
 2. 
 
 Though conflant , and confident now it be. 
 Yet, when kind beams appear, 
 
 It melts, and glides apace into the Sea, 
 And lofts it felf there. 
 
 So the 6' 11ns amorous play, 
 
 K/jfcs the Ice away. 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 3 - 
 
 You may in Vulgar Loves find always this 3 
 But my Subjlantial Love 
 Of a more firm and perfect Nature is 3 
 No weathers can it move ; 
 
 Though Heal diflolve the Ice again, 
 
 The Cryjlal folid does remain. 
 
 1. 
 
 T Hen like fome wealthy lflandthou (halt ly$ 
 And like the Sea about it, /3 
 Thou like fair Albion , to the Sailors Sight, 
 Spreading her beauteous Bofom all in White : 
 
 Like the kind Ocean I will be, 
 
 With loving Arms for ever clafping Thee. 
 
 2. 
 
 But I’ll embrace Thee gentli’er far than fo$ 
 
 As their frefh Banks fofc Rivers do, 
 
 Nor fhall the proudefl Planet boaft a power 
 Of making my full Love to ebb one hour 3 
 It never dry or low can prove, 
 
 Whilft thy unwafted Fountain feeds my Love. 
 
 3 - 
 
 Such Heat and Vigour fhall our Kiffes bear, 
 
 A« if like Doves we’engendred there. 
 
 No bound nor rule my plealures (hall endure. 
 
 In Love there’s none too much an Epicure. 
 
 Nought (hall my hands or Lips controul 3 
 I’ll kifs Thee through , I’ll kifs thy very Soul. 
 
 4 - 
 
 Yet nothing, but the Night our fports fhall know 
 Night that's both blind and fllent too. 
 
 Alphee us found not a more fecret trace, 
 
 His lov’d Sicanian Fountain to embrace, 
 
 Creeping fo far beneath the Sea, 
 
 Than I will dot’ enjoy , and feafi on Thee. 
 
 5 - 
 
 Men, out of Wifdont 3 Women , out of Pride , 
 
 The pleafant Thefts of Love do hide. 
 
T he MISTRESS. 
 
 That may fecure thee 5 but thou ’haft yet from Me 
 A more infallible Securitie. 
 
 For there’s no danger I (bould tell 
 The Joys, which are to Me unfpeakable. 
 
 L 
 
 ♦ 
 
 I. 
 
 I N vain thou droufie God, I thee invoak 3 
 For thou, whodoft from fumes arife, 
 
 • Thou, who Mans Soul doft overfhade 
 With a thick Cloud by Vapours made, 
 Canft have no power to (hut his eyes, 
 
 Or pallage of his Spirits to choak, 
 
 Whofe flame * s fo pure, that it fends up no fmodk, 
 
 2. 
 
 Yet how do Tears but from fome Vapours rife ? 
 Tears, that be winter all my Year } 
 
 The fate of Egypt I fuftain, 
 
 And never feel the dew of Rain, 
 
 From Clouds which in the Head appear, 
 
 But all my too much Moyfturc ovv, 
 
 To overflowings of the Heart below. 
 
 •H 
 
 Thou, who doft Men (as Nights to Colours d o) 
 Bring all to an Equality : 
 
 Come, thou juft God , and equal me 
 A while to my difdiinful She 5 
 In that condition let me ly } 
 
 Till Love docs the favour fhew 3 
 Love equa's all a better way than Ton.* 
 
 > ' 
 4 
 
 Then never more (halt thou be’invokt by me 3 
 Watchful as Spirits, and GodsVW prove: 
 
 Let her but grant, and then will I, 
 
 Thee and thy Kwfman Death defy. 
 
 For betwixt Thee and them that love. 
 
 Never will an agreement be $ 
 
 Thou fcorn’ft th 'Unhappy * and the Happy. Thee. 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 Beauty. 
 
 •'.71 / 
 
 o ‘j 
 
 ol 
 
 1. 
 
 thou wild fantaftick Ape, 
 
 Who doft in ev’ry Country change thy ftj 3 pe 1 
 Here black, there brown, here tawny, and there white 3 
 Thou Flatterer which compli’ft with every fight ! 
 
 Thou Babel which confound’d the Ey 
 With unintelligible variety ! 
 
 Who haft no certain What, nor Where , 
 
 But vary ’ft ftill, and doft thy felf declare 
 Inccnftant, as thy fhe-ProfeJfors are. 
 
 2. 
 
 Beauty , Love's Scene and A iaskerade. 
 
 So gay by well-placd Lights , and Diftance made 3 
 Falle C°) n , with which th7 mpoftor cheats us ftill 3 
 The Stamp and Colour good, but Metal ill ! 
 
 Which Light , or Bafe we find, when we 
 Weigh by Enjoyment , and examine Thee! 
 
 For though thy Being be but fhow , 
 
 Tis chiefly Night which men to Thee allow: 
 
 And chufe t' enjoy Thee, when Thou leajl art Thou < 
 
 / 
 
 3 - 
 
 Beauty , Thou attive, paifive 111 ! 
 
 Which dy'ft thy felf as faft as thou doft kill ! 
 
 Thou Tulip, who thy ftock in paint doft wafte, 
 
 Neither for Phyfick good, nor Smell , nor Taft . 
 
 Beauty , whole Flames , but Meteors are, 
 
 Short-liv’d and low, though thou wouldft feem a Star , 
 Whodar’ft not thin&own Home defer y, 
 
 Pretending to dwell richly in the Eye, 
 
 When thou, alas, doft in the Fancy lye. 
 
 4 - 
 
 Beauty , whole Ccnquefts ftill are made 
 O’re Hearts by Cowards kept, or elfe betray'd 3 
 Weak, Victor ! who thy felf ckftroy’d muftbe 
 When fteknefs jlorms , or Time befteges Thee ! 
 
 Fhou unwholefome Thaw to frozen Age ! 
 
 1 hou ftrong li ine , which youths Feavcr dolt enrage, 
 
 1 hou i )rant which leav’ft no man free ! 
 
 Thou fubtle Thief, \ from whom nought fafe can be ! 
 
 Thou Murth'rer which haft Devil which would Damn me 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 49 
 
 The Farting. 
 
 I. 
 
 A S Men in Green-land left beheld the Sun 
 From their Horizon run 3 
 And thought upon the fad half year 
 Of Cold and Darkpefs they muft fufFer there: 
 
 2. 
 
 So on my parting Mifrefs did I look, 
 
 With fuch fwoln eyes my farewel took 5 
 Ah my fair Star ! laid 1 3 
 
 Ahthofe Bleft Lands to which bright Thou doft fly ! 
 
 3 * 
 
 In vain the Men of Learning comfort me 3 
 And fay I’m in a warm degree 3 
 Say what they pleafe 3 1 fay and fwear, 
 
 Tis beyond eighty at leaft, if you’re not here. 
 
 4 * 
 
 It is, it is 3 I tremble with the Frofl , 
 
 And know that I the Day have loft, 
 
 And thofe wild things which Men they call, 
 
 I find to be but Bears or Foxes all. 
 
 5 * 
 
 Return, return, gay Planet of mine Eaft , 
 
 Of all that (bines Thou much the Be 'ft ! 
 
 And as thou now defcend* ft to Sea 3 
 More fair and frefh rife up from thence to Me- 
 
 6 . 
 
 Thou, who in many a Propriety, 
 
 So truly art the Sun to Me, 
 
 Adde one more lihgnefs , which I’m fure you can, 
 And let Me and my Sun beget a Man* 
 
 t 
 
 t i 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 My TiBure. 
 
 i. 
 
 H Ere, take my Likenefs with you, whil’ft *tis fo 5 
 For when from hence you go, 
 
 The next Suns rifing will behold 
 Me pale, and lean, and old. 
 
 The Man who did this Pi&ure draw, 
 
 Will fwear next day my face he never faw. 
 
 2. 
 
 I really believe, within a while, 
 
 If you upon this fhadovo fmile, 
 
 Your prefence will fuch vigour give, 
 
 (Your prefence which makes all things live) 
 And abjence fo much alter Me, 
 
 This will the fubftance , 1 the fhadovo be. 
 
 When from your well- wrought Cabinet you take it, 
 And your bright looks awake it j 
 Ah be not frighted, if you lee 
 The new^fouPd-Pi&ure gaze on Thee, 
 
 And hear it breath a (igh or two 5 
 
 Forthofe are the firft things that it will do. 
 
 » 
 
 4 * 
 
 My Rival- Image will be then thought bleft. 
 
 And laugh at me as difpofleft 5 
 But Thou , who ("if I know thee right) 
 
 \\W jubftance doft. not much delight, * 
 
 Wilt rather fend again for Me, 
 
 Who then (hall but my Pictures Pi&ure be. 
 
 — 
 
 v • 
 
 ' 
 
 The Concealment . 
 
 N O 3 to what purpofe (hould I fpeak } 
 
 No, wretched Heart, fwell till you break}. 
 She cannot love me if (he would 5 
 And to fay truth, ’twere pity that (he fhould . 
 
 No, to the Grave thy forrows bear, 
 
 Hi ftlent, as they will be there. 
 
\ 
 
 The MISTRESS. 
 
 . ■■■ .... * 
 
 Since that lov’d hand this mortal wound does give, 
 
 So handfomly the thing contrive, 
 
 That (he may guilt left of it live. 
 
 So perifb, that her killing Thee 
 May a Chance-Medley , and no Murder be. 
 
 2 . 
 
 ’Tis nobler much for me, that I 
 By ’her Beauty , not her Anger dy 3 
 This will look juftly, and become 
 An Execution 3 that, a Martyrdoms. 
 
 The cenfuring world will ne’re refrain 
 From Judging men by Thunder J lain . 
 She muft be angry fure, if I (hould be 
 So bold to ask her to make me 
 By being hers , happ'ier than She. 
 
 I will not 3 ’tis a milder fate 
 To fall by her not Loving , than her Hate. 
 
 3 * # 
 
 And yet this death of mine, I fear, 
 
 Will ominous to her appear : 
 
 When, found in every other part, 
 
 Her Sacrifice is found without an Heart. 
 
 For the laft Tempe ft of my death 
 Shall figh out that too, with my breath * 
 Then (hall the world my noble ruine fee, 
 Some pity, and fome envy Me 3 
 Then She her felf, the mighty She, 
 
 Shall grace my fun’rals with this truth 5 
 Troas only Love deftroyd the gentle Touth. 
 
 The Monopoly . 
 
 1. 
 
 \ /Hat Mines of Sulphur in my bread do !y, 
 
 V V That feed th‘ eternal burnings of my heart ? 
 Not Mtna flames more fierce or constantly, 
 
 The founding (hop of Vulcan's fmoaky art 3 
 Vulcan his (hop has placed there, 
 
 And Cupid* s Forge is fet up here. 
 
 
 2. 
 
 Here all thofe Arrows mortal Heads are made, 
 That fly fo thick unfeen through yielding air 3 
 The Cyclops here, which labour at the trade 
 Are Jealoufie, Fear, Sadnefs, and Defpair, 
 
 Ah 
 
5 2 
 
 The MISTRESS. 
 
 Ah cruel God ! and why to me 
 Gave you this curft Monopolie £ 
 
 \ 3 * 
 
 l have the trouble , not th e gains of it 3 
 Give me but the difpofal of one Dart 3 
 And then (I’ll ask no other benefit) 
 
 Heat as you pleafe your furnace in my Heart . 
 
 So fweet’s Revenge to me, that I 
 Upon my foe would gladly dy. 
 
 4 - 
 
 Deep into her bofom would I ftrikethe dart 3 
 Deeper than Woman e ? re wasftruck by Thee 3 
 Thou giv’ft them fmall wounds, and fo far from th 7 Heart, 
 They flutter ftill about, inconftantly, 
 
 Curfe on thy Goodnefs , whom we find 
 Civil to none but Woman-kind ! 
 
 5 * 
 
 Vain God\ who women doft thy (elf adore ! 
 Their wounded Hearts do ftill retain the powers 
 To travel, and to wander as before 3 
 Thy broken Arrows ’twixt thatfexancj ours 
 So ’unjuftly are diftributed 3 
 They take the Feathers , we the Head. 
 
 The Diftance, 
 
 I. 
 
 I ’Have followed thee a year at Ieaft, 
 
 And never ftopt my felf to reft. 
 
 But yet can thee 0’ retake no more, 
 
 Than this Day can the Day that went before. 
 
 2. 
 
 In this our fortunes equal prove 
 To Stars , which govern them above 3 
 Our Stars that move for ever round, 
 
 With the fame Diftance ftill betwixt them found, 
 
 ?• - 
 
 In vain , alas, in vain I ftrive 
 The wheel of Fate fafter to drive 3 
 Since if a round it fwiftlier fly, 
 
 She in it mends her pace as much as L 
 
/ 
 
 The MISTRESS. " J3 
 
 Hearts by Love , ftnngely fluffled are, 
 That there can never meet a ! 
 Tamelier than JPom/ are Laz/err Qain 5 
 The wounded Heart ne’re turns to wound again. 
 
 The Encreafe . 
 
 r. 
 
 I Thought, I’ll fwear, I could have lov’d no more 
 Than I had done before 3 
 But you as eafi’ly might account 
 Till to the top of Numbers you amount, 
 
 As caft up my Loves fcore. 
 
 Ten thoufand millions was the fum 3 
 Millions of endlefs Millions are to come. 
 
 2. 
 
 I'm fure her Beauties cannot greater grow 3 
 Why (hould my Love do fo } 
 
 A real caufe at firft did move 3 
 
 ■ • * * 
 
 But mine own Fancy now drives on my Love, 
 
 With Jhadows from it felf that flow. 
 
 My Love, as we in Numbers fee, 
 
 By Cyphers is encreaft eternallie. 
 
 3-. t 
 
 So the new-made, and untri’d Spheres above, 
 
 Took their firft turn from th’ hand of Jove 5 
 But are fince that beginning found 
 By their own Forms to move for ever round. 
 
 All violent Motions fhort do prove, 
 
 But by the length ’tis plain to fee 
 That Love’s a Motion Natural to Me. 
 
 / * 
 
 \ 
 
 LoVes 
 
54 
 
 The MISTRESS. 
 
 Loves Viability. 
 
 — 
 
 i. 
 
 ^ 71 7 Ith much of pain, and all the Art I knew 
 V V Have I endeavour’d hitherto 
 To hide my Love , and yet all will not do. 
 
 2 . 
 
 The world perceives it, and it may be, fie , 
 Though fo difcreet and good (he be, 
 
 By hiding it, to teach that skill to Me. 
 
 3 - 
 
 Men without Love have oft fo cunning grown, 
 That fomething like it they have (hown, 
 But none who had it ever feem’d t’ have none. 
 
 4- 
 
 Love * s of a ftrangely open, fimple kind, 
 
 Can no arts or difguifes find, 
 
 But thinks none fees it’caufe it felf is blind. 
 
 x 5* 
 
 The very Eye betrays our inward fmart $ 
 
 Lcvc of himfelf left there a part, 
 
 When thorow it he paft into the Heart. 
 
 6 . 
 
 Or if by chance the Fact betray not it, 
 
 But keep the fecret wifely, yet, 
 
 Like Drunkennefs , into the Tongue ’twill .get 
 
 Looking OH) and difcourfmg with his Miftrefs. 
 
 i. 
 
 T FIefe full two hours now have T gazing been, 
 What comfort by it can I gain ? 
 
 To look on Heaven with mighty Uulfs between 
 Was the great Mrjers greateft pain , 
 
 So neer was he to Heavens delight, 
 
 As with the bleft converfe he might, 
 
 Yet could not get one drop of water by’t. 
 
The MIST RES 
 
 S. 
 
 2 . 
 
 Ah wretch ! I Teem to touch her now 3 but oh, 
 What boundlefs fpaces do us part ? 
 
 Fortune, and Friends , and all earths empty (how. 
 My Lownefs and her high Defert : 
 
 But theie might conquerable prove 5 
 Nothing does me fo far remove, 
 
 As her hard Souls aver ft on from my Love . 
 
 So Travellers , that lofe their way by night, 
 
 If from afar they chance t’efpy 
 Th’ uncertain glimmerings of a Tapers light, 
 Take flattering hopes, and think it nigh 
 Till wearied with the fruitlefs pain, 
 
 They fit them down, and weep in vain. 
 And there in Darfyefs and Defpair remain. 
 
 tffefofoed to LoVe. 
 
 \ 
 
 i 
 
 X Wonder what the Grave and Wife 
 Think of all us that Love 5 
 Whether our Pretty Fooleries 
 Their Mirth or Anger move 
 They underfiand not Breath , that Words does want 3 
 Our Sighs to them are unfignificant. 
 
 2. 
 
 One of them faw me th’ other day, 
 
 Touch the dear hand, which I admire 5 
 My Soul was melting ftrait away, 
 
 And dropt before the Fire. 
 
 This felly Wife mart, who pretends to know , 
 Ask’t why I look’d fo pale, and trembled fo } 
 
 Another from my Miftrefs’ dore 
 
 Saw me with eyes all watry come 3 
 Nor could the hidden caule explore, 
 
 But thought fome Jmoak was in the room 5 
 Such fa 'orance from unbounded Learning came 3 
 He knew Tears made by St»odk% but not by Flame . 
 
 CL 
 
 h 
 
The MISTRESS 
 
 5 6 
 
 If learn d in other things you be, 
 
 And have in Love no skill, 
 
 For God’s fake keep your arts from me, 
 
 For I’ll be ignorant (till. 
 
 Studj or Atiion others may embrace $ 
 
 My Love\ my Buflnefs , and my Books her Face. 
 
 3 - 
 
 Thefe are but trifles, I confefs, 
 
 Which me, weak Mortal, move 3 
 Nor is your bufle Serioufnefs 
 
 Lefs trifling than my Love. 
 
 The wifeft King who from his facred breft 
 Pronounc’d all Vanity, chofe it for the beft. 
 
 My Fate. 
 
 1. 
 
 G O bid the Needle his dear North forlake, 
 
 To which with trembling rev’erence it does bend 5 
 Go bid the Stones a journey upwards make 5 
 Go bid th’ ambitious Flame no more afcend : 
 
 And when thele falfe to their old Motions prove. 
 
 Then (hall I ceafe Thee , Thee alone to Love. 
 
 • * J ' * 
 
 • \ 
 
 2. 
 
 The faft-link’d Chain of everlafting Fate 
 
 Does nothing tye more ftrong, than Me to You $ 
 
 My fixt Love hangs not on your Love or Hatl \ 
 
 But will be (till the fame, what ere you do. 
 
 You cannot kill my Love with your difdain , 
 
 Wound it you may, and make it live in pain. 
 
 • • • . . r 
 
 3 - 
 
 Me, mine example let the Stoicks ufe, 
 
 Their fad and cruel doctrine to maintain, 
 
 Let all Pr<edefiinators me produce, 
 
 Who ftruggle with eternal bonds in vain. 
 
 This Fire I m born to, but ’tis (he muft tell, 
 
 Whether’t be Beams of Lleaven , or Flames of Hell. 
 
 4 * 
 
 You who mens fortunes in their faces read, 
 
 To find out mine , look not, alas, on Me 5 
 But mark her r ace, and all the features heed 5 
 For only there is writ my Defliny. 
 
 Or 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 
 Or if Stars (hew it, gaze not on the Skies 5 
 But ftudy the Aflrol'ogy of her Eyes. 
 
 5 - 
 
 If thou find there kind and propitious rays, 
 
 What Mars or Saturn threaten I’ll not fear 3 
 I well believe the Fate of mortal days 
 
 Is wfit in Heaven 3 but oh my heaven is there. 
 What can men learn from ftars they fcarce can fee ? 
 ’I wo great Lights rule the world 3 and her two , Me. 
 
 1 he Heart-breaking . 
 
 I T gave a piteous grone , and fo it broke 3 
 In vain it fomething would have fpoke : 
 
 The Love within too ftrong fort was, 
 
 Like Poyfon put into a Vhnice-Glafs . 
 
 2. 
 
 I thought that this fome Remedy might prove. 
 But, oh, the mighty Serpent Love , 
 
 Cut by this chance in pieces fmall. 
 
 In all ftill liv’d, and ftill it flung in all. 
 
 3 \ 
 
 And now (alas) each little broken part 
 feels the whole pain of all my Heart : 
 
 And every fmalleft corner ftill 
 Lives with that torment which the Whole did kflh 
 
 4 - 
 
 Even fo rude Armies when the field they quit, 
 And into feveral Quarters get 3 
 Each Troop does fpoil and ruine more, 
 
 Than all join d in one Body did before. 
 
 5 - 
 
 How many Loves raign in my bofom now ? 
 
 How many Loves , yet all of you ? 
 
 Thus have l chang’d with evil fate 
 My Monarch-Love into a Tyrant-State . 
 
 CLz 
 
 The 
 

 l 
 
 The MISTRESS. 
 
 The Usurpation. 
 
 T Hou’hadft to my Soul no title or pretence 3 
 I was mine own, and free, 
 
 Till I had givn my felf to Thee 5 
 But thou haft kept me Slave and Prifoner fince. 
 
 Well, fince fo infolent thourt grown, 
 Fond Tyrant, I’ll depofe thee from thy Throne 3 
 Such outrages muft not admitted be 
 In an Ele&ive Monarchy. 
 
 2. 
 
 Part of my Heart by Gift did to Thee fall 3 
 My Country, Kindred, and my bed 
 Acquaintance were to (bare the reft 3 
 But thou, their Covetous Neighbour, draveft out all : 
 
 Nay more 3 thou mak’ft me worfhip Thee , 
 And would’ft the rule of my Religion be 5 
 Was ever Tyrant claim’d fuch power as you, 
 
 To be both Emp'rour, and Pope too} 
 
 3 - 
 
 The public Mi feries, and my private fate 
 Deferve fome tears : but greedy Thou 
 (. Infitiate Maid ! ) wilt not allow 
 That I one drop from thee (hould alienate. 
 
 Nor wilt thou grant my fins a part, 
 
 Though the folecaufe of moft of them thou art, 
 Counting my Tears thy Tribute and thy Due t 
 Since firft mine Eyes I gave to Tou. 
 
 Thou all my Joys , and all my Hopes doft claim, 
 Thou rageft like a Fire in me, 
 
 Converting all things into Thee 3 
 Nought can refift, or not ehcreafe the Flame. 
 
 Nay every Grief and every Fear, 
 
 Thou doft devour, unlefs thy ftamp it bear. 
 
 Thy prefence, like the crowned Bafilisl^s breath, 
 All other Serpents puts to death. 
 
 As men in HdJ are from Difeafes free, 
 So from all other ills am 1 3 
 Free from their known Formality/: 
 
 But 
 
•59 
 
 The MISTRESS. 
 
 But all pains Eminently lye in 1 hee : 
 
 Alas, alas, I hope in vain 
 My conquer’d Soul from out thine hands to gain. 
 Since all the Natives there thou’ft overthrown, 
 And planted GaBifons of thine own. 
 
 Maidenhead. 
 
 T Hou voorU ejiate even of the fex that’s 
 Therefore by Nature made at firft, 
 T’attend the weaknefs of our birth ! 
 Slight, outward Curtain to the Nuptial Bed ! 
 Thou Cafe to buildings not yet finifhed ! 
 
 Who like the Center of the Earth, 
 Doft heavieft things attract to thee, 
 Though thou a point imaginary be. 
 
 2 . 
 
 A thing God thought for Mankind fo unfit, 
 That his firfi Blejfing ruin’d it. 
 
 Cold frozen Nurfe of fierceft fires ! 
 Who like the parched plains of Afric ^ s fand, 
 (A fteril, and a wild unlovely Land) 
 
 Art always fcorcht with hot defires, 
 Yet barren quite, didft thou not bring 
 Monfiers and Serpents forth thy felf to fting ! 
 
 Thou that bewitched: men, whilft thou doft dwell 
 Like a clofe Conjurer in his Cell l 
 And fear ft the days difcovering Eye ! 
 
 No wonder’tis at all that thou fhouldft be 
 Such tedious and unpleafant Company , 
 
 Who liv’ft (o Aldancholily ! 
 
 Thou thing of fubtile, llippery kind. 
 Which Women lofe , and yet no Man can find. 
 
 4 - 
 
 Although I think thou never found wilt be, 
 
 Yet fra refolv'd to fearch for thee } 
 
 The fearch it felf rewards the pains. 
 
 So though the Chymicl \ his great fecret mifi, 
 
 ( Eor neither it in Art nor Nature is ) 
 
 Yet things well worth his toyle he gafins ? 
 And does his Charge and Labour pay 
 With good unfought experiments by the way. 
 
 j 
 
6 o 
 
 The MISTRESS. 
 
 5 - . 
 
 Say what thou wilt, Chaflity is no more, 
 
 Thee, than a Porter is his Door. 
 
 In vain to honour they pretend, 
 
 Who guard themfelves with Ramparts: and with Walls, 
 Them only Fame the truly valiant calls 
 Who can an open breach defend. 
 
 Of thy quick lols can be no doubt, 
 
 Within fo Hated , and fo Lov'd without. 
 
 hnpojjlbilities . 
 
 i. 
 
 I MpoJJibilities <? oh no, there’s none 5 
 
 Could mine bring thy Heart Captive home 3 
 As eafi’Iy other dangers were o' rethrown^ 
 
 As Cafar after vanquifht Rome , 
 
 His little Afian foes did overcome. 
 
 2. 
 
 True Lovers oft by Fortune are envy ’d, 
 
 Oft Earth and Hell againft them ftrive 3 
 But Providence engages on their fide, 
 
 And a good end at laft does give 3 
 At laft J uji Men and Lovers always thrive. 
 
 3 - 
 
 As Jlars (not powerful elfe) when they conjoyn , 
 Change, as they pleafe, the Worlds eftate 3 
 So thy Heart in Conjunction with mine, 
 
 Shall our own fortunes regulate 3 
 And to our Stars themfelves prefcribe a Fate. 
 
 4 * 
 
 Twould grieve me much to find fome bold Romance , 
 That (hould two kind examples ihew. 
 
 Which before us in wonders did advance 3 
 Not that l thought that Jlory true , 
 
 But none fcould Fancy more , than I would Do. 
 
 5 * / 
 
 Through fpight of our worfl Enemies , thy Friends , 
 
 Through Local Banifljment from Thee 3 
 Through the loud thoughts of left-concerning Ends , 
 
 As eafie ftiall my pafi'age be, 
 
 As was the Amorous Youth's o’re He lies Sea. 
 
 In 
 
*- 
 
 The MISTRESS. 
 
 6 . 
 
 In vain the Winds , in vain the Billows rore 3 
 In vain the Stars their aid deny’d : 
 
 He faw the Sefiian Tower on th’ other (hore 3 
 Shall th’ He/lejpont our Loves divide ? 
 
 No, not th’ Atlantic k. Oceans boundlefs Tide. 
 
 » . 
 
 •: i i:- r n 
 
 7 - 
 
 Such Seas betwixt us eas’ly conquer’d are 5 
 But, gentle Maid , do not deny 
 To let thy Beams (bine on me from afar 3 
 And ftill the Taper let me efpy : 
 
 For when thy Light goes out, I fink and dye. 
 
 — 
 
 Silence, 
 
 Ai \ *.i 1 (d jy 
 
 _ •) ! 
 
 f'iUtfe on this longue , that has my Heart betray’d», 
 
 And his great Secret open laid ! 
 
 For of all perfons chiefly She 
 Should not the ills I fuffer know 3 
 Since ’tis a thing might dang’rous grow, 
 
 Only in Her to Pity Ale : 
 
 Snce ’tis for Ale to lofe my Lif more fit, 
 
 Than tis for Her to fave and ranfome it. 
 
 ff ; • 5 I ' 
 
 2. 
 
 Ah, never more (hall thy unwilling ear 
 My helplefs ftory hear. 
 
 Difcourfe and tul\ awake does keep 
 The rude unquiet pain, 
 
 That in my Breaft does raign 3 
 Silence perhaps may make it Jleep : 
 
 I’ll bind that Sore up, I did ill reveal 3 
 
 The Wound , if once it Clofe> may chance to HeaL 
 
 i H 
 
 3- # . :/c v . ■ i,*i > 
 
 No, ’twill ne’re heal 3 my Love will never dye 0 
 
 Though it (liould Jpeechlefs lye. 
 
 A River , e’re it meet the Sea , 
 
 As well might flay its lource, 
 
 As my Love can his courfe, 
 llnlefs it join and mix with Tr.ee. 
 
 If any end or flop of it be found, 
 
 We know the Flood runsflill, though under ground. 
 
The Mi STRESS. 
 
 The Dijfembler . 
 
 i. 
 
 U Nhurt, untoucht did I complain 3 
 
 And terrifi’ d all others with the pain : 
 
 But now I feel the mighty evil 3 
 Ah, there’s no fooling with the Devil ! 
 
 So wanton men, whilft others they would fright, 
 Themfelves have met a real Spright . 
 
 2. 
 
 I thought, 1*11 fwear, an handfom Ly 
 Had been no (in at all in Poetry : 
 
 But now I fuffer an Arreft , 
 
 For words were fpoke by me in je&. 
 
 Dull, fottilh God of Love, and can it be 
 Thou underftand’ft not Raillery £ 
 
 3 - 
 
 Darts , and Wounds , and Flame , and Heat, 
 
 I nam’d but for the Rhime , or the Conceit . 
 
 Nor meant my Verfe thould railed be, 
 
 To this lad fame of Prophefie 3 
 Truth gives a dull propriety to my ftile, 
 
 And all the Metaphors does Ipoil. 
 
 4 * 
 
 In things, where Fancy much does reign, 
 
 Tis dangerous too cunningly to feign 3 
 The Play at laft a Truth does grow, 
 
 And Cujlom into Nature go. 
 
 By this curft art of begging I became 
 Lame , with counterfeiting Lame. 
 
 5 * 
 
 iMy Lines of amorous defire 
 I wrote to kindle and blow others fire : 
 
 And twas a barbarous delight 
 My Fancy promis’d from the fight 3 
 But now, by Love , the mighty Phalaris , 1 
 My burning Bull the firft do try. 
 
 / 
 
 
The MISTRESS . 
 
 The Inconjlant. 
 
 t 
 
 I. 
 
 I Never yet could fee that face 
 Which had no dart for me 5 
 From fifteen years, to fifties fpace, 
 
 They all vi&orious be. 
 
 Love , thou’rt a Devil 5 if I may call theeO^e, 
 For fure in Me thy name is Legion . 
 
 xr } 
 
 Colour , or Shape , good Limbs , or 
 Goodncfe , or H 7 ** in all l find. 
 
 In Motion or in Speech a Grace, , 
 
 If all fail, yet ’tis Woman- kind 5 
 And I’m fo weak, the Pifiol need not be 
 Double , or charg'd to murder Me» 
 
 ->'1 ■' v L'o;: t ni jib 
 
 3- 
 
 If Ta#, the Name of Pr^/w* flays 3 
 If F air , (he’s pleafant as the JL/gfo 5 
 
 If Low, her Frettinefs does pleafe 3 
 If Black^i what Lover loves not Night ? 
 
 If Yellow-hair d , I Love, left it (hould be 
 Th’excufe to others for not loving Me, 
 
 >y 
 
 4 - 
 
 The Fat , like PA?«f/, fills my heart, 
 
 The Low, with Love makes me too fo. 
 
 If St r eight, her Body's Cupid's Dart 
 To me 3 if Crooked , ’tis his Bow, 
 
 Nay Age it felf does me to rage incline, 
 
 And ftrength to Women gives, as well as Wine, 
 
 5 - 
 
 Juft half as large as Charity 
 My richly landed Loves become 5 
 And judg’d aright is Constancy , 
 
 Though it take up a larger room: 
 
 Him, who loves always one , why (hould they call 
 More Conflant , than the Man loves Always all, 
 
 , n. . L» ■ M 
 
 J .1 
 
 Thus with unwearied wings I flee 
 Through all Love's Gardens and his Fields 5 
 And, like the wife, induftrious Per, 
 
 a . 
 
 v / * 
 
 V 
 
 
 
<4 The MISTRESS. 
 
 No Weed but Honey to me yields! 
 
 Honey ft ill (pent this dil’igence ft ill fupplies. 
 Though I return not home with laden Thighs . 
 
 My Soul at firft indeed did prove 
 Of pretty ftrength againft a Dart 5 
 Till I this Habit got of Lovej 
 
 But my confum’d and wafted Heart 
 Once burnt to Tinder with a ftrong Defire, 
 Since that by every Spark, is fet on fire. 
 
 The Conflant. 
 
 I. 
 
 G Reat, and wile Conqurour , who where e’re 
 Thou com ’ft, doft fortifie, and fettle there! 
 Who canft defend as well as get 3 
 And never hadft one Quarter beat up yet 3 
 Now thou art in, Thou ne’er wilt part 
 With one inch of my vanquilht Heart 3 
 For fince thou took’ft it by aftault from Me, 
 
 'Tis Garrfond fo ftrong with Thoughts of Thee , 
 
 It fears no beauteous Enemy. 
 
 Had thy charming ftrength been lefs, 
 
 I’had ferv’d e re this an hundred Miftreffes , 
 
 I’m better thus , nor would compound 
 To leave my Prison to be a Vagabound. 
 
 A Prison in which I ftill would be, 
 
 Though every door ftood ope to Me. 
 
 In fpight both of thy Coldnefs and thy Pride 9 
 All Love is Marriage on thy foyers fide , 
 
 For only Death can them divide. 
 
 3 * 
 
 Clofe, narrow Chain , yet foft and kind, 
 
 As that which Spirits above to good does bind, 
 Gentle, and fweet Necejjity , 
 
 Which does not force, but guide our Liberty ! 
 Tour Love on Me were fpent in vain. 
 
 Since my Love ftill could but remain 
 Juft as it is 3 for what, alas, can be 
 Added to that which hath Infinity 
 Both in Extent and Quality .<? 
 
 a/S 
 
 
 
 * 
 
 * >> 
 
 Her 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 / 
 
 Her ^[ame. 
 
 / 
 
 I. 
 
 W ith more than Jewiflj Reverence as yet 
 Do I the Sacred Name conceal 3 
 When, ye kind Stars , ah when will it be fit 
 This Gentle MyfAery to reveal .<? 
 
 When will our Love be Namd , and we pofiefs 
 That Chriflning as a Badge of Happinefs ? 
 
 2. 
 
 So bold as yet no Verfe of mine has been, 
 
 To wear that Gem on any Line 5 
 Nor, till the happy Nuptial Mufi befeen, 
 
 Shall any Stanza with it (bine. 
 
 Reft, mighty Name , till then , for thou muft be 
 Laid down by Her , e’re takyn up by Ale. 
 
 3 • 
 
 Then all the fields and woods (hall with it ring 5 * 
 Then Echoes burden it (hall be 5 
 Then all the Birds in fev’eral notes (hall (ing, 
 
 And all the Rivers murmur Thee 5 
 Then ev’ry wind the Sound (hall upwards bear, 
 And foftly whifper’t to fbme Angels Ear. 
 
 4 - 
 
 Then (hall thy Name through all my Verfe be fpread, 
 Thick as the flowers in Meadows lye, 
 
 And when in future times they (hall be read, 
 (Asfure, I think, they will not dye) 
 
 If any Critic^ doubt that They be mine , 
 
 Men by that Stamp (hall quickly know the Coyn . 
 
 5 - 
 
 Mean while I will not dare to makpzName 
 To reprefent thee by j 
 Adam (God r s Nomenclator ) could not frame 
 One that enough (hould (tgnifie. 
 Aftraa or C<elia as unfit would prove 
 For Thee , as ’tis to call the Deity , Jove. 
 
66 
 
 The MISTRESS. 
 
 Weeding. 
 
 I. 
 
 S EE where (he fits, and in what comely wife, 
 Drops Tears more fair than others Byes! 
 Ah, charming Maid, let not id-FortuneCee 
 Th’ attire thy forrows wears, 
 
 Nor know the beauty of thy Tears : 
 
 For (hee’l ftill come to drefs her felf in Thee . 
 
 2. 
 
 As /iars refleft on waters, fo I fpy 
 
 In every drop (methinks) her Eye. 
 
 The Baby , which lives there, and always plays 
 In that illuftrious Jpb<ere , 
 
 Like a Narciffus does appear, 
 
 Whilft in his flood the lovely Boy did gaze. 
 
 3 * 
 
 Ne’re yet did I behold fo glorious weather, 
 
 Asthi sSun-Jhine and Kain together. 
 
 Pray Heav’en her Forehead, that pure Hid of [now, 
 (For fome fuch Fountain we muft find, 
 
 To waters of fo fair a kind) 
 
 Melt not, to feed that beauteous Stream below. 
 
 4 ' 
 
 Ah, mighty Love, that it were inward Heat 
 Which made this precious Limbeck^ iweat 1 
 But what, alas, ah what does it avail 
 
 That (he weeps Tears fo wondrous cold, 
 
 As fcarce the AJfes hoof can hold. 
 
 So cold, that I admire they fall not Hail. 
 
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 ‘Difcretion. 
 
 D lfcreet ? what means this word Difcreet $ 
 A Curfe on all Diferetion ! 
 
 This barbarous term you will not meet 
 In all Love's- Lexicon. 
 
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 Joynture, Portion, Gold, Eftate, 
 
 Houfes, Houlhold-ftuff, or Land, 
 (The Low Conveniences of Fate) 
 
 Are Greeks no Lovers underhand, 
 
 3 - 
 
 Believe me, beauteous one, when Love 
 Enters into a breft, 
 
 The two firft things it does remove, 
 
 Are Friends and Interefi . 
 
 4 * 
 
 Pajjion s half blind, nor can endure 
 The careful, fcrup’lous £/*/, 
 
 Or elfel could not love, I’m fure, 
 
 One who in Love were wife. 
 
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 Men, in fuch tempefts toft about, 
 
 Will, without grief or pain, 
 
 Caft all their goods and riches out, 
 
 Themfelves their Port to gain. 
 
 6 . 
 
 As well might Martyr /, who do choofe, 
 
 That facred Death to take, 
 
 Mourn for the Clothes which they rauft lofe. 
 
 When they’re bound naked to the Stake. 
 
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 The Waiting’Maid. 
 
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 X HY Maid .<? ah find fome nobler theme 
 Whereon thy doubts to place 5 
 Nor by a low fufpeft hlafpheme 
 The glories of thy face. 
 
 2. 
 
 Alas, (he makes thee (hine fo fair, 
 
 So exquifitely bright, 
 
 That her dim Lamp muft difappear 
 Before thy potent Light. 
 
 Three 
 
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 The MISTRESS. 
 
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 Three hours each morn in dreffing Thee, 
 Malicioufiy are (pent. 
 
 And make that Beauty Tyranny , 
 
 That’s elfe a Civil Government. 
 
 4 
 
 The ’adorning thee with fo much art, 
 Is but a barbarous skill 5 . 
 
 Tis like the poys'oning of a Dart 
 Too apt before to kill. 
 
 5 
 
 The Min* i firing Angels none can fee 3 
 ’Tis not their beauty ’or face, 
 
 For which by men they worfhipt be 3 
 
 But their high Office and their place. 
 Thou art my Goddefs , my Saint, She 3 
 
 I pray to Her , only to pray to Thee. 
 
 1 
 
 A H ! what advice can I receive .<? 
 
 No, fatisfie me -firft 3 
 For who would Fhyftck: potions give 
 To one that dyes with Tbirfi ? 
 
 2 
 
 A little puff of breath we find, 
 
 Small fires can quench and kyll 3 
 But when they’re great, the adverfe wind 
 Does make them greater drill. 
 
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 Now, whilft you fpeak, it moves me much 3 
 
 But ftraight I’m juit the fame 5 
 Alas, th’ effeft muft needs be fuch 
 
 Of Cutting through a Flat 
 
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The MISTRESS. 
 
 T he Qnre. 
 
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 C Ome, Doff or, ufe thy rougheft Art, 
 
 Thou canft not cruel prove 3 
 Cur, burn, and torture every part, 
 
 To heal me of my Love . 
 
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 2. 
 
 There is rio danger if the pain 
 Should me to a Fever bring 5 
 Compar’d with Heats l now fuftain, 
 
 A Fever is fo Cool a thing, 
 
 (Like drinks which feaverilh men defire) 
 
 That I (hould hope ’twould almoft quench my Fire . 
 
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 7 he Separation. 
 
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 A S K me not what my Love (hall do or be 
 
 ( Love which is Soul to Body , and Soul of Me) 
 
 When I am fep'arated from thee 3 
 Alas, I might as eafily (how, 
 
 What after Death the Spul will do 3 
 ’Twill lafi , I’me fure, and that is all we know. 
 
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 The thing call’d SohI will never ftir nor move, 
 
 But all that while a livelefs Carcass prove, 
 
 For ’tis the Body of my Love 3 
 Not that my Love will fly away, 
 
 But (fill continue, 'as, they fay, : i;v . 
 
 Sad troubled Ghojis about their Graves do ftray. 
 
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 The MISTRESS. 
 
 The Tree. 
 
 I. 
 
 I Chofe the flouri’fhing’ft Tree in all the Park, 
 With frefheft Boughs, and faireft Head 3 
 I cut ray Love into his gentle Bark, 
 
 And in three days, behold, 'tis deads, 
 
 My very written Flames Co violent be, 
 
 They’ve burnt and wither'd up the Tree. 
 
 How (hould I live my felf, whofe Heart is found 
 Deeply graven every where, 
 
 With the large Hi/lory of many a Wound , 
 Larger than thy Trunks can bear? 
 
 With Art a9 ftrange, as Homer in the Nut , 
 Love in my Heart has Volumes put. 
 
 What a few words from thy rich ftock did take 
 The Leaves and Beauties all ? 
 
 As a ftrong Poyfon with one drop does make 
 The Nails and Hairs to fall .* 
 
 Love ( I fee now ) a kind of Witchcraft is, 
 
 Or CharaUers could ne’er do this. 
 
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 Pardon, ye Birds and Nymphs, who lov’d this Shade 3 
 And pardon me, thou gentle Trees 
 I thought her Name would thee have happy made, 
 
 And bleffed Omens hop’d from Thee 3 
 Notes of my Love , thrive here ( faid I ) and grow 3 
 And with ye let my Love do fo. ; 
 
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 5 * 
 
 Alas, poor Youth, thy Love will never thrive ! 
 
 This blafted Tree Predefines it 3 
 Go, tye the difmal Knot (why (hould ’ft thou live ? ) 
 
 And by the Lines thou there haft writ 
 Deform’d ly hanging, the fad Figure be 
 To that unluckly Hiftory . 
 
 Her 
 
 1 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 Her Unbelief 
 
 i. 
 
 ^ *5 S a ftrange kind of Ignorance this in you ! 
 % That you your li&ories fhould not fpy, 
 Vidfories gotten by your Eye ! 
 
 That your bright Bean/s as thofe of Cowets do, 
 
 Should kill, but not know How, nor Who . 
 
 2 # 
 
 That truly you my Idol might appear, 
 
 Whilft all the People fmeil and fee 
 The odorous flames, 1 offer thee, 
 
 Thoufit’ft, and doft not fee, nor fmeil, nor hear 
 Thy conflant zealous rvorfkipper. 
 
 3- 
 
 They fee*t too well who at my fires repine, 
 
 Nay th’ unconcern’d themfelves do prove 
 Quick-Ey’d enough to fpy my Love j 
 Nor does the Caufe in thy Face clearlier (bine. 
 
 Than the EffitB appears in mine . 
 
 4- ? 
 
 Fair Infidel ! by what unjuft decree 
 
 Muft f, who with fuch reftlefs care 
 Would make this truth to thee appear, 
 
 Muft I, who preach it, and pray for it, be 
 Damn'd by thy incrednlitie £ 
 
 5- 
 
 I by thy Unbelief am guiltlefs (lain 5 
 
 Oh have but Faith, and then that you 
 May know that Faith for to be true, 
 
 It (hall it felf by a Miracle maintain, 
 
 And raife me from the Dead again. 
 
 6 . 
 
 Mean while my Hopes may feem to be o’rethrown ^ , 
 
 But Lovers Hopes are full of Art-, 
 
 And thus difpute, that iince my heart 
 Though in thy Breaft , yet is not by thee known, 
 
 Perhaps thou may’ft not know thine Own. 
 
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 The MISTRESS. 
 
 The Gamers. 
 
 i. 
 
 C Ome let’s goon, where Love and Youth does call 5 
 I’ve feen too much, if this be all , . 
 
 Alas, how far more wealthy might 1 be 
 With a contented lgn orant P overtie ? 
 
 To (hew fuch ftores, and nothing grant, 
 
 Is to enrage and vex my want. 
 
 For Love to Dye an Infant's lcfler ill, 
 
 Than to live long, yet live in Child-hood ftill. 
 
 2. 
 
 We ’have both fate gazing only hitherto, 
 
 As Man and Wife in PiBure do. 
 
 The richeft crop of Joy is ftill behind. 
 
 And He who only Sees, in Love is blind. 
 
 So at firft Pigmalion lov’d, 
 
 But th’ Amour at laft improv’d, 
 
 The Statue ’it felf at laft a Woman grew, 
 
 And fo at laft, ray Dear, fhould you do too. 
 
 _ 3 * 
 
 Beauty to man the greateft Torture is, 
 
 llnlels it lead to farther blifs 
 Beyond the tyran’ous pleafures of the Eye. 
 
 It grows too Jerious a Crueltie , 
 
 Unlefs it Heal as well as ftrike 5 
 I would not, Salamander like. 
 
 In fcorching heats always to Live defire, 
 
 But like a Martyr , pals to Heaven through Fire. 
 
 4 * 
 
 Mark how the lufty Sun falutes the Spring, 
 
 And gently kifles every thing. 
 
 His loving Beams unlock each maiden flower, 
 Search all the Treajures , all the Sweets devour : 
 Then on the earth with Bridegroom- Heat, 
 He does ftill new Flowers beget. 
 
 The Sun himfelf, although all Eye he be, 
 
 Can find in Love more Pleafure than to fee. 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 73 
 
 The Incurable. 
 
 i. 
 
 I Try’d if Books would cure my Love, but found 
 Love made them Non-fenfe all. 
 
 I'appJy’d Receipts of Bufinefs to my wound, 
 
 But ftirring did the pain recall. 
 
 2. 
 
 As well might men who in a Feaver fry, 
 Mathematique doubts debate, 
 
 As well might men, who mad in darknefs ly, 
 
 Write the Dijpatches of a State . 
 
 3 - 
 
 I try’d Devotion, Sermons , frequent Prayer , 
 
 But thofe did worfe than «/£/<?// prove 5 
 For Prayers are turn’d to in thofe who are 
 Out of Charity , or in Lewe. 
 
 4 * 
 
 I try’d in Wine to drown the mighty care 5 
 But Wine , alas, was 0)1 to th’ fire. 
 
 Like Drunkards eyes, my troubled Fancy there 
 Did double the Defire. 
 
 5 - 
 
 I try’d what Mirth and Gayety would do, 
 
 And mixt with pleafant Companies 5 
 My Mirth did gracelefs and infipid grow. 
 
 And bove a Clinch it could not rife. 
 
 6 . 
 
 Nay, God forgive me fort, at laffc I try’d, 
 
 ’Gainft this fome new deftre to ftir, 
 
 And lov’d again, but ’twas where I efpy’d 
 Some faint Refemblances of Her . 
 
 7 - 
 
 The Phyfick. made me worfe with which I ftrove 
 This Mortal III t’ expell, 
 
 As wholefome Med'icines the Difeafe improve, 
 
 There where they work, not well. 
 
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 Honour. 
 
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 The MISTRESS. 
 
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 Honour. 
 
 i. 
 
 S HE Loves , and fhe confeffes too 5 
 There’s then at laft, no more to do. 
 The happy worlds entirely done j 
 Enter the Town which thou haft won , 
 The Fruits of Conqueft now begin 5 
 Id Triumph / Enter in. 
 
 2. 
 
 What’s this, ye Gods , what can it be ? 
 Remains there ftill an Enemie .<? 
 
 . Bold Honour ftands up in the Gate, 
 
 And would yet Capitulate $ 
 
 Have I o’recome all real foes. 
 
 And (hall this Phantome me oppofe ? 
 
 3 - 
 
 Noify Nothing ! ft allying Shade ! 
 
 By what Witchcraft wert thou made > 
 Empty caufe of Solid harms ! 
 
 But I (hall find out Counter-Charms 
 Thy airy Devil- fhip to remove 
 From this Circle here of Love. 
 
 4 * 
 
 Sure I (hall rid my felf of Thee 
 By the Nights obfcurity , 
 
 And obfcurer fecrefte. 
 
 Unlike to every other fpright , 
 
 Thou attempt’d: not men t’ affright, 
 
 Nor appear ft but in the Light . 
 
 
 The Innocent III . 
 
 1. 
 
 T Hough all thy geftures and difcourfes be 
 Coyn’d and ftamp’d by Modeftie , 
 
 Though from thy Tongue ne’re dipt away 
 One word which Nuns at th’ Altar might not fay, 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 75 
 
 Yet fuch a fweetnefs fuch a grace 
 In all thy fpeech appear, 
 
 That what to th % Eye a beauteous face^ 
 That thy Tongue is to th' Ear. 
 
 So cunningly it v, >unds the heart, 
 
 It ftrikes fuch heat through every part, 
 That thou a Tempter worle than Satan art. 
 
 2 
 
 Though in thy thoughts fcarce any tracks have bin 
 So much as of Original Sin, 
 
 Such charms thy Beauty wears as might 
 Defires in dying confeft Saints excite. 
 
 Thou with ftrange Adulterie 
 Doft in each breaft a Brothel keep 3 
 Awake all men do luft for thee, 
 
 And fome enjoy thee when they fleep* 
 Ne’re before did Woman live, 
 
 Who to fuch Multitudes did give 
 The Root and caufe of Sin , but only Eve . 
 
 3 \ 
 
 Though in thy breaft fo quick a Pity be, 
 
 That a Flies Death's a wound to thee. 
 Though favage, and rock-hearted thofe 
 Appear, that weep not ev’en Romances woes. 
 
 Yet ne’re before was Tyrant known, 
 Whole rage was of fo large extent, 
 The ills thou doft are whole thine own, 
 Thou’rt Principal and Injirument, 
 
 In all the deaths that come from you, 
 
 You do the treble Ojfice do 
 Of Judge, of Tort urer , and of Weapon too. 
 
 4. 
 
 Thou lovely Infirument of angry Fate , 
 
 Which God did for our faults create ! 
 Thou Pleafant , Dniverfal III , 
 
 Which fweet as Health , yet like a Plague doft kytt l 
 Thou kind, well-natured Tyrannie ! 
 Thou chaft committer of a Rape l 
 Thou voluntary Defiinie , 
 
 Which no man Can , or Would efcape ! 
 So gentle, and fo glad to fpare. 
 
 So wondrous good, and wondrous fair, 
 (We know) even the Defiroying Angels are. 
 
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 DIALOGUE. 
 
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 1\ 7 Hat ^ ave we ^ one • vvhat cruel paflion mov’d thee, 
 V V Thus to rume her that lov’d thee ? 
 
 Me thou halt robb'ed, but what art thou 
 Thy Self the richer now ? 
 
 Shame fucceeds the Lhort* liv’d pleafire 5 
 So foon is fpent, and gone, this thy Ill-gotten Treafire . 
 
 2. 
 
 He. We ’have done no harm 5 nor was it Theft in me. 
 
 But nobleft Charity in Thee. 
 
 I’ll the well-gotten Pleafire 
 Safe in my Menfory Treafure 5 
 
 What though the Flower it felf do waft, 
 
 The Effence from it drawn does long and fweeter laft. 
 
 3 - 
 
 She. No : I’m undone 5 my Honour Thou haft (lain. 
 
 And nothing can reftore’t again. 
 
 Art and Labour to beftow 
 Upon the Carcafe of it now, 
 
 Is but t’ embalm a body dead, 
 
 The Figure may remain, the Life and Beauty's fled. 
 
 4 * 
 
 He. Never, my dear, was Honour yet undone, 
 
 By Love , but lndifcretion. 
 
 To th’ wife it all things does allow 5 
 And cares not What we do * but How. 
 
 Like Tapers ftiut in ancient Urns , 
 
 Unlefs it* let in air , for ever fiines and burns . 
 
 5 * 
 
 She. Thoufirfi perhaps who didft the fault commit, 
 
 Wilt make thy wicked boaft of it. 
 
 For Men, with Roman pride , above 
 The Conqueft , do the Triumph love : 
 
 Nor think a perfect JiEio’ry gain’d, 
 
 Unlefs they through the Jlreets their Captive lead enchain’d. 
 
The M ISTRESS. 
 
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 6 . 
 
 Who e’re hisfecret joys has open laid, * He, 
 
 The Baud to his own Wife is made. 
 
 Bdide what boait is left for me, 
 
 Whole whole wealth's a Gift from Thee $ 
 
 Tis you the Conqueronr are, tis you 
 Who have not only lane, but bound, and gagged me too. 
 
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 Though publick pun’ilhment we efcape, the&« She, 
 
 Will rack and torture us within: 
 
 Gw't and Sw our bofbm bears 
 
 And though fair, yet the Fruit appears, 
 
 Th:.t Worm which now the Core does waft, 
 
 When long t’has gnaw’d within will break the sfyn at laft. 
 
 8 . 
 
 ' That thirfty Drink^, that Hungry Food I fought, He, 
 
 That wounded Bain/, is all my fault. 
 
 And thou in pity didft apply 
 The kind and only remedy : 
 
 The Caufe abfolves the Crime 5 fince Me 
 So mighty Force did move, fo mighty Goodnefs Thee, 
 
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 Curfe on thine Arts ! methinks I Hate thee now 5 She, 
 
 And yet I’m fure I love Thee too ! 
 
 I’m angry , but my wrath will prove 
 IViore Innocent than did thy Love. 
 
 Thou haft this day undone me quite j 
 Yet wilt undo me more fhould’ft thou not come at night. 
 
 Verfes loft upon a Wager. 
 
 1. 
 
 A S foon hereafter will I wagers lay, 
 
 ’Gainft what an Oracle (hall fay. 
 
 Fool, that I was, to venture to deny 
 A Tongue fo us’d to ViBory ! 
 
 A Tongue fo bleft by Nature and by Art , 
 
 That never yet it fpoke but gain’d an Heart : 
 Though what you faid, had not been true 
 If fpoke by any elfe but you. 
 
 Your ipeech will govern Deftiny , 
 
 And Fate will change rather than^<?« (hould Ly. 
 
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The mistress. 
 
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 'Fi' true if Humane Reafon were the Guide, 
 Reafon , methinks, was on my fide, 
 
 But that’s a Guide , alas, we itiuft refign, 
 
 When th’ Authority's Divine. 
 
 She faid, (he faid htrfelf it would be fo 3 
 And bold unbeliever , anfwer’d No, 
 
 Never fo juftly fure before 
 Errour the name oF BHndnefs bore, 
 f or what foe re the Question be, 
 
 There’s no man that has eyes would bet for Me. 
 
 3 * 
 
 If Truth it fclf (as other Angels do 
 When they defcend to humane view) 
 
 In a Material Form would daign to ftiine, 
 ’Twould imitate or borrow Thine, 
 
 So daze-ling bright, yet fb tranfparent clear, 
 
 So well proportion’d would the parts appear 3 
 Happy the eye which Truth could lee 
 Cloath’d in a Jhape like Thee , 
 
 But happier far the eye 
 Which could thy [/jape nailed lihg druth efpy ! 
 
 4 * 
 
 Yet this loft wager cofts me nothing more 
 Than what I owed to thee before. 
 
 Who would not venture for that debt to play 
 Which He were bound howe re to pay <? 
 
 If Nature gave me power to write in verie, 
 
 She gave it me thy praifes to reherfe. 
 
 Thy wondrous Beauty and thy Wit 
 Has fucli a Sovereign Right to it, 
 
 That no Mans Muje for publique vent is free, 
 Till fhe has paid her Cujioms firft to Thee. 
 
 Bathing in the tf^iver. 
 
 1. 
 
 H E fifl) around her crowded, as they do 
 To the falfe light that treacherous Fifhers (hew, . 
 And all with as much eafe might taken be, 
 
 As fhe at firft took me. 
 
 For ne’re did Light fo clear 
 Among the waves appear, 
 
 Though ev’ery night the Sun himfelf fet there. 
 
 Why 
 
The MISTRESS. 
 
 2 . 
 
 Why to Mute Fijh (hould’ft thou thy felf difcover, 
 And not to me thy no lels filent Lover? 
 
 As fome from Men their buried Gold commit 
 To Ghofts that have no ufe of it ! 
 
 Half their rich treafures fo 
 Maids bury , and for ought we know 
 (Poor Ignorant s') they re Mermaids all below . 
 
 , 3 ' 
 
 The amo’rous Waves would fain about her ftay, 
 But ftill new anforous waves drive them away, 
 
 And with fwift current to thofe joys they hafte. 
 That do as fwiftly wafte, 
 
 1 laught the wanton play to view, 
 
 But 7 tis, alas, at Land fo too, 
 
 And ftill old Lovers yield the place to new . 
 
 4 * 
 
 Kifs her, and as you part, you amorous Waves 
 (My happier Rivals , and my fellow J laves ) 
 
 Point to your flowry banks, and to her (hew 
 The good your Bounties do $ 
 
 Then tell her what your Pride doth coft. 
 
 And how your ufe and beauty's loft. 
 
 When rig’orous Winter binds you up with Frojf . 
 
 5 - 
 
 Tell her, her Beauties and her Touth, like Thee 
 Hafte without ftop to a devouring Sea 5 
 Where they will mixt and undijlinguijht ly 
 With all the meaneft things that dy . 
 
 As in the Ocean Thou 
 No priviledge doft know 
 Above th’ impureft Jlreams that thither flow. 
 
 6 . 
 
 Fell her, kind flood, when this has made herfad, 
 fell her there’s yet one Remedy to be had 5 
 Shew her how thou, though long fine epaft, doft find 
 Thy felf yet ftill behind , ( 
 
 Marriage (fay to her) wHl bring 
 About the felf- fame thing. 
 
 But (he, fond Maid, jhuts and feals up the Jpring. 
 
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 Th e MISTRESS. 
 
 Love riven over . 
 
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 I T is enough $ enough of time, and pain 
 
 Haft thou confum’d in vain j 
 Leave, wretched Cowley , leave 
 Thy felf with fiadows to deceive 3 
 Think that already lojl which thou muft never gain, 
 
 2. 
 
 Three of thy luftieft and thy frelheft years 
 (Toft in ftorms of Hopes and Fears ) 
 
 Like helplefs Ships that be 
 Set on fire i’th’ midft o’the Sea, 
 
 Have all been burnt in Love , and all been drown d its Tears . 
 
 3’ 
 
 Refolve then on it, and by force or art 
 Free thy unlucky Heart 5 
 Since Fate does difapprove 
 Th’ ambition of thy Love. 
 
 And not one Star in heav’n offers to take thy part. 
 
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 If e’re I clear my Heart from this defire. 
 
 If e’re it home to its breaft retire, 
 
 It ne’re ftiall wander more about, 
 
 Though thoufand beauties call’d it out : 
 
 A Lover burnt like me for ever dreads the fire. 
 
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 The Pox , the Plague , and every fmall dtfeaje 
 May come as oft as ill Fate pleale 5 
 But Death and Love are never found 
 To give a Second Wound , 
 
 We’re by thofe Serpents bit , but we’re devour'd by the(e a 
 
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 Alas, what comfort is’t that I am grown 
 Secure of be’ing again o’rethrovvn > 
 
 Since fuch an Enemy needs not fear 
 Left any elfe (hould quarter there, 
 
 Who has not only Sacl(t , but quite burnt down the Town . 
 
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 I F a man ftiould undertake to tranflate Pindar word for 
 word, it would bethought that one Mad man had transi- 
 ted another $ as may appear, when he that underfunds not 
 the Original, reads the verbal Tradudtion of him into La- 
 tin Profe , than which nothing teems more Raving. And 
 fure, Rhyme* without the addition of IV it, and the Spirit of Poetry 
 ( quod nequeo monjirare & fentio tantum ) would but make it ten 
 times more Diftratfed than it is in Profe. We muft confider in P/n- 
 dar the great difference ot time betwixt his age and ours, which 
 changes, as in Pictures , at leaft the Colours of Poetry, the no left 
 difference betwixt the Religions and Customs of our Country es, and 
 a thoufand particularities of places, perfons, and manners, which 
 do but confufedly appear to our Eyes at fo great a diftance. And 
 laftly ( which were enough alone for my purpofe) we muft con- 
 fider that our Ears are ftrangers to the Mufick of his Numbers 5 
 which fometimes (efpecially in Songs and Odes') almoft without a- 
 ny thing elfe, makes an excellent Poet $ for though the Grammari- 
 ans and Criticks have laboured to reduce his Verfes into regular 
 feet and meafures (as they have alfo thofe of the Greeks and Latin 
 Comedies ) yet in etfedt they are little better than Profe to our ears. 
 And I would gladly know what applaufe our beft pieces of En - 
 glifh Poefee could expect from a Frenchman or Italian , if converted 
 faithfully, and word for word, into French or Italian Profe. And 
 when we have confidered all this, we muft needs confeft, that af- 
 ter all thefe Ioffes fuftained by Pindar, all we can add to him by 
 our wit or invention ( not deferting (fill his fubjedf) is not like to 
 make him a Richer man than he was in his ovon Country . This is in 
 fome meafure to be applied to all Iranflations 5 and the not obfer- 
 ving of it, is the caufe that all which ever I yet faw, are fomuch in- 
 feriour to their Originals. The like happens too in Pifturcs, from 
 the fame root of exadt Imitation } which being a vile and unwor- 
 thy kind oi Servitude , is incapable of producing any thing good 
 or noble. I have feen Originals both in Painting and Poefie , much 
 more beautiful than their natural Objects 5 but i never faw a Copy 
 better than the Original , which indeed cannot be otherwife } fer 
 men refolving in no cafe to fhoot beyond the Marl f it is a thoufand 
 
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 to one if they (hoot not port of it. It does not at all trouble me 
 that the Grammarians perhaps will not fufferthis libertine way of 
 rendring foreign Authors, to be called Tranjlation 5 for I am not 
 fo much enamoured of the Name Travjlator , as not to vvifh rather 
 to be Something Better , though it want yet a Name. I (peak notfo 
 much all this, in defence of my manner of Tranftating , or Imitating 
 for what other Title they pleafe) the twoenfuing Odes of Pindar 5 
 for that would not deferve half thefe words, as by this occafion 
 to re&ifie the opinion of divers men upon this matter. The Pfalms 
 of David , (which l believe to have been in their Original , to the 
 Hebrews of his time, though not to our Hebrews of Buxtorfius s 
 making, the moft exalted pieces of Poejie ) are a great example of 
 what I have faid 3 all the Tranjlators of which (even Mr. Sands 
 himfelf 5 for in defpight of popular errour, I will be bold not to 
 except him) for this very realon, that they have not fought to fup- 
 ply the loft Excellencies of another Language with new ones in 
 their own 3 are fo far from doing honour, or at leaft juftice to that 
 Divine Poet , that methinks, they revile him worfe than Shimei . 
 And Bucanan himfelf (though much the beft of them all, and in- 
 deed a great Perfon) comes in my opinion no lefs fhort of David , 
 than his Country does of J ud<ea. Upon this ground, I have in thefe 
 two Odes of Pindar , taken, left out, and added what I pleafe 5 nor 
 make it fo much my aim to let the Reader know precifely what 
 he fpoke, as what was his way and manner of fpeaking , which has 
 not been yet (that I know of) introduced into Englifl ), though it 
 be the nobleft and higheft kind of writing inVerfe, and which 
 might, perhaps, be put into the Lift of Pancirollus , among the loft. 
 Inventions of Antiquity . This Bjjay is but to try how it will look 
 in an Engliflj Habit : for which experiment, I have chofen one of 
 his Olympique , and another of his Neme&an Odes 5 which are as 
 followeth. 
 
 THE 
 
Written in praife of Theron Prince of Agrigentum (a fa m on s City 
 in Sicily built by his Anceftors ) who in the feventy feventh Olym- 
 pique won the Chariot* prize. He is commended from the Nobility 
 of his Race (whofe jiory is often toucht on) front his great Riches 
 fan ordinary Common-Place in Pindar) from his Hofpitality 
 Munificence, and other Virtues. The Ode (according to the con- 
 fiant cuftom of the Poet) con ft Us more in Digreffions,. than in the 
 main fnbjed : And the Reader muji not be chocqned to hear him 
 fpeai { fo often of his own Mufe 3 for that is a Liberty which this 
 kind of Poetry can hardly live without . 
 
 ODE 
 
 1. 
 
 1 jf*"**^ Veen of all Harmonious thing?, 
 
 Dancing I lords, and Speaking Strings, 
 
 B What God , what Hero wilt thou fing ? 
 
 2 What happy Man to equal glories bring > 
 
 Begin, begin thy noble choice, 
 
 And let the Hills around reded the Image of thy Voice. 
 
 3 Pifa does to Jove belong, 
 
 Jove and Pifa claim thy Song. 
 
I 
 
 T1NDAR1QVE ODES 
 
 4 The fair Firji- fruits of liar, th’ Olympique Games, 
 
 • Alcides offered up to Jove 5 
 Alcides too thy firings may move 5 . 
 
 But, oh, what Man to join with thefe can worthy prove 
 join Theron boldly to their (acred Names 5 
 Theron the next honour claims 5 
 Theron to no man gives place, 
 
 Is firft in Pifa's, and in Virtue's Race 5 
 Theron there, and he alone, 
 
 Ev’n his own fwift Forefathers has outgone. 
 
 1 They through rough ways,o’re many fiops they paff, 
 
 Till on the fatal bank at laft 
 
 2 They Agrigentum built, the beauteous Eye 
 
 Of fair-fac ed Sicilie , 
 
 Which does it (elf i’th’ River by 
 With Pride and Joy efpy. 
 
 Then chearful Notes their Painted Tears did fing, 
 
 And Wealth was one, and Honour th’ other Wing. 
 
 Their genuine Virtues did more fweet and clear, 
 
 In Fortunes graceful drefs appear. 
 
 3 To which great Son of Rhea , fay 
 The Firm Word which forbids things to Decay . 
 
 If in Olympus Top , where Thou 
 Sit’d: to behold thy Sacred Show, 
 
 4 If in Alpheus filver flight, 
 
 If in my Verfe thou doft delight, 
 
 My Verfe, O Rhea 7 s Son, which is 
 Lofty as that, and fmooth as This. 
 
 For the p3ft fufferings of this noble Race 
 (Since things once paft , and fled out of thine hand. 
 Hearken no more to thy command ) 
 
 Let prefent joys fill up their place, 
 
 1 And with Oblivions Jtlent ftrokg deface 
 
 Of foregone Ills the very trace. 
 
 In no illuftrious line 
 Do thele happy changes (hine 
 More brightly Theron than in thine. 
 
 2 So in the Cryftal P allaces 
 Of the blue-ey’d Nereide r 
 
 lno her endlefs youth does pleafe, 
 
 And thanks her fall into the Seas. 
 
 3 Beauteous Semele does no lefi 
 Her cruel Midwife Thunder blefs, 
 
 Whilft fporting with the Gods on high, 
 
 4 She’enjoys fecure their Company, 
 
 Plays with Light' nings as they fly, 
 
 Nor trembles at the bright Embraces of the Deity , 
 
TlNDAKlQVE ODES. 3 
 
 4 * 
 
 But Death did them from future dangers free. 
 
 What God (alas) will Caution be 
 For Living Mans fecuritie, 
 
 Or will enfure our Veffel in this faithlefs Sea £ 
 
 Never did the Sun as yet 
 So healthful a fair day beget, 
 
 1 That Travelling Mortals might rely on it. 
 
 But Fortunes favour and her Spight 
 Rowl with alternate Waves like Day and Night « 
 
 Vicijfi tudes which thy great race purfue, 
 
 2 Ere fince the fatal Son his Father flew, 
 
 And did old Oracles fulfill 
 
 Of Gods that cannot Lye, for they foretel bu* their own Will \ 
 
 „ , 
 
 j Erynnis faw’t, and made in her own feed 
 
 The innocent Parricide to bleed, 
 
 2 She flew his wrathful Sons with mutual blows 5 
 
 But better things did then fucceed, 
 
 3 And brave Therfander in amends for what was paft arofe. 
 
 Brave 7 herfander was by none 
 1 n war. or warlike fports out-done. 
 
 4 Thou Theron his great virtues doft revive. 
 
 He in my Verje and Thee again does live. 
 
 Loud Olympus happy Thee, 
 
 5 Ijlhmus and Nemea does twice happy fee. £4 
 
 For the Well-natured honour there 
 Which with thy Brother thou didft (hare. 
 
 Was to thee double grown . i £ ; 
 
 By not being all thine Own. ,r 
 
 And thofe kind pious glories do deface 
 The old Fraternal quarrel of thy Race • 
 
 -7' a;--? 
 
 4 * » 
 
 6 . 
 
 i Greatnefs of Mind and Fortune too ’ : r ; 
 
 The’ Olympiqne Trophees (hew. 
 
 Both their feveral parts rauft do 
 In the noble Chafe of Fame , 
 
 This without that is Blind , that without this is Lame , 
 
 Nor is fair Virtues Pifture feen aright 
 But in Fortunes golden light. 
 
 Riches alone are of uncertain date, 
 
 And on Jhort-Man long cannot wait. 
 
 The Vertuous make of them the beft* 
 
 And put them out to Fame for lntereft. 
 
 With a frail good they wifely buy ... w 
 
 The folid Purchace of Eternity. 
 
 H 
 
 They 
 
4 
 
 ¥ IN D ARl OV E ODES. 
 
 They whilft Lifes air they breath, confider well and know 
 Th’account they muft hereafter give below. 
 
 Whereas th’unjuft and Covetous above, 
 
 In deep unlovely vaults, 
 
 By the juft decrees of Jove 
 2 Unrelenting torments prove, 
 
 The heavy Necejfary cjfetts of Voluntary Faults, 
 
 4 ' 
 
 7 - ' 
 
 1 Whilft in the Lands of unexhaufted Light 
 Ore which the God-like Suns unwearied fight, 
 
 Ne’re winky in Clouds , or ficeps in Night , 
 
 An endlcfs Spring of Age the Good enjoy, 
 
 Where neither Want does pinch, nor Plenty cloy. 
 
 There neither Earth nor Sea they plow. 
 
 Nor ought to Labour ow 
 For Food , that whifft it Hourifhes does decay. 
 
 And in the Lamp of Life confumes away. 
 
 2 Thrice had thefe men through mortal bodies paft, 
 
 Did thrice the tryal undergo, 
 
 Till all their little Drofs was purg'd at laft, 
 
 The Furnace had no more to do. 
 
 Then m rich Saturns peaceful ftate 
 
 3 Were they for facred Treafures placed. 
 
 The Mufe difeovered World of Ijlands Fortunate * 
 
 8 . 
 
 Soft-footed Winds with tuneful voices there 
 Dance through the perfum’d Air. 
 
 There Silver Rivers through enamelTd Meadows glide. 
 
 And golden Trees enrich their fide. 
 
 Th’ illuflrious Leaves no dropping Autumn fear. 
 
 And Jewels for their fruit they bear. 
 
 Which by the Bleft are gathered 
 For Bracelets to the Arm, and Garlands to the Head. 
 
 Here all the Hero's , and their Poets live, 
 i Wife Rhadamanthus did the Sentence give. 
 
 Who for his juftice was thought fit 
 With Soveraign Saturn on the Bench to lit. 
 
 Peleus here, and Cadmus reign. 
 
 Here great Achilles wrathful now no more. 
 
 Since his bleft Mother ( who before 
 Had try’d it on his Body in vain) 
 
 Dipt now his Soul in Stygian Lake, 
 
 Which did from thence a divine Hardnefs take, 
 
 That does from Pajjlon and from Vice Invulnerable make. 
 
tTnWakTqJFe FdeTs . 
 
 . 9 - . ... 
 
 £ To Theron , Mufe , bring back thy wandring Song, 
 Whom thofe bright Troops expedt impatiently. 
 
 And may they do fo long. 
 
 1 How, noble Archer , do thy wanton Arrows fly 
 At all the that does but crols thine Eye 5 
 
 Shoot, and fpare not, for I fee 
 Thy founding Quiver can ne're emptied be 5 
 Let Art ufe Method and good FJusbandry, 
 
 Art lives on Natures Altos, is weak and poor. 
 Nature herfdf has unexhaufted flore, 
 
 Wallows in Wealth , and runs a turning Maze, 
 
 That no vulgar Eye can trace. 
 
 Art inftead of mounting high, 
 
 About her humble Food does hov’ering fly, 
 
 2 Like the ignoble Crow , rapine and noije does love, 
 Whilft Nature , like the facred Bird of Jove , 
 
 3 Now bears loud Thunder , and anon with filent joy 
 
 The beauteous Phrygian Boy , 
 
 Defeats the Strong , or etakes the Flying prey 5 
 
 4 And fometimes basks in th’open Flames of Day , 
 
 And fometimes too he fhrowds 
 
 His foaring wings among the Clouds . 
 
 10. 
 
 Leave, wanton Mufe, thy roving flight. 
 
 To thy loud String the well- fletcht Arrow put : 
 
 Let Agrigentum be the But , 
 
 And Theron be the White. 
 
 And left the Name of Verfe ftiould give 
 Malitious men pretext to misbelieve , 
 
 By the Caflalian waters fwear 
 ( A facred Oath no Poets dare 
 To take in vain, 
 
 1 No more than Gods do that of Styx prophane) 
 Swear in no City eTe before, 
 
 A better man, or greater- foul’d was born, 
 
 Swear that Theron fure has fworn 
 
 No man near him (hould be poor. 
 
 Swear that none e’re had fuch a graceful art, 
 
 Fortunes free gifts as freely to impart 
 
 With an Unenvious hand , and an unbounded Heart t 
 
 But in this thanklefs world the Givers 
 Are envied ev’en by the Receivers . 
 ’Tis now the cheap and frugal fafhion, 
 Rather to Hide than Pay the Obligation . 
 
 U 2 
 
6 FIND ARI QV E ODES. 
 
 Nay 'tis much worfe than fo, 
 
 It now an Artifice does grow, 
 
 Wrongs and outrages to do, 
 
 Left men ftiould think we ovp. 
 
 Such Monfters, Theron , has thy Vertuc found, 
 
 But all the malice they profefs, 
 
 Thy fecure Honour cannot wound ; 
 
 For thy vaft Bounties are fo nuntberlefir , 
 
 That them or to Conceal , or elfe to Te//, 
 
 Is equally IwpoJJible. 
 
 XCOTES. 
 
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 Hymni dominantes Cythar a, quern Deum, quem Heroem, quem Virum celebrabimus ? Pi£i 
 quidem Jovis eft, Olympicum autem certamen inflituit Hercules, primitias belli, fed Theronem 
 ob curfum in quadrigis viftorem Jonare oportet voce , ju(ium & hofpitalem , columen Agrigenti, lau- 
 datorum progenitorum florem, r edor em urbium. 
 
 i. Whereas Findar addrefles himfelf to his Song , I change it to his Mufe } which, me- 
 thinks, is better called ’Aya^/pS^/^, than the Ode which fhe makes Some interpret ’Ay*- 
 %ip'o?[*ifyts pafiively ( i. ) as lubje&s of the Harp 5 but the other fenfe is more Gramma- 
 tical. 
 
 2. Horace tranflates this beginning, Lib .' i. Ode 12. Quem virum aut Heroa Lyra vel acri 
 Tibia, fumes celebrare Clio. Quem Deum cujus refonet jocofa Nomen Imago ? The latter part of 
 which I have added to Findar. Horace inverts the order, but the other is more natural, to 
 begin with the God , and end with the Alan. 
 
 $. Fifa , a Town in Elis , where the Olympique Games were celebrated every fifth year by 
 the lnflitution of Hercules , after he had flain Augias Prince of Elis, in honour of Jupiter , fir- 
 named Olympicus from the Mountain Olympus, which is juft by Fifa. 
 
 4. ’A KfflhvcL. Firfl-fruits , from<*K£?y the Top, and 0/y an £fa*p,becaufe they were taken 
 from the Top of the Heap of Corn, &c. Some interpret it, the fpoils of War dedicated to 
 the Gods ", fo the old Greek Scholiaft. I think the Olympique Games are fo called, becaufe 
 they were facred exercifes that difpofed and improved men for the War, a Sacred bbodlefs 
 War, dedicated to the Gods. 
 
 2. 
 
 tUjuovTi* 01 <woy\d ^U(au,JUpiy oittiifa* Uol^fxv, 2/mia* 7« Xmv ’Of SatA^'f, 
 Hah r iff e— ?re juof^O-, taSto *— jt tt, Tv tunas tv eiptjcuf. ’Ax\’ « K&vit 
 
 veu PtOfjESQ-’O Ktiycwts vifauv, ’A i 9 \ay re xofyfay* riopoy t ’Iay 0 «* oiotSeus, 
 
 *£uf?<yy ire wA—T^ictv <rpi<n ko^ioov. 
 
 Qui cum multum labor affent animo, facram obtinuerunt fedem fluvii, Sicilixq-, fuerunt oculus, 
 Vitaq\ infequtbatur feelix, divitias & gratiam afferens nativis virtutibus. Verum 0 Saturnie fili 
 Rhea?, fedem Olympi habitans, & certaminum Jummitatem, vidmq‘, Alphad, dtltdatus Hymnis, 
 benevolus , arvum patrium adhuc ipfis cura & poflero generi. 
 
 1. They fay, that <Amon the Son of Polydorus, the Son of Cadmus, having (lain one of 
 his fellow Citizens as he was hunting, fled from Thebes to Athens, afterwards to Rhodes, and 
 from thence into Sicilit , where he built Agrigentum ', and from him to Theron are reckoned 
 many Generations j but the Progenitors of Theron in a right line, came not thither til! a long 
 time after. 
 
 2. I rather chofe to call Agrigentum, than Theron' s Anceflors (as Findar does) the Eye of 
 Sicilie. The Metaphor in this fenfe is more natural. So Julian terms Damajcus, t tic iei&t 
 tiorjtrtii c<p 9 * A/utc v. The Eye of all the Eafi. So Catullus, Sirmion, Infularum ocellum. The 
 Eye of Iflands. Agrigentum took the name from the River Atragac^ or Agragas, upon which 
 k (lands, that from *x yet and yii, as it were, Primaria terra. An efpecial foil -, or from 
 *y?of and yrj , Land good for the plow. I know very well, that it is not certain that 
 
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 TINDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 this Town was built by Theron's Anceftors ; neither do the words of Pindar import more 
 than their dwelling there : neverchelefs, the thing being doubtful, I make bold to take that 
 fenfe which pleafes me bed. 
 
 5. Jupiter. 
 
 4. The River of Elis, by the fide of which the Otympiqne Games were celebrated. 
 
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 Aliorum autem vel jure vel injurii infettum ne Tempus quidem omnium pater pojjit reddere 
 operum finem. Sed Oblivio cum forte profpera fiat. Bonis enim a gaudiis malum moleftum domitum 
 perita quando divina fors mittit de caelo altas divitias. Convenit hic fermo Cadmi filiabus bona 
 folio collocatu, ill.c paffx funt magna ( mala ) fed gravis ludius opprimitur a potionibus bonis. Vivit 
 quidem in calo mortua fragore fulminis capillis pafjis Semele. Pallas autem illam amat, & max- 
 ime Jupiter & filius ejus hederiger. Aiunt etiam in mari cum filiabus Nerei marinis Inoni vi* 
 tam immortalem conjlitutam efje per omne tempus. 
 
 1. Eurip. fays excellently well of Oblivion to this purpole. 
 
 rroTVict Ajj9>i tW kakuv ac 8 avpli 
 K au rein J)j$vxfsciy cuicJola $ebf l 
 
 O Oblivion the wife pifpofer of Evils, and the Goddefs propitious to unhappy men \ 
 
 2. For the examples of the change of great misfortunes into greater felicities, he makes 
 life of the Stories of Ino and Semele j becaufe they were both of Theren' s race, being the 
 Daughters of Cadmus. Ino , after her husband Athamas in his madnefs had flain Learchus , be- 
 lieving him to be a wild bead fled with her other Son Melicerta , in her arms,' to a Rock, 
 and from thence caft her felf into the Sea -, where, at the defire of Venus, Neptune made 
 the child a God , and her a Goddefs of the Sea ■, him by the name of PaUmon, and her of 
 Leucothea. See Ovid. Metam. 1 . 4. The Elue-ey’d Nereides fi.J The Sea-Nymphs, who were 
 the Daughters of Nereus and Doris. . Nereus was the Son of Oceanus and Thetis , and is taken 
 figuratively by the Poets for the Sea it felf. 
 
 3. A known Fable. See Ovid. Metam. 1 . 3. Semele having made Jnpiter promife, that he 
 would deny her nothing, askc that he would lie with her in all his Majefl y of the Tlounderer, 
 and as he w as wont to do with Juno which her mortal nature not being able to endure, (lie 
 was burnt to death with his Thunder and Lightning-, hut Bacchus hex child, by Jupiter, then 
 in the Womb, was faved i for which reafon, I call it her Midwife Thunder. 
 
 4. Secure. Without fear of being burnt again. 
 
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 certe terminus nullus cognofcitur morulim vita, neq\ unquam tranquillum diem, filium Solis, 
 flabili cum bono finiemus. Sed fluxus alias alii cum voluptatibus & laboribus homines invadunt. 
 Sic & fatum, quod paternam hanc habet jucundam fortem cum divitiis a Deo profeftis, aliquam 
 etiam cladem contrariam adducit alio tempore, ex quo fatalis filius occurrens interfecit Laium, & 
 in Pythone editum Oraculum vetus perfecit. 
 
 1. Not men that go a journey, but all men , w ho in this life are rermed Viatores, Travellers. 
 
 2. Oedipus. Fatal, becaufe of the Predictions. Laius King of Thebes being married to Jo - 
 cafla the daughter of Creon, enquired of the Oracle concerning his iffue, and was told that 
 he fhould be (lain by it. Whereupon he commanded Jocafla to put to death whatfoever flie 
 fhould bring forth but fhe moved with natural compafTion, and the great beauty of the 
 Infant, caufed one of her Servants to expofe it in the Woods, who making an hole through 
 the feer, hung it by them upon a Tree (from which wound in his feet, he was called Oedipus ) 
 and fo left it. But Phorbas, chief Herdfman of Polybius King of Corinth pafling by, found 
 the child , and prefemed it to the Queen liis Mifirifs-, who having none of her own, look- 
 ed upon it as one given her by the Gods, and bred it up as her Son * who being come t» 
 mans age, and defirous to know the truth of his birth, enquired it ®f the Oracle and was 
 anfwered that he fhould meet his Father in Pbocis -, whither he went, and there in a tumult . 
 ignorantly Hew Laius, and after married his Mother Jocafla, by whom he had Eteocles and 
 Polynices, the latter Theron'% AnceAor. 
 
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 Sed intuita acris Erinnys interfecit ei per mutuam eadem prolem m artiam , df reliflus e fi Ther- 
 fander interfeClo Polynici juvenilibus & in certaminibus & in pugnis belli honoratus , germen auxi- 
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 carmina lyrafq > confequi , nam apud Olympiam ipfe pramium accepit , apud Pythonam 
 Iflhmum communes gratia ad fratrem ejufdem fortis participem flores attulerunt : quadrigarum du- 
 odecim cur fu conficientium. 
 
 1. One may ask, Why he makes mention of thefe tragical accidents and aft ions of Oedipus 
 and his Sons, in an Ode dedicated to the praife of Theron and his Anceftors ? I anlvver, That they 
 were fo notorious, that it was better to excufe than conceal them ; for which caufe he attri- 
 butes them to Fatality -, and to mitigate the thing yet more, I add, The innocent Parricide. 
 
 2. Eteocles and Polynices : The War of which two Brethren, and their llaughter of one 
 another, is made fo famous by Statius his mofl excellent Poem, that it is needlels to tell their 
 Hiflory. 
 
 ?. 7 herfander, the Son of Polynices by Argia, together with Diomedes, brought an Army 
 againft Thebes, to revenge their Fathers deaths, and took it: After that, he carried fifty 
 Ships to the Siege of Troy, and was at lafl chofen for his valour to be one of the perlons that 
 were fhut up in the belly of the Wooden Horfe , and fo enter’d the Tovcn. Yirg. I. 2. jEn. 
 
 ■ Latife robore promunt, 
 
 Therfandrus, Stheneleufq *, Duces, & dirus Vlyffes. 
 
 4. There are feveral great aftions of Theron s mentioned in Hiflory, befides his fuccefles 
 in the publique Games, which were in that age, no lefs honourable than Victories in war ■, as 
 that he expelled Terilius out of Hymera , which he had ufurped, and defeated Hamilcar, Ge- 
 neral of tfle Carthaginians in Sicilie, the lame day that the Greeks overthrew the Perfians in 
 that memorable Battel of Salamis, Herod. 1 . 7. 
 
 5. Becaufe in the Olympique Games he obtained the Viftory alone, in thofe of Nemea and 
 Jfthmus jointly with his Brother, who had fhared with him fn the expence of fetting forth 
 the Chariots. 
 
 6, 
 
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 £tiAot, * Act .9/yZv *A vfgi t'ify&y A N (a/y’iX»Ti(, otNro /xifoov, r/ 0]/ ditybvjav ^ 
 ly—d-diDeti/JiK* ctTeiAMfayoi iyet noiv£< 'iriav.y. i* TctA Dos apyct,'A AiSdsn 
 
 m n f? > » t * / r/u« r V 
 
 ynt J/itctQei txv?fi Aoyfiv ayayKO.. 
 
 Succefjus certaminis difpellit moleltias, divitiae autem virtutibus ornata afferunt (hujus rei ) op- 
 portunitatem indagatricem, fuftintntes profundam follicitudinem. (O Divitia ) flella prafulgida , 
 verum homini lumen ! qui eas habet, etiam futurum novit, quod mortuorum hic intractabiles men- 
 tes poenas luunt, & qua fiant in hoc Jovis imperio [celera judicat aliquis , inimicti fententiam pro- 
 nuntians neceflitate. • x 
 
 , 1. The Connexion of this Stanza is very obfeure in the Greek , and could not be rendred 
 without much Paraphrafe. 
 
 2. This is not a Tranflation of Tet D Ivj ctJ\ c hot for that is rendred by ( Above ) 
 
 but an innocent addition to the Poet, which does no harm, nor, I fear, much Good. 
 
 leroy j vidfiosiv et /A, ’Tony iv £ai — ovtxovl ’E&Aoi viyeovTaj 
 
 E> 10 — Tov.tf^floy* T^gfiasov-rtSAKKS. Xfipuv, kN rrbv1toy{iJd>p, K"Veiv SiaujcLV, aA-Acl 
 TTU gjU (Afi TlJAlQlt -3"£wy, 0l1lVtt%X :U — CiJOpKlCUf * Acfbt.X(>VV VifJLOVTOU ' A/covai, TOi cf 1 ’ itTf 0 - 
 <ropser-Tov oXiovJt moyoyAOavtD eTOAfxctouv kt 7p}t c Ex.clt iguQ/ (xtiyetvTtf, ’A to ordylay 
 UUaV ^VX*V> *THA*V J)o( c O fiy Kg/y» Tvpriy. 
 
 At aqualiter noftufemper, aqualittr interdik Solem habentes non laboriofam boni degunt vitam, 
 neq’, terram necy, marinam aquam vexantes robore manum inopem propter viClm, fed apud ho- 
 noratos deos (vel. Cum iis qui honorantur a Diis) ///; qui gaudebant fidelitate , illachrymabili 
 f 'ruuntur avo , alii autem intolerabilem vifu patiuntur cruciatum. Qj/icunq-, fuflinuerunt ter com- 
 morati continere animam ab omnibus injuftis , peregerunt Jovis viam ad Saturni urbem. 
 
 1. A defeription of the Fortunate lflands, or Elyfian Fields, fo often mentioned by the 
 Poets, and much after this manner. Haler. Hac lucet via late Igne Dei , donec filvas & amoena 
 piorum Deveniant, campbfq ', ubi Sol, totumq *, per annum Durat aprica dies. 
 
 W Virg. 
 
 1 
 
C P INDARIQVE ODES 
 
 Virg. /En. 6. Devenere locos latos & amcena vireti 
 Fortunatorum nemorum fedefq, beatas 
 Largior hic campos ather , & lumine veftit 
 Purpureo, folemq > fuum, fua fidera norunt. 
 
 Tn which Homer fhews the way to P indar , and all. OdyjJ. 4 . 
 
 g it HKVffjov 'jtJiov 'jdpgtlct yottnt 
 AQctyeiJo/ cripiduoiy, od/ 'PctJU/Acivdt/f, 
 
 T/T 7T«f pH<V>» /3/0T>) dvQfvTrotcnv. 
 
 Ou lT^i]o<, XT cl? ’X&p.VV TOKVi, iii toT oyL@? 
 
 ’AJfc* Aiyj7TV*iov]<ti a. »7 at 
 
 s 'PtKZcivif ctv\y\mv, dv(t\vx Hv ^v9?eo7nif. 
 
 7. According to the opinion of Pythagoras , which was much followed by the Poets , and 
 became them better , that fouls part (till from one body to another, till by length of time, and 
 many penances, they had purged away all their imperfections. Virg. c An. 6. 
 
 — Pauci lata arva tenemus , 
 
 Donec longa dies perfetto temporis orbe , 
 
 Concretam exemit labem , purumq\ reliquit 
 v£tberium feufim atq\ aura i fimplicis ignem. 
 
 And a little before, — Anima quibus altera fato 
 
 Corpora debentur. 
 
 But the reftriCtion of this to the third Met empfy chops, I do not remember any where elfe. It 
 may be thrice is taken here indefinitely for feveral times, as is molt frequent among the 
 
 Poets. 
 
 a. Saturn is faid to govern here, becaufe the Golden- Age was under his reign, from the 
 rcfemblance of the condition of mankind then, to that of the Blejed now in the other 
 World. 
 
 8 . 
 
 ’’Evflrt fJLX.Kz?av NaW 'ClmxyiEtt 7rietTVixenv, etvQf/jLc 1 $ ypvax T a 
 
 mV Xipov9tv £tV’ d — y\cicSv Avffeav, vJhrp V cifo&QiflSH, "Op/xoioi ijf yipasavci 
 
 rrViKOvlt it) stfxvois, SxKouc It o?Qauf ‘PxJbcixctvQuQ-, *Ov 'jafit? tyes K?bvo< ItoI/jlov 
 
 civTu 9 T'/p if&v n'ooii 0 Tcivjav ’Pia; Crri?]ciJov i^otoxi S-gjvov. ThiKdCs Tt Kdj'fxOf i/j 
 7olciv cihiyfiv]<u, t evtiK, i*H Znvos >7 Top ht)£f €7r$4cn fJLxrn f . 
 
 Vbi beatorum Infulam Oceanides aura perflant, florefq ; auri corufcant, alii quidem in hum ab 
 illuflribus arboribus, alios autem aqua educat , quorum monilibus manus implicant & corollis ( capita ) 
 juxta retta decreta Rhadamanthi, quem pater Saturnus maritus Rhea; omnium fupremum habentis 
 folium , dignum fibi habet AffePTorem, Peleus, & Cadmus inter hos recenfentur , Achillemq; eo 
 tranflulit mater, poflquam Jovis animum precibus flexit. There follows a Defcription of AchiBts, 
 from the (laughter of Heftor , Cygnus , and Memnon , which I thought better to leave out ; 
 and inftead of it, to add by what means Thetis made hi? Soul , that was before fo tainted 
 with Anger, Pride, and Cruelty, capable of being admitted into this place ; which I be- 
 lieved it not improper to attribute to her dipping of it in Styx, as (he had formerly done 
 his body , all but his heel , by which fhe held him, and which was therefore the only part 
 where he was Vulnerable. That die water of Styx might have the like effeCts upon his Soul , 
 I am authorized to feign, by the common Tradition of the Water of Lethe , whofe power 
 upon the Soul is no lefs. 
 
 1 . Of the three Judges of the Dead , he names only one. Virg. o£n. 6. 
 
 Gnofjius bac Rhadamanthus habet 'durijjima regna , &c. 
 
 And the Grammarians derive his name from pel* and Jbt/t/*» from taming men by the feve- 
 rity of his juftice. Cadmus was chofen to be named here for one of the Heroes , by an appa- 
 rent reafon, Theron being defcended from him; as for Peleus and Achilles, there is no parti- 
 cular caufc. The Poets imitate fometimes the Divine proceeding, and will have mercy on 
 ivhom they will have mercy , without any reflecting upon any peculiar merir. It was not 
 hard indeed for rhofe two to be admitted here ; for oFacus, one of the three Judges , was 
 Father to the one, and Grandfather to the other. I make bold to add, that the Poets are there 
 too, for Pindar's honour , that I may not fay, for mine own. 
 
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 F1o>X& (lot vScr’ dyKtov®- cJtcict (ZiKn '’F.vJbv it'll Tcipij?cn fcovatvld avvCioicrtVi if Aa rl 
 xv epfAtinav ytilify.cvQoc 0 gtoK-kJ $u£, $ A c£C&t UafyLeo^iA k'o^ 
 
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 ngx 
 
 Kisdy, 
 
 Mult<c 
 
IO 
 
 TINDARIQZJE ODES. 
 
 /Multa mihi fub cubito ederes Sagittas intra Pharetram funt fonantes prudentibus, apud vulgas 
 autem interpretibus egent. Sapiens tfl qui multa novit naturas vi) ibus , qui difciplina utuntur ve- 
 hementes garrulitate ficut Corvi irrita clamant adverjus J ovis Avem divinam. 
 
 i- The Connexion in the Poet is very obfeure. This Metaphor of Quiver and Arrows does 
 much delight him. Olymp. 13. E//s. d’ cuQuv d.K'oy'jatv ikvja. p^Ccy (jkgtiov » 
 rro'A.d jSeAset ya.{\vyny x i £D v ‘ Me autem retium telorum mittentem, turbinem prater jeopum 
 non oportet multa tela dirigere manibus. The like is in the firfi Olympique , and divers other pla* 
 ces. Horace in imitation. 
 
 Prome reconditum 7 halia telum , &c. 
 
 2. Pindar falls frequently into this common place of preferring Nature before Ait, as in 
 the firft Nemetean Ode , &r. The Scholiaft fays, lie docs it in derogation from his adverfary 
 Bacchilides. The companion of Art ro a Crow, and Nature to an Eagle, is very nobly extrava- 
 gant , but it was neceflary to enlarge it. 
 
 The Poets feigned, that the Eagle carried JovC s Tdmndtr, becaufe of the ftrength, courage, 
 and fuiftnelsof that Bird. They likewife feigned, that Jupiter falling in love with Ganyme- 
 des, the Son of Pros, a moft beautiful Eoy, carried him up to Heaven upon the back of an 
 Eagle, there to fill Ntftar to him when he feafted, and for a more ungodly ufe. Hor. 
 
 Expertus fidelem Jupiter in Ganymede flavo. 
 
 4. Nothing but the Eagle is faid to be able to look full right into the Sun , and to make 
 that tryal of her young ones, breeding up none but thofe that can do fo. 
 
 10. 
 
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 'Et«x £ vw To^oy * ’'A yt $v/xi, 71 yet (IdiXorj&fJ 'Ey. ducti eLuJt Qfiyof uiKXtue 
 
 &iraf ’Ikyju j <&7 to/ ’ Aygfl.ytv)i ravum, ’ AvJd<ro(xau Ldg^kiov Aoy>v «And»* veep, Ta- 
 X.HV fxti 7 iv inajoy T irkuv rroXiv pixotf dvd&t ixdtAoy Eue^yaav v^vriaiy, dp — @0- 
 n&£ 9 V 7 i x*?*?* 
 
 intende nunc arcum in fcopum ; agedum anime mi Quem petimus ex molli mente gloriofas fa - 
 gittas mittentes ? In Agrigentum dirigens proferam veraci mente jusjurandum peperiffe nullam 
 centum annis civitatem virum amicis magis benevolum peftore, & minus invidum manu. 
 
 1. Virg. 
 
 -Stygidmq-, paludem 
 
 Dii cujus jurare timent & fallen numen. 
 
 Caflalian waters . A fountain in Phocii!, at the foot of Parnajjus, dedicated to Apollo and the 
 Mufes fo called from the Virgin C aft alia, who flying from Apollo, was there turned into a 
 fountain. 
 
 11. 
 
 'Arx' cuvov 'iCa xo£?f, x J)'kcl oWctvTo/u^j©-, dh-xd fjtd^uv -Jar’ dvdpay To XctXayo- 
 ffeudi xcov Kqvpov rtSi/ukJilxeiv KctKoif^EftPH, kvA detQ^oy Triearr tpdLyty, 
 
 K"V@- %<aa x«iffxaT dxrKOK ’iStutiv, 7t( dv pgycnci J\jyat]o ; 
 
 Sed Invidia laudem imafit injufle occurrens , d furiofis viris tumultuari volens , & occultare 
 beneficia injuriis. Siquidem arena numerum refugit, ille quot gaudia aliis contulerit quis recenfers 
 poterit ? 
 
THE FIRST 
 
 Neme^an Ode 
 
 O F 
 
 Chromius, the Son of Agefidamus, a young Gentleman of $\o\\y, is cele- 
 brated for having won the prize of the Chariot- Race in the Neme- 
 «ean Games (a Solemnity inftituted fir ft to celebrate the Funeral of 
 Opheltes, as is at large defcribed by Statius 5 and afterwards con- 
 tinued every third year , with an extraordinary conflux of all 
 Greece, and with incredible honour to the Conquerors in all the. 
 exercifes there pr aft ifed) upon which occafton, the Poet begins with 
 the commendation of his Country, which l take to have been Or- 
 tygia (an Ijland belonging to Sicilie, and a part of Syracufe, being 
 joyned to it by a Bridge) though the title of the Ode call him Mtnx- 
 an Chromius, perhaps becaufe he was made Governour of that Town 
 by Hieron. From thence he falls into the praife of Chromius his 
 perfin , which he draws from his great endow/nents of Mind and 
 Body, and moft ejpecially from his Hofpitality, and the worthy ufe 
 of his Riches. He likens his beginning to that of Hercules, and 
 according to his ufual manner of being tranfported with any good 
 Hint that meets him in his way, paffzng into a Digrejfion 0/ Hercu- 
 les, and his flaying the two Serpents in his Cradle , concludes the 
 Ode with that Hiftory. 
 
 \ >fJO! 
 
 ODE. 
 
 Eauteous Ortygia , the fii ft breathing place - 
 Of great Alpheus clofe and amorous race, 
 
 . Fair Delos Sifter , the Child- Bed 
 
 Of bright Latona , where (he bred 
 The Original New- Moon, 
 
 Who faw’ft her tender Forehead e’re the Horns were grown. 
 Who like a gentle Scion, newly (hr ted out, 
 
 From Syracufds fide doft fprout. 
 
 X Theg 
 
12 
 
 PINDARI QV E ODES. 
 
 Thee firft my Song does greet 
 With numbers fmooth and fleet, 
 
 As thine own Horfes airy feet. 
 
 When they young Chromius Chariot drew, 
 
 And o’re the Nemeeean race triumphant flew. 
 
 Jove will approve my Song and Me , 
 
 7 Jove is concern’d in Nemea , and in Thee. 
 
 2. 
 
 1 With Jove , my Song 5 this happy man, 
 
 Young Chromium too with Jove began 3 
 From hence came his fuccels. 
 
 Nor ought he therefore like it lefs, 
 
 Since the beft Fame is that of Happinefs . 
 
 For whom (hould we efteem above 
 The Men whom Gods do love .<? 
 
 *Tis them alone the Mnfe too does approve. 
 
 Lo how it makes this victory (hine 
 
 2 O’re all the fruitful Ifle of Proferpine ! 
 
 The Torches which the mother brought 
 When the ravilht Maid (he fought, 
 
 Appear’d not half fo bright, 
 but caft a weaker light. 
 
 Through earth , and air , and Seas, and up to th’ heavenly Vault * 
 
 3- . 
 
 1 To thee, O Proferpine , this Ifle T give, 
 
 Said J ove, and as he faid, 
 
 2 Smil’d, and bent his gracious Head. 
 
 And thou, O Ifle, faid he, for ever thrive, 
 
 And keep the value of our Gift alive. 
 
 As Heaven with Stars, fo let 
 The Country thick with Towns be fet, 
 
 And numberlefs as Stars 
 Let all the Towns be then 
 Replenifh’d thick with Men, 
 
 Wife in Peace, and bold in Wars. 
 
 Of thoufand glorious Towns the Nation, 
 
 Of thoufand glorious Men each Town a Conftellation. 
 
 Nor let their warlike Laurel fcorn , 
 
 3 With the Olympique Olive to be worn, 
 
 Whofe gentler Honours do fo well the Brows of Peace adorn. 
 
 s y 1 ' v. * ? >. 
 
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 1 Go to great Syracufe, my Mnfe , and wait 
 
 At Chromius Hofpitable Gate. 
 
 ’Twill open wide to let thee in, 
 
 When thy Lyres voyce (hall but begin. 
 
 Joy, Plenty, and free Welcome dwells within. 
 
 The 
 
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 £ VINDARIQVE ODES . 15 
 
 The Tyrian Beds thou (halt find ready dreft, 
 
 The Ivory Table crowded with a Feaft. 
 
 The Table which is free for every Gued, 
 
 No doubt will thee admit, 
 
 And feaft more upon Thee , than Thou on it. 
 
 Chromius and Thou art met aright, 
 
 2 For as by Nature thou doft Write, 
 
 So he by Nature Loves , and does by Nature Fight , 
 
 5 - 
 
 I Nature her felf, whilft in the Womb he was, 
 
 Sow’d Strength and Beauty through the Forming Majs, 
 They moved the vital Lump in every part, 
 
 And carved the Members out with wondrous art 
 She fill’d his Mind with Courage, and with Wit, 
 
 And a vaft Bounty , apt and fit 
 For the great Dover e which Fortune made to it, 
 
 ’Tis Madnefs fure Treafures to hoord, 
 
 And make them ufelefs, as in Mines % remain, 
 
 To lofe th’ Occajion Fortune does afford 
 Fame , and publick Love to gain. 
 
 Even for felf concerning ends , 
 
 Tis wifer much to hoord up Friends . 
 
 Though Happy nteti the prefent goods poflefs, 
 
 Th ’ \ Unhappy have their (hare in future Hopes nolefe 
 
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 How early has young Chromius begun 
 The Face of Virtue , and how fwiftly run, 
 
 And born the noble Priz,e away, 
 
 Whilft other youths yet at the Barriere ftay ? 
 
 None but Alcides ere fet earlier forth than Hex , 
 
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 The God, his Fathers , Blood nought could reftrain* 
 
 Twas ripe at firft, and did difdain 
 The flow advance of dull Huntanitie , 
 
 The big-limb’d Babe in his huge Cradle lay, 
 
 Too weighty to be rockt by Nurfes hands. 
 
 Wrapt in Purple Swadling- bands. 
 
 When, Lo, by jealous Juno's fierce commands* 
 
 T wo dreadful Serpents come ;; * . , . . 
 
 Rowling and hiding loud into the room. , 
 
 To the bold Babe they trace their bidden way. 
 
 Forth from their flaming eyes dread Lightnings went, 
 
 Their gaping Months did forked Tongues like Thunderbolts prefenL 
 
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 i Some of th’ amazed Women dropt down dead 
 With fear, fome wildly fled 
 About the Room, fome into corners crept, 
 
 Whete filently they (hook and wept, 
 
 A A X 2 ^ 1 ! 
 
<4* *A^O 
 
 ¥ IN D ARIO V E ODES. 
 
 All naked from her Bed the pajjionate Mother lept 
 To fave or perijh with her Child , 
 
 She trembled , and the cryed , the mighty Infant fmiPd. 
 
 2 The mighty Infant feem’d well pleas d 
 At his gay gilded foes, 
 
 And as their fpotted necks up to the Cradle rofe. 
 
 With his young warlike hands on both he feis’d $ 
 
 In vain they rag’d, in vain they hift, 
 
 In vain their armed Tails they twift. 
 
 And angry Circles caft about, 
 
 Black Blood , and fiery Breathy and poys’nous Soul he fqueezes out. 
 
 8 . 
 
 1 With their drawn Swords 
 
 In ran Amphitryo , and the Theban Lords , 
 
 2 With doubting Wonder , and with troubled joy 
 
 They faw the conquering Boy 
 Laugh , and point downwards to his prey, , 
 
 Where in deaths pangs, and their own gore they folding lay. 
 
 3 When wife Tirefias this beginning knew, 
 
 He told with eafe the things t’enfue. 
 
 From what Mongers he fhould free 
 The Barth , the Air , and Sea , 
 
 What mighty Tyrants he fhould flay, 
 
 Greater Monfiers far than They. 
 
 7 How much at PhUgras field the diftreft Gods fhould ow 
 
 To their great Offspring here below, 
 
 And how his Club fhould there outdo 
 
 8 Apollo s filver Bow, and his own Fathers Thunder too. 
 
 9 - 
 
 t And that the grateful Gods at laft, 
 
 The race of his laborious Virtue paft, 
 
 Heaven , which he fav'ed , fhould to him give, 
 
 2 Where marry d to eternal Youth he fhould for ever live $ 
 
 Drink Ne&ar with the Gods , and all his fenfes pleafe 
 
 In their harmonious golden Palaces. 
 
 Walk with ineffable Delight 
 Through the thick Groves of never- withering Lights 
 And as he walks affright 
 
 3 The Lyon and the Bear , 
 
 BhU % Centaur , Scorpion , all the radiant Monfiers there. 
 
 
 NOTES. 
 
T INDARIQVE ODES. 
 
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 ■At 0 T E S. 
 
 1. 
 
 f A M mv&ua aifxvlv ’AKqhk. Refpiramen reverendum Alphei. Alpheus was a River iri 
 Elis , which the Poets feigned to have fallen in love with the Nymph Arethufa, 
 whom when he was ready to ravifh, Diana turn’d her into a fountain ; which ldl her Lover 
 fhould mix his waters with hers, fled hy fecret ways under ground, and under the Sea into 
 Sicili e, rifing up in the Ifland Ortygia , whither Alpheus alfo followed, and there mingled 
 with her. 
 
 2. nat inyytWa. Deli foror. The Commentator fays, becaufe Delos too was called 
 Ortygia. I think, becaufe Apollo was bor n in Delos, and Diana in Ortygia , therefore by a Fi- 
 gure he calls the Jfiands too, where they were born, Sifters. Horn. Hymn. 
 
 Xaup* fjLiKatf 3 Anlal ItA t ViCif Tinvck, 
 
 ‘Amothrovoi r inti]* rf) v AfJifjt.iv loyi oupiyiv. 
 
 Till i (jtfy c# ’O ‘fjvyin, r $ x^yaii h'l 
 
 Which for Pindar's fake, I am content to take for this Ortygia, and not that Ifland among 
 the Cyclades of the fame name. 
 
 3. Aiunox ’ A^r'iyulQ-. Cubile A rtemidis. Becaufe fhe was born there* I therefore chofe 
 rather to call ir, Latinas Child-Bed, than her Bed. 
 
 4. Becaufe other New Moons feem but returns of Diana (which is the fame with the Cad - 
 defs Luna) then fhe had her beginning. 
 
 5. 2u3?xoarxV £sca©-. Germen inclytarum Syr acuf arum, for the reafon mentioned 
 in the Argument. 
 
 *</b«Tn< tf/stv©- 0 pf/.&Tcu dt/ufy jCiviv db^oTc/fyy \jii-jav jttcjv, Zn vU ’A fjveu-s 
 yiej.9'' 1 A^ye*. S'' olfvy» Xg^jx'ns, Kt/xia. -3-’ tfyixan v/Kci$b*?i< 'Eyndfaiov £tu£au 
 A te fuaviloquus Hymus cum impetu aggreditur exponere magnam lan iem procellipedum equorum in 
 Jovis j^Etnafi gratiam. Currus etiam Chromii & Nemea me incitant ut adjungam meum lauda- 
 torium mtlos triumphantibus (certaminum) laboribus. 
 
 7. In Nemea-, becaufe Hercules having Plain the Nemeaan Lion, did Sacrifice Jovi Nemeao, 
 and dedicate the Games to him. In Thee: For having given this Ifland to Proferpine, for 
 Ceres fake, for the birth of Diana for being himfelf furnatiied (as before) oCtnaan Jupiter, 
 from <y£tna, where his Thunder was likevvife forged. 
 
 - . ■ • . !*• '• J *\ * * * /; ♦ 
 
 2 . 
 
 1. BiGAnvlcu Star ffuuj « vf&i Jki\xo yiou( ifflauf. ’Es? «F’ i> Ivjvy-'fi 
 
 rrctvJbZ'idi 2 k£?v> 
 
 Prooemia fumptafunt a Diis & illius viri felicibus virtutibus, efl enim in felicitate fummum 
 fafligium omnis gloria. 
 
 2. Of thefe Torches which Ceres lighted at o£tna, and carried with her all about the world 
 in the fearch of Proferpine, Claudia ( peaks thus, L. 3. de R . Proferp. 
 
 Quacunq-, it , in aquor e fulvis 
 
 Adnatat umbra fretis , extremaq \ lucis imago 
 Italiam Lybidmq-, ferit, clarefcit Hetrufcum 
 Littus , & accenfo refplendent aquore Syrtes. 
 
 • •> * * 4 * 
 
 At Enna, where Ceres was moft religioufiy worfhipped, her Statue wa 3 m*de with Torches 
 in her hands. See Tull. 4. Aft. in Vtrr. 
 
 * , 
 
 t.NtJV %yOt^ dyXauay t tv a voif», T dv ’O Kvanru XicmoTetf ZtCc iJtitey Ttipftpopcf., ka- 
 •rwdj—aiv re 0/ yaircue, «tear — dittany Iv xQovls Hui/AKiav vr lA^ v cfQy— 
 xeft ifouf rroMay dpvnouf. "LIt tun q X&vieoy JloMfx* \xvr\<fhgj. 01 /Ahv.zv 7 i©~ Axiy 
 Imrojiyfxov, d-ctfxm, Sti ’Owjx — nnaiSbov ikou&v /jLi^Qiv'jk. 
 
 Nunc excita fplendorem aliquem Infula quam Olympi Dominus Jupiter dedit Proferpine & 
 'annuit caoillis fe principem fertilis foli Siciliam pinguem exaltaturum celebribus fafligiu civita- 
 tum, dedito), eis Saturnius populum equis gaudentem , & memorem ferrei belli qui fape etiam folia 
 aureis Olympiacarum Olivarum fe immifeeret. 
 
 2. KoflMrfy rt U y ut tus, Is very eloquent in the Greek, but t know not how to 
 
 „ . render 
 
 I 
 
i6 TINDAKIOZJE ODES . 
 
 render it but by Head. Homer exprefTes the fame fenfe moft excellently, ll. 1. 
 
 J H x} Hvzvitiorp 6 v bp?u<n vdj<Ji K gcvirw 
 ’A (xGgccnau <P' a££ %auTcu ivtppdcmyjo S'/akJQ- 
 Kfjcjof d’X d^dycCTOIO. 
 
 5. Pindar in his third Olympiqne , by a great Geographical Errour (but pardonable in thofe 
 times ) fays, that Hercules obtained of the Hyperboreans at the Fountain of ifttr, or the 
 Danube Plants of Wild-Olive, to let about the Temple of Jupiter in Pi fa ■, and ordained, 
 that the Conquerours in thofe Games fhould always be crown’d with Garlands of the laid 
 Olives. It may be askt, in the celebration of a Nemeaan Victory, why he rather mentions 
 the Olympique Prices born away by the Sicilians , than thofe of Nemea ? Some fay, that 
 in the Nemeaan Games too, the like Olive-Garlands were uled at fir A before thofe of Apium ; 
 which I hardly believe, if the Inflitution of them was to celebrate a Funeral, as the gene- 
 ral opinion is. I think he chufes the Olympique Games , only becaufe they were the rnofl 
 famous of all. 
 
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 1. *Es ttV hr' itu f Svfp.tt ’A vSg)( xaAa jU?XTo^V©-,’'Ev 8 i ytoi ctf|Uoc/W 
 
 AHwov xtHCdyitfJau. ■d-ayt.ei <f’ d.N\cJ\t, r rav ax dvelfcjfjoi Jiycot kvji. 
 
 Steti autem in veflibulo viri hojpitalis egregie cantans , ubi mihi conveniens ccena adornata eft, 
 neq\ enim frequentium peregrinorum ignara funt cedes ejus. 
 
 2. Ti^ycu E irifay XP» S’ h IvWctcf cJbit STw'^oy?* ytdpyn^ Ali* 
 
 aliorum artes funt, fed oportet retiis in viis ambulantem natura pugnare . 
 
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 1. TlpSojM y&tqyep y$p &(v©* BaA euaj q $?>'?, lasbjufyov 'T^iShv St Jj^ergf ole ivi]aj. 
 'AynarJJfjLH vau aio S' dytpifiova Tav rt x) * K i?*/*** wtyv 6X y-iydfM -tAk— - 
 
 tov xct)fltxfu\{.«tf ’A*\’ (oyjay ?v re vaQUy >9 ®xa — xeu, f iao/c e^apx.*ct>y • K o/yau yh 
 
 tfXov? ewiAf Tlohwbyay dvAfcty. Auxiliatur enim operi quidemrobm, confiliis autem mens, 
 quibus naturalis efi futurorum providentia. Tuis autem in moribus , 6 Agefidami fili , horum & illo- 
 rum eft uftu. Non cupio multas in cedibus divitias abfeonditas babere , fed ex iis qu<e adfunt bona 
 percipere , & bene audire amicis Jubveniens, communes enim veniunt fpes arumnoforum. 
 
 6. 
 
 1 . 'E yo S' 'H£$cxAs©- xy]txop&t ir&f&vaf, 'Ey K0$U}cuf dgejay yceydhcui ’Af^xley 
 IJdvuv \bypy, &c. . ' 
 
 Ego autem Herculem ampleflor libenter in cacuminibus virtutum maximis antiquum proferens 
 fermontm , &c. 
 
 Pindar , according to his manner, leaves the Reader to find as he can, the connexion be- 
 tween chromi us and the flory of Hercules, which it feemed to me neceflary to make a little 
 more perfpicuous. 
 
 1. ’Ex <E £{ ctT\ct]ov A& n\Z%e yjycunen o<reu rd^o y 'AaXH invtH dpfiyotfou At%fc,Keu 
 ytietuT* aroajiv *tstA© bpvou.r’ Sari c^auvd;, byt.a( v Ayt.vvey vCeav xvoJdwv. 
 
 intolerabilis metus percuffit mulieres qu <c inferviebant Alcmena* letlo , quinetiam ipfa fine vejlibiii 
 profiliens pedibus e letlo propulfavit injuriam befliarum. 
 
 2 . ’E* - 9 uA dytts tavx^y Ivfvy tCxy T* — -xr o/mv annat yydSt/f ’A/upeVt^aSi^ fueymarefc 
 0 <f’ of — ■S'cy y&£ ivjnyty y.d^., l\ngJ,To 5$ v§Ztov ytdxeti’ In thalami penetralia lata ve- 
 nerunt pueris celeres malas circumplicare geflientes, Jed ille retium extendit caput, & fpecimen pri- 
 mum pugna edidit. I leave out the mention of his Brother Iphiclus, who lay in the fame 
 Cradle, becaufe it would but embroil the ftory, and adds nothing to the fimilitude. Phere- 
 cydes writes, that Amphitryo himfelf put thefe Serpents into the Chamber, to try which was his, 
 and which Jupiter s Son. 
 
 8. 
 
 1. T*X U ' 3 Kd/ytday «jp/ ^/«A—xlo/f avy o< tao/< atOgjo/tttP&efxor, ’Ey <A' A/up/- 
 Tft iav KbKi* yviuyov ft?©- lyJJ/ydaxoty ''htf o^eisuf dv lauen t Confeftim autem 
 Cadmaeorum duces cereis cum armis accurrerunt, Amphitryo quoq\ nudum vagina enfem quatiens 
 venit acutis doloribus Jaucius. I leave out a fentence that follows } which is a wife faying, 
 but methinks to no great purpofe in that place. 
 
 2. This is excellently exprefled in the Greek, *Esa $ Set/uC* Jbcrpbfro Tep vyZ n yt/x^ft 
 Conslitit autem (Inpore acerbo deletlabiliq -, permixtus. 
 
 3 *ty5Tov«e</T lociKtaecr Ah u'4t— ra m^opdreevt^oxov ’O^bytstvl/y T«p ticiav b $ 0 1 pya^t 
 >9 tt dfjt f££7r«), cro/ouf oyc/KM» Tt/^auf. Vicinum itaq‘, advocavit Jovis altijjmi prophetam 
 
 eximium 
 
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 ‘PINDARIQ'ZJE ODES. 
 
 eximium vera, vaticinantem Tircfiam, hic autem ei dixit totiq j turbae in quibus vir faturus etfe 
 
 ^ 4. f/ Oar«< «V XfffQ tiletvdv, ''Oosxt «A* cv <x 6 v 7 « di <PgfJiiLA(, KA r/j/st <ruV tt**- 
 
 ^6» Kvffav K0(a <rtiyovja. * 9*** vtv SdntiV (xo&v, K cu y6 ot ay dici cv 
 
 •widics cMy?*t yfeLSliamv fxiyAV ’Aflid^acnv Ethiav varo p /■ — ircum Kenya tpeuJ))/.AV 
 yaJd KoptitK. £hwf in terra interiturus ejfet, quot in mari bt Bitas perniciofa %, c> 
 
 nam hominum cum obliqua infolentid incedenti inimiciffimo mortem daret , quinetiam cum Dii 
 c«« Gigantibus zfl cawpo Phlegra? praelio occurrerent , telorum illius impetu praela* am pulveri com- 
 mixtum iri illorum comam. Where I have ventured to change what he fays of his Darts, into 
 his Club , that being his moft famous Weapon. 
 
 5. The Earth ’, as the Erymanthian Bore, the Nemeaan Lyons. The Air , as the Stymphalian 
 Birds. And the Sea, as the Whale, which the Scholiaft fay s lie flew, and cites Homer for the 
 Story. 
 
 6. As Ant aus, Bufiris , Augias, &c. 
 
 7. The place of the battel between the Gods and the Giants, was Phlegra, a Town in Thrace , 
 where the Earth pronounced an Oracle, that the Giants could not be dehroyed, but by the 
 help of two Heroes , or Half-Gods ’, for which purpofe, the Gods made choice of Hercules 
 and Bacchus , and by their afliflance got the victory. Phlegra is called fo, K Erb r 
 
 To burn’, perhaps, becaufe of the Gy ants being dtftroyed there chiefly by Thunder or 
 as others, from Baths of Hot-water which arife there. Eu flat him fays , it was likewife 
 called Pallene, and gave occafion to the Fable of the Gy ants fighr, from the wickednefs of 
 the Inhabitants. 
 
 8. According to Homer's ordinary Epithete of Apollo , i A§yjgfT0^Q-, Silver-bow' d. 
 
 9 - 
 
 r. ’Aujiv &v *§fi vc£ Toy ZtavJa x& vov X*?? 'Hwytctv ka^atuv (XiydhAv mot- 
 vdv \AyflyY iZAptfoy, O hCiotsbt SdfXAAi <h£ ) A/j&pov duKtgy.v 'HCety ako/]iv, Kcuydp.ov- 
 Jkiaxrl* *Af' A/i K&vtfa, 'Ztv.vbv auviurw J^uov. lpfum vero in pace omne tempus dein- 
 ceps afturum, tranquillitatem magnorum laborum premium eximium confequutum , recepta in be- 
 atis adibus Hebe conjuge florente, & nuptiis celebratis in domo Jovis venerandi quam ipfe admi- 
 ratione videret. ( ' 
 
 2. The Names of Cancellations, fo called firfl by the Poets, and fince retained by the 
 Aftronomcrs. They might be frighted by Hercules, becaufe he was the famous Monfler - 
 KJBer. 
 
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 i8 PINDARIQVE ODES . 
 
 The Praife of Pindar. 
 
 In Imitation of Horace his iecond Ode, B. 4. 
 
 V in durum quifquis ft ude t cernulari, &c. 
 
 1. 
 
 I T) Indar is imitable by none 3 
 
 I The Phoenix Pindar is a vaft Species alone. 
 
 Who e’re but Daedalus with waxen wings could fly 
 And neither /«4 too low, not foar too high > 
 
 What could he who follow'd claim. 
 
 But of vain boldnefs the unhappy fame, 
 
 And by his fall a Sea to name ? 
 
 Pindars nn navigable Song 
 
 Like a fwoln Flood from fome fteep Mountain pours along. 
 The Ocean meets with fuch a Voice 
 From his enlarged Mouth , as drowns the Oceans noife. 
 
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 2. 
 
 So Pindar does new Words and Figures roul 
 
 1 Down his impetuous Dithyrambique Tide , 
 
 Which in no Channel deigns t’abide, 
 
 2 Which neither Banks nor Dikes controul, 
 
 W hether th* Immortal Gods he lings 
 
 In a no left Immortal ftrain , 
 
 5 Or the great Ads of God-de/cended Kings , 
 
 Who in his Numbers (Till furvive and Reign. 
 
 Each rich embroidered Line , 
 
 Which their triumphant Brows around, 
 
 By his lacred Hand is bound, 
 
 4 Does all their ftarry diadems outlhine. 
 
 3 * 
 
 Whether at Pifa's race he pleale 
 
 1 To carve in polilht Verfe the Conquerors Images , 
 
 2 Whether the Swift, the Skilful , or the Strong , 
 
 Be crowned in his Nimble , Artful , Vigorous Song ; 
 
 £ Whether fome brave young mans untimely fate 
 In words worth Dying for he celebrate, 
 
 Such mournful , and fuch pleafing words, 
 
 As joy to 'his Mothers and his Mi ft refs grief affords: 
 
 He bids him Live and Grow in fame, 
 
 4 Among the Stars he flicks his Name : 
 
 The Grave can but the Drofs of him devour, 
 
 So fmall is Deaths , to great the Poets power. 
 
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 <P INDAR1QV E ODES. 
 
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 r Lo, how th’ obfequious Wind, and fwelling Air 
 I The Theban Swan does upwards bear 
 
 Into the walks of Clouds , where he does play, 
 
 And with extended Wings opens his liquid way* 
 
 W hi lft alas, my timorous Mufc 
 Unambitious tracks purfues 3 
 Does with weak unballaft wings. 
 
 About the mojfy Brook/ and Springs 5 
 About the Trees new-bloftom’d Heads , 
 
 About the Gardens painted Beds , 
 
 About the Fields and flowry Meads , 
 
 And all inferiour beauteous things 
 Like the laborious Bee , 
 
 For little drops of Honey ftee, 
 
 And there with Humble Sweets contents her Indujirie. 
 
 3\£0 T E S. 
 
 r. 
 
 1. Y^lndar was incredibly admired and honoured among the Ancients, even to that de- 
 X gree that we may believe, they faw more in him than we do now: Infomuch, that 
 long after his death, when Thebes was quite burnt and deftroyed ( by the Lacedemonians and 
 by Alexander the Great ) both times the Houfe wherein he had lived was alone prefefved 
 by publick Authority, as a place [acred and inviolable. Among the very many Elogies of him, 
 I will only cite that of Quinftilian ( than whom no man perhaps ever living was a better 
 Judge) L. io. c. i. Novem Lyricorum longe Pindarus princeps, [piri tus magnificentia , fententiis , 
 figuris beatiffimus , rerum vtrbordmq ; copi A & velut quodam eloquenti ce flumine , propter qua Hora- 
 tius nemini credit eum imitabilem. Where he applys Horace his fimilitudes of a River to his 
 Wit } but it is fuch a River, as when Poetical Fury , 
 
 Tanquam fera diluvies quietum 
 Irritat amnem . Hor. 
 
 And like the reft of that defeription of the River, 
 
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 Nunc pact delabentis Hetrufcum 
 In mare, nunc lapides adefos 
 Stirpefq raptas & pecus & domos 
 Volventis unii non fine montium 
 Clamore vicinaq", filva. 
 
 1 .1 i * 
 
 For which reafon, I term his Song Vnnavigable ; for it is able to drown any Head that is 
 not ftrong built and well ballafled. Horace in another place calls it a Fountain j from the 
 unexhaufted abundance of his Invention. 
 
 2. 
 
 1. There are none of Pindar's Dithyrambiques extant. Dithyrambiques were Hymns made 
 in honour of Bacchus, who did, JU uf !p#v dvzGcuvHVi come into the world through two 
 Doors , his Mother Semtle's Womb , and his Father Jupiter’s Thigh. Others think, that Dithyram- 
 bus was the name of a Theban Pott, who invented that kind of Verfe, which others alfo at- 
 tribute to Arson. Pindar himfelf in the ig. Olympique feems to give the Invention to the 
 Corinthians. T a) A lovCex mod-iv iZsfaivAV aCv fion\&TeL y&e/\t( ^i^\jgyqj.Cr>). Vndc 
 Bacchi exorta funt venuflates cum Eoves agente Dithyrambo. For it feems an Ox was given 
 in reward to the Poet ', but others interpret @on\d. 7 tiv $ fioriv, from the loud repeat- 
 ing or fmging of them. It was a bold, free, enthufiaflical kind of Poetry, as of men in- 
 fpired by Bacchus, that is, Half-Dm from whence came the Greek, Pro verb» 
 
 
VINDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 RiSugglJ.Coroiciv vttv thulr*] ova. , 
 
 You are as mad as a Dithyrambique Poet. 
 
 And another, 
 
 ’Owe# A/9u£^jU^3" Jv <si yy. 
 
 There are no Dithyrambiques made by drinking water. 
 
 Something like this kind (but I believe with lefs Liberty ) is Horace his 1 9. Ode of the 2. B. 
 
 Bacchum in remotis carmina rupibus 
 Vidi docentem , &c. 
 
 And nearer yet to it comes his 25. Ode of the 4. B. Quo me Bacche rapis tui plenum ? Qu<e ne - 
 mora, aut quos agor in fpecus, Velox mente nova. ? For he is prefently half mad , and promifes 
 1 know not what, 
 
 Dicam infigne recens , 
 
 Indittum ore alio. And, 
 
 Nil parvum aut humili modo , 
 
 Nil mortale loquar. 
 
 And then he ends like a man ranting in his drink, that falls fuddenly afleep. 
 
 Banks , natural ; Dikes , artificial. Ic will neither be bounded and circumfcribcd by Na- 
 ture, nor by Art. 
 
 3. Almoft all the ancient Rings to make themfelves more venerable to their fubjefts, de- 
 rived their pedigree from fome God , but at laft that would not content them, and they made 
 themfelves Gods , as fome of the Roman Emperours. 
 
 4. Diadems (which were ufed by the ancient Rings , as crowns are now, for the Mark of 
 Royalty , and were much more convenient) were bindings of white Ribband about the head, 
 fet and adorned with precious ftones ; which is the realon I call them Starry Diadems. The 
 word comes Sato r Stafuv, To bind about. 
 
 3 * 
 
 1. The Conquerours in the Olympique Games, were not only crowned with a Garland of 
 Wild-Olive, but alfo had a Statue created to them. 
 
 2. The chief Exercifes there were Running , Leaping , tf'reftling , the Difcus , which was the 
 carting of a great round Stone, or Ball, made of Iron or Brafsj The Ceflus , or whorle-bats, 
 Horfe-Races, and Chariot-Races . 
 
 3. For he wrote Threni *, or Funeral Elegies : but they are all loft, as well as Ills Hymns, 
 Tragedies, Encomia , and feveral other works. 
 
 4. So Hou 1 . 4. Od. 2$. 
 
 Stellis inferere, & concilio Jovis . 
 
 4 * 
 
 I. From the Fabulous, but univerfally received Tradition of Swans finging moft fweetly be- 
 fore their Death (though the truth is, Geefe and They are alike melodious) the Poets have af- 
 fumed to themfelves the title of Swans: Horace I. 2. Od. 20. would be believed to be Meta- 
 morphofed into one, Jam, jam, refidunt cruribus afpera Pelles, & album mutor in alitem Superni 
 (or Superna) nafeunturq-, leves Per digitos humerofq , plum*. The Anthologie gives the fame 
 name to Pindar, eiyuyitif iKiKuvt®- l&tjo mkv®-, UivJbc^©- ifxt&fuv®-. Sweet 
 tongued Pindar , the Heliconian Swan of Thebes. So Virgil is called, Mantuanus olor. The 
 Swan of Mantua ; Theocritus terms the Poets, M vcr£v ofvt$u, The Birds of the Mufes ; which 
 the Commentators fay, is in allufion to Swans *, to which Callimachus gives the name of 
 i and in another place calls them, ’AwsM.ay® - 'srttftJ'#/. A bold word, 
 which I know not how to render : but they were confecrated to Apollo, and confidently 
 beloved by the Mufes and Poets. 
 
‘PINDARI QJJ E ODES. 
 
 7 he %ESU%%ECT10N. 
 
 I. 
 
 1 l»v O T Winds to Voyages at Sea, 
 
 I Nor Showers to Earth more necellary be, 
 
 (Heavens vital feed caft on the Womb of Earth 
 To give the fruitful Tear a Birth) 
 
 Than Verfe to Virtue , which can do 
 The Midwifes Office, and the Nurjes too 5 
 It feeds it ftrongly, and it cloathes it gay, 
 
 And when it dyes, with comely pride 
 Embalms it, and eretts a Pyramide 
 That never will decay 
 Till Heaven it felf (hall melt away, 
 
 And nought behind it ftay. 
 
 2. 
 
 Begin the Song, and ftrike the Living Lyre 5 
 
 Lo how the Years to come , a numerous and Well-fitted Quire^ 
 
 All hand in hand do decently advance, 
 
 And to my Song with fmooth and equal meafures dance . 
 
 2 Whilft the dance lafts, how long fo e’re it be, 
 
 My Mupckj voice (hall bear it companie. 
 
 Till all gentle Notes be drown’d 
 In the lafl Trumpets dreadful found. 
 
 That to the Spheres themfelves (hall [Hence bring, 
 
 Untune the Univerfzl String. 
 
 Then all the wide extended Stye, 
 
 And all th’ harmonious Worlds on high, 
 
 And Virgil’s faCred work^ (hall dy. 
 
 3 And he himfelf (hall fee in one Fire (hine 
 
 Rich Natures ancient Troy , though built by Hands Divine , 
 
 1 Wl|pm Thunders difmal noi(e, 
 
 And all that Prophets and Apofles louder fpake, 
 
 And all the Creatures plain confpiring voyce , 
 
 Could not whilft they lived , awake, 
 
 This mightier found (hall make 
 When Dead t’arife, 
 
 And open Tombs , and open Eyes 
 
 2 To the long Sluggards of five thoufand years* 
 
 This mightier Sound (hall makg its Hearers Ears * 
 
 Then (hall the fcatter ed Atoms crowding come 
 
 Back to their Ancient Home , 
 
 Some from Birds , from Fijhes fome, 
 
 Some from Earth , and fome from Seas, 
 
 Some from Beajls , and fome from Trees . 
 
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 Some 
 
BINDARIQJJE ODES. 
 
 22 
 
 Someddcend (rom Clouds on high, 
 
 Some from Metals upwards fly, 
 
 And where th’ attending Soul naked, and (hivering (lands, 
 Meet, (alute, and join their hands. 
 
 As difperft Souldiers at the Trumpets call 
 Hade to their Colours all. 
 
 Unhappy mod, like Tortur'd Alen, 
 
 Their Joints new fet , to be new racist agen. 
 
 To Mountains they for fiseltcr pray, 
 
 The Mountains (hake, and run about no lefs confus'd thanl&> 
 
 4 * 
 
 Stop, dop, my Mufe, allay thy vig’orous heat. 
 
 Kindled at a Hint fo great. 
 
 Hold thy Pindarique Pegafus cloftly in. 
 
 Which does to rage begin, 
 
 And this deep Hill would gallop up with violent courfe, 
 ’I is an unruly, and a hard- Mouth'd Horjc , 
 
 Fierce, and unbroken yet, 
 
 Impatient of the Spur or Bit $ 
 
 Now praunces dately, and anon flies o’re the place, 
 Difdains the firvilc Law of any fettled pace , 
 
 Confcious and proud of his own natural force % 
 
 Twill no unskil Touch endure. 
 
 But flings Writer and Reader too that fits not fnrc. 
 
 NOTES. 
 
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 i. "T^His Ode Is truly Pindarica l, falling from one thing into another, after his Exthyfafti- 
 X cal wanner, and he gives a Hint fer the beginning of ir in his 1 4. Olymp. *Esj r «rVSf «- 
 rroif dv'nx av ot« ?rA«stt VjtT t/cfttVar ’Of/Cef»!» rrctiftov 
 
 cOv tokw t if ?u 'Tfrf’oyo/, iut*iy!$v e .< vixvoi t/fspay ctf^eu Ac-yaw t«A\«7 oj xj wJf o?x#r 
 H xiyxKaui eifilcui' Efl aliquando hominibus ventorum ufuS , aliquando aquarum ceciefU&m, 
 
 filiarum nubis , fed fiquis cm labore re fle faciat , dulces Hymni iili principium funt futurx glori*, & 
 foedas fidele faciunt cum magnis virtutibus. 
 
 2 « 
 
 1. Whiled: the Motion of Time lads, which is compared to a Vance, from the regular mea- 
 fures of it. 
 
 2. According to the ancient opinion of the Pythagoreans, which docs much better befit 
 
 Poetry, than it did Philofopby. ^ 
 
 4. Shall fee the whole world burnt toafhes like Troy, the deftru<dimr of which was fo ex- 
 cellently written by him, though it was built like Troy too, by Divine hands. The walls of 
 Troy were laid to be builc by Apollo and Niptune. 
 
 1. No natural eflfeft gives fuch imprefiions of Divine fear, a; Thunder *, as we may fee by 
 
 the examples of fotr.e wicked Emperours, who though they were Atheids, anal made them- 
 ft lyes Gods, yet confed a greater divine power w hen they heard it, by trembling and hiding 
 thcmfelves. Horat. Casio TonanTm Credidimus Jovem. 
 
 And Luent, fpeaks it of Epicurus, as a thing extraordinary and peculiar of him, that the 
 very found of Thunder did not make him fuperdirious, 
 
 Q\im mq\ fama D liim, neq', fulmina , nec minitanti 
 Murmure compretfa coelum , &:. 
 
 Yet the Prophets and Apodles voice is truly term’d Louder •, for as S. Paul fays, the vovee of 
 the Gofpel was heard over all the habitable world, E/* miouv iv a $ 9 a JVSh duj 
 
 2. The ordinary Traiitianal opinion is, that the world is tolaft fix thou fan d years ( r/ E* 7 » tv 
 yivln KeLlot-Tcwnlcu Kcrfa®-') and that the fevenlb Tboufand is to be the Re (l or Sabbath of 
 ' Ihonfands : but I could nor fay, Sluggards of Six tboufand years, be ca ufe fome then would be 
 found alive, who had not lb much as llept at all. The next Per felt Number ( and Per ft will 
 admit of no Broken onts) was Five tbeufand. 
 
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 T INDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 The MV SE. 
 
 I. 
 
 i / 1 O, the rich Chariot inftantly prepare 5 
 
 The Queen, my Mufe, will take the air 5 
 Unruly Phanjie with ftrong Judgment trace. 
 
 Put in the nimble-footed Wit, 
 
 Smooth- paced Eloquence joyn with it, 
 
 Sound Memory with young Invention place, 
 
 Harnefs all the winged race. 
 
 Let the Pofiilion Nature mount, and let 
 The Coachman Art be fet. 
 
 And let the airy Footmen running all befide, 
 
 Make a long row of goodly pride. 
 
 Fig ures, Conceits, Raptures, and Sentences 
 In a well- worded drefs. 
 
 And innocent Loves , and pleafant Truths , and ufeful Lieti 
 In all their gaudy Liveries. 
 
 Mount, glorious Queen, thy travelling Throne , 
 
 And bid it to put on 5 
 For long', though chearful , is the way , 
 
 And Life , alas, allows but one ill Winters Day . 
 
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 3 
 
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 Where never Foot of Alan, or Hoof of Beaft, 
 
 The pafTage preft, 
 
 Where never Fifh did fly, 
 
 And with (hort filver wings cut the low liquid Sky. 
 
 Where Bird with painted Oars did ne’re 
 Row through the tracklefs Ocean of the Air . 
 
 Where never yet did pry f ’ ■ 
 
 The bufo Mornings curious Ey : 
 
 The Wheels0L thy bold Coach pals quick and free > 
 
 And all’s an open Road to Thee. 
 
 Whatever God did Say , r 
 
 Is all thy plain and fmooth, uninterrupted way. 
 
 Nay ev’n beyond his works thy Voyages are known, 
 
 Thou 'haft thoufand worlds too of thine own . 
 
 Thou fpeakft, great Queen, in the fam eftile as He, 
 
 And a New World leaps forth when Thou fay’ft, Let it Be i 
 
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 Thou fadomeft the deep Gulf of Ages paft. 
 
 And canft pluck up with eafe 
 The years which Thou doft pleafe. 
 
 Like (hipwrackt Treafures by rude Tempejis caft -j 
 
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TINDARIQ^VE ODES. 
 
 Long fince into the Sea , 
 
 Brought up again to light and publick Z Jfe by Thee. 
 
 Nor doft thou only Dive to low, 
 
 But Fly 
 
 With an unwearied Wing the other way on high, 
 i Where Fates among the Stars do grow 5 
 There into the clofe Nefts of Ttnte do’ft peep. 
 
 And there with piercing Eye , 
 
 Through the firm Jheli , and the thick White do’ft fpie. 
 
 Tears to come a forming lie, 
 
 Clofe in their facred Secundine afleep, 
 
 Till hatcht by the Suns vital heat 
 ' Which ore them yet does brooding fet 
 They Life and Motion get, 
 
 And ripe at laft with vigorous might 
 Break through the Shelly and take their everlafting Flight . 
 
 And fure we may 
 The fame too of the Prefent fay, 
 
 If Paji , and Future Times do thee obey. 
 
 Thou ftopft this Current , and doft make 
 This running River fettle like a Laly, 
 t Thy certain hand holds faft this flippery Snakg. 
 
 The Fruit which does fo quickly waft. 
 Men fcarce can fee it, much lefs taft 9 
 Thou Comfit eft in Sweets to make it laft. 
 
 This (hining piece of Ice 
 a Which melts fo foon away 
 
 With the Suns ray, 
 
 Thy Verfe does folidate and cryjlal/ize 9 
 Till it a lafting Mirror be. 
 
 Nay thy Immortal Rhyme 
 Makes this one fhort Point of Time, 
 
 3 To fill up half the Orb of Round Eternity , 
 
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 0 T E S. 
 
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 r* T)fofr Jo the 6.0lymp. has a Pkanfit fomewhat of this kind ; where he fays, *0 
 X nfJLt'ovev^ll t’ tv fid- 
 
 %k%ov. Sedy 6 Phinty, junge jam mihi robur Mularum quibus celeritas e/7, ut via. p«r£ 
 ducamus currum. Where by the Name of Pbintis he fpeaks to his own Soul. O, my Soul , 
 join me the ftong and fwife Mules together, that I may drive the chariot in this fair way. 
 Some make fitfy to be a Dialed for : as if hefhould fay, O my friend: Others 
 (whom I rather believe) take it for the proper Name of fome famous chariot- driver. The 
 Aurea Carm. ufe the fame Metaphor , *H vio^or yval/xttv gvirat Auriga fu- 
 
 ptrnk conftituta optima ration e : Making right Reafon the chariot-driver of the Soul. Porphj * 
 rim calls the Spirits , j The chariot of the Sou!. 
 
 For 
 
<P I N D A KIQVE ODE S. 
 
 2 . 
 
 1. For Tins do the fame Office to Fijh, that wings do to Birds 5 ahd the Scripture \t fel£ 
 gives authority to my calling the Sea the Low Sfye •, where it fays, Gen. 1. 6 . Lei there be c. 
 Firmament in the midd oj the waters , and let it divide the waters from the waters , 
 
 2. This Metaphor was ufed by the ancient Poets , Virg. otn. 1. 
 
 Volat ille per aera magnum Remigio alarum* 
 
 And elfewhere Lucret, before him, L. 6 . 
 
 Remigii oblita pennarum « 
 
 Ovid in his Epiftles applies the fame to Mens Arms. 
 
 1 
 
 Remis ego corporis utar . 
 
 I’ll ufe the Bodies Oars . 
 
 3. (i.) wbatfoever God made ; for his faying, Let it be, made all things. The meaning is j 
 that Poetry treats not only of all things that are, or can be, but makes Creatures of her own, 
 at Centaurs, Satyrs, Fairies, &c. makes perfons and aftions of her own, as in Fai/fr and Ro- 
 mances, make Beads, Trees, Waters, and other irrational and infenfible things to aft above 
 the poiiibility of their natures, as to under /I and and fpea^, nay makes what Gods it pleafes 
 too without idolatry , and varies all thefe into innumerable Syjlemes , or Worlds of Invention. 
 
 3 * 
 
 1. That is, The fubjeft of Poetry is all Pafl, Future, and Prefent Times 5 and for the Fa/?, 
 it makes what choice it pleafes out of the wrack of Time of things that it will fave from Ob- 
 livion. 
 
 2. According to the vulgar ^ but falfe ) opinion of the Influence of the Stan over mens 
 aftions and fortunet. There is no difficulty, I think, in the Metaphor of making a Tear to 
 come like an Egg that is not yet hatcht, but a brooding. 
 
 3. The thin Film with which an Infant is covered in the Womb , fo called, becaufe it fol- 
 lows the child. In Latine Secunda, as in th^ 9. Epiftle of Seneca, where he fays mofl admi- 
 rably. Sed ut ex barba capillos detonfos negligimut , ita divinus ille animus egrejfurut hominem 
 quo receptaculum fuum rejeratur , ignis illud exurat, an fer<e diflrahant, an terra contegat , non 
 magis adfe pertinere judicat quam Secundas ad editum infantem , 
 
 4 * 
 
 1. A Sna\t with the Tail in the mouth of it , was the ancient Uitroglyphick. of the 
 year. 
 
 2. Becaufe the courfe of the Suit feems to confume Time, as the Beams of it do Ice. 
 
 3. There are two forts of Eternity ; from the Prefent backwards to Eternity, and from 
 the Prefent forwards, called by the Schoolmen otter nitas h parte ante, and <j£ternitas d parte 
 po(l . Thefe two make up the whole Circle of Eternity , whick the Prefent Time cuts like « 
 Dimeter, but Poetry makes it extend to all Eternity to come , which is the Half-circle, 
 
 To 
 
26 
 
 ‘ TINDARIQJVE ODES . 
 
 To Mr. Hobs. 
 
 I. 
 
 I 
 
 V Aft Bodies of Philofophie 
 I oft have feen, and read, 
 
 But all are Bodies Dead 3 
 Or Bodies by Art fafhioned 5 
 I never y.et the Living Soul could fee, 
 
 But in thy Books and Thee , 
 
 ’Tis only God can know 
 Whether the fair Idea thou doft (how 
 Agree intirely with his own or no. 
 
 This I dare boldly tell, 
 
 ’Tis fo like Truth ’twill ferve our turn as well. 
 Juft-, as in Nature thy Proportions be, 
 
 As full of Concord their Vurietie , 
 
 As firm the parts upon their Center reft, 
 
 And allfo Solid are that they at lead 
 As much as Nature , Emptinefs deteft . 
 
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 2. 
 
 1 Long did the mighty Stagirite retain 
 The tiniiserfil Intelle&ual reign , 
 
 2 Saw his own Countries ftiort* liv’d Leopard flain 3 
 
 3 The ftronger Roman-Eagle did out-fly, 
 
 Oftner renew'd his Age , and faw that Dy. 
 
 4 Mecha it felf, in fpite of Mahumet pofleft, 
 
 And chas’ed by a wild Deluge from the Eaft 9 
 His Monarchy new planted in the Weft. 
 
 But as in time each great imperial race 
 Degenerates, and gives fome new one place : 
 
 So did this noble Empire waft, 
 
 Sunk by degrees from glories paft, 
 
 And in the School-mens hands it perifbt quite at ^aft. 
 Then nought but Words it grew , 
 
 And thofe all Barbarous too. 
 
 It perijht , and it vanifht there. 
 
 The Life and Soul breath’d out, became but empty Air. 
 
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 The Fields which anfwer’d well the Ancients Plow , 
 Spent and out- worn return no Flarveft now, 
 
 In barren Age wild and unglorious lie, 
 
 And boaft of paft Fertility , 
 
 The poor relief of Prefent Poverty . 
 
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 9 INDAR1QVE ODES. 
 
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 Food and Fruit we now mud want. 
 
 Unlefs new Lands we plant. 
 
 We break up Tombs with Sacrilegious hands $ 
 Old Rubbijl) we remove 5 
 To walk in Rumes , like vain Ghofts, we love. 
 And with fond Divining Wands 
 W T e fearch among the Dead 
 For Treafures Buried , 
 
 Whilft (fill the Liberal Earth does hold 
 So many Virgin Mines of undifcover ed Gold. 
 
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 The Baltique , Euxin , and the Cajpian , 
 
 And (lender* limb’d Mediterrean , 
 
 Seem narrow Creeps to Thee , and only fir 
 For the poor wretched Fijher-boats of JT/7. 
 
 Thy nobler the vaft tries, 
 
 And nothing fees but and 
 Till unknown Regions it defcries, 
 
 Thou great Columbus of the Golden Lands of new Philojophies , 
 Thy task was harder much than his, 
 
 For thy learn’d America is 
 Not only found out firft by Thee y 
 And rudely left to Future Industrie, 
 
 But thy Eloquence and thy Wit , 
 
 Has planted , peopled , and civiliz'd it. 
 
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 I little thought before, 
 
 ( Nor being roy /<?// fo poor 
 Could comprehend fo vaft a ftore) 
 
 That all the Wardrobe of rich Eloquence , 
 
 Could have afforded half enuff, 
 
 Of bright , of new , and lafting ftufF, 
 
 To cloath the mighty Limbs of thy Gigantique Sence. 
 Thy folid Reafon like the Jhield from Heaven 
 To the Trojan Heroe given, 
 
 Too ftrong to take a mark from any mortal dart, 
 
 Yet (bines with Gold and Gems in every part, 
 
 And Wonders on it grav’d by the learn’d hand of Art , 
 A Jhield that gives delight 
 Even to the enemies fight, 
 
 Then when they’re fure to lofe the Combat b/t . 
 
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28 TINDARIQVE ODES, 
 
 Quench or allay the noble Fires within, 
 
 But all which thou haft />/», 
 
 And all that Toutb can be , thou’rt yet, 
 
 So fully ftill doft Thou 
 Enjoy the Manhood , and the Bloom of Wit , 
 
 And all the Natural Heat , but not the Feaver too. 
 
 So Contraries on /Etnas top confpire, 
 
 Here hoary F rofts , and by them breaks out Fire . 
 
 A fecure peace the faithful Neighbours keep, 
 
 Th’emboldned Snow next to the Flames does fleep. 
 
 And if we weigh, like Thee , 
 
 Nature , and Caufes , we (hall lee 
 That thus it needs mufl be , 
 
 To things Immortal Time can do no wrong. 
 
 And that which never is to D)e, for ever muft be Young. 
 
 3^0 T E S. 
 
 2 . 
 
 I. \ RiJlotUj So called from the Town of Stagira, where he was born, fituated near 
 
 jT \ . the Bay of Strimon in Macedonia. 
 
 2. Outlafted the Grecian Empire, which in the Vifions of Daniel , is reprefented by a 
 Leopard with four wings upon the back, and four heads, Chap. 7. v. 6. 
 
 3. Was received even beyond the bounds of the Roman Empire , and out-lived it. 
 
 4. For Ariftotle' s Pkilofophy was in great efteem among the Arabians or Saracens, witnefs 
 thofe many excellent Books upon him, or according to his principles, written by Averroes , 
 Avicenna, Avempace, and divers others. In fpight of Mahumet: becaufc his Law, being 
 adapted to the barbarous humour of thofe people he had firfl to deal withal, and aiming 
 only at greatnefs of Empire by the Sword, forbids all the fludies of Learning ; which (never- 
 thelefs) flourifhed admirably under the Saracen Monarchy, and continued fo, till it was ex- 
 tinguifbt with that Empire , by the Inundation of the Turfy, and other Nations. Mecha is 
 the Town in Arabia, where Mahumet was born. 
 
 3. 
 
 1. Virgula Divina *, or a Divining Wand is a two-forked branch of an Ha^el-Tree, which is 
 u fed for the finding out either of Veins, or hidden Treafures of Gold or Silver ", and being 
 carryed about, bends downwards (or rather is faid to do fo) when it comes to the place 
 where they lye. 
 
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 1. All the Navigation of the Ancients was in thefe Seas : they feldom ventured into the 
 Ocean i and when they did, did only Littus legere, coaft about near the (hore. 
 
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 1. The meaning is, that his Notions are fo New, and fo Great, that I did not think it had 
 been poflfible to have found out words to exprefs them clearly ", as no wardrobe can furnifh 
 Cloaths to fit a Body taller and bigger than ever any was before for the Cloaths were made 
 according to fome Meaiure that then was. 
 
 2. See the excellent defeription of this Shield , made by Vulcan at the requeft of Venus, 
 or her Son uf. mas, at the end of the 8. Book of %A.n. 
 
 Et clypei non enarrabile textum , 
 
 Teon was graven all the Roman uijlory *, and withal, it was fo ftrong, that in the 12. B. 
 
 Turnus ftrook with all his force (which was doc fmall you may be lure in a Poetical Hero ) 
 
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‘PlNDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 Corpore toto 
 
 Alte [Mutum conjurgit Turnus in enftm. 
 
 Jnfomuch, chat it frighted all o£nexs his friends. 
 
 ( Exclamant Troes trepidi q', Latini) 
 
 Inftead of piercing through tliefe arms, 
 
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 Perfidus enfis 
 
 Frangitur , in medioq ; ardentem deferit ittu. 
 Ni juga [ubfidio fubeat. 
 
 Which is juft the cafe of mens arguing againft Solid, and that is, Divine Keafon ; for when 
 their argumentation is broken, they are forced to fave themfelves by flight, that is, by eva- 
 ftons, and feeking ftill new ground j and this Sword did Turnus good fervice upon the reft of 
 the Trojans. 
 
 jfq: \ diu, dum terga dabant palantia Teucri 
 Suffecit , poflquam arma Dei ad Vulcania ventum efi, 
 
 Mortalis Mucro glacies ceuf utilis iftu 
 Diffiluit. 
 
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 It broke like a. piece of ice , when it met with the Arms of Vulcan . 
 
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 i. The Defcription of the Neighbourhood of Fire and Snow upon o£tna (but not the ap- 
 plication of it ) is imitated out of Claud. L. i. de raptu Prof. 
 
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 Sed quamvis nimio fervens exuberet aflu. 
 Scit nivibus fervare fidem, par iter q-, favillis 
 Durefcit glacies, tanti fecura vaporis 
 Arcano defenfa gelu, fumoq’, fideli 
 Lambit contignas innoxia flamma pruinas. 
 
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 Where, methinks, is fomewhat of that which Seneca objeds to Ovid, Nefcivit quod benb C effit 
 relinquere. When he met wirh a Pbanfie that pleafed him, he could not find in his heart 
 to quit, or ever to have done with it. Tacitus has the like expreflion of Mount Libanus, Prae- 
 cipuum montium Libanum , mirum dittu, tantos inter ardores opacum , fidkmq-, nivibus. Shady 
 among fuch great heats, and faithful to the Snow; which is too Poetical for the Profe CV€B 
 of a Romance, much more of an Hiflorian. Sil Italic, of ./Etna. L. 14. f 
 
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 Summo cana jugo cohibet ( mirabile dittu) 
 Vicinam flammis glaciem, aternoq-, rigore 
 Ardentes horrent fcopuli, flat vertice celfi 
 
 Collis byems, caliddq nivem tegit atra favi Ili, 
 
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 Hoc quofc Fatale eft fic ipfum expendere Fatum. Manii. 
 
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 1 QTrange and unnatural ! let’s flay and fee 
 ^ This Pageant of a Prodigie. 
 
 Lo, of themfelves thenlivened Chefmen move, 
 
 Lo, the unbred, ill-organ d Pieces prove, 
 
 As full of Art. and Indujirie , 
 
 Of Courage and of Policie , 
 
 As we ourfelves who think there's nothing Wife but We. 
 
 2 Here a proud Pawn lad mire 
 That ftill advancing higher 
 At top of all became 
 Another Thing and Name. 
 
 Here I’m amazed at th’attions of a Knight 3 
 That does bold wonders in the fight. 
 
 Here I the lofing party blame 
 
 3 For thole falfe Moves that break the Game, 
 
 That to their Gr<tz>e the Bag , the conquered Pieces bring. 
 And above all, th’ ill Condu& of the Mated King . 
 
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 What e’re thefe fee ns, what e’re Philojophie 
 And Senfe or Reafon tell ((aid I) 
 
 Thefe Things have Life , Eleftion , Libertie 5 
 
 Tis their own Wifdom molds their State , 
 Their Faults and Virtues make their Fate. 
 They do, they do (faid I) but ftrait 
 Lo from my eniightned Eyes theMifts and (hadows 
 That hinder Spirits from being Vifible. 
 
 Andlo, 1 faw two Angels play’d the Mate. 
 
 With Man, alas, no otherwife it proves, 
 
 An unfeen Hand makes all their Moves. 
 
 And fome are Great , and fome are Small, 
 Some dimb to good, fome frgm good Fortune fall. 
 
 Some IVifemen, andipme Fools we call, 
 Figures, alas, of Speech, for Defifny plays us all . 
 
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c VINDAKIQVE ODES. 3 « 
 
 3. 
 
 Me from the womb the Midwife Mufe did take : 
 
 She cut my Navel , waft me , and mine Head 
 With her own Hands (he Fafbioncd $ 
 
 She did a Covenant with me make, 
 
 And circumcis ed my tender Soul , and thus (he fpake, 
 Thou of my Church (halt be, 
 
 Hale and renounce (faid (he) 
 
 Wealth , Honour , Plea fures, all the World for Me. 
 
 Thou neither great at Court , nor in the War , 
 
 Nor at th 5 Exchange (halt be, nor at the wrangling Bar . 
 Content thy felf with the fmall Barren Praife % 
 
 That negle&ed Verfe does raife. 
 
 She fpake, and all my years to come 
 Took their unlucky Doom. 
 
 Their (everal ways of Life let others chufe , 
 
 Their feveral Pleafures let them ufe, 
 
 But I was born for Love , and for a Mufe. 
 
 4 * 
 
 With Fate what boots it to contend ? 
 
 Such l began , fuch am , and fo muft end. 
 
 The Star that did my Being frame. 
 
 Was but a Lambent Flame , 
 
 And fome fmall Light it did difpence. 
 
 But neither Heat nor Influence. 
 
 No Matter, Cowley , let proud Fortune fee, 
 
 That thou canft her defpife no lefs than {he does Thee. 
 
 Let all her gifts the portion be 
 Of Folly, Luff, and Flatterie, 
 
 Fraud, Extortion, Galumnie, 
 
 Murder, Infidelitie, 
 
 Rebellion and Hypocrifie. 
 
 Do Thou not grieve nor blujh to be, 
 
 As all th'infpired Tuneful Men , 
 
 And all thy great Forefathers were from Homer down to Ben „ 
 
 
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 tpiND ARIQJJ E ODES. 
 
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 V ' ‘ * • ** •* " ■ ' 4 \ 
 
 i. npHis Ode is written upon an extravagant fuppofition of two Angels playing a Game at 
 X Chefs j which if they did, the fpeftators would have reafon as much to believe, 
 that the pieces moved themfelves, as we can have for thinking the fame of Mankind, when 
 we fee them exercife fo many, and fo different actions. It was of old faid by Flautist, Dii 
 nos qua fi Filas homines babent. We are but Tennis Balls for the Gods to play withal, which they 
 ftrike away at laft, and ftill call for new ones : And S. Paul fays, We are but the Clay in the 
 hands of the Potter. 
 
 2. For a Pawn being the leaf! of the pieces, if it can get up to fuch a degree, grows the 
 greateft, and then has both another name , and other Motions and Powers , for it becomes a 
 Queen, which it could never have done, if it had noc been removed, and carried to fuch an 
 height. 
 
 3- Manum injicientibus fatis (fays A mm. Marcellin.) hebetantur fenfus hominum & obtun- 
 duntur. When the Fates lay hold ort a Man, when they arreit him, he’s confounded, and 
 lofes his Wits. And Fell. Paterc. fpeaklng of the defeat of QuinUil. Fanis, Pravalebant 
 jam fata con filiis omnemq *, animi vim p er fir in x erant, quippe ita fe res habet, ut qui fortunam mu- 
 taturus fit , etiam confilia corrumpat. Fatality grew too ftrong for Humane Counfels , and dazled 
 the fight of his judgment, for fo italfo happens, that the deftgns and counfels are corrupted 
 of the Man that is to perifh. 
 
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 i. ’A/p 5 yb Tu ’rlrhurw It &iuv kvGqi. The Dice of the Gods never fling out. Tbucydid. 
 fays, with admirable fhortnefs and weight, A mvou y 6 Ivr^iau avyu^-feu ^ ovarctdesaA 
 i a iadgcov Which Salluft. imitating, renders yet fhorter i and beats him, as 
 
 Seneca fays, at his own Weapon. Res fecunda mire vitiis funt obtentui. Faults are not vifi~ 
 ble through Profperity : and therefore the old Greet ^ Ferfe is not much miftaken, that 
 fays, 
 
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 I had rather have a Drop of Good Fortune , than a whole Tun of irifdom , 
 
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£ VlNDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 BRVTVS. 
 
 I. 
 
 E xcellent Brutus , of all humane race, 
 
 The belt till Nature was improved by Grace, 
 
 Till men above themfelves Faith raifed more 
 Than Reafon above Beafts before. 
 
 Virtue was thy Lifes Center , and from thence 
 Did filent ly and confiant ly difpenfe 
 
 The gentle vigorous Influence 
 To all the wide and fair Circumference : 
 
 And all the parts upon it lean’d fo eafilie, 
 
 Obey’d the mighty force fo willingly 
 That none could difcord or diforder fee 
 In all their Contrarietie. 
 
 Each had his motion natural and free. 
 
 And the Whole no more mov'd thm the Whole World could be. 
 
 2 . 
 
 From thy drift rulefome think that thou didft fwerve 
 (Miflaken Hone ft men ) in C<efars blood 5 
 What Mercy could thcTyrant’s Life deferve, 
 
 From him who kill'd Hintfelf rather than ferve £ 
 
 Th’ Heroick^ Exaltations of Good 
 
 Are fo far from Z Jnderftood, 
 
 VVe count them Vice : alas our Sight’s fo ill, 
 
 That things which fwifteft Move feem to fiand fiiU. 
 
 We look not upon Virtue in her height, 
 
 On her fupreme Idea, brave and bright, 
 
 In the Original Light ; 
 
 But as her Beams reflected pafs 
 Through our own Nature or ill CuUoms Glafe . 
 
 And ’tis no wonder fo, 
 
 If with dejeded Ey 
 In (landing Pools we feek the Sky, 
 
 That Stars fo high above (hould feem to us below, 
 
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 Can we (land by and fee 
 
 Our Mother robbed, and bound, and ravifht be, 
 
 Yet not to her affiftance ftir , 
 
 Pleas’d with the Strength and Beauty of the Ravifher £ 
 
 Or (hall we fear to kill him, if before 
 
 The canctU'd Name of Friend he bore } 
 Ingratefid Brutus do they call } 
 
 Ingrateful C<efar who could Rome enthrall ! - 
 
 An ad more barbarous and unnatural 
 
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 <P IND AMOVE ODES . 
 
 (Inth’exaft ballanceof true Virtue try’de) 
 
 Then his Sucejjor Nero’s Parricide ! 
 
 There’s none but Brutus could deferve 
 That all men elfe fhould ivijh to ferve , 
 
 And Cafars ufurpt place to himfhould proffer 5 
 None can deferve’ t but he who would refuje the rjf r. 
 
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 i# Fate affum’ed a Body thee t’affright, 
 
 And wrapt it felf i’th’ terrors of the nighty 
 III meet thee at Philippi, fa id the Spright 5 
 PH meet thee there , laidff Thou, 
 
 With fuch a voyce , and fuch a brow. 
 
 As put the trembling Ghojl to fudden flight, 
 
 It vanifht as a Tapers light 
 
 Goes out when Spirits appear in light. 
 
 One would have thought t’had heard the morning crow. 
 Or feen her well-appointed Star 
 Come marching up the Eajiern Hill afar. 
 
 Nor durft it in Philippi's field appear, 
 
 But unfeen attaqu’ed thee there. 
 
 Had it prefum’ed in any lhape thee to oppofe, 
 
 Thou wouldft have forced it back upon thy toes : 
 
 * Or flain’t like C<ejar, though it be 
 
 A Conqueror and a Monarch mightier far than He. 
 
 5 * 
 
 What joy can humane things to us afford, 
 
 When we fee perifh thus by odde events, 
 
 III men , and wretched Accidents , 
 
 The beft Cauje and beft Man that ever drew a Sivord .<? 
 
 When we fee 
 
 The falfe 03 avion*, and wild Antonie , 
 
 God- like Brutus , conquer Thee .<? 
 
 What can we fay but thine own Tragic 4 Word, 
 
 That Virtue, which had worfhipt been by thee 
 As the moft folid Good, and and greateff DeUie , 
 
 By this fatal proof became 
 An Idol only, and a Name , 
 
 Hold noble Brutus, and reftrain 
 The bold voyce of thy generous Difdain : 
 
 Thefe mighty Gulphs are yet 
 Too deep for all thy Judgment and thy Wit. 
 
 The Time's fet forth already which fhall quell 
 Stiff Reajon, when it offers to Re bell. 
 
 Which thefe great Secrets fhall unfeal. 
 
 And new Philofophies reveal. 
 
 A few years more, fo foon hadft thou not dyed, 
 
 Would have coufounded Humane Jsrtucs pride, 
 
 And fhew’d thee a God crucifi d. 
 
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PINDAR1QVE ODES. 
 
 To Dr. Scarborough. 
 
 H Ow long, alas ! has our mad Nation been 
 Of Epidemic^ War the Tragi ch^Sccne, 
 
 When Slaughter all the while 
 Seem’d like its Sea , embracing round the Ifie, 
 
 With Tempefts , and red waves, Noife , and Affright £ 
 
 Albion no more, nor to be nam’ed from white ! 
 
 What Province , or what City did it fpare } 
 
 If, like a Plague , infected all the Aire . 
 
 Sure the unpeopled Land 
 Would now untill’d, defert, and naked (land* 
 
 Had God's All-mighty hand 
 At the fame time let loofe Di/eafes rage 
 Their Civil Wars in Alan to wage. 
 
 But Thou by Heaven wert fent 
 This Defolation to prevent, 
 
 A Ale di' cine and a Counter-poyfon to the Age , 
 
 Scarce could the Sword difpatch more to the Grave , 
 
 Than Thou didft five 5 
 By wondrous Art , and by fuccefsfal care 
 The Ruines of a Civil War thou doft alone repair, 
 
 2. 
 
 I The Inundations of all Liquid pain , 
 
 And Deluge Drop fie thou do’eft drain, 
 
 Feavers fo hot that one would lay 
 Thou might’ ft as foon Hell-Fires allay 
 (The Damn'd fcarce more incurable than They) 
 
 2 Thou doft fo temper , that we find 
 Like Gold the Body but refin'd 3 
 No unhealthful drofi behind. 
 
 The fubtle Ague , that for firenefs fake 
 Takes its own times th’ affault to make, 
 
 And at each battery the whole Fort does fhake, 
 
 When thy ftrong Guards , and works it fpies, 
 Trembles for it felfi and flies. 
 
 The cruel Stone that reftlefs pain 
 
 That’s fometimes roll'd away in vain, 
 
 3 But ftill, like Sijyphus his flone , returns again, 
 
 Thou breakfi and melteft by learn’d Juyces force 3 
 ( A greater work, though Ihort the way appear, 
 
 4 Than Hannibal's by Vinegar ) 
 
 Oppreffed Natures necefifary courfe 
 It ftops in vain, like Mofes , Thou 
 Strik’ft but the Rock, , an&ftraight the Waters freely flow, 
 
 A a 
 
C P1N DARI QV E 0 D E S. 
 
 The Indian Son of Lufi , (that foul Difeafe 
 
 Which did on this his new found World , but lately f ^ . 5 
 
 Yet lince a Tyranny has planted here, 
 
 As wide and Cruel as the Spaniard there) 
 
 Is fo quite rooted out by Thee, 
 
 That thy Patients feera to be 
 Reftor’ed not to Health only, but Virginitie. 
 
 The Plague it felf, that proud Imperial 111 
 Which deftroys Towns , and does whole Armies kill. 
 
 If thou but fuccour the befieged Heart , 
 
 Calls all its poifons forth, and does depart, 
 
 As if it fear’d no lefs thy Art , 
 
 Than Aarons Incenfe , or than Phineas dart . 
 
 What need there here repeated be by me 
 The vaft and barbarous Lexicon 
 Of Man’s In firmi tie R 
 At thy ftrong charms it muft be gon 
 Though a Difeafe ) as well as Devil, were called Legion, 
 
 t # 4* 
 
 From creeping Mofs to foaring Cedar thou 
 Doft all the powers and feveral Portions know. 
 
 Which Fdther-Sun , Mother-Earth below 
 On their green Infants here beftow. 
 
 Canft all thofe Magick^ Virtues from them draw. 
 
 That keep Difeafe, and Death in aw. 
 
 Who whilft thy wondrous skill in Plants they fee. 
 
 Fear left the Tree of Life (hould be found out by Thee, 
 And Thy well-travell’d knowledge too does give 
 No lefs account of th’ Empire Senfitive , 
 
 Chiefly of Man , whofe Body is- 
 That a dive Souls Metropolis, 
 
 1 As the great Artift in his Sphere of G la fir 
 Saw the whole Scene of Heavenly Motions pafs. 
 
 So thou know’ft all fo well that’s done within, 
 
 As if fome living Cryflal Man thou’dft feen. 
 
 ’ • 4.4 ill 
 
 5- 
 
 Nor does this Science make thy Crown alone, 
 
 1 But whole Apollo is thine own. 
 
 His gentler Arts , beloved in vain by Mee, 
 
 Are wedded and enjoy d by Thee. 
 
 Thou rt by this noble Mixture free 
 From the Phyficians frequent Maladie, 
 
 Eantajlick. lncivilitie. 
 
 There are who all their Patients chagrin have, 
 
 As if they each morn worfe potions than they gave. 
 
T INDARIQVE ODES . 
 
 And this great race of Learning thou haft runne, 
 
 E’re that of Life be half yet done. 
 
 Thou fee’ft thy felf ftill fre(h and ftrong, 
 
 And like t enjoy thy Conquejis long. 
 
 2 The firft famed Aphorifm thy great (poke. 
 
 Did he live now he would revoke, 
 
 And better things of Man report , 
 
 For thou do’eft make Life long, and Art but fhort* 
 
 6 . 
 
 Ah, learned friend , it grieves me, when I think 
 That Thou with all thy Art muft dy 
 As certainly as 1 . 
 
 1 And all thy noble Reparations (ink 
 
 Into the fure-wrought Mine of treacherous Mortality 3 
 Like Archimedes honorably in vain, 
 
 2 Thou holdft out 7 owns that muft at laft be ta'ne , 
 
 And Thou thy l'elf their great Defender (lain. 
 
 Let’s even compound , and for the Prefent Live , 
 
 Tis all the Ready Money Fate can give, 
 
 Unbend fometimes thy reftlefs care 5 
 And let thy Friends (o happy be 
 T’enjoy at once their Health and Thee. 
 
 Some hours at leaft to thine own pleafures fpare. 
 
 Since the whole jiocL may foon exhaufted be, 
 
 Beftow’t not all in Charitie. 
 
 Let Nature , and let Art do what they pleafe, 
 
 When all’s done, Life is an Incurable Difeafe. 
 
 $C0 T E S. 
 
 1. Out 1 2 * * 5 s, and fuch kind of Difeafes proceeding from moiflure, and affefting one or 
 
 Vj fome parts of the Body, whereas the Dropfte fwclls the whole, inundation fignifies 
 a Ids overflowing than Deluge. 
 
 2. Find , Refin'd: Thefe kind of Rhymes the French delight in, and call Rich Rhymes', 
 
 but I do not allow of them in Englifb, nor would ufe them at all in any other but this free 
 
 kind of Poetry , and here too very fparingly, hardly at all without a third Rhyme to anfwer 
 to both , as in the ninth flaffe of the Nemeaan Ode , Delight , Light , Affright. In the third 
 Ilaffe to Mr. Hobs, Ly , Fertility , Poverty. They are very frequent in Chaucer , and our old 
 Poets, but that is not good authority for us now. There can be no Mufict^ with only one 
 Note 
 
 5. The Fable of Syfipbits is fo known, that it deferves not to be repeated. He was in his 
 life a moft famous Co 7 s ener and Robber. Ovid. Metam. 1 3. 
 
 Quid, [anguine cretus 
 
 Sifiphio , furtis ac fraude (imilUmus illi ? 
 
 For which he was (lain by Thefeus , and condemned : n Hell eternally to thruft a great rolling 
 Hone up an Hill, which flill fell down again upon him, alluding perhaps to the ill fuccefs 
 of all his fubtilties and wicked enterprizes, in which he laboured inceflautly to no purpofe. 
 
 A a a 4. Hannibal 
 
38 TIN DARI QJJ E ODES. 
 
 - - - - ■ - - - - - i — i ■ ■ ■ 
 
 4. Hannibal not being able to march with his Army over fome Rocks in his paflage on 
 the Alpes, made fires upon them, and when the Stout was very hot, poured a great quan- 
 tity of Vinegar upon it, by which it being foftned and putrified, the Souldiers by that 
 means were enabled to cut a way through it. See Li vi the 1. Book of the 3. Decade» 
 Juven. 
 
 Et montem rupit aceto. 
 
 4 - 
 
 i. Archimedes: of which Sphere fee Claudiani Epigram. The like Sphere of Glafs one 
 of the Kings of Per pa is faid to have had, and fitting in the middle of it, as upon the 
 Earth, to have feen round about him all the Revolutions and motions of the Heavenly 
 Bodies. 
 
 S- 
 
 1. For Apollo is not only the Cod of Phypcf^s but of Poetry , and ail kind of Florid 
 Learning. 1 
 
 2. The firft Aphorifm in Hippocrates , Ars longa , Vita brevis. Known to all men. 
 
 1. For vvhilft we are repairing the outward feeming Breaches, Nature is undermining the 
 very foundations of life , and drawing the Radical moiflure, w hich is the Wed that the Town 
 lives by. 
 
 2. The great City of Syracufe (which Tuliy calls in his fourth again!! Vents, Vrbem om- 
 nium pulcbtrrimam atqi ornatifjimam) fuftained a Siege of three years againft Marcellus and 
 the Roman Forces, almofl only by the art aud indufiry of the wonderful Mathematician 
 Archimedes *, but at laff, by the treafon of feme Commanders, it was entred and taken by 
 the Romans, and in the confufion of the Sac £ , Archimedes, the Honourable Vffendtr of ic 
 fo long, being found in his Study drawing Mathematical Lines for the making of fome new 
 Engines to preferve the Town, was flain by a common Souldier, who knew him not *, for 
 there had been particular order given by the Roman General to fave him. See this at large 
 in Pint, the Life of Marcellus , and Livy 5. B. of the 3. Dec . 
 
 LIFE 
 
/ 
 
 9INDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 - 
 
 LIFE and FAME. 
 
 I. 
 
 1 Life, thou Nothings younger Brother ! 
 
 \^/ So like, that one might take One fot the other ! 
 
 2 What’s Some Body , or No Body .<? 
 
 3 In all the Cobwebs of the Schoolmens trade, 
 
 We no fuch nice D/flinffion woven fee, 
 
 As *tis To he, or Not to Be. 
 
 4 Dream of a Shadow ! a Reflc&ion made 
 From the falfe glories of the gay refle&ed Bow , 
 
 Is a more folid thing than Thou. 
 
 5 Vain weak-built Ijihmus, which dod proudly rife 
 
 Up betwixt two Eternities j 
 Yet cand nor Wave nor Wind fudain. 
 
 But broken and orewhelmd , the endlefs Oceans meet again, 
 
 2 . 
 
 And with what rare Inventions do we drive, 
 
 Our fe Ives then to furvive ? 
 
 Wile, fubtle Arts , and fuch as well befit 
 That Nothing Mans nr* Wit. 
 
 Some with vaft coftly Tombs would purchafe it, 
 
 And by the proofs of Death pretend to Live . 
 
 Here lies the Great Falfe Marble , where $ 
 
 Nothing but [mail, and fordid Dufi lies there. 
 
 Some build enormous Mountain -Palaces, 
 
 The Fools and ArchiteUs to pleafe : 
 
 A lading Life in well-hew’en Stone they rear : 
 
 1 So he who on th’ Egyptian fhore, 
 
 Was (lain fo many hundred years before, 
 
 Lives dill (Oh Life mod happy and mod dear l 
 
 2 ,Oh Life that Epicures envy to hear 1 ) 
 
 Lives in the dropping Ruines of his Amphitheater . 
 
 3 * 
 
 1 His Father in Law an higher place does claim 
 
 2 In the Seraphique Entity of Fame . 
 
 He fince that Toy his Death , 
 
 Does fill all Mouths, and breathes in all mens Breath . 
 
 ‘Tis true, the two immortal Syllables remain. 
 
 But, Oh ye learned men explain, 
 
 What E.ffence , what Exifence this. 
 
 Wh it 
 
4 ° 
 
 * 
 
 ^PYnT) AKl ffZJ E OD E S. 
 
 What Stibftavce , what Subjijlefjce, what Hypofiads 
 In S ix poor Letters is? 
 
 In thole alone does the Great C<efar live , 
 
 Tis all the Conquered World could give. 
 
 We Poets madder yet than all, 
 
 With a refin’ed Phantajiick Hanitie, 
 
 Think we not only Have , but Give Eternitie. 
 
 Fain would I fee that Prodigal , 
 
 Who his To-morrow would beftow. 
 
 For all old Homers Life e’re fince he Dyed till noiv. 
 
 T E S. 
 
 i. * 
 
 i. T) Ecaufe Nothing preceded it, as Privation does all Being ; which perhaps is the feme 
 IJ of the Diftindiou of Days in the flory of the Creation, Night fignifyin^ thePrnxz- 
 tion , and Day, the fubfequent Being, from whence the Evening is placed firft, Gen. i. $. And 
 the Evening and the Morning were the fir (l day. 
 
 2. Tf A r U, t 1 S' kt id Sx/aj; oya f ccpSguir®. Pindar , Quid efl Aliquis, aut quid eft 
 Nemo ? Somnium Vmbra Homo eft. 
 
 3. The DiftinCtions of the Schoolmen may be likened to Cobwebs ( I mean many of them, 
 for fome are better woven) either becaufe of the too much finctiefs of the work which makes 
 it flight, and able to catch only little Creatures 5 or becaufe they take not the materials 
 from Nature, but fpin it out of The mfelves. 
 
 4. The Rainbow is in it felf of No Colour j thofc that appear are but Reflections of the 
 Suns light received differently. 
 
 Mille trahit varios adverfo Sole Colons. 
 
 As is evident by artificial Rainbows And yet this fbadow , this almoft Nothing makes fome- 
 times another Rainbow (but not fo diftinft or beautiful ) by Reflection. 
 
 5. lflbmns is a neck of Land that divides a Peninfula from the continent and is betwixt two 
 Seas, r« tefxf/ 9 «A*ar£' In which manner this narrow paflage of Life divides the Pafl Time 
 from the Future , and is gt laft fwallowed up into Eternity. 
 
 1 - 
 
 2- . 
 
 1: Vompty the Great. 2. An irony j that is, Oh Life which Epicures laugh at and con- 
 temn. 
 
 1. Cafar , whofe Daughter Julia was married to Pompey ; an Alliance fatal to the Com- 
 monwealth *, which, as Tally fays, ought never to have been made, or never ended. 
 
 9. Supernatural, Intellectual, Unintelligible Being. 
 
 
 
 The 
 
9 INDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 i 
 
 - rt * 7r ' 
 
 The E eft a fie. 
 
 ; . U 
 
 r 1 QrfT 
 ? fhjol 
 . • r fife 
 
 
 ■..TjO l 
 
 I. 
 
 V v 
 
 T Leave Mortality , and things below 5 
 I have no time in Complements to wall, 
 
 Farewel to’ ye all in haft, 
 
 For I am call'd to go. 
 
 A Whirlwind bears up my dull Feet, 
 
 Th’ officious Clouds beneath them meet. 
 
 And (Lo! ) I mount, and (Lo 1 ) 
 
 How fmall the biggeft Parts of Earths proud Tittle (how ! 
 
 A*v<I 
 
 a 91 
 
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 2. 
 
 ,n* 
 
 Where (hall I find the noble Brittifi Land ? 
 
 Lo, I at laft a Northern Spec efpie. 
 
 Which in the Sea does lie, 
 
 And feems a Grain o\h’ Sand I 
 For this will any fin , or Bleed ft 
 Of Civil Wars is this the Meed ? 
 
 And is it this, alas, which we 
 1' Oh Irony ol Words ! ) do call Great Brit ante £ 
 
 V 1 ‘ 
 / L ^ 
 
 hum ri’i\ 
 
 1 :l aii O' 
 
 •V j 
 
 I * 
 
 I pafs by th’ arched Magazins , which hold 
 Th’ eternal ftores of Frofi , and Rain , and Snow 5 
 Dry, and fecure I go, 
 
 Nor (hake with Fear , or Cold. 
 
 Without affright or wonder 
 I meet Clouds charg’d with Thunder , 
 
 And Lightnings in my way 
 Like harmlefs Lambent Fires about my Temples play. 
 
 f 1 
 
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 Now into’a gentled of rowling Flame, 
 
 I’m plunged, and ftill mount higher there. 
 
 As Flames mount up through aire. 
 
 So perfefr, yet fo tame, 
 
 So great, fo pure, fo bright a fire 
 Was that unfortunate.defire, 
 
 My faithful Breaft did cover. 
 
 Then, when I was of late a wretched Mortal Lover . 
 
 ■ . ■ • ‘di'o A / VI ■ / * 
 
42 
 
 <P INDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 5 - 
 
 Through feveral Orbs which one fair Planet bear,, 
 Where I behold diftinttly as I pafs 
 
 The Hints of Galtl&o s Glafr, 
 
 I touch at laft the fpangled Sphere. 
 
 Here all th’ extended Sfye 
 Is but one Galaxie , 
 
 Tis all fo bright and gay, 
 
 And the joynt Eyes of Night make up a perfeft Day. 
 
 6 . 
 
 Where am I now ? Angels and God is here 5 
 An unexhaufted Ocean of delight 
 
 Swallows my fenjes quite, 
 
 And drowns all What , or How , or Where. 
 Not Pan/, who firft did thither pafs, 
 
 And this great World's Columbus wa<, 
 
 The tyrannous pleafure could exprefs. 
 
 Oh ’tis too much for Man ! but let it ne’re be lefs . 
 
 7 - 
 
 The mighty ’ Elijah mounted fo on high, 
 
 That fecond Man, who leapt the Ditch where all 
 The reft of Mankind fall ’ 
 
 And went not downwards to the skjt* 
 
 With much of pomp and (how 
 ( As Conquering Kings in Triumph go) 
 
 Did he to Heaven approach, 
 
 And wondrous was his Way, and wondrous was his Coach. 
 
 8 . 
 
 Twas gawdy all, and rich in every part, 
 
 Of Ejjences , of Gems , and Spirit of Gold 
 Was its fnbftantial moldy 
 Drawn forth by Chymiqne Angels art. 
 
 Here with Moon-beams twas fiver d bright. 
 
 There double-gr/f with the Suns light, 
 
 And myftique Shapes cut round in it, 
 
 Figures that did tranfcend a Vulgar Angel's wit* 
 
 9 - 
 
 The Horfes were of temper’d Lightning made, 
 
 Of all that in Heavens beauteous Paftures feed, 
 
 The nobleft, fprightful’ft breed, 
 
 And flaming Mains their Necks array’d. 
 
 They all were (hod with Diamond , 
 
 Not fuch as here are found, 
 
 But fuch light folid ones as (hine 
 On the Tranfp arent Rocks o'th’ Heaven Cry ft alline. 
 
 i •£; l 
 
 Thus 
 
T INDAKIQVE ODES. 
 
 4? 
 
 10 . 
 
 Thus mounted the great Prophet to the skies 5 
 Adoniiht Men who oft had feen Stars full \ 
 
 Or that which fo they call, 
 
 Wondred from hence to fee one rife. 
 
 The fofr Clouds melted him a way, 
 
 The Snow and brofis which in it lay 
 A while the iacred footfieps bore, 
 
 The Wheels and Horfes Hoofs hizz’d as they pad: them ore. 
 
 1 1. 
 
 He pad by th* Moon and Planets , and did fright 
 All the Worlds there which at this Meteor gaz’ed, 
 
 And their AJirologers amaz’d 
 With th 5 unexampled fight. 
 
 But where he dopt will ne’re be known, 
 
 Till Phoenix Nature aged grown 
 To’a better Being do afpire, 
 
 And mount herfelf, like Him, to’ Eternitie in Fire. 
 
 To the NEW TEAR. 
 
 I. 
 
 I f ^ Reat Janus , who dod fure my Miftrefs view 
 y l With all thine Eyes , yet think’d them all too few : 
 
 . If thy Fore- face do fee 
 
 No better things prepared for me, 
 
 Than did thy Face behind , 
 
 If dill her Breaft mud Jhut againd me be 
 •2 ( For tis not Peace that Temples Gate does bind ) 
 
 Oh let my Life, if thou 10 many deaths a coming find. 
 
 With thine old year its voyage take 
 Born down, that fir earn of Time which no return can make. 
 
 » 
 
 2. 
 
 Alas, what need I thus to pray > 
 
 Th’ old avaritious year 
 Whether I would or no, will bear 
 At lead a part of Me away. 
 
 His well-hord Troops , the Months , and Days , and Hours, 
 Though never any where they day, 
 
 Make in their pajfage all their Prey. 
 
 The Months , Days, Hours that march i’th’ Rear can find 
 Nought of Value left behind. 
 
 All the good Wine of Life our drunken youth devours 5 
 
 B b Somenefi 
 
 
44 
 
 
 P1NDAKIQVE ODES. 
 
 Somenefs and Lees , which to the bottom fink, 
 
 Remain for latter years to Drinks 
 Until fome cne offended with the tafte 
 The Vejjel breaks, and out the wretched Reliques run at lad. 
 
 3 - 
 
 If then, young year , thou needs muftcome, 
 
 (For in Times fruitful Womb 
 The Birth beyond its Time can never tarry, 
 
 Nor ever can mifcarry ) 
 
 Chufe thy Attendants well 3 for *tis not Thee 
 We fear, but ’tis thy Companie, 
 
 Let neither Lofs of Friends , or Fame, or Liberties 
 Nor pining Sicknefs , nor tormenting Pain , 
 
 Nor Sadnejs , nor uncleanly Povertie , 
 
 Be feen among thy Train , 
 
 Nor let thy Livery be 
 Either black Sin , or gawdy vanitie 3 
 
 Nay, if thou lov’ft me, gentle Tear , 
 
 Let not fo much as Love be there : 
 
 Vain fruitlefs Love, I mean 3 for, gentle Tear , 
 
 Although I fear, 
 
 There’s of this Caution little need, 
 
 Yet, gentle Tear, take heed, 
 
 How thou doft make 
 Such a Mi flake. 
 
 Such Love I mean alone 
 As by thy cruel Predeceffors has been (hown, 
 
 For though I have too much caufe to doubt it, 
 
 I fain would try for once if Life can Live without it. 
 
 4 * 
 
 Into the Future Times why do we pry, 
 
 And feek to Antedate our Mifery .<? 
 
 Like Jealous men why are we longing (till 
 To See the thing which only feeing makes an III £ 
 
 Tis well the Face is vail'd 3 for ’twere a Sight 
 
 That would even Happiefl men affright. 
 
 And fomething (till they’d fpy that would deftroy 
 The pafl and prefent Joy 3 
 In whatfoever Chara&er 
 The Book °f Fate is writ, 
 
 ’Tis well we underftand not it, 
 
 We (hould grow Mad with little Learning there. 
 
 Upon the Brink of every Id we did Forefee , 
 
 Undecently and fbolifhlie 
 We (hould (land flnvering, and but (lowly venter 
 The Fatal Flood to enter, 
 
 Since voiding, or unvoiding we muft do it. 
 
 They feel leaft cold and pain who plunge at once into it. 
 
 NO TE S* 
 
<P INDAKIQVE ODES 
 
 45 
 
 0\C o T E S. 
 
 i. 
 
 i. T Anw> was the God to whom the year was dedicated, and therefore it began with his 
 J Fefiival ; and the firft Month was denominated from him for which caufelie was re- 
 prtfented with f rvo F ices, to (hew that he looked both Backward upon the time part, and 
 Fonvjrd upon the rime to come* and fomerimes with (our faces, to fignifie (perhaps, for 
 I know other Reafons are given) th e four Seajons cf the year, 
 
 Annorum nitidiq *, fator pulcherrime Mundi, 
 
 Publica quem primum vota precefqj canunt. Mart. 
 
 2. This alludes to that mofl notorious cuftcin of (hutting up Janus his Temple in time of 
 an univerlal Peace •, as was thrice done from A luma to Auguflus ' s Reign : and when any War 
 began, it was opened again with great Ceremony by the chief Magifirate from which open- 
 ing and Hunting of his Temple Gates, Janus is called Clufms and Patulcius , and efteemed, 
 Deus belli ac pads arbiter. 
 
 LIFE. 
 
 - t 
 
 Nafcentes Morimur. Manii. 
 
 , * » 
 
 t 
 
 I. ' t 
 
 1 T 7 E Ve iil by thefe Grammarians us’d 3 
 
 YV We are abus’d by Words, grofly abus’d 3 
 From the Maternal Tomb , 
 
 To the Graves fruitful Womb , 
 
 We call here Life 3 but Life's a. name 
 That nothing here can truly claim : 
 
 This wretched inn , where we fcarce ftay to bait. 
 
 We call our Dwelling-place 3 
 We call one Step a Race : 
 
 But Angels in their full enlightned ftate, 
 
 Angels who Live and know what ’tis to Be, 
 
 2 Who all the nonfenfe of our Language fee. 
 
 Who fpeakThings, and our Words , their ill-drawn ViUnres fcorn 
 When we by’a foolifi Figure fay, 
 
 3 Behold an old man Dead! then they 
 Speak properly, and cry, Beho.d a man-child born , 
 
 B b 2 
 
 My 
 
F1NDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 2 . 
 
 My Eyes are opened, and I fee 
 Through the Tranfparent FaUacie : 
 
 Becaufe we feem wifely to talk 
 Like men of bufmefs } and for buftnefs walk 
 From place to place, 
 
 And mighty voyages we take, 
 
 And mighty Journies feem to make, 
 
 1 Ore Sea and Land, the little Point that has no /pace, 
 
 Becaufe we fight , and Battels gain 3 
 Some Captives call, and fay, the reft are J lain . 
 
 Becaufe we heap up yellow Earth , and fo, 
 
 Rich, valiant, wife, and vertuous feem to grow ; 
 
 Becaufe we draw a loDg Nobilitie 
 
 2 From Hieroglyphick proofs of Herauldrie, 
 
 And impudently talk of a Pofieritie, 
 
 3 And, like Egyptian Chroniclers , 
 
 Who write of twenty thoufand years, 
 
 4 With Maravedies make th £ account. 
 
 That fwgle Time might to a fum amount, 
 
 We grow at laft by Cuftom to believe, 
 
 That really we Live: 
 
 Whilft all thefe Shadows that for things we take, 
 
 Are but the empty Dreams which in Deaths Jleep we make, 
 
 3 - 
 
 But thefe fantaftique errors of our Dream , 
 
 Lead us to folid wrong} 
 
 We pray God, our Friends torments to prolong, 
 
 And wi(h uncharitably for them, 
 
 To be as long a Dying as Methufalem. 
 
 The ripened Soul longs from his Prison to come. 
 
 But we would feal> and fow up, if we could, the Womk 
 
 We feek to clofe and plafter up by Art 
 
 The cracks and breaches of the’ extended Shell, 
 
 And in that narrow Cell 
 Would rudely force to dwell, 
 
 The noble vigorous Bird already wing'd to part. 
 
 NOTES , 
 
TINDARIQVE ODES . 
 
 \ 
 
 Z\CO T E S. 
 
 — 
 
 i. 
 
 I, T^Lato in Timaus makes this diftindion: That which Is, but is not generated ; and That 
 X which is generated-, but is not *Oy jj b’JVto '!*• This he took from Trijmegijlus, whofe 
 Sentence of God was wrirren in the Egyptian Temples, ’Eya tap to yt^vof $ $ 
 
 « cbeA'ov, * am all r hat Was, Is- or jhall be. And he drew this from the very fountain where 
 he cals himfelf, Exod. 3. j2 < 'O lam that 1 am, or, That which u. This dodrine of 
 Plato, tha: nothing trulv is but God, is approved by all the Fathers. Simplicius explains it 
 thus, That which has more degrees of Privation, or Not- Being than of Being (which is the cafe 
 of all Cr»atu ?s) ts nor properly faid to Be ; and again, That which is in a perpetual Fieri or 
 Making, never ’s qnite Made , and therefore never properly Is. Now becaufc this perpetual 
 Flux of Being is noc in Angels , or Separated Spirits, 1 allow them the Title of Being and Living } 
 and carry not the Figure (for in truth it is no other) fo far as Plato. 
 
 2. That the GodscsW things by other names than we do, was the fancy of Homer . 
 
 ZxyQoy xA\itsrt $eot, uy<fg« $ ’ZkavlavL'^v, 
 
 “Gy fieidpivv KA\un $toi, dvtflei <E avQganrot 
 AtyautcoyA. 
 
 And the like in feveral other places, as alfo in other Authors, Athen*us,\. 7. c. 9. Ovid Me- 
 tam. &c. and this is likewife drawn from Scripture*, for jfaiah (Chap. 40. v. $ 6 .) makes it 
 a Property of God, that he calls the Stars by their Names. 
 
 3. So Euripid. 
 
 T{* o/Rp « t 3 £itv ^7 K*l$ctViiy, 
 
 Ti Ka]$&vUy 3 
 
 Who knows whether to Live, be not to Dye } and to Dye to Live 
 
 2. 
 
 1. Ifa. 40. 2 6. Behold the Nations are as the drop of a Bucket, and are counted as the / mall 
 Dufi of the Ballance, &c. 
 
 2. Becaufe Heraldry confifis in the Figures of Beafts, Stars, Flowers, and fuch like, as the 
 Hieroglyphicks did of the ancient Egyptians. 
 
 3. An uncertain Number for a Certain. The Egyptian Kingdom, according to Manethon , 
 had 31 Dynaflies before Alexander's time, $355 years 5 others content not themfelvcs with 
 foimall a Number ; for Diod. fays, lib. 1. from Ofyris to Alexander, they reckon above ten 
 thoufand years ; or as others will have it, little lefs than 23 thoufand. See the Egyptian 
 Priefts difeourfe to Solon in Plato’s Timms- But thefe vaft accounts arofe from the equivocal 
 term of a Tear among them, which fometimes they made Solar , fometimes of Four , fome- 
 times of Three, nay, Two, or One Month. Xtnoph. de Tempor. Ac[uin. Solin. c. 7. Plin. 1 . 7. c. 1 r. 
 Macrob. in Somn. Scipion. &c. 
 
 4. A Spanifh Coin, one of the leaf! that is. 
 
 
 The 
 
4 8 ^INDARIQVE ODES. 
 
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 The 54. Chapter of the Prophet Ifaiah- 
 
 X. 
 
 1 \ Wake, and with attention hear, 
 
 X \ Thou drowfie World , for it concerns thee near $> 
 Awake, I fay, and liften well, 
 
 To what from God , I, his loud Prophet , tell. 
 
 Bid both the Poles luppreG their ftormy noife. 
 
 And bid the roaring Sen contain its voice. 
 
 Be (till thou Sea , be ftill thou Air and Earthy 
 
 2 Still, as old Chaos , before Motions birth, 
 
 A dreadful Hofi of Judgments is gone out 5 
 
 In ftrength and number more 
 Than e’re was rais'd by God before. 
 
 To fcourge the Rebel Worlds and march it round about, 
 
 2. 
 
 I fee the Sword of God brandiflit above 5 
 And from tt ftreams a difmal ray 5 
 I fee the Scabbard caft away. 
 
 How red anon with Slaughter will it prove l 
 How will it fweat and reek^ in blood l 
 How will the Scarlet-glutton be 6 regorged with his food I 
 And devour all the mighty Feaft ! 
 
 Nos hing foon but Bones will reft. 
 
 God does a iolemn Sacrifice prepare 5 
 But not of Oxen, nor of Rams, 
 
 Nor of Rids, nor of their Dams, 
 
 Not of Heifers, nor of Lams. 
 
 The Altar all the Land , and all Men in t the ViUims are, 
 Since wicked Mens more guilty blood to fpare. 
 
 The Beafis fo long have facrificed bin, 
 
 Since Men their Birth-right forfeit ftill by Sin, 
 
 ’Tis fit at laft Beafis their Revenge (hould have, 
 
 And Sacrificed Men their better Brethren fave. 
 
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 So will they fall, fo will they flee 5 
 Such will the Creatures wild diftra&ion be. 
 
 When at the final Doom, 
 
 Nature and Time fhall both be Slain , 
 
 Shall ftruggle with Deaths pangs in vain, 
 
 And the whole world their Funeral Pile become. 
 
 The wide-ftretcht Scrowl of Heaven , which we 
 
 1 Immortal as the Deity think, 
 
 2 With all the beauteous CharaUers that in it 
 
‘PINDARI QJJ E ODES. 
 
 With fuch Jeep Senfe by God's own Hand were writ, 
 Whofe Eloquence though we under ft and not, we admire, 
 
 * Shall crackle, and the parts together fhrink 
 g Like Parchment in a fire. 
 
 4 Th’exhavfted Sun to th’ Moon no more (hall lend 5 
 But truly then headlong into the Sea defeend. 
 
 The glittering Hoft> now in fuch fair array, 
 
 So proud, fo well appointed, and fo gay. 
 
 Like ftiuful Troops in Tome ftrong Ambujh ta’ne, 
 
 5 Shall forne fly routed, and forne fall (laine, 
 
 6 Thick as ripe Fruit, or yellow Leaves in Autumn fall, 
 
 With fuch a violent Storm as blows down Tree and all. 
 
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 4 * 
 
 And Thou, O curled Land , 
 
 Which wilt not fee the Precipice where thou doft (land, 
 Though thou ftandft juft upon the brink 5 
 Thou of this poyfoned Bowl the bitter Dregs (halt drink. 
 Thy Rivers and thy Lakes fhall fo 
 With humane blood oreflow. 
 
 That they fhall. fetch the flaughter’ed corps away, 
 
 Which in the fields around unburied lay, 
 
 And rob the Beafts and Birds to give the Fijh their prey. 
 The rotting Corps (hall (o infeft the air 5 
 Beget fuen Plagues , and putrid Venomes there, 
 
 That by thine own Dead (hall be (lain 
 All thy few Living that remain. 
 
 1 As one who buys, Surveys a ground, 
 
 So the Deftroying Angel mcafures it around, 
 
 So careful and fo ftrid he is, 
 
 Left any Nook. or Corner he (hould mifs. 
 
 He walks about the perilhing Nation , 
 
 Ruine behind him ftalks and empty Defolation, 
 
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 5 * 
 
 1 Then (hall the Marhgt and the Pleading-place 
 
 Be choakt with Brambles and oregrown with graft , 
 
 The Serpents through thy Streets (hall rowl, 
 
 And in thy lower Rooms the Wolves (hall howl, 
 
 2 And thy gilt Chambers lodge the Raven and the Owl 
 And all the wing’d III Omens of the aire. 
 
 Though no new- Ills can be fore-boded there. 
 
 The Lyon then (hall to the Leopard fay, 
 
 Brother Leopard come away 5 
 Behold a Land which God has giv’en us in prey ! 
 
 Behold a Land from whence we lee 
 
 Mankind expulft, Hts and Our common Enemie l 
 
 The Brother Leopard (hakes himfelf, and does not ftay. 
 
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 The 
 
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 T1NDARIQVE ODES, 
 
 Ifa.ch. 34. 
 y. 1. 
 
 Verfe $. 
 
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 2 The glutted Vulturs (hall exped in vain 
 
 New Armies to be (lain. 
 
 Shall find at laft the bufinefs done, 
 
 Leave their confumed Quarters, and be gone, 
 
 3 Th’ unburied Ghofis , (hall fadly moan, 
 
 The Satyrs laugh to hear them groan. 
 
 The Evil Spirits that delight 
 
 To dance and revel in the Mask of Night , 
 
 The Moon and Stars , their foie Spectators (hall affright. 
 
 And if of loft Mankind 
 Ought happen to be left behind, 
 
 If any Reliques but remain, 
 
 They in the Dens (hall lurk, Beatis in the Palaces (hall raign. 
 
 C\C 0 T E S. 
 
 C Om near ye Nations to bear , and harden ye people , let the Earth hear , *nnd all that is there- 
 in the world , and all things that come forth of it. 2. For the indignation of the Lord is 
 upon all Nations, and his jury upon all their Armies •, he bath utterly dejlroyed them, he hath de- 
 livered them to the flaughter. * Terra & plenitudo ejus. 
 
 The manner of the Prophets writing, efpecially of Ifaiab , feems to me very like that of 
 Pindar *, they pafs from one thing to another with almoft lnvifible connexions , and are full 
 of words and expreffions of the higheft and boldefl flights of Poetry , as may be feen in this 
 Chapter, where there are as extraordinary Figures as can be found in any Poet whatfoever ; 
 and the connexion is fo difficult, that I am forced to add a little, and leave out a great 
 deal to make it feem Senfe to us, who are not ufed to that elevated way of expreffiou. The 
 Commentators differ, and fome would have it to be a Prediction of the deftruftioncf Judaa, 
 as Hugo, Lyran, and others *, the reft underftand it as a Prophecy of the day of Judgment. 
 The defign of it to me feems to be this, firft to denounce great defolations and ruines to 
 all Countrys, and then to do it more particularly to Jud<ea, as which was to fuffer a greater 
 meafureof them than the reft of the World ; as ic has done, I think, much more than 
 any other Land under the Sun -, and to illullrate thefe confufions by the ftmilitude of them 
 to thofe of the laft Day, though in the Text there be no Tranfuion from the fubjett to the 
 fmilitudt ', for the old faffiion of writing, was like Vifputing in Enthymemes , where half is 
 left out to be fupplyed by the Hearer : ours is like Syllogifms , where all that is meant is 
 expreft. 
 
 2. For as foon as Motion began, it ceafed to be Chaos, this being all Confufm, but Natu- 
 ral Motion is regular : I think I have read it fomewhere called etKtvnjov yd©-. The Scri- 
 pture fays, And darfyefs was upon the face of the Earth, and the jpirit of God moved upon the 
 Waters. So that the firft Motion, was that of the Spirit of God upon Chaos, to which fuc- 
 ceedcd the Motion in Chaos. And God faid (that is, the motion of the Spirit of God, for ic 
 is a Proceffion of his will to an outward Effett ) let there be light , and there was light ( that is, 
 the firft Motion of Chaos. ) 
 
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 For my [word * {hall be bathed in Heaven, behold it fh all come down upon Idumea, and upon the 
 people of my curfe to Judgment. 6 . The fword of , God is filled with blood, * it is made fat with 
 fatnefs , and with the blood of Lambs, and Goats, with the fat of the Yfdneys of Rams', for the 
 Lord has a Sacrifice in Boyah, and a great flaughter in the Land of Idumea. * Quoniam inebri- 
 atus eft in ccelo gladius meus, & fup. populum interle&iones mes ad judicium — * Incraf- 
 fatus eft adipc. 
 
 I have left out thefeventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth Verfes ', in which, where the Prophet 
 fays Vnicorns and Bulls, I take that to be a Metaphor only of Great Tyrants, and men of the 
 mightieft power j the Horn fignifying that in Hebrew, and other Languages too ■, as Horace. 
 
 Adda cornua pauperi , &c. 
 
 v. 8. And 
 
5i 
 
 TINDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 And the year of recomper.ces for the co n trove rfie of Sion , Annus retributionis judicii Sion. 
 This makes Vatabl. Mont an. Sanchez and divers others interpret, Judicium Sionis , the Judg- 
 ment which God fhall exercife againfl the idum<eans in revenge of Sion ; bur I take it ra- 
 ther to be, This is the year when Sion (hall be judged for ha judgment ; that is, for the con- 
 demnation and execution of her Mejias , who Jikevvife foretels the fame things as ifaiab, 
 concerning the deflruftion of JeruJalem , and even in the fame manner, part of the threac- 
 nings feemitig to belong particularly to Jerufalem , and part being only applicable to the Day 
 of Judgment. Obferve this remarkable conformity in the 24. of Matthew. 
 
 2. As not intending to put it up again, or to be ever reconciled ‘, in which fenfe it was 
 faid , as I take it, to the great Duke of Guije , that he who draws his Sword againfl his Prince, 
 fhould fling away the Scabbard. 
 
 5. For the Text fays, it is made drun \ » with blood , and made fat withfefb. Like. the rich 
 Glutton in the Gofpel, who is deferibed to be cloathed with Purple. 
 
 4. The Text feems to fay quite contrary to this, It fhall be made fat with fatnefs, and with 
 
 the blood of Lambs and Goats , and Sidneys of Ram , &c. But the names of Beafls in that place 
 mud necefTarily be underftood, as put for Men ; all forts of Men. Cornel, d Lap. fays that 
 by Lambs are fignified the Common People by Goats the captains and Princes’, by Rams the 
 Magiflrates. But thefe two lafl interpretations of Goats and Rams, feem very flight and for- 
 ced ; the meaning is, that all forts of men fhall be facrificed to God’s juflice, as Lambs, Goats, 
 and Rams were wont to be. It may be askt, why idumaa and Bozya, (the Metropolis of ic) 
 are here particularly mentioned? Is it not with allufion to the Names ? for ldumxi (or 
 Edom) flgnifies Red, a Country that fhall be red with bloodfhed*, and Bozra fignifies a 
 Strong fortified Place. So that in the Pfalm 108. v. 10. where we read, Who will bring me 
 into the flrong City ? the Hebrew is, who will bring me into Bozya ? Frojn which word too by 
 a Merathefis of the Letters, fome derive Byrfa, the flrong Caftle of Carthage, which was 
 founded by the Phoenicians, and therefore ic is more likely the Caflle fhould have a Phoenician 
 ( which Language is faid to have been little different from the Hebrew) than a Grecian name , 
 to wit, from an Hide, becaufe Dido is reported to have bought of Iarbas as much 
 
 ground as could be compafl with an Oxe'i hide, which cut into very narrow thongs, took up 
 the whole fpace where fhe built the Caflle. Virg. 
 
 Mercatiq’, folumfatti de nothin e Byrfim,' 
 
 Taurino quantum poffent circumdare tergo. 
 
 Wherefore under the name of Bozya, the Prophet threatens all flrong Places, and more 
 efpecially of Judaa , which God will make an Edom, or red, or bloody Country. 
 
 5. Though Beafls were firft created in time, yet becaufe Man was firfl and chiefly defigned, 
 and they only in order to him, the right of Primogeniture belongs to him •, and therefore all 
 Beafls at firft obeyed and feared him. We need not be angry, or afhamed to have them 
 called our Brethren ; for they are literally fo, having the fame Creator or Father ; and the 
 Scripture gives us a much worfe kindred ; I have faid to corruption , thou art my Father and 
 to the Worm, thou art my Mother and my Sifler , Job 17. v. 14. 
 
 And all the hofl of Heaven fhall be diffolved , * and the Heavehs fljall be rolled together as a ferott , Verfe 4, 
 end all thir Hofl fhall fall down as the leaf falleth from the vine, and as a falling fig from the 
 Figtree. * Et complicabuntur ficut Liber coeli, &c. D. Thomas Hug. and divers others, inter- 
 pret this to be an Hyperbolical expreflion of the calamities of thofe times -, which fhall be fo 
 great, that men fhall think the World at an end, and fhall befo diftraCted, that the Heavens 
 fhall feem to be rolled together, and the flars to fall. Eut methinks, it is more naturally 
 taken for a real defeription of the end of the World, but by way of a Similitude , to illu* 
 ftrate the confufions that are foretold. 
 
 1. The vulgar opinion, and that of Ariflotle, and moft Vhilofophers has always been 
 that the Heavens are immutable, and Incorruptible, ray even Immaterial -, in which, though 
 experience it felf of vifible Mutations in them ( as the produftjon and extinction two years 
 after of the New flar in Caftopaa, 1572.) might fufficiently by natural reafon convince them, 
 yet fome men are fo given up even to the moft reprobate fenfe of Ariflotle , that not fo much 
 as the Divine Authority can draw them from ic *, as in this point Suare and many others, are 
 fo far from the opinion of the Heavens being now Corruptible, and Mutable , that they will 
 allow them to be changed only Accidentally (as thev call it) and not Subflantially at the laft 
 Day. Of which Maldon. upon S Matth. fays well, That he had rather believe Chrifl who 
 affirms ir, than Ariflotle who denys it. 
 
 2. The Stars mzy well be termed Characters or Letters, where the Heavens are called a 
 S croul or Booki in which perhaps Mens fortunes , Gods Glory is certainly written*, and in this 
 fenfe the Pfalmifl fpeaks, The heavens fljall declare his righteoufnefs. Origin cites a Book of 
 great authority in his days, called Narratio Jofeph , in which Jacob fays to his Sons, Legi in 
 tabulis coeli queecunq’, contingent zobis & filiis vefiris. 
 
 g. The Text is rolled up like a Scroul, or rather Book ; for the ancient Books were not 
 like ours, divided into leaves *, but made of fheets, of skins, or parchment, and rolled 
 upon a cylinder, after the fafhionof our Maps. So that when they had read them, rhey 
 
 C c rolled 
 
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 VINDARIQVE ODES . 
 
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 rolled them up again, as God will the Heavens , when lie has done with them. But I thoughc 
 that this companion of Parchment that fhrivels up in the fire does more reprefcnt the vio- 
 lence of their ddlruftion, which is to be by burning. 
 
 4. He fupplies now the Moon and Stars that fliine by reflexion from him, but then fhall 
 want light for himfelf. In thofe days the Sun fhall be darkened, and the Moon (hall not give her 
 light. Mat. 24. Where I take Her to have an Emphafis , even her own little Light: for I believe 
 the Moon and Stars not to be totally opaque and dark bodies. 
 
 "truly, is Emphatical *, for according to the Fables, whenfoever he fets, he defcends into 
 the Sea, but now he really does fo ; that is, he will be mingled with the Sea and Earthy and 
 all other things that muff then be diflolved : And the Heathens had both this opinion of the 
 end of the World, and fell almoft into the fame expreffions. As Lucan. 
 
 Midis Sidera /id tribus concurrenti Ignea pontum 
 AJlra petent 
 
 St. Matthew and Mar£ , And the Stars of Heaven fhall fall , and here, Their kofl fhall fall down 
 &c. Sen. ad Marc. Sidera (ideribus incurrenty & omni flagrante materia, unoigne , quicquid nunc 
 ex difpofito lucet, ardebit. And one might call up a ptdantical heap of authorities to the fame 
 purpofe. . 
 
 5. ft is, I hope, needlcfs to admonifh any tolerable Reader , that it was not negligence or 
 ignorance of Number , that produced this Stumbling Verfe, no more than the other before. 
 And truly then headlong into the Seadefcend. And feveral others in my Book of the like kind. 
 
 6 . That of the wind is added to the Text here, but taken out of another juft like it in 
 the Revelations , Chap. 6 . v. 13. And the Sta*s of Heaven fell unto the Earth , even as a Fig-tree 
 cafteth her untimely Figs when floe is fjal^en of a mighty Find. And there follows too the fimi- 
 litude of the Scroll. 
 
 ' 4. 
 
 t. Verfe n. And he [ball (It etch out upon it the Line of confiiport, and the fiones of Emptinefs 
 The Latine very differently. Et extendetur paper eam menfura , ut redigatur ad nihil, & perpen- 
 diculum in defolationcm. The Metaphor is, that as a Carpenter draws a Line to mark exaftly 
 the fpace that he is to build , fo God does here, to mark that which he is to de(lroy. 
 
 Our Iranflction follows Vatabl. Extendet fuper eam regulam inanitatis , & lapides vacuitatis. 
 Which fiones of Emptinefs may have two interpretations, either making the StoneSy Termini, 
 that is Bound-Pones of Deflation , as if he fhould fay, This is the Land of Dtfolationy and I 
 have fet thefe bounds and limits to circumfcribe it. Or elfe he fays, the Stones of Emptinefs , 
 as an effect of Dejolation ; for when a ground is uncultivated and abandoned, it grows ftony. 
 According to the vulgar Latine Tranflation it is very like another Text of ifaiab, Chap. 28. 
 v. 1 7. Judgment alfo will I lay to the Line, and, rigbttoufnefs to the Plummet. Which is no more 
 in plain language, than, I will be exaft in Judgment and Rigbttoufnefs. There is a much harder 
 Text with the fame Metaphor in 2 Sam. Ch. 8. Verfe 2 And he fmote Moab , and mtafured 
 them with a Line, calling them down to the ground , even with two lines meafured he to put to 
 Deathy and with one juU Line to l>eep alive , And fo the Moabites became David's Servants y and 
 brought gifts. Which 1‘ome interpret, that he put two parts of them to the Sword, and faved 
 the third, who became his Servants. And that he did this, not by a juft account, or polling 
 ef them (for the number was too great) but by meafuring out the Land into three parts, 
 and deltroying two of them, 2 King. 21.13. I w# frttcb over Jenfalm the Line of Samaria , 
 and the Plummet of the Houfe of Ah aby and I will wipe Jerufaltm as a man wipeth a difh , wiping 
 and turning it upftde down. The Latine, Pondus domus Achab : and inftead of a difh, ufesa 
 more noble Metaphor of a Table-boo Delebo Jerulalem pent del er if olent Tabula, & delens ver- 
 tam, & ducam crebrius ftilum juper faciem ejus. 
 
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 1. Verfe 11. The Cormorant and the Bittern fhaU poffefs it , the Owl and the Raven full dwell 
 in it. V. 13. And thorns and nettles [hall come up in her Palaces, and Brambles in the Fortrefjes 
 thereof ; and it (hall be an habitation for Dragons , and a Court for Owls. 
 
 Etpoftidebunt illam Onocrotalus & Ericius, Ibis 8: Corvus habitabunt inea,K. 13- Et ori- 
 entur in domibus ejus fpina? Sc urtica?, & paliurus in munitionibus ejus, & erit cubile Draco- 
 num & pafcua Struthionum. The Cormorant is called Onocrotalus , from ''Of©- an Afs, and 
 yc^Tetx©-, Nolle ; becaufeit makes a ncife like the braying of an Afs. I know not whether 
 we are in the righr, who mandate it a Bittern or the Latin, which calls it Ericius , an Hedg- 
 Hog. Ericius among the Claftick Authors, fignifies an Inftrutnenr of War, made with Iron 
 Pikes, like Palifiadoes flicking cut of it. Some think a Percullit , from the fimilitude of 
 which, Echinus was in the time of corrupted Latine, called Ericius. Ibis is a Bird like a 
 Stork moft known in Egypt, and worfhipt there, becaufe it kills multitudes of Serpents, 
 which would elie infelt the Country. We erroncoufly mandate ic Owl , for mention of Owls 
 is made afterwards, f do rot ufe the fame names of Beads and Birds exadly which the 
 Prophet does : nor is that material j for the meaning only is, that the Land (hall be pofteft 
 by Beasts inftead of Men. 
 
 2. Of 
 
TINDAK1QVE ODES. 
 
 1. Of Birds from which the Ancients took Auguries : Some were called Ofcines, from 
 whofe voices they drew their Divinations, and other Prapetes , from their manner of flighty 
 Crows, Swallows, Kites, Owls, and fuch like, were counted inaufpicious Birds ; and others 
 (as Vultures) in fome cafes portended good, and in others evil. 
 
 3. Though the Lyon might call any Bea[l Brother, yet it may more properly the Leopard ", 
 for the Leopard is begot of a Lyonefs, and a he-Panther , which is called Pardus , 
 
 6 . 
 
 Verfe 14. The wild beafls of the Defart (hall alfo meet with the wild beafls of the lflands, and 
 the Satyre (lo all cry to his fellow, the S^riclhOwl (hall alfo red there , and find for herjelf a. place 
 of red- V. 1 5. There flail the great Owl make her hefl, and lay and hatch , and gather under her 
 fladow ", There flail the Vultures alfo be gathered every one with her Mate , V.i$. Ec occufrent 
 Daemonia Onocentauris, & Pilofus clamabit alter ad alterum ■, Ibi cubavit Lamia , & invenit 
 fibi requiem V. 15. Ibi habuit foveam Ericius , & enutrivit catulos, & circumfodit, & fovic 
 in umbra ejus ", illuc congregati funt Milvi, alter ad alterum. 
 
 Here is a great difference between the two Tran flat ion s •, and it appears, methinks, that 
 noneperfedly underftood the Hebrew, neither in this nor many other places. From whence 
 they give the fabulous Creel* names, as thole of Satyrs, Lamia , Onocentaurs, Unicorns , Dra- 
 gons, Orion , Pleiades, and the like, to feveral Hebrew words, whole true fignification was loft ; 
 which is no wonder, for even in the Gret^ and Latin we have much ado to mandate all the 
 names of Birds, Beads, Fifhes, and Herbs, &c. and I am afraid we arc often midaken in 
 them. So the Septuag. in Job. 42. v. 14. mandate the name of Job's third Daughter, The 
 Horn of Amalthea, alluding to a Grecian fable born loflg after Job's time. Kkpae *A 
 which the Latin Cornu ftibii the Horn of Antimony , perhaps bccaufc Antimony is accounted by 
 fome the Mother of Metals. We ( I know not why) name her Kerenhappuch, not according 
 to the fignificadon, hut the word of the Hebrew. It feems by theGw^, that Job's three 
 Daughters names dignified Swettnefs ", Light , or Beauty ", Plenty , or Fruitfulnefs. So in the 1 $ 
 of Judith it is mandated ; Nec filii Titan percufjerunt eum : when the meaning is, They were 
 not the Sons of Gy ants that dew him, but, &c. Hot great flrong men, but a weak woman. 
 
 2. The Latin fays Milvi : which Trandation is bed I know not, nor dees it import. The 
 Vultures from their devouring of dead Bodies, w^ere called t«i poitfx^vxoi, Living Tombs. 
 They are faid to ademble thcmfelves together by a natural Divinatory lnjintt in the places 
 where any great daughters are to be made > which Tradition arifes, becaufe they ufe to fol- 
 low Armies ", not asforefceiDg the day of Battel, but becaufe even in the marches of Armies 
 there arc always a great many men, horfes, and other beads, that fall here and there by the 
 way Job has the like defeription of the Eagle, Ch. 39. ver. 30. And where the fain are, 
 there is (he 
 
 3. The Englifl mentions only Satyrs, the Latin befides that ( for Vilofi, are the fame) 
 D amonia, and Lamia, Habgoblings. The Hebrew is faid to fignifie Notturnum fpett)nm, Ail 
 appearance of fomething in the Night. Prom whence the Chald. trand. it, An Owl , the 
 Englilh a Sl>ricb Qwl. Whether there be any fuch Creatures in Nature as Satyrs , &c. I will 
 not determine. S. Antony feeking S. Paul the Hermite, is reported by Athanafius to have met 
 with a Monder half Man, and Bead, which he drove away with the fign of the Crofs *, and 
 S. Hierom in the life of the Hermite, fays that fuch a kind of Monfter was in his time brought 
 to Alexandria. Pliny tedifies, that he himfelf faw an Hippocentaar, the body of which was 
 prelerved in honey, and brought to Claud. Cxfar ", but I am forry he does not deferibe the 
 form of it, Lib. 7. Cap. 3. 
 
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 <P1NDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 The Plagues of Egypt. 
 
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 I. 
 
 I S this thy Bravery , Man , is this thy 
 Rebel to God , and to all befide ! 
 
 Captived by every thing ! and only Free 
 
 To fly from thine own Libertie! 
 
 All Creatures the Creator (aid Were thine 3 
 No Creature but might fince, fay, Man is Mine. 
 
 In black Egyptian Slavery we lie 5 
 And fweat and toil in the vile Drudgerie 
 Of Tyrant Sin 5 
 
 To which w eTrophees raife, and wear out all our Breath* 
 
 In building up the Monuments of Death 3 
 We, the choice Race , to God and Angels Kin / 
 
 In vain the Prophets and Apofeles come 
 To call us home, 
 
 Home to the promis’ed Canaan above, 
 
 Which does with nourifhing Mil and pleafant Honey flow 3 
 And even i’th’way to which we (hould be fed 
 With Angels tafteful Bread : 
 
 But, we, alas, the Flefhpots love, 
 
 We love the very Lee^/and fordid roots below, 
 
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 2. 
 
 In vain we 'judgments feel, and Wonders fee 3 . 
 
 In vain did God to defcend hither dain, 
 
 He was his own Awbaffador in vain, 
 
 Our Mofes and our Guide himfelf to be. 
 
 We will not let our [elves to go, 
 
 And with worfe hardned hearts do our own Pharaohs grow 3 
 Ah, left at laft we perifti fo ! 
 
 Think, ftubborn Man, think of the’ Egyptian Prince , 
 
 (Hard of Belief and Will , but not fo hard as Thou) 
 
 Think with what dreadful proofs God did convince 
 The feeble arguments that humane power could (how 3 
 Think what Plagues attend on Thee, 
 
 Who Mofes God doft now refufe, more oft than Mofes He. 
 
 3 ’ 
 
 If from (ome God you come (faid the proud King) 
 
 1 With half a fmile and half a Frown 3 
 
 2 (But what God can to Egypt be unknown ? ) 
 
 3 What Sign f what Poivers, what Credence do you bring? 
 Behold his Seal, behold his Hand , 
 
 Cryes Mofes , and cafts down th’ Almighty Wand . 
 
4 
 
 T INDAK1QV E ODES. 
 
 TH’ ATnighty Wand fcarce roucht the Earth, 
 
 When with an undi'cernttl birth 
 77 / Almighty Wanda Serpent grew 
 And his long half in painted folds behind him drew. 
 Upwards his threatning Tail he threw j 
 Upwards he caft his threatning Head , 
 
 He gaped and hift aloud $ 
 
 With flaming Eies furvey’d the trembling croud, 
 
 And like a Bafthsk altnoft loohg the Affembly dead $ 
 
 5 Swift fled ih? Amazed King ) the Guards before him fied^ 
 
 • • 
 
 4 * 
 
 j Jannes and Jambres ftopt their flight, 
 
 And with proud words allay'd th’affrighto 
 The God of Slaves (faid they) how can he be 
 More powerful than their Maficrs Deitie / 
 
 And down they caft their Rods> 
 
 1 And mutter’d fecret (ounds that charm the fervile Gods . 
 
 The evil Spirits their charms obey, 
 
 And in a fubtle cloud they fnatch the Rods away, 
 
 3 And Serpents in their place the airy Juglers lay. 
 
 Serpents in Bgypts monftrous land, 
 
 Were ready ftill at hand, 
 
 And all at the Old Serpents firft command. 
 
 And they too gap’ed, and they too hift. 
 
 And they their threatning Tails did twift, 
 
 But ftraight on both the Hebrew-Serpent flew , 
 
 Broke both their a&ive Backs , and both it flew, 
 
 And both alraoft at once devoured, 
 
 So much was over-power’ed 
 By God's miraculous Creation 
 
 His Servants Natures flightly- wrought, and feeble Generation . 
 
 5. 
 
 1 On the fam’d bank the Prophets ftood, 
 
 Toucht with their Rod , and wounded all the Flood 5 
 Flood now no more, but a long Van of putrid Blood . 
 
 The helplefs Fiji) were found 
 In their ftrange Current drown’d, 
 
 The Herbs and Trees wafht by the mortal Tide 
 About it blujht and dyed. 
 
 Th’ amazed Crocodiles made haft to ground 5 
 
 From their vaft trunks the dropping gore they fpied, 
 
 Thought it their Own, and dreadfully aloud they cried, 
 
 2 Nor ail thy Priejls , nor 7 host 
 Oh King , cou’dft ever fhow 
 
 From whence thy wandring We begins his courfe 5 
 Of this new Nile thou fee ft the facred Sourfe ; 
 
 And as thy Land that does oreflovv, 
 
 Take heed left this do fo. 
 
 What 
 
 
56 P 1 NDARIQJVE ODES. 
 
 3 What Plague more juft could on thy Waters fall ? 
 
 The Hebrew Infants Murder ftains them all. 
 
 The kind, infiruUing Punijhment enjoy 3 
 
 Whom the Red- River cannot Mend> the Red-Sea (hall Defir oy* 
 
 6 , 
 
 The River yet gave one Infiru&ion more, 
 
 1 And from the rotting Fifh and unconco&ed Gore, 
 
 Which was but Water juft before, 
 
 A loathfome Ho ft was quickly made, 
 
 That foal'd the Banks , and with loud noifo did all th ^Country in- 
 As Nilus when he quits his facred Bed (vade. 
 
 2 (But like a Friend he vifits all the Land 
 
 With welcome Prefents in his hand) 
 
 So did this Living Tide the Fields orefpread. 
 
 In vain th’ alarmed Country tries 
 To kill their noifome Enemies, 
 
 From th’unexhaufted Source ftill new Recruits arifo* 
 
 Nor does the Earth thefo greedy Troops fuffice, 
 
 The Towns and Houfes they poflefs, 
 
 The Temples and the Palaces , 
 
 Nor Pharaoh , nor his Gods they fear 3 
 Both their importune croakings hear. 
 
 Unfatiate yet they mount up higher, • i> . 1 / 
 
 Where never Sun-born Frog durft to afpire 3 
 And in the filken Beds their flimy Members place 3 
 A Luxurie unknown before to all the Watry Race . * 
 
 7 * 
 
 The Water thus her Wonders did produce 5 
 But both were to no ufe. 
 
 As yet the Sorcerers rnimtek. power forv’ed for excufe. 
 
 Try what the Earth will do ( faid God) and, Lo ! 
 
 They ftroke the Earth a fertile blow. 
 
 And all the Dufi did ftrait to ftir begin 3 
 
 One would have thought fome fudden Wind t’had bin 3 
 
 But, Lo, ’twas nimble Life was got within ! 
 
 And all the little Springs did move, 
 
 1 And evey Dufi did an armed Vermine prove, 
 
 Of an unknown and new- created kind, 
 
 Such as the Magick ; Gods could neither make nor find . 
 
 The wretched (hameful Foe allowed no reft 
 Either to Man or Beaft. 
 
 Not Pharaoh from th’unquiet Plague could be, 
 
 With all his change of Rayments free 3 
 The Devils themfelves confeft 
 This was Hand 3 and 'twas but juft 
 To punilh thus man’s pride, to punilb Dufi with Dufi . 
 
 Lo, 
 
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 <P INDARIQVE ODES. 
 
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 8 . 
 
 Lo the third Element does his Plagues prepare. 
 
 And fwarming Clouds of Infetts fill the Air. 
 
 With fullen noife they take their flight. 
 
 And march in Bodies infinite 5 
 In vain *tis Day above , ’tis ftill beneath them Night 
 
 1 Of harmful Fites the Nations numberlefs, 
 
 * ( A 
 
 Compos’ed this mighty Armies Ipacious boaft 5 
 Of different Manners , different Languages 3 
 And different Habits too they wore, 
 
 And different Arms they bore. . * 
 
 And fome, like Scythians , lived on Blood , 
 
 And fome on Green , and fome on Flowery Food , 
 
 2 And Accaron , the Airy Prince , led on this various Hojti 
 Houfes fecure not Men, the populous ill 
 
 Did all the Houfes fill. 
 
 The Country, all around, 
 
 3 Did with the cries of tortured Cattel found $ 
 
 About the fields enrag’ed they flew, 
 
 And wilht the Plague that was tenfue. 
 
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 9. 
 
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 I From poyfonoua Stars a mortal Influence came 
 (The mingled Malice of their Flame) 
 
 A skilful -Angel did thTngredients take. 
 
 And with juft hands the fad Compofitre make, 
 
 And over all the Land did the full vial (hake. 
 
 Thirft, Giddinefs, Faintnefs, and putrid Heats, 
 
 And pining Pains , and Shivering Sweats 
 On all the Cattle, all the Beafts did fall ; 
 
 With deformed Death the Country’s covered all. 
 
 The labouring Ox drops down before the Plow j 
 The crowned Vtffims to the Altar led 
 Sink, and prevent the lifted Blow . 
 
 The generous Horfe from the full Manger turns his Head i 
 Does his loved Floods and Paftures (corn, 
 
 Hates the (hrill Trumpet and the Horn, 
 
 Nor can his lifelefs Noftril pleafe, 
 
 With the once-ravi(bingfmell of all his dappled Miflreffej, 
 The ftarving Sheep refufe to feed. 
 
 They bleat their innocent Souls out into air 5 
 The faithful Dogs lie gafping by them there 5 
 Th’aftonilht Shepherd weeps, and breaks his tuneful Reed, 
 
 10. 
 
 Thus did the Beafts for Mans Rebellion dy> 
 
 God did on Man a Gentler Medicine try,. 
 
 And a Dtfeafe for Phyftcfl did apply. 
 
 Warm afhes from the Furnace Mofes took 5 
 
 The Sorcerers did with wonder on him look 5 t Attf 
 
FIND ARIO VE ODES. 
 
 ^ i 
 
 And fmird at th’unaccuftom’ed Spell 
 I Which no Egyptian Rituals tell. 
 
 He flings the pregnant AJbes through the Air, 
 
 And fpeaks a mighty Prayer, 
 
 Both which the Miniftring Winds around all Egypt bear. 
 
 As gentle weftern Blafts with downy wings 
 Hatching the tender Springs 
 Tothe’unborn Buds with vital whifpers fay, 
 
 Ye living Buds why do ye flay } 
 
 The paflionate Buds break through the BarJ^ their way : 
 
 So wherefoere this tainted Wind but blew, 
 
 Swelling Pains and Ulcers grew 3 
 It from the body called all Jleeping Poyfons out. 
 
 And to them added new 3 
 
 1 A noyfome Spring of Sores , as thick as Leaves did fprout. 
 
 1 
 
 ir. 
 
 Heaven it felf is angry next 3 
 Wo to Man , when Heaven is vext. 
 
 With fullen brow it frown’d, 
 
 And murmured firft in an imperfed found. 
 
 Till Alofes lifting up his hand, 
 
 Waves the expected Signal of his Wand, 
 
 And all the full-charged clouds in ranged Squadrons move* 
 And fill the fpacious Plains above. 
 
 Through which the rowling Thunder firft does play, 
 
 And opens wide the Tempejis noify way. 
 
 And ftraight a ftony flower 
 Of monftrous Hail does downwards pour* 
 
 Such as nere Winter yet brought forth 
 From all her ftormy Magazins of the North . 
 
 It all the Beajis and Men abroad did flay, 
 
 I Ore the defaced corps, like Monuments , lay, 
 
 The Houfes and ftrong-body’ed Trees it broke, 
 
 Nor askt aid from the Thunders ftroke. 
 
 The Thunder but for Terror through it flew. 
 
 The Hail alone the work could do. 
 
 The difmal Lightnings all around, 
 
 Some flying through the Air , fome running on th eground 0 
 Some fwimming o’re the waters face, 
 
 Fill’d with bright Horror every place. 
 
 One would have thought their dreadful Day to have feen. 
 The very Hail , and Rain it felf had kindled been. 
 
 12. 
 
 a The Infant Corn , which yet did fcarce appear, 
 
 Efcap’ed this general Majfacre 
 Of every thing that grew, 
 
 And the well-ftored Egyptian year 
 
 Began 
 
‘PIN DARIO VE ODES. 6 1 
 
 Began to cloath her Fields and Trees anew. 
 
 2 When, Lo ! a fcorching t rind from the burnt Countrys blew. 
 
 And endlefs Legions with it drew 
 
 3 Of greedy Locujls , who where ere 
 
 With founding wings they flew, 
 
 Left all the Earth depopulate and bare, 
 
 As if Winter it felf had marcht by there. 
 
 What ere the Sun and Nile 
 Gave with large Bounty to the thankful (bib 
 The wretched Pillagers bore away, 
 
 And the whole Summer was their Prey, 
 
 Til! Mofes with a prayer 
 Breath’d forth a violent Weftern wind, 
 
 Which all thefe living clouds did headlong bear 
 (No Straglers left behind ) 
 
 4 Into the purple Sea , and there beftow 
 
 On the luxurious Fifi a Feaft they ner’e did know. 
 
 With untaught joys Pharaoh the News does hear, 
 
 And little thinks their Fate attends on Him, and His fo near* 
 
 What blwdnefi or what Darknefs did there e’re 
 Like this undocil Kings appear ? 
 
 What e’re but that which now does reprefent 
 And paint the Crime out in the P uni foment <? 
 
 1 From the deep, baleful Caves of Hell below, 
 
 Where the old Mother Night does grow, 
 
 Suhfoantial Night, that does difclaime, 
 
 Privations empty Name, 
 
 Through fecret conduits monftrous foapes arole, 
 
 Such as the Suns whole force could not oppofe, 
 
 They with a Solid Cloud . 
 
 All Heavens Eclipjed Face did (hrowd. 
 
 Seem’d with large Wings fpread o re the Sea and Earth 
 To brood up a new Chaos his deformed birth. 
 
 2 And every Lamp , and every Fire 
 Did at the dreadful fight winl^ and expire , 
 
 To th’ Empyrean Sourfe all fire ants of Light (eem’d to retire 
 The living Alen were in their Jlanding-houfes buried 5 
 But the long Night no J, lumber knows, 
 
 But the foort Death finds no repoje. 
 
 Ten thoufand terrors through the darknefs fled, 
 
 And Ghojis complain’d, and Spirits murmured. 
 
 And Fancies multiplying fight 
 View’d all the Scenes Invisible of Night 
 
 14. * ' ‘ *. C 
 
 Of God's dreadful anger thefe 
 Were but the firft light Sklrmifoes 3 
 
 D d The 
 
62 
 
 & INDAKIQVE ODES. 
 
 The Shocks and bloody battle now begins. 
 
 The plenteous Harvefl of full-ripened Sins. 
 
 1 It was the time, when the ftill A loon 
 
 Was mounted foftly to her Noon , 
 
 And dewy fieep> which from Nights fecret firings aro(e 3 
 Gently as Nile the land oreflows. 
 
 2 When ( Lo ! ) from the high Countries of refined Day*, 
 
 The Golden Heaven without allay , 
 
 Whofe drofs in the Creation purged away. 
 
 Made up the Suns adulterate ray, 
 
 3 Michael , the warlike Prince , does downwards fly 
 
 Swift as the journeys of the Sight, 
 
 Swift as the race of Light, 
 
 And with his Winged Will cuts through the yielding sky 
 He paft throw many a Star, and as he paft, 
 
 Shone (like a fiar in them) more brightly there, 
 
 Than they did in their Sphere. 
 
 On a tall Pyramids pointed Head he ftopt at laft. 
 
 And a mild look of facred Pity caft 
 Down on the finful Land where he was fent, 
 
 T’ influft the tardy Puni/hment. 
 
 Ah ! yet (faid He) yet ftubborn King repent j 
 Whilft thus unarmed I ftand, 
 
 Ere the keen Svoord of God fill my commanded PJand 
 Suffer but yet Thy felfi and Thine to live 5 
 Who would, alas ! believe 
 That it for Man (faid He) 
 
 So hard to be forgiven fhould be, 
 
 And yet for God fo eafie to Forgive ! 
 
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 He fpoke, and downwards flew, 
 
 And ore his fhining Form a well-cut cloud he threw 
 Made of the blacked Fleece of Night, 
 
 And clofe-wrought to keep in the powerful Light , 
 
 Yet wrought fo fine it hindred not his Flighty 
 But through the Key-holes and the chinks of dores, 
 
 And through the narrow’eft Walks of crooked Pores , 
 He paft more fwift and free, 
 
 Than in wide air the wanton Swallows flee. 
 
 3 He took a pointed Peftilence in his hand, 
 
 The Spirits of thoufand mortal poyfons made 
 The ftrongly temper’d Blade , 
 
 The fharpeft Sword thate’re was laid 
 Up in the Magazins of God to fcourge a wicked Land. 
 Through Egypts wicked Land his march he took. 
 
 2 And as he marcht the facred Firfi-born ftrook 
 
 Of every womb } none did he fpare 5 
 
 3 None from the meaneft Beajl to Cenckres purple Hein. 
 
‘P INDARIQVE ODES . 63 
 
 The fwift approach of endlefs Night , 
 
 Breaks ope the wounded Sleepers rowling Eyes 5 
 They ’awake the reft with dying cries, 
 
 And darknefs doubles the affright. 
 
 The mixed founds of fcattered Deaths they hear, 
 
 And lofe their parted Souls ’twixt Grief and Fear , 1 
 Louder than all the (bricking Womens voice 
 Pierces this Chaos of confuted noife. 
 
 As brighter Lightning cuts a way 
 Clear, and diftinguifbt through the Day, 
 
 1 With lefs complaints the Zjan Temples found, 
 
 2 When the adored Heifer sdround. 
 
 And no true markt Succejfor to be found. 
 
 Wcilft Health and Strength , and Gladnefs does poffeft 
 The feftal Hebrew Cottages 5 
 The bleft Dejlroyer comes not there 
 To interrupt the facred chear 
 g That new begins their well- reformed Tear, 
 
 Upon their doors he read and underftood, 
 
 God's Protection writ in Blood 3 
 Well was he skild i’th' Char after Divine 3 
 And though he paft by it in hafte. 
 
 He bow’d and worftiipt as he paft, 
 
 The mighty Myjlery through its humble Signe. 
 
 1 7 - 
 
 The Sword ftrikes now too deep and near* 
 
 Longer with its edge to play ; 
 
 No Diligence or Coft they fpare J 
 
 To hafte the Hebrews now away. 
 
 Pharaoh himfelf chides their delay 3 - • ~4 
 
 So kind and bountiful is Fear ! 
 
 But, oh, the Bounty which to Fear we ow, 
 
 Is but like Fire ftruck out of ft one. 
 
 So hardly gotj and quickly gone, 4 
 
 That it fcarce out-lives the Blow, 
 
 Sorrow and fear foon quit theTyrants breft. 
 
 Rage and Revenge their place poffeft 
 With avaft Hoftof Chariots and of Horfe , 
 
 And all his powerful Kingdoms ready force 
 The travailing Nation he purfues 3 
 Ten times orecome, he ftill th’unequal war renewes. 
 
 Fill’d with proud hopes, At leaft (faid he) 
 
 Th’ Egyptian Gods from Syrian Jltagicf free 
 
 Will now revenge I hemfelves and Me 5 
 Behold what pafslefs Rocks on either hand 
 Like Prifon walls about them ftand ! 
 
 Whilft the Sea bounds their Flight before* 
 
 D d 7 And 
 
64 91NDAR1QVE ODES. 
 
 And in our injur ed juftice they muft find 
 A far worfe flop than Rocks and Seas behind, 
 
 Which (hall with critnfon gore 
 I New paint the Waters Name y and double dye the Jhore . 
 
 1 8. 
 
 He fpoke 5 and all his Hoft 
 Approved with (bouts the’ unhappy boaft y 
 A bidden wind bore his vain words away. 
 
 And drown’d them in the neighb’ring Sea. 
 
 No means t efcape the faithlefs Travellers fpie, 
 
 And wifh degenerous fear to die, 
 
 Curfe their new- gotten Liber tie. 
 
 But the great Guide well knew he led them right, 
 
 And faw a Path hid yet from humane fight. 
 
 He (trikes the raging waves, the waves on either fide 
 Unloofe their dole Embraces , and divide } 
 
 And backwards prefs, as in (bme folemn (how 
 The crowding People do 
 (Though juft before no fpace was feen) 
 
 To let the admired Triumph pafs between. 
 
 The wondring Army faw on either hand 
 The no lefs wondring Waves > like Rockj of Cryjlal ftand. 
 They marcht betwixt, and boldly trod 
 The fecret paths of God. 
 
 And here and there all fcatter'd in their way 
 The Seas old fpoils, and gaping Fifioes lay 
 Deferted on the fandy plain. 
 
 The Sun did with aftoniftiment behold 
 The inmoft Chambers of the opened Main y 
 For whatfoere of old 
 By his own Pr lefts the Poets has been faid, 
 
 He never funk till then into the Oceans Bed. 
 
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 Led chearfully by a bright Captain Flame , 
 
 To th’other (hore at Morning Dawn they came. 
 
 And faw behind th’unguided Foe 
 Mardh diforderly and (low. 
 
 The Prophet ftraight from th’ Idumean ftrand 
 Shakes his Imperious W and. 
 
 The upper waves, that higheft crowded lie, 
 
 The beckning Wand efpie. 
 
 Straight their firft right-hand files begin to move. 
 
 And with a murmuring wind 
 Give the word March to all behind. 
 
 The left-hand Squadrons no lefs ready prove, 
 
 But with a joyful louder noife 
 Anfwer their diftant fellows voice, 
 
 And hafte to meet them make, 
 
 fenA 
 
 As 
 
¥ INDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 
 As feveral Troops do all at once a common Signal take. 
 
 What tongue th’ amazement and th’affright can tell 
 
 1 Which on the Chamian Army fell, 
 
 When on both (ides they faw the roaring Main 
 
 Broke loofe from his Invtftble Chain g 
 They faw the monflrous Death and watry War 
 Come rowling down loud R uine from afar. 
 
 In vain fome backward, and fome forwards fly 
 With helplefs hafte 3 in vain they cry 
 
 2 To their Ccelejiial Beaflj for aid 3 
 
 In vain their guilty King they ’upbraid, 
 
 In vain on Mofes he , and Mofes God does call, 
 
 With a Repentance true too late 5 
 They’re compaft round with a devouring Fate 
 That draws, like a ftrong Net, the mighty Sea upon them all. 
 
 0\C O T E S. 
 
 I. T Ike that of Virgil , 
 
 I y Subridens mi (i a Mexentius Ira. 
 
 And Mexentixt was like Pharaoh in his contempt of the Deity, Contemptorq*, Denrn Metent las* 
 Exod. $. 7. And ( Pharaoh ) anfwered , ivho is the Lord , that I fhoiild bear his voice, and let if 
 rael go ? 1 know not the Lord, neither will 1 let ifrael go. 
 
 2. For no Nation under the Sun worfhipt fo many Gods as Egypt ; fo that probably Pha- 
 raoh would have known the name of any God but the true one, Jehovah. 
 
 •3,. That Pharaoh askt a lign, appears by Exod. 7. 9. And when Pharaoh [hall fay to you , Shew 
 me a (ign, &c. 
 
 4- Almighty , as it was the mflrument of the Almighty in doing Wonders ; for which it is 
 called the Rod of the Lord, as well as of Mofes and Aaron -, and in this fenfe Fortune is rightly 
 called by Virgil Omnipotens. 
 
 $. We may well fuppofe that the Ring and his Guards fled for fear at the fight, fincc 
 Mofes himfelf did fo at firft, Exod. 4. 2. And it was turned into a Serpent , fo that Mofes fled, 
 from it. 
 
 4 * 
 
 1. So the Apoftle calls the chief of Pharaohs Magicians, 2 Tim. 3. 8. but S. Hieron . tranfiarcs 
 their names Johannes and Mambres j and they fay there is a Tradition in the Talmud, that Ju-^ 
 hanni and Marrae, chief of Pharaohs Magicians, faid to Mofes, Thou bringeft draw into Ephraim, 
 which was where abundance of Com grew as if they fhould have faid, to bring your Ma- 
 gical Arts hither, is to as much purpofe, as to bring water to Nilus. Jannes was famous 
 even among Heathen Authors. Plin. lib. 3. c. 1. Efl & alia Magices faftio, a Mofe , & Janne 
 & Jotape Judteis pendens. And Numenim the Pythagorean names him in Eufeb. 1. 9. Praparat. 
 Evang. They here are called by feveral names, in feveral Tranfiations, by the Septuag. Wg- 
 fxrfjco/, Venefici , Poifoners , and ’E raoiJbt, Incantatores, inchanters ‘, by Sulpitius Severus, 
 Chaldee an s, that is, Aflrologers by others, Sapientes & Malefici, Wifemtn (that is, Menefteem- 
 ed fo among the Egyptians) Philofophers and witches . 
 
 2. Fecerunt etiam ip ft per incantationes lA-gyptiacas & arcana quadam ftmiliter. Their Gods 
 may well be called Servile, for in all Enchantments we find them threatned by the Conjurers, 
 and forced whether they will or no, by the power of Spells, to do what they are command - 
 ed. Tireftas in the 4. Theb. becaufe they did not obey him at firft word, fpeaks to them like 
 a Schoolmafter with a rod in his hand, 
 
 — Et nobis fevire facultas. 
 
 — An Scythicis quoties armata venenis 
 Colchis aget, trepido pallebunt Tartara motu, 
 
 Noftri cura minor ? &c. 
 
 And Lucan fays of Erichtho , 
 
 Omne nefas fuptri prima jam voce precantis 
 Concedunt, carmenq j timent audire fecundum. 
 
 And 
 
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 ‘PINDARIQZJE ODES. 
 
 And the witches ufed always forne obfcure tnurmurings in their charms. So of Erichtho, 
 
 Turn vox Lethaos cunelis pollentior herbis 
 Excantare Deos, confundit murmura primum 
 Viffona , & human a multum difcordia Lingua. 
 
 There are four opinions concerning this action of the Magicians ; the firfl, that their 
 Rods appeared Serpents by an lllufion of the fight. This was Jofephus his opinion; for he fays, 
 B** 7 w eicu oi f&KovIis \JU*v and Tertitllian, Hierom , Gregory Nyffen , are cited for it too. 
 Sedulius in lib. 4. Carm. 
 
 — Sed imagine falfl 
 
 Vifibus humanis magicas tribuere figuras . 
 
 This I like not by no means; for if the appearance of the Serpents was an lllufion, fo was 
 the devouring of them too bv Mofes his Serpent. Therefore the fecond opinion to falve this 
 difficulty, fays, that the Devil for the Magicians, did really on the hidden make up fome bo- 
 dies that looked like true Serpents, bur were not fo, and thofe bodies were truly devoured by 
 Mofes his true Serpent. Eut it docs not fully anfwer the objection ; and befides by this De- 
 ceipt , they might as well have imitated the other miracles. The third is Thom. Aquinas, 
 and Cajetans , and Delrios , and divers others, That they were true Serpents, not Created in an 
 inflant by the Devil ( for that is granted by all to exceed his power) but Generated in a mo- 
 ment of Time by application of all things required to the generation of Serpents , which is 
 Spontaneous fometimes. The fourth is of Pererius, Abulenfs , and many more, that the Devil 
 fnatcht away the Rods, and had true Serpents there in rcadinefs to put in their place, and this 
 agrees better with the fvvifenefs of the aftion, for which, and fome other reafons, l fol- 
 low it 
 
 $• 
 
 1. The Bank Qf Nilus, which is incomparably the moll: famous River in the World, whe- 
 
 ther we confider the greatnefs and length of it ( for it runs about 900 German miles) or the 
 things that it produces, or the miraculous flowing and ebbing of it. It is therefore called 
 abfolutely in the Scripture Machal Mifraim, Tice River of Egypt. From whence the word Nile 
 is not unnaturally derived Nahal , Naal , Ned, Neil ; as Bahai, Baal , Bed, Bel, : and 
 
 Pompon. Mela reports, l. $.c. 10. That the Fountain of Nilus is called Nachul by the Ethiopians . 
 Now whereas God fays to Mofes, Go to Pharaoh in the morning, -when he flail go forth to the Wa- 
 ter : I believe, as the Per fans worfhipt every morning the rifing Sun , fo the Egyptians did 
 Nile ; and that this going forth of the Njng to the River, was a conflant aft of Devotion, 
 Tbeodoret. 'a igfvnv t&J molAfau ^ r Sebv ffsrov ivopui^ov. Nay I doubt whether 
 Gfyris (their great Deity) be not worfhipped for Nilus. Seld. de Diis Syrie. 
 
 2. The Fountain of Nilus is now known to be in the mountains called Luna montes, and 
 one of the Tides cf Presjer John is, Fjng of Goyome, where Nile begins ; but the Ancients 
 were totally ignorant of it, infomuch that this was reckoned arrpng the famous proprieties 
 of Nilus, that it concealed its Spring, Fontium qui celat origines ; of which fee Lucan in the 
 10. Book ; where, among ocher things, he fays moft admirably of Nilus. 
 
 — Vbicunq\ videris, 
 
 Qjiareris, & nulli contingit gloria genti' 
 
 Vt Nilo fit lata fuo . 
 
 3. Theodoret upon Exodus , fays thus of this change of Nilus, (xtJdCRnQAf 7 b ou/xa f 
 Wftutiixivns KAjniagH xaudbufonat. Eeing changed into Blood, it accufed the Egyptians of 
 the infants Murder ; and the Book of U'ifdom in Chap. 1 1. makes the fame obfervation. 
 
 1. Computruit fluvius ; and before theScptuag. 5 vdlAp/.Zf where the vulgar Edi- 
 
 tion fays Computrefcent aqua ; that is, fervebit , vet effervefeet fluvius, relating perhaps to 
 Blood, which when it corrupts, Boils and burns as it were in the Veins : when the Water had 
 been corrupted in this manner, it is no wonder if it produced a great number of Frogs ; but 
 the Wonder confifts in that the number was fo infinite, in tharit was fo fuddenly produced 
 upon the aftion of Aaron, and that contrary to their nature, they cametomolefl the Eg'/p- 
 tians in their very Houfes. The like judgment with this we find in profane Hiflories, and to 
 be attributed to the fame hand of God, though the Rod was invifible. Athenais in his 8. Book. 
 Cb. 2. reports, that in Paonia and Dardanium (now called Rulgary) there rained down fo ma- 
 ny Frogs from Heaven (that is, perhaps they were fuddenly produced after great fhower-) 
 that they filled all the publick ways, and even private Houfes, that their domefiical furni- 
 ture was covered with them, that they found them in the very Pots where they boiled their 
 meat ; and that what with the trouble of the Living , and the fmell of the Dead ones , they 
 were forced at lafl to forlake their Country. End Pliny reports in his 8. E. cl:. 29. That a 
 
 whole 
 
‘PINDARIQVE ODES. 
 
 whole City in Gallia hath been driven away by Frogs, and another in Afrique by Loc lifts ; and 
 many examples of this kind might be collected. 
 
 2. Sen. 1 . 4. j Quaff. Natur, c. 11. Nilus brings both Water and Earth too to the thirfty and 
 Tandy foil ■, for flowing thick and troubled, he leaves all his Lees, as it were, in the clefts of 
 the parched ground, and covers the dry places with thefatnefs which he brought with him, 
 fo that he does good to the Country two ways both by overflowing and by manuring it. So 
 that Herod, calls it ’Efyetjinvy, The Husbandman. Tibul. Te propter nullos Tellus tua poflulat 
 imbres , Arida nec pluvio [applicat herba Jovi -, for which reafcn Lucani a\s, that£^ypf had no 
 need of Jupiter , 
 
 • — Nihil indiga mercis 
 
 Aut Jovis , in folo tanta e(l fiducia Nilo. 
 
 And one in Athenaeus bolder, yet calls Nilus excellently well, ’AryJ-y'Jit Zd? N *\i, 0 Nilus 
 thou Egyptian Jupiter : nay, it was termed by the Egyptians themfelves, ’A r 
 The River that emulates and contents with Heaven. 
 
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 i. What kind of Creature this was, no man caft tell certainly. The Sept, mandate it both 
 here, and in the Pfalm 10$. 2 m<rsr. And fo Philo , and the vulgar Edition retains. thp 
 word, Sciniphes , Ciniphes , or Rniphes, feem to come. from the word, kyl^y, which fig- 
 nifics to Pricl and they were a kind of Gnat : and Pliny renders them culices muliones , 
 and fometimes fimply Culices j as like wife columella. Diofcorid. cap. 112. terms them, 
 x.uvetrroH'fZ. And Htfych. Kj/i-J. £&ov m r jnvby, o(ioiov navum. So lfidor. 1 . 12. Origin » 
 and Orof. 7, 8. and fo Origin. Yet Junius and Tnmtl. and the French and the English, and 
 divers other Tranflations, render it by Lice , and Lice too might have; Wings •, for Diod. Si~ 
 cul. 1 . 3. c. fpeaking of the Acridophagi, or eaters of Locufls , fays, that when they grow 
 old, their bodies breed a kind of winged Lice , by which they are devoured. It feems to 
 me mofl probable, that it was fome new kind of Creature, called analogically by an old 
 known name, which is Pererius his conjecture, and is approved by Rivet : And this I take 
 to be the reafon why the Magicians could not counterfeit this miracle , as it was eafie for 
 them to do thofe of the Serpents , the Blood , and the Frog which were things to be had every 
 where. This I think may pafs for a more probable caufe than the pleafant fancy of the He- 
 brews , who fay, that the Devils power is bounded to the producing of no Creature Iefs than 
 a grain of Barley , or than S. Auguflij ? s allegorical reafon, and too poetical even for Poetry, who 
 affirms, that the Magicians failed in the third Plague, to (hew the defeft of humane Pbilofo- 
 phy, when it comes to the myjtery of the Trinity •, but fuch pitiful aUufims do more hurt than 
 good in Divinity. 
 
 8 . 
 
 1. A grievous Swarm of Plies So our Englijh Tranflation $t. Hitr. Omni genus muf- 
 
 carum. All forts of Flies. The Septuag. Kvvo(j.l\av, Canina Mufca , a particular kind of Fly , 
 called a Dog- Fly, from his biting. If it be not to be read K&voi uijuy, which may fignifie 
 Aquila’ s n«t|Wju 4 ^v» Some tranflate this place, A mixture of Beads. The French, one 
 me flee de befles. Jun. and Tremel. Colluviem : and it fhould feem that Joftphus underflood it 
 of feveral forts of wild Beafls that infefled the Country. For he fays, dneiuv nreiyjoiuy 
 mrchv'fiiirav : and Pagninus , Omne genus ferarum ; which is not very probable, for the punifli- 
 ments yet were rather troublefome than mortal, and even this punifhment of infinite num- 
 bers of fmallTormentors , is fo great a one, that God calls them his Army, Joel, 2. 25. nay, his 
 Great Army, The Locufi, the Canker-worm, and the Caterpillar, and the Palmer-worm, my gnat 
 Army , which I fent among you . 
 
 2. The God of Flies Bel\tbub, a Deity worfhipped at Accaron , Jupiter, imb/xiiQ-, either from 
 
 bringing or driving away of Swarms of Flies, Plin. lib. 10. c. 28. Thofe of Cyrene wor/hip the 
 God Achor , great multitudes of Flies caufing there a Peflilence, which prefently dy upon 
 the facrificing to this God -, where Achor, I conceive to be the fame with Accaron, moil of the 
 Sea-Coafts of Afrique, being ancient Colonies of the Phoenicians. Clemens reports, that in 
 Acar at the Temple of Adian Apollo, they facrificed an Ox to Flies: And o£Lian, 1 . n.de 
 Animal, c. 8. Mvn B*V r faviauc. Both, as I fuppofe, meaning that they facrificed the Ox, 
 not to the flies themfelves, but to Apollo or Jupiter, d.vofj.iqa, Paufan. 1 . 5. tzJ 
 
 ’A-rc/uiin) Aii, il'tAsuuvoy'Ji t 'HMtetf 'Ow^iat toj, /aflof. The Eleans lacrifice to Jupiter 
 (the Driver away of Flies ) for the driving away of Flies, from the Country of Elea. The 
 Romans called this God cot Jupiter, but Hercules Apomyius , though we read not of the killing 
 of Flies among his Labours , Plin. 1 . 29. c . 6 . No living creature has lefs of underftanding, or 
 is lefs docile ( than Flies ) which makes it the more wonderful, that at the Olympid^Games, 
 upon the facrificing of an Ox to the God whom they call Myiodes, whole clouds of them flie 
 out of the Territory. And among the Tukhinians, we read of Hercules, Ko^vorlay, the 
 Driver away of Gnats, with the Eiythraans of Hercules Ttg k]ovQ-, the Ritter oj Worms , that 
 hurt the Vines, and many more Deities of the like honourable imployment are to be foutuf 
 among the ancients. 
 
 5. Mary 
 
68 TINDAKIQVE ODES. 
 
 $. Many forts of Flits molefl the Cattle, none fo as the A film or Oeftrm ( the Gad- Fly ) 
 Virg. Georg. 
 
 Otflrum Gr<eci vertere vocantes , 
 
 Afper , acerba [enans , quo tota exterrita fdvis 
 Diffugiunt armenta 
 
 t Fifh the Tlague that vans to enfue 3 that is, not in the fenfe that Claudian fpeaks of Flute's Horfes , 
 
 Crajiina venture exfpettantes gaudia pra>d<c. 
 
 For how (as Scaliger fays ) could they know it, but Amply, Wifhtfor death. 
 
 9 - 
 
 1. (i. ) Voyfoning. The conjunction of which produce Voyfons (i. ) Infectious difeafes, ac- 
 cordingtothereceived opinion of Aflrologers. Virgil fays, By the fic^, or Difeafed Heaven 3 
 that is, which caufes difeafes, but Heaven is there perhaps taken for the Air, 
 
 Hie quondam Morbo coeli miferanda coorta efl 
 Tempeftas , totoq 3 Autumni incanduit <t(lu, &c. 
 
 Where fee his mod incomparable defeription of a Peftilence. 
 
 10. 
 
 1. No Books of Writings of the Kites of Magic £ amongftthe Egyptians. 
 
 2. It is called by Mofes, Chap. 9. 10. Vlcu s inflationum Germinans in homine , &c. Sprouting 
 out with blains, &c. which fun. and Tremel. Erumpens multis puftulis. This in Deuteronomy is 
 one of thecurfes with which the difobedience to God isthreatned, Chap. 18. 27. The Lord 
 fhallfmite thee with the botch of Egypt , &c. From hence, I believe, came the calumny, that 
 Trog. Vompiius , Diod. Siculus , Tacitus , and other Heathens caft upon the Hebrews, to wit, 
 that they were expelled out of Egypt for being fcabbed and leprous, which miflake was eafie, 
 inftead of being difmift for having brought thofe difeafes upon the Egyptians. 
 
 11. 
 
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 i. Not each one like a Monument , for that Metaphor would be too big 3 but many of them 
 together, like a Monument , and the moft ancient Monuments, we know, were heaps offlones , 
 not great Tomb- [tones. 
 
 12. 
 
 / 
 
 1. (i.) The Wheat and Rye. Sec Chap. 9. v. 92. 
 
 2. ch. jo.v. 1 g. Our T ranflation has Eaft-wind : And the Lord brought an Eaft-wind 
 upon the Land all that day , and all the night , &c. The vulgar has Ventum urentem. The Sep- 
 tuagint a South-wind. And Eugub. fays, There is no doubt but it was a South-wind 3 which 
 opinion I follow (though the Jews unanimoufly will have it to be an Eaft-wind ) becaufe the 
 Southern parts of Afrique were moft infefted with Locufts , where they are in fome places 
 the chief food of the inhabitants : fo that from thence they might eafily be fetcht 3 for I 
 cannot agree with fome, who imagine, thatthe hot Wind blowing all day and night produced 
 them. 
 
 g. Wonderful are the things which Authors report of tliefe kind of Armies of Locufts , 
 and of the order and regularity of their marches. Aldrovandus and Fincelius (as I find them 
 cited) fay thus, That in the year 85a. they werefeen to fly over twenty miles in Germany 
 in a day, in manner of a formed Army, divided into fevcral fquadrons, and having their 
 quarters apart when they refied. That the Captains , with fome few, marcht a days journey 
 before the reft, to chufe the moft opportune places for their Camp. That they never re- 
 moved till Sun*rifing, and juft then went away in as much order as an Army of men could 
 do. That at lafl having done great mifehief wherefoever they paft, after prayers made to 
 God, they were driven by a violent wind into the Belgici’ Ocean , and there drown’d, but 
 being caft again by the Sea upon the fhore, caufed a great Peflilence in the Country. Some 
 add, that they covered an hundred and forty Acres at a time. St. Hier. upon Joel, fpeaks 
 thus, When the Armies of Locufls came lately into thefe parts, add filled all the air, they 
 flew in fogreac order, that Slates in a Pavement cannot be laid more regularly, neither did 
 they ever Air one inch out of their ranks and files. There are reckoned thirty feveral forts 
 of Locufts, fome in India (if we dare believe Pliny ) three foot long. The fame Author adds 
 of Locufls ( Lib. 11. cap- 29. ) That they pafs in troops over great Seas, enduring hunger for 
 many days together in the fearch oj foreign food . They are believed to be brought by the angtr 
 of the Gods 3 for they are feen fometimes very great, and mal^e fuch a noife with their wings in 
 flying, that they might betaken for Birds. They overcafl the Sun, while ft people ftand gating with 
 
 ter rour, lift they jhould fall upon their lands out of Afrique chiefly they ir.ftft Italy, and the 
 
 people 
 
T INDARIQ ZJE ODES. 
 
 people are forced to have recourfe to the Sibyls Bookjy to enquire for a remedy, m the Country of 
 Cyrene, there is a Law to make war againf them thrice a year , firfl by breaking their Eggs , then 
 by kftHng the young ones , and la fly , the old ones , &c. 
 
 4. The Red- Sea, which, methinks, I may better be allovVed to cail Purple, than Homer and 
 Virgil to term ahy Sea (6 y 
 
 E/f TCftUfiHV- 
 
 Virg. In Mare purpureum violentior influit amnis. 
 
 Pliny fays, Purpuram irati maris faciem referre. And Theoph. Uo^vp^rcu t) SD.xcj*, tra? 
 Tac KVfjLceja. ixiltcoziC 0 ^'* 
 
 ’ • * . • 1 s i \ ■ *' » 
 
 1. Chap. v. 2i. Even darknefs that may be felt. The Vulgar, Tam denfie (tenebra) ut palpari 
 queant. Whether this darknels was really in the air, or only in their eyes, which might be 
 blinded for the time : Or whether a fufpenhon of Light from the aft of Illumination in that 
 Country: or whether it were by fome black, thick, and damp vapour which poffeft all the 
 air, it is impofhble to determine. I fancy that the darknefs of Hell below, wich is called 
 Viter darknefs , arofe and overlhadowed the Land y and I am authorized by the wifdom of 
 Solom. Chap. 17. v. 14. where he calls it a night that came upon them out of the bottoms of 
 inevitable Hell’, and therefore was the more proper tb be ( as he fays after ) An image of 
 that darknefs which fhould afterwards receive them. 
 
 2. That all Fires and Lights went out, is to be plainly collefted from the Text y for elfe 
 how could it be truly Laid, that they could not fee one another ? and is confirmed by the 
 mfdom of Solom. Chap. 17. 5. No power of the fire might give them light. 
 
 3. 5 ee the above-cited, Chap. 1 7. 
 
 14. 
 
 1. Midnight, called alfo by the Latines Meridies Noel is. 
 
 2. It is very much difputed what that Light was that was created the firfl day. It feems to 
 me to be »he mod probable opinion, that it was the Empyrean heaven , out of which the Sun. 
 Moon, and Stars were made the fourth day : and therefore before I fay, that all Light feem- 
 ed to be returned to the Empyrean or higheft heaven from whence it came at firfl. 
 
 3. Some think that God inHifted this Plague upon the Egyptians immediately himfelf , 
 becaufe he fays, Chap. 1 1. v. 4. About midnight will 1 go out into the midfi of Egypt. And to the 
 fame effeft. Chap. 12. 12. but it is an ordinary manner of fpeech to attribute that to God, 
 which is done by one of his Angels ; and that this was an Angel, appears out of chap. 12. 23. 
 The Lord will pafs over the door, and will not f offer the Defroyer to com into your koufei to finite 
 you. From which piace, and Pfalm 7 8. v. 49. where it is faid (of the Egyptians ) He cafi upon 
 them the fiercenefs of his anger, wrath , and indignation, and trouble, by fending evil Angels among 
 them y Somecolleft, that God ufeci here the miniffry of an Evil or Evil Angels y but I cannot 
 believe, that God and the Magicians had the fame Agents , and that Text of the Pjalm is per- 
 haps ill tranfUted. Jun. and Treme l . underftand by it Mofies and Aaron, as Nuntios Maiorum 5 
 and if we interpret it (as others) of Angels, it were better rendred in Englifh, Defraying or' 
 Punifbing Angels , Infiifters of Evil upon them. I attribute this infliftion to the Archangel 
 Michael : firfl, becaufe it was he ( by name ) who fought with the Dragon, and fmote him 
 and his Angels, Revel. 12. 7. Secondly, becaufe in Daniel too he is mentioned as an Angel of 
 War, Chap. 10. v. 13. And laflly, becaufe the very name is faid to fignifie Percnjfio Dei. The 
 Smiting of God. The wifdom of Solomon, Chap. 18. v. 14, 15, 1 6. gives a little hint of the 
 fancy of this Stanza : For while f all things were in quiet filence, and that the night was in the 
 mid f of herfwift courfe. Thine Almighty word leapt down from heaven out of thy royal Throne, as 
 a fierce man of war into the midf of a Land of defruflion : And brought thine unfeigned com- 
 mand as a fioarpfword, and flanding up, filled all things with death, &c; 
 
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 t. That this Plague was a Ptflilence is the opinion of Jofephtts , and moft Interpreters." 
 
 2. The Law of confecrating all firf-borns to God, feems Exod. the 13. to be grounded 
 upon this (laughter of the Egyptian Firfl-born. But that was rather the addition of a new 
 caufe why the Hebrews fhould exaftly obferve it, than that it was the whole reafon of it ; 
 for even by natural right, the Firfl-born, and Firfi-Fruits of all things are facred to God 3 
 and therefore anciently, not only among the Jews, but alfo other Nations, the Priefhood 
 belonged to the Eldef Sons. 
 
 3. The Name of that Pharaoh who was drowned in the Red Sea. There is great confufion 
 in the fucceflion of the Egyptian Kings, and divers named by fome Chronologers that are quite 
 omitted by others ; as Amtnophis, whom Mercator, and fome others, will have to be the 
 King drowned in the Red Sea y but that it was anchres , is the moft probable and moft re- 
 ceived opinion, 
 
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 ‘PINDARI QZJ E ODES. 
 
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 1. That loan , or Txnan was the place where Mofes did his miracles, and confcquently 
 the City where Pharaoh Cenchris lived, we have the authority of Pjalm 78. 12. it was 
 likewife called lanis (by the Grecians) and from it that mouth of the Nile near which it flood. 
 Odium laniticum. So that they are mifiaken, who make Nopb, or Afoph , that is, Memphis, the 
 place where Pharaoh kept his Court, for that was built afterwards, and lies more South- 
 ward. 
 
 2. The Adored Heifer. Apis , and Serapis , and Ofyris (who was Mi fr aim) I conceive to 
 have been the fame Deity among the Egyptians, known by other Nations by the names of 
 Mithra , Baal , Tamu\, Adonie , &c. and frgnify ing the Sun) the great lamentations for the 
 difappearing or lofs of Ofyris, Tamu\, an d Adonis, and rcjoycing for their return, (unifying 
 nothing but the Elongation by Winter , and re-approach of the Sun by Summer. The Egyp- 
 tians under Apis , or 0 lyris, did likewife worfhip Nilus •, and their ‘A/puvi<rp/.o< and^E uptime 
 fignified the overflowing of Nilus, and return of it to the Channel. Now owing all their 
 fuftenance to the Sun and Nilus, for that reafon they figured both under the fhape of an Ox ; 
 and not, I believe, as Vcjjius, and fome other learned men imagine, to reprefent Jnfeph, 
 who fed them in the time of the Famine : Btfides the Images of this Ox (like that which 
 Aaron made for the Children of ifrael , in the imitation of the Egyptian Idolatry) they kept 
 a living one, and worfhipped it with great reverence, and made infinite lamentations at the 
 death of it, till another was found with the like marks, and then they thought that the old 
 one was only returned from the bottom of Nilus, whither they fanfied it to retreat at the 
 death or difappearing, 
 
 fuo fe gurgite Nili 
 
 Condat adoratus trepidis pafl oribus Apis. Stat. 
 
 The Mar^s were thefe. It was to bea black Bull, with a white flreak along the back, a 
 white mark like an Half-Moon on his right flioulder, two hairs only growing on his tail, 
 with a fquare blaze in his forehead, and a bunch, called Cantharus , under his tongue : By 
 what art the Priefls made thefe marks, is hard to guefs. It is indifferently named Ox, Calf, 
 or Heifer, both by the Hebrews, Greeks, and Latines. So that which Exodus terms a Calf , 
 Tfalm. 10 6 . renders an Ox. 
 
 3. See chap. 12. 2. From this time the Hebrews had two computations of the beginning 
 of the year •, the one Common, the other Sacred : The common began in Tifri , which anfwers 
 to our September, at the Autumnal uEquinattial ) and all civil matters were regulated accord- 
 ing to this, which was the old account of the year. The Sacred , to which all Feflivals, and 
 all religious matters had relation, began at the Vernal <AEquinoftial i and was inftituted in com- 
 memoration of this deliverance. 
 
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 1. Give a new occafion for it to be called the Red-Sea. Concerning the name of which, 
 the opinions are very different j that which feems to me mt>ft probable is, that it is deno- 
 minated from ldum<ea •, and that from Edom, or Efau, that fignifies Red -, and the Ring 
 Erithra, or Erythrus , from whence the Grecians derive ir, was Efau, and Erythra a his Coun- 
 try, ldunuea, both fignifyingthe fame thing in Hebrew and in Gree^i but becaufe that opinion 
 of the Rednefs of the fliore in fome places, has been mod received, and is confirmed even to 
 this day by fome Travellers, and founds moft poetically, I allude to it here, whether it be 
 true or not. 
 
 1. Plutarch de If. & Ofyr. teflifies, that ’xtiixia. was an ancient name of Egypt, and that 
 it was called fo fong after by the moft skilful of the Egyptian Priefls •, that is, the Country of 
 Cham : As alfo, the Scripture terms ir, Pfalm 10$. Et Jacob peregrinus fuit in terra cham. 
 From whofe fon it was afterwards named Mifraim , and by the Arabians Mefre to this day. 
 
 2. Beafls that were deified by the Egyptians, who chofe at firft the figures of Beads for the 
 Symbols or Hieroglyphlcal figns of their Gods, perhaps no otherwife than as the Poets make 
 them of Confledations , but in time the worfhip came even to be terminated in them. 
 
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 T HE Propofition. T he Innovation. The Entrance 
 into the Hiftory from a new Agreement betwixt Saul 
 and David. A Vefcription of Hell. The Devil's Speech 
 Envy's Tgply to him . Her appearing to Saul in the fbape 
 of Benjamin ; her Speech and Saul’* * to himfelf after fhe was 
 Vanifbt. A Vefcription of Heaven. God's Speech : he 
 fends an Angel to David, the Angel's dMeffage to him . 
 David fent for to play before Saul. A Digreffion concerning 
 Mufick. David'* Pfalm. Saul attempts to kill him. His 
 Efcape to his own houfe , from whence being purfued by the Kings 
 Guard, by the Artifice of his Wife Michol, he efcapes and flies 
 to Naioth, the Prophet'* Colledge at Ramah. Saul’* 
 Speech and G(age at his Efcape . A long Digreffion defenbing 
 the Prophet’s Colledge, and their manner of Life there, and 
 the ordinary fubjeHs of their Poetry. Saul'* Guards purfue 
 David thither , and prophefle. Saul among the Prophets. He 
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 In that right hand which held the Crooks before 5 
 H Who from beft Poet , belt of Kings did grow 5 
 The two chief gifts Heavn could on Man beftow. 
 Much danger firft, much toil did he fuftain, 
 
 Whilft Saul and Hell croft his ftrong fate in vain. 
 
 Nor did his Crown lefs painful work afford , 
 
 Lefs exercife his Patience , or his Sword 5 
 
 So long her Conqueror Fortunes fpight purfu’d 5 
 
 Till with unwearied Virtue he fubdu’d /; ^ 
 
 All homebred Malice, and all foreign boafts 5 
 
 Their ftrength was Armies , his the Lord of Hojis . 
 
 Thou, who didft Davids royal (tern adorn, 
 
 J01. 8. 58. ^nd g av ’ft him birth from whorti thy felf waft born. 
 
 Who didft in Triumph at Deaths Court appear, 
 
 And flew’ft him with thy Nails , thy Crofs and Spea^ 
 
 Whilft Hells black Tyrant trembled to behold 
 The glorious light he forfeited of old, 
 
 Who Heav'ns glad burden now, and juft eft pride, 
 
 Sit J ft high enthron’d next thy great Fathers fide, 
 
 (Where hallowed Flames help to adorn that Head 
 Which once the blujhing Thorns environed, 
 
 Till crimfon drops of precious blood hung down 
 Like Rubies to enrich thine humble Crown . 
 
 Even Thou my breaft with fuch bleft rage infpire, 
 
 As mov’d the tuneful firings of David's Lyre , 
 
 Guide my bold fteps with thine old traveling Flame , 
 
 3 In thefe untrodden paths to Sacred Fame * 
 
 Lo, with pure hands thy heavenly Fires to take. 
 
 My welbchangd Mufe I a chaft Veftal make ! 
 
 From earths vain joys, and loves foft witchcraft free, 
 
 I confewate ray Magdalene to Thee ! 
 
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 Lo, this great work, a Temple to thy praife, 
 
 On polifiit Pillars of ftrong Vcrfe I raife ! 
 
 A lemple, where if Thou vouchfafe to dwell, 
 
 4 It Solomon s, and Herod's fhall excel. 
 
 Too long the Mufes-Land have Heathen bin 3 
 Their Gods too long were Devils, an d Virtues Sin? 
 
 But Thou , Eternal World , has call’d forth Me 
 
 5 Th J Apoftle , to convert that World to Thee 3 
 T unbind the charms that in flight Fables lie, 
 
 And teach that Truth is truefl Poefie . 
 
 The malice now of jealous Saul grew lels, 
 O’recome by conftant Virtue , and Succefs 3 
 
 6 He grew at laft more weary to command 
 New dangers, than young David to withftand 
 Or Conquer them 3 he fear’d his maft’ring Fate, 
 
 And envj’d him a Kings unpowerful Hate. 
 
 Well did he know how Palms by oppreflion fpeed, 
 
 7 Victorious , and the Victors facred Meed ! 
 
 The Burden lifts them higher. Well did he know 
 How a tame jlream does wild and dangerous grow 
 By tinjud force 3 he now with wanton play, 
 
 Kifles the fmiling Banks, and glides away, 
 
 But his known Channel ftopt, begins to roare, 
 
 8 And fwell with rage, and buffet the dull (bore. 
 
 His mutinous waters hurry to the War , 
 
 And Troops of Waves come rolling from afar. 
 
 Then fcorns he fuch weak ftops to his free fource, 
 
 And overruns the neighbouring fields with violent courfe 
 This knew the Tyrant , and this ufeful thought 
 His wounded mind to health and temper brought. 
 
 He old kind vows to David did renew, 
 
 Swore conftancy, and meant his Oath for true. 
 
 A general joy at this glad news appear’d, 
 
 For David all men lov*d y and Saul they fear'd. 
 
 Angels and Men did Peace , and David love, 
 
 But Hell did neither Him , nor That approve 3 
 From mans agreement fierce Alarms they take. 
 
 And Quiet here does there new Bufinefs make. 
 
 Beneath the filent chambers of the earth. 
 
 Where the Suns fruitful beams give metals birth. 
 
 Where he the growth of fatal Gold does fee, } 
 
 Gold which above more Influence has than He. 
 
 9 Beneath the Dens where unfletcht Tempefts lye. 
 
 And Infant Winds their tender Voyces try, 
 
 Beneath the mighty Oceans wealthy Caves, 
 
 10 Beneath th’eternal Fountain of all Waves, 
 
 Where their vaft Court the Mother-Waters keep, 
 
 And undifturb’d by Moons in filence deep, 
 
 There is a place deep, wondrous deep below. 
 
 Which genuine Night and Honour does o’reflow 3 
 
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 1 1 No bound controlls th’ unwearied fpace, but Hell 
 Endlefs as thofe dire pains that in it dwell. 
 
 Here no dear glimpfe of the Sun’s lovely face. 
 
 Strikes through the Solid darknefs of the place 5 
 No dawning Morn does her kind reds difplay 5 
 One flight weak beam would here be thought the Day. 
 No gentle ftars with their fair Gents of Light 
 Offend the tyr’anous and unqueftion’d Night . 
 
 Here Lucifer the mighty Captive reigns ; 
 
 Proud , 'mid ft his Woes, and Tyrant in his Chains . 
 
 Once General <bf a gilded Hofi of Sprights , 
 
 Like Hefper , leading forth the fpangled Nights. 
 
 But down like Lightning , which him ftruck, he came 5 
 And roar’d at his firft plunge into the Flame . 
 
 Myriads of Spirits fell wounded round him there 3 
 With dropping Lights thick fhone the findged Air . 
 Since when the difmal Solace of their wo, 
 
 Has only been weak Mankind to undo 3 
 Themfelves at firft againft themfelves they ’excite, 
 
 (Their deareft Conqueft , and moft proud delight) 
 
 And if thofe Mines of fecret Treafon fail. 
 
 With open force mans Vertue they aflail 3 
 Unable to corrupt , feek to deftroy 3 
 And where their Poyfons mifs, the Sword employ» 
 Thus fought the Tyrant Fiend young David's fall £ 
 
 And ’gainft him arm’d the powerful rage of Saul. 
 
 He faw the beauties of his (hape and face, 
 b Sam. female fweetnefs, and his manly grace. 
 
 He faw the nobler wonders of his Mind , 
 
 Great Gifts , which for Great Works he knew defign’d 
 i Sam. 17. He faw (t’alhame the ftrength of Man and Hell) 
 
 How by’s young hands their Gathite Champion fell, 
 i Sam. He faw the reverend Prophet boldly (bed 
 1 3 * 12 The Royal Drops round his Enlarged Head , 
 
 so." 49 ’ 13 And well he knew what Legacy did place 
 The facred Scepter in bleft Judah's race. 
 
 From which th’ Eternal Shilo was to fpring 3 
 A Knowledge which new Hells to Hell did bring ! 
 
 And though no lefs he knew himfelf too weak 
 The fmalleft Link of ftrong- wrought Fate to break 3 
 Yet would he rage and ftruggle with the Chain 3 
 Lov’d to Rebel , though fure that ’twas in vain. 
 
 And now it broke his form’d defign, to find 
 The gentle change of Saul's recovering Mind \ 
 
 He trufted much in Saul, and rag’d, and griev’d 
 (The great Deceiver') to be Himfelf Deceiv'd . 
 
 Thrice did he knock his Iron teeth, thrice howl* 
 
 And into frowns his wrathful forehead rowl. 
 
 His eyes dart forth red flames which fcare the Night v 
 And with worfe Fires the trembling Gbojis affright. 
 
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 A Troop of gaftly Fiends compafs him round * 
 
 And greedily catch at his lips fear’d found. 
 
 Are we fuch Nothings then (faid He') Our will 
 Croft by a Shepherd's Boy f and you yet ftill 
 Play with your idle Serpents here? dares none 
 Attempt what becomes Furies <? are ye grown 
 Benum’d with Fear , or Vcrtucs fprightlefs cold, 
 
 You, who *vere once (I’m fure) fo brave and bold $ 
 
 O my ill-chang’d condition! O my fate ! 
 
 14 Did l lofe Heaven for this ? 
 
 With that, with his long tail he lafht his breaft, 
 
 And horridly fpokg out in Looks the reft. 
 
 The quaking Powers of Night (food in amaze. 
 
 And at each other firft could only gaze. 
 
 A dreadful Silence fill’d the hollow place, 
 
 Doubling the native terrour of Hells face 3 
 Rivers of flaming Brimftone, which before 
 So loudly rag’d, crept foftly by the Chore 3 
 No hifs of Snakes , no clank of Chains was known. 
 
 The Souls amidft their Tortures durft not groan. 
 
 Envy at Lift crawls forth from that dire throng, 
 
 Of all the direful’ft 3 her black locks hung long, 
 
 Attir’d with curling Serpents 3 her pale skin 
 Was almoftdropt from the (harp bones within, 
 
 And at her breaft ftuck Vipers which did prey 
 Upon her panting heart, both night and day 
 Sucking black blood from thence, which to. repair 
 Both night and day they left frefh poyfons there. 
 
 Her garments were deep ftain’d in humane gore, 
 
 And torn by her own hands, in which (he bore 
 A knotted whip, and bowl, that to the brim 
 Did with green gall, and juice of wormwood fwim, 
 
 With which when (he was drunk, (he furious grew, 
 
 And lafht herfelf 3 thus from th’ accurfed crew 
 Envy , the worft of Fiends , herfelf prefents, 
 
 Envy, good only when (he 'herfelf torments. 
 
 Spend not, great King, thy precious rage (faid (he) 
 
 Upon fo poor a caufe 3 (hall Mighty We 
 The glory of our wrath to him afford ? 
 
 Are We not Furies ftill ? and you our Lord ? 
 
 At thy dread anger the fixt World (hall (hake. 
 
 And frighted Nature her own Lam forfake. 
 
 Do Thou but threat, loud ftorms (hall make reply* 
 
 And Thunder echo’t to the trembling Sky, 
 
 Whilft raging Seas fwell to fo bold an height, 
 
 As (hall the Fires proud Element affright, 
 
 Th’ old drudging Sun from his long-beaten way, 
 
 Shall at thy Voice ftart, and mifguide the day. 
 
 The jocund Orbs fhall break their meafur’d pace, 
 
 And ftubborn Poles change their alloted place, 
 
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 Heavens gilded Troops (hall flutter here and there, 
 
 Leaving their boafling Songs tun’d to a Sphere 3 
 
 15 Nay their God too for fear he did, when We 
 
 Took noble Arms againft his Tyrannie^ 
 
 • So noble Arms , and in a Cauje fo great. 
 
 That Triumphs they deferve for their Defeat . 
 
 There was a Day ! oh might I feet again 
 Though he had fiercer Flames to thruft us in ! „ 
 
 And can fuch pow’rs be by a Child withftood > 
 
 Will Slings , alas, or Pebbles do him good? 
 
 What th’ untam’d Lion , whet with hunger too, 
 
 And Gyants could not, that my Word (hall do : 
 
 I’ll foon diflolve this Peace 3 were Saul's new Love 
 (But Saul we knew ) great as my Hate (hall prove* 
 
 Before their Sun twice more be gone about, 
 
 J, and my faithful Snakes would drive it out. 
 
 Gen. 4. 8. 1 6 By me Cain offer’d up his Brothers gore, 
 
 A Sacrifice far worfe than that before 3 
 I faw him fling the fione 0 as if he ment, 
 
 At once his Murder and his -Monument, 
 n>. v. 2. And laught to fee (for’twas a goodly (how ) 
 
 Exod. 14, The by her firfi Tiller fatned fo. 
 
 I drove proud Pharaoh to the parted Sea 5 
 He , and his Hoft drank up cold death by Me 3 
 By Me rebellious Arms fierce Corah took, 
 
 Num,i6.r. And Mofes (curie upon that Name! ) forfook 5 
 
 1 7 Hither (ye know) almoft alive he came 
 Ib< s r * Through the cleft Earth 3 Ours was his Funeral Flame * 
 
 By Me but I lofe time, methinks, and (hould 
 
 Perform new adts whilft [ relate the old 3 
 David's the next our fury muft enjoy 3 
 Tis not thy God himfelf (hall fave thee, Boy$ 
 
 No, if he do, may the whole World have Peace 3 
 May all ill Atfions, all ill Fortune ceafe, 
 
 And banifht from this potent Court below, 
 
 May 1 a ragged, contemn’d Vertue grow. 
 
 She fpoke 3 all flared at firft, and made a paufe 5 
 But ftraight the general murmur of applaufe 
 Kan through Deaths Courts 3 (he frown’d ftill, and begun 
 To envy at the praife herfelf had won. 
 
 1 8 Great Belzebub ftarts from his burning Throne 
 To ’embrace the Fiend , but (he now furious grown 
 To adt her part 3 thrice bow’d, and thence (he fled 5 
 The Snakes all hifl, the Fiends all murmured. 
 
 It was the*time when filent night began 
 T’enchain with fieep the bufie fpirits of Man 3 
 And Saul himfelf, though in his troubled bread 
 The weight of Empire lay, tookgentle reft : 
 
 So did not En7y 3 but with haft arofe3 
 And as through Jfi aels ftatety Townsfne goes, 
 
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 She frowns and (hakes her head 3 (hine on (fays (he) 
 Ruines ere long (hall your foie Monuments be. 
 
 The fiver Moon with terrour paler grew, 
 
 And neighbouring Hermon fweated flowery dew 3 
 Swift Jordan ftarted, and ftraight backward fled, 
 Hiding among thick reeds his aged head 3 
 
 1 9 Lo, at her entrance Saul's ftrong Palace (hooky 
 And nimbly there the reverend ftiape (he took 
 Of Father Benjamin 3 fo long her beard, 
 
 So large her limbs, (o grave her looks appear’d. 
 
 20 Juft like his Jiatue which beftrid Saul's gate, 
 
 And feem’d to guard the race it did create . 
 
 In this known form (he approacht the Tyrant's fide 3 
 And thus her words the facred Form bely’d. 
 
 Arife, loft King o( Ijra'el 3 can’ft thou lie 
 Dead in this Jkep , and yet thy Laft fo nigh ? 
 
 If King thou be’eft, if jeffes race as yit 
 Sit not on Ifrael s Throne ! and (hall he fit ? 
 
 Did ye for this from fruitful Egypt fly ? 
 
 From the mild Brickhils nobler jlavery <? 
 
 For this did Seas your powerful Rod obey ? 
 
 Did Wonders guide , 2 nd feed you on your way ? 
 Could ye not there great Pharaoh's bondage beare, 
 You who can ferve a Boy , and Minftrel here ? 
 Forbid it Qod , if thou be’ft juft 3 this fhame 
 Caft not on Saul's, on mine , and Ifrael' s Name. 
 
 Why was I elfe from Canaans P amine lead ? 
 
 Happy, thrice happy had I there been dead 
 Ere my full Loyns difeharg’d this num erous race, 
 This lucklds Tribe, even Crown'd to their Dijgrace / 
 Ah Saul, thy Servants Vajfal muft thou live ? 
 
 Place to his Harp muft thy dread Scepter give? 
 What wants he now but that ? canft thou forget 
 ( If thou be’ft man thou can’ft not ) how they met 
 The Touth with Songs? Alas poor Monarch ! you 
 Your tkoufand only, he ten thoufand flew ! 
 
 Him Ifrael loves, him neighb’ring Counities fear 3 
 You but the Name , and empty Title bear 3 
 And yet the Traytor lives, lives in thy Court ‘3 
 The Court that muft be his 3 where he (hall (port 
 Himfelf with all thy Concubines , thy Gold , 
 
 Thy coftly robes , thy Crown 3 Wert thou not told 
 This by proud Samuel, when at Gilgal he 
 With bold falfe threats from God affronted Thee ? 
 The dotard ly’d 3 God faid it not I know 3 
 Not Baal or Moloch would have us’d thee fo 3 
 Was not the choice his own ? did not thy worth 
 £xa<ft the royal Lot , and call it forth ? 
 
 Haft thou not fince (my beft and greateft Sonne) 
 
 To Him , and to his per’iihing Nation done 
 
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 A Scepter as eternal as thy Fame <? 
 
 Poor Prince , whom Madmen, Pricfis , and Boys invade j 
 By thine own Fiefs thy ingrateful Son betray’d ! • 
 
 Unnat’ural Fool , who can thus cheated be 
 By Friendjhip's Name againft a Crown and Thee ! 
 
 Betray not too thy feif 5 take courage, call 
 
 21 Thy enchanted Vertues forth, and be Whole Saul. 
 
 Lo, this great caufe makes thy dead Fathers rile, 
 
 Breaks the firm Seals of their clos’d Tombs and Eyes . 
 
 Nor can their jealous Afies, whilft this Boy 
 Survives, the Priviledge of their Graves enjoy. 
 
 Rife quickly, Saul , and take that Rebel's breath 
 Which troubles thus thy Life , and ev’en our Death . 
 
 Kill him, and thou’rt fecure * ’tis only He 
 That’s boldly interpos’d ’twixt God and Thee , 
 
 As Earth's low Globe robs the High Moon of Light $ 
 
 When this Eclipfe is paft, thy .Fife’s all bright. 
 
 Truft me, dear Son, and credit what I tell j 
 I ’have feen thy royal Stars, and know them well. 
 
 Hence Fears and dull Delays ! Is not thy Breaji 
 ( Yes, Saul it is ) with noble thoughts poffeft ? 
 
 May they beget like Aids. With that fhe takes 
 One of her worft, her belt beloved Snakes, 
 
 Softly, dear Worm , foft and unfeen (faid fhe) 
 
 Into his bofom fteal, and in it be 
 My Vice-Roy. At that word (he took her flight, 
 
 And her loofe (hape diffolv’d into the Night. 
 
 The infe&ed King leapt from his bed amaz’d. 
 
 Scarce knew himfelf at firft, but round him gaz'd, 
 
 And ftarted back at piec’d up (hapes, which fear 
 And his diftra&ed Fancy painted there. 
 
 Terror froze up his hair, and on his face 
 Show’rs of cold fweat roll’d trembling down apace. 
 
 Then knocking with his angry hands hisbreaft. 
 
 Earth with his feet 5 He crys, O ’tis confeft 3 
 
 22 I’ have been a pious Fool, a Woman-King 5 
 Wrong’d by a Seer , a Boy, every thing. 
 
 23 Eight hundred years of Death is not (o deep, 
 
 So unconcern’d as my Lethargick. fleep. 
 
 My patience ev’en a Sacriledge becomes, 
 
 Difturbs the Dead, and opes their facred Tombs. . 
 
 Ah Benjamin , kind Father ! who for me 
 This curfed World endur’ft again to fee ! 
 
 All thou haft faid, great Vijion, is fo true, 
 
 That all which thou command’^, and more I’ll do : 
 
 Kill him ? yes, mighty Ghoft , the wretch fhall dy, 
 
 Though every star in Heav’en (hould it deny 5 
 Nor mock th’ aflault of our juft wrath again, 
 
 Had he ten times his fam’d ten thoufand (lain. 
 
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 Should that bold popular Madman, whofe defign 
 Is to revenge his own difgrace by Mine, i Sam. 
 
 Should my ingrateful Son oppole th’intent, 8 ' 19 ’ 
 
 Should mine own heart grow fcrup’ulousand relent. 
 
 Curfe me juft Heaven ( by which this truth I fwear) 
 
 If I that Seer , my Son, or Self do fpare. 
 
 No gentle Ghoft, return to thy ftill home 3 
 Thither this day mine, and thy Foe (hall come. 
 
 If that curft objeft longer vex my fight, 
 
 It muft have learnt to appear as Thou to night. 
 
 Whilft thus his wrath with threats the Tyrant fed. 
 
 The threatned Youth flept fearlefs on his bed 5 
 Sleep on, reft quiet as thy Confcknce take, 
 
 For though Thou fleepft thy felf, thy God' s awake. 
 
 24 Above the fubtle foldings of the Sky, 
 
 Above the well-fet Orbs (oft Harmony 1, 
 
 Above thofe petty Lamps that gild the Night 5 
 There is a place o’reflown with hallowed Light 5 
 Where Heaven, as if it left it felf behind , 
 
 Is ftretcht out far, nor its own bounds can find : 
 
 Here peaceful Flames fwell up the facred place, 
 
 25 Nor can the glory contain it felf in th’endlefs fpace. 
 
 For there no twilight of the Sun’s dull ray, 
 
 Glimmers upon the pure and native day. 
 
 No pale-fac’d Moon does in ftoln beams appear, 
 
 Or with dim Taper fcatters darhyiefs there. 
 
 On no fmooth Sphear the reftlels feafons Hide, 
 
 No circling Motion doth fwift Time divide 3 
 Nothing is there To come , and nothing Pafl, 
 
 26 But an Eternal Now does always laft. 
 
 There fits th’ Almighty , Firft of all, and End 5 
 Whom nothing but Himfelf can comprehend. 
 
 Who with his Word commanded AU to Be, 
 
 And All obey’d him, for that Word was He. 
 
 Only he fpoke, and every thing that Is 
 From out the womb of fertile Nothing ris. 
 
 O who (hall tell, who (hall deferibe thy throne, 
 
 Thou great Three-One .<? 
 
 There Thou thy felf do’ft in full prefence (how, 
 
 Not abfent from thefe meaner Worlds below 3 
 No, if thou wert, the Elements League would ceafe, 
 
 And all thy Creatures break thy Natures peace. 
 
 The Sun would flop his courfe, or gallop back, 
 
 The Stars drop out, the Poles themfelves would crack : 
 
 Earths ftrong foundations would be torn in twain. 
 
 And this vaft work all ravel out again 
 To its firft Nothing 3 For his fpirit contains 
 
 27 The well-knit Mafs, from him each Creature gains 
 Being and Motion, which he (fill beftows 3 
 
 • From him th’ ejfetf of our weak A&ion flows. 
 
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 28 Round him vaft Armies of fvvift Angels ftand, 
 
 Which feven triumphant Generals command, 
 
 They fing loud Anthems of his endlefs praife, 
 
 And with fixt eyes drink in immortal rayes. 
 
 29 Of thefe he call'd out one 3 all Heaven did (hake, 
 
 And filence kept whilft its Creator fpake. 
 
 Are we forgotten then fo foon } can He 
 Look on his Crown, and not remember Me 
 That gave it ) can he think we did not hear 
 ( Fond man ! ) his threats } and have we made the Ear 
 To be accounted deaf? No, Saul , we heard 5 
 And it will coft thee dear 3 the ills thou’ft fear’d, 
 
 Pradtis’d, or thought on, 1 11 all double fend 5 
 Have we not fpoke it, and dares Man contend ! 
 
 Alas, poor duft ! didft thou but know the day 
 i Sam. 31. When thou muft lie in blood at Gilboa , 
 
 Thou, and thy Sons , thou wouldft not threaten ftill, 
 
 Thy trembling Tongue would flop againft thy will. 
 
 Then (hall thine Head fixt in curft Temples be, 
 
 And all xhedv foolifh Gods (hall laugh at Thee. 
 
 That hand which now on David's Life would prey. 
 
 Shall then turn juft , and its own Mafter (lay 5 
 He whom thou hat 1 eft, on thy loved Throne (hall fit, 
 
 And expiate the difgrace thou do’ft to it. 
 
 Haft then 3 tell David what his King has fworn, , Afi 
 
 Tell him whofe blood muft paint this riling Mom. 
 
 Yet bid him go fecurely when he fends 3 
 
 30 ’Tis Saul that is his Foe, and we his Friends, 
 
 The Man who has his God no aid can lack, 
 
 And we who bid him Go, will bring him back 
 
 He fpoke 3 the Heavns feem’d decently to bow, 
 
 With all their bright Inhabitants 3 and now 
 The jocond Spheres began again to play, 
 
 Again each Spirit fung Halleluia. 
 
 Only that Angel was ftrait gon 3 Even fo 
 ( But not fo fwift ) the morning Glories flow 
 At once from the bright Sun, and ftrike the ground 3 
 So winged Lightning the foft air does wound. 
 
 Slow Time admires, and knows not what to call 
 The Motion, having no Account fo fmall. 
 
 So flew this Angel , till to David's bed 
 He came, and thus his facred Meflage faid, 
 
 3 1 Awake, young Man, hear what thy King has fworn 3 
 He fwore thy blood (hould paint this rifing Morn. 
 
 Yet to him go (ecurely when he fends 5 
 
 ’Tis Saul that is your Foe, and God your Friends, 
 
 The Man who has his God , no aid can lack 5 
 And he who bids thee Go, will bring thee back. 
 
 Up leapt J ejjides, and did round him flare 3 
 But could fee nought 3 for nought was left but air, 
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 Whilft this great Vtfion labours in his thought, 
 
 Lo, the port Prophecy faffed is brought. 
 
 In treacherous haft he’s lent for to the King, 
 
 And with him bid his charmful Lyre to bring. 
 
 The King, they fay, lyes raging in a Fit, 
 
 Which does nq cure but (acred tunes admit 3 
 
 32 And true it was, (oft mujick, did appeafe 
 Th’obfcure fantaftick rage of Saul's difeafe. 
 
 33 Tell me, O Mufe (for Thou , or none canft tell 
 The myftick pow’ers that in bleft Numbers dwell, 
 Thou their great Nature know’ft, nor is it fit 
 This nobleft Gem of thine own Crown t’omit) 
 
 Tell me from whence thefe heav’nly charms arife 3 
 Teach the dull world t' admire what they dejpife. 
 
 As firft a various unform’d Hint we find 
 Rife in fome god like Poets fertile Mind y 
 Till all the parts and words their places take, { 
 
 And with juft marches verfe and muficl^mzke, 
 
 34 Such was God's Poem, this World's new Fjfay 5 
 So wild and rude in its firft draught it lay 3 
 Th’ ungovern'd parts no correfpondence knew, 
 
 Ain artlefs war from thwarting Motions grew 3 
 Till they to Number and fixt Rules were brought 
 By the eternal Minds P oetichfThought . 
 
 35 Water and Air he for the Tenor chofe, 
 
 Earth made the Bafe , the Treble Flame arofe, 
 
 3 6 To th’ adive Moon a quick brisk ftroke he gave, 
 
 To Saturn's firing a touch more foft and grave. 
 
 The motions Strait , and Round, and Swift , and SloW- 
 And Short, and Long , were mixt and woven fo. 
 
 Did in fuch artful Figures fmoothly fall, 
 
 As made this decent meafur’d Dance o f all. 
 
 And this is Alufick 3 Sounds that charm our ears, 
 
 Are but one DreJJing that rich Science wears 
 Though no man heart, though no man it reherfe, 
 
 Yer will there ftili be AfuficJ^ in my Verfe. 
 
 In this Great World fo much pf it we fee 3 
 
 37 The leffer , Alan , is all o’re Har monte. 
 
 Storehoufe of all Proportions ! jingle Quire! 
 
 Which firft God's Breath did tunefully infpiref 
 From hence bleft Jllujicl( s heav’nly charms arife. 
 
 From jympathy which Them and Alan allies. 
 
 Thus they our Souls thus they our Bodies win, 
 
 Not by their Force , but Party that’s within. 
 
 38 Thus the ftrange Cure on our fpilt Blood apply’d- 
 Sympathy to the diftant Wound does guide. 
 
 39 Thus when two Brethren firings are fet alike. 
 
 To move them both , but one of them we firing. 
 
 Thus David's Lyre did SauPs wild rage controul, 
 
 40 And tun’d the harfti disorders of his Soul 
 
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 When Ifiael was from bondage led. 
 
 Led by th’ Almighty* s hand 
 From out a foreign land. 
 
 The great Sea beheld, and fled. 
 
 As men purfu’d, when that fear paft they find v 
 Stop on fome higher ground to look behind, 
 
 So whilft through wondrous ways 
 The facred Army went, 
 
 The Waves afar flood up to gaze, 
 
 And their own Rocky did reprefent, 
 
 Solid as Waters are above the Firmament . 
 
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 Old Jordans waters to their j firing 
 Start back with fudden fright 5 
 The Jpring amaz’d at fight. 
 
 Asks what News from Sea they bring. 
 
 The A fountains (hook 3 and to the Mountains fide. 
 
 The little Hills leapt round themfelves to hide 3 
 As young affrighted Lambs 
 
 When they ought dreadful fpy, 
 
 Run trembling to their helplefs Dams 3 
 The mighty Sea and River by, 
 
 Were glad for their excufe to fee the Hills to fly. 
 
 What ail’d the mighty Sea to flee ? 
 
 Or why did Jordans tide 
 Back to his Fountain glide? 
 
 Jordans Tyde 9 what ailed Thee ? 
 
 Why leapt the Hills? why did the Mountains (hake ? 
 What ail’d them their fixt Natures to forfake ? 
 
 Fly where thou wilt, O Sea ! 
 
 And Jordans Current ceafe 3 
 Jordan there is no need of thee, 
 
 For at God's word, when e’re he pleafe, 
 
 The Rocks (hall weep new Waters forth inftead of thefe. 
 
 Thus fung the great Mufitian to his Lyre 3 
 And Saul 1 s black rage grew foftly to retire 3 
 But Envys Serpent (till with him remain’d, 
 pfal. 58 $. 42 And the wife Charmers healthful voice difdain’d. 
 Th’unthankful King cur’d truly of his fit, 
 
 . Seems to lie drown’d and buryed (fill in it. 
 
 From his paft madnefs draws this wicked ufe, 
 
 To fin difguis’d, and murther with excufe: 
 
 For whil’ft the fearlefs youth his cure purfues, 
 And the foft Medicine with kind art renews 5 
 I i* 8 ' harb arous Patient cafts at him his Jpear , 
 
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 Cafts it with violent ftrength, but into th’ rooms 
 An Arm more ftrong and fure than his was come $ 
 
 An Angel whofe unfeen and eafie might 
 Put by the weapon, and mifled it right . 
 
 How vain Man’s power is ! unlefs God command. 
 
 The weapon difobeys his Mafier s hand 5 
 Happy was now the error of the blow 5 
 At Gilboa it will not ferve him fo. 
 
 One would have thought, Sani ’s fudden rage t'have feeo, 
 He had himfelf by David wounded been. 
 
 He (corn’d to leave what he did ill begin, 
 
 And thought his Honor now engag’d i’th' Sits. 
 
 A bloody Troop of his own Guards he fends 
 (Slaves to his Will, and falfly call’ed his friends) 
 
 To mend his error by a furer blow , 
 
 So 1 Saul ordain’d, but God ordain'd not fo. 
 
 Home flies the Prince, and to his trembling Wifi 
 Relates the new paft hazard of his life, 
 
 Which (he with decent pajjton hears him tell 5 
 For not her own fair Eyes (he lov’d fo well 
 
 43 Upon their Palace top beneath a row 
 
 Or Lemon Trees , which there did proudly grow. 
 
 And wirh bright flores of golden fruit repay 
 1 he Light they drank from the Suns neighbVing ray t 
 (A (mall, but artful Paradife) they walk’d 5 
 And hand in hand fad gentle things they talk'd. 
 
 Here Miehol firft an armed Troop efpies 
 ( So faithful and fo quick are loving Eyes) 
 
 Which marcht, and often glifter’d through a wood, 
 That on right hand of her fair Palace flood j 
 She faw them * and cry ’d out $ They’re come to lull 
 My deareft Lord * Saul's fpear purfues thee ftill. 
 
 Behold his wicked Guards $ Hafte quickly, fly. 
 
 For heavens fake hafte 5 My dear Lord, do not dj. 
 
 Ah cruel Father, whole ill-natur’d rage 
 Neither thy Worth , nor Marriage can allwage ! 
 
 Will he part thofe he joyn’d fo late before? 
 
 Were the two-hundred Foreskins worth no more? 
 
 He (hall not part us 5 (Then (he wept between) 
 
 At yonder Window thou mayft fcape unfeen ; 
 
 This hand (hall let thee down , flay not but haft 3 
 Tis not my ZJfe to fend thee hence Co feft. 
 
 Beft of all women, he replies — and this 
 Scarce fpoke, (he flops his anfwer with a Ki(s 5 
 Throw not away (faid (he) thy precious breath, 
 
 Thou flay’ft too long within the reach of death , 
 
 Timely he 7 obeys her wife advice, and ftreit 
 
 44 To unjuft Force (he oppofes juft deceit. 
 
 She meets the Murderers with a virtuous Ly , 
 
 And good diflembling Tears 5 May he not df 
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 In quiet then ? (faid (he) will they not give 
 That freedom who fo fear left he (hould Live .<? 
 
 Even fate does with your cruelty confpire, 
 
 And fpares your guilt, yet does what you defire. 
 
 Muft he not live .<? for that ye need not fin 5 
 My much- wrong’d Husband fpeechlefs lies within, 
 
 And has too little left of vital breath 
 To know his Murtherers , or to feel his Death. 
 
 One hour will do your work 
 
 Here her well-govern’d Tears dropt down apace 3 
 Beauty and Sorrow mingled in one face 
 Has fuch refiftlefs charms that they believe, 
 
 And an unwilling aptnefs find to grieve 
 At what they came for 3 A pale Statue s head 
 In linnen wrapt appear’d on David's bed 3 
 Two fervants mournful ftand and filent by. 
 
 And on the table med'cinal reliques ly 3 
 In the clofe room a well- plac’d Tapers light. 
 
 Adds a becoming horror to the fight. 
 
 And for th* Imprejfion God prepar’d their Sence 3 
 They faw, believ’d all this, and parted thence. 
 
 How vain attempts Saul's unbleft anger tryes, 
 
 By his own hands deceiv’d, and fervants Eyes ! 
 
 It cannot be (faid he) no, can it } (hall 
 Our great ten thoufand Slayer idly fall > 
 
 The filly rout thinks God protetts him ftill 3 
 But God , alas, guards not the bad from iU. 
 
 0 may he guard him 1 may his members be 
 In as full ftrength, and well-fet harmonie 
 As the frefh body of the firft made Man 
 Ere Sin, or Sins juft meed, Difeafe began. 
 
 He Will be elfe too final/ for our vafi Hate 3 
 And we muft Jhare in our revenge with fate. 
 
 No 3 let us have him Whole 3 we elfe may feem 
 To’haVefnatchtaway but fome few days from him, 
 
 And cut that Thread which would have dropt in two 5 
 Will our great anger learn to ftoop fo low } 
 
 1 know it cannot, will not 3 him we prize 
 Of our juft wrath the folemn Sacrifice, 
 
 45 That muft not blemijht be 3 let him remain 
 Secure an dgrow up to our firoke again. 
 
 ’Twill be fome pleafure then to take his breath, 
 
 When he (hall flrive , and wreftle with his death 3 
 
 Go, let him live- And yet (hall I then ftay 
 
 So long > good and great a&ions hate delay. 
 
 Some fooliih piety perhaps , or He 
 That has been ftill mine honours Enemie , 
 
 Samuel may change or crofs my juft intent. 
 
 And I this Formal Pity foon repent. 
 
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 That he can fly no more, if we (hould mifs 5 
 Mifs } can we mifs again ? go bring him (Trait, 
 Though gafping out his Soul 5 if the wifht date 
 Of his accurfed life be almoft pad, 
 
 Some Joy ’twill be to fee him breath his lad. 
 
 The Iroop return’d, of their fhort Pirtue ’afham’d 5 
 Saul's courage prais'd, and their own weaknefs blam’d. 
 But when the pious fraud they underftood, 
 
 Scarce the refpeft due to Saul’s facred blood, 
 
 Due to the facred beauty in it reign’d, 
 
 From Michol's murder their wild rage reftrain’d. 
 
 She ’alledg’d the holieft chains that bind a wife , 
 
 Duty and Love } (lie alledg’d that her own Life, 
 
 Had (he refus’d that fafety to her Lord, 
 
 Would haveincurr’d juft danger from hisfword. 
 Now was Saul's wrath full grown $ he takes no reft 5 
 A violent Flame rolls in his troubled breft, 
 
 And in fierce Lightning from his Eye do’s break 5 
 Not his own favourites ? and beft friends dare fpeak, 
 Or look on him but mute and trembling all, 
 
 Fear where this Cloud will burft, and Thunder fall. 
 
 So when the pride and t err our of the Wood, 
 
 A Lyon prickt with rage and want of food, 
 
 Efpies out from afar fome well-fed beaft, 
 
 And bruftles up preparing for his feaft $ 
 
 If that by fwiftnefs fcape his gaping jaws. 
 
 His bloody eyes he hurls round, his (harp paws 
 Tear up the ground $ then runs he wild about, 
 Lafhing his angry tail, and roaring out. 
 
 Beafls creep into their dens, and tremble there 5 
 Trees , though no wind ftirring, (hake with fear , 
 Silence and horrour fill the place around: 
 
 Echo it felf dares fcarce repeat the found. 
 
 46 Mid ft a large Wood that joy ns fair Ramah' s Town 
 ( The neighbourhood fair Rama's chief renown) 
 
 47 A College (lands, where at great Prophets feet 
 The Prophets Sons with filent diligence meet, 
 
 By Samuel built, and moderately endow’d, 
 
 Yet more to’his lib’ral Tongue than Hands they ow’d. 
 There himfelf taught , and his bled voice to heare, 
 Teachers themfelves lay proud beneath him there. 
 The Houfi was a large Square 5 but plain and low 5 
 Wife Natures ufe Art drove not to outgo. 
 
 An inward Square by well-rang’d Trees was made 5 
 And midft the friendly cover of their (hade, 
 
 A pure, well-rafted, wholfome Fountain rofe 5 
 Which no vain coft of Marble did enclofe j 
 Nor through carv’d fh apes did the forc’d waters pafs* 
 Shapes gazing on themfelves i’th’ liquid glafi. 
 
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 48 For Cleannefs, Thirft , Religion ferv’d as well. 
 
 49 The Scholars , Doctors, and Companions here, 
 
 Lodged all apart in neat fmall chambers were : 
 
 Well furni fht Chambers, for in each there ftood, 
 
 50 A narrow Couch , Table and Chair of wood 3 
 More is but clog where ufe does bound delight 3 
 And thofe are rich whofe Wealth's proportion’d right 
 To their Lifes Form 3 mor e goods would but becom 
 A Burden to them, and contrad their room . 
 
 A fecond Court more facred ftood behind. 
 
 Built fairer, and to nobler ufe defign’d : 
 
 The Hall and Schools one fide of it poffeft 3 
 The Library and Synagogue the reft. 
 
 Tables of plain-cut Firre adorn’d the Hall 3 
 
 5 1 And with beafts skins the beds were cov’red all. 
 
 5 2 The reverend Dollars take their (eats on high, 
 
 Th’ EleH Companions in their bofoms ly. 
 
 The Scholars far below upon the ground. 
 
 On frefti-ftrew’d rufties place themfelves around. 
 
 With more refped the wife and ancient lay 3 
 But eat not choicer Herbs or Bread than they, 
 
 Nor purer Waters drank, their conftant feaft 3 
 But by great days, and Sacrifice encreaft. 
 
 The Schools built round and higher, at the end 
 With their fair circle did this fide extend 3 
 To which their Synagogue on th’other fide, 
 
 And to the Hall their Library replide. 
 
 The midft tow’ards their large Gardens open lay, 
 
 To’admit the joys of Spring and early day . 
 
 I’th* Library a few choice Authors ftood 3 
 Yet ’twas well ftor’d, for that fmall ftore was good 5 
 Writing , Mans Spiritual Phyfick^ was not then 
 It felfe as now, grown a Difeafe of Men. 
 
 Learning (young Virgin ) but few Suiters knew 3 
 The common Froftitute (he lately grew, 
 
 And with her ffurious brood loads now the Prefs5 
 Laborious effects of 1 diene fs l 
 Here all the various forms one might behold 
 How Letters fav’d themfelves from Death of old 3 
 
 53 Some painfully engrav’d in thin wrought plates , 
 
 Some cut in wood , fome lightlier trac d on fiates 5 
 
 54 Some drawn on fair Palm leaves , with (hort-liv’d toy I, 
 
 Had not their friend the Cedar lent his Oyl. 
 
 5 5 Some wrought in Silky? fome writ in tender barks 3 
 Some the (harp Stile in waxen Tables marks 3 
 56 Some in beafts skins, and fome in Biblos reedj 
 Both new rude arts, with age and growth did need. 
 
 The Schools were painted well with ufeful skill 3 
 Stars , Maps , and Stories the learn’d wall did fill. 
 
 Wife wholefome Proverbs mixt around the roome, 
 
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 57 Some writ, and in Egyptian Figures fome. 
 
 Here all the nobleft tvits of men infpir'd, 
 
 From earths flight joys, and worthlefs toils retir’d, 
 
 Whom Samuel's Fame and Bounty thither lead, 
 
 Each day by turns their folid knowledge read. 
 
 58 The courfe and power of Stars great Nathan thought^ 
 
 And home to man thofe di ft ant Wonders brought, 
 
 How toward both Foies the Suns fixt journey bends. 
 
 And how the Tear his crooked wal\ attends. 
 
 By what juft fteps the wandring Lights advance. 
 
 And what eternal meafures guide their dance . 
 
 Himfelf a Prophet 3 but his Lefturcs (hew’d 
 How little of that Art to them he ow’d. 
 
 Mahol th’inferior worlds fantaftick face, 
 
 Through all the turns of Matters Maze did trace. 
 
 Great Natures well-fet Clock. in pieces took 5 
 On all the Springs and fmalleft Wheels did look 
 Of Life and Motion 3 and with equal art 
 Made up again the Whole of ev’ry Part . 
 
 The Prophet Gad in learned Dujl defignes. 
 
 Th’immortal folid rules of fanci'd Lines. 
 
 Of Numbers too th’ unnumbred wealth be ftldwes. 
 
 And with them far their endlefs journey goes. 
 
 59 Numbers which ftill encreafe more high and wide 
 From One, the root of their turn'd Pyramide. 
 
 Of Men , and Ages paft Seraiah read 5 
 Embalm'd in long-liv’d Hijlory the Dead. 
 
 Show’d the fteep falls, and flow afcent of States 5 
 What Wifom and what Follies make their Fates . 
 
 Samuel himfelf did God’s rich Law difplay 3 
 Taught doubting men with Judgment to obey. 
 
 And oft his ravilht Soul with fuddea flight 
 Soar’d above prefent Times, and humane fight. 
 
 Thofe Arts but welcome ftrangers might appear, 
 
 JITufick. and Verfe feem’d born and bred up here 5 
 Scarce the bleft Heaven that rings with Angels voyce, 
 
 Does with more conftant Harmony rejoyce. 
 
 The facred Mufe does here each breft infpire 5 
 Neman, and fweet-mouthM Afaph rule their Quire i 
 Both charming Poets, and all ftrains they plaid, 
 
 By artful Breath , or nimble Fingers made. 
 
 The Synagogue was dreft with care and coft, 
 
 ( The only place where that they’efteem’d not loft ) 
 
 The glittering roof with gold did daze the view, 
 
 6 o The fides refrefh’t with filks of facred Blew. 
 
 Here thrice each day they read their perfed Law, 
 
 Thrice prayers from willing Beav'en a blefling draw? 
 
 Thrice in glad Hymns fwell’d with the Great Ones praife, 
 
 6t The ply ant Voice on her fev’en fteps they raife, 
 
 Whilft the enlivened Inftrumints around 
 
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 To the juft feet with various concord found 3 
 Such things were Mufes then, contemn’d low earth 3 
 Decently proud, and mindful of their birth. 
 
 ’Twas God himfeif that here tun’d every Toung 3 
 And gratefully of him alone they fung. 
 
 62 They fung how God Jpo/^e out the worlds vaft ball 3 
 From Nothing , and from No where call’d forth All. 
 
 No Nature yet, or place for’t to poftefs, 
 
 But an unbottom’d Gulf of Emptinefs. 
 
 Full of Himfeif th’ Almighty fat, his own 
 
 63 Palace , and without Solitude Alone. 
 
 But he was Goodnefs whole, and all things will’d 3 
 Which ere they were , his a&ive word fulfill’d 3 
 And their aftoniftit heads o’th’ fudden rear’d, 
 
 An unfhap’d kind of Something firft appear’d, 
 Confefling its new Being, and undreft 
 As if it ftept in haft before the reft. 
 
 Yet buried in this Matters darkfome womb, 
 
 Lay the rich Seeds of ev’ery thing to com. 
 
 From hence the chearful Flame leapt up fo high 3 
 Clofe at its heels the nimble Air did fly 3 
 Dull Earth with his own weight did downwards pierce 
 To the fixt Navel of the Univerfe , 
 
 And was quite loft in waters : till God faid 
 To the proud Sea, (brink in your insolent head, 
 
 See how the gaping Earth has made you place 3 
 That durft not murmure, but ftirunk in apace. , 
 
 Since when his bounds are fet, at which in vain 
 He foams, and rages, and turns back again. 
 
 With richer fluff he bad Heavens fabrick (hine. 
 
 And from him a quick fpring oF Light divine 
 Swell’d up the Sun, from whence his cher’ifhing flame 
 Fills the whole world, like Him from whom it came. 
 He fmooth’d the rough-caft Moons imperfed mold. 
 
 And comb’d her beamy locks with (acred gold 3 
 Be thou (faid he) Queen of the mournful night, 
 
 And as he fpoke, (he’arofe clad o’re in Light , 
 
 With thouGndJiars attending on her train 3 
 With her they rife, with her they fet again. 
 
 Then Herbs peep’d forth, new Trees admiring ftood. 
 And fmelling Flowers painted the infant wood. 
 
 Then flocks of Birds through the glad air did flee, 
 Joyful, and fafe before Mans Luxurie, 
 
 Teaching their Maker in their untaught lays : 
 
 Nay the mute Fifh witnefs no lefs his praife. 
 
 For thofe he made, and cloath’d with filver (cales 3 
 From Minoe s to thofe living Ifiands , Whales. 
 
 Beafis too were his command : what could he more ? 
 Yes, Man he could, the bond of all before 3 
 In him he all things with ftrange order hurl’d 3 
 
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 This, and much more of God’s great works they told 
 His mercies , and fome judgments too of old ; 
 
 How when all earth was deeply ftain’d in fin 3 
 With an impetuous noife the waves came rufbing in. 
 
 Where birds e’re while dwelt and fecurely fung 3 
 There Fifi (an unknown Netj entangled hung. 
 
 The face of Jhipwrackt Nature naked lay 3 
 The Sun peep’d forth, and beheld nought but Sea. 
 
 This men forgot, and burnt in luft again, 
 
 Till fhow’rs, ftrange as their Sin, of fiery rain , 
 
 And fcalding brimftone, dropt on Sodom s head 3 
 Alive they felt thofe Flames they fry in Dead. 
 
 No better end rafh Pharaoh’s pride befel 
 When wind and Sea waged war for IfraeL 
 In his gilt chariots amaz ed fi/hes fat. 
 
 And grew with corps of wretched Princes fat. 
 
 The waves and rocks half-eaten bodies ftain 3 
 Nor was it fince call’d the Red- Sea in vain. 
 
 Much too they told of faithful Abrahams fame, 
 
 64 To whofe bltft paflage they owe (till their Name: 
 
 Of Mofes much, and the great feed of Nun : 
 
 What wonders they perform’d, what lands they won* 
 
 How many Kings they flew or Captive brought 3 
 They held the Swords , but God and Angels fought. 
 
 Thus gain’d they the wife fpending of their days 3 
 And their whole Life was their dear Mak$r$ praife. 
 
 No minutes reft> no fwifteft thought they fold 
 To that beloved Plague of Mankind , Gold. 
 
 Gold for which all mankind with greater pains 
 Labour towards HeU y than thofe who dig its veins. 
 
 Their wealth was the Contempt of it 3 which more 
 They valu’d than rich fools the (hinirg Ore . 
 
 The Silkworm’s predous death they fcorn’d to wear, 
 
 And Tyrian Dy appear’d but fordid there. 
 
 Honor , which fince the price of Souls became. 
 
 Seem’d to thWe great ones a low idle Name. 
 
 Inftead of Down y hard beds they chofe to have, 
 
 Such as might bid them not forget their Grave. 
 
 Their Board difpeopled no full Element , 
 
 Free Natures bounty thriftily they fpent 
 And fpar’ed the Stocky nor could their bodies fay 
 We owe this Crudenefs t’Excefs yefierday. 
 
 Thus Souls live cleanly , and no foiling fear. 
 
 But entertain their welcome Maker there. 
 
 The Senfes perform nimbly what they’re bid, 
 
 And Honeftly , nor are by Reafin chid. 
 
 And when the Down of Jleep does foftly fall , 
 
 65 Their Dreams are heavenly then, and myftical. 
 
 With hafty wings Time prefent they outfly, 
 
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 And tread the doubtful Maze of Dettiny . 
 
 There walk and fport among the years to come 3 
 And with quick Eye pierce ev’ery Caufes womb. 
 
 Thus thefe wile Saints enjoy’d their Little All 3 
 Free from the fpight of much-mijlafyn Saul: 
 
 For if man's Life we in juft ballance weigh, 
 
 David deferv d his Envy lefs than They. 
 
 Of this retreat the hunted Prince makes choice, 
 
 Adds to their Quire his nobler Lyre and Voice. 
 
 But long unknown even here he could not lye 3 
 So bright his Lujlre i fo quick Envies Eye ! 
 Th’offended Troop, whom he efcap’d before, 
 
 Purfue him here, and fear miftakes no more 3 
 Belov’d revenge frefti rage to them affords 3 
 Some part of him all promife to their Swords . 
 
 They came, but a new fpirit their hearts pofleft, 
 Scatt’ring a facTed calm through every breft : 
 
 The furrows of their brow, fo rough ere while, 
 
 Sink down into the dimples of a Smile. 
 
 Their cooler veins fwell with a peaceful tide. 
 
 And the chafte ftreams with even current glide. 
 
 A fudden day breaks gently through their eyes. 
 
 And Morning- blufies in their cheeks arife. 
 
 The thoughts of war, of blood, and murther ceafe 3 
 In peaceful tunes they adore the God of Peace. 
 
 New Meflengers twice more the Tyrant fent, 
 
 And was twice more mockt with the fa me event. 
 
 His heightned rage no longer brooks delay 3 
 It fends him there himfelf 3 but on the way 
 His frolifb Anger a wife Fury grew, 
 
 And Blejjings from his mouth unbidden flew. 
 
 His Kingly robes he laid at Naioth down. 
 
 Began to underftand and /corn his Crown 3 
 Employ’d his mounting thoughts on nobler things 3 
 And felt more jolid joys than Empire brings. 
 
 Embrac’d his wondring Son, and on his head 
 The balm of all pa ft wounds , kind Tears he (bed. 
 
 So cov etous Balam with a fond intent 
 Of curfing the bleft Seed , to Moab went. 
 
 But as he went his fatal tongue to fell 3 
 
 His Afs taught him to fpea God to fpeah^ well. 
 
 How comely are thy Tents , O lfrael ! 
 
 (Thus he began) what conquefts they foretel ! 
 
 Lefs fair are Orchards in their Autumn pride, 
 
 Adorn’d with Trees on fome fair Rivers fide. 
 
 Lefs fair are V allies their green mantles fpread ! 
 
 Or Mountains with tall Cedars on their head ! 
 
 Twas God himfelf ( thy God who muft not fear } ) 
 Brought thee from Bondage to be Majler here. 
 
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 Slaughter £hall wear out thefe 5 new Weapons get 5 
 And Death in triumph on thy darts (hail fit. 
 
 When Judah's Lyon darts up to his prey, 
 
 The Beajls (hall hang their ears, and creep away. 
 When he lies down, the Woods (hall filence keep, 
 And dreadful Tygtrs tremble at his Jleep . 
 
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 1 p m |M ^HE cuftom of beginning all Poems, with a Proportion 
 
 of the whole work, and an Invocation of fome God 
 for hisaffiftance to go through with it, is fofolemnly 
 and religioufly obferved by all the ancient Poets, 
 that though I could have found out a better way, [ 
 ftiould not ([ think) have ventured upon it. But there can be, I 
 believe, none better 3 and that part, of the Invocation , if it be- 
 came a Heathen , is no lefs neceflary for a Chrifiun Poet. A Jove 
 principium, Mufe 3 and it follows then very naturally, Jovis omnia 
 plena. The whole work may reafonably hope to be filled with a 
 Divine Spirit , when it begins with a Prayer to be fa The Gre- 
 cians built this Portal with lefs ftate,and made but one part of thefe 
 Two 3 in which, and almoft all things elfe, 1 prefer the judgment 
 of the Latins 5 though generally they abufed the Prayer, by con- 
 verting it from the Deity , to the worft of Men , their Princes : as 
 Lucan addrefles it to Nero, and Statius to Domitian 3 both imita- 
 ting therein (but not equalling) Virgil, who in his Georgickj chufes 
 Augnjlus for the Objeft of his Invocation , a God little fuperior to 
 the other two. 
 
 2 I call it Judah's, rather than Ifracl' s Scepter (though in the notion 
 of diftinft Kingdoms , lfrael was very much the greater) Firft, be- 
 caufe David himfelf was of that Tribe. Secondly, becaufe he was 
 firft made King of Judah , and this Poem was defigned no farther 
 than to bring him to his Inauguration at Hebron. Thirdly, becaufe 
 the Monarchy of Judah lafted longer, not only in his Race, but 
 out-lafted all the feveral Races of the Kings of lfrael. And laftly, 
 and chiefly, becaufe our Saviour defeended from him in that Tribe 
 which makes it infinitely more confiderable than all the reft. 
 
 3 I hope this kind of boaft (which l have been taught by almoft all 
 the old Poets ) will not feem immodeft 3 for though fome in other 
 Languages have attempted the writing a Divine Poem 3 yet none 
 that I know of, has in Englifh : So Virgil fays in the 3. of his Geor- 
 
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 Sed me Parnajji deferta per ardua dulcis 
 Raptat amor, juvat ire jugis , qua nuUapriorum 
 Caff altam moHi divertitur orbita clivo. 
 
 Becaufe none in Latin had written of that fubjeft, So Horaci > 
 
 Libera, per vacuum pofui vefligia princeps, 
 
 Non aliena meo prejfi pede 
 And before them both Lucretisss, 
 
 Avia Picridum peragro loca, nullius ante - 
 
 Trita folo , juvat integros accedere 
 
 Atq 3 haurire 
 
 And fo Ne meji anus, 
 
 Ducitq 3 per avia, qua fola nunquam 
 
 Trita rotis 
 
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 Though there he does wrong to Gratius , who treated of the fam<i 
 Argument before him. And fo Oppian, i. Ven. 
 
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 My own allufiod here is to the paflage of the Ijraelites through 
 the Wildernefs , in which they were guided by a Pillar of 
 
 Flame . 
 
 4 Though there have been three Temples at J erufalem, the fir ft 
 built by Solomon, the fecond by Zorobabel, and the third by Herod 
 ( for it appears by jf ofephus that Herod pluckt down the old Temple, 
 and built a new one) yet I mention only the firft and laft, which 
 were very much fuperiour to that of Zorobabel in riches and mag- 
 nificence, though that was forty fix years a building, whereas He- 
 rod’s was but eight, and Solomons feven 3 of all three the laft was 
 the moft ftately 3 and in that, and not Zorobabel ' s Temple, was ful- 
 filled the Prophecy of Haggai , that the glory of the laft Houfe (hould 
 be greater than of the firft. 
 
 ^ To be made an Apoftle for the converfion of Poetry to Chriftia- 
 nity, as S. Paul was for the converfion of the Gentiles 3 which was ? 
 
 done not only by the Word , as Chrijl was the Eternal Word of his 
 Father 3 but by his becoming a Particular fVord or Call to him. 
 
 This is more fully explained in the Latin Tranflation. 
 
 6 It was the fame cafe with Hercules 5 and therefore I am not afraid 
 to apply to this fubjeft that which Seneca makes Juno fpeak of him 
 in Hercul. Fur. 
 
 Superat , & crefcit malis, 
 
 lrhq\ nojlra fruit ur, in laudes fuas 
 
 Ale a vertit odia, dum nimis j£va impero ; - 1 
 
 Patrem probavi 3 gloria feci locum. f 
 
 And a little after, 
 
 Islinorq 3 labor efl Herculi jujja exequi , 
 
 Quam mihi jubere 
 
 7 In the publique Games of Greece , Palm was ffiade the fign and 
 reward of Victory, becaufe it is the nature of that Tree to refift 5 
 overcome, and thrive the better for all preffures, 
 
 Palmaqj nobilis 
 
 Terrarum dominos evehit ad Dees. Hor. Od. i. 
 
 H h 2 Frorti 
 
 V- 
 
26 
 
 ^Afotes upon the jirjl Booh^ 
 
 From whence Palma, is taken frequently by the Poets , and Orators 
 too, for the Victory it feif. And the Greek Grammarians (ay that 
 viKav (to overcome) is derived from the fame fenfe, ^ yA 
 &K&V, a non cedendo. 
 
 8 Shore is properly fpoken of the Sea , and Bantus of Rivers : and 
 the fame difference is between Littus and Ripa j but yet Littus is 
 frequently taken among the beft Latin Authors for Ripa , as I do 
 here Shore for Bankjy Virgil 
 
 Littora qua dulces auras diffunditis agris , 
 
 Speaking of Mineius. 
 
 9 That the Matter of winds is an Exhalation arifing out of the con- 
 cavities of the Earth, is the opinion of Ariftotle> and almoft all 
 Philo fophers lince him, except fome few who follow Hippocrates his 
 doctrine, who defined the wind to be Air in Motion , or flux. In 
 thofe concavities, when the Exhalations (which Seneca ca\\$ Subter- 
 ranean Clouds ) overcharge the place, the moift ones turn into 
 
 • water, and the dry ones into Winds 3 and thefe are the fecret Trea- 
 furies , out of which God is in the Scripture faid to bring them. 
 This was alfo meant by the Toets , who feigned that they were kept 
 by Aolus, imprifoned in deep caves, 
 
 — ; — — Hie vafio Rex ALolus antro 
 Luctantes ventos tempefiatefq , fonoras 
 Imperio premit , ac vinclis & career e fr£nat. 
 
 Upon which methinks, Seneca is too critical, when he fays, Non in* 
 tellexit , nec id quod claufam cji , effe < idhuc ventum , nec id quod ven- 
 tus efi , poffe claudi 5 nam quod in claufo e[t, quiefcit 9 £> v aeris jiaiio 
 eff omnis in fuga ventus eji : For though it get not yet out, it is 
 wind as foon as it ftirs within, and attempts to do fo. However, 
 my Epithete of unfletcht Tempefis might pafs with him 5 for as loon 
 as the wings are grown, it either flies away, or in cafe of extream 
 refiftance (if it be very flrong) caufes an Earthquake. Juvenal 
 Sat. 5. expreffes very well the South wind , in one of thefe dens. 
 
 ■ Dum fe continet Aufler , 
 
 Dum fedet , Jiccat madidas in carccre pennas. 
 
 10 To give a probable reafon of the perpetual fupply of waters to 
 Fountains and Rivers , it is neceflary to eftablifti an Abyfs or deep 
 gulph of waters, into which the Sea difeharges it felf, as Rivers do 
 into the Sea 5 all which maintain a perpetual Circulation of water, 
 like that of Blood in mans body : For to refer the original of all 
 Fountains to condenfation, and afterwards diflblution of vapors 
 under the earth, is one of the molt unphilofophical opinions in all 
 Ariftotle . And this Abyfs of waters is very agreeable to the Scrip- 
 tures. Jacob blefles Jofeph with the Blefiings of the Heavens above, 
 and with the Blefiings of the Deep beneath $ that is, with the dew 
 and rain of Heaven, and with the Fountains and Bivers that arife 
 from the Deep , and Efdras conformably to this, asks, What habi- 
 tations are in the heart of the Sea, and what veins in the root of the 
 Abyfs? So at the end of the Deluge , Mofes fays, that God fiept the 
 Windows of Heaven, and the fountains of the Abyfs. 
 
 And un disturb'd by Moons in filence JJeep, For I fuppofe the Moon 
 
 to 
 
 \ 
 
2 ? 
 
 3fioter upon the fir ft < Book c 
 
 to be the principal, if not foie caufe of the Ebbing and Flowing of 
 the Sea, but to have no effed upon the waters that are beneath 
 the Sea it felf 
 
 1 1 This muft be taken in a Poetical fenfe } for elfe, making Hell to 
 be in the Center of the Earth, it is far from infinitely large, or 
 deep j yet, on my confcience, where ere it be, it is not fo ftrair, as 
 that Crowding and fweating fhould be one of the Torments of it 9 
 as is pleafantly fancied by Bellar min. LeJJius in his Book de Morib . 
 Divinis, as if he had been there to furvey it, determines the Diame- 
 ter to be juft a Dutch mile . But Ribera, upon (and out of) the Apo- 
 calypfe, allows Pinto a little more elbow-room, and extends it to 
 1600 furlongs, that is 200 Italian miles. Virgil (as good a Divine 
 for this matter as either of them) fays it is twice as deep as the di- 
 ftance betwixt Heaven and Earth : 
 
 Bis patet in praeceps tantum tendit fifub umbras 
 Qu intus ad <ethereum caeli fufpe&us Olympum. 
 
 Hefiod is more moderate : ' 5 
 
 tr~ • c v < v , ■ ; >> » •» \ ' / 
 
 Iqo&gv epspv \saro yr$ ocmv v&lvqs ef cc7ro y&iys. 
 
 Statius puts it very low, but is not fo punctual in thediftance : Hs 
 finds out an Hell beneath the vulgar one, 
 
 Ind. jpecfa tenet vobis qui Tartara, quorum 
 Vos eflis fuperi 
 
 Which fure JEfihylus meant tooby what he calls Tdplatp©* pfyQe v 
 the Scripture terms it utter Dar%nejs i '%y.drr©* encore ^pv, fkZcfpoi' ctkotvS. 
 
 12 There are rwo opinions concerning Samuel's anointing of David t 
 one which is J ofephufe) that he did it privately, and that it was 
 kept as a lecret from David's Father and Brethren 5 the other, that 
 it was done before them, which I rather follow , and therefore we 
 ule the word Boldly : nay, I believe, that moft of the people, and 
 Jonathan, and Saul himfelf knew it, for fo it feems by Saul’s great 
 jealoufie of his being appointed to fucceed him 5 and Jonathan a- 
 vows his know ledge of it to David himfelf 5 and therefore makes 
 a Covenant with him, that he (hould ufe his family kindly when he 
 came to be King . Anointing did properly belong to the Inaugura- 
 tion of High Priejls ^ and was applied to Kings (and likewife even 
 to Prophets) as they were a kind of extraordinary High Priejls, and 
 did often exercife the duties of their Function, which makes me be- 
 lieve that Saul was fo feverely reproved and punifhed 5 not fo much 
 for offering Sacrifice (as an ufurpation of the Priejls Office) as for 
 his infidelity in not ftaying longer for Samuel, as he was appointed 
 by Samuel 5 that is, by God himfelf. But there is a Tradition out of 
 the Rabbins, that the rtianer of anointing Priejls and Kings was dif- 
 ferent, as, that the Oyl was poured in a Croj's ( decujfatim , like the. 
 figure of Ten X) upon the Prieffs heads, and Round in fafhionof 
 a Crown upon their Kings } which I follow here, becaufe it founds 
 more poetically (The royal drops round his enlarged head ) not that 
 I have any Faith in the authority of thole Authors. 
 
 p The Prophecy of Jacob at his death concerning all his Sons, Gets* 
 49. v. 10. The Scepter (hall not depart from Judah, nor the Law- 
 giver from between his feet , til! Shilo come, and to him (hall 
 
2 8 £\£otes upon the fir ft '‘Booh c 
 
 belong the affembling of Nations. All Interpreters agree,, that by 
 Shilo is meant the Mejfias j but almoft all tranOate it differently. 
 The Septmgint, Donec veniant, nd amwflfjjevcL aLlcp, qu£ repo fit a Junt 
 ci . Tertullian , and fome other Fathers, Donec veniat cui repofitum eft. 
 The vulgar Edition , <gui mittendus eji$ fome of the Rabbies, Filins 
 ejiss 5 others, Filius mulieris 5 others, Rex Mejfias 5 others, Sofpi- 
 tator , or Tranquillator 3 ours, and the French Tranflation retain 
 the word Shilo, which I choofe to follow. 
 
 Though none of the Englijh Poets , nor indeed of the ancient 
 r Latin , have imitated Virgil in leaving fometimes half verfes (where 
 the fenle feems to invite a man to that liberty) yet his authority 
 alone is fufheient, efpecially in a thing that looks fo naturally and 
 gracefully : and I am far from their opinion, w ? ho think that Virgil 
 himfelf intended to have filled up thole broken Hemifiiques : There 
 are fome places in him, which I dare almoft fwear have been made 
 up fince his death by the putid officioufnefs of fome Grammarians 5 
 as that of Dido, 
 
 Moriamur inulta ? 
 
 Sed moriamur, ait . 
 
 Mere I am confident Virgil broke off 5 and indeed what could be 
 more proper for the paflion fhe was then in, than to conclude ab- 
 ruptly with that refolution ? nothing could there be well added 5 
 but if there were a neceflity of it, yet that which follows, is of all 
 things that could have been thought on, the moft improper, and 
 the moft falfe, 
 
 . x Sic , fie juvat ire fuh umbras 5 
 
 Which is contray to her fenfe 5 for to have dyed revenged, would 
 have been 
 
 Sic, Jic juvat ire Jub umbras ? 
 
 Shall we dye (fays fhe) unrevenged ? That’s all that can make death 
 unpleafant to us: but however it is neceffary to die. I remember 
 when I made once this exception to a friend of mine, he could not 
 tell how to anfwer it, but by corre&ing the Print, and putting a 
 note of Interrogation after the firft Sic. 
 
 Sic <? ftc juvat ire fub umbras : 
 
 Which does indeeda little mend the fence } but then the exprelfion 
 (to make an Interrogation of Sic alone) is lame, and not like the 
 Latin of Virgil, or of that age: But of this enough. Though the 
 Ancients did not (as I faid) imitate Virgil in the ufe of thefe broken 
 verfes 5 yet that they approved it, appears by Ovid, who (as Se- 
 neca reports in the 16. Controverfie) upon thefe two verfes of Varro, 
 Defierant Utrare canes , urbefiq } filebant , 
 
 Omnia noUis erant placida compofta quiete. 
 
 Said they would have been much better, if the latter part of the 
 fecond verfe had been left out $ and that it had ended, 
 
 Omnia noUis erant 
 
 Which it is pity that Ovid faw not in fome of his own verfes, as 
 moft remarkably in that. 
 
 Omnia pontus erant, deerant quoq, lit tor a ponto, 
 
 All things was Sea, nor had the Sea a Shore. 
 
 Where 
 
2 9 
 
 <j\£otef upon the firft ‘ISoo’ft 
 
 Where he might have ended excellently with 
 
 Omnia pontus erat 
 
 But the addition is fuperfluous, even to ridiculoufnefo, 
 
 15 An Apofiopcefts , like Virgil's 
 
 ghios ego Sed motos prdftat componere flullus. 
 
 This would ill befit the mouth of any thing but a Fury 3 but it 
 were improper for a Devil to make a whole fpeech without forne 
 lies in it 3 fuch are thofe precedent exaltations of the Devil's 
 power, which are moft of them falfe, but not AU , for that were 
 too much even for a Fury 3 nor are her boafts more Falfe, than 
 her threatnings vain, where (he fays afterwards, 'Tis not thy God 
 
 himfelf -yet Seneca ventures to make a man fay as much in 
 
 Her. Fur. 
 
 Ample&ere aras , nullus eripiet Deus 
 Te mihi 
 
 Cain was the firft and greateft example of Envy in this world 5 
 who (lew his Brother , becaufe his Sacrifice was more acceptable to 
 God than his own 3 at which the Scripture fays, He was forely an - 
 gred, and his countenance cafl down. It is hard to guefs what it was 
 in Cain's facrifice that difpleafed God 3 the Septuagint make it to 
 be a defed in the Quality, or Quantity of the Offerings vx, Idv op- 
 TT^po^riyycnSj opFwi Si \jA S\& Aas, 3 If thou haft offered 
 
 right, but not rightly divided, haft thou not finned ? but this 
 Tranflation, neither the Vulgar Edition, nor ours, nor almoft any 
 follows. We muft therefore be content to be ignorant of the 
 caufe, fince it hath pleafed God not to declare it 3 neither is it 
 declared in what manner he flew his Brother : And therefore I 
 had the Liberty to chufe that which I thought moft probable 3 
 which is, that he knockt him on the head with fome great ftone, 
 which was one of the firft ordinary and moft natural weapons of 
 Anger. That this ftone was big enough to be the Monument or 
 Tombftone of Abel, is not fo Hyperbolical, as what Virgil fays in the 
 fame kind of Turnus, 
 
 . Saxum circumjicit ingens , 
 
 Saxum antiquum ingens , campo qui forte jacebat 
 Times agro pofltus , litem ut difcerneret agris , 
 
 Vix illud lehi bk fex cervice fubirent , 
 
 Qualia nunc hominum producit corpora tellus 9 
 Ille manu raptum trepida torquebat in hojlem : 
 
 Which -he takes from Homer , but adds to the Hyperbole , 
 c '0<f’ v SSo dvtye (pS^piev, 
 
 OlOl VUV &OIV, 0 Si [MV 
 
 Ovid isnolefs bold, Jtdetamorph. 12. 
 
 Codice qui mijjo quem vix juga bina moverent 
 
 junci a, Phololeniden a fummo vertice fregit > 
 
 / v ’> - r ' • r * ' % \ 
 
 17 Though the Jews ufed to bury, and not to Burn the Dead, yet 
 it is very probable that fome Nations, even fo anciently, pra&ifed 
 Burning of them, and that is enough to make it allowable for the 
 here to allude to thatcuftom: which if we believe Statius, 
 
 was 
 
 p£cc mMg Si o7©*. II. 21« 
 
e 
 
 
 i 
 
 30 
 
 $\fotes upon the firjl Boo ip 
 
 was received even among the Grecians before-the Theban War . 
 
 18 Belzebub. That one evil Spirit prefided over the others, was not 
 only the received opinion of the Ancients, both Jews and Gen- 
 tiles 5 but appears out of the Scriptures, where he is called, Prince 
 of this world , John 12. 31. Prince of this age , Corinth. 1 1. 6 . Prince 
 of the power of the Air , Ephef. 1 1. 2. Prince of Devils, Mat. 12. 24. 
 by the exprefs name of Belzebub , which is the reafon why I ufe it 
 here. Porphyrins fays his name is Serapis , MrjTnm «W emv>&v 
 0 'Xctpoc'mSj tbt&w XvfxCoAor 0 rpixapw©* ocvcor, tar egiv 0 ov t tq/A 
 sm^elois, vSkli, yri, a.egjt. n nm&s Shipyov. According to which Statius 
 calls him Triplicis mundi fummum , but names him not for he 
 adds : guem fcire nefattum eft . This is the Spirit to whom the two 
 Verfes, cited by the fame Porphyry addrefs themfelves, 
 
 /Acu [jy v ctAaJfovocoy 'Jpjyfy Sictbi/xcc AtA o’) yccs 
 ’Heg/wv uTitvepS-B /ucoyfv %ffovl<ov r epuTrep.Sru. 
 
 O thou Spirit that haft the command of guilty Souls, beneath the 
 vaults of the Air, and above thofe of the Earth $ which I (hould 
 rather read %fkvlwv t vnrtvef*k ; And beneath the Vaults of the 
 Earth too. 
 
 Now for the name of Belzebub , it (ignifies the Lord of Flies 5 
 which fome think to be a name of fcorn given by the Jews to this 
 great Jupiter of the Syrians , whom they called BggA udpmv, id eff. 
 Alee tsQsiviov, becaufe the Sacrifices in this Temple were infefted with 
 multitudes of Flies, which by a peculiar priviledge, notwithftand- 
 ing the daily great number of Sacrifices, never came (for fuch is 
 the Tradition ) into the Temple at Jerufalem . But others believe 
 it was no mock-name, but a Surname of Baal, as he was worlhipt 
 at Ekron, either from bringing or driving away [warms of Flies, 
 with which the Eaftern Countries were often molefted , and their 
 reafon is, becaufe Ahaziah in the time of his ficknefs ( when it is 
 likely he would not rally with the God from whom he hoped for 
 relief) fends to him under the name of Belzebub . 
 jp That even infenfible things are affefted with horrour at the pre- 
 7 fence of Devils, is a frequent exaggeration of ftories of that kind 5 
 and could not well be omitted at the appearance of Poetical Spi- 
 rits, 
 
 Tartaream intendit vocem, qua protinus omne 
 Contremuit nemus, & Jylva intonuere profunda. 
 
 Audiit & Trivia longe lacus, &c. Virg/ ,/Eneid. 7. 
 
 And Seneca nearer to my purpofe in Thyefles : Senftt introitus 
 
 tuos Domus , & nefando tota contaffu horruit Jam tuum mccfta 
 
 pedem Terra gravantur , Cernis ut fontes liquor lntrorfus attus 
 linquat , ut regio vacent, &c. And after , Imo mugit e fun- 
 do folum. Tonat dies ferenus ac totis * domus ut fratfa te&is cre- 
 puit, & moti Lares vertere vultum. When Statius makes the 
 Ghoft of Laius to come to Eteocles to encourage him to the 
 War with his Brother, I cannot underftand why he makes 
 him affume the ftiape of Tireftas, Longavi vatis opacos Induitur 
 
 vultus , 
 
 r' 
 
 i 
 
otes upon the fir ft "Boo ft $ i 
 
 vultus , vocemq 3 vellera, fince at his going away he difcovers 
 
 him to be Laius, 
 
 Ravtos, ac vellera fronti 
 
 Diripuit con fcjfus avum 
 
 Neither do l more approve in this point of Virgil' s method, who in 
 the 7. JEneid , brings AkUo to Turnus at firfb in the (hape of a 
 Pneflefs , 
 
 Fit Caly be Junonis anus } — 
 
 But at her leaving of him, makes her take upon her, her own figure 
 of a F//ry, and fo fpeak to him} which might have been done, me* 
 thinks, as well at firft or indeed better not done at all} for no per- 
 fon is fo improper to perfwade man to any undertaking, as the Devil 
 without a difguife: which is the reafon why I make him here both 
 come in, and go out too in the likenefs of Benjamin ,who as the firft 
 and chief of Saul's Progenitors, might the moft probably feem con- 
 cern’d for his welfare, and the eafilieft be believed and obeyed. 
 
 20 I fancy here that the fatue of Benjamin ftood in manner of a 
 ColoJJus over Saul's Gate } for which perhaps I (hall have fome Critickj 
 fall fevertly upon me} it being the common opinion, that the life 
 of all fiatues , nay, even piftures, or other reprefentations of things 
 to the fight, was forbidden the Jews. I know very well, that in 
 latter ages, when they were moft rigid in obfervingof the Letter of 
 the Law (which they began to be about the time when they (hould 
 have left it) even the civil ufe of Images was not allowed, as now 
 among the Mahometans. But I believe that at firft it was otherwife : 
 
 And firft, the words of the Decalogue' forbid the making of Images , 
 not abfolutely, but with relation to the end of bowing down , or wor - 
 flipping them } and if the Commandment had implyed more, it would 
 bind us Chrifians as well as the Jews , for it is a Moral one. Se- 
 condly, we have feveral examples in the Bible , which (hew that 
 fiatues were in ufe among the Hebrews , nay, appointed by God to be 
 fo, as thofe of the Cherubins , and divers other Figures , for the orna- 
 ment of the Tabernacle and Temple } as that likewife of the Brazen 
 Serpent , and the Lyons upon Solomon* s Throne, and the fiatue of Da- 
 vid, placed by Michol in his Bed, to deceive the Souldiers who 
 came to murder him } of which more particularly hereafter. Vafques 
 fays, that fuch Images only w 7 ere unlawful, as were Erecl<e aut con - 
 fiitutic modo accommodato adorationi, made, erefted, or conftituted 
 in a Manner proper for Adoration } which Modus accommodatus 
 adorationis ,he defines to be, when the Image is made or eredted Per 
 fc, for its own fake, and not as an Appendix or addition for the or- 
 nament of fome other thing} as for example, Statues are Idols , 
 when Temples are made for them ; when they are only made for 
 Temples, they are but Civil Ornaments. 
 
 2 1 Enchanted Vertues. That is, whofe operation is ftopt, as it were, 
 by fome Enchantment. Like that Pagination called by the French, 
 Novement d' efguillette, which hinders the natural faculty of Gene- 
 ration. 
 
 22 So Homer T ’A^cuc&s, ex. er Ayyaoi. 
 
 And Virg. 0 ver 'e Phrygia, neq-, et: ini Phryges ! 
 
 I i The 
 
t 
 
 * ' i 
 
 02 Bfotes upon the firfl ‘‘Bool ^ 
 
 23 The number of years from Benjamin to Sau? s reign 5 not exact- 
 ly : but this is the next whole number, and Poetry will not admit of 
 broken ones : and indeed, though it were in piofe, in fo paflionate 
 a fpeech it were not natural to be pundlual. 
 
 24 In this, and fome like places, I would not have the R eader judge 
 of my opinion by what I fay 5 no more than before in divers ex- 
 preftions about Hell, the Devil , and Envy. It is enough that the Do- 
 ftrine of the Orbs , and the Muftck^ made by their motion had been 
 received very anciently, and probably came from the Eaflern parts 3 
 for Pythagoras (who firft brought this into Greece) learnt there raeft 
 of his Philofophy. And to fpeak according to common opinion, 
 though it be falfe, is fo far from being a fault in Poetry, that it is the 
 cuftom even of the Scripture to do fo 3 and that not only in the 
 Poetical pieces of it 5 as where it attributes the members and paj - 
 jions of mankind to Devils , Angels, and God himfelf 5 where it calls 
 the Sun and Moon the two Great Lights, whereas the latter is in 
 truth one of the fmalleft 5 but is fpoken of, as it Jeents, not as it Is, 
 and in too many other places to be colle&ed here. Seneca upon 
 Virgil's Verfe, 
 
 Tarda venit feris fa&ur a nepotibus umbram, 
 
 Says in his 86. Epiflle, That the Tree will ealily grow up to give 
 (hade to the Planter : but that Virgi did not look upon, what might 
 be fpoken moft Truly, but what moft gracefully 3 and aimed more 
 at Delighting his Readers , than at intruding Husbandmen : Infinite 
 are the examples of this kind among the Poets 3 one there is, that 
 all have from their Mafter Ho :r 3 kis in the defeription of a Tern - 
 pejlfz common place that they all ambitioufly labour in) where they 
 make all the four winds blow at once, to be fure to have enough 
 to fwell up their Verfe, 
 
 Una Eurisfq 3 Hotufqy ruunt, creberqj procellis 
 
 Africus And Statius , 
 
 Qualiter hinc gelidus Boreas, hinc nubifer Eurus. 
 
 And fo all the reft. Of this kind 1 take thofe Verfes to be of Sta- 
 tius to Sleep in his fifth Sylva, which are much commended, even 
 by Scaliger himfelf, 
 
 Jacet omne pecus, volucrefq 3 flr<cquc, 
 
 Et flmulant fejfbs curvata cacumina fomnos. 
 
 Hitherto there is no fcruplq 3 for he fays only, The bowing Moun- 
 tains feem to nod. He addes, 
 
 Nec trucibus fluviis idem fonus occidit horror 
 ALquoris, & terris maria inclinata quiefeunt 3 
 Which is falfe, but fo well laid, that it were ill changed for the 
 Truth. 
 
 25 lam forry that it is neceffary to admonifh the moft part of Rea- 
 
 ders , that it is not by negligence that this verfe is fo loofe, long, and 
 as it were, V ift 3 it is to paint in the number the nature of the thing 
 which it deferibes, which I would have obferved in divers other 
 places of this Poem, that elfe will pafs for very carelefs verfes: as be- 
 fore, And overruns the neighboring fields with violent courfe. In the x 
 fecond Book, Down a precipice deep, down he cafls them all and, 
 
 And 
 
tJ \foUs upon tbs fir ft ''Bo (ft. 
 
 33 
 
 2 6 
 
 And fell adownhis Jboulders with loo fe care. In the 3. Brajs was his 
 Helmet, his Boots Brafs , and ore His brcafl a thick, plate of Jtrong 
 Brafs he wore. In the 4. Life Jo we fair Pine ore-looking all th' ig- 
 noble r Wood 3 and, Some from the Rocks cajl themfelves down head- 
 long 3 and many more : but it is enough to inftance in a few. The 
 thin^ i% that the difpofition of words and numbers fhould be fuch, 
 as that out of the order and found of them, the things themfelves 
 may be ieprefented. This the Greeks were not fo accurate as to 
 bind themfelves to 3 neither have our Englifij Poets obferved it. for 
 ought lean find. The Latins (qui Mufas colunt feveriores) fome- 
 times did it, and their Prince , Hr gif always. In whom the ex- 
 amples are innumerable, and taken notice of by all judicious men, 
 fo that it is fuperfluous to colled them. 
 
 Eternity is defined by Boet. Lib. 5. de confolat. Interminabilis 
 vitee tota fimul & perfe&a pojfejjio. The whole and perfed poffef- 
 fion, ever all at once, of a Being without beginning or ending. 
 Which Definition is followed by Tho. Aquin. and all the Schoolmen 3 
 who therefore cd\\ eternity Nunc flans, a Jl an ding Now, to diftinguifh 
 it fiom that Now, which is a difference of time , and is always in 
 
 27 Seneca , methinks, in his 58. Epift. expreflfes this more divinely 
 than any of the Divines: Manent enim cuntla, non quia reter no. 
 Junt, fid quia defenduntur cura regentis. Immortalia tutore non 
 egeni , hac confirvat Artifex , fragilitatem materine vi fua vincens. 
 And the Schoolmen all agree (except, I think, Durandus) that an 
 immediate concourfe of God is required as well now for the Con - 
 fervation , as at firft it was neceffary for the Creation of the World, 
 and that the nature of. things is not left to it felf to produce any 
 adion, without a concurrent ad of God 5 which when he was 
 pleafed to omit, or fufpend,the fire could not burn the three young 
 men in the red hot Furnace. 
 
 28 The Book of Tobias fpeaks of Seven Angels fuperiour to all the 
 reft 3 and this has been conftantly believed according to the Let- 
 ter. by the ancient Jews and Chrifiians. Clem. Alcxand. Stromat. 
 6. 'Bailee tvs r fjorfisvv Stvociuv lycvras Trpdhfivvs ecyfg Ays. The Se- 
 ven that have the greateft power, the Firjl-born Angels, Tob . 
 12. 15. Iam Raphael , one of the Seven holy Angels, which pre- 
 fent the Prayers of the Saints, and which go in and out before the 
 glory of the Holy one 3 and this Daniel may very well be thought 
 to mean, when he fays, 10. 13. Lo Michael one of the chiefefi 
 Princes came to help me. That fome Angels were under the com- 
 mand of others, may be colleded out of Zechary 2.3. where orte 
 Angel commands another 3 Run, jpeaf to this young man, &c. and 
 out of Rev. 12. 7. where Michael and his Angels , fought with the 
 Dragon and his Angels. The number of juft feven fupream Angels , 
 Grotius conceived to be drawn from the /even chief Princes of 
 the Perfian Empire 3 but ! doubt whether the feven there were 
 fo ancient as this Tradition. Tbrte names of thefe feven the Scrip- 
 ture affords, Michael , Gabriel , and .Raphael 3 but for the other 
 four , 0 riphid , Z uharhf Sam id , and Anael , let the Authors 
 
 I i 2 of 
 
 1 
 
g\£oter upon the firft ‘Book,. 
 
 of them anfwer, as like wife for their presiding over the Seven 
 Planets. 
 
 The Verfes attributed to Orpheus have an expreffion very like 
 this of th e Angels. 
 
 T<£><& Srpcvco orv^pevh rmpe^xoiv on>X 
 ^ Ay SeXoiy oioi ydpwiXt cos oiuvlcc t?A etn^i. 
 
 So Gabriel is called Luke i. 19. 0 '7mpesyvxt)$ ovumov tu <£hv. He that 
 jlands before the face of God. And Daniel had his vifion inter- 
 preted by one, rffi tswywv, of the Jlanders before God. 
 
 The Poets are fo civil to Jupiter , as to fay no lefs when he either 
 Spoke , or fo much as Nodded. Horn. 
 
 Meyxv S’ IXtX&yv ”OX vyeonv. 
 
 Virgil. Annuit , & totum nutu tremefecit Olympum. 
 
 30 
 
 31 
 
 
 Stat. Placido quatiens tamen omnia vultu : 
 
 Friends in the plural, as an intimation of the Trinity 3 for which 
 caufe heufes fometimes fVe 9 and fometimes 1 , and Ale. 
 
 I do not like Homer's repeating of long Meffages juft in the fame 
 words : but here I thought it neceflary, the Mefiage coming from 
 God , from whofe words no creature ought to vary, and being 
 delivered by an Angela who was capable of doing it punctually. 
 To have made him fay a long, eloquent, or figurative fpeech, like 
 that before of Envy to Saul , would have pleafed perhaps fome 
 Readers , but would have been a crime againft irptinvy that is, 
 • 
 
 Timotheus by Mufick. enflamed and appeafed Alexander 
 to what degrees he pleafed * that a Muftcian in Denmark, by the 
 fame Art enraged King Ericius , even to the ftriking of all his 
 Friends about him } that Pythagoras taught by the fame means a 
 woman to ftop the fury of a young man, who came to fet her 
 Houfe on fire 5 that his Scholar Empedocles hindred another from 
 murdering his Father, when the Sword was drawn for that pur- 
 pofe j that the fiercenefs of Achilles his nature was allayed by 
 playing on the Karp (for which caufe Homer gives him nothing 
 elfe out of the (polls of Eetion ) that Damon by it reduced wild 
 and drunken Youths 5 and Afelcpiades , even feditious multitudes 
 to Temper and Reafon $ that the Corybantes , and effeminate Pritfts 
 of Cybele , could be animated by it to cut their own flefh (with 
 many more examples of the like kind ) is well known to all 
 men converfant among Authors. Neither is it fo wonderful, 
 that fudden paffions {hould be raifed or fuppreft (for which caufe 
 Pindar fays to his Harp , ToV v^potwev QCewv&s. Thou 
 
 quenchejl the raging thunder. ) But that it ftiould cure fetled Di- 
 leafes in the Body, we ftiould hardly believe, it we had not both 
 Humane 3nd Divine Teftimony for it. Plin. Lib. 28. Chap. 1. 
 Dixit Homerus profluvium fanguinis vulnerato fmore Ulyjfem inbi - 
 
 Decency 
 
 That 
 
otes upon the fir (l c Bool\. 
 
 • * 
 
 buiffe carmine , Theophrajius IJchiadicos fanari, Cato prodidit luxatis 
 mem bis carmen auxiliari . Mar. Varro Podagris^ Where Carmen is to 
 be underftood as joined with mufical notes. For the cure of the 
 Sciaticli, Theophrajius commends the Phrygian Muficl^ upon the Pipe , 
 and A. Gell. for giving eafe to it, Z)t memoria proditum eft , as it is 
 (fays he) reported. Apollon, in his Book de Miris fpeaks thus, 
 ft is worthy admiration, that which Theophrajius writes in his 
 Treatife of Enthufiafm , that Mufu\ cures many paftions and di- 
 ieafes, both of the Mind and Body, Ka^hx^p X&iTre^vjjj.aA, <p ys xj 
 <rds ’On [JLccxpov yilvoftyla/; r Aiocvoicia ertsdous, ictrnxi fi> (pyAv y yffau'” 
 a>joi5 A) 'I %ict£k d) TmArficcv. And the fame Author witneffes, that 
 many in his time, elpecially the Thebans , ufed the Pipe for the 
 cure of feveral fickneftes, which Galen calls qjJa, vXAv 'tottu, Super 
 loco affc&o tibia canere 3 or, Loca dolentia decantare. So Xenocrates 
 is faid to have cured mad men , Terpander and Arion divers 
 other Maladies. But if it were not for this example of David , we 
 fhould hardly be convinced of this Phyjkk_, unlefs it be in the 
 particular cure of the Tarantifm , the experiments of which are 
 too notorious to be denied or eluded, and afford a probable ar- 
 gument that other Difeafes might naturally be expelled fo too, 
 but that we have either loft, or not found out yet the Art. For 
 the explication of the reafonof thefe cures, the Magicians flye to 
 their Colcodea 3 the Platoniques , to their Anima Mundi 3 the Rab- 
 bles to Fables and Prodigies not worth the repeating. Baptifta 
 Porta in his Natural Magicf, feems to attribute it to the Magical 
 Power of the Inftrument , rather than of the Mafic kj, for he fays 
 that Madnefs is to be cured by the* harmony of a Pipe made of Hel- 
 lebore, becaule the Juice of that Plant is held good for that pur- 
 pofe 3 and the Sciatick by a Mufical Inftrument made of Poplar 5 
 becaufe of the virtue of the Oyl of that Tree to mitigate thofe 
 kind of pains. But thefe, and many Sympathetical experiments 
 arefo falfe, that I wonder at the negligence or impudence of the 
 Relators. Picus Mirand. fays, That Mufict^ moves the Spirits 
 toad upon the Soul, as Medicines do to operate upon the Body, 
 and that it cures the Body by the Soul, as Phyftcl^ does the Soul by 
 the Body. I conceive the true natural reafon to be, that in the fame 
 manner as Mufical founds move the outward air, fo that does the 
 Inward, and that the Spirits, and they the Humours (which are the 
 (eat of Difeafes) by Condenfation , Rarefa&ion, Dijjipation, or ex- 
 pulfion of Vapours, and by Vertue of that Sympathy of Proportion , 
 which I exprete afterwards in Verfe. For the producing of the 
 efFed defired, Athan. Kircherus requires four conditions : 1. Har- 
 mony. 2. Number and Proportion. 3. Efficacious and pathetica! 
 words joined with the Harmony (which (by the way) were fully 
 and diftindly underftood in the Muftck^ of the Ancients.) And 
 4. An adapting of all thefe to the Conftitution, Difpofition, and 
 Inclinations of the Patient. Of w T hich, and all things on this fub- 
 jed, he is well worth the diligent reading, Liber de Arte magnlt 
 Con font & Doffoni, 
 
 S'caliger 
 

 Notes upon the firft 73 oo!^ 
 
 33 Scaliger in his Hjpercrit. blames Claudian for his txcurlion con- 
 cerning the burning of JEtna, and for enquiring the caufe of it in 
 his own perfon. If he had brought in, fays he, any other perfon 
 making the relation, I (hould endure it. I think he is too Hyper- 
 critical upon fo (hort a Digrejjion ; howeyer, I chufe here upon this 
 new occafion, by the bye to make a new fiiort Invocation of the 
 Mufe, and that which follows, As firft a various unform'd, is to be 
 underftood as from the perfon of the JUufe : For this fecond Invo- 
 cation upon a particular matter, I have the authority of Homer and 
 Virgil 5 which neverthelefs I (hould have omitted, had the digreffi- 
 on been upon any fubjedt but Mufick. Horn. 11 2. 
 
 c Ecr-rnTg vvv fjyi Macui OAuacrra. dbofcp * 
 
 ‘<v> ^ S' o / 3 ’ ' v '"7 
 
 I j Weis y) <Osca e<p*e, 'juxgtsz tf, n 'trlvicc. 
 
 Hj wfis £ jcAs©* olo v cLxvoy.tv, tl 1 \Tpjiv. 
 
 And Virgil twice in the fame Book (oEn. 7.) 
 
 Nunc age qui Reges , Erato 
 
 Tu Vat urn, tit Diva mone , &c. 
 
 And a little after, 
 
 Pandite nunc Helicon a De<e, cantufqj ciete- 
 
 34 
 
 Et meminiftis enim Diva, & memorare pot eft is. 
 
 Ad nos vix tenuis fam£ perlabitnr aura . 
 
 I have feen an excellent faying of St* AugufiVs, cited to this 
 purpofe , Ordinem fteculorum tanquam pulcherrimum Carmen ex 
 quibufdam quaft antithetis honeftavit Deus - flcut contraria con- 
 trariis oppoftta fermonis pulchritdinem reddunt , ita quadam non 
 verborum fed rerum eloquentia contrariorum oppofiiione feculi pul- 
 chritudo componitur. And the Scripture witnelles, that the World 
 was made in Number , Weight , and Adeafure 5 which are all qualities 
 of a good Poem. This order and proportion of things is the true 
 Muftck^ of the World, and not that which Pythagoras , Plato , Tully , 
 Macrob. and many of the Fathers imagined, to arife audibly from 
 the circumvolution of the Heavens. This is their Muftcal and loud 
 voice, of which David fpeaks, Pfalm 19. 1 he Heavens declare the 
 glory of the Lord — There is no fpeech nor Language where their voice 
 is not heard. Their found is gone out through aU the Earth , and 
 
 their words to the end of the world Or as our TranOation nearer 
 
 the Hebrew (they fay) renders it, Their Line is gone out, Linea vel 
 amujjis eorum: to (hew the exadtnefs of their proportion. 
 
 Even this diftindtion of founds in the art of Mufick, is thought 
 by fometo have been invented from the confederation of the ele- 
 mentary qualities : In imitation of which, Orpheus is faid to have 
 formed an Harp with four Brings, and fet them to different Tunes : 
 The firft to Hypate , to anfwer to the Fire. The fecond to Parhy- 
 pate, for the Water. The third to Par anate , for the Air. And the 
 fourth to Nete, for the Earth. 
 
 3 6 Becaufe the Moon is but 28 days, and Saturn above 29 years in 
 finidiing his courfe. 
 
 37 v There is fo much to be faid of this fubjedt, that, the beft way is 
 to fay nothing of it. See at large Kircherus in his 1 o. Book de Arte 
 Confoni & Diffoni. 
 
 ■ ' - ' The 
 
 35 
 
7A( otes upon the fir ft 'iBook 
 
 37 
 
 g3 The Weapon-Salve. 
 
 32 The common Experiment of Sympathy in two ZJnzfins, which is 
 mott eafily perceived by laying a draw upon one of the firings, 
 which will prefently move upon touching the other. 
 
 40 Here may feem to want connexion betyveen this verfe and the 
 Pfulm. It is an EUeipfis , or leaving fomething to be underftocd by 
 the Reader 3 to wit, That David fung to his Harp, before Saul, the 
 enfuing Pfalm. Of this kind is that in Virgil , 
 
 j Jungimtss hofpitio dextras , & tc&a fu him us. 
 
 Templa Dei fixo venerabar flructa vetufto , 
 
 Da propriam Thymbraee domum , &c. 
 
 Where is underftood Et venerans dixi , or feme fuch wojds, which 
 tnethinks, are more gracefully omitted, than they could have been 
 fupolyed by any care. Though Scaliger be of another mind in 
 the 4 Bock of Poefie, where he (ays, that there are feme places in 
 Virgil , where the fenfe is difeontinued and interrupted by the leaving 
 out of fome verfes, through the overmuch leverity of his judgment 
 (mvrofjjtmo judicio) with an intent of putting in better in their 
 place 3 and he inftances in theft, where for my part l fhould be for- 
 ry that J irgil himfelf had filled up the gap. The like EUeipfis is in 
 his 5. Book, upon the death of Palinurus , 
 
 Multa gemens cajuq 3 animum percuffus amici , 
 
 0 nimnm ccelo & pelago con fife fireno, 
 
 Nudus in ignota Palinure jacebis arena. 
 
 And fuch is that in Statins , 2 Theb . 
 
 * -Ni tu Tritonia Virgo 
 
 Conflio dignata virum.— Sate gente fuperbi 
 Oeneos , abfentes cui dudum vincere 1 bebas 
 
 Annuimus r 
 
 And why do I infhnce in thefe, fince the examples are fo frequent 
 in all Poets ? 
 
 4! For this liberty of inferting an Ode into an HeroufiPoem, I have 
 no authority or example 3 and therefore like men who venture 
 upon a new coaft I muft run the hazard of it. We muft fbmetimes 
 be bold to innovate, 
 
 Nec minimum meruere decus veftigia Graeca 
 An ft defer er e Hor. 
 
 42 Pfal» 58. 5. 2 bey are like the deaf Adder , that fioppeth her enr 9 
 which will not hearken to the voice of the Charmer , charm he never 
 fo wifely. So Jerem. 8. 17. Behold 1 will fend Serpents , Cockatrices 
 among you , which will not be charmed : Serpentes Regulos quibus non 
 ejl Incantatio : which Texts are ill produced by the Magic ^mongers 
 for a proof of the power of Charms : For the firft is plainly againft 
 them, Adder being there taken for Serpent in genera), not for one 
 Species of Serpents, which alone had a quality of refitting Incanta- 
 tions : And the other rs no more than if the Prophet fnould have 
 faid, Though you pra&ife Magic k Arts, like other Nations 3 and 
 think like them, that you can charm the very Serpents , yet you (hall 
 find with all your Mtgick y no remedy againft thofe which 1 (hall 
 fend among you 3 for nothing in all the whole humane, or diabo- 
 lical 
 
 
3 § 
 
 ,j\f\)tes upon the firfi < Boo\. 
 
 lical Million of Magicl^ was fo much boafted of as the power of 
 Spells upon Serpents , they being the Creatures moft antipathetical 
 and terrible to humane nature. 
 
 Frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis. Virg. 
 Vipereas rumpo verbis & carmine fauces. Ovid. 
 
 lnqt) pruinofo coluber difienditur arvo , 
 
 Viperei coeunt abrupto corpore nodi, 
 
 Humanoq , cadit Serpens affata veneno . Lucan. 
 
 43 Nothing is more notorious ( for it was accounted one of the 
 
 wonders of the World) than the mw®* or ren- 
 
 dred by the Latines , Hortus penfilis, at Babylon, which was planted 
 on the top of prodigious buildings, made for that purpofe, fifty 
 Cubits high, fourfquare, and each fide containing four Acres of 
 ground. It was planted with all forts of Trees, even the greateft, 
 and adorned with many Banquetting-Houfes. The particular de- 
 fcription fee in Diodor. Sicul. /. 1 1, and out of him in gu. Curt. 1 . 5. 
 It was built, they fay, by a Syrian King (to wit, Nabuchodonofor, for 
 fo Jofephus , 1 . 10. and Suidas exprefly fays) in favour of a Perftan 
 Wife of his, who as Curt . fpeaks, Defiderio nemorum fylvarumq , 
 
 in Campeflribus locis virum compulit nature genium amoenitate hu- 
 jus operis imitari. And D. Chryfoftomc mentions another of the like 
 kind at Stiff in his Sermon of Riches , OvV dp ffoTJo ont e du- 
 
 Sbdfjgvzs ccvgVoi ccp-yves, uV dvrev "Xuavis mcjH^eicruv ciyySbfjdmooiv, os 
 %v, cds (poem, fjjeieup©- dims. Thefe were miracles of their kind * but 
 the ufe of Gardens made upon the top of Palaces, was very frequent 
 among the ancients. Seneca Trag. AH. 3. Thyeft. 
 
 Nulla culminibus meis Impofita nutat fylva. Sen. Epift. 1 22. 
 
 Non vivunt contra naturam qui pomaria in furnmis turribus ferunt <? 
 quorum filvce in teUis domorum ac faftigiis nutant , inde ortis radici- 
 bus , quo improbe cacumina egijfent. Plin. In tetfa olim Rom<e J can- 
 debant filvce 3 Which luxury, as all others, came out of Afia into 
 Europe 5 and that it was in familiar ufe among the Hebrews, even 
 in David's time, feveral Texts of Scripture make me conje&ure, 
 2 Sam. 2 6. 22. 2 hey fpread for Abfalom a Tent upon the Top of the 
 Houfe, and Abfalom went unto his Fathers Concubines in the fight of all 
 Ifrael. 2 Sam. 11. 2. A*nd it came to pafs in an evening , that David 
 arofe from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the Kings Houfe 5 
 and from the roof he favo a woman wafhing her felf. And 1 Sam. 9. 25. 
 Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the Houfe. And again, 
 verfe 26. • 
 
 44 I Sam. 19. 13. AndM\c\\o\ tookan image , and put it in the bed , and 
 
 put a pillow of goats hair for his Boljier , and covered it with a Cloath . 
 An Image , The Hebrew is Theraphim, a word much difputed of, and 
 hardly ever ufed in a good fenfe, but here. The Images that Rachel 
 ftole from Laban , are fo called 5 which there the Septuagint tran- 
 flate by "Eihxov, in other places by or Oe^ycfiv, fome- 
 
 times by yh vTrhV, here by wPcltpiov, the moft improperly of all, 
 Htrje , or the reprefentations of the Dead , laid upon Herfes. The 
 Latin ufes Simulachrum , or Statua, and Aquila , The 
 
 fancy of jofephus is extraordinarily Rabbinical. He fays, that Michol 
 
 put 
 
iAftotes upon the fir ft ‘Boob % 
 
 pm between the cloaths the Liver of a fhe-Goar, newly cut out, 
 and (hew'd the palpitation of it under the coverlet to theSouIdiers, 
 faying that it was David. and that he had not flept ail night : Row 
 come fuch men as he to have fuch edd dreams > Ribera upon Hojea 
 fays thus, What Statue was it that (he placed in the bed ? Certain- 
 ly no Idol, for thofe were not to be found in the Houfe of Davids 
 nor any Agronomical Image, made for the reception of celeftial 
 influences, which R. Abraham believes, for thofe were not allow- 
 able among the Jews , but (he made fome figure like a man, out of 
 feveral cloaths, which (he ftuft with other things, like Scar-crows , 
 or thofe figures prefenced to wild Bulls in the Theaters, or thofe 
 that are placed upon great mens Herfes. And (he put the skin of a 
 file- Goat about his head, to reprefent his red hair $ which laft ismoft 
 ridiculous, and all before only improbable : For what time had (he 
 to make up fuch a Puppet .<? I do therefore believe, that (he had a 
 ftatueof David in the houfe, and laid that in the bed, pretending 
 that he was fpeechlefs $ and even this deceit I am forced to help, with 
 all the circumftances I could imagine, efpecially with that moft ma- 
 terial one, And for tllimprejjion God prepared their fenfe. And now 
 concerning the Civil uje of Images among the Jews, 1 have declared 
 my opinion before, which whether it be true or no, is not of impor- 
 tance in Poetry , as long as it hath any appearance of probability. 
 
 45^ It was a neceffary condition required in all Sacrifices, that they 
 (hould be without Blemifh. See Levit, i. and this was obferved too 
 among the Heathen. 
 
 4 6 Rama , or Ramatha , and Naioth , were not feveral Towns, but 
 Naioth was a place in, or clofe by Rama,^ where there were wont 
 to be folemn Religious meetings. Adricomr* 
 
 47 The Defcription of the Prophets College at Naioth , looks at firfl: 
 
 fight, as if I had taken the pattern of it from ours at the TJniver - 
 fities 5 but the truth is, ours (as many other Chrijlian cuftoms) 
 were formed after the example of the Jews. They were not pro- 
 perly called Prophets , or foretellers of future things, but Religious 
 perfons, who feparated themfelves from the bufinefs of the world, 
 to employ their time in the contemplation and praife of God j their 
 manner of praifinghim was by (ingingof Hymns, and playing upon 
 Mufical Inftruments : for which caufe in i Sam. io. 5. they carri- 
 ed with them a Pfaltery , Tabret , Pipe, and Harp } Thefe it is pro- 
 bable were inftituted by Samuel , for the 19, and 20. they faw the 
 company of Prophets prophefying (that is, faw them together in 
 Divine Service) and (landing, as appointed over them, Stan- 
 
 tem fuper eos $ which the Chaldee interprets Stantem docentem eor , 
 Preaching to them. Thele are the firfl Religious Orders heard of 
 in Antiquity, for whom David afterward compofed Pfalms. They 
 are called by the Chaldee Scribes , becaufe they laboured in reading, 
 writing, learning and teaching the Scriptures 5 and they are cal- 
 led Filii Prophetarum, as 2 Kings 2. 3. The Sons of the Prophets 
 that were at Bethel 5 and v. 5. the Sons of the Prophets that were 
 at Jericho: out of which may be collected, that Colleges of them 
 were founded in feveral Towns. They are thus named ( Sons of 
 v . • K k the . 
 
 1 
 
40 
 
 I AToter upon the firjl c Boo\^ 
 
 the Prophets ) cither because they were taught by Samuel, Elias , 
 El ft a, or Tome of the great and properly called Prophets , or in the 
 fenfe that the Greeks term Phyficians , ’iccfpw 7 rousts, The £0«/ of 
 the P hyftcians j and the Hebrews , Ale», the So»/ 0/ Ale* 5 but I ra- 
 ther believe the fornftr, and that none but the young Scholars or 
 Students are meant by this appellation. To this alludes S. Matth. 
 ii. 19. Wifdom is juftified of her Children. And the Majiers were 
 called Fathers , as Elfta to Elijah , 2 King. 2. 12. My bather , ^ 
 Father , 
 
 48 For the feveral Sprinklings and Purifications by water, com- 
 manded in the Law of Mofes, and fo often mentioned in the Books 
 of Exod. Levit. Numb, and Deuteron. the omUIion of w hich, in fome 
 cafes, waspuniffied with no lefs than death, Exod. 30. 20. 
 
 49 I have learned much of my Alafters, or Rabbies, moiQ of my Com- 
 panions , moft of my Scholars , was the fpeech of an ancient Rabbi 5 
 from whence we may collect this diftinftion, of Scholars , Comp a - 
 nionsy and Rabbies , or Doctors. The chief Doctors fate in the Syna- 
 gogues , or Schools , in high Chairs (perhaps like Pulpits ) the Compa- 
 nions upon Benches below them, and the Scholars on the ground at 
 the feet of their Teachers, from whence S. Paul is faid to be brought 
 up at the feet of Gamaliel $ and Mary fate at Jefus h’xsfeet. and heard 
 his word, Luke io. 39. After the Scholars had made good progrtfs 
 in learning they were Elected and made, by impofition of hand?. 
 Companions to the Rabbies , like our Fellows of Co Hedges to the Ala- 
 fters , which makes me call them TtfEleff Companions. 
 
 50 The Furniture of the Prophet El ft as Chamber, 2 Kings 4. 10. 
 
 51 ft was the ancient cuftom to cover the Seats and Table-Beds 
 with Beads skins : So Eum<evs places Dlyfes, Odyfs. 14. 
 
 ’Esog/tffg v F ’FFi tovSol* cf« ay £/©< oLiy>$. 
 
 Collocavit fuper pellem villofe filvejtris capr<e. 
 
 So Euander JEneas , 8 JLneid. 
 
 Pr<ecipuumqj toro & villoft pelle Leonis 
 
 Accipit JEneam 
 
 Ovid, gui poterat pelles addere , dives erat. 
 
 5 2 * There is a great difpute among the Learned, concerning the an- 
 tiquity of this cuftom of Lying down at meat , and moft of the 
 Critiques are againft me, who make it here fo ancient. That the Ro- 
 mans at firft ufed fitting at table, is affirmed by Pliny j that the Gre- 
 cians did fo too, appears by Atheneeus, l. 7. c. 1$. That in our Savi- 
 ours time (long before which the Romans and Grecians bad chang- 
 ed fitting into lying ) the Jem lay down is plain from the feveiai 
 words ufed in theNewTeftament upon this occafion, as dyanrM»v % 
 Luke 22 . ccyccK&cfrcH) Alatt. 26. yalccx. 6 i<&aA Lukg 14* dvayJAi^rivoa Matt. 
 14. fo John is faid to lean on Jefus bofom, Joh. 13. 23. that is, lay 
 next to him at the Feaft $ and alluding to this cuftom, Chrifi is faid 
 to be in the bofom of his Father, and the Saints in the bofom of Abra- 
 ham. Some think the Jews took this fafhion from the Romans af- 
 ter they were fubdued by them, but that is a miftake 5 for the Ro- 
 mans rather took it from the Eaftem people : even in the Prophets 
 time we have teftimony of this cuftom, Ezek. 23. 41. Thou fat eft 
 
 up on 
 
'j\fotes upon the fir ft ‘Jyooft 4 1 
 
 upon a Jiately bed, and a table prepared before it , Amos 2. 8. They lay 
 them fives upon cloaths laid to pledge by every Altar 5 that is, they uftd 
 garments laid to pledge inftead of Beds , when at the Altars thty 
 eat things facrificed to Idols. What was the fafhion in Samuel's 
 time, is not certain 5 it is probable enough for my turri, that 
 tion was then in practice, and long before 5 for the plucking off 
 their (boos when they went to Table , feems to imply it, that be- 
 ing done to prefer ve the Beds clean. And why had the Jews a ftriCt 
 particular command to have their (hoos on their feet at the eating 
 of the Paffover , but becaufe they were wont to have their (hoos 
 off at other meals > 
 
 5 3 There is no matter capable of receiving the marks of Letters , that 
 hath not been made ufe of by the Ancients for that purpofe. ' The 
 twelve Tables of the Roman Laws were ingraven in Brafs } fo was 
 the League made with the Latins , Liv. Dec. j. Lib. 2. and Talus 
 among the Cretans was feigned to be a Man made of Brafs by Vul- 
 can (of whom they report many ridiculous flories) becaufe he car- 
 ried about in that Country the Laws graven in Brafs, and put them 
 (everely in execution. Paufan. in Boetic. makes mention of the whole 
 Book of Heftod ' s fipuepuv, written in Lead j which kind of 
 
 plates Sueton, in Nerone calls Chartam plumbeam. Leaden paper. 
 
 This fafhion was in ufe before Job ' s time 3 for he fays, Job 19. 23, 
 
 24. Oh that my words were graven with an Iron pen and Lead in the 
 Rock^for ever. Rock , that is, the Leaden plates fhould be placed 
 upon Rocks or Pillars. They likewife anciently engraved the very 
 Pillars themfelves} as thofe two famous ones of Enoch , one of 
 which was extant even in Jofephns his days. And lamblicus avows, 
 that he took the principles of his myftical Philofophy from the Pil- 
 lars of Mercurie. Plin.l. 7. 5 6. reports, that the Babylonians and Af 
 fyrians write their Laws in Cottis lateribus , that is, Pillars of Brick* 
 
 Jliofes his in Stone. Horace , 
 
 Non incifa notis marmora publicis. 
 
 But of this kind of writing, 1 was notjto make mention in a private 
 Library . They ufed alfo of old Plates or Leaves of Ivory ; from 
 whence they were termed Libri Elephantini , not as fome conceive, 
 from their bignefs. Mart. 
 
 Nigra tibi niveum littera pingat ebur. 
 
 As for Wood and Slates , we may eafily believe, that they and all 
 other capable materials were written upon. Of thin (havings of 
 wood the Longobards at their (irfl: coming into Italy, made Leaves 
 to write on : fome of which Pancirollus had feen and read in his 
 time. 
 
 54 See Plin. 1 . 13. il. From whence Letters are called Phznicean , 
 not from the Country , but from <po?wf, a Palm-tree. But Guiland. 
 de Papyro , thinks that Phcenicea in Pliny is not the fame with 
 and has a long difeourfe to prove that Palm Leaves were not in ufe 
 for writing, and that we (hould read Malvarum inftead of Palma- 
 rum, which is a bold correction upon very flight grounds. It is 
 true, they did anciently write too upon Mallows , as appears by 
 IJider. and the Epigram of Cinna cited by him : 
 
 - Kk 2 H<sc 
 
42 
 
 - £\[otes ufoti the firft \Bool]. ' 
 
 Hecc tibi Arateis multum invigilati incernis 
 Carmina queis ignes novimus £thereos 9 
 L<evis in aridulo Malv£ dejcripta liiello 
 P rufi ac a vexi munera navicula . 
 
 But this was a raritie 3 for Mallows are too foft to be proper for 
 that ufe. At Athens the names of thefe who were expelled the 
 Senate, were written in fome kind cf Leafy from whence this fen- 
 tence was called ’Ex^uAAop/p^s, as die names of thofe banifht by 
 the people were in Shells , but at Syracufie, it was in Olive Leaves , 
 and called nfloAuc^oi ^70 eA o ). oa . And in this manner 
 
 wrote Virgih Sibylla , 
 
 Foliis tantum ne carmina manda. 
 
 Pliny teftifies that the Books of A uma continued fo long a time 
 under ground unperifhed, by having been rubbed over with the 
 Oyl of Cedar. Horace , de Ar. Po. 
 
 > Speramus carmina fingi 
 
 PoJfie linenda Cedro , aut Uvi fiervanda Cuprcffo .<? 
 
 Ovid. Nec Cedro charta notetur 3 and, 
 
 • Cedro digna locutus 3 
 
 Who fpeaks things worthy to be preferved always by Cedar Oyl $ 
 which w r as likewife in the Embalming of dead Bodies. 
 
 55 Of Linen Books Livy makes often mention : They were called 
 Libri Lintei, and were Publique Records 3 by others termed too 
 Lintea Mapp£y and Carbafina voluminay Silken Volumes, Claud . 
 de B. Get. 
 
 --J?uid carmina pvficat 
 
 Fatidico cuftos Romani carbafias £vi. 
 
 And Sym. 1 . 4. Epift. Monitus Cumanos lintea texta fiumpficrunt . And 
 Pliny fays, the Parthians ufed to have Letters woven in their 
 cloaths. 
 
 55 Tender Barky. The thin kind of skin between the outward 
 Bark and the body of the Tree. The paper ufed to this day in China 
 and fome part of the Indies , feeras to be made of the fame kind of 
 fluff. The name of Liber , a Book, comes from heud'e. , 
 
 Some the / harp Jlyle, &c. Thefe waxen Table-books were very 
 ancient, though I am not fure there were any of them in the 
 Library at Naioth. Iliad. 6 . Proetus fent a Letter in fuch Table- 
 books by Bellerophon. The Stile or Pen with which they wrote, 
 was at firft made of Iron, but afterwards that was forbid at Rome, 
 and they ufed Jiyles of Bone 3 it was made (harp at one end to 
 cut the Letters, and flat at the other to deface them 3 from whence 
 ftylum vertere. 
 
 5 6 Pliny fays that Paper (fo called from the Name of the Reed of 
 which it was made) or Charta (termed fo of a Town of that name 
 in the Marfhes of Egypt ) was not found out till after the building 
 of Alexandria 3 and Parchment, not till Eumenes his time, from 
 whole Royal City of Pergamus it was denominated Pergamena . 
 In both which he is deceived 3 for Herod in Terpfi. fays, that 
 the lonians ftill call Paper slyns , becaufe formerly W'hen they 
 wanted Paper, they were forced to make ufe of skins inftead of it. 
 
 See 
 
4 
 
 / 
 
 57 
 
 59 
 
 6 o 
 
 6 1 
 
 See Melch. Gin l and. de Pap. upon this argument. And the Dipihcra 
 of the Grecians were nothing elfe but the skins of beads $ that 
 wherein Jupiter is feigned to keep his Memorials of all things was 
 made of the fhe-Goat that gave him milk. And many are of opi- 
 nion, that the famous Golden- Fleece was nothing but a Book writ- 
 ten in a Sheep-Skin. Diod . Sicul. 1 . 2. affirms that the Perfian Annuls 
 were written in the like Books i and many mots Authorities, if 
 needful, might be produced : however, I call Parchment and the 
 Paper of Egypt new Arts here, becaufe they were later than the 
 other. 
 
 Hieroglyphic 4 /. The ufe of which it is very likely the Jews had 
 from Egypt where they had lived folong, Lucan. 1 . 3. 
 
 Nondum flumineas Memphis contexere Biblos 
 Noverat , & fixis tantum volucrefq, fereeq'-y 
 Sculpt aq } fervabant magicas animalia linguas. 
 
 Nathan and Gad were famous Prophets in David's time 5 and 
 therefore it is probable they might have lived with Samuel in his 
 College , for their particular Pr ofejfor flips , the one of Aflronomy, 
 the other of Mathematici </, that is a voluntary gift of mine to 
 them, and f fuppofe the places were very lawfully at my difpofing. 
 Seraia was afterwards Scribe or Secretary to David , called r Kings 
 42.*S7//j./,and I Chron. 18. 16. Shaufia. Alahol the Reader of Natural 
 Phibfophy , is mentioned, 1 Kings 4. 3 i.Heman and Ajaph are often 
 fpoken of in the Scripture, 1 Kings 4. 1 Chron. 15. 17, 19. and 
 16. 5. and 37.41, 42, and 25. 
 
 A Pyramide is a figure broad beneath, and fmaller and (harper by 
 degrees upwards, till it end in a point, like our Spire-Steeples. It 
 is fo called from Idup, Fire, becaufe Flame afeends in that Figure. 
 Number , is here called a Turn'd Pyramide , becaufe the bottom of 
 it is the point One (which is the beginning of Number , not properly 
 Number , as a Point is of Magnitude) from whence it goes up ftil! 
 larger and larger, juft contrary to the nature of Pyramidical Af- 
 cenfton. 
 
 Sacred Blue. Becaufe of the ufe of it in the Curtains of the Ta- 
 bernacle, the Curtain for the Door, the Vail, the Priejls Ephodj 
 Breaft-Plate , and briefly all facred Ornaments. The reafon of cha- 
 fing Blue , I fuppofe to have been in the Tabernacle , to reprefent the 
 feat of God , that is, the Heavens , of which the Tabernacle was an 
 Emblem , Numbers 15. 38. The Jews are commanded to make that 
 lace or ribband of Blue , wherewith their fringes are bound to their 
 cloaths 5 and they have now left off the very wearing of Fringes 5 
 becaufe, they fay, the art is loft of dying that kind of Blue , which 
 was the perfe&eft sky-colour. Coeruleus is derived by fome, gfuaft 
 cceluleus. 
 
 Virg. /. 6. HLn. 
 
 Obloquitur numeris Septem diferimina vocum. 
 
 From which PanciroUus conje&ures that, as we have now fix notes 
 in Muftcfit Dt.Re. Mi.t a.So.La. (invented by a Monkf\ rom the Hymn 
 to S. johuy beginning every line with thofe fyllables) fo the ancients 
 had Jeven 5 according to which /polio too indicated the Lyre with 
 
 feven 
 
44 
 
 3\£otef upon the jirfl ‘JBool^ 
 
 {'even firings $ and Pindar calls it E his Interpreter, f E fid- 
 fjufov, and the Argives forbad under a penalty, the ufe of more 
 firings. 
 
 6 2 Porphyrins affirmed, as he is cited by Eufebius, 3. Prapar. Evang. 
 
 that the Egyptians (that is, the Thebans in Egypt ) believe but one 
 God , whom they called Kmp (whom Plntarch alfo names de If.&> 
 Ojjr. & Strabo , /. 17. Cnuphis) and that the image of that God 
 was made with an Egg coming out of his mouth, to (hew that he 
 Spoke out the Worlds that is, made it with his words, for an Egg 
 with the Egyptians was the Jymbol of the world. So was it too in 
 the myftical Ceremonies of Bacchus , inftituted by Orpheus , as Pint. 
 Sympof. 1. 1 1. Quaff. 3. and Macrob. 1 .7. c. 1 6. whence Proclns {ays 
 upon TimauS) To 'Ogpiyyv cJoV % A) HAa/ror©. ’Or, to be the fame 
 things. Vojf. de Idol. 
 
 6% The op hi l. 1. 2. adverjus Gent, ©gos b a At’ <zu!o$ ’Cgi 
 
 0 A&)r, God is in no place, but is the Place of all things , and Philo , 
 ’Ados zxutoI 'mr©', ^ goj/g's Which is the fame with the 
 
 expreftion here. 
 
 64 Gen. 14. 13. And there came one that had efcaped , and told Abram 
 
 the Elebrew , e£v. which Text hath raifed a great controverfie among 
 the Learned, about the derivation of the name of the Hebrews : 
 The general opinion received of old was, that it came from Eber 5 
 which is not improbable, and defended by many learned men, par- 
 ticularly of late by Rivet upon Gen . 1 1. The other, which is more 
 followed by the late Criticks, as Arpcnnius , Grotius , and our 
 Selden , is, that the name came from Abraham's paflage over Eu- 
 phrates into Canaan (as the name of Welch is faid to fignifie no more 
 than ftrangers , which they were called by the people amongft 
 whom they came , and ever after retained it ) which opinion is 
 chiefly grounded upon the Septuagint Tranflation in this Text, 
 who render Abram the Hebrew , The Pajjenger 5 and 
 
 Aquila t rie&inYi. 
 
 65 For even thefe Sons of the Prophets that were Students in Col- 
 ledges did fometimes likewife foretel future things, as to Elifia the 
 taking up of Elijah^ 2 King 2. 3, 6cc. 
 
 THE 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 T HE Friendjhip betwixt Jonathan and David; and 
 upon that occaflon a digrejjion concerning the nature 
 of Love. A difcourfe between Jonathan and David, 
 upon ‘Which the latter abfents himfelj from Court , and the 
 former goes thither , to inform himfelf of SauD refolution. The 
 Feajl of the New-Moon, the manner of the Celebration of it ; 
 and therein a Digrefpon of the Hiflory of Abraham. Saul'* 
 Speech upon Davids abfence from the Feajl , and his anger 
 againjl Jonathan. Davids refolution to fly away ; he parts 
 With Jonathan, and falls afleep under a Tree . A Defer iption 
 of Phanfie ; an Angel makes up a Vifion in Davids head ; 
 the Vifion it felfl which is , A Prophefie of all the fuccefflon of 
 his (]{ace till ChrilLf time , with their mojl remarkable a SI ions. 
 At his awaking , Gabriel ajfumes an humane fhape , and con - 
 firms to him the truth of his Vifion. 
 
 
 
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 B UT now the early birds began to call 
 
 f The morning forth , up rofe the Sun and Saul 5 
 Both, as men thought, rofe fre(h from fweet repofe 5 
 But both, alas, fromreftlefs labours rofe. 
 
 For in Saul’s breaft, Envy , the toilfome Sin, 
 i Had all that night a&iveand ty’rannous bin, 
 
 She expell’d all forms of Kindneji, Virtue , Grace 5 
 Of the paft day no footftep left or trace. 
 
 The new blown fparks of his old rage appear. 
 
 Nor could his Love dwell longer with his fear. 
 
 So near a ftorm wife David would not flay , 
 
 Nor truft the glittering of a faithlefs Day. 
 
 He faw the Sun call in his beams apace, 
 
 And angry Clouds march up into their place. 
 
 The Sea it felf fmooths his rough brow awhile. 
 
 Flattering the greedy Merchant with a fmile 5 
 But he, whofe (hip- wrack t Barque it drank before, 
 
 Sees the deceit, and knows it would have more. 
 
 Such is the Sea , and fuch was Saul. 
 
 But Jonathan , bis Son , and Only Good , 
 
 Was gentle as fair Jordans ufeful Flood. 
 
 Whofe innocent Bream as it in filence goes, 
 
 I FreQi Honours, and a fudden fpring beftows 
 On both his banks to every flower and tree 5 
 The manner How lies hid, th 5 effeft we fee. 
 
 But more than all, more than Himfelf he lov’d 
 The man whofe worth his Fathers Hatred mov’d. 
 
Book II, of tbe 1 roubles of David. 
 
 For when the noble youth at Dam min ftood , 
 
 Adorn’d with Jweat, and painted gay with Blood, 
 
 Jonathan pierced him through with greedy Eye j Sam= 
 
 And underflood the futur t Afajefly 
 Then deftin’d in the glories of his look 5 
 He faw, and flraight was with amazement flrock, 
 
 To fee theftrengtb, the feature, and the grace 
 Of his young limbs 3 he faw his comely face 
 Where Love and Reverence fo well mingled were 3 
 
 2 And Head, already crown'd with golden haire. 
 
 He faw what Mildnejs his bold Sp irit did tame, s 
 
 Gentler than Light , yet powerful as a Flame. 
 
 He faw his Valour by their fafety prov’d 3 
 He faw all this, and as he faw, he Love'd. 
 
 What art thou, Love , thou great myflerious thing ? 
 
 From what hid (lock does thy (Range Nature fpring ? 
 
 Tis thou that mov’d the world through every part 
 And hold’ll the vad (rame clofe, that nothing dart 
 From the due Place and Office fird ordain’d. 
 
 3 By Vhte were all things Made , and are fufiaind. 
 
 Sometimes we fee thee full), and can fay 
 
 From hence thou look’d thy Rife , and went’fl that way 3 
 But oftner the (hort beams of Reafons Eye, 
 
 See only, There thou art, not How , ncr Why. 
 
 How is the Loadffone , Natures fubtle pride, 
 
 By the rude Iron woo’d, and made a Bride .<? 
 
 How was the Weapon wounded ? what hid Flame 
 The drong and conau’eiing Metal overcame? 
 
 4 l ove ([this Worlds Grace) exalts his Natural date, 
 
 He feds thee. Love, and feels no more his Weight. 
 
 5 Ye learned Heads, whom Ivy Garlands grace, 
 
 Why docs that twining plant the O^embrace ? 
 
 The Oal^ for courldiip mod of all unfit, 
 
 And rough as are the Winds that fight with it ? 
 
 How does the abfent Pole the Needle move ? 
 
 How does his Cold and Ice beget hot Love £ 
 
 Which are the Wings ol Lightnefi to afeend ? 
 
 Or why does H eight to th’ Centre downwards bend ? 
 
 Thus Creatures void of Life obey thy Laws, > 
 
 And fcldom We, they never knew the Cauje. 
 
 In thy large date, Life gives the next degree, 
 
 6 Where Senfe, and Good Apparent places thee 3 
 But thy chief Palace is Mans Heart alone, 
 
 Here are thy Triumphs , and full glories ftiown, 
 
 7 Handfome Defires, and Ref about thee flee, 
 
 Union , Inherence, Xfal, and Ecftafie. 
 
 Thouland with Joys duller around thine head, 
 
 O re w hich a gall-lefs Dove her wings does fpread, 
 
 A gentle Lamb , purer and whiter tarre 
 
 Than Confidences of thine own Martyrs are, 
 
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 Lies at thy feet 3 and thy right hand does hold 
 The myftick Scepter of a Crofs of Gold, 
 
 Thus do’eft thou fit (like Men e’re fin had fram'd 
 A guilty bluih) Na^cd, but not Afia'md. 
 
 What caufe then did the fabulous Ancients find, 
 
 When firft their fupeiftition made thee blind? 
 
 5 Fwas They , alas, kwas They who could not fee, 
 
 When they miftook that Monftcr , LuLl, for Thee. 
 
 Thou art a bright, but not confuming Flame 3 
 Such in th’amazed Bufh to Mofes came 3 
 When that fecure its new-crown’d head did rear, 
 
 And chid the trembling Branches needlefs fear. 
 
 Thy Darts of healthful Gold, and downwards fall 
 Soft as the Feathers that they're fletcht withal. 
 
 Such, and no ether, were thofe fecret Darts, 
 
 Which fweetly toucht this nobkft pair of Hearts. 
 
 Still to one end they both fo juftly drew. 
 
 As courteous Doves together yok'd would do. 
 
 No weight of Birth did on one fide prevaile, 
 
 Two Twins lefs even lie in Natures Scale. 
 
 They mingled Fates, and both in each did (hare, 
 
 They both were Servants , they both Princes were. 
 
 If any Joy to one of them was fent, 
 
 It was moft his, to whom it leaf! was meant. 
 
 And fortunes malice betwixt both was croft, 
 
 For ftrjking one, it wounded th’other moft. 
 
 Never did Marriage fuch true TJnion find, 
 
 Or mens defires with fo glad violence bind 5 
 For there is ftill feme tin&ure left of Sin, 
 
 And ftill the Sex will needs be ftealing in. 
 
 Thofe joys are full of drofs, and thicker farre, 
 
 Thefe without matter, clear and liquid are. 
 
 Such facred Love dees heavens bright Spirits fill. 
 
 Where Love is but to Underfland and WiU^ 
 
 With fwift and unfeen Motions 5 fuch as We 
 Somewhat expreft in heighten’d Charitie . 
 
 O ye blejl One ! whofe Love on earth became 
 So pure that ftill in Heaven ’tis but the fame ! 
 
 There now ye fit, and with mixt fouls embrace, 
 
 Gazing upon great Loves myfterious Face, 
 
 And pity this bafe world where Friendfiip’s made 
 A bait for fin, or elfe at beft a Trade . 
 
 Ah wondrons Prince l who a true Friend could’ft be. 
 
 When a Crown flatter d, and Saul tkreatned Thee ! 
 
 Who held’ft him dear, whofe Stars thy birth did croft l 
 And boughtft him nobly at a Kingdoms lofs ! 
 
 IfraePs bright Scepter far lefs glory brings 5 
 There have been fewer Friends on earth than Kings. 
 
 To this ftrange pitch their high affe&ions flew 5 
 Till Natures felf fcarce look’d on them as Two. 
 
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Book II. of tbe i roubles of David. 
 
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 Hither flics David for advice and ayde, 
 
 As fvvift as Love and Danger could perfwade, 
 
 As fafe in Jonathans trufl his thoughts remain 
 As when himfelf but dreams them o’re again. 
 
 My deareft Lord , farewel ((aid he) farewel 3 
 Heaven blefs the King 3 may no misfortune tell 
 Th’injuftice of his hate, when I am dead 5 
 They’re coming now, perhaps 3 my guiltlefs head 
 Here in your light, perhaps, muft bleeding ly, 
 
 And fcarce your own (land fafe for being nigh. 
 
 Think me not fear’d with deaths howere’t appear, 
 
 I know thou can’ll: not think fo : ’tis a fear 
 From which thy Love , and Dammin fpeaks me free 3 
 I ’have met him face to face, and ne’re could fee 
 One terrour in his looks to make me fly 
 When Vertue bids me fland 3 but I would dy 
 So as becomes my Life, fo as may prove 
 Saul's Malice , and at leaft excufe your Love. 
 
 He ftopt, and fpoke fome paflion with his eyes 3 
 Excellent Friend (the gallant Prince replyes) 
 
 Thou haft fo prov d thy Virtues, that theyr’e known 
 To all good men, more than to each his own. 
 
 Who lives in Ifrael, that can doubtful be 
 Of thy great attions ? for he lives by Thee . 
 
 Such is thy Valour , and thy vaft fuccefs, 
 
 That all things but thy Loyalty are Ids. 
 
 And fhould my Father at thy ruine aim, 
 
 T’would wound as much his Safety as his Fame . 
 
 Think them not coming then to flay thee here, 
 
 But doubt milhaps, as little as you feare. 
 
 For by thy Joying God who ere defign 
 Againft thy Life muft ftrike at it through Mine. 
 
 But I my royal Father muft acquit 
 
 From fuch bafe guilt, or the low thought of it. 
 
 Think on his foftnefs when from death he freed 
 The faithlefs King of Amalecky curfed feed 3 
 Can he to’a Friend , to’a Son fo bloody grow, 
 
 He who ev’n fin’d but now to fpare a Foe .<? 
 
 Admit he could 3 but with whatftrength or art 
 Could he fo long clofe, and feal up his heart ? 
 
 Such counfels jealous of themfelves become. 
 
 And dare not fix without confent of fome. 
 
 Few men fo boldly ill, great fins to do, 
 
 Till licens’d and approv’d by others too. 
 
 No more ( believe’t ) could he hide this from me, 
 
 Than 7 , had he difeover’d it, from Thee. 
 
 Here they embraces joyn, and almoft tears 3 
 Till gentle David thus new prov’d his fears. 
 
 •The praife you pleas’d ( great Prince ) on me to fpend 
 Was all out spoken when you ftil’d me Friend . 
 
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 That name alone does dang’rous glories bring, , 
 
 And gives excufe to th’ Envy of a King. 
 
 What did his Spear, force, and dark plots impart 
 But fome eternal rancour in his heart ? 
 
 Still does he glance the fortune of that day 
 When drown’d in his own blood Goliah lay. 
 
 And cover’d half the plain 5 dill hears the found 
 How that vaft Jlionfter fell, and drook the ground : 
 
 The Dance, and David his ten thousand Jltrv , 
 
 Still wound his fickly foul, and (till are new. 
 
 Great a£ts t ambitious Princes Treafins grow. 
 
 So much they hate that Safety which they ore. 
 
 Tyrants dread all whom they raife high in place, 
 
 From the Good , danger 5 from the Bad , di [grace. 
 
 They doubt the Lords , miftruft the Peoples hate, 
 
 Till Blood become a Principle of State. 
 
 Secur’d nor by their Guards , nor by their Right , 
 
 But dill they Fear ev’en more than they Affright. 
 
 Pardon me, Sir , your Father’s rough and dern : 
 
 His Will too drong to bend, too proud to learn. 
 
 Remember, Sir, the Honeys deadly ding 5 
 Think on that favage Judice of the King. 
 
 When the fame day that faw you do before 
 Things above Man, fhould fee you Man no more* 
 
 ’Tis true th’ accurfed Agag moved his ruth, 
 
 He pitied his tall Limbs and comely youth 
 Had feen, alas, the proof cf heavens fierce hate. 
 
 And fear’d no mifehief from his powerlefs fate. 
 
 Remember how th’old Seer came raging down. 
 
 And taught him boldly to fiifpeft his Crown. 
 
 Since then his pride quakes at th’ Almighties rod, 
 
 Nor dares he love the man belov’d by God. 
 
 Hence his deep rage and trembling Envy fprings 5 
 Nothing fo wild as Jealoufte of Kings. 
 
 Whom fhould hecounfel ask, with whom advife, 
 
 Whofe Reafon and God’s counfel does defpife } 
 
 Who head-drong will no Law or Confcience daunt, 
 
 Dares he not fin, do’you think, without your grant } 
 
 Yes, if the truth of our fixt love he knew, 
 
 He would not doubt, believ’t, to kill ev’en you. 
 
 The Prince is mov’ed, and draight prepares to find 
 The deep refoives of his griev’d Father’s mind. 
 
 The danger now appears, Love can foon fhowr, 
 
 And force his Stubborn piety to know’t. 
 
 They ’agree that David (hould conceal’d abide, 
 
 Till his great friend had the Courts temper tryde. 
 
 Till he had Sauls mod fecret purpofe found. 
 
 And fearcht the depth and rancor of his wound. 
 
 Twas the years feventh*born Moon 3 the folemn Feafi 
 That with mod noife its facred mirth expred. 
 
 . * ' Trom 
 

 Book II. of tbe Troubles of David. 
 
 From opening Morn till night fhuts in the day, 
 
 On Trumpets and (brill Horns the Levites play. 
 
 9 Whether by this in my (lick Type we fee 
 The Nevo-years-Day of great Eternitie, 
 
 When the chang’d Moon (hall no more changes mahg^ 
 And fcatter’d Deaths by Trumpet's found awake 5 
 
 10 Or that the Law be kept in Mem’ory ftill, 
 
 Given with like noife on Sina' s (Lining Kill, 
 
 1 1 Or that (as fome men teach) it did arife 
 From faithful Abrahams righteous Sacrifice \ 
 
 Who whilft the Ram on lfaacs tire did fry, 
 
 His Horn with joyful tunes (food founding by. 
 Obfcure the Caufe 3 but God his will declared 3 
 And all nice knowledge then with eafe is fpar’ed. 
 
 1 2 At the third hour Saul to the hallowed Tent 
 Midft a large train of Priefis and Courtiers went 3 
 The facred Herd marcht proud and foftly by 3 
 
 13 Too fat and gay to think their deaths fo nigh. 
 
 Hard fate of Be aft s , more innocent than We ! 
 
 Prey to our Lux ury , and our Pietie ! 
 
 W’hofe guiltlefs blood on boards and Altars fpilt, 
 
 Serves both to Make , and Expiate too our guilt ! 
 
 14 Three Bullocks of free neck, two gilded Rams, 
 
 Two well-wafht Goats, and fourteen fpotlefs Lambs, 
 With the three vital fruits, Vfine, Oyl , and Bread , 
 (Small fees to heaven of all by which were fed) 
 
 Are offered up 3 the hallowed flames arife, 
 
 And faithful prayers mount with them to the skies. 
 
 1 5 From thence the King to th’outmoft Court is brought, 
 Where heavenly things an infpir'd Prophet taught, 
 And from the facred Tent to’his Palace gates, 
 
 With glad kind Ibouts th’Aflembly on him waits 3 
 The chearful Horsts before him loudly play, 
 
 And frefh ftrew’d flowers paint his triumphant way. 
 Thus in flow 7 ftate to th‘ Palace Hall they go, 
 
 Rich dreft for folemn Luxury and Show 3 
 
 16 Ten pieces of bright Tap^eftry hung the room, 
 
 The nobleft work e re ftretcht on Syrian loom 3 
 For wealthy Adriel in proud Sydon wrought 
 And giv’en to Saul when Saul's beft gift he fought, 
 The biight-ey’d Merab 3 for that mindful day 
 
 No ornament fo proper feem’d as they. 
 
 17 There all old Abrams ftory you might fee 5 
 
 18 And ftill fome Angel bore him companie. 
 
 His painful, but well- guided Travels (how 
 The fate of all his Sons , the Church below. 
 
 39 Here beauteous Sara to great Pharo came. 
 
 He blufht with fudden pajjion , (he with /hame 3 
 Troubled (he feem’d, and labouring in the ftrife 
 *Twixt her own Honor , and her Husband's Life* 
 
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 Gen. 14. 
 
 Gen. 14. 
 18. 
 
 Gen, 155. 
 
 Gen. 17. 
 
 Gen. 18; 2. 
 Ver. 10. 
 Gen. 18. 
 25 - 
 
 Gen. 1 9. 
 24. 
 
 *Gen. ir. 
 3 ». 
 
 * Gen. 25. 
 9 * 
 
 Gen. 22. 
 Ver. 3. 
 
 Ver. *. 
 
 Ver. 9. 
 
 Ver. 10. 
 
 Ver. ii. 
 
 Ver. 13* 
 
 Here on a conquering Hoji that carelels lay, 
 
 Drown’d in the joys of their new-gotten prey, 
 
 The Patriarch falls 3 well mingled might you fee 
 
 20 The confus’d marks of Death and Luxury. 
 
 21 In the next piece bled Salem's my dick King 
 
 22 Does facred Prefents to the Vi ft or bring 5 
 
 Like him whole Type he bears, his rights receives 3 
 Stri&ly requires his Due, yet freely gives. 
 
 Ev’n in his port, his habit, and his face 3 
 The Mild , and* Great, the Priefi and Prince had place. 
 Here all their darry hod the heavens difplay 3 
 And, Lo, an heavenly Youth , more fair than they, 
 Leads Abram forth 3 points upwards 3 fuch, (aid he, 
 
 23 So bright and numbcrlefs thy Seed dial! be. 
 
 24 Here he with God anew Axlliance makes, 
 
 And in his flefh the marks of Homage takes 3 
 
 25 Here he three myderious perfons feafts, 
 
 Well paid with joyful tidings by his Guefis. 
 
 Here for the Wicked Town he prays, and near 
 Scarce did the wicked Town through Flames appear. 
 And all his Fate , and all his Deeds were wrought, 
 
 26 Since he from * Or to * Ephronh cave was brought. 
 
 But none mongft all the forms drew then their eyes 
 Like faithful Abram* s righteous Sacrifice. 
 
 27 The fad old man mounts (lowly to the place, 
 
 With Natures power triumphant in his face 
 O’re the Mind's courage 3 for in fpight of all 
 From his fwoln eyes refidlefs waters fall. 
 
 28 The inn’oeem Boy his cruel burthen bore 
 
 With foiling looks, and fometimes walk’d before. 
 
 And fometimes turn’d to talk 3 above was made, 
 
 The Altar s fatal Pile, and on it laid 
 
 29 The Hope o f Mankind 3 patiently he lay, 
 
 And did his Syre, as he his God , obey. 
 
 The mournful Syre lifts up at lad the knife. 
 
 And on one moments dring depends his life 
 
 In whofe young loytts fuch brooding wonders Jy. 
 
 A thoufand Spirits peep’d from th’affrighted sky, 
 Amaz’d at this drange Scene 3 and almoft fear’d 
 For all thofe joyful Prophecies they’d heard. 
 
 Till one leapt nimbly fprth by God's command 
 Like Lightning from a Cloud , and dopt his hand. 
 
 The gentle Spirit foil’d kindly as he fpoke, 
 
 New beams of joy through Abrams wonder broke 
 The Angel points to’a tuft of bullies near, 
 
 Where an entangled Ram does half appear, 
 
 And druggies vainly with that fatal net, 
 
 Which though but (lightly wrought, w 5 s (irmly fit. 
 
 For, lo, anon, to this fad glory doom’d, 
 
 The ufeful Beafi on ljaac s Pile confum’d 3 
 
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 Whilft cn his Horns the ranfom’d couple plaid, 
 
 And the glad Boy danc’d to the tunes he made. 
 
 Near this Halls end a Shit tint Table flood 3 
 Yet well-wrought plate ftrove to conceal the wood. 
 
 For from the loot a golden vine did fprout , 
 
 And call his fruitful riches all about. 
 
 Well might that beauteous Ore the Gnzpeexpreft, 
 
 Which does weak Man intoxicate no Ids. 
 
 Of the fame wood the gilded beds were made, 
 
 And on them large embroidered Carpets laid. 
 
 From Eg)pt the rich (hop of Fellies brought. 
 
 But Arts of Pride all Nations foon are taught. j 
 
 30 Behold fev’en comely blooming Youths appear, . 
 
 And in their hands fev’en lilver wafhpots bear, 
 
 3 r Curl’d, and gay clad 5 the chciceft Sons that be 
 Of Gibeoji s race, and Slaves of high degree. 
 
 Seven beauteous Maids marcht fofely in behind 3 
 Bright fcarfs their cloathes, their hair frefh Garlands bind, 
 32 And whileft the Princes walk, they on them feed 
 Rich Oyntments, which their coftly odours fpread 
 O re the whole room 3 from their fmall prijons free 
 With fach glad hafte through the wide ayr they flee. 
 
 3 The King was plac'd alone, and o’re his head 
 A well-wrought Heaven of filk and gold was fpread, 
 
 Azure the ground, the Sun in gold (hone bright, 
 
 But pierc’d the wandring Clouds with lilver light. 
 
 The right hand bed the Kings three Sons did grace, 
 
 The third was Abners, Adriel’s , David's place. 
 
 And twelve large Tables more were fill d below, 
 
 With the prime men Saul's Court and Camp could fhovv 3 
 The Palace did with mirth and mujtci 1 found, 
 
 54 And the crown’d goblets nimbly mov'd around. 
 
 But though bright joy in every gueft did fhine. 
 
 The plenty, Hate, mufick, and fprightful wine 
 Were loft on Saul 3 an angry care did dwell 
 In his dark breft, and all gay forms expell. 
 
 David’s unufual ablence from the feaft ? t 
 
 To his lick fpir’it did jealous thoughts fuggeft. 
 
 Long lay he (fill, nor drank, nor eat, nor fpoke. 
 
 And thus at laft his troubled fiJence broke. 
 
 Where can he be > faid he 3 it muft be fo : 
 
 With that he paus’d a while 3 Too well we know ? 
 
 His boundlefs pride : he grieves and hates to fee 
 The folemn triumphs of my Court and Me. 
 
 Believe me, friends, and truft what I can (how 
 From thoufand proofs, th’ambitious David now 
 Does thofe vaft things in his proud foul delign 
 That too much bufinefs give for Mirth or Wine. 
 
 He’s kindling now perhaps, rebellious fire 
 Among the Tribes , and does ev’n now confpire 
 
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 s Sm. 20 . 
 
 35, 27. 
 
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 28, 29. 
 
 V. 30, 31. 
 
 Ver. 33. 
 
 Vcr. 34. 
 
 Ver. 35. 
 
 Vcr. 42. 
 
 Againft my Crown, and all our Lives, whilft we 
 Are loth ev en to fujpcff, what we might See. 
 
 35 By the Great Name, ’tis true. 
 
 With that he ftrook the board, and no man there 
 But Jonathan durft undertake to clear 
 The blamelefs Prince 3 and fcj rce ten words he (poke, 
 When thus his fpeech th* enraged 7 jrant broke. 
 
 36 Difloyal Wretch ! thy gentle Mothers fhame ! 
 Whofe cold pale Ghofi even blufhes at thy name ! 
 
 Who fears left her chaft bed fhould doubted be, 
 
 And her white fame ftain’d by black deeds of thee ! 
 Can ft thou be Mine? a Crown fometimes does hire 
 Even Sons agftnft their Parents to ccnfpire, 
 
 But ne’er did ftory yet, or fable tell 
 Of one fo wild, who meetly to Rebel 
 Quitted the uuqueftion’d birthright of a 1 Irene, 
 
 And bought his Father's ruine with his own : 
 
 Thou need ’ft not plead th’ambitious youths defence 5 
 Thy crime clears his, and makes that Innocence. 
 
 Nor can his foul Ingratitude appear, 
 
 Whilft thy unnatural guilt is placed fo near. 
 
 Is this that noble L ricndfiip you pretend ? 
 
 Mine, thine own Foe, and thy worft Enemies Friend 
 If thy low fpirit can thy great birthright quit. 
 
 The thing’s but juft, fo ill deferv’ft thou it. 
 
 1, and thy Brethren here have no fuch mind 3 
 Nor fuch prodigious worth in David find. 
 
 That we to him fhould our juft rights refign, 
 
 Or think God's choice not made fo well as Thine. 
 Shame of thy Houfe and Tribe ! hence from mine Eye 3 
 To thy falfe Friend, and fervile Majicr fly 3 
 He’s e’re this time in arms expecting thie 5 
 Hafte, for thofe arms are rais’d to ruine Mee. 
 
 Thy fin that way will nobler much appear, 
 
 Than to remain his Spy and Agent here. 
 
 When I think this, Nature by thee forfook, 
 
 Forfakes me too. With that his fpear he took 
 To (trike at him 3 the mirth and mufick ceafe 5 
 The guefts all rife this hidden ftorm t appeafe 3 
 3 7 The Prince his danger, and his duty knew 3 
 And low he bow’d, and (ilently withdrew. 
 
 To David (trait, who in a Foreft nigh 
 Waits his advice, the royal Friend does fiy. 
 
 The lble advice, now like the danger clear, 
 
 Was in fome foreign land this ftorm t ’outwear. 
 
 All marks of comely grief in both are feen 3 
 And mournful kind dilcourfes paft between. 
 
 Now' generous tears their hafty tongues reftrain s 
 Now they begin, and talk all o're again. 
 
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 A reverent Oath of conflant love they take, Vcr. 4 2 * 
 
 And God's high name their dreaded i vitnefs make 3 
 Not that at all their Faiths could doubtful prove 5 
 Bat ’twas the tedious zeal of endlefs Love. 
 
 Thus e’re they part, they the ihort time beftow 
 In all the pomp Frkndjhip acd Grief could fhow. 
 
 And David now with doubtful cares oppreft, 
 
 Beneath a fhade borrows fome little reft $ 
 
 When by command divine thick mifis arife, 
 
 And (top the Senfi , and clofe the conque’red eyes. 
 
 -g Th- re is a place which Man mod high doth rear, 
 
 i iyfmall World's Heaven , where Reafon moves the Sp Lucre. 
 
 Here in a robe which does all colours fhow, 
 
 ( Th’envy of birds, and the clouds gawdy bow ) 
 
 Phanfte, wild Dame , with much lafeivious pride 
 By tmn-Camelions drawn, does gaily ride, 
 
 Her coach there follows, and throngs round about 
 Of fbapes and airy Forms an endlefs rout. 
 
 A Sea rowls on with harmlefs fury here 3 
 Straight ’tis a field , and trees and herbs appeare. 
 
 Here in a moment are vail Armies made, 
 
 And a quick Scene of war and blood difplaid. 
 
 Here fparkling wines, and brighter Maids come in, 
 
 The bawds for fenfe and lying baits of fin. 
 
 32 Some things arife of llrange and quarr’eling kind* 
 
 The forepart Lyon, and a Sna^e behind 3 
 Here golden mountains fwell the cove’tous place, 
 
 40 And Centaures ride Them (elves a painted race. 
 
 Of thefe flight wonders Nature fees the (lore, 
 
 And only then accounts herfelf but poore. 
 
 Hither an Angel comes in David's trance 3 
 And finds them mingled in an antique dance 3 
 Of all the numerous forms fit choice he takes, . 
 
 And joyns them wifely, and his Vifion makes. 
 
 Firft David there appears in Kingly Bate, 
 
 Whilft the twelve Tribes his dread commands await 3 2 Sam, 
 
 Strait to the wars with his joyn’d ftrength he goes, 
 
 Setles new friends, and frights his ancient Foes. 12. 2 $, 
 
 To Solima, Cana' an s old head, they came, Ver. 6 . 
 
 ( Since high in note, then not unknown to Fame) 
 
 4, The Blind and Lame th undoubted wall defend, 2 Sam. 
 
 And no new wounds or dangers apprehend. *' g ‘ 
 
 The bufie image of great Joab there 
 Difdains the mock, and teaches them to fear. 
 
 He climbs the airy walls, leaps raging down, 
 
 New-minted (hapes of (laughter fill the town. 
 
 They curfe the guards their mirth and bravery chofe 3 * 
 
 All of them now are (lain, or made like thofe . 
 
 42 Far through an inward Scene an Army lay, 
 
 Which with full banners a fair Fi[h difplay. 
 
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 From Sidon plains to happy Egypt ' s coaft 
 They teem all met 3 a vail and warlike HoaJ}, 
 Thither hafts David to his deftin’d prey, 
 
 Honor , and noble Danger lead the way 3 
 
 43 The confcious Trees (hook with a reverent fear 
 Their unblown tops 3 God walkt before him there. 
 Slaughter the wearied Riphaims bofom fills, 
 
 Dead corps imbofs the vail with little hills. 
 
 44 On th’other fide Sophcnes mighty Ring 
 Numberlefs troops of the bltft Eajl does bring ; 
 Twice are his men cut off, and Chariots ta’ne 5 
 
 45 Damafus and rich A cl ad help in vaine. 
 
 46 Here Nabatkeean troops in battel ftand, 
 
 With all the lufty youth of Syrian land 3 
 Undaunted Joab rufhes on with fpeed, 
 
 Gallantly mounted on his fiery fteed 3 
 
 He hews down all, and deals his deaths around 3 
 The Syrians leave,' or poffefs dead the ground. 
 
 Oti th’other wing does brave Abijbai ride 
 Reeking in blood and duft3 on tvery fide 
 The perjur’d foils of Ammon quit the field, 
 
 Some baicly dye , and fome more bafely yield. 
 Through a thick wood the wretched Hunan flies, 
 
 And far more juftly than fears Hebrav Spies. 
 
 47 Moloch , their bloody God, thrufts out his head, 
 Grinning through a black cloud, him they’d long fed 
 In his fev\n Chambers , and he ftill did eat 
 New-roafted babes , his dear, delicious meat. 
 
 Again they’arife, more ang’red than difmaid 3 
 
 48 Euphrates , and Swift lygris fends them aid 3 
 In vain they fend it, for again they’re (lain, 
 
 49 And feaft the greedy birds on Helay plain. 
 
 50 Here Rabha with proud towers affronts the sky, 
 
 And round about great JoaR s trenches ly. 
 
 They force the walls, and fack the belplds town 3 
 5 1 On David’s head Chines Ammons mafly Crown. 
 
 Midft various torments the curft race expires, 
 
 David himfelf his fevere wrath admires. 
 
 Next upon Ifraels throne does bravely fit 
 
 52 A comely Youth endow’d with wondrous wit. 
 
 53 Far from the parched Linen royal Dame , 
 
 To hear his tongue and boundiefs wifdom came. 
 
 She carried back in her triumphant womb 
 The glorious flock of thoufand Kings to come. 
 
 Here brighteft forms his pomp and wealth difplay, 
 Here they a Temples vaft foundations lay. 
 
 A mighty work 3 and with fit glories fill'd, 
 
 For God t inhabit , and that King to build. 
 
 Some from the quarries hew out mafly ftone, 
 
 Some draw it up with cranes, fome breathe and grone 
 
 
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 In order o’ re the anvil 5 fome cut down 
 Tall Cedars , the proud Mountains ancient crown 5 
 Some carve the Trunks, and breathing fhapes beftoWj, 
 Giving the Trees more life than when they grow 5 
 But, oh (alas) what fudden cloud is fpread 
 About this glorious King's eclipfed head ? 
 
 It all his fame benights, and all his ftore. 
 
 Wrapping him round, and now he’s feen no more. 
 
 When ftraight his Son appears at Sichem crown’d 
 With young and heedlefs Council circled round 5 
 Unfeemly object ! but a falling (late 
 Has always its own errours joyn’d with fate. 
 
 Ten Tribes at once forfake the JeJfian throne, 
 
 And bold Adoram at his Meflage (tone 5 
 
 Brethren of Ijrael! more he fain would fay, 
 
 But a flint ftopt his mouth, and fpeech i’th’way. 
 
 Here this fond King’s difafters but begin, 
 
 He’s deftin’d to more (hame by ’his Fathers fin. 
 Sufack, comes up, and under his command 
 
 54 A dreadful Army from fcorcht Africas fand 
 As n umber lefs as that 5 all is his prey, 
 
 The Temples facred wealth they bear away 5 
 
 55 Adrazars fhields and golden loft they take 5 
 Ev’n David in his dream does fweat and (hake. 
 
 Thus fails this wretched Prince $ his Loyns appear 
 Of lefs weight now, than Solomon's Fingers were. 
 
 Abijah next feeks lfra'el to. regain, 
 
 ^ And wa(h in feas of blood his Fathers ftain $ 
 
 5 ° Ner’e faw the aged Sun fo cruel fight, 
 
 Scarce faw he this , but hid his baftiful light. 
 
 Nebat' s curft Son fled with not half his men, 
 
 Where were his Gods of Dan and Bethel then ? 
 
 Yet could not this the fatal ftrife decide , 
 
 God punijht one y but blefi not th’other fide. 
 
 Afan a juft and vertuous Prince fucceeds 5 
 High rais’d by fame for great and godly deeds 3 
 
 57 He cut the folemn groves where Idols flood, 
 
 And Sacrific'd the Gods with their own wood. 
 
 He vanquifht thus the proud weak powers of hell 3 
 Before him next their doating fervants fell. 
 
 58 So huge an Hoft of Zgrah' s men he flew, 
 
 As made even that Arabia Defart too. 
 
 59 Why fear’d he then the perjur’d Baafhd s fight? 
 
 Or bought the dangerous aid of Syrians might ? 
 Conquefi Heavens gift , cannot by man be fold 5 
 Alas, what weakytefs trufts he } Man and Gold „ 
 
 Next Jofaphat pofleft the royal ftate* 
 
 An happy Prince , well worthy of his fate $ 
 
 His oft Oblations on God’s Ahar made, 
 
 With thoufand flocks, and thoufand herds are paid, 
 
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 Arabian Tribute! what mad troops are thofe, 
 
 Thofe mighty Troops that dare to be his foes > 
 
 He Prays them dead : with mutual wounds they fall 5 
 One fury brought, one fury (lays them all. 
 
 Thus fits he Hill, and fees himfelf td'win $ 
 
 Never o’recome but by’s Friend Ahab’s fin 5 
 
 60 On whofe difguife fates then did only look 5 
 And had almoft their God's command mifiook. 
 
 Him from whofe danger heaven fecurely brings, 
 
 And for his fake two ripely wicked Kings. 
 
 6 1 Their armies languifh burnt with third at Seere , 
 
 Sighs all their Cold, Tears all their Moiflure there. 
 They fix their greedy eyes on th’empty sky, 
 
 And fancy clouds , and fo become more dry. 
 
 Elijha calls for waters from affarre 
 To come 3 Eliflsa calls, and here they are. 
 
 In helmets they quaff round the welcome flood 5 
 And the dccreafe repair with Moab’s blood. 
 
 2C.hr. 21. 52 Jehoram next, and Ochoziah throng 
 
 2 km. n.I. For Judah's Scepter 3 both fiort- liv’d too long. 
 
 2 chron. 63 A Woman too from Murther Title claims 3 
 
 Both with her Sins and Sex the Crown (he fhames. 
 Proud curfed Woman ! but her her fall at 1 aft 
 To doubting men clears heaven for what was paft. 
 jf oas at firft does bright and glorious (how 3 
 In lifes frefh morn his fame did early crow. 
 
 Fair was the promife of his dawning ray, 
 
 But Prophets angry blood o’recaft his day. 
 
 From thence his clouds, from thence his ftorms begin, 
 2 chro ^4 1 * cries aloud, and twice lets Aram in. 
 
 65 So Amaziah lives, fo ends his raign 3 
 Both by their Trayt’erous fervants jujlly flain. 
 
 Edom at firft dreads his victorious hand, 
 
 Before himthoufand Captives trembling ftand. 
 
 Down a prec ipce deep, down he cafts them all, 
 
 66 The tnimich^ fhapes inleveral poftures fall. 
 
 But then (mad fool ! ) he does thofe Gods adore, 
 Which when pluckt down, had worfiipt him before* 
 Thus all his life to come is lofs and fhame 3 
 No help from Gods who themfelves helpt not, C3tne. 
 
 2 Kin. $.$. 67 All this Uzziah’ s ftrength and wit repairs, 
 
 2 chr. 26. Leaving a well-built greatnefs to his Heirs. 
 
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 2 chr. 27. Takes him at firft from Men, from Earth at laft. 
 
 2 chr. 27. fa vertuous was his Son , and happier far 3 
 2 KL161. Buildings his Peace , and Trophies grac’d his War. 
 sS^i 6*’ ^ Ut ^ C ^ az heaps up fins, as if he meant 
 26)1.28^3« To make his worft forefathers innocent. 
 
 70 He burns his Son at Hinon , whilft around 
 
 The roaring child Drums and loud Trumpets found. 
 
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 This to the boy a barbarous mercy ‘grew, 
 
 And fnatcht him from all his miseries to enfue. 
 
 Here Peca comes, and hundred tlioufands fall, 
 
 Here Rezin marches up, and fvveeps up all : 
 
 7 1 Till like a Sea the Great Belochus Son 
 
 Breaks upon both, and both does over-run. 
 
 The laft of Adad's ancient (lock is (lain, 
 
 Ifra’el capti v’d, and rich DamaJcUs ta’ne. 
 
 All this wild rage to revenge Judas wrongs 
 But wo to Kingdoms that have Friends too (hong ! 
 
 Thus Heztkjab the torn Empire took, 
 
 And AJJurs King with his Worfe Gods forfook, 
 
 Whd to poor Juda worlds of Nations brings, 
 
 There rages $ utters vain and Mighty things, 
 
 Some dream of triumphs, and exalted namies, 
 
 Some of dear gold, and Tome of beauteous dames $ 
 
 Whilft in the midft of their huge fleepy boaft , 
 
 73 An Angel fcatters death through all the boaft. 
 
 Th affrighted Tyrant back to Babel hies, 
 
 74 There meets ah end far worfe than that he flies. 
 
 Here Htzekiah's life is almoft done ! 
 
 So good, and yet, alas ! fo (hbrt ’tis fpunne. 
 
 Th’end of the Line was ravell’d, weak and old 3 
 Time muft go back, and afford better hold 
 To tye a new thread to’it, of fifteen years 3 
 ’Tisdone 5 Th’ almighty power of prayer and tears ! 
 
 75 Backward the Sun, an unknown thotion, went 3 
 The Stars gazed oh, and wondred what he meant ; 
 
 76 Manaffes next (forgetful man! J) begins 3 
 Enflav’d, and fold to AJhur by his fids. 
 
 Till by the rod of learned tins'* ery taught, 
 
 Home to his God and Country both he’s brought. 
 
 It taught not Amnion, not his hardnefs brake 3 
 He’s made th' Example he refus’d to takg. 
 
 Yet from this root a goodly Cyon fprihgs 3 
 Jofiah beft of Men, as well as Kings 
 
 77 Down went the Calves with all their gold and coft^ 
 
 The Priefts then truly griev’d, Ofyris loft, 
 
 Thefe mad Egyptian rites till now remain’d ! 
 
 Fools ! they their worfer thraldome ftill retain’d I 
 /8 In his owH Lire Moloch to allies fell, 
 
 And no more flames muft have befides his Hell. 
 
 79 Like end Aftartes horned Image found, 
 
 So /\nd Baal sjpired flone to duft was ground. 
 
 81 No more were Men m female habit feen, 
 
 Nor They in Mens by the lewd Syrian Queen, 
 
 8 2 No liiftful Maids at Benos Temple fit, 
 
 And with their bodies fbame their marriage get 
 
 83 The double Dagon neither nature faves, 4 
 
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 6o Davideis, A Sacred Poem Book II. 
 
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 2K.23.11. 84 The travelling Sun fees gladly from on high 
 
 His Chariots burn, and Nergal quenched ly. 
 
 The King’s impartial Anger lights on all, 
 
 85 From fly-blown Accdron to the thundring Baal. 
 
 Here David’s joy unruly grows and bold 5 
 Nor could Sleeps filken chain its violence hold 3 
 Had not the Angel to feal faft his eyes 
 The humors ftirr’d, and bad more mifts arife : 
 
 When ftraight a Chariot hurries fwift away, 
 
 And in it good J ofiah bleeding lay. 
 
 One hatid’s held up, one (lops the wound 3 in vain 
 They both are us’d 3 alas beds flain , he's Jlain. 
 
 Jehoias and Jehoiachim next appear 5 
 lb. v? 26.' wr £ e that vengeance which before was near. 
 
 2 chr. 35. He in Egyptian fetters captive dies, 
 
 2K a 5 86 Thus by more courteous anger murther’d lies. 
 
 2 ch.36.4l 87 His Son and Brother next do bounds fuftairi, 
 
 Jer. 36.30 Ifrdel' s now folemn and imperial Chain. 
 
 2 c hraj 5! Here’s the lad Scene of this proud Cities date 5 
 
 All ills are met ty’d in one knot of Fate. 
 
 88 Their endlefs flavery in this tryal lay 3 
 Great God had heapt up Ages in one Day ; 
 
 Strong works around the wall the Chaldees build, 
 
 2 ki.2$.i. The Town with grief and dreadful bus’inefs fill’d, 
 jer. 52.4$ Jo their carv’d Gods the frantick women pray, 
 
 Gods which as near their mine were as they. 
 
 At laft in rulbes the prevailing foe, 
 
 Does all the mifchief of proud conqueft (how. 
 
 The wondring babes from mothers brefts are rent, 
 chro And fuffer ills they neither fear'd nor meant. 
 
 36. 17’ No filver rev’erence guards the (looping age. 
 
 No rule or method ties their boundlefs rage. 
 
 The glorious Temple (hiries in flame all o’re, 
 
 2 Chro. Yet not fo bright as in its Gold before. 
 
 3 Kin 9 ' Nothing but fire or (laughter meets the eyes j 
 
 25.^* Nothing the ear but groans and di(mal cryes. 
 
 The walls and towers are levi’d with the ground. 
 
 And fcarce ought now of that vaft City's found 
 But (hards and rubbifti which weak figns might keep 
 Of fore pad glory, and bid Travellers weep. 
 
 Thus did triumphant Ajjur homewards pals, 
 
 And thus Jerusalem left, Jerufalem that was. 
 
 Thus Zedechiah faw, and this not all 5 
 Before his face his Friends and Children fall, 
 
 2 KI.2 $.7. The (port of infolent Vidors 3 this he views, 
 
 Jcr.52.10. ^ King and Father once 3 ill fate could ule 
 
 His eyes no more to do their mafter fpight } 
 
 AU to be feen (he took, and’ next his fight. 
 
 89 Thus a long death in prifon he outwears 5 
 Beteft of griefs lafl folace , even his Tears . 
 
 Then 
 
 i 
 
Book II. of tbe Troubles of David. 61 
 
 T hen JeconiaFs fon did formoft come, 
 
 And he who brought the captiv'd nation home 5 
 A row of Worthies in long order paft 
 Ore the fhort ftage } of all old Jofeph lafr. 
 
 Fair Angels paft by next in feemly bands, 
 
 All gilt, with gilded baskets in their hands. 
 
 Some as thev went the blew-ey’d violets ftrew, 
 
 Some fpotlefs Lilies in loofe order threw. 
 
 Some did the way with full-blown rofes fpread 3 
 Their fmell divine and colour ftrangely red 3 
 Not fuch as our dull gardens proudly wear. 
 
 Whom weathers taint, and winds rude fiijfes tear. 
 
 Such, l believe, was the firft Rofes hew, 
 
 Which at God's word in beauteous E den grew. 
 
 Queen of the Flowers , which made that Orchard gay. 
 The morning blufhes of the Springs new Day. 
 
 90 With fober pace an heav’enly maid walks in, 
 
 Her looks all fair 3 no fign of Native fin 
 Through her whole body writ 5 Immoderate Grace 
 Spoke things far more than humane in her face. 
 
 It caftsa duiky gloom o’re all the flow’rs 5 
 
 91 And with full beams their mingled Light devowrs. 
 
 An Angel ftraight broke from a (tuning clowd, 
 
 And preft his wings, and with much reverence bow’d. 
 Again he bow’d, and grave approach he made, 
 
 And thus his facred Meflage (weedy faid : 
 
 Hail, full of Grace , thee the whole world {hall call 
 Above all blejl 5 Thee , who fhalt blefs them all. 
 
 Thy llrgin womb in wondrous fort fhall (hrovvd 
 j Ufa the God 3 (and then again he bow'd) 
 
 Conception the great Spirit (hall breathe on thee 5 
 
 9 2 Hail thou, who muft God’s Wife , God's Mother be! 
 With that, his feeming form to heav’n he rear’d 3 
 She low obeifance made, and difappear d. 
 
 Lo a new Star three Eaftern Sages fee 3 
 (For why fhould only Earth a Gainer be r* ) 
 
 They faw this Phofihors infant-light, and knew 
 It bravely ufher’d in a Sun as New. 
 
 They halted all this rifing Sun t’adore 3 
 
 93 With them rich myrrh, and early fpices bore. 
 
 Wife men 5 no fitter gift your ieal could bring $ 
 
 You’ll in a noifome jlable find your King. 
 
 Anon a thoufand Devils run roaring in 3 
 Some with a dreadful fmile deform’dly grin. 
 
 Some (tamp their cloven paws, iome frown and teat 
 The gaping Snakes from their black-knotted hair. 
 
 As if all grief, and all the rage of hell 
 Were doubled now, or that juft now they fell. 
 
 But when the dreaded Maid they entringfaw. 
 
 All fled with trembling fear and filent aw. 
 
 *' ' ' * 
 
 Mat. 1. 1 2. 
 Luk. 3. 
 
 Lu. I. 2f 
 
 2. ti 
 
6 1 
 
 David cis/ A Sacred Poem Book II. 
 
 In her chaft aims ih’ Eternal Infant lies, 
 
 Th* Almighty voice chang’d into feeble cryes. 
 
 Heaven contain’d / irgins oft, and will do more } 
 
 Never aid Virgin contain Heaven before. 
 
 Angels peep round to view this myftick thing, 
 
 And Halleluiah round, all Halleluiah ling. 
 
 No longer could good David quiet bear 
 The unwieldy plcafure which ore-flow’d him here. 
 
 It broke the fetters and burd ope his ey. 
 
 Away the timerous Forms together By. 
 
 Fixt with amaze he flood j and time mud take, 
 
 To learn if yet he were at lad awake. 
 
 Sometimes he thinks that heaven this Vi [ton fent. 
 
 And order’d all the Pageants as they went. 
 
 Sometimes, that only ’twas wild Phanftes play, 
 
 The loole and Icatter’d reliques of the Day. 
 
 94 When Gabriel (no bled Spirit more kind or fair ) 
 
 95 Bodies and cloathes himfelf withthickned 3yr. 
 
 All like a comely youth in lifes frelh bloom j 
 
 Rare workmanfhip, and wrought by heavenly loom! 
 He took for skin a cloud mod loft and bright, 
 
 That ere the midday Sun pierc’d through with light : 
 Upon his cheeks a lively blufh he Ipred } 
 
 Walht from the morning beauties deeped red. 
 
 An harmlefs flaming Meteor (hone for haire. 
 
 And fell adown his (boulders with loofe care. 
 
 He cuts out a (ilk Mantle from the skies, 
 
 Where the mod fprightly azure pleas’d the eyes. 
 
 This he with darry vapours fpangles all, 
 
 Took in their prime e re they grow ripe and fall. 
 
 Of a new Rainbow e’re it fret or fade, 
 
 The choiced piece took out, a Scarf is made. 
 
 Small dreaming clouds he does for wings difplay. 
 
 Not Vertuous Lovers fighs more foft than They. 
 
 Thefe he gilds o’re with the Suns richefl rays, 
 
 Caught gliding o’re pure dreams on which he plays. 
 
 Thus dred the joyful Gabriel pods away, 
 
 And carries with him his own glorious day 
 Through the thick woods 5 the gloomy ftiades a while 
 Put on frelh looks, and wonder why they fmile. 
 
 The trembling Serpents ctofe and lilent ly, 
 
 96 The birds objienc far from his paflage fly. 
 
 A fudden fpring waits on him as he goes, 
 
 Sudden as that which by Creation role. 
 
 Thus he appears to David , at firfl fight 
 
 All earth-bred fears and forrows take their flight. 
 
 In ruihes joy divine, and hope, and red } 
 
 A Sacred calm fhines through his peaceful bred. 
 
 Hail, Man belov’d ! from highed heaven (faid he) 
 
 My mighty Mafier fends thee health by me. 
 
Book II, of the Troubles of David. 
 
 The things thou faw’eft are full of truth and light % 
 
 97 Shap’d in th eglajs of the divine Forefight . 
 
 Ev’n now old Time is harnefting the years 
 To go in order thus t, hence empty fears 5 
 
 Thy Fate’s all white 5 from thy bleft feed (hall fpring 
 The promis’d Shilo> the great JUyfticI^King. 
 
 Round the whole earth his dreaded name (hall found, 
 And reach to Worlds , thatmuft not yet be found. 
 
 The Southern Clime him her foie Lord (hall ftile, 
 
 98 Him all the North , ev en Albions ftubborn Ijle . 
 
 99 My Fellow-Servant , credit what I tell. 
 
 100 Straight into (h3pele(s air unfeen he fell. 
 
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 SECOND BOOK. 
 
 Onours , that is, Beauties , which make things Honou- 
 red 5 in which fenfe JTrg// often ufes the word, and 
 delights in it : 
 
 E* oculis off! ur at Honores. 
 
 And in the 2 Georg, (as in tins place) for Leaves. 
 Frigidus & ft l vis Aquilo decujjit honore ns. 
 
 Jofephtis calls David , Ficus §ar«S&s, The yellow 5 that is, yellow- 
 haired Boy , or rather, T0&//;. Cedrenus fays, that Valentinian the 
 Emperonr was like David, becaufe he had beautiful Eyes, a ruddy 
 complexion, and red, or rather, yellow hair. 
 
 
 p jftiwer, fcwoty and IFifdom , that is, the whole Trinity (The E4- 
 ftfer, rower' j the SW, Love$ the Holy Ghojl , fFz/2/< 
 
 • « /1 * • f _ f it . 1 • • t 
 
 lorn) concurred 
 
 in the Creation of the world : And it is not only preferved by 
 thefe Three, the Power, Love, and Wifdom of God , but by the ema- 
 nations and beams of them derived to, and impreft in the Creatures. 
 Which could not fubfift without Power to Aid, Wifdom to direft 
 thofe A&ions to Ends convenient for their Natures, and Love or 
 Concord, by which they receive mutual neceffary affiftances and 
 benefits from one another. Which Love is well termed by Cicero 
 Cognatio Natur <e, The Kindred, or Confanguinity of Nature. And 
 to Love the Creation of the world, was attributed even by many 
 of the ancient Heathens, the Verfe of Orph. 
 
 Kcu M’n'ns 7rpwT®» jtysrrwj) y ’Epees onXvfiyi tyis. 
 
 Wifdom and Love were Parents of the world : And therefore Heftod 
 in his mad confufed Poem of the Generation of the Gods , after 
 Chaos ,the Earth, and Efe#,bringsin Love, as the firft of all the Gods. 
 
 HL Ef>©# 05 or d^zcvol<m<s i rtholh. 
 
 
 Pherecydes 
 
C\T otes upon the fecond Book ■ 
 
 Pherecydes (aid excellently, that God transformed himfelf into Love, 
 when he began to make the world, 
 
 ’E IS Epoolct fJJelx^Art&CU T 
 A/x jxtPhorfct ^YijM’csp'yeiv. 
 
 4 As Humane hiature is elevated by Grace , fo other Agents are by 
 Love to Operations that are above , and feem contrary to their Na- 
 ture, as the afeenfion of heavy bodies, and the like. 
 
 5 Garlands of Ivy were anciently the ornaments of /V//,and other 
 learned men, as Laurel of Conquerors , Olive of Peace-makgrs , and 
 the like. Horace. 
 
 Me do&arum Heder£ premia frontium 
 Diis ns i fient fu per is 
 
 Me Ivy the reward of learned brows does mingle with the Gods. 
 
 Virg. — '“Atq'i have fine tempora circum 
 
 Inter vi&rices hederam tibi ferperc laurus. 
 
 And let this humble Ivy creep around thy Temples with triumphant 
 Laurel bound. Becau (e Ivy is always green, and requires the fupport 
 of fome ftr.onger Tree, as Learning does of Princes and great men. 
 
 6 Th tObjctt of the Senfitive Appetite is not that which is truly good, 
 but that which appears to be Good. There is great caution to be ufed 
 in Englifh in the placing of Adje&ives (as here) after their Subflan- 
 iives. I think when they conftitute fpecifical differences of the Sub- 
 flantives , they follow beft 3 for then they are to it like Cognomina, 
 or Surnames to Names , and we muft not fay, the Great Pompey , 
 or the Happy Sylla , but Pompey the Great , and Sylla the Happy 3 
 fometimes even in other cafes the Epithete is put laft very graceful- 
 ly, of which a good ear muft be the judge for ought I know, with- 
 out any Rule. I chufe rather to fay Light Divine , and Command Di- 
 vine, than Divine Light, and Divine Command. 
 
 7 Thefe are the Effetfs of Love according to Th. Aquinas in Prima 
 Sec. Quafi. 28. the 1, 2, 3, and 4. Aortic, to whom I refer for the 
 proof and explanation of them, Amor eft affe&us quo cum re amata 
 aut unimur, aut perpetuamiss unionem. Seal, de Subt. 
 
 8 1 Sam. 5. And David faid unto Jonathan , behold to morrow is 
 the new-Moon , and I fijould not fail to fit with the King at meat, but 
 let me go, &c. Ecce Calends funt craftino, & ego ex more federe 
 foleo juxta regem ad vefeendum, &c. The firft day of every month 
 was a Feftival among the Jews : for the Firft-fruits of all things, 
 even all diftin&ions of Times were Sacred to God 3 In it they neither 
 bought nor fold, Amos 8. 4. When will the new Moon be gone, that 
 
 v we may fill Corn 2 the Vulg. Quando t ran ft bit menfis (that is, Primus 
 dies , or Fe/lum Menfis) & venundabimus merces .<? They went to the 
 Prophets to hear the word as upon Sabbaths, 2 Rings 4. 23. Where- 
 fore wilt thou go to him to day ? it is neither New- moon nor Sabbath 3 
 which was likewife a Cufiom among the Romans , for the day of the 
 Calends the High Priefls called together the people (from whence the 
 name of Calends a Calando plebem) to inftrutft them in the divine du- 
 tys which they were to perform that month, Macrob.i.Saturnal.hnd 
 laftly, there were greater Sacrifices on that, than upon other ordina- 
 ry days, Num. 28. 1 1. But of all new- moon syh^Koi the fieventh month 
 
 N n 2 was 
 
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 ™\fote? upon the fecond Boo!\. 
 
 was the moft folemn, it being a!fo the FeaB of Trumpets. It is not 
 evident that this was the New- M-wn fpoken of in this (lory of Da- 
 iid 3 but that it was Co, may probably be conjectured, in that the 
 Text Teems to imply a greater Solemnity than that or ordinary Ca- 
 lends, aud that the Feaftlafted above one day, i Sam. 20. 27. And 
 it came to pafs, that on the morrow, which was the fecond day of the 
 month , David's place was empty. Now the reafon of this greater ob- 
 fervation of the Calends of the Seventh Month (called Tijri, and 
 anfwering to our September) was, becaufe according to the Civil 
 Computation (for the Jews had two accounts of the beginning of 
 the year, one Civil, the other Religious 3 this latter being inftitu- 
 ted in memory of their paftage out of Egypt in the month Abib, 
 that is, about our March) this was the beginning of the year 3 from 
 hence contra&s, and the account of Sabbatical years and Jubilees 
 bare date. It is called by Tome Sabbatbum Sabbat horum , becaule 
 it is the Sabbath of Months 3 for as the fevemh day, and the feventh 
 year, fo the feventh month too was confecrated to God. Of this 
 New- Moon it is that David fpake Pfalm 81.3. Blow the Trumpet in 
 the New- Moon, in the time appointed on our folemn Feafl-day. In 
 inftgni die Jolennitatis veflree. And the Plalm is inferibed, Pro Tor- 
 cularibus 3 which concurs juft with this feventh Moon 3 which Phi- 
 lo in Decal, terms, t legypjtvicw r.v cdkony^iv GsmcropeoLivvci. And S. 
 Auguft. reads, In initio Menfts Tuba. See the Inftitution of this 
 Feftival, Levit. 23. 24. and Numb. 'icy. 1. 
 
 9 The Priefts were wont to blow the Trumpets upon all Feflivals , 
 the year of Jubilee was proclaimed by them with the found of 
 Trumpets through the whole Land 3 nay the Sabbath it feif was 
 begun with it, as Jofephus teftifies, /. 5. Bel. Jud. c. 9. But why the 
 Trumpets were founded more extraordinarily on this day, is hard 
 to find out 3 for which it is named Dies llangoris. Some will 
 have it to be only as a Solemn Promulgation of the Nen>-year 3 
 which opinion is likewife adorned with an allufion to the begin- 
 ning (or as it were New years-Day) of Eternity 3 which is to be 
 proclaimed by Angels in that manner with a great found of a Trum- 
 pet , Mat. 24. 31. 
 
 10 This was Saint BafiCs opinion, but is not much followed, be- 
 caufe when Feflivals are inftituted in memory of any paft Blef- 
 fing, they ufed to be obferved on the Tame day that the blefiang 
 was conferred. 
 
 1 1 This third is the common opinion of the Jews 3 who therefore 
 call this Feftival Fejlum Cornu, and fay, that they founded only 
 upon Rams Horns : but, that, methinks, if this be the true reafon 
 of it, is not neceflary. 
 
 12 The Third Flour 3 1. Nine a clock in the morning : For the day 
 began at fix a clock, and contained twelve Little , or Four Great ' 
 Hours, or Quarters. The firft Quarter from Six to Nine, was called 
 th zThird Hour , becaufe that clofed up the Quarter. 
 
 13 Gay , becaufe the Beads to be Sacrificed, ufed to be Crowned 
 with Garlands, and fometitnes had their Horns gilt , as I fay after- 
 wards. 
 
 For 
 
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6 7 
 
 3\T otes upon the fecond Book . 
 
 14 For on the ordinary New- Moons there was offered up two Bul- 
 locks, one Raw, and (even Lambs of the firft year without fpor, 
 Numb. 28. 11. and a Kid of the Goats, 3 5. and there was added 
 on this New- Moon, one young Bullock, one Ram, feven Lambs of 
 the firft year without blemifh, and one Kid , Numb. 29. which 
 joined, make up my number. Bullocks of Free-necfi 3 that is, which 
 had never been yoked, implyed in the Epithete Toung. Inta&a cer - 
 •vice ‘juvenci, 
 
 15 The outmoft Court of the Tabernacle. 
 
 16 The cuftom of having Stories wrought in Hangings , Coverlet /, 
 rm even wearing Garments, is made to be very ancient by the 
 
 oets. Such is the hiftory of Thefeus and Ariadne in the Coverlet 
 of Thetis Pulvinar , or Marriage Bed. Catull. Argonaut. 
 
 Talibus amplifice vefiis variata figuris 
 Pulvinar complexa juo velabat amilLu. 
 
 • ‘ » I) * -i A V « 
 
 So KLneas in 5 .JEn. gives a Coat to Cloanthus, in which was wrought 
 the rape of Ganymede, 
 
 lntextufq\ puer frondosi regius Ida. 
 
 And many authorities of this kind might be alledged if it were ne- 
 cdfary. '' * * 
 
 1 y To u might fee. That is, It might be feen, or, Anyone flight fee. 
 
 This manner of fpeaking, which puts the fecond perfon Indefinitely, 
 is very frequent among the Poets 5 as Homer , 
 
 (pout JS 56g V ^ceyfiov WLvd IfJLfjjeiw. 
 
 Virg. 4. ^£n. 
 
 Migrantes cernas : 
 
 Upon which Servius fays, Honefta figura ft rem tertia perfin<e in 
 fecundam transferas. Mugire videbis , that is, Videbit aut poterit vi- 
 der e aliquis. So 8. flLn. 
 
 Credas innare rcvulfas Cyclada i 5 that is, Credat quis. 
 
 2 g God is faid to have fpoken with Abraham Nine times 5 that is, fo 
 many times Angels brought him Meilages from God. ,An Angel is 
 called by jofephus tlpoowTrov 
 
 2 q Some make Sara to be the Daughter of Haran , Abrams Brother $ 
 
 others ofTherah by another Wife, which marriages were then law- 
 ful, but the Scripture Gen. n. calls her Terah's Daughter •in-Law, 
 nor Daughter $ others think (he was only Abram's Kinfwoman 5 all 
 which the Hebrews called Sijlers ’A&A<pi$i> non ’A&A<p>?. Grot. Beau- 
 teous were a ftrange Epithete foj* her at the Age (he then had, which 
 was above threefcore years, but that the Scripture calls her fo, 
 and (lie proved her felf to be fo, by ftriking two Kings in love, Pha- 
 raoh and Abimeltch. It is to be believed that people in thole days 
 bore iheir age better than now, and her barrennefs might natural- 
 ly contribute fomewhat to it } but the chief reafon I fuppofeto be 
 a Blejjing of God as particular, as that of her child-bearing afeer the 
 natural feafon. 
 
 20 The Scripture does not fay particularly, that Abram furprifed 
 this Army in, or after a debauch, but it is probable enough for my 
 turn, that this was the cafe. Of thefe Confufed marks of death and 
 
 luxury i 
 
 * 
 
 j 
 
68 °A£ot es upon the fecond Boolp 
 
 luxury , there is ail excellent delcription in the^Eneid, where 
 A hfits and Euryalus (ali upon the quarter of the Enemy. 
 
 Somno vivoqi fepultam. 
 
 Purpuream vomit ille animam, & cum [anguine mi [a 
 
 V wa refert moriens , &c> 
 
 But I had no leifure to expatiate in this place. 
 
 2 i St. Bicrorn fays this Salem was a Town near Scythopolis , called 
 Salem even to this Time 5 and that there were then remaining fome 
 mines of the Pallace of Melchifedec , which is not very probable. [ 
 rather believe him to have been King of J erttfalcm $ for being a 
 Type of Thrift, that feat was moft proper for him, efpecially fince 
 we are fure that Jerufalem was once named Salem , Pfal. In Salem is 
 his Tabernacle , and his habitation in Sion. And the addition of jf eru 
 to it, was from J ebu, the Jebufites 5 that is, Salem of the Jebufites, 
 Jdric. The fituation of Jerufalem 3grees very well with this ftory. 
 For Abram coming to Hebron from the parts about Damafcus , paffes 
 very near Jerufalem , nay nearer than to the other Salem. But con- 
 cerning this King of Salem , Melchifedec , the difficulties are more 
 important. Some make him to be no man, but Ood himfelf, or the 
 Holy Ghoft , as the ancient Melchife dedans and Hieracites , others, 
 to be Chrift himfelf $ others, an Angel, as Origen 5 others to be Sem 
 the fon of Noah j which is little more probable than the former 
 extravagant fancies. That which is moft reafonable, and moft re- 
 ceived too, is, that he was a King of a little Territory among the 
 Canaanites , and a Trie ft for the true God, which makes him lo re- 
 markable among thofe Idolatrous Nations, for which caufe he is 
 termed, dytrea^oyiil®^ becaufe he was not of any of the Genealogies 
 of the Scripture , and therefore the better typified or reprefented 
 Chrift , as being both a King and a Prieft, without being of the T ribe 
 of Levi : But this and the other controverfies about him, are too 
 copious to be handled in a Comment of this Nature. 
 
 2 2 Ver. 18. And Melchifedec King of Salem brought forth bread and 
 trine, &c. The Romanifts maintain, that this was only a Sacrifice , 
 and a Type of the Eucharift, and Melchifedec himfelf was of Chrift $ 
 others, that it wa9 only a Prefent for the relief of Abrams men. 
 Why may we not fay that it was both ? and that before the men 
 were refreffit by bread and wine, there was an offering or preliba- 
 tion of them to God, by the Prieft of the moft High God , as he is 
 denominated? for even this oblation of bread and wine (ufed alfo 
 among the Hebrews') is called 3 vc rice. Levit. 2. and Philo fays of Mel- 
 chifedec upon this occafion Ifoivhuec, edve. I therefore name them 
 Sacred Prefent s. Like him whofe Type he bears $ that is, Chrift. And 
 the Dues he receiv’d were Tenths , whether of all Abrams fubftance, 
 or of the prefent Spoils (ctxepSivia,) is a great controverfie. 
 
 23 Gen. 15. 5. and Gen. 22. 17. I will multiply thy feed as the ftarsof 
 the heaven , and as the [and upon the fea fisore . An ordinary Proverb 
 in all languages, for great numbers. Catul. Aut quot fidera multa cum 
 tacet nox $ and in another place he joyns the fand of the fea too as 
 this Text does. life pulveris Erythr<ei Siderumq $ micantium fibducat 
 numerum. It does no hurt, I think, to add Bright as well as Num- 
 berlefr to the fimilitude. Gen. 
 
2^ Gen. 1 7. It is called a Covenant 5 and circumcifion may well be 
 termed a Mar/^of Homage, becaufe it was a renouncing of the Hefb, 
 and peculiar dedication of Abram and his feed to the fervice of the 
 true God. 
 
 The received opinion is, that two of thefe perfons were Angels, 
 and the Third , God himfelf, for after the two Angels were gone to- 
 wards Sodom, it isfaid, Gen. 18. 22. But Abraham flood yet before 
 the Lord. So Sulpit. Sever. Dominu s qui cum duobus Angelis ad cum 
 venerat. Lyra and Toftatus report, that the Jews have a Tradition, 
 that thefe Three were Michael , Gabriel , and Raphael. The firffc 
 of which reprefented God , and remained with Abraham , the fecond 
 deflroyed Sodom , and the third brought Lot out of it. It was a very 
 ancient opinion that thefe were the Three perfons of the Irinity $ 
 from whence arofe that notorious faying, Ires vidit & unum ado- 
 ravit. 1 his appearing of Gods in the manner of fir angers to punifh 
 and reward men was a common tradition too among the Heathens, 
 Horn. p. Odyjf. 
 
 Kat Lho\ ^eivonv eoiKOTti ctXXoTPxShloi 
 Tlocvlo 101 &k<f'pM(p 6 ooj rn?'SictA 
 
 ’AvQf oo 7 nov vCqjlv t? *5 ouvofjlnv etpopoovfes. 
 
 The Gods in the habits of ftrangers went about to feveral Towns 
 to be eye-witnefles of the juftice and injuflice of men. So Homer 
 makes the Gods to go once a year to feaft, 
 
 • pJT dfA/J fjgvcti ’ AlSlOTDlCM, 
 
 With the unblameable Ethiopians. And we find thefe peregrinati- 
 ons frequent in the Met amorphous. 
 
 Summo delabor Olympo 
 
 Et Deus humana lujlro fub imagine terras. I. Metam. 
 
 2 5 From Ur, the place of his Birth, to Ephrons Cave , the place of 
 his Burial. Ur of the Chaldees , Gen. 1 1. 31. Some of the Jews take 
 Ur here for Fire, and tell a ridiculous fable, that Abraham and Ha- 
 ran his brother were cad by the Chaldeans into a burning furnace 
 for oppofing their Idolatry, in w hich Haran was confumed, but 
 Abraham was preferved. Jofephus and Eujebius, lib. 9. Free par. Evang. 
 fay Ur was the name of a City^ which Jofephus, calls «pi v. and Plin.l. 5. 
 c. 24. makes mention of Ura , a place Ufq--, quem fertur Euphrates. It 
 was perhaps denominated from the worfhip of Fire in that Country. 
 The name continued till Ammianus his time. Ammian. lib. 25. 
 
 2 -7 Mounts. For the place was the Hill Moriah , which the Fulgar 
 ' tranflates Montem Viftonis . Aquila r ylwr %fcc(pccm j which I con- 
 ceive to be, not as fome render it, In terram lucidam , but terram 
 apparentem , the place which appears a great way off, as being a 
 Mountain. Symmachus for the fame reafon has ’Qfiouns, which is the 
 fame with the Latine Viftonis 5 and the Septuag. call it the 
 
 High Country $ others interpret it. The Country of worf/rip, by Anti- 
 cipation. And it W3S not perhaps without relation to this Sacrifice 
 of Abrahams , that this was chofen afterwards to be the feat of So- 
 lomons Temple. 
 
 28 The Boy. Our Englifh Tranflaticn, Lad, which is not a word for 
 verfe, the Latin Piter , Boy. Aben L zra is cited to make him at that 
 1 time 
 
7 ° 
 
 — 
 
 3\fotes upon the fecond Boof\. 
 
 time but ten or twelve years old. But that is an age unfit for the 
 carrying of fuch a Burden as he does here. Rivet for that reafon 
 conceives that he was about 1 6. years of age, Jofephus 25. Others 
 33. becaufe at that age our Saviour (whofe Tjpe he was) was facri- 
 ficed. Some of the Jews 36. none of which are contrary to the He - 
 brew ufe of the word Boy 5 for fo all young men are termed, as Bcn- 
 jamin ,' Gen. 43. 8. an djofeph, JoJhua , and David when he fought 
 with Goliah. The Painters commonly make him very young, and 
 my defeription agrees mod with that opinion, for it is more poe- 
 tical and pathetical than the others. 
 
 29 Becaufe the Covenant and Promifes were made in Ifuac, Gen. 1 7. 
 21. Heb. II. 17, 18. 
 
 go The ancients (both Hebrews and other Nations) never omitted 
 • the wajhing at lead of their hands and feet before they fat or lay 
 down to Table. Judg. 19. 21. it isfaid of the Levite and his Con- 
 cubine, They wafit their feet and did eat and drinks So Abraham 
 fays to the three Angels , Gen. 18.4. Let a little water , 1 pray yon 
 bt fetcht , and wajh your feet , and refi your felves under the Tree , and 
 I will fetch a nsorfel of Bread , &c. So likewile JoJeph’s Steward treats 
 his Maders brethren. So David to Uriahs 2 Sam. 1 1. 8. Go down to 
 thy houfe , and wajh thy feet , &c. and there followed him a ntefs of 
 meat from the King . It is in vain to add more authorities of a thing 
 fo notorious. And this cudom wa9 then very neceflary, for their 
 Legs and Thighs being bare, they could not but contradi much dirt, 
 and were (of which this cudom is fome argument) to lie down up- 
 on Beds , which without wadiing they would have fpoiled. Homer 
 makes the Wives and Daughters even of Princes to wa(h the feet 
 of their gueds, 
 
 — •-•ccpp^ouov ij tktu gS-®.. Athen. L. 1. c. 8. 
 
 For this (fays he) was the ancient cudom * and fo the daughters of 
 Cocalus waftu Minos's at his arrival in Sicilie. But the more ordi- 
 nary, was to have young and beautiful fervants for this and the like 
 minideries. Befides this, it was accounted neceflary to have wafls- 
 pots danding by at the Jewifis feafls, to purifie themfelves, if they 
 fhould happen to touch any thing unclean. And for thefe reafons 
 fix Waterpots dood ready at the wedding fead of Cana in Galilee. 
 
 3 1 Ecclef. 2 . 8 . I gat men- fingers and woman fingers , the delights 
 of the Jons of men y oivoyovs xj divop^af. He and (he fervants to fill 
 wine, fays the Septuagint : Though I know the Vulgar, and our 
 Englidi Edition tranflate it otherwife 5 both differently : And it is 
 incredible how curious the ancients were in the choice of Servants 
 to wait at Table. Mart. 
 
 Stant pueri , Dominos quos precer effe meos. 
 
 32 After wafijing they always anointed themfelves with precious oyl. 
 So Judah 10. 2. So Naomi to Ruth , Wajh thy felf there fore , and 
 anoint thy Jelf So David after the death of his child, Roje up and 
 wajht , and anointed himfelf &c. So Horn. Od. 6. of Nauficaa and 
 her Maids, 
 
 C A i 3 Aoeajcifjjevu Xj alyxkvw. AiV fcAaiw 
 
 IS&Trvcv lt/\oyJo 'Trv.p op^praiv 'nvMX.fjJiQ. 
 
 But 
 
7 l 
 
 g\£otes upon the fecond Book . 
 
 But this too is as notorious as the other fafhion of waffnng. Small 
 Prifins. Boxes of Oyntments, fuch as the woman poured upon 
 the head of our Saviour, Mat. 2 6. dhd Cctc^eyv (jAga, that is, as 
 \ve fay, an lnhflorn , though it be not made ot Horn , but any other 
 matter, for this was not of ALbafter , S. Marl^ affirming that it 
 was broken, Horace. 
 
 Nardi parvus Onyx. 
 
 Claudian. Gemmatis alii per totum balfama teclum 
 Effudere cadis 
 
 33 The Roman cuftom was, to have three Beds to each Table (from 
 whence the word Triclinium ) and three perjons to each bed (though 
 fometimes they exceeded in both 5 ) and it is likely they took this 
 from the Aftatiques as well as the very faftiion of difcubation , for 
 conveniently there could be no more. To Saul for ftate I gave a 
 whole Bed 5 and the other two to his own Sons, Jonathan 7 Iflmi 
 and Melchtjna , 1 Sam. 14. 49. to Abner his Colin German and Cap- 
 tain of his Hofts, and to his two Sons in Law, Adriel and David . 
 Neither does it convince me that Lying down was now in ufe, be- 
 caufeit is faid here, 1 Sam. 20. 25. And Saul fate upon his feat as at 
 other times , even upon a feat by the wall: becaufe the words of Sef 
 fion and Accubation are often confounded, both being in practice 
 at feveral times, and in feveral Nations. 
 
 34 At the Feafts of the Ancients, not only the rooms were ftrewed 
 with flowers , but the Guefls and the Waiters , and the very drink- 
 ing Bowls were crowned with them. Virg. 
 
 Crateras magnos flatuunt & vina coronant 5 and 
 Tum pater Anchifes magnum cratera corona 
 
 Induit , implevit q, mero 
 
 Which cannot be interpreted as fome do Homer \ 
 
 Keffi rests frsb&fxvio orbloTo, 
 
 Which they fay are faid to be Crowned , when they are filled fo full, 
 that the liquor ftanding higher than the brims of the Bowl, looks 
 like a Crown upon it, Athen. l.j. c . 1 1. But why may we not conftrue 
 Homer , They Crowned , K esuinests 0 tvIoTo, Bowls of drin as well as 
 They Crowned Bowls with drinks? 
 
 35 The name of God, the Tetragrammaton i that was not to be pro- 
 nounced. 
 
 36 i Sam. 20. 30. ThouSon of theperverfe rebellious woman , &c. The 
 
 Vulg. Fili mulieris virum ultro rapientis $ that is as much as to fay. 
 Thou Son of a Whore. Upon which place Grotius. Sons ufe to be like 
 their Parents, and therefore Saul who would not accufe himfelf, 
 cafts the fault of his ftubbornnefs and ill nature upon his Mother. 
 In which I cannot abide to be of his opinion 5 the words are fo un- 
 gracious from the mouth of a Prince : I rather think that they im- 
 port this, thou who art fo ftubborn and unnatural that thou mayeft 
 feem to be not my fon, but a Bajlard , the fon of a whore or rebel- 
 lious woman * and that which follows in the fame Verfe confirms 
 this to me. Thou haft chofen the Son of Jeffe to thine own confufton^and 
 to the confufton of thy Mothers nakgdnefs } that is, to her fhame, who 
 will be thought to have had thee of fome other man, and not of 
 me. O o I Sam, 
 
/ 
 
 I 
 
 72 3 \£otef upon the fecond Boo^. 
 
 37 I Sam. 20. 34. And Jonathan arofe front the Table in fierce anger , 
 In ira furoris. But his paffion (it feems) did not overcome his duty 
 or difcretion 3 for he arofe without faying any thing. 
 
 I omit here Jonathans (hooting Arrows, and fending his Page for 
 them, from the 35 to the 40 verl'e 3 By Horace his rule, 
 
 Et qti£ 
 
 Defperes tra&ata nitefcere poffe , relinquat. 
 
 And what art or induftry could make that ftory jhine ? befid^ it 
 was a fubtilty that 1 cannot for my life comprehend 3 for fince he 
 went to David , and talked to him himfelf, what needed all that 
 politick trouble of the (hooting ? 
 
 38 The Head , which is the feat of Fancy. 
 
 39 Thefe are called by the Schoolmen , Entia Rationis, but are rather 
 Entia Imaginationis , or Phantafiique Creatures. 
 
 Inter fe quorum difcordia membra videmus , Lucr. L. 5. 
 And afterwards, 
 
 Prima Leo , pofirema Draco , media ipfa Chimera , 
 
 Which is out of Homer , 
 
 AgwV £ ooncfre S'&tuMV. 
 
 40 When the Country people in Theffaly faw men firfi: that came on 
 Horfeback, and drove away their Cattel, they imagined the Horfe 
 and Men to be all one, and called them Centaures from driving away 
 of Oxen 5 according to which fancy, they are truly faid to ride 
 upon themfelves. 
 
 41 Unlefs thou take away the Lame and the Blind , thou (halt not 
 come in hither, thinking David cannot come in hither, 2 Sam. 5. 6. 
 There are fome other interpretations of the place, than that which 
 I here give 3 as that the Idols of the Jebufites were meant by the 
 Lame and the Blind. But this carries no probability. Thinking 
 David cannot come hither 3 is a plain proof that they did it in 
 fcorn of David , and confidence of the extraordinary ftrength of 
 the place 3 which without queftion was very great, or elfe it could 
 not have held out fo many hundred years fince the entrance of the 
 lfraelites into the land, in the very midft of them. 
 
 42 5 Dagon the Deity moft worfhipt by the Philiftims . 
 
 43 The Engli(h fays Mulberry Trees 3 the Latine, Pear Trees $ 
 the (afeft is to leave it indefinite. The found of a going in the 
 Tops of the Mulberry Trees, v. 24. Some interpret. The noife of 
 the dropping of the dew like Tears from the Trees. From whence 
 the Greeks tb xhetuSrpLcou©*. 
 
 44 Hadad-Efar King of Z^bah, which is called by Jofephus Sophene , 
 a part of Ccelofyria , confining upon the Half Tribe of Manajfes. This 
 Kingdom is firft mentioned, 1 Sam. 14. 47. at what time (it feems) 
 it was under feveral Princes, and againft the Kings of Zoba. 
 
 45 Adad was at that time King of Damafcus , according to Jofephus , 
 and the family of the Adads reigned there long after in great 
 luftre. 
 
 4 6 The Children of Ammon. 
 
 47 Moloch is called peculiarly the God of the Ammonites ,1 Kin. 1 1.5. 
 and 7. Fonjeca takes it to be Priapus , confounding it with Belphegor 
 
 of 
 
 / 
 
 t 
 
• I 
 
 3\(otes upon the fecond Book,. 
 
 of the Moabites 3 Arias Montanus will have it to be Mercury de- 
 riving it from Malach, Nuntius. Others more probably, Saturn , 
 becaufe the like Worfhip and like Sacrifices were ufed to him. 
 Macrob. i. Saturn. Curt. Lib. 4. Diodor. Lib . 20, See. I rather be- 
 lieve the Sun was worfhipped under that name by the Ammonites, 
 as the King of Heaven 3 for the word fignifies King 3 and it is the 
 fame Deity with Baal, or Bel of the Adrians and Sidoni an s, fig- 
 nifying Lord. Some think that children were not burnt or fa- 
 crificed to him, but only confecrated and initiated by pafiing be- 
 tween two fires 3 which perhaps might be a cuftom too. But it is 
 evident by feveral places of Scripture, that this was not all : And 
 the Jews fay, that pajfing through the Fire , is but a Phrafe for Burn - 
 ing. He had /even Chappels from the number of the Planets , of 
 which the Sun is King 3 for which reafon the Perfians likewife 
 made j even Gates to hint In the firft Chappel was offered to him 
 a Cake of fine flower, in the fecond a Turtle , in the third a Sheep, 
 the fourth a Rant , the fifth an Heifer , the fixth an Ox, and the fe- 
 venth a Man, or Child, commonly a young Child . The Image was 
 of Birafs, of wonderful greatnefs, with his hands fpread, and fet 
 on fire within, perhaps to reprefent the heat of the Sun, and not, 
 as fome think, to burn the Children in his Arms. He had like- 
 wife the face of a Bullock in which figure too Ojyris among the 
 Egyptians reprefented the Sun, and Mithra among the Perfiani. 
 
 Stat. Indignata fequi torquentem cornua Mithram . 
 
 But though they intended the worfhip of the Sun, under this name 
 of Moloch, it was indeed the Devil that they worfhipped 3 which 
 makes me fay, Grinning through a blacky Cloud, &c. 
 
 48 Swift Tygris, Curt. L. 4. No River in the Eaft runsfo violently 
 as Tygris, from which fwiftnefs it takes the name 5 for Tygris in 
 the Perfian Language fignifies an Arrow. 
 
 49 Helant, or Chelant, which Ptolomy calls Alum at ha , a Plain near 
 the Foords of Euphrates. 
 
 50 The Metropolis of Ammon, fince Philadelphia . 
 
 5 1 And he took their Kings Crown from off his head ( the weight 
 whereof was a Talent of Gold, with the precious (tones) and it 
 was fet on David's head, 2 Sam. 12. 30. and the like, 1 Chron. 20. 
 2. Tulit diadema regis eorum de capite ejus, &c. But the Seventy 
 have it, Kcu eAa£g t &<pa,vov MoA^'/w, Ba^An©* cuurrwv 'Son $ Jt*paA?* 
 vjjAj, &c. He took the Crown of Molchom their King from off his 
 head. That is, The Crown upon the head of their Idol Moloch, 
 or Melchom 3 which makes fome of the Greek Fathers fay, That 
 KLelchoms Image had a bright precious (tone in form of the Morn - 
 ingjiar, placed on the top of his forehead. I rather follow the 
 Englifh Tranflation. 
 
 52 Some would have Solomon to have begun his reign at eleven 
 years old, which is very unreafonable. Sir W. Raleigh , methinks, 
 convinces that it was in the 19. year of his age 3 at which time it 
 might truly be faid by David to Solomon, Thou art a wife man 3 
 and by Solomon to God, 1 am but a young Child. 
 
 53 lam not ignorant that I go contrary to moft learned men in this 
 
 O 0 2 point, 
 
74 
 
 £\£otes upon the fecond Bool 
 
 point, who make Sofia, of which (he was Queen, a part of Arabia 
 Fcclix, 
 
 Virg. Solis efi thurea virga Sab<eif . 
 
 And Frankincenfe was one of her prefentsto Solomon, Pfalm. 72. 
 The Kings of Arabia and Saba. The City where (he lived they fay 
 was called Marab 3 by Strabo , Mariaba 3 and her, fome name, Ni- 
 canna \ others, Makeda 3 the Arabians, Bulky?. This confifts well 
 enough with her title of the Queen oj Ethiopia-, for there were 
 two Ethiopia’s, the one in AJia, the other in Afiick. Neve» ;hele(s, 
 I make her here Queen of this latter Ethiopia for two reasons 3 firft 
 becaufe (he is called in the New leftament Queen of the South, 
 which (eems to me to be too great alitle >or the Queen of a fmall 
 Territory in Arabia, lying full Eaft, and but a litde Southward of 
 Jud<ea 3 and therefore the Wtfemen that came to worfhip Chnft 
 from thofe parts, are termed E afiern, and not Southern Sages . 
 Secondly, all the Hiftories of the Abyjfines or African Ethiopians 
 affirm, that (he was Queen of their Country, and derive the Race 
 of their Kings from her and Solomon, which the ordinary names of 
 them feem to confirm, and the cuftom of Circumcifion ufed even 
 to this day, though they be Chriftians. Ip fine, whatever the truth 
 be, this opinion makes a better (bund in Poetry. 
 
 54 This Egyptian King's name is very varioufly written. Skiffs ac the 
 Englfth, Sefic Latine, Sufikjm Septuagint, Sufic Jofephus, Sufi fin 
 Cedrenus alfo, Sajuges, Sofonchis, Sofachii 3 and by Eufibiuu Smen- 
 des: Jofephus, 1 . 8 . proves that Herodot . falfely aferibes the a£ls of 
 this Sufic to Sefoftris, and particularly his fetting up of Piliars in 
 Palefiine , with the figures of womens privy parts graven upon 
 them, to reproach the effeminatenefs of thpf^ Nations. The Scri- 
 pture fays, his Army was without number, compofed of Lubims, \. 
 Lybians, the Countries weft of Egypt. Suk^yms, from Succoth Tents, 
 Lat. Troglodyte, a people bordering upon the Red fia\ by others, 
 Arabes Egyptii , or Ichthyophagi 3 and Ethiopians , Cufitee , Jof< ph. 
 which is more probable, than to make them, as fome do, the people 
 of Arabia Defirta and Petrsta. From this time the Egyptians claim- 
 ed the fovereignty of Jud a?, 2 Chr. 128. 
 
 55 Adadefar, 1 Chiron, 18 7, I mention rather the golden (hields 
 taken by David, than thofe made by Solomon, becaufe David might 
 be more concerned in them. 
 
 5 6 ... The ftory of this great battel between Abijah and Jeroboam isone 
 of the ftrangeft and humanely mod hard to believe, aimed in the 
 whole Old Tedament, that out of a Kingdom not half fo big a9 
 England, five hundred thoufand chofen and valiant men (hould be 
 (lain in one battel^ and of this not fo much as any notice taken in 
 Abijah’ s or Jeroboam's lives in the fird of Kings. It adds much to the 
 wonder, that this defeat (hould draw no other confequence after it 
 but, Abijah’ s recovery of two or three Towns 3 no more than all the 
 mighty troubles and changes in Ijrael, that hapned afterwards in 
 Ajds time, who had befides, the advantage of being a virtuous and 
 victorious Prince. Sir W. Raleigh makes a good difeourfe to prove 
 the reafon of this to have been, becaufe the fucceffors of Solomon 
 
 . . (till 
 
75 
 
 5\fotes upon the fecond Booh. 
 
 ftill kept up that feverity and arbitrarinefs of Government, which 
 firft caufed the reparation, but that all the Kings of JJrael allow- 
 ed thofe liberties to the people, upon the fcore of which Jeroboam 
 pofleft himfelf of the Crown $ which the people chofe rather to 
 enjoy, though with great Wars and difturbances, than to return 
 to the quiet which they enjoyed with fervitude under Solomon . 
 There may be fomething of this perhaps in the cafe 5 but even 
 though this be true, it is fo ftrange that the Kings of Judah (hould 
 never (among fo many changes) find a party in Ijrael to call them 
 in again, that we rauft fly to the abfolute determination of God\ 
 will for a caufe of it, who being offended with the fins of both, 
 made both his inftruments of vengeance againft one another, and 
 gave vi&ories and other advantages to Judah 9 not for bleffings to 
 that, but for Curfes and Scourges to J/rael. God punijht one± but 
 blefl not th other fide. 
 
 57 This Superftition of confecrating Groves to Idols grew fo fre- 
 quent, that there was fcarce any fair green Tree that was not dedi- 
 cated to forne Idol, 
 
 Lucoffi vetufD * 1 ' J 
 
 Religione truces & robora Numinis inftar. Claud. 
 
 The word it felf Lucus is conceived by fome to come a Lucendo , 
 from the conflant Light of Sacrifices burnt there to the Gods, or 
 rather perhaps from Tapers continually burning there in honour 
 of them. At laft the very Trees grew to be the Idols : 
 
 —gyuercHs, oracula prima. Ovid. \ ; 
 
 The Druid# had their name from worfbipping an Oafc and among 
 the Celt# an Oak was the Image of Jupiter , the Holm Tree had no 
 lefs honour with the Hetrurians. Tacitus fays the ancient Germans 
 called Trees by the names of the Gods , 2 Kings 23.6. Jo [tab is (aid 
 to bring out the Groves from the houfe of the Lord 5 where it 
 feems the Idols themfelvesare called Groves : either having gotten 
 that name from (landing eommoly in Groves , or perhaps becaufe 
 they were the Figures of Trees adored by them, or of Idols with 
 Trees reprefented too about them} as ABs 19. 24. the filver (imi- 
 litudes of Dianas Temple , made by Demetrius , are termed Tem- 
 ples of Diana. 
 
 58 The number of the Armies is here like wife more than wonder- 
 ful, Afds confiding of five hundred and eighty thoufand, and %e- 
 rah\ of ten hundred thoufand men, called Ethiopians ^Cu fit # : Now 
 though I took the Cufites of Sufacs Army to be the Ethiopians of 
 Africi [, for it is very likely he might bring up thofe as well as Lybi - 
 ans into Palejiine } yet it is improbable that Zer'ah (hould march 
 with fuch ah Army thrbugh all Egypt , out of that Ethiopia 5 be- 
 fides, Gerar and the Cities thereabout’ are fpoiled by Afij as belong- 
 ing to ZerJh , but that is in Arabia Petraea, which I fuppofe to be 
 his Kingdom, though perhaps with other Countries thereabouts 5 
 and with the help of his. neighbour Princes : for other wife it is hard 
 to believe, that his Army could : be fo great. It is clear that the 
 Arabians were called Ethiopians as well as the Abyjfines , both de- 
 fending from Chus. 
 
 He 
 
7 6 3\fotes upon the fecond Bool 
 
 He loft fo many of his Subjects of Arabia Petr<sa y as might make 
 that like Arabia Defert a. 
 
 59 It is ftrange, that after his being able to bring fuch an Army into 
 the field, after his great fuccefs againft Zerah , and his Fathers but 
 a little before againft Jeroboam , he {hould be fo alarmed with the 
 War of Bajfha(a. Murtherer, and an unfetled Ufurper , for which 
 caufe l call him Perjured ) as to give his own and the Temples 
 Treafures for the afiiftance of Benhadad : But it was not fo much 
 out of fear of Baa/ha alone, as of Benhadad too at the fame time, 
 who would have joined with Baa/ha , if he had not been brought 
 off to join with A/a . The Family of the Adads then reigned in 
 Damafcus y were grown mighty Princes, and fo continued long 
 after. But the Afiiftance was very Dangerous $ for the Syrians 
 having by this occafion found the weaknefs of both Kingdoms, of 
 lfrael and j fud<ea y and enriched themfelvcs at once upon both, ne- 
 ver ceafed afterwards to moleft and attacque them. ' 
 
 60 The Fates 3 that is, according to th zChriftian Poetical manner 
 of (peaking, the Angels to whom the Government of this world is 
 committed. The meaning is, that having a command to kill the 
 King , and feeing J ehofapbat in Kingly Robes, and looking only up- 
 on the outward dilguife of Ahab (without flaying to confider w ho 
 the perfon was) they had like to have caufed the King of Judah to 
 be (lain inftead of the King of Iferael. He had like to have dyed, 
 as Virgil fays. Alieno vulnere . 
 
 61 Seir , A little Country lying between Edom and Moab. 
 
 62 Jehoram is faid to have reigned eight years in Jerufalem 2 Kings 
 8*17.2 Chron. 2 1. 20. but it is apparent by moft evident colle&ion 
 out of the Text, that either feven of thofe eight years (as forne 
 will have it) or at leaft four, are to be reckoned in the life of his 
 Father Jehofaphat. Which makes me wonder at Sulpit. Severus his 
 miftake, who fays, Joram filius regnum tenuit ( Jofaphat rege de - 
 fun8o) annos duo deviginti : Reigned eighteen years. I rather think 
 it (hould be annos duos , and that deviginti is crept in fince. Ochofea , 
 or Ahazia reigned fcarce one year. 
 
 63 Athalia , by fome Gotholia y Her murder of all that remained (as 
 (he thought) of the Family of David , made her only pretence to 
 the Government, which was then Vacua poffeJfio y and belonged to the 
 firfl pojje/jbr. She had been in effed in poileflion of it all the time 
 of her Husband Jehoram , and Son Ochofea , 'EawvfbLae [mMvcc 6 k 
 nv Aa£7<Ttf >^xTaA vnuv otx.H y irciv F e^cc(petviaou <tu yiv Jofeph. And 
 after thefe Murders here was a double Ufeurpation of Athaliah y firft as 
 (he was not of the Houfee of David. And fecondly, as (he was a Wo- 
 man. For the Crown of David did not, as the French fay, Fall to 
 the Diftajfe Tomber en quenoutlle y Deut. 17. 15. Yet (he reigned 
 peaceably almoft feven years, which was very much to be w ? ondred 
 at, not only in regard of her murders, ufurpation, tyranny and Ido- 
 latry at home, but becaufe Jehu then King of lfraef was a fworn ene- 
 my of the Houfe of Ahab y and had vowed to root it all out, which 
 like wife he effeded, except in the perfon of this wicked woman, 
 who neverthelefs perifhed at laft as (he deferved, Abfolvitqs Dcum. 
 
 2 Kirgs 
 

 ,7'fotes upon the fecond Bool-;. 
 
 2 Kings mentions but one Invafion of HazaeL s King of Aram or 
 T Syria , which was compounded by J oas for a great fum of money. 
 The 2 of Chronicles mentions likewife but one, which ended in the 
 lofs of a battel by j has, and the daughter of moft of the Princes 
 of Judah. Some think that both thofe places (ignifie but one war, 
 and that the composition followed the vi&ory. That they were 
 fevers! Invasions appears to me more probable, and that mention- 
 ed in the Chronicles to be the former of the two, though it be ge- 
 nerally ctherwife thought , for it is more likely, that Joas (hould 
 be driven to accept of that coftly and fhameful compofition, after 
 the lofs of a battel, and of the greateft part of his Nobility, againft 
 a fmall number , than before he had ever tried his fortune in 
 the field againft the Aramites. Neither is it fo probable that the 
 Syrians having made that agreement for a vaft Treafure, (hould 
 again break it, and invade them with a fmall company, as that 
 having at firft with a party only defeated the Judcean Army, they 
 (hould afterwards enter with greater Forces to profecute the Vi- 
 ctory, and therewith force them to accept of fo hard and di(ho- 
 nourable conditions. But it may be objected, that it is faid, 
 2 Chron. 24, 25. When they ( the Syrians ) departed from him (for 
 they left him in great difeafes) his onS>n fervants confpired againfi 
 him , and flevp him ; as if this followed immediately after the Bat- 
 tel. But he that obfervesthe manner of writing ufed in the Kings 
 and Chronicles , and indeed all other Hiftorical parts of the Scrip - 
 pture , (hdl find the relation very imperfeft and confufed (efpe- 
 cially in circumftances of Time) reciting often the latter things 
 firft, by Anticipation. So that ivhen they departed, &c. may relate 
 nor to this Defeat which in the Text it immediately follows, but 
 to the other compofition afterwards $ which may be here omitted, 
 becaufe that fecond Invafion was but a Confequence and almoft 
 Continuance of the former : In which refpeft one delation (2 Chro- 
 nicles) mentioning the firft part, which was the Battel only 5 and 
 the other ( 2 Kings) the fecond, which was the fending in of new 
 Forces, and the conditions of agreement, both have fulfilled the 
 duty of Epitomies. 
 
 65 That is, in the fime manner as his Father Jots 5 both being 
 virtuous and happy at firft, wicked and unfortunate at the laft 5 
 with the fame refemblance in their defeats, the one by the Syri- 
 ans, the other by the lfraelites 5 and in the confequences of them, 
 which were the lofs of all their Treafures, and thofe of the Tem- 
 ple, a diihonourable Peace j and their murders/ by their own 
 fervants. 
 
 66 This punifhment, I fuppole, was infli&ed on them as Rebels , not 
 as enemies . 
 
 6y Dzziah fo he is called in our Tranfhtion of the Chronicles, the 
 Septuagint ’O £/<*«, and fo Jofephus 3 but in Kings he is named Aza* 
 rias , which was the High Priefis name in his time. 
 
 68 At firft from men , 2 Chron. 26. 21. Dwelt in an hottfc apart, 
 being a Leper. So likewife 2 Kings 15. 5. according to the Law 
 
 con* 
 
7 8 
 
 3\(otef upon the fecond Bool 
 
 concerning Lepers , Levit . 19. 46. brow earth at lafi : For Jofephus 
 reports, that the grief caufed his death ygpvov fxyj mva Swytv r? 
 
 mvXlus i<5Wt&(/ amCtoV B toy — gTralx VSTO hVID’iS X. CcSv/jIm CL'TTt- 
 
 SkcvtV' 
 
 69 Jofephus gives Jothan an high EJogy 5 That he wanted no kind 
 of vertue, but was religious towards God, juft to men, and wife 
 in Government. 
 
 70 To the Idol Moloch , of which before. When they burnt the 
 Child in Sacrifice, it was the cuftom to make a great noife with 
 Drums, Trumpets, Cymbals, and other Inftruments, to the end 
 that his cries might not be heard. Hinnon , a vally full of Trees 
 clofe by j }erufalem i where Moloch was worfbipped in this execra- 
 ble manner, called Qehinnon , from whence the word Gehenna 
 comes for Hell 5 it was called likewife Tophet . Some think ( as 
 Theodor, Salia , &c. ) that Achaz only made his Son pafs between 
 two fires for a Luftration and Cnnfecration of him to Moloch , be- 
 caufe it is faid, 2 Kings 16. 2. He made his Son to pafs through the 
 fire. But 2 Chron . 26. 3. explains it. He burnt his Children in the 
 fire. And J ofephus, eifolxcis Ifriov o^o^ilnwo? 
 
 7 1 Tight- Pillefer^ or Tiglat-phul-afar. The Son of Phut, called by 
 Annius Phul Belochus , by others Belofits , by Diodor, Belefes , the 
 Afibciate of Arbaces in deftroying Sardanapalus , and the Affy- 
 rian Empire, After which, the Government of Babylon and Affy- 
 ria was left to him by Arbaces , which he foon turned into an ab- 
 folute Soveraignty, and made other great additions to it by con- 
 queft. 
 
 72 For after the fpoil of Syria and Ifrael , which he deftroyed upon 
 Achas quarrel, he poffeft himfelf alfo of a great part of j hd<ea 9 
 which he came to fuccour, bore away the chief riches of the Coun- 
 try, and made Achas his Tributary and fervant. 
 
 7 3 The Rabbies , and out of them Abulenfis and Cajet an fay the An- 
 gel of God deftroyed them by fire from Heaven. Jofephus fays by 
 a Peftilence , Aoi/xot? voau. 
 
 74 He was (lain in the Temple of Nefioth , Septuagint, Jo - 
 
 fephus mS vocca teysfjdvuy by his two eldeft Sons Adramelec 
 
 and Sarafar , fome fay, becaufe in his diftrefs at Pelufium ( of which 
 fee Herodoti) he had bound himfelf by vow to facrifice them to his 
 Gods. Others more probably, becaufe he had declared Jfarhad - 
 don , their younger brother by another Mother , his Succeffor. He- 
 rod . reports that this Sennacherib’s Statue was in the Temple of 
 Vulcan in Egypt , with this Infcription, 
 
 sLi$ eput 'ns o&tav ovce^ns t&o. 
 
 Let him who looks upon me learn to fear God. 
 
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 75 It is not plain by the Scripture, that the Sun went backward, 
 but that the Jhadow only, upon that particular Dial y which Vatablus , 
 Montanus , and divers others believe. However this opinion hath 
 the authority of all the Greeks and Latine Fathers. 
 
 76 Forgetful Man , which is the fignification of his name. 
 
 The 
 
TATotes upon the fecond Boolp 
 
 79 
 
 77 The Egyptians wor (hipped Two Calves , Apis and Mnevis, the one 
 dedicated to the Sun, and the other to the Moon 5 or rather, the 
 being an Idol or Symbol of the Sun, and the other of the Moon 5 
 
 on; 
 
 that is in their Sacred Language , of Ofyris and JJis. From the 
 Egyptians the Ifraelites took this Idolatry, but applying to it the 
 name of the True God , whom they thought fit to worfhip under 
 the fame figure, as they had feen Ofyris worfhipped in Egypt. Such 
 was Aarons Calf or Oxe, and Jeroboams two Calves eredted in Dan 
 and Bethel ( which Religion he learnt at the time of his banifh- 
 ment in Egypt ) which I do not believe to have been two diffe- 
 rent Idols, in imitation of Apis and Mncvis , but that both w r ere 
 made to reprefent the fame true God , which he thought might as 
 well be adored under that Figure , as the Ofiris was, or Sun of the 
 Egyptians. 
 
 Of Ofyris , fee before the Note upon the Ode called, The Plagues 
 of Egypt , ib. 
 
 78 See Note 47. where I fay that his Image was of Brafs$ how then 
 could it fall to Afhes in his own Fires .<? that is, it was firft melted, 
 and then beaten to duft, as the graven Image of the Groves which 
 Manaffes fet up, and which Jofiah burnt, and then ftampt to pow- 
 der 5 which ftamping was not neceflary if it had been of Wood, 
 for then it would have burnt to afhes, 2 King. 23. 6 . 
 
 79 The Sydonians had two Principal Idols , Baal and Afiarte , or 
 AJhtaroth , i. The Sun and the Moon 3 which Afiarte is perhaps the 
 jj BaaA, mentioned often in the Septuagint, Tab. 1. 5. 10 vov Tr BaaA 
 
 They facrificed to She- Baal the Cow. Both the Sun and 
 Moon were reprefented anciently under that Figure , Luc. de Dea 
 Syr. A gdfyjv S' eyv Sty.ec 0 o^Anvxlav tyyo.evcu, her Image was the Statue 
 of a Woman, having on her head the head of a Bull. 
 
 Syderum Regina bicornis. Hor. 
 
 80 Herodian teftifies, that Heliogabalus that is, the Baal of the Ty- 
 
 rians ) was worfhipped in a Great Stone , round at bottom, and 
 ending in a Spire, to fignifie the nature of Fire. In the like Fi- 
 gure Tacitus reports that Venus Paphia was worfhipped , that 
 is, I fuppofe , the Moon 5 Afiarte ( for the Cyprian fuperftition 
 is likely to have come from the Tyrians) the Wife of Baal. 
 I find alfo Lapis to have been a firname of Jupiter 5 Jupiter 
 Lapis. t 
 
 8 1 Dea Syria , which is thought to be Venus Urania , that is, the 
 Moon Men 3 facrificed to her in the habit of women , and they in 
 that of Me*/,becaufe the Moon was efteemed, appgroGS&us, both Male 
 and Female , Macrob. Saturn. 3. 8. from whence it was called Lu- 
 nus as well as Luna , and Venus too, Deus Venus , Jul. Firm, fays of 
 thefe Priefts, Virilem fixum ornatu muliebri dedecorant , which is the 
 occafion of the Law , Deut. 22. 5. 
 
 82 2 Kings 17. 30. And the men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth 5 
 that is, built a Temple or Tabernacle ( for Succoth is a Tabernacle) 
 £0 Benoth , or Benos, or Binos $ for Suid. has B^©-, 2»^ 
 
 00 To Melita, the Babylonian Venus. Of whofe worfhip Herodot 
 
 P p Li. 
 
8o 
 
 gfotes upon tbe fecond Boolp 
 
 L. i. reports, That Jirgins crowned with Garlands late in order 
 in her Temple, feparated from one another by little cords, and 
 never ftirred from thence till fome ftranger came in, and giving 
 them a piece of money took them out to lie with them 5 and till 
 then they could not be married. 
 
 83 Some make Dagon to be the fame with Jupiter Aratri us , 2 nwV, 
 deriving it from Dagon, Corn 5 but this is generally exploded, and 
 as generally believed, that it comes from Dag, a Fiji) j and was an 
 Idol, the upper part Man, and the lower Fiji}. Definit in Pifccm 
 mulier formoja fuperne. I make it rather Female than Male , be- 
 caufe I take it to be the Syrian At ergatis (Adder Dagon, the mighty 
 Fiji}) and Derecto, whofe Image wasfuch, and her Temple at Afca- 
 lon, which is the place where Dagon was worfhipped. Diodor, lays 
 of the Image, L. 3. to juJyJ 7 rpocrwirov TO 3 aAAo ozougf. 
 
 ttxv And Lucian, fjfyj yj to 3 , oygov v cx uryojv 
 
 dxpvs TvS'cit v(&> aTzAiFai. There is an ancient Fable, that 
 cJa'mjs, a Creature Half-Man and Half-Fijh, arofe out of the Red- 
 Sea , and came to Babylon, and there taught men feveral Arts, and 
 then returned again to the Sea. ApoUodor. reports, that four fuch 
 Oanncs in feverai ages had arofe out of the Red-Sea , and that the 
 name of one was (Mmv. From whence our learned Selden fetches 
 Dagon, whom fee at large upon this matter. De D. Syris. Syn • 
 
 tag. i.c. 3. 
 
 84 2 Kings 23. 11. Chariots and Horfes were dedicated to the Sun, 
 in regard of the fwiftnefs of his motion. See Zen. 1 . 8. de Cyro , 1 1. 
 °Aj ’adds. Paufan. in Lacon. Heliodor. FLLth. 10. jujiin. 1. Herod. 1. 
 They were Living white Horfes to reprefent tbe Light. Nergaf, 
 a Kings 1 7. 30. And the men of Cuth made Nergal, which ligni lies 
 Fire 5 to wit, the ftcred Fire that was kept always burning in 
 honour of the Sun, as that of Vefta among the Romans. The an- 
 cient Pcrfians worlhipt it, and had no other Idol of the Sun. From 
 thence the Cuthites brought it, when they were removed into 
 Samaria, who came from the borders of Cnthus , a River in Perfia, 
 Strabo fays of the Perflans, TTgcoTco tzJ tvyovfau, which 
 was the reafon they abhorred the burning of dead "bodies, as a 
 prophanation of their Deity. 
 
 85 Belzebub. The God of Elgon or Accaron. The God of Flies. 
 See the Note on the eight Stanza of the Ode called, The Plagues of 
 Egypt, and the Note 18. upon the fir ft Book. 
 
 Thundring Baal. The Jupiter and Sun of the Sidonians, and 
 other neighbouring Countries. See the Note 45. L. 3. 
 
 86 Neither the Book of Kings nor Chronicles make particular men- 
 tion of the J laughter of J ehoiakim by the AJfyrians. Nay the fecond 
 of Chron. 3 6. 6 . feems at firft fight to imply the contrary. Againft 
 him came up Nebuchadnezar , and bound him in Fetters to carry 
 him to Babylon. That is, he firft bound him with an intent to carry 
 him away captive, but after caufed him to be (lain there, to fulfil 
 the Prophecies of Jeremiah, Jer. 36. 30. and J ojephus fays exprefly, 
 that Nebuchadnezar commanded him to be Uain, and his body to 
 be caft over the walls. 
 
 Jehoiachin 
 
<7 \fotes upon the feeond IBoofy. 8 i 
 
 87 Jehoiachin , the Son of jehoiahjm, a Child, and who Was taken 
 
 away captive after three months and ten days, Zedechia being fee 
 up in his place, the younger brother of Jehoias and jehoiakim 3 
 The fourth King of the Jews fucceflively, that was made a Bond - 
 flave. Ijraels now folemn and imperial Chain : for it was the cuftom 
 of the great Eaftern Monarchs, as afterwards of the Romans too, 
 
 Ut haberent inflrumenta fervit ut is & reges. Tacit. 
 
 $8 For though they were reftored again to their Country, yet they 
 never recovered their ancient Liberty, but continued under the 
 yoke of t{ie Perflans , Macedonians , and Romans , till their final 
 deftru&ion. 
 
 8o fn this manner Oedipus fpeaks, after he had put out his own eyes. 
 
 In Theb. 
 
 Quid hic manes meos detineo ? 
 
 Why do I keep my Ghofi alive here fo long ? And to Antigone , 
 
 F units extendis meum, 
 
 Longafqty vivi ducis exequias patris. • 
 
 And Oed. A ft. 5. 
 
 Mors eligatur longa , queratur via 
 Qua nec fepultis miflus & vivis tamen 
 
 Exemptus errem Seneca the Philofop. 
 
 (But as a Poet , not a Philofopher) calls Banifiment it felf (the leaft 
 of Zedecbia' s affli&ion) a Death, nay a Burial , 
 
 Parce religatis , hoc efl, jam parce fepultis. 
 
 Vivorum cineri ft tua terra Levis. 
 
 But Seneca the Father in the 19. Controverf. has raifed an obje&ion 
 againft the next verfe, Bereft of griefs , &c. Ceflius (fays he) Ipoke a 
 moft falfe fenfe, into which many fall. She was the more to be la- 
 mented, becaufe fls'e could not weep her felf. And again. So much 
 caufc , and no more power to weep. As if (fays he) Blind people could 
 not weep. Truly , Philofophically fpeaking, The moyfture that 
 falls through the place of the Eyes, if provoked by grief, is as 
 much weeping, as if the Eyes w r ere there 3 yet (fure) weeping 
 feems to depend fo much upon the Eyes, as to make the expreffion 
 Poetically true , though not Literally. And therefore the Tragedian 
 was not frighted with bis Criticifm 3 for (dedip. fays in Theb. 
 
 CunEla fors mihi infejla abftulit. 
 
 Lacrym<e fupercrant , ha,s quoqj eripui mihi . 
 
 I confefs indeed in a Declamation I like not thofe kind of Flowers 
 fo well. • . 
 
 £ 0 I do not mean, that (he was without Original Sin , as her Roman 
 Adorers hold very temerarioufly 3 but that neither Difeafe nor Im- 
 perfection, which are the effects and footfteps, as it were, of Sin, 
 were to be feen in her body. 
 
 9 1 Their mingled Lights 3 i. Their Colours 5 which are nothing but 
 the feveral mixtures of Light with Darknefs in the fuperficies of 
 opacous bodies, as for example, Fellow is the mixture of Light 
 with a little darknefs 5 Green with a little more 3 Red with more 
 yet. So that Colours are nothing but Light diverdy reflected 
 
 P p 2 and 
 
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 82 
 
 fAgotes upon the fecond BooI\. 
 
 and (badowed. Plato calls them, (pAo^-oo AfS mvg.Tocv a7mpgy- 
 
 cdlv. Flames, that is, Light continually flowing from Bodies ^ and 
 Pindar, Od. 6 . elegantly attributes to Flowers, napcTnpgufvs dxlivw 
 Purple Beams. 
 
 92 God's Wife . Though the .word feem bold, I know no hurt in the 
 figure. And Spoufe is not an Heroi cal word. The Church is called 
 Chrift's Spoufe , becaufe whilft it is Militant , it is only as it were 
 Contracted , not Married , till it becomes Triumphant , but here is 
 not the fame reafon. 
 
 93 Early '5 i. Eaflern Spices. From Arabia which is Eaflward of 
 . jf ud<ea. Therefore the Scripture fays, that thefe Arabian wife men 
 
 came "Am oIvAJoAmv. We have feen his Star, ov to AvT\q 7 ' 3 \. Virg. 
 
 P,cce Dioneci procejjit C cefaris ajirum. 
 
 And the Prefents which thefe wife men brought, fhew that they 
 came from Arabia. 
 
 94 Gabriel 5 the name fignifies, The Power of God. I have feen in 
 fome Magical Books, where they give barbarous names to the 
 Guardian Angels of great perfons, as that of Mathattron to the 
 Angel of Mojes , that they aflign one Cerviel to David , And this 
 Gabriel to j fofeph, Jofua , and Daniel. But I rather ufe this than 
 that Diabolical Name ( for ought I know) of an Angel , which 
 the Scripture makes no mention of. Efpecially becaufe G Ariel 
 is employed particularly in things that belong to the manifefiation 
 of Chriji , as to the Prophet Daniel , to Zacharia, and to Mary. 
 The Rabbics account Michael the Minifter of God’s Juftice , and 
 Gabriel of his Mercies , and they call the former Fire , and the lat- 
 ter Water. 
 
 95 Tho. Aquinas, upon the fecond of the Senten. Difeintt. 9. Art. 2. 
 It is necelfary that the Air fhould be thickned, till it come near to 
 the propriety of ennh 3 that is, to be capable of Figuration , 
 which cannot be but in a folid body, &c. And this way of Spi- 
 rits appearing in bodies of condenfed air (for want of abetter 
 way, they taking it for granted that they do frequently appear) 
 is approved of by all the Schoolmen , and the Inquifitors about 
 Witches. But they are beholding for this Invention to the an- 
 cient Poets. Virg. 
 
 Tum Dea nube cava tenuem fine viribus umbram , 
 
 In faciem aEn. &c. 
 
 Which is the reafon (perhaps) that Apollo , as the drawer up, and 
 beft Artificer of Vapours , is employed to make the Phantafm of 
 JEneas , 5. Iliad . 
 
 'Auftzp V dpyjffei ’Aib'MW 
 
 Awrf rr ’Arda., imAov A Tivygoi <tql'qv. 
 
 96 Obfcene was a word in ufe among the Augures, fignifying that 
 
 which portended ill Fortune. And it is moft frequently applyed to 
 Birds of ill Omen. Virg, 5. iEn. - '1 
 
 Sive De<e , ceu fint Dine, obfazmeq^ volucres . 
 
 j^n. 12. Nec me terrete timentem 
 
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 'Obfcozna volucres .* 
 
 Obfievn.e quo prohibentur aves. 
 
 And 
 
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 [h^otes upon the fecond Book;. 
 
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 And Servius interprets Virgil's Obfccenamfamcm, to be, The hunger 
 that drives men to Obfcene , that is, unclean, or fhameful things, or 
 becaufe it was foretold by an Obfcene 3 i. unlnchie Bird. 
 
 It is rightly termed a Glafs or Mirror , for God forefees all things 
 by looking only on himfelf, in whom all things always are. 
 
 Albion is the ancienteft name of this Ifland, yet I think not fo an- 
 cient as Divides time. But we muft content our felves with the 
 beft we have. It is found in Arifi. de Mundo, in Plin. Ptolem . 
 and Strabo 3 by which appears the vanity of thofe who derive it 
 from a Latin word, Ab Albis Rupibus. 
 
 So the Angel to S. John , Revel. 19. 10. and 22. 9. calls himfelf 
 His Fellovp-fervant. 
 
 Virg. Cum circumfufa repente 
 
 Scindit fe nubes & in aera purgat apertum 3 and again., 
 Tenues fugit ceu Fumus in auras. 
 
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 CONTENTS.' 
 
 D Avid's flight to Nob, and entertainment there by the 
 High Pried: ; from thence to Gath in difguife , where 
 he is difcoVered and brought to Achis 5 He counter- 
 feits himfelf Mad, and efcapes to Adullam. A flmt enu- 
 meration of the Forces which come thither to him . A deferip - 
 
 tion of the Kingdom of Moab, whither David flies ; His 
 entertainment at Moab's Court, a digrefpon of the Hiftory 
 of Lot , Father of the Moabites , reprefented in Picture. 
 Melchor's Song at the Feafi ; Moab dejires Joab to relate 
 the Story of David . Which he does ; His E£traftion, his 
 excellency in Poefie, . and the effefts of it in curing Saul's 
 malady. The Philiftims Army encamped at Dammin, the 
 Defer ipt ion of Goliah and his Arms, his Challenge to the 
 Ifraelites, David's coming to the Camp, his Speech to Saul to 
 defire leave to fight with Goliah; feVeral Speeches upon that 
 cccafiouj the combat and flaughter of Goliah, with the defeat 
 of the Philiftims Army. Saul's envy to David. 1 he Cha- 
 r afters of Merab and Michol. The Love between David 
 and Michol, his Song at her window, his expedition againH 
 the Philiftims, and the Dowry of two hundred foreskins for 
 Michol , with whom he is married. The Solemnities of the 
 Wedding ; Saul's rdapfe , and the caujes of David's fight 
 into the Kingdom of Moab. 
 
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 Ais’d with the news he from high Heav’n receives, , s am . 
 Straight to his diligent God juft thanks he gives. 
 
 To divine No be dire&s then his flight, 
 
 A (mail Town great in Fame by Levi's right, 
 
 2 ~ Is there with fprightly wines, and hallowed bread, 
 
 (But what’s to Hunger hallowed .<? ) largely fed. 
 
 3 The good old Priefi welcomes his fatal Guefi , 
 
 And with long talk prolongs the hafty feaft. 
 
 4 He lends him vain Goliah’ s Sacred Sword, 
 
 ( The fitteft help juft fortune could afford ) 
 
 A Sword whofe weight without a blow might flay, 
 
 Able unblunted to cut Hofts away, 
 
 A Sword fo great, that it was only fit 
 To take off his great Head who came with it. 
 
 Thus he arms David 3 I your own reftore. 
 
 Take it (faid he) and ufe it as before. 
 
 I faw you then, and ’twas the braveft fight 
 That ere thefe Eyes owed the difcov 'ring light. 
 
 When you ftept forth, how did the Monfter rage, 
 
 In fcorn of your foft looks, and tender age l 
 Some your high Spirit did mad preemption call. 
 
 Some pitied that fuch Touth ftiould idly fall. 
 
 Th’ uncircumcis’d fmiled grimly with difdain 5 
 I knew the day was yours : I faw it plain. 
 
 Much more the Reverend Sire prepar’d to fay, 
 
 Rapt with his joy 5 how the two Armies lay 3 
 Which way th’amazed Foe did wildly flee, 
 
 All that his Hearer better knew than He» 
 
 But 
 
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 Davideis, A Sacred Poem Book III. 
 
 I Sam. 
 
 21. IO. 
 
 i Sam. 
 
 21.13. 
 
 Ver. 1 5* 
 
 1 Sam. 
 21. 1. 
 
 1 Sam. 
 22. i. 
 
 1 Chron. 
 11. 20. 
 
 But David's haft denies all needlcls ftay ^ 
 
 To Gath an Enemy’s Land, he hafts away, 
 
 Not there fecure, but where one Danger's near , 
 The more remote though greater difappear. 
 
 So from the Haw Birds to Man s fuccour flee, 
 
 So from fir d Ships Man leaps inio the Sea. 
 
 There in difguife he hopes unknown t’abide ! 
 
 Alas ! in vain l what can fuch greatnefs hide ? 
 Stones of fmall worth may lye unfeen by Day, 
 
 But Night it felf does the rich Gem betray. 
 
 5 Tagal firft fpi’ed him, a Philiftian Knight, 
 
 Who erft from David's wrath by fhameful flight 
 Had fav’d the fordid remnant of his age ; 
 
 Hence the deep fore of Envy mixt with Rage. 
 Straight with a band of Souldiers tall and rough, 
 Trembling , for fcarce he thought that band enough, 
 On him he feifes whom they all had fear’d, 
 
 Had the bold Youth in his own (hape appear’d. 
 
 And now this wilht-for, but yet dreadful prey 
 To Achis Court they led in hafte away, 
 
 With all unmanly rudenefs which does wait 
 Upon th’ Immod’erate Vulgar s Joy and Hate. 
 
 His valour now and ftrength muft ufelefs ly, 
 
 And he himfelf muft arts unufu’al try 5 
 Sometimes he rends his garments, nor does fpare 
 The goodly curies of his rich yellow haire. 
 Sometimes a violent laughter feru’d his face, 
 
 And fometimes ready tears dropt dow 7 n apace. 
 Sometimes he fixt his (taring eyes on ground, 
 
 And fometimes in wild manner hurl'd them round, 
 More full revenge Philifiian s could not wifh, 
 
 6 But call’t the Jufiice of their mighty Fijh. 
 
 They now in height of anger let him Live 5 
 And Freedom too, t encreafe his J torn , they give. 
 He by wife Madnefs freed does homeward flee, 
 And Rage makes them all that He feem'd to be. 
 
 7 Near to Adullam in an aged Wood, 
 
 An Hill part earth, part rocky (tone there (food. 
 Hollow and vaft within, which Nature wrought 
 As if by ’her Scholar Art (he had been taught. 
 Hither young David with his Kindred came. 
 Servants , and Friends 5 many his fpreading fame. 
 Many their wants or difeontents did call $ 
 
 Great men in war, and almoft Armies all ! 
 
 8 Hither came wife and valiant Joab down, 
 
 One to whom David's felf muft owe his Crown , 
 
 A mighty man, had not fome cunning Sin, 
 Amidft fo many Virtues crowded in. 
 
 With him Abijhai came by whom there fell 
 At once three hundred $ with him Afahel : 
 
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 Book HI. oj- the troubles of David 
 
 8 
 
 q Afabel, fwifter than the Northern wind \ 
 
 Scarce could the nimble Motions of his mind 
 Outgo his Feet ; (o Arangly would he run, 
 
 That 7 ime it ft If perceiv'd not what was done. 
 
 Oft o're the Lawns and Meadows would he pafs, 
 
 His weight unknown, and harmlels to the grafs 5 
 Oft o’re the fands and hollow duft would trace, 
 
 Yet no one Atome trouble or difplace. 
 
 Unhappy To nth, whofe end (o near I fee / 
 
 Tiler’s nought but thy III Fate fo fwift as The . 
 
 0 Hither Jeffides wrongs Benaiah drew, 
 
 He, who the vaft exceeding Monger flew* 
 
 Th 'Egyptian like an Hill himfelf did rear. 
 
 Like Lome tall Tree upon it feem’d his Spear. 
 
 But by Benaiahs faff he fell orethrown *, 
 
 Tlie Earth, as if worft ftrook* did loudeft groans 
 Such was Benaiah ; in a narrow pit 
 He faw a Lyon, and leapt down to it* 
 
 As eas’ly t here the Royal Beall he tore 
 As that itfelf did Kids or Lambs before* 
 
 Him Ira follow’d, a young lovely boy, 
 
 But full of Spirit, and Arms was all his joy. 
 
 Oft when a 'chili he in his dream would fight 
 With the vain air, and his wak’d Mother frights 
 Oft would he (hoot young birds , and as they fall, 
 
 Would laugh, and fanfie them Bhiliftians all. 
 
 And now at homt no longer would he flay, 
 
 Tho’ yet the face did fcarce his Sex betray. 
 
 Dodot great Son came next, whofe dreadful hand 
 Snatcht ripned Glories from a conqu’ring band $ 
 
 Who knows no tDammrn, and that barly field. 
 
 Which did a Arange and bloody Harveft yield 
 Many befides did this new Troop encre*afe.; 
 
 Adan, whole wants made him unfit for peace. 
 
 Eiiel, whofe full Quiv’r did alwaies bear 
 As many Deaths as in it Arrows were. 
 
 None from his hand did vain or innocent flee* 
 
 Scarce Love or Fate could aim fo well as Hee. 
 
 Many of Judah took wrong *d Davids fide, 
 
 And many of old Jacobs youngeft Tribe > 
 
 But his chief (Length the Gat hit e Souldiers aie, 
 
 Each (ingle man able t’orecome a War l 
 
 Swift as the Darts they fling through yielding are* 
 
 And hardy all as theftrong Steel they bare, 
 
 A Lyons noble rage fits in their face, 
 
 Terrible , comely , arm’d with dreadful grace f 
 
 Th’unda tinted Prince , though thus well guarded here, 
 Yet his flout Soul dnrft for his Parents fear ; 
 
 He leeks for them a fafe and oiiiet feat. 
 
 Nor trufls his Fortune with a Pledge fb great. 
 
 CLq " 
 
 1 Chr. 
 
 1 1. 2 6 . 
 
 2 Sam- 2: 
 18: 
 
 2 Sam. 
 2. 23. 
 
 I Chro 
 
 11. 22. 
 
 Ver.fe. 23. 
 
 Verf. 22» 
 
 t 
 
 1 Chro. 
 11. 28. 
 
 i Chro. 
 
 11. 12. 
 
 1 Chro. 
 11. 46;' 
 
 I Chor„ 
 12 . 16 . 
 
 I Char,- 
 12 . $. 
 
 I. Chro. 
 12. 8, 
 
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 ^ 
 
 Vira, 2. 
 yfLu. 
 
 II 
 
 Ntim, 21. 
 26. 
 
 Num. 2i. 
 25. 25. 
 
 Judg. 3. 
 14. 
 
 I'b V. 21. 
 
 *r 
 
 r Sam. 
 
 21. 5. 
 
 So when in holfile fire rich A ft as pride 
 For ten years liege had fully latisfi’d* 
 
 ALneas Hole an ad of higher Fame, 
 
 And bore Anchijes through the wan tiring flame, 
 
 A nobler Burden, and a richer Prey, 
 
 Than all the Grecian forces bore away. 
 
 Go pious Prince, in peace, in triumph go 5 
 Enjoy the Conqmjl of thine Overthrow ; 
 
 V have lav’d thy Troy would far lels glorious be 5 
 By this thou Over com' ft their VUorie. 
 
 Moab, next 'Judah , an old Kingdom, lies ; 
 
 \2 Jordan their touch, and his cut ft Sea denies. 
 
 13 They lee North-Jars from o’re Amorem ground. 
 
 14 Edom and Petra their South part does bound. 
 Ealfwards the Lands of C ujh and Ammon ly a 
 The mornings happy beams they firlf efpy. 
 
 The region with fat foil and plenty’s bielf, 
 
 A foil too good to be of old pofletf 
 
 1 6 By menftrous Emms ; but Lots off- Ipring came 
 And conquer’d both the People and the Name. 
 
 17 Till Seen drave them beyond Arnons flood, 
 
 And their fad bounds markt deep in their own blood . 
 
 18 In Hesbon, his triumphant Court he plac’d, 
 
 Hesbon by Men and Nat ure If ran gel y grac’d. 
 
 A glorious Town, and fill’d with all delight 
 Which Peace could yield, tho’ well prepar’d for fight. 
 But this proud City and her prouder Lord 
 
 Felt the keen rage of IJraels Sacred Sword, 
 
 Whilft Moab triumpht in her^torn elfate, 
 
 To lee her own become her Conquerors fate. 
 
 Yet that final 1 remnant of Lots parted Crown 
 Did arm’d with Ifrarfs fins pluck Ifrael down. 
 
 Full thrice fix years they felt fierce Elions yoke, 
 
 Till Ehuds fw T ord Gods vengeful Melfage Ipokej 
 Since then their Kings in quiet held their own, 
 
 Quiet the good of a not-envy’d Throne . 
 
 And now a wile old Prince the Scepter fway’d, 
 
 Well by his Subjects and Himfelf obey’d. 
 
 Only before bis Fathers Gods he fell ; 
 
 Poor wretched Man, almo/f too good foxHtll! 
 
 Hither does David his bleft Parents bring, 
 
 With humble greatnefs begs of Moabs King, 
 
 A fafe and fair aboad, where they might live, 
 
 Free from thole Iforms w ith which himlelf muff Ifrive. 
 The King with chearful grace his fuit approv’d, 
 
 19 By hate to Saul, and love to Vtrtue mov’d. 
 
 Welcome great tonight, and your fair Trcop ( laid he )’ 
 Your Name found welcome long before with me. 
 
 20 1 hat to rich Ophirs rifing Morn is known, 
 
 And If retcht out far to the burnt Iwarthy Zone. 
 
 , 
 
 Swift 
 
Book III, of the 'Troubles of David. 89 
 
 2 1 Swift Fame, when her round journey fhe does make* 
 Scorns not lomtimes Vs in her way to take. 
 
 Ave you the man, did that huge Uyantk ill ? 
 
 Great Baal of P beg or ! and how young he’s dill! 
 
 From Ruth we heard you come ; Ruth was born here, 
 
 In jf idah lojourn’d, and ( they fay ) matcht there ' 
 
 To one of Bethlem $ which I hope is true , 
 
 How’re your Virtues here intitle you. 
 
 Thole have the bed alliance always bin 
 .T9 Gods as well as Men they make us Kin. 
 
 He (poke, and ftraight led in his thankful Gueds, 
 
 To a dately Room prepar’d for shows and Feafts. 
 
 The Room with golden Tapftry glider’d bright, 
 
 At once to plcafe and to confound the dght, 
 
 23 Th’ excellent work of Babylonian hands; 
 
 34 In midd a Table of rich Ivory dands, 
 
 By three fierce Tygtrs y and three Lowborn, 
 
 Which grin, and fearfully the place adorn. 
 
 Widely they gape, and to the eye they roar, 
 
 As if they hunger’d for the food they bore. 
 
 2 5 About it Beds of Lybian Citron dood, 
 
 26 With coverings dy’d in Tyrian Fifhes blood, 
 
 They fay, th’ Herculean art ; but mod delight 
 
 27 Some Pictures gave to Davids learned fight/ 
 
 Here feveral ways Lot and great Abram go, 
 
 7 heir too much wealth, vaft, and unkind does grow. 
 
 Thus each extream to equal danger tends. 
 
 Plenty as well as Wantc an feparate Friends; • 
 
 Here Sodoms Towers raife their proud tops on high ; 
 
 The Toners as well as Men outbrave the sky. 
 
 By it the waves of revVend Jordan run, 
 
 Here green with Trees , there gilded with the Sun* 
 
 Hither Lots Houlhold comes, a numerous train, 
 
 And all with various bufinefs fill the plain. 
 
 Some drive the crowding fheep with rural hooks, 
 
 They lift up their mild heads, and bleat in looks . 
 
 Some drive the Herds ; here a fierce Bullock (corns 
 Th’ appointed way, and runs with threatning horns; 
 
 In vain the Herdman calls him back again ; 
 
 The Dogs dand afar off, and bark in -vain. 
 
 Some lead the groaning waggons, loaded high. 
 
 With duff, on top of which the Maidens lye. 
 
 Upon tall Camels the fair Sifters ride, 
 
 And Lot talks with them both on either fide. 
 
 Another Pitfure to curd Sodom brings 
 
 28 Elams proud Lord , with his three ferv ant Kjngs : 
 
 They lack the Town, and bear Lot bound away ; 
 WhildinaPit the vanquifhtJSem lay, 
 
 Buried almod alive for fear of Death ; 
 
 29 But Heav’ns juft vengeance fav’d as yet his breath. 
 
 Qq 2 Abraham 
 
 Ru. r; 4. 
 Ru. 4. 10. 
 
 Gen. 13.6,- 
 
 Ib. v. ro. 
 
 Gen. 14. 
 ft. 12. 
 Ib. v. 1 o. 
 
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 Gen. 14 
 
 
 Gen. 19. 
 24. 
 
 Ib. v. 1 1 . 
 
 Gen. 19. 
 * 7 - 
 
 Ib. v.2 6 . 
 
 Abraham perfues, and Hays the Vidors BoU ? 
 
 Scarce had their Conauejl leil ure for a boajl . 
 
 Next this was drawn the rec kiefs Cities fame* 
 
 30 When a brangeHe# pour’d down from Heaven there came. 
 Here the two Angels from Lots window look 
 
 With fmt ling anger ; the lewd wretches, brook 
 With iudden blindnefs, leek in vain thedore, 
 
 3 1 Their Eyes , firlL caule of L///?, firb Vengeance bore. 
 Through liquid air, Heav’ns bufie Souldiers fly, 
 
 And drive on Clouds where feeds of Thunder ly. 
 
 Here the fad sky gloes red with difmal breaks, 
 
 Here Lightning from it w ith fhort trembling breaks. 
 
 Here the blew flames of balding brimbone fall, 
 Involving fwiftly in one ruine,all. 
 
 The Fire of Trees and Houfes mounts on high, 
 
 And meets half* w ay new fires that fhowr from sky. 
 
 Some in their arms (natch their dear babes away ; 
 
 At once drop down the Fathers arms , and Tbey t 
 Some into waters leap with kindled hair, 
 
 And more to vex theit fate, ar q burnt ev^n there. 
 
 Men thought, fo much a Flame by Art was fhewn. 
 
 The pictures felf would fall in afhes down. 
 
 Afar old Lot toward little Zoar hyes, 
 
 And dares not move ( good man / ) his weeping eyes. 
 
 32 Behind, his Wife bood ever fixt alone ; 
 
 No more a Woman , not yet quite a Stone. 
 
 A labing Death feiz’d on her turning head ; 
 
 One cheek w as rough and white, the other red. 
 
 And yet a Cheek ; in vain to fpeak flbe brove ; 
 
 Her lips, tho’ bone, a little feem’d to move. 
 
 One eye was clos’d, lurpriz’d by bidden night, 
 
 The other trembled bill with parting light. 
 
 The wind admir’d w hich her hair loolely bore, 
 
 Why it grew biff, and now would play no more. 
 
 To Heav’n fhe lifted up her freezing hands. 
 
 And to this day a Suppliant Pillar bands. 
 
 She try’d her heavy foot from ground to rear, 
 
 And rais’d th e Heel, but her Toes rooted there: 
 
 Ah fool ifli Woman / whomub always be, 
 
 A fight more ftrange , than that fhe turn’d to fee/ 
 
 Whilft David fed with theie his curious eye, 
 
 TheFeaft is now ferv’d in, and down they lye. > 
 
 Moab a goblet takes of ma by gold, r 
 
 33 Which Zjppor, and from Zj.ppor all of old 
 
 Quaft to their Gods and Friends j an Health goes round 
 In the brisk Grape of Arnons richeft ground. 
 
 34 Whilb Me Ichor to his Harp with wondrous skill 
 3 5 ( For fuch were Poets then, and fhould be bill ) 
 
 His noble Verfe through Natures Secrets lead 5 
 He hing what Spirit % through the whole Mafs is Ipread, 
 
 Ev’ry 
 
Book III. 
 
 9 l 
 
 of the Troubles oj David. 
 
 Ev’ry where All ; how Heavens Gods Law approve, 
 And think it R-(t eternally to Move. 
 
 How the kind Sun ulefully conies and goes, 
 
 Wants it himfelf, yet gives to Man repofe. 
 
 How his round Journy does for ever laft, 
 
 36 And how he baites at every Sea in hafte. 
 
 He fang how Earth blots the Moons gilded Wane, 
 
 37 Whilft foolilh men beat founding Brafs in vain, 
 Why the Great Waters her flight Horns obey,* 
 
 Her changing Hr ns, not conftanter than They \ 
 
 38 He fung how grifly Comets hang in ayr, 
 
 Why S r, ord and Plagues attend their fatal hair. 
 
 Gods Beacons for the World, drawn up fo far. 
 
 To publifh ill, and rai(e all Earth to War. 
 
 39 Why Contraries feed Thunder in the cloud. 
 
 What Motions vex it. till ir. roar fo loud. 
 
 40 How Lambent Fires become 10 wondrous tame, 
 
 And bear fuch jhming Winter in their Flame. 
 
 41 What radiant pencil draws the Wat ry Bow : 
 
 What tyes up Hail, and picks the fleecy Snorv. 
 
 What Palfte of the Earth here fhakes fixt Hills , 
 From off her brows, and here whole Rivers lpilis. 
 Thus did this Heathen Natures Secrets tell. 
 
 And lomtimes mill the Caufe, but fought it Well. 
 
 Such was the fawce of Moabs noble Feaff, 
 
 Till night far fpent invites them to their relf. 
 
 Only the good old Prince If ays Joab there, 
 
 And much he tells, and much defires to hear.] 
 
 He tells deeds antique, and the new defires ; 
 
 Of David much and much of Saul enquires. 
 
 Nay gentle Guefl , ( laid he J fince now you’re in, 
 The ftory of your gallant friend begin. 
 
 His birth, his rifing tell, and various fate, 
 
 And how he flew that man of Gath of late, 
 
 What was he call’d? that huge and monffrous man t 
 
 With that he ffopt, and Joab thus began ; 
 
 His birth, Great Sir, fo much to mine is ty'd, x chr. 
 
 That praife of that might look from me like pride. 2. 16. 
 
 Yet without boaff, his veins contain a flood ' 
 
 42 Of th 7 old Judaean Lyons richeff blood. Gea49. 9, 
 
 From Judah , Pharez , from him Efrpm came 1 chr - 2 - 
 
 Ram, NaJJjon, Salmon, Names fpoke loud by Fame . aU *' 
 
 A Name no lefs ought Boaz to appear. 
 
 By whole bleft match we come no ftr angers here. 
 
 From him and your fair Ruth good Obed fprung, 
 
 From Obed,Jeffe, JeJJe whom Fames kindeft tongue, 
 
 Counting his birth, and high nobility , fhali 
 Not JeJJe of Obed , but of David call, 
 
 David born to him fev’nth ; the fix births paff 1 Chr. 
 
 Brave Tryals of a work more great ax lalf . 2 - 1 5 - 
 
 Blefs 1 Sami f 
 
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 I Sam.i6. 
 14. 
 
 I Sam. 
 
 I 6, 2-i 
 
 1 Sam. 1 7. 
 
 i Sam. 
 17. 4. 
 
 Blefs me/ hew fwiftand growing was his Wit ? 
 
 1 he w ings of Time flagg’d dully after it. 
 
 Scarce pait a Child, al! wonders would lie fing 
 Ot Natures Law ) and Pow^r of Natures King i — 
 
 His jheep would {corn their food to hear iiis lay, 
 
 And favage Beafls {land by, as tame as they. 
 
 The fighting Winds would flop there, and admire \ 
 Learning Confent and Concord from his Lyre. 
 
 Rivers, whole waves roll’d down aloud before ; 
 
 Mute, as their Fifh, would liflen towards th q floor?. 
 
 ’I was now the time when firff Saul God forfook, 
 
 Cod, Saul ; the room in’s heart wild P ajjions took ; 
 Somtimes a 1 Tyrant-Frenfie revell’d there, 
 
 Somtimes black fadnefs, and deep, deep defpair. 
 
 No help from Herbs or learned Drugs he finds, 
 
 They cure but fomtimes Bodies , never Minds . 
 
 Mujick alone thofe {forms of Saul could lay: 
 
 Not more Said them, than Mufick they obey, 
 j David's now fent for, and his Harp muff bring ; 
 
 His Harp that Magick bore on evrv firing. 
 
 When Sauls rude paflions did moft tumult keep, 
 
 With his foft notes they all dropt down afleep. 
 
 When his dull Spirts lay drown’d in Death and Night , 
 He with quick ffrains rais’d them to Life and Light . 
 
 Thus chear’d he Saul, thus did his furyfwage, 
 
 Till wars began, and times more fit for rage. 
 
 To Hdah Plain Philflians Troops are come. 
 
 And Wars loud noife lfrikes peaceful Mufick dumb. 
 
 Back to his rural Care young David goes, 
 
 For this rough work Saul his ftcut Brethren chofe. 
 
 He knew not what his hand in War could do, 
 
 Nor thought his Sword could cure mens Madne/s too. 
 Now Damminh deffin’d for this Scene of Blood, 
 
 On two near Hills the two proud Armies flood. 
 
 Between a fatal Vally flretcht out wide, 
 
 And Death Teem’d ready now on either fide, 
 
 When (Lo\J their Hoff rais’d all a joyful fhout, 
 
 43 And from themidfl a monflrous man ffept out, 
 
 Aloud they fhouted at each flep he took* 
 
 W? and the Earth itfelf beneath him fhook, 
 
 Vaflas the Hill , down which he marcht, h’appear’d ; 
 Amaz’d al! Eyes, nor w^as their Army fear’d, 
 
 A young tall Squire ( tho’ then he feemd not foj 
 Did from the Camp at firfl before him go* 
 
 At fir (l he did, but fcarce could follow jtrait, 
 
 Sweating beneath a Shields unruly weight, 
 
 44 On which was wrought the Gods and Cyants fight, 
 
 Rare work! all fill’d with terrour and delight. 
 
 45 Here a vaft Hill, ’gainfl thundring Baal was thrown, 
 Trees and Beafis on’t fell burnt with Lightning down. 
 
 One 
 
Book JIL of the Troubles of David. 
 
 One flings a Mountain, and its River too 
 
 Torn up with’t 5 that rains back on him that threw. 
 
 Some from the Main to pluck whole 7 /lands try ; 
 
 The Sea boils round with flames (hot thick from sky. 
 
 This he believ'd, and on his jhield he bore, 
 
 And prais’d their itrength, but thought his own was more. 
 The N alley now this Monfier leem’d to fll^ 
 
 4 6 And we ( methoughts ) lookt up t’ him from our Hill . 
 
 4 j All arm’d in Bra/s, the riched drefs of War 
 ( A difmal glorious fight) he fhone afar. 
 
 The Sun himfelf darted with fudden fright, 
 
 To fee his beams return fo difmal bright. 
 
 Brafs was his Helmet, his Boots brafs ; and o‘re 
 His bread a thick plate of drong brajs he wore, 
 
 His Spear the 7 rink was of a lofty Tree , 
 
 Which Nature meant fome tall jhrps Maft fhould be, 
 
 Tlf huge Iron head fix hundred fhekels weigh’d, 
 
 And of whole bodies but one wound it made, 
 
 Able Deaths word command to overdo, 
 
 Dedroying Life at once and Carcafe too ; 
 
 Thus arm'd he ftood ; all direful , and all gay. 
 
 And round him flung a fcornful look away. 
 
 So when a Scythian Tyger gazing round, 
 
 An Herd of Kinein fome fair Plain has found 
 Lowing fecure, he fwells with angry pride, 
 
 48 And calls forth all his (pots on e’ery fide. 
 
 Then dops, and hurls his haughty eyes at all. 
 
 In choile of fome drong neck oh which to fall. 
 
 Almodhe (corns, fo weak, fo cheap a prey, 
 
 And grieves to fee 1 hem trembling hade away. 
 
 Ye men of Jury, he cries, if Men you be, 
 
 And fuch dare prove your (elves to Fame and Me, 
 Chufeout’mongd all your Troops the bolded Kjiight, 
 
 To try his Jlrength and fate with me in fight. 
 
 49 The chance of War let us two bear for all, 
 
 And they the Conqidrour ferve whole Knight fhall fall. 
 
 At this he paws’d a while ; ftraight, I defie, 
 
 Your Gods and You ; dares none come down and die ? 
 
 Go back for fhame, and ALgypts dav’ry bear. 
 
 Or yield to us, and ferve more nobly here. 
 
 Alasye’ave no more Wonders to be done, 
 
 Your Sorcrer Mof'es now and Jofua s gone, 
 
 Your M agick Trumpets then could Cities take, 
 
 And founds of Triumph did your Battles make. 
 
 Spears in your hands and manly Swords are vain , 
 
 Get you your Spells , and Conjuring Rods again. 
 
 Is there no Sampfon here ? Oh that there were l 
 In his full drength, and long Enchanted Hair. 
 
 This Sword fhould be in the weak. Razors dead ; 
 
 It fhould not cut his Hair off, but his Head . 
 
 Thm 
 
 r Sam. 17 
 7, dec. 
 
 ib. v. 8. 
 
 Ib.v,9ic. 
 
 Jof. 6. 2c. 
 
 Judg. 
 
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S?4 Davidek, A Sacred Poem Book III, 
 
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 i S; im 1 4, 
 
 i Chr 1 1 , 
 
 1 Sam. 17. 
 12 , &c. 
 
 l Sam. 
 17- 25. 
 
 lb. v. 32, 
 
 Exocf. 
 /7. 6. 
 
 Thus he blafphem’d aloud ; the Valleys round 
 Flat f ring his roice re ft or* d the dreadful found. 
 
 We turn’d us trembling at the noife, and fear’d 
 We had behind fome new < johah heard. 
 
 7 1 was Heav’n, Heav’n fure ( which Davids glory meant 
 'I hrough this whole AB ) fuel) lacred terrour lent 
 To all our Hott, for there was Said in place, 
 Whone’re law fear but in his Enemies face , 
 
 His god-like Son there in bright Armour fhone, 
 
 Who (corn’d to conquer Armies not alone. 
 
 Fate her own Book miftrufted at the fight ; 
 
 On that fide War, on this a Single Eight. 
 
 1 here (food Benatah , and there trembled too, 
 
 He who th’ Egyptian , proud Golub Hew. 
 
 In his pale fright, rage through his eyesfhot flame, 
 
 He faw his ftaft, and blufht with generous jbame. 
 
 5o Thoufands befide flood mute and heartlefs there, 
 
 Men valiant all ; nor was I us’d to Fear. 
 
 Thus forty days he marcht down arm’d to fight, 
 
 Once every morn he marcht, and once at night. 
 
 Slow rofe the Sun, but gallopt down apace. 
 
 With more than Evening blufhes in his face. 
 
 When Jeffy to the Camp young David fent ; 
 
 His purpofe low, but high was Fates intent, 
 
 For when the Monjlers pride he faw and heard, 
 
 Round him he look’d, and wonder’d why they fear* if 
 Anger and brave dildain his heart poded, 
 
 Thoughts more than manly fwell’d his youthful bread. 
 Much die rewards propos’d his fpirit enflame, 
 
 Sauls Daughter much, and muduhe voice of Fame. 
 
 Thele to their juft intentions ftrongly move, 
 
 But chiefly God, and his dear Coantrys Love, 
 
 Refolv’d for combat to Sauls tent he’s brought, 
 
 Where thus he fpoke, as boldly as he fought : 
 
 Henceforth no more , great Prince , your lacred bread 
 With that huge talking wretch of Gath moled. 
 
 This hand alone fhall end his curled breath ; 
 
 Fear not, the wretch blafphtmes him fell to death. 
 
 And cheated with falfe weight of hisown mighc, 
 
 Has challeng’d Heaven, not Vs , to Angle fight. 
 
 Forbid it God, that where thy right is try’d, 
 
 The drength of man fhould find jud caufe for pridel 
 Firm like fome Rock , and vad he Teems to dand, 
 
 But Rocks we know were op’ed at thy command. 
 
 That Soul which now does fuch large members fway, 
 Through one fmatl wound will creep in hade away, 
 
 And he who now dares boldly Htavn defie, 
 
 To evVy bird of Heav*n a prey fhall he. 
 
 For ’cis not human force we ought to fear 5 
 Did that, alas, plant our Forefathers here ? 
 
 Twice 
 
Book III. of the Troubles David. 95 
 
 51 Twice fifteen Kings did they by that fubdue ? 
 
 By that whole Nations of Gohah's flew ? 
 
 The Wonders they perform’d may ftill be done ; 
 
 Mofes and Jofua is, but God's not gone. 
 
 We’have loft their Rod and Trumpets , not their Skill: 
 
 Prayers and Belief are as ftrong Witchcraft ftill. 
 
 Thefe are more ft//, more Gyants far than He , 
 
 Can reach to Hcav'n and thence pluck Vittone. 
 
 Count this, aid then, Sir, mine th’ advantage is? 
 
 He' sftronger far than I y my God xhznHis. 
 
 Amazement feiz’d on all, and fihame to fee, 
 
 Their own fears fcorn’d by one fo young as He. 
 
 Brave Youth, (replies the Kjng) whofe daring mind, 
 
 Ere come to Manhood , leaves it quite behind ; 
 
 Referve thy Valour for more equal fight. 
 
 And let thy Body grow up to thy Spnght. 
 
 Thou’rt yet too tender for fo rude a foe, 
 
 Whofe Touch would wound thee more, than him thy Blow, 
 
 Nature his Limbs only for War made fit, 
 
 In thine as yet nought befideLo^e fhe’as writ. 
 
 With ibme lefs Foe thy unflefht valour try ; 
 
 This Monfier can be no firfi Fi&ory. 
 
 The Lyons royal Whelp does not at firft 
 For blood of Bafan-Bul/s or Tygers fhirft. 
 
 In timorous Deer he hanfels his young paivs. 
 
 And leaves the rugged Bear for firmer claws. 
 
 So vaft thy Hopes, fo unproportion’d bee, 
 
 Fortune would beafham’d to feiond Thee . 
 
 He faid, and we all murmur’d an aftentj 
 But nought moves David from his high Intent, 
 
 It brave to him, and om’nous does appear, 
 
 To be oppos’d at firft. and conquer here. 
 
 Which he relolves ; Scorn not (faid he) mine age, 
 
 For IT Wry comes not like an Heritage , 
 
 At fet -years ; when my Fathers flock I fed, 1 Sam. 17« 
 
 A Bear and Lyon by fierce hunger led, 
 
 Broke from the Wood, and fnatcht my Lambs away } 
 
 From their grim mouths I forc’d the panting prey. 
 
 Both Bear and Lyon ev ? n this hand did kill, 
 
 On our great Oak the Bones and Jaws hang ftill. 
 
 My God's the fame, which then lie was, to day. 
 
 And this wild wretch almoft the fame as They. 
 
 Who from fuch danger fav’d my Flock, will he 
 Of If Pel, his own Flock, lefs careful be ? 
 
 Be’t fo then (Saul burfts forth : ) and thou on high. 
 
 Who oft in weaknefs do’ft moft (Irength defer y, 
 
 At whofe dread beck Conquejl expecting ftands, 
 
 Andcafts no look down on the Fighters hands, 
 
 Affift what Thou infpir’ft ; and let all fee, 
 
 As Boys to Gyants, Gyants are to Thee , 
 
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 Thus, and with trembhng hopes of Hrange fuccefs, 
 
 52 In his own Arms he the bold It out b does drefs. 
 
 On's head an helm of well- wrought Brafs is plac’d, 
 
 The top with warlike Plume feverely grac'd. 
 
 His Bread: a plate cut with rare Figures bore, 
 
 A Sword much pra&isM in Deaths Art he wore. 
 
 Y et David us’d fb long to no defence, 
 
 But thole light Arms of Spirit and Innocence, 
 
 No good in Fight of that gay burden knows, 
 
 But fears his own Arms weight more than his Foes ; 
 
 He loll: himfelf in that dtfguift of war, 
 
 And guarded feems as men by Prifons are. 
 
 He therefore to exalt the wondrous light, 
 
 Prepares now, and difarms himfelf for fight. 
 
 *Gainft Shield, Helm, BreaH-plate, and inHead of thofe 
 Five fharp frnooth Stones from the next Brook he chofe, 
 And fits them to his Sling ; then marches down 5 
 For Sword, his Enemies he eHeem’d his Own . 
 
 We all with various Paffion Hrangely gaz’d, 
 
 Some fad, fome fham’d, fome angry, all amaz’d. 
 
 Now in the Valley he Hands, through’s youthful Face 
 Wrath checks the Beauty , and fheds manly grace. 
 
 Both in his looks fo joyn’d, that they might move 
 Fear ev’n in Friends , and from an En'my Love. 
 
 Hot as ripe Noon t fweet as the blooming Day , 
 
 Like "July furious, but more fair than May . 
 
 Th’ accurft Philip tan Hands on th’ other fide, 
 
 Grumbling aloud, and fmiles ’twixt Rage and Pride. 
 
 1 he P/agues of Dagon ! a frnooth Boy , laid he, 
 
 A curled bear die fs Foe oppos’d to Me ! 
 
 Hell ! with what Arms (hence thou fond Child) he’s come ! 
 Some friend his Mother call to drive him home. 
 
 Not gone yet ? if one minute more thou Hay, 
 
 The bircts of heav’n fhall bear thee dead away. 
 
 Gods ! a curH Boy ! the refl then murmuring out, 
 
 He walks, and cafls a deadly grin about. 
 
 David with cheerful anger in his Eyes, 
 
 Advances boldly on, and thus replies. 
 
 Thou com’H vain Man, all arm’d into the field. 
 
 And truHeH thofe War toys , thy Swcrd , and shield $ 
 
 Thy Prides my Spear , thy Blafphetny my Sword ; 
 
 My shield , thy Maker , Fool 5 the mighty Lord 
 Of Thee and Battels , who hath fern forth Me 
 Unarm’d thus, not to Fight , but Conquer Thee. 
 
 In vain fhall Dagon thy falfe hope withHand ; 
 
 3 In vain thy other God , thine own right hand . 
 
 Thy Fall to man fhall Heavens ftrong JuHice fhew } 
 
 W retch ! ’tis the only Good which thou canH do. 
 
 He laid, our HoH Hood dully filent by, 
 
 And durH not truH their Ears againH the Eye, 
 
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 As much their Champions threats to him they fear’d, 
 
 As when the Monflers threats to them they heard, 
 
 His flaming Sword tlfenrag’d Pbilijlian (hakes, 
 
 And haft to ’s ruin with loudCur/es makes. 
 
 Backward the Winds his attive Curfes blew, 
 
 54 And fatally round his own Head they flew. 
 
 For now from David 7 s fling the ftone is fled, 
 
 And ft r ikes with joyful noile the Monfler 7 s head. 
 
 It ft rook his Forehead, and pierc’d deeply there ; 
 
 As fwiftly as it pierc’d before the Air. 
 
 Down, down he falls, and bites in vain the ground ; 
 
 Bloody Brain, and Soul crowd mingled through the Wound* 
 So a ftrong 0*4, which many years had flood 
 With fair and flourifhing boughs, itfdf a Wood ; 
 
 Tho’ it might long the Axes violence bear. 
 
 And play’d with Winds which other Trees did tear ; 
 
 Yet by the Thunders ftroke from th’ root ’tis rent : 
 
 So fure the Blows, that from high Heav’n are lent. 
 
 What tongue the joy and wonder can exprefs. 
 
 Which did that moment our whole Hoft poffefs ? 
 
 Their jocond fhouts th’ Air like a ftorm did tear, 
 
 Th’ amazed Clouds fled fwiftaway with Fear. 
 
 But far more fwift th’accurs’d PhiliftUns fly, 
 
 And their ill fate to perfect, hafely dy. 
 
 W r ith thoufand Corps the ways around are ftrown, 
 
 Till they, by the days Flight fecure their own. 
 
 Now through the Camp founds nought but Davids name t 
 All joys of feveral ftamp and colours came 
 From feveral Paflions ; lome his Valour praife, 
 
 Some his free Speech, lome the fair popular Rayes 
 Of Youth, and Beauty, and his modefi Guife • 
 
 Gifts that mov’d all, but charm’d the Female Eyes. 
 
 Some wonder, fome, they thought t* would be fo, fwear ; 
 And fome faw Angels flying through the air. 
 
 The baled: fpirits caft back a crooked glance 
 On this great Aft, and fain would giv’t to Chance. 
 
 Women our Hoft with Songs and Dances meet, 
 
 With much joy Saul y David with more they greet* 
 
 Hence the Kings politique rage and envy flows, 
 
 Which firfl he hides, and leeks his life to expofe 
 To get? rout dangers that his hate might clear, 
 
 And Fate or Chance the blame, nay Davidy bear* 
 
 So vain are mans Defigns 1 for Fate and Chance y 
 And Earth , and Heav'n confpir’d to his advance ; 
 
 His Beauty, Youth, Courage, and w'ondrous Wit, 
 
 In all Mankind but Saul did Love beget. 
 
 Not Saul's own houfe, not his own neareft blood, 
 
 The noble caufes facred force withftood. 
 
 You have met no doubt, and kindly us’d the fame, 
 
 Of God-like Jonathans illuftrious Name ; 
 
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p 8 Davideis, A Sacred Toem Book III. 
 
 A Name which ev’ry wind to Heav’n would bear, 
 
 Which Men to fpeak, and Angels joy to hear. 
 
 55 No An^el e’re bore to his Brother Mind 
 A kindnefs more exalted and refin’d. 
 
 Than his to David, which look’d nobly down, 
 
 And (corn’d the falfe Alarums of a Crown. 
 
 At Dammin field he (food $ and from his place 
 Leapt forth, the wondrous Conq'ror to embrace > 
 
 5^ On him his Mantle, Girdle, Sword, and Bow, 
 
 On him his Heart and Soul he did beftow. 
 
 * 
 
 * Not all that Saul could threaten or perfuade, 
 
 In this clofe knot the fmalleft loo(ene(s made. 
 
 Oft his wife care did the Kings rage fufpend. 
 
 His own lifes danger fhelter’d oft his Friend, 
 
 Which he expos’d a Sacrifice to fall 
 By th 'undifeerntng rage y of furious Saul. 
 
 Nor was young Davids active virtue grown 
 Strong and triumphant in one Sex alone. 
 
 * Imperious Beauty too it durft invade. 
 
 And deeper Prints in the foft breafi it ttiade : 
 
 For there t ' Eft eem and Friend/hips graver name, 
 
 Paffton was pour’d like Oyl into the Flame . 
 
 Like two bright Eyes in a fair Body plac’d, 
 
 Sauls Royal Houfe two beaut’ous Daughters grac’d. 
 
 Merab the firft, Michal the younger nam’d. 
 
 Both equally for different glories fam’d. 
 
 Merab with fpacious beauty fill’d the fight. 
 
 But too much aw chaftis’d the bold delight. 
 
 Like a calm Sea, which to th ’enlarged view, 
 
 Gives pleafure , but gives fear and reverence too. 
 
 Michal' s fweet looks clear and free joys did move. 
 
 And no lefs / Irong 9 though much mor e gentle Love. 
 
 Like virtuous Kings whom men rejoy ce t’obey, 
 
 Tyrants themfelves lefs abfolutethan They. 
 
 Merab appear’d like fome fair princely Tower , 
 
 Michal fome Virgin greens delicious Bower. 
 
 All Beauties (fores in Little and in Great * 
 
 But the contracted Beams fhot fierCelf he 3 t, 
 
 A clean and lively Brown was Merab's dy, 
 
 Such as the Prouder colours might envy, 
 
 Mich at s pure skin fbone with (uch raintlefs White , 
 
 As (batter’d the weak rays of human fight. 
 
 Her Lips and Cheeks a nobler red did fhew, 
 
 Than e’re on Fruits or Flowers Heav’ns Pencil drew. 
 
 From Merab's eyes fierce and quick Lightnings came, 
 From Michal ' s the Suns mild , yet attive flame ; 
 
 Merab’s long hair was glo(Ty cheftnut brown, 
 
 Treflesof palelf gold did Michal crown. 
 
 Such was their outward Form, and one might find 
 A difference not unlike it in the Mind. 
 
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 Merab with comely Majejly and State 
 Bore high th’ advantage of her IV orlh and Fate . 
 
 Such humble fweetnefs did loft Michal Ihew, 
 
 That none who reach fo high e’re ftoopt fo low . 
 
 Merab rejoyc’d in her wrackt .Lovers pain, 
 
 And fortifi’d her Virtue with Difdain. 
 
 The grief fhe caus’d gave gentle Michal grief. 
 
 She wifht her Beauties lefs for their relief, 
 
 Ev’n to her Captives , civil ; yet th’ excels 
 Of naked Virtue guarded her no lefs. 
 
 Bufinefs and Power Merab's large thoughts did vex. 
 Her Wit difdain’d the Fetters of her Sex. 
 
 Michal no lefs difdain’d affairs and noife, 
 
 Yet did it not from Ignorance , but Choife . 
 
 In brief, both Copies were more fweetly drawn 5 
 Merab of Saul) Michal of Jonathan. 
 
 The day that David great Goliah flew, 
 
 Not great Goliah* s Sword was more his due 
 Than Merab ; by Saul's pub lick promile fhe 
 Was fold then and betroth’d to Vittory. 
 
 But haughty She did this juft Match aefpile, 
 
 Her Pride debaucht her Judgment and her Eyes. 
 
 An unknown Tonth, ne’r^ leen at Court before, 
 
 Who Sbepherds-Jhjf^ and Shepherds-habit bore 5 
 The feventh-born Son of no rich houle, were ftill 
 Th’ unpleafant Forms which her high thoughts did fill. 
 And much averfion in her ftubborn mind 
 Was bred by being promis'd and deftgn'd. 
 
 Long had the patient Adrttl humbly born 
 The rougheft (hocks of her imperious (corn, 
 
 Adrttl t he Rich s but riches were in vain, 
 
 And could not let him /ree, nor her inchain. 
 
 Long liv’d they thus ; but as the hunted Dear 
 Cloleiy purlifd quits all her wonted fear, 
 
 And takes the neareft waves, which from the fhore 
 She oft with horror had beheld before. 
 
 So whi! ft the violent Maid from David fled, 
 
 She leapt to Adriels long-avoided bed. 
 
 The Match was nam’d, agreed, and finilht ftrait j 
 Socomplyed Saul's Envy with her Flate . 
 
 But Michal in whofe breaft ail virtues move 
 That hatch the pregnant feeds of (acred Love , 
 
 V/ith jufter eyes the noble Objeft meets, 
 
 And turns all Merab's Poyfon into Sweet si 
 She faw and wondred how a Touth unknown, 
 
 Should make all Fame to come fo foon his own : 
 
 She faw, and wondred how a Shepherd's Crook 
 Dcfpis’d that Sword at which the Scepter fhook. 
 
 Tho’ he feventh-born, and tho’ his Houle but poor, 
 She knew it noble was, ^nd would be more. 
 
 i Sam. 
 18. 19. 
 
Davideis, A Sacred Poem Book III. 
 
 Oft had (lie heard, an & fancied oft the fight, 
 
 With what a generous c dm hemarcht to tight. 
 
 In the great danger how exempt from Fear , 
 
 And after it from Pride he did appear. 
 
 Greatnefs, and Goodnefs, and an Ayr divine. 
 
 She law through all his Words and Actions ftiine. 
 
 She heard his eloquent Tongue , and charming Lyre, 
 Whole artful loundsdid violent Love in fpire, 
 
 Tho’ us’d all other Pafftons to relieve ; 
 
 She weigh’d all this, and well we may conceive, 
 
 When thole ftrong thoughts attaqu’d her doubtful Breaft, 
 His Beauty no lefs active than the relf. 
 
 The Fire thus kindled loon grew fierce and great, - 
 When Davids breaft reflected back its heat. 
 
 Soon file perceiv’d (fcarce can Love hidden ly 
 From any fight, much lels the Loving Eye ) 
 
 She Conquror was as well as Gvercome y 
 And gain’d no left Abroad than loft at Home , 
 
 57 Ev’n the firft hour they met (for fuch a Pair, 
 
 Who in all mankind elle fo matchleft were, 
 
 Yet their Own Equals , Natures felf does wed) 
 
 A mutual Warmth through both their Boloms fpread. 
 Fate gave the Signal ; both at once began 
 The gentle Race , and with juft pace they ran. 
 
 Ev’n fo (methinks) when two Fair Tapers come, 
 
 From leveral Doors entring at once the Room, 
 
 With a fwift flight that leaves the Eye behind. 
 
 Their amorous Lights into one Light are join’d. 
 
 Nature her Felf, were file to judge the cafe, 
 
 Knew not which firft began the kind embrace. 
 
 Michal her modeft flames fought to conceal. 
 
 But Love ev’n th’ Art to hide it does reveal» 
 
 Her Ibft unpra&is’d Eyes betray’d the Theft , 
 
 Love paft through them, and there fuch footjleps left. 
 She bluflit when he approacht, and when he fpoke, 
 
 And fuddenly her wandring anfwers broke, 
 
 At his names found, and when fhe heard him prais’d. 
 With concern’d hafte hqr thoughtful-looks (he rais’d-. 
 UncalPd-for fighs oft from her Bofom flew. 
 
 And Adriels active friend fh’ abruptly grew. 
 
 Oft when the Courts gay youth ftood waiting by. 
 
 She ftrove to aft a cold Indtjferency ; 
 
 In vain file afted lo .conftrain’d a part. 
 
 For thoufand Namelefi things difclos’d her Heart. 
 
 On th’ other fide David with filent pain 
 Did in refpe&ful bounds his Fires contain. 
 
 His humble fear t’ offend, and trembling aw. 
 
 Impos’d on him a no lefs rigorous Law 
 Than Modefiy on her, and tho’ he ftrove 
 To make her fee’t, he durft not tell his Love , 
 
Book III. of the ''Troubles of David. 
 
 To tell it firfi: the timorous Youth made choice 
 Of Muficks bolder and more adlive voice. 
 
 And thus beneath her Window* did he touch 
 His faithful Lyre * the words and numbers fuch, 
 As did well worth my Memory appear, 
 
 And may perhaps delerve your Princely Ear. 
 
 i* 
 
 Awake, awake, my'>Lyre 9 
 And tell thy filent Maflers humble Tale, 
 
 In founds that may prevail ; 
 
 Sounds that gentle thoughts infpire, 
 
 Tho’ fo Exalted She 
 And I fo Lowly be, 
 
 Tell her fuch different Notes make all thy Harmonie % 
 
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 Hark, how the Strings awake. 
 
 And tho’ the Moving Hand approach not near, 
 Themfelves with awful fear, 
 
 A kind of num’rous Trembling make. 
 
 How all thy Forces try, 
 
 Now all thy Charms apply, 
 
 Revenge upon her Ear the Conquefts of her Eye* 
 
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 Weak Lyre ! thy Virtue fure 
 feufelefshere, fince thou art only found 
 To Cure, but not to Wound 9 
 And She to Wound , but not to Cure » 
 
 Too weak too wilt thou prove 
 My Eaffion to remove, 
 
 Phyfick to other llls 9 thou’rt Nour foment to Lovt * 
 
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 Sleep, fieep again, my Lyre , 
 
 For thou can'll never tell my humble Tale* 
 
 In Sounds that will prevail. 
 
 Nor gentle thoughts in her infpire ; 
 
 All thy vain mirth lay by, 
 
 Bid thy firings filent ly, 
 
 Sleep , fieep again, my Lyre 9 and let thy Mafier dy : 
 
 * • * - ■ > 
 
 She heard all this, and the prevailing Sound 
 Toucht with delightful pain her tender Wound. 
 Yet tho* Ihe joy a th* authenticjue News to hear, 
 
 Of what flie gueft before with jealous fear « 
 
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 18. 21. 
 
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 She checkt her forward joy, and bluflit for fhame, 
 
 And did his holdnefs with forc’d anger blame. 
 
 The fenfelefs rules, which fird Falje Honour taught. 
 
 And into Laws the Tyrant Cufiorh brought, 
 
 Which Womens Pride and Folly did invent, 
 
 Their Lovers and Tbemfelves too to torment, 
 
 Made her next day a grave difpleafure fain. 
 
 And all her Words , and all her Looks condrain 
 Before the trembling youth ; who when he law 
 His vital Light her wonted beams withdraw. 
 
 He curd his Voice, his Fingers, and his Lyre, 
 
 He curd his too bold Tongue , and bold Dtjire. 
 
 In vain he curd the lad, for that dill grew ; 
 
 From all things Food its ftrong Complexion drew : 
 
 His Joy and Hope their cheerful motions ceaft, 
 
 His Life decay’d, but dill his Love encread. 
 
 Whild die whole Heart approv’d not her Difdain , 
 
 Saw and endur’d his Pains with greater Pain . 
 
 But Jonathan , to whom both hearts were known 
 With a concernment equal to their own. 
 
 Joyful that Heav’n with his {worn Love comply’d 
 To draw that Knot more fad which he had ty’d, 
 
 With well-tim’d zeal, and with an artflil care, 
 
 Redor’d, and better’d foon the nice affair. 
 
 With eafe a Brothers lawful power o’recame 
 Informal decencies of Virgin-fhame. 
 
 She fird with all her heart forgave the pad, 
 
 Heard David tell his flames, and told her own at lad* 
 
 Lo here the happy point of profperous Love l 
 
 Which ev’n Enjoyment feldom can improve ! - . 
 
 Themfelves agreed , which fcarce could fail alone. 
 
 All Ifraels wifh concurrent with their own. 
 
 A Brothers powerful ayd firm to the fide. 
 
 By lolemn vow the Kjng and Father ty’d : 
 
 All jealousfears, all ni^e difguifes pad, 
 
 All that in lefs-ripe Love offends the Taff 
 
 In eithers Bread their Souls both meet and wed, ' y 
 
 Their Heart the Nuptial-Temple and the Bed. 
 
 And tho’ the groder Cates were yet not dred, 
 
 By which the Bodies mud fupply this Feafl ; • 
 
 Bold Hopes prevent flow Pleafures lingring birth* 
 
 As Saints allur’d of Heaven enjoy’t on Earth. 
 
 All this the Kjng obferv’d, and well he law 
 What fcandal, and what danger it might draw 
 T’oppofethis jud and popular Match, but tpea,nt 
 T’ ont~?nalice all refufals by Confent. 
 
 He meant the poisonous grant Ihould mortal prov$, 
 
 He meant t’enfnare his Virtue by hisLwe. . ;y ,. «• ; } 
 
 And thus he to him fpoke, with morp p£ art 
 And fraud, than well became the King ly part, t 
 
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 Your valour, David, and high worth ( laid he ) 
 
 To praife, is all mens duty, mine to fee 
 Rewarded ; and we fhall v our utmoft powers 
 Do with like care that part, as you did yours. 
 
 Forbid it 9 God 9 we like thole Kings fhould prove, 
 
 Who Fear the Virtues which they’re bound to 1 Love . 
 
 Your Pdty does that tender point fecure. 
 
 Nor •'will my Arts fiich bumble thoughts endure. 
 
 Your neernefs to’t rather fupports tile Crown , 
 
 And th’ honours giv’n to you encreale our own. 
 
 All that we can, we’ll give ; ’tis our intent. 
 
 Both as a Guard , and as an Ornament , 
 
 To place thee next ourlelves ; Heav’ndoes approve; 
 
 And my Sons Friendship , and my Daughters Love , 
 
 Guide fatally, methinks, my willing Choices 
 I fee, methinks, Heaven in’tj and I rejoice. 
 
 Blufh not, my Son, that Mithals Love I name. 
 
 Nor need jhe blufh to hear it ; ’tis no fhame 
 Nor fecret now ; Fame does it loudly tell, 
 
 And all men but thy Rivals like it well; 
 
 If Merabs choice could have comply’d with mine, 
 
 Merab , my elder comfort , had been thine. 
 
 And hers at laft fhould have with mine comply’d, 
 
 Had I not Thine and Michals heart defery’d. 
 
 Take whom thou lov’ft, and who loves thee 5 the laft 
 And dearett Vrefent made me by the chaft 
 Ahinoam ; and unlefs file me deceive, 
 
 When I to "Jonathan my Crown fliall leave, 
 
 ’Twill be a (mailer Gift, 
 
 If l thy generous thoughts may undertake 
 ^3 To guefs, they are what Jointure thou (halt make. 
 
 Fitting her birth and fortune : And fince fo 
 Cnftom ordains, we mean t’exaft it too* 
 
 The Jointure we exaft, is that fliall be 
 No lefis advantage to thy Fame than She, 
 
 Go where Philfjiian Troops infeft the Land 5 
 Renew the terrours of thy conquering hand. 
 
 When thine own hand, which needs mud: Conqu’ror prove. 
 
 In this joynt caule of Honour and of Love, 
 
 An hundred of the faithlefs Foe fliall Hay, 
 
 /59 And for a Dowre their hundred foreskins pay, 
 y Be Michal thy Reward ; did we not know 
 Thy mighty Fate, and Worth that makes it fo. 
 
 We fhould not cheaply that dear blood expofe 
 Which we to mingle with our own had chofe. 
 
 But thou’rt lecure ; and fince this Match of thine 
 We to the publick benefit defign, 
 
 A publick Good fhall its beginning grace, 
 
 And give triumphant Omens of thy race. 
 
 S F Thus 
 
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 Thus (poke the King ; The happy Tont'h bow’d low ; 
 Mode ft and gracefuj his great joy did (hew, 
 
 The noble task well pleas’d his generous mind; 
 
 And nought t’except againft it could he find, 
 
 But that his Mifirefs price too cheap appear’d, • 
 
 No Danger, but her Scorn o': it he fear’d. 
 
 She with much different fenfe die News receiv'd, 
 
 At her high rate (lie trembled, blufhr, and griev’d. 
 ’Twas alefs work theconqueft of his Foes, 
 
 Than to obtain her leave his life t’expofe. 
 
 Their kind debate on this (oft point would prov® 
 Tedious, and needlefs to repeat : If Love 
 ( As lure it has ) e’re toucht your Princely breaft, 
 
 ’Twill to your gentle thoughts at full fugged: 
 
 All that was done, or faid ; the grief, hope, fears ; 
 
 His troubled joys , and her obliging Tears . 
 
 In all the pomp of Paffions reign, they part ; 
 
 And bright Prophetique forms enlarge his heart; 
 Viffiry and Fame 1 and that more quick delight 
 Of the rich prize for which he was to fight. 
 
 Towards Gath he went ; and in one month (To foon 
 A fatal, and a willing work is done, ) 
 
 A double Dowre , two hundred foreskins brought 
 
 60 Of choice Bhilittian Knights with whom he fought. 
 
 Men that in birth and valour did excel, 
 
 Fit for the Caufe and Hand by which they fell. 
 
 Now was Saul caught ; nor longer could delay 
 The two reffiltfs Lovers happy day. 
 
 Tho’ this days coming long had feem’d and flow. 
 
 Yet feem’d its flay as long and tedious now. 
 
 For now the violent weight of eager Love , 
 
 6 1 Did with more hafte (o neer its Centre move, 
 
 He curft the flops of Form and State, which lay 
 
 62 In this laft flage like Scandals in his way. 
 
 On a large gentle Hill, crown’d with tall Wood, 
 
 ’ Neer where the regal Gabaah proudly flood, 
 
 63 A Tent was pitcht, of green wrought Damask made, 
 And leem’d but the frefh Forefts nat’ral fhade, 
 
 Various, and vaft within, on pillars born 
 
 Of Shittim Wood, that it fe fully adorn. 
 
 Hither to grace the Nuptial-Feafts does Saul 
 Of the Twelve 7 nbts th’ Elders and Captains call, 
 
 And all around the idle , bufie crowd, 
 
 With Shouts and Bleflings tell their joy alowd. 
 
 Lo, the prels breaks, and from their feveral homes 
 In decent pride the Bride and Bridegroom comes. 
 
 Before the Bride , in a long double row 
 With lolemn pace thirty choice Virgins go, 
 
 And make a Moving Galaxy on earth 5 
 All heav’nly Beauties , all. of higheft Birth ; 
 
 All 
 
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 64 All clad in livelieR colours, fre/li and fair, 
 
 65 As the bright dowers that crown'd their brighter Hair, 
 
 All in that new-blown age, which does inlpiro. 
 
 Warmth-'l n Themfelves , in their B holders Fire. 
 
 But ail this, and all elfe the Sun did e’re. 
 
 Or Fancy fee, in her lefs bounded Sphere, 
 
 The Bride her felf out-fhone \ and one would Jay 
 They made but the faint Dawn to her full Day. 
 
 Behind a numerous train of Ladies went. 
 
 Who on their Drefsmuch fruitlefs care had fpent, 
 
 Vain Gems, and unregarded coR they bore, 
 
 For ail mens eyes were ty’d to thofe before. . 
 
 The Bridegrooms flounfhing Troop fill’d next the plac 
 S 6 With thirty comly youths of nobkft race, 
 
 That niarcht before ; and Heav’n around his head. 
 
 The graceful beams of Joy and Beauty fpread* 
 
 £-j So the glad (tar which Men and Jngels Jove, 
 
 Prince of the glorious Hojl that fhines above, 
 
 No Light of fitav n fo chearful or fo gay, 
 
 Lifts up his facred Lamp , and opens Day. 
 
 The K ing himfelf, at the Tents crowned gate 
 In all his Robes of ceremony and Rate 
 Sate to receive the train ; on either hand 
 Did the High Priefl , and the Great Prophet Rand. 
 
 Aar id behind, Jonathan , Abner , JeJfe, 
 
 And all the Chiefs in their due order preffe. 
 
 FirR Saul declar’d his choice, and the juR caufe, 
 
 Avow’d by a gen’ral murmur of -applaufe, 
 
 5g Then fign’d her Dow' r and in few words he pray’d, 
 
 And bleR, and gave the joyful trembling Maid 
 I ’her Lovers hands, who with a chearful look 
 And humble geRure the vaflPrefent took, 
 
 <5 ^ The Nuptial-Hymn Rrait founds, and Muficks play, 
 
 7o And Feafls and Balls fhorten the thought lefs day 
 
 To all but to the wedded ; till atlaR 
 
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 The long-wifht night did her kind fhadow caR; 
 
 At laR in Inefl/mable hour was come 
 To lead his Conquering prey in triumph home, 
 yj To’a Palace near, dreR for the Nuptial-bed 
 ( Part of her Dower ) he his fair Princefs led, 
 
 Saul, the High -Priefl, and Samuel here they leave, 
 
 Who as they part, their weighty bleffings give. 
 
 >7 2 Her Vail is now put on } and at the gate 
 The thirty Youths , and thirty Virgins wait 
 yj With golden "Lamps, bright as the fiames they bore, 
 
 To light the Nuptial-pomp, and march before. 
 
 The reR bring home in Rate the happy Pair, 
 
 To that laRbVe^eof Bltfs, and leave them there 
 
 Ail thole free joys infatiably to prove 
 
 With which rich Beauty feaRs the Glutton Love. 
 
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 74 But fcarce, alas, the firft (even days were paft, 
 
 In which the publick Nuptial Triumphs la ft, 
 
 When Saul this new Alliance did repent, 
 
 Such fubtile cares his jealous thoughts torment. 
 
 He envy’d the good work himfelf had done ; 
 
 Fear’d David lets, his Servant than his Son . 
 
 No longer his wild wrath could he command ; 
 
 He feeks to ftain his own Imperial hand 
 
 In his Sons blood ; and that twice cheated too. 
 
 With Troops and Armies does one life perfue. 
 
 Said I but One ? his thirfty rage extends 
 To th’ Lives of all his kindred and his friends ; 
 
 Ev’n Jonathan had dyed for being fo, 
 
 Had not juft God put by th’unnat’ral blow* 
 
 You fee, Sir, the true caufe which brings us here ; 
 No fallen difeontent, or groundlefs fear, 
 
 No guilty Ad or End calls us from home. 
 
 Only to breath in peace a while we come. 
 
 Ready to Serve 7 and in mean fpace to Pray 
 For To « who us receive, and Him who drives away. 
 
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 NOTES 
 
 UPON THE 
 
 THIRD BOOK. 
 
 t Town not far from Jerw/z/e/», according to S.Hi rom , 
 
 in his Commentary upon Ifaiah, by which it feems it 
 was re-edified, after the deftru£iion of it by Saul ; he 
 / 'lk fays, that Jerusalem might be feen from it .Adricomius 
 
 knows not whether he fhould place it in the Tribe of 
 Benjamin, or Ephraim, Abulenfts fure isinan error, placing ir in 
 the Half Trthe of Manages beyond "Jordan. I call it A r obe accord- 
 ing to the Latin Tranftation j for ( methinks ) Nob is too unhero- 
 ical a name. 
 
 2 Panes Propofitionis, in the Szptuagwt, aflot uaW, from the He- 
 brew, in which it fig nifies Panes Facitrum , becaufe they were al- 
 ways ftanding before the Face of the Lord ; which is meant too by 
 the Enghfb word Shew-bread. The Law concerning them, Lev it. 
 
 23. commands not only that they fhould be eaten by the Prtcfts 
 alone* but alfo eaten in the Holy Place. For it is moft holy unto him, 
 of the offerings made unto the Lord by Fire , by a perpetual Statute , 
 Verfe 9. In the Holy Place ; that is, at the door of the Tabernacle ; 
 as appears, Lev. 8. 31. and that which remained was to be burnt, 
 left it fliould be eaten by any but the Priefts. How comes it theri 
 to pafs, not only that Ahimelecb gave of this bread to David and 
 his company, but that David fays to him, t Sam. 21.5. The bread 
 is in a, manner common 1 The Latine differently, Porro via hac 
 polluta eft, fed & ip fa hodie fanftifiCabitur in vafts. The Words are 
 fomewhat obfeure ; the meaning fure muft be, that feeing here - 
 are new Breads to be fet upon the Table, the publiejue occafion 
 ( for that he pretended ) and prefent neceflity makes thele as it 
 were common. So, what more facred than the Sabboth ? yet the 
 Maccabees ordained, that it fhould be lawful to fight againft their 
 enemies on that day. Seneca fays very well, Neceffftas maghum 
 humana imbecillitatis patrocinium , quicqttid cogit, exettf at . And we 
 fee this A£tof Davids approved of in the Evangelifts. 
 
 Fat a 1$ 
 
io8 3\(otes upon the third Boo.{. Book I i I _ 
 
 3" Fatal, in regard his coming was the caufe of Abimdtchs mur- 
 der and the deftruftion of the Town. 
 
 4 Sacred : made fo by Davids placing it in the Tabernacle as a 
 
 Trophee of his F/ffory y Thus Judith dedicated aii the fluff 
 
 of Holophtrnes his Tent as a Gift unto the Lord, ]ud. 16.19. *^3*1«* 
 
 )top<w Uuyj*, where the Latin commonly adds Obhv ionisyn anathe- 
 ma oblivionis , which fhould be left out. Jofephus of this word, 
 rrl'jj {loy.ycu&v ct?v'i$yiyjt 7 rJ Qiu. And Sulpit. Sever. Gladium poftea in Tetk* 
 plum pofuit ; i. In Tabernaculum Nob<e : where, methinks, In 7 em- 
 plurn fignifies more than if he had Laid in Templo. The reafon of 
 thiscuftom is, to acknowledge that God is the giver of Fifforyi 
 And I think all Nations have concurred in this duty after fuccefc 
 fes, and called ( as Virgil fays ) 
 
 In praedam partem Jovem 
 
 So the Philiftims hung up the Arms of Saul in the Temple of 
 Afhtaroth , and carried the Ark into the Temple of Dagon. Nicol. 
 dt Lyra believes that this Sword of Gohah was not confecrated to 
 God • for than Abimelecb in giving, a nd David in taking it had fin- 
 ned ; for it is (aid, Levit. 27 . 28. Whatfoeveris devoted is mofi holy 
 unto the Lord ; but that it was only laid up as a Monument of a fa- 
 mous Vi£tory,in a publick place. There is no need of this evafion ; 
 for not every thing confecrated to God is unalienable ( at leaf! for 
 a time ) in cafe of necellity,fmce we fee the very veffels of the 
 Temple were often given to Invaders by the Kings of Judab y to 
 make peace with them. Pro Rep, plerumq ; Templa nudantur . 
 Sen: in Controverf. 
 
 5 This particular of j fagal and Davids going in difguife into the 
 Land of the Phil/flims ( which feems more probable than that he 
 fhould go immediately and avowedly to AcbPs Court lb foon after 
 the defeat of Gohah ) is added to the Hiftory by a Poetical Li- 
 cence, which I take to be very harmlefs, and which therefore I 
 make bold to ufe upon feveral occafions. 
 
 6 Their Goddefs Dagon , a kind of Mermaid Deity . See on the fe- 
 cond Book. 
 
 7 Adullam , An Ancient Town in the Tribe of Judah y even in J u- 
 daV stime, Ge^.38. in Jofhufsit had a King , Joih.12.1 5. the Cave 
 ffill remains; and wasufed by the Chriftians for their refuge upon 
 feveral irruptions of the Turks , in the fame manner as it ferved 
 David now. 
 
 S In this Enumeration of thechief Perfons whocameto affift D*- 
 vid, Ichofe to name but a few. The Greek and Latin Poets being 
 in my opinion too large upon this kind of fubjeff, efpecially Ho- 
 meryn enumerating the Grecian Fleet and Army ; where he makes 
 a long lift of Names and N umber syuft as they would ftand in the 
 Roll of a Mufttr-Mafler , without any delightful and various defcri- 
 ptions of th.e perfons j or at leaft very few fuch. Which Lucan 
 ( methinks ) avoids vicioufly by an excefs the other way. 
 
 9 2' Sam. 2. And Afael was as fwift of foot as awild Roe. Jofeph. 
 
 favs of him, that he would out-run itnray k ct]uA v ^ Hi ctut/r^Vj 
 ’ ' which 
 
Book III. Motes upon the third Boo !{, 
 
 105? 
 
 which is no fuch great matter. File Poets are al! bolder in their 
 exj* r ’(lions upon the iwiftnefs of fome perfons. Virgil upon Nifm 
 Ain. 5 . 
 
 Emicat & ventis, & fulminis ocyor alis * 
 
 But that his Modefi. with them. Heare him of Camilla, Ain. 7. 
 HU ve l intactas feget is per fumma volaret 
 Gramina, nec teneras cur fu lafijjet ari fisas. 
 
 Vel mare per medium fluff u fufpenfa tumenti 
 Ferret iter , celeres mc tingeret ceojiiore plantas. 
 
 From whence I have the hint of my defer ipt ion, Oft 61 re the Lawns, 
 &c. but I cjurft not in a Sacred Story be quite fo bold as he. The 
 walking over the waters is too much, yet he took it from Homer. 
 20. Iliad. 1 
 
 At cfl’ 077 C’Sp 7Kif]cciV isn feUk'tpv 
 
 ' Ak&v \ir ’ Av SjSgt kc-)V v^rdv Aov, xdi r^jiKhav. 
 
 AaA.’ 077 3 GKi{}diV, lA iUfZct Va>7 u SM-hd CMi 
 
 ,( A Kcp,‘ St? pnfu7l'@~ drbi Tnhioio SAw'/JOV. 
 
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 They ran upon the top of flowers without breaking them, and up- 
 on the back of the Sea, &c. where the Hyper he It (one would think ) 
 might have fatisfled any moderate man $ yet Seal. 5. de Poet, pre* 
 fers Vng ils from the encreafe of the miracle, by making Camilla's 
 flight over a tenderer thing than Antherici , and by the exaggerati- 
 ons ot Intaffa, Gramina, Volaret, Sufpenfa, Ale tingeret. Apollon. 
 1. Argonaut . has the like -Hyperbole, and of Polyphemus too, .a Mon- 
 ger, that one would believe fhould rather (ink the Earth at e^ery 
 tread, then run over the Sea with dry feet, 
 
 <* 1 irif tAvtuv zA yXajjyjoi a DiS gkav 
 
 y O/cT' | oca7©’, Oc» f (Sct7r\sv TroJ&i, rfAA’ Q7VV CLKCplS 
 
 ’’iXvtci nypbuivQ- ctup7i mpbfi ) tv y.ihzuAc. 
 
 And Solinus reports hifforically of Ladas ( the man fomuch cele 
 brated by the Poets,) cap. 6 . That he ran lb lightly over the dull, 
 ( fnpra cavum pulverem ) that he never left a mark in it. So that a 
 Greek Epigram calls Ins 
 
 &CU(^OVlOV 70 A/Ci 
 
 The fwiftnefs of a God. 
 
 All which, I hope, will ferve to excufe me in this place. 
 
 10 Jt/fides, the Son of JejJe ; a P atronymick after the Greek 
 • Form. 
 
 11 Moah, that part of the Kingdom of Moah that was pofleft by 
 jRe//fe,lying upon the Dead-Sea, which divides it from the Tribe of 
 Judah :but Jordan divides it from the Tribes of Benjamin Sr Ephra - 
 im,io Judah is not here taken in a precife fenfe for that Tribe only. 
 
 12 His : becaufe Jordan runs into it, and is there loft. It is called 
 promilcuoufly a Sea, or Lake, and is more properly a Like. 
 
 1 3 Arnoreus was the fourth Son of Sanarn ; the Country of his Sons 
 extended Eaft and Weft between Arnon and Jordan , North and 
 So uth between Jahoc and the Kingdom of AL^.They were total- 
 ly deftroyed by the Jfraelites , and. their Land given to the Tribe 
 of Gad, Gen. 10. 1 4. Nurnb t 2i..%2. Dent. J"fij. ipj^dg. 12. 
 
I IO 
 
 hgotes upon the third Boo) Book III. 
 
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 14 Edom, called by the G?re/b Idurmea ; denominated from Efatt. 
 Jojephus makes Idumea s, the Vpper and the Tower ; the upper 
 was polled: by the Tribe ol Judah, and the Lower by Simeo n : but 
 ftill the Edomites pofleft the Southern part of the Country, from 
 the Sea of Sodom towards the Red, or, Idum&an Sea. The great 
 Map of Adricomius places another Edom dr montes Seir, a little 
 North of ELM a, of the Ammonites, which I conceive to be a mi- 
 (lake. The Greeks under the name of Idume include fomtimes 
 all Paltjlwe and Arabia, 
 
 Petra. The Metropolis of Arabia Petr £ai Adric. 77. 
 
 Petrie a autem diUa a vttuftiffimo oppido Petra, 
 
 Defer ti ip fins Metropoli fupra mare mortuum 
 
 fit a. 
 
 It is hard to Let the bounds b f this Country ( and indeed of all the 
 little ancient Kingdoms in thofe parts ;) for fomtimes it includes 
 Mo ah, Edom, Amalec , Cedar, Madian y and all the Land Southward 
 to Egypt, ox the Red-sea : But here it is taken in a more contracted 
 fignification,for that part of Arabia which lies near the Metropolis 
 Peer a and denominates the whole. I doubt much, whether Petra 
 D'Terti, which Adric. makes to be the fame, where not another City 
 01 toe 'ame name. Adric.is very confuted in the defeription of the 
 Countries bordering uponthe Jews, nor could well be otherwite, 
 the matter is fo intricate, and to make amends not much important. 
 
 1 5 Cujh. Arabia Sabaea, fo called from Saba the Son of Cuffj , and 
 Grand-child of Cham. All the Inhabitants of Arabia,d own to the 
 Red-Sea ( for Jethro's daughter of Midianwzs a Cnfite % tho’ taken 
 by J ofephus to be an African Ethiop, ) are called fomtimes in Scri- 
 pture Cufites, and translated Ethiopians ; and I believe the other 
 Ethiopians beyond Egypt defeended from thefe, and are the Cuft£ 
 at other times mentioned in the Scripture. 
 
 Ammon is by fbme accounted a part of Arabia taelix, and the 
 Country called fince Philadelphia, from the Metropolis of that 
 iiame, conceived by Adricom . to be the fame with Rabba of Am- 
 mon the Son of Lot. 
 
 16 Accounted of the race of th eGiantt, that is, a big, ftrong,and 
 
 wa ’'like fort of People 5 as Amos fays Poetically of the Amorites, 
 As tall as Cedars, and ftrong as Oaks . Thefe Emins were beaten by 
 Chedprf - ,, Gen. 1 4. and extirpated afterwards by the Moabites , 
 who called that Country Moab, from their Anceftor the Son of 
 Lot. 
 
 1 7 Seon King of the Amor it es, who conquered the greateft part of 
 the Kingdom of AL^ali weftwardof Arnon, and pofleft it him fell 
 tiii die ir 'aetites flew him, and deftroyed his people. Arnon, 
 a River that dilcharges itfelf into the Dead-fea, and rifes in an high 
 Rock in the Country of the Amorites, called Arnon , which gives 
 the name to the River, and that toth eCity Arnon , or Arear feated 
 • upon it. Or, 
 
 3 8 Efebon . A famous and ftrong City feated upon an Hill, and en- 
 compafled with brick-walls, with many Villages and Towns de- 
 pending on it* It \yas twenty miles diftant from Jordan. Adric. 
 
 For 
 
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 3\Qjtcs upon the third ' Boo y 1 1 1 
 
 i q For Saul had made war upon the Moabite s y and done them much 
 hurt, i Sam. 14. 49. 
 
 eo I take it for an infallible certainty, that Ophir was not, as l( 5 me 
 imagine, in the Wejl-lndies 5 for in Solomons time, where it is iirlt 
 mentioned, thofe Countrys neither were nor could be known, ac- 
 cording to their manner of Navigation. And befides, if all that 
 were granted, Solomon would have fet out his Fleet lor that voy- 
 age from fome Port of the Mediterranean, and not of the Red-fea. I 
 therefore, without any fcruple, fay, Ophir s rfing Morn , and make it 
 a Country in the Eafl-lndtes, called by JJoJ'ephus and S. Hitrorn. 
 The Golden Country. Grot in* doubts, whether Ophir ivere not a 
 Town feated in the Arabian Bay, which Arrian calls Aphar , Pliny 
 Sapbar, Ptolomy Sappbar a, Stephana* Sapharina, whither the Indians 
 brought their Merchandizes, to be fetcht from thence by the Mer- 
 chants of the more Weftern Countrys. But that fmall fimilitude 
 of the Name, is not worth the change of a received Opinion. 
 
 21 Like this is that of Dido to AEneas, 
 
 Nonobtufa adto geftamii* pettora Pceni, 
 
 Nee tam aver fa* equos Tyria Sol jungit ab urbe. 
 
 And in St at. oTAdra/lns to Polynices j 
 
 Nec tam averfum fama 
 MycdtnU volvit ittr. 
 
 22 Phegor , or Pbogor , or Peer , was an high Mountain upon the Top 
 of which, Balaam was de/ired by Balac to curfe, but did blefs lfrael. 
 This place was chofen perhaps by Balac , becaufe upon it (food the 
 Temple of his God Baal. Which was, I believe, the Sun, the Lord 
 of Heaven , the fame with Moloch of the Ammonites and the Moa- 
 bites Cbemos 5 only denominated Baal Phegor , from that particular 
 place of his worfhip, as Jupiter Capitolinus. Some think, that BaaL 
 Peor was the lame with Priapus the obfceneldol , fo famous in anci- 
 ent Authors ; it may be the Image might be made after that fafhion, 
 to fignifie that the Sun is the Baal , or Lord , of Generation. 
 
 23 1 he making of Hangings with Figures came firft from Babylon, 
 from whence they were called Babylonica , Plin. 1 . &. e. 48. Colores 
 dive rf os pittura intertexere Babylon maxtmt celebravit , & nome» 
 impofuit . Plaut. in Sticho. . -V u 
 
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 Tum Babylonica perijlromata confutaq\ tapetia 
 Advexit minimum bona reu 
 He calls the like Hangings in Pfeud. 
 
 Alexandria bd/uata conch Hi at a perijlromata. 
 
 Mart. I. 8. Non ego protulerim Babylonica pitta fuperbt 
 
 Texta Semiramia qua variantur acu. 
 
 And long before. Lucret. I. 4. 
 
 B Babylonica magnifice fplendore. 
 
 34 Thefe kind of Ivory Tables, born up with the Images of Beads 
 
 T £ were 
 
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 hJ\(otcs upon the third Bool{ \ 
 
 were much in efteem among the Ancients. The Romans had them* 
 as alio ail other inftruments of Luxury, from the Ajtatiques, 
 
 — Putere videntur 
 
 Vuguenta atq\ rofx latos nifi fujlinet orbes 
 Grande cbur,<& mag no fublimts Pardus hiatu 
 Dentibus ex illis quos mittit -porta Sitnes 
 Et Mauri celeres. Juven. 1 1 . 
 
 Ma r t. Et Mauri Ljbicis centum Jient dentibus orbes. 
 
 £5 ' Citron : It is not here taken for the Lemon Tree (though that be 
 
 in Latin called Citrus too, and in French Citronnitr ,) but for a 
 Tree fomthing rbiembling a wild Cyprtfs , and growing chiefly m 
 Jfrick : It is very famous among the Roman Authors, and was 
 moft ufed'for banquet ting-Stab and Tables. Martial fays it was 
 more precious than Cold. 
 
 Accipe f Alices, Atlantic a numera , 'menfas. 
 
 Aurea qui dederit dona , minora dabit . 
 
 See Plin. 1 . 13. c. 15. The fpots and crifpnefsof the Wood was the 
 great commendation of it : From whence they were called, Ty - 
 grine and Pantherina Menfa. Virg. Ciris. 
 
 Nec Lybis Ajjyrio Jlernetur left ulus oflro 
 Where Lybis LtBiilns may fignifie either an Ivory, or a Citron 
 Bed. 
 
 25 Purple Coverlets were moft in ufe among great Perfons. Horn. ll.y. 
 
 ^Ettrty </T cv Amm 73 7 &p<pvpioicn. 
 
 V irg. Sarrano dormiat ojlro. 
 
 That is, Tyrian Purple . Stat. Theb. i. 
 
 -w — * Pars ojlro tenues aroq\ f on antes 
 Emunire toros 
 
 They lye (lays Plato the Comedian in Athen. 2 . ) b Niveus \k ‘ptttfomn 
 
 itj gpditcKTt 77tf?l lesCdAjoii, &C. 
 
 The Purple of the Ancients was taken out of a kind of Shell - 
 fijh, called Purpura;- where it was found in a white vein running 
 through the middle of the mouth, which was cut out and boyled 3 
 and the blood ufed afterwards in Dying, produced the Colour 
 Nigrantis rof<e fublucentem , which Pliny witnefles to be the true 
 Purple , though there were other forts too of it, as the colour of 
 Violet , Hyacinth, tfre. Of this Invention now totally loft, fee Plin. 
 k 9. c* 38. and Pancirollus. The greateft Fifhing for thefe Purples 
 was at Tyre, and there was the greateft Manufacture and Trade of 
 Purple 3 there likewife was the Invention of it, which is attributed 
 to Hercules Tyrius, who walking upon the fnore faw his Dog bite 
 one of thefe fifties, and found his Mouth all ftained with that ex- 
 cellent Colour, which gave him the firft hint of teaching the Tyri- 
 ans how to Dye with it : From whence this Colour is called in 
 Greek ”Ax> ?;©-■> Ariflot . 5 waft v?)^, the work of the Sea ; and 
 
 Plato in Tim . defines A to be Red mingled with White and 
 Black. 
 
 So AEneas in the 1. ALn. finds the ftory of all the Trojan War 
 
 2 7 painted upon the walls of Juno'sTemple at Carthage. I chule here 
 tlte hiftpry of Lot, becaule the Moabites defended from him. 
 
 Che dor- 
 
j got es upon the third c Bool{. 
 
 I*? 
 
 Ghedor-laomer, who. according to the general opinion, was King 
 of Perfia, but to me it. ieems altogether improbable, that the King 
 of Perjia Ihouid come io far, and joyn with lb many princes to 
 make a War upon thole five little Kings, whole whole Territo- 
 ries were fcarce lo big as the lea if Shire in England, and whole 
 very Names are unlikely to have been heard of then, io far as 
 Perfia. Befides, Perfia was not then the chief Eiifiern Monarchy, 
 but Affyria under Ninias or Zjmois, who fucceeded Semiramis ; 
 which makes me like wile not doubt, but that they are miftaken 
 too, who take Amraphtl King o f Shinaar, which is interpreted 
 Babylonia, for the fame with N ini as, fince Chedor-lacmer com- 
 manded over him 5 a fouler error is theirs, who make Arioch 
 King of Ellafar to be the King of Pontus, as Aquila and S. Hierom 
 tranilate it ; or as Tofiatus, who would have it to be the HtUefpont. 
 Stephan, de Vrb. places Ellas in Ccelofyria , others on the borders of 
 Arabia , and that this was the fame with Ellafar has much more ap- 
 pearance. But for my part, I am confident that Elam, Shinaar 7 
 Ellafar , and 'Tidal, were the names of fome Cities not tar diftant 
 from Sodom and Gomorra , and their Kings fuch as the thirty three 
 that Jojhua drove out oi Canaan ; otherwiie how r could Abraham 
 have defeated them (abating miraclesj with his own family on- 
 ly > perhaps they were called of Elam, that is, Perfia, of shinaar, 
 that is, Babylonia, of Ellafar, that is Pontus, or rather the other El- 
 las, becaufe they were Colonics brought from thole Countrys ; 
 which the fourth Kings title, of Tidal, feems to confirm, that is, of 
 Nations Latine, Gentium-, Symmach. r tow r it,ofa City 
 compounded ol the conflux of people from feveral Nations. The 
 Hebrew is Goijm, which Vatablus, not without probability, takes 
 for the proper name of a Town . 
 
 That he might be confumed prelently after with his whole Peo- 
 ple and Kingdom, by fire from Heaven. 
 
 For Fire and Brimftone is named inScripture, as the Torment ?Q 
 of Hell ; for which caufe the Apoflle Jude, v. 7. fays, that Sodom * 
 and Gomorra are let forth for an example, 
 fuffering the vengeance of eternal fire ; So our Englifli ; the Latin, 
 Ignis £ttrni p&nam fufiinentes. But I wonder, none have thought 
 of interpreting adverbially ; for, Infiar habentes Ignis otter ni 
 
 Suffering the fimilitude of Eternal, that is, Hell Fire. So Nv.bjj is 
 ufed AriH. de Mund. ^ pi-o 7 TnrhsLxj; nrd\a.iT^ J)'zlw 0 nay even aIkh, 
 the SubfL is fomtimes taken in that Senfe, as Homer, Vlyff. 
 
 'H $ iPfjtdav Tm isi» 
 
 For this is the Manner or Fajhion of Suitors. It is not improbable, 
 that this Raining of Fire and Brimllone was nothing but extraor- 
 dinary Thunders and Lightnings ; for Thunder hath Sulphur in it, 
 which (Grotius fays) is there called QZw, as it were, Divine , 
 becaufe it comes from above. Several prophane Authors make 
 mention of the definition of Sodomy as Tacitus , L. 5. Hfor. 
 Fulminum' i&n arfifie y <jrc. and by and by, Tgne ccclejh fiagrafje , 
 &c. 
 
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 3\(otes Upon the third Bool ^ 
 
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 3 i The Blindnefls with which tbefe Wretches were ftricken,was not 
 
 A toral Blindnefls or Privation of their Sight, but either fuch a fud- 
 den darknefs in the air as made them grope for the door, or a fud- 
 clen failing of the fight , as when men are ready to fall into aTrance ; 
 Eblou foment ; or that which the Greeks term da, when men 
 fee other things, but not the thing they look for. For, faysS. Au* 
 guftine, De Civit. Dei. Lib. 22. c. 1 9. If they had been quite blind, 
 they would not have fought for the Door to go into Lots Houle, 
 but for Guides to conduQ: them back again to their own. 
 
 32 I defcribe her not after fhe was changed, but in the very a£l or 
 
 moment of her changing, pen. 19. 26. Our Englifh fays,fhe became 
 a Pillar of Salt , following the Greek a A of. The Latin is, 
 
 Statua Salis. Some call it Cumulum ; others Columnam. Sulpit. 
 Sever. Reflexit oculos, flat imq\ in molem converfla traditur. Itis 
 pity ^Jofltphus, who lays he law the Statue himfelf, omitted the de- 
 scription of it. Likely it is, that it retained her form. So Cyprian 
 in better verfe than is ufual among the Chriftian Potts , 
 
 Stet/t ipfla Sepulchrum , 
 
 bn ago flbi , formam flint corpore fler vans. 
 
 Some with much lubtlety, and fome probability, underftand a 
 P /liar of Salt, to fignifie only 2inEverlafling Pillar , of what mat- 
 ter loever, as Numb. 18,19. ^Covenant Salt. Butwemayvery 
 well too underftand it Literally ; for there is a Mineral hind of 
 Salt which never melts, and ferves for building as well as Stone ; of 
 which Pliny fpeaks, /. 3 1. c. 7. Befides, the converfion into Salt is 
 very proper there, where there is fuch abundance mixt with Sul- 
 phur, and which place God had, as it wer q, flowed with Salt, in token 
 of eternal barrennefs,of which this statue was fet up for a Monu- 
 ment. The Targum of J erufaltm is cited, to give this reafbn why 
 fhe looked back ; it lays, fhe was a woman of Sodom, and that 
 made her impatient to fee what became of her Friends and Coun- 
 try. The Moral of it is very perfpiciious, but very well expreft by 
 S. Augnfl. Uxor Lothjn Salem converfla magno admonuit Sacr amen* 
 to, neminem in via liberationis fluid praeterita deflderare debtre. 
 
 33 Zjppor the Father of Balac, and firft King of Moab mentioned 
 in Scripture. Some Authors, I know, name one Vaheb before him, 
 but ZJpp°r is the more kno wn, more authentical, and better found* 
 ing Name. Among the Ancients there was always fome hereditary 
 Bowl ', with which they made their Libationi to the Gods, and ea* 
 tertained Strangers . Virg. 
 
 Hic Regina gravem gemmis auroq; popoflcit 
 Imp levit <7; mero pateram, qud Belus & omnes 
 A Belo flolit i 
 
 And prefently fhe begins to the Gods. So Stat. 1 . 1 . TheL 
 Signis perfleti am aurotfl, nitentem 
 lafides pateram famulos ex more popoflcit , 
 
 Sga Danaus libare Deis , fltniorq 5 Phoroneus 
 Affueti - — 
 
 And then he adds the Stories engraven on the Bowl , which 
 would not have been fo proper for me in this place, becaufe of 
 
 the 
 
epotes upon the third c Bodp 
 
 1 1 
 
 X v , t.y ' *. 
 
 5 
 
 the P idl n res before . Sen. Thy eft. Poculum rnfufo capeGentile Baccho. 
 This L ibcition to the Gods at the beginning of all Feafts came from 
 the natural cuftom of paying the b'nft Fruits of ail things to the 
 Divinity, by whole bounty they enjoyed them. 
 
 This too was ari ancient Cuftom that never failed at fblemn 34 
 Feafts, to have Muftck ther£ (and fomtimes Dancing too) which 
 Homer calls, 
 
 AVCtQn[A&7Tt itblXTOi, 1 
 
 The Appendixes 5 or as Heifich interprets* wW/x* 7 ** the Orna- 
 ments of a Feafi. And as for wife and honorable perfcns, there 
 was no time of their Life lcfs loft, than that they (pent at 7 able ; 
 for either they held then fbme profitable and delightful Dil- 
 Courles with Learned Men, or heard fome remarkable Pieces 
 of Authors (commonly Poets ) read or repeated before them ; 
 or, if they were Princes, had fome eminent Poet (who was al- 
 ways then both a Pkilofopker and Muftcian,) to entertain theni 
 with Muftck and Verfes , not upon flight or wanton, but the 
 greateft and noblefl: fubje&s. So does Jopas in Virg. 
 
 Cithard crinitus Jopas 
 
 Perfonat aurata docuit qua maximus Atlas , 
 
 / Hic canit errantem Lunam Solifq ; laborer, &c r 
 
 So does Orpheus in Appoilon . 1. Argonaut. 
 
 V H «/tv </T co; ydict gj V(>q.vii hJi ^ctActAra, 
 
 T$ 
 
 Tfi? tir AKK) irtitri [/jh ffvyAiri^p 7 zt /uo^ti 
 N«/C6@- 0\00I0 c hiKflStV, &C. 
 
 So does Demodocus in Homer ; though there the fubjeft, methinks, 
 be not fo well chofen. 
 
 See At hen. L. 1. c. 1 2. upon this matter, where among other TU 
 things, he (peaks to this fenfej The Poets were anciently a race of 
 wife men , both in learning and pra&ice Philofophers ; and therefore 
 Agamemnon (at his expedition for Troy) leaves a Poet with Clytem - 
 ntftra , as a Guardian and lnftrucler to her, who, by laying before 
 her the vertuesof women, might giveher impreflionsof goodnefs 
 and honour, and, by the delightfulnefs of his convention, divert 
 her from worfe pleafures. So JEgyfteus was not able to corrupt 
 her, till he had killed her Poet . Such a one was he too, who was 
 forced to fing before Penelopes Lover s^ though he had them in de- 
 teftation. And generally all Poets were then had in efpecial reve- 
 rence Demodocus ^ among the Phsacians, fings the adultery of Mars 
 and Venus, not for the anprovingof the like aftions, but to divert 
 
 that voluptuous people from fuch unlawful appetites, &c. The old 
 
 Scholia ft upon Homer fays, 3. Odyff, 
 
 To <)y 01 *Ao itfri qiAooiquv -m^/v 
 
 Ancietltly Poets held the place of Philofophers . Sec. Quintii. L i. 
 c , 10. Strab. /. 1. Geogr. See. 
 
 By drawing up vapors from them, with which tbe Ancient* 
 believed, that the Stars were nourifhed. Virg. .4 
 
 Polus dum ft der a Pa fat; 2 ^ 
 
 This 
 
 
1 1 6 Dgotes upon the third Boo\ . 
 
 37 This was an ancient fafhion among the Heathens, not unlike to 
 our ringing of Bells in thunder. Juvenal jays of a loud icolding 
 Woman, that fhe alone was able to relieve the Moon cut of an 
 Eclipfe . Sola labor arat poterat j uccurrerc -Lana. 
 
 This Superfirition took the original from an opinion, that Witches , 
 by muttering fome Charms iu verfe.caufed th zEcLpfes of t hzMoon, 
 which they conceived to be wdien the Moon (that is, the Goddefs 
 of it ) was brought down from her Sphere by the vertue of thole 
 Enchantments ; and therefore they made a great noife by the beat^ 
 ing of Brafs, founding of Tr umpets, whooping and hollowing, and 
 the like, to drown the Witches Murmurs, that the Moon might not 
 hear them, and fo to render them inetfe&ual. Ovid. 
 
 Te quocf ; Luna traho , quamvis Tente fin a. labor es 
 
 Ara tuos minuant • 
 
 Tib. 0 ant ns & e curru Lunam diducere tent at , 
 
 Et faceret, f non sera repul f t jonent. 
 
 Stat. 6. Theh .— Attonitu quoties avellitur aflris 
 Solis opaca foror , procul auxiliantia gentes 
 Abra crepant. 
 
 Sen. in Hippol. Et nuper rubuit ,.nullaq\ lucidis 
 Nubes fordidior vultibus obflitit. 
 ylt nos foil icit i lumine turbido 
 Tra&am Theffalicis carminibus rati 
 Tinnitus dedimus. 
 
 3 & The World has had this hard opinion of Comets from all ages, and 
 not only thzVulgarjxho never flay fora Caufe to believe any thing, 
 but even the Learned, who can find no Reafon for it, though they 
 fearch it,& yet follow the vulgar belief. Arifotle fays , Comets natu- 
 rally produce Droughts by the extraction of vapors from the earth 
 to generate and feed them ; and Droughts more certainly produce 
 ficknelfesrBut his authority cannot be great concerning the effeCls 
 of Comets, who fuppofes them to be all Sublunary. And truly there is 
 no way to defend this Prediction of Comets, but by making it, as God 
 fpeaksof the Rainbow, Gen. 9. the fupernatural Token of 3 . Cove- 
 nant between God and Man • for which wc have no authority, and 
 therefore might do well to have no fear .However the Ancients had, 
 Luc. Terris mutantem regna Cometem . 
 
 Claud. Et nunquam ccelo f pedatum impune Cometem. 
 
 Sil. Ital. Regnorum ever for rubuit letbale. Cometes. 
 
 39 For Thunder is an Exhalation hot and dry fhut up in a cold and 
 moift Cloud, out of which Arriving to get forth, it kindles itfelf by 
 the agitation, and then violently breaks it. 
 
 40 Lambent Fire is, A thin un&uous exhalation made out of the 
 Spirits of Animals, kindled by Motion, and burning without con- 
 fuming any thing but itfelf. Called Lambent from Etching over, as 
 it were, the place it touches. It was counted a goodOmen. Virg. da* 
 (bribes .the whole Nature of it excellently in three varies, Am. 2. 
 
 Ecce levis fummo de vertice vif us Lull 
 Fundere lumen apex, tacluq\ innoxia molli 
 Lambere flamma comas & circum tempora, pafei. 
 
 Fleecy 
 
Bpotes upon the third c BooJ(. i i j 
 
 aj Fleecy Snow , Pfal. 147. He giveth Snow like Wool, Pliny calls 
 ingenioufly for a Poe/, but defines it ill for a Philofopher , The 
 of Clouds , when they hit one another. Jn slot It defines it 
 truly and fhortly. Snow is a Cloud Congealed, and L 7.:/7 Congealed 
 Rain. 
 
 ^2 Gen. 49. 9. Judah is aLyomvhelp 3 r/;e Prey, my, [on thou art 
 gone up , he J looped down, he couched as a Lyon, and as an old Lyon , 
 who fho.ll roufe him up ? 
 
 . 1 Sam, 17. 4 * -And there went out a Champion out of the Camp of 
 
 ' the Phil: flints named Goliah, &c. wherein we follow the Septua- 
 gint, who render it, a Strong man : But the Latin Tran - 
 
 jlatton hath, Et egrejfus eft vir fpurius, aBajlard. Grotius notes, that 
 the Hebrews called the Gyants fo ; becaufe being contemners of ail 
 Laws they lived without Matrimony, and confequently their Fa- 
 thers were not known. It is probable he might be called lo, as being 
 of the race of the Anaktws ("the remainders <of which featedthem- 
 felves in Gath,) by the Father , and a Gathite by the Mother, 
 
 ^ See Turnus his fhields, 7. j£n. and yEneas his 8; Ain, with the 
 flories engra ven on them. 
 
 4c , For Baal is no other than Jupiter. Baalfemen Jupiter Olympius, 
 } But T like not in an Hebrew ffory to ufe the European names of 
 Gods. This Baal, and Jupiter too of the Grecians, was at firft takeri 
 for the Sun , which railing Vapors out of the earth, out of which 
 the Thunder isingendred, may well be denominated the Thunderer, 
 zt uf -nit • and Juvans Pater fits with no God fo much as the 
 
 Sun. So Plato in Phtid. interprets Jupiter ; and Heliogabalus is no 
 more/but Jupiter Sol. 
 
 The Fable of the Gyants fight with Gods was not invented by 
 the Grecians, but came from the Eaftern people, and arofe from 
 the true ffory of the building of the Tower of Babel. 
 
 46 This perhaps will be accufed by feme fevere men for too fwelling 
 an Hyperbole ; and I fhould not have endured it my felf, if it had 
 not been mitigated with the word Methought 3 for in a great ap- 
 prehenfion of fear, there is no extraordinary or extra vagan t Spe- 
 cies that the imagination is not capable of forming. Sure I am, 
 that many layings of this kind, even without an excufe or quali- 
 fication, will be found not only in Lucan or Statius, but in themoft 
 judicious and divine Poet himfelf. He calls tall young Men, 
 
 Patriis & montibus re quos. 
 
 Equal to the Mountains of their Country. 
 
 He fays of Polyphemus, 
 
 Graditurq\ per xquor 
 
 Jaw medium , nec dum flu cl us latera ardua tingit . 
 
 That walking in the mid ft of the Sea, the Waves do not wet his 
 fides. Of Orion , 
 
 Quam magnus Orion 
 
 Cum pedes incedit medii per maxima Nerei 
 Stagna viam feinden s humero fuper eminet undas. 
 
 Ant fummis referens annofam' monti bus ornum, 
 btgreditnrq ; [olo , & caput inter nubila condit . 
 
i 3 8 Bfotes upon the third Book* 
 
 And in fucli manner (fays he,) Mezentius prefented himfelf. He 
 lays of another, that he flung no (mall part of a Mountain, 
 
 Hand partem exiguam Montis. 
 
 Of which Seneca, though he adds to the greatnefs, he does not 
 impudently recede from truth. One place in him occurs , for 
 which Sen. Suajor. makes that defence, which will ferve better for 
 
 me, — Credas innare revulfas 
 
 Cycladas , aut montes concurrere montibus altos. 
 
 That is, fpeaking of great Ships, but yet f'uch as would feem very 
 little ones, if they were near the Sovereign ; you would think the 
 Cyclades , loofhed from their roots, were floating, or that high Moun- 
 tains encountred one another, Non dicit hoc fieri , fed vidtn \ pro* 
 p it i is auribus auditur quicqutd incredibile eft, quod excufatur ante- 
 quam dicitur. He does not lay it Is , but Seems to be, (for 16 he under- 
 ftands Credas') and any thing, though never fo improbable, is fa- 
 vourably heard, if it be excufed before it be Ijpoken. Which will 
 . ferve to anfwer for fome other places in this Poem ; as, 
 
 TIP Egyptian, like an Hill, himfelf did rear ; 
 
 Like fome tall Tree upon it feenPd his Spear . 
 
 Like an Hill, is much more modeft than Montibus <equus. 
 a 7 Became Gold is more proper for the ornaments of Peace than War. 
 
 4 3 Sen. in Thy eft. J ejuna fylvis qualis in Gangeticis Inter juvencos 
 Tygris erravit duos, Vtriufq ; pjr^dai cupida, quo primos ferat Incerta 
 morfus, fle ft it hue rictus fuos , lllo reflettit, & famem dubiam tenet. 
 And the Spots of a Tygre appear more plainly when it is angred. 
 
 Stat. 2. Theb. gratis ubi audito venantum murmure Tygris 
 
 Horruit in maculas, 8cc. 
 
 Nay Virgil attributes the fame marks of Paftion to Dido , 
 Sanguineam volvens aciem , macuhfq', trementes 
 Inter fufa genas 
 
 49 See the like conditions of a publick Duel in Homer , between Paris 
 and Menelaus • in Virgil , between Turnus and /Eneas ; in Livy, 
 between the Horatii and Curiatii. 
 
 Q , The Egypt ian-Goli ah ; The Egyptian -Gy ant, whom he flew 
 
 ' only with his ftaff, and therefore at the fight of it might well be 
 afhamed, that he durft not now encounter with Goliah. This is that 
 fhame which Virgil calls Confcia virtus. 
 r X They were 33. but Poetry, inflead of the broken Number, chufes 
 the next entire one, whether it be more or lefsthan the truth. 
 
 It appears by this, that David was about 20 pars old (at leaft,) 
 when he flew Goliah $ for elfe how can we imagine that the Armour 
 and Arms of Saul (who was the talleft man in all IfraelJ fhould fit 
 him ? neither does lie complain that they were too big or heavy 
 for him, but that he was not accuftonTd to the ule of them ; be* 
 fides, he handled dextroufly the Sword 0 £ Goliah, and not long after 
 faid, There is none like it. Therefore though Goliah call him Boy and 
 Child , I make Saul term him Touth. 
 
 - , For the Men who are fo proud and confident of their own 
 > Strength make that a God to themfelves, as the human Polititians 
 are laid in the Scripture to [aerifice to their own Nets , that is, their 
 own Wit. Virg. of Mezent. Dextra mihi Deus , & Telum quod 
 miftlle libro . • ' And 
 
IIP 
 
 Notes upon the third 'Boo\. 
 
 Aud Caponem is of the fame mind in Statius : 
 
 llhc Augur ago , & medium quicunq', parati 
 In fan ire m.vm 
 
 The Poets madeakvays the Winds either todifperfe the prayers 
 that were not to fucceed, or to carry thofe that were. Virg. 
 
 Au di/t y & vet i P ha bus jneetdert partem 
 54 Mente dedit, partem volucres difperfit in auras. 
 
 Ovid, de f rift. 
 
 Ternbihfq ; Not us jail at me a verba , prece fque 
 Ad quos mittuntur non fin it ire Deos . 
 
 Virg. P artem aliquam vent i Divum referatis ad aures, &c. 
 
 55 *• To another Angel . 
 
 56 1 Sam. 18. 4. And Jonathan fiript hirnfef of the robe that was 
 upon him , and gave it to David , and his garments, even to his Sword, 
 and to his Bow , and to his Girdle . Some underhand this gift exclu- 
 fively , as to the Sword, Bow , and Girdle, believing thofe three to be 
 the proper marks of a Souldier,or Kjiight ; and therefore not to be 
 parted with. But therefore, I fay, to be parted with upon this oc- 
 cafion. Girdle was perhaps a mark of Military honour ; for Joab 
 promifesto him that fhould kill Abfalom , ten fhekels of filver,and 
 a Girdle, 2 Sam . 18.12. But it was befides that, a neceffary part of 
 every mans drefs, when they did any work, or went abroad, their 
 nndcr-Robe being very long and troublefome, if not bound up. If 
 the Sword , Bow and Girdle had not been given 5 it could not have 
 been laid , And his Garments ; for nothing would have been given 
 but the outward Robe or Mantle, which was a loofe garmenr not ex- 
 actly fitted to their bodies,(for the profefTion of Taylors was not fo 
 ancient, butclothes were made by tne wives, mothers & fervants e- 
 ven of thegreateft perfons)8t fo might ferve for any fize or ftature. 
 
 57 1 Sam. 18 . 20. Septuagint. K&( h dvyhi'f SctsA izv 
 
 Aafs'i't, Which our Englifh Tranfiation follows, but the Latine 
 Tranflations very ; for lbme have, Dilexit autem Michal filia Saul 
 altera David. Michal Sauls Daughter loved David, And Others, 
 Dilexit autem David Michal filiam Saul alteram. David loved Mi- 
 chal Sauls Daughter. To reconcile which, I make them both love 
 one another. 
 
 jjS TheHusbandat the Contrail gave his Efpoufed certain Gifts, as 
 pledges of the Contrail. Thus Abrahams Steward in the name ot 
 Ifaac gave to Rebecca Jewels of filver, and of gold, and raiment. 
 Gen. 24. 5$. Which Cuftom the Greeks too ufed, and called the 
 Prefents But at the day of the marriage he gave her a Bill 
 
 of Joynture or Dowre. 
 
 59 J°fiphus fays, Saul demanded fo many Heads oithoPhilifiines, 
 which word he ufes inftead of Foreskins to avoid the raillery of 
 the Romans. Heads, l confefs, had been a better Word for my turn 
 too;but Foreskins will ferve, and founds more properly for a Jewifh 
 Story. Befides the other varies too much from the Text ;and many 
 believe, that Saul required Foreskins, and not Heads, that David 
 might not deceive him with the heads of Hebrews , inftead of Phi- 
 li {lines. V v If 
 
I 20 
 
 ,?S (otes upon the third Boo /^. 
 
 60 If it might have been allowed Davidto carry with him as many 
 Souldiers as he pleated, and fo make an inroad into the Phil; flints 
 Country, and kill any hundred men he could meet with, this had 
 been a lmall Dowre for a Princefs, and would not haveexpoted Da- 
 vid to that hazard/or which Said chofe this manner of Joynture. I 
 therefore believe, that he was to kill them all with his own hands. 
 
 61 As Heavy Bodies are laid to move- the fwifter, the nearer they 
 approach to the Centre. Which fome deny, and others give a reafbn 
 for it from the Medium through which they pafs, that (f ill preffes 
 them more and more 5 but the natural Sympathetical attractive 
 power of the Centre is much received, and is confonant to many 
 other experiments in Nature. 
 
 6 2 Scandals in the tente of the New Tefl ament , are Stumbling blacks , 
 m&oi ©jyc Stops in a mans way, at which he may fall,how- 
 ever they retard his courte. 
 
 6 j Janfeniits in his explication of the Parable of the Virgins , thinks 
 
 it was the cuftom for the Bridegroom to go to the Brides houte,and 
 that the Virgins came out from thence to meet him. For in that 
 Parable there k no mention ( in the Greek , tho’ there be in the 
 Latine ) of meeting any but the Bridegroom. 
 
 Others think that Nuptials were celebrated neither in the Brides 
 nor Bridegrooms houfe, but in publick houtes in the Country near 
 the City, built on purpofe for thofe Solemnities, which they col- 
 led out of thecircumftances of the Marriage,! Maccab.S.^j.Hof.2. 
 14. and Cant. 8. 5 ,&c. Whatever the ordinary cuftom was, I am 
 Pure the ancients in great Solemnities were wont to tet up Tents on 
 purpofe in the fields for celebration of them. See the deteription 
 of that wonderful one of Ptolomrem Philadelphus in At hen. 1. 5. c. 6. 
 and perhaps Pfal. 19.4.5. alludes to this. He hath fet a Tabernacle 
 for the Sun , which is as a Bridegroome coming out of his Chamber . 
 
 64 Habits of divers colours were much in fafhion among the He* 
 
 brews. See Judges 5. 30. Ezek. 16. 10. & 26. 16. Such was Jofephs 
 coat, Gen . 37.$.Septuagint as Homer calls Peplum Mi- 
 
 nerva, vefles Polymita. 
 
 65 It appears by teveral places in Scripture, that Garlands too were 
 in great ute among the Jews at their feafts,and efpecially Nuptials , 
 If a. 61. 10. The Latine fleads,like a Bridegroom crown’d with Gar- 
 lands ,Wif. 2.8. Ezek. i6. 12. Lam.5.1 j.Ecclef 32. 1 , &c. 
 
 66 I take the number of Thirty Maids , and Thirty young Me^from 
 the ftory of Samfons Marriage-feaft, Judg. 14. 1 1. where Thirty 
 Companions were lent to him, whom I conceive to have been 
 ip; npvw’i* Children of the Bridegroom , as they are called by St. 
 Matthew. 
 
 67 > Qualis ubi Oceani per fuf ns Lucifer undd y 
 
 Quern Venus ante alios ajlrorum diligit ignes , 
 
 Extulit os carlo facrum , tenebrasq ) ref oh it. Virg. 
 
 Which Vertes Scaliger fays, are fweeter than Ambrofia, Homer led 
 him the way. 
 
 iirapipu M*Aiy>uov, qt? f 
 A ay.vrejv 7m.yL^dvt]oi ASAauti/©- 'SlyAvoto, and 
 Oj@- P dfif ei 01 uit i ispj.ct vuktvS 
 
 cf by ityva' I&toj ctWp» 
 
 The 
 
121 
 
 68 The Bride alfo brought a Dowre to her Husband. Raguel gave 
 with his Daughter Sara half his goodsJervantSjCatteland Money, 
 Tob. io. io. See Exod. 22. 17, &c. 
 
 69 The Marriage- Song was called Hi Halim, Praijes, and the houfe 
 it felf Beth-billula , the Houfe of Praije, Pfal. 7 8. 6 f Their Maidens 
 were not given to marriage ; the Chald.Paraphraf reads, Are not 
 celebrated , with Epitbalamiums. So Arias too, and Aquila , 
 
 vfjLVijSH'L- 
 
 70 See Gen. 29. 22. Tob . c. 7. pfth. 2, 18. 14. j. Judg, 14. ty# 
 
 19. 9. 
 
 71 The Culiom feems to have been for the Bridegroom to carry 
 home the Bride to his houfe, 2 King. 11.27. Judg . 12.9. G<?#. 24. 
 67. Cant. 3. 4. but becaufe Michal wasa Princefs, and David not 
 likely to have any Palace of his own at that time, I chofe rather to 
 bring them to one of the Kings houfes afligned to them by the 
 Dowre . 
 
 72 The Bride when file was delivered up to her Husband, was wont 
 to cover her felf with a Vail (cadled Radid from Radad , to bear 
 rule ) in token of her fubje£tion, Gen. 24. 65, &c. 
 
 7J See the Parable of the Virgins, Mat. 25. 
 
 74 The time of the Marriagefeasl appears clearly' to have beenu- 
 fiially feven days. See Judg. 14. 10. and 29. 27. Fulfil her wtek,&c< 
 It wasa Proverb among the Jews, Septem dies ad convivium, & 
 Septem ad luftum. 
 
 
 V v a 
 
 THE 
 
 I 
 
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 122 
 
 Book IV. 
 
 f 
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 
 M Oab carries his Guefts to hunt at Nebo, in the wzy 
 falls into difcourfe with David ,and dejires to know 
 of him the reafons of the Change of Government in Ifrael, 
 how Saul came to the Crown, and the fiory of Him and Jo- 
 nathan. Davids Speech , containing, ) The flate of the Com- 
 monwealth under the Judges, the Motives for which the 
 people defired a King \ their Deputies Speech to Samuel 
 upon this SubjeEl,and his (Reply* The affembling of the Peo- 
 ple at the Tabernacle to enquire Gods pleafure. Gods 
 Speech. The Character of Saul, his Anointing by Samuel, 
 and EleStion by Lot \ the defection of his People . The War of 
 Nahas King of Ammon againfi Jabes Gilead ; Saul and 
 Jonathans relieving of the Town. Jonathan’s Character, 
 his fugle fight with Nahas, whom he flays, and defeats his 
 Army. The confirmation of Sauls Kingdom at Gilgal, and 
 the manner of Samuels quitting his Office of Judge. The 
 War with the Phihftins at Macmas, their fir ength, and the 
 weabpefs of Sauls Forces , his exercifeng of the Prieftly fun- 
 Elion, and the judgment denounced by Samuel againfi him . 
 Jonathans difcourfe with his Efijuire their falling alone up- 
 on the enemies out-guards at Senes, and after upon the whole 
 Army the wonderful defeat of it } Sauls rafb Vow , by which 
 Jonathan is to be put to death, but is faved by the People. 
 
 Davideis. 
 
Book IV. 
 
 
 f Hough ft Ate & kind difcourfe thus robb’d the Night 
 
 Of half her natural and more juft delight, 
 
 Moab , whom Tem f ranee did ftill vig rous keep, 
 H And regal cares had us’d to mod’rate bleep, 
 
 1 ™ Up with the Sun arofe, and having thrice 
 With lifted hands bow’d towards his fhining rife, 
 
 And thrice towards Phegor, his holieft Hill, 
 
 ( With good and pious prayers, dirt&ed ill ) 
 
 Call’d to the Chafe his Friends, who for him ftay’d s, 
 
 The glad Dogs barkt, the chearful Horfes neigh’d. 
 
 Moab his Chariot mounts, drawn by four Steeds, 
 
 2 The belt and nob left that frefh Zerith breeds, 
 
 3 All white as Snow, and fprightful as the Dight, 
 
 With Scarlet terapt, and foaming Gold they bite. 
 
 He into it young David with him took. 
 
 Did with refpeft and wonder on him look 
 Since laft nights ftory, and with greedier ear, 
 
 The Man , of whom fo much he heard , did hear. 
 
 The well-born Touth of ail his flourifhing Court 
 , March gay behind, and joyful to the fport. 
 
 Some arm’d with Bows, fome with ftrait Javeiines ride ; 
 
 4 Rich Sw r ords and gilded Qyivers grace their fide. 
 
 Midft the fair Troop Davids tall Brethren rode, 
 
 5 And Joab comely as a FancPd God, 
 
 They entertain’d th’ attentive Moab Lords , 
 
 With loofe and various talk that chance affords, 
 
 Whilft they pac’d llowly on , but the wife Kjng 
 D*id Davids tongue to weightier fubje&s bring. 
 
 
 Much 
 
,2 4 
 
 Davideis, A Sacred Toem Book IV. 
 
 
 Deut 34. 
 
 Jofli. 1.4. 
 
 Toft, 1 2. 
 
 Much, f (aid the ) much I to Joab owe, 
 
 For the fair Picture drawn by him of you. 
 
 ’T was drawn in littfe, but did Atts expre(s 
 So great, thatlargeft Hijtories are lefs. 
 
 I fee ( methinks ) the Gathian Monjter (till. 
 
 His fhape laft night my mindful Dreams did GIL 
 Strange Tyrant Saul with envy to perfue 
 The praife of deeds, whence his owtifafety grew/ 
 I’have heard (but who can think it ?) that his Son 
 Has his lifes hazard for your friendfhip run ; 
 
 His matchlefs Son, whole worth fif Fame be true J 
 Lifts him ’bove all his Countrymen but you, 
 
 With whom it makes him One ; Low David bows. 
 But no Reply Moabs fwift tongue allows. 
 
 And pray, kind Gueft , whilft we ride thus ( fays he ) 
 
 6 ( To gameful Nebo (fill three leagues there be,) 
 
 The ffory of your royal friend relate ; 
 
 And his ungovern’d Sires imperious fate, 
 
 7 Why your great State that namelefs Fam’Jychofe, 
 And by what fteps to Iferals Throne they rofe. 
 
 He (laid ; and David thus 5 from Egypt s Land 
 Yo’have heard, Sir, by what ftrong, unarmed hand 
 Our Fathers came j Mofes their facred Guide , 
 
 But he in fight of the GiiPn Country dy’d, 
 
 His fatal promis’d Canaan was on high ; 
 
 And Jofbua* s Sword muft th’ a&ive Rod fupply. 
 
 It did fb, and did Wonders. 
 
 8 From facred Jordan to the Weftern Main , 
 
 From well-clad Libanus to the Southern Plain 
 Of naked Sands, his winged Conqucfis went > 
 
 And thirty Kjngs to Htll uncrown'd he lent. 
 
 Almoft four hundred years from him to Saul , 
 
 9 In too much freedom part, or foreign thrall. 
 
 Oft Strangers , Iron Scepters bruis’d the Land, 
 
 ( Such (fill are thofe born by a Conquering Hand , ) 
 Oft pit’ing God did well-form’d Spirits raife, 
 
 Fit for the toilfome bufinefs of their days. 
 
 To free the groaning Nation , and to give 
 Peace firfl, and then the Rules in Peace to live. 
 
 But they whofe (lamp of Power did chiefly lye 
 In Characters too fine for mod mens Eye, 
 
 Grates and Gifts Divine ; not painted bright 
 With ftate to awe dull nginds, and force t* affright , 
 Were ill obey’d whil’fl: Living , and at death , 
 
 Their Rules and Pattern vanifht with their breath. 
 The hungry Rich all near them did devour. 
 
 Their j fudge was Apptite , and their Law was Power, 
 Not want itfolf could Luxury reftrain, 
 
 For what that emptfd y Rapine filPd again. 
 
 Robbery 
 
1 2 5 
 
 Book IV. of the Troubles ofY) avid. 
 
 Robbery the Field , Oppreffion facktthe Town ; 
 
 What the Swords reaping (par’d, wasgleand by th’ Gowtti 
 At Courts, and Seats of Juftice to complain, 
 
 Was to be robb’d more vexing ly again. 
 
 Nor was their Lift lei's a&ive or lels bold, 
 
 Amidlt this rougher fearch of Blood and Gold. 
 
 Weak Beauties they corrupt, and force the ft rang ; 
 
 The Pride of Old Men that, and this of Young. 
 
 Yo’have heard perhaps, Sir , of lewd Gibeahs fhame. 
 Which Hebrew Tongues (fill tremble when they name, 
 Alar uni d all by one fair flrangers Eyes, 
 
 As to a fudden War the Town does rife, 
 
 Shaking and pale, half dead e’re they begin 
 The Itrange and wanton Tragedy of their fin. 
 
 All their wild Lulls they force her to fuftain, 
 
 Till by fhame, borrow, wearinefs, and pain, 
 
 She midft their loath’d, and cruel kindnels dies* 
 
 Of monltrous Lift th’ innocent Sacrifice. 
 
 This did {'’tistrue) a Civil War create, 
 
 ( The frequent curie of our loole-govern’dS/^e ) 
 io All Gibe a s and all Jabes blood it coll; 
 
 Near a whole Tribe and future Kings we loft. 
 
 Firm in this general Earthquake of the Land , 
 
 How could Religion , its main pittar, ftand 
 Proud and fond Man his Fathers worfhip hates, 
 Himfelf, Gods Creature , his own God creates . 
 
 Hence in each Houfhold fev’ral Deities grew, 
 
 And when no Old one pleas’d, they fram’d a New. 
 
 The only Land which ferv’d but one before, 
 
 Did th 1 only then all Nations Gods adore. 
 
 They ferv’d their Gods at firft, and foon their Kings ; 
 Their choice of that this later Jlavery brings. 
 
 Till fpecial men arm’d with Gods Warrant broke 
 By jufteft force th’ unjuflly forced yoke. 
 
 All matchlefs perfbns, and thrice worthy they 
 Of Power more great, or Lands more apt t’ obey, 
 j i At lalt the Vriefthood joyn’d in Ith’mars Son, 
 
 1 2 More weight and lultre to the Scepter won. 
 
 But whilft mild Ely, and good Samuel were 
 Bufi’d with age , and th’ Altars facred care ; 
 
 To their wild&w-f they their high charge commit, 
 
 Who ’xpofe to Scorn and Hate both them and it. 
 
 Ely’s curft Houle th'exemplar vengeance bears 
 Of all their Blood, and all fad Ifr’els Tear/. 
 
 His Sons abroad, Himfelf at home lies (lain, 
 
 Ifrael’s captiv’d, Gods Ark and Law are ta’ne. 
 
 Thus twice are Nations by ill Princes vext. 
 
 They fuffer By them firft , and For them next. 
 
 Samuel fucceeds ; fince Mofes none before 
 So much of God in his bright bofom bore. 
 
 In 
 
 Judg. 19. 
 
 Judge. 20* 
 and 21. 
 
 i Sam. 1 , 
 
 1 Sam. 2» 
 
 12. 
 
 x Sam. 4» 
 
 1 Sam, 7.6. 
 
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 i Sam. 7. 
 
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 1 Sam.8.1. 
 
 judg.4. 5- 
 
 jud,3.3i. 
 
 Jud. 6.14. 
 
 Jud. 10.3. 
 Ib s 11,34, 
 
 In vain our Arms Phtlifiian Tyrants feis’d } 
 
 Heav'ns Magazines he open’d when he pleas’d. 
 
 He Rains and Wind for Auxiliaries brought, 
 
 He mufter’d Flames and Thunders when he fought. 
 
 13 Thus thirty years with ifrong and fteddy hand 
 He held tlfunfhaken Ballance of the Land. 
 
 At jail his Sons th’indulgent Father chofe 
 To fharc that State which they were born to 1 ofe. 
 
 Their hateful A£b that Changes birth did half, 
 
 14 Which had long growth i’tlT Womb of Ages pa ft. 
 
 To this ( for ftill were fome-great Periods fet, 
 
 Tiler’s a ft rong knot of lev ral Caufes met, ) 
 
 The threats concurred of a rough neighb’ring War; 
 
 A mighty ftorm long gathering from a far. 
 
 For Ammon , heightned with mixt Nations aid, 
 
 Like Torrents fwoln with Rain prepar’d the land t’invade, 
 Samuel was old, and by his Sons ill choice 
 Turn’d Dotard inth’ unskilful Vulgar s voice, 
 
 His Sons fo lcorn’d and hated, that the Land 
 Nor hop'd nor wifljt a Vi&ory from their hand : 
 
 Thefe were the juft and faultlefs caufes, why 
 The general voice did for a Monarch cry, 
 
 But God ill grains d id in this Incenfe fine! I, 
 
 Wrapt in fair Leaves he faw the Canker dwell. 
 
 A mut’nous Itch of Change ; a dull Dtfpair 
 Of helps divine , oft prov’d » a faithlefs care 
 Of Common Means'-, the pride of heart, and fcorn 
 Of th* humble y oak under low Judges bom. 
 
 They faw theftate and glittering pomp which bleft 
 In vulgar fenfe the Scepters of the Eaft. 
 
 They faw not Powers true Source , and fcorn’d t’ obey 
 Perfons that look'd no dreadfuder than They. 
 
 They mift Courts, Guards , a gay and num’rous train ; 
 Our Judg es, like their Laws , were rude and plain. 
 
 On an old Bench of wood, her Seat of State , 
 
 Beneath the well-known Palm , wife Dehor a fate. ; k 
 Her Maids with comly dil'gence round her fpun, 
 
 And /he too, when the Pleadings there were done: 
 
 With the fame Goa dSamgar his Oxen drives , ■ 
 
 Which took, the Sun before, fik hundred lives 
 From his (hom'd foes : He mid ft his work dealt Laws ; 
 And oft was his Plow ftopt to hear a Caufe. 
 
 Nor did great Gid'on his old Flail difdain, 
 
 After won Fields, fackt’T&Rw, and Princes flaith, K 7 
 His Scepter that, and Op hr as Threfhing Floor ,,T 
 The Seat and Emblems of his Juftk'e bOre. 
 
 What fhould I Jair , the happieft Father, namQff * 
 
 Or mournful Jephta , known no left to fame , . r, •_ 
 
 For the moft wretched ? Both at once did keep 
 The mighty Flecks of Ifral and their Sheep. 
 
 Oft 
 
Book IV. of the Troubles of David. 
 
 Oft from the held in hafte they fummon’d were 
 Some weighty foreign Embajjy to hear, 
 
 7 hey caldd their Slaves , their Sons, and Friends ardUnd, 
 Who all at feveral cares were (battered found ; 
 
 They wafht their Feet, their only Gown put on ; 
 
 And this chief work of CePmony was done. 
 
 Theie reafons, and all elfe that could be (aid, 
 
 In a ripe hour by fa&ious Eloquence fpread 
 Through all the Tribes, make all defire a Kjng \ 
 
 And to their Judge feledled Deputies bring 
 This harfh demand ; which NacolCor the reft 
 (A bold and artful Mouth ) thus with much grace expreft, 
 Wc are come, moft (acred Judge, to pay th’ Arrears 
 Of much-ow’d Thanks for the bright thirty years 
 Of your juft Reign ; and at your feet to lay 
 All that our grateful hearts can weakly pay 
 In unproportion awards, for you alone 
 The not unfit Reward , who leek for none. 
 
 But when our forepaft Ills we call to mind. 
 
 And fadly think how little* s left behind 
 Of your important Life , whole hidden date 
 Would dif-inherit th’ unprovided State. 
 
 When we confider, how unjuft ’tis, you, 
 
 Who ne’re of Power more than the Burden knew, 
 
 At once the weight of that and Age fhould have ; 
 
 Your ftooping days preft doubly towards the grave* 
 
 When we behold by Ammons youthful rage, 
 
 Proud in th’ advantage of your peaceful age, 
 
 And all th’ united Eaft oiir fall confpir’d, 
 
 And that your Sons, whom chiefly we defir’d 
 As Stamps of you, in your lov’d room to place, 
 
 By unlike adls that noble Stamp deface: 
 
 ’Midft theie new' Fears and Ills, we ’re forc’d to fly^ 
 
 T’ a new, and yet unprabtis’d, Remedy 3 
 A new one, but long promis’d and foretold. 
 
 By Mofs, and to Abraham fhewn of old. 
 
 A Prophejie long forming in the Womb 
 Of teeming years, and now to riptnefs come. 
 
 This Remedy's a King ; for this we all 
 With an infpir’d, and zealous Union call. 
 
 And In one Sound when all mens voices join. 
 
 The Mu fields tun’d (no doubt) by Hand Divine. 
 
 Tis God alone (peaks a whole Nations voice ; 
 
 That is his Publiqne Language ; but the Choice 
 Of what Peculiar Head that Crown mull bear 
 From you, who his Peculiar Organ are, 
 
 We expedt to hear ; the People (hall to you 
 Their Kjng, the Kjng his Crown and People owe. 
 
 To your great Name what luftre will it bring 
 T’ have been our Jtidge, and to have made our Kjng t 
 
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128 Davideis, A Sacred Poem Book IV . 
 
 i Sam. 3. 
 6 . 
 
 i Sam: 8. 
 
 Si. 
 
 i Sam. 8. 
 19. 
 
 Me bow’d, and ended here ; and Samuel {freight* 
 Pawling a while at this great Queftions weight, 
 
 With a grave Sigh, and with a thoughtful Eye, 
 
 That more of Care than Pajfion did delcry, 
 
 Calmly replys : You’re fure the fir ft: (faid he,) 
 
 Of Fret-born men that begg’d for Slavery. 
 
 I fear, my Friends, with heavenly Manna fed, 
 
 ( Our old forefathers crime) we luft for Bread. 
 
 Long lince by God from Bondage drawn, I fear, 
 
 W e build anew th’ Egyptian Brie kiln here. 
 
 1 6 Cheat not your felves with words , for tho’ a K^g 
 Be the mild Name , a Tyrant is the Thing. 
 
 Let his power loole, and you fhall quickly fee 
 How mild a thing unbounded Man will be. 
 
 He’ll lead you forth your hearts cheap blood tofpill, 
 Where e’re his guidlefs Pafflon leads his Wit. 
 
 Ambition, Luff, or Spleen his wars will raife, 
 
 Your Lives beft price his third of Wealth or Praife . 
 
 Your ableft Sons for his proud Guards he’ll take. 
 
 And by fuch hands your yoke more grievous make. 
 
 Your Daughters, and dear Wives , he’ll force away, 
 
 His Luxury fome, and fome his Luft t’obey. 
 
 His idle friends your hungry toils lhall eat. 
 
 Drink your rich Wines , mixt with your Blood and Sweat* 
 Then you’ll allfigh, but Sighs will Treafons be ; 
 
 And not your Griefs themfelves, or Looky be free. 
 Robb’d even of Hopes , when you thefe Ills fuftain, 
 Your watry eyes you’ll then turn back in vain 
 On your old Judges , and perhaps on Me, 
 
 Nay ev’n my Sons , howe’re the’ unhappy be 
 In your dilpleafure now $ Not that I’d clear 
 Their Quilt, or mine own Innocence indear, 
 
 17 Witnefsth’ unutterable Name, there’s nought 
 Of private ends into this Queftion brought. 
 
 But why this Yoke on your own necks to draw ? 
 
 Why Man your God , and Paffion made your Law ? 
 
 Methinks (thus Moab interrupts him here,) 
 
 The good old Seer ’gainft Kjngs was too fevere. 
 
 Tis Jeft to tell a People that they’re Free, 
 
 Who , or how many fhall their Mafters be, 
 
 Is the foie doubt ; Laws guid , but cannot reign ; 
 
 And tho’ they bind not Kings, yet they reftrain. 
 
 I dare affirm (fo much I truft their Love,) 
 
 That no one Moabite would his fpeech approve. 
 
 But pray go on. ’Tis true, Sir, he replies ; 
 
 Yet men whom age and a£lion renders wife, 
 
 So much great changes fear, that they believe 
 All evils will , which may , from them arrive. 
 
 On men refolv’d thefe Threats were [pent in vain, 
 
 All that his power or eloquence could obtain- 
 
Book IV. of the ‘ Troubles of David.- 
 
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 Was to enquire Gods Will ere they proceed 
 To a work that would (b much his Blefling need, 
 
 A lolemn Day for this great work it fet, 
 
 1 8 And at th’ Anointed 1 ent all Ifrael met. 
 
 Exped th’ event ; * below fair bullocks fry 
 In hallowed Flames ; * above, there mount on high 
 The precious clouds of Incenle, and at laft 
 The Sprinkling , Prayers , and all due Honours paft. 
 a Lo ! we the / acred Bells o’ th’ fudden hear, 
 
 2 q And in mild pompgra vz Samuel does appear. 
 
 j His Ephod y Mitre y well-cut Diadem on, 
 
 2 2 Th* Or afloat Stones on his rich Breafl-plate flhone. 
 
 Wards the blew Curtains of Gods holieft place 
 2 , (The Temples bright Third Heaven ) he turn’d his Face. 
 Thrice bow’d He, thrice the folemn Muftck plaid. 
 
 And af third reft thus the great Prophet prai’d : 
 
 Almighty God y to whom all men that be 
 Owe all they have, yet none lo much as We ; 
 
 Who tho’ thou fill'll: the fpac-ious World alone. 
 
 Thy too finali Court , haft made this place thy Throne. 
 
 With humble Kjieesy and humbler Hearts , Lo, here, 
 
 Bleft Abrahams Seed implores thy gracious Ear. 
 
 Hear them, great God , and thy juft Will infpire ; 
 
 From Thee, their long-known Kjngy they a King defire. 
 Some gracious Signs of thy good pleafure fend, 
 
 Which, lo, with «ft?#// refign’d we humbly here attend. 
 
 He fpoke, and thrice he bow’d, and all about 
 Silence and reverend Horror feiz’d the Rout. 
 
 The whole Tent (hakes, the Flames on th’ Altar by 
 In thick dull Rolls mount flow and heavily. 
 
 24 The * (even Lamps wink ; and what does mod difmay, 
 Th* Or ac* lom Gems (hut in their natural day. 
 
 The Rubies Cheeky grew pale, the Em* rand by 
 Faded, a Cloud o’recaft the Saphirs Skie. 
 
 The Diamonds Eye look tfltepy, and fwift night 
 Of all thole litle Suns eclyps’d the Light. 
 
 Sad figns of Gods dread anger for our Sin, 
 
 But ftraight a wondrous brightnefs from within 
 Strook through the Curtains , for no earthly Cloud 
 Could thofe ftrong beams of heav’nly glory (liroud. 
 
 The Altars fire burnt pure, and every Stone 
 Their radiant Parent the gay Sun out-fhone. 
 
 Beauty th’ illujlrioas Vifion did impart 
 Toev’ry Face , and Joy to ev’ry heart. 
 
 In glad effe&s Gods prelence thus appear’d, 
 
 And thus in wondrous founds his Voice was heard : 
 
 This ftubborn Land fins llill, nor is it Thee, but Vs 
 (Who have been fo long their Kjng) they feek to caft off thus» 
 Five hundred rolling years hath this ftitt Nation ftrove 
 To exhauft the bound lefs ftores of our unfathom’d Love, 
 
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 Bc’t To then ; yet once rooreare we relolv’d to try 
 T’outweary them through all their Sins variety. 
 
 Affemble ten days hence the num’jrous people here ; 
 
 To draw the Royal Lot which our hid Mark fhall bear-. 
 Difmifs them now in Peace 5 but their next Crime fhall bring 
 Ruin withqui/eflreis on Them, and on their King. 
 
 7 he Almighty [poke $ th’aftgnifht people part 
 With various Stamps impreft on every heart. 
 
 Some their demand repented, others prais’d, 
 
 Some had no thoughts at all, but flar’d and gaz’d, 
 i Sane There dwelt a Man, nam’d Kis in Gibeah Town, 
 
 9 * K For Wifdom much, and much for Courage known, 
 
 lb. v. 2. More for his Son, his mighty Son was Saul , 
 
 Whom Nature , ere the Lots, t’ a Throne did call. 
 
 He was much- Prince , and when, or ivhertfot're 
 His Birth had been, Then had he reign’d, and There . 
 
 Such Beauty , as great Strength thinks no difgrace, 
 
 Smil’d in the manly features of his Face. 
 
 His large black Eyes, fill’d with a fprightful light, 
 
 Shot forth fuch lively and illuftnous Night , 
 
 As the Sun beams , cn Jet refie&ing fhew, 
 
 His Hair , as black, in long curl’d waves did flow. 
 
 His tall, flrait Body amidft thoufands flood, 
 
 Like Lome fair Pine o’rclooking all th 7 ignobler Wood. 
 
 Of all our rural fports he was the pride 5 
 So fwift, fo ftrong, fo dextrous none befide. 
 
 Reft was his Toil, Labours his Lufl and Game 5 
 No nat’ral wants could his fierce dil’gence tame, 
 
 Not Thirft , nor Plunger ; he would journeys go 
 Through raging Heats , and take repofe in Snow. 
 
 His Soul was ne’re unbent from weighty Care ; 
 
 25 But a&ive as fome Mind that turns a Sphere. 
 
 His way once chofe, he forward thruft outright, 
 
 Nor ftept afide for Dangers or Delight. 
 
 Yet was He wife all Dangers to forefee ; 
 
 But born t’ aft right, and not to fear was He. 
 
 His Wit was Strang, not Fine ; and on his Tongue 
 An artlefs Grace above all Elo fence hung, 
 i Sam. 9. Thefe Virtues too the rich unufual drefs 
 2i.Ib.io, Of Modefty adorn’d and Humbltntfs. 
 v ‘ 22, Like a rich Vamijh o’re fair Piftures laid, 
 
 More fre/h and lifting they the Colours made. 
 
 Till Power and violent Fortune , which did find 
 No flop or bound, o’rewhelm’d no lefs his Mind, 
 
 Did, Deluge-like, the nat’ral Forms deface, 
 
 And brought forth unknown Monfters in their place. 
 Forbid it, God, my Mafters foots fhould be, 
 
 Were they not feen by all, dilclos’d by me ! 
 
 But fuch ne was 5 and now to Ramah went 
 (So God difpos’d) with a ftrange, low intent. 
 
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 Great God ! he went loft Affes to enquire, 
 
 And a fmall Prefent his fmall queftions hire, 
 
 Brought hmply with 'him to that Man to give, 
 
 From whom high Heavens chief Gifts he muft receive, 
 Strange Play of Fate ! when might’eft human things 
 Hang on fuch fmall, Imperceptible Strings ! 
 
 2 6 ’ Twas Samuels Birth-day, a glad annual Feaft 
 All Rama kept ; Samuel his wondring Gueft 
 With fuch refpeft leads to it, and does grace 
 
 27 With the choiie Meats o’th’ Feaft, and higheft place. 
 Which done, him forth alone the Prophet brings, 
 
 And feafts his ravifhtEars with nobler things. 
 
 He tells the mighty Fate to him aflign’d. 
 
 And with great rules fill’d his capacious Mind . 
 
 Then takes the facred Vial, and does filed 
 A Crorvn of myftique Drops around his Head. 
 
 Drops of that Royal Moifiure which does know 
 No Mixture, and difdains the place below. 
 
 Soon comes the Kingly Day , and with it brings 
 
 29 A new Account of Time upon his Wings. 
 
 The People met, the Rites and Pray’rsali paft, 
 Behold, the Hcav'n-in/lruffed Lot iscaft. 
 
 ’Tis taught by Heaven its way, and cannot mils ; 
 Forth Benjamin 5 forth leaps the Houfe of C/s. 
 
 As glimm’ring Stars juft at the approach of Day, 
 Cafheer’d by Troops , at laft drop all away, 
 
 By fuch Degrees all mens bright hopes are gone, 
 And, like the Sun , Sauls Lot fhines all alone. 
 
 Ev’n here perhaps the peoples fliout was heard, 
 
 The loud long fhout when Gods fair choice appear’d. 
 Above the whole vaft throng h’ appear’d fo tall, 
 
 30 As if by Nature made for th’ Head of all. 
 
 So full of Grace and State, that one might know 
 
 3 1 ’Twas fbrne wife Eye the blind Lot guided fo. 
 
 But blind unguided Lots have more of choife 
 And conftancy than the flight Vulgar s 'voice. 
 
 Ere yet the Crown of facrea Oyl is dry, 
 
 Whil'ft Eccboes yet preferve the joyful cry, 
 
 Some grow enrag’d their own vain hopes to mifs. 
 Some envy Saul , feme fcorn the Houfe of Cis. 
 
 Some their firft mut’nous wifh, A K^g, repent, 
 xAs if, fince that, quite fpoil’d by Gods confent . 
 
 Few to this Prince their firft iuft duties pay ; 
 
 All leave the Old , but few the New obey. 
 
 Thus changes Man , but God is conftant ftili 
 To thofe eternal grounds, that mov’d his Will. 
 
 And tho’ he yielded firft to them, ’tis fit 
 That ftubborn Men at laft to him fubmit. 
 
 $ 2 As midft the Main a low fmall Ijland lies, 
 
 AfTaulted round with ftormy Seas and Skies, 
 
 i 5 i 
 
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 1 Sam. 9, 
 12. 
 
 Ib. v. 22. 
 23, 24. 
 
 Ib. v. 26. 
 
 1 Sam. io; 
 1. 
 
 1 Sam. 
 10. 17, 
 
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 Ver. 3. 
 
 Ver. 5. 
 
 1 Sam. 
 
 11. 4. 
 
 Ver. 7. 
 
 Ver. 8. 
 
 j Sam. 
 ll. 11. 
 
 Whil’ft the poor heartleis Natives ev’ry hour 
 Darknefts and Noife feems ready to devour ; 
 
 Such I/ratls ftate appear’d, whilft ore the Weft 
 Vbiliftian Clouds hung threatning, and from th’Eaft 
 All Nations wrath into one Tempe ft joins, 
 
 Through which proud Nabas like fierce Lightning fhines. 
 Tygris and Ntle to his afliftence fend, 
 
 $3 And waters to fwoln Jabots Torrent lend. 
 
 Seir, Edom, Seba> Am alec add their force, 
 
 34 Up with them march the Three Arabia's Horfte. 
 
 And ’mongft all thefe none more their hope or pride, 
 Than thofe few Troops your warlike Land fupply’d. 
 Around weak Jabes this vaft Hoftdoes ly, 
 
 Difdains a dry and blood lefts Victory . 
 
 The hopelefs Town for Slav ry does intreat. 
 
 But barbarous Nabas thinks that Grace too great. 
 
 He (his fir ft Tribute) their right Eyes demands, 
 
 35 And with their Faces fhame difarms their Hands . 
 
 If unreliev’d fev’n days by Iftraels aid, 
 
 This bargain for or'e-rated Life is made. 
 
 Ah, mighty God , let thine own Iftrael be 
 Quite blind itfelf, ere this reproach it fee! 
 
 By his wanton people the new Kjxg forfook, 
 
 To homely rural Cares himfelf betook. 
 
 In private plenty liv’d without the State, 
 
 Luftre and Noife due to a publique fate. 
 
 Whilft he his Slaves and Cattel follows home, 
 
 Lo the fad Meftengers from Jabes come, 
 
 Implore his Help, and weep as if they meant 
 That way at leaft proud Nabas to prevent. 
 
 Mov’d with a Kingly wrath, his ftriU Command 
 He iftues forth t’ affemble all the Land. 
 
 He threatens high, and difobedient they 
 Waked by fuch Princely terrors learnt t’ obey. 
 
 A mighty Hoft is rais’d ; th’ important caufe 
 
 Age from their Reft ; Touth , from their Pleafture draw's. 
 
 Arm’d as unfurnimt Hafte could them provide. 
 
 But Conduct , Courage , Anger that fupply’d. 
 
 All night they march, and are at th’ early dawn 
 On Jabes Heath in three fair Bodies drawn. 
 
 Saul did himfelf the firft and ftrongeft band, 
 
 His Son the next, Abner the third command. 
 
 But pardon, Sir, if naming Sauls great Son, 
 
 I ftop with him a while ere I go cn. 
 
 This is that Jonathan , the Joy and Grace , 
 
 The beautifufft, and beft of Human Race. 
 
 That Jonathan in whom does mixt remain 
 All that kind Mothers wifhes can contain. 
 
 His Courage fuch as it no flop can know, 
 
 And VtUory gains by ftonifbing the Foe. 
 
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 With Lig htnings force his Enemies it confounds. 
 
 And melts their Hearts ere it the ttofom wounds. 
 
 Vet he the Conquered with fuch Sweetnefs gains, 
 
 As Captive Lovers find in Beaut fes Chains, * 
 
 In War the adverfe Troops lie does afiail, 
 
 Like an impet’ous fiorm of Wind and HaiL 
 In Peace Iikegentleft Dew that doesaftwage 
 The burning Months, and temper Syr ins rage. 
 
 Kind as the Suns bleft Influence, and where e’re 
 He comes, Plenty and Joy attend him there. 
 
 To Help feems all his Power , his Wealth to Give ; 
 
 To do much Good his / ole Prerogative , 
 
 And yet this gen’ral Bounty of his Mind, 
 
 That with wide arms embraces all Mankind , 
 
 Such artful Prudence does to each divide. 
 
 With diff’rent meafures all are fatisfi’d. 
 
 Juft as wife God his plenteous Manna dealt. 
 
 Some gather’d more, but want by none was feft. 
 
 To all Relations their juft rights he pays, 
 
 And worths reward above its claim does raife. 
 
 The tendreft Husband , M after, Father , Son , 
 
 And all thofe parts by *s Frie»d(bip far outdone. 
 
 His Love to Friends no bounds or rule does know, 
 
 What He to HeaiPn, all that to Him they owe. 
 
 Keen as his Sword , and pointed as his Wit : 
 
 His Judgment , like beft Armour, ftrong and fit. 
 
 And fuch an Eloquence to both thefe does join. 
 
 As makes in both Beauty and Dfe combine. 
 
 Through which a noble Tintture does appear 
 By Learning and choice Books imprinted there. 
 
 As well he knows all Times and Per fans gone, 
 
 As he himfelf toth 'future (ball be known. 
 
 But his chief ftudy is Gods facred Law ; 
 
 And all his Life does Comments on it draw. 
 
 As never more by Heaven to Man was giv’n, 
 
 So never more was paid by Man to Heav'n. 
 
 And all thefe Virtues were to Bipenefs grown, 
 
 E’re yet his Flower of loutb was fully blown. 
 
 All Autumns ftore did his rich Spring adorn ; 
 
 Like Trees in Pardife he with Fruit was born . 
 
 Such is his Soul } and if, as fome men tell, 
 
 Souls form and build thofe Manfions where they dwell , $6 
 
 Whoe’re but fees his Body muft confefs, 
 
 The Architect no doubt could be no lefs. 
 
 From Saul his growth and manly ftrength he took, 
 
 Chaftis'd by bright Ahinoams gentler look. 
 
 Not bright Jhinoam , Beauties lowdeft Name, 
 
 Till fhet’her Children loft with joy her fame, 
 
 Had fweeter ftrokes, colours more frefh and fair, 
 
 More darting Eyes, or lovelier auborn Hair. 
 
 Forgives 
 
 Exod, 16 
 1 3 . 
 
 I Sam. 14/ 
 5 «. 
 
1 34 
 
 Davideis, A Sacred 'Poem Book IV. 
 
 Forgive me, that I thus your Patience wrong, 
 
 And on this boundltfs fubjtU flay lo long. 
 
 Where too much liafte ever to end f would be, 
 
 Did not his Atts ljx:ak what’s untold by Me, 
 
 Tho* from the time his Hands a Sword could wield* 
 
 He ne’re mid Fame and Danger in the Field. 
 
 Yet this was the firft day titat call’d him forth, 
 
 . Since Sauls bright Crown gave luftre to his worth. 
 
 ? i was tlie laff morning, w hole unchearful rile 
 Sad Jabts was to view with both their Eyes. 
 
 Secure proud Nabas fleptas in his Court, 
 
 And dreamt, vain man ! of that days barb’rous fport* 
 Till Node and dreadful Tumults him awoke ; 
 
 Till into *$Camp our violent Army broke. 
 
 The carelefs Guards with fmall refiftence kill’d. 
 Slaughter the Camp, and wild Confufion fill’d. 
 
 Nalnts his fatal duty does perform, hv' • 
 
 And marches boldly up t ’outface the lform. u 
 
 Fierce Jonathan he meets, as he perfiies 
 'lYi Arabian Horfe , and a hot fight renewes. 
 
 ’Twas here your Troops behavM themfelveslo wel^ 
 
 Till Vznand Jatban their flout Colonels fell. 
 
 ’Twas here our Victory ftopt, and gave us caufe 
 Much to fiifpeft th’ intention of her paufe. 
 
 But when our thundring Prince Nahas efpy’d, 
 
 Who with a Courage equal to his Pride 
 
 Broke through our Troops, and to’ards him boldly prefib 
 
 A gen’rous joy leapt in his youthful Bread:. 
 
 As when a wrathful Dragons difmal light 
 Strikes luddenly fome warlike Eagles fight. 
 
 The mighty Foe pleafes his fcarlefs Eyes, 
 
 He claps his joyful Wings, and at him flies. 
 
 With vain, tho’ violent force, their Darts they flung ; 
 
 In Ammons plated Belt, Jonathans hung, 
 
 And ftopt there ; Ammon did his Helmet hit. 
 
 And gliding off bore the proud Creft from it. 
 
 Straight with their Swords to the fierce fhock they came* 
 Their Swords , their Armour , and their Eyes fhot Flame . 
 Blows ftrong as Thunder , thick as Rain they dealt ; 
 
 Which more than they th’engag’d Spp&ators felt.- 
 In Ammon Force, in Jonathan Addrels 
 (Tho’ both were great in both to an excels,) 
 
 To the well-judging Eye did moft appear 3 
 Honour , and Anger , in both equal were. 
 
 Two Wounds our Prince receiv’d, and Ammon three * 
 Which he enrag’d to feel, and fharn’d to lee, 
 
 Did his whole ftrength into one blow colledl ; 
 
 And as a Spaniel, when we oiir Aim direfl 
 To fhoot i'omtBird, impatiently (lands by 
 Shaking his Tail, ready with joy to fly, 
 
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 Juft as it drops, upon the wounded Prey; 
 i>o waited Death it felt' to bear away 
 The th reamed Life , did glad and greedy ftand 
 At fight of mighty Ammons lifted hand. 
 
 Our watchful Prince by bending lav’d the wound, 
 
 But Death in other coyn his reckoning found : 
 
 For whiPft th 'immoti! rate ftrokes mifearrying force 
 Had almoft born the ftriker from his horfe, 
 
 A nimble thruft, his aftive En’my made, 
 
 ’Twixt his right ribs deeppeirc’d the furious blade, 
 
 And opened wide thofe fecret vejjels , where 
 27 Lif y s Light goes our, when firft they let in aire. 
 
 He falls, his Armour clanks againft the ground, 
 
 From his faint ‘tongue imperfect cirfes found. 
 
 His amaz’d Troops ftraightcaft their Arms away ; 
 
 Scarce fled his Soul from thence morefwift than they . 
 
 As when two Kings of neighbour Hives ( whom rage 
 And thirft of Empire in fierce wars engage, 
 
 Whilft each lays claim to th’ Garden as his owne, 
 
 And leeks t’ufurp the bord’ring flowers alone J 
 Their well-arm’d Troops, drawn boldly forth to fight, 
 
 In th 5 Aires wide plain difpute thejr doubtful right. 
 
 If by lad chance of battel either Kjng 
 
 Fall wounded down, ftrook with fome fatal fting, 
 
 His Armies hopes and courage with him dye ; 
 
 They fheath up their faint Swords , and routed fly. 
 
 On th other fides at once with like fuccefs 
 Into the Camp, great Saul and Abner prefs, 
 
 From Jonathans part a wild mixt noife they hear. 
 
 And whatfoever it mean lo'ng to be there ; 
 
 At the fame Inftant from glad Jabes Town, 
 
 The hafty Troops march lowd and chearful down. 
 
 Some few at firft with vain refiftence fall, 
 
 The reft is Slaughter , and vafl Conquefi all. 
 
 The Fate by which our Ho El thus far had gon. 
 
 Our Hofl with noble heat drove farther^ on. 
 
 Viflorious arms through Ammons land it bore $ 
 
 , Rum behind, and Terror marcht before. 
 
 Where ere from Rabbas Towers they caft their fight, 
 
 Smoak clouds the Day , and Flames make clear the Nioht 
 This bright fuccefs did Sauls firft Action bring, " 
 
 The 0//, the Lot, and Crown lefs crown'd him Kino-, 
 
 The Happy all men judge for Empire fit, ^ 
 
 And none withftands where Fortune doss fubmit 
 Thofe who before did Gods fair choice withftand 
 TWexceffive Vulgar now to death demand. 
 
 But wifer Saul repeal’d their hafty dooms 
 Conquefi ' abroad with Mercy crown’d at home. 
 
 Nor ftain’d. with civil flaughter that days Pride, 
 
 Which foreign blood in nobler purple dy’d. 
 
 Y Y ' Again 
 
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 Again the Crown th’alTembled people give, 
 
 With greater joy than Saul could it receive. 
 
 Again, nVold Judge refigns his (acred place, 
 
 God G Ion fid with wonders his difgrace. 
 
 With decent pride, fuch as did well befit 
 
 The Name he kept, and that which. he did quit, . 
 
 The long-paft row of happy years he fhew’d. 
 
 Which to his heav’nly Government they ow’d. 
 
 How the torn liate his juft and prudent Reign 
 Reftor’d to Order, Plenty, Power again. 
 
 In War what conqu’ring Miracles he wrought ; 
 
 God, then their King, was Gen raj w hen they fought. 
 Whom they depos'd with him. And that ( laid he , ) 
 You may lee God concern’d in’c more then Me, 
 
 Behold how liorms his angry prefence fhrowd. 
 
 Hark how his wrath in thunder threats alowd. 
 
 ’Twas now the ripen’d Summers higbeft rage, 
 
 Which no faint cloud durfi mediate to affwage. 
 
 Th 'Earth hot with Thtrfl, and hot with Lujt for Rain, 
 Gap’d, and breath’d feeble vapours up in vain, 
 
 Which ftraight were Icatter’d, or devour’d by th’Sun 5 
 When, Lo, ere fcarce th eA&ive fpeech was done, 
 
 A vi’leot Wind role from his [cret Cave, 
 
 And Troops of frighted Clouds before it drave. 
 
 Whilfi with rude hafte the confus’d Tempejl crouds, 
 Swift dreadful flames (hot through th’encountring clouds, 
 From whole torn wombth’imprifon'd Thunder broke, 
 And in dire founds the Prophets fenfe it [poke. 
 
 Such an impet’ous fhower it downwards fent, 
 
 As -if the Waters ’bove the Firmament 
 Were all let loole ; Horrour and fearful noife 
 Fill’d the black Scene ; till the great Prophets voice, 
 Swift as the wings of Morn , reduc’d the Day •, 
 
 Wind, Thunder , Rain and Clouds fled all at once away. 
 Fear not ( faid hej God his fierce wrath removes, 
 
 And tho’ this State my fervice difapproves, 
 
 My Prayers fhafl ferve it conftantly : No more 
 I hope a pardon for paft fins t’implore, 
 
 But juft rewards from gracious heav’n to bring 
 On the good deeds of you and of our King. 
 
 Ttehold him there -' and as you fee, rejoyce 
 In the kind care of Gods impartial choice. 
 
 Behold his Beauty, Courage, Strength and Wit/ 
 
 The Hottour, heav’n has cloath’d him with, fits fit 
 And comely on him 5 fince you needs muft Be 
 Rul’d by a King, you’re happy that *tis He . 
 
 Obey him gladly, and let him too know 
 Tou were not made for Him, but he for Tou f 
 And both for God . 
 
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 Whole gentleft yoke if once you caft away, 
 
 In vain (ball be command, and you obey. 
 
 To foreign Tyrants both £hali Jlaves become, 
 fnftead of King, and Subjects here at home. 
 
 The Crown thus feveral ways confirm’d to Satl, 
 
 One way was wanting yet to crown them all $ 
 
 And that was Force, which only can maintain 
 The Power that Fortune gives, or Worth does gain. 
 
 Three thoufand Guards of big, bold men he took ; 
 
 Tall, terrible, and Guards ev’n with their Look ; 
 
 His facred perfbn two and throne defend, 
 
 The third on matchlefs Jonathan attend. 
 
 O’re whofe full thoughts, Honour , and youthful Heat, 
 Sate brood ing to hatch Aftions good and great. 
 
 On Gtba firft, where a Philifiian band 
 Lies and around torments the fetter d land , 
 
 He falls, and (laughters all $ his noble rage 
 Mixt with Deftgn his Nation to engage 
 In that juft War, which from them long in vain 
 Honour and Freedoms voice had drove t’obtain. 
 
 Th’accurft PhihHian rows’d with this bold blow. 
 
 All the proud marks of enrag'd Power doe fhew , 
 
 Raifes a vaft, well-arm’d, and glittering Hoft, 
 
 If human ftrength might authorize a boaft. 
 
 Their threats had reafon here ; for ne’re did we 
 Ourfelves fo weak, or Foe fo potent fee. 
 
 Here we vaft bodies of their Foot efpy, 
 
 The Rear out-reaches far th 1 extended Eye. 
 
 Like fields of Corn their armed Squadrons (land ; 
 
 As thick and numberlels they hide the land. 
 
 Here with fharp neighs the warlike Horfes found ; 
 
 38 And with proud prancings beat the putrid ground. 
 
 39 Here with worfenoife three thoufand Chariots pafs 
 With plates of Iron bound, or lowder Brafs. 
 
 About it forks, axes, and fithes, and fpears, 
 
 Whole Magazines of Death each Chariot bears* 
 
 Where it breaks in, there a whole Troop it mows, 
 
 And with lopt panting limbs the field beftrows. 
 
 Alike the Valiant , and the Cowards dy$ 
 
 Neither can they refift , nor can thefe fly. 
 
 In this proud equipage at Macmas they; 
 
 Saul in much different (fate at Gilgal lay. 
 
 His forces feem’d no Army , but a Crowd , 
 
 Heartlefs, unarm’d, diforderly, andlowd. 
 
 The quick Contagion Fear ran fwift through all, 
 
 And into trembling Fits th’infe&ed fall. 
 
 Saul, and his Son ( for no fuch faint Dijeafe 
 Could on their ftrong-complexion’d Valour feife, ; 
 
 In vain all parts of virtuous ConduU fhew’d. 
 
 And on deaf Terror gen’rous words beftow’d. 
 
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 Thoufands from thence ily flattered ev’ry day ; 
 
 Thick as the Leaves that (hake and drop away,' 
 
 When they th’approach of ftormy Wmter find 
 1 lie jioble Tret ail bare expos'd toy h’ IVind. 
 
 Some to fad Jordan fly, and fwlm’t for half, 
 
 And from his fart her Bank look back at laid. 
 
 Some into woods and caves their cattle drive, 
 
 There with their B*ajfs on equal terms they live, 
 
 Nor delcrve better 3 Ibme in Rocks on high. 
 
 The old retreats of Storks and Ravens lye : 
 
 And were they w ing’d hke them, fcarce would they dare 
 To dray, or trult their frighted fafty there. 
 
 As th’ H oft with fear, lb Saul difturb’d with care, 
 T’avert thefe ills by Sacrifice and Prayer , 
 
 And Gods bleft Will t’enquire, for Samuel fends ; 
 
 Whom he fix days with troubled haft attends. 
 
 But ere the feventh unlucky day ( the laft 
 By Samuel fetfor this great work,) was paft, 
 
 Saul ( alarum’d hourly from the neighboring foe. 
 Impatient ere Gods time Gods mind to know, 
 
 ’Sham’d and enrag’d to fee his Troops decay, 
 
 Jealous of an affront in Samuels ftay, 
 
 Scorning that any’s prelence fhould appear 
 Needful befides,when He himfelf was there ; 
 
 And with a Pride too nat’ural, thinking Heaven 
 Had gived him Ally becaufe much Power t’had giv’n, ) 
 Himfelf the Sacrifice and Ojfrings made, 
 
 Himfelf did th’high felefted charge invade, 
 
 Himfelf inquir’d of God ; who then fpake nought ; 
 
 But Samuel ftraight his dreadful anfwer brought. 
 
 For ftraight he came, and with a Virtue hold y 
 As was Sauls fin, the fatal Meffage told. 
 
 His foul Ingratitude to heav’n he chid, 
 
 To pluck that Fruit , which was alone forbid 
 To Kingly power in all that plenteous land, 
 
 Where all things elfe lubmit to his command. 
 
 And as fair Edens violated .Tree 
 T, Immortal Man brought in Mortalitie : 
 
 So fhall that Crown , which God eternal meant, 
 
 From thee ( (aid he) and thy great houfe be rent. 
 
 Thy crime fhall De^toall thine Honours fend, 
 
 And give th’ Immortal Royalty an End. 
 
 Thus fpokethe Prophet , but kind heav’n ( \vz hope) 
 
 ( Whofe threats and anger know no other fcope 
 But Mans Amendment , ) does long fince relent, 
 
 And w ith Repentant Saul it felf Repent. 
 
 Howere ( tho’ none more pray for this than we 
 Whole wrongs and fufferings might fome colour be 
 To do it hjs, ) this fpeeeh we fadly find 
 Still extant, and ftill a&ive in his Mind. 
 
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 of the l 7 rouble i of David 
 
 But then a worfe effeci or it appear’d } 
 
 ().jr /is my which be'ore moms fly fear’d. 
 
 Which did by health and by degrees decay. 
 
 Disbanded now, and fled in Troops away. 
 
 Bale Fear fo bold and impudent does grow, 
 
 When an eveufe and colour it can (hew. 
 
 Six hundred only ( fcarce a Pm c ly train } 
 
 OF all liis Hoft with diftreft Saul remain, 
 
 Of his whole Hoft fix hundred 5 and ev’n thofe 
 
 41 ( So did wife Heaven for mighty ends difpofe, 
 
 Nor would, that ufelefs Multitudes fhould float e 
 In that great Gift it did for One prepare ) 
 
 Arm’d not like Sou Idlers marching in a War, 
 
 But Country -Hinds alarum’d from afar 
 
 By [Volves lowd hunger, when the well-known found 
 Ilaifes th’ affrighted Villages around. 
 
 Some Goads, Flails, Plow-fhares, Forks, or Axes bore, 
 Made for Lifes ufe and better ends before ; 
 
 Some knotted Clubs, and Darts, or Arrows dry’d 
 
 42 l’th’fire, the fir ft rude Arts that Malice try’d, 
 
 E’re Man the fins of too much Knowledge knew. 
 
 And Death by long Experience witty grew. 
 
 Such were the Numbers , fuch the Arms, which we 
 Had by Fate left us for a Viftorie 
 O’re well-arm* d Millions ; nor will this appear 
 Ufeful itfelf, when Jonathan was there. 
 
 ’Twas juft the time, when the new Ebb of Night 
 Did the moift world unvail to human fight. 
 
 The Prince , who all that night the Field had beat 
 With a fmall Party, and no en’my met, 
 
 ( So proud and fo fecure the en’my lay. 
 
 And drencht in f hep th’excdfes of the day, ) 
 
 With joy this good occafion did embrace. 
 
 With better leifure, and at nearer fpace. 
 
 The ftrength and order cf their Camp to view $ 
 
 Abdon alone his gen*rous purpofe knew ; 
 
 Abdo» a bold, a brave, and comely Youth, 
 
 Well-born, well-bred, with Honour fill’d and Truth t 
 Abdon his faithful Squire, whom much he lov’d. 
 
 And oft with grief his worth in dangers prov’d* 
 
 Ah don y wliofe love t’his Mafter did exceed 
 What Natures Law, or Eajjions Power could breed, 
 
 Abdon alone did on him now attend , 
 
 His humbled Servant , and his deareft Friend. 
 
 They went, but facred fury, as they went, 
 
 Chang’d fwiftly, and exalted his Intent. 
 
 What may this be ( the Prince breaks forth, ) I fnd, 
 
 God orfome powerful Spirit invades my mind. 
 
 From ought but Heaven can never fire be brought 
 Sohigh, fo glorious, and fo vaft a Thought. 
 
 Nor 
 
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 Nor would tU Fate, that meant me to furprife, 
 
 Come cloath’d in lo unlikely a Dtfgutfe. 
 
 Yon Hofi, which its proud Fijhes fprcads fo wide, 
 O’rethe whole Land, like lome fwoln Rivers Tyke, 
 Which terrible and numberlefs appears, 
 
 43 As the thick Waves which their rough Ocean bears, 
 Which lies foftrongly ’ncampt, that one would fay 
 The Hill might be remov’d as (bon as they , 
 
 We two alone muft fight with and defeat e 3 
 Thoa’rt ftrook , and ftarteftat a found fo great. 
 
 Yet we muft do’t ; God our weak hands has chofis 
 T’afhame the boafted numbers of our Foes, 
 
 Which to his ftrength no more proportion’d be. 
 
 Than Millions are of Hours to his Eternitie. 
 
 If when their carelefs Guards efpy us here, 
 
 With fporrful fcorn they call t’ us to come neer, 
 
 W’ll boldly climb the Hill, and charge them all ; 
 
 Not They, but Ifraels Angel gives the call. 
 
 He fpoke, and as he fpoke, a Light divine 
 ^ Did from his Eyes , and round his Temples fhine, 
 Lowder his Voice, larger his Limbs appear’d ; 
 
 Lefs Teem’d the num’rous Army to be fear'd. 
 
 This law, and heard with joy the brave Efquire , 
 
 As he with Gods , fill’d with his Majlers fire. 
 
 Forbid it Heav’n ( faid he , ) I fhould decline, 
 
 Or wifh ( Sir,) not to make your danger mine . 
 
 The great Example which I daily fee 
 Of your high Worth is not fo loft on me ; 
 
 If wonder-ftrook I at your words appear, 
 
 My wonder yet is Innocent of Fear. 
 
 TIT Honour which does your Princely breaft enfiame , 
 Warms mine too, and joyns there with Duties Name * 
 
 If in this A£t ill Fate our Tempter be. 
 
 May all the IF it means be aim’d at me. 
 
 Butfure, I think, God leads, nor could you bring 
 So high thoughts from a lefs exalted Spring. 
 
 Bright figns through all your Words and Looks are fpread, 
 A rifing Viffry dawns around your Head. 
 
 With fitch difcourfe blowing their facred flame, 
 
 To to the fatal place and work they came. 
 
 Strongly encanlpt on a fteep Hills large head, 
 Likef me vaft wood the mighty Hofb was fpread. 
 
 TIT only accefs on neighb’ring G'abaa 7 s fide, 
 
 An hard and narrow way, which did divide 
 Two cliffy Rcc’<s, Bofes and Senes nam’d, 
 
 Much for themfelves, and their big firangnefs fam’d, 
 More for their Fortune , and this Jlranger day 3 
 On both their points Philiftian out-guards lay*: 
 
 From whence the two bold Spies they firft efpy’d ; 
 
 And, I©/ the Hebrews ! proud Eleanor cry’d ; 
 
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 From Senes top ; Lo , from their hungry Caves 
 A quicker Fate here (ends them to their Graves. 
 
 Come up ( aloud he crys to them below, ) 
 
 Y’ Egyptian Slaves, and to our Mercy owe 
 The rebel lives long lineet’ our jf uftice due ; 
 
 Scarce from his lips the fatal Omen Few, 
 
 When th’infpir’d Prince did nimbly nnderfland 
 God , and his God-like Virtues high Command. 
 
 It call’d him up, and up the fteep aicent 
 With pain and labour, hafi and joy they went. 
 
 Eleanor laught to fee them climb, and thought 
 His mighty words th’affrighted Suppliants brought, 
 
 Did new Affronts to the great Hebrew Name , 
 
 ( The barbarous / ) in his wanton Fancy frame. 
 
 Short was hisfport ; for Iwiftas Thunders ftroke 
 Rives the frail Trunk of lome hcav’n-threatning Oak 7 
 The Princes Sword did his proud Head divide 5 
 T he parted Scull hung down on either fide. 
 
 Juft as he fell, his vengeful Steel he drew 
 Half way ; no more the trembling Joynts could do, 
 
 Which Abdon fhatcht, and dy’d it in the blood 
 Of an amazed Wretch that next him flood. 
 
 Some clofe to earth fhaking and groveling lye, 
 
 Like Larks when they the Tyrant Hobby fpy. 
 
 Some wonder-ftrook ftand fixt ; fome fly, fome arm 
 Wildly, at th’ unintelligible Alafm. 
 
 4 $ Like the main Channel of an high-fwoln Flood, 
 
 I11 vain by Dikes and broken Works withftood : t ' 
 
 So Jonathan , once climb’d th’oppofing hill, 
 
 Does all around with noife and ruin fill. 
 
 Like fome large Arm of which another way 
 Abdon oFeflotvs ; him too no bank can flay. 
 
 With cryes th’ affrighted Country flies before, 
 
 Behind the following waters lowdly roar, 
 
 Twenty at leaft (lain on this Out-guard lye. 
 
 To th’adjoyn’d Camp the reft diftra£ted fly, E Sai ™ 4 * 
 
 And ill mixt wonders tell, and into*t bear 
 Blind terrour , deaf diforder , helplefs fear ; 
 
 The Concfidror* stoo prefs boldly in behind, 
 
 Doubling the wild confufions which they find. 
 
 Hamgar at firft, the Prince of Afhdod Town, iSam.6.4: 
 
 4 6 Chief 'mongft the Five in riches and renown, 
 
 And General then by courfe oppos’d their way, 
 
 Till drown’d in Death at Jonathans feet he lay, 
 
 And curft the Heavens for rage, and bit the ground} 
 
 47 His Life forever fpilt ftaind all the grafs around. 
 
 His Brother too, who vertuous haft did make 
 His fortune to revenge , or to partake , 
 
 Falls grov’ling o’re his Trunk, on mother Earth ; . 
 
 Death mixt no lefs their Bloods than did their Birth . , 
 
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 Mean while the wcll-pleas’d Abdons re ft I efs Sword 
 JDifpatcht the following Train t’attend their Lord, 
 
 On ftill o’re panting Corps great jf onathan Jed , 
 Hundreds before him fell, and Thoufands fled. 
 Prodigious Prime \ which does moil: wondrous Shew $ 
 Thy’ Attempt , or thy Succefs ! thy Fate, or Thou! 
 Who durft alone that dreadful Hoftaflail, 
 
 With purpofe not to Dye but to Prevail! 
 
 Infinite Numbers thee no more affright 
 Than God, whole Vnity is Infinite, 
 
 If Heav’n to men luch mighty Thoughts would give. 
 What Breafl but thine capacious to receive 
 The vaff Infufion ? or what Soul but Thine 
 Durft have believ’d that Thought to be Divine ? 
 
 Thou follow’d!! Heaven in the Defign , and we 
 Find in the Att ’twas Heaven that follow’d Thee. 
 
 Thou led’ft on Angels , and that facred Band 
 ( The De' ties great Lieut 1 hant,') did ft command. 
 
 ’Tis true, Sir, and no Figure, when Hay 
 Angels themfelves fought under him that day. 
 
 Clouds with ripe Thunder charg’d (bme thither drew, 
 And fome the dire Materials brought for new. 
 
 4S Hot drops of Southern Showers ( the fweats of Death, ) 
 The voice of ftorms and winged whirl-winds breath: 
 
 The flames fhot forth from fighting Dragons Eyes, 
 Thefinoakes that from fcorcht Leavers Ovens rife. 
 
 The reddeft fires with which fad Comets glow ; 
 
 And Sodoms neighboring Lake did fpir’ts beftow 
 Of fineft Sulphur ; among!! which they put 
 Wrath, Fury, Horrour , and all mingled fhut 
 Into a cold moift Cloud, t’enflame it more , 
 
 And make th’en raged Prifoner lowder roar. 
 Th’affembled Clouds, bur!! o’re their Armies head ; 
 
 Node, Darknels, difrnal Lightnings round them fpread. 
 Another Spirit with a more potent Wand 
 Than that which Nature fear’d in Mofes hand, 
 
 And went the way that pleas’d, the Mountain ftrook ; 
 
 7 he Mountain felt it , the vaft Mountain fhook. 
 Through the wide Air another Angel flew 
 About their Hoft, and thick amongft them threw 
 Dilcord, Defpair, Confufion, Fear, Miftake ; 
 
 And all th’ Ingredients that fwift ruin make. 
 
 The fertile Glebe requires no time to breed ? 
 
 It quickens and receives at once the Seed. 
 
 One would have thought, this difinal day t’havc feen, 
 That Natures felf in her Death-pangs had been, 
 
 Such will the face of that great Hour appear ; • 
 
 Such the diftra&ed «S/w^rxconlcious fear. 
 
 In vain fome few ftrive the wild flight to ftay ; 
 
 Jn vain they threaten, and in vain they pray ; 
 
 Unheard, 
 
Book IV. of the \ Troubles of David. 
 
 Unheard, unheaded, trodden down they lye, 
 
 Beneath the wretched feet of crouds that fly. . 
 
 O’re their own Foot trampled the vi’Icnt Horfe. 
 
 The guidlefs Chariots with impet’ous courfe 
 Cut wide through both • and all their bloody way 
 Horfes , and M:n y torn, bruis’d, and mangled lay. 
 Some from the Rocks caff themfeives down headlong , 
 The faint weak Fajjion grows lb bold and ftrong. 
 
 To almoft certain prefent death they fly 
 From a remote and caufelefs fear to dy. 
 
 Much diffe’rnt Error did fom Troops poflefs; 
 
 And Madmfs that lookt better, tho’ no lefs. 
 
 Their fellow Troops for th’ entered I : oe they take ; 
 And Ifrdls War with mutual {laughter make. 
 
 Mean while the King from Gabaas hill did view, 
 
 And hear the thickning Tumult as it grew 
 Still great and loud* and tho’ he knows not why 
 They fled, no more than they themfeives that fly ; 
 Yet by the fforms and terrors of the aire, 
 
 GuefTes fome vengeful Spirits working there 5 
 Obeys the loud occafions facred call, 
 
 And fiercely on the trembling Hoff does fall. 
 
 At the fame time their Slaves and Pr if otters rife; 
 Nor does their much-wifht Liberty fuffice 
 Without Revenge ; the fcatter’d Arms they feife, 
 And their proud vengeance with the memory pleafe 
 Of who fo lately bore them ; All about 
 From Rocks and Caves the Hebrews ifTue out 
 At the glad noife ; joy’d that their Foes had fhewn 
 A Fear that drowns the fcandal of their own. 
 
 Still did the Prince ’midff all this {form appear, 
 
 Still fcatter’d Deaths and Terrors everv where. 
 
 Still did he break, {fill blunt his wearied Swords 5 
 Still flaughter new fupplies to his hand affords. 
 Where Troops yet flood, there ffill he hotly flew, 
 And till at laff all fled, fcorn’d to perfue. 
 
 All fled at laff, but many in vain , for ffill 
 T 1 F infatiate ConqiTror was more fwiftto kill 
 Than they to fave their Lives. Till, lo! at laff, 
 Nature , whole power he had fo long furpaff, 
 
 Would yield no more, but to him ffronger Foes, 
 Drought, Faintnefs, and fierce Hunger did oppofe, 
 Reeking all o’re in duff, and blood, and fv. :at, 
 Burnt with the Suns and violent Actions heat, 
 
 ’Gainff an old Oak his trembling Limbs he ftaid, 
 
 For fome fhort eafe; Fate in th’ old Oak had laid 
 Provifions up for his relief 5 and Lo/ 
 
 The hollow Trunk did with bright Honey flow. 
 With timely food his decay’d Sp’rits recruit ; 
 
 Strong he returns, and feefh to theperfuit, 
 
 Z z 
 
 HI 
 
 
 1 Sam 
 
 20. 
 
 Ib. v. 1 
 
 lb. 2i 
 
 Ib. v. 
 
 1 Sam. 
 
 27. 
 
 His 
 
144 - Davideis, A Sacred Toe m Book I V- 
 
 i Sam. 1 4. 
 
 24. 
 
 His ftrength and fp’rits the Honey did redore; 
 
 But, oh, the bitter-fwet ftrange poifon bore l 
 Behold, Sir, and mark well the treacherous fate. 
 
 That does lo clofe on humane glories wait ! 
 
 Behold the drong, and yet fantaftick Net 
 T’ enfnare triumphant Virtue darkly fet ! 
 
 Could it before ( fcarce canit fince,,) be thought. 
 
 The Prince who had alone that morning fought 
 A Duel with an Hop , had th* Hofi overthrown. 
 
 And threefcore thouiand hands difarm’d withO/ze; 
 Wafht off his Countrys fhame, and doubly dy’d 
 In Blood and Blujbes the Philip an pride. 
 
 Had fav*d and fixt his Fathers tott’ring Crown, 
 
 And the bright Gold new hurnijht with renown. 
 Should be e’re night by’s King and Fathers breath, 
 Without a fault, vow’d and condemn’d to death ? 
 Dedin d the bloody Sacrifice to be 
 Of Thanks Himfel/for his own ViUone P 
 Alone with various fate like to become. 
 
 Fighting , an Hofi, Dying, an Hecatombe ? 
 
 Yet fuch. Sir, was his cafe. 
 
 For Saul , who fear’d left the full plenty might 
 ( In the abandon’d Camp expos’d to fight, ) 
 
 His hungry men from the perfuit diffuade ; 
 
 A rafh, "but folemn, vow to Heav’n had made. 
 
 Curd be the wretch, thrice cur fed let him be. 
 
 Who fhall touch food this bufie day ( faid he, ) 
 Whil’d the bled Sun does with his favo’ring light 
 Affid our vengeful Swords againd their flight. 
 
 Be he thrice curd 3 and if his Life we fpare. 
 
 On us thofe Curfes fall that he fhould bear. 
 
 Such was the Kings rafb vow \ who little thought 
 How near to him Fate th’ Jpplication brought. 
 
 The two-edgd Oath wounds deep, perform’d or broke ; 
 Ev’n Perjury its lead and blunted ftroke. 
 
 'Twas his own Son , whom God and Mankind lov’d. 
 His own Victorious Son that he devov’d ; 
 
 On whole bright head the baleful Curfes light $ 
 
 But Providence ,> his hlelmet in the fight, 
 
 Forbids their entrance or their fetling there ; 
 
 They with brute found diffolv'd into the Air. 
 
 Him what Religion, or what Vow could bind. 
 Unknown, unheard of, till he’ his Life did find 
 Entangled in’t ? whild Wonders he did do 
 Mud he dye now for not be’ng Prophet too ? 
 
 To all but him this Oath was meant and laid ; 
 
 He afar ofl^ the ends for which Twas made 
 Was acting then, till faint and out of breath, 
 
 He grew half dead with toil of giving death . 
 
 What 
 
Book IV. of the ' Troubles of David. 145 
 
 What could his Crime in this condition be* 
 
 Excus’d by Ignrar/ce and Ntcejjitie ? 
 
 Yetthe remorfelefs KJ n g* whodid difdain 
 That man fhould hear him fvvear or threat in vain* 
 
 Tho* ’gainft himfelf ; or fate a way fhould fee 
 By which attaqu’d and conquer’d he might be : 
 
 Who thought Companion, female weaknefijnsxz. 
 
 And Equity Injuftice would appear 
 In his own Caufe ; who falfely fear’d befide 
 The folemn Curfe on Jonathan did abide, 
 
 And the infe&ed Limb not cutaway, 
 
 Would like a Gangrene o’re all Ifra’lftray; 
 
 Prepar’d this God- (ike Sacrifice to kill ; 
 
 And his rafb vow more rajhly to fulfil. 
 
 What tongue can th’ horror and amazement tell 
 Which on all Ifrael that fad moment fell > 
 
 Tamer had been their grief, fewer their tears, 
 
 Had the Philift tan fate that day been theirs. 
 
 Not Sauls proud heart could matter his fwoln Eye ; 
 
 The Prime alone flood mild and patient by, 
 
 So bright his fufterings, fo triumphant, (he w’d, 
 
 Lett to the befi than warfi of fates he ow’d. 
 
 A vi&ary now he o’re himfdf might boaft $ 
 
 He Conquer'd now that Conqueror of an Hoft. 
 
 It charm’d through tears the fad Spectators fight, 
 
 Did reverence, love, and gratitude excite 
 And pious rage, with which infpir’d they now 
 Oppofe to Saul's a better publick Vow. 
 
 They all confent all Ifrael ought to be 
 Accurft and kill’d themfelves rather than He. 
 
 Thus with kind force they the glad King withftood, 
 
 And fav’d their wondrous Saviour s facred blood. 
 
 Thus David fpoke ; and much did yet remain 
 Behind th’attentive Prince to entertain, 
 
 Edom and Zobds war, for what befei 
 In that of Moab , was known there too well. 
 
 The boundlefs quarrel with curft Amalec * s land ; 
 
 Where Heav’n it felf did Cruelty command 
 And practis’d on Sauls Mercy , nor did e’re 
 More punifh Inn cent Blood , than Pity there* 
 
 But, Lo 1 they arriv’d now at th’appointed place 5 
 Weli-chofen and wellfurnifh* for tne Chafe. 
 
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 * Zz2 NOTES 
 
 i Sam.14. 
 45 - 
 
 Ib. v. 47. 
 
 i Sam. 1 5„ 
 3* 
 
 ib. zj: 
 
 ( 
 

 UPON THE 
 
 FOURTH B O OK. 
 
 Hat is, He bow’d thrice towards the Sun itfdf ( which 
 Worfhip ismoft notorioqs to have been ufed all over 
 the EaftJ and thrice towards the chief Temple and 
 I ImAge of the Sun Handing upon the Hill Phegor . For 
 I have before declared, that Baal was the Snn, and Baal - 
 Peor a firname, from a particular place of his worfhip. To which 
 I meet with the oppofition of a great perlon,even our Selden^bo 
 takes Baal- Peor to be Stygian Jupiter, or Pluto ( De D. Syris. Synt. 
 j.c. $.J building it upon the authority of the 105. ("according to our 
 Englifh Tranflation the 106. ) Plal. v. 20. They joy tied them/ elves to 
 Baal-Peor , and eat the Sacrifices of the Dead ; which Sacrifices he 
 underftands to be Juft*, or Inferias , Offerings in memory of the 
 Dead , Novendiales ferias. But why by the name of the Dead may 
 not Idols be meant ? the Sacrifices cf LtolsT it being ufual for the 
 Jews to give Names of reproach & contempt to the Heathen Gods 9 
 as this very Baal-Peor they called chemos , Jer. 48. 7. and 13. &c. 
 that is, Blindnejs, in contradiction to his Idolaters , who called 
 him the Eye of the World ? or perhaps they are called Sacrifices 
 of the Dead , in regard of the immolation of men to him , for Baal 
 is the fame Deity with Moloch of the Ammonites , and had fome- 
 times, tho’ not fo conftantly, humane Sacrifices. However thefe 
 verfes will agree as well with Mr. Stldens interpretation ; for then 
 the lenfe of them will be, that he bow’d firft to the Sun , and next 
 to Baal , another Deity of that Coi*ntry. 
 
 2 Zgrithy a place in Moab near the River Arnon . 
 
 2 White Horjes were mofl: in efteem among the Ancients, fuch 
 were Jthofe confecrated to the Sttn. Herodian calls them &io< Wm, 
 Jup iters Horfes, which is the fame. This was the reafon,that Ca~ 
 mill us contrafted fomuch Envy for riding in Triumph with white 
 Horfes , as a thing Inf olent and Prophane, Maxime confpeftus ipfe ett y 
 ciirrn equis albis jun&o urbem inve&us, parumq, id non civile modb 
 fed humanum etiam vifum, Jovis Solifq ; equis aquip aratum Dilato- 
 rem 
 
 
Notes upoti the fourth 'Book. 1 yj 
 
 rent in Religionem etiam trahebant. Liv . Horace^ 
 
 Barros ut equis procurreret albis. 
 
 Ovid, de Art. Am. 
 
 Quatuor its niveis aureus ibis equis. 
 
 Virg. 12. Jungit equos , gaude tq\ tuens ante ora frementes 
 Qjsi candore Ntves anteirent curfibus auras. 
 
 In which he imitates Homer . 
 
 Ad/x/»7t£?i^4ov@-, Sn'etv «A’ dv'iftoioiv ouotot. 
 
 4 Their fide. Seal. 1. 5. Poet, fays, that none but Apollo and Diana 
 wore their Quivers upon their Shoulders ; others, by their Sides y 
 which he colle&s out of fomc places in Virg. 1. Jin. of Diana, 
 
 Ill a pharetaem 
 
 Fert humer o^gradienfq\ Deas fupererni net omnes. 
 
 AL n. 4. of Apollo, Tela fonant humeris. 
 
 But of a Carthaginian Virgin , Succinttam pharetra 
 
 Yet I am afraid the obfervation is not folid 5 for Jin. 5. fpeaking 
 of the Troop of Jf canius and the Boys, he hath, 
 
 Pars leves humero pharetras. 
 
 However Side is a fafe word. 
 
 5 0eo«j{M©-, Like a God, is a frequent Epithets in Homer fora 
 beautiful perfon. 
 
 6 Nebo was a part of the Mountain Abarim in the Land of Moab ; 
 bat not only that Hill, but the Country about, and a City, was 
 called fo too, Jer. 48. 1. Deut. 32. 49* 
 
 7 I Sam. 9.21. And Saul anftvered and /aid, Am not I a Benj amite ,of 
 the / malle H of the Tribes of ifrael\ and my family the leaf; of all the fa- 
 milies of the Tribe of Benjamin? Wherefore then fpeakefl thou fo to me? 
 
 8 Jofh. 4. 14- From the wilder nefs and this Lebanon, even unto the 
 great River f t he River Euphrates y a11 the Land of the H/ttites y and unto 
 the great Sea , towards the going down of the Sun, (had be your coafl. 
 This was fulfill’d all ways but Eaftward, for their Dominion ne- 
 ver reacht to Euphrates ; and it was but juft fulfilled to the Letter, 
 Weftward, for they had very little upon the Mediterranean , or 
 Weftern Main. Their own fins were the caule, which made God 
 prelerve for thorns in their (ides thole Nations which he had con- 
 ditionally promis’d to root out. It is true, they went Eaftward 
 beyond Jordan , but that was not much ; and therefore, like an 
 odd Number in accounts ( as prefently, W'here I fay but Thirty 
 Kings') may be left out. Jordan is the moft noble and notorious 
 Boundary. 
 
 q For all the wickednefles and difbrders that we read of, during 
 the time of the Judges, are attributed in Scripture to the want of 
 a King. And in thofe days there was no Kjng in Ifrael. 
 j 0 For it was the Tribe of Benjamin that was almoft extirpated, from 
 whence Saul the firfi: King defeended. David hys^Kings^s feem- 
 ing to fuppofe that Sauls Sons were to fucceed nim. 
 
 ! i In Eli; who defeended from Ithamarjhe yourtgeft Son of Aaron , 
 
 till which time the High-Priefthood had continued in Eleazar the 
 elder Brothers Race.This was the fuccefTion, Aaronj Eleazar , Phi- 
 neas, Abifua,Bukki(Vzzi, and then Eli of the younger houfe came 
 in. In which it continued till Solomons time. The 
 
1 4.8 Z\(otes upon the fourth Book,. 
 
 12 The Scepter is not appropriated to hut to the Supreme 
 
 Magtfi rates, as inihe famous Prophefie, Gen. 49. 10. The Scepter 
 fioafl not depart from Judah , nor a Law -giver from hitmen Ins jtet, 
 till the Shilo come. 
 
 13 There is nothing in the whole Scripture that admits of morefeve- 
 ral opinions than the time of W& Samuels reign. This I will take 
 in the firlt place for granted, that the 40 years aftigned by S. Paul 
 fACt.i $.2o.Jto Saul, are to include Samuels Judicature for elfe there 
 would be found, more than 480 years from the departure out of 
 Egypt, to the building of Solomons Temple , neither could Saul be a 
 young man when he w^as elected ; befidcs, David would not have 
 been born at the time w hen he is laid to flay Goliah. We arc there- 
 fore to feek how to divide thofe 40 years between Samuel and Saul. 
 Jofcph us gives Saul 38 years, 18 with Samuel and 20 after his 
 death. Mo{\Chronologers(foysSMlpit.SeverusJ%o. Ruffin, and divers 
 others 20, to wit, 18 vstthSamuefandi twoafter.Noneof which can 
 be true} for the Ark was carried to Kiriath-jearim before Sauls 
 reign, and at the end of 20 years was removed from thence by Da - 
 vidto jf erufalem ; W'herefore Salianus allows Saul 18 years, CalvE 
 fuu 15, Pet avius 12. fome 11. Bucolcer 10. Others make Saul to 
 have reigned but two years, and thefeconfiderable Authors, as A- 
 rias Montan. Mercator , Adriccm , &c. grounding it upon a Text of 
 Scripture,! Sam.i j,i. Filius unius anm < rat Saul, cum regnare ccepif- 
 fet,& dtwbus annis regmhnt fuper Ifraef w hich others underftand to 
 be three years, to wit, two after the firft. Snip it. Sever, indefinitely, 
 parvo admodum fpacio tenuit imperium ; which opinion feems tome 
 extremely improbable. 1. Becaufe w 7 e cannot well crowd all Sauls 
 actions into fo final la time. 2. Becaufe David muff then have been 
 about 29 years old w'hen he flew Goliah; for he began to reign at 
 Htbrcn at $o.$. Becaufe it is hard, if that be true, to make up the 20 
 years that the Ark abode at Kiriath-jearim. 4. The Text, whereon 
 this is built, doth not import it, for it fignifiss no more, than that he 
 had reigned one year before his confirmation at Gilgal, and two 
 when he chofe himfelf Guards . Our Tranflation hath, Saul reigned 
 one year } and when he had reigned two years over Ifrael, he chofe him 
 3000 men, &c. To determine punctually how long he reigned, it 
 impoflible;but Ifhould guefs about io^rj,w'hich his aCtions will 
 well require, and David will be a little above 20 years old, ( a fit 
 age)when he defeated the Gy ant, and the 20 years of the Arks abi- 
 ding at Kiriatb-jearim will be handfomly made up, to wit, three 
 years before Sauls anointing, and 10 during his Government, and 
 feven whilft David was Kjng at Hebron. So that of the 40 afligned 
 by the Apofilt to Samuel and Saul, there will remain 30 years for 
 the Government of Samuel. 
 
 14 For firft, The Ifraelites knew they were to be governed at laft by 
 KJngs. And fecondly,they defired it by reafon of the great diforders 
 and afflictions which they fuffered for want ofitj and it is plain, 
 that this is not the firft time that they thought of this Remedy 5 
 for they would have chofen Gideon King* and annexed the Crown, 
 
 T to bis Race, and did after actually chide Abimlech. 
 
1 Sot es upon the fourth \Bool ^ 14 9 
 
 15 Sec Mofes his Prophefie of it, Dent. 17. 14. and to Abraham 
 God hijnfelf fays, Gen , 17, 6. And Kjngs fhall come out of 
 thee. 
 
 1 6 It is a vile opinion of thofe men and might be punifhed with- 
 out Tyranny , if they teach it, who hold, that the right of Kings 
 is let down by Samuel in this Place. Neither did the people of 
 Ifrael ever allow, or the Kings avow the affumption of iuch a 
 power, as appears by the ftory of Ahab and Naboth. Some indeed 
 did exercife it, but that is no more a proof of the Right , than their 
 Practice was of the Lawful hefs of Idolatry. When Cambyfes had a 
 mind to marry his Sifter , he advifed with the Magi , Whether the 
 Laws did allow it ; whoanfwered, that they knew of no Law that 
 did allow it> but that there was a Law which allowed the King of 
 perfia to do what he would. If this had been the cafe with the 
 Kings of J/rael , to what purpofe were they enjoyned fo ftri&ly 
 the perpetual reading, perufing, andobferving of the Law ( Dent. 
 17 .) if they had another particular Law that exempted them from 
 being bound to it. 
 
 1 7 The Tetargrammaton , which was held in fuch Reverence among 
 
 the Jews, that it was unlawful to pronounce it. It was called 
 therefore etvsKpohnmrj Unutterable. l or it they read Adonai ; the 
 reafon of the peculiar Santtity of this Name , is, becaufe other 
 Names of God were appliable to other things, as Elohim , to Prin- 
 ces ; but this name Jehovah , or Jave, or Jai ( for it is now grown 
 unutterable , in that no body knows how to pronounce it,) was not 
 participated to any other thing. Wherefore God fays, Exod 3. 16. 
 This is my name for ever , and this is my memorial to all generations . 
 And Exod. 6. 3. But by my name Jehovah was I not known unto them. 
 Tofephus call this Tetragrammaton , Td h&t The Sacred 
 
 Letters ; and, n&wfai&v »1V 2 (miAuh A name of which it 
 asJ not Lawful iot meto (peak ; and again. To pem The 
 Dreadful Name of God. Stat. 
 
 Triplicis mundi fummum , quem fcire Nefaftum eft ♦. 
 
 Whole Name it is not lawful to know. 
 
 And Philo relating how Caligula ufed him and his fellow AmbaJJa- 
 dors from the Jews. You ( faid Caligula to them , ) are Enemies to 
 the Gods , and will not acknowledge me to be One , who am re- 
 ceived for fuch by all the reft of the World : But by the God that 
 you dare not name (r dA^'^^v ) and then lifting up his 
 
 hands to Heaven, he fpoke out the Word , which it is not lawful fo 
 much as to hear , &c. And the Heathens had fomthing like this 
 Cuftom^ for the Romans kept fecret the name of the Tutelar God 
 cf their City ; left the enemies, if they knew how to call him right, 
 might by charms draw him away. And in their folemn Evocati- 
 on of Gods from the Cities which they befieged, for fear left they 
 jfhould miftake the Deities proper name , they added always, Sive 
 quo alio nomine voceris. 
 
 18 ThcTabernacle , Exod. 59.9. And thou (h alt take the Anointing 
 Oyl y and Anoint the Tabernacle , and all that is therein ; and (halt 
 hallow it , and the vejfels therein ; and it ft) all be holy . 
 
 The 
 
15 ° Nftes upon the fourth Book. 
 
 19 The Utils upon the High-Priefts Garments, Exodus 38. 
 
 25 * * \ ■ 
 
 20 There want not Authors, and thofe no flight ones, who main- 
 tain, that Samuel was High-Prieft as well as. Judge ; as S. Augkftine, 
 and Sul fit. Sever us, who fays, Admodum fen ex facer dot 10 fundus 
 refertur. And fome make him to have fucceeded Eli , others 
 chitob. But there is a manifefl: Error, for he was not fo much as a 
 Trie ft, but only a Levite ; of the Race of Ifahar, the younger 
 Brother of Amram, from whom Aaron came, and all the iuccef- 
 iion of Pnefis, t Chronic. 6. It will be therefore askt, Why I 
 make him here perform the Office of the High-Prieft, and drefs 
 him in the Pontifical Habits ? For the firff , it is plain by the llory, 
 that he did often do the duty of the High-Prieft , as here, and when 
 Saul was appointed to flay for his coming to celebrate the 
 Sacrifice, &c. For the later , I know not why he might not 
 as well wear the Habit, asexercife the Function > nay I believe, 
 the Fun&ion could not be well exerciled without the Habit. 
 I fay therefore with Pet avius, L. io. de DcCtr . Ternpor . That 
 he was conftituted of God, H/gh-Prieft Extraordinary, and lookt 
 upon as fuch by reafon of the extraordinary viflble marks of San- 
 Ctity,Prophefie, and Miracles , without which lingular Teffimonies 
 from God we know that in later times there were often two at 
 once, who did execute the H/gb-Pr iefls Office , as Annas and 
 C aipbas. 
 
 21 Well-cut Diadem : /. The Plate of pure Gold tyed upon the 
 Mitre, on which was engraven, Holinefs to the LrW3Exod.28.36. 
 and Exod. 39. 
 
 22 This Breaft-plite is called by the Septuagint, To nofcov $f Kelaiay. 
 
 The Oracle of Judgments, becaufe whenfoever the Higb-Prie/l 
 confulted God, he was to have it upon his Bread:. The De- 
 feription of it, and the Stones in it, fee Exod. 28. 1 5. Thele 
 Stones fo engraven, and difpofed as God appointed, I conceive 
 to be the Vram and Tbummin mentioned Verfe 30. the Dc ctri- 
 na & Peritas, as the Latine ; the <pa\i<ruot Lioht and 
 
 Perfection, as Aquila', the ^ Awns, I ruth and Dmon - 
 
 Jlration , as the Septuagint : All which fignifie no more than 
 Truth and Manifestation, or the Manifefl at ion of Truth by thofe 
 Stones ; which fome fay, was by the finning of thofe particu- 
 lar Letters in the Names of the Tribes , that made up fome 
 Words or Word to anfwcr the Queftion propounded. Others, 
 that when the Stones fhone very brightly, it implyed anAffirma- 
 tiv to the Queftion ; and when they looked dimly and cloudily, 
 a Negative. But w hen the Demands required a prolix, or va- 
 rious Anlwer, that w ? as either given by Illumination of the High- 
 Priefts under Handing, making him Ipeak as Gods Organ or 0 - 
 rack , ( as the Devil is believed to have infpired Sybils and Pythi- 
 an Priefts,) or by an audible voice from within the Sanctum San- 
 ctorum ; which later w r ay I cake here, as moft proper for Poe- 
 try. 
 
 The Tabernacle is called a Temple, 1 Sam. 19. 2 Sam. 22. 7. 
 
 - PfaL 
 
j\Q)tcs upon the fourth "Book* 151 
 
 Pflm i 3 . 3. jofephus terms it va.lv uH *<?>*& A Moveable Tem- 
 pi J[ be Temples bright third Heaven — The Tabernacle being 
 
 Gods ieat upon earth, was made to Figure out the Heavens, which 
 is more properly his Habitation ; and was therefore divided into 
 three parts, to fignifie the fame divifion of the Heavens in Scri- 
 pture-phrale. The firft was the Court of the Tabernacle, where 
 the Sacrifices were flain and confumed by fire, to reprefent the 
 whole fpace from the Earth up to the Moon, (which is called ve- 
 ry frequently Heaven in the Bible,) where all things are fubjeft: to 
 Corruption. The lecond was the Sanctum, the Holy Place, where- 
 in flood the Altar of Incen/e , to reprefent all that fpace above, 
 which is pofTeft by the Stars. The third was the Santtitm San - 
 Borum, -the Holiefi Place , to reprefent the third Heaven, (fpoken 
 of by S. Paul,) which is the Dwelling-place of God, and his Che- 
 rubins%x Angels. Neither did the colours of the Curtains allude 
 to any thing, but this fimilitu.de betwixt the Tabernacle and Hen • 
 ven. 
 
 In all Times and Countrys it hath been counted a certain 
 fign of the difpleafure of the Deity to whom they facrificed, if 
 the Fire upon the Altar burnt not clear and chearfully. Seneca 
 tn Thyef. 
 
 Et ipfe fumus tr/ftis ac mbit Id gravis 
 Non retfus exit, feq ; in txcelftim levant 
 Ipfos Penates nube deformi ob fidet* 
 
 And a little after, 
 
 Vix lucet ignis , &c* 
 
 9 
 
 According to the old fenfelels opinion , that the Heavens were 
 ^ divided into feveral Orbes or Spheres, and that a particular Intel- 
 ligence or Angel was afligned to each of them, to turn it round 
 (like a Mill-horfe, as Scahger fays,) to all eternity. 
 
 2 f c ) How came it to pals, that Samuel. would make a folemn Sacri- 
 fice in a place where the Tabernacle was not? which is forbid, Dent. 
 12.8. Grotins anfwers, firft, that by reafon of the feveral Removes 
 of the Tabernacles in thole times, men were allowed to Sacrifice 
 in feveral places. Secondly, that the Authority of an extraordi- 
 nary Frophet was above that of the Ceremonial Law . It is not laid 
 in the Text, that It was Samuels Birthday ; but that is an inno- 
 cent Addition, and \vas proper enough for Rama , which was the 
 Town of Samuels ufual Refidence. 
 
 2-j A choice part of the Meat, (for we hear nothing of feveral 
 7 Courfes ,) namely the Shoulder. The left Shoulder, ( Grotius ob- 
 ferves) for the right belonged to the Priejt, Levit. 7. 32. This 
 Jofephus terms fuelJk c An\ntl», The Princely Portion. The men 
 over-fubtil in Alluftons think this part was chofen to fignifie the 
 Burden that was then to be laid upon his (boulders. So 
 Menochius, as Philo fays, that j fofeph fent a part of the Brea ft to 
 Benjamin , to intimate his hearty affe&ion. Thefe are pitiful littis 
 
 A a a things, 
 
J 52 fJfotcs upon the fourth "Body. 
 
 tilings, but the Ancients did not defpife fomtiines as cdd Allu- 
 
 . ..... 
 
 In old time, even at Feaftsmendid not eat of Difhcs in common 
 among!! them, but every one had his Portion apart ; which Pint. 
 calls, ' O/j.vei '^1 JBi r ryct ) and ' Q (jMexrJtf J'tuTvt, Homenque Feajls ; bccaufe 
 Homer makes always his Heroes to eat fo, with w 7 hom the better 
 men had always the moft Commons. Ajax, JwnrMon 
 hath a Chine of Beef , Perpetui tergum bovis. And Diomedes hath 
 both more Meat and more Cups of drink let before him ; of which 
 lee Athen. 1 . 1. c. 1 1. who lays likewife, that a Feaff, comes a 
 from dividing equally, which makes Homer call it lo often, 
 
 Acun* ittrluj. ' 
 
 See Note 12. on Book 1. That Oyl mixt with any other liquor 
 hill gets upermoft, is perhaps one of the chiefeft. Significances in 
 the Ceremony of Anointing Pr lefts. $ 
 
 2 9 The Kjngly-day. The day for ele&ion of a Kjng. , which caufes 
 
 a new ALra, or Beginning of Chronological Accounts . As before they 
 were wont to reckon, From the Going out of Egypt , or from the Be - 
 ginning of the Government by fudges : So now they will, From the 
 Entrance of their Kjngs. Almoft all great Changes in the World are 
 ufed as Marks for reparation of Times. 
 
 30 In many Countrys it was the Cuftom to chufe their Kings for 
 
 the Comelinefs and Majefty of jheir Perfons ; as Ariftotle reports 
 of the Ethiopians \ and Heliogabalus , though but aBoy, was chofen 
 Emperor by the Roman Souldiers at firft light of him, for his ex- 
 traordinary Beauty. Eurip . fays finely, d^ior 7 v&wid©-, a 
 
 Countenance that deferved a Kingdom. 
 
 31 ArifiotlehySyl. 6 . P^/. That it was a popular Inftitution tochufe 
 Governours by Lots. But Lots left purely in the hand of Fortune 
 would be Lute a dangerous way of Electing Kjngs. Here God ap- 
 pointed it, and therefore it was to be fuppofed would look to it ; 
 and no doubt all Nations who ufed this cuftomdid it with reliance 
 upon the care of their Gods. Briefs were likewife fo chofen. 
 Laocoon ductus Neptuni forte facer dos. 
 
 32 This, Seneca in Lb. fays, was the cafe of Ithaca. 
 
 Et putat mergi fua poffe pauper 
 
 Regna Laertes Ithaca tremente. 
 
 Jabocy a River , or Torrent in the Country of Ammon , that runs 
 into the River Arnon. 
 
 34 Arabia the S tony, Arabia the Defert , and Arabia the Happy. 
 
 3 5 For fome conceive, that the reafon of this extravagant demand 
 
 of Nabas was, to difable them from (hooting. 
 
 2 6 It was Themifiius his faying, that the Soul is the Architect of her 
 
 own dwelling-place. Neither can weattribute the Format ion of the 
 Body in the Womb to any thing fo reafonably as to the Soul com- 
 municated in the Seed 5 this was Ariftotle* s opinion, for he fays, 
 Semen eft artifex , The Seed is a skilful Artificer. And though 
 ive have no Authorities of this nature beyond the Grecian time ; 
 
 yet 
 
J\(otcs upon the fourth Boo\. 
 
 KO 
 
 1 ; y 
 
 yet it is to be fuppofed, that wife men, in and before Davids days, had 
 the fame kind of Opinions and Difcouries in aii points of Phi fop phyi 
 37 In aliufion to the Lamps burning in the Sepulchres of the Anci- 
 ents, and going out a (Toon as ever t he Sepulchres were opened 
 and Air let in. We read not (1 think,) of this Invention but among 
 the Romans. But we may well enough believe (or at leaf! fay fo 
 in verfe,) that it came from the Eafltrn-parts, where there was fo 
 infinite expence and curiofity bellowed upon Sepulchres. 
 
 That Naas was flain in this battle, I have Jofephus his authority ; 
 that Jonathan flew him, is a ftrohe of Poetry. 
 og In emulation of the VirgilianVzNe, 
 
 Quadrupedante putrem fonitu quatit ungula campum. 
 
 The Text fays, Thirty thoufand Chariots ; which is too many for 
 fix thoufand Horfe. I have not the confidence to fay, Thirty thoufand, 
 in Verfe. Grotius believes it fihould be read Three Thoufand. Fi- 
 gures were often miflaken in old Munufcripts , and this may be fu- 
 lpeded in feveral places of our Bibles , without any abatement of 
 the reverence we ow r e to Scripture. 
 
 40 I confefs I incline to believe, that it was not fo much Sauls inva- 
 fion cf the Priefly office, by offering up the Sacrifice himfelf (for 
 in fome cafes (and the cafe here was very extraordinary,) it is pro- 
 bable h(5 might have done that,) as his difobedience to Go^s com- 
 mand by Samuel, that he fhould flay feven days , which was the fin 
 fo feverely punifht in him. Yet I follow here the more common 
 Opinion, as more proper for my purpofe. 
 
 1 Sam. 1 3. 10. 27. So it came to pafs in the day of battel, that there 
 was neither fvord nor fpear found in the hands, of any of the people 
 that were with Saul and Jonathan ; but with Saul and ’Jonathan his 
 ■ Son there were found, Stc. And before, I here was no Smith through- 
 out the Land of lfrael. .But for all that, it is not to be imagined, that 
 all the people could be without Arms, after their late great vi do- 
 ries over the Philiftines and Ammonites ; but that thefe fix hundred 
 by Gods appointment were unarmed, for the greater manifeftation 
 of his glory in the defeat of the enemy, by fo linalland fo ill-provi* 
 ded a Party ; as in the ftory of Gideon , God fo difpofed it, that but 
 three hundred of two and twenty thoufand lapped the water out 
 of their hands, becaufe (fays he,) the people are yet too many. 
 
 At firfl men had no other weapons but their Hands, c 're* 
 
 Anna anti qua, man ns, ungues, dentefq; fuerunt . 
 
 Then Clubs, / \ * 
 
 Stipitibus duris agitur f tidibufq? pneustis. 
 
 And at laft, Iron, 
 
 Turn fern vigor, &c. 
 
 Tum v arise venere artes, Sec. 
 
 Hic torre armatus adufto, 
 
 Stipitis hic gravidi nodis, 
 
 Rimanti , telum ira facit. 
 
 4, The Mediterranean , upon the Coaff of which the whole Couri- 
 try of the Philiftines lies, and contains but very few miles in 
 breadth. 
 
 quod cuiq\ repertum 
 
 Aaa 2 
 
 Horn. 
 

 
 
 * 54 - 
 
 Motes upon the fourth ‘Boo 
 
 44 Horn. 6 . Odyff. 
 
 T ov /jfifj A3 » vault Zuy.tv C^tos hcytyav/a. 
 ivl H^ovcL ?' Hficfiiv y t mojoVAy 
 w OvA.ci{ jT>C4 y.opui; vaxjv&vu opulus. 
 
 Virg. Lumen f, juventa 
 
 Purpureum, & latos oculis afflbrat honores* 
 
 45 Horn. $. II. 
 
 O Ovi yL% d^mfiov TkhHbYn \*tws 
 
 %s t ayg, piov llciJhost ytpv&cfo 
 Tbv <A’ «t* «tf77 yipuyLi tit$>eu ) ypyiaeiv 
 *Ovt’ e&gL tpyjta, dhadav ietSiiray 
 3 E\$vy T d%<t7nvri( %t irm Cdtr» c f/bf o/xC&s, 
 Ilo fad Jl' utt’ curn tfy* Yjfwzim yjA’ uifya v. 
 
 And in the 1 3 II. there is an excellent companion of Heitor to a 
 River , and the like tob in the 1 1 . fo that it feems he plealed him- 
 felf much with the fimilitude. And Virgil too liked it very well, 
 Non fic aggeribus ruptis cum fpumeus amnis 
 Exiit, See. 
 
 And in leveral other places. 
 
 4* i Sam. 6. 4. Five golden Emerods y and jive golden Mice , accord - 
 ing to the number of the Lords of the Philifiines. 
 
 47 His Blood. Mofes fays often, that the Soul is in the Blood , thrice 
 in one Chapter, Levit. 17. and he gives that realon for the Precept 
 not to eat Blood. Virg. 
 
 P Purpuream vomit ille animam. 
 
 4° See the Cyclops making of 7 h under in Virg. ;En. 8. 
 
 *9 Brute. That fignified nothing. So Thunders, from whence the 
 Ancients could collect no Prognoftications , were called Brute 
 Thunders \ From Brute Beafts, whole founds are inarticulate. 
 
 
 1 
 
 — — — — 1 — — ■ I ■ m.* 
 
 FINIS, 
 
 K 
 
 
X 
 
 I 
 
 LIVER PR1MVS. 
 
 Authore A. COWLEY. 
 
 B ElIacano, fatique vices, Regemque poteotem 
 Murato qui Sceptra, pedo Solymaia geflit 
 Re x olim & Vates ; duo maxima munera cceh * 
 Multa prius tulit immota difcrimina mente 
 Et Sauli & Satana, furiis imbellibus aftus. 
 
 Multa quoque & regno ; tam longa exercuit ira 
 Victorem Fortuna fuum ; nec pulfa quievit, 
 
 Aft illam Virtus tandem inderelfa domavit. 
 
 Et populos Iat6 fudit, gentefque rebelles 
 Nequicquam numeris 8c magno milite fevas. 
 
 Hi Bello, hic iplo Bellorum Numine fretus. 
 
 At Tu, Jtjpei qui fanguinis Author & Hteres, 
 Bethlemia inta£ta quondam de Virgine natus. 
 
 Qui Ligno, Clavis, Hajla , omnipotentibus armis* 
 Ipfam (fic vifum eft) potuifti occidere Mortem , 
 Ingentes referens per Tartara vi&a Triumphos i 
 Dum tremuit Princeps Erebi metuitque videre 
 jEterniim amilfos divina Lucis honores : 
 
 Qui nunc ipfe (edes placidi leve pondus Olympi , 
 
 Ad dextram Patris y & gaudentia Sidera calcas. 
 Frontem ibi (quam cinxit merito fulfufa rubore 
 Spina ferox, carus de qua eruor undiq$ fluxit. 
 
 Ut pretiofa humilem decoratet gemma Coronam J 
 Frontem illam innocua? redimitus fidere flammae : 
 Tu, precor, 6 ! fan&um dimitte in corda furorem* 
 Da mihi JeJJiden Jeffida carmine magno, 
 
 
T> AVIDETDOS. 
 
 I 
 
 2 
 
 Et cantu celebrare pari ; tua Flamma Mint (Ira, 
 Ifac'ditm longis dudtrix erroribus olim, 
 
 Dirigat audaces ignoto in limite greffus, 
 
 Prodii catque facranon trita per avia fama. 
 
 En (anctos manibus puris ut iumeret Ignes 
 Vejtalem fie Alfa facit ; bene libera curis, 
 
 Libera deiiciifque jocifque & amore profano 
 Confecrat, ecce, tibi reliquos mea Magdalis annos. 
 Ecce opus iioc lolidis numerorum immane Columnis , 
 Fmpltim ingens ftatuo, varium Sc multd arte politum. 
 Ingredere, 6 Numen , quo te plaudentibus alis 
 Mu fu. vocat, Ludios Chtruborum imitata recelTus. 
 
 Si facias, cedent illi Solomonia Templa , 
 
 Regis Idumaei cedent, fat tempore longo 
 Qupe finxere fibi coluere Idola Cam<eme : 
 
 Sed Tu me, Verbum sternum, tu voce vocafti, 
 
 Et novus infolito perculfus lumine Paulus, 
 
 Prodeo Mu f arum immenfbs convertere Mundos , 
 
 Et Cadum feris ignotum aperire Poetis. 
 
 Ut juvat, 6, purgare fiiis facra flumina monftris ! 
 
 Ut vili purgare alga, camoque profundo, 
 
 Et liquidi ingenuos Fontes inducere Veri ! 
 
 Jam pene obdudtum eft Saulo fub pettore vulnus ; 
 Integra Jeffida per tot certamina virtus 
 Laflatam magnis frangit fiucceffibus iram : 
 
 Afluetis fuperare timet concurrere j Fatis, 
 
 Et famam tantae fine viribus invidet illi 
 Invidia ; vidit preffam fub pondere palmam , 
 
 Et jam pene fuae redeuntem in vifcera terrae 
 Mox Istum coelo caput olfentare propinquo 
 Ipfo onere elatam , & fua brachia ferre fub auras. 
 
 Vidit racatis Jordanem currere lymphis, 
 
 Dum Jovet amplexu ripas, atque ofcula libat, 
 
 At fiquis motos pofito premit objice fl udius 
 Et notum praecludit iter, mox colligit iras 
 Ore tumens rapido, &■ contorquet vortice fylvas, 
 
 Tum fonitu ingenti vocat ad nova praelia fludbus, 
 Longus pone ruit furiofie Exercitus undas : 
 
 Cum pecore ac natis montem petit infeius, amens 
 Pafior , & attonito decrefciint arva Colono. 
 
 Hoc metuens SahIus premit alto corde dolorem, 
 Et vultum induitur plagidum, fimilemque Davidi ; 
 Dat dextram, teftemq» Deum , amplexulqs patronos 
 Nec violaturum fe fenfit pignora tanta ; 
 
 Nequicquam ; nam quid potuit, nefeivit & ipfe, 
 
 AiC Dominos intus geftavit vidtus acerbos. 
 
 Excipiunt plaufiu Abramida nova foedera Isti, 
 
 Tanta in Jeffiden pietas indigna ferentem 
 Multa diu, & laevi reverentia tanta Tyranni . 
 
 Exultant homines, exultant agmina coeli 
 
 V* • 
 
Lib. I. DAVIT) EIDOS. 
 
 Sidera, fideretq^ anim£ ; dulciflima Pacis 
 Nomina Jeffld£q\ iliis 3 at turba Barathri 
 Neutrum amat ; infernos Concordia noftra Tumultui 
 Progenerat, magnofq* quies humana labores 4 
 Subter ubi in matris iecreta cubilia Terrae. 
 
 Defcendit Solis virtus foecunda Manti 3 
 Fatali [q^ Auri videt incunabula flava. 
 
 {A uri quod fuperis fimul ac caput extulit oris, 
 
 Perftringit mundum, nec vi, nec luce minori,) 
 
 Subter ubi implumis nido jacet Aura profundo, 
 
 Et tener innocuo vagit cum murmure Ventus. 
 
 Subter ubi Sterna longe fub mole repofti 
 Thefaun ingentes magnarum arcentur Aquarum, 
 (Oceanus Maris ipfius, quo Fluminis inftar 
 Fertur, &. omnigenas inter confunditur undas,) 
 
 Nulla ubi fopitos flu&us exufcitat aura, 
 
 Nec Domina irritat placidos vis improba Lunte. 
 
 Eft locus immenfumin fpatium, immenfumq; profundum 
 Porredtus, quem nox, genuimifq; obruit horror. 
 
 Illum indefellum nullo obice meta coercet, 
 
 Nec Loca fe miniis extendunt quam Tempora pcen£. 
 
 Non illum recreat dulcis tenuiflima coeli 
 Rima, nec Eois fcintilla excufla quadrigis 
 Perftringit, folidafve valet terebrare tenebras. 
 
 Non hic gemmatis ftillantia fidera guttis 
 Impugnant fa?va? jus inviolabile Nolitis, 
 
 Lucifer hoc late tenet illatabile regnum 
 Inter vincla minax, inter tormenta fuperbus , 
 
 Ipfo, quem patitur, crudelior Igne Tyrannus. 
 
 Dux quondam setherex praefulgentiflimus aultr, 
 
 Qualis ubi in curru procedens Hefperus aureo 
 Militiam oeternam f Idlarhmq 3 agmina ducit. 
 
 Fulmine fed cecidit correptus, Fulminis inftar 
 Ipfe ruens, nec enim gemitum dedit ore minorem. 
 
 Ut primum fenfit medios abforptus in ignes. 
 
 At comites circum, conjurataeq; caterva? 
 
 (Ingens turbaj cadunt. Aer crepat undiqj aduftus, 
 
 Et densd vi flammarum pra?texitur sether. 
 
 Ex illo aeterna? folamina triftia poena?, 
 
 Alterna? focios mortales reddere pcense. 
 
 Torti 8c Carnifices ! Hominem, tentamine primo 
 In fe armant ipfum ; magna & ccelo aqua voluptas 1 
 Quos cauta et foelix virtus fi evaferit hamos, 
 
 Vidtricem bello tandem aggrediuntur aperto, 
 
 Et male tentatis fuccedunt Arma Venenis. 
 
 Hdc vi Jeffld en (neq; enim corrumpere fperat,) 
 Oppugnat furvus barathri no&ffqs Tyr annus , 
 
 Exacuftq; animos Sault invidiamq; potentem. 
 
 Viderat egregio generofam in corpore forma ni, 
 
4 
 
 'D Ai/ ID E ID 0 S. 
 
 Lib. I; 
 
 Virgineoqi maritaram cum flore virilem 
 Majeliatem oris 5 miracula viderat alti 
 Nobiliora animi, vaftatnq; in pedore mentem ; 
 Viderat augufla per fu (am afpergine frontem, 
 Divinasq; novos fpirantem lucis honores. 
 Condideratq; alto fub corde Oracula facra 
 Imper ium Jud* qua? conceflere perenne, 
 
 Venturufq; Shilo ftimulos fubjecerat acres. 
 
 Et nimium vigiles Erebi fu filaverat ignes. 
 
 Scit mi fer incalfum tantis fe opponere rebus. 
 
 Nec valid im fati perrumpere poffe catenam, 
 Vincula led morfu tentat, dentefq; fatigat, 
 
 Et vinci certus gaudet tamen elle rebellis. 
 
 Sed jam converfa in melius violentia Stale 
 Confiliiimq; dolofq; 8r fpes turbavit inanes. 
 
 Nam multum Saulo, quem longo noverat ulu 
 Fidit, &■ erubuit/*#/ fraudum ipfe Magi fler. 
 
 Quid faciat ? qu5 fe rerum hoc in cardine verfet f 
 Ferrati frendet ter concuffo ordine dentis, 
 
 Te quatit irrata? rugofa volumina frontis, 
 
 Ter fremit horrendum exululans, oculoq; cruento 
 Commixtum ardenti jaculatur languine lumen. 
 Ferrea lux terret noctem, Manefq\ peruftos 
 Ignotus trepidos habet 8? crudelior Ignis. 
 
 Et jam vociferans ; Nihil ergo poffumus ? inquit. 
 Me, me ipfum infoelix puer, & mea regna triumpho 
 Ducet ovans ? dum vos (“pudet oh ! ) torpetis inertes. 
 Innocui ludunt &r adhuc per colla Cerafi* ? 
 
 Nil Furiis dignum & populo memorabile noftro 
 Quod timeat Deus, & quod vel ftupeam Ipfe, paratis } 
 Qua: nova Formido, aut pejor formidine Virtus 
 Corda gelat ? quondam (Tnemini) forti flima corda ? 
 Perdidi ob hoc Ocelum ? 
 
 PeQora tum longas percellit verbere caudae, 
 
 Iratus tantae quod non fuflfecerit irae. 
 
 Deinde fedet, vultumq; horrendum caetera profert. 
 Stant F urice juxta, 8c fe lumine circumfpe&ant. 
 
 Dum late loca vafta filent, f&vdq\ quiete 
 Triftis nativi duplicata horroris imago eft. 
 
 Ipfl flammantes infano fulphure rivi 
 Jam tacitis ferpunt per littora confcia lymphis. 
 Vincula nulla fonant, non Angues fibila mittunt, 
 Non audent inter tormenta gemifcere Sontes. 
 
 Tandem prorepit dirse foediffima turba? 
 
 Invidia ; impexis crinem ferpentibus atrum 
 It crifpata ; cutis multum laxata pependit, 
 
 Oflaq; liquit iners, offa afpera longo lu£tu. 
 
 Dipfas (monftrum atrox) latitat fub peSlore anhelo, 
 Nocte dieq* bibens nigrum infaturata cruorem , 
 
 Et ne tam crebro fontem confumeret hauftu 
 
 No£te 
 
Lib. I. 
 
 T>AV IVEIVOS. 
 
 Node dicque fuo compenfat .damna v neno. 
 
 Sanguine deformatam hominum, taboq^ fluentem 
 Pallam humeris gerit, & dextri rotat alta flag Hunt. 
 
 Immanem laeva craterae fuftinet oibem 
 Spumantem felie atque abfynthia tetra vomentem. 
 
 Quo bibit afiidue, 8c fefe ebria fa&a flagellat. 
 
 Hoc jam torva modo, fe pro medio agmine fiftit 
 Invidi* 5 6 barathro Furiarum maxima toto 
 Invidia ! 6 nunquam, nifi cum fe punit , amanda ! 
 
 Summe Pater, clamat ftygii Barathri , 3c mihi N.tmen , 
 
 Se puer imbellis noftros meruifle timores 
 ja&abit, magnoque Erebum mifcere tumultu 
 His Colubris , Aleque Sc Te , noltro Principe, falvis? 
 
 Te minitante tremet perterrita fabrica mundi, 
 
 Et legum errabit Natura oblita fuarum, 
 
 Te minitante dabunt rapida refponfa procella?, 
 
 Et timidum horrendo refonabit fulmine coelum. 
 
 Tunc 8c inauratos temere Sol contrahet ignes, 
 
 Exilieique diemq, abducet limite noto. 
 
 Foedera dirumpet Pontus , fupera ardua tangens, 
 
 Vicinafq undis Flammarum elementa pavefetnt, 
 
 Ipfe Polus fixam Jedem 8c loca jufla relinquet, 
 
 Sphxrarumq $ hilarum ceflabit lubricus orbis. 
 
 Diffugient nitidi huc illfic pi&* agmina coeli, 
 
 Ipfe etiam Deus illorum. 
 
 Namque olim timuit certe cum fumpfimus arma 
 Nobilia arma, & qus meruerunt vicia triumphum ! 
 
 O laudanda dies ! 6 ingens gloria noftri ! 
 
 O iterum talem liceat mihi cernere lucem, 
 
 Ipfe licet vincat, licet in nova tartara trudat 
 Et pejora iftis, pofllnt fi talia fingi. 
 
 His par concurret paflor rudis & puer armis ) 
 
 Quid poffint tortss Ltridentia verbera funda? > 
 
 Quem torvus longaque fame ftimulatus & ira 
 Non domuit Leo } non infandus membra Goliah , 
 
 Hunc mea vox perdet fola, & fub tartara mittet 
 Multa prius paflum, 8c nequicquam Numine fifurm 
 Quod fi jejfiden tamd pietate foveret 
 (Sed fatis eft longo riotus mihi tempore) Saulus , 
 
 Quanto nos odio premimus, quanto ]ue furore 
 Ante bis exadtos fuperis ex ordine foles, 
 
 Corde novum toto longe excutiemus amorem, 
 
 ] pf>, &, vos cari, fidiliima turba, Colubri, 
 
 Me fuadente, nefas, fa‘erno fanguin e fecit 
 Cainus , &c a?tatum dedit Omnia Leta lequentum. 
 
 Vidi toto ingens connixum corpore faxum 
 Ja&antem, fratris mortem , 8c monumenta fepulti. 
 
 Quis potuit rifus (equidem nili ipfa) tenere 
 Cum fua fic primus nutriret rura CoFnus .<? 
 
 Poft eadem a tergo fpirans furiale venenum, 
 
 B b b Divi- 
 

 6 
 
 DAVIVZIDOS. Lib, J 
 
 a ° 
 
 Divifum pepuli ad marmor Pharaona fuperbum. 
 
 Curruique, clypeofque, virum, ardentefq, caballos, 
 
 Me gelidam mortem fuadente 8c frigida fata, 
 
 Hauferunt avidi peftis, mentem ipfe manumque 
 Dathano armavi, cum tela rebellia fumpflt. 
 
 Cum Magicum (cujus nomen deteftor &: Jpfim ) 
 
 Deferuit pulchra pro libertate Tyrannum. 
 
 Huc (vidiftis enim) cava per penetralia longe 
 Defiluit, vaftas terrarum, exhauftus hiatu, 
 
 Proque Rogo , nolfros defcendit vivus in Ignes . 
 
 Me fuadente, moras quid ceflo abrumpere inanes? 
 
 Quid nova non agito, dum gejia antiqua recordor ? 
 
 Jam tibi, 'JeJfides ( viden’) hic tibi fibilat anguis ! 
 
 Nil tua te pietas, nil te, Puer, ipfe juvabit 
 Cui fruftra infervis, Deus 3 6, fi, te juvet, orbis 
 Late omnis ( longa compoftus pace fenefcat, 
 
 Nec Mores , vel Fata hominum nafcantur iniqua , 
 
 Jpfa autem his merito dile&is exui ab oris 
 Contempta evadam in terris, miferandaque Virtus. 
 
 Dixerat, at (imul ora premunt, lumina verfant. 
 
 Mox tremitus currunt obfcuraq^ murmura circum, 
 
 G au dentum que 8c mirantum 3 nihil illa movetur. 
 
 Sed fremit, 8r tantas (ibi laudes invidet ipfi. 
 
 Exilit ardenti folio Rex Ditis acerbi 
 .Amplexufque petit 5 fubito cum mota furore 
 Ter fubmifla genu rapida fugit ocyor aura. 
 
 Murmura dant Furis, dant fibila Ista Colubri. 
 
 Nox erat, humanos 8e vafta Alentia fenfus 
 Spargebantque brevi Lethe , plumboque ligabant. 
 
 Iplum etiam regni molem fub corde ferentem 
 Jacfantemque graves curas fopor altus habebat 
 Cijfiden , fopor Invidiam fed nullus habebat. 
 
 ‘Illa per ifacidum magnas it fevior urbes, 
 
 Utque videt ftruftas ingenti marmore turres, 
 
 Atque ebur, fulvi difcrimina clara metalli. 
 
 Pergite jam clamat, propriis tumulata ruinis 
 Hxc ego ta£ta dabo, & fila lucentia flamma. 
 
 Subftitit in curfu medio, ac fua fraena remifit 
 Pallida Luna , novis fudavit floridus Hermon 
 Roribus, ipfe Sion trepidavit vertice toto. 
 
 Jordanes ; latebram in ripa quxfivit utraque 
 Territus, mult 3 . tandem caput abdidit alga. 
 
 Ecce domum ingreditur Sauli , qux tota tremifcit, 
 
 Ipfaque fundamenta tremunt, tremit excita tellus 3 
 Hic veneranda fenis fefe convertit in ora 
 Benjamini, oculofque graves, vultumq^ feverum. 
 
 Brachiaque, latos humeros, &: fortia membra 
 Aflimilar, pendetque ingens pro pedore barba 3 
 Qualis ubi fteterat fuper atria cella palati, 
 
 (Egregium Sculptoris opus) de marmore fa&us 
 
 Ad 
 
Lib. I. C D AVIDEIVQ S. 7 
 
 Ad portam magni I#tus vigilare nepotis: 
 
 H 3 c adftans Saulo notae fub imagine form#, 
 
 Form# verba facrae non refpondentia fundit. 
 
 Surge, age, Rex brevis Abramidum^ fic nempe fepultus 
 Omen alis fati ? Somnus tibi ferreus indat 
 Atque sterna quies 5 Si Regem rite vocavi. 
 
 Si nondum tua (ceptra gerit P aflor culus ille. 
 
 Nondum ? unquamne geret > vigila, Sc totum indue Saulnm. 
 
 Nec tu, magne Deus, jufti fiqua eft tibi cura, 
 
 (Quod dubito, meliufq} irent mortalia vellem) 
 
 Dedecus hocSWfl, atq^ Mihi patiaris inultum, 
 
 Abramidifq? tuis, facr#q; in fecula genti. 
 
 O Cananaa fames ! quid non me abfum pleris ante 
 Quam femur in genus exhaufiflem fertile tantum ? 
 
 Heu genus infoelix nullaq, in forte beatum. 
 
 Donatum magno in poenam atqs opprobria Sceptro ! 
 
 Co&ile quid fugiftis opus, Memphitica jufla, 
 
 Invito Rharaone truci, aufpiciifq, finiftris ^ 
 
 Quid magica (infandum) virga mare paruit ipfum, 
 
 Denfatumq} vias nova per divortia duxit .<? 
 
 Quin, fi me auditis, rubri per marmora ponti , 
 
 Per nemorum errores, immanilq* invia filv#. 
 
 Argillam JEgypti, laterefq$ requirite veftros. 
 
 Dedecus hoc quanto minus eft Faftore Tyranno? 
 
 Tune potes Domino contentus vivere Servo ? 
 
 Concedent tua Sceptra Lyra ? jam fceptra fuperfunt 
 Sola tibi, tituliq^ & regni nomen inane. 
 
 Illum ali# magna laudant formidine gentes. 
 
 Illum omnis Judaa colit, meminiftin’ ovantem 
 ( Si quicquam in te, saule> viri ell:, meminifle necefle eft ) 
 
 Cum cantu rediifle domum, feftifqs choreis ? 
 
 Mille viros gladio Sanius confoderit 5 efto 5 
 Quis dederit letho decies totidem, arduus, audax, 
 
 Plufquam Agmen Tuer ? & vivit tamen ille, tuilq* 
 
 Verfruttur damnis 5 illi tua regia fervit 5 
 Quam non illa diu Tua ? jam diadema capeflit, 
 
 Confcenditq^ tuos thalamos, Sauliqj potentis 
 JeJfida dabit haredem ( pro dedecus ! ) Vxor. 
 
 Hoc ftruit, hoc fperat Samuel j talem tibi peftetn 
 Molitur, cum ditta Dei crudelia fpargit 
 Per populos paftim, cum vana Oracula mendax 
 Qu#que optat, fingit ^ eft, Deus illa minatus? 
 
 Sic te tra&affet Rex divum Hominumq^ Baalus? 
 
 Aut tam averfa fuis Aftartemzgm fuiffet? 
 
 Quid queritur ? (aeram te vi rapuifle coronam? 
 
 At magn# proceflerunt jufio ordine fortes $ 
 
 Neve aliter potuit (quid enim taceam?) Ipfe jubere 3 
 Non unquam plus te S ortive Deove fatebor 
 Quam meritis debere tuis. Quid tempore ab illo 
 Ipfe Deusj populufq. Dei tibi debeat, ulli 
 
 B b b 2 
 
 Haud 
 
8 
 
 D AVIVEIDOS. 
 
 Lib. I. 
 
 Haud reor obfcurum ; tanta tu laude coronam 
 ( O mi chare nepos, 6 magnae maxime gsntis) 
 
 Divinum tanto cumulafli munere munus, 
 
 Nequicquam } nam quae tantis data premia fadlis ? 
 
 Te Puer, 8c Vates fur tofus Sc omnia vorfant, 
 
 Contra Te fanguis tuus 8c Natura rebellat, 
 
 Ac vanum infidi praefertur nomen Amici , 
 
 (O furor, 6 fcelus infandum/; Sceptroq; Patriq; 
 
 Cui caufiae indormis? quae Manes fufeitat ipfos ; 
 
 Fixa jtpulchrorum atq$ oculorum clauftra refignat ; 
 
 Nec cineres puer ille finit dormire fepultos 
 Sed negat ^eternse jus indubitabile Noclis : 
 
 Quid facis ; aut talem quid non interficis hoflem, 
 
 Qui turbat vitdmq 5 tuam mortdmc[\ tuorum ? 
 
 Aude, age, nil illo reflat tibi trifle remoto, 
 
 Solus hicobjedus ( feu Terrui ignobilis umbra, 
 
 Aufa laboranti quae folem avertere Lunas ) 
 
 Ad te ventura Sc tibi debita munera coeli 
 Occupat, ac facri radios intercipit ignis, 
 
 D fectnm poll hunc fuperant tibi candida fata , 
 Formosfque dies, Sc vit^e lucidus ordo, 
 
 Natales nos, Nate, tuos, regali aq; a [Ira 
 Confer iptamq; notis Fortunam vidimus aureis. 
 
 Nondum, 6 nondiimne ardefeit tibi pedus honeflo 
 ( Ardefeit certe) vindidhe ac laudis amore? 
 
 Magnum aliquid pariat. Memor eflo Tu*q\ Mttq\ 
 Jamq; vale, feror ad coelum fedefque tuorum, 
 
 Et iuce, Sc nutu magni revocatus Abrami. 
 
 Dixit, &r ora viri flatu percuffit iniquo 3 
 Intrat Lethalis labefactas aura medullas 5 
 Olli vanefeit dubii nubecula fomni, 
 
 Huc illuc fert circum oculos ; tremit inde repente 
 Dum fimulacra videt formis volitantia mixtis. 
 
 Qua? confuta male in vacuo timor aereqnngit. 
 
 Stant crines, fudor perfundit frigidus artus. 
 
 Et toto ingentes decurrunt corpore guttae. 
 
 Jam pedibus terram, manibus jam pedora tundens 
 Incipit ; Et verum efl ; oravit vera, fuique 
 Jfraelitis adhuc ; pietas me fluita fefellit, 
 
 Me Puer , Sc Vates furiofus Sc omnia vorfant. 
 
 Sacrilega , heu fa dia efl patientia noflra, fepultos 
 Heu 'violat cineres , tumulofq; recludit avitos. 
 Quingentorum minus efl Mors ipfa profunda 
 Annorum, qu&m quo torpet mea Vita veterno . 
 
 Indigno, tu fande parens, ignofee Nepoti , 
 
 Quem propter placidas voluifli linquere fedes, 
 Mortalefque aegros, mifierumq; revifere mundum. 
 Sandte parens , tua jufla libens mandata capeflam. 
 
 Et te vincam odio,Sc tandem me vivere nofces. 
 
 Nec fruflra hunc tantum capies, Magna Vmbra , laborem. 
 
Lib. I. T> A V I D E IT> 0 S. 
 
 9 
 
 Non Homines ilium nobis, non Sidera coeli, 
 
 Non Dc/ss eripiet. 
 
 Interea in placidas, Tu Dive, relabere fedes, 
 
 Et repete antiquam pacata mente quietem 
 Sub terras, ubi jf effiden mox aftbre triftem 
 Loetm, h effufo pallentem fanguine cernes. 
 
 Poli lucem hancnoftros iterum fi laedat ocellos, 
 
 A Te, magne Pater, perrumpere difcat oportet 
 Natur# leges. Se ferrea daujlra Stpulchri. 
 
 His didis nutrit flammam ftimulatq; furores. 
 ‘jejfides fecurus abeft } illum Sopor udus 
 Non jam rore levi, fed plera proluit Tdrna, 
 Dormiat, Sc J olidum accipiat per membra loporem, 
 Qualem animus cadus, qualem mens integra donat. 
 Quis metus eft, vigilante Deo , dormire Davi dem } 
 Palantes nubes fupra implicitolq; labores 
 Athens, atq-, volumen inextricabile Coeli, 
 
 Gaudia fphaerarum fupra 8c modulamina certa 
 Supra Oibem, qui perpetuo bene pervigil igne 
 Exiguis fplendet Gemmis num rumq^ requirit, 
 
 Eft Locus immenfa qui exhaujlus luce fatifeit } 
 
 Hic Polus excurrit longe, &zje pone relinquit. 
 
 Nec proprias lalfus valet ipfe attingere Metas. 
 
 Igne tumet blando, & tranquillo fulgure vibrat, 
 Gloria nec tanto in fpatio immoderata tenetur. 
 
 Non hic obfcuri tremebunda crepufcula Solis 
 Nativum jubar inficiunt caftimq } Serenum. 
 
 Non hic Luna luis veflitur pallida furtis, 
 
 Nec face languenti fpargit per inane Tenebras , 
 
 Non hic prsecipiti 7 empus fuper orbe rotatur, 
 
 Nec vaga partitur repetitis S acula gyris 
 Vertigo 5 Nihil hic Fuit , &■ nihil hic Erit unquam, 
 Sed conftans, immotumq} a?ternumq} feret Nunc , 
 H^c domus, hoc magni fanclum penetrale Tonantis } 
 Hic Labor augufti, dulcis Labor infiniti , 
 
 Occupat atq} implet Coelum, fed. limite coeli 
 Contentus nullo 5 Solus fe continet Ipfe. 
 
 Quondam immane fuit Vacuum 5 Sint omnia , dixit} 
 Jlle fimul dixit, parent fimul omnia Verbo, 
 
 Nam Verbum fuit Ipfe fuum, lurgefeere coepit 
 Facundum Nihil , 8c plena eunda edidit alvo. 
 
 Quis vos, O Deus , aut quis veftra palatia pandet 
 Tres une ! 
 
 Hic te perfrueris toto , atq} has maximus arces 
 TEternum colis, interea non deleris orbem, 
 
 Quem fecifti olimnoftrum, fed pondera vafta 
 Exagitas nutu informans molemq } fequacem . 
 
 Quod fi vim tacitam auferres dextr^mq} potentem 
 Extemplo turbata fides ac foedera rerum, 
 
 Ipfe die redor,fufis nullo ordine habenis, 
 
 Ketrb 
 
IO 
 
 D AV ID BID OS. 
 
 Lib. J. 
 
 Retro ageret currus, & mundi cardo coa&i 
 Cum fonitu rueret, laxis difcurrere fteliis , 
 
 Et fine lege hominum confundere f&ta. liceret. 
 
 Ipfa etiam rationis egens Natura pararet 
 In Nihilum properare fuum 5 nam Spiritus aptum 
 Tornatumq, exercet opus, feq^ addit ubiq,. 
 
 Ni faciat, lubito torperent euntia, maloq^ 
 
 Tota laborarent fomno, a?ternoq j veterno. 
 
 Omnia nobifeum (qui Nos') Deus efficit, orfis 
 Non dedignatus locium fe adjungere noflris. 
 
 Stant circum aurati, turma officiofa, Minijlri, 
 
 Atq$ Dei jufla expediant, gaudentq} juberi. 
 
 Hinc Domini in vultu immenfo fine fine bibentes 
 Immortalem oculis lucem fixo ore tenentur. 
 
 Unum ex his nutu vocat ipfe 5 filentia fervat 
 Regia coelorum, & reverenter tota tremifeit. 
 
 Ergone tam fubito excidimus? ( fic infit ab alto) 
 Sceptra videt, nec Nos fimul? imperioq} potitus 
 Ignorat per quem deterat .<? creditne procellas 
 In ita per pontum rapuifle ferocia verba 
 Injuftafq^ minas? Surdine effecimus Aures ? 
 
 Falleris, O demens, audivimus omnia, Saule, 
 
 Atq^ emptum optabis magno nil tale locutum. 
 Qua? mala JeJJida intentas meliora merenti 
 Cundla tui in caput uniusconverfa ferentur. 
 Diximus .* andidlis ncflris Gens Terra repugnet ? 
 
 Ah imbelle lutum ! non hoc tua Lingua referrer, 
 
 u j 
 
 Injuflain medio fiibfifleret idla palato, 
 
 Si tibi nota dies fieret, qua tu ipfe jacebis 
 Gilboacos multo deformans (anguine campos, 
 
 Ipfe m fer, natiq^tui, 8c capita illa fuperba 
 I endebunt Templis monumentum infame profanis. 
 Stultorum jocus, & ludibria ffeva Deorum . 
 
 Dextera J [fida immerito quae tanta minatur 
 Jufla aderit vindex, & te, te occiderit ' i pium, 
 Quocum nunc iras atq$ implacabile bellum 
 Nequicquam geris, ille tuo lucebit in auro, 
 Diledloq; nimis cinget diademate frontem. 
 
 Et quod tu Solium fecifti infame, piabit. 
 
 Ergo age, JejfuLe infani fer didla Tyranni, 
 
 Ipfe nihil fed enim timeat, properant ior ipfam 
 Arceffituseat ("nam Idtwarceflet ) ad aulam. 
 
 Non ullum metuet, bene G nos noverit, hoftem. 
 Incolumem (dixi) qui nunc jubeo ire, reducam. 
 
 Sic ait, infltdlit fefe polus ipfe decenter, 
 
 Nec non turba poli famulatrix ocyus omnes 
 Interrupta iterum exercent modulamina Sphanw, 
 Angelicaq fimul renovant (aera orgii Turma. 
 
 At non qui miflus JeJJiche Nuncius ibat 5 
 Ele vehens pennis magnum per inane citatis. 
 
 Nubila 
 
Lib. I. DAF ID EIDOS. 
 
 1 1 
 
 Nubila plus folito jam candefcentia tranat, 
 
 Quaq^ volat niveus fignat veftig a limes. 
 
 Aligerum coeli fic vulnerat aera fulgur, 
 
 Plurima He prirme currit Jhiffura diei, 
 f Sic aut tarda magis) cum vixdum Sole r elicio 
 fecce fimul terram ferit, atque refurgit in altum. 
 Vix iplum rapidi 7 empus miracula Motus 
 Percipit attonitum, 8c menfuram non habet ullarri 
 Tam curtam , excelfo fic praepes ab aethere lapfus 
 Nuncius afiabat Jejfida, ac talia fatur. 
 
 Surge, bone, inlanique exaudi dida Tyranni 
 Afpera, nempe tuo jam mane cruore litabit 5 
 jpfe nihil fed enim timeas , properantior ipfam 
 Arceflitus eas ( nam Rex arceflet ) ad aulam. 
 Tutum (dixit enim) qui te jubet ire, reducet. 
 
 Exilit ille toris, & circum lumina verfat 
 Nequicquam , nox undiq^ St undiq^ funditur aer. 
 Speiq, Metiifq} adfunt dubii, vicibufq} recurfant. 
 Quos vario exagitans convolvit pedore, donec 
 Albefcunt primo montana cacumina Sole, 
 
 Cum Rex JeJjtden arcefiit fievus, ut £gram 
 ( Incautum lpecie fi fallere poffet honelta ) 
 
 Soletur fidibus mentem, curafque foporet. 
 
 Dic mihi, Mufa, fieri quas tanta potentia Verfus .<? 
 ( Nam tibi fcire datum, & verfu memorare potenti , 
 Cunda vides, nec te poterit res tanta latere 
 In regno , Regina , tuo) vim Diva reclufam 
 Carminis , &: late penetralia ditia pande, 
 Thefaurofque 8c opes, 8c inenarrabile Sceptrum. 
 Quas fprevere homines, tandem ut mirentur amentq^ 
 Divifque accedat reverentia jufta Toetis. 
 
 Ut facri primum fcecundo in pedore Tatis 
 Indigefta operis furgunt Elementa futuri, 
 
 Materies donec paulatim fumere formas 
 Incipiat, jufloque incedant ordine verba, 
 
 Ac bene difpofitus leni fluat agmine verfus : 
 
 Talis erat Natur £ olim nafcentis Imago , 
 
 Sic magnum Mundi divino ex ore Toema 
 Prodiit, artifici que informis mafla fupremam 
 Imploravit opem, longo impatienter amore. 
 Indociles nondum fubierunt fidere Partes 
 Fraterno commune jugum 5 bellumque fine arte 
 Geflerunt difeurrentes nullo ordine Motus . 
 
 TEterni Ratio quos tandem Mufica verbi 
 Difcrevitque locis, 8 c vincula dulcia vi&is 
 Impofuit 5 Numero [que pios, facilemque tenorem 
 Elicuit 5 Medios Aer atque Unda Sonores 
 Concentu referunt muto j levis Ignis acuto y, 
 
 Terra graves , rapido Lunam diverberat idu, 
 
 At lentam Saturni operoio pollice Chordam. 
 
 Sic 
 
Lib. I. 
 
 V A V IV El DO S. 
 
 Sic celeres Motus cum tardi? intertexti, 
 
 Jam fed: uni ReUi^ Curvi , Longiqj Brevzfq ; 
 
 Exercent Ludum , & dodo diferimine plaudunt, 
 
 Ut peccent magnte veftigia nulla Chorea:, 
 
 Hdtc eft qu$ Menti auditur Symphonia dulcis. 
 
 Ornatu cernendam alio fefe exhibet Auri , 
 
 Dives opum, varioq$ fuperba Scientia cultu. 
 
 Haec habitat vatum libris, haec carmine in iflo 
 Harmonia eft $ non Cantori s 9 non illa Legentis 
 Indiget, in charta multum facunda filent i, 
 
 Ha'C agilis Magni percurrit corpora Mundi , 
 
 Hac Parvi toto fe mifcet corpore Mundi. 
 
 Totus Homo Harmonia eft , omnes Symmetria cenfus 
 Congerit hic, omnis Natura Archiva tenentur. 
 
 Ipfe chorum facit Unus , & eft Deus ipfe Choragus. 
 
 Hinc in nos nata eft Numerorum fanda poteftas, 
 
 Nam fimul ac portas humani corporis intrant 
 Inveniunt Fratre fq? fuos, charolque Sodales 
 Et pariles numeros, Sc refpondentia metris 
 Metra fuis $ jungunt dextras, redduntq$ falutem. 
 
 Nec nos vi vidos capiunt, belloq^ fubados, 
 
 Stant Cives intus diledi a partibus Hojiis. 
 
 Et fefe dedunt fine Proditione volentes , 
 
 Hoc rerum ingenio mira medicatus ab arte 
 Effufus Sanguis diftantia vulnera quaerit 
 Ignotum per iter, quamq^ accipit ipfe falutem 
 Abfenti gaudet gratus tranfmittere Fonti. 
 
 Haud aliter parili tentis conamine Chordis 
 Fraterno haec trepidat, cum tangitur altera, motu. 
 
 Illa fuo , haec folo Natura: vivida pulfu. 
 
 Sic Lyra J ej[td<e 9 tum dulci callida furto 
 .ftDgra fubintravit miferi praecordia Regis, 
 
 Placavitq$ aeftus animi, f&vofq$ tumultus. 
 
 \ 
 
 Pfalmus 114. 
 
 ( ^llm facra fievis Jfacidum manus 
 j Exiret oris, terribilem procul 
 Audivit, afpexitq; gentem. 
 
 Et reduum trepidavit aequor. 
 
 U qui feauentes antevolans fug 3 
 Evafit hoftes, ftat procul arduo 
 De monte refpedans, St omnes 
 Aure fonos bibit inquieta. 
 
 Erexit uiioas fic Mare turbidum 
 Ut figua vidit praetereuntia, 
 
 Fln&ufq\ pendentes utrimq. 
 
 Ut Scopuli fteterunt acuti. 
 
 Chryflaliini 
 
( 
 
 Lib. I. D A V IT) E IT)0 S. 
 
 Cbryfiallini non mcenia limpida, 
 
 Mundi figura plus flabili manent 
 Ex elaborato nitentum 
 
 M irmore coniolidata aquarum. 
 
 Non audet Amnis ad mare progredi } 
 
 Fontem revifit mentis inops fuum. 
 
 Nato latebrofos receflus 
 
 Fons aperit, gremiiimq; violo. 
 
 Circum tremi fcunt culmina Monti uni, 
 
 Multufq; Collis Montibus adfilit. 
 
 Ut matris abfcondunt fub alis 
 Se teneri trepidantq\ Pulli 
 Gaudere vifo fluctivagum mare , 
 
 Gaudere Flumen nobile, nec fuit 
 FugifTe pofl Montes fugdces 
 
 Mobilibus pudor ullus Vndis . ; 
 
 Nobis nocebit nil fuga Montium , 
 
 Ver fi nocebit nil fuga Fluminis , 
 
 I Flumen , i formido lofum. 
 
 Et pavidi procul ite Montes. : 
 
 ALquare fummis ima valet Deus . 
 
 Dilcent in altum plana tumefcere, 
 
 Vallefq ; turgefcent y ferentqs \ * 
 
 Attonito capita alta coelo : 
 
 Fontemq\ Flumen fi repetis tuum, ,, 
 
 Fontem refundet dura filix novum * r. 
 
 Nec faxa cefTabunt, nec ipfie 
 Flumini fuppeditare rupes. • 
 
 f ' > j ; 
 
 Sic cecinit fan&us Vates , digitofq; volantes 
 Innumeris per fila modis trepidantia movit, 
 Intimaq; elicuit medici miracula plebtri. 
 
 Audivere fonum, & vi£ti cefs§re furores. 
 
 At non Invidis Sauli de pettore ceflit 
 Indomitus Serpens ; vocem nihil ille falubrem, 
 Incantatoris nihil irrita carmina curat. 
 
 Fingit adhuc morbum, & fpumas agit ore Tyrannis , 
 Et verum falfo fcelus excufare furore 
 ( Heu nimium ingratus tantte oblitufq; falutis 1 ) 
 Sperat, adhuc mifer, & nequicquam mente recepti 
 famq; inopinatam fuflollens fervidus hafiam 
 (Quam caram fibi pro Sceptro geftare folebat,) 
 Dentibus infrendens, oculffq; immane minatus, 
 Pe£tora J ejjids crudeli deflinat i£tu, 
 
 Dulcia dum faerx renovat medicamina vocis, 
 
 Nil meritus metuenfve mali 5 volat illa per auras, 
 Stridens, oppofitoq; dat irrita vulnera muro. 
 
 Namq; polo lapfus Miles ccelefiis ab alto 
 Detorfitq; manu, juftoq) errore fefellit. 
 
 C c c 
 
VAVVDEIDOS. 
 
 i a 
 
 i 
 
 Lib. I. 
 
 O caecas hominum vires fruftraque liiperbas ! 
 
 Arma fui dextram Domini mandat aque fallunt, 
 
 Ni jubeat D :m infirmiimq; impellat acumen. 
 
 Vulneris ille tui jam faelictffimu s error , 
 
 Tam bene Gilboack non deluderis in arvis ! 
 
 Inde tuam excipiet gentem, & fatalia iceptra 
 Jeffides, manefq; tuos ea fama ffub imo 
 Siquid res hominum merfbs Jcberonte movebunt , ) 
 Semper morte nova & fcuundo vulnere rodet. 
 
 Hinc Deus ipfe tuas dedit illi evadere fauces 
 Incolumem, hinc Parcas jam fila extrema legentes 
 Inftaurare opus, &■ telam producere juflic. 
 
 Ille fugam celerans vix duro elapfus ab hofte 
 Sentit adhuc ; fed & arma fequi, fed & agmina credit 
 A tergo ; creditque ha fiam exaudire volantem. 
 
 Nec fruftra j tantos caufa urget honefta timores, 
 
 Ipfaque Formido illius divina futuri eft. 
 
 Nam fuperaccenfa eft fato violentia Regis, 
 
 Et qua? Jeffiden non fixit lancea, Saulum 
 Vulnerat, haec ipfum ; falvo jam nefeit honore 
 Exuere infanam mentem, nec judicat effe 
 Regit, inexpletum crudumq; relinquere crimen. 
 
 Ergo manum ledam juvenum, quos ipfe furentes 
 Impulerat monitis, feeler umq; incoxerat ufu, 
 
 Vi, ferro, jubet incautum fuperare Davidtm , 
 
 Erroremque fiiurn fucceffu abolere nefafto. 
 
 Sic animo Saulus, contra Deus omnia volvit. 
 
 Interea Micbale Jeffides multa timenti, 
 
 Multaque ploranti cttrifqtie decentibus aegra?, 
 
 (Namque oculis plus illa filis, plus lumine coeli 
 Dilexit, non ipfa minus dileda, Maritum) 
 
 Fa&a refert, & parva fui diferimina lethi. 
 
 Forte fu per Michales dotalia teda, ubi & Hortus 
 iEthereus miri florebat penfilis arte. 
 
 Parvum ubi multa nemus pandebat citrea malus, 
 
 Quamque dedit lucem cceli vicinia, flavis 
 Reddebat pomis, ut Solis lumina StelLc ; 
 
 Lenti incedebant manibufque oculifque plicatis, 
 Plurimaque alloquio lenibant triftia dulci. 
 
 Cum Michale , (vifus nam plulquam aquilinus amantum eft) 
 Heu veniunt diri, veniunt, exterrita clamat, 
 
 Carnifices ; equitum video agmen, equofq; frementes 
 Audio, clarefcunt mediis in frondibus arma, 
 
 Saevaque per denfam tranfmittunt fulgura lylvam. 
 
 T olle gradum citus, & propera, fuge quolibet, inquit, 
 
 Ne morere, O Conjux , fuge didis ocyus ; adfunt ; 
 
 Quid nos, quid vinclo junxit pater ipfe jugali, 
 
 Voce vocans in facra Deum , populiimq; libentem ? 
 
 Bis centum meruifle nihil praeputia credit ? 
 
 Ingratus ! Sudor, fanguis, bellique labores 
 
 Dos 
 
Lib. I. 
 
 D AVIV EIDOS. 
 
 *5 
 
 Dos tibi nofter erant. Tum pleno uberrima fonte 
 Diicurrit, vocifqs vicem pia lacryma fervat. 
 
 Mox iterum ; Nihil efficiet 5 per aperta fenelte 
 Hinc te demittam incolumem ; tu qua via casca, 
 
 Arripe iter ; fuge mi Conjux ; non hxc tibi dico 
 More meo, invifa eft tua jam prsfentia primum. 
 
 Ille refert contra ; O eundis praeftantior una 
 
 Conjugibus! >Michale didurum plurima molli 
 
 Occupat amplexu, & raptim multa olcula turbat. 
 
 Dum lacrymas Lu&us, ac gaudia milcet Amoris . 
 
 Parce, ait, incalsum pretiola effundere verba, 
 
 Alpice quanta tuse triftis vicinia mortis . 
 
 Ergo alacer paret didis ; haec callida ledo 
 
 ‘fteffidA Statuam , mira fadam arte reponit ; • 
 
 Jamq, manus juvenum fele in penetralia fundit 
 Dedignata moram (celeris, jamq; cnfibus ipfum 
 Illum ipfum expofeunt, & verba haud mollia jadant. 
 
 At M .hale laudanda parat mendacia contra, 
 
 Doda piam fraudem, ac dives muliebribus armis. 
 
 Flet fcinditq; comas, & ludifono ululatu 
 Teda replet ; tum fic bene fido pedore fatur. 
 
 Quid facitis ? quem vos prohibetis vivere , duri. 
 
 Huic lplam mifero mertem , 8c fua fata negatis? 
 
 Quaeritis exitium Jeffid<c ? parcite Vobis ; 
 
 Nil opus eif Scelere ; ardentis vis improba morbi 
 Jamdudum inlervit Patri, &■ vos elfe nocentes 
 Non finit ; ecce illum jamdudum Lingua Oculiq-, 
 
 Deficiunt ; tantam fruftra quid perditis iram ? 
 
 Nec Mortem , nec Vos , nec veftros fentiet Enfes* 
 
 Si vos innocui litis urget tanta cruoris ; 
 
 (Me miferam ! ) facite ut lubet, &■ fatiate furorem. 
 
 Non faciet brevis hora minus ; nec tempore longo 
 Reflabo infoelix ; Tum lumina julfa decoro 
 Imbre madent 5 mirofq; oculis dolor afflat honores. 
 
 O quem non Luffus dominasq* potentia Formal 
 Viribus admixtis frangent ? turba impia dilcit 
 Credere jamprimiim 8i mt fer ef cere ; linquere moeftam 
 Triftis & ipla domum properat > Statua ipfa recumbit 
 Falciolifq; voluta caput, ftratoq; Sepulta 
 Purpureo, atq; refert morientis mortua vultum. 
 
 Lugentes famuli circum tacitfq; miniftrant, 
 
 Et medicinalis panduntur fercula pompae, 
 
 Trifle Ornamentum menfie ; dat & arte locata 
 Horrorem obfcurum non clara lucerna cubili ; 
 
 Scilicet ifta favent fraudi ; at fupra omnia. Numen 
 Suffudit fpedantum oculos caligine facra. 
 
 O tandem nullo felix in crimine cefia 
 Virtutem imbelli fruftra tentare duello, 
 
 O manibus decepte tuis, oculifc tuorum ! 
 
 Saulus, ut haec audit, Quis talia crederet, inquit ? 
 
 Ccc 2 Illum 
 
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T> AVVDE1D0S. 
 
 Lib. I. 
 
 1 6 
 
 Illum igitur bis quin q\ 'virttm qui millia fudit , 
 
 Illum animam fegni tandem deponere letho ? 
 Nimirum Dtus hunc fertur defendere lontem ; 
 Sonsve infonsve fuat, defendat ; fit precor illi 
 Talis membrorum modus & concordia jufta, 
 
 Qualis erat primis olim mortalibus ante 
 Quam Setius, aut feeler is Morbi digni (lima merces. 
 Robora fregiffent fubito nativa veneno 3 
 Noftrum immane odium eft, totiimq; explere Divides 
 Integer haud poterit ; quid fe Ludem addit in iftam 
 Jdjutrix Fortuna, mihi ? memorabile nil eft 
 T artita in poena. Pereuntem extinguere lucem 
 Quid juvat f exhauito quid factm emittere vito. 
 
 Et paene Attritum feriendo abrumpere filum ? 
 
 Ufq; adeone humilem mea vera & nobilis ira 
 Se dabit } Ah melius 1 foknnis vittima nobis 
 fftffid& vita eft, & non nifi opima, litabit. 
 
 Nondum vindi&o maturus, crefcat in iram 
 Pingucfcatq; meam ; tunc ipfe libidine quanta 
 Singultantem anima multum lucrante videbo, 
 Pugnant6mq; diu & produfla morte cadentem ? 
 
 Quid loquor ? aut qub nunc vindi&am diifero feram 
 Cunttator f 
 
 Forfitan & pietas ftulta & clementia fegnis 
 Juratufq; meo Samaei malus hoftis honcri, 
 
 Quo mihi nunc fixa eft, mutabunt deniq* mentem. 
 Adde quod & noftro vindex Fortuna querela? 
 Implicitum tenet, St fugiendi copia nulla eft; 
 
 Hafta impune erret, jam fopfc ferire licebit, 
 
 Et geminare i£tus, tOiUtnq; haurire cruorem. 
 
 Si fato oppetere, & placida jam morte neceffe eft 3 
 At videam extremos trepidanti pettore lenfius 
 Fundentem, atq* oculos optato funere pafcam. 
 
 Ergo agite huc, juvenes, Jeffid^n fiftite nobis, 
 Expirantem animam Jicbt, k fuprema gementem. 
 
 Jam pulchrae apparent late veft.gia fraudis 3 
 At Michale irati juftk incufare Manti. 
 
 Crudelefq; minas, & vim protendere fa&o. 
 
 Sanius ut hoc ; vix immodied fefuftinet ira, 
 Volventefq; premit lunanti pettore curas. 
 
 Amens, & rubris fuffe&us lumina flammis, 
 
 Sic olim Hyrcana metuenda potentia fy fae 
 Indomitus Leo , cui rabiem jejunia longa 
 Addiderant, fiquem incautum procul ire luvencum 
 Afpicit, ille jubam qualia t, dapibiifq; futuris 
 Accingit fele lotus, tum coca viarum 
 Speratam fi forte tegunt erroribus efcam, 
 
 Deluduntq3 famem, torquet flammantia circum 
 Lumina, St irato tellurem vulnerat ungue, 
 Horrendumq, fremens fylvas rimatur opertas. 
 
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 Lib. I. D AF IDEIVOS. 
 
 ■. V* * . 
 
 Nil opus eft vento, trepidant formidine frondes* 
 
 Speluncifq; feras timor abdit &■ urget in ipfis. 
 
 Mceftus ubiq; horror, nemorumq; filentia vafta, 
 
 Non audet turbata rugitum imitarier Eccho. 
 
 In medio fylvas immense qu# proxima Ramam 
 Obtegit , liluslr atque verendi nominis umbra, 
 
 Inclyta fandiorum fita funt Collegia, Vatum y 
 Sub magnis juvenum fervens ubi turba Magifiris , 
 
 Ad facros effula pedes didicere filentes, 
 
 Cordaq* ccelefti ftiparunt cerea meile. 
 
 Succrelcunt palmo veluti radicibus alta 
 Germina, rore De/, & materno ladle repafta. 
 
 Nunc parva, haud umbras olim fa&ura minores. 
 
 Non tam mole fuzi quam fundatore fuperbit 
 Grata Domus , nollet Samuelis nomine marmor 
 Aut mutare aurum ; tantum decus addidit*4«/W. 
 
 Hanc pius extruxit Vates ; modicofq; & honeftos 
 Suffecit reditus, paupertatemq; decoram. 
 
 Nec fele tantum dextr a tamen illa benignae 
 Quam Lingua debere putat, quae prodiga facros 
 Explicuit cenfus, magniq; seraria coeli. 
 
 Dodlores illic Samuel cund6fq; Prophetas 
 Sub pedibus laetos vidit ; nec gloria tanta 
 Quod docuere alios, quam quod didtcbe fub illo. 
 
 Quadrata exiguis includitur area te&isj 
 Nam non illa Artis fabricavit inepta libido. 
 
 Sed Natura ufus, quae gaudet maxima parvo , 
 
 Intus quadratae viridis flat porticus umbrae. 
 
 Et denfie Solis propellunt fpicula Laurus , 
 
 Securae coeli, rapidofq; ob fulguris i£cus 
 Impavida ; in medioq; argentea vena falubris 
 Exiliebat aquae, violatae carcere nullo 
 Marmoris, aut trifti plangentis vincla fufurro, 
 
 Sed laetae topho viridi, argutifq; lapillis. 
 
 Non minus illa tamen, corpus purgare, levare 
 Apta fitim, aut facros accedere pauper ad ufus. 
 
 Hic fua cuiq; data eft cella , & fua cuiq; fupellex 9 
 ( Lautities veterum Santtorum 8c copia dives ,) 
 
 Sponda brevis, fcamnum, necnon ex abiete e$dem 
 Menfa tripes ; portam claufiffent plura volenti 
 Inferre antiqui pomaria juft a Ntceffi 
 Servantes, pulchreq; auji contemnere Vana. (dunt, 
 
 Fallimur heu ! nec magna opulentum aut plurima red* 
 
 Sed forma, ac generi bene relpondentia vits. 
 
 Impedit, atq; onerat dominum numerofa Supellex 
 In parva congefla domo. Pone altera furgit 
 Altior, atq; ufu, cultuq; auguftior aedes. 
 
 Ad latus hic tevum fe pandunt Aula, SchoUq ; 
 
 Bibliotheca tenet dextrum, & Synagoga precantum 
 Nunquam muta choro. Stat plurima fagina menfa 
 
 i • ' Ornamentum 
 
Lib. I. 
 
 * 
 
 1 8 VAVIVEIDOS. 
 
 Ornamentum Aulae ; non invidiofa, nec impar 
 Pellibus inftratis, quibus eft circumdata, Lttfis. 
 Accumbunt primi capitilq; comaeq} verendae 
 Doflores , Socii in gremiis jacuere recepti. 
 
 At J uveres infra bene laeti rebus egenis 
 Graminibus fuper aggeftis, ulvaq; f»aluftri 
 Decumbunt ; Left os , Menfdfq; Dapefq\ miniftrat 
 Terra ferax, 8c Sole Coquo convivia gaudent. 
 Bibliotheca, fuit paucis decorata libellis, 
 
 Non onerata malis ; nondum infatiata libido 
 Scribendi (peftis jucunda) invaferat orbem, 
 
 Nec Medicina Artes curandis mentibus aptae 
 In morbum fuerant ipfa Icabiemq; pudendam 
 Converge, quas nunc latb contagia ferpunt. 
 
 Scilicet hos importunos exclufit Amantes 
 Virgo Mufa, novas gemmanti in flore juventas 
 S pedar i pavida, & vultum velata modeftum. 
 
 Nunc fugit amplexus Meretrix deperdita nullos, 
 Garrula, vana, procax, cultu mendica fuperbo , 
 
 Et populo compreffa (nefas!) park horrida Monfira, 
 Quis furor hic tanto fr ultra fudare labore 
 Defidiam , miferoq; infanae more SibylU 
 Scribere, quae volitent vacuis lucfcbria Ventis ? 
 Diverlas illic artefq; modofq; videres, 
 
 Queis brevis atq; fugax Verborum Natio vitam 
 Exuit aeriam , 8c firmum fibi vendicat aevum. 
 
 Tt {ferulis quaedam leviter commiffa caducis, 
 
 A ft alia in lolido depofta fideliter <ere, 
 
 P almarum haec foliis vano mandata labore 
 Ni cognata Oleum praeberet Cedrus amicum. 
 
 Hic longa arboreis icribuntur carmina libris. 
 
 Tam bene florenti non vixit in arbore cortex ; 
 
 Illic PiBoris lignata dementa videres, 
 
 Hic Textoris acu, do&aeq; volumina veftis. 
 
 Illic ceratafq$ ftylo perarante tabellas, 
 
 Aft hic membranas tenues, biblonq; paluftrem, 
 Tunc rudia, atq; artis nova tentamenta futurae ; 
 Nec non & paries perfungitur ipfe Scholarum 
 Munere librorum ; totus deferibitur orbis, 
 Akjuoreaeq; viae, fparfteq, per aequora terrae, 
 Akheriaeq; Plagae, palantelq; «there Stella, 
 Adduntur sententiola , monitiifq; verendi, 
 HiHori*q\ breves j pars clara & aperta legenti, 
 
 At pars Niliacis animantum obfcura figaris . 
 
 Hic lociatorum facra Conjlellatio Vatum 
 fQuos foelix virtus evexit ad aethera, nubes 
 Luxuria C\ apra, Tempeflatefq\ Laborum) 
 
 Difperfit late radios, tenebrdfq; fugavit, 
 
 Dodrinae effundens Lucem Influxumq ; benignum. 
 Aftrorum N at h anus virefq; viafq; latentes, 
 
 
 Aureaq; 
 
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 Lib. I. D A V IDE ID OS 
 
 Aureaq} explicuit fuperi penetralia ruundi. 
 
 Haud magico coelis deducens Sydera yerfii, 
 
 Sol ut utrofque polos conversi luce falutat 
 Gaudentes 5 fequiturque volubilis Annus euntem. 
 Quam gravibus numeris argentea Scena fu perne 
 Procedit, quantaque coercita lege vagatur 
 Iple quidem Vates, fed enim nil debuit Aftris \ 
 Contemnens Rivos, & Fonte repletus ab ipfo 
 Materiam ingenti Mahol inleblatur amore, 
 
 Per gyros, per Maeandros, per caeca viarum 
 Venator , fugit illa levis, premit ille fugacem, 
 Oraque vertentem, 8t tentantem evadere furto. 
 
 At folidas lignare notas in pulvere doUo 
 Gaddus 8t sternas gaudet turbare figuras . 
 
 Necnon & longe Numeros fine fine vagantes 
 Producit patiens Comes ; exuperabile nunquam 
 Tentat adire jugum, punftbque afcendit ab Vno. 
 Vyramidem inverfam , & creicentem femper acervum 
 Defun&is vi&ura ftruit monumenta Seratas , 
 
 Condit aromatica prohibetque putrefcere laude. 
 
 Et quos praeteriti vaftum Mare Temporis annos 
 Abforpfit, fundo petit Vrinator ab imo. 
 
 Quam celer ccca/us , tardumque fit fiber ementum 
 Imperiis 5 St quae fabricat folertia Fatum 
 Edocet ; at Samuel divina oracula fidus 
 Explicat interpres ; nec caecos more ferarum 
 Sed laetos parere homines jubet, atque (cientes. 
 
 Saepe etiam abreptus mentis violentibus alis, 
 Temporis ingreditur penetralia celfa futuri, 
 Implumefque videt nidis cadeftibus annos. 
 
 Ha? reliquaeque Artes hic excipiuntur amico 
 Hofpitio tantum ; poterat led fan&a Poefis 
 Hoc nata atque edu&a loco, 8 c regnare videri. 
 
 Non magis affiduo refonat domus aurea cantu 
 Angelici caeli 5 nullo non fpirat ab ore 
 Carmen ; dulcifonumq; chorum moderantur A/aphus 
 Hemanufque, ambo genio excellente Poet* e, « 
 
 Voce pares liquidi, digitifque loquacibus ambo. 
 
 Parte alii Synagoga pio pulcherrima luxu 
 Splendebat, (nam fune illic dtffendia frugi,) 
 Perftringunt oculos auro laquearia fulvo 
 Spe&antum ; fed quos recreant aulaea viciffim 
 Coeruleo facrbyue colore ; illic prece forti 
 Tbrque die foliti vim caelo inferre volenti , 
 
 Terque die fan&um Mofis verfare volumen, 
 
 Terque piis, totifque Deum re fonanribus Hymrtis f 
 Exercent laetam ftadio feptemplice vocem. 
 
 Talis erat quondam, tam cello Mu/a volatu 
 Sprevit humum, generis memor, atq; fuperba decenter . 
 
 Carmen erat, Deus hunc Mundum qui voce loqmtm $ 
 
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 V A FIT) EIDOS. 
 
 Lib. ]. 
 
 Nam; priiis tenebrae diffundebantur inanes, 
 lmmeniumq; Nihil , Vac, informis Jiiatus. 
 
 Plenus utiq fui, propria ipfe Palatia iedit 
 Omnipotens, fele contentus 6c Omnia Joins. 
 
 Ille autem totus Bonitas , Sapientia totus, 
 
 Totus Amor, voluit gratis producere cun£ta ; 
 
 Cundla Voluntati , nondum produtta gerebant 
 Artificis morem, & late capita alta ferebant. 
 
 Ante alia imperio citius fele extulit ingens 
 Immane, indigeftum Aliquid ; fine lumine forma». 
 
 Et fine honore jacens 5 ( Monogramma Exordia mundi ! ) 
 
 FtflinaJJe illud Icires, dum lan&a capelcit 
 Julia libens, rebiilqj aliis praecurrere gaudet; 
 
 Hoc tamen in gremio, it. ml promittente recefiu, 
 
 Ditia eundarum glomerantur femina rerum. 
 
 Emicat hinc fubito lucenti vortice Flamma , 
 
 Alcenditq; Polum , & multo lele implicat orbe ; 
 
 Olli le lungit comitem & vefiigia tentat 
 Fufus circum Aer ; Ttllus onerofa gravifq; . 
 
 Ad Mundi medium nativo pondere le dat 
 Merfa mari ; led mox denfe penetralia terrae 
 Vafla aperit Pater , 8c magnum delcendere Pontum y 
 Voce jubet, penitiifq; cavit habitare latebris. 
 
 At timidi contra non audent hilcere flu&us, 
 
 Inq; uterum terrae fine. murmure delabuntur. 
 
 Convexa accendit: coeli meliore metallo, 
 
 Jamq; nova arcano prorumpit gloria fonte, 
 
 Atq; implet Solem exundans ; hinc flumine vivo 
 Lucis inexhaufta? mundum le fpargit in omnem 
 Magnum, quo fa&a eft, Numen ftudiola referre. 
 
 Inde rudem Luna mafiam, fimplexqj polivit 
 Voce opus, & radios aurato pettine compfit. 
 
 Surge, ait, St moefte regnum vigil accipe nodis ; 
 
 Surrexit, traxltq; facra? vaga Syrmata lucis. i 
 
 Attollunt famulas hinc atq; hinc fidera tsedas. 
 
 Et pulchram cingunt Dominam fi*, comitantur euntem. 
 
 Turget humus foecunda, & pubefeentibus herbis 
 Miratur rifiimq; luum, inlolitofq; colores. 
 
 Jacnqs iter aerium radunt impune volantes, 
 fexultantque alacres paflim formidine nulla, 
 
 Nondum luxuries illis humana minata elf, 
 
 Nondum lethalis modulamina rupit arundo. 
 
 Tum magnum tenui cecinerunt gutture Numen 
 Secuta? fraudum ; Numen namque omnia laudant, 
 
 Flu&ivagi P/fcts , mutum genus ; illius ipfl 
 Munus erant, Monufqut maris, vob entia Cete , 
 
 Quique fuas parvo fuperant vix corpore arenas. 
 
 Jndc fera? irr.mifla? fylvis, coelelfia jufla ; 
 
 Quindam ultra potuit ; Caeli Terrrqie catenam , 
 
 Ipfum Hominem potuit '; quo mifcuit omnia in uno : 
 
 Admirandum 
 
Lib. I. 
 
 T>AV1T>E1V0S. 
 
 2 5 
 
 Admirandum opus, So compendi* ditia. Mundi. 
 
 Tum vero magni monitrix clementia Patris 
 Carmen erat, rarofi iree y fulmenque coaclum y 
 Impia cum f aeros damnaflent crimina terras, 
 
 Unda ruens vi&rix magno fonituq; ruinaq; 
 
 Omnia vada dedit ; frondentia teda volucrum 
 Implicuere hilares fruftra, nova retia , pifces. 
 Naufragium palla ed Natura ; os Phoebus ab alto 
 Extulit, 8t lolos percudit lumine fludus. 
 
 Non tamen haec homines memori fub pedore condunt 
 Infani, fervdq; iterum furiofa libido ; 
 
 Cum fubito ardefeunt nubes, incendia coelo 
 Tetra micant, totiifqs in poenam excandet Olympus. 
 Mox Sodomos tabelcentes, liquefadaq; teda 
 Corripuit rapidus flammanti lulphure nimbus, 
 Senlerunt vivi membris crepitantibus ignem 
 Qui nunc aeternum miferos poft funera torret. 
 
 Longe alia implicuit pellis Pbaraona fuperbum : 
 
 Cum fludus conjurati , 5c commilito ventus 
 Auxilium Abramidis tulerant ; pecus omne profundi 
 Miratur, Regumq; ledent in curribus aureis 
 Regum corporibus fatiati ; in gurgite toto 
 Apparent femefi artus, natat unda cruore. 
 
 Nec Mare jam vano cenletur nomine Rubrum . 
 
 Plurimus ipfi etiam in carmen veniebat Abramus y 
 Cujus iter genti manfurum in fecula nomen 
 Hebro o dedit, So Mofes , Nunnicfi propago 
 Bellipotens ; quantofq; illi fregere Tyrannos, 
 
 Sihonem , membrifq; fuperbum ingentibus Oggum, 
 Zjpporidemq ; Hobamumq \ trucem, fort£mq; Debirur » , 
 Quos dextra Ifacidum divina potentia Aravit. 
 
 Sic fragilis vitae fugientia tempora prendunt, 
 Pacatifq, animis coelum labantur in ipfum. 
 
 Non illos aurum perdringit fulgure facro 
 Dulce malum, ignotum laedis quibus Aurea Nomen . 
 Cujus nunc ergo fudore ad tartara multo 
 Heu non a miferis tantum ef off or ibus itur. 
 
 Quantum 6 ftultorum turbam fuperabat avaram 
 Dives opum contemptus, 6c ingens copia mentis ! 
 
 Non illos Bombyx pretiofo fedulus ornat 
 Funere , nec Tyrio deformant corpora fuco, 
 
 Gloria , nunc animis aeternoq; empta dolore, 
 
 Aura illic vifaed levis, So fine pondere nomen. 
 
 Accipit ingenuum feflos durumqs cubile, 
 
 Quodq} bene extremi jubeat meminifle fepulcbri . 
 
 In medium facilis per filvam quaeritur efca, 
 
 Nec populant fluvios crudeli, aut aera, ventre. 
 
 Nec crudo hedernas accufant pedore ccenas. 
 
 Conturbat nunquam tali Natura paratu, 
 
 D d d 
 
22 
 
 D A VI DE IV 0 S. LibTI 
 
 Haec bona mundities animi efl ; rubigme nui !3 
 Inficitur vitii, nitidum fie iordibus aevum 
 Deterget' miferis, puioq; incedit amidhi. 
 
 Hinc Deus intrat agens lacro praecordia motu. 
 
 Nec propriam coeli prafentior incolit sedem. 
 
 Hinc alacres jufto funguntur munere Senfus , 
 
 Nec titubant, re vocant ve gradum, Ratione magiUrd, 
 Hinc fimulacra animo depingit myftica Somnus 
 Molliter in vidtos fimulac defluxit ocellos. 
 
 T ranfilit admiflo prsefentia Tempora faltu, 
 
 ALtatunq\ inter filvas y k amoena vireta 
 Ambulat, atq-, annes jam nunc exire parantes, 
 Frandj; mordentes cernit; micat undiq; fati 
 Ordo ingens , valv^q; patent, longiqj receflus. 
 
 O fortunatos nimium , & bona qui fua norunt l 
 O quam prsecelfo defpe&ant culmine mundum! 
 
 Et nubes rerum, &• jadtatum turbine Saulum! 
 
 Haec domus hofpitio Jeffiden feta recepit 
 Solantem curas, k denfa pericula cantu, 
 
 Ac manus huc juvenum ( quo non penetraverit ira 
 Invidi aqt, oculus? ) Regi/q) fuoq\ furore 
 Saeva venit 5 votis damnati immanibus omnes. 
 
 Segnis erit qui non peftem juraverat amens 
 Jr//id<e, membrumq, aliquod promiferat enfi. 
 
 Sffc abftns totum partita efl: Ira cadaver. 
 
 Jamqs adfunt, fubitoqs afflantur corda fereno, 
 
 Ignotum infinuat fefe per peftora ccelum. 
 
 Lafcivit paulatim horror, vultufq; recedit 
 Fulgur atrox 5 k jam pacato fidere vernat. 
 
 Venarum cafto gaudentes flumine rivi 
 Lene micant ; fignat divinus tempora candor. 
 
 Mira dies frontis, facro qux fufa pudore 
 Prima rubet ; ponit belli caedifq* cupido, 
 
 Dum Numen pacis celebrant, k carmina fundunt 
 Pacis opus 5 bis jamqs alios, bis lufus eifdem 
 Miferat exemplis, ipfum jam plena Tyrannum 
 Ire lubet rabies fefamq; ulcifcier iram. 
 
 Cum melior fubitb furor implet mentem animumq; 
 Perq; omnes fenfus, perq$ intima pertinet offa. 
 
 Tum chlamidem illufam gemmis, auroq; rigentem 
 Exuit, 6c capitis deponit nobile pondus. 
 
 Ah puduit regni decus atq; infignia ferre 
 Turpe jugum vitii, k fervilia jura ferentem; 
 
 Tum primhm Rex Sau/uscrsitj lux una beatas 
 Inftar habet vitae, & longum praeponderat aevum. 
 Miratur populus, didtumq; emanat ubiq; 
 
 Ipfum etiam Vatum turbae fe adjungere Saulum, 
 Balamus fic Beorides Moabitida venit, 
 
 Ut benedittam ageret diris k carmine gentem, 
 
 Et pretio infelix fatalia venderet ora, 
 
 Sic 
 
Lib. I. 
 
 DJVWEIDOS. 
 
 Sic fecum; at didicit tandem ( mirabile didu, ) 
 Ipfo Afina f tpere, ac fan meliora magiftro. 
 
 O magnum if acidum decus! 6 pulcherrima caftra! 
 
 O arma ingentes olim paritura triumphos ! 
 
 Non fic herbarum vario lubridet amudu 
 Planities pidae vallis, montifve fupini 
 Clivus, perpetuis cedrorum verfibus altus. 
 
 Non 'fic aeftivo quondam nitet hortus in anno, 
 Frondefq; fru&iilq; ferens, formofa fecundum 
 Flumina, mollis ubi viridifq; fupernatat umbra. 
 Quid video? Mortem if acidum fuper arma fedenteml 
 Lacta fedet, praedamq; expedat avara futuram. 
 Plures Iftcidx gladios, plura arma parate; 
 
 Scilicet haec crebro Viftoria comeret ufu, 
 
 Cum Leo fe attollit Jud<e y torvumq; tuetur, . 
 Omnia diffugient preffis animalia longe 
 Auribus ; & medio fi fort6 recumbit in antro, 
 Murmura tum ponent filvas, metuendaq* Tigris 
 Prastereuns iplo vel dormitante tremifcet. 
 
 Quas mala, quis Juda vel profpera fata precatur, 
 Omnia in ipfius caput ingeminata ferentur. 
 
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 E J Nough, my Mule, of Earthly things, 
 j And infpirations but of wind, 
 
 Take up thy L ute, and to it bind 
 Loud and everlafling firings ; 
 
 And on 'em play, and to ’em fing, 
 
 The happy mournful (lories* 
 
 The Lamentable glories. 
 
 Of the great crucified King. > V 
 
 Mountainous heap of wonders / which does rife. 
 
 'fill Earth thou joynefl with the Skies/ 
 
 Too large at bottom, and at top too high, 
 
 To be half feen by mortal Eye. 
 
 How fhall I grafp this boundlefs thing ! 
 
 What fhall I play ? what fhall I fing ? 
 
 I’ll fing the mighty Riddle of myflerious love, 
 
 Which neither wretched Men below, nor blefTed Spirits above, 
 With all their Comments, can explain 3 
 How all the whole Worlds Life to die did not difiJain. 
 
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 f 11 fing the fearchlefs depths of the Compaflion Divine, 
 The depths unfathom’d yet 
 By Reafon’s Plummet, and the Line of Wit ► 
 
 Too light the Plummet, and too fhortthe Line. 
 
 How the Eternal Father dic^ bellow 
 His own Eternal Son as ranfom for his Foe, 
 
 . I’ll fing aloud, that all the World may hear 
 The Triumph of the buried Conqueror. 
 
 How Hell was by it’s Pris’ner Captive led, 
 
 And the great Slayer, Death, flain by the Dead. 
 
 MethinksI hear of Murthered Men the voice, 
 
 Mixt with the Murtherers confuted noife, 
 
 Sound from the Top of Calvary 3 
 My greedy eyes fly up the hill, and fee 
 Who ’tis hangs there the Midmofl of the three ; 
 
 Oh how unlike the others, He ! ( Tree ! 
 
 Look how he bends his gentle Head with bleflings from the 
 His Gracious Hand*, ne’r flretcht but tp do good, 
 
 Are nail’d to the infamous wood ; 
 
 And finful Man does fondly bipcf ‘ 
 
 The Arms, which he extends t’embrace althutnane kind. 
 
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 Verfes mitten on fever al oc capons. 
 
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 Unhappy Man, canft thou ftand by, and fee 
 Alt this aslpatient, e»h^ ? (7 0 
 Sincehe thy Sins, does, bear,; . . - 
 
 Make thou his fufferings thine own. 
 
 And weep, and figh, and groan, 
 
 And beat thy a^id tear. , 
 
 Thy Garments and thy Pair, • ; 
 
 And let thy grief, and l^Lthy.lpve . : v ; , 
 
 Through all thy bleeding bowels move. 
 
 Do’ft thou not fee thy Prince in Purple clad allo’re. 
 Not Purple brought from the Sidonian fhore* 
 
 But made at home with richer gore ? 
 
 Do’ft thou not fee the Rofes, which adorn 
 
 Thy thorny Garland , by him worn > 
 
 Do’ft thou\not fee the livid traces . 
 
 Of the fharp fcourges rude embraces ? 
 
 If yet thou feeleft not the fmart 
 Of Thorns and Scourges in thy heart. 
 
 If that be yet not Crucify ’d, 
 
 Look on his {lands, look on his Feet, look on his Side. 
 
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 Open* Oh/ open wide the Fountains of thine Eyes, 
 And let’em call 
 
 Their ftock of moifture forth where e’re it lies, 
 ; For this will ask it all, 
 
 ’Twouldall falas!) too little be 
 Tho’ thy lalt Tears come from a Sea 5 
 Canft thou deny him this, when he 
 Has open’d all his vital Springs for thee £ 
 
 Take heed; for by his fides myfterious Flood 
 May well be underftood, 
 
 That he will ftill require fome Waters to his Blood. 
 
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 W E allow’d you Beauty, and we didfubmit 
 ... To all the Tyrannies of it; 
 
 Ah / Gruel Sex, will you depofe us too in Wit ? 
 
 . Orinda does in that too raign, 
 t)oes Man Behind her in proud Triumph draw, 
 And cancel great Jpollo’s Salick Law. 
 
 We our old Title plead in vain, 
 
 Man may be Head, “but Woman’s now the Brain. 
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 In Beauties Camp it was not known. 
 
 Too many Arms befides that Conqu’ror bores- 
 
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 T’affault a ftubborn Town ; , 0 i, . I 
 
 Orinda firft did a bold f^Uy make, tj 
 
 Our ftrongeft Quarter take, . .. fJ -,.fj 
 
 And fo fuccefsful prov’d, that fhe 
 Turn’d upon Love himfelf his own Artiilerie. 
 
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 Did that, and not the Soul , r : . . 
 
 Tranfmit to their pofteritiey 
 
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 Th’ abortive Iffue never liv’d, , ; o > 7 
 
 ’Twere fhame and pity, '<£r/W*, if in thee 
 A Spirit fo rich, fo noble, and fo high 
 Should unmanur’d, Or barren lye. 
 
 But thou induftrioufly haft (ow’d and till’d 
 The fair, and fruitful fields 
 And ’tis a ftrangeincreafe, that it does yield. 
 
 As when the happy Gods above 
 Meet all together at a Feaft, , / 
 
 A fecret Joy unfpeakable does move 
 In their great Mother Cybele* S contented bre^ft : » 
 
 With no lefs pleafure thou methinks mould fee 
 This thy no lefs immortal Progenie. 
 
 And in their Birth thou no one touch do’ft find 
 Of th’ ancient curfe to Womankind, 
 
 Thou bring’ft not forth with pain, 
 
 It neither Travail is, nor Labour of the brain, 
 
 So eafilv they from thee come, 
 
 And there is fo much room 
 In th’ unexhaufted and unfathom’d Womb, 
 
 That like the Holland Countefs thou may’ft bear 
 A child for every day of all the fertile year. 
 
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 Thou do’ft my wonder, would’ft my envy raife, 
 
 If to be prais’d I lov’d more than to praife 
 Where e’re I fee an Excellence, 
 
 I muft admire to fee thywell-knit Scnfe, 
 
 Thy Numbers gentle, and thy Fancies high, 
 
 Thole as thy forehead fmooth, thefe fparkling as thine eye. 
 ’Tis fohd, and ’tis manly all, 
 
 Or rather ’tis Angelical, 
 
 For, as in Angels, we 
 Do in thy Verfes fee 
 Both improv’d Sexes eminently meet. 
 
 They are than Man more ftrong,and more than Woman Tweet. 
 
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 They talk of Nine, I know not who, 
 
 Female chimeras, that o ’re Poets reign, 
 
 I ne’r could find that fancy true, 
 
 But have invok’d them oft I’m lure in vain : 
 
 They talk of .Sappho, but alas, the fhame / 
 
 111 manners foil the luftre of her Fame: 
 
 OrintUS inward virtue is fo bright, 
 
 That like a Lanthorn’s fair inclofed light, 
 
 It through the Paper (bines, where (he does write* 
 Honour and Friendfhip, and the genrous Scorn 
 Of things for which we were not born, 
 
 ( Things that can only by a fond Difeafe, 
 
 Like that of Girles, our vicious Stomachs pleafe, ) 
 Are the inftru&ive Subjects of her Pen, 
 
 And as the Romany i&ory 
 Taught our rude Land, Arts, and Civility, 
 
 At once fhe overcomes, enflaves, and betters Men. 
 
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 But Rome with all her Arts could ner inlpire 
 A Female Breft with fiich a fire, 
 
 The warlike Amazonian Train, 
 
 Who in Elyfmm now do peaceful reign, 
 
 And Wits mild Empire before Arms prefer, 
 
 Hope ’twill be ietled in their Sex by her. 
 
 Merlin , the Seer (and hire he would not iy 
 In fiich a facred Company, ) 
 
 Does Prophecies of Learn'd Orinda (hew, 
 
 Which he had darkly lpoke fo long ago, 
 
 Ev’n Boad/oia's angry Ghoft 
 Forgets her own misfortune, and difgrace, 
 
 And to her injured Daughters now does boaff, 
 That Rome's oVecome at laff , by a Woman of her Race. 
 
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 Upon occafion of a Copy ofVerfes of my 
 Lord Rroghills. 
 
 B E gon, (faidlj ingrateful Mule, and fee 
 What others thou canft fool as well as me. 
 
 Since l grow Man, and Wifer ought to be, 
 
 My bufinefs and my hopes I left for thee : 
 
 For thee (which was more hardly given away,^ 
 
 I left, even when a Boy, my Play. 
 
 But fay , Ingrateful Miftrefs, lay, 
 
 What for all this , What didft thou ever pay ? 
 
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Vcrfcs Written on fevcral occajwns. 5 
 
 Thou’lt fay perhaps, that Riches are 
 Not of the growth of Lands where thou do’ft trade, 
 
 And I, as well my Country might upbraid 
 Becaufe T have no Vineyard there. 
 
 Well} but in Love thou doft pretend to Reign, 
 
 There thine the Power and Lordfhip is, 
 
 Thou bad'll me write, and write, and write again 5 
 ’Twas fucha way as could not mils. 
 
 I like a fool did thee obey, 
 
 I wrote, and wrote, but Hill I wrote in vain, 
 
 Tor after all my’ xpenceof Wit and Pain, 
 
 A rich, unwriting hand* carry’d the Prize away. 
 
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 Thus I complain’d, and llraight the Mule reply ‘d, 
 
 That Ihe had given me Fame. 
 
 Bounty immenfe / and that too muff be try’d, 
 
 When I myfelf am nothing but a Name. 
 
 Who now, what Reader does not flrive 
 T’ invalidate the gift whilif w’ are alive ? 
 
 For when a Poet now himfelf doth (hew. 
 
 As if he were a common Foe, 
 
 All draw upon him, all around 
 And every part of him they wound. 
 
 Happy the Man that gives the deepeff blow. 
 
 And this is all, kind Mule, to thee we owe. 
 
 Then in a rage I took 
 And out at window threw 
 Ovid and Horace , all the chiming Crew, 
 
 Homer himfelf went with them too, 
 
 Hardly efcap’d the facred Mantuan Book: 
 
 I my own OfF-fpring, like Agave, tore, 
 
 And I refolv’d, nay, and I think I fwore. 
 
 That I no more the Ground would Till and Sow, 
 
 Where Only flowry Weeds in Head of Corn did grow* 
 
 When ( fee the fubtil ways, which Fate does find 
 Rebellious mantobindj 
 juft to the worft for which he is aflign’d,d 
 The Mufe came in more chearful than before, 
 
 And bad me quarrel with her now no more. 
 
 Lo thy reward, look here and fee 
 What have I made ( laid fhe,^ 
 
 My Lover, andbelov’d, my Broghill do for tliee. 
 
 Tho’ thy own verfeno lafting Fame can give. 
 
 Thou (halt at Ieaft in his for ever live, 
 
 What Criticks, the great HtUors now in Wit, 
 
 Who Rant and Challenge all men that have writ. 
 
 Will daret’oppofe thee when 
 Brogbili in thy defence has drawn his conquering Pen ? 
 
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 I rofe and bow’d my head, 
 
 And pardon ask’d lor all that I had laid, 
 
 Well fatisfi’d and proud 
 I ftraight refolv’d, and . Iblemnly J vow’d, 
 
 That from her Service now: I ne’r would part, 
 
 Sj ftrongly large Rewards work on a g.rateiul Heart. 
 
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 Nothing fo foon the drooping Sp’rits can raife, 
 
 As Praiies from the Men, whom all men praife, 
 
 Tis the belt Cordial, and which only thole 
 Who have at home th’ Ingredients can compole, 
 
 A Cordial, that reftores our fainting breath, 
 
 And keeps up Life ev’n alter Death. 
 
 The only danger is, left it fhould be 
 Too ftrong a Remedie : 
 
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 Ah / Gracious God /that I might lee 
 A time when it were dangerous for me 
 To be o’re-heat with praife/ 
 
 But I within me bear ( alas 1 ) too great allayes. 
 
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 ’Tis faid, dptlles, w hen he Vtmu drew, i 
 Did naked Women for his pattern view. 
 
 And with his powerful fancy did refine 
 1 heir human fhapes into a form Divine , 
 
 None w ho had fate could her own Picture fee, 
 
 Or lay, One part was draw ? n for me: 
 
 So, tho’ this noble Painter, when he 'writ;, nw •. 1 
 
 Was pleas’d to think it lit 
 That my Book fhould before him fit. 
 
 Not as a Caufe, but an Occafion to his wit; 
 
 Yet what have I to boaft, or to apply 
 To my advantage out of it, fince I, 
 
 Jnftead of my own likenefs, only find ^ 
 
 The bright Idea there of the great Writers mind ? 
 
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 H Aii Learning’s Pantheon 1 Hail the lacred Ark, 
 
 Where all the World of Science does embarque . 
 Which ever fhalt withftand, and haft fo long wdthftood 
 
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 Hail Tree of Knowledge, thy leaves Fruit / which well 
 Do’ftinthe mid ft-, of Paradife arife, 
 
 Oxford the Mufes Paradife, 
 
 From which may never Sword the bled: expel 
 Hail Bank of all pad: Ages ! where they lie 
 T’inrich, with intered:, Podrerity I 
 Hail Wits illuftrious -Galaxy •' 
 
 Where thoufand Lights into one brightnefs fpread ; 
 
 Hail living University of the dead J 
 
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 Unconfus’d Babel of all Tongyes, which e’re 
 The mighty Linguift Fame, or Time, .the mighty Traveller, 
 That could fpeak, or Tins could hear. 
 
 Majeftick Monument and Pyramide, 
 
 Where ftill the (ha pes of parted Souls abide, r. .. 
 
 Embalm’d in verle, exalted Souls which now 
 Enjoy thole Arts they woo’d lo well below, 
 
 Which now all wonders plainly lee. 
 
 That have been, are, or are to be, * 
 
 In the mylterious Librarie, 
 
 The Beatifick Bodky.oi the Deitie. 
 
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 Will you into your Sacred throng admit 
 The meanefl: Britifb Wit ? 
 
 You Gen’ral-Council of the Priefts of Fame, 
 
 Will you not murmur and difdain, 
 
 That I a place among you claim, . ; 
 
 The humbled: Deacon of her Train ? 
 
 Will you allow me th’ honourable chain 
 The chain of Ornament which here 
 Your noble Pris’ners proudly wear? 
 
 A Chain which will more plealant leem to me 
 Than all my own Pindarick Liberde 
 Will ye to bind me with tbofe mighty Nam^s fubmit. 
 Like an Apocrypha with holy Writ ? 
 
 Whatever happy Book is chained here, ’ 
 
 No other Place or People need to fear ; 
 
 His Chain’s a Paflport to go evVy where. 
 
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 . As when a feat in Heaven 
 Is to an unmalicious Sinner given, 
 
 Who cafting round his wond’ring eye Y 
 Does none but Patriarchs and Apoffies th^re qfpy ; 
 Martyrs who did their lives beftow, Y V 
 And Saints, who Martyrs .liv’d below, . 
 
 With trembling and amazement he begins 
 To recoiled his frailties paftj .and fins, : _ 
 
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 He doubts almoft his Station there, 
 
 His foul fays to itlelf, How came I here ? 
 It fares no otherwile with me 
 When I myfeff with confcious wonder lee, 
 Amidft this purify’d ele&ed Companie. 
 With hardfhip they, and pain, 
 
 Did to this happinels attain: 
 
 No labour I nor merits can pretend, 
 
 I think Predeftination only was my friend. 
 
 Ah, that my Author had beenrfy’d like me 
 To fuch a place and fuch a Companie / 
 
 Inftead of fev’ral Countrys, leveral Men, 
 
 And bufinefs which the Mules hate, 
 
 He might have then improv’d that fmall Eftate, 
 Which nature fparingly did to him give. 
 
 He might perhaps have thriven, then, 
 
 And fettled upon me, his Child, fomewhat to live, 
 ’T had happier been for him as well as me, 
 
 For when all falas!,! is done, 
 
 We Books, I mean. You Books will prove to be 
 The belt and nobleft converfation. 
 
 Fortho lome errors will get in, 
 
 Like tinctures of Original fin. 
 
 Yet fure we from our Father’s wit 
 Draw all the ftrength and Ipirit of it ; 
 Leaving the grolfer parts of converfation, 
 
 As the beft blood of Man’s imploy’d in generation. 
 
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 Sitting and Drinking in the Chair wade out of the Reliques 
 
 of Sir Francis DrakeV Ship . 
 
 C Hear up, my Mates, the wind does fairly blow. 
 
 Clap on more Sail and never Ipare 5 
 Farewel all Lands, for now we are 
 In the wide Sea of Drink, and merrily we go. 
 
 Blefs me, ’tis hot / another bowl of Wine, 
 
 And we fhall cut the Burning-Line : 
 
 Hey boys 1 fhe feuds away, and by my head I know, 
 
 We round the World are failing now. 
 
 What dull men are tholE that tarry at home. 
 
 When abroad they might wantonly rome, 
 
 And gain luch experience, and fpy too 
 Such Countrys and Wonders, as I do ? 
 
 But pry thee, good Pilot, take heed what you do, 
 
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 And fail not to touch at Peru • 
 
 With Gold there the Vefiei we will ftore* 
 
 And never, and never be poor, 
 
 No, never be poor any more. 
 
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 What do I mean ? what thoughts do me mifguide } 
 
 As well upon a ftaff may Witches ride 
 
 Their fancy’d journeys in the Air, 
 
 As I fail round the Ocean in this Chair : 
 
 Tis true ; but yet this Chair which here you lee, 
 
 For all it’s quiet now, and gravity, 
 
 Has wandred, and has travell’d more, 
 
 Than ever Beaft, or Filh, or Bird, or ever Tree before. 
 
 In every Air, and every Sea ’t has been, 
 
 ’T hascompafs’d all the Earth, and all the Heavens ’t has ftem 
 Let not the Pope’s it (elf with this compare, 
 
 This is the only Univerfai Chair. 
 
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 The pious Wandrer’s Fleet, lav’d from the Flame, 
 
 (Which (Till the Reliques did of Troy yerfiie^ 
 
 And took them for its due,) 
 
 A Squadron of immortal Nymphs became : 
 
 Still with their Arms they row about the Seas, 
 
 And (fill make new and greater Voyages ; 
 
 Nor has the firft Poetick Ship of Greece , 
 
 Th6 now a Star (lie (o triumphant (hew, 
 
 And guide her (ailing SuccelTors below. 
 
 Bright as her ancient freight the Ihining Fleece, 
 
 Yet to this day a quiet Habor found, 
 
 The Tide of Heaven (fill carries her around 5 
 Only Drake's (acred Veftel which before 
 Had done, and had feen more 
 Than thole have done or feen, 
 
 Ev’n fincetheGoddelTes, and this a Star has been, 
 
 As a reward for all her labour paft, 
 
 • Is made the (eat of Reft at laft ; 
 
 Let the cafe now quite alter’d be, 
 
 And as thou went’ft abroad the World to fee, 
 
 Let the World now come to fee thee. 
 
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 Irhe World will do’t, for Curiofity 
 Does no left than Devotion Pilgrims make * 
 
 And I my felf, who now love quiet too. 
 
 As much almoft as any Chair can do, 
 
 Would yet a Journey take 
 An old Wheel of that Chariot to fee, 
 
 Which Phaeton lo rafhly brake : 
 
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 Yet what could that fay more than thefc Remains of Dfake ? 
 Great Relique! thou too, in this Port of eaie, 
 
 Haft ftiii one way of making Voyages ; 
 
 1 he breath of Fame, like an aufpicious Gale, 
 
 (The great Trade- wind, which ne’r does fail,) 
 
 Shall drive thee round the World and thou fhalt rUn 
 Along around it as the Sun. 
 
 The f reights of Time too narrow are for thee, 
 
 Launch iorth into an indifeovered Sea, 
 
 And fteer the endlels conrfe of vaft Eternity, 
 
 Take for thy Sail this Verfe, and for thy Pilot Me. 
 
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 T I S Folly all that can be laid 
 
 By living Mortals of thYmmortal dead, 
 
 And I’m afraid they laugh at the vain Tears we filed, 
 
 ’Tis, as if we, who flay behind 
 In expe&ation of the wind, 
 
 Should pity thofe who pafs’d the (freight before, 
 
 And touch the univerfal fhore. 
 
 Ah happy Man, who art to fail no more f 
 And, if it feem ridiculous to grieve 
 Becaufe our Friends are newly come from Sea, 
 
 1 ho ne’r fo fair and calm it be ; 
 
 What would all fober Men believe 
 If they (hould hear us fighing fay, 
 
 Balcarres , who but th’ other day 
 Did all our love and our refpedl Command, 
 
 At whofe great Parts we all amaz’d did (land, 
 
 Is from a ftorm, alas ! caff fudden ly on land ? 
 
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 If you will fay : Few perfbns upon Earth 
 Did more than he deferve to have 
 A Life exempt from Fortune and the Grave ; 
 
 Whether you look upon his Birth, 
 
 And Anceftors, whofe Fame’s fo widely fpread. 
 
 But Anceftors alas, who long ago are dead ; • 
 
 Or whether you confider more 
 The vaft increafe, as fure you ought, 
 
 Of Honor by his Labour bought, 
 
 And added to the former (lore, 
 
 All I can anfwer is, that I allow 
 The Priviledge you plead for ; and avow 
 That, as he well defervcl, he doth enjoy it now, 
 
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 Tho’ Cod for Great and Righteous ends, . 
 
 Which his unerring providence intends 
 Erroneous Mankind fhpuld not underhand, 
 
 Would not permit Uzlcarres Hand, 
 
 That once with lo much Induhry and Art 
 Had clos’d the gaping Wounds of ev’ry part, 
 
 To per fed his dihraared Nations cure, 
 
 Or hop the fatal bondage, r.’was t endure j 
 Yet for his pains he loon did him remove 
 From all th’opprefTion and the woe 
 Of his frail Bodies Native Soil below 
 To his Souls true and peaceful Country ’bove : 
 
 So God, like Kings, for fecret Caufes known 
 Somtimes but to themfelves alone, 
 
 One of their ableh Minihers Eled, 
 
 And lend abroad to Treaties, which they' intend 
 Shall never take effed. 
 
 But, tho’ the Treaty wants a happy end, 
 
 The happy Agent wants not the reward. 
 
 Tor which he labour’d faithfully and hard ; 
 
 His juh and righteous Maher calls him home, 
 
 And gives him near himfelf ibme honourable room., 
 
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 Noble and great endeavours did he bring 
 To fave his Country and rehore his King ; 
 
 And whil’h the manly half of him, which thofe 
 Who know not Love to be the whole fuppofe, 
 
 Perform’d all parts of Virtues life ; 
 
 The beauteous half his lovely Wife 
 Did all his Labours and his Cares divide ; 
 
 Nor was a lame, nor paralytick fide. 
 
 In all the turns of human hate ; 
 
 In all th’’ unjuh attacques of Fate . 
 
 She bore her fhare and portion hill, 
 
 And would not fuffer any to be ill. 
 
 Unfortunate for evCr let me be. 
 
 If I believe that fuch was he. 
 
 Whom, in the horms of bad fiiccefs, 
 
 And all that error calls unhappinefs, 
 
 His Virtue, and his virtuous Wife did hill accompany. 
 
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 With thefe companions, Ywas nothrange 
 That nothing could his Temper change. 
 
 His own and Countrys union had not weight 
 Enough to crufb his mighty Mind. 
 
 He law around the Hurricanes of State* 
 
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 Pixt as an Ifland 'gainfl the Waves and Wind. 
 
 Thus far the greedy Sea may reach, 
 
 All outward things are but the breach, or beach y f 
 A Great Man’s Soul it doth aflault in vain ; 
 
 There God himfelf the Ocean doth reHrain 
 With an imperceptible Chain, 
 
 And bid it to go back again : 
 
 His Wifdom, JuHice, and his Piety, 
 
 His Courage both to Puffer and to dye, 
 
 His Virtues and his Lady too 
 Were things CeleHial. And we fee 
 In Ipight of quarrelling Philofophie, 
 
 How in this cafe ’tis certain found. 
 
 That Heav’n Hands Hill, and only Earth goes round. 
 
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 'Upon Doctor Harvey. 
 
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 C O Y Nature, (which remain’d, thoaged grown, 
 A beauteous Virgin Hill, in joy’d by none, 
 
 Nor feen unveil’d by any one,) 
 
 When Harvey’ s violent pa (lion fhe did fee, 
 
 Began to tremble and to flee. 
 
 Took San&uary, like Daphne , in a Tree: 
 
 There Daphne s Lover Hopt, and thought it much 
 The very Leaves of her to touch : 
 
 But Harvey , our Apollo , Hopt not fo, 
 
 Into the Bark and Root he after her did go : 
 
 No fmalleH Fibres of a Plant, 
 
 For which the Eye-beams point doth fharpnefs want, 
 His paffage after her withHood 3 
 What fhould fhe do ? through all the moving Wood 
 Of Lives endow’d with fenfe fhe took her flight, 
 Harvey perfues, and keeps her Hill in fight. 
 
 But as the Deer, long hunted, takes a Flood, 
 
 She leap’d at laft into the Winding-Hreams of Blood 5 
 Of Mans Meander all the Purple reaches made, 
 
 Till at the Heart fhe Hay’d, 
 
 Where turning Head, and at a Bay, 
 
 Thus by well-purged Ears fhe was o’re-heard to fay. 
 
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 Here fure fhall I be fafe (laid fhe,) 
 None will be able lure to fee 
 

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 This my Retreat, byt only He 
 Who made both it and me; 
 
 The heart of Man, what Art can e’re reveal ? 
 
 A Wall impervious between 
 Divides the very Parts within, 
 
 And doth the very Heart of Man ev’n from itfelf Conceal; 
 
 She fpoke, but e’re file was aware* 
 
 Harvey was with her there. 
 
 And held this flippery Proteus in a chain. 
 
 Till all her mighty Myfteries file defery’d, 
 
 Which from his Wit th’ attempt before to hide 
 Was the fir ft Thing that Nature did in vain. 
 
 He the young Pra&ice of New Life did fee, 
 
 WhiPft, to conceal it’s toilfome poverty, 
 
 It for a Living wrought, both hard, and privately. 
 
 Before the Liver underftood 
 The noble Scarlet Dye of Blood, 
 
 Before one drop was by it made. 
 
 Or brought into it to fet up the Trade $ 
 
 Before the untaught Heart began to beat 
 The tuneful March to vital heat, 
 
 From all the Souls that living Buildings rear. 
 
 Whether imploy’d for Earth, or Sea, or Air, 
 
 Whether it in the Womb or Egg be wrought, 
 
 A ftridf account to him is hourly brought. 
 
 How the great Fabrick does proceed, 
 
 What Time, and what Materials it does need. 
 
 He fo exa&ly does the Work furvey. 
 
 As if he hir’d the Workers by the day. 
 
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 Thus Harvey fought for Truth in Truth’s own Book, 
 
 The Creatures, which by God himfelf was writ < 
 
 And wifely thought ’twas fit, 
 
 Not to read Comments only upon it, 
 
 But on th 1 Original itfelf to look. 
 
 Methinks in Arts great Circle others ftand 
 Lock’d up together hand in hand, 
 
 Every one leads as he is led, 
 
 The fame bare Path they tread. 
 
 A Dance like Fairies, a Fantaftick round. 
 
 But neither change their Motion, nor their Ground 
 Had Harvey to this Road confin’d his Wit, 
 
 His noble Circle of the Blood had been untroden yet 
 Great Do&or, th’ art of Curing’s cur’d by thee. 
 
 We now thy Patient Phynck fee 
 From all inveterate Difeafes free, 
 
 Purg’d of old Errors by thy Care, 
 
 New Dieted, put forth to clearer Air, It 
 
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 It now will Prong and healthful prove, 
 
 Itfelf before Lethargick lay, and could not move. 
 
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 Thefe ufeful Secrets to his Fen we owe, 
 
 And thoulands more ’twas ready to bellow ; 
 
 Of which a barbarous War’s unlearned Rage 
 Has robb’d the ruin’d age ; 
 
 Oh cruel lols! as if the Golden Fleece, 
 
 With lb much coft and labour wrought, 
 
 And from afar by a great Heroe brought, 
 
 Had funk even in the Ports of Greece. 
 
 Oh curled War ! who can forgive thee this ? 
 Houles and Towns may rile again. 
 
 And ten times eafier ’tis 
 To rebuild Pauls , than any work of his. 
 
 The mighty Task none but himlelf can do, 
 
 Nay, Icarce himlelf too now, 
 
 For tho’ his Wit the force of Age withftand, 
 
 His body Alas ! and Time it mult command. 
 
 And Nature now, fo long by him liirpaft, 
 
 Will fure have her revenge on Jiim at laft. 
 
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 Acme and Septimius out of Catullus. Acmen 
 Septimius fuos amores Tenens in gremio , &0. 
 
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 W Hil’ft on Sept imius panting Bread 
 
 (Meaning nothing Ids than reftj. 
 
 Jew? lean’d her loving Head, 
 
 Thus the pleas’d Septimius fa id. 
 
 My dearelf Acme , if I be 
 Once alive and love not thee 
 With a Palfion far above 
 All that e’re was called Love, • 
 
 In a Lyhian Delert may 
 I become lome Lions Prey, 
 
 Let him, Acme , let him tear 
 My Bread, when Jfme is not there. 
 
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 The God of Love who Hood to hear him, 
 
 (The God of Love was akvays near him,) 
 
 Pleas’d and tickl’d with the Sound, 
 
 Sneez’d aloud, and all around 
 The little Loves, that waited by, ♦ 
 
 Bow’d and bled the Augury. 
 
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 Acme, inflam’d with what he fa id, 
 
 Rear’d her gentle-bending head, 
 
 And her Purple Mouth with joy 
 Stretching to the delicious Boy 
 Twice ("and twice could fcarce fiiffice,) 
 
 She kill: his drunken rowling Eyes. 
 
 My little Life, my All, (Laid fhe,) 
 
 So may we ever Servants be 
 To this beft God, and ne r retain 
 Our hated Liberty again : 
 
 So may thy paflion laft for me, 
 
 As I a parfion have for thee, 
 
 Greater and fiercer much than can 
 Be conceived by thee a man. 
 
 Into my Marrow it is gone, 
 
 Fixt and fetled in the bone, 
 
 It reigns not only in my heart. 
 
 But runs like Life through ev’ry part; 
 
 She fpoke ; the God of Love aloud 
 Sneez’d again, and all the croud 
 Of little Loves, that waited by, 
 Bow’d and bled: the Augury. 
 
 This good Omen thus from Heaven 
 Like a happy fignal given, 
 
 Their Loves and Lives (all four) embrace* 
 And hand in hand run all the Race. 
 
 To poor Septimius (who did now 
 Nothing elfe but Acme grow,) 
 
 Acme* s Bofom was alone 
 
 The whole World’s Imperial Throne, 
 
 And to faithful Acme* s Mind 
 Septimius was all Human kind. 
 
 If the Gods would pleafe to be 
 But advis’d for once by me, 
 
 I’d ad vile ’em when they fpy 
 Any iliudxious Piety, 
 
 To reward Her, if it be She ; 
 
 To reward Him, if it be He ; 
 
 With fuch a Husband, fuch a Wife, 
 With Acme* $ and Sept min's his life. 
 
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 ‘Vpon His MajeJiies %ejl duration and Return. 
 
 optanti Divum promittere nemo 
 Auderet y volvenda dies, en, attulit ultro , 
 
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 N I O W Blefltngs on you all, ye peaceful Stars, 
 j • Which meet at la ft fo kindly, and difpenfe 
 Your univerfal gentle Influence , 
 
 To calm the ftormy World , and (fill the rage of Wars. 
 
 Nor whil’ft around the Continent 
 Plenipotentiary Beams ye lent, 
 
 Did your Pacifici: Lights difdain 
 In their large Treaty - to contain 
 The World apart, o’re which do Reign 
 Your (even fair Brethren of Great Charles hts Wane 3 
 No Star amongft ye all did, I believe, 
 
 Such vigorous afliftence give, 
 
 As that which, thirty years ago 
 At * Charles his Birth , did in defpight 
 Of the proud Suns Meridian Light, 
 
 His future Glories , and this Tear forefhew 3 
 No lefs effe&s than thefe we may 
 Be aflur’d of from that powerful Ray , 
 
 Which could out-facc the Sun, and overcome the Day. 
 
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 * The Star that appeared at Noon, the day of the Kings Birth , juft as the King his Father 
 was riding to St. Pauls to give Thanks to God for that Blefling. 
 
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 Aufpicious Star again a rife 
 
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 And take thy Noon-tide Station in the Skies, 
 Again all Heaven prodigioufly adorn ; 
 For lo ! thy Charles again is born , 
 
 He then was born with, and to Pain j 
 
 With, and to Joy he’s born again. 
 
 And wifely for this St c end Birth , 
 
 By which thou certain wert to bids 
 The Land with full and flourifhing Happinefs, 
 
 Thou mad’ft of that fair Month thy choice. 
 
 In which Heaven , Air , and Sea, and Earth , 
 
 And all that’s in them, all does [mile, and does rejoyce: 
 *Fwas a right Sea/on , and the very Ground 
 Ought with a face of Pardife to be found, 
 
 Then when we were to entertain 
 Felicity and Innocence again. 
 
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 Shall we again ( good Heaven!) that Blejfed Pair behold. 
 Which the abided People fondly fold 
 For the bright fruit of the forbidden-Free, 
 
 By feeking all like Gods to be ? 
 
 Will Peace her Halcyon Neft venture to build 
 Upon a Shore with Shipir racks fill’d } 
 
 And truft that Sea , where fhe can hardly fay, 
 
 Sh’has known thefe twenty years one Calmy day ? 
 
 Ah ! mild and gallefs Dove, 
 
 Which do’ft the pure and candid Dwellings love, 
 
 Canft thou in Albion ftill delight } 
 
 Still canft thou think it white ? 
 
 Will ever fair Religion appear 
 In thefe deformed Ruines ? will fhe clear 
 The Attgtan Stables of her Churches here ? 
 
 Will j \ uft ice hazard to be feen 
 Where a High Court of JuJtice eVe has been ; 
 
 Will not the Tragick Scene, 
 
 And Bradjbaiv* s bloody Ghoft affright her there. 
 
 Her, who (hall never fear ? 
 
 Then may Whitehall for Charles his Seat be fit. 
 
 If JuJlice fhatl endure at Wejlminfier to fit. 
 
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 Of all, methinks, we leaft fhould fee 
 The chearful looks again of Libertie . 
 
 That Name of Cromwell , which does frefhly* ftill 
 The Courfes of fo many fufferers fill. 
 
 Is ftill enough to make her ftay, 
 
 And jealous for a while remain, 
 
 Left as a Tempefl carried him away, 
 
 Some Hurrican fhould bring him back again. 
 
 Or fhe might juftlier be afraid 
 Left that great Serpent , which was all a Tai l i 
 (And in his poys’nous folds whole Nations Prifoners made J 
 Should a third time perhaps prevail 
 To joyn again, and with worfe ftirig arife, 
 
 As it had done, when cut in pieces twice. 
 
 Return, return, ye Sacred Four , 
 
 And dread your perifh’d Enemies no more, 
 
 Your Fears are caufelefs all, and vain 
 Whil’ft you return in Charles his Train, 
 
 For God does Him, that He might Ton reftore; 
 
 Nor fhall the World him only call 
 Defender of the Faith 5 but of ye All. 
 
 Ggg 5- Along 
 
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 Along with you Plenty , and Riches go, 
 
 With a lull Tidetoevry Fort they flow, 
 
 With a warm fruit to wind o’re all the Country blow* 
 
 Honor does as ye march her Trumpet found, • 
 
 The Arts encompafs you around 
 And againft ail Alarms of Fear, 
 
 Safety ltlelf brings up the Rear k 
 And in the head of this Angelick Band, 
 
 Lo, how the Goodly Prince at la ft does ftand 
 (O righteous God l ) on his own happy Land . 
 
 ' f is Happy now, which could with 16 much eafe 
 Recover from 16 defperate a D if eafe, 
 
 A various complicated 111 , 
 
 Whole every Symptom was enough to kill . , 
 
 In which one part of three Frenzy polleft, 
 
 And Lethargy the reft. 
 
 ’Tis Happy, when no Bleeding does endure 
 A Surfeit of fuch Blood to cure. 
 
 ’Tis Happy which beholds the Flame 
 In which by hoftile hands it ought to burn, 
 
 Or that which if from Heaven it came 
 It did but well delerve, all into Bonfire turn. 
 
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 We fear'd, (and almoft toucht the black degree 
 Of inftant Expectation ,) 
 
 That the three dreadful Angyls we 
 Of Famine , Sword , and Plague, fhould here eftablilht lee, 
 (Gods great Triumvirate of Deflation J 
 To Icourge and to deftroy this linful Nation . 
 
 Juftly might Heaven Protestors fuch as thole, 
 
 And lucli Committees for their Safety impole, 
 
 Upon a Land which fcarcely Better chofe . 
 
 We fear’d, that the Fanat ielfWar, 
 
 Which Men againft God's houfes did deelare, 
 
 Would from th’ Almighty Enemy bring down 
 A lure Deftru&ion to our Own. 
 
 We read th’ In fir uttive Hi (lories, which tell 
 Of all thole endlefs Milchiefs that befell 
 The Sacred Town which God had lov’d 16 well, 
 
 After that fatal Curfe had once been laid, 
 
 His Blood be upon ours , and our Childrens head. 
 
 We knew, thd there 2 i greater Blood was Ipilt 
 ’Twas Icarcely done with greater Guilt. 
 
 We know thole Miferies did befall, 
 
 Whii’ft they rebell’d againft that Prince, whom all 
 The reft of Mankind did the Love , and Joy, of Mankind call. 
 
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 V e. rfes witten on fever al occajions. 
 
 Already was the Jbaken Nation 
 Into a wild and deform’d Chaos brought, 
 
 And it was hatting on (we thought,) 
 
 Even to the iaft of Ills, Annihilation . 
 
 When in the midft of this confuted Night 
 Lo ! the blett Spirit mov’d, .and there was Light 1 ,, 
 
 For in the glorious General* s previous Ray 
 We faw a new created Day. 
 
 We by it faw, thd yet in Mifis it (hone, 
 
 The beauteous Work of Order moving on. 
 
 Where are the Men who bragg’d that God did blett. 
 
 And with the marks of good Succefs 
 Sign his allowance of their WickejLnefs ? 
 
 Vain Men ! who thought the Divine power to find 
 In the fierce Thunder > and the violent Wind : 
 
 God came not till the Storm was paft, 
 
 In the ftitt voice of Peace he came at laft. 
 
 The cruel bufinefs of Deftruttion 
 May by the Claws of the great Fiend be done. 
 
 Here, here we fee th’ Almighty s hand indeed, 
 
 Both by the Beauty of the Work, wc fee’t, and by tile Speed 
 
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 He who had teeti the noble Britifh Heir y 
 Even in that ill difedvantageous Lights 
 With which misfortune ttrives t’abute our Sight ; 
 
 He who had feen Him in this Cloud fo bright : 
 
 He who had feen the double Pair 
 Of Brothers heavenly good, and Sifters heavenly fain 
 Might have perceiv’d (methinks,) with eate, 
 
 (But wicked Men fee only what they pleafe,) 
 
 That God had no intent t’ extinguifh quite 
 The pious King's eclipfed Right. 
 
 He who had feen, how by the pow’r Divine 
 All the young Branches of this Royal Line 
 Did in their Fire without conf timing fhine, 
 
 How through a rough red Sea they had been led, 
 
 By Wonders guarded, and by Wonders fed \ 
 
 How many years of trouble and dittrefs 
 They'd wand’red in their fatal Wildernefs , 
 
 And yet did never murmure or repine ; 
 
 Might (methinks,) plainly underftand, 
 
 That after all thefe conquer’d Trials paft, 
 
 Th’ Almighty Mercy would at iaft 
 Condufl them with a ftrong unerring hand 
 To their own promis* d Land. 
 
 For all the glories of the Earth 
 Ought to be entail'd by right of Birth 5 
 
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 And all Heav ns hleffings to come down 
 Upon Ins Race, to whom alone* was given 
 The double Royalty of Earth and Heaven, 
 
 Who crown'd the Kjngly with the Martyrs Crown, 
 
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 The Martyr $ Blood was laid of old to be 
 
 The [ted from whence WieChurch did grow ? 
 The Royal Blood which dying Charles did fow 
 becomes no left the feed of Royaltie. 
 
 ’Twas in difbonor fown. 
 
 We find B it now in glory grown. 
 
 T h q grave could but the drop of it devour 5 
 *Twa$ [own in weaknefs , and *tis rais'd in power. 
 
 We now the §>ue(tion well decided fee. 
 
 Which Fajtern Wits did once conteft 
 At the Great Monarch's Feaft, 
 
 Of all on Earth what things the flrongejl he ? 
 
 And Ibme for Women, feme for W me , did plead 5 
 That is, for Folly and for Rage, 
 
 T wo things which we have known indeed 
 Strong in this later Age \ 
 
 But as Vis prov’d by Heaven at length, 
 
 The Kjng and Truth have greateft firength , 
 When they their facred Force unite, 
 
 And twine into one Right. 
 
 No frantick Common-wealths or Tyrannies , 
 
 No Cheats , and Perjuries , and Lies , 
 
 No Nets of human Policies ; 
 
 No ftor.es of Arms or Gold , (tho you could joyn 
 Thole of Peru to the great London Mine,) 
 
 No Towns , no Fleets by Sea, or Troops by Land, 
 
 No deeply entrencht Ijlands can withftand. 
 
 Or any fmall refiftence bring 
 Againft the naked Truth , and the unarm'd K^ing. 
 
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 The foohjl) Lights , which Travellers beguile. 
 
 End the fame night when they begin ; > 
 
 No Art fo far can upon Nature win 
 As eVe to put out Stars , or long keep Meteors in. 
 Where’s now that Ignis Fatuus which e’re while 
 Mis-led our wandring lflc ? 
 
 \\ here’s the Impojlor Cromwell gone ? 
 Where’s now that Falling- Star his Son ? 
 
 W T here’s the large Comet now, whole raging-flame 
 So fatal to our Monarchy became ? 
 
 Which o’re our heads in fuch proud horror ftood, 
 Infimate with our Ruine and our Blood ? 
 
Verfes written on Jcvcral ocaijiom. 
 
 The fiery Tail did to vaft length extend ; 
 
 And twice for want of Fuel did expire, 
 
 And twice renew’d the difmal Fire ; 
 
 Tho long the Tail, we faw at laft its eifd. 
 
 The flames of one triumphant day, 
 
 Which like an Anti- Comet here 
 
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 Did fatally to that appear, 
 
 For ever frighted it away ; 
 
 Then did th’ allotted hour of dawning Right 
 Firft ftrike our ravifht fight ; 
 
 Which Malice or which Art no more could ftay, 
 
 Than Witches Charms can a retardment bring 
 To the Refufcitation of the Day, 
 
 Or RefirrtUion of the Spring. 
 
 We welcome both, and with irnprov’d delight 
 Blels the preceding Winter , and the Night. 
 
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 Man ought his future happinefs to fear, 
 
 If he be always happy here * 
 
 He wants the bleeding Marks of Grace, 
 
 The Circumcifton of the chofen Race. 
 
 If no one Fart of him fiipplies 
 The duty of a Sacrifice , 
 
 He is (we doubt,) relerv’d intire 
 As a whole Vi&im for the Fire . 
 
 Befideseven in this World below. 
 
 To thole who never did ill-fortune know, 
 
 The good does naitfeous or infipid grow. 
 
 Confider man’s whole life , and you’l confels 
 
 The fharp Ingredient of fbme had fnccefs 
 
 Is that which gives the tafte to all his Happinefs. 
 
 But the true Method of Felicttie 
 Is when the worft 
 Of human Life is plac’d the firft, 
 
 And when the Childs Correction proves to be 
 The caule of perfecting the Man : 
 
 Let our weak Days lead up the Van ; 
 
 Let the brave Second and Triarian-Band 
 Firm againft all impreffion ftand ; 
 
 The firft we may defeated lee ; 
 
 The Virtue and the force of thele are fure of Vittorie. 
 
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 Such are thej^rr (Great Charles J which now we lee 
 Begin their glorious March with Thee : 
 
 Long may their March to Heaven, and ftiil triumphant 
 Now thou art gotten once before, 
 
 Ill-fortune never (hall Vre-take Thee more. 
 
 To fee’t again, and pleafure in it find, 
 
 Call a difdainful look behind , 
 
'22 Vertes written m fever al weapons, 
 
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 Things which offend, when prefent, and affright. 
 
 In Memory, well painted, move delight. 
 
 Enjoy then all til Afflictions now ; 
 
 Thy Royd Father's came at laft : 
 
 Thy Martyrdoms already paft. 
 
 And different Crowns to both ye Owe. 
 
 No Go/d did e’re the Kjngly Temples bind 
 
 Than thine more try'd and more ref rid* 
 
 As a choice Medal , for Heaven's Treafurie , 
 
 God did ft amp firft upon one fide of Thee 
 The Image of his fufftrmg Humani tk : 
 
 On th* other fide, turn’d now to fight, does fhine 
 The glorious Image of his Power Divine, 
 
 So when the wifeft Poets feek 
 In all their livelieft Colours to let forth 
 A Picture of Heroick worth, 
 
 (The Pious Trojan , or the Prudent Greek 
 They chofe fome comely Prince of heavenly Birth , 
 
 (No proud Gigantick Son of Earth , 
 
 Who ftrives t’ ufurp the Gods forbidden Seat,) 
 
 They feed him not with NeCtar , and the Meat 
 That cannot without Joy be eat. 
 
 But in the cold of want, and forms of adyerft chance, 
 
 They harden his young Virtue by degrees, 
 
 The beauteous Drop firft: into Ice does freez 9 
 And into f olid Cryfial next advance. 
 
 His murthered Friinds and Kindred he does fee, 
 
 And from his flaming Country flee. 
 
 Much is he toft at Sea , and much at Land, 
 
 Does long the force of angry Gods withftand. 
 
 He does long Troubles , and long Wars fuftain, 
 
 E’r he his fatal Birth-right gain. 
 
 With no lefs time or labor can 
 Deftiny build up fuch a Man , 
 
 S oho’s with fufficient vertue fill’d 
 is ruin'd Country to rebuild . 
 
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 Nor without caufe are Arms from Heaven 
 To fuch a Hero by tjie Poets given. 
 
 No human Metal is of force t’oppofe 
 So many and fo violent blows. 
 
 Such was the Helmet , Bnaft-pUte, Shield , 
 
 Which Charles in ail Attaqnes did yield.: 
 
 And all the Weapons malice e’re could try, 
 
 Of all the feveral makes of wicked Policy , 
 
 Againft this Armor ftruck, but at the ftroke. 
 
 Like Swords of Ice, in thoufand pieces (broke* 
 
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 Vcr fes written on fcvcral occajiom. 
 
 To Angels, and their Brethren spirits above, 
 
 No fhow on Earth can lure fo pleafant prove, 
 
 As when they great misfortunes fee 
 With Courage born, and Decencie. 
 
 So were they horn , when Wor?fttr\ s difinal Day 
 Did all the terrors of black Fate dilplay. 
 
 So were they born when no Difguifes cloud 
 His inward Royalty could jhroud , 
 
 And one of th’ Angels, whom juft God did fend 
 To guard him in his noble flight, 
 
 (A Troop of Angels did him then attend,) 
 
 Allur’d me in a Ft [on th’ other night. 
 
 That He (and who could better judge than He ? ) 
 
 Did then mor zGreatnefs in him fee, 
 
 More Luftre and more Majefty , 
 
 Than all His Coronation Pomp can fhew to Human Eye „ 
 
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 Him and His Royal Brothers when I law 
 New marks of honor and of glory 
 From their afjronts and [offerings draw. 
 
 And look like Heavenly Saints even in their Purgatory 3 
 Methought I faw the three Indian Jouths 
 (The unhurt Martyrs for the Noble ft Truths J 
 In the Chaldean Furnace walk ; 
 
 How cheerfully, and unconcern’d they talk! 
 
 No hair is fing’d, no Fmalleft beauty blafted ; 
 
 Like painted Lamps they fhine unwafled . 
 
 The greedy Fire itlelf dares not be fed 
 With the beft Oyl of an Anointed Head. 
 
 The honorable Flame 
 (Which rather Light we ought to name,) 
 
 Does like a Glory compafs them around, 
 
 And their whole Body’s crown d . 
 
 Who are thofe Two bright Creatures which we fee 
 Walk with the Royal Three 
 In the fame Ordeal fire , 
 
 And mutual Joys infpire ? 
 
 Sure they the beauteous Sifters are, 
 
 Whowhil’ft they feek to bear a fhare 
 Will fufter no affliction to be there. 
 
 Lefs favor to thofe Three of old was fhewn. 
 
 To fblace with their company 
 The fiery Tryals of Adverfty ; 
 
 Two Angels joyn with thefe , the others had but One a 
 
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 Come forth, Come forth , ye men of God belov’d , 
 
 And let the power now of that flame , 
 
 Which againft you fo impotent became. 
 
 On all your Enemies be prov’d ; Come* 
 
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f/erjes mitten on Jeveral occapons. 
 
 Come Mighty Charles, Dt (ire of Nations come! 
 
 Come you triumphant Exile , home ! 
 
 He’s come, he’s fate at fbore ; I hear the noife 
 Of a whole Land which does at once rejoyce, 
 
 I hear th 5 united Peoples f acred voyce . 
 
 The Sea which circles us around, 
 
 Ne’re lent to Land fo loud a found ; 
 
 The mighty Shout fends to the Sea a Gale, 
 
 And fwells up every Sail 3 
 The Bills and Guns are fcarcely heard at all \ 
 
 The Artificial Joys drown’d by the Natural . 
 
 All England but one Bonfire feems to be. 
 
 One /Etna fhooting flames into the Sea. 
 
 The St arty Worlds , wliich ihine to us afar, 
 
 Take ours at this time for a Star . 
 
 With Wine all Rooms , with Wine the Conduits flow $ 
 And W e, the Priefls of a Pcetick rage. 
 
 Wonder that in this Golden Age 
 The Rivers too fhould not do fo. 
 
 There is no Stoick fure who would not now 
 Even fome excefs allow ; 
 
 And grant that one wild fit of c hear ful folly 
 Should end our twenty years of difmal Melancholy. 
 
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 Where’s now the Royal Mother , where* 
 
 To take her mighty Jhare 
 In this fo ravifhing fight, 
 
 And with the part file takes to add to the Delight ? 
 Ah ! Why art Thou not here. 
 
 Thou always be[t, and now the happiefi ghieen. 
 
 To fee our Joy, and with new Joy be ften f 
 God has a bright Example made of Thee , 
 
 To fhew that Woman-kind may be 
 Above that Sex, which her Superior teems, 
 
 In wifely managing the wide Extreams 
 Of great Affliction, great Felicitie . 
 
 How well thofe different Virtues Thee become, 
 Daughter of Triumphs, Wife of Martyrdom ! 
 
 Thy Princely Mind withfo much Courage bore 
 Affliction, that it dares return no more ; 
 
 With fo much Goodnefs us’d Felicitie , 
 
 That it cannot refrain from coming back to Thee 3 
 Tis come, and feen to day in ail its Braverie. 
 
 Who’s that Heroi ck Perfon leads it on, 
 
 And gives it like a glorious Bride 
 (Kichly adorn’d with Nuptial- Pride,) 
 into the hands now of thy Son ? 
 
 
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 ’Tis the good General, the Man of Praife, 
 
 Whom God at lall in gracious pity 
 Did to th’ enthrall'd Nation raife. 
 
 Their great Zgrubbabel to be. 
 
 To loofe the Bonds of long Captivity, 
 
 And to rebuild their Temple and their City . 
 
 For ever bleft may He and His remain, 
 
 Who, with a vqft, tho lefs-appearing gain, 
 
 Preferr’d the Solid Great , above the Vain ; 
 
 And to the World this Princely Truth has fhcwnj 
 That more ’tis to Re flore, than to Vfurp a Crown, 
 Thou worthieft Perfon of the Brit/fb Story , 
 
 (Th6 ’tis not [mall, the Britiflj Glory,) 
 
 Pid I notkngw my humble Verfe muft be 
 But ill-proportionM to the height of Thee, 
 
 1 hou and the World (hould lee, 
 
 How much my Mufe, the Foe of Flatterie , 
 
 Does make true Praife her Labour and Defig n 5 
 An Iliad , or an ALneid fhould be Thine . 
 
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 And ill fhould We deferve this happy day. 
 
 If no acknowledgments we pay 
 To you, Great Patriots , of the Two 
 Moll truly other Hou/es now ; 
 
 Who have redeem’d from hatred and from /hame 
 A Parliaments once venerable Name \ 
 
 And now the Title of a Houfe reftore 
 To that which was but Slaughter-houfie before. 
 
 If my advice, ye Worthies, might be ta’ne, 
 
 W’ithin thofe reverend places. 
 
 Which now your living Prefenee graces, 
 
 Your Marble Statues always fhould remain. 
 
 To keep alive your ufeful Memory 
 And to your Succeffors th’ Example be, 
 
 Of Truth , Religion, Reafon, Loyalty. 
 
 For thda firmly fetled Peace 
 May fhortly make your publick labours ceafe, 
 
 The grateful Nation will with joy content, 
 
 That in this fenfe you fhould be faid, 
 
 (Tho yet the Name founds with fome dread , ) 
 To be the Long, the Endlefs Parliament . 
 
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 2 6 Vt erjes mitten on jever'al occajions. 
 
 On the Queens Repairing Somerfet-Houfe. 
 
 W Hen God ( the Caufe to Me and Men unknown,) 
 Forfook the Royal Houfes, and his own, 
 
 And both abandon’d to the Common Foe ; 
 
 How near to Rume did rcty Glories go } 
 
 Nothing remain’d t’adorn this Princely Place 
 Which Covetous Hands could Take, or Rude Deface. 
 
 In all my Rooms and Galleries I found 
 The richeft Figures torn, and all around 
 Difmembred Statues of great Heroes lay ; 
 
 Such Naftbf s Field feem’d on the fatal day. 
 
 And me, when nought for Robbery was left, 
 
 They ftarv’d to death, the gafping Walls were deft, 
 
 The Pillars funk, the Roofs above me wept, 
 
 No fign of Spring, or Joy, my Garden kept, 
 
 Nothing was feen which could content the Eye, 
 
 Till dead the impious Tyrant here did lye. 
 
 See how my face is chang’d, and what I am 
 Since my true Miftrefs, and now Foundrefs, came. 
 
 It does not fill her Bounty to reftore 
 Me as I was ( nor was I fmall, ; before. 
 
 She imitates the kindnefs to her (hewn ; 
 
 She does, likeHcav’n, ( which the deje&ed Throne 
 At once reftores, fixes, and higher rears,; 
 
 Strengthen, Enlarge, Exalt what fhe Repairs. 
 
 And now I dare, ( tho proud I muft not be, 
 
 Whil’ft my great Miftrefs I fo humble fee 
 In all her various Glories, ; now I dare 
 Ev’n with the proudeft Palaces compare; 
 
 My Beauty, and Convenience will ( I’m fure, ; 
 
 So juft a Boaft with Modefty endure. 
 
 And all muft to me yield, when I fhall tell, 
 
 How I am plac’d, and who does in me dwell. 
 
 Before my Gate a Street’s broad Chanel goes, 
 
 Which ftill with waves of crouding People flows, 
 
 And every day there paffes by my fide 3 
 Up to it’s Western Reach, the London Tide, 
 
 The Spring-Tides of the Term ; my Front looks down 
 On all the Pride and Bufinefsof the Town. '7 1 
 My other Front ( for as in Kings we fee 
 The livelieft Image of the Deity. 
 
 We in their Houfes fhould Heav’ns likenefs find, 
 
 Where nothing can be Paid to be behind,) 
 
 My other Fair and more Majeftick Face 
 C Who can the Fair to more advantage place ? ) 
 
 For ever gazes oq itfelf below $ 
 
 In the beft MirrOr that the World can fihew. 
 
 And 
 
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 And here, Behold, in a long bending row. 
 
 How two joynt Cities make one Glorious Bow 5 
 The Mid’ft, the nobleft place, poffels’d by me j 
 Bed: to be feen by all, and all o’refee. 
 
 Which way foe’re I turn my joyful Eye, 
 
 Here the great Court, there therich Town, I fpy ; 
 
 On either fide dwells Safety and Delight ; 
 
 Wealth on the Left, and Pow’r upon the Right. 
 
 T’affure yet my Defence on either hand. 
 
 Like mighty Forts, in equal diftance ftand 
 Two of the bed: and ftatelieft Piles which e’re 
 Man’s liberal Piety of old did rear, 
 
 Where the two Princes of th* Apolfles Band, 
 
 My Neighbours and my Guards, Watch and Command, 
 
 My Warlike Guard of Ships, which farther lye, 
 
 Might be my objefr too, were not the Eye 
 Stopt by the Houles of that wondrous Street 
 Which rides o’re the broad River like a Fleet, 
 
 The Stream’s . Eternal Siege they fixt abide. 
 
 And the fwoln Stream’s Auxiliary Tide, 
 
 Tho both their Ruine with joynt Pow’r confpire, 
 
 Both to out-brave, they nothing dread but Fire. 
 
 And here my Thames, tho it more gentle be 
 Than any Flood, fo ftrength’ned by the Sea, 
 
 Finding by Art his Natural Forces broke. 
 
 And bearing, Captive-like, the Arched Yoke, 
 
 Does roar, and roam, and rage at the difgrace, 
 
 But recompoles ftraight, and calms his Face, 
 
 Is into Reverence and Submiffion ftrook, 
 
 As foon as from afar he does but look 
 
 Tow’rds the White Palace where that King does Reign 
 
 Who lays his Laws and Bridges ore the Main. 
 
 Amid’!! thefe louder Honors of my Seat, 
 
 And twovaft Cities troublelomely great, 
 
 In a large various Plain the Country too 
 Opens her gentler Blefftngs to my view. 
 
 In me the Active and the Quiet Mind 
 By different ways equal content may find. 
 
 If any prouder Virtuolo’s Senfe 
 At that part of my Profpedt take offence, 
 
 By which the meaner Cabanes are defery’d, 
 
 Of my Imperial River’s humble fide, 
 
 If they call that a Blemifih, let them know, 
 
 God and my God-like Miftrels think not fo ; 
 
 For the diftreft and the afflidted lye 
 Moft in their Care, and always in their Eye. 
 
 And thou, fair River, who ftill pay’ft to Me 
 Juft Homage, in thy paffage to the Sea, 
 
 Take here this one Inftru&ion as thou go’ft ; 
 
 When thy mixt Waves fhall vifit every Coaft, 
 
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 Wheft 
 
 
Verfes mitten on fever al occafions . 
 
 When round the World their Voyage they lhal! make, 
 And back to thee fome lecret Chanels take, 
 
 Ask them, what nobler fight they e’re did meet 
 Except thy mighty Matters Soveraign Fleet, 
 
 Which now Triumphant o’re the Main does ride, 
 
 The terror of all Lands, the Oceans Pride? 
 
 From hence his Kingdom’s happy now at latt, 
 (Happy, if Wife by their Misfortunes paft,) 
 
 From hence may Omens take of that fuccels 
 Which both their future Wars and Peace fhall blefs : 
 The Peaceful Mother on mild Thames does build, 
 
 With her Son’s Fabricks the rough Sea is fill’d. 
 
 The Complaint. 
 
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 I N a deep Vifion’s intelle&ual Scene 
 Beneath a Bow’r for forrow made, 
 
 Th* uncomfortable lhade 
 Of the black Yew’s unlucky Green, 
 
 Mixt with the Morning Willows careful Gray, 
 
 Where reverend Cham cuts out his famous way, 
 
 The Melancholy Cowley lay : 
 
 And Io ! a Mufe appear’d to’s doled fight, 
 
 ( The Mules oft in Lands of Vifion play, ; 
 
 Bodied, arrayed, and feen by an internal Light: 
 
 A Golden Harp with filver firings fhe bore, 
 
 A wondrous Hieroglyphic!* Robe Ihe w ore, 
 
 In which ail Colours, and all Figures were. 
 
 That Nature, or that Fancy can create. 
 
 That Art can never imitate ; 
 
 And with loole Pride it Wanton’d in the Air. 
 
 In fuch a Drefs, in fuch a well-cloath’d Dream, 
 
 She us’d of old, near fair If menus Stream, 
 
 Pindar her Theban Favourite to meet ; 
 
 A Crown was on her Head, and Wings were on her Feet. 
 
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 She touch'd him with her Harp, and rais’d him from the Ground $ 
 The fhaken firings melodioufly relound. 
 
 Art thou return’d at laft, laid fhe, 
 
 To this forfaken place and me ? 
 
 Thou Prodigal, who did’ft lo loolely wafte 
 Of all thy youthful years the good Eftate ; 
 
 Art thou return’d here to repent too late ? 
 
 And gather husks of Learning up at laft, 
 
 Now the rich Harveft-time of Life is paft, 
 
 And Winter marches on 16 faft ? 
 
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 But when I meant t’adopt thee for my Son, 
 
 And did as learn’d a Portion affign, 
 
 As ever any of the mighty Nine 
 
 Had to their deareff Children done. 
 
 When I refolv’d t’exalt thy anointed Name, 
 
 Among the Spiritual Lords of Peaceful Fame ; 
 
 Thou Changeling, thou, bewitch’d with noifeand (how 
 Would’ffinto Courts and Cities from me go; 
 
 Would’ftfee the World abroad, and have a fhare 
 In all the Follies, and the Tumults there. 
 
 Thou would’ft, forfooth, be fomthing in a State,' 
 
 And bufinefs thou would’ff find, and woukTft create : 
 
 Bufinefs ! the frivolous pretence 
 Of Human Luffs to (hake off Innocence : 
 
 Bufinefs! the grave impertinence: 
 
 Bufinefs/ the thing which I of all things hate, 
 
 Bufinefs ! the contradiction of thy Fate. 
 
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 Go, Renegado, caff up thy Account, 
 
 And fee to what amount 
 Thy foolifh gains by quitting me : 
 
 Thefaleof Knowledge, Fame, and Liberty, 
 
 The fruits of thy unlearn’d Apoffafie. 
 
 Thou thoughtff if once the publick Storm were paff , 
 
 All thy remaining Life fhould Sun-fhine be : 
 
 Behold the publick Storm is fpent at laff, 
 
 The Soveraign is toff at Sea no more. 
 
 And thou, with all the Noble Company, 
 
 Art got at faff to fhore. 
 
 But whil’ff thy fc fellow Voyagers I fee 
 All march’d up to poffefs the Promis’d Land, 
 
 Thou (fill alone ( alas ! ) doff gaping ffand 
 Upon the naked Beach, upon the barren Sand. 
 
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 As a fair Morning of the bleffed Spring, 
 
 After a tedious ftormy Night ; 
 
 Such was the Glorious Entry of our King, 
 
 Enriching moift ure dropp’d on every thing: 
 
 Plenty he low’d below, and caff about him Light. 
 
 But then ( alas»') to thee alone 
 One of old Gideon's miracles was fhewn, 
 
 For every Tree, and every Herb around, 
 
 With Pearly Dew was Crown’d, 
 
 And upon all the quickned ground 
 The fruitful feed of Heaven did brooding lye. 
 
 And nothing but the Mules Fleece was drye. 
 
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 It did all others Threats furpafs, 
 
 When God to his own People faid, 
 
 ( The Men whom through long wanderings he had led, J 
 That he would give them ev’n a Heaven of Brals : 
 
 They look’d up to that Heaven in vain, * 
 
 That Bounteous Heaven, which God did not reftrain 
 Upon the moft unjuft to Shine and Rain. 
 
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 The Rachel , for which twice ieven years and more 
 Thou did’ft with Faith and Labour ferve. 
 
 And did’ft f if Faith and Labour can) deferve, 
 
 Tho (lie contracted was to thee, 
 
 Giv’n to another who had ftore 
 Of fairer, and of richer Wives before, 
 
 And not a Leah left, thy recompence to be. 
 
 ** Go on, twice feven years more thy Fortune try, 
 
 Twice feven years more God in his Bounty may 
 Give thee, to fling away 
 Into the Courts deceitful Lottery. 
 
 But think how likely ftis that thou, 
 
 With the dull work of thy unweildy Plough, 
 
 Should’ft in a hard and barren feafon thrive, 
 
 Should even able be to live ; / 
 
 Thou, to whofe (hare fo little Bread did fall, 
 
 In the miraculous year, when Manna rain’d on all. 
 
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 Thus fpake the Mufe, and fpake it with a fmile, 
 
 That feem’d at once to pity and revile. 
 
 And to her thus, raifing his thoughtful Head, 
 
 The Melancholy Cowley faid : 
 
 Ah ! wanton foe doft thou upbraid 
 
 The Ills which thou thy felf haft made ? 
 
 When in the Cradle, Innocent I lay, 
 
 Thou, wicked Spirit, ftoleft me away, 
 
 And my abufed Soul didft bear 
 
 Into thy new-found Worlds I know not where, 
 
 Thy Golden Indies in the Air ? 
 
 And ever fince Iftrive in vain 
 
 My ravifh’ d freedom to regain ; 
 
 Still I Rebel, ftill thou doft Reign, 
 
 Lo, ftill in verfe againft thee I complain. 
 
 There is a fort of ftubborn weeds, 
 
 Which, if the Earth but once, it ever breeds ; 
 
 No whollome Herb can near them thrive, 
 
 No ufeful Plant can keep alive : 
 
 The foolilh fports I* did on thee beftow, 
 
 Make all my Art and Labour fruitlefs now? 
 
 Where once fuch Fairies Dance, no Grafs doth ever grow. 
 
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Verfes written on fevcral occafwns. 
 
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 When my new Mind had no infufion known, 
 
 Thou gav’ft fo deep a tinfture of thine own, 
 
 That ever fince I vainly try 
 To wadi away th’inherent Dye : 
 
 Long work perhaps may fpoile thy Colours quite. 
 
 Bet never will reduce the Native white: 
 
 To all the Ports of Honor and of Gain, 
 
 I often freer my courfe in vain, 
 
 Thy Gale comes crofs, and drives me back again. 
 
 Thou flack’neft all my Nerves of Indufrry, 
 
 By making them fo oft to be 
 The tinckling Strings of thy loofe Minftrelfie. 
 Whoever this World’s happinefs would fee 
 Muft as intirely caft off thee, 
 
 As they, who only Heaven defire, 
 
 Do from the World retire. 
 
 This was my Error, This my grofs Mifrake, 
 
 My felf a demy- Votary to make. 
 
 Thus with Sapbira , and her Husbands Fate, 
 
 ( A fault which I like them am taught too late, ) 
 
 For all that I gave up, I nothing gain. 
 
 And perifh for the part which I retain. 
 
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 Teach me not then. Oh thou fallacious Mufe, 
 
 The Court, and better King t’ accufe; 
 
 The Heaven under which I live is fair ; 
 
 The fertile foil will a full Harveft bears 
 Thine, thine is all the Barrennefs ; if thou 
 Mak’ft me fit frill and fing, when I fhould plough. 
 When I but think, how many a tedious year 
 Our patient Sov’reign did attend 
 His long misfortunes fatal end; 
 
 How chearfully, and how exempt from fear, 
 
 On the Great Sovereign’s Will he did depend, 
 
 I ought to be accurft, if I refufe 
 To wait on His, Oh thou fallacious Mufe / 
 
 Kings have long Hands (they iky,) and though I be 
 So difrant, they may reach at length to me. 
 However, of all Princes thou 
 
 Should’ft not reproach Rewards for being fmali or flow 
 
 Thou who rewardefr but with popular breath, 
 
 And that too after death. 
 
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 The Adventures of Five hours . 
 
 A S when our Kings (Lordsof the fpacious Main , ) 
 Take in juft War a rich Plate-Fleet of Spain ; 
 Ihe rude unfhapen Ingots they reduce 
 Into a form of Beauty and of Ufe, 
 
 On which tire Conqu’rors Image now does chine, 
 
 Not His whom it belong’d to in the Mine : 
 
 So in the mild Contentions of the Mule, 
 
 ( The War which Peace itfelf loves and perfiies,/ 
 
 So have you home to us in Triumph brought 
 This Cargazon of Spain with Treafures fraught ; 
 
 You have not bafely gotten it by ftealth. 
 
 Nor by tranflation borrow’d all its wealth, 
 
 But by a pow’rful Spirit made it your own, 
 
 Metal before, Money by you ’tis grown. 
 
 ’Tis currant now, by your adorning it 
 With the fair ftamp of your victorious Wit. 
 
 But tho we praile this voyage of your Mind, 
 
 And tho ourfe ves enricht by it we find ; 
 
 W’are not contented yet, becaufe we know 
 What greater ftores at home within it grow ; 
 
 Wave feen how well you foreign Ores refine, 
 Produce the Gold of your own Nobler Mine. 
 
 The World fhall then our Native plenty view, 
 
 And fetch Materials for their Wit from you. 
 
 They all fhall watch the travails of your Pen, 
 
 And Spain on you fhall make Reprifals then. 
 
 On the Death of Mrs, Katharine Philips. 
 
 C Ruel Difeafe ! Ah, could not it luffice 
 Thy old and conftant fpight to exercife 
 Againft the gentle ft and the faireft Sex, 
 
 Which ftill thy Depredations moft do vex ? 
 
 Where ftill thy Malice moft of all 
 ( Thy Malice or thy Luft,) does on the faireft fall ? 
 And in them moft affault the faireft place. 
 
 The Throne of Emprefs Beauty, ev’n the Face^ 
 There was enough of that here to aflwage 
 ( One would have thought , ) either thy Luft or Rage. 
 Was’t not enough, when thou, prophane Difea ft, 
 Did’ft on this Glorious Temple feize ? 
 
 Was’t not enough, like a wild Zealot, there 
 All the rich outward Ornaments to tear. 
 
 Deface 
 
Verfcs written on fever al occafwns. 
 
 Deface the innocent pride of beauteous Images > 
 Was’t not enough thus rudely to defile, 
 
 But thou muff quite deftroy the goodly Pile ? 
 
 And thy unbounded Sacriledge commit 
 On th’ inward Holieft Holy of her Wit } . 
 
 Cruel difeafe! There thou miftook’ft thy pow’r : 
 
 No Mine of Death can that devour, 
 
 On her embalmed Name it will abide 
 An everlafting Pyramide, 
 
 As high as Heav’n the top, as Earth, the balls wide. 
 
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 All Ages paft record, all Countrys now, 
 
 In various kinds fuch equal Beauties fliew, 
 
 That even Judge Paris would not know 
 On whom the Golden Apple to beftow, 
 
 Th6 Coddeffes t’ his Sentence did fubmit, 
 
 Women and Lovers Would appeal from it: 
 
 Nor diirft he fay, Of all the Female race, 
 
 This is the Sovereign Face. 
 
 And fome ( thd thele be of a kind that’s rare, 
 
 That’s much, ah, much lefs frequent than the Frir,) 
 So equally renown’ d for Virtue are,. 
 
 That it the Mother of the Gods might pole, 
 
 When the beft Woman for her guide fhe chofe. 
 
 But if Apollo fhould defign 
 A Woman Laureat to make, 
 
 Without difpute he would Orinda take, 
 
 . Thd Sappho and the famous Nine 
 Stood by, and did repine. 
 
 To be a Princefs or a Queen 
 Is Great 5 but ’tis a Greatnels always feen. 
 
 The World did never but two Women know, 
 
 Who, one by Fraud, th’ other by Wit did rife 
 To the two tops of Spiritual Dignities, 
 
 One Female Pope of old, one Female Poet now* 
 
 Of Female Poets, who had Names of old, 
 Nothing is fhewn, but only told, 
 
 And all we hear of them perhaps may be 
 Male-Flatt’ry only, and Male-Poetrie. . 
 
 Few minutes did their Beauties Lightning waft 
 The Thunder of their Voice did longer laft, 
 
 But that too loon was paft, 
 
 The certain proofs of our Orinda* s Wit, 
 
 In her own lafting Characters are writ. 
 
 And they^will long my praife of them fiirvive, 
 Thd long perhaps too that may live. 
 
Verfes nr it ten on fever al occafwns. 
 
 The Trade of Glory manag’d by the Pen, 
 
 Tho great it be, and every where is found, 
 
 Dots bring in but final l profit to us Aden ; 
 
 ’Tis by the number of the Sharers drown’d. 
 
 Grind* on the Female coafts of Fame 
 IngrciTes all the Goods of a Poetick Name. 
 
 She does no Partner with her lee, 
 
 Does all the bufinefs there alone, which we 
 Are forc’d to carry on by a whole Companie. 
 
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 B ut Wit’s like a Luxuriant Vine ; 
 
 Unlels to Virtues prop it joyn, 
 
 Firm and Ere£t towards Heaven bound ; 
 
 Thb it with beauteous Leaves, and plealant Fruit be 
 It lies deform’d, and rotting on the ground. 
 
 Now Shame and Blulnes on us all 
 Who our own Sex Superior call ! 
 
 Orinda does our boading Sex out-do, 
 
 Not in Wit only, but in Virtue too, 
 
 She does above our bed Examples rife, 
 
 In hate of Vice, and Icorn of Vanities. 
 
 Never did Spirit of the manly make, 
 
 And dipt all o’re in Learnings facred Lake, 
 
 A Temper more invulnerable take. 
 
 No violent Paffiou could an entrance find 
 Into the tender goodnefs of her Mind, 
 
 Through walls of Stone, thole furious Bullets may 
 Force their impetuous way ; 
 
 When her loft Bread they hit, pow’rlefs and dead tin 
 
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 The Fame of Friend fihip which lo long had told 
 Of three or four illudrious Names of old, 
 
 Till hoarfe and weary with the Tale (he grew, 
 Rejoyces now t’ have got a new, 
 
 A new, and more furprifing Story, 
 
 Of fair Leucajid*. s and Or wdas Glory. 
 
 As when a prudent Man does once perceive 
 That in fome foreign Country he mud. live. 
 
 The Language and the Aianners he does drive 
 To underdand and prabfile here, 
 
 That he may come no ftranger there : 
 
 So well Orinda did herlelf prepare 
 In this much different Clime for her remove 
 To the glad World of Poetry and Love. 
 
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 Hymn to' the Light. 
 
 F Irft-born of Chaos, who To fair did’ft come 
 From the old Negros darkfome womb ! 
 
 Which when it law the lovely Child, 
 
 The melancholy Mats put on kind looks and fmirdo 
 
 Thou Tide of Glory which no reft doift know, 
 
 But ever Ebb, and ever Flow! 
 
 Thou Golden fhower of a true Jove! 
 
 Who does in thee defcend, and Heav’n to Eartli make Love ! 
 
 Hail, active Natures watchful Life and Health ! 
 
 Her Joy, her Ornament, and Wealth ! 
 
 Hail to thy Husband Heat, and Thee/ 
 
 Thou the Worlds beauteous Bride, the lufty Bridegroom He /. 
 
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 Say from what Golden Quivers of the Sky 
 Do all thy winged Arrows fly ? 
 
 Swiftnefs and Power by Birth are thine : 
 
 From- thy great Sire they came, thy Sire the word Divine, 
 
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 ’Tis I believe, this Archery to fhew, 
 
 That fb much cofl: in Colours thou, 
 
 And skill in Painting do’ft beftow, 
 
 Upon thy ancient Arms, the G^wdy Heav’nly Bow. 
 
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 Swift as light Thoughts their empty Carreer run, 
 
 Thy Race is finifht when begun. 
 
 Let a Poft-Angel llart with Thee, 
 
 And thou the Goal of Earth (halt reach as (oon as He. 
 
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 Thou, in the Moons bright Chariot proud and gay, 
 
 Do’fl: thy bright wood of Stars Purvey ; * 
 
 And all the year do’fl: with thee bring 
 Of thoufand dowry Lights thine own Nocturnal Spring.. 
 
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 Thou Scythian - like do’fl: round thy Lands above 
 The Suns gilt Tent for ever move ; 
 
 And (till as thou in pomp doft go, 
 
 The (Inning Pageants of the World attend thy (how. 
 
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 Nor amidft all thefe Triumphs doll thou fccrn 
 The humble Glow-worms to adorn, 
 
 And with thole living fpangles gild 
 ( O Greatnefs without Pride ! ) the Bullies o* r the Field. 
 
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 Night, and her ugly Subjects thou deft fright. 
 
 And Sleep, the lazy Owl .of Night \ 
 
 Afham’d and fearful to appear, 
 
 They skreen their horrid fhapes with the black Hemifphere. 
 
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 With ’em there haftes, and wildly takes th’ Alarm 
 Of painted Dreams, a bufie fwarm. 
 
 At the firft opening of thine Eye, 
 
 The various Clufters break, the antick Atoms fly. 
 
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 The guilty Serpents, and obfeener Beafts 
 Creep, conlcious, to their fecret refts: 
 
 Nature to thee does reverence pay, 
 
 111 Omens, and ill Sights remove out of thy way. ] 
 
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 . At thy appearance, Grief itfelf is laid 
 
 To lhake his Wings, and rowfe his Head: 
 
 And cloudy care has often took 
 A gentle beamy Smile reflected from thy Look. 
 
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 At thy appearartce, Fear itfelf grows bold ; 
 
 Thy Sun-fhine melts away his Cold. 
 
 Encourag’d at the fight of Thee, 
 
 To the Cheek colour comes, and firmnefs to the Knee. 
 
 Ev’n Luft, the Matter of a hardned Face, 
 
 Blufhes, if thou be’ft in the place, 
 
 To darknefs Curtains he retires. 
 
 In fympathizing Night he rowles his frnoaky fires. 
 
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 When, Goddefs, thou lift’ll: up thy wak’ned head 
 Out of the Mornings Purple Bed, 
 
 Thy Qyiire of Birds about thee play, 
 
 And all thy joyful World falutes the rifing day. 
 
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 Ver Jes written on fever al occa fons. 
 
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 The Ghofts, and Monfter-Spirits, that did prefume, 
 
 A Bodies Priv’ledge to alTume, 
 
 Vanifh again invifibly. 
 
 And Bodies gain agen their vifibility. 
 
 18. 
 
 All the Worlds brav’ry that delights our Eyes 
 Is but thy fev’ral Liveries: 
 
 Thou the rich Dy on them beRow’R, 
 
 Thy nimble Pencil paints this Landskip as thou go’ll* 
 
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 A Crimfon Garment in the Role thou wear’ll ; . 
 
 A Crown of Rudded Gold thou bear’ll. 
 
 The Virgin Lillies in their White 
 Are clad but with the Lawn of almoll naked Light. 
 
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 The Violet, Springs little Infant, Rands 
 Girt in the purple Swadling-bands : 
 
 On the fair Tulip thou doR dote , 
 
 Thou cloath’R it in a gay and party-colour’d Coat. 
 
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 With Flame condens’d thou do’ll thy Jewels fix, 
 
 And folid Colours in it mix: 
 
 Flora herfelf envies to lee 
 Flowers fairer than her own, and durable as Hie. 
 
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 Ah, Goddefs/ would thou could’ll thy hand withold, 
 
 And be lets lib’ral to Gold ; 
 
 DidR thou lefs value to it give, 
 
 Of how much care ('alas / ) migln’ftthou poor man relieve/ 
 
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 To me the Sun is more delightful far, 
 
 And all fair days much fairer are. 
 
 But few, ah 1 wondrous few there be. 
 
 Who do not Gold prefer, O Goddefs, ev’n to Thee. 
 
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 Through the foft ways of Heav’n and Air, and Sea, 
 
 Which open all their Pores to Thee> 
 
 Like a clear River thou do’R glide, 
 
 And with thy living Streams through the clofe Chanels Hide. 
 
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 Vt'rfes written on federal o'ccafions, 
 
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 But where firm Bodies thy free courfie oppofe, 
 
 Gently thy fource the Land o’rflows ; 
 
 Takes there poflefiion, and does make, 
 
 Of colours mingled, Light, a thick and Banding Lake. 
 
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 But the vaR Ocean of unbounded Day 
 
 In th 5 Empyrean Heaven does Bay. 
 
 Thy Rivers, Lakes and Springs below 
 
 From thence took firB their rife, thither at laB muB flow. 
 
 ' To the Royal Society. 
 
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 P Hilofbphy, the great and only Heir 
 
 Of all that Human Knowledge which has been 
 Unforfeited by Mans rebellious Sin, 
 
 Tbo full of years He do appear, 
 
 ( Philofophy, I fay and . call it, He, 
 
 For whatfoe’r the Painters fancy be. 
 
 It a Male virtue feems to me, ) 
 
 Has Bill been kept in Nonage till of late, 
 
 Nor manag’d or enjoy’d his vaB EBate : 
 
 Three or four thoufand years one would have thought. 
 To ripenefs and perfection might have brought 
 A Science fb well bred and nurR, 
 
 And of fuch hopeful parts too at the firB. 
 
 But, ho, the Guardians and the Tutors then 
 ( Some negligent, and fome ambitious, Men, ) 
 
 Would ne’r confient to let him free, 
 
 Or his own Natural Powers to let him fee, 
 
 LeR that fhould put an end to their Authoritie. 
 
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 That his own bus’nefishe might quite forget, 
 
 They amus’d him with the fports of wanton Wit, 
 With the Diferts of Poetry they fed him, 
 
 InRcad of fblid Meats t’ increafiejhis force ; 
 
 InBead cf vigorous exercife, they led him 
 
 Imo the pleafant Labyrinths of ever frefh Difcourfie : 
 
 InBead of carrying him to fee 
 The Riches which do hoorded for him lye 
 In Natures endlefis Treafiury, 
 
 They chofe his Eye to entertain 
 ( His cur’ous, but not covetous Eye, ) 
 
 With painted Scenes, and Pageants of the Brain. 
 
 Some 
 

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 Some few exalted Spirits this later Age has fhewn, 
 
 That labour’d to affert the Liberty 
 
 (From Guardians who were now Ufurpers grown,) 
 
 Of this old Minor ftill, captiv’d Philofophy ; 
 
 But ’twas Rebellion call’d to fight 
 For fuch a long oppreffed Right. 
 
 Bacon at laft, a mighty Man, arofe, 
 
 Whom a wife King and Nature chofe 
 Lord Chancellor of both their Laws, 
 
 And boldly undertook the injur’d Pupils Caufe. 
 
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 Authority, which did a Body boaft, 
 
 Tho ’twas but Air condens’d, and ftalk’d about. 
 
 Like Lome old Giant’s more Gigantick Ghoft, 
 
 To terrifie the Learned Rout, 
 
 With the plain Magickof true Reafons light 
 He chaf’d out of our fight. 
 
 Nor fufter’d living Men to be misled 
 By the vain Shadows of the Dead : 
 
 To Graves, from whence it role, the conquer’d Phantome fled. 
 He broke that monftrous God which Rood 
 In mid’ft of th’ Orchard, and the Whole did claim, 
 
 Which with an ufelefs Sitlie of Wood, 
 
 And fomthing elfe not worth a Name 
 (Both vafi for fhew, yet neither fit 
 Or to Defend, or to Beget $ 
 
 Ridiculous and fenfelefs Terrors! ) made 
 Children and fuperftitious Men afraid : 
 
 The Orchard’s open now, and free ; 
 
 Bacon has broke the Scare-crow Deitie. 
 
 Come, enter, all that will, 
 
 Behold the ripen’d Fruit, come gather now your fill. 
 
 Yet ftill, methinks, we fain would be 
 Catching at the Forbidden-Tree ; 
 
 We would be like the Deitie, 
 
 When Truth and Falfhood, Good and Evil, we, 
 
 Without the Senfes aid, within ourfelves would fee ; 
 
 For ’tis God only who can find 
 All Nature in his Mind. 
 
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 From Words, which are but Pidtures of the Thought, 
 
 (Tho we our Thoughts from them perverfely drew,) 
 
 To Things, the Minds right object, he it brought : 
 
 Like foolifh Birds to painted Grapes we flew ; 
 
 He fought and gather’d for our ule the True : 
 
 And when on heaps the chofen Bunches lay, 
 
 He preft them wifely the Mechanick way ; 
 
 Till 
 
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 V ':r/es mitten on fever dl occajions. 
 
 Till all their juyee did in one VelFel joyn. 
 
 Ferment into a Nourifhment Divine, 
 
 'lhe thirty Souls refrelhing Wine. 
 
 Who to the Lite an exact Piece would make 
 Mult not From others Work a Copy take ; 
 
 No, not trom Rubins or Vandtke ; 
 
 Much lels content himfelf to make it like 
 TIP Ideas, and the Images which lye 
 In his ow n Fancy, or his Memory. 
 
 No, he before his fight mult place 
 The Natural and Living Face: 
 
 The real Objedt mult command 
 Each Judgment of his Eye, and Motion of his Hand. 
 
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 From thefe, and all long Errors of the way, 
 
 In which our wandring Predecelfors went. 
 
 And like th’ old Hebrews , many years did {fray 
 In Deferts but of fmall extent, 
 
 Bacon , like Mofes, led us forth at laft, 
 
 The barren Wildernes he pall, 
 
 Did on the very Border Hand 
 Of the blelt promis’d Land, 
 
 And from the Mountains top of his exalted Wit 
 Saw it himfelf, and fhew’d us it. 
 
 But Life did never to one Man allow 
 Time to difeover Worlds, and Conquer too ; 
 
 Nor can fo fhort a Line fufficient be 
 To fathom the vail Depths of Natures Sea : 
 
 The Work he did we ought t’ admire, 
 
 And were unjuft, if we fhould more require 
 From his few years, divided ’twixt th’ Excels 
 Of low Afflibbion, and high Happinefs. 
 
 For who on things remote can fix his fight, 
 
 That’s always in a Triumph or a Fight ? 
 
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 From you great Champions, we expeft to get 
 Thefe fpacious Countrys but difeover’d yet 3 
 Countrys, where yet inftead of Nature, we 
 Her Images and Idols worfhp’d fee : 
 
 Thefe large and wealthy Regions to fubdue, 
 
 Tho Learning has whole Armies at command, 
 Quarter'd about in ev’ry Land, 
 
 A better Troop file ne're together drew, 
 
 Methinks like Gideon s little Band, 
 
 God with delign has pickt out you. 
 
 To do thole noble Wonders by a few. 
 
 When the whole Hoft lie law, They are (faid lie,) 
 Too many to o’recome for Me 5 
 
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 And now he choofes out his Men, 
 
 Much in the way that he did then ; 
 
 Not thole many whom he found 
 Idly extended on the ground. 
 
 To drink with their deje&ed head 
 The Stream juft fo as by their mouths it fled : 
 
 No, but thofe few who took the waters up, 
 
 And made of their laborious hands the Cup. 
 
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 Thus you prepar’d ; and in the glorious Fight 
 Their wondrous pattern too you take : 
 
 Their old and empty Pitchers firft they brake, 
 
 And wftth their hands then lifted up their Light, 
 
 Io ! Sound too the Trumpets here 1 
 Already your vi&orious Lights appear ; 
 
 New Scenes of Heaven already we efpy. 
 
 And crowds of golden Worlds on high ; 
 
 Which from the fpacious Plains of Earth and Sea 
 Could never yet dilcover’d be 
 By Sailers or Chddaxns watchful Eye. 
 
 Natures great Works no diftance can obfeure. 
 
 No fmalnefs her near Obje£ts can (ecu re 5 
 Y’ have taught the curious Sight to prels 
 Into the private!! recefs 
 Of her imperceptible Littlenefs. 
 
 Y’ have learn’d to read her fmalleft hand, 
 
 And well begun her deepeft Senle to underftand, 
 
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 Mifchief and true Difhonor fall on thole 
 Who would to laughter or to (corn expofe 
 So virtuous, and lo Noble a Defign, 
 
 So Human for its Ufe, for knowledge fo Divine. 
 
 The things which thefe proud men defpile, and call 
 Impertinent, and vain, and fmall. 
 
 Thole fmalleft things of Nature let me know. 
 
 Rather than all their greateft Ablions do. 
 
 Whoever would depofed Truth advance 
 Into the Throne ufurp’d from it, 
 
 Mull feel at firft the Blows of Ignorance, 
 
 And the fharp Points of Envious Wit. 
 
 So when by various turns of the Celeftial Dance, 
 
 In many thoufand years 
 A Star, fo long unknown, appears, 
 
 Tho Heaven itfelf more beauteous by it grow. 
 
 It troubles and alarms the World below, 
 
 Does to the Wile a Star, to Fools a Meteor (hew. 
 
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 With Courage and Succefs you the bold Work begin $ 
 Your Cradle has not idle bin : 
 
 None e’re but Hercules and you would be 
 At five years Age worthy a Hifiorie. 
 
 And ne’re did Fortune better yet 
 Th’ Hifiorian to the Story fit : 
 
 As you from all Old Errors free 
 And purge the Body of Philofbphie ; , 
 
 So from all Modern Follies He 
 Has vindicated Eloquence and Wit. 
 
 His candid Style like a clean Stream does hide* 
 
 And his bright Fancy all the way 
 Does like the Sun-fbine in it play ; 
 
 It does, like Thames, the beft of Rivers, glide, 
 
 Where the God does not rudely overturn. 
 
 But gently pour the Chryftal Urn, 
 
 And with iudicious hand does the whole Current guide ! 
 *T has all the Beauties Nature can impart, 
 
 And ail the comely Drefs without the paint of Art. 
 
 TJpon the Chair made out of Sir Francis Drakes Ship , 
 prefented to the Vniverfity Library of Oxford, 
 by John Davis of Deptford Efquire . 
 
 ^ jp* O this great Ship, which round the Globe has run, 
 
 And matcht in race the Chariot of the Sun, 
 
 This Pythagorean Ship (for it may claim 
 Without prefumption fo deferv’d a Name, 
 
 By knowledge once, and transformation now,) 
 
 In her new fhapes this facred Port allow. 
 
 Drake and his Ship could not have wifh’d from fate 
 A more blefb Station, or more bleft Eftate. 
 
 For ( !o ! J a Seat of endlefs reft is given, 
 
 To her in Oxford , and to him in Heav n. 
 
 
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 THE COLLEGE. 
 
 T Hat the Philofoph teal College be feituated within one, two 
 or (at fartheff,) three Miles of London, and if it bG pof- 
 fible to find that convenience, upon the fide of the River, or very 
 near it. 
 
 That the Revenue of this College amount to four thoufand 
 a year. 
 
 That the Company received into it be, as follows, 
 i. Twenty Philofophers or Profeffors. 2. Sixteen young Scho- 
 lars, Servants to the Profeffors. A Chaplain. 4. A Baily for 
 the Revenue. 5. A Manciple or Purveyor for the Provifions of 
 the Houfe. 6. Two Gardners. 7. A Maffer-Cook. 8. An Un- 
 der-Cook. 9. A Butler. 10. An Under- Butler. 1 1 . A Chirurgeon. 
 12. Two Lungs, or Chymical-fervants. ip A Library-keeper, 
 who is likewife to be Apothecary, Druggiff, and keeper of 
 Inffruments, Engines, &c. 14. An Officer to feed and take care 
 of all Beaffs, Fowl, 6cc. kept by the College. 15. A Groom of 
 the Stable. 16. A Melfenger to fend up and down for all ules of 
 the College. 17. Four old Women to tend the Chambers, keep 
 the Houle clean, and fuch like fervices. 
 
 That the annual allowance for this Company be, as follows. 
 
 1. To every Profeffor, and to the Chaplain, One hundred and 
 twenty pounds. 2. To the fixteen Scholars, Twenty pounds a 
 piece, Ten pounds for their Diet, and Ten 'pounds for their 
 Fntertaiment. 3. To the Baily, Thirty pounds befides allowance 
 for his Journeys. 4. To the Purveyor or Manciple, Thirty 
 pounds. 5. To each of the Gardners, Twenty pounds. 6 . To 
 the Maffer-Cook, Twenty pounds. 7. To the Under-Cook, 
 Four pounds. 8. To the Butler, Ten pounds. 9. To the Un~ 
 der-Rutier,Four pounds. 1 o. To the Chirurgeon, Thirty pounds, 
 ii. To the Library-keeper, Thirty pounds. 12. To each of 
 the Lungs, Twelve pounds. 13. To the keeper of the Beaffs, 
 Six pounds. 14. To the Groom, Five pounds. 15. To the 
 Meffenger, Twelve pounds. 16. To the Four neceffary Women, 
 Ten pounds. For the Manciples Table, at which all the Ser- 
 
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 C I he College. 
 
 vants of the Houfe are to eat, except the Scholars, One hundred 
 fixty pounds. For three Horfes for the fervice of the College, 
 Thirty pounds. 
 
 All which amounts to Three thoufand two hundred eighty five 
 pounds. So that there remains for keeping of the Houfe and Gar- 
 dens, and Operatories, and Inftruments, and Animals, and Expe- 
 riments of all forts, and all other expences, Seven hundred and 
 fifteen pounds. 
 
 Which were a very inconfiderable Sum for the great ules to 
 which it is designed, but that 1 concei ve the Induftry of the Col- 
 lege will in a fhort time lo enrich itfelf, as to get a far better dock 
 for the advance and inlargement of the work, when it is once be- 
 gun ; neither is the continuance of particular mens liberality to be 
 defpaired of, when it fhall be encouraged by the fight of that pub- 
 lick benefit which will accrue to ail Mankind, and chiefly to our 
 ' Nation, by this Foundation. Somthing likewife will arife from 
 Leafes and other Cafualties $ that nothing of which may be di- 
 verted to the private gain of the Profeffors, or any other ufe be- 
 fidesthat of the fearch of Nature, and by it the general good of 
 the World 5 and that care may be taken for the certain perform- 
 ance of all things ordained by the Inftitution, as likewife for the 
 prote&ion and encouragement of the Company, it is propofed. 
 
 That feme perfbn of eminent Quality, a lover of folid Learn- 
 ing, and no ftranger in it, be chofen Chancellor or Prefident of 
 the College ; and that eight Governors more, men qualified in 
 the like manner, be joyned with him, two of which fhall yearly 
 be appointed Vifitors of the College, and receive an exadf ac- 
 count of all expences even to the fmalkft, and of the true eftate 
 of their publick Treafure* under the Hands and Oaths of the 
 Profeffors Refident. 
 
 That the Choice of the Profeffors in any vacancy belong to the 
 Chancellor and the Governors, but that the Profeffors (who are 
 likelieft to know what Men of the Nation are moft proper for the 
 duties of their Society ,) diredt their choice by recommending two 
 or three perfons to them at every Elediion. And that if any Learn- 
 ed Perfbn,within His Majefties Dominions, difeover or eminently 
 improve any ufeful kind of knowledge, he may upon that ground 
 for his reward, and the encouragement of others, be preferr’d. if 
 he pretend to the place, before any body elfe. 
 
 That the Governors have power to turnout any Profcffor, who- 
 fhall be proved to be either foandalous or unprofitable to the So- 
 ciety. 
 
 That the College be built after this, or fome fueh manner : 
 That it c onfift of three fair Quadrangular Courts, and three large 
 Grounds* inclofed with good Walls behind them. That the firft 
 Court be built with a fair Cloyfter, and the Profeffors Lodgings 
 or rather little Houfes, four on each fide at fome diftance from one 
 another, and with little Gardens behind them, juft after the man- 
 ner of the Cbartreux beyond Sea. That the infide of the Cloy- 
 fter be lined with a Gravel-walk, and that Walk with a row ot 
 
 Trees, 
 
 
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 Trees, and that in the middle there be a Parterre of Flowers, and 
 a Fountain. 
 
 That the fecond Quadrangle, juft behind the fir ft, be fo contri- 
 ved, as to contain tliele parts, i. A Chapel. 2. A Hall 
 with two long Tables on each fide for the Scholars and Offi- 
 cers of the Houle to eat at, and with a Pulpit and Forms at the 
 end for the publick Le&ures. $. A large and pleafant Dining- 
 Room within the Hall for the Profeftors to eat in, and to hold 
 their Aftemblies and Conferences. 4. A publick School-houle. 
 
 A Library. 6. A Gallery to walk in, adorned with the Pi- 
 ctures or Statues of all the Inventors of any thing ufeful to ’Hu- 
 man Life ; as Printing, Guns, America , Sr c. and of late in Ana- 
 tomy. the Circulation of the Blood, the Milky Veins, and fuch 
 like difeoveries in any Art, with fhort Elogies under the Por- 
 traitures; Aslikewile the Figures of all forts of Creatures, and 
 the ftuft Skins of as many ftrange Animals as can be gotten. 
 
 7. An Anatomy-Chamber adorned with Skeletons and Anato- 
 mical Piblures, and prepared with all conveniences for Dif- 
 fetion. 8. A Chamber for all manner of Drugs and Apothe- 
 caries Materials. 9 A Mathematical Chamber furni Ok with all 
 forts of Mathematical Inftruments, being an Appendix to the 
 Library. 10. Lodgings for the Chaplain, Chirurgeon, Library- 
 Keeper and Purveyor, near the Chapel, Anatomy-Chamber, 
 Library and Hall. 
 
 That the third Court be on one fide of thefe, very large, but 
 meanly built, being deligned only for ufe and not for beauty 
 too, as the others. That it contain the Kitchin, Butteries, 
 Brew-houfe, Bake-houfe, Dairy, Lardry, Stables, &c. andefpe- 
 cially great Laboratories for Chymicai Operations, and Lodg- 
 ings for the Under-lervants. 
 
 That behind the fecond Court be placed the Garden, contain- 
 ing all fors of Plants that our Soil will bear, and at the end a lit- 
 tle Houle of pleafure , a Lodge for the Gardner, and a Grove 
 of Trees cut into Walks. 
 
 That the fecond enclofed Ground be a Garden, deftined only 
 to the Trial of all manner of Experiments concerning Plants, 
 as their Melioration, Acceleration, Retardation, Conservation, 
 Compofition, Tranfmutation, Coloration, or whatfoever elfe 
 can be produced by Art, either for ufe or curiofity, with a Lodge 
 in it for the Gardner. 
 
 That the third Ground be employed in convenient Receptacles 
 for all forts of Creatures, which the Profeftors fhall judge ne- 
 ceftary for their more exa&.fearch into the nature of Animals, 
 and the improvement of their Ufes to us. 
 
 That there be likewife built in fome place of the College, where 
 it may ferve moft for Ornament of the whole, a very high To- 
 wer for obfervation of Celeftial Bodies, adorned with all forts 
 of Dials, and fuch like Curiofities ; and that there be very deep 
 Vaults, made under ground, for Experiments moft proper to 
 {uch places which will be undoubtedly very many. 
 
 Much 
 
Of the Prof effort^ 6 lc. 
 
 Much might be added, but truly I am afraid this is too much 
 already for the charity or generofity of this Age to extend to ; 
 and we do not defign this after the Model of Solomon's Houle in 
 my Lord Bacon , (which is a Project for Experiments that can 
 never be Experimented, ) but propofe it within luch bounds of 
 Expence, as have often been exceeded by the Buildings of private 
 Citizens. 
 
 Of the Prof effort. Scholars, Chaplain, and 
 
 other Officers. ; 
 
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 T Hat of the twenty Profeflots four be always travelling be- 
 yond Seas, and fixteen always Refident, unlefs by permiffi- 
 on upon extraordinary occafions ; and every one, fo abi’ent, lea- 
 ving a Deputy behind him to fupply his Duties. 
 
 That the four Profeflors itinerate be afligned to the four parts 
 of the World, Europe , Afia y Africa , and America , there to re- 
 fide three years at feaft, and to give a conflant account of all 
 things that belong to the Learning, and elpecially Natural Ex- 
 perimental Philofophy, of thole parts. 
 
 That the expence of all Difpatches, and all Books, Simples* 
 Animals, Stones, Metals, Minerals, &c. and all Curiosities what- 
 foever, natural or artificial, fent by them to the College, fball be 
 defrayed out of the Treafury , and an additional allowance 
 (above the 120/.) made to them, as foon as the Colleges Re- 
 venue fhall be improved. 
 
 That at their going abroad, they fhall take a lolemn Oath never 
 to write any thing to the College, but what after very diligent 
 Examination, they fhall fully believe to be true, and to confefs 
 and recant it as loon as they find themfelves in an Error. 
 
 That the fixteen Profeflors Refident fhall be bound to Rudy 
 and teach all forts of Natural Experimental Philofophy, tocon- 
 fift of the Mathematicks, Mechanicks, Medicine, Anatomy, Chy- 
 miftry, the Hiftory of Animals, Plants, Minerals, Elements, &‘c. 
 Agriculture, Architecture, Art Military, Navigation, Garden- 
 ing 3 the myfteries of all Trades, and improvement of them; 
 the Fa&ureof all Merchandifes, all Natural Magick, or Divina- 
 tion ; and briefly all things contained in the Catalogue of Na- 
 tural Hiftories annexed to my Lord Bacon s Organen. 
 
 That once a day from Rafter till Michaelmas , and tudce a Week 
 from Michaelmas to Eafier , in the hours in the Afternoon moft 
 convenient for Auditors from London , according to the time of 
 the year, there fhall be a Le&ure read in the Hall, upon fuch 
 parts of Natural Experimental Philofophy, as the Profeflors 
 fhall agree on among themfelves, and as each of them fhall be 
 able to perform ufefully and honorably. 
 
 That two of the Profeflors by Daily, Weekly, or Monthly 
 
 turns 
 
Of the Profc/jors, &c. 47 
 
 turns fhall teach the puhlick Schools according to the Rules here 
 after prescribed. 
 
 That all the ProfefTors fhall beequalinall refpeeb, (except pre- 
 cedency, choice of Lodging, and fueh likepriviledges, which ihall 
 belong to Seniority in the College,) and that all fhall be Matters 
 and '1 reafurers by annual turns, which two Officers for the time 
 being, fhall take place of all the reft, and fhall be Arbitri duarum 
 'MenJ arum. 
 
 I hat the Matter (hall command all the Officers of the College, 
 appoint Affemblies or Conferences upon occafion, and prefidc in 
 them with a double voice, and in his abfence the T reafurer, whole 
 bufinefsis to receive and disburfe all Moneys by the Matters or- 
 der in writing, ( if it be an extraordinary, ) after con lent of the 
 other ProfefTors. 
 
 That all the ProfefTors fhall flip together in the Parlor within 
 the Hall every night, and fhall dine there twice a week (to wit 
 Sundays and Thurfdays 9 ) at two round Tables for the conveni- 
 ence of Difcourfe, which fhall be for the moft part of fuch mat* 
 ters as may improve their Studies and Profeftions ; and to keep 
 them from falling intoloofe or unprofitable Talk, fhall be the du- 
 ty of the two Arbitrt Mtnfarum^ who may likewife command a- 
 ny of the Servant-Scholars to read them what they fhall think fit, 
 whil’ft they areat Table: That it fhall belong likewife to the faid 
 Arbitri Msnfarum only to invite Strangers, which they fhall rare- 
 ly do, unlefs they be meaof Learning or great Parts, and fhall not 
 invite above two at a time to one Table, nothing being more vain 
 and unfruitful than numerous Meetings of Acquaintance, 
 
 That the ProfefTors Refident fhall allow the College Twenty 
 pounds a year for their Diet, whether they continue there all the 
 time or not. 
 
 That they fhall have once a week an AfTembly cr Conference 
 concerning the Affairs of the College, and the Progrefs of their 
 E xper i me n t a 1 P h i 1 ofoph y. 
 
 lhat if any one find out any thing which he conceives to ‘be 
 of ccnfequence, he fhall communicate it to the AfTembly to be 
 examined, experimented, approved, or rejected. 
 
 That if any onebe Author of an Invention that may bring in 
 profit, the third part of it fhall belong to the Inventor, and the 
 two other to the Society 5 and befides, if the thing be very confi- 
 derable, his Statue or Picture, with anElogy under it, fhall be 
 placed in the Gallery, and made a Denifon of that Corporation 
 of famous Men. 
 
 That all the ProfefTors fhall be always aftigned to Tome particu- 
 lar Inquifition, (befides the ordinary courfe of their Studies, ) 
 of which they fhall give an account to the AfTembly, To that 
 by this means there may be every day Tome operation or other 
 /made in all the Arts, as Chymiftry, Anatomy, Mechanicks, and 
 the like, and that the College fhall furnifh for the charge of 
 the Operation. 
 
 That 
 
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 0 / the ' Trofejfors , See. 
 
 That there dial I be kept a Regifter under Lock and Key, and 
 not to be feen but by the ProfeiTors, of all the Experiments that 
 fucceed, figned by the perfons who made the tryak 
 
 That the popular and received Errors in Experimental Phi- 
 lofophy, (with which, like Weedsin a negleded Garden, it isnow 
 aim oft all overgrown,) Ihall be evinced by Trial, and taken no- 
 tice of in the publick Ledures, that they may no longer abule 
 the credulous, and beget new ones by conlequence or fimili- 
 tude. 
 
 That every third year (after the full fettlement of the Foun- 
 dation,) the College fhall give an account in Print, in proper and 
 ancient Latin, of the fruits of their triennial Induftry. 
 
 That every ProfeiTor Refident fhall have his Scholar to u 7 ait 
 upon him in his Chamber, and at Table, w'hom he fhall be ob- 
 liged to breed up in Natural Philofophy, and render an account 
 ol his progrefs to the AHembly, from w hole Ele&ion lie received 
 him, and therefore is refponfible to it, both for the care of his 
 Education, and the juft and civil ufage of him. 
 
 That the Scholar fhall underftand Latin very well, and bp 
 moderately initiated in the Greek, before he be capable of be- 
 ing cholen into the fervice, and that he fhall not remain in it a- 
 bove Seven years. 
 
 That his Lodging fhall be with the ProfeiTor whom he 
 ferves. 
 
 That no ProfeiTor fhall be a Married man, or a Divine, or Law- 
 yer in pradice, only Phyfick he may be allowed topreferibe, be- 
 caule the ltudy of that Art is a great part of the duty of his place, 
 and the duty of that is lb great, that it w’ill not fufter him to lole 
 much time in mercenary Pradice. 
 
 That the ProfelTors fhall in the College w^ear the habit of or- 
 dinary Mafters of Art in the Univerfities, or of Dodors, if any of 
 them be lo. 
 
 That they fhall all keep an inviolableand exemplary friendfhip 
 with one another, and that the AlTembly fhall lay a confiderable 
 pecuniary muld upon any one who fhall be proved to have en- 
 tered fo far into a Quarrel as to give uncivil Language to his 
 Brother-ProfelTor ; and that the perfeverance in any enmity fhall 
 be punifh’d by the Governors with expulfion. 
 
 That the Chaplain fhall eat at the Mafters Table, (paying his 
 Twenty pounds a year as the others do,) and that he fhall read 
 Prayers once a day at leaft, a little before Supper-time > that he 
 fhall Preach in the Chappel every Sunday-morning, and Cate- 
 chize in the Afternoon the Scholars and the School-boys, that 
 he fhall every Month Adminifter the Holy Sacrament ; that he 
 fhall not trouble himfelf and his Auditors with the Controver- 
 fies of Divinity, but only teach God in his juft Commandments, 
 and in his wonderful Works. 
 
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 T Hcit the School may be built fo as to contain about an hun- 
 dred Boys. 
 
 That it be divided into four ClalTes, not as others are ordinarily 
 into fix or (even, becaufe we fuppofe that the Children, lent hither 
 to be initiated in Things as well as Words, ought to have paft the 
 two or three firft, and to have attained the Age of about thirteen 
 years, being already well advanced in the Latin Grammar, and 
 lome Authors. 
 
 That none, though never fo rich, fliall pay any thing for their 
 Teaching ; and that if any ProfefTor fhafl be convi&ed to have 
 taken any Money in confideration of his pains in the School, he 
 fliall be expelled with ignominy by the Governors ; but if any 
 Perfons of great Eflateand Quality, finding their Sons much bet- 
 ter Proficients in Learning here, than Boys of the fame age com- 
 monly are at other Schools, fliall not think fit to receive an ObIL 
 gation of fo near concernment without returning fome marks of 
 acknowledgment, they may, if they pleafe, (for nothing is to be 
 demanded,) bellow fome little Rarity or Curiofity upon the So- 
 ciety in recompence of their Trouble. . 
 
 And becaufe it is deplorable to confider the lofs which Chil - 
 dren make of their Time at moft Schools, employing, or rather 
 calling away fix or {even years in the learning of Words only, 
 and that too very imperfectly : 
 
 That a Method be here eflablifhed for theinfufing Knowledge 
 and Language at the fame time into them $ and that this may be 
 their Apprenticefhip in Natural Philofophy. This we conceive 
 may be done by breeding them in Authors, or pieces of Au- 
 thors, who Treat of fome parts of Nature, and who may be un- 
 derflood with as mucheafe and pleafure, as thole which are com- 
 monly taught ; Such are in Latin , Varro , Cato , Columella , Pliny ^ 
 part of Celftts , and of Seneca , Cicero de Divinatione , de Natura 
 Deorum , and feveral fcattered Pieces, Virgils Georgzcks, Grot ms, 
 Nemettanus , Manilius*; and becaufe the truth is, we want good 
 Poets (I mean we have but few,) who have purpofely treated of 
 Solid and Learned, that is. Natural Matters, ( the mofi part in- 
 dulging to the weaknefs of the World, and feeding it either with 
 the follies of Love, or with the Fables of Gods and Heroes,) we 
 conceive, that one Book ought to be compiled of all the fcattered 
 little parcels among the ancient Poets that might ferve for the 
 advancement of Natural Sciences, ai 1 which would make no 
 fmall and unufual or unpleafant Volume. To this we would have 
 added the Morals and Rhetoricks of Cicero , and the Infhtutions of 
 Quintilian \ and for the Comedians, from whom almofl all that 
 necelTary part of common Difcourfe, and all the moft intimate 
 proprieties of the Language are drawn, we conceive the Boys 
 
 L 1 1 mav 
 
c fbe School. 
 
 may be made Matters of them, as a part of their Recreation, and 
 not of their Task, if once a month, or at ieatt once in two, they 
 a£fc one of Terence* s Comedies, and afterwards (the moft ad- 
 vanced,) fome of Plautus s \ and this is for many realons one 
 of the beft exerciles they can be enjoyned, and moft innocent 
 Pleaiures they can be allowed. As for the Greek Authors, they 
 may ftudy Nicander Oppianus^ (whom Sc aliger does not doubt to 
 prefer above Homer himfelf, and place next to his adored Virgil., ) 
 Anjto tie's Hiftory of Animals , and other parts, Theophrajhts and 
 Dwf corides of Plants, and a Coile&ion made out of leveral, both 
 Poets, and other Grecian Writers. For the Moral and Rheto- 
 rick, Anflotle may fuffice, or Hermogenes and Longinus be added 
 for the later. Witli the Hiftory of Animals they fhould be fhewed 
 Anatomy as a Divertifment, and made to know the Figures 
 and Natures of thole Creatures, which are not common among 
 us, difabufing them at the fame time of thofe Errors which are 
 univerfally admitted concerning many. The fame Method 
 fhould be ufed to make them acquainted with all Plants : And 
 to this mutt be added a little of the ancient and modern Geo- 
 graphy, the underftanding of the Globes, and the Principles 
 of Geometry and Aftronomy. They fhould likewife ufe to de- 
 claim in Latin and Enghjb , as the Romans did in Greeks and 
 Latin j and in all this travel be rather led on by Familiarity, 
 Encouragement, and Emulation, than driven by Severity, Pu- 
 nifhment, and Terror. Upon Feftivals and Play-times they 
 fhould exercife themleives in the Fields by Riding, Leaping, 
 Fencing, Muttering and Training after the manner of Soldi- 
 ers, drc. And to prevent all Dangers, and all Diforder there 
 fhould always be two of the Scholars with them, to be as 
 Witneftes and Directors of their Adions. In foul weather it 
 would not be amils for them to learn to Dance, that is, to learn 
 juft fo much, (for all beyond is fuperfluous, if not worle,) as may 
 give them a graceful comportment of their Bodies. 
 
 Upon Sundays, and all days of Devotion, they are to be a part 
 of the Chaplains Province. 
 
 That for all thele ends the College fo order it, as that there 
 may be fbme convenient and plealant Houles thereabouts, kept 
 by Religious, Dilcreet, and careful perlons, for the Lodging and 
 Boarding of young Scholars, that they have a conftant Eye o- 
 ver them , to lee that they be bred up there Pioufly, Cleanly, 
 and Plentifully, according to the Proportion of their Parents 
 Expences. 
 
 And that the College, when it fhall pleafe God, either by 
 their own Induftry and Succe fs, or by the Benevolence of Pa- 
 trons, to enrich them fo far, as that it may come to their turn 
 and duty to be charitable to others, lhall at their own 
 charges eredt and maintain fome Houfe or Houles, for the 
 Entertainment of fuch poor Mens Sons, whole good Natural 
 Parts may promile either Ufe or Ornament to the Common- 
 wealth, during the time of their Abode at School, and fhalltake 
 
 care 
 
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 Conclujion. 
 
 care that it fhall be done with the fame conveniences as are en- 
 joyed even by rich Mens Children, (though they maintain the 
 fewer for that caufe, ) there being nothing of eminent and illu- 
 ftriousto be expected from a low, fordid, and Hofpital-like Edu- 
 cation. 
 
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 I F I be not much abufed by a natural fondnefs to my own 
 Conceptions, (that of the Greeks, which no other Lan- 
 guage has a proper word for, ) there was never any Project 
 thought upon, which deferves to meet with fo few Adverfaries 
 as this ; For who can without impudent folly oppole the eda- 
 blifhmentof twenty well felefted Perfons in fuch a condition of 
 Life, that their whole buflnelsand foie Profeffion may be to dudy 
 the improvement and advantage of all other Profeffions, from 
 that of the higheft General even to the lowed: Artifan ? Who 
 fhall be obliged to employ their whole Time, Wit, Learnings 
 and Indudry, to thefe four, the mod ufeful that can be imagin- 
 ed, and to no other ends ? Fird, to weigh, examine, and prove 
 all things of Nature delivered to us by former ages, to deteff, 
 explode, and drike a cenfure through all falfe Moneys with 
 which the World has been paid and cheated fo long, and (as I 
 may fay J to fet the Mark of the College upon all true Coins 
 that they may pafs hereafter without any farther Tryal. Second- 
 ly, to recover the lod Inventions, and, as it were, Drown’d 
 Lands of the Ancients. Thirdly, to improve all Arts which we 
 now have ; And Ladly, to difcover others, which we yet have 
 not. And who fhall befides alt this (as a Benefit by the by,) 
 give the bed Education in the World (purely Gratis,) toasma- 
 ny mens Children as fhall think fit to make ule of the Obli- 
 gation. Neither does it at all check or interfere with any par- 
 ties in State or Religion, but is indifferently to be embraced by 
 all differences in Opinion, and can hardly be conceived capable 
 (as many good Inftitutions have done, ) even of Degeneration 
 into any thing harmful. So that, all things confidered, I will 
 fuppofe this Propofition will encounter with no Enemies ; the 
 only Quedion is, whether it will find' Friends enough to carry 
 it on from Difcourfe and Defign to Reality and Effed ; the ne- 
 • ceffary Expences of the Beginning (for it will maintain itfelf 
 well enough afterwards,) being fo great (though I have fet them 
 as low as is poffible in order to io vad a work,) that it may feem 
 hopelefs to raife fuch a Sum out of thofe few dead Reliques of 
 Human Charity and Publick Generofity which are vet remain- 
 ing in the World. 
 
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 A DISCOURSE, 
 
 By way of 
 
 VISION, 
 
 Concerning the (government of Oliver Cromwel. 
 
 I T was the Funeral day of the late Man who made himfelf to 
 be called Protector. And though I bore but little Affebtion, 
 either to the Memory of him, or to the trouble and folly of all 
 publick Pageantry, yeti was forced by the importunity of my 
 Company to go long with them, and be a Spebtator of that So- 
 lemnity, the expebtation of which had been lo great, that it was 
 laid to have brought ibme very curious per Ions (and no doubt 
 lingular Vtrtuojo*s 9 ) as far as from the Mount in Cornxval, and 
 'from the Orcades. I found there had been much more coft be- 
 llowed, than either the dead Man, or indeed Death itfelf could 
 deferve. There was a mighty Train of black Afliftents, among 
 which two divers Princes in the perfons of their Ambaftadors 
 (being infinitely afftibted for the ids of their Brother,) were 
 plea fed to attend ; theHerle was magnificent, the Idol Crowned, 
 and (not to mention all other Ceremonies which are prabtifed 
 at Royal interments, and therefore by no means could be omit- 
 ted here,) the vaft multitude of Spectators made up, as it ufes 
 to do, no imall part of the Spebtacle itfelf, But yet I know not 
 how, the whole was fo managed, that, methoughts, it fbmwhat 
 reprefented the life of him for whom it was made ; much Noife, 
 much Tumult, much Expence, much Magnificence, much Vain- 
 glory ; briefly, a great Show, and yet after all this, but an ill 
 Sight. At lali, (for it feemed long to me, and like his fhort 
 Reign too, very tedious,) the whole Scene paft by, and I retired 
 back to my Chamber, weary, and I think more melancholy than 
 any of the Mourners. Where I began to refiebt upon the whole 
 Life of this Prodigious Man, and fomtimes I was filled with hor- 
 ror and deteftation of his Ablions, and fomtimes I inclined a little 
 to reverence and admiration of his Courage, Condubb, and Suc- 
 cefs ; till by thefe different motions and agitations of Mind, 
 rocked as it were afieep , I fell at laft into this Vifion, or it 
 you pieafe to call it but a Dream, I fhall not take it ill, becaufe- 
 the Father of Poets tell us, even Dreams too are from God. 
 
 But fure it was no Dream ; for I wasfuddainly tranfportedafar 
 oflF, ( whether in the Body or out of the Body, like St. Paul, I 
 know not,) and found myfelf on the top of that famous Hill in 
 the lfland Ai which has the profpebb of three Great, and not 
 long fince mod Happy, Kingdoms. As foon as ever I look’d on 
 
 them, 
 
them, they not long lince (truck upon my Memory, and called 
 forth the fad reprefentation of all the Sins, and all the Miieries 
 that had overwhelmed them theie twenty years. And I wept 
 bitterly for two or three hours, and when my prelent (lock of 
 moifture was all waited, I fell a fighing for an hour more, and as 
 foon as I recovered from my paffion the ufe of Speech and Rea- 
 fon, I broke forth, as I remember (looking upon England,) into 
 this complaint. 
 
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 Ah, happy Ifle, how art thou chang’d and curft. 
 
 Since I was born, and knew thee firft ! 
 
 When Peace which had forfcok the World around, 
 (Frighted with Noife, and the flirill Trumpets found,) 
 Thee for a private place of reft, 
 
 And a fecure retirement cliofe 
 Wherein to build her Halcyon Neft ; *• 
 
 No Wind durft ftir abroad the Air to difcompole. 
 
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 When all the Riches of the Globe befide 
 Flow’d in to Thee with every Tide ; 
 
 When all that Nature did thy Soil deny, 
 
 The growth was of thy fruitful Induftry, 
 
 When all the proud and dreadful Sea, 
 
 And all his Tributary-Streams, 
 
 A conftant Tribute paid to Thee, 
 
 When all the liquid World was one extended Thames ; 
 
 -a * > i . . ? i j . i y V 
 
 ?. 
 
 When Plenty in each Village did appear. 
 
 And Bounty was it’s Steward there 5 
 When Gold walk’d free about in open view.. 
 
 E’re it on conqu’ring parties prifoner grew ; 
 
 When the Religion of our State 
 Had Face and Subftance with her Voice, 
 
 E’re fhe by’er her foolifh Loves of late 
 Like Eccho, (once a Nymph,) turn’d only into Noife» 
 
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 When Men to Men refpeft and friendfhip bore. 
 
 And God with reverence did adore ; 
 
 When upon Earth no Kingdom could have (hewn 
 A happier Monarch to us than our own. 
 
 And yet his Subje&s by him were 
 (Which is a Truth will hardly be 
 Receiv’d by any vulgar Ear, 
 
 „ A Secret known to few,) made happ’er even than He, 
 
 5’ Thou 
 
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 eyf Difcourfe concerning the 
 
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 Thou do’ft a Chaos and Confufion now, 
 
 A Babel and a Bedlam grow. 
 
 And like a frantick perfon thou do’ft tear 
 The Ornaments and Cloaths which thou fhouid’ft wear, 
 And cut thy Limbs, and if we fee 
 CM as thy barbarous Britons did,) 
 
 Thy Body with Hypocrifie 
 Painted all o’re thou think’ft thy naked fliame is hid. 
 
 The Nations which envied Thee e re while, 
 
 Now laugh, (too little ’tis to fmile,) 
 
 They laugh, and would have pity’d Thee, (alas ! ) 
 
 But that thy Faults all pity do furpafs. 
 
 Art thou the Country which didft hate. 
 
 And mock the French Inconftancic ? 
 
 And have we, have we keen of late 
 Lefs change of Habits there, than Governments in Thee? 
 
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 Unhappy Ifle ! No Ship of thine at Sea, 
 
 Was ever toft and torn like Thee. 
 
 Thy naked Hulk loole on the Waves does beat. 
 
 The Rocks and Banks around her ruine threat : 
 v What did thy foolifh Pilots ail, 
 
 To lay the Compafs quite afide ? 
 
 Without a Law or Rule to Sail, 
 
 And rather take the Winds than Heavens to be their Guide? 
 
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 Yet mighty God, yet, yet we humble crave, 
 
 This floating Ifle from Shipwrack fave ; 
 
 And tho to wafh that Blood which does it ftain. 
 
 It well deferves to fink into the Main ; 
 
 Yet for the Royal Martyr’s his Prayer 
 (The Royal Martyr prays we know,) 
 
 This guilty perifhing Veflel (pare ; 
 
 Hear but his Soul above, and not his Blood below. 
 
 I think I fhould have gone on, but that I was interrupted by a 
 ftrange and terrible Apparition, for there appeared to Me (ari- 
 fing out of the Earth, as I conceived,,) the Figure of a Man taller 
 than a Gyanr, or indeed, than the Shadow of any Gyant in the 
 Evening. His Body was naked, but that Nakednefs adorn’d, or 
 rather deform’d all over, with leveral Figures, after the manner of 
 the ancient Britons , painted upon it : And I perceived, that moft of 
 them were the reprefentation of the Battels in our Civil Wars, 
 and (iflbenotmuchmiftakem) it was the Battel of Nafeby that 
 
 was 
 
Government of Oliver Cromwel. 
 
 was drawn upon his Bread. His Eyes were like burning Brafs, 
 and there were three Crowns of the lame Metal (as I gued,) and 
 that look’d as red-hot too upon his Head. He held in his right 
 Hand a Sword that was yet bloody, and neverthelefs the Motto 
 of it was, Pax qu£ritur bello ; and in his left Hand a thick Book, up- 
 on the back of which was written in Letters of Gold, A&s, Ordi- 
 nances, Proteflations, Covenants, Engagements, Declarations, 
 Remondrances, &c. Though this hidden, unufual, and dread- 
 ful Objebt might have quelled a greater Courage than mine, yet 
 fo it pleafed God, (for there is nothing bolder than a Man in a 
 Vifion, ) that I was not at all daunted, but ask’d him relolutely 
 and briefly 7 , What art thou ? and he laid, I am called , The 
 Nortb-Wejl Principality , His Highnefs the Protestor of the 
 Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland , and the Do- 
 minions belonging thereunto, for I am that Angel to whom the 
 Almighty has committed the Government of thole three King- 
 doms which thou feed from this place. And I anfwered and Paid, 
 If it be lo, Sir, it feems to me that for almoft thele twenty years 
 pad, your Highnefs has been abfent from your Charge : For not 
 only if any Angel, but if any wile and honed Man had fince 
 that time been our Governor, we fhould not have wandred thus 
 long in thele laborious and endlefs Labyrinths of confulion, but 
 either not have entred at all into them, or at lead have returned 
 hack e’re we had ablolutely lod our way ; but indead of your 
 Highnefs, we have had fince fuch a Protestor as was his Prede- 
 celfor Richard the Third to the King his Nephew ; for he pre- 
 fently dew the Common-wealth, which he pretended to pro- 
 tect, and let up himfelf in the place of it : A little lefs guilty in- 
 deed in one refpeft, becaufe the other dew an innocent, and 
 this Man did but murder a Murderer. Such a Prote&or we have 
 had, as we would have been glad to have changed for an Ene- 
 my , and rather receive a condant Turk , than this every 
 Months Apodate 5 fuch a Prote&or as Man is to his Flocks, 
 which he fhears, and fells, or devours himfelf ; and I would 
 fain know, What the Wolf, which he protects them from, could 
 
 do more ? Such a Protestor and as I was proceeding, me- 
 
 thought his Highnefs began to put on a difpleafed and threat- 
 ning countenance, as Men ule to do when their deared Friends 
 happen to be traduced in their company, which gave me the 
 firlt rife of jealoufie againd him, for I did not believe that Crom- 
 rvel , among all his foreign Correfpondences, had ever held any 
 with Angels. However, I was not hard’ned enough to venture a 
 quarrel with him then ; and therefore (as if I had fpoken to the 
 Protestor himfelf in Whitehall I defired him that his Highnefs 
 would pleale to pardon me, if I had unwittingly fpoken any thing 
 to the difparagement of a perlbn, whole relations to his High- 
 nefs I had not the honor to know. At which he told me, 
 that he had no other concernment for his late Highnefs, than as 
 he took him to be the greated Man that ever was of the EngUflj 
 Nation, if not, (laid he) of the whole World, which gives me a^juft 
 
 Title 
 
ttA Difcourje concerning the 
 
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 Title to the defence of his Reputation, fince I now account my- 
 felt as it were a naturalized Engl/Jb Angel by having had fo 
 long the management of the Affairs of that Country. And pray, 
 Countryman, (faid he, very kindly and very flatteringly, ) for I 
 & would not have you fall into the general Error of the World, 
 thatdetefts and defcries fo extraordinary a Virtue ; What can be 
 more extraordinary, than that a perfon of mean Birth, no Fortune, 
 no eminent qualities of Body, which have fomtimes, or of Mind 
 which have often, raifed Men to the higheh Dignities, fhould have 
 the courage to attempt, and the happinefs to fucceed in fo impro- 
 bable a Defrgn, as the dehruction of one of the moft ancient, and 
 moft folidly founded Monarchies upon the Earth ? That he fhould 
 have the power or boldnefs to put his Prince and Maher to an 
 open and infamous death ? To banifh that numerous and hrong- 
 ly-allied Family ? To do all this under the name and wages of a 
 Parliament ? To trample upon Them too as he pleafed, and fpurn 
 them out of doors when he grew weary of them ? To raife up a 
 new and unheard of Monher out of their Allies ? To Rifle that 
 in the very infancy, and fet up himfelf above all things that ever 
 were called Sovereign in England? To opprefsall his Enemies by 
 Arms, and all his Friends afterwards by Artifice ? To ferve all 
 Parties patiently for a while, and to command them vibtorioufly 
 at iah ? To over-run each corner of the three Nations, and over- 
 come, with equal felicity, both the Riches of the South, and the 
 Poverty of the North ? To be feared and courted by ail foreign 
 Princes, and adopted a Brother to the Gods of the Earth? To call 
 together Parliaments with a word of his Pen, and fcatter them 
 again with the breath of his Mouth? To be humbly and daily pe- 
 titioned, that he would pleafe to be hired, at the rate of two Milli- 
 ons a year, to be Maher of thofe who had hired him before to be 
 their Servant ? To have the Ehates and Lives of Three Kingdoms 
 as much at hisdifpofal, as was the little Inheritance of his Father, 
 and to be as noble and liberal in the (pending of them ? And lah- 
 -ly, (Tor there is no end of all the particulars of his Glory,) to be- 
 queath all this with one word to his Poherity ? To die with Peace 
 at home, and Triumph abroad ? To be buried among Kings, and 
 with more than Regal Solemnity ? And to leave a Name behind 
 him not to be extinguiflTd, but with the whole World, which as 
 it is now too little for his Praifes, fo might have been too for his 
 Conquehs, if the fhort line of this human Life could have been 
 hretcht out to the Extent of his immortal Defigns ? 
 
 By this Speech I began to underhand perfectly well, what kind 
 of Angel his pretended Highnefs was, and having fortified myfelf 
 privately with a fhort mental Prayer, and with the Sign of the 
 Crofs, (not out of any Superhition to the Sign, but as a recog- 
 nition of my Baptifm in Chrih,) I grew a little bolder, and reply- 
 cd in this manner ; I fhould not venture to oppofe what you are 
 pleafed to fay in commendat ion of the late Creat and (I confels,) 
 extraordinary Perfon, but that I remember, Chrih forbids us to 
 give a Rent to any other DoStrine, but what himfelf has taught 
 
 us, 
 
Government of Oliver Cromwel. 
 
 us, even tho it fhould be delivered by an Angel; and if fuel! 
 you be, Sir, it may be you have fpoken all this rather to try 
 than to tempt my frailty : For fure 1 am, that we mull renounce 
 or forget all the Laws of the New and Old Teftament, and thole 
 which are the foundation of both, even the Laws of Moral and 
 Natural Honefty, if we approve of the actions of that man whom 
 I fuppofe you commend by Irony. There would be no end to 
 inftance in the particulars of all his wickednefs ; but to fum up a 
 part of it briefly ; What can be more extraordinarily, wicked than 
 for a perfon, fuch as your felf/qualifie him rightly, to endeavour 
 not only to exalt him lei f above, but to trample upon, all his 
 equals and betters? to pretend freedom for all men, and under 
 the help of that pretence to make all men his lervants? to take 
 Arms againft Taxes of fcarce two hundred thoufand pounds a 
 year, and to raife them himfelf to above two Millions ? to quar- 
 rel for the lofs of three or four Ears, and ftrike off' three or 
 four hundred Heads? to light againft an imaginary fufpicion of 
 1 know not what two thouland Guards to be fetcht for the King, 
 I know not from whence, and to keep up for himfelf no lels than 
 forty thoufand ? to pretend the defence of Parliaments, and vio- 
 lently to diffolve all even of his own calling, and almoft choo- 
 fing ? to undertake the Reformation of Reiigion, to rob it even 
 to the very skin, and then to expofe it naked to the rage of all 
 Se£b and Herefies ? to fet up Councils of Rapine, and Courts of 
 Murder? to fight againft the King under a Commiflion for him ? 
 to take him forcibly out of the hands of thole for whom he had 
 Conquer’d him ? to draw him into his Net, with proteftations 
 and vows of fidelity, and when he had caught him in it, to 
 butcher him with as little fhame as confidence, or humanity, in 
 the open face of the whole World ? to receive a Commiflion for 
 King and Parliament, to murder ( as I laid. J the one, and deftroy 
 no lefs impudently the other? to fight againft Monarchy when he 
 declared for it, and declare againft it, when he contrived for it in 
 his own perfon? to abate perfidioufly, and fupplant ingratefully 
 his own General firft,and afterwards moft of thole Officers, who 
 with the lofs of their Honour, and hazard of their Souls, had lifted 
 him up to the top of his unreasonable ambitions ? to break his faith 
 with all Enemies, and with all Friends equally ? and to make no 
 lefs frequent ufe of the moft folemn Perjuries than the looter 
 lortof Peopledoof enftomary Oaths? to ufiir'p three Kingdoms 
 without any fhadow of the leaft pretenlions, and to govern them 
 as unjuftly as he got them ? to let himfelf up as an Idol, ( which 
 we know, as St. Pax! fays, in ittelf is nothing , ) and make the ve- 
 ry Streets of London like the Valley ot Hinnom , by burning the 
 bowels of men as a Sacrifice to his Molocb-fbip ? to leek to en- 
 tail this ufurpation upon his Pofterity, and with it an endlefs 
 War upon the Nation ? and laftly by the fevereft Judgement ol 
 Almighty God, to Dye H A R D N ED, and MAD, and U N- 
 REPENTANT, with the C U R S E S of the prelent Age, 
 and the DETESTATION of all to Succeed ? 
 
 Mmm 
 
 Tho 
 
A ‘Difcourfe concerning the 
 
 Tho I had much more to fay, ( for the life of Man is fo 
 fhort, that it allows not time enough to fpeak againft a Tyrant,; 
 yetbecaufel had a mind to hear how my ftrange Adverfary would 
 behave himfelf upon thisfubjebl, and to give even the Devil ( as 
 they fay,) his right and fair play in Deputation, I ftopt here, 
 and expected, ( not without the frailty of a little fear,; that he 
 fhouJd have broke into a violent paffion in behalf of his Favou- 
 rite j but he on the contrary very calmly, and with the Dove* 
 like innocency of a Serpent that was not yet warm’d enough to 
 fling, thus reply’d to me : 
 
 It is not fo much out of my affe£lion to that perfbn whom 
 we difcourfe of, ( whole greatnefs is too folid to be fliaken by the 
 breath of my Oratory, ; as for your own fake ( honeft Country ' 
 man, J whom I conceive to err rather by miftake than out of ma- 
 lice, thatl fhall endeavour to reform your uncharitable and un- 
 jufl opinion. And in the flrfl place, I muft needs put you in mind 
 of a Sentence of the moft ancient of the Heathen Divines, that 
 you men are acquainted withal. 
 
 'Ovyf oncv Ki vL^soinv JiT* 1 
 
 ’Tis wicked with infulting feet to tread 
 Upon the Monuments of the Dead. 
 
 And the intention of the reproof there is no lefs proper for 
 thisSubjeSl ; for it was fpoken to a perfori who was proud and 
 infolentagainft thofe dead Men, to whom he had been humble and 
 obedient whil’ft they lived. Your Highnels may pleafe ( laid 1,; to 
 add the Verfe that follows, as no lefs proper for this Subject. 
 
 Whom God’s juft doom and their own fins have fent 
 Already to their puniftiment. 
 
 But I take this to be the rule in the cafe, that when we fix any 
 infamy upon deceafed perfons, it fhould not.be done out of ha- 
 tred to the Dead, but out of love and charity to the Living, 
 that the Curies which only remain in mens thoughts, and dare 
 not come forth againft Tyrants, ( becaufe they are Tyrants ) 
 whilft they arefb, may at lea ft be for ever fettled and engraven 
 upon their Memories, to deter all others from the like wicked- 
 nefs, which elfein the time of their foolifli profperiry, the flattery 
 of their own hearts, and of other mens Tongues, would not fuf ; 
 fer them to perceive. Ambition is fo fiibtil a Tempter, and the 
 corruption of human nature fo fufceptible of the temptation, 
 that a man can hardly refill it, be he never fo much forewarn’d of 
 the evil confequences, much lefs if he find not only the concur- 
 rence of theprefent, but the approbation too of following ages, 
 which have the liberty to judge more freely. The rnifchief of 
 Tyranny is too great, even in the fhorteft time that it can con- 
 tinue, it is endlersand infupportable, if the'example be to reign 
 
Government cf Oliver Cromwek 50 
 
 too, and if a. Limbcrt muft be invited to follow the fteps of a 
 Cromwel, as well by the voice of Honour, as by the fight of Power 
 and Riches. Tho it may fcem to feme fantaftically, yet was 
 it wifely, done of the Syracufans, to implead with the forms of 
 their ordinary juftice, to condemn and deftroy even the Statues 
 of all their Tyrants; if it were poftible to cut them out of all 
 Hiftory, and to extinguifh their very names, I am of opinion that 
 it ought to be done ; but fi nee they have left behind them too 
 deep wounds to be ever clofed up without a Scar, at leaft let us 
 let fuch a mark upon their memory, that men of the fame wicked 
 inclinations may be no lefs affrighted with their Iafting Ignominy, 
 than enticed by their momentany glories. And that your High- 
 nefs may perceive, that I fpeak not all this out of any private ani- 
 mofity againft tire perfon of that late Prott&or , I allure you upon 
 my faith, that I bear no more hatred to his name, than I do to 
 that of Marius ox SyHa, who never did me or any friend of mine 
 the leaf: injury ; and with that tranfported by a holy fury, I fell 
 into this fudden rapture ? 
 
 1. 
 
 Curft be the Man, ( What do I wifh ? as th6 
 The wretch already were not fo; 
 
 But curfl: on let him be , ) who thinks it brave 
 And great his Country to enftave, 
 
 Who feeks to overpoife alone 
 The Balance of a Nation ; 
 
 Againft the whole but naked State 
 
 Who in his own light Scale makes up with Arms the weight; 
 
 2. 
 
 Who of his Nation loves to be thefirft, 
 
 ¥ 
 
 Tho at the rate of being worft. 
 
 Who would be rather a great Monfter, tha n 
 A well-proportion’d Man. 
 
 The Son of Earth with hundred hands 
 Upon his three-pi Pd Mountain ftands, 
 
 Till Thunder ftrikes him from the Skie ; 
 
 The Son of Earth again in his Earths womb does lie, 
 
 ... t 3. 
 
 What Blood, Confufion, Ruin, to obtain 
 A fhort and miferabje Reign ? 
 
 In what oblique and humble creeping wife 
 Does the mifehievous Serpent rife? 
 
 But ev’n his forked Tongue ftrikes dead, 
 
 When h’as rear’d up his wicked Head* 
 
 He murders with his mortal frown, 
 
 A Bajilisk he grows, if once he gets a Crown. 
 
 4. But 
 
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 A Difcourfe concerning the 
 
 4 * 
 
 But no Guards can oppofe aflaulting Ears, 
 
 Or undermining Tears. 
 
 No more than Doors, or clofe-drawn Curtains keep 
 The fwarming Dreams out when we deep. 
 That bloody Confidence too of' his 
 fFor, ho/ a Rebel Red-coat *tis,J 
 Does here his early Hell begin. 
 
 He fees his Slaves without, his Tyrant feels within. 
 
 5 - 
 
 Let, Gracious God, let never more thine hand 
 Lift up this Rod againft our Land. 
 
 A Tyrant is a Rod and Serpent too, 
 
 And brings worfe Plagues than Egypt knew. 
 
 What Rivers Rain’d with blood have been ? 
 
 What Storm and Haikfhot have we feen ? 
 
 What Sores deform’d the Ulcerous State? 
 
 What Darknefs to be felt has buried us of late ? 
 
 6 . 
 
 How has it fnatcht our Flocks and Herds away ? 
 
 And made ev’n our Sons a prey ? 
 
 What croaking Sects and Vermin has it fent, 
 
 The refilefs Nation to torment ? 
 
 What greedy Troops, what armed Power 
 
 Of Flies and LocuRs to devour 
 
 The Land, which every where they fill? 
 
 Nor fly they, Lord, away ; no, they devour it Rill. 
 
 7 - 
 
 Come, the eleventh Plague, rather than this fhould be ; 
 
 Come fink us rather in the Sea. 
 
 Come rather PeRilence and reap us down ; 
 
 Come Gods fword rather than our own. 
 
 Let rather Roman come again, 
 
 Ov- Saxon, Norman , or the Dane , 
 
 In all the bonds we ever bore, 
 
 We griev’d, we figh’d, we wept ; we never blufh’d before. 
 
 / 
 
 8 . 
 
 If by our fins the Divine JuRice be 
 Call’d to this laR extremitie \ 
 
 Let fome denouncing Jonas firfi be fent, 
 
 To try if England can repent. 
 
 Methinks at leaR fome Prodigy, 
 
 Some dreadful Comet from on high, 
 
 Should terribly forewarn the Earth, 
 
 As of good Princes Deaths, fo of a Tyrants Birth. 
 
 Here 
 
Government of Ol iver Cromwel. 6 1 
 
 Here the fpirit of a Verfe beginning a little to fail, I ftopt, and 
 his Highnefs finding, laid-, I was glad to lee you engaged in the 
 Encloliires of Metre ; for if you had (laid in the open Plain of 
 declaiming againft the word Tyrant, I muff have had patience 
 for half a dozen hours, till you had tired yourfejf as well as 
 me. But pray, Country-man, to avoid this Sciomachy, or imi- 
 ginary Combat with words, let me know, Sir, what you mean 
 by the name of Tyrant, tor I remember, that among your ancient 
 Authors, not only all Kings, but even Jupiter himfelf ( your 
 Juvans Pater f) is fo termed, and perhaps as it was ufed formerly 
 in a good lenfe, fo we lhali find it upon better confideration to 
 be Ifill a good thing for the benefit and peace of mankind, at 
 leaft it will appear whether your interpretation of it may be juft- 
 iy applyed to the Perfon, who is now the fubjedlof our Difcourle. 
 
 I call him f fa id I J a Tyrant, who either intrudes himfelf forcibly 
 into the Government of his fellow-Citizens without any legal 
 Authority over them, or, who having a juft Title to the Govern- 
 ment of a people, abufes it to the deftruefion, or tormenting of 
 them. So that all Tyrants are at the fame time Ufurpers, either 
 of the whole, or at leaft of a part of that Power which they aft 
 fume to themfelves, and no lels are they to be accounted Rebels, 
 fince no man can ufurp Authority over others, but by Re- 
 belling againft them who had it before, or at leaft againft thofe 
 Laws which were his Superiors ; and in all thefefenfes no Hifto- 
 ry can afford us a more evident example of Tyranny, or more 
 out of all poftibility of excufe, or palliation, than that of the Per- 
 fon whom you are pleafed to defend ; whether we confider his 
 reiterated rebellions againft all his Superiors, or his ufurpation 
 of the Supreme power to himfelf, or his Tyranny in theexercife 
 of it ; and if lawful Princes have been efteemed Tyrants by not 
 containing themfelves within the bounds of thofe Laws, which 
 have been left them as the fphere of their Authority by their Fore- 
 fathers, what fhali we fay of that man, who, having by right no 
 power at all in this Nation, could not content himfelf with that 
 which had fatisfied the moft ambitious of our Princes ? nay, not 
 with thofe vaftly extended limits of Sovereignty, which he ( dift 
 daining all that had been preferibed and obferved before, ) was 
 pleafed ( out of great modefty , ) to fee to himfelf ? not abftaining 
 from Rebellion aud Ufurpation even againft his own Laws as well 
 as thole of the Nation ? 
 
 Hold, friend, laid his Highnefs, pulling me by my Arm/ for I 
 fee your zeal is tranfporting you again,) whether the ProteUor 
 were a Tyrant in the exorbitant exercife of his power, we fhali 
 lee anon, it is requifite to examine firft, whether he were fo in 
 the ufurpation of it. And I fay, that not only He, but no man 
 elfe ever was, or can be fo ; And that for thefereafons, Firft, be- 
 caufe all power belongs only to God, who is the fource and foun- 
 tain of it, as Kings are of all Honours in their Dominions. Princes 
 are but his Viceroys in the little Provinces of this World, and 
 tofome he gives their places for a few years, to fame for their 
 
 lives, 
 
A ' Difcourje concerning the 
 
 lives, and to others (Tipcn ends or deferts bed known to himfelf, 
 or meerly for his indilputable good pleafure, ) he bellows as it 
 were Leafes upon them, and their poller icy, for luch a date of 
 time as is prefixt in that Patent of their Deftiny, which is not 
 legible to you Men below. Neither is it more unlawful for Oil* 
 ver to luceeed Charles in the Kingdom of England, when God lo 
 difpoles of it, than it had been for him to have fucceeded the 
 Lord Strafford in the Lieutenancy of Ireland, if he had been ap- 
 pointed to it by the King then reigning. Men are in both the 
 cafes obliged to obey him, whom they lee actually in veiled with 
 the Authority by that Sovereign from whom he ought to derive 
 it, without difputing or examining the caules, either of the re^ 
 inoval of the one, or the preferment of the other. Secondly, be- 
 caufe all Power is attained either by the Eleflion and Confent 
 of the People, and that takes away your objection of forcible 
 intrullon ; orelle by a Conquellof them, and that gives fuch a 
 legal Authority as you mention to be wanting in the 11 lur pa- 
 tion of a Tyrant ; lo that either this Title is righr, and then 
 there are no Ufurpers j or elle it is a wrong one, and then there 
 are none elfe but Uliirpers, if you examine the Original preten* 
 ces of the Princes of the World. Thirdly, ( which, quitting the 
 difpute in general, is a particular judification of his Highnefs, ) 
 the Government of England was totally broken and dilTolved, 
 snd extinguilht by the confulions of a Civil War, lo that his 
 Highnels could not be acculed to have polTell himfelf violent- 
 ly of the ancient building of the C:mmon-wealth, but to have 
 prudently and peaceably built up a new one out of the ruins 
 and allies of the former , and he, who after a deplorable fhip- 
 wrack can with extraordinary indultry gather together the difc 
 peril and broken planks and pieces of it 5 and with nolefs won- 
 derful Art and Felicity lb rejoyn them, as to make anew Veilel 
 more tight and beautiful than the old one, deferves, no doubt, 
 to have the command of her, ( even as his Highnels had bvthe 
 delire of the Seamen and Paffengers themfelves.) And do but 
 coniider lallly, (for I omit a multitude of weighty things, that 
 might be fpoken upon this noble argument , ) do but coniider le- 
 rioully and impartially with yourfelf, what admirable parts of 
 wit and prudence, what indefatigable diligence and invincible 
 Courage mud: of necelTity have concurred in the perfon of that man 
 who, from fo contemptible beginnings (as I oblerved beforehand 
 through fo many thoufand difficulties, was able not only to make 
 himfelf the greatell and mod: abfolute Monarch of this Nation, 
 but to add to it the intire Conquellof lrelandand Scotland , (which 
 the whole force of the World joyned with the Roman virtue 
 could never attain to , ) and to Crown all this with Uludrious and 
 Heroical undertakings and fuccels upon all our foreign Ene- 
 mies, do but (I fay again, J confider this, and you will confefe, 
 that his prodigious merits were abetter Title to Imperial Dig- 
 nity , than the Blood of an hundred Royal progenitors ,* and 
 Will rather lament that, lie lived not to overcome "more Nations, 
 
 than 
 
Government of Oliver Cromwel. 6 
 
 than envy him the Conqueft and Dominion of thefe. Whoever 
 you are ( laid I, my indignation making me fomwhat bolder, ) 
 your difcourfe ( methinks, J becomsas little the perlon of a Tu- 
 telar Angel, as Cromwel s actions did that of a Prote£lor. It 
 is upon thefe Principles, that all the great Crimes of the World 
 have been commited, and moft particularly thofe which I have 
 had the misfortune to fee in my own time, and in my own Coun- 
 try. If thefe be to be allowed, we muff break up human Socie- 
 ty, retire into the Woods, and equally there (land upon our 
 Guards againft our Brethren Mankind, and our Rebels the Wild 
 Beaffs. For if there can be nollfurpation upon the Rights of a 
 whole Nation, there can be none mod: certainly upon thofe of a 
 private perlon ; and if the Robbers of Countries be Gods Vice- 
 gerents, there is no doubt but the Thieves and Bandito’s, and 
 Murderers are his under-Officers. It is true which you fay, that 
 God is the Source and Fountain of all Power, and it is no lefstrue 
 that he is the Creator of Serpents as well as Angels ; nor does 
 his goodnefs fail of its ends even in the malice of his own Crea- 
 tures. What Power he differs the Devil to exercife in this World, 
 is too apparent by our daily experience, and by nothing more 
 than the late monlfrous iniquities which youdifputefor, and pa- 
 tronize in England 3 but would you infer from thence, that the 
 power of the Devil is a juft and lawful one, and that all men 
 ought, as well as moff men do, obey him; God is the fountain 
 of all Powers ; but feme flow from the right hand fas it were,) of 
 his Goodnefs, and others from the left hand of his J uftice ; and the 
 World, like an Illand between thefe two Rivers, is lomtimes re- 
 frefht and nourifht by the one, and lomtimes over-run and ruin’d 
 by the other ; and f to continue a little farther the Allegory,) we 
 are never over-whelm’d by the later, till either by our malice 
 or negligence we have flopt and damm’d up the former. But to 
 come up a little clofer to your argument, or rather the Image of 
 an argument , your dmilitude ; If Cromwel had come to Com- 
 mand in Ireland in the place of the late Lord Strafford, I fhould 
 have yielded obedience, not for the equipage, and the ilrength, 
 and the Guards which he brought with him, but for the Commift 
 fion which he fhould firft have file wed me from our common 
 Sovereign which fent him 3 and if he could have done that from 
 God Almighty, I would have obeyed him too in England ; but 
 that he was lo far from being able to do, that on the contrary, 
 I read nothing but Commands, and even publick Proclamations 
 from God Almighty, not to admit him. Your fecond Argument 
 is, that he had the fame right for his Authority, that is the foun- 
 dation of ail others, even the right of Conqueft. Are we then lo 
 Unhappy as to he conquer’d by theperfon, whom we hired at a 
 daily rate, like a labourer, to conquer others for us ? Did we fur- 
 nifh him With Arms, only to draw and try upon our Enemies 
 fas we, itfeemsjfalfely thought them J and keep them for ever 
 fheath’d in the bowels of his Friends > Did we fight for Liberty 
 atgamft our Prince, that we might become Slaves to our Servant > 
 
 This 
 
 
6 4 . 
 
 A ‘ Difcourfe concerning the 
 
 This is fuch an impudent pretence,as neither He nor any of his flat- 
 terers tor him had ever the face to mention. Tho it can hard- 
 ly be fpoken or thought of without paffion, yet I fhall, if you 
 pleale, argue it more calmly than the cafe deferves. The right 
 certainly of Conqueft can only be exercifed upon thofe againft 
 whom the War is declared, and the Victory obtained. So that 
 no whole Nation can be faid to be conquered but by foreign 
 force. In all Civil Wars men are fo far from ftating the quarrel 
 againft their Country,that they doit only againft a perfon or par- 
 ty which they really believe, or at leaft pretend, to be pernicious 
 to it ; neither can there be any juft caule for the deftru&ion of a 
 part of the Body, but when it is done for the prefervation and 
 fafety of the whole. ’Tis our Country that raifes men in the quar- 
 rel, our Country that arms, our Country that pays them, our 
 Country that authorifes the undertaking, and by thardiftinguifhes 
 it from Rapine and Murder : Laftly, ’tis our Country that di- 
 reds and commands the Army, and is indeed their General. So 
 that to fay in Civil Wars, that the prevailing party conquers their 
 Country, is to fay, the Country conquers itfelf. And if the 
 General only of that party be the Conqueror, the Army, by which 
 he is made fo, is no lefs conquered than the Army which is 
 beaten, and have as little reafon to Triumph in that Vidory, 
 by which they lofe both their Honour and Liberty. So that if 
 Cromwtl conquer’d any party, it was only that againft which he 
 was fent, and what that was, muft appear by his Commiftion. 
 It was ( fays That,) againft a company of evil Counfellors, and 
 dilafteded perfons, who kept the King from a good Intelligence 
 and Conjunction with his People. It was not then againft the Peo- 
 ple 5 it is fo far from being fo, that even of that party which was 
 beaten, the Conqueft did not belong to Crormvd , but to the Par- 
 liament which employed him in their lervice, or rather indeed to 
 the King and Parliament ; for whole lervice ( if there had been 
 any faith in mens Vows and ProteftationsJ the Wars were under- 
 taken. Verciful God ! did the right of this milerable Conqueft 
 remain then in his Majefty, and did’ft thou luffer him to bede- 
 ftroyed with more barbarity than if he had been Conquer’d even 
 by Savages and Cannibals? Was it for King and Parliament that 
 we fought, and has it fared with them juft as with the Army which 
 we fought againft, the one part being Bain, and the other fled ? It 
 appears therefore plainly, that Cromxvd was not a Conqueror, 
 but a Thief and a Robber of the Rights of the King and Parlia- 
 ment, and an Llfurper upon thofe of the People. I do not here 
 deny Conqueft to be fomtimes (tho it be very rarely, ) a 
 true Title, but I deny this to be a true Conqueft. Sure lam, that 
 tfie race of our Princes came not in by fuch a one. . One Nati- 
 on may conquer another fomtimes juftly, and if it be unjuftly, 
 yetftill it is a true Conqueft, and they are to anfwer for the in- 
 Utftice only to God Almighty ( having nothing elfein authority 
 above them,) and not as particular Rebels to their Country, 
 which is, and ought al ways to be, their Superior, and their Lords. 
 
I 
 
 Government of Oliver Cromwel. 65 
 
 If perhaps we find lll'urpation inllead of Canquoft in the Origi- 
 nal Titles of fiome Royal Families abroad, ( as no doubt tliere 
 have been many U fur per s before ours, though none in lo impu- 
 dent and execrable a manner , ) all I can fay for them is, That their 
 Title was very weak, till by length of time, and the death of all 
 juiler pretenders, it became to be the true, be:caufe it was the 
 only one. Your third Defence of his Highnefs (as your High- 
 nels pleafes to call him,) enters in mod: feafonably after his pre- 
 tence of Conqueff, for then a Man may fay any thing. The 
 Government was broken ; Who broke it ? It was dilfolved , 
 
 Who dilfolved it ? It was extinguifht ; Who was it but Crom- 
 rvel , who not only put out the Light, but caff aw ay even the 
 very Snuff of it ? As if a Man fliould murder a whole Family, 
 and then polfefs himfelf the Houle, becaufe ’tis better that he, 
 than that only Rats fhould live there. Jefus God ! (laid I,) and 
 at that Word I perceived my pretended Angel to give a Ifarf, 
 and trembled, but I took no notice of it, (and w r ent on,) this 
 were a wicked pretenfion even though the whole Family were 
 deflroyed, but the Heirs (blelfed be God ! ) are yet furviving, 
 and likely to outlive all Heirs of their difpoflelfors, befides their 
 Infamy. Rode Caver vitem , 8cc. There will be yet Wine enough 
 left for the Sacrifice for thofe wild Bealls that have made fo much 
 fpoil in the Vineyard. Tut did Cromwel think, like Nero , to let 
 the City on Fire, only that he might have the honor of being 
 Founder of a new* and more beautiful one He could not have 
 fuch a (hadow of Virtue in his Wickednefs * he meant only to rob 
 more fecurely, and more richly in midft of the combuftion j he lit- 
 tle thought then, that he fhould ever have been able to make him- 
 felf Mailer of the Palace, as well as plunder the Goods of the 
 Common-wealth. He was glad to fee the publick Velfel (the 
 Sovereign of the Seas,) in asdefperate a condition as his own lit- 
 tle Canow , and thought only with fome lcattered planks of that 
 great Shipwrack to make a better Fifher-boat for himfelf. But 
 when he law, that by the drowning of the Mailer, (whom he him- 
 felf treacheroufly knockt on the head, as he wasfwimming for his 
 life,) by the flight and difperfion of others, and cowardly pati- 
 ence of the remaining company, that all was abandoned to his 
 pleafure, with the old Hulk, and new mifhapen, and difagreeing 
 pieces of his own, he made up with much ado that Piratical Vel- 
 fel which we have feen him command, and which, how tight in- 
 deed it was, may bell be judged by its perpetual leaking. Firfl 
 then, (much more wicked than thole fool ilia Daughters in the 
 Fable, who cut their old Father into pieces, in hope by charms 
 atfd witchcraft to make him young and lully again,) this Man en- 
 deavoured to dellroy the Building, before he could imagine in 
 what Manner, with what Materials, by what Workmen, or what 
 Archiie£l it was to be rebuilt. Secondly, if he had dreamt himfelf 
 to be able to revive that Tody which he had killed , yet it had 
 been but the infupportable infolence of an ignorant Mounte- 
 bank 3 And Thirdly, (which concerns us nea re'll,) that very new 
 
 Nun thing 
 
y/ 'Difcourjc concerning the 
 
 thing which lie made out of thq ruins of the old, is no more like 
 the Original, either for Beauty, Ufe, or Duration, than an arti- 
 ficial Plant, railed by the Fire of a Chymift, is comparable to the 
 true and natural one which he firft burnt, that out of the Afhesof 
 it he might produce an imperfect fimilitude of his own making. 
 Your laft Argument is fuch, (when reduced toSyllogifm,) that 
 the Major Proposition of it would make ftrange work in the 
 World, if it were received for Truth ; to wit, that he who has 
 the belt parts in a Nation, has the Right cf being King over it. 
 We had enough to do here of old with the contention between 
 two branches of the fame Family, What would become of us, 
 when every Man in England fhould lay his claim to the Govern- 
 ment ? And truly if Cromwel fhould have commenced his Plea 
 when hefeemsto have begun his Ambition, there were few per- 
 fons befides that might not at the lame time have put in theirs 
 too. But his Deferts I fuppofe you will date from the lame term 
 that I do his great Demerits, that is, from the beginning of our 
 late Calamities, (for, as for his private Faults before, I can only* 
 wilh, (and that with as much charity to him as to the publick,) 
 that he had continued in them till his death, rather than chang- 
 ed them for thofe of his later days,) and therefore we muff be- 
 gin the confideration of his greatnefs from the unlucky y£ra of 
 our own misfortunes 5 which puts me in mind of what was laid 
 lels truly of Pompey the Great, Nofira mifena Magnus es. But 
 becaule the general ground of your argumentation confifts in 
 this ; That all Men who are the effeQors of extraordinary Mu- 
 tations in the World , muft needs have extraordinary forces of 
 Nature, by which they are enabled to turn about, as theypleafe, 
 fo great a Wheel, I fhall (peak firft a few words upon this uni- 
 verlal Propofition, which leems fo reafonable, and is fo popu- 
 lar, before I defeend to the particular examination of the emi- 
 nencies of that Perfon which is in queftion. 
 
 I have often obferved, (with all fubmiffion and refignation of 
 Spirit to theinlcrutable Myfteries of Eternal Providence,) that 
 when the fulneftand maturity of time is come, that produces the 
 great confufions and changes in the World, it ufually pleales 
 Cod to make it appear by the manner of them, that they are not 
 the effetts of human Force or Policy, but of the Divine Juftice 
 and Predeftination ; And though we fee a Man like that which 
 we call ^ach of the Clock-houfe, ftriking as it were the hour of 
 that fulnels of time, yet our Reafon muft needs be convinced, 
 that his Hand is moved by fome fecret, and, to us that ftand with- 
 out, invifible direbtion ; and the Stream of the Current is then 
 fo violent, that the ftrongeft Men in the world cannot draw up 
 againft it, and none are lb weak, but they may fail down with 
 it. Thefe are the Spring-Tides of publick affairs, which we fee 
 often happen, but feek in vain to difeover any certain caufes. 
 
 Omnia 
 
( government of Oliver Cromwel. 
 
 6 1 
 
 Omnia fluminis 
 
 Ritu feruntur , nunc medio alveo 
 Cum pace delabentis Hetrufcum 
 In mare , nunc lapides adefos . 
 
 Stirpeflqne raptas, & peers* & domos 
 Volventis una , non fine montium 
 Clamore , vicinaque fylva ; 
 
 Cum ftra Diluvies quietos 
 Irritat amnes , 
 
 and one Man then, by malicioufly opening all the Sluces that 
 hecancomeat, can never be the foie Author of all this, (though 
 he may be as guilty, as if really he were, by intending and imagi- 
 ning to be fo,) but it is God that breaks up the Flood-Gates of 
 fb general a Deluge ,and all the Art then and Induftry of Mankind 
 is not fufficientto raife up Dikes and Ramparts againft it.* In fuch 
 a time it was as this, that not all the Wifdom and Power of' the 
 Roman Senate , nor the Wit and Eloquence of Cicero , nor the 
 Courage and Virtue of Brutus, was able to defend their Coun- 
 try or themlelvesagainft: the unexperienced rafhnefsof.a Beard- 
 lefs Boy, and the loofe rage of a voluptuous Mad-man. The va- 
 lour and prudent Counfels on the one fide are made fruitlels, and 
 the errors- and cowardife on the other harmlefs, by unexpebled 
 accidents. The one General laves his life, and gains the whole 
 World, by a very dream ; and the other loles both at once by a 
 little miftake of the Ihortnels of his fight. ‘And though this be 
 not always lo, for we feethat in the Tranfiation of the great 
 Monarchies from one to another, it pleafed God to make choice 
 of the molt eminent Men in Nature, as Cyrus, Alexander , Scipio , 
 and his Contemporaries, for his chief inftruments and aftors in 
 fo admirable a work, (the end of this being not only to deltroy 
 or punifh one Nation, which may be done by the word: of man- 
 kind, but to exalt and blefs another, which is only to be effected 
 by great and virtuous perfons,) yet when God only intends the 
 temporary chaftifement of a people, he does not raile up his fer- 
 vant Cyrus ) (ashehimlelf isplealedtocallhim,) or an Alexander , 
 (who had as many virtues to do good, as vices to do harm,) but 
 he makes the MaJfeneHoes , and the Johns of Leyden the inftru- 
 ments of his Vengeance, that the Power of the Almighty might 
 be more evident by the weaknefs of the means which he chooles 
 to demonftrate it. He did not afiemble the Serpents and the 
 Monfters of Africk to correct the Pride of the ^Egyptians , but cal* 
 led for his Armies of Locufts out of /Ethiopia, and formed new 
 ones of Vermin out of the very dull: ; and becaufe you lee a 
 whole Country deftroyed by thele, will you argue from thence 
 they pull needs have had both the craft of the Foxes, and the 
 courage of Lions ? It is eafie to apply this general obfervation to 
 the particular cale of our Troubles in England, and that they leem 
 only to be meant for a temporary- chaftifinent of our fins, and 
 
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 <58 A ‘Dijcowje concerning the 
 
 not for a total aboliihment of the old, and introduction of a new 
 Government, appears probably to me from theft confiderations, 
 as far as we may be bold to make a Judgment of the Will of God 
 in future events. Firfl, becaufe he has fullered nothing to fettle 
 or take root in the place of that which hath been fo unwifely and 
 unjuftly removed, that none of thefe untempered Mortars can 
 hold out againft the next bl'aft of Wind, nor any ffone flick to a 
 ftone, till that, which thefe foolifh Builders have refufed, be made 
 again the Head of the Corner. For when the indifpoftd and iong- 
 tormented Commonwealth hath wearied and fpent itftlf almoft 
 to nothing with the chargeable, various, and dangerous experi- 
 ments of leveral Mountebanks, it is to be fuppofed it will have 
 the wit at laid to fend for a true Phyfician, efpecially when it fees 
 (which is the fecond confideration,) mold evidently, (as it now 
 begins to do, and will do every day more and more, and might 
 have done perfectly long fince,) that no Lfurpation (under what 
 name or pretext foever,) can be kept up without open force, nor 
 forc'e without the continuance of thofe opprelFions upon the peo- 
 ple, which will at laid tire out their patience, though it be great, 
 even to flupidity. They cannot be fo dull, ( when poverty and hun- 
 ger begins to whet their underldanding,) as not, to find out this no 
 extraordinary My(dery,that it is madnefs in a Nation to pay Three 
 Millions a year for the maintaining of their fervitude under Ty- 
 rants, when they might live free for nothing under their Princes. 
 This, I fay, will not always lie hid, evento the flowed capacities: 
 And the next truth they will difeover afterwards is, That a whole 
 People can never have the Will, without having at the fame time 
 the Power to redeem themfelves. Thirdly, it does not look 
 (methinks,) as if God had forfaken the Family of that Man, 
 from whom he had raifed up five Children, of as eminent Vir- 
 tue, and all other commendable Qualities, as ever lived per- 
 haps (for fo many together, and fo young,) in any other Family 
 in the whole World ; efpecially, if we add hereto this confide- 
 ration, That by proteCling and preferving fomeof them already 
 through as great dangers as ever were pafl with fafety, either 
 by Prince or private perfon, he hath given them already (as we 
 may reafonably hope to be meant,) a promife and earnefl of 
 his future Favours. And laflly , (to return clofely to thd Difcoiirfe 
 from which 1 have a little digrefs’d,) becaufe I fee nothing of thofe 
 excellent parts of Nature, and mixture of Merit with their Vices, 
 in the late Diflurbers of our Peace and Happinefs, that ufes to be 
 found in the perfons of thofe who are born for the ere&ion of 
 new Empires. And l confefs I find nothing of that kind, no nor 
 any fhadow, (taking away the falft light of fome profperityj in 
 the Man whom you extol forthe firfl example of it. And certain- 
 ly all Virtues being rightly divided into Moral and Intelleclual, 
 
 I know not how we can better judge of the former, than by mens 
 Aflions, or of the later than by their Writings or Speeches, As 
 for thefe later, (which are lead in merit, or rather which are onlv 
 the inflruments of Mifehief, where the other are wanting,) I think 
 
 
r 
 
 Government of Oliver Cromwel. 
 
 yoi>can hardly pick out the Name of a Man whoever was called 
 Great, befides him we are now fpeaking of, who never left the 
 memory behind him of one wife or witty Apothegm, even a- 
 mongft his domeftick Secants or greateft Flatterers. That little 
 in print which remains upon a fad record for him, is fuch, as a Sa- 
 tyr againft him would not have madeTay, for fear of tranfgref- 
 ling too much the Rules of Probability/ I know not what you 
 can produce for the juftification of his Parts irt this kind, but his 
 having been able to deceive fo many particular perfons, and fo 
 many whole parties ; which if you pleafe to take notice of for 
 the advantage of his Intellectuals, I defire you to allow me the 
 liberty to do fo too, when l am to fpeakof Ins Morals. The truth 
 of the thing is this, That if Craft be Wifdom, and Diflimulation 
 Wit, ( affifted both and improved with Hypocrifiesand Perjuries,,) 
 
 I muff not deny him to hav^been fingular in both 3 but fo grofs 
 was the manner in which he made ufe of them, that as wife men 
 ought not to have believed him at firft, fo no man was fool e- 
 norugh to believe him at Iaft 5 neither did any man feem to do it, 
 but thofe'who thought they gained as much by that diffembling, • 
 as he did by his. His very adings of Godlinefs grew at laft as ri- 
 diculous, as if aJPlayerby putting on a Gown, fhould think he 
 reprefented excellently Woman, though tiis Beard at the fame 
 time were feen by all the,Spedators. If you ask me, why they did 
 not hifs and explode him off the Stage ? I can only anfwer, that 
 they durft not do fa, becaufe the A&ors and the Door-keepers 
 were too ftrong for the company. I muft confefs, that by thefe 
 Arts, (how.gr 9% foever managed, as by hypocritical praying, and 
 filly preaching, by unmanly tears and winnings, by fajfhoods and 
 perjuries, even diabolical,) he had at firft the good fortune (as 
 men call it, that is, the ill-fortune,) to attain his ends ; but it was 
 becaufe his ends were fo unreafbnable, that no human reafon could 
 forefee them ; which made them who had to do with him believe, 
 that he was rather a well-meaning and deluding Bigot, than a 
 crafty and malicious Impoftor ; that thefe Arts were helpt by aa 
 Indefatigable induftry, (as you term it,) lamfo far from doubting, 
 that I intended to object that diligence as the worft of his Crimes. 
 
 It makes me almoft mad, when I hear a man commended for his 
 diligence in wickednefs. If I were his Son, I fhould wifh to God 
 he had been a more lazy perfon, and that we might have' found 
 him fieeping at the hours when other men are ordinarily waking, 
 rather than waking for thofeends of his when other men were 
 ordinarily afleep ; how diligent the wicked are the Scripture of- 
 ten tells us, Their feet run to evil, and, they make hafts to jbed inno- 
 cent blood , Ifa. 59. 7. He travels- with iniquity, Pfal. 7. 14. He de* 
 vifeth m if chief upon his bed , Pfal. 54. 4. They fearch out iniquity , 
 they accomplish a diligent fearch , Pfal. 64. 6. And in a multitude of 
 other places. And would it not feem ridiculous to praife a Wolf 
 for his Watchfulnefs, and for his indefatigable induftry in ranging 
 all night about the Country, whii’ft the Sheep, and perhaps the 
 Shepherd, and perhaps the very Dogs too are all afleep ? 
 
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 The 
 
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 A ‘Difcourfe concerning the 
 
 The Chartreux wants the warning of a Bell 
 
 To call him to the duties of his Cell ; 
 
 Theroneeds no noife at all t’awaken fin, 
 
 Th’ Adulterer and die Thief his Larum has within. 
 
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 And if the Diligence of wicked Perfons be fo much to be 
 blamed, as that it is only an Emphafis and Exaggeration of their 
 wickednefs, I fee not how their courage can avoid the fame cen- 
 fiire. If the undertaking bold, and vaft, and unreafonable de- 
 figns can deferve that honourable Name, 1 am fure Faux and 
 his fellow Gunpowder-Fiends will have caufe to pretend, 'though 
 not an equal, yet at leaft the next pJace of Honour 5 neither can 
 I doubt, but if they fco had fucceeded, they would have found 
 their Applauders and Admirers. It was bold unqueftionabiy, 
 for a Man in defiance of all Human and Divine Laws, (and 
 with fo little probability of a long impunity,) fo publickly and To 
 outragioufly to murder his Mafter ; It w^asbold, with fo much 
 infolence and affront to expel and difperfe all the chief Partners 
 of his guilt, and Creators of his power ; It wasrbold, to violate 
 fo openly and fo fconnfully all A6ls and Conffitutions of a Na- 
 tion, and afterwards even of his own making ; It was bold to 
 affume the authority of Calling, and bolder yet of Breaking, fo 
 many Parliaments ; It W’asbold to trample upon the patience of 
 his, and provoke that of all neighbouring Countrys ; It was 
 bold, I fay, above all boldneftes, to Ufurp the Tyranny to him- 
 fe)f, and impudent above all impudences to endeavour to tranf- 
 mit it to his pofterity. But all this Boidnefs is fo fir from be- 
 ing a fign of manly Courage, which dares not tranfgrefs the rules 
 of any other Virtue, that it is only a Demonflration of Brutifh 
 Madnefs or Diabolical pofTeflion. In both which Iaft cafes, there 
 ufe frequent examples to appear of fuch extraordinary force, as 
 may juftly feem more wonderful and aftonifhing than theattions 
 of Cromml ; neither is it ft ranger to believe, that a whole Nation 
 fhould not be able to govern Him and a Mad Army,* than that 
 five or fix Men fhould not be ftrong enough to bind a diftra&ed 
 Girl. There is no man ever fucceeds in.one wickednefs, but it gives 
 him the boidnefs to attempt a greater ; T was boldly done of AV- 
 ro to kill his Mother, and all the chief Nobility of the Empire ; 
 Tvvas 'boldly done to fet the Metropolis of the wdiole World 
 on fire, and undauntedly play upon his Harp, whifft he law it 
 burning ; I could reckon up five hundred boldneftes of that Great 
 perfon, (for, Why fhould not He too be called fo ? ) who wanted, 
 wlien he was to die, that courage, which could hardly have failed 
 any Woman in the like necetfity. It would look (I muft con- 
 fers, ) like Envy, or too much partiality, if I fhould lay, that per- 
 fonal kind of courage had been deficient in the man we fpeakof; 
 I am confident it was not, and yet f may venture I think to af- 
 firm, that no Man ever bore the honour of fo many Vittories, 
 
Cj over nmcnt of Oliver CromweL 
 
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 i 
 
 at the rate of fewer wounds or dangers of his own body, and 
 though his valour might perhaps have given him a juft preten- 
 sion to one of the firft charges in an Army, it could not certain- 
 ly be a lufticient ground for a Title to the Command of three Na- 
 tions. What then (hall we fay, that he did ail this by Witch- 
 craft? He did fo indeed in a great meafureby. a fin that is called 
 like it in the Scriptures. But truly and unpaffionately resetting 
 upon the advantages of his perfon, which might be thought to 
 have produced thole of his fortune, I can cfpy no other but ex- 
 traordinary Diligence and infinite Diftimulation ; and believe, 
 he was exalted above his Nation, partly by his own Faults, bun 
 chiefly for Ours. We have brought him thus briefly (not 
 through all his Labyrinths,) to the Supre^m Ufurpt Authority v 
 and becaufc you fay it was great pity he did not live to command 
 more Kingdoms, be pleafed to let me reprefent to you in a few 
 words, how well I conceive he governed thefe. And we will 
 divide the conllderation into that of his Foreign and Dome- 
 ftick A&ions. The firft of his Foreign, was a Peace with our 
 Brethren of Holland > (who were the firft of our neighbours, that 
 Godchaftifed for having had fo great a hand in the encouraging 
 and abetting our troubles at home,) Who would not imagine at 
 firft glimpfe , that this had been the mod virtuous and laudable 
 deed that his whole Life could have made any parade of ? But no 
 man can look upon all the Circumftances, without perceiving that 
 it was purely the fale and facrificing of the greateft advantages 
 that this Country could ever hope, and was ready to reap from 
 a foreign War, to the private Interefts of his Covetoufnefs and 
 Ambition, and thefecurity of his new and unfetled Ufurpation, 
 No fooner is that danger paft, but this Beatus pacificus is kindling 
 a fire in the Northern World, a carrying a War' two thoufand 
 miles off Weft wards. Two Millions a year (befides all the Vails 
 of his Prote&orfhip,) is as little capable to fuffice now either his 
 Avarice or Prodigality, as the two Hundred pounds were that he 
 was born too. He mult have his prey of the whole Indies both by 
 Sea and Land, this great Aligator. To fatisfie our Anti-Solo- 
 mon, ( who has made Silver almoft as rare as Gold, and Gold as 
 precious Stones in his New JerufalemJ we muft go, ten thoufand 
 of his Slaves to fetch him Riches from hisfantaftical Opbir . And 
 becaufe his Flatterers brag of him as the moft fortunate Prince, 
 ( the Fauftus as well as Sylla of our Nation, whom God never 
 forfook in any of his undertakings,) I defire them to confider, 
 how fince the Engliflj Name was ever heard of, it never received 
 fo great and fo infamous a blow, as under the imprudent Conduct 
 of this unlucky Fauftus ; and herein let me admire the fuftice of 
 God in this eircumftance, that they who had enflaved their 
 Country, (though a great Army, which I wifh may beobferved 
 by ours with trembling,) fhould be fo fhamefully defeated by 
 the hands of forty Slaves. It was very ridiculous to fee, how preN 
 tily they endeavoured to hide this ignominy under the great 
 name of the Conqueft of Jamaica, as if a defeated Army fhould 
 
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 72 
 
 have the impudence to brag afterwards of the Vidory, becaufe 
 though they had fled out of the field of Battel, yet they quar- 
 tered that night in a Village of the Enemies. The War with 
 Spain was a neceflary confequence of this Folly, and how much 
 we have gotten by it, let the Ct<Jlom-houfe and Exchange inform 
 you; and if he pleafe to boaftof the taking a part of the Silver 
 Fleet, (which indeed no body elfe but he, who was the foie gain- 
 er, hath caufe to do,) at leaft, let him give leave to the reft of the 
 Nation (which is the only loler,; to complain of, the lofs of twelve 
 hundred of her Ships. But becaufe it may here perhaps be anfwer- 
 ed, that his Succelfes nearer home have extinguifh’d the difgrace 
 of fo remote Mifcarriages, and that Dunkirk ought more to be 
 remembred for his Glory, than S. Domingo for his Difedvantage $ 
 I inuft confeft, as to the honor of the EngliJJj Courage, that they 
 were not wanting upon that occafion f excepting only the fault 
 of ferving, at leaft, indirectly againft their Mafter,) to the uphold- 
 ing of the renown of their warlike Anceftors. But for his parti- 
 cular fhare of it, who fate ftill at home, and expofed them fo 
 frankly abroad, I can only fay, that for lefs Money than he, in the 
 fhort time of his Reign, exaCfed from his fellow-SubjeCts, ICme of 
 our former Princes (with the daily hazard of their own per- 
 Ions, ) have added to the Dominion of England , not only one 
 T own, but even ^ greater Kingdom than it f elf. And this being 
 all confiderable as concerning his Enterprifes abroad, let us exa- 
 mine in the next place, how much we owe him for his Juftice and 
 good Government at home. And firft, he found the Common- 
 wealth (as then they called itj in ready ftockof about Socooo /. 
 he left the Common-wealth fas he had the impudent raillery ftill 
 to call it,) fome two millions and a half in debt. He found our 
 Trade very much decayed indeed, in companion of the Golden 
 times of our late Princes , he left it as much again more decayed 
 than he found it ; and yet not only no Prince in England , but 
 no Tyrant in the World ever fought out more bafe or infamous 
 means to raife Moneys. I fhall only inftance in one that he put 
 in praClice, and another that he attempted, but was frighted 
 from the execution (even he,) by the infamy of it. That which he 
 put in pradice was Decimation ; which was the moft impudent 
 breach of all publick Faith that the whole Nation had given, and 
 all private capitulations which himlelf had made, as the Nations 
 General and Servant 5 , that can be found out (I believe,) in all 
 Hiftory, from any of the moft barbarous Generals of the moft 
 barbarous People. W hich becaufe it hath been moft excellently 
 and moft largely laid open, by a whole Book written upon that 
 SubjeCt, I fhall only defire you here to remember the thing in 
 general, and be pleafed to look upon that Author when you 
 would recoiled: all the particulars and circumftances of the Iniqui- 
 ty. The other defign of railing a prefentfumof Money, which he 
 violently perlued, butdurft not put in execution, was by the cal- 
 ling in-and cftablifhment of the Jews at London ; from which he 
 was rebuked by the u ni verbal out-cry of the Divines, and even ot 
 
tjova nmcni of Oliver Cromwel. 
 
 the Citizens too, who took it ill that a confiderable number, at 
 leaft among them (elves, were not thought. Jews enough by their 
 own Herod, and for this defign they law he invented ( OhAn- 
 tichrift ! nov»&v and iiovr,?<9- ) to fell S. Pauls to them for a Syna- 
 gogue, if their purfesand devotions could have reacht to the pur- 
 chafe. And this indeed if he had done only to reward that Nati- 
 on, which had given the fir ft noble example of crucifiing their 
 King, it might have had fbme appearance of Gratitude, but he did 
 it only for love to their Mammon ; and would have fold after- 
 wards for as much more S. Peters ( even at his own Weftmtnfler,) 
 to the Turks for a Mo f quito-. Such was his extraordinary Piety to 
 God, that he delired he might be worfhipped in all manners, ex- 
 cepting only that Heathenifh way of the Common- Prayer-Book. 
 But, what do I (peak of his wicked inventions for getting Mo- 
 ney ? when every peny th.at for almoft five years he took every 
 day from every man living in England, Scotland , and Ireland , was 
 as much Robbery, as if it had been taken by a Thief upon the 
 High-ways. Was it not fo ? or. Can any man think that Crom* 
 rvel t with the affiftence of his Forces and Mofs-Troopers, had 
 more right to the command of all mens purfes, than he might 
 have had to any ones whom he had met and been too ftrong for 
 upon a &oad ? And yet when this came, in the cafe of Mr .Coney, to 
 be difputed by a legal Tryal,he ( which was the higheft a St of Ty- 
 ranny that ever was feen in England, ^ not only difcouraged and 
 threatned, but violently impriloned,the Council of the Plaintiff’; 
 that is, he fhut up the Law itfelf clofe Prifbner, that no man 
 might have relief from, or accefs to it. And it ought to be re- 
 membred., that this was done by thofe Men, who a few years be- 
 fore had fo bitterly decried, and openly oppofed the Kings regular 
 and formal w’ay of proceeding in the Tryalof a little Ship-mo- 
 ney. But tho we loft the benefit of our old Courts of Ju- 
 ftice, it cannot be denyed that he fet up new ones ; and fuch they 
 were, that as no virtuous Prince before would, fo no ill one 
 durft,ere£t. What, have we lived fo many hundred years under 
 fuch a form of Juftice as has been able regularly to punifh all men 
 that offend againft it, and is it fo deficient juft now, that we 
 muft feekout new ways how to proceed againft offenders? The 
 reafon which can only be given in nature for a necefTuy of this, 
 
 is, Becaufe thofe things are now made Crimes, which were ne- 
 ver efteemed fo in former Ages ; and there muft needs be a new 
 Court fet up to punilhthat, which all the old ones were bound 
 to protect and reward.But I amfofar from declaiming/ as you call 
 
 it, ) againft thefe wickedneffes/ which if I fliould undertake to do, 
 i fhould never get to the Peroration, ) that you fee I only give a 
 hint of fbme few, and pafsover the reft as things that are too 
 many to be numbered, and muft only be weighed in grofs. Let 
 any man fhew me, ( for tho I pretend not to much reading, l 
 will defie him, in all Hiftory ) let any man (hew me / 1 fay J £n Ex- 
 ample of any Nation in the World, ( tho much greater than 
 ours , ) where there have in the fpace of four years been made fo 
 
 Ooo many 
 
A 'Difcourfe concerning the 
 
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 many Prifoners only out of the endlefs jealoufies of one Ty- 
 rants guilty imagination. I grant you, that Minus and Sylla, and 
 the curled Triumvirate after them, put more People to death, 
 but the reafon I think partly was, becaufe in thofe times that had 
 a mixture of feme honour with their madnefs, they thought it 
 a more civil revenge againft a Roman to take away his life, than 
 to take away his Liberty. But truly in the point of murder too, 
 we have little reafon to think that our late Tyranny lias been de- 
 ficient to the examples that have ever been let it in other Coun- 
 tries. Our Judges and our Courts of Juftice have not been 
 idle; And to omit the whole Reign of our late King, ( till the 
 beginning of the War,) in which no drop of blood was ever drawn 
 but from two or three Ears, I think the longed: time of our 
 word: Princes fcarce faw many more Executions than the fhort 
 one of our bled: Reformer. And we faw, and fmelt in our 
 open Streets, ( as I markt to you at firli , ) the broyling of human 
 bowels as a bu’rnt-Offering of a fweet Savour to our Idol } but all 
 murdering, and all torturing ( tho after the fubtilefl inventi- 
 on of his Predeceffors of Sicilie , ) is more Human and more Sup- 
 portable, than his felling of Chriflians, Englifhmen, Gentlemen ; 
 his felling of them, ( oh monftrous ! oh incredible \ ) to be flaves 
 in America . If his whole life could be reproacht with no other 
 a&ion, yet this alone would weigh down all the multiplicity of 
 Crimes in any one of our Tyrants ; and l dare only touch, without 
 flopping or infilling upon fo infolent and fo execrable a cruelty, 
 for fear of falling into fo violent ( tho a juft , ) paflion, as 
 would make me exceed that temper and moderation, which I re- 
 folve to obferve in this difcourfe with you. Thefe are great 
 calamities ; but even thefe are not the mod: infupportable that 
 we have indured ; for fo it is, that the fcorn and mockery and 
 iniulrings of an Enemy are more painful than the deeped wounds 
 of his ferious fury. This Man was wanton and merry (un witti- 
 ly and ungracefully merry,) with our Bufferings 5 He loved to fay 
 and do fencelefs and fantadical things, only to fhew his power of 
 doing or faying any thing. It would ill befit mine, or any civil 
 Mouth, to repeat thofe words which he fpoke concerning the 
 mod: f acred of our Englijh Laws, the Petition of right, and 
 Magna Chart a. To day you fhould fee him ranting fo wildly, 
 that no body durft come near him, the morrow dinging of 
 eufhions, and playing at Snow-balls with his Servants. This 
 month he aifembles a Parliament, and profeffes himfelf with 
 HL1MBLE TEARS to beonly their Servant and their Minider 5 
 the next Monthhefwearsby the LIVING GOD, that he will turn 
 them out of doors, and he does fo, in his. Princely way of threat- 
 ning, bidding them, Turn the buckles of their Girdles behind 
 them. The Reprefentativeof a whole, nay of three whole, Na- 
 tions was in his efleem fo contemptible a meeting, that he 
 thought the affronting and expelling of them to be a thing of fo 
 little confequence, as not to deferve that he fhould advife with 
 any mortal man about it. What fhall we call this ? BoIdnefs,or 
 
 Brutifhnefs ? 
 
Government of Oliver Crorriwel. 
 
 Brutifhnefs ? Rafbnels, or Pkrenfie? there is no name can come 
 
 up to it, and therefore we mud: leave it without one. Now a 
 
 Parliament mull: be chofen in the new manner, next time in the 
 
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 old form, but all cafhiered ftill after the neweft mode. Now he 
 will govern by Major Generals, now by One Houle, now by ano- 
 ther Houle, now by no Houfe ; now the freak takes him, and 
 he makes leventy Peers of the Land at one clap ( Ex tempore 
 and ftans pede in uno , ) and to manifed the abfolute power of the 
 Potter, he chooles not only the word: Clay he could find, but 
 picks up even the Dirt and Mire, to form out of it hisVefiels of 
 Honour. It was anciently Paid of Fortune, that when fhe had a 
 mind to be merry and divert herlelf, fhe was wont to raife up 
 fuch kind of people to thehigheft Dignities. This Son o'f For- 
 tune, Cromw el ( who was himfelf one of the primed of her Jeds,; 
 found out the true haut-gud of this plealurc,and rejoyced in 
 the extravagance of his ways as the fulled demondration of his 
 uncontroulable Sovereignty. Good God ! What have wefeen ? 
 and, What have we differed ? What do all thefe a&ions fignifie ? 
 What do they fay aloud to the whole Nation, but this, f even as 
 plainly as if it were proclaimed by Heralds through the Streets of 
 j London,) You are Slaves and Fools, and fo I’ll ule you ? Thefe 
 are briefly a part of thole merits, which you lament to have wanted 
 the reward of more Kingdoms, and fuppofe that if he had lived 
 longer he might have had them ; Which I am fo far from con- 
 curring to, that I believe his fealbnable dying to have been a 
 greater good fortune to him than all the vi&ories and profperi- 
 ties of his Life. For he feemed evidently ( methinks,) to be near 
 the end of his deceitful Glories ; his own Army grew at lad as wea- 
 ry of him, as the red of the People ; and I never pafs’d of late before 
 his Palace, ( His, do I call it ? I ask God and the King pardon, ) 
 but I never pad of late before Whitehd without reading upon 
 the Gate of it, Mene , Mene r Tekel y Vpharfjn. But it pleafed God 
 to take him from the ordinary Courts of men, and Juries of his 
 Peers, to his own High Court of Judice, which being more merci- 
 ful than Ours below, there is a little room yet left for the hope 
 of his friends, if he have any ; th6 the outward unrepentance 
 of his death afford butfmall Materials for the work of Chari- 
 ty, efpeciallyifhedefigned even then to Entail his own injudice 
 upon his Children, and, by it, inextricable confuflons and Civil 
 Wars upon the Nation. But here’s at lad an end of him 5 And 
 where’s now the fruit of all that blood and calamity which his 
 ambition has cod the World ? Where is it ? Why , his Son 
 ( you’l fay,; has the whole Crop; I doubt he will find it 
 quickly flatted ; I have nothing to fayagainft the Gentleman, 
 or any Jiving of his Family $ on the contraoy, I wifh him better 
 fortune than to have a long and unquiet polTelTion of his Ma- 
 tters inheritance. Whatfbever I have fpoken againfthis Father, 
 is that, which I would have thought ( tho Decency perhaps 
 might have hindred me from laying it, ; even againft mine own, 
 
 O 0 0 2 if 
 
A Difcourfe concerning the 
 
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 if I had been fo unhappy, as that Mine by the fame ways fhould 
 have left me three Kingdoms. 
 
 Here I ffopt ; and my pretended Proteblor, who I expected 
 fhould have been very angry, fell a laughing , it feems at the 
 fimplicity of my difcourfe, for thus he replyed : You feem to pre- 
 tend extreamly to the old obfolete rules of Virtue and Confci- 
 ence, which makes me doubt yery much whether from the vaft 
 prolpedl of three Kingdoms, you can fhew me any acres of your 
 own. But thefe are lb far from making you a Prince, that I am 
 afraid your friends will never have the contentment to lee youfo 
 much as a Juftice of Peace in your own Country: For this I 
 perceive which you call Virtue , is nothing elfe, but either the 
 frowardnefs of a Cynick, or the lazinefs of an Epicurean. Iam 
 glad you allow me, at leaft, Artful DilTmulation, and unwearied 
 Diligence in my Heroe ; and I affure you, That he, w 7 hole life is con- 
 Ifantly drawn by thofe two, fball never be milled out of the way 
 of Greatnefs. But I fee you are a Pedant, and Platonical States- 
 man, a Theorical Commonwealths-man, an Utopian Dreamer. 
 Were ever Riches gotten by your Golden Mediocrities? or the 
 Supream place attained to by Virtues that muff not ftir out of 
 the middle Do you ftudy Jriftotle* s Politicks, and write, if you 
 pleale, Comments upon them, and let another but pra&ife Mt* 
 chiAvel , and let us fee then which of you two will come to the 
 greateft preferments. If the defire of Ruleand Superiority bea 
 Virtue ( as, fure I am, it is more imprinted in Human Nature 
 than any of your Lethargical Morals ; and what is the Virtue of 
 any Creature, but the exerciie of thofe Powers and Inclinations 
 which God hath infufed intuit ? } Ii that ( I fay,) be Virtue, we 
 ought not to efteem any thing Vice, which is the moll proper, 
 if not the only means of attaining of it. . . 
 
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 It is a Truth lb certain and fo clear, 
 
 That to the firft-born Man: it did appear ; 
 
 Did not the mighty Heir, the noble Cai/7, 
 
 By the frefh Laws, of Nature taught, difdain 
 That ( thoa Brother, ) any one fliould be <■ 
 
 A greater Favourite to Cod than He ? 
 
 He ftruck hftn down ; and fo, ( faid He, ) fo fell 
 The Sheep which thou did’ft Sacrifice fo well. 
 
 Since all the fulleft Sheaves which I could brings 1 
 : §ipce all were blafted in? the Offerings 
 
 Left God fhould my next Vi&im too defpife, 
 
 The acceptable Prieft I’ft Sacrifice. 
 
 Hence Coward Fears; for the firft blood fo fpilc,* 
 
 Asa Reward, He the firft City builtk : 
 
 ’F was a beginning generous and high. 
 
 Fit for a Grand-child of the Deity. 
 
 . So well advanc’d, t’was pity there lie ftaid ; 
 
 One ftep of dory more he fliould have made, 
 n ' l o o O 
 
 And 
 
Government of Oliver Cromwel. 
 
 And to the utmoft bounds of Greatnefs gone ; 
 
 Had Adam too been kill’d, he might have Reign’d alone. 
 One Brothers death, what do I mean to name ? 
 
 A fmall Oblation to Revenge and Fame: 
 
 The mighty- foul’d Abimekch , to fhew 
 What for high place a higher Spirit can do, 
 
 A Hecatomb almoft of Brethren flew, 
 
 And feventy times in neareft blood he dy’d 
 (To make it hold ) his Royal Purple-pride. 
 
 Why do I name the Lordly Creature Man ? 
 
 The weak, the mild, the Coward Woman can* 
 
 When to a Crown Hie cuts her facred way. 
 
 All that oppofe with Manlike Courage flay. • 
 
 So Athdiah , when fhe faw her Son, 
 
 And with his Life her dearer Greatnefs gone. 
 
 With a Majeftick fury flaughter’d alt 
 Whom high birth might to high pretences call. 
 
 Since he was dead who all her power fuftain’d, 
 
 Refolv’d to Reign alone $ Refblv’d and Reign’d. 
 
 In vain her Sex, in vain the Lawswithftood, 
 
 In vain the facred plea of David 1 s Blood, 
 
 A noble, and a bold contention, fhe, 
 
 (One Woman, ) undertook with deftinie, 
 
 She to pluck down, Deft iny to uphold, 
 
 ( Oblig’d by holy Oracles of old, ) 
 
 - The great Jeffgan Race on Judah 1 s Throne ; 
 
 Till ’ewas at laft an equal Wager grown. 
 
 Scarce Fate, with much ado, the better got by One. 
 
 Tell me not, fhe herfelf at laft was flain ? 
 
 Did (he not fir ft feven years ( a Life time, ) reign ? 
 
 Seven Royal years to a publick fpirit will feem 
 More than the private Life of a Methufelem . 
 
 ’Tis God-like to be Great j and as they fay, 
 
 A thoufend years to God are but a day : 
 
 So to a Man when once a Crown he wears, 
 
 The Coronation day’s more than a thoufand years. 
 
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 He would have gone on I perceived in his blafphemies,but that 
 by Gods Grace I became fo bold as thus to interrupt him. I 
 underhand now perfe&Iy, (which I gueft at long before,) what 
 kind of Angel and Prote&or you are $ and thd your llyle in 
 Verfe be very much mended finceyou were wont to deliver O 
 racles, yet your Do&rine*is much worfe than ever you had for- 
 merly ( that I heard of , ) the face to publifh 5 whether your long 
 pra&ice with mankind has increas’d and improv’d your malice, or, 
 whether you think Us in this Age to be grown fo' impudently 
 wicked, that there needs no more Art or Difguifes to draw us 
 to your party. My Dominion ( laid he haftily , and with a 
 dreadful furious look, ) is fo great in this World, and I am fo 
 powerful a Monarch of it, that I need not be afhamed that you 
 
 fhould 
 
y S A ‘Difcour/e concerning the 
 
 fhould know me ; and that you may fee I know you too, I know 
 you to be an obftinateand inveterate Malignant ; and for that 
 reafon I (hall take you along with me to the next Garifon of Ours $ 
 from whence you (hall go to the Tower, and from thence to the 
 Court of Juftice, and from thence you knorw whither. I was al- 
 moft in the very pounces of the great Bird of prey. 
 
 When, lo, e’re the laft words were fully (poke. 
 
 From a Fair Cloud, which rather op’d than broke, 
 
 A flafh of Light rather than Lightning came, 
 
 So fwift and yet fo gentle was the Flame. 
 
 Upon it rode, and in his full Career 
 Seem’d to my Eyes no fooner There than Here, 
 
 The comlieft Youth of all th* Angelick Races 
 Lovely his fhape, ineffable his Face. 
 
 The Frowns, with which he ftruck the trembling Fiend, 
 
 All fmiles of Human Beauty did tranfeend. 
 
 His Beams of Locks fell part difheveU’d down, 
 
 Part upwards curl’d, and form’d a nat’ral Crown, 
 
 Such as the Briti{h Monarchs us’d to wear. 
 
 If Gold may be compar’d with Angels Hair. 
 
 His Coat and flowing Mantle were lo bright, 
 
 They feem’d both made of woven Silver Light : 
 
 Acrofs his Breaft an azure Ribon went. 
 
 At which a Medal hung that did prefent, 
 
 In wondrous living Figures tothe fight, 
 
 The myflick Champions and old Dragon’s fight, 
 
 And from his Mantles fide there fhone afar 
 A fixt, and I believe, a real Star. 
 
 In hi s fair hand ( what need was there of more ? ) * 
 
 No Arms but th’ English bloody Crols he bore, 
 
 Which when he towards th’affrighted Tyrant bent, 
 
 And fome few words pronounc’d/ but what they meant, 
 
 Or were, could not, alas, by me be known, 
 
 Only I well perceiv’d Jefus was one , ) 
 
 He trembled and he roar’d, and fled away $ 
 
 Mad to quit this his more than hop’d-for prey. 
 
 Such Rage inflames the Wolves wild Heart and Eyes, 
 
 ( Robb’d as he thinks unjuftly of his prize , ) \ 
 
 Whom unawares the Shepherd fpies, and draws 
 The bleating Lamb from out his ravenous jaws; 
 
 The Shepherd fain himfelf would he aflail, 
 
 But Fear above his Hunger does prevail : 
 
 He knows his Foe too ftrong, and muft be gone ; 
 
 He grins as he looks back, and howls as he goes on. 
 
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 T H E Liberty of a people confifts in being governed by Laws 
 which they have made themielves, under whatfoever form 
 it be of Government, The Liberty of a private man in being Man- 
 lier of his own Time and A&ions, as far as may confift with the 
 Laws of God and of his Country. Of this later only we are 
 here to difcourfe, and to enquire what effate of life does beft 
 feat us in the polTeffion of it. This liberty of our own actions 
 isfuch a Fundamental Priviledge of human Nature, that God 
 himfelf, notwithffanding all his infinite pow r er and right over us, 
 permits us to enjoy it, and that too after a forfeiture made by the 
 Rebellion of Adam. He takes lo much care for the entire pre- 
 fervation of it to us, that he fullers neither his Providence nor 
 Eternal Decree to break or infringe it. Now for our Time, the 
 fame God, to whom we are but Teneius-at- will for the whole, re- 
 quires but the feventh part to be paid to him as a Email Quit- 
 Rent in acknowledgment of his Title It is man only, that has 
 the impudence to demand our whole time , tho he neither 
 gave it, nor can reffore it, nor is able to nay any confiderable 
 value for the leafl part of it. This Birth-right of mankind above 
 all other Creatures, fome are forced by hunger to fell, like Efau, 
 for Bread and Broth ; but the greateft part of men make fuch a 
 Bargain for the delivery up ofthemfelves, as Thamar did with J >t- 
 dab, inffead of a Kid, the neceffary Provifions of human life, 
 they are contented to do it for Rings and Bracelets. The great 
 dealers in this World may be divided into the Ambitious, the 
 Covetous, and the Voluptuous, and that all thefe Men fell them* 
 Pelves to be flaves, tho to the vulgar it may feeili a Stoical Pa- 
 radox, will appear to the wifefo plain and obvious, that they will 
 Pearce think it deferves the labour of Argumentation. Let us 
 firffc confider the Ambitious, and thofe both in their progrefs to 
 Greatnefs, andafterthe attaining of it. There isnothingtruer 
 than what Salufl fays, Dominationis in alios fervit i urn fuum Mer- 
 cedem dant , They are content to pay Po great a price as their own 
 Servitude,to purchafe the domination over others. The firff thing 
 they muff rePolveto facrihce,is their whole time, they muff never 
 ftop,nor ever turn afide whilft they are in the race of Glory, no 
 not like to Atalanta for Golden Apples. Neither indeed can a man 
 flop himfelf if he wouid,whenhe’sin this Career. Fertur equis 
 Auriga, neque audit Currus habena. 
 
 Pray 
 
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 Several difcourfes by way cfEjfays, 
 
 Pray let us butconfider a little , what mean fervile things men 
 do for this imaginary Food. We cannot fetch a greater example 
 of it, than from the chief Men of that Nation which boafted moft 
 of Liberty. To what pitiful bafenefs did the nobleft Romans ft ub- 
 mit themfelves for the obtaining of a Prctorfhip, or the Ccnfu- 
 lar dignity ; they put on the Habit of Suppliants,and ran about 
 on foot, and in dirt, through all the Tribes to beg voices, they 
 flattered the pooreft Artifans, and carried a Nomenclator with 
 them, to whifper in their ear every mans name, left they fhould 
 miftake it in their falutations ; they fhook the hand, and kifs’d the 
 cheek, of every popular Tradefman: They flood all day at every 
 Market in the publick places to fhew and ingratiate themlelves to 
 the Rout 5 they imployed all their friends to folicite for them ; 
 they kept open Tables in every ftreet, they diftributed Wine and 
 Bread and Money, even to the vileff of the people. En Romanos 
 rerum dominos l Behold the Majlers of the World hogging from 
 door to door. This particular humble way to greatnefs is now out 
 of fafhion, but yet every Ambitious perlon is ftill in fome fort a 
 Roman Candidate. He muft feaft and bribe, and attend, and 
 flatter, and adore many Beafts, tho not the Beaft with many 
 heads. Catiline , who was fo proud that he could not content 
 himfelf with a lefs power than Sylla' s, was yet lo humble for the 
 attaining of it, as to make himfelf the moft contemptible of all fer- 
 vants, to be a publick Bawd, to provide Whores, andfomthing 
 worfe, for all the young Gentlemen of Rome , whole hot lulls 
 and courages, and heads, he thought he might make ufeof. And 
 fince I happen here to propofe Catiline for my inftance, ( tho 
 there be thoufands of examples for the fame thing, J give me leave 
 to tranferibe the CharaQer which Cicero gives of this noble Slave, 
 becaufe it is a general defeription of all ambitious men, and 
 which Machiavel perhaps would fay ought to be the Rule of 
 their life and Ablions. This man (fays he, as moft of you may 
 well remember,^ had many artificial touches and ftroakesthat 
 look’d like the beauty of great Virtues, his intimate conven- 
 tion was with the worftofMen, and yet hefeem’d to bean Ad- 
 jnirer and Lover of the beft ; he was furnifhed with all the Nets 
 of Luft and Luxury, and yet wanted not the Arms of Labour 
 and Induftry ; neither do I believe that there was ever any 
 Monfter in Nature, compofed out of fo many different and difa- 
 greeing parts. Who more acceptable, fomtimes, to the moft 
 Honourable perfons ? Who more a favourite to the moft Infa- 
 mous ? Who fomtimes appear’d a braver Champion, who at 
 other times, a bolder enemy to his Country? Who more diffo- 
 lute in his pleafures? Who more patient in his toils ? Who more 
 rapacious in robbing? Who more profufe in giving? Above all 
 things, this was remarkable and admirable in him, The Arts he 
 had to acquire the good opinion and kindnefsof all forts of men, 
 to retain it with great complaifance, to communicate all things 
 to them, watch and ferve all the occafions of their Fortune, 
 both with his money and his intereft,and his induftry ; and if need 
 
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In Vcrje and Prtjc. 
 
 were not by flicking at any wickednefs whatfoever that might be 
 ufeful to them, to bend and turn about his own Nature, and 
 laveer with every Wind, to live feverely with the Melancholv, 
 merrily with the pleaiant, gravely with the aged, wantonly with 
 the young, defperately with the bold, and debauchedly with 
 the luxurious: With this variety and multiplicity of his Na- 
 ture, as he had made a colle&ion of friendfhips with all the 
 moft wicked and reftlefs of ail Nations, fo,by the artificial fimu- 
 lation of feme Virtues, he made a fhift to enfhare fome honeft 
 and eminent perfons into his familiarity ; neither could fo vafta 
 defign as the deftru&ion of this Empire have been undertaken 
 by him, if the immanity of fo many Vices had not been cover- 
 ed and difguifed by the appearances of fome excellent quali- 
 ties. 
 
 I fee, methinks, the Character of an Anti-Paul , who became 
 all things to all Men, that he might deftroy all ; who only want- 
 ed the affiftence of Fortune to have been as great as his Friend 
 Csfar was a little after him. And the ways of C*far to com- 
 pafs the fame ends ( I mean too the Civil War, which was but 
 another manner of fetting his Country on Fire, ) were not unlike 
 thefe, tho he ufed afterward his unjuft Dominion with more 
 moderation than I think the other would have done. Saluft 
 therefore, who was well acquainted with them both, and with 
 many fuch like Gentlemen of his time, fays, That it is the na- 
 ture of Ambition ( Ambitio multos mort alts falfos fieri coegit, See. 
 to make men Lyars and Cheaters, to hide the truth in their 
 Breafl, and fhew like Juglers another thing in their Mouths, to 
 cut all friendfhips and enmities to the meafureof their own Inte- 
 re(t,and to make a good Countenance without the help of good 
 Will. And can there be freedom with this perpetual conftraint? 
 What is it but a kind of Rack, that forces men to fay what they 
 have no mind to } I have wondred at the extravagant and bar- 
 barous ftratagem of Zopyrus, and more at the praifes which I find 
 Of fb deformed an a&ion ; who, tho he was one of the feven 
 Grandees of Perfia , and the Son of Merabi [ns, who had freed be- 
 fore his Country from an ignoble Servitude, flit his own Nofe 
 and Lips, cut off his own Ears, fcourged and wounded his whole 
 Body, that he might, under pretence of having been mangled 
 fb inhumanly by Darius, be received into Babylon (then believed 
 by the Per fans , ) and get into the command of it, by the recom- 
 mendation of fo cruel a fufterance, and their hopes of his en- 
 deavouring to revenge it. It is great pity the Babylonians fuf- 
 pected not his falfhood, that they might have cut off his Hands 
 too, and whipt him back again. But the Defign fucceeded, 
 he betrayed the City, and was made Governor of it. What bru- 
 tifh Mafter ever punifhed his offending Slave with fo little mercy, 
 as Ambition did this Zopyrus f And yet how many are there in all 
 Nations, who imitate him in fome degree fora lefs reward ? Who, 
 tho they endure not fo much corporal pain for a ffnall pre- 
 ferment, of fome Honour ( as they call it, ) yet ftick not to com- 
 
 mit 
 
Several dijeourfes by way of Effays , 
 
 mit actions, by w hich they are more fhamefully and more laftingly 
 ftigmatized ? But you may fay, Tho thefe be the mod ordi- 
 nary and open ways to Greatnefs, yet there are narrow, thorny, 
 and little trodden paths too, through which fome Men find a pal- 
 fage by virtuous lnduftry. I grant, fomtimes they may ; but 
 then that lnduftry muft be fuel), as cannot confift with Liberty, 
 tho it may with Honefty. 
 
 Thou’rt Careful, Frugal, Painful ; we commend a Servant fo, 
 but not a Friend. 
 
 Well then, we muft acknowledge the toil and drudgery which 
 we are forced to endure in this Alcent, but we are Epicures and 
 Lords when once we are gotten up into the High Places. This is 
 but a fhort Apprenticefhip, after which, we are made free of a Roy- 
 al Company. If we fall in love with any beauteous Women , we 
 muft be content that they fhould be our Miftreffes whilft we woo 
 them, as foon as we are wedded and enjoy, *tis we fhall be the 
 Mafters. 
 
 I am willing to ftick to this fimilitude in the cafe of Greatnefs ; 
 we enter into tire Bonds of it like thole of Matrimony; we are 
 bewitch’d with the outward and printed Beauty, and take it for 
 better or worfe, before we know it’s true nature and interior In- 
 conveniences. A great Fortune ( fays Sentca , ) is a great fervitude. 
 jBut many are of that opinion which Brutus imputes ( I hope 
 untruly,) even to that Patron of Liberty, his Friend Cicero. We 
 fear ( fays he to Atticus , ) Death, and Banifhment, and Poverty, 
 a great deal too much. C 'icero, I am afraid, thinks thefe to be the 
 werftof evils, and if he have but fome perfons, from whom he 
 can obtain what he has a mind to, and others who will flatter and 
 w or ft lip him,feems to be well enough contented with an honoura- 
 ble fervitude, if any thing indeed ought to be called honourable, 
 in fo bafe and contumelious a condition. 1 his was fpoken as be- 
 came the braveft man who was ever born in the braveft Com- 
 mon-wealth: But with us generally, no condition paffes for fervi- 
 tude, that is accompanied with great Riches and Honors, and with 
 the fervice of many Inferiors. This is but a deception of the fight 
 through a falfe Medium. For if a Groom ferve a Gentleman in his 
 Chamber, that Gentleman a Lord, and that Lord a Prince; 
 the Groom, theGentleman, and the Lord, are as much Servants 
 one as the other ; the circumftantial difference of the one getting 
 only his Bread and Wages, the fecond a plentiful, and the third 
 a fuperfluous Eftate, is no more intrinfical to this matter than 
 the difference between a plain, a rich and gaudy Livery. Ido 
 not fay, That he who fells his whole Time, and liis own Will for 
 one hundred thoufand, is not a wifer Merchant than he who does 
 it for one hundred, pounds, but I will fwear they are both Mer- 
 chants, and that he his happier than both , who can live conten- 
 tedly without felling that Effate to which he was born. But this 
 Dependence upon Superiours is but one chain of the Levers of 
 Power, Ar mater urn Trecenta Per it ho am cohibent catena. Let’s 
 begin with him by Break of day: For by that time he’s befieged 
 
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 In \ Ver(e and Pro/e. 
 
 by two or three hundred Suitors; and the Hall and Anticham- 
 bers, ( all the Outworks,) polled: by the Enemy, as loon as his 
 Chamber opens, they are ready to break into that, or to cor- 
 rupt the Guards for Entrance. This is lb elfential a part of Great- 
 nefs, that whofoever is without it, looks likes a fallen Favourite, 
 like a Perfon dilgraced, and condemned to what he pieale all 
 the Morning. There are fome who rather than want this, are 
 contented to have their Rooms fill’d up every day with murmu- 
 ring and curling Creditors, and to charge bravely through a Body 
 of them to get to their Coach. Now I would fain know, which is 
 the word Duty, That of any one particular Perfon, who waits to 
 fpeak with the Great Man, or the Great Man’s, who waits every 
 day to fpeak with all the Company. Aliena negoti a centum Per 
 caput & ciYcumfaliunt Utus , A hundred Bufinefies of other Men 
 ( many unjuft, and moft impertinent, ) fly continually about his 
 Head and Ears, and ftrike him in the Face like Doors. Let’s con- 
 template him a little at another fpecial Scene of Glory, and that 
 is, his Table. Here he Teems to be the Lord of all Nature : The 
 Earth affords him her beft Metals for his Difhes, her beft Vege- 
 tables and Animals for his Food ; the Air and Sea fupply him 
 with their choiceR Birds and Fifbes : And a great many Men, who 
 look like Matters, attend upon him, and yet when all this is done, 
 even all this is but Tabl’d Hoff, ’tis crowded with People for 
 whom he cares not , with many Parafites, and Tome Spies, 
 with the moft burdenfom fort of Guefts, the Endeavourers to 
 be witty. 
 
 But every body pays him great refpcdt, every body commends 
 his Meat, that is, his Money; every body admires theexquifite dre£ 
 Ting and ordering of it, that is, his Clark of the Kitchen, or his 
 Cook, every body loves his Hofpitality ,that is, his Vanity. But I de- 
 fire to know, why the honeft Inn-keeper, w ho provides a publick 
 Table for his Profit, fhould be but of a mean Profeftion ; and he 
 who does it for his Honour, a munificent Prince? You’ll fay, be- 
 caufeone fells and the other gives: Nay,both fell, though for diffe- 
 rent things,theone for plainMoney,the other for I know not what 
 jewels, whole value is in Cuftom and in Fancy. If then his Table 
 be made a Snare (as the Scripture fpeaks, ) to his Liberty, where 
 can he hope for Freedom? There is always, and every where, Tome 
 reftraintupon him. He’s guarded with Crowds , and fhackled 
 until Formalities. The half Hat, the whole Hat ; the half Smile, 
 the whole Smile, the Nod, the Embrace, the Pofitive parting 
 with a little Bow, the Comparative at the middle of the Room, 
 the Superlative at the Door, ; and if the Perfon be Pan huper ft- 
 baft us, there’s a Huper-fuperlative Ceremony then of conducing 
 him to the bottom of the Stairs, or to the very Gate : As if there 
 were fuch Rules let to thele Leviathans as are to the Sea, Hitherto 
 {halt thou go, and no further. Perditur h<£c inter miftros Lux* 
 Thus wretchedly the precious day is loft. 
 
 How many impertinent Letters and Vifits muft he receive, and 
 and fomtimesanfwer both too as impertinently ? He never Lets his 
 
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 Foot beyond his Threfhold, unlels,like a Funeral, he have a Train 
 to follow hiiT)^ as if, like the dead Corps, he would not dir, till 
 the Bearers were all ready. My Life, ( lavs Horace ) (peaking to 
 one of the Magnified s, is a great deal more eafie and commodi, 
 ous than thine ; in that I can go into the Market and cheapen 
 what I pleafe without being wondred at- ; and take my Horfe 
 and ride as far as 7 arentum, without being mid. ’Tis an unplea- 
 lant condraint to be always under the fight,and obfervation, and 
 cenfure of others ; as there may be vanity in it, fo, methinks, 
 there fhould be vexation too of Spirit : And I wonder how Prin- 
 ces can endure to have two or three hundred Men dand gazing 
 upon them whil’d: they are at Dinner, and take notice of every 
 bit they eat. Nothing feems Greater, and more Lordly, than the 
 multitude of Domeftique Servants ; but even this too, if weigh- 
 ed ferioufly, is a piece of Servitude ; unlefs you will be a Ser- 
 vant to them, (as many Men are,) the trouble and care of yours 
 in the Government of them all, is much more than that of every 
 one of them in their oblervance of you. I take the ProfefTion 
 of a Schoolmafter to be one of the mod: ufeful , and which 
 ought to be of the mod Honorable in a Commonwealth, yet 
 certainly all his Faces, and Tyrannical Authority over fo many 
 Boys, take away his own Liberty more than theirs. 
 
 I do but (lightly touch upon all thefe Particulars of the Slave- 
 ry of Greatnefs: I (hake but a few of their outward Chains, 
 their Anger, Hatred, Jealoufie, Fear, Envy, Grief, and all the 
 Et Letter a of their Padions, which are the fecret,but condant, Ty- 
 rants and Tortures of their Life, I omit here, becaule though 
 they be Symptoms mod frequent and violent in this Difeafe, yet 
 they are common too in lome degree to the Epidemical Difeafe 
 of Life it (elf. But the ambitious Man, though he be fo many 
 ways a Slave, (0 toties fervus !) yet he bears it bravely , and 
 heroically ; he druts and looks big upon the Stage 5 he thinks 
 himfelf a real Prince in his Masking Habit, and deceives too all 
 the foolifh part of his Spe&ators: He’s a Slave in Saturnalibus . 
 The covetous Man is a down-right Servant, a Draught-Horfe 
 with Bells or Feathers; ad Metalla damnatus, a Man condem- 
 ned to work in Mines, which is the lowed and harded condition 
 of Servitude 5 and to encreafe his mifery, a Worker there for he 
 knows not whom. Heheapeth up Riches, and knows not who 
 fhall en joy them. ’Tisonly iure, that he himfelf neither fball nor 
 can enjoy them. He’s an indigent needy Slave , he will hardly 
 phorm. allow himfelf Cloaths and Bord- wages ; Vncitim vix demen- 
 Seti'l. fo de fuo fuum defraudans Genium comparcit mifery He defrauds 
 not only other Men, but his own Genius : He cheats himfelf for 
 Money- But the fervile and miferable condition of this wretch is 
 fo apparent, that I leave it as evident to every Man’s fight, as 
 well as judgement. It feems a more difficult work to prove, that 
 the voluptuous Man too is but a Servant : What can be more 
 the Life of a Freeman, or, as we fay ordinarily, of a Gentleman, 
 than to follow nothing but his own Pleafures ? Why I’ll tell you 
 
In Vcrje and Proje. 
 
 85 
 
 who is that true Freeman , and that true Gentleman : Not lie 
 who blindly follows all his Pleafures, (the very Name of Follow- 
 ers is fer vile, ) but he who rationally guides them, and is nothin- 
 dred by outward Impediments in the conduct and enjoyment of 
 them. If I want skill or force to retrain the Beall thaf I ride up- 
 on, though I bought it, and call it my own, yet in the truth of 
 the matter, I am at that time rather his Man, than he my Florfe. 
 
 The voluptuous Men (whom we are fallen upon, ) may be di- 
 vided, I think, into the Lullful and Luxurious, who are both 
 Servants of the Belly ; the other whom we fpokeof before, the 
 Ambitious and the Covetous, were W 3»«*, Evil wild Beafts, 
 thefe are, <*p >*/, flow Bellies, as our Tranflation ren- 
 
 ders it ; but the word *a pyu ( which is a fantaflical word, with 
 two dire&ly oppofite Significations , ) will bear as well tVie 
 Tranflation of quick or diligent Bellies, and both Interpretations 
 may be applyed to thefe Men. Metrodorus faid, That he had 
 learnt nx^ ’Axw8w< y&q>\ %<t eifysK, To give his Belly juft thanks 
 for all his Plea fures. This, by the Calumniators of Epicurus his 
 Philofophy, wasobje&ed as one of the rrioft Icandalous of all their 
 Sayings ; which, according to my charitable underflanding, may 
 admit a very virtuous Senfe, which is, That he thanked his own 
 Belly for that moderation in the cuftomary appetites of it, which 
 can only give a Man Liberty and Happincfs in this World. Let 
 thisfuffice at prefentto be fpoken of thole great Triumviri of the 
 World ; the Covetous Man, who is a mean Villain, like Lepidus ; 
 the Ambitious, who is a brave one, like Octavius ; and the Vo- 
 luptuous, who is a loofe and debauched one, like Mark Antony. 
 Quifnam igitur Liber ? Sapiens fibi qui Imperiofus : Not Otno - Hcr L 2 
 mans, who commits himfelf wholly to a Charioteer that may Serm. 
 break his Neck, but the Man Sat - 4- 
 
 Who governs his own Courfe with fleady Hand, 
 
 Who does himfelf with Soveraign Pow’r Command j 
 Whom neither Death nor Poverty does fright, 
 
 Who {lands not aukwardly in his own light 
 Againfl the 1 ruth ? Who can, when Pleafures knock 
 Loud at his door, keep from the Bolt and Lock? 
 Who can, though Honor at his Gate fhould flay 
 In all her Masking Cloths fend her away > 
 
 And cry, Be gone, I have no mind to play? $ 
 
 This I confefs is a Freeman : But it may be faid, That many 
 perfons are fo fhackled by their Fortune, that they are hindred 
 from enjoyment of that Manumiflion which they have obtained 
 from Virtue. I do both underftand, and, in part, feel the weight 
 of this obje£lion: All I can anfwer to it, is, That \ve muft 
 get as much Liberty as we can, we muft ufe our utmoft endea- 
 vours, and when all that is done, be contented with the length 
 of that Line which is allow’d us. If you ask me, what condi- 
 tion of Life I think inoft allow’d ? I fhould pitch upon that 
 
 fort 
 
Several Difcourjes by way of E/prys, 
 
 fcrrt of People, whom King: James was wont to call, the Happieft 
 of our Nation, the Men placed in the Country by their Fortune 
 above an High-Conflable, and yet beneath the trouble of a Ju- 
 Price of Peace, m a moderate Plenty, without any julf Argument 
 for thedeiireof increaling it by the care of many Relations, and 
 with fo much knowledg, and love of Piety and Philofopby, 
 (that is, of the Rudy of God’s Laws, and of his Creatures, ) as 
 may adbrd him matter enough never to be idle, though without 
 Buftnefs, and never to be melancholy, though without Sin and 
 Vanity. _ . 
 
 I fhall conclude this tedious Difcourfe with a Prayer of mine 
 in a Copy of Latine Vtrfe T of which I remember no other part, 
 and (pour fat re bonne louche ]) with fbme other Verles upon 
 the fame Subjed. 
 
 Magne deus , quod ad has vita brevis attinet horas } 
 
 Da mihi , da Panem Libert ate mque r nec ultra 
 Sollicitas effundo prices'. Si quid datur ultrf 
 Accipiam gratus \ fen non , contentus abibo . 
 
 •• 1 g ; G J 
 
 Tor the few hours of Life allotted me, 
 
 Give me ( Great God, ) but Bread and Libertie, 
 
 I’ll beg no more, if more thou’rt pleas’d to give, 
 
 I’ll thankfully that overplus receive : 
 
 If beyond this, no more be freely lent. 
 
 I’ll thank for this, and go away content. 
 
 * 
 
 — — — . 
 
 Martial Lib. z. 
 
 Vota tui breviter. See. 
 
 W E11 then, Sir, you fhall know how far extend 
 
 The Prayers and Hopes of your Poetick Friend; 
 He does not Palaces nor Mannors crave, 
 
 Would be no Lord, but lefs a Lord would have : 
 
 The Ground he holds, if he his own can call 3 
 He quarrels not with Heaven becaufe ’tis finall: 
 
 Let gay and toilfom Greanefs others pleafe. 
 
 He loves of homely Littlenefs the Eafe. 
 
 Can any Man in Guilded Rooms attend, 
 
 And his dear hours in humble Vifits fpend ; 
 
 When in the frefh and beauteous Fields he may 
 With various healthful Pleafures fill the day? 
 
 If there be Man ( ye Gods, ) I ought to hate, 
 
 Dependance and Attendance be his Fate. 
 
 Still let him bufie be, and in a crowd, 
 
 And very much a Slave, and very Proud : 
 
 ' • * Thus 
 
In Verfe and Profie. 
 
 Thus he perhaps Powerful and Rich may grow ; 
 No matter, O ye Gods ! that I’ll allow, 
 
 But let him Peace «and Freedom never fee 5 
 Let him not love this Life, who loves not Me. 
 
 Martial L. 
 
 Vis fieri Liber ? <3tc. 
 
 W Ould you be free ? ’tis your chief wifli, you fay, 
 Come on 5 I’ll (hew thee, Friend, the certain way 
 I( to no Feafts abroad thou lov’tt to go, 
 
 Whil’ft bount’ous God does Bread at home bettow. 
 
 If thou the goodnefsof thy Cloathsdo’tt prize 
 By thine own Life, and not by others Eyes ; 
 
 If ( only fafe from weathers, ) thou canff dwell. 
 
 In a (mail Houfe, but a convenient Shell, 
 
 If thou without a Sigh, or Golden wifh, 
 
 Canft look upon thy Beechen Bowl, and Difh .* 
 
 If in thy Mind fuch Power and Greatnefs be, 
 
 The PerfiAn King’s a Slave compar’d with Thee. 
 
 - 
 
 Quod te nomine ? <5tc. 
 Mart. L. 2 . 
 
 T Hat I do you with humble Bowes no more. 
 And danger of my naked Head adore ; 
 That I, who Lord and Matter cry’d e*r while, 
 Salute you in a new and different Style, 
 
 By your own Name, a fcandal to you now, 
 Think not that I forget myfelf and you, 
 
 By lofs of all things by all others fought 
 This Freedom, and the Freemans Hat is bought. 
 
 A Lord and Matter no man wants but He 
 Who o’r Himfelf has no Authority. 
 
 Who does for Honours and for Riches ttrive. 
 And Follies, without which Lords cannot live. 
 
 If thou from Fortune do’ft no Servant crave, 
 Believe it, thou no Matter nsed’tt to have. 
 
 ODE. 
 
88 
 
 Several di j c our f es by nay cfE flays , 
 
 O D E. 
 
 / f T g fr'i A 
 
 Vpon Liberty. 
 
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 , • ' ’ ' ■'* 
 
 F Reedom with Virtue take* her Seat, 
 
 Her proper place, her only Scene, 
 
 Is in the .Golden Mean, i 
 
 She lives not with the Poor, nor with the Great, 
 
 The wings of thofe Neceflity has dipt, 
 
 And they’r in Fortunes Bridtwel whipt 
 To the laborious task of Bread ; 
 
 Thefe are by various Tyrants captive led. 
 
 Now wild Ambition with imperious force 
 Rides, Reins, and Spurs them like thTinruly Horfe. 
 Andfervile Avarice yokes them now 
 Like toilfom Oxen to the Plow. 
 
 And fomtimes Luft, like the mifguided Light, 
 
 Draws them through all the Labyrinths of night. 
 
 If any. few among the Great there be 
 From thefe infulting Paffions free. 
 
 Yet we ev’n thofe too fetter’d fee 
 By Cuftom, Bufinefs, Crowds, and formal Decende. 
 And wherefbe’r they flay, and wherefoe’r they go, 
 Impertinencies round them flow : 
 
 Thefe are the fmall uneafie things 
 Which about Greatnefs (till are found, 
 
 And rather it Moleft than Wound : 
 
 Like Gnats,which too much heat of Summer brings ; 
 But Cares do fwarm there too, and thofe have (tings 5 
 As when the Honey does too open lie, 
 
 A thoufand Wafps about it flie : 
 
 Nor will the Mafter ev’n to (hare admit ; 
 
 The Mafter (tands aloof, and dares not tafte of it. 
 
 ’Tis Morning ; well, I fain would yet deep on ; 
 
 You cannot now ; you mult be gone 
 To Court, or to the noifleHall: 
 
 Befides, the Rooms are crowded all ; 
 
 The ftream of Bufinefs does begin. 
 
 And a Spring-Tide of Clients is come in. 
 
 Ah cruel Guards, which this poor Prifoner keep ! 
 
 Will they not fufler him to deep ? 
 
 Make an Efcape out at the Poftern fleet, 
 
 And get fbme blelfed Hours of Liberty. 
 
 With 
 
In Verfc and Profe. 
 
 With a few Friends, and a few Difhes Dine, 
 
 And much of Mirth, and moderate Wine. 
 
 To tlfy bent mind fome relaxation give, 
 
 And Real one day out of thy Life to live. 
 
 Oh happy man 1 ( he cries,) to whom kind Heaven 
 Has fuch a Freedom always given ! 
 
 Why, Mighty Madam, What fhould hinder thee 
 From being every day as free ? 
 
 3 * 
 
 In all the free-born Nations of the Air, . 
 
 Never did Bird a fpirit fo mean and fordid bear, 
 As to exchange a Native Liberty 
 Of (oaring boldly up into the Sky, 
 
 His liberty to Sing, to Perch, or Fly, 
 
 When and wherever he thought good, 
 
 Arid all the innocent pleafures of the Wood, 
 
 For a more plentiful or conftant Food. 
 
 Nor ever did ambitious Rage 
 Make him into a painted Cage, 
 
 Or the falfe Foreft of a well-hung Room 
 For Honour and Preferment come. 
 
 Now, Blefiings on you all, ye’ Heroick Race, 
 
 Who keep their Primitive Powers and Rights (o well 
 Tho Men and Angels fell. 
 
 Of all material Lives the higheR place 
 To you is juftly given, 
 
 And Ways and Walks the neareft Heaven. 
 WhiFft wretched we, yet vain and proud, think Et 
 To boaft that we look up to it : 
 
 Ev’n to the univerfal Tyrant, Love, 
 
 You Homage pay but once a year: 
 
 None fo degenerous and unbirdly prove, 
 
 As his perpetual yoke to bear, 
 
 None but a few unhappy Houftiould Fowl, 
 
 Whom human Lordfhip does controul, 
 
 Who from the birth corrupted were 
 By Bondage and by Mans Example here. • 
 
 4 * 
 
 He’s no fmall Prince, who every day 
 Thus to himfelf can fay, 
 
 Now will I fleep, now eat, now fit, now walk. 
 Now t meditate alone, now with Acquaintance talk, 
 This I will do, here I will Ray, 
 
 Or if my Fancy calleth me away, 
 
 My Man and I will prefently go ride 
 (For we before have nothing to provide, 
 
 Nor after are to render an account , ) 
 
 To Dover, Berwick^ or the Cornifh Mount. 
 
 Aq q 
 
S everal ‘Difcourfes by way of Ejjays , 
 
 If thou but a fhort journey take, 
 
 As if thy laft thou wert to make, 
 
 Bufinefs muft be difpatch’d e’re thou canft pgrt, 
 
 Nor canft thou ftir unlefs there be 
 A hundred Horfe and Men to wait on thee. 
 
 And many a Mule,, and many a Cart ; 
 
 What an unwieldly Man thou art ? 
 
 The Rhodian Colojjus fb 
 A Journy too might g°- 
 
 5 * 
 
 Where Honour, or where Confidence does not bind, 
 No other Law fhall fhack/e me, 
 
 Slave to my felf I will not be; 
 
 Nor fhall my future Aftions be confin’d 
 By my own prefint Mind. 
 
 Who by Refolves and Vows engag’d doesftand 
 For days that yet belong to Fate, 
 
 Does like an unthrift morgage his Effate, 
 
 Before it falls into his Hand. 
 
 The Bondman of the Cloifter fb 
 All that he does receive does always owe. 
 
 And ffill as Time comes in, it goes away 
 Not to Enjoy but Debts to pay. 
 
 Unhappy Slave, and Pupil to a Bell 1 
 Which his hours work as well as hours does tell / 
 Unhappy till the laft, the kind, releafing Knell. 
 
 6 . 
 
 If Life fhould a well order’d Poem be, 
 
 ( In w r hich he only hits the White 
 Who joy ns true Profit with the beff Delight,,) 
 
 The more Heroick ffrain let others take, 
 
 Mine the Pindarick way I’ll make. 
 
 The Matter fhall be grave, the Numbers looie and free, 
 
 It fhall not keep one fettled pace of Time, 
 
 In the fame Tune it fhall not always chime, 
 
 Nor fhall each day juft to his neighbour Rhime ; 
 
 A thoufand Liberties it fhall difpenfe, 
 
 And yet fhall manage all without offence, 
 
 Or to the fweetnefs of the Sound, or greatnefs of the Senfe; 
 Nor fhall it ever from one Subjefl ftart. 
 
 Nor feek Tranfitions to depart, 
 
 Nor its fet way o’r Stiles and Bridges make, 
 
 Nor through Lanes a Compafs take, 
 
 As if it fear’d fome trefpafs to commit, 
 
 When the wide Air’s a Road for it. 
 
 So the Imperial Eagle does not ftay 
 Till the whole Carkafs he devour. 
 
 That’s fallen into its power. 
 
 As 
 
In Vcrfe and Froje. 
 
 As if his generous Hunger underflood 
 That he can never want plenty of Food, 
 
 He only fucks the taftful Blood, 
 
 And to frefh Game flies chearfully away ; 
 
 To Kites and meaner Birds he leaves the mangled prey. 
 
 Of Solitude. 
 
 v ■ . . ' i 1 
 
 N i 'Unquam minus folus , quam cum / olus , is now become a very 
 vulgar Saying. Every Man, and almofl every Boyforthefe 
 leventeen hundred years, has had it in his mouth. But it was 
 at firft fpoken by the Excellent Scipio , who was without queftion 
 a mod Eloquent and Witty Perfon, as well as the moil Wile, 
 moll Worthy, mod Happy, and the Greatefl of all Mankind. His 
 meaning no doubt was this, That he found more fatisfa&ion to 
 his mind, and more improvement of it by Solitude than by Com- 
 pany. And to fhew, that he fpoke not this loofely, or out of vani- 
 ty, after he had made Rome Miflrefs of almofl the whole Worlds 
 he retired himfelf from it by a voluntary exile, and, at a private 
 Houfe in the middle of a Wood near Linter num, paffed the remain- 
 der of his Glorious Life no lefs glorioufly. This Houfe Seneca EpJlM. 
 went to fee fo long after with great veneration, and among other 
 things, deferibes his Baths to have been of fo mean a flru£lure,that 
 now, fays he, the bafeft of the People would defpife them, and 
 cry out, Poor Scipio underflood not how to live. What an Au- 
 thority is here for the Credit of Retreat ? And happy had it been 
 for Hannibal , if Adverfity could have taught him as much WiK 
 dom, as was learnt by Sapio from the highefl Profperities. This 
 would be no wonder, if it were as truly, as it is colourably, and 
 wittily, (aid by Monfieur de Montagne , That Ambition itfelf 
 might teach us to love Solitude, there’s nothing that does fo much 
 hate to have Companions. ’Tis true, it loves to have it’s Elbows 
 free, it detefts to have a Company on either fide, but it delights 
 above all things in a Train behind, I, and Ufhers too before it. 
 
 But the greatefl part of Men are fo far from the opinion of that 
 Noble Roman, that if they chance at any time to be without Com- 
 pany, they’re like a becalmed Ship, they never move but by the 
 Wind of other Mens Breath, and have no Oars of their own to 
 fleer withall. It is very fantaflical and contradidlory in human 
 Nature, that Men fhould love themfelves above all the reft of the 
 World, and yet never endure to be with themfelves. When they 
 are in Love with a Miftrefs,all other Perfons are importunate and 
 burden lorn to them. Tecum vivere amem , tecum obeam Lubens , 
 
 They would live and die with her alone. 
 
 Sic ego fecretis pojfum bene vivere fylvisj 
 nulla humano fit via trita pede. 
 
 Tu mihi curarum requies , tu nocie vel atra 
 Lumen , & in folis tu mihi turba locis. 
 
 CLq q 2 
 
 With 
 
Several ‘Dijcourjes by way of Ljfays , 
 
 * With thee for ever I in Woods could reft, 
 
 Where human Foot no ground has preft: 
 
 Thou from all Shades the Darknels can'll exclude. 
 
 And from a Defart banifh Solitude. 
 
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 k . . A » • « ‘ • Jm* - * » 
 
 And yet our Dear Self is fb wearifom to us, that we can fcarce- 
 ly fupport it’sconverlation for an hour together. This is luchan 
 odd temper of mind as Catullus exprelfes towards one of his Mi- 
 llrelfes, whom we may fuppofe to have been of a very unfociable 
 humor. 
 
 Odi & Amoy qitanam id faciam ratione , requiris ? 
 
 Aefcio , fed fieri fentio , & excrucior. 
 
 I hate, and yet I love thee too ; 
 
 Flow can that be? 1 know not how ; 
 
 Only that fo it is I know, 
 
 And feel with Torment that Vis fo. 
 
 It is a deplorable condition, this, and drives a Man fomtimes 
 to pitiful fhifts in leeking how to avoid himfelf. 
 
 The truth of the matter is, that neither he who is a Fop in the 
 World, is a fit Man to be alone ; nor he who has let his heart much 
 upon the World, though he have never fo much underftanding ; 
 fo that Solitude can be well fitted and let right, but upon a very 
 few Perlons. They muft have enough knowledge of the World, 
 to fee the Vanity of it, and enough Virtue, to defpife all Vani- 
 ty 5 if the Mind be pofieft with any Lull or Pa {lions, a Man had 
 better be in a Fair, than in a Wood alone. They may, like pet- 
 ty Thieves, cheat us perhaps, and pick our Pockets in the mid’ft 
 of Company, but, like Robbers, theyufe to ftrip and bind, or 
 murder us when they catch us alone. This is but to retreat from 
 Men, and fall into the hands of Devils. 'Tis like the punifh- 
 ment of Parricides among the Romans^ to be few’d into a Bag 
 with an Ape, a Dog, and a Serpent. The firll work therefore 
 that a Man mult do to make himfelf capable of the good of So- 
 litude, is, the very Eradication of all Lulls, for how is it pofti- 
 ble fora Man to enjoy himfelf while his Affedlions are t„yed to 
 things without himfelf? In the lecond place, he mull learn the 
 Art, and get the Habit of Thinking,* for this too, no lefs than 
 Well-fpeaking, depends upon much Practice, and Cogitation is 
 the thing, which diftinguifhes the Solitude of a God from a wild 
 Beaft. Now, becaufe the Soul of Man is not by it’s own Nature, or 
 Obfervation,furnifht with fufficient Materials to work upon ; it is 
 needfary for it to have continual reeourfe to Learning .and Books, 
 for frefh Supplies, fo that the lolitary Life will grow indigent, 
 and be ready to ftarve without them ; but if once we be through- 
 ly engaged in the Love of Letters, inftead of being wearied with 
 the length of any day, we (hall only complain of the fiiortnefs oi 
 our whole Life. 
 
 0 
 
In Verje and Profe. 
 
 9 
 
 0 vita, fluito longa , facienti brevis / 
 
 O Life long to the Fool, fhort to the Wife ! 
 
 The fir ft Minifter of State has not fo much Bufinefs in publick, 
 as a wife Man has in private ; if the one have little leifure to be 
 alone, the other has lefs leifure to be in Company ; the one has 
 but part of the Affairs of one Nation, the other, all the Works of 
 God and Nature under his confideration. There is no Saying 
 fhocks me fo much as that which I hear very often: That a Man 
 does not know how to pais his Time. *Twould have been but 
 ill fpoken by Methufalem, in the Nine hundred fixty ninth year of 
 his Life, fo far it is from us, who have not time enough to attain 
 to the utmoft perfeflion of any part of any Science, to have 
 caufe to complain, that we are forced to be idle for want of work. 
 
 But this, you’ll fay, is work only for the Learned, others are not ca- 
 pable either of the Employments, or Divertifements,that arrive 
 from Letters. I know they are not ; and therefore cannot much re- 
 commend Solitude to a Man totally illiterate. But if any Man be 
 fo unlearned as to want entertainment o ' the little Intervals of 
 accidental Solitude , which frequently occur in almoff all con- 
 ditions, ( except the very meanelF of the People, who have Bufi- 
 nefs enough in the necefiary Provifions for Life, ) it is truly a 
 great fhame, both to hisParents and Himfelf, for a very fmall Por- 
 tion of any ingenious Art will flop up all thole gapsof our time, 
 either Mufick, or Painting, or Defigning, or Chymiftry, or Hifto- 
 ry, or Gardening ; or twenty other things will do it ufefully and 
 pleafantly ; and if he happen to fet his Affe&ions upon Poetry, 
 (which I do not advife him to immoderately,) that will over- 
 doit, no Wood will be thick enough to hide him from the im- 
 portunities of Company or Bufinefs, which would abftra&him 
 from his Beloved. 
 
 , . 0, q U if me gelida fub montibus ALmi Virg. 
 
 Siftat , & ingenti rumorum protegat umbra ? Gecrg. 
 
 1. 
 
 Hail, old Patrician Trees, fo great and good ! 
 
 Hail, ye Plebeian under- wood ! 
 
 Where the Poetick Birds rejoyce. 
 
 And for their quiet Nefts and plenteous Food, 
 
 Pay with their grateful voice. 
 
 2. 
 
 Hail, the poor Mufes richeft Mannor Seat! 
 
 Ye Country Houfesand Retreat, 
 
 Which all the happy Gods fo love, 
 
 That for you oft they quit their Bright and Great 
 Metropolis above. 
 
 3- Here 
 
 I 
 
 
Here Nature does a Houfe fox me eredb, 
 
 Nature the wifeft Architect, 
 
 Who thofe fond Artifts does defpife 
 That can the fair and living Trees negleft ; 
 
 Yet the dead Timber prize. 
 
 4 * 
 
 Here let me, carelefs and unthoughtful lying, 
 
 Hear the Toft Winds above me flying, 
 
 With all their wanton Boughs difpute, 
 
 And the more tuneful Birds to both replying, 
 
 Nor be myfelf too Mute. 
 
 5 ' 
 
 A Silver Stream fhall roul his Waters near. 
 
 Gilt with Sun-beams here and there, 
 
 On whofe enamel’d Bank I’ll walk, 
 
 And fee how prettily they fmile, and hear 
 How prettily they talk. 
 
 i 
 
 6 . 
 
 Ah wretched and too Solitary He, 
 
 Who loves not his own Companie ! 
 
 He’ll feel the weight of’t many a day, 
 
 Unlefs he call in Sin or Vanitie 
 To help to bear’t away. 
 
 7 ' 
 
 Oh Solitude, fir ft ftate of Human-kind ! 
 
 Which bleft remain’d till Man did find 
 Even his own Helpers Companie. 
 
 As foon as two (Alas! ) together join’d. 
 
 The Serpent made up Three. 
 
 8 . 
 
 Though God himfelf, through countlefs Ages Thee 
 His foie Companion chofe to be, 
 
 Thee, Sacred Solitude alone, 
 
 Before the branchy Head of Numbers Tree 
 Sprung from the Trunk of one. 
 
 ?• * 
 
 Thou (though Men think thine an unadlive part,) 
 Do’ff break and tame th’ unruly heart. 
 
 Which elfe would know no fetled pace, 
 
 Making it move, well manag’d by the Art, 
 
 With Swiftnefs and with Grace. 
 
 io. Thou 
 
 i 
 
1 
 
 95 
 
 In Verfe and Profe. 
 
 10 . 
 
 Them the faint beams of Reafon’s fcatter’d Light 
 Do’ft like a Burning-glafs unite, 
 
 Do'ft Multiply the feeble Heat, 
 
 And fortifie the ftrength till thou doft bright 
 And noble fires beget. 
 
 ti. 
 
 Whil’ft this hard Truth l teach, methinks, I fee 
 The Monfter London laugh at me; 
 
 I fhould at thee too, foolifh City, 
 
 If it were fit to laugh at Milery, 
 
 But thy Eftate I pity. 
 
 13 . 
 
 Let but thy wicked Men from out thee go. 
 And all the fools that crowd thee fo, 
 Even thou who do’ft thy Millions boaft, 
 A Village lefs than JJlington wilt grow, 
 
 A Solitude almoft. 
 
 N Am neque Divitibus contingunt gaudiu foils , 
 
 Nec vixit malt y qui natus morienfque Fefellit. 
 
 God made not ple a fur es only for the Rich , 
 
 Nor have thofe Men without their J hare too liv'd, 
 
 Who both in Life and Death the World deceiv'd. 
 
 This Teems a ftrange Sentence thus literally Tranflated, and 
 looks as if it were in vindication of the Men of bufinefs/for who 
 elfecan deceive the World . ? ) whereas it is in commendation of 
 thofe who live and die To obfeurely that the World takes no no- 
 tice of them. This Horace calls deceiving the World, and in 
 another place ufes the Tame phrafe. 
 
 Secretum iter & Fallentis femita vit&. 
 
 The fecret Tracks of the deceiving Life. 
 
 It is very elegant in Latine, but our Englifh word will hardly bear 
 up to that fenfe,and therefore Mr. Broom Tranflates it very well. 
 
 Or from a Life , led as it were by fiealth . 
 
 Yet we fay in our t^ngnageja thing deceives our fight, when it 
 
 palles 
 
 Hot. Ef. 
 /. 1. 18. 
 
 Ey. 1 8 * 
 
c)6 S everal 'Difcourjes by way of Eg ays, 
 
 paffes before ns unperceived, and we may fay well enough out of 
 the fame Author. . 
 
 Somtimes with Sleep, fomtimes with Wine we ft rive 
 The c.ires of Life and Troubles to deceive . 
 
 ■ f ; • * f - :lt ;•'! y hOi bflA 
 
 But that is not to deceive the World, but deceive ourfelves, as 
 Declam Js Quintilian fays, Vit am fallere. To draw on Hill, and amule, and 
 deceive our Life till it be advanced inlenfibly to the fatal Peri- 
 od, and fall into that Pit which Nature hath prepared for it.The 
 Meaning of all this is no more than that moft vulgar laying, 2k/?e 
 qui latuit , bene vixit , He has lived well, who has lain well 
 hidden. Which if it be a Truth, the World (I’ll fwear,^ is fuffi- 
 ciently deceived : For my part, I think it is, and that the plealant- 
 eft condition of life is,/» incognito. What a brave priviledge is 
 it, to be free from all Contentions, from ail Envying or being En- 
 vied, from receiving and from paying all kind oi Ceremonies? 
 It is in my mind a very delightful paftime, tor two good and a- 
 greeable friends to travel up and down together in places where 
 they are by no body known, nor know any Body. It was the 
 cafe of ALneas and his Achates , wdien they walkt invilibly about 
 the fields and ltreets of Carthage , Venus her ielf 
 
 Vtrv, 1 . 
 /En. 
 
 A vail of thick ned Air around them cafl, 
 
 That none might know , or fee them as they paft. 
 
 The common ftory of Demoflhents' sconfeflion that he had taken 
 great pleafure in hearing of a Tanker-woman lay as he paft, This 
 is That Demofthenesys wonderful ridiculous from lo folid an Ora- 
 tor.I my Ielf have often met with that temptation to vanity, ( if 
 it were any , ) but I am fo far from finding it any pleafure,thatit 
 only makes me run fader from the place, till I get as it were out 
 of fight-fhot. Democritus relates, and in liich manner, as if he 
 gloried in the good fortune and commodity of it, that when he 
 came to Athens, no body there did fo much as take notice of him; 
 and Epicurus lived there very well, that is, lay hid many years 
 in his Gardens, lo famous fmee that time, with his friend M:- 
 tr odorus ;after whole death, making in one of his Letters a kind oi 
 commemoration of the happinels which they two had enjoyed 
 together, he adds at laffthat he thought it no difparagement to 
 thole great felicities of their life, that in the midft of the moft 
 talk’d of and talking Country in the World, they had lived fo 
 long, not only without fame, but almoft without being heard oi 
 And yet within a very fe w years afterwards, there were no two 
 Names of Men more known, or more generally celebrated.lt we 
 engage into a large Acquaintance and various familiarities, we 
 fet open our gates to the Invaders of moft of our time: we expofe 
 our lite to a gfiotidian Ague of frigid impertinences, which would 
 make a wife man tremble to think of.Nowqas for being known 
 much by fisht,and pointed at, I cannot comprehend the honour 
 
 that 
 
In 'verfe and c Profc. 
 
 97 
 
 that lies in that : Whatfoever it be, every Mountebank has it 
 jnore than the beft Dodtor, and the Hangman more than the 
 LcrdChief-Juftice of a City. Every Creature has it both of Na- 
 ture and Art, ifitbeany ways extraordinary. It was as often (aid. 
 This is that Bucephalw, cr, This is that Incitatus, when they were 
 led prancing through the ftreets, as This is that Alexander , or, This 
 is that D omit i an ; and truly for the later, I take Incitatus to have 
 been a much more Honourable Bead: than his Matter, and more 
 deferving the Confullhip, than he the Empire. I love and com- 
 mend a true good Fame, becaufeit hath the fhadow of Virtue, not 
 that it doth any good to the Body which it accompanies, but ’tis 
 an efficacious fhadow, and, like that of S. Peter , cures the Difea- 
 les of others. The beft kind of Glory, no doubt, is that which 
 is reflected from Honefty, fuch as was the Glory of Cato and dri- 
 ft ides \ but it was harmful to them both, and is feldom beneficial 
 to any man whil’ft he lives : What it is to him after his death, I 
 cannot fay, becaufe I love not Pbilofopby merely notional and 
 conje&urafand no Man, who has made the Experiment, has been 
 fo kind as to come back to inform us. Upon the whole matter, I 
 account a perfon who has a moderate Mind and Fortune, and 
 lives in the convention of two or three agreeable friends, with 
 little commerce in the World befides, who is efteemed well enough 
 by his few neighbours that know him, and is truly irreproach- 
 able by any body, and fo after a healthful quiet life, before the 
 great inconveniences of old age, gees morelilently out of it than 
 he came in, ( for I would not have him fo much as cry in the 
 Exit.) This innocent Deceiver of the World, as Horace calls 
 him, this Muta Perfona , I take to have been more happy in his 
 Part, than the greateft A&ors that fill the Stage with fhow and 
 noife 5 nay, even than Au&ujlus himfelf, who askt with his iaft 
 breath, whether he had not played his Farce very well. 
 
 Seneca , ex T/jytfie, 
 
 Act. 2 . Cbor . 
 
 A 
 
 Stet quicunque volet , potens 
 AhI& culmine lubrico , 8c c. 
 
 • » ■ \ % \ 
 
 Upon the flippery tops of human State, 
 
 The guilded Pinnacles of Fate, 
 
 Let others proudly ftand, and, for a while 
 The giddy Danger to beguile, 
 
 With Joy and with Difdain look down on all, 
 
 Till their Heads turn, and fo they fall. 
 
 Me, O ye Gods, on Earth, or elfe fo near 
 That I no fall to Earth may fear ; 
 
 And, O ye Gods, at a good diftance feat 
 From the long Ruins of the Great, 
 
 .Here wrapt in th* Arms of Quiet let me lie > 
 
 Quiet, Companion of Obfcurity. 
 
 R r r Here 
 
Here let my Life with as much filence Hide, 
 
 As Time that meafures it does glide. 
 
 Nor let the breath of Infamy or . Fame, 
 
 From Town to Town cccho about.my Name. 
 
 Nor let mv homely Death embroidered be 
 With Scutcheon or with Elogie. 
 
 An old Plebeian -let me die, 
 
 Alas, all then are fuch as well as I. 
 
 To him, alas, to him, I fear, 
 
 The face of Death will terrible appear, 
 
 Who in his life flattering his fenfelefs pride, 
 
 By being known to all the World befide, 
 
 Does not himfelf, when he is Dying know, 
 
 Nor what he is, nor whither lie’s to go. 
 
 ■ t ' | - " • s ' 1 , V. •' 
 
 f __ 
 
 .1 j'j » \ ■ ; /J { 'J 
 
 4 .. Of Agriculture. 
 
 T H E firft wifh of Virgil (as you will find anon by his Ver- 
 fes,) was, to be a good Philolopher ; the fecond, a good 
 Husbandman } and God (whom he feern’d to underftand better 
 than moft of the moft learned Heathens,) dealt with him juft as he 
 did with. Solomon^ becaufehe prayed for Wiidom in the firft place, 
 he added all things elfe which were fubordinately to be defir’d. 
 He made him one of the beft Philofophers, and the beft Husband- 
 men^ and to adorn and communicate both thofe faculties, the 
 beft Poet. He made him befides all this, a Rich man, and a man 
 who defired to be no richer. 0 fortunatus nimium , dr bona qui 
 fna novit : To be an Husbandman, is but a retreat from the Ci- 
 ty > to be a Philofopher, from the World, or rather a retreat 
 from the World, as it is Mans 5 into the World, as it is Gods. But, 
 fince Nature denies to moft Men the Capacity or Appetite, and 
 Fortune allows but to a very few the opportunities or pofTibility, 
 of applying themfelves wholly to Philofophy, the beft mixture 
 of human Affairs that we can make, are the employments of a 
 Country life. It is, as Columella calls it, Res fine dubitatione prox - ’ 
 ima , & quafi Conf anguinea Sapienti# , The neareft Neighbour, 
 or rather next in Kindred to Philofophy. Varro fays, the Prin- 
 ciples of it are the fame which Ennius made to be the Principles 
 of all Nature, Earth, Water, Air, and the Sun. It does cer- 
 tainly comprehend more parts of Philofophy than any onePro- 
 feflion, Art, or Science, in the World befides: And therefore Cicero 
 fays, the pleafures of a Husbandman Mihi ad fapientis vitam 
 proxime videntur accedere, come very nigh to thole of a Philofo- 
 pher. There is no other fort of life that aftord^fo many branches 
 of praife to a Panegyrift : The Utility of it to a mans felf : The 
 Ufefulnefs or rather Neceffity of it to all the reft of Mankind: 
 The Innocence, the PJeafure, the Antiquity, the Dignity. The 
 
 ' Utility 
 
In Verfe and c PrcJc. 
 
 Utility (I mean plainly the Lucre of it,) is not fb great now in our 
 Nation as arifeth Irom Merchandife and the Trading of the City, 
 from whence many of the bed Eftatesand chief Honours of the 
 Kingdom are derived: We have no men now fetcht from the Plow 
 to he made Lords, as they were in Rome to be made Confuls and 
 Dictators ; the reafon of which I conceive to be from an evil Gu- 
 lf om, now 7 grown as ftrong among us as if it were a Law, 
 which is, That no men put their Children to be bred up Appren- 
 tices in Agriculture, as in other Trades, but inch who are 16 
 poor, that when they come to be Men, they have not where- 
 withal to fet up in it, and fo can only farm Lome fmall parcel of 
 ground, the Rent of which devours all buc the bare Subfiftence 
 of the Tenent : Whileft they who are Proprietors of the Land,- 
 are either too proud, or for want of that kind of Education, too 
 ignorant to improve their Eftates, though the means of doing it 
 be as eafie and certain in this as in any other track of Commerce : 
 If there were always tw r o or three thoufand Youths, for feven or 
 eight years bound to this ProfelTion, that they might learn the 
 whole Art of it, and afterwards be enabled to be Matters in it, 
 by a moderate ftock : I cannot doubt, but that we fhould fee as 
 many Aldermens Ettates made in the Country, as now w 7 e do out 
 of all kind of Merchandizing in the City. There are as many 
 ways to be Rich, and which is better, there is no poffibili ty to 
 be poor, without fuch negligence as can neither have excufe, nor 
 pity , for a little ground will without queftion feed a little Fami- 
 ly, and the fuperffuities of Life (which are now in fome cafes 
 by Cuftom made almoft neccfTary,) muft be fupplyed out of the 
 fuperabundance of Art and Induftry, or contemned by as great a 
 Degree of Philofophy. As for the Neceflity of this Art, it is 
 evident enough, fmee this can live without all others, and no one 
 other without this. This is like Speech, without which the So- 
 ciety of Men cannot be preferved *, the others like Figures and 
 Tropes of Speech, which ferve only to adorn it. Many Nations 
 have lived, and fome do ftill, without any Art but this ; not fo 
 Elegantly, I confefs, but ftill they live, and almoft all the other 
 Arts which are here pracLfed, are beholding to this for moft of 
 their Materials. The Innocence of this Life is the next thing 
 for which I commend it, and if Husbandmen prefer ve not that* 
 they are much to blame, for no Men are fo free from the temp- 
 tations of Iniquity. They live by what they can get by Indu- 
 ftry from the Earth, and others by what they Can catch by Craft 
 from Men. They live upon an Eftate given them by their Mo- 
 ther, and others upon an Eftate cheated from their Brethren. 
 They live like Sheep and Kine by the allowances of Nature, and 
 others like Wolves and Foxes by the Acquifitions of Rapine. 
 And, I hope, I may affirm, (without any offence to the Great,}’ 
 that Sheep and Kine are very ufeful, and that Wolves and Foxes 
 are pernicious creatures. They are without difpure, of all Men 
 the moft quiet and Ieaft apt to be inflamed to the clifturbance 
 of the Common- wealth : Their manner of Life inclines thertt, 
 
 R r r 2 and 1 
 
I oo 
 
 Several chf courses by way of Lffays, 
 
 and Intereft binds them to love peace : In our late mad and mife- 
 rable Civil Wars, all other Trades, even to the meaneft, let forth 
 whole Troops, and railed up fbme great Commanders, who be- 
 came famous and mighty for the Mifchiefs they had dones But, I 
 do not remember the Name of any one Husbandman who had 
 foccnfiderable a fhare in the twenty years mine of his Country, 
 as to deferve the Curies of his Country-men : And if great de- 
 lights be joynM with fo much innocence, I think it is ill done of 
 Men not to take them here where they are fo tame, and ready 
 at hand, rather than hunt for them in Courts and Cities where 
 they are fo wild, and the chafe lb troublefom and dangerous. 
 
 We are here among the vaft and Noble Scenes of Nature ; we 
 are there among the pitiful (Lifts of Policy ; We walk here in the 
 light and open ways of the Divine Bounty 5 we grope there in 
 the dark and confuted Labyrinths of human Malice : Our Senfes 
 are here feafted with the dear and genuine tafte of their Ofo 
 jeds ; which are all fophifticated there, and for the moft part 
 overwhelmed with their contraries. Here pleafure looks (me* 
 thinks,) like a beautiful, conftant, and model! Wife ; it is there 
 an impudent, fickle, and painted Harlot. Here is harmlefs and 
 cheap Plenty, there guilty and expenceful Luxury. 
 
 I fhall only inftance in one Delight more, the moft natural and 
 heft natur’d of all others, a perpetual companion of the Hus- 
 bandman, and that is the fatisfa&ion of looking round about 
 him, and feeing nothing but the effects and improvements of 
 his own Art and Diligence, to be always gathering of fbme 
 fruits of it, and at the fame time to behold others ripening, 
 and others budding *, to fee all his Fields and Gardens covered 
 with beauteous Creatures of his own Induftry ; and to fee, 
 like God, that all his Works are good. 
 
 * 
 
 — Hinc atque hinc glomerantur Oreades , ip fi 
 
 JgncoU tacitum pertentant gaudia ptffws. 
 
 On his Heart-ftring a fccret Joy does ftrike ; 
 
 The antiquity of his Art is certainly not to be contefted by 
 any other. The three firft Men in the World, were a Gardner, a 
 Ploughman, and a Grazier ; and if any man objebf ,That thefecond 
 of thefe was a Murtherer, I defire he would confider, that as fooa 
 as he was fo, he quitted our profellion and turn'd Builder. It i? 
 for this reafbn, I fuppofe, that Ecclefiafiicus forbids us to hate Hus^ 
 iip 7 bandry ; Becaufe (fays lie,) the Moft High has created it. We were 
 all born to this Art, and taught by Nature to nourifh our Bodies 
 by the lame Earth out of which they were made, and to which 
 they muft return, and pay at laft for their fuftenance. 
 
 Behold the Original and Primitive Nobility of all thefe great 
 Perfons, who are too proud now, not only to till the Ground, but 
 almoft to tread upon it. We may talk what we pleafe of Lilies, 
 and Lions Rampant, and fpread Eagles in Fields dd Or , or d 3 Ar- 
 gent ■; 
 
i 
 
 \ 1 _____ 
 
 In Vcrfe and Troje. 
 
 gent, but if Heraldry were guided by Reafon, a Plough in a Field 
 Arable would be the matt Noble and A orient Arms. 
 
 All thefe confiderations make me fall into the wonder and 
 complaint of ColnmtlU. How it fhould come to pals, that all 
 Arts or Sciences, (for thedilpute, which is an Arc, and which 
 a Science, does not belong to the curiofity of us Husbandmen,) 
 IWetapbyfuk , Pbyfick, Morality, Matbematick*, Logick , Rhetoric*, 
 Sec. which are all, I grant, good and ufeful faculties, (except 
 only Metapbyfick, which I do not know whether it beany thing 
 or no,) but even Vaulting, Fencing, Dancings Attiring , Cookery, 
 Carving, and fuch like Vanities, fhould all have publick Schools 
 and Matters, and yet that we fhould never fee or hear of any Man 
 who took upon him theProfettion of teaching this fo pleafant, fo 
 virtuous, fo profitable, fo honourable, fo neceffary an Art. 
 
 A man would think, when lie’s in a forious humour, that it 
 were but a vain, irrational and ridiculous thing, for a great compa- 
 ny of Men and Women to run up and down in a room together, 
 in a hundred feveral pottures and figures to no purpofe, and with 
 no defign ; and therefore Dancing was invented firtt, and only 
 prattifod antiently in the Ceremonies of the Heathen Religion, 
 which confitted all in Mommery and Madnefs ; the later being 
 the chief glory of the Worfhip, and accounted Divine infpiration : 
 This, I fay, a fevere Man would think, though I dare not deter- 
 mine fo far againtt fo cuftomary a part now of good breeding. 
 And yet, who is there among our Gentry, that does not entertain 
 a Dancing-Matter for his Children as fbon as they are able to 
 walk ? But did ever any Father provide a Tutor for his Son to in^ 
 ftru£t him betimes in the Nature and Improvements of that Land 
 which he intended to leave him ? That is at Ieaft a Superfluity, 
 and this a Defeat in our manner of Education ; and therefore I 
 could wi£b, (but cannot in thefe times much hope to foe ir,) that 
 cne College in each Univerfity were ere&ed and appropriated 
 to this Study,aswellas there are to Medicine and the Civil Law: 
 There would be no need of making a body of Scholars and Fel- 
 lows, with certain Endowments, as in other Colleges ; it would 
 fuffice, if after the manner of Halis in Oxford, there were only 
 four Profeffors conttituted (for it would be too much work for 
 only one Matter or Principal, as they call him there,) to teach 
 thefe four parts of it. Firtt, Aration , and all things relating to 
 it. Secondly, Pajlurage* Thirdly, Gardens, Orchards , Vineyards , 
 and Woods . Fourthly, all parts of Rural Oeconomy, which would 
 contain the Government of Bees , Si vine, Poultry, Decoys , Ponds , 
 Sec. and all that which Varro calls Villaticas P aft tones, together 
 with the fports of the Field, ( which ought to be looked upon 
 not only as Pleafures, but as Parts of Houfo-keepimr,) and the 
 Domettical conforvation and ufos of all that is brought in by im 
 duttry abroad. The bufinefs of thefe ProfeiTors fhould not be, 
 as is commonly pra&ifed in other Arts, only to read Pompous 
 and Superficial Leclures out of Virgil's Gevrgicks , Pliny , Varro, 
 pr Columella, but to inttruQ: their Pupijs in the whgle Method 
 
 < * - and 
 
102 
 
 Several dtjcourfes by way of Effays, 
 
 and courfe of this ftudy, which might be run through perhaps 
 with diligence in a year or two ; and the continual fucceffion of 
 Scholars upon a moderate taxation for their Diet, Lodging and 
 Learning, would be a fufiicient conftant Revenue for mainte- 
 nance of the Houfe and the ProfefTors, who fhould be Men not 
 chofen for the Oftentation of Critical Literature, but for folid 
 and experimental knowledge of the things they teach, fuchjMen ; 
 fo induftrious and publick-fpirited, as I conceive Mr. Harthb to 
 be, if the Gentleman be yet alive ; But it is needlefs to fpeakfar. 
 ther of my thoughts of this Defign, unlefs the prefent Difpofiti- 
 on of the Age allowed mere probability of bringing it into exe- 
 cution. What I have farther to fay of the Country-life, (hall be 
 borrowed from the Poets, who were always the moft faithful 
 and affe&ionate friends to it. Poetry was born among the 
 Shepherds. 
 
 Nefcio qua N At ale folum dulcedine Mu fas 
 Ducit, & immemorts non finit effe fui. 
 
 The Mufes ftill love their own Native place, 
 
 ’T has fecret Charms which nothing can deface. 
 
 Jhe truth is, no other place is proper for their Work ; one 
 might as well undertake to dance in a Crowd, as to make good 
 Verfes in the midft of Noife and Tumult. 
 
 As well might Corn as Verfe in Cities grow, 
 
 In vain the thanklefs Glebe we Plow and Sow, 
 
 Againft th’ unnatural Soil in vain we ftrive ; 
 
 ’Tis not a Ground in which thefe Plants will thrive. 
 
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 It will bear nothing but the Nettles or Thorns of Satyre, 
 which grow moft naturally in the word: Earth ; And therefore 
 almoft ail Poets, except thofe who were not able to eat Bread 
 without the bounty of Great Men, that is, without what they 
 could get by Flattering of them, have not only withdrawn 
 themfelves from the Vices and Vanities of the Grand World, 
 ( Pan ter vitiifque jocifque Altius humanis exerutre caput,) into 
 the innocent happinefs of a retired Life ; but have commended 
 and adorned nothing fo much by their ever-living Poems. He ■ 
 fiod was the firft or iecond Poet in the World, that remains yet 
 extant, (if Homer, as fome think, preceded him, but I rather be- 
 lieve they were Contemporaries,) and he is the firft Writer too 
 oi the Art of Husbandry : He has contributed ( fays Colu- 
 mella,) not a little to our Profeflion • I fuppofe he means not a 
 little Honour, for the matter of his Inftru&ions is not very im* 
 portant : His great Antiquity is vifible through the Gravity 
 and Simplicity of his Style. The mod: Acute of all his fayings 
 concerns our purpofe very much, and is couched in the reverend 
 
 obfcurity 
 
In verje and Troje. 
 
 obfcurity of an Oracle, n m'ov now The half is more than 
 
 the whole. The occafion of this Speech is this ; His Brother 
 Perfes had by corrupting fome great Men ( 
 
 Great Bribe-eaters he calls them , ) gotten from him the half of his 
 Edate. It is no matter, flays he,,) they have not done me lo much 
 prejudice, as they imagine. 
 
 N>]77 70/, BcT’ )c7KG7t’ tffU TlAiOV V H (JUffU UeCVric, 
 
 onv cy (julKcl'/H Ti detpodiho) (a*. y cvtutp, 
 
 AVTif gp^KCT 7 ©«5/ (iiov StV3-p »775/57. 
 
 Unhappy they, to whom God han’t reveal’d, 
 
 By a ffrong Light which mull their Senle controul, 
 
 That half a great Edate ’s more than the whole : 
 Unhappy, from whom Bill conceal’d does lie 
 Of Roots and Herbs the whoKbm Luxury. 
 
 This I conceive to have been honed Hejiods meaning. From 
 Corner we mud not expend much concerning our Affairs. He was 
 blind, and could neither work in the Country, nor enjoy the 
 Pleafures of it, his helplefs poverty was likelied to be fudained 
 in the riched places, he was to delight the Grecians with fine 
 Tales of the Wars, and Adventuresof their Ancedors ; hisSubjefl 
 removed him from all Commerce with us, and yet, methinks, 
 he made a fhift to fhew his Good-will a little. For though he 
 could do us no Honour in the perlon of his Hero Vlyjfes, (much 
 lels of Achilles ,) becaufe his whole time was confumed in Wars 
 and Voyages, yet he makes his Father Laertes a Gardner all 
 that while, and feeking his Confolation for the abfence of his Son 
 in the pleafure of Planting and even Dunging his own grounds. 
 Yet fee, he did not contemn us Peafants, nay, fo far was he from 
 that inlolence, that he always dyles Eumaus, who kept the Hogs, 
 with wonderful refpefl, Mov CtpopCbv, The Divine Swine-herd : 
 He could ha’ done no more for Menelaus or Agamemnon. And The- 
 ocritus (a very ancient Poet, but he was one of our own Tribe, 
 for he wrote nothing but Padorals,) gave the fame Epithete to 
 an Husbandman, 'huhCIJo a?©- ctfpcoTHf) The Di vine Husbandman 
 replyed to Hercules , who was but a 7©- Himfelf. Thele were Ci- 
 vil Greeks / and who underdood the Dignity of our Calling 1 
 Among the Romans , we have in the fird place our truly Divine 
 Virgil , who, though by the favour of Mec aenus and Augustus , 
 he might have been one of the chief Men of Rome , yet chofe ra- 
 ther to emp'oy much of his time in the Exercife, and much of his 
 immortal Wit in the Praife and Indrudlions of a Rudique Life ; 
 who, though he had written before whole Books of Padorals 
 and Georgies, could not abdain in his great and Imperial Poem 
 from deferibing Evander, one of his bed Princes, as living jud 
 after the homely manner of an ordinary Country-man. He 
 feats him in a Throne of Maple, and lays him but upon a Bears 
 
 skin, 
 
Several difcourfes by way oj Ejfays , 
 
 ikin, the Kine and Oxen are lowing in his Court-yard, the Birds 
 under the Eaves of his Window call him up in the morning, and 
 when he goes abroad, only two Dogs go along with him for his 
 guard : At laft when he brings /Eneas into his Royal Cottage, he 
 makes him fay this memorable Complement, greater than ever 
 yet was ipoken at tire Efcur/af the Louvre , or our Whitehall 
 
 ' H<ec ( intuit ) limina v ill or 
 
 Alcides fubut , htic illum Regia, cepit. 
 
 Aude , Hof pes, contemnere opes, & te que que dignum 
 Linge Deo, rebufque veni non afper egenis. 
 
 This humble Roof, this ruftick Court (laid lie,) 
 
 Receiv’d Alcides , crown’d with Vi£torie. 
 
 Scorn not (Great Gueff,) the Steps where he has trod, 
 But contemn Wealth, and imitate a God. 
 
 ' i A * (. i '* 
 
 The next Man, whom we are much obliged to both for his Do 
 frrine and Example, is the next beft Poet in the World to Virgil t 
 his dear friend Horace , who when Augujlm had defired Mec&nu 
 to perfuade him to come and live domeftically, and at the fame 
 Table with him, and to be the Secretary of State of the whole 
 World under him, or rather joyntly with him, for he fays, Vt 
 nos in Epiftolis feribendis adjuvet , could not be tempted to for- 
 fake his Sabin , or Tiburtin Mannor, for fo rich and fo glorious 
 a trouble. There was never, I think, fuchran Example as this in the 
 World, that he fhould have fo mucli Moderation and Courage as 
 to refufe an offer of fuch Greatnefs, and the Emperor lo much 
 Generofity and good Nature as not to be at all offended with his 
 refufal, but to retain ftill the fame kindnefs, and exprefs it often 
 to him in moft friendly and familiar Letters, part of which are 
 ftill extant. If I fhould produce all the Paflages of this excel- 
 lent Author upon the feveral Subje&s which I treat of in this 
 Book, I muft be obliged to tranflate half his Works ; of which 
 I may fay more truly than in my opinion he did of Homer , gui 
 quid fit * pulchrum , quid turpe , quid utile , quid non Plenius & 
 melius Chryfippo , & Crantore dicit. I fhall content myfelf upon 
 this particular Theme with three only, one out of his Odes , the 
 other out of his Satyrs , the third out of his EpiHles , and fhall for- 
 bear to collet the Suffrages of all other Poets, which may be 
 found fcattered up and down through all their Writings, and 
 efpecially in Martial u But I muft not omit to make fome excufe 
 for the bold undertaking of my own unskilful Pencil upon the 
 beauties of a Pace, that has been drawn before by fo many great 
 Mafters, efpecially, that I fhould dare to do it in Latin verfes, 
 (though of another kind,) and have the confidence to tranflate 
 them. I can only fay, that I love the Matter, and that ought to 
 cov-r many Faults ; and that I run not to contend with thole be- 
 fore me, but follow to applaud them. 
 
 0 For* 
 
In Verfc and c ProJe. 
 
 ' 105 
 
 Virg. Georg. 
 
 0 fortunatos nimium , &c. 
 
 A Tranflation out of Virgil. 
 
 O H happy (if his happinefs he knows,) (flows 
 
 The Country Swain ! on whom kind Heav a be- 
 At home all Riches that wife Nature needs 5 
 Whom the juft Earth with eafie plenty feeds. 
 
 'Tis true, no morning Tide of Clients comes. 
 
 And fills the painted Chanels of his rooms. 
 
 Adoring the rich Figures as they pafs. 
 
 In Tap’ftry wrought, or cut in living Brafs ; 
 
 Nor is his Wooll fiiperfluoufly Dy’d 
 With the dear poifon of Affyrian pride : 
 
 Nor do Arabian Perfumes vainly fpoil 
 The Native life, and fweetnefs of his Oil. 
 
 Inftead of thefe, his calm and harmlefs life. 
 
 Free from th’ alarms of fear, and ftorms of ftrife, 
 
 Does wdth fubftantial bleiTednefs abound, 
 
 And the foft wings of Peace cover him round : 
 
 Through artlefs Grots the murnPring waters glide ; 
 
 Thick Trees both againfl Heat and Cold provide, 
 
 From whence the Birds falute him 5 and his ground 
 With lowing Herds, and bleating Sheep, does found 3 
 And all the Rivers, and the Forefts nigh. 
 
 Both Food and Game, and Exercife fupply. 
 
 Here a well hardned active youth we fee, 
 
 Taught the great Art of chearful Povertie. 
 
 Here, in this place alone, there ftill do fhine 
 Some ftreaks of Love both Human and Divine : 
 
 From hence A(lr<ea took her flight, and here 
 Still her laft Footfteps upon Earth appear. 
 
 'Tis true, the firfl defire, which does contrOul 
 All the inferiour wheels that move thy Soul, 
 
 Is, that the Mufe me her High-Priefl w T ould make ; 
 
 Into her Holy Scenes of Myft’ry take. 
 
 And open there to my minds purged Eye 
 Thole wonders which to Senfe the Gods deny ; 
 
 How in the Moon fuch change of fliapes is found : 
 
 The Moon, the changing Worlds eternal bound. 
 
 What fhakes the folid Earth, w r hat ftrong difeafe 
 Dares trouble the fair Centre’s antient eafe ; * 
 
 What makes the Sea retreat, and what advance : 
 Varieties too regular for chance. 
 
 What drives the Chariot on of Winter's light. 
 
 And flops the lazy Waggon of the night. 
 
 But if my dull and frozen Blood deny 
 To fend forth th’ Sprits that raife a Soul fo high ; 
 
 S f f 
 
 In 
 
io6 Several (ji/cour/es by way cfiLflays , 
 
 In the next place, let Woods and Rivers be 
 My quiet, though unglorious, deftinie. 
 
 In Lifes cool vale let my low Scene be laid ; 
 
 Cover me, Gods, with Tempt s thickeft fliade. 
 
 Happy the man, I grant, thrice happy he, 
 
 Who can through grofs Effects their Caufes fee : 
 Whofe courage from the Deeps of knowledge lprings, 
 Nor vainly fears inevitable things ; 
 
 But does his walk of Virtue calmly go. 
 
 Through all th’ Alarms of Death and Hell below. 
 Happy ! but next fuch Conqu’rors happy they, 
 
 Whole humble Lite lies not in Fortune’s way. 
 
 They unconcern’d from their fafe diffant feat 
 Behold the Rods and Scepters of the Great. 
 
 The Quarrels of the Mighty without fear, 
 
 And the defcent of foreign Troops they hear. 
 
 Nor can ev’n Rome their Ready courfe mifguide. 
 
 With all the luftre of her per’fhing pride. 
 
 Them never yet did ftrife or av’rice draw 
 Into the noi fy Markets of the Law, 
 
 The Camps of Gowned War, nor do they live 
 By rules or forms that many mad men give. 
 
 Duty for Nature’s Bounty they repay, 
 
 And her foie Lav/s religioufly obey. 
 
 Some with bold Labour plough the faithlefs Main, 
 Some rougher ftorms in Princes Courts fuftain. 
 
 Some fwell up their flight Sails with pop’Iar Fame, 
 Charm’d with thefoolifh whiftlings of a Name. 
 
 Some their vain Wealth to Earth again commit ; 
 
 With endlefs cares, fome brooding ore it fit. 
 
 Country and Friends are by fome wretches fold. 
 
 To lie on Tyrian Beds, and drink in Gold ; 
 
 No price too high for profit can be fhewn ; 
 
 Not Brother’s Blood, nor hazards of their own. 
 
 Around the World in fearch of it they roam. 
 
 It makes ev’n their Antipodes their home. 
 
 Mean while the prudent Husbandman is found. 
 
 In mutual Duties driving with his ground. 
 
 And half the year he care of that does take, 
 
 That half the year grateful returns does make. 
 
 Each fertite'Month does fome new gifts prefent, 
 
 And with new work his induftry content. 
 
 This, the young Lamb, that the foft Fleece doth yield, 
 This loads with Hay, and that, with Corn, the Field : 
 All forts of Fruit crown the rich Autumn 0 s pride : 
 
 And on a fwelling Hill’s warm ftony fide, 
 
 The powerful Princely Purple of the Vine, 1 
 Twice dy’d with the redoubled Sun, does fhine. 
 
 In th’ Evening to a fair enfuing day, ' 
 
 With joy he fees his Flocks and Kids to plays 
 
 And 
 
In Verfc Atid Proje . 
 
 And loaded Kine about his Cottage (land, 
 
 Inviting with known found the Milkers hand ; 
 
 And when from wholfome labour he doth come, 
 With wifhes to be there, and wifh’d for home, 
 
 He meets at door the foftefl human blifles. 
 
 His chafte Wives welcome, and dear Childrens kiffeS; 
 When any Rural Holy-days invite 
 His Genius forth to innocent delight. 
 
 On Earths fair Bed beneath fbme Sacred fhade, 
 Amidft his equal friends carelefly laid, 
 
 He lings thee, Bacchus, Patron of the Vine, 
 
 The Beechen Bowl foams with a flood of Wine, 
 
 Not to the lofs of Reafon or of Srength : 
 
 To aflive Games and manly Sport at length 
 Their Mirth afeends, and with filPd Veins they fee r 
 Who can the bed at better Tryals be. 
 
 Such was the Life the prudent Sabins chofe. 
 
 From fuch the old Hetrurian Virtue rofe. 
 
 Such, Remus and the god his Brother led. 
 
 From fuch firm footing Rome grew th’ Worlds head* 
 Such was the Life that ev’n till now does raife 
 The honour of poor Saturns Golden days : 
 
 Before Men born of Earth and buried there 
 Let in the Sea their mortal fate to fhare. 
 
 Before new ways of perifhing were fought, 
 
 Before unskilful Death on Anvils wrought. 
 
 Before thofe Beads, which human Life fudaid. 
 
 By Menj unlefs to the Gods ufe, were flain. 
 
 Horat. Epodon. 
 
 Beatus ille . qui procul , &b. 
 
 * 4 - ■ *4 • V • * 4 4 i • 
 
 H Appy the Man, whom bount’ous Gods allow 
 
 With his own hands Paternal Grounds to Plough ?• 
 Like the fird golden Mortals happy he 
 From Bus’ned, and the cares of Money free ! 
 
 No human dorms break off at Land his fleep. 
 
 No loud Alarms of Nature on the deep. 
 
 From all the cheats of Law he lives fecure, 
 
 Nor does th’ affronts of Palaces endure. 
 
 Somtimes the beauteous Marriageable Vine 
 He to the ludy Bridegroom Elm does joyn ; 
 
 Somtimes he lops the barren Trees around, 
 
 And grafts new Life into the fruitful wound 
 Somtimes he fhears his Flock, and fomtimes he 
 Stores up the Golden Treafuresof the Bee. 
 
 He fees the lowing Herds walk or’e the Plain, 
 
 Whil’d neighboring Hills low back to them asain ; 
 
 S f f 2 - And 
 
Several difeourjes by re ay of E/Jays, 
 
 And when the Seafon, Rich as well as Gay, 
 
 All her Autumnal Bounty does difplay, 
 
 How is he pleas’d th’ Hicreafing Life to fee 
 Of his well-trufted Labours bend the Tree ? 
 
 Of which large (hares on the glad (acred Days 
 He gives to Friends, and to the Gods repays. 
 
 With how much joy does he beneath fome (hade, 
 
 By aged Trees revTend embraces made, 
 
 His carelefs Head on the frefh Green recline, 
 
 His Head uncharged with Fear, or with Defign } 
 
 By him a River conftantly complains, 
 
 The Birds above rejoyce with various drains, 
 
 And in the folemn Scene their Orgies keep, 
 
 Like Dreams mixt with the Gravity of Sleep, 
 
 Sleep which does always there for entrance wait, 
 And nought within againft it (huts the Gate. 
 
 Nor does the roughed feafon of the Sky, 
 
 Or fulleri Jove, all lports to him deny. 
 
 Here runs the Mazes of the nimble Hare, 
 
 . His well-mouth’d Dogs glad concert rends the Air \ 
 Or with Game bolder, and rewarded more, 
 
 He drives into a Toil the foaming Bore. 
 
 Here flies the Hawk t'aflault, and there the Net 
 To intercept the traveling Fowl is (et. 
 
 And all his Malice, all his Graft is (hewn 
 In innocent Wars, on Beads and Birds alone. 
 
 This is the life from all misfortunes free. 
 
 From thee the Great one, Tyrant Love, from Thee: 
 . , n * * ’ - 1 Wife 
 
 Such as the antient Sun-burnt Sabins were, 
 
 Such as Apulia, frugal dill, does bear, 
 
 *Who makes her Children and the Houle her care, 
 And joyfully the work of Life does (hare. 
 
 Nor thinks herlelf too noble or too fine 
 To pin the Sheepfold, or to milk the Kine j 
 Who waits at door againd her Husband come 
 From rural Duties, late, and wearied home, 
 Where (he receives him with a kind embrace, 
 
 A chearful Fire, and a more chearful Face ; 
 
 And fills the Bowl up to her homely Lord, 
 
 And with domedick Plenty loads the Board : 
 
 Not all the ludful Shell-fifli of the Sea, 
 
 Dred by the wanton hand of Luxury, 
 
 Nor Orta Ians , nor Godivits , nor the red 
 Of codly names that glorifie a Fead, 
 
 Are at the Princely Tables better cheer, 
 
 Than Lamb and Kid, Lettice and Olives here. 
 
 The 
 
In Verfe and Troje , 
 
 The Country-Moufe. 
 
 ' , 'PH' 'I JKr!3 «T V- *>n • .< A 
 
 * r >" T f . t 
 
 A Paraphrafe upon Horace 2 Boob^ Satyr. 6c 
 
 A T the large foot of a fair hollow Tree, 
 
 Clofe to plow’d ground, feated commodioufly, 
 His antient and Hereditary Houfe, 
 
 There dwelt a good fubftantial Country-Moufe : 
 Frugal, and grave, and careful of the Main, 
 
 Yet one, who once did nobly entertain 
 A City* Moufe well coated, fleek and gay, 
 
 A Moufe of high degree, which loft his way, 
 
 Wantonly walking forth to take the Air, 
 
 And arriv’d early, and belighted there, 
 
 For a days Lodging ; the good hearty Hoft 
 (The antient plenty of his Hall to boaft,) 
 
 Did all the ftore produce, that might excite, 
 
 With various taftes, the Courtiers appetite. 
 
 Fitches, and Beans, Peafen, Oats and Wheat, 3 
 And a large Ghefnut, the delicious Meat > 
 
 Which Jove himfelf, were he a Moufe, would eat. ^ 
 And for a Havtgouft there was mixt with thefe 
 The Swerd of Bacon, and the Coat of Cheefe, 
 
 The precious Relicjues, which, at Harveft, he 
 Had gathered from the Reapers Luxurie. 
 
 Freely (laid he,) fall on and never (pare. 
 
 The bounteous Gods will for to morrow care. 
 
 And thus at eafe on beds of Straw they lay. 
 
 And to their Genius they facrific’d the Day. 
 
 Yet the nice Gueft’s Epicurean mind 
 
 (Tho breeding made him civil feem, and kind,) 
 
 Defpis’d this Country Feaft, and ftill his thought 
 Upon the Cakes and Pies of London wrought. 
 
 Your Bounty and Civility, (faid he,) 
 
 Which Pm lupriz’d in thefe rude parts to fee, 
 
 Shews that the Gods have given you a mind 
 Too noble for the Fate which here you find. 
 
 Why fhould a Soul, fo virt’ous, and fo great, 
 
 Lole itfelf thus in an obfeure Retreat ? 
 
 Let favage Beafts lodge in a Country Den, 
 
 You fhould fee Towns, and Manners know, and Men 2 
 And tafte the gen’rous Luxury of the Court, 
 
 Where all the Mice of Quality refort ; 
 
 Where thoufand beaut’ous She’s about you move, 
 
 And by high Fate, are plyant made to Love. 
 
 « We all e’re long muft render up our Breath, 
 
 No cave or hole can fhelter us from Death. 
 
 Since 
 
no 
 
 Several difcourjes by way ofjLfjqys, 
 
 Since Life is fo uncertain and fo Ihort, 
 
 Let’s l’pend it all in Feafting and in Sport. 
 
 Come, worthy Sir, come with me, and partake 
 All the great things that Mortals happy make : 
 
 Alas, what virtue hath fufficient Arms, 
 
 Toppofe bright Honour, and foft £leafur’s charms ? 
 What Wildom can their Magick force repel ? 
 
 It draws this rev’rend Hermit from his Cell. 
 
 It was the time when witty Poets tell, 
 
 That Phoebus into Thetis Bofomt fell : 
 
 She blufht at firjl, and then pit out the Lights 
 And drew the modefl Curtains of the Night . 
 
 Plainly, the troth to tell, the Sun was let, 
 
 When to the Town our wearied Travelers get, 
 
 To a Lord ’s Houle as Lordly as can be 
 Made for the ule of Pride and Luxurie, 
 
 They come \ the gentle Courtier at the door 
 Stops, and will hardly enter in before. 
 
 But ’Tis, Sir, yeur Command, and being lo, 
 
 I’m fworn t’obedience, and lo in they go, 
 
 Behind a Hanging in a Ipacious room, 
 
 (The richeft Work of Mortlackes noble Loom,) 
 
 They wait a while their wearied Limbs to reft, 
 
 Till lilence Ihould invite them to their Feaft. 
 
 About the hour that Cynthia’s filver Light 
 Had touch'd the pale Meridies of the Night ; 
 
 At laft the various Supper being done, 
 
 It hapned that the Company was gone 
 Into a Room remote. Servants and all. 
 
 To pleafe their noble Fancies with a Ball. 
 
 Our Hoft leads forth his Stranger, and does find 
 All fitted to the bounties of his Mind. 
 
 Still on the Table half-fill’d dilhes Hood, 
 
 And with delicious bits the floor was ftrow’d. 
 
 The court’ous Moule prefents him with the bell. 
 And both with fat Varieties are bleft. 
 
 Th’ induftrious Peafant every where does range, 
 
 And thanks the gods for his Life’s happy change* 
 
 Lo, in the midft of a well-fraighted Pye, 
 
 They both at laft glutted and wanton lie. 
 
 When lee the lad Reverie of profp’rous Fate, 
 
 And what fierce ftorms on mortal glories wait. 
 
 With hid’ous noile down the rude Servants come. 
 Six Dogs before run barking into th‘ room 3 
 The wretched Gluttons fly with wild affright, 
 
 And hate the fulnels which retards their flight. 
 
 Our trembling Pealant wilhes now in vain, 
 
 That Rocks and Mountains cover’d him again. 
 
 Oh, how the change of his poor Life he curft 5 
 This, of all lives (laid he,) is lure the worft. 
 
 1 
 
 Give 
 
II I 
 
 t- ■ ( > 
 
 « In Verje and Profe . 
 
 Give me again, ye Gods , my Cave and Wood ; 
 With Peace, let Tares and Acorns be my food. 
 
 A Taraphrafe upon the ioth Epijile of the 
 Firjl Bool^ of Horace. 
 
 Horace to Fufcus Ariftius. 
 
 H Ealth from the lover of the Country, me. 
 Health to the lover of the City, thee, 
 
 A difference in our Souls this only proves. 
 
 In all things elfe we agree like married Doves. 
 
 But the warm Neft, and crowded Dove-houfe thou 
 Bo’ft like ; I loolely fly from bough to bough, 
 
 And Rivers drink and ail the fhining day. 
 
 Upon fair Trees, or mofly Rocks, I play ; 
 
 In fine* I live and reign when I retire * 
 
 From all that you equal with Heav’n admire. 
 
 Like one at laft from the Prieft’s Service fled. 
 Loathing the Hony’d-Cakes, I long for Bread. 
 Would I an Houfe for Happinefs ereft. 
 
 Nature alone fhould be the Architect. 
 
 She’d build it more convenient, than great, 
 
 And doubtlels in the Country chufe her Seat; 
 
 Is there a place doth better helps 1'upply, 
 
 Againft the wounds of Winter s cruelty ? 
 
 Is there an Air, that gentlier does affwage 
 The mad Celeftial Dogs, or Lyons Rage ? 
 
 Is it not there that fleep, (and only there,) 
 
 Nor noife without, nor cares within, doors fear > 
 Does Art through Pipes a purer Water bring. 
 
 Than that which Nature ftrains into a Spring ? 
 
 Can all your Tap’ftries, or your Pi&ures flhew 
 More Beauties than in Herbs and Flow’rs do grow ? 
 Fountains and Trees our wearied Pride do pleafe, 
 Ev’n in the midft of gilded Palaces. 
 
 And in your Towns that Profped gives delight, 
 Which opens round the Country to our fight. 
 
 Men to the good, from which they rafhly fly. 
 
 Return at laft, and their wild Luxury 
 Does but in vain with thofe true joys contend. 
 Which Nature did to Mankind recommend. 
 
 The Man who changes Gold for burnifht Brafs, 
 
 Or final! right Gems for larger ones of Glafs : * 
 
 Is not, at length, more certain to be made 
 Ridiculous, and wretched by the Trade, 
 
 Than 
 
ii2 Several di fc our f es by way of E/fays, 
 
 Than he, who fells a folid good to buy 
 The painted goods of Pride and Vanity. 
 
 If thou be wile, no glorious fortune choofe, 
 Which ’t is but vain to keep, yet grief to lofe. 
 For, when we place, ev’n trifles, in the heart. 
 With trifles too, unwillingly we part, 
 
 An humble Roof, plain Bed, and homely Board, 
 More clear, untainted pleafures do afford. 
 
 Than all the tumult of vain Greatnefs brings 
 To Kings, or to the Favourites of Kings. 
 
 The horned Deer, by Nature arm’d lb well, 
 
 Did with the Horfe in common paliure dwell ; 
 And when they fought, the Field it always wan, 
 Till the ambitious Horle begg’d help of Man, 
 And took the Bridle, and thenceforth did reign 
 Bravely alone, as Lord of all the Plain : 
 
 But never after could the Rider get 
 From off his Back, or from his Mouth the Bit. 
 
 So they, who Poverty too much do fear, 
 
 T’ avoid that weight, a greater burden bear 5 
 That they might Pow’r above their Equals have, 
 To cruel Mailers they themlelves enllave. 
 
 For Gold, their Liberty exchang’d we lee. 
 
 That fairell Flower which crowns Humanitie. 
 And all this Milchief does upon them light, 
 
 Only, becaufe they know not how aright 
 That great, but fecret, Happinefs to prize. 
 
 That’s laid up in a little for the Wile : 
 
 That is the bell, and eafiell Elfate, 
 
 Which to a man fits clofe, but not too ftrait ; 
 ’Tis like a Shoo, it pinches, and it burns 
 Too narrow, and too large it overturns. 
 
 My dearell Friend, Hop thy Defires at lalf. 
 
 And chearfully enjoy the Wealth thou hall. 
 
 And, if me (fill Peeking for more you lee, 
 
 Chide, and reproach, defpile and laugh at me. 
 Money was made not to command our Will, 
 
 But all our lawful pleafures to fulfil. 
 
 Shame and Woe to us, if we our Wealth obey, 
 The Horle doth with Horleman run away. 
 
■ 
 
 
 In Verfe and Profe. 
 
 The Country Life. 
 
 Lib . 4 Plantarum, 
 
 B Left be the Man, ( and bleft he is, ) whom e’re 
 ( Plac’d out of the Roads of Hope or Fear,) 
 
 A little Field, and little Garden feeds > 
 
 The Field gives all that frugal Nature needs, 
 
 The wealthy Garden liberally beftows 
 All file can ask, when fhe luxurious grows: 
 
 The fpecious Inconveniencies that wait 
 Upon a Life of Buflnefs, and of State, 
 
 He lees ( nor does the Sight difturb his reft, ) 
 
 By Fools defir’d, by wicked Men polfeft. 
 
 Thus, thus (and thisdeferv’d great Virgil 1 s Praife, ) 
 
 The old Coryci an Yeoman paft his days. 
 
 Thus his wife Life Abdolonymus fpent: 
 
 Th’ AmbafTadors which the great Emperor lent 
 To offer him a Crown, with wonder found 
 The rev’rend Gard’ner Howing of hj,? Ground, 
 Unwillingly, and flow, and difcontent, 
 
 From his lov’d C ottage, to a Throne he went; 
 
 And oft heftopt in his triumphant way, 
 
 And oft look’d back, and oft was heard to fay, 
 
 Not without Sighs, Alas, I there forfake 
 Ahappier Kingdom than I go to take. 
 
 Thus Aglatis ( a Man unknown to Men, 
 
 But the Gods knew, and therefore lov’d him then, ) 
 
 Thus liv’d obfcurely then without a Name, 
 
 Aglatis now confign’d t’ eternal Fame. 
 
 For Gyges, the rich King, wicked and great, 
 
 Prefum’d at wife Apollo 1 s Delphick Seat, 
 
 Prefum’d to ask, Oh thou, the whole World’s Eye, 
 
 See’ft thou a Man, that happier is than I ? 
 
 The God, who fcorn’d to flatter Man, reply’d, 
 
 Aglatis happier is. But Gyges cry’d, 
 
 In a proud Rage, who can that Aglatis be ? 
 
 W' have heard as yet of no fuch King as he. 
 
 And true it was, through the whole Earth around 
 No King of fuch a Name was to be found. 
 
 Is fome old Hero of that Name alive. 
 
 Who his high Race does from the Gods derive? 
 
 Is it fome mighty Gen’ral that has done 
 Wonders in Fight, and God-like Honors won? 
 
 Is it fome Man of endlefs Wealth, laid he ? 
 
 None, none of thefe$ who can this Aglaus be? 
 
 T t t After 
 
 1 1 1 
 
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 f r 
 
1 14 
 
 » i ..i h i i - * ' * 1 "*“ 1 1 • " ' i., i . i u 
 
 Several Difcourjes by way of Ejfays , 
 
 After longfearch, and vain inquiries paft. 
 
 In an oblcure Arcadian Vale at laft ; 
 
 Th’ Arcadian Life has always fhady been. 
 
 Near Sopho 1 s Town ( which he but once had leen, ) 
 This Aglaus , who Monarchs envy drew, 
 
 Whofe Happinefs the Gods hood witnels to, 
 
 This mighty Aglaus was labouring found, 
 
 With his own Hands in his own little ground. 
 
 So, Gracious God, ( if it may lawful be. 
 
 Among thole foolifh Gods to mention Thee, ) 
 
 So let me aft on fuch a private Stage 
 The laft dull Scenes of my declining Age 5 
 After long Toils and Voyages in vain, 
 
 This quiet Port let my toft Vefiel gain, 
 
 Of Heavenly reft this Earned: to me lend. 
 
 Let my Life fleep, and learn to love her End. 
 
 The Garden. 
 
 To J. Evelyn Efquire. 
 
 - ^ > t ) ' ■ ) 
 
 I Never had any other defire lo ftrong, and fo like to Covetouf- 
 nels, as that one which I have had always, that Lmighr be 
 IVlafter at laft of a Email Houle and large Garden, with very mode- 
 rate Conveniencies joined to them, and there dedicate the remain- 
 der of my Life only to the culture of them, and ftudy of Nature, 
 
 / .by* o j ■. >■'' ■ • ' , moi . •• • *; "a. 
 
 And there ( with no defign beyond my Wall, ) whole and 
 entire to lye, 
 
 In no una&ive Eafe, and no unglorious Poverty. 
 
 - rn [ i : mine. > won ■*■*» .A,.;* 
 
 Or as Virgil has Paid, Shorter and Better for me, that I might 
 
 thete Studiis florere ignobilis otii (though 1 could wifh,thathehad 
 rather Paid, Nobilis otii , when he Ppoke of his own,) but leveral 
 accidents of my ill fortune have difappointed me hitherto, and do 
 ftill, of that Felicity ; for though I have made the firft and hard- 
 eft ftep to it, by abandoning all Ambitions and Hopes in this 
 World, and by retiring from the node of all BufinePs, and almoft 
 Company, yeti ftick ftill in the Inn of a hired Houfe and Garden, 
 a mcng Weeds and Rubbifh ; and without that pleafanteft Work 
 of human Induftry , the Improvement of fomthing which we 
 call ( not very properly, but yet we call ) our own. I am 
 gone out from Sodom , but I am not yet arrived at my little Zgjar. 
 0 let me tfcape thither , (is it not a little one ? ) and my Soul flail 
 live. I do not look back yet ; but I have been forced to ftop, 
 and make too many halts. You may wonder, Sir, (for this 
 teems a little too extravagant and Pindarica! for Profe) w r hat I 
 
 mean 
 
In Ver (e and Profe, 
 
 mead by all this Preface ; It is to let you know. That though I 
 havemift, like a Chymift, my great End, yet I account my af- 
 fe&ions and endeavors well rewarded by fotnthing that I have 
 met with by the By 5 which is, that they have procured to me 
 fbme part in your kindnefs and efteem 5 and thereby the honor of 
 having my Name fo advantageoufly recommended to Pofterity, 
 by the Epiftle you are pleafedto prefix to the moftufeful Book 
 that has been written in that kind, and which is to laft as long 
 as Months and Years. 
 
 Among many other Arts and Excellencies which you enjoy, I 
 am glad to find this Favourite of mine the molt predominant : 
 That you choofe this for your Wife, though you have hundreds 
 of other Arts for your Concubines ; though you know them , 
 and beget Sons upon them all, ( to which you are rich enough to 
 allow great Legacies,) yet the Ilfue of this feems to be defign- 
 ed by you to the main of the Eftate 5 you have taken moft plea- 
 fure in it, and beftow’d moft Charges upon it’s Education : And I 
 doubt not to fee that Book, which you are pleafed to promife to 
 the World, and of which you have given us a large earneft in 
 your Calendar, as accomplifh’d, as any thing can be expected 
 from an Extraordinary Wit, and no ordinary Expences and a long 
 Experience. I know no body that poffeffes more private Hap- 
 pinefs than you do in your Garden ; and yet no man who makes 
 his Happinefs more publick, by a free Communication of the 
 
 Art and knowledg of it to others. All that I myfelf am able yet 
 to do, is only to recommend to Mankind the fearch of that Feli* 
 city, which you inftruft them how to find and to enjoy. 
 
 Happy art thou, whom God does Blefs 
 With the full choice of thine own Happinefs$ 
 
 And happier yet* becaufe thou’rt bleft 
 With Prudence howto choofe the beft : 
 
 In Books and Gardens thou haft plac’t aright 
 ( Things well which thou do’ft underftand. 
 
 And both do'ft make with thy laborious hand,) 
 
 Thy noble innocent Delight : 
 
 And in thy virtuous Wife, where thou again do’ft meet 
 Both Pleafures more refin'd and fweet: 
 
 The faireft Garden in her looks, 
 
 And in her Mind, the wifeft Books. 
 
 Oh, who would change thefe foft, yet folid, Joys 
 For empty Shows and fenfleft noife 5 
 
 And all which rank Ambition breeds, 
 
 Which feem fuch beauteous Flowers* and are fuch poifonous 
 
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 When God did Man to his own likeneft make. 
 As much as Clay, though of the pureft kind, 
 
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 By the great Potters are refin’d : 
 
 Could the Divine Impreflion take, 
 
 He thought it fit to place him, where 
 A kind of Heav’n too did appear, 
 
 As far as Earth could fuch a likenefs bear, 
 
 That Man no Happinefs might want, 
 
 Which Earth to her firft Matter could afford; 
 
 He did a Garden for him plant 
 By the quick hand of his Omnipotent Word. 
 
 As the chief Help and joy of Human Life, 
 
 He gave him the nrft Gift ; firft, ev’n before a Wife. 
 
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 For God, the univerfal Architeft, 
 
 *T had been as eafie to ere£fc 
 A Louvre, or Efcurial, or a Tower, 
 
 That might with Heaven Communication hold. 
 
 As Babel vainly thought to do of old : 
 
 He wanted not the Skill or Power, 
 
 In the Worlds Fabrick thofe were fllfewn, 
 
 And the Materials were all his own. 
 
 But well he knew what place Would beft agree 
 With Innocence, and with Felicity : 
 
 And we ellewhere ttill feek for them in vain, 
 
 If any part of either yet remain; 
 
 If any part of either we expe&, 
 
 Th is may our Judgement in the fearch direft ; 
 
 God the firtt Garden made, and the firft City, Cain. 
 
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 Oh blefled Shades! oh gentle cool retreat 
 From all th’immoderate Heat, 
 
 In which the frantick World does burn and Iweat ! 
 
 This does the Lyon-Star, Ambitious rage 5 
 This Avarice, the Dog-Stars Thirft affwage : 
 
 Every where elfe their fatal Power we fee, 
 
 They make and rule Man’s wretched Deftiny: 
 
 They neither fet, nor difappear. 
 
 But tyrannize o’r all the year ; 
 
 Whil’ft we ne’er feel their Flame or Influence here. 
 
 The Birds that dance from bough to bough, 
 
 And Sing above in every Tree, 
 
 Arc not from Fears and Cares more free. 
 
 Than we who lie or walk below, 
 
 And fhould, by right, be Singers too. 
 
 What Princes Quire of Mufickcan excel 
 
 That which within this Shade does dwell? 
 
 To which we nothing Pay or Give, 
 
 They like all other Poets live, 
 
 Without reward, or thanks For their obliging Pains; 
 
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 In Verfe and Proje. 1 1 7 
 
 ’Tiswell if they become not Prey: 
 
 The whittling Winds add their lefs artful ftrains. 
 
 And a grave Bale the murmuring Fountains play : 
 Nature dees all this Harmony bettow. 
 
 But to our Plants, Arts Mufick too. 
 
 The Pipe, Theorbo, and Guitar we owe ; 
 
 The Lute itfelf, which once was Green and Mute, 
 When Orpheus ftruck th’infpired Lute, 
 
 The Trees danc’t round, and underftood. 
 
 By Sympathy, the voice of wood. 
 
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 Thefe are the Spells that to kind Sleep invite. 
 
 And nothing does within refiftance make, 
 
 Which yet we moderately take 5 
 Who would not choofe to be awake, 
 
 While he’s incompafs’d round with fuch delight, 
 Toth’Ear, the Note, the Touch, theTafte, and Sight ? 
 When Fenus would her dear Afcanius keep 
 A Pris’ner in the Downy Bands of Sleep, 
 
 She Od’rous Herbs and Flowers befleath him fpread 
 As the moft foft and fweetett: Bed ; 
 
 Not her own Lap would more have charm’d his Head 
 Who, that has Reafon, and his Smell, 
 
 Would not among Rofes and Jafmin dwell. 
 
 Rather than all his Spirits choak 
 With exhalations of Dirt and Smoak? 
 
 And all th’ uncleannefs which does drown 
 In Pettilential Clouds a populous Town ; 
 
 The Earth itfelf breaths better Perfumes here, 
 
 Than all the Female Men or Women there. 
 
 Not without caufe about them bear. 
 
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 When Epicnrus to the World had taught, 
 
 That Pleafure was thechiefeft good, 
 
 ( And was perhaps i’ th’ right , if rightly underttood, ) 
 His Life he to his Do&rine brought, 
 
 And in a Garden’s fhade that Sovereign Pleafure fought. 
 Whoever a true Epicure would be, 
 
 May there find cheap and virtuous Luxurie. 
 
 VittUius his Table, which did hold 
 As many Creatures as the Ark of old : 
 
 That Fifcal Table, to which every day 
 All Countries did a conttant Tribute pay. 
 
 Could nothing more delicious afford. 
 
 Than Natures Liberality, 
 
 Helpt with a little Art and Induttry, 
 
 Allows the meaneft Card’ners board. 
 
 The 
 
Several ‘Difcourjes by way of Ejfays, 
 
 The wanton Tafte no Fifh or Fowl can choofe. 
 
 For which the Grape or Melon Hie would lofe. 
 Though all th’ Inhabitants of Sea and Air 
 Be lifted in the Gluttons Bill of Fare ; 
 
 Yet ftill the Fruits of Earth we fee 
 Plac'd the third Story high in all her Luxurie. 
 
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 feut with all Senfe the Garden does comply ; 
 
 None courts or flatters, as it does, the Eye : 
 
 When the great Hebrew King did almoft Brain 
 The wondrous Treafures of his Wealth and Brain, 
 His Royal Southern Gueft to entertain 5 
 Though fhe on Silver Floors did tread, 
 
 With bright Jffyrian Carpets on them fpread, 
 
 To hide the Metals Poverty. 
 
 Though fhe look’d up to Roofs of Gold, 
 
 And nought around her could behold 
 But Silk and rich Embroidery, 
 
 And Babylonian TapeRry, 
 
 And wealthy Hirams Princely Dy : 
 
 Though Ophir's Starry Stones met every where her Eye; 
 Though (he herfelf, and her gay HoR were dreft 
 With all the fhining Glories of theEaR* 
 
 When lavifh Art her coftly Work had done. 
 
 The honor and the prize of Bravery 
 Was by the Garden from the Palace won. 
 
 And every Rofe and Lilly there did (land 
 Better attir’d by Natures hand : 
 
 The Cafe thus judg’d againR the King we fee, 
 
 By one that would not be fo rich, though wifer far than he. 
 
 Nor does this happy place only difpenfe 
 Such various Pleafures to the Senfe, 
 
 Here Health itfelf does live, 
 
 T hat Salt of Life which does to all a relifhgive 
 
 It’s Banding Pleafiire, and Intrinfick Wealth, 
 
 The Bodies Virtue, and the Souls good Fortune, Health. 
 The Tree of Life, when it in Eden Rood, 
 
 Did it’s immortal head to Heaven rear 
 It laRed a tall Cedar till the Flood ; 
 
 Now a Email thorny fhrub it does appear ; 
 
 Nor will it thrive too every where : 
 
 It always here is frefheR feen 5 
 ’Tis only here an Ever-green. 
 
 If through the ftrong and beauteous Fence 
 Of Temperance and Innocence, 
 
 And wholfome Labours, and a quiet Mind, 
 
 And Difeales paflage find, 
 
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 In Ver (e and Profe, HJ? 
 
 They muft not think here to afTail 
 A. Land unarmed, or without a Guard ; 
 
 They muft fight tor it, and difpute it hard. 
 
 Before they can prevail : 
 
 Scarce any Plant is growing here 
 Which againft Death fome Weapon does not bear. 
 Let Cities boaft, that they provide 
 For Life, the Ornaments of Pride; 
 
 But ’tis the Country and the Field, 
 
 That furnifh it with Staff and Shield. 
 
 Where does the Wifdom and the Power t)ivine 
 In a more bright and fweet Reflexion fhine ? 
 
 Where do we finer Stroakes and Colours fee 
 Of the Creator’s real Poetrie, 
 
 Than when we with attention look 
 Upon the third days Volume of the Book? 
 
 . If we could open and intend our Eye, 
 
 We all like Mofes fhould efpy 
 Ev’n in a Bufh the radiant Deity. 
 
 But we defpife thefe his Inferior ways, 
 
 ( Though no lefs full of Miracle and Praife, ) 
 
 Upon the Flowers of Heaven we gaze ; 
 
 The Stars of Earth no wonder in us raife. 
 
 Though thefe perhaps do, more than they, 
 
 The Life of Mankind fway. 
 
 Although no part of mighty Nature be 
 More ftor’d with Beauty, Power, and Myftetie ; 
 
 Yet to encourage human Induftry, 
 
 God has fo ordered, that no other part 
 Sucli Space, and filch Dominion leaves for Art* 
 
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 We no where Art do fo triumphant fee. 
 
 As when it Grafts or Buds the Tree, 
 
 In other things we count it to excel, 
 
 If it a Docile Schollar can appear 
 To Nature, and but imitate her well 3 
 It over-rules, and is her Mafter here. 
 
 It imitates her Maker’s Power Divine, 
 
 And changes her fomtimes, and fomtimes does refine : 
 
 It does, like Grace, the fallen Tree reftore 
 To it’s bleft State of Paradife before: 
 
 Who would not joy to fee his conquering hand 
 O’r all the vegetable World command ? 
 
 And the wild Giants of the Wood receive 
 What Law he’s pleas’d to give ? 
 
 He bids th’ ill natur’d Crab produce 
 The gentle Apples Winey Juice; 
 
 The 
 
120 Several ‘Difcourfes by way of Effays i 
 
 The golden Fruit that worthy is 
 Of Galatea 7 s purple Kifs ; 
 
 He does the Savage Hawthorn teach 
 To bear the Medlar and the Pear, 
 
 He bids the ruftick Plum to rear 
 A noble Trunk, and be a Peach, 
 
 Ev’n Daphne s Coynels he does mock. 
 
 And weds the Cherry to her Hock, 
 
 Though file refus’d Apollo 7 s Suit ; 
 
 Ev’n fhe, that chall and Virgin-Tree, 
 
 Now wonders at herfelf, to lee 
 That file’s a Mother made, and blufhes in her Fruit. 
 
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 Methinks, I lee great Diocleftan walk 
 In the Salonian Garden’s noble fhade, 
 
 Which by his own Imperial hands was made ; 
 
 I lee him fmile, methinks, as he does talk 
 With the AmbalTadors who came in vain, 
 
 T’ entice him to a Throne again, 
 
 If I, my Friends ( laid he, ) fhould to you fhew 
 All the delights, which in thefe Gardens grow 5 
 ’Tis likelier much, that you fhould with me ftay, 
 
 Than ’tis that you fhould carry me away : 
 
 And trull me not, my Friends, if every day, 
 
 I walk not here with more delight. 
 
 Than ever after the moll happy Fight, 
 
 In Triumph to the Capitol I rod, 
 
 To thank the Gods, and to be thought mylelf almoll a God. 
 
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 S ince we cannot attain to Greatnefs, (lays the Sieur de Mon * 
 tagne,') let’s have our revenge by Railing at it: This he 
 fpoke but in jeft. I believe he defired it no more than I do, and 
 had lefs reafon, for he enjoyed fo plentiful and honorable a For- 
 tune in a moll excellent Country, as allowed him all the real con* 
 veniencies of it,feparated and purged from the Incommodities. If 
 I were but in his condition, I fhould think it hard meafure, with- 
 out being convinced of any Crime, to be fequellred from it, and 
 made one of the Principal Officers of State. Put theReadermay 
 think that what I now lay, is of fmall Authority, becaule 1 ne- 
 ver was, nor ever fhall be put to theTryal : I can therefore only 
 make my Protellation, ‘ w ■ 
 
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 If ever I more Riches did defire 
 Than Cleanhnefs and £>jvet Jo reauire \ 
 
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 In Verfe and Frofe. 
 
 If fre Ambition did my Fancy cheat 
 With any rvijjj fo mean as to be great , 
 
 Continue , Heavn , fill from me to remove 
 The Humble Bit flings of that Lfe I love . 
 
 I know very many Men will defpife, and fomepity me for this 
 Humour, as a poor ipirited fellow ; but Pm content, and Yike Ho- 
 race, thank God lor being (o'. Dii bene fecerunt , inopis me q :od- 
 que pufilli Finxerunt animi . I confefs I love Litt lends almolt in 
 all things. A little convenient Ellate, a little chearful Houfe, a 
 little Company, and a very little Feaft, and if I were ever to 
 fall in love again, (which is a great PafTion, and therefore, I hope 
 [have done with it,) it would be, I think, withPrettinefs, rather 
 than with Majefticai Beauty. I would neither wifh that my Mi- 
 ftrefs, nor my Fortune, fhould be a Bona Roba , nor as Flamer ufes 
 to-deferibe his Beauties, like a Daughter of great Jupiter for the 
 ftatelinefs and largenefs of her Perfon, but as Lucretius lays, 
 
 Parvula , pumilio , xazItw ultt , tota merum fal. 
 
 Where there is one man of this, I believe there are a thoufand of 
 Senecas mind, whofe ridiculous affectation of Grandeur, Seneca 
 the Elder deferibes to this effebt. Seneca was a man of a turbid 
 andconfufed Wit, who could not endure to fpeak any but mighty 
 Words and Sentences, till this Humour grew at lalt into fb notori- 
 ous a Habit, or rather a Difeafe, as became the fport of the whole 
 Town : He would have no fervants,- but huge maffy fellows, no 
 Plate or Houfholdfluff, but thrice as bigas thefalhion : You may 
 believe me, for I fpeak it without Kailery, his Extravagancy came 
 at Jail into fuch a madnefs, that he would not put on a pair of 
 Shooes, each of which was not big enough for both his feet : He 
 would eat nothing but what was great, nor touch any Fruit but 
 Horfe-plums and Pound-pears : He kept a Concubine that was a 
 very Giantels, and made her walk too always in Chiopins , till at 
 Ml he got the Surname of Seneca Grandio , which, Meffala (aid, 
 was not his Cognomen , but his Cognomentum : When he declaimed 
 for the three hundred Lacedemonians , who alone oppofed Xerxes 
 his Army of above three hundred thoufand, he flretched out his 
 Arms, and flood on tiptoes, that he might appear the taller, and 
 cryed out, in a very loud voice ; I rejoyce. I rejoyce- — We won- 
 dred, Irdmember, what new great Fortune had befalnhis Emi- 
 nence, Xerxes, (fays he,) is All mine own. He took away the 
 fight of the Sea with Canvas Vails of fb many Ships — and then 
 he goes on fb. as I know not what to make of the reli, whether 
 it be the fault of the Edition, or the Orators own burley way 
 of Nonfence. 
 
 This is the charabler that Seneca gives of this Hyperbolical Fop, 
 whom we hand amazed at, and yet there are few men who 
 are not in Pome things, and to fome degrees Grandio^s. Is any 
 thing more common, than to fee our Ladies of quality wear fuch 
 high Shooes, as they cannot walk in, without one to lead them ? ^ 
 
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and a Gown as long as again their Body, fo that they cannot ftir 
 to the next Room w ithout a Page or two to hold it up ? I mav 
 lately lay, That all the ofttntation of our Grandees is juft' like a 
 Train of no ule in the World, but horribly cumberfome and in- 
 commodious. What is all this, but a fpice of Grandio ? How 
 tedious would this be, if we were always bound to it > I do be- 
 lieve there is no King, who would not rather be depoled, than 
 endure every day of his Reign all the Ceremonies of his Corona- 
 tion. The mightieft Princes are glad to fly often from thefe Ma- 
 jeftick pleasures, (which is, methinks, no lmall difparagement to 
 themj as it were for refuge, to the moft contemptible diver- 
 tifements, and meaneft recreations of the Vulgar, nay, even of 
 Children. One of the moft powerful and fortunate Princes of the 
 World, of late, could And out no delight fo fatisfa&ory, as the 
 keeping of little Tinging Birds, and hearing of them, and whiff- 
 ling to them. What did the Emperors of the whole World ? If 
 ever any Men had the free and full enjoyment of all human 
 Greatnels, (nay that would not fuffice, for they would be gods 
 too,) they certainly pofleft it $ and yet, one of them who ftyled 
 himlelf Lord and God of the Earth, could not tell how to pafs 
 his whole day pleafantly, without fpending constantly two or 
 three hours in catching of Flics, and killing them with a bodkin, 
 as if his Godfhip had been Beelzebub. One of his Predeceffors, 
 NtrO) (who never put any bounds nor met with any ftop to his Ap- 
 petite,; could divert himfelf with no paftime more agreeable, than 
 to run about the ftreets all night in a difguife, and abufe the Wo- 
 men , and affront the Men whom he met, and fomtimes to beat 
 them, and fomtimes to be beaten by them : This was one of his 
 Imperial nobturnal pleafures. His chiefeft in the day was to ling 
 and play upon a Fiddle, in the habit of a Minftrel, upon the pub- 
 lick Stage: He was prouder of theGarlandsthat weregiven to his 
 Divine voice (as they called it then,) in thofe kind of prizes, 
 than all his Forefathers were of their Triumphs over Nations: 
 He did not at his death complain, that fo mighty an Emperor 
 and the iaftof all the Cafarian Race of Denies, fhould be brought 
 to lo fhameful and milerable an end, but only cried out, Alas, 
 what pity ’cis, that lb excellent a Mufician fhould perilh in this 
 manner 1 His Uncle Claudius fpent half his time at playing at 
 Dice, that was the main fruit of his Soveraignty. I omit the 
 madnefs of Caligula $ delights, and the execrable fordidncfs of 
 thole of Tiberim . Would one think that Auguflm himlelf, the 
 highcft and moft fortunate of mankind, a perfon endowed too 
 with many excellent parts of Nature, fhould be fo hard put to it 
 fomtimes for want of recreations, as to be found playing at Nuts 
 and bounding Stones, with little Syrian and Moor/fb Boys, whole 
 company he took delight in, for their prating and their wan- 
 ton nefs ? 
 
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 Was it for this, that Rom-s heft Blood he fpilr, 
 
 With fo much Fallhood, lb much guilt ? 
 
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In Vcrfe and 'Troje . 
 
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 Was it for this that his Ambition throve. 
 
 To equal Cafar firth, and after Jove ? 
 
 Creatnefs is barren fure of (olid Joys $ 
 
 Her Merchandize (I fear,) is all in toys, 
 
 She could not elfe lure fo uncivil be, 
 
 To treat his univerfal Majeftie, 
 
 His new-created Deitie, 
 
 With Nuts, and Bounding-ftones, and Boys. 
 
 Rut we mutt excufe her for his meager entertainment, the 
 has not really wherewithal to make fuch Feaths as we imagine ; 
 her Gueths mufh be contented fomtimes but with (lender Cates, 
 and with the fame cold Meats ferved over and over again, even till 
 they become Naufeous. When you have pared away all the 
 Vanity, what folid and natural Contentment does there remain 
 which may not be had with Five hundred pounds a year ? Not fo 
 many Servants or Horfes ; but a few good ones, which will do all 
 the bufinefs as well : Not fo many choice Difhes at every meal, but 
 at feveral meals, all of them, which makes them both the more 
 healthy, and the more pleafant : Not fo Rich garments, nor fo fre- 
 quent changes, but as warm and as comely, and fo frequent change 
 too, as is every jot as good for the Matter, though not for the 
 Tailor, or Valet de Chambre : Not fuch a (lately Palace, nor gilt 
 Rooms, or the coftlieft forts of Tapeftry , but a convenient Brick- 
 lioufe, with decent Wainfcot, and pretty Forett-work Hang- 
 ings. Laftly, (for I omit all other particulars, and will end with 
 that which I love moft in both conditions,) not whole Woods 
 cut in Walks, nor vaft Parks, nor Fountain, or Cafcade-Gar- 
 dens ; but Herb, and Flower, and Fruit-Gardens which are more 
 ufeful, and the water every whit as clear and wholfome, as if it 
 darted from the breads of a marble Nymph, or the Urn of a Ri- 
 ver-God. If for all this, you like better the fubftance of that 
 former eftateof Life, do but confider the infeparable accidents of 
 both : Servitude, Difquiet, Danger, and moft commonly Guilt 
 inherent in the one , in the other Liberty, Tranquillity, Security, 
 and Innocence ; and when you have thought upon this, you will 
 confefs that to be a Truth which appeared to you before but a 
 ridiculous Paradox , that a low Fortune is better guarded and at- 
 tended than an high one. If indeed we look only upon the 
 flourifhing Head of the Tree, it appears a more beautiful Obje& ; 
 
 Sed quantum vertice ad auras 
 jEtbereas, tantum radice ad Tartara tendit. 
 
 As far as up tow’ards Heaven the Branches grow, 
 
 So far the Root finks down to Hell below* 
 
 Another horrible difgrace toGreatnefs is, that it is for the moft 
 part in pitiful want and diftrefs .* What a wonderful thing is this ? 
 Unlefs it degenerate into Avarice, and fo ceafe to be Greatnefs i 
 
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 It tails perpetually into tuch neceffities, as drive it into all the 
 meaneft and molt lordid ways of Borrowing, Coufenage, and Rob* 
 bery, Mane zp ns locuples eget arts Cappadocum Rex , This is the Cafe 
 of almoft all Great Men, as well as of the poor King of Cappu 
 docia. They abound with Slaves, but are indigent of Money. 
 The ancient Roman Emperors, who had rhe Riches of the 
 whole World for their Revenue, had wherewithal to live (one 
 would have thought,) pretty well at eafe, and to have been ex- 
 empt from the prerfures of extreme Poverty : But yet with 
 moft of them it was much otherwife, they fell perpetually 
 into fuch miferable penury, that they were forced to devour or 
 lqueeze moft of their Friends and Servants, to cheat with infa- 
 mous projects, to ranfack and pillage all their Provinces. This 
 fafhion of Imperial Grandeur is imitated by all inferior and fub- 
 ' ordinate forts of it, as if it were a point of Honour. They muft 
 be cheated of a third part of their Eftates, two other thirds they 
 muft expend in Vanity, fo that they remain Debtors for all the 
 neceifary Provifions of life, and have no way to fatisfie thole 
 Debts, but out of the fuccors and fupplies of Rapine. As Riches 
 encreafe, ffays Solomon J fo do the Mouths that devour them. The 
 Mafters Mouth has no more than before. The Owner, methinks, 
 is like Ornus in the Fable, who is perpetually winding a Rope of 
 Hay, and an Afs at the end perpetually eating it. Out of thefe 
 Inconveniences arifes naturally one more, which is, that no Great- 
 nefs can be fatisfied or contented with itfelf : Still if it could 
 mount up a little higher, it would be happy, if it could gain but 
 that point, it would obtain all its defires ; but yet at laft, when it 
 is got up to the very top of the Pic of Tenariff, it is in very great 
 danger of breaking its neck downwards, but in no poffibility of 
 afeending upwards into the feat of Tranquillity above the Moon. 
 The firft ambitious Men in the World, the old Giants, are faidto 
 have made an Heroical attempt of fealing Heaven in defpight of 
 the Gods, and they caft OJfa upon Olympus , and Pelion upon Offs : 
 Two or three Mountains more they thought would have done 
 their Bufinefs, but the Thunder fpoifd all their work, when they 
 were come up to the third ftory. 
 
 And rvhat a noble Plot was croft. 
 
 And what a brave Defign was lojl ! 
 
 A famous Perfon of their Off-fpring, the late Giant of our 
 Nation, when from the condition of a very inconfiderable Cap- 
 tain, he had made himfelf Lieutenant General of an Army of lit- 
 tle Titans, which was his fir ft Mountain, and afterward General, 
 which was the fecond, and after that, abfolute Tyrant of three 
 Kingdoms, which was the third, and almoft touch’d the Heaven 
 which he affe&ed, is believed to have dyed with Grief and Difcon- 
 tent, becaule he could not attain to the honeft name of a King, and 
 the old formality of a Crown, though he had before exceeded the 
 power by a Wicked Ufurpation. If he could have compals’d that, 
 
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In Vcrje and Ptofe. 
 
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 he would perhaps have wanted fomthing elfe that is neceflary to 
 felicity, and pined away for want of the Title of an Emperor, or 
 a God. The reafon of this is, that Greatnefs has not reality in Na- 
 ture, but a Creature of the Fancy, a Notion that confilts only in 
 Relation and Comparifon : It is indeed an Idol ; but S. Paul 
 teaches us, That an Mol is nothing in the World. There is in 
 truth no Rifing or Meridian of the Sun, but only in refpeft to 
 Ieveral places : 1 here is no Right or Left, no upper-hand in Na- 
 ture ; every thing is Little, and every thing is Great, according as 
 it is diverfly compared. There may be perhaps fome Village in 
 Scotland or Ireland where I might be a Great Man ; and in that 
 cafe I fhould be like Cdtfar , ( you would wonder how Cafar and 
 I fhould be like one another in any thing,) and choofe rather to 
 be the Firft man of the Village, than fecond at Rome. Our Coun- 
 try is called Great Brit any, in regard only of a Leffer of the fame 
 name, it would be but a ridiculous Epithete for it, when we 
 confider it together with the Kingdom of China . That, too, is 
 but a pitiful Rood of Ground in comparifon of the whole Earth 
 befides : And this whole Globe of Earth, which we account fo 
 immenfe a Body, is but one Point or Atom in relation to thofe 
 numberlefs Worlds that are fcattered up and down in the infinite 
 Space of the Sky which we behold. The other many inconveni- 
 ences of Grandeur I have fpoken of difperftly in Ieveral Chapters, 
 and (hall end this with an Ode of Horace , not exactly copyed, but 
 rudely imitated. # 
 
 Horace Lib. 3. Ode. 1. 
 
 Odi profanum vulgus & arceo. 
 
 H Ence, ye Prophane ; I hate ye all ; 
 
 Both the Great, Vulgar, and the Small. 
 
 To Virgin-Minds, which yet their Native whitenefs hold. 
 
 Not yet difcolour’d with the love of Gold, 
 
 (That Jaundice of the Soul, 
 
 Which makes it look fo Gilded and fo Foul,) 
 
 To you, ye very few, thefe truths I tell. 
 
 The Mufe infpires my Song, hark, and obferve it well. 
 
 2. 
 
 We look on Men, and wonder at fiich odds 
 ’Twixt things that were the fame by Birth : 
 
 We look on Kings as Giants of the Earth, 
 
 Thefe Giants are but Pigmeys to the Gods. 
 
 The humbleft and the proudeft Oak 
 Are but of equal proof againft the Thunder-ftroak. 
 
 Beauty, 
 
6 Several difcourjes by way of Ejfays , 
 
 Beauty, and Strength, and Wit, and Wealth and Power 
 Have their fhort flourifhing Hour ; 
 
 And love to Tee themfelves, and fmile, 
 
 And joy in their Preeminence awhile 5 
 Even fb in the fame Land, 
 
 Foor Weeds, Rich Corn, gay Flowers, together Rand ; 
 
 Alas ! Death mows down all with an impartial Hand. 
 
 S' 
 
 And all you Men, whom Greatnefs does lo pleafe, 
 
 Ye ieaft ( I fear, ) like Damocles : 
 
 If you your Eyes could upwards move, 
 
 (But you (I fear,) think nothing is above,) 
 
 You would perceive by what a little Thread 
 The Sword dills hangs over your head ; 
 
 No Title of Wine would drown your Cares ; 
 
 No Mirth or Mufick over-noife your Fears. 
 
 The fear of Death would you fo watchful keep, 
 
 As not t’admit the Image of it, Sleep. 
 
 4 * 
 
 Sleep is a God too proud to wait in Palaces, 
 
 And yet fo humble too as not to fcorn 
 The meaned Country Cottages ; 
 
 His Poppy grows among the Corn. 
 
 The Halcyon fleep will never build his Ned 
 In any dormy bread. 
 
 ’Tis not enough that he does find 
 Clouds and Darknefs in their Mind ; 
 
 Darknefs but half his work will do : 
 
 ’Tis not enough 5 he mud find Quiet too. 
 
 The man, who, in all wifhes he does make, 
 Does only Natures Counfel take; 
 
 That wife and happy Man will never fear 
 The evil Afipe&s of the Year ; 
 
 Nor tremble, tho two Comets fhould appear : 
 He does not look in Almanacks to fee. 
 
 Whether he Fortunate fhall be. 
 
 Let Mars and Saturn in the Heavens conjoyn. 
 And what they pleafe againd the World defign. 
 So Jupiter within him fhine. 
 
 6 . 
 
 If of your Pleafures and Defires no end be found, 
 
 God to your Cares and Fears will let no bound. 
 
 What would content you ? Who can tell ? 
 Ye fear fo much to lofe what you have got, 
 
 As if you lik’d it well. 
 
 Ye drive for more, as if you lik’d it not. 
 
 Go, 
 
In Vcrje and Troje. 
 
 Go, level Mil's, and fill up Seas, 
 
 Spare nought that may your Fancy plead’, 
 But truft Me when you’ve done all this, 
 Much will be miffing ftill, and much will be amifs. 
 
 7 . Of A varicc . 
 
 s 
 
 ^ H ere are tw0 p crts 0 f Avarice, the one is but of a Ballard - 
 kind, and that is, the rapacious appetite of Gain ; not for 
 Ins own lake, but for the pleafure of refunding it immediately 
 through all the Chanels of Pride and Luxury. The other is 
 the true kind, and properly lo called ; whichisareftlefsand un- 
 fatiable defire of Riches, not for any farther end or ufe, but only 
 to hoard, and preferve, and perpetually encreale them. The 
 Covetous Man, of the firfi: kind, is like a greedy Ostrich , which 
 devours any Metal, but ’tis with an intent to feed upon it, and 
 in effeCt it makes a fhift to digeft and excern it : The fecond is 
 like the foolifh Chough , which loves to deal Money only fo hide 
 it. The firfi: does much harm to Mankind, and a little good 
 to ibme few : The fecond does good to none 5 no, not to him- 
 felf. The firfi: can make no excule to God, or Angels, or Rati- 
 onal Men for his A&ions : The fecond can give no reafon or co- 
 lour, not to the Devil himfelf, for what he does ; He is a have 
 to Mammon without wages : The firfi: makes a fhift to be belo- 
 ved ; I, and envyed too by fome people : The fecond is the 
 univerfal Objeft of Hatred and Contempt. There is no Vice has 
 been fo pelted with good Sentences, and efpecial by the Poets, 
 who have perfued it with Stories, and Fables, and Allegories, 
 and Allufions ; and moved, as we fay, every Stone to fling at it ; 
 Among all which, I do not remember a more fine and Gentle- 
 man-like Correction, than that which was given it by one Line of 
 Ovids . 
 
 Defunt Luxuria multa, Avarititi omnia . 
 
 Much is wanting to Luxury, All to Avarice. 
 
 j.tzM l-ViVsiiL. Y.i rnoif-v 
 
 To which Saying, I have a mind to add one Member, and ren- 
 der it thus. 
 
 .1. . ... . v 
 
 Poverty wants Some, Luxury Many, Avarice 
 All Things. 
 
 -O .\ i t / .p '0 YiiO 
 
 Some body fays of a Virtuous and Wife Mail, That having • 
 Nothing, he has All : This is juft his Antipode, Who, having 
 All things, yet has Nothing. He’s a Guardian Eunuch to his 
 beloved Gold ; Audivi eos Amatores ejfe maximos, fed nil pottjji. 
 They’re the fondeft Lovers-, but impotent to en joy. 
 
 And 
 
Several difeourfes by nay c f Ej'Jays, 
 
 And, oh, What Mans Condition can be worle 
 Than his, whom Plenty ftarves, and Bleffings curfe ! 
 The Beggars but a common Fate deplore, 
 
 The Rich poor Man’s Emphatically Poor. 
 
 I wonder how it comes to pafs, that there has never been any 
 Law made againft him : Againft him, do I fay ? I mean, for him ; 
 as there are publick Povifions made for all other Mad-men 3 It 
 is very reafbnable that the King fhould appoint fome perfens 
 (and I think the Courtiers would not be againft this propor- 
 tion,) to manage his Eftate during his Life, (for his Heirs com- 
 monly need not that care,) and out of it to make it their bufi- 
 nefs to fee that he fhould not want Alimony befitting his con-, 
 dition, which he could never get out of his own cruel fingers. 
 We relieve idle Vagrams, and counterfeit Beggars, but have no 
 care at all of thefe really Poor Men, who are (methinks,) to be 
 refpebtfuily treated in regard of their Quality. I might beend- 
 lefs againll them, but I am almoft choakt with the fuper-abun- 
 dance of the Matter ; Too much Plenty impoverifhes me as it 
 does them. I will conclude this odious Subjedt with part of 
 Horace's firft Satyre , which take in his own familiar Style. 
 
 .... • . . . ; 
 
 . m i ; i I admire, Mecawas, how it comes to pals, 
 
 . , That no Man ever yet contented was, ; . 
 
 Nor is, nor perhaps will be, with that State, 
 
 In which his own choife plants him or his Fate 
 , Happy the Merchant, the old Souldier cries ; 
 
 The Merchant beaten with tempeftuous skies , 
 
 Happy the Souldier, one half hour to thee , 
 
 Gives fpeedy Death, or Glorious Vi£torie. 
 
 The Lawyer, knockt up early from his reft <- 
 
 By reftje.fi Clients, calls the Peafant bleft ; 
 
 ThePeafant, when his Labours ill fucceed, :> * ;;j K 
 Envies the Mouth which only Talk does feed . 
 
 ’Tis not (I think you 1 fay,) that I want ftore 
 Of Inftances, if here! add no more ; 
 
 They are enough to reach at leaft a Mile 
 Beyond Jong Orator Eahms his Style. 
 
 But, hold, you whom no Fortune e’re endears, 
 Gentlemen, Malecontents, and Mutineers, 
 
 Who bounteous Jove fo often cruel call, ; d , 
 Behold, Jove's now refolv’d to pleafe you ail. 
 
 Thou Souldier be a .Merchant Merchant, Thou 
 A Souldier be ; and, Lawyer, to the' Plow. 
 
 Change all your Stations ftraight, Why do they flay - p 
 The Devil a man will change, now when he may. 
 
 Were 1 in Geiftral Jove’s abufed cafe, ; Js [ 
 
 By jkwe Fde cudgel this rebellious B.ace : , 
 
 But he’s too good 3 be all then as you weref- v j 
 However make t lie beft of what you are, / . 
 
In Verfe and Profe. 129 
 
 And in that date be chearful and rejoyce, 
 
 Which either was your Fate, or was your Choice. 
 No, they muft labour yet, and fweat, and toil. 
 And very miferable be awhile ; 
 
 But ’tis with a Defign only to gain 
 
 What may their Age with plenteous eafe maintain. 
 
 The prudent Piffniredoes this LefTon teach, 
 
 And Induftry to lazy Mankind preach. 
 
 The little Drudge does trot about and fweat, 
 
 Nor does he ftraight devour all he can get ; 
 
 But in his Temperate Mouth carries it home, 
 
 A dock for Winter, which he knows muft come. 
 And when the rowling World to Creatures here 
 Turns up the deform’d wrong f de of the Year, 
 
 And fhuts them in, with ftorms, and cold and wet* 
 He chearfully does his paft labour eat: 
 
 O, does he 16? Your wife example th’ Ant 
 Does not at all times Reft and Plenty want 5 
 But weighing juftly a mortal Ant’s condition 
 Divides his Life ’twixt Labour, and Fruition : 
 
 Thee neither heat, nor ftorms, nor wet, nor cold, 
 From thy unnatural diligence can withold, 
 
 To th’ Indies thou would’ft run rather than lee 
 Another, though a Friend, richer than Thee. 
 
 Fond Man ! what good or beauty can be found 
 In heaps of Trealure buried under ground? 
 
 Which rather than diminifht e’re to lee 
 Thou would’ft thyfelf too buried with them be: 
 And what’s the difference, is’tndt quite as bad , 
 Never to Ule, as never to have Had ? 
 
 In thy vaft Barns, millions of Quarters dore, 
 
 Thy Belly for all that will hold no more 
 
 Than mine does ; every Baker makes much Bread, 
 
 What then ? He’s with no more than others fed. 
 
 Do you within the bounds of Nature live, 
 
 And to augment your own, you need not drive. 
 
 One hundred Acres will no lels for you 
 Your Life’s whole bulinels than ten thoufand do. 
 
 But pleafant ’tis to take from a great dore ; 
 
 What Man ? Though you’re refolvod to take no more 
 Than I can from a fmall one? If you will 
 Be but a Pitcher or a Pot to fill, 
 
 To lome great River for it mud you go. 
 
 When a clear Spring juft at your Feet does flow ? 
 Give me the Spring which does to human ule 
 Safe, eafie, and untroubled Stores produce, 
 
 He who Icorns thele, and needs will drink at Nile i 
 Mud run the danger of the Crocodile, 
 
 And of the rapid Stream itfelf, which may 
 At unawares bear him perhaps away. 
 
 X x x 
 
 In 
 
; _ — 
 
 Several 'Dijcourles by way of Ejjays, 
 
 In a full Flood Tantalus Hands, his Skin 
 Wafht o’er in vain, forever dry within ; 
 
 He catches at the Stream with greedy Lips : 
 
 From his toucht Mouth the wanton Torrent flips. 
 You laugh now, and expand your careful Brow : 
 ’Tis finely {'aid, bur, what’s all this to you? 
 Change but the Name, this Fable is thy Story, 
 
 Thou in a Flood of ulelefs Wealth do’ft Glory, 
 Which thou can’ll only touch but never tafte 5 
 Th’ abundance Hill, and dill the want does la ft. 
 
 The Treafures of the Gods thou would’ft not fparc, 
 But when they’re made thine own, they Sacred are. 
 And mull be kept with reverence, as if thou 
 No other ufe of precious Gold did’ft know. 
 
 But that of curious Pictures to delight 
 With the fair ftamp thy Vtrtuofo fight, 
 
 T he only true, and genuine ule is this, 
 
 To buy the things which Nature cannot mils 
 Without difeomfort, Oyl, and vital Bread, 
 
 And Wine, by which the Life of Life is fed. 
 
 And all thole few things elfe by which we live, 
 
 All that remains is Given for thee to Give ; 
 
 If Cares and Troubles, Envy, Grief, and Fear, 
 
 The bitter Fruits be, which fair Riches bear ; 
 
 If a new Poverty grow out of ftore; 
 
 The old plain way, ye Gods, let me be Poor. 
 
 A Taraphrafe on an Ode in Horace’/ Third Booh^ begin* 
 ning thut) Inclufam Danaen turris ahenea. 
 
 A Tower of Brafs, one would have laid, 
 
 And Locks, and Bolts, and Iron-Bars, 
 
 And Guards as ftri£t as in the heat of Wars, 
 
 Might have prelerv’d one innocent Maidenhead. 
 
 The jealous Father thought he well might fpare 
 All further jealous Care, 
 
 And as he walkt, t’ himfelf alone he frn i Pd, 
 
 To think how Venus Arts he had beguil’d ; 
 
 And when he flept his reft was deep. 
 
 But Venus laught to fee and hear him fieep. 
 
 She taught the amorous Jove 
 A Magical Receipt in Love, 
 
 Which arm’d him ftronger, and wdiich help’d him more, 
 Than all his Thunder did, and his Almighty-fhip before. 
 
 2. 
 
 She taught him Loves Elixir, by which Art 
 His Godhead into Gold he did convert. 
 
 No 
 
In Vcr {e and Pro] e. 
 
 No Guards did then his pafTage flay, 
 
 He pafs’d with cafe, Gold was the Word ; 
 
 Subtle as Lightning, bright, and quick, and fierce. 
 
 Gold through Doors and Walls did pierce* 
 
 And as that works fbmtimes upon the Sword, 
 
 Melted the Maidenhead away, 
 
 Even in the fecret Scabbard where it Ly. 
 
 The prudent Macedonian King, 
 
 To blow up Towns a Golden Mine did fpring. 
 
 He broke through Gates with this Petar. 
 
 ’Tis the great Art of Peace, the Engine ’tis of War } 
 
 And fleets and Armies follow it afar, 
 
 The Enfign ’tis at Land, and ’tis the Seamens Star. 
 
 1 * 
 
 Let all the World have to this Tyrant be. 
 
 Creature to this difguifed Deitie, 
 
 Yet it {hall never conquer me. 
 
 A Guard of Virtues will not let it pals, 
 
 And Wifdom is a Tower of ftronger Bra fs. 
 
 The Mules Lawrel, round my Temples fpread, 
 
 Does from this Lightnings force fecure my head i 
 Nor will I lift it up fo high, 
 
 As in the violent Meteors do lye. 
 
 Wealth for it’s Pow’r do we honor and adore ? 
 
 The things we hate, ill Fate, and Death, have more» 
 
 \ 
 
 4 * 
 
 From Towns and Courts, Camps of the Rich and Great, 
 The valf Xerxean Army I retreat, 
 
 And to the fmall Laconick Forces fly, 
 
 Which hold the (freights of Poverty. 
 
 Cellars and Granaries in vain we fill 
 
 W ith all the bounteous Summers (fore, 
 
 If the Mind third: and hunger ftill 
 The poor rich Man’s emphatically poor. 
 
 Slaves to things we too much prize , 
 
 We Mafters grow of all that we defpile. 
 
 A Field of Corn, a Fountain and a Wood, 
 
 Is all the Wealth by Nature underftood. 
 
 The Monarch on whom fertile Nile beftows 
 All which that grateful Earth can bear, 
 Deceives himfelf if he fuppofe 
 That more than this falls to his fhare. 
 
 Whatever an Eftate does beyond this afford, 
 Is not a Rent paid to the Lord ; 
 
 But is a Tax illegal and unjuft, 
 
 Exa&ed from it by the Tyrant Luff. 
 
 much 
 
1^2 Several ‘Difcourfes by fray of Ejfays , 
 
 V t f 4 - i 
 
 Much will always wanting be, 
 
 To him who much defires. T hr ice happy He, 
 To whom the wife lndulgency of Heaven, 
 Withfparing hand, but juft enough has given. 
 
 T'he Dangers of an Honejl Man in much 
 
 I F twenty Thoufand naked Americans were not able to re- 
 fill the Afiaults of but T wenty well-armed Spaniards 5 I f ee 
 little poflibility for one Honeft Man to defend himlelf againft 
 twenty Thoufand Knaves, who are all furnifh’d Cap-a-pe, with the 
 defenfive Arms- of worldly Prudence, and the offenfive too of 
 Craft and Malice. He will find no lefs odds than this againft 
 him, if he have much to do in human Affairs. The only Ad- 
 vice therefore that I can give him, is, to be fure not to venture 
 his Perlon any .longer in the open Campagne, to retreat and en- 
 trench himlelf, to ftop up all Avenues, and draw up all Bridges 
 againft lo numerous an Enemy. The truth of it is, that a Man 
 in much Bufinefs, muft either make himlelf a Knave, or elfe the 
 World will make him a Fool ; and if the Injury went no farther 
 than the being laught at, a wile Man would content himfelf with 
 the revenge of Retaliation 5 but the cafe is much worle, for thefe 
 civil Cannibals too, as well as the wild ones , not only dance 
 about fuch a taken Stranger, but at laft devour him. A lober 
 Man cannot get too foon out of Drunken Company, though they 
 be never lo kind and merry among themfelves, ’tis not unplea- 
 fant only, but dangerous to him. Do ye wonder that a virtu- 
 ous Man Ihould love to be alone ? It is hard for him to be other- 
 wile s he is fo, when he is among ten Thoufand ; neither is the So- 
 litude fo uncomfortable to be alone without any other Creature, 
 as it is to be alone in the mid’ft of wild Beafts. Man is to Man 
 all kind of Beafts, a fawning Dog, a roaring Lyon, a thieving 
 Fox, a robbing Wolf, a diftembling Crocodile, a treacherous 
 Decoy, and a rapacious Vultur. The civileft, methinks, of all 
 Nations, are thole whom we account the moft barbarous, there 
 is fome moderation and good nature in the Toupinambaltians , 
 who eat no Men but their Enemies, whil’ft we, learned and po- 
 lite and Chriftian Eurcpir.ns^ like fo many Pikes and Sharks, prey 
 upon every thing that we can fwallow. It is the greateft boa ft of 
 Eloquence and Philofophy, that they firft congregated Mendif- 
 peril, united them into Societies, and built up the Houfes and the 
 Walls of Cities. I wifh they could unravel all they had woven ; 
 that we might have our Woods and our Innocence again inftead 
 of our Caftles and our Policies. They have alfembled many thou- 
 fands of Icattered People into one Body : ’Tis true, they have 
 done lo, they have brought them together into Cities to cozen, 
 and into Armies to murder one another : They found themHun- 
 • r. * ters 
 
In Verfe and Projc. 
 
 tersandFifhersof wild Creatures, they have made them Hunters 
 and Fifhers of their Brethren ; they boaft to have reduced them to 
 a State of Peace, when the truth is, they have only taught them 
 an Art of War: They have framed, I mud confefs, wholefom 
 Laws for the reftraint of Vice, but they rais’d firll that Devil 
 which now they Conjure and cannot Bind; though there were 
 before no Punifhments for Wickednefs, yet there were Iefs com- 
 mitted, becaufe there were no Rewards for it. But the Men , who 
 praife Philofophy from this Topick , are much deceived 3 let 
 Oratory anfwer for itfelf, the tinckling perhaps of that may 
 unite a Swarm : It never was the work of Philofophy toalTemble 
 Multitudes, but to regulate only, and govern them when they 
 were aflembled, to make the belt of a Evil, and bring them, as 
 much as is poffible, to Unity again. Avarice and Ambition on- 
 ly were the fird Builders of Towns, and Founders of Empires ; 
 
 They faid, Go to , let us build ns a City, and a Tower , 1 vhofe Top may 
 reach unto Heaven, and let us make us a Nam? y lest we be fcattered Gen. a 
 abroad upon the face of the Earth. What was the beginning of 4 * 
 Rome, the Metropolis of all the World } What was it, but a con- 
 courfe of Thieves, and San&uary of Criminals ? It was judly na- 
 med by the Augury of no lefs than twelve Vultures* and the Foun- 
 der cemented his Walls with the Blood of his Brother ; not unlike 
 to this, was the beginning even of the firft Town too in the World ; 
 and fuch is the Original Sin of mod: Cities: Their Afrual en- 
 creafe daily with their Age and Growth; the more People, the 
 more wicked, all of them ; every one brings in his part to enflamc 
 the contagion, which becomes at lad fo univerfai and fo drong, 
 that no Precepts can be fufficient Prefervatives, nor any thing 
 fecure our fafety , but flight from among the infected. We 
 ought in thechoife of a Situation, to regard above all things the 
 Healthfulnefs of the place, and the Healthfulnefs of it for the 
 Mind rather than for theBody. But fuppofe, (which is hardly to 
 be fuppofed, ) we had Antidote enough againdthis Poifon ; nay, 
 fuppole farther , we were always and at all pieces armed, and 
 provided both againd the Aflaults of Hodility, and the Mines of 
 Treachery, ’twill yet be but an uncomfortable Life to be ever in 
 Alarms, though we were compafs’d round with Fire, to defend 
 ourfelves from wild Beads, the Lodgings would be unpleafant, 
 becaufe wc mud always be obliged to watch that Fire, and to 
 fear no lefs the defe&s of our Guard, than the diligences of our 
 Enemy. The fum of this is, That a virtuous Man is in danger 
 to be trod upon, and dedroyed in the Crowd of his Contraries $ 
 nay, which is worfe, to be changed and corrupted by them, and 
 that ’tis impoffible to efcape both thefe Inconveniences without 
 fo much caution, as will take away the whole Quiet, that is, 
 the Happinefs of his Life. Ye fee then, what he may lofe ; but 
 I pray, What can he get there? gtiid Roma faciam ? Mentiri 
 nefeio. What fhould a Man of Truth and Honedy do at Rome ? s* 
 
 He can neither underdand nor fpeak the Language of the place ; 
 a naked Man may fwim in tht Sea, but ’tis not the way to catch 
 
 Fifh 
 
Mat. a 3. Fifh there ; they are likelier to devour him, than he them, if he 
 bring no Nets, and u(e no Deceits. I think therefore it was wife 
 and friendly Advice, which Martial gave to Fabian, when he 
 met him newly arrived at Rome . 
 
 Honeft and Poor, faithful in Word and Thought ; 
 
 What haft thee, habian, to the City brought ? 
 
 Thou neither the Buffoon, nor Bawd can’ft play, 
 
 Nor with falfe Whifpers th’ Innocent betray : 
 
 Nor corrupt Wives, nor from rich Beldams get 
 
 A Living by thy Induftry and Sweat ; 
 
 Nor with vain Promifesand Projects cheats 
 
 Nor Bribe nor Flatter any of the Great. 
 
 But you’re a Man of Learning, prudent, juft ; 
 
 A Man of Courage, firm, and fit for Truft. 
 
 Why you may ftay, and live unenvied here ; 
 
 But ( faith, ) go back, and keep you where you were. 
 
 T 
 
 Nay, if nothing of all this were in the cafe, yet the very fight 
 of Uncleannefs is loathfom to the Cleanly ; the fight of Folly, 
 and Impiety, vexatious to the Wile and Pious. 
 
 Lucr.1.2. Lucre f ins , by his Favour, though a good Poet, was but an ill- 
 
 naturM Man, when he faid, It was delightful to fee other Men in 
 a great Storm. And no lefs ill-natur’d fhould I think Dtmocntm, 
 w ho laughs at all the World, but that he retired himfelf fo much 
 out of it, that we may perceive he took no great Pleafure in 
 that kind of Mirth. I have been drawn twice or thrice by Com- 
 pany to go to Bedlam , and have feen others very much deligh- 
 ted with the fancaftical Extravagancy of fo many various Mad- 
 nefies , which upon me wrought fo contrary an effedf, that lal- 
 ways returned, not only Melancholy, but even Sick with the 
 Sight. My compaffion there was perhaps too tender, for I meet 
 a thoufand Mad-men abroad, without any perturbation ; though 
 _ to weigh the matter juftly, the total loft of reafon is left deplo- 
 rable than the total depravation of it. An exafr Judge of human 
 Bleflings, of Riches, Honors, Beauty, even of Wit itfelf, fhould 
 pity the abufe of them more than the want. 
 
 Briefly, though a wife Man could pafs never fo fecurely through 
 the great Roads of human Life, yet he will meet perpetually 
 with fo many obje&s and occafions of com paffion, grief, fhame, 
 anger, hatred, indignation,and all paffionsbut envy, (for he will 
 find nothing to delerve that,) that he had better ftrikeintolome 
 private Fath ; nay, go fo far, id he could, out of the common way, 
 v* ntv fa&* audiat Pelopidarum $ that he might not fo much as 
 hear of the A&ions of the Sons of Adam : But, whither fhall we 
 toy then ? Into the Dteferts, like the ancient Hermits? 
 
 Mefai». 
 
 1. 
 
 terra patet, fera regnat Erynnis^ 
 In fat in us juraffe putes» 
 
 One 
 
In Verje and Troje . 
 
 1 7 
 
 One would think, that all Mankind had bound themfelves by 
 an Oath to do all the wickednels they can ; that they had all (as 
 the Scriptui e (peaks, ) fold ihemfelves to Six $ the difference on- 
 ly is, that lome are hale a more Crafty (and but a little, Gcd 
 knows,) in making of the Bargain. 1 thought, when I wentfirft 
 to dwell in the Country, that without doubt I fhould have met 
 there with the (implicit}- of the old PoeticalColden Age ; I thought 
 to have found no i.. Habitants there, but fuch as the Shepherds of 
 Sir Phil. Sidney in Arcadia , or of Adonfieur d'Vrfe upon the 
 Banks of Lignon ; and began to confider with myfelf, which way 
 I might recommend no lc(s to Pofterity, the Happinefs and Inno- 
 cence of the Men of Chertfea : But to confefs the truth, I percei- 
 ved quickly, by infallible demonftrations,that I was ffill in old Eng- 
 land, and not in Arcadia , or La Porre si \ that if I could not con- 
 tent my (elf with any thing lefs than exadl Fidelity in human con- 
 vei fation 5 I had almoft as good go back and feek for it in the Court , 
 or the Exchange , or W'ftmnfttr-Haii. I ask again then, Whither 
 fhallwedy? or, Whatfhall wedo ? The World may fo come in 
 a Man’s way, that he cannot choofe but Salute it, he muft take heed 
 tho, not to go a Whoring after it. If by any lawful Vocation, or 
 juft neceftity, Men happen to be married to it, I can only give 
 them St Paul's Advice. Brethren , the time is fhort, it remains 
 that they that have Wives , be as though they had none. But l 
 would that all Men were even as myfelf. 
 
 In all cafes they muft be lure, that they do Mundum ducere , 
 and not Mundo nubere. They muft retain the Superiority and 
 Headfhip over it: Happy are they, who can get out of the fight 
 of this deceitful Beauty, that they may not be led fo much as 
 into Temptation ; who have not only quitted the Metropolis, 
 but can abftain from ever feeing the next Market Town, of their 
 Country. 
 
 Claudians Old Man of Verona. 
 
 H Appy the Man, who his whole time doth bound 
 Within th’ inclofure of his little ground. 
 Happy the Man, whom the fame humble place 
 ( Th* hereditary Cottage of his Race, ) 
 from his firftrifing Infancy has known, 
 
 And by degrees fees gently bending down 
 With natural propenfion to that Earth, 
 
 Which both preferv’d his Life, and gave him Birth. 
 Him no falfe diftant lights by Fortune let 
 Could ever into foolifh wandrings get. 
 
 He never Dangers either faw or fear’d ; 
 
 The dreadful Storms at Sea he never heard. 
 
 H« 
 
Several Difcourfes by Xu ay of Effays , 
 
 He never heard the fhrill Alarums of War, 
 
 Or the worfe Noifes of the Lawyers Bar. 
 
 No change of Confuls marks to him the year, 
 
 The change of Seafons is his Calendar. 
 
 The Cold and Heat, Winter and Summer fhews, 
 Autumn by Fruits, and Spring by Flow’rs he knows. 
 He meafuresTime by Land-marks, and has found 
 For the whole day, the Dial of his ground. 
 
 A neighbouring Wood born with himfelf he fees, 
 And loves his old contemporary Trees. 
 
 H’as only heard of near Vtronas Name, 
 
 And knows it like the Indies , but by Fame. 
 
 Does with the like concernment notice take 
 Of the Red Sea , and of Benacus Lake. 
 
 Thus Health, and Strength he t’a third Age enjoys, 
 And fees a long pofterity of Boys. 
 
 About the fpacious World let others Roam, 
 
 The Voyage-Life is longeft made at home. 
 
 <y. Hoe jhortnefs of Life and uncertainty of 
 EJcbes. 
 
 I F you fhould fee a Man, that were to crofs from Dover to CaUi^ 
 run about very bufie and folicitous , and trouble himfelf ma- 
 ny weeks before, in making Provifions for his Voyage, would 
 you commend him for a cautious and difcreet Perl on, or laugh 
 at him for a timorous and impertinent Coxcomb ? A Man, who 
 is exceffive in his pains and diligence, and who confumes the 
 greateft part of his time in furnifhing the remainder with all Con- 
 veniencies and even Superfluities, is to Angels and wife Men no 
 lefs ridiculous 5 he does as little confider the fhortnefs of his Paf- 
 fage, that he might proportion his Cares accordingly. It is, 
 alas, fo narrow a ftraight betwixt the Womb and the Grave, 
 that it might be called the Pas de vie , as well as that the Pas 
 de Calais. We are all ’ e <pm&i (as Pindar calls us,) Creaturesof 
 a day, and therefore our Saviour bounds our defires to that 
 litle fpace ; as if it were probable, that every day fhould be 
 our laft, we are taught to demand even Bread for no longer a 
 time. The Sun ought not to let upon our Covetcufnds no 
 more than upon our Anger ; but as to God Almighty a rhou- 
 fand years are as one day, fo in direct oppofition, one day to 
 the Covetous Manis a thoufand years 5 tam brevi fortis ja- 
 culatur avo multa , fo far he fhoots beyond his Burt: One 
 would think he were of the opinion of the Millenaries, and ho- 
 ped for fo long a Reign upon Earth. The Patriarchs before 
 the Flood, who enjoy’d almofb fnch a Life, made, we are furc, 
 leL Stores for the maintaining of it 5 they who lived Nine hun- 
 
In Vcrfc and c Profc. 157 
 
 r- -- • " — ' 
 
 dred years fcarcely provided for a few days 5 we, who live but a 
 few days, provide at lead for Nine hundred years • What a 
 ftrange alteration is this of Human Life and Manners ? And 
 yet we fee an imitation of it in every mans particular Experi- 
 ence, for we begin not the cares of Life till it be half (pent, and 
 dill encreafe them as that decreafes. What is there among# 
 the anions of Beads fo Illogical and repugnant to Reafbn ? 
 
 When they do any thing which leems to proceed from that 
 which we call Reafbn, we difdain to allow them that Perfe- 
 ction, and attribute it only to a Natural Indinbt 5 and are not 
 we Fools too by the fame kind of IndinCt } If we could but 
 learn to number our days, (as we are taught to pray that we 
 might,) we fhould adjuft much better our other accounts ; 
 but whil’d we never confider an end of them, it is no wonder if 
 our cares for them be without end too .Horace advifes very wife- 
 ly, and in excellent good words f patio brevi fpem longam re feces , 
 
 From a fhort life cut off all Hopes that grow too long. They 
 mud be pruned away like Suckers that choak the Mother- 
 Plant, and hinder it from bearing Fruit. And in another place 
 to the fame fenfe, Vi it a fumma brevis fpem nos vetat inchoare 
 longam , which Seneca does not mend when he fays, Oh quanta 
 dementia eft fpes longa inchvantium ! but he gives an example 
 there of an acquaintance of his, named Senecio , who from a 
 very mean beginning by great indudry in turning about of 
 Money through all ways of Gain, had attained to extraordi- 
 nary Riches, but died on a fudden after, having dipped mer- 
 rily, In ipfo aft u bene cedentium rerum, inipfo procurrentis for- 
 tuna impetu , In the full courfe of his good Fortune when fhe 
 had a high Tide and a diff Gale, and all her Sails’ on ; upon 
 which occafion he cries out of Virgil, 
 
 Infere nunc , Melibase^pyros, pone ordine vites . 
 
 Go, Melib cetis now. 
 
 Go graff thy Orchards and thy Vineyards plant 
 
 Behold the Fruit ! 
 
 For this Senecio I have no companion, becaufe he was taken , 
 as we fay, In ipfo facto, dill labouring in the work of Avarice' 
 but the poor rich Man in St. Luke (whole cafe was not like 
 this,) I could pity methinks, if the Scripture would permit me • 
 for he feems to have been fatisfied at lad, he confeffes he had 
 enough for many years, he bids his Soul take its eafe, and yet for 
 all that, God fays to him ; Thou fool, this night thy Soul Jhall be 
 required of thee , and the things thou had laid up, whom fhall 
 they belong to ? Where dial! we find the Caufes of this bitter 
 Reproach and terrible Judgment > We may find, I think, Two, 
 and God perhaps fawMore ; Fird, that he did not intend true 
 Red to his Soul, but only to change the employments of it 
 from Avarice to Luxury, his Defign is to eat and to drink and 
 
 y y y ~ to 
 
Several ‘Di f our [es by nay of Ejfays, 
 
 to be merry. Secondly, that he went on too long before he 
 thought of refting ; the fulnefsof his old Barns had notfufficed 
 him, he M ould (fay till he was forced to build new ones ; and 
 God meted out to him in the fame meafure : Since he would 
 have more Riches than his life could contain, God deftroy’d 
 his life, and gave the fruits of it to another. 
 
 Thus God takes away fomtimes the Man from his Riches, 
 and no left frequently Riches from the Man , what hope can 
 there be of luch a Marriage, where both Parties are lo fickle 
 and uncertain ? By what bonds can fuch a couple be kept 
 long together ? •: 
 
 i. 
 
 Why do’ll: thou heap up Wealth, which thou mull quit, 
 
 Or, what is worle, be left by it ? 
 
 Why do’ll thou load thyfelf, when thou’rt to file, 
 
 Oh Man, ordain’d to die ? 
 
 * » ‘i r k 
 
 « . u;i u ; i , 4« 1 . ' ^ K/tfc A** 1 a K - 1 I 
 
 Why do’ll thou build up llately Rooms on high 5 
 Thou who art under Ground to lie ? 
 
 Thou Sow’ll and Plantell, but no Fruit mull fee, 
 
 For Death, alas ! is lowing Thee. 
 
 innui i -• • • ' • t 
 
 v 
 
 ••i*'. ■ .* ; .. v : ; ^ j. • j; 
 
 Suppofe, thou Fortune could to tamenels bring, 
 
 And clip or pinion her wing 5 
 Suppofe thou cou Id’ll on Fate lo far prevail 
 As not to cut off thy Entail: 
 
 4 - 
 
 Yet Death at all that fubtilty will laugh, 
 
 Death will that foolifh Gardner mock, 
 
 Who does a flight and annual Plant engraff 
 Upon a lafling Hock. 
 
 5 - 
 
 Thou do’ll thyfelf wife and induflrious deem ; 
 
 A mighty Husband thou would’fl feem ; 
 
 Fond Man ! like a bought Slave, thou all the while 
 Doll but for others fweat and toil. 
 
 Officious Fool ! that needs mull medling be 
 In bus’nels that concerns not thee ! 
 
 For when to future years thou extend’d: thy cares, 
 Thou deal’ll in other mens affairs. 
 
 \ 
 
 7. Even 
 

 M9 
 
 7 - 
 
 Even aged Men, as if they truly were 
 
 Children again, for Age prepare, 
 Provifions for long travail they defign. 
 
 In the lad: point of their fhort Line. 
 
 8 . 
 
 Wifely the Ant againft poor Winter hoards 
 
 The Stock which Summers wealth affords* 
 In Grafhoppers that muft at Autumn dye, 
 
 How vain were fuch an Induftry > 
 
 9 * 
 
 Of Power and Honor the deceitful Light 
 Might half excufe our cheated fight. 
 
 If it of Life the whole fmali time fhould ftay. 
 And be our Sunfhine all the day. 
 
 In Verfc and Troje. 
 
 10 . 
 
 I 
 
 Like Lightning, that begot but in a Cloud 
 
 ( Tho fhining bright, and fpeaking loud, ) 
 Whil’ft it begins, concludes its violent Race, 
 
 And where it gilds, it wounds the place. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Oh Scene of Fortune, which do’ft Fair appear, 
 Only to Men that Hand not near ! 
 
 Proud Poverty, that Tinlel brav’ry wears ! 
 
 And, like a Rainbow, painted Tears ! 
 
 12 . 
 
 Be prudent, and the Shore in profpeft keep, 
 
 In a weak Boat truft not the Deep : 
 
 Plac’d beneath Envy above envying rife ; 
 
 Pity Great Men, Great Things defpife. 
 
 The wife example of the Heavenly Lark, 
 
 Thy Fellow-Poet, Corvley mark. 
 
 Above the Clouds, let thy proud Mufick found, 
 Thy humble Neff build on the Ground. 
 
 Yy y 2 
 
 io. The 
 
Several ‘Di /cow /es by way of E/Jays , 
 
 10 . Dbe danger of Procraflination. 
 
 A Letter to Mr. S. L. 
 
 I Am glad that y'ou approve and applaud my delign, of with- 
 drawing my lelf from all tumult and bulinels of the Worlds 
 and confecrating the little reft of my time to thole ftudies, to 
 which Nature had fo Motherly inclined me, and from which . 
 Fortune like a Step-mother has fo long detained me. But ne- 
 verthelefs (you lay,) which But is Aerugo mera, a Ruft which 
 fpoilsthegood Metal it grows upon. But, (you iay,)<you would 
 advile me not to precipitate that relolution, but to ftay a while 
 longer with patience and complaifance, till I had gotten fuch 
 an Eftate as might afford me (according to the laying of that 
 Perlon whom you and I love very much, and would believe 
 as loon as another man,) Cum dignitate otium . This were 
 excellent advice to Jofhua , who could bid the Sun ftay too. 
 But there’s no fooling with Life, wdien it is once turn’d be- 
 yond forty. The leeking for a Fortune then is but a defpe- 
 rate After-game, ’tis a hundred to one, if a man fling two Sixes 
 and recover all ; especially, if his hand be no luckier than mine. 
 There is fome help for ail the defedfs of Fortune ; for if a Man 
 cannot attain to the length of his wifhes, he may have remedy 
 by cutting of them fhorter. Epicures writes a Letter to Ido • 
 mentus, who was then a very powerful, wealthy, and (it 
 feems, ) a bountiful perfon, to recommend to Him, who had 
 made lo many Rich, on o Pythocles, a friend of his, whom 
 he defired might be made a Rich man too : But I intreat you 
 that you would not do it juft the fame way as you have dene 
 to many lefs defer ving perfons, but in the moft Gentleman 
 manner of obliging him, which is not to add any thing to 
 his Eftate, but to takefomthing from his Defires. The fum 
 of this is, That for the certain hopes of fome conveniences 
 we ought not to defer the execution of a work that is necef- 
 lary ; efpecially, when the ufe of thole things, which we would 
 ftay for, may other wile be fupplyed, but the lofs of time ne- 
 ver recovered : Nay, farther yet, though w r e were fure to 
 obtain all that we had a mind to, though we were fure of get- 
 ting never fo much by continuing the Game, yet when the 
 Light of Life is fo near going out, and ought to be fo preci- 
 ous, Le ]en ne vaut pas la Cbandele^ The Play is not worth 
 the expence of the Candle : After having been long toft in 
 a Tempeft, if our Nafts be Handing, and we have ftill Sail 
 and Tackling enough to carry us to our Port, it is no matter 
 for the want of Streamers and Top-Gallants ; Vtere velis. To- 
 tos fande [inns. A Gentleman in our late Civil Wars, when 
 his Quarters were beaten up by the Enemy, was taken Prifo- 
 neiy and loft his life afterwards, only by ftaying to put on a 
 
In Vcrfe nnd Troje. 
 
 Band, and adjuft his Periwig : He would efcape like a perfon 
 of Quality, or not at all, and dyed the noble Martyr of Ce- 
 remony and Gentility. I think your counfel of Ftftwa lente 
 is as ill to a Man who is flying from the World, as it would 
 have been to that unfortunate well-bred Gentleman, who 
 wasfo cautious, as not to fly undecently from his Enemies 5 and 
 therefore I prefer Horaces'* s advice before yours. 
 
 Sapere aude , Incipe. . 
 
 % 
 
 Begin, the Getting out of doors is the greateft part of the Lil 
 Journy. Varro teacheth us that Latin Proverb, Portam hi - Anlc, 9 
 nere longiffimam ejfe : But to return to Horace , 
 
 ■ 1 — Super e aude 9 
 
 Incipe , vivendi qui retfe prorogat horam, 
 
 Rufi i cus expe&at dum labitur Amnis , at ille 
 Labitur 9 & labetur in omne volubilis avum. 
 
 Begin, be bold, and venture to be wife ; 
 
 He who defers this work from day to day. 
 
 Does on a Rivers-bank expelling ftay, 
 
 Till the whole Stream, which ftopthim fhould be gone. 
 
 That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on. 
 
 Cafiar (the man of Expedition above all others,) was fo far 
 from this Folly, that whenfoever in a journy he was to crofs 
 any R iver, he never went one foot out of his way for a Bridge, 
 or a Foord, or a Ferry, but flung himfelf into it immediately, 
 and fwam over 5 and this is the courfe we ought to imitate, 
 if we meet with any flops in our way to Happinefs. Stay till 
 the Waters are low, ftay till fome Boats come by to trans- 
 port you, ftay till a Bridge be built for you : You had even 
 as good ftay till the River be quite paft. Perfius (who you 
 ufe to fay, you do not know whether he be a good Poet or no, 
 becaufe you cannot underftand him, and whom therefore (l 
 fay, ) I know to be not a good Poet,) has an odd expreflion 
 
 of thefe Procraftinators, which methinks is full of Fancv. 
 
 ♦ * 
 
 Jam Cras Hefiernum sonfump fimus, Ecce alind Eras Pcr ^ Sa _ 
 Egent hos annos . tyr. 5. 
 
 Our Yefterdays To morrow now is gone, 
 
 And ftill a new To morrow does come on, 
 
 We by To morrows draw up all our ftore. 
 
 Till the exhaufted Well can yield no more. 
 
 And now, I think, I am even with you for your Otium cum ' 
 dignitate and Fefiina lente , and three or four other more of 
 your New Latine Sentences : If I fhould draw upon you all 
 
 my 
 
142 
 
 Scleral dijcourfes by way of Ejfays , 
 
 my forces out of Seneca and Plutarch upon this fubjeft, I fhould 
 overwhelm you, but I leave thole as Triarii for your next 
 charge. I (hall only give you now a light skirmifh out of 
 an Epigrammatift, your fpecial good Friend, and fo, Vale. 
 
 M art. Lib. 5 . Epigr. 59 . 
 
 To morrow you will live, you always cry ; 
 
 In what fair Country do’s this Morrow lye. 
 
 That ’tis lo mighty long e’re it arrive ? 
 
 Beyond the Indies does this Morrow live ? 
 
 ’Tis (o far fetcht, this Morrow, that I fear 
 ’T will be both very Old and very Dear. 
 
 To morrow I will live, the Fool does (ay ; 
 
 To Day itfelf’s too late, the Wife liv’d Yelferday. 
 
 Mart. Lib. 2 . Ep . 90 . 
 
 Wonder not, Sir, (you, who inftruft the Town 
 In the true Wifdom of the Sacred Gown,) 
 
 ; That I make hafte to live, and cannot hold 
 
 Patiently out, till I grow Rich and Old. 
 
 Life for Delays, and Doubts no time does give, 
 
 None ever yet made hade enough to live. 
 
 Let him defer it, whole propofterous care 
 Omits himlelf, and reaches to his Heir. 
 
 Who does his Fathers bounded (fores defpife, 
 
 And whom his own too never can (uffice : 
 
 My humble Thoughts no glittering Roofs require, 
 
 Or Rooms that (bine with ought but conlf ant Fire. 
 
 I will content the Avarice of my fight 
 With the fair gildings of reflected Light ; 
 
 Pleafures abroad, the (port of Nature yields 
 Her living Fountains, and her finding Fields. 
 
 And then at home. What pleafure is’t to (ee 
 A little cleanly chearful Familie ! 
 
 Which if achaffe Wife crown, no lefs in Her 
 Than Fortune, I the Golden Mean prefer. 
 
 Too Noble, nor too Wile, (lie fhould not be, 
 
 No, nor too Rich, too Fair, too Fond of Me. 
 
 Thus let my Life Hide iilently away, 
 
 With Sleep all Night, and Quiet all the Day. 
 
 \ 
 
1 
 
 In Verfc and Proje. 
 
 6. Of My f elf. 
 
 I T is a bard and niceSubjeft for a Man to write of him felf, n 
 grates his own Heart to fay any thing of difparagement,and 
 the headers Ears to hear any thing of praife from him. There 
 is no danger from me of offending him in this kind : neither my 
 Mind, nor my Body, nor my Fortune, allow me any Materials 
 for that Vanity. It is fufficient, for my own contentment, that 
 they have preferved me from being fcandalous, or remarkable 
 on the defective fide. But befides that, I fhall here (peak of my- 
 felf, only in relation to the fubjefb of thefe precedent Difcour- 
 fes, and fhall be likelier thereby to fall into the contempt, than 
 rife up to the eftimation of moft people. As far as my Memo- 
 ry can return back into my paft Life, before I knew, or was ca- 
 pable of guelfing what the World, or glories, or bufinefs of it 
 were, the natural affe&ions of my Soul gave a fecret bent of 
 averfion from them, as fome Plants are faid to turn away from 
 others, by an Antipathy imperceptible to themlelves, and in- 
 fcrutable to mans underftanding. Even when I was a very 
 young Boy at School, inftead of running about on Holydays, 
 and playing with my fellows, I was wont to fteal from them 
 and walk into the fields, either alone with a Book, or with fbme 
 one Companion, if I could find any of the fame temper. I was 
 then too fo much an Enemy, to conftraint*, that my Maffers 
 could never prevail on me, by any perfuafions, or encourage- 
 ments, to learn without Book the common Rules of Grammar, 
 in which they difpenfed with me alone, becaufe they found I 
 made a fhift to do the ufual exercife out of my own reading and 
 obfervation. That I was then of the fame mind as I am now, 
 (which I confefs, I wonder at my felf,) may appear at the later 
 end of an Ode , which I made when I was but thirteen years 
 old, and which was then printed with many other Verfes. The 
 beginning of it is boyifh, but of this part which I here fet 
 down (if a very little were corre&ed,) I fhould hardly now 
 be much afhamed. 
 
 This only grant me, that my Means may lie 
 Too low for Envy, for Contempt too high. 
 
 Some Honor I would have 
 Not from Great deeds, but Good alone ; 
 
 Th’ unknown are better than ill known. 
 
 Rumor can op’e the Grave : 
 
 Acquaintance I would have, but when’t depends 
 Noton the Number, but the Choice, of Friends, 
 
 io. 
 
 Books fhould, not Bufinefs, entertain the Light. 
 And Sleep, as undifturb’d as Death, the Night, 
 
1 44 
 
 Several dijeourfes by way of Ejjays , 
 
 My Houfe a Cottage, more 
 Than Palace, and fhould fitting be 
 For all my Ufe, no Luxurie. 
 
 My Garden painted o’re 
 
 With Natures hand, not Arts ; and PIcafures yield, 
 
 Horace might envy in his Sabine field. 
 
 ii. 
 
 Thus would I double my Lifes fading (pace. 
 
 For he that runs it well, twice runs his race. 
 
 And in this true delight, 
 
 Thefe unbought Sports, that happy State, 
 
 I would not fear nor wifh my Fate, 
 
 But boldly fay each night. 
 
 To morrow let my Sun his Beams difplay. 
 
 Or in Clouds hide them ; I have liv’d to Day. 
 
 You may fee by it, I was even then acquainted with the Po- 
 ets 3 (for the Conclufion is taken out of Horace ; ) and perhaps 
 it was the immature and immoderate love of them which 
 ffampt firft, or rather engraved, the Chara&ers in me: They 
 were like Letters cut in the Bark of a young Tree , which 
 with the Tree {fill grow proportionably. But, how this Love 
 came to be produced in me fo early, is a hard Queffion : I be- 
 lieve I can tell the particular little chance that filled my Head 
 iirfl with fuch Chimes of Verfe, as have never fince left ring- 
 ing there : For I remember when I began to read, and take 
 lomepleafure in it, there was wont to lie in my Mothers Par- 
 lor, (l know not by what Accident, for fhe herfelf never in her 
 life read any Hook but of Devotion ; ) but there was wont 
 to lie Spencers Works ; this I hapned to fall upon, and was infi- 
 nitely delighted with the Stories of the Knights, and Gyants, 
 and Monfters, and brave Houfes, which 1 found every where 
 there : (Thd my underffanding had little to do with al this,,! 
 and by degrees, with the tinckling of the Rhyme, and Dance 
 of the Numbers, fo that I think I had read him all over before 
 I was twelve years old, and was thus made a Poet as immedi- 
 ately as a Child is made an Eunuch. With thefe Afte&ions 
 of Mind, and my Heart wholly fet upon Letters, I went to the 
 Univerfity 5 But was foon torn from thence by that publick 
 violent ftorm which would fuffer nothing to ffand where it did, 
 but rooted up every Plant, even from the Princely Cedars, to 
 Me, the Hyuop. Yet 1 had as good Fortune as could have be- 
 fallen me in fuch a Tempeff ; for I was calf by it into the Fa- 
 mily of one of the belt Perfons, and into the Court ol one 
 of the beff Princeffes of the W orld. Now thd I was here enga- 
 ged in ways moff contrary to the Original defign of my life 
 t fiat is, into much Company, and no fmall bufinefs, and in- 
 to a daily fight of Greatnefs, both Militant and Triumphant, 
 ( for that was the date then of the FLngli(h and the French 
 
 Courts,) 
 
In Vcrfe and Ftofe. 145 
 
 Courts, yet all this was fo far from altering my Opinion, that it 
 only added the confirmation of Reafon to that which was be- 
 fore but Natural Inclination. I law plainly all the Paint of that 
 kind of Life, the nearer I came to it 3 and that Beauty which I 
 did not fall in love with, when for ought I knew, it was real, 
 was not like to bewitch, or intice me, when I law it was adul- 
 terate. I met with feveral great Perfons, whom I liked very 
 well, but could not perceive that any part of their Greatnefs 
 was to be liked or defired, no more than I would be glad, or 
 content to be in a ftorm, though I law many Ships which rid 
 fafely and bravely in it. A Storm would not agree with mv 
 Stomach if it did with my Courage ; though I was in a crowd 
 of as good company as could be found any where, though I 
 was in bufinefs of great and honourable Trull, though I eat 
 at the beft Table, and enjoyed the beft conveniences for pre- 
 fent fubfiftence that ought to be defired by a man of my con- 
 dition in banilhment and publick diftrelfes ; yet I could not ab- 
 stain from renewing my old School-boys Wifh in a Copy of 
 Verfes to the fame effefb 
 
 •1 % 
 
 Well then 5 I now do plainly lee. 
 
 This bufie World and I (hall ne’re agree, &c. 
 
 And I never then propofed to myfelf any other advantage 
 from his Majefties happy Reftauration, but the getting into fome 
 moderately convenient Retreat in the Country, which I thought 
 in that cafe I might eafily have compafled, as well as fome others* 
 who with no greater probabilities or pretences have arrived to 
 extraordinary Fortunes : But I had before written a fhrew’d 
 Prophefis againft myfelf, and I think Apollo infpired me in the 
 Truth, though not in the Elegance of it : 
 
 Thou neither great at Court, nor in the War, 
 
 Nor at th’ Exchange (halt be, nor at the wrangling Bar , 
 Content thyfelf with the fmall barren praife. 
 
 Which negle&ed Verfe does raife, &c. 
 
 However by the failing of the Forces which I had expected, I 
 did not quit thedefign which I had relolved on, I caft myfelf 
 into it A Corpus perdi, without making capitulations, or taking 
 counfel of Fortune. But God laughs at Man, who fays to his 
 Soul, Take thy eafe : I met prefently not only with many little 
 Incumbrances and Impediments, but with fo much ficknefs, (a 
 new misfortune to me,) as would halve fpoiled the Happinefs of 
 an Emperor as well as Mine : Yet I do neither repent nor alter 
 my courle. Non ego perfidum Dixi Sacramentum : Nothing fhall 
 leparate me from a Miftrels, which I have lov’d fo long, and 
 have now at laft married } though fhe neither has brought mo 
 a rich Portion, nor lived yet fo quietly with me as I hoped from 
 Her. 
 
Several difcourfes by way of Effays, 
 
 -A he vos dulctfjima mundi 
 
 Nomina, vos Mujti, Libertas , Otia, Libri, 
 
 Horti que Sylv&que anima, remanente relinquam. 
 
 No r by me e’re fhall you, 
 
 You of all Names the fweeteft and the bell, 
 
 You Mufes, Books, and Liberty and Reft ; 
 
 You Gardens, Fields, and Woods forfaken be, 
 
 As long as Life itfelf forfakes not Me. 
 
 But this is a very petty Ejaculation ; becaufe I have concluded 
 all the other Chapters with a Copy of Verfes, I will maintain the 
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 J/itam qua faciunt beatiorem , Sec. 
 
 S ince, deareft Friend, ’tis your defire to fee 
 A true Receipt of Happinefs from Me ; 
 
 Thefe are the chief Ingredients, if not all. 
 
 Take an Eftate neither too great nor Email, 
 
 Which Quantum fufficit the Do&ors call. 
 
 Let this Eftate from Parents care defeend ; 
 
 The getting it too much of Life does fpend. 
 
 Take Euch a Ground, whole gratitude may be 
 A fair encouragement for Jnduftry. 
 
 Let conftant Fires the Winters fury tame $ 
 
 And let thy Kitchins be a Veftal Flame. 
 
 Thee to the Town let never Suit at Law, 
 
 And rarely, very rarely, Bufinefs draw. 
 
 Thy active mind in equal temper keep, 
 
 In undifturbed Peace, yet not in fleep. 
 
 Let exercife a vigorous Health maintain, 
 
 Without which all the compofition ’s vain, 
 
 In the fame weight Prudence and Innocence take, 
 
 Ana of each does the juft mixture make. 
 
 JBut a few friendfhips wear, and let them be 
 By Nature and by Fortune fit for thee. 
 
 Inftead of Art and Luxury in food, 
 
 Let Mirth and Freedom make thy Table good. 
 
 If any cares into the Day-time creep, 
 
 At night, without Wines Opium,' let them fleep. , 
 Let Reft, which Nature does to darknefs wed, 
 
 And not Luft, recommend to thee thy Bed, 
 
 Be 
 
In Verfe and Era ft. 
 
 Be fatisfi’d, and pleas’d with what thou art ; 
 Act chearfully and well th’alloted parr, 
 
 Enjoy the prefent Hour, be thankful for the Pad:, 
 
 And neither fear, nor wifh th’ approaches of the laid. 
 
 Martial Eook^ io. Epigram 9 6. 
 
 M E, who have liv’d fo long among the Great, 
 You wonder to hear talk of a Retreat : 
 And a Retreat fo didant as may fhew 
 No thoughts of a return when once I go. 
 
 Give me a Country how remote fo e’re ; 
 
 Where Happinefs a moderate rate does bear ; 
 Where Poverty itfelf in Plenty flows, 
 
 And all the folid ufe of Riches knows. 
 
 The Ground about the Houfe maintains it there, 
 The Houfe maintains the Ground about it here. 
 Here even Hunger’s dear, and a full Board 
 Devours the vital fubdance of the Lord. 
 
 The Land itfelf does there the Feaft bedow. 
 
 The Land itfelf mud here to Market go. 
 
 Three or four Suits one Winter here does wad. 
 One Suit does there three or four Winters lad. 
 Here every frugal Man mud oft be cold. 
 
 And little Luke- warm-fires are to you fold. 
 
 There Fire’s an Element as cheap and free 
 Almod as any other of the Three. 
 
 Stay you then here, and live among the Great* 
 Attend their Sports, and at their Table eat. 
 
 When all the bounties here of Men you foore ; 
 The Places bounty there flhall give me more. 
 
 Epitaphium Vivi Auctoris. 
 
 H /r, 0 Viator , fub Lare parvulo, 
 
 Couleius Hie eft Conditus i Hic "Jacet 
 Defunctu* humani Laboris 
 Sorte, fupervacnaque vita ; 
 
 Non indecora pauperie nitens , 
 
 Et non inerti nobilis otio, 
 
 Vanoque dilectis popello 
 Divitiis animofus hodis. 
 
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 Pofjis ut ilium dicere mortuum, 
 
 En Terra jam nunc Quantula fuffcit ? 
 Exempta fit Curis , viator, 
 
 Terr/* yfr ///<* Levis , precare . 
 
 Hie fparge Flores, fparge breves Rofas, 
 iWw T'/V* gaudet Mortua Floribus , 
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 The Second containing 
 
 What was Written and Publifhed by himfelf in 
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 The Sixth Edition . 
 
 The Third containing 
 
 %)is iBooks of Pants, 
 
 [ever before ‘Publifhed in Englifh : 
 
 fThe Firfl and Second of H e r b s. 
 
 ViQ < The Third and Fourth of F lowers. 
 fThe Fifth and Sixth of Trees. 
 
 (o\* Made Englijh by federal Hands. 
 
 With neceflary TABLES to both Parts, and divers POEMS 
 
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 Mr. Abraham Cowley. 
 
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 rOV^fgEK YEARS. 
 
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To the Memory of the Incomparable 
 
 W ith artlefsHand, and much difqtdejd Mind 
 
 . ( Pardon illuftrious Man ) I come, 
 
 To try, if worthy Thee I ought can find 
 That groveling I might offer at thy Tomb ; 
 
 For yet, nor yet thou never hadd thy due, 
 
 Tho courted by the u.nderdanding few, 
 
 And they fometimes. officious too : 
 
 Much more is owing to thy mighty Name, 
 
 Than was perform’d by noble Buckingham ; 
 
 He chofe a place thy facred Rones to keep 
 
 Near that, where Poets, and where Monatehs fleep: 
 
 Well did thy kind Me.cmas, mean 
 To thee, and to himfelf, and may that Tomb 
 Convey your mutual Praife to Ages yet tq come: 
 
 But Monuments may betray their truft, 
 
 And like their Founders crumble into dud. , 
 
 Were I to advife Podericy « 
 
 That fhould at all times acceptable be, 
 
 Quickly to comprehend their great concern, (learn. 
 
 Cowiey fhould be the firlt word all their Sons fhould 
 
 That charming Name would every Grace infpire, 
 Enflame their Souls with fupernatural Fire, 
 
 And make them nothing, but what's truly good, admire ; 
 Early their tender Minds would be poflds’d 
 With glorious Images, and every Bread 
 Imbibe an Happinefs not to be exprefs’d : 
 
 Of thefe ( bled Shade! ) when thou wert here 
 An unreguarded Sojourner, 
 
 Thou hadd fo large a part, 
 
 That thou dod hardly more appear 
 Accomplifh d where thou art, 
 
 But 
 
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 But that thy radiant Brow, 
 
 Encircled with an everlafting Wreath, 
 
 Shews thee triumphant now 
 
 O’er Difappointments, and o’er Death. 
 
 When with Aftonifhment we call an eye 
 On thine amazing Infancy, 
 
 We envy Nature’s Prodigality 
 
 To Thee, and only Thee, 
 
 In whom ( as in old Eden ) Hill were leen 
 All things florid, frefh, and green, 
 
 Bloffoms and Fruit at once on one immortal Tree. 
 
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 Herculean Vigor hadft Thou when but young, 
 
 In riper years more than Alcides ftrong. 
 
 Then who fhall ling thy wondrous Song ? 
 For he that worthily would mention Thee 
 Should be de veiled of Mortality, 
 
 No meaner Offerings fhould he bring, 
 
 Than what a Saint might pen, an Angel fing, 
 Such as with chearfulnefs thy felf hadft done, 
 
 If in thy life-time thou hadft known 
 1 " So bright a Theme to write upon: 
 
 Tho thou haft lung of Heroes, and of Kings 
 In mighty numbers mighty things. 
 Enjoy ( inimitable Bard ! ) 
 
 Of all thy plealant Toil the fweet reward, 
 
 And ever venerable be, 
 
 Till the unthinking World fhall once more lye 
 Immerft in her firft Chaos of Barbarity. 
 
 A Curie now to be dreaded, for with Thee 
 Dy d all the lovely Decencies of Poetry. 
 
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 To the Memory of the Author 
 
 T O fertile Wits and Plants of fruitful kind 
 
 Impartial Nature the lame Laws aftign’d ; — 
 
 Both have their Spring before they reach their Prime, 
 
 A Time to bloffom, and a bearing Time : 
 
 An early Bloom to both has fatal been, 
 
 Thofefooneft fade, whole Verdure firft was leen. 
 
 Alone exempted from the common Fate 5 
 The forward Cowley held a lafting Date : 
 
 For Envy’s Blaft and powerful Time too ftrong. 
 
 He bloflomkl early, and he flourifht long* 
 
 In whom the double Miracle was leen ; 
 
 Ripe in his Spring, and in his Autumn green : 
 
 With us he left his genrous Fruit behind, 
 
 The Feaft of Wit and Banquet of the Mind ; 
 
 While the fair Tree tranlplanted to the Skies, 
 
 In Verdure with th’ Elyjian Garden vies; 
 
 The Pride of Earth before, and now ofParadile. 
 
 Thus faint our ftrongeft Metaphors mull be, 
 
 Thus unproportion'd to thy Mufe and Thee. 
 
 Thofe Flowers that did in thy rich Garden fmile. 
 
 Wither, tranfplanted to another Soil. 
 
 Thus Orpkcm Harp that did wild Beafts command 
 Had loft its Force in any other Hand. 
 
 Saul's Frantick Rage harmonious founds obey’d, 
 
 His Rage was charm’d, but ’twas when David play’d. 
 The Artlels lince have touch’d thy facred Lyre, 
 
 We have thy Numbers, but we want thy Fire. 
 
 Horace and Virgil where they brighteft flhin’d, 
 
 Prov’d but thy Oar and were by thee refin’d : 
 
 The Conqueror that from the general Flame, 
 
 Sav'd Tindars Roof, delerv’d a lafting Name, 
 
 A greater Thou that didft preferve his Fame. 
 
 A dark and huddled Chaos long he lay, 
 
 Till thy diviner Genius powerful Ray 
 Difpers d the Mills of Night, and gave him Day. 
 
 No Mills of Time can make thy Verfe lefs brighr, 
 
 Thou fhin’ft like Tboebus with unborrowed Light. 
 Henceforth no Dbaius well invoke but thee, 
 
 Aufpicious to thy poor Survivers be ! 
 
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 Who unrewarded plow the Mufes Soil, 
 
 Our Labour all the Harveft of our Toil ; 
 * Written juft And in excufe of Fancies flag d and tir’d , 
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 And graipt in both his Infant Hands* 
 Broke from the Nurfes feeble Bands, . 
 The bloody gafping Prey $ 
 
 Aloft he thofc firft Trophies bore, 
 
 And fqueezes out their pois’nous Gore : 
 
 The Women flireekt with wild Amaze, 
 
 The Men as much affrighted gaze. 
 
 But had the wile Tirejias Come 
 Into the crowded Room, 
 a With deep Prophetick Joy ; 
 
 H’had heard the Conquefts of the God-like Boy, 
 
 And fung in facred Rage 
 WhatMonfters he mult afterwards deftroy. 
 
 What ravenous Men and Bealls engage : 
 
 Hence he'd propitious Omens take, 
 
 And from the Triumphs of his Infancy 
 Portend his future Vidtory ; 
 
 O'er the foul Serpent weltring wide in Lerna s dreadful Lake 
 
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 Alcides Tindar , P indar Cowley lings, 
 
 And while they ftrike their vocal firings, 
 
 To either both new Honour brings. 
 
 But who flhall now the mighty Task fullain ? 
 
 And now our Hercules is there, 
 
 What Atlas can Olympus bear ? 
 
 What Mortal undergo th’ unequal Pain ? 
 
 But ’tis a glorious Fate 
 To fall with fuch a Weight : 
 
 Tho’ with unhallowed Fingers, I 
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 Forgive a Fault which Love has made. 
 
 Thus I my lawcy kindnefe -mourn, 
 
 WlVidi yetTj^'t repent; e .. . 
 
 Before thy {acred Monument ' ! si sd ' .... 
 
 And moiften with my Tears thy wondrous Urn. 
 
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 Begin, begin, my Mufe, thy noble Choir, 
 
 And aim at lomething worthy Pindars Lyre, 
 
 Within thy Brealt excite the kindling Fire, 
 
 And fan it with thy Voice ! 
 
 Cowley does to J o v e belong, * 
 
 J o v e and Cowley claim my Song. 
 
 Thefe Fail* firft Fruits of Wit young Cowley bore, 
 Which promis’d if the happy Tree 
 Should ever reach Maturity, : 
 
 To blefs the World with better, and with more. 
 Thus in the Kernel of the largeft Fruit, 
 
 Is all the Tree in little drawn, 
 
 The Trunk, the Branches, and the Root 5 o'? 
 
 Thus a fair Day is pi&ur d in a lovely Dawn. 
 
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 Did hardly earlier rife than thee : r 
 
 Nor did he (hoot fo far, or fhine fo bright. 
 
 Or in his dawning Beams or noon- day Light. 
 
 The Mules did young Cowley raife, 
 
 They ftole thee from thy Nurles Arms, 
 
 Fed thee with lacred Love of Praile, 
 
 And taught thee all their Charms. 
 
 As if Apollo's felfhad been thy Sire, 
 
 They daily rockt thee on his Lyre. 
 
 Hence Seeds of Numbers in thy Soul were fixt, 
 
 Deep as the very Reafon there, 
 
 No Force from thence could Numbers tear. 
 
 Even with thy being mixt. 
 
 And there they lurk'd, till Spencers facred Flame 
 Leapt up and kindled thine, 
 
 Thy Thoughts as regular and fine. 
 
 Thy Soul the fame, 
 
 Like his, to Honor, and to Love inclin’d, v 
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 Sure, like the God$ he fpeaks all Languages. 
 
 Whatever Theme by Cowle y’s Mufe is dreft, 
 Whatever hell eflay ;nc:- Mi / 
 
 Or in the loiter* or, the nobler way, ; 
 
 He Hill writes belt. . 
 
 If he ever ftretch his Strings M y . 
 
 To mighty Numbers, mighty Things, 
 
 So did Virgins, Heroes fight, 
 
 Such Glories wore, though not lb bright. 
 
 If he’ll paint his noble Fire, 
 
 Ah what Thoughts his Songs inlpire, 
 
 Vigorous Love and gay Defire. 
 
 Who would not, Cowley U ruin’d be ? 
 
 Who would not love, that reads, that thinks of thee ? 
 Whether thou iri th’ old <I(oman doft delight, c 
 Or Englifh , fullasftrong, to write. • 
 
 Thy Mafter-ftrokes in both are fhown, 
 Cowley in both excells alone, 
 
 Virgil of theirs, and WaUer of our own. 
 
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 Why fhould not England know, 
 
 How much file does to Cowley owe? 
 
 How much fair (Bofcobel's for ever iacred Tree ? 
 
 The Hills, the Groves, the Plains, the Woods, 
 
 The Fields the Meadows and the Floods, 
 
 The Flowry World, where Gods and Poets ufe, 
 
 To Court a Mortal or a Mufe ? 
 
 It fiiall be done. But.: who ? ah who flhall dare, 
 
 So vaft a Toil to undergo , 
 
 And all the Worlds juft cenfure bear, 
 
 Thy Strength, and their own Weaknefs fihow ? 
 
 Mrs. A. Bib*. Soft Afra who had led our Shepherds loner, 
 
 Who long the Nymphs and Swains dief guide, 
 
 Our Envy, her own Sexes Pride, ’ 
 
 When all her Force on this great Theme fihe’d try’d, 
 
 She ftrain’d awhile to reach th’ inimitable Song, 
 
 She ftrain’d awhile, and wifely dy’d. 
 
 Thole who furvive unhappier be, 
 
 Yet thus, great God of Poeiie, 
 fvWith Joy they facrifice their Fame to thee. 
 
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 T HE following Poems of Mr. Cowley being much 
 enquired after, and very fcarce, (the Town hard- 
 ly affording one Book, tho it hath been five 
 times Printed) we thought this fixth Edition could not fail 
 of being well received by the World. We prefume one 
 reafbn why they were omitted in the laft Collection, was, 
 becaufe the propriety of this Copy belonged not to the 
 fame Perfon that publifhed thole : but the reception they 
 had found appears by the feveral Impreffions through which 
 they had pals ’d. We dare not fay they are equally perfect 
 with thole written by the Author in his iper Years , yet 
 certainly they are fuch as deferve not to be buried in obfcu- 
 rity. We prefume the Authors Judgment of them is moll 
 reafonable to appeal to ; and you will find him (allowing 
 grains of modefty) give them no lmall Character. His 
 words are in the 6th. Page of his Preface before his former 
 publifhed Poems. 
 
 You find our excellent Author likewife mentioning and 
 reciting part of thefe Poems, in his feveral Difcourfes hy way 
 of Ejfays in Verfe and Trofe, in the 1 1 th. Thfcourfe treating of 
 him f elf pag. 143. Theft we luppofe a fufficient Autho- 
 rity for our reviving them ; and lure there is no ingenuous 
 Reader to whom the fmalleft Remains df Wiv. Cowley will be 
 unwelcome. His Poems are every where the Copy of his 
 mind, fo that by this Supplement to his other Volume you 
 have the Picture of that fo defervedly Eminent Man from 
 almoft his Childhood to his Latefl Years , The bud and bloom 
 of his Spring , The warmth of his Summer , The richnefs 
 and perfection of his Autumn . But for the Readers further 
 curiofity , we refer him to the Author s following Preface to 
 them, Publifhed by himfelf. And to contribute all we 
 can to our Readers fatisfaCtion, we have endeavoured to 
 make the fe Poems fomething more acceptable, by prefix- 
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R Eader (I know not yet whether Gentle or no) Some, I 
 know have been argr.y ( I dare not affume the honour 
 of their Envy) ^t/my^peUc^'^Idne^.j^^Tarh^dWn 
 mine, 'what commends other fruits, earpnels .others,, who le 
 either of a weak Faith, \oc (hong MaltC^hhavf thdhgnt me 
 a Pipe, which never Founds but wheivMs flowed in^ad X^ad the, 
 not as Abraham Cowley , but Aathortm anonymnm : t o the firfl, I 
 anfwer, that it is an envipus Fi oft wHFoh -nips the Blofloms, be- 
 caufe they appear quickly : to the latter,' that he the worft Ho- 
 micide who drives to murther anokhers Fame : to both, that it is 
 a ridiculous Folly to condemn or laugh at the Stars, becaufe the 
 Moon and Sun (bine brighter. The fmall fire I have is rather 
 blown than extinguifhed by this Wind. For the itch of Poefie 
 by being angered increafeth, by rubbing, fpreads farther 5 which 
 appears in that I have ventured upon this Fourth Edition, What 
 tho it be negleded ? 'I t is not, I am fure, the firft Book which 
 hath lighted Tobacco, or been imployed by Cooks and Grocers. 
 If in all mens judgments it lufFer Shipwreck, it fhall fomething 
 content me, that it hath pleafed my felf and the Bookfeller. In it 
 you fhall find one Argument (and I hope l fhall need no more) 
 to confute unbelievers: which is, that as mine age, and confe- 
 quently experience ("which is yet but little) hath increafed, fo 
 they have not left my Poefie flagging behind them. I fhould not 
 be angry to fee any one burn my Pirantus an dThisbe, nay, I would 
 do it my felf, but that I hope a pardon may eafily be gotten for the 
 errors often years age. My Cotjfiantins and Philetns confefleth 
 me two years older when I writ it. The reft were made fince 
 uponfeveral occafions, and perhaps do not bely the time of their 
 Birth. Such as they are, they were created by me, but their Fate 
 lies in your hands $ it is only you, can efFed, that neither the Book- 
 feller repent himfelf of his Charge in Printing them, nor I of my 
 labor incompofing them. Farewel. 
 
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To the Reader. 
 
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 I Call'd the Tuskirid Muje Melpomin e, 
 And told her what fad Story I would write : 
 
 She wept at hearing fuch a Tragedy , 
 
 Tho wont in Mournful Titties to delight. 
 
 If thou diflike thefe forrowful lines , then know 
 My Mufe with tears , not with Conceits did flaw. 
 
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 And as (he my unahler quid did guide , 
 
 Her briny tears did on the Taper fall, 
 
 If then unequal numbers be ej pied , 
 
 Oh Trader ! do not that my error cad, 
 
 Tut think her Tears defacd it, and blame then 
 My Mufes grief, and not my miffing Ten. 
 
 Abraham Cowley. 
 
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The Contents. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 C Onftantia and Philetus from pag. i. to p. 1 9 
 
 Pyramus and Thisbe fromp. 25**0 p. 32 
 
 Elegy on the Death of the Right Honorable Dudley, 
 Lord Carleton, Vifcount Dorchefter, late principal 
 Secretary of State. p. 35” 
 
 An Elegy on the Death of Mr. Richard Clark, late 0/ Lincolns- Inn, 
 Gent. p. 36 
 
 A Dream of Elyfium p. 3 7 
 
 On his Majcfiy , King Charles the Firfi his Return out of Scotland 
 
 , P- 39 
 
 A Song on the fame, Hence clouded Looks p. 45 
 
 A Vote , Left the mifguiding World ibid. 
 
 A Poetical Revenge p. 44 
 
 To the Dutchefs of Buckingham * * p. 45’ 
 
 To his very much honored Godfather , Mr. A. B. ibid. 
 
 An Elegy on the Death of John Littleton, Ef quire. Son and Heir 
 to Sir Tho. Littleton, who was drown d, leaping into the Water 
 to fave his yonngei' Brother p. 4 6 
 
 A Tranjlation of Verfes upon the Blejfed Virgin , written in Latin 
 by the Right W orjhipful D. A. p. 48 
 
 Odr I; On the Prajfe of Poetry p. 49 
 
 II. That a pleafant Poverty is to be preferred before difcontented 
 Riches p, 50 
 
 III. To his Miftrefs p. 52 
 
 IV. On the uncertainty of Fortune, A Tranjlation p .53 
 
 V. In Commendation of the time ive live under the Reign of our 
 Gracious King Charles ibid. 
 
 VI. On the Shortnefs of Man's Life p. yy 
 
 VII. An Anfwer to an Invitation to Cambridge ibid; 
 
 Loves Riddle 5 a Pajloral Comedy p. 61 
 
 Naufragium Joculare p. 119 
 
 Part III# 
 
 Book I. and II. Of Herbs, Engliftied by J. O. p.1,33 
 
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 III. Of Flowers 
 
 IV. Of Flowers 
 
 V. Of Trees 
 
 VI. Of Trees 
 
 by C. Cleve. p. 60 
 by N.Tate. 83 
 
 by the fame. 105 
 
 by Mrs. A. Behn. 131 
 
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 Sing two conftant Lovers various fate 
 The hopes and fears that equally attend 
 .Their Loves : Their Rivals envy. Parents hate, 
 I fing their woful life, and tragick end. 
 
 Aid me, ye gods, this ftory to rehearfe 
 This mournful tale, and favour every Verfe. 
 
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 In Florence , for her (lately Buildings fam’d, 
 And lofty Roofs that emulate the Skie j 
 There dwelt a lovely maid, Conflantia nam’d, 
 Fam’d for the beauty of all Italy. 
 
 Her, lavilh nature did at firft adorn, 
 
 With Fallas Soul in Cytherea 's Form. 
 
 And framing her attra&ive eyes fo bright. 
 
 Spent all her Wit in ftudy, that they might 
 Keep earth from Chaos and eternal night ; 
 
 But envious death deftroy’d their glorious light. 
 Expeft not beauty then, fince (he did part 5 
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 Her Hair was brighter than the beams which are 
 
 A Crown to Phoebus , and her breath fo fweer, 
 
 It didtranfcend Arabian Odours far. 
 
 Or fmelling Flowers, wherewith the Spring doth greet 
 Approaching Summer, teeth like falling Snow 
 For white, were placed in a double row. 
 
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 Her wit excelling praife, even all admire. 
 
 Her fpeech was fo attra&ive it might be 
 A caufe to raife the mighty Pallas ire. 
 
 And ftir up envy from that Deity. 
 
 The Maiden Lillies at her fight 
 
 Wax’d pale with envy, and from thencegrew white, 
 
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 She was in Birth and Parentage as high 
 As in her fortune great, or beauty rare, 
 
 And to her vertuous minds nobility 
 The gifts of Fate and nature doubled were 3 
 That in herfpotlefs foul, and lovely Face 
 You might have feen each Deity and Grace. 
 
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 The fcornful Boy Aclonis viewing her 
 
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 Would Venus ftill defpife, yet her defire. 
 
 Each who but faw, was a Competitor 
 And Rival, fcorch’d alike with Cupid's fire. 
 
 The glorious beams of her fair Eyes did move, 
 
 And light beholders on their way to Love. •/ 
 
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 Among her many Suitors a young Knight 
 ’Bove others wounded with the Majefty 
 Of her fair prefence, prefleth moft in fight $ 
 
 Yet feldom his defire can fatisfie 
 
 With that bleff objefr, or her rarenefs fee; 
 
 For Beauties guard is watchful jealoujie. 
 
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 Oft times that he might fee his Dearefifair , 
 
 Upon his (lately Jennet he in th’ way 
 Rides by herhoufe, who neighs, as if he were 
 Proud to be view’d by bright Conflantia. 
 
 But his poor Matter though to fee her move 
 His joy, dares fhew no look betraying love. 
 
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 Soon as the morning left her rofie bed. 
 
 And all Heavens fmaller lights were drivn away : 
 
 She by her friends and near aquaintance led 
 Like other Maids would walk at break of day : 
 Aurora blufht to fee a fight unknown. 
 
 To behold cheeks more beauteous than her own. 
 
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 Th’ obfequious Lover follows {fill her train 
 And where they go, that way his Journey feigns. 
 Should they turn back, he would turn back again $ 
 For with his Love, his bufinefs does remain; 
 
 Nor is it tlrange he (hould be loth to part 
 From her, whole eyes had ftole away his heart. 
 
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 Philetns he was call’d, fprung from a race 
 Of Noble Anceftorsj but greedy Time 
 And envious Fate had labour’d to deface 
 The glory which in his great Stock did fhinej 
 Small hiseftate, unfitting her degree, 
 
 But blinded Love could no fuch difference fee. 
 
 Yet he by chance had hit this heart aright. 
 
 And dipt his Arrow in Confiant id's eyes, 
 
 Blowing a fire, that would deftroy him quite, 
 
 Unlefs fuch flames within her heart fhou’d rife. 
 
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 But yet he fears, becaufehe blinded is, 
 
 Tho he have (hot him right, her heart he’ll mite. 
 
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 Unto Loves Altar therefore he repairs, 
 
 And Offers up a pleafing Sacrifice \ : f 
 
 Intreating Cupid with inducing Prayers, 
 
 To look upon, and eafe his miferies : 
 
 Where having wept, recovering breath .again, , 
 
 Thus to immortal Love he did complain : ' VlA J- 
 
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 Oh mighty Cupid ! Whofe unbounded ftvayl . V ‘ , 
 
 Hath often ruV d th’ Olympian ;/ • ; C A 
 
 Whom all Ceelefiial Deities obey , : 
 
 Whom men and gods both reverence and fear ! 
 
 Oh force Conflantia/ heart toyeild to Love y 
 Of all thy Work? the Mafier-piece * twill prove, 
 
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 An diet me not Atfeftion vainly fpend , 
 
 But handle flames in her like thofe in me 5 
 Tet if that gift my Fortune doth tranfeend , 
 
 Grant that her charming Beauty I may fee. 
 
 For ever view thofe Eyes , whofe charming light , 
 More than the World befides does pleafe my jight. 
 
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 Thofe who contemn thy facred Deity , 
 
 Laugh at thy power, make them thine anger know, 
 
 I fault left am, what honour canit be. 
 
 Only to wound your Slave, and fpareyour Foe. 
 
 Here tears and fighs (peak his imperfe& moan. 
 In language far more moving than his own. 
 
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 Home he retir’d, his Soul he brought not home. 
 Juft like a Ship while every mounting wave, 
 Tofs’d by enraged Boreas up and down. 
 Threatens the Mariner with a gaping grave 5 
 Such did his cafe, fuch did his ftate appear. 
 Alike diftra&ed between hope and fear. 
 
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 Thinking her love he never (hall obtain. 
 
 One Morn he haunts the Woods, and doth complain 
 Of his unhappy Fate, but all in vain. 
 
 And thus fond Eccho anfwers him again. 
 
 It mov’d Aurora , and (he wept to hear. 
 
 Dewing the verdant Grafs with many a teat. 
 
 The Eccho. 
 
 O H / what hath caus'd my filling miferies } 
 
 ETES, Eccho faid. What hath detain'd my eaf t 
 EASE , ftraight the reafonable Nymph replies 3 
 That nothing can my troubled mind appeafe ; 
 
 PEACE, Eccho anfwers . What, is any nigh i 
 Philctus faid • She quick}) utters , L 
 
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 Jit Eccho an fivers .<? tell me then thy will : 
 
 1 WILL, (he J aid $ What Jhalllget ( fays he ) 
 
 By loving fkiUi To which J!?e an fivers, ILL. 
 
 ILL J Jhall I void of wifi) d for pleafores die £ 
 
 I Shall not I who toil in ceajief Spain, 
 
 Some pleafure know $ NO , (be replies again. 
 
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 Falfe and inconfiant Nymph, thou lyeft ( faid he) 
 THOV LYEST, fijefaidj and I deferv'd her hate y 
 If I Jhould thee believe 5 BELIEVE , ( faith fije) 
 For why thy words are of no weight. 
 
 WEIGHT j (Jhe anfivers') therefore I'll depart. 
 To which , refounding Eccho anfivers 5 PART» 
 
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 Then from the Woods with wounded heart he goes, 
 Filling with legions of frefh thoughts his mind: 
 
 He quarrels with himfelfbeeaufe his woes 
 Spring from himfelf, yet can no medicine find : 
 
 He weeps to quench the fires that burn in him. 
 But tears do fall to th’ earth, flames are within. 
 
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 No morning banifh’d darknefs, nor black night 
 By her alternate courfe expell’d the day. 
 
 In which Phi let us by a conftant rite 
 At Cupid's Altars did not weep and pray 5 . 
 
 And yet he nothing reap’d for all his pain 
 But Care and Sorrow was his only gain. 
 
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 But now at laft the pitying god, o’rcome 
 By conftant votes and tears, fixt in her heart 
 A golden (haft, and fhe is now become 
 A fuppliant to Love, that with like Dart 
 
 He’d wound Philetus, does with tears implore 
 Aid from that power (he fo much fcorn’d before* 
 
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 Little (he thinks (he kept Philetus heart 
 In her fcorch’d breaft, becaule her own (he gave 
 To him* Since either fuffers equal fmart, 
 
 And a like mealure in their torments have: 
 
 His foul, his griefs, his fires, now hers are grown 
 Her heart, her mind, her love is his alone. 
 
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 Whilft thoughts ’gainft thoughts rife up in mutiny, 
 She took a Lute ("being far from any ears) 
 
 And tun’d this Song, pofing that harmony 
 Which Poets attribute to heavenly Spheres. 
 
 Thus had (he (ung when her dear Love was (lain. 
 She’d furely call’d him back from Styx again. 
 
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 Not to Love, for he is blind : 
 And my Philetus doth not know 
 The inward torment of my mind . 
 And all th& fenjie/s wads which are 
 Now round about me cannot hear . 
 
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 For if they could, they fur e would weep , 
 
 And with my griefs rplent : ; ( - 
 
 Unlefs their widing tears they keep , 
 
 Tid I from Earth am flnt. 
 
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 My fate , ftnce I taught the W before,. : 
 
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 My dear PHILETUS on the fljore 
 Of my heart j but [IdouUfl thou prove 
 Afraid of flames, hysQW tfle fires are - • 
 
 But Bonflres for thy coding, there, 
 
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 Then Tears in Envy of her fpeech did flow J ' 1 
 From her fair eyes, as if it feem’cfthat there 
 
 Her burning flame had melted (fills of Snow, .o ' if 
 
 And lo diflolv d them into many a tear 3 
 
 Which, «Bfflpttfi • : .mid ( 
 
 And quickly cam d new Serpent griefs to grow. 
 
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 Here flay, my Mufe , for if I (hould recite 
 Her mournful Language, I (hould make you weep 
 Like her, a flood, and fonot fee to write, 
 
 Such Lines as I, and th’ age requires, to keep 
 Me from (tern death, or with vi&orious rhime. 
 Revenge their Mafters Death, and conquer time; 
 
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 By this time, chance and his own induftry 
 Had helpt Philetus forward, that he grew 
 Acquainted with her Brother, fo that he 
 Might, by this means, his bright Conflantia view : 
 
 And as time (erv’d,fhew her his mifery : 
 
 This was the firft Ad in his Tragedy. 
 
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 Thus to himfelffooth’ d by his flattering Rate, 
 
 He (aid $ How Jhall I thankjhee for this gain, 
 
 0 Cupid, or reward my helping Fate , 
 
 Which feveetens all my for rows, all my pain ? 
 
 What Husbandman would any pains refufi, 
 
 To reap at lafl fuch fruit, his labors ufe 
 
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 But when he wifely weigh’d his doubtful Rate, 
 
 Seeing his griefs link’d like an endlefs chain 
 To following woes, he wou’d when ’twas too late 
 Quench his hot flames, and idle Love difdain. 
 
 But Cupid , when his heart was fet on fire. 
 
 Had burnt his wings, who could not then retire- 
 
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 The wounded Youth, and kind Philocrates 
 (So was her brother call’d) grew foon fo dear, 
 
 So true, and conflant, in their Amities, 
 
 And in that League, fo ftri&ly joyned were 3 
 
 That Death it felf could not their friendlhip fever. 
 But as they liv’d in Love, they dy’d together. 
 
 If one be melancholy, th’ other s fad 3 
 If one be fick, the other’s furely ill 3 
 And if Philetus any forrow had, 
 Philocrates was partner in it Rill : 
 Pylades foul and mad Orefles was 
 In thefe, if we believe Pythagoras. 
 
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 Oft in the Woods Philetus walks, and there /• " 
 
 Exclaims againft his Fate, Fate too unkind : r . i 
 
 With fpeaking tears his griefs he doth declare* 
 
 And with fad fighsinftructs the angry Wind 
 
 To figh 3 and did even upon that prevail, . .j ) . 
 
 It groaned to hear Philetus mournful tale. 
 
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 The Cryftal Brooks which gently run between 
 The fhadowing Trees, and as they through them pals 
 Water the Earth, and keep the Meadows green. 
 
 Giving a colour to the verdant grafs : 
 
 Hearing Philetus tell his wofulftate. 
 
 In (hew of grief run murmuring at his Fate. 
 
 Philomel anfwers him again and (hews 
 In her beft Language, her fad Hiftory, 
 
 And in a mournful fweetnefs tells her woes. 
 
 Denying to be pos’d in mifery : 
 
 Conjiantia he, fhe Tereus , Tereus cries, 
 
 With him both grief, and grief’s expreffion vies. 
 
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 Philocrates muft needs his fadnefs know, 
 
 Willing in ills, as well as joys to fhare. 
 
 Nor will on them the name of friends beftow. 
 
 Who in light fport, not forrow partners are. 
 
 Who leaves to guide the Ship when Storms arife. 
 
 Is guilty both of fin, and Cowardife. 
 
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 But when his noble Friend perceiv’d that he 
 Yielded to Tyrant Paffion more and more, 
 
 Defirous to partake his Malady, 
 
 He watches him in hope to cure his fore 
 
 By counfel, and recal the poifonous Dart, 
 
 When it, alas, was fixed in his heart. 
 
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 Whenin the Woods, places beft fit for care, 
 
 He tohimfelf did his paft griefs recite, 
 
 Th* obfequious freind ftraight follows him, and there 
 Doth hide himfelf from fad Philetus fight. 
 
 Who thus exclaims 5 for a fwoln heart would break. 
 
 If it for vent of forrow might not (peak. 
 
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 Oh! I amlofl , not in this Defart Wood, 
 
 But in loves pat hie fs Labyrinth, there I 
 My health, each Joy and pleafure counted good 
 Have loji, and which is more , my liberty , 
 
 And now am forc'd to let him facrifice 
 My heart, for raff) believing of my eyes. 
 
 
 
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 Long have I flaid, but yet have no relief 
 Long have I lov'd, yet have no favour ftorvn, 
 
 Becaufe fhe knows not of my killing grief , 
 
 And I have fear'd, to make my forraws known . 
 
 For why alas , if fie fiould once but dart 
 Dijdainful looby , 'twould breaks my captivd heart , 
 
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 But how fiould fie , ere I impart my Love, 
 Reward m\ ardent fame with hkg deftre £ 
 
 But when 1 J peak if (l.e fiould angry prove. 
 Laugh at my flowing tears, and from my fire 5 
 Why, he who hath all for rows born before , 
 Needeth not fear to be oppryfl with more „ 
 
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 Philocrates no longer dn forbear. 
 
 Runs to his friend, and fighing, OM. (fa id he) 
 My dear Philetus be thy Jeff and fwear 01 
 To rule that PaJJion which now maflers thee , 3 
 
 And all thy reafon j but if it .cant be, a 
 
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 S hould he reveal his Love, he/ears ’twould prove - r.. 
 
 A hindrance } and fhould he deny to fhow, : 4 ^ 
 
 It might perhaps his dear friends; anger move : ' .1 
 
 Thefe doubts like ScyltaandCharybdis ftand, 
 
 While Cupid a blind PilotLdoth command. Ira.,; 
 
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 At laft refolv’d y how (hall I feek; la id .he,/ i<> a • ^ ! 
 
 T o excufe my felf, deareft Philocrates $ j v ’ 1 .» Ad \ : 
 
 That I from thee have hid thisrfebrefie ? ^00^' >h! f [ s 
 
 Yetcenfure not, give me firft leave to eafe v: ; J; > 
 
 My cafe with words, my grief you fhould have known 
 Ere this, if that my heart had been my awri 
 
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 1 am all Love , my heart was burnt with fire 
 From two bright Suns which do aU light difclofe 3 
 Firft kjndling in my breafi the flame defire , 
 
 But like the rare Arabian Bird, there rofie 
 From my hearts ajhes never quenched Love, 
 Which now this torment in my Soul doth move. 
 
 Oh ! let not then my Pafjion caufie your hate , 
 
 Nor let my choice 0 fl'encl you, or detain 
 Tour ancient Friendfhip 5 't/s alas too late 
 To call my firm afie&ion back again : 
 
 No Phyfick can recure my manned flate , 
 The wound is grown too great, too defier ate. 
 
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 But Counfel , laid his Friend, a remedy 
 Which never fails the Patient, may at leaft 
 If not quite heal your minds infirmity, 
 Aflwage your torment and procure fome reft. 
 But there is no Phyftcian can apply 
 A Med’cine ere he know the Malady. 
 
 Then hear me, laid Philetus^ but why? Stay, 
 
 I will not toil thee with my Hiftory, 
 
 For to remember Sorrows paft away. 
 
 Is to renew an old Calamity. 
 
 He who acquainteth others with his mone , 
 
 Adds to his friends grief, but not cures his own. 
 
 But laid Philocrates, *tis beft in woe, 
 
 To have a faithful partner of their care 5 
 That burthen may be undergone by two, 
 
 Which is perhaps too great for one to bear. 
 
 I Ihould miftruft your love, to hide from me 
 Your thoughts, and tax you of Inconflancy. 
 
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 What fhall he do? or with what Language frame 
 Excufe ? He rauft refolve not to deny, 
 
 But open his clofe thoughts, and inward flame. 
 With that, as prologue to his Tragedy, 
 
 He figh d, as if they’d cool his torments ire, 
 When they alas, did blow the raging fire. 
 
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 When years firft ftyl’d me twenty, I began 
 To fport with catching fnare that love had fet, 
 Like Birds that flutter round the gin, till ta’ne, 
 Or the poor Fly caught in Arachnes net : 
 
 Even fo I (ported with her Beauties light. 
 Till I at laft grew blind with too much fight. 
 
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 Firft it came dealing on me, whilft I thought, 
 
 Twas eafie to repel it 3 but as fire, 
 
 Thobut a (park, foon into flames is brought, 
 
 So mine grew great, and quickly mounted higher 3 
 Which fo have fcorch’d my Love-ftruck Soul, that I 
 Still live in torment, yet each minute die. 
 
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 Who is it, faid Philocrates , can move 
 With charming eyes fuch deep affe&ion ? 
 
 I may perhaps affift you in your love 3 
 Two can effed more than your felf alone. 
 
 My Counfel this thy Error may reclaim, 
 
 Or my fait tears quench thy deftruftive flame. 
 
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 Nay, faid Pbiletus , oft my eyes do flow 
 Like Nilus, when it fcorns th’ oppofed (hore : 
 Yet all the watry plenty I beftow, 
 
 Is to my flame an Oyl that feeds it more. 
 
 So Fame reports of the Dodonean Spring, 
 That lightens allthofe which are put therein. 
 
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 But being you defire to know her, fhe 
 Iscall’d (with that his eyes let fall a fhower 
 As if they fain would drown the memory 
 Of his life-keepers name) Conflantia; more 
 Grief would not let him utter 3 Tears the heji 
 Exprejfers of true Sorrow, [poke the refl, 
 
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 To which his noble friend did thus reply : 
 
 And was this all ! What e’r your grief would eafe 
 Tho a far greater task, believ’t for thee 
 It (hould be foon done by Philocrates 3 
 Think all you wifh perform’d, but fee, the day 
 Tyr’d with its heat is hafting now away. 
 
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 Home from the filent Woods, night bids them go, 
 
 But fad Philetus can no comfort find, 
 
 What in the day he fears of future woe, 
 
 At night in dreams, like truth, affrights his mind. 
 
 Why do’ft thou vex him, Love? cou’dft thou but fee, 
 Thou would’ft thy (elf Philetns Rival be. 
 
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 Philocrates pitying his doleful mone. 
 
 And wounded with the Sorrows of his friend, 
 Brings him to fair Conflantia $ where alone 
 He might impart his love, and either end 
 
 His fruitlefs hopes, nipt by her coy difdain, 
 Or by her li kjng) his wifljt joys attain. 
 
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 Fairefl ( faid he ) whom the bright Heavens do cover , 
 Do not thefe tears , thefe flea king tears , defpife , 
 
 Theje heaving (ighs of a jubmijjive Lover , 
 
 Thus flruckjo th' earth by your all darling eyes . 
 
 And do not you contemn that ardent jlamc. 
 
 Which from your fe If Tour own far Beauty came. 
 
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 Trufl me , 1 long have hid my Love, but nor» 
 Am forc'd to fhoivt , fuch is my inward fmart , 
 And yon alone ( fair Saint ) the means do knoi 
 To heal the wound of my con fuming heart. 
 
 Then flneeit only in your power doth lie 
 To kill) cr Jave, Oh help ! oreljeldie. 
 
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 His gently cruel Love did thus reply 5 
 I for your pain am griev'd, and would do 
 Without impeachment of my Chaflity 
 And honor , any thing might pleafure you. 
 
 But if beyond thoje limits you demand , 
 
 I mffl not anfiver (Sirf nor under (land. 
 
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 Believe me virtuous Maiden, my defire 
 Is chafi and pious, as thy Virgin thought, 
 
 No flafh of Lufi, ’tis nodifhoneft fire 
 Which goes as foonas it was quickly brought: 
 But as thy beauty pure, which let not be 
 Eclipfed by difdain, and cruelty. 
 
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 Oh ! How (hall I reply ((he cry’d ) thou’ft won 
 My foul, and therefore take thy Vi&ory : 
 
 Thy eyes and fpeeches have my heart o’rcome. 
 
 And if I fhould deny thee love, then I 
 
 Should be a Tyrant to my (elf $ that fire 
 Which is kept clofe, burns with the greateft ire. 
 
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 Yet do not count my yielding, lightnefs now, 
 
 Impute it rather to my ardent Love, 
 
 Thy pleating Carriage won me long ago, 
 
 And pleading beauty did my liking move, 
 
 Thy eyes which draw like loadftones with their might 
 The hardeft hearts, won mine to leave me quite. • 
 
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 Oh ! I am wrapt above the reach, faid he, 
 
 Of thought, my Soul already feels the blifs 
 
 Of Heaven, when ( Sweet J my thoughts once tax but thee 
 
 With any crime, may I lofe all happinefs 
 
 Is wi(ht for: both your favour here, and dead. 
 
 May the jufi gods pour Vengance on my head. 
 
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 Whilft he wasfpeaking this (“behold their FateJ 
 Conflantia s Father entred irt the room, 
 
 When glad Philetas ignorant of his (late, 
 
 Kiflfes her cheeks, more red than (etting Sun : 
 
 Or elfe the morn, blufhing through clouds of water, 
 
 To fee afeending Sol congratulate her. 
 
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 Juft as the guilty Prifoner fearful ftands 
 
 Reading his fatal Theta in the brows 
 
 Of him, who both bis life and death commands. 
 
 Ere from his mouth he the fad fentence knows. 
 
 Such was his ftate to fee her Father come, 
 
 Nor wifh’d for, nor expe&ed in the room. 
 
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 Th’ inrag’d old man bids him no more to dare 
 Such bold intrufion in that houfe, nor be 
 At any time with his lov’d Daughter there 
 Till he had given him fuch authority: 
 
 But to depart, fince (he her love did (hew him 
 Was living death, with ling’ring torments to him. 
 
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 This being known to kind Philocrates , 
 
 He chears his friend, bidding him banilh fear, 
 And by (ome Letter his griev’d mind appeafe, 
 And (hew her that which to her friendly ear 
 Time gave no leave to tell, and thus his quill 
 Declares to her the abfent Lovers will. 
 
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 PHILETUS to CONSTANTIA. 
 
 I Truft ( dear Soul ) my a b fence cannot move 
 Ton to forget, or doubt my ardent Love 5 
 Fcr were there any means to fee you, I 
 Would run through Death , and all the miftry 
 Fate could infill, that Jo the World might fay , 
 
 In Life and Death I lovd Conftantia. 
 
 T hen let not (dear eft fweet) our abfe nee part 
 Our loves , but each breaft keep the others heart 3 
 Give warmth to one another, till there rife 
 From all our labours , and our induftries 
 The long expelled fruits ; have patience ( Sweet ) 
 
 There's no man whom the Summer ple a fures greet 
 Before he tafte the Winter , none can fay , 
 
 Ere Night was gone, he Jaw the riftn % Day . 
 
 So when we once have wafted Sorrows night , 
 
 The Sun of Comfort then fall give ns light . 
 
 Philetus. 
 
 This when Conftantia read, (he thought her (fate 
 Molt happy by Philetus Conftancy, 
 
 And perfeft Love : (he thanks her flattering Fate, 
 Kifles the Paper, till with killing ftie 
 
 The welcome Chara&ers doth dull and ftain, 
 
 Then thus with Ink and Tears writes back again. 
 
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 Nor need you fear, that I (hould yield unto 
 Another , what to your true Love is due. 
 
 My heart is yours, it is not in my claim. 
 
 Nor have I power to take it bac\again . 
 
 Theres nought but death can part our Souls, no time 
 Or angry Friends , ) hall make my Love decline : 
 
 But for the harvejl of our hopes I'll flay, 
 
 TJnlefs Death cut it } ere *tis ripe , away. 
 
 Conflantia. 
 
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 Oh ? how this Letter feem’d to raife his pride ! 
 Prouder was he of this than Phaeton , 
 
 When he did Phoebus flaming Chariot guide, 
 Unknowing of the danger was to come. 
 Prouder than Jafon, when from Colchos he 
 Returned with the Fleeces V i&ory. 
 
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 But ere the Autumn, which fair Ceres crown’d, 
 
 Had paid the (wearing Plowman’s greedieft prayer ; 
 
 And by the Falldifrob’d the gaudy ground 
 Of all thofe Ornaments it us’d to wear, 
 
 Them kind Philocrates to each other brought, 
 
 Where they this means t ’enjoy their freedom wrought* 
 
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 Sweet fair one, (aid Philetus, fince the time 
 Favours our wifi, and does a ford us leave 
 T’ enjoy our loves , Oh let us not rcflgn 
 This long A for favor, nor our felves bereave 
 Of what we wifi' d for , opportunity. 
 
 That may too foon the wings of Love but~flj. 
 
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 For when your Father, as hjs Cuftom is. 
 For pleafure doth purfie the tjmrous Hare, 
 If you'd refort but thither. III not mifs 
 To be in thofe Woods ready for you, where 
 
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 One Song to fatisfie his longing ear ; 
 
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 But ere the Sun through many days had run, 
 Conflantia s charming Beauty had o’rcome 
 Gnifardo’s heart, and (corn’d affection won. 
 
 Her eyes foon conquer’d all they (hone upon, 
 
 Shot through his wounded heart fuch hot defire, 
 As nothing but her love could quench the fire. 
 
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 In Roofs which Gold and Parian Rone adorn 
 (Proud as the owners mind ) he did abound, 
 
 In Fields fo fertile for their yearly Corn, 
 
 As might contend with fcorch’d Calabria’s ground 5 
 But in his Soul that fhould contain the ftore 
 Of fureft riches, he was bafe and poor. 
 
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 Him was Conflantia urg’d continually 
 
 By her friends to love, fometimes they did intreat 
 
 With gentle Speeches, and mild courtefie, 
 
 Which when they feedefpifed by her, they threat. 
 But Love too deep was feated in her heart, 
 
 To be worn out with thought of any finart. 
 
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 Soon did her father to theWoods repair, 
 
 To feek for fport and hunt the Rarted game 5 
 Guifardo and Philocrates were there. 
 
 With many friends too tedious here to name. 
 
 With them Conflantia went, but not to find 
 The Bear or Wolf, but Love all mild and kind. 
 
 80. 
 
 Being entred in the pathlefs Woods, while they 
 Purfue their game, Philetas who was late 
 Hid in a thicket, carries ffraight away 
 His Love, and haftens his own haltyfate, 
 
 That came too foon upon him, and his Sun 
 Was quite Eclips’d before it fully fhone. 
 
 81. 
 
 Conflantia mifs’d, the Hunters in a maze, 
 
 Take each afeveral courfe, and by curft fate 
 Guifardo runs, with a Love-carried pace 
 Towards them, who little knew their woful Rate: 
 Philetus like bold Icarus foaring high 
 To honours, found the depth of Mifery. 
 
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 For when Guifardo fees his Rival there. 
 
 Swelling with envious rage, he comes behind 
 Philetus , who fuch fortune did not fear, 
 
 And with his Sword a way to’s heart does find. 
 
 But ere his fpirits were pofleft of Death, 
 
 In thefe few words he fpent his lateft breath. 
 
 85. 
 
 0 fee Conflantia, my fort race is run, 
 
 See how my blood the thir fly ground doth die , 
 
 But live thou happier than thy Love hath done , 
 
 And when Lm dead y thinks fometime upon me. 
 
 More my fhort time permits me not to tell. 
 
 For now death feizeth me, My dearfareml. 
 
 84. 
 
 Asfoon as he had fpoke thefe words, life fled 
 From his pierc’d body, whilft Conflantia, fhe 
 Kifles his cheeks that lofe their lively red, 
 
 And become pale, and wan, and now each eye 
 
 Which was fo bright, is like, when life was done 
 A Star that’s fain, or an eclipfed Sun. 
 
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 Thither Philccrates was driven by fate, 
 
 And faw his friend lie bleeding on the earth 5 
 Near his pale Corps his weeping Sifter fate, 
 
 Her eyes fhed tears, her heart to fighs gave birth. 
 Philocrates when he faw this did cry. 
 
 Friend TU revenge or bear thee company. 
 
 86 . 
 
 Juft? ove hath fent me to revenge this fate, 
 
 Nay, flay Guifardo , think not Heaven in jeft, 
 
 ’Tis vain to hope flight can fecure thy date 5 
 Then thruft his Sword into the Villains bread. 
 
 Here, faid Philocrates, thy life I fend 
 A Sacrifice, t’ appeafe my flaughter’d friend. 
 
 87. 
 
 But as he fell, take this reward, faid he. 
 
 For thy new vi&ory : with that he flung 
 His darted Rapier at his enemy, 
 
 Which hit his head, aud in his brain-pan hung. 
 
 With that he falls, but lifting up his eyes, 
 Farewel Conflantia, that word faid, he dies. 
 
and THILETVS. 
 
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 What (ball (he do > (he to her brother runs, 
 H;l cold, and lifelels body does embrace 5 
 She calls to him that cannot hear her moans. 
 And with her Kifles warms his clammy face. 
 My dear Philocrates, Jl>e weeping, cryes , 
 Speak^to thy Siftdr, but no voice replies. > 
 
 89. 
 
 Then running to her Love with many a tear. 
 Thus her minds fervent Pafiion (he expred, 
 
 O (lay (bled Soul) (lay but a little here, 
 And take me with you to a lading red. 
 
 Then to Elifiums Manfions both (hall die 
 Be married there, and never more to die; 
 
 90. 
 
 But feeing 'em both dead 5 (he cry’d, Ahme 3 
 Ah my Philetus , for thy fake will I 
 Make up a full and perfed tragedy, 
 
 Since *t was for me (dear Love) that thou didftdyej 
 I’ll follow thee, and not thy lofs deplore, 
 
 Thefe eyes that faw thee kill’d, (hall fee no more. 
 
 91. 
 
 It (hall not fure be (aid that thou didd die. 
 
 And thy Conflantia live when thou wad (lain : 
 
 No, no, dear Soul, I will not day from thee, 
 
 That will refled upon my valued fame. 
 
 Then piercing her fad bread, 1 come , (he cryes ; 
 And death for ever clos'd her Weeping eyes . 
 
 93. 
 
 Her Soul being fled to its eternal red, 
 
 Her Father comes, and feeing this he falls 
 To th’ Earth, with grief too great to be expreft* 
 whofe doleful words my tired Mufe me calls 
 T 3 01 ’pafs, which I mod gladly do, for fear 
 That I (hould toil too much, the Readers ear. 
 
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 Chief School-Mailer of Weftminjler School. 
 
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 M Y childifh Mufe is in her Spring-, and yet 
 Can only [hew Jome budding of her Wit. 
 
 One frown upon her Worf ( learn d Sir~) from you, 
 Like fome unkinder form /loot from your brow, 
 Would turn her Spring to withering Autumns time, 
 And make her Bloffoms per if, ere their Trime. 
 Tut if you [mile , if in your gracious Eye 
 She an aufpicious Alpha can defery: 
 
 How foon will they grow Fruit i How fre(h appear, 
 That had fuch beams their Infancy to chear : 
 
 Which being fprung to ripenejs , expect then 
 The ear lief off' ring of her grateful Ten. 
 
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 W Hen Baby Ions high Walls ere&ed were 
 
 By mighty Ninus Wife 3 two houfes joyn’d. 
 One Thisbe liv’d in, Pyramus the fair 
 In th* other : Earth ne’r boafted fuch a pair. 
 The very fenflels Walls themfelves combin’d. 
 
 And grew in one juft like their Mafters mind. 
 
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 Thisbe all other Women did excel!. 
 
 The Queen of Love, lefs lovely was than (he i 
 And Pyramus more fweec then tongue can tell, 
 Nature grew proud in framing them fo well. 
 But Venus envying they fo fair fhould be> 
 Bids her Son Cupid fhew his cruelty. 
 
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 The all-fubduing God his Bow doth bend, 
 
 Whets and prepares his moft remorfltfs Dart, 
 
 Which he unfeen unto their hearts did fend, 
 
 And fo was Love the caufe of Beauties end. 
 
 But could he fee, he had not wrought their fmart : 
 For pity hire would have o’rcome his heart. 
 
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 Like as a Bird which in a Net is ta’ne, 
 
 By Arugling more entangles in the gin 5 
 So they who in Loves Labyrinth remain, 
 
 With driving never can a freedom gain. 
 
 The way to enter’s broad 3 but being in. 
 
 No art, no labor can an exit win. 
 
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 Thefe Lovers, tho their Parents did reprove 
 Their fires, and watch’d their deed with jealoufie, 
 Tho in thefe Aorms no comfort could remove 
 The various doubts, and fears that cool hot Love : 
 Tho he not hers, nor fhe his face could fee. 
 
 Yet this can not abolifh Loves Decree. 
 
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 For age hadcrackt the Wall which did them part. 
 This the unanimatc couple foon did fpy, 
 
 And here their inward forrows did impart, 
 Unlading the fad burthen of their heart. 
 
 Tho Love be blind, this (hews he can defcry 
 A way to leflen his own mifery. 
 
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 Oft to the friendly Cranny they refort, 
 
 And feed themfelves with the Celeftial Air 
 Of odoriferous breath 5 no other fport 
 They could enjoy, yet think the time but fhort : 
 And Wifh that it again renewed were. 
 
 To fuck each others breath for ever there. 
 
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 Sometimes they did exclaim againft their Fate, 
 And fometimes they accus’d imperial Jove 3 
 Sometimes repent their flames : but all too late 5 
 The Arrow could not be recall’d : their flate 
 W as firft ordain’d by Jupiter above, 
 
 And Cupid had appointed they (hould love. 
 
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 They curd the wall that did their kifles part, 
 
 And to the (tones their mournful words they fent. 
 
 As if they (aw theforrow of their heart, 
 
 And by their tears could underhand their fmart: 
 
 But it was hard, and knew not what they meant* 
 Nor with their hghs (alas) would it relent. 
 
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 This in effeft they faid $ Curs'd Wall , 0 why 
 Wdt thou our Bodies fever, whofe true love 
 Breaks through all thy flint y cruelty : 
 
 For both our Souls jo clofely joyned lie. 
 
 That nought but angry Death can them remove , 
 
 And tho he part them, yet thtyll meet above. 
 
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 Abortive tears from their fair eyes out-flowU, 
 
 And damm’d the lovely fplendor of their fight. 
 
 Which Teem’d like Titan , whild Tome watry Cloud 
 Or fpreads his (ace, and his bright beams dothfhroud. 
 Till Vefper chas’d away the conquered light. 
 
 And forceth them (“tho loth) to bid Goodnight . 
 
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 But ere Aurora Ufher to the Day, 
 
 Began with welcome luftre to appear, 
 
 The Lovers rife, and at that cranny they 
 Thus to each, other, their thoughts open lay. 
 
 With many a fighand many a (peaking tear, 
 
 Whofe grief the pitying Morning blufifd to hear.’ 
 
 Dear Love (faid P/ramus ) how longjhallwc 
 Like fair efl F lowers , not gathered in their prime, 
 Wajl precious Youth , and let advantage flee. 
 
 Till we bewail ( at /afl jour cruelty 
 
 Upon our Jelves , for beauty though it Jhine 
 Like day , will quick})’ find an evening time. 
 
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 Therefore ( fwcet Thisbe) let us meet this night 
 AtNmusTomb, without the City Wall, 
 
 Under the Mulberry-Tree , with Berries white 
 Abounding, there t' enjoy our wijbt delight . 
 
 For mounting Love Jiopt in its courfe, doth fall. 
 And long'd for, yet untafled joy , hflls all. 
 
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 What though our cruel parents angry be ? 
 
 What though our friends (alas) are too unkind? 
 Time that now offers quickly may deny, 
 
 And loon hold back fit opportunity. 
 
 Who lets flip Fortune , her (hall never finch 
 Occafion once pajl by, is balcl behind. 
 
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 She foon agreed to that which he requir’d, 
 
 For little wooing needs , where both confent 3 
 What he fo long had pleaded, (lie defir’d • 
 
 Which Venus feeing, with blind Chance confpir’d, 
 And many a charming accent to her fenr, 
 
 That fhe (at laftj would fruftrate their intent. 
 
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 Thus Beauty is by Beauties means undone, 
 
 Striving to clofe thofe eyes that make her bright 5 
 Juft like the Moon, which fecks t’eclipfe the Sun, 
 Whence all her fplendor, all her beams do come 2 
 So fhe, who fetcheth luftre from their fight. 
 Doth purpofe to deftroy their glorious light. 
 
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 Unto the Mulberry-tree fair Thisbee ame 3 
 Where having refted long, at laft fhe ’gan 
 Againft her JP iramus for to exclaim, 
 
 Whilft various thoughts turmoil her troubled brain: 
 And imitating thus the Silver Swan, 
 
 A little while before her Death fie fang. 
 
 The Song, 
 
 C Om Love , why fiayeflthon .<? The night 
 Will vanifi ere we tajl delight : 
 
 7 he Moon obfeures her f elf from fight , 
 
 Thou abfnt , whofe eyes give her light . 
 
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 Conte quick}y , Dear, be brief as Time ? 
 Or ire by Morn fhall be o'rtane. 
 
 Loves "joy s thine own , as well as minc 9 
 Spend not therefore the time in vain. 
 
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 Here doubtful thoughts broke off heir pleafant Song, 
 And for her Lovers flay lent many a (igh. 
 
 Her Pirannis file thought did tarry long. 
 
 And that his abfencedid her too mucih wron^. 
 
 Then betwixt longing hope, and jealoulie, 
 
 She fear?, yet’s loth, to tax hi's Loyalty. 
 
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 Sometimes (he thinks, that he hath her forfaken 5 
 Sometimes, that danger hath befallen him; 
 
 She fears that he another Love hath taken j 
 
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 Which being but imagin’d foon doth waken 
 
 Numberlefs thoughts, which on her heart did fling 
 Fears, that her future fate too truly fing. 
 
 
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 While (he thus muftng fate, ran from the Wood 
 
 An angry Lion to the cryftal Springs 
 
 Near to that place 5 who coming fiom his food, 
 
 His chaps were all befmear’d with crimfon blood : 
 Swifter than thought, fweet Thisbe ftraight begins 
 To fly from him, fear gave her Swallows Wings. 
 
 As (he avoids the Lion, her defire 
 Bids her to flay, left Piramis fhould come. 
 
 And be devour’d by the ftern Lions ire. 
 
 So (he for ever burn inunquencht fire : 
 
 But fear expells all reafons, (lie doth run 
 Into a darkfom cave, rie’r leen by Sun. 
 
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 With haft fhe let her loofer Mantle fall : 
 
 Which when th’ enraged Lion did efpy, 
 
 With bloody teeth he tore in pieces (mail, 
 While Thisbe ran and lookt not back at all. 
 
 For could the fenflefs Beaft her face defery* 
 It had not done her fuch an injury. 
 
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 The night half wafted, Piramus did come , 
 Who feeing printed in the yielding fand 
 The Lion’s paw, and by the Fountain fome 
 • Of Thisbes garme-nt, forrovv ftruck him dumb 'i 
 Juft like a Marble Statue did he ftand, 
 
 Cut by fome skilful Gravers artful hand. 
 
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 Recovering breath, at Fate he did exclaim, 
 Walhing with tears the torn and bloody weed : 
 
 I may, laid he, my felf for her death blame , 
 Therefore my blood fhall wafli away that lhame : 
 Since Jhe is dead ivhofe Beauty doth exceed 
 All that frail man can either hear or read. 
 
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 Thisfpoke, he drew his fatal Sword, andfaidj 
 Receive my Crimfon Blood , as a due debt 
 "Unto thy Confiant Love to which tis paid: 
 Ijiraight will meet thee in the pleafaut (hade 
 Of cool Ely hum 5 where we being met. 
 
 Shall tajle thofe Joys , that here we could not get. 
 
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 Then through his Breft thrufting his Sword, Life hies 
 From him, and he makes hafte to feek his fair. 
 
 And as upon the colour’d ground he lies, 
 
 His blood had dropt upon the Mulberries : 
 
 With which th’ unfpotted Berries ftained were, 
 And ever fince with red they colour’d arc. 
 
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 At laft fair Thisbe left the Deri, for fear 
 
 Of dilappointing Piramus , fince (lie 
 
 Was bound by promife, for to meet him there : 
 
 But when (lie law the Berries changed were 
 From white to black, (he knew not certainly 
 It was the place where they agreed to be. 
 
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 With what delight through the dark Cave fhecame. 
 Thinking to tell how (he elcap’d the Beaft } 
 
 But when fhe law her Piramus lie [lain, 
 
 Ah ! how perplext did her fad Soul remain : 
 
 She tears her Golden Hair, and beats her Breaft, 
 And every fign of raging grief exp reft. 
 
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 She blames all-powerful Jove , and ftrives to take 
 His bleeding body from themoiftned ground. 
 
 She Kifles his pale face till fhe doth make 
 lr red with killing and then feeks to wake 
 
 His parting Soul with mournful words, his wound 
 Walhes with tears, that her fweet fpeech confound. 
 

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 But afterwards recovering breath, faid fhe, 
 
 ( Alas ) rrh.it chance hath parted thee andl } 
 
 0 tell what evil hath bcfal'n to thee , 
 
 That of thy Death I may a partner he : 
 
 Tell Thisbe , what hath caus’d this Tragedy. 
 
 He hearing Thisbes name, lifts up his eye. 
 
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 And on his love he rais’d his dying head : 
 
 Where ftriving long for breath, at lafl, (aid he $ 
 
 0 Thisbe, lam hafling to the dead , 
 
 And cannot heal that wound my fear hath bred : 
 Fareivel , fweet Thisbe, we mufl parted be , 
 
 For angry Death Kill force me foonfrom Thee . 
 
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 Life did from him, he from his Miftris part, 
 Leaving his Love to languifh here in woe. 
 
 What (hall fhe do ? How (hall fhe ceafe her heart } 
 Or with what language fpeak her inward fmart } 
 llfurping paflion reafon doth o’lflow, 
 
 She vows that with her Piramus fhe’ll go. 
 
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 Then takes the Sword wherewith her Love was (lain. 
 With Piramus his crimfon Blood warm ftill 5 
 And faid, 0 flay ( bleflt Soul ) a while refrain , 
 
 That we may go together , and remain 
 
 In endlefsjoys^ and never fear the ill 
 
 Of grudging Friends. Then fhe her felf did kill; 
 
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 To tell what grief their Parents did fuflain. 
 
 Were more than my rude Quill can overcome, 
 
 Much did they weep and grieve, but all in vain, 
 
 For weepingcalls not bacl^ the Dead again . 
 
 Both in one Grave were laid, when Life was done : 
 And thefe few words were writ upon the Tomb. 
 
T I R A MV S, &c. 
 
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 U Nderneath this Marble Stone , 
 
 Lie two Beauties jojnd in one. 
 
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 ’Two whofe Loves Death could not fever. 
 For both liv’d, both did together. 
 
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 Two whofe Souls , being too divine 
 For Earth, in their own Sphere now fiine. 
 
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 Who have left their Loves to Fame, 
 
 And their Earth to Earth again. 
 
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 The Death of the Right Honourable Dud- 
 ley Lord Carlcton, Vifcount Dorchefter* 
 late Principal Secretary of State. 
 
 T H E Infernal Sillers did a Council call 
 
 Of all the Fiends, to the blacky Stygian Hall j 
 The dire Tartarean Monjlers , hating lights 
 Begot by difenal Erebus, and Night } 
 
 Whcree'r difpers'd abroad, . hearing the Fame 
 Of their accurfed meeting , thither came. 
 
 Revenge, whofc greedy mind no Blood can fill , 
 
 And Envy, never fat is fill with ill. 
 
 Thither blind Boldnefs, and impatient Rage, 
 
 Rejorted, with Deaths neighbour , envious Age : 
 
 Thefeto opprcfs the Earth , the Furies fent. 
 
 The Council thus dijfolvd , an angry F caver, 
 
 Whoje quenchlefs thirfi, by Blood was fated never : 
 
 Envying the Riches , Honour, Qreatnefs , Love , 
 
 And Vertue ( Load-ftone , that all theje did move _) 
 
 Of Noble CAR.ELTON 5 him fi.'e tool^away. 
 
 And like a greedy Vulture feizd her Prey : 
 
 Veep with me each who either reads or hears , 
 
 And kyiow his lofs deferves his Countries Tears : 
 
 The Mules lojl a Patron by his Fate , 
 
 Vertue a Husband , and a Prop the State , 
 
 Sol’s Chorus weeps , and to adorn his Herfe 
 Calliope would fing a Tragick Verfe . 
 
 And had there been before no Spring of theirs 7 
 They would have made a Hellicon with tears , 
 
 A e r. Cowley. 
 
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 ELEGY 
 
 O N 
 
 The Death of my loving Friend and Cou- 
 fm, Mr. T^charct Clarke , late of Lincolns 'Inn, 
 Gent. 
 
 I T was decreed, by [ledfaft Dflliny, 
 
 ( The World from Chaos turn'd') that all (hould die. 
 
 He who dnrjl fear lefs pdfs black, Acheron 
 And dangers of the In fernal Region , 
 
 Leading Hells tripple Porter captivate , 
 
 I V as overcome himfelf by Conquering Fate . 
 
 The Rqman Tully’s pleafing Eloquence, 
 
 Which in the Ears did lockup every Sencc 
 Of the rapt hearer 5 his mellifluous breath 
 Could not at all charm unremerflefs Death, 
 
 Nor Solon, fo by Greece admir'd , could fave 
 Himfelf with all his Wifdom , from the Grave. 
 
 Stern Fate brought Maro to his Funeral Flame , 
 
 And would have ended in that fire his Fame 5 
 Burning thofe lofty Lines which now Jhall be 
 Limes Con querers, and out lajl Eternity. 
 
 Even fo lovd Clark from Death no fcape could find, 
 
 Tho arm'd with great Alcides valiant mind. 
 
 He was adorn'd in years though far more young. 
 
 With learned Cicero’/, or a fweeter Tongue. 
 
 And could dead Virgil hear his lofty ft rain. 
 
 He would condemn his own to fire again. 
 
 His Touth a Solon’/ Wifdom did prefage , 
 
 Had Envious Time but given him Solo ns age, 
 
 Who would not therefore now , if Learnings friend , 
 
 Bewail his fatal and untimely end ? 
 
 Who hath jucb hard , fuch unrelenting Eyes , 
 
 As not to weep when Jo much Vertue dies .<? 
 
 The God of Poets doth in darknefs Jhrowd 
 His glorious face, and weeps behind a Cloud. 
 
 The doleful Mules thinking now to write 
 Sad Elegies, their tears confound their fight : 
 
 But him to Ely hums lafling foys they bring , 
 
 Where winged Angels his fad Requiems fling. A. C. 
 
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 A ‘Dream of Elyfium. 
 
 P Hcebus expell’d by the approaching Night 
 
 Blufh’d, and for fhame clos’d in his bafhful light. 
 
 While I with leaden Morpheus overcome, 
 
 The Mufe whom I adore, enter’d the Room: 
 
 Her Hair with loofer curiofity, 
 
 Did on her comely back difhevel’d lie : 
 
 Her eyes with fuch attractive beauty fhone ? 
 
 As might have wak’d (leeping Endymion. 
 
 She bid me rife, and promis’d I fhould fee 
 Thofe Fields, thofe Man (ions of Felicity, 
 
 We Mortals fo admire at : Speaking thus. 
 
 She lifts me up upon wing’d Pegafus , 
 
 On whom I rid 5 knowing where ever (lie 
 Did go, that place muft needs a Tempe be. 
 
 No fooner was my flying Courfer come 
 To the beft dwellings of Elyfium: 
 
 When 
 
A T)ream of Elyfium. 
 
 When ftraighta thoufand unknown joys refort, 
 
 And hemm’d me round : Chad loves innocuous fport. 
 A thoufand Sweets, bought with no following Call, 
 joys, not like ours, fhort, but perpetual. 
 
 How many objects charm my Wandering eye, 
 
 And bid my Soul graze there eternally ? 
 
 Here in full (dreams, Bacchus thy Liquor flows. 
 
 Nor knows to ebb : here Joves broad Tree bellows 
 
 Diddling Honey, here doth Ne&ar pafs 
 
 With copious current through the verdant Grafs. 
 
 Here Hyacinth his fate writ in his looks. 
 
 And thou Narcijfus loving dill the Brooks, 
 
 Once lovely boys ? and Acts now a Flower, 
 
 Are nourifh'd, with that rarer herb, whofe power 
 Created thee. Wars potent God, here grows 
 The fpotlefs Lilly, and the blufhing Role. 
 
 And all thofe divers ornaments abound. 
 
 That varioufly may paint the gawdy ground. 
 
 .No Willow, Sorrows Garland, there hath room, 
 
 Nor Cyprefs, fad attendant of a Tomb. 
 
 None but Apollo's Tree, and th ? Ivy Twine 
 Embracing the ftout Oak, the fruitful Vine, 
 
 And Trees wirh golden Apples loaded down. 
 
 On whofe fair tops fweet Philomel alone. 
 
 Unmindful of her former mifery. 
 
 Tunes with her voice a ravifhing Harmony, 
 
 Whilft all the murmuring Brooks that glide along. 
 Make up a burthen to her pleating Song. 
 
 No Scritch Orx>l y fad companion of the Night, 
 
 No hideous Raven with prodigious flight 
 Prefaging future 111. Nor, Progne, thee 
 Yet ("potted with young /t/.f Tragedy, 
 
 Thole Sacred Bowers receive. T here's nothing there. 
 That is not pure, ail innocent, and rare. 
 
 Turning my greedy light another way. 
 
 Under a row of ftorm-contemning Bay, 
 
 I faw the Thracian Singer with his lyre 
 Teach the deaf (tones to hear him, and admire. 
 
 Him the whole Poets Chorus compafs'd round. 
 
 All whom the Oak, all whom the Lawrel crown'd. 
 There, banifh’d Ovid had a lading home. 
 
 Better than thou could’ft give ungrateful Rom $ 
 
 And Lucan (fpight of Nero') in each vein 
 Had every drop of his fpilt Blood again : 
 
 Homer , Sol's ( irft-born, was not poor or blind, 
 
 But faw as well in Body as in mind. 
 
 Tully, grave Cato, Solon , and the reft 
 O {Greece s admir’d Wife-men, here pofteft 
 A large reward for their paft deeds, and gain 
 A life, aseverlaftingas their Fame. 
 
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 By thefe the valiant Heroes take their place, 
 
 All who ftern Death and perils did embrace 
 For Vertues caufe ; great Alexander there 
 Laughs at rhe Earths fmall Empire, and did wear 
 A nobler Crown, than the whole World could give. 
 
 There did Horatius, Codes , Sceval ive, 
 
 And valiant Decius , who now freely ceafe 
 From War, and purchafe an Eternal Peace. 
 
 Next them beneath a Myrtle Bower, where Doves, 
 
 And gall-lels Pigeons build their nefts, all Loves 
 True faithful Servants with an amorous kifs, 
 
 And foft embrace, enjoy their greedieft wifli. 
 
 Leander with his beauteous Heroe plays, 
 
 Nor are they parted with dividing Seas. 
 
 Porcia enjoys her Brutus , Death no more 
 Can now divorce their Wedding, as before; 
 
 Thisbe her Piranzus kifs’d, his Thisbe he 
 Embrac’d, each blefs’d with t’others company. 
 
 And every couple always dancing, flng 
 Eternal pleafures to Elyfiums King. 
 
 But fee how foon thefe pleafures fade away. 
 
 How near to evening is delights fhort day ? 
 
 The watching Bird, true Nuncius of the Light, 
 
 Straight crowd : and all thefe vanifht from my fight. 
 
 My very Mufe her felfforfook me too. 
 
 Me grief and wonder wak’d : What fhould I do > 
 
 Oh ! let me follow thee f laid \) and go 
 From life, that I may dream for everfo. 
 
 With that my flying Mufe f thought to clafp 
 Within my arms, but did a fhadow grafp. 
 
 Thus chieftfi joys glide with the fwiftefi flreanz. 
 
 And all our greatejl pleafure's but a Dream. 
 
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 On His Majejlies return out of Scotland, 
 
 G Reat Charles : there (lop you Trumpeters of Fame, 
 (For he who fpeaks his Titles, his great Name 
 Muft have a breathing time) Our King : ftay there^ 
 Speak by degrees, let the inquifitive ear 
 Be held in doubt, and ere you fay, Is come. 
 
 Let every heart prepare a fpatious Room 
 For ample joys : then lo fing as loud 
 As thunder fliot from the divided cloud* 
 
Let Cygms pluck from the Arabian waves 
 The ruby of the Rock, the Pearl that paves 
 Great Nepiuncs Court, let every Sparrow bear 
 From the three Sifters weeping bark a tear. 
 
 Let fpotted Lynces their (harp tallons fill 
 WithCrydal fetch’d from the Promethean hill. 
 
 Let Cytherea s Birds frefh wreaths compofe. 
 Knitting the pale-fac’d Lilly with the Rofe. 
 
 Let the felf-gotten Phoenix rob his ned, 
 
 Spoil his own Funeral pile, and all his bed 
 of Myrrhe, of Frankincenfe, of CaJJia bring. 
 
 To drew the way for our returned King. 
 
 Let every pod a Panegyric k wear, 
 
 Each wall, each Pillar gratulations bear : 
 
 And yet let no man invocate a Mufe 5 
 The very matter will it felf infufe 
 A facred fury. Let the merry Bells 
 ( For unknown joys work unknown miracles ) 
 Ring without help of Sexton , and prefage 
 A new-made holy-day for future age. 
 
 And if the Ancients us’d to dedicate 
 A golden Temple to propitious fate. 
 
 At the return of any Noble-men, 
 
 Of Heroes, or of Emperors, we mud then 
 Raife up a double Trophee , for their fame 
 Was but the fhadow of our CHARLES his name. 
 Who is there where all Vertues mingled flow } 
 Where no defedts or imperfections grow ? 
 
 Whofe head is always crown’d with Vidtory, 
 Snatch’d from Bellona s hand 5 him luxury 
 In Peace debilitates, whofe tongue can win 
 TuUy s own Garland, pride to him creeps in,. 
 
 On whom ( like Atlas fhoulders) the propt date 
 (Ashe were Primum Mobile of fatej 
 Solely relies } him blind ambition moves. 
 
 His Tyranny the bridled fubjedt proves. 
 
 But all thofe vertues which they all polled 
 Divided, are colledkd in thy bred, 
 
 Great Charles ! Let Oefar'bio ad Par [alias fight, 
 Honorius praife the Parthians unfeigned flight. 
 Let Alexander call himfelf Joves Peer, 
 
 And place his Image near the Thunderer, 
 
 Yet while our Charles with equal balance reigns 
 Twixt Mercy and AJirea, and maintains 
 A noble Peace, ’tishe, 5 tis onjy he 
 Who is mod near, mod hk^ the Deity. 
 
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 A S o n g on the fame. 
 
 H Ence clouded looks, hence briny tears , 
 Hence eye , that jorrows livery wears. 
 What tho a while Apollo pleafe 
 Tovifit the Antipodes ? 
 
 Yet he returns, and with his light 
 Expels what he bath caus'd, the night. 
 
 What tho the Spring vanifh away. 
 
 And with it the Earths Form decay 2 
 Yet his new birth will foon re flore 
 What its departure took before . 
 
 What tho we miff'd our abfent King 
 A while f Great Charles is come agen. 
 
 And, with his prefence makgs us know 
 The gratitude to Heaven we owe . 
 
 So doth a cruel form impart 
 And teach us Palinurus Art. 
 
 So from fait floods, wept by our eyes y 
 A joyful Venus doth arife. 
 
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 L Eft the misjudging World (hould chance to lay, 
 I durft fiot but in Secret murmurs pray. 
 
 To whifper in Joves ear. 
 
 How much I wilh that Funeral, 
 
 Or gape at luch a great ones fall. 
 
 This let all Ages hear, 
 
 And future times in my Soul picture fee * 
 
 What I abhor, what I delire to be* 
 
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 I would not be a Puritan, tho he 
 Can Preach two hours, and yet his Sermon be 
 But half a quarter long, 
 
 Tho from his old mechanick trade 
 By Villon he’s a Paltor made, 
 
 His Faith was grown fo ftrong. 
 
 Nay tho he think to gain falvation, 
 
 By calling th’ Pope the Whore of Babylon. 
 
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 I would not be a School-mader, tho he 
 His Rods no Id’s than Fa fees deems to be, 
 Tho he in many a place, 
 
 Turns Lilly oftner than his gowns. 
 
 Till at the lad he make the Nowns 
 
 Fight with the Verbs apace. 
 
 Nay tho he can in a Poetick heat, 
 
 Figures, born (ince, out of poor Virgil beat. 
 
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 I would not be Judice of Peace, tho he 
 Can with equality divide the Fee, 
 
 And (lakes with his Clerk draw ; 
 
 Nay tho he (it upon the place 
 Of Judgment with a learned face 
 Intricate as the Law. 
 
 And whilft he mulcts enormities demurely, 
 
 Breaks Prifcians head with fentences fecurely. 
 
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 I would not be a Courtier, tho he 
 Makes his whole life the trued Comedy t 
 Althohe be a man 
 
 In whom the Taylors forming Art, 
 
 And nimble Barber claim more part 
 Than Nature her felf can. 
 
 Tho, as he ufes men, ’tis his intent 
 
 To put off death too, with a Complement. 
 
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 From Lawyers tongues, tho they can fpin with eafe 
 The (horted caufe into a Paraphrafe, 
 
 From Ufiirers Confcience 
 (For fwallowing up young Heirs (o fad 
 Without all doubt they’ll choak’t at lad ) 
 
 Make me all Innocence. 
 
 Good Heaven, and from thy eyes, O Judice keep* 
 For tho they be not blind they’re oft alleep. 
 
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 From Singing-mens Religion, who are 
 Always at Church jud like the Crows, ’caufe there 
 They build themfelves a ned. 
 
 From too much Poetry, which (bines 
 With Gold in nothing but its lines, 
 
 Free, O you Powers, my bred. 
 
 And from Adronomy within the Skies 
 Finds Fi(b, and Bulls, yet doth but Tantalize. 
 
 
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 From your Court-Madams Beauty, whicK doth carry 
 At morning May, at night a January. 
 
 From the grave City brow 
 (For though it want an R, it has 
 The Letter of Pythagoras') 
 
 Keep me O Fortune now, 
 
 And Chines of Beef innumerable fend me, 
 
 Or from the ftomach of the Guard defend me. 
 
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 This only grant me : that my means may lie 
 Too low for envy, for contempt too high. 
 
 Some honour I would have, 
 
 Not from great deeds, but good alone, 
 
 Th’ unknowers are better than ill known} 
 
 Rumor can ope the Grave. 
 Acquaintance I would have, but when’t depends 
 Not from the Number, but the choice of friends. 
 
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 Books fhould, not bufinefs, entertain the light, 
 And fleep, as undifturb’d as death, the night. 
 
 My houfe a Cottage more 
 Than Palace, and fhould fitting be 
 For all my ufe, no luxury : 
 
 My Garden painted o’er, 
 
 With Natures hand, not arts, that pleafures yield, 
 Horace might envy in his Sabine field. 
 
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 Thus would I double my iifes fading fpace. 
 
 For he that runs it well, ’twice runs his race. 
 
 And in this true delight, 
 
 Thefe unbought fports, and happy date, 
 
 I would not fear, nor wilh my fate, 
 
 But boldly fay each night, 
 
 To morrow let my Sun his beams difplay. 
 
 Or in Clouds hide them 3 1 have liv'd to day. 
 
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 A Toetical Reyenye. 
 
 'I 7| T Eft minftcr- Hull a friend and I agreed 
 V V To meet in 3 he (fome bufinefs ’twas did breed 
 Hisabfence) came not there 5 I up did go 
 To the next Court, for tho I could not know 
 Much what they meant, yet I might fee and hear 
 ( As moft Spe£tators do at Theatre J 
 Things very ftrange ; Fortune did feem to grace 
 My coming there, and helpt me to a place. 
 
 But being newly fetled at the (port, 
 
 A femi-gentleman of th’ Inns of Court, 
 
 In a Satin Suit, redeem’d but yefterday 5 
 One who is ravifh’d with a Cock-pit Play, 
 
 Who prays God to deliver him from no evil 
 Befides a Taylors Bill 3 and fears no Devil 
 Belides a Sergeant, thruft me from my feat : 
 
 At which I ’gan to quarrel, till a neat 
 Man in a Ruff (whom therefore I did take 
 For BarrefterJ open’d his mouth and fpake. 
 
 Boy, get you gone, this is no School : Oh 005 
 For if it were, ail you Gown’d. men would go 
 Up for falfe Latin: they grew ftraight to be 
 Incens’d, I fear’d they would have brought on me 
 An Action ofTrefpafs, till th 5 young man 
 Aforefaid, in the Satin Suit, began 
 To ftrike me : doubtlefs there had been a fray, 
 
 Had not I providently skipp’d away. 
 
 Without replying 3 for to fcold is ill. 
 
 Where every tongue’s the Clapper of a Mill, 
 
 And can out-found Homers Gradivus 5 fo 
 Away got 1 3 but ere I far did go, 
 
 1 flung (the Darts of wounding Poetry ) 
 
 Thefe two or three fharp curfes back: May he 
 Be by his Father in his Study took 
 At Shakefpears Plays, inftead of my Lord Coke, 
 
 May he (though all his writings grow as foon 
 As Butters out of eftimatioq) 
 
 Get him a Poets name, and fo ne’er come 
 Into a Serjeants, or dead Judges room. 
 
 May he become fome poor Phyficiansprey, 
 
 Who keeps men in that Confcience in delay 
 As he his Client doth, till his health be 
 As far fetcht as a Greek Nouns pedigree. 
 
 Nay, for all that, may the Difcafe be gone 
 Never but in the long Vacation. 
 
 May Neighbours ufe all Quarrels to decide 5 
 But if for Law any to London ride. 
 
 
 
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 Of all thofe Clients not one be his, 
 
 Unlefshe come in Forma Pauperis. 
 
 Grant this ye gods that favor Poetry, 
 
 That all thefe never- ceafing tongues may be 
 Brought into reformation, and not dare 
 To quarrel with a thread-bare Black 3 butfpare 
 Them w 7 ho bare Scholars names, left fome one take 
 Spleen, and another Ignoramus make. 
 
 To the Tut chefs of Buckingham, 
 
 I F I ftiould fay, that in your face were feen 
 
 Natures beft Picture of the Cyprian Queen 5 
 If I fhould fwear under Minerva's Name, 
 
 Poets (who Prophets are) foretold your fame. 
 
 The future age would think it flattery, 
 
 But to the prefent which can witnefs be, 
 
 'T would feem beneath your high deferts as far, 
 
 As you above the reft of Women are. 
 
 When Mannors name with Villiers joyn’d I fee 5 
 How do I reverence your Nobility ! 
 
 But when the vertues of your Stock I view, 
 fEnvy’d in your dead Lord, admir’d in yob) 
 
 I half adore them: for what Woman can 
 Befides your felf (nay I might fay what man) 
 
 But Sex, and Birth, and Fate, and Years excel 
 In Mind, in Fame, in Worth, in living well > 
 
 Oh, how had this begot Idolatry, 
 
 If you had liv’d in the Worlds infancy, ♦ 
 
 When mans too much Religion, made the beft 
 Or Deities, cr Semi- gods at lead ? 
 
 But we, forbidden this by piety. 
 
 Or, if we were not, by your modefty. 
 
 Will make our hearts an Altar, and there pray 
 Not to, but for you, nor that England may * 
 
 Enjoy your equal, when you once are gone, 
 
 But what’s more poffible to enjoy you long. 
 
 To his very much honoured Godfather , Mr. A. B 
 
 1 Love (for that upon the wings of Fame 
 
 Shall perhaps mock Death or times Darts) my Name : 
 
 I love it more becaufe’twas given by you 3 
 I love it mod: 3 becaufe ’twas your name too. 
 
 For if I chance to flip, a confciousfhame 
 Plucks me 3 and bids me not defile your name. 
 
I’m glad that City t’whom I ow’d before, 
 
 (But ah me ! Fate hath croft that willing Score) 
 
 A Father, gave me a Godfather too, 
 
 And I’m more glad, becaufe it gave me you 5 
 Whom I may rightly think, and term to be 
 Of the whole City an Epitome. 
 
 I thank my careful Fate, which found out one 
 (When Nature had not licenced my tongue 
 Farther thancriesj who fhould my office do, 
 
 I thank her more, becaufe (he found out you, 
 
 In whofe each look, I may a fentence fee 5 
 In whole each deed, a teaching Homily. 
 
 How (hall I pay this Debt to you > My Fate 
 Denies me Indian Pearl or Pcrjian Plate. 
 
 Which tho it did not, to requite you thus, 
 
 Were to fend Apples to Alcinous , 
 
 And fell thecunningft way : No, when I can 
 In every Leaf, in every Verfe write Man, 
 
 When my Quill relifheth a School no more. 
 When my pen-feathefd Mute hath learnt to foar. 
 And gotten wings as well as feet 5 look then 
 For equal thanks from my unwearied Pen: 
 
 Till future Ages fay ; ’twas you did give 
 A name to me, and I made yours to live. 
 
 An Elegy on the Death of fohn Littleton, 
 Efquire, Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Little- 
 ton, who was drowned leaping into the 
 Water to fave his y ounger Brother. 
 
 A N D mufi thefe Waters fmilc again $ and play 
 About the Shoar , as they did yejter day .<? 
 
 Will the Sun court them (l ill? and fhall they JJwvo 
 No conscious wr in kje furrow’d on their brow, 
 
 That to the thirfiy Traveller may fay, 
 
 I am accurfi , go turn feme other way £ 
 
 It is unjuft \ black pood, thy guilt is more , 
 
 Sprung from his lojs , than all thy watry fore 
 Can give thee tears to mourn for : Birds jhall be 
 And Beafts henceforth afraid to drinhjvith thee . 
 
 What have I Jaid ! my pious rage hath been 
 Too hot , and atfs whilft it accufeth (in. 
 
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 Thoiirt innocent 1 know, flill clear , and bright, 
 
 Fit whence jo pure a Soul flwuld take its flight. 
 
 How is angry zeal con find ! for he 
 Mufl quarrel with his Love and Piety , 
 
 That would revenge his death. Oh l [hall (in 
 And wifls anon he had lefs vertuons been . 
 for when his Brother ( tears for bins Ld fpill , 
 
 But they re all challenged by the greater ill) 
 
 Strugled for life with the rude waves, he too 
 Leapt in, and when hope no faint beam could JJjow 
 H is Charity (l one mod j thou J halt , fiid he , 
 
 Live with me , Brother , or Til die with thee 5 
 And fo he did : Had he been thine , 0 Rome, 
 
 Thou wouldfl have call’d his Death a Martyrdom 3 
 And Sainted him } my confidence give me leave , 
 
 Til do Jo to : if fate will us bereave 
 Of him we honour d living , there mufl be 
 A kind of Reverence to his memory , 
 
 After his death : and where more jufl than here , 
 Where life and end were both fo ftngular ? 
 
 He that had only talked with him , might find 
 A little Academy in his mind • 
 
 Where Wifdom, Maftcr was, awdFcdlows all 
 Which we can good , which we can vertuons call. 
 Reafon, and Holy Fear the Proctors were. 
 
 To apprehend thofe words , thofc thoughts that err „ 
 His learning had outrun the re [l of Heirs, 
 
 Stoln beard from time , and leapt to twenty years. 
 And as the Sun, though in full glory bright. 
 
 Shines upon all men with impartial light , 
 
 And a good morrow to the Beggar brings 
 With as full Rays as to the mightiefi Kings : 
 
 So he, although his worth jufl flate might claim , 
 And give to pride an honourable name , 
 
 With court efie to all, cloath'd vertuefo. 
 
 That ’twas not higher than his thoughts were low . 
 Ins Body too, no Critique eye could find 
 The j'mallefl blemifi) 5 to belie his mind 5 
 He was all purenefs, and his outward part 
 But reprefents the piUure of his heart. 
 
 When Waters f wallowed Mankind, and did cheat 
 The hungry Worm of its expelled meat j 
 When gems, pluckt from the fljoar by ruder hands , 
 Return’d again unto their native fands, 
 
 ’Mongfl all thofe fpoils , there was not any prey, 
 Could equal what this Brook hath floln away. 
 
 Weep then fad Flood ; and tho thourt innocent , 
 Weep becaufe Fate made thee her infir ument : 
 
 And when long grief hath drunfup all thy flore^ 
 Come to our eyes , and we will end thee more. 
 
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 A Tranflation of Verfes upon the Dleffed Virgin, 
 
 ' v ]Vi ritten in Latin by the 'Right JVor fhipful Dr. A. 
 
 ■ Ave Maria. 
 
 O Nce thou rejoycedft, and rejoyce for ever, 
 
 Whofe time of joy ftiall be expired never : 
 
 Who in her Womb the Hive of Comfort bears. 
 
 Let her drink Comforts Homy with her ears. 
 
 You brought the word of Joy in, which wasborft 
 An Hail to all, let us An Hail return. 
 
 From you God fave into the World there came $ 
 
 Our Eccho Hail is but an empty name. 
 
 Gratia plena. 
 
 How loaded Hives are with their Honey fill’d, 
 
 From divers Flowers by Chimic\ Bees diftill’d : 
 
 How full the Collet with his Jewel is, 
 
 Which, that it cannot take, by love dothkifs : 
 
 How full the Moon is with her Brothers Ray, 
 
 When (he drinks up with thirfty orb the day, 
 
 How full of Grace the Graces dances are, 
 
 So full doth Mary of Gods light appear. 
 
 It is no wonder if with Graces (he 
 Be full, who was full with the Deity. 
 
 Dominus tecum. 
 
 The fall of Mankind under Deaths extent 
 The Choir of bleffed Angels did Jamerft, 
 
 And wi(h’d a reparation to fee 
 
 By him, who Man-hood joynd with Deity. 
 
 How grateful fhould mans fafety then appear 
 T’himfeJf, whofe fafety can the Angels chear > 
 
 Benedici a tu in mulieribus. 
 
 Death came, and Troops of fid Dijeafes led 
 To th’ earth, by Womans Hand folicited : 
 
 Life came (o too, and Troops of Graces led 
 To th’ earth by Womans Faith folicited. 
 
 As our lifes (pring came from thy blefled Womb, 
 
 So from our Mouths fprings of thy praife (hall corner 
 Who did lifes blefiing give, kis fit that (he 
 Above all Women fhould thrice bleffed be. 
 
 Et Benedict us fruBus ventris tni. 
 
 With Mouth Divine the Father doth proteft, 
 
 He a good word fent from his flored breft ; 
 
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 ’TwasChnJl .* which Mary without carnal thought 
 From the unfathom’d depth of goodnefs brought, 
 The word of bleflinga juft caufe affords, 
 
 To be oft bltfled with redoubled words. 
 
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 Spiritus Sanctus Jit perveniet in te. 
 
 As when foft Welt Winds ftrook the Garden Rofe, 
 A ftiowerof fweeter Air falutes theNofe, 
 
 The breath gives fparing kiftes, nor with power 
 Unlocks the Virgin bofomof the Flower. 
 
 So th’ Holj Spirit upon Mary blow’d, 
 
 And from her (acred Box whole Rivers flow’d. 
 
 Yet loos’d not thine Eternal Chaftity, 
 
 Thy Roles folds do ftill entangled lie. 
 
 Believe Ckrift born from an unbruiled Womb, 
 
 So from unbruifed Bark the Odors come. 
 
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 Et virtus altijfimi obumbrabit tibi. 
 God his great Son begot ere time begun, 
 
 Mary in time brought forth her little Son. 
 
 Of double Subftance, One, Life he began, 
 
 God without Mother , without Father Man . 
 
 Great is the Birth, and ’tis a ftranger deed. 
 
 That She no Man , that God no Wife fhould need. 
 A Shade delighted the Child bearing Maid, 
 
 And God himlelf became to her a Shade. 
 
 O ftrange delcent ! who is lights Author, he 
 Will to his creature thus a (hadow be. 
 
 As unfeen Light did from the Father flow. 
 
 So did feen Light from Virgin Mary grow. 
 
 When Mofes fought God in a (hade to fee, 
 
 The Fathers lhade, was Chriji the Deity. 
 
 Let’s feek for day, we darknefs, whilft our fight 
 In light finds darknefs, and in darknefs light. 
 
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 ^“T^IS not a Pyramide of Marble ftone, 
 
 1 Though high as our ambition $ 
 
 Tis not a Tomb cutout in brafs, which can 
 Give Life to th’ afhes of a man. 
 
 But verfes only 5 they (hall frelh appear, 
 
 Whilft there are men to read, or hear, 
 
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 When Time (hall make the lading Brafs decay. 
 
 And eat the Pyramide away, 
 
 Turning that Monument wherein men truft 
 
 Their names, to what it keeps, poor dud: 
 Then (hall the Epitaph remain, and be 
 New graven in Eternity, 
 
 Poets by Death are conquered, but the wit 
 Of Poets triumph over it. 
 
 What cannot Verfe ? When Thracian Orpheus took 
 His Lyre, and gently on it ftrook, 
 
 The learned doncs came dancing all along, 
 
 And kept time to the charming Song. 
 
 With artificial pace the Warlike Pine , , 
 
 Th’ Elm , and his Wife the Ivy twine* 
 With all the better trees, which erft had dood 
 
 Unmov’d, forfook their native Wood, 
 
 The Lawrel to the Poets hand did bow. 
 
 Craving the honor of his Brow : 
 
 And every loving arm embrac’d, and made 
 With their officious leaves a fhade. 
 
 The Beads too drove his auditors to be. 
 
 Forgetting their old tyranny. 
 
 The fearful Hart next to the Lion came, 
 
 And Wolf was Shepherd to the Lamb. 
 Nightingales, harmlefs Syrens of the air, 
 
 And Mufes of the place, were there. 
 
 Who when their little wind-pipes they had found 
 Unequal to fo ftrange a found, 
 
 O rcome by art and grief they did expire. 
 
 And fell upon the conquering Lyre. 
 Happy, O happy they, whofe Tomb might be, 
 Manfolus , envied by thee ! 
 
 ODE II 
 
 That a pleafant Tcrverty is to he preferred before 
 
 difeontented ‘Rjches. 
 
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 W H Y O doth gaudy Tagus ravidi thee. 
 
 Though Neptune's Treafure-houfeitbe? 
 Why doth Pa&olus thee bewitch, 
 Infe&ed yet with Midas glorious Itch > 
 
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Their dull and fleepy dreams are not at all 
 Like other Floods, Poetical , 
 
 They have no dance, no wanton fport, 
 
 No gentle murmur, the lov’d Shoar to court, 
 
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 No Fifh inhabit the adulterate Flood, 
 
 Nor can it feed the Neighbouring Wood, 
 No Flower or Herb is near it found, 
 
 But a perpetual Winter (larves the ground. 
 
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 Give me a River which doth fcorn to (hew 
 An added beauty, whole clear brow 
 May be my looking-glafs, to fee 
 What my face is, and what my mind fhould be. 
 
 Here waves call waves, and glide along in rank, 
 And prattle to the foiling bank : 
 
 Here fad King-fijiers tell their tales, 
 
 And Fifh enrich the Brook with (ilver feales. 
 
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 Daijies the firfl-born of the teeming Spring, 
 
 On each fide their imbroidery bring. 
 
 Here Lillies wafh, and grow more white, 
 And Daffadills to fee themfelves delight, 
 
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 Here a frefh Arbour gives her amorous (hade, 
 Which Nature , the bed Gard ner made. 
 Here I would lit, and fog rude lays, 
 
 Such as the Nymphs, and me my felf fnould plead*. 
 
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 Thus I would wade, thus end my carelefs days, 
 And Robin red'hrefh whom men praife 
 For pious Birds, fhould when I dye, 
 
 Make both my Monument and Elegy. 
 
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 ODE III. 
 
 To bis Mifiris. 
 
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 T Yrian dye why do you wear, 
 
 You whofe cheeks belt Scarlet are ? 
 
 Why do you fondly pin 
 Pure Linnen o’r your Skin, 
 
 (*Your skin that’s whiter far) 
 
 Calling a dusky Cloud before a Star ? 
 
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 Why bears your neck a golden Chain? 
 
 Did nature make your hair in vain ? 
 
 Of Gold moft pure and fine, 
 
 With gemms why do you fhine ? 
 
 They, neighbours to your eyes, 
 
 Shew but like Phofphor , when the Sun doth rife, 
 
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 I would have all my Mijlris parts, 
 
 Owe more to Nature than to Arts , 
 
 I would not woe the drefs, 
 
 Or one whofe nights give lefs 
 Contentment, than the day. 
 
 She’s fair, whole Beauty only makes her gay. 
 
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 For Vis not Buildings make a Court* 
 Or pomp, but ’tis the Kings refort: 
 If Jupiter down pour 
 Htmfelf, and in a fhower 
 Hide fuch bright Majefy , 
 Lefs than a colden one it cannot be. 
 
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 O D E IV, 
 
 On the uncertainty of Fortune. A Truncation. 
 
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 L Eave off unfit complaints, and clear 
 
 Fromfighs your bread, and from black Clouds your brow, 
 When the Sun {bines not with his wonted chear, 
 
 And Fortune throws an adverie caff for you. 
 
 That Sea which vext with Notus is. 
 
 The merry Eajl winds will to morrow kifs. 
 
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 The Sun to day rides droufily. 
 
 To morrow ’twill put on a look more fair. 
 
 Laughter and groaning do alternately 
 Return, and tears fports neareft neighbours are. 
 
 ’Tis by the Gods appointed fo 
 That good fare fbould with mingled dangers flow. 
 
 Who drave his Oxen ydterday, 
 
 Doth now over the nobleft Romans reign, 
 
 And on the Gabii , and the Cures lay 
 The yoke which from his Oxen he had ta’ne. 
 
 Whom Hefperus (aw poor and low. 
 
 The mornings eye beholds him greateft now,’ 
 
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 If Fortune knit arnongff her play 
 
 But ferioufnefs} he (hall again go home 
 To his old Country Farm of yefterday, 
 
 To fcoffing people no mean jdfc become» 
 
 And with the crowned Ax t which he 
 Had rul’d the World, go back and prune fome Tree. 
 Nay, if he want the fuel cold requires, 
 
 With his own Fafces he (ball make him fres . 
 
 ODE V. 
 
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 In Commendation of the time we live under the Feign 
 of our (gracious King Charles. 
 
 C Urft be that wretch ("Deaths Fa&or furej who brought 
 Dire Swords into the peaceful World, and taught 
 
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 Smiths, who before couk 4 only make 
 The Spade, the Plowlhare, and the Rake $ 
 
 Arts, in mod cruel wife 
 Mans Life t’ epitomize. 
 
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 Then men (fond men alas) ride pod to th’ grave, 
 
 And cut thofe threds, which yet the Fates would lave. 
 Then Charon fweated at his trade, 
 
 And had a larger Ferry made, 
 
 Then, then the diver hair. 
 
 Frequent before, grew rare. 
 
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 Then Revenge married to Ambition , 
 
 Begat black fVar, then Avarice crept on. 
 
 Then limits to each held were drain’d, 
 
 And Terminus a Godhead gain’d. 
 
 To men before was found, 
 
 Befides the Sea, no bound. 
 
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 In what Plain or what River hath not been 
 Wars dory, writ in blood (fad dory) feen? 
 
 This truth too well our England knows, 
 
 ? Twas civil (laughter dy’d her Rofe: 
 
 Nay thep her Lilly too, 
 
 With bloods lofs paler grew. 
 
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 Such griefs, nay worfe than thefe, we now (hould feel 3 
 Did not juft Charles dlence the rage of deel 5 
 He to our Land bled Peace doth bring. 
 
 All Neighbour Countries envying. 
 
 Happy who did remain 
 Unborn till Charles his Reign ! 
 
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 Where dreaming Chymicky is your pain and cod? 
 
 How is your oil, how is your labor lod ? 
 
 Our Charles, bed Alchymifi (tho drange. 
 
 Believe it future times J did change 
 The Iron age of old. 
 
 Into an age of Gold. 
 
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 ’Upon the Jbortnefs of Mam Life. 
 
 M Ark that fwift Arrow how it cuts the air. 
 How it out-runs thy following eye, 
 Ufe all perlwafions now and try 
 ff thou canft call it back, or ftay it there, 
 
 That way it went, but thou (halt find 
 No Trad: is left behind. 
 
 Fool, ’tisthy life, and the fond Archer thou, 
 Of all the time thou (t (hot away 
 I'll bid thee fetch but yefterday, 
 
 And it (hall be too hard a task to do. 
 
 Befides repentance, what canft find 
 , That it hath left behind } 
 
 Our life is carried with too ftrong a tide, 
 
 A doubtful Cloud our fubftance bears, 
 And is the Horfe of all our years. 
 
 Each day doth on a winged Whirl-wind ride. 
 We and our Glafs run out, and muft 
 Both render up our duft. 
 
 But his paft life who without grief can fee. 
 
 Who never thinks his end too near, 
 
 But fays to Fame, thou art mine Heir . 
 That man extends lifes natural brevity 3 
 This is, this is the only way 
 T’out-live Nejlor in a day. 
 
 An Anfrver to an Invitation to Cambridge, 
 
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 N ichols , my better felf, forbear. 
 
 For if thou tell'ft what Cambridge pleafures are. 
 The School boys fin will light on me, 
 
 I (hall in mind at leaft a Truant be. 
 
 Tell me not how you feed your mind 
 With dainties of Philofophy , 
 
 In Ovid's Nut I (hall not find, 
 
 The tafte once pleafed me. 
 
 O tell me not of Logicas diverfe Chear, 
 
 I (hall begin to loath our Crambe here. 
 
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 Tell me not how the waves appear 
 Of Cam, or how it cuts the Learned Shire , 
 
 I (hall contemn the troubled Thames , 
 
 On her chief Holiday, even when her ((reams 
 Are with rich folly gilded, when 
 The Quondam Dung-boat is made gay. 
 
 Juft like the bravery of the men, 
 
 And graces withfrefh paint that day. 
 
 When th’ City fhines with Flags and Pageants there, 
 And Satin Doublets feen not twice a year. 
 
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 Why do I ftay then? I would meet 
 
 Thee there, but Plummets hang upon my feet: 
 
 Tis my chief wifti to live with thee. 
 
 But not till I deferve thy company : 
 
 Till then we’ll (corn to let that toy, 
 
 Some forty miles, divide our hearts : 
 
 Write tome, and I (hall enjoy, 
 
 FriendJIdp , and Wit , thy better parts. 
 
 Tho envious Fortune larger hindrance brings, 
 
 We’ll eafily fee each other, Love hath wings. 
 
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 Paftoral Comedy ; 
 
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To the truly Worthy and Noble, 
 
 Sir KENELM DIGBT, Knight. 
 
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 T His latter Age, the Lees of Time , hath known 
 Few that have made both Pallas arts their own : 
 Bat yon. Great Sir, two Laurels wear , and are 
 Victorious in Peace , as well as War. 
 
 Learning by right of Conquejl is your own. 
 
 And every liberal Art your Captive grown. 
 
 As if neglected Science (for it now 
 Wants fume defenders ) fled for help to you 
 Whom I tnufl follow, and let this for me 
 An earnefi of my future Service be $ 
 l Vhich I fiould fear to fend you , did / hyiow 
 Four Judgment only , not your Candor too . 
 
 For'twas a Work , (loin (though you ll jufily call 
 This play , as fond as thofe ) from Cat, or Ball. 
 
 Had it been written jince , 1 fiould, 1 fear , 
 
 Scarce have abjiaind from a Philofopher. 
 
 Which by Tradition here is thought to be 
 A necefjary part in Comedy, 
 
 Nor need I tell you this 5 each line of it 
 Betrays the Time and Place tv here in ’ twas writ. 
 
 And I could wifi, that I might fafely fay. 
 
 Reader, this Play was made but tti other day : 
 
 Tet * tis not fluff’d with names of Gods, hard words , 
 Such as the Met amorphous affords . 
 
 Nor has’t a part f or Robinfon, whom they , 
 
 At School, account cffential to a Play. 
 
 The Jlileis low, fuch as you ll eajily take 
 For what a Swam might fay , and a Boy make. 
 
 Take it, as early fruits, which rare appear, 
 
 Tho not half ripe , but worfi of all the year. 
 
 And if it pleafe your tajle, my Mufe will fay. 
 
 The Birch which crown d her then , is grown a Bay. 
 
 Yours in all obfervance, 
 
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 A. Cowley. 
 
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7 he Scene Sicily. 
 
 The Actors Names. 
 
 < DemopbilJt\vo old folks of a Noble Family. 
 Spodakt , S 
 
 Plorcllus , ? their Children. 
 
 Callidora , S 
 
 c Phili(lus , ? two Gentlemen both in love with 
 jdphron , S Callidora. 
 
 Clari ana, Sifter to 'Phihjl us. 
 
 Me/arms,) A crabbed old Shepherd. 
 
 ‘Truga, >HisWife. 
 
 Hylacc , ) Their Daughter. 
 
 /Egon, — an ancient Country-man. 
 
 ‘Bellula -—•'his fuppofed daughter. 
 
 Ealamon," a young Swain in Love with//>/Wc. 
 Alupis, - . — a merry ■ Shepherd , 
 
 Garland’s Maid. 
 
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 Enter Caliidora difguifed in mans apparel. 
 
 Tk MAD feet, ye have been traitors to your Maffer; 
 
 I\ / @ Where have you ltd me ? lure my truant mind 
 I Y jl Hath taught my body thus to wander too 3 
 
 Faintnefs and fear furprize me : Ye juft gods. 
 
 If ye have brought me to this place to fcourge 
 The folly of my Love, (l might fay madnefs) 
 
 Difpatch me quickly 3 fend fome pitying man 
 Or cruel Beaft to find me? let me be 
 Fed by the one, or let me feed the other. 
 
 Why are thefe trees fo brave ? why do they wear 
 Such green and frefh apparel? how they fmile ! 
 
 How their proud tops play with the courting wind \ 
 
 Can they behold me pine and languifh here. 
 
 And yet not fympathize at all in mourning? 
 
 Do they upbraid my borrows ? can it be 
 That thele thick branches never fecn before 
 But by the Sun, fhould learn fo much of man ? 
 
 The Trees in Courtiers Gardens, which are confcious 
 Of their guilt, matters ftatelinefs and pride, 
 
 Themfelvts would pity me, yet thefe Who’s there ? 
 
 Enter Alupis fmging. 
 
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 Rife up thou mournful Swain, 
 
 For y tis but a folly 
 
 To be Melancholy *..■■■; v r 
 
 And get thee thy pipe again, 
 
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 Loyes Twiddle. 
 
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 Come (ing away the clay 
 For ’ Us hut a folly 
 To he Melancholy , 
 
 Let's live here whilji we may. 
 
 Call Marry Sir, this fellow hath fome fire in him, 
 
 Methinks a fad and drowfie Shepherd is 
 A prodigy in nature, for the Woods 
 Should be as far from Sorrow, as they are 
 Fromforrows caufes, riches and the like. 
 
 Hail to you Swain, I am a Gentleman 
 
 Driven here by ignorance of the way, and would 
 
 Confefs my fclf bound to you for a Courtefie, 
 
 If you would pleafe to help me to fome lodging 
 Where I may reft my felf. 
 
 Alu. For 'tis hut a folly , See. 
 
 Cal Well 5 if the reft be like this fellow here. 
 
 Then I have travelled fairly now 3 for certainly 
 This is a land of Fools 3 fome Colony 
 Of elder Brothers have been planted here, 
 
 And begot this fair Generation. 
 
 Prithee, good Shepherd, tell me where thou dwelfft ? 
 
 Alu. For ’ tis hut a folly , See. 
 
 Cal Why art thou mad ? 
 
 Alu . What if I be? 
 
 I hope Tis no diferedit for me Sir 3 
 
 For in this age who is not ? I’ll prove it to you : 
 
 Your Citizen he’s mad to truft the Gentleman 
 Both with his Wares and Wife. Your Courtier 
 He’s mad to fpend his time in ftudying pofhires. 
 
 Cringes, and fafliiom, and new complements 3 
 Your Lawyer he’s mad to fell away 
 His tongue for Money, and his Clients madder 
 To buy it of him, fince ’tis of no ufe 
 But to undo men, and the Latin tongue : 
 
 Your Scholars they are mad to break their brains. 
 
 Out-watch the Moon, and look more pale than the. 
 
 That fo when all the Arts call him their Maftjer, 
 
 He may perhaps get fome fmall Vicarage, 
 
 Or be the llfher of a School 3 but there’s 
 • A thing in black call’d Poet, who is ten 
 Degrees in madnefs above thefe 3 his means 
 Is what the gentle Fates pleafe to allow him 
 By the Death or Marriage of fome mighty Lord, 
 
 Which he muft folemnize with a new Song. 
 
 Cal. This fellows wit amazeth me 3 but friend^ 
 
 What do you think of Lovers ? 
 
 AIh. Worft of all 3 
 
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 1s t not a pretty folly to (bnd thus, 
 
 And figh, and fold the Arms, and cry my Ccvlia, 
 My foul, my life, my Ccelia , then to wring 
 Ones flare for Prefents, and ones brain for Sonnets ? 
 Oh ! ’tis beyond the name of Phrenzy. 
 
 Cal. Whatl'o Satyrick Shepherd ? I believe 
 You did not learn thefe flafhes in the Woodsy 
 How is it pofiible that you fliould get 
 Such near acquaintance with the City manners, 
 
 And yet live here in fiich a filent place, 
 
 Where one would think the very name of City 
 Could hardly enter. 
 
 Alu . Why I’ll tell you Sir 5 
 My Father died, (you force me to remember 
 A grief that deferves tears) and left me young, 
 
 And if a Shepherd may be faid fo) rich , 
 
 I in an itching wantonnefs to fee 
 What otherSwains lowond’red at, the City, 
 Straight fold my Rural Portion (dor the Wealth 
 Of Shepherds is their Flocks) and thither went. 
 Where whilft my Money lafled I was welcome, 
 
 And liv d in Credit, but when that was gone, 
 
 And the laft piece figh’d in my empty Pocket, 
 
 I was contemn’d, then I began jo feel 
 How dearly I had bought experience, 
 
 And without any thing befides Repentance 
 To load me, return’d back, and here I live 
 T o laugh at all thofe follies which 1 faw. 
 
 
 SONG. 
 
 The merry Waves dance up and down , and play , 
 Sport is granted to the Sea. 
 
 Birds are gucrifiers of til empty Air , 
 
 Sport is never wanting there. 
 
 The ground doth fmile at the Springs flowry birth , 
 Sport is granted to the Earth. 
 
 The Fire its chearing f ame on high doth rear , 
 Sport is never wanting there. 
 
 If all the Element S-) the Earth , the Sea , 
 
 Air, and Fire , fo merry be j 
 
 Why is mans mirth fo feldom , and fo fmall. 
 Who is compounded of them all <? 
 
 Cal. You may rejoycee, but fighs befit me better, 
 Alu. Now on my Confidence thou haft loft a Miftrifs % 
 If it be fo, thank God, and love no more $ 
 
 Or elfe perhaps fhe has burnt your whining Letter, 
 
 Or kifs’d another Gentleman in your fight, 
 
 Or elfe denied you her glove, or laugh’d at you, 
 
 Caufes indeed which deferve fpecial mourning, 
 

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 And now yokcome to talk with your God Cupid 
 In private here, and call the Woods to witnefs. 
 
 And ail the ft reams which murmur when they hear 
 The injuries they fuller ; I am Tarry 
 I have been a hindrance to your meditations. 
 
 Farewel Sir. 
 
 Cal, Nay good fhepherd, you mi (lake me. 
 
 Ain. Faith, I am very chary of my health, 
 
 ! would be loth to be infe&ed, Sir. 
 
 Cal. Thou need ft not fear 3 I have no difeafe at 
 Belides a troubled mind. 
 
 Ala, Why that’s the worft, the worft of all. 
 
 Cal. And therefore it doth challenge 
 Your pity the more, you fhoiild the rather 
 Strive to be my Phyfician. 
 
 Alu. the good Gods forbid it 5 I turn Phyfician! 
 
 My Parents brought me up more piouily. 
 
 Than that I fhould play booty with a ficknefi. 
 
 Turn a Conlumption to men9 purfes, and 
 Purge them worfe than their bodies, and fet up 
 An Apothecaries fhop in private Chambers,- 
 Live by revenue of Clofe-ftools and Urinals, 
 
 Defer off Tick mens health from day to day, 
 
 As if they went to law with their Difeafe. 
 
 No, I was born for better ends, than to fend away 
 His Majefties Subjects to Plell fo faft, 
 
 As if I were to (hare the flakes with Charon . 
 
 Cal. Your wit errs much : 
 
 For as the foul is nobler than the body. 
 
 So its Corruption asks a better Medicine 
 Than is applied to Gouts, Catarrhs, or Agues, 
 
 And that is, Counfd. 
 
 Alu . So then : I fhould be 
 Your Souls Phyfician $ why, I could talk out 
 An hour or fo, but then I want a Culhion 
 To thump my precept into 5 but tell me 'pray 
 What name bears your Difeafe } 
 
 Cal' A Feaver, Shepherd, but fo far above 
 An outward one, that the vicifiitudes 
 Of that may feem but warmth, and coolnefs only 5 
 This, flame, and froft. 
 
 Alu. So 5 I underftand you, 
 
 You are a Lover, which is by tranflation 
 A fool, or Beaft, for I’ll define you j you’re 
 Partly Chameleon, partly Salamander , 
 
 You’re fed by the air, and livei’th’ fire. 
 
 Cal . Why did you never love ? have you no foftnds^ 
 
 Nought of your Mother in you > if that Sun 
 Which fcorched me, fhould caft one beam upon you, 
 
 [Twould quickly melt the ice about your heart, 
 
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 Cal. It is a way which I have much defired 
 To cheat my forrow with 5 and for that purpofe 
 Would fain turn Shepherd, and in rural fports 
 Wear my lifes remnant out 3 I would forget 
 All things, my very name if it were poiftble 
 Ain. Pray let me learn it firft. 
 
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 Ain . Thank you; if you your felf chance to forget it 
 Come but to me i’ll do you the fame courtefie, 
 
 In the mean while make me your Servant Sir, 
 
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 We two will laugh at all the World fecurely, 
 
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 Enter Patemon, Melarnus, Truga, i^gon, Bellula, Hylace: 
 Pal. I fee I am undone. ' • : _ . ! 
 
 Mel. Come no matter for that, you love my Daughter > 
 
 By Pan 3 but come, no. matter for that 3 you love my Hylace <? 
 
 Trn. Nay good Duck, do not vex your felf 3 what tho he 
 loves her ? you know fhe will not have him. 
 
 Mel. Come no matter for that ; I will vex my felf, and vex 
 him too, fhall fuch an idle fellow as he ftrive to entice away honeft 
 mens Children ? let him go feed his flocks 3 but alas ! he has none 
 to trouble him 3 ha, ha, ha, yet he Would marry my Daughter. 
 Pal. Thou art a malicious doting man, 
 
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 But that die calls thee Father, though l cannot 
 Number fo large a flock of Shdep as thou. 
 
 Nor fend fo many Cheefes to the City, 
 
 Yet in my mind I am an Emperor 
 If but compar’d with thee. 
 
 Tru. Of what place I pray >nwo 
 Tis fome of new difcover’d Country, is’t not? 
 
 Pal. Prithee good Winter if thou wilt be talking. 
 
 Keep thy breath in a little, for it fmells • 
 
 Worfe than a Goat $ yet you mUft talk, b 
 For thou haft nothing left thee of a Woman 
 But Luft, and Tongue. 
 
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 Pal. I’m dumb, my lips are feafd, feafct up for ever 5 
 May my rafh tongue forget to be interpreter, 
 
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 It hath offended you. '1 10I one 
 
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 But that condition, I (hall agree to’t qUiYkly. 
 
 Mel. By Pan well faid Girl 3 what? a fool Was I 
 To fufpeft thee of loving him ? but cdrBfe rn ' ; .«\k 
 
 Tis no matter for that 3 when e’er thou art married *' ; / 
 
 I’ll add ten (beep more to thy portion 
 For putting this one jeft upon him. • : 
 
 } Eg . Nay, now I muft needs tell you that your anger 
 Is grounded with no reafon to maintain it, 
 
 If you intend ycur Daughter (hall not marry him, 
 
 Say fo, but play not with his Paffion, 
 
 For ’tis inhumane wit which jeers the wretched. 
 
 Mel. Come, ’tis no matter foj that 5 what I do, I do j L ‘ 
 
 I (hall not need your Counfel. 
 
 Tru. I hope my Husband and I have enough Wifdom 
 To govern our own Child 3 if we want any 
 ’Twill be to little purpofe, I dare fay,- ■ -vA j jA 
 To come to borrow fome of you. 
 
 JEg. ’Tis very likely pretty Miftris Maukin, 
 
 You with a Face look like a Winter Apple 
 When ’tis fhrunk up together and half rotten, 
 
 I’d fee you hang’d up for a thing toskare ? 
 
 The Crows away before I’ll fpend my breath 
 To teach you any. . ~ ■ 
 
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 What do you imagine that I fhould love you for? 
 
 Pal. For all my fervices, the virtuous zeal 
 And conftancy with which I ever woed you, 
 
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 Although fplay-leg’d, crooked, deformed in all parts 5 
 And but the Chaos only of a man 3 
 Yet if I love and honour you, humanity 
 Would teach you not to hate, or laugh at me. 
 
 H/k Pray fpareyour fine perlwafions, and fet fpeeches 5 
 And rather tell them to thofe ftones and trees, 
 
 Twill be to as good purpofe quite, as when 
 You fpend them upon me. 
 
 Pal. Give me my final anfwer, that I may 
 Be either bleft for ever, or die quickly 3 
 Delay’s a cruel rack, and kills by piece-meals» 
 
 Hyl. Then here us, you’re an ah, 
 
 (Take that for your incivility to my Mother) 
 
 And I will never love you. 
 
 Pal. You’re a Woman 3 
 A cruel and fond woman, and my Paffion 
 Shall trouble you no more * but when I’m dead 
 My angry ghoft (hall vex you worfe than now 
 Your Pride doth me, farewel. 
 
 Enter Aphron wad, tncetingPAxmem gowgcut. 
 
 Aphr. Nay ftay Sir, haveyou found her? 
 
 Pal. How now ? what’s the matter ? 
 
 Jphr. For I will have her out ofyou, orelfe 
 Til cut thee into Atoms, till the Wind 
 Play with the fhreds of thy torn Body. Look her 
 Or I will do’t. 
 
 Pal. Whom 3 or where ? 
 
 Aphr. IT 1 tell thee honeft fellow 3 thou (halt go 
 F rom me as an Embaftador to the Sun, 
 
 For men call him the Eye of Heaven, (from which 
 
 Nothing lies hid J and tell him—- do you mark me tell him 
 
 From me— - that if he fend not word where (he is gone, 
 
 — - 1 will-— nay by the gods I will. 
 
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 Sure he hath loft fome Miftris 3 beauteous women 
 Are the chief plagues to men. 
 
 Tru. Nay, not fo Shepherd, when did I Plague any? 
 
 JEg. How far is he beyond the name of (lave. 
 
 That makes his Love his Miftris ? 
 
 Aphr. Miftris ! who’s that? her ghoft? ’ris (he 3 
 It was her voice 3 were all the Floods, the Rivers, 
 
 And Seas that with their crooked Arms embrace 
 The Earth, betwixt us. I’d wade through and meet her, 
 
 Were all the Alps heap’t on each other’s head, 
 
 Were Pelion joyn’d to Ojja, and they both 
 Thrown on Olympus top, they fhould not make 
 So high a wall, but I would fcale’t and find her. 
 
 Bel. Unhappy man. 
 
 Apk. ’Tis empty air: I was too rude, toofaucy 
 
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 And (he hath left me $ if (he be alive 
 
 What darknefs (hall be thick enough to hide her? 
 
 If dead, I’ll feck the place which Poets call Elyzium 
 Where all the (ouls of good and virtuous mortals 
 Enjoy deferved pleafures after death. 
 
 What (hould I fear : if there be an Erymiis 
 Tis in this Bred, if a Ttftphone 
 ’Tis here, here in this brain are all her ferpents 5 
 My grief and fury arms me. 
 
 Pal. By your leave Sir. 
 
 Aph. Now by the Cods, that man that flops my journey 
 Had better have provok’d a hungry Lionefs 
 Robb’d of her Whelps, or fet her naked bred 
 Againd the Thunder. Aphron. 
 
 Tru. ’Tis well he’s gone, 
 
 I never could endure to fee thefe madmen. 
 
 Mcl. Come, no matter for that [E»/er Alupis and 
 
 F or now he’s gone here comes another [Callidorus. 
 
 But ’tis no matter for that neither. 
 
 How now ! who has he brought with him? 
 
 Alu. Hail to ye Shepherds and ye beauteous Nymphs, 
 
 I mud prefent this dranger to your knowledge, 
 
 When you’re acquainted well, you’ll thank mefor’t. 
 
 Cal. Bled Maders of thefe Woods, hail to you all, 
 
 ’Tis my defire to be your neighbour here, 
 
 And feed my Flocks (Tuch as they are) near yours. 
 
 This Shepherd tells me, that your gentle nature 
 Will be mod willing to accept my friendfhip 5 
 Which if you do, may all the Sylvian Deities 
 Be dill propitious to you, may your flocks 
 Yearly encreafe above your hopes or wifhes 5 
 May none of your young Lambs become a prey 
 To the rude Wolf, but play about fccurely ; 
 
 May dearths be ever exil’d from thefe Woods: 
 
 May your Fruits profper, and your Mountain Strawberries 
 Grow in abundance 5 may no Lovers be 
 Defpis’d, and pine away their years of Spring : 
 
 But the young men and maids be drucken both 
 
 Pal. That were a golden time 5 the Gods forbid 
 Mortals to be fo happy. 
 
 JEgon. I thank you 5 and we with no lels to you: 
 You are mod welcome hither. 
 
 Tru. ’Tis a handfomMan, 
 
 I’ll be acquainted with him , we mod heartily 
 Accept your company. 
 
 Mel. Come no matter for that $ we have enough 
 Already, who can bear us company 5 
 But no matter for that neither 5 we (hall have 
 Shortly no room left us to feed our flocks 
 
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 A/up. What always grumbling? 
 
 Your Father and your Mother fcolded fure 
 Wbilft you were getting $ well, if l begin 
 I’il foabufe thee, and that publickly. 
 
 Mel. A rot upon you 5 you mud (till be humor’d, 
 
 But come, no matter for that 5 you’re welcome then. 
 
 Ah. What, Beauties, are you filent ? 
 
 Take notice of him, ("pray) your (peaking is 
 Worth more than all the reft. 
 
 Bell. You’re very welcome. [Salutes her. 
 
 Cal . Thank you fair Nymph, this is indeed a welcome. 
 
 Bell. I never faw Beauty and Affability 
 So well conjoyn’d before 5 if I ftay long 
 I fhall be quite undone. 
 
 Ah. Nay come, pur on too. 
 
 Hyl. You are mold kindly welcome. 
 
 Cal. Youblels me too much } 
 
 The honour of your lip is entertainment 
 Princes might wifh for. 
 
 Hyl. Biefs me, how he looks ! 
 
 And how he talks! his kifs was honey too. 
 
 His Lips as red and fweet as early Cherries, 
 
 Softer than Bevers skins. 
 
 Bel. Biefs me, how I envy her ! 
 
 Would I had that kifs too ! 
 
 Hyl. How his eye fhines ! what a bright flame it (hoots F 
 Bel. How red his cheeks are! fo our Garden Apples 
 Look on that fide where the hot Sun falutes them. 
 
 Hyl. How well his hairs become him ! 
 
 Juft like thar Star which ufhers on the day. 
 
 Bel. How fair he is! fairer than whited blofloms. 
 
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 Why fhould I lofe it for want of (peaking ? 
 
 Your’e welcome Shepherd. 
 
 Ah. Come on : F^r ’tis but aFolly , &c. 
 
 Jru. do you hear ? you are welcome. 
 
 Ah. Here’s another mud have a kifs. 
 
 TV//. Go you’re a paultry knave, I, that you are* 
 
 To wrong an honed woman thus. 
 
 Ah. Why he (hall kifs thee never fear it, alas ! 
 
 I did but jeft, he’ll do’t for all this, 
 
 Nay, becaufe I will be a Patron to thee 
 I’ll (peak to him. 
 
 Trug. You’re a flandering Knave, 
 
 And you (hall know’t, that you fhall. 
 
 Ah. Nay, if you fcold fo loud 
 Others fhall know it too 5 he muddop your mouth, 
 
 Or you’ll talk on this three hours 5 CaUidorus 
 I f you can patiently endure a dink, 
 
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 Or have frequented ere the City Bear-garden, 
 
 Prithee falute this fourfcore years, and free me, 
 
 She fays you re welcome too. 
 
 Cal. I cry you mercy, Shepherdefs, 
 
 By Pan I did not fee you. 
 
 Tru. If my Husband and Alupis were not here 
 I’d rather pay him back his kite again 
 Than be beholden to him. 
 
 Ain. What, thou half don’t ! 
 
 Well if thou do’ft not die uponr, hereafter 
 Thy Body will agree even with the worft 
 And ftinkingft air in Europe. 
 
 Cal. Nay, be not angry Shepherdefs, you know 
 He doth but jeft as ’tis his cuftom. 
 
 Tru. I know it is his cuftom $ he was always 
 Wont to abide me, like a knave as he is, 
 
 But I’llendure’t no more. 
 
 Alu. Prithee, good Callidorus, if her breath 
 Be not too bad, go flop her mouth again. 
 
 She’ll fcold till Night elfe. 
 
 Tru. Yes marry will I, that I will, you rafeal you. 
 
 I’ll teach you to lay your frumps upon me j 
 You delight in it, do you? 
 
 Alu . Prithee be quiet, leave but talking to me 
 And I will never jeer thee any more. 
 
 We two will be fo peaceable hereafter. 
 
 Jru. Well upon that condition. 
 
 Alu. So, I’m deliver’d. Why how now Lads ? 
 
 What have you loft your tongues? I’ll have them cry’d, 
 
 PaUmon , JEgcn, Calli dorus , what ? 
 
 Are you all dumb ? I pray continue fo. 
 
 And I’ll he merry with my felf. 
 
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 ’Tis letter to dance than fwg. 
 
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 That I to my felf fljall bring 
 A Poverty 
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 If once 1 grow but a Poet. 
 
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 JEgcn. And yet methinks you (ing. 
 
 Alu. Oyes, becaufe here’s none to dance, 
 
 And both are better far than to be fad. 
 
 JEgon. Come then let’s have a round. 
 
 Alu. A match $ PaUmon whither go you ? 
 
 Pal. The Gods forbid that I fhould mock my felf, 
 
 Cheat my own mind, I dance and weep at once ? 
 
 You may. Farewel. / Y. . [Exit. 
 
 Alu. Ti? fuch a whining Fool 3 £ome, come, Melarmts. 
 
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 Mel. I have no mind to dance 5 but come, no matter for that, 
 
 rather than break the fquares. 
 
 Cal. By your leave, fair one. 
 
 Hyl. Would I were in her place. 
 
 Ain. Com eHylace, thee and I wench, I warant thee. 
 
 For ’ tis but a folly, 8cc. [Dktici. 
 
 Tru. So there’s enough, I’m half aweary. 
 
 Mel Come no matter for that, 
 
 I have not danc dfo much this year. 
 
 Alu. So farewel, you’ll come along with me ? 
 
 Cal. Yes, farewel gentle Swains. 
 
 Tru. Farewel good Shepherd. 
 
 Bel. Your beft wifhes follow yoii. 
 
 H\l. Pan always guide you. 
 
 Mel. It’s no matter for that, come away. 
 
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 Enter Demophil, Spo data , Phili fins ^ Clari ana. 
 
 Dew. TV 7 A Y, She is loft for ever, and her name 
 Which us’d to be fo comfortable, how 
 Is.poifonto our thoughts, and to augment 
 Our mifery paints forth omr former happinefs, 
 
 0 Calli dor a, Omy C alii dor a ! 
 
 1 (hall ne’er fee thee more. 
 
 Spo. If cur fed Aphron 
 
 Hath carried her away, and triumphs now 
 In the deftru&ion of our hoary age 
 ’Twere better (he were dead. 
 
 Dew. Twere better we were all dead , the enjoying 
 Of tedious life is a worfe punifhment 
 Than lofingof my Daughter $ Oh ! my friends, 
 
 Why have I lived fo long? ' ' ‘ . 
 
 Cla. Good Sir be comforted : Brothef fpcak to them. 
 
 Spo. Would I had died, when firft I brought thee forth, 
 
 My girl, my beft girl, then I Ihould haveflept 
 In quiet, and not wept now. 
 
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 Freeze me up quite, ye Gods, and let me be 
 My own fad Monument. 
 
 Cla. Alas! you do but hurt your felves with weeping 5 . 
 Confider pray, it may be (hell come back. 
 
 Dew. Oh ! never, never, 'tis impoffible 
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 As to call back fixteen, and with vain Rhetorick 
 Perfwade my Lifes fre(h April to return, 
 
 She’s dead, or elfe far worfe, kept up by Aphron , 
 
 Whom if I could fee, methinks new blood 
 Would creep into my veins, and my faint finews 
 Renew themfelves, I doubt notbut to find 
 Strength enough yet to be reveng’d of Aphron. 
 
 Spo. Would I were with thee, girl, where e’er thou art. 
 
 Cla. For (hame good Brother, fee if you can comfort them, 
 Methinks you fhould fay fomething. 
 
 Phi. Do you think 
 
 My grief fo light ? or was the intereft ’ 
 
 So fmall which I had in her } I a comforter ! 
 
 Alas, (he was my Wife, for we were married 
 In our affections, in our Vows 5 and nothing 
 Stopt the enjoying of each other, but 
 The thin partition of fome Ceremonies; 
 
 I loft my hopes my expectations. 
 
 My joys, nay more, I loft my felf with hers 
 You have a Son,yet left behind, whofe memory 
 May fweeten all this gall. 
 
 Spo. I, we had one. 
 
 But fate’s fo cruel to us, and fuch dangers 
 Attend a travelling man, that ’twere prefumption 
 To fay we have him 5 we have fent for him 
 To blot out the remembrance of his Sifter : 
 
 But whether we (hall ever lee him here, 
 
 The Gods can only tell, we barely hope. > 
 
 Dem. This news, alas ! 
 
 Will be but a fad welcome to him. 
 
 Phi. Why do I play thus with my milery > 
 
 Tis vain to think I can live here without her. 
 
 I’ll feek her where e’er (he is 3 patience in this 
 Would be a vice, and men might juftly fay 
 My love was but a flafh of winged Lightning, 
 
 And not a Veftalflame, which always (hinesj 
 His woing is a complement not paffion, 
 
 Who can if Fortune fnatch away his Miftris, 
 
 Spend fome few tears, then take another choice. 
 
 Mine is not fo 3 Oh Callidora ! 
 
 Cla. Fie Brother, you’re a man, 
 
 And (hould not be fhaken with every wind 3 
 
 If it were poffible to call her back 
 
 With mourning, mourning were a piety, 
 
 Butfince you cannot, you muft give me leave 
 To call it folly. 
 
 Phi. So it is 3 
 
 And I will therefore (hapeforae other courfe. 
 
 This doleful place (hall never fee me more, 
 
 Unlefs it fee her too in my embraces, 
 
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 You Sifter may retire unto my Farm, 
 
 Adjoyning to the Woods 5 
 
 And my Eftatel leave for you to manage} 
 
 If! find her, expeft me there, if riot 
 Do you live happier than your Brother hath. 
 
 Cla. Alas! hovv can I if you leave me ? but 
 I hope, your refolutions will be altered. 
 
 Phil . Never, farewel : good Demophil 
 Farewel Spodaia, temper your laments 3 
 
 If I return we (hall again be happy. 1 
 
 Spo. You (hall not want my Prayers. 
 
 Dem. The Gods that pity Lovers ( if there beany) 
 attend npon you. 
 
 Cla. Will you needs go? 
 
 Phil. I knit delays 3 ’twere time I were how ready. 
 
 And I (hall fin If I feem dull or flow 
 In any thing which touches Callidora. 
 
 Dem. Oh ! that name wounds me 5 we’ll bear you company 
 A little way, and Clariana look 
 To fee usoftenat your Country Farm 
 
 Well figh, and grieve together, [Exeunt', 
 
 Enter Alupis and Patemon. 
 
 Alu : Come, come, away. Sec. 
 
 Now where are all your Sonnets? your rare fancies? 
 
 Could the fine morning Mufick which you wak’d 
 Your Miftris with, prevail no more than this ? 
 
 Why in the City now your very Fidlers 
 
 Good morrow toyour Worfhip, will get fomething, 
 
 Hath (he denied thee quite ? 
 
 Pal. She hath undone me 5 I have plow’d the Sea, 
 
 And begot ftorming billows. 
 
 Alu. Can no perfuafions move her? 
 
 Pal. No more than thy leaft breath can ftiranOak, 
 
 Which hath this many years fcorn’d the fierce Wars 
 Of all the Winds. 
 
 Alu. ’Tis a good hearing 5 then 
 She’ll coft you no more pairs of Turtle Doves, 
 
 Nor Garlands knit with amorous conceits, 
 
 I do perceive fome rags of the Court fafhioris 
 
 Vifibly creeping now into the Woods 5 
 
 The more he fhews his Love, the more (be flights him, 
 
 Yet will take any gift of him, as willingly 
 As Country Juftices the Hens and Geefe 
 Of their offending Neighbours} this is right: 
 
 Now if I lov’d this wench, I would fo handle her, 
 
 I’d teach her what the difference were betwixt 
 One whohadfeen the Court and City tricks, 
 
 And a meer Shepherd. \ 
 
 Pal. Lions are tam’d, and become flaves tomen, 
 
 And Tygresoft forget their cruelty 
 
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 They fuck’d from their fierce Mothers, but, a Woman! 
 
 Ah me ! a Woman ! 
 
 Alu. Yet ifl law fuch wonders in her Face * 
 
 As you do, I fhould never doubt to win her. 
 
 Pal . How ’pray? if gifts would do it, fhe hath had 
 The daintied Lambs, the hope of all my Flock, 
 
 I let my Apples hang for her to gather, 
 
 The painful Bee did never load my hives, 
 
 With honey which fhe tailed not. 
 
 Alu. You midake me friend 5 I mean not fo. 
 
 Pal . How then ? if Poetry would do’t, what dude 
 Hath not been auditor of my amorous pipe? 
 
 What Banks are not acquainted with her praifes? 
 
 Which I have lung in verfes, and the Shepherds 
 Say they are good ones, nay they call me Poet, 
 
 Although I am not eafie to believe them. 
 
 Alu. No, no, no; that’s not the way. 
 
 Pal. W hy how ? 
 
 If fhew of grief had Rhetorick enough 
 To move her, I dare fwear (he had been mine 
 Long before this 5 what day did e’er peep forth 
 In which I wept not duller than the morning? 
 
 Which of the Winds hath not my Sighs increas’d 
 At fundry times $ how often have I cried 
 Hylace , Hylace , till the docile Woods 
 Haveanfwered Hylace 5 and every Valley 
 As if it were my Rival, founded Hylace . 
 
 Alu. I, and you were a mod rare fool for doing fo. 
 
 Why ’twas that poifoned all 5 had I a Midris 
 I’d aimed beat her, by this Light I would, 
 
 For they are much about vour Spaniels nature. 
 
 But whild you cry dear Hylace , O Hylace l 
 Pity the tortures of my burning heart, 
 
 She’ll always mince it, like a Citizens Wife, 
 
 At the fird asking 5 though her tickled blood 
 Leaps at the very mention $ therefore now 
 Leave of your whining tricks, and take my counfel, 
 
 Fird then be merry ; For ’tis but a folly , 8c c. 
 
 Pal. Tis a hard ledon for my mind, to learn, 
 
 But I would force my (elf, if that would help me. 
 
 Alu. Why thou (halt fee it will } next I would have thee 
 To laugh at her, and mock her pitifully 5 
 Study for jeers againd next time you fee her, 
 
 J’U go along with you, and help to abufe her, 
 
 Till we have made her cry, worfe than ere you did 5 
 When we have us’d her thus a little while, 
 
 She’ll be as tame and gentle — 
 
 Pal. But alas ! 
 
 This will provoke her more. 
 
 Ain. I’ll warrant thee : befides, what if it fhould ? 
 
 She 
 
Loves Toddle. 
 
 She hath refus’d you utterly already, 
 
 And cannot hurt you vvorfe^ come, come, be rul’d 5 
 And follow me, we’ll put it (trait in practice. 
 
 For ’ tis but a folly , See. 
 
 Pal. A match 3 I’ll try all ways 5 (lie can but fcorn me. 
 
 There is this good in depth of mifery 
 
 That men may attempt any thiDg, they know 
 
 The word before-hand. [Exeunt. 
 
 Enter Callidorus. 
 
 How happy is that man, who in thefe Woods 
 With fecure (ilence wears away his time ! 
 
 Who is acquainted better with himfclf 
 Than others 5 who fo great a (franger is 
 To City follies, that he knows them not. 
 
 He fits all day upon lbme mofiie hill 
 His rural Throne, arm’d with his crook, his feepter, 
 
 A dowry Carland is his Country Crown , 
 
 The gentle Lambs and Sheep his Loyal Subje&s, 
 
 Which every year pay him their fleecy tribute 5 
 Thus in an humble (fatclinefs and Majefty 
 He Tunes his Pipe, the Woods beffc melody, 
 
 And is at once, what many Monarchs are not. 
 
 Both King and Poet. I could gladly wi(h 
 To (pend the reft ofmy unprofitable. 
 
 And needlefs days in their innocuous fports} 
 
 But then my Father, Mother, and my Brother 
 Recurfe unto my thoughts, and Ifrait pluck down 
 The refolution I had built before 5 
 Love names Philiftus to me, and o’th’ fudden 
 The Woods feem bafe, and all their harmlefs pleafures 
 The daughters of neceffity, not virtue. 
 
 Thus with my (elf I wage a War, and am v 
 
 To myownrella Traitor 5 I would fain 
 Co home, but (fill the thought of Aphron frights me. 
 
 How now ? who’s here ? O ’tis fair Hylace 
 The grumbling Shepherd’s daughter. 
 
 Enter Hylace. 
 
 Brighteft of all thofe Stars that paint the Woods, 
 
 And grace thefe fhady habitations, 
 
 You’re welcome, how dial 1 I requite the benefit 
 Which you beftow upon fo poor a ftranger 
 With your fair prefence? 
 
 Hyl. If it be any courtefle, ’tis one 
 Which I would gladly do you, I have brought 
 A rural prefent, fome of our own Apples. 
 
 My Father and my Mother are fo hard. 
 
 They watch’d the Tree, or elfe they had been more., 
 
 Such as they are, if they can pleafe your taft, 
 
 My wifh is crown’d. 
 
 Cal. O you’re too kind, 
 
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 And 
 
7 6 Louies ‘Kiddle. 
 
 And teach that duty to me which I ought 
 To have perform’d 5 I would I could return 
 The half of your deferts } but l am poor 
 In everything but thanks. 
 
 H)l. Your acceptation only is reward 
 Too great for me. 
 
 Cal. How they blufh ? 
 
 A man may well imagine they were yours. 
 
 They bear fo great a (hew of modefty. 
 
 Hyl . O you mock my boldnefs 
 To thruft into your company, but truly 
 I meant no hurt ink, my intents were virtuous. 
 
 Cal The Gods forbid that I lhould nurfe a thought 
 So wicked, thou art innocent I know, 
 
 And pure as Venus Doves, or Mountain Snow 
 Which no foot hath defil’d, thy Soul is whiter 
 (If there be any poflibility of it^ 
 
 Than that clear skin which cloaths thy dainty body. 
 
 Hjl Nay my good will deferves not to be jeer’d, 
 
 You know I am a rude and Country Wench. 
 
 Cal. Far be it from my thoughts, I fwear I honour 
 And love thofe maiden virtues which adorn you. 
 
 Hyl. I would you did, as well as I do you. 
 
 But the juft Gods intend not me fo happy. 
 
 And I muft be contented I’m undone. [ Enter Bellula» 
 
 Here’s Bellula $ what is fhe grown my rival ? 
 
 Bel. Blefs me ! whom fee I ? Hylace ? fome Cloud 
 Or friendly mift involve me. 
 
 Hyl Nay Bellula , I fee you well enough. 
 
 Cal. Why doth the day ftart back? are you fo cruel 
 To fliew us fir ft the light, and having ftruck 
 Wonder into us, (hatch it from our fight ? 
 
 If Spring crown’d with the glories of the Earth 
 Appear upon the heavenly Ram, and freight 
 Creep back again into a gray-hair’d froft, 
 
 Men will accufe its forwardnefs. 
 
 Hjl. Pray Heaven 
 
 He be not taken with her 5 (he’s fomewhat fair 5 
 He did not (peak fo long a fpeech to me 
 I’m fure oft, though I brought him Apples. 
 
 Bel I did miftake my way 5 pray pardon me. 
 
 Hyl. I would you had elfe. 
 
 Cal. I muft thank fortune then which led you hither, 
 
 But you can ftay a little while and blefs us? 
 
 Bel Yes, (and Love knows how willingly^ alas! 
 
 I (hall quite fpoil my garland ere I give it him, 
 
 With hiding it from Hylace , ’pray Pan 
 She hath not ftoln his heart already from him, 
 
 And cheated my intentions. 
 
 Hyl I would fain be going, but if I fhould leave her,' 
 
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 LoDcs ‘Riddle. 
 
 It may be I (hall give her opportunity 
 
 To win him from me, for I know (he loveth him. 
 
 And hath perhaps a better tongue than I* 
 
 Although I could be loth to yield to her 
 In beauty or complexion. 
 
 Bell. Letmefpeak 
 
 In private with you 5 I am bold to bring 
 A Garland to you, tis of the bed: flowers 
 Which I could gather, I was picking them 
 All yeflerday. 
 
 Cal. H ow you oblige me to you! 
 
 I thank you fweeteft, how they flourifh Adi! 
 
 Sure they grow better, fince your hand has nipt them» 
 
 Bel . They will do, when your brow hath honour’d them $ 
 
 Then they may well grow proud., and (hine more frefhly. 
 
 Cal. What perfumes dwell in them ! 
 
 They owe thefe odors to your breath. 
 
 Hyl . Defend me ye good Gods, I think he kifles her, 
 
 How long they have been talking! now perhaps 
 She’s woing him 5 perhaps he forgets me 
 And will confent, I’ll put him in remembrance. 
 
 You have nottafted of the Apples yet, 
 
 And they were good ones truly. 
 
 Cal. I will do prelcntly, bed Hjlaee. 
 
 Hyl That’s fomething yet, would he would fpeak fo al ways. 
 
 Cal . I would not change them for thofe glorious apples 
 Which give fuch fame to the Hefpcrian gardens. 
 
 Bel. She hath outgone me in her Prefent now. 
 
 But I have got a Beecben cup at home, 
 
 Curioufly graven with the spreading leaves, 
 
 And gladfom burthen of a fruitful Vine, 
 
 Which Damon , the bed Artid of thefe Woods 
 Made and bedowed upon me. I’ll bring that tomorrow 
 And give it him, and then I’ll warrant her 
 She will not go beyond me. 
 
 Hyl . What have you got a chaplet ? Oh ! 
 
 This is I fee of Bellulas compofing. 
 
 Bell. Why Hylace .<? you cannot make a better. 
 
 What Flowers pray doth it want ? 
 
 Cal . Poor fouls ! 1 pity them, and the more, 
 
 Becaufe I have not been my fclf a dranger 
 To thefe Love Pafiions, but I wonder 
 What they can find in me worth their affection 5 
 Truly I would fain fatisfiethem both. 
 
 But can do neither j tis Fates crime, not mine. 
 
 Bell . Whither go you, Shepherd? 
 
 Hyl. You will not leave us, will you ? 
 
 Cal. Indeed I ought not, 
 
 You have me both bought with your courtefies, 
 
 And fhowld divide me. 
 
 Hyl 
 
 
 
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 Loyes Riddle. 
 
 Hyl She came laftto you. 
 
 Bell. She hath another Love, 
 
 And kills PaUmon with her cruelty, 
 
 How can {he expert mercy from another } 
 
 Into what a labyrinth doth Love draw mortals, 
 
 And then blindfolds them ! what a mift it throws 
 Upon their fenfes ! if he be a God, 
 
 As fure he is (his power could not be fo great elfe_) 
 
 He knows the impoflibility which nature 
 Hath fet betwixt us, yet entangles us, 
 
 And laughs to fee us ftruggle. Cal. D’ ye both love me ? 
 
 Bell. I do I’m fure. 
 
 Hyl. And I as much as (lie. 
 
 Cal. I pity both of you, for you have (ow’d 
 Upon unthankful fund, whole dry cl up Womb 
 Nature denies to blefs with fruit fulne fs, 
 
 You are both fair, and more than common graces 
 Inhabit in you both, Bellulas eyes 
 Shine like the Lamp of Heaven, and fo do Hjlaces. 
 Hjlaces cheeks are deeper dy’d in Scarlet 
 Than the chaft mornings blufhes, fo are Bellula s 
 And I proteft I love you both. Yet cannot. 
 
 Yet mu ft not enjoy either. 
 
 Bell. You (peak riddles. 
 
 Cal. Which times commentary 
 Muft only explain to you , and till then 
 Farew el good Bellula^ farewel good Hylace , 
 
 I thank you both. 
 
 Hyl. Alas ! my hopes are ftrangled. 
 
 Bell. I will not yet defpair : He may grow milder, 
 
 He bad me farewel fir ft 5 and lookt upon me 
 With a more ftedfaft eye, than upon her, 
 
 When he departed hence : 5 twas a good iign 3 
 At leaft I will imagine it to be fo, 
 
 Hope is the trueft friend, and feldom leaves one. 
 
 Enter Truga. 
 
 I doubt not but this will move him. 
 
 For they’re good Apples, but my teeth are gone, 
 
 I cannot bite them $ but for all that though 
 I’ll warrant you I can love a young fellow 
 As well as any of them all : I that I can. 
 
 And kifs him too as fweetly. Oh ! here’s the mad- man. 
 
 Enter Aphron. 
 
 Hercules , Hercules , ho Eler cules , where are you } 
 
 Lend me thy Club and Skin, and when I ha’ done. 
 
 I’ll Bing them to thee again, why Hercules ! 
 
 Pox on you, are you drunk ? can you not anfvver ? 
 
 I'll travel then without them, and do wonders. 
 
 Tru. I quake all over, worfe than any fit 
 Of the Palfie which I have had this forty years. 
 
 Exit. 
 Exit . 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 Could 
 
Loves Twiddle. 
 
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 Could make me do. 
 
 Aph. So, I ha’ found the Plot out, 
 
 Firft I’ll climb up on Porter Atlas fhoulders, 
 
 And crawl into Heaven, and I’m fare 
 I cannot chufe but find her there. 
 
 Tru. What would become of me if he fhould fee me ? 
 
 Truly he’s a good proper Gentleman, 
 
 If he were not mad, I would not be fo ’fraid of him. 
 
 Aph . What have I caught thee, faireft of all Women? 
 Where haft thou hid thy ielf fo long from Aphron d 
 Aphron who hath been dead till this bleft minute ? 
 
 Tru. Ha, ha, ha, whom doth he take me for H 
 
 Aph . Thy skin is whiter than the fnowy feathers. 
 
 Of Ledas Swans. 
 
 Tru. Law you there now, 
 
 I thought I was not founhandfom, as they’d make me. 
 
 Aph. Thy hairs are brighter than the Moons, 
 
 Than when fhefpreads her beams and fills her Orb. 
 
 Trug. Befhrew their hearts that call this Gentleman mad. 
 He hath his fenfes Li I warrant him, about him, 
 
 As well as any fellow of them all. 
 
 Aph. Thy teeth are like two Arches made of Ivory, 
 
 Of pureft Ivory. 
 
 Tru . I for thofe few I have, 
 
 I think they’r white enough. 
 
 Aph. Thou art asfrefh as May is, and thy look 
 Is picture of the Spring. * 
 
 Tru. Nay, I am but fome fourfeore years and ten, 
 
 And bear my Age well} yet Alupis fays 
 I look like January, but I’ll teach the knave 
 Another tune I’ll warrant him. 
 
 Aph. Thy lips are Cherries, let me tafte them fvveet, 
 
 Tru. You have beg’d fo handfomly. 
 
 Aph. Ha ! ye good gods defend me ! ’tis a witch, a Hag, 
 
 Tru. What am I ? 
 
 Aph. A Witch, one that did take the fhape 
 Of my belt Miftris, but thou could’ft not long 
 Bely her purenefs. 
 
 Tru. Now he’s ftark mad again upon the fudden 5 
 He had fome fenfe even now. 
 
 Aph. Thou look’ft as if thou wert fome wicked Woman 
 Frighted out of the grave } defend me, how 
 Her eyes do fink into their ugly holes, 
 
 As if they were afraid to fee the light. 
 
 Tru. 1 will not be abus’d thus, that I will not. 
 
 My hair was bright even now, and my looks frefh. 
 
 Am I fo quickly chang’d } 
 
 Tru. Her breath infects the Air, andfowsa Peftilence 
 Where e’er it comes } what hath fhe there ? 
 
 I! thefe are Apples made up with the ftings 
 

 Lows 'Riddle. 
 
 Of Scorpions, and the blood of Bafihsks j 
 Which being fwallow’d up, a thoufand pains 
 Eat on the heart, and gnaw the entrails out. 
 
 Tru. thou lyeft 5 I, thou do’ft. 
 
 For thefe are honeft Apples that they are 5 
 I’m fure I gather’d them my felf. 
 
 Aph. From the Stygian tree 5 give them me quickly, or I will- 
 Tru. What will you do? ’pray take them. 
 
 Aph. Get thee gone quickly from me, for I know thee. 
 Thou art Tifiphone. 
 
 Tru. Tis falfe 5 for I know no fuch woman. 
 
 I am glad I’m got from him, would I had 
 My Apples too, but ’tis no matter tho. 
 
 I’ll have a better gift for Callidorus 
 To morrow. 
 
 Aph. The Fiend is vanifh’d from me, 
 
 And hath left thefe behind for me to taft of. 
 
 But I will be too cunning : Thus I’ll fcatter them, 
 
 Now I have fpoifd her Plot ^ unhappy he 
 Who finds them. 
 
 The end of the fecond Aft. 
 
 Act III. Scene I. 
 
 <* • • 
 
 Enter Florellus. 
 
 T H E Sun five times had gone his Qearly progrefs, 
 Since laftlfaw my Sifter, and returning 
 Big with defire to view my native Sicily , 
 
 I found my aged Parents fadly mourning 
 The Funeral (for to them it feemsnolefs) 
 
 Of their departed Daughter 5 what a welcome 
 This was to me, all in whofe hearts a vein 
 Of Marble grows not, may eafily conceive 
 Without the dumb perfuafions of my tears» 
 
 Yet as if that were nothing, and it were 
 A kind of happinefs in mifery, 
 
 If’t come without an Army to attend it^ 
 
 As I pafs’d through thefe Woods, I faw a Woman 
 Whom her attire call’d Shepherdefs, but face, 
 
 Some difguis’d Angel, or a Sylvan Goddefs } 
 
 It ftruck fuch adoration ( for I durft not 
 Harbour the Love of fo divine a beauty) 
 
 That ever fince I could not teach my thoughts 
 Another objett 5 In this happy place, 
 
 (Happy her prefence made it) (he appear'd. 
 
 And 
 
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 LoVes Riddle. 
 
 And breath’d frefh honors on the fmiling trees. 
 
 Which owe more of their gallantry to her 
 Than to the Musky kifles of the Weft wind. 
 
 Ha ! fure’tis fhe 3 thus doth the Sun break forth 
 From the black curtain of an envious Cloud. 
 
 Enter Alupis, Bellula, Hylace; 
 
 Alu. For 'tis but a folly, &c. 
 
 Hjl> We did not (end for you 3 pray leave us. 
 
 Alu. No, by this light, not till I feeyoucryj 
 When you have (he d fome penitential tears 
 For wronging of Palatnon, there may be 
 A truce concluded betwixt you and me. 
 
 Bell. This is uncivil, ^ 
 
 To thruft into our company 3 do you think 
 That we admire your wit ? pray go to them 
 That do, we would be private. 
 
 Alu. To what purpo(e > 
 
 You’d ask how many Shepherds he hath ftrooken ? 
 
 Which is the propereft man ? which kifles fweeteft } 
 
 Which brings her the beft Prefents > and then tell 
 What a fine man woosyou, how red his lips are ? 
 
 How bright his eyes are? and what dainty fonnets 
 He hath compofed in honour of your Beauty ? 
 
 And then at laft, with what rare tricks you fool him? 
 
 Thefe are your learn’d difcourfes 3 but were all 
 Men of my temperance, and wifdom too. 
 
 You (hould woo us, I, and woo hardly too, 
 
 Before you got us. 
 
 Flo. O prophanenefs ! 
 
 Can he fo rudely fpeak to that bleft Virgin, 
 
 And not be ftrucken dumb? 
 
 Alu. Nay, you have both a mind to me 5 I know it, 
 
 But I will marry neither 3 I come hither 
 Not to gaze on you, or extol your beauty 3 
 I come to vex you. 
 
 Flo. Ruder yet ? I cannot, 
 
 I will not fuffer this 3 mad fellow, is there 
 No other Nymph in all thefe fpacious Woods, 
 
 To fling thy wild, and faucy laughter at. 
 
 But her ? whom thy great Deity even Pan 
 Himfclf would honour, do not dare to utter 
 The fmalleft accent if not cloath’d with reverence, 
 
 Nay, do not look upon her but with eyes 
 As humble and fubmiffive as thou wouldft 
 Upon the brow of Majefty, when it frowns: 
 
 I fpeak but that which Duty binds Us all to. 
 
 Thou (halt not think upon her, no not think. 
 
 Without as much refpe£t and honor to her 
 As holy men in fuperftitious zeal 
 Give to the Images they worlhip. 
 
 M Bell. Oh!) 
 
Loyes Kiddle. 
 
 Bell. Oh ! this is the Gentleman, courted meth* other day. 
 Alu. Why ? have you got a Patent to refirain me ? 
 
 Or do you thijnk your glorious lute can fright me } 
 
 ’T would do you much more credit at the Theatre, 
 
 To rile betwixt the Ads, aud look about 
 The Boxes, and then cry, God fave you Madam 3 
 Or bear you out in quarrelling at an Ordinary, 
 
 And make your Oaths become you 5 have you ftiown 
 Your gay apparel every where in town, 
 
 That you can afford us the fight oft, or 
 Hath that grand Devil whofe eclipfed fergeant. 
 
 Frighted you out of the City? 
 
 Flo. Your loofe jefts 
 
 When thev are fhot at me, 1 (corn to take 
 Any revenge upon them, but negleft. 
 
 For then ’tis rafhnefs only, but as foon 
 As you begin to violate her name, 
 
 Nature and confidence too bids me be angry, 
 
 For then ’tis wickednefs. 
 
 Alu. Well, if it be fo, 
 
 I hope you can forgive the fin that's pad 
 Without the doleful fight of trickling tears, 
 
 For I have eyes of Pumice ; I’m content 
 To let her reft in quiet, but you have given me 
 Free leave f abufe you, on the condition 
 You will revenge it only with negleft. 
 
 For then ’tis rafhnefs only. 
 
 Flo. What are you biting ? 
 
 Where did you pick thefe fragments up of wit ? 
 
 Alu. Where I paid dear enough a confcience for them. 
 They fhould be more than fragments by their price, 
 
 I bought them Sir, even from the very Merchants, 
 
 I fcorn’d to deal with your poor City Pedlers, that fell 
 By retail : but let that pafs, For ’ tis but a Folly , &c. 
 
 Flo. Then you have feen the City. 
 
 Alu. I and felt it too, I thank the Devil 5 I’m fure 
 It fuckt up in three years the whole eftate 
 My Father left, thohe were counted rich: 
 
 A pox of forlorn Captains, pitiful things, 
 
 Whom you miftake for Soldiers, only by 
 Their founding Oaths, and a Buff jerkin, and 
 Some Hiftories which they have learn’d by roat, 
 
 Of Battels fought in Perfta , or Polonia, , 
 
 Where they themfelves were of the conquering fide, 
 Although God knows one of the City Captains, 
 
 Arm'd with bread Scarf, Feather, and Scarlet breeches, 
 When he inftruffs the Youth on Holy-days, 
 
 And is made tick with fearful noife of Guns, 
 
 Would pofe them in the art Military 5 thefe 
 Were my firft Leeches. 
 
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 Flo. 
 
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 Flo. So, no wonder then you ipent To faff. 
 
 Alu. Pifh, thefe were nothing : 
 
 I grew to keep your Poets company, 
 
 Thofe are the foakers, they refin’d mefirfi: 
 
 Of thofe grofs humors that are bred by money. 
 
 And made me (freight a wit, as now you fee. 
 
 For ’ tis but a folly , &c. 
 
 Flo. But haft thou none to fling thy fait updn 
 But thefe bright Virgins? 
 
 Ain. Yes, now you are here, 
 
 You areas good a Theme as I could wifli. 
 
 Hyl. ’Tis belt for me to go, while they are talking* 
 
 For if I (teal not from Alupis fight. 
 
 He’ll follow me all day to vex me. . [Exit, 
 
 Ain. What are you vanifhing, coy Miftris Hyluce ? 
 
 Nay, I’ll be with you {freight, but firft I’ll fetch 
 
 Pal&nion , now if he can play his part 
 
 And leave off whining, we ll have princely fport. 
 
 Well, I may live in time to have the W omen 
 Scratch out my eyes, or elfe fcold me to death, 
 
 1 (hall deferve it richly : Farvvel Sir, 
 
 I have employment with the Damfel gone. 
 
 And cannot now intend you. [Exit. 
 
 Flo . They’re both gone, 
 
 Direft me now good Love, and teach my tongue 
 Th’ Inchantments that thou vvoo’dff thy Pfyche with. 
 
 Bell. Farewel Sir. 
 
 Flo . Oh ! be not fo cruel, 
 
 Let me enjoy my felf a little while, 
 
 Which without you I cannot. 
 
 Bell. Pray let me go, 
 
 To tend my Sheep, there’s none that looks to them, 
 
 And if my Father mils me, he’ll fo chide. 
 
 Flo. Alas! thou needff not fear, for th’ Wolf himfelf, 
 
 Tho hunger whet the fury of its nature, 
 
 Would learn to fpare thy pretty Flocks, and be 
 As careful as the Shepherds dog to guard them, 
 
 Nay if he (hould not, Pun would prefent be. 
 
 And keep thy tender Lambs in fafety for thee. 
 
 For tho he be a Gcd he would not blufh 
 To be thy Servant. 
 
 Bell. Oh ! You’re courtly Sir : 
 
 But your fine words will not defend my Sheep, 
 
 Or flop them if they wander 5 let me go. 
 
 Flo. Are you fo fearful of you Cattles iofs? 
 
 Yet fo negle&ful of my periihing, 
 f For without you how can I choofe but perifti ? ) 
 
 Tho I my (elf were moft contemptible, 
 
 Yet for this reafon only, that I love 
 
 And honour you, I deferve more than they do. 
 
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 LoJes Kiddle. 
 
 Dell. What would you do that thus you urge my (lay > . 
 
 Flo. Nothing I (wear that fihould offend a Saint, 
 
 Nothing which can call tip the maiden blood, 
 
 To lend thy face a blufh, nothing which chafte 
 And virtuous Sillers can deny their Brothers, 
 
 Ido confefs I love you, but the fire 
 In which Jove courted his ambitious Mifh'is, 
 
 Or that by holy men on Altars kindled, 
 
 Is nor fo pure as mine is 5 I would only 
 Gaze thus upon thee 3 feed my hungry eyes 
 Sometimes with thofe bright Treffes, which the wind 
 Far happier than I, plays up and down in, 
 
 And fometimes with thy cheeks , thofe rofie twins 3 
 Then gently touch thy hand, and often kifs it, 
 
 Till thou thy fell fhouldft check my modefty, 
 
 And yield thy lips, but further, tho thou fhoiild’ffc 
 Like other maids with weak refinance ask it, 
 
 (Which I’m fure thou wilt not ) I’d not offer 
 Till lawful Hywen joynus both, and give 
 A licence unto my delires. 
 
 Bell. Which I 
 
 Need not bellow much language to oppofe. 
 
 Fortune and Nature have forbidden it, 
 
 When they made me a rude and homely wench. 
 
 You (if your deaths and carriage be notlyars) 
 
 By flate and birth a Gentleman. 
 
 Flo. I hope 
 
 I may without fufpicion of a boafler . 
 
 Say that I am fo, elfe my love were impudence ; 
 
 For do you think wife nature did intend 
 You for a Shepherdefs, when fbe bellow’d 
 Such pains in your creation ? would fhe fetch 
 The perfumes of Arabia for your breath? 
 
 Or ranfack P.efikw of her choiceft Rofes 
 
 T’ adorn your cheeks? would fhe bereave the Rock 
 
 Of Coral for your lips? and catch two Stars 
 
 As they were falling, which fheform’d your eyes of?" 
 
 Would (lie herfelf turn Work- woman and (pin 
 Threads of the finefl Gold to be your Treffes? 
 
 Or rob the Great to make oneMicrocofm? 
 
 And having linifh’d quite the beauteous wonder, 
 
 Hide it from publick view and admiration ? 
 
 No 3 (he would fet it on fome Pyramid, 
 
 To be the fpe&acle of many eyes : 
 
 And it doth grieve me that my niggard fortune 
 Rais’d me not up to higher eminency. 
 
 Not that I am ambitious of fuch honors 
 
 But that through them I might be made more worthy 
 
 To enjoy you. 
 
 Bell. You are for ousht I fee 
 
 Too 
 
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 Loves Toddle. 8 5 
 
 Too great already 3 I will either live 
 An undefiled Virgin as I am, 
 
 Or if I marry, not bely my birth, 
 
 But joyn my lelf to fome plain vertuous Shepherd 
 
 (For Cnllidorus is fo) and I will be either his or no bodies. \A[tde. 
 
 Flo. Pray hear me. 
 
 Bell. Alas ! I have Sir, and do therefore now 
 Prepare to anfwer, if this Paliion 
 Be love, my Fortune bids me deny you 3 
 If Luft, my honefty commands to fcorn you, 
 
 Farewel. 
 
 Flo. O Bay a little ! but two words : die’s gone. 
 
 Cone, like the glorious Sun, which being let, 
 
 Night creeps behind and covers all 3 fome way 
 I mult leek out to win her, or what’s eafier 
 (And the blind man himfelf without a guide 
 May findj fome way to die 3 would I had been 
 Born a poor Shepherd in thele fliady woods. 
 
 Nature is cruel in her benefits, 
 
 And when file gives us homey, mingles gall. 
 
 She faid that if file married, the Woods. 
 
 Should find a husband for her. I will wooe her 
 
 In Silvan habit, then perhaps (he’ll love me 
 
 But yet I will not, that’s in vain 3 I will too, 
 
 It cannot hurt to try. fEx/V; 
 
 Enter Alupis, Pakemon, after them Hylace. 
 
 Alu. Nay come, file’s juft behind 11s, are you ready ? 
 
 When (hefcolds, be you loudeft, if file cry 
 Then laugh abundantly, thus we will vex her 
 Into a good conceit of you. 
 
 Pal. I'll warrant you 3 you have inftru&ed me enough. 
 
 She comes. 
 
 Fiji, 1st pofiible that BelluU 
 
 Pal. Fair creature 
 
 Hjl. Sure thou wert born to trouble me, who lent for thee? 
 
 Pal. Whom, nil the Nymphs ( tho Women ufe to be 
 As you know, envious of anothers beauty) ■ 
 
 Confefs the pride and glory of thele Woods. 
 
 H)L When did you make this fpeech ? ’cis a moft neat one : 
 
 Go, get you gone, look to your rotten Cattle, 
 
 You’ll never keep a Wife, who are not able 
 To keep your Sheep. 
 
 Alu. Good ! (be abufes him, 
 
 Now tis a miracle he doth not cry* 
 
 Pal. Thou whom the Stars might envy ? cau(e they arc ' 
 
 Out (hone by thee on earth, < . 
 
 Hyl. Pray get you gone, 
 
 Or hold your prating tongue, for whatfoever 
 Thou layeft, I will not hear a ly liable, 
 
 Much left anfwer thee. 
 
 Pal. No 3 
 
Loyes Twiddle. 
 
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 Pal. No I’ll try that drait, 
 
 I have a prefent here — 
 
 Which if you’ll give me leave, I fhall prefume 
 To dedicate to yoUr Service. 
 
 Byl. You’re fo cunning, 
 
 And havefuch pretty ways to entice me with } 
 
 Come let me fee it. 
 
 Pal . Ohl have you found a tongue? 
 
 I thought 1 had not been worth an anfvver. 
 
 Byl. How now 5 what tricks are thefe ? 
 
 Give it me quickly, or — • 
 
 Pal. Pray get you gone, or hold your prating tongue 5 
 For whatfoever thou fayeft I will not hear 
 A fyllable, much left, anfvver thee. 
 
 Alu. Good boy ’faith : now let me come. 
 
 Byl. This is fome Plot I fee, would I were gone, 
 
 I had as lieve fee the Wolf as this Alupis. 
 
 Ala. Here’s a fine Ring, I faith, a very pretty one. 
 
 Do your teeth water at it Damfel ? ha ? 
 
 Why, we will fell our Sheep and Oxen, girl. 
 
 Hang them fcurvv Beads, to buy your pretty knacks 5 
 That you might laugh at us, and call us fools, 
 
 And jeer us too, as far as our wit reaches, 
 
 Bid us be gone, and when we have talk’d two hours, 
 
 Deny to anfvver us 5 nay you mud day [ [She offers to begone , 
 
 And hear a little more. 
 
 H)l. Mud I f are you 
 TheMader of my bulinefs ? I will not. 
 
 Ala . Faith but you fhall ; hear therefore and be patient. 
 
 I’ll have thee made a Lady, yes a Lady, 
 
 For when thou’d got a chain about thy neck, 
 
 And comely bobs to dandle in thine ears : 
 
 When thou’d perfum’d thy hair, that if thy breath 
 Should be corrupted, it might (cape unknown. 
 
 And then beftow’d two hours in curling it, 
 
 Uncovering thy bread hither, thine Arms hither. 
 
 And had thy Fucus curioufly laid on} 
 
 Thoud’d be the fined proud thing, I’ll warrant thee 
 Thou would’d outdo them all. So, now go thee to her, 
 
 And let me breath a little} For ’tis but a folly , &c. 
 
 Byl. Oh ! is’t your turn to fpeak again ? no doubt 
 But we (hall have a good Oration then. 
 
 For they call you the learned Shepherd 5 well ! 
 
 This is your love I fee. 
 
 Pal. Ha, ha, ha, 
 
 What drouid I love a done ? or woo a pi&ure ? 
 
 Alasl I mud be gone, for whatfoe’er 
 I fay, you will not hear a fyLlable, 
 
 Much lefsanhver } go, you think you are 
 So fingularly LancKom, when alas, 
 
Loves 
 
 
 Gallae Menalcas Daughter, Bellula , 
 
 Or Amaryllis overcome you quite. 
 
 Hyl. This is a fcurvy fellow } I’ll fit him for r t 5 
 No doubt they are$ I wonder that your wifdoru 
 Will trouble me fo long with your vain fuit, 
 
 Why do you not woo them ? 
 
 Pal . Perhaps I do} 
 
 I’ll not tell you, becaufe you'll envy them, „ 
 
 And always be difpraifing of their beauties. 
 
 Hyl. It (hall appear I will not, for I’ll (boner 
 Embrace a Scorpion, than thee, bale man. 
 
 Pal. Ha, ha, ha. 
 
 Alapis, do’ft thou hear her} fhe’ll cry prefently. 
 
 Do not defpair yet girl, by your good carriage 
 You may recall me (till 5 fome few entreaties 
 Mingled with tears may get a kifs perhaps. 
 
 Hyl. I would not kifsthee for the wealth of Sicily 3 
 Thou wicked perjur’d fellow. 
 
 Pal. Alapis , Oh ! . 
 
 We have incens’d her too much ! how (he looks? 
 
 Prithee Aiupis help me to intreat, 
 
 You know he did but jeft, dear Hylace , 
 
 Aiupis^ prithee (peak, beft, beauteous Hylacey 
 I did but do’t to try you, pray forgive me, 
 
 Upon my knees I beg it. J - a n 
 
 Alu. Here’s a precious fool. 1 
 
 Hyl. Do’ft thou dill mock me? haft thou found more ways ? 
 Thou need’ft not vex my wit to move my hate, . 
 
 Sooner the Sun and Stars fhallftiine together, , . 
 
 Sooner the Wolf make peace with tender Lambs,; 
 
 Than I with thee 5 thou’rt aDifeafe to me, 
 
 And wound’ft my eyes. : ,>r [JBxiU 
 
 Pal. Eternal night involve me 1 if there be 1 
 
 A punifhment (but fure there is not any) , 
 
 Greater than what her Anger hath inflicted. 
 
 May that fall on me too ! how havelfool’d 
 Away my hopes ? how have I been my felf 
 
 itarT 
 
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 To my own felf a thief? 
 
 Alu. I told you this, 
 
 That if (he fhould but frown, you muft needs fall ■ l 
 
 To your old tricks again. ... .. ! ’-k 
 
 pal. Is this your art? : ' » Y * 
 
 A Lovers Curie upon it 5 Oh! Aiupis ? dc > i >IT 
 
 Thou haft done worfe than murthered me : for which jv \ 
 
 May all thy Flocks pine and decay like me, .> : v 
 
 May thy curft wit hurt all, but molt its Matter 3 
 May ’ft thou (for I can wifbno greater ill) \ . -\K 
 
 Love one like me, ant} be, like me, contemn’d. bn A 
 
 Thou’ft all the darts my tongue can fling at thee. 
 
 But l will be reveng’d fome other way. » - , :.h 
 
 Before 
 
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 Loyes Toddle. 
 
 Before I die, which cannot now belong. 
 
 Alu. Poor Shepherd, I begin to pity him. 
 
 I’ll fee if I can comfort him j PaUmott^ 
 
 Pal. Nay, donot follow me, grief, paflion, 
 
 And troubled thoughts are my companions, 
 
 Thofe I had rather entertain than thee. 
 
 If youchoofe this way let me go the other, 
 
 And in both parts diftrafred error, thee 
 
 May revenge quickly meet, may death meet me. £ Exit , 
 
 Alu. Well, I fay Fan defend me from a Lover, 
 
 Of all tame mad-men certainly they’re the worft, 
 
 I would not meet with two fuch creatures more 
 For any good, they without doubt would put me. 
 
 If it be poffible, into a fit of fadnefs. 
 
 Though it Be but a Folly , 8tc. 
 
 Well 3 I muft find fome plot yet to falve this, 
 
 Becaufe I have engaged my wit in the bufinefs, 
 
 And ’twould be a greater Scandal to the City, 
 
 If I who have fpent my means there, (hould not be 
 Able to cheat thefe Shepherds. - How now, how now, 
 
 Have we more diftrefied Lovers here ? [Enter Aphrom 
 
 Aph. No, I’mamad-man. 
 
 Alu. I gave a (hrewd guefs at it at firft fight, 
 
 I thought thee little better. 
 
 Aph. Better, why? 
 
 Can there be any better than a mad-man? 
 
 I tell thee, I came here to be a mad-man. 
 
 Nay, do not diflwademe from’t, I would be 
 A very mad-man. • 
 
 Alu. A good refolution! 
 a Tis as gentile a courle as you can take, 
 
 I have known great ones have not been afham’d oft : 
 
 But what caufe pray drove you into this humor ? 
 
 Aph. Why a Miftris, '■ 
 
 And fuch a beauteous one doft thou fee nobody ? 
 
 She fits upon a Throne amongft the Stars 
 And out-fhines them, look up and be amazed. 
 
 Such was her beauty here, fure there do lie 
 
 A thoufand vapors in thy fleepy eyes, 
 
 Do’ft thou not fee her yet? nor yet ? nor yet ? 
 
 Alu. No in good troth. . . 
 
 Aph. Thou’rt dull and ignorant. 
 
 Not skill’d at all in deep Aftrology. 
 
 Let me inftrudt thee. 
 
 Alu. Prithee do, for thou 
 Art in an admirable cafe to teach now. 
 
 Aph. I’ll (hew thee firft all the celeftial figns, 
 
 And to begin, look on that horned head, 
 
 Alu. Whofe is’t ? Jupiter s ? V 
 
 Aph. No, ’tisthe dam 5 
 
 Next 
 
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Loves Toddle. 
 
 Next that, thefpacious Bull fills up the place. 
 
 Alu • The Bull? *tis well, the fellows of: the Guard 
 Intend not to come thither 3 if they did 
 The Gods might chance to lofe their Beef. 
 
 Aph. And then, 
 
 Yonder’s the fign of Gemini , do’ft fee it? 
 
 Ain. Yes, yes, I fee one of the zealous Sifters 
 Mingled in friendfhip with a holy Brother 
 To beget Reformations. 
 
 Aph. And there fits Capricorn. 
 
 Alu. A Welchman, is’t not? 
 
 Aph. There Cancer creeps along with gouty pace, 
 
 As if his feet were lleepy, there, do you mark it? 
 
 Alu. I, I, Alderman-like avvalking after Dinner, 
 
 His paunch o’ercharged with Capon and with White-broth, 
 Aph . But now, now, now, now, gaze eternally, 
 
 Hadft thou as many eyes as the black night, 
 
 They would be all too little, feeft thou Virgo ? 
 
 Alu. No by my troth, there are fo few on Earth 
 I fliould be loth to fwear there’s more in Heaven, 
 
 Than only one. 
 
 Aph . That was my Miftris once, but is of late 
 Tranflated to the height of deferv’d Glory, 
 
 And adds new Ornaments to the wondring Heavens* 
 
 Why do I ftay behind then, a meer nothing 
 Without her prefence to give life and being? 
 
 If there be any hill whofe lofty top 
 Nature hath made contiguous with Heaven, 
 
 Tho it be fteep, rugged as Neptunes brow, 
 
 Tho arm’d with cold, with hunger, and difeafes, 
 
 And all the other Souldiers of Mifery, 
 
 Yet I would climb it up, that I might come 
 Next place to thee, and there be made a Star. 
 
 Alu. I prithee do, for amongft all the beafts 
 That help to make up the celeftial Signs, 
 
 There’s a Calf wanting yet. 
 
 Aph. But ftay 
 
 Alu. Nay, I have learn’d enough Aftrology. 
 
 Aph . Hunger and faintnefs have already feiz’d me, 
 
 5 Tis a long journey thither, I (hall want 
 Provifion 5 canft thou help me, gentle Shepherd ? 
 
 And when 1 am come thither I will fnatch 
 The Crown of Ariadne , and fling’t down 
 To thee for a reward. 
 
 Alu. No doubt you will 3 
 
 But you (hall need no viduals, when you have ended 
 Your toilfom journey, kill the Ram you talk of, 
 
 And feed your felf with moft celeftial Mutton. 
 
 Aph - Thou’rt in the right, if they deny me that. 
 
 I’ll pluck the Bear down from the Artique Pole, 
 
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Loyes fiddle.. . 
 
 And drown it in thofe waters it avoids. 
 
 And dares not touch 5 I'll tug the Hyades 
 And make them to (ink down in fpightof nature 5 
 I’ll meet with Charles his Wayn and overturn it 
 And break the wheels oft, till Bootes fhart 
 For fear, and grow more (low than e’er he was. 
 
 Alu. by this good light he’ll (huff the Moon anon, 
 Here’s words indeed would fright a Conjurer, 
 
 ’Tis pity that thefehuge Cigantickfpeeches 
 Are not upon the Stage, they would do rarely. 
 
 For none would underftand them, I could wifil 
 Some Poet here now, with his Table-Book. 
 
 Aph. I'll cuff with Pollux , and outride thee, Cajior, 
 When the fierce Lion roars I’ll pluck his heart out, 
 
 And be call’d Cordelion , I’ll grapple with the Scorpion, 
 Take his fling out and fling him to the earth. 
 
 Alu. To me good Sir, 
 
 It may perhaps raile me a great Eftate 
 
 With {hewing it up and down for Pence a piece. 
 
 Aph. Alcides freed the earth from Savage monflers. 
 And I will free the heavens and be called 
 Don Hercules Aid do de fecundo . 
 
 Alu. A brave Caftilian name. 
 
 Aph . ’Tis a hard task, 
 
 But if that fellow did fomuch by ftrength, 
 
 I may well do’t arm’d both with Love and fury. 
 
 Alu. Of which thou haft enough. 
 
 Aph . Farewel thou rat. 
 
 The Cedar bids the Shrub adjeu. 
 
 Alu. Farewel 
 
 Don Hercules Alcido de fecundo. 
 
 If thou fear’ ft any, ’twill be by that name. 
 
 This is a wonderful rare fellow, and 
 
 I like his humor mightily who’s here? 
 
 Enter Truga. 
 
 The Chronicle of a hundred years ago ! 
 
 How many crows hath (he outliv’d ? fure death 
 Hath quite forgot her 5 by this Memento tnori 
 I muft invent fome trick to help PaUmon. 
 
 Tru. I am going again to Callidorus , 
 
 But I have got a better prefent now. 
 
 My own Ring made of good Ebony, 
 
 Which a young handfom Shepherd beftowed on me 
 Some fourfeore years ago, then they all lov’d me, 
 
 I was a handfom Lafs, I was in thofe days. 
 
 Alu. I, fo thou wert I’ll warrant $ here’s good fign of 
 Now 1*11 begin the work, Reverend Truga , 
 
 Whole very Autumn fhews how glorious 
 The fpring time of your youth was—— 
 
 Tru. Are you come 
 
9 * 
 
 Loyes TUddle. 
 
 To put your mocks upon me ? 
 
 Alu. I do confefs indeed my former fpeeches 
 Have been too rude and faucy, I have flung 
 Mad jefts too wildly at you 5 but confldering 
 The reverence Which is due to age, and vertue, 
 
 I have repented, will you fee my tears? 
 
 And believe them : Oh for an Onion now ! 
 
 Or I (hall laugh aloud, ha, ha, ha ! ) [A/fde. 
 
 Tru. A)asgood foul ! I do forgive you truly 5 
 I would not have you weep for me, indeed 
 I ever thought you would repent at laft. 
 
 Ain . You might well. 
 
 But the right valuing of your worth and virtue 
 Hath turn’d the folly of my former fcorn 
 Into a wifer reverence, pardon me 
 If I (ay love. 
 
 Tru. I, I, with all my heart* 
 
 But do you fpeak fincerely ? 
 
 Ain. Oh ! it grieves me 
 
 That you (hould doubt it, what I fpake before 
 Were lies, the off-fpring of a foolith rafhnefs, 
 
 I fee fome fparks (till of your former beauty. 
 
 Which in fpight of time ftill flourifh. 
 
 Tm. Why I am not 
 So old as you imagined, I am yet 
 But fourfcore years. Am I a January now ? 
 
 How do you think? I always did believe 
 You’d be of another opinion one day, 
 
 I know you did but jeft. 
 
 Ain. Oh no, oh no, (I fee it takes) {Ajide. 
 
 How you bely your age. — for — let me fee — 
 
 A man would take you — let me fee — for — 
 
 Some forty years or thereabouts (l mean four hundred) [Ajide. 
 Not a jot more I fvvear. 
 
 Tm. Oh no ! you flatter me, 
 
 But I look fomething frefh indeed this morning. 
 
 I fhould pleafe Callidorus mightily, 
 
 But I’ll not go perhaps ; this fellow is 
 As handfom quite as he, and I perceive 
 
 He loves me hugely, I proteft I will not (~ Afide . 
 
 Have him grow mad, which I may chance to do 
 If I fhould fcorn him. 
 
 Alu. I have fomething here 
 Which I would fain reveal to you, but dare not 
 Without your licence. 
 
 Tru. Do in Pans name, do 3 now, now. 
 
 Alu. The comely gravity which adorns your age. 
 
 And makes you ftill feem lovely, hath fo ftrucken me — 
 
 Tru. Alas good foul! I muft feem coy at firft, 
 
 But not too long, for fear I (hould quite lofe him. 
 
 N 2, Alu . That 
 
Loises Riddle. 
 
 Alu. That I (hall perifh utterly, unlefs 
 Your gentle nature help me. 
 
 Tru. Alas good Shepherd ! 
 
 And in troth I fain would help you, 
 
 But I am pad thole vanities of Love. 
 
 Alu . Oh no ! 
 
 Wife nature which preferv’d your life till now 
 Doth itbecaufe you (hould enjoy thefe pleafures 
 Which do belong to life, if you deny me, 
 
 I am undone. 
 
 Tru. Well you (hould not win me 
 But that I am. loth to be held the caufe 
 of any young mans ruin, do not think it 
 My want of chadity, but my good nature 
 Which would fee no one hurt. 
 
 Alu. Ah pretty foul ! 
 
 How fupple ’tis, like Wax before the Sun I 
 Now cannot I chufe hut ki fs her, there’s the plague oft. 
 
 Let’s then joyn our hearts, and feal them with a kifs. 
 
 Tru. Well, let us then : 
 
 Twere incivility to be your debtor. 
 
 I’ll give you back again your ki(s, (weet-heart, 
 
 And come in th’ Afternoon, I’ll fee you , 
 
 My Husband will be gone to fell (ome Kine, 
 
 And Hjlace tending the Sh£ep, till then : 
 
 Farewel good Duck. [Offers to go. 
 
 But do you hear, becaufe you (hall remember \_Turns back, : 
 
 To come. I’ll give thee here this Ebon Ring, 
 
 But do not wear it, led my Husband chance 
 To fee’t : Farewel Duck. 
 
 Alu. Led her Husband chance 
 To feet: (he cannot deny this, here’s enough 5 
 My Scene of Love is done then 5 is (he gone ? 
 
 I’ll call her back, ho Truga ; Truga ho : 
 
 Tru, Why do you call me Duck ? 
 
 Alu . Only to ask one foolidi quedion of thee: 
 
 Ha’n’t you a Husband ? • 
 
 Tru. Yes, you know I have. 
 
 Alu. And do you love him? 
 
 Trn. Why do you ask ? I do. 
 
 Alu, Yet you can be content to make him a Cuckold. 
 
 Tru . Rather than to fee you perifh in your flames. 
 
 Alu. Why, art thou now two hundred years of age. 
 
 Yet had no more difcretion but to think 
 That I could love thee ? ha, ha, were’t mine 
 I’d fell thee to fome Gardener, thou wouldd (erve 
 To fcare away the thieves as well as crows. 
 
 Tru. Oh, you’re difpofed to jed I fee, Farewel. 
 
 Alu. Nay. I’m in very earned 5 I love you ! 
 
 Why thy face is a vizard. 
 
Loves Twiddle. 
 
 Tru. Leave of thefe’ tricks, 1 (ball be angry elfe, 
 
 And take away the favours I beftow’d. 
 
 Alu - Tis known that thou haft eyes by the holes only. 
 Which are crept farther in, than thy nofe our. 
 
 And that’s almoft a yard 5 thy quarrelling teeth 
 Of fuch a colour are, that they themfelves 
 Scare one another, and do (land atdiftance^ 
 
 Thy skin hangs loofe as if it fear’d the bones 
 (For tiefh thou haft not) and is grown fo black, 
 
 That a wild Centaure would not meddle with thee. 
 
 To conclude, Nature made thee when fhe was 
 Only difpos’d to je;ft, and length of time 
 Hath made thee more ridiculous. 
 
 Tru. Bafe villian, is this your love ? 
 
 Give me my R ; ng again ? 
 
 Alu. No. no 5 foft there : 
 
 I intend to beftowit on your Husband 5 
 H ’i keep it better far than you have done. 
 
 Tru. What 5 all I do? Alnpis , good Alupis } 
 
 Stay but a little while, pray do but hear me. 
 
 Alu. No, I’ll corneto you in the Afternoon, 
 
 Ycur Husband will be felling oflome Kine, 
 
 And Hylace tending the fheep. 
 
 Tru . Pray hear me, command me any thing 
 And be but filent of this, good A lupis 5 
 Hugh, Hugh, Hugh. 
 
 Alu. Yes, yes, yes, I will be filent. 
 
 I’ll only blow a Trumpet on yon hill, 
 
 Till all the Country Swains are flockt about me, 
 
 Then fiiew the Ring, and tell the palfages 
 ’Twixtyou and me. 
 
 Tru. Alas ! I am undone. 
 
 Alu. Well now ’tis ripe , I have had fport enough 
 Since I behold your penitential tears 
 I’ll propole this to you, if you can get 
 Your Duughter to be married to Pal# won 
 This day, for I’ll allow no longer time 5 
 Tomorrow I’ll reftore your Ring, andfwear 
 Never to mention what is path betwixt us. 
 
 If not you know what follows take your choice. 
 
 Tru. I ll do my beft endeavour. 
 
 Alu. Go make haft then, 
 
 You know your time’s bur (hort, and ufe it well : 
 
 Now if this fail the Devil’s n all wit. [Exit Trug 
 
 I’ll go and thruft it forward, if it take, 
 
 TU Jing away the day , 
 j For 1 tis hut a folly , 
 
 To he raelanchjflly , 
 
 Let s live here whiljl we may . 
 
 The end of the third Act. 
 
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94 
 
 Loyes ‘Sjddle. 
 
 Act IV. Scene I. 
 
 Enter C allidor us , Bellula , Florellus. 
 
 Cal T^Ray follow me no more, methinks that modefty 
 1 Which is fo lively painted in your face. 
 
 Should prompt your maiden heart with fears and blulhes 
 To trud your (elfin fo much privatenefs 
 With one you know not. 
 
 Bell. I lhould love thofe fears 
 And call them hopes, could I perfwade my (elf. 
 
 There were fo much heat in you as to caufe them. 
 
 Prithee leave me ; If thou dod hope fuccefs 
 To thine own love, why interrupt’d thou mine ? 
 
 Flo. If Love caufe you 
 To follow him, how can you angry be } 
 
 Becaufe Love forces me without refiftance 
 To do the fame to you ? 
 
 Bell. Love (hould not grow 
 So fubtil as to play with arguments. 
 
 Flo . Love fhould not be an enemy to Reafon, 
 
 Cal. To Love is of itfelf a kindoffolly. 
 
 But to love one who cannot render back 
 Equal defire, is nothing elfe but madnefs. 
 
 Bell, Tell him fo$ ’tis a Leflon he fhould learn. 
 
 Flo. Not to love is of it felf a kind of hardnefs. 
 
 But not to love him who hath always woo’d you 
 With chade defires, is nothing lefs than Tyranny. 
 
 Bell. Tell him fo 5 ’tis a Leffon he fhould learn. 
 
 Cal. Why do you follow him that flies from you ? 
 
 Flo. Why do you flie from him that follows you ? 
 
 Bell. Why do you follow ? Why do you flie from me? 
 
 Cal. The Fates command me that I mud not love you. 
 
 Flo. The Fates command me that I needs mud love you. 
 
 Bell. The Fates impofe the like command on me. 
 
 That you I mud, that you I cannot love. 
 
 Flo. Unhappy man ! when I begin to cloath 
 My Love with words, and court her with perfuafions. 
 
 She flands unmov’d, and doth not clear her Brow 
 Of the lead wrinkle which fate there before ; 
 
 So when the waters with an amorous noife 
 Leap up and down, and in a wanton dance 
 Kifs the dull Rock, that (corns their fond embraces, 
 
 And darts them back 5 till they with terror (cattered, 
 
 Drop down again in tears. 
 
 Bell. Unhappy Woman ! 
 
 When I begin to (hew him all my pafiion, 
 
 He flies from me, and will not clear his Brow 
 
 Of 
 
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 Loves Huddle. 
 
 Of any Cloud which covered it before $ 
 
 So when the ravifhing Nightingale hath tun’d 
 Her mournful notes, and filencd all the Birds, 
 
 Yet the deaf wind flirts by, and in difdain 
 With a rude whittle leaves her. 
 
 Cla. We are all three 
 
 Unhappy 5 born to be the proud example 
 Of Loves great God-head, not his Goddike goodnefs. 
 
 Let us not call upon ourfelves thofe miferies 
 Which love hath not, and thofe it hath, bear bravely, 
 
 Qur defires yet are like fome hidden text. 
 
 Where one word feemsto contradict another, 
 
 They are Loves non-fence, wrap’t up in thick clouds. 
 
 Till Fate be pleas'd to write a Commentary, 
 
 Which doubtlefs ’twill , till then let us endure, 
 
 And found a parlee to our Paflions. 
 
 Bell. We may joyn hands tho, may wenot } 
 
 Flo . We may, and lips too, may we not ? 
 
 Bell. We may, come let’s fit down and talk. 
 
 Cal. And look upon each other. 
 
 Flo . Then kifs again. 
 
 Bell. Then look. • 
 
 Cal Then talk again. 
 
 What are we like } the hand of Mother Nature 
 Would be quite pos’d to make our fmile. 
 
 Flo. We are the Trigon in loves Hemifphere, 
 
 Bell. W e are three firings on Venus dainty’ft Lute, 
 
 Where all three hinder one anothers mufick. 
 
 Yet all three joyn and make one Harmony. 
 
 Cal. We are three flowers of Venus dainty Garden, 
 
 Where all three hinder one anothers odor. 
 
 Yet all three joyn, and make one nofegay up. 
 
 Flo. Come let us kifs again. 
 
 Bell. And look. 
 
 Cal. And talk. 
 
 Flo. Nay rather fing, your Lips are Natures Organs, 
 
 And made for nought lefs fweet than harmony. 
 
 Cal Pray do. 
 
 Bell. Tho I forfeit 
 
 My little skill in finging to your wit. 
 
 Yet I will do’t, finceyou command. * " 
 
 SONG; 
 
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 It is a punifoment to love , 
 
 And not to love a punishment doth prove 3 
 But of all pains there s no fuch pain 9 
 As 9 tisto love 7 and ngt be lav'd again* 
 
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 0! ' ban ' 
 
 Tift 
 
 
 'T’ 
 
hones Riddle. 
 
 ■£_ — — 
 
 Till fix teeny Parents m obey , 
 
 After fixteen, menjleal our hearts away : 
 
 How wretched are we women grown , 
 
 Whofi wills , whofe minds , whoje hearts are ne'er our own / 
 
 Cal. Thank you. 
 
 Flo. For ever be the tales of Orpheus filent, 
 
 Had the fame age feen thee, that very Poet, 
 
 Who drew all to him by his harmony, 
 
 Thou would’ft have drawn to thee. 
 
 Cal. Come, (hall we rife ? ^ 
 
 Bell. If it pleafe you, I will. 
 
 Cal. I cannot chufe 
 
 But pity thefe two Lovers, and am taken 
 Much with theferious trifles of their pafiion. 
 
 Let's go and fee, if we can break this net 
 In which we all are caught } if any man 
 
 Ask who we are, we’ll fay we are Loves Riddle. [Exeunt. 
 
 Enter /Egon, Palremon , Alupis. 
 
 Pal. Thou art my better Genius, honeft /Egon, 
 
 Alu. And what am I? .ui:.; 
 
 Pal. My felf, my foul, my friend. 
 
 Let me hug thee Alupis , and thee /Egon , 
 
 Thee for inventing it, thee for putting it 
 In But do you think the Plot will hold? 
 
 Alu. Hold ! why I’ll warrant thee it fhall hold. 
 
 Till we have ty’d you both in wedlock faft. 
 
 Then let the bonds of Matrimony hold you 
 If't will, if that will not neither, lean tell you 
 What will I’m fare, a Halter.- , 
 
 Then (ing, Sec. 
 
 /Eg. Come, fhall we knock ? 
 
 Alu. Ido} For'tis , &c. 
 
 /Eg. Ho Truga 5 who’s within there ? 
 
 , Alu. You, Winter , Ho, you that the grave expe&ed 
 Some hundred years ago, you that intend 
 To live till you turn Skeleton, and make 
 All men weary of you but Phyficians 
 Pox on you, will you come? 
 
 Enter Truga. 
 
 Tru. I come, I come, who’s there? who’s there? 
 
 Alu. Oh, in good time, 
 
 Are you crawl’d here at Iaft ? what are you ready 
 To give your Daughter up ? the time makes hafte. 
 
 Look here, do you know this Ring ? , 
 
 Tru. Hark afide I pray. 
 
 You have not told thefe, have you? 
 
 Alu. No good Duck, 
 
 Only told them that your mind was altered. 
 
 And that you lik’d Palmon> fo we three 
 
 Came 
 
Loyes 
 
 Brought in to be my gueft. 
 
 AU. Yes, but am ignorant, who, or from whence he is, 
 
 Cla. Thou (halt know all , 
 
 The frefhnels of the morning did invite me 
 To walk abroad, there I began to think 
 How I had loft my Brother, that one thought 
 Like circles in the Water begat many, 
 
 Thofe and the pleafant verdure of the Fields 
 Made me forget the way, and did entice me 
 Farther than either fearormodefty 
 Elfe would have fullered me, beneath an Oak 
 Which fpread a fiourifhing Canopy round aibout. 
 
 And was itfelf alonealmoft a Wood, 
 
 I found a Gentleman diffracted ftrangely. 
 
 Crying aloud for either food or lleep, 
 
 And knocking his white hands againft the ground, 
 
 Making that groan like me, when I beheld it. 
 
 Pity, and fear, both proper to us Women, 
 
 Drave my feet back far fwifter than they went. 
 
 When I came home, I took two Servants with me 
 And fetch’d the Gentleman, hither I brought him, 
 
 And with fuch chear as then the Houfe afforded, 
 
 Replenifhed him, he was much mended fuddenl}% 
 
 Is now atleep, and when he wakes, I hope, 
 
 Will find his fenfes perfed. 
 
 Ala. You did (hew 
 
 In this, what never was a ftranger to you. 
 
 Much piety 3 but wander from your fubjed : 
 
 You have not yet difcovered, who it is 
 Deferves your Love. 
 
 Cla. Fie, fie, how dull thou art, 
 
 Thou doft not ufe in other things to be fo 5 
 Why I love him , his name I cannot tell thee 5 
 For ’tis my great unhappinefs to be 
 Still ignorant of that my felf. He comes, 
 
 Look, this is he, but do not grow my rival if thou canft choofe. 
 Ma. You need not fcar’t forfooth. [Enter Aphron, 
 
 Cla . Leave me alone with him 3 withdraw. 
 
 Ala. I do. [ Exit A laid. 
 
 Aph. Where am I now? under the Northern Pole 
 Where a perpetual Winter binds the ground 
 And glazeth up the floods ? or where the Sun 
 With neighbouring rays breaks the divided earth, 
 
 And drinks the Rivers up ? or do I deep? 
 
 Is’t not fome foolifh dream deludes my fancy ? 
 
 Who am I ? I begin to queftion that. 
 
 Was not my County Sicily ? my name 
 Call’d Aphron , wretched Aphron £ 
 
 Cla. Ye good Gods 
 
 Forbid 3 is this that man who was the caufe 
 
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 Of 
 
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 Loves Riddle. 
 
 Of all the grief for CaMidoras lofs } . . ■ : 
 
 Is this the man that I fo oft have curft ? 
 
 Now I could almoft hate him, and methinks 
 He is not quite fo handfom as he was , 
 
 And yet alas he is, tho by his means 
 My Brother is gone from me, and Heaven knows 
 If I (hall fee him more, Fool as I am, 
 
 I cannot chufe but love him. 
 
 Aph. Cheat me not good eyes, 
 
 What Woman, or what Angel do I fee ? 
 
 Oh ftay, and let me worfhip ere thou goeft ; 
 
 Whether thou beefta Goddefs which thy beauty 
 Commands me to believe, orelfe (ome mortal 
 Which I the rather am induc’d to think, 
 
 Becaufe I know the Gods all hate me fo, 
 
 They would not look upon me. 
 
 Cla. Spare thefe titles, 
 
 I am a wretched Woman, who for pity 
 (Alas that I fhould pity ! t’had been better 
 That I had been remorflefs^ brought you hither, 
 
 Where with fome food and reft, thanks to the Gods 
 Your fenfes are recovered. 
 
 Aph. My good Angel ! 
 
 I do remember now that I was mad 
 For want of meat and deep, thrice did the Sun 
 Chear all the World but me, thrice did the night 
 With filent and bewitching darknefs give 
 A refting time to every thing but Aphron. 
 
 The Fifh, the Beafts, the Birds, the fmalleft creatures 
 And the moft defpicable fnor’d fecurely. 
 
 The aguifh head of every tree by Jftolus 
 Was rock’d afleep, and fhook as if it nodded. 
 
 The crooked Mountains feem’d to bow and (lumber, 
 
 The very Rivers ceas’d their daily murmur. 
 
 Nothing did watch, but the pale, Moon and I, 
 
 Paler than file $ grief wedded to this toil. 
 
 What elfe could it beget but franticknefs } 
 
 But now methinks, I am my own, my brain 
 Swims not as it was wont 5 Oh brighteft Virgin 
 Shew me fome way by which I may be grateful. 
 
 And if I do’tnot, let an eternal Phrenzy 
 Immediately feize on me. 
 
 Cla. Alas! ’twasonly 
 
 My love, and if you will reward me for’t. 
 
 Pay that I lent you, I’ll require no intereft, 
 
 The Principals enough. • \ !• 
 
 Aph. You fpeak in mifts. 
 
 Cla . You’re loth perhaps to underftand. 
 
 Aph. If you intend that I fhould love and honour you, 
 
 Ido by all the Gods. 
 
 Cla . But 
 
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Love i Toddle. ioi 
 
 Cla. But lam covetous in my demands, 
 
 I am not (atisfkd with wind-like promifes 
 Which only touch the lips 3 I ask your heart, 
 
 Your whole heart for me, in exchange of mine, 
 
 Which fo I gave to you. 
 
 Aph. Ha ! you amaze me. 
 
 Oh ! You have fpoken fomething worfe than Lightning, 
 
 That blafts the inward parts, leaves the outward whole, 
 
 My gratitude commands me to obey you. 
 
 But I am born a man, and have thofe Pafiions 
 Fighting within me, which I muft obey. 
 
 Whilft Callidora lives, although (he be 
 As cruel, as thy breaft is foft and gentle^ 
 
 ’Tis (in for me to think ofany other. 
 
 Cla. You cannot love me then ? 
 
 Aph. I do, I (wear, 
 
 Above my (elf I do : my felf ! what faid P 
 Alas ! that’s nothing 3 above any thing 
 But Heaven and Callidora. 
 
 Cla. Fare you well then, 
 
 I would not do that wrong to one I love, 
 
 To urge him farther than his power and will 3 
 Farewei, remember me when you are gone, 
 
 And happy in the love of Callidora. . \_£xit* 
 
 Aph. When I do not, may I forget my felf. 
 
 Would I were mad again ; then I might rave 
 With privilege, I (hould not know the griefs 
 That hurried me about, ’twere better far 
 To lofe the Senfes, Than be tortur’d by therm 
 Where is (he gone ? I did not ask her name. 
 
 Fool that I was, alas poor Gentlewoman ! 
 
 Can any one love me ? ye cruel Gods 
 1 s t not enough that I my felf am miferable } 
 
 Mufti make others fo too ? I’ll go in 
 And comfort her 5 alas ! how can I tho ? 
 
 I'll grieve with her, that is in ills a comfort. JTEtf#, 
 
 Enter Alupis , Melarms , Truga , Paltiwon^ JRgon. 
 
 Pal. Before when you denied your Daughter to me, 
 
 ’Twas Fortunes fault, not mine, but fince good Fate, 
 
 Or rather JEgon, better far than Fate, 
 
 Hath rais’d me up to what you aim’d at, riches, 
 
 I fee not with what countenance yqu can 
 Coin any fecond argument againft me. 
 
 Mel. Come, no matter for that : 
 
 Yes, I could wifh you were left eloquent, 
 
 You have a vice called Poefie which much 
 Difpleafeth me, but no matter for that neither. 
 
 Alu. Alas ! he’ll leave that (freight 
 When he has got but money ; he that fwiras 
 In Tagus, never will go back to Helicon* 
 
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 Loyes _ Riddle. 
 
 
 Befides, when he hath married Hjlace, 
 
 Whom (liould he woo, to praife her comely Feature, 
 
 Her skin like falling Snow, her eyes like Stars, 
 
 Her cheeks likeRofes (which are common places 
 Of all your Lovers prail’esj Oh! thofe Vanities, 
 
 Things quite as light, and foolifh as a Miftris, 
 
 Are by a Miftris firft begot, and left 
 When they leave her. 
 
 Pal. Why do you think that Poefie 
 An art which even the Gods— — 
 
 Ain. Pox on your arts, 
 
 Let him think what he will , what’s that to us ? 
 
 /Eg. Well, I would gladly have an anfwer of you. 
 
 Since I have made Palaemon here my (bn. 
 
 If you conceive your daughter is fo good, 
 
 We will not prefs you, but feek out fome other 
 Who may perhaps pleafe me and him as well» \ 'A 
 
 Pal. Which is impoflible — 
 
 Alu. Rot on your poffibles 
 
 Thy mouth like acrackt Fiddle never founds 
 But out of Tune ^ come, put on Truga, 
 
 You’ll never (peak unlefs I fhew the Ring. 
 
 Tru. Yes, yes, Ido, Ido 5 do you hearfweet heart ? 
 
 Are you mad to fling away a Fortune 
 That’s thruft upon you, you know /Egons rich. 
 
 Mel . Come, no matter for that. 
 
 That’s thrnft upon me ! I would fain fee any man 
 Thruft ought upon me 3 But’s no matter for that, 
 
 I will do that which I intend to do, 
 
 And Yis no matter for that neither, that’s thruft upon me ! 
 
 Pal. Come, what fay you Melarnus .<? 
 
 Mel . What fay I ) ’tis no matter what I fay, 
 
 I’ll fpeakto /Egon , if I (peak to any, 
 
 And not to you 5 but no matter for that 5 
 Hark you, will you leave all the means you have 
 To this PaUnton ? 
 
 Tru. I Duck, he fays he will. - 
 
 Mel. Pifh, ’its no matter for that, I’ll hear him fay fo. 
 
 /Eg. I will, and here do openly proteft. 
 
 That (incemy Bellula ("mine that was once) 
 
 Thinks herfelfwifer than her father is, 
 
 And will be governed rather by her Paflions 
 Than by the Square that I preferibe to her, 
 
 That I will never count her as my Daughter. 
 
 Alu. Wella&ed by God Pan , fee but What ’tis 
 To have me for a Tutor in thefe Rogueries. 
 
 Mel. But tell me novv, good neighbor, what eftate 
 Do you intend to give him ) - * 
 
 /Eg. That eftate . 
 
 Which Fortune and my Care hath given to me. 
 
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Loves Laddie. 
 
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 The money which I have, and that’s not much, 
 
 The Sheep, and Goats. 
 
 Mel . And not the Oxen too ? 
 
 /Eg. Yes, every thing. 
 
 Mel. The Horfes to ? 
 
 /Eg. I tell you, every thing. 
 
 Alii. By Pan he’ll make him promife him particularly 
 Each thing above the value of a Beans-ftraw : 
 
 You'll leave him the pails too, to milk the Kine in. 
 
 And Harnefs for the Horfes, will you not ? 
 
 Mel. I, I, whatelfe^ but ’tis no matter for that, 
 
 I know PaUmon s an ingenious man, 
 
 And love him therefore $ but’s no matter for that neither. 
 
 /Eg. Well, fince we are both agreed, why do we (lay here } 
 I know PaUmon longs t’ embrace his Hylace. 
 
 Mel . I, I, ’tis no matter for that, within this hour 
 We will be ready, /Egon, pray be you fo, 
 
 Farewel my Son-in-law that fhall be, 
 
 But’s no matter for that : Farewel all : 
 
 Come Truga. [ Exeunt Melarnus and Truga* 
 
 /Eg. Come on then, let’s not ftay too long in trifling, 
 
 PaUmon go, and prepare your felfagainft the time. 
 
 I’ll go acquaint my Bellula with your Plot, 
 
 Left this unwelcome news fhould too much grieve her, 
 
 Before (he know my meaning. 
 
 Alu. Do, do; and Tllgottudyv 
 Some new found way to vex the fool Melarnus. 
 
 For’tisbntafolly , • ‘ • 
 
 To be melancholy ,Stc. 
 
 Enter Florellus. ■ 
 
 Whilft Callidorns lives, I cannot love thee. 
 
 Thefe were her parting words } I’ll kill him then 5 
 Why do I doubt it fool ? fuch wounds as thefe 
 Require no gentler med’eine , methinks Love 
 Frowns at me now, and fays I am too dull. 
 
 Too flow in his command 5 and yeti will not, 
 
 Thefe hands are Virgins yet, unltain’d with Villany, 
 
 Shall I begin to teach them ? — methinks Piety 
 Frowns at me now, and fays, lam too weak . 
 
 Againft my Paffions. Piety ! 
 
 5 T was fear begot that Bugbear j for thee BclInU 
 I durft be wicked, tho I faw Jovcs hand 
 Arm’d with a naked Thunderbolt: Farewel, i ! 
 
 (If thou beeft any thing, and not a fhadow 
 To fright Boys and old- women) farewel Conference, 
 
 Go and be ftrong in other petty things, 
 
 To Lovers come, when Lovers make ufe of thee. 
 
 Not elfe : and yet, — what fhall I do or fay-? 
 
 I fee the better way, and know ’tis. better. 
 
 Yet ftill this devious error draws me backward. 
 
 
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 Loyes Riddle. 
 
 So when contrary winds rufh out and meet, 
 
 And wreftle on the Sea with equal fury. 
 
 The waves (well into Mountains, and are driven 
 Now back, now forward, doubtful of the two 
 Which Captain to obey. 
 
 Enter Alupis. 
 
 Alu. Fla, ha, I’ll have fuch excellent fport, 
 
 For ’ tis but a Folly , 8tc. 
 
 F/tf.Why here’s a fellow now makes fport of every thing. 
 
 See one mans fate how it excels another, 
 
 He can fit, and pafs away the day in jollity, 
 
 My mufick is my fighs, whilfl tears keep time. 
 
 Alu . Who’s here } a raoft rare pofture ! 
 
 How the good foul folds in his arms ! he dreams 
 Sure that he hugs his Miftris now, for that 
 Is his difeafe without all doubt, fo, good! 
 
 With what judicious garb he plucks his hat 
 Over his eyes 3 fo, fo, good! better yet 5 
 
 He cries 5 by this good light, he cries, the man , 
 
 Is careful, and intends to water his fheep 
 With his own tears 3 ha, ha, ha, ha. 
 
 Flo. Do’ft thou fee any thing that deferves thy laughter, 
 
 Fond Swain } 
 
 Alu. I fee nothing in good troth but you. 
 
 Flo. To jeer thofe who are Fates may-game 
 Is a redoubled fault ; for ’tis both fin. 
 
 And folly too 3 our life is fo uncertain 
 Thou canfl not promife that thy mirth fhall laft 
 To morrow, and not meet with any rub, 
 
 Then thou may’ft a<ft that part, to day thou laugh’ft at. 
 
 Alu. I a& a part > it mult be in a Comedy then, 
 
 I abhor Tragedies 3 befides, I never 
 Pra&is’d this pofture : Hey ho ! woe, alas ! 
 
 Why do I live ? my mufick is my fighs 
 Whilfl: tears keep time. 
 
 Flo. You take too great a licence to your wit 3 
 Wit, did I fay ? I mean, that which you think fo : 
 
 And it deferves my pity, more than anger. 
 
 Elfe you (hould find, that blows are heavier far 
 Than the moft ftudied jefts you can throw at me. 
 
 Alu. Faith it will be but labour loft to beat me, 
 
 All will not teach me how to a & this part 3 
 Woe’s me ! alas ! I’m a dull rogue, and fo 
 Shall never learn it. 
 
 Flo. You’re unmannerly 
 To talk thus faucily with one you know not, 
 
 Nay, hardly ever faw before, be gone 
 And leave me as you found me, my worft thoughts 
 Are better company than thou. 
 
 Alu. Enjoy them then, 
 
 Here’s 
 
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 Loves Twiddle. 
 
 Here’s nobody delires to rob you of them. 
 
 I would have left your company without bidding, 
 Tis not fo pleafant, I remember well, 
 
 When I had Ipent all my money, I flood thus. 
 
 And therefore hate the pcfture ever lince. 
 
 D’ye hear ? I’m going to a weddingnow 3 
 If you’avea mind to dance, come along with me. 
 Bring your hard-hearred Miftris with you too, 
 Perhaps I may perfwade her* and tell her 
 Your Mulick fighs, and that your tears keep time. 
 Will you not go ? Fare wel then good Tragical A< 5 tor. 
 Now have at thee Molamus 3 For'tzs but a folly , &c. 
 
 Flo. Thou art a Prophet. Shepherd 3 She is hard 
 As Rocks which fufier the continual liege 
 Of Sea and Wind againft them 3 but I will 
 Win her or lofe (which I fhould gladly do} 
 
 My felf : myfelf? why fo I have already: 
 
 Ho ! who hath found FLoreUus .<? he is loll. 
 
 Loft to himfelf, and to his Parents likewife, 
 
 (Who having mifs’d me, do by this time fearch 
 Each corner for to find me} Oh ! Florellus , 
 
 Thou muft be wicked, or for ever wretched, 
 
 Hard is the Phyfick, harder the Difeafe. 
 
 The end of the fourth Ac 7 . 
 
 [Exit* 
 
 Act V Scene I. 
 
 Enter Alupzs, PaUmon, JEgon. 
 
 Pal. / ft ' s H E gods convert thefe omens into good, 
 
 X And mock my fears 3 thrice in the very threfhold. 
 Without its Mafters leave my foot ftood ft ill. 
 
 Thrice in the way it (tumbled. 
 
 Alu, Thrice, and thrice 
 You were a fool then forobferving it. 
 
 Why thefe are follies that the young years of Trugd 
 Did hardly know 3 are they not vanilh’d yet ? 
 
 Pal. Blame not my fear : that’s Cupid's ulher always 3 
 Tho Hjlace were now in my embraces, 
 
 I fhould half doubt it. 
 
 Alu. If you chanc'd to {tumble. 
 
 JEg. Let him enjoy his madnefs, the fame liberty 
 He’Jl grant to you, when you’re a Lover too. 
 
 Alu. I, when I am, he may 3 yet if I were one 
 I (hould not be difmay’d becaufe the threlhold— 
 
 Pah Alas ! That was not all, as I came by 
 
 P The 
 
i o 6 Loyes Toddle, 
 
 The Oak to Faunus facred, where the Shepherds 
 Exercife rural fports on Feftivals, 
 
 On that Trees top an inaufpicious Crow 
 Foretold fome ill to happen. 
 
 JEv. And becaufe Crows 
 Foretel wet weather, you interpret it 
 The rain of your own eyes 5 but leave thefe tricks 
 And let me advife you. 
 
 Melarnus Jpeakjng to Hylace within his door . 
 
 Mel. Well come, no matter for that 5 I do believe thee, girl. 
 And would they have fuch fport with vexing me ! 
 
 But’s no matter for that 5 I’ll vex them for’t, 
 
 I know your fiery Lover will be here ftrait, 
 
 But I fhall cool him j but come, no matter for that : 
 
 Go get you in, for I do fee them coming. 
 
 JEg. Here comes Melarnus. 
 
 Pal. He looks chearfully, I hope all’s well. 
 
 JEg. Melarnus , opportunely : we are acoming 
 Juft now unto you. 
 
 Mel . Yes, very likely 5 would you have fpoken with me ? 
 
 JEg. Spoken with you ? 
 
 Why, are you mad ? have you forgot your promife ? 
 
 Mel . My promife ? oh 1 ’tistrue, I faid indeed 
 I would go with you to day to fell fome Kine ; 
 
 Stay but a little, I’ll be ready ftraight. 
 
 Pal. I am amaz’d 3 good JEgon (peak to him. 
 
 Alu. By this good light, 
 
 I fee no likelihood of any marriage, 
 
 Except betwixt the Kine and Oxen. Hark you hither 5 
 A rot upon your Beafts^ is Hylace ready ? 
 
 Mel. It’s no matterfor that 5 who’s there? Alupis £ 
 
 Give me thy hand, ’faith thou’rt a merry fellow, 
 
 I have not feen thee here thefe many days, 
 
 But now I think on’t, it’s no matter for that neither. 
 
 Alu. Thy memory’s fled away fure with thy wit. 
 
 Was not I here lefs than an hour ago 
 With JEgon , when ybu made the match ? 
 
 Mel . Oh! then you’ll go along with us, 
 
 Faith do } for you will make us very merry. 
 
 Alu. I fhall, if you thus make a fool of me. 
 
 Mel. Oh no ! you’ll make you fport with vexing me. 
 
 But mum 5 no matter for that neither : there 
 I bob’d him privately, I think. ^Afde. 
 
 JEg. Come, what’s the bufitiefs ? 
 
 Alu. Thebufinefs? why he’s mad, beyond the cure 
 Of all the Herbs that grow in Anticyra. 
 
 JEg. You fee we have not fail’d our word Melarnus 7 
 I and my Son are come. 
 
 Mel. Your Son! good lack ! 
 
 I thought, I fwear, you had no other child 
 
 Befides 
 
Loves Twiddle. 
 
 Bdides your Daughter Bellula. 
 
 JEg. Nay, then 
 
 I fee you are difpos’d to make us fools, 
 
 Did not I tell you that *twas mv intent 
 To adopt Palxmon for my Son and Heir ? 
 
 Alu. Did not you examine 
 Whether he would leave him all, left that he fhoUld 
 Adopt fome other heir to the Cheefe-p refits, 
 
 The milking pails, the Cream- bowls? did you not ? 
 
 Mel. In troth ’tis well 5 but where is Bellula? 
 
 JEg. Nay, prithee leave thefe tricks, and tell me 
 What you intend, is Hylace ready ? 
 
 Mel. Ready? whatelfe? (he’s to be married prefently 
 To a young Shepherd j buds no matter for that. 
 
 Pal. That’s I, hence fears $ 
 
 Attend upon the infancy of Love, 
 
 She’s now mine own. 
 
 AIh. Why 1 5 did not the Crow on the Oak foretel you this? 
 Mel. Hylace, Hylace , come forth, 
 
 Here are fome come to dance at your Wedding, 
 
 And they’re welcome. , [Enter Hylace, 
 
 Pal. The light appears, juft like the riling Sun, 
 
 When o’er yon hill it peeps, and with a draught 
 Of morning dew falutes the day, how fa ft 
 The night of all my forrows flies away. 
 
 Quite banifh’d with her fight ! 
 
 Hyl. Did you call for me ? 
 
 Mel . Is Damectas come ? fie, how flow he is 
 At fuch a time? but it’s no matter for that 5 
 Well getypuin, and prepare to welcome him. 
 
 Pal. Will you be gone fo quickly ? oh ! bright Hj‘lace 7 
 That blefled hour by me fo often begg’d, 
 
 By you fo oft deny’d, is now approaching. 
 
 Mel. What, how now ? what do you kifs her ? [Exit Hyl, 
 If Dameetas were here, he would grow jealous, 
 
 But ’tis a parting kifs, and fo in manners 
 
 She cannot deny it you ; but it’s no matter for that. 
 
 Alti. How? 
 
 Mel. What do you wonder at? 
 
 Why do you think, as foon as they are married, 
 
 Damcetas fuch a fool, to let his Wife 
 Be kifs’d by every body ? 
 
 Pal. How now Damatas ? 
 
 Why what hath he to do with her ? 
 
 Mel. Ha, ha! 
 
 What hath the Husband then to do with’s Wife ? 
 
 Good : ’tis no matter for that tho 3 he knows what. 
 
 JEg. You mean Paignton fare, ha, do you not ? 
 
 Mel. Tis no matter for that, what I mean, I mean» 
 
 Well, reft ye merry Gentlemen, Imuftin 
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xo8 Loyes Toddle. 
 
 And fee my Daughters Wedding, if you pleafe, 
 
 To dance with us $ Daw<etas fure will thank ye. 
 
 Pray bring your Son and heir PaUmon with you, 
 
 Bellulas caft away, ha, ha, ha, ha! 
 
 And the poor fool Melarnus muff be cheated, 
 
 But it’s no matter for that 3 how now A lupis .<? 
 
 1 thought you would have had moft excellent fport 
 With abufing poor Melarnus, that fame coxcomb, 
 
 For he’s a fool } but it’s no matter for that, 
 
 /Egon hath cheated him, PaUmon is 
 Married to Hjlace , and one Alupis 
 Doth nothing elfe but vex him, ha, ha, ha 1 
 But it’s no matter for that 5 farevvel genteles, 
 
 Or if ye’ll come and dance, ye (hall be welcome. 
 
 Will you PaUmon .<? ’tis your Miftris Wedding. 
 
 I am a fool, a coxcomb, gull’d on every fide, 
 
 No matter for that tho ; what I have done, I have done: 
 
 Ha, ha, ha ! [Exit. 
 
 JEg. How no } what are you both dumb ? both thunder-ftruck > 
 This was your plot Alupis . 
 
 Alu. I’ll begin. 
 
 May his Sheep rot, and he for want of food 
 Be forc’d to eat them then 5 may every man 
 Abufe him, and yet he not have the wit 
 To abufe any man ; may he never fpeak 
 More fenfe than he did now 5 and may he never 
 Be rid of his old Wife Truga 5 may his Son- 
 in-law be a more famous Cuckold made 
 Than any one I knew when I liv’d in the City. 
 
 Pal. Fool as thou art, the Sun fhall lofehis courfe, 
 
 And brightnefs too, ere Hylace her Chaftity. 
 
 Oh no ! ye Gods, may (he be happy always. 
 
 Happy in the embraces of Damoetas 3 
 And that fhall be fome comfort to my ghoft 
 When I am dead } and dead I fhall be (hortly. 
 
 Alu. May a difeafe feize upon all his Cattle, 
 
 And a far worfe on him, till he at laft 
 Be carried to fome Hofpital i’th’ City, 
 
 Aud there kill’d by a Chirurgeon fc: experience. 
 
 And when he’s gone, I’ll with this good thing for him, 
 
 May the earth lye gently on him — that the dogs 
 May tear him up the eafier. 
 
 JEg. A curfe upon thee ! 
 
 And upon me for trufling thy fond counfels ! 
 
 Was this your cunning trick ? why thou haft wounded 
 My Confcience, and my Reputation too : 
 
 With what face can I look on the other Swains > 
 
 Or who will ever truft me, who have broke 
 My Faith thus openly > 
 
 Pal. A curfe upon thee. 
 
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 This is the fecondtime that thy perfuafions 
 Made me not only fool, but wicked too 3 
 I fliould have died in quiet elfe, and known 
 No other wound, but that of her denial 3 
 Go now, and brag how thou haft us’d PaUmon 3 
 But yet methinks you might have chofe fome other 
 For Subject of your mirth, not me. 
 
 /Eg. Nor me. 
 
 Ain. And yet if this had profpered ( as I wonder 
 Who it (hould be, betray’d us, fince we three 
 And Trtiga only knew it, whom, if (he 
 Betray’d us, I — ) if this, I (ay, had profpered. 
 
 You would have hugg’d me for inventing ir, 
 
 And him for putting it in A&3 foolifh men 
 That do not mark the thing but the event ! 
 
 Your judgments hang on Fortune, not on Reafon. 
 
 Rig. Do’ft thou upbraid us too? 
 
 Pal. Firft make us wretched. 
 
 And then laugh at us > believe, Alttpis, 
 
 Thou (halt not long have caufe to boaft thy Villany* 
 
 Aht . My Villany ? do what ye can : you’re fools, 
 
 And there’s an end 3 I’ll talk with you no more, 
 
 I had as good fpeak reafon to the wind 
 As you, that can but hifsatit. 
 
 Rig. We will do more 3 PaUrnon , come away. 
 
 He hath wrong’d both, and both (hall fatisfie. 
 
 Alu, Which he will never do 3 nay, go and plod, 
 
 Your two wife brains will invent certainly 
 
 Politick gins to catch me in. [Exeunt. 
 
 And now have at thee Truga, if I find 
 
 That thou art guilty 3 mum 1 have a Ring- . 
 
 PaUwon, /Egon , Hjlace , Me lawns. 
 
 Are all againft me ? no great matter : hang care, 
 
 por V is but a foU h &c. [Exit. 
 
 Enter Bellula. 
 
 This way my Callidorus went, what chance 
 
 Hath fnatch’d him from my fight } how (hall t find him? 
 
 How (hall I find my felf, now I have loft him ? 
 
 With ye my feet and eyes I will not make 
 
 The fmalleft truce, till ye have fought him out. [Exit* 
 
 Enter Callidorus and Florellus. 
 
 Cal. Come, now your bufinefs. 
 
 Flo. ’Tis a fatal one, 
 
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 Which will almoft a9 much (hame me to fpeak. 
 
 Much moretoaft, as ’twill fright you to hear it. 
 
 Cal. Fright me! it muft be then fome wickfcdneft* 
 
 I am accuftom’d (o to mifery, 
 
 That cannot do’t. 
 
 Flo. Oh ! ’tis a fin, young man, 
 
 A fin which every one (hall wonder itl 
 
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 Lcrves Kiddie . 
 
 None not condemn, if ever it be known : 
 
 Methinks my blood (hrinksback into my veins, 
 
 And my affrighted hairs are turn’d to bridles. 
 
 Do not my eyes creep back into their cells 5 
 As if they feem’d to with for thicker darkneft, 
 
 Than either night or death to cover them? 
 
 Doth not my face look black and horrid too ? 
 
 As black and horrid as my thoughts ? ha ! tell me* 
 
 Cal . I am a novice in all villanies, 
 
 Ifyour intents be fuch, difmifsme, pray, 
 
 My nature is more eafie to difcover 
 Than help you 5 fo farewel. 
 
 Flo. Y et ftay a little longer 3 you muff ftay 5 
 You are an a£tor in this Tragedy. 
 
 Cal. What would you do ? 
 
 Flo. Alas ! I would do nothing 5 but I muff 
 
 Cal. What muff you do ? 
 
 Flo. I muff — Love thou haff got the Vi&ory — — 
 
 Kill thee. 
 
 Cal. Who me ? you do but jeff, 
 
 I fhould believe you, if I could tell how 
 
 To frame a caufe, or think on any injury 
 
 Worth fucha large revenge, which I have done you. 
 
 Flo . Oh no ! there’s all the wickednefs, they may feeiri 
 To find excufe for their abhorred fa& 5 
 That kill when wrongs, and anger urgeth themj 
 Becaufe thou art fo good, fo affable. 
 
 So full of graces, both of mind and body, 
 
 Therefore I kill thee, wilt thou know it plainly, 
 
 Becaufe whilft thou art living, Bellula 
 Proteffed ffie would never be another?, 
 
 Therefore I kill thee. 
 
 Cal. Had I been your Rival 
 You might have had fome caufe 5 caufe did I fay ? 
 
 You might have had pretence for fuch a villany : 
 
 He who unjuff ly kills is twice a Murtherer. 
 
 Flo . He whom Love bids to kill is not a murtherer. 
 Cal. Call not that Love that’s ill ; ’tis only fury. 
 
 Flo. Fury in ills is half excufable : 
 
 Therefore prepare thy felf$ if any fin 
 (Tho I believe thy hot and flourifhing youth 
 As innocent as other mens nativities) 
 
 Hath flung a fpot upon thy purer Confcience, 
 
 Wafh it in fome few tears. 
 
 Cal. Are you refolved to be fo cruel ? 
 
 Flo. I muff, or 'be as cruel to my felf. 
 
 Cal. As fick men do their beds, fo have I yet 
 Enjoy’d my felf, with little reff, much trouble : 
 
 I have been made the Ball of Love and Fortune, 
 
 And am almoft worn out with often playing 5 
 
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 And therefore 1 would entertain ray death 
 As fome good friend whole coming I expected 5 
 
 Were it not that my Parents 
 
 Flo. Here 5 fee, I do not come Draws tiro Swords 
 
 Like a foul Murtherer to entrap you falfly, from under his 
 
 Take your own choice, and then defend your felf. garment and of- 
 CaL Tis nobly done 5 and llnce it mu ft be lo, fers one to Gal. 
 Altho my ftrength and courage call me Woman, 
 
 I will not die like Sheep without refinance 5 
 If Innocence be guard fufficient, 
 
 I’m fure he cannot hurt me. t 
 
 Flo. Are you ready ? the fatal Cuckow on yen fpreading tree 
 Hath founded out your dying knell already. 
 
 Cal . lam. . 
 
 c Flo. ’Tis well, and I could wifli thy hand 
 Were ftrong enough 5 ’tis thou defervTt the Victory, 
 
 Nay, were not th’ hope of Bellula ingraven 
 In all my thoughts, I would my felf play booty 
 
 Againft my felf } but Bellula come on. 
 
 Enter Philiftus. 
 
 This is the Wood adjoyning to the Farm, 
 
 Where I gave order unto Clar/ana 
 
 My Sifter, to remain till my return 5 
 
 Here ’tis in vain to feek her, yet who knows } 
 
 Tho it be in vain I’ll feek , to him that doth 
 Propofe no Journeys end, no path’s amifs. 
 
 Why how now ? what do you mean ? for fhame part Shepherds, 
 I thought you honeft Shepherds, had not had [«Sec/ them 
 
 So much of Court and City Follies in you. fitting. 
 
 Flo. Tis Philiflus 3 I hope he will not know me, 
 
 Now I begin to fee how black and horrid 
 My attempt was 5 how much unlike Flurellus: 
 
 Thanks to the iufter Deities for declining 
 From both the danger, and from me the (in. 
 
 Phil. T would be a wrong to charity to difmifs ye 
 Before I fee you friends, give me your weapons. 
 
 Cal. Tis he : why do I doubt ? moft willingly. 
 
 And my felf too, beft man ; now kill me Shepherd — 
 
 Phil. What do you mean } [Swoon 
 
 Rife, prithee rife ; fure you have wounded him. 
 
 Enter Bellula. 
 
 Deceive me not good eyes 5 what do I feer* 
 
 My Callidorus dead ? Tis impoflible ! 
 
 Who is it that lies (lain there ? are you dumb ? 
 
 Who is’t I pray ? 
 
 Flo. FairMiftris 
 
 Bell. Pifh, Fair Miftris, — - 
 I ask who ’tis , if it be Callidorus 
 
 Phil . Was his name Callidorus ? it is ftrange. 
 Bel. You area Villain, and you too a Villain, 
 
 Wake 
 

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 Wake Callidorus, wake, it is thy Bellula. 
 
 That calls thee, awake, it is thy Bellula $ 
 
 Why Gentlemen ! why Shepherd! fieforfhame, 
 
 Have you no charity ? Oh my Callidorus ! 
 
 Speak but one word 
 
 Cal. ’Tis not well done to trouble me, 
 
 Why do you envy me this little reft ? 
 
 Bell. No 5 I will follow thee. x [Swoons* 
 
 Flo. Ohelp, help quickly, 
 
 What do you mean ? your Callidorus lives. 
 
 Bell. Callidorus l 
 
 Flo. And will be well immediately, take courage, 
 
 Look up a little : wretched as I am, 
 
 I am the caufe of all this ill. 
 
 Phil. What (hall we do? I have a Sifter dwells 
 Clofe by this place, lets haft to bring them thither. 
 
 But let’s be fudden. 
 
 Flo. As wing’d lightning is. 
 
 Come Bellula in fpight of Fortune now , 
 
 I do imbrace thee. 
 
 Phil. I did proteft without my Callidora 
 Ne’er to return, but pity hath o’ercome. 
 
 Bell. Where am I? 
 
 Flo. Where I could always wifh thee : intnofe arms 
 Which would infold thee with more fubtle knots, 
 
 Than amorous Ivy, whilft it hugs the Oak. 
 
 Cal. Where do ye bear me ? is Philijlus well ? 
 
 Phil. How fhould he know my name, 'tis to me a riddle, 
 
 Nay Shepherd, find another time to court in, 
 
 Make hall now with your Burthen. [Exeunt. 
 
 Flo. With what eafe fhould I go always were I burthened thus? 
 
 Enter Aphron. 
 
 She told me (he was Sifter to Philijlus , 
 
 Who having mifs’d the Beauteous Callidora , 
 
 Hath undertooka long and hopelefs Journey 
 To find her out 5 then Callidora s fled, 
 
 Without her Parents knowledge, and who knows 
 When (he’ll return, or if fhe do, what then ? 
 
 Lambs will make Peace, and joyn themfelves with Wolves 
 Ere fhe with me, worfe than a Wolfto her : 
 
 Befides, how durft I undertake to court her ? 
 
 How dare I look upon her after this ? 
 
 Fool as I am, I will forget her quite, 
 
 And Clari ana (hall henceforth' but yet 
 
 How fair (he was ! what then ! (o’s Clariana $ 
 
 What graces did (he dart on all beholders! 
 
 She did 3 but fo do*s Clariana too, "j 
 
 She was as pure and white as Parian Marble, 
 
 What then ? (he was as hard too 5 Clariana 
 Is pure and white as Ericinas Doves, 
 
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 And is as Toft, as gallefs too as they, 
 
 Her pity fav'd my life, and did reftore 
 My wandring Senfes, if 1 fhould not love her, 
 
 I were far madder now, than when (he found me, 
 
 I will go in and render up my felf, 
 
 For her moft faithful fervant. 
 
 Wonderful ! [Exit. Enter again. 
 
 She has loekt me in, and keeps me here her Prifoner : 
 
 In thefe two Chambers 3 what can (he intend ? 
 
 Ko matter, (he intends no hurt I’m fure. 
 
 I’ll patiently expert her coming to me. [ 'Exit . 
 
 Enter Demcphil, Spodaia, Clariana , Florcllus , C allidor a , 
 
 Belhda , Philijlus. 
 
 Den:. My Daughter found again, and Son return’d ! 
 
 Ha, ha 1 methinks it makes me young again. 
 
 My Daughter and my Son meet here together ! 
 
 Philijlus with them too ! that we (hould come 
 To grieve with Clariana, and find her here. 
 
 Nay, when we thought we’d loft Florellus too, 
 
 To find them both, methinks it makes me young again. 
 
 Spo. 1 thought I never (hould have feen thee more 
 My Callidora • come wench 5 now let’s hear 
 The ftory of your f ight and life in th’ Woods. 
 
 Phi. Do happy Miftris, for the recordation 
 Of fore-paft ills, makes us the fvveetlier relith 
 Our prefent good. 
 
 Cal. OiAphrons love to me, and my antipathy 
 Towards him, there’s none here ignorant, you know too. 
 
 How guarded with his love, or rather fury, 
 
 And fome few men he broke into our Houfe 
 With refolution to make me the prey 
 
 Of his wild lull. , rt 
 
 Spo. I, there’s a villain now } oh! that I had him here. 
 
 Cia. Oh ! fay not lb : 
 
 The crimes which Lovers for their Miftris art, 
 
 Bear both the weight and (lamp of Piety. 
 
 Deni. Come girl 5 goon, goon. His wild luff — 
 
 Cla. What fudden fear (hook me, you may imagine, 
 
 What (hould Ido? you both were out of Town, 
 
 And moft of th’ fervants at that time gone with you. 
 
 I on the fudden found a Corner out, 
 
 And hid my fclf, till they, wearied with fearching, 
 
 Quitted the Houfe, -but fearing left they (hould 
 Attempt the lame again ere your return, 
 
 I took with me money and other neceflaries 5 
 And in aSute my Brother left behind 
 Difguis’d my (elf : thus to the Woods I went. 
 
 Where meeting with an honeft merry Swain, 
 
 I by his help was furnilh’d, and made Shepherd. 
 
 Spo . Nay, I muft needs (ay for -her, (be was always 
 
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 A wit- 
 
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 A witty wench. 
 
 Dem. Pi(h, pifh : and made a Shepherd- 
 
 Cal. It hapned that this gentle Shepherdefs 
 (l can attribute it to nought in me 
 Deferv’d fo much) began to love me. 
 
 Phil. Why fo did all befides I’ll warrant you. 
 
 Nor can I blame them, tho they were my Rivals. 
 
 Cal . Another Shepherd with as much defire 
 Woo’d her in vain, as She in vain woo’d me, 
 
 Who feeing that no hope was left for him, 
 
 Whilft I enjoy’d this life, t’enjoy his Bellula , 
 
 (For by that name (bee’s known^ fought to take me 
 
 Out of the way as a partition 
 
 Betwixt his Love and him, whilfi; in the fields 
 
 We two were ftrugling, ( him his ftrength defending 
 
 And me my innocence.) 
 
 Flo. Iamaftiarcfd to look upon their faces. 
 
 What (ball I fay ? my guilt’s above excufe. 
 
 Cal. Philijlus j as if the Cods had all agreed 
 To make him mine, juft at the nick came in 
 And parted us, with fudden joy I fwooned. 
 
 Which Bellula perceiving ( for even then 
 She came tofcek me) fuddcn grief did force 
 The fameeffeft from her, which joy from me. 
 
 Hither they brought us both, in this amazement, 
 
 Where being (Iraight recovered to our felves, 
 
 I found you here, and you your dutiful Daughter. 
 
 Spo. The Gods be thank’d. 
 
 Dew. Go on. 
 
 Cal. Nay, you have all, Sir. 
 
 Dem. Where’s that Shepherd? 
 
 Flo. Here. 
 
 Dem, here, where? 
 
 Flo. Here, your unhappy Son’s the man 5 for her 
 I put on Sylvan weeds, for her fake 
 I would have ftain’d my innocent hands in blood, 
 
 Forgive me all, ’twas not a fin of malice, 
 
 Twas not begot hy Luff, but facred Love, 
 
 The caufe mud be the excufe for the effect. 
 
 Dem. You (bould have ufed fome other means, Florellus . 
 
 Cal. Alas ! ’twas the Gods will Sir, without that 
 I had been undifeovered yet 5 Philiftus 
 Wandred too far, my Brother yet a Shepherd, 
 
 . You groaning for our lofs, upon this wheel 
 All our felicity is turn’d. 
 
 Spo. Alas you have forgot the power of love, fweet-heart; 
 
 Dem. Be patient Son, and temper your defire, 
 
 You (ball not want a Wife that will perhaps 
 Pleafe you as well, I’m fure befit you better. 
 
 Flo. They marry not, but fell chemfelves t’a Wife, 
 
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 Whom the large dowry tempt, and take morepleafure 
 To hug the wealthy bags than her that brought them. 
 I.et them whom nature bellows nothing on, 
 
 Seek to patch up their wants by Parents plenty $ 
 
 The beautiful, thechaft, the virtuous. 
 
 Her felf alone is portion to her (elf. 
 
 Enter iEgon. 
 
 By your leave 5 I come to feek a Daughter. 
 
 Oh ! are you there ? ’tis well. 
 
 Flo. This is her Father, 
 
 I do conjure you Father^ by the love 
 Which Parents bear their Children, to make up 
 The match betwixt us now, or if you will not 
 Send for your friends, prepare a Coffin for me, 
 
 And let a Grave be digged, I will be happy, 
 
 Orelfc not know my mifery to morrow. 
 
 Spo . You do not think what ill may happen, Husband, 
 Come, let him have her, you have meansenough 
 For him, the wench is fair, and if her face 
 Be not a flatterer, of a noble mind, 
 
 Altho not Hock. 
 
 JEg. I do not like this ftragling, come along, 
 
 By your leave Gentlemen, I hope y r ou will 
 Pardon my bold intrufion. 
 
 CD. You’re very welcome. 
 
 What are you going Bellula ? pray flay, 
 
 Tho nature contradicts our love, I hope 
 That I may have your Friendlhip. 
 
 Flo. Bellula ! 
 
 Bell. My Father calls ; farewel, your name, and memory 
 In fpite of Fate, I’ll love, farewel. 
 
 Flo. Would you be gone, and not beftovv one word 
 Upon your faithful fervant ? do not all 
 My griefs and troubles for your fake fuftain’d. 
 
 Deferve, farewel Florellus ? 
 
 Bell. Fare you well then. 
 
 Flo. Alas ! how can I, Sweet, unlefs you ftay. 
 
 Or I go with you? you were pleas'd ere while 
 To fay you honour’d me with the next place 
 To Callidorus in your heart, then now 
 I fho.uld be firft : do you repent your fentence ? 
 
 Or can that tongue found lefs than Oracle ? 
 
 Bell. Perhaps I am of that opinion ftill, 
 
 But muff obey my Father. 
 
 JEg. Why Bellula .<? would you have ought with her Sir ? 
 
 Flo. Yes, I would have her felf 3 if conltancy 
 And love be meritorious, I deferve her. 
 
 Why Father, Mother, Sifter, Gentlemen, 
 
 Will you plead for me ? 
 
 Dew. Since itmuft be Co, I’ll bear it patiently, 
 
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 x 1 6 Loves ‘Riddle. 
 
 Shepherd, you fee how much our Son is taken 
 With your fair Daughter, therefore if you think 
 Him fitting for her Husband fpeak, and let it 
 Be made a match immediately, we (hall 
 Expeft no other dowry than her Virtue. 
 
 JEg. Which only I can promife 3 for her Fortune 
 Is beneath you fo far, that I could almoft 
 Sufpeft your words, but that youfeem more noble. 
 
 How now, what fay you girl ? 
 
 Bell. I only do depend upon your Will. 
 
 JEg. and I’ll not be an Enemy to thy good Fortune. 
 
 Take her Sir, and the Gods blefsyou. 
 
 Flo. With greater joy than I would take a Crown. 
 
 AIh. The Gods blefs you. 
 
 Flo. They have don’t already. 
 
 JEg . Left you (hould think when time, and oft enjoying 
 Hath dull’d the point, and edg of your affe&ion, 
 
 That you have wrong’d your felf and Family, 
 
 By marrying one whofevery name, a Shepherdefs, 
 
 Might fling fome fpot upon your Birth, I’ll tell you. 
 
 She is not mine, nor born in thefe rude Woods. 
 
 Flo. How ! you fpeak miftick wonders. 
 
 JEg. I fpeak truths Sir, 
 
 Some fifteen years ago, as I was walking, 
 
 I found a Nurfe wounded, and groaning out 
 Her lateft fpirit, and by her a fair Child, 
 
 And, which her very drefling might declare. 
 
 Of wealthy Parents 3 as foon as I came to them, 
 
 I asked her who had ufed her fo inhumanely : 
 
 She anfwered me, Turkifh Pyrats^ and withal 
 Defired me to look unto the Child, 
 
 For ’tis, (aid fhe, a Nobleman’s of Sicily , 
 
 His name fhe would havefpoke, but death permitted not. 
 Her as I could, I caufed to be buried. 
 
 But brought home the little girl with me, 
 
 Whereby my Wives perfwafions we agreed, 
 
 Becaufe the G ods had blefs’d us with no iflue. 
 
 To nourifhas our own, and call it Bellula , 
 
 Whom now you fee, your Wife, your Daughter. 
 
 Spo. Is’t poffible } 
 
 Flo. Her manners (he w’d her noble. 
 
 JEg. I call the Gods to witnefs, this is true. 
 
 And for the farther teftimony of it, 
 
 I have yetkept at home the furniture, 
 
 And the rich Mantle which fhe then was wrapt in, 
 
 Which now perhaps may ferve for fome good ufe 
 Thereby to know her Parents. 
 
 Dem. Sure this is Aphrons Sifter then, for juft 
 About the time he mentions, I remember, 
 
 The Governor of Pachims , then his Father, 
 
 Told 
 
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 Told me that certarn Fyrats of Argier 
 
 Had broke into his houfe, and ftoln from thence 
 
 With other things his Daughter, and her Nurfe^ 
 
 Who being after taken, and executed, 
 
 Their laft confeftion was, that they indeed 
 Wounded theNurfe, but (he fled with the Child, 
 
 Whilft they were bufiefearching for more prey. 
 
 Whom fince, her Father neither faw nor heard of. 
 
 Cla. Then now I’m fure Sir, you would gladly pardon 
 The rafh attempt of Aphro n, for your Daughter 5 
 Since Fortune hath joyn’d both of you by Kindred. 
 
 Dent. Moft willingly. 
 
 Spo. I, I, alas ! ’t was Love. 
 
 Flo . Where fhould we find him out } 
 
 Cla ? ’Ill fave that labour. [ Exit Clariana. 
 
 Cal. Where’s Hylace, pray Shepherd ? and the reft 
 Of my good Sylvan friends ? methinks I would 
 Fain take my leave of them. 
 
 JEg. I’ll fetch them hither. 
 
 They’re not far off, and if you pleafe to help 
 The Match betwixt Hylace and PaUmon, 
 
 Twould be a good deed, Fill go fetch them. [ Exit . 
 
 Enter Aphron , Clari an a. 
 
 Aph. Ha ! whither have you led me Clariana ? 
 
 Some ftcepy Mountain bury me alive. 
 
 Or Rock intomb me in its ftony entrails : 
 
 Whom do I fee? 
 
 Cla. Why do you ftare, my Aphron ? 
 
 They have forgiven all. 
 
 Dem. Come Aphron , welcome, 
 
 We have forgot the Wrong you did my Daughter, 
 
 The name of Love hath cover’d all } this is 
 A joyful day, and (acred to great Hymen. 
 
 ’Twere fin not to be friends with all men now. 
 
 Spo. Methinks, I have much ado to forgive the Rafcal. [ \Afide , 
 
 Aph. I know not what to fay 5 do you all pardon me ? 
 
 I have done wrong to you all, yea, to all thofe 
 That have a (hare in Virtue. Can ye pardon me ? 
 
 AU. Moft willingly. 
 
 Aph. Do you fay fo, fair Virgin? 
 
 You I have injur’d moft: with love, 
 
 With faucy love, which I henceforth recall, 
 
 And will look on you with an adoration. 
 
 Not with defire hereafter 3 tell me, pray, 
 
 Doth any man yet call you his ? 
 
 , Cal. Yes 5 Philiflus . 
 
 Aph. I congratulate it, Sir. 
 
 The Gods make ye both happy : fool, as I am, 
 
 You are at the height already of felicity, 
 
 To which there’s nothing can be added now, 
 
 But 
 
Loyes Riddle. 
 
 
 
 
 But perpetuity 5 you (hall not find me 
 Your Rival anymore, though Iconfefs 
 I honor her, and will for ever do fo. 
 
 Clariana, I am fo much unworthy 
 
 Of thy Love. That 
 
 Cla. Go no farther, Sir, ’tis I fhould fay fo 
 Of my own fdf. 
 
 Phil . How Sifter ? are you two fo near upon a match ? 
 
 Aph. In our hearts Sir, 
 
 We are already joyn’d 5 it may be tho 
 You will be loth to have unhappy Aphron, 
 
 Stile you his Brother? y 
 
 Phil No Sir, ifyou both 
 Agree, to me it (hall not be unwelcome. 
 
 Why here’s a day indeed 5 fure Hymen now 
 Means to fpend all his Torches. 
 
 Dem. Tis my Son, Sir, 
 
 Now come from Travel, and your Brother now. 
 
 Aph. I underftand not. 
 
 Dem . Had you not a Sifter ? 
 
 Aph. I had Sir 3 but where now (he is none knows, 
 
 Befides the Gods. 
 
 Dem. 1 st not about fome fifteen years ago 
 Since that the Nurfe fcap’d with her from the hands 
 Of Turkifh Pyrats that befet the Houfe ? 
 
 Apb. It is Sir. 
 
 Dem. Your Sifter lives then, and is married 
 Now to Florellus 3 this is (he, you (hall be 
 Informed of all the circumftances anon. 
 
 Aph. Tis impoflible. 
 
 I (hall be made too happy on the fudden. 
 
 My Sifter found, and Clariana mine! 
 
 Come not too thick, good joys, you will opprefs me. 
 
 Enter Melarnus , Truga , /Egon , Hylace , PaUmon , 
 
 Cat. Shepherds, you’re welcome all 5 tho I have loft 
 Your good Society, I hope I fliall not 
 Your Friendfhip and beft wifhes. 
 
 /Eg. Nay, here’s wonders 3 
 Now Callidorus is found out, a Woman, 
 
 Bellula not my Daughter, and is married 
 To yonder Gentleman, for which I intend 
 To do in earned: what before I jefted, 
 
 To adopt PaUmon for my Heir. 
 
 Mel. Ha, ha, ha ! 
 
 Come it’s no matter for that 5 do you think 
 To cheat me once again with your fine tricks ? 
 
 No matter for that neither. Ha, ha, ha ! 
 
 Alas ! She’s married to Dam<ctas . 
 
 JEg. Nay, that was your plot Melarms , 
 
 I met with him, and he denies it to me. 
 
 Hyl Hence 
 
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 Loves fiddle. 
 
 HyL Henceforth I mult not love, but honour you — to Callidora. 
 JEg. By all the Gods I will. 
 
 Tru. He will, he will 5 Duck. 
 
 Mel. Of every thing? 
 
 JEg. Of every thing } I call 
 Thefe Gentlemen to witnefs here, that fince 
 I have no child to care for } I will make 
 TaUmon heir to thole Imall means the Gods 
 Have blefs’d me with, if he do marry Hylace : 
 
 Mel. Cornell’s no matter for that, I fcarce believe you. 
 
 JDew. We’ll be his Sureties. 
 
 Ml. Hylace , 
 
 What dunk you of PalcemonJ can you love him? 
 
 Has our confents, but it’s no matter for that. 
 
 If he do pleafeyou, fpeak, or now, or never. 
 
 HyL Why do I doubt fond Girl? fhe’s now a woman. 
 
 Mel. No matter for that, what you do, do quickly. 
 
 HyL My duty binds me not to be averfe 
 To whar likes you 
 
 Mel. Why take her then PaUnton, fhe’s yours for ever. 
 
 Pal. With far more joy 
 
 Than I would do the wealth of both the Indies : 
 
 Thou art above a Father to me, JEgon. 
 
 W are feed from mifery with (enfe of joy, 
 
 We are not born (o ; oh ! my Hylace , 
 
 It is my comfort now that thou wert hard, 
 
 And cruel rill this day, delights are fweeteft 
 When poifoned with the trouble to attain them.’ j 
 
 Enter Alupis. 
 
 For ’ tis but a folly, 8cc. 
 
 By your leave, I come to feek a Woman, 
 
 That hath out-liv’d the memory of her youth, 
 
 With skin as black as her teeth, if fhe have any, 
 
 With a face would fright the Conffableand his Watch 
 
 Out of their wits (and that’s eafily done you’ll fayj if they fhould 
 
 Meet her at midnight. 
 
 Oh ! are you there ? I thought I fmeltyou fomewhere* 
 
 Come hither, my (lieNeftor, pretty Truga, 
 
 Come hither, my fweet Duck. 
 
 Tm. Why ? are you not afhamed to abufe me thus. 
 
 Before this company ? 
 
 Alu. I have fomething more ; 
 
 I come to fhew the fling before them all 5 
 How durft you thus betray us to Melarnus ? 
 
 Tru . Tis falfe, Was Hylace that over-heard you; 
 
 She told me fo 5 but they are married now. 
 
 Alu. What do you think to flam me? why ho! here’s news# 
 Pal. Alupis , art thou there? forgive my anger, 
 
 I am the happieft man alive, Alupis , 
 
 Hylace is mine, here are more wonders too. 
 
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 Loyes Riddle. 
 
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 Tru. Alapis, give me. 
 
 Alu. Well rather than be troubled. 
 
 JEg. Alupis welcome, now w’are friends I hope 5 
 Give me your hand. 
 
 Mel. And me. 
 
 Alu. With all my heart, 
 
 I’m glad to fee ye have learn’d more wit at laft. 
 
 Cal. This is the Shepherd, Father, to, whofe care 
 I owe for many favours in the Woods. 
 
 You’re welcome heartily 5 here’s every body 
 Pair’d of a fudden 5 when fhall’sfee you married ? 
 
 Alu. Me } when there are no ropes to hang my fe\f 9 . 
 
 No rocks to break my neck down 3 I abhor 
 
 To live in a perpetual Belfery 5 i 
 
 I never could abide to have a Mafter, 
 
 Much lefsa Miftris, and I will not marry, 
 
 Becaufe, Til fog away the day , 
 
 For ’tis hut a folly to be melancholly , 
 l'U be merry vphilft I may. 
 
 Thi. You’re welcome all, and I defire you all 
 To be my Guefts to day 5 a Wedding Dinner, 
 
 Such as the fudden can afford, we’ll have. 
 
 Come will ye walk in, Gentlemen? 1 ^ 
 
 Dem. Yes, yes. 
 
 What croffes have ye born before ye joyn’d ! 
 
 What Seas pafs’d through before ye touch’d the Port! 
 
 Thus Lovers do, ere they are Crown’d by Fates 
 With Palm, the T ree their Patience imitates. 
 
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 Spoken by M L V B I S. 
 
 T H E Author hid me tell you'--’ faith, I have 
 Forgot what ’twas ; and I’m a very f, lave 
 Iflfow what to fay ; but only this , 
 
 ‘Be merry , that my Cornjel always is. 
 
 Let no grave man fit up his ‘Brow, and Jay 
 ’Tis foolijo : why 1 ’twas a Boy made the Flay, 
 Ufor any yet of thofe that ft behind, 
 
 Becaufe he goes in Tlufo, be of his mind. 
 
 Let none his Time, or his fpent Money grieve. 
 
 Be merry -, give me your bands, andl’ll believe. 
 
 Or if you will not I'll go in, and fee. 
 
 If I can turn the Author s mind with me 
 To fing away the day, 
 
 For ’tis but a folly 
 To be melancholly, 
 
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NAUFRAGIUM 
 
 JOCULARE: 
 
 Comoedia, 
 
 Publice coram Academicis Acta, in 
 Collegio S S. & individuas Trinitatis. 
 
 4°- Nonas Feb. Ann. Dom. 1638. 
 
 Authore Abra hamo Cowley. 
 
 Mart -Non cljfplicuijje meretur 
 
 Feflinat , Lector , qui placuiffe tibi : 
 
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 Typis M. Clark veneunt apud C. Harper, 
 
 MDCLXXXVIL 
 
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Dodtiffimo, Graviffimoque Viro 
 
 Domino D. COMBER 
 
 Decano Carleolenfi colendi ili mo, & Collegii SS 
 
 & individua: Trinitatis Magiftro vigilantifllmo. 
 
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 S Ifle gradum : quonam temeraria pagina tendis, 
 
 Aurata nimium fa&a fuperba toga } 
 
 Subdita Virgifero te volvat turba Tyranno 3 
 Et tamen, ah, nucibus ludere pluris erit. 
 
 I, pete, follicitos quos taedia docta Scholarum, 
 
 £t Logics pugno carmina (cripta tenent. 
 
 Poft Ca, vel Hip. Qualis ? ne. vel, af. un. Quanta? par.in, fin; 
 
 Deflruit E dictum, deflruit Ique modum; 
 
 Tum tu grata aderis, tum blandius ore Tonabis} 
 
 Sztonus , dicent, quid velit ifle (ibi ? 
 
 1 , pete Cauflidicos : poteris (ic culta videri, 
 
 Et bene Romanis fundere verba modis. 
 
 Fallor : pofl ignoramum gens cautior ille eft} 
 
 Et didicit Mufas, Granta, timere tuas. 
 
 I, pete Leftoren nullum 3 (icfalva latebis 5 
 Et poteris Criticas fperneretuta manus. 
 
 Limine ab hoc caveas : Procul 6, procul ito profana 
 Diffimile hic Domini nil decet elfe luo. 
 
 Ille facri calamo referat myfleria verbi. 
 
 Non alia illius fanfta lucerna videt. 
 
 Talis in Altari trepidat Fax psene timenda, 
 
 Et Flavum attollit fic veneranda caput. 
 
 At fcio, quid dices : Noflros Academia Iulus 
 Spedlavit 3 nugx tum placuere mex. 
 
 Pagina fluita nimis ! Granta efl Hic altera (olus 3 
 Vel Granee iplius non Caput, at Cerebrum. 
 
 Sed fi authore tuo, pergas, audacior, ire : 
 
 ("Audacem quemvis candidus ille facit. jj 
 Accedas tanquam ad numen formidine blandS 
 Triflis, 8c hsec illi paucula metra refer. 
 
 Sub veflroaufpicio natum bonus accipe carmen. 
 
 Viventi aufpicium quod fibi vellet idem. 
 
 Non peto, ut ifla probes 3 tantum, Puerilia, dicas, 
 
 Sunt, fateor 3 Puerum fed latis illa decent. 
 
 Collegii nam qui noflri dedit ifla Scholaris, 
 
 Si Socius tandem fit, meliora dabit. 
 
 Vejlri favoris findi efflimus , 
 
Ad Lecdorem. 
 
 N ON fum nefcius quanto cum periculo , emanare in vul- 
 gus banc fabuldm paffus Jim ; tantum interejl Spe- 
 ctator, an LeClor fis Comedu, quamvis amicus , adeo ut 
 mifcllum he opus, quod fatis ex fe deforme eft, pulchritudinem 
 fuam amittere necejfe ft, quam illi Lucerme, Vejles, Aclor, no- 
 bili (fima Frequentia addiderunt . Sed hoc cum ceteris commune, 
 illud nojlr ce proprium ejl, quod plurimis in locis, eijque , qui, ne- 
 Jcio quo fato , maxime placuerunt, ne intelligi quidem, nifi d qui - 
 bufdam poffit, ut in Morionis & Gelajinu partibus, praecipue 
 vero cimi aperitur Schola, ita ut huic libro accidat, quod Jolet 
 ignobilibus , qui, nifi in civitate fud ubique ignorantur, itanaf- 
 cuntur Calendarii fmiiles in ufum unius tantum regionis . Sed vo- 
 
 luntati amicorum fatisfaciendum eft, non timori meo ; <(sr ejfecit 
 benevolentia illa, qua priores meas nugas, velati vagitus Poe- 
 ticos ( nam (proh pudor ! ) pome ab infantia nugatus Jum ) exce- 
 pi fi, ut Ingrati crimen Jubeam, Ji tibi negem lufus meos ; lmme- 
 moris fi formidem. Aliquis autem dicat vir graviffimus (& for- 
 taffis etiam dixit) Eone impudenti ventum ejl ut hornus adhuc 
 Academicus, Comoediam doceat ? Quod nunquam qui f quam ed reta- 
 te aggrejfus efl, idne fibi arrogat inj olens puer ? Egonetale quid in 
 me admijit Quod fi crimen quidem Jit, Illius invidia nunquam tanti 
 erit, ut huic J altem crimini expurgationem aliquam parem. Nam 
 Tibi, Amice Leclor, ; fi audacia nofra placuit , Ego vel iterum tui 
 canjd tam inj olens fierem . 
 
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 Scena Dunkerka. 
 
 Dramatis Terforue. 
 
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 G Nomicus. 
 
 Gelafimus. 
 
 Morion. 
 
 Dinon. 
 
 Tutor Gel. & Mor. 
 
 Haeres dives, amicus Morionis. 
 Suppofititius filius Polypori. 
 Illorum fervus. 
 
 Bombardomachides. Miles. 
 
 Eucomiffa. Filia Bombardom. 
 
 ./Egle. 
 
 Pfecas. 
 
 iEmylio. 
 
 Calliphanes, p. 
 
 Calliphanes, F. 
 
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 Polyporus. 
 Academicus i. 
 Academicus 2. 
 Mulier. 
 
 Bajuli 2. 
 
 Perfonie mutae. 
 Lorarii 2. 
 Bajulus. 
 Exorcifta. 
 
 Captiva Bombard. iEmylionis foron 
 AncillaEucomiffe. 
 
 Captivus Bomb, filius Polypori. 
 
 Senex. 
 
 Ejus filius, iEgles amafius. 
 
 Mercator Anglus. 
 
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 PROLOGUS. 
 
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 E Xi foras inepte 5 nullamne habebunt hic Comoediam .<? 
 
 Exi, inquam, inepte : aut incipiam ego cum Epi logo. 
 Futi jam Sophi fla junior, & modeflus adhuc ? 
 
 Ego nihil pofium, praeter quod exteri folent, 
 
 Salvete cives attici, & corona flor enti JJima. 
 
 Sed cedo mihi pileum, fi necejje eji ifiud agere. 
 
 D tinam illam videretis , plus hoc fpedaculo 
 Rijuros vofmet credo , quam tot a in Comoedia. 
 
 Jam nnuc per rimam aliquam ad vos omnes adfpicit. 
 
 Nifi placide intueamini , a&um eji de Puero. 
 
 Trag£dia ifih£c fiet , @ Naufragium verum. 
 
 Didurus modo Prologum , Novi, inquit , peccatum meum. 
 Prodire, nifi perfonatus , in hanc frequentiam 
 Non audet , & pias fua rubefeit purpura. 
 
 Illius ergo causa , finite exorator fiem 
 Z)t nequis Poet£ vitio v or tat novit io, 
 
 Quodque non Jolet fieri , infolentiam putet. 
 
 Nifi fari inceptaverit , nemo efi futurus eloquens. 
 
 Qui modio pulpitum fortius, aut Scenam concutit , 
 
 Aliquando balbutivit ac timuit loqui. 
 
 Neque annos novem pofeite? non efi, Spectatores optimi, 
 Adulta res, fed puerilis. Ludere. 
 
 Vetus Poeta Comico ceflit in convitium. 
 
 Quis fimm diecuU invidet crepuj culum ? 
 
 Quis vioU, quod primo oritur, extingnit purpuram i 
 Favete & huic Flori , Ne t an quam Solfiitialis Herbula 
 Repente exortus, repentino occidat. 
 
 ACTUS 
 
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 Scena Trima . 
 
 Dinon, [Celeufma intus. ] 
 
 S iquidem adaptantur humeris onera, huc 
 me actutum Sequimini: Ego vobis pro- 
 fpiciam ; nimium ni nauta: attre&ant pi- 
 cem manibus: Mirum hercle ell quin 
 malo caveant, tam propinqui funibus Qui 
 fuum quotidie fatum quali accurate com- 
 plicant. Ut clamarunt modo ! Sufurrare 
 prtchis Tempeftatem diceres. 'Gratias habeo 
 quod abs fele, &; his luis nos amifit mare. 
 Utrumque ell aeque turbulentum, & ad 
 adlpectum utriulq, vomeres.Itaque incolu- 
 mem hic te vhlere, ferio laetor, Dinon: Po- 
 ly forus huc me milit Herus 3 cum Filio fimul 
 Ejulquelodali, ut euntibus lervirem pere- 
 gre, Quorum alter, natura bardus, nihil ul- 
 tra quaeritat. Alter & induftriam addidit, 
 uti infaniret flrenue. Hos ducit quali Tutor 
 eorum Gnomicus , ita homo, Qui, recfte h 
 fa per erit flultos cis annum redderet. Nil 
 extra carmina, atque lentendas loquitur 
 carnifex : Vix loleas,nili ex Vtrgilio pofcet, 
 ita poeta abutitur. Hem Dinon 3 vin’tu ho- 
 mini Ihilto aulcultare mihi?Succentuti jam 
 nunc gnaviter in corde Sycophantias:Nam 
 li bolus ille tantus eripiatur ex faucibus, 
 Numquam iterum occaliodabitur,fortuna- 
 tusutlies. Ignota regio; herillolidi, ac 
 divites: tum ego, Dmon. Plenus fallacia’ 
 fer v us, & pecunia: indigens. Na Oves com- 
 milit lupo, hos mihi qui concredidit. Arq, 
 eccos iplos de navi ; eccum autem Gnonn - 
 cum ; Ut magnifice infert fele ! gradiri 
 Jambum crederes. Concedam illuc : hem 
 Bajuli, an dormitis luper larcinas ? 
 
 Scena Secnn&a, 
 
 Gnomicus. Morion. Gelafimus. Dmon. 
 
 Gno. Quod felix fauflumque lit (qua 
 formula delectabantur Veteres) Egreffi op- 
 tata Troes potiuntur arena. Ne a Virgilio 
 nollro poetarum omnium facile principe. 
 Quem ego honoris causa nomino, tranl- 
 verlum digitum, aut unguem latum exce- 
 damus, ut pulchre in proverbio. 
 
 Mor. Tutor,gratulor tibi huc adventum 
 meum. 
 
 Gn. Dixilles potius tuiim, Nam hoc ef 
 let more Aulico. 
 
 Mor. Imo utrumque, mi Tutor Gnomi- 
 ce, [ Dinon 3 Bajuli. ] 
 
 Quem ego honoris causa nomino ; led 
 quariiam ell haec Kegio? Nam mihi non 
 magis nota ell de facie, quam li eilet Ter- 
 ra incognita. 
 
 Dm. Adliint Bajuli cuna farcinulis» 
 
 Ba. Quo portamus Domine ? 
 
 Din. Ad tabernam proximam diverlo- 
 riam, ego offendam locum. 
 
 Gno. Quin Bajuli edico vobis,quod Simd 
 lencx in Comoedia, Vos ifthaec intro aufer- 
 te ; abite; E>ww,fequere.Non,paucis te volo. 
 
 Mor. Dmon , ft ! ego paucis te volo. Me- 
 mento de vino bono. 
 
 Din. Here fa&um puta,Nam nihil mihi 
 potius eft,qua in hac re animo tuo oblequi. 
 
 Mor. St ! Bajuli ! quin dico, lillite vos 
 mihi Bajuli. 
 
 Baj. Quid ell quod nos velis? 
 
 Mor. Cavete de larcinulis. Ne quallae 
 lint vehementer aut ja&a; in terra fortiter. 
 
 Baj. Numuam inlunt vitra ? 
 
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 Mor. Non, non, non, fed nolo aurum 
 nimis premi. Ne forte imago regia aliquid 
 detrimenti capiat. Et \xfx Majeftatis reus 
 fiam ; fat fapio mihi, diis gratias. 
 
 Exeunt Dinon Bajuli. 
 
 'i Gn . Pifh, verbum lapienti lat eft : no- 
 runt quid velis, abite. Audin’ laetitiam nau- 
 tarum I ferit aurea fydera clamor. 
 
 Celeti fm a intus. 
 
 Mo. O muficos homines ! utinam ego 
 eftemfflavitai Vix.mcabftineo, quin cla- 
 mem. [Clamat. J 
 
 Gela fime , quid tu triftis es ? 
 
 Gn. Quid frontem, ut dicam Metapho- 
 rice, ca peras Gela fime ? 
 
 Gel. Egon’ triftis? non; Meditabar tan- 
 tum de natura maris. Cui Dii Deaque ma- 
 lefaciant omnes, nunquam navigabo polle- 
 ri.. Nam nihil navigatione magis incommo- 
 dum eft ingenio bono. Adeo non potui 
 modo unum jocum expnmere,quem dice- 
 rem Bajulis. At antequam confcendi navim 
 folebant vel invito mihi effluere,Donicum 
 omnes dicerent, fatis, fatis, fatis, fatis eft. 
 
 Gn. Gelafme , ut arridet tibi Navigatio 
 tua ? quid jam de mari ? 
 
 .Gei. Amara res eft oh ! bene eft, quod 
 meipfum colligo : Hic primus jocus eft 
 quem dixi in his regionibus, Et eft tantum 
 parvus jocus, meliores certe foleo. Adefte 
 requo animo, & meliores audietis poftea. 
 
 Mor. Hei, ho ! ohime ! 
 
 Gno. Quid eft Morion ? cur imo gemi- 
 tum de pedore ducis? Secundum Poetam. 
 
 Alo. Totus contremifeo cum de rebel- 
 lante meo ftomacho cogitem, O jentacu- 
 lum illud,quod ego de tabulatis totum evo- 
 mui! Oova!o vinum ! 6 fumenlhsec omnia 
 infelix perdidi. Obfonavi pifeibus largiter. 
 
 Gw.Qiiis talia fando Marmidonum,Do- 
 lopumve, aut duri miles Ulyffi ( euphonise 
 gratia) Temperet a lacrymis? video certb 
 rede dici 1 vetehbus. 
 
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 Ilvj, l/l reict 
 
 Sive ut ego juvenis 111 Pentametrum Lath 
 num tranftuli. Sunt tria mala viris? Ignis, 
 Aqua, Mulier. 
 
 Mo. Praeterea, Tutor aliquid aliud cer- 
 te, me nimis male habuit,Nam cum, ex al- 
 to terram procul profpeximus : Continuo 
 ut nos propiijs acceftimus, illa aufugit lon- 
 gule ! Idqueita-ego obfervavi ipfe. 
 
 Gno. Vides ergo, quod Poft nubem Phoe- 
 bus, Dulcia non meruit qui non guftavit 
 amara: Multa diuque tuli: Difficilia qua: 
 pulchra ! Per varios cafes per tot difcrimi- 
 na rerum Tendimus in Latium. Plurima- 
 que alia Commode a veteribus dida fiint 
 in hanefententiam. 
 
 Gei. Omittis,M>m»,tempeftateni remi- 
 nifci. 
 
 A/br.Rede mones: Nunquam tanu male 
 metui ne ad coelum irem ingratiis. 
 
 Gno. Jam-jam tadures fidera ftiVnma pu- 
 tes, fed eho tumide 6 n 5 vero metris 
 
 Alor. Quidni metuam?Nolo tam durum 
 in me dici quicquam vocabulum : 
 
 - Gei. Ego menercule tunc temporis gut- 
 tam non habui fanguinis, Prae timore, ne 
 liib Ponti Marmori fepultura nobis fieret. 
 Intelligis tutor? ambiguum id verbum eft: 
 ludo in "rid Marmore. Numnam auditis 
 hoc ? ftabo promiflis meis fi attenditis. 
 
 Mo. Dii te perdant, adeo in omni fer- 
 mone facetus es. 
 
 Gei. Ain vero ? tune maledicis ingenio 
 meo ? 
 
 Mo. Quidni ? quaefo annon ad heredi- 
 tatem nati fumus ? Tun’ Filius natu maxi- 
 mus dodis didis animum applicas? Vitium, 
 Gelafme 3 vitilim eft. 
 
 Gno. Quid eft adolefeentes ? revocate 
 animos, mceftumque timorem Mittite,nam 
 jam in vado fiimus, cum Proverbio. 
 
 Mo . Obfecro te atque etiam oto uti ne 
 revortamur domtim.Nam oppido mihi ar- 
 ridet hujus loci facies. 
 
 : Gno. Potin igitur Ut fuftineas animum 
 fi nunquam patrem fis vi fimis denuo ? 
 
 'Mo. Hercle vero ia tin 5 fitihi exciderat 
 Pater de memoria? Petcua molefta res eft 
 Pater,fed nifi fallor no femper vivunt lenes 
 Gel. Video me fruftra efle: oecefle eft uc 
 revocem ad me fugitivii meum ingenium. 
 
 Mor. Nimis diu hercle eft, ex quo ego e- 
 bfius fui, Atq;adeo annus videtur,dohicum 
 in hac regione probe madeam. 
 
 Ge'/.Tutor,cedo,quid faciendum eft jam 
 nuncipetimufhedeverforium ? lbique om- 
 nem hanc ex animo eximimus laffitudint? ? 
 Alor. Imo illic bibamus ftrenue. 
 
 'Gei. Rede,& poft illa faciam carmina. 
 Mor. Atque ego- dormiam. 
 
 Gno. Faciefne adolefcens carmina ? At 
 non conflabunt tibi Pedes pofteaquam 
 ftrenue biberis, intellextin’ Gelafme , quod 
 velim per Pedes annon ? 
 
 Gel. Ha, ha, he, Eugcpa: ! ob iftuc te di- 
 dum amo plurimum. At nili eripuifles ex 
 ore mihi, equidem pravortiflem te,Et certe 
 magnus jocus eft : donabo hunc pugillari- 
 bus, Carmina — tibi pedes —biberis— Ha, 
 ha, ha, he [feri biti] 
 
 Mor. Na: iftos omnes jocos dii perdant : 
 nam ante hoc temporis Madere potuilTem 4 
 nifi quod diem male amifimus. 
 
 Gh. E amus igitur; nam feriptum in poe- 
 ta invenimus, Ennius ipfe Pater nunquam 
 
 nifi 
 
nili potus ad arma proliluit dicenda ; Ubi 
 -Pater, quia erat primus; Arm a Metapho- 
 rice & alio loco, Foecundi calices Quem 
 non fecere Poetam ? 
 
 Gela. Pulcherrime ! Quem non fecere 
 Poetam ! 
 
 Mor. Si me certe facere pollent, nun- 
 quam vel pitiftarem poftea.Poetam ! vah ! 
 fumne ego Filius Polipori natu maximus ? 
 
 Gno. Bene habet : jam vos inftituam op- 
 timis lecundum hunc locum atq; xtatem 
 moribus, Docebo peregrinandi artem, atq; 
 edicam Formulas.Perfuadendi, deridendi, 
 atque adoriendi homines : Donec omnes 
 mortales vos admirentur azque ac me. Sed 
 prius intro eamus, nam melius hanc rem 
 prscftabimus Impleti veteris Bacchi, pin- 
 guilque ferina?. 
 
 Mor. Longe hercle melius. [Exeunt. 
 
 Scena Tertia . 
 
 tMLmylio: 
 
 y£m. Enim vero ego jam nunc incedo 
 viromatiBimuSjMeque ipfe dum contem- 
 plor magis , continuo m mentem venit, 
 Hominum catenulis fulpenlorum jamdiu 
 in via regia : Na: illi veftitu (blent ede ad 
 illam plane faciem. Neutiquam hoc pla- 
 cet omen : quanquam h eveniat, hoc vo- 
 lupe’ eft mihi Quod hifce ego veftibus com- 
 modare non poflim carmiici.Nolo ille ho- 
 mo per me dite(cat:fed intereatemporis Dii 
 voftram fidem ! quid mihi faciendum eft 
 milero? Num fiam (qui hic rara avis eft) 
 Philofophus denuo? Qui poflim, nili forte 
 Cynicus, adeo oblatrat ftomachus ? Num 
 impendam operam foro, ac contorquendis 
 Legibus ? At malum hercle omen eft au- 
 fpicari id ftudium, in Forma Pauperis.Di- 
 cet aliquis, bono ingenio cs : adjunge ani- 
 mum Poetica: : Quamobrem vero? adeone 
 parum inops fum,ut fiam magis? Nam htec 
 recia via ft ad egelfatem : praeterea fruftra 
 hoc fperat animus N: inquam ego evadam 
 Literatus homo, lat fcio, Unam J e me ipfo 
 nifi fiLiteram longam faciam.Quid igitur 
 agere inftituam ? nam agendum elle ali 
 quid id venter admonet:Ec Plurimum pra:- 
 ftat manu mea, quam Laborare in hunc 
 modum fame : Quanquam cum magis co- 
 gito, quid eft, opera quod conficiat mea ? 
 Nifi li ad abigendos Corvos memet Hortu- 
 lano collocem.Quod praeftare optime po- 
 teram cum ornatu hoc formidolofiftimo. 
 At non eft, uti nimium properem propera- 
 re ad id muneris, Nam velim nolim, lat ci- 
 to ad Corvos eundum eft mihi.Lubet me* 
 
 hercule lulcipere meam veterem denuo 
 provinciam. Aliqui intendenda eft 111 ali- 
 quem fallacia : hoc fixum maneat. 
 
 Scena Quarta, 
 
 oyEmylio, Dincn. 
 
 <MLm. Sed quis hic homo eft,qui fermo- 
 nem noftrum arbitratur Ex adversa platea? 
 Quantum ex vultu colligo eodem labora: 
 morbo, quo ego Et multi magni viri la- 
 borarunt. 
 
 Din. Herus meus Morion cum Tutore 
 Gnomico f E)uidcm farina: homine & Gelafi- 
 mo squali fuo Bene intus potat,ibi illi tres 
 conveniunt optime Hos ego nili emungam 
 aliqui pecunia, Sumne ip(e ftultus lftorum 
 multo maximus ? Nam heri Polipor/ts pater 
 adprime dives eft, Nefcit,quid faciat auro; 
 at ego quid faciam (cio. 
 
 cs£m. /Edepol fervum graphicum ! ex 
 amuffim fententiam meam Locutus eft a- 
 deo: hunc mihi notum eile oportuit,Nam 
 idem fentimus ambo, quod eft in propin- 
 qua parte amicitia:. 
 
 Din. Age Dinon. 
 
 zsEm. Oh,idne tibi nomen eft ? 
 
 Din . Nuncfpecimen fpecitur Dinon iri* 
 genii tuijNifi aliquam fabricam facias, non 
 caufam dico, Quin omnes te uno ore prae- 
 dicent fervum minimi pretii. 
 
 <MEm. A me non impetro hercle, ut ab* 
 ftineam diutius. Ita hominem amo perdi- 
 te. Dincn, (alve, gaudeo (ane, quandoqui- 
 dem huc (alvus veneris, Valuiftin u(que ? 
 
 Din. Quxnam htec larva eft ? Quantum 
 de vefte conjedo hic ftipem petit ; Oh ! 
 (cio quid diefturus : Miles film, potitus ho- 
 ftium, Occifiis jam bis in bello, confoflus 
 millies &c. Parcas labori tuo; nihil do: be- 
 ne vale. 
 
 cs£w. Quali non norimus nos inter nos, 
 mitte has nugas, Dinon. Ubi eft Herus tu- 
 us ? pulchre os (ublinemus homini. 
 
 Din. Quid (malum) vis tibi ? tun’ he- 
 rum nofti meum ? 
 
 es£m. Tanquam te. Din. Ita fentio. 
 
 Non novi fungum illum ? Bar- 
 dum, Baronem, ftipitem, ahnum, ovem ? 
 Quem tondebimus auro hodie ufq; ad vi- 
 vam cutem* 
 
 Din. Hic pol herum meum ( quicquid 
 id eft) fuo appellat nomine. Jurares novift 
 fe hominem,ita depinxit probe. Quoniam 
 vero tam familiaris esjfacito ut fciam,Quod 
 nomen tibi lit amico atq; neceflario med. 
 
 c \Aim. Quali vero oblivilci pons lis, fa- 
 cetus es, Dmon. C dmpleffitur. J 
 
 S 1 Din . 
 
Din. Non non, quxfo move te abs me 
 longius, nam licet te amem, Memini me 
 fetnper odiile fervulos tuos, nihili beflias. 
 
 c Am. Quos fervulos memoras ? Ego 
 meos reliqui domi. 
 
 Din. Nempe a tergo (tint, funguntur 
 .officio fuo, Nam tu, tanquam alter Bias, 
 omnes tuos tecum portas. 
 
 <iAm. Ah nequam ! idem es, video, qui 
 fuifli prius. A puero te novi, lemper mor- 
 debas aliquem. 
 
 Dm. Egon’ mordebam vero ? id fervu- 
 li faciunt tui. 
 
 lALtn. Non eft ut ab illis timeas, Dinon , 
 licet confitear, Me feltas meas velles non 
 induifle hodie. Cogitabam domi me man- 
 furum, fed quid refert? Omnes me norunt, 
 non efl uti laborem de veflitu. 
 
 Din. FaJ (um : ego te non novfDiis gra- 
 tias, Sed rede, mi vetus amice, adeo orna- 
 tum negligis, Nam virtute forms evemt, 
 te, ut, quicquid habeas, deceat. Sed fi tene- 
 bris forte fiirgeres, diligentia opus efl. Ne 
 induas fiibligacula in diploidis loco, Adeo 
 difficile ell utrumquc in te dillinguere. 
 
 ?Aw. ffiflive tedus fum de induflria ; 
 fudor me enecat. 
 
 Din. Confilium dabo, amice, fi me au- 
 dias, perbonum, [n rem tuam efle arbitror, 
 ut moriaris quam primum poteris ; Nam 
 tunc te, /Ediles ioriitan ad fepulturam du- 
 int. Et, quod anno non fecifli, obvolutus 
 jacebis linteo. 
 
 c Am. Nolo obfonare vermes. 
 
 Din. Quam pediculos latius efl. Oble- 
 cto Amice, quo avolavit collare,& fubucu- 
 la? Ne tantillum quidem ulquequaq; gerit 
 lintei Quod digitum tegat, li eumcalu vul- 
 neret. 
 
 zAm. Lotfix habet, quid tua ? 
 
 Din. Ille galerus jam cribrum eft.Reve- 
 reri me necelTe efl ; operire non potes 
 caput. 
 
 zAm. Admitti folem volo : qusfo an 
 id invides ? 
 
 Din. Nunquam antea oculis vidi meis 
 ambulare flerquilinium. 
 
 zAm. Nunquid dignum habes familia- 
 rem ludo ludere? Si feno faceres 
 
 Din. Qiiid tum ? 
 
 zAm. Acciperem joco. 
 
 Din. /Edepol hominem perpaucorum 
 hominum ! ingenium perplacet. Sed ne- 
 gotiolum me decet efle aliis negotiis. Vale, 
 bone vir, cum revocarim in memoriam 
 qui fis, revortar tibi. 
 
 zAm. Oblecro, nutri amicum deleris ? 
 quid faciam ? Dm. Teipfum penfilem. 
 
 *Am. Da igitur drachmam, non placet 
 
 ita prodigere de meo. Quin morare, ver- 
 bo expediam quid efl quod te velim. In 
 Morionum herum tuum tragulam injicere 
 Animum induxiflfne nega ; induxti, fcio. 
 Hanc fi devolvas mihimet provinciam. Ita 
 argento illum circum vortam con lutis dolis. 
 Ut revera me dicas poftea neceflarium tu- 
 um. Miles hanc domum noil: rae com mific 
 fidei Servandam in reditum fiium Bombay - 
 doma chides. Peropportunus i flic locus efl, 
 tum autem ego (Dimidium mearum Lau- 
 du pra:tereo pra: modeflia,)Ita retexo om- 
 nes mortales,quemq;prxhendero, ut oppi- 
 do fe tados credant modo fi conf pexerim. 
 
 Dm. Ut loquitur, ne crumena pertunfa 
 fit, mihi valde cautio efl. Nimio fuit fami- 
 liaris. 
 
 zAm. Idem a te caveo Dinon , Nam pro- 
 pe adflitifli : falva res, nihil nadus es. 
 
 Dm.D 11 me amant, quandoquidem hunc 
 hominem objecerunt mihi,nunc aggrediar 
 facinus aufpicio liquido. Nam cum lflhoc 
 comite vel lpli Mercurio verba darem. Ita 
 omnes articulos callet Sycophantia:. Quod 
 nomen tibi dicam efle ? Em.zAmylioni ; 
 
 Din. Tum bene zAmylto da mihi ma- 
 num, conditionem accipio. Dabm’ vero 
 jusjurandum te fidelem fore ? 
 
 o' £m . Do deos tefles tibi : quxfo cui 
 mortalium Proflanda efl, fidem fi inter 
 nofinet frangimus?Sed moram didis creas, 
 dic qui lint homines. Unde, quid veniant, 
 nam adibo, quafi aetatem noflem. lcdies, 8 c 
 nondum pecunia: injicio ungulas. 
 
 Din. In via tibi dicam omnia : fed cum 
 ifloccine Ornatu, mi zAmylio^. 
 
 zAm. Pifh, potiifut qmefcas ? Annon 
 veflitus tibi videor fatis balilice ? 
 
 Din. Ut voles,eflo : fatin’ ex improvifb 
 tandem Amicitia tanta ida ell ? 
 zAm. Meus bonus Genius ! 
 
 Dm. Meus alter idem ! JEm. Meus Pi- 
 lades ! 
 
 Din. Oreflesmeus! 
 
 zAm. Meus — Sto* Inn ! 
 
 Din. Mitte tricas, I pra: fcquar. 
 iAm. Quafi eflem tam male moratus, 
 
 mi Pilades ? Peregrino femper 
 
 Din. Vis audeo te a tergo relinquere. 
 Tibi hercle locum cedo,tu nebulo major es. 
 /Ew.Eamus ergo fimul,mea commoditas, 
 Din. Mea opportunitas,eamus. [Exeunt J 
 
 f . J E 
 
 Scena Quinta. 
 
 Gnomicus , Gelafimus > Morion , Tuev. 
 
 Gn Uti in primo Adu Mena:chmi,Scena 
 fecunda dicitur Sepulchrum habeamus, & 
 
 hunc 
 
/ 
 
 hunc comburamus diem.Euge Plautus, 
 w didtus ! i ic Horatius Diem conde- 
 re^ o tmhVk Larii per excellentiam Jamq, 
 diem claulo componit velper Olympo. 
 
 Gel. An dies mortua eft ? ha, ha, ha, ha, 
 an inquam dies mortua’ft Tutor ?. 
 
 Ador. Moriatur fane, aut fiifpendat fe,fi 
 volt. Puer , cedo vinum. Hum — nullum- 
 nc magi’ vetus ? 
 
 Pu. Illico, Illico. [bibit. ] 
 
 Nullus eft in tota urbe qui tibi melius prae- 
 beat, Si ejus frater edes. 
 
 Mor. Frater, carnifex ? Non Ium ego 
 Polyporo unicus? fed periculum faciam, 
 
 [bibit I] 
 
 P u. Et fcintillulat, quafi 
 
 Mor. Scintillulat ? videam Fortaflis hoc 
 praeftat — certe fcintillat probe. [bibit 
 
 Quid (malum) an captas pedes meos ? 
 
 Egon. Egon’ Domine ? 
 
 Mor. Dimidiatum tibi cyathum nun- 
 quam Tutor, porrigam, fyloratusliim me 
 lius da Tutori, P ner. [bibit. ] 
 
 P u. Illico, illico, inquam, non poffum 
 efte hic & illic limul. 
 
 Gei. Obftupeficiam jam ego puerum in- 
 gemo meo. Adi lis 
 
 P u. Maxime. 
 
 Gel. Adefdum vero Minime. Ut ver- 
 bum retorqueo ? quid agis Minime ? 
 
 Pu. Vides. 
 
 Gei. Ita nimio exiguus fueras, ut vix 
 her cie poteram. 
 
 Pu. Illico, illico, jam venio, jam, jam, 
 vinum ocius in Coronam. 
 
 Gei. Avolavit: unico plane ditfto occidi 
 hominem. Ita omnes qmbufcum loquor 
 iemper mado infortunio. Hominem teti- 
 gi jocis quarto Nonas Februarii lub ligno 
 Rofr. [Scribit [) 
 
 Gno. Ah parcas irridere illum Gelafime. 
 Ingenui vultus puer eftjingenuiq; pudoris. 
 Adi lis propius: quid oculos defigis adeo ? 
 attollas caput,Nefcis derivari &vdpcmv arrri re 
 avco ctSpwr 1 Pronaq; cum Ipecftent animalia 
 extera terram. Os homini fublime dedit, 
 ccelumq; tueri Juffit, erectos ad fidera 
 tollere vultus. 
 
 Gel. Non quit refpondere : ita joco in- 
 terfeci modo. Euge Gelafime , nunquam 
 commutatus clues. 
 
 Mor. Puer peteocyus vinum : quid ho- 
 ras bonas perdimus ? 
 
 Gno. Audin? fitCoum,Mafticum, vel 
 Leucadium, Falernum, Lesbium, Ccecu- 
 bum, atq; audin' ? ne fit Aut Vaticanum, 
 aut Vejentanum, aut Laletanum cave, 
 Namq; hax in aliam partem accepta apud 
 Authores legimus. 
 
 P«.Fa<ftum puta:Vinum ocyus in K c. 
 
 Mo. Puer revertere lis : Fac poculum 
 teipfo majus uti limul atferas. Nam pro vi- 
 tello ovi ebibere te ex cyatho poteram. 
 
 Seen a Sexta. 
 
 zsEmjliOj iifidem. 
 
 Pu. Quo pergis bone vir? nolunt hi fi- 
 dicinem: Abi cum cantiunculis novis. 
 
 Ain’ Nanule, Ramentum ! Tri- 
 ental hominis ! Naturae avaritia ! Non li- 
 cet amicos alloqui ? 
 
 Pu. Amicos tuos ? In popina ctcca quae- 
 rites : vinum non bibunt, Nifi forte in 
 1 1 incipis natali cum ex canalibus funditur. 
 
 Quin abi in malam rem furcife- 
 rule. — 
 
 Pu. Illico ; illico. [ Exit . ] 
 
 *s£m. Salvere vos plurimum jubet ami- 
 cus vofter vetus : Et vivos valentefq; huc 
 advenifte id volupe eft mihi Facit hoc for- 
 ate veftis infolentia Ut fugiat vos memo- 
 ria qui fim. 
 
 Gel. Non multum falleris. 
 
 Gno. Rem acu tetigifti, nam fi c melius 
 didtum reor. 
 
 At veftrum ego & memini, & 
 temper faciam ut meminero. Nam Mori- 
 onis patri Polyporo jam olim fummus fui, 
 Poftquam peregre advenientem hofpitio 
 me exceperat. 
 
 Gno. Na: bona memoria es : didiciile 
 artem, arbitror. Quam (referente Cice- 
 rone J invenifle dicitur Simonides. 
 
 Gelafime falve(Dii faciant ne fab 
 (iis fim) (alve Morion. 
 
 Mor. Ego non magis te novi quam Ho- 
 minem in Luna. Sed fi vis, falve. 
 
 cre/.FIunc etiam hominem ludos faciam. 
 Nunquid veftes etiam tua:(ha,ha,hx,>bi- 
 erunt peregre ? 
 
 *s£m. Modo admodum ex bello redii, 
 commutare non licuit. Ita vos ut audivi 
 advenifle properavi vilere. 
 
 Gei. /Edepol veftes malas ! an ex bello 
 aufugerunt 1 An oftenderunt terga ? tua 
 terga hic intelligo. 
 
 „ Oh ; bene hercle gaudeo quod 
 
 iigmhcaras mihi. Nam illic jocus eft, Ge- 
 lafime, antiquum obtines. 
 
 Gei. Novit me ifte proculdubio, non 
 urgebo amplius. Ha, lia, ha ! An oftende- 
 runt terga ? Nolo jam coram peregrino, 
 poft (cribam tamen. 
 
 c /£m. Hanc mihi quam videtis, Itragem 
 effecerunt gladii. Tum galerum cernite, 
 eccam tormentorum operam, Annon ocios 
 Pyrii pulveris obje&uft naribus ? 
 
l J± 
 
 Gel. O bellum quali minime bonum ! 
 Ibi ego iterum ; nunquam cellabo hodie. 
 
 Gno. Bella per /Emathios plulquam eide 
 vilia campos, Satin’ hic homo excidit mihi 
 memoria ? Pudet oblivilci familiaris tam 
 male, Ne luperbum dicat, aftimulabo quali 
 fciam.Incertus fum quis fiet,fed hoc nil re- 
 fert, Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur. 
 
 *y£m. Ut valet uxor Volypori ? ut fene- 
 dutem fert ? 
 
 Gei. Quali injuriam Male ; Si centum 
 peregrini adlint Nunquam tamen omittam 
 illoe fcribere. [Scribit.'] 
 
 Gno. Ohe! jam fatis eft, nunc (alve, 
 amice optime, Diflimulavi per jocum fut 
 aiunt J quali non nollem prius. 
 
 Gei. Noftin’ vero. Tutor, ierio ? dic 
 nomen obfecro. 
 
 Gn. Nomen ? quali — vor fatur mihi in 
 labris primoribus. 
 
 <MEm. Perii : nomen anuli: oh! Pen- 
 polemarehus eft. 
 
 Gno. Du boni ! ita ell profedo : fxpe 
 oblivifeimur Qua: callemus, ut proverbium 
 facetiffime, tanquam digitos. 
 
 Gei. Certe quoq; cum animo cogitem, 
 quali per nebulam memini Me vidiile il- 
 lam faciem. 
 
 Mor. Tum ego memini quoq. Itaque 
 
 propinabo tibi. Hem ! Penpo Peri- 
 
 plome — Non multum refert, nofti quid 
 velim, tibi praebibo. 
 
 Gno. Sedeamus omnes, in re omni fer- 
 vanda ell Methodus. Sic melius carpemus 
 munera Bacchi. Clama puerum Gelafime. 
 
 Gel. Non pareW mihi Tutor, ita dirifi 
 modo. 
 
 Gno. I-Ieus puer, afccnde ad culmina 
 tedi. 
 
 Vu. [Subt.]' Statim venio, Illico. 
 
 Gno. At citius quam coquuntur alparagi. 
 En, age legnes Rumpe moras. 
 
 <Mlm. Praedam habeo : Salvus fum: tres 
 holce Alinos Dua: res ftatnn peffundabunt. 
 Ebrietas &; Ego. Eho tu ! dum vos hic lar- 
 giter liceamus cyathos. Jube cythariftria 
 intus nos obledet cantiuncula. Circum- 
 fer tu merum ; da bibere plenis cantharis. 
 A fum mo incipe. 
 
 Gno. Penpolemarche, pulchre admones. 
 Juvat infanire. 
 
 Mor. Nimio nimis fum fanus diu. St ! 
 Pax ! oh harmoniam! utvibrilTatJ [Cantio.] 
 
 Gno. Hem Morion clauduntur lumina 
 fomno ? . 
 
 Mor. Non,non,non. Sine meelle nihili. 
 
 Grl. Madet poi X dorian. 
 
 A^r.Madeon Gelafme ? An ego madeo, 
 Tutor ? cedo gladium Peripomarchides. 
 
 Gei. Videon’ ego circumfufam illic tur- 
 bam hominum? Plane ebrius es GeUfimt ) 
 per Deos immortales ebrius es. 
 
 Gno. Arma virumque cano Troja: qui 
 primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus— hic 
 illius arma Hic currus fuit- -circumfer me- 
 runijCarnufex. Multum ille & terris jada- 
 tus & alto V i fuperum, {'x\ r x memorem — 
 porrige mihi poculum. Amice, bene me, 
 bene tp, bene nofter Virgilius. Arma vi- 
 rumq; cano — [Bibit] 
 
 Mor. Bene habet : ego iterum potabo 
 ne me credant ebrium. 
 
 Dm. Horunce hic ego fada & lermones 
 legam. Quam ft renue Genio indulgent ! 
 fixo, fi vivus vivam. Plus uti cras iacry- . 
 ment, quam ebiberunt hodie. Tum nos 
 li Baccho placet, in hunc modum : hila* 
 rem Sumemus diem,atq; amoenum : Ebri- 
 etatem litio. 
 
 Nili diflimulem quafi biberem, 
 hercle me evertent cyathis, ita properant 
 interire : Dii me beatum volunt. 
 
 Mo. Ego non fum ebrius Gelafime. 
 
 Gei. Neque ego. 
 
 Mo. Neque ego. 
 
 Gei. Bene igitur ; falucem tibi. 
 
 Mo. Enim vero ego fum ingenioftflimus. 
 
 Gel. At ego multo magis. 
 
 Mo. Tun’ magis? 
 
 Gei. Inquam, Magis. 
 
 Mo. Bene, fum tamen ingeniofiffimus, 
 hem ! propino tibi. 
 
 Gei. Vix lacrymis abftineo equidenqita 
 te amo Morion. 
 
 Mo. O Gelafime ! 
 
 Gei. O Morion ! 
 
 Gno. Move manus ocyus; [P ner Exit. ] 
 
 [ Dmon intits fonitum facit & celeuftna. j 
 Quid flas? colaphum impingam tibi gran- 
 dem cum Comico. 
 
 Mo. Dii voftram fidem! tempeftateni 
 magnam ! eamus oratum Tutor. 
 
 Gei. Tempeltatem vero . l certo certius 
 turbo exortus ell,Ita vehementer conquaf 
 fat navim, ut vix queam liare. 
 
 Gno. Ecce autem, clamorq; virum, ftri- 
 dorq; rudentum! Satui’ in navi nos elle ob- 
 litus fui ? hem ! curate naviur, Ne navis 
 confringatur, neve impingat forfitan in 
 Scopulum, Tem pellas merebrefeit. 
 
 Dm. Pol mortales graphicos! Periimus, 
 navis periit, ad extrema le paret quifque. 
 Nelcmnt jam vocem meam ; ego, pulchre 
 delulos dabo. 
 
 <MEm. Dinonis illa vox eft ; Eugepa: ! 
 fadum ell optime. ; 
 
 Gno. Apparent adhuc fidera : hic Pol- 
 lux, illic Caftor efl. [ad Incernat .] 
 
 zAim. 
 
 i 
 
e^£w.Hcm! nauclere, nauclere inquam ! ( 
 quamdiu vivimus ? 
 
 Dm. Vix horae dimidium; periimus! 
 
 Mo. Heu quid faciam mifer ? Prx timo- 
 re iterum vomam ; li jam undis obruar, 
 Nunquam navigabo polled. 
 
 •sEm. Adefdum, adefdum inquam, Gno- 
 mice , Videnfludum illum decimum? 
 
 Gno. Decima; venit impetus undae ; Po- 
 ftenornono ell, undecimoque prior. 
 
 Gei. O li quis bibere jam queat Salutem 
 mihi! Non polium non jocari hoc iplo in 
 articulo. Expirabo animam joco. 
 
 Aio. Non polium pati me mori. 
 
 [ gena fle Hit. ] 
 
 O quoties peccavi ego! [£/£;?. JVTadui quo- 
 ties! [bibit. \ Quoties Icortatus lum ! [bibit f\ 
 nunquam videbo patrem, Nunquam poJt 
 haec bibam, [bibit ?[ abi lis uter mifer. 
 
 Convertamus nos Tutor, ad preces iliico. 
 
 Gno. Maxime: 
 
 O terque quaterque beati, 
 
 Queis ante ora Patrum, Trojae fub maeni- 
 Gontigit oppetere. (bus altis. 
 
 Pu. Ecquid nos vocaftis ? 
 
 <MEm. Dii te perdant, ita inopportune 
 huc te conjicis. Abi lis furcifer, [extrudit f] 
 
 Gno. Quod fit ? 
 
 Rogas ? Vidiffin’ ut ad proram 
 modo Deus aliquis marinus adftitit ? 
 
 Gei Non, erat pifcis magnus. 
 
 c ALm. Pileis ? 
 
 Gei. Pifcis mehercule, Mehercule, in- 
 quam, pifcis, ex voce id latis colligo. 
 
 Din. Funes rupti lunt, disje&a vela, na- 
 vis lacera eft. Adum de nobis, Socii. 
 
 5 U 
 
 quid faciam ? 
 Oblecroatq;orovospifces mihi parcite. 
 Ego filius fum Polypori natu maximus. 
 
 Din. Exonerabo hunc ego congium in 
 eorum capita. Periimus, ho! focii, perii- 
 mus, abforbet nos mare, [J e j lclt ~\ 
 
 Jam, jam abforbet, periimus. 
 
 Gn.O nos mi feros! viden’ ut aquas puppis 
 combibit? Servare hanc familiam ipfa non 
 poterit SahiSjUt peflime Comicus. O Pen- 
 polemarche,quxlo duc me in inferiora na- 
 vis. 
 
 Gel. Et me, me, me, me etiam obfecro. 
 
 [Detrudit in cellam Bcmbard~\ 
 Mo. Valete ; ego jam moriai*. [Cadit. j 
 Din. Ha, ha, ha ! dii voftram fidem rem 
 venuftamj& lepidam ! Non potuit evenire 
 melius, quam evenit iffhxc fabrica. 
 
 <MEm. St ! fl ! Dionon , fl ! defeende, al- 
 tum dormiunt; [Dinon defeendit . ] 
 
 Nx ego multum fallor, nili hi homines 
 naufragium verum fecerint. 
 
 Puer ingreditur. 
 
 Pu. Non, non, non ; reprefentabam 
 prius Pecuniam oportet efle pro his quos 
 fecerunt fumptibus,antequam hunc etiam 
 auferas. 
 
 [Morionis loculos /poliat 3 & dat puero pecun. j 
 •Mim. Pecuniam? lubentillime,luben- 
 tiffime accipe fis. 
 
 Pu. Jam habe tibi hunc afinum ; iliico, 
 iliico. [£x7>.] 
 
 iMUm.O Jovem, cxterofque ccelices! 
 
 [ Tollunt Morionem .J 
 NecefTe efb rifii fpedatores emoririer. 
 
 Si rem transferret iftam in Conxediam 
 quii piam. £ Exeunt. J 
 
 Pfdu fragium /oculare. 
 
 Mo. O mortem 
 
 ACTUS SECUNDUS. 
 
 Scena Trima . 
 
 Dinon y JEmylio habitu Mcr. 
 
 Dm. 7f?Mylio } ecquid fl as animo? quin 
 xJJy iterum, inquam , <Mdmyho : 
 Hxredis illx velles funt ; vereor ne cere- 
 bro incommodent. 
 
 Para tibi ornatum novum, & tum 
 mecum fabulator polled, Quamquam in- 
 folens fecero, fi fermonem feram cum fer- 
 Vulo, Fortunas hafcc meas fiiblatus animus 
 decet. Siquidem fidelem reprxflidlh,hem 
 manum ad ofcula. 
 
 Dm. Faxo pol ofculeris meam, fiquidem 
 in os pugnos ingeram. 
 
 Siquidem hercly ingeras/axo mi- 
 
 hi os efle fenferis. Sed ne accedas adeo ; 
 odi femper fervulos tuos,nihili beffias. Scio 
 quid didurus, miles fum, potitus hoflium, 
 Occifus bis in bello, confofEis millies, &c. 
 Parcas labori tuo : nihil do : bene vale. 
 
 Din. Quali non norimus nos inter nosj 
 nutte nugas *y£mylio. 
 
 zMLmy. Ego Comes esEmylio vocor, ne 
 nomen nelcias. 
 
 Dm. Ergo comes & amice mi zsEmylio, 
 refpondeas velim. 
 
 Rogandi copiam tibi facio, auda- 
 der loquere. 
 
 Din . 
 
3\(aufragium f ocular e. 
 
 Dm. Dii te perdant 'nugivendule, hoc 
 primum Deos rogo : Nunc te, fcripfiftin’ 
 literas ad Polyporum ? 
 
 Hum! quid ais? nos magni viri 
 negotiis Majoribus impediti, fiepe non ad- 
 vertimus quae dida (imt. 
 
 Dm. Exemplar, literarum ad Polyporum 
 videre velim, jamne audis ? 
 
 cAm. Hum ! Litterarum ? poteft fieri 
 ut oftendam tibi. 
 
 Din. Poteft fieri ut diminuam tibi caput, 
 mfi mittas has tricas. 
 
 Am. Obloqueris mihi hc ornato? lege 
 has inquam, ocyus. 
 
 Dm. Diis gratias eundis , Marti & feor- 
 fim, meo Domino atq, Annco bono, quem 
 colo lubens. Fera inter pelagi monftra, 
 Nerei greges, Solita virtute filium cepi tu- 
 um, Duolque amicos ; fervo nunc vindos 
 domi, Vidore mefuperbientes plurimum. 
 Huc properes, redimi fi cupis, tantum eft. 
 Vale. Dux Bombardon a chides. 
 
 Obfecro an in hunc modum fcribit 
 
 Bombardomachides ? 
 
 Am. Sic loquitur quotidie : linguam 
 cothurnatam gerit. 
 
 Din. Avi fimftra hxc res procedit, atq^ 
 ex lententia. Quid agimus nunc jam? 
 
 A.m. Ego agam Bombardomachidem. 
 Tu cuftodem ; barbam induas, atque or- 
 namenta caetera. [ Induit. ] 
 
 Hem iftuc ocyus : jam Cuftos purus putus 
 es. Abi, atque educ captivos,narra rem or- 
 dine, Ut capti fint vi, armis: hic vtos open- 
 bor, abi. ^ [Exit Dm.'] 
 
 Poteram ego nunc univerfos Mortales lu- 
 dos facere ; Equidem meipfum paene me- 
 tuo: ne pcrfbnatus Bombardo- [ornat fe] 
 machides Verum Amylionem fallat. Adeon’ 
 pervorfa es fihlamis ? Efficiam uti redius, 
 fedeas: Hei! ifthaec uara’ft, Pyramis . Exae- 
 dificabo cum hac caput meum tanquam 
 Elephantus, Turrim gcfto,Hem. Egofiim 
 
 Bombardomachidijfmm . 
 
 Gn. Una ialus vidis nullam lperare fa- 
 lutem. . [Intus.] 
 
 Gel. Quid ego tunc egi? nonne pugna- 
 bam quemadmodum, Hyrcana Tigris, cum 
 tenelli abripiuntur catuli ? 
 
 Dm. Strenuiffime omnium. 
 
 Gei. Certe : nih multum me fallit me- 
 
 moria. . . 
 
 Mo. Ego etiam aliquid feci. 
 
 Gei. Vincuntur laepe fortiffimi; 
 
 Tutor, bono animo es. 
 
 Gn. Maxime: nam dictum eft veriffime, 
 I» re mala animo fi bono utare, juvat. 
 
 /. Din. Sequimini : [Exit.] 
 
 • t/£/».Adfiuit; ego nondum gomparebo, 
 
 Scena Secunda. 
 
 Dinon , Gnomicus , Gelafimus , Morion 
 ( habitu Amyl. ) 
 
 Mo. Hei! Tutor! Tutor; egononfiim 
 Morion. 
 
 Gn. Quid ais? 
 
 Mo. Per Deos Immortales non fum,ego 
 novi Morionem fat bene. 
 
 G».De coelo defcendit>*ato mu!\U- Nof- 
 cis teipfum. 
 
 Mo. Non, non, non novi mehercule. 
 
 Gn. Quis igitur es ? 
 
 Mo. Quomodo egofcirepoffim ? 
 
 Gei. Phy, phy, idem es. 
 
 Mo. Sumne ? bene habet : fed unde hae 
 veftes. Gel a fime ? 
 
 Gei. Sanenefcio. 
 
 Mo. Neleis Gelafme ? an hoc fufficit ,V 
 quid ego re fpondeam patri ? 
 
 Quid faciam ? Tutor videri’ ? 
 
 Gn. Non equidem invideo, miror ma- 
 gis 
 
 Mu Hei! Galerum! video vos omnes 
 per ifthaec foramina. 
 
 Gei. Quali feneftras habet. 
 
 Mo. Feneftras ! imo fores : habet fores 
 Gelajime , hei nnhi. 
 
 /.Omnes ingeniofi funt infelices pro- 
 pemodum. Utinam cavillem ift hoc crimi- 
 ne : parentes prodixerunt mihi. 
 
 Ador. Et mihi, fed ego morem geffi, & 
 tamen veftes perdidi. 
 
 Gn. Ego idem te admonui, feu potius, 
 admonitum habui. Odi puerum prococis 
 ingenii, inquit. Vir admirabilis. Sed quid 
 ego ita compte loquor in mifenis ? jam li- 
 cet tibi vere dicere Gela/ime. Ingenio pe- 
 rii Nafb Poeta meo. 
 
 Dm. Nili aliter vobis vifum eft accer- 
 fam herum, Nam vos conventos velit. 
 
 Gn. Imo ; pro libitu tuo: Siquid me ve- 
 jit,Poeta ref pondere docuit. Cor am, quem 
 quaeritis, adfurri, Trojus Tueas. 
 
 Mor . Mene ut videat cum his vcftimen- 
 tis ? dic, qui fim. Tutor. 
 
 Dm. Expediant te ; cave fi- titubes; at- 
 que audirf etiam ? Fac nfum teneas 3 nam 
 periculum id eft. 
 
 Am. Pifh : vultum in manu habeo, 
 o Amylio. 
 
 Gei. Bafilice fe infert, tanquam lapis il- 
 le Indicus, Qui (pedatorum omnium ocu- 
 los fertur perftringere. 
 
 Gn. Ora humerofque Deo fimilis ! 
 
 Mor. Totus horreo tremoque ; ego fta- 
 tim vomam. 
 
 Am. 
 
. Jfau fragium f oculare. 
 
 1 27 
 
 % <is£m. Tonitru cum hoftes vicimus fe- ! 
 ros bellico, Vincere & nolmet quimus, ac ! 
 vitam dare. Mens noftra frangi nefcit, at 
 fledi poteft. 
 
 Gw. O quem te memorem, Miles, namq^ 
 haud tibi vultus Mortalis, nec vox homi- 
 nem Ibnat, O Dea certe ! 
 
 Eripere poffumus lucem & lucem 
 dare. Sic fulminantis fertur poteftas Jovis, 
 Medio fic bello valet Gradivus meus. Quid 
 armis poftim, eftis vos experti fatis, Da- 
 bimus alterna, ficvifiim eft: Fato & mihi. 
 
 Mor . Quid faciam ? timor in pofterio- 
 ra decidit. Anima exire noftra per pofti- 
 cum cupit. 
 
 Gei. Ut bellice loquitur ! non audeo 
 hunc hominem jocis ludere. 
 
 *AEm. Ob hoc Polyporo celerem mifi 
 Nuncium, Hinc uti vos falvos ducat. 
 
 Gn. Mecamas atavis edite Regibus, 
 
 O & praefidium, & dulce decus meum! 
 
 Mor. Ego iterum revivifeam nam aqua 
 vitae loquitur. 
 
 Gel. Ut jam mitefeit ferox! haud mul- 
 tum aliter Hyaena (mirum) ex mare in 
 feminam migrat, Boni ingenii eft fimili- 
 tudines rerum fingere. Et concinnam ego 
 comparationem aliquando jocis praefero. 
 
 aMEm. Quis tu ? vel fare nomen, vel 
 longum file. 
 
 Mo. Ego: fervus tuus 
 
 JEm. Quid aures tundit meas ? ha ! 
 
 Mo. Favoris tui ftudioiiffimus. 
 
 t AEm. Ambages mittito. 
 
 Mor. Filius natu maximus patris meiEgo. 
 
 zAEm. Nomen rogo. 
 
 Mor. Utinam eflet dignum quod exau- 
 dias. 
 
 ts£m. Fruftra fum : tuum ? 
 
 Gei. Quemadmodum ( cum bona tua 
 venia) tu vocaris Bombardomachides , 
 Eodem plane modo deledor ego nomine 
 Gelafimi. 
 
 Facete meum nomen cum illius confero, 
 quo illi affentan polium magis. [Scribit."] 
 Infinuavi me callide ad Bombardomachidem 
 quarto nonas Feb, 
 
 *MEm. Tuum. 
 
 Gn. Sed fi tantus amor nomen cognof- 
 cere noftrum Quanqum animus memi- 
 niffe horret, luduq, refugit Incipiam— Gno- 
 micus (fi tibi vifum fuerit) feu Gnormco no- 
 men eft nnhi. 
 
 Fac ferve officium: rarfurn re- 
 vortar intro; [Exit.~] 
 
 Gei. Certo certius abiens mihi toto an- 
 nuebat capite, Admiratur ingenium meum: 
 medius fidius captuft. 
 
 Mor . Non refpondebam illi ruftice Ge- 
 
 lafme. Euge Morion ; nolo me indodum 
 prodicent. Licet indigeam veftium. 
 
 Di. Placetne hinc vos ? Ge. Quo? 
 
 Di. Unde edudi. 
 
 Ge. In cellam illam anguftam ac tene- 
 bricofam obfecro ? Quam ego Orci janu- 
 am per jocum nominavi modo. 
 
 Di. Scilicet ; donec vos Polyporus. 
 
 Mor. Eamus igitur ; placent tenebra*. 
 Nam fi diutius hos pannos confpiciam, la- 
 crymabo largiter. 
 
 Gn. Plautus Comoediam fcripfit, cui 
 Captivi titulus. Vates 6 Plaute fueras, nam 
 vates nomen ambiguum’ft. Nos jam Cap- 
 tivi. F 
 
 Mor. Tutor, Tutor, revortere fis ocyuS 
 Tutor. 
 
 Gno. Quid eft ? 
 
 Mor. Nihil jam ; fed 'aliquis momordit 
 me de tergo : eamus fodes. [Exeunt .] 
 
 Scena Tertia» 
 
 (MEmyliOj Dinon, 
 
 <MEm. Abfumptus fum planiflime : Gno- 
 mid me expetant pedicas. 
 
 Neque unquam ex illius lentendis habeo, 
 qua me confoler miferum. 
 
 Nempe hoc in more politum eft, Genero- 
 fiis fadus continuo ut vapulet. 
 
 Incertum eft quid agam, ita ifthaec res fu- 
 bitaria’ft. 
 
 Heus Dinon , huc te ocyus ; inquam Dinon, 
 
 [ Intrat Dinoni] 
 
 Din . Satin’ es apud te ? quid vis ? 
 
 Qui pollini ? modo in via * 
 
 Din. Bombardomachidem ? 
 zMEm. Dixti. Nullus fum. 
 
 Din. Quam mox aderit obfecro ? 
 c AEm. Quin adeft : vix pundum tem- 
 poris ad confilium datur. 
 
 Jacebit in fermento totus, tum loquetur 
 meros lapides. 
 
 Din. Imo piftrinum, fuftes, vinculas 
 ifthacc ne loquatur plus metuo. 
 
 Nullamne expurgationem habes? 
 
 <L/£m. Hum ! nimium hoc calidum eft : 
 
 imo fic erit 
 
 Dinon , ita facito. 
 
 Din . Quid ? 
 
 Hem, tarde, nondum intelligis ? 
 Dm. Quid ( malum) an ex vultu conje- 
 duram capiam, quid me velis : 
 
 zy£m. Ad fummam domum afeendas ocy- 
 us, & continuo ubi ille In aedes fe penetra- 
 nt, fac fonitum horrendum facias. Quali 
 (intelfcxtin’?) quali efles Daemon aliquis. 
 
 T i Din* 
 
Dm. Quamobrem ? 
 
 tAEm. Pifn, id mora eft dicere, abi. 
 
 Din. Abeo i fed vidiftin ip fe Militem ? 
 
 s,<£w. Daobus his, inquam, oculis : mo* 
 feftus es. 
 
 Dm. Abeo : verum dices Daemonem. 
 
 , . [Exit.] 
 
 zAZm. Ecce autem adeft ! morari certum 
 eft aliqui hominem. 
 
 ; • . ij <;< ' mutO 
 
 Seen* Quarta. ; •' 
 
 • I , ^ ’ c 
 
 Bonibardomachuhs . zAmyho. 
 
 Bom. Quis hie locus, qua: regio, qua: 
 mundi plaga? w 1 
 
 Ubi Ium? ltib ortu Solis, an fub cardine 
 Glacialis urfie ? numquid Hefperii maris 
 Extrema tellus hunc dat Oceano modum! 
 O falve Domus, vofque Penates Dei. 
 Videon’ te Patria? ludit an oculos meos 
 Imago fallax, non ludit : video fatis. 
 
 *Alm. Non opus eft ; mane dum, & ego 
 te ludam faris : 1 Hum— plenum id peri- 
 cli eft — hanc prius infiftam viam. 
 
 Rcw.Fores pullabo noftras,pulfabo pede. 
 Anticipat quis me? mortem quis quarit li- 
 bi ? [y£m. pulfat."] 
 
 Verumne cerno corpus? an fallor mala ; 
 Deceptus umbra ? verum eft ? quid velit 
 iciam. :OJ 
 
 cs£rn. Expergifcere enfis : tcquead offi- 
 cium para : Nam fartum ex milite faciam, 
 & comedam polled. 
 
 Bom. O Scelus ! quis hoc Scythico na- 
 tus nemore. 
 
 Sit licet Tigris mater, aut genitor Leo 3 
 Quis unquam dixit orbis formido ultimi. 
 Cannibal, humanos ore eru&ans cibos? 
 Abibo, atque lfti cedam furori locum. 
 Pati nam mortem polium, at exedi pudet. 
 Pars magna fortitudinis pmdentia eft. 
 
 zALm. Quis illic ? hem ! revortere , fi 
 malo caveas. 
 
 Bum. Nihil formido, fed tamen totus tre- 
 mo, Ego miles juvenis, non fum, credo, 
 falleris. 
 
 c Aim. Proh deos, deafque omnes ! men’ 
 falli dicis ? 
 
 Bom. Non dico ; at magni faepe fallun- 
 tur viri. Iratus ne fis ; ira nam res eft mala. 
 
 zAim. Tun’nofti ubi Iit gentium Bom- 
 b&rdomachides ? 
 
 Bom. Non novi. 
 
 <AEm. At nili jurato non credam tibi. 
 
 Bom. Per coelum, & coeli faces, non no- 
 tum eft mihi. Lingua juro, mentem inju- 
 ratam gero. 
 
 zAZm. Sed nofti probe hominem. 
 
 Bom. Novi aliquo modo. 
 
 Imo forte novi, & non novi forfitan. 
 Videtur ille fortis, necnon vir bonus. 
 
 e^Cw.Itane coram in os inimicum laudas 
 
 meum ? 
 
 Bom. Videtur tantum dixi ? non eft vir 
 bonus. 
 
 sAZm. Redte animum tuum advertis ad 
 animum meum. 1 ‘ 
 
 Si has in aedes intra menfeni fe conjiciat. 
 Ita inornatum d&bo fecundum virtutes fil- 
 as, Ut iftum perpetuo locum pejus angue, 
 oderit. ■■■''■ 
 
 Bom. Ego rus revortar: periclum lapi- 
 ens fugit. 
 
 c. ALm.^ Ha, ha, ha, ha, veftis commuta, 
 ta quid facit ? 
 
 Bom. Quae verba fundit ? faciem 
 
 vidi prius 
 
 Quin redeas, inquam, revorti aliquando 
 bonum eft. 
 
 Ipfus eft ; dominum fervus deludis tuum ? 
 Quis me per auras turbo praecipitem vehet, 
 Atraque nube involvet, ut tantum nefas 
 Eripiat oculis? 
 
 c /Em. Occifi res eft, perii. 
 
 AdvemfTe falvufn gaudeo; valuiftin’ 
 athletice ? 
 
 Per jocum hoc feci adeo, joco veniam rogo. 
 
 Bom. Rogas ? timendum eft ; aliquis 
 hic errat dolus. 
 
 zAZm. Nunc homini fubpalpabor : ex- 
 periri volui, Utrum lftoc fub ornatu fatis 
 delitefcerem, Tu nofti ufque in initio 
 quanquam diffimulafti fedulo, Operam 
 profecfto ludet, tibi verba qui daturus eft. 
 
 Bom. Antequam vidi, novf per magnum 
 jovem. Sed in jocantes rurlus jocari placer. 
 
 zALm. Scio, led ubi eft Eucomiffa, & fo- 
 ror mea ? 
 
 Bom. Sequuntur pone, men’ comitari 
 virgines ? 
 
 zALm. Quid hic fermones caxlimus : ibo 
 illis obviam. Et dicam ut revortantur do- 
 mum. 
 
 Bom. Effate quamobrem. 
 zAEm. Quia enim ubi hic habitabunt 
 gentium ? Bom. Domi. • 
 
 zALm. Quid ? annon menfis eft aim ne- 
 mo homo intro pedem retulit. 
 
 Bom. Deline : jocari nolo. 
 zAim. Hem ! nondum hoc dixi tibi ? Sa-* 
 tin’ oblitus fui ; adeo mihi nunc jam res ve- 
 tus eft ? Spe<ftrorum,Cacoda:monuni, ma- 
 lorum Geniorum ifthaec habitatio eft. Quo- 
 tidie colloquuntur, ejulant, gemunt, lacry- 
 mant, Crepant, exclamant, mille diverlos 
 fonos faciunt. Dies me deficeret, fi, qpx 
 monftra hic fiunt dicerem. 
 
 Bom. Loqueris rem miram : nulla quam 
 
 credet 
 
credet dies. Sed nec tacebit: bonan’hxc 
 dicis fide ? 
 
 lALm. Quin, inquam, decem plus mi- 
 nus dies incolumi capite non eram, 
 Tantum hxc mihi resdeimprovifo incufi 
 
 iit metum. 
 
 Bom. Metuiftin' ? non oportuit : (er- 
 vum meum Metuifle quicquam ? 
 
 tsdEm. Rede, ii eftet iimilis tui. 
 
 Here, quoniam mihi fortaffis minus fidem 
 adhibes, Age,ingrediamur, faxo uti omnia 
 ipfiis audias. 
 
 Bom. Nihil timeo : fed egon’ ut non 
 credam tibi ? Credam plus iiihoc : &: ni- 
 hil timeo tamen. 
 
 a ALm. Vellem mehercule te teftem hu- 
 jus rei : led fac ut voles. Ibo illis obviam, 
 atque huc ducam nili aliud imperes. 
 
 Bom. Tam prope monftra lolus hic fta- 
 bo ? bene eft. Abeas — Amyho redi— -nil 
 timeo tamen. 
 
 fiALw. Id fcio : obtundis. 
 
 Bom. Timeo nil per Jovem, Tantum 
 eft : abi. 
 
 ^Aim. Libenter. Ha, ha, ha. 
 
 Bom. Pavet animus, horret, magna per- 
 nicies adeft. Incendor ira, rapior, led quo 
 nefcio. Sed rapior: Spedra in noftra tri- 
 umphant domo ? Facinus hoc videt fum- 
 mi moderator poli. Et nondum tonitru 
 convolvit mundum horrido ? Oh Phxbe 
 patiens, fugeris retro licet Medioq, ruptum 
 me r fer is coelo Diem. 
 
 Din . [Supra] Oh, oh, oh. 
 
 Bom. Sero occidifti nefcio quid faci-* 
 
 ani nnler, nam aliquid audio — Tuque 
 O Neptune — oh quid faciam ? mortuus 
 lum — Redeunt tempore; rerum quod 
 primum eft omnium. 
 
 Scena Quinta. 
 
 <s£mylio } Eucomijfa , adEg/** Pfecas , 
 
 Bom. Servus . 
 
 Quid eft, here, ecquid times ? 
 
 Bom. Timeon’ Ego ? Proh Deos Deafq, 
 omnes ! xthereas prius Perfundet Ardos 
 Pontus,& Siculi rapax Confidet xftus un- 
 da^ Ionio (eges Matura pelago (urget, ac 
 lucem dabit Nox atra terris omnibus. Ti- 
 meon’ Ego ? 
 
 Cacodxmones ? O fuperos ! audi- 
 re hoc nomen fnihi febris eft. 
 
 Eu. O Venus! tu & ego, mea v&gle 
 diflentimus male. Nam mihi cibus & potus 
 eft, ut aiunt, de his fabularier. Pfecas, quin 
 Pfecas inquam, furda eft hxc ancillula ; 
 Tu vidifti Cacodxmones, nonne ? 
 
 Pf. Non, fi placetjSed novi aliquam qux 
 
 i J9 
 
 novit aliam, qua: vidit eos. 
 
 Eu. Qua facie erant Pfecas ? 
 
 T/. Unus erat canina facie. Oi e & ocu- 
 lis igneis, pedibus bufonis, colore nigro. 
 Cauda aeque longa ac— & clamabat Boh, 
 Boh, tanquam Leo. 
 
 O mirum ! tota trepido. 
 
 Eu. Mecaftor, color vertitur. Clama- 
 bat tanquam Leo -perge Pfecas. 
 
 Pf Nos omnes illico fugere. 
 
 Eu. Tun’ ergo aderas? 
 
 Pf. Non fi placet, Sed illa fuit quam 
 novit familiaris mea Philocomafium. 
 
 Eu. O :jam intelligo Pfecas, perge porro. 
 
 . Pf Alterum fuiffe dixit Tam fimilem 
 viri,quam Aqua aqua: Iimilis eft.Et erat nu- 
 dum totum corpus. 
 
 Eu. 'lotum? O Venus! Multum, meca- 
 ftor, cupio, videre iftos Cacodxmones. 
 
 Pf. Imo fi magis noveris, Eucomij]a 3 ma- 
 gis cuperes : Nam habuit — ha, ha, hx, ne- 
 queo cogitans quin rideam. 
 
 Eu. Quid habuit Pfecas ? 
 
 Pf. Non intelligis? habuit 
 
 Eu. Quid ? eloquere. 
 
 P (. Tam magnam rem — Nos omnes 
 admirari illico. 
 
 Profedo hic ipfe’ft Cacodxmonj 
 EucomiJ]a 3 quem dixi tibi Vidifteme fecun- 
 dum quietem nudius tertius in fomnio. 
 
 Eu. Nulline Cacodxmones nocentiores 
 iftis Pfecas ? 
 
 Pf. Imo fiint omnium generum : nam 
 quidam latent Sub (pecie nigri felis cum 
 fex pedibus. Quidam fub Vefpertilionis,a- 
 liorumque etiam animalium. Imo novi qui 
 ambulant per nodem induti findone. Atq, 
 inde evenire folet tot quod infaniant vigt- 
 les Cum Curatoribus pacis. Demergunt le 
 aliquando in ganeum, Atq, illic node tot£ 
 prx timore combibunt. Poli canam, fi pla- 
 cet, plura de re ifthac difputabimus. 
 
 Eu. Nunc eamus vifere fpedra. 
 
 is£g. Viden’ quis adeft Eucomijfa ? 
 
 Eu. Mallem fpedra: (ed fortaffis hic eft 
 ex eorum monltrorum numero, 
 
 Scena Sexta . 
 
 CaHiphanes Pater, Calliphanes Filius 3 ts£my- 
 ho 3 EucomiJfa 3 3>CC. 
 
 *y£g . Siccine tibi pit) ridiculo eft,cuinup- 
 tura es brevi ? 
 
 Eu. Citius mecaftor nubam Gacodxmo- 
 ni, quem dixit Pfecas Tam viri fimilem. 
 
 zs£g. At ego ne Jovem prxfero in (e fe- 
 rentem precium fine quo Jupiter nihil eft. 
 
 Cal. P. Bombardomacbides lalve ; hue te 
 falutatum advenimus. 
 
 T 
 
 Bom ; 
 
i4-o 
 
 Sfaufragium f oculare. 
 
 Bom. Gratias : led multus animo occur- 
 fat dolor, En alta muri decora, & conge- 
 ftas trabes. Ut omnis late fplendet infelix 
 domus! Quicunque regno fidit, &; magna 
 potens Dominatur aula, nec leves metuit 
 Deos Me videat, & te Domus. 
 
 Cal. P. Quid ait lAimyliot 
 «^w.Nempe quia Ipedtrorum plena eft, 
 id dolet. 
 
 Cal. P. SpC(5lrorum?iibi fun t'[utitur fpec.~} 
 Nulla hic video zsEmylio. 
 
 ts£m. At intus potes fine quatuor oculis. 
 Cal. F. Si ita elt Pater, utantur noftra 
 domo : iiipereft illic locus. 
 
 Cal. P. Nunquam vidi melius confilium 
 dari; quid tu Bombardomachides ? Potes ibi 
 oportune filiam tuam huic noftro nuptum 
 dare. 
 
 Bom. Confilium bonum eft, animoque 
 arridet meo. 
 
 Cal. F. Sed ubi eft Virgo? reliquiftin’ 
 ruri ? 
 
 Bom. So: pe refpicias ; faepe, quod quad- 
 ras, adeft. 
 
 Cal. F. Latere miror polle tam diu fide- 
 ra. . * [Qfculatur . ] 
 
 Rediifie falvas gaudeo, & meum fimulHunc 
 efle reditum credo, nam vobifeum abfui : 
 Condonate Amore caeco, vos fi confpexi 
 minus. 
 
 Eu. Si nunquam confpicias poftea luben- 
 ter tamen condonabimus, Mifericordes 
 omnes fumus natura mulieres. 
 
 exfg'. Amore caecus es Cadipbanes? immo 
 oculis nimium vales. Quod nec eft, nec fu- 
 turum eft vides, cum nos appelles fidera. 
 
 C. F. Immo isEgle verum dixi ! nam fi 
 coeli facibus Formolum nondu nomen im- 
 poneretur fiderum. Propter fimilitudinem 
 quandam veftrum id jam nancifci poterant. 
 
 Pfe. O Diana! toto corde amo hascon- 
 fabulatiunculas. 
 
 Bom. Calliphanes, oculis nil taleobje&um 
 eft meis. Pedibus quanquam eunda con- 
 culcavi loca Afiaeq, Europaeq, America: ate^ 
 Africa:, Aliafque terrae partes quas taceo 
 fciens. 
 
 Cal. P. Memini, idem accidere olim cum 
 efleni puer. Anno abhinc- hum— Gram- 
 maticae tum operam dedi. Anno — hum ! 
 quinquagefimo fecundo— hum ? non con- 
 venit numerus, O — quinquagefimo ter- 
 tio — is profedo annus eft. 
 
 Eu. Licetne, Pater, videre has umbras, 
 &: malos Genios? 
 
 Bom. Videre? nata, non timeo; fac ut 
 voles. f- c 
 
 Eu. Aperi fis oftium ^Emylto. 
 i /Em. Perii in perpetuu modum, Nimio 
 
 nimis metuo ut fint ifti probi Cacodemo» 
 nes. Sane’ es? credin’ illos alpedui tuo 
 objici perperam ? 
 
 Eu. Num loquuntur? 
 
 ^£rn. Satis id quidem : fed horrendum 
 in modum. Cave fis ne animam agas. 
 
 Eu. Dii putabit cum illis Pfecas. 
 
 Pf Parata fum fatis *s£myho 3 ante hoc 
 temporis ddputavi cum Daemone. 
 
 Scio te bona efle voce : proculdu- 
 bio illum obrues, Si tympana, bom bardas, 
 tubas, & tintinnabula oris tui afferas. 
 
 Pf Itane me accipis indignis modis ? 
 nunquid criftas erigis De illis veftimentis? 
 j amabo, unde habes mi zsEmylio. 
 
 is€m. Pifh, dicam tibi, cum fit otium. 
 Quid ais Calliphanes ? 
 
 Cal. F. Ubi clavis ? cedo mihi fis. 
 
 Cal. P. Quid ftas lapis? quin aperis ? 
 ty£m. Dii te .filicernkim -Unum pedem 
 in Charontis cymba habet (fecum) Et alte- 
 ro tamen ambulat. 
 
 Eu Oh ! non audis malos Genios ? 
 
 Bom. Ha ! 
 
 Cal. F. Nihil eft : crepuerunt fores. 
 *s£g. Crepueruot ? O fordidas fores. 
 
 , ... ‘C Su r ra l 
 
 Dln. Oho* oho, oho. Urite, fundite, 
 tundite, vertite domum. 
 
 Bom . Oh, oh— valete: & timeatis nihiL 
 Eu. Quo abis Pater ? 
 
 Bom. Videre non fuflineo tot timidos 
 fimul. [Exit Bom^\ 
 
 Eu. ODeas ! haec illa Leonis vox elt 
 Pfecas. 
 
 <zs£g.Pi.bcamviSob{kcY 0 3 CaIlipbanes.[fubt^] 
 Gno. Fledtere li nequeam luperos, Ache- 
 ronta movebo. 
 
 Cal. F. O Poeticum Dxmonerp ! 
 
 *s£g. Eft furiofiflimus omnium procul- 
 dubio. . fo.-N 
 
 G*/.P.Mirafunt:nunquam vidi tale quid, 
 nifi anno abhinc quinquagefimo tertio. 
 Mor. O ! profedto fum m Barathro. 
 
 [Subter ], 
 
 Eu, O Pfecas , quid faciam ? 
 
 Pf. Quid ? faciam periculum in difpu- 
 tatione.Quodnam eft tibi nomen Daemon? 
 
 *s£m. Itane inepte ftulta es ? cave ne tc 
 rapiat in maximam malam crucem. 
 
 JPf. Mene ? non audet : ego illi oculos 
 effodiam Carnifici. 
 
 Gn. Ztb 7runp, ijhfoy p«JW> wAft, 
 
 Kcu bdt ^ x) o i yWyifSt typoovlzs» 
 
 T * <w / , 5 
 
 uazweji 
 
 Pf Immo e.tli loquaris Hebraice, Ego 
 bene intelligo. 
 
 ts£m. Abi lis ftulta : Graecum eft hoc tibi 
 Dm, Oho meretrix ! 
 
■ ! A (aufragitm f oculare. 
 
 1 4-1 
 
 Pf. O (celus ! ego introibo : ne me de- 
 tine. Involabo in faciem illi : Egon’ mere- 
 trix appellabor a malo Genio ? Mentiris 
 Cacodxmon, mentiris. 
 
 Medius fidius haec mulier Caco- 
 dxmon eft . 
 
 O Venus! nihilne vides Eucomijjd? 
 
 Et*. Maxime : ubi eft ? 
 i ts£g. Ingentem, nigrum urfum ! 
 
 Eu. Proh Deos immortales ! cum cauda 
 Ignea. 
 
 Cal. F. Ubi eft ? ego nihil plane. 
 
 cAEm. Nihil ?circumfpice : ut fcintillant 
 oculi J P fee as cave malum : nam te devora- 
 turus proculdubio huc venit. 
 
 Pf. Oh ! 
 
 
 Cal. P . Quid aiunt t/Emyho ? 
 
 v£m. Ingentem belluam illic - 
 modo. 
 
 P * hint fpecularja mea ? Oh 
 nin fallor Leopardus eft. Quid hoc mon- 
 ftri r Gnate abeamus, precatum Deos. 
 
 D/w. Occidam, jugulabo, interficiam, 
 capiam,rapiam omnes W\\co[foTiitm fitpra ] 
 Eu. O tsEglt! cedo manum, & fugiamus. 
 
 \_Excunt] 
 
 ( fyf ra fonant catena;.) 
 
 Ha, ha, ha?, defeende ut te exof 
 culer bone Caeodacmon. [Exit ] 
 
 Dm. V enio : urite, fundite, tundite, cx- 
 dite, vertite, &c. [Defendit] 
 
 .'jO i 
 
 ACTUS TERTIUS. 
 
 Scena Qrimct . 
 
 y • *• 
 
 - i . • : 4 . • 4 * » • f , 
 
 Hlmylio, Dinon» 
 
 f f? * 
 
 \AF.m. A Ge, incipe Dinon. 
 
 Dm. xl Non, non: exemplum a to 
 capiam. 
 
 JEm. Purgate cerebrum , Medici O infant. 
 Nec (itis amplius Mortis Publicani , 
 Ob hominum peccata Orbi 
 V os primam mijfi , pofied morbi . 
 Doffrina caopit a grot are. 
 
 Et Sefe voluit expurgare : 
 
 Tum vefirum quidam vomitu perora 
 Exiflis, quidam per Pojlenora : 
 
 Sic natos, via eft inventa, 
 
 Ut vos nutrirent Excrementa. 
 
 Nos melius homines evacuamus 
 
 4 
 
 Et loculis Clyfterium damus. 
 
 Am. O ] aeram rem\ f cient ia talis 
 Dicenda eft fola Liber alts. 
 
 • r ; • s 
 
 c : L . ^ ; V * ‘O 
 
 Dm. Sartores legum, flent orumque natio , 
 Jam vobis Longa faff a fit Vacatio. 
 Veftri parentes litigarunt 
 Tunc cum vofmet generarunt. 
 
 O vos miferos fi uxores 
 Similis veftri ejjent oris ! 
 r At fuos multa Clientes habuerunt 
 Tunc veftras caufas alii egerunt. 
 
 Reffe : nam nulli velint haberi 
 Caufidicorum filii veri . 
 
 Jam vobis fallere Lege ne fit cur a:. 
 Sed fallite nobifcurn Jure. 
 
 Am. O facram rem ! &c . 
 
 /£m. Friget inter ignes ars tua , Alchymifta , 
 Argentum , nifi vivum , non habet i[ta , 
 Cum qui funt & qui fuerunt 
 ' Omnes Philofophi eguerunt. 
 
 Quem fore reris divitem 
 Per Philo fophicum lapidem ? 
 
 Huc adjis , hic ex lapide lucrum capis : 
 dQuid aliud flultusyiifi Philofophi lapis% 
 Hunc fapiens coquet, difiillabit , 
 Plumbeus licet , aurum dabit, 
 fuid ex fy der ibus quarts cur fiam Fati ? 
 Prudentium gratia finiti nati . 
 
 Am. O / aeram rem 1 &c. 
 
 "i f ' • - v > • / j • 
 
 4* 
 
 Dill. Pr ai erit orum, Mathematici, vates , 
 Qui prater barbam nihil jam alatis. 
 Jfueis coelum creditur magis notum , 
 Jfuam Deo, qui id fecit totum 
 Qui illud tam fe putant fire 
 Illuc ut recufnt ire. 
 
 V os, d feretis fyderum — — 
 
 <ss£m. Aufer teocyus Mathematici, nam 
 adeft Bombard. 
 
 Din. Opportune; Nam harrere coepit 
 carmen— Scientia talis 
 Dicenda eft fola liberalis, [ Exit] 
 
 So ena 
 
Scena Secunda. 
 
 ' ; 
 
 Bombardomachides . 
 
 til 
 
 Bom. ALmylio. 
 
 *^m. Hem ! 
 
 Bom. Quis (omnus aures., quis vapor 
 claudit tuas ? Amylio, rurfus voce non 
 parca tono. 
 
 e Am. Et ego rurfus tono. Hem tibi. 
 Bom. Opaca linquens Ditis inferni loca 
 Nigri profundo Tartari emiflus fpecu, In- 
 certus utras oderit (edes magis. 
 
 «i Aim. Quam longum eft iter ad id quod 
 vis. Mihi hercle viatico udis eft. 
 
 Bom. Quid dicis ? audax Darmon(0 au- 
 dax nimis) Noftros cruentus occupat (er- 
 pens Lares, Hic regnat, immo hic, regnet 
 at nolo diu. 
 
 Am. Scilicet ; & hoc vis me ut fciam, 
 qui primus id locutus tibi fum. 
 
 Bom. Locutus ? at quam parum id ? hic 
 tonitru pares. 
 
 Hic fulminantes ftringere jambos decet. 
 Quis O Cothurnis mille fat clarum boet ? 
 Am. Mehercule cothurnorum mille 
 jam inftar habuifti pulchre. 
 
 Bom. Eft intus (virumne dicam, an po- 
 tius Deum) 
 
 Quique evocavit nubibus ficcis aquas, 
 Egitque ad imum maria. Oceanus graves 
 Interius undas xftibus vi&is dedit. 
 
 Par iterque mundus lege confusa aetheris 
 Et (olem & Aftra vidit. 
 
 Am. Orationem compendiface;"(cio 
 quid fequitur. 
 
 Et vetitum mare tetigiftis urfic, Tempo- 
 rum flexae vices, &c, 
 
 Nempe hic poft tot ambages tandem ex- 
 orcifta eft. 
 
 Bom. Hic monftra tanta voce terrebit 
 (ua. 
 
 Am. Prohibeflint Superi, cave ne com- 
 mittas tandem. 
 
 Ut male dictitetur tibi in (ermone publico, 
 Si cum iftarum operarum homine negoti- 
 um contrahas. 
 
 Bom. Mutire de me Fama non audet ; 
 tace. 
 
 c Am. At metuo fama; tuae, uti me par 
 eft facere: Ubiis eft? 
 
 Bom. Mox moxq, nobis aderit; hoc len- 
 tum eft ; Adeft : 
 
 Parum eft & hoc, quin* Adfuit— Claves 
 mihi. 
 
 Am. Quamobrem ? 
 
 Bom. Illis i&u nofter hic cardo ftrepet ; 
 
 /Edefq, vilet — Verba compefeas mifer. 
 
 Peribis, at quid dixerim ? infelix Peris. * 
 <Am. O quantum eft deorum, quid me 
 jam fiet denique ! 
 
 Itane tantum ficinus tam infigniter in te 
 admittere ? 
 
 Ten’ claves ferre ? Athenas prius 
 
 Perfundet ArCtos Pontus, & Siculi rapax 
 
 Conftet a:ftus unda, & Ionio leges 
 
 Matura pelago furget, uti mode pulcher- 
 rime 
 
 Dixifti: I pra:,fequor,fub(equor te.[Exir.] 
 Bom. Cum reCta dicis, laudo, conlilium 
 placet. 
 
 Am. Quoties hvc res in nervum pene 
 erupit I bona machina 
 
 Quam nequiter expetivit ! 
 
 Scena Tertia . 
 
 / 
 
 Dinon . 
 
 r « / <. ■ 
 
 O Dinon audiftin’ nos nullos efle ? 
 
 Din. Aulcultavi ab oftio omnia ; Dii te 
 infelicitent cum cantionibus. 
 
 Hoc eft (cilicet ante Vi&oriam Encomi- 
 um canere. 
 
 Perdidiftinos planiflime. O Iaeram rem! 
 (cientia talis 
 
 Dicenda eft fola Liberalis. Quando aderit 
 ille 
 
 Cujus vox, tanquam Galli multo mane, 
 perterret adeo Cacodamiones ? 
 c Am. Modo. 
 
 Din. Modo ? 
 
 Am. Modo : jam, & veniet hercle non 
 ingratiis meis. 
 
 Din. Sed enim quid de captivis ? 
 c Am. Manta modo : ifthuc ibam: 
 
 Nam nova atque elegans fallacia numero 
 mihi in mentem fuit. 
 
 Abi (ane, educ legiones tuas, traduce pro- 
 pere ad proximum. 
 
 Din. Nempe in quem finem ? 
 
 Am. Illic (noftin’ !) fcholam aliquani 
 aperiant. 
 
 Aliquid aliquos doceant; ejus rei fruCtus 
 longe uberrimu’ft. 
 
 Nam & ab eorum oculis concedent, & 
 quxftum tam ingentem facient. 
 
 Ut brevi (e captos redimant prafenti pe- 
 cunia. 
 
 Modo aliquid mirum profiteantur, & ufi- 
 tatum minus. 
 
 Dm. Quid fi literas ? 
 c Am. Pol iftud nunc dierum inufita* 
 tum latis. 
 
 Sed quis eas gratis dilcet, tantum, ut det 
 mercedem, abeft } 
 
 Din , 
 
Ihftuf r , aginm f oculare. 
 
 i 
 
 u 
 
 Din Cheiromantiam, Phyfiognomoni- 
 am^aut aliquid ejufmodi ? 
 
 *Aim. Omnes jam illas technas defpica- 
 tas habent ac nihili 
 
 Nifi forte puer, vapulabit necne, exqui* 
 litum eat, 
 
 Aut Ancilla, quot maritis ac quibus nupta 
 lit futura. 
 
 Din. Quid tandem ? : ^ J. ‘7 
 
 Dicam. Omnes i>unc fiomines 
 videri volunt 
 
 Faceti atque elegantuli ; ad eam rem quo- 
 vis pabto afFeblant.viarn; 
 
 Novi qui amicos, qui vitam amittere, quam 
 jocum malunt, _ » ‘ i-. 
 
 Ita rifum, captant, Sc habent quod volunt, 
 nam meherclc funt ridiculi ; 
 
 Eadem hac fcabie laborat 'Gelafimus, ut qui 
 maxime. ...... j 
 
 Dm. Vis Itaque illos profiteri Jocandi 
 Artem r* ... -p 
 
 *s£m. Tenes. 
 
 Dm. At enim commovere rifum neque- 
 unt, nifi deridendos fe propinent. 
 ts£m. Recffie : hoc eR jocari nunc die- 
 rum, praeterea quii eft qui nequit 
 
 In cognatione verborum, Se lirhpat;hia 
 quadam ludere ? 
 
 Quot vocabula ad futorem pertinent, quafi 
 deftinata hujufmodi falibtis ? 7 - * 
 
 Ea habeat in mundo omnia. Quot autem 
 ad Philofophum? r; 
 
 Ars Praedicabile, Arbor Porphyriana, Prae- 
 . diGamentalis icala, 
 
 Converlio, Fallacia, Major, Minor, Bar- 
 bara, Caefare. 
 
 Celarent, Ferio, Fettino, Fc tollo,Diocqm 
 Fmplieitej, 
 
 Secundum quid, Difputo ad Hominem, 
 Reduplicative, See. 
 
 Nam ad Conclufionem venio. Termino- 
 rum hic ufus optimus efl. 
 
 Nam cum offendas eos in Authoribtis, ju- 
 rabis non effie feriptos ferio. 
 
 Commoda flint Sc Authorum quorundam 
 nomina Ramus, Scotus, Faber, 
 
 Tolfatus, Suarefius, Nafo, Tranquillus, 
 Suetonius, Tacitus, See. 
 
 Bom. i/Emylio. < [Intus . J 
 
 c y£m. Me vocat, illico. Quid dixi? oh ! 
 efl aliud genus falis 
 
 Deridere omnes mortales-.paratafintfnam 
 vacua pudet efle pugillaria) 
 
 Scommata in omne genus hominum ;fed 
 hi joci conliflunc plurimum 
 
 In ridendo clare, in contrahendo nafum, 
 Se induendo jocularem faciem. 
 
 Barba quoque mirum in modum utilis efl, 
 fi attre&ant bene. 
 
 Aliquando etiam jurent ornamenti gra- 
 tia, fed Dii boni ! 
 
 1 ( Pene excidit mihi ) mercccie conducant 
 aliquos 
 
 Qui domi fabl itent, aliquos qui eant peti- 
 tum foras. 
 
 Ex conviviis, difputationibus, Comoediis, 
 Concionibus. 
 
 :Aliquos Qtiam qui excribant, nam vena- 
 les habere debent 
 
 Seniles, juveniles, viriles, muliebres, Ge- 
 nerofos jocos. 
 
 Haec Se fimilia doce illos, abi fis; fac offici- 
 um ; fed audin ? 
 
 Adeflo illis femper, ne liberati in pedes fe 
 conjiciant. Quo ego jam faciam. 
 Din. Effectum dabo ; Jocandi artem ? 
 ha, ha,*ha ! 
 
 O miram rem ! fcientia talis dicenda efl 
 fola liberalis. " [Exit . j 
 
 Stena Quarta. 
 
 ■ * r d *4 r > fi i , ' - .J i , / 
 
 Calliphanes , p. Cal.f. 
 
 Cal. p. Itane obflinate operam das face- 
 re me advorfum omnia? 
 
 Ego ifluc aetatis obfequens obedienlque 
 eram imperio Patris. 
 
 In mare ibam, rem familiarem augebam 
 
 ' lucro. 
 
 Ten virginem liberali facie nolle in uxo- 
 rem ducCre, 
 
 Cui, tantum dotis dictum efl ? 
 
 Cal.f. At hodie. Pater ? 
 
 Cal. p. Eia ! quam elegans ! cras etiam 
 dices. At hodie Pater ? 
 
 Cal.f. At vetant Mathematici infaufld 
 hac luce adornari nuptias. 
 
 Cal.p. Periit, religiofo efl ; jam ne pa- 
 tri lias Calliphanes. 
 
 Pudet tui, pigetque. 
 
 Cal.f At aegrotus flim, non valeo, pater. 
 Cal. f Imb non aegrotas jam, fed male 
 habes Calliphanes. 
 
 Si animus ibi effiet — Sc quid ni Et ? 
 
 Cal.f. Praeterea 
 
 Cal. p. A ge 3 quid praeterea ? 
 
 Cal.f Nihil ell parati ; folitudoin aedi- 
 bus ; hxccine conveniunt nuptiis ? 
 Cal. p. Nempe id de induftria : volu- 
 mus ifthoc line tumultu peragi. 
 
 Ut ne tanti fiant fiimptus, tamq, in nullam 
 rem utibiles. 
 
 Quid libi volunt Hymaeneum Sc cantiun- 
 culae ? quali tu nequeas 
 
 Ire cubitum, Se dare operam libens fins 
 auxilio fidicinis. 
 
 Proin tu Se illa hanc rem quafi in juffiuno- 
 ftro, tacite agite. 
 
 Nili forte Tmylione, St Tgle arbitris. 
 
 Cal.f HE gle ? maxime* 
 
 C(jl. p« 
 
^(aufragium f oculare. 
 
 Cat . p. Abi modo, atque morem mihi 
 gere. 
 
 Cat. f. Quid fi nonvuk pater? 
 
 Cal. p. Neqiiicquam nonvuit ; ita illam 
 in tus admonuit pater. 
 
 Aggredere illam amatorio more; Ah i 
 Lgo ifthuc aetatis — — 
 
 Sequere me fis intro ; Audin 5 ? nifi quod 
 imperavi facias 
 
 Patrem me efie fenties, atque iratum ex 
 leni ; dixi Callipbanes. 
 
 Dii boni, quanta eft prudentia, moderari 
 pofle filio in hunc modum ! 
 
 [_Exeuw.~] 
 
 <L/£mylio 3 Ffecaf . 
 
 Tf. Quid ais t/Ewylip ? amabo audiftin 5 
 adhuc 
 
 De nova (chola ? Dii veftram fidem ! rem 
 lepidam : 
 
 Vehementer cupio illam videre, & peri' 
 clum facere 
 
 Quid in jocis poflint, fentient quae mulier 
 fiem. 
 
 Non metuo lane, ut pofle rior es feram; 
 
 Audiftin’ quam fortiter difputabam modo 
 aim Daemone. 
 
 Ne verbum quidem habuit, quo re (ponde- 
 ret mihi. 
 
 Plus vocem credo tuam, quam 
 Templi Campana’ odit I 
 
 Aut concionatoris ruftici, qui illum Leo- 
 nem vocat. 
 
 Nunquam tuam audebit auferre fecum a- 
 nimam 
 
 (Licet fiiam efie noverit) quia potentia 
 
 Tantum loquendi illic manere dicitur. 
 
 Tf. Meritiflimo tuo te eximium habeo, 
 ita lepide loqueris. 
 
 Derideri me facile patiar, fi ifthoc fiat mo- 
 do? 
 
 Donabo te ob hos lepores, ut mihi o (culum 
 feras. 
 
 Si me necefle eft hercle, hoc pa- 
 do remunera rier. 
 
 Abhorrentem feceris brevi a facetiis omni- 
 bus; 
 
 Sed auferamus ridicularia. Vin’ tu’ fortu- 
 nata fieri ? 
 
 Tf. Equidem cupio ; etfi infelix non 
 fum. Diis gratias. 
 
 Fac induas regillam induculam, 
 fac gemmis (plendeas. 
 
 Et filiam te efie fimules Bombardomachidis. 
 Tf. Cupio id mecaftor; fed erro quam 
 infiftas viam. 
 
 iAZm. Gelaprmis hic in proximo vendit 
 jocos 
 
 Haeres ditiflimus, atque uti efie tales folent. 
 Merus ftipes, huncce hominem admutilari 
 pervelim. 
 
 Itaque hodie inter te atq, illum nuptias cu- 
 pio facere. 
 
 Tf Nuptias ? ha, ha, ha! mecaftor fa- 
 cinus lepidum ! 
 
 Sic tu tibi divitias facies, atqub il- 
 lum pro arbitrio reges. 
 
 Multoque tum liberius amare licet quem- 
 piam 
 
 Quam nunc licet : ut voles eris : Ille, Vir 
 bonus. 
 
 Aut ignorabit prorsus, aut ad calicem dor- 
 miet vigilans. 
 
 Tf Scio ; nam cum fada ero Heroina 
 nobilis 
 
 iEquum eft obledare memet illo more 
 Aulico. 
 
 zs£mylio 3 Tum me viles aliquando, tui 
 immemor 
 
 Non committam ego ut fiem. 
 
 ny£m. Sed properato opuft. 
 
 Para te ocyus ; ego te producam illuc. 
 Tfecas , iniifte hoc negotium (apienter & 
 caut£. 
 
 Nam nifi fedulo fingas, quafi animum illi 
 adjeceris. 
 
 Nihil agis. 
 
 Tf Pifti! potin’ ut moleftus ne fiesr 
 An docenda l'um hoc aetatis inelcare homi- 
 nes ? 
 
 Ego vel te, mylio i captare poteram :abi. 
 Ne fis in expedatione mihi, cum parata 
 fim. 
 
 Qiiiefcas caetera. 
 
 m. Immo non metuo, iit fis fatis mala. 
 Te magiftram queram mihi, unquam fi 
 defecero. 
 
 Tf Docebo equidem libenter; quod 
 poflum : Abi modo [ Exit zAimylto.] 
 Nubam fane non gravate, (ed nunquam 
 filio. 
 
 Me gravidam faciet, ad hanc rem alius 
 Illius fungetur vice ; ne natus ex me liet. 
 Mihi qui fit dedecori, atque ingenio meo. 
 
 Scena Sexta. 
 
 Gnomicus, Gelafimu <r, Morion . 
 
 ( Schola aperitur.) 
 
 Gno. M. T. Cicero, Oratorum omnium 
 Coryphaeus ( Quo verbo iple ufus t) De 
 Orat, fecundo libro, 
 
 Quem oculis mei plus amo, Artem nega- 
 vit efie Salis, 
 
 Erravit ; 
 
1 4.5 
 
 Erravit; Ciceroneni 
 mavi hominem. 
 
 Gel. Pifh ! Cicero falem non habuit ; 
 quifquamne de tot vocabulis 
 Figurarum Sc Troporum nullum unquam 
 faceret jocum ? 
 
 Poteram hercle ego ab Aurora ad hoc 
 quod eft diei — • 
 
 Ah Metaphora, bonum es verbum : 6 c le- 
 pores herclc hujufmodi 
 Ex Academici ledoris oratione colledos 
 habemus plurimos. , 
 
 O Du boni ! jocum pulcherrimum excrip- 
 limus in Tullium 
 
 Qui nudius quartus 111 Scholis publicis di- 
 dus eft proxima* Academia’. 
 
 Legam vobis [ 'qfcendit in cathed.) 
 
 Gno. Sed ferox nimium ne hs 111 Cice- 
 ronem noftrum. 
 
 Nam erat Eloquentia Pater. 
 
 Gel. Quid hoc ? oh — Jocus magnus in 
 
 Praetoris oppidani cornua novi — 
 
 [fuerit paginam."] 
 
 Jocus in militem male veltitum - An 
 
 offenderunt terga ? — oh 
 
 Hic exemptus’ft ex meis pugillaribus— & 
 certe magnus eft — hum ! 
 
 Quid hoc ? Ex declamationibus publicis 
 nono die Novembris unus jocus. 
 
 Sex demi-joci & tres egregias fententiar. 
 
 Oh ! memini Joci lacri 
 
 Et pia Hilaria— nunquam hac vendemus - 
 
 Oh jam inveni Jocus magnus in 
 
 Ciceronem. 
 
 Gn. Lege ; arredifque auribus a flo. 
 
 Gei. (legit.) Ciceronis nomen vanum. 
 Abeat nuncinTullianu,& poteft converti 
 Ad laudem Ciceronis in hunc modum — 
 Cicero Oratorum Coryphaeus eft. 
 
 Ador. Tutor hoc tuum eft verbum. 
 
 Gei. Cacteri abeant in Tullianum. 
 
 Gn. Optime ! nam eft locus in carcere, 
 quod Tullianum appellatur. 
 
 Mor. Ha, ha, ha ! 
 
 Gel. Quid rides ? 
 
 Mor. Ha, ha, ha : Abeat in Tullianum? 
 ha, ha. 
 
 , Gel. Hoc didum in utramque partem ac- 
 cipi poteft, eft jocus ambidexter. Ibi ego 
 Obiter facetus lum ; audin' Tutor ? Mori- 
 on fcnbe ifthoc. 
 
 Ador. Maxime. 
 
 Gn. Hem ! funtne in mundo omnia ? 
 Gel. Sunt in orbe terrarum : Ibi iterum : 
 Ludo Tutor, in didum tuum. 
 
 Ador. Joc : jo — jocus Eftne Ge- 
 
 lafime cum, g, o 3 vel cum i 3 0 ? 
 
 Gei. cum i 3 0 : Scnpliftin’ ? 
 
 Mor. Ita credo. 
 
 Gei. Repete : Ador. Dexter eft 
 
 Ambo joci. Gei. O fcelus! eft jocus 
 
 ambidexter, cedo calatmuh. 
 
 Alor. Maxime : in idem redit. Scrip! 1 
 valde bene Tutor. 
 
 Gn. Immo : infanum bene, ut Comice 
 loquar : Ibi ego Gelafime — 
 
 Gel. At male vereor ne hoc non de gra- 
 vitate mea detrahat. 
 
 Non, non, ipii Dodores jocantur in his re- 
 gionibus. 
 
 In condemnatos (alii funt iph Judices, 
 Dormiant, capite annuunt Sc ille Judicia- 
 lis jociis eft. 
 
 Generoli jocis folvunt Creditoribus. 
 
 Flic homines Omnia joco. Promittunt joco. 
 Joco jurant, joco fallunt : rem agunt divi- 
 nam joco. 
 
 Pame dixi,vivunt jocoitantu jocantur ferio. 
 Gn. Atque ego ita faciam : fi canimus 
 fylvas, fylva: fint Confule digna*. 
 
 Gel. Morion , vidi ecqui licitatores prope 
 fint : an proi pedtus eft fterilis ? 
 
 Mor. Joci, novi joci, optimi novi joci^ 
 quis emit novos jocos ? 
 
 Gno. Nullos ne nundinatus es modo? 
 hic dies fceleftus eft 
 
 (Ut utar Comici phrafe) divendendis jocis. 
 Gei. Mox dabit nobis grandes bolos : ita 
 ftipercilium falit. 
 
 Non fiim ob nihilum tam ingeniofus hodie, 
 Nunquid ceftavi hoc mane lucri facere ? 
 Vendidi modo mulieri, nefcio cui, duos 
 jocos. 
 
 In Papam r fohannam i quos milTuram aie- 
 bat fefe 
 
 Ad eledum fratrem fuum fidelem pafto- 
 rem in Anglia, 
 
 Unum etiam aut alterum de Clavibus & 
 Corona triplici. 
 
 Gno. Quanti emit ? 
 
 Gei. Unis drachmis in jocos fingulos. 
 Sed corollarii loco voluit fibi unum darij 
 
 Demi jocum in Bellarminum : itaque 
 
 dedi. Mentiris Bellarmine. 
 
 Gno. Bene habet : Capram cofteftem 0- 
 rientem confpeximus 
 Id eft. Beati fumus. Tefte Erafmo Roter- 
 damo in Adagiis. Ecquid aliud ? 
 
 Gei. Praftinavit etiam Jufticiarius qui- 
 dam quatuor jocos, 
 
 In honorem Legis ; Sc fex ingemofas len- 
 tendas. 
 
 Qwas in ccena diduru’ft, cum vicinos quo- 
 tannis accipit 
 
 Clientum alitibus. Venit poft illa Jefuita ali- 
 quis. 
 
 (Quantum conjeduram capio, nam orna- 
 tus erae balilicum in modum) 
 
 U ‘ Et 
 
 dNlaufragium f oculare. 
 
 lemper ego exifti- 
 
Naufragium f oculare. 
 
 Et pecuniam in anteceflum dedit, ut fibi 
 
 facerem 
 
 Salfum & ingeniolum Dialogum inter 
 Lutherum & Diabolum. 
 
 Omitto reliquos — 
 
 Mor. Pax? ft ! adeft emptor : quid vis 
 
 tibi Domine 
 
 ■ • • 
 
 Novos jocos, optimos novos jocos ! 
 
 Scena Septima . 
 
 i , _ * rir 
 
 Juvenis Academicus. 
 
 ■ j . : . -'j Ji >. . : " ' \.j . . 
 
 Acad. Vellem mihi dati Archididafca- 
 lum hujus Icholae. 
 
 Mor. Dari ? non, non ; habebis, fi vis 
 emere tibi. 
 
 Ac. Quis eft Archididafcalus ? 
 
 Mor. Ego fum Morion. 
 
 Ac. Sed illum conventum cupio. 
 
 Mor. Non me cupis ? 
 
 Ego poftimi jocari aliquando. 
 
 Gel. Morion , ex fcribe fis 
 
 Hanc paginam. 
 
 Mo. Totam? vis, credo, vitam meam 
 interimere. 
 
 Gno. Juvenis, eccumme prafto tibi.Co- 
 ram, quem quaeritis, adfurn 
 
 Trojus Tineas. 
 
 Ac. Si igneas tibi nomen fit, alium volo. 
 
 Gno. Non : fed loquor cum Poeta : is 
 fum, quid venifti loquere: 
 
 Ac. Muneris noftri eft moderari inter 
 difputantes in fcholis publicis. 
 
 Gno. O? Agonotheta es, Jwrf to dy»v & 
 
 p^iuu : nam fic dodi vocant. 
 
 Ac. Facetus videre velim ; tantam li- 
 benter dabo 
 
 Mercedem, quantam alii folent, eodem 
 qui officio fundi funt. 
 
 Gel. Rede: nam fi argumenta non po- 
 tes, folvenda eft pecunia. 
 
 Audi n’qux dixi? Morum fcribe hoc fis ocyus. 
 
 Mor. Dii te perdant. 
 
 Credo te jocari lolitum fuifTe in utero 
 Matris, 
 
 Atque ita Temper facis, mihi ut facefTas in 
 fcribendo negotium. 
 
 Gei . Memento tamen. Juvenis, in quo 
 fis loco. 
 
 Ingeniofus efle non debes nimis. 
 
 Nullumne adhuc habes in parato joculum ? 
 
 Ac. Nullum equidem prater, fatisfecifti 
 officio tuo. 
 
 Mor. A — r — ar — a rgu O 
 
 jam habeo 
 
 Ac. An bonam habetis copiam philofo- 
 phicorum felium ? 
 
 Gei. Videbis: Morton cedo libellum de 
 
 jocis Philofophicis. 
 
 Hem ! legam tibi aliquos. 
 
 Scena OBava. 
 
 Mulier . 
 
 Mul. Quis intus eft ? 
 
 Mor. Qua? ha?c mulier eft ? quid vis ? 
 
 Mu. Time es Magifter Scholae ? 
 
 Mor. Ego fum: Ego : quid tua ? Ma- 
 gifter ? maxime. 
 
 Mu. Recede quacfo ; eft tibi quod in 
 aurem dicam. Nupta fiim, n placa. 
 Imperito morum, & impuri oris Viro, 
 Qui me meretricem vocat ; Mentiris dicit* 
 & Canis es. 
 
 Itaque ego emere illi facetias volo. 
 
 Mor. Nupta es imperito morum & im- 
 puri oris V i ro, [clara voce.] 
 
 Qui te meretricem vocat : hac in aurem 
 dicis mihi ? 
 
 Non, non : quid fi dolus hic latet ? 
 
 Gno. Mulier , adi fis propius. 
 
 Ac. Ha, ha, ha? ! non abftineo quin 
 plaudam — accipe lis pecuniam. 
 
 [plaudit manti;.] 
 Ob ifthoc credo didum me fuftolleqt hu- 
 meris. 
 
 Gn. Cujus generis facetias vis ? 
 
 Mul. Omnium, fi placet, generum. 
 
 Gn. Morion, cedo Pia hilaria, nunquam 
 haec vendemus aliter. 
 
 Mul. Non multa, fi placet, pia. 
 
 Gno. Non,non,pauca proDie Dominico. 
 Vin’ etiam jocos generofos ? 
 
 Mu. Qjiofcunque tibi vifiim’ft: 
 
 Gn. At aliqui lafcivi funt. 
 
 Mul. Non refert, fi fint tantum aliqui. 
 Indica, fac pretium; 
 
 Gn. Non cari funt fex minis. Tu vero 
 quoniam pulchra es, & Pulchrior eft 
 virtus veniens e corpore pulchro, 
 
 Sex folidis feres. 
 
 Mu. Accipe ; Dii vos fofpitent. 
 
 Mor. Nunquam fic auferes ; aliquid mi- 
 hi dabis. [ofculatur] Exit. 
 
 Ac. Profedo, fi unquam te in Acade- 
 
 • mia ufpiam viderim. 
 
 Accipiam te opipare codis prunis, & cet- 
 vifia primaria. 
 
 Sed necefle eft, ut confutationem Oratio- 
 nis componas mihi. 
 
 Gei. Effedum tibi dabo nunc jam ; mi 
 hi facile effluit. 
 
 Morion, adefdum, fcribe, qua? loquor ; pa- 
 ratus es ? 
 
 Ac. Sed ita componas oro, ut eadem con- 
 futatione hac, Relpondeam aliis Orati- 
 onibus. Gei 
 
Naufragium f oculare. 
 
 i < 7 
 
 I / 
 
 Gel. Omnibus, ii vis. 
 
 Antequam ad Di (putationem deveiamus, 
 ad aliqua tibi refpondendum eft, habui fti 
 
 itaque in veftibulo Orationis tua: 
 
 Mor. Quid ? veft — veftibulum — de- 
 lebtaris credo vocabulis 
 
 Qua: funt fcriptu difficilia. 
 
 Gei. Aliquid de meis laudibus, fed pro- 
 fedto ingenue fateor me 
 
 Non merui (Te tantum de meis laudibus. 
 Dixifti porro 
 
 Dixifti porro, aliquid de Mari Philofo- 
 phico 
 
 Ac. Quid fi non dicit ? 
 
 Gei. Pifh, ne time : nunquam quifquam 
 omittet Mare Philofophicum 
 
 Sed video nullas hinc natas Veneres— ha ! 
 Qiiid ais Juvenis ? 
 
 Ac. Hum ! hum ! hum ! medius fidius 
 pulchre. 
 
 Gei. Dixifti etiam quod— & tum in- 
 terponas illius verba. 
 
 Ac. Quarfb tu id facias ; non poffum 
 quicquam interponere. 
 
 Gei. Bene habet : non eft opus ; perge 
 ad hunc modum. Cetera ex memoria 
 dilapfa funt, itaque fic — & tum Ac- 
 cingas te ad difputandum, fcripfiftin' 
 Morion ? 
 
 Mor. Fere; Dilapfa funt, itaque fic 
 
 & tum te accingas ad difputandum. 
 
 . . [%*'•] 
 Gel. Pilh ; non oportuit fcriptum 
 
 & tum te accingas. 
 
 Mor. Non ? fignificatum hoc oportuit 
 mihi — fed delebo tamen. 
 
 Ac. Nihil fupra : O fi repetere poflim 
 cum ingeniofo tono. 
 
 Gel. Id facillimum eft ; audies Morio- 
 nem, Morion , procede in medium. 
 
 Et lege Confutationem, uti ego te docui. 
 Mor. Tun’ me docuifti ? non ; ego na- 
 tura fic loquor. 
 
 Antequam ad Difputationem deveniamus 
 ad aliqua tibi 
 
 Refpondendum eft, habuifti itaque in 
 veft veftibulo Orationis. 
 
 Tuae aliquid de meis laudibus, fed profedd 
 ego ingenue fateor. 
 
 Me non meruifle tantum de meis laudibus, 
 dixifti porro aliquid 
 
 De mari Philofophico, pifhnetine, nun- 
 quam quifquam. 
 
 Gei. Quid ? lcripfiftin’ id ? dele , in- 
 quam ocyus. 
 
 Mor. Quid? non eft jocus? delebon’ 
 ego jocum optimum ? bene, fi vis — 
 
 [delet. 
 
 Sed video nullas hinc natas Venena — 
 
 Gel. Quid ? venena ? 
 
 Mor. Maxime ; annon recte id quidem ? 
 
 Gel. Pifh ! Veneres. 
 
 Mor. Veneres? bene in idem redit — - 
 Cxtera ex memoria dilapfa funt. 
 
 Itaque fic 
 
 Ac. Legit pol facetiflimc : qui datur, 
 tanti indica. 
 
 Gel. Noncara’it auro contra ; fed foil- 
 do tibi deftino. 
 
 Mor. Non, non : ponam ego precium 
 illi, quia repetebam bene. 
 
 Viden’ has veftes, joculares nimio nimis? 
 
 Dabis mihi fubligacula. 
 
 Ac. Hem tibi foiidum — adeft pere- 
 grinus — 
 
 Valete; confutabo nunc omnes homines, 
 quibufeum loquor. [£*/>.} 
 
 Scena Nona . 
 
 Bombardomachides: 
 
 Gn. Adeft alius : 
 
 Qua: regio in terris noftri non plena la- 
 boris ? 
 
 Bom. Heus! ecquid lfta venditis jocos 
 fchola ? 
 
 EfFare Sc iftud pande,quodcunque eft mihi. 
 
 Gno. Dicis vera quidem, veri fed gra- 
 viora fide. 
 
 Ut Ovidius in Triftibus, quem librum 
 compofuit 
 
 Poftq uam in exilium miflus eft ab Augujlo. 
 
 Sed fine me dicere tibi cum Poeta ; Dic 
 nomen. 
 
 Bom. Meumne nefeis nomen ?0 ingens 
 fcelus ! 
 
 Dum terra coelum media libratum feret, 
 
 Nitidufque certas mundus evolvet vices, 
 
 Numerufque arenis deerit, haud nomen 
 meum 
 
 Latebit ullos. 
 
 Gno. Hic homo (quantum video) non- 
 dum Virgilium legit. 
 
 Nam eandem rem cum poeta quanto dix- 
 lllet melius. 
 
 In freta dum fluvii current, dum montibus 
 umbra: 
 
 Luftrabunt, convexa polus dum fydera 
 pafcet. 
 
 Semper honos, nomanque tuum, laudefq, 
 manebunt. 
 
 Mor. Vix audio hercle; Hem! fortem 
 me prsftabo. 
 
 Novos jocos, optimos novos jocos, emifhe 
 novos jocos? 
 
 Bom. Ain’ carnufex ? i 
 
 Mor t Nihil, profecto nihil» 
 
 17 2 Mecum 
 
1 4-8 UJaufragtum Joculare. 
 
 Mecum ipfe loqui foleo; hie homo non 
 jocatur. 
 
 Bow . In profligatas hoftium "turmas jo- 
 cos Empturus argentum fero, argentum 
 bonum ; Minafc^ quifquis numerat, inve- 
 niet duas. [ ofiendit pe cun l] 
 
 Alor. Ha ! ha ! habeo ! hem tibi jocum 
 pulcherrimum. 
 
 Ad hunc modum hoftibus refponde. Abite 
 in Tullianum, 
 
 Et ad laudem eorum converti poteft, fl di- 
 cas modo 
 
 Ne abeatis in Tullianum, ha, ha, he! 
 
 GeL Ecquid peftis te tenet ? in Cicero- 
 nem id oportet didtum. 
 
 Mor. Scio hoc, fed aliis applicari facile 
 poteft ; annon 
 
 Locus eft in carcere quod Tullianum ap- 
 pellatur ? 
 
 Poflum ego jocari fatis in loco, diis gratias. 
 Cei. Hem tibi (ales militares ! 
 
 Gno. Alexander , (eu Pelkus juvenis 
 Nunquam eft locutus meliores, exempli 
 gratia. 
 
 Rex, inquis, Macedonicus mihi ip(e dedit- 
 Tum dicet aliquis, Quid dedit ? pecuniam ? 
 R.e(pondes facetiftime,Tergum vel Prenas 
 dedit. 
 
 Bom. Sed fac Iambi cunela ut incedant 
 pede. 
 
 Efficias jam nunc, nam mox huc referam 
 gradus. [ExitJ] 
 
 Gei. Tdipol nae commode proceffimus, 
 lepide hoc officium fungimur. 
 
 Alor. Pulchre nos inte nos congruimus, 
 ingenioli omnes fumus. 
 
 Gno. Sxvis inter (e convenit urfts, ut Vir 
 omni litcrarum genere cultiffimus. 
 
 Gei. Hei ! obruimur multitudine. Abite, 
 bellua eftis multorum capitum. 
 
 Ha, ha, ha! multorum capitum ! ha! ha! 
 
 redite poft prandium. 
 
 Vos qui eftis bellua multorum capitum.Tu- 
 tor, eamus quadb ad prandium. 
 
 Gno. Redte, nam, ut inquit Poeta, 
 Ludit permiftis fbbria Mula jocis. 
 
 \_Exeuntl\ 
 
 ACTUS au ARTUS. 
 
 Scena Trima. 
 
 Cal. Filius , EucomiJJa. 
 
 Cal. F. Me hominem invenuftum ! 
 
 V^/ Eu. O infortunatam me pu- 
 ellulam ! 
 
 Cal F. Amare res liberrima eft, Amare 
 tamen cogor. 
 
 Eu. Odifle res eft: liberrima, Odille ta- 
 men vetor. 
 
 Cal. Cur fuperi, quam amemus eligunt, 
 quacum vivamus Patres ? 
 
 Eu. Cui* Patres in corpora poteftatem 
 habent, in animos fuperi ? 
 
 Cal. Adeft EucormJ]'a 3 aliquid ei dicerem, 
 fed quid dicam nefcio. 
 
 EucomiJJa 
 
 Eu. Quid ? 
 
 Cal. Ne valeam, (i verbum de nuptiis 
 O EucomiJJa 
 
 Eu. Quid ? fac me ut (ciam, (iquid vis. 
 
 Cal. Egon’ ? nihil. 
 
 Eu. Cur vocafti autem ? 
 
 Cal. Immo tantum eft, Salva lis ! 
 
 Et — aliud certe volo (i ad audiendum adeft 
 benignitas. 
 
 Eu. Adeft, fed in pauca conferas. 
 
 Cal. Siquid unquam ego — — 
 
 Eu. Exordia Calliphanes ? quafl docilis 
 reddenda (im & benevola ? 
 
 Ad rem veni. 
 
 Cal. Verbo expediam, Vale. [Ex/7.] 
 
 Eu. Enimvero ad hoc audiendum adelt 
 benignitas. Vale 
 
 Na: ego infelix puella, tam fuavem qua: a- 
 maftum na<fta (iim ! 
 
 In temperi a: hominem tenent, at Patrem 
 multo magis. 
 
 Qui huic me hodie nuptum territo daret. 
 O zsEmylio, [ Callipha . redit 
 
 Tecum vivendum eft folo, li vivendum elt 
 mihi. 
 
 Te Pater, tu me cepifti, injuriam fortuna: 
 ultus es. 
 
 Cal. Eucomifla, falve, aliquid te roga- 
 tum oportuit qua me propter huc ex- 
 animatum reduxi tibi. 
 
 Eu. Satin’ moleftus tandem ? quacfo te 
 ut (anus lies. 
 
 Cal. Prater jus xquumque oras, nam a- 
 mare, & flmul fa pere, 
 
 Ne 
 
^(aufragitm f oculare. 
 
 a « I 
 
 I i 0 
 
 1 T ' 
 
 No a eos quidem penes eft, fed EucomiiTa; 
 hodie ? 
 
 Eu. Aiunt. 
 
 Cal. Quid pater ? 
 
 Eu. Jubet, indat, urget. 
 
 Cal. ii hodie nuptura es mihi, cras me 
 ederes. 
 
 Eu. Falfus es ; nam li nubam hodie, ho- 
 die moriar. 
 
 Cal. Epitaphium mihi fiet in Epithala- 
 mii loco. 
 
 Eu. Genialis mihi leftus fepulchri fun- 
 getur vice. 
 
 Cal. Qb lepidum ifthocdidum nunc de- 
 mum places mihi. 
 
 Nunc illud eft, cum te libenter pene in 
 uxorem acciperem. 
 
 Quam vox fonabit blandum cum promit- 
 tat tua, 
 
 Qu x tum, cum negat, fuavis eft ! 
 
 Eu. Mccaftor ego 
 
 Vix jam a memet impetro, ut ne te amem, 
 Cum te amari nolis ita amanter facis. 
 
 Cal.O amore omni dulcior contentio! 
 
 Eu. O omni pace jurgium optabilius! 
 
 Cal. Sic fua Turtures molliores Venere, 
 Et murmurant, & gemunt, & queruntur 
 invicem. 
 
 Sed queftus inter, gemitum, & murmur, 
 amant. 
 
 Eu. Sic gratum noftris furtum cum fiat 
 auribus. 
 
 Pax bellica inter chordas pugnantes agitur. 
 Concordant fimul, fimul Se litigant foni. 
 
 Cal. Per Venerem, EucomiiTa, liberalis 
 es; fi daretur optio. 
 
 Uxorem a Diis ipfis non peterem aliam. 
 At extera, fponte facimus, amamus fato. 
 
 Eu. Gerundus igitur Fato, non Patri 
 mos eit. 
 
 Cal. Ne valeam, cum contemplar faci- 
 em, li quicquam fiipra eff, . 
 
 Tam lubrica frons eft, oculorum ut ef- , 
 fundat aciem. 
 
 Cincinni vinciendis animis nati tibi. 
 Modeftus genarum color, & qualem alix 
 A verecundia mutuantur, genafque xmu- 
 lantur labia. 
 
 Abeamus, nam fi te confpexero diutius. 
 Periero, Venena mellea in medullas (er- 
 punt. Vinte EucomiiTa mihi in Uxorem 
 dari ? 
 
 Cupio,per DeoscupiOjEucomifTa, loquere. 
 Sed ne concedas,cupio,ne concedas tamen. 
 Nifi dura,& difficilis maneas, me interficis. ' 
 Nam conceptis ego verbis jusjurandum 
 dedi, 
 
 Uxorem, nifi t/Eglen 
 
 £«. i/£glm Calhfhanes ? 
 
 Cal. Non, non,non, ah quid feci! aliam 
 volui dicere. 
 
 Eu. Afficiam te hodie Calliphanes 3 nunc\o 
 Ixtabili, Si zAlglm deperis, mutuum 
 tecum facit. 
 
 Cal. Quid ais ? ah noli 111 fpem fluxam 
 me conjicere. Men’ tAlgle ? 
 
 Eu. Ocuiis plus, inquam, luis. 
 
 Cal. Deus Ium, fi llthoc verum eft, O 
 
 Eucomi(Ja y 
 
 Cedo lis manum mihi, ut fiipplcx eam cx- 
 ofculer, 
 
 Ne vivam, nili femper te feci merito 
 maximam. 
 
 Eu. Accerias zyEglen i rem tibi Autho- 
 rem dabo. 
 
 Conlihum una capiemus, interea tempo- 
 ris, Vale. 
 
 Cal. Nunc illud eft, cum me — 
 
 Eu. Piih, fiiperlede iftis verbis, abi. 
 
 Cui. Abeo — fed Eucom/JJa— bene : abeo. 
 
 [Exit. j| 
 
 Scena Secunda. 
 
 tSEmyho, Eucomifja. 
 
 /Edipol nx hxc machina fucceffit 
 lepide fub manus. 
 
 Ita parata fecerunt omnia ad jocandi artem 
 utilia. 
 
 Accommodavit illis Dinon aliquid pecunix 
 prx manu 
 
 Unde utantur, Sc nunc, credo, aperuerunt 
 Scholam. 
 
 Eu. Ha ! adeft, amorem meum non eft 
 uti celem amplius. z^mylio, adefdum, 
 paucis te volo. 
 
 Eucomijja, (alve. 
 
 Eu. o< Emylio, hodie nuptura fum. 
 
 <ts£m. Dii vortant bene. 
 
 Eu. Ncque-a Patre impetro, aliquot uti 
 nuptiis prodat dies. 
 
 Eftnc hoc miferum ? 
 
 Em. Enimvero nihil prolixius. 
 
 Nam eo citius' virginem exues. 
 
 Em. Sed fac zy£mylw s 
 Tibi menupturam,rem tantam negligen- 
 ter adeo faceres ? 
 
 De improvifo duceres ? 
 
 cs£m. Utinam faceres periculum* 
 Equidem nullis rebus prxvorteremr 
 
 Eu. Mecaftor, pone ita efte. 
 
 Ego amo te, fed adverfum nos affirmat 
 Pater, 
 
 Quid enim ageres ? 
 
 nALm. Quid ? fi eftet centies pater, 
 Glacomam ob oculos objicerem, uti ne 
 quod videt, videat. 
 
 Itaque primum rogo te, vin’ hodie mihi 
 nubere f 
 
 En, 
 
EJau fragium f ocular e. 
 
 150 
 
 E it. Volo. 
 
 *Am. Lepide partes tuas agis : fed da 
 mihi hr matam fidem. 
 
 Eu. Do teftem Venerem. 
 
 tAim. Et Martem ego tibi 
 Me hodie te ducturum, dicta confirmemus 
 fiiavio, 
 
 O feflivum facinus ! hercle verb jam nunc 
 mihi feno uxor es. 
 
 Da fiiavium alterum. 
 
 Eu. Proh deorum fidem ! os hominis ! 
 
 zALm. O (culandi paufam faciam, fi os 
 non placet, 
 
 Sed aliquid nodu fiet, qua me propter ames 
 merito. 
 
 Eu. Quin aufer te, inquam, ocyus,nem- 
 pe quod dixi joco 
 
 Ten aliam in partem accipere decet, im- 
 pudens ? 
 
 Mecaftor faxo ut ne impune in me inluferis. 
 Unde ifthxc confidential ? quae opes ti- 
 bi ? quae factio ? 
 
 Servitutem fervire te memineris captum 
 manu. 
 
 r^Em. At enim liber natus fum, ac forti 
 familia. 
 
 Eu. Linguam comprime. 
 
 Aut dicam Patri ut me in tricas conjicis. 
 
 zALm. Ifte hercle exitus rem lepidam 
 pervortit male. 
 
 Vale igitur, fi vis, ad novam fcholam me 
 conferam. 
 
 Atque aliquos emam jocos in iracundam 
 Virginem. 
 
 Eu. Quam inepte ftulta fiim ! timeo, ut 
 fevera fuerim. 
 
 Quid fi revocem ? zAimyUo redi, quid prae- 
 ter morem ita 
 
 Practerque ingenium tuum ea mali confidis 
 Qua: jucunde dicSta funt ? credin me locu- 
 tam ferio ? 
 
 *Am. Non, non, ferio ? neque pofle 
 foeminam arbitror. 
 
 Eu. Cape fis hunc annulum tibi, indig- 
 num quo doneris dono. 
 
 Si memoria nos excidimus hic facito ut fub- 
 veniat tibi. 
 
 ts£m. Annalum ? maxime, fed jamne 
 locuta es feno ? 
 
 Eh, O zAmylio, fi nofceres— & quidni 
 nofcas tamen? 
 
 zAim. Quidni? quia non fum Oedipus : 
 prxter annulum nil intelligo. 
 
 Eu. Adeone tardus es ? facis haud con- 
 fiietudine. 
 
 Quin, vultum legas, legas Sc fufpiria. 
 Hanc ipfum legas annulum ; lat loquor 
 tacita. 
 
 <tALm. Legam hercle lubentiffimus 
 
 oli — cum annui o 
 
 Quid eft ? EucomiJJa , hoc verbum non vult 
 
 legi/ 
 
 Oh efficiam ut velit— Cum annulo animus. 
 
 Eu. Ineptus es ; res alias li lie agis. Vale. 
 
 Quid dixi ?immo V ale, led ne abeas tamen. 
 
 *Am. Hum ! fic efi: profecto : nam fi 
 memini bene 
 
 Concinna fiicie fum ; flatura commoda,& 
 aztate integra. 
 
 Experiar quid iit: Eucomijfa, advorte ani- 
 mum. 
 
 0 EucomiJJa 3 diu te amavi perdite. 
 
 Eu. Ha! 
 
 AEm. Ufque adhuc aufus nihil, nifi ocu- 
 los pa icere. 
 
 Amoris txdio enecor, nunc itaque tuum • 
 
 Perfpicere animum, ut fefe habeat velim. 
 
 In fpe atque in timore attentus fum. £#- 
 comijja, loquere. 
 
 Eu. Pudet confiteri ; o, quid faciam mi- 
 fera ? 
 
 Mene ? fimultatem non revereris Patris? 
 
 1 Sed mitto Patrem 
 
 cAm. Millam hanc facito mode/liam. 
 
 Vin’ me Maritum tibi ? verbo expedias. 
 
 Eu. Maritum ? ha ! quid fi id cupiam 
 maxime ? 
 
 Cupia? non,nolo^»^//<?:habes breviffime. 
 
 Quid refpondes? 
 
 c Am. Me ede infelicem : Vale. 
 
 Eu. Non, non, manta iis modo ? Volo, 
 inquam. Volo. 
 
 Oz/Emyhoy tua fum, tua: me commendofidei, 
 
 zAm. Et ego EucomiJJa tuus ; prx lxtitia, 
 ita me dii ament. 
 
 Apud me non fum ; fed mittamus lfthxc, 
 adfimt arbitri. 
 
 Scena Tertia. 
 
 CaUiphanes , c Agle i EucomiJJa , zAmylio. 
 
 Cal. Beafli me; hoc dido reddidifti 
 animum. 
 
 Nec hominum, nec deorum iram teruncii 
 xftimo. 
 
 EucomiJJa — Emylio , —Divorum vitam a- 
 depti fumus. 
 
 c Am. Quid foror ? tune Calliphancm a- 
 mas ? 
 
 zAg. Meipfam minus. 
 
 Eu. Fruftra adhuc fumus ; quid Patri re- 
 fpondebimus ? 
 
 Cal. Ha ! Patri ? quanta de laetitia quam 
 fubito decidi? Nullamne facere poiTu- 
 mus in nuptiis fallaciam AEmyhoJi 
 
 *Am. Non minor mea hic res agitur, 
 quam tua. Itaque admonere define. 
 
 Eu. At fiquid potes a /Emylio. 
 
 Am. 
 
au fragium f oculare. 
 
 Sed fecit ipfe adhuc, quod /ciam ego, pau 
 ciffimos. 
 
 An hodie te uxorem commiftu- 
 1'iis eft CaUiphani ? 
 
 Eu. Ita. 
 
 <eALm. Dic te velle. j 
 Eu. Ah <tAimylio 3 tam fubito animum 
 A nobis fegregas? 
 
 t^£m. Dn avortant omen. 
 
 Nemo te unquam nili mors eripiet mihi. 
 Nunc quam rem agam accipe : hic nuptiis 
 dieftus eft dies. 
 
 Veras ede credat Pater, at ne lint tamen. 
 Nam t>Egle tuam vicem, cum Calliphane 
 notftu cubet. 
 
 Diurna ejus uxor lis ipfain aliquod tempus. 
 Nam forte in diebus paucis aliud fe nobis 
 offeret. 
 
 Amolimini hinc vos propere, fi confilium 
 placet. 
 
 Eu. Nullum vidi melius. 
 
 Cd. Abeamus <u±gle. '[Exeunt.'] 
 
 Scena Quarta. 
 
 Gnormcusy Gela f mus 3 Morion , Acade- 
 micus fecundus . 
 
 * Ij p X 
 
 Gn. Ad Cathedram, ad Cathedram 
 ocyus, nam adeft peregrinus, ' 
 Titubatque pede pes, denfufque Viro Vir. 
 Aca. Tune es Magifler Schola:? 
 
 Mor. Hei ! Magifter ! nemo homo 
 Me qu^rit ufpiam ; his veftibus nimium 
 lateo. 
 
 ^^.Profefior jocorum Academicus proxi- 
 ma Hebdomade jocaturuft publice. 
 Itaque huc me mifit falutem ut vobis dice- 
 rem. 
 
 Opemque in hac re expetiffit,& confilium 
 veftrum. 
 
 Ideo que hoc munus a:qui bonique ut con- 
 fidatis obfecrat. 
 
 Gei. Pecuniam ab illo ? Dii melius : 
 meus frater eft. 
 
 Ac. Eo accipias magis, nam fratres me- 
 tuit fuos. 
 
 Gno. Qiianquam te Jocator Frater an- 
 num jam fales in hoc tempus colli- 
 gentem, idque Academia, abundare o- 
 portet praeceptis inftitutifq, hujus artis 
 propter fummum & Docftoris tui in- 
 genium & Collegii, tamen ad hanc 
 reni, nos, (ut videmur) magnum ti- 
 bi emolumentum afferemus, atque hoc 
 veluti in tranfitu ; fapiufcule excurro 
 Oratorie. 
 
 Gel. Prx re iff hac rem pravorta nullam, 
 Sed ecquos ipfe fecit fales ? 
 
 Aca. Collegit aliquos ; . 
 
 Forte an duos trefve demi— jocos. 
 
 Gel. Morion , porrige fchedulam 
 
 Illam mihi jocorum Tripodalium ; nam in 
 Anglia patria noffra. 
 
 Jocorum ProfefTori Tripodis nomen poni- 
 mus.. Hem tibi J 
 
 Aca. An ifti concinni, in quacftioriem 
 ejus cadent? 
 
 Gei. dEque hercle concinne, in queftio- 
 , ne m ejus, atque in ullam aliam. 
 
 Hoc habeat prope in exordii loco, dein 
 Quxftio autem 
 
 Sequatur e longinquo, evocabit fuos ipfe 
 Terminos, 
 
 Atque fi recufent ingredi, invitos trahat fe- 
 cum atque ingratiis, 
 
 Uti non raro fadfum vidimus. Ha:c itacr 
 eff falutatio ^ 
 
 Auditorum omnium, ubi obiter deriden- 
 dos prazbet 
 
 Medicina:, Legifque ProfefTores & Do- 
 lores omnes prcccipue, 
 
 Abfque hoc nunquam quifquam plaufum 
 libi reppent. 
 
 Sed (parne oblitus fui dicere J nullane hic 
 Comoedia 
 
 Agitur circiter hoc temporis. 
 
 Ac ad. Immo vero hodie. 
 
 Gei. Ha, ha, hae ! vah Poetam infortu- 
 natum riimis. 
 
 Nam quifquis is eft, facetiis meis^proxima 
 Hebdomade jugulabitur. 
 
 Accipe fis hanc fchedulam ; feriptum hic 
 inveniet, 
 
 Quod fufficict largiter ad deridendum om- 
 nes pofthac Comoedias. 
 
 Aca . Du tibi dent qua: velis, bene va- 
 leas. 
 
 Gei. St! audin’ etiam? 
 
 Tribus verbis te volo; illam Fabulam Lu- 
 dos faciet. 
 
 Fabula (intellextin’?) Ludus dicitur, jam 
 te dimitto. Vale. [Exit Aca. j 
 
 ^ Ii UJJ: t ■ ilj . * _ 
 
 Scena Quinta* 
 
 lAtmjlio ( alio ornatu ) Pfecas, Gnom.Gel.Mor . 
 
 ' ■ — « 
 
 Gel. Satin 5 ego oculis utilitatem obtineo, 
 annon ? 
 
 Aidipol virgo fortis eft, efficiam ut me de- 
 pereat de ingenio. 
 
 Mor. Principio atque hanc video,mane- 
 re non poflum diutius. 
 
 Ita lauta eft ; nimio nimi’ modeftus funi 
 his veffibus. 
 
 zs£m. Jam para te Tfecas ; fi peftus fa- 
 pit, duras illis dabis. 
 
£ 5 ^ 
 
 Naufragium f oculare. 
 
 P/: Pifh, aliud cura, magnifice tra&a- 1 Gel. Maxime — Pallet Luna, Stfevi- 
 bo ifthunc Afinum ; * - ciiim confitetur 
 
 O Venus! hxccine eft illa fchola: lepidus 
 mecaftor locus eft. , \ j 
 Semper ego facetias amavi multum, & 
 nutrix mihi . 
 
 Dicere folita eft : Abi, abi, ut vitalis fis 
 metuo, ii .v ! 
 
 Ita praeter aetatem tuam ingeniofa es ni- 
 mium. 
 
 Et ego pol ridebam : rides ? inquit illa, 
 Dii boni! 
 
 Uti hujus nunquam non meminero ! 
 
 'cAim. Pifh, perge ad rem. ■ < 
 
 Pf Quam fiepe res nihili, otiose haereat 
 in memoria ? 4 
 
 O Diana 1 quam mihi tunc dierum pro ci- 
 bo Fuit jocarier ? IU 
 
 Saepe ad focum domi obfedimus; ego nar- 
 rare fabulas, 
 
 Feftive multa dicere, omnes in cachinnos 
 folvere. 
 
 Nulla (dicet ipfa dicam) primarum arti- 
 um magi’ princeps extitit. 
 
 Sed ubi eft Magifter? videre vellem ni- 
 mio, ■ 
 
 Nam communicabimus inter nolmet face- 
 tias invicem, . .-yj.iru * 
 
 Opem meam, ( fatis frio ) non habebk 
 defpicatui. . 
 
 Ubi eft? 
 
 Gn. Coram, quem quaeritis, , ?idfum 
 Trojus zAEneas, necelle habeo novam de 
 hac re fententiam quaerere. 
 
 Vj. O Mutas ! ftuduifti arti Muficae t 
 illud ex Virgilio ^ , 
 
 Accepifti mutuum, immo ego poetas legi. ( 
 Sic fum, non tantum verbis dici poteft 
 Quantum re ipfa verfus amo, & feci fane 
 Mediocres. 
 
 Gn. Mediocribus efle poetis. 
 
 Non homines, non Dii, non concefiere 
 Columnae. 
 
 Gei. Oh l. ho ! ha! incantavit me aliquis : 
 
 Nunquam futurum credidi, nequeo unum 
 concinnare adeo joculum. 
 
 Hum! ficcin’ ? Oh 1 tandem ad meipfum 
 redeo. * ' 
 
 O cujus genis rofic invident, 8c pudore ru- 
 befcunt folo. 
 
 Et tum — 
 
 Mor. Ha, ha, ha! pulcherrime! fi or- 
 natus eflem ex meis virtutibus 
 Sic adirem virginem ; nam deperiret iftam 
 faciem. • . 
 
 *s£m. Tun T folus hic regnum poflides ? 
 ubi, fi placet, exteri ? 
 
 Gff. St! Gelafime. 
 
 Statim vobis adero — nec fidera — 
 humlifthocnon placet. 
 
 Ceciderunt plane fidera, Ceciderunt ; ha, 
 ha, ut nefeienti mihi 
 Effluxit lftic jocu$ ? 
 
 Gn. Hem Morion , ubi es ? 
 
 Mor. St. ! ego non adfum. 
 
 iMim. Ha, ha, ha, an fe prarfens prx- 
 fentem negat ? 
 
 Nifi jurato tibi , Morion, non credemus. 
 
 Mor . Per Deos non adfum, 
 
 Ut .cate delufi homines! illi hic me efle 
 nefeiunt, ha, ha, ha ! 
 
 Gn. An Morion atra bili percitu’ft ? id 
 .eft, an delirat ? 
 
 Ceflon’ illum educere ex infidiis, ut lepide 
 loquar ? 
 
 Morion, adefto. .. \Educit^\ 
 
 c AZm. Lia, ha! ut ftat ! reclamanto Phi- 
 lofophia 
 
 Negarem hunc efle rationalem, nifi quia 
 nfibilem video. 
 
 Gn. Humanum eft errare: erras pro- 
 fedto hofpes. 
 
 Nam omnis homo eft rationalis, ut acu- 
 tiflime obfervat Simplicius. 
 
 Pf. Nolite, obfecro, deridere, per pol 
 ... , quam modeftus eft ! 
 
 Mor . Me laudat. 
 
 Gei. Euge! jam habeo. 
 
 Mor. Hercle auda&er alloquar. 
 
 Salve tu, U cujus genis rofx invident, & 
 
 .. pudore rubelcunt lolo. 
 
 1 Gei. O maftigiam ! qux mea eft Ora- 
 tio, occupat praeloqui. 
 
 Ut perdidit mihi fex jocos, & tres amato- 
 rias fententias !, 
 
 Gno. Perge Morion. 
 
 Mor. Perge tu, fi vis, ego dixi fatis. 
 
 Gno. Adefdum Gelajimc. Hic eft joca- 
 tor ille, Cui meliore luto finxit pra:- 
 cordia Titan. 
 
 , Pf. Mecaftor. .liberalis eft: falve mul- 
 tum, te unum ex omnibus 
 Feftivum fama magnificavit, itaque ad te 
 - huc venimus vifere. 
 
 Nam me etiam lepidam vocant, etfi hanc 
 mihi Laudem non arrogem. 
 
 Gei. Sideri equidem cujus fiib aufpicio 
 natu’ fum, minorem gratiam habeo. 
 Quam oculorum tuorum fydenbus,qux me 
 perfpexerunt modo. . , , 
 
 Ha, ha ! optime loquor femper deimpro- 
 vifb, ; 
 
 Quod fignum eft boni ingenii,proculdubio 
 hxc mea’ft, 
 
 Obfecro, quxnam eft hxc virgo ? 
 
 1 ' c Aim 
 
jfaufragium f oculare. 
 
 *ALm. Fabtionc fiimma, & divitiis pol- 
 lens. 
 
 Bombardomac hulls filia’ll flrenuiflimi ducis. 
 
 Gel. Nimio nimi’ novi ego ilium Bom- 
 
 bar.domachidem. 
 
 (Hic illum derideo) fed tamen tanto me- 
 liu’ft. 
 
 cx£w. Ecquis homo tantum ftultitiae in 
 fe polledit uipiam ? 
 
 Quid fi oblectem me cum lflis ? placet, 
 heus ! auditin’ ? 
 
 Quoniam volmet magnificatis ita de iliis 
 artibus. 
 
 Dabo equidem fponfionem, me vos unum 
 
 hngulos 
 
 Reda&urum modo jocis meis ad filentium. 
 
 Agite luitis, experiamur in hanc partem 
 quis plus poffiet. 
 
 Pf V ide quid agas prius. Ego ab hujus 
 parte flabo. 
 
 Gel. A mea : nefeio unde hoc fit, multo 
 fiim beatior 
 
 Quam vulgus hominum, quaecunque vo- 
 cem audiunt. 
 
 Continuo me amant perdite. O Superi ! 
 gratias ago. 
 
 Multum de memeruiflis ; Heus, audacule. 
 
 Quoniam ita vis vita interhci,afcende hanc 
 fellulam. 
 
 Opponam ego primus; fed miferet me tui. 
 
 Alor. Bene hercle facis; ego oblecunda- 
 bo tibi in loco. 
 
 Abi, audacule, abi in Tullianum. 
 
 <y£m. Eflo tu moderator. 
 
 Gno. Agonotheta ero, owi to dyav & d. 
 
 Stiu* : nam lie do&i vocant. Tu oppones 
 
 Morion 
 
 Secundo in loco. 
 
 Mor. Recte, recedam paululum 
 
 Et confutationem Orationis ejus medita- 
 bor mecum. 
 
 Gen. Antequam illam nofli r 
 
 • Mor. Nolli ? nemo non potefl 
 
 Confutare tum cum noverit, ero lingula- 
 ris ego. 
 
 Pf Difcrutior animi, quod mos non pa- 
 titur, 
 
 Dilputare foeminas publice: vellem hos 
 Opponentes mihi. 
 
 Gn. Alcendat Jocator. 
 
 Proditum elt memoria: antiquos Philolb- 
 phos poll multos labores fefe recreare 
 foiitos fuifle. Agite igitur, hilarem 
 hunc lumamus diem,nam arcus nimiu 
 intentus cito frangitur ; habent fua 
 Ludicra Mufa: ; Sc Apollo Mufarum 
 Parens, aliquando latet, aliquando pa- 
 tet. Tu vero Spartam quam nadtus 
 es, hanc ornabit non minus,aut etiam 
 
 r; 
 
 Ili 
 
 plus mode/lia tua,quam ingenium ap- 
 pareat. Cave a Majoribus, nam inge- 
 nium non ferent, & obferva lemper 
 cum Poeta, Parcere perfonis, dicere 
 de vitiis. 
 
 <AEm. Orationem tuam 
 
 Cr». Nolo pati iflam impudentiam, con- 
 feras te ad provinciam tuam. 
 
 Sapienter quidem tacis,quod ora- 
 tionem tuam non vis repeti. 
 
 Gn. Authoritate mihi ab Apolline com- 
 milla, jubeo te acquiefcere. 
 
 Pf Ha, ha, ha:! utinam illa mihi au- 
 thoritas committeretur ab Apolline. 
 
 Non datur ars jocandi Inci- 
 
 piam a poflremo 
 
 Pennino Jocandi, qui ejfl Terminus HiR 
 larii. Artem omitto, quia mos eft ita 
 facere. 
 
 Datur efl verbum ; nam nunc dierum P*es 
 talis non cfl, qua:dam dicuntur dari 
 proprie & fimpliciter, fed hinefenfus 
 verbi jam antiquatus efl: alii vero im- 
 proprie & fecundum quid, ut Gradus 
 
 in Academia, & in Collegiis 
 
 Gn. Omitte illud verbum: (cimus quid 
 velis. 
 
 <A£m. Sed, ne erretis in hac re, dicam 
 vobis, quid dandum fit, quid no n, 
 
 primum omnium dabitis mihi fi 
 
 placeo Manus veflras— -fin mi- 
 nus Veniam. Dabitis Aulico no- 
 
 va juramenta, nam fregit omnia ve- 
 tera. Ad Coelum enim ire ne cogitat 
 quidem, quia audit paucos illic ede 
 tonfbres& futores vefliarios, itaque 
 nunquam oravit in tota vita, tantum 
 aliquando dixit Deo, fe ejus fervum 
 ede ter humillimum. Et tamen odit 
 Diabolum, quia Cornutus efl, eoque 
 fimilior illius Creditom Civium. Se- 
 cundo dabitis Puritanis verba ; jam 
 enim illis lilentiu indicitur, liquando 
 autem privatim pra:dicent, dabitis au- 
 res veflras ; nam fuas amiferunt. Da- 
 bitis Academiis 
 
 Gn. Noloiflud dici; ne quos ridere hic 
 oportuit. 
 
 Erubelcant aliqui : fatisfecifti officio tuo* 
 
 llefpondere tibi vellem, fed neminem in 
 loco meo 
 
 Extra unum novi, qui refpondit nugis hu- 
 jufce modi. 
 
 Afcendat Opponens primus; Difputatio- 
 nem in alium 
 
 Differamus diem, nunc jam refpondeas 
 tantum breviter. 
 
 Age; Spartam, quam nate es,hancor« 
 na, 
 
 S Gei. 
 
15 + 
 
 Gel. Faciam , fed numera jocos meos, 
 dum refpondeam. 
 
 Gn. Pauperis eft numerare pecus. Nu- 
 mera hoc Gelafime, 
 
 Obfecro, auditores ut inadvorfam partem 
 ne rapiatis. 
 
 Quod in hoc dignitatis gradu praeter mo- 
 rem aliquando jocor. 
 
 *y£nj. Si in eam partem peccas, facile 
 te profe&o condonabimus. 
 
 Sed mihi crede, Do&iffi me Moderator, ad- 
 huc ab hac culpa liber es. 
 
 Gn. Do&iflimum me vocat ; non inter- 
 ficiam illum hodie. 
 
 Gei. Quoniam dandi regulas nobis de- 
 difh. Ibi unus Gnomice , 
 
 Efl magnus jocus. 
 
 Tam magnus hercle ut videri ne- 
 queat. 
 
 Gei. Pifh ! annon ludo in reduplicati, 
 one tS Dare ? 
 
 Gn. Eft certe dimidia pars joci. 
 
 *Aim. Oh ! ille, fortalle credidit, 
 Dimidum plus toto efle. 
 
 Gei. Dii, Deseque, Superi, Inferi, 
 Peffimis me exemplis perduint, nifi diftu- 
 rus id eram 
 
 Numera Gnomice pro meo. Eripuit eum ex 
 animo meo. 
 
 v£m. Redam hercle inflas viam, inge- 
 niofus ut fias. 
 
 Si furaris, ego quae dico. 
 
 Pf. Summi eft ingeni. 
 
 Si facere, nam tuo jam te jugulat gladio. 
 Ibi ego etiam : pudet fane me mutam flare 
 Inter tot jocantes. 
 
 Gelp Sed repetamur a diverticulo : 
 
 Dicam ergo tibi, quid dedit mihi rex Ma- 
 cedonicus — 
 
 «y£m. Quin pergis ? 
 
 Gel. Quia jam te oportet dicere. 
 
 Quid dedit tibi ? pecuniam ? 
 
 *AEm. Quid fi nolim dicere ? 
 
 Tun me coges? 
 
 Gel. Non, fed nifi detur Anfa, quis po- 
 teft jocarier? 
 
 Bene, fi me oras, dicam, ne om- 
 nino coram hac foemina nobili 
 Ignominiose taceas. 
 
 Gei. Et ego fic refpondeo : 
 
 Pecuniam ? noiy non, non. Tergum vel 
 poenas dedit. 
 
 Ibi duo joci Gnomice. Sed obiter hoc 
 
 Dixifti Artem jocandi non dari. Falfum ! 
 nam ars jocandi eft 
 
 Res ingeniofa,fed res ingeniola daturjnam 
 Crede mihi res eft ingeniola Dare. 
 r "t/Em. Caru’ft hic jocus, nam tribus ab- 
 hinc petitur milliaribus. 
 
 nunquam audivi, textum 
 cum perdiderit, 
 
 f Ut fxpe fit) per tot circulos illu quxrere. 
 
 Walli in hunc plane modum adfuam fcan- 
 dunt originem. 
 
 Ap Ars jocandi, Ap datur, Ap Res, Ap in- 
 genium, Ap 
 
 Crede mihi res eft ingeniola dare. 
 
 Gei. Onerabas deinde maledidis Auli- 
 cos; fed nimium ruflice. 
 
 Iterum Gnomice ; ob rufticitatem illum de- 
 rideo, 
 
 Eft & elegans quaedam antithefis inter Au- 
 licos & ruflice. 
 
 Quae addidifli de Puritanis, intada praete- 
 reo, 
 
 Quoniam imitatus es illa qux hodi£ mane 
 dixerim, 
 
 Cum illos in Novam Angliam ire jufti, 
 extera 
 
 Ex memoria aufugerunt. 
 
 Pf. Nequeo quin plaudam manibus.’ 
 
 Atque ita omnes vellem, cum audiant 
 quod placet, facere. 
 
 Gn. Satisfecifli officio tuo : afeendat 
 Morion. 
 
 Mor. Ita facio; quxfo ut jocos meos 
 numeres Gnomice. 
 
 ts£m. Hei ! cum iftis veftibus difputa- 
 turus venis ? 
 
 Carent Modo, & Figura. Nulla eft Con- 
 fequentia 
 
 Inter earum partes. 
 
 Mor. An veftes mea? tibi nocent? 
 ts£m. Ita fane me terrebant modo, cum 
 hic afeenderas. 
 
 Mor. Ha, ha, hx ! ut me vidit, homi- 
 nem terrui ; novit qui fim. 
 
 Qui cum me audient? Attendite, nunc 
 incipio. 
 
 In principio orationis tuae habuifli aliquid 
 de meis laudibus, fed 
 
 Ego ingenue fateor, me non meruifle tan- 
 tum de meis laudibus. 
 es£m. Egon de tuis laudibus ? 
 
 Merito poi me confutare poflis, fi habu* 
 idem tale quid. 
 
 Mor. Pifh ! ego hoc fiippono ita- 
 
 que nunc pergo, numera Gnomice. 
 
 Dixifti porro aliquid de mari Philofophico, 
 tAEm. Quid ? de mari Philofophico ? 
 
 At illud ego adhuc ne primoribus quidem 
 labiis attigi. 
 
 Sed fi animum induxifti deridere Mare 
 Philofophicum. 
 
 Indulgebo tibi hanc veniam. 
 
 Mor . Non ? tum hxc tua culpa’ft Gelor 
 fime. 
 
 E\(au fragium f oculare. 
 
 Concionacorem 
 
 Annon 
 
155 
 
 Annon dicebas, quod nunquam quifquam 
 omittet Mare Philolbphicum ? 
 
 *Aim. Ha, ha, ha; ! 
 
 Mor. Ecqtiid me rident ? 
 
 Gw. Perge Morion . 
 
 Mor. Pergat qui vult, fi ridetis : ego fa- 
 tisfeci officio meo. 
 
 Cetera ex memoria diiapfa hunt : Et lie 
 delino. [ defcendit I 
 
 Gw. Vos itaque cum mentis omnes di- ! 
 mitto laudibus. 
 
 Et Vitula tu dignus 6c hie. Arcades ambo 
 
 Et cantare pares, 6c refpondere parati. 
 
 Pf Deus bone ! quam pulchre vos om- 
 nes proceffillis hodie. 
 
 Ego vobifeum ipla difputabo vice proxima. 
 
 Do&iffimc Moderator vale, dn tibi dent; 
 
 qua; expetis. 
 
 Gw. Et longum formofa vale, vale in- 
 quit Iola. 
 
 Pf. Tu Gelafime , lequere me lis domum, 
 nam de arte ifthac ell tibi 
 Quod lola loll dicam. 
 
 Gel. Beatus fum ! libenter fequor. 
 Quantum diis magis debeo, quod me tarn 
 lepidum fecerint ! 
 
 Pf ssEmyho, i pra:, piln, omitte illas ce- 
 remonias. 
 
 Mor. Ego illos comitabor, fatis fum jo- 
 catus hodie. 
 
 Gw. At ego intus me recipiam, bene ho- 
 die fecimus. [ Exeunt . ] 
 
 Ite domum laturae, venit Heipcrus, ite Ca- 
 pella:. [Extf.] 
 
 ACT U S Q^U INTUS. 
 
 . I* , > 
 
 S cenet * Trima. 
 
 lEmylio , 
 
 I3R0 certon’ habes advenifle 
 • 1 Polyporum ? 
 
 Din. Siquidem quod vidi certunfll. 
 
 Nih fallant oculi. 
 
 Mirum efl ni fallant aliquando. Ii 
 fint tui, 
 
 Nam tu totus, quantus quantus, 'nihil nili 
 aflutia es. 
 
 Sed ut placet, ubi vidifti ? ecquid idoneus 
 viliis’t. 
 
 Ex quo argentum cudimus? ha ! numquid 
 efl: tradtabilis ? 
 
 Utinam accepiilet literas. 
 
 Din. Accepit jam in portu. 
 
 Et largus. lacrymarum huc properat. 
 tALm. Qui illud nofti ? 
 
 Din. Ut vidi, lufpenfb gradu ibam, ad- 
 ilabam, comprimebam animam. 
 
 Atque ubi cepi animum attendere, fermo- 
 nem hoc captavi modo. 
 
 proin tu Bombardomachidem induas, ut ac- 
 cipiamus hominem, 
 
 Hicelto; cum rogitabit, ubi habet Bom- 
 bardomachides t 
 
 Huc per pollicum introducam illum tibi. 
 <Am. At militi claves reddidi. 
 
 Din. Piffi! lexcenta; fiint caufe quam- 
 obrem illas poliis repetere. 
 
 Abi modo : fed enim captivis quid lacie- 
 mus ? abfunt perincommode. 
 
 *s£m. Oh 1 dicam Pohporo tempus nunc 
 
 non elle, ut illos videat, 
 
 * 
 
 Dinom, 
 
 Et jubebo cras redeat : Satin polita funt 
 ha:c confilia ? 
 
 O fors fortuna quam fecundis rebus hanc 
 mihi onerafti diem ! 
 
 Abeamus mi chariffime Dinon. 
 
 Dm. O, mi fuaviffime lEmylio abea- 
 mus. [Exeunt. J 
 
 Scena Secunda . 
 
 Gelefimus 3 Pfecas 3 Morion. 
 
 Pf Viden’ ergo quam pollhabui omnes 
 res ingemo tuo ? 
 
 Nam me in uxorem multi expetiverunt 
 Principes, 
 
 Quos demili, quia indo&i erant, doloris 
 compotes. 
 
 Gei. Dii me faciant quod volunt, nili 
 minu’ gaudeam 
 
 De pollentia tua(nam & ipfe in mea patria 
 
 Sat dives & fa&iofus fum) quam quod has 
 nuptix 
 
 Magno futura: fint totius orbis commodo. 
 
 Namque ex te noftro qmiquis fiifcipitur 
 lemine 
 
 Suis fe diblis immortali afficiet gloria, 
 
 Fietque Imperator jocorum optimus maxi- 
 mus. 
 
 Pf Cupio equidem Poetam parere. 
 
 Gei. Mea fide paries. 
 
 Nam vagieba ego metrice, 6c in la&isloco. 
 
 X 2 Helt- 
 
Ufaufragmm f oculare 
 
 i 56 
 
 Heliconis aquam (uxi, tum autem in Par- 
 naflo bicipiti 
 
 Saepicule (omniavi, fed, ut verum fatear 
 Nulla mihi carmina tam facili Minerva 
 fluunt. 
 
 Quam Epigrammata, aut Satyri, nam fe- 
 ftiviffimc 
 
 (Utnofti) deridere homines foleo. 
 
 Pf. O Mufas omnes I 
 
 Quam undiquaque fententiis tuis intermif 
 ces facetias ! 
 
 Gei. Ha, ha, hae, , annimadvertiftin’ ? at 
 peperci ego dicere. 
 
 De illis, ut experirer, utrum tute per te eos 
 intelligeres. 
 
 Pf. Ah ! nunquam Patris in me inimi- 
 citias caperem 
 
 Tui causa, nifi intelligerem probe ingeni- 
 um tuum. 
 
 Mor. Colloquuntur familiariter, metuo 
 ne praeripiat mihi 
 
 Illius animum, namque amo illam plus vi- 
 no & faccaro. 
 
 Et nifl me amet mutuo, abeat (ane in lo- 
 cum 
 
 In carcere quod Tullianum appellatur. 
 
 Gei. Abeamus, mea Sappho, 
 
 Ut a (acerdote aliquo celebretur nobis ma- 
 trimonium. 
 
 Morion , abi tu domum. 
 
 Mor. Ne me contemptim conteras; 
 Tam ego difputabam hodie, quam tu, 
 publicitus. 
 
 Et conlutavi hominem. 
 
 Pf. Exemplis peflimis 
 Ludificator iftum fruticem nifi hinc pro- 
 pere avolet. 
 
 Oh (uperas! occidi, mortua fum ! Pater 
 huc venit, nos quaeritans, ' 
 
 Et ftridto gladio necem hic minatur omni- 
 bus. 
 
 Mor. Oh, oh, non pofliim afpicere Bom- 
 
 bardomachidem. 
 
 Nimio nimis ferox eft, jocari mecum no- 
 luit modo. 
 
 Gei. Tam mortui hercle (iimus, quam 
 mare eft mortuum. 
 
 Ibi iterum, velim, nolim, non reprimo 
 me, quin jocer. 
 
 Nullumne hic latibulum eft ? 
 
 Mor. Oh ! quado oftendas aliquod. 
 
 In ip(o foramine Acus nunc jam jacere 
 poteram, 
 
 Ecquem hic habes cafeum ? nam muris in- 
 ftar optime 
 In illo delitefcerem. 
 
 Gel. Non, non, falfuses, Morion , 
 
 Nam tunc excedere latebras tuas.Ut illum 
 derideo 
 
 Hoc tanto in periculo ! 
 
 Pf. Hei mihi) eft intus dolium — - 
 Ut contollit gradmm ! ut oculi virent ira- 
 cundia! — 
 
 Illic fi vis temet occultare. 
 
 Mor . Dolium ? cedo lis, bona fcemina : 
 Nunquam me pudebit a Diogene exem- 
 plum (umere. 
 
 Utinam edet plenum, evacuarem mihi 
 quam citiflime. 
 
 PjCSequereme, tibi mox profpiciamGc- 
 lajime. [Exeunt Pfecas , Morion.~\ 
 
 Mor. Ita, cum ego in tuto fim ; dolium ? 
 
 magnifica pol domus eft. 
 
 Gei. Oh! oh! audire vi(u fum ftrepi- 
 tum militis. 
 
 Tergum vel poenas illi dabo ; ut mihi Rex 
 Macedonicus. 
 
 Oh ! jam venit, (cio ; jacebo hic, quafi ef- 
 (em mortuus ; 
 
 Nolo (altem cernere fatum meum. 
 
 [recumbit] [ Pfecas intrati 
 Pf. Ha, ha, he! 
 
 * Gel. OhJadeft! 
 
 Pf. G el a fime } furge, ne metuas malum. 
 Gei. Profecto, Bombardomachides i non 
 duxi tuam filiam, 
 
 Neque unquam volui. 
 
 Pf. Quid i « 
 
 Gei. Non : qusefo, ne me jugules, 
 Meminens, obfecro, jocorum Militarium* 
 quos feci tibi, 
 
 Quin effeci mfiiper, Iambi ut incedant pe- 
 de. 
 
 Pf O Venus ! ludos lepidos. Adfpice 
 ‘ ad me Gelafime , Pater non adeft. 
 
 Gei. O mea Sappho ! ubi eft pater tuus ? 
 obfecro an venit ? 
 
 Pf Neque venturus eft, ex compofito 
 hoc feci adeo. 
 
 Ut nobis fine Morione arbitro fierent 
 nuptiae. 
 
 Gei. Ha ! (cio hoc equidem, & ego eti- 
 am per induftriam 
 
 Diflimulavi quafi eflem timidus — led, 
 
 numnam in vado lumus? 
 
 Annon diflimulabam lepide ?- — -certe ali- 
 • quid audio — - 
 Non venit (pero. 
 
 Pf Ne time ; (ed feftinato opus’ft, 
 
 Ne tandem foi tafle (erio nos pater oppri- 
 mat. 
 
 Gei. Vera dicis; properemus mea Mula, 
 mea Urania. 
 
 Ut te amo mea Polyhymnie, mea Melpo- 
 mene! [Exeunt f\ 
 
 Scena 
 
/ 
 
 tJ\ (aufragium f oculare. 
 
 i*57 
 
 Scena Tertia . 
 
 nsEmyliC) (ornatu militis ) Dinon } Polyporus. 
 
 xALm. Intromittatur fino; fac pateat ja- 
 nua. 
 
 Pol. Tun’ ille es Miles, arte tam mfig- 
 nis duellica ? 
 
 ty£m. Pcnphralin veram nominis dicis 
 mei. 
 
 Tol. Si is es, filium manu cepifti meum. 
 
 <es£w. Si filium cepi tuum, captivo Pa- 
 ter es meo. 
 
 Tol. Huc itaque ea gratia veni tibi. 
 
 Illorum uti pro capitibus pecuniam dumi. 
 
 Oro igitur me abiolvas, quam primum po- 
 teris. 
 
 Nec mora in te fit (ita, quin pretium au- 
 feras. 
 
 Cupio videre ipfos; & compledi miferos. 
 
 Tam Pater capto liim, quam dudum fui 
 libero. 
 
 ts£m. Nunc aliqui me expectant reges ; 
 cras redeas licet. 
 
 Pol. Cras illud. Patri filium quaerenti 
 annus eft. 
 
 Bom. Oculifne claves obviam fiunt tuis ? 
 
 \lntusj] 
 
 Cal. P. Ni fi jam repenant, effringan- 
 tur foribus cardines, 
 
 Ne mora Exorctfts objeda fit, cum huc 
 advenerit. 
 
 Bom. Edico jam nunc foribus bellum 
 meis, 
 
 Poftha:c ut iftum timeant, efficiam, pedem. 
 
 \_Bombardom. frangit fcres(\ 
 
 ts£m. Occififtimi fumus Dinon ; Heus! 
 quis efi: ad fores ? 
 
 Scena Quarta. 
 
 Bombardomachides 3 Calliphanes P. <ts£mjlio } 
 
 Dinon } Poliporus 3 fervi Bombard. 
 
 * 
 
 Bom. Oh! fpedra cerno? ludit an ocu- 
 los meos 
 
 Imago fallax ? non pofiiim pergere Iam- 
 bice, 
 
 Ita valide timeo. 
 
 Cal. P. Nihil adhuc video - hum — Leo- 
 pardus, rediit, ipfiis eft Leopardu» 
 quem confpexi prius. 
 
 Dm. Oh, ho, o, ho, urite, fundite, tun- 
 dite, caedite, vertite, domum, .ho, ho, 
 fundite, tundite domum. 
 
 Pol. Quaenam hsc deliramenta ? funtne 
 atra bile perciti ? 
 
 Din. II o Met <A’ d,vctv\ct 3 yJ.TO.vj a, y 75, 
 
 diyjjnd T H \Soy. 
 
 /Em. 4>etx!J « i ^Qcf.MWKOfMV s</di£t\o (first, yt- 
 yLvTW y. 
 
 Pol. Quicquid fit, aut hi homines mfa- 
 niunt valide. 
 
 Aut aliquid noftri fi.beft, qua fugere in- 
 fiftam via ? 
 
 Bom. Oh ! quaefo bone Daemon ne ac- 
 cedas adeo, oh ! 
 
 Tohp. Meri’ quaeris ? obfecro. 
 
 Recedas, tecum nihil negoti efi: mihi. Oh ! 
 quaefo. 
 
 Din. rioMct cT’ avAVTSt yj-mvjci. 
 
 /Em. sjd.Qcf.v-wi %. Jbyjjud r >fr3vy. 
 
 Cal. P. Oh ! metuo male ne me perfe- 
 quantur Daemones, 
 
 Quia ad nuptias injuftitia mea coegi filium» 
 
 Bom. Mallem in media acie, quam hic 
 ftare loci. 
 
 Utinam — (quid faciam ? ) utmam eflem 
 jam nunc mortuus. 
 
 Sed mori non poflum. 
 
 Tol. Proculdubio iftudfomniumefl. 
 
 Ita res haec me dubium dat, ut quis fim, aut 
 ubi, nefeiam. 
 
 Bom. Claudam hercle oculos,videre non 
 fuftineo. 
 
 Din. Occidam, jugulabo, interficiam, ca- 
 piam, rapiam, fundam, tunda omnes illico. 
 
 Bom. Immb non time, video profecto 
 nihil. 
 
 Cal. P. Nihil? caecus efi: Bombardoma- 
 chides ? accipe fis fpecularia. 
 
 [ Bombard . manm extendens forti 
 tiaram <t/£mjlioms dejicit J 
 
 /Em. Ylorufruf (ioio Surdosyt. 
 
 Bom. Oh ! 
 
 c y£m. O Dinon ada res efi: : emergere 
 hinc non pocefl. 
 
 Bom. Servufiie nofter?facinus indignum 
 & grave ! 
 
 Jupiter, omni parte violentum intona: 
 
 Cal. P. Ha! quid efi: ?quid tremis adeo? Jaculare flammas, lumen ereptum polo 
 Bom. Me frigus, haud formido, ut tre- Fulminibus exple — jam poiTum iterum 
 
 mam facit, 
 
 Dinon 3 in te fpes omnis vertitur, 
 fis Daemon iterum, 
 
 Reprefentari falusnoftra non aliter potefl. 
 Dm. Ne defponde animum, pulchre ho- 
 mines vorfabimus. 
 
 Iambice. 
 
 Cal. P. Proh Deos ! ficcin’ te fervus 
 pro deledamento ulu fi ? 
 
 Arripiant aliqui fublimem, & extinguant 
 illi animam, 
 
 Tun 5 
 
 
* 
 
 Tun’ ( fcelus ) pro arbitrio nos terres (enes? 
 
 Bom. Terrere me non potuit, timui nihil. 
 
 Cap. P. Non fum compos animi, ita in- 
 cendor iracundia. 
 
 Itane iftud patere Bombardomachides ? oc- 
 cide eos. 
 
 Bom. De fine poena: loqueris,ego poenam 
 volo. 
 
 Ardeo furore : tamdiu cur innocens 
 
 Hos verlbr inter ? tota jam ante oculos 
 meos 
 
 Imago caedis errat. 
 
 Din. O ! dii te perdant zAimylio. 
 
 *s£m. Quin, quod ferundum eft fera- 
 mus aequo animo. 
 
 Video non licere quicquam jam perten- 
 dere. 
 
 Pol. Fruftrationes ego iftas mirari latis 
 nequeo. 
 
 Heus ; eil ne miles hic, Bombardomachides? 
 
 Bom. Men' ergo neicis ? Ipfe Bombardo- 
 machides fum (in verlu lequenti) 
 
 Pol. Paratus es meum mihi jam filium 
 reddere ? 
 
 Bom. Quem habeo filium reddam, fed 
 nullum habeo. 
 
 Pol. Qua: te mala crux agitat autem ? 
 hem Literas tuas 
 
 Quas in portu accepi modo. 
 
 Bom. Ha ! Dux Bombardomachides ? 
 
 lALmylio Icripfit iftud: O ingens fcelus! 
 
 Incertus, atrox, mente non lana feror 
 
 Partes in omnes ; unde me ulcifci queam? 
 
 [P zrbera Dinonem & ejus 
 [ qso barbam arripit f] 
 
 Din. Oh ! obfecro te. 
 
 Pol. O Dn boni ! quid ego video ? Di- 
 nonem lervum ? 
 
 Hem! Dinoni quid hic agis? ubi filius 
 meu’ft ? 
 
 Dm. v£mylio, quid faciam in his an- 
 guftiis? confitebor omnia. 
 
 c s£m. Su fpende te, fi vis : Dii iratis 
 natu lum. 
 
 Cal. P. Hi homines ingentem aliquam 
 adornarunt fabricam. 
 
 'Articularim te concidit hic lervus tuus 
 
 Quantum adhuc video : faxo confiteantur 
 omnia. 
 
 Heus Lorarii ! quis intus eft ? Lorarii in- 
 quam ! 
 
 Pol Immd depolita velle fe verberibus 
 impleant invicem. 
 
 Donec omnia exquifivimus, ut lubitunfft 
 nobis. 
 
 Bom. Locutus es, non male, fiet modo. 
 
 Adelle lervi. Dominus hoc veller jubet. 
 
 [Ingred. Lorarii.'] 
 
 v£m, Strenuum me praebebo hominem; 
 
 (capularum mihi Sat magna confiden- 
 tia eft. Dinon, bono animo es. 
 
 Di». Quin Stoicus, inquam lum,dolorem 
 nunquam lentio. 
 
 Moriemur, lat fcio; li praeter (pern quid 
 evenit 
 
 In lucro deputabo ede. 
 
 Bom. Audin’ ferve ? 
 
 Flagella Fac fint nobis in promptu duo. 
 
 [ Exit fer vus , & redit cum flagellis .] 
 Cal. P. Interea quod eft temporis, tu 
 deme illis deploides. 
 
 Ha ! ftatua: verberea, nos vetulos habetis 
 ludibrio ? 
 
 [ponunt diploid] 
 i/£m. Aliud cura, Carnufex ; non pof 
 
 fum ego hoc exuere ! [ad lorarium.] 
 
 Vapulare hei cie nolo lngenerofis meis ve- 
 ftibus. 
 
 Scio ego, quid fit vapulare. 
 
 Dm. O miram rem ! (cientia talis, di- 
 cenda eft fola liberalis. Satin’ tsEmyht 
 fortiter ? 
 
 Bom. Ridetis ? at mox flumen ex oculis 
 cadet. 
 
 Cal. P. Hem ! da flagella illis in manus 
 ocius. 
 
 Nifi poenas de le ftrenue fumant invicem. 
 
 Qiian incudem caedas illos ; ac pugnis one- 
 res. 
 
 Din. Video necefle cfle, ut exerceamus 
 nolinet. 
 
 Age, incipiamus mea Commoditas. 
 es£m. Mea opportunitas incipiamus. 
 Dm. Tu nebulo major es, tibi hercle 
 locum cedo. 
 
 Cal. P. Ludunt hercle ; heus Lorarii, fa- 
 cite ut pugni in malis haereant. 
 
 Ad mortem vos ambos darem, li edetis mei. 
 tsBm.Qum abi in malam rem ; nil ope- 
 ra opus tua eft. 
 
 [ad lorarium.] 
 
 Annon Dinon fatis idoneus vilu ft, qui me 
 verberet ? 
 
 Din. Hem tibi, mi Alter idem ! 
 
 9s£m. Meus bonus Genius ! 
 
 [Se vicibus flagellant J 
 Din. Meus Pilades ! 
 zsLim. Oreftes meus! 
 
 Bom. Haec verberandi mihi fat methodus 
 placet. 
 
 Tam fimilis eft bello. 
 
 Cal. P. Feciftis probe. 
 
 Ceflate paululum, exquire nunc jam, 
 quidvis. 
 
 Pol. Quid filio fa&um eft meo, cum Tu- 
 tore ejus Sc Gelafimo ? 
 
 Din. Emunximus illos mucidos ; 8c ar- 
 gentum effecimus. 
 
 *sLm. 
 
jfdu fragium f oculare. 
 
 i 5 9 
 
 zsEm.Et velles, viden* ornatum Mori- 
 onis tui ? 
 
 Me multo decent magis. 
 
 Pol. O Frontes hominum ! 
 
 Dm Dicam omnia; animum advorti- 
 te, nam fabula lepidiflima’d. 
 
 Primum omnium, appoti probe ut obdor- 
 mirent, fecimus. 
 
 Dein velles Morionis panis com- 
 mutavi meis. 
 
 Dm. Dein, quafi captivos, in vinclis 
 hic habuimus. 
 
 Dm. Dem Scrip limus Epillolam, te ut 
 vorlaremus infuper. 
 
 Dm. Dem Ipedtns fidis Bombardcmachi- 
 dem perterrefecimus. 
 
 Bom. Egone vana ut fpedra timerem 
 (celus ! 
 
 AdefTe vel jam daemonum turbam velim. 
 Pol. O impudentiam ! O mores! quid 
 ego de vobis tantum merui ? 
 is£m. Ha, ha ! homo fiiavis ! nos ut par- 
 ceremus tibi ? 
 
 Cum bardum genuifti, fapientium id feci- 
 di gratia. 
 
 Stultus ed Commune Bonum. 
 
 Cal. P. Obflupelco ! ita hxc res mira’fl. 
 Din. Immo nihil jam celabo, nolo, exdE- 
 mylioy 
 
 Ex iflis technis tibi melius fit, quam mihi. 
 EucomiJJa 
 
 zdEm. Dinon ! 6 (celedum caput ! 
 
 [ flagellat .] 
 
 Bom. Muttiren’ audes ? pifce lis mutus 
 magis. 
 
 Dtn. *s£mylioni nupfit hodie , & Dii 
 vortant feliciter. 
 
 Bom. Quid tangit aurem : ferte me in- 
 fanar procul, 
 
 Illo procella? ferte, quo ferter dies 
 Hinc raptus, 6, quis hliam oflendet mihi. 
 Longinqua, claula, abdrula, diverfa, invia 
 Emetiemur, nullus obflabit locus. * 
 
 \_Exit Bombard. ~] 
 ty£m. Nunc demum perii (olide, hoc 
 durum in corde efl mihi, 
 
 Quod mei gratia, EucomiJJa pejus erit, 
 Pneterquam, quod carendum eft illa, nil 
 adhuc doleo. 
 
 Cal. P. Si edet mea, omnem de illa ani- 
 mum 
 
 Ejicerem Patris, & alienarum miferam a 
 familia. 
 
 Si filius meus ad hunc modum— fed nor- 
 vult, aut (i cuperet maxime. 
 
 Captare conlilii nil podet, quin olfacerem 
 , prius. 
 
 Din. Immo Ille proculdubio his noxiis 
 vacuus’ft. 
 
 Nihil in le culpa: unquam commidt. Tan- 
 tum, 
 
 Prarter imperium tuum, & praxerquam 
 judidi fedulo, 
 
 ^Bglen hodie duxit. 
 
 Cal. P. *s£glen < non poted fieri. 
 
 Non, non, non audet : quicquid iit, vide- 
 bo tamen. 
 
 Si verum ell, liatim cum uxore quatietur 
 foras. [E*//.} 
 
 Quicunque fis, peregrine, nolo 
 precator mihi 
 
 Orare ut fies, nam adverfus idh.rc obfirma- 
 vi mala. 
 
 Sed ut pacem EucomiJJa conciliares ab ejus 
 Patre 
 
 Id oro, atque obfecro : age, etfi parum 
 de te meruerim. 
 
 Popularis tuus dim. 
 
 Pol. Meus ? 
 
 *^m. Siquidem es Anglus patria. 
 
 Pol. Qui illud fadum ell, hic ut (ervi- 
 tutem fervias ? 
 
 ts£m. Fortunas ardi pol, vitio, nam prog- 
 natus patre 
 
 Mercatore (um ditidimo, (ed fic fors tulit 
 
 Cum forore fimul parvula hic ut me cape- 
 ret parvulum. 
 
 Pol. Hei mihi! 
 
 v£m. Quid lacrymas obfecro? iftud 
 me decet magis. 
 
 Pol. Quia miferiasnuhi meas hoc dido 
 in memoriam redigis. 
 
 Nam filiolam ego etiam cum fratre una 
 perdidi. 
 
 Ubi capti edis ? 
 
 zs£m. In navi, cum in Hifpaniam tranf- 
 mifit Pater. 
 
 Mercatura: operam dans, ac rei /ludens. 
 
 P ol. Quodnam erat navi fignum ? 
 
 <s£m. Cador Pollux. 
 
 P ol. Dii boni, quo magis quaero, eo plus 
 plulque convenit. 
 
 Si ell, ut harc mihi res indicium facit, 
 
 Omnium,qui dint in terra, fum beatidinius. 
 
 Quot annis abhinc ? 
 
 PCm. Mcnle proximo erunt ododecirm 
 
 Pol. Dii memet ex re perdita (ervatum 
 volunt. 
 
 Si idharevera (unt,non dubito quin fis meus. 
 
 Caeterum aded Miles, ille me certiorem 
 faciet. 
 
 Sccna Quinta. 
 
 Bombard. Cal. P. Cal. F. Eucomiffa , zs£gle m 
 
 Cal. f. Quin exi, flagitium hominis, 
 cum uxore triverrehea, 
 
 Faxo, fi vita mihi fuperet, illius oblatura- 
 bere, ’ e/%. 
 
6o 
 
 (aufragium f oculare. 
 
 cs£g. OMecro prolixe ienex, uti quod 
 te habet male. 
 
 In me totum evomas, cum illo modo in 
 gratiam redeas. 
 
 Mea omnis culpa eft: ; Ille abs te innoxius. 
 Per Deos mea e ft. 
 
 Cal. F. Non, non, cave illi credas Pater, 
 Tuam in me iram derivari multo sequmft. 
 Blanditiis iftam meis conjeci invitam in 
 nuptias. 
 
 Pol. Accommoda mihi miles paululum 
 aures tuas, 
 
 Nili Iit moleftum. 
 
 Born . Uruntur ira fibra:, & exardet je- 
 cur, 
 
 Uruntur inquam; loquere at quidvis ta- 
 men. 
 
 Eu. O 'sBmylio! huncce in modum ce- 
 lebrantur nuptia: ? 
 
 V ereor ne eodem fiam vidua quo die nupta 
 Ium. 
 
 Habe modo bonum animum, mea 
 V ita, tibi nil faciet mali. 
 
 Meamque ne doieas, vicem, nam Deos 
 teftor. 
 
 Si una hac node cubuiflem in complexu 
 tuo. 
 
 Cras illud ellet, cum me vellem interfici. 
 Ne ulla unquam aegritudo contaminaret il- 
 lud gaudium. 
 
 Sed meliore in loco, diis gratias, fpes fita 
 eft mea. . . 
 
 Ptf/.Immo omnem mihi rem explicatam 
 dedifti pulcfire. 
 
 Infeparate Fili, (alve. 
 
 Cum hic te confpicor ; quam (uperat mihi 
 Atque abundat laetitia pedtus! ubi (oror tua 
 eft? 
 
 tsEm. Eccam lpfam, mi pater chariffi- 
 me ! amoenitates quantas 
 Hic mihi dies obtulit! Pol. Jam, virgo 
 mea es. 
 
 Ha, ha! filium & filiam? ha, ha! lacry- 
 mo gaudio. 
 
 Et tam liberaliter educatos ! quis me feli- 
 cior ? 
 
 Age Miles, face te lubentem filiae nuptiis. 
 
 Bom. Nil jam negabo, cundta concedo 
 
 fcnex, . 
 
 Quoniamque natam duxit, ut ducat volo. 
 
 v£m. Audi vl EucomiJJal iterum mihi 
 
 natus videor. a 
 
 Eu. Et ego iterum nupta; o mi tALmylio. 
 
 cJ.p.Quam fuo nnhi hic fermone ar- 
 rexit aures! 
 
 Fili, quoniam iftam virginem tam milcre 
 deperis. 
 
 Difficultas a me noti erit, quin pro uxore 
 habeas. 
 
 Cal.f. Revera mihi pater es, Scdiisin. 
 fis proximus. 
 
 Dm. Tot inter gaudia, ut video, vapu- 
 landum eft mihi. 
 
 zsEmyho, volo te de communi re appel- 
 lare mea, & tua. 
 
 MeininifUn* quo ornatu te primum inve- 
 nerim, 
 
 Mea profecto opera hae omnia evene- 
 runt tibi. 
 
 nAim. Fcenerato hanc mihi operam Io- 
 cafti, Dtnon , 
 
 Nam mecum Temper vives, Fuppeditabo 
 ego tibi (umptibus. 
 
 Dm. O mea Commoditas! meus bonus 
 Genius ! 
 
 Meruifti hercule ; 
 
 Nam vel modo, mea opportunitas, quam 
 me verberafti ftrenue ! 
 
 Din. Meruifti hercule. Ego vel iterum, 
 mi zyEmyho, 
 
 Voluptatis tua causa, defeftus verberando 
 fierem. 
 
 *s£m. Sed obfecro, mi Pater, an Morion , 
 meus frater eft: ? 
 
 Pol . Nihil minus ; nam cum vofinct in- 
 fortunatus perdidi ; 
 
 Ne prorsus viderer ortus, recens natum 
 (ervi mei puerum 
 
 Pro meo (iiftuli ; is hic eft, quem vidiftis. 
 
 Morion. 
 
 Seem Sexta . 
 
 * i •' r > r . 
 
 r f . , . . ■* « i . •. 
 
 Gelafme, Pfecas. 
 
 Sed quem ego video? Gelafimum , amicum 
 Mor tonis mei? 
 
 Gelajime (alve. 
 
 Gei. O Polypore (alve: nefeis quam be- 
 atus ego fum ! 
 
 Ubi eft Bombardomackidei ? 
 
 Pf. Illic ; non vides ? 
 
 Gel. Hic non eft ille Bombardomachidcs^ 
 ad quem me infinuavi calhdc. 
 
 Pf. Pi(h, crcdin me ignorare patrem 
 meum, quis fiet ? 
 
 Gel. Non, non ; filius tuus Gdafirnus t 
 hic flexo poplite 
 
 Ut fibi benedicas, oblecrat, atque ut nup- 
 tus (uis. 
 
 Bom. Ex ore quid venit tuo ? Titfi fili- 
 us meus? 
 
 Gei. Fortaflis hoc me credis per jocum 
 dicere. 
 
 Quia jocari femper loleo ; fed profedto lo- 
 quor ferio. 
 
 Detrahe velum, mea Mufa: hem ! noftia 
 I filiam tuam? 
 
 1 Om. 
 
Sfaufragum f oculare. 
 
 Om. Ha, ha, har. 
 
 . Ff Immo ne admiremini. 
 
 Ego nupfi illi Alino, fed pra:cep'tis meis. 
 Efficiam brevi, ut moratus lit lat bene. 
 EucornijJ'a lalvc, jam lum ejufdcm tecum 
 ordinis, 
 
 Colloquemur inter nofmet amice, Sc ca- 
 piemus confilium. 
 
 Quid maritis faciundum fit, lervire fi no- 
 lint nobis. 
 
 Gei. Tun’ negas filiam tuam hanc efle? 
 Om. Ha, ha, hae. 
 
 Gel. Quid ( malum ) ridetis ? nullum 
 hic dixi jocum. 
 
 ts£m. Gelafime , da hoc etiam pugillari- 
 bus tuis. 
 
 Os mihi callide (ublitum eft quarto Non. 
 Feb. 
 
 Gel. Nolo lie me rideant; immo, qux 
 fit, latis novi. 
 
 Egon’ ut filiam tuam in uxorE? acciperem? 
 Vah! ifta ingeniola ell, hoc fufficit mihi. 
 Facetiffime a me amovi illud dedecus. 
 
 Mor. Oh! non pofFum recipere animam, 
 qua: lo bona Icemina. \_mtus~] 
 
 <is£m. Ha ! quid hoc ? 
 
 Ff. Inter tot nuptias 
 
 Ne defit vinum, donabo vos pleno dolio. 
 
 {Exit. 3 
 
 Cal. p. Fruflrationes ego tantas, & tam 
 miras res. 
 
 Nulla me vidifle unquam in Comcedia 
 memini. 
 
 Ha ! quid fit tandem ? 
 
 Sccnd Septima . 
 
 Ffecafj Morion in dolio. 
 
 Ff. Hem ! vobis vinum meum ! 
 
 Mor. Non, non, ego non lum vinum. 
 f in dol\ Exit . , 
 
 i Ia ! quofnam hic video? ego iterum intus 
 me recipiam. [ ingred . iterum.'] 
 
 Gei. Exi, exi inquam, Diogenes , 6 Mori- 
 on , ut ego te derideo ! 
 
 Mor. Videon’ ego patrem meum ? 6, 
 pater, tun’ hic aderas ? 
 
 \ 6 \ 
 
 Ego ingerriodis fartus fum in lns regioni- 
 bus. 
 
 Jocari homines doceo. Fol. Pofihac ne me 
 Patrem vocites. 
 
 Nam fervus meus es, quem adhuc pro filio 
 liiftuli. 
 
 Mcr. O ! tu me non nofiti fortafits in 
 his vellibus. 
 
 Ego lum profe<hb Alor ion : roga Gelaji- 
 mum. 
 
 Nos hic Captivi fiimus. Fol. Non, non- 
 jam ellis liberi. 
 
 Sed meus, per Deos, non es, te ad pati em 
 tuum. 
 
 Adducam iterum, cum in Angliam tranfi 
 milimus. 
 
 Scena OElava. 
 
 Gnomicus. 
 
 Gei. O Tutor ! mira hic profe&o eve- 
 nerunt hodie. 
 
 Omnia intus Icies, tu vero Tutor, & Mo- 
 rion , 
 
 Mundti omnem jocularem colligite, nam 
 in Angliam mecum redibitis. 
 
 Atque illic Cantabrigia: illam aperiemus 
 Scholam. 
 
 Emptores jocorum ibi habitant quamplu- 
 rimi. 
 
 Mor. Red-e; tum pater fi nolis efie, ne 
 fis amplius mihi. 
 
 Tutor, ego non fum filius Foljpori natu 
 Maximus. 
 
 Gn. Enim vero, ut ait Comicus, Dii nos 
 homines quafi pilas habent. 
 
 Cal. p. Interea ad me omnes introite ad 
 prandium. 
 
 Frugaliter vos accipiam. 
 
 Gn. Confilium placet. 
 
 'Siqui nunc harum rerum Spedlatores ad~ 
 fient < 
 
 Cum Poeta illis dicerem. Valete, & plau- 
 dite. 
 
 Claudite jam rivos, pueri, lat prata bibs» 
 runt, • 
 
 Rumpatur, quilquis rumpitur invidii. 
 
 t 
 
 Y 
 
 EPILOGUS. 
 

 
 G U S. 
 
 Abet ; per acia efl fabula ; nil reflat denique : 
 bhfifi ut Vos valere jubeam ; quod ut fiat mutue 
 Valere & nos etiam jubeatis precor , 
 
 Ufiau fragium fic non erit ; nam Vobis , fi placuimus t 
 Vt acutiffime ob fervat (jnomicus, Vir admirabilis , 
 fam nunc in vado fumus cum TroVerbio. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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To his GRACE 
 
 My LORD, 
 
 ‘Dare appeal to that Learned Uni* 
 yerfity, that at prefent enjoys the 
 Honor of being under Your Graces 
 Patronage, to jujlifie me in prefent- 
 ing thefe Remains of their eyer 
 Celebrated Cowley to your fraces EroteBion. 
 I haye long had the Ambition of Addrejfing fome-> 
 part of my Endeavours to your frace , that might 
 come recommended to a following <sjfge y by being 
 deyoted to a Eatron that was the flory and Or - 
 nament of his own. Rut while I defpaird of per- 
 forming what could merit Encouragement from a 
 
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 Ferfon of your Graces Worth and Honor , I was 
 oblidged to Fortune for this Opportunity of gratifying 
 my lVt(hcs in a way that renders my Application a 
 jufl Homage and Duty , that other wife had been Fre- 
 fumption . . F he befl Frodulls of my Invention mujl 
 have proved too mean an Offering for your fraces 
 Acceptance: But coming embarqud in Cow l e y V 
 rich Bottom, laden with the Freafures of his 
 Divine Fancy , 1 can with the more affurance ap - 
 proach your Altar. Fhe ^Author fuffciently ob- 
 liged the World with his Latin Original of this 
 Worfi, and how he would have approved the Franfla - 
 tionhere attempted, I mujl leave ‘others to determine ; 
 but am certain, that if he had lifid the Dnder- 
 taking, he would confequently have allowed me in 
 afcribing this Verfon to the llluflrious Duke of 
 Somerset. I dare not attempt your Graces 
 Char alter which would have been a proportioned Fas ^ 
 for the mighty Cjenius of Cowley himfelf ,• 
 I will only prefume to fay ( and have all Man- 
 kind to abet me ) that your Cjrace is accomplifh'd 
 with all thofe noble Qualifications which his elevated 
 zFMufe would have chofen to celebrate. Virtue 
 and Honor were the F hemes he delighted in, 
 and would have been tranfported to have feen in 
 his own <±Age and Climate an Example that might 
 compare with the mofi noble of the Ancient Romans. 
 Bejidcs the Advantages of Birth and Quality, your 
 Cjrace is endow’d with fuch greatnefs of Soul, fuch 
 Fietyof Mmd, fuel) Generofty of Femper , with 
 all t/.ofe Chat ■ms of conde fending Goodnefs and Cour - 
 
 tefe. 
 
 
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 tefie , as haye eyen in your blooming Years procurd 
 you an umyerfal Love and Admiration. It is upon 
 thefe i Accounts that the Mufes claim a [hare in 
 your Favour. It has in all times been the Troyince 
 of the mofl worthy to patronise Wit and Learning. 
 
 Carmen amat quifquis carmine di^nus. 
 
 It is from thence I am encouraged ( at leaf , in be- 
 half of my Fellow ^Undertakers ) to entitle your 
 (fir ace to the V erfion of this Latin Volumn , which 
 we hope is not Jo much difpirited by the Trans fufion, 
 but that a modejl Cenfure may in a manner allow 
 it to be Cowley’s fill. Could we haye done 
 him that Right which he performed to the bed 
 of the Latin Tons, it might confidently takg-> 
 Sanltuary under your (fraces (fame. Howeyer 
 I may conclude my fclf fafier in this Truncation 
 than in any Original which I was capable of de' 
 figning. I propofed in fetting forward this Work, 
 that eyery Snglifh Man , as far as was poffible, 
 fhould be mafler of their beloved Cowley 
 entire ; and hope your Grace will approye my /Teal, 
 if not the performance : At leaf, l will have recoutje 
 to that Indulgence you neycr fail of extending to 
 your Tetitioners, and beg the Honour of Jubfiribing 
 my felf with all fncerity , 
 
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 B Eing obliged before we fpeak of this Tranflation, 
 to give fome prefatory Account of the Original ; 
 it will be neceflary to relume what has been 
 delivered on that Subject by the incomparable 
 Dr. Sprattj the prefent Bifhop of ^ ocbejler , in the Ac- 
 count he has given us of the Life and Writings of 
 Mr. Cowley. Concerning theft Six Books of Plants, 
 he has thus exprefs'd his Sentiments with that ftrcngth of 
 Judgment and freedom of Ingenuity which was recjuifite. 
 
 “ The occafion (fays he) of his choofing the Subject of 
 his Six Books of Plants, was this : When he returned into 
 Englaniy he was advifed to dilfemble the main intention 
 of his coming over, under the dilguife of applying him- 
 felf to fome fetled Profeffion. And that of Phyfick 
 was thought moft proper. To this purpofe, after ma- 
 ny Anatomical DilTedtions, he proceeded to the confidera- 
 tion of Simples j and having furnifh’d himfelf with 
 Books of that Nature, he retir'd into a fruitful part of 
 j f\ent, where every Field and Wood might fliew him the 
 real Figures of thofe Plants, of which he read. Thus he 
 fpeedily matter'd that part of the Art of Medicine. But 
 then, as one of the Ancients did before him in the Study 
 of the Law, inftead of employing his Skill for Pra&ice 
 and Profit, he prefently digefted it into that form which 
 we behold. 
 
 The two firft Books treat of Herbs, in a Style reiem- 
 bling the Elegies of Ovid and Tibullus , in the fweetnefs and 
 freedom of the Verfe ; but excelling them in the ftrength 
 of the Fancy, and vigour of the Sence. The third and 
 fourth difcourle of Flowers in all the variety of Catullus 
 
 a z and 
 
and Horaces Numbers • for the laft of which Authors 
 he had a peculiar Reverence, and imitated him, not on- 
 ly in the ftately and numerous pace of his Odes and Epodes , 
 but in the familiar eafinels of his Epiftles and Speeches. 
 The two laft fpeak of Trees, in the way of Virgil's 
 Georgicks : «Of thefe the fixth Book is wholly Dedicated to 
 the Honor of his Country. For making the Dritifh Oak 
 to prefide in the Affembly of the Foreft Trees, upon that 
 occafion he enlarges on the Hiftory of our late Troubles, 
 the Kings Affliction and Return, and the beginning of 
 the Dutch Wars j and manages all in a Style, that (to fay 
 all in a word) is equal to the Valor and Greatnefs of the 
 Englifh Nation 
 
 This was as much as could be expeCted in a tranficnt 
 and general Account, and what has left but little room for 
 a more particular Ellay. As the nature ol the Subject 
 has lometimes furnifh’d our Author with great and beau- 
 tiful occafions of Wit and Poetry, fo it mull be confels’d, 
 that in the main he has but a barren Province to cultivate, 
 where the Soil was to be enrich'd by the Improvements 
 of Art and Fancy. He mull lo frequently defcend to 
 luch minute Defcriptions of Herbs and Flowers, which 
 adminifter lo feeble occasions for Thought, and unfur- 
 nifhed of Variety, that lince the enumerations are no 
 where tedious, but every thing made beautiful and enter- 
 taining, it muft be wholly alcnbed to the Faculty of the 
 Artift, with a Materiem Juperavit Opus . 
 
 This wonderful Performance put me on a confideration, 
 by what Artifices of Ingenuity he could poffibly effect it: 
 I was fenfible that the lmalleft Subjects were capable of 
 lome Ornament in the hands of a good Poet, 
 
 In tenui labor at tenuis non gloria , Jicpuem 
 Numina Leva Jinant auditque vocatus Apollo . 
 
 This was actually hinted by Virgil when he came to 
 his Defcription of Bees, to raile the credit of his own 
 Performance ; whereas thole Manners, Politicks, and 
 Battels with which he has adorn’d his Poem, were for 
 the moft part true in FaCl, and the reft lay obvious to 
 
 Invention 5 
 
Invention ; but our Author was oblig e! to animate his fi- 
 lent Tribe of Plants, to infpire them with Motion and 
 Difcourfe, in order to lighten his Defcriptions with Story : 
 But where he is confin’d to the delcriptive part it lelf, where 
 he is to regifter them (landing mute in their Beds, djvefted 
 of that imaginary Life which might beautifie the Work, 
 Hie labor , hoc opus , it is there it leems worth our while to 
 obfervethe lagacious Methods of his Fancy, in finding To- 
 picks for his Wit, and Inftances of amiable Variety. He 
 had the Judgment to perceive, that where the Subjects he 
 was to treat of in their own naked Nature, and (imply con- 
 fiderd, could afford but flender Matter; yet that many 
 things were greater in their Gireumftances than they are in 
 themfelves : Accordingly he has mod nicely fattened upon 
 each minute Circumftance of the places where his Plants 
 and Herbs delight to fpring, the Seafons of their Flowering, 
 Seeding, and Withering, their long or fliort Duration, 
 their noxious or healthful Qualities, their Figures and Co- 
 louring 5 all which he has managed with Inch dexterity of 
 Fancy and unexhaufted Conceit, that each Individual (as 
 he has drefs’d and fet them out ) appears with a different 
 Afpedt and peculiar Beauty : The very agreeablenels or 
 dilagreeablenefs of their Names to thole Difpofitions where- 
 with Nature has indued them, are frequently the furprizmg 
 and diverting occalion of his Wit. 
 
 Yet in alf this Liberty, you find him no where diverted 
 from his Point, Judgment/ that is to fay, a juft regard to 
 his Subject is every where conlpicuous, being never carried 
 too remote by the heat of his Imagination and quicknefs 
 of his Appreheniion. His Invention exerts its utmoft Fa- 
 culties, but lo conftantly over-rui d by the Dictates of 
 Senfe, that even thofe Conceits which are fo unexpe- 
 ctedly ftarted, and had lain undilcover d by a lefs pier- 
 cing Wit, are no fooner brought to light, but they 
 appear the refult of a genuine T bought, and naturally % 
 arifing from his Matter. Antiquity had been before-hand, 
 in furnifhing him with diverting Fables relating to feveral 
 Plants, which he never fuffers to elcape his hands, of 
 which he is not a cold and dull Reciter, but delivers tnem 
 
 with lo new a Grace, luch an ingenious connexion and ap- 
 plication 
 
 
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 plication to his Defign, that in every one, inftead of a 
 ftale Tradition, we have the pleafure of a Story firft told. 
 
 Having mention’d our Authors Defign in this Work, 
 wemuft.lpeak fomething of theOeconomy thereof, the 
 moll important part of a Poem, and from whence it 
 properly takes its Character ; for without that artificial 
 caft and drift, it can never be able to fupport it felf, the 
 boldeft Efforts of Wit and Fancy being otherwife but ex- 
 travagant Excurfions. This it is that has compleated the 
 Georgicks of Virgil, where each Book is concluded with a 
 furprifing and natural Turn. Nor does our Author here fall 
 fihort of him in Contrivance and artificial Periods. For hav- 
 ing in his Firft and Second of theie Books taken in the 
 Species of Herbs, the Firft is a promifcuous Account (not 
 without poetical Starts upon all Occafions.) The Second is 
 an Affembly of fuch chiefly as come under the Female Pro- 
 vince, and are ferviceable in Generation or Birth ; The 
 Scene which he has chofen for calling this Council is the Phy- 
 fick Garden at Oxford, which having adjufted Matters for the 
 benefit of the teemingSex, they are not at laft tumultuoufly 
 diffolved, but artificially broke up by the approach of 
 the Gardiner, whom our Author fancies to have entered 
 that Morning more early than ufual, to gather fuch Herbs 
 as he knew would be of affiftance to his Wife who was 
 fallen in Labour. The Third and Fourth Books treat 
 of Flowers ; in the Third he ranges thofe that appear in 
 the Spring, in the Fourth he mufters up the Tribes of 
 Summer and Autumn Flowers, which together with the 
 former, are affembled before Flora , to offer their refpe- 
 dive Claims for the Precedency ; the Goddefs at laft being 
 doubtful how to determin amongft fuch noble Competi- 
 tors, and to decline the Odium of a Decifion, flhe puts 
 them in mind of the Infolence of Tar quin, the dangerous 
 Confequences of a fingle and arbitrary Principality ,• that 
 fhe was a <I(pman Deity, and they themlelves were Flowers 
 of a (foman Breed ; fhe therefore advifes them to follow the 
 Model of the man Government, and refolve themfelves 
 into a Common-Wealth of Plants, where the Preferments 
 or Offices being annual and fucceflive, there would be 
 room left to gratifie their (everal Merits. Here we iee 
 
 the 
 
the utmoft force of Judgment and Invention in mod hap- 
 py Conjunction, what more beautiful Caft or Turn could 
 the Poet have given to the SubjeCt before him, or where 
 can we fee the Drama it lelf wind up with a more artifi- 
 cial dole. In his Fifth Book, the Competition is between 
 the Trees of the American World and ours. Pomona leated 
 in one of the fortunate Iflands between the two Worlds, the 
 Convention from each is alfembled before j the Author 
 finding the Preference to be in truth due to the Indian Plants, 
 yet unwilling to determin for the Savage Climate, prevents 
 the Decifion by a quarrel between Omelichilus the Indian 
 Bacchus , and the European: The Powers of both Countries 
 are thereupon drawn into Parties, and ready to engage. 
 When Apollo difarms the barbarous Deity by the Charms 
 of his Mufick, which is io beautiful and artificial a Turn, 
 that an ordinary Poet would have refted fitisfied with the 
 Difcovery. Our Author puriues his Advantage, andbe- 
 fides the Conqueft of his Harp, puts a Song into Apollo s 
 Mouth, and fattens upon the molt noble as well as agree- 
 able SubjeCt that the Nature could afford, of Columbus his 
 Difcovery of America. The drift of his laft Book, which 
 yet feems to top upon the reft, is deferibed to our Hands 
 in the forementioned Preface, where the impartial Reader 
 may judge if Virgil himfelf has better deligned for the 
 Glory of and Augufl , than Cowley for his Country 
 and the Monarch of his time. 
 
 As for the Tranflation we have here prefented, I fear I 
 (hall be thought too much a Party to Ipeak with any great 
 Freedom: I will only prefume to fay, that if the Reader 
 confiders the difficulty of the Task, he will not think the 
 Verfion altogether unworthy of the Original : He that 
 takes the pains to compare them, will at leaft find a juft- 
 nefs to the Authors Senfe, and I hope that the performance 
 of the reft that were engaged with me in the Attempt, will 
 not only fupport their Parts of the Undertaking, but make 
 amends for the DefeCts of mine. If in the main you meet 
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 To his Two firft Books of 
 
 Published before the reft. 
 
 C On f dering the incredible Feneration which the heft 
 Poets always had for Gardens , Fields , and Woods , info- 
 much that in all other Subjetls they fcemd to be bamfh- 
 ed from the Mufes Territories , 1 wondered what evil Pla- 
 net was fo malicious to the Breed of Plants , as to permit 
 none of the infpired Tribe to celebrate their Beauty and admirable 
 Virtues. Certainly a copious Field of Matter, and what would yield 
 them a plentiful return of Fruit ; where each particular, befedes 
 its pie aj ant Hiftory ( the extent whereof every body , or to fpeak more 
 truly , no body , can fufficiently under fland ) which contains the whole 
 Fabrick of humane Frame , and a compleat Body of Phyjick : From 
 whence I am induced to believe , that thofe great Men did not Jo 
 much think them improper Subjefls of Poetry, as difcouraged by 
 the greatnejs and almofl inexplicable Variety of the Matter, and 
 that they were unwilling to begin a Work which they defpaired of 
 finifhing. I therefore who am but a Pigmy in Learning , and fcarce 
 fuff dent to exprefs the Virtues of the vile SeaWeed, attempt that 
 Work which thoj'e Giants declaim'd : let wherefore fhould I not at- 
 tempt £ Foraf much as they difdained to take up with lefs than com- 
 prehending the whole , and I am proud of conquering fome part. 1 
 f hall think it Reputation enough for me to have my Name carved on 
 the Barks of fome Trees , or ( what is reckon'd a Royal Prerogative ) 
 infcrtbed upon a few Flowers. 1 ou mufl not therefore expefl to find 
 Jo many Herbs t colle fled for this Fardle, as Jometimes go to the 
 compounding of one fingle Medicine . Thefe Two little Books are there- 
 fore offer d as Jin all Pills made up of fun dry Herbs , and gilt with 
 a certain brigbtnefs of Stile ; in the choice whereof / have not much 
 
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labour (l, but took them as they came to Hand , there lein g none 
 amongjl them which contain d not plenty of Juice, if it were drawn 
 out according to Art , none fo infipid that would not afford Matter 
 for a whole Book , if well ext railed. 7 he Method which 1 judged 
 mcft genuine and proper for this Work, was not to prefs out their 
 Liquor crude in a fimple enumeration , but as it were in a Lymbeck , 
 by the gentle Heat of Poetry , to diftil and extratt their Spirits . 
 Nor have / chofen to put them together which had Affinity in Na- 
 ture, that might create a difguft for want of Variety 5 1 rather con * 
 netted thofe of the mofl different Qualities , that their contrary Co - 
 lours , being mixt * might the better ftt off each other. 
 
 I have added Jhort Notes, not for oflentation of Learning ( [where- 
 of there is no occafion here offered ; for what is more eafie than to 
 turn over one or two Herbalifts but becaufe that befide Phyficians 
 ( whom I pretend not to infirutt, but divert ) there are few 
 fo well vers d in the History of Plants , as to be acquainted with 
 the Names of them all. It is a part of Philofophy that lies out 
 of the common Road of Learning $ to Juch Per Jons I was to fupply 
 the place of a Lexicon . But for the fake of the very Plants them . 
 f elves, left the treating of them in a Poetical way might derogate 
 from their real Merit , and that jhculd feem not to attribute to them 
 thofe Faculties wherewith Nature has indued them , ( who ftudies 
 what is befl to be done, not what is mofl capable of verbal Orna- 
 ments ) but to have feigned thofe Qualities which would afford the 
 greateft Matter for Pomp and empty Pleafure. For , becaufe Poets 
 are fome times allowed to make Pillions , and fome have too excefi 
 fively abufed that Liberty, Trufl is fo wholly denied to us, that 
 we may not without hefitation be believed when we fay , 
 
 O Laertiada quicquid dicam, aut erit, aut non. 
 
 Hor. Serm. 2 
 
 1 was therefore willing to cite propcrWitneffes, that is, fuch as 
 writ in loofe and free Profe , which compared with Verfe, bears the 
 Authority of an Oath. 1 have yet contented my felf with Two of 
 thofe, ( which is the Number required by Law) Pliny and Fernelius 
 I have chiefly made choice of, the firft being an Author of unque - 
 ft ion d Latin, and the latter among ft the Moderns of the ttueft Sen - 
 timents , and no ill Mafter of Expreffton. If any except againft the 
 former, as too credulous of the Greekifb idle 7 ales, that he may not 
 fafely be credited, he will find nothing in this Subjett mention d by 
 him , which is not reprefented by all that write of Herbs . Nor 
 
 would l have the Reader, becaufe I have made my Plants to dif- 
 courfe , forthwith ( as if he were in Dodona’j Grove J to expett 
 Oracles, which , I fear, my Verfes will only refemble in this, that 
 they are as bad Metre as what the Gods of old delivered from their 
 • Temples to thofe who confulted them . 
 
 Having given you this Account, if any fhall light upon this 
 Book who have read my former , publijhed not long fince by me in 
 EngUjh, I fear they may take occafion from thence, of reprehending 
 
 fome 
 
Joms things, concerning which, it will not he impertinent briefly 
 to clear my fe If before l proceed. In the firjl place , 1 forefee that 
 I Jhall he accufed by fome of too much Delicacy and Levity , in that 
 having undertaken great Subjefls, and after a day or twos journey, 
 I have flopt through Lazynefs and Defpondency , of reaching home , 
 or poffejsd with fome new frenzy, have Parted into fome other Road, 
 infomuch , that not only the half {as they fay ) hut the third part 
 of the Task has been greater than my whole performance: Away 
 
 Of War and Turns of Fate l (mg. 
 
 Thou fing of Wars, thou Daflard \ who throwefl away thy Arms fo 
 foon, or betakefl thy Jelf to the Enemy s Camp , a Renegade , before 
 the fir ft Charge is founded ? or if at any time thou advent urejl to 
 engage, it is like the Ancient Gauls, making the Onfet with more 
 than the Courage of a Man, and prefently retreating with more than that 
 of the Coward : Whereas, he that has once applyed himfelf to a Poem , 
 as if he had married a Wife, fhould flick to it for better for worfe, 
 whether the Matter be grateful and eafie, or harfh and almofl in- 
 tractable, ought neither to quit it for tirefomnefs, nor be diverted 
 by new Loves, nor think of a Divorce, or at any time relinqu'tjh, 
 till he has brought it to a concluflon , as Wedlock terminates with 
 Life. This is imputed to me as a Fault ; and fince / cannot deny 
 the Charge , whether I am therein to be blamed or not , let us ex- 
 am in. 
 
 In the frfl place therefore, that which is mofl truly afferted of 
 Human Life , is too applicable to my Poetry ; that it is befl never to 
 have been horn , or being born, forthwith to die : And if my Ejfays 
 fhould be carried on to their Omega, (to which the Works of Homer 
 by a peculiar Felicity were continud vigorous ) there would be great 
 danger of their falling into Dotage before that time. The only 
 thing that can recommend Trifles, or make them tolerable is, that 
 they give off feafon ably, .that is fuddenly\ for that Author goes very 
 much too far, who leaves his Reader tired behind him. Tkefe Con- 
 federations, if I write ill, will excufe my brevity, though notfo eafily 
 excufe the ZJndertaking ; nor fhall my Inconflancy in not finifhing 
 what I have begun, be fo much blamed, as my Conflancy in ceaf- 
 ing not continually to begin , and being like Fortune, conflant in 
 Levity. But if Reader ( as it is my defer e ) we have furni fled you 
 with what is agreeable to your Appetite , you ought to take it in 
 good part, that we have ufed fetch moderation , as neither to fend 
 you away hungry, nor cloy your Stomach with too much fatiety : To 
 this you mufl add, that our Attempts, fuch as they are , may ex- 
 cite the Induftry of others who are enabled by a greater genius and 
 ftrength to undertake the very fame or more noble Subjells . As 
 Agefilaus of old, who thought he made no great progrefs into 
 Alia, yet being the firjl in that Adventure, he opened the way to 
 Alexander for a glorious and entire Conquefl . Laflly ( to confefs 
 
 b z to 
 
to thee as a triend , for Jucb l will prefume thee ) 1 thus employ- 
 ed my felf, not fo much out of Counfel as the Fury of my Mind ; 
 for 1 am not ahle to do nothings and had no other diver (ion of my 
 Troubles ; therefore through a wearifomnejs of humane Affairs to 
 thefe more pleafmg Solaces of Literature ( made agreeable to me 
 by Cuftom and Nature ) my Jick Mind betakes it felf ; and not long 
 after from an irkjomnejs of the felf fame things , it changes its courfe 
 and turns off to Jome other 7 heme. But they prefs more danger ouf 
 ly upon, and as it were flab me with my own Weapon, who bring 
 thofe things to my mind, which 1 have declaimed Jo vehemently 
 againft^ the ufe of exolete and interpolated repetitions of old Fables 
 in Poetry , when Truth it felf in the J acred Books of God and 
 awful Regifters of the Church has laid open a new more rich and 
 ample World of Poetry, for the Wits of Men to be exercijed upon . 
 
 When thou thy felf ( fay they ) haft thus declared with the ap- 
 probation of all good Men , and given an Example in thy David eis 
 for others to imitate ; dojt thou , like an Apoflate Jew loathing 
 Manna, return to the Leeks and Garl/ck of Egypt ? After the ap- 
 pearance of C hr /ft himfelf in thy Verje, and impofing filence on the 
 Oracles of Demons, fhall we again hear the voice of Apollo from 
 thy profane Tripod > After the - Rejiauration of Sion, and the 
 Purgation of it from Monflers , fhall it be again poffeffed by 
 the drery Ghofts of aniiquated Deities. And what the Prophet 
 threatned as the extremity of Evils ; Jour Mufe is in this no 
 lefs an Objett of Shame and Pity , than if Magdalen fhould 
 backflide again to the Brothel . Behold how the juft Pumfhment does 
 not ( as in other Offenders ) follow your Crime, but even accompa- 
 nies it: The very lownefs of your Subjetl has retrenched your Wings. 
 Tou are fa fined to the ground with your Herbs , and cannot foar as 
 formerly to the Clouds ; nor can we more admire at your halting 
 than at your fabulous Vulcan, when he had fallen from the Skies . 
 
 A heavy Charge indeed, and terrible at the firft fight $ but 1 efteem 
 that which celebrates the wonderful Works of Providence, not to 
 be far diftant from a facred Poem. Nothing can be found more 
 admirable in Nature than the Virtues of fever al Plants', therefore 
 amongfl other things of a more noble drain, the Divine Poet upon 
 that account praifes the Deity, Who brings forth grafs upon 
 the mountains, and herbs for the ufe of man. Pjal, cxli. 8 . 
 Nor do 1 think the Liberty immodeft , where I introduce Plants 
 f peaking, to whom the Sacred Writ it felf does [peak, as to inteP 
 ligent Beings: Blefs the Lord, all ye green things upon the 
 earth, praile and exalt him for ever. Dan. iii. 53 . Apocr. Thofe 
 Fiftions are not to be accounted for Lies, which cannot be believed \ 
 nor defire to be fo. But that the Names of Heathen Deities 
 and fabulous Transformations are fometimes intermixt , the Matter 
 it felf compelled me againft my Will , being no other way capable of 
 embellifhment , and it is well if by that means they are fo. No 
 painted Garb is to be preferred to the native Drefs and living 
 Colours of Truth ; yet in /orne Perfons, and on fome Occafwns it is 
 more agreeable. There was a time when it did not misbecome a 
 
King to dance y yet it had certainly leen indecent for him to have 
 danced in his Coronation Rohes. 7ou are not therefore to expeft in a 
 Work of this nature the Majefly of an Her cick Style ( which I never 
 found any Plant to fpeak in) for , 1 prcpofe not here to fly, hut on- 
 ly to make fome Walks in my Gar den , partly for Health's fake , and 
 partly for Recreation . 
 
 There remains a third Difficulty which will not perhaps f$ eafily 
 he Jolved. I had fome time fince been refolved in my felf to write 
 no more V erfes , and made thereof fuch pub lick and folemn protefiation y 
 as almoft amounts to an Oath : 
 
 .'jorL ‘ 
 
 Si quidem hercle poflim nil prius, neque fortius. 
 
 f Eunuch. Seen. I. 
 
 When behold I have fet in anew . Concerning which matter , be- 
 caufe / remember my felf to have formerly given an account in 
 Metre : I am willing ( and Martial affirms it to be a Poets Right ) 
 to clofe my Epiflle therewith ; they were written to a learned and 
 moji ingenious Friend who laboured under the very fame Dijlemper 9 
 though not with the fame dangerous Symptoms . 
 
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 Si 
 
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 d ofu : : : n Wi. * ■ - -• i p . * 
 
 More Poetry? You’ll cry, doll thou return. 
 
 Fond Man, to the Difeafe thou haft forfworn, 
 
 ’T’as reach'd thy Marrow, feiz’d thy inmoft Senfe, 
 And Force nor Realon cannot draw it thence : 
 
 Think’ll thou that Heaven thy Liberty aljows. 
 
 And laughs at Poets; as at Lavers Vows; < 
 Forbear my Friend to wound with lharp Oifcourfe 
 A wretched Man that feels too much Remorfe* 
 
 Fate drags me on againft my Will,, in vain 
 I ftruggle, fret, , and try to break my Chain. 
 
 Thrice I took Hellebore, and muft confefs. 
 
 Hop’d I was fairly quit of my Difeafe. 
 
 But the Moons Power to which ail Herbs muft yield, 
 Bids me be mad again, and gains the Field* 
 
 At her Command for Pen and Ink I call. 
 
 And in one Morn three hundred Rhymes let fall ; 
 Which in the Tranfport of my Frentick Fit, 
 
 I throw like Stones" at the next Man I meet: 
 
 E’en thee my Friend, Jpp/Jo-\ikc t I wound, 
 
 The Arrows fly, the String and {fow refound. 
 
 What Methods canft thou ftudy to reclaim, 
 
 Whom, nor his own nor publick Griefs can tame* 
 
 Who in all Seafons keep my chirping Strein, 
 
 A GraTTiopper that flngs in Froft and Rain. 
 
 Like her whom Boys and Youths and Elders knew, 
 
 I fee the Path my Judgment fltoud purfue. 
 
 But what can naked I, ’gainft armed Nature do? 
 
 I’m no Tydides who a Power divine 
 Could overcome ; I muft, I muft refign. 
 
 W\\ W 
 
 E’«n 
 
E’en thou, my Friend, ( unlefs I much miftake) 
 Whole thundring Sermons make the Pulpit lhake. 
 Unfold the Secrets of the World’ to come, 
 
 And bid the trembling Earth expert its doom ; 
 
 As if Elias were come down in Fire, 
 
 Yet thou at night doll to thy Glafs retire, 
 
 Like one of us, and ( after moderate Ufe 
 Of th’ Indian Fume and European Juice,) 
 
 Sett’ft into Rhyme and doft thy Mufe carcfs. 
 
 In learn’d Conceits, and harmlefs wantonnefs. 
 
 ’Tis therefore juft thou Ihouldft excufe thy Friend, 
 Who’s none of thofe that trifle without end : 
 
 I can be ferious too when Bufinefs calls, 
 
 My Frenzy ftill has lucid Intervals. 
 
 The Author’s EPITAPH upon himfelf, 
 yet alive, but withdrawn from the bufie 
 World to a Country-Life ; to be fup- 
 pofed written on his Houfe. 
 
 H Ere Pajfenger , beneath this Shed 
 
 Lies Cowley, though entomb' d, not dead\ 
 
 Tet freed from human Toil and Strife , 
 
 And all th' Impertinence of Life 3 
 Who in his Poverty is neat , 
 
 And even in Retirement , Great. 
 
 With Gold , the Peoples Jdol y he 
 Holds endlefs War and Enmity. 
 
 Gan you not fay he has refignd 
 
 His breath , to this fmall Cell confin'd £ 
 
 With this fmall Manfion let him have 
 The Reft and Silence of the Grave : 
 
 Strew Rofes here as on his Hearfe, 
 
 And reckon this his funeral Verfe : 
 
 With Wreaths of fragrant Herbs adorn 
 The yet furviving Poet's Vrn. 
 
 THE 
 
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 I ‘ • 
 
 The EP ITAPH in the Frontifpieee of 
 this Book tranfcrib’d from the Author’s 
 
 Tomb in W ESTM1NSTE R-A BBY, 
 
 attempted in Englifh. 
 
 Here under lies 
 
 ABRAHAM COWLEY,- 
 
 '■» I \ 1 r-\ r%/\ >-l 
 
 The Titidaly Horace, and the Virgil 
 
 Of the Englilh Nation, ,-j _ uk ^- ^ 
 
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 Hile through the World thy Labors Jfjtke 
 
 • • 
 
 Bright as thy felf, thou Bard divine ; 
 Thou in thy Fame writ live, add be 
 A fartner with Eternity . 
 
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 Here infoft Peace fir ever reft\ 
 
 ( Soft as the Love that fill'd thy Breafi:) 
 Let hoary Faith around thy Vrn , 
 
 And all the watchful Mufes mourn. 
 
 For ever f acred be this Room, 
 
 May no rude Hand difturb thy Tomb ; 
 
 Or facrilegious Rage and Luft 
 Affront thy venerable Du(l. 
 
 Sweet CowLEYi Dufi let none profane 3, 
 Here may it undifturb'd remain: 
 
 Eternity not take , but give , 
 
 And make this Stone for ever live , 
 
 
 2 * / 
 
 THE 
 
 
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 av. . j 
 
 The Tranilation of Mr. Cowley’s Six 
 Books of PLANTS. 
 
 / • O ' V N. 
 
 IBook 
 
 I. and II. Of Herbs, by J. O. 
 
 fag. 1. 33. 
 
 III. Of Flowers, by C. Cleve. 
 
 60. 
 
 IV. Of Flowers, by N. Tate. 
 
 83. 
 
 V. Of Trees, by N. Tate. 
 
 ‘ IOJ „ 
 
 VI. Of Trees, by Mrs. A. Behn. 
 
 ’ T - "' ~ 
 
 ‘ 3 1 * 
 
 ERRATA 
 
 In the Fourth and Fifth Books. 
 
 Book IV. 
 
 P Age 8 3. line 11. read Honing, p. 8j. I. 10. r. Fennel-flower, p. 87. 1 . 2. r. grwtife. p, 97.L lo.r. followed, 
 ibid. L 2j.r. harm. 
 
 B o O K V. _ 
 
 IMge 106. line i2.read walks, p. 107.I. 14. r .furely. p. 109.I. 22. r. head. p. 114. I. 3. r.geod. ibid. L 4. 
 f.»W. p. 1 16.I. jo. r. may. p. X22. 1 . 24. r. apples, ibid. 1 . 48. r. other’s, p. 1 23. 1 . 4. r. we. p. 124.L 39. 
 r.wfo/r. p. 125.1.* r. wherewith, p. 126. 1.24. r. The gods. p. 127.!. x 7 .r, Lutlaught. ibid. 1 . 44. t.Thy skill. 
 
BOOK I. 
 
 
 
 L Ifes lowed, but far greateft Sphere, I fing. 
 
 Of ail things, that adorn the gawdy Spring : 
 Such as in Defcrts live, whom, unconfin’d. 
 None but the fimple Laws of Nature bind ; 
 And thofe, who growing tame by human care. 
 The well-bred Citizens of Gardens are*. 
 
 Thofe that afpire to Sol , their Sires bright Face, 
 
 Or (loop into their Mother Earths embrace : 
 
 Such, as drink Streams, or Wells, or thofe, dry fed, • 
 
 Who have J ove only for their Ganymedei 
 And all, that Solomons loft Work of old, 
 
 ( Ah fatal Lofs ! ) fo wifely did unfold. 
 
 Though I the Oaks vivacious Age fhou’d live, 
 
 I ne’r to all their Names in Verfe could give. 
 
 Yet I the Rife of Groves will briefly fhow 
 In Verfes, like their Trees, rang’d all a-row. 
 
 To which fome one perhaps new Shades may joyn, 
 
 Till mine, at laft, become a Grove Divine. 
 
 Aflift me, Thcelus ! Wit of Heav’n, whofe care 
 So bounteoufly both Plants and Poets lhare. 
 
 Where e’er thou com’ft, hurl Light and Heat around. 
 And with new Life enamel all the Ground ; 
 
 As when the Spring feels thee, with Magick Light, 
 
 Break through the Bonds of the dead Winters Night : 
 When thee to * Colchis the gilt Ram conveys. 
 
 And the warm’d North rejoyces in thy Rays. 
 
 Where lhall I firft begin ? For, with delight 
 Each gentle Plant me kindly does invite. 
 
 My felf to flavilh Method I’ll not tye. 
 
 But, like the Bee, where-e er I pleaie, will flie; 
 
 Where I the glorious hopes of Honey fee, 
 
 Or the free Wing of Fancy carries me. 
 
 A a a 
 
 * When the 
 Sun enters A - 
 riis, I. e. In 
 March. Colchis 
 is a Northern 
 Region near 
 the Black Sea, 
 whence the 
 Ram with the 
 GoldenFleece 
 was faid to 
 have been 
 traoflated Into 
 n a Conftel- 
 Hcrc lation. 
 
X Of T L A S.' Book I. 
 
 Here no fine Garden Emblems lhaii refide, 
 
 Jn well-made Beds to profliture their Pride : 
 
 But we rich Nature, who her Gifts bellows, 
 
 Unlimited ( nor the vafl Treafure knows ) 
 
 And various plenty of the pathlefs Woods 
 Will follow; Poor Men only count their Goods, 
 
 Do thou, bright Fhtcbui ! guide me luckily 
 To the firfl Plant by fome kind Augury. 
 
 The Omen’s good ; fo, we may hope the heft. 
 
 The Gods mild Looks our grand Defign have bleft. 
 
 For thou kind Befny ! art the firfl we fee. 
 
 And opportunely corn’ll, dear Plant! for me; 
 
 Forme, becaufethe Brain thou doll proteft, 
 
 See, if y’are wife, my Brain you don’t. negleCk 
 For it concerns you, that in Health that be, 
 
 I ling thy Sillers, Betony ! and thee. 
 
 But who, belt Plant ! can praife thee to thy merit. 
 
 Or number the Perfections you inherit > 
 
 The Trees, he, in th’ Hcrcynian Woods as well, 
 t Antoninus Mu* Or Rofes, that in Faftum grow, may tell, 
 fophyfician to f Mufa at large, they Fay, thy Praifes writ, 
 
 Augufius. J 3 ut:> j f U pp a f Cj Hid part of them omit. 
 
 Cafar his Triumphs wou’d recount ; do thou. 
 
 Greater than he aConqucrefs! do fo now. 
 
 • * ' . - -• < - V ‘ i ! < ( >1 rtf rt , 
 
 * i - .1 \ v 
 
 B E T 0 N L 
 
 » 
 
 T O know my Virtues briefly, you in vain 
 
 Defire, all which this whole Book can’t contain. 
 
 O’er all the World of Man great I prefide, 
 
 Where e’er red Streams through milky Medovvs glide; 
 
 O’er all you fee throughout the Body fpread, 
 
 Betony is hot Between thedillant Poles of Heel and Head, 
 and dry in the Butin the * Head my chief Dominions are, 
 
 wSteorVine* ^ ie comcnics her Palace to my Care, 
 gar impugna- 1 all the Corners purge, refrelh, fecure, 
 ted with it, is Nor let it be, for want of Light, obfeure. 
 
 r That Soul, that came from Heav’n, which Stars adorn. 
 
 Some 
 
 and Sighr.The 
 Smell of it a - 
 lone refreshes 
 the Brain. Tis 
 an Italian Pro- 
 verb. He bns m 
 many Virtues as 
 Betony.\. e. in- 
 numerable. 
 
 Her God’s great Daughter, by Creation born, 
 Alas ! to what a frail Apartment now, 
 
 And ruinated Cottage does fhe bow ! 
 
 Her very Manfion to Infedion turns, 
 
 And in the Place, wherein fh® lives, flic burns. 
 When Falling-Sicknefs thunder llrikes the Brain, 
 Oft Men, likeVi&ims, fail, as Thunder fiain. 
 Oft does the Head with a fwift Whimfie reel, 
 
 And the Soul’s turn’d, as on Ixion % Wheel. 
 
 Oft pains i’th’ Head an Anvil feem to beat, 
 
 And likea Forge, the Brain-pan burns with hear. 
 
 ! 
 
 / 
 
Book I. 
 
 Of <P L A t S. 
 
 Some parts the Palfie oft of Senfe deprives 
 And Motion, (flrange effe£l! ) one fide furvivcs 
 The other. This Mezentius fury quite 
 Outdoes ; in this Difeafe dead Limbs unite 
 With live ones. Some with Lethargy opprefl 
 Under Deaths weight feem fatally to reft. 
 
 Ah! Life, thou art Deaths Image, but that Thee 
 In nought refcmbles, favsthy Brevity. 
 
 * Vain Phantoms oft the Mind diftra&ed keep, 
 
 And roving thoughts pofTefs the place of Sleep, 
 f Oft when the Nerves for want of Juice grow dry 
 ( That Heavenly Juice, unknown to th* outward Eye ) 
 Each feeble Limb as ’twere grows Ioofe, and quakes. 
 Yea, the whole Fabrick of the Body fhakes» 
 
 Thefe, and all Evils which the Brain infeft 
 f For numerous, fawey Griefs that part moleft ) 
 
 M zFhcehus bad, by conflant War reflrain ; 
 
 Saying, my Kingdom (Child!) fee, you maintain. 
 
 And llraight he gave me Arms well forg’d from Heav’n, 
 Like thofe t 'JEneas or Achilles giv’n. 
 
 One wondrous Leaf he wifely did create • 
 
 ’Gainft all the Darts of Sicknefs and of Fate, 
 
 And into that a Sovereign myftick Juice, 
 
 W ith fubtile heat from Heav’n he did infufe. 
 
 Tis not in vain, bright Sire ! that you beflow 
 Such Arms on me, nor fhall they rufty grow. 
 
 No ; from that Crime not the juft Head alone 
 Acquits me, but th’ inferior Limbs will own. 
 
 I’m guiltlefs. || When the Lungs with Phlegm opprefl 
 Want Air, to fan the Heart, and cool the Brcft, 
 
 Afainty Cough drives to expel the Foe, 
 
 But feeksthe help of powerful Medicines too. 
 
 It comes to me, I my afliftance lend. 
 
 Open th’ obftru&ed Pores, and gently fend 
 Refrefhmentto the Heart. Cool Gales abate 
 Th’internal Heat, and it grows temperate. 
 
 The Quactan Ague its dry Holes forfakes, 
 
 As Adders do $ Dropfies like Water Snakes, 
 
 With liquid Aliment no longer fed. 
 
 By me are forc’d to fly their wat’ry Bed. 
 
 I lofsof Appetite repair, and heat 
 
 The Stomach, toconcoft the Food men eat. 
 
 Torturing Gripes I in the Guts allay, 
 
 And fend cut murmuring Blafts the backward way. 
 
 I wafh the Saffron Jaundice of the Skin, 
 
 And eafe the Kidneys of dire Stones within. 
 
 Thick Blood that (lands in Womens veins I foon 
 Force to flow down, more powerful than the Moon. 
 
 But then tlf unnatural Floods of Whites arife ; 
 
 Ah me! that common Filth will not fuffice. 
 
 A a a 2 
 
 3 
 
 FerntL 
 
 Vi r g. 
 
 • > 
 
 * Betony is'- 
 drunk as a 
 Remedy a- 
 gainft Mad- 
 nefs, Tlin. 1. 
 
 *6. ii. 
 
 f This is ac- 
 cording to Dr. 
 Glijfon's Opi- 
 nion, which 
 fee in L. dt 
 Anatomia 
 pitis. A nd 
 Plin. uifopr*. 
 
 j| Concerning 
 thefe Difeafcs 
 help’d by Be- 
 tony, fee Pli- 
 ny and Ftrnt- 
 lius . 
 
 j 
 
 I like- 
 
4 - 
 
 Of T L A NjT S. Book L 
 
 FtrntL 
 
 See pun. l »6. | likewife flop the Current, when the Blood 
 
 Through fome new Channel feeks a purple Flood. 
 I all the Tumults of the Womb appeafe. 
 
 And to the Head, which that difturbs, give Eafe. 
 Womens Conceptions I corroborate,' 
 
 And let no Births their time anticipate. 
 
 But in the facred time of Labor I 
 ^ . The careful Midwifes Hands with help fupply. 
 
 where 5 made * The lazy Gout my Virtue fwiftly fhuns, 
 ufeef againft Whilftfrom the Joynts with nimble heels it runs, 
 sciatica.' aDd AH Poyfons I expel, that men annoy, 
 t Betony is f And baneful Serpents by my Power deflroy. 
 faidtohayc fo My p 0 i ntec j odor through its marrow flies, 
 
 againft ser- And of a lecret Wound the Adder dies» 
 pent*, that if So Ph rebus y I fuppofe, the Python flew, 
 
 ctofedTnsici* And with m y Juice his Arrows did imbrew. 
 cie made ^ From every Limb all kinds of Ach and Pain 
 
 laih^thett? 11 ^ banilh, never to return again. 
 
 fdves to The wearied Clown I with new vigor blefs, 
 
 death, piin.i. And Pains as pleafant make as Idlenefs. 
 
 Nor do I only Lifes Fatigue relieve, 
 
 But ’tis adorn’d with what I freely give. 
 
 I make the colour of the Blood more bright, 
 
 |( it has a par- 1| And cloath the Skin with a more graceful White, 
 to amend? the Spain in her happy Woods firft gave me Birth, 
 
 dead colour Then kindly banilh’d me o’er all the Earth; 
 
 and^o render Nor gain’d lhe greater Honor when fhe bore 
 it vivid and Trajan to rule the World, and to reftore 
 
 a^ii Id ‘ L R° mes J°y s * ’Tis true > l ie juftly might compare 
 With my Deferts ; his Virtues equal were. 
 
 But a good Prince is the ihort Grant of Fate, 
 
 The World’s foon robb’d of fuch a vaft Eftate. 
 
 But of my Bounty Men for ever tafle, 
 
 And what he once was I am liketolaft. 
 
 MA IDEN-HAIGt, or VEKUS^HA1% 
 
 Plants! 11 *' 3, f Bein g the chief of all the f Hairy State, 
 
 X Me they have chofen for their Advocate, 
 
 To fpeak on their behalf: Now We, you know. 
 
 Among the other Plants make no fmall fliow. 
 y From the And * Fern too, far and near which does prefide 
 
 thcirlcavcs, O’er Fields, is to our kind ally’d. 
 
 t Alluding to Some f Hairy Comets alfo hence derive, 
 the Name. And Marriages of Stars with Plants contrive. 
 
 But we fuch Kindred do not care to own, 
 
 Rather than rude Relations we’ll have none. 
 
 My Hair of Parentage far better came, 
 
 not for nought, it has Loves gentle Name. 
 
 Beauty 
 
Book I. 
 
 5 
 
 Of T L A JfT S. 
 
 || Beauty her felf my Debtor is, lhe knows, 
 
 And of my Threads Love does his Netscompofe. 
 
 Their Thanks to me the beauteous Women pay 
 For wanton Curls, and fhady Locks, that play 
 Upon their Shoulders. Friend ! whoe’er thou art, 
 
 (If thou’rt in Love ) to me perform thy part. 
 
 Keep thy Hair florid, and let dangling toils 
 Around thy Head, make Ladies Hearts thy fpoils. 
 
 For when your Head is bald, or Hair grows thin, 
 
 In vain you boaft of Treafures lodg’d within. 
 
 The Women won’t believe you, nor will prize 
 Such Wealth 5 all Lovers ought to pleafe the Eyes. 
 
 So I to Venus my affiftance lend 
 ( I’m pleas’d to be my Heavenly f Name-fakes Friend ) 
 Though I am modeft, and content to go 
 Infimple Weeds, that make no gawdy iliow; 
 
 * Fori am cloth’d, as when I firft was born. 
 
 No painted Flow’rs my rural Head adorn. 
 
 But above all, I’m fober ; I ne’er drink 
 
 Sweet Streams, nor docs my Third make Rivers fink. 
 
 When Jove to Plants begins an Health in iliow’rs. 
 
 And from the Sky large Bowls of Water pours. 
 
 You fee the Herbs quaff all the Liquor up. 
 
 When they ought only modeftly tofup : 
 
 You’d think the German Drunkards near the Rhine, 
 Were keeping Holy-day with them in Wine. 
 
 Mean while I blulh $ ihake from my trembling Leaves 
 The Drops ; and Jove my Thanks in drought receives. 
 But I no Topers envy ; for my meen 
 Is always gay, and my complexion green. 
 
 Winter it felf does not exhauft the Juice, 
 
 That makes me look fo verdant and fo fpruce. 
 
 Yet the Phyficians deep me cruelly 
 In hateful Water, which I drink and die. 
 
 j| The Name 
 it bears, be- 
 caufe it tir.ges 
 the Hair, and 
 is to this pur- 
 pofe boil’d 
 in Wine with 
 Parfley-fced, 
 and plenty of 
 Oil, which 
 renders the 
 Hair thick and 
 curling, and 
 keeps it from 
 falling. Plin. 
 /. 2 2. 2,1 . 
 
 t Being called 
 in Latin Ca- 
 pillus Veneris. 
 
 * Tis always 
 green, but ne- 
 ver flowers. 
 
 It delights Id 
 dry places, 
 and is green 
 in Summer, 
 but withers 
 not in Win- 
 ter. Plin. 
 
 f It forces U- 
 rine. Is good 
 againft the 
 Dropfie, 
 Strangury, &e: 
 Plin. 
 
 f Bur Iev’ndead, on Humors operate. 
 
 Such force my Allies have beyond my Fate. 
 
 I through the Liver, Spleen, and Reins the Foe 
 Purfue, whilft they with fpced before me flow. 
 
 Ten thoufand Maladies down with ’em they 
 Like Monfters fell, in bracky Waves convey. 
 
 For this I might deferve, above the Air, 
 
 An higher place chan || Berenices Hair ; 
 
 But if into the Sea the Stars turn round. 
 
 Rather than Heav’n it felf, I’d chufe dry ground. 
 
 ving vowed, if 
 
 her Husband had fuccefs in his A fan Expedition, that flic would cut off and dedicate her Hair; at his 
 Return fhe did fo ; and on the morrow, it not being found in the Temple of Venus, where it was laid, 
 Ptolomj was highly enraged, till one conon , a Mathematician, made it out to him, that it was transferred 
 to Heaven, and there made a Conftdlation of feven Stars near the Lion's Tail which ftili bears this 
 Name. 
 
 (j The Wife of 
 Ptolomy Em - 
 getes, who ha- 
 
 SAG E. 
 
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 6 Of T L A 2 f c rs. Book L 
 
 SAGE. 
 
 The Virtues 
 of Sagt are 
 highly cele- 
 brated by all 
 Authors par- 
 ticularly the 
 Writers of 
 Schola. Salerni- 
 tana , who may 
 
 S Age ! who by many Virtues gain’d renown, 
 Sage ! whole Deferts all happy Mortals own. 
 Since thou, dear Sage! preferv’fl the Memory, 
 
 I cannot fure forgetful prove of Thee. 
 
 Thee, who || Mnemofyne doff recreate 
 Her Daughter Mufcs ought to celebrate, 
 
 Nor {halt thou e’er complain, that they’re ingrate. 
 
 |j The Memo- 
 ry. 
 
 be confulted. 
 
 It is hot in the firft, and dry in the fecond degree *, it is eafily aftringenr, and flays Bleedings. It 
 flrengthens the Stomach and Brain ; and rowzes a dull Appetite } but its peculiar Faculty is to corrobo- 
 rate the Nerves, and to oppofe all Difeafes incident unto them. Hence it hath the higheft reputation 
 among Medicaments for the Memory. 
 
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 4 
 
 
 
 High on a Mount the Souls firm Manfion {lands, 
 And with a view the Limbs below commands. 
 
 Sure fame great Architect this Pile defign’d, 
 
 Where all the World is to a Span confin’d. 
 
 A mighty throng of Spirits here refide. 
 
 Which to the Soul are very near alli’d. 
 
 Here the gr and Council’s held 5 hence to and fro 
 The Spirits fcoutto fee what News below. 
 
 Bufie as Bees, through every part they run, 
 
 Thick as the Rays ftream from the glitt’ring Sun. 
 Their fubtle Limbs Silk, thin as Air, arrays. 
 
 And therefore nought their rapid Journey (lays. 
 But with much toil they weary grow, at length 
 Perpetual Labor tires the greateft Strength. 
 
 Oft too, as they in pains befiow their hours, 
 
 The airy vagrants hoflile Heat devours. 
 
 Oft in Venereal Raptures they expire, 
 
 Or burnt by Wine, and drown’d in liquid Fire. 
 Then Leaden Sleep does on the Senfes feize, 
 
 And with dull drovvzinefs the Vitals freeze. 
 
 Cold Floods of dire Diflempcrs fwiftly rowl, 
 
 For want of Damsand Fences, o’er the Soul. 
 
 Then are the Nerves difiolv’d, each member quakes. 
 And the whole ruinated Fabrick fliakes. 
 
 You’d think the Hands fear’d Poyfon in the Cup, 
 They tremble fo, and cannot lift it up. 
 
 Hence, Sage! ’tismanifefl what thou canfl do, 
 
 And glorious dangers beg relief from you. 
 
 The Foe, by cold, and humors fo inclos’d. 
 
 From his chill Throne by thy flrong heat’s depos’d. 
 And to the Spirits thou bringfl frefh Recruits, 
 
 When they are wearied in fuch long Difputes. 
 
 To Life, whofe Body was almoft its Urn, 
 
 New Life, (if I may fay it) does return. 
 
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7 
 
 Book!. Of T L A JfT S. 
 
 The members by their Nerves are fleady ty’d, 
 
 A Pilot, not the Waves, the Veil'd guide. 
 
 You all things fix: Who this for truth wou’d take, 
 That thy weak Fibres fuch flrong Bonds ihou’d make > 
 Loofe Teeth thou Men’ll 5 which, at thy command, 
 Well riveted in their firm Sockets (land. 
 
 May that fair, ufeful Bulwark ne’er decay, 
 
 Nor the Mouth’s Ivory Fences e’er give way! 
 
 * Conceptions, Women by thy help retain, 
 
 Nor does th’ injc&ed Seed flow back again. 
 
 Ah ! Death, don't Life it felf anticipate, 
 
 Let a Man live, before he meets his Fate. 
 
 Thou’rt too fevere, if, in rhe very Dock, 
 
 Gur Ship, before ’tis built, flrikes on a Rock. 
 
 Of thy Perfe&ions this is but a taft. 
 
 You bring to view things abfent, and what’s pad 
 Recall fuchtradrs Teh’ mind of things you make, 
 None can the well form’d Char afters miftake. 
 
 And left the Colours there fliou’d fade away, 
 
 Your Oil embalms, and keeps ’em from decay. 
 
 * Agrippa calls 
 itth choljHerb, 
 and fays the 
 LionefTes eat 
 it when they 
 are big, See 
 Hturnius con- 
 cerning its 
 Virtues this 
 way. 
 
 A UM. ' 
 
 H Ence, Cares ! my conftant, troublefome Company, 
 Be gone! * Meliffas come and fmiles on me. 
 Smiling file comes, and courteoufly my Head 
 With Chaplets binds from every fragrant Bed: 
 
 Bidding me fing of her, and for my Arams, 
 
 Her felf will be the Guerdon of my pains. 
 
 My Heat, methinks, is much more lightfome grown, 
 And I thy influence, kind Plant! muft own: 
 
 Juftly thy Leaves may reprefent the Heart, 
 
 For that, among its Wealth, counts thee a part. 
 
 As of Rings Heads Guinies th’ impreflion bear, 
 
 That Princely part you in Eifigic wear. 
 
 All Storms and Clouds you banilh from the mind, 
 
 But leave Serenity and Peace behind. 
 
 Bacchus himfelf no more revives our Blood, 
 
 When he infufes his hot, purple flood : 
 
 When in full Bowls he all our forrow drowns, 
 
 And flattering hopes with fhort- liv’d riches crowns. 
 But thole Enjoyments fome difturbance bring, 
 
 And fuch delights flow from a muddy Spring. 
 
 For Bacchus does not kill, but wound the Foe, 
 
 Whofe rage and ftrength increafes by the Blow. 
 
 But without force or dregs thy pleafures flow, 
 
 Thy Joys no after-claps of Torments know. 
 ThyHony, gentle Bawm! no pointed Stings, 
 
 Like ! f Bees, thy great admirers, with it brings. 
 
 * Baum is hoc 
 and dry in the 
 firft degree ; 
 it is excellent 
 againft Melan- 
 choly, and the 
 Evils arifmg 
 therefrom. Ic 
 eaufes chear- 
 fulnefs,a good 
 digeftion and 
 a florid colour. 
 The leaves are 
 faid, by thofe 
 who mind 
 Signatures, to 
 refemblc a . 
 Heart. 
 
 Oh ! 
 
 t It is very 
 much loved by 
 the Bees, and 
 is a prelcnc 
 Remedy a- 
 gainft the 
 Stings of them 
 and Wafps , 
 &c. Flirt* 
 
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 Of 9 L A WJT S. Boo k 
 
 Oh ! Heavenly Gift to fickiy human kind. 
 
 All Goddefs, if from care thou freed the mind. 
 
 All Plagues annoy, but Cares the whole Man feife: 
 Whene’er we labor under this Difeafe. 
 
 Thefe, though in profprous affluence we live. 
 
 To all our Joys a bitter Tindure give. 
 
 Frail humane Nature its own Poyfon breeds. 
 
 And Life it fell thy healing Virtue needs. 
 
 SCU ( \V1-G^AS S' 
 
 A Malady there is, that runs through all 
 
 The Northern World, which they the Scurvy call, 
 proper Greek Thrice happy Greece , that (corns the barbarous Word, 
 word for the Nor in its Tongue a neater does afford. 
 scurvy. Deftrudive Monflcr ! God ne’er laid a Curfe, 
 
 On Man like this, nor could he fend a worfe. 
 
 A Thoufand horrid Shapes the Monfler wears, 
 
 Defcriptioo of And in as many hands fierce Arms it bears, 
 the Scurvy. This Water-Serpent, in the Belly's bred, 
 
 By muddy Fens, and fulph’rous Moidures fed. 
 
 Him either Sloth or too much Labour breeds, 
 
 He both from Eafe and Pain it felf proceeds. 
 
 Oft from a dying Fever lie receives 
 His Birth, and in the Allies of it lives. 
 
 Of him jud born you eafily may difpofe. 
 
 Then lie’s a Dwarf, but foon a Giant grows. 
 
 That a fmall Egg (liould breed a Crocodile, 
 
 Of (uch vad bulk and drength, the wondering Nile 
 Thinks he as much amazed ought to Band, 
 
 As men, when he o’rflows the drowned Land. 
 
 With nady Humors and dry Salts he’s fed, 
 
 By dinking Wind and Vapours nourilhed. 
 
 Even in his Cradle he unlucky grows 
 (Though he be Son of (loth, no doth this (hows) 
 
 His Toils no fooner Hercules began; 
 
 Monders now ape that Monder murdering Man. 
 
 E’re lie’s well born the Limbs he does opprefs. 
 
 And they are tired with very Idleness. 
 
 They languiih and deliberating dand. 
 
 Loth to obey the adive Souls command. 
 
 Nor does it to your wildred Senfc appear, 
 
 Where their pain is, ’caufe it is every where. 
 
 When Men for want of breath can hardly blow. 
 
 Nor Purple Streams in azure Channels flow. 
 
 Then the bold Enemy fhews he’s too nigh, 
 
 One fo mifehievous cannot hidden lie. 
 
 The Teeth drop our, and noifome grows the Breath, 
 
 The man not only fmells, but looks like Death. 
 
 Qualms, 
 
 
Book I. Of T L J JfT S. 
 
 Qualms, Vomiting, and torturing Gripes within 
 Betides unfccmly fpots upon the skin 
 His other fymptoms are ; with clouds the mind 
 He overcafts, and, fettering theSenfe, 
 
 To Life it felf makes Living an Offence. 
 
 This Monffer Nature gave me to fubdue, 
 
 ( Such feats with herbs t’accompliffi 5 cis not new) 
 
 So the fierce Bull and watchful Dragon too 
 On Colchis lhoar the valiant Jafon (lew. 
 
 But whether thofe defeated Monfters fell 
 By virtue of my Juice I cannot tell. 
 
 But them he conquer’d and then back he row’d 
 O’r the proud waves ; nor was it only Gold 
 He got ; he brought away a Royal Maid 
 Befide ( may all PhyflciansTo be paid.) 
 
 The hardnefs of my task my courage fir’d, 
 
 A powerful Foe was that I moft defir’d. 
 
 I love to be commended, I muff: own, 
 
 And that my Name in Phyfick books be fhown. 
 
 1 envy them, whom Galen deigns to name. 
 
 Or old Hippocrates , great Sons of Fame. 
 
 Achilles Alexander envy'd $ why, 
 
 If he complain’d fo juffly, may not I? 
 
 When Grecian Names did other Plants adorn 
 And were by them as marks of honour born, 
 
 * I grew inglorious on the Britifh coaft, 
 
 ( For Britain then no reafon had to boaft ) 
 
 Haplefs I on the Gothick (hoar did lie, 
 
 Nor was the Sea- weed lefs efteem’d than I. 
 
 Now fure ’tis time, thofe Ioffes were regain’d. 
 
 Which in my youth and fame fo long I have fuftain’d, 
 ’Tis time, and fo they are; Now I am known. 
 Through all the Univerfe my fame has flown : 
 
 Who my deferts denies, when by my hands 
 That Tyrant falls, that plagues the Northern Lands ? 
 Sing To Pcean ; yea thrice To flng, 
 
 And let the Gothick fhoat With Triumphs ring ; 
 
 That wild Difeafe which fuch difturbance gave, 
 
 Is led before my Chariot like a Slave. 
 
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 ii: f [ . . j \ . 4 [; >[ ■« 
 
 D 0 D‘D E % 
 
 . i -■ L ^ i 
 
 ■■ M T • . 
 
 I i I • * 1 «/ l v* . . ... S 
 
 T Hou neither leaf' nor ftalk, nor root can’ftlhow; 
 
 How, in this penfile pofture doft thou grow ! 
 Thou’rt perfect Magick 5 and I cannot now 
 Thofe things v ou do, for Miracles allow ; 
 
 Thofe wonders, if compar’d to you, are none 5 
 Since you your felf are a fat greater one, 
 
 Bbb 
 
 9 
 
 Scurvy-Grafs 
 is reckoned 
 among the 
 Medicines pe- 
 culiar to this 
 Difeafe. It 
 opens, pene- 
 trates, ren- 
 ders volatile 
 the crude and 
 grofs hu- 
 mours, pur- 
 ges by urine 
 and fweat,and 
 ftrengthens 
 the entrails. 
 
 * Not but that 
 °tis by fome 
 thought to be 
 the Britannica 
 of Flinj. 
 
 Thy 
 

 
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 Of T L A T s - Book 1 
 
 * The Ivy is 
 always call’d 
 Ivy, whatfoe- 
 ver it cleaves 
 to : but this 
 Herb takes the 
 name from 
 the Plant on 
 which it 
 hangs , with 
 whom alio it 
 partakes its 
 Virtues, as E- 
 pitbymum, Epi - 
 linum , Epiur » 
 tica 3 &c. 
 
 t Concerning 
 its manifold 
 Virtues, con- 
 fult Heurniwi 
 and Ferntlms. 
 
 To make the ftrength of other Herbs thy prey, 
 
 The Huntrefs thou thy felf for Nets doft lay, 
 
 Live Riddle! He that would thy myfteries 
 Unfold, muff with fome Oedipus advife. 
 
 No wonder in your Arms the Plants you hold, 
 
 Thou being all Arms muft them needs fo infold. 
 
 For thee large threads the fatal Sifters fpin, 
 
 But to your work nor woof nor web put in. 
 
 Hence ’tis, that you fo intricately twine 
 
 About that plant * Flax which yields fo long a line. 
 
 Oh ! Spoufe moft conftant to a Plant moft dear, 
 
 Than whom no Couple er more loving were. 
 
 No more let Love of wanton Ivy boaft. 
 
 Her kindnefs is th’ effett of nought but Luft. 
 Another fhe enjoys ; but that her Love 
 And She are * Two, many diftin£tions prove. 
 
 Their ftrength and leaves are different, and her fruit 
 Puts all the Difference beyond difpute. 
 
 The hkenefs to the Parent does profefs, 
 
 That She in that is no Adulterefs. 
 
 Her root with different juices is fupply’d, 
 
 And She her Maiden name bears though a Bride. 
 
 But Dodder on her Spoufe depends alone. 
 
 And nothing in her felf can call her own. 
 
 Fed with his juice (he on his ftalk is born, 
 
 And thinks his Leaves her head lull well adorn. 
 Whoe r he be, She loves to take his Name, 
 
 And muft with him be every way the fame. 
 
 Alcejle and Evadne thus enflam’d 
 
 Are, with fome others, for their paftion fam’d. 
 
 So, Dodder l for thy husband Flax thoud'ft die 
 I guefs ; but may’ll thou fpeed more luckily. 
 
 This is her living paftion ; but Ihe grows 
 
 Still more renown’d for kindnefs, which Ihe Ihows 
 
 To mortal Men, when Ihe’ as refign’d her breath. 
 
 For She of them is mindful even in Death, 
 t The Liver and the Spleen moft faithfully 
 Of all oppreflions Ihe does eale and free, 
 
 Where has fo fmall a Plant fuch ftrength and flore 
 Of Virtues, when her Husband’s weak and poor > 
 Who’d think the Liver fhou’d afliftancc need, 
 
 A noble part, from fuch a wretched Weed ? 
 
 Ufe therefore little things ; nor take it ill 
 That Men fmall things preferve; for lefs may kill. 
 
 
 W0%MW00T>. 
 
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Book I. Of T L A JfT S. 
 
 1 1 
 
 WORMWOOD. 
 
 ’TVyfOng Children I a baneful Weed am thought, 
 
 By none but Hags or Fiends defir’d or fought. 
 They think a Doctor is in jeft, or mad, 
 
 If he agrees not, that my juice is bad. 
 
 The Women alfo I offend, I know. 
 
 Though to my bounteous hands fo much they owe. 
 Few Palates do my bitter taft approve, 
 
 How few, alas 1 are well inform’d by Jove ! 
 
 Sweet things alone they love ; but in the end 
 They find what bitter guffs thofe fweets attend. 
 
 Long naufeoufnefs fucceeds their fhort-liv’d joys, 
 
 And that which fo much pleas’d the Palate, cloys. 
 
 The Palate juflly fuffers for the wrong 
 Sh’as done the Stomach, into which fo long 
 Ail tafleful food flie cramm’d, till now, quite tir’d. 
 
 She loaths the Dainties fhe before admir’d, 
 
 A grievous flench does from the flomach rife. 
 
 And from the mouth Lerndean Poifon flies. 
 
 Then they’re content to drink my harfher juice. 
 
 Which for its bitternefs theyn’er refufe. 
 
 It does not idle in the flomach lie. 
 
 But, like fomc God, give prefent remedy. 
 
 ( So the warm Sun my vigour does reflore. 
 
 When he returns and the cold Winter’s o’r.) 
 
 There I a Jakes out of a Stable throw, 
 
 And Hercules' s labour undergo. 
 
 The Stomach eas’d its Office docs repeat. 
 
 And with new living fire conco&s the meat. 
 
 The purple Tincture foon it does devour. 
 
 Nor does that Chyle the hungry veins o'rpower. 
 
 The vilage by degrees frefh Rofes ftain. 
 
 And the perfumed breath grows fweet again. 
 
 The good I do Venui herfelf will own. 
 
 She, though all fweets, yet loves not fweets alone. 
 
 She wifely mixes with my juice her joys. 
 
 And her delights with bitter things alloys. 
 
 We Herbs to different fludies are inclin’d. 
 
 And every faction does its Author find. 
 
 Some Epicurus s fentiments defend. 
 
 And follow pleafure as their only end. 
 
 It is their pride and boaft fweet fruits to bear. 
 
 And on their heads they flowry Chaplets wear. 
 
 Whilft others courting rigid Zeno's Se£t, 
 
 In Virtue fruitful, all things elfe negleft. 
 
 They love not pomp, or what delights the fenfe, 
 
 And think all’s well, if they give no offence. 
 
 B z And 
 
 13 
 
 ~.fK 
 
 i 3 rl 
 
 Pliny fpends 
 aH Chap. 7. 
 
 1. 27. fa enu- 
 merating the 
 ^Virtues of 
 Wormwood, 
 and Ftrnelius 
 is large upon 
 it*, whom 
 confulc. 
 
 It ftrengthens 
 the Stomach, 
 and purges it 
 of Choler, 
 Wind and 
 Crudities,, 
 
 / 
 
Of T L A ^CT S. Boo 
 
 And none a greater Stoick is, than I, 
 
 The Stcas Pillars on my Stalk rely. 
 
 Let others pleafe, to profit is my pleafure. 
 
 The Love I flowly gain’s a lading treafure. 
 
 In Towns debauch’d he’s the bed Officer, 
 
 Who mod cenforious is and mod fevere 3 
 Such I am ; and fuch you, dear Cato / were. 
 
 But I no dire, revengeful paffion ffiow. 
 
 Our Schools in Wifemen Anger don’t allow. 
 
 No fault I punifli more than that which lies 
 Within my Province ; wherefore from my eyes 
 Choler with hady fpeed before me flies. 
 
 Adoon as Me it in the domach fpies, 
 
 Preparing for a War in Martial guife. 
 
 Not daring in its lurking holes to day. 
 
 It makes a fwift efcape the backward way. 
 
 I follow him at th’ heels, and by the feent 
 Find out which way the noifom Enemy went, 
 it h good a- Of Water too I drain the flelh and bloud, 
 gainft the When Winter threatens a devouring flood. 
 
 Dropfie. j| ic D utc h men w j c h i e f s s L.ill their Country drain. 
 And turn thecourfeof Waters back again. 
 Sometimes th’ obdruded Reins too narrow grow. 
 And the fait floods back to their Fountains flow. 
 Unhappy date ! the neighbouring members quake. 
 And all th’ adjacent Country feems to fliake. 
 
 Then I begin the Waters thus to chide ; 
 
 Why, duggifli Waters, do you flop your Tide? 
 Glide on with me. I’ll break the Rampires down. 
 That dop the Channel where you once have flown. 
 I do fo ; flraight the Currents wider grow. 
 
 And in their ufual banks the Waters flow 7 . 
 
 This all £the members does rejoice and chear. 
 
 Who of a difmal Deluge flood in fear. 
 
 Aod worms Men eating Worms I from the body fcare, 
 
 fionM the*" conc l uer i n g Arms againfl that Plague prepare. 
 Name, worm - ( Voracious Worm ! thou wilt mod certainly 
 wood. Heir of our bodies be, whene’r we die; 
 
 Deferr a while the meal which in the Grave, 
 
 Of humane Viands thou e’r long mud have. ) 
 Thofe Vermine Infants bowels make their food. 
 And love to fuck their fill of tender bloud. 
 
 They cannot day till Death ferves up their fead, 
 But greedily fnatch up the meat undred. 
 
 Why fliou’d I fpeakof fleas? fuch Foes 1 hate, 
 
 So bafely born, cv’n to enumerate. 
 
 Such dud born, skipping points of life; I fay, 
 Whofe only virtue is, to run away. 
 
 My Triumphs to fuch numbers do amount, 
 
 That I the greater ones can hardly count. 
 
 
Book I. Of T L A JfT S. 
 
 To fuch a bulk the vail account does fwell. 
 
 That I fome Trophies lofe which I ihould tell. 
 
 Oft wandring Death is fcatter'd through the Skies, 
 And through the Elements infection flies. 
 
 The Earth below is fick, the Air above, 
 
 Slow Rivers prove they're fickly, whilfl they move. 
 All things Deaths Arms in cold embraces catch. 
 Life even the vital Air away doth fnatch. 
 
 To remedy fuch evils God took care. 
 
 Nor me as lead of Med’cine9 did prepare. 
 
 Oft too, they fay, I ( though no Giant neither ) 
 Have born the lliock of three ftrong Foes together. 
 Not without reafon therefore, or in vain 
 Did conquering Rome my Honour fo maintain : 
 
 The Conqu’ror a Triumphal draught of Me 
 Drank, as the Guerdon of his Vidlory. 
 
 Holding the crowned Goblet in his hand 
 He cry’d aloud, This Cup can health command» 
 Nor does it, caufe ’tis bitter, pleafe me lefs. 
 
 My toils were fo, in which I met fuccefs. 
 
 And ufeful fa 
 rime of Pefti- 
 leace. 
 
 Concerning 
 this cuftom 
 fee Pliny, ut 
 fupr*. 
 
 W ATE^LILY. 
 
 D ^ye flight me, caufe a bog my Belly feeds. 
 
 And I am found among a crowd of Reeds 
 I'm no green vulgar Daughter of the Earth, 
 
 But to the noble Waters owe my birth. 
 
 I was a Goddefs of no mean degree; 
 
 But Love alas ! depos’d my Deity. 
 
 He bad me love, and flraight my kindled heart 
 In Hercules s triumphs bore a part. 
 
 I with his Fame, and actions fell in love, 
 
 And Limbs, that might become his Father Jove. 
 
 And by degrees Me a flrong impulfe hurl’d, 
 
 That Man t’ enjoy, who conquer’d all the World. 
 
 To tell you true, that Night I moft admir’d. 
 
 When he got fifty Sons and was not tir’d. 
 
 Now blufhing, fuch deeds hate I, toprofefs; 
 
 But ’tvvas a Night of noble wicked nefs. 
 
 He ( to be fhort ) my honour ftain’d, and he 
 Had the firft flow’r of my Virginity. 
 
 But He by’s Father Jove s example led 
 Rambled and cou’d not brook a Angle bed. 
 
 Fierce monftrous Beads and Tyrants, worfe than they. 
 All o'r the World he ran to feek and flay. 
 
 But He, the Tyrant, for his Guerdon ftill 
 A Maid requires, if he a Monfler kill. 
 
 Diianiu's 
 blood is faid 
 by Calepine to 
 be turn’d into 
 this Herb, af- 
 ter fhe had 
 kill’d her felf 
 with Hercules 
 his Club, for 
 grief that Ihc 
 had been the 
 caufe of his 
 death. 
 
 All 
 
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 Of T L A ^CT S. Book I. 
 
 It is call’d by 
 fome Her- 
 cules's Club . 
 
 There arc 
 two forts, a 
 whire and a 
 yellow. 
 
 v 
 
 ’Tis faid to be 
 a grear allayer 
 of Lechery. 
 
 It takes away 
 Morphews 
 and Freckle*. 
 
 All Womankind to me his Harlots are, 
 
 Ev’n Goddelles in my fufpicion (hare. 
 
 Perilli me; let the Sun this Water dry. 
 
 And may I fcorch’d in this burnt puddle die; 
 
 If I of Juno were not jealous grown, 
 
 And thought I fhew’d her hatred in my own. 
 
 ( Perhaps, faid I , my pafiion he derides, 
 
 And I’m the fcorn of all his virtuous Brides. 
 
 Grief, anger, lhame and fury vex my mind. 
 
 But, maugre all, Loves darts thofe paflions blind.) 
 
 If I from tortures of eternal grief 
 Did not defign by Death to feek relief. 
 
 But Goddehes in Love can never die. 
 
 Hard Fate ! our punilhment’s Eternity. 
 
 Mean time I’m all in tears both night and day. 
 
 And as they drop, my tedious hours decay. 
 
 Into a Lake the (landing (liowers grow. 
 
 And of my feet th’ united Waters (low : 
 
 Then ( as the difmal boaft of mifery) 
 
 I triumph in my griefs fertility. 
 
 Till Jove at length, in pity; from above. 
 
 Said, I (hou’d never from that Fen remove. 
 
 His Word my body of its form bereft, 
 
 And (traight all vanifh’d, that my grief had left. 
 
 My knotty root under the Earth does link, 
 
 And makes me of a Club too often think. 
 
 My thirfty leaves no liquor can fuffice; 
 
 My tears are now return’d into my eyes. 
 
 My form its ancient Whitenefs (fill retains, 
 
 And prilline palenefs in my Cheeks remains. 
 
 Now in perpetual mirth my days I pafs. 
 
 We Plants, believe me, are an happy Race. 
 
 We truly feel the Suns kind influence. 
 
 Cool winds and warmer Air refredi our fenfe. 
 
 Ne&ar in dew does from Aurora rife, 
 
 And Earth Ambrofia untill’d fuppiies. 
 
 I pity Man, whom thoufand cares perplex, 
 
 And cruel Love, that greateft plague, does vex; 
 
 W hi 1(1 mindful of the ills I once endur’d 
 
 His (lames by me are quench’d, his wounds are cur’d. 
 
 I triumph, that my Vidfor I o’rthrow. 
 
 Such changes Tyrants Thrones fhou’d undergo. 
 
 Don’t wonder. Love, that Thee thy Slave (hou’d beat, 
 Alcides Monflers taught me to defeat. 
 
 And left, unhappy Boy 1 thou (hou’dft believe, 
 
 All handfom folks thy cruel Yoke receive ; 
 
 I have a Walh that beautifies the Face, 
 
 Yet chaflly look in my own wat’ry Glafs. 
 
 Diana s meine, and Fenus face I lend, 
 
 So to both Deities I prove a friend. 
 
 But 
 
 
Book I. Of T L A S. 
 
 * 5 
 
 But left that God ihou’d artfully his Flame 
 Conceal, and burn me in anothers Name ; 
 
 All Heats in general I refift, nay I * 
 
 To all that’s Hot am a fworn Enemy. 
 
 Whether difira&ing flames with fury flic, 
 
 Through the burnt brain, like Comets through the skic, 
 Or whether from the Belly they afeend, 
 
 And fumes all o’r the Body fwiftly fend. 
 
 Whether with fulphurous fire the veins within 
 They kindle, or jufl: fingc the outward skin. 
 
 Whate’r they are, my awful juice they fly; 
 
 When glimmering through the pores they run and die. 
 Why wink’ll thou? why doeft fo with half an eye 
 Look on me? Oh! my fleepy root’s too nigh. 
 
 Befides my tedious Difcourfe might make 
 Any Man have but little mind to wake. 
 
 Without that’s help ; Thus then our leaves we take. 
 
 * It is cold in 
 the fecond 
 degree, its 
 root and feed 
 are drying ; 
 but the flower 
 m^iftens, be- 
 ing applied to 
 the forehead 
 and noftrils it 
 cures the 
 Head-ach ari- 
 ftng from 
 Phlegm, and 
 is very cool- 
 ing. Ferntl. 
 
 STLEENWO^T or MILTWAST. 
 
 TV /f E cruel Nature, when file made me, gave 
 JJVX isj or flalk, nor feed, nor flow’r, as others have. 
 
 The Sun ne’r warms me, nor will fhe allow, 
 
 1 (hou’d in cultivated Gardens grow. 
 
 And to augment the torment of my years. 
 
 No lovely colour in my leaves appears. 
 
 You’d think me Heav’ns averfion, and the Earth 
 Had brought me forth at fome chance, fpurious Birth, 
 
 Vain outward gaudy fhevvs mankind furprize. 
 
 And they refign their Reafon to their eyes. 
 
 To Gardens no poor Plant admittance gains. 
 
 For there, God wot, the painted Tulip reigns. 
 
 But the wife Gods mind no fuch vanity, 
 
 Phtibui above all Tulips values me. 
 
 So does that Coan, old Hippocrates , 
 
 Who the next place to Phvbus challenges. 
 
 For when the Members Nature did divide. 
 
 And over fuch or fuch bad Herbs prefide; 
 
 I of the lavage and unruly Spleen, 
 
 A flubborii Province, was created Queen. 
 
 I that reflrain, though it refill my power. 
 
 And bring its fwelling, rebel humor lower. 
 
 The paflages with Rampires it in vain, 
 
 Obflru&s; I quickly break them down again. 
 
 All Commerce I with fpeedy force reftore. 
 
 And the ways open all my Kingdom of. 
 
 If I don’t take that courfe, it furious grows, 
 
 And into every part Contagion throws. 
 
 With 
 
 The Virtues 
 of this Herb 
 are told in 
 its name. 
 
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1 6 
 
 Of T L A &CT S. Book I. 
 
 Vitruvius fays 
 that laCrett , 
 where this 
 Herb abounds, 
 the Swine 
 have no 
 SpieeD. 
 
 With poifonous vapours it infe£ts the blood. 
 
 And Life it felf drinks of a venomous flood. 
 
 Foul Leprofie upon the skin appears. 
 
 And the chang’d vifage Deaths pale colours wears. 
 Hence watchfulnefs, diflra&ing cares, and tears. 
 
 And pain proceeds; with hafly, killing fears. 
 
 Hence Halters, cruel Love ! our necks releafe 
 From thy more fatal Yoke; and Daggers eafe 
 Our Souls of Life’s incurable Difeafe : 
 
 May no fuch monflrous evils good Men hurt, 
 
 Jove and my Virtue all fuch things avert ! 
 
 The Treafury Trajan rightly to the Spleen 
 Compar’d ; for, when that fwells, the body’s lean. 
 Why do you laugh ? Is it, becaufe that I 
 Pretend to know the Roman Hiflory. 
 
 Ia dull flock and not a Plant fhou’d be. 
 
 Having fo long kept Do&ors company, 
 
 If their difeourfe lhou’d not advantage me. 
 
 It has ; and I great wonders cou’d relate, 
 
 But I’m a Plant, that ne’r was given to prate. 
 
 But to return from whence I have digreft, 
 
 I many Creatures eafe by Spleen oppreft. 
 
 Creet , though fo ufed to lye, you may believe, 
 
 When for their Swine their thanks to me they give. 
 The wretched Afs, whom conflant labour tires, ‘ 
 
 Sick of the Spleen my fpeedy aid defires. 
 
 Eating my leaves ( for I relieve his pain ) 
 
 He cheerfully refumes his work again. 
 
 Now, if you can, vain, painted Flow’rs admire. 
 Delights, fcarcc fooner born, than they expire. 
 
 They’re fair, ’tistrue, they’re cheerful and they’re green 5 
 But I, though fad, procure a gladfom mein. 
 
 
 LETTUCE. 
 
 AueuJlM is COme think your commendation you deferve, 
 faid to have ^ ’Caufe you of old Auguftus did preferve. 
 
 <d?n hksict Why did you ftill prolong that fatal breath, 
 nefs by Let- That banilh’d Ovid , and was Tullys death? 
 tuce. Fiin. i fuppofe that neither of ’em you* 
 
 Nor Orator nor Poet ever knew; 
 
 Wherefore I wonder not, you fhou’d comply, 
 
 And the Worlds Tyrant fo far gratify. 
 
 Thou truly to all Tyrants art of ufe, 
 
 Their madnefs flies before thy pow’rful juice. 
 
 Their heads with better wreaths, I pri’thee, crown. 
 And let the World in them thy kindnefs own. 
 
 At thy command forth from its fcorched Heart, 
 Of Tyrants Love the greateft does depart. 
 
Book I. 
 
 Of T L A S. 
 
 Falfe Love, I mean; for thou ne’r try’ft t’expel 
 True Love, who, like a good King, governs well, 
 
 Jufily that Dog liar, Cupid, thou do’ ft hate, 
 
 Whofe fire kills Herbs, and Monfters does create. 
 
 « 
 
 Upon the fame. 
 
 • • *■ • * i 
 
 E AT me with Bread and Oil, you’ll ne’r repine, 
 
 Or lay, in Summer you want meat to dine. 
 
 The Worlds firft golden Age fuch Viands bled, 
 
 I was the chief ingredient at a Feaft: 
 
 Large bodies for the Demigods my juice, 
 
 And blood proportionable, did produce. 
 
 Then neither traud nor force, nor lull was known, 
 Such ills their rife from too much heat mufl own. 
 
 Let their vile Name religioufly be curft, 
 
 Who jto bafe Giutt’ny gave dominion firft. 
 
 For thence fprang Vice, whofe Train Diftempers were, 
 And Death did m new, ghaftly fhapes appear. 
 
 Shun cruel Tables, that with blood are dy’d. 
 
 And Banquets by deftrudtive Death fuppli’d. 
 
 Sick, if not well, thou’lt Herbs defire, and we 
 Shall prove, if not thy Meat, thy Remedy. 
 
 EfE-<B\lGBT , 
 
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 E ^Nter, fweet Stranger, to my Eyes reveal 
 \ Thy felf, and gratefully thy Poet heal. 
 
 If I of Plants have any thing dcferv’d. 
 
 Or in my Verfe their Honour be prefer v’d. 
 
 Thus, lying on the Grafs and fad, pray’d I, 
 
 Whilft nimbly Eye-hright came and flood juft by. 
 
 I wonder’d that fo noble an Herb fo foon 
 Rofe by my fide like a Champignon; 
 
 1 faw her not before, nor did lh’ appear, 
 
 For any thing I knew, to be fo near. 
 
 On a black italk, nine inches long fhe grew. 
 
 With leaves all notch'd, and of a greenifh hue. 
 
 While pretty Flowers on her top fhe bore, 
 
 With yellow mixt and purple flreaks all ore. 
 
 I knew her ftraight; her Name and Vifage fute; 
 
 And my glad Eyes their Patronefs falute. 
 
 Strange News ! To me fhe bow’d with Flow’r and (folk. 
 And thus, in Language fit for her, did talk. 
 
 Twas low ; for Herbs that modeft cuftom love, 
 Hoarfe murmurs of the Trees they don’t approve. 
 Thou only Bard, faid fhe, oth’ verdant Race, 
 
 Wko in thy Songs do’ft all our Virtues trace. 
 
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 1 8 
 
 * Of Plants, 
 
 Suff a [to. 
 
 Leucoma. 
 
 Q^Egilopes. 
 
 Carcinomata. 
 
 Phlytl<ta<e. 
 
 tpicamata. 
 
 Of T L A Jf T S. Book I. 
 
 Several Dlf- 
 eafes of the 
 Eye arc 
 recounted. 
 
 Epiphora. 
 
 Ophthalmia. 
 
 All Men are not allow'd our Voice to hear. 
 
 Though fuch rcfpeCf to you, our Friend, we bear, 
 We hate the cudome, which with Men obtains. 
 
 To (light a kind, ingenuous Poets pains. 
 
 I wifh my root cou’d heal you, and I’m fure, 
 
 Our * Nation all wou’d gladly fee the Cure. 
 
 But if by Natures fclf it be «Withdood, 
 
 The pow’r of Herbs, alas ! can do no good. 
 
 Natures injunctions none of us Withdands, 
 
 We’re Slaves to all her Lady (hips commands. 
 
 Let what She gives your Appetite fuffice, 
 
 Nor grumble, when lhe any thing denies, 
 
 For (lie with fparing Hands large gifts fupplies. 
 
 But if fome Malady impair the Sight, 
 
 Or Wine, or Love, that’s blind, and hares the Light 
 Or Surfeits, watchful Cares, or putrid Air, 
 
 Or numerous other things, that hurtful are ; 
 
 Then am I ufeful : If you wou’d engage 
 To count my Conqueds, or the Wars I wage. 
 
 The Ev’ning Star much fooner wou’d go down, 
 
 And all the Fields in dewy Ne&ar drown. 
 
 Oft a fait Flood which from the head delcends, 
 
 With the Eyes frelher dreams its current blends. 
 
 That Pain, which caufes many watery Eyes, 
 
 From its own tears it felf does here arife. 
 
 Oft times the Channels of a. paler Flood . 
 
 Are fiH’d and fvvell with (irartge, unnatural blood; 
 And by a Gueft, who thither lately came, 
 
 The Houfe is fet all on a raging flame. 
 
 Take care, if your fmall worlds bright Sun appear 
 Blood-red, or he’ll foon leave your Hemifphere. 
 
 Oft fumes and wandering Flies obfeure the Eye, 
 
 And in thofe Clouds: flrange Monders feem to dy. 
 Fume, what does- thy dull, footy vifage here? 
 
 I fee no fire, that thou (houd’d be fo near. 
 
 Or what ( with a Mifchief) means the troublefome Fly : 
 I d as foon have the God of Flies as nigh. 
 
 Oft times the fight is dark’ned with falfe fnow. 
 
 And night it felf in blanched Robes does go; 
 
 Whild lliapes of didant things, that real were, 
 
 In different colours, or in none, appear. 
 
 Tumours, and Cankers, Pudles, Ulcers why 
 Shou’d I recount, , thofe torments of the Eye? 
 
 Or thoufands more which I’m affraid to name. 
 
 Left when I ^tell them they my Tongue inflame. 
 
 Or that wbicn from its hollow length Men call 
 Fiftula [Pipe].. a name too Mufical. 
 
 All thefe I tame ; the Air my vertue clears, 
 
 Whild the Clouds Y^inilh and the day appears. 
 
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 Book I. Of T L A Vf T S. 
 
 The joyful Face fmiles with diffufed Light; 
 
 What comclinefs is mix’d with that delight! 
 
 You know, Arnold us (if you've read him o’r ) 
 
 Did fight by me to Men ftone-blind reftore. 
 
 ’Tis true ; and my known virtue ought to be 
 The more efleem’d for that ftrange Prodigy. 
 
 With my kind leaves he bids you tinge your Wines, 
 And profit with your pleafure wifely joins. 
 
 Thofe Light will truly give, and facred bowls, 
 Bacchus will dwell in your enlarged Souls. 
 
 Then call thy Soy, with a capacious Cup, 
 
 And with that Wine be fure to fill it up, 
 
 Till thou haft drunk, for all the amorous Dames, 
 
 An Health to ev’ry Letter of their names. 
 
 Then drink an Health to th* Eyes ; they won’t refufe 
 ( I 5 m confident ) to pledge you in my juice. 
 
 But we lofe time; go; carefully rehearfe 
 What I have faid in never-dying Verfe. 
 
 She fpake, then vanifhing away Hie flew; 
 
 I ( Reader ) tell you nothing but what's true. 
 
 WINTE^C HEDIES. 
 
 T X THen I ftand mufing fas I often do) 
 
 V V I’m fill’d with fharne and noble anger too; 
 To think that all we Plants ( except fome few 
 Whom Ph£bus with more vigour did endue) 
 
 Cannot away with Winters nipping fare. 
 
 But more effeminate, than Mankind, are. 
 
 From Father Sun, and Mother Earth in vain 
 We fprang ; they both your figure ftill retain. 
 
 To our Delights why don’t the Seafons yield. 
 
 And banifh Winter from each verdant Field? 
 
 Why in Elyjian Gardens don’t we grow, 
 
 Whe’re no chill blafts fnay on our beauties blow? 
 We're Halcyons forfooth, and can’t with eafe 
 Bring forth, unlefs the world be all at peace. 
 
 Nor is this fofrnefs only to be found 
 
 Among final) Herbs, ftill creeping on the ground: 
 
 Great Elms and Oaks themfelves it does controul. 
 
 In their hard bark they wear a tender Soul. 
 
 1 hefe Huffs Effeminacy count no crime 5 
 
 You’d think in Summer they to Heav’n wou’d climb. 
 
 But if the Year its back upon them turn, 
 
 Each Giant creeps back into th’ Earth his Urn. 
 
 Here lies you on his bulky trunk may write ; 
 
 For ftiamel There lie; let not the mold lie light. 
 
 But I, who very hardly dare receive 
 
 The name of Shrub ( though Pliny gives me leave ) 
 
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 Villa, nova. 
 Lib. de yinii. 
 
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 The dreadful Winter to the Combat dare; 
 
 Though Heav'n it felf ihou’d fall. I’d take no care. 
 The Winter comes; and I’m by ftorms alarm’d, 
 
 She comes with Legions numberlefs, well arm’d. 
 
 Then I my fruit produce, and having firft 
 Expos’d them to her, cry, Now do thy word. 
 
 Pour, pour upon them all the Rain i’th’ Skie, 
 
 It will not waft away their fcarlet die. 
 
 Pour Snow, their Purple thence will grow more bright. 
 
 Some red in a white Veflel gives delight. 
 
 So the red lip the Ivory teeth befriends, 
 
 And a white Skin the rofy Cheeks commends. 
 With fuch like rudiments do I inure 
 My Virtue, and the force of it fecure : 
 
 I, who rebellious Sicknefs muft fubdue, 
 
 And every day frefh Vi&ories purfuc. 
 
 Thus did I learn vaft ftones to break in twain, 
 
 Ic ’• n yC u ienc And Ice, at firft, put me to little pain. 
 
 stone and ail r or I not onely water do expel, 
 
 dlfeafes of the ( That other weaker Plants can do as well ) 
 
 thence r in ^ uc fach h ar<a R° c ks of Adamant I break, 
 
 Latin call’d As Plannibal to pafs wou’d prove too weak. 
 veftcana. Unhappy He, who on this Rock is toft. 
 
 And Shipwrack’d is in his own waters loft! 
 Even Szjyphus might pity and bemoan 
 - The Wretch that’s tortur’d with an inbred ftone. 
 
 How does he envy, ah, how much, the dead, 
 Whofe Corps with ftones are only covered ! 
 Wou’d I not help him ? might the Earth divide, 
 And fwallow me, if I my aid deni’d. 
 
 Then I my felf child of fome Rock muft own, 
 And that my roots were veins of hardeft ftone. 
 Bur truly I do pity fuch a Man, 
 
 And the obdurate matter quickly can 
 Difiblvc; my piercing Liquor round it lies. 
 
 And ftraight into a thouland parts it flies. 
 
 The long obftru&ed ftreams then glide away. 
 And fragments with them of the Stone convey. 
 
 Vulgarly SUN-VEW or LUSTWO^T. 
 
 call d alfo Rofa ^ 
 
 Solis . 
 
 T O fay the truth Nature’s too kind to Thee, 
 For all thy days thou fpend’ft in luxury. 
 Thy Flowers are Silver, and a purple Down 
 Covers thy body, like a Silken Gown : 
 
 Whilft, to increafe thy pomp and pride, each vein 
 Of thine a Golden humour does contain. 
 
 Each leaf is hollow made, juft like a Cup, 
 
 Which Liquor always to the brim fills up. 
 
Book! Of <P L A T S. 
 
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 The drunken Sun cannot exhauft thy bowl. 
 Nor Sirius himfelf, that thirfty Soul. 
 
 Full thou furvey’ft the parched Fields around, 
 
 And envioufly in thy own floods art drown’d. 
 
 Drinking, the thir 
 
 The Hydra of thy 
 
 Thy Nile from lec 
 
 And bids Thee m< 
 
 T H Y conquer’d Ivy, Bacchus ! now throw down. 
 
 And of this Herb make a far nobler Crown. 
 
 This Herb, with Plenty’s bounteous current feeds 3 ! 
 
 Plenty which conltancly it fell fucceeds. \ A 
 
 So thy extended Guts thy Godfhip fwills. 
 
 And ics own felf thy tilted Hoglhead fills. ; 
 
 So at j foves Table Gods the Goblet drain, 
 
 But ftraight with Nc&ar it grows full again. 
 
 Nor do the Cups the Phrygian Stripling need,. 
 
 To fill them ^ each is his own Ganymede, 
 
 So in the Heart, that double lufty bowl 
 
 (In which the Soul it felf drinks Life and Soul) 
 
 That Hcav’nly bowl, made by an Heav’nly hand, 
 
 With purple Ne&ar always crown’d does (land. 
 
 Of what lhc fpends Nature ne’r feels the lack. 
 
 What one throws out, another brings it back. 
 
 Bleft Plant, brimful of moifture radical 1 
 No wonder thou the Spirits, left they fall. 
 
 Support’ll, or that Confumptive boents you. 
 
 And the firm Limbs bind with a lafting glue. 
 
 Or that lifes Lamp, which ready is to die. 
 
 With fuch vivacious Oil you can fupply. 
 
 No wonder to the Lungs thou grateful art. 
 
 Thy conflant waters feed that fpongy part. 
 
 You Venus alfo loves, for though you’re wet. 
 
 Your infide, like your outfide’s burnt with heat. 
 
 Thefe are Lulls Elements; of heat Ihe makes 
 A Soul, and moifture for her Body takes. 
 
 SOWS ^ EAl ). 
 
 * I’^H E dropping, bloudy Nofe you gently bind, 
 J But loofen the clofe Hemorrhoids behind. 
 And ’tis but natural, that who fhuts the Fore 
 Shou’d at the fame time open the back-door. 
 
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 Of <P L A ACT S. 
 
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 Upon the fame. 
 
 The 'Coiemrt OEE how with Pride the groveling Pot-herb fwclls, 
 the#”, and ^ And fowcily the generous Vine repells : 
 it feif kill’d Her, that great Emperours oft in Triumph drew, 
 by this Herb. ^ b a f e , unwort hy Colewort does fubdue. 
 
 But though o’r that the wretch victorious be, 
 
 Ic cannot Band, puifiant Plant ! near Thee 
 For Meat to Medicines Bill muft give the place. 
 
 That feeds Difeafes, which away thefe chafe. 
 
 You bravely Men and other Plants outvie. 
 
 Who no kind Office do, until they die; 
 
 Thy Virtues thou, yet living, do’ft impart. 
 
 And ev’n to thy own Garden Phyfick art. 
 cyciminm. Though on me Greece beftow’d a graceful Name, 
 Which well the Figure of my leaves became, 
 
 Th 5 Apothecaries have a new one found, 
 
 (Dull Knaves! that hate the very Greek Words found) 
 And from a nafty Sow, ( whofe very name 
 Stinks on my tongue ) have ftigmatiz’d my Fame.! 
 But f to them more than to Swine give bread, 
 
 They are the Hogs, by my large bounty fed. 
 
 
 
 Upon the fame. 
 
 \yfY Virtue dries all ulcerous, running Sores, 
 And native foftnefs p the skin reftores. 
 
 My pow’r hard tumours cannot, if I lift. 
 
 Either with water, or with fire refift. 
 
 Of fears by burning caus’d I clear the Face, 
 
 Nor let Small-pox the Countenance difgrace. 
 
 My conquering hand Pimpgenets cannot lhun. 
 Nor blackifh, yellow fpocs the Face or-run; 
 Morphew departs, and out each Freckle flies, 
 Though from our god himfelf they had their rife. 
 Nor leave I ought upon the Cheeks of Lafles, 
 To make ’em fhie of looking in their Glaftes. 
 Nor doubt I but that Sex much thanks will give. 
 For that the pangs of Childbirth I relieve. 
 
 Upon the fame. 
 
 The Jaun* |N my Fire, that falle Gold, the Jaundice, I 
 dm/s caTi’d In 1 Confume, (true Gold fcarce does more injury. ) 
 Ladn Amgo, Black blood, at my command, the back-way flows 
 from Aurum, jsj a fty j t f e jf through nafty boles it goes. 
 
 Choler 
 
Book I. Of T L A JfT S. 
 
 Choler and Phlegm yellow and white I drain, 
 
 They wear th’ dear * Metals colours both in vain. 
 
 All Meteors from the eyes I drive away, 
 
 And whatfo’er obfeures the fmall Worlds day. 
 
 I of the Gout remove the very feed. 
 
 And all the humours which that torment breed. 
 Thorns, fplinters, nails I draw, who wondering (land 
 How they could fo come forth without an hand. 
 
 This is the lead : all Poifons I expel, 
 
 And Death force thence, where it was like to dwell. 
 Infants that know not what it is to live. 
 
 Before they’re wretched, from the Womb I drive. 
 
 Oh Heavens! fays th’ ignorant amazed world ; What’s 
 1st a Diftemper to be born? Yes, tis. ( this ? 
 
 For if we make a true account, 5 tis more 
 Advantage life to hinder than reftore. 
 
 DUCJ^S-ME AT. 
 
 jX Lufty Frog, a Duck fwears is fuch Meat 
 x ( Fat’ned by me ) as Jove himfelf may eat. 
 
 And if the iearn’d Apiciiu * knew that Dilh, 
 
 He'd hungry grow, though dead, and life wou’d wifh. 
 By this our value’s in fome meafure fhewn; 
 
 But I’m not born to fatten Ducks alone. 
 
 Nor or green Ponds did Nature Carpets ftrow, 
 
 That She to (limy Frogs good-will might ihow. 
 
 From me great benefits all the World mult own, 
 Though long time hid, they’re, many, yet unknown. 
 In a fmall Ring the Wits of learned Men 
 Run, and the fame, confin’d, trace o’r agen. 
 
 The Plants which Nature through the Univerfe 
 In various fhapes and colours does difperfe. 
 
 Why fhou’d I mention ; this their ignorance fliews, 
 That ev n of Me Mankind fo little knows. 
 
 Something they do ; and more I wou’d reveal, 
 
 Which fhtbus and the Fates bid me conceal. 
 
 But this I’ll tell you ; dry, blew Cankers I, 
 
 And cholerick Fire of hdt St. Anthony , 
 
 I foon extinguilh; and all other flames, 
 
 Whatever are their Natures or their Names. 
 
 My native cold, and watery temper fhow. 
 
 Who my chili Parent is and where I grow. 
 
 Thus when the water in the joints inclos’d 
 Bubbles, by pain and natural heat oppos’d. 
 
 The boyling Caldron my flrong virtue rules, 
 
 And fprinkled with my dew the fury cools. 
 
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 * Silver and 
 Gold. 
 
 * An antient 
 Ronun Anchor 
 that wrote 
 about good 
 eating. 
 
 The Gout, 
 
 rqsemart. 
 
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 Of <P L A Ni'T S. Book]. 
 
 f An Infeft 
 of the Spider- 
 kind. 
 
 * A Nimph 
 turn’d into a 
 Spider. 
 
 %0 S EM A^r. 
 
 Touching the bite of the f Tarantula. 
 
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 Aunian * Arachne ! who fpinn’ft ail the day, 
 
 Nor to Minerva will’c ev’n yet give way; 
 Whilft thy own bowels thou to Lawn do ft weave. 
 What pleafure canft thou from fuch pains receive? 
 Why thy fad hours in fuch bale deeds doft fpill. 
 
 Or do things fo ridiculoufly ill ? 
 
 Why doft thou take delight to flop our breath, 
 
 Or a£F the ferious fports of cruel Death. 
 
 Whom thou fcarce touched ftraight to rave he’s found. 
 He raves although he hardly feels thy wound. 
 
 One Atome of thy Poifon in the veins. 
 
 Dominion foon o’r ail the body gains. 
 
 Within upon the Soul her felf it preys, 
 
 Which it diftrads a thoufand cruel ways. 
 
 One’s fjlent, whilft another roars aloud , 
 
 He’s fearful, t’ other ftghts with th’ gazing crowd. 
 This cryes, and this his fides with laughter Ihakes, 
 
 A thoufand habits this fame Fury takes. 
 
 But ail with love of Dancing are pofteft, 
 
 All day and night they dance and never reft. 
 
 A Boon as Mufick from {truck firings rebounds, 
 
 Or the full Pipes breath forth their Magick founds^ 
 The ftifF old Woman ftraight begins a Round, 
 
 And the Lethargick Sleeper quits the ground. 
 
 The poor lame Fellow, though he cannot prance 
 So nimbly as the reft, he hops a Dance. 
 
 The old Man, whom this merry Poifon fires. 
 
 Satyrs themfelves with dancing almoft tires. 
 
 To fuch a fad, phrenetick Dance as this 
 A Siren, fure, the fkteft Minftrel is. 
 
 Cruel Diftemper ! thy wild fury proves 
 Worft Mafter of the Revels which it loves : 
 
 * a heavy fort When this fad * Pyrrhick meafure they begin, 
 of Dancing Ah ! what a weight hangs on their hearts within, 
 m armor, -pell me, Phyficians ! which way fliall -I eafe 
 
 Poor mortals of this ftrange, unknown difeafe? 
 
 For me may Fh reins never .more protect 
 ( Whofe Godhead you and I fo much refped): 
 
 If I know any more { to tell you true ) 
 
 Whence this dire mifehief fprings, than one of you. 
 
 ' ' -'7 But to the heart (you know it) and the brain, 
 
 Thofe diftant Provinces, in which I reign, 
 
 (To you, my friends, I no falfe ftories feign. ) 
 Auxiliary troops of Spirits I 
 Send, and the Camp with frefh Recruits fupply. 
 
 
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 • Many kind Plants befides Me to the War 
 Attend, nor blufli that under me they Soldiers are. 
 The metry Baum, and Rue which Serpents kills, 
 Cent’ry, and Saffron from Cilician Hills. 
 
 And thou, kind Birthmrt , whofe aufpicious Name 
 From thy good deeds to teeming Women came. 
 
 The kind Pomegranate alfo does engage, 
 
 With her bright Arms, and my dear Sifter Sage. 
 Berries of Laurel , Myrtle , Tamarisk , 
 
 Ivy nor Juniper are very brisk. 
 
 Lavender, and fweet Marjoram march away, 
 Sotbernwcod and Angelica don't flay. 
 
 Plant ain^ the Thiftle which they BlefTed call. 
 
 And ufcful Wormwood in their order fail. 
 
 Then Carrot , Anife , and white Cumin feed. 
 
 With Gith, that pretty, chart, black Rogue, proceed. 
 Next -Viper sgrafs a Plant but lately known. 
 
 And Torment il and Rofes red, full blown; 
 f To which I Garlick may and Onions join 5 
 All thefe to fight I lead ; go, give the figm 
 ^ With indignation I am vex'd, and hate 
 
 Soft Mufick that great praife fhou’d arrogate. 
 
 Poets will fay, 'tis true ( they're given to lye ) 
 Willing their Mirtris fo to gratifie. 
 
 But food I fay it does, not Phyfick, prove 
 To madmen ( witnefs, all that are in Love ! ) 
 
 She to a fhort liv'd folly does fupply 
 Conftant additions of new vanity 5 
 And here ( to fhew her Wit and Courage too) 
 Flatters the Tyrant, whom fhe fhou'd fubdue. 
 
 It is the greatert part of the Difeafc, 
 
 That fhe does fo immoderately pleafe, 
 
 9 Tis part of the Difeafe, that fo they throw 
 And tofs themfelves, which does for Phyfick go; 
 This Plague it felf is plagu’d fo night and day 
 That tir'd with labour it flies quite away. 
 
 I alio lend an hand, to eafe her grief, 
 
 When from her own ftrength Nature feeks relief 
 ? Tis fomething that I do , but truly I 
 Think the Difeafe is its own Remedy. 
 
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 MINT. 
 
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 T Ake my advice, Men ! and no Riddles ufe; 
 
 Why vvo'n’t you rather to fpeak plainly choofe? 
 
 If you're affraid, your fecrets fhou’d be told. 
 
 Your tongues you (that’s the fureft way ) may hold. 
 
 ArijlotU gave the World a Rule, Neither eat Mint nor plant it in time of war; which being varioufly un2 
 derftood by his Followers ; The faid Herb does In this Speech make out, that ic can with no fenfc be 
 interpreted to its difhonour, by telling her Virtues in chearing the Spirits and exciting the Stomach. 
 
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 Why fhou’d we Scnfe with barbarous cruelty 
 Put to the Rack, to make it tell a lye ? 
 
 Of this juil reafon I have to complain; 
 
 Old dubious Saws long fince my fame do flam. 
 How many ill conje&ures grounded are 
 On this, that I muff ne’r be fet in War. 
 
 The Reader of a thing obfeure will be 
 Inclin’d to carp, and to take liberty. 
 
 Hence one fays, Mint, Man does entirely hate, 
 And Mint to Venus alfo is ingrate. 
 
 Mars loves as well to get as to deftroy 
 Mankind, the booty of his fierce employ. 
 
 Mint from the feed all feminal virtue takes. 
 And of brisk Mon dull frigid Eunuchs makes. 
 And then (to make the fpreading error creep 
 Farther and farther Rill) they hear I keep 
 Their Milk from thickning ; but how this I do 
 I’ll tell you on thefe terms alone, That you 
 Shall me before refolve how firft you gain 
 Notions °f things, then, how you them retain. 
 This I dare boldly fay ; The fire of Love 
 With genial heat I gently do improve; 
 Though conffantly the noble, humane feed 
 That facred Lamp with vital Oil does feed : 
 For what to Venus e’r will faithful feem. 
 
 If Heat it felf an Enemy you efteem ? 
 
 Whether I know * her Proferpine can tell, 
 
 I by my punifhment am clear’d too well. 
 Befides, nought more the ftomach rectifies, 
 
 * Finns. 
 
 Minthe was 
 a Nymph, 
 one of Pluto * s 
 
 Harlots, whom Or fircngthens the digeflive faculties. 
 
 Proftrfine 
 therefore 
 chang’d into 
 this Herb. 
 Opp. Hal. 3' 
 
 
 Such, fuch a Plant that feeds the amorous flame, 
 
 If Venus love not, fhe is much to blame 5 
 And with ingratitude the feed I may 
 Charge, if to me great thanks it do not pay. 
 
 But other caufes others have affign’d, 
 
 Who make the reafon, which they cannot find. 
 They fay, Wounds, if I touch them, bleed anew. 
 And I wound wounds themfclves ; ’tis very true. 
 For l a dry, aflringent Pow’r retain, 
 
 By which all Ulcers of their gore I drain. 
 
 I Bloody-fluxes flop, my Virtue’s fure 
 The Wounds that Natures felf has made to cure. 
 On bites of Serpents and mad Dogs I feize 
 And them ( Wars hurts are flight) I heal with eafe. 
 i fcarce dare mention, that from Galling I, 
 
 If in the hand I’m born, preferve the thigh. 
 
 D’ye laugh? laugh on, fo I with laughter may 
 Requite the fcandals which on me you lay. 
 
 Of which fome I omit ; and the true caule 
 Of all will tell ( and then file made a paufe. ) 
 
 Though 
 

 Book! Of T L A T S. 
 
 Though I abhor my forrovvs to recal 
 ( And here the tears down her green checks did fall ) 
 l did not always in your Gardens grow, 
 
 But once a comely Virgins face cou’d (how. 
 
 Black though I was ( Cocytus was my Sire ) 
 
 Yet Beauty had to kindle am’rous fire. 
 
 Left any one Ihould think this is a lye, 
 
 Ovid will tell you fo as well as I, 
 
 My Father had a pleafant, fhady Grove, 
 
 Where he perpetually to walk did love. 
 
 There mournful Yew, and funeral Cyprefs grow, ' 
 
 Whofe melancholy Greens no Winter know. 
 
 With other Trees whofe looks their forrow lhow. 
 
 Here Pluto, (Jove of the infernal Throne) 
 
 Saw me, as l was walking all alone. 
 
 He faw me and was pleas’d ; for his defire 
 At any face, or white or black, takes fire. 
 
 Ah ! if you knew him but fo well as I, 
 
 He’s an unfatiable Deity. 
 
 He never {lands a tender Maid to woe. 
 
 But cruelly by violence falls to. 
 
 He caught me, though I fled till out of breath 
 I was ; I thought he wou’d ha’ been my death. 
 
 What cou’d l do? bis flrength was far above 
 Mine ; he, the flrength has of his Brother Jove, 
 
 In fhort. Me to a fecret Cave he lead. 
 
 And there the Ravi flier got my Maidenhead ; 
 
 But in the midfl of all his wickednefs, 
 
 ( How it fell out the Poets don’t exprefs. 
 
 Nor can you think that I, poor Creature, well 
 The caufe at fuch a time as that cou’d tell ) 
 
 Lo ! Prefer pine, his Wife came in, and found 
 My wretched limbs all proflrate on the ground. 
 
 She no excufc wou’d hear, nor me again 
 Let rife; but faid, There fix’d I fhou’d remain. 
 
 She fpake, and flraight my body l perceiv’d, 
 
 ( Each limb difiolv’d) of all its flrength bereav’d. 
 
 My Veins are all flraight rooted in the Earth 
 ( From whence my ruddy flalk receives its birth ) 
 
 A blufning crown of Flowers adorns my head. 
 
 My leaves are jagged, of a darkifh red. 
 
 And fo a lovely Bed of Mint I make 
 In the lame poflure, that Ihe did- me take. 
 
 But the infernal Ravifher my Fate 
 (Twou’d move a Devil ) did commiferate; 
 
 And, his refpeft for what I was, to lhow. 
 
 Great Virtue on my leaves he did beftow. 
 
 Rich qualities to humble Me he gave, 
 
 Of which my fragrant Smell’s the leaft I have. 
 
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 * Tnttulis and 
 Htfui were the 
 two greateft 
 Gods of the 
 
 Gauls. 
 
 Concerning 
 thefe Cere- 
 monies, fee 
 Plin. I. 16 . 43 . 
 
 Ir averts 
 Charms being 
 tied to the 
 
 Neck. Cluf 
 
 All this the Antients underftood was true. 
 
 And thence their great Religious caution grew. 
 
 They thought me facred to th’ infernal King, 
 
 And that ’twas ominous for me to lpring 
 In times of death and danger, nor wou’d let 
 Me in the mid ft of war and blood be fet. 
 
 But they miftaken were; for I take care 
 That others be not caught in his ftrong fnare. 
 
 Nor pafs the Stygian Lake without gray hair. 
 
 /J [ ,[ nil , * V O i 
 
 MISSELTOE. > 
 
 ¥ X TElcome, thrice welcome, facred MiJJeltoe l 
 V V The greatefl Gift, * Teutates does bellow. 
 With more Religion, Druid Priells invoke 
 Thee, than thy facred, llurdy Sire, the Oak. 
 
 Raife holy Altars from the verdant ground, 
 
 And ftrow your various Flowers all around : 
 
 Next let the Pried when to the Gods h as paid 
 All due Devotion, and his Or’fons made, 
 
 Cloth’d all in white, by the attendants be, 
 
 With Hands and Necks rais’d to the facred Tree. 
 Where that he may more freely it receive. 
 
 Let him firfb beg. the Shrubs indulgent leave. 
 
 And when has cut it with a golden hook, 
 
 Let the expe£ling crowd, that upward look. 
 
 Array’d in White, the falling Treafure meet. 
 
 And catch it in a pure, clean, fnowy Sheet. 
 
 Then let two fpotlefs Bulls before him lie. 
 
 And with their grateful blood the Altars die. 
 
 Which when you’ve done,then feaft, and dance, and ling- 
 And let the Wood with their loud voices ring. 
 
 Such honour had the MiJJeltoe ; which hate 
 And envy to it did in Gods create. 
 
 Th’ Egyptian Temples do not louder found. 
 
 When there again th’ adored Heifers found. 
 
 Nor did fhe feem lefs Majefty to wear 
 (If any Tree there MiJJeltoe did bear ) 
 
 When in Dodonas Grove upon an Oak 
 She grew, that in its hollow Oracles fpoke ; 
 
 For this one Plant the Antients, above all, 
 
 Prote&refs of their Life did think and call : 
 
 She onely from the Earth loaths to be born. 
 
 And on the meaner ground to tread thinks fcorn. 
 
 Nor did fhe from prolifick matter come. 
 
 But like the World from Nothings fruitful womb. 
 Others are fet and grow by humane care, 
 
 Her leaves the product of mere Nature are. 
 
 Hence Serpents She of their black flings difarms. 
 
 And baffles (Mans worfe Poifon) Magick Charms; 
 
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 Befides all other kinds of Maladies 
 ( How numberlefs; alas!) that on us feize. 
 
 Nor wonder, chat all other ills it beats. 
 
 Since the Hercnlean-Sickncfe it defeats. 
 
 Than which none more Chimera like appears, 
 
 One part o’nt’s dead, the other raves and tears. 
 This Monfter (he fubdues ; hence ’twas believ’d 
 (And truly though ’twas falfe, it was receiv’d 
 On no bad grounds ) that lefler Monfters She 
 Cou’d make the Trophies of her Victory. 
 
 The Anticnts thought fo in the infancy 
 O’th’ World, they then knew nought of Fallacy. 
 Nor was She then thought onely to defend 
 And guard Lifes Fort, but Life it felf to lend, 
 
 Ev’n the Wombs fruitful Soil t* improve and mend. 
 For what Soil barren to that Plant can be, 
 
 Which without Seed has its Nativity? 
 
 Or what to her clofe fhut and lock’d can feem. 
 
 That makes th’ obdurate Oaks hard entrails teem ? 
 That from a Tree comes forth in pangs and pain. 
 Like the Athenian Goddefs from Joves brain. 
 
 But if that’s true, which Andent Bards have Writ 
 (For though they’re Antient Bards , I queftion it ) 
 
 I wonder not, that Miffeltoe’s fo kind 
 To us, fince her the ties of Nature bind. 
 
 For Men of old, ( if you’ll believe ’twas fo) 
 
 Born out of Oaks, were the fir ft MiJJeltoe . 
 
 the Falling- 
 Sickncfs. 
 
 Virg. Juvtn. 
 Statius. 
 
 CELANDINE . 
 
 S EE how the yellow Gall the delug’d Eyes, 
 And Saffron Jaundice the whole Vifage dies. 
 That colour, which on Gold we think fo fair ; 
 That hue which mod adorns the trefled hair. 
 When, like a Tyrant, it unjuftly gains 
 Anothcrs Throne, and there ufurping reigns. 
 
 It frightful grows, and far more beauty lacks 
 Than, with their Saddle-nofes, dusky Blacks. 
 
 So ( I fuppofe ) to the Gods Eyes, the Soul 
 Oth’ Mifer looks 5 as yellow and as foul. 
 
 For if with Gold alone the Soul’s inflam’d. 
 
 It has th’ Anri go , from that Metal nam’d. 
 
 This the almighty Gods can onely cure. 
 
 And Reafon, more than Herbs, our minds fecure. 
 But th’ outward Jaundice docs Our help implore 5 
 When with Gall floods the body’s dy’d all ore. 
 
 I cannot tell what others do ; but I 
 Give to that Jaundice prefent remedy ; 
 
 A Decoftloa 
 hereof with 
 White -wine 
 and Anoife- 
 feeds, is faid 
 to be excel- 
 lent againfl 
 the Jauniits. 
 
 MxtthioUt 
 fays it will 
 cure the fame, 
 being applied 
 to the foies of 
 the feet. 
 
 
 Nor 
 
The Signa- 
 ture. 
 
 Of T L /INI T S- B ooK I. 
 
 Nor do I raflily undertake the cure, 
 
 I an Afliflant have, that makes me fure. 
 
 Natures own Patent gives me my command, 
 
 See, here’s her own fign manual, here’s her hand. 
 
 Through leaves, and (talk and roots themfelves it goes, 
 
 The yellow blood through my whole body flows. 
 
 Whoever me di Hefts, wou’d think, nay fwear, 
 
 O’rflown with Gall I Tick o’th’ Jaundice were. 
 
 Mean time my skin all o’r is frefli and green. 
 
 And colour good, as in an Herb you’ve feen. 
 
 Upon the fame. 
 
 Theextraor. THE N thoufand bleflings may the Gods beftow 
 dinary faculty £ Upon Thee, tuneful Swallow ! and ne’r fhow, 
 
 in healing' the They bear the leaft refentment of that Crime, 
 eyes, is faid to Which thou haft fuffer’d for fo long a time, 
 have been p 0 r t h at t h c u f e c f a c h 0 j ce plant thou’ft taught, 
 
 th^s wallow, y Which ne’r before blind Man had feen or fought, 
 who cures irs Of Thee large Rent now e’ry Houfe receives 
 with . 8 therC F° r th’ Nefts which they to Thee let under th’ eaves. 
 The painted Springs whole train on thee attend. 
 
 Yet nought thou feed which thou canft more commend. 
 For this it is ’that makes thee all things fee. 
 
 This Plant a fpecial favour has for thee. 
 
 When thoucom’ft, th’ others come; that won’t fuffice; 
 At thy return away This with thee flies. 
 
 Yet we to it muft more engagements own; 
 
 ’Tis a fmall thing to heal the Eyes alone; 
 its other Vir- Ten thoufand torments of our Life it cures, 
 me?. From which good Fortune you, bleft Birds, fecures. 
 
 The Gripes by its approach it mitigates. 
 
 And tortures of an aking tooth abates. 
 
 The golden Jaundice quickly it defeats. 
 
 And with gilt Arms at his own weapons beats : 
 Jaundice, which Morbus Regius they call 
 From a King; but falfly$ ’tis Tyrannical. 
 
 Foul Ulcers too that from the body bud, 
 
 This dries and drains of all their putrid blood. 
 
 A gaping Wounds one Lip, like any Brother, 
 Approaches nearer and falutes the other. 
 
 Nor do thy (hankers now, foul Luft! remain. 
 
 But all thy (healing Scabs rub off again. 
 
 The burning Cancer and the Tetter fly, 
 
 Whilft all hot, angry, red biles fmk and dry. 
 
 Dileafes paint wears of£ and places, where 
 The Sun once printed kifles, difappear. 
 
 Purg’d of all blemi(hes the fmiling face 
 Is cleaner far, and fmoother than its Glafs. 
 
 Alluding to 
 the Fable of 
 Philomel 
 turn’d into a 
 Swallow, 
 
 Kind 
 

 Boo K I. Of T LA NTS. 
 
 Kind Friend to th’Eyes ! who giv’d not onely fight, 
 But with it alfo Objefrs that delight. 
 
 She may be feen, as well as come to fee, 
 
 Whatever Woman’s doubly bled by thee: 
 
 The gaudy Spring by thy approach is known. 
 
 And blooming Beauties thy arrival own. 
 
 %0 C l^ET. 
 
 Y OU ! who in iacred Wedlock coupled are, 
 
 ( Where all joys lawful, all joys feeraly arc) 
 
 . Ben’c fhie to eat of my leaves heartily. 
 
 They do not hunger onely fatisfie. 
 
 They’il be a Banquet to you all the night, 
 
 O.i them the body chews with frefh delight. 
 
 Bat you, chad Lads, and Girls, that lie alone. 
 
 And none of Loves enjoyments yet have known. 
 Take care and Band aloof, if you are wife ; 
 
 Touch not this Plant, Venus her Sacrifice; 
 
 I bring a Poifon for you Modedies. 
 
 In my Grafs, like a Snake, blind Cupid lies» 
 
 And with my juice his deadly weapons dies. 
 
 The God ot Gardens no Herb values more. 
 
 Or courts, prefents, or does himfelf devour. 
 
 This is the reafon, hot Fiapus ! why 
 ( As I fuppofe) you itch fo condantly. 
 
 And that your Arms dill ready are to do, 
 
 The wicked bufinefs that you put ’em to. 
 
 Let him who Love wou’d fhun, from me remove* 
 Says Najo, that Hippocrates in Love. 
 
 Yet to his Table I was duly ferv’d. 
 
 Who my choice Dainty to himfelf referv’d. 
 
 Prove that from Love he ever wou’d be free, 
 More chad than Lettuce I’ll confent to be. 
 
 The praife of Chadity let others keep. 
 
 And gratifie the widow’d Bed with deep. 
 
 A&ion s my Task, bold Lovers to engage, 
 
 And to precipitate the fportive Rage. 
 
 Frankly I own my Nature, I delight 
 In Love unmix’d and redlefs Appetite. 
 
 From curing Maladies I feek no Fame, 
 
 (Though ev’n for that l might put in my Claim) 
 Fuel I bring that Pleafure may not ceafe : 
 
 Take that from Life, and Life is a Difeafe. 
 
 If thus you like me, make me your Repad, 
 
 I wou’d not gratifie a Stoicks tad. 
 
 If Morals grofs and crude be your delight, 
 Marfii weeds can bed oblige your Appetite. 
 
 * \ 
 
 Rocfyt is hoc 
 and dry in the 
 third degree, 
 of a contrary 
 nature to Let- 
 tuce , a friend 
 to Venue and 
 her affairs. 
 
 
 Ovid, dt Retn, 
 Amir. 1. 2. 
 
 Its Medicinal 
 
 yirtues, fee 
 Plin. 1. *0.1$ 
 
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Of T L A S. Book I. 
 
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 * See Wattfr 
 Lily. 
 
 Go from my Book, foul Bawd of Pleafure, go, 
 
 (For what have I, lewd Bawd, with thee to do?) 
 From thefe chaff Herbs and their chaff Poet flee. 
 
 Us thou offend’lt and w’are aiham’d of thee. 
 
 With fuch a Proffitute to come in view, 
 
 Chaff Matrons think a Sin and Scandal too. 
 
 Bluflies pale Water-Lilies cheeks o’r-fpread. 
 
 To be with thee in the fame Volumn read. 
 
 Who ffill the fad remembrance does retain, 
 
 How, when a * Nymph, in thee fhe gorg’d her Bane. 
 That very Night t’ Alcides Arms betray’d 
 Through thy deceitful force the yielding Maicj. 
 
 While I but mention thee (who wou’d believe?) 
 And but thy Image in my thoughts conceive, 
 Through all my Bones I felt thy lightning move. 
 
 The fure fore-runner of approaching Love. 
 
 With this of old he us’d t’ attack my Senfe, 
 
 Before the dreadful Fight he did commence. 
 
 But Love and Luff I now alike deteff. 
 
 My Mufe and Mind with nobler Themes pofTeff. 
 Lafcivious Plant, fome other Poet find, 
 
 For Ovid's or Catullus Verfe defign’d : 
 
 For thou in mine fhalt have no place at all, 
 
 Or in the Liff of pois’nous Herbs fhalt fall. 
 
 The flames of Luff of fewel have no need, 
 
 His Appetite without thy Sawce can feed. 
 
 Love in our very Diet finds his way, 
 
 And makes the Guards that fliould defend, betray- 
 Our other Ills permit our Herbs to cure 
 Venus, who plague enough in thee endure. 
 
 Thofc Plants which Nature made of Sex devoid, 
 Improperly are in thy work employ’d. 
 
 V ct Venus too much skill’d in impious Arts, 
 
 Thefe forein aids to her own ufe converts. 
 
 Who’d think green Plants with conffant dew fnpply’d, 
 ( Life’s Friends defign’d ) fuch mortal Flame fliou’d hide ? 
 What wonder therefore if when Monarchs feaft. 
 
 Luff is of Luxury the conffant Gueff ? 
 
 When * He who with the Herd on Herbage fed 
 Cou’d find her lurking in the verdant Bed. 
 
 * Tythagoras, 
 
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 ■ The End of the Firft Book. 
 
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 BOOK 
 
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 O F 
 
 BOOK II. 
 
 C T B E LES Holy Myfteries now begin ; 
 
 Hence all you Males; for you it is a fin 
 One moment in this hallowed place to flay. 
 You jibing Males, who no devotion pay. 
 Into the Female Secrets do not pry. 
 
 Or them at lcafl pretend you don’c defery. 
 
 Tis rude that Sex t’ infpefr too narrowly, 
 
 Whofe outfide with fuch Beauties treats the Eye. 
 Aufpicious Glory of th’ inlighten’d Skie, 
 
 More facred than thy Brothers Deity, 
 
 With thy whole Horns, kind Luna ! favour me, 
 
 And let thy crefcent Face look luckily. 
 
 Thee many Names and Offices adorn. 
 
 By * thy kind aid poor, tender Babes are born : 
 Thou eafeft Women, when their Labours hard, 
 
 And the Wombs vital Gates you, Jana, guard. 
 
 The menflruous courfes you bring down, and them.. 
 Changing convert into a milky flream. 
 
 Women, unconflant as the Sea, you bind 
 To Rules; both flow according to thy mind. 
 
 Oh ! may the Rivolets of my fancy glide 
 By the fame fecret force, which move the Tide. 
 
 Be thou the Midwife to my teeming brain. 
 
 And let it fruitful be as free from pain. 
 
 It was the time, when April decks the year. 
 
 And the glad Fields in pompous garbs appear. 
 
 That the recruited Plants now leave their beds. 
 
 And at the Suns command dare ihew their heads. 
 How pleas’d they are the Hcav’ns again to fee! 
 
 And that from Winters fetters they arc free ! 
 
 The World around, and Sifters, whom they love. 
 They view ; fuch Objects urc their fmiles muft move. 
 
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 This Book 
 treating only 
 of female 
 Plants, is de- 
 dicated to 
 Cybtle , at 
 whofe Myfte- 
 ries no Man 
 ought to be 
 prefenr. 
 
 * The Mooh 
 is call’d Lu- 
 cina , the 
 Goddefs of 
 Midvvifry • 
 and Jzna, as 
 the Sun, Ja- 
 nm y and 
 Mena, as file 
 is the govern- 
 nefs of Wo- 
 mens men- 
 ftruous cour- 
 fes. 
 
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 Straight their great work the diligent Nation ply, 
 
 And bus’neis mind amidft their luxury. 
 
 Each one contends with all her might and main 
 Each day an higher, verdant Crown to gain. 
 
 Each one does leaves with beauteous Flow’rs, produce, 
 And haftens to be fit tor humane ufe. 
 
 Equipp’d they make no flay, but one and all. 
 
 Intent upon th’ Affair, a Council call. 
 
 Each Tribe (for there are many) as of old 
 Their cuflome was ) a feparate Council hold. 
 
 They’re near a thoufand Tribes; their Minutes well 
 An hundred Clerk-like tongues can fcarcely tell. 
 
 Nor cou’d 1 know them ( tor they don’t reveal 
 Their facred A£ts, but cautioufly conceal) 
 
 Had not my Laurel told me (whofe Tribes name 
 Gynaccilis. The Females {fil’d ) which fummon’d thither came. 
 The fecrets of the Houfe fhc open laid. 
 
 Telling, how each Herb fpoke and what it faid. 
 
 Ye gentle, Florid part of humane kind 
 f To you and not to Men, I fpeak) pray* mind 
 My words, and them moll fledfaftly believe. 
 
 Which from the Delphick Laurel you receive. 
 
 Twas midnight, ( whilft the Moon, at full, fhonc bright. 
 And her Cheeks feem’d to fwell with moiften’d light ) 
 When on their looten’d roots the Plants, that grow 
 In th’ Oxford Gardens, did to Council go ; 
 
 And fuch, I mean, as fuccour Womens pains; 
 
 Orpheus, you’d think, had mov’d them by his flrains. 
 They met upon a bed, neat, fmooth and round. 
 
 And foftly fate in order on the ground. 
 
 Mugrvort firft took her place ( at that time She 
 The Prefident of the Council chanc’d to be. ) 
 Birthwort , her Predeceflor in the Chair, 
 
 Next fate, whofe virtues breeding Women lhare. 
 Then Bawm , with fmiles and pleafure in her face. 
 Without regard to Dignity took place*. 
 
 Tyme , Savry , Wormwood \ which looks ruggedly, 
 t Lavender- Sparagus, Sothermvood both He and f She, 
 
 Cotton. And * Crocus too, glad {till foft Maids to chear, 
 
 * \.e. saffron-, Q nce a fad Lover, merry does appear. 
 
 Boy that died And thou, f Amaracus , who a trifling 111 
 
 for Love, and Didft mourn, when thou the fragrant Box didft fpill 
 
 into saffron. Of Ointment, in this place now far more fweet 
 
 t The name Than the occafion of thy Death doft meet. 
 
 nit a box' of There Eilfes with red Peonies find a Room, 
 
 fweet oint- And purple Violets che place perfume. 
 
 ment, and Yea noifome * Devils turd, becaufe file knows 
 
 into fweef Her worth, into that fweet Aflembly goes. 
 
 Marjoram. The milky Lettuce too does thither move, 
 
 And Water-Lily , though a foe to Love. 
 
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 I. . 
 
 * If a Dog tafts 
 it, he’ll run 
 nwd. Pun. 
 
 Sweet 
 
Book II. Of T L A Uf T S. 
 
 Sweet Ladies glove with (linking Horehound come, 
 
 And kind Germander which relieves the Womb. 
 
 Poley and Calamint , which on Mountains dwell, 
 
 But againfl FroB and Snow are guarded well. 
 
 Next vital Sage , well join’d with wholfom Rue , 
 
 And Flower de-luce , nam’d from its fplendid hue. 
 Then Hart-wort ( much more grateful to the Deer 
 Than Dittany _) with Wild Carrots , enters there. 
 Confound and Plantain ; frugal * herbs are they. 
 
 Who all things keep fafe under Lock and Key. 
 
 And Mafter-wort , whole name Dominion wears. 
 
 With her, who an Angelick Title bears. 
 
 Lavender , Corn-rofe , Pennyroyal fate. 
 
 And that which Cats efleem fo delicate. 
 
 After a while, (low pac’d, with much ado, 
 
 Ground-f ine with her Ihort Legs crept thither too. 
 Behind the reB Camomile cou’d not (lay, 
 
 Through Bones and craggy Rocks Ihe cut her way. 
 From Spanifh Woods the wholfom Vet Pony came. 
 
 The only glory of the Vettons name. 
 
 Minerva's Plant did like wife thither hie, 
 
 And was Companion to Mercury . 
 
 There Scarlet Madder too a place did find, 
 
 Drawing a train of its long root behind. 
 
 Thither at lad too Dittany did repair. 
 
 Half- Bar v’d, and griev’d to leave the Cretan air. 
 
 With her the bold, Brong Sow-bread came along. 
 
 And hundreds more ( in ihort to them did throng. 
 Many befides from th’ Indies crofs’d the main. 
 
 Plants-, that of our chili Clime did much complain. 
 But Oxfords Fame 5 through both the Indies told. 
 Eas’d all their cares, and warm’d the nipping cold : 
 The Pigmey and Gigantick Sons o’th’ YVood 
 Betwixt all thefe in equal (paces Bood ; 
 
 Spreading their verdant glories round above, 
 
 Which did delight and admiration move. 
 
 The icarlet Oak, that Worms for fruit brings forth, 
 Which the Hefperian fruit exceed in worth. 
 
 Was there, good Womens Maladies to cafe, 
 
 And Sprains, which we as truly call, Difeafe. 
 
 Her treacheroufly the Ivy does embrace. 
 
 And kills the Tree with kindnefs in her face. 
 
 Hardly, in nobler Scarlet clad, the Role, 
 
 The envy of thofe Bately Berries grows. 
 
 Near which the Birch her rigid Arms extends, 
 
 And Savine which kind Sinners much befriends. 
 
 Next them the Beech with limbs fo Brong and large. 
 With the Bujh purchas’d at fo final! a charge. 
 
 Nor did the goiden Quince her felf conceal. 
 
 Or * Myrrh, whole wounds diBemper’d Mortals heal. 
 
 E 2 
 
 * They are 
 binding. 
 
 Angilica. 
 
 Cat-Mint. 
 
 I 
 
 Betony , call’d 
 Vtttonici 
 from a People 
 of spun that 
 firft found it 
 out, and are 
 memorable 
 only upon 
 that (core. 
 
 * It is cut 
 that the Gum 
 may flow 
 forth. 
 
 LaBly 
 

 Of TLA 'JsfTS. BookII. 
 
 LafLiy (yd Plants whom I forget to name 
 Excufe me_) Juniper too thither came, 
 
 And Laurel, l'acred to the Sons of Fame. 
 
 Such reverend Heads did the green Senate fill; 
 
 The Night was calm, all things were hufh’d and (till ; 
 
 Each Planr, with liftening leaves flood mute to hear 
 Their President fpeak 5 and thefe her Dictates were. 
 
 1 
 
 M UG W 0 G^T [the Prefident, begins.]] 
 
 A Fter long cold, grave Matrons ! in this place, 
 
 ( For th’ good of oui*s ( I hope) and human race ) 
 
 This facred Garden, we whilft others fleep 
 Blefl Aprils facred Nights come here to keep. 
 
 Our thanks to Thee, great Father, Sun ! we pay, 
 
 And to thee, Luna! tor thy nurfing Ray; 
 
 Who the bright Witnefs art of what we fay. 
 
 But the fliort moments of our Liberty 
 (Who fetter’d at Day-break again muft lie) 
 
 Let us improve, and our affairs attend, 
 
 Nor feflal hours, like idle Mortals, fpend. 
 
 ’Tis fit at this time we fhou’d truly live, 
 
 When Winters colds of half our life deprive. 
 
 Come then, from ufeful pains make no delay. 
 
 Winter will give you too much time to play. 
 
 How many Foes Jove has to you afhgn’d. 
 
 And what a task you in the Conqueft find. 
 
 By numerous and great fatigues you’ve try ’d, 
 
 And to th’ opprefl kind aid have oft fupply’d. 
 
 You’re generous, noble; female Plants, nor ought 
 The glory of your Sex cheap to be bought. 
 
 The felf fame Battels you mult wage again. 
 
 Which will as long as teeming Wombs remain. 
 
 But that to War you may fccurer go 
 Tis fit the foes and your own llrength you know. 
 
 Call the bright Moon to witnefs what you fay, 
 
 Whilft each fuch tributes to their Countrey pay. 
 
 Let each one willingly both teach and learn. 
 
 Nor let that move their envy or their fcorn. 
 
 And firft (I think) upon the menftruous fource 
 My conflant task, ’tis fit we fhou’d difeourfe. 
 
 From what original Spring that Nilus goes, 
 
 Or by what influx it fo oft o’rfiows. 
 
 What will reftrain, and what drive on the tide, 
 
 And what goods or what mifehiefs in it glide. 
 
 See you its fecret Myfteries difclofe, 
 
 A thing fo weighty ’tis no fhame t’expofe.* 
 
 She fpake, the reft began, and hotly all 
 ( As Scholars ufe ) upon the bufmefs fail. 
 
 PEN NT- 
 
Bo OK II. Of T L J T S. 
 
 VENN I \ 0 I A L. 
 
 * 
 
 TIjTrfl: Penny- royal, to advance her Fame 
 
 (And from her mouth a grateful Odour came ) 
 Tells ’em, they fay, how many ills that fource 
 Threatens, wliene’r it (lops its purple courfe. 
 
 That foggy dulnefs in the Limbs attends, 
 
 And under its own weight the body bends. 
 
 Things ne’r fo plcafant once, now will not pleale , 
 
 And Life it felf becomes a mere Difeafe. 
 
 Ulcers and Inflammations too it breeds. 
 
 And dreadful, bloudy, vomiting fucceeds. 
 
 The Womb now labouring leems to flrive for breath, 
 And the Soul ftruggles with a fhort-liv’d Death. 
 
 The Lungs opprefl: hard refpiration make, 
 
 And breathlefs Coughs foon all the fabrick {hake. 
 Yea the proud foes the Capitol, in time, 
 
 And all the minds well-guarded Towers climb. 
 
 Hence watchful Nights, but frightful Dreams proceed. 
 And minds that fuffer true, falle evils breed. 
 
 Dropfie at laft the wearied Life o’rflows, 
 
 Which floating from its flnpwreck’d Veflel goes. 
 
 How oft, alas! poor, tender, blooming Maids 
 ( Before Loves pow'r their kinder hearts invades ) 
 
 Does this fad Malady with Clouds o’rcaft. 
 
 Which all the longing Lovers paflion blaft? 
 
 The Face looks green, the ruddy Lips grow pale, 
 LikcRofes tindtur'd by a fulphurous gale. 
 
 To alhes, coals, and Lime their appetite 
 ( A loathfom treat ) their ftomach does invite. 
 
 But ’tis a fin to fay, the Ladies eat 
 
 Such things ; thofe are the vile diflempers meat. 
 
 Thus Penny royal fpake ( more paflionate 
 In words, than humane voice can e’r relate ) 
 
 At which, they fay, the whole Aflcmbly mov’d 
 W 7 ept o’r the lofs of Beauty, once belov’d. 
 
 So that good Company, when Day returns, 
 
 The fetting of the Moon, their Miftrefs, mourns. 
 
 She told the means too ; by what fecret aid 
 That conquering 111 did all the limbs invade. 
 
 Through the Wombs Arteries, Laid (he, it goes, 
 
 And unto all the noted pafles flows. 
 
 ( Whether the Wombs magnetick pow’r's the caufe, 
 
 As the whole bodies floods the Kidney draws; 
 
 Or that the Moon, the Queen of fluid things 
 Dire&s and rules that, like the Oceans fprings. ) 
 
 But if the Gates it finds fo fortified, 
 
 That the due current that way be deny’d ; 
 
 
 It 
 

 
 
 3 8 OfTLJ^CTS. Book II. 
 
 It rages and it fwelis ; the grofs part flays, 
 
 And in the neighbouring parts dire revels plays: 
 
 Whilft the more liquid part does upward rife, 
 
 And into veins of purer nature flies. 
 
 It taints the rofie Channels, as it goes, 
 
 And all the foils corrupted, where it flows. 
 
 * Vena cava. The bane its journey through the * Cava takes, 
 a large place. And fierce attacks upon the Liver makes, 
 
 And Heart, vvhofe right-fide Avenue it commands, 
 
 Whilft that for fear amaz’d and trembling (lands. 
 
 But the left Region fo well-guarded feems, 
 
 That in her walls fafe fhe her felf efteems. 
 
 Nor flops it there, but on the Lungs does feize, 
 
 Where drawing breath it felf grows a Difeafe. 
 
 Thence through a fmall Tropontis carried down. 
 
 It makes the Port and takes the left-fide Town. 
 
 What will fuftice that covetous Difeafe, 
 
 Which all the Hearts vafl treafures cannot pleafe? 
 
 , But Avarice flill craves for more and more, 
 
 And if it all things don’t enjoy, is poor. 
 
 Th’ Aorta its wild Legions next engage, 
 
 Blefs me! how uncontroul’d in that they rage! 
 
 The diftant head and heel no fafety knows. 
 
 Through ev’ry part th’ unbounded Victor flows. 
 
 But as the bloud through afll the body’s us’d 
 To run, this Plague through all the bloud’s diffus’d. 
 
 They all agreed ; for none of them e’r doubt, 
 
 How Life in Purple Circles wheels about. 
 
 That Plant they’d hifs out of their company, 
 
 Which Harveys Circulation lliou’d deny. 
 
 DITTANY. 
 
 ~W~\Ittany, though cold Winds her Lips did clofe, 
 
 I J Put on her Winter- gown and up fhe rofe. 
 
 For what can hinder Grecian Plants to be 
 Rhetorical, when they occafion fee? 
 
 For Fenny -royal, painting that Difeafe, 
 
 Her nice, and quainter fanfie did not pleafe. 
 
 She fpake to what the other did omit, 
 
 And pleas’d her felf with her own prating wit. 
 
 If this dire Poifons force their duller Eyes 
 Cant fee, whilft in the body warm it lies, 
 
 Think with your felves how it offends the fenfe. 
 
 When all alone (nay dead ) if driven thence. 
 
 Let Dogs or Men by chance but taft of it 
 (But on Dogs rather let fuch mifehiefs light.) 
 
 Madnefs the tainted Soul invades within, 
 
 And fordid Leprofie rough cafts the skin: 
 
 Whilft 
 
19 
 
 Bo ok II. Of T L A 3fT S. 
 
 Whilft panting Dogs quite raving mad appear, 
 
 And third for water, but the water fear. 
 
 It dabs an half-Man by abortive birth, 
 
 And from the Womb ( oh ! horrid ) drags it forth. 
 Now fanfie Children born of fuch bafe bloud. 
 
 Which gives the Embryo Poifon’dead of food. 
 
 Nor is this all ; for Corn and Vines too know 
 Its baneful force, by which Fields barren grow. 
 
 A Tree, once us’d to bear, its fruit denies; 
 
 If young it fades, and, if new-born, it dies. 
 
 Witnefs the Ivies ( tis no fhame) to you 
 What good does their medicinal virtue do? 
 
 Thefc alfo. Rue ! who all things do’d o’rcome. 
 
 From this drong venom mud receive thy doom. 
 Plants dry and yellow, as in Autumn , grow. 
 
 And Herbs, as if they had the Jaundice, Ihow. 
 Offended Bees with one fmall touch it drives 
 ( Though murmuring to be exil’d ) from their hives. 
 The wretched Creatures leave their golden dore. 
 
 And fvveet abodes, which they mud fee no more. 
 
 Nor do drong Fats their Wines within defend. 
 
 Which in their very youth draw to their end. 
 
 But I name things of little eminence ; 
 
 The warlike Sword it felf makes no defence ; 
 
 And Metals, which fo oft have won the Field, 
 
 To this effeminate didemper yield. * 
 
 For frequent bloud died, bloud now vengeance takes, 
 And mortal wounds ev’n in the weapons makes. 
 Beauty, the thing, for which we Women love, 
 
 Th* occafion of keen Swords does often prove; 
 
 • Let then the female plague thofe Swords rebate. 
 
 Yea even the mem’ry of what’s fo ingrate. 
 
 Maids with proud thoughts, alas ! themfelves deceive, 
 Whild each herfelf a Goddefs does believe; 
 
 Like Tyrants they mifufe the pow’r they have. 
 
 And make their very Worfhiper their Slave. 
 
 But if they truly would confider things. 
 
 And think what filth each month returning brings. 
 
 If they their cheating Glades then wou’d mind, ? 
 ( Which now they think fo faithful and fo kind ) 
 
 How beautiful they are they needs mud find. j 
 T he fmooth Corrupter of their looks they taint. 
 Which long and certain figns at that time paint. 
 
 Each Maid in that dill fuffers the difgrace 
 Of being poifoner to her own face. 
 
 What an unnatural Didemper 5 s this, 
 
 Which ev n to their own fhadows mortal is. 
 
 Uccrpitium , 
 rhe Gum of 
 which is cal- 
 led Afjafxtu 
 da. 
 
 Thus fhe, and as much more die was about 
 To fay, the whole Afiembly gave a {hour. 
 
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 OfTLA^erS. BookII. 
 
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 • r\„ i . . r 
 
 Through all the boughs and all the leaves around 
 There went an angry, loud and murm’ring found. 
 For they of Womens honour tender are. 
 
 Though Ihe thereof had feem’d to take no care. 
 
 
 PLANTAIN, or, WAT<B\ED. 
 
 . •! ebb. ‘i rfoiri'w yri ■■■ 
 
 i n 
 
 The many 
 Virtues of 
 Plantain are 
 to be read in 
 Pliny and Per- 
 nelius . 
 
 The old Phy- 
 fician Themifon 
 wrote a whole 
 Volume con- 
 cerning them. 
 
 See Dittany. 
 
 * Epimenides 
 Crtmfis faidj 
 The Cretans 
 were always 
 Lyars. 
 
 ’^TExt Way bred rofe, propt by her feyen nerves, 
 Who th* honour of a noble Houfe preferves: 
 Her nature is adringent, which great hate 
 Of her among Blond-letters does create. 
 
 But her no quarrels more than words engage. 
 
 Nor does fhe ever like mad mortals rage. 
 
 I envy not the praifes, which to you, 
 
 Ye num’rous race of Leechy kind, are due. 
 
 The purple Tyrant wifely you expel, 
 
 And banithing fuch murdering bloud* do Well, 
 Proudly he o’t the vital fpirits riigns, 
 
 And cruelly infulps jn all fhe veins. 
 
 Arms he of deadly Poifon bears about, 
 
 And leads of Maladies a mighty Rout. 
 
 But why fhou’d you fuch vain additions make, 
 And ills already grear for greater take ? 
 
 Whilft you fo tragically piint the Foe 
 More dreadful, but Jefe credible they grow* 
 
 He ledens that wou’d raife an Heroes fame 
 By Lyes ; falfe praifes cloud g glorious Name. 
 
 One Geryon dew, ( a mighty feat ) and He 
 Three bodies had, in this I can’t agree. 
 
 You any Monder eafily fubdue 5 
 
 But I fcarcc $hink fuch mondrous lyes are true. 
 
 Greek Poets, Ditt’ny , you vvhp oft have read. 
 
 Keep up their Art of lying, though they’re dead. 
 But * what their Countrymen once, fa id of you 
 Pray’ mind it, for I fear ’tis very true. 
 
 Let that which + Wads th c CQ rn a Goddefs be, 
 
 I cannot think her coerfes e’r cou’d be 
 So hurtful to the grain. And then, Pm fure, 
 
 A Fat of lufty Wine is more fecure 
 From danger, where a thoufand Qgmfels fit, 
 
 Than if one drunken Beldam come at it. 
 
 None, caufe a tad of that rank bloud rhey’ve had. 
 But for the place, from whence it comes, run mad^ 
 Madnefs of Dogs mod certainly it cures. 
 
 As thy own Author Pliny us adures. 
 
 Whether by Womens touch the Bees annoy'd 
 I cannot tell ; but Maids Ibou’d Bees avoid. 
 
 f Rubigo. 
 
 Bui 
 

 
 Book II. Of TLA S. 
 
 Rue ought to let the fatal bloud remain 
 Wirhin its Veflel and ne’r force a vein, 
 
 If for her pains nought but her death fhe gain. 
 
 Thou, Ivy, too more careful oughtft to be 
 Both of thy felf and thy great * Deity. 
 
 But when lhe fays. Swords edges it rebates, 
 
 I cou’d rejoice methinks and blefs the Fates, 
 
 If that be all the mifehief it creates. 
 
 I only wilh a Beauty might remain 
 Perfed, till that the Lookinglafs wou’d {lain. 
 
 But I waft time — - By this fufticiently 
 Thefe Grecian wonders are o’rthrown, that I 
 No Woman fee of this dread Poilon die. 
 
 At which the Bramble rofe ( whofe fluent tongue 
 With thorny fharpnefs arm’d is neatly hung) 
 
 And faid, all Serpents have the gift, to be. 
 
 As much as thefe from their own venom free; 
 
 Nor wou’d the Bafilisk, whofe baneful Eye 
 All others kills, by his own Image die. 
 
 This mov’d ’em and they quaver’d with a fmile. 
 
 Some Wind you wou’d ha’ thought, pafs’d by the while* 
 For by that Cynick Shrub great Freedom’s fhown, 
 Which he by conftant ufe has made his own. 
 
 Way bred at this took pet, difpleas’d, that lhe 
 By fuch an one lhou’d interrupted be. 
 
 And fate her down ; when ftraight before ’em all 
 Thefe words the Rofe from her fair lips let fall ; 
 Whilft modeft blufhes beautified her face, 
 
 Like thofe in Spring, that blooming Flowers grace. * 
 
 * Bicchu, to 
 whom the ivy 
 is confccra- 
 ted. 
 
 % 
 
 The ^ 0 S E. 
 
 ’VT’ O U Cretan Dittany, who fuch Poifons mix 
 ! I (For on my Kinfman Wild-rofe I’ll not fix) 
 
 With Womens bloud; fee what a fprightly grace 
 And ardent Scarlet decks their lovely tacc. 
 
 No Flower, no not Fiords felf to fight 
 
 Or touch than them appears more loft and white. 
 
 But at the fame time alfo take a view 
 Of Mans rough, prickly limbs and rufty hue. 
 
 You’ll fay with Butcher s-broom fweet Violets grow, 
 
 And mourn that Lilies fhou’d with Brambles go. 
 
 Then let their Eyes and Reafon teftifie, 
 
 Whether pure veins their purer limbs fupply. 
 
 You cannot fay that Dying Vat is bad. 
 
 From whence a florid colour may be had. 
 
 But this you’ll fay, committed fome offence. 
 
 Or the juft Moon had never driv’n it thence, 
 
 1 F No, 
 
 i 
 
 \ 
 
Of T L A S. B o o K II. 
 
 No, you’re miftaken $ ir has done no wrong. 
 
 But all the fault lies in its copious throng : 
 
 It therefore from the reft, by the great Law 
 Of publick fafety, order’d to withdraw. 
 
 So if a Nation to fuch numbers rife. 
 
 That them their native Countrey can’t fuffice; 
 
 To feck new Lands fome part of them are fent. 
 
 And fuffer, for their Countrey, baniihment. 
 
 But why does Woman- kind fo much abound ? 
 
 Oh! think not Nature e’r was lavifli found. 
 
 Nor docs fhe lay up Riches to the end 
 ( Like Prodigals ) fhe more may have to fpend. 
 
 Whate’r file does is good; what then remains? 
 
 No room for doubt j the thing it felf explains. 
 
 This bloudy Vintage, fee, lafts all the year. 
 
 And the frefh Chyle duely does Life repair. 
 
 The Prefies ftill with juice fwell to the brink. 
 
 Of which their fill the hot, male bodies drink. 
 
 But temperate Women feem to kifs the Cup, 
 
 Nor does their heat luck all the liquor up. 
 
 A vital treafure for great ufes She 
 Lays up, left Nature fhou’d a Bankrupt be. 
 
 Left both the Parents fliares of mingled Love 
 Too little to beget a Child fhou’d prove, 
 
 Unlefs the Mother fome addition made 
 To perfeft the defign they both had laid. 
 
 One part on’t’s red, the other white as fnow. 
 
 And both from fprings of the fame colour flow* 
 
 One wood, you’d think, and t’other (tones did yield, 
 
 Whilft out of both a living Houfe they build. 
 
 I he former, of fuch poyfoning Arts accus’d, 
 
 In which you fanfie, venom is infus’d, 
 
 ( Perhaps with this that fatal Robe was dy’d. 
 
 Which Hercules had fent him from his Bride ) 
 
 The tender Embryos body does compofe. 
 
 And for ten months to kind nutrition goes. 
 
 Nor is this all ; but on the Mothers breaft 
 Again it meets the little Infant Gueft. 
 
 Then chang'd it comes both in its hue and courfe* 
 
 Like Arethufa through a fecret Source. 
 
 Then from the Paps it flows in double tides 
 Far whiter than the banks in which it glides. 
 
 The golden Age of old fuch Rivers drank, 
 
 That fprang from Dugs of e’ry happy bank. 
 
 The candor and fimplicity of Men 
 Deferv’d the milky food of the Infants then. 
 
 How juft and prudent is Dame Natures care 
 Who for each age does proper food prepare ! 
 
 Before tire Liver’s form’d, the Mothers bloud 
 Supplies the Babe with neceflary food. 
 
 V' *'* 
 
 And 
 
O o K II. Of T L A UfT 
 
 And when to work the Novice Heat firft goes 
 In its new fhop, and fcarce its bus’nefs knows. 
 
 Its firft impioyment is in Scarlet grain 
 ( A chiidilh task for learners ) Milk to (lain. 
 
 At laft in e’ry kind its skill it tries, 
 
 And fpends it felf in Curiofities. 
 
 Now fay, it venom in the members breeds, 
 
 With which her Child the careful Mother feeds. 
 Their bane to Infants cruel Stepdames give, 
 
 Whilft Mothers fuck from better fprings derive. 
 But how, you’ll fay, does that which Infants love 
 So prejudicial to their Mothers prove? 
 
 *Tis lively whilft i’th’ native womb it lies. 
 
 But by the veins flung out, decays and dies. 
 
 Then Ihipwrack’d on the neigbouring fhore it lies, 
 A.nd gafping wiihes for its Obfequies. 
 
 This being deni’d, new ftrength it does recover, 
 And flies in vapours all the body over. 
 
 But what firft taft fruits from the tree receive. 
 When rotten, they no natural fign can give. 
 
 So in pure feed the Lifes white manfion (lands. 
 
 But furly Death corrupted feed commands. 
 
 Of Life Death’s no good witnefs ; do not think 
 A living Man can like a Carcafs (link. 
 
 But you a running ftream (that duly flows. 
 
 And no corruption by long- (landing knows ) 
 
 To be as hurtful in their nature, hold, 
 
 As if from fome corrupted fprings they roul’d. 
 
 But now do you go on ( for much you know. 
 
 Part falfe, I think, part very true ) and (hew : 
 
 If any hurtful feeds you can defcry 
 In humane bodies (where they often lie) 
 
 How quickly Natures orders they obey. 
 
 When to the bloud the Flood gates once give way. 
 The courfes this perhaps may putrifie, 
 
 *Tis dangerous to keep bad Company. 
 
 Is this the blouds fault? J’m no witch, I hope. 
 Though with my juice a Man (hou’d Poifon tope. 
 She fpake, and with Ambrofial Odours clos’d 
 Her Speech, which many there, they fay, oppos’d. 
 At laft the Laurels thoughts they all defir’d, 
 
 Th’ Oracular Laurels words they all admir’d. 
 
 laurel. 
 
 T Hat fate which frequently attends on all 
 
 Great Men, does Thee, egregious Bloud, befal 
 Some praife what others too much difapprove,, 
 Exceffivc in their Hatred as their Love. 
 
 F 2 
 
% 
 
 \ 
 
 44 Of T L J Nl? S. B o o K II. 
 
 This Man in prejudice, than in favour lies, 
 
 Whilft to their Ears a various rumour flies. 
 
 Hear Dittany, die fays, each Womans known 
 The Moon to bring each moneth with Poifons down. 
 
 Nor need we mingle Herbs, or Charms, each one 
 Medea proves in her own bloud alone. 
 
 Yet the fair Rofe , if all be true fh’ as laid, 
 
 Each Woman has in that a Goddefs made. 
 
 From thence, fhe fays, Life fpins its Purple thred. 
 
 And tells you how the half-form’d Embryo’s led. 
 
 But if my dear Apollo ben’t unkind, 
 
 Nor I in vain his facred Temples bind. 
 
 Such bloud nor form, nor nourilhment fupplies. 
 
 And fo that triumphs in falfe Victories. 
 
 The many reafons, here I need not tell 
 Which me induce; this one will ferve as well: 
 
 Womans the onely Animal we know. 
 
 Whole veins with fuch immoderate courfes flow. 
 
 Yet every Beaft produces young, we fee, 
 
 And outdoes Mankind in fertility. 
 
 How many do fmall Mice at one time breed { 
 
 Scorning the product of the Troja n Steed. 
 
 With what a bulk does yon vaft El’phant cornel 
 She feems to have a Caftlc in her womb. 
 
 Thy circuits, Luna , Conies alrnoft tell 
 By kindling, near like thee their Bellies fwell. 
 
 And yet their young no bank of bloud maintains. 
 
 Or nourilhment that flows from gaping veins. 
 
 For when i’th’ amorous war a couple vies, 
 
 A living fpark from the Males body flies. 
 
 Which the wombs thirfty jaws, when they begin 
 To feel and tall, immediately luck in: 
 
 Into recelles which fo turn and wind, 
 
 That them Difleders Eyes can hardly find. 
 
 In the fame Chambers part o’th’ female Life 
 Keeps; a brisk Virgin, fit to make a Wife. ' 
 
 Them Venus joins, "and with connubial Love 
 In mingled flames they both begin to move. 
 
 There rednefs caus’d by motion you may fee, 
 
 And bloud, the fign of loft Virginity. 
 
 Of their Invention, bloud, they’re mighty glad ; 
 
 And to Inventions eafie ’cis to add. 
 
 The fmalleft fpark ’tis eafie to augment 
 If you can get it proper nutriment. 
 
 You need not introduce new flames befides, 
 
 Tlf Elixir by this touch rich flore provides. 
 
 All fires, ( provide them fuel ) think it fhame 
 To yield to Fefids never dying flame. 
 
 Thus the firft generous drop of bloud is bred. 
 
 Which proudly fcorns hereafter to be fed. 
 
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 fcidY ’• 1 
 
 With 
 
Book II. Of T L A ^ T S. 
 
 With the feeds native white atfirfl ’tis fill’d. 
 
 And takes delight with its own flock to build. 
 
 But when that fails, then life grows burthenfom, 
 And aid it wifely borrows from the womb. 
 
 Herfelf the fluff fhe borrows purifies, 
 
 And of a rofie, fcarlet colour dyes. 
 
 From whom the wombs full paps with thirfly lips 
 Into its veiny mouths it daily fips. 
 
 Look, where a child’s new born, how foon it goes 
 And that food (wallows, which of old it knows. 
 Kindly it plays and fmiles upon the breafl, 
 
 O’rjoy’d again to find its former feafl. 
 
 Shall Nature glut her tender young with blood? 
 No 5 that can’t be their Elemental food. 
 
 That fure wou’d make them favage, were it fo. 
 And all mankind fierce Cannibals wou’d grow. 
 
 I Nero’s a£ls cou’d hardly then difpraife. 
 
 Nor wou’d Oreftes fury wonder raife. 
 
 If Mothers bloud for wretched Infants firfl 
 By Heav’n’s defign’d, to fatisfie their thirfl. 
 
 Yet fliil that Fluxes caufe we don’t reveal. 
 
 Which does fo cautioufly its fpring conceal. 
 
 A female brute whate’r her womb contains 
 Cherifhes; yet no Moon diflolves her veins. 
 
 Some qual’ty then we for the caufe mull find 
 Which is peculiar to the female kind. 
 
 This is the onely thing, which I can tell. 
 
 That Man in form and foftnefs they excel. 
 
 No Horfe a Mare outdoes, nor Bull, a Cow ; 
 
 If through this Id, through that Jove may low. 
 The Lions favage are both he and (he. 
 
 And in their alpeft equally agree. 
 
 The fhe’s no neater lick'd than rough he-Bears, 
 
 Nor fitter to adorn the flarry fpheres. 
 
 She-Tygers han’t than males more fpotted charms. 
 And Sows are clean as Boars, whom Thunder arms. 
 No painted Bird for want of Feathers fcorns 
 Her Mate, but Heav’n them both alike adorns. 
 
 The Swans ( who are fo downy, foft and white ) 
 Leda can fcarce diflinguifh by the fight. 
 
 In Filhes you no difference can fee, 
 
 Both in the glittering of their Scales agreed 
 Venus in them, arm’d by their naked fex. 
 
 The darts of Beauty needed not t 5 annex. 
 
 In them no killing eyes the conquefl gain. 
 
 Their fmell alone their Triumphs can maintain. 
 
 But humane Race in flames more bright are try’d. 
 By Realon and refplendent Heat fupply’d. 
 
 Nor is Fruition their Original, 
 
 ( A paltry, fhort-liv’d joy ) Oh ! may they All 
 Perifh, who that alone rrue Pleafure call. 
 
 Kind 
 
4 * 
 
 Of T L A WIT S. Book II. 
 
 Kind Nature Beauty has on Maids bellow’d. 
 
 And with a thoufand Charms all o’r endow’d. 
 
 Men Ihe with golden fetters chofe to bind, 
 
 And with fweet force their roving Souls confin’d. 
 
 Nor Women made for beftial delight, 
 
 But with chad pleafure too to rape the fight. 
 
 Hence all that bloud, which after preflings fqueeze 
 Out of the grofler Chyle, as dregs or lees. 
 
 And that, which on the body and the chin 
 With dusky clouds o’rcafls the hairy skin. 
 
 From their fair bodies conftantly lhe drains, 
 
 And Luna her commiflion fort obtains. 
 
 But if thofe (limy flouds, by chance fupprefl, 
 
 Exceflive heats to nutriment digeft. 
 
 Manlike in time the Womens cheeks become, 
 
 * the story And they, poor * Iphis , undergo thy doom, 
 of iphis So f Phaethufa , once fo fmooth and fair, 
 a^Boy on her Wonder’d to feel her face o’rgrown with hair, 
 wedding- Her Hand lhe often blam’d, and for a Glafs, 
 day, (ctpvid. She ca ii’ d) to look how ’twas; but there, alas! 
 
 , A bearded Ghin and Lips fhe found, and then, 
 
 Hb. Epidem, CS ' Blaming the Glafs, felt with her hands agen. 
 fay* that phae- Long looking fhe her own ftrange vifage fear’d, 
 ofpithl^of And ftarted, when an unknown voice lhe heard. 
 
 4bdera, ha- 
 ving before been a fruitful Woman, upon the banilhment of her Husband, and her Courfes flopping, fhe 
 became hairy and had a Beard, and her Voice grew ftrong and hoarfe, like that of a Man $ the fame he 
 writes of Htmife the Wife of Gorippm. 
 
 iji 
 
 Thus and much more ("but who can all relate) 
 
 Apollo's Laurel did exfpatiate. 
 
 Hence to the Wonders of the teeming Bed 
 The way it felf their grave Difcourfes led. 
 
 Then Birth-voort y Juno’s plant, the Court commands 
 To fpeak, who Women lends her Midwife hands. 
 
 Willing enough to talk her Balk lhe rais’d, 
 
 And her own Virtues very boldly prais'd. 
 
 
 <B 1 % T H-W 0 %T. 
 
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 *4 A ‘ » * 
 
 /"TlReen Berries I, and Seed, and Flowers bear; 
 
 And Patronefs o’th’ Womb’s my Character. 
 But deeper yet my great Perfection lies. 
 
 For as my chiefeft fruit my root 1 prize. 
 
 This Nature did with the Wombs figure feal, 
 Nor fufFer’d me its Virtues to conceal. 
 
 Thence am I call’d Earths Apple ; fuch a one, 
 
 As in th’ Hefperian Gardens there are none. 
 
 Had this ( fair Atalanta ! ) then been thrown 
 Before you, when you ran (I know you’ll own 
 
 
 
 Now 
 
, 
 
 / ' * 
 
 > 
 
 Bo O K II. Of T L A (Y~S. 
 
 Now you are married ) t ’t has fo fweet a face, ( 
 
 You tor this fooner wou’d ha’ Hack’d your pace, < 
 
 Than that, for which you loH your Maiden race. • 
 Hence in her own Embraces Mother Earth Z 
 
 Retains and hugs it, where fhe gave it birth, 4 
 
 Nor trulls dull Trees with things of fo much worth.* 
 Ealing all Births, tis I the wonder prove 
 O’th’ Earth our univerfal Parents love. 
 
 That Poet was no fool, nor did he lye. 
 
 Who Paid each Herb cou’d fhew a Deity. 
 
 Nor Ihou’d we Egypts Piety defpife. 
 
 Which to green Gods paid daily Sacrifice. 
 
 Rome, why doll jeer? “They are in Gardens born, 
 
 ‘ c And Vegetable Gods the Fields adorn. 
 
 O m 
 
 What’s Ceres elfe, but Corn, and Bacchus , Vines? 
 And every holy Plain with Godheads fiiines. 
 
 And 1 * Lucina am; for I make way, 
 
 And Lifcs Hreight folding-doors wide open lay. 
 
 Oh ! pardon, Luna ! what I rafhly fpoke, 
 
 That from my lips fuch impious words have broke. 
 I11 me, in me, Lucina, you remain. 
 
 And in difguife a Goddefs I contain: 
 
 For in my roots fmail circle you indole 
 
 Part of thofe Virtues, which your Wifdom knows. 
 
 Triumphant Conquefts over Death I make; 
 
 Arms from my felf, but Pow’r from thee I take. 
 Q’rfeer o’th’ ways the body’s roads I clear, 
 
 And fireets, as I that Cities /Edik were. 
 
 Straight pafiages I widen. Hops remove. 
 
 And every obfiacle down headlong Ihove. 
 
 The Soul and her attendants nothing ftays. 
 
 But they may freely come and go their ways, 
 i alfo dry each fink and fenny flood. 
 
 Led the fwift Meficngers lhou’d Hick i’th’ mud. 
 
 But to my H rider charge committed is 
 The pleafant, facred Way that leads to blifs. 
 
 When dawning Life Cimmerian night wou’d leave, 
 And its relation Days bright rays perceive, 
 
 [ keep Death off the Wombs ftraight pafiages. 
 That them the watchful Foe can ne’r pofiefs. 
 
 You’d wonder ( for great Nature when Hie fhows, 
 Her grcateft wonders, nothing greater does ) 
 
 Which way the narrow womb, fo void of pain 
 Such an unweildy w T eight cou’d e’r contain, 
 
 How luch a bulk, forc’d from its native place. 
 Through fuch a narrow Avenue lliou’d pafs. 
 
 When Vuch crofs motions teeming wombs attain 
 Firfl to dilate, then fold themfelves again. 
 
 What knots unties and folid bones divides, 
 
 And what again unites the diftant fides. 
 
 * Luna and 
 Lucina , both 
 the fame 
 Goddefs of 
 Mldwifry»^ 
 
 But 
 
48 Of TLA S. Book II. 
 
 But this I cannon do, nor all the Earth, 
 
 Wherever pow'rful Plants receive their birth. 
 
 ’Tis true, both I and you, my Sifters, lliare 
 In this great work, and humble Handmaids are. 
 
 But God (you know ) performs the chiefeft part; 
 
 This work is fit for the Almighty Art. 
 
 He to the growing Embryo bids the womb 
 Extend, and bids the Limbs for that make room. 
 
 He parts the meeting Rocks, and with his hand 
 They gently forth at open order ftand. 
 
 Mean time th’ induftrious Infant, loth to ftay, 
 
 Sruggles and with his head wou’d make its way. 
 
 Whilft the tormented, labouring Wretch wou’d fain 
 Be caf’d both of her burthen and her pain. 
 
 , Them too my piercing heat both inftigates. 
 
 And the inclining quarters feparates. 
 
 Sometimes within his Mothers fatal Womb, 
 v Before he’s born, the Infant finds his Tomb . 1 
 Life from her native foil Deaths terrors chafe, 
 
 ' ’ Who fertile is herfelf in fuch a place. 
 
 Th’ included carcafs breaths forth dire perfumes. 
 
 And its own Grave the buried Corps confumes. 
 
 Strange ! the prepofterous Child’s his Mothers death. 
 
 And dead deprives his living Tomb of breath. 
 
 From that fad fate, ye Gods, chaft Women guard; 
 
 And let it be Adulteries reward. 
 
 As far as in me lies, I fave the tree 
 And take the rotten away with me. 
 
 The goods to drown, ’tis the beft way I think, 
 
 Left in a ftorm the Ship and all lliou’d fink. 
 
 Radi Infants often make efcapes; unbind 
 Their cords and leave their luggage all behind. 
 
 Their thicker coats and thinner ftiirts they leave. 
 
 And that fweet Cake where they their food receive. 
 
 Lucina twice poor Women then implore 
 Their throws return although the Birth be or. 
 
 Here to the Womb again my aid I lend. 
 
 And hard as well as noifom work attend. 
 
 What I to cleanfe the pafiage undergo. 
 
 You wot not, but, let no man, pray you, know. 
 
 For if he do, ’twill Cupid's power impair, 
 
 Nor will he fuch an awe oT mortals bear. 
 
 But though in me a fecret Virtue lie 
 tc draws Of pulling Darts from deepeft: Wounds, yet I 
 fcaic^of Thy pleafant Darts, kind Cupid never ftrove 
 bones, &e. To draw; That me no friend to th’ womb wou’d prove. 
 
 Firwt. In me one Virtue I my felf admire 
 
 ( Ah! who can know themfelves as they defire.) 
 
 For ’tis a Riddle; wherefore I wou’d know 
 How I fo oft have done the thing I do. 
 
 For 
 
Book II. Of T L J AfT S, 
 
 For though I life to humane Creatures give, 
 
 Yet if he eats of me, no Fifh can live. 
 
 As foon as me they taft, away they fly 
 Under the water and in filence die. 
 
 What may the caufe of this ftrange quarrel be? 
 
 I know them not, nor have they injur’d me. 
 
 No Animals, than thefe more fruitful prove. 
 When yet I hate, though fruitfulnefs I love. 
 
 T1V Effect is plain and eafie to be found. 
 
 But deep the Caufe lies rooted underground. 
 
 4-9 
 
 The MASTIC 
 
 T Hen Chian Majlick thus began 3 faid (he. 
 
 This futes not with this opportunity. 
 
 To Fillies ( Sifter ) do whate’r you pleafe. 
 
 Depopulate and poifon all the Seas. 
 
 This let that Flerb beware, who back again 
 Made Glaucus fillies bounce into the Main. 
 
 Which with new forms the watery World fuppiies. 
 And changes Men into Sea Deities. 
 
 But thefe are trifles 3 fince curfd Savin here 
 Dares in a throng of pious Plants appear. 
 
 She, who the Altars of the Womb prophanes. 
 
 And deep in bloud that living Temple ftains. 
 Impatient to be wicked Ihe deftroys 
 The naked hopes of thoufand future Boys. 
 
 5 Tis one of Wars extream and greateft harms, 
 
 To fnatch an Infant from bis Mothers Arms. 
 
 But here the Womb ( oh ftrange ! ) clofe Ihut and barr*d, 
 The Mothers very bowels are no guard. 
 
 Whilft Poifons onely in a civil rage. 
 
 And lingring Ills the Step-dames hands engage. 
 
 Oh 1 fimple Colchis, rude and ignorant. 
 
 Who the new Arts of wickedneis doft want ! 
 
 Medea ? Savin knows a better way 
 Than thy Medea Children to deftroy. 
 
 Thou, Progne ! know’ft not how revenge to take. 
 
 Let Itys live ; thy flay amends will make. 
 
 Lie with thy Husband, though againft thy will, 
 
 Let thy fwell’d Womb with hopes fierce Tereus fill. 
 When you are ripe for hate, let Savin come. 
 
 And drefs the fatal Banquet in your Womb. 
 
 The reeking bits let thy curft Husband take. 
 
 And meat of thine and his own bowels make. 
 Abortion, caus’d for fpite’s a generous crime, 
 Th’effedt of pleafure at the prefent time. 
 
 Officious Savin is at the Expence 
 Of fo much Wit and fo much Diligence; 
 
 G 
 
 Concerning 
 Qlaucm hi* 
 Fifties, fee 
 Ovid . Met. 
 lib. IJ./4 
 9 to 
 
 
 To 
 
50 
 
 The Mino- 
 taur. 
 
 Maftlck is 
 good for the 
 Tooch-ach. 
 
 Of <P L A S. Boo 
 
 — — — ■■ ■ — - — — -■ ■ 
 
 To make the lewdeft Whore moil chart appear, 
 
 That of her crimes, no token ihe may wear. 
 
 To make her lechery frugal, and provide 
 That thy apartment, Lull, bent made too wide. 
 
 The wrinkles from her belly to remove, 
 
 Which with difgrace, may her a Mother prove. 
 
 If Men fhou’d all confpire with fuch a Plant, 
 
 The whole World foon Inhabitants wou’d wane. 
 
 You then the Brutes alone in vain wou’d fee. 
 
 And no employment for your Art wou’d be. 
 
 But you, who fcatch the rapid, wheeling Days, 
 
 And Fate beguile with Art and fweet delays; 
 
 You, verdant Conftellations here below. 
 
 To whom their birth and fate all Mortals owe ; 
 
 Do you take care this tree-like Hag to burn. 
 
 Who makes the Womb the Infants living Urn. 
 
 Let Natures mortal Foe receive her doom. 
 
 And with moift Laurel purge the tainted room. 
 
 Or let her live in Crete, her native home. 
 
 And with her Virtues purge Pajiphaes womb. 
 
 There two mifcarriages (he might ha’ made 
 At once; Oh! prize, now never to be had) 
 
 But I fuppole lhe never wou’d ha’ torn, 
 
 Or kept that hopeful Monfter from being born* 
 
 For feven Boys, whofe death to her was dear. 
 
 That Half man was to fwallow e’ry year. 
 
 Haft, Savin ! home to Crete 3 we won’t complain. 
 Though Ditt'ny too with Thee return again. 
 
 At this they were divided ; and the found 
 Of various murmurs flew the Court around. 
 
 Whilft fharp’ned leaves did Savins anger (how. 
 
 As when a Lion bridles at his Foe. 
 
 Thofe three degrees of heat which (he before 
 From Nature had, her anger now made four. 
 
 SAVIN. 
 
 I* i % • 
 
 T Hou, wretched Shrub (in paflionate tones) faid (he, 
 Doft thou pretend to be my Enemy > 
 
 Doft thou a Plant, which through the world is known, 
 Difparage ? all mankind my Virtues own. 
 
 Whilft thou for hollow Teeth a Med’cine art, 
 
 And fcarcely bear’d in Barbers fhops a part. 
 
 Go, hang thy Tables up, to fhew thy Vows, 
 
 And with thy Trophies load thy bending bows. 
 
 Among the Monuments of thy Chivalry 
 The greateft, lome old, rotten Tooth will be. 
 
 What? caufe thy Tear flops weeping rheum, and lays 
 A Damm, which currents of defluxions flay. 
 
51 
 
 Book II. Of T L A tJf T S. 
 
 Dofi chink thy force can keep the Womb fo tight, 
 
 As to restrain Conceptions liquid flight? 
 
 No fure; but thou by Cheats a Name haft fought, 
 
 And woud’il, though vile thou art, too dear be bought. 
 
 By falfe pretences you on Fame impofe, 
 
 But I the truth of what I am difclofc. 
 
 Children, I own, I from the Belly wrefl ; 
 
 Go now, of my confeflion make your belt. 
 
 I own, I fay; nor canR thou for thy heart, 
 
 ( Though thou more tender than the Mother wert, ) 
 
 Prevent me with thy tears of all thy Art. 
 
 Thee let the pregnant Mother eat, and fence 
 With thee her womb; with Pitch and Frankincenfe ; 
 
 A Loadflone too about her let her bear j 
 ( That I fuppofe, does thy great Virtues wear.) 
 
 For that, we know, fix’d to their native place 
 Retains the Iron-feeds of humane Race. 
 
 Let Emeralds and Coral her adorn, 
 
 And many Jafpers, on her Fingers worn; 
 
 With Diamonds and Pearl, Child of a Ihell 
 Whofe filh herfelf and that fecures fo well. 
 
 But above all let her the Eagles Rone 
 Garry, and two of them, not onely one. 
 
 For nothing Rrengthens Nature more, than that ; 
 
 Nothing the Womb does more corroborate. - 
 Let her do all, yet all fhall prove in vain. 
 
 If once accefs to her my juices gain. 
 
 I own it; nor will I ungrateful be 
 To bounteous Nature, leR I anger thee, 
 
 Though thou haft done thy worR to anger me. 
 
 'Tis Natures gift, whofe wifdom I efieem 
 Much more than thine, though thou a Cato feem. 
 
 Into the Womb by Realth I never creep. 
 
 Nor force my felf on Women, whilR they flcep. 
 
 I’d rather far, untouch’d, uncropt, be feen 
 In Gardens always growing, frefh and green. 
 
 I’m gather’d, pounded, and th* untimely blow 
 MuR give, which I my felf firR undergo. 
 
 You juRly blame Medea, but, for fhame. 
 
 The guiitlefs knife, fhe cut with, do not blame. 
 
 The liRening Trees will think thee drunk with Wine, 
 
 If thou of drunkennefs accufe the Vine. 
 
 Nor this bare Povv’r do I to Heaven owe, 
 
 Which greater Virtues did on me beRow. 
 
 For I the Courfes and the After- birth. 
 
 With the dead Members deadly weight bring forth. 
 
 Poor Infants from their native Goal I free, 
 
 And with aRonilh’d Eyes the Sun they fee. 
 
 But nothing can they find, worth fo much pain; 
 
 And wou'd return into the dark again. 
 
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 Sennirtu* and 
 other Phyfi- 
 cians recom- 
 mend thefe 
 Stones to be 
 held in the 
 hand, or o- 
 therwife ap- 
 plied to thofe 
 who fear 
 Abortion, 
 
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 Of T L J ^CT S. Book II. 
 
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 They wilh my fatal draught had come before. 
 
 Ere the great work of life was yet quite o’r. 
 
 That which you call a Crime, I own to be, 
 
 But you muff lay’t on Men and not on me. 
 
 Ah I what at firft wou’d tender Infants give 
 (When newly form’d they fcarce begin to live) 
 
 For this, if poflibly they cou’d but know, 
 
 Through what a padage they muff after go ? 
 
 Ah! why did Heav’n (with reverence let me fay) 
 Into this World make fuch a narrow way ? 
 
 You’d think the Child by’s pains to Heav’n fhou’d go, 
 Whilfl he through pain’s born to a world of woe. 
 Through deadly ftrugglings he receives his breath. 
 And pangs, i’th’ birth refembie thofe of Death. 
 Mothers, the name of Mothers dearly buy, 
 
 And purchafe pleafure at a rate too high. 
 
 But thou, Child bearing Woman, who no eafe 
 Canft find, ( tormented with a dear Difeafe ) 
 
 Whofe tortur’d bowels that fweet Viper gnaws, 
 
 (That living burthen, of thy Rack the caufe) 
 
 Take but my leaves with fpeed, their Virtue try 
 (In them, believe me, fovereign juices lie.) 
 
 Thy barriers they by force foon open lay. 
 
 And out o’th’ world, ’tis fcarce a wider way. 
 
 The Infant, ripe, drops from the bows, and cries 
 The whilft his half-dead Mother filent lies 5 
 But hearing him lhe foon forgets her pain, 
 
 And thinks to do that pleafant trick again. 
 
 But thou, on whom the filver Moons moifl rays 
 ( For the wombs night its Lady Moon obeys ) 
 
 No influence have, I charge thee, do not take 
 My leaves, but haft, though loaded, from ’em make. 
 Down from the Trees by my force lhaken, all 
 The fruits though ne’r fo green and four, fall. 
 
 ( This I foretel you, left, when you’re aggriev’d, 
 
 You then fiiou’d fay, by me you were deceiv’d, ) 
 For innocent Girls fin fore againft their will. 
 
 None ever wiftfd her womb a Child might fill : 
 
 Yet if I were not in the world, they wou’d 
 Incline to do the fa£t, but never cou’d. 
 
 But many other Plants the fame can do. 
 
 Wherefore if banifhment you think my due. 
 Companions in it I (hall have, I know, 
 
 And into Creet a troop of us fiiall go. 
 
 Plants that Thou, Myrrh ! for one fhalt go, who heretofore 
 For lewdnefs punifh’d now deferv’ft the more. 
 
 But thou, though lewd didft not prevent the birth. 
 Though ’twas a Crime to bring the Infant forth. 
 
 And All heal too, who Death affrights, muft pack, 
 With Galbanum and Gum Ammoniac k. 
 
 procure 
 
 Abortion. 
 
 
 And 
 
 * / 
 
Book II. Of T L A JfT S. 
 
 And Benzoin to Cyrenians never fold, 
 
 Unlefs they brought the fweeter fmell of Gold. 
 Ground fine and Saffron too will Exiles prove, 
 Saffron , once Crocus , yellow dy’d by Love. 
 
 Madder , and Colloquintida with me. 
 
 And Dragon too the Cretan fhore mu ft fee. 
 
 And Sowbread too, whofe fecret darts are found 
 Child bearing Women diftantly to wound. 
 
 And Rue , as noble a Plant as any’s here, 
 
 Phyfick to other things, is Poifon there. 
 
 What fhou’d l name the reft ? We make a throng. 
 Thou Birthwort too with us muft troop along. 
 Nor muft you, Prefident, behind us ftay. 
 
 Rife then and into Exile come away. 
 
 She ended, with great favour and applaufe ; 
 
 And there's no doubt but fhe obtain’d her caufe. 
 The Mugwort next began, whofe awful Face 
 Check’d all their ftirs, and filence fill'd the place. 
 
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 I’ll go along and bear thee Company. 
 
 If we for Womens faults muft bear difgrace, 
 
 We, the * Echo licks , are a wretched Race. 
 
 On her head let it ( if a Woman (hall 
 To her own bowels prove inhumane ) fall 
 Not part of Deaths fad penalties, but all. 
 
 Why are we fent for at untimely hours? 
 
 That Day, when lucky f Juno comes, is ours. 
 She's wicked and deferves the worft of fates. 
 
 Who to ill ends that time anticipates. 
 
 For the admitted juice knows no delay. 
 
 But torpid as it is will force its way. 
 
 Nor is it hard a Fabrick to confound 
 Ill-fixd within it felf or to the ground. 
 
 A Ship, well tackled, which the winds may fcorn, 
 111 rigg’d away by ev’ry guft is born. 
 
 The Elements of Life what can’t o'rthrow ? 
 
 No wonder ; Life it felf’s an empty fhow. 
 Sometimes it fmells a Candles fnuff and dies ; 
 
 The weaker fume before the ftronger flies. 
 
 Let Cefar round the Globe with’s Eagles fly, 
 
 And grieve with Jove to {hare Equality. 
 
 Yet what a trifle might ha’ been his death, 
 Preventing all his Triumphs with his breath. 
 
 One farthing Candle by its dying flame 
 Wou’d have depriv’d the world of his great Name 
 
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 caufe abor- 
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 The fmell of 
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 Snuff, *rfs 
 faid t will 
 make Women 
 mifearry. 
 
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5 + 
 
 Of 'PLANTS. BookH. 
 
 Nor had we had fuch numerous fupplies 
 Of mighty Lords and new-found Deities. 
 
 Thou, Alexander , too might’ft fo ha’ dy’d, 
 
 ( How well the world that finell had grati fi’d. ) 
 
 Thou, who, a petty King o’th’ Univerfe, 
 
 Thought’!! with thy felt alone thou didft converfe. 
 
 Yea the fame chance might have remov’d from us, 
 
 Both Thee, Jove's Son, and thy Bucephalus. 
 
 The stink of And if thy Groom his Candle out had flept, 
 the snuff ot a Bucephala he from being built had kept. 
 
 alfo to’caufe So flight a (link you’d fcarce think this could do. 
 
 Abortion in Unlefs the nicenefs of the womb I knew. 
 
 How fhie it is of an ungrateful fmell 
 You, by its fecret coynefs, know full well. 
 
 ( But that’s no prudence in it : fince that place 
 For pleafure no good fituation has) 
 
 But greedily fvveet things it meets half way, 
 
 And into its own bofom does convey. 
 
 The fecret caufe of which effedt to find 
 Is hard ; not have the Learned it affign’d. 
 
 Let’s fee if any thing farther we can fay : 
 
 The Night grows late, and now ’tis toward Day. 
 
 Wherefore a thoufand wonders that remain 
 Concerning Childbirth, us may entertain 
 I’th’ next Atfembly, when we meet again. 
 
 You, Myrrh! who from a Line of Monarchs came. 
 
 The glory of their angry * Fathers name; 
 
 Sacred and grateful to the Gods; again 
 
 ^ Vt/J « v V. . W t J 
 
 the Story of A Virgin, and malt always fo remain $ 
 
 nba^vid ^ ou know the fecrets of the female kind, 
 
 Mtl ** Vl * And what you know, I hope, can call to mind. 
 
 Then furely you the nature of a fmell 
 Among rich Odours born muft clearly tell. 
 
 Befides, when formerly their Reafon throve 
 Weak as it was, to cope with conquering Love; 
 
 You in the middle of the fight wou’d fall, 
 
 * i.e. Firsofxhey fay, and lie in * fits Hyfterical. 
 die Mother. Q omc t hen, let’s hear, what you at laft can fay ? 
 
 Speak, model!; Myrrh! why do you fo delay > 
 
 Why do the tears run down thy bark fo fall ? 
 
 Thou need’fi; not blulh for faults fo long time pad. 
 
 Ah ! happy faults, that can fuch tears produce, 
 
 Which to the World are of fuch Sovereign ufe. 
 
 No Woman e’r deferv’d before this time 
 So much for Virtue, as thou for a Crime. 
 
 Mares. 
 
 * Cynaras, 
 King of 
 
 
 M 7 %%H. 
 
Bo OK II. Of T L A S. 
 
 55 
 
 M I ^ H. 
 
 A T laft when Myrrh had wip’d her od’rous tears. 
 Putting afide her leaves, her Face and Head fhe rears- 
 Then fhe began, but blulh’d, and flopp’d anon. 
 
 Nor cou’d file be entreated to go on. 
 
 So a dry Pump at firft will hardly go, 
 
 From whence a River by and by will flow. 
 
 ’Tis known, the female Tribe, of all that live. 
 
 Above the reft is far more talkative. 
 
 And that a Plant, who was a Maid before. 
 
 Speaks fafler much than all the reft and more. 
 
 Her flory therefore gently fhe begins, 
 
 And with her Art upon the Audience wins. 
 
 Her Wars with unchafl Love fhe reckon’d o’r ; 
 
 For fear of doing ill, what ills fhe bore : 
 
 She told, how oft her breafl her hands had try’d 
 To flab, whilfl chafl fair Myrrha might ha dy’d. 
 How long and oft unequally with Love, 
 
 Who even Goddefles fubdu’d, fhe ftrove. 
 
 And many things befides, which I’ll not name, 
 
 Since Ovid with more wit has faid the fame. 
 
 Then of the Wombs intolerable pains 
 ( Sh’ ad felt them ) fadly fhe, ’tis faid, complains. 
 
 Had I an hundred fluent Womens Tongues, 
 
 Or made of flurdy Oak, a pair of Lungs, 
 
 The kinds and forms, and names of cruel fate. 
 
 And monflrous lhapes I hardly cou’d relate. 
 
 What meant the Gods, Liles native Seat to fill 
 With fuch a numerous Hofl, fo arm’d to kill> 
 
 What is it, Pleafure ! guards Man’s happinefs. 
 
 If thy chief City, Pain, thy Foe, pofTefs. 
 
 But me my Laurel told ; then mod fhe rail’d. 
 
 When the fad Fits o’th’ Mother fhe bewail’d. 
 
 Woe to the bodies wretched Town ( faid fhe ) 
 When the wombs Fort contains the Enemy! 
 
 Thence baneful vapours ev’ry way they throw. 
 
 Which rout the conquer’d Soul where e r they go. 
 
 The troops of flying Spirits they deflroy. 
 
 As flenches from * Avernus Birds annoy. 
 
 If they the Stomach feize, the Appetite’s gone, 
 
 And tasks defign’d for veins lie by half done. 
 
 No Meats it now' endures, much lefs requires, 
 
 Aud the crude Kitchin cools for want of fires. 
 
 If they the Heart invade, that’s walls they fhake, 
 
 ^fhd in the vital work confufion make; 
 
 New waves they thither bring, but thofe the vein. 
 Which Fena Cavds call’d, bears back again. , 
 
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 The Arteries by weak pulfings notifie. 
 
 Or elfe by none, the Souls then palling by. 
 
 By that black Cloud all joys exnngui(h’d quite, 
 
 And hopes, that make the mind look gay and bright* 
 
 So when grim, Stygian (hades, they fay, appear. 
 
 The Candles tremble and go out for fear. 
 
 Grief, fear, and hatred of the light invade 
 Their Heart, the Soul a Scene of trouble’s made. 
 
 Then ftraight the jaws themfelves the torturing 111 
 • With deadly, (trangling vapours drives to fill. 
 
 T' /Ethereal Air it never (news defire, 
 
 But Salamander- like lives all on fire : 
 
 Sometimes thefe reftlefs Plagues the Head too feize. 
 
 And rifle all the Souls rich Palaces. 
 
 In barbarous triumph led, then Reafon (lands. 
 
 Hoodwink’d and manacled her eyes and hands. 
 
 For the poor wretch a merry madnefs takes. 
 
 And her fad fides with doleful laughter (hakes. 
 
 Her Dreams ( in vain awake ) (lie tells, and thofe. 
 
 If no body admire, amaz’d (he (hows. 
 
 She fears, or threatens ev’ry thing (he fpies; 
 
 A piteous, (he, and dreadful Objeft, lies. 
 
 One feems to rave, and from her fparkling Eyes 
 Fierce fire darts forth; another throbs and cries. 
 
 Some Deaths exatteft Image feizes, fo 
 
 That deep compar’d to that like Life wou’d (how* 
 
 A folid dulnefs all the fenfes keeps 
 
 Lock’d up ; no Soul of Trees more foundly deeps. 
 
 Her breath, if any from her noftrils go. 
 
 The Down from Toppy tops wou’d hardly blow. 
 
 If you one dead with her compar’d, you’d fay. 
 
 Two dead ones there, or two Hyfterick lay. 
 
 But then ( ’tis ftrange, and yet we mud believe 
 What we from long experience receive) 
 
 Under her Nofe ftrong-fmelling Odours lay. 
 
 The other vapours thefe will chafe away. 
 
 Burn Partridge feathers, hair of Man or Bead, 
 
 Horns, leather, warts, that Horfes legs moled ; 
 
 All thefe are good $ but what flrange accident 
 Fir ft found them out, or cou’d fuch Cures invent ? 
 
 Burn Oil, that Nature from hard Rocks diftills. 
 
 And Sulphur, which all things with Odours fills. 
 
 To which the (linking Ada you may add. 
 
 And Oil which from the Beavers (tones is had. 
 
 Through Pores, Nerves, Arteries, and all they go. 
 
 And throng t* invade the labouring Womb below. 
 
 But that each Avenue, which upward lies, 
 
 With mounds and ftrong-built Rampires fortifies. 
 
 Then being contraufted to a narrower place 
 (For force decays fpread in too wide a fpace) 
 
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 No humours foul or vapours there mud day. 
 
 But out it purges them the lower way. 
 
 On Forcin parts now no adaults fhe makes, 
 
 But care of her domedick fafety takes. 
 
 Carthage to Hannibal now fends no fupply. 
 
 To break the force of diflant Italy , 
 
 When from their walls with horror they defery 
 The threatning Roman Darts and Eagles fly. 
 
 This for the Nofe.; the Womb then you mud pleafe 
 With fuch fweet Odours as the Gods appeafe. 
 
 With Cinnamon , and Goat-bread, Ladanum , 
 
 With healing Balfam and my oily Gum. 
 
 Civet, and Musk, and Amber too apply, 
 
 ( Scarce yet well known to humane indudry ) 
 
 With ail that my rich, native Soil fupplies. 
 
 Such fumes as from the Phcenix Ned arife. 
 
 Nor fear from Gods to take their Frankincenfe, 
 
 In fuch a pious cafe, ’tis no offence. 
 
 Then (halt thou fee the limbs faint motions make, 
 
 A certain fign, that now the Soul’s awake. 
 
 Then will the Guts with an unufual noife. 
 
 The Enemy o’rthroWn, feem to rejoice. 
 
 Bloud will below the fecret paffage dain. 
 
 And Arteries recruited beat again. 
 
 Oft, glad to fee the light, themfelves the Eyes 
 Lift up; the Face returning purple dies; 
 
 One jaw from t’ other with a groan retires. 
 
 And the Difeafe it felf, like Life, expires. 
 
 Tell me, fweet Odours, tell me, what have you 
 With parts fo didant from the Nofe to do? 
 
 Or what have you, ill fmells, fo near the Nofe 
 To do, fince that and you are mortal Foes ? 
 
 And why dod thou, abominable dench! 
 
 Upon remote Dominions fo intrench . J 
 
 Say, by what fecret force you ding your Darts, 
 
 Whom from your Bow, the Nofe, luch didance parts. 
 
 For fome believe, that to the brain alone 
 
 They fly, through ways, which in the head are known; 
 
 And that the Brain to the related Womb 
 
 Sends ( good and bad ) all fmells, that to it come. 
 
 The Womb too oft rejoyces for That’s fake, 
 
 And when That’s griev’d, does all its griefs partake. 
 The Womb’s Oreftes , Fylades the Brain, 
 
 And what to one, to th’ other is a pain. 
 
 I don’t deny the native Sympathy, 
 
 And like refpefts, in which thefe parts agree. 
 
 Each its conception has, and each its birth. 
 
 And both their Offfprings like the Sire, come forth, 
 Still to produce both have a condant vein, 
 
 And their dreight bofoms mighty things contain. 
 
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 iyiuch I omit in both; but know, that .This 
 O’th’ Body, That o’th’ Soul the Matrix is. 
 
 But th’ womb has this one proper faculty, 
 
 Its a£tions oft from Head and Nofe are tree. 
 
 Oft when it drives to break its bond's in vain 
 C And often nought its fury can contain ) 
 
 A fwcet Perfume apply *d (unknown to th’ Nofe) 
 
 Does with a grateful glew its body dole. 
 
 But when opprefs’d with weight the womb falls down 
 ( As fometimes it, when weak, does with its own ) 
 
 With dreadful weapons arm’d a noifom fmell 
 Meets it, and upward quickly does repel. 
 
 So when th’ Helvetians their own Land forfook, 
 
 ( People which in their Neighbours terrour drook ) 
 
 A ftronger Foe, their wandering to redrain, 
 
 To their old quarters beat ’em back again. 
 
 Here different reafons different Authors fhow. 
 
 But none worth fpeaking of, I’m fure, you know. 
 
 What can I add? You, Learned Prefident, pieafe 
 To bid me fpeak ; the cafe fays, hold your peace. 
 
 Yet you I mud obey ; Heav’n is fo kind 
 To let us fee k that truth we cannot find. 
 
 .This truth mud be i’th’ wells dark bottom fought, 
 
 Pardon me, if l make an heavy draught. 
 
 You fee the wondrous Wars and Leagues of Things, 
 
 From whence the worlds harmonious confort fprings. 
 
 This he that thinks from th* Elements may be had. 
 
 Is a grave Sot, and dudioufly mad. 
 
 Here many caufes branch themfelves around. 
 
 But to ’em all one onely Root is found. 
 
 For thole, which mortals the four Elements call. 
 
 In the worlds fabrick are not fird of all. 
 
 Treafures in them wife Nature laid, as dore. 
 
 Ready ar hand, of things that were before. 
 
 Whence fhe might Principles draw for her ufe. 
 
 And mixtures new eternally produce. 
 
 Infinite feeds in thofe fmall bodies lie 
 To us, but numbred by the Deity. 
 
 Nor is the heat to Fire more natural. 
 
 Nor coldnefs more to Waters fliare does fall, 
 
 Than either bitter. Tweet, or white or black, 
 
 Or any fmells, that Nofes e*r attack. 
 
 Our purging or adringent quality 
 
 Have proper points of matter, where they lie. 
 
 With Earthy Air, Water, Fire , Heav’n all things bore. 
 
 Why do I faintly fpeak? They were before. 
 
 For what Earth , Air , Fire , Water now we call. 
 
 Are Compounds from the fird Original. 
 
 For- But a hidden fright her fenfes Ihock’d, 
 
 And dopt her fpeecb ; fhe heard the gate unlock’d. 
 
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 And Rue from far the Gardener faw come in. 
 Trembling, as fhe an Afpen-leaf had been. 
 
 ( For Rue , a fovereign Plant to purge the Eyes 
 Remoteft Objeds eafily defcries) 
 
 She foftly whifper’d, Hence make haft away ; 
 
 Here's * Robert come, make haft, why do we ftay ? 
 Day was not broken, but ’twas almoft light 
 And Luna fwiftly rowl’d the wheeling' Night ; 
 
 Nor was the Fellow us’d fo foon to rife. 
 
 But him a fudden chance did then furprize. 
 
 His Wife in pangs of Child-bed loudly roar’d. 
 
 And gentle Juno s prefent aid implor’d. 
 
 But he who plants that in his Garden grew, 
 
 Than forty Junos, of more value knew. 
 
 Came thither Sowbread all in haft to gather. 
 
 That he with greater eafe might prove a Father. 
 Soon as they faw the Man, ftraight up they got, 
 With gentle haft and flood upon the fpot. 
 
 When briefly Mugwort ; I this Court adjourn; 
 
 What we have left we’ll do at our return. 
 
 Without tumultuous noife away they fled. 
 
 And every Plant crept to her proper Bed. 
 
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 The Springs at hand ; blithe looks like that difplay. 
 Ufe all the Schemes and colours now of Speech, 
 Ufe all the Flow’rs that Poetry enrich. 
 
 Its Glories all, its blooming Beauties bring. 
 
 As may refemble the returning Spring, 
 
 Let the fame Muhck through thy Verfe rcfound 
 As in the Woods and lhady Groves is found. 
 
 Let every line fuch fragrant praife exhale 
 As rifes up from fome fweet-fmelling Vale. 
 
 Let Lights and Shades, as in the Woods appear, 
 
 And iliew in painted Verfe the feafon of the Year. 
 
 Come then away, for the firfl welcome Morn 
 Of the fprucc Moneth of May begins to dawn. 
 
 This Day; fo tells the Poets facred Page; 
 
 Bright Chloris did in Nuptial bands engage, 
 
 This very day the knot was tied ; and thence 
 The lovely Maid a Goddefs did commence. 
 
 The figns of joy did everywhere appear, 
 
 On Earth, in Heaven, throughout the Sea and Air; 
 
 No wandring Cloud was feen in all the Sky, 
 
 And if there were, ’twas of a curious dye. 
 
 The Air ferene, not an ungentle blaB 
 Ruffled the waters with its rude embrace, 
 
 The wind that was, breath’d Odours all around, 
 
 And only fann’d the Breams, and only kifs’d the ground. 
 
 Of unknown Flow’rs now fuch a numerous birth 
 Appear’d, as e’en aftomfh’d Mother Earth. 
 
 The Lily grew ’midft barren Heath and Sedg, 
 
 And the Rofe blulh’d on each unprickly hedg. 
 
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 The purple Violet and the Daffadd 
 The places now of angry Nettles fill. 
 
 This great and joyful Day, on which fhe knew 
 What ’rwas to be a Wife and Goddefs too, 
 
 The grateful Flora yearly did exprefs 
 In (hews. Religious Pomp and gaudinefs, 
 
 Long as fhe thriv’d in Rome , and reign’d among 
 The other Gods, a vaft and numerous throng ; 
 
 But when the facred Tribe was forc’d from Rome , 
 Among the reft an Exile fhe became, 
 
 Strip’d of her Plays, and of her Fane bereft, 
 bought of the grandeur of a Goddefs left. 
 
 Since then, no more ador’d on Earth by Men, 
 
 But forc’d o’er Flowers to prefide and reign. 
 
 The beft fhe can, fhe ftill keeps up the Day; 
 
 Not as of old, when blefs’d with ftore fhe lay. 
 
 When with a lavifh hand her bounties flew, 
 
 She ha nt the heart, and means to do it now, 
 
 But in a way fitting her humble ftate 
 She always did, and ftill does celebrate. 
 
 And now that fhe the better may attend 
 The flowry Empire under her command. 
 
 To all the World at times Ihe does reforr, 
 
 Now in this part, now that fhe keeps her Court. 
 
 And fo the Seafons of the year require, 
 
 For herc’tis Spring, perhaps *tis Autumn there. 
 
 With eafe (lie flies to the remoteft fhores. 
 
 And vifits in the way a world of Flow’rs. 
 
 In Zephyr's painted Car file cuts the Air, 
 
 Pleas’d with the way, her Spoufe the Charioteer. 
 
 It was the year, ( thrice bleft that beautious year, ) 
 Which mighty Charles's facred Name did bear. 
 
 A golden year the Heavens brought about 
 In high proceflion with a joyful fhout, 
 
 A year that barr’d up Janu* brazen Gates, 
 
 That brought home peace, and lay’d our monftrous heats, 
 A greater gift, blefs’d Albion , thou didft gain, 
 
 It brought home God like Charles , and all his peaceful 
 Compos’d our Chaos ; cover’d o’r the fears, ( train ; 
 And dos’d the bleeding wounds of twenty years ; 
 Nor felt the Gown alone the fruits of peace, 
 
 But Gardens, Woods, and all the flowry race ; 
 
 This year to every thing frclh honours brought. 
 
 Nor ’m id ft thefe were the learned Arts forgot. 
 
 Poor exil’d Flora with the Sylvan Gods 
 Came back again to their old lov’d abodes ; 
 
 I faw her (through a Glafs my Mufe vouchfef’d) 
 Plac’d on the painted Bow fecurely waft. 
 Triumphantly fhe rode, and made her courfe 
 Towards fair Albion's long for token Shores. 
 
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 That fhe our Goddefs was, to me was plain 
 From the gay various colours of her train. 
 
 She light, renowned Thames, upon thy lhore, 
 
 Long time belov’d, and known to her before; 
 
 ' Twas here the Goddcfs an Appointment fet 
 For all the Flow’rs; accordingly they met; 
 
 Thofe that are parch’d with heat, or pinch’d with cold* 
 Or thofe which a more temperate Clime does hold, 
 Thofe drunk with dew, the Sun juft rifing fees, 
 
 Or thofe, when fetting, with a face like his, 
 
 All forts that Eafl and Weft can boaft, were there. 
 
 But not fuch Flow’rs as you fee growing here. 
 
 Poor mortal Flow’rs, obnoxious ftill to harms. 
 
 Which quickly die out of their mothers arms; 
 
 But thofe that Flato faw, Ideas nam’d, 
 
 Daughters of Jove , for heavenly extrad fam’d. 
 /Ethereal Plants ! what Glories they difclofe. 
 
 What excellence the firft Celeftial Rofe; 
 
 What blulh, what fmell! and yet on many fcorcs. 
 
 The Learned fay, it much refembles ours ; 
 
 Onely ’tis ever frefh, with long life blefs’d. 
 
 Not in your fading mortal colours drefs’d. 
 
 This Rofe, the Image of the heavenly mind. 
 
 The other growing on our Earth, we find ; 
 
 Which is the Image of that Image, then 
 No wonder it appears lefs frefh and fine, 
 
 Thefe Heaven-born fpecies of the flowry race • 
 Afiembled all, the Wedding-Morn to grace. 
 
 Fbcsbiu , do thou the Pencil take, the fame 
 With which thou gildft the worlds great chequer’d frame. 
 Lights Pencil take; try if thoucanft difplay 
 The various Scenes of this refplendent Day. 
 
 And yet I doubt thy skill, though all muft bow 
 To thee as God of Plants and Poets too ; 
 
 Pm fure ? tis much too hard a task for me. 
 
 Yet fome Til touch, in palling, like the Bee. 
 
 Where the whole Garden can’t be had, we know, 
 
 A Nofegay may ; and that if fweet, will do. 
 
 Now when a part of this triumphant Day 
 In facred pompous Rites had pafs’d away, 
 
 Rites, which no mortal Tongue can duly tell, 
 
 And which perhaps ’ts not lawful to reveal. 
 
 At length the fporting Goddefs thought it beft 
 ( Though fure the humour went beyond a Jeft ) 
 
 A pleafant fort of Trial to propofe. 
 
 And from among the Plants a Queen to chufe. 
 
 Which ihou’d prefidc over the flowry Race, 
 
 Be a Vice- Goddefs and fupply her place. 
 
 Each Plant was to appear, and make its plea. 
 
 To fee which beft deferv’d the Dignity. 
 

 
 
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 The Scene Arch’d o r with wreathing branches flood 
 Which like a little hollow Temple lhow’d. 
 
 The Shrubs and Branches, darting from aloof 
 Their pretty fragrant fhades, compos’d the roof; 
 
 Red and white Jafwine , with the Myrtle Tree 
 The favourite of the Cyprian Deity, 
 
 The golden Apple-tree with ill ver bud, 
 
 Both lbrts of Pipe tree, with the Sea-dew floods 
 There was the twining Woodbind to be feen, 
 
 And yellow Hather , Rofes mixt between. 
 
 Each Plant its Notes and known diftin&ions brought 
 With various Art the gaudy Scene was wrought ; 
 
 Juft in the Nave of this new-modell’d Fane, 
 
 A Throne the judging Goddefs did fuftain, 
 
 Rob’d in a thouiand feveral forts of leaves, 
 
 And all the colours which the Garden gives. 
 
 Which join’d together trim, in wondrous wife, 
 
 With their deluding Figures mock’d your Eyes. 
 
 A noble checquer’d work ; which real feems. 
 
 And firmly fet with gliftring Stones and Gems; 
 
 It real feem’d ; though Gods fuch bodies wear 
 For weight, as Flow’rs upon their down may bear: 
 
 The Goddefs feated in MajeRick wife 
 With all the pride the. wealthy Spring Supplies, 
 
 Had Ariadne s Crown ; and fuch a veR 
 With which the Rainbow on bright days is drefl ; 
 Before her Throne did the officious band 
 Of Hours, Days, Months in goodly order Rand. 
 
 The Hours upon loft painted wings were born. 
 
 Painted ; but fwife alas! and quickly gone; 
 
 The Days with nimble feet advanc'd apace; 
 
 And then the Months, each with a different face. 
 
 On Cynthias Orb they tend with conflant care. 
 
 In Monthly Courfes whirling round her Sphere. 
 
 FirR Spring a Rofy -colour’d YoungRer, Rood 
 With looks enough to bribe a judging God. 
 
 Su mmer appear’d, rob’d in a yellow Gown, 
 
 Full Ears of ripen’d Corn compos’d her Crown ; 
 
 Then Autumn proud of rich Pomona's Rore, 
 
 And Bacchus too treading the blufhing floor; 
 
 Poor half-Rarv’d Winter fhivering in the Rear, 
 
 The Stoical and fallen part oW year. 
 
 Yet not by Step-dame Nature wholly left 
 Of every grace is Winter-time berelt. 
 
 Some Friends it has in this affii&ed Rate, 
 
 Some Plants that Faith and Duty don’t forget ; 
 
 Some Plants the Winter feafon does fupply 
 Born purely for delight and luxury ; 
 
 Which brave the froft and cold, and merit claim, 
 
 Though few indeed, and of a lower frame. 
 
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 The New- Year did him this peculiar grace, 
 
 And Janus favouring with his double face, 
 
 That he fhou’d firffc be heard ; and have the power 
 To draw forth all his poor and (lender (lore. 
 
 Winter obeys; and ranks ’em, bed he can, 
 
 More truding to the worth than number of his Men.- 
 Juft in the front of Winter’s fcanty band 
 Two lofty Plants, or (lowry Giants dand, 
 
 Spurge-Olive one, ’tothcr a kind of Bay , 
 
 Both high, and largely fpreading every way. 
 
 But did they in a milder feafon (prout, 
 
 Whether they e’er wou’d pafs for Flow’rs, I doubt, 
 
 But now they do; and fuch their looks and fmell 
 The place they hold, they feem to merit well. 
 
 Next Woolf s-lane y us’d in Step dames poifoning trade, 
 
 Born of the foam of Pluto's Porter, laid, 
 
 A baneful Piant, fpringing in craggy ground, 
 
 Thence its hard name, itfelf much harder found ; 
 
 Briskly its gilded Crcd it does difplay. 
 
 And boldly dares i’ch’ face the God of Day, 
 
 Thefe plants Which Cerlcrus its Sire durd ne’r aday. 
 
 rimes” re™*" ^ 1C ^ ant » ca h’d Snow- dr ops, next in courfe appear’d, 
 made to But trembling , by its frightful Neighbour fear’d^ 
 flower m yet clad in white her felf, like fleecy Snow, 
 
 Near her bad Neighbour, finer (lie does fliow. 
 
 The noble Liver wort does next appear, 
 
 Without a fpeck, like che unclouded Air; 
 
 A Plant of noble ufe and endlefs fame, 
 
 The Liver’s great Preferver, thence its Name ; 
 
 The humble Plant confcious of inbred worth 
 In Winters hardefl (rod and cold, (hoots forth. 
 
 Let other Plants, (aid (he, for fcafbns wait. 
 
 For Summer gales, or the Suns kindly heat. 
 
 She fcorns delay ; naked, without a Coat, 
 
 As ’twerc in had, che noble Plant comes out. 
 
 Next the blew Primrofe » which in Winter blows, 
 
 But wears the Spring both in its name and cloaths ; 
 
 The Saffron then, and tardy Celandine , 
 
 To thele our Lady s- Seal, and Sows bread join. 
 
 But thefe appearing out of feafon, were 
 Bid to their homes and proper tribes repair. 
 
 This flower’s There now remain'd of Winters genuine dorc 
 in Dumber. And ofFfpring, Bears foot or the Chriflmas Fiow’r, 
 
 The pride of Winter, which in frod can live, 
 
 And now alone for Empire dar’d to drive. 
 
 On its black dalk it rear’d it felf, and then 
 
 With pale but fcarlefs face to plead began. 
 
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 I Mean not now my Beauty to oppofe 
 To that of Lilies, or the blufhing Rofc, 
 
 Old F netus Daughters me from that do fcare, 
 
 Who once with Juno durft their face compare, 
 
 Mad with Conceit, each thought her felf a Cow 3 
 Juft judgment! teaching all themfclves to know; 
 
 My noble Plant baniih’d this wild caprice. 
 
 And gave ’em back their human voice and fpeech, 
 Melampus by my aid foon brought relief. 
 
 And for the cure had one of ’em to Wife. 
 
 And none will charge me with that madnefs, furc. 
 
 Or the fame folly I pretend to cure. 
 
 The Goddefies above a Beauty claim 
 Lafting and firm as their immortal frame. 
 
 Which time can’t furrow, or Difeafes wrong. 
 
 To be immortal is, to be for ever young. 
 
 In Flow’rs or Girls Beauty’s a tranfient thing 3 
 Expert as well the whole year will be Spring. 
 
 Ye fiowry Race, that open to the Sky, 
 
 And there have feen a Cloud of curious Dye, 
 
 The gaudy Phantome now with pride appears. 
 
 Look up again, ’tis ftrait diftolv’d in tears ; 
 
 Such is the lhort-liv’d glory Flowers have, 
 
 Bending, they point ftill tow’rds their womb and grave» 
 The wind and rain aim at their tender Head, 
 
 Befides the Stars their baneful influence fhed ; 
 
 Like the fam’d Semele , they die away 
 In the embraces of the God of Day. 
 
 Expos’d to Air, to Heat an open prey. 
 
 Colds through their tender fibres force their way: 
 
 The Swallow or the Nightingale abhors 
 Not Winter more, than do th* whole race of Flow’rs. 
 If among thefe a Flow’r you can defcry 
 (■Fitter to be tranfplanted to the Sky) 
 
 Which is fo hardy, as toftand the threat 
 Of ftorms and tempefts that around her beat; 
 
 That with contending winds dare boldly ftrive, 
 
 Scorns Cold, and under heaps of Snow can live. 
 
 To this, great Goddefs, to this noble Plant 
 You ought the Empire of the Garden grant. 
 
 Kings are Joves Image; and if that be true. 
 
 To Virtue onely Sovereign fway is due. 
 
 Trufting to this, and not the empty Name 
 Of Beauty, I the fiowry Empire claim. 
 
 Nor will this foft, luxurious, pamper’d Race 
 Of Flow’rs, were things well weigh’d, deny me place 5 
 
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 For lo ! the Wincers come; what change is there, 
 
 What looks, what difmal afpq£t of the year! 
 
 The winds from Prifon broke, no mercy yield, 
 
 But fpoil the native Glories of the Field. 
 
 Firft on the Infant Boughs they fpend their rage, 
 
 And fcarcely fpare the poor trunks reverend age; 
 
 Either with dwelling Rains, the ground below 
 Is drown’d, ot covered thick in beds of Snow ; 
 
 Or ftiff with Froft; the ftreams Ic’d o’r 
 Are pent within a bank, unknown before. 
 
 Each Nymph complains, and every River God 
 Feels on his flioulders an unufual load ; 
 
 Nature a Captive now to Froft become 
 Lies fairly buried in a Marble tomb. 
 
 And can you wonder then that Flow’rs. fhou’d die, 
 
 Or hid within their beds, the danger fly? 
 
 D’ ye fee the Sun, how faint his looks , that tell 
 The God of Plants himfelf i’n’t over well. 
 
 Now let me fee the Violet, Tulip , Rofe, 
 
 Or any of ’em their fine face difclofe. 
 
 Ye Lilies with your fnowy Trefles now ^ 
 
 Come forth, this is the proper time for Snow. 
 
 Deaf to the call, none of ’em all appear. 
 
 But clofe in Bed they lie half dead with fear. 
 
 I onely in this Univerfal dread 
 Of Nature dare exalt my fearlefs head ; 
 
 Winter with thoufand feveral arms prepar’d 
 To be my death, flill finds me on my Guard. 
 
 Great Umpire of this harmlefs fray, f . 
 
 If you are fix’d to crown fome Plant to Day, 
 
 Let all appear and take the Field, let all 
 Agree to give the chiefeft Plant the ball ; 
 
 Let it in Winter be, though, I defire; 
 
 That feafon does a hardy Chief require. 
 
 If any of thefe tender, dainty Dames 
 
 Deck'd with their rich Perfumes and gaudy Names, 
 
 I Dare but at fuch a time ftiew half an Eye, 
 
 ■I'll frankly yield, and ftrait let fall my plea. 
 
 Not a Plant’s feen, I’ll warrant you ; they hate 
 To gain a Kingdom at fo dear a rate ; 
 
 They fear th’ unequal trial to fuftain; 
 
 None dare appear, but thofe that fill my train. 
 
 And none of thefe are fo ambitious grown, 
 
 To ftand themfelves, but beg for me the Crown. 
 
 Thefe numerous hardlhips J can undergo; 
 
 I’ll tell you now, fair Judg, what I can do. 
 
 My Virtue's both a&ive and paflive too. 
 
 Kings get no fame by conquering at home, 
 
 That from fome forein vanquilh’d Land muft come. 
 
Book III. Of T L J T S. 
 
 If equal to my triumphs, names I bore 
 And every vanquifli’d Foe increaft the (lore, 
 
 Old Rome s moll haughty Champion I’d defie 
 With me in Honours, Titles, Names to vie. 
 
 I ad fuch wonders, I may fafely fay 
 
 The twelve Herculean labours were mere play. 
 
 The fpreading Cancer my bled Plant does chafe, 
 
 And new skins or the Leper’s monltrous face. 
 
 The lingring Quartan- Fever I oblige 
 To draw his forces off and raife the Siege. 
 Swimmings fell* Head that do from vapours come, 
 
 I exorcife (Irait by my Counter-fume. 
 
 In every fwelling part when Dropfies reign, 
 
 I dry the Fen, the (landing waters drein. 
 
 The Falling ficknefs too, to wave the reft. 
 
 Though facred that Difeafe, by fome confeft. 
 
 Why in thefe Cures thus trifle I my breath ? 
 
 Death yields to me, the Apopledick Death. 
 
 Into each part my Plant new vigour fends, 
 
 And quickly makes the Soul and Body friends. 
 
 Thefe are great things, you’ll fay, and yet the reft 
 That follow, mult much greater be confeft, 
 
 I do compofe the minds diftraded frame, 
 
 A gift the Gods and I alone can claim; 
 
 Madmen and Fools are cad beneath my power. 
 
 What to my grandeur can the Gods add more ? 
 
 Who thus can do; the world his Province is, 
 
 Crejar can’t boaft a larger fway than this. 
 
 She fpoke ; her train with (liouts the Area fill’d, 
 
 Nay Winter (if you will believe it) imil’d. 
 
 Next the gay Spring draws out his warlike bands, 
 Which to the Scene a grateful fhadow lends, 
 
 Homer , though well the Grecian Camp he paints, 
 Wou’d fail, I fear, in muftering up thefe Plants, 
 Bright Spring, what various Nations doft thou boaft ? 
 The Xerxes of ai numerous dowry Hoft ; 
 
 Which cou’d ( fince Flow’rs without due moifture die) 
 Like his, I fanfie, drink whole Rivers dry. 
 
 His dowry troops made the fame (lately (hew, 
 Whofe painted arms a dazling luftre threw ; 
 
 Then a gay Flovv’r, for diape, the Trumpet nam’d 
 Blew thrice, and with a ftrenuous voice proclaim’d, 
 That all but Candidates diou’d quit the place ; 
 
 Fir ft, as they went, bowing with awful grace. 
 
 And now the pleafure ol the Goddefs known. 
 
 The Herb, call’d Ragwort , pafs’d before the Throne, 
 
 A bunchy (lalk, and painted Bees (he bore 
 With feveral foolilh fancies on her Flow r. 
 
 Ragwort the Satyrs and Friapits love, 
 
 Tenus her fell and the fair Judg approve. 
 
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 A Plant of the 
 Tribe of 
 Pftudo-narcitfi 
 Juncifolii t 
 from the 
 fhape of a 
 Tube in the 
 mldft of the 
 Flower, cal- 
 led Trmpttt. 
 
 Dogs -tooth 
 
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 Dogs -tooth pafs’d next, to Ragwort near ally’d, 
 
 A faithful friend to Love, and often try’d ; 
 
 Next Hyacinths, of Violet- kind, proceed, 
 
 A noble, powerful and a numerous breed, 
 
 They wanted courage, though, to keep the place. 
 Labouring alas ] under a late difgrace ; 
 
 Of noble Houfe themfelves they did pretend, 
 
 From Ajax bloud dire&ly to defeend. 
 
 The caufe in Ploras Court of Chivalry 
 VVas heard, where they fail’d to make out their plea. 
 They bore no Coat of Arms, nor cou’d they Ihow 
 Thofe mournful Notes faid from his bloud to flow. 
 The next akin, a Flow’r, which Greeks of old 
 From Excrements of Birds defeended hold. 
 
 Which Britain, Nurfe of Plants, a milder Clime, 
 Gentilely calls the Star of Bethlehem . 
 
 The Daizy next march'd off in modefl wife. 
 
 Dreading to wait the iffue of the Prize ; 
 
 Though the Spring don’t a truflier party know. 
 After, before and in the Spring they grow, 
 
 Quick in the charge, and in retreating flow. 
 
 They dare not venture, though the Sons of Arc 
 The name of Binders to ’em do impart; 
 
 They cure all wounds, yet make none 5 which you grant 
 Is the true Office of a warlike Plant. 
 
 Next fpotted Sanicle and Navel-wort, 
 
 Though both have figns of bloud, forfake the Court. 
 Moon- wort goes next born on its reddifh flalk. 
 
 And after that does gently Cranehil walk ; 
 
 They all gave way ; ’tis nat’ral in a Flow’r 
 More in its form to trufl, than worth and pow’r ; 
 Nay more than that, the Corn flag quits the Field, 
 Though made Sword-wife, does to the Tulip yield. 
 Though, like fome Tyrant, rounded with the fame. 
 Yet to affe&ed Empire waves all claim; 
 
 How much this Sword flow’r differs, as to harm. 
 From thofe which we on mortal Anvils form! 
 
 Nature on this an Unguent has bellow’d, 
 
 Which, when ours make it iffue, flops the bloud. 
 Next you might fee the gaudy Columline , 
 
 Call’d fometimes Lions mouth, defert the Scene. 
 Though of try’d courage, and of high renown. 
 
 In other things, curing Difeafes, known. 
 
 The Sea-gull Flow’r exprefs’d an equal fear, 
 
 The Tygers more and prettier fpots don’t bear ; 
 
 Thefe Beauty-fpots fhe ought to prize like Gold ; 
 
 The vaft price Citron held hers at dearer rates, of old, 
 o( fj tron r The Per flan Lily of a ruddy hue; 
 p/k /1 \l And next the Lily of the Vale, withdrew, 
 
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 Lilies o'th’ Vale fuch looks and fmell retain, 
 
 They’r fit to furnilli Snuff { or Gods and Men ; 
 
 Nor a Plant kinder to the Brain does live ; 
 
 A glafs of Wine does lefs refrefhment give. 
 
 Next Periwinkle or the Ladies bowr 
 Weakly, and halting crept along the floor. 
 
 All kinds of Crow-foot pafs’d and bow’d their head. 
 
 The word run wild, the bed in Gardens bred; 
 
 Day-Lily next, the Root by Hefiod lov’d,; 
 
 Although not for the chiefed Dilh approv’d. 
 
 Then came a Flow’r, of a far differing look. 
 
 Which on it thy lov’d Name, Adonis , took ; 
 
 But Celandine y thy genuine offfpring dil’d, • 
 
 They tell us, at the proud Ufurper fmilcl. 
 Stock-gillow-flowr the Years Companion is. 
 
 Which the Sun fcarce in all his rounds does mifs. 
 Officious Plant! which every month can bring; 
 
 But rather wou’d be reckon’d to the Spring. 
 
 This pafs’d along with a becoming mien. 
 
 And in her tram the Wallflower wou’d be feen. 
 
 The condant Marigold next thefe went out. 
 
 And Ladies-flipper fit for Fiords foot. 
 
 Then Goats beard , which each Morn abroad does peep. 
 But fhuts its Flower at Noon, and goes to fleep. 
 
 Then Ox eye did its rowling Eye-ball fpread. 
 
 Such as j foves Wife and Sifter had, they faid. 
 
 Next Viper-grafs , full of a milky juice. 
 
 Good againd Poifon, which curd Stepdames ufe. 
 
 Then Hollow-root, cautious and full of fear, V 
 
 Which neither Summers heat, nor cold can bear, > 
 Comes after Spring, before it does retire. ) 
 
 Then Sattin flower, and Moth-mullein withdraw. 
 
 Worthy a noble Title to enjoy* 
 
 The Ladies-fmock, and Lugwort went their way. 
 
 With feveral more too tedious here to fay ; 
 
 With many an humble Shrub that took their leaves, 
 
 To which the Garden entertainment gives ; 
 
 As Honey- fuckle , Rofemary and Broom, 
 
 That Broom which does of Spaniff Parents come ; 
 
 Both forts of Pipe-tree ; neat in either drefs. 
 
 White or sky colour’d, whether pleafe you bed; 
 
 Next, the round-headed Elder-rofe , which wears 
 A Condellation of your little dars ; 
 
 The Cherry 5 ours and Per flan Apple add 
 Proud of the various Flowers adorn’d its head. 
 
 Nature has idue, Eunuch like, deny’d, 
 
 But ( like them too) by a fine face fupply’d. 
 
 Thefe and a thoufand more were fain to yield. 
 
 And left the Candidates to keep the Field. 
 
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 The Sign 
 Arits. 
 
 Each Flower appear’d with all its kindred, dreft, 
 
 Each in its richeft Robes ol gaudieft Veil : 
 
 The Violet firft, Springs Uiher, came in view, 
 
 From whole Tweet Lips thefe pleafing accents flew. 
 
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 The VIOLET.. 
 
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 ( v- J Cli - ^ L‘ - JivU v/ili * * * . I i i* 
 
 np H E Ram now ope the golden Portal throws, 
 
 -*■ Which holds the various feafons oi the Year, 
 
 And on his (Lining Fleece the Spring does bear, 
 
 Ye Mortals, with a fliout falute him as he goes. 
 
 ( Io Triumph ! ) now now the Spring comes on 
 In folemn ftate and. high Proceflion, 
 
 Whilft I j the beauteous Violet , flill before him go 
 And ulher in the gaudy (how; 
 
 As it becomes the Child of fuch a Sire, 
 
 I’m wrap’d in Purple, the firft born of Spring, 
 
 The marks of my Legitimation bring, 
 
 And all the tokens of ills verdant Empire wear. 
 
 Clad like a Princely Babe, and born in State, 
 
 I all your Regal Titles hate. 
 
 Nor priding in my bloud and mighty birth 
 Unnatural Plant, defpife the lap of mother Earth. 
 
 Loves God dels fmiles upon me juft newborn, 
 
 Rejoy cing at the Years return. 
 
 The Swallow is not a more certain fign 
 That Love and warm Embraces now begim 
 To the lov’d Babe a thoufand kifles 
 The Goddefs gives, a thoufand balmy blifles. 
 
 Befides, my purple Lips 
 In facred Ne&ar dips; 
 
 Hence ’tis, no fooner does the Violet burft. 
 
 By the warm Air to a juft ripenefs nurft. 
 
 But from my opening, blooming Head 
 A thoufand fragrant Odours fpread. 
 
 I do not onely pleafe the fmell. 
 
 And the moft critick taft beguile, 
 
 Not onely with my pretty die ’ 
 
 Impofe a Cheat upon the Eye ; 
 
 But more for profit than for pleafure born 
 I furnifh out a wholefom juice, 
 
 Which the fam’d Epicurus did not fcorn 
 Upon a time, when fick to ufe. 
 
 O’erprefling and vexatious pain, 
 
 I fuch a filent Vift’ry gain. 
 
 That though the Body be the Scene, 
 
 It fcarcely knows whether a fight has been. 
 
 The Fevers well-known Valor I invade, 
 
 Which blulhes with mere rage to yield 
 
Book III. Of T L A 3fT S. 
 
 To one that ne’er knew how to tread a Field, 
 
 But onely was for fights and Nuptial Banquets made. 
 It yields, but in a grumbling way, 
 
 Juft as the Winds obedience pay, 
 
 When Neptune from the Floud does peep 
 And filences thefe trou biers of the deep. 
 
 What though iome Flowers a greater courage knotty 
 Or a much finer face can fhow. 
 
 That does but (till the fanfie feed, 
 
 Whilft 1 for bufinefs fit, in real worth exceed. 
 
 Search over all the Globe, you’ll find. 
 
 The Glory of a Princely Flower 
 Confifts not in tyrannick Power, 
 
 But in a Majedy with mildnefs join’d. 
 
 She fpoke; and from her balmy Lips did come 
 A fWeet Perfume that feented all the Room. 
 
 The fmell fo long continued, that you’d fvvear 
 The Violet, though you heard no found, was there. 
 Quitting the Stage; the next that took her place, 
 Were Ox- lips, Pugles with their numerous Race; 
 
 A parti-colour’d Tribe, of various hue, 
 
 Red, yellow, purple, pale, white, dusky, blew. 
 
 The Primroje and the Cowflip too were there, > 
 
 Both of ’em kin, but not fo handfom far ; 
 
 Bears ear, fo call’d, did the whole Party head. 
 
 And yellow, claiming merit, needs wou’d plead. 
 TofTmg her hundred Heads in flanting rate, 
 
 Each had a Mouth, and coifd at pleafure prate. 
 
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 G Reat Queen of Flow’rs, why is thy fnowy Bread, 
 With inch a fight of various Pofies dredl 
 Whereas one ftalk of mine 
 Alone a Nofegay is, alone can make thee fine ; 
 
 A lovely, harmlefs Monder, I, 
 
 Gorgon s many Heads outvie ; 
 
 Others, as fingle Stars, may Glory beam ; 
 
 Take me, for I a Condellation am; 
 
 Let thole who Subjects want, purfue the dowry Crown fl 
 A dowry Nation, I, alone ; 
 
 Nor did kind Nature thus in vain. 
 
 So many Heads to me affign ; 
 
 I for Mans Head, Lifes chiefed feat 
 Am fet apart and wholly confecrate. 
 
 The minds Imperial Tow’r, the brain, 
 
 (A poor Apartment for fo great a Queen) 
 
 The Li "he houfe where Mans Reafon Bands and Ihines, 
 Mature the malice of contending winds. 
 

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 I guard the facred Place, repel the Rout, 
 
 And keep the everlafting Fire from going out. 
 
 Go now, and mock me with this monftrous Name 
 Which the late barbarous Age did coin and frame. 
 
 The true and proper names of things, of old, 
 
 Through a Religious filence ne’r were told. 
 
 Thus Guardian Gods true names were feldom known. 
 Left fome invading Foe might charm ’em from the Town. 
 Impudent Fool ! that firft ftil’d beauteous Flowers 
 By a detefted Name, the Ears of Bears 3 
 Worthy himfelf of Afles Ears, a pair 
 Fairer than Midas once was faid to wear. 
 
 At this rate Tinging ( for your merry Flowers 
 Still Ting their words, not bring ’em forth like ours) 
 The Daffadil fucceeded, once a Youth, 
 
 ( As any Poets tell , a facred truth. ) 
 
 And all his Clients and his kindred came, 
 
 A numerous train, to vote and pole for him 5 
 All of ’em pale or yellow did appear. 
 
 The Livery which wounded Lovers wear. 
 
 Though Virgil purple Honours has aftign’d 
 And blewilh dy, too liberal and kind. 
 
 The Chalcedonick with white Flower thought beft 
 To be the Mouth, and Ting for all the reft. 
 
 The DJFFJD1L, - Narcijfm. 
 
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 W Hat once I was, a Boy, not ripen’d to a Man, 
 
 My roots of one years growth explain, 
 
 A lovely Boy, of killing Eyes 
 Where ambufeading witchcraft lies. 
 
 Which did at laft the Owners felf furprize. 
 
 Of fatal Beauty, fucli as cou d infpire 
 Love into coldeft Breafts, in water kindle fire. 
 
 Me the hot beds of Sand in Libya burn. 
 
 Or Ijlers frozen Banks to ruine turn. 
 
 I, when a Boy, among the boys 
 Had ftill the nobleft place, 
 
 The fame my Plant among the Flow’rs enjoys. 
 
 And is the Gardens Ornament and grace. 
 
 Become a Flower, I cannot tell 
 Why my face lhou’d not pleafe me ftill ; 
 
 Downwards I lean my bending Head 
 Longing my looks in the fame Glafs to read 3 
 Shew me a ftream, that liquid Glafs 
 Will put me in the felf fame cafe; 
 
 In th’ colour with the fame Nymphs I am dreft. 
 
 Who wear me in their inowy Breaft; 
 
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 Who with my Flowers their pride maintain, 
 And wifh I were a Boy again. 
 
 She fpoke ; Anemone her ftation took, 
 
 To whom the Goddefs deign’d a (railing look; 
 
 For with the Tulip's leave, I needs mult fay 
 No Race more numerous, none more fine or gay ; 
 The Purple with its large and fpreading Leaf 
 Was chofen by confent to be their Chief, 
 
 Of fair Adonis bloud’s undoubted ftrain, 
 
 And to this hour it fhews the dying Rain ; 
 
 As foon as * Zephyr had unloos’d its Tongue 
 The beauteous Plant after this manner fung. 
 
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 ANEMONE, or EM0N1ES. 
 
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 T HOU gentle Zephyr , who didfl Flora wed 
 Thrice worthy of the Goddefs bed ; 
 
 Who in a winged Chariot hurl’d 
 With breezing Airs doft fan this nether world. 
 Which kind refrelhing motion, fat 
 I before lazy reft prefer 5 
 
 That Air with which thou every thing doft cheer, 
 Infpire into the Goddefs Ear ; 
 
 That the fair Judg wou’d mindful be 
 Of her lov’d Confort and of me; 
 
 For fince I take my Name from thee, 
 
 Nay of thy Kindred faid to be ; 
 
 Since I with thee do fympathize 
 Who in ZEolian Dungeon Captive lies, 
 
 And viewing Zephyrs doleful ftate. 
 
 All Drefs and Ornament I hate. 
 
 And locking up my mournful Flower, 
 
 My felf a Prifner make, the fame reftraint endure. 
 
 Since I have change of Suits and gaudy Vefts, 
 Which in my various Flowers are expreft ; 
 
 In brief, fince I’m akin to Gods above ; 
 
 All thefe together fure may favour move; 
 Sprung from the fair Adonis purple tide 
 And Venus tears, to both I am ally’d ; 
 
 The Rofy Youth, the lov’d Adonis flood Z 
 The pride and glory of the Wood, ✓ 
 
 Till a Boars fatal tusk let out the precious bloud. - 
 Into each flowing drop that ftill’d 'j 
 
 A falling tear the Goddefs (pill’d, > 
 
 Which to a bloudy torrent fwell’d. } 
 
 The Lovers tears and bloud combine 
 As if they wou’d in Marriage join ; 
 
 From fuch fair Parents, and that wedding morn 
 Was I, their fairer off-fpring, born. 
 
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 * Tis fabled to 
 have fpruog 
 out of Adonis' s 
 bloud. 
 
 * Its Flower 
 never opens 
 but when the 
 Wind blows, 
 
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 My iorce and power perhaps you queftion now. 
 
 My Power ? Why, I a handfom face can Ihow ; 
 
 Befides, my heavenly Extract I can prove. 
 
 And that Pm Sifter to the God of Love. 
 
 The Crown Imperial ( as (lie ftep’d aftde ) 
 Advanc’d with ftately, but becoming pride. 
 
 Not buskin’d Heroes ftrut with nobler pride. 
 Nor Gods in walking ufe a finer ftride : 
 
 No Friends or Clients made her Train, not one ; 
 Confcious of native worth, fhe came alone. 
 
 The VVith an ere£t and fober Countenance 
 
 to the fighT, Cr ’ In following terms file did her Plea commence. 
 
 that grovto. 
 
 Laurcmbrg. . 0 . . 
 
 The IMfE^IJL C%0WK. 
 
 Since on my ftately Stem 
 Nature has plac’d th’ Imperial Diadem,! 
 
 Why all thefe words in vain, why all this noife? 
 
 Be judg’d by Nature and approve her choice. 
 
 Perhaps it does your envy move, 
 
 And to my right may hurtful prove. 
 
 That I an upftart Novel Flower am 
 
 Who have no rumbling hard Greek name; 
 Perhaps I may be thought 
 In fome Plebeian bed begot, 
 
 Becaufe my Lineage wears no ftain, 
 
 Nor does Romantick lhameful Stories feign 
 That I am fprung from Jove, or from his baftard ftrain. 
 
 I freely own, I have not been 
 Long of your world a Denizen ; 
 
 But yet I reign’d for Ages pa ft 
 In Perffa and in Ballria plac’d. 
 
 The pride and joy of all the Gardens of the Eaft. 
 
 My Flower a large-fiz’d golden head does wear, 
 Much like the Ball Kings in their hands do bear. 
 Denoting Sovereign Rule and ftriking Fear. 
 
 My purple ftalk, I, like fome Scepter wield. 
 Worthy in Regal hands to Ihine, 
 
 Worthy of thine, great God of Wine, 
 
 When India to thy conquering Arms did yield. 
 Befides all this; I have a flowry Crown 
 My Royal Temples to adorn, 
 
 Whofe buds a fort of Hony liquor bear. 
 
 Which round the Crown, like Stars or Pearls appear ; 
 Silver threads around it twine. 
 
 Saffron , like Gold, with them does join ; 
 
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 And over All 
 
 My verdant Hair docs neatly fall. 
 
 Sometimes, a threefold rank of Flowers 
 Grows on my top, like lofty Towers. 
 
 Imperial Ornaments 1 fcorn, 
 
 And, like the Pope, affedt a triple Crown ; 
 
 The Heavens look down and envy Earth 
 For teeming with fo bright a Birth; 
 
 For Ariadnes darry Crown 
 
 By mine is far out-fhone. 
 
 And as they’ve Reafon, let ’em envy on. 
 
 She thunder’d out her Speech ; and walk’d to greet 
 The Judg, not falling meanly at her feet, 
 
 But as one Goddefs does another meet. 
 
 A Flower that wou’d too happy be and bled. 
 
 Did but its Odour anfwer all the red! 
 
 The Tulip next appear’d, all over gay, 
 
 But wanton, full of pride and full of play ; 
 
 The world can’t fhew a Dye, but here has place. 
 
 Nay by new mixtures flic can change her face. 
 
 Purple and Gold are both beneath her care, 
 
 The riched Needlework die loves to wear ; 
 
 Her onely dudy is to pleafe the Eye, 
 
 And to outfhine the red in Finery ; 
 
 Oft of a Mode or Colour weary grown 
 » By which their Family had long been known. 
 
 They’ll change their fafhion drait, I know 7 not how. 
 And with much pain in other Colours go; 
 
 As if Meded s Furnace they had pad; 
 
 ( She without Plants old JEfon ne’r new-cad ) 
 
 And chough they know this change Will mortal prove 
 They’ll venture yet — to change io much they love. 
 Such love to Beauty, fuch the third of praife. 
 
 That welcome Death before inglorious days! 
 
 The caufe by all was to the white affign’d. 
 
 Whether bccaufe the rared of the kind, 
 
 Or elfe bccaufe every Petitioner 
 
 In antient times, for Office, white did wear. 
 
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 S Omcwherc in Horace , if I don't forget, 
 
 (Flowers are no foes to Poetry and Wit ? 
 
 For us that Tribe the like affedfion bear, 
 
 And of all Men the greated Florifis are ) 
 
 We find a wealthy Man 
 Whofc Ward-robe did five thoufand Suits contain ; 
 He counted that a vad prodigious dore, 
 
 But I that number have twice told and more, 
 
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 Thence fuch 
 were and are 
 Bill call’d 
 Candidates. 
 
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 Gerard, Par- 
 I’infon. 
 
 Whate’r in Spring the teeming Earth commands; 
 
 What Colours e’r the painted pride of Birds, 
 
 Or various Lights the ghfiering Gem affords 
 Cut by the Artful Lapidary’s hands; 
 
 Whate’r the Curtains of the Heavens can fhow, 
 
 Or Light lays Dyes upon the varnilh’d Bow, 
 
 Rob’d in as many, Veils I fhine, 
 
 In every thing bearing a Princely Mien. 
 
 Pity I mud the Lily and the Rofe 
 ( And the lafl blufhes at her thredbare Clothes) 
 
 Who think thcmfelves fo highly bled, 
 
 Yet have but one poor tatter’d VcfL 
 Thefe fludious, unambitious things, in brief, 
 
 Wou’d fit cxtreamly well a College life. 
 
 And when the God of Flowers a Charter grants 
 Admifiion fhall be given to thefe Plants; 
 
 Kings fhou’d have plenty, and fuperfluous (tore, 
 
 Whilfl thriftinefs becomes the poor. 
 
 Hence Spring himfelf does chiefly me regard : 
 
 Will any Flower refufe to Hand to his award? 
 
 Me for whole Months he does retain. 
 
 And keeps me by him all his Reign ; 
 
 Carefs’d by Spring, the feafon of the year. 
 
 Which before all to Love is dear. 
 
 Befides ; the God of Love himfelf’s my friend. 
 
 Not for my Face alone; but for another end. 
 
 Lov’d by the God upon a private fcorc, 
 
 I know for what but fay no more ; 
 
 • But why fhou’d I, 
 
 Become fo filent or fo fhy? 
 
 We Flovv’rs were by no peevifh Sire begot. 
 
 Nor from that frigid, fullen Tree did fprout. 
 
 So fam’d in Ceres (acred Rites ; 
 
 Nor in morofenefs Floras fclf delights. 
 
 My Root, like Oil in antient Games, prepares 
 Lovers for Battel or thofe fofter wars : 
 
 My quickning heat their fluggifh veins infpircs 
 With vigorous and fprightly fires; 
 
 Had but chafl Lucrece us’d the fame. 
 
 The night before bold Tarquin try’d his flame. 
 Upon Record (lie ne’r a Fool had been, 
 
 But wou’d have liv’d to reap the pleafurc once again. 
 
 The Goddefs confcious of the truth, a while 
 Contain’d, but then was feen to blufli and fmile. 
 
 The Flower de Luce next loos’d her heavenly Tongue; 
 And thus, a mid ft her fweet Companions, fung. 
 
 
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 Iris, or the F LOW E^-V E-LUCE. 
 
 I F Empire is to Beauty due 
 
 (And that in Flowers, if anywhere, holds true) 
 Then I by Nature was defign’d for Reign 5 
 Elfe Nature made a beauteous Face in vain. 
 
 Befides, I boafl a fparkling Gem, 
 
 And brighter Goddefs of my Name. 
 
 My lofty front towards the Heavens I bear. 
 
 And reprefent the Sky, when ’cis ferene and clear. 
 
 To me a Godlike Power is given 
 With a mild face refembling Heaven ; 
 
 And in the Kingly Rile, no Dignity 
 
 Sounds better than SERENITY) 
 
 Beauty and Envy oft together go, 
 
 * Handfom my lei f, I help make others fo; 
 
 Both Gods and Men of the mod curious Eyes 
 With fecrct pleafure I furprile ; 
 
 Nor do I lefs oblige the Nofe, 
 
 With fragrance from my Root that blows. 
 
 Not Sibaru or foft Capua did know J? 
 
 A choicer Flower for fmell or fhow, > 
 
 Though both with pleafure of all kinds did flow. 3 
 I own, th F Violet and the Rofe , 
 
 Divined Odours both difclofe; 
 
 The Saffron and Stock GiUifloiver, 
 
 With many more; 
 
 But yet none can fo lweet a root produce. 
 
 My upper parts are trim and fair. 
 
 My lower breath a grateful Air. 
 
 I am a Flower for fight, a Drug for iife. 
 
 Soft as I am, amidd this luxury. 
 
 Before me rough Difeafes fly. 
 
 Thus a bold Amazon with Virgin face 
 Troops of dadard Men will chafe. 
 
 Thus Mars and Venus often greet. 
 
 And in Tingle ? atlas meet : 
 
 Equal to her in Beauties charms 
 And not to him iijfcriour in Arms. 
 
 By fecret Virtue and refidlefs power 
 
 Thofe whom the Jaundice feiz£s I redore ; 
 Though moid with Unguent, and inclin’d to love, 
 
 I rather was for Luxury defign’d, 
 
 And yet like fome enraged Lionefs 
 Before my painted Arms the yellow foe does had. 
 The Dropfie headlong makes away 
 As foon as I my Arms difplay; 
 
 The Dropfie, which Mans Microcojm drowns 
 Pulling up all the Sluces in its rounds, 
 
 * The ju' lcc of 
 the Root 
 takes away 
 Freckles and 
 Morphews. 
 
 Of the Root is 
 made that 
 call ’ll Powder 
 
 of Cyprus, or 
 Orris Powder. 
 
 
 Its faculty in 
 curing thefe 
 Difeafes, is 
 celebrated by 
 Laurembtrgi 
 
 Ftmlim i &c. 
 
 k- 
 
 I follow 
 
The Peony 
 male and fe- 
 male. 
 
 Homer fays, 
 Toson cur’d 
 Pluto with this 
 Plant, when 
 he was 
 wcunded by 
 Hercules. 
 
 Of T L A AAf T S. Book III. 
 
 1 lollow it through every winding vein, 
 
 And make it quit in halt the delug’d Man. 
 
 The Nation ot the Jews , a pious folk, 
 
 Though our Gods they don’t invoke; 
 
 And not to You, ye Plants, unknown 
 YtW days of that great Flowrift Solomon : 
 
 Tell us, that Jove to cheer the drooping Bail 
 After the Floud, a Promife paft. 
 
 How that fo long as Earth fhou’d half. 
 
 No future Deluge on the world fhou’d fall. 
 
 And as a Seal to this obliging Grant, 
 
 The Rain-low in the Sky did plant; 
 
 I am that Bow, in poor Hydropick Man, 
 
 The fame refrciliing hopes contain, 
 
 I look as gay, and Ihow as fine, 
 
 I am the Thing, of which that onely is the Sign, 
 
 My Plant performs the fame 
 Towards Mans little worldly frame; 
 
 And when within him f appear. 
 
 He need no Deluge from a Dropfie fear. 
 
 The Peony then, with large red Flower came on. 
 
 And brought no train, but his lov’d Mate alone ; 
 Numbers cou’d not make him the caufe efpoufe, 
 
 ’Las ! the whole Nation made but one poor Houfe. 
 Nor did her coflly wardrobe Pride infpire, 
 
 All drefs’d alike, ail did one colour wear. 
 
 And yet he wanted not for Majefty, 
 
 Appearing with a fober gravity. 
 
 For He advanc’d his purple forehead, which 
 A Flower with thoufand foldings did enrich : 
 
 Some love to call it the llluftrious Plant, 
 
 And we may well, I think, that Title grant; 
 Phyficians in their publick Writings ihow. 
 
 What praife is to the firft Inventor due. 
 
 Paeon was Doctor to the Gods, they fay. 
 
 By the whole College honour’d to this day. 
 
 With her own merits, and this mighty Name 
 Hearten’d and buoy’d, fhe thus maintain’d her Claim. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Paonh. The PEONY. 
 
 I F the fond Tulip, fwelPd with pride, 
 
 In her Fools coat of motley colours dy’d; 
 
 If lov’d Adonis Flower, the Celandine , 
 
 Wou’d proudly be prefer’d to mine ; 
 
 Then let j loves Bird, the Eagle quit the Field, 
 
 The Thunder to the painted Peacock yield : 
 
 Then let the Tyrant of the Woods be gone, 
 
 The Lion yield to the Chamelion. You’ll 
 
• 79 
 
 Bo OK III. OfTLJ^TS. 
 
 You’ll fay perhaps the Nymphs make much of you* 
 They gather me for Garlands too. 
 
 And yet d’ye think, I value that? 
 
 Not I, by flora , not a jot. 
 
 Virtue and courage are the valuable things. 
 
 On difficult occafions ffiown. 
 
 Not painted Arms ennoble Kings, 
 
 Virtue alone gives luftre to a Crown. 
 
 Hence I, the known Herculean Difeafe 
 The Falling Sicknefs, cure with eafe. 
 
 Which, like the Club, that Hero once did wear. 
 Down with one fingle blow mankind does bear. 
 
 T fanfie, hence the ftory rife. 
 
 That Pluto wounded once by Hercules , 
 
 My juice, infus’d by f<eon, gave him eafe. 
 
 And did the groaning God appeafe. 
 
 Taon was fam’d, tm fure, for curing this Difeafe. 
 
 Fluto is God of Hell, ’t fhou’d feem, 
 
 Prince of inexorable Death ; 
 
 Now this Difeafe is Death ; but not like him 
 Without a fling, plac’d in the Shades beneath. 
 
 I fhou’d be vain, extreamly vain, indeed 
 A quarrel on Punctilio’s to breed, 
 
 Since a more noble Flower, than I, 
 
 The Sun in all his journey does not fpy. 
 
 Nor do I go in Phyfick’s beaten Road 
 By other Plants before me tiod, 
 
 But in a way worthy a healing God. 
 
 I never with the foe come hand to hand. 
 
 My Odour Death does at a dillance fend ; 
 
 Hung round the Neck (trait without more ado 
 I put to flight the rampant foe; 
 
 I neither come ( what think you, Cefar, now) 
 
 Nor view the Camp, and yet can overthrow. 
 
 She fpokc, and bow’d, and fo the Court forfook* 
 Her Contort follow’d with a blulhing look; 
 
 When (trait a fragrant Air of (trong Perfume, 
 
 And a new luftre darted through the Room. 
 
 No wonder, for the Rofe did next appear, 
 
 Spring wifely plac’d his bed and choiceft troops ith’ Rear, 
 Some" wild in woods; yet worth and beauty (how. 
 Such as might in Hefperian Gardens grow. 
 
 Nought, by experience, than the Wood- Rofe found. 
 Better to cure a mad Dogs poifonous wound ; 
 
 This brings away the Gravel and the Stone, 
 
 And gives you eafe though to a Quarry grown. 
 
 The beauteous Garden-Rofe (he did not ihame, 
 Though better bred and of a fofter Name ; 
 
 Which in four Squadrons drawn, the Damask Rofe 
 In name of all the reft maintain’d theCaufes 
 
 
 Which 
 
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 * 
 
 TheRofeis Which fprung, they fay, from Syrian Venus bloud, 
 faid atfirftto Long time the pride of rich Damafcus flood. 
 
 have grown 01 J 
 
 white only, till Vtnui running after Adonis, fcratch’d her Legs upon its thorns, and ftain’d the Flowers red 
 with her bloud. 
 
 The % 0 S E. 
 
 A N D who can doubt my Race, fays file, 
 
 Who on my face Love’s tokens fee? 
 
 The God of Love is always fofr, and always young, 
 
 I am the fame, then to his bloud what wrong? 
 
 My Brother winged does appear ; 
 
 I leaves inflead of wings do wear ; 
 
 He’s drawn with lighted Torches in his hand ; 
 
 Upon my top bright flaming glories Rand; 
 
 The Rofe has prickles, fo has Love, 
 
 Though thefe a little (harper prove ; 
 
 There’s nothing in the world above, or this below* 
 
 But would for Rofy-colour’d go ; 
 
 This is the Dye that Rill does pleafe 
 Both mortal Maids, and heavenly Goddefles; 
 
 I am the Standard by which Beauty's try’d. 
 
 The wifh of Chloe, and immortal Juno s pride. 
 
 The bright Aurora , Queen of all the Baft, 
 
 Proud of her Rofy- fingers, is confefi ; 
 
 When from the gates of Light the rifing Day 
 Breaks forth, his confiant rounds to go. 
 
 The winged hours prepare the way. 
 
 And Rofy Clouds before him Rrow. 
 
 The windows of the Sky with Rofcs fhine ; 
 
 I am Days Ornament as well as fign. 
 
 And when the glorious pomp and tour is o’er, 
 
 I greet it pofiing to the Weftern fliore. 
 
 The God of Love, we mufi allow, 
 
 Shou’d tolerably Beauty know. 
 
 Yet never from thofe Cheeks he goes, 
 
 Where he can fpy the blufhing Rofe. 
 
 Thus the wife Bee will never dwell 
 ( That, like the God of Love has wings. 
 
 That too has Honey, that has Rings ) 
 
 On vulgar Flowers that have no grateful fmell. 
 
 Tell me, blefi Lover: what’s a kifs 
 Without a Rofy Lip create the blifs > 
 
 Nor do I onely charming fweets difpence. 
 
 But bear Arms in my own and Mans defence, 
 
 I without the Patient’s pain 
 Mans body, that Augean Stable clean. 
 
 Not with a rough and preffmg hand. 
 
 As Thunder-fiorms from Clouds command. 
 
 But as the dew and gentle fhowers 
 Diflblving light on Herbs and Flowers, 
 
 No 
 
. Book III. Of T L A T S. 
 
 Nor of a fhort and fading date 
 
 Was I the lefs defign’d for Rule and State ; 
 
 Let proud ambitious Floramour 
 Ufurping on the Gods immortal Name, 
 
 Joy to be Ail’d the Everlafting Flower , 
 
 I ner knew yet that Plant that near to Neftor came. 
 We too too bleft, too powerful fhou’d be grown, 
 Which wou'd but Envy raife, 
 
 If we cou’d fay our beauty were our own. 
 
 Or boaft long life and many days. 
 
 But why fhou’d I complain of Fate 
 For giving me fo lliort a date > 
 
 Since Flowers, the Emblems of Mortality, 
 
 All the fame way and manner die. 
 
 But the kind Gods above forbid. 
 
 That Virtue e’er a Grave fhou’d find. 
 
 And though the fatal Sifters cut my thread. 
 
 My Odour, like the Soul, remains behind. 
 
 To a dead Lion a live Worm’s prefer’d, 
 
 Though once the King of all the favage Herd* 
 After my Death I ftill excel 
 T he beft of Flowers that are alive and well 
 If that the name of Dead will bear, 
 
 From whofe meer Corps does come, 
 
 (Like tlw dead bodies Hill furviving Heir) 
 
 So fweet a fmell and ftrong Perfume. * 
 
 Let ’em invent a thoufand ways 
 My mangled Corps to vex and fqueeze. 
 Though in a fweating Limbeck pent 
 My Albes ftill preferve their feent. 
 
 Like a dead Monarch to the Grave I come, 
 
 9 * 
 
 Nature embalms me in my own Perfume. 
 
 She fpoke, a Virgin blufh came o’r her face. 
 
 And an Ambroftan feent flew round the place; 
 
 But that which gave her words a finer grace, 
 
 Not without fome conflraint fhefeem’d to tell her praife* 
 Her Rivals trembled ; for the Judge’s look 
 A fecret pleafure and much kindnefs fpoke* 
 
 The Virgin did not for Well-wifhers lack, 
 
 Her kind red Squadrons ftood behind her back.* 
 
 The yellow ncareft flood, ^unfit for war, 
 
 Nor did the fpoils of cur’d Difeafes bear; 
 
 The white was next, of great and good renown, 
 
 A kind afiiftant to the Eye fight known ; 
 
 The third, a mighty Warrier, was the Red, 
 
 Which terribly her bloudy Banner fpread; 
 
 She binds the Flux with her reftringent Arts, 
 
 And flops the humours journey tothofe parts; 
 
 She brings a prefent and a fure relief 
 
 To Head aqd Heart, the Fountains both of Life; 
 
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 The Fevers fires by her are mildnefs taught, 
 
 And the Hag’d Man to fweet compofure brought. 
 
 By help of this, j )afon of old, >we read, 
 
 Yok’d and fubdud the Bulls of fiery breed; 
 
 One Dofe to fleep the watchful Dragon fent. 
 
 By which no more but a high Fevers meant. 
 Between this Squadron and the White, we’re told, 
 A long and grievous flrife commenc’d of old ; 
 
 Strife is too foft a word for many years 
 Cruel, unnatural, and bloudy wars; 
 
 The fam’d Pharfalian fields twice dy’d in bloud, 
 Ne’r of a nobler Quarrel witnefs flood ; 
 
 The third of Empire, ground of mod our wars, 
 
 Was that which folely did occafion theirs ; 
 
 For the Red Rofe cou’d not an Equal bear. 
 
 And the White wou’d of no Superiour hear, 
 
 The civil The Chiefs by Tork and Lancafter upheld 
 thcHoufes e of With civil rage harafs’d the Britifh field. 
 ror^zndLan- What madnefs drew ye Rofes to engage, 
 
 SiSch the firft ^i° a g ain ftk in to fpend your thorns and rage! 
 bore the Go, turn your Arms, where you may triumph gain; 
 wMtc.Rofe, And fame unfullied with a blufhing Rain 3 
 the Red, ° oft r See t ^ ie Prencb Lily fpoils and wafts yourfhore, 
 more Englifh Go conquer there, where you’ve twice beat before. 
 
 bloud, than WhiHF rliP Kmtrh Thiftlp with nnHariniic 
 
 Do Rofes no more fenfe and prudence own 
 Than to be fighting for Domeflick Crown ? 
 
 From Venu* You much of the Mother bear. 
 
 You both take plcafure in the God of War; 
 
 I now begin to think the Fable true, 
 
 That Mars fprung from a Flower, fulfill’d by You. 
 War ravages the Field, and like the furious Boar, 
 That turns up all the Gardens beauteous ftore; 
 O’rthrows the Trees and Fledges, and does wound 
 With his ungentle tusk the bleeding ground; 
 
 Roots up the Saffron and the Violet-led^ 
 
 And feafts upon the gaudy Tulip's head. 
 
 You’d grieve to fee a beauteous Plat fo foot! 
 
 Into confufion by a Monfler thrown. 
 
 But oh, my Mufe, oh whither doeft thou towr 
 This is a flight too high for thee to fbar. 
 
 The harmlels flrife of Plants, their wanton play. 
 Thy Pipe perhaps may well enough eflay; 
 
 But for their Wars, that is a Theme fo great. 
 Rather for Lucans Martial Trumpet fit; 
 
 To him that fung the Thelan Brothers deajh. 
 
 To Maro or fome fuch, that task bequeath. 
 
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 Book IV. Of T L A JfT S. 83 
 
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 O F 
 
 BOOK IV. 
 
 Hf ^ P P Y the Man whom from Ambition freed 
 If | | A little Field and little Garden feed. 
 
 H The Field do’s frugal Natures Wants fupply, 
 
 jS |§ The Garden furniihes for Luxury. 
 
 What further fpecious Clogs of Life remain, 
 He leaves for Fools to feek, and Knaves to gain. 
 
 This happy Life did th’ Old Corycian choofe 5 
 A Life deferving Maros noble Mufe ; 
 
 This Life did wife Abdolominus charm, 
 
 The mighty Monarch of a little Farm. 
 
 While honing weeds that on his Walks encroach’d 
 Great Alexander's MciTenger approach’d. 
 
 Receive, faid He, the Enfigns of a Crown 
 \ Scepter, Mitre and Sidonian Gown : 
 
 To Empire call’d unwillingly he goes, 
 
 And longing looks back on his Cottage throws 
 Thus Aglaus s Farm did frequent Vifits find 
 From Gods, himfelf a Granger to Mankind. 
 
 Gyges the richeft King of former times, 
 
 ( Wicked and fvvelling with fuccelsful Crimes) 
 
 Is there, faid he, a Man more bleft than I ? 
 
 Thus challeng’d he the Delphick Deity. 
 
 Yes, Aglaus , the plain dealing God reply ’d. 
 
 Aglaus > Who’s he? the angry Monarch cry’d. 
 
 Say, is there any King fo call’d ? there’s none. 
 
 No King was ever by that Title known. 
 
 Or any great Commander of that Name, 
 
 Or Heroe who with Gods do’s kindred claim : 
 
 Or any who docs fuch vail wealth enjoy 
 As all his Luxury can ne’r deffroy. 
 
 Renown’d for Arms, for Wealth or Birth, no Man 
 Was found call’d Aglaus : Who’s this Aglaus then? 
 
 At laft in the retir’d Arcadian Plains 
 ( Silence and Shades furround Arcadian Swains ) 
 
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 Near 
 
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 84. Of T L A VfP S. Be OK IV. 
 
 Near P tophis Town (where he but once had been J 
 At Plow this Man of Happinefs was feen. 
 
 In this Retirement was that Aglaus found, 
 
 Envy’d by Kings and by a God Renown’d. 
 
 Almighty Powr, if lawful it may be, 
 
 Amongft fictitious Gods to mention Thee, 
 
 Before encroaching Age too far intrude. 
 
 Let this fweet Scene my Life’s dull Farce conclude ! 
 
 „ . With this fweet clofe my ufeiefs toil be bled. 
 
 My long tofs’d Barque in that calm Ration reft. 
 
 Once more my Mufe in wild Digreftion ftrays, 
 
 Ne’r fatisfi’d with dear Retirements praife. 
 
 A pleafant Road — but from our purpofe wide. 
 
 Turn off, and to our Point directly guide. 
 
 Of Summer Flow' rs a mighty Hoft remain, 
 
 . With thole which Autumn mufters on the Plain, 
 
 Who with Joint forces fill the filming Field, 
 
 Grudging that Spring fhou’d equal numbers yield 
 To both their* Lifts, or ’caufe fome Plants had been 
 Under the fervice of both Seafons feen. 
 
 Of thefe, my Mufe, rehearfe the Chief ( for all 
 Though Memrys Daughter thou can’ll ne’r recall ) 
 
 The fpikes of Summers Corn thou mayft as well 
 Or ev’ry Grape of fruitful Autumn tell. 
 
 * Call'd f Umy The * flamy Panfie ulhcrs Summer in, 
 
 becaufc her His friendly March wi th Summer does begin; 
 are^fecn in” Autumn's Companion too ( fo Proferpine 
 the tume of Hides half the year and half the year is feen ) 
 
 the°Rainbow. The ^ t0 ^ et is kfs beautiful than thee. 
 
 That of one colour boafts, and thou of three. 
 
 Gold, Silver, Purple are thy Ornament, 
 
 Thy Rivals thou mightft fcorn hadft thou but feent 
 
 * vwes violet The * Hefperis aftumes a Violet's Name 
 becaufc To that which juftly from the Hefper came 5 
 fmciis flrong- Hefper do’s all thy precious fweets unfold, 
 eft in the Which coyly thou didft from the Day with hold: 
 
 27. 7. iH ‘ I 11 him more than the Sun thou tak’ft delight. 
 
 To him like a kind Bride thou yieldft thy fweet at Night 
 The Anthemis a fmall but glorious Flower, 
 
 Scarce rears his Head yet has a Giant’s Tow’r: 
 
 Forces the lurking Fever to retreat, 
 
 ( Enfconc’d like Cacus in his fmoky Seat ) 
 
 Recruits the feeble joints and gives them eafe : 
 
 He makes the burning Inundation ceafe; 
 
 And when his force againft the Stone is fent 
 He breaks the Rock and gives the waters vent. 
 
 Not Thunder finds through Rocks fo fwift a courfe. 
 
 Nor Gold the Rampir’d Town fo foon can force. 
 
 Blew bottle , thee my Numbers fain wou’d raife. 
 
 And thy Complexion challenges my Praife, 
 
 Thy 
 
Bo o K IV. Of T L J l \ T S. 
 
 Thy Countenance like Summer Skies is fair, 
 
 But ah ! how difFrent thy vile Manners are I 
 Ceres , for this excludes thee from my Song, 
 
 And Swains to Gods and me a facred Throng : 
 
 A trcach’rous Gueft, Deftru&ion thou doft bring 
 To th hofpitable Field where thou doft fpring. 
 
 Thou bluntft the very Reaper’s Side, and fo 
 In Life and Death becom’ft the Farmers Foe. 
 
 The FenelOlow'r do’s next our Song invite, 
 •Dreadful at once, and lovely to the fight: 
 
 His Beard all briftly, all unkemb’d his Hair, 
 
 Ev’n his wreath’d Horns the fame rough afpedt bear ; 
 His Vifage too a watrifh Blew adorns. 
 
 Like Achelous, ere his Head wore Horns. 
 
 Nor without Reafon, ( prudent Nature’s Care 
 Gives Plants a Form that might their Ufe declare ) 
 Dropfies it Cures, and makes moilt Bodies dry. 
 
 It bids the Waters pafs, the frighted Waters fly. 
 
 Do’s through the Bodies fecret Channels run, 
 
 A Water-Goddefs in the little World of Man. 
 
 But fay, Corn-Violet, why thou doft claim 
 Of Venus Looking Glafs the pompous Name > 
 
 Thy ftudded Purple vies, I muft confefs. 
 
 With the moft noble and Patrician drefs ; 
 
 Yet wherefore Venus Looking-Glafs ? that Name 
 Her Off fpring Rofe did ne’r prefume to claim. 
 
 Antirrhinon, more modeft, takes the Rile 
 Of Lions- Mouth, fometimes of Calf snout vile ; 
 
 By us Snap dragon call’d to make amends. 
 
 But fay what this Chimera Name intends ? 
 
 Thou well deferv’fl it, if, as old Wives fay. 
 
 Thou driv’ft nodturnai Ghofts, and Sprights away. 
 
 Why do’s thy Head, Nape Uu*, Armor wear? 
 
 Thy Guilt, perfidious Plant, creates thy fear : 
 
 Thy Helmet we cou’d willingly allow. 
 
 But thou alas, haft mortal Weapons tool 
 But wherefore arm’d ? as if for open Fight ; 
 
 Who work’ft by fecret Poyfon all thy fpight. 
 
 Helmet gainft Helmet juftly thou doft wear. 
 
 Blew * Author a, upon thy lovely Hair ; 
 
 This cov’ring from felt Wounds thy Front do’s fhield ; 
 With fuch a Head- piece Pallas goes to field. 
 
 What God to thee fuch baneful force allow’d. 
 
 With fuch Heroick Piety endow’d ? 
 
 Thou poyfon’ft more than e’r Medea flew. 
 
 Yet no fuch Antidote Medea knew. 
 
 Nor powerful only ’gainft thy own dire harms^ 
 
 Thy Virtue evry noxious Plant difarms: 
 
 Serpents are harmlefs Creatures made by Thee, 
 
 And Africa its felt from Poyfon free. 
 
 Blew Helmet 
 Flowers, or 
 Monks- hood, 
 fo called from 
 Its figuro. 
 
 * Counter- 
 Poyfon- 
 Monks-hood, 
 or wholefom 
 Helmetflo weri 
 
 Aif ? 
 
86 
 
 * Called 
 
 Lychnis quod 
 ucciu lucet. 
 
 * The 
 Peacock. 
 
 * Called Lyfi- 
 maebix from 
 J.yfintachus. 
 
 | Found by 
 GentiuA King 
 of Illyricum , 
 where they 
 grow larged. 
 
 So called 
 from ns clean- 
 dag quality, 
 ufed in walk- 
 ing Cloth and 
 (couringKitch- 
 in Veflels. 
 
 * Bill - flowers 
 Campanula. 
 
 Of T LAVfJTS. Book IV. 
 
 Air, Earth and Seas, with fecret Taint oppreft, 
 
 * Dilcharge tliemfelves oi the unwelcome Gueft ; 
 
 On wretched Us they (lied the deadly Bane, 
 
 Who dye by them that fhould our Life maintain. 
 
 Then Nature Teems t’ have learnt the poys’ning Trade, 
 
 Oilr common Parent our Step*mother made: 
 
 ’Tis then the fickly World perceives thy Aid, 
 
 By thy prevailing Force the Plague is ftaid. 
 
 A noble ftrife ’ewixt Fate and Thee we find, 
 
 That to deftroy, thou to preferve Mankind. 
 
 Into thy Lifts, thou Martial Plant admit. 
 
 Goats Rue y Goats-Rue is for thy Squadrons fit. 
 
 Thy Beauty * Campion, very much may claim, 
 
 Rutoi Greek- Rofe how didft thou gain the Name? 
 
 The Greeks were ever priviledg’d to tell 
 Untruths, they call thee Rofe , who haft no fmell. 
 
 Yet formerly thou wert in Garlands worn, 
 
 Thy ftarry Beams our Temples ftill adorn. 
 
 Thou crown’ft our Feafts, where we in Mirth fuppofe. 
 
 And in our Drink allow Thee for a Rofe. 
 
 The Chalcedonian Soil did once produce 
 A Lychnis of much greater fize and Ufe 5 
 Form’d like a Sconce, where various branches rife. 
 
 Bearing more Lights than Juno ’s * Bird has Eyes. 
 
 Like thofe in Palaces, whole Golden Light 
 Strikes up and makes the gilded Roofs more bright : 
 
 This, great Mens Tables ferves, while that’s preferrV 
 To Altars and the Gods Celeftial Board. 
 
 Shou’d Maro ask me in what Region fprings 
 The Race of Flow’rs inferib’d with Names of Kings, 
 
 I anfwcr, that of Flow’rs deferv’dly crown’d 
 With Royal Titles many may be found, 
 
 The Royal* Loofe-Jirife , Royal f Gentian grace 
 Our Gardens, proud of fuch a Princely Race. 
 
 f Soap Wort , though coarfe thy Name, thou doft excell 
 In Form, and art enrich’d with fragrant Smell : 
 
 As great in Virtue too, for thou giv’ft Eafe 
 In Dropfies and Fair Venus foul Difeafe. 
 
 Yet doft not fervile offices decline, 
 
 But condefcend’ft to make our Kitchins fhine. 
 
 Rome's Great Dictator thus, his triumph paft. 
 
 Return’d to plow, nor thought his Pomp debas’d. 
 
 The fame right hand guides now the humble Stive, 
 
 And Oxen Yoaks, that did fierce Nations drive. 
 
 Next comes the * Flowr in figure of a Bell, 
 
 Thy fportive-meaning Nature who can tell: 
 
 In thefe what Mufick Flora doft thou find ? 
 
 Say for what jocund Rites they are defign’d. 
 
 By us thefe Bells are never heard tq found, y 
 
 Our Ears are dull, and ftupid is our Mind, \ 
 
 Nature is all a Riddle to Mankind. ' ^ Some 
 
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 Book IV. Of T LA3\QTS. 
 
 Some Flow’rs give Men as well as Gods delight, 
 
 Thefe qualifie nor Smell, nor Tafte, nor Sight ; 
 
 Why therefore fliould not our * fifth Senfe be ferv’d ? 
 Or is that pleafure for the Gods referv’d ? 
 
 But of all Bell- Flow’rs * Bindweed do’s furpafs. 
 
 Of brighter Metal than Corinthian Brafs. 
 
 My Mufe grows hoarfe and can no longer fing. 
 
 But Throat-Wort hafts her kind relief to bring 5 
 The Colleges with Dignity enftal 
 This Flow’r, at Rome he is a * Cardinal. 
 
 The f Fox-Glove on fair Flora's Hand is worn. 
 
 Left while fhe gathers Flow’rs fhe meet a Thorn. 
 
 Love-Apple , though its Flow’r lefs fair appears, 
 
 It’s golden Fruit deferves the Name it bears. 
 
 But this is new in Love, where the true Crop 
 Proves nothings all the Pleafure was i’th’Hope. 
 
 The Indian f Flowry-Reed in Figure vies, 
 
 And Luftre, with the Cancer of the Skies. 
 
 The Indian Crejs our Climate now do’s bear. 
 
 Call’d Larks- heel, ’caufe he wears a Horfe-mans Spur, 
 Tins’ Gilt (pur Knight prepares his Courfe to run, 
 
 Taking his Signal from the rifing Sun, 
 
 And ftimulates his Flow’r to meet the day: 
 
 So Cafior mounted fpurs his Steed away. 
 
 This Warrioux fure has in fome Battel been, 
 
 For fpots of Blood upon his Bread are feen. 
 
 Had Ovid feen him, how would he have told 
 His Hiftory, a Task for me too bold ; 
 
 His Race at large and Fortunes had expreft, 
 
 And whence thofe bleeding Signals on thy Breft * 
 From later Bards fuch Myfteries are hid. 
 
 Nor do’s the God infpire, as heretofore he did. 
 
 With the fame weapon Lark-fpur thou doft mount 
 Amongft the Flow’rs, a Knight of high account j 
 To want thofe war-like Enfigns were a (hame 
 For thee, who kindred doft with Ajax claim : 
 
 Of unarm’d Flowers he cou’d not be the Sire, 
 
 Who for the lofs of Armor did expire : 
 
 Of th’ ancient Hyacinth thou keep’ft the Form, 
 
 Thofe lovely Creatures, that ev’n Phoebus Charm 5 
 In thee thofe skilful Letters ftill appear, 
 
 That prove thee Ajax his undoubted Heir. 
 
 That up ftart Flowr, that has ufurpt thy Fame, 
 O’rcome by thee, is forc’d to quit his Claim. 
 
 The Lily too wou’d fain thy Rival be, > 
 
 And brings, 5 tis true, fome figns that well agree* £ 
 But in Complexion differs much from thee, I 
 
 At Spring thou may ft adorn the Afian Row’rs, 
 
 We reap thee here among out Summer Fiow’rs, 
 
 *Thc Hear- 
 log. 
 
 * Call great 
 Bind- mid, or 
 great BiU- 
 Flower. 
 
 * In Latine 
 
 call’d Flos 
 Cardinalis. 
 t F los Digita- 
 lis from refem- 
 bling a Glove. 
 
 f canna India, 
 QtjFlos Cancri. 
 
 Confolida Rt- 
 
 f oi 1 
 
 The Sylla- 
 bles Ac, As, 
 molt vifiblc 
 In this flower,; 
 
 The com- 
 mon Hyacinth, 
 who wants all 
 the Notes of 
 the old Hya- 
 cinth or Ajai 
 Flower, 
 
 . -a 
 
 But 
 
88 
 
 FraxintlU . 
 
 niriaofi 
 
 Thlafpi. 
 
 Auricula mum 
 piloftRa. 
 
 4 l\s , 
 ckiii 
 
 -. 1 ?. 
 
 Of T L A S.i Book III. 
 
 But Martagon a bolder Challenge draws, 
 
 And offers Reafon to fupport his Caufe : 
 
 Nor did Achilles Armor e’r create, 
 
 ’Twixt Ajax and Vlyjfes fuch debate, 
 
 So fierce, fo great, as at this day we fee, 
 
 For Ajax Spoils, ’twixt Martagon and thee. 
 
 That Baftard Dittany of Sanguine hue 
 From Heftors reeking Blood Conception drew, 
 
 I cannot fay, but Hill a Crimfon ftain 
 Tindtures it’s Skin, and colours every Vein; 
 
 In Man the three chief Seats it do’s maintain, 
 
 “Defends the Heart, the Stomach, and the Brain. 
 
 But all in vain thy Virtue is employ’d. 
 
 To fave a Town mufl be at laft deftroy’d ; 
 
 In vain thou fight’ft with Heav’n and Deftiny, 
 
 Our Troy mull fall, and thou our Heftor die. 
 
 Next comes the Candy Tufts , a Cretan Flower, 
 
 That rivals Jove in Country and in Power. 
 
 The Pellitory healing Fire contains, lO '** \ • } t 
 
 That from a raging Tooth the Humor drains ; . - ^ V 
 
 At bottom red, above ? tis white and pure, - - 
 Refembling Teeth and Gums, for both a certain Cure. 
 
 The Sow- Bread do’s afford rich Food for &vine, • 
 
 Phyfick for Man, and Garlands for the Shrine. 
 
 Moufe-Ear , like to its Name-fake, loves if* abide 
 In places out o’th’ way, from Mankind bid. 
 
 It loves the lhade, and Nature kindly lends 
 A Shield again!! the Darts that Phtelus fends ; 
 
 ’Tis with fuch filky Briftles cover’d o’r, f * 
 
 The tend’reft Virgin’s. Hand may crop the Flow’r. 
 
 From all its num’rous Darts no hurt is found. 
 
 Its Weapons know to Cure, but not to wound* 
 
 Sweet William fmall, has Form and Afpedt bright. 
 
 Like that fvveet Flower that yields great Jove delight; 
 
 Had he Majefiick bulk, he’d now be fill’d ' oio i 
 Jove's Flower, and if my skill’ is not beguil’d, :I ' - ° ' 
 
 He was Jove's flower when Jove was but a Child, 
 
 Take him with many Flowrs in one conferr’d. 
 
 He’s worthy Jove, ev’n now he has a Beard 1 ^ 
 
 The Catch- Fly with Sweet-William w^confound, 
 
 WhofeNets the ftragglers of the fwarm furtound, 0 
 Thofe vifeous Threads thati hold th’ entangled Prey j : 
 
 From its own treach’rous Entrails force their way. 
 
 Three branches in the BarremWort are found. 
 
 Each Branch again with three tefs Branches crown’d. 
 
 The Leaves and Flowers adorning each are three, 
 
 This Frame muft needs contain fome Sacred Myftery. 
 
 Small are thy Bloffoms, double Pellitory , 
 
 Which yet united are the Garden’s Glory. ' - 
 
 1 
 
 \ 
 
 i 
 
 f 
 
 I 
 
 <U 
 
 Sneezing 
 
Book IV. Of P L A 3^ T S. 
 
 Sneezing thou doft provoke, and Love for thee 
 When thou were born fneez’d mod aufpicioufly. 
 
 But thou that from fair Mella tak'ft thy Name, 
 
 Thy Front furrounded with a Star-like flame, 
 
 Scorn not the Meads, for from the Meads are born 
 Wreaths, which the Temples of the Gods adorn ; 
 
 Kind fuffenance thou yieldft the lab’ring Bee, 
 
 When fcarce thy Mother Earth affords it thee. 
 
 Thy Winter-ftore in hardefl Months is found, 
 
 And more than once with Flow’rs in Summer crown’d. 
 Thy Root fupplies the place of Flowers decay’d, 
 
 And fodder for the fainting Hive is made. 
 
 Behold a Monftcr loathfom to the Eye, 
 
 Of Render bulk, but dang’rous Policy, 
 
 Eight Legs it bears, three joynts in every Limb, 
 
 That nimbly move and dcxtroufly can climb. 
 
 Its Trunk (all Belly) round, deform'd and fwell’d. 
 With fatal Nets and deadly Poyfon fill’d. 
 
 For Gnats and wand ’ring Flies line fpreads her toils, 
 
 And Robber-like, lives high on ravifh’d fpoils. 
 
 The City Spider, as more civiliz’d. 
 
 With this lels hurtful practice is fuffic’d. 
 
 With greater fury the Tarantula 
 Tho fmall it felf, makes Men and Beafts it’s Prey; 
 
 Takes firft our Reafon then our Life away. 
 
 Thou Spicier Wort doft with the Monfterftrive, 
 
 And from the conquer’d Foe thy Name derive. 
 
 Thus Scipio, when the Worlds third part he won. 
 
 While to the Spoils the meaner Captains run, 
 
 The only Plunder he defir’d was Fame, 
 
 And from the vanquifh’d Foe to take his Name. 
 
 The Mar vail of the World comes next in view, 
 
 At home, but ftil’d the Marvail of Peru : 
 
 (Boaft not too much, proud Soil, thy Mines of Gold, 
 Thy Veins much Wealth, but more of Poyfon hold.) 
 Bring o’r the Root, our colder Earth has Power 
 In its full Beauty to produce the Flower; 
 
 But yields for Iflue no prolifick Seed, 
 
 And fcorns in foreign Lands to Plant and Breed. 
 
 The Holihock difdains the common fize 
 Of Herbs, and like a Tree do’s proudly rife; 
 
 Proud fhe appears, but try her and you’ll find 
 No Plant more mild, or friendly to Mankind : 
 
 She gently all Obftru&ions do’s unbind. 
 
 The * Africans their rich Leaves clofely fold. 
 
 Bright as their Countrey’s celebrated Gold. 
 
 Each hollow Leaf, envelop’d, does impart 
 The form of a gilt Pipe, and feems a work of Arr. 
 VVou’d kind Apollo once thefe Pipes infpire 
 They’d give fuch founds as fhould furpafs his Lyre. 
 
 M 
 
 89 
 
 Star-Wort, 
 
 Vr g, Gmg: 4<' 
 
 phalangium. 
 
 * A Flower fo 
 call’d, and 
 fometlmes 
 falfly French 
 Marigolds. 
 
 A more 
 
c?o Of TLA Jfl T S. Book IV. 
 
 — — — 
 
 A more than common date this Flow’r enjoys. 
 
 And lees a Month com pleated ere flie dyes. 
 
 Thelc only Fate permits To long to Band, 
 
 And crops ’em then with an unwilling Hand. 
 
 The Calyx where her fertile Seeds are laid 
 In likenefs of a painted Qpiver made, 
 
 With itore of Arrows too this Quivers grac’d. 
 
 And decently on Fiords Shoulder plac’d, 
 
 When llie in Gardens hunts the Butterfly, 
 
 In vain the wretch his Sun burnt wings do's try, 
 
 Secure enough, did Fear not make him fly. 
 
 Himfelf would feem a Flow’r if motionlefs. 
 
 And cheat the Goddcfs with his gaudy drefs. 
 
 Retreating, the keen Spike his fides do’s goad. 
 
 To Earth he falls, a light and unfelt Load. 
 
 Such was the Punick Caltha , which of Yore, 
 
 Of Juno's Roje the lofty Title bore. 
 
 Of famous Carthage, now by Fate bereft. 
 
 This lad ( and l’urely ) greateft Pride is left. 
 
 How vain, O Flowers, your hopes and willies be, 
 
 Born like your felves by rapid winds away. 
 
 Once you had- hopes at Hannibal's Return 
 From vanqui fil’d Rome , his Triumphs to adorn. 
 
 And ev’n imperious Carthage Head furround, 
 
 When llie theMiftris of the World were crown’d; 
 
 Prefum’d that Flora wou’d for you declare, 
 
 Tho llie that time a Latian Goddefs were : 
 
 But now ('alas )• reduc’d to private State, 
 
 Thou lhar’ft, poor Flower, thy Captive Countrey’s Fate. 
 
 Why Holly- Rofle, doft thou, of Bender frame, 
 
 And without feent, affume a Rofle s Name? 
 
 Fate on thy Pride a fwift Revenge does bring, 
 
 The Day beholds thee dead, that fees thee fpring. 
 
 Yet to the Blades thy Soul triumphing goes, 
 
 Boafting that thou didft imitate the Rofle . 
 
 A better claim Sweet-Ciflus may pretend, 
 
 Whofe fwcating Leaves a fragrant Balfam fend: 
 
 To crop this Plant the wicked Goat prefumes, 
 
 Whofe fetid Beard the precious Balm perfumes : 
 
 But in Revenge of the unhallowed Theft, 
 
 The Caitiffs of his larded Beard bereft. 
 
 Baldnefs thou doft redrefs, nor are we furc 
 Whether the Beard or Balfam gives the cure. 
 
 Thy Ointment, Jejflamim, without abufe 
 Is gain’d, yet grave old Sots condemn the ufe$ 
 
 Tho Jove himfelf, when he is moft enrag’d. 
 
 With thy Ambrofial Odour is aflwag’d : 
 
 Capricious Men! why Biould that feent difpleafe, 
 
 That is fo grateful to the Deities ? 
 
9 * 
 
 BookIV. OfTLA^TS. 
 
 Flora her felf to th 5 Orange-Tree lays claim, 
 
 Calls it her own, Pomona does the fame; 
 
 Hard words enfue, ( for under fenfe of wrong 
 Ev’n GoddefTes themfelves can find a Tongue ) 
 
 If Apples pleafc you fo, Pomona cries. 
 
 Take your Love-Apple , and let that fuffice, 
 
 To claim anothers Right is Harlots trade, 
 
 So may a Goddefs of an Harlot made. 
 
 And on what fcore, Flora incens’d reply’d. 
 
 Were you by kind Tertumnus deify ’d? 
 
 You kept (no thanks) your Maiden Virtue, when 
 He was a Matron, when a Youth — what then? 
 
 Such fragrant Fruits as thefe may Flowers be call’d. 
 And henceforth with that Name fliall be enflall’d.- 
 On fundry forts of Pulfc we do beflow 
 That Title, though in open field they grow. 
 
 As others oft are in the Garden feen, 
 
 Witncfs the everlaffing Peafe and Scarlet Bean . 
 
 The vulgar Beans fweet feent, who does not prize. 
 With Iv’ry Forehead, and with Jet-black Eyes, 
 Amongfl our Garden-Beauties may appear. 
 
 If Gardens only their cheap Crop did bear. 
 
 Pythagoras , not rightly underflood. 
 
 Has left a Scandal on the noble Food : 
 
 Take care henceforth, ye Sages, to fpeak true, 
 
 Speak truth, and fpeak intelligibly too. 
 
 Lupine unfleep’d, to harfhnefs does encline, 
 
 And like old Cato , is of temper rough. 
 
 But drench the Pulfe in Water, him in Wine, 
 They’ll lofe their fowrnefs and grow mild enough. 
 Thefe Flowers, and thoufands more, vvhofe num’rous 
 And pompous March, ’twere endlefs to deferibe. (tribe, 
 
 The * Mandrake only imitates our walk. 
 
 And on two Legs erc£t is feen to flalk. 
 
 This Monfler flruck Bellcnas felf with aw, 
 When firft the Man-refembling Plant fhe faw. 
 
 The * Water Lilly Hill is wanting here, 
 
 What caufe can Water -Lilly have to fear. 
 Where Beauties of inferiour Rank appear? 
 
 Her Form excelis, and for Nobility 
 The whole Affembly might her Vaflals be : 
 
 A Water-Nymph fhe was, Alcides Bride, 
 
 ( Who fprung from Gods, himfelf now deify’d ) 
 This cofl her dear — by Love of him betray’d, 
 The Water-Goddefs a poor Plant was made : 
 From this Misfortune fhe does triflful prove. 
 And to this hour flic hates the name of Love. 
 All freedom fhe renounces, Mirth and Play, 
 That to more clofe Embraces lead the way : 
 
 M z' 
 
 *MAlnt Aunt- 
 tin*. 
 
 * Male and 
 Female, 
 
 * fyiHpb**. 
 
 See NjmphtZ 
 or mttr-lily. 
 
 And 
 
9Z 
 
 OfTLJ^CTS. Book IV. 
 
 And fmce our Floras former Pranks are known, 
 
 ( If in a Goddefs we fuch Crimes may own ) 
 
 In life the common Midris of the Town. 
 
 She fcorns at her Tribunal to be feen. 
 
 Nor would on terms fo fcandalous be Queen. 
 
 To be from Earth divorc’d (he’d rather choofc, 
 
 And to the Sun her wither’d Root expofe. 
 
 * FiosFaJfionti Thee* Maracot a much more facred Caufe 
 chriju. From thefe profane ridic’lous Rites withdraws; 
 
 Fiower^or" With fignals of a real God adorn’d, 
 
 Virginian Poets and Painter’s Gods by thee are fcorn’d: 
 
 7 hC ^ un ^d the Emblems of this mydick Flower 
 Nam°cs was C gi- Tranfcends (alas!) my feeble Mujes Power, 
 venit by the But Nature fure by chance did ne’r bcflow 
 
 pcetend to h ° ^ ^ orm diffrent ^ rom Plants that grow, 
 find in it all Enrob’d with ten white Leaves, the proper drefs 
 
 rnemsof U- ur ^ Virgins Chad and facred Priedefies. 
 
 Lord’sPaifionj Twice round her two fold Selvedge you may view, 
 not fo eafiiy A Purple Ring, the facred Martyrs hue. 
 
 raenof Scnfes Thick fprouting Stems of ruddy Sajjron-Grain 
 not fo fine as Strive to conceal the Flower, but flrive in vain, 
 they. This Coronet of Ruby-Spikes compos’d. 
 
 The thorny Blood Rain’d Crown may be fuppos’d : 
 The Blood dain’d Pillar too a curious Ey 
 May there behold, and if you clofely pry, 
 
 The Spunge, the Nails, the Scourge thereon you’ll fpy,^< 
 And knobs refembling a Crown’d Head defcry. 
 
 So deep in Earth the Root defcends, you’d fwear. 
 
 It meant to vifit Hell, and Triumph there ; 
 
 In ev’ry Soil it grows, as if it meant 
 To flretch its Conqued to the World’s extent. 
 
 Befide the fore nam’d Candidates, but few 
 Remain’d, and mod of them were moded too. 
 
 But where fuch fragrant Rivals did appear, 
 
 Who would have thought to find rank Moly there? 
 Amongd Competitors of fuch fair Note 
 Sure, Garlick only will for Moly Vote. 
 
 Yet fomething ’twas, ( and Plants themfelves confefs 
 The Honour great) that Homer did exprefs 
 Her famous Name in his Immortal Song : 
 
 Swell’d with this Pride, fhe prefles through the throng. 
 Deep filence o’r the whole Afiembly fpreads, 
 
 Whild with unfav’ry Breath her Title thus fhe Pleads. 
 
 MOLY. 
 
 O find a Name for me the Gods took care, 
 
 A Mydick Name, that might my Worth declare, 
 
Book IV. Of T L A ^ T S. 
 
 They call’d me Moly : dull Grammarians fenfe 
 
 Is puzzled with the term 
 
 But Homer held Divine Intelligence. 
 
 In Greek and Latin both my Name is * Great, 
 
 The term is juft, but Moly founds more neat: 
 
 My Pow’rs prevented Circes dire Defign, 
 
 Dlyffes but for me had been a Swine; 
 
 In vain had Mercury infpir’d his Brain 
 
 With Craft, and tipt his wheedling tongue in vain. 
 
 Had I not enter’d timely to his Aid. % 
 
 Thus Moly fpoke, and would much more have faid 
 But by mifchance ( as if fome angry Pow’r 
 Had ow’d her long a fhame ) a Belch moft fowr 
 Broke from her throat, perfuming all the Court, 
 
 And made her Rivals unexfpc&ed fport. 
 
 Her pompous Name no longer can take place. 
 
 Her Odour proves her of the Garlick Race ; 
 
 Forthwith with one confent the gibing throng 
 Set up their Notes, and fung the well-known * Song 
 He that to cut his Father’s throat 
 Did heretofore prefume, 
 
 T’ have Garlick cram’d into his Gut 
 Receiv’d the dreadful Doom. 
 
 Flora to filence the tumultuous jeft, 
 
 ( Though fecretly Ihe fmil’d amongft the reft; ) 
 
 That flie her felf would fpeak a fign expreft. 
 
 Then with fvvect Grace into thefe Accents broke, 
 
 Th’ unhallow’d place perfuming while lhe fpoke. 
 
 F L 0 % A. 
 
 J JO ME R I will not vain or carelefs call, 
 
 El Though he no mention makes of me at all. 
 That he blame worthy was in this, ’tis true. 
 
 But the blind Bard gives other Gods their due. 
 
 To doubt his truth were Piety to flight, 
 
 Ev’n what of Moly he affirms is right, 
 
 I once had fuch a Flower, but now bereft 
 O’th’ happinefs, the Name is onely left. 
 
 No fooner Men its wondrous Virtue knew. 
 
 But jealous Gods the pow’rful Plant withdrew; 
 ’Tis faid that Jove did Mercury chaftife 
 For fhewing to Vlyjfes fuch a Prize. 
 
 To fay I faw him do’t I’ll not prefume, 
 
 But vvitnefs am of Molys uniuft Doom. 
 
 Ev’n to the Shades below her Root ftrikes down, 
 As flie wou’d make th’ infernal world her own. 
 
 As from their Seats the very Fiends fhe’d drive. 
 And fpight of flames and blafting Sulphur thrive. 
 
 93 
 
 * 3 
 
 nnm. 
 
 * IfoMf.Epod. 
 lib. Qd. j. 
 
H 
 
 Of T L A U\ fT S. Book IV. 
 
 Jove faw’r, and faid, Since Fire can’t flop thy courfe, 
 Well try Tome Magick-water’s flronger force. 
 
 * The God- Then calling * Lympha to him, thus at large 
 defs°f w a- xjnfbkjs his Mind, and gives the Goddefs charge: 
 
 Thou know’ll, faid he, where Cicones refide. 
 
 There runs a marv’lous petrifying tide ; 
 
 Take of that flream ( but largely take ) and throw 
 Where-e’r thou feed the wicked Moly grow; 
 
 Our Empire is not fafe, her Powr’s fo large; 
 
 Whole Rivers therefore on her Head difeharge. 
 
 Lympha with liberal Hand the Liquor pours. 
 
 While thirfly Moly her own Bane devours ; 
 
 Her Stem forthwith is turn’d (O Prodigy) 
 
 Into a Pillar 5 where her Flow’r fliou’d be 
 The fculpture of a Flow’r is onely fliown : 
 
 Poor Moly thus transform’d to Marble Stone, 
 
 The dory of her fate do’s dill prefent, 
 
 And dands in Death her own fad Monument. 
 
 Here ended little Molys mighty Reign, 
 
 By jealous Gods for too much Virtue flain. 
 
 * i ar^fpur. What wonder then if that bold * Flow’r did prove 
 The Herb, by The objedt of his wrath that Rival’d Jove . 
 of C which ° f That to embrace chad Juno did afpire, 
 
 Juno was Gallant t’ a Goddefs, of a God the Sire, 
 feigned to qphe vig’rous Herb begat a Deity, 
 
 Man'ovtd. A God, like Jove himfelf for Majedy, 
 f ajt. lib. &c, And one that thunders too as loud as he, 
 
 e With one fliort Moment’s touch begot him too, 
 That’s more than ever threfhing Jove cou d do. 
 
 The Flow’r it felf appears with Warriours Mien, 
 
 ( As much as can in growing Plants be feen. ) 
 
 With dabbing Point and cutting edg vis made. 
 
 Like warlike weapon, and upon it’s Blade 
 Are ruddy dains like drops of Bloud difplay’d. 
 
 Its Spikes of Faulchion fhape are fanguine too, 
 
 Its Stem and Front is all of bloudy hue : 
 
 The Root in form of any Shield is fpread, 
 
 A creded Helmet’s plac’d upon it’s Head. 
 
 Upon his Stalk, Strings, Bow and Arrow’s grow, 
 
 A Horfman’s Spur upon his Heel below. 
 
 Minerva S would have this Warriour wed, 
 
 A Warriour dt.for chad Minerva’s Bed; 
 
 So might fhe teem, yet keep her Maiden- head. 
 
 My Garden had but one of thefe I own, 
 
 And therefore by the name of Thcenix known, 
 
 The Herb that could cncreafe Jove’s mighty Breed ; 
 T’ its felf an Eunuch was and wanted feed. 
 
 Grieving that Earth fo rich a Prize ihould want, 
 
 I try’d all means to propagate the Plant : 
 
 What 
 
 i 
 
91 
 
 BookIV. OfTLA^TS. 
 
 What cannot Wit, what cannot Art fulfil? 
 
 At lead where Pow'rs Divine wou’d (hew their skill. 
 One tender Bulb another did fucceed. 
 
 And my fair Phcenix now began to breed ; 
 
 But mark th’ Event, (hall I expending fit, 
 
 Cries Jove, till this young Sprout more Gods beget ? 
 To have a Rival in my Heav’n, and fee 
 An Herb-race mingle with Jove's Progeny ? 
 
 A dreadful and * blind Monder then does make ; 
 
 That on his Rival dire Revenge might take; 
 
 Though lefs of fize, (hap’d like a Eorefl Boar, 
 
 And turns him loofe into my Gardens flore. 
 
 What havock did the Savage make that day, 
 
 ( I weep to think what flow’ry Ruins lay) 
 
 With Sulphurs fume I drove to drive him thence. 
 
 The fume of Sulphur prov’d too weak defence. 
 
 Great Spurge and A [fa Foetida I try’d. 
 
 In vain, in vain drong Molys feent apply’d. 
 
 Small Vermin did his Ancedors fuffice, 9 
 
 When they cou’d catch a Beetle ’twas a Prize, > 
 But fuch coarfe fare this Salvage does defpife. j 
 He like a Swine of Epicurus breed. 
 
 On the bed Dainties of my Soil mud feed. 
 
 Tulips of ten pounds price ( fo large and gay 
 Adorn’d my Bow’r) he’d eat me ten a Day: 
 
 For twice the fum I could not now fupply 
 The like, though Jove himfelf (hould come to buy. 
 
 Yet like a Goddefs I the damage bore, 
 
 With courage, truding to my Art for more. 
 
 While therefore I contrive to trap the Foe 
 The wretch devours my precious Phoenix too. 
 
 Nor to devour the Sire is fatisfy’d. 
 
 But tears the tender off-fpring from his fide. 
 
 O impious Fad here Flora paus’d awhile. 
 
 And from her Eyes the Crydal tears didil : 
 
 But as became a Goddefs checkt her grief. 
 
 And thus proceeds, in language fweet and brief 3 
 Thee Moly, Homer did perhaps devour, 
 
 For, to Hcav’ns (hame be’t fpoke ; the Bard was poor. 
 But in thy praife wou’d ne’r vouchfafe to fpeak. 
 
 From thefe Examples, Holy, warning take. 
 
 To fatal Honours feek not then to rife, V 
 
 ’Tis dangerous claiming Kindred with the Skies: > 
 
 Thou honed Garlick art, let that fuffice, Y 
 
 Of Countrey-growth, own then thy Earthly Race, 
 
 Nor bring by pride on Plants or Man, difgraca 
 
 She faid and to the Lily waiting by. 
 
 Gave Sign, that (he her Title next (hould try. 
 
 * The Mote 
 
 •# 
 
 9 
 
 Whitt-IMj. 
 
Of T L A S. Book IV. 
 
 96 
 
 ♦ 
 
 * Jiipitir ia 
 order to make 
 Hn cults Im- 
 mortal, clap’d 
 him to Juno’s 
 breads, while 
 fhe was afleep. 
 The lufty lit- 
 tle rogue 
 fuck’d fo hard, 
 that too great 
 a gulh of Milk 
 coming forth, 
 fome fpilt up- 
 on the Sky, 
 which made 
 the Galaxy or 
 Milky Way j 
 and out of 
 fome which 
 fell to the 
 Earth arofe 
 the Lily* 
 
 
 l 
 
 / 
 
 White--! I L % 
 
 QU C H as the lovely Swan appears 
 O When rifing from the Trent or Thame, 
 And as aloft his Plumes he rears, 
 
 Defpifes the lefs beauteous ftream : 
 
 So when my joyful Flow r is born, 
 
 And does its native glories fhow; 
 
 Her clouded Rival Ihe does fcorn; 
 
 Th’ are all but foils where Lily's grow. 
 
 Soon as the Infant comes to light 
 With harmlefs Milk alone 5 tis fed ; 
 
 That from the Innocence of white 
 A gentle temper may be bred. 
 
 The milky Teat is firft apply ’d 
 To fierceft Creatures of the Earth, 
 
 But I can boaft a greater pride, 
 
 * A Goddefs Milk, produc’d my Birth. 
 
 When Juno in the Days of yore 
 Did with the great Alcides teem, 
 
 Of Milk the Goddefs had fuch ftore 
 The Ne&ar ftom her Breaft did ftream. 
 
 Whitening beyond the pow’r of Arc 
 The Pavement where it lay. 
 
 Yet through the Crevifes fome part 
 Made fhift to find its way. 
 
 The Earth forthwith did pregnant prove 
 With Lily flow’rs fupply’d. 
 
 That fcarce the Milky way above v 
 With her in whitenefs vy’d. 
 
 Thus did the Race of Man arife, 
 
 When fparks of heavnly fire 
 Breaking through Crannies in the Skies, 
 Did Earth’s dull Mafs infpire. 
 
 Happy thofe Souls that can like Me 
 Their native White retain; 
 
 Preferve their Heavnly purity. 
 
 And wear no guilty ftain. 
 
 • * 
 
 Peace in my Habit comes array’d, 
 
 My Drefs her Daughters wear ; 
 
 Hope and Joy in white are clad, 
 
 Li Sable weeds Defpair. 
 
 Thus Beauty, Truth and Chaftity 
 Attir’d we always find 
 
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97 
 
 B o o k I V. Of T L A T S. 
 
 Thefc in no Female meet, but me. 
 
 From me are ne*r disjoin’d. 
 
 Nature on many Flow’rs befide 
 Beftows a muddy white ; 
 
 On me Ihe plac’d her greateft Pride, 
 
 All over clad in Light. 
 
 Thus Lily fpoke, and needlefs did fuppofe 
 Secure of form, her Virtues to difclofe. 
 
 Then hallow’d Lilies of a difPrent hue, 
 
 Who (’caufe their beauty lefsthan hers they knew) 
 
 From Birth and high Del'cent their Title drew. 
 
 Of thefe the Martagon chief Claim did bring 
 ( The noble Flow’r that did from Ajax fpring ) 
 
 But from the nobieft Hero’s veins to flow. 
 
 Seem’d lefs than from a Goddefs Milk to grow. 
 
 At lafl the drowzy Poppy rais’d her Head 
 And fleepily began her Caufe to plead. 
 
 Ambition ev’n the drowzy Poppy wakes, 
 
 Who thus to urge her Merit undertakes. 
 
 <p o <p <p r. 
 
 O Sleep, the gentle eafe of Grief, 
 
 Of Care and toil the fweet Relief ; 
 
 Like Sov’reign Balm thou canft reftore 
 When Doctors give the Patient o’r. 
 
 Thou to the wretched art a friend, 
 
 A Gueft: that ne’r does Farm intend. 
 
 In Cottages mak’ft: thy aboad. 
 
 To th’ Innocent thou art a God. 
 
 On Earth with Jove bear’d equal fway. 
 
 Thou rulil the Night as Jove the Day; 
 
 A middle ftation thou doft keep 
 ’Twixt Jove and Pluto , pow’rful Sleep ! 
 
 As thou art juft and fcorn’fl: to lie, 
 
 Confefs before this Company, 
 
 That by the Virtue of my Flow’r 
 Thou holdeft thy no&urnal Pow r. 
 
 Why do we call thee Loiterer, 
 
 Who fly ’ft fo nimbly through the Air ; 
 
 The Birds on wing confefs thy force, 
 
 And flop i’th* middle of their courfa. 
 
 Thy Empire as the Ocean wide, 
 
 Rules all that in the Deep reftde ; 
 
 That moving Ifland of the Main 
 The Whale, is fetter’d in thy Chain, 
 
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 98 OfTLJ^CTS. Book IV. 
 
 % 
 
 In old time 
 theSeed of the 
 Whir c-Poppj 
 parch’d was 
 ferv’d up as a 
 Deflerr. 
 
 \ 
 
 The Defarc Lands thy Pow’r declare. 
 
 Thou rul’d the Lion, Tyger, Bear, 
 
 To mention thefe alas, is vain. 
 
 Or City-tyrants thou doft Reign. 
 
 The Bafilisk whole looks deftroy, 
 
 And Nymph more fatal, if flies coy 5 
 Whofe Glances furer Death impart 
 To her tormented Lover’s Heart, 
 
 When Sleep commands, their Charms give way. 
 His more prevailing force obey 5 
 Their killing Eyes they gently clofe 
 Difarm’d by innocent Repofe. 
 
 That careful Jove does always wake 
 The Poets fay ; a foul miftake ! 
 
 For when to Pow’r the wicked rife, 
 
 Can Jove look on with open Eyes ? 
 
 When bloud to Heav’n for vengeance calls. 
 
 So loud it Ihakes his Palace walls; 
 
 Yet does unheard, unanfwer’d fue, 
 
 Mult Jove not deep, and foundly too ? 
 
 That Ceres with my Flow’r is griev’d 
 Some think, but they are much deceiv’d. 
 
 For where her richeft Corn Ihe fows, 
 
 The inmate Poppy Ihe allows. 
 
 Together both our feeds does fling, 
 
 And bids us both together fpring. 
 
 Good caufe, for my Sleep giving juice 
 Does more than Corn to Life conduce. 
 
 On us the Mortals freely feed, 
 
 Of other Plants there’s little need; 
 
 Full of Poppy, full of Corn, 
 
 Th’ Hefperian Garden you may fcorn. 
 
 Bread’s more refreflnng mix’d with me. 
 
 Honey and I with Bread agree. 
 
 Our taft fo fweet it can excite 
 The weak, or fated Appetite. 
 
 In Ceres Garland I am plac’d. 
 
 Me flie did firft vouchfafe to tail, 
 
 When for her Daughter loft flie griev’d. 
 
 Nor, in long time had Food receiv’d. 
 
 ’Bove all flie does extol my Plant, 
 
 For if fuftaining Corn you want, 
 
 From me fuch kind fupplies are fent. 
 
 As give both Sleep and Nourifliment. 
 
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99 
 
 Bo o k IV. Of T L A T S. 
 
 The Reafon therefore is mod plain 
 Why I was made the fruitful’ft Grain, 
 
 The Ferfian brings not to the Field, 
 
 Such Armys as my Camp does yield. 
 
 Difeafes in all Regions breed. 
 
 No corner of the World is freed, 
 
 Hard labour ev’ry where we find. 
 
 The condant Portion of mankind. 
 
 Sick Earth Great Jove beheld with Grief, 
 
 And fent me down to her relief, 
 
 And caule her Ills fo fad did breed, 
 
 Endu’d me with more fertile Seed. 
 
 Thus Foppy fpake, nor did as I fuppofe. 
 
 So foon intend her bold Harangue to clofe, 
 
 But fciz’d with fleep, here finifli’d her Difcourfe ; 
 Nor cou’d redd her own Lethargick force. 
 
 I tell drange things, ( but nothing fhould deter 
 Since *tis mod certain truth what I aver,) 
 
 Nor would I Sacred Hidory profane 
 As Poets ufe* with what is falfe and vain. 
 
 While Foppy fpoke — 
 
 Th’ Adembly could no longer open keep 
 Their Eyes, ev’n Floras felf fell fad adeep. 
 
 \So Daffadils with too much Rain oppred 
 Recline their drooping Heads upon their Bread. 
 Zephyr , not long could bear this foul difgrace ; 
 
 With a brisk Breeze of Air he (hook the Place : 
 Flora , who well her Husbands KifTes knew, 
 
 Wak’d fird, but rear’d her Head with much ado : 
 With heavy Motion to her drowde Eves 
 Her Fingers lifts, and what’s a Clock, Ihc cryes. 
 
 Ac which the red ('all by degrees ) unfold 
 Their Eye lids, and the open Day behold. 
 
 The Sun Floivr thinking ’twas for him foul fhame 
 To Nap by Day-light, drove t’excufe the blame; 
 
 It was not deep that made him Nod, he faid. 
 
 But too great weight and largenefs of his Head. 
 Majedick then before the Court he dands, 
 
 And dience with Phoebean Voice commands. 
 
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 S U N-F LOWE % 
 
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 TF by the Rules of Nature we proceed. 
 
 And likenefs to the Sire mud prove the breed. 
 Believe me Sirs, when Phoebus looks on you, 
 
 Hz fcarce can think his Spoufe the Earth was true. 
 
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 Of TLA^TS. Book III, 
 
 No fooner can his Eye on me be thrown, 
 
 But he * by Styx will fwear I am his own. 
 
 My Orb like golden Afpedfc bound with Rays, 
 
 The very Pidture of his Face difplays. 
 
 Among the Stars long fince I lliould have place, 
 
 Had not my Mother been of mortal Race : 
 
 Prefume not then, ye Earth-born Mujhrocm brood 
 To call me Brother — I derive my Blood 
 From Phcebus felf, which by my Form I prove, 
 
 And ( more than by my Form ) my filial Love. 
 
 I (till adore my Sire with proftrate Face, 
 
 Turn where he turns, and all his motions trace. 
 
 Who feeing this ( all things he fees ) decreed 
 To you his doubtful, if not fpurious breed, 
 
 Thefe poorer Climes, to be in dow’r enjoy’d, 
 
 Of that Divine Fhvbean metal void ; 
 
 On me that * richer Soil he did beftow 
 
 Where Gold, the produdl ol his Beams, does grow. 
 
 Amongft his Treafures well might lie afiign 
 A Place for me, his like and living coin. 
 
 He faid, and bowing twice his Head with Grac® 
 
 To Flora , thrice to’s Sire, refum’d his Place. 
 
 To him fucceeds a f Flow’r of greater Name, 
 
 Who from high Jove himfelf deriv’d his Claim. 
 
 GILL r-F t 0 W E% 
 
 H Ow this Pretender for no Medicine good. 
 
 Can be allow’d the Son of Phyfick’s God, 
 
 I leave to the wife Judgment of the Court: 
 
 With better proofs my Title I fupport, 
 
 Jove was my Sire, to me he did impart 
 ( Who beft deferv’d ) the Empire of the Heart. 
 
 Let him with Golden Afpeft: pleafe the Eye, 
 
 A Sov’raign Cordial to the Heart am I. 
 
 Not Tagus, nor the Treafures of Peru 
 Thy boalted Soil, can Grief like me, fubdue. 
 
 Should Jove once more defcend in Golden thow’r. 
 
 Not Jove cou’d prove fo Cordial as my Flow’r. 
 
 One Golden Coat thou haft, I do confefs. 
 
 That’s all, poor Plant, thou haft no change of Drefs,’ 
 
 Of fcv’ral hue I fev’ral Garments wear. 
 
 Nor can the Rofe her felf with me compare : 
 
 The gaudy Tulip and the Emony 
 
 Seem richly coated when compar’d with thee. 
 
 View both their Stocks, my Ward- robe has the fame, 
 
 The very Cr£fm I of Colours am. 
 
 Rich but in Drefs they are, in Virtue poor, 
 
 Or keep like Mifers eg themfdves their ftore, 
 
 Moft 
 
 * The ufual 
 Oath of the 
 Gods. 
 
 * America, 
 where grow 
 the largeft 
 Sun- Flowers. 
 
 t Flos Jovis. 
 
Book IV. Of T L A &QT& 
 
 Mofl hb’rally my Bouncy I impart, 
 
 ’Tis joy to mine to eafe anothers Heart. 
 
 Some Flowers for Phyfick ferve, and fome for Smell, 
 For Beauty lome — but I in all excell. 
 
 While thus fhe fpake, her Voice, Scent, Drefs and Port, 
 Majeftick all, drew Rev’rence from the Court: 
 
 Well might tlV Inferiour Plants concern’d appear. 
 
 The very Rofe her felf began to fear : 
 
 Her next of kin a fair and num’rous Hoft, 
 
 Of their Alliance to Carnation boafl. 
 
 Then divers more, who, though to fields remov’d 
 from Garden-Gilly-flowcr their Lineage prov’d. 
 
 They of the Saffron houfe next took their Courfe, 
 
 Of dwarfifh Stature, but gigantick force ; 
 
 Led by their Purple Chief, who dares appear. 
 
 And Band the lhock of the declining Year. 
 
 In Autumns flormy Months he fhews his head. 
 
 When tainted Skies their baneful Venom fhed. 
 
 He fcarce began to fpcak, when looking round. 
 
 The * Cole hie Tribe amongft his Train he found; # Muim Stf- 
 
 Hence yc profane, he cry’d, nor bring difgrace F™ 5 ca i lc<1. 
 
 On my lair 1 ltle, I dilown your Race. utmu$& 
 
 Repair to Circe's or Medea’s Tent, Ephmeron 
 
 When on fome fatal mifehief they are bent, ------ 
 
 To baneful Tcntus fly, feck kindred there. 
 
 You who of Flowers, Earth, Heav’n, the fcandal are» 
 Thus did he florm, for tho by Nature mild, 
 
 Againfl the poyf’nous Race his Choler boil’d.' 
 
 His facred Virtue the Intruders knew, 
 
 And from th’ AfTembly confcioufly withdrew.' 
 
 S J F F <1^0 N. 
 
 W Hile others boafl their proud Original, 
 And Sol or Jove their Parents call, 
 
 I claim ( contented with fuch flender Flowers ) 
 No kindred with Almighty Pow’rs. 
 
 I from a Conflant Lover took my Name, 
 
 And dare afpire no greater Fame. 
 
 Whom after all the Toils of anxious Life 
 Twixt Hopes and Feats a tedious flrife. 
 Great Jove to quit me of my hopelefs Fire, 
 (My Patron he, though not my Sire,) 
 Transform’d me to a fmiling Flower at laft. 
 
 To recom pence my Sorrows paft. 
 
 Live cheerful now, he faid, nor only live 
 Merry thy felf, but Gladnefs give; 
 
 Then to my facred Flow’r with Skill he joytfd, 
 Stems three or four of Star-like^ kind* 
 
 
 Made 
 
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 Of TLA ^ T S. B o 
 
 Made them the Magazines of Mirth and Joy, 
 
 What e’r can iullen Grief deftroy. 
 
 Gay Humours there, Conceit and Laughter ly, 
 
 Venus and Cupid's Armory. 
 
 Bacchus may like a Quack give prefent Eafe, 
 
 That only ftrengthens the Difeafe. 
 
 You crulli (alasJ J the Serpent’s Head in vain, 
 Whofe Tail furvives to ftrike again. 
 
 All noxious Humours from the Heart I drive, 
 
 And fpight of Poyfon keep alive. 
 
 The Heart iecur’d, through all the Parts befide 
 Frefh Life and dancing Spirits glide. 
 
 But Bill ’tis vain to guard th’ Imperial Seat, 
 
 If to the Lungs the Foe retreat, 
 
 II of thofe Avenues he’s once poffeft. 
 
 Famine will foon deftroy the reft. 
 
 I watch and keep thpfe Palles open too, 
 
 For Vital Air to come and go. 
 
 Ungrateful to his Friend that Breath mu ft be, 
 
 That can abftain from praifing me. 
 
 But having been an Inftance of Love’s pow’r 
 To Females ftill a facred flow’r, 
 
 Tis juft that I lliou’d now the Womb defend. 
 And be to Ventts Seat a friend. 
 
 ’Gainft all that wou’d the teeming part annoy 
 1 My ready Succour I empjoy, 
 
 I eafe the lab’ ring Pangs, and bring away 
 The Birth that pall its time wou’d flay. 
 
 If this Aftembly then my Claim fufpend. 
 
 Who am to Nature fuch a friend. 
 
 Who all that’s Good protect, and 111 confound. 
 If you refufe to have me Crown’d. 
 
 If you decline my gentle cheerful fway. 
 
 The foremen. Let my pretended Kinfman come in play, 
 
 flarch Saffron P un ^ y our My an ^ m y wron g s repay. 
 
 V. 
 
 He faid, and fhaking thrice his fragrant Head 
 Through all the Court a Cordial flavour fpread*. 
 While of his fcatter’d Sweets each Plant partakes. 
 And on th’ Aral rofial feent a Banquet makes. 
 Touch’d with a fenfe of Joy, his Rivals fmil’d, 
 Ev’n them his Virtue of their Rage beguil’d , 
 
 Ev’n Poppy s felf, rcfrefh’d, ere&s her Head, 
 
 Who had not heard one word of what he faid. 
 
 * Anwinthut , * pi olver . .gent le laft, on lofty Item did rife, 
 
 withers!** And feetn’d the humble Saffron to defpife: 
 
 On his high Name and Stature he depends. 
 
 And thus his Title to the Crown defends. 
 
Book IV. Of TLA T S. 
 
 AMJfRANTH, FLOWE%GENTLE. 
 
 T X THat can the puling Rofe or Violet fay, 
 
 V V Whofc Beauty flics fo faft away > 
 
 Fit only fuch weak Infants to adorn, 
 
 Who dye as foon as they are born. 
 
 Immortal Gods wear Garlands of my Flowers, 
 Garlands eternal as their Powers, 
 
 Nor time that docs all earthly things invade 
 Can make a Hair fall from my head. 
 
 Look up, the Gardens of the Sky furvey. 
 
 And Stars that there appear fo gay. 
 
 If credit may to certain Truth be givn. 
 
 They are but th’ Amaranths of Heavn. 
 
 A tranfient Glance lome times my Cynthia throws 
 Upon the Ltly or the Rofe, 
 
 But views my Plant, aftonifh’d, from the Sky, 
 
 That fhc lhould Change, and never I. 
 
 Becaufe with Hair inftead of Leaves adorn’d. 
 
 By fome, as if no Flower , I’m fcorn’d. 
 
 But I my chiefeft Pride and Glory place 
 In what they reckon my Difgrace. 
 
 My Pri /ledge 5 tis to differ from the reft; 
 
 What has its like can ne’r be beft : 
 
 Nor is it fit Immortal Plants ihou’d grow 
 In form of fading Plants below. 
 
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 That Gods have Flefh and Blood we cannot fay. 
 That they have fomething like to both we may, 
 So I refembhng an Immortal Power, 
 
 Am only as it were a Flower. 
 
 Their Plea’s thus done, the feveral Tribes repair, 
 And Band in Ranks about the Goddefs Chair, 
 Silent and trembling betwixt hope and fear. 
 
 Flora, who was of -Temper light and free. 
 
 Puts on a perionated Gravity 5 
 
 As with the grave occafion beft might fuir, 
 
 And in this manner finifh’d the difpute. 
 
 V L 0 \ A. 
 
 A Mongft the Miracles of ancient Rome , 
 dTl When Cineas thither did as Envoy come, 
 
 Th’ Auguft and purpled Senate he admir’d, 
 View’d ’em, and if they all were Kings, enquir’d > 
 
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 V 
 
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 I o + Of T L At Y TA B O o K IV. 
 
 So I in all this num’rous throng muft own 
 . I fee no Head but what deferves a Crown. 
 
 On what one Flower can I bellow my Voice, 
 
 Where equal Merits fo diftradt my Choice ? 
 
 Be rul’d by me, the envious Title wave. 
 
 Let no one claim what all deferve to have. 
 
 Confider how from Roman ’ Race we fpring, 
 
 Whole Laws you know wou’d ne’r permit a King. 
 
 Can I who am a Roman Deity, 
 
 A haughty Tarquin in my Garden fee ? 
 
 Ev’n your own Tribes, if I remember right, 
 
 Rejoyc’d when they beheld the Tyrant’s flight. x 
 With Gabinei laughter big, think how he jfkw 
 The fairelt Flow’rs that in his Plat- forms grew ; 
 
 Mankind and you, how he alike annoy’d. 
 
 And both with fportive Cruelty deftroy’d. 
 
 You who are Lords of Earth as well as they 
 Shou’d Free-born Romans Government difplay. 
 
 Reft ever then a Common-wealth ofFlowrs, 
 
 Compil’d of People and of Senators. 
 
 This, I prefume, the beft for you and me. 
 
 With Senfe of Men and Gods does beft agree. 
 
 Lily and Rofe this Year your Confuls be 
 The Year Ihall fo begin aufpicioufly. 
 
 Four Prators to the Seafons four, I make, 
 
 The vernal Praetorjhip thou, Tulip, take: 
 t Ju’yflorvtrs. f Jove’s Flow’r the Summer, * Croats Autumn fway, * saffrn. 
 
 Let Winter war like Hellebore obey. 
 
 Honours the lole Reward that can accrue, 
 
 Tho fhort your Office, to your Charge be true. 
 
 Your Life is fhort — • the Goddefs ended here, 
 
 The Chofen, with her Verdidfc pleas’d appear 
 The reft with Hope to fpeed another Year. 
 
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 The End of the Fourth ©op&. 
 
 * v. 
 
<P 0 MO N A. 
 
 L E T now my Mufe more lofty numbers bring 
 Proportion’d to the lofty Theme we fing. 
 
 The Race of Trees , whofe towring branches rife 
 In open Air, and almoft kifs the Skies. 
 
 Too light thofe ftrains that tender Flow’rs defir d, 
 Too low the Verfe that humbler Herbs requir’d ; 
 
 Thofe weaklings near the Surface of the Earth 
 Refide, nor from the Soil that gave them birth 
 Dare launch too far into the airy Main, 
 
 The Winds rough fhock unable to fuftain : 
 
 Thefe to the Skies with Heads ere&ed go. 
 
 Laughing at tender Plants that crouch below. 
 
 Not Man the Earth’s proud Lord fo high can raife 
 His Head, they touch thofe Heav’ns which he furveys. 
 
 Between th’ Herculean Bounds and Golden Soil 
 By great Columius found, there lies an Ifle 
 Of thofe call’d Fortunate the faireft Sear, 
 
 Indulg’d by Heaven and Natures blell; retreat. 
 
 A conflant fettled Calm the Sky retains, 
 
 Diflurb’d by no impetuous Winds or Rains. 
 
 Zephyr alone with fragrant Breath does chear 
 The florid Earth, and hatch the fruitful Year. 
 
 No Clouds pour down the tender Plants to chill. 
 
 But fatning Dews inflead from Heav’n diftill. 
 
 And friendly Stars with vital Influence fill. 
 
 No Cold invades the temp rate Summer there 
 More rich than Autumn, and than Spring more fair. 
 
 The Months without diftin&ion pafs away. 
 
 The Trees at once with Leaves, Fruit, Bloffoms gay 
 The changing Moon all thefe, and always doesfurvey. 
 Nature fome Fruits does to our Soil deny 
 Nor what we have can ev’ry Month fupplv, 
 
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 But ev’ry fort that happy Earth docs bear. 
 
 All forts it bears, and bears ’em all the Year. 
 
 This feat Pomona now is faid to prife. 
 
 And fam’d Alcinous Gardens to defpife. 
 
 Betwixt th’ old World and new makes this retreat 
 Of her Green Empire the Imperial Seat : 
 
 And wifely too, that Plants of ev'ry fort 
 May from both Worlds repair to fill her Court. 
 
 Hedges indead of Walls this Place furround, n 
 Brambles and Thorns of various kinds abound, ( 
 With Haw-Thorn that does Magick Spells confound.^ 
 The well rang’d Trees , within broad walk difplay 
 Through which her Verdant City we furvey : 
 
 Fth* midft her Palace {lands, of Bow’rs compos'd. 
 
 With twining Branches, and Green Walls enclos’d ; 
 
 By Nature deck’d with Fruits of various kind. 
 
 You’d fwear fome Artid had the Work defign’d. 
 
 When Autumn’s Reign begins the Goddefs here, p 
 ( Autumn with us eternal Summer’s there ) > 
 
 When Scorpio with his Venom blaffs the Year, 3 
 The Goddels her Vertumnal Rites prepares, 
 
 ( So call’d from various Forms Vertumnus wears) 
 
 No cod fhe fpares thofe Honours to perform, 
 
 ( For no Expence can that Rich Goddefs harm ) 
 
 She then brings forth her Gardens choice Delights, 
 
 To treat the Rural Gods whom {he invites. 
 
 The twelve of Heavenly Race her Gueds appear, 1 
 Wanton Priapus too is prefent there, > 
 
 The fair Heft more attradls him than the Fare . 3 
 
 Then Pales came, and Pan Arcadias God, 
 
 On his dull Afs the Fat Silenus rode 
 Lagging behind ; the Fauni next advance, 
 
 VVith nimble Feet, and to the Banquet dance. 
 
 Nor Heav’ns Inferiour Pow’rs were abfent thence, 
 VVhofe Altars feldom fmoak with Frankincenfe. 
 Picumnus who the barren Land manures, 
 
 Tutanus too who gather’d Fruit fecures, 
 
 * Goddefs of * Collina from the Hills, from Valleys low 
 f Goddefs of ^ Vallonia came, || Kurina from the Plow, 
 the Vales. With whom a hundred Ruflick Nymphs appear, 
 
 B Goddefs of vVho Garments form’d of Leaves or Bark did wear, 
 
 * °AmmeT S ' thefe, ftrange Powers from New-found * India came. 
 
 Mod dreadful in their Afpeft, Form and Name. 
 
 Ihe hundred Mouths of Fame cou’d ne’r fudice 
 To tadc or tell that Banquet’s Rarities. 
 
 With change of Fruits the Table dill was dor’d, 
 
 For ready Servants waited on the Board 
 In various Drefs, the Months attending too 
 In number twelve, twelve times the Fead renew. 
 
Book V. Of TLA 3^JT S. 
 
 OF Apples, Pears and Dates they fill’d the Juice, 
 
 The Indian Nut fupply’d the double ufe 
 Of Drink and Cup : the more luxuriant Vine ? 
 Afforded various kinds of fprightly Wine. > 
 
 Canaria's neighb’ring Ifle, the moft Divine. 5 
 
 Of this glad Bacchus fills a Bowl, and cries, 
 
 O lacred Juice; O wretched Deities! 
 
 Who abfent hence of fober Neftar take 
 Dull draughts, nor know the Joys of potent Sack. 
 The reft who Bacchus Judgment cou’d not doubt. 
 Pledg’d him in Courfe, and fent the Bowl about. 
 
 Venus and Flora Chocolate alone 
 Wou’d Drink, — the Reafon to themfelves beft known* 
 The Gods ( whofcarcely were too wife to fpare. 
 When they both knew their welcome and their Fare) 
 Fell freely on, till now Difcourfe began. 
 
 And one, exclaiming cry’d, O foolifli Man ! 
 
 That grofly feeds on flefh, when ev’ry field 
 Does eafie and more wholefom Banquets yield. 
 
 Who in the blood of Beafts their hands imbrue* 
 
 And eat the Vi&ims to our Altars due. 
 
 From hence the reft occafion take at laft 
 The Goddefs to extol, and her Repaft : 
 
 The Orange one, and one the Fig commends* ? 
 
 Another the rich Fruit that Perfia fends, r 
 
 Some cry the Olive up above the reft, 
 
 But by the moft the Grape was judg’d the bed. 
 
 The Indian God who heard them nothing fay 
 Of Fruits that grow in his America , 
 
 ( Of which her Soil affords fo rich a ftore 
 Her Golden Mines can fcarce be valu’d more) 
 
 Thus taxes their unjuft partiality. 
 
 As well he might ; the Indian Bacchus he. 
 
 Can Prejudice, faid he, corrupt the Powers 
 Of this old World? far be that Crime from ours. 
 
 If when to furnifh out a noble Treat 
 You feek our Fruits, the Banqnet to compleat; 
 (Which I with greedinefs have feen you eat) 
 
 Are thefe your thanks, ingrateful Deities ? 
 
 Your Tongues reproach what did your Palates pleafe: 
 You only praife the growth of your own Soil, 
 Becaufe the Produd of long Ages toil ; 
 
 But had not Fortune been our Countrey’s foe, 
 
 And Parent Nature’s fell forfook us too. 
 
 Had not your armed Man in Triumph rode 
 O’r our Ochecus, a poor naked God, 
 
 Had not your Neptune s floating Palaces 
 Sunk our tall Ochus Fleet of hollow Trees, 
 
 Nor thundring Jove made Viracocha yield, 
 
 Nor Spaniards yet more fierce laid waft our field, 
 
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 Of PLANTS. Book V. 
 
 And left alive no Tiller to recruit 
 The breed of Plants, and to improve the Fruit, 
 
 Our Produ&s foon had filenc’d this Difpute. 
 
 But as it is, my Climate I’ll defend, 
 
 No Soil can to fuch num’rous Fruits pretend. 
 
 We flill have many to our Conqu’ror’s fhame, 
 
 Of which you are as yet to learn the name, 
 
 So little can you boaft to lhew the fame. > 
 
 This I affert ; if any be fo vain 
 To contradict the Truth that I maintain, 
 
 (, Since from both Worlds this Feaft has hither brought 
 All Fruits with which our different Climes are fraught ) 
 The Deities that are aflembled here 
 Shall judge which World the richeft will appear; 
 
 In Fruits I mean, for that our Lands excell 
 In Gold, you to our forrow know too well. 
 
 His Comrade- Gods in this bold Challenge join, 
 
 Nor did our Powers the noble ftrife decline 5 
 Minerva in her Olive fafe appear’d ; 
 
 Bacchus who with a fmilethe boafter heard. 
 
 As in the Eafl his Conqueft had been iliown, 
 
 Now reckons the Wejl- Indies too his own. 
 
 His Courage with ten Bumpers firft he chear’d ; 
 
 Then all agree to have the Table clear’d. 
 
 And each refpeCtiveTree to plead her worth; 
 
 The Goddefs one by one commands them forth. 
 
 She fummon’d firft the Nut of double Race, 
 
 And Apple , which in our old World have place. 
 
 Of each the nobleft Breeds,- for to the name 
 A thoufand petty Families lay claim. 
 
 The Nut - trees name at firft the Oak did grace. 
 
 Who in Pomona’s Garden then had place. 
 
 Till her nice Palate Acorns did decline. 
 
 Scorning in Diet to partake with Swine : 
 
 At laft the Filbert and the Chefnut fweet 
 Were fcarce admitted to her verdant feat; 
 
 The airy Pine of form and ftature proud, 
 
 With much entreaty was at length allow’d. 
 
 The Hazel with light Forces marches up, 
 
 The firft in field, upon whofe Nutty top 
 A Squirrel fits, and wants no other fhade 
 Than what by his own fpreading Tail is made ; 
 
 He culls the founded, dextroufly picks out 
 The Kernels fweet and throws the Shells about. 
 
 You fee, Pomona crys, the cloyfter’d Fruit, 
 
 That with your Tooth, Silenus , does not fuit. 
 
 That therefore ufelefs ’tis you cannot fay, 
 
 It ferves our Youths at once for Food and Play; 
 
 But while fuch toys, my Lads, you ufe too long, 
 Expecting Virgins think you do them wrong; 
 
 
 
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Book V. Of T L A S. 
 
 3 Tis time that you thefe childilh fports forfake, 
 
 Hymen for you has other Nuts to crack. 
 
 O Plant moft fit for Boys to patronize 
 ( Cries Bacchus ) who my gen’rous juice defpife, 
 
 A reftive Fruit, by Nature made to grace 
 The Monky’s jaws and humour the Grimace. 
 
 The fudden Gibe made fober Pallas fmile, 
 
 Who thus proceeds in a more ferious ftyle. 
 
 A ftrong and wondrous Enmity we find 
 In Hazel tree gainft Poyfons of all kind. 
 
 More wondrous their Magnetick fympathy. 
 
 That iccret Beds of Metals can defery. 
 
 And point dire£lly where hid treafures lie. 
 
 In fearch of Golden Mines a Hazel Wand 
 The wife Diviner takes in his right Hand, 
 
 In vain alas ! he cads his Eyes about 
 To find the rich and lecret Manfions out. 
 
 Which yet, when near, lhall with a force Divine 
 The Top of the fufpended Wand incline. 
 
 So ftrong the fenfe of gain, that it affe&s 
 The very Lifelefs twig, who ftrait refleds 
 His trembling hand, and eager for th’ embrace, 
 Diredly tends to the Magnetick place. 
 
 What wonder then fo ft range Effeds confound 
 The minds of Men, in mills of Errour drown’d j 
 It puzzles me, who was at Athens bred, 
 
 Ev’n me the oft-lpring of great Jove s own head ; 
 
 Let Phoebus then unfold this Myftery. ( we. 
 
 Much more than Man we know, but Phoebus more than 
 She faid — Apollo , with th’ ^Enigma vext. 
 
 And fcorning to be pos’d, in words perplext. 
 
 Strove to dilguife his Ignorance, and fpent 
 Much breath on Attorns, and their wild ferment : 
 
 Of Sympathy he made a long Difcourfe, 
 
 And long infilled on Self-ading force; 
 
 But all confus’d and diftant from the mark. 
 
 His Delphick Oracle was ne’rfodark. 
 
 ’Twas Mirth for Jove to fee him tug in vain 
 At what his wifdome onely cou’d explain: 
 
 For thofe profounder Myfteries to hide 
 
 From Gods, and Men is fure Jove s greateft pride. 
 
 The fiiady Chef nut next her Claim puts in, 
 
 Though feldom file is in our Gardens feen. 
 
 So coarfe her fare, that 5 tis no fmall Difpute 
 If Nuts or Acorns we fiiou’d call her fruit ; 
 
 So vile, the Gods from Mirth cou’d not forbear 
 To fee fuch Kernels fuch ftrong Armour wear ; 
 
 Firft with a linty Wad wrapt dole about, 
 
 ( Ufeful to keep green wounds from gulhing out y ) 
 
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 Of this is 
 made the Di- 
 viningfRod, 
 with which 
 they dlfcover 
 Mines. 
 
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 Pulchtnima 
 Pinus in hor- 
 tis. Virg. Ecli. 
 
 Atjs, 
 
 Rcporred for 
 the fake of 
 Chaftity to 
 have made 
 himfelf an 
 Eunuch. 
 
 The Daughter 
 of Midw, 
 cfpoufed to 
 Atjs* 
 
 Bitter Al- 
 mond. 
 
 Sweet Al- 
 mond. 
 
 Her next defence of folid wood is made, 
 
 The third has Spikes that can her foes invade. 
 Therfites fure no greater fport cou’d make ; 
 
 With Ajax fev’nfold Shield upon his Back. 
 
 The Pine with awful Rev’rence next d4d rife 
 Above Contempt, and almoft touch’d the Skies : 
 Carv’d in his facred Bark he wore befide 
 Great Maro's words, to juftifie his Pride : 
 
 Fan own’d th’ approaching Plant, and bowing low 
 His Pine wreath’d Head, but juft refpefl: did fhow : 
 Were Neptune prefent he had done the fame; 
 
 To that fair Plant that in his Iflhmian Game 
 The Vidor crowns, whofe loud Applaufes he 
 With equal tran/port hears in either Sea. 
 
 Neptune of other Plants no Lover feems. 
 
 But with good reafon he the Pine efteems ; 
 
 The Pine alone has courage to remove 
 From’s native Hills ( where long with winds he ftrove 
 In youth ) on watry Mountains to engage 
 With’s naked Timber fiercer tempefts rage. 
 
 In vain were Floods to Plants and Men detiy’d 
 In vain defign d for fifties to refide. 
 
 Since Natures Laws by Art are overcome. 
 
 And Men with Ships make Seas their Native home. 
 But of all Pines Mount Ida bears the bed, 
 
 By Cybele prefer ’d above the reft. 
 
 This Plant a lovely Boy was heretofore, 
 
 Belov’d by Cybele , upon whofe fcore 
 He facrific’d to Chaftity, but now 
 Repents him of the raihnefs of his Vow. 
 
 His fruit delaying Venus now excites. 
 
 His Wood affords the Torch which Hymen lights. 
 
 Ia , for whom her Father, of White thorn 
 A Torch prepar’d (e’r Pine by Brides was born ) 
 When lhe fliou’d meet her long expe&ed Joy 
 Embrac’d the Pine-tree for her lovely Boy, 
 
 Dire change, yet cannot from his Trunk retire 
 But languifhes away with vain Defire : 
 
 Till Cybele afforded her relief, 
 
 ( Her Rival once, now partner in her grief) 
 Transform’d her to the bitter Almond-tree, 
 
 Whofe fruit feems ftill with forrow to agree. 
 
 Her Sifter who the dreadful change did mark, 
 
 Strove with her hands to ftop the fpreading Bark ; 
 
 But while the pious Office fhe perform’d 
 In the fame manner found her felf transform’d. 
 
 But as her grief was lefs fevere, we find 
 Her Almond fweet and of a milder kind. 
 
 Thus did this Plant into her Arms receive 
 Th’ unfortunate and more than once relieve. 
 
 
 
 
 
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Book V. Of <P L A Vf T S. 
 
 — ■ ■ — . . - . — — - . . 
 
 Poor Phyllis thus Demophoon s abfence mourn’d, 
 
 Till file into an Almond-tree was turn'd. 
 
 Thus Fhyllis vanifh’d ; Ceres favv her bloom, 
 
 And prophefy’d a fruitful Year to come. 
 
 The firm Pijiachoe next appear’d in view. 
 
 Proud of her fruit that Serpents can fubdue. 
 
 The W allnut then approach’d, more large and tall. 
 
 His fruit which we a Nut, the Gods an Acorn call ; 
 
 * Jove’s Acorn, which does no fmall praife conlefs, 
 
 T’ have call’d it Man s Ambro/ia had been lefs. 
 
 Nor can this Head-like Nut, ftiap’d like the Brain 
 Within, be faid that form by chance to gain. 
 
 Or Caryon call’d by learned Greeks in vain. 
 
 For Membranes foft as Silk her kernel bind. 
 
 Whereof the inmod is of tendred kind, . 
 
 Like thofe which on the Brain of Man we find, 
 
 All which are in a Seam-join'd Shell enclos’d. 
 
 Which of this Brain the Skull maybe fuppos’d. 
 
 This very Skull envelop’d is again 
 In a green Coat, his Pericranion. 
 
 Ladly, that no Objefrion may remain, 
 
 To thwart her near Alliance to the Brain; 
 
 She nourifhes the Hair, remembring how 
 Her felf deform’d without her Leaves does lhow : 
 
 On barren fealps (lie makes frefh honours grow. 
 
 Her timber is for various ufes good 
 The Carver (lie fupplies with lading wood; 
 
 She makes the Painters fading Colours lad, 
 
 A Table ihe affords us and repad; 
 
 Ev’n while we fead, her Oil our Lamps fupplies, 
 
 The ranked Poifon by her Virtue dies. 
 
 The Mad dogs foam, and taint of raging Skies. 
 
 The F on tick King who liv’d where Poifons grew, 
 
 Skilful in Antidotes, her Virtues knew ; 
 
 Yet envious Fates that dill with Merit drive. 
 
 And Man ingrateful from the Orchard drive 
 This Sov’raign Plant excluded from the Field 
 Unlefs lome ufelefs Nook a Station yield : 
 
 Defencelefs in the common Road fhe dands. 
 
 Expos’d to redlefs War of vulgar hands; 
 
 By neighb’ring Clowns, and pading Rabble torn, 
 
 Batter’d with dones by Boys, and left forelorn. 
 
 To her did all the Nutty-tribe fucceed, 
 
 A hardy Race that makes weak Gums to bleed ; 
 
 But to the Banquets of the Gods preferr’d. 
 
 Are faid to open of their own accord. 
 
 ’Twixt thefe and juicy fruits of painted Coat, 
 
 Such as on Sunny Apples we may note; 
 
 Advanc’d the tribe of thofe with rugged skin, 
 
 More mild than Nuts, but to the Nut a kin. 
 
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 Pomgr anate Chief of thefe, whofe blooming Flow’r 
 ( Pomona's pride ) may challenge Flora's Bow’r, 
 
 The Spring-Rofe feems lefs fair when fhe is by, 
 
 Nor Carbuncle can with her colour vie ; 
 
 Nor Scarlet Robes by proudeft Monarchs worn, 
 
 Nor purple {freaks that paint the rifing Morn, 
 
 Nor Blulhes that confenting Maids adorn. 
 
 In the Euhoe an Ifle did Rand of old 
 Great Juno’s Image, form’d of mafly Gold, 
 
 In one Right Hand Ihe held a Scepter bright, 
 
 * C For with the Pow’rs Divine both Hands are Right) 
 
 Punica. Her Carthage lovely fruit the other grac’d, 
 
 * Juno being And fitly in * Lucinas Hand was plac’d 3 
 Whofe Orb within fo many Cells contains, 
 defs of Mid- In form of Wombs, and fior’d withfeedy Grains, 
 wifery. B ut ^ p ro j~ er pg n e implacable remain’d 
 is find * to * Againfi this Plant, for former wrongs fufiain’d, 
 
 have promis’d Nor Ceres yet her hatred cou’d difguife, 
 
 Preferpi™ ^ ut ^ rom Pomgranate turn’d her weeping Eyes, 
 fhouid be re- For the Ely fian Fields (whence fates permit 
 !f°n Cd i° A tr * Nought to re turn ) what Tree can be more fit 
 tafted no- Than this || reRringent Plant ? a fingle taR 
 thing in the Qf three fmall grains kept Ceres Daughter fafi. 
 
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 gions, but fhe having eaten Pomgranate feeds was retain’d. I! Vomgrana.lt a moft powerful Reftrfogent, 
 ufed in all immoderate Evacuations. 
 
 Orange and Lemon next like Lightning bright 
 Came in, and dazled the Beholders fight; 
 
 Thefe were the fam’d Hefperian Fruits of old. 
 
 Both Plants alike, ripe fruit and Blofibms hold. 
 
 This fhines with pale and that with deeper Gold. 
 Planted by Atlas, who fupports the Skies, 
 
 Proud at his feet to fee thefe brighter Stars to rife. 
 To keep them fafe the utmoR care he took. 
 
 He fenc’d ’em round with walls of folid Rock, 
 
 Nor with Priapus Cuflody content 
 A watchful Dragon for their Guard he fent. 
 
 Let vulgar Apples, Boys and Beggars fear, 
 
 Thefe, worth Alcides Realing did appear. 
 
 From Lands remote he came, and thought his toils 
 Were more than recompenc’d in thofe rich fpoils. 
 He onely priz’d ’em for their taR and hue, 
 
 For half their real worth he never knew: 
 
 Nor cou’d his Tutor Mars to him impart 
 The nobler fecrcts of Apollo's Art. 
 
 Had he but known their juice ’gainR Poifon good 
 The FJyclrds Venom mixt with Centaur bloud. 
 
 Had never made Mount Octa hear his Cries, * 
 
 Nor th’oft-flain MonRer more had pow’r to rife. 
 
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Book V. Of <P L A T S. 
 
 The Plums came next, by Cherry led, whole fruic 
 Th’ expecting Gard’ner early does falute, 
 
 To pay his thanks impatient does appear. 
 
 And with red Berries fird adorns the Year. 
 
 May, rich in Drefs, but in Provifion poor, 
 
 Admires and thinks his early Fruit a Flow’r. 
 
 To wait for Summer s ripening heat difdains. 
 
 Nor puts the Planter to immoderate pains. 
 
 He loves the cooler Climes, Egyptian Nile 
 Cou’d ne’r perfuade him on her Banks to (mile. 
 
 He (corns the bounty of a two-months tide 
 That leaves him thirding all the year befide. 
 
 Proud Rome her felf this Plant can fcarcely rear 
 Ev’n to this day he feems a Captive there. 
 
 Pris*ner of War from Cerafus he came ; 
 
 (From’s native * Cerafus he took his name) 
 
 From thence transplanted to th* Italian Soil 
 Lucullus triumph brought no richer fpoil : 
 
 Loud Pagans to your noble Gen’ral fing, 
 
 Italian Plants, that fuch a Prize did bring. 
 
 The Conqu’rours Laurels as in triumph wear 
 The blufhing Fruit, and captive Cherries bear. 
 
 Yet grieve thou not to leave thy native home, 
 Erelong thou flialt a Denizen become 
 Amongft the Planrs of World-commanding Rome . 
 
 A num’rous Hod of Plums did next fucceed, 
 Differing in colour and of various breed : 
 
 The Damask Prune, moft antient led the Van, 
 
 Who in Damajcus firft his Reign began. 
 
 Time out of mind he had fubdu’d the Eaft t 
 5 Twas long ere he got footing in the Weft 5 
 But now in Northern Climates he is known, 
 
 A hardy Plant makes ev’ry Soil his own. 
 
 Next him th Armenian Apricock took place. 
 
 Not much unlike but of a nobler Race; 
 
 Of richer Flavour and of tad Divine, 
 
 Whofe golden Vedments, dreakt with Purple, fhine. 
 
 Then came the Glory of the Perfian Field, 
 
 And to Armenia's pride difdain’d to yield. 
 
 The Peach with Silken Ved and pulpy juice. 
 
 Of Meat and Drink at once fupplies the ufe. 
 
 But take him while he’s ripe, he’ll foon decay, 
 
 For next Days Banquet he difdains to day. 
 
 Of Fruits the faired, as the Rofe of Flovv’rs, 
 
 But ah ! their Beauties have but certain Hours. 
 
 A Fruit there is on whom the * Rofe confers 
 Her Name, of fmell and colour too like Hers. 
 
 A Plum that can it felf lupply the Board, 
 
 To hungry Stomachs folid food afford. 
 
 * The Cherry- 
 Tree In Latin 
 call’d cerafus a 
 Town in Ca- 
 fadocia , from 
 whence it was 
 bYought Into 
 Italy by Lucul- 
 lus. An. Urb. 
 
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 Of <PLA*(TS. Book V. 
 
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 Cornus . 
 
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 31 ton: 
 
 To pleafe our Gufi and Stomach to recruit 
 He thinks fufficient Tribute for his Fruit; 
 
 For Phyficks ufe his other parts are Wood, 
 
 His Leaves, his Bloffoms, evn his Gum and weed. 
 Does to us health and joy alike refiore, 
 
 Friend to our Pleafure, to our Health much more, 
 of which Not fo the Corneil-tree defign’d for harms, 
 
 and Bows*” ^ cr wooc ^ Applies dire Mars with impious Arms, 
 were made. For fuch a Plant our Gardens are too mild, 
 
 Harfli is her Fruit and fit tor Defarts wild. 
 
 With her the Jujuhe-tize, a milder Plant 
 Which (tho ofFenfive thorns the does not want ) 
 
 In Peace and Mirth alone does pleature take, 
 
 Her Flow’rs, at feafis, the genial Garlands make, 
 
 Her wood the Harp that keeps the Guetls awake. 
 Next comes the Lote-ttee in whofe dusky hue 
 
 * An jf’-icM Her black and Sun burnt * Countrey you might view, 
 Phnu To whom th* Afiembly all rofe up (from whence 
 
 Came this Refpedt ? ) and paid her Reverence. 
 
 Priapus onely with a down cafi look, 
 
 And confcious Blulhes at her prefence thook : 
 
 V <u Th’ All feeing Gods through that obfcure difguife 
 QvU.Mttm.fy. Nymph Lotis taw : conceal’d from humane Eyes. 
 
 They knew how on the Hellefpontick Ihore 
 T’elcape the dreadful Dart Priapus wore. 
 
 And zealous to preferve her Chafiity, 
 
 She lofl her Form and chang’d into a Tree. 
 
 Though now no more a Nymph, a better Fate 
 She does enjoy, and lives with longer Date. 
 
 A longer Date than Oaks file does enjoy, 
 
 Thofe long liv’d Oaks that call’d old Nejlor Boy. 
 
 From Romlut She calls them Girls , green Branches file difplay’d 
 the Builder, When Rome was built, and when in Allies laid. 
 
 ’Tis true, file did not long furvive the fire, 
 
 (With grief and flames at once forc’d to expire. ) 
 Almofi nine hundred years were pad away. 
 
 Yet then file grudg’d to die before her Day. 
 
 * rnftmments Ev’n after Death her Trunk appears to * Live, 
 cf Mufick Does vocal Pipes and breathing Organs give, 
 
 And fitly, like us Poets, may be faid. 
 
 To make the greatefi Noife when file is Dead. 
 
 A thoufand Years are fince elaps’d, yet Rill 
 She flour idles in Praife, and ever will. 
 
 Her Trees rich Fruit with which fhe charm’d Mankind 
 Shevv’d, when a Nymph, the fweetnefs of her mind ; 
 Thefe founds expref$ the Mufick of her tongue. 
 
 More fwcet than Circe's or the Syren throng. 
 
 But Nymph, retire, triumphant Palm appears, 
 
 -She thrives the more the greater weighdlie bears. 
 
 
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 burnt it. 
 
 made of her 
 
 wood. 
 
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Book V. Of T L J S. 
 
 No preflu re for her Courage is too hard, 
 
 Oi: Virtue both th’ Example and Reward. 
 
 She flour idl’d once in 7i Soljmaan ground, 
 
 Fam’d Jojtuds and JrJfides facred triumphs crown’d. 
 
 But fince that Land was curfl, the gen’rous Plant 
 Grieves to continue her Inhabitant. 
 
 Pifa bears Olives , Delpho s Laurel yields, 
 
 Nemea Stallage, Pines the Jjtlmian Fields, 
 
 But all breed Palms , the prize of Vidbory, 
 
 All Lands in honour of the Palm apree. 
 
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 And ’tis but the jufi tribute of her Worth, 
 
 Virtue no fairer Image has on Earth. 
 
 Her Verdure flic inviolate does hold, 
 
 In fpight of Summer's heat and Winters cold. 
 
 Oppreft with weight fhc from the Earth does rife, 
 
 And bears her Load in triumph to the Skies. 
 
 What various * Benefits does ihe impart 
 To humane kind ; her Wine revives the Heart, 
 
 Her Dates rich Banquets to our Tables fend. 
 
 At once to Pleafure, and to Health a friend. 
 
 A Lover rrue, and well to love and ferve 
 Is Virtues noblefl task, and does the Palm deferve. 
 
 * Evadne who a willing Viftim prov’d, 
 
 Nor chaft f Aceflis fo her Husband lov’d, 
 
 As does the Female Palm her Male, her Arms 
 To him are ftretch’d with mofl endearing Charms, 
 
 Nor flops their paflion here ; like Lovers, they 
 To more retir’d Endearments find the way, 
 
 In Earth’s cold Bed their am’rous Roots are found 
 In clofe Embraces twining under ground. 
 
 Let Arms to Learning yield, the Palm refign, 
 
 The con qu ’ring Palm to Olive more Divine; 
 
 Peace all prefer to War thus Pallas fpoke ; 
 
 And in her Hand a peaceful Olive (hook. 
 
 ’Twas with this Branch that file the Triumph gain’d 
 (The greateftthat can be by Gods obtain’d.) 
 
 On learned Athens to confer her Name, 
 
 A Right which file, mofl learn’d of Pow’rs, might claim. 
 Not Gods in Heav’n without Ambition live. 
 
 But, who {hall be poor Mortals Patrons, flrive. 
 
 Firft, Neptune with his Trident flruck the ground ) 
 The warlike Steed no fooner heard the found, 
 
 But ftarts from his dark Manfion, (hakes his Hair, 
 
 His Noflrils fnort the unaccuflom’d Air, 
 
 Neighs loud, and of th’ unwonted Noife is proud, ^ 
 With his infuking Feet his native Field is plough’d, > 
 Intrepid he beholds of Gods the circling Crowd. > 
 Pallas on th’ other fide with gentle Broke 
 Of her flrong Spear, Earth’s tender furface broke, 
 
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 * Judxa. 
 
 * Strabo re- 
 lates that the 
 Babyloniam 
 
 ufed a Song 
 that recited 
 three hun- 
 dred and fixty 
 Benefits of the 
 Palm or Date- 
 Tree. 
 
 * Leaping 
 into ti e flame 
 of his Fune- 
 ral Pile. 
 
 t Who died 
 in her Huf- 
 band Adm- 
 tui s Head. 
 
 The Conten- 
 tion between 
 Neptune and 
 Minerva, who 
 fhould give 
 the name to 
 Athene. 
 
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 * Laws were 
 made in 
 Athens to fe- 
 cure the 
 Olive Tree. 
 
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 Through which fmall Breach a fudden Tree ihoots up, 
 
 Ev’n at his Birth with rev’rend hoary top, 
 
 And vig’rous fruit 5 the Gods applaud the Plant, 
 
 And to Minerva the Precedence grant. 
 
 The vanquifli’d Steed and God in rage aflail’d 
 The Vidors, but ev’n fo, their malice fail’d. 
 
 Wit’s Goddefs and the peaceful Tree prevail’d. 
 
 * Hail facred Plant, who well deferv’ft to be 
 By Laws fecur’d from wrong as well as we ; 
 
 From War’s wild rage Refped thou doft command, 
 
 When Temples fall thou art allow’d to Hand. 
 
 Neptune's bold Son revenging the difgrace 
 His Sire fuftain’d, fell dead upon the place, 
 
 The whirling Ax upon his Head rebounds. 
 
 The ftroke defign’d on thee, himfelf confounds. 
 
 The Gods concern’d Spe&ators {food, and fmil’d 
 To fee his impious Sacrilege beguil’d. 
 
 Such be his fate whoe’r prefumes to be 
 A Foe to Peace and to her facred Tree. 
 
 Yet ev’n this peaceful Plant upon our guard 
 Warns us to (land, and be for War prepar’d. 
 
 In peace delights, but when the Caufe is juft. 
 
 Permits not the avenging Sword to ruff. 
 
 With fuppling Oil and conqu’ring wreath’s fupplys 
 The Martial Schools, of youthful Exercife : 
 
 Nor is the flrong propenfion (he does bear 
 To Peace, th’efFed of Luxury or Fear. 
 
 Earth’s teeming Womb affords no ftronger Birth, 
 
 No Soil manuring needs to bring her forth. 
 
 Allow her but warm Suns and temp’rate Skies, 
 
 The vig’rous Plant in any Soil will rife. 
 
 Lop but a Branch and fix’t in Earth, you’ll fee 
 She’ll there take root and make her felf a Tree. 
 
 Her youth, ’tis true, by flow degrees afcends. 
 
 But makes you with long flourifhing years amends. 
 
 Nature her care in this did wifely lhow, 
 
 That ufeful Olive long and eafily fhou’d grow. 
 
 Mod fov’raign taken inward, is her Oil, 
 
 And outwardly confirms the Limbs for toil. 
 
 Lifes paffages from all obftru&ion frees, 
 
 Clears Natures walks, to fmarting wounds gives eafe. 
 
 With eafie Banquets does the poor fupply. 
 
 And makes cheap Herbs with Royal Banquets vie. 
 
 The Painters flying Colours it binds faft, 
 
 Makes lhort-liv'd Pi&ures long as Statues lafl, 
 
 The Student’s Friend, no Labour can excel 
 And lafl:, but of Minervas Lamp muft fmell. 
 
 Nay, This does fo ! 
 
 Moft juflly therefore does this Liquor rife 
 Or all in mixture, juflly does defpife 
 
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 Bo o k V. Of T L A S. 
 
 T’ incorporate with any other Juice ; 
 
 Sufficient in himfelf for ev’ry Ufc. 
 
 Moft juftly therefore did Judads Land, 
 
 ("Who beft religious Rites did underftand) 
 
 Oyl, potent, chaft, and facrcd Oyl appoint 
 Her Rings, her Priefts, and Prophets to anoint. 
 
 Such was th’ appearance which the Olive made. 
 
 With noble Fruit and verdant Leaves array’d 3 
 From whom Minerva took, as ffie withdrew, 
 
 A joyful Branch, and with it wreath’d her Brow. 
 Frelh Armies then advanc’d into the Plain, 
 
 Firft thofe whofe Fruit did many Stones contain, 
 
 In their firft Lifts the Medlar-Tree was found 
 Proud of his putrid Fruit becaufe *twas * crown’d. 
 
 Of Beauties Goddefs then the Plant more fair, 
 
 Whofe fragrant motion fo perfum’d the Air ; 
 
 The fmoak of Gums when from their Altars fent, 
 
 Ne’r gave th’ Immortal Guefts fuch fvveet content. 
 
 Let Fhcebus Laurel bloody Triumphs lead 
 The Myrtle thofe where little blood is filed, 
 
 Th’ Ovation of a bleeding Maiden head. 
 
 No Virgin Fort impregnable can be 
 To him that Crowns his Brow with Venus Tree. 
 
 The tribe of Pears and Apples next fucceed. 
 
 Of noble Families, and num’rous breed ; 
 
 No Monarch’s Table e’r defpifes them, 
 
 Nor they the poor Man’s board or earthen diffi contemn. 
 Supports of Life, as well as Luxury, 
 
 Nor like their Rivals a few Months fupply. 
 
 But fee themfelves fucceeded ere they die. 
 
 Where Phoebus lhines too faint to raife the Vine, 
 
 They ferve for Grapes, and make the Northern Wine, 
 Their Liquor for th’ effe&s deferves that name. 
 
 Love, Valour, Wit and Mirth it can enflame, 
 Care'it can drown, loft Health, loft Wealth reftore. 
 And Bacchus potent Juice can do no more.’ 
 
 With Cyder ftor’d the * Norman Province fees 
 Without regret the neighb ring Vintages, 
 
 Of Pear and Apple- kinds an Army flood. 
 
 Before the Court, and feem’d a moving Wood ; 
 
 On them Pomona fmil’d as they went off, 
 
 But flouting Bacchus was obferv’d to feoff 
 The £>uince yet fcorn’d to mingle with the crowd, 'J 
 Alone ffie came, of fignal Honours proud, > 
 
 With which by grateful Jove ffie was endow’d. 3 
 A filky Down her golden Coat o’r-fpreads. 
 
 Her ripening Fruit a grateful Odour ffieds 3 
 Jove otherwifc ingrateful had been ftil’d, 
 
 In Honey fteep’d ffie fed him when a Child, 
 
 * The top 
 thereof re- 
 fembling a 
 Crown or 
 Coronet. 
 
 The Myrtle. 
 
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 In his molt iroward Fits die (top: his cries; 
 
 And now he eats Amlrofta in the Skies, 
 
 Refle&s fometimes upon his Infant Years, 
 
 And juft Refpeft to Quince and Honey bears. 
 
 The nobleft of Wine-Fruits brought up the Rear, 
 
 But all to reckon, endlefs wou’d appear, 
 
 The Barberry and Currant mu ft efcape, 
 
 Though her fmall Ciufters imitate the Grape. 
 
 The Rafpberry, and prickled Gocsberrv , 
 
 Tree- Strawberry, mult all unmention’d be, 
 
 With many more whofe names we may decline; 
 
 "Not fo the Mulberry , the Fig and Vine, 
 
 The ftouteft Warriours in our Combat part. 
 
 And of the prefent Field the greateft hope and laft. 
 
 But cautioufly the Mulberry did move, 
 
 And firft the temper of the Skies wou’d prove, 
 
 What fign the Sun was in, and if Ihe might 
 Give credit yet to Winter's Teeming flight. 
 
 She dares not venture on his firft retreat, 
 
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 Nor truft her Leaves and Fruit to doubtful Heat : 
 
 Her ready Sap within her Bark confines. 
 
 Till flie of fettled warmth has certain figns. 
 
 But for her long delay amends does make ? 
 
 At once her Forces the known fignal take, f 
 
 And with tumultuous Noife their Sally make. * 
 
 In two fliort Months her purple Fruit appears, 
 
 Pjramiu and And of two Lovers (lain the tin&ure wears. 
 rhisbe. Her Fruit is rich, but Leaves Ihe does produce. 
 
 That far lurpafs in worth and noble Ufe ; 
 
 The frame and colour of her Leaves furvey. 
 
 And that they are molt vulgar you muft lay, 
 
 But truft not their appearance, they fuppjy 
 The Ornaments of Royal Luxury. 
 
 The Beautiful they make more beauteous feem, 
 
 The Charming Sex owes half their Charms to them. 
 
 Effeminate Men to them their Vcftments owe, 
 
 How vain that pride which infc£t- worms beftow 1 
 Such was the Mulberry of wondrous Birth, 
 
 The Fig fucceeds; but to recite her worth, 
 
 And various Powers, what numbers can fufflee ? 
 
 Hail, Ceres , Author of fo great a Prize. 
 
 By thee with Food and Laws we were fuppiy’d. 
 
 And with wild Fare wild Manners laid afide. 
 
 With Peace and Bread our Lives were bleft before, 
 
 And modeft Nature cou’d defire no more ; 
 
 But thou cv’n for our Luxury took’ft care. 
 
 And kindly didft this milky Fruit prepare. 
 
 The poor Man’s Feaft, but fuch delicious Cheer 
 Did never at Apcius Board appear 3 
 
 The 
 
B o o K V. Of TLA JfTS. 
 
 The grateful Ceres with this Plant is faid 
 Her hofpitable Hofl to have repaid ; 
 
 Yet with no vernal Bloom the Tree fupply’d; 
 
 To lighter Plants, faid (he, I leave that Prides 
 To lighter Plants I leave that gaudy Drefs, 
 
 Who meretricious qualities confefs. 
 
 And who like wanton Proftitutes expofe 
 
 Their Bloom to ev’ry Hand, their Sweets to ev’ry Nofc. 
 
 My Fruit, like a Chaft Matron does proceed, 
 
 And has of painted Ornament no need, 
 
 They fludy Drefs, but mine Fertility, 
 
 Forcing her Offspring from her folid Tree. 
 
 Through hafte fometimes abortive Births fhe bears. 
 
 But ever makes amends in thofe flie rears. 
 
 For whom her full-charg’d Veins fupplies afford, 
 Like a lfrong Nurfe with Milk ihe’s ever ftor'd. 
 
 Our Voice by thee refrefh’d, ingrateful 5 twere 
 If, Fig-Tree, thy juft praife it fhou’d forbear ; 
 
 The Paffes of our vital Breath by thee 
 Are fmooth’d and clear’d, obftru&ed Lungs fet free. 
 Nor only doft to Speech a Friend appear, 
 
 Ev*n for that Speech thou doft unlock the Ear, 
 
 Set’ft ope the gate, and giv’ft it entrance there. 
 
 The fouleft Ulcers putrid finks are drein’d 
 By thee, by thee the Tumour’s Rage reftrain’d ; 
 
 The Gangrene, Ring-worm, Scurf and Lcprofie ; 
 Kings evil, Cancers, Warts re cur’d by thee: 
 
 Of flaming Gout thou doft fupprefs the Rage, 
 
 Of Dropfie thou the deluge dolt affwage. 
 
 ’Twere e^dlefs all thy Vertues to recite, 
 
 With all the Hofts of Poyfons thou doft fight, ( 
 Aided by Rue and Nut put’ft Africa to flight. 
 Encounter'll the Difeafes of the Air, 
 
 And baneful Mifchiefs fecret Stars prepare; 
 
 Whence does this Vegetative Courage rife ? 
 
 Even angry Jove himfelf thou doft defpife. 
 
 His Lightnings furious Sallies thou doft fee. 
 
 That fpares not his own Confecrated Tree, 
 
 While he with Temples does wild havock make, 
 While Mountains rend, and Earths foundations quake, 
 Of thy undaunted Tree no Leaf is feen to fhake. 
 
 Hail Bacchus ! hail, thou powerful God of Wine, 
 Hail Bacchus hail! here comes thy darling Vine, 
 Drunk with her own rich Juice, Ihe cannot Hand, 
 But comes fupported by her Husbands hand. 
 
 The lufty Elm fupports her ftagg’ring Tree; 
 
 My beft lov’d Plant, how am I charm’d with thee ? 
 Bow down thy juicy Clufters to my Lip, 
 
 Thy Neftar fweets I wou’d not lightly ftp. 
 
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 Phitxlm who 
 kindly enter- 
 tain’d hcr,and 
 in return re- 
 ceiv’d from 
 her the Fig- 
 Trse. Piufan. 
 
 
 
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 But drink thee deep, drink till my Veins were (well'd, 
 Drink till my Soul with Joys and thee were fill’d. 
 
 What God fo far a Poets Iriend will be, 
 
 Who from great Orpheus draws his Pedigree? 
 
 ( And tho his Mufe comes fliort of Orpheus fame, 
 
 Yet feems infpir’d, and may the Ivy claim) 
 
 To place him on Mount IJmarus, or where 
 Campanian Hills the fweeteft Clufters bear, 
 
 Where Grapes, twice ripen’d, twice concocted grow, 
 With Phoebus beams above, Vefyvius (lames below. 
 
 Or in the fortunate Canarian I(les y 
 Or where Burgundian purple Vintage fmiles. 
 
 ’Tis fit the Poet (hould beneath their (hade 
 Tranfported lye, or on their Hills run mad. 
 
 His Veins, his Soul fwell’d with th’ Infpiring God, 
 Who worthily would celebrate the Vine, 
 
 And with his grateful voice difeharge agen 
 
 The Deity, which with his Mouth he drank fo largely in. 
 
 O vital Tree, what blefiings doll: thou fend ? 
 
 Love, Wit and Eloquence on thee attend, 
 
 Mirth, Sports, green Hopes, ripe Joys, and Martial Fire. 
 Thefe are thy Fruits, thy Clufters thefe infpire ; 
 
 The various Poyfons which ill Fortune breeds 
 ( Not Pontus fo abounds with baneful weeds, 
 
 Nor Africa fo many Serpents feeds ) 
 
 , By thy rich Antidote defeated arc, 
 
 ’Tis true, they’ll rally and renew the War, 
 
 But ’tis when thou our Cordial art not by. 
 
 They watch their time and take us when w are Dry. 
 Thou mak’ft the Captive to forget his chain. 
 
 By thee the Bankrupt is enrich’d again, 
 
 . . The Exul thou reftor’ft, the Candidate 
 cooftiTbut ft- Without the People’s Vote thou doft create, 
 ven hours, dy- And mak’ft him a Caninian Magiftrate. 
 
 day he waT e Like kind Ve fpafian thou Mankind mak’ft glad, 
 chofen. None from thy prefence e’r departed fad. 
 
 What more can be to Wifdom s School aftign’d. 
 
 Than from prevailing Mills to purge the Mind? 
 
 From thee the beft Philofophy does fpring, 
 
 Thou canft exalt the Beggar to a King ; 
 
 Th’ unletter’d Peafant who can compafs thee. 
 
 As much as Cato knows, and is as great as he. 
 
 Thy Tranfports are but fliort, I do confefs. 
 
 But fo are the Delights Mankind pofiefs. 
 
 Our Life it felf is (hort, and will not ftay. 
 
 Then let us ufe thy Blefting while we may, (away. 1 
 Andauakcitin full ftreamsof Wine more fmoothly pafs. 
 
 The Vine retires ; with loud and juft Applaufe 
 Of European Gods ; - As (he withdraws 
 
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 Each in his Hand a fwelling Cluficr prett; 
 
 But Bacchus much more fportivc than the reft, 
 
 Fills up a Bowl with Juice from Grape-ftones drein’d, 
 And puts it in Ome Lie hilus hand : 
 
 Take off this Draught, (aid he, if thou art wife, 
 Twill purge thy Cannibal Stomach’s Crudities. 
 
 He, unaccuftom’d to the acid Juice 
 Storm’d, and with blows had anfwer’d the Abufe, 
 
 But fear’d t’ engage the European Gueft, 
 
 Whofc Strength and Courage had lubdu’d the Eafl ; 
 He therefore choofes a lefs dang’rous fray, 
 
 And fummons all his Country’s Plants away : 
 Forthwith in decent Order they appear, 
 
 And various Fruits on various Branches wear. 
 
 Like Amazons they ftand in painted Arms, 
 
 Coca alone appear’d with little Charms, • 
 
 Yet lead the Van, our fcoffing Fenus fcorn’d 
 The (hrub-like Tree, and with no Fruit adorn’d. 
 
 The Indian Plants, (aid fhe, are like to fpced 
 In this Difpute of the moft fertile Breed, 
 
 Who choole a Dwarf and Eunuch for their Head. 
 
 Our Gods laugh’d out aloud at what (he faid. 
 Fachamama defends her darling Tree, 
 
 And faid the wanton Goddefs was too free. 
 
 You only know the fruitfulnefs of Luft, 
 
 And therefore here your Judgment is unjuft, 
 
 Your skill in other off fprings we may truft. 
 
 With thofc Chaft Tribes that no diftin&ion know 
 Of Sex, your Province nothing has to do. 
 
 Of all the Plants that any SoiTdoes bear,. 
 
 This Tree in Fruits the richeft does appear. 
 
 It bears the beft, and bears ’em all the year. 
 
 Ev’n now with Fruit ’tis ftor’d — why laugh you yet? 
 Behold how thick with Leaves it is befet. 
 
 Each Leaf is Fruit, and fuch fubftantial Fare 
 No Fruit bettde to Rival it will dare. 
 
 Mov’d with his Countries coming Fate/ ( whofe Soil 
 Mutt: for her Treafures be expos'd to fpoil ) 
 
 Our Varicocha firft this Coca fent, 
 
 Endow’d with Leaves of wondrous Nourittiment, 
 Whofe Juice fuck’d in, and to the Stomach tan 
 Long Hunger and long Labour can fuftain ; 
 
 From which our faint and weary Bodies find 
 More Succour, more they chear the drooping Mind, 
 Than can your Bacchus and your Ceres join’d. 
 
 Three Leaves fupply for fix days march afford, 
 
 The Quitoita with this Provifion ttor’d, 
 
 Can pfs the vaft and cloudy Andes o’r, 
 
 The dreadful Andes plac’d ’twixt Winters ftore 
 
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 Of Winds, Rains, Snow, and that more humble Earth, 
 That gives the (mail but valiant Coca Birth; 
 
 This Champion that makes war-like Venus Mirth. 
 
 Nor Coca only ufeful art at home, 
 
 A famous Merchandize thou art become ; 
 
 A thoufand Pad and Vicugni groan, 
 
 Yearly beneath thy Loads, and for thy fake alone 
 The fpacious World’s to us by Commerce known. 
 
 Thus fpake the Goddefs, ( on her painted Skin 
 Were figures wrought) and next calls Hovia in. 
 
 That for its ftony Fruit may bedefpis’d, 
 
 But for its Vertuc next to Coca priz’d. 
 
 Her (hade by wondrous Influence can compofe, 
 
 And lock the Senfes in fuch fweet Repofe, 
 
 That oft the Natives of a diflant Soil 
 Long Journeys take of voluntary Toil, 
 
 Only to fleep beneath her Branches (hade : 
 
 Where in tranfporting Dreams entranc’d they lye. 
 And quite forget the Spaniards Tyranny. 
 
 The Plant ( at Brafil Bacoua call’d ) the name 
 Of th’ EaRern Plane-Tree takes, but not the fame : 
 Bears Leaves fo large, one fingle Leaf can fhade 
 The Swain that is beneath her Covert laid; 
 
 Under whofe verdant Leaves fair Apple grow. 
 Sometimes two hundred on a fingle Bough ; 
 
 Th 5 are gather’d all the year, and all the year 
 They fpring, for like the Hydra they appear. 
 
 To ev’ry one you take fucceeds a Golden Heir. 
 ’Twere lofs of time to gather one by one, 
 
 Its* Boughs are torn, and yet no harm is done ; 
 New-fprouting Branches Rill the lofs repair. 
 
 What would fo foon return ’twere vain to fpare. 
 
 The Indian Fig-Tree next did much furprife 
 With her Rrange figure all our Deities. 
 
 Amongfl whom, one, too rafhly did exclaim 
 (For Gods to be deceiv’d ’tis woful fhame) 
 
 This is a Cheat, a work of Art, faid he, 
 
 And therefore Rretcht his hand to touch the Tree ; 
 At which the Indian Gods laugh’d out aloud. 
 
 And ours, no lefs furpriz’d with wonder flood. 
 
 For lo! the Plant her Trunk and Boughs unclos’d. 
 Wholly of Fruit and Leaves appear’d compos’d; 
 
 New Leaves, and Rill from them new Leaves unfold, 
 A fight ’mongR Prodigies to be enroll’d. 
 
 The Tuna to the Indian Fig a kin 
 (The Glory of Tlafcalla) next came in ; 
 
 But much more wonderful her Fruit appears, 
 
 Than th’ other Leaves, for living Fruit fhe bears. 
 
 To her alone great Varicocha gave 
 
 The Priviiedge, that fhe for Fruit fhould have 
 
 
 
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 Live Creatures, that with purple Dye adorn 
 Th’ Imperial Robe; the precious Tincture’s worn 
 With pride ev’n by the Conqu’rors of the Soil, 
 
 But ah ! they had not grudg’d that Purple fpoil, 
 
 Our Cochine l they freely might have gain’d, 
 
 If with no other Blood they had been Rain’d. 
 
 Guatimala produc’d a Fruit unknown 
 To Europe , which with pride fhe call’d her own ; 
 
 Her Cacao-Nut with double Ufe endu’d, 
 
 (For Chocolate at once is Drink and Food) 
 
 Does Rrength and vigour to the Limbs impart, 
 
 Makes frelh the Countenance and chears the Heart. 
 
 In Venus Combat Rrangely does excire 
 The fainting Warriour to renew the fight ; 
 
 Not all Eotofts River Grove can be 
 Of equal value to this ufeful Tree, 
 
 Nor cou’d the wretched hungry owner dine, 
 
 Rich Cartama , upon thy Golden Mine. . 
 
 Of old the wifer Indians never made 
 Their Gold or Silver the fupport of Trade» 
 
 Nor us'd for Life’s fupport what well they knew 
 Ufelefs to Life, at beR, and fometimes hurtful too. 
 
 With Nuts inftead of Coin they bought and fold, 
 
 Their Wealth by Cacaos, not by Sums, they told. 
 
 One Tree, the growing Trealure of the Field, 
 
 Both Food and Cloths did to its owner yield; 
 
 Procur’d all Utenfils, and wanting Bread, 
 
 The happy Hoarder on his Money led. 
 
 This was true Wealth, thofe Treafures we adore 
 By CuRom valu’d, in themfelves are poor. 
 
 And Men may Rarve amidR their Golden Rore. 
 
 Too happy India had this Wealth alone. 
 
 And not thy Gold been to the Spaniard known. 
 
 The Aguacat no lefs is Venus Friend 
 (To tl \ Indies Venus ConqueR does extend) 
 
 A fragrant Leaf the Aguacat a bears, 
 
 Her Fruit in falhion ot an Egg appears 3 
 With Rich a white and fpermy Juice it fwells, 
 
 As reprefents moiR Life’s RrR Principles. 
 
 The Cacaos owner any thing may buy, 
 
 But he that has the Met la, may lupply 
 Himfelf with almoR all things he can want ; 
 
 From Met Ids almoR all fufficient Plant; 
 
 Met la to pafs as Money does defpife, ; 
 
 Or TraRick ferve, it felf is Merchandife. 
 
 She bears no Nuts for Boys, nor lufeious Fruit, 
 
 That may with nice Effeminate Palates fuit, 1 
 
 Her very Tree is fruit ; her Leaves when young. 
 
 Are wholefom Food, for Garments ferve whenRrong; 
 
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 The Thorn 
 growing at 
 the end of 
 each Leaf, 
 which toge- 
 ther with the 
 firingy part 
 joyning to it, 
 is ufed in man 
 ner of a Nee- 
 dle and 
 Thread to 
 few withal. 
 
 Nor only fo, but to make up the Cloth 
 They furmlh you with Thread and Needle both. 
 
 What though her native Soil with drought is curd. 
 
 Cut but her Bark, and you may flake your thirft, 
 
 A hidden Spring will in the Wound appear. 
 
 Which through (freight pafles Brein’d comes forth more clear; 
 ' And though through long Meanders of the Veins 
 J Tis carry’d, yet no vicious hue retains. 
 
 Limpid and fweet the Virgin Bream remains. 
 
 Thefe Gifts for Nature might fufficient be. 
 
 But bounteous Metla feem’d too fmall for thee; 
 
 Thou grati fi’ft our very Luxury. 
 
 For liqu’rilh Palates Honey thou dofl bear. 
 
 For thofe whole GuB wants quickning, Vinegar. 
 
 But thefe are trifles, thou doB Wine impart, 
 
 That drives dull care and trouble from the Heart. 
 
 If any wretch of Poverty complains. 
 
 Thou pour’ll a golden Stream into his Veins. 
 
 The pooreft Indian Bill is rich in thee, 
 
 In fpight of Spanifl? ConqueBs Bill is free. 
 
 The Spaniard's King is not fo bleB as he. 
 
 If any doubts the Liquor to be Wine; 
 
 Becaufe no CryBal Water looks more fine. 
 
 Let him but drink he’ll find the weak Nymph fled. 
 
 And potent Bacchus enter’d in her Bead. 
 
 To all thefe Gifts of Luxury and Wealth, 
 
 Thou giv’B us fov’reign Med’cines too for Health : 
 
 Choice Balm from thy concofted Bark breaks forth. 
 
 Thou fhedfl no Tear, but ’tis of greater worth 
 Than fairefl Gems, no Lover more can prize 
 The tears in his confenting Miflris Eyes, 
 
 When in his Arms the panting Virgin lies : 
 
 No Antidote affords more prelent aid 
 ’Gainfl doubly mortal wounds by pois’nous Arrows made.' 
 
 Almofl all Needs thou Metla doB fupply, 
 
 Yet muB not therefore bear thy felf too high ; 
 
 While th* all-fufEcient Coccus Tree is by. 
 
 To Coccus thou muB yield the Vi&ory. 
 
 Where fhe preferves this Indian Palm alone, 
 
 America can never be undone, 
 
 Embowell’d and of all her Gold bereft. 
 
 Her liberty and Ccccus only left, 
 
 She’s richer than the Spaniard with his theft. 
 
 What fenflefs Mifer by the Gods abhorr’d, 
 
 Wou’d covet more than Coccus doth afford ? 
 
 Houfe, Garments, Beds; and Boards, ev’n while we dine, 
 Supplies both Meat and Difli, both Cup and Wine. 
 
 Oyl, Honey, Miik, the Stomach to delight. 
 
 And poignant Sawce to whet the Appetite. 
 
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B o o K V. Of TLA UfT S. 
 
 Nor is her fervice to the Land confin’d 
 For Ships intire compos’d ot her we find. 
 
 Sails, Tackle, Timber, Cables, Ribs and Mall, 
 Therewith the Vcfiel fitted up, at lalt 
 With her own Ware is freighted, all fhe bears 
 Is Coccus growth, except her Mariners; 
 
 Nor need we ev’n her Mariners exclude 
 Who from the Coco-Nut have all their food. 
 
 The Indian Gods with wild and barbarous voice 
 And Gedures rude, tumultuoufiy rejoice 5 
 Ours as aflonilh’d and with envious Eyes 
 Each other view’d, if as weak Men furmife. 
 
 Envy can touch immortal Deities. 
 
 My modefl Mufe that Cenfure does decline, 
 
 Nor dares interpret ill of Pow’rs Divine. 
 
 The Indian Pow’rs ( though yet they had not Ihown 
 The hundredth part of Plants to India known ) 
 Already did conclude the Day their own. 
 
 Rafli and impatient found the Goddefs throng, 
 
 And think her Verdidt is deferr’d too long. 
 
 Pomona feated high above the fell, 
 
 Was cautioufly revolving in her Bred, 
 
 ( The caufe depending was no trifling toy. 
 
 That did the Patrons of both Worlds employ) 
 
 T’ exprefs her felf at large die did defign, 
 
 And handfomly the Sentence to decline; 
 
 C If I may guefs at what the Goddefs meant) 
 
 But lo ! a flight and fudden Accident 
 Puts all the Court into a wild Ferment. 
 
 For, during th* tryal, the mod tipling Brace, 
 Omelochilu* of the Indian Race, 
 
 And our * Lenaus , at whate’r was fpoke 
 Or done that pleas’d him, a full Bumper took 
 And drank to t’ other, him the Metla-TveQ 
 Supply’d with juice, thy Vine, Lenaus thee. 
 
 Each Bowl they touch’d, they turn’d the Bottom up, 
 And gave a brisk Huzza at ev’ry Cup. 
 
 Their Heads at lalt the rifing vapour gains 
 And proves too hard for their immortal Brains, 
 
 With mutual Repartees they jok’d at firit, 
 
 Till growing more incens’d they fwore and curd ; 
 Omelochilui does no longer dread 
 (With prefent Met la warm’d) the Grecian God, 
 
 But throws a Coco Bowl at Bacchus Head. 
 
 Which fpoil’d his Draught ; but left his forehead found, 
 And reds betwixt his Horns without a wound. 
 
 Bacchus enrag’d with Wine and paflion too. 
 
 With all his might his mafly Goblet threw. 
 
Of T L A Book V. 
 
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 Dire&ly levell’d at the RuBick’s Face, 
 
 That laid him bruis’d and fprawling on the place : 
 He in his native Gibb’riBi cries aloud, 
 
 And with his Noife alarms the favage Crowd ; 
 Gnafliing their foamy Teeth, like Beafls of prey, 
 Promifcuoufly they bellow, roar and bray ; 
 
 The frighted Waves back to the Deep rebound. 
 
 The very Ifland trembles with the found. 
 
 Next him Vitziliputli fat, in fmoak 
 Of foul Tobacco almoB hid, that broke 
 In Belches from his gormandizing Maw, 
 
 Where humane Belli as yet lay crude and raw. 
 Throwing in rage his kindled Pipe afide 
 And (hatching Bow and Darts, Arm, Arm, he cry’d. 
 Tefcalipuca ( of the falvage Band 
 The next in fiercenefs ) took his Spear in hand. 
 
 And all in Arms the barb’rous Legion Band. 
 
 The GoddefTes difperfe, and fculk behind 
 The Thickets, frighted Venus bore in mind 
 Her former Wound, th’effedt of mortal Rage, 
 
 What muB lhe then expedi: where Gods engage? 
 Pallas , who oncly courage had to flay, 
 
 In vain her peaceful Olive did difplay: 
 
 Th’ He-gods with manly weapons in their Hand 
 Devoted to the dire Encounter Band ; 
 
 MoB woful fome had that days Battel found. 
 
 And long been maim’d with many an aking wound, 
 
 ( For to fuppofe tlf Immortals can be Bain 
 Though with Immortals they engage, is vain ) 
 
 Had not Apollo in the nick of time 
 Found out a Strat’gem to divert that Crime; 
 
 Which with his double Title did agree 
 The God of Wit and healing Deity; 
 
 None better knew than he to ufe the Bow, 
 
 But now refolv’d his nobler Skill to Blow 
 Sweet Muficks Powr; he takes his Lyre in hand. 
 
 And does forthwith fuch charming founds command, 
 As Bruck the Ear of Gods with new delight. 
 
 When Nature did this world’s great frame unite: 
 When jarring Elements their War did ceafe. 
 
 And danc’d themfelves into harmonious Peace. 
 
 Such Breins had furely charm’d the Centaurs Rage, 
 Such Breins the raving Billows cou’d aflwage; 
 
 Wild Hurricanes had due obedience Biown, 
 
 And to attend his founds fuppreB their own. 
 
 The wrangling GucBs at once appear bereft 
 Of cv’ry fenfe, their Hearing onely left. 
 
 Vitziliputli , BerceB of the Crew, 
 
 While to the Head his venom’d Shaft he drew. 
 
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 Lets fall both Dart and Bow ; with lifted Hands 
 Aftonifh’d, and with Mouth wide-gaping (lands, 
 So high to raife his greedy Ears he’s faid, 
 
 As forc’d his feather’d Drdem from his Head. 
 Pomona's Altar hew’d from folid Rock 
 In both his Hands bold Varicoca took ; 
 
 Which like a Thunder bolt he wou’d have hurld, 
 ( He is the Thund’rer in the Indian world ) 
 
 But at the'fird fweet (train forgot his heat, 
 
 Laid down the (tone, and us’d it for a Scat : 
 
 His ravilh’d Ears the peaceful founds devour, 
 
 His hundred Victims never pleas’d him more. 
 Their Magick force in Ipight of his difgrace 
 And gore yet dreaming from his batter’d Face, 
 Omelichilus felf did reconcile; 
 
 At fird, ’tis true, he did but faintly fmile, 
 
 And laugh’d anon as loud as any there. 
 
 For fuch the facred Charms of Meafures are; 
 
 The ambient Air druck with the healing . founds 
 Of Thorius Lyre, clos’d up the bleeding wounds. 
 Ev’n of their own accord the Breaches clofe. 
 
 For pow’rful Mufick all things can compofe. 
 Pleas’d with his Art’s fuccefs, Apollo fmil’d 
 To fee the aukward Mirth and Gedures wild 
 Oi his charm’d Audience; having thus fubdu’d 
 Their ravifh’d fenfe, his Co'nqued he purfu’d. 
 And dill to make the pleafing Spell more drong, 
 Joins to his Lyre his tuneful Voice and Song. 
 
 He fung, how th’ infpir’d Hero’s mind beheld 
 A World that for long Ages lay conceal’d. 
 
 Mod happy thou whofe Fancy cou’d defery 
 A World feen onely by my circling Eye. 
 
 Thou who alone in Toils had equal’d me, 
 Great Alexander is out-done by thee ; 
 
 By thee whofe Skill cou’d find and courage gain 
 That other world for which he wifli’d in vain. 
 
 Not my own Poets Tales cou’d thee deceive, 
 
 No credit to their fables thou didd give, 
 
 Me, weary’d with my Day’s hard courfe, they feign 
 To red each Night in the Hefperian Main, 
 
 Can Phoebus tire ? my great Columbus thou 
 Didd better judg, and Phorius better know. 
 
 For I my felf did then thy thoughts incline, 
 
 Infpir’d by Skill, and urg’d the bold Defign. 
 Herculean Limits cou’d not thee contain 
 Nor terrour of an unexperienc’d Main ; 
 
 Nor Nature’s awful Darknefs cou’d redrain. 
 
 Thy Native worlds dear fight for three Months lod 
 For three long Months on the wide Ocean tod. 
 
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 New Stars, new Floods, and Monllcrs thou didft fpy 
 Unterrify ’d thy felf, new Gods didft ternfie: 
 
 Thou only thou undaunted didft appear. 
 
 While thy faint Comrades half expir’d with fear ; 
 
 They urge thee to return and threaten high, 
 
 When, Guanahan , thy Watch light they defery, 
 
 Thy flaming Beacon from afar they Ipy : 
 
 Whofe happy Light to their tranlporced Eyes 
 Difclofes a new World; with joyful cries 
 They hail the flgn that to a golden Soil 
 Unlock’d the Gate; forgetting now their Toil. 
 
 They hug their Guide at whom they late repin'd. 
 
 From this fmali Fire, and for fmall ufe defignd, 
 
 How t great a Light w 7 as open’d to Mankind 1 
 How cafily did Courage find the way 
 By this Approach to feize the golden Prey, 
 
 That in a fecrct World’s dark Entrails lay! 
 
 For Courage what attempt can be too bold ? 
 
 Or rather what for third of Pow’r and Gold? 
 
 While to the fiioar the Spanifh Navy drew 7 , 
 
 The Indian Natives with amazement view 7 
 Thofe floating Palaces, which fondly they 
 Miftook for living Monfters of the Sea ; 
 
 Wing'd Whales — nor at the Spaniards lefs admire, 
 
 A Race of Men with Beards and ftrange Attire, 
 
 Whofe Iron drefs their native Skin they deem’d : 
 
 The Horfe man mounted on his Courfer feem’d 
 To them' a Centaur of prodigious kind; 
 
 A compound Monftcr of two Bodies join’d*. 
 
 That cou’d at once in fev’ral accents break, 
 
 N cigh with one Mouth, and with the other fpeak. 
 
 But moft the roaring Cannon they admire, 
 
 Difcharging fulph’rous Clouds of Smoak and Fire ; 
 Mock-Thunder now they hear, mock-Light’ning view 7 . 
 With greater Dread than e'r they did the true. 
 
 Ev’n thou the Thunderer of th* Indian Sky 
 ( Nor wilt thou Varicocha this deny ) 
 
 Ev’n thou thy felf aftonifh’d didft appear 
 When Mortals louder Thunder thou didft hear. 
 
 Strange Figures, and th’ unwonted Face of things 
 No lefs amazement to the Spaniard brings. 
 
 New Forms of Animals their fight furprife. 
 
 New Plants, new Fruits, new Men and Deities, 
 
 Intirely a new Nature meets their Eyes. 
 
 But moft tranfported with the glitt’ring Mould, 
 
 And wealthy Streams whofe Sands were fraught with Gold, 
 Thefe they too much admire with too much love behold. 
 For thefe forthwith againft their Hofts engage 
 The treach’rous Guefts in impious War and Rage; 
 
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 From thefe, inhumane (laughter did enfue 
 
 Which now I grieve to ceil, as then I blu fil’d to view. 
 
 By fudden force, like fome demolifh’d Town, 
 
 I faw the Indian world at once o’r thrown. 
 
 What can this Land by this Difpute intend ? 
 
 About her Fruits Hie does in vain contend, 
 
 Who knows noc how her Entrails to defend. 
 
 Thy Slaughters pall, do thou at length forget ** 
 
 For with no fmall Revenge thy wrongs have met, 
 
 And Heav’n will give thee greater Comforts yet. * 
 Enjoy thy fate whofe bitter Part is o’r 
 And all the Iweet for thee referv’d in (lore. 
 
 Here Fhoslus his mod chearful Airs employs 
 And melts cheir favage Hearts in promis’d Joys. 
 They felt his Mufick glide through ev’ry vein, 
 
 Their brawny Limbs from Dancing fcarce refrain, 
 
 But fear’d to interrupt his charming drain. 
 
 That Gold which Europe ravilh’d from your Coad 
 O’r Europe now a Tyrants pow’r docs boad. 
 
 Already has more Mifchiefs brought on Spain 
 Than from infulting Spaniards you fudain. 
 
 Where e’r it comes all Laws are draight diflolv’d, 
 
 In gen’ral Ruin all things are involv’d : 
 
 No Land can breed a more dedru&ive Ped 
 Grieve not that of your Bane y* are difpoded 
 Call in more Spaniards to remove the red. 
 
 1 he fatal Helen drive from your A.boads, 
 
 Tli Erinnys that has fet both worlds at odds. 
 
 Fire, Sword and (laughter on her footdeps wait ; 
 Whole Empires fhe betrays to utmod Fate. 
 
 Mean while thefe benefits of Life you reap 
 Confider, and you’ll find th’ exchange was cheap. 
 Your former (alvage Cudoms are remov’d, 
 
 The Manners of your Men and Gods improv’d : 
 With humane flefli no more they fhall be fed ; 
 Whether dire Famine fird that pra&ice bred, 
 
 Or more deteded Luxury 
 
 Not long (halt thou Vitzihputli feed 
 On bloudy feads, or fmoak thy Indian weed ; 
 
 E’r long ( like Us ) with pure Ambrofial Fare 
 Thou flialc be pleas’d, and tad Celedial Air. 
 
 To live by wholefom Laws you now begin. 
 Buildings to raife and fence your Cities in. 
 
 To plow the Earth, to plow the very Main, 
 
 And Traffick with the Univerfe maintain; 
 
 Defenfive Arms and Ornaments of Drefs, 
 
 All Implements of Life you now pofiefs. 
 
 To you the Arts of War and Peace are known, 
 And whole Minerva is become your own. 
 
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 Our Mufes to your Sires an unknown Band, 
 
 Already have got footing in your Land, 
 
 And like the Soil 
 
 Incas already have Hiftorians been, 
 
 And Inca - Poets ihall ere long be feen. 
 
 But ( if I fail not in my Augury 
 And who can better judg events than I ? ) 
 
 Long rowling years (hall late bring on the times, 
 
 When with your Gold debauch’d and ripen’d Crimes, 
 Europe (the worlds moil noble Part ) fhall fall, 
 
 Upon her banifh’d Gods and Virtue call 
 In vain; while forein and domeftiek War 
 At once Ihall her diftra&cd Bofom tear ; 
 
 Forlorn, and to be pity ’d ev’n by you.- 
 
 Mean while your tiling Glory you fhall view 5 
 Wit, Learning, Virtue, Difcipline of War 
 Shall for prote&ion to your world repair. 
 
 And fix a long illuftrious Empire there. 
 
 Your native Gold (I would not have it fo 
 But fear th’ Event ) in time will follow too : 
 
 O, fhould that fatal Prize return once more, 
 
 ’Twill hurt your Countrey as it did before. 
 
 Late Defliny fhall high exalt your Reign 
 Whofe Pomp no Crowds of Slaves, a needlefs Train, 
 
 Nor Gold ( the Rabble’s Idol ) fhall fupport 
 Like Motezume s, or Guanapact s Court. 
 
 But fuch true Grandeur as old Rome maintain’d. 
 
 Where Fortune was a Slave and Virtue Reign’d. 
 
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 C EASE, O my Mufc, the fofc delights to Eng 
 Of flowry Gardens in their fragrant Spring; 
 
 And trace the rougher paths ofobfcure Woods, 
 
 All gloom aloft, beneath o’rgrown with Shrubs : 
 Where Phcebus, once thy Guide, can dart no ray 
 T infpire thy flight, and make the Scene look gay. 
 
 Courage, my Huntrefs, let us range the Glades, 
 
 And fearch the inmoft Grotto’s of the Shades : 
 
 Even to the lone ReceKTes let us pafs. 
 
 Where the green Goddefs refts on Beds of Mofs. 
 
 Let loofe, my Fancy, fwift of foot to trace 
 With a fagacious feent the noble chafe, 
 
 And with a joyful cry purfue the Prey; 
 
 *Tis hidden Nature we inuft roufe to day. 
 
 Set all your Gins, let every Toil be plac’d, 
 
 Through all her Tracks let flying Truth be chas d. 
 
 And feize her panting with her eager haft. 
 
 Nor yet difdain, my Mufe, in Groves to range, 
 
 Or humbler Woods for nobler Orchards change. 
 
 Here Deities of old have made abode, 
 
 And once fecur’d Great Charles our earthly God. 
 
 The Royal Youth, born to out-brave his Fate, 
 
 Within a neighbouring Oak maintain’d his State : 
 
 The faithful Boughs in kind Allegiance fpread 
 Their fheltring Branches round his awful Head, 
 
 Twin’d their rough Arms, and thicken’d all the Shade. 
 
 To thee, belov’d of Heaven, to thee we fing 
 Of facred Groves blooming perpetual Spring. 
 
 May ft thou be to my Rural Verfe and Me, 
 
 A prefent and aflifting Deity. 
 
 Difdain not in this leafy Court to dwell. 
 
 Who its lov’d Monarch did fecure fo well. 
 
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 TlV Eternal Oak now confecrate to thee 
 No more thy Refuge, but thy Throne Thall be. 
 
 We’ll place thee Conqueror now, and crown thy brows 
 With Garlands made of its young gayeft boughs : 
 
 While .from our paten Pipes thp^vorld (hall know 
 How siiuch they to this iacrcd, {belter owe. 
 
 And you, the foft Inhabitants of the Groves, 
 
 You Wood-Nymphs, Hamadryades and Loves, 
 
 Satyrs and Fauns, who in thcle Arbors play, 
 
 Permit my Song, and give my Mufe her way. 
 
 She tells of ancient Woods the wondrous, things, 
 
 Ol Groves Ion if wiTd in fa c red darkiicfs {mgs, 
 
 And a new Light into your Cfloom (he brfhgs. 
 
 Let it be lawful for me to unfold — 
 
 Divine Decrees that never yet were told : 
 
 The Harangues of the Wood Gods, to rehcarfe* 
 
 And fing of Fiowry Senates hV my Verfe.' 
 
 Voices unknown to Man he npw fha{l hear,. ... 
 
 Who always ignorant of what they were. 
 
 Have pafs’d ’em by with a rcgardlefs ear ; 
 
 Thought ’em the murmurings of the ruffled Trebs, 
 
 Thar mov’d and wanton’d with the fporting Breeze. 
 
 Daphne being Rut'Daphne knew the Myflcries of the Wood, ' . 
 
 Lauid Inr ° 3 And made difeoveries to her amorous God; 
 
 Apollo me inform®, and did ihfpire g : * 
 
 My Soul with his Divine Prophetic fire : 
 
 And I, the Prieft of Plants, their fenfe expound. 
 
 Hear, O ye Worlds, and liften all around. 
 
 ’Twas now when Royal Charles that Prince of peace, 
 
 (That pious Offspring of the Olive Race) 
 
 Sway’d England s Scepter with a God like hand, 
 
 Scattering foft Eafe and Plenry o’r the Land, 
 
 Happy ’bove all the neighbouring Kings, while yet 
 Unruffled by the rudeR {forms of Fate, 
 
 More fortunate the People, till their Pride 
 Difdain’d Obedience to the Sovereign Guide, 
 
 And to a bafe Plebeian Senate gave 
 The Arbitrary Priv’lege to enflave ; 
 
 Who through a Sea of Nobleff Blood did wade, 
 
 To tear the Diadem from the Sacred Head. 
 
 Nov/ above Envy, far above the Clouds 
 The Martyr fits triumphing with the Gods. 
 
 ■ While Peace before did o’r the Ocean fly ’ .'*■ 
 
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 For warring Winds o’r wretched Europe range, 
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 Nor did the fruitful Goddcls brood in vain, 
 
 But here in fafety hatch’d her golden train, 
 
 Juftice and Faith one Cornucopia fill. 
 
 Of ufeful Med’cines known to many an Ill- 
 Such was the Golden Age in Saturn's fway, 
 Eafie and innocent it pafs’d away : 
 
 But too much Luxury and good Fortune cloys, 
 And Virtues flic feould cherifh fee deRroys. 
 
 What we mod wife, what we mod toil to gain 
 Enjoyment palls, add turns the Blifs to pain. 
 Pofiefiion makes us fhift our Happinefs, 
 
 From peaceful Wives to noifie MiRrifles. 
 
 The Repetition makes the Pieafure dull ; 
 
 "Tis only Change that’s gay and beautiful. 
 
 O Notion falfe. 1 O Appetite deprav’d. 
 
 That has the nobler part of Man enflavd. 
 
 Man born to Reafon, does that Safety quit. 
 
 To fplit upon the dangerous Rock of Wit. 
 Phyficians fay, there’s no fuch danger near. 
 
 As when, though no figns manifeR appear, 
 
 Self- tir’d and t dull, man knows not what he ails, 
 And without toil his Strength and Vigor fails. 
 
 Such was the State of England, Tick with Eafe, 
 Too happy, if fee knew her Happinefs* 
 
 Their Crime no Ignorance for Excufe can plead, 
 That wretched refuge for Ingratitude. 
 
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 A kind admonifeing Anger to reclaim 
 In dreadful Prodigies 5 but, alas, in vain. 
 
 So rapid Thunder-bolts before the Flame 
 Fly, the confuting Vengeance to proclaim. 
 
 1, then a Boy, arriv’d to my tenth year, 
 
 And Rill thole horrid Images 1 bear. 
 
 The mournful Signs are prefent to my Eyes. 
 
 I faw o’r all the Region of the Skies, 
 
 The HiRory of our approaching Wars 
 Writ in the Heav’ns in wondrous Characters. 
 
 The vaulted Firmament with Lightning burns, 
 
 And all the Clouds were kindled into Storms, 
 
 And form’d an Image of th’ Infernal Hell; 
 
 ,(I feake with the portentous things I tell) 
 
 Like fulph’rous waves the horrid Flames did roll, 
 Whofe raging Tides were hurl’d from Pole to Pole; 
 Then fuddenly the burRing Clouds divide, 
 
 A Fire-like burning mounts on either fide, 
 Difcovering (to th’ aftoniih’d World ) within 
 At once a dreadful and a beauteous Scene : 
 
 Two mighty Armies clad in Battle array 
 Ready by Combat to difpute the day : 
 
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 Their waving Plumes aud glittering Armour fhonc, 
 
 Mov’d by the Winds and guilded by the Sun. 
 
 So well in order feem’d each fearlefs Rank, 
 
 As they’d been marfhall’d by our Hero, Monk , 
 
 Monk , born for mighty things and great command. 
 
 The glorious Pillar of our falling Land. 
 
 Perhaps his Genius on the Royal fide 
 One of thofe Heav’nly Figures did defcribe. 
 
 Here pointed out to us his noble force. 
 
 And form’d him Conqueror on a flaming Horfe. 
 
 Wc heard, or fancy’d that we heard, around. 
 
 The Signal giv’n by Drum and Trumpet found. 
 
 We faw the fire-wing’d Horfes fiercely meet, 
 
 And with their fatal Spears each other greet. 
 
 Here fhining brand ifh’d Pikes like Lightning (hook, 
 
 While from Ethereal Guns true Thunder broke. 
 
 With gloomy Mills th’ involv’d the Plains of Heaven, 
 
 And to the Cloud-begotten men was given 
 A memorable Fate — * 
 
 By the dire Splendor which their Arms difplay’d. 
 
 And dreadful Lightning that from Cannons play’d. 
 
 We faw extended o’re the Aereal Plain 
 The wounded Bodies of the numerous (lain. 
 
 ( Their Faces fierce with anger underftood ) 
 
 Turning the Sky red with their gufhing Blood, 
 
 At lad that Army we the Juft efteem’d. 
 
 And which adorn’d by noblefl Figures feem’d 
 Of Arms and Men, alas! was put to flight; 
 
 The reft was veil’d in the deep Shades of Night, 
 
 And Fates to come fecur’d from humane fight. 
 
 But Itupid England touch’d with no remorfe. 
 
 Beholds thefe Prodigies as things of courfe. 
 
 ( With many more, which to the Juft appear’d 
 As ominous Prefages. ) Then who fear’d 
 The Monfters of the Caledonian Woods, 
 
 Or the hid ferments of Schematic Crowds ? 
 
 Nor had the impious Cromwel then a Name, 
 
 For England's Ruin, and for England's Shame. 
 
 Nor were the Gods pleas’d only to exhort 
 By figns the reftive City and the Court. 
 
 Th’ impending Fates o’r all the Thickets reign’d. 
 
 And Ruin to the Englijh Wood proclaim’d. 
 
 We faw the fturdy Oaks of monftrous growth, 
 
 Whofe fpreading roots fix’d in their native Earth, 
 
 Where for a thoufand years in peace they grew. 
 
 Torn from the Soil, though none but Zeph'rus blew. 
 
 But who fuch violent Outrages could find 
 To be th’ effetts of the foft Weftern wind? 
 
 The Dryads faw the right hand of the Gods 
 O’rturn the nobleft fhelters of the Woods. 
 
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 Orhers their Arms with baneful leaves were clad. 
 
 That new unufual Forms and Colours had, 
 
 Whence now no Aromatic moifture flows. 
 
 Or noble Mijjfeltoe enrich the boughs. 
 
 But bow’d with Galls, within whole boding hulls 
 Lurk’d Flies, diviners of enfuing ills. 
 
 Whofe fatal buz did future (laughters threat, 
 
 And confus’d murmurs full of dread, repeat. 
 
 When no rude winds difturb’d the ambient Air, 
 
 The Trees, as weary of repole, made war. 
 
 With horrid noife grappling their knotty Arms, 
 
 Like meeting Tides they ruffle into Storms ; 
 
 But when the Winds to ratling Tempefts rile, 
 
 Inftead of warring Trees we heard the Cries 
 Of warring Men, whofe dying Groans around 
 The. Woods and mournful Echo’s did refound. 
 
 The difmal Shades with Birds obfeene were fill’d, 
 Which, fpight of Pk&bus, he himfelf beheld. 
 
 On the wild Alhes tops the Bats and Owls, 
 
 With all night, ominous and baneful Fowls 
 Sate brooding, while the Scrieches of thefe Droves 
 Prophan’d and violated all the Groves. 
 
 If ought that Poets do relate be true, 
 
 The ftrange Spinturnix led the feather’d crew. 
 
 Of all the Monfters of the Earth and Air 
 Spinturnix bears the cruelft Character. 
 
 The barbarous Bird to mortal Eyes unknown 
 Is ieen but by the Goddeffes alone : 
 
 And then they tremble ; for (he always bodes 
 Some fatal Difcord, even among the Gods. 
 
 But that which gave more wonder than the reft, 
 Within an Alh a Serpent built her neft, 
 
 And laid her Eggs; when once, to come beneath 
 The very fhadow of an Alh, was death : 
 
 Rather, if Chance fhould force, fhe through the Fire 
 From its fain Leaves fo baneful, would retire. 
 
 But none of all the Sylvan Prodigies 
 Did more furprife the Rural Deities, 
 
 Than when the Lightning did the Laurel blaft, 
 
 The Lightning their lov’d Laurels all defac’d : 
 
 The Laurel, which by Joves Divine Decree 
 Since ancient time from injuring Tempefts free 5 
 No angry threats from the celeftial powers 
 Could make her fear the ruin of her Bowers: 
 
 But always fhe enjoy’d a certain Fate, 
 
 Which ffle cou’d ne’r fecure the Vidor yet. 
 
 In vain thefe Signs and Monfters were not fent 
 From angry Heav’n ; the wife knew what they meant. 
 Their coming by Conjectures underftood. 
 
 As did the Dryads of the Britifo wood. 
 
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 The Foreft of There is an ancient Foreft 'known to fame; 
 
 On this fide feparate from the Cambrian Plain 
 By wandering Wye; whofe Winding Current glides, 
 
 And murmuring Leaves behind its tlo wry fides. 
 
 On that, ’cis walk’d by nobler Severn's it reams 
 Whofe Beauties lcarce will yield to famous Thames, 
 
 Of Yore ’ewas Arden call’d, but that great Name, 
 
 4s like her felf diminilh’d, into -Dean. 
 
 The curfed Weapons of dellrudtive War 
 In all their Cruelties have made her lliare; 
 
 The Iron has its nobleft Shades deRroy’d, 
 
 Then to melt Iron is its Wood employ’d 5 v 
 
 And fo unhappy ’cis as it prefents 
 Of its own Death the fataL InRruments. 
 
 With InduRry its ruin to rmprove 
 Bears Minerals below, and Trees above. 
 
 Oh Poverty ! thou happinefs extreme, 
 
 (*When no aftli&ing want can intervene ) 
 
 And oh thou fubtle Trcafure of the Earth, 
 
 From whence all Rapes and Mifchiefs take their birth ; 
 
 And you, triumphing Woods, fecur’d from fpoil 
 By the fafe bldling of your barren Soil. 
 
 Here, unconfum’d, how final! a part remains 
 Of that rich Store that once adorn’d the Plains, 
 x ' Yet that fmali part that has efcap’d the Ire 
 
 Of lawlefs Steel, and avaritious Fire, 
 
 By many Nymphs and Deities pofTeft 
 
 Of all the Britifl? lliadcs continues Rill the beR. 
 
 Here the long Reverend Dryas ( who had been 
 Of all the fhady verdant Regions Queen, 
 
 To which by ConqueR fhe had forc’d the Sea 
 His conRant tributary Waves to pay ) 
 
 Proclaim’d a general Council through her Court 
 c jo which the Sylvan Nymphs fliou’d all refort. 
 
 All the Wood'Goddcfles do Rrait appear, 
 
 At leaR who cou’d the Britijh Climate bear, 
 
 And on a foft afeent of rifmg Ground 
 
 Their Queen, their charming Dryas they furround, 
 
 Who all adorn’d was in the middle plac’d. 
 
 And by a thoufand awful Beauties grac’d. 
 
 Thefe GoddeRes alike were dreR in Green, 
 
 The Ornaments and Liveries of their Queen. 
 
 Had Travellers at any diRance view’d 
 The beauteous Order of this Rarely Crowd, 
 
 They wou’d not guefs they’d been Divinities, 
 
 But Groves all facred to the Deities. 
 
 Such was the Image of this leafy Scene, 
 
 On one Rde water’d by a cooling Stream, 
 
 Upon whofe brink the Poplar took her place, 
 
 The Poplar whom Alcides once did grace. 
 
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 Whole double colour’d fhadow’d Leaves exprefs 
 The Labouis of her Hero Hercules : 
 
 Whole upper fides are black, the under white 
 To reprefent his Toil and his Delight. 
 
 The Phaeton i an Alder next took Place, 
 
 Still fenfible of the burnt Youths difgrace, 
 
 She loves the purling Streams, and often Laves 
 Beneath the Floods, and wantons with the Waves- 
 Clofe by her fide the Penfive Willows join’d, 
 
 Chad Sifters all, to Lovers moft unkind. 
 
 * Oleficar piavs call’d, in Youth fevere 
 Before the Winter age had fnow’d their Hair. 
 
 In Rivers take delight, whofe chilling Streams, 
 
 Mixt with the native coldnefs of their Veins, 
 
 Like Salamanders can all Heat remove, 
 
 And quite exdnguifh the quick fire of Love. 
 
 Firm lading Bonds they yield to all befide, 
 
 But take delight the Lovers to divide. 
 
 The Elders next, who though they Waters love 
 The fame from Humane Bodies yet remove. 
 
 And quite difperfe the humid moifture thence, 
 
 And parly with the Dropfie in this fenfe. 
 
 4< Why do you linger here, O lazy Flood ? 
 
 “ This Soil belongs to Ri volets of Blood. 
 
 “ Why do you Men torment, when many a fhade, 
 
 “ And honed Trees and Plants do want your Aid ? 
 
 “ Begon, from Humane Bodies quick begon, 
 
 <c And back into your native Channels run 
 i( By every Pore, by all the ways you can. 
 
 The Moifture frightned flies at the command, 
 
 And awful terror of her powerful wand. 
 
 The v HofpitabIe Birch does next appear, 
 
 Joyful and Gay in hoc or frigid Air, 
 
 Flowing her Hair, her Garmenrs Toft and white, 
 
 And yet in Cruelty fhe takes delight, 
 
 No wild Inhabitant of the Woods can be 
 So quick in Wrath, and in Revenge as fhe; 
 
 In Houfes great Authority aftumes, 
 
 And’s the foie punifher of petty Crimes. 
 
 But moft of all her Malice Hie employs 
 In Schools, to terrific and awe young Boys, 
 
 If ihe chaftife, *cis for the Patients good, 
 
 Though ole fhe blulhes with their tender Blood. 
 
 Not To the generous Maples; they prefent 
 What e’r the City Luxury can invent. 
 
 Who with induftnous Management and Pains 
 Divide the Labyrinth of their curious Grains, 
 
 And many neceftary things produce, 
 
 That ferve at once for Ornament and life. 
 
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 ♦ That is, a 
 Tribe which 
 early drops 
 its Seed j or 
 which is an 
 Enemy to 
 Vcnery, 
 
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 Of T L A &CTS. Boo kVI. 
 
 The Elm. But thou, O Pteleas , to the Swain allows 
 Shades to his Cartel, Timber for his Plows, 
 
 Ennobled thou above the leafie Race 
 Bacchus , or the In that an Amorous God does thee embrace. 
 
 VlM ' Next the Oxias of her felf a Grove, 
 
 The Btech. Whole fpreading fhade the Flocks and Shepherds love. 
 Whether thy murmurs do to deep invite, 
 
 Or thy foft noife infpire the rural Pipe ; 
 
 Alike thou’rt grateful, and canR always charm, 
 
 In Summer cooling, and in Winter warm. 
 
 Tityrus of yore the Nymph with Garlands hung, 
 
 And all his Love-lays in her lhadow fung. 
 
 ! ,v . When firft the infant-World her reign began. 
 
 Ere Pride and Luxury had corrupted Man, 
 
 Before for Gold the Earth they did invade. 
 
 The ufeful Houfhold-Ruff of Beech was made; 
 
 No other Plate the humble Side board dreR, 
 
 No other Bowls adorn’d the wholefom FeaR, 
 
 Which no voluptuous Cookery cou’d boaff. 
 
 The home-bred Kid or Lamb was all the coR. 
 
 The Mirth, the Innocence, and little Care, 
 
 Surpail the loaded Boards of high priz’d Fare. 
 
 There came no GueR for IntereR or Defign, 
 
 For guilty Love, fine Eating or rich Wine. 
 
 The Beechen-Rcwl without Debauch went round. 
 
 And was with harmlefs Mirth and Rofes crown’d : 
 
 In thefe '—the Ancients in their happy Rate 
 Their FcaRs and Banquets us’d to celebrate. 
 
 Fill’d to the Brim with uncorrupted Wine, 
 
 They made Libations to the Powers Divine 
 To keep ’em Bill benign, no Sacrifice 
 They need perform the angry Gods t’appeafe. 
 
 They knew no Crimes the Deities to offend. 
 
 But all their care was Rill to keep ’em kind. 
 
 No Poyfon ever did thofe Bowls infeR, 
 
 Securely here the Shepherd quench’d his third; 
 
 Twas not that any Vertue in the Wood 
 Againft the baneful Liquor was thought good. 
 
 But Poverty and Innocence were here 
 The Antidotes againR all Ills, and Fear. 
 
 Such was the Ajh, the Nymph was Melias nam’d. 
 For peaceful Ufe, and liberal Virtues fam’d: 
 
 But when Achilles Spear was of her Wood 
 Fatally form’d, and drank of He ft or' s Blood, 
 
 O wretched Glory ! O unhappy Power, 
 
 She loves the Rain, and neighbouring Floods no more, 
 No more the falling Showers delight her now. 
 
 She only thirRs to drink of bloody Dew. 
 
 Pbiljra* 
 
Book VI. Of TLA ,7fT S. 
 
 Philyra , not Inleriour to her Race, 
 
 For her Bel-taille , good Mien and handfom Grace, 
 For pious ufe, and noblefl Rudies fit, 
 
 Minerva here might exercife her wit, 
 
 And on the lafling Vellum which flic brings. 
 
 May in (mail Volumes write Seraphic things; 
 
 ’Mongfl all the Nymphs and Hamadryades, 
 
 There’s none fo fair, and fo adorn’d as this. 
 
 All foft her Body, Innocent and White, 
 
 In her Green flowing Hair flic takes delight, 
 
 Proud of her perfum’d Blofloms far lhe fpreads 
 Her lovely, charming, odoriferous Shades. 
 
 Her native Beauties even excelling Art ; 
 
 Her Vertues many Medicines Rill impart. 
 
 The dowry of each Plant in her does reR, 
 
 And lhe deferv’dly triumphs o’er the BeR. 
 
 Next her Orciwelis and Ac hr as Rood, 
 
 Whofe Offspring is a fharp and rigid Brood, 
 
 A Fruit no Scafon e’er cou’d work upon, 
 
 Not to be mellow’d by th’ all ripening Sun. 
 
 Hither the fair Amphibious Nymphs refort, 
 
 Who both in Woods and Gardens keep their Court, 
 The Ouas, but of no ignoble Fame, 
 
 Although Rie bears a bafe and fervile Name, 
 
 Sharp Oxyacantha , next the Mulberry Rood, 
 
 The Mulberry dy’d in haplcfs Lovers blood. 
 
 Craneia, a Nymph too lean to be admir’d, 
 
 But hard-gain’d Carya is by all defir’d, 
 
 The pretty Corylus fo neat and trim, 
 
 And Caflams with rough ungrateful Skin. 
 
 Thefe Nymphs of all their Race live rich and high, ’ 
 They taRe the City Garden Luxury, \ 
 
 And Woods their Country Villa s do fupply. 
 
 Nor was the Hawthorn abfent from this place. 
 All Soils are native to her harden’d Race, 
 
 Though her the Fields and Gardens do reject. 
 
 She with a thorny Hedge does both proted. 
 Helvetia rough with Cold and Stones RrR bred 
 The Nymph, who thence to other Climates fled, 
 
 Of her a warlike Rurdy Race was born, 
 
 Whofe drefs nor Court, nor City can adorn, 
 
 But with a faithful hand they bqth defend 
 While they upon no Garifon depend. 
 
 No fliow, or noifie Grandeur they afFed, 
 
 But to their TruR they’r conflant and exad : 
 
 Should you behold ’em rang’d in Battel-array, 
 
 All mufler’d in due order, you wou’d fay, J 
 
 That no Militia were fo fine and gay. 
 
 Let none the Ancients ralhly then reproach, 
 
 Who cut from hence the Hymeneal Torch. 
 
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 The Limnrer . 
 
 moi-pur and 
 Crab ■ apple. 
 
 Service-Trie. 
 
 Barberry. 
 
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 Piramus and 
 
 Lbkbc. 
 
 Cornelian-berry . 
 
 Wall-Nut. 
 
 Small Nuts. 
 
 Switzerland. 
 
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 Since they fuch lafeguards were gaind Thieves and Beads, 
 
 Which with an equal force their charge moleds. 
 
 And ’twas commanded they fliould always bear 
 Their watchful Twigs before the married Pair. 
 
 With the Helvetian Nymph, a pretty Train, 
 
 All her Companions to the Circle came. 
 
 The fruitful Bullae e drd, whofe Off-fpring are, 
 
 Though harfh and fharp, yet moderately fair. 
 
 The prickly Bramble , neat and lovely Rofe 
 So nice and coy, they never will difpofe 
 Their valu’d Favours, but fome wounds they give 
 To thofe who will their guarded Joys receive. 
 
 No lefs a Troop of thofe gay Nymphs were feen. 
 
 Who nobly flourilh in Eternal Green, 
 
 Unfubjeft to the Laws o’th’ changing Year, 
 
 They want no Aids of kindly Beams or Air. 
 
 But happy in their own peculiar Spring, 
 
 ' While the Pole weeps in fhowers, they laugh and fing. 
 
 The Box*trte. The generous Pyx/as , who a Conqued gains 
 Or armed Winter with her Had of Rains, 
 
 All Ages die fuddues : devouring Time 
 In vain endeavours to dedroy her prime; 
 
 Still in her Youth and Beauty die furvives. 
 
 When all the Spring is dead, die fmiles and lives : 
 t Yet though die’s obdinate to time, and dorms, 
 
 She’s kindly pliable to all curious Forms ; 
 
 To artful Madcrs die Obedience lends. 
 
 And to th’ ingenious hand with eafe die bends. 
 
 Into a thoufand True-loves knots die twines. 
 
 And with a verdant Wall the Flowers confines. 
 
 Still looking up with gay and youthful Love 
 To the triumphing Flow’rs that reign above. 
 
 Or if you pleafe, die will advance on high. 
 
 And with the lofty Trees her dature vie. 
 
 And chearfuily will any figure take, 
 
 Whether Man, or Lyon, or a Bird you make. 
 
 Or on her Trunk like a green Parrot fhow. 
 
 Or fometimes like a Hercules die grow : 
 
 And hence Praxiteles fair Statues forms. 
 
 When with Green Gods the Gardens he adorns. 
 
 Nor yet being dead does of lefs ufe appear 
 To the Indudrious Artificer: 
 
 From her the nobled Figures do arife, 
 
 And almod are Immortal Deities; 
 
 Of her the Berecynthian Pipe is made, 
 
 That charms its native Mountain and its diade, 
 
 That in fuch tuneful Harmonies exprefs 
 The Praifes of their Goddels Cibeles. 
 
 With this the lovely Females drefs their Hair, 
 j us oo . not j ea fl. p OVVer f u [ Beauty of the Fair, 
 
 Their nobled Ornament and th* Lovers fnare. 
 
 
B o o K VI. Of T L j hf T S. 
 
 This into form the beauteous Nets Hill lay 
 That the poor heedlefs Gazer does betray. 
 
 Agrias is content with eafier fpoils, 
 
 Onely for filly Birds lhe pitches toyls. 
 
 The wanton Bird lhe Hops upon the wing, 
 
 And can forbid the infolence of Men ; 
 
 With a Defence the Garden Hie fupplys, 
 
 And does perpetually delight the Eyes: 
 
 Her fliining Leaves a lovely green produce, 
 
 And lerve at once for Ornament and Ufe. 
 
 Deform’d December by her Pofie-boughs 
 All deck’d and dreH like joyful April (hows 
 Cold Winter days lhe both adorns and chears. 
 
 While lhe her conHant fpringing livery wears» 
 
 * Camaris , who in Winter give their Birth, 
 
 Not humbly creeping on the fervile Earth, 
 
 But rear aloft their nobler fruitful heads, 
 
 Whofe Sylvan food unhappy Janus feeds. 
 
 His hungry Appetite he here deHroys 
 
 And both his ravenous Mouths at once deHroys. 
 
 * Phillyrea , here and Pyracantha rife, 
 
 Whofe Beauty onely gratifies the Eyes 
 
 Of Gods and Men, no Banquets they afford 
 But to the welcome though unbidden Bird, 
 
 Here gratefully in Winter they repay 
 
 For all the Summer Songs that made their Groves fo gay. 
 
 Next came the melancholy Tew, who mourns 
 With filent Languor at the Warriers Urns, 
 
 See where lhe comes all in black lhadow veil’d. 
 
 Ah too unhappy Nymph on every fide afiail’d ! 
 
 Whom the Greek Poets and Hifiorians blame, 
 
 ( Deceiv’d by eafie faith and common fame) 
 
 Thee as a guilty poifoncr they prefent ; 
 
 Oh falle Aiperlers of the Innocent ! 
 
 If Poets may find credit when they fpeak, 
 
 ( At leafi all thofe who are not of the Greek ) 
 
 No baneful Poifon, no Malignant dew 
 Lurks in, or hangs about the harmlefs Tew, 
 
 No fecret mifehief dares the Nymph invade, 
 
 And thofe are fafe that Deep beneath her lhade. 
 
 * Nor thou Arceuthis, art an Enemy 
 To the loft Notes of charming Harmony. 
 
 FalHy the chief of Poets would perfuade 
 That Evil’s lodg’d in thy Eternal lhade. 
 
 Thy Aromatick lhade, whofe verdant Arms 
 Even thy own ufeful fruits fecures from harms ; 
 
 Many falfe Crimes to thee they attribute, 
 
 Wou’d no falfe Virtues too, they vvoud to thee impute. 
 
 But thou Sabina , my impartial Mufc 
 Cannot with any honefty excufe. 
 
 The Hotlj. 
 Hereof Eird- 
 timels made 
 
 * Strarvbtrry 
 
 Tree. 
 
 * Ever-green 
 Privit, and 
 prickly Ctrab 
 Tree. 
 
 * Juniprt 
 
 Tree. 
 
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 By thee, the fird new fparks of Life, not yet 
 Struck up to fhining flame to mature heat, 
 Sprinkled by thy moid Poifon fade and die, 
 
 Fatal Sabina Nymph of Infamy. 
 
 For this the Cyprefs thee Companion calls, 
 
 Who pioufly attends at Funerals: 
 
 But thou more barbarous, dod thy pow’r employ. 
 And even the unborn Innocent dedroy. 
 
 Like Fate dedrufrive thou, without remorfe, 
 
 While flie the Death of even the Ag’d deplores. 
 
 Such Cyparijfus was, that bafliful Boy, 
 
 Who was belov’d by the bright God of Day; 
 
 Of fuch a tender mind, fo foft a Bread:, 
 
 With fo compaflionate a Grief oppred, 
 
 For wounding his lov’d Dear, that down he lay 
 And wept, and pin’d his fighing Soul away. 
 
 Apollo pitying it, renew’d his fate 
 And to the Cyprefs did the Boy tranflate. 
 
 And gave his haplefs life a longer Date. 
 
 Then thus decreed the God and thou oh Tree, 
 
 Chief Mourner at all Funerals fliall be. 
 
 And fmee fo fmall a caufe fuch grief cou’d give, 
 
 Be’c dill thy Talent (pitying youth ) to grieve. 
 Sacred be thou in Pluto’s dark abodes. 
 
 For ever facred to th’ Infernal Gods! 
 
 This faid, well skill’d in truth he did bequeath 
 Eternal life to the dire Tree of Death, 
 
 A fubdancc that no Worm can e’r fubdue 
 Whofe never dying Leaves each Day renew, 
 
 Whofe Figures like afpiring dames dill rife. 
 
 And with a noble Pride falute the Skies. 
 
 Next the fair Nymph that Phoebus does adore. 
 But yet as nice and cold as heretofore: 
 
 She hates all fires, and with averfion dill 
 She chides and crackles if the dame fhe feel. 
 
 Yet though flies chad, the burning God no lefs 
 Adores, and makes his Love his Prophetefs. 
 
 And even the Murmurs of her fcorn do now 
 For joyful Sounds and happy Omens go. 
 
 Nor does the Humble, though the facrcd Tree 
 Fear wounds from any Earthly Enemy; 
 
 For file beholds when louded dorms abound. 
 
 The dying thunder of the Gods around, 
 
 Let all the darning Heav’ns threat as they will 
 Unmov’d th’ undaunted Nymph out braves it dill 
 Oh thou ! 
 
 Of all the woody Nations happied made 
 Thou greated Princefs of the fragrant fhade. 
 
 But fhou’d the Goddefs Dryas not allow 
 That Royal Title to thy Vertue due. 
 
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 At lead her judice mud this truth confefs 
 If not a Princefs, chou’rt a Prophetefs, 
 
 And all the Glories of immortal Fame 
 
 Which conquering Monarchs fo much drive to gain. 
 
 Is but at bed from thy triumphing Boughs 
 To reach a Garland to adorn their Brows, 
 
 And after Monarchs, Poets claim a fhare 
 As the next worthy thy priz’d wreaths to wear. 
 Among that number, do not me difdain, 
 
 Me, the mod humble of that glorious Train. 
 
 I by a double right thy Bounties claim, 
 
 Both from my Sex, and in Apollo's Name : 
 
 Let me with Sappho and Orinda be ) 
 
 Oh ever facred Nymph, adorn’d by thee ; S 
 
 And give my Verfes Immortality. S 
 
 The tall Elate next, and Peuce dood 
 The datelied Sider-Nymphs of all the wood. 
 
 The flying Winds lport with their flowing Hair, 
 While to the dewy Clouds their lofty heads they rear. 
 As mighty Hills above the Valleys fhow, > 
 
 And look with fcorn on the defeent below, C 
 
 So do thefe view the Mountains where they grow. ^ 
 So much above their humbler Tops they rife. 
 
 So dood the Giants that bedeg’d the Skies, 
 
 The terror of the Gods ! they having thrown 
 Huge OJfa on the Leafy Pelion , 
 
 The Firr with the proud Pine thus threatning dands 
 Lifting to Heav’n two hundred warring hands, ■ 
 
 In this vad profpefr they with eafe furvey 
 The various figur’d Land and boundlefs Sea, 
 
 With joy behold the Ships their timber builds. 
 
 How they’ve with Cities dor’d once fpacious Fields. 
 
 This Grove of F,nglijh Nymphs, this noble train 
 In a large Circle compafs in their Queen, 
 
 The Scepter bearing Dryas 
 
 Her Throne arifing Hillock where fhe fat 
 With all the Charms of Majedy and State, 
 
 With awful Grace the numbers fhe furvey’d. 
 
 Dealing around the favours of her fhade. 
 
 If I the voice of the loud winds cou’d cake 
 Which the re echoing Oaks do agitate, 
 
 ’Twou’d not fudice to celebrate thy Name 
 Oh facred Dr pas of Immortal Fame. 
 
 If we a faith can give Antiquity 
 
 That dngs of many Miracles, from thee 
 
 In the worlds Infant Age Mankind broke forth. 
 
 From thee the noble Race receiv’d their Birth ; 
 
 Thou then in a green tender Bark wert clad. 
 
 But in Deucalion's Age a rougher covert had. 
 
 The Traofla- 
 trefs in her 
 own Pcrfon 
 fpeaks. 
 
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 More hard and warm, with crutted white ail o’r, 
 
 As noble Authors fung in times of yore; 
 
 Approv’d by Tome, condemn’d and argu’d down 
 By the vain troop of Sophitts, and the Gown, 
 
 The fcotting Academy, and the Schools 
 Of Pyrrho 5 who Traditions over rule : 
 
 But let ’em doubt, yet they mufl grant this truth 
 Thofe Brawny Men that then the Earth brought forth. 
 Did on thy Acorns feed, and feaft and thrive 
 And with this wholfom Nourifhment furvive 
 In health and ttrength an equal Age with thee. 
 
 Secur’d from all the Banes of Luxury. 
 
 Oh happy Age ! oh Nymph Divinely good ! 
 
 That mak’ft thy {hade Mans houfe, thy fruit his food. 
 When onely Apples of the Wood did pafs 
 For noble Banquets fpread on Beds of Grafs. 
 
 Tables not yet by any Art debauch’d, 
 
 And fruit that ne’r the Grudgers hand reproach’d. 
 
 Thy Bounties Ceres were of little ufe. 
 
 And thy fwcet food ill Manners did produce : 
 
 Unluckily they did thy Virtues find 
 
 With that of the wild Boar and hunted Hind ; 
 
 With all wild Beads on which their Luxury prey’d. 
 While new defires their Appetites invade. 
 
 The Natures they partake of what they eat. 
 
 And falvage they become as was their Meat. 
 
 Hence the Republick of the world did ceafe, 
 
 Hence they might date the forfeit of their peace. 
 
 The common good was now peculiar made, 
 
 A generous Int’reft now. became a Trade, 
 
 And Men began their Neighbour’s rights t’ invade. 
 
 For now they meafur’d out their common ground. 
 
 And outrages commit t’ inlarge their Bound : 
 
 Their own feem’d defpicable, poor and fmall ; 
 
 Each wants more room and wou’d be Lord of all. 
 
 The Plowman with difdain his Field furveys, 
 
 Forfakes the Land, and plows the faithlefs Seas. 
 
 The Fool in thefe deep furrows feeks his gain, 
 Defpifing Dangers, and induring pain. 
 
 The facred Oak her peaceful Manfion leaves 
 Tranfplanted to the Mountains of the Waves. 
 
 Oh Dryas , Patron to th’induftrious kind, 
 
 If Man were wife and wou’d his fafety find ; 
 
 What perfed Blifs thy happy Shade wou’d give? 
 
 And Houfes that their Matters wou’d out-live. 
 
 All necettaries thou afFord’tt: alone 
 For harmlefs Innocence to live upon, 
 
 Strong yokes for Oxen, handles for the Plow, 
 
 What Husbandry requires thou dott allow ; 
 
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 But if the madnefs of defiring Gain, 
 
 Or wild* Ambition agitate the Brain, 
 
 Straight to a wandering Ship they Thee transfer. 
 
 And none more juftly ferves the Mariner. 
 
 Thou cutft the Air, doft on the waves reboun d 
 Wild Death and Fury raging all around, 
 
 Difdaining to behold the manag’d Wood, 
 
 Out-brave the Storms and baffle the rude Flood. 
 
 To Swine, O richeil Oak, thy Acorns leave, 
 
 And fearch for Man what e’er the Earth can give. 
 
 All that the fpacious Univerfe brings forth. 
 
 What Land and Sea conceals of any worth, 
 
 Bring Aromaticks from the diftant Eaft, 
 
 And Gold lo dangerous from the rifl’d Weft, 
 
 What e’er the boundlefs Appetite can feaft. 
 
 With thee the utmcfi: bounds of Earth w’ invade, 
 By thee the unlockr Orb is common made. 
 
 By thee 
 
 The great Republique of the World revives, 
 
 And o’er the Earth luxurious traffick thrives $ 
 
 If Argos Ship were valued at that rate 
 (Which Ancient Poets fo much celebrate, 
 
 From Neighbouring Colchos only bringing home 
 The Golden Fleece from Seas whofe T rafts Were known: 
 If of the dangers they fo much have (poke 
 ( More worthy fmiles) of the Cyanean Rock, 
 
 What Oceans then of Fame (hall thee fuffice? 
 
 What Waves of eloquence can fing thy Praife! 
 
 O facred Oak, that great Columbus bore 
 IO ! thou bearer of a happier Ore, 
 
 Than celebrated Argo did before. 
 
 And Drakes brave Oak that paft to Worlds unknown, 
 Whofe Toils, O Fhebus, were folike thy own 5 
 Who round the Earths vaft Globe triumphant rode, 
 Deferves the Celebration of a God. 
 
 O let the Pcgafean Ship no more 
 Be worfhipt on the too unworthy fhore. 
 
 After her watery life, let her become 
 A fixt Star fhining equal with the Ram. 
 
 Long frnce the Duty of a Star (hes done, 
 
 And round the Earth with guiding light has fhone. 
 
 Oh how has Nature bleft the Britifli Land, 
 
 Who both the valued Indies can command ! 
 
 What tho thy Banks the Cedars do not grace 
 Thofe lofty Beauties of fam’d Libanus . 
 
 The Pine, or Palm of Idumean Plaines, 
 
 Arabs rich Wood or its fweet fmelling Greens, 
 
 Or lovely Plantan whofe large leafy boughs 
 A pleafant and a noble fhade allows. 
 
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 She has thy warlike Groves and Mountains bleft 
 With fturdy Oak’s, ore all the World the beft, 
 
 And for the happy Iflands fure Defence 
 Has wall’d it with a Mote of Seas immenfe, * 
 
 While to declare her Safety and thy Pride, 
 
 With Oaken Ships that Sea is fortifi’d. 
 
 Nor was that Adoration vainly made, 
 
 Which to the Oak the Ancient Druids paid,* 
 
 • Who reafonably believed a God within, 
 
 Where fuch vaft wonders were produc’d and (een. 
 
 Nor was it the dull Piety alone. 
 
 And fu perdition o f our Albion , 
 
 Nor ignorance of the future Age, that paid 
 Honours Divine to thy furprifing (hade. 
 
 But they forefaw the Empire of the Sea, 
 
 Great Charles , (hould hold from the Triumphant Thee, 
 
 No wonder then that Age fhould thee Adore, 
 
 Who gav’ft out (acred Oracles heretofore, 
 
 The hidden pleafure of the Gods was then 
 In a hoarfe voice deliver’d out to Men. * 
 
 So vapors from Cyrrhean Caverns broke 
 Infpir’d Apollo's Prieftefs when (he fpoke. 
 
 While ravifht the fair Enthufiaftic (food, 
 
 Upon her Tripos , raging with the God. 
 
 So Prieft Infpir’d with facred fury (hook, 
 
 When the Winds ruffid the Dodonian Oak, 
 
 And toft their Branches, till a dreadful found 
 Of awful horror they proclaim around. 
 
 Like frantic Bacchanals $ and while they move 
 Poflefs with trembling all the facred Grove. 
 
 Their rifl’d leaves the tempeft bore away, 
 
 And their torn Boughs fcatter’don all (ides lay. 
 
 The tortur’d thicket knew not that there came 
 A God Triumphant in the Hurricane, 
 
 Till the wing’d winds with an amazing cry. 
 
 Deliver’d down the preffing Deity, 
 
 Whofe thundering voice ftrange lecrets did unfold, 
 
 And wond’rous things of Worlds to come he told. 
 
 But truths fo veil’d in obfcure Eloquence, 
 
 They ’muze the Adoring crowd with double fen fe. 
 
 But by Divine Decree the Oak no more. 
 
 Declares fecurity as heretofore, 
 
 With words, or voice, yet to the liffening Wood, 
 
 Her differing Murmurs (till are underftood : 
 
 For facred Divinations while the found, 
 
 Informs, all but Humanity, around -■ 
 
 Nor e’er did Dryas Murmur awful truth 
 More clear and plain, from her Prophetic mouth, 
 
 Than when (he fpoke to the Chaonian Wood, 
 
 While all the Groves with eager filence (food. 
 
Book VI. Of T LA t A£ TS. • 14.7 
 
 And with ere<ftcd Leaves rhemlclvcs difpofe, 
 
 To liften to the Language of her houghs. 
 
 You lee (oh my companions) that the Gods, 
 
 Threaten a dire Deftruftion to the Woods, 
 
 And to all human kind — the black portents 
 
 Are leen , of many linifter Events 5 
 
 But left their quick Approach too much fhould prefs, 
 
 ( Oh my aftonifh’d Nymphs) your Tendernefs, 
 
 The Gods command me to foretel your Doom, 
 
 And prepoliels ye with the Fate to come. 
 
 With heedful Reverence then their Wdl obferve, 
 
 And in your Barks «deep Chinks mV Words prelerve: 
 
 Believe me, Nymphs, nor is your Faith in vain, ) 
 
 This Oaken Trunk in which conceal'd, I am > 
 
 From a long Honored Ancient Lineage came, > 
 
 Who in the fam’d Dodonian Grove fir ft (poke, 
 
 When with aftonilh’d Awe the Sacred Valley (hook. 
 
 4 Know then that Brutus by unlucky Fate 
 4 Murdering his Sire, did bear an immortal Hate 
 4 To his own Kingdom, who’s ungrateful Ihore 
 * He leaves with Vows ne’er to reviiit more. 
 
 4 Then to Epirus a fad Exile came, 
 
 4 ( Unhappy Son who haft a Father flain, 
 
 ‘But happy Father of the BritiJJ) Name. ) 
 
 ‘ There by vi&orious Arms he did reftore 
 4 Thofe Scepters once the Race of Priam bore. 
 
 4 In their paternal Thrones his Kindred plac’d, 
 
 4 And by that Piety his fatal Crime defac’d. 
 
 4 There Jupiter difdain’dnot to relate 
 ‘Thorough an Oaken Mouth his future Fate. 
 
 4 Who for his Grandfire’s, great JEneas, fake 
 4 Upon the Royal Youth will pity take : 
 
 4 Whofe Toils to his fhall this Refemhlaoce bear 
 4 A long and tedious Wandring to endure. 
 
 4 *Tis laid the Deity-retaining Oak 
 4 Burlling her Bark, thus to the Hero fpoke, 
 
 4 Whofe Voice the Nymphs furpriz’d with awful Dread, 
 
 4 Who in Chaonian Groves inhabited. 
 
 4 Oh noble Trojan of great Sylvias Blood, 
 
 4 Haftefrom the Covert of this threatening Wood. 
 
 4 A Manfion here the Fates will not permit, 
 
 4 Vaft Toils and Dangers thou’rt to conquer yet, 
 
 4 Ere for a murder’d Father thou canft be 
 ‘Abfolv’d, tho innocently (lain by thee, 
 
 4 But much muft bear by Land, and much by Sea. 
 
 ‘Then arm thy folid mind, thy Virtues raife, 
 
 4 And thro’ thy rough Adventures cut new Ways, 
 
 4 Whofe End fhall ciown thee with immortal Bays. 
 
 4 Tho Hercules fo great a Fame atchiev’d, 
 c His Conquefts but to th’ Weftern Calcs arriv’d : 
 
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 ‘There finifh’d all his Glories and his Toils, 
 
 ‘ He wifh’d no more, nor fought more diftant Spoils. 
 
 ‘ But the great Labors which thou haft begun 
 c Muft, fearlefsof the Oceans Threats, go on. 
 c And this remember, at thy lunching forth, 
 
 ‘ To fet thy full fpread Sails againft the North. 
 c In Charles's Wain thy Fates are born above 
 ‘ Bright Stars defcended from thy Grandfire Jove, 
 
 4 Of motion certain, tho they flowly move. 
 
 5 The Bear too fhall affift thee in thy Courfe 
 c With all her Conftellations glittering Force. 
 i And as thou goeft, thy Right Hand (hall deftroy 
 ‘Twice fix Gomeritijh Tyrants in thy way. 
 
 ‘Tho exil’d from the World, difdain all Fear, 
 
 ‘ The Gods another World for thee prepare, 
 
 ‘ Which in the Bofom of the deep conceal’d 
 c From Ages paft, fhall be to thee reveal’d. 
 
 ‘Referv’d, O Brutus, to renown thy Fame, 
 c And fhall be blefs’d ftill with thy Race and Name. 
 
 6 All that the Air furrounds, the Fates decree 
 c To Brutus and JEneas Progeny, 
 c JEneas all the Land, and Brutus all the Sea. 
 
 This faid the God, from the Prophetick Oak, 
 
 Who ftretching out her Branches further fpoke : 
 
 ‘ Here fill thy Hands with Acorns from my Tree, 
 c Which in thy tedious Toils of ufe fhall be, 
 c And Witndfes of all I promife thee. 
 
 ‘ And when thy painful wandring fhall be o’er, 
 
 * And thou arriv’d on happy Britains fhore, 
 c Then in her fruitful Soil thefe Acorns fow, 
 
 ‘ Which to vaft Woods of mighty ufe fhall grow. 
 
 ‘Not their fhaonian Mother’s facred Name 
 ‘ Shall o’er the World be fung with greater Fame. 
 
 ‘ Then holy Druids thou fhalt confecrate, 
 c My Honor and ray Rites to celebrate. 
 
 ‘ Teutates in the facred Oak fhall grow, 
 
 ‘ To give blefs’d Omens of the Mijfeltoe. 
 
 Thus fpake the Oak — with reverend Awe believ’d. 
 
 And in no one Predi&ion was deceiv’d. 
 
 My Lineage from Chaonian Acorns came, 
 
 I two Defcents from thatfirft Parent am 5 
 And now Oraculous Truths to you proclaim. 
 
 My Grandam Oak her Blooming Beauties wore, 
 
 When firft the Danifh Fleet furpriz’d our Shore : 
 
 When Thor and Tuifco and the Saxon Gods 
 Were angry with their once belov’d Abodes, 
 
 Her Age two hundred years 5 a fnaall Account 
 To what our long-lived Numbers do amount. 
 
 Such Prodigies then (lie faw as we behold; 
 
 And fuch our Ruins, as their figns foretold. 
 
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 Now from the Caledonian Mountains came 
 New rifen Ciouds that cover’d all the Main, 
 
 The quiet Indeed regards her Bounds no more, 
 
 But drivn by Popular Winds ufurps the Shore, 3 
 In her wild Courfe a horrid Murmur yields, 
 
 And frightens with her Sound the Englifi Fields. 
 
 Nor did they hear in vain, or vainly fear 
 Thole raging Prologues to approaching War. 
 
 But Silver Showers did foon the Foe fubdue. 
 Weapons the Noble Englifi never knew. 
 
 The People, who for Peace fo lavifli were. 
 
 Did after buy the Merchandife more dear. 
 
 Curd Civil War even Peace betray’d to Guilt, 
 
 And made her blufh with the fird Blood was fpilt. 
 
 O cruel Omens of thofe future Woes, 
 
 Which now 7 (ate brooding in the Senate Houfe ! 
 
 That Den of Mifchief, where obfcur a fhe lyes, 
 
 And hides her purple Face from human Eyes. 
 
 The working Furies there, lay unreveal’d 
 Beneath the Privilege of the Houfe conceal’d. 
 
 There, by the Malice of the Great and Proud, 
 
 And unjuft Clamors of the frantick Crowd, 
 
 The Great, the Learned Strafford met his Fate, 
 
 O Sacred Innocence ! what can expiate 
 
 For guiltlefs Blood, but Blood } and much mud flow 
 
 Both from the Guilty and the Faultlefs too. 
 
 O Worcester , condemn’d by Fate to be 
 The Mournful Witnefsof ourMifery, 
 
 And to bewail our firfl Intedine Wars 
 By thy (oft Severn s Murmurs, and her Tears, 
 
 Wars that more formidable did appear 
 Even at th'eir End, than their Beginnings were. 
 
 Me to Kintonian Hills (omeGod convey. 
 
 That I the horrid Valley may Purvey 5 • 
 
 Which like a River feem’d of human Blood, 
 
 Swelld with the numerous Bodies of the Dead. 
 
 What Slaughters makes fierce Rupert round the Field, 
 Whole Conqueds Pious Charles with Sighs beheld j 
 And had not Fate the Courfe of Things forbade, 
 
 This Day an End of all our Woes had made. 
 
 But our Succefs the angry Gods controul, 
 
 And dopt our Peace of Glory near the Goal. 
 
 Where e’er the Britifi Empire did extend, 
 
 The Tyrant War with Barbarous Rigor reign’d, 
 
 From the remoted Parts it rifled Peace 
 Frpm the * Belerian Horn even to the Orcades . 
 
 The Fields opprefl, no joyful Harveds bear, 
 
 War ruin’d all the Product of the Year. 
 
 Unhappy Albioni by what Fury dung > 
 
 What Serpent of Eumnides has flung 
 
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 His Poifon th ro’ thy Veins? thou bleeds afl o’er. 
 Art all one Wound, one univerfal Gore. 
 
 Unhappy Newberry , I thy fatal Field, 
 
 ( Covered with mighty Slaughters, thrice beheld.) 
 
 In horrors thou Philippis Fields o.utvfd 
 Which twice the Civil Gore of Romans di’d. 
 
 Long mutrtal Lofs, and the alternate Weight 
 Of equal Slaughters, pois’d each others Fate. 
 Uncertain Ruin waver’d to and fro, 
 
 And knew not where to fix the deadly Blow 3 
 At lad in Northern Fields like Lightening broke 3 
 And Nijcby doubl’d every fatal Stroke. 
 
 But, Oh ye Gods, permit me not to tell 
 The Woes, that after this, the Land befel: 
 
 Oh, keep ’em to your felves, left they fhoud make 
 Humanity your Rites, and Shrines forfake: 
 
 To future Ages let ’em not be known, 
 
 For wretched England's Credit, and your own. 
 
 And take from me, ye Gods, Futurity, 
 
 And let my Oracles all filent lye. 
 
 Rather than by my Voice they (hou’d declare 
 The dire Events of England's Civil War. 
 
 And yet my Sight a confus’d Profpeft fills, 
 
 A Chaos all deform’d, a Heap of Ills 3 
 Such as no mortal Eyes cou’d e’r behold. 
 
 Such as no human Language can unfold. 
 
 But now 
 
 The Conquering evil Genius of the Wars, 
 
 The impious Viftor all before him bears 3 
 And oh, — behold the Sacred Vanquifh’d flies. 
 
 And tho in a Pie-bean s mean Difguife, 
 
 I know his God like Face 3 the Monarch lure 
 Did ne’er difl'emble till this fatal hour. 
 
 But oh he flies, diftreft, forlorn he flies. 
 
 And feeks his fafety ’mong his Enemies. 
 
 His Kingdoms all he finds hoftile to be. 
 
 No place to th’ vanquifh’d prores a San&u’ry. 
 
 Thus Royal Charles 
 
 From his own People cou’d no fafety gain, 
 
 Alas, the King ! ( their Gueft ) implores in vain. 
 
 The Pilot thus the burning Veflel leaves. 
 
 And trufts what moft he fears, the threatning Waves. 
 But oh the cruel Flood with rude Difdain 
 Throws him all ftruggling to the Flames again : 
 
 So did the Scots , alas, what fhou’d they do. 
 
 That Prize of War ( the Soldiers Intereft now ) 
 
 By Prayers and Threatnings back they ftrive to bring, 
 But the wife Scot will yield to no fuch thing 3 
 And England to retrieve him buys her King. 
 
 
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 Oh (hame to future Worlds! who did command, 
 
 As powerful Lord of all the Sea and Land, 
 
 Is now a Captive-Slave expofed to Sales 
 And Villany o’er Virtue muft prevail. 
 
 The Servant his bought Matter bears away, 
 
 Oh fhameful Purchafe of fo glorious Prey. 
 
 But yet, O Scotland, far be it from me, 
 
 To charge thee wholly with this Infamy 5 
 Thy Nations Virtues (hallreverfe that Fate, 
 
 And for the Criminal Few fhall expiate : 
 
 Yet for thefe Few the Innocent Reft muft feel, 
 
 The dire Effefts of the avenging Steel. 
 
 But now, by Laws to God and Man unknown, 
 Their Sovereign, Gods anointed they dethrone, 
 
 Who to the Ijle of \V7ght is Prifoner lent : 
 
 What Tongue, what cruel Hearts do not lament > 
 That thee, O Scotland, with juft Anger moves, 
 
 And Kent who valued Liberty fo loves 3 
 And thee, O Wales , of ftill as noble Fame, 
 
 As were the ancient Britains whence ye cam?. 
 
 But why (hould I diftindtly here relate 
 All I behold, the many Battels fought 
 Under the Condud ftill of angry Stars: 
 
 Their new-made Wounds and old ones turn’d to Scars 3 
 The Blood that did the trembling Ribla dy. 
 
 Stopping its frighted Stream that ftrove to fly. 
 
 Or thou, O Medway, fwell’d with Slaughters, born 
 Above the flowery Banks that did thee once adorn. 
 
 Or why, O Colche fier^ fhou d I rehear fe 
 Thy brave united Courage and thy Force, 
 
 Or Deaths of thofe illuftrious Men relate. 
 
 Who did with thee deferve a kinder Fate. 
 
 Or why the miferable Murders tell 
 Of Captives who by cooler Malice fell. 
 
 Nor to your Griefs will this Addition bring, 
 
 The fad Idea’s of a Martyred King; 
 
 A King who all the Wounds of Fortune bore, 
 
 Nor will his mournful Funerals deplore, # 
 
 • Left that Celeftial Piety (of Fame 
 O er all the World ) fhould my fad Accents blame. 
 
 Since Death he ftill efteem’d, howe’er ’t was given, 
 
 ‘ The greateft Good, andnobleft Gift of Heaven. 
 
 But I deplore Man’s wretched Wickednefs, 
 
 ( Oh horrid to beheard, or to exprefs. ) 
 
 Whom even Hell can ne’er enough torment 
 With her eternal Pains*and Punifhment; 
 
 But oh what do I fee ! alas they bring 
 Their Sacred Matter forth, their God-like King, 
 There on a Scaffold rais’d in folemn State, 
 
 And plac’d before the Royal Palace Gate, 
 
OfTL A^TS, Book VI. 
 
 ’Midft of his Empire the black Deed was done, < 
 
 While Day, and all the World were looking on. 
 
 By common Hangman’s Hands — Here ftopt the Oak, 
 
 When from the bottom of its Root there broke 
 A thoufand Sighs, which to the Sky (he lifts, 
 
 Burfting her folid Bark into a thoufand Clefts. 
 
 Each Branch her Tributary forrow gives. 
 
 And Tears run trickling from her mournful Leaves 3 
 Such numbers after rainy Nights they fhed, 
 
 When (howering Clouds that did furround her Head, 
 
 Are by the riling Goddefs of the Morn 
 Blown off, and hie before the approaching Sun. 
 
 At which the Troop of the Green Nymphs around 
 Ecchoing her* Sighs, in wailing Accents groan’d, 
 
 Whofe piercing founds from far were underftood. 
 
 And the loud Tempcft (hook the wondering Wood : 
 
 And then a cruel Silence did fucceed. 
 
 As in the gloomy Manfions of the Dead. 
 
 But after along awful Interval 
 Dryas aflunfd her fad Prophetick Tale. 
 
 Now Britany o’erwhelm’d with many a Wound, 
 
 Her Head lopt off, in her own Blood lies drown’d : 
 
 A horrid Carcafe, without Mind or Soul, 
 
 A Trunk not to be known, deform’d and foul. 
 
 And now whowou'd not hope there (hou’d have been 
 After fo much of Death, a quiet Scene: 
 
 Or rather with their Monarch’s Funeral 
 Eternal Sleep fhou’d not have feis’d ’em all. 
 
 But nothing lefs, for in the room of One, 
 
 Who govern’d juftly on his peaceful Throne, 
 
 A thoufand Heads fprung up, deform’d and bafe, 
 
 With a' tumultuous and ignoble Races 
 The vile, the vulgar Off-fpring of the Earth, 
 
 Infers of poifonous kinds, of monfterous Birth, 
 
 And ravenous Serpents now the Land infefl 3 
 And Cromwel viler yet than all the reft. 
 
 That Serpent even upon the Marrow preys. 
 
 Devouring Kingdoms with infatiate Jaws. 
 
 Now Right and Wrong ( mere Words confounded ly) 
 
 Rage Lets no Bounds to her Impiety 3 
 And having once tranfgreft the Rules of Shame, 
 
 Honor or Juftice counts an empty Name. 
 
 In every Street, as Paftimefor the Crowd, 
 
 E reded Scaffolds reek’d with Noble Blood. 
 
 Prifons were now th’ Apartments of the Brave, 
 
 Whom Tyranny commits, and only Death retrieve • 
 
 Whofe Paths were crowded ere the Morning dawn, 
 
 Some to the Dungeons, fome to Gibbets drawn. 
 
 But tir’d-out Cruelty paufesfor a while, 
 
 To take new Breath amidft her Barbarous Toil. 
 
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 So does not Avarice, fhe unwearied ftilJ, 
 
 Ne’er {tops her greedy Hand from doing ill * 
 
 The Warrior may a while his Spear forfake. 
 
 But Sequeftrators will no Refpit take. 
 
 What a long Race of Kings laid up with Care, 
 
 The Gifts of happy Peace, and Spoils of War, 
 
 What ever liberal Piety did prefent. 
 
 Or the Religion ( all magnificent ) 
 
 Of our Fore-fathers, to the Church had given, 
 
 And confecratcd to the Pow’rs of Heav’n, 
 
 Altars, or whatfo’er cou’d guilty be 
 Of tempting Wealth, or fatal Loyalty, 
 
 Was not enough to fatisfie the Rage 
 
 Of a few Earth-begotten Tyrants of the Age. 
 
 The impious Rout thought it a trivia! thing 
 To rob the Houfes of their God and King, 
 
 Their Sacrlege admitting of no Bound, 
 
 Rejoyc’d to lee 'em levell’d with the Ground $ 
 
 As if the Nation ( wicked and unjuft ) 
 
 Had even in Ruin found a certain Luft, 
 
 On every fide the labouring Hammers found. 
 
 And Strokes from mighty Hatchets do rebound : 
 
 On every fide the groaning Earth fuftains 
 
 The ponderous weight of Stones and wonderous Beams. 
 
 Fiercely they ply their Work, with fuch a noife, 
 
 As if fome mighty Stru&ure they wou’d raife 
 For the proud Tyrant 5 no, this clamorous Din 
 Is not for building but demolifhing. 
 
 —-When ( my Companions ) thefefad things you fee. 
 And each beholds the dead Beams of her Parent Tree, 
 Long fince repos’d in Palaces of Kings, 
 
 Torn down by furious Hands as ufelefs things. 
 
 Then know your Fate is come 5 thofe Hands that cou’d 
 From Houfes tear dead Beams, and long hewn Wood, 
 Thofe cruel Hands by unrefifted Force, 
 
 Will for your living Trunks find no remorfe. 
 
 Religion, which was great of old, commands. 
 
 No Woods fhou’d be profaned by impious Hands, 
 Thofe noble Seminaries for the Fleet, 
 
 Plantations that make Towns and Cities great : 
 
 Thofe Hopes of War, and Ornaments of Peace 
 Shou’d livefecure from any Outrages, 
 
 Which now the barbarous Conqueror will invade, 
 Tear up your Roots, and rifle all your (hade, 
 
 For gain they’ll fell you to the covetous Buyer, 
 
 A Sacrifice to every common Fire, 
 
 They’ll fpare no Race of Trees of any Age, 
 
 But murder infant Branches in their Rage : 
 
 Elms, Beeches, tender A(hes fhall be fell’d. 
 
 And even the Grey and Reverend Barkmuft yield : 
 
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 Thefoft,the murmuring Troop (hall be no more, 
 
 No more with Mufick charm as heretofore, 
 
 No more each little Bird (hall build her Houle, 
 
 And ling in her Hereditary Boughs, 
 
 But only Philomel (hall celebrate 
 In mournful Notes a new unhappy Fate: 
 
 The banifh’d Hamadryads rauft be gone, 
 
 And take their flight with fad, but filent Moan 5 
 For a Celeftial Being ne’er complains, 
 
 Whatever be her Grief, in noifie Strains. 
 
 The Wood-Gods fly, and whither (hall they go, 
 
 Not all the Britifh Orb can Icarce allow, 
 
 A Trunk fecure lor them to reft in now. 
 
 But yet thefe wildSaturnals (hall not laft. 
 
 Opprefling Vengeance follows on too faft$ 
 
 She (hakes her brandiftfd Steel, and ftill denies 
 Length to immoderate Rage and Cruelties. 
 
 Do not defpond, rtiy Nymphs, that wicked Birth ' 
 
 Th’ avenging Powers will chafe from off the Earth 5 
 Let ’em hew down the Woods, deftroy and burn. 
 
 And all the lofty Groves to Allies turn ; 
 
 Yet ftill there will dot want a Tree to yield 
 Timber enough old Tiburn to rebuild, 
 
 Where they may hang at laft 5 and this kind one 
 Shall then revenge the Woods of all their Wrong. 
 
 In the mean time ( for Fate not always (hows 
 A fwift complyance to our Wi(h and Vows ) 
 
 The Off-fpring of great Charles forlorn and poor. 
 
 And exil’d from their cruel native Shore, 
 
 Wander in foreign Kingdoms, where in vain 
 They feek thofe Aids, alas, they cannot gain 5 
 For ftill their prefling Fate purfues ’em hard. 
 
 And fcaree a place of Refuge will afford. 
 
 Oh pious Son of fuch a holy Sire ! 
 
 Who can enough thy Fortitude admire ? 
 
 How often toft by Storms of Land and Sea, 
 
 Yet unconcern’d thy Fate thou didft furvey. 
 
 And her Fatigues ftill underwent with Joy. 
 
 Oh Royal Youth, purfuethy juft Di(dain, 
 
 Let Fortune and her Furies frown in vain s 
 Till tir’d with her Injuftice (he give out, 
 
 And leaves her giddy Wheel for thee to turn about. 
 
 Then that great Scepter which no human Hand 
 From the tenacious Tyrant can command. 
 
 Scorning the bold IKurper to adorn. 
 
 Shall ripe and falling to thy Hand be born. 
 
 But oh, herowzes now before his time ! 
 
 Illuftrious Youth, whofe Bravery is a Grime, 
 
 Alas, what wilt thou do? Ah, why fo faft? 
 
 The Dice of Fate, alas, not yet arecaft. 
 
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Book VI. Of TLA [hfT S. 
 
 While thou all fire, fearlefs of future Harms, 
 
 And prodigal of life,aflumeft thy Arms. 
 
 And even provoking Fame he cuts his way 
 Through hoftile Fleets, and a rude Winters Sea, 
 
 But neither fhall his daring Courfe oppofe. 
 
 Evento thofe Shores fo very late his Foes, 
 
 And ftill to be fufpefted, but mean while 
 The Oliverian Demons of the Ifle, 
 
 With all Hells Deities, with Fury burn* 
 
 To fee great Charles preparing to return 3 
 They call up all their Winds of dreadful Force 
 In vain, to flop his facred Veffels courfe. 
 
 In vain their Storms a Ruinedo prepare, 
 
 For what Fate means to take peculiar care 3 
 And trembling find great Cefar fafe at Land, 
 
 By Heav’n conduced, not by Fortunes Hand. 
 
 But Scotland , you your King recal in vain, 
 
 While you your unchang’d Principles retain 3 
 But yet the time fhall come, when fome fmall (hare 
 Of Glory, that great Honor fhall confer, 
 
 When you a conquering Hero forth fhall guide. 
 
 While Heav’n and all the Stars are on his fide. 
 
 Who fhall the exil’d King in Peace recal, 
 
 And England's Genius be efteem’d by all : 
 
 But this, not yet my Nymphs, — but now’s the time. 
 When the illuflrious Heir of Fergus Line, 
 
 From full a hundred Kings, fhall mount the Throne, j 
 Who now the Temple enters, and at Scone , S 
 
 After the ancient manner he receives the Crown 3 * 
 
 But, oh, with no aufpicious Omens done. 
 
 The Left Hand of the Kingdom put it on. 
 
 But now th’ infulting Conqueror draws nigh, 
 Difturbing the Auguft Solemnity 3 
 When with Revenge and Indignation fir’d. 
 
 And by a Father's Murder well infpir’d, 
 
 The brave, the Royal Youth for War prepares, 
 
 O Heir moft worthy of thy hundred Scepter’d Anceftors: 
 With Thoughts all Glorious now he fallies forth3 
 Nor will he trufi: his Fortune in the North, 
 
 That Corner of his Realms, nor will his hade 
 Lazily wait till coming Winter’s paft 3 
 He fcorns that Aid, nor will he hope f oppofe 
 High Mountains gainft the Fury of his Foes, 
 
 Nor their furrounding Force will here engage, 
 
 Or day the Prefluresof a (hameful Siege ; 
 
 But boldly further on refolves f advance. 
 
 And give a generous Loofe to Fortunes Chance. 
 
 And fhut from diftant Tay he does eBay 
 To Thames , even with his Death to force his way. 
 
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 Behind he leaves his trembling Enemies, 
 
 Amaz’d at this Rupendous Enterprife. 
 
 And now the wiftfd for happy Day appears, 
 
 Sought for fo long by Britain’s Prayers and Tears 3 
 The King returns, and with a mighty Hand, 
 
 Avow’d Revenger of his Native Land. 
 
 And through a thoufand Dangers and Extremes, 
 
 Marches a Conqueror to Sabrina/ s Streams 3 
 ( Ah, wou’d to Heaven Sabrina had been Thames. ) 
 
 So wifh’d the King, but the perfuafive Force 
 Of kind miftaken Councils Ropt his Courfe. 
 
 Now, warlike England, rouze at thefe Alarms, 
 
 Provide your Horfes, and aflume your Arms, 
 
 And Jail on the Ufurper, now for fhame, 
 
 If Piety be not Pretence and Name 3 
 Advance the Work Heaven has fo well begun. 
 
 Revenge the Father, and reftore the Son. 
 
 No more le.t that old Cant deftru&ive be. 
 
 Religion, Liberty and Property. 
 
 No longer let that dear-bought Cheat delude, 
 
 ( Oh you too credulous, fenfelefs Multitude, ) 
 
 Words only form’d more eafily to enflave. 
 
 By every popular and pretending Knave. 
 
 But now your bleeding Land expe&s you fhou*d 
 Be wife, at the expence of fo much Blood 5 
 Rouze then, and with awaken’d Senfe prepare 
 To reap the Glory of this Holy War, 
 
 In which your King and Heaven have equal fhare. 
 
 His Right Divine let every Voice proclaim, 
 
 And a juft Ardor every Soul inRame. 
 
 But England’s evil Genius watchful (till 
 To ruin Virtue, and incourage III ; 
 
 Induftrious, even as Cromwel , to fubvert 
 Honor and Loyalty in every Heart 5 
 A baneful Drug of four fold Poifon makes, 
 
 And an infernal fleepy Afp he takes 
 Of cold and fearful Nature, adds to this 
 Opium that binds the Nerves with Lazinefs, 
 
 Mixt with the Venom of vile Avarice : 
 
 Which all the Spirits benum, as when y’ approach 
 The chilling wonderful Torpedo’s Touch. 
 
 Next Drops from Lethe’s Stream he does infufe, 
 
 And every Breft befprinkles with the Juice, 
 
 Till a deep Lethargy o’er all Britain came, 
 
 Who now forgot their Safety and their Fame. 
 
 Yet Rill Greaf Charles’s Valour Rood theTeR 3 
 By F ortune tho forfaken and oppreR, 
 
 Witnefs the Purple of Sabrina s Stream, 
 
 And the Red Hill , not call’d fo now in vain. 
 
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 And Worfier thou, who didft the Mifery bear, 
 
 And faw’lfc the End of a long fatal War. 
 
 The Ring, tho vanquiftj’d, ftill his Fate outbraves. 
 
 And was the lad: the captiv’d City leaves. 
 
 Which from the Neighbouring Hills he docs Purvey, 
 
 Where round about his Bleeding Numbers lay. 
 
 He (aw ’em rifled by th’ intuiting Foe, 
 
 And fighs for thofe he cannot refcue now. 
 
 But yet his Troops will rally once again, 
 
 Thofe few efcap’d, all fcatter’d o’er the Plain 5 
 Difdain and Anger now refolves to try 
 How to repair this Days Fatality, 
 
 The King has fv/orn to conquer, or to dye. 
 
 Fkirby and WiUmot , Chiefs of mighty Fame, 
 
 With that bold lovely Youth, great Buckingham, 
 
 Fiercer than Lightening y to his Monarch dear, 
 
 That brave Achates worth JEtteas Care, 
 
 Applaud his great Kefolve 1 there's no delay 
 But toward the Foe in hafte they take their way, 
 
 Not by vain hopes of a new Vidory fir’d. 
 
 But by a kind Defpair alone infpir’d. 
 
 This was the King’s Refolve, and thofe great Few 
 Whom Glory taught to die, as well as to fubdue, 
 
 Who knew that Death and therepofing Grave 
 No Foes were to the Wretched or the Brave. 
 
 But oh this noble Courage did not reft 
 In each ungenerous unconfidering Breft, 
 
 They fearfully forfake their General, 
 
 Who now in vain the flying Cowards call. 
 
 Deaf to his Voice will no Obedience yield 3 y 
 But in their hafty Flight fcowr o’er the dreadful Field. 
 
 Oh vainly gallant Youth, what pitying God 
 Shall free thee from this Soul-oppreffing I ioad 
 Of Grief and Shame 5 abandon'd and betray’d 
 By perjur’d Slaves, whom thou haft fed and pay’d. 
 
 Preft with more Woes than mortal Force could bear. 
 
 And Fortune ftill refolv’d to be fevere. 
 
 But yet that God '■ ; 
 
 To whom no Wonders are impoftible ; 
 
 Will, to preferve thee, work a Miracle. 
 
 And for the facrcd Father’s Martyrdom 
 Will with a Crown reward the injur’d Son,J 
 While thou, great Charles, with a prevailing Pray’r 
 Doft to the Gods commend the fafety of thy Heir 3 
 And the Celeftial Court of Powers Divine 
 With one confent do in the Chorus joyn. 
 
 Bur why, oh why muft [ reveal the Doom, 
 
 (" Oh my Companions ) of the years to come 3 
 And why divulge the Myfteries that lye 
 Inroll’d long fince in Heav’ns vaft Treafury, 
 
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 In Chara&ers which no Dreamer can unfold, 
 
 Nor ever yet Prophetick Rapture told 3 
 Nor the fmall Fibres of the vi&im’d Beaft, 
 
 Or Birds which Sacred Auguries have expreft 5 
 
 No Stars, or any Divination Shows 
 
 Made My (lick by the Murmurs of the Boughs. 
 
 Yet I muft on, with a Divine Prefage, 
 
 And tell the Wonders of the coming Age. 
 
 In that far part where the rich Salop gains 
 An ample View o’er all the Weftern Plains, 
 
 A Grove appears, which Bofcobel they name. 
 
 Not known to Maps 3 a Grove of fcanty Fame, 
 
 Scarce any human thing does there intrude, 
 
 But it enjoys it felf in its own Solitude. 
 
 And yet henceforth no celebrated Shade, 
 
 Of all the Britijh Groves (hall be more Glorious made. 
 
 Near this obfcure and deftin’d happy Wood, 
 
 A Sacred Houle of lucky Omen flood, 
 
 White Lady call'd 5 and old Records relate 
 
 5 T was once * ■ — 
 
 To Men of Holy Orders confecrate ; 
 
 But to a Ring a Refuge now is made, 
 
 The firft that gives a wearied Monarch Bread. 
 
 Oh Prefent of a wonderous Excellence ! 
 
 That can relieve the Hunger of a Prince. 
 
 Fortune (hall here a better Face put on, 
 
 And here the Ring (hall firft the Ring lay down 3 
 Here he difmiffes all his Mourning Friends, 
 
 Whom to their kinder Stars he recommends. 
 
 With Eyes all drown’d in Tears, their Fate to fee, 
 
 But unconcern’d at his own Deftiny : 
 
 Here he puts off thole Ornaments he wore 
 Through all the Splendor of his Life before 5 
 Even his Blew Garter now he will difcharge. 
 
 Nor keep the Warlike Figure of Saint Qeorge , 
 
 That holy Champion now is vanquifh’d quite 5 
 Alas, the Dragon has fubdu’d the Rnight 3 
 His Crown, that reftlels weight of Glory now 
 Divefts a while from his more eafie Brow : 
 
 And all thofe charming Curls that did adorn 
 His Royal Head — thofe Jetty Curls are fhorn 3 
 Himfelf he cloaths in a coarfe Ruffet Weed, 
 
 Nor was the poor Man feign’d, but fo indeed 3 
 And now the greateft Ring the World e’er faw 
 Is fubjeft to the Houles ancient Law. 
 
 ( A Convent once, which Poverty did profefs. 
 
 Here, here puts off all worldly Pomp and Drefs, ) 
 
 And like a Monk a fad Adieu he takes 
 
 Of all his Friends, and thefalfe World forfakes. 
 
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 But yet ere long, even this humble State, 
 
 Alas, ilia 11 be denied him by his Fate, 
 
 She drives him forth even from this mean Abode, 
 
 Who wanders now a Hermit in the Wood, 
 
 Hungry and tir’d, to reft and feek his Food. 
 
 The dark and lonely Shade conceals the King, 
 
 Who feeds on Flowers., and drinks the murmuring Spring $ 
 More happy here than on a reftlefs Throne, 
 
 Cou’d he but call’d thofe Shades and Springs his own: 
 
 No longer Fate will that Repofe allow, ';’j 
 Who even of Earth it felf deprives him now* 
 
 A Tree will hardly here a Scat afford 1 - 
 
 Amidft her Boughs, to her abandon’d Lord. 
 
 Then (O my Nymphs) you who your Monarch love, 
 
 To fave your Darling, haften to that Groves 
 (Nor think I vain Propheticks do exprefs ) 
 
 In filence let each Nymph her Trunk poflefs* 
 
 O’er all the Woods and Plains let not a Tree 
 Be uninhabited by a Deity $ 
 
 While I the largeft Foreft-Qak infpire. 
 
 And with you to this Leafy Court retire. 
 
 There keep a faithful Watch each night and day, 
 
 And with ereded Heads the Fields furvey. 
 
 Left any impious Soldier pafs that way : 
 
 And (hou’d profanely touch .that Pledge of Heaven, 
 
 Which to our guarding Shade in charge was given: 
 
 Here then, my Nymphs, your King you fhall receive. 
 
 And fafety in your darkeft Coverts give. 
 
 But ha, what ruftick Swain is that 1 fee 
 Sleeping beneath the Shade of yonder Tree , 
 
 Upon whofe knotty Root he Jeans his Head, 
 
 And on the Moffy Ground has made his Bed ? 
 
 And why alone > Alas, fome Spy I fear. 
 
 For only fuch a Wretch would wander here. 
 
 Who even the Winds and Showers of Rain defies, 
 Out-daring all the Anger of the Skies. 
 
 Obferve his Face, fee his difordered Hait 
 Is ruffl’d by the Tempt ft-beaten Air. 
 
 Yet look what Tra&s of Grief haveag’d his Face, 
 
 Where hardly twenty years have run their Race, 
 
 Worn out with numerous Toils , and even in fleep 
 Sighs feem to heave his Breft, his Eyes to weep. 
 
 Nor is that Color of his Face his own, 
 
 That footy Veil, for fome Difguife put on, 
 
 To keep the Nobler Part from being known 5 
 For ’midft of all — fomething of Sacred Light 
 Beams forth, and does inform my wondering fight, 
 
 And now arifes to my View more bright. 
 
 Ha — can my Eyes deceive me, or am I 
 Atlaft no true prefaging Deity ? 
 
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 --Yes 5 tis the King ! his Image all Divine 
 Breaks thro’ that Cloud of Darknefs, and a Shine 
 
 Gilds all the footy Vizar ! but alas, 
 
 Who is’t approaches him with fuch a Pace ?\ 
 
 Oh-’tis no Tray tor, the juft God9 I find 
 Have ftill a pitying Care of human kind. 
 
 This is the Gallant, Loyal Carles , thrown 
 ( By the fame Wreck by which his King’s undone.) 
 Beneath our Shades, he comes in Pious Care 
 ( Oh happy Man ! than fromtvel happier far 
 On whom ill Fate this Honor does confer ) 
 
 He tells the King the Woods are overfpread 
 With Villains arm’d to fearch that Prize, his Head : 
 Now poorly fet to fale j — the Foe is nigh, 
 
 What (hall they do ? Ah whither (hall they By? 
 
 They from the danger hafty Counfel took. 
 
 And by fome God infpir’d, afeend my Oak, 
 
 My Oak, the largeft in the faithful Wood ; 
 
 Whom to receive I my glad Branches bow’d. 
 
 And for the King a Throne prepar’d, and fpread 
 My thicktft Leaves a Canopy o’er his Head. 
 
 The Mifleltoe commanded to afeend 
 Around his facred Perfon to attend, 
 
 (Oh happy Omen) ftraight it did obey, 
 
 The Sacred Mifleltoe attends with Joy. 
 
 Here without fear their proftrate Heads they bow. 
 
 The King is fafe beneath my fhelter now , 
 
 And you, my Nymphs, with awfulfilence may 
 Your Adorations to your Sovereign pay, 
 
 And cry, all hail, thou moft belov’d of Heaven, 
 
 To whom its chiefeft Attributes are given ; 
 
 But above all that God-like Fortitude, 
 
 That has the Malice of thy Fate fubdu’d. 
 
 All hail ! 
 
 Thou greateft now of Kings indeed, while yet 
 With all the Miferies of life befet, 
 
 Thy mighty mind cou’d Death nor Danger fear. 
 
 Nor yet even then of fafety cou d delpair. 
 
 This is the Virtue of a Monarch’s Soul, 
 
 Who above Fortunes reach can all her Turns controul* 
 Thus if Fate rob you of your Empires Sway, 
 
 You by this Fortitude take hers away 5 
 O brave Reprifal ! which the Gods prefer. 
 
 That makes you triumph o’er the Conqueror. 
 
 The Gods who one day will this Juftice do 
 Both make you Viftor and Triumpher too. 
 
 That Day’s at hand, O let that Day come on. 
 
 Wherein that wonderous Miracle (hall be (town : 
 
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 May its gay Morn be more than ufual bright, 
 
 And rife upon the World with new created Light 5 
 Or let that Star whofedazling Beams were hurl’d 
 Upon his Birth-Day, now inform the World, 
 
 That brave bold Conftellation, which in fight. 
 
 Of Mid-day’s Sun durfi: lift its Lamp of Light, 
 
 Now, happy Star again at Mid-day rife. 
 
 And with new Prodigies adorn the Skies 5 
 Great Charles again is born, Monkj, valiant Hand 
 At 1 aft delivers the long labouring Land. 
 
 This is the Month, Great Prince, muff bring you forth, 
 May pays her fragrant Tributes at your Birth, 
 
 This is the Month that’s due to you by Fate, 
 
 O Month moft Glorious, Month moft Fortunate: 
 When you between your Royal Brothers rode, 
 
 Amidft your fhining Train attended like lome God, 
 One would believe that all the World were met 
 To pay their Homage at your Sacred Feet. 
 
 The wandering Gazers, numberlefs as thefe, 
 
 Or as the Leaves on the vaft Foreft Trees. 
 
 He comes ! he comes ! they cry, while the loud Din 
 Refounds to Heaven : and then, Long live the King : 
 And fure the Shouts of their re-ecchoed Joys 
 Reach’d to the utmoft Bounds of diftant Seas, 
 
 Born by the flying Winds thro 1 yielding Air, 
 
 And ftrike the Foreign Shores with awful Fear. 
 
 O tis a wonderous Pleafure to be mad. 
 
 Such frantick Turns our Nation oft has had. 
 
 Permit it now ye Stoicks, ne’er till now. 
 
 The Frenzy you more juftly might allow, " 
 
 Since ’tis a joyful Fit that ends the Fears, 
 
 And wretched Fury of fo many years. 
 
 Nor will the Night her Sable Wings difplay 
 T’ obfcure the Luftre of fo bright a day. 
 
 At leaft the much tranfported Multitude 
 Permits not the darkGoddefs to intrude 5 
 The whole Ifle feem’d to burn with joyful Flames, 
 Whofe Rays gilt all the Face of Neighbouring Thames, 
 But how (hall I exprefsthe Vulgarsjoys, 
 
 Their Songs, their Feafts, their Laughter and their Cries 5 
 How Fountains run with the Vines precious Juice, 
 
 And fuch the flowing Rivers (hou’d produce. 
 
 Their Streams thericheftNe&ar fhould afford : 
 
 The Golden Age feems now again reftor’d. 
 
 See — fmiling Peace does her bright Face difplay, ? 
 Down thro’ the Air ferene (he cuts her way, f 
 
 Expels the Clouds, and rifes on the Day. J 
 
 Long exil’d from our Shores, new Joy fhe brings, 
 Embracing Albion with her Snowy Wings 5 
 
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 Of Noble Britjjl) Matrons brings along. 
 
 Plenty, fair Fame, and charming Modefty, 
 
 Pveligion, long (ince fled with Loyalty, 
 
 And in a decent Gaib the lovely Piety : 
 
 Juftice from Fraud and Perjury forc’d to fly 3 
 Learning, fine Arts, and generous Liberty. 
 
 Bled Liberty, thou faired in the Train, 
 
 And mod edeem’d in a jufl Prince’s Reign. 
 
 With thefe, as lov’d, Great Marj too return’d,’ 
 
 In her own Country who long Exile mourn'd. 
 
 You, RoyaNVlother ! you, whofe only Crime 
 Was loving Charles , and fharing Woes with him. 
 
 Now Heaven repays, tho flow, yet jufl and true. 
 
 For him Revenge, and jud Rewards for you. 
 
 Hail, mighty Queen, form’d by the Pow’rs divine, 
 The Shame of our weak Sex, and Pride of thine. 
 
 How well have you in either Fortune (hown. 
 
 In either, dill your Mind was all your own* 
 
 The giddy World roll’d round you long in vain. 
 
 Who fix’d in Virtues Centre dill remain. 
 
 And now, jud Prince ! thou thy great Mind (bait bring 
 To the true weighty Office of a King. 
 
 The gaping Wounds of War thyHand (hall cure. 
 
 Thy Royal Hand, gentle alike, and fure: 
 
 And by infenfible Degrees efface 
 Of foregone 111 the very Scars and Trace. 
 
 Force to the injur’d Law thou fhaltreflore. 
 
 And all that Majefly it own’d before. 
 
 Tbou long corrupted Manners (halt reclaim. 
 
 And Faith and Honor of the Englijb Name 5 
 Thus long-neglefred Gardens entertain 
 Their banifh’d Mafler, when return’d again. 
 
 All over-run with Weeds he finds, but foon 
 Luxuriant Branches carefully will prune. 
 
 The weaken’d Arms of the fick Vine he’ll raife. 
 
 And with kind Bands fudain the loofen’d Sprays. 
 
 Much does he plant, and much extirpate too. 
 
 And with his Art and Skill make all things new. 
 
 A Work immenfe, yet fweet, and which in future Days,^ 
 When the fair Trees their blooming Glories raife. 
 
 The happy Gardners Labor over-pays. 
 
 Cities and Towns, Creat Prince, thy Gardens be 
 With Labor cultivated, worthy Thee. 
 
 In decent Order thou dofl all difpofe : 
 
 Nor are the Woods, nor Rural Groves difdain’d 
 He who our Wants, who all our Breaches knows, 
 
 He all our drooping Fortunes has fudain’d. 
 
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 As young Colonies of Trees thou doft replace 
 Fth* empty Realms of our Arboreal Race 5 
 Nay, doft our Reign extend to future Days 3 
 And bleft Pofterity, fupinely laid, 
 
 Shall feaft and revel underneath thy Shade. 
 
 Cool Summer Arbors then thy Gift (halt be, 
 
 And their bright Winter Fires they’ll owe to thee 
 To thee thofe Beams their Palaces fuftain, 
 
 And all their floating Caftles on the Main. 
 
 Who knows, Great Prince, but thou this happy Day 
 For Towns and Navies mayft Foundations lay 
 After a thoufand years are roll’d away. 
 
 Reap thou thofe mighty Triumphs then which for thee grow. 
 And mighty Triumphs for fucceeding Ages fow : 
 
 Thou Glory’s craggy Top (halt firft efiay. 
 
 Divide the Clouds, and mark the (hining Way 5 
 To Fame’s bright Temples (halt thy Subjects guide, 
 
 Thy Brit ain s bold, almoft of Night deny’d. 
 
 The foaming Waves thy dread Commands (hall (lay, 
 
 Thy dread Commands the foaming Waves obey. 
 
 The watry World no Neptune owns but thee. 
 
 And thy three Kingdoms (hall thy Trident be. 
 
 What MadnefSjO Batavians ! you pofleft, 
 
 That the Sea’s Scepter you’d from Britain wreft, 
 
 Which Nature gave, whom (he with Floods has crown’d* 
 
 And fruitful Amphitrite embraces round 5 
 The reft oth’ World’s juft kifs’d by Amphitrite , 
 
 Albion (h* embraces, all her dear delight. 
 
 You fcarce th’ infulting Ocean can reftrairi, 
 
 Nor bear the Aflaults of the befieging Main* 
 
 YourGraafts and Mounds, and Trenches all in vain. 
 
 And yet, what fond Ambition fpurs you on > 
 
 You dare attempt to make the Seas your own. 
 
 O’er the vaft Ocean, which no Limit knows* 
 
 The narrow Laws of Ponds and Fens impofe: 
 
 But Charles his lively Valour this defies, 
 
 And this the fturdy Britifi Oak denies. 
 
 O’er empty Seas the fierce Batavian Fleet' 
 
 Sings Triumphs, while there was no Foe to meet. 
 
 But fear not, Belgian , he’ll not tarry long. 
 
 He’ll foon be here, and interrupt thy Song, 
 
 Too late thou’lt of thy hafty Joys complain, 
 
 And to thy Native Shores look back in vain. 
 
 Great Jams, as foon as the firft Whifper came, 
 
 Prodigal of his Life, and greedy but of Fame, 
 
 With eager hafte returns* as faft as they 
 After the dreadful Fight will run away. 
 
 And now the Joyful Engl/Jh from afar 
 Approaching faw the floating Belgian War. 
 
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 From long Eafi-lndy Voyage rich loadenhome, 
 
 When firft they make the happy Britijb Land, 
 
 The dear White Rocks, and Albion s Chalky Strand* 
 
 The way to all the reft, brave Rupert (how’d. 
 
 And thro* their Fleet cuts out his flaming Road, 
 Rupert, who now had ftubborn Fate inclin’d. 
 
 Heaven on his fide engaging, and the Wind : 
 
 Famous by Land and Sea 3 whole Valor foon 
 Blunts both the Horns of the Batavian Moon. 
 
 Next comes illuftrious and where he goes. 
 
 To Cowards leaves the Crowd of vulgar Foes, 
 
 To th’ Royal Sovereign's Deck he feems to grow. 
 Shakes his broad Sword,, and .fecks an equal Foe. 
 
 Nor did bold Opdatn s mighty Mind refufe 
 The dreadful Honor which ’twas Death tochufe. 
 
 Both Admirals with hafte for Fighrprepare, 
 
 The reft might ftand and gaze 3 themlelves a War. 
 
 O whither, whither, Opdatn i doft thou die? 
 
 Can this ra(h Valor pleafe the pow’rs on high: 
 
 It can’t, it won’t — or woud’ft thou proudly die 
 By fuch a mighty Hand? 00 Opdatn^ no: 
 
 Thy Fate’s to perifti b’ yet a nobler Foe. 
 
 Heav’n only, Opdatn 5 (hall thy Conqu’ror be, 
 
 A Labor worth its while, to conquer thee. 
 
 Heav’n (hall be there, to guard.its bed lav'd Houle;, 
 
 ' And juft Revenge inflift on all your broken Vows* 
 
 The mighty Ship a hundred Canons bore, 
 
 A hundred Canons which like Thunder roar* 
 
 Six times as many Men imShivers torn. 
 
 E’er one Broadfidc, or (ingle Shot ’t had born. 
 
 Is with a horrid Crack blown up to th* Sky 
 In Smoak and Flames o’er all the Ocean nigh. 
 
 Torn, half-burnt Limbs of Ships and Seamen fcatterd lie.’ 
 Whether a real Bolt from Heav’n was thrown 
 Among the guilty Wretches is not known, 
 
 Tho likely 3 tis : Atnboinds Wickednels, 
 
 And broken Peace and Oaths deferv’d no lels. 
 
 Or whether fatal Gunpowder it were 
 By fome unlucky Spark enkindled there 5 
 Even Chance, by Heaven dire&ed, is the Rod, 
 
 The fiery Shaft of an avenging God, 
 
 The flaming Wrack the hiffing Deep floats o*er. 
 
 Far, far away, almoft to either (hore. 
 
 Which ev’n from pious Foes wou’d pity draw, 
 
 A trembling pity, mixt with dreadful aw. 
 
 But pity yet fcarce any room can find, 
 
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 Ship grapples Ship, and. fink into the Main,, 
 
 The Orange carelels of loft OpdanAs Fate 
 Will next, To attack vi&oriqus Jams prepare, 
 
 Worthy to perifn at the Jelf fame rate, 
 
 But Englifh Guns fufficiqnt T^utlder bear 5 
 By Englifh Guns, and human Fire o’erppwr’d, 
 
 ’Tis quickly in the hifljing Waves devour’d.. 
 
 Three Ships befides are burnt, if Tame fay $ tme, 
 
 None of whofc bafer N^mes theGodfiefs knewi 
 As many more the Dolphin did fub^ue. 
 
 Their Decks in Show’rs of kindled Sulphur fteep. 
 
 And fend ’em flaming to th’ affrighted deep. 
 
 So burns a City, ftorm’d and fir’d by night, 
 
 The Shades are pierc’d with fuch a dreadful Light 5 
 Such dusky Globes of Flame around ’em broke 
 Through the dark Shadow of the Guns and Smoke. 
 
 Can Fire in Water then fuch Licence claim ? 
 
 Juftly the Water hides it (elf for fhame: 
 
 The dreadful Wrack outftretching far away 
 Vaft Ruins o’er its trembling Bofom lay 5 
 HereMafts and Rudders from their Veffels torn. 
 
 There Sails and Flags acrofs the Waves are-born, 
 
 A thoufand floating Bodies there appear, 
 
 As many half-dead Men lie groaning here. 
 
 If any where the Sea it felf’ s reveal’d 
 With horrid purple Tracks the azure Wave’s conceal’d. 
 All funk or took, ’twere tedious to relate, 
 
 And all the fad variety of Fate 
 One day produces — with what Art and Skill 
 Ev’n Chance ingenious feems, to fave or kill, 
 
 Tofpare, or to torment who e’er (he will, 
 
 The vulgar Deaths, below the Mule to heed 
 Not only Faith, but Number too exceed. 
 
 Three noble Youths by the fame fudden Death, 
 
 A brave Example co the World bequeath 5 
 Fam’d for high Birth, but Merits yet more high. 
 
 All at one fatal Moment’s Warning die, 
 
 Torn by one Shot, almoft one Body they. 
 
 Three Brothers in one Death confounded lay: 
 
 Who wou’d not Fortune harfti and barbarous call, 
 
 Yet Fortune was benign and kind withal, 
 
 For next to thefe — - 1 tremble dill with fear, 
 
 My Joys difturb’d while fuch a danger near, 
 
 Fearlefs, unhurt, the Royal Adm’ral flood, 
 
 Stunn’d with the Blow, and fprinkled with their Blood. 
 Fiercer he prefles on, while they retir’d, 
 
 He prefles on with Grief, and Anger fir’d. 
 
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 Nor longer can the Belgian Force engage 
 The Engiijh Valor, warm’d with double Rage. 
 
 Breaks with their Loffes, and a Caufe fo ill, 
 
 Their (hatter’d Fleet all the wide Ocean fill, 
 
 Till trembling Rhine opens his Harbors wide. 
 
 Seeing the Wretches from our Thunder fly: 
 
 From our hot Chafe their fhatter’d Fleet he’d hide, 
 
 And bends his conquer’d Horns as we go by. 
 
 Infacred Rage the Dryad this reveal’d, 
 
 Yet many future wond’rous things conceal’d , 
 
 But this to grace fome future Bard will ferve. 
 
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 A Bricot , fee Apricock. 
 
 Africans, Flos Africanus 89 
 Aguacata 12,3 
 
 Alder , Alms, 137 
 
 Almond , Amygdalus no 
 
 Amaranth, Amaranthns j o 3 
 
 Anemone 73 
 
 Anthemis, Leucanthemis 84 
 
 Anthora 8 5* 
 
 Antirrhinon ibid. 
 
 Apple-tree, Malus 117 
 
 Aprico octree, Malus Armenia , prcecox 
 
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 AJh, Fraxinus 138 
 
 Bacoua, Platanus Indica 1 ix 
 
 Barberry , Berleris 118,139 
 
 Barren-Wort, Epimedium 88 
 
 Bajlard- Dittany, Fraxine lla 88 
 
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 Bears Ear , Auricula ZJrji 7 1 
 
 Fagus, Oxyas 138- 
 
 Bell-flomrs, Campanula Convolvulus 86 
 Betony , Vettonica 2 
 
 Baum, Melijja 7 
 
 Bind- weed, Convolvulus 86 
 
 Birch-tree, Betula 137 
 
 Birth wort, Arifiolochia 4 6 
 
 Bitter* Wert, Gentiana 86 
 
 Blue- Bottle, Cyanus 84 
 
 Blue- Helmet- Flower, N aped us 8 5 
 
 Box-tree, Buxus 140 
 
 Cacao-Hut 1 2, 3 
 
 Calfs-Snout , Antirrhinon * 8 j 
 
 Campions , Lychnis 86 
 
 Candy-Tufts , Thlajpi 88 
 
 Canterbury-Beds , Trachelium 8 7 
 
 Catch Fly, Mufiipula 88 
 
 Celandine, Chelidonia 29, 30 
 
 Cherry-tree, Cerafus 1 1 3 
 
 Chefnut, Cajlanea 1 09 
 
 Chichlins, Lathy r us 9 r 
 
 Chocolate 1 2, 3 
 
 Chrifimas-F lower, Helleborus Niger 65 
 
 for £ 121 
 
 Coccus 
 
 Cochined 12.3 
 
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 Coral-tree , Pyracantha 141 
 
 Corn-Violet , looking- Glafs, Spe- 
 culum Veneris 8 5 
 
 Corneil Tree, or Cornelian- Berry , 6W- 
 t « 1 14, 1 39 
 
 Crrf£, Malus Jylveftris 139 
 
 Crown Imperial, Corona Imperialis 74 
 Currants , Bibes 1 1 8 
 
 Cyprefs , Cuprefjus 142 
 
 Dajfkdil, Narciffus. 7 2. 
 
 Dames-Violet, Hefperis 84 
 
 Dittany, Dillamnus 3 % 
 
 Dodder, CaJJyth a 9 
 
 Double Pellitory , Ptarmica 8 8 
 
 Ducky- Meat, Lens Palujlris 23 
 
 Elder-tree , Affe, Sambucus 137 
 
 £//#, Pteleas, Dlmus 138 
 
 Emonies, Anemone 73 
 
 Ever green Privet, P hilly rea 141 
 
 Eye-bright , Euphrafia 1 7 
 
 Felwort, Gentiana 8 6 
 
 Fennel- Flower, Nigella 87 
 
 Fir-tree, Abies, Elate 143 
 
 Fig-tree , jF/V«a* 1 1 8 
 
 Flower-de luce, Iris 7 7 
 
 Flower-Gentle , Amaranthus 103 
 
 Fox-Glove , Flos digitalis 8 7 
 
 French Marigolds, Flos Africanus 89 
 Gentian, Gentiana 86 
 
 Gidoflowcrs, Hefperis 84 
 
 E 70 .f Jo vis, Cary op by d us 100 
 
 Goats- Rue, Galega 86 
 
 Goofeberry , Grojfularia 1 j 8 
 
 R°fe> Campions, Lychnis 8 5 
 Gum-Ciflus , Lada 93 
 
 JFFaz»el’Nut, Corylus 1 08 
 
 Hearts Eafe, Viola tricolor 34 
 
 Heliotrope or Sun Flower 9 9 
 
 Helmet- Flower, Nap ell us 85 
 
 Holihock \ Malva hortenfls 89 
 
 Holly, Aquifolium 1 4 c 
 
 Hodi-Rofe , G/T/w 93 
 
 Hcvia 1 2 2 
 
 Jafmine, Jeffemin, Jafme, Jafminum 90 
 ImperialCrown, Corona Imperialis 74 
 Indian Creffcs, Najiurtium Indicum 87 
 
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 Indian Fig' tree, Ficus Indica 1 22 
 
 Indian Flowery Reed, Canna Indica, ib. 
 Jujube , Ziziphus 1 1 4 
 
 July- Flower, or G illy Flower 100 
 Juniper , Juniperus , Arce ut his 1 4 1 
 
 Larky- Heel, or Larks- Spur, Delphini- 
 um . , Confolida regalis 87,94 
 
 Laurel , Laurus 43, 141 
 
 Lemon, Malus Citria 1 1 2 
 
 Lettuce , LaBuca 16, 1 7 
 
 jLz/y, Lilium candidum 96 
 
 Lime-tree , Philyra , Tz/za 139 
 
 Lions-Mouth,Antirrhinon 85 
 
 Loofe-firife, Lyfimachia 8 6 
 
 Lote-tree , Lotus, 1 14 
 
 Love-Apple , Pomum Amoris 87 
 Lzz/ 2 - wort,RcreUa,vu\g.RofSoLzo,'2 1 
 Lupine , Lupinus 91 
 
 Maiden-Hair , Capillus Veneris 4 
 Mandrake, Mandragoras 9 r 
 
 Maple, Acer 137 
 
 Marigolds French, Flos Africanus 89 
 Marvel of Peru^Mirab. Peruvianum 89 
 Majlick:tree , Lentifcus 49 
 
 Meadow-Saffron , Bulbus Strangulato- 
 ri us 3 1 o I 
 
 Medlar tree, MeJ pilus 1 i 7 
 
 jVfef/tf 113 
 
 jVfz/f * Afplenium 1 5 
 
 jVfzzstf, Mentha 2 5 
 
 Miffeltoe , Vifcus Quernus 28 
 
 Allium Ulpicum 92 
 
 Monks- Hood, Napellus 85 
 
 Moufe- Ear, Auricula muris , Pilofella88 
 Mugwort, ArtemifiOf 3 6, 5 3 
 
 Mulberry, Morus 1 1 8, 139 
 
 Myrrh , Myrrha 5 5 
 
 Myrtle, Myrtus 117 
 
 Neclarin, Duracina, Rhodacena 1 1 3 
 Nut-trees, Corylus, Caftan. &C' 108, &c. 
 0 a\, Quercus 131,148 
 
 O/zz/e, Olea 1 1 5 
 
 Orange-tree, Malus Aurantia 91, 1 12 
 Pd/w, Palma 1 1 4 
 
 Pan fie, Viola flammea 84 
 
 PajJjon- flower, Maracott a, Flos Paf 92 
 Peach, Malum Perfluum 113 
 
 Pe t * /2- free, Pjrz&r 1 1 7 
 
 Pear everlafling, Pifnm perenne 91 
 Pellit ory , Pyrethrum 8 8 
 
 Penny-royal , Pulegium 3 7 
 
 Pew, Paeonia 78 
 
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 Pine-tree, Pinus , Peuce . 1 1 o 3 r 4 3 
 
 Piflacho, Piflacium j 1 1 
 
 Plantain , Plantago 40 
 
 Plumbs, Monoftea, Pruna 1 1 3 
 
 Pomegranate, Malus Punica 1 Iz 
 
 Poplar , Populus 136 
 
 Poppy, Papaver 97 
 
 Prickly Coral tree, Pyracantha 141 
 Privet , Phil/yrea ib. 
 
 Quince- tree, Malus Cydonia 117 
 Rocket, Eruca 56 
 
 Rofe,Rofa 41,80 
 
 Rofemary, Ros marinus 24 
 
 Ruffling Robin ^ Fennel- flow. Nigella 85 
 Saffron, Crocus 101 
 
 &zge, Salvia, 6 
 
 Sage-Rofe, Ciflus 90 
 
 Savin, Sabina 50, I41 
 
 Scarlet- Bean, Faba coccinea 9 1 
 
 Scurvy-grafs, Cochlearia 8 
 
 Service-tree, Sorbus 139 
 
 Snap-dragon, Antirrhinon 8 f 
 
 Sop e-Wort, Sap on aria 86 
 
 Sow-Bread, Cyclaminus 21, 21,88 
 Spider wort, Phalangium 89 
 
 Spleenwort , Afplenium 1 5* 
 
 Star Wort, Amellus, After Atticus 89 
 Strawberry-tree, Arbutus, Camaris 11 8, 
 
 M 1 
 
 Sun-dew, Rorclla, vulg. RoflSol. 20,2 1 
 Sun-flower, Flos Solis 99 
 
 Sweet Ciflus, Lada. 90 
 
 SWef William, Sweet John, Ar merius 8 8 
 Throat- Wort, Trachehus, F los Card. 8 7 
 77 */zp, Tulipa. 75 
 
 Tzz/ztf 122 
 
 Venus- Hair, ) Capillus Veneris a 
 
 Vine, Vitis 119 
 
 Violet, Viola 70 
 
 Virginian C limer, Paffi on- flower, Flos 
 Pajfionis, Maracotta 92, 
 
 Wall-nut, Juglans m 
 
 Water-Lily, Nymphaea i 3j 91 
 
 Way- Bred, Plantago 40 
 
 White- Lily, Lilium candidum 96 
 Willow, Salix j 3 7 
 
 Willow-herb, Lyfimachia 86 
 
 Winter-cherries,Veflcaria,Alhakengis 1 9 
 Wormwood, Abflnthium 1 1 
 
 Fellow Larky -heel fNaflurtium Indie. 8 7 
 Tew -tree. Taxus idi 
 
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