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 LIBRARY 
 
 THE 
 WORDSWORTH COLLECTION 
 
 FOUNDED BY 
 CYNTHIA MORGAN ST. JOHN 
 
 THE GIFT OF 
 VICTOR EMANUEL 
 
 OF THE CLASS OF I919 
 
Brathwaite's 
 Natures Embassie, 
 
Only 400 copies printed, a?id 50 on Large Paper. 
 This is No./lfl 
 
Natures Embaffie 
 
 Divine and Morall Satyres : Shepheards 
 
 Tales, both parts : Omphale : Odes, 
 
 or Philomels Tears, &c. 
 
 P,Y 
 
 R. BRATHWAITE. 
 
 BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE: 
 Printed by Robert Roberts, Strait Bar-Gate. 
 
 M,DCCCLXXVII. 
 
TO THE ACCO 
 
 PUSHED MIRROR OF TRVE 
 
 worth, S r . T. H. the elder, knight, pro- 
 feffed fauorer and furtherer of all free- 
 borne studies : continuance of 
 all happineffe. 
 
 »g^4pws§t^|| H en th e natures of men are 
 ^w^li^^o c ^ eere peruerted, then it is high 
 ' time for the Satyrift to pen fom- 
 thing which may diuert them 
 
 M31^&y^& from their impietie, and direcl, 
 them in the courfe and progreffe of Vertue ; vp- 
 pon which confideration, I, (as the meanefl Me- 
 nalchas that is able to play vpon an oaten pipe) 
 began prefently to defcribe the nature of Men, 
 made fo farre good by obferuation, as my weake 
 and immature iudgement could attaine vnto ; 
 meaning to make the Poets verfe an Axiome : 
 Scribimus indo6li, do6liq ; poemata paffim. 
 This thus difcuffed and weyed, I was long in 
 doubt to whom I fhould dedicate this vnfruit- 
 fidl vintage, rather gleanings, or who I fhould 
 
 A 2 fiie 
 
The Epiftle 
 
 file vnto for fancluarie, if the Jinifter Reader 
 (as who euer wrote without his Detra6lour) 
 fhould carpe at my labours. Wherefore fianding 
 longer in fufpence then the matter required, I 
 picked forth your felfe, mofl able to weaue an 
 Apologie for your friends defecls. Let not there- 
 fore the maleuolent cenfures of fuch men whofe 
 chiefeft eye-fores be other mens workes, and 
 whofe choifeft content is to blemifh them with 
 imperfections, receiue the leafl countenance 
 from you, whofe iudgement by giuing thefe my 
 labours approbation, fhal be a greater argument 
 of their merit, then their partiall cenfures fliall 
 argue their want. Hiparchion was graced as 
 well as Mufaeus, though the befl of his meafures 
 was but piping to the Mufes. For thepaines of 
 well-off ecled A uthors neuer faile of patrons 
 (at least amongfl ingenuous men) to protecl the, 
 of fauorites to fecond them, or guardians du- 
 ring their minoritie to fofter them. And fuch is 
 your integritie and true loue to learning, that 
 the meanefl fheepheard if he flie for refuge vn- 
 der your fhelter, fliall be accepted abotte the mea- 
 fure of his deferts, or meanes of his hopes. For 
 withotit queftion, if your acceptance did not far 
 exceed the height and weight of my Difcourfe, 
 Quid hie nifi vota fuperfunt ? there would no- 
 thing remaine for me, but to fall to my prayers, 
 
 in 
 
Dedicatorie. 
 
 in befeeching the kind & vnkind Reader (like 
 
 our penurious pamphlet Orator) to commiferate 
 
 my Treat if e, and in Jlead of a narration, to make 
 
 a publike fiLpplication : but being protected by the 
 
 Jingular care and prouiding eye of your fauours ; 
 
 — Maior fum quam cui potuit fortuna nocere. 
 
 I haue penned this fJiort Dif course, interwo- 
 
 uen with hiflory as well as poejie, for two things 
 
 fummarily, and efpecially for the first thereof. 
 
 The firft is the iniquitie of this prefent time 
 
 wherein we Hue: fo that Nature had either 
 
 time now to send an Ambaffage or neuer : fence 
 
 * Mulier formofa fuperne * A 'q ;. homines 
 
 . prodigia rerum 
 
 defimt in pifcem — maxima. 
 
 Such is the courfe of degenerate Nature, that 
 in a conceipt of her felfe fhe thinks fhe can mend 
 her felfe by being adorned with vnnaturalized 
 ornaments, which Nature neuer apparelled 
 her with. The fecond reafon is the motion of a 
 priuate friend of mine, whofe pleafure may com- 
 mand my whole meanes,yea my felfe to the vt- 
 termofl of my abilitie. Thefe reafons haue I 
 alledged, left my Preface fhould feeme naked of 
 Reafon, which were ridiculous to the reafonable 
 Reader, and to you efpecially, whofe matter itie in 
 arguments of this Qualitie, hath gained you a 
 deferued Opinion, enabled by Iudgement, of 
 power to counteruaile the cenfures of others leffe 
 
 iudicious. 
 
The Epiftle Dedicatorie. 
 
 iudicious. Thus tendring you the fruites of my 
 Reading compiled, and in manner digejled, not 
 out of felfe-conceit, but aime to publique good 
 intended, I reft. From myftudie. May 24. 
 
 Yours to difpofe 
 
 Richard Brathwayt. 
 
The di/iincl fubie£t of euery Satyre, contained 
 
 in either Section : with a?i exacl fnruey or dif- 
 
 play of allfuch Poems, as are couched 
 
 or 
 
 compiled within this Booke. 
 
 
 i. T~\ Egeneration, perfonated in Nature. 
 2. A_y Pleafure, in Pandora. 
 
 H 
 
 [5] 
 
 3. Ambition, in the Giants. 
 
 [11] 
 
 4. Vaine-glory, in Crcefus. 
 
 [16I 
 
 5. Crueltie, in AJliages. 
 
 [22] 
 
 6. Adulterie, in Clytemneflra. 
 
 [27] 
 
 7. Inceft, in Tereus. 
 
 [31] 
 
 8. Blafpemie, in Caligula. 
 
 [34] 
 
 9. Beggarie, in Hippias. 
 
 [41] 
 
 10. Miferie, in Taurus. 
 
 [49] 
 
 11. Hypocrifie, in Claudius. 
 
 [51] 
 
 12. Exceffe, in Philoxenus ; with three funerall E- 
 
 picedes, or Elegiack Seftiads. 
 
 [55] 
 
 Thefecond Section. 
 
 
 1. Sloth, in Elpenor. 
 
 [77] 
 
 2. Corruption, in Cornelia. 
 
 [82] 
 
 3. Atheifme, in Lucian. 
 
 [86] 
 
 4. Singularitie, in Steichorus. 
 
 [94] 
 
 5. Dotage, in Pigmalion. 
 
 [98] 
 
 6. Partialitie, in Pytheas. 
 
 [106] 
 
 7. Ingratitude, in Periander. 
 
 [108] 
 
 8. Flatterie, in Terpnus. 
 
 [ii4] 
 
 9. Epicurifme, in Epicurus. 
 
 [127] 
 
 10. Briberie, in Diagoras. 
 
 [i34] 
 
 
 In- 
 
ii. Inuention, in Triptolemus. 
 
 bst] 
 
 12. Difdaine, in Melonomus. 
 
 [141] 
 
 13. Idolatrie, in Protagoras. 
 
 [144] 
 
 14. Tyrannie, in Euryjleus. 
 
 [148] 
 
 15. Securitie, in Alcibiades. 
 
 [155] 
 
 16. Reuenge, in Perillus. 
 
 [160] 
 
 17. Mortalitie, in Agathocles. 
 
 [165] 
 
 18. In Nafonem Iuridicum. 
 
 
 Mythologia. 
 
 [168] 
 
 Two fliort moderne Satyres. 
 
 [170] 
 
 Paflorall tales, or Eglogues. 
 
 [175] 
 
 Ompkale, or the inconftant fhepheardeffe. 
 
 [263] 
 
 ODES. 
 
 
 1. The Trau ellour. 
 
 [289] 
 
 2. The Nightingale. 
 
 [292] 
 
 3. The Lapwing. 
 
 [293] 
 
 4. The Owle. 
 
 [295] 
 
 5. The Merlin. 
 
 [297] 
 
 6. The Swallow. 
 
 [299] 
 
 7. The fall of the leafe. 
 
 [301] 
 
 With two conclufiue Poems, entituled 
 
 Brittans 
 
 Bliffe. 
 
 [305] 
 
 And an Encomion to the Common Law : 
 
 or Arete- 
 
 nomia. 
 
 [307] 
 
LIFE AND WRITINGS 
 
 OF 
 
 RICHARD BRATHWAITE, 
 
 Author of "Natures Embassie." 
 
 F the Life and Works of Richard 
 Brathwaite, the author of the 
 present volume, all that it is now 
 desirable or possible to know has 
 been told by Haslewood* with such copious- 
 ness of detail, that the writer of any new 
 memoir has rather to sift and winnow what 
 has already been gathered and gleaned, than 
 to glean anything new of his own. 
 
 Richard Brathwaite, the great-grandfather 
 of our author, lived at and was owner of 
 Ambleside, in the barony of Kendal, in West- 
 moreland. His grandson, Thomas Brathwaite, 
 the father of the poet, purchased of John 
 Warcop, after a family possession of more than 
 
 * Barnabce Itinerarium, or Barnabee 's Journal ; by Richard 
 Brathwait, A.M. With a life of the Author, a Bibliographical 
 Introduction to the Itinerary, and a Catalogue of his Works. 
 Edited from the first Edition, by Joseph Haslewood. Lond. 
 1820 (only 125 copies printed). 
 
vi MEMOIR OF 
 
 three centuries, the manor of Warcop near 
 Appleby, and resided there probably until the 
 death of his own father, Robert Brathwaite, 
 when he became possessed of the paternal 
 estate of Burneshead. He married Dorothy, 
 daughter of Robert Bindloss, of Haulston, 
 Westmoreland. Of this marriage our poet, 
 Richard Brathwaite, was the fourth child 
 and the second son.* He is supposed to have 
 been born about the year 1588, at his father's 
 seat of Burneshead, above-named, in the parish 
 of KendaL In two or three copies of verses 
 addressed to the Alderman, to the Cottoneers, 
 and to the Worshipful Recorder of Kendal, f 
 he alludes to the latter place as the locality of 
 his birth. He may therefore be considered as 
 
 * Fuller particulars of the names, order of birth, and mar- 
 riages of the poet's elder brother and five sisters are sub- 
 joined for those who are interested in them : — 
 
 1. Agnes, who married Sir Thomas Lamplew, of Downby, 
 
 Cambridgeshire. 
 
 2. Thomas (afterwards knighted), married Elizabeth, 
 
 daughter of Sir John Dalston, of Dalston, Cumberland. 
 
 3. Alice, married Thomas Barton, of Whenby, Yorkshire. 
 
 4. Richard, the poet. 
 
 5. Dorothy, married Francis Salkeld, of Whitehall, Esquire. 
 
 6. Mary, married John Brisco, of Crofton, Esq. 
 
 7. Anne, married Alan Askoughe, of Richmond, Yorkshire. 
 
 Brathwaite's Description of a Good Wife, 1619, was in- 
 scribed " to his five equally affectionate Sisters, all vertuous 
 content." 
 
 t A Strappado for the Diuell, 1615, pp. 173-210. These 
 pieces contain some very curious local allusions. 
 
R. BRATHWATTE. vii 
 
 one of the worthies of Westmoreland, and the 
 father of the Lake Poets of that country, though 
 he had little else but the accident of his 
 dwelling-place in common with the three or 
 four distinguished writers who two centuries 
 later were destined to bear that designation. 
 
 In 1604, at the age of sixteen, Wood states 
 that Brathwaite became a gentleman-com- 
 moner of Oriel College, Oxford. Having 
 graduated here, and been very successful in a 
 college exercise, he was desirous of accepting 
 the encouragement and preferment that seemed 
 to open out to him, and to continue peacefully 
 in those hallowed cloisters the study of litera- 
 ture and poetry. His parents, however, de- 
 sired him to pursue the profession of the 
 Law,* and after a short stay at the sister 
 University of Cambridge, where his tutor was 
 Lancelot Andrews, afterwards bishop of Win- 
 chester, he began to devote himself rather 
 distastefully and reluctantly, to its 'brawling 
 courts' and 'dusky purlieux.' This restraint, 
 however, instead of forcing him into the vortex 
 of dissipation, seems to have rather deepened 
 his love of literature, and his 
 
 " Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse." , 
 
 In his Spiritval Spicerie (1638), he writes as 
 
 * He seems to allude to this in some speeches of Technis, 
 in the first Eglogue of his Shepheards Tales (see pp. 190-191 
 of the present volume). 
 
viii MEMOIR OF 
 
 follows :— "Amidst these disrelishing studies, 
 I bestowed much precious time in reviving in 
 mee the long-languishing spirit of Poetrie, 
 with other morall assayes ; which so highly 
 delighted mee, as they kept mee from affecting 
 that loose kind of libertie, which through 
 fulnesse of meanes and licentiousnesse of the 
 age, I saw so much followed and eagerly pur- 
 sued by many. This moved mee sometimes 
 to fit my buskin'd Muse for the Stage ; * with 
 other occasionall Presentments or Poems ; 
 which being free borne, and not mercenarie, 
 received gracefull acceptance of all such as 
 understood my ranke and qualitie. For so 
 happily had I crept into opinion by closing so 
 well with the temper and humour of the time, 
 as nothing was either presented by mee (at 
 the instancie of the noblest and most generous 
 wits and spirits of that time f) to the Stage, or 
 committed by me to the presse ; which past 
 not with good approvement in the estimate of 
 the world." 
 
 From the Inns of Court Brathwaite 
 seems to have adventured for a time among 
 the merchants, and finally to have left Court 
 and City to turn country squire, his parents 
 having settled a sufficient estate upon him. 
 
 * No dramatic piece of Brathwaite's of this early period is 
 known to be extant. 
 
 t William Shakespeare, perhaps (who was still living), or 
 ' rare Ben Jonson.' Who knows ? 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. ix 
 
 This resolution was taken soon after the death 
 of his father in 1610; an event which probably- 
 led to an arrangement by which possession 
 was given, at no very distant period, of the 
 landed property limited and assigned for his 
 use. Certain it is, the death of Brathwaite'S 
 father created some family differences, that 
 were only set right by the prudent intervention 
 of friends. BRATHWAITE specially refers to 
 this subject in the dedication to his uncle — a 
 certain Mr. Robert Bindloss — of his earliest 
 known printed work,* when speaking of "the 
 troubled course of our estates and the favour- 
 able regard you had of our attonement, which 
 is now so happily confirmed." In addressing 
 his elder brother he also alludes "J* to the same 
 subject : — "Our ciuill warres be now ended, 
 vnion in the sweete harmony of minde and 
 coniunction hath prevented the current of 
 ensuing faction," &c. 
 
 The full-title of Brathwaite'S maiden 
 publication is as follows : — 
 
 1. The Golden Fleece. Whereto bee annexed 
 two Elegies, Entitled Narcissvs Change. And 
 ^Esons Dotage. By Richard Brathvvayte% 
 
 * The Golden Fleece, by Richard Brathvvayte, Gentleman, 
 1611, p. 176. 
 
 t IMd, p. 178. 
 
 t It may here be remarked that the name of Brathwaite 
 was spelt by his contemporaries with as many capricious 
 variations as those of his more illustrious contemporaries 
 Dekker and Shakespeare, e. g. — Braithwaite, Braythwait, 
 
x MEMOIR OF ■ 
 
 Gentleman. London, Printed by W. S. for 
 Christopher Pursett dwelling in Holborne, neere 
 Staple Inne, 1611. Octavo. Sig. G. 8. 
 
 The Dedication, as we have seen, is to his 
 uncle Bindloss. The principal poem of The 
 Golden Fleece, including the Pieridum Invocatio, 
 &c, extends to forty pages, in six-line stanzas, 
 and annexed the two Elegies, of similar 
 measure. At sig. E. 3 appears a new title- 
 page ; this later portion of the work containing 
 "Sonnets or Madrigals. With the Art of 
 Poesie annexed thereunto by the same 
 Author," and being dedicated "to the worship- 
 fvll his approued brother Thomas Brathwaite, 
 Esquire." It is probable that while BRATH- 
 WAITE's " first-birth " was printing, the " pen- 
 sive tidings " announced the death of his 
 father ; and two stanzas follow addressed by 
 " the Authour to his disconsolate Brother." 
 The Sonnets or Madrigals are seven in number. 
 
 On the last page of sheet G the catch-word 
 ' The ' appears ; and there can be little doubt 
 the Art of Poesy was printed. In the two 
 copies, however, referred to by Haslewood, it 
 
 Braynthwayt, Branthwait, Braythwayte, Brathwayte, (as in 
 the title cited above), Brathwaite and Brathwait. The spelling 
 of his autograph is perfectly clear for " Brathwait" in three 
 extant specimens of 1629, 1663 and 1672 ; though in a fourth 
 specimen of the last-named date he has added a final e, and 
 writes it " Brathwaite." Between these two forms then, it 
 would appear, lies the choice : the rest are all incorrect. 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xi 
 
 was deficient, nor does it seem to have since 
 turned up in any. 
 
 Three years later (1614) BRATHWAITE pub- 
 lished 
 
 2. The Poets Willow : or the Passionate 
 Shepheard : With sundry delightfull, and no 
 lesse Passionate Sonnets: describing the passions 
 of a discontented and perplexed Lover. Diuers 
 compositions of verses concording as well with 
 the Lyricke, as the Anacreonticke measures ; 
 neuer before published: Being reduced into an 
 exact and distinct order of Metricall extractions. 
 Imprinted at London by John Beale, for 
 Samuel Rand, and are to be sold at his shop at 
 Holborne bridge, 1614. Sm. 8vo, 48 leaves. 
 
 The work is dedicated to one William 
 Ascham, a fellow-collegian, in six seven-line 
 stanzas signed with the author's name. Then 
 follows an Elegy on the death of Henry Prince 
 of Wales, which had been the theme of so 
 many of the poets of that time. The Poets 
 Willow, which gives its name to the volume, 
 is a pastoral in forty-four eleven-line stanzas, 
 preceded by a prose argument. Amatory 
 poems to Eliza and Dorinda form the remain- 
 der of the collection : the " Pensive thoughts 
 of Gastilio," in sapphics, is remarkable for its 
 novelty of measure. 
 
 His next book, published in the same year 
 (1614), Haslewood calls "an excellent little 
 
xii MEMOIR OF 
 
 work, written in animated language, and evi- 
 dently from the heart." Its full title is : 
 
 3. The Prodigals Teares : or his fare-well 
 to Vanity. A Treatise of Soueraigne Cordials 
 to the disconsolate Soule, surcharged with the 
 heavy burthen of his sinnes : Ministring matter 
 of remorse to the Impenitent, by the expression 
 of Gods Iudgements. By Richard Brathwait. 
 London, printed by N. O. for T. Gubbins, and 
 are to be sold at his Shop, neere Holborne Con- 
 duit, 1614. Small 8vo. pp. iv. 139. 
 
 Again in the same year was published 
 Brathwaite's fourth work — 
 
 4. The Schollers Medley, or an intermixt 
 Discourse vpon Historicall and Poeticall re- 
 lations By Richard Brathwayte Oxon. 
 
 London, printed by N. O. for George Norton, 
 and are to bee sold at his Shop neere Temple- 
 barre, 16 14.* 4to, 63 leaves. 
 
 It is in this work (p. 31) that BRATHWAITE 
 speaks of the intention then entertained by 
 his friend Thomas Heywood, the dramatist, to 
 write a general though summary description 
 of the Lives of the Poets. 
 
 There were two works published by BRATH- 
 WAITE in 161 5 : — 
 
 5. A Strappado for the Diuell. Epigrams 
 and Satyres alluding to the time, with diuers 
 
 * This original edition is now become very rare. The 
 book was reprinted, with additions and corrections, in 1638 
 (and again in 1652), under the title of "A. Survey of History." 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xiii 
 
 measures of no lesse delight. (i2mo, 16 
 unnumbered pages of prefatory matter, and 
 234 numbered pages.) 
 
 The title is followed by " the Authors 
 Anagram Richarde Brathwaite. Vertu 
 hath bar Credit." We have already had 
 occasion to quote from some pieces in this 
 work, as verifying the fact of the author's 
 birthplace being at or near Kendal. Mr. 
 Payne Collier says there is no work in English 
 which illustrates more fully and amusingly the 
 manners, occupations and opinions of the time 
 when it was written. In the lines " Upon the 
 General Sciolists or Poettasters of Britannie" 
 there is an interesting passage of encomium 
 on George Wither and William Browne. One 
 of the most amusing pieces in the collec- 
 tion, partly from its humour, but more from 
 its allusions, is entitled " Upon a Poet's Pal- 
 frey, lying in lavander for the discharge of 
 his provender : " it reminds us in some degree 
 of the Italian artist Bronzino's stanzas upon 
 a horse given to him by one of his patrons, 
 but never delivered. He alludes in the first 
 stanza to Richard Ill's exclamation of "A 
 horse, a kingdome for a horse" in Shakespeare, 
 and later on to Don Quixote (Shelton's trans- 
 lation of the first part of which had recently 
 been published) and his Rozinante, and to 
 Tamburlaine's exclamation, 
 
 " Holla, ye pamper'd jades of Asia," 
 
xiv MEMOIR OF 
 
 in Marlowe's play. Altogether The Poets 
 Palfrey, with its refrain 
 
 " If I had lived but in King Richards dayes,"— 
 " If I had lived but in Don Quixotes time," &c. 
 
 is one of Brathwaite's liveliest and happiest 
 productions. 
 
 6. Loves Labyrinth : or the true-Louers knot : 
 including the disastrous fals of two star-crost 
 Louers Pyramus & Thysbe. By Richard 
 Brathwayte. i2mo, 104 numbered pages and 
 5 supplementary unnumbered pages " To the 
 Reader." The pagination is distinct from that 
 of the previous work, but the printer's signa- 
 ture is continuous. The imprint is the same 
 in both : "At London printed by I. B. for 
 Richard Redmer and are to be sold at the West 
 dore of Pauls at the Starre. 161 5." 
 
 In some verses prefixed to Humphry Mill's 
 Nights Search, 1646, is a curious allusion to 
 the popularity of the earlier portion of this 
 double volume : — 
 
 If Dekker deckt with discipline and wit, 
 Gain'd praises by the Bell-man that he writ ; 
 Or laud on Brathwait waiting did abound, 
 When a Strappado for the dcvill he found, 
 Then may this Mill of Mills, by right of merit, 
 Equall, if not superior fame inherit. 
 
 Love's Labyrinth is a long poem in easy 
 heroic numbers ; and Haslewood pronounces 
 that whatever may be its imperfections, it is 
 " not discreditable as the production of early 
 youth." 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xv 
 
 Brathwaite first married in 1617, Frances 
 daughter of James Lawson, of Nesham, near 
 Darlington. The licence was dated May 2nd, 
 16 1 7, and the marriage ceremony took place 
 at Hurworth, a village about three miles from 
 Darlington, and in the parish of which Nesham 
 is situated. Six sons and three daughters 
 were the issue of this marriage ; John, the 
 youngest of the nine, was born 19th February, 
 1630. Brathwaite wrote of him in his 
 Whimsies* as follows : — 
 
 " Thou art my ninth, and by it I divine 
 That thou shalt live to love the Muses nine." 
 
 Whether this truly whimsical prophecy was 
 fulfilled or not, we cannot say. 
 
 To continue our list of the works of 
 Brathwaite. Two extremely curious vol- 
 umes from his pen issued from the press in 
 this year of his first marriage. The title-page 
 of the first is in itself a curiosity, and runs as 
 follows : — 
 
 7. A Solemne Loviall Disputation, Theoreticke 
 and Praclicke ; briefely Shadowing the Law 
 of Drinking ; together with the Solemnities 
 and Controversies occurring : Fully and freely 
 discussed according to the Civill Law. Which, 
 by the permission, priviledge and authority, of 
 that most noble and famous order in the Vni- 
 versity of Goddesse Potina ; Dionisius Bacchus 
 
 * See Art. 17. 
 
xvi MEMOIR OF 
 
 being then President, chief e Gossipper, and most 
 excellent Governour, Blasius Multibibus, alias 
 Drinkmuch. A singular proficient and most 
 qualifid Graduate in both the liberall Sciences 
 of Wine and Bear e ; in the Colledge of Hilarity, 
 hath publikely expounded to his most approved 
 and improved Fellow Pot-shots ; Touching the 
 houres before noone aitd after, usuall and law- 
 full. .... Faithfully rendred according to the 
 originall Latine Copie. OENOZYTHOPOLIS, at 
 the Signe of Red eyes. CIDIDCXVII. i2mo. 
 
 Prefixed is a spirited and minute engraved 
 title in two compartments, by Marshall, ex- 
 hibiting Wine-drinkers and Beer-drinkers.* 
 
 8. The Smoaking Age, or the man in the 
 mist : with the life and death of Tobacco. 
 Dedicated to those three renowned and im- 
 paralleVd Heroes, Captaine Whiff e, Captaine 
 Pipe and Captaine Snuffe. . . Divided into three 
 Sections. 
 
 i. The Birth of Tobacco. 
 
 2. Pluto's blessing to Tobacco. 
 
 3. Ti'mes complaint against Tobacco. 
 OENOZYTHOPOLIS. At the Signe of Teare- 
 Nose. CIDIDCXVII. 
 
 Prefixed is another engraved title from the 
 masterly burin of Marshall. There is a poem 
 at the end of this volume entitled " Chavcers 
 incensed Ghost," in which allusion is made to 
 
 * This was afterwards used as a frontispiece to the Antidote 
 against Melancholy, 1661, and a facsimile of it is given in 
 Ebsworth's Reprint of Choice Drollery, 1876. 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xvii 
 
 some Comments "shortly to bee published" on 
 "The Miller's Tale" and the "Wife of Bath"; 
 but which BRATHWAITE does not seem actu- 
 ally to have published until nearly half a 
 century later.* 
 
 At the end of Patrick Hannay's poem of 
 A Happy Husband (1619) appeared the follow- 
 ing piece by BRATHWAITE : 
 
 9. The Description of a good Wife : or, a 
 rare one amongst Women. Together with an 
 Exquisite discourse of Epitaphs, including the 
 choysest thereof Ancient or Moderne. By R. B. 
 Gent. Printed at London for Richard Redmer, 
 and are to be sold at his shop at the West end 
 of Saint Pauls Church. 16 19. i2mo. 
 
 The Essay on Epitaphs, in which he antici- 
 pated by nearly two centuries his fellow 
 countryman and poet of the Lake District, 
 William Wordsworth, bears a separate title, 
 with Brathwaite's full name, and an imprint 
 of the previous year — u By Richard Brathvvayte 
 Gent. Imprinted at London by fohn Beale. 
 1618." Among the obituary verses is " a 
 funerall Ode" in memory of his elder brother, 
 Thomas Brathwaite. 
 
 His next publication was : — 
 
 10. A new Spring shadowed in sundry 
 Pithie Poems. London, Printed by G. Eld, for 
 Thomas Bay lie, and are to be sold at his Shop 
 in the middle-row in Holborne, neere Staple- 
 
 * In 1665. Fide infra. 
 
xviii MEMOIR OF 
 
 Inne, 1619, 4to (containing E in fours, last 
 leaf blank). 
 
 There is a curious woodcut on the title, 
 representing a Well enclosed within spikes, and 
 various persons, male and female, filling their 
 pitchers from it. Besides some spirited and 
 harmonious lines entitled "Bound yet Free," 
 the collection has several small Poems, some 
 serious, some jocose. Haslewood considered it 
 "on thewhole,a curious and entertaining tract." 
 
 In 1620 appeared : — 
 
 11. Essaies vpon the Five Senses, with a 
 pit hie one vpon Detraction. . . By Rich. B rath- 
 way t Esquire. London, Printed by E. G.for 
 Richard Whittaker, and are to be sold at his 
 shop at the Kings head in Paules Church-yard. 
 1620. i2mo. 76 leaves. 
 
 At the end of this volume is the character 
 of " a Shrow," which is omitted in the Second 
 Edition, "revised and enlarged by the author," 
 published in 1635. 
 
 12. The Shepheards Tales. London, Printed 
 for Richard Whitaker, 162 1. 8vo, 25 leaves. 
 
 This was separately and subsequently pub- 
 lished, and is very rarely found bound up 
 with the work of which a facsimile reprint is 
 now offered to the reader, and in which a con- 
 tinuation of The Shepheard's Tales appeared, 
 viz. 
 
 1 3. (a) Natvres Embassie : or, the Wilde- 
 mans Measvres : Danced naked by twelue 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xix 
 
 Satyres, with sundry others continued in the 
 next Section. 
 
 Wilde men may dance wise measures ; Come then ho, 
 Though I be ivilde, my measures are not so. 
 
 (b) The Second Section of Divine and 
 M or all Satyres : With an Adivnct vpon the 
 precedent ; whereby the Argument with the 
 first cause of publishing these Satyres, be eui- 
 
 dently related. 
 
 (c) The Shepheards Tales* 
 
 (d) Omphale, or, the Inconstant Shephear- 
 desse. 
 
 (e) His Odes: or Philomels Teares. 
 These all bear the same imprint, "London, 
 
 Printed for Richard Whitaker. 1621." 
 
 The Satires are divided into two sections, 
 the first containing twelve and the other 
 eighteen, levelled against the common vices of 
 society, with illustrative examples from ancient 
 history. In the first satire on Degeneration 
 as personated in Nature, the following stanza 
 must clearly allude to one of the writings of 
 his contemporary, George Wither : — 
 
 But I will answer thee for all thy beautie : 
 If thou wilt be an Ape in gay attire, 
 Thou doest not execute that forme of dutie, 
 Which Nature at thy hand seemes to require : 
 Which not redrest, for all thy goodly port, 
 Thou must be stript, and ivhipt, and chastisd for't. 
 
 * He alludes in the Dedication to " a former part as yet 
 obscured." See Art. 12. 
 
xx MEMOIR OF 
 
 The " Sir T. H. the Elder, Kt," to whom 
 Natures Embassie is dedicated, Sir Egerton 
 Brydges* conjectures to be Sir Thomas Haw- 
 kins, of Nash Court near Faversham in Kent, 
 the translator of Horace, or his father. 
 
 The 1 2th & 13th Articles, i. e. Natures 
 Embassie with the addition of the separately- 
 printed first part of The Shepheards Tales, 
 were reissued together in 1623 with a new 
 title-page running as follows : 
 
 Shepheards Tales, containing Satyres, 
 Eglogves, and Odes. By R. B. Esquire. Lon- 
 don, Printed for Richard Whitaker. 1623. 
 
 The four other title-pages in the course of 
 the volume remain unaltered and severally 
 bear the date of 1621 as before. Shepheards 
 Tales, however, appears to have been considered 
 by the stationer a more taking title than 
 Natures Embassie to work off the copies still 
 remaining on his hands two years after the 
 original publication of that volume. Mr. 
 Payne Collier considers that "the volume dis- 
 plays much talent and possesses much variety," 
 and he selects for special commendation, as a 
 most lively and attractive performance," the 
 Shepheards Holy-day, reduced in apt measures 
 to Hobbinolls Galliard, or John to the May-pole. 
 The opening of this Musical Dialogue is very 
 spirited, and proceeds through many stanzas, 
 
 * Archaica, Part vi. (Lond. 1815, 4'°.) p. xvii. of Preface 
 to the reprint of Brathwaite's Essays upon the Five Senses. 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xxi 
 
 all very animated, and pleasantly descriptive 
 of country-life. In one of her replies the 
 Shepherdess is rather bold in her invitation, 
 and free in her talk. The book, and especially 
 this part of it, contains many allusions to 
 May-games and other country sports, and to 
 ancient customs, proverbs, &c, and is therefore 
 important to students, as throwing some light 
 on the England of Shakespeare's time. 
 
 A song in the Third Eglogue of the second 
 part of The Shepheards Tales is characteristic of 
 that period, and preserves the names of several 
 tunes or ditties now obsolete. 
 
 Roundelayes, 
 
 Irish-hayes, 
 Cogs and rongs and Peggie Ramsie, 
 
 Spaniletto, 
 
 The Venetto, 
 Iohn come kisse me, Wilsons fancie.* 
 
 The Odes (e) were reprinted in 1815, with 
 modernized spelling, at the Lee Priory Press, 
 by Sir Egerton Brydges.f As the impression, 
 however, was limited to eighty copies, this 
 cannot be said to have hitherto much affected 
 the rarity of the original. In a short preface 
 the accomplished Editor asserts that all 
 Brathwaite'S poetical productions having 
 
 * Page 259 of the present volume. 
 
 f Brathwayte's Odes ; or Philomel's Tears. Edited by Sir 
 Egerton Brydges, Bart. Kent : Printed at the private press 
 of Lee Priory ; by Johnson and Warwick, 1815, pp. xii. 36. 
 
 C 
 
xxii MEMOIR OF 
 
 become very rare, this short specimen of his 
 genius was 'selected for revival. "And if the 
 Editor's taste," he adds, "be correct, it will 
 prove him not to have been without merit, 
 either for fancy, sentiment, or expression. 
 Readers of narrow curiosity may think such 
 revivals of forgotten poetry useless ; and the 
 superficial may deem them dull : the highly 
 cultivated and candid mind will jtidge of them 
 far otherwise ! " 
 
 Passing now from the work which the reader 
 holds in his hands, the next publication of 
 Brathwaite's we have to notice is 
 
 14. Times Cvrtaine Dravvne, or The Anato- 
 mie of Vanitie. With other choice Poems, 
 Entituled ; Health from Helicon. By Richard 
 Brathvvayte Oxonian. London Printed by 
 Iohn Dawson for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be, 
 sould at the south entrance of the Royall-Ex- 
 change. 162 1, 8vo, 100 leaves. 
 
 The collection entitled " Health from Heli- 
 con," which forms the second section of this 
 volume, has a separate title, with the same 
 imprint, running as follows : — 
 
 Panedone : or Health from Helicon : con- 
 taining Emblemes, Epigrams, Elegies, with 
 other continuate Poems, fidl of all generous 
 delight ; by Richard Brathvvayte, Esquire. 
 
 Two hitherto undiscovered works of BRATH- 
 waite, alluded to in his other writings, claim 
 to be briefly mentioned here. In his Survey 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xxiii 
 
 of History, 1638, speaking of the Earl of 
 Southampton, he says " A Funerall Elegy to 
 his precious memory was long since extant ; 
 being annexed to my Britains Bath, Anno 
 1625." 
 
 In his English Gentleman (Art. 15), p. 198, 
 he says, "What more admirable than the 
 pleasure of the Hare, if wee observe the uses 
 which may bee made of it, as I have elsewhere 
 (in a Treatise entituled The Huntsma?is 
 Raunge,) more amplie discoursed ? " 
 
 In 1630 Brathwaite published : 
 
 15. The English Gentleman ; Containing 
 Simdry excellent Rules or exquisite Observations, 
 tending to direction of every Gentleman, of 
 selecter ranke and qualitie ; H.ow to demeane 
 or accomodate himselfe in the manage of 
 publike or private affaires. By Richard Brath- 
 
 wait Esq Lojidon, Printed by Iohn 
 
 Haviland, and are to be sold by Robert Bostock 
 at his shop at the signe of the Kings head in 
 Pauls Church-yard. 1630, 4to. pp. 487.* 
 
 A brief analysis of the contents of this 
 volume, for the purpose of detecting imperfect 
 copies, may not be unacceptable. In con- 
 junction with the " Compleat Gentlewoman," 
 which forms a second part, no work of that 
 age can have been more uniformly read or 
 more highly appreciated. On opening the 
 
 * A second edition of The English Gentleman appeared in 
 1633- 
 
xxiv MEMOIR OF 
 
 volume it exhibits a glowing specimen of the 
 burin of Robert Vaughan, in ten compartments, 
 for the frontispiece, with a folding broadside 
 prefixed as an explanatory draught of it. The 
 printer's title is followed by nine leaves of 
 Dedication, copious tables, and other matter. 
 After p. 456 is a sheet without pagination, 
 under signature N n n. The first two leaves 
 have " The Character of a Gentleman," 
 another has an "Embleme," recto, and reverse 
 " Upon the Errata, " and fourth leaf blank. 
 Then follows a new title : — 
 
 Three Choice characters of Marriage, fitly 
 sorting with the proprietie and varietie of the 
 former Subject : Having especiall relation to 
 one peculiar Branch shadowed in the Sixt 
 Observation. 
 
 These characters complete the volume with 
 p. 487. 
 
 A sort of sequel or complement to the above 
 work is another published in the following 
 year, and entitled — 
 
 16. The English Gentlewoman, drawne out 
 to the full Body : Expressing 
 
 What Habilliments doe best attire her, 
 What Ornaments doe best adorne her, 
 What Complements doe best accomplish her. 
 
 By Richard Brathwait Esq. . . . London, 
 Printed by B. Alsop and T. Favvcet, for 
 Michaell Sparke, dwelling in Greene Arbor. 
 1631, 4to, pp. 221. 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xxv 
 
 The Frontispiece in compartments, intended 
 as a companion to the one before the English 
 Gentleman, is engraved by W. Marshall, and 
 has a folding broadside prefixed explanatory 
 of the subjects. After the printer's title 
 twenty-two leaves of Dedications, and a table. 
 After p. 221 is the character of " A Gentle- 
 woman," four leaves, not paged, the " Em- 
 bleme" and "Upon the Errata" two more. 
 Some copies have an " Appendix upon a 
 former supposed Impression of this title," 
 consisting of five leaves, with signature in 
 continuation, but not paged. 
 
 In the same year appeared 
 
 17. Whimzies : Or, a new Cast of Characters. 
 London, Printed by F. K. and are to be sold by 
 A mbrose Rithirdon, at the signe of the BulVs- 
 head, in Paul's Church-yard. 163 1. 12 mo, 117 
 leaves. 
 
 Notices of this little volume will be found in 
 Dr. Bliss's edition of Earle's Microcosmo- 
 graphy,* and in Sir Egerton Brydges' Resti- 
 tuta ;-f but neither of these celebrated anti- 
 quaries and bibliographers seems to have been 
 aware of its authorship. If the presence of 
 the usual irrepressible note " Vpon the Errata's" 
 did not alone suffice to authenticate it, some 
 verses, at the end of the volume already quoted, 
 
 * Lond. 18 1 1, p. 282. 
 
 t Vol. iv. p. 279. This notice was written however by 
 Thomas Park. 
 
xxvi MEMOIR OF 
 
 'Upon the Birth-day of his sonne John,' 
 certainly would. 
 
 The last 24 leaves of this book have a new 
 title, — thus : 
 
 A Cater Character throwne out of a Boxe by 
 an Experienc' d Gamester. London, Imprinted 
 by F. K. and are to be sold by R. B. 163 1. 24 
 leaves. 
 
 In both sections of the book BRATHWAITE 
 assumes the name of " Clitus Alexandrinus," 
 and both are dedicated to Sir Alexander 
 Radcliffe. 
 
 On 7th March, 1633, after a married life of 
 nearly sixteen years, BRATHWAITE had the 
 misfortune to lose his wife, whom it seems he 
 tenderly loved, and whose death he piously 
 and sincerely mourned. In veneration of her 
 memory, and as a public acknowledgment of 
 her worth and virtues, he published for several 
 years verses as the Anniversaries upon his 
 Panarete ; and when reprinting the Essays on 
 the Five Senses in 1635 he availed himself of 
 the occasion to deliver a moral admonition to 
 their youthfull offspring by introducing therein 
 " Love's Legacy, or Panarete's blessing to her 
 children," which is framed as if delivered in 
 her very last moments, forbearing to speak of 
 marriage as a matter beyond the apprehension 
 of their tender years. 
 
 The first of these elegiac tributes appeared 
 in the year following his wife's death, and is 
 entitled : — 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xxvii 
 
 1 8. Anniversaries upon his Panarete. . . . 
 London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, and are 
 to be sold by Robert Bostock, at the Kings 
 Head in Paids Church-yard. 1634. 8vo, (con- 
 taining 24 leaves not numbered — signature 
 A, B, C.) 
 
 " To the indeered memory," the text begins, 
 " of his ever loved, never too much lamented 
 Panarete, M ns Frances Brathwait," and he cele- 
 brates with much earnestness and eloquence 
 her virtues, her person and her birth. 
 
 In 1635 BRATHWAITE published 
 
 19. Raglands Niobe : or Elizas Elegie : 
 Addressed to the tmexpiring memory of the most 
 noble Lady, Elizabeth Herbert, wife to the truly 
 honourable Edward Somerset Lord Herbert, 
 &c. By Ri. Brathwait, Esq. i2mo, 14 leaves. 
 
 The imprint is substantially the same as 
 that of the last article. At the end was 
 appended a continuation of the Anniversaries 
 upon his Panarete. 
 
 In the same year appeared 
 
 20. The A rcadian Princesse; or the Triumph 
 of Ivstice : Prescribing excellent rules of Phy- 
 sicke, for a sicke Iustice. Digested into fowre 
 Bookes, and faithf idly rendred to the originall 
 Italian Copy* By Ri. Brathwait Esq. London, 
 Printed by Th. Harper for Robert Bostocke. 
 1635. i2mo. 
 
 Prefixed is an engraved title, by W. Mar- 
 shall, of the figure of " The Arcadian Prin- 
 
 * By Mariano Silesio. 
 
xxviii MEMOIR OF 
 
 cesse " seated on a throne holding the scales 
 of Justice, wherein an old man labelled 
 "forma pauperis" weighs down another well 
 clothed, labelled "Ira potentis." Other sen- 
 tences appear in several labels, and on the 
 foot of the throne "by Ric. Brathwait Armig." 
 Dibdin bestows high praise in his Biblio- 
 mania * on the poetical portion of this vol- 
 ume. " Whoever does not see," he says, " in 
 these specimens, some of the most powerful 
 rhyming couplets of the early half of the seven- 
 teenth century, if not the model of some of 
 the verses in Dryden's satirical pieces, has read 
 both poets with ears differently constructed 
 from those of the author of this book." 
 
 21. The Lives of all the Roman Emperors, 
 being exactly collected from Iulius Cczsar, unto 
 the now reigning Ferdinand the second. With 
 their births, Governments, remarkable Actions, 
 and Deaths. London : Printed by N. and J. 
 Okes, and are to be sold within Turning-stile in 
 Holborne. 1636. i2mo. pp. 384. 
 
 An engraved title, by W. Marshall, gives 
 several medallions of the Roman Emperors, 
 and a small one of the author, of nearly 
 similar representation with that prefixed to 
 the Paraphrase of the Psalms. 
 
 22. A Spiritual Spicerie : Containing Sundrie 
 sweet Tractates of Devotion and Piety. By Ri. 
 Brathwait, Esq. London, Printed by I. H. 
 
 * Lond. 181 1, pp. 395-7- 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xxix 
 
 for George Hutton at his shop within Turning 
 stile in Holborne. 1638. i2mo. 247 leaves. 
 
 The section of this volume entitled " Holy 
 Memorials" contains some interesting autobio- 
 graphical details, from which we have already- 
 quoted, respecting the author's early life. 
 
 23. The Psalmes of David the King and 
 Prophet, and of other holy Prophets, paraphras'd 
 in English : Conferred with the Hebrew Veritie, 
 set forth by B. Arias Mo?ttanus, together with 
 the Latine, Greek Septuagint, and Chaldee 
 Paraphrase. By R. B. London, Printed by 
 Robert Young, for Francis Constable, and are 
 to be sold at his shop under S. Martins Church 
 neere Ludgate. 1638. i2mo. pp. 300. 
 
 This little volume has an engraved title by 
 Marshall, representing in three-quarter figures 
 (miniature ovals), Moses, David, Asaph, He- 
 man, and ^Ethan. Various instruments of 
 music, as improving psalmody, are hung against 
 a pedestal upon each side of the title, which is 
 given in an oval tablet as "by R. B. Esq." 
 Beneath the title, in another small oval, is a 
 portrait of BRATHWAITE, subscribed Quanquam 
 6. It has been contended that this version of 
 the Psalms has been wrongly attributed to 
 BRATHWAITE, and that the initials "R. B." 
 belong to some other writer of the time. But 
 collateral evidence is not wanting. That of 
 the portrait, which, though it represents him 
 with the gravity of advanced years, still bears 
 
xxx MEMOIR OF 
 
 a resemblance easily traceable to the more 
 youthful likeness, has been already mentioned ; 
 there is the further evidence of the use of the 
 digit or index (at p. 284) used also in The 
 Survey of History and in Bamabee's Journey ; 
 and of the never-failing Apology for the Er- 
 rata, found in all BRATHWAITE'S books. 
 
 After remaining a widower for six years 
 BRATHWAITE married again in 1639, taking 
 for his second wife Mary, daughter of Roger 
 Crofts, of Kirtlington, in Yorkshire ; who was 
 well jointured, being seised in her own right of 
 the valuable manor of Catterick. He describes 
 her in Panaretes Triumph as a widow and a 
 native of Scotland. Their issue was one 
 son — the gallant Stafford Brathwaite, who was 
 afterwards knighted, and killed in the ship 
 " Mary," under the command of Sir Roger 
 Strickland, during an engagement with the 
 " Tyger" Algerine man of war. 
 
 Some time after his second marriage he 
 quitted Burneshead, probably to occupy the 
 Manor house at Catterick. The fevered state 
 of the times might partly cause him to quit 
 the old family residence. Brathwaite was 
 "a subject sworn to loyalty" and not likely at 
 that period to escape the common wrack of 
 power. Lavish hospitality in support of the 
 Royal cause on the one hand, and contributions 
 imperiously demanded and violently enforced 
 in the name of either the Parliament or the 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xxxi 
 
 Army upon the other, would serve equally to 
 impoverish his hereditary property, and to 
 make a removal to the newly-acquired estate 
 at Appleton a matter of convenience to pre- 
 vent shading family honours. His possession 
 of the Manor is confirmed by several docu- 
 ments, and it is probable that with the family 
 of Crofts he had been, long before his second 
 marriage, in close or neighbourly intimacy. 
 
 We continue our list of BRATHWAITE'S 
 publications. 
 
 24. A r't asleepe Husband ? A Boulster 
 Lecture; stored with all variety of witty j easts, 
 ■merry Tales, and other pleasant passages ; 
 Extracted from the choicest flowers of Philosophy , 
 Poesy, antient and moderne History. Illustrated 
 with Examples of incomparable constancy, in 
 the excellent History of Philocles and Doriclea. 
 By Philogenes Panedonius* London, Printed 
 by R. Bishop for R. B. or his Assignes. 1640. 
 8vo. pp. 330. 
 A frontispiece engraved by Marshall represents 
 a man and wife in bed, the female — a Mrs. 
 Caudle of the seventeenth century — delivering 
 her admonitions to a deaf ear. To the strong 
 internal evidence of this work being the pro- 
 duction of BRATHWAITE may be added as 
 two convincing and independent proofs forming 
 an absolute confirmation of his title, 1. A 
 
 * The second section of his Times Cvrtaine Drawne, 1621, 
 had been entitled " Panedone: or Health from Helicon." 
 
xxxii MEMOIR OF 
 
 reference which occurs at p. 201 to one of his 
 acknowledged pieces, the Comment upon the 
 Wife of Bath ; and 2. the introduction into the 
 present volume of two or three pieces of poetry 
 that first appeared in the Strappado. 
 
 25. The Two Lancashire Lovers : or the 
 Excellent History of Philocles and Doriclea. 
 Expressing the faithfull constancy and mutnall 
 fidelity of two loyall Lovers. . . . By Musceus 
 Palatinus. . . . London, Printed by Edward 
 Griffin, for R. B. or his Assignes. 1640. 8vo. 
 pp. 268. 
 
 There is an engraved title, and at p. 247, a 
 second embellishment, which is found also in 
 some copies of the Boidster Lecture. 
 
 In 1 641 appeared a new edition of BRATH- 
 WAITE'S English Gentleman and English 
 Gentlewoman, in one volume, folio, with the 
 addition of a piece entitled The Tvrtles Tri- 
 umph. In an engraved title there is an inter- 
 estingdisplay of the principal subjects discussed 
 in the two works, after the manner, but not 
 precisely copied from the titles to the earlier 
 editions. The figures are nearly all changed, 
 the mottoes omitted, and much of the garniture 
 altered. Whether this deviation from the 
 original designs obtained the sanction of the 
 author seems doubtful, unless he was too in- 
 dolent to revise the broadside containing an 
 explanation of the frontispiece, as the two 
 sheets of the first edition are here printed 
 together without alteration. 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xxxiii 
 
 Haslewood attributes the following work to 
 BRATHWAITE on account of " the mannerism 
 of style, which his many unacknowledged 
 publications now compel us to confidently rely 
 upon :" — 
 
 26. The Penitent Pilgrim. London, Printed 
 by Iohn Dawson, and are to be sold by John 
 
 Williams at the signe of the Crane in Pauls 
 Church-yard. 1641. i2mo. pp. 445. 
 
 It has an engraved frontispiece, by our 
 author's usual artist, W. Marshall, of an aged 
 man journeying barefoot with bottle and staff, 
 scallop shell in his hat, his loins girded, and 
 beneath his feet the legend : " Few and evill 
 have the dayes of my life been." On the last 
 leaf a quaint couplet occurs before the 
 
 Errata. 
 
 " No place but is of Errors rife 
 In labours, lectures, leafes, lines, life." 
 
 27. Mercurius Britannicus. Tragi-Comoedia 
 Lutetitz, summo cum applausu publice acta. 15 
 leaves. 4to. (no place or date.) 
 
 Mercurius Britanicus, or The English Intelli- 
 gencer A Tragic-Comedy, At Paris acted with 
 great applause. Printed in the yeare 1641. 17 
 leaves. 4to. 
 
 This was a political squib ; and considering 
 the ready pen of BRATHWAITE, and his un- 
 ceasing desire to attain popularity, we may 
 conclude it was not the only time-serving piece 
 
xxxiv MEMOIR OF 
 
 he put forth at that eventful period. It is in- 
 teresting also as an earlier exhibition than 
 Bamabee's Journal of his facile skill in using 
 the Latin tongue. 
 
 28. Astrceds Teares. An Elegie Vpon the 
 death of that Reverend, Learned and Honest 
 Judge, Sir Richard Hutton Knight ; Lately 
 one of his Majesties histices in his Highnesse 
 Court of Common Plees at Westminster. Lon- 
 don, Printed by T. H. for Philip Nevil, and are 
 to be sold at his Shop in I vie Lane, at the signe 
 of the Gun. 164.1. i2mo. sig. H. 2. (55 leaves). 
 
 A frontispiece, with all the strength and spirit 
 of Marshall, contains a whole length figure of 
 the Judge in his robes, in a reclining posture. 
 It is an excellent portrait, and of the greatest 
 rarity, not being noticed by Grainger. As early 
 as 1 6 14 our author dedicated The Prodigals 
 Teares to Richard Hutton, Sergeant at Law, 
 and The Shepheards Tales in the present volume 
 were inscribed seven years later "To my worthie 
 and affectionate kinsman Richard Hutton, 
 Esquire, Sonne and Heire to the much honoured 
 and sincere dispenser of judgement, Sir Richard 
 Hutton, Sergeant at Law, and one of the Iudges 
 of the Common Pleas." 
 
 Sir Richard Hutton died February 26, 1638, 
 so that this Elegy did not appear until three 
 years after that event In a marginal note in 
 this volume there is a reference to the 5th 
 Anniversary upon his Panarete, and he there- 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xxxv 
 
 fore seems to have continued these yearly cele- 
 brations of his first wife (to have written, at 
 any rate, if not to have published them) at least 
 until the year of his second marriage. 
 
 29. Panaretes Triumph ; or Hymens heavenly 
 Hymne. London, Printed by T. H. for Philip 
 Nevil, and are to be sold at his Shop in Ivie 
 Lane, at the signe of the Gun. 1641. 
 
 The poem begins at the back of the title : 
 
 " Remove that funerall-pile ; now six whole yeares 
 Havebeene the nursing mothers of my teares." 
 
 He then describes the necessity of foregoing 
 funeral tears during another nuptial, and they 
 are to be preserved for those who cannot 
 weep ; as "spritely blades — some widows — 
 profuse gallants," whose necessity in that re- 
 spect is interestingly described. His moral 
 reflections conclude as the bell tinketh : he 
 married a second time a lady of Scottish ex- 
 traction, which occasions his introducing 
 " Calliopees expostulation with the Calidonian 
 Nation." A " courteous Curtain Lecture " is 
 also delivered by his wife and a florid descrip- 
 tion is given of her person and manners. 
 
 We now come to the famous volume of 
 doggerel rhymes by which BRATHWAITE is 
 chiefly remembered outside the narrow circle 
 of scholars and students. Though as volumi- 
 nous a writer both in prose and verse as his 
 contemporary Wither, by this one work, or 
 
xxxvi MEMOIR OF 
 
 rather happy jeu d 1 esprit, he is now chiefly 
 known to the general world of English readers. 
 This unique and curious publication is written 
 both in Latin and English, the double title 
 being as follows : — 
 
 30. (a) Barnabce Itinerarium, Mirtili & 
 Faustuli nominibus insignitum : Viatoris Solatio 
 nuperrime editum, aptissimis numeris redactum, 
 veterique Tono Barnabce piiblice decantatum. 
 Authore Corymboeo. 
 
 (b) Bamabees Journall, Under the Names of 
 Mirtilus & Faustulus shadowed : for the 
 Travellers Solace lately published, to most apt 
 numbers reduced and to the old Tune of ' Bar nab e 
 commonly chanted. By CorymbcEus. 
 
 The date of the original edition has never 
 been precisely ascertained, but is supposed to 
 be about 1648-1650. The authorship of this 
 anonymous book, after long remaining un- 
 known, was settled upon Brathwaite by 
 Haslewood by means of a chain of laborious 
 and irrefragable evidence, both external and 
 internal. The internal evidence is alone con- 
 clusive ; such as the reappearance in Barnabees 
 Journal of stories told in Brathwaite's other 
 works ; thus the story of hanging the cat at 
 Banbury had originally appeared in a short 
 poem in the Strappado, p. 109. The story of 
 Grantam (Grantham) spire is introduced in 
 the Arcadian Princess, with the name of 
 " Grantam" transposed into Margant. There 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xxxvii 
 are allusions also which are evidently autobio- 
 graphical, such as those to Kendal and to 
 Nesham, where Brathwaite wooed and won 
 his first wife. In describing Lancaster he 
 alludes to John a Gaunt, and he does the same 
 at the opening of his Two Lancashire Lovers, 
 1640. Other similarities of versification 
 mottoes, proverbs, Apology for Errata, &c, 
 complete the internal evidence. 
 
 " It was reserved," says Southey, "for famous 
 Barnaby to employ the barbarous ornament of 
 rhyme so as to give thereby point and character 
 to good Latinity." * 
 
 We know from his other writings that 
 Brathwaite was an excellent Latin scholar. 
 The external evidence of Brathwaite's 
 authorship is threefold. 1. Thomas Hearne 
 the antiquary says in a manuscript note : "The 
 book called Barnabas's Rambles, printed in 
 Latin and English, was written by Richard 
 Brathwaite, who writ and translated a 
 vast number of things besides, he being the 
 scribler of the times. Anthony-a-Wood does 
 not mention this amongst his works. But Mr. 
 Bagford tells me that Mr. Chr. Bateman (an 
 eminent Bookseller in Pater Noster Row) who 
 was well acquainted with some of the family, 
 hath several times told him that Brathwaite 
 was the author of it."*f" 
 
 * Quarterly Review, No. xxxv. p. 32. 
 
 f Hearne 1 s MS. Collections for the year 1J13, vol. xlvii. p. 1 27. 
 
xxxviii MEMOIR OF 
 
 2. In a copy of the second edition, 17 16, 
 that belonged to Edward Wilson, Esq., of 
 Dallam Tower in Westmoreland (a descendant 
 on the maternal side of the elder branch of the 
 Brathwaites), was written the following note : 
 — " The Author I knew was an old Poet Rich. 
 Brathwaite, Father to Sir Thomas of 
 Burnside-Hall, near Kendall in Westmorland." 
 
 3. There was sold by Messrs. Leigh and 
 Sotheby at the sale of the Library of John 
 Woodhouse, Esq., 12th Dec, 1803 (lot 24) a 
 copy of the original edition of Barnabee's 
 Journal, with a poem in manuscript copied on 
 the fly-leaves undoubtedly by BRATHWAITE, 
 entitled : "Rustica Academics Oxoniensis nuper 
 reformats Descriptio, &c. CLDDCXLVIH." 
 
 Here is a weight of cumulative evidence that 
 is irresistible. 
 
 It is evident, however, that though the 
 Journal was probably not published until 
 about the middle of the century, the earlier 
 portions of it at least had been written many 
 years previously. " Many circumstances," says 
 Haslewood, " unite to confirm the belief that 
 the Itinerary was the lapped and cradled 
 bantling of years, scarcely in the author's own 
 opinion pubescent, until himself might be 
 believed past the age of such waggery. It may 
 be characterized as a seedling planted in the 
 spring of youth ; nourished and pruned in the 
 summer of his days ; courted to blossom 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xxxix 
 
 amid evergreens that circled his autumnal 
 brow, and which formed the wreath of fame 
 that adorned and cheered the winter of his age, 
 and remains unfaded." 
 
 The next work on our list is 
 
 3 1. A Muster Roll of the evill Angels embat- 
 teld against S. Michael. Being a Collection, 
 according to the order of time, (throughout all 
 the Centuries) of the chief e of the Ancient 
 Heretikes, with their Tenets, such as were con- 
 demned by Generall Councels. Faithfully collected 
 out of the most A uthentike A uthors. By R. B. 
 Gent. London, Printed for William Sheers, 
 and are to be sold at his shop in S. Pauls Church 
 yard at the sign of the Bible. 1655. 24mo. 
 pp. 94. 
 
 Then follows : 
 
 32. Lignum Vitce. Libellus in quatuor partes 
 distinctus : et ad utilitatem cujusque Anima in 
 altiorem vitceperfectionem suspirantis,Nuperrim£ 
 Editus. Author e Richardo Brathwait Armi- 
 gero ; Memoratissimce matris, florentissimcE 
 Academice Oxoniensis Humillimo Alumno. 
 Londini, Excudebat foh. Grismond. MDCLVIII. 
 i2mo. pp. 579. 
 
 This volume has an engraved title by 
 Vaughan, crowded as usual with Latin sen- 
 tences applicable to the figure and design. It 
 is divided into three parts, and at the end of 
 the second is a piece of Latin poetry of forty 
 stanzas that corroborates the appropriation 
 already made of Barnabee's Journal. 
 
xl MEMOIR OF 
 
 33. The Honest Ghost, or A Voice from the 
 Vault. London, Printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne. 
 1658. 8vo. 169 leaves. 
 
 The book consists of two subjects and is 
 distinguished by these two titles, 1. The Honest 
 Ghost. 2. An Age for Apes. Each of these 
 has a frontispiece by Vaughan ; the latter begins 
 at page 1 1 5. There are some Latin rhyming 
 couplets at p. 319, exactly in the style and 
 metre of the Itinerary : 
 
 " Neque dives, nee egenus, 
 Neque satur, neque plenus ; 
 Nee agrestis, nee amcenus, 
 Nee sylvestris, nee serenus ; 
 Palmis nee mulcendus psenis 
 At in omni sorte lenis." 
 
 At the Restoration of Charles the Second, 
 Brathwaite, who had always been loyal to 
 the King's cause, published some gratulatory 
 verses : 
 
 34. To his Majesty upon his happy arrivall 
 in otir late discomposed Albion. By R. Brath- 
 wait, Esq. London, Printed for Henry Brome, 
 at the Gun in Ivie-lane, 1660. 4to. 8 leaves. 
 
 In this poem he declares himself to have 
 been a resolute sufferer for both sovereign and 
 country, and depicts the very impaired state 
 of his fortune. 
 
 35. The Captive-Captain : or the Restrained 
 Cavalier. Drawn to his full Bodie in Eight 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. ' xli 
 
 Characters. Lond. Printed by J. Grismond, 
 1665. 8vo. 98 leaves. 
 
 36. Tragi-Comoedia, Cui in titidum inscribitur 
 Regicidium, Perspicacissimis Judiciis acuratius 
 perspecta, pensata, comprobata ; Authore Ri. 
 Brathwait, Armigero, utriusque Academic? 
 Alumno. Londini, Typis J. G. & prostat 
 vejtalis in officind Theodori Sadleri, in Stran- 
 densi &c. 1665. 8vo. pp. 192. 
 
 Last, but not least, among the publications 
 of BRATHWAITE comes his Commentary on 
 Chaucer, planned and probably written many 
 years before. 
 
 37. A Comment upon the Two Tales of our 
 Ancient, Renowned, and Ever Living Poet 
 S r Jeff ray Chavcer, Knight. .... The Millers 
 Tale and The Wife of Bath. Addressed and 
 published by Special Authority. London, 
 Printed by W. Godbid, and are to be sold 
 by Robert Clavell at the Stags-Head in Lvy- 
 lane, 1665. 8vo. pp. 199. 
 
 In perusing the foregoing voluminous list 
 of works the reader will not fail to be struck 
 by the strange alternation they exhibit of 
 buffoonery and jesting, and of piety and 
 sanctity. That the same author should have 
 successively written books so dissimilar in 
 character would seem almost incredible to any 
 one unacquainted with the fashions and tem- 
 per of that age, and with the numerous other 
 and more illustrious instances of the same 
 
xlii MEMOIR OF 
 
 curious medley or conglomeration. In some 
 of his earlier plays — in the Blind Beggar of 
 Alexandria, A Humorous Day's Mirth, Mon- 
 sieur d'Olive, The Widow's Tears, might we 
 not equally say that we fail to recognise the 
 grave translator of Homer, and the Christian 
 pietist who paraphrased Petrarch's Penitential 
 Psalms ? If the sins of his youth are forgiven 
 to George Chapman let them not be too heavily 
 remembered against the less famous RICHARD 
 Brathwaite. 
 
 Brathwaite "left behind him," says Wood, 
 "the character of a well-bred gentleman and 
 good neighbour," and to this might be added, 
 of a Christian and upright man. A description 
 of his person has descended orally, by which 
 the trim fashion of his green years added 
 comeliness to his gray hairs. Tradition reports 
 him to have been in person below the common 
 stature ; well-proportioned, and one of the 
 handsomest men of his day ; remarkable for 
 ready wit and humour ; charitable to the poor 
 in the extreme, so much so as to have involved 
 himself in difficulties. He commonly wore a 
 light grey coat, red waistcoat and leather 
 breeches. His hat was a high-crowned one, 
 and beyond what was common in those days 
 when such hats were worn. His equals in life 
 bestowed on him the name of ' Dapper Dick.' 
 In disposition he was as admirable as in person ; 
 and he always took a conspicuous part in his 
 
R. BRATHWAITE. xliii 
 
 neighbourhood in promoting the festivities of 
 Christmas ; so that in those good old times he 
 was long the darling and favourite of that side 
 of the country. 
 
 The death of Richard Brathwaite took 
 place at East Appleton, a small township of 
 and adjoining to Catterick, on 4th May, 
 1673, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He 
 was buried in the parish church of Catterick, 
 where a monument was erected to his memory 
 on the north side of the chancel. 
 
 The present is a literal Reprint ; all the 
 peculiarities of spelling being carefully pre- 
 served ; even the innumerable blunders in 
 the Latin and Greek marginal notes have 
 been exactly reproduced, although, from the 
 blurred and indistinct manner in which many 
 of them are printed, it has been almost im- 
 possible sometimes to decipher them. 
 
The firjl Argument. 
 
 Ature the common mother (to 
 vfe an Ethnicke induction) bree- 
 deth diuers effects, according to 
 the conftitution of each particu- 
 lar bodie, being compofed and 
 compacted of that Matter wher- 
 to we mail returne, being Earth. Now though 
 Nature (as with the Morall Philofopher I may 
 fay ) neuer is decerned, as fhe is conhdered in her 
 owne frame, bringing forth alwayes men able to 
 the performing of humane functions, faire in pro- 
 portion and ftate of their bodies, apt for the atchi- 
 uing of anie matter either publike or priuate : yet 
 notwithftanding, manie times by euents and ac- 
 cidents, diuers deformities & blemifhes appeare, 
 which by Nature were not decreed to be : and like 
 are the maleuolent affections arifmg from the di- 
 ftempered qualitie of the minde. And whereas 
 many in the corruption of their erring opinions 
 and reafonleffe arguments, have auerred how Na- 
 ttire is the primarie mouer, conferuer and prefei-uer, 
 yet Seneca will tell you, that it is God that wor- 
 keth thefe things which we afcribe to a fained 
 Deitie ; and that Nature differeth no more from God ^-J 6 Epi{L ad 
 or God fro?n Nature, then Annceus from * Seneca : 
 
 B as 
 
Vide Epifto A- 
 lexand. de fitu 
 & ftatu India:. 
 
 Zeuophaues. 
 
 The occafiou of 
 this Treatife. 
 
 2 OF D EGEN ERATION . 
 
 as he fpeaketh in his naturall Questions, and in his 
 bookes of Benefiting. But this was the opinion 
 of fuch as had not the fupreme light of deuine 
 knowledge to them reuealed, but fuch as wor- 
 fhipped whatfoeuer they thought was a guider 
 or director of them, or by cuflome (how ridicu- 
 lous foeuer) was traduced to them. So we may 
 reade in the ancient hiftorians, of the Egyptians 
 who adored whatfoeuer they thought comely, as 
 the Sunne, the Moone, the ftarres and inferiour 
 lights. Others worfhipped trees, ftockes, ftones, 
 and venimous ferpents. Thus did the brutifh affe- 
 ctions of vnnaturall men fhew their Gods by de- 
 ciphering an heauenly power or influence, in 
 Branches and fuch workes of Nature. But thefe 
 though in no wife excufable, may admit fome 
 reafonable defence, forafmuch as their conceipt 
 could reach no further. For as Zenophanes faith, If 
 beajls could paint, they would pourtray God to their 
 ownejhape and feature, becaufe they could conceiue no 
 further. And this is the caufe why the Heathen a- 
 dored their plants, ftarres, and fuch creatures, in- 
 afmuch as they could not reach nor attaine to the 
 knowledge of an higher Deitie. But to conferre 
 them, that is, the Heathen and prophane people 
 with the now-being Chriftians, it will feeme 
 wonderfull, if I make manifeft by relation had to 
 their Hues, how the depraued conditions of our 
 Chriftians now adayes (whofe knowledge giues 
 them affurance of Eternitie) walke in as great 
 blindneffe and palpable darknes as euer the Hea- 
 then did. And fmce the matter is moft apparent, 
 
 as 
 
OF DEGENERATION. 3 
 
 high time it is for Nature to fend her Embaffie to 
 this Age for her Reformation. 
 
 THE FIRST SATYR E. 
 
 Hou wicked lumpe in a deformed guife, 
 Tripping like Hymens Ms wedding day, 
 Nature thy former Infolence defies, 
 Saying thou err eft from her natiue way: 
 For all thy foolifh wayes are baits to *Jin, 
 Where vertue droupes, and vice comes dancing in. 
 
 Doth not thy habitefhew thy wanton mind, 
 Forward to all things but to vertuous life : 
 Faffing thofe bounds which Nature hath afflgrid, 
 Twixt Art and Nature by commencing filrife ? 
 I tell thee, Nature fends me to reprejfe 
 Thy foolijh toyes, thy inbred wantonnefife. 
 
 But thou, wilt fay, Nature hath made me fair e, 
 Should I rob Beautie of her proper due ? 
 Should I not decke her with * embroidred haire, 
 And garnijh her with Flora's vernant hue ? 
 I muft, I will, or elfejhould I dij grace 
 With a rent maske the beautie of my face. 
 
 But I will anfwer thee for all thy beautie : 
 
 If thou wilt be an Ape in gay * attire, 
 
 Thou doefl not execute that forme of dutie, 
 
 Which Nature at thy handfeemes to require : 
 
 Which not redrefl, for all thy goodly port, 
 
 Thou mufl beflript, and whipt, and chaflifdfor't. 
 
 B 2 Nature 
 
 * Prima eft qua- 
 il tittillato de- 
 ledlationis in 
 corde, fecunda 
 confenfio, ter- 
 tium fadlum eft 
 confuetuda. 
 Aug. Serm. 44. 
 
 * Venuftas tri- 
 buitur a natura, 
 corrumpitur ab 
 arte. 
 
OF DEGENERATION. 
 
 * Sequitur fu- 
 perbos vltor a 
 tergo Deus. 
 
 Nature hathfent me to forewarne thy wo, 
 
 Left thoufecure of thy diftreffe, reioyce : 
 
 If thou wax * proud, then where fo ere thou go 
 
 Thoufhalt decline : this refteth in thy choice, 
 
 Whether to die branded by Infamie, 
 
 Or to preferue thy life in memorie. 
 
 This thus obferued, wilt thou yet be proud ? 
 And grow ambitious, bearing in thy brow 
 Theftampe of honour, as if thou hadft vow'd 
 No grace on thy inferiours to beftow ? 
 Proud minikin let fall thy plumes, and crie 
 Nature, I honour will thy Embaffie. 
 
 * Paftinatio 
 deuinum opus. 
 Hefiod. 
 
 * Damnofa 
 quid non immi- 
 nuet dies ? aetas 
 parentis peior 
 eft auis, &c. 
 
 // was a good time when Eue fpun her threed, 
 And Adam * digged to earne his food thereby : 
 But in this time Eues do their panches feed, 
 With daintie difhes mouing luxurie. 
 That was the golden age, but this is lead, 
 Where vice doth flourifh, vertue lieth * dead. 
 
 This therefore is my meffage pend by Truth, 
 Erected in the honour of Dame Nature, 
 Inueying gainft Pride, whofe afpiring grouth 
 Disfigureth the beautie of the creature : 
 Thus haue Ifpoken that which Nature motid me, 
 Directed to thee, for Dame Nature lou'd thee. 
 
 The 
 
The Argument. 
 
 HEfiod reporteth how Pandora was fent from 
 Jupiter to deceiue mankind, at leaft to 
 make triall of his frailtie, by the free proffers of 
 her bounty, fending her, full fraught with all 
 Pleafures, to the end fome thereof might enfnare 
 and infenfate the minds and affectios of the then 
 liuing and inhabiting Arcadians, to whom her 
 meffage was principally addreffed, as appeareth 
 in the firft booke of his Opera 6° dies. 
 
 This Pandora is voluptuous, (though her name 
 fignifie munificence, or an vniuerfall exhibitreffe 
 of all gifts) fent to enthrall and captiuate the ap- 
 petites and affections of men, to the intent they 
 might yeeld themfelues vaffals and bondflaues to 
 all fenfuall defires, foments of impietie, or agents 
 of immodeftie. And Pandora feemeth to make this 
 fpeech or oration vnto them, as an introduction 
 formally handled, for their pleafure & delectation. 
 Louing Arcadians, if this fpacious world now fo 
 fpecious (whilome an indigefted chaos) were firft 
 ordained for a place of libertie, do not you make 
 it a cage of reftraint. It was the will of Nature, 
 who not onely founded but difpofed of this vni- 
 uerfe as you fee, that Men the hope of her loines 
 and ioy of her life, mould Hue delicioufly, and not 
 be enfeebled by strict & rigorous abftinence the 
 
 B 3 Mo- 
 
6 OF PLEA S V RE. 
 
 Mother of difeafes, feeding and nourifhing many 
 groffe and maleuolent humours, whereby the 
 health vfeth to be empaired, and the whole ftate 
 of your bodies diffolued. Wherefore Jupiter as 
 your common prouider, forefeeing thofe mife- 
 ries which were incident before my coming to all 
 mankind, hath now appointed Me as Deputie to 
 bring this meffage vnto you, that from hence- 
 forth you mould wallow in pleafures and delights 
 according to your owne defires and affections. 
 Let not fruitleffe Abjlinence be a meanes to re- 
 ftraine you, or Temperance a chaine to withhold 
 you, but like Talaffioes companions bid conti- 
 nencie adieu, and make hafte to lafciuious mee- 
 tings : for to make recourfe to the principall de- 
 light of a knowing man, Contemplation, is it not 
 tedious to fpend a mans time in ftudie or endleffe 
 fpeculation ? Yes certainly, nothing can be worfe 
 then to wafte mans life like Epicletus lampe ; no- 
 thing better then to cofume mans daies in Polixe- 
 nus cell. And though Epicletus may fay, Semper 
 aliquid difcens fenefco, alwayes learning I grow a- 
 ged, yet Polixenus may auerre a matter though of 
 leffe confequence, yet a practife of more felf-for- 
 getting chearfulneffe, — Semper aliquid bibens, nihil 
 extimefco, alwayes drinking I am cheered. So that 
 nothing can abafh Polixenus, nothing can difmay 
 him : for his daily praclife exempts him from me- 
 ditation of griefe, being as remote from danger 
 as he Hands fecure for honour, making euery day 
 his owne prouider, and ftanding as refpedtleffe of 
 pofteritie as he is careleffe in hoording Treafure. 
 
 He 
 
OF PLEA S V RE. y 
 
 He is happie, and free from dangers menacing a- 
 broad, or afpiring thoughts (Ambitions fubtileft 
 traines) vndermining at home. But Epittehcs feare 
 proceedeth from the height of his knowledge, 
 fearing Death the abridgement of knowledge : 
 yet feareleffe of Death it felfe, for it is nothing ; but 
 the iffue of Death making his knowledge no- 
 thing. Polixenus none can disturbe ; for his minde 
 is fixed on that obiect which is placed before 
 him ; fmce Nature hath alotted him meate, drinke 
 and apparell, he respects no more. Yet as rich as 
 Bias, for he can fing, — Omnia mea mecum porto. 
 But fimple Efiiffetus, who repofeth fo great trull 
 in his Contemplatiue part, whereto auailes his 
 ftudie? whereto tendeth this Speculation? fmce 
 Art hath made him no wifer then to make no dif- 
 ference betwixt wine and water. Neither hath 
 Art made him any thing the richer : for his Lan- 
 terne is of more value then all the refl of his fub- 
 flance. Then as you will haue regard to your eftate 
 or to the health of your delicate bodies, ponder 
 the effect of my Oration, and reape thofe fenfible 
 delights made yours by fruition, in contempt of 
 Stoicke and ftrict contemplation. 
 
 When Pandora had made this plaufiue Oration, 
 mans minde (by an inbred appetite to what is 
 pleafant) was soone addicted and inclined to the 
 premifes ; exclaiming with Herodian, that it was a 
 difficult thing to fubdue a mans affections. Wher- 
 fore no fooner was Pandora gone, but prefently 
 thev * began to cafl off the reines of difcipline, ex- * Subfidebat 
 
 J o *■_ autem in imo 
 
 pofmg themfelues to follie and all recreancie. vafe, r P es. 
 
 B 4 Now 
 
OF PLEAS VRE. 
 
 * Ad Epyme- 
 rhea Iupiter 
 mifit inclytum 
 Argicidam, mu- 
 nera ferentem 
 deoru celerem 
 nuncium, &c. 
 
 * Floremiuuen- 
 tutis non deci- 
 duum. 
 
 * Homerus in 
 Odiff. 
 
 Now fee into the Morall hereof, how Man is 
 moft addicted to that which in it owne nature is 
 moft depraued, alwayes faying with Medma in the 
 Tragedie, — video meliora probbqite 
 Deteriora fequor. 
 
 Such is the crookedneffe of mans nature, that 
 he is prone to the worfe part, and confequently 
 like foolifh Epimetheus readie to receiue Argici- 
 da's rewards, fubiects of impietie and lafciuious 
 defires, as * Hefiod reporteth of him. Iupiter sent 
 cunning Argicidas to Epimetheus, with intent to 
 enfnare his affections with the faire fhew of fuch 
 pleafant * rewards as he brought with him ; namely 
 tempting obiects like Athalantaes apples, whereby 
 fhe was deluded, her fpeed fore-flowed, becoming 
 a prey to Pomceis that fubtile courfer as he him- 
 felfe wifhed. 
 
 Such are the gifts of Nature, which oft bewitch 
 the mind of the receiuer. So that Elpenor was ne- 
 uer more deformed (whofe feature became the 
 prodigie of Nature) then He who fuffereth his 
 minde (the light of his body) to be by thefe gifts 
 befotted. For firft he takes a view of them ; then he 
 defires them, and after the defire he entertaines 
 them. Which receit is no fooner made, then Cyr- 
 ees with her Cup, or the Syrens with their voyce, 
 inchant thefe poore companions of Vliffes : but 
 he who V/iftes-like. ftands firme, and not to be re- 
 moued by any fond alluremet, carrying with him 
 that * Molt or herbe of grace by which all charmes 
 are fruftrated, fhall be a fpectator of his Compa- 
 nions mifery, in himfelfe fecured while they are 
 
 fplit- 
 
OF PLEASVRE. [9] 10 
 
 fplitted, which I, in this fecond Satyre briefly and 
 compendioufly collected (as well by reading as 
 obferuation feconded) haue by a morall inference 
 in fome fort declared. 
 
 THE SECOND SATYRE. 
 
 Pandora the inchantreJTe. 
 
 PAndora., JJiall Jhe fo befot thy mind, 
 That nothing may remaine for good inflruclion ? 
 Shall Jhe thy mind in chaines and fetters bind, 
 Drawing thee onward to thy owne definition ? 
 Be not fo foolifh, left thou be oretaken, 
 And in thy Jhipwracke Hue as one forfaken. 
 
 For though that Nature which firfl framed thee, 
 Seeme to winke at thy crimes a day or two, 
 Yea many yeares, yet Jhe hath blamed thee 
 For thy offences, therefore acl no more. 
 Though Jhe delay affure thee Jhe will call, 
 And thou mufl pay both vfe and principall. 
 
 Shefmileth at thy locks brayded with gold, 
 
 And in derifion of thy felfe-made Jhape, 
 Who would beleeue (faith *Jhe) this is but mold, 
 Who trips thejlreets like to a golden Ape ? 
 
 Nature concludes, that Art hath got the prize, 
 
 And Jhe mujl yeeld vnto her trumperies. 
 
 For I haue feene (faith Nature) what a grace 
 Art puts vpon me, with her painted colour : 
 How Jhe * Vermillions ore my Maidenjace, 
 
 * Bella es noui- 
 mus & puella, 
 veru eft : & di- 
 ues : Quis enim 
 poteft negare ? 
 Sed dum te ni- 
 mium fabulla 
 laudas, nee di- 
 ues, neque bel- 
 la, nee puella 
 es. Martial in 
 Epigram. 
 
 * Nonne vul- 
 gatum eft bo- 
 nas formas ce- 
 ruffa deuenu- 
 ftare ? Pic. Mi- 
 ran, in Epift. 
 
 Now 
 
io OF P LEASVRE. 
 
 Now nought fo fair e, though nought before was fouler; 
 
 Indeed I am indebted to her loue, 
 
 Tlmt can giue mouelejfe Nature meanes to moue. 
 
 Thou black-fac'd Trull, how dar^fl thou befo bold, 
 
 As to create thy f elf e another face ? 
 
 How dar'fl thou Natures feature to controle, 
 
 Seeking by Art thy former to dij grace ? 
 
 By heauens I loath thee for thy Panthers skin, 
 
 Since what is f aire without is foule within. 
 
 Indeed thou art afhamed of thy forme : 
 And why ? becaufe of beautie thou haft none ; 
 Nay rather grace, by which thou may? ft adorne 
 Thy inward part, which chiefly graceth one ; 
 ,, Complaine of Nature (graceleffe) and defpaire, 
 „ Since Jhe hath made thee foule, but others fair e. 
 
 noneft Dd atUS But yet thou wilt be fair e, if * painting may 
 Affoord thee grace and beautie in thy brow : 
 Yet what auailes this fondling ? for one day 
 Painting will ceaffe : though painting flourijh now ; 
 » Itch not then after fafhions in requefl, 
 » But thofe that comeliefl are, efteeme them befl. 
 
 Yet for all this, I pittie thee poor e foule, 
 
 In that Da7ne Nature hath not giuen thee beautie : 
 
 Hang downe thy head like to a defart Owle, 
 
 Performe in no cafe to herflirine thy dutie 
 
 Vnto her altar vow no jacrifice, 
 
 Nor to her deitie erecl thine eyes. 
 
 Thou 
 
OF AMBITION. n 
 
 Thou haft good caufe for to lament thy birth ; 
 Tor none will court theefmiling at thy feature, 
 But prize thee as the refufe vpon earth, 
 Since on my faith thou art an vglie creature, 
 Yet ill wine's good when it is in the caske, 
 And thy face faire orejhadow'd with a maske. 
 
 O be contented, with thy forme, thy feature, 
 Since it is good enough for wormes repafl, 
 Yeelding thy due vnto thejhrine of Nature, 
 The faireft faire muft yeeld to death at lafl ! 
 Thinke on thy mould, and thou wilt feriotifly 
 Receiue the charge of Natures Embaffte. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 IF I mould intreate of fuch affaires as rather con- 
 feree vnto a warlike difcourfe, then reforming of 
 the multiplicity of errors raging & reigning in this 
 Age, ftrangely depraued, and in the vniuerfall ftate 
 of her body diftempred, I might feeme to make an 
 vnprofitable meffenger in this weighty Embaffie : 
 but to that end haue I chofen fuch matter as may 
 be a motiue for the furtherance of this mine affay. 
 When this — indigefla moles, this vnfeafoned 
 peece of matter had firft receiued fome forme or 
 fafhion, then prefently as it increafed in yeares, 
 fo it began to adorne it felfe with a comely pre- 
 
 fence, 
 
12 OF AMBITION. 
 
 fence, attired modeftly without affeclatio, feeme- 
 ly without curiofitie, fimply without the vanitie of 
 Art, knowing what was fhame without an artifi- 
 ciall blufh. 
 
 So that thofe dayes well deferued the name of 
 — golden Age : for — redeunt Saturnia regna. But 
 afterward by a degenerate, rather vnnaturall 
 courfe (as what is not corrupted in time, if we con- 
 fider her originall puritie) A certaine kind of people, 
 
 The Giants. .... . r ,-, 
 
 Caus, lapetus, as extraordmane in proportion for their great- 
 yp aus. neffe, fo of vnbounded mind for their ambition 
 
 and boldneffe, began firft to wage battell with 
 the gods immortall : till the gods perceiuing their 
 ftout and afpiring natures, ouerthrew them in their 
 own practifes : for they did — Imponere Pelion Offce. 
 Tumble mount Pelion vpon OJjfa, whereby they 
 might reach euen vnto heauen : but the gods made 
 thofe mountaines the Giants fepulchers; where 
 they lie (vnder thofe vaft hils) and euery feuenth 
 yeare, as the Poets faine — Sub tanti oneris immen- 
 fa mole corpora fubleuantes, &> eorum opera perperam 
 aggreffa execrantes, they lie vnder the weight of fo 
 great a burthen to giue them a fenfible touch of 
 their former ambition. Not without an excellent 
 morall inclufiuely fhadowed, and fitly applied to 
 fuch ambitious heads who are alwayes afpiring 
 high, till with the Giants they be caft downe, lea- 
 uing no other monument to pofteritie, faue 
 difhonour, the due guerdon of their impietie. And 
 furely who fhall but confider the diuerfe fingular 
 ends and purpofes wherto those pregnant fictions 
 of the Poets were addreffed, wittily and emphati- 
 cally 
 
OF AMBITION. 13 
 
 cally expreffmg their feuere and impartiall iudge- 
 ments, iuilly inflicted on offendors, fhall fee in 
 them a wonderfull inuention, and a continuall 
 difcourfe, proceeding forward without any al- 
 teration, tedious digreffion, or materiall diffe- 
 rence in the relation. Againe, to obferue the re- 
 uerence which euen the Pagan Authors vfed to- 
 ward their gods, beginning no worke of what 
 confequence foeuer, without inuocation of their 
 fained deities, would moue in vs a more ferious 
 admiration. So that as Valerius Maximus faith, 
 Ab Ioue Optimo maximo or ft, funt ptifci oratores : 
 The ancient Orators ifed alwayes to begin their works 
 in their forme of pleading, with an aufpicious lu- 
 piter, whereby their workes might haue good fuc- 
 ceffe and proceeding. So may I fay, by a prefent 
 application had to thefe times, that as our befl-pro- 
 mifing labours become fruitleffe, vnlejfe the Almightie 
 prof per and giue them fucceffe : fo by neceffarie confe- 
 quence, whofoeuer falleth into contempt and de- 
 fpifmg of God immortall, fhall haue his purpofes 
 defeated, and vtterly vanquifhed with the fore- 
 named Giants. Wherefore my third Satyre fhall 
 inueigh againft fuch as in contempt of God (gi- 
 antlike) practife not onely to pull him from his 
 throne by violence, but blafpheme him through a 
 forlorne and godleffe infolence, and as though 
 God had not the power to reuenge, will exte- 
 nuate his power and leffen his maieftie. 
 
 THE 
 
14 OF AMBITION. 
 
 THE THIRD SATYR E. 
 
 THou wicked Caitiffe proud of being nought, 
 Wilt thou prouoke thy God tojlrike thee downe, 
 Since he with care and labour hath thee fought, 
 And diuerfe fauours in his mercy fhowne ? 
 Do not draw downe the viols of his ire, 
 Left he reward thy finne with quenchleffe fire. 
 
 Thoufdlie worme compacl offlimie mud, 
 Which fhalt returne to earth from whence thou came, 
 Thou which concerned was of corrupt bloud, 
 Thou wormlin, how dar'fil thou reuile his name ? 
 Farwell thou graceleffe Impe, thoufapleffe branch, 
 Borne to contemne thy God, to cram thy panch. 
 
 Thou Epicure, that liu'fl in liuing ill, 
 Liuing by louing to fir etch forth thy gut, 
 Taking more pleafure thy deep panch to fill, 
 Then in thy maker confidence to put : 
 Thou for thy feeding fhalt receiue thy food, 
 Amongflfuch vipers asfhallfucke thy bloud. 
 
 It is the nature of the viperous brood, 
 To be the author of their parents death ; 
 
 * Horfe-ieack Like an * Hyrudo they do sucke their bloud, 
 
 And take away that breath, which gaue them breath, 
 
 * vipera vipera Thou * viperlike difclaimes thy parents name, 
 piin. in natur. ' As though to vtter him thou thought itJJiame. 
 
 Hift. dum pario, 
 perio. ibidem. 
 
 ris^ph^parft" Shame on thy naming, if thou wilt denie 
 
 vipera. Him, who firfl gaue thee breath and vitall ' fpirit ', 
 
 Him, 
 
OF AMBITION. 15 
 
 » 
 
 Him, who can giue thee true tranquillities 
 
 
 Htm, who willjhew thee meanes how to inherit ; 
 
 
 Leaue off thy foolijh fantafies, be wife, 
 
 
 Lift vp thy eyes to him who gaue thee eyes. 
 
 
 But if (vngratefull wretch) thou feele his grace, 
 
 
 Yet wilt not yeeld him thanks for all his loue, 
 
 
 Befure he will auert his diuineface, 
 
 
 And all his wonted mercies cleane remoue ; 
 
 
 So thou the f wine that breakes the acorne-fhell, 
 
 
 Regardefl not the tree from whence they fell. 
 
 
 Be warned by Cceus, who with Giants power, 
 
 
 Thought with his fellow es to * clime vp to heauen, 
 
 * Saying "with 
 
 But vanquifh'd by his power doth all deuoure, 
 
 Tiridates in Ta- 
 citus : 
 
 Vnder the ruggie mountaines are laid euen, 
 
 Sua retinere, 
 priuatae doraus, 
 
 Therefore beware, aspire thou notfo high, 
 
 de alienis cer- 
 tare regia laus 
 
 Left thou lie low, where thofefame Giants ly. 
 
 eft. 
 
 Thou art ajhadow, God the fubflance is, 
 
 Auicen. Thorn. 
 
 Yet infubflantiate, whofe Deitie 
 
 in que ft. A ug. 
 in Pelag. 
 
 Doth comprehend all things, for all are his, 
 
 
 Yet he is not * contained mofl certainely, 
 
 * Continet om- 
 
 For he is infinite in qualitie, 
 
 nia tamen non 
 continetur ab 
 
 Endleffe in loue, boundlejfe in quantitie. 
 
 aliquo. 
 
 As for his prefence, it is euery where, 
 
 
 On * fea, on land, and in the depth of depths, 
 
 * Terrae Man- 
 
 His prouidence in each place doth appeare, 
 
 que Deus eft, 
 nee terrae Ma- 
 
 His mercie is for generations kept, 
 
 riue homo eft, 
 qui nouit vbi 
 
 Wilt thou (fond foole) contemne his heauenly power 
 
 Deus non eft. 
 > 
 
 Who gouernes thee, point, moment, minute, houre. 
 
 
 What 
 
i6 
 
 OF AMBITION. 
 
 * Threatning 
 earth with in- 
 undations, yet 
 bounded in with 
 her banks as 
 with a girdle. 
 
 What though so many will entice to euill, 
 And in plaine tearmes denie the Deitie ? 
 Let them remaine as fuell for the diuell, 
 Confeffe thoujlill his power effectually : 
 Looke in the Planets, and thejlarres, whofe light, 
 Giues record of his power, fignes of his might. 
 
 If thou looke vpward, bodies there be manie, 
 
 Yet trouble they not one anothers motion, 
 
 If thou looke downward, there the *Sea doth moue thee, 
 
 Beating the JJwres, while fhores beaie backe the Ocean: 
 
 Looke to the earth, and thou wilt wonder there, 
 
 To fee a Ball fo firmely hang in Aire. 
 
 But ifthefe motiues limit not thy will, 
 
 Then Fie endorfe this in thy forlorne brow, 
 
 How with thine owne hand, thou thy bloud doeflfpill, 
 
 The fruites whereof thy punifhment fJiall fliow, 
 
 Denie not him who neuer did deny, 
 
 For thy default vpon the Crojfe to die. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 IT is reported of Crozfus, that he fent for Solon, 
 well perceiuing that he was efteemed the wifeft 
 in Greece : to the intent he might fee him placed 
 in his maiefty, pompe, and great folemnity. When 
 Solon was come, he demanded of him, whom he 
 
 thought 
 
OF V AINEGLORIE. 17 
 
 thought to be the happieft man in the world ; not 
 doubting but he would conclude him to be the 
 happieft, confidering the magnificence of himfelf, 
 the admiration of his attendants, & the fecurity of 
 his ftate, grounded on fuch powerfull alliance. So- 
 lon (contrary to his expectance) replyed, He could 
 iudge none truly happie before his death, — Ne- 
 minem ante obitum fcelicem effe arbitror. Yet Crcefus 
 would not let him go fo, but demanded further : 
 whom he thought then liuing to be the happieft ; 
 whereto anfwered Solon, Tellus ; & who next faith 
 Croefus ? Next to Tellus do I efteeme Cleobis & Bi- 
 ton (who died in the very performance of parentall 
 obedience :) & fo forward without the leaft men- 
 tion made of Crcefus felicitie. Whereby it feemed 
 that Crcefus was much offended, though he cocea- 
 lde his anger for that prefent time, left the foolifh 
 conceipt of his felfe-efteemed happineffe fhould 
 become palpable. But within fhort time afterward 
 He found Solons faying molt true : for being taken 
 prifoner by Cyrus the Perfian king, he was grie- 
 uoufly punifhed, & reftrained by ftraite feuere im- 
 prifonmet, till fuch time as a day was appointed for 
 Crcefus death : & being to be fet vpon the fagot, & 
 ready to fuffer death, he cried forth : O Solon, Solon, 
 vera funt quce dixifli neminem ante obitum fcelicem : 
 Cyrus hearing thefe words, and enquiring the 
 meaning of them, prefently deliuered him, anfwe- 
 ring : 6° ea quoque mihi euenire poffunt. Confide- 
 ring the ftate of mans life to be vncertaine, and 
 that none ought to plant his hopes vpon that fta- 
 bilitie of fortune in terrene affaires, as to promife 
 
 C himfelfe 
 
18 OF VAIN EGLORIE. 
 
 himfelfe fecurity in his Hate, or continuance of 
 fucceffe for one victorie atchieued : feeing her 
 wings are not clipped, that her flight fhould be 
 reftrained, nor to any Prince fo particularly enga- 
 ged, that he onely fhould be by her attended. In 
 briefe, as the onely hope of the vanquifhed con- 
 fifts in the expectance of all extremitie : fo is it the 
 principall glory of the Conquerour, to moderate 
 his fortune by a mild and temperate bearing of 
 himfelfe to the conquered. Hence alfo haue wee 
 fufficient argument of reproofe, towards fuch as 
 take pleafure or delight in their abundance, as 
 Crcefus did, fo as their minds become drowned, 
 hauing no refpect to the eternitie promifed. The 
 reafon is, they repofe their beatitude and felicity 
 in things tranfitorie and vncertaine, not looking 
 vp to the Author of all bliffe and happineffe, who 
 is the director and protector of all men, difpofmg 
 them to the line and leuell of his bleffed will, by 
 expecting them foreflowing, inuiting them re- 
 filling, recalling them wandering, and embra- 
 cing them returning : without whofe aide our 
 ftrength is weakeneffe, without whofe light our 
 fight is blindneffe, and without whofe grace our 
 endeuours are fruitleffe. For alas, what is mans di- 
 rection but diffraction, what is his knowledge 
 but imperfection, and what is the beft of his re- 
 folution but confufion, wanting his gracious pre- 
 uention that giueth to each worke a happy period 
 and conclufion ? Efpecially in this curious and in- 
 tricate Labyrinth of mans life, wherein many 
 Cymmerian windings (to wit, priuate feduce- 
 
 ments) 
 
OF VAINEGLORIE. 19 
 
 ments) are framed and cunningly contriued by 
 that fubtil-winged Declaim. So as miferably are 
 we forced to erre and ftray, vnleffe by Ariadnes 
 threed, that is, the heauenly light of Gods illumi- 
 nating Spirit, we be directed and conducted in this 
 vaft Theatre of intricacy, to the flowrie Eden of 
 endleffe felicitie. For without that allworking po- 
 wer, we are ouerwhelmed with darkneffe,. not a- 
 ble to attaine to the comfort of our foules, to en- 
 ioy the fruition of eternall confolation in the life 
 to come. 
 
 To fhew you the worthie intendments and re- 
 folutions of the Ancient, would but make a fiou- 
 rifh without effect : as by way of illuftration ex- 
 amplefide in mortification, to fhew you how Ori- 
 gen made himfelfe an Eunuch, Democritus put out 
 his owne eyes, Crates caft his monie into the fea, 
 Thracius cut downe all his vines. Seeing then that 
 to examplifie a mans writings in these daies, is but 
 to beate the aire, vnleffe inuection or a bitter Sa- 
 tyre moue it, I will make hafte to runne into my 
 former reprehenfion, finee with luuenall I may 
 well conclude, 
 
 Spite of our teeth when vice appeares in fight, 
 We mujl the Satyres play, and tartly write : 
 Where a good Poets greateft difficultie, is to re- 
 ftraine himfelfe from Satyricall poefie ; for impiety 
 like a tetter vniuerfally fpreading, is fuch, as no 
 man but he will either be a gamefter or a fpecta- 
 tor in gaming : either wanton or a fauou- 
 rite of wantonneffe : therefore now or ne- 
 
 uer : 
 
 C 2 — Rumpantur 
 
20 OF V AINEGLORIE. 
 
 — Rumpantur Ilia Codri, 
 
 Inuidia. 
 
 Now to our Satyre. 
 
 THE FOVRTH SATYRE. 
 
 ^T^Hou happie Croefus in thy heapes of gold, 
 JL Erecl thy f elf e a God vpon thy throne, 
 
 Let it be framed of a purer mold, 
 
 Then of the Pumice, or the marble ftone: 
 
 Let it be honored euen in Croefus name, 
 
 Since golden Croefus did erect the fame. 
 
 Wilt thou indeed, be honoured for a god, 
 
 And with theflarres aray thy Princely head? 
 
 Be fur e ere long to feele an iron rod : 
 
 To crufh thee downe, and thy accurfed feede. 
 
 * Qui in Deum For if thou do denie * thy God his right, 
 
 reVnqmt.' eum He will depriue thy power, abridge thy might. 
 
 Art thou a crauling worme, a feeble creature, 
 
 And yet dofl thinke thy f elf e a god on earth ? 
 
 Canftthoufo eafily transforme thy nature: 
 
 Changed to immortall, from a mortall birth ? 
 
 Poorefunple gull, a cockhorfe for this god, 
 
 * Homines cum No god but * man, whofe finnes deferue Gods rod. 
 
 hominibus fan- 
 
 guinem & ge- 
 
 mis mifcent. Star-flaring earthhng, puff d with infolence, 
 
 Conceipted of thy felfe without defert, 
 
 Comparing with the Deuine excellence, 
 
 For which thy follie, thou Jhalt feele the f mart ; 
 
 Do 
 
OF VAINEGLORIE. 21 
 
 • 
 
 Do not * thinke God willfuffer thee to raigne, 
 
 * Quicquid a 
 
 That jleights his workes, and takes his name in vaine. 
 
 vobis minor 
 extimefcet, 
 
 
 Maior hoc vo- 
 
 
 bis dominus 
 
 And as for Croefus, if he Hue for aye, 
 
 minatur. 
 
 Then will I thinke he is a god indeed : 
 
 
 But he ere longjhall haue a dying day, 
 
 
 And be inclqfed in an earthly weede. 
 
 
 Therefore fond Croefus, thinke but of thy gold, 
 
 
 As ruflicke people of the vilefl mold. 
 
 
 Yet thou mayfl * vse it Croefus, to thy good, 
 
 * The difference 
 
 So thou repofie no confidence therein, 
 
 betwixt the poore 
 •wanting, and 
 
 So thou abufe it not, it is allow 'd, 
 
 rich not vfing, is 
 by theje two ex- 
 
 Abufe, not vfe, is Author of the finne. 
 
 tfreffed, the one 
 carendo, the o- 
 
 Be not decerned through any falfe pretence, 
 
 ther non fruen- 
 do. 
 
 To hoord vp coine, and hurt thy confidence. 
 
 
 This is afimple traine, a net for fiooles, 
 
 
 Not able to deceiue * the wifer men. 
 
 * Sapiens ipfe 
 
 Fifihes befooner catcht, in glifilring pooles, 
 
 fingit fortunam 
 fibi. 
 
 Then in a troubled creuife, marfih or fen, 
 
 
 But wifefil fifihes, neuer will appeare, 
 
 Lucan. in bell. 
 Phar. 
 
 Where they perceiue thefimallefil caufie offeare. 
 
 
 Thus is the forme of wifiedome well explaned, 
 
 
 Euen in a Chrifilall glafife mofil eminent, 
 
 
 Wherein our diflinct natures are contained, 
 
 
 As in a Table aptly pertinent, 
 
 
 How that bewitcKd we are, in feeming good, 
 
 
 And that prooues poyfion which we tooke for food. 
 
 
 C 3 This 
 
22 
 
 OF CR V ELTIE. 
 
 This is my Satyre, Crcefus which I fend thee, 
 To tKend thou may ft admonifh'd be of this ; 
 I hope my Satyre will in time amend thee, 
 And draw thy mind from earth-opinion 'd bliffe, 
 Wherefore farewell, and if thou wilt be bleffed, 
 Flie from this rufl, by it thy mind 's opprejfed. 
 
 The Argument 
 
 TRogus Pompeius relateth in his generall Hi- 
 ftorie, how *Aflyages dreamed that there 
 fprong a vine forth of the wombe of his daughter 
 Mandanes, whofe broad-fpreading branches o- 
 uerfhadowed all Afia, wherefore to take away 
 the ground and foundation of his feare, hauing 
 vnderftood by the Magi, that by the vine was inti- 
 mated Cyrus, who mould ouerfhadow all Afia 
 with his victorious and conquering hand, he 
 commanded Harpagus one of his priuie Coun- 
 fell to take the babe and flay it, that whatfoeuer 
 his dreame imported, might by this meanes be 
 preuented : but Harpagus more copaflionate then 
 Afliages (though too remorceleffe) expofed it to 
 the crueltie of fauage beafts, where (fo carefull is 
 nature of her owne) it found more pittie in the 
 wild forreft, then in his grandfathers Pallace, be- 
 ing for fome dayes nourifhed by a fhe-wolfe or 
 
 bitch, 
 
OF CR V EL TIE. 23 
 
 bitch, ( whence Nurfes to this day referue the 
 name of Spacon,) and after found by one Faujlu- 
 lus a fhepheard, was deliuered to his wife to be 
 brought vp and nurfed : which fhe, delighted with 
 the chearfull countenance of the child, did accor- 
 dingly, till in tract of time Cyrus came to the vn- 
 expe6ted height of an Empire, and fullfilled thofe 
 predictions and Prophecies which were formerly 
 fpoken of him. This Argument haue I culled, to the 
 end my Satyre, vfmg the liberty of fo materiall an 
 Argument, may inueigh againft fuch as feeke by 
 all wayes to dilate and propagate the borders and 
 bounders of their kingdome, (not refpe6ting the 
 meanes, fo they may attaine the end) or ftrengthen 
 the continuance of their vniuft claime by finifter Hefiod. in ope- 
 meanes : not vnlike to Polynices and Eteocles in the n ' k die ' 
 Tragedie ; who though they were brethren, euen 
 the hapleffe children of wofull Oedipus, yet could 
 they not content themfelues with their peculiar „ , . 
 
 3 . . V Polynices & E- 
 
 fhares feuerally limited, and mutually allotted, but teocies mono- 
 muft crie :— Aut Ccefar, aut nullus : wherefore no decertantes, 
 they enioyed the fruites of feldome profpering bus condde- eu 
 deuifion, a Jhort reigne, attended on with perpetuall runt ' x ' ' 
 infamie after death. Wherefore that is the belt la- 
 bour or trauell, where they do * — Proponere la- * vide Ethico- 
 
 • ... . rum axiomata 
 
 borem vt cum virtute 6° iuflitia coniungant. This is &eorumpr«e- 
 
 /-77/T . . , , . 7- cipua ratioci- 
 
 the bejl Jlrife, the bejl contention, which (in a glorious nandi argume- 
 emulation) is conuerfant about vertue, not entertai- tiffimis princi- 
 ning an vniuft practice to gaine a kingdome, but ^ vinutum 6 "" 
 euer to conclude with Aurelius Sextus : — Ex pef- mmxa funt 
 fimo genere ne catulum : Man that is wicked in his 
 proceedings, getting an Empire by bloud (with- 
 C 4 out 
 
24 
 
 OF CR V EL TIE 
 
 * Polidorum 
 obtruncat & 
 auro vi potitur 
 3. jEnead. 
 
 out regard of election or defcent) may liue, and 
 for a while flourifh, but he fhall die without an 
 Heyre : therefore this Satyre is purpofely directed 
 to fuch, (with an equall reflex from fuperiour 
 to inferiour) as refpect not the meanes how to ob- 
 taine a kingdome, fo they may haue a kingdome, 
 agreeing with that in the Poet ; Regam, modum 
 regnandi non quceram. I will gouerne, though I 
 feeke not the meanes how to gouerne well : or 
 thus : / will gouerne, though I regard not the meanes 
 whereby I come to gouerne. Thus much for a wic- 
 ked Amulius, who will gouerne though it be by 
 the death or depofmg of his brother Numitor, or 
 an impious Pigmalion, who will murther Sychceus 
 his brother to be enioyer of his treafure, or a 
 faith-infringing Polymneflor, who betrayes the 
 trust of a Protector, in praying vpon the Orphane 
 Polydore. Of thefe my Satyre fhall intreate, and 
 brand them with the marke of an iniurious pof- 
 feffion. 
 
 THE FIFT SATYRE. 
 
 * Et fatu terra 
 nefando. 
 
 THou hellifh * brood, borne to thine owne offence, 
 Thou that wilt run into a streame of bloud, 
 Yet cries againe ; It's in mine owne defence, 
 Hauing no care ofvow-linckt brotherhood ; 
 Be thou thine owne deflroyer, thine owne foe, 
 And may thy confcience fret where ere thou goe. 
 
 What doeflt thou get, by getting of a crowne, 
 Depofmg him, that is the lawfull heire ? 
 
 But 
 
OF CR VEL TIE. 25 
 
 But cares andfeares, and forrowes of thine owne, 
 With * gajlly vifions, motiues to defpaire ? 
 Lament thy raigne, dominions got by wrong, 
 May floure awhile, but lajl they cannot long. 
 
 Though Numitor depof'd be by his brother, 
 Fate hath her Jlroke,fome Romulus will fpring, 
 Or if not Romulus, there will fome other 
 Depofe his greatneffe, make himfelfe a king. 
 Thus as he got his kingdome, fhedding * bloud, 
 He of his bloudie pur chafe reapes fmall good. 
 
 Where lurifdiclion is obtained by might, 
 
 Without apparent right vnto the crowne, 
 
 Shall foone exiinguifh all her former light, 
 
 And change her forme like to the warning Moone. 
 
 For such vfurping kings as aime at all, 
 
 Shall miffe their aime, and with their Scepter fall. 
 
 And thou Pigmalion, who art neuerfiVd, 
 
 But euer gapes for riches and for gold, 
 
 Till thou with might thy Brothers bloud haflfpiVd, 
 
 Or till thy yauning mouth beflopt with mold, 
 
 Either repent thy wrong, or thoufhalt heare, 
 
 A thoufand * Furies buzzing in thine eare. 
 
 Foolifh Aftyages that meanes to raigne, 
 
 And plant thy throne on earth eternally, 
 
 I tell thee (doting Xing) though thou difdaine, 
 
 Cyrus fhould raigne, he will part flakes with thee : 
 
 No, he'le haue all, thou art his fubiecl made, 
 
 And with his vine all Afia 's fhadowed. 
 
 Though 
 
 * As it is written 
 o/Auguft: that 
 he had broken 
 Jleepes and vfed 
 to fend for Jome 
 to pajfe the 
 night away in 
 telling tales or 
 holding him 
 with talke. 
 Tit. Liu. dec 3. 
 
 * As Mithrida- 
 tes was /aid to 
 plant his king- 
 dome on an in- 
 direct foundati- 
 on, Blood. Ap- 
 pian. Alexan. 
 
 De caede fra- 
 terna vberiori 
 modo exarata, 
 vid. Virgil. 1. 
 Lib. AEnead. 
 
 * A Tergo Ne- 
 mefis. 
 
26 
 
 OF CR V EL TIE. 
 
 Though thou do marry, and affure to wife, 
 Cambyfes. Thy fair e Mandanes, to a countrey * f quire, 
 
 That her meane marriage might fecure thy life, 
 A king fhall fpring from such an homely fire. 
 It is in vaine to plot, when gods refifl, 
 Who can defeate our proiecls as they lift. 
 
 What Polynices, wilt thou fight, with whom ? 
 With thine owne brother deare Eteocles ; 
 Will you contend, fince you be both as one ? 
 2 Brothers. * Cleon will neuer fight with Pericles ; 
 
 Then why will you, the childre?i of one fire, 
 Againfl each other mutually confpire ? 
 
 Fie on you both, what fauage crueltie, 
 Hath thus poffefl you in your tender age, 
 Brother gainfl brother mofl inhumanely, 
 To fihew your felues as Men in beaflly rage ? 
 Farewell vngodly Twins, borne for debate, 
 When Ruine knocks, Repentance comes too late. 
 
 Farewell Aflyages, that reignes for aye, 
 
 And thou Pigmalion, who dofit gape for wealth, 
 
 Amulius too, who learning to obay, 
 
 Perceiues how Realmes decline that's got by flealth. 
 
 Farewell, and if my tart lines chance to fpite ye, 
 
 My Satyrefayes, A dead dog cannot bite me. 
 
 The 
 
OF AD V L TERIE. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 CLytemneJlra Agamemnons wife, forfaking her 
 owne husband Agamemnon, ran to the vn- 
 chaft bed of ALgiJius, where fhe proftituted her 
 felfe, regardleffe of her birth, and neglectfull of 
 her honour. This Agamemnon perceiued, but 
 through the exceeding loue he bore her, feeming- 
 ly couered this her apparent dishonour, labou- 
 ring to reclaime her rather by clemencie then 
 rigour : but fhe perfifting in her hatefull luft and 
 vnlawfull affection, perfwaded sEgijlus by vr- 
 gent folliciting to continue in his former adulte- 
 rie, without regard to Agamemnons loue, or the 
 infamie of her owne life. And hauing not as yet 
 fpun the web of her mifchiefe, fhe feconds her laf- 
 ciuious attempt with a fecret practife, confpiring 
 with her fauourite sEgijlus her husbands death, 
 which was afterwards effected, but not vnreuen- 
 ged. This inftance fhall be the firft fubiect vnto 
 my Satyre ; wherein I meane to difplay the impu- 
 dencie of fuch, as out of a godleffe fecuritie, vfu- 
 ally auouch and iuftifie their wicked and fenfuall 
 pleafures with Phaedra in the Poet, writing to her „ 
 
 . . One'Jumfe hath 
 
 fonne in law Hyppolytus after this manner : held, one hou/e 
 
 * Vt tenuit domus vna duos, domus vna tenebit, twaine, once did 
 Ofcula aperta dabas, ofcula aperta dabis. 'wiiikifea- we 
 
 For fuch inceftuous Phcedraes, let them diuert their gMne - 
 
 eyes 
 
28 
 
 OF AD VLTERIE. 
 
 * The Mino- 
 tatire. 
 
 * Per fomnum 
 ardentem fa- 
 cem fe pepe- 
 riffe fentiens. 
 
 eyes to the enfuing Satyre, and then anfwer me, 
 whether they do not blufh at their decyphered 
 follie, which more apparent then light will ftiew 
 it felfe to euery eye : for the retiredft angle or cor- 
 ner cannot giue vice a couer, whofe memorie may 
 be darkned, but not extinguifhed : nor can the 
 wide wombe of the earth find her a graue where- 
 in to interre her, being like Pafyphaes iffue, * euer 
 a fhame to the Parent. And as Hecubaes fonne, 
 portending * deftru6tion to the Troian Citie, was 
 thought fit to be caften forth, left the euent there- 
 of fhould be anfwerable to the Prophefie : fo fhall 
 this accurfed iffue, this execrable Progenie fhew 
 it felfe, and be fitter for cafting forth then prefer- 
 uing, fince Clytemnejlra fhall feele the edge of 
 cruelty, and the fcourge of deuine furie. 
 
 THE SIXT SATYRE. 
 
 * Quaritur AE- 
 giftus quare fit 
 fadlus adulter 
 in promptu 
 caufa eft, defi- 
 diofus erat. 
 Oztid. 
 
 WHat Clytemneftra, cont'd fofoone abroad, 
 Forth ^^Egiftus bed thy husband 's foe / 
 What is the caufe thou makeft fo Jhort abode, 
 Is it becaufe thy hufband wills theefo ? 
 No it's becaufe * he's weary of thy finne, 
 Which he once fought, but now is cloyed in. 
 
 What's that thou weares about thy downie necke ? 
 it's a painted heart, a Jewell ft, 
 For wanton Minions who their beauties decke, 
 With garifh toyes, new Suiters to begit : 
 Thou hafl a painted heart for chaflitie, 
 But a true heart for thy adulterie. 
 
 Speake 
 
OF AD V L TERIE. 
 
 29 
 
 Speake on Adultreffe, let me heare thy tongue, 
 Canjl varnijh ore thy fin with * eloquence ? 
 Silence ; fuch finnes Jhould make thefinner dumbe, 
 And force hisfpeech to teare-fwolne penitence ; 
 Do not thenjhadow thy lafciuious deeds, 
 For which the heart #/" Agamemnon bleeds. 
 
 Leaue of (foule flrumpet : keepe thy hufbands bed, 
 Thou hafil no intereft in yEgiftus fheetes : 
 Infamous acls, though clofely done arefpred, 
 And will be blazed and rumour 'd in theflreetes. 
 Fliefrom this fcandall, left it foile thy name, 
 Which blemijht once, is nere made good againe. 
 
 Is not thy hufband worthy of thy hue ? 
 Too worthy hufband of a worthleffe whoore, 
 Then rather chufe to die then to remoue : 
 Thy chafl-vowd fleps from Agamemnons boore ? 
 He's thine, thou his, O * may it then appeare, 
 Where ere he is, that thou art onely there. 
 
 But for Hyppolitus to be incited 
 By his flep-mother, O incefluous ! 
 And to his * fathers bed to be inuited : 
 What fact was euer heard more odious ? 
 But fee (chafl youth) though fihe perfwade him to it, 
 Nature forbids, and he's afhamed to do it. 
 
 * You * painted Monkies that will nere reflraine, 
 Your hote defires from luflspurfuing chafe, 
 Shall be confumed in a quenchleffe flame, 
 Not reft of grief e, though you were reft of grace. 
 
 Bereft 
 
 * Infipiens elo- 
 quentia, vti 
 gladius in fu- 
 rentis manu, no 
 obeffe maxime 
 non poteft. 
 Mirand. inland. 
 Herm. 
 
 * Vfi n g the 
 words of that 
 chajl Romane 
 Matron : where 
 thou art Cams, I 
 am Caia. 
 
 Tkefetis. 
 
 * The Amplica- 
 tion of the Mo- 
 rall. 
 
 * Quis fucum in 
 proba virgine 
 non damnet ? 
 Quis in veflali 
 non deteftetur ? 
 Pic. Mirand. in 
 Epijl. 
 
30 
 
 OF INCEST. 
 
 * Si puellam 
 viderimus rao- 
 ribus lepidam 
 atq ; dicaculam, 
 laudabimus, 
 exofculabimus : 
 hsc in matro- 
 na damnabi- 
 mus & perfe- 
 quemur. ibid. 
 
 Bereft of grace, and buried injhame, 
 Regardleffe of your honour, birth, or name. 
 
 I can difcerne you by your wanton toyes, 
 Your ftrutting like Dame Iuno in her throne, 
 Cafling concealed fauours vnto boyes : 
 Thefe common things are into habits growne, 
 And when you haue no fauours to be/low, 
 Lookes are the lures which draw ajfeclions bow. 
 
 Truft me I bluJJi, to fee your impudence, 
 Sure you no women * are, whofe brazen face, 
 Shewes mode/lie ha's there no refidence, 
 Incarnate diuels that are pafl all grace ; 
 Yet fometimes wheat e growes with the fruitleffe tares, 
 You haue f aline oft, now fall vnto your prayers. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 WHofoeuer will but confider the fortune, 
 or rather misfortune of Tereus for his 
 wickedneffe, mail behold as in a glaffe or tranf- 
 parent mirror, the fruite of adulterous beds. For 
 his licencious and inordinate luft contained with- 
 in no bounds, but continuing in all prohibited 
 defires, and now purfuing with an inceftuous 
 heate Phylomele his wiues filler, hath transformed 
 himfelfe into a reafonleffe creature ; for now Te- 
 reus 
 
OF INCEST. 
 
 31 
 
 Tlie Harpyes. 
 
 reus in_ Vpubam changeth his former nature and 
 condition, becoming in fhape as odious, as his 
 life was impious, as the Poet teftifieth : 
 
 Vertitur in volucrem, cuijlant pro vertice crijice. 
 Thus may adulterous want-graces looke into Te- 
 reus fall, and then apply his ruine to their prefent 
 ftate. I gather thefe Arguments out of fictions and 
 Poeticall inuentions, yet are not thefe fables 
 without their deuine Morals ; for fuch men as are 
 touched with this crime or the like, ought to be 
 afhamed of their follie, mice the very heathen 
 Poets, whofe belt of facred knowledge was the 
 light of Nature, could exclaime againft them, 
 and pourtray the forme of their hues in a fained 
 inuention. For to exemplifie fpeciall punifhments 
 inflicted on particular finnes, * Those birds which . 
 ftill frequented Phineus armie, and annoyed him 
 with fuch a filthy fent, that euen vpon fhip- 
 boord they would come flocking to his Nauie, 
 and bring a loathfome ftench, whereby they vfed 
 to infecl: his meate, neuer departing from him, ei- 
 ther morne or night, but would — Efcopulis exi- 
 re, 6° vniuerfam claffem teterrimo fcetore inficere. 
 Wherefore was this, but forafmuch as by the per- 
 fwafion of his fecond wife Idcea, he put forth the 
 eyes of his children had by his firft * wife ? of which * cieopatra. 
 in the latter part of this Satyre I meane efpecially 
 to infifl, declaring by way of aggrauation the wic- 
 kedneffe of fuch Iniujitz Nouercce, who will tyran- 
 nife ouer their flepchildren, refpeclleffe of Fhi- 
 neus punifhment or Idceas vexation. And though 
 fome obie6t, that thefe Arguments be but fruit- 
 
 leffe 
 
32 
 
 OF INCEST. 
 
 * Quern fecere 
 parem crimina, 
 fata parem. 
 Ibid. 
 
 * Par tibi culpa 
 fuit, par tibi 
 pena fubit. alib. 
 Nee culpa eft 
 leuior, nee tibi 
 psena minor. 
 
 leffe inuentions hatched forth of Poets braines ; 
 yet muft they of force confeffe ingenuoufly, that 
 their Morals conferre no leffe benefit, then if de-. 
 riued from a truer fubiect : for whofoeuer will not 
 beware of Idceas fact, fhall vndergo Idceas * punifli- 
 ment ; let them therefore auoyd the fact prece- 
 dent or let them expect the punifhment fubfe- 
 quent. 
 
 THE SEVENTH SATYR E. 
 
 HOw now fond Tereus, whither rid^flfofafl, 
 To Progne or to Itis ? O, it's true, 
 Thou goejl vnto thy fifter, made vnchafl, 
 By thy enforced rape, forfhe nere knew 
 What lufts-embraces meant, till thou hadfi taught her, 
 Which gaue her caufe of forrowing euer after. 
 
 Come backe againe, go to thy chafl wiues bed, 
 Wrong not the honour of a fpotleffe wife, 
 What fruit e yeelds luft when thou hafl furfeted, 
 But wretched death, drawne from a wicked life? 
 Returne fond luflfull man, do not di/Jwnour 
 Poore Phylomele, for heauens eyes looke on her. 
 
 * Forfitan & 
 narres quam fit 
 tibi ruftica 
 coniux. 
 
 // may be thou alledg'fl, * rujlicity 
 Appeareth in thefajhions of thy Deare ; 
 Is this a cloake to Hue licentioufly ? 
 No, if her breeding more vnciuill were, 
 Thefe fhould not be occaflons of thy Jhame, 
 For in difcretion thou Jhouldfl couer them. 
 
 Thou 
 
OF INCEST. 33 
 
 Thou art that Ruflicke,fhe the modeft flower, 
 
 Not feeking for to grow with other plants 
 
 Then with thy selfe, though thou for euery boore, 
 
 Suites thy affeclion, yet affeclion wants : 
 
 She * loues, thou lufts, thine is a borrowed name, Am . or perennk 
 
 Forjhamefafl loue needs neuer blu/h for fhame. manet. Sen. in. 
 
 J , J Oftau. 
 
 How now Prince Phineus, where' s thy childrens eyes, 
 Are they put out, who mou'd thee to offend ? 
 Was it Idaea, whom the gods defies ? 
 Whom neither heauen nor earth can well commend. 
 It was Idaea, fhe the Step-dame cries, 
 Hafle, Phineus hafle, pull out thy childrens eyes. 
 
 Hile do it for thee, there's no queflion why, 
 To f aire Idaea, chafl Queene to his bed, 
 Hefhould the murdring of his foule deny, 
 Much leffe to caufe his childrens bloud befhed ; 
 See ftep-dames fee, how hatefull is your guilt, 
 When to raife yours, anothers bloud is fpilt ! 
 
 Murder thy children, put out Orphans eyes, 
 God cannot falue their extreame heauineffe : 
 He cannot heare them when they make their cries, 
 Nor can he comfort them in their diflreffe. 
 Yes, he can heare and fee, and though he come 
 With a flow pace, he will at la/lflrike home. 
 
 Then grieue, but let not grief e driue to defpaire ; 
 Trufl, but let Truft breed no fecuritie, 
 For crying finnes when they prefuming are, 
 Oft wound fo deepe they find no remedie. 
 
 D Farewell 
 
Nttmenitis. 
 
 34 OF BLASP HEMIE. 
 
 Farewell Idaea, may my Satyre heare, 
 
 For each bloud-drop tttaftjhed, thoujhedjl a teare. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 THe Argument of this Satyre fhall be againft 
 all wicked Iulians, all godleffe Apoftates. And 
 though in the third Satyre I haue touched this Ar- 
 gument briefly : yet now more amply meane I 
 to deblazon the forlorne condition of thefe vnna- 
 turall monfters. For to produce the Authorities & 
 Opinions of the very heathen Phylofophers, they 
 haue generally concluded, not onely a God, but a 
 Trinitie, Three in-beings or perfons coeffentiall. As 
 firfl the Platonifts, who haue concluded a Minder, 
 Minding, and a Minded, but the chiefe hereof the 
 Minder. From the Platonifts let vs defcend to the 
 The Pythag. Pythagorians, amongft whom Numenius moft 
 worthie for his learning (infomuch as Porphyrie a 
 man of ripe iudgement and pregnant conceit, 
 albeit a profeft enemie of Chrift, wrote many 
 feuerall Commentaries vpon him) fpeaketh thus: 
 Touching the Indiuiduate effence of God, it is 
 compact of it felfe in one, fubfifting of none, in 
 and of himfelfe alone, not to be contained or cir- 
 cumfcribed within any limits or bounds, being 
 euer during in time, before time, and without 
 time ; incomprehenfible in his works, indiuifible, 
 
 in 
 
OF BLASPHEMIE. 35 
 
 in his fubflance infubftantiate. The Academicks TheAcadem. 
 in like fort conclude the fame, yeelding to an om- 
 nipotent power, working according to the diuine 
 will of the worker; wherein they giue excellent 
 inftances and fimilitudes in the * Sunne, and the * The Sumu, 
 heate proceeding from the Sunne, drawing from heate alluding 
 thence a fmgular argument to proue the diuine Trinitie 
 Trinitie. Zeno the father of the Stoicks, acknow- Stoicks ' 
 ledged the Word to be God, and also the fpirit of 
 Iupiter. Thus Academicks of later times, Sto- 
 icks, Pythagorians, and Platonifts, confeffe this 
 heauenly power : and fhall we who are borne in 
 the dayes of light and truth deny the fame ? Her- „ , . , 
 
 jo J Hermes hts de- 
 
 nies can conclude, how — Radii deuini funt eius o-f c v-$tionofthe 
 
 diuerfe wor- 
 
 porationes niirce,Radij mundani funt natures erremm kings. 
 
 fimilitudines varice, Radij humanifunt artes &fcien- 
 
 tice. And fhall we confeffe the later, but not the 
 
 firft, from whence the later be deriued ? Plato in his 
 
 13. Epiftle to King Dennis writeth thus. When I x-sEpist.toKing 
 
 write in earned, you fhall know hereby, that I be- sene.inEpiji.ad 
 
 gin with one God; but when I write otherwife, 
 
 then I begin with many gods. Ariftotle likewife 
 
 that ferious inquifitor in the fecrets of Nature, 
 
 could fav : — Ens entium miferere mei. Thus are our _ , 
 
 » J God was not 
 
 Atheifts conuinced by Pagans : for neither Or- made at any 
 phuus whofe inuention gaue that opinion of plu- as he is eueria- 
 ralitie of gods firft footing, nor Diagoras the &- Jtte% y G,t\£n. 
 thenian, who denied that there was any God, 
 were exempted from feuereft cenfure, the one ha- 
 uing his opinions publickly refelled, the other for 
 his contempt of the gods, expulfed. For fuch no- 
 uell opinions as Antiquity had not traduced vnto 
 D 2 them, 
 
36 OF BLASPHEMIE. 
 
 them, but feemed repugnant to what they belee- 
 ued touching their gods, were efteemed peri- 
 lous, and the founders of them worthie due pu- 
 nifhment. And how much more ought we reue- 
 rently to obferue and carefully retaine what Sa- 
 cred authoritie, grounded on better warrant then 
 Pagan Antiquitie, hath commended to vs, where 
 euery claufe, euery fyllable, fentence and title are 
 full of fententious fweetneffe, and diuine fulneffe ? 
 As for the palpable blindneffe of fuch as fee not, 
 or wilfull ignorance of fuch as fee but will not, 
 the time will come when He, whom they denie 
 fhall reueale himfelfe in furie, and thofe groffe o- 
 pinions which with fuch affeuerance they main- 
 tained, fhall be teftimonies againft them to con- 
 uince them. And though, as Suetonius witneffeth, 
 there be some, who like Caligula will threaten the 
 aire, that fhe fhall not raine vpon his publicke 
 games or ftately fpedtacles, fhewing himfelfe fo 
 peremptorie, as though he would cope with the 
 yid. Sueton. immortall Gods, yet would he — ad minima toni- 
 CaKg. trua, 6° fulgura conniuere, caput obuoluere, ad vero 
 
 maiora proripere fe e Jlrato, fub leclumq condere fo- 
 lebat : at the noife of thunder or lightning winke 
 hard, couer his head, and flop his eares, to take a- 
 way the occafion of his feare : yea more then this, 
 he would leape out of his bed and hide himfelfe 
 vnder it. Thus did he contemne him whofe works 
 made him tremble, derogating from his power, 
 yet aftonifhed with the voice of his thunder : and 
 though in his time and his predeceffor Tiberius 
 1 Phyu the lew. there flourifhed a * worthie Philofopher, who all- 
 
 beit 
 
OF BLASPHEMIE. 37 
 
 beit a lew by nation, yet frequent amongft the 
 Romanes, had great iudgement in matters diuine, 
 and fpake profoundly of the things which belon- 
 ged vnto the expectation of Nations : Notwith- 
 ftanding all this, they continued without the leaft 
 acknowledgement of a Deitie, and in contempt 
 of the diuine power, threatning the heauens if 
 they fcouled or frowned vpon the Romane game- 
 fters, as I haue before mentioned. Whereby it 
 feemes they repofed fuch confidence in the height 
 of their prefent eftate, as they imagined fo firme 
 a foundation could be fhaken by no Superiour 
 power ; for indeed worldly pompe makes men for 
 the moft part forgetful of their duty towards their 
 Creator, thinking (as men in a fooles Paradife) 
 that this prefent Sunfhine of their feeming felici- 
 tie fhall neuer fet. Yet no fooner fhall hoarie age 
 draw neare, then — friget ceflus honoris, and their 
 former chearefulneffe enfeebled with all infirmi- 
 ties, fhall with lame limmes and a queafie voice 
 crie out, — -Non eadem eft cetas : then fhall the cure- 
 leffe itch of honor by the brine of age be allayed, 
 youthfull fports abandoned, and a quiet life ra- Petitur hac 
 ther defired then magnificence of eftate. Conclu- Cffi um via " 
 ding with Seneca the Phylofopher, inueying a- 
 gainft the tyrannie of Nero to this effect : 
 
 Well did I Hue, when I from enuie rid, 
 
 Was pent vp 'mongfl the Rocks of tK Corf an fea, 
 
 Where if I flill had liu'd as once I did, 
 
 Well had it gone both with my flate and me. o/A S rip. 
 
 For whofoeuer fhall but feriously confider the 
 ftate and courfe of mans life, which is intangled 
 D 3 with 
 
38 
 
 OF BLASPHEMIE. 
 
 with fo fundrie and manifold perills, lhall call it 
 with the Poet, — mundum vitro fimilantem, where 
 life is an exile, the paffage a perill, and the end 
 doubtfull. Thus farre of those who either with 
 fucceffe of fortune puffed, or height of honour 
 tranfported, or through a carnall libertie benum- 
 med, truft fo much in the arme of flefh, as they 
 wholly denie the power and maieftie of the onely 
 God (or foueraigne good) preferring a momen- 
 tanie delight before a celeftiall reward. Now to 
 my Satyre. 
 
 THE EIGHT SATYRE. 
 
 * Modo auari- 
 tise fingulos in- 
 crepans, & 
 quod puderet 
 eos locuple- 
 tiores effe, qua. 
 ie. in vit. Calig. 
 
 NOw Jlout Caligula that dar'fl the gods, 
 Saying, they mufl not frowne vpon thy pleafure, 
 Thou and immortall powers are JIM at odds, 
 Whofe * gold's thy god, whofe deities thy treafure. 
 ThouHt feele the f mart hereof, when thy ejiate, 
 Founded on frailtie JJiall be ruinate. 
 
 Thou wilt not feare him while thou Hues on earth, 
 Though life and power, and all be in his hand, 
 ThouUt fight with him (poore worme) that giues thee 
 
 breath, 
 And with the breath of flefh checke Ioues command. 
 Vnhappie Prince, though thou the happiefl feeme, 
 This reigne of thine is but a golden dreame. 
 
 And when this dreame is pajl, and thou awake, 
 From thy foule-charming Jlumber thou mujl on, 
 
 Ta- 
 
OF BLASPHEM IE. 
 
 Taking thy tourney to the * Stygian lake, 
 Or flame exhaling quenchleffe Phlegeton, 
 Where poyfoned Adders Jhall infecl thy tongue, 
 Which didfo impioufly her maker wrong. 
 
 Flie from the horror of thy damned foule, 
 
 Forfure ere long thou ffialt be punijhed. 
 
 See how thy foule deformed is and foule, 
 
 Soiled with finne, with errours blemifhed. 
 
 O * wajh them then, fome hope doth yet remaine, 
 
 But now vnwajht they'le nere be white againe ! 
 
 Art not ajham'dfor to denie his power, 
 Who giueth life vnto each liuing thing ? 
 To heauen, to earth, to fea, and to each flower, 
 He giueth meanes, for by him all things fpring. 
 Who will not then, and knonring this, account 
 The earth's the Lords, and he's Lord Paraniount ? 
 
 39 
 
 * Sperent te 
 tartara regem. 
 
 * Chriftus laua- 
 cru eft animal, 
 canalis gratis : 
 Lauacrum, in 
 quo anima im- 
 mergitur & la- 
 uatur, Canalis, 
 a qua omnis 
 gratia anima; 
 deriuatur. 
 
 Doeft thou not fee the fabricke of this earth, 
 And all the plants which flourifh in their kind, 
 How by his power each creature bringeth forth, 
 As if indeed they knew their makers mind : 
 Where th'very earth-worme that's endu'd with fence, 
 Is not excluded from his * prouidence ? 
 
 Then leaue this damn'd opinion, Iulian, 
 Be not too confident of earthly rule : 
 Remember flill thou art a mortall man, 
 And in his power who can thefeas controule. 
 It's he can make this earths foundation Jhudder, 
 Whose Empires reach from one Sea to another. 
 
 Z>4 Yet 
 
 * The very hedg- 
 hog is not exclu- 
 ded from his pro- 
 uidence. Aug. 
 
40 OF BLASP HE MIE. 
 
 Yet thou Caligula canfl threat the gods, 
 
 If they defcend but in a winters Jhowre, 
 
 Andfaifl in f come, ThouHt beate them with thy rods, 
 
 If they hold on, vpon thy games to lowre. 
 
 Yet cowardize conflraines thee for to fie, 
 
 At euery flajh, and like a Babe to crie. 
 
 Thou'lt menace death vnto Eternitie, 
 If they obey not thy imperious pleafure : 
 Thus gods themfelues mufl feele thy tyrannie, 
 Enioynd to dance attendance at thy leyfure : 
 Yet for all this, if thou but Thunder heares, 
 Thou pulls thy cap downe ore thy frighted eares. 
 
 So euery falfe Apoflate will be flout, 
 Before he feele the Viols of Gods wrath : 
 But when he tafls thereof he gins to doubt, 
 
 \nthIZal e tf g And calls to mind how he * forfooke his faith. 
 
 d foTme W foids him His fall from which, conf effing with his long, 
 from the faith jf{ s tongue is f peaking, but his heart is dombe. 
 
 from -which he ° JX ° 
 
 fell. 
 
 Dumbe fhalt thou be, for heauen will haue it fo, 
 
 Since thou appliefl thy tongue to wickedneffe, 
 
 Abufing that, gainfl him who did beflow 
 
 All that thou hafl, this '.? thy vnthankefulnes. 
 
 Yet but relent, and doubt not to obtaine, 
 
 That heauenly grace, which elfe thou canfl not gaine. 
 
 Graceleffe beware, and feare the power of heauen, 
 Who can deflroy thee in a minutes f pace, 
 * Exceifa humi- He who can make, the * fleepefl mountaines euen, 
 KdtidT" tVhofefootfloole's earth, 6- heauen his dwelling place, 
 
 Feare 
 
OF BEGGARIE. 41 
 
 Feare, graceleffe feare, and thoujhalt Hue for euer, 
 For f tare giues life to death, health to the liuer. 
 
 Liue thoujhalt neuer, if thou do not care 
 Tojhew respect to thfupreme Maiejlie, 
 He whom we feare, who tenders our welfare, 
 And guides vs in this vale of miferie. 
 Pagan thou art, vnleffe thou do amend, 
 Whose endleffe finnes expecl a * wofull end. 
 
 Therefore as thou regardjl thy fweete foules health, 
 Or honour of thy Maker, now reclaime 
 Thy breach of faith flain' 'd with the worlds filth, 
 If thou afonne of Syon meanes to raigne. 
 Fare well or ill; if well thou meanes to fare, 
 Vnto the Temple of thy God repaire. 
 
 * Iulian and Fa- 
 lix had both nti- 
 Jerable ends : 
 while Iulian 
 that impious 
 Apojlate conti- 
 nued in his blaf- 
 phemie : Ecce 
 quam fumptuo- 
 fis vafis filio 
 Mariae mini- 
 ftratur ! vid. Ve- 
 nerab. Bed. 3. lii. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 HYppeas that worthy Grecian, who ftroue for 
 the games in the Olympiads, wore no other 
 apparell faue what with his owne handes ( being a 
 generall Artift) he had framed, hauing not fo 
 much as the ring of his finger, or bracelet about 
 his arme, but were made by him, yea & the fhooes 
 of his feete, which with his owne skill he made 
 likewife. This Hyppeas hauing gained the chiefeft 
 prizes by meanes of his actiuitie ; and now retur- 
 ning 
 
42 OF BEGGARIE. 
 
 ning in the triumph of a Conquerour with a Co- 
 ronet of floures empaled, to receiue the propo- 
 fed reward : the publicke Notarie of thefe games 
 came (according to the wonted cuftome vfually 
 obferued) to demaund the beft raiment or choy- 
 ceft particular ornament the Conquerour had a- 
 bout him. Now this fellow, whom continuance 
 of time had made impudent, feeing the bountie 
 of the conquering Hippeas, according to the man- 
 ner, receiued the beft raiment the Victor wore : 
 and fcarce contented therewith, (like an infati- 
 gable fuiter) begged farther his ftockings, and 
 Hyppeas denied him nothing. So long he conti- 
 nued in begging, and he in giuing, till Hyppeas 
 went naked forth of the Olympiads, hauing no- 
 thing wherewith he might fhew his friends any 
 femblance of conqueft or victorie, faue his na- 
 ked bodie, which he prefented vnto them, vfmg 
 these words vnto the Notarie : — What I haue gi- 
 uen thee, I would haue bejlowed on my profeffedft ene- 
 my, for fuch motiues of vaineglory Jhould rather 
 moue me to loath them then loue them, leaue them, 
 then Hue with them, remembring, how 
 The f age Eutrapelus exprefly bad, 
 His foes fhould haue the choyceft robes he had, 
 Wherein he found by proof e this fpeciall good, 
 To make himfelfe more humble, them more proud. 
 The name of this begger was Mynthos, who ha- 
 uing thus polled & fpoiled this worthy Conqueror 
 of all his apparell through his importunacie in de- 
 manding, prefently thus anfwered one by whom 
 he was sharpely taxed : Nemo ejl quin aliqua in 
 
 arte 
 
OF BEGGARIE. 43 
 
 arte prceclarus efl, ego autem in prcemia 6° vejlimenta 
 comparando, palniam 6° gloriam adeptus fum meque 
 diuitem ex aliorum paupertate feci. This fhall be 
 the Argument of this ninth Satyre, touching im- 
 pudent crauers : Thefe — Iri egentes, of whom the 
 Poet fpeaketh, who make themfelues rich by 
 their feruile bafeneffe, and as Vultures feede beft 
 vpon the ftinkingft carrion, fo they vpon others 
 riot, prodigalitie, and diffolution, fucking like the 
 Sangui-fugce, who feede themfelues with bloud 
 till they burft. Reafon haue I to inuey againfl 
 them, fmce Ifrael the elect and sele6l people of 
 God were not to receiue them — Let there be no 
 begger in Ifrael. Time was not then for Parafites 
 to currie fauour, when none was to haue reliefe 
 but by his labor ; fo exprefly was euery one enioy- 
 ned to apply his vocation, that * he who would not f £ ^> 19 ' 
 labour /Iwuld not eate. And may thefe infatiable Pro Jf,- s- i s- 
 
 . . . *• The/. 4. 11. 
 
 Mynthes tafte the like fare, being deriued from 
 as bafe beginnings as they are oftimes aduanced 
 without merit to great meanes and poffeffions, 
 yea compofed of as ignoble and degenerate 
 minds, as they are fprong of ingenerous bloud. 
 
 THE NINTH SATYRE. 
 
 HYppeas, your cloake I craue, that is my due, 
 Your flockings too, andfuch like toyes as thefe, 
 Free to beflow a Bountie were in you, 
 And yet a debt, for you to know my fee's. 
 But Debt to mention I do think 't vnfit, 
 When Bountie is fo neare to anfwer it. 
 
 And 
 
44 OF BEGGARIE. 
 
 And yet I want, and yet what can I want, 
 When He of whom 'I craue 's fo prone to giue ? 
 Whenflore by Ioue isfent, there is no f cant, 
 
 All famine leaue, and all in plentie Hue. 
 
 See what thou wants then Minthos, and but craue it, 
 
 Hyppeus isflor'd, and thou art fure to haue it. 
 
 Belt, Beuer, Buskin, view from top to toe, 
 See what thou wants his Wardrope will fupply, 
 And laugh at him when thou haft vfd him fo, 
 And bid him triumph in his victory. 
 Let him go naKd, and boafl what he hath done, 
 Whilefl thou enioyes the Booties he hath won. 
 
 Tfte truede/crii. ^^ tearme him Prince ofbountie, and requite 
 tum of a Para- j n j~ eem { n g Proteflations , and in vowes, 
 
 Yet care not for him when he's out of fight ; 
 For thofe thriue befl who can make fair eft Jhows : 
 In f peaking much, but little as they meane, 
 And being fuch, but not the fame they feeme. 
 
 * Satis domi / would I could, thus maifl * thou bring him on, 
 toram hateo. I could extend my wealth vnto my will, 
 Pint, invit. Ti- j would erecltofhow what you haue done, 
 Some Time-outliuing Monument, to fill 
 The world with amazement, when they heare 
 What you haue bene, and what your aclions were. 
 
 And then impart thy want, how fortunes are 
 Vnequally deuided, yet to fuch 
 As He whofe Bountie giues to each his fhare, 
 Though much he hath, yet ha's he not too much : 
 
 And 
 
OF BEGGARIE. 
 
 45 
 
 And then with cap in hand befeech his worth, 
 
 
 Be good to thee, that's borne of obfcure birth. 
 
 
 Indeed thou feemes to be an obfcure Affe, 
 
 
 A fpacious Beggar, begging euery where, 
 
 Vid. Peril, in 
 Satyr. 
 
 Who wilt not fuffer a patcht boote to pajfe, 
 
 
 But thou wilt beg it for thy leg that's bare. 
 
 
 Indeed too bare thou art, too impudent, 
 
 
 That with thy owneflate canfl not be content. 
 
 
 Pefantlike Baflard, hate thy Beggarie, 
 
 
 Hue on thy owne, not on anothers flate ; 
 
 
 Thou that defcendefl from bafe penurie, 
 
 
 Wilt by thy Begging Hue at higher rate ? 
 
 Vid. Iuuenai. 
 
 Numbred thou art amongfl fuch men as begs, 
 
 Saty. 
 
 The fmoke of Chimnies, fnuffes, and Vintners dregs. 
 
 Thou art defam'd, for all deride thy kneeling, 
 
 
 Thy capping, cringing, and thy tempo?'izing, 
 
 
 As if thou hadfl of modeflie no feeling, 
 
 
 But from anothers razing drew thy rifing. 
 
 
 Well, for thy begging we will beg for thee, 
 
 
 The Pattent of dif grace and infamie. 
 
 
 So with thy wallet as a beggar fhould, 
 
 Quahs es, talis 
 
 Be not afham'd to feeme that which thou art, 
 
 appare. 
 
 Sowe patch on patch, to keepe thee from the cold, 
 
 
 Andfhew thy want in each feame-re?ited part : 
 
 
 But do not rere thy fortunes on mens fall, 
 
 
 For fuch bafe Beggars are the worfl of all. 
 
 / 
 
4 6 
 
 OF BEGGARIE. 
 
 Vultum verba 
 decent. Horat. 
 
 A Satyres na- 
 titie Rhetoricke. 
 
 * Eupolis, Ari- 
 Jlobitlus, Arifte- 
 as, &>c. 
 
 Debemur mor- 
 ti nos noftraq ;. 
 
 I write not to thee in a fublime Jiile, 
 Such is vnfit thy errors to conuince ; 
 Satyres though rough, are plaine and mujl reuile 
 
 Vice with a Cynicke bluntneffe, as long fence 
 * Thqfe graue iudicious Satyrijls did vfe, 
 
 Who did not taxe the time, but times abufe. 
 
 And yet Iwijh my pen were made offteele, 
 And euery leafe, a leafe of lajling braffe, 
 Which might beare record to this Commonweale, 
 When this Age's paf, to Ages that JJiall pajfe. 
 But * thefe as others mujl,jhall lofe their name, 
 And we their Authors too mujl die with them. 
 
 Yet well I know, IJhall Characlerd be, 
 In liuing letters, prouing what I write, 
 To be authenticke to pofteritie, 
 To whom this Ages vices I recite. 
 Which, much I doubt, as they're fucceffiue fill, 
 By courfe of yeares,fo they' le fucceed in ill. 
 
 For vice nere dyes intefate, but doth leaue, 
 Something behind, to Jhew what it hath bene ; 
 
 Yea canting knaues that hang on others feeue, 
 Can charge their heiresftill to purfue theflreame, 
 
 Where Iohn afyle bequeathes to Iohn a noke, 
 His Beggars rags, his dijh, his f crip, his poke. 
 
 With which He beg ; no, with ?nyfoule Ifcorne it, 
 He rather carrie tankards on my backe ; 
 Yet th' trade is thriuing, true, but Fue forfworne it, 
 Nor would I beg, though competent I lacke. 
 
 Before 
 
OF BEGGARIE. 
 
 Before IJhould make congies to afwayne, 
 I would forfweare to take my legs againe, 
 
 I am but poore, and yet If come to beg, 
 To be a Baflard to my Progenie, 
 Yea I will rather with * Sy cites feg, 
 Receiue my death, then get me infamie. 
 Fie be a galley flaue in Turkifhfliip, 
 Rather then f crape my crums out of a scrip. 
 
 47 
 
 * Poyfon. 
 Sy cites fig. 
 a Prouerbe. 
 
 Bias was poore, and yet his wealth increafed, 
 All that he had he carried ftill about him ; 
 Bias is dead, his goods by death are feifed, 
 Mydas is poore, his goods were all without him. 
 Bias and Mydas both agree in this, 
 Earths bliffe when wire in earth quite vaniJK'd is. 
 
 Vid. dia. Cre- 
 tenfmm. 
 
 a Candaules he was rich, yet he was poore, 
 Rich in his coffers rammed downe with gold, 
 Yet poore in this, his wife did proite a whoore, 
 Showne naked vnto Gyges to behold. 
 Collatine poore, yet rich, his wife is chafl, 
 Both thefe agree in this, by death embrdfl. 
 
 a Candaules in 
 primo libro Iu- 
 ftini, Qui often- 
 dens earn Gigi 
 ( depofita vefte ) 
 tantse infanise 
 pasnas luit, 
 a Gige enim 
 confoditur mi- 
 ra virtute an- 
 nuli cooperto. 
 Vnde Poeta ; 
 coniugis vt nu- 
 dam fpeciem 
 monftraffet a- 
 mico : 
 
 Dilectam fpeci- 
 em perdit, ami- 
 cus habet. 
 
 Quafi filentium damnum pulchritudinis effet. ibid. Vid. Cic. deqff. 3. Lib. Plato, de leg. I. 1. 
 b Irus, qui in domo Vliffis poft reditum fuum, ab Vliffe, pugna nimirum eius, per- 
 emptus eft ; Irus qui Scrinio fuo & Obba in platseis Grecise mendicare folebat, fuper- 
 bia quadam (aut fpe fuauioris lucri) affectus, in Penelopem, inter Penelopis focios, 
 (vt nuncius potius quam procus) accedere aufus eft ; — Dignum fupplicium pertulit, 
 quia tanta animi audacia (more procacis mendici) in lares confularis dignitatis viri 
 procedere aufit. Vid. Horn. Hi. i7iterp. Calab. 
 
 Is 
 
 b Irus was poore, but Croefus paffing rich, 
 
 Irus his f crip differs from Croefus boord, 
 
 Yet now compare them and I know not which, 
 
4 8 
 
 OF BEGGARIE. 
 
 * Demqfthenes 
 nn Orator of A - 
 
 thens. 
 
 * Virga fepul- 
 
 chralis. 
 
 Varr. 
 
 * Pafcentur a 
 nobis quae pa - 
 cuntur in nobis. 
 Vermes. 
 
 Is better furnifK d or the worferflor'd : 
 For fee their fates, they both in one agree, 
 Since by pale Death they both arrefied be. 
 
 Prifcillaes purfe, * Demofthenes his hand, 
 
 Do differ much, the one is alwayes fhut, 
 
 The other open, for rewards dothfland ; 
 
 Yet if we meafure either by his foot, 
 
 That clofe-fhut purfe, and that receiuing hand, 
 
 Haue equall fhares made by the * Sextons wand. 
 
 Yet Beggar, thou that begs, and hopes to gaine 
 Store of rewards, for to relieue thy need. 
 Orfurfet rather, tell me whafs thy aime, 
 When thofe * thou feeds, fhall on thy carkaffe feed ? 
 For then where 's the Beggar now become, 
 WhofefhamJs too great, to hide withfhroudortombe? 
 
 * Expo/'d to 
 Jliame, and in- 
 famie betraid. 
 
 Take thefe rude Satyres as compofd by him 
 Who hues his flate farre better then thy trade, 
 For * Beggars lofe more then they feeme to win, 
 Since their efieeme for euer's blemifhed : 
 Liue at a lower rate, and beg the leffe. 
 Fie liue to write, if thou thy fault redreffe. 
 
 Amicus non Mendicus. 
 
 The 
 
OF MISERIE 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 TAurus * a rich Iuftice, feemed to carrie great * R aptus a b; t 
 port and ftate in his countrie where he liued, ^he^Taurus 
 though more feared then loued : for the proud ?> rena > ?°j? ^ uit 
 
 ° _ _ . noc artis fed 
 
 mifer feldome Hues to be inheritour of a friend : but pietatis opus. 
 
 rl1 . . ,. nii Martial, in Epi. 
 
 afterward his mifery was moil apparently known inA? n ph y the. 
 by his defolate houfe, as vnacquainted with 
 hofpitality as an vfurers heire with frugalitie, ha- 
 uing onely a cafe for a man, a blew-coate I meane 
 without a man, a fhadow without a fubftance. 
 In this Satyre next enfuing is defcribed the refe- 
 rable nature of fuch, as notwithftanding their out- 
 ward port, glorying of more then euer their vn- 
 worthie minds could reach to, be the very pictures 
 and Idceas of mifery, as I may well call them : where Jt « * great 
 
 . Jliamefor a man 
 
 defire of hauing fo much ouerfwayes them, as tohaueapoore 
 
 . - . . , , „. . . heart and a rich 
 
 care of reputation lightly moues them. 1 his Ar- p ur f e . 
 gument is fhort, for the Satyre will fhew her 
 owne meaning without any further illuftration. 
 
 THE TENTH SATYRE. 
 
 * Cornua Vi- 
 brando, nefck 
 fua cornua 
 Taurus ; 
 Whereto it was 
 
 TAurus * a Iuftice rich, but poore in mind, %*£» %«£ 
 
 (Riches make rich-men poore through miferie,) £^ ua dum 
 Had long time tiu'd as one in hold confined, cemit, retrahit 
 
 ° .... fua cornua 
 
 With gates clofe-Jhut from hofpitalitie : Taurus. 
 
 E Meanes 
 
50 OF MI SERIE. 
 
 Meanes without men he had him to attend, 
 Left what hefpar'd his Retinue Jhould fpend. 
 
 One time a Traueller chandd to repaire 
 To Taurus houfe, to quench his vehement thirft, 
 But he poore man could find no comfort there : 
 Drinke could he get none, if his heart Jhould burft . 
 Men hefaw none, nor ought to cheare his want, 
 * signa dat Saue a * Blew-coate without a cognifant. 
 
 Holpitij, fed 
 habentur in 
 
 bram. The Traueller conceited in diftrejfe, 
 
 ceitswUi paffioris Straight thus difcours'd, his * paffton to allay : 
 
 beji allay. jfyfe j u jft ce £ s a Seruing-man I gueffe, 
 
 Who leaues his coate at home when his away : 
 Therefore I was decern' d and did amiffe, 
 Tofeeke a luftice where a blew-coate is. 
 
 But as the Traueller went on his way, 
 He met the luftice in a ragged fuite, 
 Who in a Bench-like fafhion bad him ft ay, 
 Saying — He ought a luftice to falute : 
 The man at firft perplex' 'd, and now awake, 
 Tooke heart of grace, and did this anfwer make. 
 
 Sir, if I haue forgotten my regard 
 Vnto your place, forgiue my ignorance, 
 My eye could not difceme you, till I heard 
 Your f elf e report your owne preeminence, 
 Whofe name is Terror, and whofe awfull breath, 
 Is meffenger of furie, and of death. 
 
 And 
 
OF HYPOCRISIE. 51 
 
 And great I hearts endowments you poffeffe, 
 But worthie greater then you do enioy, 
 Witneffe your open houfe, which doth expreffe 
 The care you haue your fortunes to employ 
 In bounties feruice : your good beere dothjhow it, 
 Being kept fo well, as none can come vnto it. 
 
 Taurus he flam fd, cald his attendants knaues, 
 And fo he might, for none could be offended, 
 Where art thou Tom {quoth he) lack, George, out 
 Faining their voyces, All mail be amended, (flaues, 
 Then anfwers he himfelfe, Let none depart, 
 But entertaine all with a chearefull heart. 
 
 The Traueller though he concerned all, 
 Seenid to admire the bountie of the place, 
 Till th'badge-leffe coate that hung within the hall, 
 Forced him to laugh the Iuftice in the face. 
 Why doefl thou laugh {quoth he ?) I laugh to note, 
 For want of men, what feruic 's in a coate. 
 
 The Arg^iment. 
 
 CLaudius a Romane, for his approued honefty 
 refpecled for the moft part, gained no leffe 
 E 2 good 
 
52 OF HYPOCRISIE. 
 
 good opinion with the Confcript fathers in the 
 Senate-houfe, then popular loue in the Citie : 
 for his grauitie was fuch, as none could detect 
 him of the leafl imputation, hauing alwayes in 
 the whole courfe of his pleading fuch pithie, fen- 
 tentious, and felect difcourfe, that it yeelded no 
 leffe admiration to the hearers, then a generall 
 eflimation to himfelfe, at that time reputed one of 
 the hopefulleft young Orators : but moft efpeci- 
 ally for his deuotion and religion to the gods, 
 then, amongft the Romans adored and worship- 
 ped. This Claudius after this generall report and 
 good liking which all had of him, vpon a folemne 
 Etfeftafo- night appointed for the facrifizing to * Mars in 
 
 vid. Varr.&= behalfe of a battell which was to be made againfl 
 eJ ^ a Prince of Numidia, (in which holy rites there 
 were appointed Augurs for the coniecturing of 
 thefe things) feeing the opportunitie of the Augu- 
 res abfence, renewed the familiaritie which he of 
 long time had with one of the Augures wiues. 
 Now the Augur hauing left behind him his Ofci- 
 nes or Prophefmg birds (a neglect of fuch impor- 
 tance as it difcouered his owne fhame.) came to 
 his houfe where he detected Claudius, who had 
 
 Vb l et£] l eM ia a iong * time counterfeited puritie. 
 
 blacke colour 
 ivhichfhe cafieth 
 otit to couer her, 
 fo thefe coun- 
 terfets by the 
 c-loud of apre- 
 
 wlkh ''fhaiif^' /"^Laudius is pure, abiuring prophane things, 
 a cloud of wit- \^/Nor will he companie with wickedneffe : 
 
 nejfe againfl •" 
 
 them. He hates thefource whence leud affeclions fprings, 
 
 Jle'le not confent with deeds of naughtineffe : 
 
 Yet 
 
 THE ELEVENTH SATYRE. 
 
OF HYP0CR1 S1E. 53 
 
 Yet he will deale, fo none do fee his finne, 
 
 Yea though heauens eyes he cares not looke on him. 
 
 He will not fpeake vnto a Maide in tKJlreete, 
 Left his repute fhould fall vnto decay : 
 Yet if they two in priuate chance to meete, 
 He in a pure embrace will bid her flay. 
 Saying : I will inftru6t thee prettie Nan, 
 How thou {halt be a formall Puritan. ' 
 
 Then drawes he forth to moue the Maids affeclion, 
 The fore 'd defcription of their puritie, 
 How he andfhe be children of eleclion, 
 And mufl be fau 'd what ere the wicked be. 
 For vices are tearm'd vertues, where we make 
 Lufl but an Ac! for Procreation fake. 
 
 What then are Maids, thus he induceth her, 
 But Virgins flill that do impart their loue, 
 Tofuch an * One as is their furtherer Vt prurit vnt ' 
 
 In holy zeale, and can the fpirit moue ? 
 Nought lejfe but more, for there 's a heauie vae, 
 Or curfe denoune'd on them that barren be. 
 
 Cloze then infdence, eyes of men arefhut, 
 
 None can deteel vs, but the eyes of heauen, 
 
 And when we act, thofe lights are fealed vp, 
 
 For vnto vs more libertie is giuen 
 
 Then vnto others, fi 'nee the very name, 
 
 Of lufl is changed when ^'righteous vfe the fame. 
 
 E 3 Thou 
 
* Hypocrifis du- 
 plex eft malum, 
 diflimulatio & 
 peccatum. 
 
 54 
 
 OF EXCESSE. 
 
 Thou * hypocrite, whofe counterfeited zeale, 
 Makes thee feeme godly to the worelds eye, 
 Yet doejl the golden fruites of VeRafleale, 
 When thou perceiues no man thy fins doth f pie. 
 Leaue this diffembled zeale, for thou art knowne 
 The wickedft finner, when thy infide 's Jhowne. 
 
 * A rijlotle moc- 
 king the Epi- 
 cures, f aid, that 
 vpon a time they 
 went all to a 
 Temple together, 
 befeeching the 
 gods that they 
 •would guie them 
 necks as long as 
 Cranes and 
 Hemes, that the 
 pleafure and 
 tajle ofmeate 
 might be more 
 long in relijhing : 
 complaining a- 
 gainft Nature 
 for making their 
 necks toojhort. 
 
 The Arg^lnlent. 
 
 THe Hiftorie of Phyloxenus is moft amply rela- 
 ted in the diuerfe writings of fundrie authen- 
 ticke Authors, being infamous for his greedie de- 
 fire vnto meate and drinke, and therefore as is 
 teftified of him, * Grids collum fibi dari optabat, vt 
 cibum potumq maiori cum deleclatione caperet. This 
 Phyloxenus and that rauenous Heliogabalus Jhall 
 be the fubiecls of this enfuing Satyre, touching or ra- 
 ther concluding the condition of all Epicures in thefe 
 two. If thou that readeft me be touched, as tainted 
 with this particular finne, blufh, but do not fhew 
 thy paffion towards the poore Satyre, for Bee-like 
 fhe hath no fooner flung thee, then the lofeth 
 her power of being further reuenged of thee. 
 Wage not warre againft a dead Monument, fmce 
 Plinie warnes thee : Cum mortuis nil nifi laruas lu- 
 clari. Take therefore this Satyre in good part, and 
 rather fret againft thy felfe, in that thou haft mat- 
 ter in thee fit for a Satyrifts fubiecl, then vent thy 
 
 fplene 
 
OF EXCESSE. 
 
 55 
 
 fplene towards him, who makes thy defects the 
 effects of his fubiect. 
 
 THE TWELFTH SATYRE. 
 
 PHyloxenus lookes lanke with abjlinence : 
 
 Poore man I pittie him, I thinke htsficke ; } a ^%Zs 
 
 No, this his feeming is a falfe pretence, A^liJTt^h • h 
 
 The greedie Cormorant will each thing licke : Cormorants mi- 
 
 . ther land, water, 
 
 Whofe drum-fir etch 'd cafe canfcarce his guts containe nor aire might 
 Since he hath got the gullet of a Crane. And Cambietes 
 
 the gluttonous 
 king of Lydia 
 
 Thou thinkes there is no pleafure but in feeding, ^rea'Zfhu wife, 
 
 Making thy f elf e, * flaue to thy appetite; fteim e toother' 
 
 Yet whilefl thou crams thy f elf e, thy foule is bleeding, in- the same bed; 
 
 And Turtle-like mournes, that thoufhouldfl delight, handbetweene 
 
 Infuch exceffe as caufeth infamie, he awaked, he 
 
 Starues foule, fpoiles health, and ends with beggar ie. faring disho- 
 nour. 
 
 Remember (thou befotfd)for I rnufl talke, 
 
 And that with ferious pafflon, thou that * tafts * Well deferred 
 
 The choycefl wines, and doefl to Tauernes walke, Non citius edit 
 
 Where thou confumes the night in late repafls. pafdt sfpofcit 
 
 Confufion now, drawes neare thee where thou kneeles, vi f ^eoTvfg 
 Drinking deepe healthes, but no contrition feeles. SiknusmAn- 
 
 It may be, He that teacheth may be taught, 
 
 And * Socrates of Softenes may learne, * Socratkum. 
 
 Euen He, that for thy good thefe precepts brought, c h e a C iibpum°& 
 
 Topublicke light, may in himself e difcerne SaSSj^ in 
 
 Something blameworthie, true, and heauen he could, firaifatione. 
 Reforme his errors rightly as He would. 
 
 E 4 But 
 
56 OF EXCESS. 
 
 But harder is't by much for to performe, 
 Then to prefcribe, where many feeme to vrge, 
 The prefent times abufe, but n'ere reforme 
 Thofe crimes in them which they in others fcourge : 
 But where the Author makes vfe of his paines, 
 As well as Reader, there's a double gaines. 
 
 And theje are th gaines which I dofue to haue, 
 Seeking no lejfe thy benefit herein, 
 Then my peculiar good : where all I craue, 
 Is but thy prayer to purge me of my finne. 
 I do not write, as I my paines would fell, 
 To euery Broker, vfe them and farewell. 
 
 Nam inepto rim res nulla ineptior eft. Catull. 
 
 Finis Satyrarum. 
 
 An end of the Satyres compofed by the forefaid 
 Author in the difcharge of Natures Embaffie : pur- 
 pofely penned to reclaime man, whofe vicious life 
 promifmg an vnhappie end, muft now be taxed 
 more fharply, fince vice comes to grea- 
 teft growth through impunitie. 
 
 A 
 
57 
 
 A CONCLVSIVE 
 
 ADMONITION TO THE 
 READER. 
 
 ^ F any ma7ifihall reade, and making vfe 
 Ofthefe my Satyres, grow diflemperate, 
 By making of a good intent abufe, 
 In that Ifeeme his life to perfonate ; 
 Let him content himfelfe, be it good or ill, 
 Gall'd horfes winch, and I mufl gall himflilL 
 
 A Satyrifl ought to be mofl fecure, 
 Who takes exception at his cancred flyle, 
 And he that mofl repines, let him befure, 
 That he's the man whom Satyres mofl reuile. 
 Therefore who would be free from Satyres pen, 
 Ought to be Mirrors in the fight of men. 
 
 Thefe two months trauell like the Almond rod, 
 May bring forth more when oportunitie 
 Giueth fit time, wherein vice loatKd by God, 
 May be displaide, and curVd more bitterly. 
 Till which edition, take thefe in good part, 
 Or take them ill, how-ere, they glad my heart. 
 
 HERE 
 
58 NO LOVE LOST. 
 
 HERE FOLLO- 
 
 WETH SOME EPYCEDES 
 
 or funerall Elegies, concerning fundry 
 exquifite Mirrours of true loue. 
 
 The Argumeiit* 
 
 Wo louely louers so deuided be, 
 
 As one to other hardly can repaire, 
 
 In Sestos she, and in Abydos he, 
 
 He swims, she waits & weeps, both drowned are: 
 Waues cut off Heroes words, the Sea-nimphs mone, 
 One heart in two desires, no graue but one. 
 
 I. ELEGIE. 
 
 HEro was willing to Leandersy#z&, 
 But yet Leanders opportunitie 
 Could not befo, as anfwers his repute : 
 Lujl fometime weares the robe of modejlie: 
 Silent he woes, as bajhfull youths mujl do, 
 JByfighs, by teares, and kiffing comfits too. 
 
 But what are thefe where fancie feated is, 
 But lures to loqfe defires, fin-fugred baits, 
 
 That draw men onward to f coles paradice, 
 
 Whofe be/l of promifes are but deceits ? 
 
 And 
 
NO LOVE LOST. 59 
 
 And fuch Leanders were, meere golden dreames, 
 That leaue the waking fenfes in extreames. 
 
 But loue flame-like, though it rejlrained be, 
 Will still afcend, andfo it far 'd with him : 
 For now he cries, Hero / come to thee, 
 And though I cannot run, yet I will fwim, 
 Where, while Ifwim,fendthyfweet breath but hither, 
 And Zephire-like it will foone waft me thither. 
 
 Hero remaineth on the floting Jhore, 
 Waiting the bleft arriuall of her friend, 
 Butjhe (poorejhe) mufl neuer fee him more, 
 Seeing him end before his iourney end : 
 Tn whofe hard fate a double death appeares, 
 Drownd in thefea, and in his Heroes teares. 
 
 Still Jhe laments, and teares her forlorne haire, 
 Exclaming , gainfl the fates, whofe crueltie 
 Had changed her hope-reft fortuue to defpaire, 
 Abridging loue, true louers libertie ; 
 But fince Us fo {quoth Jhe) the wanes Jhall haue, 
 More then by right or iuflice they can craue. 
 
 With that Jhe leapt into the curled floud, 
 And as Jhe leapt, Jhe f pake vnto the waue, 
 Remorceleffe thou {quoth Jhe) that stain 'd his bloud, 
 Shall now receiue two louets in one graue. 
 For fit it is, who lining had one heart, 
 Should haue one graue, and not intend apart. 
 
 Yet 
 
60 NO LO V E LOST. 
 
 Yet in my death I do inuoke the Powers, 
 Which do frequent this wofull Riuer fide, 
 That they adore and decke our Tombe with flowers, 
 Where ere our loue-expofed corps abide. 
 And if they aske where they fihall find our graues, 
 Let them looke downe into thefef urging wanes. 
 
 And I intreate my friends they do not weepe, 
 In that we are departed to our reft, 
 Sweete reft, may Hero fay, when in herfleepe 
 She clips Leander whomfihe loued befit : 
 She lou J d him befit indeed, for fihe did craue 
 To be enhearfed with him in one waue. 
 
 This was nofioonerfpoke, but raging fireames, 
 Cutoff poore Heroes fipeech, and with their force, 
 Clofid her infilence, while each Nimph complains, 
 And chides the Riuer for his f mall remorfe. 
 Thus ended they, their ends were their content, 
 Since for to die in Loue, their minds were bent. 
 
 Let not fond loue fio fondly thee embrace, 
 Left like the Luie or the Miffelto, 
 It winde about thee to thy owne dif grace, 
 And make theefilaue to brutifih pafifions too. 
 Be conflant in thy lou-e, as chafil not f potted, 
 Loue well and long, but not in loue befiotted. 
 
 The 
 
LOVE TO THE LAST. 61 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 LOuers consent finds fit place of recourse, 
 For Loues content chang'd into discontent, 
 King Ninus tombe their sconce or sorrows source, 
 To which a dreadfull Lyonesse is sent : 
 Which Thisbe spies and flies : her bloudie tyre, 
 Bereaues her Loue of life, and both expire. 
 
 II. ELEGIE. 
 
 WEll then we will repair e vnto that place, 
 Where weJJiall haue fruition of our ioy, 
 By Ninus tombe, farre from our parents face, 
 Where mutuall Loue needs little to be coy : 
 Where met, tve may enioy that long-fought pleafure, 
 Which Loue ajfoords, when Loue vnlocks her treafure. 
 
 Thisbe was mute, in being mutefhe yeelded, 
 Who knowes not Maides, by fdence giue confent ? 
 So on her fdence her affent was builded, 
 Since in his loue Jlie plad d herfole content ; 
 Onward he goes mofl forward to obtaine, 
 That which Jhe wiJKd, but Parents did reflraine. 
 
 And coming nigh vnto king Ninus Tombe, 
 JSrecled neare a Chriflall riueling, 
 There as Jhe mus'd a Lion fierce did come 
 Forth of the groue, whence he his prey did bring. 
 
 Who 
 
62 LOVE TO THE LAST. 
 
 Who all embrude with /laughter and with bloud, 
 Came for to quench his thirjl at that fame floud. 
 
 Thisbe perceiuing this enraged beafl, 
 Fled for her refuge to a hollow tree, 
 Yet fhe for hafl, what fhe fuspecled ' leafl, 
 Let fall her Tire, and to herjhelfe did flee ; 
 Where in thejhade while she affrighted flood, 
 The Lion Unci: her virgine-tire with blood. 
 
 And hauing now well drench 'd his bloudie iawes, 
 Making returne vnto hisjhadie den, 
 Young Pyramus for to obferue loues lawes, 
 (Loues lawes mufl needs be kept) did thither tend, 
 And coming neare, her could he not espie, 
 But her vnhappie Tire di'd bloudily. 
 
 Which he no fooner with his eyes beheld, 
 Then he exclaim! d againfl his deflinie, 
 Since Thisbe was by his requefl compeld, 
 To be a pray to Lions cruelty : 
 And taking vp the bloud-befmeared Tire, 
 Amintas-/z&? his end he doth confpire. 
 
 Yet fore his end in difmallfort he cried, 
 Fie on the fates, that did poore Thisbe kill, 
 Fie on thofe ruthleffe gods that haue decreed, 
 
 Wilde fauage beafls her crimson bloud to fpill ; 
 But why do Lfland arguing with fate, 
 Lamenting ore her breathleffe corps too late ? 
 
 For 
 
LOVE TO THE LAST. 63 
 
 For if thou lou'd her,Jhew thy loue in this 
 Lofl, to regaine her prefence by thy death ; 
 Death, which hath left thee this poore Tire to kiffe, 
 On which Fie breath and kiffe, and kiffe and breath : 
 Farewell my loue, if Piramus did loue thee, 
 He'lefhew his loue, his louefhall be aboue thee. 
 
 Strike home {fond man) and do not feare grim death, 
 
 But meete him in the mid-way to thy graue ; 
 
 ivr Thisbe s loue I gladly lofe my breath, 
 
 And that is all that Thisbe now can haue : 
 
 And with this fpeech, deepe grief e cut off his word, 
 
 He flue himselfe with his owne difmallfivord. 
 
 Thisbe long trembling in her hollow Caue, 
 
 Came forth at lafl to meete her dearefl loue. 
 
 How apt is loue the chaflefl to depraue, 
 
 Making a rauenous Vultur of a Doue ; 
 Wherefore in hafleflie hies her to the fpring, 
 Where fhe might heare a dolefull Syluane fing. 
 
 And to receiue the for row more at large, 
 Nigherfhe drew vnto that mournfull tune, 
 Where like a merchant in a splitted barge, 
 She flood amaz'd, andflanding liflned one. 
 Sorting his grief e vnto her deare friends grief e ; 
 Whom fhe fought out, to yeeld Iter fome relief e. 
 
 Good Siluane fay {thus spake fhe) hauing found 'him, 
 Hidflfee a youth coafl neare this darkefome way ? 
 For much I feare, fome fauage beafl hath wound him, 
 If thou canfl gicide me to him, pray thee fay : 
 
 Here 
 
64 LOVE TO THE LAST. 
 
 Here is the Tombe where he appointed me, 
 Toftayfor him, yet him I cannot fee. 
 
 Virgin {quoth he) that youth you feeke is gone ; 
 
 Whither {kind Siluane ?) 1 will after him, 
 Hefhall not leaue me in this wood alone, 
 For trufl me Siluane I haue frighted bin, 
 And by a dreadfull Lion fo befet, 
 As I am hardly my owne woman yet. 
 
 See Ladie, fee ; with that he vanifhed, 
 
 To waile the loffe of Nais he had kept, 
 
 Who by a Centaure lately rauifhed, 
 
 Was quite conueyd away while th 'Siluane flept. 
 
 She turnes her eye, yet fear ce will trufl her eye, 
 
 No, nor the place where file doth fee him lye. 
 
 Dead ! why it cannot be, thus fhe began, 
 
 Who could harme thee that nere did any harme, 
 
 Ho not in thought to any liuing man ? 
 With that fhe felt his pulfe if it were warme, 
 
 But breathlejfe he, key-cold as any flone, 
 
 She lookes and weepes, and bathes him looking on. 
 
 Yet long it was ere fhe could fhed a teare, 
 For greatefl grieues are not by teares exprefl, 
 Deepe-rooted forrowes greatefl burden beare, 
 Kept mofl in heart, butfhowne in eye the leafl. 
 For leffer grieues haue eyes to bring them forth, 
 But greatefl flil I are flrangled in their birth. 
 
 Griefe 
 
LOVE TO THE LAST. 65 
 
 Grief e therefore doth rebound, and with rebound 
 Shejhakes her Piramus and strokes his cheeke : 
 Loue was all eares, for he did heare her found, 
 And mou'd his head from ground, but could notfpeake; 
 Yet did he hold her hand, as if her hand 
 Staid Deaths arrefl, and could him countermand. 
 
 And as a man who fhip-wrack 'd on the Sea, 
 Not able to endure vnto the Port, 
 Takes hold on wracke, which He as confla?itly 
 Keepes in his hand, as he did labour for V .- 
 From which, no danger whatfoere betide hi?n, 
 Nor death it felfe can any way deuide hi?n. 
 
 Euenfo did Piramus keepe in his amies, 
 The choifefl body of his chaflefl loue, 
 
 Whereby he thinkes himself e fo free from harmes, 
 As die he cannot till he thence remoue : 
 
 Yet though it's death to him, since Thisbe would, 
 He is contented to let go his hold. 
 
 This feene, (fayes Thisbe ) fince thy loue is fuch, 
 That to deuide thy felfe from thine owne loue, 
 To thee's afecond death or harder much, 
 And mou'd by me thy hold thou doefl remoue; 
 Ere long will Thisbe Jhew her felfe to thee, 
 An equall Mirror of loues conflancie. 
 
 Yet do I pray thofe friends who are conioyned 
 To vs in Bloud, to take of vs compaffion, 
 That as our Loues, our corpes may be combined, 
 With funerall rites after our countrie fafliion : 
 
 F And 
 
66 LOVE TO THE LAST. 
 
 And when to a/hes they our corps Jhall burne, 
 Let both our drearie ajhes haue one vrne. 
 
 Let both our graues (poore graues) be ioyn'd in one, 
 As both our hearts were linked in one twiji ; 
 And let our corps be couer'd with oneflone, 
 So may our bones fo neerely ioyn'd be blift ; 
 For gods this priueledge to louers giue, 
 When others die by death, in death they Hue. 
 
 By this young Thisbes fpeech was fini/hed, 
 
 Who was as wea'rie to enioy her life, 
 
 As a loofe Matron of her hufbands bed, 
 
 Or a young fpend-thrift of his long-liu'd wife: 
 
 Euen fo was Thisbe, whom death did afford, 
 
 Though not fame hand to kill, yet felfe-fame fword. 
 
 But yet fome Plant is ftill affectionate, 
 Vnto a Louers death, whofe conflancie 
 Neuer doth alter from her wonted fiate, 
 But perfeueres infledfafl certaintie : 
 For tK Mulberrie, feeing them Mourners lacke, 
 Milke-white before put on a fable blacke. 
 
 Morus thus altred in her former hue, 
 Changing her colour for the death of Loue, 
 Hath to this day her mourning-weed tofhew ; 
 Well might they moue vs then, when they did moue 
 The fenfleffe trees, who didfo truly grieue, 
 As for their fake they would their colour leaue. 
 
 Tkt 
 
LOVE STA IND WITH L VS T. 67 
 
 The Argument 
 
 THe losse of Didoes honour and her loue, 
 Are both bemon'd : Anna but all in vaine, 
 Seekes to recomfort her : she seemes to proue 
 No faith in strangers : she dissolues her traine : 
 Incense is burn'd ; a fire she doth deuise, 
 Wherein she makes her selfe the sacrifice. 
 
 III. ELEGIE. 
 
 Dido lamenting, that JEneasfhould 
 Sofoone conuert his loue to bitter hate, 
 The thought whereof furpaft a thouf and fold, 
 The loffe of Scepter, honour, or eflate : 
 Curfeth the hapjhe had to entertaine, 
 Or giue fuch harbour to a thankleffe Swaine. 
 
 Yet do not fo {quoth Jhe,) his generous, 
 
 Sprongfrom the Troianflocke and Progenie : 
 
 Curfe him not Dido, it were ominous 
 
 To his proceedings and his dignitie ; 
 
 He did requite thy loue, thou knowfl deuoutly, 
 
 And did performe his Turnaments asfloutly. 
 
 Sweete was the Pleafure, though the fruit e befower, 
 Deare his embraces, kind his fauours too, 
 Witneffe that Bower {aye me) that rofie Bower, 
 In which heauen knowes, and few but heauen do know, 
 F2 I 
 
68 LOVE S TA IND WITH L VS T. 
 
 Igag'd my heart to him, he his to me, 
 Which makes me ty'd in faith how ere he be. 
 
 And he protefted, Simple woman, thou 
 To credit what aftranger had protected : 
 For what is he that Hues, and will not do 
 As much or more, till he hath fully feajled 
 His eager Appetite, which being allaid, 
 He flreight forgets the promife he hath made ? 
 
 And fo did he, respeclleffe of his vow, 
 
 Or {breach of faith) which whatfoere he thinke, 
 
 Will be reueng^d by Heauen, andfharply too, 
 
 Gods do not euerfleepe when they do winke. 
 
 For though they f pare, They will at lafl flrike home, 
 
 And fend Reuenge to ttiinfant in my wombe. 
 
 Poore Orphane Infant, whofe iniurious birth, 
 As clofely done,fhall clofely befupprejfed, 
 And haue a double Mother, Mee and Earth, 
 And for thy Fathers fake a double cheft : 
 Whofe Tombefhall be my wombe, whose drerieflirowd, 
 Shall be my felfe, that gaue it life and food. 
 
 This asfhefpake, her Sifter fhe came in, 
 Aduifing her vnto a milder courfe, 
 Then to afflicl her felfe with thought of him 
 Whofe heart was reft of pittie and remorfe ; 
 Wherefore (faid j7ie) fince forrow is in vaine, 
 Forget his abfence, that will falue your paine. 
 
 Will falue my paine (quoth flie!) and then fhe grorid, 
 
 Cures 
 
LOVE STAIND WITH L VST. 69 
 
 Cures to apply is eafier then to cure : 
 No, no, my sorrowes may be well bemon'd, 
 But nere redrejl : for th'eye of heau'n's too pure, 
 To view my finne, my foile, my guilt, myflaine, 
 Whofe die's fo deepe 'twill nere be white againe. 
 
 Yet to preuent thefcandall would enfue, 
 Iffamefhould know what hath inpriuate bene, 
 Tie lop this Branch, left Time fhould fay , it grew 
 (Adulterate Iffue)from the Carthage Queene : 
 Which ere I do, left I incurre heauens hate, 
 With Incenfe bunid, their wrath Tie expiate. 
 
 Wherewith Pie purge (iffuch may purged be) 
 The fact I did, which grieues me that I did, 
 Staining my honour with his periurie, 
 
 Which gods do fee, though it from man be hid : 
 For this ( dearefifler) build me here afire, 
 To facrifice myfhame, appeafe heauens ire. 
 
 Anna, forfo her Sifter hight, doth rere 
 
 This fat all pile, preparing all things meete 
 
 Forfuch a facrifice, as luniper, 
 
 Spicknarde, and Mirrhe, to make the Incenfe fweete, 
 
 Vnknowne to what her Sifter did intend, 
 
 Whofe f aire pretence came to a timeleffe end. 
 
 Sifter (quoth Dido,) now you may be gone, 
 Sweete is Deuotion that is mofil retired, 
 Go you afide, and leaue me here alone, 
 Which Anna did as Dido had required: 
 Who now alone with heauen-erecled eyes, 
 
 F 3 Her 
 
70 LOVE STAIND WITH LVST. 
 Her wofull felfe Jhe makes the facrifice. 
 
 Anna retir'd, did heare her Sifter Jhrike, 
 With which atfirft affrighted, she made hqfte, 
 To see th'euent, the fight whereof did Jlrike 
 Such a diftraclion in her, as it p aft 
 The bounds of Nature, where experience tries, 
 More forrow's in the heart then in the eyes. 
 
 At laft her eyes longfhut vnfealed were, 
 To eye that mournfull Obiecl, now halfe turned 
 To mouldred ajhes, for it did appeare, 
 As halfe werefcorcKd, the other halfe were burrtd ': 
 Which feene, Jhe cries, and turnes away her fight, 
 Black woe betide them thatfuch guefiis inuite. 
 
 Anna thus left alone, yet mindfull too, 
 Of Didoes honour, reares a Princely shrine, 
 The like whereof that Age could neuerjhow, 
 * wife to Man- jy or an y j[g e //// * Artemifias time : 
 
 JolicskingofLa- -" ° ' 
 
 ria. via. piutar. On which was this engrauen : Loue was my loffe, 
 
 in Apotheg. _ . , _ * , . J JJ ' 
 
 Rich was my Crowne, yet could not cure my crojfe. 
 
 Thus Dido di'd, who was not much vnlike 
 Vnto the Countriman who nourijhed 
 Latet Anguis The * dead-flaru'd Viper, that vngratefull fnake, 
 Who reft him life, that it had cherijhed : 
 So Dido Jhe, whofe fall my Mufe recites, 
 
 in herba 
 
 Nee Hofpes ab 
 
 Hofpite tutus. Liesflaine by him, whom Jhe in loue inuites. 
 
 AN 
 
n 
 AN ELEGIE VPON 
 
 THESE ELEGIES. 
 
 LEt fond Leander warne thee, to remaine 
 Vpon the Riuer banke in fafetie : 
 Let Piramus rajhfad thy hand reflraine, 
 Too deare coJIs Loue, mix'd withfuch crueltie : 
 Laftly, let Dido warne thee by her end, 
 To trie that Gueji thou makes thy bofome friend. 
 
 Venit amor grauius quo ferius vrimur intus, 
 Vrimur, & csecum pedlora vulnus habent. 
 
 F 4 THE 
 
THE SECOND 
 
 SECTION OF 
 
 DIVINE AND MORALL 
 
 SATYRES: 
 
 With 
 
 AN ADIVNCT VPON THE 
 
 PRECEDENT; WHEREBY THE 
 
 Argument with the firft caufe of publishing 
 
 thefe Satyres, be euidently related. 
 
 Difce & doce. 
 
 L O ND O N, 
 
 Printed for Richard Whitaker. 
 
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75 
 
 TO THE WOR- 
 
 THIE CHERISHER AND 
 
 NOVRISHEROF ALL GEN E- 
 
 rous ftudies, S. W. C. Knight, 
 
 R. B. 
 
 His affectionate Country-man wifheth the 
 
 increafe of all honour, health, and 
 
 happineffe. 
 
 IR, 
 
 When I had composed thefe rag- 
 ged lines, 
 Much like the Beare who brings 
 
 her young ones forth, 
 In no one part well featured, (he 
 repines, 
 That fuch a lumpe of flejh Jhould haue a birth : 
 Which to reforme, Jhe 's faid to vndertake 
 A fecond taske, and licks them intojhape. 
 
 So I producing thefe vnriperfeedes, 
 Scarce growne to their perfection, knew not how, 
 (Since different humour, different cenfure breeds) 
 How theyfhould come to ripeneffe, but by you : 
 
 Whofe 
 
7 6 
 
 Whofe faire acceptance may fuch counf nance Jhow, 
 As you may others moue to grace them too. 
 
 Nor do I doubt but thete Jhall purchafe grace, 
 , Mongflfuch as honour vertue,for how low 
 So 1 ere thejlyle be, Sublecl is not bafe, 
 But full of Diuine matter ; and I know, 
 The Sunne glues life, as tuell to fmiple weeds, 
 As vnto flowers or other fruitfull feeds. 
 
 Yours in all faithfull 
 Obferuance, 
 
 Richard Brathwayte, 
 Mujophylus. 
 
 Vpon the Dedicatorie. 
 
 T Hough he (and happle he) bereft by fate, 
 To whom I meant this worke to dedicate, 
 This fhall find fhelter In his llulng name, 
 He's chang'd Indeed, but I amfllll the fame. 
 
 The 
 
OF SLOTH, 
 
 The Argument, 
 
 Of Elpenor an Epicure, lining fenfually in 
 
 a Caue, refpeclleffe of the Joules 
 
 eternitie. 
 
 Lpenor, who long time liuing (as 
 the Dormoufe) in the caue of fen- 
 f fualitie and fecuritie, refted care- 
 leffe of a future bleffing, as one 
 rauifhed with the prefent delight 
 of carnall libertie, became at laft 
 reftrained by the vertuous edicl of a gracious Em- 
 perour ; by whom he was exiled and banifhed, not 
 onely from the Princes Court, but from the vt- 
 moft coafts of Arcadia wherein he liued. Now it 
 chanced, that during fuch time as he remained in 
 Cadmos, a Satyrift of no leffe refpect then appro- 
 ued grauitie, well obferuing the impietie of Elpe- 
 nor, as alfo the deferued cenfure which his Epicu- 
 rean life had incurred ; endeuoured to defcribe his 
 condigne fall, with no leffe pregnancie of wit, 
 and maturitie of iudgement, then a fetled feuerity 
 in reprehenfion of his godleffe opinions : which 
 Defcription he fixed (as may be imagined) vpon 
 the Portall gate, where he might of neceffitie fee 
 his owne impietie as in a glaffe tranfparent, per- 
 fpicuoufly demonftrated. What difcontent he 
 
78 OF SLOTH. 
 
 conceiued in the difplaying of his owne fhame, 
 may be conie6tured by the fubiect of this Inue- 
 <5tion, taxing him of his infamous life, the onely 
 occafion of his obfcure end : whofe fortunes were 
 aforetime moft eminent, now moft deiected. 
 Et quanta eft inf<zlicitas,fuiffefcelicem, &>c? Bosethius. 
 
 THE FIRST SATYRE. 
 
 ELpenor groueling in his duskie caue, 
 Secure of God or Gods high prouidence, 
 Nought but luxurious di/hes feemes to craue, 
 To fatisfie the appetite offence. 
 Hefpurnes at heauen, contemnes all fupreme power, 
 Priding in that will perijh in an houre. 
 
 God is of no respecl with Epicures, 
 Senceleffe of of heauen or minds tranquilitie, 
 Senceleffe of Hell, which euermore endures, 
 Glad to receiue earths ioyes fatietie : 
 Where rapt with Obiecls of decerning Pleafure, 
 They Hue to fin, but to repent at leafure. 
 
 Is not that Statue (fay Elpenor,) thine, 
 With eyes-inflanid and palfie-Jhaking hand, 
 Vpon whofe forehead 's writ, Abufe of time? 
 
 I know it is, for I do fee itftand 
 
 Neare Baccus ftlirine, where either drinkes to other, 
 
 Healths to Eryca, their lafciuious Mother. 
 
 Where Syren voycesfo apply the eare, 
 With an affecled melodie, that earth 
 
 Might 
 
OF SL OTH. 79 
 
 Might a phantafticke Paradife appeare, 
 Through confort of an vniuerfall mirth, 
 Which thefe inchanting harmonijis did vfe, 
 To th'wofull friends of wandring Ithacus. 
 
 But who is He thatfeemes to challenge thee, 
 Yetflaggers in his challenge 101 know him. 
 It's Hans the Dutch-man, new arriu'dfrom Sea, 
 Stand f aft Elpenor, if thou' It ouerthrow him. 
 But why enioyne I that thou canfl not do, 
 Halfe of afland were well betwixt you two. 
 
 And much I doubt, left Cripple-like you grow, 
 So long it is, as it is out of mind, 
 Since you were feene by any man to go, 
 
 Which makes me heare your legs are hard to find : 
 For vfe brings on Perfeclion, and I feare 
 
 Your dropfie-legs are out of vfe to beare. 
 
 See thou vnweldy wretch, that fatall fhelfe, 
 To which thou art declining, being growne 
 A heauie vfelejfe burthen to thy f elf e, 
 In whom no glimpfe of vertue may befhowne : 
 A Barmie leaking veffell {which in troth) 
 For want of reafon isfilPd vp with froth. 
 
 Aged Turpilio grones at mifpent time, 
 Wifhing he had his youth to paffe againe : 
 For then He would not vfe't as thou doeft thine, 
 But mone the houres which He hath fpent in vaine. 
 But Time runs on, and will not make returne, 
 When Death fucceeds, whom no man can adiourne. 
 
 And 
 
80 OF SL OTH. 
 
 And feejl thou this, and wilt thou not prouide 
 For Deaths arrefl, whofefad approch will be 
 So full of horror, as thou fcarce fhalt bide, 
 So grim he is, that Hefihould looke on thee ? 
 And yet He will, for he no diffrence makes, 
 Twixt rich and poor e, but whom He likes he takes. 
 
 Thy Prince thou feefl, whofe vertues are fo pure 
 He cannot breath on vice, hath thee exil'd, 
 Forth of his roy all confines, to fecure 
 His Realme the more, left itfhould be defil'd 
 By thy deprarfd example, which oncejlairtd, 
 (So ranke is vice) would hardly be reclaimed. 
 
 Trunke of Confufion, which deriues thy being 
 
 From no fupernall effence,for with it, 
 
 Thy works, words, motions haue but f mall agreeing, 
 
 But from fecuritie, where thou doefl fit ; 
 
 Feeding thy vaft-infatiate appetite, 
 
 With euery day new difihes of delight. 
 
 O roufe thy f elf e from that obfcurefl vale, 
 And fing a thankefull Hymne vnto thy Maker, 
 Creepe not vpon thy bellie like the Snaile, 
 But like the Larke mount vp to thy Creator ; 
 Adorning thee with reafon,fenfe and forme, 
 All lofl in thee, through want of Grace forlorn e. 
 
 Honour doth ill become the flothfull man, 
 Who Zanie-like becomes aflaue to pleafure, 
 For He when vrgent caufes moue Him, than 
 Neglecls Occafion, and referues that leafure, 
 
 Which 
 
OF SLOTH. 
 
 Which might haue bene employd in cares ofjiate, 
 For his delights, bought at too high a rate. 
 
 81 
 
 This thy experience tells thee, whofe ejlate 
 
 Once high, now low, madefubietl to dij grace, 
 
 Shewes thou art changed from what thou was of late, 
 
 Yet to my iudgement in a better cafe : 
 
 So thou confider th'flate from whence thou came, 
 
 And leaue that vice which did procure the fame. 
 
 But doubt I muft, (o that my doubts were vaine) 
 
 Such great expence is made of precious time, 
 
 As 'twill be much to do to wafh theflaine 
 
 Of that enormious loathfome life of thine. 
 
 Yet* Teares haue power, and they are foueraigne too, 
 
 And may do more then any elfe can do. 
 
 Then comfort take, yet comfort mixe with teares, 
 Thou* Cadmos leaues, and it's thy natiue foile ; 
 Suppofe it be, each coafl or clime appeares 
 The good-mans wifhed Country, which bleflflyle, 
 Exceeds all worldly comfort, which thou had, 
 For this is paffing good, that pafftng bad. 
 
 I do not fpeake, as thofe whofe guilded breath, 
 Traines on the vicious with deceiptfull hope ; 
 For I hauefet before thee life and death, 
 And this I aim'd to make my chief eft f cope : 
 That if reward of life could no way gaine thee, 
 Thefeare of death 6° vengeance might reclaime thee. 
 
 * Sicut nullus 
 eft locus in quo 
 malum no per- 
 petratur, ita 
 nullus fit locus 
 in quo de malo 
 poenitentia non 
 agatur. 
 
 * Cadmos a hill 
 by Laodicea out 
 of which iffueth 
 the Riuer Lycus, 
 it taketh this 
 name from Cad- 
 musjonne to A- 
 genor king of 
 Pha;nicia. 
 
 Life as a Crowne or Diadem is due, 
 G 
 
 To 
 
82 OF CORRV PTION. 
 
 To fuch whofe wayes are not in Error led, 
 Death as a guerdon doth to fuch accrue, 
 Whofe carnall hearts with pleafures captiued, 
 Thinke not on Death, till Death his flag difplay, 
 And now fecure fhall take their life away. 
 
 Turne then vnto the coafl of Arcadie, 
 From whence thou waft exiPd, and there furuey 
 The vertues of that Prince did banifli thee, 
 And weigh the caufe why there thou might not flay: 
 Which done, feeke to regaine thy Princes loue, 
 But chiefly His, that is thy Prince aboue. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 COrnelia wife to Pompey, furnamed the Great, 
 after her husbands ouerthrow in Pharfalia, 
 flaine within fhort time after by the procurement 
 of Septimius in the kingdome of Egypt; became 
 much diftreffed with the difcomfort of her loffe, 
 and the forrowfull iffue of his death. Which is as 
 paffionately expreffed by Lucan in Pompeies ex- 
 poftulation with Cornelia his beloued Ladie, 
 — Quid perdis tempora luclu ? Cornelia thus de- 
 priued of all affiftants faue Teares ( forrowes he- 
 reditarie treafures ) for the better reliefe of her 
 eftate (the poore remainder of her fortunes) fued 
 out a petition vnto the Emperour Ccefar, whofe 
 
 royall 
 
OF CORRV PTION. 83 
 
 royall clemency (as fhe thought) could not choofe 
 but take pittie on the wife, whofe husband was 
 become a bootie to his Conqueft. But how rea- 
 fonable foeuer her demands were, it skilled not, 
 for by the corrupt and indirect dealing of Ccelius 
 and Tuberculus fhe was refilled. The Satyrift 
 therefore in deploring of Cornelia's miferie, and 
 inueying againft the two Courtiers corruption, 
 morally dilateth on the defolate eftate of a for- 
 lorne widdow, and the fmifter practifes of corrupt 
 Aduocates. 
 
 THE SECOND SATYRE. 
 
 POmpey the Great no fooner was interred, 
 But poor e Cornelia his diftreffed wife, 
 To her deceaffed Lords ejlate preferr 'd, 
 Was drawne by Consul Afper into Jlrife : 
 Andfo oppreji by hote purfuite of foes, 
 That fhe deuoid of friends was fraught with woes. 
 
 She, wofullfhe, left fhe fhould lofe herftate, 
 
 Makes meanes to * Cselius to preferre her fuite, * A firodigaii 
 
 * •* " Courtier, but m 
 
 Which he's content to do, but at fuch rate, great faiwur 
 
 As 'twill coft deare to bring the caufe about : 
 
 Yet fhe remedilejfe, to worke her peace, 
 
 Stood not much orit, but did the Courtier pleaje. 
 
 Cselius pojfeft of his iniurious fee, 
 
 Which he confunid in riotous expence, 
 Forgot the widdows caufe difhoneftlie, 
 
 Without remorfe or touch of confcience : 
 
 G 2 For 
 
84 OF CORRVPTION. 
 
 For underhand ( as Courtiers vfe to do) 
 He takes a priuate bribe of Afper too. 
 
 Cornelia now in hope of good fucceffe, 
 Comes vnto Caelius as her purchased friend, 
 And humbly craues to know what's her redreffe, 
 Or in what fort herfuite is like to end : 
 Where He asflrangely anfwers her demand, 
 And fay's, herfuite came neuer to his hand. 
 
 No fuite ! (thus did this Matron flreight reply) 
 
 * lustke may be O Rome where is thy * Iuflice now enthroned, 
 to the Caiedonie Thou that didfl vfe to heare a widdow crie, 
 taineth her ver- And right her caufe as thou her wrongs bemon'd 7 
 Th™it h h g rubbed But f pare Cornelia, what reliefe can come 
 
 with gold. p ro - corru pt Courts, where gold makes Confuls dumbe ? 
 
 If my much-honor 'd Lord, whofe Countiy loue 
 Reft him of breath, fhould fee this prefent time, 
 How gifts can limit Iuflice, would 't not moue 
 His Roy all fpirit, feeing me and mine, 
 Whofe onely comfort's this, we may repofe, 
 And ioy in this, we haue no more to lofe ? 
 
 WJiilefl wrong 'd Cornelia fat thus penfmely, 
 
 * One o/efpeciall *Tuberculus a Courtier pafl that way, 
 Pomp e y W before Who in compaffton of her miferie, 
 
 /us overthrow. Xnowne to her f elf e not to her grieues, did flay ; 
 For generous minds are neuer more exprefl, 
 Then in applying comfort to th'diftrefl. 
 
 Ladie (quoth he) if I could eafe your grief e, 
 
 The 
 
OF CORRVPTION. 
 
 85 
 
 The loue I owe vnto your familie, 
 Me thinks might promife to your f elf e relief e, 
 Impart them then, what ere your forrowes be : 
 Cures haue bene wrought where little was expecled, 
 For where the mind is willing, ought's effecled. 
 
 She hearing himfo vertuoufly inclined, 
 
 Prone vnto pittie, fighing did declare, 
 
 How that her fonne young Pompey was confined, Sext. Pompe, 
 Which was the greatefl fubiecl of her care : 
 Whom if He would make meanes for to releafe, 
 
 The current of her forrowes foone would ceaffe. 
 
 Another fuite I haue, which Afper moues, 
 To force me from my right of widdowhood, 
 Wherein his worfer caufe the better proues, 
 For* mightie men can hardly be withftood: 
 In thefe I mufl intreate your Lordjhips care, 
 In lieu whereof Fie gratifie with prayer. 
 
 Tuberculus did anfwer her demands, 
 But he expecled * ointment, and delaying, 
 To giue her further comfort, there Heflands, 
 Tie for his fee, Jhe for her caufe flood praying. 
 Cornelia well perceiuing what He would, 
 Good gods (quoth Jhe) is luflice wholly fould 7 
 
 How do you meane (quoth he) it is our meanes, 
 
 Could we be thus enameld euery day, 
 
 Or infuchport maintaine our fauning friends, 
 
 If we receiu'd not prof t by delay ? 
 
 No Ladie, no, who in thefe dayes do Hue, 
 
 G 3 And 
 
 * Inimicitise 
 potentum vio- 
 lentae Settee. 
 
 * Like Verconiits 
 in the time of 
 A lexander Se- 
 ller us, who pre^ 
 tending familia - 
 ritie "with the 
 Emperotir, toofw 
 ■mens many for 
 
 ^preferring their 
 fuites, abtifed 
 t r hem,&> did them 
 no good at all: at 
 laft conuented 
 before the Em- 
 perour, he was 
 itidged to be 
 hanged vp in a 
 chimney, audfo 
 perifh with 
 fmoke,for that 
 hefoldfmoke to 
 the people. 
 Lamprid. in 
 Seu. Verco. 
 
86 OF A THEISME. 
 
 And would haue luftice, muft notjlicke to giue. 
 
 Thus was Cornelia croft, her meanes preuented, 
 No comfort now remaining faue despaire ; 
 Wherefore ( perforce) fhe refts hope-reft, contented 
 To lofe the fight of her confined heire, 
 Who Hues reftrain'd: Afper herftate hath got, 
 And poore Cornelia with her caufe forgot. 
 
 The Argument #/*Lucian. 
 
 LVcian a profeffed enemy to Christ, detracting 
 much from the deuine & fole-healthfull My- 
 fteries of our Redemptio, wherby he became odi- 
 ous to the all-feeing veritie ; chanced to trauell for 
 delight, (as one of generall obferuation) into for- 
 raine places : where (as heauens iust doome would 
 haue it) he was worried by dogs, as a iuft reward 
 for his impious and egregious contempt towards 
 God; reuiling that all-feeing Maieftie of Chrift 
 with the facred office of his Minifters, and like a 
 fnarling or biting Curre, barking at the admirable 
 and ineffable workes which were wrought by 
 Gods omnipotencie : for which caufe God accor- 
 dingly punifhed him. A remarkable fpectacle to 
 all enfuing ages, concluding emphatically with 
 the Satyrift. 
 
 Ingeniofus 
 
OF A THEISM E. 87 
 
 
 Ingeniofus erat, fuperum fed acerrimus hoflis, 
 
 
 At cants ejl fuperum tempore prceda canum. 
 
 
 Wittie, but foe to God, who long in vaine, 
 
 
 Barking at God, by -barking currs was slaine. 
 
 
 The Satyre followeth, Morally applyed. 
 
 
 THE THIRD SATYRE. 
 
 
 T Ngenious Lucian, ripe in poefie, 
 
 J_ Apt to compqfe, and pregnant to inuent, 
 
 
 In vit. Luci. 
 
 Well read in fecrets of Phylofophie, 
 
 
 And in all Morall knowledge excellent ; 
 
 
 For all thefe rarer parts vnto him giuen, 
 
 
 Ceafs'd not to * barke againfl the power of heauen. 
 
 * Ifti latrant 
 non mordent, 
 
 
 non nocent : 
 
 This fnarling Curre, for he detracled God, 
 
 Augufi. 
 
 As prof eft enemie to pietie, 
 
 
 Chanced to trauell, where Gods irefull rod 
 
 
 Made him a witneffe to pofteritie ; (power, 
 
 * Thus as he bar- 
 
 For this fame * wretch who barked againfl heauens 
 
 k'dagainft the 
 God of heauen, 
 
 Did barking currs (fuch was heauens doome) deuoure. 
 
 To barking currs 
 he for a prey was 
 
 
 giuen. 
 
 Soile to his foule, andfo to Chrifls profeffion, 
 
 
 For He no Chrifl prof eft, but thought 't a f come 
 
 
 That God made man, from Godfhould haue comiffton, 
 
 
 Without mans helpe to be of Virgin borne : 
 
 
 Yet fee his fall, who did himfelfe deceiue, 
 
 
 Vnpitied dies, and dying ha's no graue. 
 
 
 What's Sions peace (fayes He) there's no fuch place ; 
 
 The A theijls o- 
 
 Earth hath her Sion, if we ayme our care 
 
 pinions. 
 
 At any other Manfion, it's a chafe 
 
 
 G 4 So 
 
 • 
 
 \ 
 
* Lachrymse 
 verbis, iufpiria 
 votis iminifce- 
 antur. 
 
 * Anchora cui 
 fpes eft innixa, 
 Angularis lapis 
 in quem funda- 
 
 *6povo<i rq<i 
 
 * Vt medicus, 
 perite tractat 
 vulnera, Qui o- 
 pera retradtat 
 perperam edi- 
 ta. 
 
 * Errando dif- 
 
 * Qualis ergo 
 eft ifta, quae 
 tam multa de 
 caeteris nouit, 
 & fe qualiter 
 fadla fit pror- 
 fus ignorat ? 
 A ugii/l. 
 
 88 OF A THEISME. 
 
 So fruitleffe, as ifwejhould beate the ay re, 
 Or plant our hope in things which cannot be, 
 And fucfts our trujl infained Deitie. 
 
 Tfiou vglie vifard, that with faire pretence 
 
 Of Morall difcipline Jhadowes thy fin, 
 
 Reclaime thy f elf e by timely penitence, 
 
 And loath that horrid Caue thou wallowefl in : 
 
 Thy fin's deep-dide, yet not of that deepefiaine, 
 
 But* Teares 6° Prayers may make them white againe. 
 
 Hafil thou no * Anchor to relie vpon ? 
 No Refuge nor no Reclufefor thy hope ? 
 Behold thy Iefus he's thy comer Hone, 
 Make him thy ay me, thy fuccour,fihelter,f cope, 
 And he'le receiue thee in the * Throne of blejfe, 
 The boundleffe Ocean of all happineffe. 
 
 Returne thou wicked Lucian, make thy verfe 
 
 Thy* Retraclation, be not ouerbold, 
 
 Left when good-men fihall view thy forlorne hearfe, 
 
 In thy reproch they caufe this to be told 
 
 To after-ages : Here he lies interr'd, 
 
 Who * erring knew, and in his knowledge err'd. 
 
 Sweete and delightfull * Poems canfl thou make, 
 Of Hymen rites, or Venus dalliance, 
 And pleafant feemes the labour thou doefl take, 
 While to thy Pipe deluded Louers dance : 
 But in fuch f acred meafures thou art flow, 
 As teach men how to Hue, and what to know. 
 
 Mirrha 
 
OF A THEISME. 89 
 
 Mirrha the wanton mother of a wanton, 
 Gamefome the Mother and the Daughter too, 
 Gi'ues a fit fubiecl for thy Muse to chant on, 
 Relating what a Louer ought to do ; 
 In which lafciuious flraine, fond Loue is brought 
 To hate what's good, but to affect what's naught. 
 
 Thou canfl report how Romaiies ioyned were, 
 Firfl with the Sabines, and what flrange delights 
 Tooke their inuention from thofefeafls were there, 
 Duly folemniz 'd on their nuptiall nights ; 
 Of Sphinx, Charybdis, Scilla, Ctefiphon, 
 With Proetus letters againfl * Bellerophon. 
 
 Thefe thou canfl feature as Apelles, He 
 
 The Prince of painters could not better fhow 
 
 Their formes, then thou their natures, which may be 
 
 Portray ers of thy wit and learning too : 
 
 But what are thefe butjliadowes, if thou moue 
 
 Thy eye to thofe blefl obiecls are aboue ? 
 
 Vid. Tit. Liu. in 
 Dec. 1. & 3. 
 Ouid. in faft. 
 
 * Whojlue the 
 t7vo monsters 
 Chymera and 
 Solymos hi Ly- 
 cia. 
 
 Lend but thy eare to aerie warbling Birds, 
 Which day by day ftng pleafant madrigals ; 
 And thoufhalt heare what praife the Larke affoords, Larke- 
 Whilefl with fweete Hymnes ffie on her maker cals, cendodidtur" 
 Where each repay es their due in their degree, Aiauda. 
 
 And much abajhd do rest ajham'd of thee. 
 
 The flower which hath nofenfe, nor hath no feeling, 
 Nor apprehends the difference of things, 
 Performes her office in delight offmelling, 
 Likewife the tree mofl fruitfull bloffoms brings : 
 
 The 
 
90 
 
 OF A THEIS M E. 
 
 * The P if mire 
 and Locuft (of 
 all other crea- 
 tures ) haue no 
 king nor leader. 
 vid. AElian. & 
 Plin. in natur. 
 Hift. 
 
 * Spicas cre- 
 uiffe cernimus, 
 eas autem 
 quando creue- 
 runt non.cer- 
 
 The Serpent, Adder, and each crauling worme, 
 Haue mutuall duties giuen them with their forme. 
 
 The Bafdiske the * king of Serpents is, 
 The Lion of all beafls, the Cedar tree 
 Is chief e of Trees, Leuiathan of fifh, 
 And man ore thefe hath fole fupremacie : 
 Thus euery Creature in her feuerall kind, 
 Hath feuerall Lords and limits her qffign'd. 
 
 Thou Lucian art endued with what thefe want, 
 And canft distinguifh betwixt good and ill, 
 Yet thou denies what other Creatures grant, 
 And which is worfe, thou fo continuefl filill : 
 Thou laughs at Adams fall, and thinks 't a fhame, 
 Man fhould auouch an Apple caufd the fame. 
 
 Wo worth that fruite that had fo bitter tafle, 
 Bringing Perdition to the foule of man, 
 That free-borne Creature, which fo farre furpafl 
 Mans fraile condition when it firfl began ; 
 That was an Apple that too dearely cqfl, 
 Which made fo many foules for euer loft. 
 
 If I Jhould Catechife thee Lucian, 
 
 And tell the vertue of each feuerall thing; 
 
 How reaf on firfl was diflribute to man, 
 
 And how the earth globe-like in aire doth king, 
 
 Thefecret grouth of Plants which daily grow, 
 
 Yet * how or when no humane fenfe can know. 
 
 The 
 
OF A THE I SME. 91 
 
 The* Fabrick of the heauen, whofe eminence 
 Shewes admiration to vs that behold 
 Her glorious Bodies f acred influence, 
 Whofe diflincl Motion, who is't can vnfold ? 
 None but the Author and the founder can, 
 For it exceedes the reach of any man. 
 
 If IJhould queflion thee, whence thefe deriue 
 Their proper Motion, it would thee behooue 
 To yeeld, that fome to thefe do Motion giue, 
 Since what fe We moues doth by another moue : 
 Which thou confirmes and adds, nought vnder Sunne 
 Is done in thefe, but is by Nature done. 
 
 So thou * referrs that wonderfull Creation, 
 After the Deluge to a mortall wight, 
 Difcourftng vainly how Deucalion, 
 Refurnijh'd earth which was vnpeopled quite ; 
 But thou decerned art, it's nothing fo, 
 For it was God that gaue increafe to Noe. 
 
 We are his clay, we mufl confeffe his power, 
 He is our Potter, whofe deuine command 
 Can dafh vs earthen veffels in one b houre, 
 Subiect vnto the iudgement of his hand; 
 For he no fooner Jhall withdraw his breath, 
 Then Man leaues to be Man, and welcomes death. 
 
 Heauens power to which no Mortall can extend, 
 (Not to be argued or difputed on,) 
 Becaufe it's not in Man to comprehend, 
 The radiant Splendor of the glorious Sunne : 
 
 Much 
 
 * Thatjlarrie 
 Gallerie embojl 
 ■with gold, 
 fretted with orbs 
 of Chri/lall, fli- 
 tter' d ouer, with 
 pearle pau 'd, 
 roofed with an 
 Agget couer. 
 
 * Holding with 
 Albumazar that 
 his leading the 
 children oflf- 
 rael ouer the 
 Redfea, was no 
 more but obfer- 
 ■uiug the influ- 
 ence ofStarres, 
 and waining 
 
 feafon of the 
 Moone that 
 withdraiveth the 
 tides ; and that 
 miraculous ijfu- 
 ing of water out 
 of the rocke, by 
 thejlroke of a 
 rod was no more, 
 but noting thofe 
 
 fpring-heads, 
 whereto the 
 •wild ajfes refor- 
 ted to quench 
 their thirjl. 
 b Whom th' 
 morning fees fo 
 
 proudly go, 
 ere euening come 
 may lie full low. 
 Senec. 
 
9 2 
 
 OF A THE IS ME 
 
 * We haue heard 
 of diuerfe, exem- 
 plarily punijhed 
 euen in that 
 wherein they co- 
 temptuoujly pro- 
 faned; as Iuhan, 
 Herodias, Bal- 
 shafar, and Thy- 
 tnelicus the en- 
 terlude-plaier ; 
 •who dancing 
 vpon thefcaffold 
 in a Cope (a 
 robe of the 
 Churchjfell 
 downe dead. 
 Thymelico fal- 
 tatori, &c. 
 Vid. Val. Maxi. 
 lib. i. cap. 2. 
 
 Much leffe profounder fecrets, which were J rani 'd, 
 For admiration, not to be prophan 'd. 
 
 * Frophan'd, if nanid without due reuerence, 
 To that Supreme all-working Maie/lie, 
 Whofe Palme containes this Earths circumference, 
 Whofe praife takes accent from heauens Hierarchic 
 Let not, let not him who gaue man tongue, 
 To yeeld him praife, for fdence make it dumbe. 
 
 Thou canfl compofe a fong of Shepheards Hues, 
 Spent in a pleafant veine of Recreation, 
 How they fit chatting with their wanton wiues, 
 Tricking and toying in a Shepheards fajhion : 
 This thou canfl do, and it's done pretily, 
 For itjhews wit, yet f pent vnfittingly. 
 
 O if thou would confine thy f elf e in reafon, 
 And leauefond Poems of a doting Louer, 
 Obferuing Natures tone, tu?ie, time, and fieafon, 
 How well would thefe feeme to that powerfull niouer ; 
 Whofe eyes are pure, and of that piercing fight, 
 As they loue light, but hate fuch works are light. 
 
 But O too vaine's the current of thy vaine, 
 Solid with the Motiues ofvntamed lufi, 
 Which layes vpon thy Name that endlefifefihame, 
 As fhall furuiue, when thou returned to dufil, 
 Shalt much lament thofe Poems thou hafil writ, 
 Through tK light conceit of thy licentious wit. 
 
 Nor is it gaine nwu's thee to proflitute, 
 
 That 
 
OF A THEISME 
 
 93 
 
 That precious talent which thou doejl poffeffe ; 
 No, it's delight thou hajl to gaine repute, 
 'Mongfl men made* beajls through their voluptuoufnes* 
 O hate that affeclation, lejl this Jhelfe, 
 Ofvaine applaufe do ruinate thy f elf e ! 
 
 For fuch ejleeme, what honour wil't afford, 
 What comfort in the graue, where thou lies dead; 
 When thy lafciuious * works Jhall beare record, 
 Of what was by thee writ or publijhed ? 
 Nay Hwill preiudice thee, it cannot chufe, 
 Vaine's that opinion ill-men haue of vs. 
 
 Thus thou fuflaines the height of miferie, 
 To fee a * Cleobes and Biton graced, 
 With honour, fame, defertfull dignitie, 
 Thy glory prurid, thy laurell-wreath defadd : 
 The triumphs of thy witfo quite forgot, 
 As if ( fo fickle 1 s fame ) thou flourifti d not. 
 
 Nor can we fay thofe flourijh, whofe renowne 
 Confifls in praife of vice, for though they feeme 
 Vnto the worlds eye fo fully knowne, 
 Yet they shall be as if they had not bene ; 
 When vice, which to aduance was their defire, 
 
 Shall melt away as waxe before the fire. 
 
 Refil not, but labour Lucian to preferre 
 The f age contents of f acred Myfieries, 
 Before fuch Rithms as teach men how to erre, 
 
 Whofe befit infitruclions are but vanities ; 
 
 Which if thou do, wits Treafiure fihall increafie, 
 
 And 
 
 * Sicut Belluae 
 funt humanae, 
 ita homines 
 funt belluini. 
 
 * By thofe ftu- 
 dies, which 
 I affected, am 1 
 condemned, by 
 thofe I praifed, 
 am I diffara- 
 ged. Aug. 
 
 * Two brothers, 
 fonnes to A rgia 
 a Profihetejfe in 
 the temple of 
 Itino. 
 
* In Demo- 
 fthene magna 
 pars Demo- 
 fthenis abeft, 
 cum legitur & 
 non auditor. 
 
 * Ea fola neque 
 datur dono ne- 
 que accipitur. 
 Salujl, 
 
 94 OF SINGVLARITIE. 
 
 And crowne thee Laureat in the Land of peace. 
 
 Yet reade not fo, as not to vnderfland 
 The graue remainders of Times ancient Booke ; 
 For what afollie is't to haue in hand 
 Bookes nere red ouer ! This, that * Sage forfooke, 
 When in his courfe of reading He did vfe, 
 The choyceft flowers in euery worke to chufe. 
 
 Thus Lucian haue I warned thee to forbeare, 
 That fnarling humour, of detracling fuch 
 Whofe vertues shine as Starres in highefi Sphcere, 
 Whofe worthie Liues can well abide the tutch ; 
 Defame not * vertue, rather emulate, 
 Good-mens exa?nple, that's a vertuous hate. 
 
 The Arg^lment ^/"Stefichorus. 
 
 STefichorus is fained to haue loll his eyes for dif- 
 praifmg Helen of Greece, and afterwards to 
 have recouered the fame by praifmg her. The Mo- 
 rall alludeth to fuch, who ouerborne with the vn- 
 bounded height of their owne conceit, diftafte 
 the opinion of a multitude, to make their owne ir- 
 regular iudgement paffe for current. Thefe (as we 
 say) vfe euer to fwim againft the ftreame, affecting 
 that leaft, which feemes approued by the moft : 
 fcorning to guide their fhip by anothers Card, 
 
 meafure 
 
OF SINGVLARITIE. 95 
 
 meafure their life by anothers line, or walke in a 
 common path. Some other application may this 
 Morall make, as One vpon this fable would haue 
 Stefichorus to fhadow a Malecontent, by whom 
 things generally efteemed vfe to be moft difua- 
 lued, delighting in nothing more then oppofi- 
 tion. Others by way of fimilitude compare him 
 to One, who by much gazing on the Sunne be- 
 comes dim-fighted ; fo He, by too intentiue fixing 
 his eye vpon beautie, became blinded : the deuine 
 application whereof I leaue to euery mans pecu- 
 liar conceite , not louing to preffe thefe further, 
 then their owne natiue fence will beare. The fub- 
 ie<5t whereof this Satyre intreateth, more particu- 
 larly applyed, may chance to glance at fome 
 whofe fingularitie gaines them Opinion aboue 
 reafon ; but filence is their belt falue, labouring ra- 
 ther to redeeme the time, then reueale their owne 
 fhame. Let them be of more humble nature, and 
 I will fpare to profecute any further. Nihil tarn vo- 
 lucre eft quclm malediclum, the poyfon whereof is 
 as ftrong as the paffage fwift ; the vnworthineffe 
 of which condition as I haue euer loathed, fo a 
 milde and temperate reproofe for vertues fake 
 haue I euer loued : not ignorant, how fome vices 
 (as other fores) are better cured by lenitiues then 
 corafiues, left the Patient crie out — Grauiora 
 funt, hand feram. Iudge of the Satyre. 
 
 THE 
 
96 OF SINGVLARITIE. 
 
 THE FOVRTH SATYRE. 
 
 *A ly rick Poet, O Tefichorus * like Zeuxes cannot paint, 
 
 jweUanipua- vj Nor like Lyfippus can delineate ; 
 
 fmg veme. p or ^ en jj g wou i^ g( ue f na f accomplijhment 
 
 To Hellens beautie, as might propagate 
 
 Her fame to following times, when Ages pajfe, 
 
 Which by Record might Jhew what Hellen was. 
 
 Blind Byard now, fee how thy iudgement err'd, 
 By gazing long on beautie thou art blind, 
 Recanting all too late what thou auerr'd, 
 So diffrent is tK opinion of that mind, 
 Where onely felfe-conceit drawes men to Jhew 
 Their priuate iudgement, giuen they care not how. 
 
 Wasfhe not f aire that made all Troy to burne, 
 That made Prince Paris wander to and fro, 
 That made Qiieene Hecuba fo fore to mourne, 
 Both for her f elf e and for her Iffue too ? 
 Yesfhe was f aire, how ere thy eye efleeme her, 
 Nor can conceit of one make beauty meaner. 
 
 What made flout Menelaus paffe the Sea ? 
 What Telamon to rig his well-mann'dfhip, 
 What Aiax, what Achylles ? It wasjhe, 
 Whofe fweete a?nbrofacke breath and cherri-lip, 
 Relifftd of Nectar, and infus'd a fpirit, 
 In Cowards breafls, to gaine true fame by merit. 
 
 Old fubtill Sinon can prepare ajfault, 
 
 Againjl 
 
OF SINGVLARITIE. 97 
 Again/? thejlrongeft battlements of Troy, 
 Whilejl armed Grecians in that ribbed vault, 
 Prejlfor encounter, purposed to dejlroy, 
 Iffuefrom Pallas horfe, so aptly * made, 
 As Troy had caufe to curfe the cunning lade. 
 
 Art thou per/waded yet to praife her beautie, 
 
 Sith Nature hathfurpajl Her felfe in skill, 
 
 As one ingag'd in fome refpecl of dutie, 
 
 Vnto her f ex, to make them honor 'dflill ? 
 
 O be perfwaded, to herfhrine repaire, 
 
 For howfoere thoufaies, thou thinks Her / aire ! 
 
 Faire in proportion, motiue in her pace, 
 An eye as chearefull as the morning- Sunne, 
 Her haire, her f mile, her well-befeeming grace, 
 By which fo many Troians were vndone : 
 In brief e, examine Her from top to toe, 
 And then admire each part accompliftKd fo. 
 
 Such admiration as like Linceus eyes, 
 Tranfparent Brightnejfe feemes to penetrate : 
 For if Apollo feeing Daphnes thighes, 
 Warfd by the Eaflerne winde, forgot hisfiate, 
 Himfelfe and all, Proportion well may moue, 
 Since gods themfelues were toft by gufls of loue. 
 
 Did not faire Phyllis dote vpon a Swaine, 
 She pajfing faire, and he a wither d lad, 
 Whence we may reafon, none can loue reflraine, 
 Norfet it limits which it neuer had : 
 For when we haue done all that we can do, 
 
 H It 
 
 * It was made 
 by Pherecltis, 
 who was after 
 Jlaine by Merioit 
 in the fiege of 
 Troy. 
 
* N^erus erat 
 verier! fpecies, 
 Helenaeq ; ci- 
 catrix gloria, 
 qua Paridem 
 fecit amore pa- 
 rem. 
 
 * Lumine qui 
 femper prodi- 
 tur ipfe fuo. 
 
 98 OF DOTAGE. 
 
 It will haue tKcourfe and readie paffage too. 
 
 Yet Louis fo pure it can endure nojlaine, 
 Stain 'd Loue is lujl, which is not in her brefl : 
 Spotleffe content fhefeekes, which ifjhe gaine, 
 She freely Hues, andfairely takes her rejl: 
 But barr'd of this, without repofejhe lies, 
 And dying Hues, and lining loathed dies. 
 
 It is not Venus * mole nor Hellens fcarre, 
 
 Adds fuell to affeclion,for though thefe 
 
 Gaue beautie fummons to commence Loues warre, 
 
 Yet outward graces do but onely pleafe, 
 
 As Obiecls do the eye ; where Loues beft part 
 
 Confifls not in the eye, but in the Heart. 
 
 But now to thee, who did difpraife that f aire, 
 Whofe beautie ruirild Cities, now difclaime 
 Thy purblind iudgement, and withall compare 
 Hellen with Hero, or fome choicer Dame : 
 And then it may be * Cupid will reflore 
 Thine eyes to thee, which He put out before. 
 
 The Argument of Pigmalion. 
 
 PIgmalion, whom no furpaffing beautie in all 
 Cyprus could captiuate, at last hauing made a 
 curious Image or Piclure of an amiable woman, 
 
 was 
 
OF DOT A GE. 99 
 
 was fo rauifhed with the accomplifhed propor- 
 tion of his owne worke, that enamoured there- 
 with, He intreated Venus to put life in his 
 Image, which with fuch Artfull delineature he 
 had compofed. Venus taking commiferation vpon 
 his prayers and teares, infufed life in his Picture, 
 whereof He begat a beautifull daughter called 
 Papho, from whom (or from Mount Paphos) Ve- 
 nus is faid to haue taken her name, ftyled some- 
 times by the Poets Eryca, fometimes Paphia : 
 whofe feafts with all ceremoniall rites vfually per- 
 formed in the honour of an immortall goddeffe, 
 were originally folemnized and celebrated onely 
 by the Shepheards of thofe Mountaines, but after- 
 wards more generally obferued. The Morall in- thh 
 cludeth the vaine and foolifh Loues of fuch as are painted faces, 
 
 . whofe natiue 
 
 befotted on euery idle picture or painted Image, Countrey (once 
 
 _ _ , _ . , .. , 1 -,. "white A Ibion) is 
 
 whofe felfe-conceited vanitie makes beauty their become reddifh, 
 Idoll, becoming Creatures of their owne making, y"^Jamtti at 
 as if they dif-efteemed the creation of their Ma- 
 ker. The Satyre though compendious, comprifeth 
 much matter. Reade it, and make vfe of the fe- 
 quele. 
 
 THE FIFT SATYRE. 
 
 PIgmalion rare, in rare P?vportions making, 
 Yet not in quickning that which He had framed, 
 So exquifite in artfull curious Jhaping, 
 In nought (if Zeuxes iudged) could he be bla?ned : 
 Yet skillfull though He were in formes contriuing, 
 Yet not so skilfull in thofe formes reuiuing. 
 
 H 2 Peuiu'd 
 
100 
 
 OF DOTA GE. 
 
 Reuiifd! I wrote amijfe, they fteuer lined : 
 Improper then to fay, they were reuiued. 
 
 He builds him * Temples for his Image-gods, 
 * Like thofe Pui- And much befotted with their f aire afpect, 
 ^tke^ieathen I n admiration of his worke, He nods, 
 f imii£ rPag<m Andfhakes his Head, and tenders them refpect ; 
 I cannot tell (quoth He) what paffion moues me, 
 But fure I am (quoth He) f aire Saint I hue thee, 
 Thou art my handie-worke, I wijh my wife, 
 If to thy f aire Proportion thou hadfl life. 
 
 Canfl thou Pigmalion dote fo onjhrines, 
 On liuelesse Pictures, that was neuer rapt 
 With any beautie Cyprus He confines ? 
 Thefe (foolish man) be for thy Loue vnapt ; 
 They cannot anfwer Loue for Loue againe, 
 Then fond Pigmalion do thy Loue reflraine ; 
 Such fenfeleffe creatures as haue onely being, 
 Haue with embraces but an harjh agreeing. 
 
 They haue no moyflure in their key-cold lips, 
 No pleafure in their f mile, their colour flands ; 
 Whilefl youthfull Ladies on the pauement trips, 
 Theyfland as Piclures * fhould, with faplejfe hands ; 
 And well thou knowes, if Paffiue be not mouing, 
 The Acliue part can yeeld f mall fruits of louing: 
 Why art thou fo befotted flill with woing, 
 Since there's no comfort when it comes to doing ? 
 
 * Quid agunt in 
 corpore cafto 
 ceruffa & mi- 
 nium, centumq ; 
 veuena coloru ? 
 Victor, ad Sal- 
 monem. 
 
 Can any idle Idoll without breath, 
 
 Giue thee a gracefull anfwer to thy fuite ? 
 
 Nay 
 
OF DOTAGE. 
 
 Nay rather like dead corps furpriz 'd by death, 
 It anfwers fdence when thou fpeakes vntdt. 
 Deffl then (fond Pigmalion,) and rejlraine 
 To loue that Creature cannot loue againe ; 
 What will it pleafure thee ajhrine to wed, 
 That can afford no pleafure in thy bed ? 
 
 IOI 
 
 Thou art not fo * bewitcht with any beautie, 
 
 How faire foere within thy Natiue He, 
 
 No Nimph can moue thy Loue, or force thy dutie, 
 
 As doth this Pi6ture, whofe art-forcing fmile 
 
 Can giue thee fmall content, and wherefore then 
 
 Should painted Statues fo entangle men ? 
 
 It's loue thou fay eft, Pigmalion, that doth moue thee, 
 
 But thou loues fuch as cannot fay they loue thee. 
 
 * — Sine coniu- 
 ge Caelebs 
 Viuebat, thala- 
 mique diu con- 
 forte caxebat. 
 Metam. 10 lib. 
 
 Turne thee vnto leud Pafyphaes lufl, 
 Wife to a braue and valiant * Champion, 
 Who on a Bull (see how affeclion muft 
 Paffe Reasons limit) fondly dotes vpon ; 
 * loue on a Heifer, Danae of a fhower, 
 Such is the vertue of loues-working power : 
 No time, place, obiecl, fubiecl, circumflance, 
 Canflill Loues pipe, when Cupid hades the dance 
 
 * Minos king of 
 Crete. 
 
 Then who will aske the reafon of thy Loue, 
 
 * Non fruftra 
 didtus Bos ouis 
 Imber Olor, 
 Whence our Eti- 
 glijk Poet as pro- 
 petty annexed 
 this Dijiicke, 
 imitating the 
 . - former in matter 
 yjOn. and manner: 
 
 Whichfhewes moflflrength whenfhe canfhewleaflrea- wZ a notjiiVd 
 And cannot Proteus-//,£<? with each blafl moue, F^om^jhipThe 
 
 Nor free her f elf e from foule-deluding treafon ! $£$£!&, 
 
 She like the Moone is not each month in waine, and/wan 
 
 via. Ouia. in 
 
 For tK obiecl of her loue is of that flraine, Metamorph. 
 
 Norland, norfea, nortempefls though they thwart her 
 H 3 Can 
 
102 OF DOT A GE. 
 
 Can from her Sphere by oppofiiion part her. 
 
 Do but torment Her with the fight of woe, 
 Vexe her with anguijh and with dif content, 
 She will not make her friend in heart, her foe ; 
 No, ifjhe were with depth of forrowes fpent ; 
 * which is eie- Yet * like Anthseus, whenjhds mofil caft downe, 
 %y our moderw She gathers filrength, and is not ouerthrowne : 
 iviw/e fail (An- She cannot breake her vow, her legall oath, 
 l7/tZLiZe, But meanes (if life permit) to keepe them both. 
 
 A nd made him 
 Jlronger then he 
 
 ■was before. Then (honoured Piclure) let me thee embrace ; 
 
 With that He hugd it in his luflfull armes, 
 And now and then Hefmeer'd the Piclures face, 
 Praying the gods to keepe it from all harmes : 
 And prayed (a fenslejfe prayer) Ioue to defend, 
 His Piclure from difeafes to the end ; 
 So to enioy her dalliance with more p leaf ure, 
 
 Whofe prefence He efleenid the precious 1 1 Treasure. 
 
 Each euen he vs'd to drejfe it for his bed, 
 For in a gowne of Tiffue was it clothed, 
 And put a night-tyre on it's iuorie head, 
 Aud when night came He made it be vnclothed ; 
 
 Where, left Hejhould his luflfull fauours hide, 
 He vs'd to lay the Piclure by his fide, 
 
 Where He drew to it as Hefaw it lie, 
 But when it would not be, He wifh'd to die. 
 
 Vngratefull Creature (would Pigmalionyiy^ 
 
 That neuer doefil afford one fmile on me, 
 
 That dallies thus with thee, each night, each day ; 
 
 Faire 
 
OF DOTAGE. 103 
 
 Faire Saint, what needes this curiofitie ? 
 While with a * kiffe He oft hisfpeech would breake, » orcuia dat. 
 By threats or faire intreats to make it fpeake : k^uimr me te- 
 
 And when He had his fruitleffe pratling done, TotT' Meta ' 
 
 He would in rage call it an Idoll dumbe. 
 
 But angrie with himself e, Heflreight would blame 
 His too rajhfurie, crauing pardon too, 
 That he Jhould flile it with so harfh a Name, 
 And wiJKd him powre to die, or it to do, 
 Swearing by heauen, z/"fheete did chance to moue, 
 It was the nimble aclion of his Loue. 
 Coy-toying Girle (quoth He) what meaneth this, 
 Is it your modejlie, you will not kiffe ? 
 
 Naught though it anfwer'd, he would profecute 
 His wooing taske, as if it flood denying, 
 And thus would vrge it ; Deare accept my fuite, 
 Be not fo fearefull, fear e thou not efpying, 
 I haue excufes flore, then liflen me ; 
 For I will vow I was enarriling thee : 
 Thenfport thee wench, fecurely frolick it, 
 That I on thee a Niobe may get. 
 
 Thus whilefl He vainely pratled to his Shrine, 
 Aurora with her radiant beames appeared, 
 And blufhing red, as ifjhe tax'd the time, 
 Forfuch licentious motions, flilie peered 
 In at a chinke, whereby Jhe did difcouer 
 An idoll courted by an idle Louer : 
 Andfcarce Aurora ncnv had time tojhow her, 
 But fond Pigmalion made thisfpeech vnto her. 
 
 H 4 What 
 
res. 
 
 104 OF DOTAGE. 
 
 What haue I done (thou iealous light) said He, 
 That IJhould thus depriued be of louing / 
 What couldji thou do, to adde more miferie, 
 Then in thyfpeedie rifing, hajlie mouing? 
 Thou might haue fpar'd one day, and hid thy light, 
 * vt geminata Enioyning Earth to haue a * double night, 
 
 duos nox mcly- . . ,,. . ~ 
 
 ta iungat amo- Where ghajlly furies in obhuion fit, 
 
 For darke mifdeeds for darkneffe be most fit. 
 
 But He cut off his fpeech with many grone, 
 Haflning to rife, yet went to bed againe, 
 And as He goes, He fees the darkneffe gone, 
 And Phaebus courfers galloping amaine : 
 Which feene, at lafil He rofe with much adoe, 
 And being vp, began afrejh to woe ; 
 Yet hauingfo muchfenfe as to perceiue, 
 How he had er^d, He ceaffeth now to craue. 
 
 For He intends to worke another way, 
 By Inuocation on fome heauenly power, 
 The onely meanes his paffion to allay ; 
 
 Which to performe, retiring to his bower, 
 He made thefe Orifons : Vemisfaire Queene, 
 Then whom in heauen or earth nere like was feene, 
 Be thou propitious to my prayers, my teares, 
 
 Which at thy Throne and Pedeflall appeares. 
 
 I whom nor Swaine nor Niniph could ere inchant, 
 Am now befottedwith afenfleffe creature, 
 Whom though I do poffeffe, yet do I want, 
 Wanting life breathing in her comely feature, 
 Which by infufing life if thou fupplie, 
 
 He 
 
OF DO J A GE. 
 
 lie Hue to * honour thee, if not, I die ; 
 
 For what is life where dif content doth raigne, 
 
 But fuch afarme as we would faine difclaime ? 
 
 Venus much mou'd with his obfequious prayers, 
 And liquid tear es, his fuite didfatisfie, 
 Infufing breath into herfenfleffe veines, 
 Now full of iuyce, life, and agilitie ; 
 Which being done, the Picture mou'd, not miffing 
 To lure Pigmalion to her lips with kiffing, 
 Reaping great ioy and comfort in their toying, 
 Depriu'd before of bliffe, blefl now enioying. 
 
 Blefl in enioying and poff effing that, 
 Which doth include true Loues felicitie, 
 Where two are made ioynt owners of oneflate, 
 And though diflinct, made one by vnitie ; 
 Happie then I, fPigmalion did reply,) 
 That haue poffeffion of this Deitie, 
 JVb humane creature but a Parragon, 
 Whofe liueleffe forme once Nimphs admired on. 
 
 This f aid, Jhe fir eight retires vnto the place, 
 Where fhe her moulding had, by whom Jhe now 
 (I meane Pigmalion,) obtained fuch grace, 
 As He her maker and her hufband too, 
 Tookefuch content in his now-breathing wife, 
 As they fear ce differed once in all their life, 
 But this was then : Let this fuffice for praife, 
 Few wiues be of her temper now adaies. 
 
 The f aire and fruitfull daughter He begat, 
 
 105 
 
 * By offring Sa- 
 crifice to Venus 
 in the lie ofCy- 
 prtts. 
 
 Of 
 
 De fobole Pig- 
 malionis. 
 
106 OF PARTI ALITIE. 
 
 Of this fame liuely Image had to name, 
 Papho the faire, a wench of Princely flate, 
 * Ma Paphum From whence * Be Paphos appellation came, 
 fenet'infula no- Confecrate vnto Venus, beauties Queene, 
 By whofe afpecl that He is euer greene ; 
 Wherein there is a pleafant Mirtle-groue, 
 Where a fhrine flands tofhew Pigmalions loue. 
 
 men. Ibidem. 
 
 The Argument #/" Pytheas. 
 
 PYtheas an Athenian Orator much delighted 
 with good cloaths, and proud of his owne 
 tongue : when law began to grow out of requefl 
 (for the Athenians endeuoured to bring in Pla- 
 toes commonweale) whereby the Court of the A- 
 reopagitce became much weakened, and the fre- 
 quencie of Clyents difcontinued ; Acolytus a bitter 
 Satyrift, chancing to meete with Pytheas this 
 fpruce Lawyer in rent clothes, at a bare Ordina- 
 rie, liuing vpon Pythagoras diet, viz. rootes ; ob- 
 ferued this vnexpecled mutation, and with Demo- 
 critus readie to laugh at others miferie, compiled 
 this fhort Satyre, to adde new fuell to Pytheas dif- 
 content 
 
 THE SIXT SATYRE. 
 
 I Ytheas a Laywer of no f mall refpecl, 
 Garded, regarded, dips his tongue in gold, 
 
 And 
 
OF PARTI ALITIE 
 
 107 
 
 And culls his phrafe, the better to effecl 
 What He and his penurious Client would ; 
 Vpon his backefor all his antickefhowes, 
 
 More clothes He weares then how to pay He knowes. 
 
 Andwhafs the reqfon; he hath Law at will, 
 Making a good face of an euill matter, 
 And euery day his thirflie purfe can fill; 
 With gold thou liefl; with nought but wind and water: 
 He tell thee why, Platoes new Commonweale, 
 Makes Pytheas leaue off pleading, and go * fleale. 
 
 What Pytheas, fleale 7 tit poffible, that He 
 That had a Pomander flill at his nofe, 
 That was perfum'd with balls fo fragrantly, 
 Should now another trade of liuing choofe ? 
 He mufl and will, nor dare Hefhow his face 
 Halfe cafement-wide, that opened many a cafe. 
 
 The other day but walking on theflreete, 
 
 If aw his veluet gerkin layd to pawne 
 
 His graue Gregorian, for his head more meete, 
 
 Then Brokers Jhop, and his befl pleading gowne ; 
 
 Nay which was more, marke Pytheas confidence, 
 
 There lay to pawne his Clients euidence. 
 
 Put it's no maruell, Pride mufl haue a fall, (ftreame, 
 Who was on Cockhorfie borne through Fortunes 
 Is now cafhier 'd from //^'Areopagites Hall, 
 And on each bulke becomes a common theame : 
 blefil vacation, may thou neuer ceafie, 
 Put flill haue power to filence fuch as thefe ! 
 
 Well 
 
 * Sifte latrare 
 foris, & promo- 
 ue ccepta la- 
 tronis. 
 
 Sic toga, fie 
 crines, pignora 
 iuris erant. 
 
108 OF INGRATITVDE. 
 
 Well farewll Law if Lawyers can be poore, 
 For I efleenid them onely blejl in this, 
 That Danaes lap with gold-dijlillingjhower, 
 Had made them line all heires to earthly bliffe : 
 Butfince thefe confcript fathers we adore, 
 Feele want of wealth, wdle worjhip them no more. 
 
 The Argument of Periander. 
 
 PEriander that wife Prince of Corinth, elected 
 one of the Sages of Greece, fell in his old age 
 to pouertie; whereby, though his Axiomes were 
 no leffe efteemed, his deuine Aphorifmes no leffe 
 * via. Laer. de regarded, (as held for the very * Oracles of fome 
 vit. Phyiofo. fuperiour power) yet the refpect which former 
 time had of him grew leffened, through the de- 
 creafe of his friends and fortunes : which was no 
 fooner perceiued, then the diflrejfed Sage lamen- 
 ting the worlds blindneffe, that vseth to be taken 
 fooner with a vaine fhadow then any folid fub- 
 ftance, wrote this Satyricall Elegie in a penfme 
 moode, inueying againft the vncertaine and in- 
 conftant affections of men, who meafure happi- 
 neffe not by the inward but outward poffemng. 
 Whereby He inferreth, that howfoeuer the wife- 
 man may feeme miferable, He is not so, but is 
 more rich in poffeffmg nothing, then the coue- 
 
 tous 
 
OF INGRATITVDE. 
 
 109 
 
 tous foole in enioying all things : for his eftima- 
 tion is without him, whereas the other hath his 
 within Him, which is to be more preferred, (I 
 meane the minds treafure, before the rubbifh of 
 this world,) then light before darkneffe, the radi- 
 ant beames of the Sunne before thicke and duskie 
 clouds, or pure and temporate aire before foggie 
 and contagious vapors. 
 
 THE SEVENTH SATYRE. 
 
 VNgrateful Greece, t hat f comes a man madepoore 
 Reflecting not the treafure of his mind, 
 Whofe want of wealth mufljhut him out ofdoore ; 
 The world 's no friend to him that cannot find 
 A maffe of gold within their mouldred cell, 
 No matter how they get it, ill or well. 
 
 Virtus poft 
 nummos. 
 
 This I experience of, may well perceiue, 
 Euen *Periander I, of late a Sage 
 Offlately Greece, whom nowfheUe not receiue, 
 Becaufe opprefl with want, furpriz'd with age ; 
 Euen I, that of the* Ephori was one, 
 One of the chief fl, but now retires alone. 
 
 Yet not alone, though none refort to me, 
 For wifedome will haue fociats to frequent her: 
 And though proud Greece fro hence fhould banifh thee, 
 Friends thou hafl Jlore,will knocke and knocking enter: 
 Andfirme * friends too, whofe vertues are so pure, 
 Vice may ajfay, but cannot them allure. 
 
 With 
 
 * Whofe fathers 
 was Cypfelus, 
 defcending from 
 the Heraclyd fa- 
 ■milie. 
 
 * Ephorus was 
 among the Lace- 
 demonians as 
 Tribunus among 
 the Romans. 
 
 * Amicis & fe- 
 licibus & infe- 
 licibus eundem 
 re prebe. 
 Laert. infentefi. 
 Periand. 
 
no OF INGRATITVDE. 
 
 With what refped was I once graced by you, 
 You gorgeous out/Ides, Fortunes painted wall, 
 When rich ; but poore, you bid my rags adue, 
 Which did at firft my troubled mind appall; 
 ]^ttTp^fraJfh) But noting well the * worlds inconjlant courfe, 
 though the hou/e J thought her fcorne could make me little worfe. 
 
 (the bodie) be ° J 
 
 Jhakenfo the 
 
 of the bodyfjLre Remorceleffe Greece, wert thou of marble made, 
 de Remed a v C tri- Thou might fhed teares to fee thy Sage difmaide, 
 ufque fortune. By who j- £ ^ireaion tnou hafl oft bene flay 'd, 
 
 When both thy hope decreafl, and fame decaid ; 
 Both which refior'd by Him, got that report, 
 To Him and his, as thou admired himforH. 
 
 Yet canfl thou not difcerne, twixt wifedomesflraine, 
 And thofe dif cor ding tones of vanitie, 
 For all thy ayme is benefite and gaine, 
 And thefe are they thou makes thy Deitie ; 
 Tofecond which, this caution thou doefl giue, 
 Who know not to diffemble cannot liue. 
 
 r, ,. r . I know thy follies, and will brute them too, 
 
 Demadis Jaying ■/ J ' ' 
 
 was that Dra- jp or ff l0U na a mou'd my fplene, and I mull fpeake, 
 
 coes lawes -were J sjx ? j jj. 
 
 ■written -with Since thou applies nofalue to cure my woe, 
 
 blond and not _ . . . 7 _ . 7 7 
 
 with inke. I muft complaine perforce, or heart-ftnngs breake ; 
 
 Iuflice is turrid to wormewood in your land, 
 And corrupt dealing gets the vpper hand. 
 
 You itch (and out of meafure) with deftre 
 Of hearing nouelties, andflrange deuices, 
 Andfcorch'd with heate of lufls-enraged fire, 
 Set marks of Loue, make f ale of Venus prizes, 
 
 Broad 
 
OF INGRAT1TVDE. in 
 
 Broad-fp reading vice, how dearefdere it coji, 
 To purchafe it, youHe vye with who bids mojl. 
 
 You Hydra-headed monjlers full of poyfon, 
 Infecling euery place with Jlinking breath, 
 
 What ere proceeds from you is very noyfome, 
 And like the Bafdiske procuring death : 
 I care not for your hatred, if your loue 
 Like Tritons ball, with fuch inconflance moue. 
 
 Thefe fleering flies which flicker to and fro, 
 
 And beate the vaine ayre with their rufling wings, 
 
 Be their owne foes, and they profeffe themfo, 
 
 When they their wings with flames of furie cinge ; 
 For they whqfe hate purfues a guiltleffe one, 
 
 With * Syfiphus do role his reflleffe flone. 
 
 You cannot grieue me with your enmitie, 
 Nor much offend me with your hatefull breath, 
 For ill-mens loue and hate, are equally 
 Pritfd by the good, whqfe chiefefl aime is death, 
 And how to die : for much it doth not skill, 
 What ill-men fpeake of vs, or good or ill. 
 
 What golden promifes did Ireceiue, 
 Yet fee their iffue ; bafe contempt andfcorne 
 Ore my deiecled flate triumphed haue : 
 So as proud Greece vnmindfull to performe 
 What merit craues, and whatjhds bound to do, 
 Neglecls my want, and glories in it too. 
 
 Plin. in nat. hift. 
 Alcyat. in Em- 
 blem. 
 
 * Ixions ivheele, 
 Tantalus apples, 
 and Syfiphus 
 Jlone : peculiar 
 punifhments in- 
 flicted on thefe 
 perfons for their 
 lufi, auarice, 6f 
 crueltie, as the 
 Poets faine. 
 
 Bias my Brother-fage I now remember, 
 
 Shipwrack'd 
 
ii2 OF INGRATITVDE. 
 
 * Or Corinth, in 
 Greece. 
 
 * Infaelicem di- 
 cebat, qui ferre 
 nequiret infeli- 
 citatem. in vit. 
 Bi. 
 
 * Omnia aduer- 
 fa exercitatio- 
 nes accidenti- 
 bus bonis effe 
 putat. vid. Boat, 
 in lib. de malis. 
 Poteft dici mi- 
 fer, non poteft 
 effe. ibid. 
 
 Shipwrack'd in Priene He, whofe wofull cafe 
 Seemes to referable fate-crost Periander, 
 Like Ianus flatue,fhewing face to face ; 
 Let's then,fince equall fortune frownes on either, 
 (Kind Bias) found our wofull plaints together. 
 
 Let Priene He relate thy hard mif chance, 
 Let * Greece bewaile my fall, my ruiridftate, 
 Thou while on Sea thy exil'dfhip doth lance, 
 Thou lightly weighes tKinconflancie of fate : 
 Rouze Periander then, that't may befaid, 
 Thy * patience hath thy fortune conquered. 
 
 Get thee to Schooles, where pure Phylofophie 
 In publicke places is fincerely taught, 
 And thoufhalt heare, there's no calamitie, 
 Can dant afpirit refold d to droupe with nought 
 That want or woe can menace, for though woe, 
 Make* good-men wretched feeme, they are notfo. 
 
 Well may misfortunes fall on our eflate, 
 Yet they're no blemifh to our inward worth, 
 For thefe are but the gifts of purblind fate, 
 That domineers fole foueraigneffe on earth ; 
 But we are placed in an higher feate, 
 Then to lie proflrate at Dame Fortunes feete. 
 
 Her palfie hand wherewith fhe holds her ball, 
 Moues with each blafl of mutabilitie, 
 And in whofe lap fhe lifts, fhe lets it fall, 
 Thus mocks fhe man with her inconftancie ; 
 Then who is he (if wife) efleemes her treafure, 
 
 No 
 
OF INGRATITVDE. 113 
 No fooner giuen, then tane when we difpleafe her. 
 
 She faunes ; Jhe frownes, Jhe lajls not out a Moone, 
 But waines each month, and waining doth decreafe : 
 Thofe whom Jhe didaduance,fhe now throwes downe, 
 And thofe which lik'd Her once, do now difpleafe : 
 Thou reeling wheele, that moues fo oft a day, 
 That weaues thy * weft, and takes thy web away. 
 
 Titus that Prince fo much admir'd by men, 
 
 Stiled Mans Darling for his curtuous mind, 
 
 Did thinke all powers by fate to haue their raigne, 
 
 As if Jhe had no limits Her ajfgn'd, 
 
 But (though deuinely-learri d) did erre in this, 
 
 For fates be rul'd by fupreme * Deities. 
 
 Then why Jhould I (fond man)fo much depend, 
 
 Vpon a Creature, which hath her exifling 
 
 In a Superiour power, and doth extend 
 
 No further then heauens pleafel for her subfifling, 
 
 Effence, power, Empire, foueraigne command, 
 
 Hath her dire6tion from Iehouahs hand. 
 
 Reft thee then Periander, and defpife 
 
 Vulgar opinion fwaide by multitude, 
 
 Thou was efleemed once for to be wife, 
 
 Shew it in publicke ; let Hues enterlude 
 
 *Acled by thee vpon this worlds flage, 
 
 Contemne that Greece which f comes diflreffed age. 
 
 * Sic licium 
 texit, fie telae 
 ftamina foluit. 
 
 Sueton. Tranq. 
 in vit. Tit. 
 
 * Quicquid boni 
 egeris in Deos 
 refer. 
 
 Laert. in vit. 
 Phil. 
 
 * Vniuerfus 
 mundus exer- 
 cet Hiftrionem. 
 
 / 
 
 The 
 
114 
 
 OF FLA TTERIE. 
 
 The Hiftoricall Argument of Terpnus 
 
 Mujician vnto Nero ; with a Satyr e 
 
 annexed to it as followeth. 
 
 Erpnus a Romane Lyrick, or as 
 fome will haue him, a comon Cy- 
 tharede, with whom Nero, y l pre- 
 fident to Tyrants vfed to confort, 
 and with whofe admirable skill 
 he was exceedingly delighted : in 
 proceffe of time fell into Neroes difgrace, for play- 
 ing to him at Agrippina his mothers funerals : 
 where he fung the difmall and inceftuous bed of 
 Orejles, the crueltie of Sphinx, reuiling at their ty- 
 rannie ; which fo greatly difpleafed Nero, that he 
 banifhed him his Court and royall Pallace, inioy- 
 ning him withall neuer to frequent the Mufes 
 Temple. 
 
 The Morall importeth Such, as laying afide 
 Time-obferuing, do not few pillowes to their Prin- 
 ces elbowes, but with bold and refolued fpirit, 
 will with Calijlenes tell Alexander of his drunken- 
 neffe, with Camus tell Tyberius of his crueltie, 
 with Brutus tell Ccefar of his vfurping, with Cato 
 Cenforius will reprehend the Commonweale for 
 
 her 
 
OF FLA TTERIE. 115 
 
 her ryoting. And true it is, that a Commonwealth 
 is better gouerned (if of neceffitie it muft be go- 
 uerned by either) by Cynickes then Epicures, more 
 offences for moft part arifmg by alluring and in- 
 ducing men to fenfuall pleafures, then by Spartas 
 Damafymbrotos, his retraining of youth. The La- 
 conians neuer liued fo fecurely, as when they liued 
 barely ; nor euer did Romes Commonwealth di- 
 late her bounders more then by the practife of le- 
 gall aufteritie, nor decreafe more then by intro- 
 duction of lawleffe libertie. And yet I find it more 
 rare to heare any admonitions but Placentia in the 
 Courts prefence, then to fee a graue and demure 
 feeming, couer an hypocrites ranke diffembling. 
 We haue more * Seiani (which I wifh had Seians ' '' Aymmgw 
 
 * _ lejje at prime 
 
 fall) then Vticani to prouide for a Commonweals giozers and de- 
 fafetie. There were many could greete Ccefar with afpinng piot- 
 
 . . , - , . . . . ters, audjlate- 
 
 an Aue, but there were few would put him in intruders. 
 mind of his Memento mori. Many could perfwade 
 Phaeton that he could guide the Sunnes chariot in 
 better order then his gray-hair'd father, but by 
 affenting to their perfwafions, he was like to make 
 a flame of the world. Nothing more dangerous to 
 the ftate of a well-gouerned Commonweale, then 
 Parafites, the tame beajis of the Citie (as Diogenes 
 calls them). If the perfwading fycophancie of 
 Times-obferuancie had not befotted Candaules 
 with his wiues beautie, he had preuented that mi- 
 ferable euent which by his owne Gyges was pra- 
 ctifed and performed. Dicit Varius, negat Scan- 
 rus vtri creditis ? Varius afhrmes it, Scaurus denies 
 it, whether beleeue you ? The one fmcerely voyd 
 I 2 of 
 
n6 OF FLATTERIE. 
 
 of diffembling flatterie : the other glofmgly voyde 
 of truth and veritie. By the one we are fubiect to 
 the mine of our ftate : by the other aduanced to a 
 firmer conftancy then fuch as may be any way 
 * Quinquennia fubiect to mutabilitie. Nero in the * beginning of 
 
 Nero. 
 
 his time banifhed al the Spintrice, Inuentors of beajl- 
 ly pleafures out of his kingdome ; I would he had 
 banifhed time-obferuing flatterers, and that he 
 had retained fuch as Terpnus, that would repre- 
 hend him in his enormities. Julius Ccefar was too 
 much addicted to his Parafites, but his fucceffour 
 Auguftus was — ad accipiendas atnicitias rariffimus 
 ad retinendas vero conjlantifflmus. It was long ere 
 he would entertaine a friend, but being retained, 
 he was moil conftant in his fauour towards him. 
 The old approbation of friendfhip comes into my 
 mind, to eate a bufhell of fait ere we be acquain- 
 ted. We may trie our friends as Pilades did his 0- 
 reftes, Damon his Pythias, Apneas his Achates, but 
 it will be long I feare me, ere any of vs poffeffe 
 fuch impregnable Affiftants, fuch Prefidents of 
 true friendfhip. The fkilfull Painter when he de- 
 pictures an vnthankfull man, becaufe he cannot 
 well delineate him in his colours, without fome 
 proper Motto better to explaine him, reprefenteth 
 him in the Picture of a Viper, that killeth her fee- 
 der. There be many fuch Vipers, which appeare in 
 externall fhew as true hearted as Turtles, I feare 
 them more then the open force of mine enemie : 
 for thefe fugred kiffes bring deflruction to the re- 
 ceiuer. Bocethius defining a good man, faith : He 
 may be thus defined : he is a good man — cut nullum 
 
 bonum 
 
OF FLA TTERIE. n 7 
 
 bonum malumue fit nifi bonus malufue animus : to 
 whom nothing is efteemed either good or euill, 
 but a good or an euill mind ; and what effectually 
 maketh this euill mind, but either an inbred euill 
 difpofition, which arifeth from the crookedneffe 
 of his nature, or fro the euill perfwafions of depra- 
 ued time-obferuers : for the beft natures be (for the 
 moil part) fooneft peruerted & feduced. Then how 
 neceffarie is it to roote out fo noyfome and pefti- 
 lent a weede as flatterie, which corrupteth the af- 
 fections of the worthieft and moft pregnant wits, 
 as daily example hath well inftructed vs? How 
 hatefull was it to that worthie Thebane Prince, 
 Agefilaus, that memorable mirror of iuftice (& no 
 leffe hatefull to our renowned Prince, whofe ex- 
 quifite endowments make him as eminent abroad, 
 as.vs bleffed at home) to fee a flatterer in his Pal- 
 lace? nay fo much contemning popular applaufe, 
 that he would not fuffer his Statue to be erected, 
 left thereby the vaine and profane adorations of his 
 fubiects mould grieue the gods, difdaining that 
 veneration of any mundane power, fhould be con- 
 fufedly mixed with adoration and worfhip of the 
 gods immortall : well remembring Hefiods ca- 
 ueat — /teSe avrov, we muft not mixe prophane 
 worfhips with deuine. That Court-gate in Rome The Para fite- 
 called Quadrigemina, I would haue it demolifhed 
 in Troinouant, left her eftate fecond Roms flauery. 
 Cicero thinks that no vice can be more pernicious 
 then affentation, the verie helper and furtherer of 
 all vices. She can giue life and being to the afpi- 
 ring thoughts of man, when He foares too ambi- 
 I 3 tioufly 
 
n8 OF FLA TTERIE. 
 
 tioufly to the pearch of preferment, honour, or the 
 like. That wicked Catiline who confpired againft 
 Rome, and afpired to the Diadem, feeking to re- 
 duce the Empire from a gouernment Ariftocra- 
 ticke, to a Catilines Monarchic ; was egged & in- 
 ftigated thereto by complices fit for that purpofe, 
 and well forting with fuch an agent, fuch a cruell 
 practitioner — Incredibilia, immoderata 6° nimis 
 alta femper capiendo, in defiling things incredible, 
 immoderate, and too high aboue ordinary reach. 
 The like befell vpon Carba, and thofe who fought 
 to diffolue the Romane Monarchic, & to make it 
 an Oligarchic or fome other gouernment, which 
 was vncertaine, becaufe their intendments neuer 
 came to their accomplifhed ends. Thefe things 
 thus confidered in their natures, I haue here de- 
 fcribed Terpnus finceritie in reprehending Neroes 
 crueltie, concluding with Flaccus Dyftich. 
 — Hie murus ahceneus e/lo, 
 Nil confeire fibi, nulla pallef cere culpa. 
 What hard mifchance fo ere to thee befall, 
 Let thy pure confeience be the brazen wall. 
 The Satyre enfueth, which moft efpecially aymeth 
 at Time-obferuers, fome whereof in particular I 
 haue inftanced, as Seianus, Perennius, Sy cites ; the 
 difmall euents whereof with their Tragicke ends, 
 I haue amply defcribed. 
 
 THE 
 
OF FLA TTERIE. 
 
 119 
 
 THE EIGHTH SATYRE. 
 
 TErpnus * Mufician to a tyrant Prince, 
 Nero by name, did in thefuneralls 
 Which were folemniz 'd on his mothers hearfe, 
 Sing on his Lute thefe wofull tragicalls : 
 Where euery Jlraine heflrooke vpon hisjlring, 
 Did vexe the confcience of the tyrant king. 
 
 Lncejluous * Oedipus who flue his father, 
 
 Married his mother, and did violate 
 
 The law of nature, which aduis'd him rather 
 
 Single to hue, then take tofuch a flat e, 
 
 Becomes a fubiecl fit, for this fad hearfe, 
 
 Where inke. giues place to bloud to write her verfe. 
 
 Cruell Oreftes bath'd his ruthleffe fword, 
 Eflrang 'd from fir angers, in his mothers blood, 
 So little pittie did the child afford 
 To Her, that was the parent of the brood ; 
 Yetfome excufefor this Oreftes had, 
 Mad men exemption haue, and He was mad. 
 
 * Terpnum. ci- 
 tharaedum v - 
 gentem tunc 
 prater alios 
 accerfijt. in Vit. 
 Nero. 
 
 * Inter carters 
 cantauit Cana- 
 cem parturien- 
 tem, Oreftem 
 matricidam, 
 Oedipodem 
 excfficatum, 
 Herculem infa- 
 num, &c. Suet 
 hi vit. Ner. 
 
 Sphinx fubtile Giant, who did riddles put 
 Vnto each paffenger He met withall, 
 Which, who could not refolue He peece-meale cut, 
 Throwing them fro fleepe rocks whence they fhould fall, 
 Whereby their members broke and crujhtd in peeces, 
 Remain' d as food in Sea to fillie fifhes. 
 
 Yet this he did vpon mature aduice, 
 I 4- 
 
 For 
 
120 OF FLA TTERIE. 
 
 For who fd ere He were affoiVd this queftion, 
 Was not opprejl by him in any wife, 
 
 But might with faf eft conducl trauell on ; 
 Where thou foule Matricide doeft infants vex, 
 Without refpecl of perfon,ftate, orfex. 
 
 There is nofex which may exempted be, 
 — ciuis gaudet From thy infatiate hand embrew'd in blood, 
 Sen. ' But waxing proud in others miferie, 
 
 Doeft tyrannize vpon poore womanhood : 
 Blood-thirfty Tyrant there's prepaid a doome, 
 Toftartle thee that ripd thy mothers wombe. 
 
 Rauing Oreftes heard a furious crie, 
 
 Which did attend his phrenfte to his graue, 
 
 And did difturbe his reftleffe fleepe thereby, 
 
 So asfaue troubled dreames He nought could haue: 
 
 With many broken fleepes, tofhew his guilt, 
 
 Of his deare mothers bloud, which He hadfpilt. 
 
 Fugit ab agro Which poore Oreftes had no fooner heard, 
 publico ad do? Then to his pillow in a dif mall fort, 
 in U cubfcuium! Streight He retir'd, and being much afeard, 
 Augu/i. inenar. £ e j% fen an ^ horror Jhould conuent him for 't, 
 With hands lift vp to heauen and hideous crie, 
 He oft would curfe himfelfe, and wijh to die. 
 
 Oreftes imp™- Turne me (ye gods) quoth he, to fome wild beaft, 
 
 catwn. 
 
 Somefauage Lion, or fome Tyger fierce, 
 Since I delight fo much in bloud to feaft, 
 For who can with remorfe my deeds rehearfe ? 
 Which if timefhould with her obliuion f mother, 
 
 Bloud 
 
OF FLATTERIE. 121 
 
 Bloud cries reuenge, reuenge me cries my mother. 
 
 Worfe then the beafls thou art, they cherijh them, 
 And bring their parents food when they grow old : 
 Who then can daigne to looke on thee for fhame, 
 That hafl defadd that forme that gaue thee mold? 
 The tender * Storke that fees her parents lack, BafiUus hom. 
 
 Will bring them food, and beare them on her back. 
 
 But thou a mirrour of impietie, 
 
 Depriues thy parent of her vitall breath, 
 
 And makes herfubiecl to thy cruelty, 
 
 Thusjhe that gaue thee life, thou giues her death : 
 
 A fweete reward ; then afhamed be, 
 
 Thouflaine of Greece, that Greece fhould harbor thee. 
 
 Thus would Orefl.es frame his fad difcourfe, 
 
 With words as vile as were his aclions foule, 
 
 To moue his phrenticke paffions to remorfe, 
 
 Which long (too long) had triumpht ore his foule; 
 
 Nor could he find vnto his woes relief e, * He was/o 
 
 Till * death did end his life, and cure his grief e. ries (the reuen- 
 
 gers of his mo- 
 thers bloud) that 
 
 If all his teares and ruthfull miferies, maltup e £nd 
 
 Could neuer expiate his mothers death, ca^toTaurka, 
 
 To what extent Jhall thy calamities ^neZit/h% nd ' 
 
 Grow to in time, that flops thy mothers breath, troubles. 
 
 Euen Agrippinaes breath, whofe curfed birth, ^[ a Cve uareo 
 
 Maks her to curfe the wombe that brought theeforthl 
 
 This Nero notes, and noting fhewes his ire, 
 By outward paffions, yet concealeth it, 
 
 Refolu'd 
 
122 OF FLATTERIE. 
 
 Refold d ere long to pay the minftrels hire, 
 When time and opportunitie Jhould fit ; 
 For tyrants haue this propertie 'boue other, 
 They meane reuenge, yet their reuenge ca smother. 
 
 Andfo did Nero, whofe perplexed mind, 
 Guilty of what was ill, feem'd to admire 
 His Art in Muficke, rather then to find 
 Any diflafl, left He fhould ' fihew the fire, 
 Which lay rak'd vp in afhes, and difplay 
 What time might fleight, but could not take away. 
 
 Yet he began tofcoule andfhake the head, 
 With eyes as fierie-red as ^Etnaes hill, 
 Willing himftreight to other ails proceed, 
 Andfilence them that parents-bloud did f pill : 
 Sing to thy Lute (quoth he)ftraines of delight, 
 
 * Agrippinaes To cheare th' attendants of this wofull * fight. 
 
 Junerale. J J J ° 
 
 Terpnus did pafife vnto another theame, 
 Yetftill relates He in the end of all, 
 
 The facls of Oedipus, Oreftes fihame, 
 
 How and by what effecls fucceed 'd their fall ; 
 Whereby (as well it was by all perceiued) 
 
 Nero the tyrant inwardly was grieued. 
 
 Terpnus continued in his Lyricke ode, 
 
 * For -which no g i on cr as Nero in his throne remained, 
 
 law amongjt the ° 
 
 Pagans was But now impatient longer of abode, 
 nine, none could Wear ied with audience (forfo he feined) 
 
 be fo brutijh as 
 
 commit/uch vn- Terpnus left off from pr of ecuting further, 
 naturaii cruelty. The j ad rdat i on f this cruell * murther. 
 
 But 
 
OF FLA TTERIE. 
 
 But fee the Tyrant, who before delighted 
 More with the mufccke of good Terpnus lyre, 
 Then anything which ere his foule affecled, 
 Neuer moreflraines of Terpnus did require ■; 
 For being grieu'd, each day his grieues increafed, 
 Till Terpnus exile made his grieues appeafed. 
 
 Yet not * appeafed, for each day each night, 
 He heard the hideous cries of Furies fhriking : 
 Oft would He turne himfelfe before day-light, 
 But got no reft, his bodie out of liking, 
 
 Yet tyranniz'd in fpilling bloud apace, 
 Acl vpon acl as one bereft of grace. 
 
 123 
 
 * For hauing 
 flaine his mother, 
 he Jaw in his 
 fleepe ajhip, the 
 rudder whereof 
 was wrefted fro 
 him guiding it, 
 whence he was 
 haled by Oclau. 
 to moft hideous 
 darknejfe. ibid. 
 
 Sometimes He faw his mother haling him, 
 With wombe new-rip -d; there* Sporus who He fought, 
 To make of man a woman drag him in ; 
 Herefundrie Matrons whom he forced to nought, 
 And flue defiVd, which fix 'd on Him their eye, 
 Which feene, 'Ho. fled, but flying, could notflie. 
 
 In vit. Ner. 
 
 Like the vi/ion 
 appeared to Ti- 
 berius crying out 
 — Redde Ger- 
 manicum. 
 
 confidence, what a witnefjes thou brings, 
 ''Gainfl Him that iniures thee, where no content 
 Can giue houres-refipite to theflate of kings, 
 Thou of thy f elf e art folefujflcient, 
 To hale or heale, to hale from life to death, 
 Or heale the wound of which he languifheth ? 
 
 Behold here Terpnus courage, to correcl 
 
 The great abufies of his Princes mind, 
 
 Whofie pompe, port, power, He lightly doth refipecl, 
 
 To taxe thofie crimes to which He is inclined: 
 
 He'; 
 
124 OF FLA TTERIE. 
 
 He's no Court-Adder that will winde hi?n in, 
 To Princes grace by praifing of his finne. 
 
 O I could wijh we hadfuch Terpni many. 
 Who would not footh nor flatter, but auouch, 
 Blacke to be blacke : but there's I feare not any, 
 Too few at leajl, I doubt me rightly fuch; 
 And yet me thinks fuch Phoenix's might build here, 
 Within this lie, as well as other where. 
 
 vid. Cornel. Seianus, let him bloome in other coafls, 
 
 Tacit. & Sueto. ' J \ 
 
 Tranq. in vit. And purchafe honour with his flatterie, 
 
 Let his afpiring thoughts make priuate boafls, 
 To raife his Fortunes to a monarchic, 
 He cannot profper here, for why, we know, 
 State-ruine from Court-parafites may grow. 
 
 So Seian thought (what haue not Traitors thought) 
 
 To curriefauour with the Senators, 
 
 The better to atchieue what He had wrought, 
 
 By fecret plots with his confpirators ; 
 
 Faire-tong'd, falfe-heart, whofe deepe-colriuing braine 
 
 Gaue way to mine, where He thought to raigne. 
 
 But He's well gone, Rome is difpatcKd of one 
 That would haue made combuflion in theflate, 
 Whofe death made Hers reioyce, but His to mone, 
 Who on his fall built their vnhappie fate ; 
 For Treafon like a linked chaine dothjhow, 
 Which broke in one, doth breake in others too. 
 
 Next whom Perennius, whofe affecled grace, 
 
 Italian- 
 
OF EP ICVRIME. 
 
 Italian-//^, feem'd as composed by art, 
 May for his fmoothing humour take the place, 
 Who sole-poffeffor of a Princes heart, 
 The youthfull Commodus, did so allure him, 
 As his aduice feemes onely to fecure him. 
 
 Faire Prince (quoth he) if any worldly wight, 
 May folace those faire corps f ram! d curioufly , 
 Exprejfe Her onely whenfhe comes in fight, 
 And I your pleafure foone will fatisfie ; 
 Your Vnckle he's toojlricl, he's too feuere, 
 To coupe you vp in filence alwaies here. 
 
 125 
 
 A Parajite fian- 
 
 — Exeat aula 
 Qui vult effe 
 pius. Lucan. 8. li. 
 
 What priuiledge haue Princes more then we, 
 If they depriued be of open aire ? 
 What comfort reape they in their Empirie, 
 If Neftor-/z'&?, they fill fit in their chaire ? 
 No, no, deare Prince, you know a Prince is borne 
 To be hisfubiecls terror, not their f come. 
 
 No Theater rear'd in your royall Court, 
 Turney, Iufil, Barrier, ffiould folemniz 'd be, 
 To which a Romane Prince fihould not report, 
 Amazing ladies with his maiefiie; 
 O then it is afihame for your eflate, 
 To feeme in ought for to degenerate ! 
 
 How gorgeoufly did Rome demeane her then, 
 When young Vitellius did * banket it, 
 Seruing at table miriads of men, 
 With lufiie ladies which did reuell it ? 
 Yet you more high inflate, more ripe in wit, 
 
 * Banketting e- 
 uer three times, 
 and now and 
 thenfoure times 
 a day. in vit. Vi- 
 tell. 
 
 Muft 
 
Nee fuge me 
 (fugiebat enim) 
 iam?pafcua 
 Lernae, &c. 
 Lib. I. Meta. 
 
 Vid. Aurel. Sex. 
 in epit. 
 Herod, in vit. 
 Commod. 
 
 * Vid. Cicero- 
 nem in Laelio 
 prope fmem, 
 &c. 
 
 126 OF FLATTER1E. 
 
 Muft Hermit-like in cell retired fit. 
 
 Shake off thefe Sages which do now attend you, 
 For they like fetters do rejlraine your pace ; 
 Giue lujlfull youth in euery part his due, 
 Let fprightly gallants take the Sages place, 
 By which enthron'd fecure, you may command, 
 As Ioue erjl did, with Io in his hand, 
 
 This did Perennius moue, and tooke effeel, 
 Greene thoughts receiue too aptly wanton feede, 
 Remaining with the Prince in chiefe refpeel, 
 As they are wont, who Princes humours feed ; 
 Till He confpiring to vfurpe the crowne, 
 Amidft his honours was cafil headlong downe. 
 
 Where he receiu'd a doome that feru 'd for all, 
 (Like doome flill breath onfuch infeclious breath) 
 Forforing thoughts mufl haue as low a fall, 
 
 Whofe f aiming Hues play prologue to their death : 
 For well I know no bane on earth can be 
 
 Worfe to the State then rufl of* flatterie. 
 
 Then fihould thefe lafl-enfuing times beware, 
 
 Left they commit offences of like kind, 
 
 Which in the common wealth procure that iarre, 
 
 As by their proiecls we fubuerfion find : 
 
 For they depraue the vertues of the befl, 
 
 And in the highefl Cedars build their nefi. 
 
 Sycites, he whofe fy cop hants pretence, 
 Made wofull hauocke of his Common weale, 
 
 Abufing 
 
OF EPICVRIME, 
 
 Abufing much his Princes innocence, 
 At lajl by time (as time will all reueale) 
 Became difpleafde, who, as He was afo 
 Vnto thejlate, thejlate adiudg'd him fo. 
 
 127 
 
 AN ADMONITION. 
 
 BE thou a Terpnus to rejlraine abufe, 
 Sin-training pleafures fraught with vanitie ; 
 Be thou no Seian, no Perennius, 
 To humour vice to gaine a Monarchic; 
 Be not Sycites, let examples moue thee, 
 And thou wilt caufe the Commonweale to loue thee. 
 
 The Argument of Epicurus, as in the 
 
 firji Satyre familiarly exprejfed, fo now 
 
 in his miferable end with liuely 
 
 colours defcribed. 
 
 EPicurus, who firft inuented that feet of Epicu- 
 rifme, delighting in nothing faue voluptuous 
 pleafures and delights, in the end being grieuouf- 
 ly vexed with the Hopping of his vrine, and an in- 
 tollerable paine and extremitie of his bellie ex- 
 ulcerated, became mightilie tormented; yet be- 
 fotted with the fruition of his former pleafure, 
 (fo violent are cuflomarie delights) thus conclu- 
 ded : 
 
128 OF EPICVRISME. 
 
 ded : quam fcelici exitu finem expeclatum vitce mea 
 impofui ? With how happie an end do I limit the 
 courfe and progreffe of my life ? The morall in- 
 cludes fuch, as haue liued in fecuritie, and care- 
 lefneffe, refpeclleffe of God or his iudgement ; and 
 euen now readie to make an end of fo hapleffe 
 & fruitleffe a race, clofe vp the date of their life as 
 fecurely as they liued carnally. The fecond Sa- 
 tyre in the former Seclion comprehends the like 
 fubiect, though the one feeme more generall vn- 
 der the name of Pandora, implying a gouerneffe 
 and dire6lreffe in all pleafures, or exhibitreffe of 
 all gifts : The other more particular, containing 
 one priuate and peculiar Sect, euen the Epicures, 
 who thought that the chiefs good confifted in a 
 voluptuous and fenfuall life, expecting no future 
 doome after the tearme and end of this life. 
 
 Here confider the momentanie and fraile 
 courfe of this short and vnconftant life, toffed and 
 turmoiled with many turbulent billows, expofed 
 to fundrie fhelfs of perillous affaults, many home- 
 bred and forreine commotions ; in which it beho- 
 ueth vs (like expert Pilots) to be circumfpecl in 
 fo dangerous a voyage, left failing betwixt Scylla 
 and Charybdis, prefumption and defpaire, by en- 
 countring either we reft fhipwracked : where if 
 any (which is rare to find) paffe on vntroubled, 
 yet muft He of neceffitie conclude with Seneca; 
 Non tempejiate vexor, fed naufea. So flow is euery 
 one to proceede graduate in vertues Academies 
 — ita vt non facile eft reputare, vtrum inhonefliori- 
 bus corporis partibus rem qceuferit, an amiferit : as 
 
 Cicero 
 
OF EP1 CVRISME. 129 
 
 Cicero well obferueth in his Declamation againft 
 Salujl. For who is he of fo pure and equall temper, 
 whofe man-like refolution holds him from being 
 drawne and allured by the vaine baits and deceits 
 of worldly fuggeftions ? where there be more of 
 Penelopes companions in euery flew, in euery 
 brothell of fmne and wantonneffe, then euer in 
 any age before. Euery one vt Lutulentus fus — as 
 a hogge wallowing in the mire of their vaine 
 conceits, roue from the marke of pietie and fo- 
 brietie, into the broad fea of intemperance and 
 fenfualitie : but none more of any Sect then Epi- 
 curifme, which like a noisome and fpreading Can- 
 ker, eats into the bodie and foule of the profeffor, 
 making them both proftitute to pleafure, and a 
 very fmke of fmne. The Satyre will explane their 
 defects more exactly, which followeth. 
 
 THE NINTH SATYRE. 
 
 THat Epicurus who of late remained 
 Suoiecl to euery fowle impietie, 
 Now with dijlempers and night-furfets pained, 
 Bids mirth adue, his fole felicitie : 
 His vrinejlopt wants paffage from his vaines, 
 Which giues increafe to his inceffant paines. 
 
 Yet feeles He not his foules-afflicled woe, 
 Vnmindfull (wretched man) of her difireffe, 
 But pampers that which is his greaieflfoe, 
 And firfl procur 'd his foules vnhappineffe : 
 He cannot weepe, He cannot Jhed a teare, 
 
 K But 
 
* Refembling 
 our Elderton, on 
 whom this in- 
 scription mas 
 writ : here lieth 
 drztnken Elder- 
 ton, in earth now 
 ihrujl : whatjaid 
 I thrtifi ? nay 
 rather here lies 
 thirfi. 
 
 In Rein, of a 
 greater ivorke. 
 
 * Orcus vobis 
 ducit. pedes. 
 
 130 OF EPICVRISME. 
 
 But dying laughs, as when He liued here. 
 
 His Bon-companions drinking healths in wine, 
 Caroufing flagons to his health receiuing, 
 Whofe fparkling nofes taper-like dojhine, 
 Offer him drinke whofe* thirjlie mind is crauing : 
 For though He cannot drinke, yet his defire 
 Is to fee others wallow in the mire. 
 
 Turne him to heauen He cannot, for He knowes not 
 Where heauens blefl man/ion hath her fituation : 
 Tell him of heauens fruition, and hefhewes not 
 The leafl defire to fuch a contemplation : 
 His fphere inferiour is, whofe vanitie 
 Willfuite no court fo well as * Tartaric 
 
 He hath no comfort while He liueth here, 
 For He's orew helmed with afea of grief e, 
 And in his. death as little ioy appear es, 
 For death will yeeld him f mall or no relief e : 
 He thought no pleafure after life was ended, 
 Which pafil, his fading comforts be extended. 
 
 Horror appeares euen in his ghaflly face, 
 Andfummons (wofullfummons) troups of diuels, 
 Whilfil He benumrtd withfinne reiecleth grace, 
 The befit receit to cure foule-wounding euils : 
 Forlorne He Hues, and Hues becaufe He breaths, 
 But in his death fiuflaines a thouf and deaths. 
 
 Vngratefull viper, borne of vipers brood, 
 
 That hates thy parent, braues ore thy Protector, 
 
 Whofe 
 
OF EPICV RISME. 131 
 
 Whofe feruile life did neuer any good, 
 
 But hugging vice, and fpurne Him did correal her ; 
 
 See how each plant renewes and giues increafe, 
 
 -By him, whomjlones would praife, ifmanjhould ceaffe. 
 
 Nor plant, nor worme, nor any fenjleffe creature, 
 Will derogate from Gods high Maieflie, 
 Since they from him, as from thefupreme Nature, 
 Receiue their vigour, grouth, maturitie, 
 Sub/lance, fubfiflence, effence, all in one, 
 From Angels forme vnio the fenflejfe flone. 
 
 But time hath hardn'd thy depraued thoughts, 
 
 Cuflome of fin hath made thy fin, no fin ; 
 
 Thus hafil thou reafd the fruit e thy labours fought, 
 
 And dig'd a cane in which thou wallowefl in ; J, he epicures 
 
 The Porter of which cane, 's reproch andfhame, 
 
 Which layes a lafling fcandall on thy name. 
 
 A f wine in mind, though Angell-like in forme, 
 Prepoflerous end to fuch a f aire beginning, 
 That Thou, whom fuch a feature doth adorne 
 As Gods owne Image, fihould be foild with finning ; 
 Who well may fay of it thus drowned inpleafures, 
 This Superfcription is not mine but Caefars. 
 
 Thou wantefl grace, and wanting, neuer callefl, 
 
 Nesfled in mifchiefe and in difcontent ; 
 
 Thou who from light to darknejfe headlong fallefl, 
 
 Hauing the platforme of thy life mifpent, 
 
 Roufe thee Thou canfil not, forfecuritie 
 
 Hath brought thy longfleepe to a Lethargic 
 
 K2 Dull 
 
132 
 
 OF EPICVRISME. 
 
 Sic faciunt hye- 
 mem decipien- 
 do, glires. 
 
 * A ccording to 
 that of the Poet. 
 — No pleafure 
 b?tt to/will, 
 And full, to 
 emptie, and be- 
 ing emptie, fill. 
 
 Dull Dormoufe, fleeping all the winter time, 
 Cannot endure the breath of aire or winde, 
 But euer loues to make the Sunne tojhine 
 Vpon her rurall Cabbin ; that fame mind 
 Art Thou endeui'd wit hall, All winter keeping 
 Thy drunken cell, fpends halfe thy life in fleeping. 
 
 Thou when thou read'fl inflories of the Ant, 
 The painfull Be, the early-mounting Larke, 
 Thou cals them fooles, for Thou hadft rather want, 
 Pine, droupe, and die in pouertie, then carke : 
 Thou thinks there is no * pleafure, but to dwell 
 In that vafl Tophet Epicurean cell. 
 
 Art thou fo fotted with earths ivorldly wealth, 
 That thou expects no life when this is ended ? 
 Ddfl thou conceiue no happinejfe in health, 
 If health in healths be not profanely fpended ? 
 Well there's f mall hope of thee, and thou fhalt find, 
 Sinne goes before, but vengeance dogs behind. 
 
 Thou canfl not tell by thy Philofophie, 
 Where th' glorious Synod of the Angels fit, 
 Nor canfl thou thinke foules immortalitie, 
 Should any mortall creature well befit : 
 Vnfit thou art for fuch a prize as this, (wifli. 
 
 Which Saints haue wifftd to gaine, and gairid their 
 
 Thou fings flrange Hymnes of loue of fhepeard-fwains, 
 How Amarillis and Pelargus woed, 
 Where in loue meafures thou employes fome paines, 
 To make thy works by wanton eares allow 1 d ; 
 
 For 
 
OF EPICV RI SME. 133 
 
 For loues encounter loofe wits can expreffe it, 
 But for diuine power they will fear ce confeffe it. 
 
 Thus Jhould each finne of thine vnmasked be, 
 Each crime deblazon'd in her natiue colour ; 
 There would appeare fuch a deformitie, 
 
 As tK Greeke Therfites fhape was neuer fowler; iuadtV alibi 
 Which if compared to th' powerfull works of grace, 
 Would looke agafl, ajhanid tofhow their face. 
 
 If I Jhould moue thee, reclifie thy cares, 
 I know twere fruitleffe, all thy care's to finne, 
 Whofe barren harueft interfowne with tares, 
 Endeth farre worfe then when it did begin ; 
 A ranke indurate vlcerous hard'ned ill, 
 Can ill be bett'red till it haue her fill 
 
 And yet when as this phrenticke mood Jhall leaue thee, Ad poenas tar- 
 There is fome hope of gaine-recouerie, prsemia veiox. 
 
 When thy offenfiue life mifpent Jhall grieue thee ; 
 Thy wound's not mortall, looke for remedie ; 
 But if like Epicure thoujlill doeft lie, 
 As thou Hues ill, Jo doubt I thou mujl die. 
 
 K.z 
 
 The 
 
134 
 
 OF BRIBERIE. 
 
 The Argument ^/"Diagoras 
 
 Orator of Athens. 
 
 DIagoras a corrupt Orator vfing to receiue 
 bribes, was exiled, and this Satyre to gall 
 him the more, engrauen vpon his fhipboord : As 
 followeth. 
 
 THE TENTH SATYRE. 
 
 DIagoras was once topleade a caufe, 
 Which tK aduerfe partie hauing well obferued, 
 Claps me a guilded goblet in his clawes, 
 Which He as priuately (forfooth) referued ; 
 Speake (quoth this client) either nought at all, 
 Or elfe abfent you from the feffions hall. 
 
 Abfent He would not be, and yet as good, 
 For his mute tongue was abfent in the caufe, 
 Saying, the caufe he had not vnderftood, 
 And therefore wijhtd that he a while might paufe; 
 But hauing pauf'd too long, through his delay 
 The Court difmift, the Senat went away. 
 
 Seeing the Senate gone, good gods (quoth he) 
 Can we not haue our caufes heard, whofe truth 
 Is manifefl as light ? 6 thus we fee 
 Our Clients wronged, whofe wrongs afford much ruth: 
 
 I 
 
OF BRIBERIE. 
 
 I would not anfwer this before Ioues throne, 
 If I thereby might make the world mine owne. 
 
 Nought to a confcience pure and void of blame, 
 Which (Ioue be prais'd) is in this fpotleffe brefl, 
 
 For no foule acl could blemijh ere my name, 
 
 No corrupt bribe did ere enrich my chest ; 
 Yes one (the Clyent anfwer 'd) you know when : 
 
 It's true indeed (my friend) and nere but then. 
 
 Yes once you know (another anfwer 'dj more, 
 When you protefled the Angina pain 1 'd you, 
 For which corruption, you had gold inflore, 
 That fdent fpeech of yours abundance gain 'd you 
 It's true indeed, yet there's none can conuicl me, 
 That ere my confcience for thefe did afflicl me. 
 
 Nay that He f wear e (quoth one) I neuer knew 
 Remorce of confcience or relenting teare: 
 That heart of yours did nere repentance fhew, 
 But could take more, if that you did not feare 
 You Jhould detected be, and youroffence, 
 As *iuflice craues,fhould giue you recompence. 
 
 Thus as they talk'd, thus as they did difcourfe, 
 In came a Senatour, which did reueale, 
 His corrupt dealings, for He did enforce 
 Himself e to publifh what He did conceale : 
 Whofe crimes diuulg'd, He prefently was led 
 To Coos hauen, whence He was banijhed. 
 
 135 
 
 * There were 
 certaine images 
 of Iudges (by re- 
 port) set vp at 
 Athens, hauing 
 neither hands 
 nor eyes; imply- 
 ing that Rulers 
 and Magijlrates 
 Jhould neither 
 be infected with 
 bribes, nor any ci- 
 ther way drawne 
 Jrom that which 
 ■was lawfull and 
 right. 
 
 But moft hapfie 
 -were thofe dayes 
 ■wherein Ba/il 
 the Emperour 
 o/Conflantino- 
 ple liued, that 
 whenfoeuer he 
 came to his iiidg- 
 ment/eate, he 
 found neither 
 partie to accufe, 
 nor defendant to 
 anfwer. 
 
 Thus was a corrupt Orator conuicled, 
 K 4 
 
 Frefflng 
 
i$6 OF INVENTION. 
 
 Preffing himfelfe with his owne obloquie, 
 Whofe felfe-deteclion made hisjlate afflicled, 
 His hands the weauers of his tragedie ; 
 Which I could wijh to all of like defert, 
 Whofe good prof effion' s made a guileful I art. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 TRiptolemus is reported to haue inuented Til- 
 lage the firft of any, and to haue taught the art 
 of fowing corne : whereupon the gratefull huf- 
 bandman, to repay the thankfulneffe of his well- 
 willing mind, rendreth this Elegie, as in part of 
 payment for fo rare inuention : Satyrically withall 
 inueying againft fuch, who eate the fruite of o- 
 thers labours, hue on the fweat of others browes, 
 and muzling the mouth of the oxe that treads out 
 the corne, reape what they neuer fowed, drinke of 
 the vine they neuer planted, and eate at the Altar 
 of which they neuer partaked. 
 
 THE ELEVENTH SATYRE 
 ELEGIACK. 
 
 AGed Triptolemus_/atf/^r of our field, 
 That teacheth vs thy children rare effecls ; 
 We do vnto thy f acred Temple yeeld 
 The fruits we reape, and tender all ref peels 
 
 To 
 
OF INVENTION. 137 
 
 To thee, that haft this rare * inuention found, * Dona fero 
 
 And gauefirft light of tillage to our ground. lib. l % 
 
 Defcribe we cannot in exact difcourfe, 
 Thofe rarer fecrets which proceed from thee, 
 For poli/Kd words with vs haue little force, 
 That are inured to Rufticitie ; 
 But what we can we'le do, and to that end, 
 To thee (as Patron) we our fields commend. 
 
 By thee we till the wilde vntempered foile, 
 Make rifing hillocks champion and plaine ; 
 
 Where though with early labour we do toile, 
 
 Yet labour's light where there is * hope ofgaine ; * ? pe , s aIet a ~ 
 
 We thinke no hurt, but trauell all the day, 
 And take our reft, our trauels to allay. 
 
 No proiecl we intend againft the State, 
 But cuts the bofome of our Mother earth ; 
 
 We giue no way to paffion or debate ; 
 
 By labour we preuent our Countries dearth : 
 
 Yet this afcribe we not to our owne part, 
 But vnto thee, that did inuent this art. 
 
 Thofe glorious Trophies which Menander fet, 
 In honour of the facred Deities, 
 
 Would be too long a fubiec~l to repeate, 
 Fear'd infuchftate with fuch folemnities ; 
 
 Yet thefe to ours, inferiour be in worth, 
 Thofe were of earth, thefe tell vs vfe of earth. 
 
 We ope the clofet of our mothers breaft, 
 
 And 
 
138 
 
 OF IN VENT I ON. 
 
 * Of the dedica- 
 tion of Pagan 
 Temples, vid. 
 Var. de Ant. & 
 Macrob. 
 
 And till thefedgie ground with crooked plough, 
 And in the euening take our quiet reft, 
 When we the heate of day haue paffed through: 
 Thus do we fow, thus reape, and reaping we 
 Do confecrate our firft-fruites vnto thee. 
 
 And with our fruites our wonted Orifons, 
 With folemne vowes to thy obfequious Jhrine, 
 Whofe * dedication merits heauenly fongs, 
 Will we proteft what's ours is euer thine ; 
 For what we haue came from thy deuine wit, 
 Or from His power that firft infufed it. 
 
 By thee we plant the * Vine and Oliue tree, 
 Contriue coole harbors to repofe and lie : 
 By thee our* Vine fends grapes forth fruitfully, 
 The Almond, Cheftnut, and the Mulberrie ; 
 Thus Saturns golden age approcheth neare, 
 And (F\ora.-like) makes fpring-time all the yeare. 
 
 The pleafant banks of f aire Parnafpus mount, 
 With trees rankfet and branchie armes broad-fpred, 
 The Mirtle-trees hard by Caftalias fount, 
 With flowrie wreaths thy fhrine haue honoured ; 
 'Mong/l which, no Hand's more oblig'd to thee, 
 Then this fame He of famous Britannic 
 
 * — Ex nitido fit 
 rufticus, attjue 
 Sulcos & vineta 
 crepat mera, 
 preparatvlmos. 
 Hor. 
 
 * Vina genero- 
 fiffima, Maffi- 
 ca, Cecuba, 
 Falerna. Hipp, 
 de coll. 
 
 * As in fame 
 parts of Egypt, 
 which (though 
 elfewhere excee- 
 ding fruitfull) 
 through extre- 
 mitie of heate 
 become to the 
 people inhabita- 
 ble. 
 
 b As in Scythia, 
 which region in 
 mojl places isfo 
 cold, as fruites 
 can come to no 
 
 ripenejfe * Others intemporate through parching heate, 
 
 logers are of opt- Haue their fruites blafled ere they come to light, 
 
 nion, there is a ■ t t /■ 
 
 certaine breadth ° Others are planted in a colder feate, 
 
 in the heauen, , _ 
 
 on earth from North to South, bounded out by fame of the principallCircles,of the which are 
 5. in all: onefierie betweene the two Tropicks which is called Zona Torrida: two extreme cold, 
 betweene the Polare circles and the Poles of the wold : and two temporate betweene either of 
 tfie Polare circles and his next Tropicke. 
 
 Whereby 
 
OF INVENTION. 
 
 139 
 
 Whereby the Sun-beames feldome Jhew their might ; 
 But we (and therein blejl) inhabite one, 
 Which as it's fruitful/, it's a temp' rate Zone. 
 
 How can we then if we do ought, do leffe 
 
 Then labour to requite as we receiue ? 
 
 Forfuch a burning wind's vnthankefulneffe, 
 
 As by it we do lofe that which we haue : 
 
 Let each then in his ranke obferue his meafure, 
 
 Andgiue Him thanks that gaue Him fuch a treafure. 
 
 How many regions haue their fruites deuoured, 
 By th' Caterpiller, Canker, Palmerworme ? 
 WhiVfil by thy grace fo richly on vs powred, 
 Our fields reioyce, and yeeld increafe of come ; 
 O then admire we this great worke of thine, 
 Whereby all * regions at ourflate repine ! 
 
 Repine they may, for we furpaffe their fate, 
 In power, in riches, finewes ofjharpe warre ; 
 They led in blindneffe attribute to fate, 
 What ere befall, we to the morning Jlarre, 
 By which we are directed euery day, 
 Or elfe like wandring Jheepe might loofe our way. 
 
 * Barbarus in- 
 uidh—Mei. I. 5. 
 
 Hefiod relates feuen fortunate repofes, 
 Hands, which Fortune fauors for their feate, 
 Adorn' d with fruitfull plants fent-chafing rofes ; 
 Where there breaths euer a foile-cherijhing heate, 
 By which the plants receiue their budding power, 
 And needs no other dew, no other Jhower. 
 
 Canariae — for- 
 tunatse infulae. 
 vid Hefiod. in 
 li. de ofier : &^ 
 die.pag. 15. 
 
 Ei/ fia.Ka.pov 
 
 KecrOHTb in bea- 
 torum infulis. 
 
 Thefe 
 
HO OF INVENTION. 
 
 /cure * hundred 1 Thefe fruitfull Hands which this Poet fhewes, 
 miles fro spaim Were feated farre within the Ocean, 
 
 And neuer warred as other Hands vfe, 
 Being in peacefull league with euery man : 
 Confer now thefe together, and then fee 
 If this bleft Hand be not Brittannie. 
 
 Blejl were thofe Banders that did pojfejfe 
 The fertile borders of thofe healthfull lies, 
 And we as bleft haue no lejfe happineffe, 
 In this our He, notflretch'd to many miles ; 
 * Thetwovni- Though when thofe * ftreames <?/Hellicon appeares, 
 
 uerjities. ° \ J ■" 
 
 // doubles fruites in doubling of her year es. 
 
 Thames full as pleafant as Euphrates flood, 
 Though fhe containe not in her precious nauell, 
 a,J g p£heoiui es ' The * golden oare of Ganges, yet as good 
 nZ e s7t e tke^r ^s any gold or any golden grauell, 
 s< rau7ii are ° r Tranfporting hence, and bringing here againe, 
 Gaine to the Citie by their fraught of graine. 
 
 Thus water, ayre, and earth, and all vnite 
 Their powers in one, to benefit ourflate, 
 So as conferring profit with delight, 
 Well may we tearme this Hand fortunate ; 
 For we more blefil then other lies haue bin, 
 Enioy both peace without and peace within. 
 
 Vnto his altar let vs then repaire, 
 That hath conferd thefe bleffings on our land, 
 Andfure we are to find him prefent there, 
 Apt to accept this offring at our hand ; 
 
 Where 
 
OF DISDAIN E. 
 
 141 
 
 Where, as He hath remembred vs in peace, 
 We'leyeeld him fruites of foules andfoiles increafe. 
 
 To thee then (bleffed Deitie) is meant, 
 
 This votall facrifice, how ere we fpeake, 
 
 Of old Triptolemus thy inflrument ; 
 
 For midfl inuentions we will euer feeke 
 
 To raife thy praife, who haft thy Throne aboue vs. 
 
 And daily Jhewes that thou doeft dearely loue vs. 
 
 The true expla- 
 nation of this 
 Elegie. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 MElonomus a fhepheard of Arcadia, who ha- 
 iling frequented the plaines there long time, 
 with great husbandrie vfed to exercife his pa- 
 ftures, receiuing no fmall profite from his fruitfull 
 fiocke : in the end fell in loue with Cynthia 
 Queene of the forreft adioyning : whom hauing 
 woed with many loue-inducing tokens, and fhep- 
 heards madrigals, and fpent the profit of his flock 
 in gifts (with too lauifh a bountie bellowed vpon 
 her) and yet could no way preuaile, being pofted 
 off with many trifling delayes ; in the end wrote 
 this fhort Satyre in a Cynick mood, reuiling at the 
 couetousneffe and infatiable defire of women, 
 who will proftitute their fauour for lucre fake vn- 
 to the meaneft fwaine, till they haue confumed the 
 
 fruite 
 
142 
 
 OF DISDAINE. 
 
 * Non fumus in- 
 gratae, pofcunt 
 pulcherrima 
 pulchrae ; 
 Munera fi refe- 
 ras, ofcula gra- 
 ta feres. 
 
 * Rupibus ex- 
 traftum Cali- 
 baeis mittit e- 
 leflrum, &c. 
 Whence it is 
 /aid cometh the 
 pureft A mber. 
 
 fruite of his ftocke, and then will turne him ouer 
 fhipboord. 
 
 THE TWELFTH SATYRE. 
 
 MElonomus a worthie Jkepheard fwaine, 
 Befotted with fair e Cynthia's amorous face, 
 Befeeched Her to louefor loue againe, 
 And take compaffion on his wofull cafe ; 
 Which fhe halfe-yeelding to, diffembling too, 
 Did moue thefwaine more eagerly to woo. 
 
 And that with * gifts mofi powerfull to enfnare 
 The minds of maids, whofe curious appetite, 
 Defires as they be f aire to haue things f aire, 
 To adde frejh fuell vnto loues delight ; 
 Which to effect, each morne aflowrie wreath, 
 Composed thefwaine, to breath on Cynthia's breath. 
 
 Fine comely bracelets of refined * Amber. 
 Vfed this Shep heard fwaine to tender her. 
 And euery morne reforting to her chamber, 
 Would there appeare ere Phoebus could appeare, 
 Where telling tales asjhepheards vfe to tell, 
 She fore 'd a f mile, as though ihe WHd Him well. 
 
 * Thus at Loues Thus poore Melonomus continued long, 
 
 barre this Client, j. __ , . , r 7 , . , , , , 
 
 doubtfuiijiands, * Hoping f or rejoluhon at her hands, 
 vHpe7, e & e wri?igs Whilefl with delay es He mixed gifts among, 
 a ha d ni™ atheshis Which (as He thought) were fancies flrongefl bands ; 
 Andflill He craues dif patch of his requeft, 
 And to performe what Ihe injliow profefl. 
 
 But 
 
OF DI SDAINE. 143 
 
 Butjhe, from day to day puts off, replying, 
 She fear ce refolued was to marrie yet : 
 But when his* gifts fur ceafl, fhe flat denying, 
 Anfwer'd, A fwaine was for a Queene vnfit ; 
 He rurall, homely, bred of meane defcent, 
 She royall-borne, of purer Element. 
 
 Melonomus thus anfwer'd, wifely f rani d 
 
 This graue reply : And is it fo indeed ? 
 
 Be all thofe gifts I gaue (all which He nanid) 
 
 To no effect '? why then returne and feed 
 
 Thy wanton flocke, furceaffe thy bootlejfe fuite, 
 
 Since fhe confuted thy flocke with all their fruit e. 
 
 * Inftat amans, 
 tamen odit a- 
 mans, sic mune- 
 ra qusrit, 
 Queis tamen 
 acceptis. nefcit 
 amare magis. 
 
 Afudden refo- 
 lution requiting 
 herfudden dij- 
 daine. 
 
 Aged Alcmsenon who my father was, 
 
 And as I gueffe knew well the fhepheards guife, 
 
 Thought fcorne to fet his loue on euery lajfe, 
 
 Aye me vnhappie, of a fire fo wife ; 
 
 But this difdaine that lowres on beauties brow, 
 
 Shall teach me, fwaines with fwaines know befl to do. 
 
 Thefkipping Rams that butt with ragged homes, 
 And brouze vpon each banke with fweete repafii, 
 Shall not my iealous head with wreathes adorne, 
 (But heauen forgiue my follie that is paft ;) 
 I will not fancie Cynthia, fince fhe 
 In my difilrejfe f comes to conuerfe with me. 
 
 / canot trull it I, 
 nor fancie all I 
 fee, if fie be 
 faire, wife and 
 an heire, that 
 girle liketh me. 
 
 The 
 
OF IDOL A TRIE 
 
 The A rgument of Protagoras. 
 
 PRotagoras adored the ftones of the altar, con- 
 cerning them to be happie, as the Phylofopher 
 Ariftotle witneffeth : Lapides, ex quibus arce. ftrue- 
 bantur, fcelices effe putabat, quod honorentur. He 
 thought the very ftones themfelues to be happie, of 
 which the altars were builded, becaufe ffaith he) they 
 might be honoured. In this Argument, be fuch men 
 fhadowed, as moft impioufly worfhip the crea- 
 ture for the Creator, the worke for the worker. 
 Therefore haue I fubinferted this Satyre, to in- 
 ueigh againft the fenfieffe Gentiles and Painims, 
 who in the foolifhneffe of their hearts, vfed to a- 
 dore ftockes, ftones, plants, and fenfieffe crea- 
 
 cic. de nat. tures, Nunc deorum caufam agam ; I will now 
 pleade the caufe of God, fo iniurioufly dealt with- 
 all by his owne workmanfhip. Alexander him- 
 felfe being but a mortall man as we our felues be, 
 commanded Calliftenes his Scholemaifter to be 
 flaine, becaufe He would not worfhip Him for a 
 god : much more aboue comparifon, may God 
 
 Man. de con- w ho is immortall and onely to be feared, punifh 
 yea and deftroy them that in contempt of his infi- 
 nite power and all-working maieftie, adore the 
 Sunne, Moone, and Starres, Ifis and Ofyris, with 
 many other vaine, idolatrous, and profane venera- 
 tions, derogating from the power and incompre- 
 
 henfible 
 
OF IDOL A TRIE. 145 
 
 henfible effence of God. When a King beholds 
 his fubie6ts to referue their allegiance to any Mo- 
 narch faue himfelfe, He makes them to be proclai- 
 med Traitors to his Crowne and perfon : Euen fo 
 the King of heauen, when He feeth any fubiect of 
 his (as we be all and happie if fo we be, and not 
 flaues to the captiuitie and thraldome of finne,) 
 prefently profcribeth him, or will punifh him with 
 death, left others by his impunitie fhould attempt 
 the like. Wherefore then mould any profane man, 
 fo ouerfhadowed with the duskie clouds of error 
 and impietie, tranfgreffe the deuine precepts, 
 Lawes, and Ordinances of the Almightie ; thofe e- 
 ternall decrees eftablifhed and ena6led in the glo- 
 rious Synod of heauen, by relinquifhing the fweet 
 promifes of God, and communicating the wor- 
 fhip of the Creator with the creature, as if there 
 were a diftribution to be made vnto either ? But I 
 will referre them to this following Satyre. 
 
 THE THIRTEENTH SATYRE. 
 
 PRotagoras both wicked and profane, 
 Wicked in life, profane in worjhipping, 
 Adored ftones : (fee Pagans, fee your fhame) 
 And thought them worthie too of reuerencing ; 
 For if the gods be honoured, faid He, 
 Needs mufl the ftones whereof their Temples be. 
 
 The like conceit He had of altars too, 
 
 And of the ftones whereof they were erecled, 
 
 To tvhich He oft would folemne worfhip doe, 
 
 L And 
 
146 
 
 OF IDOL A TRIE. 
 
 A iujl reproofe 
 to all Idolaters. 
 
 * Ingentes lapi- 
 du ftrues erigit, 
 nee tarn curat 
 quo erigit qua 
 curiofe difpo- 
 nere quod arte 
 conficit, &c. 
 
 Stadium folis. 
 
 And iaxefuch men by whom they were neglected ; 
 Wi/hing fometime He were an altar ftone, 
 That to himfelfe like honour might be done. 
 
 Thou fenfleffe man depriu'd of reafons lore, 
 What grace art thou (forlorne) endewd withall, 
 That thou Jhouldjl Jhrines and fenfleffe flones adore, 
 That haue no eares to heare when thou doefl call ? 
 Thou deemes thefe relikes happie, when god wot, 
 If they were happie, yet they know it not. 
 
 The Altar is thefhrine thou offrefl to, 
 Thy incenfe,facrifice, and fat of beafls, 
 Which on the altar thou art wont to do, 
 Not to the altar where thou makes requefl ; 
 For it's enioynd thee by expreffe command, 
 To kneele to nothing faffiion 'd by mans hand. 
 
 The Manuall artifl fets vp* heapes of flones, 
 Erecling curious Statues to adore, 
 But what are thefe, can they attend our mones ? 
 No, they haue eares to heare, but heare no more 
 Then rubbifh, clay, or ftone, whereof thefrfaid, 
 (And fuch were Pagan Idols) to be made. 
 
 Turne thee vnto the Eafl, from whence the Sunne 
 Hath his arifing, whence He doth proceed, 
 As Bridegroome from his chamber, and doth run 
 His fpacious courfe with fuch a paffing fpeed, 
 As twentie foure houres He doth onely borrow, 
 To poft the world from end to end quite thorow. 
 
 Each 
 
OF IDOL A TRIE. 
 
 147 
 
 Each plant on earth, each creature in the fea, 
 From whence haue they their grout h, I pray thee fay? 
 Do they deriueH from Jlones or imagerie ? 
 Nay, I mufl tell thee, thou art by the way,. 
 It's no inferiour power brings this to pafife, 
 But his, who is, fhall be, and euer was. 
 
 Deus cu maxi- 
 me iratus, non 
 iratus, cum ira- 
 tus propitius, 
 
 And he it is who notes thy errors pafl, 
 And can reuenge, though He the time adiourne,. 
 Whofe loue vnto his fheepe doth euer loft, 
 Andflill expecls and waits for thy returne ; 
 But how can He to thee in kindneffe fhew him^ 
 That giues thee hands, yet will not lift them- to him ■? nete, e non fai- 
 
 uabit te fine te 
 A ugust. 
 
 Vngratefull thou to haue that ill conceit, 
 
 Of his all-being and all-feeing power, 
 
 Whofe blefl tuition guards vs and ourflate, 
 
 Whofe fur efl hold is like a fading flower, 
 
 That fprings and dies, fuch is the poi?ipe of man,. 
 
 As there He ends in earth where He began. 
 
 Horror of men, contempt to thy beginning, 
 Shame to the world, wherein thou doejl furuiue, 
 Whofe befl religion is an acl of finning, 
 In which thou meanes to die, and loues to Hue; 
 What fhall thefefhrines affoord thee after death, 
 The breath of life? no, for they haue no breath. 
 
 Then here He leaue thee, yet with forrow too, 
 Thy Image moues compaffion, thought may be, 
 Thou' It aske the reafon why Ifhould do fo, 
 Since forrowes fource hath lofil her courfe in thee : 
 L 2 
 
 Exorto tremo- 
 re, erubefcet 
 confcientia, ob- 
 ftupefcet con- 
 fcia mentis fci- 
 entia, & dicen- 
 di facultates 
 penitus amit- 
 tent organa, 
 &c. 
 
 To 
 
Numen fi diui- 
 dis, perdis. 
 
 148 
 
 OF TYRANN IE. 
 
 To which I may in reafon thus reply, 
 
 My eyes are wet, becaufe thy eyes are dry. 
 
 Yet will I to the altar, not f adore it, 
 
 But offer incenfe to affoile thy fin ; 
 
 Where full of teares Pie weepe, and weeping ore it, 
 
 Wijh thy returne, that thou may honour him, 
 
 Whofe worjhip thou prophartd (as was vnfit) 
 
 * Entitling any creature vnto it. 
 
 Three other Satyres compofed by 
 
 the fame Author, treating of thefe 
 
 three diftinct fubiecls. 
 
 1 . Tyrannie, perfonated in Euryftheus. 
 
 2. Securitie, in Alcibiades. 
 
 3. Reuenge, in Perillus. 
 
 With an Embleme of Mortalitie, in Agathocles. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 EVryflheus a potent and puiffant Prince of 
 Greece, by the inftigation of luno impofed 
 Hercules moft difficult labours, to the end to haue 
 him difpatched. But of fuch inuincible patience 
 was Hercules in fuffering, and of fuch refolution in 
 performing, as to his fucceeding glory he pur- 
 chafed 
 
OF TYR ANNIE. 149 
 
 chafed himfelfe honour through their hate, gai- 
 ning to himfelfe renowne, where his foe inten- 
 ded ineuitable reuenge. Whence we may col- 
 lect two remarkable things, no leffe fruitfull in 
 obferuing, then delightfull in perufmg. The one 
 is, to note how prompt and prepared men of de- 
 praued or vicious difpofition are, to put in execu- 
 tion the pleafure of great ones, how indirect or 
 vnlawfull foeuer their pleafures be : directing and 
 addreffmg their employments to the bent of their 
 command, be it wrong or right. And thefe are 
 fuch who account it good fauing policie, to keepe 
 euer correfpondence with greatneffe, efteeming 
 no fupportance firmer, no protection fafer, then 
 to hold one courfe with thofe high-mounting 
 Cedars, from whofe grouth the lower Jhrubs re- 
 ceiue fhadow and fhelter. The fecond which I 
 note, is to obferue what glorious and profperous 
 fucceffe many haue, who purfued and iniurioufly 
 perfecuted (like Zenocrates Sparrow) either find 
 fome compaffionate bofome to cheare & receiue 
 them, or by the affiftance of an vnconfined po- 
 wer, attaine a noble iffue in midft of all occurren- 
 ces. To infift on inftances, were to enlarge an Ar- 
 gument aboue his bounds : few or none there are 
 who haue not or may not, haue inftance in the one, 
 as well as perfonall experience in the other. Efpe- 
 cially when we recal to mind how many inftant & 
 imminent dangers haue bene threatned vs, & how 
 many gracious and glorious deliuerances tendred 
 vs. Some other excellent obferuations might be 
 culled or fele6led from the flowrie border of this 
 L 3 subject 
 
150 OF TYR ANNIE. 
 
 fubiedl, but my purpofe is rather to fhadow at 
 fome, then amply to dilate on all. For I haue euer 
 obferued, how Arguments of this nature are to 
 moft profit compofed, when they are not fo am- 
 ply as aptly compiled : Long and tedious difcour- 
 fes being like long feruices, tending more to fur- 
 fet then folace ; whereas the pleasure of varietie, 
 draweth on a new appetite in midft of fatietie. 
 Now to our propofed tafke : where you fhall fee 
 how harmeleffe innocencie fhufifels out of the 
 hands of boundleffe crueltie. 
 
 THE SATYRE. 
 
 HOe Euriftheus, I am hither fent, 
 From Iunoes Princely pallace to thy Court, 
 To tell thee, thou mujl be her injlrument, 
 (And to that purpofe Jhe hath chus'd thee for* t) 
 To chajlife Hercules, growne eminent 
 By his renowned conquejls : do notjhow 
 Thy f elf e remiffe, Iuno will haue it fo. 
 
 And Iuno fhall ; Iwillfuch taskes impofe, 
 
 That earth fhall wonder how they were inuented, 
 
 So as his life he fhall befure to lofe, 
 
 What do Icare,fo Iuno be contented, 
 
 Darkneffe fhall not my fecrefies difclofe ? 
 
 Her will is my command, nor mufl I afke 
 
 Whencis her diflafl; come yong man heareyour taske 
 
 * Hefperidum & fruitfull * garden, full of choyce delights, 
 defpTrul^fes Fnricht with fprayes of gold and apples too, 
 retinent foro- Which by three fiflers watch! d both dayes and nights, 
 
 Yeeld 
 
OF TYR ANNIE. 151 
 
 Yeeld no acceffe vnto Winuadingfoe, 
 Is thy firjl progreffe ; where with doubtfull fight, 
 Thou mufil performe thy taske : this is thefirfl, 
 Which if it proue too eafie, next is worjl. 
 
 For in this firjl thou art to deale with women, 
 And reape a glorious prize when thou haft done ; 
 And fuch an enterprize (I know) is common, 
 Crowning vs great by th 'triumph we haue wonne : 
 * Gold is fo ftrange a baite, as there is no man, 
 But he will hazard life to gaine that prize, 
 Which makes menfooles that are fuppofed wife. 
 
 * Aurifera ne- 
 mora teretem 
 ferentia corti- 
 cem, aureumq : 
 pomum. 
 
 But next taske fhall be of another kind, 
 No golden apples pluckt from Hefperie : 
 For in this worke thou nought but dongfhalt find, 
 * Augean flab les mujl thy labour be, 
 Which if thou cleare not, as I haue afifigtfd, 
 Death fhall attend thee : tis in vaine to come, 
 By prayers or teares to change my fatall doome. 
 
 Augei ftabuli, 
 
 The third, that hideous Hydra, which doth breed * Abfciffo ca P i- 
 
 J te, caput renai- 
 
 Increafe of heads, for one being cut away, citur aiterum. 
 
 Another fprings vp flreight way in herflead : 
 Hence then away, and make me no delay, 
 Delay breeds danger, do what I haue f aid, 
 Which done thou Hues, which vnperform!d thou dies, He coucheth ail 
 
 ' . "-is labours (inji- 
 
 This faid ; Alcydes to his labour hies. nite in number 
 
 and nature) in 
 thefe three. 
 
 Alas (poore man) how well it may be faid, 
 So many are the perils he mufil pafife, 
 That he with dangers is inuironed ? 
 
 L 4 So 
 
152 
 
 OF TYRANNIE. 
 
 So hopeleffe and fo hapleffe is his cafe, 
 As he by death is fo encompajfed, 
 That howfoere his power he meanes to trie, 
 Poore is his power, he mufl be fore 'd to die. 
 
 Imperious tyrant, couldfl thou wreake thy rage 
 On none but fuch whofe valour hath bene fhowne, 
 As a viclorious Mirror to this age, 
 And hath bene blaz'd where thou wer't neuer knownel 
 Mufl thou his perfon to fuch taskes engage, 
 As flefh and bloud did neuer yet fuflaine ? 
 Well, he mufl trie, although he trie in vaine. 
 
 * Non terret 
 mors fapien- 
 tem. 
 
 * Thales mile- 
 fius interro- 
 ganti quid dif- 
 ficile ; fenem 
 (inquit) videre 
 tyrannum. 
 
 Yes, he will trie, and acl what he doth try, 
 HJle tug and tew, andftriue andfloope to ought, 
 Yea* die, if fo with honour he may die, 
 Yet know, that thofe who haue his life thus fought, 
 Are but infulting types of * tyrannie, (fhelues, 
 
 Whofe boundlejfe fplene, when He hath pafl thefe 
 Will be difgorg'd, and fall vpon themfelues. 
 
 For fee, thou cruell fauage, whofe defire 
 
 Extends to bloud, how this aduentr'ous Knight, 
 
 Gaines him renowne, and fcorneth to retire, 
 
 Till he hath got a conquefl by his fight: 
 
 So high heroick thoughts vfe to afpire, 
 
 As when extremefl dangers do enclofe them, 
 
 They fleight thofe foes that labour to oppofe them. 
 
 * Pro telo gerit 
 quae fudit, ar- 
 matus venit 
 Leone & Hy- 
 dra. Senec. 
 
 Here fee thofe taskes which thy imperious power, 
 
 Imposed this Noble champion, finifhed; 
 
 The Serpent, * Hydra, which of heads hadflore, 
 
 Now 
 
OF TYRANNIE. 153 
 
 Now headleffe lies by valour conquered, 
 The flables purged from th 'filth they had before, 
 The golden Apples Trophies of his glorie, 
 Dilate their ends vnto an endleffe florie. 
 
 Here fee tfteuent where vertue is the aime, 
 Here fee the iffue of a glorious mind, 
 Here fee how martiall honour makes her claime, 
 Here fee the crowne to diligence affign'd, 
 Here fee what all may fee, a fouldiers fame, 
 Not tipt with fruitlefife titles, but made great, 
 More by true worth, then by a glorious feate. 
 
 For fuch, whofe natiue merit hath attained 
 Fenowne'mongflmen,should*aduerfeguflsaffailethem * si foia nobis 
 In fuch an Orbe reft their refolues contain 'd, ra, foiuimer : ad 
 
 a 77 j 7 -77 77 7 virtutem vero 
 
 As well they may muade but not appall them, melius per ad- 
 
 Forfrom efleeme of earth thefr wholly wain'd, ^GrJg. ° ' amur 
 
 Planting their mounting thoughts vpon that fphere, 
 Which frees fuch minds as are infranchis'd there. 
 
 Hence learne ye Great-ones, who efleeme it good 
 Sufficient to be great, and thinke't well done, 
 Be't right or wrong, what's done in heate of blood, 
 Hence learne your flate, left ye decline toofoone, 
 For few ere firmely flood, that proudly flood. 
 But fpecially ye men that are in * place, 
 fudge others as your felues were in fame cafe. 
 
 * Locum virtus 
 habet. Sen. 
 
 Here haue you had a mirror to direcl 
 Your wayes, and forme your aclions all the better, 
 Which prefident if careleffe, ye neglecl, 
 
 And 
 
154 
 
 OF TYR ANNIE. 
 
 * Has Hydra 
 fenfit, his ia- 
 cent Stympha- 
 lides. Ibid. 
 
 And walke not by this line, Hue by this letter, 
 Hows' ere the world may tender you refpecl, 
 Ye are but gorgeous paintings daubed ouer, 
 Clothing your vice withfome more precious couer. 
 
 Hence likewife learne ye whom thefrowne of fate, 
 Hathfo deprefl, as not one beame dothfhine 
 Vpon theforlorne manfion of your flate, 
 To beare with patience and giue way to time, 
 So Jhall ye vie with Fortune in her hate ; 
 And prize all earths contents as bitter-fweete, 
 Which armes you 'gainfl all fortunes ye can meete. 
 
 This great Alcydes did, who did with eafe 
 (For what's vneafie to a mind prepard) 
 Difcomfit * tft Hydra and th' Stymphalides, 
 With whom he cop'd, encountred long and warr'd, 
 And gained him glory by fuch ads as thefe. 
 Obferue this Morall (for right fure I am) 
 The imitation Jhewes a perfecl man. 
 
 — Neffus hos 
 ftruxit dolos. 
 IcTnis fagittis 
 qui tuis vitam 
 expulit. 
 Cruore tinfta 
 eft Palla femi- 
 feri, pater. 
 Neffufque nunc 
 has exigit pav 
 nas fibi. 
 in Here. Oet. 
 
 The lafl not leafl, which may obferued be, 
 Is to fuppreffe fplene or concerned hate^ 
 Which in perfidious * Neffus you may fee, 
 Fully portraid, who meerely through deceit, 
 Praclis'd Alcydes wofull Tragedy : 
 For of all paffiotis, there's no one that hath 
 More foueraignty ore man, then boundleffe wrath. 
 
 Which to reftraine, (for wherein may manjhow 
 Himselfe more manly, then in this reflraint) 
 That there is nought more generous, youjhould know, 
 
 Then 
 
OF SECVRITIE. 
 
 Then true* compaffon to the indigent, 
 Which euen humanitie faith, that we owe 
 One to another, while we vfe to tender 
 Loue to our Maker, in him to each member. 
 
 Thus if ye do, how low foere ye be, 
 Your aclions make you noble, andfhall Hue 
 After your fummons of Mortalitie, 
 And from your afhes fuch a perfume giue, 
 Asfhall eternize your blejl memorie : 
 If otherwife ye Hue, ye are at befi 
 But guilded gulls, and by opinion blefl. 
 
 155 
 
 Flete Hercu- 
 leos numina 
 casus, ibid. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 ALcibiades a noble Athenian, whofe glorious & 
 renowned aclions gained him due efleeme in 
 his Country : at lafl by retiring himfelfe fro armes, 
 gaue his mind to fenfuality ; which fo effeminated 
 his once imparallel'd fpirit, as he became no leffe 
 remarkable for fenfuall libertie, then he was be- 
 fore memorable for ennobled exploits of martiall 
 chiualrie. From hence the Satyre deriues his fub- 
 ie6l, inueying againft the remifneffe of fuch as 
 waine their affections from employment, expofmg 
 their minds (thofe glorious or refplendent images 
 of their Maker) to fecuritie, rightly termed the di- 
 uels opportunitie. How perillous vacancie from af- 
 faires 
 
 Others are of 0- 
 pinion that he 
 was drawne fro 
 fenfuall affe&li- 
 ons to the fira- 
 ctife ofvertue, 
 by the graue iii- 
 Jlruition of So- 
 crates : btit it afi- 
 fieares otherwife 
 by his much fre- 
 quenting Ti- 
 mandraes com- 
 panie. Vid. 
 Plut. in vit. 
 Alcib. 
 
i 5 6 
 
 OF SECV RITIE. 
 
 * Quot horse (fi 
 male expenfae) 
 tot irae. 
 
 Quot horse, tot 
 vmbrae. 
 
 faires hath euer bene, may appeare by ancient and 
 moderne examples, whofe Tragicall cataftrophe 
 wold craue teares immix'd with lines. Let this fuf- 
 fice, there is no one motiue more effectually mo- 
 iling, no Rhetoricke more mouingly perfwading, 
 no Oratorie more perfwafmely inducing, then 
 what we daily feele or apprehend in bur felues. 
 Where euery * houre not well employed, begets 
 fome argument or other to moue our corrupt na- 
 tures to be depraued. Let vs then admit of no va- 
 cation, faue onely vacation from vice. Our Hues 
 are too fhort to be fruitlefly employed, or remifly 
 paffed. O then how well fpent is that oyle which 
 confumes it felfe in actions of vertue 
 
 Whofe precious f elf J s a glory to her felfe ! 
 May nothing fo much be eftranged fro vs as vice, 
 which, of all others, moft disfigures vs; Though 
 our feete be on earth, may our minds be in heauen : 
 where we fhall find more true glory then earth 
 can affoord vs, or the light promifes of fruit- 
 leffe vanity affure vs. Expect then what may me- 
 rit your attention ; a rough-hew'd Satyre fhall 
 fpeake his mind boldly without partiality, taxing 
 fuch who retire from aclion, wherein vertue con- 
 fifteth, and lye fleeping in fecuritie, whereby the 
 fpirit, or inward motion of the foule wofully 
 droupeth. 
 
 THE SATYRE. 
 
 A 
 
 Wake, thou noble Greeke ! how fhould defire, 
 Of fenfuallfhame(foulesflaine)fo dull thy wit, 
 
 Or 
 
OF SECVRITIE. 
 
 157 
 
 Or cloud thofe glorious thoughts which did afpire, 
 Once to exploits which greatneffe might befit ? 
 Where now the beamlins of that f acred fire, 
 Lie raKt in ajhes, and of late dofeeme 
 (So ranke is vice) as if they had not bene. 
 
 Can a faith-breaking leering * Curtizan, 
 Whofe face is glaz'd with frontleffe impudence, 
 Depreffe thefpirit of a Noble man, 
 And make him lofe his reafon for his fence ? 
 fpan thy life (for life is but a fpan,) 
 And thou fihalt find the scantling is fo fmall, 
 For vaine delights there is no *time at all ! 
 
 Shall azur'd brea/l, fleeke skin, or painted cheeke, 
 * Gorgeous attire, locks braided, wandring eye, 
 Gaine thee delight, when thou delights fhould feeke 
 In a more glorious obiecl ? O relie 
 On a more firme foundation, left thou breake, 
 Credit with Him who long hath giuen thee truft, 
 Which thou mufil pay befure, for he is iuft. 
 
 * Ilia pictura vi- 
 tij eft. Ambrol 
 Hexam.l.&.c.?). 
 
 * Sicut capillus 
 non peribit de 
 capite, ita nee 
 momentum de 
 tempore. Bern. 
 
 * All gorgeous 
 attire is the at- 
 tire qfjinne. 
 
 O do not then admire, what thy defire 
 Should mofil contemne, if reafon were thy guide ; 
 Let thy erected thoughts extend farre higher, 
 Then to thefe wormelins that like *Jhadowes glide, 
 
 Whofe borrowed beautie melts with heate of fire. 
 Their fhape from *fhop is bought and brought ; 6 art 
 
 What canfil thou promife to a knowing heart ! 
 
 A knowing heart, which plants her choicefi bliffe 
 In what it fees not, but doth comprehend 
 
 By 
 
 * Sunt ifta poe- 
 matis vmbra;. 
 
 * Quarum vni- 
 cum eft officio, 
 ab officina eli- 
 cere formam. 
 Lecythum ha- 
 bet in malis. 
 vid. vi£l. ad Sal. 
 
158 
 
 OF SECV RITIE. 
 
 * Ea vita beata 
 eft, quando 
 quod optimum 
 eft, amatur & 
 habetur. 
 Sola eius vifio, 
 vera mentis 
 noftrae refe<5Uo 
 eft. Greg, in 
 Mor. Expo, in 
 lob. 
 
 By eye of faith ! not what terrejlriall is, 
 But what affoordeth * comfort without end, 
 Where we enioy whats euer we did wijh ; 
 Who then, if he partake but common fence, 
 Will ere reioyce, till he depart from hence ? 
 
 Yet fee the blindneffe of ' diflracled man, 
 How he prefers one moment of delight, 
 ( Which cheares not much when it does all it can) 
 Before delights in nature infinite, 
 Whofe iuyce (yeelds perfecl fullneffe, fure I am :) 
 O times ! when men loue that they fhould neglecl, 
 Difualuing that which they fhould rnofl refpecl. 
 
 * Quanta ame- 
 tia eft effigiem 
 mutare natura;, 
 picturam quse- 
 rere ? Cypri de 
 difcip. & kab. 
 virg. 
 
 * Inanis gloriae 
 fuccum proprie 
 faluti praepo- 
 nentes. 
 
 For note how many haue aduentured 
 Their Hues (and happy they if that were all) 
 And for a * painted trunke haue perijhed ; 
 O England, I thy f elf e to witneffe call, 
 For many hop ef till plants haue withered 
 Within thy bofome, caufe whereof did fpring, 
 Mearely from lufil, and from no other thing ! 
 
 How many promifing youths, whofe precious bloud 
 Shed by too refolute hazard, might haue done 
 Their gracious Prince and natiue Countrie good, 
 In heate of bloud haue to their ruhie gone, 
 While they on termes of reputation flood, 
 Preferring titles (fee the heate offlrife) 
 Before the loue andfqfetie of their life ? 
 
 * Cunctarum 
 quippe auium 
 
 O Gentlemen, know that thofe eyes of yours, 
 Which Jhould be piercing like the * Eagles eyes, 
 
 Are 
 
OF SECVRITIE. 
 
 159 
 
 Are not to view thefe Dalilahs of ours, 
 But to eye heauen and fullen earth defpife, 
 And fo increafe in honours as in houres, 
 O ye Jhould find more happineffe in this, 
 Then fpend the day in courting for a kijfe ! 
 
 Were time as eafie purchased as is land, 
 Ye better might difpenfe with loffe of time ; 
 Or 'twere in you to make the Sunne to fland, 
 So many points fafcend or to decline, 
 Fde fay ye had the world at command : 
 But as time * pafil, is none of yours, once gone, 
 So that time is not yours, which is to come. 
 
 Addrejfe your felues then to that glorious place, 
 Where there's no time, no limit to confine, 
 No alteration : but where fuch a grace, 
 Or perfect lujlre beautifies the clime, 
 Where ye'r to Hue, as th'choifefl chearefullfl face, 
 Ye ere beheld on earth, werit nere *fo faire, 
 Shall feeme deformitie to beautie there. 
 
 But this fhall ferue for you ! now in a word, 
 Heare me * Timandra (for I mufil be heard ;) 
 Thou whofe light fhop all vanities affoord, 
 Reclaime thy fenfuall life, which hath appeared 
 As odious and offenfiue to thy Lord, 
 As thofe lafciuious robes (robes fuiting night) 
 Are in dif grace, when good men are in fight. 
 
 More to enlarge my felfe were not fo good, 
 Perhaps this title's more then thou wilt reade 
 
 vifum acies a- 
 quilae fuperat : 
 ita vt folis ra- 
 dios fixos in fe 
 cius oculos nul- 
 la lucis fuse co- 
 rafcatione re- 
 uerberans, 
 claudat. Greg, 
 in Mor. Expo/, 
 in lob. 
 
 * Quicquid de 
 illo praeteritum 
 eft, iam non eft : 
 quicquid ne il- 
 lo futurum eft, 
 nondum eft. 
 Aug. 
 
 * Videndo pul- 
 chra, cogita 
 haec omnia, & 
 pulchriora, effe 
 in ccelo : viden- 
 do horribilia, 
 cogita haec om- 
 nia, & horribi- 
 liora, effe in 
 inferno. Lanf- 
 perg. 
 
 * In Timandrae 
 gremio paululu 
 recumbens, pe- 
 rimitur. Plut. in 
 vit. Alcib. 
 
 But 
 
i6o 
 
 OF RE V ENGE. 
 
 But if thou reade, I wiJJit mayjlirre thy blood, 
 And moue thee henceforth to take better heed, 
 Then to tranfgrejfe the bounds of womanhood : 
 Whofe chief eft effence in thefefoure appeare, 
 In gate, looke, fpeech, and in the robes you weare. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 PErillus an excellent Artificer (being then fa- 
 mous for excellent inuentions) to fatisfie the 
 inhumane difpofition of the tyrant Phalaris, as al- 
 fo in hope to be highly rewarded for his ingeni- 
 ous deuice : made a bull of braffe for a new kind 
 of torment, prefenting it to Phalaris, who made 
 triall thereof by tormenting Perillus firft therein. 
 From this Argument or fubiect of reuenge, we 
 may obferue two fpeciall motiues of Morall in- 
 ftruction or humane Caution. The firft is, to de- 
 terre vs from humoring or foothing fuch, on 
 whom we haue dependence, in irregular or fini- 
 fter refpects. For the vertuous, whofe comfort is the 
 teflimonie of a good confcience, fcorne to hold cor- 
 refpondence with vicious men, whofe commands 
 euer tend to depraued and enormious ends. The 
 fecond is, a notable example of reuenge in Perillus 
 fuffering, & in Phalaris inflicting. Much was it that 
 this curious Artizan expe6ted, but with equall & 
 deferued cenfure was he rewarded : for inglorious 
 
 aimes 
 
OF REVENGE. 161 
 
 feconded by like ends. Hence the Satyre difplay- 
 eth fuch in their natiue colours, who rather then 
 they will lofe the leaft efteeme with men of high 
 ranke or qualitie, vfe to difpence with faith, 
 friend, and all, to plant them firmer in the affection 
 of their Patron. But obferue the conclufion, as 
 their meanes were indirect, fo their ends forted 
 euer with the meanes. They feldome extend their 
 temporizing houres to an accomplifhed age, but 
 haue their hopes euer blafted, ere they be well 
 bloomed : their iniurious aimes difcouered, ere 
 they be rightly leuelled : and their wifhes to a tra- 
 gicall period expofed, as their defires were to all 
 goodneffe oppofed. May all proiectors or ftate- 
 forragers fuftaine like cenfure, hauing their na- 
 tures fo reluctant or oppofite to all correfpon- 
 dence with honour. Longer I will not dilate on 
 this fubiect, but recollect my fpirits, to adde more 
 fpirit to my ouer-tyred Satyre, who hath bene fo 
 long employed in the Embaffie of Nature, and 
 wearied in dancing the Wilde mans meafure, 
 that after Perillus cenfure fhe muft repofe ere fhe 
 proceede any further ; and take fome breath ere I 
 dance any longer. 
 
 THE SATYRE. 
 
 BRaue Enginer, you whofe more curious hand 
 Hath f ram' d a Bull of braffe by choycejl art, 
 That as a Trophie it might euerftand, 
 And be an Embleme of thy cruell heart : 
 Hearke whafs thy tyrant Phalaris command, 
 
 M Whofe 
 
162 OF REV ENGE. 
 
 Whofe will's a law ; and hauing heard it well, 
 Thy cenfure to fucceeding ages tell. 
 
 Thou muft (as it is iufil) be firjl prefented 
 
 A facrifice vnto the brazen Bull, 
 
 Andfeele that torture which thy art inuented, 
 
 That thou maijl be rewarded to the full ; 
 
 No remedy, it cannot be preuented. 
 
 Thus, thus reuenge appeares which long did /mother, 
 
 He muft be catcht, that aimes to catch another. 
 
 Iujl was thy iudgement, Princely Phalaris, 
 Thy cenfure mofl impartiall ; that he 
 Whofe artfull hand that firfl contriued this, 
 To torture others, and to humour thee, 
 Should in himfelfe feele what this torture is. 
 Which great or f mall, he mufl be forced to go, 
 'J%££!a£. Mayfuch * tame-beafts be euer vfedfo. 
 
 tearm.es all hu- 
 mering Timijh 
 
 Ycoffiantfl:* Like fate befell vnhappie * Phereclus, 
 
 ert. Who firfl contriu'd by cunning more then force, 
 
 las horfe, and To make once glorious Troy as ruinous 
 
 "tjJfiegVof n As fpoile could make it : therefore rear'd a Horfe, 
 
 Iliad ° mer ' m Framed by Pallas art, as curious, 
 
 As art could forme, or cunning could inuent, 
 To weaue his end, which art could not preuent. 
 f 
 
 See ye braue flate-proieclors, what's the game 
 
 Ye reape by courfes that are indireil : 
 
 See thefe, who firfl contriu'd, and firfl wereflaine, 
 
 May mirrors be of what ye mofl affecl! 
 
 Thefe labour 'd much, yet laboured they in vaine ; 
 
 For 
 
OF RE VENGE. 
 
 For there's no wit how quickefoere can do it, 
 If powers diuinejhall make a refijlance to it. 
 
 163 
 
 And can ye thinke that heanen, whofe glorious eye 
 Surueyes this Vniuerfe, will daigne to view 
 Men that are giuen to all impietie ? 
 You fay, he will ; he will indeed, it's true ; 
 But this is to your further mifery. 
 For that fame eye which viewes what you commit, 
 Hath fight to fee, and power to h punijh it. 
 
 To punifh it, if hoording fin on fin, 
 Ye loath Repentance, and befilow your labour, 
 Onely to gaine efleeme, or elfe to win 
 By your pernicious plots fome great mans fauour ; 
 O I do fee theflate that you are in, 
 Which cannot be redeemed, vnleffe betime 
 With c fighs for fins, you wipe away your crime ! 
 
 Forfhew me one, (if one tofihew you haue) 
 Who built his fortunes on this fandie ground, 
 That euer went gray-headed to his graue, 
 Or neare his end was not diftreffed found, 
 Or put not trufl in that which did deceiue ! 
 Sure few there be, if any fuch there be, 
 Butjhew me one, and it fufficeth me. 
 
 a Witneffe that 
 matchleffe Pow- 
 der plot, ?io leffe 
 miraculoujly re- 
 uealed, then mif- 
 chieuoufly con- 
 triued, no lejfe 
 happily pretien- 
 led, then hate- 
 fully praflifed. 
 Of which cruell 
 Agents (being 
 his ownefub- 
 ieclsj our graci- 
 ous Soueraigne 
 might iuftly take 
 vp the complaint 
 of that Princely 
 Prophet Daziid. 
 My familiar 
 friends, who I 
 trufted, which 
 did eate of my 
 bread, haue lif- 
 ted vp their 
 heeles againft 
 me. Psal. 51. 
 and 55. 
 Si non parcet, 
 perdet. 
 b Vbi non' eft 
 per gratiam, 
 adeft per vin- 
 dic~lam. Aug. 
 c Qui non ge- 
 mit peregrinus, 
 non gaudebit 
 eiuis. Aug. 
 
 d Halcyonei di- 
 es ab Halcyo- 
 nijs auibus di- 
 cti : neque boni 
 maliue ominis 
 aues hos effe 
 arbitror ; quan- 
 tum tamen a 
 Propheta dici- 
 tur, tantum a 
 
 me afferendum afferendumque effe puto. Etiam Ciconiain ccelo nouit ftata tempora 
 fua, & Turtur, grufque, & Hirando obferuant tempus aduentus fui. lerem. 8. 7. 
 
 M 2 When 
 
 I grant indeed, that for a time thefe may 
 Flourifh like to a Bay tree, and increafe, 
 Like Oliue branches, but this lafls not aye, 
 Their d Halcyon dayes Jhall in a moment ceaffe, 
 
1 64 OFREVENGE. 
 
 When night (fad night) Jhall take their 'foules away. 
 Then will they tune their firings to this fad fong, 
 Short was our fun-fhine, but our night-fhade long. 
 
 Ye then, I fay, whofe youth-deceiuing prime, 
 Promife fuccejfe, beleeue 7 from me, that this, 
 When timefhall come (as what more fwift then time) 
 Shall be conuerted to a painted blifjfe, 
 Whofe gilded outfide beautifide your crime ; 
 Which once difplaide, clearefJiall it fhew as light, 
 Your Sommer-day'.s' become a winter night. 
 
 Beware then ye, who practife and inuent, 
 To humour greatneffe ; for there's one more great, 
 ■' Pari culpa, Who hath pronounc'd, like *fmne, like punifhment ; 
 Whom at that day ye hardly may intreat, 
 When death and horror fhall be eminent : 
 Then will ye fay vnto the Mountaines thus, 
 And ' fliadie groues, Come downe and couer vs. 
 
 But were ye great as earthly pompe could make ye, 
 \? £££$?* Weake is the arme of flelh, or *mightineffe, 
 7$u e e7j" b ~ii- For al1 thefe feeble hopes fhall then forfake ye, 
 tine/fc. With the falfe flourifh of your happineffe, 
 
 When ye vnto your field-bed rnufl betake ye ; 
 
 Where ye for all your Jhapes and glozed formes, 
 
 Might deceiue men, but cannot deceiue wormes. 
 
 The 
 
OF MORI ALITIE. 165 
 
 The Statue of Agathocles. 
 The Argument. 
 
 AGathocles a tyrant of Syracufa, caufed his Sta- 
 tue to be compofed in this manner. The *head ro^uendo^""- 
 of gold, armes of iuory, and other of the liniments ^fj-l^wde^- 
 purefl braffe, but the feete of earth : intimating of x ^™^° 
 what weake and infirme fubfiftence this little- tf : m > cetera ii- 
 
 . mmenta de sere 
 
 world, Man, was bunded. Whence we may col- denotado ftre- 
 lect, what diuine confiderations the Pagans them- desvero'de 6 
 felues obferued and vfually applied to recline their dTdurfragiH- 
 morall life : where inftructions of nature directed *%&&£?■ Phtt ~ 
 them, not onely in the courfe of humane focie- 
 tie, but euen in principles aboue the reach and 
 pitch of Nature, as may appeare in many Philofo- 
 phicall Axioms, and diuinely inferted fentences 
 in the Workes of Plato, Plutarch, Socrates ; and 
 amongft the Latines in the inimitable labours of 
 Seneca, Boczthius, Tacitus, and Plinius Secundus. 
 Vpon the Morall of this Statue of Agathocles in- 
 fills the Author in this Poeme, concluding with 
 this vndoubted pofition : That as foundations on 
 fand are by euery tempefl Jhaken, fo man flanding on 
 feete of earth, hath no firmer foundation then mutabi- 
 litie to ground on. 
 
 M 3 THE 
 
1 66 OF MORTAL/TIE. 
 
 THE EM BLEME. 
 
 AGathocles, me thinkes I might compare thee, 
 (So rare thou art) to fome choice ftatuarie, 
 
 Who doth portray with Pencile he doth take, 
 Himfelfe to th' image which he's wont to make ; 
 How artfull thou, and gracefull too by birth, 
 A King, yet Jhewes that thou art made of earth, 
 Not glorying in thy greatneffe, but would feeme, 
 Made of the fame mould other men haue bene ! 
 A head of gold, as thou art chief e of men, 
 So chief e of mettalls makes thy Diadem; 
 
 Victorious armes of ' purefl iuorie, 
 
 Which intimates the perfons puritie ; 
 
 The other liniments compos' d of braffe, 
 
 Imply th'vndaunted flrength of which thou was ; 
 
 But feete of earth, Jliew tK ground whereon wejland, 
 
 That we're caft downe in turning of a hand. 
 
 Of which, that we might make the better vfe, 
 
 Me thinkes I could dilate the Morall thus. 
 
 Man made of earth, no furer footing can 
 
 Prefume vpon, then earth from whence he came, 
 
 Where firmenejfe is infirmeneffe, and the flay 
 On which he builds his flrongejl hopes, is clay. 
 And yet how flrangely confident he growes, 
 In heauen-conf routing boldneffe and infiJiowes, 
 Bearing a Giants fpirit, when in length, 
 Height, breadth, a?id pitch he is of Vigmeis firength. 
 Yea I haue knowne a very Dwarfe in fight, 
 Conceit himfelfe a Pyramis in height, 
 letting foflately, as't were in his power 
 
 To 
 
OF MORTAL/TIE 
 
 167 
 
 To mount aloft vnto the airie tower. 
 But when Manlr proud, I Jhould efteeme't more meete 
 Not to prefume oris ftrength, but looke oris feete : 
 Which nature (we obferue) hath taught the * Swan, 
 And ought in reafon to be done in Man. 
 Weake are foundations that are rerid on /and, 
 And on as weake grounds may we feeme to /land, 
 Both fubiecl to be ruirid, fplit and raz't, 
 One billow Jhakes the first, one grief e the laft. 
 Whence then or how fubfifls this earthly fra?ne, 
 That merits in it felfe no other name, 
 Then *fhell of bafe corruption ! it's not braffe, 
 Marble, or iuory, which when times paffe, 
 And our expired fates furceaffe to be, 
 Referue in them our liuing memorie. 
 No, no, this mettall is not of that proof e, 
 We Hue as thofe vnder ajliaking roofe, 
 Where euery moment makes apparent Jhow, 
 For want of props of finall ouerthrow. 
 Thus then, me thinkes you may (iffo you pleafe) 
 Apply this Statue of Agathocles ; 
 As he composed his royall Head of gold, 
 The pur'fl of mettals, you are thereby told, 
 That M'Head whence reafon and right iudgement 
 Should not be pefterd with inferior things; (fprings, 
 And as his acliue finnewes, armes are f aid, 
 Tojhew their pur eneffe, to be iuored, 
 Like Pelops milke-white fhoulders ; we are giuen 
 To vnder/land, our armes Jhould be to heauen, 
 As to their proper orbe enlarged, that we 
 Might there be made the Saints of puritie ; 
 By rejl ofth'parts which were composed of braffe, 
 
 M 4 (Being 
 
 * In euius atric- 
 res pedes lume 
 non citius figi- 
 tur, quam in fe- 
 ipfo ftatim de- 
 ijcitur. Vid. Plin. 
 in nat. Hift. 
 JElian. ibid. 
 Sambuc. in Ein- 
 blem. Alciat. 
 
 * O quam con- 
 tempta res eft 
 homo, nifi fupra 
 humana fe e- 
 rexerit ! 
 
* Pes in terris, 
 mens fit in cce- 
 
 i 68 
 
 IN IVRIDICV M. 
 
 ( Being of bigger bone then others was) 
 We may collect, men made of felfe-fame clay, 
 May in their flrength do more then others may, 
 Laflly on earth, as men fubfiflence haue, 
 Their earthly * feete do haflen to their graue. 
 
 Nalo Iuridicus. 
 
 A fhort Satyr e of a corrupt 
 Lawyer. 
 
 THE XIIII. SATYRE. 
 
 NAfo is ficke of late, but how canjl tell? 
 He hath a fwelling in his throate I feare ; 
 I iudg'd as much, me thought Hefpake not well, 
 In his poore clients caufe : nay more I heare, 
 His tumour 's growne fo dangerous, as fome fay, 
 He was abfolued but the f other day. 
 
 And what confefl He ? not a finne I trow, 
 Thofe He referiid within a leatherne bag, 
 And that's his confcience / did He mercy fihow 
 Vnto the poore ? not one old rotten rag 
 Would he affoo7'd them, or with teares bemone them, 
 Saying, that — forma pauperis had vndone them. 
 
 Did He not wijli to be diffohidfrom hence ? 
 No, when you talked of final I Diffolution, 
 
 He 
 
IN IVRIDICVM. 169 
 
 He with afea of teares his face would drench, 
 Wijhing He might but make another motion, 
 And He would be diffolu'd when He had done : 
 But His forged motion each tearme day begun. 
 
 Had YLefome matter laid vpon his heart J 
 Abundance of corruption, foule infection. 
 Did He no fecret treafure there impart ? 
 Nought but a boxe containing his complexion. 
 What was it Sir, fome precious oyle of grace ? 
 No, but an oyle to fmeere his brazen face. 
 
 I haue heard much of his attracliue nofe 
 
 How He could draw white Riols with his breath 
 
 It's true indeed, and therefore did He choofe 
 
 To drinke Aurum potabile at his death, 
 
 Nor car'd He greatly if He were to lofe 
 
 His foule, fo that He might enioy his nofe. 
 
 It was a wonder in his greatefl paine, 
 
 How Hefkould haue remorfe ; for well I know, 
 
 In his fucceffiue fortunes nought could flraine 
 
 His hardned confcience, which He would not do 
 
 For hope of gaine,/tf as in time nofinne 
 
 So great, but grew familiar with him. 
 
 O Sir, the many fees He had receiu'd, (him, 
 
 And hood-winck 'd bribes which at his death opprefl 
 The forged deeds his wicked braine contriu'd 
 And that blacke buckram bag which did arrejl him, 
 Commencing fuite in one, fur charged Him fo, 
 That He was plung 'd into a gulph of wo. 
 
 O 
 
 Oleum gratia 
 eAatOV. 
 
 Auru palpabile 
 & aurum pota- 
 bile ; Aurum ob- 
 rizum & aurum 
 adulterinum. 
 
170 P SE V BOP HILIA. 
 
 what a f moke of powder there appeared 
 At the diffoluing of his vglie foule ; 
 All that were prefent there to fee Him feared, 
 His cafe vncas'd did fhow fo grim, fo foule : 
 Yet there were fome had hope He would do well, 
 Make but one motion, and come out of hell. 
 
 But others fear 'd that motion would be long, 
 If itJJwuld anfwer motions He made here : 
 Befides, that place of motions is fo throng, 
 That one will fcarce haue end a thoufand yeare. 
 Then Nafofare thee well, for I do fee, 
 Earth sends to hell thy mittimus with thee. 
 
 Two fhort moderne Satyres. 
 
 In Ambulantem. 
 
 , Pfeudophilia. 
 Hypocntam. ) 
 
 A Walking Hypocrite there was, whofe pace, 
 Trunkhofe, fmall ruffe, deminutiue in forme, 
 Shew'd to each man He was the child of grace, 
 Such were the vertues did his life adorne ; 
 Nought could He heare that didofXv^xiiiziit come, 
 But He would flop his eares, or leaue the room. 
 
 Difcourfe (thus would He fay) of things deuine, 
 Soyle not your foules withfuch lafciuioufnesse. 
 
 Your 
 
P SEVDOP HIL1A. 171 
 
 Your veftehfhould with precious vertues Jhine, 
 As lamps of grace and lights of godlineffe ; 
 But laffe for wo, fin's fuch afruitfull weed, 
 Still as one dies another doth fucceed. 
 
 Here one doth beate his braine 'bout praclifes, 
 There is another plotting wickednejfe ; 
 O how long Lord wilt thou blindfold their eyes, 
 In fuffering them to worke vnrighteoufneffe ? 
 Well, I will pray for them, and Syons peace, 
 The prayers of Saints can no way chufe but pleafe. 
 
 Thus did this mirror of deuotion walke, 
 Infpir'd it feem'd with fome Angelicke gift, 
 So holy was his life, fo pure his talke, 
 As if thefpirit of zeale had Ely left, 
 And lodged within his breafl, it could not be, 
 Fuller of godly feruor then was He. 
 
 But fee what end thefe falfe pretences haue, 
 Where zeale is made a cloke to couerfinne, 
 This whited wall to th'eye fo feeming graue, 
 Like varnifh'd tombes had nought but filth within, 
 For though of zeale He made a formall fhow , 
 In Fortune Alley was his Rendeuow. 
 
 There He repos'd, there He his folace tooke, 
 Shrin'd neare his Saint, his female-puritan, 
 In place fo priuate as no eye could looke, 
 To what they did, to manifefl their fihame ; 
 But fee heauens will, thofe eyes they leaflfuf peeled, 
 Firfil efd their filiame, whereby they were detecled. 
 
 Thus 
 
172 IN P OLIGONVM. 
 
 Thus did his fpeech and praclife dif agree 
 In one examplar, formall ', regular, 
 In th? other loose through carnal! libertie, 
 Which two when they do meete, fo different are, 
 As there's no dif cord worfe in any fong, 
 Then twixt a hollow heart and holy tongue. 
 
 For He that doth pretend, and think 't enough, 
 To make a fhew of wliat He leafl intends, 
 Shall ere the period of his dayes run through, 
 Befhrew himfelfe for his mifchieuous ends ; 
 For he that is not good, but would be thought, 
 Is worfe by odds then this plaine dealing nought. 
 
 In Drufum meretri- )-,,,■ 
 
 , . . } rohgonia. 
 
 cium Adiutorem. ) 
 
 DRufus, what makes thee take no trade in hand, 
 But like Hermaphrodite, halfe man, halfe woma 
 Pandors thy f elf e, andflands at whoores command, 
 To play the bolt for euery Haxter common ? 
 Spend not thy houres with whoores, left thou confeffe, 
 There is no life to thy obdurateneffe. 
 
 Obdurate villaine hardened in ill, 
 That takes delight in feeing Nature flaked, 
 Whofe pleafure drawne from f elf e-licentious will, 
 Makes thee of God, of men, and all forfaked ; 
 
 Shame 
 
AN ADMONITION. 
 
 Shame is thy chaine, thy fetters linkes offinne, 
 Whence to efcape is hard, being once locked in. 
 
 173 
 
 What newes from Babell, where that purple whoore, 
 With feared marrow charmes deluded man, 
 So lulPd afleepe, as He forgets heauens power, 
 And ferues that hireling-Neapolitan ? 
 Tie tell thee Drums, fad and heauie newes, 
 Death vnto Drufus while he hants theflewes. 
 
 An Admonition to the Reader vpon 
 the precedent Satyres. 
 
 WTTo will not be reproiid, it's to be fear 'd, 
 Scornes to amend, or to redeeme the time ; 
 For fpotlejfe Vertue neuer there appeared, 
 Where true Humility, that fruitfull vine 
 Hath no plantation, for it cannot be, 
 Grace Jhould haue growth but by Humilitie. 
 
 Let each man then into his errors looke, 
 And with a free acknowledgement confeffe ; 
 That there are more Errataes in his booke, 
 Then tKcrabbedfl Satyre can in lines exprejfe : 
 For this will better Him, and make Him grow 
 In grace with Vertue, whom He knowes not now. 
 
 Thefe 
 
174 AN ADMONITION. 
 
 Thefe my vnpoliJJid Satyres / commend, 
 To thy protection, not that I do feare 
 Thy cenfure otherwife then as a friend, 
 Tor I am fecure of cenfure I may fweare, 
 But for forme fake : if shou't accept them do, 
 If not, I care not how the world go. 
 
 Thine if thine owne, 
 
 Mufophilus. 
 
 Silentio culpa crefcit. 
 
 THE 
 
THE 
 
 SHEPHEARDS 
 
 TALES. 
 
 Too trice poore fhepheards do this Prouerbe find, 
 No fooner out of fight then out of mind. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for Richard Whitaker. 
 
 i 6 2 i . 
 
TO MY WORTHIE 
 
 AND AFFECTIONATE 
 KINSMAN Richard Hvtton 
 Efquire, Sonne and Heire to the much honou- 
 red and fincere difpenfer of judgement, 
 Sir Richard Hvtton Sergeant at 
 Law, and one of the fudges of the 
 Common Pleas : 
 
 The fruition of his selectdest wishes. 
 OJitfeciire and in a safe repofe, 
 To view the cr off e occurrences ^/"thofe 
 Who are on Sea; or in a Jilent fhade \ 
 To eye theftate of Tuch as are decay 'd; 
 Or neere fome Jiluer Rill or Beechy Groue, 
 To reade how Starre-croft louers lofl their loue, 
 Is beft of humane blef sings, and this beft 
 Is in your worthy f elf e (Deere Cuz) exprefl, 
 Who by your fathers vertues and your owne 
 A re truly lou'd, wherefeuer you are knowne : 
 In State fecure, rich in a faithfull make, [mate 
 And rich in all that may fecure your State. 
 Now in thefedayes of yours, thefe Halcion dales, 
 Where you enioy all toy, perufe thefe layes, 
 
 N That 
 
The Epistle Dedicatorie. 
 
 That you who liu'd to loue, Hue where you loue, 
 May reade what you nerefelt, nor ere didproue; 
 Poore Swainlins croft where they affecled moji, 
 And croft in that which made them euer croft. 
 Reeeiue this Poem, Sir, for as I Hue, 
 Had I ought better, I would better giue. 
 
 Rich: Brathvvait. 
 
SHEPHEARDS 
 
 TALES. 
 
 The First Part. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 Echnis comftlaines, 
 And labours to difplay 
 Tti uniufl dijiajle 
 Of Amarillida. 
 
 Thefecond Argument. 
 
 Ere relates this forlorne Swaine 
 How he woo'd, but woo'd in vaine, 
 Her whofe beautie did furpaffe 
 Shape of any Country Laffe, 
 Made more to delight the bed, 
 Than to fee her Lambkins fed ; 
 Yet poore Shepheard fee his fate, 
 Loue fhee vow'd, is chang'd to hate : 
 
 N 2 For 
 
1 80 The fecond A rgument. 
 
 For being iealous of his loue, 
 Shee her fancie doth remoue, 
 Planting it vpon a Groome, 
 Who by Cupids blindeft doome 
 Is preferd vnto thofe ioyes, 
 Which were nere ordain'd for Boyes : 
 On whofe face nere yet appear'd 
 Downie fhew of manly beard. 
 Hauing thus drunke forrows cup, 
 Firft, he fhewes his bringing vp, 
 What thofe Arts were he profeft, 
 Which in homely ftyle expreft, 
 He defcends vnto the Swaine 
 Whom he fought by loue to gaine ; 
 But preuented of his ayme, 
 Her he fhowes, but hides her fhame. 
 
 THE 
 
 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Thejhepheards. 
 
 Technis. Dymnus. Dorycles. 
 
 Corydon. Sapphus. Linus. 
 
 THE FIRST EGLOGVE. 
 
 Technis tale. 
 
 Hy now I fee thefe Plaines fome good af- 
 ford, 
 When Shpherds will be maflers of their 
 word. 
 
 Dory. Yes, Technis yes, we fee it now & then 
 That thefle keep touch as wel as greater men, 
 Who can protefl and take a folemn vow 
 To doefarre more then they intend to doe. 
 
 Dym. 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 181 
 
 Dym. Stay Dorycles, me thinkes thou goeji too farre, 
 Lets talke of Shepheards, as we Shepheards are : 
 For whyjhould we thefe Great mens errors note, 
 But learne vnto our Cloth to cut our coat. 
 Sapp. Dymnus, 'tis true ; we came not to difplay 
 Great mens abufes, but to paffe away 
 The time in Tales, wherein we may relate 
 By one and one our blejl or wretched Jiate. 
 Cor. Lndeed friend Dymnus therfore came we hither, 
 Tofhew our Fortune and diflreffe together, 
 Lin. Proceede then Technis, you'r the eldefl Swaine 
 That now feeds Flocks vpon this fruitfull Plaine : 
 So as your age, whatfeuer we alledge, 
 Doth well deferue that proper priuiledge. 
 Tech. As to begin ; 
 Lin. So Technis doe L meane. 
 
 Tech. Thanks Shepherds heartily, that you will daine 
 A haplejfe Swaine fuch grace; which to requite, 
 Lie mix my dolefull Storie with delight, 
 That while yee weepe for grief e, L may allay 
 Your dif content, and wipe your teares away. 
 Dory. On Technis on, and weele attention lend, 
 And wifh thy loue may haue a happie end. 
 Dym. Which fhowne, each Jhall reply, and make exprefl 
 When all is done, whofe fate's the heauiefl. 
 Tech. Attend then Shepheards, now L doe begin, 
 Shewing you firft where 1 had nurturing, 
 Which to vnfold the better, L will chufe 
 No other words then homefpun Heardfmen vfe. 
 Firfl then, becaufe fome Shepheards may fuppofe 
 By meere conjecture, L am one of thofe 
 Who had my breeding on this flowrie Plaine, 
 
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182 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 I mufl confeffe that they are much mifldne, 
 For if I would, I could flrange flories tell 
 <2/"Platoes and of Ariilotles Well, 
 From whence I drain' 'd fuch drops of diuine wit, 
 As all our Swaines could hardly diue to it : 
 Dor. Indeed I'ue heard much of thee in thy youth 
 Tech. Yes Dorycles, I fay no more than truth. 
 A Prentifhip did I in Athens Hue, 
 Not without hope but I might after giue 
 Content and comfort where Ifhould remaine, 
 And little thought I then to be a Swaine : 
 For I may fay to you, I then didfeeme 
 One of no f mall or popular efleeme, 
 But of confort with fuch, whofe height of place 
 Aduanced me, becaufe I had their grace : 
 Though now, f nee I my Lambkins gan to feede, 
 Clad in my ruffet coat and countrey weede, 
 Thofe broad-fpred Cedars fcarce afford a nefl 
 Vpon their fhadie Boughes, where I may reft. 
 Sapp. It feemes they're great men Technis. 
 Tech. So they are, 
 
 And for inferiour groundlins, little care. 
 But may they flourifh : thus much Lamfure, 
 Though Shrubs be not fo high, they're more fecure. 
 Lin. High flat es indeed arefubiecl to decline. 
 Tech. Yes Linus yes, in this corrupted time 
 We may obferue by due experience 
 That where a Perfon has preeminence, 
 Hefo tranf ported growes, as he will checke 
 Ioue in his Throne, till Pride has broke his necke, 
 Whereas fo vertuous were precedent times, 
 As they were free not only from the crimes 
 
 To 
 
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 To which this age's expofed, but did Hue 
 As men which f corn' d Ambition. 
 Dymn. Now I diue 
 
 Into thy meaning Technis ; thou do'Ji grieue 
 That thofe who once endeer'd thee, now Jhould leave 
 Thy fellowjhip. 
 
 Tech. Nay Dymnus I protefi 
 I neuer credited what they prof eft ; 
 For Jhould I grieue to fee a furly Lout, 
 Who for obferuance cafts his eye about ; 
 In nothing meriting, faue only He 
 Is rich in acres, to dif value me ? 
 Dory. No Technis no, tKart of a higher fpirii 
 Than thefe inferiour Gnats, whofe only merit 
 Confifts in what they haue, not what they are. 
 Tech. No Dorycles, for thefe I little care, 
 Nor euer did : though fome there be that feede 
 Onfuch mens breath. 
 Dymn. Good Technis now proceed. 
 Tech. Hauing thus long continued, as If aid, 
 And by my long continuance Graduate made, 
 I tooke more true delight in being there, 
 Than euer fince in Court or Country ayre. 
 Sapph. Indeed minds freedome beft contenteth men. 
 Tech. Andfuch a freedome I enjoyed then, 
 As in thofe Beechiefhades of Hefperie. 
 I planted then my fole felicitie. 
 So as howfere fome of our rurall Swaines 
 Prerogatiue aboue all others claimes, ( ought, 
 
 That they haue nought, want nought, nor care for 
 Becaufe their minde vnfurnifht is of nought 
 That may accomplijh man : I could averre, 
 
 N 4 (Howfere 
 
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 (Howfere I doubt thefe in opinion erre) 
 That in my breajl was treafured more bleffe, 
 Then euer fenfuall man could yet poffeffe. 
 For my delights were princely, and not vaine, 
 Where height of knowledge was my only ayme, 
 Whofe happy purchafe might enrich me more, 
 Then all this trajh which worldly men adore. 
 So as //"Pan were not the fame he is, 
 He'de wifh himfelfe but to enioy my bliffe, 
 Whofe choice content afford me fo great power, 
 As I might vye with greatefl Emperour. 
 Coryd. It feemes thy flate was happie ; 
 Tech. So it was, 
 
 And did my prefent flate fo farre furpaffe, 
 As th' high top'd Cedar cannot beare morefhow 
 Aboue the lowefl Mufhrom that doth grow, 
 Or more exceed in glory, than that time 
 Outflripp 'd this prefent happineffe of mine. 
 For tell me Shepheards, what's efleeni d y mongft men 
 The greatefl ioy, which I eniofd not then ! 
 For is there comfort in retired life ? 
 I did poffeffe a life exempt from flrife, 
 Free from litigious clamour, or report 
 Sprung from commencement of a tedious Court. 
 Is contemplation fweete, or conference, 
 Or ripe conceits 2 why there's an influence, 
 Drawne from Minerua's braine, where euery wit 
 Tranfcends conceit, and feemes to rauifh it. 
 Is it delightfull Shepheards to repofe, 
 And all-alone to reade of others woes ? 
 Why there in Tragick Stories might we fpend 
 Whole houres in choice difcourfes to a friend. 
 
 And 
 
SHEP HEARD S TALES. 185 
 
 And reafon of Occurrents to and fro, 
 And why this thing or that did happen fo, 
 Might it content man, to allay the loade 
 Of a diflemperd minde to walke abroad, 
 That he might moderate the thought of care 
 By choice acquaintance, or by change of ayre ? 
 What noble conforts might you quickly finde 
 To fhare in forrow with a troubled minde ? 
 What cheerfull Groues, what fdent murmuring fprings, 
 Delicious walkes, and ayrie warblings, 
 Frejh flowrie Paflures, Gardens which might pleafe 
 The fenfes more then did tK Hefperides, 
 Greene fhadie Arbours, curled ftreames which flow, 
 On whofe pure Margins fhadie Beeches grow, 
 Myrtle-perfumed Plaines, on whofe rer'd tops 
 The merry Thrufh and Black-bird nimbly hops 
 And carols fings, fo as the paffers by 
 Would deeme the Birds infus'd with poefie? 
 Sapp. Sure Technis this was earthly Paradife. 
 Tech. Sapphus it was ; for what can Swaine deuife 
 To tender all delight to eye or eare, 
 Tafte, Smell, or Touch which was not frequent there •? 
 Befides ; 
 
 Lin. What could be more, pray Technis fay ? 
 Tech. We had more ioyes to paffe the time away. 
 Dory. What might they be good Technis ? 
 Tech. Pas I know 
 
 Thefrfuch as Shepheards cannot reach vnto. 
 Dym. Yet let vs heare them. 
 Tech. Solmeaneyoufhall, 
 And they were fuck as we internall call. 
 Cor. Infernall, Technis, what is meant by that ? 
 
 Tech. 
 
1 86 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Tech. Inf email, no ; thou fpeakjlthouknowjl not what: 
 
 I nieane internall gifts which farre furtnount 
 
 All thefe externall bounties in account : 
 
 For by thefe blejffings wefhall euer finde 
 
 Rich Treafures flored in a knowing minde, 
 
 Whofe glorious infide is a thoufandfold 
 
 more precious than her Cafe though cloatlid in gold 
 
 And all Habilliments : for by this light 
 
 Of Vnderflanding, we difcerne whats right 
 
 From crooked error, and are truly f aid 
 
 To vnderfland by this, why we were made 
 
 Sapp. Why, we nere thought of this. 
 
 Lin. Nay, I may fweare 
 
 I haue IMd on this Downe, this twentie yeare, 
 
 And that was my leafl care. 
 
 Corid, Linus, I vow 
 
 To feed our Sheepe, was all that we need doe 
 
 I euer thought. 
 
 Dory. So Coridon did I. 
 
 Dymn. The caufe of this, good Technis, now defcrie. 
 
 Tech. Heardfmen I will ; with purpofe to relate, 
 
 Left my Difcourfe fhould be too intricate, 
 
 In brief e, (for length makes Memorie to faile) 
 
 Thefubflance of your wifhes in a Tale. 
 
 Within that pitchie and Cymmerian clyme, 
 
 Certaine Inhabitants dwelt on a time, 
 
 Who long had in thofeJJiadie Mountaines won, 
 
 Yet neuerfaw a glimpfe of Sunne or Moon. 
 
 Yet fee what cuflome is, though they were pent 
 
 From fight of Sunne or Moone they were content, 
 
 Sporting themfelues in vaults and arched caues, 
 
 Not fo like dwelling Houfes, as like graues. 
 
 Nor 
 
SHEP HEARDS TALES. 187 
 
 Nor were thefe menfeene ere fo farre to roame 
 At any time as halfe a mile from home ; 
 For if they had, as th' Hiflorie doth fay, 
 They had beenefure right foone to lofe their way : 
 For darke and miftie were thofe drerie caues 
 Where they reposed, fo that the wretchedfl flaues 
 Could not expofed be to more reflraint, 
 Than thefepoorefnakes in tK ragged Mountaines pent ; 
 And thus they liu'd. 
 Lin. But never lou'd. 
 Tech. To tell 
 
 Their hues I will not : but it thus befell, 
 That a great Prince, who to encreafe his fame 
 Had conquered many Countries, thither came. 
 Sapp. For what good Technis ? 
 Tech. Only to furuey it. 
 
 Corid. Whyfurehe hadfome Torch-light to difplay it, 
 For th' Coaft you fay was darke. 
 Tech. Andfo it was ; 
 But yet attend me how it came to paffe : 
 By meanes he vs'd, hauing this coaflfuruei'd, 
 With all perfwafiue reafons he off aid, 
 Partly by f aire meanes to induce them to it, 
 Sometimes by threats, when he was forest vnto it, 
 That they would leaue that forlorne place, and giue 
 Way to perfwafion, and refolue to Hue 
 Neerefome more cheerefull Border, which in time 
 They gaue confent to, and forfooke their Clime. 
 But fee theflrength of Habit, when they came 
 To fee the light they hid themfelues for Jhame, 
 Their eyes grew dazled, and they did not know, 
 Where to retire or to what place to goe : 
 
 Yet 
 
188 SHEP HEARDS TALES. 
 
 Yet was the Region pleafant, full ofgroues, 
 Where th' airy Quiriflers expreffe their loues 
 One to another, and with Melodie 
 Cheer 'd and refrefftd Siluanus Emperie. 
 The warbling Goldfinch on the dangling f pray, 
 Sent out harmonious Muficke euery day ; 
 The prettie fpeckled Violet on the Banke 
 With Pinke and Rofe-bud placed in their ranke ; 
 Where chafed Violets did fo frefh appeare, 
 As they foretold the Spring-time now drew neare ; 
 Whofe borders were with various colours dy'd, 
 And Prim-rofe bankes with odours beautifid; 
 Where Cornell trees were planted in great Jlore, 
 Whofe checkerd berries beautifid thefhore. 
 Befides, fuch gorgeous buildings as no eye 
 Could take a view of fuller Maieftie ; 
 Whofe curious pillers made of Porphyrite 
 Smooth to the touch, and fpecious to the fight, 
 Sent from their hollow Cell a crifpling breath, 
 Arched aboue and vaulted vnderneath. 
 Yet could not all thefe choyce varieties 
 ( Which might haue giuen content to choicer eyes) 
 Satisfie thefe Cimmerians, for their ayme 
 Was to returne vnto their Caues againe, 
 And fo they did : for when the Prince perceiu'd 
 How hard it was from error to be rearfd, 
 Where ignorance difcerns not what is good, 
 Becaufe it is not rightly vnderflood ; 
 Hee fent them home againe, where they remained 
 From comfort of Societie reflrain'd. 
 Dym. Apply this Tale, my Technis ; 
 Tech. Heare me then. 
 
 You 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 189 
 
 You may be well compared vnto thefe men, 
 Who ignorant of knowledge, doe ejleeme 
 More of your Flocks, how they may fruitfull feeme, 
 Then of that part, whereby you may be fed 
 From fauage beafls to be diflinguiflied. 
 Dory. Technis you are too bitter ; 
 Tech. Not a whit, 
 
 Shepheards Jhould tell a Shepheard what is fit : 
 Though I confejfe that Heardfmen merit praife, 
 When they take care vpon the Flockes they graze. 
 Yet to recount thofe Swaines of elder time, 
 How fome were rapt with Sciences diuine, 
 Others adorrid with Art of Poefie, 
 Others to reafon of Aftrologie ; 
 Swaines of this time might think V a very Jhame, 
 To be fo bold as to retaine the name 
 Ofiolly Heardf men, when theywaut the worth (forth. 
 Of thofe braue Swaines which former times brought 
 Corid. Why, what could they ? 
 Tech. Endorfe their Names in trees, 
 And write fuch amorous Poems as might pleafe 
 Their deerefl loues. 
 
 Dym. Why Technis what was this, 
 Can we not pleafe our loues more with a kiffe ? 
 Dory. Yes Dymnus, thou know'fl that ; 
 Dym. Perchance I doe, 
 For Dymnus knowes no other way to wooe. 
 But pray thee Technis let vs fay no more, 
 But hie thee now to where thou left before. 
 Tech. Pme eafily entreated ; draw then neere, 
 And as I lend a tongue, lend you an eare. 
 Hauing long liued in Minerua's Groue, 
 My life became an Embleme of pure loue. 
 
190 SHEP HEARDS TALES. 
 
 Dym. Of Loue my Technis, pray thee fay to whom! 
 Tech. As thou meartfil Dymnus, / didfancie none ": 
 No ; my affeclion f oared higher farre, 
 Than on fuch toyes as now affecled are : 
 I doated not on Beautie, nor did take 
 My aime at faire, but did obferuance make, 
 How humane things befhar'd by diuine power, 
 Where fickle faith fcarce conflant refits one houre; 
 How kighefil filates were fubiecTfil to decline ; 
 How nought on Earth but fubiecl vnto Time ; 
 How vice though clad in purple was but vice ; 
 How vertue clad in rags wasfiiill in price ; 
 How Common-weales in peace fihould make for warn; 
 How Honour crownes such as defieruing are. 
 Dory. And yet we fee fuch as deferued moft, 
 What ere the caufe be, are the ofitefl croft. 
 Tech. lie not denie it (Swaine) and yet attend, 
 For all their crofife occurrents, but their end, 
 And thou fihalt fee the fawning Sycophant 
 Die in dif grace, and leaue his Heire in want : 
 While tK honeft and defieruing Statefman giues 
 Life to his JVame and in his dying Hues. 
 This L obferu'd and many things befide, 
 Whilfil I in famous Athens did abide ; 
 But 'laffe whilfi 1 ' fecure from thought of care, 
 With choifiefil confiorts did delight me there, 
 Free from the tongue of rumor or ofifilrife, 
 I was to take me to another life. 
 Lin. To what good Technis ? 
 Tech. To haue Harpies clawes ; 
 To take my fee and then neglecl the caufe. 
 Sapp. A Lawier Technis ! 
 
 Tech. 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 191 
 
 Tech. So my father /aid, 
 Who as he had commanded, I obey'd. 
 But iudge now Shepheards, could I chufe to grieue, 
 When I muji leaue, what I was fore 'd to leaue, 
 Thofe fweet delightfull Arts, with which my youth 
 Was firfl informed, and now attain 'dfuch growth, 
 As I did reape more happy comfort thence 
 In onefhort houre than many Twelue-months fince ? 
 Corid. This was a hard command. 
 Tech. Yet was it fit 
 Ifhoidd refpeel his loue impofed it. 
 For nire had Father fhowne vnto his fonne 
 More tender loue than he to me had done : 
 So as his will was flill to me a law, 
 Which I obferued more for loue than awe, 
 For in that childe few feeds of grace appeare, 
 Whom loue doth leffe induce than thought of feare. 
 Hauing now tane my leaue of all the Mufes, 
 7" made me fit as other Students vfes, 
 To wainemy minde, and to withdraw my fight 
 From all fuch fludies gaue me once delight : 
 And to inure me better to difcerne 
 Such rudiments as I defir'd to learne, 
 I went to Iohn a Styles, and Iohn an Okes ? 
 And many other Law-baptized folkes, 
 Whereby Ifet the praclife of the Law 
 At as light count as turning of afilraw, 
 Forflraight I found how Iohn a Styles didflate it, 
 But I was ouer Style ere L came at it ; 
 For hauing thought (fo eafie was the way) 
 That one might be a Lawyer the firfl day : 
 I after found the further that I went, 
 
 The 
 
192 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 The further was I from my Element : 
 Yet forafmuch as I efleenid it vaine, 
 To purchafe law fiill from another s braine, 
 Iflroue to get fome law at any rate, 
 At leaflfo much as might concerne my ftate. 
 Lin. I am more forie for it. 
 Tech. Linus why ? 
 
 Lin.. Becaufe I feare me thou wilt haue an eye 
 More to thy priuate profit, than deuife 
 How to attone fuch quarrels as arife. 
 Dym. Technis is none of thofe. 
 Tech. No, credit me, 
 Though Tme refolued many fuch there be 
 Who can dif pence with fees on either part, 
 Which I haue euer f corned with my heart ; 
 Tor this fhall be my praclice, to afifay 
 Without a fee to doe you tK good I may. 
 Corid. Technis enough. 
 Tech. Hauing thus long applide 
 Theflreame of Law, my aged father dide, 
 Whofe vertues to relate I fhall not neede, 
 For you all knew him ; 
 Doric. So we did indeed : 
 A Patron of all Iuflice, doe him right. 
 Sap. Nor was there Art wherein he had no fight. 
 Dym. Yet was he humble. 
 Lin. And in that more blefil. 
 Corid. He Hues though feeming dead ; 
 Tech. So let him refil. 
 Hauing loft him whofe life fupported me, 
 You may imagine Shepheards, what might be 
 My hard fucceeding fate : downe mufl Tgoe 
 
 To 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 193 
 
 To know if this report were true or no. 
 Which I did finde too true, for he was dead, 
 And had enioyn'd me Guardians in his filead 
 To f way my vntraind youth. 
 Dym. And what were they ? 
 Tech. Such men as I had reafon to obey : 
 Tor their aduice was euer for my good, 
 Tf my greene yeeres fo much had vnderflood: 
 But I puft vp with thought of my demaines, 
 Gaue way to Tolly, and didflacke my raines 
 Of long reflraint ; 
 Dory. ''Las Technis, then 1 fee 
 What in the end was like to fall on thee. 
 Tech. O Dorycles if thou hadfil knowne my flate, 
 Thou wouldjl haue pitied it ! 
 Corid. Nay rather hate 
 Thy youthfull riot. 
 Tech. Thou fpeakes well vntdt, 
 Tor the Blacke Oxe had nere trod on my foot : 
 I had my former fludies in defpight, 
 And in the vainefl conforts tooke delight. 
 Which much incens'd fuch as affection bare 
 To my efleeme : but little did I care 
 Tor the inflruclion of my graue Troteclors 
 Who neuer left me, but like wife direclors 
 Confulted how to reclifie my flate, 
 Andfome aduifed this, and others that, 
 Tor neuer any could more faithfull be 
 Infincere trufl, than they were vnto me. 
 At laft, one to compofe and end the flrife, 
 Thought it thefitffl that Lfhould take a wife. 
 Corid. Yea, now it workes. 
 
 O Lin. 
 
* S. Valen- 
 tines day ; 
 on which 
 Birds are 
 said to 
 chuse their 
 Mates, with 
 whom 
 they re- 
 poss and 
 partake in 
 mutuall 
 ioyes. 
 
 194 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Lin. Stay till he come vnto't; 
 Sap. And then I know he will goe roundly tdt. 
 Tech. Nay iejl not on me, but awhile /orbeare, 
 And you the iffue of my louejhall heare. 
 Hauing at lajl concluded, as 1 '/aid, 
 With ioynt confent IJhould be married, 
 One 'mongfl the reft did freely vndertake 
 This priuate motion to my felfe to make ; 
 Which I gaue eare to : wifhing too that he 
 Would me informe where this my Wife fhould be. 
 Dym. As it was fit. 
 Cor. Who was it thoujhouldfl ha ? 
 Tech. lie tell thee Boy, 'twas Amarillida. 
 Cor. ~Lycas faire daughter? 
 Tech. Yes, the very fame. 
 Dory. She was a wench indeed of worthie fame ; 
 Tech. As ere fed Lambkins on this flowrie Downe : 
 Whom many fought and fude to make their owne, 
 Butfihe affecledfo a virgin life, 
 As /he did fcorne to be Amyntas wife. 
 Dym. Lftpoffiblel 
 Tech. Yes Dymnus / doe know 
 Some tokens of ajfeclion twixt them two, 
 Which if thou heard, right foone would/1 thou confeffe, 
 More vnfaind loue no Heardfman could exprejfe : 
 But to omit the refl, L meane tofihow 
 The time and tide when L began to woo. 
 Vpon that * Day (fad day and heauy fate) 
 When euery Bird is f aid to chufe her mate, 
 Did I repair e vnto that fairefl faire, 
 That euer lou'd, or liu'd, or breath 'd on aire. 
 And her Lwoo'd, but /he was /o demure, 
 
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SHEPHEARDS TALES. 195 
 
 So modeji ba/hfull, and fo maiden pure, 
 As at thefr/l, nor at the fecond time 
 She would no eare to found of loue incline. 
 Cor. But this (Pm fure) would be no meanes to draw 
 Thy loues affault from Amarillida. 
 Tech. No Condon, for then Ifhould not feeme 
 Worthy fo rare a Nymph as ffie had beene. 
 But I did finde that female foes would yeeld, 
 Though their relentlejfe breafls at firfl werefleeld : 
 Continuall drops will pierce the hardeflflone. 
 Sap. Did Technis finde her fuch aflony one ? 
 Tech. Sappho I did : yet though fhe oft had vowd 
 A veflall life, and had my fuit withflood, 
 I found her of a better minde next day, 
 For fhe had throwne her veflall weed away. 
 Lin. Thrice happy Shepheard / 
 Tech. Linus, fay notfo ; 
 If it be happineffe to end in woe, 
 Thou mightft enflyle me happy ; 
 Dory. Was not fhe 
 Fully refolued now to marry thee ? 
 Tech. Yes Dorycles : but when fhe had confented, 
 Heare by what flrange mif chance I was preuented ! 
 Vpon a time a Summering there was, 
 Where euery liuely Lad tooke in his Laffe 
 To dance his Meafure, and amongfl the refl 
 I tooke me one as frolike as the befl. 
 Dym. What was fhe man ? 
 Tech. A Matron full of zeale, 
 But pardon me, I mufl her name conceale. 
 Lin. 77 was Alburna I durfl pawne my life. 
 
 O 2 Tech. 
 
196 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Tech. / mufl confeffe it was the Parfons wife, 
 
 A lujly Trolops I may fay to you, 
 
 And one could foot it giue the wench her due. 
 
 Lin. Yea marry Sir, there was a Lajfe indeed 
 
 Knew how fhefhould about a Maypole tread. 
 
 Tech. And I may fay, if Linus had beene there, 
 
 He would hauefaid, we euenly matched were : 
 
 For 1 may fay at that day there was none 
 
 At any afliue game could put me downe 
 
 And for a dance ; 
 
 Sap. As light as any f ether, 
 
 For thou didft winne the Legge three yeeres together. 
 
 Tech. And many f aid that it great pittie was 
 
 Thatfuch a Parfon had not fuch a Laffe : 
 
 So as indeed all did conclude and fay, 
 
 That we defenid the Pricke and prize that day. 
 
 But hauing now our May-games wholly plaid, 
 
 Danced till we wearie were, and Piper paid : 
 
 Each tooke his wench he danc'd with on the Downe, 
 
 Meaning to giue her curt fie of the Towne. 
 
 Sim. What curtfie Technis ? 
 
 Tech. As our Shepheards vfe, 
 
 Which they in modeflie cannot refufe : 
 
 And this we did, and thus we parted then, 
 
 Men from their women, women from their men. 
 
 Dory. But didft nere after with Alburna meet 1 
 
 Tech. Yes, on a time I met her in theflreet, 
 
 Who after kinde falutes inuited me 
 
 Vnto her houfe, which in ciuilitie 
 
 I could not well deny ; 
 
 Dym. True Technis true. 
 
 , Tech. 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 197 
 
 Tech. Andjhe receiu'd me, giue the wench her due, 
 Withfuch a free and gracefull entertaine, 
 As did exceed th' expectance of a Swaine. 
 Dory. Shehadfomereafonfor't; 
 Tech. None I may fweare, 
 Saue thatjhe toyed much to fee me there. 
 Dory. Yet did ; 
 
 Tech. Did eat, did drinke, and merry make, 
 For no delight faue thefe did Technis take. 
 For I may fay to you iffo I had, 
 My lucke to Horfe-flesh had not beenefo bad, 
 As by fome yeeres experience I haue found ; 
 So as of your fufpicion there's no ground: 
 But if I had, no fate could be more hard 
 Than that which Ifuftained afterward. 
 Corid. Relate it Technis. 
 Tech. To my griefe I will, 
 Hauing done this without leafl thought of ill, 
 This (as report doth new additions draw) 
 Came to the eare of Amarillida : 
 Who iealous of my loue (as women are) 
 Thought that Alburna had no little fhare 
 In my affefiion, which I may protefl 
 Was nere as much as meant, much lefife exprefl. 
 Sap. Alas good Shepheard. 
 Tech. So as from that day 
 I found her fancy falling flill away, 
 For to what place foeuer I did come, 
 She fain 'd excufe to leaue me and the roome. 
 Lin. Yetfhe nere fix' d her loue on any one. 
 Tech. Yes Linus, elfe what caufe had I to mone ? 
 Some few moneths after didfhe take a Mate, 
 
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198 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 I mujl confeffe of infinite ejlate ; 
 Yet in my minde (nor doe I fpeakft in fpight) 
 -He's one can giue a woman fmall delight, 
 For he's a very Erwig. 
 Lin. What is he ? 
 Tech. Fetreiusfonne; 
 Lin. The map of miferie. 
 
 Tech. Yet thou wouldfl wonder how this dunghil worm 
 When he encounters me, redarts a fcorne 
 On my contemned loue : 
 Dym. All this dothjhow, 
 That he refolues to triumph in thy woe ; 
 But how flands Jhee affecled? 
 Tech. ' Las for grief e, 
 Shee is fo farre from yeelding me reliefe, 
 As Jhee in publique meetings ha's off aid 
 To glory in the trickes which Jhee hath plaid. 
 Dory. O matchleffe infolence / 
 Tech. Yetjhall my blijfe 
 In wanting her, be characlred in this ; 
 " Hauing lofl all that ere thy labour gained, 
 " Be Jure to keepe thy precious name vnflairid. 
 Corid. A good refolue. 
 Tech. Yet mujl I neuer leaue 
 While I doe Hue, but I mujl Hue to grieue : 
 For I perfwade me, there was neuer Swaine 
 Was recompenc 'd with more vniujl difdaine. 
 Dym. Indeed thou well mightjl grieue. 
 Dory. YetJhalVt appeare, 
 I haue more cauje, if you my Tale will heare : 
 For nere wasjlory mixed with more ruth, 
 Or grounded on more Arguments of truth. 
 
 Corid. 
 
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 Corid. Lefs haue it Dorycles ; 
 
 Dory. With all my heart, 
 
 And plainly too ; grief e hates all words of art. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 Orycles loues Bellina ; 
 Who efleemes 
 | As well of him, 
 Butproues not fame Jhefeemes. 
 
 The fecond Argument. 
 
 Orycles a youthfull Swaine, 
 Seekes Bellina 's loue to gaine : 
 Who, fo euen doth fancy flrike, 
 Tenders Dorycles the like- 
 Yet obferue how women be 
 Subiedl to inconftancie ! 
 Shee in abfence of her loue, 
 Her affection doth remoue, 
 Planting it vpon a Swad, 
 That no wit nor breeding had. 
 
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200 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Whom me honours ; but in time 
 Dorycles feemes to diuine, 
 Since her loue is ftain'd with fin, 
 She'le ere long difhonour him ; 
 For who once hath broke her vow, 
 Will infringe't to others too. 
 In the end he doth expreffe 
 His difdainfull Shepherdeffe : 
 Who, when ihe had iniured 
 Him and his, and cancelled 
 That fame facred fecret oath, 
 Firmely tendred by them both ; 
 She a Willow-garland fends 
 For to make her Swaine amends, 
 Which he weares, and vowes till death 
 He will weare that forlorn e wreath. 
 With protefts of leffe delight 
 In her Loue, than in her Spight. 
 
 THE SECOND EGLOGVE. 
 
 Dorycles tale. 
 
 Ome Shephherds come, and heare the wo- 
 fulft Swaine 
 
 That euer liu'd, or lou'd on wejlern plaine: 
 
 Whofe heauyfate all others doth furpaffe 
 
 That ere you heard; 
 Dym. Say Heard/man what it was. 
 Dory. / mujl and will, though Dymnus / confejfe, 
 Fm very loth my folly to expreffe, 
 Whofe madding paffion though it merit blame, 
 
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 / will difplaft. 
 
 Tech. Tdt then : away with Jhame. 
 Dory. / lou'd a bonny Laffe as ere lou'd man, 
 For she a middle had that you might Jpan, 
 A mouing eye, a nimble mincing foot, 
 And mannerly Jhe was, forjhe could lout : 
 And her I lou'd, and me Jhe held as deare. 
 Corid. But Dorycles where liu'djhe ? 
 Dory. Very neare : 
 Knowjl thou not Polychreflus ? 
 Corid. Who, the Swaine 
 That with hisjheepe doth couer all our Plaine ? 
 Dory. Itfeemes thou knowjl him Coridon ; 
 Corid. I doe: 
 
 Andjeuen yeeres Jince I knew his Daughter too. 
 Dory. Who, f aire Bellina? 
 Corid. Yes, the very Jame. 
 
 Dory. And her I lou'd, nor need I thinkdt a Jhame. 
 For what might moue affeclion or imply 
 Content of loue to any Shepheards eye, 
 Which Jhe eniofd not? For if choyce difcourfe 
 (As what more mouing than the tongue) had force 
 To infufe loue, there was no Heardfman neare her 
 Who was not rauijk'd if he chanced to heare her ; 
 And for a beauty mix'd with white and red. 
 Corid. I know 't was rare, good Dorycles proceed. 
 Dory. When I was young, as yet I am not old, 
 I doted more than now a hundredfold: 
 For there was not a May-game that could Jhow it 
 All here about, but I repaird vnto it, 
 Yet knew not what loue meant, but was content 
 To Jpend the time in harmleffe merriment. 
 
 But 
 
202 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 But at the lafil, I plaid fo long with fire, 
 I ring d my wings with heat of loues defire. 
 And to difplay my folly how it was 
 Without digreffion, thus it came to pajfe. 
 Downe by yon Vale a Myrtle groue there is, 
 (Oh that I nere hadfeene it, I may wifh) 
 Where Pan the Shepheards God to whom 7vepray, 
 Solemniz 'd had his wonted holiday : 
 Whereto reforted many noble Swaines, 
 Who flourifh yet vpon our neighbour Plaines ; 
 'Mongfl which Bellina with a youthfull fort 
 Of amorous Nimphs, came to furuey our f port. 
 Which I obferuing (fee the fault of youth) 
 Tranfported with vain-glory, thought in truth 
 Shee came a purpofefor a fight of me, 
 Which I with fmiles requited louingly : 
 But howfoere, I know Bellina efde 
 My perfon more than all thefwaines befide. 
 When night was come, vnwelcome vnto fome, 
 And each was now to hafilen towards home, 
 I 'mongfil the reft of Laddes, did homeward pafife, 
 And all this time I knew not what Love was. 
 To fupper went I and fell to my fare, 
 As if of hue 1 had but little care, 
 And after fupper went to fire to chat 
 Of fundry old-wiues tales, as this and that ; 
 Yet all this while loue had no power of me, 
 Nor no command that euer I could fee. 
 Hauing thus f pent in tales an houre or two, 
 Each to his refl (as he thought befil) did goe, 
 But now when IJhould take me to my refl, 
 That troubled me which I did thinke of leafil. 
 
 Tech. 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 203 
 
 Tech. Trouble thee Swaine ! 
 Dory. Yes Technis ; and the more, 
 Becaufe I neuer felt fuch pangs before. 
 This way and that way did I tojfe and turne, 
 And freeze andfrie, andfhakefor cold and burne, 
 So as I wifht a hundred times, that day 
 Would now approach my pafjion to allay. 
 Yetflill, (fo weake was my diflemper'd braine) 
 I thought Bellina put me to that paine, 
 Yet knew no caufe why fhee fhould vfe me fo, 
 Yet thought to afke her if 7 were fhee or no : 
 So as next day, I purposed to repaire 
 To fee if fhee could yeeld a cure to care. 
 But fhe (poore wench) wasfplit on fancies fhelfe, 
 All full of care, yet could not cure her f elf e ; 
 So as in brief e we either did impart, 
 The fecret paffions of a wounded heart, 
 Shot by louesfhaft, for fdt appeared to be, 
 Which found, we vow'd a prefent remedie ; 
 Yet to our friends both fhee and I did feane, 
 As if we neuer had acquainted beene. 
 Dym. A prety fleight ; 
 Dory. Though many times and oft, 
 Plaid we at Barlybreake in Clytus croft. 
 And thus our loues continued one halfe yeere 
 Without fufpition, till one neighboring neere, 
 An equall friend vnto vs both, did make 
 A motion of our Mariage. 
 Tech. Did it take ? 
 
 Dory. Yes Technis yes, fo as firfl day I went, 
 My friends, tofhew that they were well content, 
 Wifhld that all good fucceffe might vfher mee. 
 
 Lin. 
 
204 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Lin. One Jhould haue throwne an old flioo after thee. 
 Dory. Nay Linus that was done : and now to hie 
 Vnto my Tale, on went my dogge and L, 
 Poore loaue-eard Curre. 
 Sapp. Why Dorycles, hadjl none 
 Tofecond thee ? 
 
 Dory. Too many (Swaine) by one : 
 For trowjl thou Lad, when I my Juit Jhould make 
 Vnto her friends, my dogge he let a Jcape. 
 Sapp. /// nurtur 'd ' Jlitchell. 
 Dory. Now yee may Juppoje 
 Bellina tooke the Pepper in the noje, 
 That to her friends when I Jhould breake my minde, 
 The carrian Cur Jhould at that time breake winde. 
 So as for halfe an houre I there didjhow 
 Like to afenfleffe Picture made of dough : 
 Nor was my dogge leffejham , d, but runs away 
 With taile betwixt his legs withjpeed he may. 
 At lajl my Jpirits 1 did call together, 
 Showing her friends the caufe why L came thither, 
 Who did accept my motion ; for that day 
 L was eJleenCd a proper Swaine I Jay, 
 And one well left. 
 Cor. We know it Dorycles, 
 
 Both for thy wealth and perfon thou mightjl pleafe. 
 Lin. For good mugjheepe and cattell, Lie be fworne 
 None could come neare thee both for haire and home. 
 Dory. Yee ouer-value me, but fur e L am 
 L had fufficient for an honefl man : 
 Hauing thus free accejfe to her L lou'd, 
 Who my affeclion long before had prou'd 
 Though Jhe Jeemd nice, as women often vfe, 
 
 When 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 205 
 
 When what they loue they feemingly refufe. 
 Not to inftfl ought longer on the matter, 
 They deemd me worthy, if they did not flatter, 
 Of her 1 fu'd; So as without more flay, 
 Appointed was ihisfolemne Nuptiall day, 
 Sapp. Happy appointment ; 
 Dory. Sapphus/ajy notfo, 
 It rather was the fubiecl of my woe, 
 For hauing heard reported for a truth 
 She formerly had lou'd a dapper youth, 
 With whom fhe purposed euen in friends defpight, 
 To make a priuate fcape one winter night ; 
 I for a while thought to furceafe myfuit, 
 Till I heard further of this iealous bruit. 
 Tech. Why didfl thou fo ? Bellina had confented 
 To loue that youth, before you were acquainted. 
 Dory. Technis 'tis true ; But fome there were auer'd, 
 Though Tm refolu'd they in opinion err'd, 
 That thefe two were affide one to the other. 
 Sapp. What kindred then the match ? 
 Dory. Bellinas mother : 
 Who tender of tK aduancement of her childe, 
 And well perceiuing Crifpus to be wilde, 
 (For fo the youth was named) did withdraw 
 Bellina from him by imperious awe : 
 Which done, and he preuented of her daughter, 
 His Countrey left, he neuer fought her after. 
 Tech. I knew that Crifpus. 
 Dory. Then you knew a lad 
 Of feeming prefence, but he little had, 
 And that was caufe he grew in difefleeme. 
 Sap. Alas that want of meanes fhould make vs meane. 
 
 Dory. 
 
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 Dory. So did it fare with him; for to his praife 
 (Though with his tongue he wronged me many waies, 
 But tongues inur'd to tales are nere beleeu'd) 
 He had from Nature choicefl gifts receau'd, 
 Which might haue mou'd loue in a worthy creature, 
 If that his life had beene vnto his feature. 
 But promifing out-fides like the Panthers skin, 
 Though f aire without, are oft times foule within ; 
 But heauens, I hope, to mercy will receiue him, 
 His wrongs to me are buried ; fo I leaue him. 
 Corid. But admit Shepheard they had beene affide, 
 Shee might reuolt, it cannot be denide. 
 Dory. I grant fhe might ; and I confeffe there be 
 Some that haue done 't are greater farre than we : 
 But goodneffe is the marke, not height offlate 
 That meaner men by right Jhould imitate. 
 I might produce flore of examples here, 
 But left I Jhould be tedious, I forbeare, 
 What tragick Scenes from breach of faith are bred, 
 How it hath caused much guiltleffe bloud bejhed. 
 This caus'd me for a time to hold my hand, 
 To fee how all this bufineffe would fland, 
 And that I might my fancie better waine 
 From her I lorfd, to Troynouant I came. 
 Where I imploV d my felfe no little time 
 About occafions for a friend of mine : 
 For I did thinke to be from place remould, 
 Would make me foone forget the wench 1 lou'd. 
 Sap. / rather thinke it would thy loue renew ; 
 Dory. Sapphus it did ; and farre more rigour Jhew: 
 " For true it is, when louers goe to wooe, 
 " Each mitts as long as ten, each houre as two. 
 
 Whence 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 207 
 
 " Whence each true louer by experience proues 
 " Man is not where he Hues, but where he loues. 
 For what delight, as all delights were there, 
 Could my enthralled minde refrejh or cheere, 
 Wanting my Loue, whofe only fight could Jhow 
 More true content than all the world could doe ? 
 Yetflafd IJlill, expecting I Jhould heare, 
 How in my abfence,Jhe herfelfe did bear e, 
 And whether thqfefame rumours which I heard, 
 Were true orfalfe, as I found afterward. 
 Lin. How went they Dorycles ? 
 Dor. Howfdere they went 
 I found Bellina meerely innocent ; 
 Whence I i?2ferr''d, that many times we wrong them, 
 By caufeleffe laying falfe afperfions on them : 
 For I peceirfdjhe had beene wod'd by many, 
 But neuer yet affianced vnto any. 
 Coryd. Thrice happie Dorycles ! 
 Dor. Happie indeed, 
 Till worfe euents did afterwards fucceed. 
 Coryd. What fate? 
 
 Dor. Farre worfe than ere on Shepheard leight. 
 Tech. Exprejfe it Heardfman ; 
 Dor. So I purpofe flreight. 
 Hauing thus heard all rumours to be vaine, 
 I flreight refold d to returne backe againe 
 Into my Countrey : where I found my wench 
 The fame I left her when I came from thence ; 
 So as in brief e, fo happie was my filate, 
 I meant my marriage rites to confummate. 
 Which that they might be done more folemnly , 
 All our young Shepheards in a company, 
 
 Addrefl 
 
208 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Addrefs'd themfelues to grace that day ; befide 
 The choicejl Damfels to attend the Bride, 
 For to preuent occafion of delay, 
 Set downe on both fides was the Mariage day. 
 Tech. Me thinkes this cannot chufe but happen well; 
 Dory. Stay Technis heare, what afterwards befell ! 
 The Euen before that Ifhould maried be, 
 One came in all hafte and acquainted me 
 How Cacus that vnciuill loffell, would 
 Carry the befil Ram that I had to fold ; 
 Wherewith incens'd withouten further flay, 
 Going to tK fold I met him in the way : 
 Who of my Ram not onely me denide, 
 But vs'd me in difgracefull fort befide, 
 Which I diflafling, without more adoe 
 ReacKd my vnnurtur'd Cacus fuch a blow, 
 As he in heat of pafflon aymd his Crooke 
 lufl at my head to wound me with theflroake : 
 Which I rewarded, fo as by our men 
 Without more hurt we both were parted then. 
 But fcarce had Phoebus lodged in the Weft, 
 Till He, whofe fury would not let him reft, 
 Sent me a challenge fluffed with dif grace, 
 Length of his Weapon, Second, and the Place. 
 Dym. Then we mufl haue a field fought. 
 Dory. Without flay ; 
 I met him though it was my mariage day, 
 Though not on equall termes. 
 Tech. More fit V had bin 
 T' encounter' d with Bellina than with him. 
 Sapp. / would haue thought fo Technis ; 
 Lin. So would hee, 
 
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SHEPHEARDS TALES. 209 
 
 If he had beene refold d as hefhould be. 
 Dor. Shepheards 'tis true ; but now it is too late, 
 For to exclaime againfl relentleffe fate, 
 Whofe aduerfe hand preuented that delight, 
 Which louers reape in a blefl nuptiall night. (Swaine; 
 Cor. Thou mightfl with credit haue deferred it, 
 Dor. / know it, Corydon : but 'twas my aime 
 To right my reputation, which didfland 
 Engag'd, vnleffe I met him out a hand, 
 Which I performed, and with my Second too, 
 To beare me witneffe what I meant to doe. 
 Dym. And he performed the like ; 
 Dor. He vow'd he would, 
 Andfo indeed by Law of armes heflwuld, 
 But I perceiu'd his recreant fpirit fuch, 
 To fight on equall termes he thought too much : 
 Neere to Soranus caue there filands a groue, 
 Which Poets faine was consecrate to Loue, 
 Though then it feem'd to be transformed by fate, 
 From th' groue of Loue, vnto the graue of Hate ; 
 There we did meet : where he out of diflrufl, 
 Fearing the caufe he fought for was not iuft, 
 To fecond his iniurious acl, did bring 
 A rout of defperate rogues along with him, 
 Who lurking, kept together till we met, 
 And fo vpon aduantage me befet, 
 As fight or fall, there was no remedie, 
 Such was the height of Cacus villanie. 
 Tech. Who euer heard a more perfidious tricke ? 
 Dor. Tis true ; yet though my Second had been ficke, 
 And much enfeebled in his former fir ength, 
 We held them play, till haplefly at length, 
 
 P Through 
 
210 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Through violence of fury, from him fell 
 His lucklejfe weapon. 
 Dym. Oh I heare thee tell 
 A heauy Scene ! 
 
 Dor. Yes Dymnus hadfl thoufeene 
 How ourfhed bloud purpled the flowrie greene, 
 What crimj "on Jlreamlins flow 'd from either of vs, 
 Thou wouldfl haue pitied, though thou nere did loue vs: 
 For hauing fought fo long as we had breath, 
 Breathleffe we lay as Images of death, 
 Bereft offenfe or Motion. 
 Sap. 'Las for woe, 
 
 Any true Heardfman fhould be zfed fo. 
 Cor. What boundleffe forrowes were ye plunged in ! 
 Dor. Tis true ; and worfer farre had vfed bin, 
 Had not Dametas that well natur'd Swaine, 
 Repaired that inflant to our forlorne Plaine; 
 Who feeing vs, and in what flat e we were, 
 In due compaffion could not well forbeare 
 From Jhedding teares,fo foone as he had found 
 Our red-bath 'd Corpes faft glewed to the ground. 
 Oft did he reare our Bodies, hit in vaine, 
 For breathleffe they fell to the Earth againe; 
 Oft did he rub our temples to reflore 
 That vitall heat, which was fupprejl before : 
 But without hope of life, though life was there, 
 As Men of Earth, did we on Earth appeare. 
 At lafl affifled by a Swaine or two, 
 (See what the Prouidence of Heauen can doe) 
 We were conueyed to a Graunge hard by, 
 Whereto were Surgeons fent immediatly, 
 Whofe learned fkill drairid from experience, 
 
 Brought 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 211 
 
 Brought vs in time to haue a little fenfe 
 Of our endanger 'd flate. 
 Dym. But pray thee tell 
 Whofe hand exprejl mojl art ? 
 Dor. Graue Aftrophel, 
 
 Whofe knowne experiments of Art haue Jhowne 
 More noble cures of late on this our Downe, 
 Than all our Mountebank.es could euer doe, 
 For all thefe precious drugs they value fo. 
 Sap. Indeed I know He has much honour won 
 For his admired Cures ; good Shepheard on. 
 Dor. Hauing long languifh'd betwixt life and death, 
 Remould from thought of loue for want of breath, 
 As men we liu'd expos' to dangers Sconce. 
 Lin. Would not BeHina/"^ thee ? 
 Dor. Nere but once. 
 
 For hauing heard there was no way but one, 
 And that in all mens iudgements I was gone, 
 Sheeflraight refolues to finde a cure for care, 
 That if I liu'dfhe might haue one to f pare. 
 Tech. Why, madejhee choice of any but thy felfe ? 
 Dor. Yes Technis yes, and of a dwarfifh elfe, 
 Whom fhe prefer r' d, (though he could little pleaje). 
 Before herfirfl loue, haplejfe Doricles. 
 Tech. Inconflant Swainlin. 
 Dor. Hauing heard of this, 
 You may conceaue how grief e augmented is : 
 Iflraight depriu'd of hope, began to raue, 
 And would not take what my Phyfician gaue, 
 But f corning all prefcriptions valued death 
 Aboue a languifhing diflaflfull breath ; 
 Till by perfwafwn and recourfe of time 
 
 P2 Thofe 
 
212 SHEPHEARD S TALES. 
 
 Thofe braine-ficke paffions and effects of mine 
 
 Depreffed were : fg as vpon a day, 
 
 The burden of my forrowes to allay, 
 
 And to exprejfe the nature of my wrong, 
 
 I fet my hand to pen, and made a Song. 
 
 Dym. Good Dorycles let's heare what it may be, 
 
 It cannot but be good iff come from thee. 
 
 Dor. Shepheards you fhall ; and if you thinke it fit, 
 
 I lou'd her once, fhall be the Tune of it. 
 
 Tech. No Tune more proper ; to it louely Swaine. 
 
 Dor. Attend then Shepherds to my dolefull flraine. 
 
 THe fairefl faire that euer breath'd ayre, 
 Feeding her Lambkins on this Plaine ; 
 To whom though many did repaire, 
 I was efteem'd her deareft Swaine. 
 To me fhe vow'd, which vow fhe broke, 
 That fhe would fancie me or none, 
 But fince fhe has her Swaine forfooke, 
 I'le take me to a truer one. 
 
 Had fhe beene firme, as fhe was faire, 
 
 Or but perform'd what fhe had vow'd, 
 
 I might haue fung a fig for care, 
 
 And fafely fwum in fancies flood ; 
 
 But 6 the flaine of womanhood ! 
 
 Who breakes with one, keepes touch with none ; 
 
 Wherefore in hate to fuch a brood, 
 
 I'le take me to a truer one. 
 
 Was't not enough to breake her vow, 
 And quit my loue with fuch difdaine, 
 
 But 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 213 
 
 But fcornfully deride me too, 
 With fcoffes to gratifie my paine ? 
 But fmce my labours are in vaine, 
 lie fpend no more my time in mone, 
 But will my former loue difclaime, 
 And take me to a truer one. 
 
 Who euer liu'd and fhew'd more loue, 
 Or leffe expreft what fhe did mow ? 
 Who feeming firme fo falfe could proue, 
 Or vow fo much, and flight her vow ? 
 But fmce I doe her nature know, 
 I am right glad that fhe is gone ; 
 For if I (hoot in Cupids bow, 
 I'le take me to a truer one- 
 More faithleffe faire nere fpoke with tongue, 
 Or could proteft leffe what fhe thought ; 
 Nere Shepheard fuffer'd greater wrong, 
 Or for leffe profit euer wrought ; 
 But fmce my hopes are turn'd to nought, 
 May neuer Heardfman make his mone 
 To one whofe mold's in weakneffe wrought, 
 But take him to a truer one. 
 
 (thee ; 
 Cor. May all poore Swaines be henceforth wariid by 
 But didjl thou neuer fmce Bellina_/#? ? 
 Dor. Yes, and her louely fpoufe Archetus too, 
 
 Who feeing me (quoth he) There doth he goe, 
 
 Who on a time, as I enformed am, 
 
 Would lofe his Laffe before he lofl his Ram ; 
 
 Which I retorted, faying, I thought befl, 
 
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214 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 My butting Ram Jhould be his worjhips creft, 
 Whofe broad-fpread frontlets did pre/age what fate 
 Would infhort time attend his forked pate. 
 Sap. Thou hit him home my Dorycles ; but fay, 
 What f aid fhe to thee ? 
 Dor. Bit lip, and away ; 
 Though the next morne, my forrow to renew, 
 Shee fent a Willow wreath fafl bound with Rew, 
 Which I accepted, but that I might fhow 
 I neuer rue her breach of promife now, 
 The Rew that tyde my Wreath / threw afide, 
 And with Hearts eafe my Willow garland tyde. 
 Lin. A good exchange. 
 Dor. Now Shepheards you haue heard 
 My faithfull loue, and her vniufl reward ; 
 Did euer Swaine enioy the light of Sunne, 
 That bare fuch iniuries as I haue done ? 
 Tech. Indeed thy wounds were great ; 
 Dym. Yet mine as wide. 
 
 Dor. / mifl my Loue, and loft my bloud befide. 
 Dym. Sufpend thy iudgement, and thine eare incline 
 Vnto my Tale, and thou wilt yeeld to mine. 
 Coryd. Let's haue it Dymnus ; 
 Dym. Hear df man fo thou shalt, 
 Yet if I weep e, impute it to the fault 
 Of my furcharged heart, which flill appeares 
 The befl at eafe, when eyes arefulPfl of teares. 
 
 The 
 
The Argument. 
 
 Ymnus Palmira 
 Woes to be his Wife, 
 But Jhe had vowd 
 To Hue a Jingle life. 
 
 Thefecond Argument. 
 
 Ymnus with long looking dim, 
 Loues the wench that lotheth him ; 
 Price nor praier may not perfwade 
 To infringe the vow fhe made ; 
 
 Hauing meant to liue and die 
 
 VeftcCs virgin votarie. 
 
 Yet at laft fhe seemes to yeeld 
 
 To her loue-fick Swaine the field, 
 
 So that he will vndertake 
 
 Three yeares filence for her fake : 
 
 Which hard Pennance he receaues, 
 
 And performes the taske fhe craues. 
 
 But while he reftraines his tongue, 
 
 Shee pretends the time's too long : 
 
 Wherefore fhe doth entertaine 
 
 In her breaft another Swaine. 
 
 P 4 Dymnus 
 
216 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Dymnus hailing heard of this, 
 
 Hies to th' place where th' marriage is, 
 
 Purpofmg to make a breach 
 
 By dumbe fignes, though want of speech : 
 
 But alas they all command him 
 
 Silence, caufe none vnderftand him. 
 
 Thus he fuffers double wrong, 
 
 Lofle of wench, and loffe of tongue. 
 
 For till three yeares were expir'd, 
 
 He nere fpoke what he defir'd, 
 
 All which time confum'd in dolour, 
 
 He difplayes her in her colour ; 
 
 And concluding, wifheth no man 
 
 Lofe his tongue to gaine a woman : 
 
 And to cheere his penfiue heart, 
 
 With a Song they end this part, 
 
 THE THIRD EGLOGVE. 
 
 Dymnus tale. 
 
 Pon a time while I did Hue on Teefe, 
 Imadelouetoawench my friends topleafe, 
 But (as my fate wasfiill) it would not be, 
 Forwooelknew not how, nomorethanfhe: 
 Yet I can well remember this Jhe faid, 
 For ought Jhe knew, Jhe meant to die a Maid, 
 A Veftall Virgin, or a Votareffe, 
 A cloyfler'd Nun, or holy Prioreffe; 
 To which I anfwer'd, ift were her defire 
 To be a Nun, / meant to turne a Frier, 
 So might it chance that we againejhould meet, 
 Where th? Nun and Frier might play at Barly-breake. 
 
 Cor. 
 
SHEP HEARD S TALES. 217 
 
 Cor. Where liu'd thy Loue ? 
 
 Dym. Neere th' bottome of the hill, 
 
 Betweene Pancarpus temple and the mill, 
 
 There liu'd my f aire Palmira, who J fay, 
 
 'Mongst all our wenches bore th Palme away : 
 
 And her I lou'd and Iffld, and f rid and fought, 
 
 But all my loue and labour turrid to nought ■;' . 
 
 Forfhe had vow'd which vow fhould nere be broke, 
 
 Shee'd die a Maid, but meant not asfhefpoke. 
 
 Dor. No Dymnus, no, the niceft fure I am, 
 
 Would Hue a Maid ift were not for a man ; 
 
 But there is none of them can brookefo well, 
 
 To be a Beareward and leade Apes in Hell. 
 
 Dym. True Dorycles, for in procejfe of time, 
 
 I found her maiden humour to decline : 
 
 Forfhe did grant the boone which I did aske, 
 
 Vpon condition of a greater taske. 
 
 Lin. What heauie cenfure might this taske afford ? 
 
 Dym. That f 07 three yeeres I fhould notfpeakea word. 
 
 Cor. Alas poore Swaine, this taske which fhe prepar'd, 
 
 In all my time the like was neuer heard. 
 
 Dor. But this fame filent taske had harder bin, 
 
 If Jhe had prou'd what fhe enioyned him : 
 
 For none can doe a woman greater wrong, 
 
 Than barre her from a priuiledge of tongue. 
 
 Sap. A womans tongue's a clapper in the winde, 
 
 Which once afoot, can neuer be confinde; 
 
 But to thy taske, good Dymnus. 
 
 Dym. To proceed, 
 
 What fhe enioyrid I did performe indeed : 
 
 For I appeared as one depriu'd of fpeech, 
 
 Yet nere my friends vnto my aimes could reach ; 
 
 But 
 
218 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 But much lamented that a Swainefo young, 
 And promifing, fhould lofe his vfe of tongue. 
 Tech. / wonder how thou could expreffe thy minde ! 
 Dym. Onely by dumbe fignes,fo as I did finde 
 Within Jhort time, a great facilitie 
 In that hard taske which Jhe hnpqfed me. 
 Lin. Hardeji aduentures oft the eafiefl feeme, 
 Only for loue offuch inioined them. (eafe 
 
 Dym. And fuch were mine ; when others talk 'd with 
 Of this and that, I euer held my peace ; 
 Others fung Carols of their fairefl f aire, 
 But I infdent meafures had afliare; 
 Others dij tours' d of pleafures of the time, 
 And I approu'd them with a fecret figne. 
 Others could court, as Shepheards vfe to doe, 
 Which I could doe as well, but durfl notfhow : 
 For all my aymes and purpofes did tend 
 To gaine my Loue, and for no other end. 
 Cor. Did not performance of this taske obtaine 
 That prize of loue which thou defir'd to gaine ? 
 Dym. No Cory don ; for though I did obey, 
 Shee thought three yeares too long a time to flay, 
 So as her dumbe knight fhe didflraight difclaime, 
 And tooke herfelfe vnto another Swaine. 
 Sap. Difloyall wench ! 
 Dym. Yet 'las what remedie ; 
 A mariage is intended folemnlie : 
 Which that it might more priuatly be caried, 
 In a retyred Cell they mujl be maried. 
 Tech. Vnhappy Swaine ! 
 Dym. So did I then appeare : 
 For when the mariage came vnto my eare, 
 
 I 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 219 
 
 IJiraight repaired to th' Cell right fpeedily ; 
 Where thefefad rites folemniz' 'd were to be. 
 Straite was the Gate kept by a Porter grim, 
 Who guards the doore that nonejhould enter in : 
 But I, as time required, refolu'd to venter, 
 Did boldly knock, and knocking freely enter ; 
 Where entring in, each cajis his eye about, 
 Some full of fear e, as others were of doubt, 
 What my approach Jhould meane ; but to be brief e, 
 (Short tales feeme long that doe renue our grief e ) 
 The Priejl pronouncing, iuflly as I came, 
 Who giues her to be maried to this man ? 
 I rujftd into the croud, their hands to breake, 
 And gladly would haue fpoke but durft not fpeake : 
 A t which attempt, fome Jlrange conflruclions had, 
 And verily imagined I was mad ; 
 Others fufpecling what 1 did intend, 
 Thought that my aymes were to no other end, 
 Than to preuent the Mariage for that time, 
 And afterwards perfwade her to be mine. 
 Nor were their iudgements erring, for I thought 
 By my deuice to haue this Proiecl wrought 
 Only by dumbe fignes : fometimes would IJhow 
 With eyes heau'd vp to Heauen her breach of vow ; 
 Sometimes in violent manner would I feeme 
 As if through loue I had dijlracted beene, 
 Pulling my deare Palmira from his hand, 
 Who to receiue her for his Spoufe didjland. 
 Sometimes, as Men in forrowes plunged deepe 
 And could not vtter them, I 'gan to weepe, 
 And wajh the Temple with a brinie flood, 
 Yet all this while I was not vnderflood : 
 
 For 
 
220 SHEP HEARDS TALES. 
 
 For in defpite of all that I could doe, 
 I was reflrairfd, andjhe was married too. 
 Cor. What dif content might equall this of thine ? 
 Dym. Yet though I bore itjharplyfor the time, 
 I afterwards, and haue done euer fince, 
 Borne this dif grace with greater patience. (end ! 
 Lin. Yet Dymnus thou wafl dumbe till three yeeres 
 Dym. Yes Linus, and as truly did intend 
 Whatjhe enioyned me, as I defied 
 To marrie her, when thofe three yeeres expired : 
 Which comne and pafl, I then exprefl my grief e, 
 Finding apt words to tender me relief e ; 
 " For woes doe labour of too great a birth, 
 " That want the helpe of words tofet them forth. 
 Tech. But didfl thou nere dif play her hatefulljhame ? 
 Dym. In generall I did, but not by name, 
 Nor euer will : my purpofe is to Hue 
 And laugh at loue, and no occafion giue 
 Of iufl offence to her or any one, 
 Or fdently confume my time in mone, 
 Frequenting fhadie Lawnes in dif content, 
 Or to the Ay re my fruitlejfe clamors vent. 
 Though I refolue, if ere I make my choice, 
 In better fort and meafure to rejoyce 
 Than I haue done ; 
 Dor. Or elf e Fine fure thy Jhare 
 Though it decreafe in ioy, will grow in care. 
 Dym. I know it will : Now as my wrong was great, 
 And greater farre than I could well repeat, 
 Thisjhall be my Conclusion ; There is no Man 
 Wife that will lofe his tongue for any Woman : 
 For fure I am that they will be more prone 
 
 (Such 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 221 
 
 (Such is their guize) to triumph ouer one 
 When they haue drawne him headlong to their traine, 
 Thanfuch as on more firmer grounds remaine. 
 " Fly Women, they will follow (Jlillfay I) 
 " But if ye follow women, they will fly. 
 Tech. Rightly opinion 'd Dymnus ; but f allay 
 Thy grounded grief e, and to conclude the day, 
 Let's haue a Song. 
 Dor. Technis with all my heart. 
 Dym. Though I'uefmal mind tofing, L'le beare apart. 
 Cor. And you too Sapphus. 
 Sap. Yes, and Linus too, 
 Lin. Yes, L my Art among ft the reft will Jhow. 
 Dor. To it then freely : fafelyfing may we, 
 Who haue beeneftaues to Loue, but now are free. 
 
 Tech. *"T"*Ell me Loue what thou canft doe ? 
 
 Dor. J_ Triumph ore a fimple Swaine ; 
 
 Dym. Binding him to fuch a vow ; 
 
 Cor. As to make his griefe thy gaine. 
 
 Sap. Doe thy worft thou canft doe now ; 
 
 Lin. Thou haft fhot at vs in vaine. 
 
 All. For we are free, though we did once complain. 
 
 Dor. Free we are as is the ayre ; 
 
 Tech. Or the filuer-murm'ring fpring. 
 
 Dym. Free from thought or reach of care ; 
 
 Cor. Which doe hapleffe Louers wring. 
 
 Sap. Now we may with ioy repaire ; 
 
 Lin. To our gladfome Plaines and fmg ; 
 
 All. And laugh at Loue, and call't an idle thing. 
 
 Dym. 
 
222 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Dym. Sport we may and feede our Sheepe, 
 
 Dor. And our Lamkins on this Downe ; 
 
 Tech. Eat and drinke, and foundly fleepe, 
 
 Cor. Since thefe ftormes are ouer-blowne ; 
 
 Sap. Whilft afflicted wretches weepe, 
 
 Lin. That by loue are ouerthrowne : 
 
 All. For now we laugh at follies we haue knowne. 
 
 Cor. Here we reft vpon thefe rocks ; 
 
 Dym. Round with fhadie luy wreath'd ; 
 
 Dor. Ioying in our woolly flocks ; 
 
 Tech. On thefe Mountaines freely breath'd ; 
 
 Sap. Where though clad in ruffet frocks, 
 
 Lin. Here we fport where we are heath'd ; 
 
 All. Our only care to fee our Paftures freath'd. 
 
 Sap. Thus we may retire in peace ; 
 
 Cor. And though low, yet more fecure, 
 
 Dym. Then thofe Men which higher preafe ; 
 
 Dor. Shrubs than Cedars are more hire : 
 
 Tech. And they hue at farre more eafe, 
 
 Lin. Finding for each care a cure. 
 
 All. Their loue as deare and liker to endure. 
 
 Lin. For wherein confifts earths bliffe, 
 
 Sap. But in hauing what is fit ? 
 
 Cor. Which though greater men doe miffe ; 
 
 Dym. Homely Swaines oft light of it. 
 
 Dor. For who's he that liuing is, 
 
 Tech. That in higher place doth fit, 
 
 All. Whofe fly Ambition would not higher git. 
 
 Tech. 
 
SHEPHEARD S TALES. 223 
 
 Tech. Let vs then contented be, 
 
 Dor. In the portion we enioy • 
 
 Cor. And while we doe others fee, 
 
 Sap. Tofs'd with gufts of all annoy ; 
 
 Dym. Let vs fay this feele not we : 
 
 Lin. Be our wenches kinde or coy, 
 
 All. We count their frownes and fauours but a toy. 
 
 Dor. Lefs now retire, it drawes to Euening time, 
 Next Tale my Corydon, it mujl be thine. 
 Tech. Which may be done next day we hither come, 
 Meane time, lefs fold our flocks and hye vs home. 
 
 A 
 
224 
 
 A Paftorall Palinod. 
 
 THefe Swains like dying Swans hauefung their lafl, 
 And ioy in thinking of thofe woes are pajl ; 
 For woes once pafl, like pleafing paflimes feeme, 
 And ioy vs more than if they had not beene. (Plaines, 
 Such Layes become thefe Launes, fuch Plaints thefe 
 " Great men may higher haue, no heuier flraines ; 
 For Swains their Swainlins loue, and wooe them too, 
 And doe as much as brauer outfides doe. 
 But Heardfmen are retired from their fhade 
 Of Myrtle fprayes and f prigs of Ofyer made, 
 With purpofe to reuifit you to morrow, 
 Where other three fhall giue new life to forrow: 
 Meane time repofe, left when the Swaine appeares, 
 You fall afleepe when you fhould flow with teares. 
 
 FINIS 
 
THE 
 
 SHEPHEARDS 
 
 TALES. 
 
 Too truepoore fhepheards do this Prouerbe find, 
 Nofooner out of fight then out of mind. 
 
 [the second part.] 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for Richard Whitaker. 
 
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HIS PASTORALLS 
 
 ARE HERE CONTINVED 
 
 WITH THREE OTHER TALES; 
 
 hauing relation to a former part, as yet ob- 
 
 fcured : and deuided into certaine Paftorall 
 
 Eglogues, fhadowing much delight 
 
 vnder a rurall fubiect. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 Ere Corydon ftroues, 
 That nothing can befent, 
 To crojfe loue more, 
 The friends vnkind rejlraint. 
 
 Thefecond Arg^Lment. 
 
 Orydon coy Celia woes, 
 And his loue by tokens fhowes. 
 Tokens are thofe lures, that find 
 Belt acceffe to woman kind. 
 Long he woes ere he can win ■ 
 
 R Yet 
 
226 THE II. ARGVMENT. 
 
 Yet at laft me fancieth him : 
 
 And fo firme, as you mall heare, 
 
 Each to other troth-plight were ; 
 
 But alas, where loue is moll, 
 
 There it oft-times mofl is croft. 
 
 For thefe two are clofly pent, 
 
 Each from other by reftraint ; 
 
 He, vnto the plaine muft go, 
 
 Loue-ficke, heart-ficke, full of wo, 
 
 Where he fings fuch chearefull laye% 
 
 In his chaft choife, Celias praife, 
 
 That fteepe mountaines, rocks and plaines, 
 
 Seeme entranced with his ftraines : 
 
 But alas, while he does keepe, 
 
 Helpleffe fhepheard, hapleffe fheepe, 
 
 Celia for to feeke her make, 
 
 From her keeper makes efcape, 
 
 And vnto the mountaine goes, 
 
 Where her felfe, her felfe doth lofe ; 
 
 While one of Lauemdes crew, 
 
 Seizeth on her as his dew, 
 
 Where by force, by awe, by feare, 
 
 She was long detained there, 
 
 And in the end affianc'd fo, 
 
 As fhe ends her life in wo. 
 
 THE 
 
THE SHEPHEARDS 
 
 TALES. 
 
 The fhep hear ds. 
 Technis. Dymnus. Dorycles.. 
 Corydon. Sapphus. Linus.. 
 
 THE FIRST EGLOGYE.. 
 Corydons tale. 
 
 Ay Jhepheards flay, there is no haft but 
 good, 
 
 We three are Jhepheards, and haue vnder- 
 ftood 
 
 Both of your follies and your fancies too p 
 Dor. Why tell vs Corydon, what thou wouldft do ! 
 Cor. Shew my misfortune Swaines, as you haue done,, 
 Tech. Deferre it till to morrow Corydon. 
 Cor. No, Technis no, I cannot if I would, 
 You'ue told your grief es, and now mine mufl be told : 
 What though the Sunne be drawing to the Weft, 
 Where he intends to take Ms wonted reft, 
 Tis Moone-light (lads) and if it were not light,. 
 Welcome you are to lodge with me all night. 
 Dor. Thankes Corydon. 
 Cor. Why thanke you Corydon? 
 Simple and meane's the cottage where I won,. 
 Yet well I wot, for cheftnuts, cakes, and creame,. 
 Ifyou'le accept my welcome as I meane,. 
 Youfhall not want, but haue fufficient ftore,. 
 With hearty welcome fw aims, what would ye more 't 
 Dym. More Corydon ! t'is all that we can wifh,. 
 But to thy tale, let's heare now what it is. 
 Dor. Yes, do good Corydon ; and we will flay ; 
 
 R 2 Cor;. 
 
228 SHEP HEARDS TALES. 
 
 Cor. Attend then fhepheards, heare what I Jhall fay. 
 Sap. And when you'ue done, I will begin with mine; 
 Lin. Which Fie continue in the euening time. 
 Cor. Well f aid, good fhepheards, we are iuftly three, 
 To anfwer their three tales, and here for me. 
 There was a Maid, and well might fhe be f aid, 
 So chafl,fo choice flie was, to be a Maid, 
 Where lillie white mixt with a cherrie red, 
 Such admiration in the fhepheards bred, 
 As well was he that might but haue a fight 
 Of her rare beauty mirror of delight. 
 Oft would fhe come vnto a filuer fpring, 
 Which neare her fathers houfe was neighboring, 
 Where fhe would eye her f elf e as fhe did paffe, 
 For fhepheards vfe no other looking-glaffe. 
 Tech. True Corydon. 
 Cor. But which may feeme more rare, 
 This ~M.aid.Jhe was as wife as fhe was f aire ; 
 So as difcretion did fo moderate 
 Thefafe condition of her low ejlate, 
 As enuie neuer wronged her fpotleffe name, 
 Or foild her matchleffe honour with defame. 
 Dor. Vnder a happie Planet fhe was borne, 
 Cor. She was indeed ; nor did fhe euer fcorne, 
 The company of any country maid, 
 How meane foere or fluttifhly araid : 
 But fhe would be their play-fare, to make chufe, 
 Of fuch poore fimple f ports as wenches vfe. 
 Yea in their wakes, fiiroues, waff el-cups, or tides, 
 Or Whitfon-ales, or where the coicntry brides 
 Chufe out their bride-maids, as the cuftome is, 
 She field or neare was fieene to do amifife : 
 Butfio refipecliue ofi her name and fame, 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 229 
 
 That though Jhe blu/ht,Jhe neuer blujht for Jhame 
 
 Of any acl immodefl, but retained 
 
 That good opinion which her vertues gained. 
 
 Dym. Sure Corydon this was a Saintly woman ; 
 
 Cor. Indeed ' fuch Saints 'mongjl women are not comon: 
 
 But to myfiory ; her did many fwaine, 
 
 By fruitlejfe fuite endeuour to oblaine, 
 
 As young Spudippus, rich Archymorus, 
 
 Acliue Amintas, youthfull Hirfius. 
 
 Dor. Itfeemesfh'ad choice. 
 
 Cor. Yes Dorycles, fhe had : 
 
 Andfome of thefe were good, andfome as bad, 
 
 But neither good nor bad, nor rich nor poor e, 
 
 Could her content, though fhe had daily Jlore. 
 
 Yet from Pandoras box did nere proceed, 
 
 More hatefull poyfon vpon humane feed, 
 
 Then from thefe forlorne louers, whofe report, 
 
 (But iuft is heauen, for they were plagued for' 1 1,) 
 
 Afpers'd this fcandall on fair e Celia, 
 
 That fhe had made her choice fome other way. 
 
 Tech. Vnworthy louers. 
 
 Cor. True indeed, they be 
 
 Vnworthy tK loue of fuch an one as fhe ; 
 
 For Linus you do know them ; 
 
 Lin. Yes, I do, 
 
 But fpecially Spudippus, whom I know, 
 
 To be the notedfl cot-queane that's about him. 
 
 Tec. Sure Linus the fhe could not chufe but flout him. 
 
 Cor. Perhaps fhe did, yet with that mode/lie, 
 
 As fhe didfhadow it fo couertly, 
 
 That he could fcarce difcouer what fhe ment. 
 
 Lin. How ere Spudippus would be patient. 
 
 R 3 Dor. 
 
230 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Dor. Then he 's fome gull. 
 Lin. No he's a wealthy man, 
 Andfuch an one as rightly, Jure I am, 
 Knows how much milke crummock his cow willgiue, 
 And can difcerne a riddle from a fiue. 
 Cor. Linus, itfeemes thou knowes him pajjing well. 
 Lin. Las if I would, fome flories L could tell, 
 Would make you laugh : for as it chanc'd one day, 
 Some with my felfe did take his houfe by lh' way, 
 Where we an houre or two meant to remaine, 
 To trie how he his friends would entertaine. 
 Dor. And pray thee how ? 
 Lin. Tie tell thee Dorycles : 
 Hauing an houre or two taken our eafe, 
 And readie to depart (I pray thee heare) 
 He fent one of his Scullerie for fome beare, 
 Which though longfirfl, came in an earthen cup, 
 Which being giuen to me, L drunke it vp ; 
 Which drunke. 
 
 Cor. How then good Linus, pray thee fay ? 
 Lin. The reft were fore 'd to go a thirft away. 
 Dor. Had he no more ? 
 Cor. Thou vs'd him in his kind. 
 Lin. May all be vfedfo that haue his mind. 
 But much Lfeare me, Tue difturbed thee, 
 Now Coxydon fhew what th'euent may be ! 
 Cor. Long did thefe woe, but Celia could approue 
 Of nothing lejfe then of thefe fwainlings loue, 
 Yet would fhe faine to fancie one of thefe, 
 Whereby fhe might her bedrid father pleafe. 
 Tech. Had fhe a father ? 
 Cor. Yes, a furly Lout, 
 
 Who 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 231 
 
 Who long had laine decrepit with the gout, 
 
 And liu'dfor all the world, andfo did die 
 
 Like to a hog, that's pent vp in a ftie. 
 
 Dor. Some cancred erwig. 
 
 Cor. True, a very elfe, 
 
 Who cat J d not who ftarii 'd, fo he fed himfelfe. 
 
 He, as the want of one fenfe is expreft, 
 
 By giuing more perfedion to the reft, 
 
 For euen his fenfe 0/" feeling did decline. 
 
 Though he had bene a nigglar in his time, 
 
 Yea all thofe mouing, alliue faculties, 
 
 Which in the heate of youth are ivont to rife, 
 
 Gaue way vnto fufpition, left his daughter 
 
 Through thofe loue-luring gifts which many brought 
 
 Should fet her Maiden honor at whole f ale. (her, 
 
 Tech. Age Has an eare indeed for euery tale. 
 
 Cor. True, Technis true, for no affeclion can 
 
 Haue more predominance ore any man, 
 
 Then iealoufie a felfe-confuming rage, 
 
 Lsfaid to haue ore men of doting age. 
 
 Dor. Thy reafon Corydon ? 
 
 Cor. That difefteeme 
 
 Of being now more weake then they haue bene, 
 
 Makes them repine at others now that may, 
 
 And are as able to beget as they. 
 
 Tech. Tis rightly noted Corydon. 
 
 Lin. Yes, he 
 
 Knowes by obferuance whence thefe humors be, 
 
 Cor. Linus / do, and better had Lbene, 
 
 Lf 1 had neuer knowne what thefe things meane ; 
 
 But fhepheards youfhall heare the reafon, why 
 
 LJhould this Dotards humour thus defcrie. 
 
 R 4 Sap. 
 
232 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Sap. Yes, do good Swaine. 
 
 Cor. // chanced vpon a night, (bright, 
 
 A Moone-light night, when Moone and flarres fhine 
 That I with other Jhepheards did repaire 
 To M'old-mans houfe, and found f aire Celia there, 
 Whom I in curtfie with a kind falute, 
 Kift, 6° with f peaking heart though tongue was mute, 
 WiJKd, 6 what wifhes do poffeffe a mind, 
 That dare not vtter how his heart's inclind ! 
 She might be mine, thrice bleji in being mine. 
 Dor. Why didji not woe her Swaine, for to be thine! 
 Cor. Yes Dorycles / woed her, though not then, 
 For Maidens they are bajhfull amongfi men, 
 And dare not well in modeflie impart, 
 What they could giue confent to with their heart ; 
 So as to tell thee truly Dorycles, 
 We pafl that night in making purpofes, 
 Singing of catches, withfuch knowne delights. 
 As young folke vfe to paffe ore winter nights. 
 And at that time, I may be bold to tell thee, 
 For fuch conceits I thought none could excell me. 
 For well you know, I was in Hyble bred, 
 And by the f acred fitters nourijhed, 
 So as being flor 'd by Nature, helfd by art, 
 There was noflraine I bore not in fome part : 
 Which gauefaire Celia fuch entire content, 
 Asfhe difcouerd after, what Jhe ment. 
 Though I may fweare, forfiue months I came to her, 
 And with fome termes of art affaid to woe her : 
 During which time, all th'anfwer I could get, 
 Was this; fhe did not meane to marrie yet. 
 Tech. That's all the anfwer thefe young women haue, 
 
 While 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 233 
 
 While they reiecl what after they receiue. 
 Cor. Technis, indeed I did perceiue as much, 
 Though all young wenches humours be notfuch : 
 But th 'great 'eft caufe of Celias diftafle, 
 Which made me many times the leffer grac't, 
 Proceeded from that chrone her dogged father, 
 As after by conieclures I did gather : 
 Perf wading her, that Jhe ftwuld plant her loue 
 On fuch whofe hopefull meanes might beft approue 
 Her difcreet choice : and that was not to be 
 Affianced to fuch an one as me. (faith, 
 
 Dor. Alas poore Swaine ; His true what tft Prouerbe 
 We aske not what he is, but what he hath. 
 Cor. And yet perfwafions which her father vs'd, 
 Could not preuaile with her, for Jhe had chus'd, 
 In heart I meane. 
 Tech. Whom didJJie dote vpon ? 
 Cor. Will ye beleeue me ! 
 Tech. Yes. 
 Cor. Twas Corydon. 
 Lin. Thrice happie fwaine. 
 Cor. Thrice happie had I bene, 
 If I had flept ftill in this golden dreame ; 
 But aftenvards occurrences there were, 
 Which thus abridged my hopes, as youjhall heare. 
 Such deepe impreffion had affeclion made, 
 As there remained nothing vnaffaid, 
 To confummate our wifhes, but the rite. 
 Tech. Yes fomething elfe. 
 Cor. What Technis ! 
 Tech. Marriage night. 
 Sap. They had enioyed that, you may fuppofe. 
 
 Cor. 
 
234 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Cor. No, Sapphus no,Jhe was not one ofthofe: 
 So modefil, chajl, refpecliue of her name, 
 Pure and demure, as Wfweetneffe of her fame, 
 Aboue the choifefl odors that are fent 
 Frotnfpicie Tmolus flowrie continent, 
 Sent forth that fragrant and delightfull fauour, 
 As none ere heard, and did notfeeke to haue her. 
 Forfundrie choife difcourfes haue we had, 
 And I nere knew that ought could make her glad, 
 Which had leafl tafle of lightnejfe. 
 Tech. Sure thou art, 
 So much thy praifes relifh true defert, 
 Worthy fuch vertuous beautie. 
 Cor. Technis no, 
 Albeit Celia efleenid me fo, 
 As long and tedious feem! d that day to be, 
 Which did deuide her from my companie. 
 So as in fdent groues andfhady launes, 
 Where Siluans, water-nimphs, fairies, and faunes, 
 Vfe to frequent, there would we fit and fing, 
 Eying our beauties in a neighbour fpring, 
 Whofe filuer flreamlings with f oft murmring noife, 
 To make our confort perfecl, gaue their voice. 
 And long did we obferue this cuflome too, 
 Though her confent did bid me ceaffe to woe : 
 For now I was no woer, but her loue, 
 And that fo firmely linkt, as nought could moue, 
 Alter or funder our vnited hearts, 
 But meagre death, which all true loners parts. 
 Tech. Then Corydon, to me it doth appeare, 
 That you were troth-plight. 
 Cor. Technis fo we were. 
 
 But 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 235 
 
 But fee (goodfhepheards) what fucceeded hence : 
 This louejhe bore me did her fire incenfe, 
 So as difcurteoufly he pent his daughter 
 Infuch a vault, I could not fee her after. 
 Which when my friends perceiu 'd, they grieued were, 
 That th' loue which I his Celia did beare, 
 Should be rewarded with contempt and fcorne, 
 Being for parentage equally borne, 
 With befl of his, as mofl of you can tell. 
 Lin. Proceed good Corydon, we know it well. 
 Cor. For was I not of Polyarchus line, 
 A noble fhepheard ! 
 Sap. True, who in his time 
 Solemniz'd many wakes on this our downe, 
 And ere he dide was to that hoiwur growne, 
 As all our plaines refounded with his laies, 
 Sung by our Swaines in Polyarchus praife. 
 Cor. It feemes thou knew him Sapphus : but attend 
 For now myflorie draweth neare an end. 
 My friends diflafling this repulfe of mine, 
 Forced me from tK courfe whereto I did incline : 
 So as my hopes confined, Pme driuen to go 
 From Adons vale vnto a mount of wo. 
 Lin. Vnhappie fhepheard. 
 Cor. And vnhappie fheepe, 
 For ill could I my heards from worrying keepe, 
 Though to that charge my friends enioyned me, 
 When I could scarcely keepe my owne hands free, 
 From doing violence vpon my felfe : 
 So as one day vpon a ragged fhelfe, 
 WreatKd round with Iuie, as I fate alone, 
 Defcanting Odes offorrow and of mone, 
 
 I 
 
236 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 I chanc'd on my mijhap to meditate, 
 
 Celias reflraint, and my forlome ejlate ; 
 
 Which done, I vow'd if fpeedy remedy 
 
 Gaue no reliefe vnto my maladie, 
 
 That very cliff where I repos'd that day, 
 
 Should be the meanes to take my life away. 
 
 Tech. O Corydon this foundeth of defpaire. 
 
 Cor. 7/ does indeed : but fuch a watchfull care, 
 
 Had gracious Pan of me, that injhort time, 
 
 Thefe motiues to defpaire 'gan to decline, 
 
 And lofe their force : fo as when grief es gretv ripe, 
 
 I vs'd to take me to my oaten pipe. 
 
 Dor. But ere thou proceed further, tell vs Swaine, 
 
 Where all this time thou vfed to remaine. 
 
 Cor. A broad-fpread oake with aged amies 6° old, 
 
 Directs the paffenger the way he would, 
 
 Neare Cadmus rifing hillocks, where thefpring 
 
 Of golden Tagus vfeth oft to bring 
 
 Such precious trafficke to the neighbour Jhore. 
 
 As former times through blindneffe did adore 
 
 Thofe curled flreames, wherein they did defcry 
 
 Their loue to gold, by their Idolatrie : 
 
 Thatjhady oake I fay, and that blefl fpring, 
 
 In my diflreffe, gaue me fuch harboring ; 
 
 As night and day I did not thence remoue, 
 
 But waking mus'd, andfleeping dream'd of loue. 
 
 Tech. Who euer heard the like ! 
 
 Dor. How did/l thou Hue ? 
 
 Cor. On hope. 
 
 Tech. Weake food. 
 
 Cor. Yet did it comfort giue, 
 
 To my afflicled mind, which did defire, 
 
 Euer 
 
SHEPHE ARDS TALES. 237 
 
 Euer tofmge her wings in fancies fire. 
 For many weekes in this dijirejl ejiate, 
 Wretched, forlorne, helpleffe and defolate, 
 Sate I deiecled, mufing on defpaire, 
 And when thofe drerie clouds would once grow f aire : 
 But las the more I did expecl relief e, 
 The lejfe hope had I to allay my grief e, 
 So as in tK end, as you Jhall after heare, 
 All meanes for my redrejfe abridged were. 
 But that you may perceiue what loue can do } 
 And how effectually her paffions fhow, 
 I who before I louely Celia kent, 
 Knew not what tK Heliconian Mufes ment, 
 Addrefl myfelfe ; 
 Lin. To what good Cory don ? 
 Cor. To write of loue, and thus my Mufe begun. 
 Tech. Pray thee kind Swaine let's heare what thou 
 
 didfl write. 
 Dor. Yes do : for well 1 know it will delight 
 S\K\epheards to heare, of fhepheards amorous toyes ; 
 Sap. On then good Corydon. 
 Cor. Haue at ye Boyes. 
 
 Celia fpeake, or I am dombe, 
 
 Here I'le foiorne till thou come, 
 
 Seeke I will till I grow blind, 
 
 Till I may my Celia find. 
 
 For if tongue-tide, firing would breake, 
 
 If I heard but Celia fpeake ; 
 
 And if blind, I foone mould fee, 
 
 Had I but a fight of thee ; 
 
 Or if lame, loue would find feete, 
 
 Might I once with Celia meete ; 
 
 Or 
 
238 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Or if deafe, ihould I but heare 
 
 Loues fweete accents from thy eare : 
 
 Thy choice notes would me reftore, 
 
 That I mould be deafe no more. 
 
 Thus though dombe, blind, deafe, and lame, 
 
 Heard I but my Celias name, 
 
 I mould fpeake, fee, heare, and go, 
 
 Vowing, Celia made me fo. 
 Tech. Befhrow me Corydon, if I had thought, 
 That loue fuchflrange effecls could ere haue wrought. 
 Cor. Yes Technis, jy^y, loue'sfuch a wondrous thing, 
 That it will make one plungd in forrow fing, 
 And finging weepe, for grief e is wont to borrow 
 Some flrains of ioy, that ioy might end in forrow. 
 For what is woe (as we mufi needs confeffe it) 
 Hauing both tongue and teares for to expreffe it, 
 But a beguiling grief e, whofe nature 's fuch, 
 It can forget, left it fhould grieue too much. 
 Dor. Indeed fuch forrow feldome lafleth long, 
 But fay good Swaine, heard Celia of thyfong ? 
 Cor. I know not, Dorycles : but twas her lot, 
 That from her keeper afterwards fhe got. 
 Tech. Happie efcape. 
 Cor. Ah Technis, fay not fo, 
 For this efcape gaue new increafe to wo ; 
 Lin. How could that be ? 
 Cor. Heare but what did enfue, 
 She was preuented by a ruffin-crue, 
 As fhe vpon the mountaines ronHd about, 
 Through defart caues to find herfhepheard out. 
 Tech. Alas poore wench; what were they Corydon ? 
 Cor. Such as did haunt there, and did Hue vpon 
 
 Rapine 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 239 
 
 Rapine and violence, triumphing in 
 Impunitie, fole motiue vntofm. 
 In brief e, they were, forfo they did prof effe, 
 Ofbraue Lauerna'es crue, that patroneffe 
 Of all dif order, and each euening time 
 Offer' 'd flolne booties to her godleffe Jhrine. 
 Tech. Mifhap aboue mijhaps. 
 Cor. True, fo it was ; 
 My laffejhe loft her lad, the lad his laffe. 
 Andfundry dales, this rout did her detaine, 
 While hapleffe, helpleffejhe did fore eomplaine 
 Of their inhumane vfage, but her griefe, 
 Sighs, fobs, teares, throbs, could yeeld her f mall reliefe: 
 For in the end one of this forlorne crew, 
 Seiz'd on my long-lotfd Celia as his dew 7 
 To whom efpoufd whether Jhe would or no, 
 She ends her life, her tedious life, in wo, 
 Lin. Afadeuent: but can Jhe not be freed '? 
 Cor. To what end Linus, fhe's difhonoured ! 
 Tech. Vnhappie fate. 
 Cor. Befides,Jhe now is tide, 
 And by enforcement, made anothers Bride. 
 Come Jhepheards come, and fay if euer time, 
 Made heardmens woes fo ripe, as't hath done mine. 
 Sap. Yes Corydon, though thou thy griefes haft 
 
 Jhowne, 
 Which makes thee thinke none equall to thine owne, 
 I haue a Tale will moue companion too, 
 If Swaines haue any pittie. 
 Dym. Pray thee how ? 
 Sap. Nay I will not be daintie ; but attend, 
 And then compare ourflories to the end, 
 
 And 
 
240 SHEPHEAR DS TALES. 
 
 And you! le conclude that neuer any Swaine 
 Did louefo well, and reapefofmall a gaine. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 Apphus woes Siluia, 
 Yet he thinks it ill, 
 To take to that, 
 JVhich he did neuer till. 
 
 Thefecond Argument. 
 
 He, whofe fweet and gracefull fpeech, 
 Might all other fhepheards teach : 
 She, whom countries did admire, 
 For her prefence and attire : 
 
 She, whofe choife perfections mou'd, 
 
 Thofe that knew her to be lou'd. 
 
 She, euen Siluia, for faue fhe, 
 
 None fo faire, and firme could be ; 
 
 When fhe mould be Sapphus Bride, 
 
 And their hands were to be tide 
 
 With their hearts in marriage knot, 
 
 Sapphus heares of Siluias blot. 
 
 Whereby Sapphus doth collect, 
 
 How 
 
SHEP HEARDS TALES. 241 
 
 How hard it is for to affe6t, 
 Such an one as will reioyce, 
 And content her in her choice ; 
 He concludes, fmce all things be 
 Certaine in vncertaintie, 
 Who would trufl what women fay, 
 Who can do but what they may. 
 „ Forts are won by foes affault, 
 „ If Maids yeeld, it is Mans fault. 
 
 THE SECOND EGLOGVE. 
 
 Sapphus tale. 
 
 Had a Loue as well as any you, 
 Andfuch an one, as hadjhe but her due, 
 Deferu'dtheferuice of the worthiejlfwaine 
 That erefedfheepe vpon the Weflerne plaine. 
 
 Dym. Good Sapphus fay, what was thy laffes namel 
 
 Was it not Siluia ? 
 
 Sap. The very fame ; 
 
 It feemes thou knew her. 
 
 Dym. Yes exceeding well, 
 
 And might haue knowne her, but I would not mell, 
 
 In more familiar fort. 
 
 Sap. Vnworthy Swaine, 
 
 Did her affection merit fuch aflaine ? 
 
 Suppofejhe threw fome loofer lookes vpon thee, 
 
 And thou collected thence fhe would haue won thee, 
 
 Is this tKrequitall of the loue fhe bore ? 
 
 Dym. Nay on good Sapphus, Tie dofo no more. 
 
 Sap. No more ! why now Ifweare, and may be bold 
 
 That Dymnus would haue done it if he could. 
 
 S Why 
 
242 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Why fir, what parts were euer in you yet, 
 
 Thatjhe on you fuch fancie fhould hauefet ? 
 
 Tech. Fie,fhepheardsfie, we come not here to f cold: 
 
 Come Sapphus, tell thy tale as we haue told. 
 
 Sap. Dymnus doth interrupt me. 
 
 Lin. Dymnus ceqffe. 
 
 Dym. Nay I haue done,fo he will hold his peace. 
 
 But to vpbraid me, that I had no part 
 
 To gaine her loue, If come it with my heart : 
 
 For He auouch. 
 
 Tech. Hay then theftrife's begun. 
 
 Dor. Dymnus forjhame. 
 
 Dym. Nayjhepheards, I haue done. 
 
 Dor. Pray then proceed good Sapphus. 
 
 Sap. Willingly : 
 
 Though I can hardly brooke this iniury. 
 
 Dym. Why Sapphus, Iamfure thou know' ft all this, 
 
 Thatjhe was light. 
 
 Sap. / knowjhe did amiffe, 
 
 Yet I muft tell you Dymnus, V had bene fit, 
 
 That rather I then you had noted it : 
 
 For it concerned me moft. 
 
 Dym. Pray let it reft, 
 
 I did not know fo much, I may proteft. 
 
 Sap. Dymnus, enough : and thus I do proceed ; 
 
 Vpon a time when I my flocks did feed, 
 
 Her father Thyrfis chandd to come that way, 
 
 And to obferue me more, a while made flay 
 
 Vpon the Downe, where I did feede my fheepe : 
 
 Who eying me, how duely I did keepe 
 
 My woollieftore (as I had care) from worrien, 
 
 Scab, fought, the rot or any kind of murren : 
 
 Tooke 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 243 
 
 Tookefuch a liking on me, as to fay 
 
 The very truth, vpon next holy day, 
 
 He did inuite me to his houfe, where I 
 
 Found what was loue in lonely Siluia's eye. 
 
 In brief e, I lou'd her, I may boldly tell, 
 
 And this her father notes, and likes it well 1 
 
 For oft vs'd he to fay, right fure I am, 
 
 A penny in a man then with a man, 
 
 He did efleeme more of, which he applide 
 
 Vnto that care which he in me defcride. 
 
 Dym. A iolly Swaine he was. 
 
 Sap. He was indeed, 
 
 And on thefe Downs morefrolicke rams did breed, 
 
 Then any Swainling that did dwell about him, 
 
 And truth to fay, they would do nought without him. 
 
 Dor. Tisfaid that Thirsk fro Thirfis tooke her name, 
 
 Who thither with his heards a grazing came, 
 
 And plaid vpon his pipefuch pleafant flraines, 
 
 As he yet Hues vpon the neighbour plaines. 
 
 Sap. This know I Dorycles, that in my hearing, 
 
 He pift d fo fweete, that many fhep heards fearing 
 
 Th' melodious flraines which iffued from his reed, 
 
 Would fo amaze their flocks they could not feede : 
 
 loyntly together in afecret caue, 
 
 Where Palms and Mirtles their increafing haue, 
 
 They fo contrMd an harbour for the nonfl, 
 
 That he might from thefcorching Sunne be fconfl, 
 
 Andfing at pleafure, while his accents raifing, 
 
 Heard/men were hearing, and their heards were gra- 
 
 For curious feats hewnefrom the folid Jlone, (zing. 
 
 Were aptly f ram 1 d for Swaines to fit vpon, 
 
 Who in his voice concern' d fuch choice delight, 
 
 S2 As 
 
244 SHEP HEARDS TALES. 
 
 As a whole Sommer day from morne to night, 
 Seetrid but an houre,fo fweetly did hefing, 
 While euery day he found out some new fpring. 
 But all too long digreffion haue I made ; 
 Falling in loue with Siluia as I faid, 
 /faw and perifhd, perifhd, for it cofl 
 My libertie, which J by feeing loft. 
 Dor. Deare was that fight. 
 Sap. Yet dearer may Ifweare, 
 Was fhe to me, then any fenfes were : 
 For other obiecls I did wholly fhon, 
 Chufing her f elf e for me to looke vpon. 
 Neither was I hope-reft, forjhe did feeme 
 To fancie me, hows' euer fhe did meane ; 
 And I deferu'd it, as I thought that day, 
 For clothed in my fuite of fJiepheards gray, 
 With buttond cap and buskins all of one, 
 I may affure you (heardfmen) / thought none 
 On all our Downe more neate or handfome was, 
 Or did deferue more kindnejfe from his laffe. 
 Dym. A good conceit doth well. 
 Sap. And truth was this, 
 Sliefhew'd me all respecl that I could wijli, 
 And vndiffembled too, I am p erf waded, 
 Though afterwards all that affection faded. 
 For on a day, (this I thought good to tell, 
 That you may thence perceiue filie lou'd me well) 
 In a greene fhadie harbour / reposed, 
 With Sycamours and Iunipers enclosed, 
 She priuately into the harbour crept, 
 Which feene, 1 fain 'd afleepe, but neuerflept. 
 Tech. A faire occafio?i ! 
 
 Lin. 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 245 
 
 Lin. How didjhe reueale 
 Her loue ? 
 
 Sap. If you had felt, what I did feele, 
 You neuer would awakt, but wiflit do die, [to 
 
 In fuch a foule-beguiling phantafie. 
 For firftjhe eyed me, nor contented fo, 
 With nimble pace Jlie to my lips did go : 
 And calls, and clings, and clips me round about, 
 Vfing a foft-fweete dalliance with her foote, 
 Not to awake me from my chearefull dreame, 
 But to impart whatjhe in heart did meane ; 
 Wherewith Ifeem'd to wake. 
 Tech. Why didfl thou fo ? 
 Sap. Technis, / thought Jhe trod vpon my toe, 
 But as I wak'd,fihe without further flay , 
 Dying her cheekes with bhifhes , flole away. 
 Dym. This Jhew 'd ' fJte lou'd thee. 
 Sap. So I knowfhe did, 
 But who can perfecl what the fates forbid ? 
 For long we liued thus, and loued too, 
 With vowes as firme as faith and troth could do, 
 That nought Jhould ere infringe that nuptiall band, 
 Confirm 'd betwixt vs two with heart a?id hand. 
 So as with Thirfis knowledge and confent, 
 After fo many weekes in loue-toyes fpent, 
 It was agreed vpon by either fide, 
 That Ifhould be her Bridegroome,_/^ my Bride. 
 And tEday of Solemnization was fet downe, 
 So as the choifefl youths in all the towne, 
 Addrefl themselues, for I was valued then 
 Amongfl the chiefefl Swaines, to be my men. 
 Lin. / know it Sapphus, both thy wealth and worth, 
 
 S 3 Were 
 
246 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Were both of power enough to fet thee forth. 
 Sap. In brief e, for I your patience might wrong, 
 Tofland vpon thefe marriage rites too long ; 
 To tK Church we went, fuf peeling I may fweare, 
 No fuch euents as after did appear e. 
 Tech. What fad euents, good Sapphus ? 
 Sap. Being now 
 
 Come to do that which we could nere vndo, 
 The Priefl pronound d a charge, whereby was ment, 
 If either of vs knew impediment, 
 Why wefhould not be ioyned, then to fpeake, 
 That we in time might fuch a wedlocke breake ; 
 Or any one there prefent fhould fhew caufe, 
 Why we might not be married by the lawes : 
 There to declare, in publicke one of thefe, 
 Or elf e for euer after hold their peace. 
 God f peed them well, f aid all,faue onely one, 
 Who flood from thence fome diflance all alone, 
 Crying, aloud in open audience, 
 Sapphus forbeare, there is no confeience, 
 Tliat thou fhould ioyne thy hand to one defiVd ; 
 At leafl prouide a father for her child, 
 Which flie kind pregnant wench is great withall, 
 And, who ere got it, will thee father call. 
 Tech. This was a flrange preuention. 
 Sap. / confejfe it, 
 
 But if fad heard how Meuus did expreffe it, 
 (Forfo his name was) you would haue admired 
 His frontlejfe impudence. 
 Dym. Sure he was hir'd, 
 To fruflrate these folemnities. 
 Sap. Ah no, 
 
 Beleeue 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 247 
 
 Beleene me Dymnus it was nothing fo : 
 
 Forjhe was fruitfull long before her time, 
 
 But thU fault was hers, it was no facl of ?nine : 
 
 So as her neighbours iudg'd and cenfurd on her, 
 
 Thatfhe begun by time to take vpon her. 
 
 But thisjhall be in fdence pafl for me, 
 
 Onely fhe 's fhadowed in my * Omphale. * A Poem «*#■ 
 
 a 7 j- 7 r? 7 7 • ted Omphale. 
 
 And jo characired, as the time may come, 
 Siluia Jhall be as Flora was in Rome. 
 Dor. But what fucceeded hence ? 
 Sap. Vpon this voice 
 
 There Jlreight arofe aflrange confufed noife, 
 Some Meuus tax'd, and faid he was to blame, 
 To blemifh any modefl Maidens name ; 
 Others were doubtfull, left itjhould be true, 
 And thus they thought, and thus it did enfue. 
 I now fuspicious of thisfoule di/honour, 
 Which Meuus publickly had laid vpon her : 
 Refold d thofe folemne fpoufals to delay, 
 And put them ojfvntill another day : 
 Meane while, (attend me Swains) when th'day came on 
 That Ifhould marrie, Siluia had afonne. 
 Cor. God bleffe the boy. 
 Dym. Who might the child begit ? 
 Sap. Nay Dymnus fure, who euer fatherd it. 
 Dym. Who I! 
 
 Sap. Nay blufh not man, for you haue told, 
 You might oft-times haue done it if you wold; 
 But I do wijh her all the good I can, 
 And praife her choife, though I be not the man. 
 Tech. Vnhappie choice ! 
 Dor. Hard fate! 
 
 S 4 Tis 
 
248 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 T'is nothing fo, 
 
 You'le heare a choife morefatall ere you go. 
 
 Thefe were but toyes to entertaine the time, 
 
 Prepare your handkerchers if 'you'le haue mine. 
 
 All. What, muji we weepe ? 
 
 Lin. Shepheards a while forbeare, 
 
 And if there be no caufe, iudge when you heare. 
 
 The Argument. 
 
 Inus doth Lesbia loue, 
 And woe, and win, 
 And after by her 
 Lightneffe wrongeth him. 
 
 Thefecond Argument. 
 
 Ouely Lefbia, who might be, 
 For birth, beauty, quality, 
 Styled Natures Paragon, 
 Fram'd for Swaines to dote vpon ; 
 In a word for to expreffe, 
 
 Feature of this Shepheardeffe, 
 
 If you would her ftature know, 
 
 She was neither high nor low ; 
 
 But 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 249 
 
 But of fuch a middle fize, 
 
 As if Nature did deuife, 
 
 (For as't feemeth fo fhe merit) 
 
 To make her, her prefident ; 
 
 With a Sun-reflecting eye, 
 
 Skin more fmooth then iuory ; 
 
 Cherrie lip, a dimple chin, 
 
 Made for loue to lodge him in ; 
 
 A fweete chearing-chafmg fent, 
 
 Which perfum'd ground where fhe went ; 
 
 A perfwafme fpeech, whofe tongue 
 
 Strucke deepe admiration dombe. 
 
 She, euen fhe, whom all approu'd, 
 
 Is by liuely Linus lou'd, 
 
 And at laft (what would ye more) 
 
 Though fhe was betrothed before 
 
 To Palemon, that braue Swaine, 
 
 Who quite droupes through her difdaine, 
 
 Is with rites folemnized, 
 
 Vnto Linus married ; 
 
 Whom he finds (as heauen is iuft) 
 
 After, ftaind with boundleffe luft, 
 
 So as he laments his ftate, 
 
 Of all moft vnfortunate, 
 
 That he fhould in hope of pelfe, 
 
 Wrong both others and himfelfe. 
 
 THE 
 
250 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 THE THIRD EGLOGVE. 
 
 Linus tale. 
 
 Lou'd a laffe, alas that ere I lou'd, 
 Who as Jhe feem'd to be, if Jhe had 
 
 prou'd, 
 A worthier Swaine the countrey 
 nere had bred, 
 
 And her I woing won, and winning wed. 
 
 Tech. / like thee Linus, thy preamble's Jhort ; 
 
 Lin. Technis, indeed I am not of that fort, 
 
 Who for a thing of nought will pule and crie, 
 
 And childifhly put finger in the eye ; 
 
 The burden of my grief e is great to beare. 
 
 Dor. What is it Linus, pray thee let vs heare ? 
 
 Lin. The Maid I got, and Lesbia was her name, 
 
 Was to another troth-plight ere I came. 
 
 Cor. Howjhouldjhe Linus then be got by thee ? 
 
 Lin. // was my fate, or her inconflancie. 
 
 Mows' ere I haue her, and pojfejfe her now, 
 
 And would be glad to giue her one of you. 
 
 Tech, Art wearie of thy choice ? 
 
 Lin. Technis, I am, 
 
 For I' me perf waded Jhe' d wearie any man. 
 
 So feeming fmoothfhe is and euer was, 
 
 As if Jhe hardly could fay Michaelmas : 
 
 But priuately fo violently fierce, 
 
 As Pme afraid her name will fpoile my verfe. 
 
 Cor. This isfome hornet fure. 
 
 Lin. A very wafpe, 
 
 Whofe 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 251 
 
 Whofe forked tongue who euerjhould vnclaspe, 
 
 Would fnd't a taske to charme it. 
 
 Dym. lit fo tart ; 
 
 Lin. O Dymnus, that thou didjl but feele apart 
 
 Of my affliclion, thou wouldjl furely mone, 
 
 And pittie me, that's matcht tofuch an one ; 
 
 For tell mejhepheards was there erefo rare, 
 
 A crime, wherein my Lesbia doth notjhare ? 
 
 Proud, (though before as humble to the eye 
 
 As ere was Maid) fo as one may defcrie, 
 
 Euen by her outward habit whatjlie is, 
 
 And by her wanton geflure gather this : 
 
 If thou be chad, thy body wrongs thee much, 
 
 For thy light carriage faith, thou art none fuch. 
 
 Sap. Some fajhion-monger I durfl pawne my life. 
 
 Lin. Sapphus His true, fuch is poore Linus wife, 
 
 Though ill it feemes a cotmtry Shepheardeffe, 
 
 Such harjh fantaflicke fafhions to profejfe : 
 
 One day vnto a Barber fhe'de repaire, 
 
 And for what end but this, to cut her haire, 
 
 So as like to a Boy fhe did appeare, 
 
 Hauing her haire round cut vnto her eare. 
 
 Cor. Good Linus fay, how lookt that Minx of thine ? 
 
 Lin. Like to afleeceleffe Ewe atjhearing time. 
 
 So cowdjhe was, as next day fhe didfhow her 
 
 Vpon the Downs, but not a Swaine could know her; 
 
 Soflrangely dipt fhe feem 'd, and in difguife, 
 
 So monflrous ougly, as none could deuife 
 
 To fee one clad in lothfomer attire: 
 
 And this fhe knew was farre from my defire, 
 
 For L did euer hate it. 
 
 Tech. Pray thee Lad 
 
 Tell 
 
252 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Tell vs in earnejl how Jhe might be clad I 
 Lin. There is afajhion now brought vp of late, 
 Which here our country Blouzes imitate, 
 The caufe whereof I do not thinke it fit, 
 If I did know't, for to discouer it, 
 But fure I iudge, fome rot'^ in womans ioynts, 
 Which makes themfaine to tye them vp with points. 
 Dym. With points ! 
 
 Lin. Yes Dymnus, that's thefajhion now, 
 Whereof I haue a tale, right well I know, 
 Will make you laugh. 
 Dor. Let's heare that tale of thine. 
 Lin. Shepheards you fihall ; it chandd vpon a time, 
 That Lesbia, whofe fpirit euer would 
 Obferue thefajhion, do I what I could, 
 Bearing a port far higher in a word, 
 Then my abilitie could well afford : 
 That Jhe I fay into thisfafiiion got, 
 (As what was thfajhion Jhe affecled not) 
 Of tying on with points her loofer wa/le ; 
 Now I obferuing how her points were plajl, 
 The Euen before Jhe to a wakejhouldgo, 
 I all her points didjecretly vndo, 
 Yet therewithall Juch eafie knots did make, 
 That they might hold till Jhe got to the wake, 
 Which Jhe not minding. 
 Cor. On good Linus, on. 
 Lin. She hyes her to the wake {my Cory don) 
 Where Jhe no fooner came, then Jhe 's tane in, 
 And nimbly falls vnto her reuelling, 
 But fee the lucke on't, while Jhe feuds and skips, 
 Her vnderbody falls from off her hips, 
 
 Wliereat 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 253 
 
 Whereat fome laught, while others tookefome ruth, 
 
 Thatjhe vncas'd,JIwtildJhew the naked truth. 
 
 But heare what happened hence, ere thfetting Sunne 
 
 Lodged in the Weft,JJie heard what I had done ; 
 
 So as refold d to quite me in my kind, 
 
 Next morne betime,Jhe Hylus chanced to find. 
 
 Sap. Who, Clytus boy / 
 
 Lin. Yes Sapphus, felfe-fame Lad, 
 
 Who was a good boy, ereJJie made him bad. 
 
 Tech. Pray Linus how ? 
 
 Lin. Through her immodejlie, 
 
 She him allured/or to difltonour me. 
 
 Tech. Difloyall Lesbia ; but pray thejliew, 
 
 Did Hylus (harmeleffe youth) confent the?-eto ? 
 
 Lin. Technis, he did ; 
 
 Dor. HowJJwuldJl thou know as much ? 
 
 Lin. She did difplay't her f elf e. 
 
 Dor. Is herjhamefuch ? 
 
 Lin. Yes, and withall defide me to my face, 
 
 Withfuch iniurious fpeeches of dif grace, 
 
 As patience could not beare. 
 
 Tech. And didfil thou beare them ? 
 
 Lin. Yes, Technis yes, &>fmild when I did heare the?n 
 
 For this is my conceit, it feemeth no man, 
 
 Tofihew his violence vnto a woman. 
 
 Dym. Linus fayes well, but womans nature's fuch, 
 
 They will prefume if men do beare too much. 
 
 For if the tongue vpon defiance fiand, 
 
 The tongue JJiould be reuenged by the hand. 
 
 Lin. Some would haue done it Dymnus, but L thought 
 
 If I reuenge by fuch bafe meanes had fought , 
 
 The woreld would condemne me ; JJie could blind 
 
 Mofl 
 
254 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Mofi men with an opinion, Jhe was kind, 
 
 But in a modejlfort : for on a time, 
 
 Rich Amphybaeus offring to thejhrine 
 
 Of Panaretus (as there went report) 
 
 Sought for her loue in a difhonefl fort, 
 
 With price, with prayer, yet nere attained his aime, 
 
 To foile her honour, or her vertues ftaine ; 
 
 Sap. Women are nice when fimple heard-men craue it, 
 
 And will fay nay, when they the fainfl would haue it. 
 
 Lin. 'Tis right; and now good fhepheards tell me true, 
 
 Haue I not caufe, for /'/<? be iudg'd by you, 
 
 To mone my hard mifhap ? 
 
 Tech. Thou hafl indeed. (bleed ; 
 
 Cor. Thy woes, friend Linus, make my heartflrings 
 
 Lin. I thanke you all ; but will you heare a fong, 
 
 Penned in the meditation of my wrong ! 
 
 Dor. For loues-fake do ! 
 
 Lin. Judge if the defcant^?/ 
 
 The burden of my grief e, for this is it; 
 
 As for the note before I further go, 
 
 My tune is this, and who can blame my woe ? 
 
 If Marriage life yeeld fuch content, 
 
 What heauie hap haue I, 
 
 Whofe life with griefe and forrow fpent, 
 
 Wifh death, yet cannot die ; 
 
 She's bent to fmile when I do ftorme, 
 
 When I am chearefull too, 
 
 She feemes to loure, then who can cure, 
 
 Or counterpoize my woe ? 
 
 My marriage day chac'd you away, 
 
 For 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 255 
 
 For I haue found it true, 
 
 That bed which did all ioyes difplay, 
 
 Became a bed of rue ; 
 
 Where afpes do brouze on fancies floure, 
 
 And beauties bloffome too : 
 
 Then where's that power on earth may cure, 
 
 Or counterpoize my woe ? 
 
 I thought loue was the lampe of life, 
 No life without'en loue, 
 No loue like to a faithfull wife : 
 Which when I fought to proue, 
 I found her birth was not on earth, 
 For ought that I could know ; 
 Of good ones I perceiu'd a dearth, 
 Then who can cure my woe ? 
 
 Zantippe was a iealous fhrow, 
 
 And Menalippe too, 
 
 Fauflina had a ftormie brow, 
 
 CorinncCes like did (how ; 
 
 Yet thefe were Saints compar'd to mine, 
 
 For mirth and mildleffe too : 
 
 Who runs diuifion all her time, 
 
 Then who can cure my woe ? 
 
 My boord no dimes can afford, 
 But chafing difhes all, 
 Where felfe-will domineres as Lord, 
 To keepe poore me in thrall ; 
 My difcontent giues her content, 
 My friend fhe vowes her foe : 
 
 How 
 
256 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 How fhould I then my forrowes vent, 
 Or cure my endleffe woe ? 
 
 No cure to care, farewell all ioy, 
 
 Retire poore foule and die, 
 
 Yet ere thou die, thy felfe employ, 
 
 That thou maift mount the skie ; 
 
 Where thou may moue commanding loue, 
 
 That Pluto he might go 
 
 To wed thy wife, who end't thy life, 
 
 For this will cure thy wo ! 
 
 Dym. 7" iudge by this, that thou wouldjl faine forfake 
 And freely giue her any that would take her. (her, 
 Lin. Dymnus I would, but I my croffe mufl beare, 
 As I haue done before this many yeare ; 
 But fince our grief es are equally exprefl, 
 Let's now compare which is the heauieft ! 
 Tech. L lofl my Amarillida ; 
 Dor. Butfhe 
 Was nothing to Bellina. 
 Dym. No, norfhe 
 Like to my fair e Palmira. 
 Cor. Nor all three 
 Equall to Celia ; 
 Sap. Let Siluia be 
 The onely faire. 
 
 Lin. Admit, they all were faire, 
 Your grief es with me, may haue no equall fliare, 
 For you are free, fo as perhaps you may 
 Make choice of Tome, may be as faire as they ; 
 But I am bound, and that in fuch a knot, 
 
 As 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 257 
 
 As onely death may it vnloofe, or not. 
 
 Tech. To Linus mujl we yeeld ; but who are thefe ? 
 
 Dor. Two iolliefhepheards, that do hither prefe, 
 
 With ribbon fauours, and rofemary f prigs, 
 
 Chanting along our Downes their rurall ijgs, 
 
 As tofome wedding boun ; 
 
 Sap. You may prefume, 
 
 For Iohn vnto the May-pole is their tune, 
 
 And that's their bridall note. 
 
 Lin. Let vs draw neare them, 
 
 Clofe to thisjliadie Beech, where we may heare them. 
 
 The fhepheards holy-day, reduced 
 
 in apt meafures to Hobbinalls 
 
 Galliard, or Iohn to the 
 
 May-pole. 
 
 Opfo. Come Marina let's away, 
 For both Bride a?id Bridegroome_/?ay, 
 FieforJJiame are Swaines fo long, 
 Finning of their head-gear e on ? 
 Pray thee fee, 
 None but we, 
 Mongfl the Swaines are left vnreadie, 
 Fie, make haft, 
 Bride is pafl, 
 Follow me and L will leade thee. 
 
 T Mar. 
 
 Forth of a curi- 
 otis Spinet gra- 
 ced "with the beft 
 rarities of Art 
 and Nature, 
 Mopfus afhefi- 
 heard, and Ma- 
 rina ajhephear- 
 deffe, finging a 
 Nuptiall hymne 
 in the way to the 
 Bridall. 
 
258 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Mar. On my louely Mopfus, on, 
 I am readie, all is done, 
 From my head unto my foote, 
 I am fitted each way to't ; 
 
 Buskins gay, 
 
 Gowne of gray, 
 Bejl that all our flocks do render, 
 
 Hat ofjlroe, 
 
 Platted through, 
 Cherrie lip and middle /lender. 
 
 Mop. And I thinke you will not find 
 Mopfus any whit behind, 
 For he loues as well to go, 
 As mojl part ofjhepheards do. 
 
 Cap of browne, 
 
 Bottle-crowne, 
 With the leg I won at dancing, 
 
 And a pumpe 
 
 Fit to iumpe, 
 When we JJiepheards fall a prancing. 
 
 And I know there is a fort, 
 Will be well prouided for^t, 
 For I heare, there will be there 
 Liueliefl Swaines within the Shere : 
 
 letting Gill, 
 
 lumping Will, 
 Ore thefloore will haue their meafure : 
 
 Kit and Kate, 
 
 There will waite, 
 
 Tib and Tom will take their pleafure. 
 
 Mar. 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 259 
 
 Mar. But I feare ; 
 Mop. What do eft thou feare 7 
 Mat. Crowd thefidler is not there : 
 And my mind delighted is, 
 With nojlroakefo much as his. 
 
 Mop. If not he, 
 
 There will be 
 Drone the piper that will trounce it. 
 
 Mar. But if Crowd, 
 
 Strucke aloud, 
 Lord me thinks how I could bounce it ! 
 
 Mop. Bounce it Mall, I hope thou will, 
 For I know that thou haft skill, 
 Andlamfure thou there Jhalt find, 
 Meafures flore to pleafe thy mind ; 
 
 Roundelayes, 
 
 Irijh-hayes, 
 Cogs and rongs and Peggie Ramfie, 
 
 Spaniletto, 
 
 The Venetto, 
 lohn come kijfe me, Wilfons fancie . 
 
 Mar. But of all there's none fo fprightly 
 To my eare, as tutch me lightly : 
 For it's this we Jhepheards loue, 
 Being that which mojl doth moue ; 
 There, there, there, 
 To a haire, 
 O Tim Crowd, me thinks I heare thee, 
 Young nor old, 
 Nere could hold, 
 But mujl leake if they come nere thee. 
 
 T 2 Mop. 
 
260 SHEPHEARDS TALES. 
 
 Mop. Blujh Marina, fie for fhame, 
 Blemijh not aJhephearoTs name ; 
 Mar. Mopfus why, is't fuch a matter, 
 Maids tojhew their yeelding nature? 
 O what then, 
 Be ye men, 
 That will beare your felues fo froward, 
 When you find 
 Vs inclined, 
 To your bed and boord fo toward 1 
 
 Mop. True indeed, the fault is ours, 
 Though we tearme it oft-times yours ; 
 Mar. What would fhepheards haue vs do, 
 But to yeeld when they do wo ? 
 
 And we yeeld 
 
 Them the field, 
 And endow them with our riches. 
 
 Mop. Yet we know, 
 
 Oft-times too, 
 You'le notflicke to weare the breches. 
 
 Mar. Fooles thefle deeme them, that do heare them 
 Say, their wiues are wont to weare them : 
 For I know there's none has wit, 
 Can endure or fuffer it ; 
 But if they 
 Haue 110 flay, 
 Nor difcretion (as lis common) 
 Then they may 
 Giue thefway, 
 As is fitting to the woman. 
 
 Mop. 
 
SHEPHEARDS TALES. 261 
 
 Mop. All too long (deare loue) I weene, 
 Haue we flood vpon this theame : 
 Let each laffe, as once it was, 
 Loue her Swaine, and Swaine his laffe : 
 
 Sojhall we 
 
 Honor 'd be, 
 Ln our mating, in our meeting, 
 
 While wefland 
 
 Hand in hand, 
 Honefl Swainling, with his Sweeting. 
 
 Dor. How' fay you fhephear ds, Jhall we all repaire 
 
 Vnto this wedding, to allay our care ? 
 
 Dym. Agreed for me. 
 
 Tech. And L am well content. 
 
 Cor. On then, lefs make our life a merriment. 
 
 Sap. See where they come ! 
 
 May Hymen aye defend them. 
 
 Lin. And far more ioy then Lhaue had God fend them. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 T3 
 
OMPHALE, 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE INCONSTANT 
 
 SHEPHEARDESSE. 
 
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To her in whofe chart bread 
 
 ckoifeft vertues, as in their 
 Abftradt, are feated : 
 
 The accompliJJid Lady P. W. wife to the 
 Nobly-defcended S.T.W. Knight : 
 
 and daughter to the much 
 honoured, S.R.C. 
 
 All correfpondence to her zvorthiejl 
 wiJJies. 
 
265 
 
 OMPHALE, 
 
 OR, 
 
 THE INCONSANT 
 
 SHEPHEARDESSE. 
 
 \N bondage free, in freedome bound 
 
 I am, 
 A hopeleffe, hapleffe, loue-ficke, 
 
 life-ficke man ; 
 When I write ought, Jireight loue 
 
 preuenteth me, 
 And bids me write of nought but Omphale : 
 When I ride Eaft, my heart is in the Well, 
 Lodg 'd in the center of her virgin-breafl. 
 The homeliefl cell would chearefull feeme to me, 
 If I in it might Hue with Omphale. 
 My youth growes ag'd, for though Pme in my prime, 
 Loue hath made furrowes in this face of mine ; 
 So as lafl day (aye me vnhappie elfe) 
 Looking in th' glaffe, I fcarce could know my selfe. 
 And I, from whom thefejharpe extreames did grow, 
 Was not content, hit I mufl tell her too, 
 Which made her proud, for few or none there are, 
 (If women) but they V proud if they be fair e. 
 All this lafl Sommer hath it bene my hap, 
 To fport, toy, play, and wanton in her lap, 
 
 And 
 
266 OMP HALE. 
 
 And euer th'more I plaid, if so I could, 
 Orjlrength admitted meanes, the more I would : 
 For truth confirmes that Maxime, where we find 
 A louing, loyall, well-dispofed mind, 
 Prejlfor encounter, there we loue to plant, 
 Feeding on Loues delights in midjl of want ; 
 For Loue contemnes all want, and counts' t a gaine, 
 To purchafe one houres ioy with two yeares paine. 
 Alas how oft (too oft thou well may fay) 
 Haue 1 in priuate fpent with her the day, 
 Lnuoking tK Sunne, plants, heauen, and earth and all, 
 Lffall Lfihould,fihe did procure my fall! 
 And filill fhe vow'd, and bit her lip, andfilept 
 Apart from me, and wifd her eyes and wept, 
 And flood and chid, and calVd me rnofl vniufil, 
 To harbour in my bofiome fiuch difilrufil. 
 And 1 (too credulous I) as one difmaid, 
 Was forced to recant what I had f aid, 
 Swearing L was refold d that th' conflancie, 
 * Or Hypermne- Of * Hypemneftra match 'd not Omphale. 
 
 Jlr a, one of the _ 7 T . 7 . . 
 
 fi/tie daughters Inus did 1 guu my jelje to fiooth my loue, 
 
 °out o/TZnder Who prou'd a Serpent, though fihe fieeni d a Doue : 
 
 Jaild'her^kuJ^' For vowes, protefils, and all that fihe hadfpoken, 
 
 fr^XZZat W e™ by her light affetlion quickly broken. 
 
 /laughter which j[ n( i whence ca me this ? not fro me, heauen thou knowes, 
 
 was committed J ' ' 
 
 by her/ifters, in But from my loue who triumphs in my woes ; 
 
 flaying their x •* 
 
 husbands. My loue ; raze out that name : fihe was indeed, 
 
 When thou and (he your lambkins vs'd to fieede 
 On Anmsfiowrie banks, being wont to make 
 Pofies and nofiegaies for her fhepheards fake, 
 And bind them to his hooke ; but let that pafife, 
 She is not fhe nor time the fame it was. 
 
 For 
 
OMPHALE. 267 
 
 For then (6 then) fufpicious eyes were free, 
 And none but heauenly bodies lookt on thee; 
 (Too faire fpedlators,) though we now and then 
 Dif pence with Gods fight rather then with men. 
 And canjhe thinke on this and not relent, 
 Or thinking not of this, canjhe confent 
 To leaue Admetus ? Yes, why canjhe not ! 
 Now louesjhe Cloris, and I feare his lot 
 Will proue as fatall, for her very eye 
 Tells mejhe meanes to tread herjhoe awry. 
 And this If aw before, and durjl not fee, 
 For th' loue I bore to her, perfwaded me 
 She could not be fo thankeleffe, as requite 
 My faithfull feruice with fuch flrange defpite : 
 Yet I perceirfd, not by fuspicious feare, 
 But by the Organs both of eye and eare, 
 That loue was fained which to mejhe bore, 
 Referuing others to fupply herflore. 
 And I confeffe in th? end I iealous grew, 
 For fome had many fauours, I but few ; 
 Others hadfmiles, I frownes, fo as I fay, 
 I found her former fancie fall away, 
 Which gaue increafe to grief e, caufe to my eye 
 To looke into herfleps more narrowly ; 
 So as poorefoole (fo vainely did I erre) 
 I thought each bufh did play th' Adulterer, 
 So violent was this paffion ; which tofhow, 
 Though of Adtseons there beflore enow, 
 I briefly meane, (and let all others paffe) 
 To tell you how my iealous humour was. 
 Each thing I ey'd, did reprefent to me, 
 The louely feature of my Omphale, 
 
 Yet 
 
268 OMPHALE. 
 
 Yet fo, as Jlill that precious forme If aw, 
 Did by attractiue power another draw, 
 To make her forme more complete, for we know, 
 Number can ne're confifl of leffe then two. 
 Streight did I fee, (fufpition made me fee) 
 My felfe made cuckold in a phantafie, 
 Which in my thoughts fuch deepe impreffion tooke, 
 As now and then I threw away my booke, 
 Calling my felfe an Affe, to pore on that 
 Which gaue my wench time to cornute my pate ; 
 And to confirme the height of my difgrace, 
 Suffer the riflng of her common place. 
 Sometimes infilent nights, when hoarie care 
 Is chamid afleepe, and men exempted are 
 From day-bred paffions, would Ijiart from bed, 
 And f wear e, the night had me difhonoured ; 
 While fhe (fleepe-lulled foule) did thinke no harme, 
 But lay entwining me with arme in arme : 
 Yet hearing meflie wakt, and chid me too, 
 For doing (humerous foole) what I did do, 
 And as flie chid I wept, yet inward faine, 
 My dreames proitd falfe. I went to bed againe. 
 If I but found her in difcourfe with any, 
 I freight renounced her loue, andfwore too many 
 Were factors in my Pinnace, yet onefrowne 
 Sent from her brow , fubdude me as her owne. 
 If fhe receiu'd a letter from a friend, 
 Iflreight conieclur 'd what it did intend ; 
 Suppofing (vaine fuppofe) where th' place Jhould be, 
 That witneffe might thejhame of Omphale : 
 To which I vow'd reuenge, though nothing were, 
 But my owne thoughts that miniflred this feare. 
 
 Oft 
 
OMP HALE. 269 
 
 Oft would I faine (for what were all my thoughts, 
 Butficlions meerely) that Jhe played nought 
 With her owne fhadow, and Narciffus-//^, 
 That in her forme Jhe tooke fuch quaint delight, 
 As forced now to furfet on herflore, 
 She prou'd this true : Much plentie made her poore. 
 Thus did her prefence caufe me to admire her, 
 Her abfence like occafion to defire her ; 
 Without whofe prefence, though the Sunnefhonefaire, 
 All feemed darke, becaufejhe was not there. 
 Loft time we parted with teare-trickling eye, 
 Hand ioyn'd in hand right ceremonially, 
 I calld the heauens and f acred powers aboue, 
 To witneffe with me my vnfained loue, 
 And vow'd withall, if ere itjhould appeare, 
 I broke the faith which I had plight to her, 
 Or entred any bed lafciuioufly, 
 Intending to play falfe with Omphale, 
 Or entertained leafl thought of difrefpecl 
 To her or hers in nature of neglecl, 
 Or euer cancelled tli deed, which (heauens you know, 
 Was feaPd and was deliuer'd twixt vs two) 
 Or euer changed my fancie, to deuide 
 My Jhared loue vnto another Bride, 
 Or ere dif claimed what I in fecret vow'd, 
 Or dif allow what Hymen had allow'' 'd; 
 If this or that, or any of thefe all, 
 Should cenfure me of lightneffe, that my fall 
 Might recompence my Jhame (which heauens forbid) 
 And this I vow'd to do, and this I did. 
 Nor did {heffiare tofecond me in this, 
 But wijh'd if ere Jhe chandd to do amiffe,. 
 
 With 
 
270 OMPHALE. 
 
 With an intent of ill, or violate 
 Thofe folemne hejls our loues had confummate, 
 Orflain'd that fpoufall reft, that bleft repofe, 
 Where two encountred, yet were neither foes ; 
 Or difefleenid ?ny loue, or prized it 
 Leffe then a conflant louer did befit, 
 Or let one day or night pajfe carelefly, 
 Without recalling me to memory, 
 Or giue occafion to the world to fay, 
 She loues another when her loue's away, 
 Or entertaine a fauour, or defcry 
 Leafl of affection by alluring eye, 
 Or riot in my abfence, or confort 
 With any that might blemijh her report, 
 Or frequent publicke prefence, which might moue 
 A {ub\e€tfor varietie of loue: 
 ^this or that, or any Jhould begin 
 To taxe her life, might vengeance plague herfinne. 
 Thus we both vow'd, and thus we parted too, 
 But heare how foone my loue infringed her vow ; 
 No fooner had the region of the Weft, 
 Remould me from my loue, and reft me reft, 
 Where fleepie mountaines ragged and vneuen, 
 Offa and Ve\ion-like do menace heauen, 
 Where fcalpie hils andfandie vales imply, 
 The ploughmans toilers requited ' fender ly ; 
 Where their courfe feeding and their homely fare, 
 Makes their wits lumpifh, and their bodies fpare : 
 Thenjhe (inconflant fhe) forgot me cleane, 
 And all her vowes, as if I had not bene. 
 Diflance of place, made diftance in our loue, 
 And as my body motid, her loue did moue 
 
 From 
 
OMPHALE. 271 
 
 From herfirjl center : thus euen in my Prime, 
 Did my loue change, when I did change my clime. 
 Thus like blind Cupids ball (by fancie croft) 
 Was I to euery hazard ftrangely toft ; 
 Thus was my feruice guerdoned with dif grace, 
 While Cloris crept into Admetus place : 
 And can her height offinne be thus forgot ? 
 No, wanton no, who is it knowes it not ? 
 So as thy crime thy nature will display, 
 And make thyftorie worfe then Creffida, 
 Who in contempt of faith, (as we do reade) 
 Reiecled Troilus for Diomede ! 
 Canft thou makejhew of loue to me or any, 
 That art exposed to louing offo many ? 
 Canft thou haue heart to vow, when thou forfooke, 
 And didft infringe the oath which thoufirft tooke ? 
 Canft thou haue face to come in open light, 
 That haft incurred reuenge in his pure fight, 
 Whofe vengeance thou inuokH ? canft thou repaire 
 Vnto thy f ex, or tafte the common ay re, 
 Hauing, (by making of thy faith fo common) 
 Infecled th' ayre, impeach' d the Sex of women ? 
 Canft thou looke on that faithleffe hand of thine, 
 And giue it to another being mine ? 
 Canft thou, and fee that face, not blufth to fee 
 Thofe teares thoujhed, and vowes thou made to me ? 
 Or canft embrace another in thy bed, 
 Hearing thy firft efpoufed friend not dead ? 
 Suppofe I fthould furprize thee, could I long 
 Reftraine my hand, and not reuenge my wrong? 
 Could I allay my paffion vnexpreft, 
 Or fee th! Adulterer fleepe within thy breft? 
 
 Could 
 
272 OMP HALE. 
 
 Could I endure my bed Jhould be abus'd, 
 Or fee her flrumpeted, whom I had chus'd ? 
 Could I content my felfe to fee my fhame, 
 And coward-like, not to redreffe the fame ? 
 No, no infatiate thou, fooner could time 
 Leaue his gradation, or the Sunne tofhine, 
 Light bodies to afcend and leaue their center, 
 Riuers their downeward courfe, then Lfhould venter 
 My patience on that odds : but foolifh L, 
 That gaue no credit to mine eare or eye, 
 But made my fenfes all Caffandra'es, where 
 Mine eare prefag'd, yet I'de not trufl mine eare : 
 Suchflrange diflempers doth this Circe breed, 
 This ^hxenixe-fancie in a louers head, 
 That though he heare, fee, tafle, and touch, 6° fmell 
 His loues vnkindnejfe, yet he dare not tell, 
 But muft renounce W inflruclion of all thefe. 
 Yea, (euen himfelfe) that he his wench may pleafe. 
 O why fhould man tearme woman th' weaker kind, 
 Since they are ftronger, as we daily find, 
 In will, and head, although their hufbands browes, 
 Oft to a harder kind #/" temper growes ? 
 So as for all that we doflyle them weaker, 
 They oft become to be their hufbands maker ! 
 But now Admetus, wilt thou pine and die, 
 And wafte thy felfe for her inconflancie ? 
 Wilt thou lament the loffe offuch an one, 
 As hath refolu'd to keepe her faith with none ? 
 Or canfil thou dote on her, that longs to be 
 Affecled of each youth thatfhe doth fee ? 
 No, no Admetus, finceflie proues vntrue, 
 Shed not one teare norfigh, for none is due, 
 
 But 
 
OMP HALE. 273 
 
 But offer Pan the chief e of all thyflocke, 
 That thou art rid of fuch a weathercocke. 
 Now maifl thou, pipe vpon thy oaten reede, 
 Whilefl thy Mug-fheepe on Arnus pa/lures feede : 
 Where bonnie Clytus will attend on thee, 
 And Mopfus too will keepe thee companie. 
 There the late-freed Capnus will repaire, 
 And ioy to tafle the freedome of the ayre ; 
 Where he will defiant on no i-urall theame, 
 But on Ambitions curbe, the golden meane. 
 And ioy he may, for who did euer heare 
 Such alterations as in him appeare ? 
 Where long reflraint hath laboured to reflore 
 That loue to him which he had lofl before. 
 With whom Admetus may in confort ioyne, 
 Comparing of your fortunes one by one ; 
 He to regaine the loue which he had lofl, 
 Thou to forget her loue that wronged thee mofl. 
 And well would this befeeme Admetus flraine, 
 " For fhepheards fhould not laitgh at others paine, 
 But in compaffion of their grieues and them, 
 To imitate their paffions in the fame. 
 And this's a better courfe, and fafer too, 
 Then to do that which thoufo late didfl do, 
 Pining and puling, wifhing death appeare, 
 Which for thy wifhes was no whit the neare. 
 " For death (whe we are happie) will come nie vs, i? le in ° et - 
 " But if we wretched be, then death will file vs. 
 How oft hath my experience made this good, 
 When wifhing death, I was by death withflood ? 
 Forflill I thought my woes would haue an end portusf dabitur 
 
 If * Death am'u'd, affliclions welcome friend. mttl^' 
 
 U But 
 
274 OMP HALE. 
 
 But tK more I fought, the more he fled from me, 
 To make me riper in my miferie : 
 " For griefe is of that nature, as it growes 
 " In age, fo new effects it daily fhowes. 
 Yet now thou Hues (and thanks to tK powers aboue) 
 Haft neare by this, fuppreft the thoughts of loue. 
 Now canft thou feed, and fleepe, and laugh, &= talke, 
 Sport, and tell tales, refrefh thy f elf e, and walke 
 Inflowrie Meedes, whileft thou feeft Cloris hing 
 His iealous head to heare the Cuckow flng. 
 Alas (poore man) what bondage is he in, 
 To feruea Swaine that's cauteriz 'd in fin, 
 Exposed tofhame, a?id proftitute to lufl, 
 In whom nor's grace, nor faith, nor loue, nor trufl ? 
 And heauen I wifh,flie may in ti??ie reclahne 
 Her former courfe, and reclifie the fame : 
 But tK Pumice ftone will hardly water yeeld, 
 Or grace appeare in fuch a barren field : 
 Forfuch light mates encompaffe her about, 
 As Vertue's choak't before it can take roote. 
 Cloris, if thou knew Admetus mind, 
 And tK hard conceit he Kas of womankind, 
 Whose faireft lookes, are lures, affections, baits, 
 Words, wind, vowes, vaine, and their protefts de- 
 ceits, 
 Songs, charms, teares, traines to trace vs to our end, 
 Smiles, fnares, frowns, fears, which to our mine tend: 
 Then wouldft thou (Cloris) cenfure Omphale, 
 The pregnant mirror of inconftancie, 
 And curbe thy fancie, ere it haue leaft part 
 In one can vow fo often with one heart. 
 For heare me (Cloris) fihe did neuerfhow 
 
 More 
 
OM P HALE. 275 
 
 More loue to thee, thenJJie to others too : 
 Yet what art thou (if man) maifi build thee more 
 Vpon her faith then others did before ? 
 What art thou canfl perfwade thy f elf e of this, 
 She'le not tread right, h'as trod fo long amiffe, 
 Or thatfJietle now proue conflant, that h'as prou'd, 
 Sofaithleffe to the mofi, thatfhe has lou'd? 
 No, Cloris, no, the Prouerbe it is true, 
 And is confirnid in her whom thou doefl sue ; 
 " To wafh the Moore, is labouring in vaine, 
 " For th'colour that he h'as, is di'd in graine. 
 So th'more thouftriues to make her blacknes white, 
 Thou drawes heauens curtaine to difplay her night. 
 Her night indeed, faue that noflarres appeare, 
 (No lights of grace) within her hemifpheare, 
 But th 'changing Moone, whofe lightneffe doth expreffe 
 That light-inconflant mind of Omphales : 
 " Where Vertuefeemes at Nature to complaine, 
 " That vice fhould be at full, andfJie at waine. 
 Yet Nature anfwers,fhe h'as done her part, 
 And that the fault is rather in her heart, 
 That is fo fpacious , to entertaine 
 The wauering loue of euery wanton Swaine. 
 And I ajfent to Nature, for it's fliowne, 
 By her rare workemanfliip, whatflie h'as done, 
 In gluing beautie luflre, her content ; 
 In forming her, her f elf e to reprefent. 
 And reafon good ; for when I thinke vpon, 
 That Zeuxes, Phydias, and Pigmalion, 
 (Thofe natiue artifts) who indeed didflriue 
 To ?nake their curious ftatues feeme aliue, 
 Reducing art to Nature ; then I find, 
 
 U 2 Nature 
 
276 OMPHALE. 
 
 Nature had caufe tofatisfie her mind 
 In fomething aboue art, that after-time 
 Might moue her to reioyce, art to repine. 
 And what more mouing patterne could there be, 
 Then the admired forme of Omphale, 
 Whofe feature equaWd Nature, and did Jhow 
 The very Spring whence fancid s f aid to flow ? 
 For firfl her flature 's feemely \ which I call, 
 Neither too dwarfiJJi low, nor giant-tall ; 
 Her front a rifing mount, her eyes two lamps, 
 Which, wherefoere Jhe lookes impreffion flamps ; 
 Her cheeke twixt rofie red and fnowie white, 
 Attracls an admiration with delight; 
 Her nofe nor long norjhort, nor high nor low, 
 Nor flat, norfharpe, the token of afhrow; 
 Her mouth nor ferret-Jlraite, nor callet-broade, 
 But of an apt proportion, as it fliould ; 
 Her breath the fragrant odour, which louefips 
 From thefe two cherrie portels of her lips ; 
 Where thofe two iuory pales or rowes of teeth, 
 Accent her fpeech, perfumed by her breath; 
 Her chin ttiinclining vale, deuided is, 
 By tft daintie dimple of loues choifeft blijfe, 
 Which, as maine flouds from fmallefl currents flow, 
 Deriues her fweets to tWriuelings below ; 
 Her necke a rocke enazur'd with pure veines 
 Of orient pearle, which with amorous chaines 
 Oflou's defr'd embraces, charmes the eye, 
 And tyes it to her obiecl, when Jhe 's by ; 
 Her breafts two Orbs or Mounts, or what you will 
 That may inchide perfeclion, which to fill 
 The world with ad?niration, are layd out, 
 
 To 
 
OMP HALE. 277 
 
 To worke thefeate her lightneffe goes about ; 
 Two prettie nipples, one opposed gainfl f other, 
 Challenge the name of Nurfe afwell as Mother : 
 Though fome (forjlate makes loue to children worfe) 
 Scorne, being mothers to become their nurfe. 
 In briefe her all, (becaufe Pie not defcend, 
 In praife of that, where praifes haue no end) 
 Is beauties f aire Idaea, which implies 
 Height of content, to loues amazed eyes. 
 And yet this fhe, the modell of delight, 
 Though outward faire, feemes to my inward fight, 
 As fpotted as the Ermine, whofe smooth Jkin, 
 Though it be faire without, is foule within. 
 For what more foule then vice ? but chiefly that 
 Which makes a woman to degenerate, 
 From her more Jhamefafl Sex, where modeftie 
 Should fit vpon her cheeke, to verifie (reft, 
 
 What /A'Comick faid : *ftraid thoughts find neuer * En-ant, nee 
 
 J ° fedem repetunt 
 
 " But fhamefaft lookes become a woman beft. ferenamQuas 
 
 7 r ,1 • r petulanti corde 
 
 Indeed they do; for there is greater fence, refurgunt, &c. 
 
 That fhame fhould moue man more then impudence; 
 For bafhfull lookes adde fuell to loues fire, 
 While M'fpirit ofluH doth with her flame expire. 
 Which makes me wonder, that tK interiour light 
 Whence man refembles God, fhould lofe his fight, 
 By doting on an Idoll, that can take 
 To charme loues dazled eyes a Syrens fihape, 
 Making Art vye with Nature for the befi, 
 And foiling that which fhould furpaffe the refil. 
 For what is faire, if that be all there is, 
 But an eye-pleafing thing, that yeelds no blifjfe, 
 Wanting that inward faire, which who enioyes, 
 
 JJ 3 Efleemes 
 
Socrates. 
 
 278 OMPHALE. 
 
 EJleemes all outward ornaments as toyes, 
 Compared to that beauty, which no Art 
 Could euer equally or exprefpe in part ? 
 Indeed the grace of vertue is more rare, 
 And exquisite, when fhe that's good is f aire, 
 For fhe becomes mojl complete well we know, 
 That's gradd with vertue and with beautie too. 
 Whence that experienjl * Morall vdd to reach 
 A looking glaffe to fuch as he did teach ; 
 Wherein, if fuch were f aire themfelues did eye, 
 He would exhort them rather to apply 
 Their minds to vertue, for great pittie twere, 
 Foule foules {quoth he) mould haue a face fo faire : 
 But if deform' d, heflreight would counfell them, 
 With wholefome precepts to fupply the fame; 
 For fit it were (quoth he) a face fo foule, 
 Should be prouided of a beauteous foule. 
 But rards this compofition, for we find, 
 Seldome that double blifife in woman-kind, 
 Where fhe that's faire can foone admire her owne, 
 And knowes what Nature for her f elf e hath done : 
 Yea fhe by this can learne another fir aine, 
 Put on coy looks, and thfiafiJiion of difdaine, (breath, 
 Minf-fpeech, huff-pace, fleeke-fkin, and perfum'd 
 Goats-haire, brefts-bare, plume-fronted, fricace- 
 All which infufe new motions into man, (teeth, 
 
 Late borrow' d of th' Italian Curtezan. 
 But now to thee thou wanton, will I come, 
 To taxe, not vifit that polluted tombe, 
 Of all infeclion, which to giue it due, 
 Is now become no Temple but a flue ; 
 Tell me, difdainfull faire, if I ere wrong' d, 
 
 Or 
 
OMPHALE. 279 
 
 Or thee, or any that to thee belong d ! 
 Haue I incurred dijhonour, or denoted 
 My loue to many, whereby I am noted ? 
 Haue I bene too prof nfe in my refpecl, 
 To otherfome, and blancht thee with neglecl ? 
 Haue I incurred a merited dif grace, 
 In begging loue when thou was out of place ? 
 Haue I by courting any, ere exprefl, 
 My felfe ought leffe then what Iflill profiefl ? 
 Didfl euer fee a fauour worne by me, 
 But that poore bracelet / recent d of thee, 
 Twifled with gold, and with thy faithleffe haire, 
 Which now Fue throwne away with all my care ? 
 Did I ere vow and breake, as thou haft done, 
 Or plight my faith {faue thee) to any one ? 
 Why then fhouldfl thou infringe that f acred oath, 
 Which with a kiffe wasfealed to vs both, 
 When fcarce one houre did vs occafion giue, 
 (Sofliort was time) to take our lafling leaue ? 
 But I can guejfe where thou wilt lay the blame ; 
 Not on thy felfe, but on them whence thou came. 
 That luflfull ftocke / meane, which gaue beginning 
 To thee of being firft, and then of finning. 
 It's true indeed, we know a poifoned fpring, 
 Can field or neuer wholefome water bring, 
 Nor can we looke that any barren field, 
 Should ought faue tares or fruitlejfe Darnell yeeld : 
 For this from Scripture may collecled be, 
 " Such as the fruite is, fuch is ftill the tree. 
 Too late I find this true, and heauens I wi/h, 
 My former harmes may caution me of this ; 
 For what is ill defcendeth in a blood, 
 
 U 4 Sooner 
 
2 8o 
 
 OMPHALE. 
 
 * Queis pario 
 perio ; quod a- 
 cerba? prolis 
 imago 
 
 Extitit, & tene- 
 rae nota paren- 
 tis erit. vid. A l- 
 cyat. 
 
 * Quse parenti 
 confefto Estate 
 cor.fulit, eique 
 preftando na 
 tale officium, 
 proprijs alis ge- 
 rit. vid. Bajil. in 
 Homil. 
 
 * Portia the fa- 
 mous Curtizan ; 
 and that noble 
 Ladie, an emi- 
 nent patterne of 
 modeftie, wife to 
 Port. Cato the 
 Senatozir. 
 
 Sooner and furer too, then what is good. 
 " For th'fathers vertues ftill attend his bere, 
 " And being dead, with him lie buried there ; 
 " But th 'vices which he had are not content 
 " To die with him, but Hue in his defcent. 
 So natiue is thy ill, hauing her birth 
 From that corrupted flock which brought thee forth, 
 As fooner may the ^Ethiope become white, 
 TK Cymmerian pitchie fiJtade tranfparent light, 
 The Tiger leaue his nature, M'Wolfe his prey, 
 The Sunne to guide the chariot of the day, 
 The % Pellican her defart, or the * Craine, 
 That nat'rall hue which in her doth remaine 
 Vnto her parents ; then thy parents fhame, 
 Got by their fmne, be wiped from thy name. 
 No wanton, no, thy darkneffe is difplayd, 
 Which can by no meanes re-difperfe herjhade, 
 But Jhall furuhte all ti?ne ; for it's the will 
 Of Powers aboue, there fhould be life in ill, 
 As well as good : that tK memory ofthefirfl 
 Might make fucceeding ages coimt her curft. 
 For I haue red (and thou was caufe I red) 
 Some fickle Dames inftories mentioned, 
 Whofe fmall refpecl to tK honour of their name, 
 Hath made them fince the lafling heires of fhame : 
 Andfuch were Meffalina, Martia, 
 Fauftina, Lays, Claudia, * Portia, 
 Two of which name there were of different kind, 
 In tft various disproportion of their mind ; 
 11 One good, one ill, one light, one conflant prouing, 
 " One fpoufall-lothing, one her honour louing. 
 Put which of thete can equall Omphale ? 
 
 Or 
 
OMP HALE. 281 
 
 Or which of thefe Hue more licentioufly ? 
 
 All patternes in their time (as well they might) 
 
 And cautions too, to ?noue vs tread aright 
 
 That do fucceed thetn : yet obferue thisjiaine, 
 
 This wedlocks-blemi/Ji, and you will complaine, 
 
 Of th? prefent times, that thetfr more ripe infinne, 
 
 And breach of faith, then former times haue bin. 
 
 More ripe indeed, for Where's that age become, 
 
 " Folke dVdforloue, as we haue red of fome, 
 
 Who their affections fo implanted haue, 
 
 As nought could bury fancie but their graue ? 
 
 But thefe were childifh times ; indeed they were, 
 
 For rather then for her Fdejhed one teare, 
 
 That difefteemes my loue, or fend one grone, 
 
 Orfigh, or fob, or pule, or make a mone, 
 
 Or fold my armes, as forlorne louers vfe, 
 
 Or grieue to lofe, whenfhe doth others chufe, 
 
 Or breake my fleepe, or take a folemne fafl, 
 
 I wish that taske might be Admetus lafl. 
 
 No Omphale, though time was when I mourrfd, 
 
 That time is changed, and now my humour's turned ; 
 
 So as I fcarce remember what thou art, 
 
 That once lay neare and deare vnto my heart. 
 
 Now is my Pafture greene and jlouriftiing, 
 
 And poore Melampus which was wont to hing 
 
 His heauie head (kind curre)for , s maijlers fake, 
 
 Begins hisfullen humour to forfake. 
 
 Now is my bottle mended, and my hooke, 
 
 My bag, my pipe, fo as if thou fhould looke, 
 
 And fee Admetus with his woollie ftore, 
 
 Thou 'de fay, he were not tKman he was before ; 
 
 And iudge him too, (to fee him now reuiue, 
 
 And 
 
282 
 
 OMP HALE. 
 
 * Turture fie 
 turtur iungit a- 
 manda fuo. 
 
 * Sic iurare io- 
 lent, fed non 
 feruare puellae. 
 Lucian. 
 
 And change his note) the happiejl man aliue. 
 And fo I am, to Hue and leaue to loue, 
 (Though faithfull mates would flinty natures 
 Whofe rare effects the Voet feemes tojhow, moue) 
 When wiues expreffe W affections which they owe. 
 " * Turtle with Turtle, husband with his mate, 
 " In diftinct kindes one loue participate. 
 But fence affection is fo 7-are to find, 
 Where thfiace weares not the liuerie of the mind, 
 And womans vowes (as * M'Satyre rightly faith) 
 Be rather made for complement then faith ; 
 Be free from loue Admetus : if not free, 
 At lea/I from loue of fuch as Omphale. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 A 
 
A Poem defcribing the leuitie of a 
 
 woman: referuing all generous refpe£l 
 to the vertuoufly affected of 
 
 that Sexe. 
 
 Irjl I feare not to offend, 
 A very thing of nothing, 
 Yet whom thus farre I commend, 
 She's lighter then her clothing : 
 Nay from the foot e vnto the crowne, 
 Her very Fan will weigh her downe : 
 And marke how all things with her Sexe agree, 
 For all her vertues are as light as Jhe. 
 
 She chats and chants but ayre, 
 A windie vertue for the eare, 
 T'is lighter farre then care, 
 And yet herfongs do burthens beare. 
 
 She dances, that's but mouing, 
 No heauie vertue herefhe changes, 
 And as her heart in louing, 
 So herfeete in co7tftant ranges. 
 
 Shefoftly leanes on firings, 
 
 Sheflrikes the trembling lute and quauers . 
 
 Thefe 
 
284 
 
 Thefe are no weightie things, 
 Her ftrokes are light, fo are her fauours. 
 Thofe are her vertues fitting to her kind, 
 No foonerjhow7ie, but they turnd all to zvind. 
 
 Then to you, O Sexe of f ethers, 
 On whofe browesfit all the wethers, 
 I fend my Pafifion weau'd in rimes, 
 To weigh downe thefe light e7nptie times. 
 
 Defcript. 
 
 WHat are you, O heires of f corning, 
 But like Dew that melts each morning ; 
 Euening vapours, and nights prize, 
 To anfwer our voluptuous eyes : 
 And but to fcreene that finnes delight, 
 I thinke there neuer had bene night. 
 
 Nor had we bene from vertue fo exempt, 
 But that the tempter did leaue you to tempt. 
 You bit the Apple firfl that makes vs die, 
 Wheres'ere we looke the applet in our eye, 
 And death muft gather it; for your turrfd breath, 
 And mortall teeth e'en to the core ftrucke death. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
HIS ODES: 
 
 OR, 
 
 PH ILOMELS 
 
 TE ARES. 
 
 Odes in firaines of forrow tell 
 Fate and fall of euery fowle, 
 Mounting Merlin, Philomel, 
 Lagging Lapwing, Swallow, Owle ; 
 Whence you may obferue how ftate 
 Raisd by pride, is razd by hate. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for Richard Whitaker. 
 
 i 6 2 I. 
 
287 
 
 TO THE GENEROVS 
 
 INGENIOVS, AND IVDICIOVS 
 
 Philalethist, Thomas C^Efquire: the 
 fucceeding iffue of his diuineft wi/hes. 
 
 Nknowne to you I am, yet knowne I am 
 To /^'better part of you, your vertuous 
 
 name ; 
 Which like a precious odour hath infus'd 
 Your louey<? much inme,as I haue chus'd 
 Your f elf e, to patronize what I haue writ, 
 Whofe name I thought had power to fhelter it. 
 I grant indeed, Smooth * Eagle for your name, 
 Includes that Sun-reflecling (Anagram) 
 Thefe birds which in my Odes their fates difplay, 
 Are fome night-birds, as others of the day ; 
 Which in my iudgement, tenders more delight, 
 To fee how fn's orecurtained by night, 
 Whereas the day fends forth his golden raies, 
 Andfhewes fuch birds as chant their maker's praife. 
 Which Morall, as it fuites thefe times of ours, 
 I do difclaime my right irit, it is yours, 
 If you efteeme it worthie to obtaine 
 Your approbation : This is all our ayme. 
 
 * Sic tereti curfu 
 repetit fpiracu- 
 la montis 
 Aquila, quae 
 valles fpernit, 
 vt alta petat. 
 Sol radios mit- 
 tit, radiofq ; re- 
 flectit ocellis ; 
 Aquila fis viiu 
 femper (Amice) 
 tuo. A ley at. in 
 Emblem. Samb. 
 ibid.Plin. in Nat. 
 Hist. ALlian. 
 ibid. Greg, in 
 Mor. expo, in 
 lob. 
 
 R. B. 
 
ODES. 
 
 THE 
 
 T RAVELLOVR, 
 
 DILATING VPON THE 
 
 fundrie changes of humane affaires, 
 
 mojl fluctuant when appearing 
 moft conflant. 
 
 AN ODE. 
 
 Ell me man, what creature may 
 Promife him fuch fafe repofe, 
 As fecure from hate of foes, 
 He may thus much truly fay, 
 
 Nought I haue I feare to lofe, 
 
 No mifchance can me difmay ; 
 
 Tell me, pray thee (if thou can) 
 
 If the woreld haue fuch a man ! 
 
 Tell me, if thou canil difcerne 
 By thy reafons excellence, 
 What man for his prouidence, 
 Of the Pifmire may not learne : 
 Yet that creature hath but fenfe, 
 Though fhe do her liuing earne, 
 Spare, not coftly, is her fare, 
 Yet her granar fhewes her care ! 
 
 X Tell 
 
290 .ODES. 
 
 Tell me, canft thou mew me him, 
 That exact in each deuice, 
 Is at all times truly wife, 
 And is neuer feene to fwim 
 (For in this his iudgement lies) 
 Gainft the current of the ftreame, 
 But feemes to haue full command, 
 Of each thing he takes in hand ! 
 
 Tell me, was there euer knowne 
 Such a man that had a wit, 
 And in fome part knew not it, 
 Till at laft conceited growne, 
 He grew prowder then was fit, 
 Euer boafting of his owne; 
 For that Maxime true we know, 
 " He thafs wittie, knowes himfo ! 
 
 Tell me, is that man on earth, 
 Whofe affaires fo liable are, 
 As they may for all his care, 
 Fall not croffe and crabdly forth, 
 And of forrowes haue no fhare, 
 Which defcend to man by birth ; 
 What is he can promife reft, 
 When his mind's with griefe oppreft ! 
 
 Tell me, is there ought fo ftrong, 
 Firmely-conftant, permanent, 
 Or on earth fuch true content, 
 As it fadeth not ere long : 
 Is there ought fo excellent, 
 
 As 
 
ODES. 
 
 291 
 
 As it changeth not her fong, 
 
 
 And in time that all deuoures, 
 
 
 Mixeth fweets with fharpeft foures ! 
 
 
 Tell me, who is he that mines 
 
 
 In the height of Princes loue, 
 
 
 Sitting minion-like with loue, 
 
 
 Glorying in thofe golden times, 
 
 
 But he feares fomething may moue 
 
 
 His diftaft by whom He climbes : 
 
 
 Wherefore he that feares to fall, 
 
 
 Should forbeare to climbe at all ! 
 
 
 Tell me, where is Fortune plac'd, 
 
 
 That fhe may not men beguile, 
 
 
 Shrowding frownes with fained fmile ; 
 
 
 Where is He fo highly grac'd, 
 
 
 Shewing greatneffe in his ftile, 
 
 
 Hath not bene in time out-fac'd, 
 
 
 By fome riuall, where ftill one 
 
 
 Striues to put another downe ! 
 
 
 Tell me, then what life can be 
 
 
 More fecure, then where report 
 
 
 Makes vs onely knowne to th' Court, 
 
 
 Where .we leade our Hues fo free, 
 
 
 As we're ftrangers to refort, 
 
 
 Saue our priuate familie ; 
 
 
 For I thinke that dwelling beft, 
 
 
 Where kajl cares difturbe our reft ! 
 
 
 X 2 
 
 THE 
 
292 
 
 ODES. 
 
 THE NIGHTINGALL. 
 2. ODE. 
 
 Vg, IVg ; faire fall the Nightingall, 
 
 Whofe tender breaft 
 Chants out her merrie Madrigall, 
 ^ With hawthorne preft : 
 Tehi, Te'u, thus fmgs fhe euen by euen, 
 And reprefents the melodie in heauen ; 
 Tis, Tis, 
 I am not as I wifh. 
 
 Rape-defiled Phylomel 
 
 In her fad mifchance, 
 Tells what fhe is forc'd to tell, 
 
 While the Satyres dance : 
 Vnhappie I, quoth fhe, vnhappie I, 
 That am betraide by Tereus trecherie ; 
 Tis, Tis, 
 
 I am not as I wifh. 
 
 Chaft-vnchaft, defloured, yet 
 
 Spotleffe in heart, 
 Luft was all that He could get, 
 
 For all his art : 
 For I nere attention lent 
 To his fuite, nor gaue confent ; 
 Tis, Tis, 
 I am not as I wifh. 
 
 Thus 
 
ODES. 293 
 
 Thus hath faithleffe Tereus made 
 
 Heartleffe Phylomele 
 Mone her in her forlorne made, 
 
 Where griefe I feele : 
 Grief e that wounds me to the heart, 
 Which though gone, hath left her fmart ; 
 T'is, T'is, 
 
 I am not as I wifh. 
 
 THE LAPWING. 
 
 3. ODE. 
 
 Nhappie I to change my aerie neft, 
 For this fame mariJJi dwelling where I 
 reft, 
 Wherfore my fong while I repeate, 
 I'le clofe it vp ; 
 Rue yet, rue yet. 
 
 Euery Cowheard driuing his beafts to graze, 
 
 Difturbs my reft, me from my nejl doth raife, 
 
 Which makes my young take vp this fong, 
 
 To wreake my wrong ; 
 
 Rue yet, rue yet. 
 
 Thou fubtile Stockdoue that haft cheated me, 
 By taking vp thy nejl where I mould be, 
 Haft me and mine in perill fet, 
 
 X 3 Whofe 
 
294 ODE S. 
 
 Whofe fong is fit ; 
 Rue yet, rue yet. 
 
 Solely-retired, fee I Hue alone, 
 Farre from recourfe or fight of any one, 
 And well that life would fuite with me, 
 
 Were I but free ; 
 
 Rue yet, rue yet. 
 
 Young-ones I haue, that thinking I am fled, 
 Do leaue their nejl, and run with Jhell on head, 
 And hauing found me out we cry, 
 
 Both they and I ; 
 
 Rue yet, rue yet. 
 
 Creft-curled mates why do you beare fo long 
 The Stockdoues pride, that triumphs in your wrong 
 Let vs our fignals once difplay, 
 
 And make him fay ; 
 
 Rue yet, rue yet. 
 
 Too tedious hath our bondage bene I wis, 
 And onely patience was the caufe of this, 
 Where if we would contract our power, 
 
 We'de fing no more ; 
 
 Rue yet, rue yet. 
 
 March on then brauely, as if Mars were here, 
 And hate no gueft fo much as Jlauifh feare, 
 Let the proud Stockdoue feele your wing, 
 That he may fing ; 
 Rue yet, rue yet. 
 
 Let 
 
ODES. 
 
 295 
 
 Let none efcape, though they fubmifiiue feeme, 
 Till you haue fpoil'd and quite vnfether'd them, 
 So you fhall make them vaile the wing, 
 
 And henceforth ling ; 
 
 Rue yet, rue yet. 
 
 THE OWLE. 
 
 4. ODE. 
 
 A Kings daughter, fee what pride 
 
 may do, 
 In fatall yewe takes vp my for- 
 
 lorne feate, 
 The caufe wherof was this, if you 
 would know, 
 I would haue better bread then grew on wheate, 
 Though now a Moufe be all the food I eate, 
 And glad I am when I can feed of it. 
 
 Ruff-curled necke, fee I referue fome mow 
 Of what I was, though far from her I was, 
 Wherein my boundleffe pride fo farre did grow, 
 That as in place I did the reft furpaffe, 
 So in the pureft beautie of my face, 
 Courting my felfe in fancies looking-glaffe. 
 
 Milke-bathed Jkin, fee wantons what I vs'd, 
 
 To make my /kin more fupple, fmooth, & fleeke, 
 
 X 4 Wherein 
 
296 ODES. 
 
 Wherein my natiue hue by Art abus'd, 
 I lay a new complexion on my cheeke, 
 Sending my eyes abroad futers to feeke, 
 And vying fafhions with each day i' th weeke. 
 
 Nought I affected more then what was rare, 
 " Beft things (if common) I did difefteeme, 
 Seld was I breathd on by the publike ayre, 
 " For thofe are mojl admit 3 d are feldome feene, 
 Which is, and hath a cuftome euer bene, 
 " Such as come oft abroad, we vulgar deeme. 
 
 Thus felfe-admir'd I liu'd, till thus transform'd, 
 
 I got a, feature fitting with my pride : 
 
 For I that fcorned others, now am fcorn'd, 
 
 Had in difgrace, and in purfuite befide ; 
 
 May the like fate like fpirits aye betide, 
 
 So worthleffe honour mail be foone defcride. 
 
 For rz^thick-fet, a curie-wreathed plume, 
 Round 'bout my necke I weare, for tyres of gold 
 A downie tuft of feathers is my crowne, 
 For fan in hand my clawes a pearch do hold, 
 And for thofe cates and dainties manifold, 
 " A moufe I wijh, but wants her when I would. 
 
 Be well aduis'd then Minions, what you do, 
 " Portray my feature, and make vfe of it, 
 What fell to me may likewife fall to you, 
 And then how daring-high fo ere you fit, 
 Nought but difhonour mall your pride begit, 
 " Dead to report of Vertue as is fit. 
 
 THE 
 
ODES 
 
 THE MERLIN. 
 
 5. ODE. 
 
 Hence Nifus, whence, 
 
 Is this the fate of kings, 
 For arme on Scepter, 
 To be arm'd with wings ? 
 Poore fpeckled bird, fee how afpiring may 
 Degrade the high, and their eftate betray. 
 
 Once Fortune made 
 Nifus her fauorite, 
 And rer'd his throne 
 
 To fuch vnbounded height, 
 That forreine ftates admir'd what he poffeft, 
 Till flie ambition neftled in his breaft. 
 
 Till then how bleft, 
 
 And after fee how bafe 
 His greatneffe fell, 
 
 When reft of Princely grace ; 
 Thofe many fleering Parafites he gain'd, 
 In his fucceffe, not one in want remain'd 
 
 Cheffes he weares 
 Now on his downie feete, 
 
 Where 
 
298 ODES. 
 
 Where once guilt f purs, 
 With flore of pearle fet 
 Adorn'd his nimble heeles, and hooded now, 
 His beuer wants : this can ambition do. 
 
 Vp ftill he mounts, 
 
 And muft a pleafure bring, 
 That once was king, 
 To meaner then a king ; 
 Where he, who once had Falkners at command, 
 Is faine to picke his meate from Falkners hand. 
 
 Imperious fate, 
 
 What canft not thou effecl, 
 When thou perceiues 
 In man a dif-refpecl: 
 Vnto thy honour, which we inftanc'd fee, 
 In no one Nifus better then in thee ! 
 
 But flow bird flow, 
 
 See now the game's a foote, 
 And white-maild Nifus, 
 He is flying to't ; 
 Scepter, Crowne, Throne & all that Princely were 
 Be now reduc'd to feathers in the ayre. 
 
 THE 
 
ODES. 
 
 299 
 
 THE SWALLOW. 
 
 6. ODE. 
 
 Ou chatt'ring Fleere, you Faune, 
 you fommer-friend, 
 Not following vs, but our fuc- 
 ceffe, 
 Will this your fiatt'ring humour 
 nere haue end, 
 Of all other meritleffe ? 
 Flie I fay, fiie, be gone, 
 Haunt not here to Albion : 
 She mould be fpotleffe, as imports her name, 
 But fuch as you are borne to do her fhame. 
 
 How many faire protefts and folemne vowes, 
 
 Can your hatefull conforts make, 
 Wheras (heauen knows) thefe are but only mows 
 Which you do for profit-fake ? 
 O then leaue our coaft and vs, 
 Blemifh'd by your foule abufe, 
 Vertue can haue no being, nor could euer, 
 Where "CvUParafite is deem'd a happy liuer. 
 
 Tale-tattling goffip, prone to carrie newes, 
 
 And fuch newes are euer worft, 
 Where falfe report finds matter, and renewes 
 
 Her itching humour till it burft, 
 
 Where 
 
300 ODES. 
 
 Where each euen finds tales enough, 
 
 All the gloomie winter through, 
 To paffe the night away, and oft-times tries, 
 That truth gets friendfhip feldomer then lies. 
 
 Spring-time when flowers adorne the chearefull 
 
 And each bird lings on her fpray, (mede, 
 
 When flowry groues with bloffoms checkered, 
 And each day feemes a marriage day, 
 Chatt'ring Swallow thou canft chufe 
 Then a time to vifit vs ; 
 Such are thefe fained friends make much vpon vs, 
 When we are rich, but being poore they fhun vs. 
 
 The ftormie winter with his hoarie locks, 
 
 When each branch hangs downe his head, 
 And icie flawes candies the ragged rocks, 
 Making fields dif coloured, 
 
 Driues thee from vs and our coaft, 
 Where in fpring-time thou repo'ft ; 
 Thus thou remaines with vs in our delight, 
 But in our difcontent th'art out of fight. 
 
 Time-feruing humorijl that faunes on Time, 
 
 And no merit doeft refpedt, 
 Who will not loath that fees that vaine of thine, 
 Where deferts are in neglecl, 
 And the good is priz'd no more 
 Then the ill, if he be poore ? 
 Thou art the rich mans claw-backe, and depends 
 No more on men, then as their trencher-friends. 
 
 Go 
 
ODES. 
 
 301 
 
 Go turne-taile go, we haue not here a Spring 
 
 For fuch temporizing mates, 
 Pan's in our He, and he fcornes flattering ; 
 So thofe Guardians of our States, 
 Who are early vp and late, 
 And of all, this vice doth hate : 
 Flie tell-tale, flie, and if thou wilt, complaine thee, 
 That Albyon's harjh, and will not entertaine thee. 
 
 THE FALL OF THE LEAFE. 
 
 7. ODE. 
 
 Lora where's thy beauty now, 
 Thou was while'om wont to fhow ? 
 Not a branch is to be feene, 
 Clad in Adons colour greene ; 
 Lambkins now haue left their fkip- 
 Lawn-frequenting Fauns their tripping ; (ping, 
 Earths bare breaft feeles winters whipping, 
 And her brood the North-winds nipping. 
 
 Though the Boxe and Cypreffe tree, 
 Weare their wonted liuerie, 
 And the little Robin fcorne 
 To be danted with a ftorme, 
 Yet the Shepheard is not fo, 
 When He cannot fee for mow, 
 Nor the flocks which he doth owe, 
 And in drifts are buried low. 
 
 Nor 
 
302 ODES. 
 
 Nor the Grazer, difcontent 
 That his fodder fhould be fpent, 
 And when winter's fcarce halfe-done, 
 All his flacks of hay are gone ; 
 Nor the Lawyer, that is glad 
 When a motion's to be had, 
 Nor poore Tom, though he be mad ; 
 " Cold makes Tom a Bedlam fad. 
 
 Nor the Webjler, though his feete 
 By much motion get them heate, 
 Nor the knaue that curries leather, 
 Nor the croff-ledgg'd Taylor neither, 
 Nor at glaff-worke, where they doubt 
 Left their cojlly fire go out, 
 Nor the carefull carking Lout, 
 That doth toyle and trudge about. 
 
 No, nor th' Ladle in her coach, 
 But is muff'd when frojls approach, 
 Nor the crazie Citizen, 
 But is furrd vp to the chin, 
 Oifter-callet, flie Vpholfter, 
 Hooking Huxjler, merrie Maljler, 
 Cutting Haxter, courting Roijler, 
 Cunning Sharke, nor marking foijler. 
 
 Thus we fee how Fall of W leaf e, 
 Adds to each condition griefe, 
 Onely two there be, whofe wit 
 Make hereof a benefit ; 
 Thefe, conclufions try on man, 
 
 Surgeon 
 
ODES. 303 
 
 " Surgeon and Phyfician, 
 While it happens now and than, 
 Kill then cure they fooner can ! 
 
 Now's their time when trees are bare, 
 Naked fcalps haue loft their haire, 
 Teeth drop out and leaue their gumms, 
 Head and eyes are full of rheumes, 
 Where if Traders ftrength do lacke, 
 Or feele aches in their backe, 
 Worfe by odds then is the racke, 
 They haue drugs within their packe. 
 
 Thus the harfheft feafons come 
 In good feaj "on vnto fome, 
 Who haue knowne (as it is meete) 
 Smell of gaine makes labour fweet : 
 But where labour reapeth loffe, 
 There accrews a double croffe ; 
 Firft, fond cares his braine doth toffe, 
 Next, his gold refolues to droffe. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
304 
 
 A uguftines 
 Vincentius. 
 Tute vincas 
 ingeniofus. 
 
 To my knowing and wor- 
 
 thie efteemed friend Avgv- 
 
 stine Vincent, all meri- 
 ting content. 
 
 Ay you be in 
 
 Your actions profperous, 
 
 And as ingenious, 
 
 So victorious ; 
 
 So may your fate, 
 
 Smile on your happie name, 
 
 And crowne you with, 
 
 A glorious Anagram : 
 
 While Vertue, 
 
 (Mans bed luftre) feemes to be, 
 
 Thaty?jy/<?, which ftamps 
 
 You deepe in Heraldrie. 
 
 BRIT. 
 
ODES. 305 
 
 BRITTANS BLISSE. 
 
 A Pean of thankfgiuing for our long enioyed 
 peace vnder a gracious Soueraigne. 
 
 Eace, Plentie, Pleafure, 
 Honour, Harbour, Health, 
 Peace, to encreafe 
 In fubstance and in wealth ; 
 
 Plentie, to praife, 
 
 Heauens Soueraigne the more, 
 
 Pleafure, tofolace vs 
 
 Amidjl ourjlore, 
 
 Honour, to guerdon 
 
 Merit in our time, 
 
 Harbour, to Jit 
 
 Each vnder his owne vine, 
 
 Health, to enioy 
 
 A blejjingfo deuine, 
 
 Deriudfrom Ieffes roote 
 
 And Dauids line. 
 
 Y Health, 
 
306 ODE S. 
 
 Health, Harbour, Honour, 
 Pleafure, Plentie, Peace, 
 Which from our Soueraigne 
 Heme their prime increafe ; 
 Health, to performe 
 Our di/lincl offices, 
 Harbour, tofhroudvs 
 From extremities, 
 Honour, to crowne 
 The temples of defert, 
 Pleafure, to cheare 
 The intellecluall part, 
 Plentie, to fore 
 Our hopes with allfucceffe, 
 Peace, to accomplifh 
 Our full happinejfe. 
 
 All which, by heauens hand powr'd on Albyon, 
 
 Make vp a Catalogue to looke vpon ; 
 
 That for fo many quiet Halcyon dayes, 
 
 Her preciouft prize, might be her Makers praife. 
 
 Pads, honoris, amoris, Edena Britannica nojlri, 
 Rege regente bono, leta trofihcea gerit. 
 
 Vpon 
 
ODES 
 
 Vpon the wort hie and Jincere Proficients 
 
 and ProfeJ/ants of the common Law; 
 
 an Encomia/lick Poem. 
 
 Aw is the line, 
 
 Whofe leuell is difpatch, 
 
 A lampe, whofe light fhewes 
 
 lujlice what is right, 
 
 A larke, whofe vnfeal'd eyes 
 
 Keepes early watch, 
 
 A loome, whofe frame 
 
 Cannot be fway'd by might, 
 
 A lift, where truth 
 
 Puts iniury to flight ; 
 
 Streight line, bright lampe, 
 
 Sweete larke, ftrong loome, choice lift, 
 
 Guide, fhine, fhield, guard, 
 
 And Hue truths Martialift. 
 
 Law is trxefterne, 
 
 Which fteares the fhip of ftate, 
 
 The glorious Jlem 
 
 Whence Iuftice fciens fpring, 
 
 The chearefull ftarre, 
 
 Which early mines and late, 
 
 Y 2 The 
 
308 ODE S. 
 
 Thefiafie, whofe flay 
 Supports the languifhing, 
 The fireame, whofe fpring 
 Is euer cherifhing ; 
 ~Raxe.fierne, richfiem, clear 'ejiarre, 
 Firme fiaffe, pure Jlreame, 
 Steere, cheare, dire<5t, fupport, 
 Refrefh the meane. 
 
 Bleft then are you, 
 Who labour to redreffe 
 The poore mans cafe, 
 And meafure your contents 
 By fhielding th'weake 
 From awfull mightineffe, 
 Like graue Profejfants, 
 Good Proficients, 
 Clozing with equitie 
 Your ioynt confents ; 
 'Tis you, 'tis you, 
 Who in this blemifhd time, 
 Send out your lights 
 While other ftarrs decline. 
 
 When Greece in glory flourifh'd, 
 She did reare 
 Some Images neare 
 Iuftice facred throne, 
 
 Which 
 
ODES. 309 
 
 Which to be lame and blind 
 
 Portrayed were, 
 
 As proper obiecls 
 
 To be look'd vpon, 
 
 Implying what 
 
 In Iuftice mould be done ; 
 
 Blind to diftinguifh 
 
 Friend or foe, and lame, 
 
 From taking bribes, 
 
 To ftaine AJlrceas name. 
 
 Cleare lights, pure lamps, 
 
 Rarejlemms, rich Jlreames of life, 
 
 Who mine, beame, fpring, 
 
 And draine your chriftall courfe 
 
 From Iuflice throne, 
 
 To coole the heate of ftrife, 
 
 By curbing aw with law, 
 
 With cenfure, force, 
 
 To chaftife with rejlraint, 
 
 Cheare with remorfe ; 
 
 Long may you Hue, 
 
 Since by your life you giue 
 
 Iujlice new breath, 
 
 And make her euer Hue. 
 
 Salus ciuitatis fita eft in legibus. 
 
 Y 3 IN 
 
3io 
 
 ODES. 
 
 Me paucis mal 
 le a fapientibus 
 efle probatum. 
 
 IN MOMVM. 
 
 QVid carp endo premis tua vifcera ferrea Mome ? 
 Momus, Mimus eris dum meet, fcripta premis. 
 Hand euro inuidiam, meafpes tenuiffima tuta eft, 
 
 Nam tuta eft tenuis vena, fed alta minus. 
 Anguis es, <S° viridi latitans fub fronde, venenum 
 
 Eijcis, exiguo tempore inermis eris. 
 Nonfum cui fortuna nocet, v el fata znuabunf, 
 
 Fata canunt magnis, non eecinere meis. 
 Non eecinere meis, licet ifla poemata magnis 
 
 (Simihi vota fauent) fint relegenda locis. 
 
 IN ZOILVM. 
 
 * Mercurium in 
 lingua, non in 
 pedlore geris. 
 
 TExit vt exiguam fubtilis Aranea telam, 
 *Zoi\efcfcriptis tela retorque meis. 
 Torque, retorque, manet mea laus, mea gloria maior, 
 
 Quo magis exhaufta efl gloria maior erit. 
 Vlcifcar fcriptis : tua mens tuus vltor adibit, 
 
 Inuidice flimulis mens tua puncla tuis. 
 Pone mifer miferez monumenta miferrima vitce, 
 Vixifli mifero more, miferq. mori. 
 
 IN PARONEM. 
 
 PAro parem, nee habet nee habere optat, 
 Impar ell praemijs, impar & laboribus ; 
 Zevues 11 ' Opera carpit mea ftudijs affiduis, 
 
 Tacet, attamen aliena carpit ; 
 
ODES. 
 
 O quantse tenebrse tenuere locum, 
 Tuum, Cymmerijs inuolutum vmbris ? 
 Vt minus afflares aliorum operibus, 
 Opera corrigis, emendare neqitis ; 
 Oleum & operam perdidit Paro 
 Per aurea fecula tranfeat Maro. 
 Non plura referam, reticere iuuat, 
 Si tu maleuolam reprimes linguam, 
 Sin male dicendo pergas difpergere 
 Hifce teterrima crimina fcriptis, 
 Scribam, liuorem irritare magis 
 Torquendo rigidi vifcera Paronis. 
 
 311 
 
 Vid. Martial, in. 
 Lib. 3. Epigr. 
 in Zoilum. 
 Conuiua quif- 
 quis Zoili po- 
 teft effe, &c. 
 
 rumpantur 
 
 ilia Codri inui- 
 dia. 
 
 Crefcant & 
 crepant. Vid. 
 Apotheg. 
 
 AD INVIDVM. 
 
 Exeat Menippus. 
 
 Nuidus vlcifcens vltor fibi maximus effet, 
 ; Namjlupet Me malis fie fieriendo fuis. 
 
 I 
 
 AD SEIPSVM. 
 
 Intret Ariflippus. 
 
 V tibi res folitus non te fubiungere rebus > 
 Me peritura doces fpernere, fpreta pati. 
 
 T 
 
 FINIS. 
 
312 
 
 Danc'd are my Meafures, now I tnuft repofe, 
 (Retire at leajl) and laugh at vertues foes, 
 Who let themfrowne, fume, fret, this is my Mot, 
 My fpirit's aboue their fpite ; Ifeare them not. 
 
 Faults are as obuious to bookes in Preffe, as mif- 
 conftruction after. Do me the fauour to correct 
 fuch efcapes with thy pen as are paft in the Print : 
 for fuch as are more confequent they are here no- 
 ted, for the impertinent they are to thy difcreeter 
 iudgement referred. 
 
 Errata. 
 
 Pag. Tab. for fubihft, reade in fome coppies fubieft. 
 pag. 48. line vlt. for liuer. leaue. pag.. 51. 1. 15. for thas, r. that 
 p.68.1.i6.for fuppreffed, r. fuppreft. p. 79. 1. 14. for heare, r.feare. 
 p. 1 10. 1. vlt. for marks, marts, p. 160. 1. 8. for excellent, r.exqui- 
 fite. p. 161. 1. i.adde, are euer to be. p. 164. for eminent, r.immi- 
 nent. ibid. tit. ij/ecrBoX.. ij/eaSo<ji. ttoXijot. p. 209. in marg. adde, 
 iffue.