CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 189I BY HENRY WILLIAMS SAGE Cornell University Library PR 3461.F8 1868a The poems and translations in verse(incl 3 1924 013 182 989 Cornell University Library The original of tliis bool< is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924013182989 THE POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS IN VERSE: (INCLUDING FIFTY-NINE HITHEETO UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS) OP THOMAS FULLER D.D. AND HIS MUCH-WISHED FOEM OP PEAYEE; FOB TBB FIRST TIME COLLECTED AND EDITED. WITH Introtuctton antf i^otes BY THE REV. ALEXANDER B. GEOSAET, LIYEBPOOL. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 1868. 100 Copies only. CHAWFOBn ASD M'CABE, rHMTKHB, GEOEOB STimET. KBIlIBimGH. TO HIS GEACE Eije ^rcpisfjop at ©uiltm May it please youe Geacb, Having done me the honour to suggest that I should edit and re-print the ' Pisgah-Siglit of Palestine:' and which only the pressure of other engagements compelled me to deny myself of, — I cannot hesitate in regarding you as a lover of Thomas Fuller. I ask your kind acceptance, therefore, of the dedication of this little volume of his Poems and Verse- Translations. With much regard and gratitude for theo- logical and spiritual benefit received from your Works, I am, Very Faithfully your Grace's Obliged, ALEXANDER B. GROSART. INTRODUCTION. SUSPECT that the first impression of those who hear of the present little volume or who take it up, will be that it is some such literary quiz as Sir Walter Scott half-thought of perpetrating in relation to David Hume. A short quotation from his genial letter wLU. explain: — 'We visited Corby Castle on our return to Scotland,' he writes to Mori'itt, ' which remains in point of situation as beautiful as when its walks were celebrated by David Hume, in the only rhymes he was ever know to be guilty of. Here they are, from a pane of glass in an inn at Carlisle — Here chickens in eggs for breakfast sprawl, Here godless boys God's glories squall, Here Scotchmen's heads do guard the wall, But Corby's walks atone for all.' Then playfully, ' Would it not be a good quiz to advertise the Poetical Wcrrks of David Hume, with notes, critical, historical, and so forth — with an historical inquiry into the use of eggs for breakfast, a physical discussion on the causes of (l INTRODUCTION. their being addled, a liistory of the English Church music and of the choir of Carlisle in particular; a fidl account of the affair of 1745, with the trials, last speeches and so forth, of the poor plaids who were strapped up at Carlisle ; and lastly, a full and particular description of Corby, with the genealogy of every family who ever possessed it ? I think even mthout more than the usual ivaste of margin, the Poems of David would make a decent twelve shilling touch. I shall think about it when I have exliausted mine own century of inventions.'' Even students of Fuller I find have never so much as seen his longest ' Divine Poem,' are unfamiliar with his ' Panegyrick,' and have over- looked his lesser things. So that unless I much mistake this volume of 'Poems and Translations' bearing his sunny name will come as a surprise — a pleasant surprise surely — to not a few of liis lovers. But they will not be ' bamboozled ' (if the. slang word he allowable) with any such ' Notes ' and ' Inquiries ' as loveable Sib Walter jocosely designed for Hume's quatrain. I had resolved to edit and print a hmited private edition of 'David's Hainous Sinne, Heartie Repentance, Heavie Punishment,' and the 'Pane- ' Life by Lockhart c. xxxv. INTRODUCTION. 7 gyrick,' as on talking with fellow-reverers of Fuller, I discovered that not one in a score had once met with them, while all were wishful to have them if only they might he purchased under Bibliomania-price. My own copy of the former had cost me £5, 5s., and the latter £2, 2s. ;i and inquiry soon satisfied that in the hook- market they were deemed cheap at these (com- paratively) high prices, e.g. in the British Museum copy which is hound in saffron morocco, but cropped mended and soiled, there is a memo- randum that it had sold for £17 at Brand's Sale (whose book-plate is on it) ; and for the 'Pane- gyriok' — ^which is in virgin state, uncut edges — I was soon offered £3, 3s. So that — independent of intrinsic worth and interest — ^if these could be faithfully and worthily reproduced for fewer pence than the pounds they readily fetch in the original editions, I thought a little literary service should be rendered thereby. But on proceeding to carry this out it soon appeared that more was demanded. ' A copy of David's Hainous Sinne, etc., was recently on sale by Mr Joseph Lilly (a bookseller of the fine old stamp), Covent Garden, London, thus described, ' a Poem, small octavo, calf extra, gUt edges, tbe last leaf containing the concluding (only) verses reprinted, £u, 5s.' I believe it was snapped up instantly. Bindley's copy brought £o, 15s. 6d. Hibbert's, which was the same copy, £6, 6s. O INTRODUCTION. For on turning to my marked copies of the 'Worthies,' 'Church-History,' 'Pisgah-Sight:' in short to Fuller's complete Works, I came on many ' Verses ' — mainly translations from the Latin — having, occasionally at least, the salt of wit, the dainty fancies, the inimitable word-play and alliteration, the brilliant conceits — as of ancient tores of gold — the kindly humour, the soft delicate pitifulness, of this most loveable of England's Worthies. [T don't — as usual — call him 'dear old Fuller:' for alas! he died aged only 53]. All this being so, I concluded to give the whole of his Poems and Verse-Translations. StiU further : My attention having been obKg- ingly called by Mr W. C. HazUtt to his com- munication to Notes and Queries (3d Series vii. pp. 352, 353), concerning a volume formerly belonging to him, wherein were written in a contemporary hand a large number of Epigrams by ' Mr Tho. Fuller,' inquiries were set on foot to discover its present possessor. By the kind zeal of Mr F. S. Ellis, Bookseller, 33 King Street, Covent Garden, London, I speedily re- covered the precious little book, and obtained unreserved permission to use whatever I might wish in it. The Epigrams authenticate them- selves : many being truly FiiUerian. I congratu- Litf myself on my rare good fortune in having it INTRODUCTION. 9 in my power to add this treasure- trove to my collection. I beg to return right hearty thanks to its owner (H. H. Gibbs Esq., London), for his ready liberality that enables me to do this. Thus the present volume — as its title-page bears — not only furnishes Fuller's larger Poems, but 'for the first time' brings together the minor ' Verses ' scattered up and down his numerous prose writings, and no fewer than fifty-nine hitherto unpublished Epigrams by him. Eegarding ' the Poems and Translations ' in- trinsically, I prefix — in its place — the Critcism of his longest poem by Oldys. P)Ut he has missed its biographic interest and its most characteristic turns and touches. Biographically it is to be remembered that as 'David's Hainous Sinne,' etc. was published in 1631 it was probably composed when he was little out of his ' teens.' — So that his first known production confirms Charles Lamb's penetrative insight in his winsome words on his genius : ' The writings of Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint and with suffi- cient reason : for such was Ms natural Mas to conceits, that I doubt not, upon most occasions, it would have been going out of his icay to have expressed himself out of them.' In his earliest as in his last book is the same ' Eoman hand,' the same inevitableness, naturalness and spontaneity B 10 INTBODUCTION. of ' quaint ' thought and wording. I cull a few examples of word-play from 'David's Hainous Sinne : ' and sure I am that no one familiar with FuLLBE will fail to detect in them the very essentia of his after-style. Thus he puts poor Uriah's eager obedience in carrying the king's false and fatal ' Letter,' — On his journey past With speed, who needed not to make such hast Whose death had he gone slow did come too fast. [I. St. 33.] Again, wisely as well as wittily : Where Kings hid and God forbids, we must f orbeara llUd. St. 44.] And of Uriah finely — Thus of his friends betray'd by subtill traine : Assaulted of his foes with might and maine He lost his life, not conquered but slain [Ibid. St. 46.] So of the 'infant newly borne, now neare to dye' very tenderly — See with what silent signee and sighes full faine Poore heart it would expresso where lies the paine Complaining that it knowes not to complaine [III. St. 3.] Again — His tongue did never lye that cannot sp^e. [Ibid. St. 5.] INTRODUCTION. 1 1 Then follows this dainty metaphor — As wlien a tender roso begins to blow Yet scarce unswadled is, some wanton maide Pleas'd with the smell, allured with the show Will not reprive it till it hath display'd The folded leaves : but to her brest applies Th' abortive budd, where oofflnfed it lyes Losing this blushing dye before it dies. [Ibid. st. 7.] Here is a genuinely Fullerian and later George CRABBB-ian alliteration — on ' the poor larke imprison'd in the cage of a kite's claws ' vainly pleading for escape On her that pray'd so long, doth prey at last. [Ibid. St. 14.]' Again : of Absalom's mock-condescension — He Bteales their hearts by taking of their hands. {Ibid. St. 25.] Incisively too A saint dissembled is a double devile. [Ibid. st. 28.] Asse, that for wit his rider did exceed. \Jbid. st. 34.] Then, more fully and with still more characteris- tic touches : > Wo have many like lines e.g. of the ' asse ' whereon Absalom rode, set free Now rid of him that rid on her before. [III. st. 45.] So— A fruitfuU wilderuesse of fruitlesse weeds. [Ibid. st. 48.] Seldome things done speedily doe speed. [Ibid. st. 53.] Losing their gettings, gaining what they lost. [Ibid. St. 68.] 1 2 INTEODDCTION. A chayne of hempe he to liis necke made fast By tying of which knot he did untye The knot uf soulo and body, and at last Stopping the passage of his breath, thereby A pasyage for his soule wide opened hee : Thus traytors rather than they should gee free ThemselveH the hangman of themselves will bee. llbid. St. 37.] Again : My Sonne ! whose body had of grace the fill My Sonne ! whoso soule was so devoid of gi'acc. llbid. St. 50.] Further : This ' Divine poem ' is of biographic interest and value in that it reveals Fuller's Calvinism at the time (at least) — on two leading ' doctrines ' c.ff. Predestination or Election. . . Soone with a word the Lord appeas'd this strife Injoyning silence till he did vnfold That precious volmne cald the Booke of Life ^\'hich He the Printer priviledg'd of old Containing those He freely did imbrace : Nor ever would I wish an higher grace Tliau in this Booke to hae the lowest placu. Within this Booke ho sought for David's name WhieUTliaviug found Ho proffered to blot (And David surely wull dosorv'd the same That did his nature so witli sinno bcspot) Thougli none are blotted out but such as never AVero written in ; nothing God's love can sever ; Once written there are written there lor over. [IL St. 5, 6.] INTRODUCTION. 13 Similarly on Original Sin : — But all ! this infant's giult from him proceeds Tliat knew the least when most he sought to know : Who most was nak't when oloathed in his weeds Best oloathed then when naked he did goe : In vayne the wit of wisest men doth strive ' To cut off this intayle, that doth derive Death unto all when first they are alive. [III. St. 6.] It is'only due to our "Worthy to add Hs ' charit- able ' stanza on the absence of the rite of baptism: So this babe's life, newly begun, did end Which sure receiv'd the substance though not sigu'd With grace's seale : God freely doth attend His ordinance, but will not be confin'd Thereto when 'tis not neglected nor despis'd They that want water are by fire baptiz'd Those sanctify'd that ne're were circumcis'd. [III. St. 8.] Besides these theological opinions we have in this Poem — and elsewhere — unmistakeable utterances on kindred matters. I select these four — prefix- ing headings — 1. Dmnk&nness : My prayers for friends prosperity and wealth Shall ne'ro be wanting : but if I refuse To hurt myself by drinking others' health Oh let ingenious natures mco excuse : If men bad manners this esteeme, then I Desire to be esteem'd unmannerly That to live well will suffer wine to dye. [I. St. 27.] 14 INTRODUCTION. 2. Preaching : Goe fond affoctors of a flantiug straino Whose sermons strike at sinnes with slenting blowes! Give me the man that's powerfull and plaiue The monster Vice vnmasked to expose : Such preachers doe the soule and marrow part And cause the guilty conscience to smart Such please no itching eares but peirce the heart. [II. St. 22.J 3. Female-hnmUlty : Ah ! happy age when ladies leam't to bake And when kings daughters knew to knead a cake. Eebeoka was cstecm'd of comely hew Yet not so nice her comelinesse to keepe But tliat shee water for the cammells drew : Kachell was faire, yet fedd her father's uheepo But now for to supply Eebecka's place Or doe as Kachell did is counted base : Our dainty dames would take it in disgrace.' ^ [III. St. 11, 1-.'.] * This reminds me of an anecdote of a quaint old Scotch ' minister ' of the last century (Mr Comrie of Peunicuik). His Congregation had boon engaged in making a pecuniary effort to pay off debt on the Church by a kind of anticipa- tian of wliat are now called Bazaars. It did not prove a success ; and mainly through the lack of zeal of the ladies, (^haf^riiud, Mr Comrie in a speech aftorwards, looldng the gay-dressed fair ones full in the face remarked dryly, ' The leddios noo-a-days pit mo in mind o' the Lilies [All atten- tion expecting a compliment] — the!/ toil not neither do they spin.' INTEODUCTION. 15 4. False-fyicndsMp : Before such kisses come vpou my face Oh ! let the deadly scorpion me sting Yea rather than such armes should me imbrace Let curling snakes about my body cling ; Than such faire words I'do rather the fowle Vntuned schreeching of the dolefuU owle Or heare the direfull mountaine-wolfo to howle. lliid. St. 26.] I must leave the reader to dig for like nuggets. Preceded by George Peelb in his 'Love of King David and Fair Bet'sabe with the Tra- gedie of Absalom' (1599) and coming into com- parison -with the ' Davideis ; a heroical poem on the troubles of David,' of Abeaham Cowley — his contemporary and feUow-student at Cam- bridge — Fuller's first Poem loses nothing beside them. The ' Panegyrick' has happy lines : and was the genuine utterance of our large-hearted Worthy's loyalty to his ideal of monarchy. Hence the transfiguration of Charles the Second. Histori- cally it is valuable as an evidence of the glowing hopes that centred in the ' merry monarch.' The actual ' Life ' Fuller did not witness. He was ' gone ' before the brightness of the exile-years paled into foulest Mght. High-pitched as is his praise it is low compared with innumerable con- 1 G INTRODUCTION. temporary ' Welcomes ' still preserved in the British Museum and elsewhere.^ The Translation-verses I have already char- acterized: though truth to tell many of them only two faithfully answer his own apologetic description, ' Yet hecause some love poetry, either very good or very bad, that if they cannot learn from it, they may laugh at it, they are here in- serted.'^ Others are in daintiness of wording and quaintness of their turns as the Songs of Shakespere and Jonson to their Plays. The ' Flowers ' must lose in their transplantation (or cutting) even with the words as so much living ' One of the most astoimding of these productions is the following KAPO'AOT rpeufttyiaTOv 'Erri^avia : The Most Gloriovs Star or Celestial Constellation of the Pleiades or Charles Waino. Appearing and shining most brightly in a Miraculous manner in the Face of the Sun at Noon day at the Nativity of our Sacred Soveraign King Charles 2. Pre- saging his Majesties Exaltation to future Honour and Great- ness, Transcending not only the most potent Christian Prince, in Europe^ but by Divine Designment ordained tti be the most MUjhty Monarch in the Vnirerse. Never any Starre having appeared before at the birth of any (the Highest hmimne Hero") except our Saviour. Behold a King shall reign in righteousness. Psal. .32. 1. By Edw. Mathew of the Middle Ttnijih' Esq. London, Printed for the use and benefit of William Byi-on, Gent. 16C2 [12°]— Title-page— Ep: Dedy pp. 12 — Treatise pp. 156 — Two engravings adorn (!) the volume. '' ' Worthies ' [London]. INTRODUCTION. 17 earth — Fuller's earth, Fuller himself would have said — attached : ay, wore they put into ' Pots ' such as Keats' 'basil' grew in. Still I have given as much of the context in which the ' Verses ' occur as to impart interest. I do not at all claim poetic genius for ' rare ' Thomas Fullee, or for independent poetic fame. But everything that serves to furnish insight into the whole nature of a great man has its own use and worth. It is noticeable that while he did not follow up his ' David's Hainous Sinne,' etc., with other poems of like length and kin, he yet kept singing unto the end. There must have been a string that vibrated to the subtle ' breath' when the music — and words to it — was so inevitable and irrepressible. Biographers and critics have failed as it seems to us, to recognise this element in the large, rich, most winsome nature of our Worthy. I scrupulously adhere to the original text throughout, retaining Fuller's own orthography ;! ' I must ask the stxident, however, to keep in mind that with very few exceptions the present apostrophe of the possessive case was unemployed by Puller and his contem- poraries— «.<;., wo read not Truth's but Truths, Eomes not Home's. I have also somewliat modified the use of capitals and italics, which are used very arbitrarily. C 18 IXTRODUCTIOX. agreeing herein with the venerated Keble that ' in one respect especially, i.i-. as a specimen and monument of language, ancient books lose very much of their value by the neglect of ancient orthography.'^ For popular, practical use, mo- dernization of spelling is not only permissible, but absolutely necessary. On the other hand, to the circle to whom this reprint addresses itself, faithfulness in the author is a «ne qua nrm. I have used all the care that I coidd command : and I venture to hope not in vain.^ A few Xotes explanatory of names and references, bear my initial G. Those of Fuller himself, F. Of course in the Translation-Verses and originals from his prose AVorks the reader must turn to the several places for further information as to names and things introduced. It were mis- placed annotation to enlarge on these ia such a small venture as the present. Besides the Poems and Verse-Translations ' Keble's Hooker, Vol. I. . Preface page viii (cdn. 1841, .S vols. x). I have mai-koii the notireahle words in foot- notes. 2 I cannot expect to bo found faxiltless, for even so srholarlj' and able an editor as Dr Nuttall in his edition of the ' Wortliiis ' very often errs — e.g., in No. LI"\'. of our ixtracts from the ' Worthies ' he misreads 'paths for iiarts,' and reduces the sweet couplet to nonsense: in No. LXIV. for 'townsmen' reads 'townmen.' IN'TKODUCTIOX. 19 and Epigrams as onunierated, I give as an Appendix the ' Form of Prayer ' used by Dr Fuller. The book in wliich it is contained is of the very rarest ; and hence in Notes and Queries and elsewhere this ' Form ' has been repeatedly inquired for — in vain. To the eru- dite Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge (W. Aldis "Wright, Esq., M.A.) I am indebted for this addition to the Fulleriana of our volume. I close this Introduction with some pat lines from that finely-touched old Translator — Arthur GoLDiNG, which I have chanced on unreferenced in my Common Place Book : — Whoso doth attempt this Author's works to read Must bring with him «, stayfed head and judgment to proceed ; For as there be most wholesome bests and precepts to be found So aro there rocks and shallow shelves to run the ship a-ground. ALEXANDER B. GROSART. o08 Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool. P.S. — As I send my Manuscript to the Printers there reaches me a reprint of ' David's Hainous Sinne, etc., tacked on to Fuller's Party- coloured-Coat, a Comment on 1 Corinthians xi.,' etc. The volume is edited by Mr WiUiam Nichols, 20 INTRODUCTION. and forms one of a number of Fuller-reprints from the house of Tegg — most welcome ! But the modernisation of the orthography of the Poem is inexcusable. In no respect can it come into competition with our volume apart from its giving only one of the poetic productions of the Author. G. CONTENTS. Introduction, Oldys on ' David's Hainous Sinne,' etc., with Notes, I. David's Hainous Sinne, . , Heartie Repentance, „ Heavie Punishment, . II. A Panegyrick on His Majeatie's Happie Betum, III. Verses prefixed to Sparkes' ' Scintilla AUaris,' IV. Ad Serenissimum Regem, iV. From 'Rex Redux,' VI. Echo-Song, VIL From the 'Church History,' Page 1. Alban: Martyr, . 114 2. St German, . . .114 3. On a woman who would enter a Church from which women were excluded, . . . 114 4. Easter in Britain, . . 114 5. Lines from Taliesen (?), 115 6. Foundation of Univer- sity of Cambridge, . 116 7. Victory of Oswald, . 116 8. Oswald 117 9. Wilfride's deprivation of the Bishopric of York, . . .117 Adelme,B'pofSherboru, 118 Alba, since Rome, . 118 Martyrdom of King Ed- mond, . .118 Alfred and Edward, . 119 Dunstan, . . .119 The good daughter of a bad father, . . 120 Francis I. captive in Spain, . . 121 Page . 5 - V 33 54 . 64 91 . 106 . 110 . Ill . 112 . 112 Translations of Scrip- ture 121 Outhbert receiving the Communion in the Cup, ... 122 Against Marriage, . . 122 A'Beckett's Martyrdom, 123 Henry n., . . 124 Hugh Nevil, . . .124 Richard the Lion- hearted, . . . 125 Learned Writers, 'Bale and Pitts,' . . . 120 Baconthorpe, . . . 12t> William Occam, . . 126 Edward and ' native sub- jects,' . . .127 Wat Tyler and Jack Sti-aw, . 127 Simon Sudbui*y, . 128 Chaucer ' Our Homer,' . 12!) Chaucer, . 129 Eton, . . 129 Retribution, . . 130 Jesuits, . 131 CONTENTS. Page 35. Feasts of Ely Abbey, . 131 36. Bells, . . . .132 37. Marshes of Mantua, . Vi'I 38. John Leland to Henry VUI 133 H'.K Against the Masse, . 133 40. Dr Hugh Price, . . 13^ 41. Cox, Bishop of Ely, . 136 42. Verses by Mary Queen of Scots, , . . 13(i VIII. From ' History of University of Cambridge "— 1. Cambridge, . . . 139 I 3. Henry and Charles Brau- '2. Humphery Necton, . 140 | don, Dukes of Suffolk, 140 IX. From ' Pisgah-Sight of Palestine ' — Pa-e 43. Epitaph on Luke Cho- loner, .... 44. Humphrey Eli, 4.>. Gimpowder Plot, . 46. The Brothers Rainolda, 47. Intended CoUedge, 48. Prince Henry, 49. The Conference, . i:i7 137 137 137 13H 13« 139 From letter-press. Wine of Palestine, . . 141 Libanus' Yews, . .142 Dagon, .... 142 Semiramis and the doves, 142 Levite's Concubine, . 143 Sepulchres, . . . 14;i Tabernacle and Temple, 143 Giants, , . . .144 Horses in Sacrifice to the Sun, . . .144 10. Dew, . 144 U. Egypt, . . . 14-5 12. Mock-tears, . . 145 13. Idols, . 146 14. Idol-calf, . 146 (6) From the Maps. 1. Engraved title-page, . 146 2. Palestine, . 146 3. Jerusalem, . 147 4. Fragmenta Sacra, . . 147 X. From ' The Holy Warre '■ 1. Issues, 2. Baldwlne, 3. tAlexius, . 4. King Fulk, 5. Frederick, 6. tCom-adc, . 148 . 149 . 150 . 150 . 151 . 151 7. King Guy, . . . 1-52 8. KingRichard' prisoner,' 152 9. French Rhyme: Cru- sades, .... 153 10. The Pastorells killed in France, . . 153 XI. From -The Holy State '— 1. The Elder Brother, . 153 2. The Younger Brother, . 154 3. Julius Scaliger, . . 154 4. The Faithful Minister, . 155 5. William Perkins, . 155 6. Simony 156 7. The Good Patron, . .166 8. Hope Disappointed, . 107 !). Tombes 15s 10. The same, . 151) 11. tFinis. . 1511 12. Moderation, . 151) Gravitie, . Grand Churches, . The Good Bishop, . Augustine, Ridley and Hooper, Lady Jane Grey, Queen Eliznlmth and the Spanish 'Emhas- sadour,' Gustavus Adolphus, Heir-apparent, 160 160 160 161 161 162 162 lC:i 164 XII. From ' The Profuiic State '— 1. The Iliulot, 2. Joan of Ai'C, 3. Atheist, 164 I 4. Jehu I(i5 164 5. tAbolition of Universities, 166 165 I 0. The Liar, . . . 166 COXTEN"TS. 23 Xm, From ' Abel Reilevivua ' — 1. Berengarius, '2. John HusR, o. Jerome of Prague, . 4. Cranmer, ii;s ic:i , 109 fi, John Fox, G. Fr: Junius, 7. William Perkins, Page . 170 . 171 . 172 XIV. From ' Mixt Contemplations ' and ' Personal Meditations ' — 1. All tor the Present, . . . 172 2. Niniveh, . . . . 173 3. Good Augury, . 178 4. Ovid's Line, . . 174 XV. From ' The Worthies '— 1. ScarletHabitofCardinalB,174 2. Lord Chancellors, . 174 3. Needless Books, . . 175 4. Modem Pamphleteers, . 175 s. tHenry Keble, . 176 fi. Charity, . . 177 7. Surnames, . 178 8. Associates, . 178 9. Descents, . . .179 10. ' Haste makes Waste,' . 179 11. Episcopacy and Presby- tei-y, . . .180 12. Living Persona, . . 180 13. Numerousuess of Writers, 181 14. Birth-place, . . .181 15. English ape the French, . 181 16. tEoyal Children, . 181 17. Sir John Mason, . . 182 18. Ancient Gentry, . . 182 19. tBichard Cox and Prince Edward, . .182 20. Dame Hester Temple, . 182 21. Baskets, . . .183 23, Matthew Paris, . 183 23. Simon Steward, . 183 24. Beestone Castle, . 183 25. tDaniel King, . . 184 20. Dreams, . 184 27. Tongilian, . 185 28. Cornish, . . .185 29. Michael Blaunpayn, . 185 30. Richard Carew and Sir Philip Sidney, . 187 31. Sympathy, . 187 32. John Salkeld, . . 1S7 33. Chatsworth, . 187 34. Buxton Well, . . 188 35. Battle of Alcaser, . 188 36. Sir Francis Drake, . . iss 37. Samuel Ward, . 189 38. Sir Henry Killigrew, . 190 39. fThomas Barington and ' spouse,' . 190 Higre and Adria, . . 191 Thomas de la More, 191 Charles Butler, . . 191 William, 2d sou of Ed- ward HI., . . 193 Alexander Nequam, . 192 tWiUiam of Ware, . . 193 Wye-salmon, . . 193 Adam de Easton, . . 193 William Sempster, . 194 Humphrey Ely, . . 194 Rosamund, . . . 194 Sir Robert Cotton, . . 194 Interpretation of a Pro- verb, . . 195 Germans, . . . 195 tEdmund, youngest son of Henry vn., . 19.5 Sir James Hales, . 195 Richard Fletcher, . 196 Sir Thomas Wyat, . . 196 New Kings, . . 196 WiUs, . . 196 Worth, , . 196 Fleet-hounds, . . 196 Grey-hounds, . . 197 Mastiffs, . . .197 Lost ' Commons,' . . 197 Ayscougb, Bp. of Sarum, 197 Thomas Goodrich, . . 197 Hampton-Court. . . 198 Fulke de Brent and his Wife 198 tKatherine, 3d daughter of Henry VIH., . . 198 tWives of Henry VIII., . 199 William Cotton, D.D., . 199 Edmund Spenser, . . 199 London, . . 199 Charles IL, . 200 Bishop Aylmer, . 200 'An end,' . 200 William Lillv, 200 24 CONTENTS. Page Page 7S. Sir Robert Dallington, 201 102. William Ockham, . 210 79. John Fletcher, the 103. Epigram, . 210 'Dramatist,' 201 104. Dr Barlow, . . 210 80. Peter Pateshull, . 202 lo.j. Sir Thomas Shirley, . 210 81. Laxton, . . 202 106. Heraldry-rhyme, . . 210 82. Friars, . . 202 107. Baucis and Philemon 88. Thomas Magnus, . 20.3 applied to Mr and Mrs 84. Venison, 203 Underhill, . . . 210 8.5. Quarrels. 204 IDS. Patrons, . . 211 86. tWlfe of Peter Martyr 204 109. Customs, . 211 87. War, 20.5 110. Queen Jane Seymour, 211 88. Sword, . 205 111. Bonner, . . 212 89. Ealph of Shrewsbury, . 205 112. Geat, 212 90. tWilliam Adams, . 205 113. Daphne, . . 212 91. William Grociue, . 206 114. Eustathius de Fancon 92. Staffordshire, 206 bridge. 212 93. From Virgil, . . 207 115. tThomas Johnson, 213 94. tCathedral Churches, 207 116. Robert the Scribe, 213 9.5. Bury, 207 117. Rhyme, . 213 90. St Edmund, . 207 118. Cathedral of York, 213 97. Stephen Gardiner, 208 119. Albane Hill, . 213 iis. Lydgate's Epitaph, 208 120. Rhymes, 214 99. Samuel Ward, . 208 121. William Breton, . 214 100. Sir William Cordal, 209 122. Wonders, 214 101. Parkhurst to Jewel, 209 123. Richard Vaughan, 214 XVI. Epitaph on Denys HoUe, Esq., . XVn. From ' Andronicus,', XVin. Hitherto Unpublished Epigrams— . 215 . 216 1. Adam, . . . .221 2. Noah, .... 221 5. Leah 221 4. Joseph and his Mistress, 222 6. Ziporah, .... 222 6. Moses smiteinge ye Rock, 222 7. Batle with Amalecke, . 222 8. Joshauah, . . . 223 9. Alter Ed, . . .223 10. Sampson's Jawe-bone, . 223 11. Ephi-aimites, . . .223 12. Elijah 223 l:). Zacheus 224 14. Powder-plot, . . 224 15. Vaine Excuses, . . 224 16. Gallants Cloal.es, . . 224 17. Popish Interpretation of Scripture, . . .224 18. Sin 224 19. Whether Scripture or tradition ye mother of faith, . • . . 32.") 20. Pope Innocent, . . 22.5 21. C"m-hoaril(>is, . . 226 22. (Ml Joseph's .Mistress, . 226 ■,':i. .lacch, . 226 24. Paul's Jorney to Damas- cus, . . . .226 Philistines, . . .226 Michal'a Mockinge, . 227 On Peter's words ' shal I smite?' . . .227 Bugbears, . . . 227 Sampson, . . .227 Manasse, . . . 227 Jacob 227 Noah's dove, . . . '228 A prayer, . . . 228 Peter's Sinkinge, . . 228 On his Successors, . . 228 On pride in cloaths, 228 Zacheus, .... 22S Musculus, . . . 228 One more knave than foole, . . . .229 David's three Worthys, . 2'29 Sampson, . . . 229 A prayer, . . . 229 On ye men of Sodom, . 229 Nabotli accused, . . 230 Jai-ol), . . 230 Ehud, . . 280 CONTENTS. 25 Page 47. Israelites in ye Wilder- ness 230 48. Perseverance, . . . 230 49. James and .tolln wish- inge Are on ye Samari- tans, . . . .230 50. Paul's danger, . . 231 51. Jael, . . .231 52. Hezekiah, . . 231 53. Jehoshaphat, . . .231 54. Isaac, .... 232 55. Sampson's weapons, . 232 56. Jepthee's daughter, . 232 67. Ely ye priest, . . .232 58. Sampson and John Bap- tist, . . . .232 59. ChristLookinge on Peter, 233 Notes on Epigrams, . . 233 Appendix— Form of Prayer, 237 *»* Owing to an oversight, the verses from the ' Profane State' in our book ai'e numbered XI. instead of XII., and those that follow ought to have continued XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII., XVIII. Notice that -j- opposite verses indicate that they are original, not translated. G. LDYS on ' David's Hainous Sinne,' etc., from BiograpMa Britannica[Vol. iii. page 2050, folio.] ' The first per- formance of OUT author that has appeared to us in print, being a divine poem. Very rare to be met with, and having had no description of it, the fol- lowing account may not be unacceptable to the curious. It is entitled . . A critical reader of poetry might find matters of remark in it; either to commend in some agreeable descriptions, natural similies, and instructive reflections ; or to censure in some few parts of the style, which were fashion- able elegancies in those times : but in the whole romising that had he persevered in the study and culture of poetry, his genius might have advanced him to some considerable rank among those con- temporaries who were then favorites of the Muses. His good sense and ingenuity at that age is dis ■ tinguishable enough ; his versification is more compact or limited, and usually flows with smoother cadence than that of some riper wits 28 OLDTS ON of great name in tliose days. Among other observable parts, the very proposition and in- vocation are very comprehensive, solemn, and regular : the persuasions of David by the Spirit and the Flesh ; with the description of Uriah's drunkenness, are very natural: the obsequious offer of the Elements to destroy David upon his transgression, and after his restitution to relieve and cherish him, are somewhat picturesque, and touching upon Spencer's imag[e]ry in miniature : his comparison of those variable elements upon this occ^on, to temporising courtiers, who will fawn upon a minister when he is restored to favour, as fast as they flouted him in disgrace, looks to have something in it perfectly alive ; and so does that figure wherein we may imagine that we see Absalom cringing with supple neck and knees about the court, to gather up what alms and fragments he could of popular favour and interest, by seizing upon one man's hand to steal away his heart, and sucking out the soul of another vnih deceitful kisses ; inquiring the name of this, the business of that, and the country of t'other, to serve them all ! prostituting his promises and enslaving himself to errant slaves : in whom also we have a further glimpse of pride itself, grovel- ling to be oxaltod to grandeur, and exercising all the abject spirit of the most beggarly poor, to David's hainous sinne. 29 worm itself into riches : or as one author reads it^ ' Proud men are base to compass their desires ; Tliey lowest crouch that highest do aspire.' ' But this is a picture not near so agreahle as that of plaiQ-dealing Ifathan, in his state of modera- tion ; the knowing and communicative, the kind and compassionate M'athan, who heing skilled in lancing a fester'd soul, in searching and tenting the sore, and stanching a bleeding-hearted sinner, would heal his wounds vrith the sovereign balsam of counsel, or bind up the disjointed members of his troubled mind. He was neither oppressed with that plenty which made him envied nor distressed with that penury which made him despised : his pursuits were circumscribed to his possessions ; and as he was in no needful want, he thought wanton need most despicable ; or that want in sufficiency was the true mother of contempt : so, as his desires were planted within the most temperate situations of command, they ' A similar turn of thought occurs in his Andronicus when the usurper ceremoniously Mssed the feet of the young monarch. ' The spectators variously commented on his prodigious humility therein; some conceiving lie meant to build high became he began so low.' G. 30 OLDYS ON produced the sweetest fruits of content ; for, as our poet says : ' High hills are parch'd with heat or hid with snow, And humble dales, soon drown'd, that lie too low, Whilst happy grain on hanging hills doth grow.' ' Descriptions more flowery might be hither trans- planted ; such as are so gently strewed over David's child Ln death, and others ; but as his gravity in this poem prevails over the natural gaiety of his genius, we have chosen in this liistori- cal work to instance those few particulars which are rather in the edifying and profitable than to hunt after such as may run into a more pleasing and poetical vein. At the close of this per- formance our author having subsided into the characters of Queen EUzabeth, King James, and King Charles I., and lamented the loss of the ' Campbell uses a somewhat similar figure where he speaks of the stations of hfo best fitted for Tragedy : ' Even situations far depressed beneath the familiar mediocrity of life are more picturesque and poetical than its ordinary level. It is, certainly, on the virtues of the middling ranks of life that the strength and comforts of society chiefly depend, in the same manner as we look for the harvest, not in cliffs and precipices, but on the easy slope and uniform plain.' — Specimens. This sentiment well comports with T.'s moderate life. But he was no neuter * of that lukewann temper which heaven and hell doth hate.' — (Andkonicus). G. DAVID S HAINOUS SINNE. 31 Duke of Brunswick, with the discords then in Europe thro' the wars ia the Netherlands, Den- mark, etc., he very properly and piously con- cludes that those grievances may he hewaUed by mankind hut till they are reversed by Pro- vidence, they are more befitting his prayers than his pen.' I. DAVID'S HAINOUS SINNE. NOTE. The original title-page of this ' Divine Poem ' will be found below.* The collation is as follows : Title-page —Dedication 1 page— Poem pp. 73— [12o]— G. Hainovs SrnNE. David's \ Heaktie Repentance. (, Heavie Punishment. Exodus 35. 23. And every man, with whom was found Goales haire, and red skins of Rammes, and Badgers skins, brought them [to the building of the Tabernacle]. Ad Zoilum. Thy Laies thou vtt'rest not, yet carpest mine Carpe mine no longer, or else utter thine. By Thomas Fvller, Master of Arts of Sidnye Colledge in Cambridge. London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for lohn Bellamie, dwelling at the three Golden Lyons in Comehill, 1631.' ^ It may bo noted that ' Thomas Cotes ' was the printer aud publisher of Shakesperc's folio of 1632 (Second edi- tion). G. To the honorable Mr Edward, Mr William, and Mr" Christopher Montagu, sonnes to the Eight honourahle Edward Lord Montagu of Boughton.^ ATEE branches of a stock as faire Each a sonne and each an heire : Two Joseph-Like from sire so sage. Sprung in autunme of his age ; But a Benjamin the other Gain'd with losing of his mother. This fruit of some spare hours I spent To your Honours I present. A king I for my subject have And noble patrons well may crave ; Things tripartite are fit for three, With youths, things youthful best agree ; Take them therefore in good part Of him that ever prayeth in heart That as in height ye waxe apace. Your sords may higher grow in grace. ' Full infoi-matlon concerning this historic family, and these ' youths ' in particular, will be found in ' Court and Society from Elizabeth to Aune. Edited from the Papers of Kimbolton by the Duke of Manchester,' 2 vole. 8vo. 1864. Cf: I. 266 seqq 273 seqq^it alibi. One of the maps in ' Pisgiih-Sight ' is dedicated to the Montagus, tl. 36 DEDICATION. Whilst your father (like the greene Eagle in his scutcheon seene : Which with hill his age doth cast) May longer still and longer last : To see your vertues o're increase Your yeares, ere he departs in peace. Thus I my booke to make an end To you : and you to God commend. Your Honours in all service Tho. FuUer. DAVID'S HAINOUS SINNE. 1. OW Zion's Psalmist grievously- offended How Israel's Harper did most foulely slide, Yet how that Psalmist penitent, amended And how that Harper patient did abide Deserved chastisement (so fitly stil'd Which wrath inflicted not but love most mild Not for to hurt but heale a wanton child.) How one by her owne brother was defiled And how that brother by a brother slaine ; And how a father by his sonne exiled : And by a subject, had a soveraigne : How peace procured after battels fierce As Sol at length doth sullen cloudes dispierce : My Muse intends the subject of her verse. 3. Great God of might whose power most soveraigne Depends of none yet all of Thee depend, 38 David's hainous sinne. Time cannot measure, neither place containe Nor wit of man Thy heing comprehend : For whil'st I thing on Three, I am conlin'd To One, and when I One conceive in minde I am recal'd to Three in One combin'd 4. Thy helpe I crave. Thy furtherance I aske My head, my heart, my hand direct and guide. That whil'st I vndertake this weighty taske I from Thy written lore start not aside : Alas ! 'tis nothing Lord with Thee to hreake The strong : 'tis nothing to support the weake To make men dimibe, to make an infant speake 5. Each one begotten by immortaU seed Becomes the pitcht feild of two deadly foes ; Spirit and flesh, these never are agreed With trucelesse warre each other doth oppose ; And though the spirit oft the flesh doth quell It may subdue but can it not.expell So stoutly doth the Jebusite rebeU^ Now David when on Bathsheba loose eyes He fixt, his lieavcniy halfe did him disswade David's hainous sinne. 39 Tvirne, turne away thy sight from vanities Exchange thy object, else thou wilt be made Vnmindfull of thy soule, her corps^ to minde Made for to lose the truth, such toyes to finde, By looking long, made at the last, starke bHnde. 7. What though her face and body be most faire, Behold, the sun her beauty doth surpass ; His golden beames surmount^ her yellow hayre As far as purest cristaU dyrtie glasse : Her skinne as is the skie not halfe so cleare Her curious veines for colour come not neare Those azure streaks that in the heavens appeare. 8. There let thy hungry sight her famine feede. Whereon it cannot surfet with excesse : Whil'st tongue, heart, harp are tuned vp with speed. The grand-contrivers glory to expresse : Framing with words to rayse his mighty name That with a mighty word did rayse this frame, And by his providence preserves the same. ' The latin ' corpus ' body, not necessarily life-less. G. 2 Surpass e.g. iShakespere 1 Henry VI. v. 3, and Love's Labour Lost y. 2. G. 40 David's hainous sinnb. 9. But let no lustfull thoughts lodge in thy minile, Before that they be borne, they must be kill'd, Or else the man is crueU that is kinde To spare the foes wherewith his soule is spUl'd : And if a wanton motion may request, Leave for to lodge a limbe th' incroaching guest Will soone command roonie to receive the rest. 10. Looke towards the mid-day sun, and thou shalt see A little tower' o're topps of Mils to peepe ; That is the birth place of thy pedygree : Full oft there hast thou fed thy father's sheepe, And kept his flockes vpon the flowry plaine : But now the sheepe-hook of a country swainc Is turn'd the scepter of a soveraigne. 11. God made thee great, oh doe not Him disgrace And by His weighty statutes lightly set : ' The tower of Eder nigh Bethlehem 7 miles from Jeru- salem. F. David's hainods sinne. 41 Hee honour'd thee, oh doe not Him debase; Hee thee rememhred, doe not Him forget : Why should fat' Jeshuiun so wanton grow- As at his maister's head his heeles to throw? Maister : that all his feeding did hestow. 12. Behold high cedars in the valley set They in thy eyes like little shrubhs doe show, Whil'st little shnihbs vpon mount Oliuet Seeme lofty cedars : men whose states are low Their sinnes are not so obvious to sense : In princes, persons of great eminence A smaller fault doth seeme a great offence. 13. But grant, no man thy wickednes espies Sui'ely the Searcher of the reines doth marke Even infant lust? can figg-leaves bleare his eyes? Or can thy shame bee shrowded in the darke ? Darknes shall then be turned into light Yea darknes is no darknes, in His sight But seeme the same to Him both day and night. ' Deut. xxxii. 15. P. 42 David's hainous sinne. U. The Spirit had resolved more to speake But her halfe-spoken words the Flesh confounds : Nor wonder is it, she so vs'd to hreake God's lawes, not passing for to passe their bounds Against man's rules of manners should offend Which was impatient longer to attend Began before her rivall made an end. 15. If euer nature lavishly did throw Her gifts on one which might haue served more Yet make them comely : if shee e're did show The prime, and pride, and plenty of her store. Loe, there's the forme wherein she hath exprest Her utmost power, and done the very best Her maister-peece surpassing all the rest. 16. What if those carelesse tresses were attired ? Sure then her face for comelines transcends : What now seemes lovely then would be admired, if art might but begin where nature ends. Alas ! ten thousand pitties 'tis indeed That princes on so common fare should feed Whilst common men on princely meat exceed. David's hainous sinne. 43 17. Ahvayes the same doth glut the appetite But pleased is our palate with exchange ; Variety of dishes doth delight : Then give thy loose affections leave to range. ForMdden things are best, and when we eate What we have slily gotten by deceit : Those morsels onely make the daynty meate. 18. But oh reserve thy seKe, my maiden muse For a more modest subject, and forbeare To tune such wanton tqyes as may abuse And give distaste vnto a virgin's eare : Such rotten reasons first from hell did flow And thither, let the same in silence goe. Best knowne of them that did them never know. 19. Thus hee that conquer'd men and beast most cruell (Whose greedy pawes with fellon goods were found) Answer'd Goliath's challenge in a duell And lay'd the giant groveling on the ground ; He that of Philistines two hundred slue Xo whit appalled at their grisly hue Him one frayle woman's beauty did subdue. 44 David's hainous sinne. 20. Man is a shippe, affections tlie sayle The world the sea, our sinnes the rocks and shelves, God is the pylot, if He please to fayle And leave the stearing of ns to ourselves Against the rugged rocks wee run amaine Or else the winding shelves doe us detains Till God the Palinure returns againe. 21. Yet David bold to sinne, did fear the shame : He shunn'd the sheath that ran upon the knife : With a fine fetch ^ providing for his fame He fetcheth home Vriah to his wife : So imder his chaste love to cloake his owne Vnlawful lust to fault most caielesse growne. Most carefull that his fault should not be knowne. But in their plots God doth befoole the wise By wayes that none can trace, all must admire : Short of his house that nigh Vriah lyes. And David so came short of his desire : The man a nearer lodging place did use ' Expedient. G. David's hainous sinne. 45 (Which made the king on further plots to muse) And sent home, home to goe, did thus refuse. 23. . The pUgrime arke doth sojourne in a tent : In open fields Joab my lord doth lye, And all the souldiers of his regiment Have earth their heds, the heaven their canopy : . Where bitter blasts of stormy winds are rife. Shall I goe feast, drink, dally with my wife 1 Not, as I live, and by your lordship's life. 24. Then by his servants David did conspire Uriah's lust so dull, with wine to edge : (Venus doth freeze where Bacchus yeelds no fire) By their constraint, he condescends to pledge One common cup that was begun to all Captaines incamped nigh to Kabba wall ; One specially vnto the generall. 25. Abishay next is drunke to Joab's brother And this cupp to a second paves the way ; That orderly doth vsher in another : Thus wine once walking knowes not where to stay : ii) David's haikous sinne. Yea sucli a course methodicall they take In ordering of cupps the same did make Vriah quite all order to forsake. 26. His false supporters soone began to sUpp And if Ms faltring tongue doth chance to light On some long word hee speedily doth clip The traine thereof : yea his deceitfull sight All obiects paired doth present to him : As double faces ; both obscure and dim Seeme in a lying looking-glasse to swim. My prayers for friends prosperity, and wealth Shall ne're be wanting, but if I refuse To hurt myself by drinking others health Oh let ingenious natures niee excuse : If men bad manners this esteeme, then I Desire to be esteem'd unmannerly That to live well will suffer wine to dye. 28. Well did blind Homer see, for to expresse The vice that spawnes all other, when he faines Dame Circe an inchanting sorceresse Wliose cupps made many men foregoe thei brainos David's hainous sinne. 47 Whilst with the witlesse asse one purely^ doats Others mishaped are, like lustfull goates, Or swil-ingrossing swine, with greedy throats. 29. Though bad yet better was Vriah left : Not qiiite a beast though scarse a man; disturb' d In minds, but not distracted nor bereft Of witt ; though drunk yet soberly hee curb'd His lust; being wise though ignorant, to crosse The kings designes who now new thoughts doth tosse FindiQg his former project at a losse. 30. The night with mom-ning-weeds the world becladd When restlesse David for to mend his matter Did make it worse : his naked sinne was bad More monstrous being maskt ; they oft doe scatter The chayne that of God's lawes vnloose a linke : Hee swam before in sinne nigh to the brinke But now he meanes in midst thereof to sinke. 31. Then for a light hee speedily did call (Thou Darknes with his project bst agree'd !) 1 Prettily. G. 48 David's hainous sinne. For paper, pen and inke, to write -vvitliall Thougli sure a poinard might have don the deed Better if hee in Wood had dipped it And on a sheet of paper what he writ A winding sheet far better did befit. 32. This certs I know as sepian juice did sinke Into his spongy paper, sabling o're The same with various-formdd specks of inke Which was so pure and lilly- white before : So spots of sinne the writers soule did stains Whose soylie tincture did therein remaine Till brinish tears had washt it out againe. 33. Next day when Day was scarce an infant growne Vriah (that no mischiefe did mistrust As none hee did decerve, but by his owne Did measure all men's dealings to bee just) Bearing this letter, on his journey past With speed, who needed not to make such hast Whose death had he gone slow did come too fast. 34. Thus crafty maisters when they minde to beate A carelesse boy to gather birch they send him ; David's hainous sinne. 49 The little lad doth, make the rod compleat Thinking his maister therefore will commend liim: But busily imploy'd, he little thought Hee made the net wherein himselfe was caught And must be beaten with the birch hee brought. 35. His journey came well to the welcome end Safe to the^ towne of waters hee attaines Towne which to force Joab his force did bend (l^ought is so hard but vincible by paines) Some with their heads did. plot, some with their hands Did practise yea as ready was the band To serve as was the oaptaine to command. 36. So busie bees, some fly abroad at large Of flowry nectar for to fetch their fill : Some stay at home for to receive their charge And tnistUy the liquor doe distUl : Or bottle it in waxe, whilst others strive Like sturdy martialls, far away to drive The drowsy droanes that harbour in the hive. 1 Eabba. 2 Sam. xii. 27. F. 50 David's hainous sinne. 37. The strong-arm'd archer from his crooked bow Made a strait shaft with dismall newes to speed Into the towne, which ne're return'd to show The sender how his message did succeed : Yea heavie bodies mounted were on high, Dull stones to which dame Nature did deny Peete for to goe, Art made them wings to fly. 38. WhUst in the towne one with his friend did talk A sudden stroake did take his tongue away ; Some had their leggs arrested as they walke By martiall law commanding them to stay : Here falls a massy beame, a mighty wall Comes tumbling there, and many men doth maule Who were both slaine and buried by the fall. 39. "Were there not vsfed in the days of yore Enough men-murdering engines 1 but our age Witty in wickednes must make them more. By new found plotts mens malice to inrage : So that fire-spitting canons to the cost Of Christian blood all valour have ingrost. Whose finding makes that many a life is lost. David's hainous sinne. 51 40. Whilst thus the well-appointed army fought Winding in -worm-like trenches neare the wall To humble the proud towers, Vriah brought The speaking paper to the generall Who when such language hee therein did iinde He thought himselfe or els the King vs hlinde, Himself e in body or the King in minde. 41. Then hee the letter did peruse againe The words, the words of David could not bee And yet the hand, for David's hand was plaine, Hee thought it was and thought it was not hee : Each little line he thorowly did view TUl at the length more credulous he grew And what he thought was false he found too true. 42. Now Joab thy valour be display' d Act not a midwife to a deed vnjust ; By feare or favour be not oversway'd To prove a pander to a prince's lust : Eetume a humble answer back agane Let each word breath, submission, to obtaine By prayers a conquest of thy soueraigne. 52 David's hainous sinne. 43. Shew how when God and countries good requires Thou substance, soule and body to ingage Is the ambition of thy best desires : Foes forraine to resist, to quell their rage How willingly would' st thou thy selfe despise, Count loosing of thy goods a gainfull prize Lavish thy blood and thy life sacrifice. 44. But when God's love directly doth withstand And where his lawes the contrary convince^ Wee must not breakethe heavenly king's command Whilst we do seeke to please an earthly prince : The burdens they impose on us to beare Our dutie is to suffer them : but where Kings bid and God forbids we must forbeare. 45. Behold the man whose valour once sunnounted In sacking Zion's mount (mount not so high As men therein were haughty !) and accounted Of worthies chiefe doth most unworthily : Hee that to summe the people of the land Withstood the King now with the King doth stand Too buxome^ for to finish his command. ' ('(. Wright's invaluable 'Bible Word-Book' s. v. C. - Olicrliont. Cr. David's hainous sinne. 53 46. Ifext mome when early Phoebus first arose (Which then arose last in Vriah's sight) Him Joab in the forfront did dispose From whom the rest recoylfed in the fight : Thus of his friends betray' d by subtUl traine Assaulted of his foes with might and maine He lost his life, not conquered but slaine. 47. His mangled body they expose to scorne And now each cravin coward dare defie him, Outstaring his pale visage, which beforne ' "Were palsy-strook, with trembling to come nigh him : Thus heartlesse hares with purblind eyes do peere In the dead lyon's pawes, yea dastard deere Over his heartlesse corps dare domineere. ' Sometimes spelled ' beforea '=bef ore : Thus Spencer The time was once and may again retorn For ought may happen that hath been befom. [Shepherds K. 103.] G. DAVID'S HEAETIE EEPENTANCE. 1. HE tongue of guiltlesse blood is never ti'd In the earth's mouth, and though the greedy ground Her gaping crannies quickly did provide To drinke the liquor of Vriah's wound Yet it with moanes bescattered the skies And the revoicing eccho, with replies Did descant on the playli-song of the cries. Hereat the Lord perceiving how the field Hee soVd with grace, and compast with an heape Of many measures, store of sinnes did yeild Where he expected store of thankes to reape, With flames of anger, furnace-like he burn'd : For patience long despis'd and lewdly spurn'd Is at the length. to raging fury turn'd. David's heartie repentance. 55 3. Then, all the creatures mustered their traine From angells vnto worms, the blinde did see Their Lord disgrac't, whose honour to maintaine Things wanting life most lively seeme to be ; Eefiising all to serve man that refus'd To serve his God, all striving to he us'd To punish him, his Maker that abus'd. 4. Please it your Highnes for to give me leave rie scorch the wretch to cinders said the Kre : Send me said Aire, him Il'e of breath bereave ; No quoth the earnest "Water I desire His soylie sinnes with deluges to secure ; Nay let my Lord quoth Earth imploy my power "With yawning chapps I wQl him quick devour. 5. Soone with a .word the Lord appeas'd this strife Injoyniag silence till He did vnfold That precious volume cald the Booke of Life "Which He the Printer priuUedg'd of old Containing those He freely did imbrace : Nor ever would I wish an higher grace Than in this Booke to have the lowest place. 56 David's heartie repentance. Within this Booke hee sought for David's name Which having found He proffered to blot (And David surely well deserv'd the same That did his nature so with sinne hespot Though none are hlotted out but such as never Were written in : nothing God's love can sever ; Once written there are written there for ever.) 7. Strait from His throne the Prince of Peace arose And with embraces did His Father binde Imprisoning his amies, He did so close (As loving ijTe on an oake did winde And with her curUug flexures it betraUe) His Father glad to finde His force to fayle Strugel'd as one not wUling to prevaUe, 8. Thus then began the Spotlesse Lambe to speake (One word of Whom would rend the sturdy rocke, Make hammer-scorning adamant to breake, And vnto sense perswade the senseles stocke, Yea God Himselfe that knowes not to repent Is made by His petitions penitent His Justice made with Mercy to relent.) David's hkartib repentance. 57 9. Why doth my Father's fury burne so fierce 1 Shall Persian lawes vnalterable stand 1 And shall my Lord decree and then reverse, Enact and then repeale, and counter-mand 1 Tender Thy credit, gracious God, I crave And kill not him Thou didst conclude to save Can these hands hlot what these hands did ingrave ] 10. Hath not Thy wisdom from eternity Before the worlds foimdation first was lay'd Decree'd, the due time once expir'd, that I Should flesh become and man borne of a maide 1 To live in poverty and dye with paine That so Thy Sonne for sinners vilely slaine Might make vile sinners live Thy sonnes againe 1 11. Let Me, oh let Me Thy feirco wrath asswage And for this sinner begg a full discharge : What though hee j ustly doth provoke Thy rage'? Thy justice I will satisfie at large. If that the Lord of Life must murder'd bee Let mee intreat this murd'rer may goe free My meritts cast on him, his sinnes on Me. 58 David's heartie repentance. 12. Thus speaking from His fragrant cloaths there ■went A pleasant breath whose odoitr did exceU Myrrhe, aloes and cassia for sent And all perfum'd His Father with the smell Whereat His smothfed face most sweetly smil'd And hugging in His arms His dearest child Eetiirn'd those welcome words, with voyce most milde. 13. Who can so pleasing violence withstand 1 Thy craving is the hauing a request Such mild intreaties doe my heart command The 'mends is made and pacifi'd I rest : As far as earth from heaven doe distant lye As east is parted from the westeme skye So far his sinnes are sever'd from Mine eye. 14. Hereat the heavenly quire lift vp their voyce Angells and saints imparadis'd combine Vpon their golden vialls to rejoyce To rayse the prayse of the celestiall Trine, All in their songs a sacred strife exprest Which could sing better and surpasse the rest All did surpasse themselves and sang the best. David's hbaetie repentance. 59 15. Then said tlie Fire my fury I recant Life-hatcldng warmtli I will for Mm provide : If David's breathlesse lungs do chance to pant Said Aire Il'e fanne them with a windy tide : With moisture Il'e, said Water, quench his heat And I his hunger quoth the Earth, with meat Of marrow, fatnesse and the flower of wheat. 16. Thus when a lord long buried in disgrace A king to former favour doth restore With all respect the court doth him embrace Fawning as fast as they did flowte before : Where smiles or frownes are but the bare reflexion Of the king's face, and like to this direction Where hee affects they settle their affection. 17. • Plaine-dealuig Nathan presently was sent Nathan, than whom was none more skUl'd to lanch A festred soule, and with a searching tent'- To sound the sore : more cunning none to stanch ' Eoll of lint used in searching or purifying a wound. Of. my Glossary to Sibbes sv. G. 60 David's heaetib repentance. A bleeding-hearted sinner nor more kinde With swadling cloaths of comfort for to binds Vnjoynted members of a troubled minde. 18. Hee did not flow with wealth which envye heeds Nor yet was he with penury opprest : Want is the cause from which contempt proceeds : His meanes were in the meane, and that's the best. High hills are parcht with heate or hid with snow And humble dales sone drown' d, that lie too low Whilst happy graine on hanging hills doth grow. 19. For sundry duties he did dayes devide Making exchange of worke his recreation ; For prayer he set the precious morne aside, The mid-day he bequeath'd to meditation : Sweete sacred stories he reserv'd for night To reade of Moses' mfieknes, Sampson's might : Thrsi' were his joy, these onely his delight. 20. But now dispensing with liis dayly taske To Court he comes and wisely did invent David's heartie kepentance. 61 Vnder a parable his mind to maske Seeming to meane nought lesse than what he meant, And lapwing-Kke round fluttering a-whUe With far-fetcht preeface and a witty wile, Hee made the king himselfe for to beguile. 21. Thus he that thought all mortall men to cheate And with false shewes his secret sinnes to shade. Was couzned by the innocent deceite Of one plaine prophet, and directly made As he a judge sate on the bench, to stand At barr a prisoner, holding^ up his hand But first condemned by his owne command.^ 22. Goe fond' affectors of a flanting straine Whose sermons strike at sinnes with slenting blowes, Giye me the man that's powerfuU and plaine The monster Vice vnmask&d to expose : 1 ' Tliou art tlio man.' F. 2 ' The man that hath done this tiling shal dye.' F. 3 Foolish. G. 62 David's heaetie ebpentance. Such preachers doe the soule and marrow part And cause the guilty conscience to smart Such please no itching eares hut peirce the heart. 23. This made King David's marble minde to melt And to the former temper to returne Thawing his frozen breast, whenas he felt The lively sparks of grace therein to burne Which vnder ashes cold were choakt before : And now hee weeps and wayles and sighs fuU sore Though sure such sorrow did his joy restore. 24. So have I seene one slumber'd in a swound Whose suUen soule into his heart did hye His pensive friends soone heave him from the ground And to his face life-water doe apply : At length a long-expected sigh doth strive To bring the welloome newes, the man's ahve Whose soule at last doth in each part arive. 25. Then to his harpe he did liiniselfe betake (His tongue-tide harpe, long gowne out of request) David's heartie refen'tance. 63 And next to this his glory^ must awake The member he of all accounted best : Then with those hands which he for griefe did wring Hee also lightly striks the warbling string And makes one voice serve both to sob and sing. 26. That heavenly voyce to heare, I more desire Than Syrens sweetest songs, than musicke made By Philomele chiefe of the winged quire : Or him whose layes so pleasing, did perswade Stones for to lackey when he went before ;^ Or that brave harper whom unto the shore His hackny dolphin safely did restore. ^ ' Tongue. G. ^ Orpheus. G. ' Arion. G. DAVID'S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. 1. OST true it is when penitents by grace Acqmtted are, the pardon of their sinnes And punishments release do both imbrace Like to a paire of vndivided twinns Parted they cannot be, they cleave so fast Yet when the tempest of God's wrath is past Still his afflicting hony-shower doth last. 2. But let the Schooles these thorny points dispute Whose searching sight can naked truth discry, Skulking in errors arms, and are acute Fine-fingred with distinctions to untye Knots more than Gordian, these men never mist The slender marke, like^ those in whose left fist There did so much dexterity consist. ' Judges XX. IG. F. David's heavie punishment. 65 3. Meane time my Muse come see how prettily The patient infant doth itself behave ; Infant hut newly borne, now neare to dye,^ That from the cradle posted to the grave. See with what silent signes and sighes full faine Poore heart it would express'e where lies the paine Complaining that it knowes not to complaine. Stay crueU. Death ! thy hand for pitty hold ! Against some aged grand-sire bend thy bow That now hath full twice forty winters told, Whose head is silver'd o're with ages snow : Dash out this babe, out of thy dismall bill And in exchange let him thy number fill So may he life, his friends enjoy him stUl. 5. These hands to hurt another never sought Which cannot helpe themselves they are so His heart did never hatch a wanton thought. His tongue did never lye that cannot speake : ' The death of King David's child. F. E 66 David's heavie punishment. By ■\\Tong and. violence he ne're did wrest The goods wherewith his neighbour is possest When strength scarse servs to suck the nurse's hrest. 6. But ah ! this infant's guilt from him proceeds That knew the least when most he sought to know ; Who most was nak't when cloathed in his weeds Best cloathed then when naked he did goe : In vayne the wit of wisest men doth strive To cut off this intayle, that doth derive^ Death unto all when first they are alive. As when a tender rose begins to blow Yet scarse unswadled is, some wanton maide, Pleas'd with the smell, allured vith the show Will not reprive it tUl it hath display'd The folded leaves : but to her brest applies Th' abortive budd, where cof&ned it lye's Losing the blushing dye before it dies. ' ( '(tiuinuuicato, transmit. G, David's heavie punishment. 07 So tills babe's life, newly begun, did end WMch sure receiv'd the substance though not sign'd With grace's seale : God freely doth attend His ordinance, but will not be confin'd Thereto when 'tis not neglected nor despis'd They that want water are by fire baptiz'd Those sanctify'd that ne're were circumcis'd. 9. Sweet babe one sabbath thou on earth didst see But endless sabbaths doest in heaven survive : Grant, Death of joyfull bowers deprived thee Thou hadst seene yeares of sorrowes if alive : True thou wast borne a prince but now art crown'd A king by death ; sleepe therefore in the ground Sweetly untill the trumpet last shall sound. 10. By this child's death king David did sustaiue One losse : but where tliis misery did end More miseries began : as in a chayne One link doth on another linkc depend : His lust with lust, his slaying with a slaughter Must punish't be : proportion'd therafter To mother sLane is punishment the daughter. 68 David's heavie punishment. 11.1 Amnon aJvis'd by Jonadab, a fit Of sicknesse faines : men wickedly inclin'd Worse counsellors (that ■with great store of wit Have dearth of grace) most easily may find : And Thamar's hands his meato must onely make : Ah ! happy age when ladies learn't to bake And when kings daughters knew to knead a cake. 12. llebecka was esteem'd of comely hew Yet not so nice her comelinesse to kecpe But that shee water for the cammells drew : Eachell was faire, yet fedd her father's sheepe But now for to supply Eebecka's place Or doe as Eachell did is counted base : Our dainty dames would take it in disgrace. 13. But quickly did his beastly lust declare That he to eate her daynties had no neede : He for the cooke not for the cates^ did care Shee was the dish on whom he meant to feed : ' The deflouring of Thamar. F. - Provisions. G. David's heavib punishment. 69 Oh how she pray'd and strove \vith might and maine And then from striving fell to prayers againe : But prayers and striving both alike in vaine. 14. Thus a poore larke imprison'd in the cage Of a kite claws most sweetly sings at large Her owne dirge whilst she seeks to calm his rage And from her jaylor sue's for a discharge : Who passing! f^j. j^g musiok that surpast To feede his eares whilst that his gutts doe fast On her that pray'd so long, doth prey at last. 15. Then with dust-powder'd haire she sore bewayles And punisht on herselfe her brother's sinne : Parting her maiden livery with nayles That parted was ■vvith colours, and wherein White streaks their owner's innocence did show The bashful red her modesty : the row Of sable sorrowed for the wearer's woe. 16. Comfort thyselfe more virtuous than faire More faire than happy virgin, mourn with measure ' praving regard for.' G. 70 David's heavie punishment. Sinnes unconsented to no soules impaire That must be done perchance with bodies plea- sure Which with thegrief of soull maybe constrain'd : The casket broke the Jewell still remain'd Vntoncht which in the casket was contain'd 17. In his brest^ Absalom records this wrong : Out of our minds good tumes doe quickly passe But injuries therein remaine too long Those scrawl'd in dust but these ingraVd in brasse : One sunset for our anger shoidd suffice Which in his wrath set oft, oft did arise With yearly race surrounduig twice the skies. 18. Now when his fruitful! flocks which long had worne Their woolen coates for to make others hot Were now to forfeit them, and to be shorne (Sure from the silly sheepe his divelish plott Their owner never learn' d) hee finds a way To worke revenge, and callM on that day His brothers to a feast which prov'd a fray. ' Tho murdering of Amnon. F. David's heavie punishment. 71 19. What Amnon drunkc in wine in blood he spilt Which did the dainties marre and meate deiile Cupps, carpetts, all with goary streaks were gilt Seeming to hlush that cruely so vile So fowly savage should the banquet staine : Thus he that beiag well did sicknesse faine !N"ot being sicke was on a suddenne slaine. 20. The rest refused on the meate to feede Whose bellies were so full with griefe and feare To feele what they had seene : away they speed To ride : but Fame did fly, Fame that doth weare An hundred listning eares, an hundred eyes ; An hundred prating tongues, she dayly plies Tongues that both tell the truth and tattle lyes. 21. She gets by going and doth gather strength As balls of snow by rolling more doe gaine She whisp'rd first but lowdly blaz'd at length All the kings sonnes, all the kings sonnes are slaine : The pensive Court in dolefull dumps did rue This dismall case till they the matter knew : Would all bad news like this might prove untrue. 72 David's heavie punishment. 22. Goe silly soules that doe so muoh admire Court curious intertainment and fine fare May you for mee obtaine what you desire I for your fowles of Phasis^ do not care If that such riots at your feasts be rife And all your meate so sowrely sauc'd with strife That guests to pay the shot must lose their life. 23. Happy those swaines that in some shady bower Making the grasse their cloath, the ground their board Doe feede on mellow friiite or milk's fine flower Vsing no wine but what their weUs afford: At these did malice never bend her bow Their state is shot free, it is set so low They overlooke that would them overthrow 24. Fast unto Geshure flies the fratricide To shelter there himselfe; the sentence sore Of angry justice fearing to abide : Oh happy turne had he return'd no more ' That is 'pheasants : ' the bird having been iutrocluocd into Europe from Pliasis on the coast of t!]l^Euxine: hemo pliasianx (ires: Ariatoplianes, Acliarn 7"2(l : Phny N.H. Ac. (&c. G. David's heavie punishment. 73 Who wonted guise kept in a country strange : Those that abroad to forraine parts do range Their climate not conditions doe exchange. 25. Eetum'd: at entrance of the Court^ he stands If any sutors there he chanc't to finde Hee steales their hearts by taking of their hands And sucked out their soule with kisses kinde : He of their name, cause, citty doth inquire : Proud men prove base to compasse their desire They lowest crouch that highest doe aspire. 26. Before such kisses come vpon my face Oh let the deadly scorpion me sting Yea rather than such armes should me imbrace Let curling snakes about my body cling : Than such faire words I'de rather the fowle Vntuned schreeching of the dolefull owle Or heare the direfull mountaine-wolfe to howle. 27. Some men affirme that Absalom doth sound In the worlds oldest tongue [' of peace a father '] ' Absalom's aspiring to the kingdom. F. 74 David's heavib punishment. But certs I know that such mistake their ground : [' Rebellious sonne '] sure it importeth rather : And yet why so 1 sith^ since I call to minde Than the dementes none were more unkind Than innor.pnt more nocent none I finde.^ 28. Then borrowiag the plausible disguise Of holinesse he mask't his plot so eviU Vnder the good pretence of sacrifice (A saint dissembled is a double devill) But sure were those the vowes he went to pay His sire, that harmelesse sheepe he vow'd to slay Who o're mount Olivet weeping fled away 29. This makes mee call my Saviour's griefe to minde Who on^ this mount because the Jewes were growne So wicked : those that said they saw so bhnd — Mourn'd for theu' sins that mourn'd not for their own : Much did He weepe for others that forbad Others to weepe for Him, whose being sad Hath made his saints for ever since full glad. ' Of. Wright, as before s. v. G. ^ The Popes so (mi8)-nampd. G. ' Luke xix. 42. F. David's heavie punishment. 75 30. Downe comes the king to Jordan : on the sand If that the saylors chance to ground the boat A flood of teares they straitwayes did command Whose large accession made the yessell floate : And if a blaste of ■winde did chance to faile So greivously the people did bewayle Their very sighs might serve to stuffe the sayle. 31. Thus was the king on his own land exil'd His subjects were his boast and he their guest Whose place was ill supphed by his child (Vnhappy bird defiling his owne nest) That tooke his fathers vnves, in open sight : Those that do want of grace the sunshine bright Extinguish't oft dim nature's candle light. 32. The blushing sun no sooner did behold So beastly lust but sought his face to shrowd And shrinking in his beames of burnish't gold Was glad to skulke within a sullen cloud : The shamefac't birds with one wing faine to fly Did hold their other fanne before their eye For feare they should such filthinesse espie. 76 David's hbavie punishment. 33. What needed he to keepe alive his name Erect a pUlar ? Sure this damned deed Makes us rememher and detect the fame That in the world's last doatiag age succeed : Yea when that brasse that seemeth Time to scorne Shall be by all-devouiing Time out-wome His name they'le beare ia minde that are not borne. 34. But^ he that gave this counsell did not speed Who speeding home on witlesse asse amaine (Asse that for wit his rider did exceed) Cause he his wUl at Court coidd not obtaine Did make his will at home : the peevish elfe Amongst his houshold, parts his cursed peKe Carefull of that but carelesse of himselfe. 35 Oh ! suddaine thought of thy mortality ! Thou art not yet so thorough worne with age, Nor in thy face such symptoms can espy Which should so neare approaching death pr«- Ahithophel hanging himselfe. F. David's heavie punishment. 77 Thy state is not distempered with heate Thy woi'ldng pulse doth moderately heate All outward things seeme whole, seeme all compleate. 36. But ghostly is thy griefe : Thou that by treason Against thy leige so lately wast combin'd Thy passions now rebell against thy reason Eeason that is the soveraigne of thy minde And seeke for to disturbs it from the throne : Strive, strive to set these civill broyles at one Order thyseKe and let thy house alone. 37. A chayne of hempe he to his necke made fast By tying of which knot hee did untye The knot of soule and body, and at last Stopping the passage of his breath, thereby A passage for his soule, wide opened hee : Thus traytors rather than they should goe free Themselves the hangmen of themselves vrillbee. 38. His friends to balm his body spare no cost With spices seeking to perfume a sinks For certs I know their labour was but lost : His rotten memory \vill ever stinke 78 David's heavib punishment. His soule thereby was nothing bettered Because his corps were bravely buried : Tombs please the living profit not the dead. 39. How many worthy martyrs vilely slaine Made meate for fowles or for the fire made fuell Though ground they could not for a grave obtaine "Were not lesse happy but their foes more cruell : Vnburied bodies made not them unblest Their better haKe did find an heavenly rest And doth injoy joyes not to be exprest. 40. Leave us the traytor thus vpon whose hearsse My Muse shall not a precious teare mispend Proceeding to bemoane in dolefuU verse How^ two great bands with cruell blowes con- tend : Whole clouds of arrowes made the sky to lowre Dissolv'd at length into a bloody showre Till Steele kLLl'd many, wood did more devoure. 41. Oh let it not be publish' t in the path That leads unto th' incestuous seed of Lot ' The battell betwixt Absalom and David's men. F. David's heavib punishment. 79 Tell not these tidings in the towne of Gatli In Ascalon see ye proclaime it not Least these rejoyce at this calamity Who count your fame their greatest infamy Your ■wofull jarrs their welcome melody. 42. Had Eachel now reviv'd her sonnes to see Their bloody hands would make her heart to bleed Each a Benoni unto her would be ; Had Leah liy'd to see herselfe agree'd To fall out with herselfe, Avith teares, most sure She would have made her tender eyes past cure ; Who ever wonn she must the losse endure. 43. The conquest (wliich her verdict long suspended) Hover'd aloft not knowing where to light ; But at the last the lesser side befreinded With best successe : the other put to flight More trusted a swift foote than a strong fist Most voices oft of verity have mist Nor in most men doth victory consist. 44. The gracelesse Sonne was plung'd in deepe dis- tresse 80 David's heavie punishment. For earth Ms weight no longer would endure The angry heavens denied all accesse Vnto a wretch so wicked, so impure At last the heavens and earth with one con- sfent A middle place vnto the monster lent Above the earth, beneath the firmament. 45. His skittish mule ran roving in the fields And up high hills, downe dales, o're woods did prance Seeming with neighing noyse and wanton heeles In token of great joy to sing and dance, That now her maister she should bears no more (An heavy bulke whose sinnes did weigh so sore) Now rid of him that rid on her before. 46. Cry, Absalom, cry, Absalom, amaine, And let thy winged prayers pierce the skye ! Oh to the spring of pitty soone complaine That ne're is dammed up nor drained dry ; Thy fault confesse. His favour eke implore Much is thy misery, His mercy more Thy want is great but greater is His store. David's heavie punishment. 81 47. Condemne thyselfe and He shall tliee acquitt Doe then but pray He'll pitty thy estate, Confesse thy debt He ■vsdll the same remit It never was too soone, it's ne're too late : Alas : long sinners scarse at last relent Hee gives not all offenders to repent That granteth pardon to all penitent. 48. Whilst thus his life suspended was on high Bold-ventrous Joab opened his heart (Heart where much treason lurked privily) And peir'ct his body with a triple dart : Then crimson blades of grasse whereon he bleeds Did straitwayes dye, and in. their room succeeds A fruitfull wildernesse of fruitlesse weeds. 49. When David heard the victory was gaia'd But his Sonne lost (as Jordan waxing ranke O're flowes the land and scornes to be restrain'd To have his ti'de in a narrow banke) Surges of sorrow in his heart did rise And brake the watry sluces of his eyes Who lightned thus himselfe with heavy cryes : 82 David's heavie punishment. 50. My Sonne, whose iDody had of grace^ the fill ! My Sonne, whose soule was so devoid of grace 1^ Without my knowledge and against my wiU My Sonne, in cause so bad, so strange a place : My Sonne, my sonne for which I must com- plaine I feare in soule as in the body slaine Would I might dye that thou might* st live 51. Now when this griefe was swalloVd not digested The subjects flock't king David to restore Who ia an instant love what they detested Detest in th' instant what they lov'd before : People like weather-cocks wav'd with the wind We constant in inconstancy may finde As time counts minutes so they change their minde. 52. Amongst the rest that came the king to meete Lame-leg'd Mephibosheth, but loyall-hearted Was one that never washt his cloaths or feete (Except with teares) since David first departed ; * ' Beauty.' G. - That is ' goodness,' holiness. G. David's heavie punishment. 83 Feete which by fall from nurse's armes began To halt, mth him a child so fast she ran That he could never goe when growne a man. 53. Not much unlike — if it give no distaste That reall truths I doe with trifles match — Whilst that my postiag Muse, with headlong haste Doth strive her ruraU layes for to dispatch Halting invention, for the want of heede And lame unjoynted lines from her proceede : And seldome things done speedily doe speed. 54. But here an vnexpected jarre arose Whilst people for most part in [th'] prince con- tended ; Which grew from bitter words to bloody blowes : The king quoth Judah of our tribe descended Hee of our flesh is flesh, bone of our bone : Nay answer'd Israel in the king wee owne Ten parts, a single share is yours alone. 55. Whilst sparks of discord thus began to smoake To finde the bellowes iSheba did conspire 84 David's heavie punishment. (Sheba" that proudly did disdaine the yoke) And Mowing of a tmmpet, blew the fire : Then those that claimed ten disdain'd all part In David, taught by his seducing art They discontented to their tents depart. 56. This rebell Joab whilst to quell he strives, A nameles woman (in the booke of life Her name is kept that kept so many lives) Procur'd that he who stirrfed up the strife The body of the common-wealth to rend From prince the head whereon it did depend With head from body rent his life did end. 57. By liis death many citizens surviv'd ; The losse of traytors bloud did prove their gaine ; Soone cea'st the flood of discord, thence deriVd When they the factions fountaine did restraiue. This warre a vile man wlth^ a word did rayse Vnto his shame, which to her endlesse prayse A worthy woman with a word' allaies. ' ' The Sonne of Belial.' F. ' ' Wliat faith have we in David.' F. ^ ' His head shall be thrown ' etc. F. David's heavie punishment. 85 58. So in oiu" Land a noble queene arose, As we have heard our fathers oft relate ; A maide yet manly to confound her foes, A maide and yet a mother to the State : Which she weake, like to crumbling brioke did finde, Which strong as lasting marble she resign'd Gold and God's worship both by her refin'd. 59. She having flourished in great renowne In spite of power and policy of Spaine, Did change her earthly for an heavenly crowne And cea'st to rule o're men, with God to raigne ; Fourty and foure Novembers fully past (Aie me that winged Time should post so fast) To Christ, her love, she wedded was at last.^ 60. This sunne thus set there followed no night In our horizon ; strait another sunne Most happily continued the light Which by the first was hopefully begmme : ■ Elizabeth. G. Ob DAVID S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. And what might most amaze all mortaU eyes Never before out of the Northern skies Did men behold bright Phoebus to arise. 61. Arts did increase his fame, he did increase The fame of arts ; and counting twice eleven Twelve months upon his throne, this prince ol peace By faUing to the earth did rise to heaven : Then downe our cheeks teares hot and cold did flow Those for the sire deceast exprest our woe, Those joy for his succeeding sonne did show.^ 62. Live gracious leige whose vertues doe surmount AU flattery, and envy them admires ; Center of grace and greatnesse, live to count TUl that thy kingdom with the world expires : Wee subjects wish thee worst that love thee best Who here long to injoy thee, doe request That late thou mayst injoy an heavenly rest.^ ' James 1. G. - Charles I. G. DAVIDS HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. 8 I 63. And thou young prince, hope of the future age Succeed to fathers vertues, name and crowne ; A new starre did thy Saviour's Mrth prsesage His death the sun eclipsed did renowne : But hoth of these conjoyned to adorne Thy Wellcome birth, the sun with age so worne Did seeme halfe dead and a young starr was borne^ 64. But what dost thou my vent'rous Muse preesume So far above thy dwarf-like strength to strained Such soaring soone will melt thy waxen plume ; Let those heroike sparks whose learned braine Doth merit chapletts of victorious bayes Make kings the subject of their lofty layes Thy worthlesse praysLug doth their worth dis- praise. 65. Strike saile, and to thy matter draw more neare And draw thy matter nearer to an end : Though nought prayse-worthy in thy verse appeare Yet strive that shortnesse may the same commend : 1 Charles II. G. »» DAVID S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. Eeturne to see where Joab homeward goes To see his friends that had subdu'd his foes ; His souldiers and himself there to repose. 66. Thus when two adverse winds with strong com- mand Summon the sea, the waves that both do feele, Dare follow neither but in doubt do stand, Whilst that the shipps, with water drunke,. doe reele Withmenjfor grief of drowningdrown'dingriefe Vntill at length a calme brings them reliefe And stills the storme that had so long been briefe. 67. Oh ! that I might but live tho see the day (Day that I more desire then hope to see) When all these bloody discords done away Our priuoes in like manner might agree. When all the world might smile m perfect peace And these long-lasting broyls at length might cease Broyles which alas doe dayly more increase. 68. The Netherlands with ondlesse warrs are tost David's heavie punishment. 89 Like in successe to their unconstant tide Losing their gettings, gaining what they lost. Denmarke both sword and Baltiok seas divide : More blood than juice of grape nigh Ehine is shed And Brunswicke land will not be comforted But cryes my duke alas ! my duke is dead. 69. The warrs in France now layd aside not ended Are onely skimmfed over with a scarre Yea haughty Alps that to the clouds ascended Are over-climbed with a bloody warre : And Maroes birth-place Mantua is more Made famous nor for Mars and battel sore Than for his muse it famed was before. 70. Sweden to stopp th' infernall flood provides (May hisgood cause becrown'dwith like successe ; And they that now please none, to please both sides May they themselves his trusty friends expresse) But Turks the cobweb of their truce each howre Doe breake ; they wayte a time but want no powre Nor will, warr-wearied Christians to devore. 90 DAVIDS HEAVIB PUNISHMENT. 71. But let the cunning Chymicke whose exact Skill caused light from darknesse to proceed ; Out of disorder order can extract Make in his due time all these jars agree'd, Whose greivances may be hemoan'd hy men, By God alone redressed ; and tiU then They more befitt my prayers than my pen. Tii MONO AOSA GEQ. 1' I X I S. II. PANEGYRICK ON HIS MAJESTIES HAPPY RETURN.i .1. I T Wor'ster great God's goodness to our Nation It was a conquest, your bare pre- servation. When 'midst your fierces foes on every side For your escape God did a lane provide ; They saw you gone, but whither could not tell Star-staring, though they ask'd both heaven and hell.2 » A Panegyrick to His Majesty on his Happy Eeturn. By Tho. Fuller B.D. London, Printed for John Playford at his shop in the Temple. 1660 [4°.] An earlier and very much shorter version of the 'Panegyrick' appeared in the ' "Worthies ' under "Worcestershire vfith those truly FuUerian words ' And here my Muse craves her own Nunc dimittis, never to make verses more : and because she cannot write on a better, will not write on another occasion, but heartily pray in prose for the happiness of her lord and master. And now having taken our Vale of verses ' . . . G. 2 'Lane' (line 4th) is printed in large capitals LANE— "Why? 'His sacred Majesty escaped, by royal oaks and 92 PANEGYRICK ON Of forreign States you since have studied store And read whole libraries of princes o're. To you all forts, towns, towers and ships are known (But none like those which now become your own) And though your eyes were with all objects fill'd Onely the good into your heart distill'd. 3. Garbling men's manners, you did well divide, To take the Spaniard's wisdom not their pride : With French activity you stor'd your mind Leaving to them their ficklenesse behind ; And soon did learn, your temperance was such A sober industry even from the Duch.^ 4. But tell us, gracious sovereign, from whence Took you the pattern of your patience 1 other miraculous appliances well known to mankind : but Fourteeu-thousaud other men, sacred too after a sort though not majesties, did not escape. One could weep at such a death for brave men in such a Caiiee.' Carlyle's Cromwell : Battle of "Worcester: [Vol. iii. p. 200 : edn 4 vols. 8vo 1850.] G. • Well that winsome Fuller lived not to see his ideal befouled and befouling. G. HIS majesty's happy return. 93 Learn't in affliction's School under the rod Which was both us'd and sanctiii'd by God ; From Him alone that lesson did proceed, Best tutor with best pupil best agreed. 5. We your dull subjects must confess our crime Who learnt so little in so long a time, And the same School : thus dunces' poring looks Mend not themselves but only marre their books. How vast the difference 'twixt wise and fool ! The Master makes the schoUar, not the school. 6. With rich conditions Eome did you invite Hoping to purchase you their proselyte (An empty soul's soon tempted with full coffers) Whilst you with sacred scorn refus'd their proffers : And for the Faith did earnestly contend^ Abroad which now you do at home defend. Amidst aU storms, calm to yourself the while, Saddest afSiotions you did teach to smile. ' Jude 3 ' Contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.' F 94 PANEGYRICK ON Some faces best become a mourning dress And such your patience, wMcb did grace distress, Whose soul, despising want of worldly pelf At lowest ebbe went not beneath itself. God's justice now no longer could dispence With the abusing of his Providence ; To hear successe his approbation styl'd And see the bastard brought against the child. Scripture by such who in their own excuse Their actings 'gainst God's writings did produce. 9. The Independent doth the Papist shun Contrary ways their violence doth run : And yet in such a round at last they met That both their saints for mediators set :^ We were not ripe for mercy, God he knows But ready for his justice were our foes. 10. The pillar which God's people did attend To them in night a constant light did lend, 1 Witness a sermon. P. [Query — Dr Thomas Goodwin and Peter Sterry ? The famous ' prayer ' of the former so perverted in one expression tlierein, doubtless simply used Jeremiah's son'owful plaint : Jeremiah xx. 7. G. HIS majesty's happy return. 95 Though dark unto th' Egyptians behind ; Such was brave Monck ■} in his reserved mind A riddle to his foes he did appear But to himself and you, sense plain and clear. 11. By means unlikely God atchieves his end And crooked wayes straight to his honour tend ; The great and ancient gates of London town (No gates no city) now are voted down And down were cast, happy day ! for all Do date our hopeful rising from their fall. 12. The matter of your Eestitution's good The manner better, without drop of blood : By a dry conquest, without forreign hand Self-hurt and now self-healed is our Land. This silent turn did make no noise, strange ! Few saw the changing — aU behold the change. 13. So Solomon most wisely did contrive His temple should be still-born though alive. That stately structure started from the ground Unto the roof, not guilty of the sound ' See Carlylc, as above, stib numiiw. Ci. 96 PANEGYRICK ON Of iron tool, all noise therein debarr'd : This virgin-Temple thus was seen not heard. 14. When two Protectors were of late proclaim'd Courting men's tongues, both miss't at what they aim'd : True English hearts did with just anger bum And would no echo of ' God save ' return : Though smiling sUenoe doth consent imply A tongue-tied sorrow flatly doth deny.^ 15. But at your majestie's first proclamation How loud a stentor did invoice our nation ! A mouth without a tongue was sooner found In all that crowd than tongue without a sound : Nor was't a wonder men did silence break When conduits did both French and Spanish speak. ^ 1 The ' two Protectors ' alluded to were Oliver Crom- well and Eichard Cromwell. It need scarcely be said that it is a Boyalist delusion that in either case but specially in that of Oliver the national 'welcome* was less real or less warm than that to Charles II. G. 2 The ' Wines ' of Spain and Franco ' ran ' from the ' fountains ' of the city. G. HIS majesty's happy return. 97 16. The bells aloud did ring for joy : they felt Hereafter sacriledge shall not them melt. The honfires round about the streets did blaze And these new lights fanatiques did amaze : Thebrandisht swords thisboon begg'd before death Once to be shew'd then buried in the sheath. 17. The Spaniard looking with a serious eye Was forc'd to trespass on his gravity Close to conceal his wond'ring he desir'd But all in vain who openly admir'd. The French who thought the English mad in mind Now fear too soon they may them sober find. 18. The Germans seeing this your sudden power Freely confess another emperour. The joyful Dane to heav'ns cast up his eyes Presuming suffering kings will sympathize. The Hollanders — first in. a sad suspence — Hop'd that good mercy was then- innocence. 19. As aged Jacob with good news intranc'd That Joseph was both living and advanc'd : 98 PANEGYEICK ON The great surprize so deeply did prevail On the good patriarch that his heart did fail : Too little for to lodge so large a joy — For sudden happiness may much annoy. 20. But when he saw — ^with serious intent To fetch him home — the waggons his son sent That cordial soon his fainting heart did cure 'Twas past suspicion, aU things then were siure : The father his old spirits did renew And found his fears were false, his joyes were true; 21. Such our condition : At the first express We could not cretlit our own happiness ; Told of the coming of your majesty Our fainting hearts did give their tongues the lye A boon too big for us — so ill we live — For to receive though not for God to give. 22. But when we saw the royal Fleet at Dover Voted to wait and waft your highness over And valient Montague— all vertue's friend^ — Appointed on your person to attend : ' See note to dedication of ' David's Ilainons Sinne,' p. .S5. G, HIS majesty's happy return. 99 Joy from that moment did expell our grief Converted into slow but sure belief. 23. Th' impatient land did for your presence long : England in swarms did into Holland throng To bring your highness home, by th' Parhament Lords, Commons, Citizens, Divines were sent : Such honour subjects never had before And hope that never any shall have more. 24. With all degrees your carriage accords Most lord-like your reception of the lords : Your answer with the Commons so comply'd They were to admiration satisfi'd ; Civil the citizens you entertain' d — As if, in London born, y'ad there reniain'd. 25. But oh ! your short, but thick expressive lines Which did both please and profit the Divines : Those pastors when returned to their charge For their next sermon had your words at large With some notes for your practice, who can teach Our miters by your living what to preach. 100 PANBGYEICK ON 26. The States of Holland (or Low Coimtries now) Unto yoTiT sacred majesty did bow : What air, what earth, what water coiold afford Best in the kind, was crowded on their board : And yet when all was done, the royal guest And not the chear ; he, he did make the feast. 27. Th' officious wind to serve you did not fail But scour'd from west to east to fill your sail And fearing that his breath might be too rough Prov'd over-civil and was scarce enough ; Almost you were becahn'd amidst the main Prognostick of your perfect, peaceful reign. 28. Your narrow seas forreigners do wrong To claim them — surely doth the ditch belong JSTot to the common continent but isle Inclosed — did on you their owner snule : Not the least loss, onely the Naseby mar'ls To see herself now drowned in the Charles. 29. You land at Dover, shoals of people come And Kent alone now seems all Christendom. HIS majesty's happy eeturn. 101 The Cornish rebels, eight score summers since At Black-heath fought against their lawful prince Henry the Seventh, which place with treason stain' d, Its credit now, by loyalty regain'd. 30. Great London the last station you did make You took not it but London you did take : Where some who sav'd themselves amongst the croud Did lose their hearing, shoutings were so loud. !N"ow at Whitehall the guard which you attends Keeps out your foes : God keep you from your friends. 31. Thus far fair weather on your work attended Let showres begin now where the sunshine ended. Ifext day we smil'd at th' weeping of the skies With all concerns how Providence complies ! The city serv'd, next foUoweth the village And trading quickned, God provides for tillage. 32. One face, one forme in all the Land appears All, former foot now hors'd to cavaliers. As for your enemies their cursed crew 102 PANEGYRICK ON Are now more hard to find out than subdue. 'Tis very death to them they cannot dye "Who do know whence not wliither for to flie. 33. France flouts, Spain scorns and Italy denies them Any access : the Dane with Dutch defies them ; Unto New England they were known of old And now no footing for them on that mold. Eich Amsterdam — the staple of all sects These bankrupt rebels with contempt rejects. 34. Thus cruell Cain who pious blood first spilt "Was pursevanted^ after by his guilt, With murderer imbranded on his face Kept his condition though he chang'd his place :' Wand'ring from land to land, from shore to shelf His guilty soul nere wandered from itself 35. Let them themselves in unknown lands disperse Or if they please with canibals converse. Like unto like, that all the world may see ' roUowed aa by 'pursuivant.' G. HIS majesty's happy return. 103 King-killers and men-eaters do agree : In no land tliey'l increase, 'tis nature's love Unto mankind : all monsters barren prove. 36. Long live our gracious Charles second to none In honour, who ere sate upon the throne : Be you above your ancestors renown' d, Whose goodness wisely doth your greatness bound ; And knowing that you may be what you would Are pleased to be onely what you should. 37. Em'op's great arbitrator, in your choice Is plac'd of Christendom the casting voice ; Hold you the scales in your judicious hand And when the equal beam shall doubtful stand. As you are pleased to dispose one grain. So falls or riseth either Prance or Spain. 38. As Sheba's queen defective fame accus'd "Whose nigardly relations had abus'd Th' abundant worth of Solomon, and told Not half of what she after did behold : 104 PANEGYRICK ON The same your case, fame hath not done you right Our ears are far out-acted hy our sight. 39. Your self s the ship retum'd from forreign trading England's your port, experience the lading, God is the pilot ; and now richly fraught Unto the port the ship is safely brought : What's dear to you is to your subjects cheap You sav'd with pain, what we with pleasure reap. 40. The most renowned Edward the Confessor Was both your parallel and predecessor, Exil'd he many years did live in France — From low foundations highest roofs advance — The yoak in youth with patience he bore But in his age the crown with honour wore. 41. The common law, to him, the English owe On whom a better gift you will bestow : That which he made by you shall be made good That prince and people's rights both understood Both may be bankt in their respective station ; Which dare no fear of future inundation. HIS MAJESTY S HAPPY RETURN. 105 42. Oppression, the king's evil, long indra'd 3y others caus'd, by you alone thus cur'd : jrod onely have the glory, you the praise ind we the profit by our peaceful dayes, ^11 forreigners the pattern for their State Co anoy rather than to imitate. III. ' Verses ' prefixed to the Scintilla Altaris of Edward Sparke D.D.i (a) ON THE WORTHY WORK OP MY RESPECTED FRIEND ED. SPARKE D.D. HEN pious Asa -with his fathers slept How solemnly his funerals they kept! A curious bed's contriv'd by art's devices ' The following is the full title-page of the book in the edition of 1678 : — 1^ eXSIASTH'PION vel Scintilla Altaris. • Primitive Devotion in the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of Eng- land. By Edward Sparke D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. The sixth edition, Eevised by the Author. With Additions upon the Three Grand Solemnities last annexed to the Liturgy; consisting of prose, poems, prayers and sculp- tures. London, Printed by T. Hodgkin for T. Basset and H. Brome at the George near St Dunstans in Feet-street and at tlie Gun at the West-end of St Pauls, 1678,' cr. 8to. Fuller's step-mother was daughter to Eob. Sparke; 'Coll. Eegal. 1557. Eob. Sparke electus eoholaris, postea Theol. Ba£. Kector de Burbage in comitatu Ley-cestr noverca) nieiB (quaa tamen amore verissima mater fuit) charissimus pater' Fuller's MS. in Jesus College, cited by Baker, M.S. vi. 275. G. 107 Fill'd all with Indian gums, Arabian spices. This bed the case, wherein his corps, the jewel Is^ for the burning^ made the precious fuel As if that Asa's body did aspire To meet Ids soul and mount up in that fire. Dead saints dead days now put into their urn : See here a sweeter, brighter flame doth burn Kindled from Holy sparks when^ doth arise No smoak to hurt, save only envious eyes : Whilst my admiring Muse at distance stands Desiring at his flame to warm her hands ; Wherewith emboldened nearer she presumes To steal a s[o]ent of these thy sweet perfumes. But I recant my words and pardon crave That I compar'd thy book unto the grave Or urn of saints : for by thy pen's perfection Saints are not buried but have resurrection. The cozening witch in counterfeit disguise Made but a seeming Samuel to rise ; (Whom cunningly she did with mantle hide To cloak her cheat, which else might be espide :) But who will not thy worthy Work applaud 1 No falshood here, no forgery or fraud ; Thou really dost from the dust retrive And make not one but all saints to revive. ' Misprinted 'are.' G. ' 2 Chronicles xvi. 14. F 3 Query 'whence'? G. 108 VERSES PREFIXED TO Yea by the pains which thou on them expends Easter doth rise, Ascension-day ascends ; Thy poetry is pleasant, pictures tine Thy prose profound, but oh the prayers divine ! Thus hast thou pleased us in every part Our fancies, judgments, with our eyes and heart. (P) ON MY WORTHY FRIEND DR SPARKE, HIS LEARNED BOOK. BROOD of legendary saints of old Were^ hatched in heads both bald and bold : Some saints in nature ne'r had face or features But only were their wild inventors creatures ; As mountain-like St Christopher thy glory No mole-hm yet of truth in all the story. Swre hard his face who told such lies so oft ! But who believes them sure his head is soft : Fiction of saints ne'er coyn'd so great a store But faction in our age hath minted more : Commend themselves, and there is half their trade ; Condemn aU others, then the saint is made. But here my friend presents a noble breed Of ancient saints, such as were saints indeed : ' Mispriutt'd 'ivhevp.' 0. sparke's scintilla altaris. 109 And yet these saints in these our iron times "Wlien piety and learning toth were crimes Have had their Feasts and Fasts put do-wn out- right And aU their days extinct in euTious night : Only the faithful fairs^ did them retain : Exil'd the Church i' th' town they do remain. But how much doth this thy labour merit In these dead days thou put'st a quick'ning spirit : For us thou writ'st, for us thou tak'st this toy'l, To make us see this spaeke^ doth spend his oyl, * = * fair ' ladies. G. 2 Witli reference to Fuller's characteristic and inevitable playing on the name of ' Sparke ' it may be allowed me to record here an amusing coincidence that chanced in Scotland and the, authenticity of which is beyond doubt — A clergy- man (in Scotland) was called upon to administer the ordinance of baptism to the child of a brother-clergyman whose name was ' Sparke,' who had already a very large family, with very short intervals between each. — After the rite it is usual in Scotland— among Presbyterians — to sing one of the versified Psalms or Paraphrases — and on the occasion in question the officiating clergyman selected with tmconscious patness and to the excitement of the risibilities of his audience and the consternation of his clerical friend, the 5th Paraphrase, reading out ore rotundo, the second verse — ' As SPARKS in rinsf; succession rise, etc. G. 110 AD SERISSIMUM BEGEM. Live learned pen, converse with men below Some forty winters until ages' snow Candy thy reverend locks, and make them look White as thy soul and paper of thy book. But when that bankrupt nature shall deny To pay more moisture and when thou must dye. Mount gallant soul with saints in bliss survive Whose rites thy pen did in sad times retrive. IV. From ' Genethliacum illustrissimorum Prin- cipum Caroli et Marise a Musis Cantabrigiensi- bus celebratum. 1631. [4°]. AD SEEENISSIMUM EEGEM. . Eilia nata tibi sub quarta luce Novembris, Quintdque famosa est proditione dies. Septima post decimam sceptris sacratur Elisse, Nona ortu Eex est inclyte clara tuo. A Jano incipiet noster non ampliiis annus ; Tu manda, & primus jure November erit. Tho. Fuller, CoU. Sid. SufF.i : In this volume there are ' Verses ' by Milton's ' Edm. King: OoU. Christi, Sooius' (p. 39)— Barnabas Oley (pp. 57-62) -Jo. Bandall (page 87). G. AD RBGEM. Ill V. From 'Eex Eedux' (Cantab 1633), p. 55. SCOTIA & ANGLIC MUTUA DISCEPTATIO. Nunquid ut exires venisti, Carole '( nunquid — Scotia. Major natali non mora danda solo ? Nunquid in sternum discedis Carole 1 nunquid — Anffl. Immemor Arctoo Phcebus in orbe manet 1 Parous adeo, mensioque dies vix ima videtur, —Scot. Visa dies Isetoe vix brevis hora mihi. Longus abes, brevis bora dies, lux singula mensis, — Angl. Hie visus miserse secula multa mihi. EEGINA AD EEGEM. JEqna, fero viduis thalamis quod sola jaoebam : Causa fuit vestrse digna corona morse. Quot menses absis, nova tot diademata sume : Viliiis baud Eegem terra emet uUa meum. Thorn. Fuller, Coll, Sid. 112 CHURCH HISTOKY. VT. From ' Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two and Three Voyees. By Henry Lawes, Servant to his late Matie ia his puhlick and private Musick. London, Printed by T. H. for John Playford and are to be sold at his shop in the inner Temple near the Church door 1653' foHo — [page 36]. AN ECCHO. Imbre lachrymarum largo genas sparge, quavis au-rora, Deus citb tu venito, nunc nunc siae mora, ora : Hoc non valet, semper oro, semper ploro cor de- ficit dolendo ; Te te amo ad te clamo, dato finem flendo endo. Peccatorum primus ego, hoc non nego, fateor vero : Sed tu Deus esto meus, in te solum spero, ero : Vox pergrata satis, satis, jam cedam fatis ; mor- tuus : vivam tameu . Hie cum morior, calo orior, magnum magmmi hoc solamen. Amen. YII. In the Church-History i and ' Wortliies' and indeed iato all his books Fuller delights to introduce those bits of biographic fact and cha- ' The Church History of Britain: from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DCXLvm. Endeavoured by Thomas Fuller. Loudon 1655 folio. CHURCH HISTORY. 113 ractcr that are found in inscriptions on old brasses and other monuments in old cathedrals and in old, gray Churches and old books. He usually translates them as well as the snatches of Latin verse from ' Collections ' of the Universities and the Eke. Sometimes he does it under protest and sometimes refuses quaintly e.g. on King Lucius's epitaph he says it had nothing in it ' worthy of translation ' and then with irrepres- sible wit goes on ' It seems the puddle-poet did hope that the jingUng of his rhyme would drown the sound of his false quantity. Except any will say that he affected to make the middle syllable in idola short, because in the days of King Lucius, idolatry was curb'd and contracted, whilst Chris- tianity did dilate and extend itself.' [C. H. Book I. Cent. III. page 15]. These Verse-Translations make up the remainder of our Collection from Puller's published Works. Such as are original not translated have a t after the number. "With two slight exceptions all the others are from the Latin. The reader is referred to the several places for the Original. In a few cases I give the Latin along with the translation. G. 114 CHURCH HISTORY, 1. Alban: martyr Here Alban, Eome ! tliy citizen renown'd With rosy grace of martyrdom was crown' d. [Book I. Cent. iv. page 17]. 2. St German: thou that twice pierc'd Britain, cut asunder From the whole world, twice didst survey the wonder Of monstrous seas : — [Book I. Cent. v. page 31.] 3. On a woman loho loould enter a Church from which women were excluded : They build a Church where women may not enter One try'd but lost her life for her adventure. [Book II. Cent. vi. page 53]. 4. Easter in Britain : No writings fond^ we follow, but do hold Our country course, which Polycarp of old, Scholar to blessed John, to us hath given. For he, when th' moon had finish'd days twice seven. Bad us to keep the holy Paschal time And count dissenting for an hainous crime. [Book II. Cent. vii. page 69]. > Foolish. G. CHURCH HISTORY. 115 5. Lines from the Welsh of Taliesen {?)} Wo be to tliat Priest y-born That mil not cleanly weed his com, And preach his charge among : "Wo he to that Shepheard (I say) That will not watch his fold alway As to his office doth belong. Wo be to him. that doth not keep From Eomish wolves his sheep With staffe and weapon strong. [Book II. Cent. vii. page 69]. ' For above, read more accurately Taliesia; and of. Abp. Usslier's ' Eeligion anciently professed by the Irish and British (1861) c. X. : Elrington's TJssher Vol. iv. 353. On this Dr S. P. Tregelles writes me as follows : — " Ussher calls the writer Taliessyn, and he uses the lines to ' shew that he wrote after the coming of Austin into England, and not fifty or sixty years before, as others have imagined.' I however should use the contents of the lines, as shewing that Taliesin cannot be the author; and indeed an old Welsh copy ascribes them to ^ Jonas the teacher of St Davids' (? 10th centuiy). The later that they are, the more remarkable is -the testimony against Eome in the ancient British Church, the origin of which belongs to a time when Ireland and Scotland were still in idolatry." After pointing out mistakes in the Welsh as given by Ussher and Fuller he adds, * The poem from which the hnes incorrectly as- cribed to Taliesin are taken, is given in p. 78 col. 2 of the new edition of tho Welsh Archaiology, now in course of publication at Denbigh.' G. 116 CHURCH HISTORY. 6. On the Foundation of University of Cambridge. Grant 1 long ago a city of great fame From neighbouring river doth receive her name. When storms of Saxon-warres her overthrew Near to the old sprang up another new. Monk Felix, whils't he Sigebert obeys Light'ned this place with Schools and Learning's Searching the monuments of British nation This I assert in Grant's due commendation. [Leland : Book II. Cent. vii. page 75]. 7. Victory of Oswald. ' Amongst the many victories atohieved by this Oswald, one most re- markable was gained by him near Hex[h]am in Northumberland, against the Pagans, against whom he erected the standard of the Crosse, in a place which time out of mind was called Heafen- jield (Haled on at this day^) : by a prolepsis, not answering the name thereof until this time. Hence a Poet writing the life of Oswald [says] : — Then he began the reason first to know Of Heafcn-feld, why it was callM so ; > Granta. G. ^ Scott's Halidon-hill. G. CHURCH HISTORY. 117 Nam'd by the natives long since by foresight That in that field would hap an heavenly fight. [Anonii : Book II. Cent. vii. page 78]. 8. On Osioald. — ' Whereupon Aidan laying hold on Oswald's right hand (and that alone we know ought to be the almoner [Matthew vi. 3] ' May this hand ' (said he) ' never be consumed : ' which is said accordingly to come to passe.' No worm, no rottennesse taints his right hand : Corruption-free, in vain the cold doth strive To freeze, or heat to melt it, which doth stand Stni at one stay : and though dead, is alive. Fuller slyly adds, ' But it is not enough for us that we have the poet's pen for it : if we also had Oswald's hand to shew for the same, much might be wrought on our behalf herein.' [Book II. Cent. vii. page 82]. 9. On ' Wilfride's deprivation of the ' Bishop- rick of York ' to which he had been appointed. Boldly iu the husband's life Away from him they took his wife. ' But by the poet's leave, York was but espoused not married to Wilfride, whilst he was in Eng- land : and after his going over beyond Sea, he 118 CHURCH HiaTOEY. stayed so long tkat his Churcli presumed him dead and herself a maid-widow, which lawfully might receive another husband.' [Book II. Cent. vii. page 86]. 10. Adelme, Bishop of Slierhorn. [He] 'was the first of our English nation who wrote in Latine : and the first that taught Englishmen to make Latine verse, according to his promise, If hfe me last, that I do see that native soile of mine From Aon top I'U first with me bring down the Muses nine. [Book II. Cent. viii. page 95]. 11. Oi 'Alba, since Rome,' from Aeneid (Kb. Z). Where under oakes on shore there shall be found A mighty sow, all white, cast on the ground, With thirty sucking piggs : that place is 'sign'd To buUd your town and ease your wearied mind. [Book II. Cent. vui. page 96]. 12. Martyrdom of King Edmond : 'After many indignities offered unto him they bound liim to a tree, and because he would not re- nounce his Christianity, shot him with arrow CHURCH HISTORY. 119 after arrow : their cruelty taking deliberation that he might the better digest one pain before another succeeded, so distinctly to protract his torture (though confusion be better than method in matters of cruelty) till not mercie but want of a mark made them desist: according to the poet's expression Room wants for wounds but arrows do not fail From foes, which thicker fly than winter hail, The Latin is ybfid Jam loca vulneribus desunt, nee dum furiosis Tela, sed hyberna grandine plura volant. [Book II. Cent. ix. page 115]. 13. Of Alfred and JEdward. If that it happ't that conquered was he Next day to fight he quickly did prepare ; But if he chanc't the conquerour to be, Next day to fight he wisely did beware. [Book II. Cent. ix. page 122]. 14. DuNSTAN : ' Eminency occasions envy, which made Dunstan's enemies endeavour to depresse him. He is accused to the king for a magician and upon that account banished the Court. It was brought as evidence against him 120 CHUECH HISTORY. that he made his harp not onely to have motion but made musick of itself, which no white-art could perform St Dunstan's harp fast hy the wall Vpon a pin did hang-a : The harp itself, with ly and all Vntouch't by hand did twang-a. For our part let Dunstan's harp hang there still, on a double suspicion twisted together: first, whether this story thereof were true or false : secondly, if true, whether done by magick or miracle. Sure I am, as good a harper and a better saint than Dunstan was, hath no such miracle reported of him, even David himself, who with his harp praised God, pleased men, frighted devils ; yet took pains with his own right hand [Psahn 137. 5] to play, not lazily commanding musick by miracle to be made on his instrument.' [Book II. Cent. x. page 128]. [Strange, quick-witted Fuller did not think of the ^olian harp, wind-played — ^which doubt- less the poor accused saint's instrument was transformed into, accidentally. G.] 15. The good daughter of a had father: ' Grant queen Edith a chast woman as she is CHURCH HISTORY. 121 generally believed : daughter she was to a wicked father, Earle Godwin by name, whence the proverb From prickly stock as springs a rose So Edith from Earle Godwin grows. little ill being written of the daughter and no good of the father.' [Book II. Cent. xi. page 142]. 16. On Francis I. ' captive in Spain.' The captive King the Evil cures in Spain ; Dear, as before, he doth to God remain. ' So it seemeth his medicinall quality is affixed not to his prosperity but person.' [Book II. Cent. xi. page 147]. 17. On translations of Scripture ' Tlie Origi- nall preferred :' ' Eicemarch a Britan, a right learned and godly clerk, son to Sulgen, bishop of St David's, flourishing in. this age, made this epigram on those who translated the Psalter out of the Greek : so taking it at the second- hand and not drawing it immediately out of the first vessel ' — This harp the holy Hebrew text doth tender Which, to their power, whils't every one doth render ] 22 CHURCH HISTORY. In Latine tongue with many variations He clouds the Hebrew rayes with his translations. Thus liquors when twice shifted out, and poui'd In a third vessel, are both cool'd and sour'd. But holy Jerome truth to light doth bring Briefer and fuller, fetch't from the Hebrew spring. [Book II. Cent xi. page 149]. 18. Cutlibert receiving the ' Communion^ re- ceived ' the cup' [on his death-bed]. His voyage^ steep the easier to climbe up Christ's bloud he drank out of Life's healthfull cup. ' Lest any should fondly hope to decline so fre- quent an instance by the novel conceit of con- comitancy (a distinction that could not sjaeaJc because it was not horn in that age) it is punc- tually stated that he distinctly received the cup.' [Book II. Cent. xi. page 150]. 19. Against Marriage: 'Amongst all the foul mouthes belibeUing marriage, one rayling rythmer of AnseLme's age, bore away the bell ' = ' Journey ' whether by land or sea : G. Glossary to my Sibbes, x.r. — G. OHUECH HISTOBY. 123 (drinking surely of Styx instead of Helicon) and I am confident my translation is good enough for his bald verses — ye that ill live, attention give, unto my fol- lowing rhythmes ; Your wives, those dear mates, whom the liigher power hates, see that ye leave them betimes. _ Leave them for His sake, who a conquest did make, and a crown and a cross did acquire, If any say no, I give them to know, they must all unto hell for their hire. The Spouse of Christ forbids that priest his ministerial function Because he did part with Christ in his heart, at his marriage-conjunction. "VVe count them all mad (if any so bad) as daring herein to contest; Nor is it of spight, that this I indite, but out of pure love, I protest. [Book III. Cent, xii! page 22], 21. On a-Beclcett's ' 7nartyrdom.' For Christ his Spouse, in Christ's Church, at the tide Of Christ his birth, Christ his true lover dy'd. 124 CUURCH HISTORY. Who dies ? a priest. Why? For's flock. How? By th' sword. When? At Christ's birth. Where? Altar of the Lord. ' Here I understand not, how properly it can be said that Becket died pro grege, for his flock. Hee did not die for feeding his flock, for any fundamental point of religion, or for defending his flock against the wolfe of any dangerous doctrine : but meerly he died for his flock : namely, that the sheep theseof (though ever so scabb'd) might not be dress'd with tarr, and other proper (but sharpe and smarting) medicines. I mean that the clergie might not be punished by the secular power, for their criminal enormities.' [Book III. Cent. xii. page 35J. 21. On Henry II. He whom alive the world would scarce suffice When dead, in eight foot earth contented lies. [Book III. Cent. xii. page 40]. 22. Hugh NeviJ : ' Being one of the king's special familiars, slew a lion in the Holy Land, first driving an arrow into his breast and then CHURCH HISTOEY. 125 running him througli with his sword, on whom this verse was made ' Viribus Hugonis vires periSre f The strength of Hugli Leonis. j A lion slew. [Book III. Cent. xii. page 41]. 23. On Richard ' the Lion-hearted : ' I finde two epitaphs made upon him, the first (better for the conceit then the poetry thereof) thus concludeth Three places thus are sharers of his fall Too little, one, for such a funeral. The second may pass for a good piece of poetry in that age. Eichard thou liest here, but were Death afraid Of any armes, thy armes had Death dismaid. The Latin merits Fuller's praise. Hie Eicharde jaces, sed Mors si cederet, armis Yicta timore tui, cederet ipsa tuis. [Book III. Cent. xii. page 46]. 24. ' Learned Writers, Bale and Pitts' ' The column of learned writers I have endea- uoured to extract out of Bale and Pitts. Whereof the later being a member of this University was no less diligent then able to advance the honour 12G CHURCH HISTORY. thereof. Let none suspect that I will enrich my Mother by robbing my Aunt. For besides that Cambridge is so conscientious, she will not be accessary to my felony by receiving stolen goods :' Tros, Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine habetur : A Trojan whether he Or a Tyrian be All is the same to me. [Book III. Cent. xiii. page 68]. 25. Baconthorpe : ' I [Fuller] had al- most over-seen John Baconthorpe being so low in stature as but one remove from a dwarfe, of whom one saith His wit was taU, in body small Insomuch that corpus non tulisset quod ingenium protulit, his body could not bear the books which his brain had brought forth.' [Book III. Cent. xiv. page 97]. 26. William Occam : [He] ' sided with Lewis of Bavaria against the Pope, maintaining the temporal power above the spiritual ; he was fain to flie to the emperor for his safety, saying unto him CHURCH HISTORY. 127 Defende me gladio et ego te defendam verbo Defend me with thy sword and I will defend thee with my word. [Book III. Cent. xiv. page 98]. 27. Edward for ^protection of his native suhjeds.' He made a statute for Lomhards in this Land, That they should in no wise take on hand Here to inhahit, here to charge and discharge, But forty dayes no more time had they large : This good king hy wit of such appreife Kept his merchants and the sea from mischiefe. [Book III. Cent. xiv. page 113] . 28. Rebellion of Wat Tyler and Jack Straio : 'As the Philistines [1 Samuel xiii. 17] ' came out in three companies ' to destroy all the swords and smiths in Israel : so this rabble of rebells, making itself tripartite, endeavoured the rooting out of all pen-knives and all appearance of learning. One in Kent, under the aforesaid Wat and John : the second in Suffolk ; the third under John Littstarre a dier in Norfolke. The former of these is described in the Latin verses of John Gower, prince of poets in his time : of whom we will bestow the following translation.' 128 CHURCH HISTORY. Tom comes, thereat, when call'd by Wat, and Simm as forward we finde, Bet calls as quick to Gibb and to Hykk, that neither would tarry behinde. Gibb, a good whelp of that litter, doth help mad CoU. more mischief to do. And Wni he doth vow, the time is come now, he'l joyn with their company too. Davie complaius, whiles Grigg gets the gaines, and Hobb with them doth partake, Lorkiu aloud, in the midst of the croud, con- ceiveth as deep is his stake. Hudde doth spoU, whom Judde doth foUe, and Tebb lends his helping hand, But Jack, the mad patch, men and houses ^ doth snatch, and kills all at his command. [Book IV. Cent. xiv. page 139]. 29. Simon Sudbury: 'John Gower telleth us in his paralel of the martyring of Simon Sudbury, arch-bishop of Canterbury with Thomas Becket, his predecessor ' But four conspir'd, Thomas, his blood to spiU While hundred thousands Simon help to kill. [Book IV. Cent. xiv. page 140]. Qu : ' horses ? ' the Latin liowever is ' domos.' G. CHURCH HISTORY. 129 30. Chaucer : ' Our Homer : onely herein he differed Maeonides nullas ipse reliqtiit opes. Homer himself did leave no pelf, whereas our Chaucer left, behinde him a rich and worshipful estate.' [Book IV. Cent. xiv. page 151]. 31. Chaucer : Of Alger Dants, Plorenee doth justly boast Of Petrarch brags all the Italian coast. England doth poet Chaucer reverence To whom our language owes its eloquence. ' He was a great refiner and illuminer of our English tongue (and if he left it so bad, how much worse did he finde it?)' [Book IV. Cent. xiv. page 152]. [' Alger Dants ' [ = Dante] renders Leland's. Prsedicat Algerum merito Florentia Dantem. G.] 32. ' Eton and Grammer Learning.' — ' In- deed it was high time some School should be founded, considering how low grammer-learning ran then in the Land, as may appear by the fol- lowing verses made for King Henry the Founder : 130 cnUKCH HISTORY. as good no doubt as the generality of that age did afford, though (scarce deserving translation) so, that the worst scholar in Eaton Colledg that can make a verse can make a hotter ' — Devout King Henry, of that name tho sixt Born (Nic'las) on thy day, this huilding fixt. In Eaton having plac'd a stone anointed In sign, it for the clergy was appointed. His prelates then were present, so the more To honour the King's acts, and holy chore. From Eastern midst, whereof just fourteen feet If any measure, they this stone shall meet ; Our holy James, his day, the sacred hand Of royal Henry caus'd this stone to stand. M. four C.'s, fourty six, since Christ was born , When H. the crown twenty-five years had worn. [Book IV. Cent. xv. page 183]. 33. Retribution : Most just it is that they bad laws who make Should themselves first of their own laws partake. ' Thus those who break down the banks and let in the stream of arbitrary power (be it into the CHURCH HISTORY. 131 hands of prince or people) are commonly the first themselves which without pity are drowned in the deluge thereof.' [Book V. Cent. xvi. page 234]. 34. The Jesuits : ' They had two most antient and flourishing convents heyond the seas ; Nola in Italy as I take it, where their home it seems gives a bow for their armes, and La-Fletcha in France, where they have an arrow for their device : whereupon a satyrical wit thus guirded at them : and I hope I shall not be con- demned as accessary to his virulency, if onely plainly translating the same.' Nola to them did give a Bow La-Fletch an Arrow bring : But who upon them will bestow (What they deserve) — a string 1 [Book VI. page 279]. 35. Feasts of Ely Abbey. When other Feasts before have been If those of Elie last be seen, 'Tis like to one who hath seen night And then beholds the day so bright. [Book VI. page 299]. 132 CHURCH HISTORY. 26. Bells : ' Such frequent firing of Abbey- Churckes by lightning, confuteth the proud motto commonly written on the bells in their steeples, wherein each beU intituled itself to a sixfold efl&cacie :' 1. Funeraplango | f "Vm^ !/" •^ * ( §g Mefal knell. 2. Fulgura > ^^^^^ ( lightning anJr IfeutrDir Fulmina) "^ (. | break asartber. „£,,,,„ C ®n: Sabbat^, all 3. Sabbatafrango; { ^^ ^^„„^ | ^^_ 4. Excitolentos ( J^^ ,«I«PS fee^Jr ( I raise from bea. _ „. . ^ r f be foinbs so fierce 0. JJissipo ventos. -^ „ f . . ( I floe msperse. 6. Paco cruentos. ( Pen's trnell rage (. I itoe assuage. [Book VI. page 301]. [Might have been a first (faint) sketch of Poe's memorable ' Bells.' G.] 37. Marshes of Mantua [Virgil]. There is no trusting to the found'ring bank The ramme still dries his fleece so lately dank. [Book VI. page 323]. CHUECH HISTORY.' 133 38. John Leland to Henry VIII. The sun shall sooner cease liis shine to show And moon deny her lamp to men below ; The rapid seas shall sooner fishless sMe, And bushes quite forget their birds to hide ; Great okes shall sooner cease to spread their bowers And Flora for to paint the meads with flowers, Than thou great King shall slip out of my breast My studies' gentle gale and quiet rest. [Book VI. page 339]. 39. Against ' the Masse.' — Of all his [Jewell's] pupils, Edward Year (so I conceive his name whom Lawrence Humphery in Jewel's life pp. 77 calls Edvardum Annum) in this one respect was most remarkable, who by his tutor being seasoned with the love of the truth, made a double copie of verses agaiust the superstition of the Masse, wliioh so enraged Mr Welsh, the Censor as I take it, of Corpus Christi CoUedge, against him, that he publikely and cruelly whipt him, lajang on one lash, for every verse he had made, which I conceive was about eighty in all. Part of them I have here thought fit to insert ; 134 CHURCH HISTORY. and blessed be God I may translate, and the reader peruse them, ■without any pain and perill, and not at the dear rate, whereat the Author composed them. I have the rather printed them because they proved as well prophetical as poeti- cal, completely foretelling what afterwards came to pass.' Accept heavenly Father I request These few devotions from my humble breast : See their's accesse. Heaven's gate open lyes. Then with my prayers I'U penetrate the skyes ; Great God, who all things seest, doth aU things sway. And aU. things giv'st, and aU things tak'st away, Let not the present Masse long-lived be, Nor let it those beguile belong to Thee : Thy people's eyes, keep it from blinding quite, Since to Thy word it is so opposite, But send it to the Stygian Lakes below : From whence it's rise and source doth spring and flow. The Lord, beholding from His Throne reply'd. Doubt not, young youth, firmly in Me confide. I dy'd long since, now sit at tlie right hand Of my bless'd Father, and the world command : CHURCH HISTOliY, 135 My body wholy dwels in heaTenly light Of wliom. no earthly eye can gain a sight : The shamelesse priests, of Me forge truthelesse lies And he that worships Masse, my Word denyes : A stiffeneck'd people for their sins did make Me send them Masse, my Word away to take ; But trust me. Scripture shall regain her sway And wicked Masse in due time fade away.' [Book VIII. Cent. xvi. page 9]. 40. Dr Hugh Price : ' The said doctor in- scribed these following verses over the gate, when the building of the CoUedge [Jesus, Ox- ford] was but begun : Hugh Price this palace did to Jesus build That a Law's doctor learned men might yield. But an Oxford author telleth us that a satjrrical pen did under-write with wit and wagary enough, these following verses : Hugh hath not built it yet ; may it be said He built it who hath scarce the ground-work laid? [Book IX. Cent. xvi. page 97]. 136 CHURCH HISTORY. 41. Cox, bishop of My: 'He was an excel- lent poet, though the verses written on his own tomb, are none of the best, and scarce worth our translating.' Frail life farewell, welcome life without end. Earth hides my corps, my soull doth heaven ascend ; Christ's cock on earth, I chanted Christ his name. Grant without end in heaven I sound the same. [The 'gallus' = cock, it is presumed was intended as a play on his own name of Cox. G.] [Book IX. Cent. xvi. page 111]. 42. Verses by Mary Queen of Scots ' on a pane of glass at Buxton well.' Buxton who dost with waters warme exceU By me, perchance, never more seen, farewell. ' and at Fotheringhay Castle I have read written by her on a window, with a pointed diamond ' From the top of all my trust Mishap hath laid me in the dust [Book IX. Cent. xvi. page 181]. CHURCH HISTORY. 137 43. Epitaph on 'Mr Luke CJialoner :' in ' Dublin Colledge Ghappel.' This tomb within it, here contains Of Chaloner the sad remains. By whose prayer and helping hand This house erected here doth stand. [Book IX. Cent. xvi. page 212]. 44. Humphrey Eli : Wonder not, England's dark with errours night For loe here buried lies her sun so bright. [Book X. Cent. xvii. page 34]. 45. Gunpowder Plot : Oh let that day be quite dash'd out of time And not belieT'd by the next generation : In night of silence we'll conceal the crime, Thereby to save the credit of our nation. [Book X. Cent. xvii. page 38]. [Fuller has fine-spirited words on this 'hyper- bolical rapture' in the context. G.] 46. The Brothers Retinoids : What war is this ! when conquered both are glad And either to have conquered other, sad. [Book X. Cent. xvii. page 48]. 138 CHURCH HISTORY. [I may be allowed to refer to my Memoir of Dr John Eainolds prefixed to reprint of his Com- mentaries on Obadiah and Haggai. G.]. 47. ' Intended Culledge.' — ' The untimely death of Prince Henry, our principal hppe and the author of this designe' frustrated it :' The modest Colledge blushed to be stronger Than was its lord : he died, it liv'd no longer. [A rendering of Erubuit Domino firmius esse suo. G.] [Book X. Cent. xvii. page 53]. 48. Prince Henry : ' He was generally la- mented of the whole Land, both Universities publishing their verses in print : and give me leave to remember four made by GUes Fletcher of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, on this Prince's plain grave, because wanting an inscription : and it will be honour enough to me if I can make thereof a translation : If wise, amasfd depart this holy grave : Nor these new ashes ask, what names they have 1 The graver, in concealing them was wise : For who-so knows, strait melts in tears and dies. [Book X. Cent. xvii. page 67]. (JHURCH HISTOEY. 139 49. The famous, ' Conference.^ ' Some are of opinioii that the moderation and mutuall compli- ance of these Divines might have produced much good, if not interrupted, conceiving such lopping might have saved the felling of Episcopacy. Yea they are confident had this expedient been pur- sued and perfected,' Troy still had stood in power : And king Priam's lofty tower Had remained at this hower. It might under God have been a means not only to have checTd hut cJwcM our CivU. "War in the infancy thereof.' [Book XI. Cent. xvii. page 175]. VIII. From History of University of Cambridge.^ 1. Cambridge : Cambridge devoted to the Muses nine By learned Henries piety doth shine With learned men, which languages Jefine. [Page 2]. 1 See ' History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest. 1655' folio. 140 CHURCH HISTORY. 2. Humphrey Nedon : Above the skies let's Hiimplirey Necton praise : For on him, first, Cambridge, confer'd the bayes : ' that is, made him Doctor in Divinity' [Page 20]. 3. Henry and diaries Brandon, Dukes of Suffolk ; ' They were much bemoaned, the Uni- versity printing a book on their funeralls, amongst which these following of Dr Parkhurst's, after- wards Bishop of Norwich, I shall endeavour to translate.' Castor and Pollux, brothers pair Breathing first Amide's air, Did with Death so bargaine make By exchange their turns to take. If that Death surprized one brother. Still alive should be the other. So the bargain was contriv'd Both dy'd, both by turns surviVd. Why is fate more cruel gro^vn Than she formerly was known ? Wee of brothers had a brace Like to which did never grace This our English earth before,. Nor the like shall grace it more. Both bright stars, and both did stand Hopofull bulwarks of the Land. PISGAH-SIGHT. 141 Both, alas 1 together slaiii Death at once did murther twaine. Nothing could their vertues move Nor King Edward's hearty love. Nor that best of mother's mones Nor all Britaiae's heavy grones. Nothing could stern Death abate ; Oh cruel, over-cruel fate ! [Page 128]. [Charles died within ' twelve hours, of the same disease' with Henry. G]. IX. From Pisgah-Sight of Palestine.^ (a) From the letter-press. 1. Wine of Palestine : ' Nor were their grapes less good than great, -as a poet [Sidonius] — the most competent judge of the matter in hand — doth bear witness,' I have no Gaza, Chios, Falern wine Nor any flowing from Sarepta's vine. ' ' A Pisgali-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof : with the History of the Old and New Testament acted thereon. By Thomas Fuller B.D. London 1G62 ' folio. *5^* It has escaped all his Biograx)hers, that Fuller — like Samuel Ward — was also a designer and engraver (or etcher) as ' T. Fuller, fecit,' shews, in some of the illustrations of this volume. See specially, the spirited series, Book 4. o. vi. page 97. G. 142 PISGAH-8IGHT. Thus making a quadripartite division of good ■wine, two members thereof, that of Gaza and Sarepta, the one fals in the tribe of Simeon, the other of Asher, both in the country of Palestine.' [Page 10]. 2. Labanus' Yews : ' The poet [Virgil] takes notice of the plenty of yew in this province Yew which in Ituria grows Is neatly bended into bows. Hence their inhabitants became excellent archers : and pity it was that their arrows were so often shot at a wrong mark — to kill and rob passengers in their journey.' [Page 104]. 3. Dagon . Upwards man-like he ascended Downwards like a fish he ended. [Page 220]. 4. Semiramis and the doves: 'Near to this city [Askelon] there was a lake, by which Semi- ramis is said to be born, there fed and relieved by doves. Hence the poet Tibullus 'Alba Palestino sancta columba Syro.' The milk-white dove esteemed divine By Syrians of Palestine. [Page 235]. PISGAH-SIGHT. 143 5. Levitig concvMne: [Judges xix.] ' Oh. ! the justice of Divine proceedings ! She had formerly been false to her husband ' Culpa libido fuit, poena libido fuit.' By lust she sinned and 'twas just She should be punshfed by lust. [Page 257]. 6. Sepulchres: The 'heathen used in like manner to interr their dead in high-ways : yea their sepulchres served to measure the distances of places' [Virgil Eel : 9]. Hence ev'n mid-way it is for us : for near, Bianor's tomb beginneth to appear. [Page 298]. 7. Tabernacle and Temple : Their faces neither diverse nor the same But such as sisters very well became. ' The latter being none other than the imita- tion of the former with proportionable addition : as indeed what is the Tabernacle of Grace but the Temple of Glory contracted or the Temple of Glory but the Tabernacle of Grace dilated' [Page 358]. 1 44 PISGAH SIGHT. 8. Giants: Diomedes and Aeneas : Aeneas and Turnus: A stone he snatch'd and threw, a stone indeed So huge, so heavy, two men now had need To heave it up, such dwarfs our days do breed. — [Page 363]- 9. Horses in sacrifice to the sun: 'The Per- sians offered horses unto the Sun and Ovid ren- ders some reason thereof Horses to the beamed sun's the Persian's gift : Slow sacrifice ill fits a God so swift. [Page 386]. 10. Dew [Genesis xxvii. 39.] ' Behold thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above.' Earth is by Isaac first mentioned because by Esau most minded. But oh the difference betwixt the dew of heaven in Jacob's and Esau's blessing ! [Genesis xxvii. 28]. In the former it signified God's favour with an imdoubted right unto and sanctified use of. Divine promises, service and Sacraments : whereas in this blessing of Esau, heavenly dew, was in effect but eartlily dew, temporal!, terres- trial fertility, allowed to this mountainous land of Edom, whose lean hills were larded with PISGAH-SIGHT. 145 many fruitful vallies interposed. Heathen authors confess [Statius] Whatever noble worth destils On Pontus nut-trees, or what fils The fruitful Idumean hils. [Page 30 : Book IV. c. 2.] 11. Egypt. A Land content with home-bred ware Por foreign wealth she doth not care, Or whether heavens do frown or smile, Her confidence is all in IS'ile. [Lucan I. 8]. [Page 81 : Book 4. c. 5.] 12. Mock-tears: [Jeremiah ix. 17, 18]. Thy tears were trusted : do they falshood know? Yea they have tricks, at will they come and go. [Ovid.] ' But as parents when their children cry for nothing, use to beat them that they might cry for something: so God threatned that the miseries of Jerusalem should afterwards turn their faignedand strained wailings into sound and sincere sorrow : when those tears — formerly but the adopted children — should become the natural issue of their heavy hearts.' [Page 118. Book 4. c. 6.] 1 46 PISGAH-SIGHT. 13. Idols: 'In all ages some were found who flouted at such superstitions : amongst these the poet brings in an idol thus speaking,' Time out of minde a fig-tree stock I grew, An useless block, before the workmen knew Benches or gods to make me — smal the ods — Eesolv'd at last of me to make his gods. [Page 126. Book 4 c. 7.] 14. Idol-calf: [Virgil]. My caKe I lay — lest you mishke't, both tides She comes to th' pale [pail] and suckles twain besides. [Page 129 : Book 4 c. 7.] (h) From the Maps. (1) Engraved title-page 1650: Votum Authoris Terrestres Solymas mihi qui scripsisse dedisti, Coelestes tandem des habitare, Devs. Dicat. T. F. (2) From General Map of Palestine— 1650. . .' Virio amplissimo Du6 Guilielmo Paston, Equiti aureato disjunctissimoerum regionum Ai/7oirX^ Omnia perlustra quae profert chartula lapsus Condona erranti recta tuere precor Nam tibi ludsea est, tibi tam sunt ostia nili Quam tua meudicis hospita nota donins. PISGAH-SIGHT. 1 47 (3) Map of Jerusalem— 1650 pp. 308. Eduardo Montagu Armigero, inter Juvenes doctos noblissimo nobiles doctissimo (quasi posthati la natalium claritate se totum litteris destinasset) Alio Honoratissinii Eduardi Baronis Montagu, qui me languidum, exulem, nullum primus fouit, hospitio exce- . pit, munificentia reoreauit quin et quod omnium caput est, filiolum meum (senectutis mese spem vnicam) libere insti- tuendum curauit. Hierosolymarum Typum dedico. T. F.i (4) Fragmenta Sacra:— 1650 B. v. p. 202. Nobilissimis viris Johanni et Eduardo Eussello, Francisi nuper Comitis Bedfordia filiis natu minoribus. ' This is not given as verse, bnt as illustrating 'Hainous Sinne,' etc. dedication. G. 148 HOLY WARRB. Fragmenta liaec vestri ne dedignentur Honores Sint Fragmenta licet, sunt ea Sacra tamen. Mensurae Ebroese, priscae numismata Formse. Vestis Aaronis Mystica, quanta tegens 1 Destructi (all miserum) Templi captiva supeUex Eoma triumpiiatrix, Csesareumque Decus. Sic lacera in nimios Tabula est divisa loceUos, Integer ad vester Totus et Author eiit. X. From ' the Holy Wan-e ' i 1. Issues: May he never speed Who from the issue censures of the deed. ' ' The Historie of the Holy Warre : By Thomas Puller, B.D. . . . Cambridge 1651 ' folio. By the kindness of its possessor — Mr Winters, Church-yard, Waltham Abbey, — the following MS. lioea written in a copy of the 'Holy Warre ' by some contemporary and admirer of our Worthy, are herewith subjoined : more accurately than as giTen in Notes and Queries [3d Series: 2d half 1867 p. 226]. Who wasE. H.? G. ON THE TITLE AND AUTHOE; Shall warr, tho ofspring of rebellious pryds disturber of heuens peace, be glorifyed ivith a sacred epithite ? tis a iarr, that it should haue the tearme of Holy warr ; It is not surely meant the very tiling is holy, but tho holy cause doth bring HOLY WAKBE. 149 ' Tliougli an argument fetch't from tlie suc- cesse is but a cyphre in itself yet it increaseth a number when joyned with others.' [Page 16 :B. i. c. 10.] 2. Baldwine: 'For the rest we referre the reader to the dull epitaph written on his tombe, which (like the verses of that age) runneth in a kind of rhythms, though it can scarce stand on true feet : ' Baldwine another Maccabee for might Hope, help of State, of Church, and both's delight : Cedar, with Egypt's Dan of him afraid, Bloudy Damascus to him tribute paid : Alas ! here in this tombe is laid. [Page 62 : B. II. c. 13.] a holy stile to a destniotiue game ; A Turk may haue an honorable name : Yet warr is not unlawfuU, though it kill ; the Circumstance doth make it good or ill : But howso'er the cause or matter bee, thy pithie lynes, and witt doe render thee let pryde and envie strugle what they can, Fuller, the holy, wise, and learned man. E: H: 150 HOLY WARRE. 3.t Alea-iim the Grecian em^per our: 'We had almost forgotten what happened in this yeare — the death of Alexius, the Grecian emperoui, that arch-hypocrite and grand enemie of this warre. On whom we may bestow this epitaph : If he of men the best doth know to live Who best knows to dissemble, justly then To thee, Alexius, we this praise must give, That thou to live didst know the best of men. And this was it at last did stop thy breath Thou knew'st not how to counterfeit with Death. [Page 64 : B. II. c. 14.] 4. Lamentable death of King Fullc : ' He was slain in earnest as following his sport in hunting, to the great grief of his subjects. And we may heare him thus speaking his epitaph : A hare I hunted, and Death hunted me ; The more my speed was, was the worse my speed : For as well-mounted I away did flee. Death caught and kill'd me, falling from my steed. Yet this mishap an happie misse I count That fell from horse that I to heaven might mount. [Page 74 : B. ii. c. 23.] HOLY WARRE. 151 5. Frederick, the worthy emperour : ' "We may lieare his gorrowful army speaking thus his epitaph unto him ' Earth scarce did yeeld ground enough for thy sword To conquer : how then could a brook afford Water to drown thee ? brook, which some doth fear (0 guilty conscience !) in a map t' appear. Yet blame we not the brook, but rather think The weight of our own sinnes did make thee sink. Now sith 'tis so, wee'l fetch a brackish main Out of our eyes, and drown thee once again. [Page 116 : B. III. c. 4] 6.t Conraile : ' This may serve for his epitaph The crown. I never did enjoy alone ; Of half a kingdome I was half a king. Scarce was I on when I was off the throne ; Slain by two slaves, me basely murdering. And thus the best man's life at mercie lies Of vilest varlets that their -own despise. [Page 125: B. III. c. 10.] 152 HOLY WARRE. 7. King Guy : ' We then dismisse King Guy, hearing him thus taking his farewell ' I steer'd a State warre-tost against my mil : Blame then the storm, not th' pilot's want of skill, That I the kingdome lost, whose empty style I sold to England's king for Cyprus isle. I pass'd away the Land I could not hold ; Good ground I bought, but only aire I sold. Then as a happy merchant may I sing Though I must sigh as an unhappy king. [Page 126 : B. III. c. 10.] 8. ' King Richard taken po'isoner in Austria : sold and sent to the emperour : dearly ransomed, retumeth home ' — ' After this money, Peter of Bloys (who had drunk as deep of Helicon as any of that age) sendeth this good prayer : making an apostrophe to the emperour or to the Duke of Austria or to both together ' And now, thou basest avarice Drink till thy belly burst, Whil'st England poures large silver showres To satiate tliy thirst. THE HOLY STATE. 153 And this we pray, Thy money may And thou he like accurst. [Page 131 : B. III. c. 13.] 9. French-rhyme: Crusades. Jesus Lord ! repair our losse ; Restore to us thy holy crosse. [Page 152 : B. III. c. 24.] 10. "Tlie pastor ells killed in France:' 'A rhymer of that age (or in courtesie call him a poet,) made this epitaph on them : Learn to put together well What M. C. C. L. I. do spell ; When some devilish fiend in Prance Did teach the Shepherds how to dance. [Page 206 : B. IV. c. 21.] XL From ' the Holy State ' i 1. TJie Elder Brother: ' He rather desires his father's life than his living. This was one of the principal reasons (but God knows how true) why 1 ' The Holy State. By Thomas Fuller B.D. and Pre- henda,ry of Sanira. 4° cdn. London, 1663' folio. 154 THE HOLY STATE. Philip tlie second, king of Spain, caused in the year 1568, Charles, his eldest son to he executed for plotting his father's death, as was pretended. And a wit [Opmerus (?)] in such difficult toyes accommodated the numeral letters in Ovid's verse to the year wherein the Prince suffered. FiLivs ante DIeM patrios Inqvirit In annos 1568. Before the tIMe the oVer-hasty sonne Seeks forth hoW near the father's Life Is Done. [B. I. c. 14. page 41.] 1568. 2. Tlie younger brother : ' To use the herald's language, he may say' This to my elder brother I must yield I have the charge but he hath all the field. [B. I. c. 15. p. 42.] 3. Julius Scaliger : ' His skill in physick was as great as his practice therein was happy : in so much that he did many strange and admirable cures. Hear how a noble and learned pen [Stephanus Boetius] doth commend him' On snowy Caucasus there grew no root Of secret power, but he was privy to't ; THE HOLY STATE. 155 On cold Riphean hills no simple grew, But he the force thereof and virtue knew : Wherewith — apply'd by his successful art — Such sullen souls as would this world depart, He forc't still in their bodies to remain And from death's door fetch'd others back again. [B. II. c. 8 page 71. J i. The faithful minister : ' He counts the success of his ministry the greatest preferment. Yet herein God hath humbled many painful pastours, in making them to be clouds, to rain not over Arabia the happy but over the stony or desert : so that they may complain with the herdsman in the poet My starveling bull Ah ! woe is me ! In pasture full How lean is he ! [B. II. c. 9 page 77.] 5. William Perkins : ' He was of a ruddy complexion, very fat and corpulent, lame of his right hand : and yet this Ehud with a left-handed pen did shake the Eomish cause and as one [Holland] saith 156 THE HOLT STATE. Though nature thee of thy right hand bereft Eight well thou writest with the hand that's left. [The Latin may interest : Dextera quantumvis fuerat tihi manca, docendi PoUehas mira dexteritate tamen. G.] [B. II. c. 11. page 84.] 6. Simony : ' We confess it a personal -vice amongst us, but not to be charged as a Church- sin : which by penal laws it doth both prohibit and punish. Did Eome herein look upon the dust behind her own doors, she would have but little cause to call her neighbour slut. What saith the epigram % That Peter was at Eome, there's strife about it That Simon was there, none ever did doubt it. [The Latin is as follows : An Petrus fuerat Eomte, sub judice lis est Simonem Eomae nemo fuisse negat. G.] [B. II. c. 12. page 88.] 7. The good patron : ' Afterwards, to invite lay-men to build and endow Churches, the Bishops THE HOLY STATE. 157 departed with their right, to the lay-patrons, according to the verse A patron's he that did endow with lands Or huilt the Chiu'ch or on whose ground it stands. it being conceived reasonable that he who paid the Churche's portion should have the main stroke in providing her an husband.' [B. II. c. 1 2. page 87.] 8. Hope disappointed: 'Daily experience tenders too many examples. A gentleman who gave a hasilish for his arms or crest, promised to make a young kinsman of his, his heir, which kinsman to ingratiate himself painted a basilisk in his study and beneath it these verses' Falleris aspeotu basiliscum oocidere, Plini Nam vitse nostras spem basiliscus alit The basilisk's the onely stay My life preserving still ; Pliny, thou li'dst when thou didst say The basUisk doth kill. But this rich gentleman dying, frustrated his ex- 158 THE HOLY STATE. pectation and bequeathed all his estate to another, whereupon the epigram was thus altered. Certe aluit, sed spe vana, spes vana venenum : Ignoscas, Plini, verus es historicvs. Indeed vain hopes to me he gave, Whence I my poison drew : PHny, thy pardon now I crave Thy writings are too true. [B. III. c. 9. page 161.] 9. Tombes ; ' 'Tis a provident way to make one's tomhe in one's lifetime, hoth hereby to pre- vent the negligence of heirs and to mind him of his mortality. Virgil tells us that when bees swarm in the au'e and two armies meeting to- gether, fight as it were a set battel with great violence, cast but a little dust upon them and they will be quiet.' These stirrings of their minds, and strivings vast If but a little dust on them be cast Are straitwayes stinted and quite over-past. Thus the most ambitious motions and thoughts of man's mind are quickly queU'd when dust is thrown on him, whereof his fore-prepared sepul- chre is an excellent remembrancer. [B. III. c. 14. page 175.] THE HOLY STATE. 169 10. The same : ' Thus love if not to the dead, to the living, -vvill make him if not a grave, a hole : and it was the begger's epitaph Nudus eram vivus, mortuus ecce tegm: Naked I liv'd, hut being dead Now behold I'am covered. [B. III. c. 14. page 177.] ll.t Finis : ' When one had set out a witless pamphlet, writing Finis at the end thereof, an- other wittily wrote beneath it ■ Nay there thou li'st my friend In writing foolish books there is no end. [B. III. c. 18. page 187.] [The ' another' was doubtless Fuller himself. G.]. 12. Moderation: Both ends o' th' table furnish'd are with meat Whilst they in middle nothing had to eat. They were none of the wisest well I wist Who made bliss in the middle to consist. [B. III. c. 20. page 202.] 160 THE HOLY STATE. 13. Gravitie: 'That may be done privately without breach of gravity, which may not be done publickly. As when a father makes himself his child's rattle, sporting with him till the father hath devoured the wise man in him, Eqaitans in ai'undine longa. Instead of stately steed Eiding upon a reed. [B. III. c. 21 page 205.] 14. 'Grand' Churches: The Church did blush more glory for to have Then had her Lord. He begg'd : should she be brave. [B. III. c. 24. page 217.] 15. The good Bishop ; ' In his grave writings he aims at God's glory and the Church's peace, with that worthy prelate, the second Jewel of Salisbury, whose comments and controversies will transmit his memory to all posterity : Whose dying pen did write of Christian Union How Church -with Church might safely keep Communion. Commend his care, although the cure do misse : The woe is ours, the happinesse is his : THE HOLY STATE. 161 Who finding discords daily to encrease Because lie could not live would dy, in peace. [B. IV. c. 9. page 270.] [Davenant is referred to : his mother was sister of FuUer's. G.]. 1 6. Augustine : ' His diet was very cleanly and sparing, yet hospitable in the entertaining of others : and had this distich wrote on his table' He that doth love an absent friend to jeer May hence depart, no room is for him here. [B. IV. c. 10. page 275.] 1 7. Ridley and Hooper : ' In like manner, not much before, his [Eidley] dear friend, Master Hooper suffered with great torment : the wind (which too often is the bellows of great fires) blowing it away from him once or twice. Of all the martyrs in those days, these two endured most paia, it being true that each of them querebat in ignihus ignes : ' And still he did desire For fire in midd'st of fire 162 THE HOLY STATE. both desiring to burn and yet both their upper parts were but confessoars when their lower parts were martyrs and burnt to ashes.' [B. IV. c. 11. page 283.] 18. Lady Jane Grey ; What eyes thou readst with Eeader, know I not : Mine were not dry when I this story wrote. [B. IV. c. 14. page 298.] 19. Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Evi- hassadour : ' Nor was her poetick vein less happy in Latine. When a little before the Spanish iava- sion in '88, the Spanish embassadour (after a larger representation in his master's demands) had summed up the effect thereof in a tetrastitch, who instantly in one verse rejoyned her answer. We wiU presume to English both, though confessing the Latiae loseth lustre by the translation.' These to you are our commands, Send no help to th' Netherlands : Of the treasure took by Drake Eestitution you must make : And those abbies built anew Which your father overthrew : If for any peace you hope In all points restore the Pope. THE HOLY STATE. 163 The Queen's extempore return : Ad Grecas, bone rex, fiant niandata calendas Worthy long, know this your will At latter Lammas wee'l fulfil. [B. IV. c. 15. page 303.] 20. Gmtavus Adolphvs : ' I find a most learned pen [Hakewill] apply these Latin verses to this noble prince : and it is honour enough for us to translate them' More then a Priest he in the Church might pass. More then a Prince in Commonwealth he was. More then a Counseller in points of State. More then a Lawyer matters to bebate. More then a General to command outright. More then a Souldier to perform a fight. More then a man to bear affliction strong. More then a man good to forgive a wrong. More then a Patriot countrey to defend. True friendship to maintain, more then a Priend. More then familiar sweetly to converse. And though in sports more then a lion fierce ; To hunt and kill the game ; yet be exprest More then Philosopher in all the rest. [B. IV. c. 18. page 321. J 164 THE HOLY STATE. 21. Heir-airparent : His worth above his wealth appears And vertues go beyond his years. [B. IV. c. 19. page 322.] XI. From the Profane State. ^ 1. Tlie harlot : 'Besides by many wicked devices she seeks on purpose to make herself barren' . . . Which wicked projects first from hell did flow, And thither let the same in silence go, Best known of them who did them never know. [B. V. c. 1. page 345.] 2. Joan of Arc : Cruelty to a woman Brings honour unto no man. ' We will close the different opinions which several Authours had of her, witli tliis epitaph :' Here lies Joan of Arc, the which Some count saint and some count witch ; ' ' The Profane State. By Thomas Fuller B.D. and Pre- b.'udary of Sarum. London 1663 ' folio. THE HOLY STATE. 1G5 Some count man and something more ; Some count maid and some a whore ; Her life's in question, ■wrong or right: Her death's in douht, by laws or might Oh innocence take heed of it How thou too near to guilt dost sit. (Meantime France a wonder said A woman rule 'gainst Salique law) But, reader, he content to stay Thy censure tUl the Judgment-day ; Then shalt thou know and not before Whether saint, witch, man, maid or whore. [B. V. c. 5. pp. 363, 364.J 3. Atheist : On earth were atheists many In hell there is not any. [B. V. c. 7. page 368.] 4. Jehu: Three weaklings we, a wife for war too mild Laertes old, Telemachus a child. So thrice a year should Jehu onely be king over such an impotent company of old men, women and children.' [B. V c. 9. page 377.] 166 ABEL EEDEVIVU8. 5. + Abolition of Universities : Which we believe and wish may then be done When all blear eyes have quite put out the sun. [B. V. c. 11. page 387.] i 6. TJie Liar : WTien Jesuits unto us answer, Nay They do not English speak, 'tis Greek they say. [B. V. c. 12. page 390.] XII. From 'Abel Eedevivus.' ^ 1. Berengarius : [of Touts: Bom (probably ' fuller's authority for his preposterous accusation in the context, of Greenwood and Barrow is ' Dr Soame's writing against them : lib. 2. page 4. But as against Soames see ' A True Eelation of Two Merchants of London, who were taken Prisoners by the Cavaliers, and of the barbarous cruelty inflicted on them : together with the great familiarity of Dr Soames, Vicar of Staynes with the Cavaliers and of their familiarities with his daughters 1642. [4°]. G. ^ ' Abel Eedevivus [sic] : or the Dead yet Speaking. The Lives and Deaths of the modern Divines ; written by several able and learned men 1651' [4°J Fuller names Beren- garius, Huss, Jerome, Cranmer, Fox, Junius and Perkins as by himself, and adds ' etc' The ' most part of the poetry' he assigns to Master Quarles, father and son : but I understand this to exclude the ' Lines ' in his oivn Lives. 'Abel Eede- vivus ' has been re-printed under the supervision of ' William Nichols ' for Tegg : modernized but very fairly if rather pe- dantically edited. 2 vols. cr. 8° 1867. G. ABEL BEDEVIVUS. 167 in 1020) Died January 6th 1088. G.] ' We leave him to stand or fall to his owne Master, according to that concluding disticke, which we find in an author :' Cum nihil ipse vides propria, quin lahe lahoret Tu tua fac cures, csetera mitte D eo. ' Seeing nought thou seest but faults are in the best Looks thou unto thyselfe, leave God the rest.' [Pp. 7, 8.] Most worthily may this Divine Old Berengarius, fairely shiue "Within this skie of lustrious starres Who'gainstEome'serroroursfoughtTruth'swarres: Confuting, with high approbation Eome's figment, Transubstantiation ; Which did that hierarchic so vex And with such passion so perplex That they would never give him rest But did his soule so much molest, That at the last, by fraud and force They made him — with most sad remorse — Two several times his cause recant ; Him of his crown thus to supplant. Thus, 0, thus, oft, Sol's rayes most rare With duskie clouds ecclipsfed are. 168 ABEL REDEVIVUS. 2. John Huss : [Eeformer and Martyr : Bom 1376 (1) : Died July 7tli 1415. G.] This most Ulustrious lamp of Gospel light Which in Bohemia first shon forth most bright By this renown&d martyres industry, — Heavenly, heroick Huss, yet furiously Affronted was by Papall enemies. But in the midst of this their rage, did rise Among themselves, a mighty schisme and rent Three anti-popes at once : by which event Eenownfed Huss did great advantage gain. The Gospel's light to propagate, maintain. But, at the last, that schism being seVd-up Againe they till their wrath's and rage's cup ; And gave it Huss to drink, who valiantly Drank-up the same, to death's extremity : And though they painted-devils placed on his head^ Yet he their scorn and rage did nothing dread. Thus, faithlesse Rome, breaking her promise given. In fiery-chariot sent his soul to heaven. [Page 20.] ' ' A paper, whereon devils were antifily [= groteEquely] painted, was put upon him ; lie wearing those shadows on his head, whose substance his enemies felt iu their heart.' F. ABEL REDEVIVDS. 169 3. Jerome of Prague : [Eeformer and Mar- tyr : Bom 1378 (?) : Died May 30th 1416. G.] This brave Bohemiaii worthy may, indeed His brother Huss most ■worthily succeed ; And, as two twins, for their heroic spirit. The one the other's honour may inherit. For by John Huss, Jerome was blestly ayded. Where by the Eomish-rout he was invaded : And Jerome, hearing Huss was wrong'd by Rome To vindicate his quarrell did presume ; But, in the tryal, found his heeles tript up Tearfull (by Eomish rage) to- taste his cup. Yet, at the last, that tempting blast ore blown His doubled and redoubled zeal was shown ; Stoutly recanting his forced recantation, To th' death he hated Eome's abomination. Which did their Eomish furie so inflame, That, torturing him, they tygers fierce became : His head (like Huss) with painted divels array'd His soule to heaven outrageous flames convay'd. [Page 30.] 4. Ceanmee [Eeformer and Martyr : Born 1489 : Died March 21, 1556. G.] 'Twas not inticing honour could remove The constant heart of Cranmer from the love Of sound divinity ; he alwayes stood 170 ABEL REDBVIVUS. Firme to God's cause, and dy'd it with, his blood. A true seraphicke and tjTannicke fire Proved — as it were — ambitious to aspire : And both prevail' d, being willing to controule ; Th' one burnt his body, th' other cured his soule. Image-adoring Papists, boast your fils ; Ye sent a soul to heaven against your wils. Wh.at can ye say, but this, — your rage was spent ; Ye did him good, though with an ill intent ? Pricke up your eares and heare this fatall tone. Those fires which made bini screek, will make you gron. [Page 228.] 5. John Fox or Foxe [' Martyrologist : ' Born 1517: Died April 18, 1587. G.] Eare Fox (well furr'd with patience) liVd a life In's youthfull age devoted unto strife ; For the bUnd Papists of those frantick times Esteem'd his virtues as his greatest crimes. The hot persuit of their ful crying hounds Forced him to flye beyond the lawlesse bounds : Of their hot-sented malice : though their skUl Was great in hunting, yet our Fox was still Too crafty for them : though they ranged about From place to place, they could not finde him out : And when they saw their plots could not prevaUe To bless their noses with his whislung taile, They howl'd out curses, but could not obtain ; ABEL REDEVIVUS. 171 Their prey being fled, their curses proved in vaine : From -whence I think this proverb came at first, — ' Most thrives the Fox that most of all is curst.' [Page 383.] 6. Fr. Junius [French Protestant : Born 1545: Died Oct. 13, 1602. G.] Eeader, observe, and thou shalt finde A rare and ■well-reformed minde : He that in his youthfull dayes Scorch'd his conscience by the blaze Of wanton fires, refused at last The heat of an atheisticke blast ; He started from the deep abyss Of vilenesse to the height of bliss ; And then that light which fil'd his breast Gave himselfe and others rest ; That they which did before contemne His deeds, imbraced him as a jem ; And thought him fitting to be set Within the Church's cabonet. His vertue pay'd what vice had scoared And age abhor'd what youth adored. [Page 450.] 172 MIXT CONTEMPLATIONS AND 7. William Perkins [Divine: Bom 1558: Died 1602. G.] Of all the worthies in this learned role, Our English Perkins may, without controls. Challenge a crowne of bayes to deck his head And second unto none be numbered, For's learning, wit and worthy parts divine. Wherein his fame resplendently did shine Abroad and eke at home, for's preaching rare And learned writings almost past compare ; Which were so high esteem'd, that some of them Translated were (as a most precious jem) Into the Latine, French, Dutch, Spanish tongue, And rarely valued both of old and young. And (which was very rare) them all did write With his left hand, his right being useless quite : Borne in the first, dying in the last, year Of Queen Eliza, a princesse without peer. [Page 440.] XIV. From ' Mixt Contemplations on These Times' and 'Personal Meditations:' in all the collected editions of ' Good Thoughts,' etc. 1 . All fur the present : ' Oh ! give me that good man's gracious temper who earnestly desired the prosperity of the Church, whatsoever became PERSONAL MEDITATIONS. 173 of himself, wliose verses I will offer to trans- late.' Buried in. earth, or drown'd in th' main Eat up hy worms, or fishes : I pray the pious may obtain For happy times, their wishes. [M. C. XXII.] 2. Niniveh : ' But what is now become of Mniveh t. It is even buried in its own ruins and may have this epitaph upon it :' Hie jacet finis infiniti Here lieth the end of what was endless. [Ihid. XXIX.] 3. Good augur ij : ' I was much affected with reading that distick in Ovid, as having somewhat extraordinary therein :' Tarpeia quondam predixit ab ilice cornix Est, bene non potiut dicere, dixit, erit. The crow sometimes did sit and spell ^ On top of Tarpie-hall ; She could not say alVs well, alTs loell But said it shall, it slmll ^ To fore-toll ; hence spelmau. F. 174 THE WORTHIES. ' But what do I listen to the language of the crow, whose black colours hath a cast of hell therein, in superstitious soothsaying. Let us hearken to what the dove of the Holy Spirit saith.' [M. C. XXXV.] 4. Oi'icPs line : Father an me pity take Verses I no more will make. (P. M. XI.) XIV. From the ' Worthies.' i 1 . Scarlet-habit of Cardinals : ' whereof Theo- dore Beza tartly enough thus expresseth himself:' My clothes in purple liquor ne'er were steVd, Nor garments (trust me) richly dy'd m grain. Those robes you see so red, I have imbrew'd In gore of guiltless saints, whom I have slain. Or, mindful of the faults they hide, with shame The bashful clothes do blush their wearer's blame. [C. IV. page 15.] 2. Liird Chuncelloiv : ' I find another nota- tion of tliis office, some deducing his name « cancfllando from cancclNinj tilings amisse, and ' ' The History of the AVortliies of England. Endeavoured by Thomas Puller, D.P. I^ondon, 166-2,' folio. THE WORTHIES. 175 rectifying them by the rules of equity and a good conscience : and this relateth to no meaner author then Johannes Sarishuriensis.' 'Tis he, who cancelleth all cruel lawes, And in kings' mandates equity doth cause. If aught to Land or laws, doth hurtful prove, The care that hurt doth speedily remove. [C. VI. page 16 mispaged.] 3. Needless hooks : ' Solomon was sensible of this vanity, even in his time, when pronouncing " of books there is no end." The heathen poet took notice thereof, Scribimus indocti dodique Pcemata passim : ' Poems write a main we do Learnfed and unlearned too. [C. X. page 29.] 4. Modern pamphleteers : ' Here I expect that the judicious reader will excuse me, if I take no notice of many modern pamphleteers : seeing unlearned scribblers are not ranked with learned writers ; yea it was, though tartly, truly said, to the author of such a book :' Whilst others flow with faults, but one is past In all thy book : 'tis fault from first to last. 176 THE WOETHIBS. ' Indeed the Press, at first a virgin, then a chaste wife, is since turned common, as to prostitute herself to aU scurrilous pamphlets.' [C. X. pages 29, 30.] 5.t Henry Keble, Lord Mayor of London, 1511 : ' who besides other benefactions in his life- time, re-builded Alder-Mary-Church run to very ruines, and bequeathed at his death a thousand pounds for the finishing thereof. Yet within sixty years after, his bones were unkindly yea inhumanely, cast out of the vaulte wherein they were buried, his monument plucked down for some wealthy person of the present times, to be buried therein. I could not but on this occasion rub up my old poetry : ' Facit Indignatio Versus. The Author to Alder-Mary Church. ' Ungrateful Church, orerun with rust Lately buried in the dust ; Utterly thou hadst been lost. If not preserv'd by Keble's cost : A thousand pounds, might it not buy Six foot in length for him to lie ? But, ousted of his quiet tombe. For later corps he must make roome : THE WORTHIES. 177 Tell me where his dust is cast ThovTgh't be late, yet now at last ; All his hones with scome ejected, I will see them re-collected : Who faine myself wotdd kinsman prove To all that did God's temples love. Alder-Mary Churche's Answer. ' Alas 1 my innocence excuse ; My Wardens they did me abuse. Whose avarice his ashes sold That goodness might give place to gold ; As for Ms reliqiies, aU the town They are scattered up and down ; Seest a Church repaired well ? There a sprinkling of them fell : See'st a new Church lately built 1 Thicker there his ashes spilt : O that all the Land throughout Keble's dust were throune about ; Places scatter^ with that seed Would a crop of Churches breed.' [C. XI. page 33.] 6. Exhortation to deeds of charity : ' The best-disposed to bounty may need a remembran- cer : and I am sure that nightingale which would wake, will not be angry with the thorn which 17s THE WORTHIES. pricketh. her breast when she noddeth. Besides it is a truth what the poet saith,' Who, what thou dost, thee for to do doth move Doth praise thy practice and thy deeds approve. [C. XI. page 39.] 7. Altering of surnames : ' Hence it is that the same name hath been so often disguised unto the staggering of many, who have mistook them for different : Idem non idem, qtieruntque in nomine nomen.' The same they thought was not the same ; And in their name they sought their nam£. ' Thus I am informed that the honourable name of Villiers is written in fourteen several ways, in their own evidence.' [C. XVII. page 51.] [Shakespeare, Ealeigh, Sibbes, Airay, afford like examples. G.] 8. Associuti:'< of (I man's life : We by their company do own Men by themselves to us unknown. The Latin is Noscitur e socio qiii non noscetur ab ipso. [C. XX. page 55.] THE WORTHIES. 179 9. Descents : ' If enquiry be made into all men's descents, it would be found true what the poet doth shews :' The first of all thine ancestors of yore Was but a shepheard, or 1 say no more. [C. XXV. page 74.] 10. 'Haste makes waste.' — Objection to the Worthies ' prevented ' [ ^ ' anticipated.' G.] ' You have hudled your book too soon to the presse, for a subject of such a nature. You should have sent to the gentry of several counties, to have furnished you with memorables out of their own pedegrees and should have taken a longer time to compose them.' ' Eight years digest what you have rudely hinted. And in the ninth year let the same be printed !' Answer. ' That ninth year might happen eight years after my death, being sensible of the im- pression of age upon me ; and a stranger to my method would hardly rally my scattered post- humed notes.' [C. XXV. page 74. J [The ' Worthies ' did prove to be ' posthume ' and the son brought it out with little of the skill or care of the father as the many blundering folio, shews. G.] 180 THE WORTHIES. 11. Episcopacy and Presbytery: Objection. ' In your Protestant writers you promiscuously mingle some very zealous for Episcopacy, others as active for Presbytery.' . . Answer : ' I had rather privately bemoan than publickly proclaim the difference betwixt them when alive : charit- ably believing that being dead Now they are agreed well And in bliss together dwell.' [C. XXV. page 74.] 12. Living persons : Objection : 'You have omitted many memorable persons still surviving, as meriting as any you have inserted. Answer : The return of Martial in a case not much unlike may much befriend me herein :' Deceased authors thou admir'st alone And only praisest poets dead and gone. Vacerra, pardon me : I will not buy Thy praise so dear as for the same to dye. ' All men being like-niiuded with Martial here- in, none surviving will distaste their omission in a work, for reasons afore alledged (save in some cases) confined to the memories of the departed.' [C. XXV. page 76.] THE WOETHIES. 181 13. Numervusness of ' writers :' Omissions are apologized for ' for tlieir munerousnesse and there- fore I may make use of tlie Latine distick wliere- with John Pitseus closeth his hook of English writers.' More volums to our volums must we hind ; And when that's done, a bound we cannot find. [C. XXVI. page 79.] 14. Birth-place: A thankful man will feed The place which did him hreed. [C. XXVI. page 80.] 15. English ' ape^ the French: It is to us a pain This should be said and not gain-said again. [Berkshire : Proverbs.] \Q.\ Royal Gliildren: ' As for the other child- ren of Eleanor viz. Henry, Alphonse, Blanche, dying in their infancy imme- diately after their baptism, it is enough to name them and to bestow this joynt epitaph upon them.' Cleansed at font we drew untainted breath Not yet made bad by life, made good by death [lUcl.'] 182 THE WORTHIES. 1 7. Sir John Mason : He saw iive princes wliich. the scepter bore Of them was privy-councellor to four. [Ibid.'] 18. Ancient gentry : Of names which were in days of yore Few remain here of a great store. [/6^it^.] 19. -J- Richard Cox and Prince Edward: ' He was sent for to be instructor to Prince Edward, which, with good conscience, to his great credit, he discharged. Here reader forgive me in hazard- ing thy censure, in making and translating a distick upon them.' PrtEceptor doctus, docilis magis an puer ille 1 lUe puer docOis, preeceptor tu quoque doctus. Master more able, child of more docility ? DocUe the chUd, master of great abUity. [Buckinghamshire.] 20. Dame Hester Temple : ' I confess very many of her descendants dyed before her death : in which respect she was far surpassed by a Eoman matron, on whom the poet thus epitapheth it, in her own person :' THE WORTHIES. 183 Twenty nine births Callicrate I told And of both sexes saw none sent to grave ? I was an hundred and five winters old, Yet stay from staff my hand did never crave. [Buokinghameshire. J 21. Baskets: 'Martial confesseth baskets to have been a British invention, though Eome after- wards laid claim thereunto.' I, foreign basket, first in Brittain known And now by Eome accounted for her own. [Cambridgeshire. ] 22. Matthew Paris : Matthew, here cease thy pen in peace, and study on no more Nor do thou rome at things to come, what next age hath in store. [iS«d] 23. Simon Steward's ' coat of arms :' French Charls would have these Coats to be thus worn ; When singly good, their better jointly born. [Ihid.] 24. Beestone Castle: 'pictures' of — When real walls are vanish' d quite Painted ones doe us delight. 184 THE WORIHIES. ' Learned Leland is very confident that tliis castle shall see better times, deriving his intelli- gence from ancient predictions :' Beestone in time its head aloft shall heave If I, a prophet, prophets may helieve. [Cambridgeshire. ] 25.t Daniel King : ' on whom we will bestow this distick' Cheshire to King and King to Cheshire owes His light : each doth receive what each bestows. ' What is amiss in my poetry, shall be amended in my prayers for a blessing on his and all ingenious men's undertakings.' [The Latin is] Kingus Cestrensi, Censtrensis Patria Kingo Lucem alternatim debet uterque suani. [Cheshire.] 26. Dreams: [Virgil; Aeneid vi. 893] Dreames have two gates : one made [they say] of horn ; By this port pass, true and prophetic dreames : White ivory the other doth adorne ; By tliis false shades and lying fancies streames. [Cornwall.] THE WOETHIES. 185 27. Toiigilian : ' I cannot take my leave of these tinners, untill I have observ'd a strange prac- tice of them, that once in seven or eight y^ars they burn down (and that to their great profit) their own melting houses.' ' I remember a merry epigram in Martial on one Tongilian who had his house in Eome causually (reputed) burnt, and gained ten times as much, by his friends' contribution to his loss :' Gaining tenfold, tell truly, I desire TongUian, did'st not set thy house on fire. [Cornish.j [See the explanation ia the sequel of the text. G.] 28. Corniali : ' They ever have been be-held men of valour. It seemeth in the reign of the aforesaid king Arthur they ever made up his van-guard, if I can rightly understand the bar- barous verses of a Cornish poet : ' Brave Arthur, when he meant a field to fight Us Cornish men did first of all invite : Only to Cornish (count them Caesar's swords) .He the first blow in battle still affords. [Ibid.] 29. Michael Blawipayn: ' It happened one Henry of Normandy, chief poet to our Henry the 2 a 186 THE WOKTHIES. Third, had traduced Cornwall, as an inconsider- able country, cast out hy nature in contempt into a corner of the Land. Our Michael could not endure this affront : but full of poeticall fury, falls upon the libeller. Take a taste (little thereof will go far) of his strains :' We need not number up her wealthy store Wherewith this helpful land relieves her poor, No sea so full of fish, of tinn no shore. ' Then as a valiant champion, he concludeth all with this exhortation to his countrymen :' What should us fright if firmly we do stand 1 Bar fraud, then no force can us command. ' His pen so lushious in praising when so pleased, was as bitter in railing when disposed : witness this his satirical character of his aforesaid antagonist :' Gamb'd like a goat, sparow-thigh'd, sides as boar. Hare-mouth' d, dog-nos'd, like mule thy teeth and chin : Brow'd as old wife, bul-headed, black as more. If such without, then what are you within 1 By these my signs the wise will easily conster How little thoii didst differ from a monster. [Cornish.] THE WORTHIES. 187 30. Richard Carew and Sir Philip Sidney in 'dispute extempore' at College: Ask you the end of tUs contest ? They neither had the better ; both the best. [Cornish.] 31. Sympathy: When thy neighbour's house doth bum Take heed the next be not thy turn. [Cumberland.] 32. John Salkeld ' presented to king James : by whose arguments (and a benefice bestowed on him in Somersetshire) he became a Protestant. This he used in all companies to boast of " that he was a royall convert." Nobisque dedit solatia victor.' And was it not a noble thing Thus to be conquer'd by a king. [Ibid.'] [Not to be confounded with good John Salkeld 'ejected' in 1662 from Worlington, Suffolk. See Calamy s. n. G.] 33. Ohatsworth: [from Hobbes' De Mirabi- libus Pecci]. 188 THE WORTHIES. Chatsworth, which in its bulk itseK doth pride And lord (both great) stands Derwens bank beside ; Which slides still by the gate, as full of wonder Through loud with stones above the house and under. [Derbyshire.] 34. 'Buxton Well: [Ibid.] Old men's numb'd joynts new vigor here acquire ; In frozen nerves this water kindleth fire. Hither the creples halt, some help to find, Eun hence, their crutches unthank'tt left behind. The barren wife here meets her husband's love With such success she strait doth mother prove. [Ibid.'] ■\ ' The Translator durst not be so bold as the author.' 35. Battle of Alcatser : A fatal fight, where in one day was slain Three kings that were and one that would be fain. [IUd:\ 36 Sir Francis Drahi : ' This tetrastic made on his corpse when cast out of the ship, wherein he died, into the sea :' Though Eome's religion should in time return Drake, none thy body will ungravc again . THE WORTHIES. 189 There is no fear posterity sliould burn Those hones, which free from fire in sea remain. [Devonshire.] 37. Samuel Word : ' Now because the pen of a pupil may probably be suspected of partiality, of an historian I wiU turn a translator and only endeavour to EngUsh that character which one [Dr Thomas Goad] who knew him as well as most men and could judge of him as well as any man doth bestow upon him.' Go to, go on, deck (as thou doest) the chairs With subtUty not light, slight, vage as air ; But such as Truth doth crown, and standing sure Solidly fix'd will weighing well enduie. Antiquities' hid depths thou oft doest sound. And School-men's whirl-pools which are so pro- found. Distinction's threads none can so finely weave ; Or reason wrench, thy knowledge to deceive ; None thy quick sight, grave judgement, can beguile So skdll'd in tongues, so sinewy in style : Add to all these that peaceful soul of thine Meek, modest, which all brawlings doth decline. [Durham.] 190 THE WORTHIES. 38. Sir Henry Killigrew : ' Now Katherme, his lady wrote these following verses to her sister MUdred CecU, to improve her power with the Lord Treasurer her hushand, that Sir Henry might he excused from that service [of ambassador to France]. We will endeavour to translate them, though I am afraid falling much short of their native elegance :' If Mildred, by thy care, he be sent back whom I request, A sister good thou art to me, yea better, yea, the best. But if with stays thou keep'st him still or send'st where seas may part, Then unto me a sister ill, yea worse, yea none thou art. If go to Cornwall he shall please, I peace to thee foreteU ; But CecU, if he set to seas, I war denounce. FareweU. [Essex.] 39. t Tliomas Barington and ' Spouse' — ' See here a sympathizing wife, dying the next day after her husband, of whom it may be said' He first deceased : she for few hours try'd To live without him, lik'd it not, and dy'd. [Ibid.] THE WORTHIES. 191 40. Hkjre and Adria \= Adriatic G.] — After quoting Drayton's description of the Higre, Fuller adds ' Had this been known to the Eoman poet [Horace] when he thus envied against his shee- friend' Thou art more light, more angry than The cork, and uncouth Adrian. ' I say, had it been known, he would have changed Adria into Higrea, the former being a very calme in comparison of the latter.' — [Glou- cestershire.] [I doubt good Fuller if thou speakest here from experience if I may judge from what the Adriatic has proved to me in sail- ing it over and over. G.] 41. Thomas de la More : A man whose fame extended far For arts in peace and feats in war. [Gloucestershire.] 42. diaries Butler: author of a 'Book of Bees : ' Butler, he'l say (who these thy writing sees) Bees counsel thee or else thou counsel'st bees. [Hampshire.] 192 THE WORTHIES. 43. William, second son of King Edward the Tliird : ' Wliat I find written on tiie late monu- ment of a noble infant may also serve for his epitapli.' Living I could not speak, now dead I tel Thy duty : think of death : and so farewell. [Hertfordshire. ] 44. Alexander Nequam or Bad in English : ' Many conceived themselves wondrous witty in making jests (which indeed made themselves) on his sirname.' .... 'Whereupon Nequam (to discompose such conceits for the future) altered the orthography of his name into Neckam. Another pass of wit there was betwixt him and Philip Eepington, bishop of Lincoln, the latter sending the challenge.' Et niger et nequam, cum sis cognomine Nequam ; Nigrior esse potes, ncquiur esse neqiiis. Both hlach and had, whilst Bad tie name to thee BlacJier thou may'st but worse thou can'st not be. To whom Nequam rejoyned; Phi nota fsetoris, lippus mains omnibus horis : Phi malus et lippns, totus malus ergo PliUippus. THE WORTHIES. 193 Stinks are branded with a Phi, lippus Latin for blear-eye : Phi and lippus bad as either ; then Philippus worse together. This [is his] epitaph : Wisdom's eclips'd, sky of the sun bereft Yet less the loss if hke alive were left. A man discreet, in manners debonair Bad name, black face, but carriage good and fair. \Ihid.'\ 45.+ William of Ware : ' He was instructor to John Duns Scotus.' And if the scholar to such height did reach Then what was he who did this scholar teach 1 [Ibid.] 46. Wye-salmon : Salmon in Summer is not rare In Winter I of them do share. for the river Wye affords brumal salmon, fat and sound, when they are sick and spent in other places.' [Herefordshire.] 47. Adam de Easton : ' Pity it is so good a scholar should have so barbarous an epitaph, scarce worth our translation.' 2 B 194 THE WORTHIES. Adam a famous father in arts all He was a deep divine, Cardi-a,nA.-mall, Whom England bred, St Cicelie hath given His title — death at last gave heaven. [Herefordshire. ] 48. William Sempster : "Well I know these works he wrot But for the time I know it not. [Ibid.] 49. Humphry Ely : Wonder not, reader, that with heresies England is clouded : here her Sun he lies [Ibid.] 50. Rosamund : ' buried in. a little nunnery at Godstowe nigh Oxford, with this epitaph.' This tomb doth inclose, the world's fair rose, so sweet and full of savour And smell she doth now, but you may guess how, none of the sweetest savour. [76i(?.] [See sequel in context. G.] 51. Sir Robert Cotton : Camden to him, to him doth Selden, owe Their glory : what they got from him did grow. [Huntingdonshire.] THE WORTHIES. 195 52. Interjyretation of a proverb : If thou know'st better, it to me impart If not, use these of mine with all my heart. [Kent.] 53. Germatis: 'Mongst the old Teuch, lest one oretop his breed To his sire's land doth every son succeed. \Ibid.'\ 54.f Edmund, youngest son to Henry the Seventh ' died before he was full five years of age.' . . . ' Little notice generally is taken of this prince : and no wonder, for ' Who only act short parts in infant age Are soon forgot they ere came on the stage. [lUd.] 55. 8ir James Hales : Seeing nought thou seest but faling in the best, Mind thy own matters and leave God the rest. [Ibid.'\ 56. Richard Fletcher : ' Queen Elizabeth knew full weir Tlie jewel vertue is more grao'd When in a proper person cas'd. \lbid.'\ 196 THE WORTHIES. 57. Sir Tliomas Wyat : Let Florence fair her Dante's justly boast And royal Eome her Petrarch's numbered feet : In English Wiat both of them doth coast In whom all graceful eloquence doth meet. [Kent.] 58. New Kings : Subjects commonly do finde New-made soveraigns most kinde. [Lancashire.] 59. Wills: ' Eichard Bancroft cancelled his first wUl.' . . He who never repented of doing ill Eepented that once he made a good WUl. [ibid] 60. Wm-th: Nor will worth Long be confin'd but make its own way forth. [Ibid.] 61. Fleet-lioiimls : ' Such a ^e6-0M»(« or fleet hound, is two hounds in effect. To the x'&tronian, both the praise is due Quickly to find and nimbly to pursue. [Lincolnshire.] THE WORTHIES. 197 62. Grey-hounds : ' Martial speaking of these greyhounds, thus expresseth himself:' For's master, not hiioself, doth greyhound toil Whose teeth to thee return, the unhurt spoyl.' [Lincolnshire.] 63. Mastiffs: The British whelps no blemish know But that they are not whelp'd for show. [Ibid.] 64. Lost ' commons :' ' Long since VirgU said the same in effect of the men of Mantua, when they lost their lands to the souldiers of Aiigus- tus.' See townsmen, what we by our jars are grown ; And see for whom we have our tillage sown. [IMd.] 65. Ayscough, bishop of Sarum : murdered by Jack Cade : — By people's fury mitre thus cast down We pray henceforward, God preserve the crown. [IMd.] 66. Thomas Goodrich : ' It will [not] be amisse to insert and translate this distick made upon him : ' 198 THE WORTHIES. Botli good and rich, well joyned, best rank'd indeed : For grace goes first and next doth wealth succeed. [LincobisUre.] 67. Hampton Court : [It] ' liatli liappiness to continue in its former estate.' I envy not its happy lot, but rather thereat wonder ; There's such a rout, our Land throughout, of pallaces by plunder. [Middlesex.] 68. Fulke de Brent and his ' infe .•' Now both of them be'ng brought into a bed By law and love and concord joynfed are ; What law ? what love ? what concord did them wed ? Law lawless, loath'd love, concord which did jarr. [iZ>«tf.] 69. f Katherlne, Zd daughter of King Henry the Hid : ' She died in her very infancy, on whom we will presume to bestow this epitaph :' Wak't from the wombe, she on this world did peep Dislikt it, clos'd her eyes, fell fast asleep. [London.] THE WORTHIES. 199 70.t Wives of Henry VIII : ' Such as desire to know tlie names, number and successe of all six, may conceive King Henry thus speaking on his death-hed : ' Three Kates, two Ifans, and one dear Jane I wedded ; One Spanish, one Dutch, and four English wives : From two I was divorc'd, two I beheaded, One died in child-bed, and one me survives. [London.'l 71. William Cotton, D.D. : ' epitaph.' When th' queen from Paul to P^ter did remove, Him God with Paul and Peter plac'd above. [IMd.] 72. Spenser : ' epitaph : ' Whilst thou did'st live, liv'd EngUsh poetry Which fears, now thou art dead, that she shall die. \Ihid.'\ 73. London : Potent in piety, in her people proud. [Ibid.] 200 THE WORTHIES. 74. Charles II. : ' a tetastric by Master Booth.' Prince diaries, forgive me, that my silent quill Joy'd not thy birth ; alas ! sore sick was I. New hopes now come ; had I been silent still I should deserve both to be sick and die. [Westminster.] 75. Bishop Aylnier : Eighteen years bishop and once banish'd hence And twice a champion in the truth's defence. [Norfolk.] 76. ^ An end': 'Virgil, I remember put a period to his Eclogue with ' ' We'll versifie no more For do but hark, Hylax doth bark at th' entrance of the dore.' \Ihid.'\ 77. William LiUij : 'This I will do for William Lilly (though often beaten for his sake) endeavour to translate his answer [to Skelton. G.] THE WORTHIES. • 201 With face so bold and teeth so sharp Of viper's venome, ■why dost carp ? Why are my verses by thee weigh'd In a false scale 1 May truth be said ? Whilst thou, to get the more esteem A learned poet fain wouldst seem : Skelton, thou art, let all men know it, S'either learned nor a poet. [Norfolk], 78. Sir Robert Dallington : 'He was knighted and preferred master of the Charter-house, where the schoolmaster at his first entering, welcomed him -with a speech in LatLue verse, spoken by a schoolboy ; but sure he was more then a boy who indited it.' . . . ' the last distick therein ' — Do not the least part of your trust disdain Nor grudge of boys to take the care again. [Northamptonshire.] 79. John Fletcher : ' It could [not] be laid to Fletcher's charge, what Ajax doth to Ulysses' [Ovid: Met. lib. 13]. When Diomede was gone He could do nought alone. For surviving his partner [Beaumont] he wrote good comedies himself \IMd.'\ 2 202 THE -WOETHIBS. 80. Peter Pateshull : would have been burned sare for his flight. ' This mindeth me of a pas- sage of a frier who burned a book of Peter Ramus, after the death of the author thereof; and then and there used this distick in some imitation of Ovid. Small book, thy fate I envy not, (Without me) feel the flame ; Oh had it been thy master's lot He might have felt the same. \Ihi(l'\ 81. Laxton : At Oundle born, what he did get In London with great pain, Laxton to young and old hath set A comfort to remain. \Ihidi\ 82. Friars: Hear, why that they so much in England thriv'd : "When th' English earst in Palestine arriv'd. The city Aeon on the shore of Tyre As next at hand, with arms did soon acquire The captives, seeing so great wonders wrought. There friers with them into England brought : What was denied at home, they here anew THE WORTHIES. 203 Churches and houses built. In years but few Increasing twig-like set by happy band Or tree transplanted to a fruitful land. [Northumberland.] 83. Thomas Magnus : ' He was an exposed child' — ' What the poet saith of the father of Cadmus (commanding his son to find his lost sister Europa or else never to return) that he was Expressing in one act a mind Which was both cruel and was kind ' Now it happened that some Yorkshire clothiers coming in the dark (very early or late) did light on this chUd, and resolved to pay both for his nursing and education, the charge whereof would not be great, equally divided betwixt them, according to the proverb Multorum manihiis grande levatur onus.' An heavy work is light to do When many hands are put thereto. [Nottinghamshire. ] 84. Venison Old wine did their thirst allay, fat venison hunger. [Oxfordshire.] 204 THE WORTHIES. 85. QnaiTels : Mark the Chronicles aright When Oxford scholars fall to fight, Before many months expir'd England will with war be fir'd. [Oxfordshire]. 86. t ' Wife of Peter Martyr : ' It happened in the first of queen Elizabeth that the scholars of Oxford took up the body of the wife of Peter Martyr, who formerly had been disgracefully buried in a dunghill, and interred it in the tomb with the dust of St Frideswide. Sanders addeth, that they wrote this inscription (which he calleth imjnum epHapliium) : Hie requiescit Eeligio cum Superstitione : though the words being capable of a favourable sense on his side, he need not have been so angry. However we will rub up our old poetry and bestow another upon them.' In tumulo fuerat Petri quae MartjTis uxor, Hie cum Frideswidi, virgine jure jacet Virginis intactse nihilum cum cedat honori, Conjugis in thalamo non temerata fides. Si sacer Angligeniss cultus mutetur (at absit !) Ossa suum servent mutua tuta locum. Intomb'd with Frideswide, deem'd a sainted maid The wife of Peter Martyr here is laid : THE WOETHIES. 205 And reason good, for women chaste in mind The best of virgins come no wliit behind. Should Popery return (which God forefend !) Their blended dust each other would defend. [Oxfordshire.] 87. Wu)'.- Mars, Mars, bane of men, slaughter-stain' d spoiler of houses. [Eutlandshire.] 88. Sword : Sword which god Vulcan did for Daunus fixe And quenched it when firy hot in Stix. [Shropshire.] 89. Ralph of Shrewsbury : builder of a house for the ' "vicars-choral' of his cathedral : which in an old picture is thus presented : The Vicars' humble petition on their knees. To us dispers'd i th' streets good father give A place where we together aU. may live. The gracious answer of the Bishop, sitting. Your merits crave that what you crave be yielded That so ye may remain, this place we've builded. [Ibid.] 90. j^ William Adams : a great Benefactor. 'But who for the present can hold from praising so pious a performance f 206 THE WORTHIES. Come, Momus, wlio delight do'st take Where none are found, there faults to make : And count'st that cost and care and pain Not spent on thee, all spent in vain. See this bright structure, tUl that smart Blind thy blear-eyes and grieve thy heart. Some cottage-schools are built so low The Muses there must groveling go. Here, whilst Apollo's harp doth sound, The sisters nine may dance around ; And architects may take from hence The pattern of magnificence. Then grieve not, Adams, in thy mind, 'Cause you have left no child behind : Unbred ! unborn, is better rather. If so, you are a second father To all bred in this school so fair And each of them thy son and heir. [Shropshire.] 91. William Grocine: on a ' pleasant maid . . . in a love-froUc' pelting him with a snow-ball — A snow-ball white at me did Julia throw ; Who would suppose it] fire was in that snow. Julia alone can quench my hot desire But not with snow or ice, but equal iire [Bristol.] 92. Stnffordshirc : 'This county hath much THE WORTHIES. 207 beauty in the very solitude thereof : witness Beau- Desert or the Fair Wildernesse, being the beautiful barony of the Lord Paget :' And if their deserts here so rare devises Pray then, how pleasant are their paradises. [Staifordshire.] 93. From Virgil : From Troy may the isle of Tenedos be spide Much fam'd when Priam's kingdom was in pride, Now but a bay where ships in danger ride [lUd.] 94. t Cathedral-churches : And of the servants we so much commend What was the mistress whom they did attend t [Suffolk.] 95. Bury : Though furious fire the old town did consume Stand this tUl all the world shall flaming fume [Ibid.} 96. St Edmund: As Denis by his death adometh France : Demetrius Greece : each credit to his place : So Edmund's lustre doth our Land advance, Who with his vertues doth his country grace. 208 THE WORTHIES. Sceptre, crown, robe, his hand, head, corps renouns More famous for his bonds, his bloud, his wounds. [Suffolk.] 97. Stephen Gardln.er : ' He is reported to have died more than half a Protestant .... which if so, then did he verifie the Greek and Latin proverb,' The Gardiner oft-times in due season Spake what is true and solid reason. \Ibid.'\ 98. Lydgcdds ' epitaph :' Dead in this world, living above the skye Intombed within this urn doth Lydgate lie In former time fam'd for his poetry. All over England, \^Ihid.'\ 99. Samuel Ward : ' epitaph.' Grant some of knowledge greater store More learni^d some in teaching ; Yet few in life did Kghten more None thimdred more in preaching. One of his sons, lately dead, was beneficed in Essex : and following the counsel of the poet THE WORTHIES. 209 What Jotli forbid but we may smile And also tell the truth the while ? hath in a jesting way in some of his books, de- livered much smart truth of the present times. [Suffolk.] 100. Sir Wm. Cordal : ' epitaph.' Here William Cordal doth in rest remain Great by his birth, but greater by his brain. Plying his studies hard, his youth throughout Of causes he became a pleader stout. His learning deep such eloquence did vent, He was chose speaker of the Parliament. Afterwards knight queen Mary did him make And counsellor, State-work to undertake : And Master of the Polls. Well worn with age Djdng in Christ, heaven was his utmost stage. Diet and clothes to isoor he gave at large And a fair Almshouse founded on his charge. [Ibid.] 101. Parkhurst to Jewel : Dear Jewel, scholar once thou wast to me Now 'gainst thy will I scholar turn to thee. [Surrey.] 210 THE WORTHIES. 102. Williiim Ockliam a 'contradicting spirit.' But now he's dead, as plainly doth appear Yet would denie it, were ho living^ here. [Surrey.] 1 03. Epigram : Neither with thee can I well Nor without thee, can I dwell. [Ihiill\ 104. Dr Barlow : Barlow's wife, Agathe, doth here remain Bishop, then exile, bishop then again. So long she lived, so well his children sped She saw five bishops her five daughters wed. [Sussex.] 105. Sir Tliomas Shirley: Virtue and labour, learn from mo thy father As for success, child, learn from others rather. [Ihid.] 106. Heraldry-rhyme: The Bear he never can prevail To Lion it for lack of taU. [Warwickshire. ] 107. Bauds and Philemon : applied to Mr and Mrs Underhill : But good old Baucis with Philemon, match'd In youthfull years, now struck with equal age, * And why not if ' living ? ' G. THE WORTHIES. 211 Made poorness pleasant in their cottage thatch.'d. And weight of want with patience did asswage. [Warwickshire. ] Because we liv'd and lov'd so long together Let's not behold the funerals of either ; May one hour end us both ! may I not see This : my wife hurried nor wife bury me [Ibid.] 108 Patrons: Let not Maecenasses be scant And Maroes we shall never want ' For, Flaccus, then thy country-field Shall unto thee a Virgil yield. [Ibid.] 109. Custom: Beat Nature back, 'tis all in vain With tines of fork 'twill come again. [Westmoreland.] 110. Queen Jane Seymour: who died in child- bed. Soon as her Phcenix bud was blown Eoot-Phoenix Jane did wither: Sad, that no age a brace had shown Of Phoenixes together. [Wiltshire.] 212 THE WOETHIES. 111. Bonner: If one by shedding blood for bliss may hope Heaven's wddest gate for Bonner doth stand op'e [Nemo] Nobody speaking to Bonner. All call thee cruell and the spunge of blood : But Bonner, I say, thou art mild and good. [Worcestershire.] 112. Geat: Geat, a stone and kind of gemm In Lycia grows : but best of them Most fruitful! Britain sends ; 'tis bright And black and smooth and very Ught. If rubb'd to heat, it easily draws Unto itseK both chaffe and straws. Water makes it fiercely flame Oyle doth quickly quench the same. [Yorkshire.] 113. Daphne: Into a bough her hair did spread And from her armes two branches bred. [lUd.] 114. Eustutldus de Fauconlnidge: All here are worthy, thou the worthiest ; All fully wise, thou wiser than the rest. [Ihid.] THE WORTHIES. 213 115.+ Thomas Johnson: ' Let us bestow this epitaph upon him ' JEic, Johnsone, jaces; sed, si mors cederet herbis. Arte fugata tua, cederet ilia tuis. Here Johnson lies : could physick fence Death's dart Sure Death had bin declined by his art. [Yorkshire.] 116. Robert the Sciibe ; ' True of him.' The tongue her task hath not yet done When that the hand her race hath run. [IMcL] 117. Rhyme: All lands do not bring Nor all waters, every thing. [IMd.] 118. Cathedral of York: Of flowers that grow the flower's the rose ; All houses so, this house out-goes. \Ihid.'\ 119^ AlhaneHill: The shoar resounded stQl Nothing but Hill and Hill. [Wales.] 214 THE WOETIIIES. 120. Rhymes: Verses justly do request Their writer's privacy and rest. And 'Twas hard for any then to write And not a satyre to indite. [Wales.] 121. William Breton: Hard places which the Bible doth contain I study to expound ; hut all in vain Without God's help, who darkness doth explain And with his help nothing doth hard remain, etc. 122. Wond&rs: Wonders here by me are told To many men well known ; But till my eyes shall them behold Their truth I'll never own. [Anglesea.] 123. Richard Vaughan: Prelate of London (0 immortal grace Of thine OAvn Britons) first who had that place. He's good, who what men ought to do, doth teach ; He's better, who doth do what men should preach. You best of all, preaching what men should do And what men ought to preach that doing too. [Carnarvon.] EPITAPH OF DENYS ROLIB. 215 XV. Epitaph to the Memory of Denys Eolle Esq. ill Bicton Church, Devonshire. ^ The Eemaines of Denys Eolle Esqviie. His earthly part within this tomb cloth rest Who kept a covrt of honovr in his breast ; Birth, beavtie, witt and wisedom sat as peeres Till Death mistooke his virtves for his yeares. Or else Heaven envy'd Earth so rich a treasvre : Wherein too fine the ware, too scant the measvre : His movrnfvU wife her love to shew in part This tomb bvilt here : a better in her heart Sweete babe, his hopefvll heyre (Heaven grant this boon) Live bvt so well bvt oh dye not so soone. f Anno D'ne 1638 O^y*- Uetatis 24. fvm. vnimi Eeliqvit fill ■{ ^ (as : qvinqvae. • See ' Danmonii Orientales lUustrcs or the Worthies of Devon etc. etc. By John Prince, Vicar of Berry-Pomeroy in the same Country, 1697 folio : p. 551. Of also Fuller's ^Worthies' (Devon) — In the foiiner wo read 'Pie [Dennis, Eolle Esq.] was buried in the parish church of Bickton aforesaid, about the 12th or 11th day of June A.D. 1638. In the which by the piety of his dearest lady was a noble 216 ANDRONICUS. 16. ' Amlronicus.' [G. 4 verso-ed 164G.] ^ ' And now, let him alone to prevent their pro- ceedings, by cutting both them and theirs oft (that no mindfull heire might succeed to their spite) and that with all possible speed ; for hee steer'd his actions, by the compas of that char- acter, which one made of him, as followeth. / love at leasure, favours to bestow ; And tickle men by dropping Mndnesse slow, But my revenge, I in one instant spend, That moment which begins ^ it, doth it end. Half doing undoe's many, ^tis a sinne Not to be soundly sinfull ; to begin, And tire; I'le do the work. Tliey strike in vain, Who strike so, that the strieJcen might complain. monument, crocted to his and her memory, of white marble, where are seen lying at length his and her effigies lively and curiously cut in alabaster, under a rich arch, adorned with several coats of arms relating to the family. On a table of bla^k marble is found this inscription in letters of gold, made by Dr Fuller.' The KoUo name continued and abides il- lustrious to the present generation. ■ G. ' This I include among Fuller's, in deference to the sugges- tion of Mr Wright, as before. Some others similarly intro- duced, I cannot recognise as his. G. 2 heyings in the original. G. XVI. FIFTY-NINE HITHBETO UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. .9 E NOTE. As stated in our Introduction, Mr W. Carew Hazlitt sent a communication to Notes and Queries (3d Series, VII. pp. 352, 353) concerning a volume then in liis possession, whicli contained contemporary MS. insertions. The ' Note ' is as follows : — 'In a copy of Crashaw's Steps to the Temple, with the Delights of the Muses, second edition 1648 8vo [it is a small 12°. G.] which fell in my way about three years ago, I discovered written upon the blank leaves, — as a portion of the copy was printed on one aide only, — a large quantity of curious Manuscript matter, consisting partly of excerpta from printed works, but partly of original and inedited com- positions. Among these, are upwards of fifty epigrams, chiefly upon religious subjects, by " Mr Thomas FuUer," and I forward herewith some accouht of the collection, which, as I have little or no doubt that " Mr Thomas Puller " is identical with the Church-historian, cannot fail to be of interest to some of your readers,' [Here follows a selection of the headings of 42 of the Epigrams, and Mr Hazlitt adds, ' with about a dozen more : ' which is within the mark. CJ.] ' In a different hand from the above are other epigrams, among which are several of an amatory cast. At the close of the volume occurs, with considerable appearance of having been written by the same person who has composed or transcribed the other pieces, the autograph of Dudley Lovelace, who haS written his name a second time with an eye to a little jeu de mots, thus : Dudley Love- lasse, and this gentleman has apparently (for they are in the same hand or a very similar one) copied out portions of his brother's LMcasta upon some of the spare leaves, with here and there a variation from the printed edition. On the recto of p. 96 there are four verses from Lucasta with the signature of Richard Lovelace. The true history of the little book before me, might be curious and interesting, if it 220 NOTE. could be ascertained. There is surely ground for presum- ing that it has once been possessed by Dudley Posthumous Lovelace, the youngest brother of the ill-fated Cavalier Poet, Bichard Lovelace, if not of the latter himself. I re- ferred to the curiosity of the present copy of Crashaw in a note at p. 42, of my edition of the Poems of Eichard Love- lace, 1864. W. Cai-ew Hazlitt.' In examining the volume I find on back of the engraved title-page and continued through other two pages, certain ■memoranda headed ' An Asylum for extremity,' and closed thus on reverse of 'the Table' (= Contents) ' finis of ye Asylum for Laborious ■) , -^ ^ t o . V extremity T. J. S. This portion is partly in short-hand characters, and differs, I think, from the Epigram hand-writing. Who was T. J. S. — if I con-ectly read the initials? Lovelace himself has ii poem to Lady A[nne] L[ovelace] 'My asylum in a great extremity,' of which, dbme words seem an echo. Again: on the blanks from p. 75 to p. 77, there are 18 numbered ' Epigrams ' which would seem to belong to Crashaw, though not assigned to him. Puller's ' Epigrams ' fiU the blanks from p. 78 to 84. I adhere with literal fidelity to the manuscript — ^placing in brackets my filling up of less plain contractions — and I have to acknowledge the admirable help and rare insight of W. Aldis Wright, Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, in deciphering the somewhat intricate and difiicult hand-writing and meaning. The figures 1, 2, etc., point to a few shght explanatory Notes appended. Under Epigrams 10, 40, 53 are references to ' Pisgah-Sight ' which confirm their FuUerian authority. These might be multiplied. But specially note Epigram 33 : and as bearing the true mint- mark Nos. 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 27, 31, 34, 35, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 64, 55, 58, 59. Cr. XVI. " EPIGEAMS BY THO : FULLEE." 1. On Adam.i When modest — sinful, w[he]n oloath'[d] — nak'd in minde, W° knoweinge — ignorant : w? seeinge — blinds (1). 2. OnNoak A ridle. No : wares he caried ^[hijch he m[ean]t to sel Of pirats ferrelesse : for no harbor bound All winds tho turninge served his turn as wsl He only wisht for to be run on ground. (2). 3. On Leah : Too tender wsre her eeys ; if God so plsass Would al mens harts were sicks of her disease. (3). ' Cf. the quotation from ' Hainous Sinne ' etc. in onr Intro- duction page 13 [III. St. 6J, almost identical. G. 222 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 4. On Joseph & his M":" (4). He might have been oe'rcome by makeinge stay Who overcame by runninge quite away When Josep[h] to his m™ would not yeild Sure then he overcame in Loosecoat ^ field. 5. On Ziporah circum : her sons. (5). Sheddinge her sons blood sav'd her husband's life. But then her tongue cuts sharper then a knife : With her sons fore-skine so she thought to fit him Thrown at his feet she in y« teeth did hit him. 6. On Moses Sraiteinge y« Eocke. (6). He formerly eomplain'd, my tongue's too slows But surely then his tongue to[o] fast did goe. 7. On the Batle with Amelacke. (7). The wind i' th' victory, where did it stand [1] Looke on y^ weathercocke on Moses' hand : His hand's no weathercocke I cal to minde Yt's turnfed about, but this doth turn y« winde. ' A place near Stamford w[h]ere a Batle in Edw : 4 time [The preceding note is in the Manuscript. Mr Wright as before, has been good enough to send me the following ' Loosecoat-Jield is mentioned by Speed as the scene of a battle fought near Stamford in the reign of Edward the Fourth — so called because the defeated party in the hurry of their flight threw away their coats — Speed, History of Gvf-at Britain p. 680 edi. 1611.' G.] UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 223 8. On Joshauah. (8). Weake faith y' one days station doth comand Brave Keplar (9). make y" sun for ever stand. 9. On y« Alter Ed. (10). Tliis Alter they did piously Intend Pray God none ere be bu[i]lt to worser end. 10. Sampson's Jawe bone. (11). Water ^ from Horse-hoofe : ^ 'tis a fable thinge 'Tis now an Asses Jawe did yei[l]d a Springe. ^ 11. On Ephrainiites fals pronunc: Shiboleth (12). They wanted H in their pronnunciation Sure H : was then a heavy aspiration : Schin was theb theta & much blood it spils To them y^ word was true, y« letter kUs. 12. On Elijah taken vp into heaven (1-3). He'es Israel's chariot ; who y^ like espi'de To see a chariot in a chariot ride. 'Helicon. F. '^ Pegasus. F. ' In ' Pisgah-SigM ' p. 229, we read ' 'tis true an Asses Jawe did yei[l]d a Springe ' p. 229. ed. 1650. G. 224 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 13. OnZacheus (14). Hee climb'd A fig-tree : this I dare ad more (15) No barren lig-tree then : good frute it bore 14. On y« Powder plot (16). The plot was onely in Intention ^vrought Y« plotters were to execution brought. 15. On Vaine Excuses. When men do sin themselves they blame y* divel Y^ divel doth their sin : they do y" evil. 16. On Gallants cloakes. Without plaine cloath, within plush : but I doubt Y® wearer's worst within & best without. 1 7. On Popish Interpretation of Scripture. Christ : Drinke al of this at y" comunion table Pope : By al, y^ clergy, their are only meant Paul : Mariage Amongst al men 's honorable Pope : All, there's y« Laity y'^ paul's intent. Christ : Is't so indeed : w' X[t], saith or St Paul yts nothinge : w' y^ pope saith, all in all. 18. On Sin. We paint y^ divel blacke : us to requite The blackamore's do paint y" divel white : UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 225 Thus juglers count spendinge y^ only (17) vice And spenders make it to be avarice And every man wliereof himselfe is free Y' he conceives y" only sin to be. 1 9. Whether Scripture or tradition [is] y^ mother of faith. Scr. Y^ child is mine, of certaine S^ I bare it Trad : S^ , it's mine & I must therefore share it : Solomon : Y' then this matter better be decided Bringe forth a sword & let it be divided (18). Trad : wel s4 S^ y^ Judgm' is wel spent Let it be hers & mine Indifferent. Scrip : no not so, alive for pity save it Let me have't al or let her wholy have it. Solomon : , now I see this woman is y^ mother Give her y° child and pack away y" other. 20. On Pope Innocent. Pope Innocent cheife of y^ Eoman Eout Answers his name : but how if In : were out. 2 F 226 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 21. On Com hoarders. ^ Why do'st y? (1 9) hoard up com for mice vr" faine Y" people would it buy : oh knave in graine. 22. On Joseph's M™ (20). Bee : chast-minded Joseph did deny To ly with her, she wretch on him did ly. 23. On Jacob (21). Cheape rate he gave & always thinkes to gett For birthright, pottage : fore y® bless? meat. 24. On Paul's Jorney to Damascus (22). Blest blindnes w';'' did ope his ghostly eyes And fal y'. made him into heaven rise. 25. On ye Philistins (23). Sampson's firebranded foxes vext them sore Our Fox (24) his firebrand vext y^ papists more. ' Fuller would liave agi'eed with like-minded Dr William Smith in his memorable ' Blacksmith' sermon, wherein he paraphrases St Basil ' iu one of those sermons that he wrought against the covetous cormorants or corn-morants of his time ' [' The Blacksmith ' 1606.] G. UNPUBLISHED BPIGEAMS. 227 26. On Michal's mockeinge (25). W[ha]t Issue came there of a deed so bad Alas ! no issue : child she never had. 27. On Peter's words ' shal I smite?' (26). He gave no eare to hear w[ha]t Christ -would say But presently tooke Malchus' eare away. 28. On Bugbears. Scare not thy children w[it]h false and foolish fears But rather tel thorn of Elisha's beares (27). 29. On Sampson. Porter, who Gaza's (28) gates op'd without stay Porter who on his backe bore gates away. 30. On Manasse (29). W[he]n far from home this Cap[ti]f longe was sent Home came he to himselfe & did repent. 31. On Jacob (30). ■W[he]n to his thigh y® Lord a touch did send Jacob did halt before his dearest frend. 228 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 32. On Noah's dove (31). Thenewesshebroughtbymoutli tho nothing spake Whose nothinge answer did in folio make. 33. A prayer. My soul is stained w[i]th a dusky colour Let thy Sonne he y« sope I'le be y* Fuller (32). 34. On Peter's Sinkeinge (33). Cephas : •w[ha]ts y*. (?) a stone : yea so I thinke A heavey stone : for it began to sinke. 35. On his Successors. If in y^ sea y® popes durst him succeed Where he was duckt, they would be drown'd indeed. 36. On pride in cloaths. Eagles have none but peacockes have brave traine Subjects goefinein cloaths, y^ kinge goes plaine. 37. On Zacheus. So I be good I care not to be tall I'de rather be Zacheus then A Saul (34). 38. On Musculus (35). This preacher tum'd A weaver forc't by need How many weavers preachers do proceed. UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 229 39. One more knave then foole. Nabal's a foole : read backeward & you have His nature truly, Laban, yts a knave (36). 40. On David's three Worthy's (37). Wast not stronge water w[hic]h 3 men so mighty Ventiir'd their lives for : yes, 'twas i^qua vitse. ^ 41. On Sampson (38). Where lay y^ strength of Sampson 1 even there Where Gallants pride no\y^ lys : in their longe hair. 42. A prayer. Hard is my heart, Lord, to my greife I feele Be y? y" Loadstone, it shal be y^ Steele. 43. On y" Men of Sodom (39). Most bad is in A Lottery : good but one And y^ good lot God drewe from thence alone. ' Of. ' Pisgah-Sight ' as before p. 299 on Aqua Vite. This peculiar wording is also found in the ' Divine Poems ' of Thomas Washbourne D.D. (1654), e.g. of penitent tears. ' That Agm vitx Thou dost prize (page 14). And at page 41— ' Th' Aqua vitce which from Christ's side came.' G. 230 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 44. On Naboth accused (40.) W[ha]t ground of such false crimes in hi[in] was found Alas, his vineyeard y^ was All y^ ground. 45. On Jacob. Stout souldier^ who's yet^ vnbom did fight (41). Great conqueror who queld y^ lord of might. 46. On Ehud (42). Who so wel set himselfe to understand May see God's finger plaine in Ehud's hand. 47. On y^ Israelites in y® Wildernes. Their sutes did hold til 40 yeares were past (43) Sure in our lawe some Sutes as longe do last. 48. On Perseverance. Joash relaps'd, Manasse did Amend Begin with Joash, with Manasse end (44). 49. On James & John wishinge fire on y® Samaritans (45). The sons of thunder was enough for you You need not to be sons of Lightning too. ' A trisyllable. G. ^ wTio as yet. G. UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 231 50. On Paul's danger (46). Sliipwracke escap't, no sooner come to land But straight another danger is at hand : Him men a murderer count, a ■wondrous thing To hite him whom y* serpent would not sting. 51. On Jael (47). When Sisera sure as A naile was dead Then Jael truly hit y^ naile o'th' head : He never dream't of her, she boldly say (48) But yet she tooke hi[m] napking [napping] as he lay. 52. On Hezekiah (49). The sun In goeiage backe w[ha]t did it showe Y'. Hezekiah's life should forward goe A fig to hi[m] restor'd his life Againe : How many popes have since by figs been slaine 53. On Jehosophat (50). W[he]n he with wicked Ahab tooke A part He sd to hi[m] I'me never ^ as y" art But w[it]h y^ Aramites wel match't was he Who timely tooke hi[m] Ahab for to me. ' Query — a mistake for ' I'm ever' or I'm even. See 1 Kings xxii 4 ; ' Pisgah-Sight' as betoi'e, p. 83. G^. 232 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 54. On Isaace (51). Whilst patient Isaace, at y^ Alter lyes Y» Lord himseKe Alter'd y* Sacrifice : A wiUinge miade of God is not despis'd Isaacke was oflfer'd but not sacryfic'd. 55. On Sampson's weapons (52). The silliest creature we do count y® Asse Y® fox doth always for y® wisest passe : With Asse's Jawes Sampson his foes doth quaile & flaps he gave them w[it]h a foxes taUe. 56. On Japthaes daughter (53). He Idl'd her not say some but only stayed Her fro[m] ill marryinge : oh y'. kills a maide. 57. On Ely y« priest (54). The newes of th' Ark's captivity once spoken His hart was broke before his necke was broken No wonder Ely was so tender harted Y« priest must needs dy w[he]n y^ Ark's dep'[ar]ted. 58. On Sampson & John Baptist (55). Much do I muse w[he]n I on Sampson thinke So stronge, whose mother tasted no stronge drink But yet John Baptist is A wonder rather A cryer's voice, begot of A dumb father. UNPUBLISHED EPTGllAMS. 233 59. On Christ Lookinge on Peter (56). Tho Peter w[it]h his tongue did Christ deny Yet Christ, he own6d Peter with his eye : Peter who was with night of feares ore-drawn But w[he]n y^ Cocke did crowe y« day did dawn. NOTES. 1. Adam ; Cf . Genesis c. iii. vv. 7, 8. 2. Noah : Cf. Genesis c. vii. 3. Leah : Cf. Genesis c. xxix. 17. 4. Joseph ; Cf . Genesis c. xxxix. 6. Zipporah : Ct. Exodus c. iv. 24-26. 6. Moses : Cf. Exodus c. iv. 10, with STumbers u. xx. 10 and Ps. cvi. 33. 7. Amelaclse : Cf. Exodus c. xvii. 8-16. 8. Joshua: Spelled as ante, though I am not sure that the first 'a' was not intended to be blotted out. In the MS. it is blackened. Cf. Joshua c. i. 12. y* =^ that. 9. Keplar: Thegreatastronomer 'Kepler' whosoadvanced astronomical discovery. Query — make = for makes or made.' 10. Ed : Cf . Joshua xxii. 34. 11. Sampson : Cf. Jugdes c. xv. 16. 12. Shiboleth : Cf. Judges c. xii. 6. 13. EUjah : Cf. 2 Kings c. ii. 12. 14. Zacheus : = Zacchseus : Luke c. xix. 1-10. 15. Ad more = admire, with a play on the words ' addmwe. 16. Powder-Plot : so long celebrated in ' 5th November ' anniversary Sermons and Prayers. 17. ' Greatest,' is here written above the line. 18. ' Divided;' Cf. 1 Kings e. iii. 25 seqq. 19. ' T? ' = the Latin ' tu,' thou : repeated in the MS. 9. O 234 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 20. Joseph: Cf. Note 4 mpra. The 'Bee' ia probably a contraction for ' because.' 21. Jacob ; Cf. Genesis c xxv. 29-34 and c. xxvii. 19 geqq. 22. Paul: Cf. Acts e. ix. 3-9. 23. Philistines : Cf. Judges c. xv. 4. 24. Fox = John Foxe the Martyrologist. 25. Miohal: Cf. 2 Samuel c. vi. 16 and 20-23. 26. Peter: Cf. St John c. xviii. 10: and the parallel pas- 27. Elishas bears : Cf. 2 Kings ii. 24. 28. Gaza in MS. is spelled ' Gara '— Cf. Judges c. xvi. 1-3. 29. Manasse = Manasseh — Cf. 2 Chronicles c. xxxiii. 1-20. 30. Jacob: Cf Genesis c. xxxii. 25, 31, 32. 31. Noah's dove : Cf. Genesis c. viii. 8, 9. 32. A prayer ; Perhaps this pun-wit even in prayer is as self-authenticating a characteristic as is to be found in these Epigrams. Our Worthy delighted to play on his own name e.g. in his own epitaph ' Here lies Fuller's earth,' 33. Cephas: Cf. St John c. i. 42, with St Matthew c. xiv. 30. 34. Zacheus : Cf. supra note 14. 35. Musculus: a Memoir of this Peformer and Scholar is given in ' Abel Eedevivus.' 36. Nabal : Of. 1 Samuel c. xxv. 3, 25. 37. David's three Worthies : Cf. 2 Samuel c. xxiii. 9. 38. Sampson's hair: Cf. Judges c. xvi. 17 segq. 39. Sodom : Cf. Genesis xix. 15 seqq. 40. Naboth : Cf. 1 Kings c. xxi. 1 seqq. 41. Jacob : Cf . Genesis c. xxv. 22. 42. Ehud : Of. Judges iii. 16 seqq. 43. Israel in the Wilderness : Cf. Deuteronomy c. xxix. 5. 44. Perseverance: Cf. Note 29 mpra: and Judges vi. 31 et alibi. 45. James and John : Cf. St Luke ix. 24, with St Mark c. iii. 17. UNPUBLISHED EPIGEAM8. 235 16. Paul's danger: Of. Acts c. xxviii. 3 seqq. 47. Jael: Cf. Judges iv. 21, 22. and v. 26. 48. Query— gay? 49. HezeMah : Cf. 2 Kings xx. 7, 11 : and parallels in • Isaiah. 50. JelioBophiat :^Jelioshapliat. Cf. 2 Chronicles c. xviii. and 2 Chronicles xviii. 31 and xix. 2. 51. Isaac : Cf. Genesis c. xxii. 12. 62. Sampson : Cf. supra 11 and 38. 53. Jeptha's daughter : Cf. Judges c. xi. 30 seqq. 64. Ely the priest : Of. 1 Samuel c. iv. 18. 55. Sampson and John the Baptist: Cf. Judges xiii. 5 with St Luke i. 20. G. APPENDIX. FULLEE'S FOKM OF PRAYEE. S stated in our Introduction there follows here the ' Form' which our Worthy was wont to use in his extra-Prayer-Book ' devotions.' Concerning it, the rare anonymous 'Life' (1662) observes, ' A constant form of prayer he used as in his family so in his publique ministry ; onely varying or adding upon speciall occasions or occurences intervening required, because not only hesitation (which the good Doctor for all his strength of memory and invention, was afraid of before so awful a presence as the majesty of heaven) was in prayer more offensive than other discourse ; but because such excursions in that duty, in the extempore way, was become the idol of the multitude' (p. 81). The ' Form' itself is preserved in the exceedingly scar.ce volume whose title-page I now give. 238 fuller's fohm of prayer. PULPIT SPAEKS OB CHOICE FOEMS OP PEAYEE, BY SEVERAL EEVEEEND and GODLY DIVINES USED by them, both before and after SEEMON. WITH other PEAYEES, for extraordinary occasions, TOGETHER, WITH Dr HEWYTTS, last PEAYEE, BY, Dr Reeve. M. Ball. Dr Gillingham. M. Goddard. Dr Jer. Taylor. M. Nat. Hardy. Dr HewyU. M. Hall. Dr Wilde. M. Jo. Marston. Dr Grifflth. M. Mackerness. Mr Tlio. Fulkr. M. Sparks. London, Printed for W. GUbert- son at the Bible in Giltspur- street, 1659. fullee's foem of peater. 239 The date is 1659 though Mr Eussell ['Memo- rials of Fuller '] gives it as 1658. The preface ' To the judicious, and religious reader' is signed ' Tho. Reeve' — query au.thor of that vivid and remarkable folio, ' The Plea of Niniveh' and various memorable Sermons.' The volume is a very small 1 2mo. and Fuller's Prayer occupies pp. 156-171. G. ME T. F. HIS PRAYER. IflB^n ET the "Words of my mouth, and the l^B^m thoughts of all our hearts be now —SSSsl and ever acceptable in thy sight, O Lord our strength and our Redeemer. Eternal Lord God, infinite in thy great- nesse, incomprehensible in thy glory, whose pure and just Eyes cannot behold either sin or sinners with the least look of a,pprobation j be notoffended with thy servants ; it will be little comfort for us in these glorious attributes ; we come to them that may tender most consolation to us : Oh Lord God, who in Christ Jesus art a mercifull and a reconciled Father to all such sinners as sincerely from their Souls desire and endeavour to repent and believe; thy providence hath brought us unto this place to offer unto thy Majesty our evening sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving, and to be made partakers of a, portion of thy most holy Word ; truly Lord we have just cause PRAYER. 241 to fear lest our prayers, instead of that blessing we now desire, draw down that curse which they deserve upon us ; we have inflamed the corrup- tions of our natures with the manifold rebellions of our lives, which have been nothing else but one constant breach of thy ten commandements ; true Lord, the law in our minds, our spirit, our new creature, our regenerate half, our light, clearly knows and chearfully acknowledges all and every one of thy commandements for pure, and just, and holy ; but the law in our members, our darknesse, our flesh, our old Creature breaks them daUy in thought, word, and deed ; we all of us have been foul and flat Idolaters, erecting the Idols of our own profit and pleasure in the Chapels and Closets of our hearts, and then and there have fallen down upon the bended knees of our Souls, and worshipt them, by regarding our lust more than the fulfilling of thy will in thy word ; that sacred name of thine whereby we hope to be saved, we have taken in vain ; we have done that on thy day, the Lord's day, which we can justifie or avouch on no day ; we have not given that reverence and respect to our Superiors placed over us which thou requirest at our hands ; we have broken all the commandements of the second Table in our demeanour towards our neighbours, and in our deportment to our 2 H 242 PRAYER. own Souls and bodies ; and here Lord we are ashamed to confesse the manifold circumstances of our sins in the presence and hearing of man, who, vile, bold wretches were no whit ashamed or afraid to commit them when we knew full well that the high God of Heaven and Earth did at that instant behold us ■ now lend us of thy Spirit effectually to admire at thy patience and longsuffering towards us, who permits such prophane and presumptuous sinners at this hour of our lives still to remain from HeU fire ; surely Lord there are many in that pit of perdition, whose sins against thee were never aggravated with those high circumstances ; O Lord, we have no variety of reasons to move thee to mercy, we have no exchange of motives to per- swade thee to pitty, but only the same over and over again, for thy own sake, for thy names sake, for thy mercies sake, for thy Son and our Saviour Christ Jesus his sake forgive our sins, for they are great ; wash the guilt & filth of our sins away in his blood ; and Lord for the time to come give us grace to spend the re- mainder of our dayes in our several Callings to thy glory ; Lord grant that we may not only labour to have our sins pardoned to us, but also strive to have so much favour with thee, that before our deaths we may have our sins forgive- PRAYER. 243 ness assured ; for our comfort, grant Lord that we may betake our selves to do the one thing necessary ; let, us not have our oyl to buy when we should have it to burn ; teach us Lord that sicknesse is a time not to do but to suffer ; and gracious Lord grant that our work being done, and the books crost in the times of our healths, we may be comforted when we come to dye, and to resign our Souls into the hands of a faithfull Creator and gracious redeemer. 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