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Emblems extracted from the moſt elegant Iacobus Catſius. As alſo certaine Elegies, Epitaphs, and Epithalamions or Nuptiall Songs; Anagrams and Acroſticks; With divers Speeches (upon ſeverall occaſions) ſpoken to their moſt Excellent Majeſties, King CHARLES, and Queene MARY. With other Fancies tranſlated from BEZA, BUCANAN, and ſundry Italian Poets.
By THO. HEYWOOD.
Aut prodeſſe ſolent, aut delectare—
LONDON, Printed by R. O. for R. H. and are to be ſold by Thomas Slater at the Swan in Duck-lane 1637.
Catullus to M. Cicero:
Tanto peſſimus omnium poeta, Quanto tu optimus omnium patronus.
REader, of what capacity or condi
For ſuch as delight in Stage-poetry, here are alſo divers Dramma's, never be
From famous Iacobus Catſius, I have
Here are moreover divers ſpeeches, at ſundry times, and upon ſeverall occaſi
Beſides Epithalamions (or Nuptiall Songs) with Funerall Elegies, Epitaphs, Anagrams, &c. Nor doubt I, but in the ſervice of ſuch change of diſhes, there may be found amongſt them, though not all to pleaſe every man, yet not any of them but may taſte ſome one or others palat. For the better illuſtration of which. I have prefixed before every parti
THe Dialogue of Eraſmus, called Naufragium, Pag. 1
The Dialogue of Eraſmus, called Procus and Puella, Page 16
The Dialogue of Raviſius Textor, called Earth and Age, p. 38
A Dialogue from Lucianus Samoſatenſis, called Miſanthropos, or the Man-hater, p. 54
A Dialogue of the ſame Author, betwixt Iupiter and Ganimede, p. 96
A third betwixt Iupiter and Iuno, p. 101
A fourth betwixt Iupiter and Cupid, p. 105
A fifth betwixt Vulcan and Appolo, p. 108
A ſixth betwixt Apollo and Mercury, p. 111
A ſeventh betwixt Maia and Mercury. p. 114
An eighth betwixt Iupiter and Vulcan, p. 116
A ninth betwixt Mercurie and Neptune, p. 120
A tenth betwixt Mauſolus and Diogenes, p. 123
An eleventh betwixt Diogenes and Crates. p. 126
A twelfth betwixt Charon, Menippus, and Mercury, p. 130
A thirteenth betwixt Menippus, Aeacus, Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Socrates, p. 133
Nireus, Therſites, and Menippus, p. 138
A Dialogue called Deorum Iudicium, betwixt Iupiter, Mercurie, Iuno, Pallas, Venus, and Paris, p. 140
A Drama from Ovid, called Iupiter and Io, p. 155
A ſecond from Ovid called Apollo and Daphne, p. 177
A Paſtorall Drama called Amphriſa, or the Forſaken Shepheardeſſe. p 192
Forty ſixe Emblems interpreted from the moſt exIacobus Catſius. The ArAnna and Phillis, p 203
Divers Speeches ſpoken before their two ſacred Majeſties, and before ſundry other Noble perſons upon ſeverall occaſions, p. 231 &c.
A Maske preſented at Hunſdon Houſe, p 245
Prologues and Epilogues upon other occaſions, p 247
Funer all Elegies and Epitaphs, p. 250
Epithalamions, or Nuptiall Songs, p. 260
Acroſticks, p. 202
Epigrams from Beza, Bucanan, and other Italian and Latine Authers, p. 267
Cum multis aliis, &c.
Why?
Concerning which the Poet Lucretius is thus read.
Each generation that on earth abides, Whether of beaſts, or men, (whom reaſon guides, Horſes or Cattle, what's beneath the Sunne, Into this firy ardor madly runne.)
Diog Laert tells us that it was a ſaying of Socrates, that young batchelers deſirous of marriage were like to fiſhes who play about the weele, and gladly would get in, when on the contrary they that are within ſtrive how they ſhould get out.
Impoſe the burthen of virginity on none (ſaith
Ignatius the ancient Theologiſt) being a yoake which even the Vrgin Veſtal? (of old) in Rome were not able to beare, to whom onely five yeares were injoyned to abſtaine from marriage, and to keepe the holy fire from going out.
Cicero tells us that it is fit, men ſhould be brought with
And Cipri. that the tutors or guardians, namely, the FaEuripides that when Oreſtes ſollicited Hermione for marriage, Her anMy eſpouſals remaine in my Fathers power, and not mine.
That Father is much to bee blamed, who when hIgnatius, A ripe Virgin to prevent the wrinckles of age, may ſpeake to her Fa
Claudian thus:
The virgins ripe age breeds the fathers cares, Who, for her ſake neglects his Lords affaires.
That daughter who hath paſt the age of five and twenty, if ſhe marry without her fathers conſent, by the law of ſome Nations cannot be deprived of her dowry, becauſe the father ought to conſider in time convenient to provide his daughter of an husband, and himſelfe of a Son-in-law: but when our Phillis profeſſeth her ſelfe not to bee much above fifteene, it is ridiculous in the maide longing for marriage, to wreſt the law, and apply it un
If regard be to be had of dignity, comlines or honeCypr.
They that in gathering Venusflowers are free,Say daily, theſe to morrow ſuch will bee. Meane time ſoft fires into our boſomes creepe, And the worſt trees ſtill root themſelves moſt deepe. Ovid.
All delay is odious, yet it brings on wiſdome. Sen.
Delayes oftentimes bring to paſſe that hee who ſhould have dyed, hath killed him who might have li
Clem. Alexand.
To this purpoſe is that of Sencea the Philoſopher, it
If in the very moment of occaſion the opportunity
Liv.
Standing ſtreames gather mud, but running rive
Such as reſiſt love, muſt either have no braine, or
Protogenes.
Ambition and love are impatient of delay: li
Quintilian.
Many virgins at their contractings rather comBaldus obſerves,
Quale coloratum Tithoni conjuge Coelum Subrubet, aut ſponſo viſa puella novo.
It much behoveth a virgin to be very circumſpect in caſes of matrimony, that for the honour of her ſex, ſhe neither ſeeme to offer her ſelfe, or to doe any thing a
Icaſin a noble and learned virgin, who when ſhe became ſo gracious in the eyes of Theophilus Emperour of Conſtantinople, that he ſeemed to offer her a golden apple as a pledge of nuptiall faith and contract: She was taxCypri.
Parents of old made proffer of their Daughters to Husbands before they ſought after them, neither did they imagine in that to have done any thing uncomly or undecent. Wee read in the firſt of Kings, chapter eighteenth, Saul offred his Daughter unto David Homer reports that Alcinous did the like to Vlyſſes. Virgil that Latinus did the ſame to Aeneas: Terence, that Chreme
did it to Pamphilus. Herodotus, that it was done by Megacles to Piſiſtratus, and Zonoras and others, that Darius did as much to Alexander, &c.
Whilſt Darius to Alexander, Priamus to Achilles
to Ulyſſes, without due circumſpection made
A cleanlineſſe is to bee uſed by women, neither deſpiſed, nor too exquiſit, onely let it avoid clowniſh and ſordid negligence.
Cicero.
She that hath too much care over her attire, ſheweth ſhe hath little regard of her vertue.
Cato Cenſ.
Husbandmen praiſe beſt thoſe eares of corne which bow down, and make the ſtalk crooked, more then ſuch as grow ſtraight and up right, as being aſſured to find more grain in the one than in the other. Humblenes in heart & habit, is both pleaſing to God, and acceptable with man.
Let not thy habit be too rich nor too baſe, make it neither for admiration, nor contempt; their ornament is cald womanly neatneſſe, by which is meant modeſt handVives in the ſame place proceeds thus: in thy garments it is injoyned thee that they be not over niſe or precious, but without ſpot or ſtaine. For I cannot imagine how much the purity of the mind rejoyceth at the matronlike neatneſſe of the body.
It may be called a diſeaſe rather than mirth, ever to ſmile on them who alwaies laugh at thee, or to frame the countenance unto every mans humour.
Seneca.
When one churneth milke he bringeth forth butter: and hee that wringeth his noſe cauſeth bloud to come out: ſo he that forceth wrath bringeth forth ſtrife.
Pro. 30.
Thoſe Doves, who late, each other ſought to wound, Now joyne their bills with murmure and ſweet ſound.
This alſo is to bee admoniſhed them, that virgins ſmile not on all ſuch as laugh upon them: which indeed is not ſeene in any but ſuch as are rather immodeſt on madde, ſhee ought not alſo to ſuffer her ſelfe to bee tug
Vives.
Hot love groweth ſoone cold; and faith plighted with feigned vowes as it is tyed without conſcience, ſo for the moſt part it is broken without care.
Poſthumia the veſtall, becauſe ſhee was free in laughSpurius Minutius, then High Prieſt or Flamin, he admoniſhed her that thencePlutarch.
As the North-wind driveth away the raine, ſo doth an angry countenance, the ſlandering tongue.
Prov. 25. 23.
The way to marriage is doubtfull and double, the one
Hercules travelling where two wayes met: for if once in marriage, it hath hapned unto thee ill, there is no art by which thou canſt correct it; for thou art falne into the number of thoſe, of whom the proverb ſpeakes, Hee deſerveth no pitty, that chuſeth to doe twice amiſſe.
It is more honeſt after thou haſt once determined, to love, rather than begin to determin when thou haſt loved
Wonder not that thou art deceived by him that ſpeakes thee faire and flatters thee, but rather wonder how thou haſt eſcaped from not being deceived by him Demoſthenes.
Sic avidis fallax indulget piſcibus Hamus, Callida ſic ſtultas decipit eſca feras. So the deceitfull hooke the fiſh betrayes, So beaſts, by crafty baits, a thouſand wayes.
True honour is ſo pure, It will no touch indure.
Nothing is more tender than the fame and reputa
Vives.
No Father can have too great a care of preſerving his daughters chaſtity.
Plaut, in Epidic.
Remember ſtill thy fame to cheriſh, That loſt, thy ſelfe doth likewiſe periſh.
It behoveth the chaſt one, not onely to abſtain from crime, but alſo to avoyd the ſordid aſperſion o
Dion.
Let the woman give nothing to the man: for who ſoever ſhe bee that preſents a gift, proſtrateth her ſelfe
Vives.
And there may bee reaſon rendred, that whoſoever gives may bee thought to inſinuate himſelfe into the mans favour to whom hee giveth; alluding to that a
Martial.
Thou ſent'ſt me preſents, oh but why? Becauſe with thee I ſhould comply.
There is nothing ſo ſacred which is not to bee viola
Cicero.
Gods, Chaſtity, and Faith have faild, Gold onely, over them prevaild. Receive no gifts, (a hooke lies in the meate) None but have birdlime, and their poiſon's great.
o receive a gift, is to ſell thy liberty. • Seneca.
Sporting hath beene the occaſion of many evils, we may read.
Horace.
In paſtime & ſport, womens breſts are eaſily diſcovere according with that of the Poet.
The ornament of women is to flouriſh in hon
Greg. Nazian.
No woman can be reſtrain'd againſt her will. Lib. Amor.3.
That which is moſt kept from us, moſt we crave, The prey calls theeves, few love what they can have. Id.
Such as have leave to ſinne, commit leaſt ill, The power to offend, oft takes away the will. Id.
That leſſe pleaſeth us to which wee are moſt per
Dangerous is the cuſtody of a virginity, and moſt difficultly is ſhe to be reſtraind, to whom 'the yoke of virginity is impoſed. Egn.
That which Tacitus ſpake of the plebe or multitude, may not unfitly be conſtrued upon young virgins, vid. They are altogether impatient of meere ſervitude, or abſolute liberty.
What profiteth it thee to grate one tooth againſt another. Martial.
Young Maides fancies are inclind, To'affect the ſhape, neglect the mind.
Let us remember that the ſexe in its owne nature is weake, as not in body, ſo neither in minde being able to under goe things ſerious and weighty, therefore we muſt allow them retirement, and relaxation from their cares, and give them ſome liberty of ſporting, and telling tales amongſt their friends and neighbours: provided, no cu
Vives.
It is hard to maintaine credit where truth is ſuſpeOctavius Caeſar Domum ſuam non ſolum cri
i. Auguſtus Caeſar,
As
Circe injoy'd not thoſe whom ſhe transform'd in to Swine, Lions, &c. but affected Ulyſſes in his owne perPlutarch.
Saving the goods of breſt and mind. Ovid.
Couples ill matcht, like garments patcht.
Matrimonium ita demum tranquillè exigi poteſt, ſi mulier
Then marriage may be ſaid to be paſt in all quietneſſe,
A ſmall benefit may ariſe to a great profit, if it be ſea
Curtius.
Time is the beſt counſellor, and the chiefe preſident counſels, ſaith Antiſthenes, and Cicero calleth it the moſt ſect Herald of truth.
Mild power doth compaſſe that which rough vioClaud.
Let men obey the lawes, and women their husband Socrates. Silence and patience maketh concord betwTheophraſtus.
A chaſte Matron by obeying her husbands will, getBias. But give thy wife no pow
Marriage teacheth, that a woman ſhould hold her
Homer) the moſt vertuous Andromache conferHector.
Obijt Die Mart. 8. Anno Aetat. 20. An. ſalutis. 1636.
Faeliceter & Amplius • quos Irrupta tenet Copulae.
THOMAS COVENTRY.
To charme out ſinne.
THOMAS COVENTRY.
O Hye conſtant Mure.
HENRY CAREY: The Anagram. Rayne Rich. An Acroſtick upon the Anagram.
The Anagram. Now Helper, Crave. An Acroſtick upon the Anagram.
ROBERT ANNA CARRE.
The Anagram, Rarer cannot beare.
Prayer in
Salvete incolumes mei Libelli, Meae deliciae, mei lepores, &c.
Ingens ingentem, quem perſonat orbis, Eraſmum, Haec tibi dimidium picta tabella refert, &c.
Si fuit ille tibi Lucretia, gratus adulter, Immerito merita praemia morte petis, &c.
Clarae urbi Venetum, Debes natalia Bembe, vrbs eadem clara eſt munere Bembe tuo.
Nil Helena vidit Phoebus formoſius una, Te regina nihil pulchrius orbis habet.
Excelſum ſeu condis opus magnique Maronis, luminibus offerre ſtudes, &c.
Eraſmus ille, quo fatentur plurimi, Nihil fuiſſe nec futurum doctius, &c.
Dum Maſuri rudiore tonas Babylona ruentem, Cantata eſt quanta Troja nec ipſa tuba, &c.
Gallica mirata eſt Calvinum eccleſia nuper quo nemo docuit doctius, &c.
Accipe Franciſco cur componamus Homerum, Et Monachos, credo vatibus eſſe pares, &c.
Non me materies facit ſuperbum, Quod ferro Inſuperabilis quod igni, &c.
Flava Ceres longi ſpes interceperat amti, Aruerat pigro vin t •• ll • gel • . •
Non ego Romulea miror quòd paſtor in urbe Sceptra gerat: paſtor conditor urbi erat. •
Silvius hic ſitus eſt gratis qui nil dedit unquam Mortuus, & gratis quod legis iſta dolet.
Mittis vina mihi, mihi Pamphile vina ſuperſunt, Vis mage, quod placeat mittere? mitte ſitim.
Ore tibi pauci, ſed nulli in carmine dentes quum ſint, atque illi ſunt putridi & veteres, &c.
Viderat Adriacis Venetam Neptunus in undis, Stare urbem & toto p nere jura Mari, &c. •
Si velut egregia pictura maxime Pole, Eſt expreſſa tui corporis effigies, &c.
Hanc pateram Chio ſpumantem autoque nitentem Accoltus vati donat habere ſuo, &c.
Flagrati cineres ſi nunc Catilina videret, Imperij & Latium conſenuiſſe decus.
Ioannes jacet hic Mirandula, caeter norunt. • Et Tagus & Ganges, forſan & Antipodes.
In feſtum ſibi cum ſciret Ludovica Cometam, Seque peti: Illius crinibus horrificis, &c.
Nuper Charine conjugem, Vidi tuam, tam candidam, &c.
Ante legitimum ſtatumque tempus, Cum puerpera facta Phillis eſt.
Dux Pharia quamvis jacu Inhumatus arena, Non ideo fati eſt ſaevior ira tui, &c.
Verona, qui te vider it, Et non amârit protinus A more perditiſſimo, &c.
Qui ripis te ſaepe ſuis ſtupuere Canentom, Eridanus Tiberiſque; parens ille, hic tuus Hoſpes, &c.
Siſte viator, dum proper as hoc aſpice marmor, Et leg , ni plores, tu quoque marmor eris, &c. •
Dicite, cum melius cadere unte Lucretia poſſet, Cur potius voluit poſt ſcelus illa mori.
IN this Dialogue (to whoſe Author I am not able to give a meriting character) I preſume there is nothing conteined which doth deviate either from modeſty or good manners. It is onely a meere expreſſion, of what is, or ought to be, betwixt a young man and a maide, in the initiating of their affection, the proſecution of their love, and the perfecting of their contract. Here is neither chilDion ſaith: Diſparity in Wedlock is a great enemie to love: then conformity in educaEuripides thus: women without dowry cannot claime the priviledge to ſpeake their owne thoughts: And Menander ſaith: That man is moſt unhappy who marriHomer informeth us, That the LaGreece, uſed to count their yeares from the time of their Nuptials, not the day of their Nativity, as forPamphilus prov'd an happy husband, and Maria a fortunate wife: He a provident Father, and ſhee the fruitfull mother of
Boethius, lib. 2. Metr. 8.
Hic & conjugij ſacrum Caſtis nectit amoribus.
And to doe her the beſt right I can, I make bold to borrow thus much from the Poet Statius, lib. Silvar. 5.
Si Babylonis opes, Lydae ſi pondera gaza Indorumque dares, &c.
Et quo non poſſum corpore, mente feror.
(a) MEaning Io transformed into a Cow, by Iupiter (who had before ſtuprated her) to conceale her from the jealouſie of his wife Iuno: the whole ſtory you may
Iupiter and Io: ſhee lived in the yeare of the world 2200. according to Hel.
(b) The Sibils were in number ten. Perſica, Libyca, Delphica, Erithraea, Samia, Helleſponti
of theſe you may read Varro, Gellius, Auguſtin, Suidas, and Lactantius. And of the long life of Cumana, Uirgil in his Aeneids.
(c) Aſcraean, ſo titled from Aſcra a Towne in Boetia, neare unto the mount Helicon, where the famous Poet Heſiod was borne, from which place hee had the ſirname Aſcraeus.
(d) King Cyrus, becauſe he had a Steed whom he much loved, drowned in the river Ganges: to be revenged ther
(e) It hath reference to the great battaile fought by Hannibal againſt the Romanes neare unto the Village Cannas, where he ſlew 80. thouſand in that one conflict: from thence the people of Italy are call'd Cannenſes.
(f) Concerning the Hiſtory of Phaeton, and his ſiſters, I referre you to the reading of Ovid, where it is with great elegancy deſcribed. Metamorph.
(g) You may read the like of Niobe the daughter of Tantalus, and wife to Pelops: who had ſixe Sonnes, and ſixe Daughters, all which Latona the mother to Apollo and Diana, (in whom are figured the Sunne and the Moone) cauſed to be ſlaine, for the pride of Niobe, who preſumed to compare with her: for griefe whereof ſhee loſt her ſpeech, and remained ſtupid and without motion, which gave the Poets occaſion to feigne that ſhe was changed into a marble ſtatue. Calviſ. reporteth that ſhee lived in the yeare of the world, 2240.
(h) Euridice was the wife of Orpheus, who flying from Ariſtheus who would have raviſhed her, was ſtung with a Serpent, of which ſhe dyed. Orpheus tooke his harpe, And went to Hell for her, and by his excellent Muſick ſo far
Pluto and Proſerpine, that they ſuffered him to beare her thence, but upon condition, that he ſhould not looke backe upon her till hee had paſt the infernall ſhades, and came to the upper light, which through his over love hee breaking, ſo loſt her. The fable is thus moralliz'd, Euridice ſignifieth the ſoule of man, and Orpheus the body to which the ſoule is married. Ariſtaus is true happineſſe which would gladly raviſh the ſoule, but ſhee flying through graſſy fields and medowes, is at length ſtung to death by a Serpent, that is, by the blanNatal Comes.
(i) Aſtianax was the Sonne of Hector and Andromache, who after the taking of Troy, was by the Grecians preci
(k) Aegaeus was the Sonne of Neotune, and King of Athens, in whoſe raigne King Minos of Creete to revenge the death of his Sonne Androgous, made moſt cruell warre on the Athenians, forcing them yearely to ſend ſeven Noblemens Sonnes into Creete to bee devoured by the monſter Minotaurus. Three yeares this continued, and in the fourth the lot (amongſt others fell upon Theſius, the elect Sonne of the King, who being of a noble and heroick courage, put them in great hope that he was able to kill the monſter: At his departure his father in joyn'd him, that if the ſhip hee went in returned proſperouſly he ſhould ſet up a white flagge in token of victory, and pluck downe the black one which they then bore in ſigne of mourning. But after when Theſeus by the counſell of Ardiane daughter to King Minos had overcome the monAegeum mare. He lived in the 48. yeere after Athens was firſt made a Kingdome; and in the yeare of the world 2680. about the time that Gideon judged Iſrael.
(l) Iocaſte was the mother of Oedipus, who after her firſt husbands death marryed with him, being her owne naturall ſonne, (but not knowing ſo much) by him ſhee had Eteocles and Polynices, who in a ſingle combat ſlew one another, and they alſo dyed miſerably.
(m) Dedalus was the ſonne of Micion borne in Athens, the moſt excellent Artificer of theſe times. He made the Labyrinth into which Minos put him, and his ſonne Icarus, at length having got feathers and wax, he made thereof artificiall wings for himſelfe and his ſonne, and ſo flew from Crete into Sardinia, and thence to Cuma, where he built a Temple to Apollo, but Icarus in the way ſoared ſo high, that the beames of the Sunne, melMare Icarium, the Icarian Sea, according to that of Ovid.
Icarus Icarijs nomina fecit aquis.
(n) Progne was the daughter to King Pandion, who becauſe her husband Tereus King of Thrace, had raviPhilomela, and after cut out her tongue, ſhe having notice thereof, in a barbarous revenge, at a
Bacchus: ſlew her ſon Itis, and after dreſt his limbs, and ſerved them up to her husbands table, &c. She lived about the yeare of the world 2510. according to Helv.
(o) Autonoe, was the daughter of Cadmus and Hermione, who much lamented the death of Acteon.
(p) Antigone, was daughter of Oedipus King of Thebes, who when her blind father was baniſhed, tooke upon her to leade him, and afterwards being at the buriall of her two brothers Eteocles and Polynices with Argia, was ſlaine by the command of King Creon, whoſe murder Theſeus ſoone after revenged.
(q) Coloſſae vel Coloſſis, was a towne of Phrygia, neare unto Laodicea, which was demoliſht by an earth-quake in the time of Nero.
(r) Memphis was built by King Ogdous, and tooke name of his daughter (ſo called) it is a great and ſpaAlcayrum, or Grand-Cayre.
(ſ) Mauſolus, was King of Caria, to whoſe memory his wife Artimeſia reared a moſt ſumptuous Tombe which was reckoned one of the ſeven wonders of the world, this Monument was reared in the yeare of the world 3590.
(t) It hath reference to the ſtately Temple of Diana in the City of Epheſus: which was afterwards maliciouſly burnt downe by Heroſtratus.
(v) Tarpeian alludeth to Tarpeia, a Veſtall virgin in Rome, who covenanting with the Sabines their eneJupiter was ſirnamed Tarpeius, becauſe there worſhip
(w) By Getick weapons are meant theſe which the Getae uſed, a people of Scythia in Europe, Aelius Spartan. From them derives the Nation of the Goths, who after conquered Italy and Rome.
(x) By Minerva's Altar, is intended that which ſtood in the Temple of Pallas within the City of Troy, where Achilles at his marriage to Polyxena daughter to King Priam and Hecuba was ſlaine by Paris.
(y) They were called Garamantes of Garamus, a King of Lybia, who built a City there, which he called after his owne name: their Country lyeth along by the banke of Numidia, in a tract of ground from the Atlanticke Ocean, by the river Nilus. They were held in old time to be the fartheſt people Southward.
(z) The Sauromat's are a Septentrionall Nation which ſome Authors, as Ortelius and Scaliger held to be the inhabitants of Ruſſia and Tartaria.
(a) Helena was in her Nonage firſt rap't by Theſeus before her mariage to Menclaus King of Sparta, and after by Paris raviſht, and carried to Troy.
(b) Atrides, were the two brothers, Agamemnon and Menelaus, ſo called from their father Atreus.
(c) Alcinous was King of the Phoeacians, and lived in Corcyra, who much delighted in Orchards and Gar
(e) Penelope the wife of Vlyſſes, famous for her beauty and conſtancy.
(f) Dido was otherwiſe called Eliſa, the daughter of Belus King of Tyre, and eſpouſed to Sychaeus, one of Hercules Prieſts, whom her brother Pigmalion ſlue for his wealth, ſhe after built the famous Citty Carthage, and
Virgil relates) kild herſelfe for the love of Aeneas.
(g) Leucades two beautifull ſiſters, rapt by the two faCaſtor and Pollux, the ſonnes of Laed
the mother of Helen, who was compreſt by Jupiter.
(h) Cato, for his auſterity cald Cenſorius.
(i) Hippolitus, the ſonne of Theſeus and Hyppolita the Amazon, who when his father was abroad, his ſtepPhaedra ſollicited him to inceſtuou love, which he refuſing, ſhe accuſed him to his father that he would have forced her, but when hee perceived him to give cre
(k) The Driades were Nymphae, or Sylvarum Dea, that is Wood-fayries or Druides.
(l) Croeſus a rich King of Lydia.
(m) Craſſus ſurnamed Marcus, thericheſt man amongſt the Romanes, who held no man worthy to be cald rich, who could not within his yearely revenue maintaine an Army: hee was extremely covetous, and managed warre againſt the Parthians, by whom, both hee and thirty thouſand Romanes were ſlaine, and becauſe the barba
(n) Midas, a rich King of Phrygia who asked of Bacchus whom he feaſted, that whatſoever he touched might be turned into gold, &c. He lived in the yeare of the world 2648. about the time that Debora judged Iſrael.
(o) Priam King of Troy potent in wealth, and ſtrength,
(p) Pigmalion, an avaritious King (before ſpoken of) brother to Queene Dido.
(q) Catiline, a ſeditious Conſpiratour of Rome whoſe plots were brought to light by Marc Cicero then Conſull of Rome with Antonius.
(r) Marius, one that was ſeven times Conſull of Rome, and after much peſtered the Citty, by the diviſion betwixt him and Sylla: He lived the yeare before the In
(ſ) Mezentius, was King of the Tyrenians, rememVirgil in his Aeneids, to be a great contemner of the gods.
(t) Calpe, is one of the hills in Spaine, called Hercules Pillars.
(a) SAlmoneus, was ſaid to be the ſonne of Eolus, not he whom the Poets feigne to be the god of the winds, but one of that name, who raigned in the Citty of Elis in Greece. He willing to appeare unto his ſubJoves thunder, for which inſoIupiter being juſtly incenſt againſt him, ſtroke him with a true thunder-bolt, and ſent him quicke to hell.
(b) Mandragora, an herbe ſo called, becauſe it beareth Apples ſweet ſmelling, of an extraordinary greatnes, the Latines call it Malum terrae, id eſt, the Apple of the earth It is that which we call the Mandrake.
(c) Deucalion, was the ſonne of Prometheus, and marPyrrha the daughter of Epimetheus. Whilſt he raigned in Theſſaly came the univerſall Deluge, which drowned all the world, only he and his wife, got into a ſhip and ſaved themſelves: their veſſell firſt touching on the hill Pernaſſus, where the dry land firſt appeared, which was meerely a fiction of the Poets, who had heard or read of the generall Innundation, in him figuring Noah and his Arke. Others thinke that this floud happened onely in Greece and Italy, and that in the yeare of the world 2440. after Noahs floud 744.
(d) Lycoris Mount, by which Lucian intends no other than the two topt Pernaſſus, before ſpoken of.
(e) Epimenides, was a Poet of Creet, whom Saint Paul in his Epiſtle (as Beza is of opinion) cited. It is reVltra Epimenidis ſomnum dormiſti, id eſt, Thou haſt ſlept beyond the ſleep of Epimenides. At his returne he found his brother a very old man, by whom he un
(f) Cibels Prieſts, they were called Corybantes, of one Corybantus, the prime of her firſt attendants. They in all the celebrations of her feaſts, uſed to dance madly, beaAera Corybantia: when they danced about the ſtreets their cuſtome
Collectores Cibeles, or Circulatores, id eſt. Iuglers: theſe firſt inhabited the mount Ida in Phrygia &c.
(g) Phineus, was a King of Arcadia, and the Harpia were the daughters of Pontus and Terra, dwelling in Ilands, partly by Sea, partly by land, ſo called, â rapiende, or ravening: they are feigned to be fowles, with faces like virgins, and hands like tallons or clawes. Some call them Iupiters dogs: and theſe, whatſoever the forenamed King provided to eate, ſnatcht from his table, and greeHercules.
(h) Tantalus, was the ſonne of Jupiter and Plota, the Nymph, grandfather to Agamemnon, and Menelaus, who entertaining certaine of the gods at a banquet, to make tryall of their divinity, killed, dreſſed, and ſerved his ſon Pelops at the feaſt; which fact, the gods after they had diſcovered, ſo abhorr'd, that for the loathſome banquet he made them, they provided him another as diſtaſtfull, for being confined to hell, they ſet him in water up to the chin, and ripe Apples above his head touching his lips, yet gave him not power to ſtoope to the one to quench his thirſt, nor reach to the other, to ſatisfie his hungry appetite. But for Pelops his ſonne, ſo miſerably maſſaIupiter revived him, and for his ſhoulder which Ceres unadviſedly had eaten up, he made him one of IvoOenomaus the father of Meleager, and Deianira, which as Helv. re'
(i) Danaus daughters: This Danaus was a King of the Argives, and dwelt in the City Argus. He called the Country, formerly called Achaia, Danaae, and the geneDanai. He had fifty daughAegyptus, to whom they were wedded, for whch theywere puniſhed by the gods with a perpetual I
(k) Cyclopes, they were ſo called becauſe they had but one eye, and that was orbicular and round, they were Vulcans miniſters, and forg'd or fram'd his thunderBrontis, Sterope, and Pirachmon, they were mighty great men, and called Giants, &c.
(l) Dis, is the god Pluto, who taketh that denomiâ divitijs, of riches, becauſe they are dig'd and torne from the bowels of lower parts of the earth.
(m) Theſe names, Pythias, Dromus, Tibias, Hyperbolus, and the like, are given according to the Authours fan
(n) Nireus, a faire young man, whom Homer loved, and whoſe beauty he much extolled.
(o) Cecrops, was alſo called Biformis; he was the firſt King of Athens, and firſt invented amongſt them marCecropia, he flouriſh'd in the yeare of the world 2394. ſoone after the birth of Moſes.
(p) Dithy
were ſongs ſung in honour of Bacchus.
(q) Areopagitae. Iudges or Senatours amongſt the Ather
(r) Erictbeides, whom ſome think to be Ericthonius, or Ericthaeus, the fourth King of Athens; he firſt found one the uſe of Coaches, becauſe his ſeet were deformed. Hs lived in the yeare of the world 2463. about eleven yeare after Iſraels departure out of Egypt.
(a) NIreus was a young man amongſt the Greekes who came to the warres of Troy, whoſe beauty and feature Homer in his Iliades mightily com
(b) Therſites, a miſhapen and deformed Captaine in the Grecian Hoſt, as crooked in minde as body, who bitAchilles, he being mightily inraTherſite foedior, aſperſt upon any ſtigmatick, and crooked felHomer in his firſt and ſecond booke of Iliads.
(c) Menippus was a Poet, and maſter to Cicero the faLucian, is inVarro the Orator writ a Satyr, and intitled it Satyra Menippea. It is reported of him, that ſuch money as he had hoorded toDiogenes L
(a) SPaerchius, a River whoſe banks were round bePopuifer,
Enipoeus, Apidanus, Amphiſus, and Aeas, &c. only the names of Rivers, whoſe currents and chanels were faOvid his Metamorph. lib. 1. upon the ſame argument.
(b) Pindus, was a mountaine in Theſſaly, ſacred to Apollo and the Muſes, &c.
(c) Hemonian Tempe, Tempe was a pleaſant valley flouHemus. It was much celebrated by the Muſes, as lying betwixt Oſſa and Olympus. The River Peneus, Lariſa, and the Aegean Sea, &c.
(d) Naiades, were Nymphs or Fayries of the wells, and fountaines.
(e) Pierides, were the Muſes, ſo called from Pierus, or elſe a mountaine in Greece of that name: this Pierus had nine daughters, who contended with the Muſes in ſinging, and being vanquiſhed by them, were transfor
(f) Syrinx, an Arcadian Nymph, who flying from the embraces of Pan, the god of the Shepheards, at her interceſſion to the gods changed into a Reed, her prayer being to preſerve her virginity.
(g) Styx, a certaine well in Arcadia, the water of which is ſo cold and venemous, that whoſoever drinAlexander the Great was poiſoned with the water of this river, by Antipater, at the perſuaſion of Ariſtotle, the great Philoſopher, and Tutor to Alexander. The Poets feigne it to be a river in hell, and ſo ſacred to the gods, that if any of them ſweare by it, and breake his oath, he ſhall be deprived of his god head, and drinke no Nectar for an hundred yeares after.
(a) GArgarus, ſo called of Gargarus, the ſon of Jupiter, it is commonly taken for the top or Apex of the high hill Ida, where the ſaid god had an Altar conſe
(a) ALcmena, the wife of Amphytrio the Theban, in whoſe abſence Iupiter came in the ſhape of her husband, compreſt her and begot Hercules.
(b) Semele, the mother of Bacchus, begot on her by Iupiter, from whence he tooke the denomination of Semeleius.
(c) Maia, the daughter of Atlas, and Pleiones, and thereAtlantiades, of whom Iupiter begot Mercury.
(d) By Cadmus faire daughter is intended Semele before ſpoken of.
(a) MOcricus, Ariſtaeus, Thraſicles, &c. are names of men whome the Author aimed at (living in thoſe times) according to his fancy.
(b) IApygium, or Iapyges, theſe derived their names from
the ſonne of Dedalus, and were ſaid to be CreC
ſonne of Min
came unto the ſame place, where after they inhabited, theſe in time grew to ſuch a profuſe riotiſe, intemperance and wantonnes, that forget
(a) EVphorbus, was a noble Trojane, the ſonne of Panthus, who wounded Patroclus, and was after flaine by Achilles, being hurt in the thigh; he was ſaid to have one made him of gold. Pythagoras ſaid, that his ſoule was in him in that time of the Troian warre, that hee might better perſwade his Scholars. Concerning the opinion which he held concerning the tranſmigration of mens ſoules, from one body to another.
(a) CImmerians, were people dwelling in Italy, beTene
the Cimmerian dark
(b) Erix, Promontory: Erix was the ſonne of Venus, ſlaine by Hercules, and buried in a mountaine of Cicilia, ſo called after him, in which place Venus had a Temple erected unto her, and from that ſhe had the denominaEriana, &c.
(c) Python, was a mighty hugé Serpent, which Iuno ſent unto Latona when ſhe was with child by Iupiter, to devoure her, but ſhe went to her ſiſter Aſtrea, who protected her, and ſhe was after delivered of two twins, Apollo and Diana.
(d) Endymion, was beloved by the Moone, who cour
(e) Tithon, or Tithonus, was the ſonne of Laomedon, who deſiring long life, was ſo waſted with old age, that the Poets faigned him to be turned into a Graſhopper: he was alſo ſaid to be beloved of Aurora, the mornings becauſe he uſed to riſe early, which was thought to be the reaſon why he preſerved his life ſo long.