J. Cleaveland Revived: POEMS, ORATIONS, EPISTLES, And other of his Genuine Incomparable Pieces, never before publisht.
WITH Some other Exquisite Remains of the most eminent Wits of both the Universities that were his Contemporaries.
‘Non norunt haec monumenta mori.’
LONDON, Printed for Nathaniel Brook, at the Angel in Corn-hill. 1659.
Sepultus Colleg: Whitintonij. 1. May Ano: 1658.
To the Discerning READER.
WOrthy Friend, there is a saying, Once well done, and ever done; the wisest men have so considerately acted in their times, as by their learned works, to build their own monuments, such as might eternize them to future ages: our Iohnson named his, Works, when others were called Playes, though they cost him much of the lamp and oil, yet he so writ, as to obliege posterity to admire [Page] them; our deceased Heroe, Mr. Cleaveland, knew how to difference legitimate births from abortives, his mighty Genius anviled out what he sent abroad, as his informed minde knew how to distinguish betwixt writing much and well; a few of our deceased Poets pages being worth cart-loads of the Scriblers of these times. It was my fortune to be in Newark, when it was besieged, where I saw a few manuscripts of Mr. Cleavelands, amongst others I have heard that he writ of the Treaty at Uxbridge, as I have been informed since by a person I intrusted to speak with one of [Page] Mr. Cleavelands noble frends, who received him courteously, and satisfied his enquiries; as concerning the papers that were left in his custody, more particularly of the Treaty at Uxbridge, That it was not finisht, nor any of his other papers fit for the presse. They were offered to the judicious consideration of one of the most aecomplisht persons of our age, he refusing to have them in any further examination, as he did not conceive that they could be publisht without some injury to Mr. Cleaveland; from which time they have remained sealed, and lockt up, neither can I wonder at this obstruction, [Page] when I consider the disturbances our Authour met with in the time of the Siege; how scarce and bad the paper was, the ink hardly to be discerned on it; the intimacie I had with Mr. Cleaveland, before and since these civill wars, gained most of these papers from him; it being not the least of his mis-fortunes, out of the love he had to pleasure his friends, to be unfurnisht with his own manuscripts, as I have heard him say often, he was not so happy, as to have any considerable collection of his own papers, they being dispersed amongst his friends; some whereof, when he writ for [Page] them, he had no other answer, but that they were lost, or through the often reading, transcribing, or folding of them, worn to pieces; so that though he knew where he formerly bestowed some of them, yet they were not to be regained; for which reason the Poems he had left in his hands, being so few, of so inconsiderable a Volume, he could not (though he was often sollicited with honour to himself) give his consent to the publishing of them, though indeed most of his former printed Poems were truly his own, except such as have been lately added, to make up the Volume; at the [Page] first some few of his Verses were printed with the Character of the London Diurnal, a stitcht pamphlet in quarto, Afterwards, as I have heard M. Cleaveland say, the copies of verses that he communicated to his friends, the Book-seller by chance meeting with them, being added to his book, they sold him another Impression; in like manner such small additions (though but a paper or two of his incomparable Verses or Prose) posted off other Editions. I acknowledge some few of these papers I received from one of M. Cleavelands neere Acquaintance, which when I sent to his, ever to be honoured, friend of [Page] Grayes Inne, he had not at that time the leasure to peruse them; but for what he had read of them, he told the person I intrusted, That he did beleeve them to be Mr. Cleavelands, he having formerly spoken of such papers of his, that were abroad in the hands of his friends, whom he could not remember; my intention was to reserve the collection of these manuscripts for my own private use; but finding many of these, I had in my hands, already publisht in the former Poems, not knowing what further proceedings might attend the forwardnesse of the Presse, I thought [Page] my self concerned, not out of any worldly ends of profit, but out of a true affection to my deceased friend, to publish these his never before extant pieces in Latine and English, and to make this to be somewhat like a volume for the study. Some other Poems are intermixed, such as the Reader shall find to be of such persons, as were for the most part Mr. Cleavelands Contemporaries; some of them no lesse eminently known to the three Nations. I hope the world cannot be so far mistaken in his Genuine Muse, as not to discern his pieces from any of the other Poems; neither can I beleeve [Page] there are any persons so unkinde, as not candidly to entertain the heroick fancies of the other Gentlemen that are worthily placed to live in this volume; some of their Poems, contrary to my expectation, I being at such a distance, I have since heard, were before in print: but as they are excellently good, and so few, the Reader (I hope) will the more freely accept them. Thus having ingenuously satisfied thee in these particulars, I shall not need to insert more; but that I have, to prevent surreptitious Editions, publisht this Collection; that by erecting this Pyramide of Honour, I might [Page] obliege posterity to perpetuate their memories, which is the highest ambition of him, who is,
Verses that came too late, intended for Mr. J. Cleaveland, pictured with his Laurell.
Vpon the KINGS return from SCOTLAND.
Vpon a talkative woman.
Rebellis Scotus.
On an ugly woman.
To the King recovered from a fit of sicknesse.
On a little Gentlewoman profoundly learned.
Vpon the birth of the Duke of York.
On Parsons the great Porter.
To the Queen upon the birth of one of her Children.
To Cloris a Rapture.
An Elegie upon Ben. Johnson.
An Epitaph.
Vpon Wood of Kent.
On Christ-Church windows.
An intertainment at Cotswold.
To the Queen.
An Elegie on Ben. Johnson.
On Ben. Johnson.
To his Mistresse.
In Nuptias Principis Auranchii & D. Mariae filiae Regis Angliae.
Vpon the Marriage of the young Prince of Orange with the Lady Marie.
Another upon the same.
An Epitaph on Ben. Johnson.
On one that was deprived of his Testicles.
To his Mistresse.
The Puritan.
The Flight.
To a Lady that wrought a story of the Bible in needle-work.
To the King.
To the Queen, upon the birth of her first Daughter.
Vpon one that preach't in a Cloak.
On the May Pole.
To the Queen.
Vpon Tom of Christ-Church.
On a Burning-glasse.
Vpon Sheriffe Sandbourn.
Not to Travel.
Jo: Cleveland HIS ORATIONS AND EPISTLES, On Eminent Occasions, In Latin.
English't by E. W.
Printed for Nath. Brook, at the Angel in Corn-hill. 1659.
Oratio coram Rege, & Principe Carolo in Collegio Ioannensi Cantab. habita. 1642.
QVae nupero dolore obriguit Academia, tanquam orbatae Niobes soror Saxea, si in pristinam facundiam resolvatur hodie, agnoscit omen vestrae praesentiae. Mem [...]onis statua solaribus per [...]ussa Radiis, vocalem Musicam edidisse fertur: Habent vel hi parie [...]es Chordas Magicas, quas minima vultus vestri strictura quasi plectro animabit. Nec magis eloquuntur lapides, quam è Diametro miraculi stu [...]ent Oratores: Quod in afflatis numine fieri videmus, it a Deum recipere ut ejiciant Hominem, instinctu sapere non intellectu, perindè vestra in nobis Hospitatur Divinitas, cujus nimius splendor, omnes omnium, sensus sacrificat, & tam sanctam nostri jacturam in lucro deputamus. Ignoscimus [...]am fatis immodestiam suam, Imminens litera [...]um exitium ut favoris insidias gratulamur, scil▪ [...]ambitiosè moriuntur Musae quae ad vestros pedes efflabunt vale. Lusit Archimedes coelos in [Page 86] sphaerâ: quid ni dicam Iovem in Carolo fabricatum? Adeò ut Orator Ille, Qui manu deorsum flexâ, O Coelum! exclamavit, si istum in modum perorâsset Hodie, soloecismum manu non commisisset: Enimverò, cum Regem Optimum Maximum & Principem simul astantes videam, nescio quo modo Principis Natalis videatur Redux, ubi solem & stellam, fulgentes à symbolis, (licèt non aequis Radiis) conspicati sumus. Caesare mortuo novum in coelis emicuit sydus, quod Iulii Anima passim audiit: Caesaris Epilogus fuit Prologus Caroli: Neque enim aptior stella, quam Invictissima illius Herois Anima, quae vestrae soboli res g [...]rendas ominaretur: Stellam dixi? mutò factum: Crederem potius ipsum solem fuisse qui tunc temporis delegavit Tibi moderamen Diei, & ut Principis cunas fortius videret, suum in stellam contraxit Oculum: Ecce ut Patrissat Carolus! ut ad vestras virtutes anhelus surgit! Quod sub pientissimo Rege accidisse legimus, solem muliis gradibus retrò ferri Principis aetas pari portento compensavit damnum, cujus festina virtus Devorat Horologium, & pueritiâ vix dum libatâ meridiem [...]ttigit. Parcatur mihi si turgeat Oratio, si nihil praeter solem, & stellas crepet: quippè in Principis natali ipsa natura mihi praeivit Allegoriam. O foelicem interim Academiam, & aeternitatem quandam nactam, quae in Rege, & Principe, & Esse nostrum, & nostrum Fore, simul complectitur! Non est quod plura expectentur soecula, [Page 87] viximus & nostram, & posterorum vitam▪ Sed vereor nè molestus fuerim importuno officio, quod in tam illustri praesentiâ, in nescio quid majus piaculo excrescit: Minima coram Rege errata, tunquam angustiores Rimae extendu [...]tur lumine: Oratio itaque nostra pro genio temporum Reformabitur, quod tantundem est, Rescindetur. Hoc unicum praefabor votum, Vivas, Augustissime, Pieta [...] Tuorum, & Tremor Hostium. Vivas vel in Hoc declivio stator literarum: vivas denique eam [...] dutus gloriam, ut Filium tuum Carolum appellemus Maximum, qui [...] solo Patre Minorem.
An Oration delivered before the King and Prince Charles, in St. Iohn's Colledge at Cambridge, 1642.
THis Academy, whom but even now equally Marble with the widdowed Niobe, grief congeal'd into a sencelesse-statue, if this day she be restor'd to her wonted smiles, 'tis to you, Great Princes, and to your Auspicious presence, that she must owe this happy change. The statue of Memnon darted upon by the Sun's royal beams is reported by the ancients to have utter'd a vocal harmony, nor is it lesse true, that even these walls have now their charming chords, from which as with a Plectre, or Quill, the least glance of your countenance hath powr to call forth a most melodious Sound, & by a strange contrariety of miracle, at the same time the stones speak, and the Oratours are struck dumb with admiration. It happens in [Page 89] those, who are actuated with Divine impulse that they so receive God as to cast off Man, and that they understand rather by heavenly instinct then by humane reason, in like manner your Divinity hath taken up its habitation in us, and with its over-powerfull splendour sacrificed all our sences, and yet we account it a gain to have so gloriously lost our selves. We now pardon the fates their immodesty, and congratulate the imminent dissolution of Letters as a favourable surprise, for indeed the Muses must needs be ambitious to die, if at your Royal feet they may be admitted to breath their last: Archimedes sportively imitated the Heavens in a Globe, what hinders, but that I may affirm Iove to be lively set forth in Charles; so that he, who pointing to the earth cried out! O Heavens, if at this present he had so declaim'd, he had not committed a soloecisme with his hand, for since I behold the best and greatest of Kings and Princes in place together, me thinkes the Princes birth-day seems to be brought back to this present time in which we see the Sun and Starre shining in conjunction, though not with equal rayes, when Caesar died there appeared a new Starre in Heaven, which was generally called the Soul of Iulius; the Epilogue of Caesar hath been Charles his prologue, for what Starre was fitter [Page 90] to portend the great things to be done by your off-spring (mighty King) then the Soul of that most invincible Heroe. Starre did I say? pardon me, great Sir, I should rather believe that it was the Sun himself, who at that time resign'd unto your hands the government of the day; and, that he might the more intently observe the Prince's Illustrious Cradle he contracted his universal eye into a Starre; Behold how Charles begins already Patrissare, and with what haste and eagre pursuit he soares up to his fathers virtues, that which we read to have hapned of old, under the most pious King of Iuda, that the Sun went back many degrees, is now in Charles his dayes recompens't by no lesse a wonder; nor was the course of time then so much retarded as his forward virtues have now hastned it and brought it on, since in the very dawn of his youth, he hath attained unto the noon of perfection. Pardon me if my Oration swell and sound nothing but Sun and Stars, since in the Pr [...]nce's Nativity nature hath anticipated my allegory; Oh happy Academy, in the mean time, and invested with a kinde of eternity, as comprehending at the same time in King and Prince, both our Present and our Future; what need we expect the ages to come, having lived our own life, and that of posterity together: But I fear least by an [Page 91] officious zeal, I have been too tediously troublesome, which in so illustrious a presence, may soon grow up to a crime beyond expiation. The least absurdities committed before a King, are like chinks which though never so narrow, are discovered and inlarg'd by the light that passeth through them; our Oration thefore is to be corrected according to the genius of the times, and that which is superfluous to be lop't off; One prayer alone remains to Usher in the close. Live, most August, the desire and welfare of your own and the terrour of your enemies, Live, even in this descent of your age, the stay, and prop of learning: Lastly, live adorn'd with so much glory, that the Prince your Son may acquire the name of Charles the Greatest, as being lesse then his Father onely.
Ejusd. Epistola ad Episcop. Lincolnensem, cùm factus esset Archiepiscopus Eboracensis.
USque, & usque quod gratulamur; Si molesti sumus, utinam indies succresceret peccandi materia▪ Pietas officii non metuit Cramben, sed vestri honoris aemula indignatur Non-ultrà. Quin placeat igitur nostris in literis rumniare fortunas Tuas, & prolixioris calami gutture (quod Philoxenus Gruino voluit) repetere dapûm voluptatem. Neque retro tantum gaudemus, prensamus sinciput, & in futurum gratulamur: providè factum, & tempestivè; eo enim pergat virtus vestra, ut si paulum promoveat, humanos limites supergressus, eris ineffabilis. At luxat nobis animos Divinus horror, quum sacra facturis eminus, & splendor vester & sublimit as observantur. Nutat Religio quae veneratur solem, & Tremor Luminum fatetur Deum [...]adem est nostra oculorum conscientia, qui Radios vestros non sinè O [...]ulari crepusculo sustinemus. Nec minus sublimitatem vestram luimus; siquidem sacrificantium Zelus, (tanquam flamma sacrificii) quò magis ascendit, eò magis trepidat. Clementia vestra disputat cum magnitudine, & hâc amicissima lite (quasi totius Naturae Puerperium) [Page 93] officium nostrum est oriundum. Ignoscimus fatis immodestiam suam, quicquid adversi contigit, ut favoris insidias amplectimur: sic recurrere videbantur Fortunae tuae, ut fortiùs prosilirent Comprobavit exitus ingenium commenti: Militans Ecclesia jam triumphat & fluctu [...] (ut olim Arca) tandem in montibus acquiescit. Non amplius Collegium Mater Lanas lacerat, nec facie sua computat miserias. Musae, quas vivere fuit Hyperbole, nunc audent vigere: Quippe altitudo vestra ut Niliaca Aegypti fertilitatem literarum ominatur. Enimverò cùm Astra sunt faelicitatis nostrae Condi-promi, quid est quod a superis non expectemus; Patrono in hoc syderum vicinia collocato. Orandus igitur es (Archi-Praesul dignissimè) ut ambitionem nostram serò sisteres, & honores vestros subindè catenares, ut cùm supremum Fortunae Tuae Radium conscenderis, nec dum terminetur Clymax vestra, Caelum superest Dominationi.
An Epistle of the same Authour to the Bishop of Lincolne, when he was made Arch-Bishop of York.
IF in never giving over our congratulations we are too importunate, I wish, that every day new matter were afforded, of so offending; the zeale of my duty feares no check, but rather, emulous of true honour, disdains to meet with a Non ultra. It is a more than ordinary satisfaction in frequent Letters to ruminate upon your fortunes, and (as Philoxenus wisht in another sense) to repeat the pleasure of those delicacies with a long-neckt quill; nor is it enough to rejoyce onely for what is past; but to take hold on the fore-lock, and congratulate for the future; and this certainly is a provident and seasonable course, considering that your vertue moves forward so fast, that within a short while it will go near to transcend humane limits, and so become ineffable; but a certain divine horror unse [...]tles our minds, when, going to offer up our respects, we observe from a far off, at once, your splendour and exaltedness. Veneration staggers when it [Page 95] approacheth the Sun, and the trembling of our lights confess a Deity, such is the abashment of them, that they cannot endure the brightness of your rayes without an ocular twilight, nor have we less awe of your exaltedness. For as much as the Sacrificers zeal, like the flame of the sacrifice, by how much the more it ascends, so much the more it trembles; but your clemencie disputes with your greatness, and from this most friendly strife (as if Nature were in travell) our duty is to take its birth; we pardon the Fates their incivility, and whatsoever hath happened adverse, we embrace it as a favourable ambush. So your fortunes seem'd to recoile back, that they might spring forward with the greater force; the event hath made good the happiness of invention: the Church militant now triumphs, and lately floating (as heretofore the Ark) now rests upon the mountains, no more shall our Mother-Colledge card and spin, or discover her sorrows by her dejected countenance; the Muses, who could not be said to live without an Hyperbole, have now the confidence to shew their excellencies; nor could it be otherwise, since your advanced state (as that of Nile brought f [...]uitfulness to Egypt) is a most happy A [...] spice of the prosperity of learning: and so long as the stars are the stewards of your f [...]licity, [Page 96] what is that we may not expect from the Powers above, having a Patron placed so near the stars? This onely remains, Most Reverend Arch-Bishop, to be requested, that our ambition may at length be restrain'd by some little curb put unto the full career of your Honors; so that as when you shall seem to have mounted up to the highest pinacle of your fortunes, the scale of your ascent may not yet be terminated, and besides all earthly glories, Heaven is still reserv'd the chiefest guerdon to crown your high deserts.
Alia ejusdem, ad Episcopum Londinensem.
CVjus laborantes partes pari animorum deliquio diu expressimus, ne graver is in ejus redivivo jubare experrecti triumphemus: Hodie enim est quod vivimus postliminio, & vindiciis Honori vestri quotquot sumus, sumus Virbit: siquidem in moetore nostro quid aliud fuit vita nostra quam nocturna lucubratio? & in tuo Occidente [Page 97] superesse, quam in gratiis naturae vivere? Sed focra res est: Reddidit diem redux Phosphorus, & post tanta cum astris jurgia Collegium mater taxdem fatetur Coe [...]os. Incassum tubas fatigarunt veteres▪ ut ecclipsin redimerent. Alma Mater suspiriis magis sonoris profligavit vestram sc▪ hic fuit foelicitatis vestrae somnus, qui tantum abest ut illam extingueret, ut reficeret potius, & alacriorem reddat. Eccum majorem mundum tuum adexemplar compositum, vel si mavis dictum luce & tenebris distinctum! Si Sol in perpetuum splenderet, nec aram, nec mystam haberet Per [...]icum: Enimvero caligantes oculi nostri pacti sunt inducias cum fulgore vestro, qu [...]bus finitis ad pristinum redit seipsum. Aspicias quae sumus Clientum nomina, & agnoscas r [...]dios è luminoso tuo corpore diffusos, nihil enim de nostro habemus. Percurras singulos, & videas teipsum (prolixiorem semper admodum) sed modo plenius, modo angustius pro varia speculorum indole repercussum. Atque hinc est quod imaginem vestram (tanquam Collegii Palladium) inter Archiva recondimus, ut Mater enixa sobolem, ad picturam se sistat, vnltus comparet, it a umbra vestra (plusquam splendorem Phoebi) distinguat pullos. Gratulamur itaque (vel nostro nomine) nov as hasc [...] [Page 98] honorum inducias. Vivas in posterum fortuna major: ingens vester animus (tanquam illud aeternum jecur) indignetur vulturem; quo magis consumitur augeatur magis, & inter ipsos invidiae Molares crescat virtus.
Another of the same Authour to the Bishop of London.
THink it not strange that we now triumph, awakened by his revived lustre, whose sufferings we have long resented with a suitable depressure of spirit; this day it is, that we start up (as it were) from the dead, and by an honour [...]ble assertion of liberty, look how many men we are, so many Virbii we are; for in the state of our sadness what was our life other than a late sitting up at night? and to have lived in your declining Sun-set, what was it but to live at Natures courtesie? But now our condition is well amended, Phosphorus returning, hath brought back the day, and so many contests [Page 99] with the stars, our Mother-Colledge hath at length found Heaven an helper. In vain the Ancients so often sounded their trumpets, to profligate the Suns eclipse; but our sacred Mother, with the more effectuall harmony of her sighs, hath dispelled yours; this indeed was the slumber of your felicity, and was so far from extinguishing it, that it rather renewed it, and made it more flourishing; behold, the greater world fram'd, or rather pronounc'd, according to your exemplar, distinguisht with light and darkness: if the Sun should shine perpetually, he would neither have altars erected to him, nor would the Persians keep in their sacred fire, our dazled eyes have made a truce with your brightness, which, that truce being ended, returns to its former lustre; behold here, we beseech you, your devoted Clients, and in them observe the rayes that flow forth from your owne resplendent body, for wee have nothing about us, that we can call our selves. View every one of us, and there you may see your self (to a great advantage alwayes) but sometimes more full, and sometimes lesse, according to the various reflection of [Page 100] the object; and hence it is that▪ we lay up your image (as the Palladium of our Colledge) amongst our Archives and Monuments; as a Mother having brought forth her Infant, goes to her picture and compares the features, so your shadow (more then the Suns brightnesse) distinguisheth us young ones: We congratulate therefore in our own behalf, this new truce of honours. Live from hence forth greater then your fortune, and may your exalted minde (like that eternal liver) despise the eating vulture, and by how much the more it is consumed, so much the more increase, and your virtue still grow up, and prosper even among the grinding teeth of envy.
Ejusdem Oratio ad Acad. Cantab. Cancellarium, & Legatum Gallicum, publicè habita.
QVam Augusta sit vestra praesentia, & quam sacro horrore nostros praecellit [Page 101] animos utinam Oratoris vestri stupor non ita nimis testaretur; Quem enim alacritas officii nuper accenderat ut vos salutarem, impedit jam eadem Relligio nè in illas importunus ruerem inquilimus aures ubi Regum Concilia habitarunt, nec magis Alloqui quam Intueri nefas. Fulgura sunt in Amborum oculis, quorum splendorem si quis aspiceret Bidental fieret: si quis Persarum (qui venerantur solem) aspiceret, utrumque ratus suum Numen, divideret sacrificium. Nos quod attinet fatemur lippitudine, Radiorum victoriam, & hoc genunium, honoris Iubar, imbellis nostra Acces eô magis commendat quo minus sustineat. Salve igitur Celeberrime Hospes! cujus gratissimi adventus (ut Capacia essent nostra pectora) magnitudo gaudii nos metipsos a Nobis exclusit foras. Ecce quot Helluones Oculi vos inspicimus! Quot in vestris vultibus, Quadragesimam violavimus! sed nos indigni tantis Dapibus; Margarita, & Regii illi Manes quos in Fundatoribus nostris numeramus, per me (tanquam per Legatum suum (ut Titulo vestro superbire liceat) adventum vobis gratulamur. Nec invideas mihi (Clarissime Advena) Legati nomen, cum Celsitudo vestra ad Gradum meum, (quem modò suscepisti) [Page 102] dignaretur Descendere. Humilitas nostra (quod in Bilance solet) ad apicem vestram assurgebat. Scholas vidisti, & Unicum illua Sacellum: Quorum Alteri do [...]uist [...] Literas, Alteri Pietatem: & quid amplius studes apud nos invisere? Eccum Academiam integram! Cancellarium Dignissimum! Qui quicquid Cantabrigia nostra in se complectitur plenius repraesentat. Theatra, & Scholarum Pyramides, Nos ludibundi Vitruvii Ludificavimus Chartis: Tu, Tu, Architectus fortunae nostrae, cujus magnificentiae vel pectoris nostri audaciam superabit. Multus sum (Honoratissime) Orator in Cancellarii deb [...]tissimis laudibus, ut scias Qualis Heros, Qualis Heros, Quantus Aliorum Patronus Honori vestro hodiè inserviat. Certè dum vos majorum gentium Nobiles simul astantes videam, nescio Quis Isthmus Galliam & Britaniam (invito Oceano) conjunxisse videatur. Quin perpetu [...]s sit iste nodus, & ità Gordianus, u [...] neuter Alexander discindat Gladio. Plura vellem, & usque pergeret votorum pietas, sed Rictus (Diviti Arg [...]mento) plusquam Demosthenes Anginam patior: Quare si Aures vestras (Regibus assuetas) nimis detinendo sacrilegus fuer [...]m; si quid deliquerim, Haec sa [...]ltem sit subitae Orationis [Page 103] provida Temeritas, ut nè paratus ad peccandum prodiisse videar.
An Oration of the same Authour, publickly spoken before the Chancellour of Cambridge, and the French Ambassadour.
HOw August your presence is, and with how sacred a horrour it strikes our mindes, I wish the amazement of your Oratour did not too apparently testifie, for the same duty which of late stirred me up with cheerfulnesse to salute you, is now become a kinde of religion in me, least I should rush, an importunate inmate upon those nice ears where the Counsels of Kings have dwelt: Nor is it lesse a crime to look upon you then to speak before you lightning appears in your eyes, upon whose too powerfull splendour whoever shall presume to look, must become a Bidental sacrifice; If any of the Persians, [Page 104] who have the Sun in Veneration should chance to behold you, he would take each of you for his own deity, and so divide his sacrifice. But as to what concerns our selves we confesse by our dazled eyes the victory of your rayes, and this genuine lustre of honour our weak sight so much the more commends, by how much the lesse it is able to indure the brightnesse of it; Hail therefore thrice renowned guest, whose most gratefull arrival (that our breasts might be so much the more capacious to receive you) hath with the excesse of joy driven us out of our selves: behold how many greedy eyes glut themselves with the beholding of you, how many lents have we broken in your gladsome aspect, a [...]d yet we are unworthy of such delicates; Great Margareta, and the Souls of those royal persons whom we number amongst our founders, by me as their Ambassadour (a title I have cause to boast of) congratulate your coming hither, nor need you envy me, most illustrious guest the Title of Ambassadour, since your Highnesse hath been pleased to descend to my degree, which you have so lately taken upon you, or rather our humility, [Page 105] as in equal poize of the balances raised it self up to your heighth. You have seen our Schools, and that famous Chappel, to the one of which you have taught learing, to the other piety, and what is there more among us that you can desire to see, behold the whole University, behold our most Noble Chancelour; who, whatsoever our Cambridge comprehends, represents with high advantage; behold, our structures and the Magnificence of our Schooles wherein with the sport of Art we have put to shame whatsoever hath been describ'd by Vitruvius, 'tis you, great Sir, 'tis you who are the Architect of our fortune, and whose magnificence will far exceed the highest glories we can presume to imagin. I am the more ample; most honoured guest, in the deserved praises of our Chancellour that you may be the more sensible, what worthy, what Heroe, how great a Patron of others it is, who is this day subservient to your virtue and excellence; Certainly while I see two of the most Illustrious personages of two such great Nations in place together, there seems I know not what Isthmus, maugre the swelling ocean, to have joyn'd France & [Page 106] Britain into one; and may this knot be everlasting, and so strongly Gordian, that no Alexander may be able to cut it asunder with his sword. Farther I would expatiate, and the zeal of my wishes should still go on forward, but that by the richnesse of the Argument, my mouth already suffers a squinancie greater then ever Demosthenes felt: wherefore if I have been sacrilegious in detaining overlong your ears accustomed onely to the speech of Kings, if in this I have been ought criminal, let it at least be imputed to the provident temerity of my over-hasty Oration, that I may not be thought to have come prepared to offend.
Ejusdem Oratio in Scholis habita cum Junior Baccalaureus in Tripodem deputaret. Cantab.
QVos nè videre possum citra Oculorum Hyperbolen, quomodo vos appellarem: & cùm altissimus vester Gradus, sine scalâ occupare nequit, Quaenam Orationis Climax vestram scandet Dignitatem? Vestram dum suspicl [...] in meo vultu invenio purpuram: & ingentis curae quae pr [...]standae observan [...]e a me habet sollicitum non novi subtilius Argumentum quam stuporem. Quod autem Poetarum Princeps Deorum senatum ad suam cogit [...], pari liceat & mili vos invitare ad hoc Ludicrum certamen nostrum. Vmbra'st haec nostra contentio & Icon Belli. Murium, & Ranarum Pugna quid aliud fuit quam Iliadis Brachygraphia: & in pusillis illis animalculis, Hector & Achilles (tanquam Iliades in Nuce) coarctantur. Ea s [...]q [...]idem est pensi nostri conditio, ut Hic etiam Mars & Venus implicati jacent. Pugna est, sed Ludicra: Lusus, & tamen Bellicus, ità ut nec bis cincta placeat Philosophia, nec nuda Cithara. [Page 108] Qui virili togâ indutus, nec dum reliquit Nuces, sed totus Iocos crepat. Hujus [...]go Palladam, Posthumam Cerebri sui prol [...]n existimabo▪ Qui in hisce Floralibus solus Cato, & inter Philosophiae spinas nullos admittis Rhetoricae Flores, Hujus Minerva ad Amazonis instar, altera mamma destituitur. Ille demum sit miles noster, qui & sese praestet ingenii veliten [...], & Philosophiae Cataphractum; qui & virislter audet disputare, & cum Bipode Tripode par-imparludere. Me quod spectat: Ita Rationem ad agendum subduxi meam, ut utrunque munus molior simul, & subterfugiam, Et pudibunda, metum inter & officium, Musa, & fugit ad salices, & videri cupit.
An Oration of the same Author delivered in the publick Schools: When he was Iunior Batchelour, and was to dispute upon the Tripos.
YOu whom I cannot look upon without a Hyperbole of eyes, by what name, or title shall I be able to salute you? And since your high and mighty degree cannot be reach't without a Ladder, what Climax of Oration will serve to climb your dignity? while I suspect my cheeks to be hung with your skarlet, nor do I know a more subtle argument of that exceeding care which holds me sollicitous of rendring you your due respect then my silence and astonishment, but whereas the Prince of Poets brought the Senate of the gods to his battel of Frogs & Mice; by the same reason I may make bold to invite you to this sportive Combat, or contention of ours, which is a shadow, or image of war; the fight of the Mice and Frogs, what was it other then the [Page 110] short-hand of the Iliads, Hector & Achilles drawn in little in those petty animals, like the Iliads compress't within a Nut shell, and such also is the condition of our task, that Mars and Venus may here be seen intangled together. It is a fight but sportive, a play which yet hath in it somewhat of war; so that streightlac't Philosophy will not here be seasonable, nor the bare Harp alone; he, who clad in the Roab of manhood hath not yet left his toyes, but seems as if he were made up of jests, his Minerva I shall esteem the posthume off-spring of his own brain; the man, who appears a meer Cato in these May-games, and among the prickly Thorns of Philosophy admits no flowers of Rhetorick, his fancie like and Amazon seems bereft of one pap. Our Souldier must be such a one as can shew himself, both a light Horsman of wit, and a Cuirasser of Philosophy; who dares both manfully dispute, and play at even, or odd with the two legg'd Animal, and the Tripos, or three legg'd stool. As for me, I have so ordered my affairs, as to perform both offices together, and yet provide for an escape: Thus my Muse at a losse between duty and distrust, both [Page 111] fly's to the reeds, and yet desires to be seen.
Ejusdem Oratio Salutatoria in adventum Illustrissimi Principis Palatinati. Cantabrig.
SI Archetypam corporis vestri elegantiam possem transcibere, & Orationem mea [...] tanquam venustatis Metaphoram, [...] vestro vult [...] deducere, ita imaginem vestram aemutis encomiis exprimerem, [...] qui spectatum venias, venires spectandus, & unicum esser Ioannense spect aculum [...] tibi ostentare. Sed quoniam ad solares hosce radios caligat ponitus Atheniensis noctua▪ gratulor mihi meam in [...]rtiam, stup [...] rem jact [...]. Ita enim cum Sacratissimo Principe in Trutina quadam sum collocatus, ut in quantum deprimat me mea humilis facult as, in tantum sursum nititu [...] vestra Sublimitas. Salve igitur (Desideratissim [...] Princeps) hujus Collegii Ani [...]a, ceu potiu [...] Omnium Animarum Collegium. [Page 110] [...] [Page 111] [...] [Page 112] Ita tibi singuli devoti sumus, & in obsequium vestrum juncta phalange ruimus. Ecce tibi Majorum tuorum monument a Margaretae (quae Semiramis invideat) cocta moenia: Margaretae, & Henrici septimi, & nostrum omnium matri [...], quae uno partu enixa est, quot Herculem fabulantur genuisse, quinquaginta Socios. Nec tibi, stemmati▪; vestro solam Margareta [...] debemus, quin & paternae gloriae haeres esto, Fredericum volo beatissimae memoriae, qui vigintiab hinc plus minus annis, unà cum Augustissimo (tunc temporis surgente Iulo) ad hanc Margaretae sobolem, quasi compatres, & susceptores accesserunt. O quam laeti meditamur istum natalem nostrum, diemque adeò Festum: ut muros hosce, sacro quodam Minio pinxisse videatur. Ecquid huic foelicitati superesse possit, ut quot patris splendore semel tinctum, vestro olim foret Dibaphum; sequeris patrem jam passibus aequis. Euge Principem pretiosum in quo omnium legimus simulacra Autographa, Margaretae Palladium. Frederici patris numisma aureum, & matris Corneliae ornamentum, Elizabethae dulcissimae, & in vestro cultu totam Deam confessae; cujus laudes ut hodiernum saeculum effundit, ita posteritatis eccho reparabat, cuius mascula anima jam sexu vestitur masculo Elizabetha [Page 113] Carolo. O quam luxuriat dicendi Seges! O quam Decies repetitus placebit Carolus! Carolus, Caroli sobrinus, & Caroli avunculus. O [...]eatissima Carolorum Climax! Macte esto gradibus Carolina scala, ut cum pra altitudine tuâ supremus Rex Carolus co [...]lum petat, novi subinde succrescant Caroli, quibus (quasi Internodiis) distincta ejus aeternitas usque & usque floreat, sit ipse subinde superstes Carolus non hominum (parùm Illium Nestoris) sed Carolorum tres aetates vivunt filii sobrini utriusque Caroli.
A Salutatory Oration of the same Authour, upon the arrivall of the Most illustrious Prince Palatine.
If I were able to copy out the natural handsomnesse and elegant composure of your body, and to deduce my Oration, as the Metaphore of beauty, [Page 114] from your person, I should so set forth your Idea with emulous praises, that you who came to behold, should then come onely to be seen and admired, and it would be the onely designe of St. Iohns Colledge to shew you unto your self. But since, like the Athenian Owl, I am almost blinded with those bright Sun-like rayes, I applaud my self in my own weakness; and boast my stupidity; for being placed, as it were, in the [...]eales with you (most Sacred Prince) so much as my humble faculty depres [...]eth me, so much your sublime Excellence is raised up and advanced: Hail therefore, most desired Prince, the soul of this Colledge, or rather the Colledge of al Souls. So devoted are every one of us unto you, that we rush in a united Brigade, into the respect and observance of you. Behold here the monuments of your Ancestours, great Margarets stately wals, to be envied of Semiramis her self: wals, I may say, of pearl, as being the structure of this famous Margaret, the mother both of Henry the leventh, and of this whole Society of us here, having at one birth brought forth as many as Hercules himself is [...]abled to have begotten at [Page 115] one time, to wit, fifty Fellows: nor do we owe [...]nto you, and unto your noble Linage Margaret alone, but we also look upon you, as the true Heir of your Fathers glory, Frederick of most happy memory, who about twenty years ago, together with the most August, the rising Iulius of his time, came, as it were Godfathers, or Vndertakers hither to this Progeny of the great Margaret; Oh how joyfully do we call to rememberance that birth-day of ours, a day so joyfull and festivall, that it seems to have le [...]t a tincture of sacred Vermilion upon these wals, to this day. What more could we have desir'd to have been added to our felicity, than that what hath once been puprled by your Fathers splendour, should be died in grain by yours, who so closely follow the track of your Fathers noble foot-steps; go on, most highly valued Prince, in whom we plainely read, naturally and lively described by your self, the resemblances of all your Ancestours at once, the Palladium of Margaret, the golden Medall of your Father Frederick, the ornaments of Cornelia-chaste Elizabeth your Mother, who this day appear to us all [Page 116] Goddess, in the excellence of your form and vertues; and whose praises, as the present age is fill'd with, so the eccho of Poster [...] ty will ever repeat, whose masculine soul is now invested with a masculine Sex, Elizabeth with the masculine Charles; Oh how many new occasions still croud upon my discourse, to make it swell into a vast bulk? how gratefull is the name of Charles, though ten times repeated? Charles the Cozen of Charles, and the Unkle of Charles. Oh happy Climax of Charles's! Let this Caroline scale be an increase of your Honour many degrees, that when our King Charles, at the very top of it, shall touch Heaven for height, there may hyet spring up new Charles's, by which his eternity distinguisht (as it were by Internodes) may never cease to flourish, and may Charles himself, in the mean while survive, not three ages of men (for we regard not Nestors Ilium) but three lives of Charles's, the posterity of both Cozen-German [...], and long may they also live.
Ejusdem Oratio in Scholis Publicis habita cùm Patris Officio fungeretur. Cantab.
QVàm equivocum sit nomen Patris, quota, & quàm discolor officii ratio, si non aliundè, ab hâc variâ frequentiâ (severiores viri & lepidssima Proles) possem dignoscere; si enim ad singula Auditiorum ingenia quilshet Orator componendus sit, it a ut cum senibus Tussiat, rideat cum Pueris, Quid ergò Hominis? Quale futurus sum Monstrum? Gravitate & nucibus Patre & Puero interpunctum. Quod in Dispartitâ, Aquilâque expansâ fieri videmus unum corpus duplicem ostentare faciem, eadem est nostra ergò vos & Fil [...]os Bifrons conditio. Hos cùm aspicio sum Senex Aquila, Pullos meos ad vestrum Iubar exportatura; ubi vos è contrà, nescio quo modo, & ipse in Pullum redeo, & (ad instar Aquilae) Iuventam renovo. Duae igitur Dramatis Personae sustinendae sunt, Vestrâ in scaenâ acturus sum Filium, in vestrâ Patrem, alterum genu flexum, alterum stabit Elephantinum. Oscillatione quod aiunt superam modò, modò infimam occupato partem, partim Puer, partim Senex, qualis Aeson, ille in Ahaeno Medeae semicoctus. [Page 118] Et quae quidem aptior via inveniri potest quam per ferulam ad fasces? per Filii scabellum, ad Culmen Patris assurgere? serviendum ut Imperes, Aulicorum methodus: A vitulo ad Bovem Milonis progressus, Vobis igitur (viri Gravissimi) primitiae nostrae sunt consecrandae, quos s [...] nullo, vel (quod perinde est) translato honore persequar, non dico causam quin Filii mei improbitate erga me pari, injuriam vestram ulciscantur. Neque tamen interea noscimus quali vos compellarem nomine, Quorum Erudii [...]o scribit Academiae Maritos, Obsequium malit Filios. Perplexus fuit & Tortuosus ille incesti nodus, quem de Oedipo suo fabulatur Graecia; Major Maeander unusquisque vestrum, quorum cum Eruditione Acadëmia Ma [...]er Gravida fuit, & quotannis parturiat; Quorum praeceptis & exemplari vir [...]e, quam Tenella Pubes (quasi Binis Uberibus) lactatur indies. Non Oedipus majori cum Aenigmate sceleratus, quam quilibet vestrum suis: Matris Maritus, uxoris Filius, & Fratrum Pater: Neque hic sistat Divina vestra Indoles, enjus vel pictura est satis prolifi [...]a, siquidem Alma Mater ubi concipiat vestram speciem ob oculos ponit, vestrum instar repraesentat Animos, ut masculam magis excultam enitatur sobolem, Illi, Illi estis, quibus si [Page 119] antè invent as liter as contigisset vixisse, Imagines vestras ab Aegyptiis expressas, hodiè pro Artibus, & scientiis legeremus. Non ego sequax erroris Illius qui nihil egregium ducit, nisi quod vetustum: qui praesentia fastidit Tempora, & hesterno jure Panem atrum devorat, Senescat (s [...] Di [...]s placet) Natura; Majoribus Nostris dedit Animarum Iugera, nobis spithamas: Gigantes Illi, Nos Pusiones: Degene [...]es Animae, & verè Minores in hac opinione: Lucrifecit haec aetas, non decoxit, Illi quidem literarum Atavi, sed quota est Familia? cujus Primus fuit Illud quod dicere Nolo, secundus Quod nequeo. Humilis principii nobilis progressus. Habeant quod suum est Antiqui, sed ne in solidum fiant Domini, suas sibi laudes vindicent, sed vestras vobis nè accipiant, Quorum ego meritis tantum confido, ut veterum ficut ego canitiem veneror, sic misereor impotentiam, Ructarunt illi Glandes, vestrum est Triticum. Calceati eorum denies & victus asper; vestrae Dapes, & ingeni [...] gulae, quibus quod retro est soeculum stravit tantum mensas, erit a quadris ficturum. Clari Convivae quibus obsonantur Antiqui, ministrant Posteri! sed qu [...]m effrons Ego, & Devorati pudoris, qui dum vestra molior encomia orationem meam tantae f [...]licitatis Commensalem reddam. Liceat tamen peccare (a [...] ditores) ut Ignoscatis: purpura elotis maculis, [Page 120] iterat [...]â injuriâ gloriabor de culpâ à vob [...]s remissâ, magis quam de Innocentiâ. Iulius Sabinus quum a Romae Imperio defecisset, fusis jam copiis & afflictis Rebus; in Monumentum quoddam se abdidisse dicitur, ubi cum uxore tamdiu latuerit, ut plures filios ex ea suciperet: Tandem verò deprehensus, & pro Tribunali positus, Filios suos in medium sistens, sic affatur Iudicem, Parce, Parce, Caesar: Hos in Monumento genu [...]. Hosce alui, ut Tibi plures essemus supplices! vestram fidem (Auditores) quicquamnè uspiam dictum Rotundius! O vanas spes tuas Cicero: Frustrà susceptos labores! O cogitationes inanes Tuas! Tinnis Tinnis prae Hô [...] Oratorum Maximo; Qui si cum uxore tuâ Rhetoricâ tamdiu in Musaeo clusus esses, quam ille in Monumento, nunquam Orationem hujus parem genuisses. Gra [...]ias Tibi (Sabine) de hâc excusatione meâ, qui cum necesse sit ut delinquam, habeo tamen deprecandi Formulam: Habeo Filios Quos ostendam, Hanc circumstantem Rhetoricam; Magna, Magna est Infantum Eloquentia qui eo plus exorant quo minus loquantur. Suorum ilicet tacendi in praesens utar, neq [...]e dubito quin plus favoris demerear silentio quàm ulteriori taedio.
An Oration spoken by the same Authour in the publike Schools, when he took upon him the office of Father.
HOw equivocall the name of Father is, what and how various the reason of the paternall office, if by no other means beside (Grave Bench of Seniority, and your more frolick Off-spring) yet from this mixt co [...] course of Auditours, I might be enabled to judge; for if every Ora [...]our should be driven to frame his behaviour according to the humour and capacity of all sorts of Hearers, so as to cough with old men, to laugh with boyes, what kinde of man would this dexterity require, or indeed what kind of monster must he be, interpointed with graviy and whirlegigs, with Father and Children; that which we see happens in the divided, or double-spred Eagle, where one body presents to view two faces, the same is our double- fronted condition towards hyou, Grave Seniours, and toward these my Sons, [Page 122] these, when I behold, I am the old Eagle, and going about to expose my young ones to the test of your pier [...]ing rayes; when your selves, on the other side I look upon, I also my self, I know not how, return into a Chicken, and, like a true Eagle, renew my youth. In this Comedy therefore, I am to take upon me two persons, in your Scene I must act the Son, in yours the Father; the one with a bended knee, the other stiff as an Elephant: I fancie my self at the tottering game cal [...]'d Oscillation, where sometimes I possesse the upper part, sometimes the lower; partly a childe, partly an old man, like that famous Aeson of old, half boil'd in the cauldron of Medea; and what fitter way can there be found out, than by the rod of correction, to arrive at the staff of authority; by the low settle of a Son, to come to the reverend chair of a Father. We must serve, that we may obey; it is the rule of Courtiers: and, according to Milo's practice, the way to come up to an Oxe, is to begin at a Calf. To you therefore, most Reverend Sages, our first fruits are to be consecrated: but in case I shall be thought to accost you with none, or, [Page 123] which is as bad, with borrowed honor: I see no reason, but my Sons may, with the like disobedience toward me, revenge your injury; nor do I yet know in the mean time, by what title to salute you, whose learning may stile you the Husbands of the University, whose obedience may rather make you pass for her Sons. Intricate and perplext was that incestuous riddle, which Greece reports of her son Oedipus; but every one of you are a more involved Meander; with your learning, our Mother [...] University impregnated, brings forth every year, by your precepts and exemplary vertue, as it were by two teats, the tender babes are suckled every day; so that Oedipus himself was never branded with a more mysterious incest, than each of you are guilty of, being the Husband of your Mother, the Son of your Wife, and the Father of your brethren, nor do your Divine fancies rest here, your very Pourtraitures being apt enough for generation, for as our sacred Mother when she conceives, puts some of your Idea's before her eyes, and hath a representation of Souls like unto you, that she may bring forth a Masculine and perfect off-spring, such [Page 124] and so Authentick you are, that if you had chanc't to live before Letters were invented, your pictures express' as Hieroglyphicks by the Egyptians might have been read at this day instead of Arts and Sciences, I am not addicted to that vulgar errour, of those that esteem nothing of any moment unlesse what is ancient, such loath the present time, and in favour of yesterday feed upon course bread; Nature so sooth must grow old, to our ancestors she gave acres of Soul, to us but spans, they were Gyants, we but Dwarfs; how degenerous, and truely little Souls have they that persist in this opinion; the later ages have gain'd, and not become bankrupt, those indeed were the great Grand-fathers of Letters, but how many families are there, the first of which were, I will not tell what, the second I cannot tell what; a mean beginning hath ofttimes a fair and happy progresse; let the Ancients have attributed to them what is their due, but let them not be altogether Deified, they may challenge to themselves their deserved praises, but must not defraud you of yours; so much respect I bear to the Ancients, that I both reverence their gray hairs, and pity [Page 125] their decayes; they be [...]ch forth Acorns, but to you belongs the Wheat, their teeth were Hobnail'd, and their fare course, but to you belong the delicates, and the luxury of wit, to you the past ages, cover the table, and the future times attend with Trenchers, happy guests as you are, whom Antiquity feasts, and posterity waites upon at Table: but how frontlesse am I, and as it were eaten out of shame, who while I attempt your Praises make my own Oration a fellow-commoner of so much felicity, yet perhaps it may be allowable to let slip some offences, that you (gentle Auditours) may have what to pardon; the spots being once washt away out of my skarlet, and the Grain renwed, I shall glory more in that fault which you shall think worthy to be remitted, then in having been altogether innocent. Iulius Sabinus having revolted from the Roman Empire, when he had been overthrown in battel, and red [...]c't to the utmost extremi [...]y he is said to have shut himself up in an old Mounment, where together with his w [...]fe he lay hid for divers years, and during that time had begotten a great company of Children; but at last being dis [...]vered [Page 126] and brought before the judgement seat he plac't his Sons before him, and addressing himself to the Soveraigne Judge, Spare me, said he, spare me great Caesar, these Sons have I begot in the Monument, and I have brought them up carefully, to the end that we might come the greater number of suppliants before you; to you (curteous Auditours) I appeal, what could there have been said more effectual then this; Vain were thy hopes, O Cicero; In vain thy great pains bestowed, or were thy soaring phansies any thing but flashes, thou wert but low, and flat in respect of this most excellent of Oratours; nor, hadst thou been shut up in thy Musaeum with Rhetorick thy wife, couldst thou ever have begot Orations like to his. I render thee thanks, O Sabinus, for this my excuse, who since I could not but prove peccant, have yet by this means met with so handsome a president of begging favour. I have also my Sons to shew, this croud of Rhetorick that stands about me; Great, Great is the eloquence of Children, who so much the more prevail, by how much the lesse they speak; their example therefore for the present I shall follow, and doubt not [Page 127] but I shall better deserve by being silent, then by the tediousnesse of my proceeding forward.
COurteous Reader, by reason of my so far [...]e distance of place, some few Errata's (too usuall in printing) have escap't in the Latin Copies, the Judicious that rightly knew our learned Authour, will not impute such common Errours▪ incident to the Presse, to him, and therefore I have not thought them worthy of taking notice of. There are some other faults in the English, p. 12. r. for little Gentle-woman, littel Gentle-man. Other mistakes correct with thy more favourable judgement, Farewell.
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Admirable, and Learned Treatises of Occult-Sciences in Philosophy, Magick, &c.
TThe admired Piece of Physiognomy, & Chyromancy, Metoposcopy, the Symmetrical Proportions, & Signal Moles of the body, the Interpretation of Dream [...]; to which is added the Art of Memory, illustrated with Figures: by Rich, Sanders, in Folio.
2. The no lesse exquisite than admirable work, Theatrum Chemicum, Britannicum; containing several Poetical Pieces of our famous English Philosophers, who have written the Hermitique Mysteries in their own Language; faithfully collected into one Volum [...], with Annotations thereon: by the I [...]de [...]agitable industry of Elias Ashmole, Es▪ illustrated with Figures.
Excellent Treatises in the Mathematicks, Geometry, of Arithmetick, Surveying, and other Arts, or Mechanicks.
3. The Golden Treatise of Arithmetick, Natural and Artificial, or Decimals; the Theory and practice unit [...]d in a simpathetical proportion, betwixt Lines and Numbers, in their Quantities and Qualities, as in respect of Form, Figure, Magnitude, and affection; demonstrated by Geometry, illustrated by Calculations, and confirmed with variety of Examples in every Species; made compendi [...]us and easie for Merchants, Citizens, Sea-men, Accomptants, &c. by Tho. Wilsfold▪ Corrector of the last [...] Edition of Record, and many more.
Excellent and approved Treatises in Physick, Chirurgery, &c.
4. Culpepper's Semiotica Vranica, his Astrological judgement of Diseases from the d [...]cumb [...]ture of the sick, much enlarged: the way and manner of finding out the cause, change, and e [...]d of the Disease; also whether the sick be [Page] likely to live, or die, and the time when Recovery, or Death is to be expected, according to the judgement of Hippocrates and Hermes Trismegistus; [...]o which is added Mr. Culpeppers censure of Urines, with divers others.
Admirable Vsefull Treatises newly Printed.
5. The expert Doctors Dispensatory: the whole Art of Physick restored to practice: the Apothecaries shop, and Chirurgeons Closet opened; with a Survey, as also a correction of most Dispensatories now extant; with a Judicious Censure of their defects; and a supply of what they are deficient in: together with a learned account of the vertues and quantities, and uses of Simples and Compounds; with the Symptomes of Diseases; as also prescriptions for their several cures: by that renowned P. Morellus, Physician to the King of France; a Work for the order, usefulnesse, and plainnesse of the Method, not to be parallel'd by any Dispensatory, in what [...]anguage soever.
6. Natures Secrets; [...]r the admirable and wonderfull History of the generation [Page] of Meteors; describing the temperatures of the Elemants, the heights, magni [...]udes, and i [...]fluences of Starres; the causes of Comets, Eearthquakes, Deluge [...], Epidemical Diseases, and Prodigies of Precedent times; with Presages of the weather: & Descriptions of the weather-glasse: by T. Wilsford.
7. The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence; or the Arts of Wooing and Complementing; as they are managed in the Spring Garden, Hide Parke, the New Exchange, and other eminent places. A work, in which are drawn to the life the Deportments of the most Accomplish' [...] Persons; the Mode of the [...]r Courtly Entertainments, Treatment of their Ladies at Balls, their accustomed Sports, Drolls, and Fancies; the Witchcrafts of their perswasive language, in their Approaches, or other more Secret Dispatches, &c. by E.P.
8. Helmo [...]t disguised; or the vulgar errours of emperical and unskilfull Practicers of Physick confuted; more especially as they concern the Cures of Feavers, the Stone, the Plague, and some other Diseases by way of Dialogue, in which the chief tareties of Physick are admi [...]ably discoursed of, by I. T.
Books very lately Printed, and in the Presse now Printing.
THe exquisite Letters of Mr. Robert Loveday, the late admired Translater of the Volumes of the [...]amed Romance Cleopatra, for the perpetuating his Memory, Published by his dear Brot [...]er Mr. A. L.
☞ 2. The so long expected Work, the New World of English Words, or a General Dictionary, containing the Terms, Etymologies, D [...]finitions [...], and perfect interpretations of the proper significations of hard English words, throughout the Arts and Sciences, Liberal; or Mechanick; as also other subjects that are usefull, or appertain to the Language of our Nation; to which is added the signification of Prope [...] names, Mythology, and Poetical Fictions, Historial Relations, Geographical Descriptions of the Countreys and Cities of the World; especially of these three Nations, wherein their chiefest Antiquities, Battles, and other most memorable Passages are mentioned: A Work very necessary for Strangers, as well as our own Countrey-men, for all [Page] persons that would rightly understand what they discourse, write, or read. Collected and published by E. P. For the greater honour of those learned Gentlemen and Artists that have been assistant in the most Practical Sciences, their Names are prefixed before the Book.
3. The way to blisse, in three Books, being a learned Treatise of the Philophers Stone, made publick by Elias Ashmole, Esquire.
4. Wit restored in several Select Poems, not formerly publisht by Sir Iohn Mennis, Mr. Smith, and others. An excellent Droll.
5. The Modern Assurancer, or the Clerks Directory, containing the Practick part of the law, in the exact Forms and draughts of all manner of Presidents for Bargains, and Sales, Grants, Feoffements, Bonds, Bills, Conditions, Covenants, Jointures, Indentures; to lead the use of Fines and Recoveries, with good Proviso's, & Covenants to stand seized, Charter parties for Ships, Leases, Releases, Surrenders, &c. And all other Instruments and Assurances now in use, intended for all young Students and Practicers of the Law, by Iohn Hern, of Inner Temple.
[Page] Likewise, 6. Exercitatio Elleiptica Nova, or a new Mathematical Contemplation on the Oval Figure, called an Eleipsis; together with the two first Books of Mydorgius his Conick; Analiz'd and made so plain, that the Doctrine of the Conical Sections may be easily understood; a Work much desired, and nver before publisht in the English tongue; by Ionas Moor, Surveyor General of the great Level of the Fennes.
7. Naps upon Parnassus. A sleepy Muse nipt and pincht, though not awakened. such voluntary and Jovial Copies of Verses as were lately received from some of the WITS of the Universities, in a Frolick; Dedicated to Gondibert's Mistresse, by Captain Iones and others. Whereunto is added for Demonstration of the Authors prosaick Excellencies, his Epistle to one of the Universities, with the answer; together with two Satyrical Characters of his own, of a Temporizer, and an Ant [...]quary, with Marginal Notes by a friend to the Reader.
8. The Compleat Midwife's Practice, in high and weighty Concernments of Mankind: the second Edition corrected, with a full supply of such most usefull and admirable Secrets which Mr. Nicholas Culpeper in his brief Treatise, and other English Writers in the Art of Midwifry, have hitherto wilfully passed by, kept close to themselves, or wholly omitted; by T. Chamberlaia, M. P.
[Page] 9. A Manual, or Miscelany of Meditations, Apopthegms Sentences, Precepts, Observations, Characters and Essayes, by R. R.
10. America Painted to the Life, the History of the Conquest, and first Original undertakings of the advancement of the Plantations in those parts; with an exquisite Map, by F. Gorges, Esquire.
11. The School of Physick, or the General Experimental Practice of the whole Art, so reduced, either into Aphorismes, or choice and tried Receipts, that the free-born Students of the three Kingdoms, may in this Method finde perfect wayes for the operation of such Medicines, so Astrologically and Physically prescribed, as that they may themselves be competent Judges of the cures of their Patients, by Nicholas Culpeper. To this exquisite Work, the Narrative of the Authors Life is prefixed; together with his Nativity, calculated by himself: Puplisht with the acknowledgement and approbation of his Late Wife, Mistresse Alice Culpeper, the last he ever wrote.
12. The Ascents of Moses in Parallels with his late Serene Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector now in the Pres [...]e.
13. J. Cleaveland Revived: Poems, Orations, Epistles, and other of his Genuine Incomparable Pieces, never before p [...]blisht. With some other Exquisite Remains of the most eminent Wits of both the Universities, that were his Contemporaties.