A SURVEY OF THE WORLD. IN TEN BOOKS
BY BARTEN HOLYDAY D. D. And Archdeacon of OXFORD.
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OXFORD, Printed by Will. Hall, for the Authour.
Anno MDCLXI.
TO The Worthily Honour'd, the Vertuous and Learned Sr. RICHARD BROWN, Knight and Baronet, one of the Clerkes of his MAJESTIE'S Most Honourable Privy Council.
Noble Sr.
THe Remembrance of Just Delight delights; which as it is an acknowledg'd Truth in Nature; so especially in the nature of knowledge. This at this time of Joy and Happinesse for our Returne to these blessings, under our greatest blessing, our most gratious Soveraigne, aptly prompts to a Repetition of those Studies, to which the Love and Prudence of your Eminent Father promoted your Youth and my Industry about fourty years since, in your Academical Institution. The Improvement whereof as your Wisdome has showed in additions of Persevering Loyally, weighty Employment and Nineteen Years Absence from your dear Country: So in the Importunity of the late warres and opinions, some addition, I have made of After-studies in the defence of Religion and Arts. With a necessary variety therefore from the singularities of the Divine Power and Wisdome, I heere present the Thea [...]er of Providence, in some things strange, in All warrantable, by testimony of Men famous among Heathens [Page]and Christians. Which diligence may bee to some a Direction for Choise and Censure; to Others no uncourteou [...] Recollection of their Owne Thoughts. And as they were a Summer's recreations of my Age, cast thus into the Fashion of Ancient Memorials; so I intend them not as a Laborious Summe of knowledge; but only, as in the Liberty and Pleasure of a garden, as some more; pleasing flowers cropp'd for the Complement and Enchridion [...] a Posy: which by the Novelty may last a Day, and by the Art of Friendship, may, as Friendship should, outla [...] the vanity of the Flower. Yet as this pleases by Intermission, the seeming Neglect renewing the delight, I but present, not obirude, to the leasure of Your great affaires, respectfully remaining.
Noble Sr. The Glad Observer Of Your Choise Accomplishments And Eminent Merits, BARTEN HOLYDAY.
To the Studious Reader.
AS weary travelour that climbes a Hill,
Lookes back, sitts down, and oft, if hand have skill,
Landskippes the Vale with pencil; placing here
Medow, there Arable, here Forest, there
A Grove, a City, or a Silver-streame,
As offring to yield beauty to his Scheme;
Then decks it for the Gallery, and Views
If th' Eye and Phansy count it Pleasing News:
So now my Thoughts and Hopes, that long have climb'd
Learning's Ascents, by which True Art's sublim'd,
Turne, Rest, and their owne wandrings View. Here Light
They see, by which they see; there deepest Night,
The World's New Chaös: here a tinsell'd Sky,
That does with beauty please and pose the Eye;
There Earth, Beast, Fowle, Mystical Man, whose braine,
A lesse World, would the greater world containe,
These, if by Nature's Herald, Art, well plac'd,
Present Nature and Art by Union grac'd.
To view which, no new Alpes wee need, whose height
Shows Europe's dress, which Thence may 't Please, or Fright?
Wee need no Ararat to show Asian Glory,
It selfe having Ark'd-up rich Asia's story.
No Atlas need wee, Africa's proud eye,
The Mysteries of its Deserts to discry.
The New world's Andes wee can wisely spare:
The prospect there, but not quick death, is rare.
Wee need no Tenariffa, which does shoote
So high, my eye J'de lend it, not my foot.
No cunning mountaine need wee, whence the Devil
Would show the whole world's Glory, not the Evil:
Fear'd hee 't would spoile his Bribe? But here below
From Art, not Mountaine, Truth enough wee show.
If then thy Eye venters to bee so kind,
Scone View the Long View of a Searching Mind.
Thine, BARTEN HOLYDAY.
The ARGUMENTS Of The Several Books.
- 1. OF Inanimate Creatures.
- 2. Of Living Creatures.
- 3. Of Nations.
- 4. Of Languages and Arts.
- 5. Of Philosophers and Historians.
- 6. Of Physitians.
- 7. Of Lawiers.
- 8. Of Kings and other Worthies.
- 9. Of Polititians.
- 10. Of Divines.
BOOK I. OF Inanimate Creatures.
1.
THe Heav'n is Arch; Therefore it selfe Sustaines:
The Earth is Center; Therefore So Remaines:
2.
[...]he World's a Prison; no man can get out:
[...]et th' Atheist storme then; 't is Heav'n round about.
3.
[...]eav'n is the Silke-worme's Spheare: what Art did spinne it
[...]oes at its pleasure choose to dwell within it.
4.
[...]ow blest was Steph'n, whose eje Heav'n did permi [...]
[...]o see, who does at th' Father's right hand sit!
5.
Was Paul more happy at the Third Heav'n [...] sight
[...]r more Tormented to Delay Delight?
6.
Who first Mov'd Heav'n, Philosopher's halfe-skill
[...]nquir'd: 'T was Hee, that made the Sunne stand still.
7.
[...] weight from the Ninth Spheare Ninety yeares spends,
[...]y two hundred miles an howr, e're't quite Descends!
8.
[...]f Man Ascended still tow'rd the High'st spheare,
[...]ight thousand yeares hee'd spend, e're hee were There!
9.
[...]he white and yelke are closures in a shell:
Art thus makes Orbes kindly in Orbes to dwell.
10.
Though Many Heav'ns wee thinke there are below
The High'st: to This by Those faire stepps wee goe.
11.
The Low'st Ascents in Heav'n have each their Light:
The Next is Fill'd with starres; No point is Night.
12.
The Starry Heav'n, which Divine power so paints,
In Figure shews th' Assembly of the Saints.
13.
Saturne, next the fix'd starres, wise death may preach:
Thoughts must bee sober, that think Heav'n to reach.
14.
Jove was in Fiction Joy: but in the Skie
'Tis the next step to Saturne's Gravitic.
15.
A Heav'nly Mars, what is't, but a stour hand,
Against the Dragon, in Saint Michael's Band?
16.
The Sunne is a Great Light to all eyes free:
And yet Heav'n's Greatest Light wee cannot see.
17.
The Hurry of the Sunne in his Owne Spheare,
That measures Thrise five Miles each Minute Heere!
18.
Seemes not the Sunne, for Speed of course, to merit
The name, not of a Body, but a Spirit?
19.
Copernicus will have the Sunne stand still,
To scape doubts: Hee makes New! This is New skill!
20.
Some New Astronomers in the Sunne find Spots:
Heav'n was nere Curs'd: The Sunne's Light knows no Elot!
21.
Some find of late New starres about the Sunne!
Needs hee more light? God's work with wisdome's donne!
22.
Venus in Heav'n must needs bee Faire and Pure:
[...]f it Invites, it mocks, the Epicure.
23.
[...]sercurie's Witt and Tongue doe plainly tell
The Witt and Tongue find place in Heaven, us'd well.
24.
The Moone is the World's Glasse, in which, 't were strange,
[...]f wee saw Hers, and saw not our Owne Change!
25.
The learned Fa [...]er has the Journy measur'd
Up to the Moone: sure, wise men he has pleasur'd.
26.
News from the Moone; 't is told by very Fame,
There's a strange Man, from Adam that ne're came!
27.
Galilie in the Moone finds yet more Change:
The Man i' th' Moon, once Tale, seems Truth! That's strange!
28.
Trasfique to th' Moone! Is't done by art of Wing?
To Ascend, prov'd Christ God! what proves this New thing?
29.
Who'll flie to Heaven, must store of Vict' alls keepe!
And sometimes must at once both Flie and sleepe!
30.
Some think the Starres Holes, through which Heav'n sends Light:
Then into Heav'n might not ascend Our night?
31.
Some thinke the Earth a starre: then should it Light
Send forth abroad upon the Heav'n by Night.
32.
Th' Arabians will the Starres like Letters spell;
But who did e're Demonstrate what they tell?
33.
Experience oft Pretends, not so True Art:
That may mistake; from Truth This does not start.
34.
Fore-knowledge is Divine; Man's Witt Ambitious:
What's Hali, Nabod, Bonat, Alcabitius?
35.
Goate-witted Man to climbe will venter, if
Hee may; though hee hangs by th' claws against a cliffe!
36.
The Art of starres who knows, but Hee that made them?
But Man's bold Ghesse, to God's wrong, would invade them.
37.
To found an Art on Figurative Grounds,
Reason without true Art sondly confounds.
38.
What though, to worke on Earth, the Starres Indeavour;
Since what's receiv'd is chang'd by the Receivour?
39.
What though the Starres with lower causes close,
If in Man's Actions Grace does Interpose?
40.
The Milky Way which does the Heaven imbrace,
Shews, Men of Small Light may in Heaven find place;
41.
The Milky Way must with the starres bee rang'd:
What's out of Heav'n continues not Unchang'd.
42.
Light, what it is, does Sense, nay Wit, well know?
Light is scarce light enough, it selfe to shew.
43.
The World's a picture; Light at first was hurld
Upon't: Is it God's shadow in the world?
44.
The Fire next Heav'n's like zeale; but not so Cruel;
[...]t Burnes, yet not Devours: 't is its Own Fuel.
45.
Th' Aire's Highest Region's Hot; Cold in the Middle;
The Low'st by Reflexe Warme: See Nature's Riddle!
46.
Thunder presents God's Majesty to th' Eare;
Which is the Gate of Faith and Holy Feare!
47.
When Heare and Cold, met in the same cloud, jolt;
The Thunder's Sentence! Guilt's the Thunder-bolt!
48.
When, on Mount Sinai, Thunders loud did roare,
They shooke the Mount, and th' Holy Cloud they toare.
49.
One most strange Meteor has it selfe renound,
The Sinai-Trumpet, which it selfe did sound!
50.
At the Last-Day, when all things down are hurl'd,
Jehovah's Voice shall Trumpet-up the World!
51.
Lightning Appeares first: Thunder's first: The Eie
Of Conscience sees Guilt, before Judgment's Nigh!
52.
Lightning, the Mother Sav'd, the Child within
Has kill'd! The Soule sav'd, Conscience so kills Sinne!
53.
A Comet, is't the Carbuncle of Sinne,
Mass'd-up from th' Earth and Hell, whence 't did begin?
54.
How at a Comet ev'ry one does stare?
When many, who thus Gaze, worse Comets are!
55.
Who Many Sunnes sees, sees not his Abuse;
Unlesse of his Mistake hee makes more Use.
56.
Clammy Smoakes Fir'd and Falling starres some call:
Their phansie erres; Truth from their witt does fall.
57.
The Foolish Fire oft, that by night does move,
Does by Mistake or Feare, Focles make or prove.
58.
What Blustring, Hott, Thick Aire's This? 'Tis the Wind;
Faint Embleme yet of Man's more Troublesome Mind!
59.
Whirle Wind, th' art a Surprize! Nothing's like Thee
But Rapture, from the Spirit of Prophesie!
60.
Raine's Cloud Dissolv'd: Thus from the Law, Sad Feares.
By warmth of grace, descend in fruitfull Teares!
61.
[...]y Red, Green, Blew, which sometimes paint the Aire,
[...]uilt, Pardon, Heav'n, the Raine-bow does declare.
62.
The Raine-bow to the Sunne yields due respect:
[...]race, the Soule's beauty, does to God Reflect.
63.
When Heav'n rain'd Clouds, and did Our World confound;
The Aire ranne Chanel, and All Seas were Drown'd!
64.
[...]ome make Dutch Schuarts Founder of Gunnes and Shot:
The Volly of Haile and th' Amorites they forgot.
65.
Th' Earth through great Heat, Cold, Wind, Dew oft does lacke:
[...]y Lust, Despaire and Rage, Grace is kept-backe.
66.
Hoare-Frost, a Dew congeal'd, on high Hills ne're
[...]s found: Presumption unacquainted is with Feare.
67.
Snow is a Cloud, Light, but congeal'd: Grace Join'd
With Doubt, may knowledge, yet lesse Comfort, find.
68.
At the last Day shall the Saints Meteors bee?
Their Earth sublim'd shall yet from Change bee Free!
69.
Sea is the Earth of Water: The sunne draines
What's pure s [...]om Grosse: Sea, that is, Salt, remaines.
70.
The Sea is salt; Salt's Wisdome: That can reare
The weight of shippe; This the world's burden beare.
71.
It is the Moone's Increase, that swells the Ocean:
'Tis the First mover shews the Way o'th motion.
72.
Vanity does too oft man's large Mind fill:
But the First mover Guides th'obedient will.
73.
River is Time in Water: as it came,
Still so it flowes; yet never is the same.
74.
Some think th'Earth starre: Indeed starres send forth Beams.
Wee'll call it Heav'n; the Springs so send forth streams.
75.
Shoot up an arrow, not farre off 'tis found:
Moves th'Earth then swift enough, if it turnes round?
76.
Shall not the Aire turne faster then the Earth?
To think it moves not so, is't Truth, or Mirth?
77.
Wonders we have on Earth; thus wee may know
What things there are Above, by what's Below.
78.
Clay, Sand and Rocke, seem of a diff'rent birth:
So men; some Stiffe, some Loose, some Firme: All Earth!
79.
Downe Picke-axe, to the Depth for Gold lets goe:
Wee'll undermine Pe [...]u: Is'nt Heav'n Below?
80.
Quick-silver, Nature's Jugler's Many in One:
Now it is Fix'd: Now 'tis Loose: now 'tis Gone!
81.
Quick-silver Conscience, play not Fast and Loose:
Fast will the Loose bee, to it's Owne Abuse!
82.
Marble, a stately Vanity, does show,
In Natur's A [...], Spots doe for Beauty goe.
83.
Each Dust Loadstone has two points: 't will rise
To th' Loadsotone: Many at once may fright our eyes!
84.
Why should the world the Diamond so commend?
This Constant is: the World's a Crumbling friend.
85.
The Emerald's the Ey's Favorite: wee doe
In One find the Object and Spectacle too.
86.
The Ruby is an Earth, and yet a Fire:
A Holy Man! What Earth to Heav'n comes Nigher?
87.
The Margarite's compos'd of Heavenly Dew:
Heav'n is the Pearle, that is prepar'd for Few!
88.
Cedar the Dead from Putresaction keepes:
The just more safely in Christ's merits sleepes.
89.
The Oake beares Fruite, though Blossome it beares none:
The just beares fruite, though of it is not knowne.
90.
The Olive loves Hot ground, not fat, nor leane:
Grace is the Just Man's Joy, in state though Meane.
91.
The Serpent shunnes the Odour of the Vine:
A Venom'd Soule flies from the Sacred Wine.
92.
The Laurell's a perpetual Green: wee may
See Grace thus flourish. Grace is its owne Bay.
93.
By whom shall Cinnamon's praise bee fully Chanted?
'Tis as Restorative, as Desire Granted!
94.
The Corne, the Grasse, for Man, for Beast, renew:
God teaches them to Feed and Teach us too.
95.
Course wonder, Garlicke! Begger's Galen! Wise
Thy Clownes are: Nose-coy fooles thy Wit Despise.
96.
The Pinke by Nature's so refin'd, wee dare
Allmost to aske, whither't is Flow'r, or Aire.
97.
The Violet, the Flow'r of Courtesie, Delight
Does yeild unto the Touch, Tast, Smell and Sight.
98.
The Rose is but the Flower of a Brier:
The Good man has an Adam to his Sire.
99.
What's Beauty without Vertue, but the Lilie?
Faire to the Eye; the sent will quickly fill yee.
100.
To weed the Garden pleasure prompts some Care:
To weed the Mind, shall safety no time spare?
BOOK II. OF Living Creatures.
101.
WHo can Acres of Whale, in the Ocean See,
And with's Owne wonder, not Astonish'd bee?
102.
To see Nine hundred foote of Whale, may make
One thinke, Iland for Fish hee does mistake.
103.
The Whale, a Live Sea, Jonah did inclose:
Were Night, Feare, Grave and Hell at once his foes?
104.
Jonah found Aire in water: though command
Freedome he could not; did he not find Land?
105.
Woder in Wonder doe the Sea-men note:
The Whale's vast bulke has but a narrow throate.
106.
What's great Leviathan, that does turmoile
Himselfe so much in Wave, but Bone and Oile?
107.
Oile makes the wool run in the Cards the better:
Sathan's glibbe arts make Man to Grace more debter.
108.
Though the Whale's Bone finds use too much about us,
Yet Grace and Wit keep the Devil and that without us.
109.
The Whale's Mouth's a Portcullis, but Inverted?
Th' under jaw's Teeth into Holes above inserted.
110.
O Man take heed of Hell: if that once Swallow,
Leviathan does shew thee, what does follow!
111.
The Greene-Land Sea's the world: with happy Gale
And Art of grace, lets master the Great Whale!
112.
Out with your barrels, Sailours, the Whale's neere:
Upon another point instantly steere.
113.
A black beast with square head, fiery eyes, 't is Tradition,
Island-Seas show: Is't Fish, or apparition!
114.
The Cuttle-Fish with's Inke the Sea does staine:
His Witt's his Veile: A search is then but vaine.
115.
The Rémora a shippe's course stopps some say:
The Dev'l indeed our Christian course would stay.
116.
The Crampe-fish does the Fisher catch: his hand
Hee stupifies: Thus Craft 'gainst Craft does band.
117.
Polonians to Revenge doe not more thronge,
Then Dolphins shoale it, if you doe them wrong.
118.
A Porpise, the Sea-Almanack, fore-shows
A Storme: Hee's happy that worse stormes fore-knows.
119.
Shrimp [...], Sea-Elixir. though thy Circle's small,
Thou art to man Food, Temperance, Life and all.
120.
The Prince of Feasts, the Sturgeon, does command
The Ghuests: Th' Obey, that think they understand.
121.
The Dainty Salmon Courtier of the Seas,
With Temperance is pleasure; els Disease.
122.
Why should the backward Crabbe bee so asham'd!
They rather that Abuse him should bee Blam'd.
123.
Lobster, the warmth of Age, is but Repaire;
'Tis but Abus'd, when Us'd for prouder fare.
124.
Lamprey is Danger; stomach is but Coy;
Pleas'd you may bee; you may your selfe Annoy.
125.
Nine times an Eele through a Cormorant has pass'd.
E're kild: A slipp'ry Sinner's caught at last.
126.
The Seale, the Pike, the Perch, though fish, wee must
For true repaire, call flesh: 't were els Unjust.
127.
The Gudgeon is the tender stomach's meat
And Sause: of this the Rich and Poore may eat.
128.
The Trout represses Choler: what is Coole.
Hot, Moift, or Drie, in fare; should bee our Schoole.
129.
Fish speake God's Love and Wisdome, without Voice:
All's not for All; but Some for All with Choise.
130.
The Sharke, the Otter, Vexe the Sea and River:
What Sanctuary can Man still deliver?
131.
The Dying Moale, say some, Opens his eyes:
The Rich, till 'tis too late, will not be wise.
132.
The Worme Lives in his Grave: Doe what he can,
He's but a worme. No muck-worme is a Man.
133.
To Heav'n a Soule some Old Philosophy gives:
On Earth the Gloow-worme is a Starre, and Lives.
134.
See the Ant's Mountaine! Babel's Tow'r againe?
Heere's as much Bus'nesse! Though't is not so Vaine.
135.
What Seeds th' Ant Stores, he Bites: what Grows, hee Loose
Scarce shall he grow, whom a Grand Politique Uses.
136.
The Spider builds in Palaces; Her owne
Is webbe: i' th' midst whereof shee's Queen Alone.
137.
To One man's peace, the Spider's Wisdome shows,
An Other man his peace oft wisely Owes.
138.
Flies oft remov'd returne: Doe they want Feare,
Or Shame, or Memory? Flies are ev'ry where.
139.
A dried Toad layd nigh th' Heart, stays blood: wee have
Sinne, which if layd to Heart, the Soule may save.
140.
The Flea, that feeds on Dust and Blood, not long
Triumphs; Hee's Snapp'd: Such is the end of Wrong!
141.
The Gnat is the poore man's Revenge: Hee brings
[...]mall strength; yet makes great noise, and shrewdly stings.
142.
What in the flow'r is found most pure and Sweet,
That only for his Combe the Bee thinks meet!
143.
The Monarch Bee, when feeble, by the rest
[...]s carried: So Jrrev'rence they detest.
144.
Whole pits with Hony in Lithuania flow:
[...]uge Beares are Choak'd in it; Pleasure's a Foe!
145.
The Silke-worme's its owne wonder, without Loome
[...]t does provide it selfe a silken roome.
146.
The Silke-worme's Nature's Poet, who excels
[...]n phansie, in whose Court with Art hee dwels.
147.
See how the Eagle mounts tow'rds Heav'n: Hee's gone
Quire out of sight; Right Embleme of Saint John!
148.
Brave bird of Thunder! Capaneus was Fable:
'Tis th' Eagle Dares breast Lightning, and seemes Able.
149.
Eagle and Lightning met, in just account,
May make us thinke, wee see Eliah mount.
150.
In th' Eagle's Eye see th' Eye of Justice, fierce
Both seeme, and, what they view, they deepely pierce.
151.
Th' Eagle's Thigh does the Lion's thigh Out-waigh!
Is's not a Bird of an Imperial Sway?
152.
The Eagle to the Sunne presents his yong:
Is't Bold? Hee Owns't: Aoe [...]'t Turne? Away't is flung.
153.
Mount, O my Soule, and to thy maker bring
Thy lostiest Thoughts, his Gift, with Soaring Wing!
154.
Descend, My Soule, sometimes, but to repaire
Strength for New Flight into Discov'ring Aire.
155.
The Eagle casts his Bill, and becomes New:
Oh, may my Soule find but a Change as true!
156.
The Vultur will draw blood from his Owne thigh,
If hee wants Prey! Herodian Cruelty!
157.
Man, hast thou Grace? Th' hast Sinne! See, 'tis but Meet
Not only the Swan's Feathers, but his Feet.
158.
Pride can not see it selfe by Mid-day-light: l
The Peacocke's Taile is Farthest from his Sight!
159.
A Parrot learn'd the Creed: may not such, greeve,
As can not say't, or can not it Beleeve?
160.
The Nightingale's a Quire, no Single Note:
O Various pow'r of God in One small Throate!
161.
The Cuckow's but Two Notes: what Artist tells
The Cause? Or why the Nightingale excels?
162.
The Cuckow's Halse an Owle; Hee flies Man's fight:
The Owle, a double Cuckow, flies by Night.
163.
Wonder it sees, where so e're the Eye does Rowle:
The Batt is the Aire-Mouse; The Night's his Hole.
164.
The Swallow's a Quicke Arrow, that may show
With what an Instant Swif [...]nesse Life does flow.
165.
Though the Cocke's Musique from his Vigour bee,
[...]an is left pos'd: The full cause can hee see?
166.
[...]eese Sav'd Rome's Capitol, the Cocke Saint Peter:
[...]o a wise Mind his Musique's sure the sweeter.
167.
[...]er Yong the Pidgeon first with Salt-earth feeds:
[...]ise Education thus a wise man breeds.
168.
With what a Roare of Fury Lions rage?
'Tis Halfe a Fright, to see the Lions Cage!
169.
That doe wee talke of Wild beasts more then One?
The Lion is a Wildernesse Alone!
170.
The Lion vex'd, with taile strikes th' Earth; Next blow
[...]ates his Owne Back: The Last Confounds his Foe.
171.
The Ly [...]ian Lion eates Man, Woman, Child:
Eates Him; Then Them: His Hunger's wisely Mild!
172.
The Leopard's so strong, so Quicke, so Fierce;
As if, whiles Nam'd, hee'd Leape too in the Verse.
173.
As from the Tiger swift and fierce wee'd runne:
With greater Care our greatest Foe lets shunne.
174.
Cruell's the Beare, h' has yet but a weake head;
A blow has kild him: by Christ's Death Sinne's Dead.
175.
Th' Arabian Fox robbes Houses, and steales Shooes:
Our Foe would us spiritually so abuse.
176.
The Rav'nous Wolfe will feed on Mice and Moles:
Sathan does thus devoure darke Earthy soules!
177.
O mocke of Pride! Man can not Change his Shape:
Though, whiles unchang'd, hee is but like an Ape.
178.
The shifting Heare wee pitty; scorne the Hart;
To flie when Arm'd, is but the Coward's part.
179.
The Sicke Hart eates a Snake, and so grows well:
Repentance Digests Sinne, and Man scapes Hell.
180.
Much 't is the Afrique Camels Long can fast:
More, that they Incest Hate, admir'dly chast!
181.
[...]normous Excellency! Th' Elephant
Nor strength, nor wit, nor words, some say, does want!
182.
[...]n the Elephant's Heart is found a mighty Bone:
Inhappy Man, whose Heart is oft All stone!
183.
The Asse for Burden, as the Horse for Speed,
God has giv'n Man, Man's Double helpe at need.
184.
Th' Aegyptian thought the Dog a God! Hee might
Take him a Friend: Hee's Safty or delight.
185.
Glutton-Jew of all men was most cross'd:
The various dainties of the Hogge hee lost.
186.
The Cow yields milke; the Sheepe cloths: both are good,
Thus both Alive; and when Both Dead, th' are Food.
187.
The Catt's Eye's Providence, It Sees by Night:
[...] Guard of Angels yields both Joy and Might.
188.
[...]ore Life to Man, then to the Crow God gives:
[...]ong lives the Crow: Man lives, and Dies, and Lives!
189.
[...]an's Braine is Curds and Wonder! Truth this cleares:
[...]athushelah's was unchang'd nine hundred years!
190.
Blood Circles from the Heart unto the Heart:
[...]an's New America speakes Harvie's Art!
191.
I' Wake and so new Live: a Night's Protection
Is a new Wonder, whiles a Resurrection.
192.
I' Wake and too too soone my Thoughts begin
To stray: Can Sleepe halfe-Rescue us from Sinne?
193.
The Sunne's up: yet My selfe and God most bright
I can't see: J'me too Darke, and Hee's too Light!
194.
Cloths, which Hide shame, shame us, sinne they present:
Wee're Cloth'd yet in the Grave, when Innocent!
195.
Hand, wash thy fellow; yet the washing's vaine:
Wee are Sinne's Black-Moores, though wee wash againe.
196.
Let devout Prayer cast me to the Ground:
So shall I yet to Heaven bee Neerer found.
197.
What shall I Doe to day? I pray'd to shunne
All Sinne; but, from my Prayer 'tis, I runne.
198.
Hunger says, Feed: Feed? says Temperance;
Through Food, Sloth, Sleepe and Lust, Life's but a Dance.
199.
The Holy Book is my Receite; a Sure
Cordial, a Pow'rful Trouble, and a Cure.
200.
Advance My Taske, Thy Praise, Spirit Divine!
I'le Slight the Aide then of Poëtique Wine!
BOOK III. OF Nations.
201.
TIs Morning; therefore Night; This Order keepes
The world: still One Halfe wakes; the Other Sleepes.
202.
[...]ow Nations fill the Earth, like Diff'rent Seeds!
[...]ch Country unlike Men and Manners breeds!
203.
[...]he Spanjard's Sober, Wise, Constant, Devout;
[...] Avarice, Pride, Lust, Blood! Th' Indian cri'd out!
204.
[...]aine's the Third Indies; Spice and Gold it sleights:
[...] Deeper Mines of Counsaile it delights.
205.
[...] the French, wine of Orleans? Flame, Wounds, Scarres?
[...]ates hee the Chronicle by Civil warres?
206.
[...]h' Italian's the World's Gentleman; A Court!
[...]o which, Thrift, Witt, Lust and Revenge resort.
207.
[...]hey erre, who Rome's Hills by the Old names call:
[...]he Vatican is now the Capitol.
208.
[...]alie's Church is Rome; Naples the Court:
[...]ononia the Great Schoole; Venice the Port.
209.
[...]ame does for wisdome Venice highly reare:
[...]he Turke suspects, their Wisdome is Halfe Feare.
210.
[...]ybaris once for Vice was the World's Blot:
[...]he World's a staine! Sybaris now's no Spot.
211.
When from the Alpes the Afrique-General
View'd Italy, their Top was Hannibal.
212.
Britans, yee are stout men; bee also wise:
They'd need bee so, on whom are all mens eyes.
213.
Fashions and Prophesies are England's staine:
Lets not bee Mad too, though wee have been vaine.
214.
Bogges, Purgatory, Wolves and Ease, by Fame
Are counted Ir'land's Earth, Mistake, Curse, Shame.
215.
Earthquake is scarce acquainted with Scotch Ground:
Yet many Jolts of State have There been found.
216.
The Belgian's the World's Scout: Water's his Land:
His Fleete's his Country; and his Art's his Hand.
217.
The Portly Alman, if wine says not Nay,
Beares his Head high, as if his head bare sway.
218.
Of Danish kings Christian's a Name and Riches,
Could they make Christians of their Norway-Witches.
219.
Whom more then the First Suede did Fame e're cloy?
This made Lutzen more Griefe, then His Life Joy.
220.
Russia is wilderness; the Man is Furre:
Thatch is his House; his Winter's One Long Murre.
221.
Against his Owne Foes the Polonian's bold:
[...] Gainst Heav'n's has his Owne Winter been more Cold?
222.
Can the Racovian thinke troubles can cease,
[...]f with Socinus God's Foe hee's in peace?
223.
Hungarie's king is also Damocles:
His Right gives Throne; th' Impendent Sword no Ease?
224.
Th' Old Greeke was Mirth and Wine; now wretched feares
May make him drinke in Silence his own teares!
225.
The Turke sells Liberty! The Turke does prize it
Though't's Above price! The poorest Gre [...]ke yet Buyes it!
226.
The Owle, Athens held Sacred: sure a soule
Mistake of phansy! Athens was the Owle!
227.
Th' Athenian Wit scorn'd to bee Paul's Witt's Debter:
[...]ust Paul n'ere grac'd th' Athenians with a Letter!
228.
Candie's the Christian Weere: the Seas oft racke
Amaine, from Hellespont: yet oft rowle backe.
229.
The Turke's Mad to bee Mad: Hee's a Darke Mind:
Which can no Heav'n, but his Owne Body, find.
230.
To Homer's Muse, but first to its Owne shame
And Ruine, Troy owes its Unhappy Fame!
231.
Caesar once thought to make Troy a New Rome:
Bysanti [...]um got the Name; Hee got a Tombe!
232.
A stately Shrine the Dev'l at Ephesus
Did raise: he would supply a Lost Heav'n Thus!
233.
Paradise o're Granada hangs; Spaine boasts!
But Heav'n Saint John saw, o're the Pathmian Coasts!
234.
When Israel Canaan left; Canaan became
Aegypt: but Goshen got Canaan's Fame.
235.
Old Salem Longer was, then broad; though Faire:
But New Ierusalem's a perfect Square.
236.
God's Temple was Earth's Heav'n, yet Heaven he bow'd:
Came downe, and dwelt in Mystery and Cloud.
237.
Arabia once was happy: Now what's Left,
But Sottish Mecha, Wildernesse and Theft?
238.
When God dwelt forty years midst Rockes and Sand,
Was not the Wildernesse a Holy Land?
239.
Babel was Nebuchadnezzar! at least
In pride! In Judgment too! 'Tis very Beast!
240.
Babel's proud walls, that were an Army, Now
By turnes do to the Turke and Persian bow.
241.
The Persian Dwells on Horse-back: Surely Hee
Was the Right Centaure in Old Poëtry.
242.
The Tartar, Nature's Heretique, Roaves in State:
Hee's a Land-Planet; or, what some call Fate.
243.
India's the World's Faire: Gold, Spice, Gemmes, d' yee want [...]
They're There; the Carrier too, the Elephant.
244.
With Silkes and phansies th' East the world does fill:
How farre wee faile to please but our Owne Will?
245.
The China-Anchorets Wall'd-up did dwell;
The Snaile was not more faithful to his shell.
246.
Amboina's Spices doe the Body warme:
But Got by violence doe the Soule more harme.
247.
Ormuz, Eye of the Sea, if thou 'dst shine bright,
[...]hine with a Christian Christalline, thou 'lt shine right.
248.
Aloes from Zocatrà who but procures
[...]or Health? Bitter Repentance who Indures?
249.
When God to Sheba wisdome did unfold,
[...] sent him its First wisdome, Spice and Gold.
250.
The Sheba-Queene, who mov'd by Solomon's fame,
[...]ame to bee wise, was wise before shee came.
251.
Th' Abissine-Child Baptis'd in Fire may start:
Growne Man, a fire hee must have in his Heart.
252.
Mountaines o' th' Moone wee heare of; whose Foote's [...]
Whose Top is Heav'n! who'll then a fall There Vent [...]
253.
Earth in the Moon has Galilaeus found?
The Mountaines of the Moone are surer ground.
254.
Nilus is Aegypt's Almanack, prevailes
To fore-tell store; how s' ere the Starres-Man faile's.
255.
When Aegypt's king God's word Translated shoud,
Sure thrice five Cubits then Nilus oreflow'd!
256.
Vast and Full Cair, if Fame does not beguile us,
Th' art Double-stor'd: Thy People is a Nilus!
257.
Thy Founder, Alexandria, makes thee story:
Thy Athanasius is thy Greatest glory.
258.
Who thinks Cyréne Barren, his Witt's Grosse:
It brought forth Simon, who did beare Christ's Crosse.
259.
Carthage and Rome did once each other feare:
But Austin's Hipp [...] conquerd both; 'tis Cleare.
260.
Great Hannibal, bee 't set upon thy tombe:
Treacherous Carthage was great Hannibal's Rome!
261.
Who thinkes Algier's Holy, surely beleeves
[...] Howse of Pray'r's sometimes a Denne of Theeves.
262.
[...]oledo's prelate wonne Oràn to Spaine
[...]nd Christ: a Two-edg'd Sword's a Double gaine.
263.
[...]ez wonder is: a Building without Ground!
[...]oschees and Hospitals, where no Faith's found!
264.
[...]ez observes Mahomet's Birth-day: Verse does flow!
[...]hall wee doe lesse for Christ, who more doe Owe?
265.
[...]arocco's Tow'r three Globe of Gold, most faire
[...]or Art and Weight, grace: 'Tis a Mine i' th' Aire!
266.
[...]hree Silver-Globes surmount Marocco's Spire
[...]lmansor's worth above them yet mounts Higher.
267.
[...]midia's sand and wild Beast! Is ought worse?
[...]he Mankind of the Country is the Curse!
268.
[...] way to Atlas, you whom Lust does please:
[...]h' Aire cures, though not the Soule, the Ranke Disease.
269.
[...]lia, thy Lions like Thy Sunne-beames rage:
[...]unger and Flame more easy 't is to' swage.
270.
[...]abia once Christian was; sure Arian too!
[...]he Rankest poison's There, that e're man knew.
271.
The Ʋnknowne Lands' i' th' South; your Mappe-men say:
It is as well i' the Midst of Africa.
272.
Congoant, when Heathen, made their Foe their Meat:
Now no man, but their friend, by Faith they eate.
273.
Angola Slaves, for gaine, once joint-meat sold'
Could Nature bee unnatural, though Bold?
274.
Why are Some Negros? Did it first proceed
From proper Situation? Now, from Breed?
275.
The Guinean fires his house, when Warres begin!
In Holy warfare could wee so leave Sinne!
276.
Canarie's grape was in the Portugall's power;
Xerez in Spaine's: Has Spaine now Sweete and Sowre!
277.
Had Teneriffa [...]s top by th' Arke been found,
Would then the Babel-men have raisd their ground?
278.
Tow'rds Africa a Sea of Weeds wee have:
Is't not the picture of the World in wave?
279.
Stranger, would'st Die? Saint Thomas-Iland see:
By Fifty, Nature's Jubily sets thee free.
280.
On Good Hope's Cape seemes there a Paradice Spred!
Fruit There Man eat; with raw guts Heere they're fed!
281.
[...]f Wisdome may discover; Speed and Way
May make us thinke, Ophir was Sofalà.
282.
Destroy the World's store, and but Zeilan spare,
May n't wee from Thence (D' yee doubt?) the World repaire?
283.
[...]eas Cement Lands: did then by th' Art of Boate
Crosse th' Anyan Ferry World to World first floate?
284.
The South-East Ilands did New Guiny fill:
Might they not teach Fogo Like Love and Skill?
285.
Mayre's straights and Magellan's Fogoans passe-over:
Three times as farre from Calice 't is to Dover.
286.
Magellan Gyants doe like Canon, roare:
[...]ure then they need no Beacons on the shoare.
287.
Perù's a Land of promise: is 't so Holy?
[...]t Tempts; yet some, for Gold, find their owne Folly.
288
Potosi Mines seeme Midas's Hell; a Hold
For Dev'lls? what is digg'd-up is thought but Gold.
289.
[...]n th' Andes-Hills, hee that Takes breath, does Loose it;
Cold breath of Death! To view two Seas, who 'd Choose it?
205.
The Plate-Streame seem'd at first a Silver-Mine:
But water there, not Silver, now does shine.
291.
The Brazile-Cannibal is his Enimie's Grave!
Two Resurrections yet at last they 'll have.
292.
Wee sought Guiana-Gold out at the Line:
Wee lost a Raleigh, a farre richer Mine.
293.
Cut Aegypt's Isthmus South will some Seas goe?
Cut Darien-Isthmus th' Ocean West will flow.
294.
The Old World still did see New Generations.
Of Men: but Our World does behold New Nations.
295.
New Spaine, France, England, now Rise in the West:
In our Sunne-Set they Rise, if they prove Best.
296.
Mexico first was founded in a Lake:
Was't not in Earth, Aire, Water, a Mistake?
297.
In Feather-worke the Mexican's so quaint;
That Feather is the Creature and the Paint.
298.
A Spanish Card of the North-Seas was playd:
To Mocke, not Guide, some thinke it first was layd.
299.
Diverse a North-West-Passage faine would find:
The Wind's content; The Frozen Sea's Unkind.
300.
America's North's Triangle; South's a Heart:
Bee th' Isthmus Faith, from God can th' Indian start?
BOOK IV. OF Languages and Arts.
301.
WHat by an Angell's donne with Instant Thought,
That by Discourse, in Man About is brought.
302.
[...]ightly to Understand is Happinesse:
[...]oore 't is, what's Understood, well to Expresse.
303.
[...]rammar does Guide the Tongue; Logique the Reason:
[...]hey witt-up Youth to Man in Nature's Season.
304.
[...]het'rique does Language grace: in Age 't is Youth:
Tis not meere Shape; the Beauty 't is of Truth.
305.
Sceleton to th' Eye presents each Bone;
[...]ith Truth, not pleasure: Bare 't is, and Alone.
306.
[...]he Divine Wisdome does Man's Frame present;
[...]ut cloths each part with Flesh, its Ornament.
307.
[...]he Mind formes Thoughts, Thoughts, Words: which undivided,
[...] Art's Choice Order, aptly may bee Guided.
308.
[...]ature produces Art; by Helpe Divine
[...]he Curious Worme extends his Silken Line.
309.
[...]e Eare is a great Critique; and can tell
[...] sound, if but an Accent falls not well.
310.
[...] a Greeke slippe Caninius straight would Smile:
[...]anklin would say, that it does All quite spoile.
311.
Great Judges of Jöt [...] count nor Litle,
The errour of a Breathing, or a Tittle.
312.
Without your Art-Markes Language knows no Laws;
The Wrinkles of the Knuckes have their Cause.
313.
Heralds of Accents Books and Braines'doe Vexe,
To Place the Grave, th' Acute, the Circumflexe.
314.
Stephanus is Great Treasurer o' th' Greeke:
To Joseph so for Bread th' Aegyptians seeke.
315.
Though Athens for Choise phrase was a Choise peece,
Budaeus 't was, that was the Greece of Greece.
316.
Slips th' Hebrew Accent, Schindler straight descries it:
Maire too: but Curious Donat most defies it.
317.
Weigangmeir Tables-up each point and Letter;
It can not stirre: You 'll find it in its setter.
318.
Does Pagnine or Marinus Masse-up words?
Hutter's or Schwenter's small Cube all affords.
319.
Kirsten and Raphelenge are th' Arabique Moone:
Erpen, Giggeius, Pococke are High Noone.
320.
Megeser Turkish show; The Persian, Greave:
What Tongue untaught doe some or other Leave?
321.
Great Mithridate spake Dialects Twenty-too:
With Halfe th' Art Nimrod had made more adoe.
322.
Your Throtling Tongues who would not scape? They're worse
Then Ignorance! To Learne then is the Curse!
323.
The West-Tongues to the Latin, are but sleight:
They are but oblique Cases from the Right.
324.
The Slipp'ry French, and Mouth-roof'd Spanish know
No Mean: Th' Italian does more wisely flow.
325.
Mechóac an Out-smooths Latin, as Fame says:
The Fiction sure is smoother then the Phrase.
326.
Latin is Rhet'rique; Rhet'rique's Musique too:
It does the Eare, by Art of Leasure, woe.
327.
All Art is Logique: in All 't is th' Immixt
Cement: Reason in Man is not more Fix'd.
328.
Logique Defines, Divides, Collects; and Can
Clear Fallacy. It is the Man of Man.
329.
Logique, they say, is glad to goe on foot:
It treads sure ground then; els it could not doe't.
330.
Peter of Spaine, a Logique-Pope, who 'll say,
Was Poore? Popes have Sixe thousand pound a day.
[...]
[...]
331.
Suicet's Old Subtil'ties did fall to Banding
With's Yong: His Witt grew past his understanding.
332.
Witt by it selfe and Language is still show'n;
Yet without Pride: It can not els bee know'n.
333.
Demosihenes did Reine th' Athenian's neck:
His Eloquence, though it could spurre, could Check!
334.
In Tully see how high Rhet'rique can grow:
Hee was Rome's Tiber, when 't does Over-flow!
335.
Rome's High Witt, Porcius Latro, no man Can
With highest Witt Out-speake, or speake the Man.
336.
Quintilian's Bees such Hony have brought home;
Who would not long to tast so sweet a Combe?
337.
Tyre calls Choise Maximus Hers: Indeed, the Man
Is Milke and Hony; a meere Canaan.
338.
Poetry is Witt 's Spring-Tide, On it rowles;
And what it meetes, Surmounts, or els Controules.
339.
H [...]mer's th' Atlantique Ocean, wherein brave
Nature expatiates in Voluminous wave.
340.
Ma [...]o, though some may seeme of higher straine,
Thy blood flowes Rightly in thy Happy Veine.
341.
[...]ucan, thy Age was lesse, then thy Great Story:
But thy Great Witt has Doubled Age with Glory.
342.
Statius his Witt and Language is so brave;
Hee's in his Witts, and yet may seeme to Rave.
343.
Statius makes Capaneus so fierce a Wonder,
As if hee durst stand to Contest with Thunder.
344.
Martiall, th' art a sure Mark's-man; what thy Dart
Of Witt Aimes at, it Hitts, and makes it Start.
345.
[...]vid was banish'd Rome: 't had been more fit,
Wantonnesse had been banishd from his Witt.
346.
Claudian in too straite Compasse does Ingage
His Muse: Hee is a Lion in a Cage.
347.
The Senecas in their Tragedies doe show
That Witt, which they to Spaine, not Greece, did owe.
348.
[...]eemes Lycophron to write, or rather Thinke?
[...]r writ hee with Cassandra's Teares, white Inke?
349.
[...]aliger rendred Lycophron in jest:
[...]n Verrian Latin, like his Sense, hee's Dress'd.
350.
[...]ucretius, Nature's Favorite, excels;
[...] All's Truth; or, if not Too Much hee tells.
351.
How vainly at th' Olympique Games, Renowne
Was sought by Kings! Pindarus winnes the Crowne.
352.
Though to the Grape Anacreon did incline,
His Song is Above Grape; His Witt's his Wine.
353.
Horace, thy Art of Ode is choice: 't will Please
Whiles Mankind shall delight in Song and Ease.
354.
Heav'n, Purgatory, Hell, were Dante's Three Themes.
Two were Wise Melancholy; yet Extremes.
355.
What Petrach Lost, hee kept: His Laura dies:
Hee Lost his Love, not Wit: his Wit was Wise.
356.
Bartas, the Sunne makes Halfe the World still Bright:
Thou dost Illustrate All both Day and Night.
357.
Without Arithmetique wee can't know God:
Wee must distinguish between Ev'n and Odd.
358.
Needs must wee know, what is One, Two and Three:
How know wee els, what is a Trinity?
359.
To Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide,
Does private Doubts, and publique too, Decide.
360.
To Number Rudely, is to doe it Ill:
What must bee donne, who would not do [...]c with Skill?
361.
Wee may have Napier's Bones, or Pratt's small Table:
Number and Art will thence us soone Inable.
362.
A Seav'nth Day and Ten Laws Number require:
The Art then, as the Law, wee should Desire.
363.
If Holy Meditations you'd Rehearse,
How will you find the Chapter and the Verse?
364.
Can wee forget how holy David prays,
God would him reach th' Arithmetique of his Days?
365.
Who takes the Book of Numbers in his hand,
Without Arithmetique can he Understand?
366.
Musique's Number in Sound: Instruments long
Since, Jubal made; and Moses had his Song.
367.
David kept Number in his Dance: yet free
His Voice and Joy were; as his Harpe would bee.
368.
Saint Paul, who bids our Joy breake-forth and sing,
Forbids not to the Voice to Adde the string.
369.
Boethius's Learned Musique and his Witty
Philosophy, are th' Happy Tune and Ditty.
370.
Musique so variously affects Men's Minds,
The Art is not more wondrous, then the kinds!
371.
Th' Jonique's Quicke; Lydian, Sweete; Phrygian, Brave;
Aeölique's Soft; Mixt is All; Dorique's Grave!
372.
If Lands were not Divided, Men would bee:
The use then of Geometry wee see.
373.
When Joshua into Canaan Israel brought,
Measure kept peace: els all had come to nought.
374.
Between Some Tribes Jordan became a Line:
Division 't was, which Tribe to Tribe did Joine.
375.
In the Beginning had not Paradise bound?
It had layn open els, as common ground.
376.
God measur'd Goshen with a Line of Light;
When 't was Divided from th' Aegyptian's Night.
377.
Measure can measure Light; Hence th' Optique Art;
Mistaken view has made an Army Start!
378.
The Waters have seem'd blood by dusky light:
The same seemes not the same by Different site.
379.
To enlighten Light Vitellio does surpasse:
To see Reflected Light, Porta's a Glasse.
380.
By light Collected, Archimedes fir'd
A fleete: Rare Art! But th' Artist's most admir'd.
381.
To know Refraction, needs a helpe but small:
The Aire and Water's Mathematical.
382.
Measure and Number spread and Dresse the Sky:
Distance and Starres teach us Astronomy.
383.
How the moist Pleiades, how Orion shines,
Astronomy, and Scripture too, Defines.
384.
Without Astronomy Time knew no Dresse:
The Markes were lost: Story were Wildernesse.
385.
Scaliger would mend Time; Petavius would
Mend his Amendment: Art by Art is School'd!
386.
From Censorinus Diff'rent Yeares wee know;
From Lalamantius, sinces Doubts els might grow.
387.
Some have thought Lilius's Account well donne:
Their Diall's sham'd by Clear Vieta's Sunne.
388.
From Earth and Heav'n Ptolomy wonne renowne:
Deserv'd not this No-king a starry Crowne?
389.
Copernicus does erre with great pretence
Of Art: but Galilaus erres by sense.
390.
Who in his Eyes will place his Faith, may know,
The Dev'l a lie may by Permission show.
391.
Great Tycho Brahe Instruments did fit
To Measure Heav'n; Siz'd by his worke, or Wit?
392.
Waggoner does the world's Chiefe Havens sound:
For Our Last Port, a surer Pilot's sound!
393.
To know the Loadston's Mysteries and Law,
Gilbert's the Loadstone, that does All men Draw!
394.
Lomazzo's a rich peece, which it selfe praises:
Whiles Art by Light and shade, just wonder Raises!
395.
Antiquities Refine Times from Fire and Flood:
By Statues Time's Recall'd and Understood.
396.
Tais'ner shows Seventeen Hundred different Hands:
By's Owne, Hee's Gypsy: Them who understands?
397.
Strabo, almost what Country, but th' hast View'd it?
Had'st been a Judge, Mankind would su [...]e have rued it.
398.
Euclide and Rathbourne may lay-out a Bound:
Vitruvian Art must Build upon the Ground.
399.
Search wee the Mine for Gold, straight make a Vau't
Wee must; els quickely all will bee at sau'ce.
400.
Come, Lets be Wise, and for the Arts Rejoice:
God's Word is Chiefe; yet Art too is God's Voice!
BOOK V. OF Philosophers and Historians.
401.
High Metaphysique, that on Horeb Dwelst;
Great Queen of Reason; Thou All Arts Excell'st!
402.
Religion, Thou on Sinai's Top doest sit,
Higher then Horeb; Empresse of All Wit!
403.
Horeb was but Ascent to Sinai's Top:
Blessings from Sinai may on Horeb droppe.
404.
Lets Teach what wee are Taught: not Inspiration
Wee now doe bring; but Nature's Demonstration.
405.
Reason Alone in Man High Truths can reach:
Mistaken Inspiration can't so teach.
406.
Before Time Somewhat Was, that could Make Time:
That Being therefore must bee Most Sublime.
407.
That Being was but One: had it been Two,
What One did, then his Equall might Undoe.
408.
The First One must bee True; els 't is not One:
What's Feign'd No Being has; and so is None.
409.
What's True is Therefore Good: and thus wee know,
All Goodnesse els, must from This Goodnesse flow.
410.
The First One, True, and good, by a clear Right
Of Pow'r, as Being, must bee Infinite.
411.
How, what was First, was First, exceeds All wonder!
Whisper has more proportion unto Thunder!
412.
What knowledge may of the First Being bee,
Nature first Learnes of what's Philosophy.
413.
What's Good, wee soone Corrupt: thus with the Love
Of Wisdome, that's Philosophy, it did prove.
414.
Some thought all Knowledge could but Probable bee:
For them to Affrme' [...], was 't not Absurdity?
415.
Some thought No Knowledge Man could have at all:
How knew they then, what they did Ignorance call?
416.
The Doubtfull's Vex'd; the Ignorant is Mad!
Hee that Attaines Sure Truth, is Surely Glad.
417.
An Ague some, Physitian's Blush doe name:
Are Hidden Qualities the Philosopher's shame?
418.
From Diff'rent phansies Diff'rent Sect [...] arise:
Thus Seeking Wisdome some become unwise.
419.
The Sceptiques in uncertainties still dwelt;
The Stoiques Over-wise no passions felt.
420.
Pythagoras by his Father, was a Jew;
Circumcis'd: known and Taught by Ezechiel too!
421.
Pythagoras with the Gods did seigne to dwell;
Lay hid, Return'd: and what had pass'd could tell!
422.
Foole Man, that's his Owne Mocke! Whom pride makes quick
To Hope, to get a God-head by a Tricke!
423.
Pythagoras did eat nor Flesh, nor Beanes:
More does Hee, that Himselfe from Himselfe weanes.
424.
Pythagoras did love Musique's sweet Close:
Silence on's Scholers hee might well impose.
425.
Godhead and Witt Empedocles does lacke:
Aetna holds Him; His Brasse-slipper's cast backe!
426.
From speach with God Moses his [...]ace did shine:
Plato having read Moses, seem'd divine.
427.
Plato's Ideas shap'd in Heav'n what's Heere:
Did hee then see his owne Idea There?
428.
The Stagirite, that in all Arts excell'd,
[...]new not Himselfe, nor how the Ocean Swell'd.
429.
[...]pinion's made Mens God; their Joy then sure:
[...]v'ry Philosopher's Thus an Epicure.
430.
When Aristotle did make Sleepe his Theme,
[...]hould hee have writt Waking or in a Dreame?
431.
For Skill i' th' Creatures Aldrovand's so Fam'd,
You'd thinke 't were Adam, who the Creatures Nam'd.
432.
Serpents, with Gesner, wee may safly view:
Learning hee had; yet hee no Jugling knew.
433.
Salvian so presents your various Fish,
Hee may bee the Carthusian's wisest Dish.
434.
Wise Dioscorides, wheres' ere hee grew,
Was a rare Plant; Best Artists Him must view.
435.
Aesop saw Man oft become Beast: His wit
By Beast then, to shew Man, might thinke it fit.
436.
Kind Heraclitus's Eyes with Teares still ranne:
Democritus still Laugh'd: Both make One Man.
437.
Socrates's wisdome did to Vertue tend:
Hee did Himselfe, that would all others, mend.
438.
Diogenes did Philosophy O're-doe:
Hee made Vertue Absurd, and so scarce True.
439.
Cebes wisely instracts us in his Table:
'Tis True Lise; yet, like Life, lookes like a Fable.
440.
A Good Example still continues New:
Cleanthes's Tankerd is the Conduite too.
441.
To Man's short life an Memory Thou doest size
Thy worke, Good Epictetus: Briese and wise!
442.
Seneca's a rare Surgeon; Hee Inures
His hand to Gentlenesse; pleases and Cures.
443.
Seneca's persevering Wit was Good,
Till from his Open'd Veines flow'd Lines of Blood.
444.
The Moralist with skill scarce more profound
Dresses the Mind, then Others dresse the Ground.
445.
Contented House-hold-Art cares not to Roame
Abroad; 't is its Owne Happy World at Home.
446.
How prudent Hesiod Laws of plow rehearses,
Breaking the Mould with a Glad Teeme of Verses?
447.
How Mar [...] does the Bee home lo [...]den bring
With Hony? Hee's a Bee without a sting.
448.
How Varro does both Hen and Nest prepare?
The Chick's Halfe-hatch'd, by his fine Wit and Care.
449.
For Farmer's Life Quaint Tusser All containes:
The Wains, the Chains, the Swains, the Pains, the Gaines.
450.
For Village-Lord, Brave Heresha [...]h does marke
What's Worth: Hee's a N [...]ah in his Arke [...]
451.
Th' Italian's La Lesina shows, what ought
In Curious Thrift bee sav'd. Wee'll save a Thought.
452.
Philosophy is Humble, like the Eye:
On Earth it Dwells; and yet surveys the Sky.
453.
See Story, Life's Example; how it spreads
A Patterne; in which out man All men reads.
454.
Where Moses his High History began,
Who knows? Was Sinai's Top his Vatican?
455.
Moses is Text; Josephus is Tradition:
Him our Faith reads; This read wee with suspicion.
456.
Herodotus is a World, part Truth, part Fable:
To know [...]are Truths yet, wee 're by Him more able.
457.
Herodotus is History's Fresh Youth:
Thucidides is Judgement, Age and Truth.
458.
Herodotus is Gold of a Rich Veine:
Thucydides no Melting needs! Pure Graine!
459.
Story supposes Rule; Then patterne Finds:
Xenophon yet to Rule hiS Cyrus Winds.
460.
Philosopher, Historian, Warriour too,
Who Xenophon instyles, speakes but-his Due.
461.
Who can not Ost sweete Xenophon repeat,
And see from Persia his Admir'd Retreat?
462.
Polybius against Hannibal Counsaile gave:
His pen presents him yet profound and Brave.
463.
Greece rais'd, Polybius, statues to thy Glory:
But thy most lasting statue's thy Owne Story.
464.
The Heathen World's Antiquities may know,
They All to Sicilie's Diodorus Owe.
465.
Thirty years toile it Diodorus cost,
That, in the World, the World might not bee Lost.
466.
Brave Salust, thy rare Witt and Pen so act,
As if th' hadst been with Catiline in his fact.
467.
Choise Salust, Thou thy selfe can'st so Disguise,
Th' art Ingurth, Fierce; and Mansinissa, Wise!
468.
Caesar's Memorials are Pure, Modest, Plane:
Had's Life been such, h' had ne're at home been slaine.
469.
Halicarnassius did Dionysius breed:
Rome had of Him, then Hee of Rome, more need.
470.
Rome's old Rites Dionysius's Care has show'n:
Rome now were els unto in selfe unknow'n.
471.
Livie's Rome's Empire! Glorie's Ample Spheare!
Senators, Gen'rals, Provinces are There!
472.
Valerius Maximus with such light abounds,
Hee's a bright Set of pointed Diamonds!
473.
Paterculus his Wit we must commend;
Unlesse where hee appeares an Over-friend.
474.
Had Curtius march'd with Alexander, Word
And Art had conquerd All without the Sword.
475.
When whither'd Salem felt the wrath of God,
Josephus was a bud on Aaron's rod.
476.
Josephus, but where from the Text hee strays,
For JeW's Affaires allmost in all things Sways.
477.
Story is Patterne: well Compar'd 'tis Double:
Ours is the Gaine, Plutarch: The Taske's thy Trouble.
478.
Pcace; you shall straight heare a Court-Whisper: Thus
To Listen, may n't wee learn by Tacitus?
479.
What Lucke thy Witt had, Tacitus, to marke
Rare Secrets? had'st thou Catt's eyes in the Darke?
480.
A Secretary Sueton was, and knew
The Counsailes of th' Emp'rour, and th' Empresse too?
481.
Sueton his Method does from Rhet'rique take:
Tacitus keepes the Order Time does make.
482.
Sueton and Tacitus too much did know;
And, but that Shame's Heav'n's Vengeance, too much show!
483.
[...]a [...]sanias, choisest Travailour, Thy Fields
Are Greece: 'Tis Thine, what Rare it yields.
484.
Justin, whither thou dost contract or Make,
Wee 'll praise the for thy Owne and Trogus 's sake.
485.
Though thy Great work, Justin, about does rowle,
Yet thy Great Wit does thy great worke Controwle.
486.
Florus is Livie's Margent; yet does Vie:
Liv [...]e's a Goodly statue! Florus th' Eye.
487.
Thought and Tongue by Herodian is refin'd:
Politian is his Mercury and Mind.
488.
New Livie, Dion! Thou, whose Life was Story,
[...]halt by thy Pen Live with a Double Glory!
489.
To Search Vopis [...]us and some few, who writ
Like Actions, Aesop's cocke may reach us wit.
490.
[...] wish Eusebius, when on thee I look▪
Thou hadst been the Best Christian in thy book.
491.
Marcelline Sense, scarce Words, could well Command:
Hee writte sure with his Gauntlet on his hand.
492.
Severus, Christian Florus, Other Men
Whiles Thou so writ'st, thou merit'st Thy Owne Pen.
493.
Story of late from Tacitus takes life;
Good stories of bad Actions now are rife.
494.
Guicciardine Drifts and Shifts of Crimes has Writt:
Cambden and Strada show Wisdome and Witt.
495.
Europe's Intelligencer Thua [...]us brings
To light, the more Retir'd Affaires of Kings.
496.
In Priorato's story Warriours march:
But due to Him is the Triumphal Arch.
497.
Venetian Paul's Trent-Columne Fix'd does stand:
The neighbour Alpes are not a firmer Land!
498.
The Centuries are Truth's [...]ulwarkes on a Rocke:
The Winds, the Seas may beat: They'll stand the Shocke.
499.
Baronius His Roma's story does Indite:
The Centurists doe the Church-story write.
500.
Baronius's Pyramids Renowne do winne:
Yet is there Embalm'd Rottennesse within!
BOOK VI. OF Physitians.
501.
HIppocrates and Galen are renown'd,
Though Health's a Riddle no where to be found.
502.
An Atome's Restlesse; witnesse the Sunne's beam:
A Droppe's still Chang'd; though still 't is the same streame!
503.
For Health to the Physitian all Men goe:
Health yet, is 't the Physitian's Friend or Foe?
504.
Hippocrates with Art the World did fill:
Yet his Pure Oath's more Wonderous, then the Skill.
505.
Physitians are Halfe-Priests: if then Impure,
Or Blabs they bee; they rather Wound then Cure.
506.
Physique's as Old as Sinne: Indure
Disease, since Nature can't, it straight seekes Cure.
507.
All Ages have their Helpe: Diet is Art:
Polybus, Nature's Scholar, taught this part.
508.
Hyssop is purging; purging makes Man New:
'T was well then Solomon the Herbal knew.
509.
Diocles both Physitian was, and sure
Physique! Fore shews Disease and present Cure!
510.
Mithridate his owne Antidote became:
That was Right king-craft! who els claimes That Fame?
511.
Choise Dioscorides makes Man so wary,
Hee may become his own Apothecary.
512.
Archigenes his Witt the Spunge does Squeese:
Thought hee upon his Patient and his Fees?
513.
Apicius's Cookery was a fullsome [...]oile:
Wee scarce prescribe Salt, more then Hee does Oile.
514.
Celsus is Art and Elegance: it were
A Curious Art, to cure men by the Eare.
515.
Brave Oribasius did with skill abound?
For wounded Julian yet what skill was found?
516.
To thinke the Bodie's Temperament does Guide
The Soule, Great Sinners are on Galen's side.
517.
Galen is Man: his workes the Bodies Frame:
Their Number and perfection all praise claime.
518.
Galen did live, as Some say, Seav'n score years;
A rare Physitian sure them; it appears.
519.
Rhazes for learned practice is a new
And clear Hippocrates and Galen too.
520.
At ten years old Avicen's Zeale and Art
Vied: H' had allmost All th' Alcoran then by Heart!
521.
Avicen writes of Cordials; with the rest
[...]et numbers not Himselfe, though farre the Best.
522.
Avicen's Canticles briefly renew
Memory: Canon th' are, and Cordials too.
523.
To Make thy Canons, Avicen, which Containe
All Art of Health, thy Canon was thy Braine.
524.
[...]ushius soiles Avicen, Physitian's Mirroir;
[...]ee brake before Threescore: That was an Error.
525.
Who th' Aphorismes wants, wants Art and Ease:
To want rare Faventinus is Disease.
526.
Massaria, had thy Care and Judgement gone
Through All thy Art, wee had then All in One
527.
[...]assavol's th' Apothecary's Commission:
[...]assavol is the Rarest Composition.
528.
[...] Ancient times their Physique-Rules were True:
[...] These, Truth's so Refin'd, that Truth seemes New.
529.
[...]ugenius dares Massaria to refute:
Witt against Witt is still in glad Dispute.
530.
Accurate Argenterius will not rest
[...] Old Truths: Hee [...]ll consult with his Owne breast.
531.
Suchten your Antimony does cry-up;
By Art and Hope now Form'd into a Cup.
532.
Anatomy and Surgery doe raise
Fallopius's Name: from Quicke and Dead h' has Praise.
533.
The learned Wecker's books Secrets Unfold:
If so, Secrets they are but till they're told.
534.
Experience has taught Cures: but who is 't knows
The true Disease? This Rondeletius shows.
535.
Montanus, though't seemes Paradoxe, does hold
And prove, Distill'd, or Hot Waters, are All Cold.
536.
A Golden Tooth grew in a Child Though All,
Ruland, admire; was Nature Chymical?
537.
Mercurialis's Praise and Worth mount high;
Yet in his Ointment may bee found a Fly!
538.
Kind Montagnana, though on Land, does show,
How they are Orderd, that by Sea doe goe.
539.
Bright Capivacci [...]s, praising Thee wee 've donne:
Is 't Art to hold a Candle to the Sunne?
540.
Sweet Fracastorius, thou wast double blest:
Thy Muse, or Physique; who knows which is best?
541.
Dutch Æsculapius, Paracelsus, Dar'st
By Art Frame Man; and with God's Worke Compar'st?
542.
Would Nature seeme to make Old Galen New?
Of Great Forestus it may seeme but True.
543.
Whiles with Courteous Fernelius wee but Talke,
[...]nto his Art hee does us Gently walke.
544.
Quakes any at his Climacterical Year?
Codronchius will Rule him from his Fear.
545.
From Physique did Wiërus runne to Evil?
Shall wee begin in Art, and End in Devil?
546.
Curious Mizaldus, writt hee Wrong or Right,
Can not bee read, without a Choise Delight.
547.
Sound Cordus, Thy Dispensatory teaches
Such Art, as scarce Another Artist reaches.
548.
Man's Heav'n and Earth: from Heav'n and Earth's his Cure:
The Med'cine, Earth; the Time, Heav'n must Assure.
549.
Maginus's Art and Confidence will tell,
How Physique with Astrology must dwell.
550.
[...]age, in his Calculated Tables, shows
The Sicke Man's state: His Death's Day too Hee knows!
551.
A Question't were decided not with ease,
If Clusius were Physitian, or Disease!
552.
Ankle, Thigh, Arme and Belly- [...]rst, Foot spraind;
Feaver, Stone, Dropsy, Coliques, Clusius pain'd.
553.
Some vaunt, they can all diff'rent Pulses show:
Can phansy? Sense this Riddle ne're shall know.
554.
Seasons of th' year, five thousand times though pass'd,
Only Catosius does know now at last!
555.
Sanctorius 's Physique is the Body and Scales:
Weigh Right, and mend: Thanke thy selfe, if Health failes.
536.
Obicius would Sanctorius 's Worke Demolish:
Which cost the Builder, Thirty years to polish.
557.
Sanctorius, a Wise Builder, does with Care,
His Statique Art, which hee well Rais'd, Repaire.
558.
All Helmond writes, wee'll hope to say, Is Good;
When wee shall understand, All's understood.
559.
Some secrets Helmond shows, which were more fit,
If True, to bee conceald! Hence, Dangerous Wit!
560.
Sennertus does all arguments pursue
So well, Hee's Text and Commentary too.
561.
Venice, thy Trincavel yields thee a Name
Beyond thy wedding Ring, though of great Fame.
562.
When Galen and Hippocrates seeme foes,
Learned Rorarius does the strife Compose.
563.
Whiles great Hippocrates obtaines his Due,
Hollerius shall bee Aphorisme too.
564.
Crato, thy wise and plentiful Advise,
Shows, thou gott'st same not from some New Divise.
565.
Causes of sodaine Death Terillus tells:
Wisdome, and prayer, sometimes Death Repells.
566.
The Quintessence of Man's Blood is rare Cure:
The Quintessence of God and Man's most Sure!
567.
A Child Cried in the wombe, Libavius says;
Did hee begin his Griefes, before his Days?
568.
Horstius the Lover's pulse by Art would find:
Lets learne by Grace the pulse of our Owne Mind.
569.
Baldus man's mind will tell vi [...] wing his Nalles:
Place the Commandements there, the Art ne're failes.
570.
From Curtius th' Art of Dosing let us learne:
Strong Physique does not a weake mind concerne.
571.
Crinitus, Weigh'st Man's Heart? If Grace it fill,
'Tis Light: If Empty 't is, then sinke it will.
572.
Melampus by the Bodie's Moles would saigne
Divine: by Inward Spots it were not Vaine.
573.
Anatomists Man's Body still so View,
As if this Art, when Man Dies, still were New!
574.
Laurentius is th' Anatomist of his Art,
Transcending in the Philosophical part.
575.
New Remelinus takes off Man's first Skinne:
So by Degrees unclothes each part within.
576.
Platerus Chippes-out Man, and ev'ry part
Lays by it selfe, with speciall Care and Art.
577.
Vesalius does Fallopius dissect:
Anatomy by Anatomy is Check'd!
478.
Bartholine's Art and Eye are Quicke of sight:
His View's Review: hee does the Mind Invite.
579.
Casserius the Instruments of Sense does show:
Our Senses to His Reason This doe Owe.
580.
Spigelius presents Man, as at his Rise:
You'd thinke yee saw Adam in Paradise.
581.
Some the Anatomy of the Living write:
Let th' Eye to its Owne Conscience cast its sight.
582.
Has ev'ry sore a Salve? Erastus then,
Not Paracelsus, proves the Man of Men!
583.
Libavius the Parisian Checke does sleight:
Shewing what Chymistry hee does count Right.
584.
Libavius does your Crollian Magique try:
And to the Roseal Crosse has a like eye.
585.
What's searching Lullus, the Philosopher's Stone
And Augurellus? Sure their Worth's All One!
586.
Camphire-Oile, and some more, for Liquid Gold,
With Gold-Dust, passe; by Beguin yet contro [...]ld.
587.
What's not perform'd by Nature, Art or Grace,
Is Bad: where then shall Weapon-Salve find place?
588.
Taliacotius will a main'd face Close
To anothers flesh, and thence make a new nose!
589.
Mathiolus and Lobel are choise plants:
Without Them th' Herbal would confesse its wants.
590.
If to the Spaw a journy thou wouldst make,
G [...]ringus and Byetius with thee take.
591.
Who Travaile would by Sea, Waggon, Horse, Foote;
By Gratarol's Advice may better doc't.
592.
The Instruments of speech in Beasts, who reach?
Rare Aqua-Pendens yet ev'n This dares Teach.
593.
Quercetan does a learned Choise propose
Of Meats: Hee does deserve the Helpe hee shows.
594.
Old Trapezuntius did his Skill and Name
Forget by Sicknesse: Sicknesse was His Fame.
595.
Drinke, fourteen Ounces daily, by just w [...]ight,
Bread and Meat Twelve! Cornar [...]'s strict Receite!
596.
Who was the Best Physitian? shall wee say?
Judge by successe; It was Methus [...]elah.
597.
Allmost a Thousand years Methushelah told:
In God's Account hee was not One day Old.
598.
Twice as much Bread as Flesh; Thrise as much eat,
As Fish: Once and a Halfe as Egge's Receite.
599.
The Lampe is Life: Man's Heat does daily dry
His moisture up; so that to Live's to Die.
600.
What's Life, Health, Physique? though one daily quaff'd
With Thirst and Phansy, Doctor Antonie's Draught!
BOOK VII. OF Lawiers.
601.
LEts keep Possession; Cries the Law [...]er still?
'T is well, if the Possession proves not Ill.
602.
Two things there are, the One of which is Mine:
The Other e're I have 't, shall I call Thine!
603.
Nature, art Cain? sayst thou at ev'ry strife,
Though Brother th' art, J'le have thy Goods or Li [...]e?
604.
Nature, although Corrupt, will have some Law;
To scape wrong, wee'll doe Right: Danger does Awe.
605.
Conscience is Law, Accuser, Witnesse True;
Judge, Pris'ner, Jailour, Executioner too.
606.
The Heav'nly Angels know their Laws: without
Order, Heav'n not Assembly were, but Rout.
607.
The Dev'lls, that raise all strife, strife yet doe quell
Amongst themselves: A Law there is in Hell!
608.
Relations must bee Own'd: Husband and Wife;
Father, Sonne; Master, Servant: Order's Life.
609.
The Head and Feet doe still their Distance keep:
The Natural Bodie's Politique, ev'n in Sleepe.
610.
No Nation but does in it selfe keep Law:
The Cannibal's Owne Family scapes his Maw.
611.
Nimrod more sought for Glory, then for Blood:
Much losse of This, Only with Justice, stood.
612.
What Blood the Body looses, the Head feeles:
There's quick Intelligence between Head and Heeles,
613.
All Fault was Death with Draco: This Severe
Decree was Life: Safety thus sprung from Feare,
614.
Fraile are Man's Laws; Israel's Laws are sure:
And only by Gods will Change or Indure.
615.
Of Heathen Laws the Roman bears the Name:
In Diffrent Times yet, Roman's not the same.
616.
Laws under Kings Rome had: P [...]pirius's Name
They beare, by Him Collected: Hee the Fame.
617.
When Tribunes Rul'd, the Law uncertaine grew:
And Rome then thought, that All's not Best, that's New.
618.
Troubles teach Witt: thus Rome did fetch from Greece
Laws in Ten Tables: 't was a Golden Fleece.
619.
Ten Tables were at Rome to Twelve improv'd:
To helpe what wanted, Rome it so behov'd.
620.
Th' Ephesian Hermodorus, though Exil'd,
The Authour is of Rome's Twelve Tables styl'd.
621.
Plato must write of Law; it was Intended
By Art and Blood: from Solon he descended.
622.
Charondas 'gainst his own Law, to his paine,
Comes arm'd to Councell: by's Own sword hee's s [...]aine.
623.
What Various Laws Rome's Common-Wealth did know,
Wee may: Zasius shows Them: They him doe show.
624.
Papirian, Flavian, Aelian Law Rome knew:
Yet wise Necessitie still added New.
625.
Rome's People from the Senator's did fall:
Made Laws; and these The People's Law [...] did call.
626.
A People Needs a Senate: This does make
Laws, which their Name doe, from the Senate, take.
627.
Rome's Prat [...] had his Honorarious Law:
At last the Consul's Laws kept Alkin Awe.
628.
The Senate gave Nasica House and Fame:
For Law-Advise to Him the People came.
629.
Servius a famous Orator, by shame
Wisely provok'd, in Law got Skill and Fame.
530.
Labeo in Rome six Months spents six he Writ
Retir'd: The Country was his Fame and Wit.
631.
Trebati [...]s's Skill; Cascelius's Eloquence;
Ofilius's Learning; was their Difference.
632.
Augustus did Himselfe, whiles Law, advance:
His Noble Art sham'd Wrong and Ignorance.
633.
Man Rais'd Art; Art Man: Law did Lawiers reare:
Some knights, some Senators, some Consuls were.
634.
By Caracalla's Sword Papinian died:
Hee scorn'd to Excuse an Emp'rour Fratricide.
635.
Th' Imperial Laws, that lay before Disjoind,
By wise Justinian in One Code wee find.
636.
What the Gregorian, Hermogenian Code,
And Theodosian had, Tribonian show'd.
637.
Prophane and Greedy though Tribonian were,
Just and Free Art does his Name highly reare.
438.
Law includes Pow'r and Wisdom: These wee find,
To have their Empire in Justinian's Mind.
639.
The well Digested Pande [...]ts doe display
The Law: whiles what the wisest Lawiers say.
640.
The Code has Pow'r: The Pandects have profound
Reason; These are the Law's sure Depth and Ground.
641.
Law's Institutions are the Youth of Law:
Law's Constitutions doe keepe Age in Awe.
642.
The Novel Constitutions show they are
As a new Code, sorm'd with Authentique Care.
643.
The Feudal Customes may as Pandects bee:
Their Right the Learned Lawiers make us see.
644.
Wit teaches Wit: Th' Imperial Artists show
Rome's Clergy, Wits which way they have to goe.
645.
Scholars Quicke Scholars are: Gregory the Great
Sent-out commands, as Lofty as his Seat.
646.
A Canon-Law Gratian's Decree does reare.
As the Church-Pandects, for a Thousand year.
647.
Gregory the Ninth unto the Church first show'd
Decretal Constitutions Rome's Church-Code.
648.
Th' Eight Boniface his Decretals does spread;
By Dynus's Art; which Roman Lawiers read.
649.
Clemens the Fist His Decretals presents:
Ambitious Men succeed to proud Intents.
650.
The Two-and-Twentith John does make new roome:
Thus his Extravagant Constitutions come.
651.
Rome's Church is now growne Empire: Has This Code?
Like Reverence to the Decretals is shew'd▪
652.
Law Civil, has it Pandects? The Decree
Shall to the Roman Church as Pandects bee.
653.
The Canonists, that doe their Taske pursue,
Have now, by Lancelet, Institutions too.
654.
Has not the Church a surer Guide then Man?
With Scripture-Canon sure the Church began.
655.
Scripture's Church-Code: The first fow'r Councils know
They're Pandects, which Themselves to This Code owe.
656.
Th' Apostles Canons Zonaras explaines:
To Prove them, then to Expound them, is more paines.
657.
The Gen'ral Church a Code had; th' African too [...]
All that is Good in Gratian is not New.
658.
Isidore, Burchard, Ivo, Laws Collected,
Which before Gratian, Church-Affaires directed.
659.
Photius his Nomocanon's a Greeke Light:
Balsamon strives to make it shine more bright.
660.
Lotharius and Bononia Irnerius Cherishd:
By 's Interlinear Law-Glosse They too flourish'd.
661.
Though Azo's Industry was more then's part;
His Summe's the Summe of Azo and his Art.
662.
But for Accursius Law had had a Losse:
Hee first, the whole Imperial Law did Glosse.
663.
Who th' Emp'rour's Right Oppos'd Vinea defied;
Was hee not Wise? The Sword was on his side.
664.
Accurate Hostiensis much does write:
His Learned Summe't is that does Much Invite.
665.
Law's Looking-Glasse the clear Durantes writ:
A Glasse, in which you may behold his Wit.
666.
Guido the Grosse Clemens the First became:
[...]oth Laws he knew; One Law hee Now might Frame.
667.
Bartolus Law, it selfe is enough Fear:
Would'st thou both Pleader bee, and Judge Severe?
668.
Baldus with study, Age and Fame ev'n weari'd,
[...]hy in Saint Francis Habit would'st bee buri'd?
669.
[...]f Francis was, as Truth can Franc'is paint,
Baldus more Lawier was, then Francis Saint.
670.
Panormitan in Basil Counsil sate
When Pope Eugenius had his Fate-well Date.
671.
Jason did the Whole Civil Law expound:
Liv'd Long, and allmost fifty years Renown'd.
672.
Zasius in Law did Reason most esteeme:
Of His Choise Thoughts hee shows us how to deeme.
673.
For Practice in the Law Oldendorpe's Way,
As Once With Him, with Others still may Sway.
674.
Civil and Canon Law Oldendorpe's Care
Does Sort: Knows the Comparison Compare?
675.
Budaeus's Choise and Learning give such Light,
Hee does New Pandects on the Pandects Write.
676.
Alciat's Wit and Fame were Milan's Jewel:
His Owne was his selected worke, His Duel.
677.
Cujacius, still bee't Doubt, that neither boast,
If Thou to Law, or Law to Thee, Owes most.
678.
Rare Wesembecius's Artificial Frame
Of Law, which Tully wish'd, Raises his Name.
679.
The Institutions many a Wit have Vext:
Mynsinger may bee Law without a Text.
680.
Hotoman's worth is by his writing's knowne:
Could His Pen Junius Brutus's writings Owne?
681.
Spaine on the Law Imperial will attend:
Her Covarruvia [...] was her Pride and Friend.
682.
Antonius Augustinus tries the Ground
Of Law; Hee the Twelve Tables does expound.
683.
Calvin's an Honest Lexicon: who feares
To bee phrase-jugled? Ev'ry word Hee Cleares.
684.
The Greek and Roman Laws receive great praise
From Leunclavius: Sh [...]'n't They His fame raise?
685.
Exquisite Gothofrede does so Transcend.
The Law's perfection makes us fear's will End.
686.
The brave Welsh Solon, Howell D [...]a, much Glory
Unjustly wants: His worth does Claime more Story.
687.
By Law of Wales no Morgaging of Land
Was good, unlesse into a Kinsman's hand.
688.
The Spring and Harvest Welsh Vacations were:
No Suite For Land the Judges Then might heare.
689.
Wales, at thy Judge's Right hand the Priest sate;
Who with the Judges did Deliberate.
690.
The Rhodian Laws show Wellwood's settled Wit:
Though of the Sea, upon the Land he writ.
691.
The Grecian Armes and Tongue prov'd both but vaine:
The Amphyctyones were the Wise Braine.
692.
Linwood and Spelman Ancient wisdome show:
Noveltie's Danger: with Time Errours grow.
693.
Cowell, Thou hast Order'd the Law: giv'n Light:
Sunder'd what lay confus'd, and placed all right.
694.
Littleton's Tenure's Ground: Free Land's rich mould:
Fee-Taile is Gravel: Sand is Copy-hold.
695.
Lambard, Law's Antiquary, makes us see,
By what High Courts Once were, what they should bee.
696.
Fulbecke Law Civil, Canon, Common, shows:
Compares: Discovers, where they're Friends, where Foes.
697.
Fitsherbert, what in Year-bookes lay confus'd,
Has wisely sav'd, from being more abus'd.
698.
What is English Law's Hope after Clear Brooke,
Deep Plowden, Quick-brain'd Dyer, Learned Cooke?
699.
Beware the Sharke: if in Law's Sea wee fall,
A limbe is lost! If Lost wee are not All.
700.
Against Both Parts Law so does Oft prevaile,
They're Swallow'd worse, then Jonah by the Whale!
BOOK VIII. OF Kings and Other Worthies.
701.
Just Empiere's Shuneshine; Pow'r, that's got by wrong,
Is Tempest: A fierce Tempest lasts nor Long.
702.
Nimrod was not of his owne Kin the First:
The Chief he was: but what was worse, the Worst.
703.
Semiramis, did'st ill, to rule thy Sonne?
Rule him whiles Child: when Man, His rule beguane.
704.
Pharaoh's hard heart no showres of grace obtaines:
Now wee'll beleeve in Aegypt it scarce raines.
705.
Why did the Pharaohs raise such massy Tombes?
Fear'd they to come unto their Heavier Doomes?
706.
Tremble fond Pyramids! The Last Thunder can
Startle your Guilty Mumy into Man?
707.
Vaine Pharaohs, when your Piles are hurl'd asunder;
Not They, your Folly 't is, shall prove the Wonder.
708.
Though Nimrod's Tow'r and Pride th' Aegyptians led,
Hee for the Living built; They for the Dead.
709.
Moses, to Die in Nebo, did God send?
Death was his Way: but Life't was, was his End.
710.
Joshua, Thou wast King' of th' Holy sword:
Was't double edg'd, like God's Victorious word?
711.
Adonib [...]zec [...]ut-off Thumbes and Toes:
Cruelty's Folly! Fear'd hee Kicks and Blows?
712.
Envio [...]s and Bloody Saul! Nothing could winne him.
From his Fierce will: His worst Wireh was within him.
713.
David was Moone; knew Increase, Full and Waine;
Change too yet did in th' Heav'n of Grace remaine.
714.
Solomon's Fame did from his Wisdome rise:
His Wisdome, nay His Folly, makes Us wise.
715.
David cut-off Saul's Skirt: The Ten Tribes doe
Leave Rehoboam but a skirt or Two.
716.
Jehosaphat made Judges: some agree,
The last great 'size shall in his Vally bee.
717.
Sardanapalus did himselfe perplexe:
This Distaffe-King could not himselfe Unsex [...].
718.
To Heav'n sad Ezechia [...]'s prayer goes;
Comes downe in Angel, and Destroys his Foes.
719.
Impious Sennacherib blasphem'd his Maker:
In his shed blood his Sonne with's Sonne's partaker.
720.
Manasses lost a Crowne; The Lot of Many [...]
Againe receives it; scarce the Lot of any!
721.
Josiah was Extremes; All Acclamation,
His Passover! His Death, All Lamentation!
722.
High Nebucha Inezzar a God began
To Act: God made him Beast, to make him Man.
723.
Wine in God's bowles Belshazzar quaff'd in Flout:
That night by th' Enimie's Sword His Blood flow'd-out.
724.
After Long Glory and its strong delusion,
Th' Assyrian Felt and Saw his Owne Confusion.
725.
The Mede th' Assyrians Spoild; Persians the Mede:
Captiv'd in Sinne, Sinners thus sinners lead.
726.
Cyrus decreed God's Temple's Reparation:
Happy it was, if 't was his Owne Foundation.
727.
A King and No King? Riddle, shall wee say?
By Esther's hand thus Mordecha [...] did sway
728.
Happy Assuerus whiles with Esther join'd:
Was't Jew and Gentile in one Christ refin'd?
729.
Was Persia's Glory in Darius Ended?
By his rare Patience was it not Extended?
730.
Darius's Mother, Daughter, Wife (Love-snares)
Were Alexander's Captives; Not Hee Theirs?
731.
Swift Alexander's Land-flood! Such his Sway
That his owne Fiercenesse swept him soone away.
732.
Was Alexander more then To [...]le and Sinne?
Vexing Desires, in Greatnesse, still Beginne.
733.
Great Alexander Living is the Great:
His Death, of Him and His was the Defeate.
734.
Abusive pow'r Callisthenes Defac'd:
Proud Alexander Himselfe most disgrac'd.
735.
The Macedonian built his Horse a Tombe:
A poison'd Hoose provided Him Like roome.
736.
The Macedonian Lost the Asian Throne:
His Kin soone Lost, or never Got, their Owne.
737.
Who gripes too much casts all upon the ground:
Too great a Greatnesse Greatnesse does confound.
738.
In Alexander's Wife 's and 's Children's blood
Cassander's slipp'ry Throne no long time stood.
739.
In th' East the Grecian's Pride first Rais'd its Crest:
Perseus captiv'd by Rome droop'd in the West.
740.
Scripture is Library: Aegypt, thy King
Ptolemy Philadelph Thee Both did bring.
741.
Seem'd Pompey Rome's Head? Aegypt was Rome's store;
When Pompey left his Coarse on Aegypt's shoare.
742.
Antony was devour'd by Aegypt's guile:
Faire Cleopatra was the Crocodile!
743.
Anthiochus the Great, Fortune's shrine saigne
Would spoile: By Fortune was't? There hee was slaine!
744.
Antiochus the Mad, God's Temple spoild:
Was plag [...]'d; Griev'd; Died: 't was Gaine to bee thus soild.
745.
The Macchabies, Apocryhal in Story,
The World strives yet to Canonize in Glory.
746.
Mithridate forty years a warre maintaind
With Rome: Hee Fought; hee Liv'd not; much lesse Raign'd▪
747.
Mithridate slew Wife, Mother, Child; Remorse
Knew not! Some Wives, Hee Nature did Devores!
748.
Rome was Tigranes his last Overthrow:
Active Tigranes was his Owne First Foe.
749.
Herod, though Foxe, more Crafty was, then Wise:
Hee's Foole, that acts crimes before Publique eyes.
750.
Caesar was Warre: Augustus Peace: Impure
Tiberius was; Caligula past Cure.
751.
Claudius was Dotard; Nero beastly Mad:
Galba stale; Otho Trimme; Vitellius, Swad.
752.
Vespasian's Shrewd, and Base: Titus more Good
Then Bad: Domitian is Pride, Lust and Blood!
753.
Nerva's a Snuffe, that in the Socket blazes:
And soone gooes-out, whiles the Eye upon it gazes.
754.
From Spaine to th' Indies Trajan did prevaile:
Of Christ and th' Indies Trajan yet did faile.
755.
Adrian was Mercury; a Mixture strange
Of Vice and Vertue; Of Great Art and Change!
756.
Once Alexander could Diogenes bee:
Antonine, King and Stoique was in Thee.
757.
Severus might amongst the Best shine bright.
But that hee was th' Eclipse of his Owne Light.
758.
Who does not Commodus and Bassian Loath?
Heliogabalus was Himselfe and Both!
759.
The Persian state Alexander O'rethrew:
Rome's Alexander did Himselfe subdue.
760.
Valerian Christians vex'd: Sapores flayd him!
How Cruelty helpes Justice? They Repaid him!
761.
Aurelian from Zenobia wonne some fame:
Zenobia's Worth did the fierce Conquerer came.
762.
Great Constantine thou wast the Spirits of Wine:
Thou gav'st the World Tincture, or Tast, Divine.
763.
Julian revolts from Christ: yet can not start
From Death: was not Apostasy the Dart?
764.
Though Theodosius Raged, his Happy Shame
Prov'd, Holy Ambrose, His and Thy true Fame.
765.
Attila's Pride and Futy did decline
At once: Hee Liv'd in Blood, and Died in Wine!
766.
Depos'd Glycerius is, by Nepos's Will,
Made Prelate; Had hee seeming Empire still?
767.
A [...]gustulus his Name was like his Throne:
A little Caesar First; then Quickly None.
768.
[...]ustinian gave Constantinople Law:
But Belisarius's Sword the World did Awe.
769.
[...]ustinian, Belisarius hast Conremn'd?
Hee was thy pris'ner: Thou 't is art Condemn'd.
770.
Many Warres caus'd Ravenna's Exarchate:
Too many made Two hundred years its Date.
771.
Mauritius Captive blood would not redeeme;
That shed; his owne did find as much esteeme.
772.
Charles the Great his battles did record
In blood: Hee writ them with the Spirit of Sword!
773.
The Grecian Empire Constantine begunne:
And in a Constantine shall 't bee undonne?
774.
Otho the Great did stoutly quell his foes:
This Double Caesar did a Pope depose!
775.
Hildebrand did Henry the Fourth debase:
But sweet Revenge Raptur'd him from disgrace!
776.
Saladine to his grave bid his friends bear
His spoiles of th' East, his Shirt upon a speare!
777.
For Seav'nty years Rome to Avignon fled:
There Rome was, where Clemens the Fist, its Head.
778.
Queen Joane of Naples so did act her Life,
Shee seem'd as much an Hostesse, as a Wife.
779.
England's Fist Henry was a Sunne too soone
Remov'd: Heav'n's Sunne's lesse strange: Ours set at Noone
780.
Zisca Alive his foes by Fight O'recome:
When Dead, hee'd Conquer with his Skin made Drumme.
781.
Five hundred thousand warriours fight with rage▪
Yet Bajazet can't scape Tamerlan's Cage!
782.
Columbus was by his brave Spirit so hurl'd,
Hee seem'd the Sea-Apostle of the World.
783.
Ferdinand from the Moores wonne his Owne Spaine;
From th' Indians, Gold: from Him They Heav'n should gaine.
784.
Charles the Fist scorn'd Glory, Pleasure, Pelse:
Turn'd Court-Monke and the Emp'rour of Himselfe.
785.
Henry of Portugal's Old Age was Spring:
Hee Liv'd a Cardinal, and Died a King!
786.
Henry, Our Eight, few Painters have well made:
Some give him too much Light, some too much shade▪
787.
Our English Mary in wrong Zeale's Desire,
Poore Christians Burnd: The Counsaile was the Fire▪
788.
Elizabeth was Temper'd to Inherit
Her Grandsire's Wisdome, and her Father's Spirit.
789.
Scotland's Faire Mary Vext in Life and Story,
England has yet unridled to her Glory.
790.
Drake in New Albion might a Crowne have worne;
Wisely Denied: Though't was not made of Thorne!
791.
When Truth, Peace, Justice, Mercy, Arts, did flourish,
Not Henry, but James Beau-Clerke did them nourish.
792.
Charles the First, the First his people's Martyr!
A Saint was Too, by right of th' Holy Charter!
793.
The Body strikes-off its Owne Head! Strange deed!
The Head Cut-off, the Body Too Must bleed.
794.
King of Rare Lott and Vertue, Charl's the First!
The Best of Men! Judg'd, by the Worst, the Worst!
795.
Beheaded England, strange shall bee Thy Story:
Revive in thy New Charl's, to a New Glory!
796.
Our High-Noone Starre, Charles the Second, Shines!
'T is blest Successe, when Heaven with Earth Combines!
797.
With Glitt'ring Swords, yet without shedding blood,
See, Our Great Britan Comes! 'Tis Charles, the Good.
798.
Yorke wing'd with Lightning, in a full carriere
Flies-on, and respites not his Foe to Fear!
799.
Kind Glo'ster seing Charles Blest 'midst just Desires;
To Heav'n, whence his Owne Graces came, Reti'res,
800.
Kings Choose their friends: But Charles is such Delight.
Hee is the Heav'n's and England's Favorite!
BOOK IX. OF Polititians.
801.
PAint mee a Polititian with right foote
Tip-toed, and Slily aiming for a shoote.
802.
Your Politique, that will bee held most quaint,
Must seeme, nay bee Beleev'd to bee a Saint.
803.
Nimrod had Art, before he had great Pow'r:
Hee built Himselfe, before hee built his Tow't.
804.
Semiramis her Sexe and Plot did Hide:
Scarce could shee els th' Assyrian Empire guide.
805.
Nature taught Jacob Policy: by which
Hee made his Flock, and Him his Flock made Rich.
806.
Shechem had Craft; but that on Lust Heav'n Low'rs:
Let's Marry; then all Jacob's Wealth is Ours.
807.
[...]f any a Shee-Politique would paint,
[...]otiphar's Wise is Copy for such Saint.
808.
The Midwives obtaine mercy, whiles they Muse,
Their Mercy to the Hebrew Babes t' Excuse.
809.
Rahab on the house-top hid Israels spies:
Heav'n saw't; though 't had not been so neere the Skies.
810.
[...]ael's sharpe Naile through Sisera's Temples went:
[...]t was the surest naile in Ja [...]l [...] ten [...].
811.
Abimelech his seav'nty brethren kill'd:
By soulnesse of his plot, his Plot hee spill'd.
812.
Absalon's Rage was more; Sampson's more fit:
Both did fire Corne: but Sampson with Foxe-wit.
813.
Philistines th' Israelite no Smith afford:
Heav'n's plot! The Fooles doe fall by their Own sword!
814.
Michal helpes David's flight, faigning him saint:
Choise Wit! That makes an Image save a Saint!
815.
Seemes David Mad? Feare 's Madnesse: the Abuse
Of Sanctity and Reason needs Excuse.
816.
David's friends scape in a well O'respread with Meale:
Them, not the Woman's Wit, it did conceale.
817.
Achitophel did hang himselfe; Wee 'll tell
But Truth too; Hushai hang'd Achitophel.
818.
Had faire Bathsheba ne're been Too much seen,
Faire though shee were, shee ne're had been a Queen.
819.
Bathsheba's shape was her First Wit: That Wit
Court-taught, in David's Throne made Solomon sit.
820.
A Crown to Jeroboam's a strange thing;
That would adore a Calse to bee a King.
821.
Proud Athalia a King's Wife had been:
Rule shee will still: Shee 'll Live or Die a Queen.
822.
By Night the Mede did Baltasar beset:
By Night hee sees, that can a Kingdome get.
823.
Romulus gives Rome Bulke; Numa a Mind:
Yet, though his Wit sees, his Devotion's Blind.
824.
Hannibal to his Gods Rome's Empire vows:
Revenge for Sacrifice Heav'n n'ere allows.
825.
Hannibal's Vow would have fierce Vengeance throwne
Upon Rome's head: it Falls upon his Owne.
826.
Old Masinissa's Wisdome's his best Pow'r:
[...]ee leagues with Rome; Rome els would all devoure.
827.
[...]ugurth's Trust in a Father-in-law O're-sways him:
[...]y Treachery, not Wit, Bocchus betrays him.
828.
[...]ubtle, Stout, treacherous Jugurth, who can purge?
Who can scape God? The Roman was his scourdge.
829.
[...]ertorius's Sword and Wit durst try to doe
[...]s much as Romulus and Numa too.
830.
[...]ome greedy Swine will kill their Yong: Is 't true?
[...]erod his Children kill'd: was This Hog Jew?
831.
Sejanus, thy Tiberius was as Quick,
As Old: at last hee Show'd his Master-Tricke.
832.
In Senate, Hopes Sejanus must adorne:
Strange! Hee's Accus'd; Mas'd; Hal'd; in peeces torn!
833.
The Jews kill Christ, to save their state: profound
Wit! But Humane! 'T was That did All confound!
834.
At Once Rome Thirty Tyrants had: This Fits
A Monster: Many Heads! How many Wits?
835.
Shrewd Dioclesian Empire Got: Design'd
Partners! raign'd Long: then Rule and Wit Resign'd.
836.
Ruffinus Guards Arcadius; still to raigne,
Raises the Gothes to warre; His Plot's his Bane.
837.
False Stilico brings down the Goth to Rome:
His Hope's his Throne: His Lot's worse then a Tombe!
838.
Eudoxia her Ambition should exile,
Not Chrysostome, for all his holy toile.
839.
Phocas destroys Mauritius; who does straine
Conscience for Glory, does mistake his gaine!
840.
Phocas by bold Heraclius 's sword does fall:
Great Craft and Pow'r are Much; yet are not All!
841.
France, whiles thy Kings grow slugges, Pipin intrudes:
Keepes Court: the King was but the Moveable Goods!
842.
The Second Sylvester, as fame then ranne,
Seem'd Witch: Indeed a Pope's a cunning Man.
843.
Gregory the Seav'nth many a Pope had made:
At last hee became free of the same trade.
844.
Alexander the Third by th' Painter's worke
Rodolfe betrayd to the Turke! The Pope 's more Turke!
845.
Pope Alexander's Pride on th' Emp'rour trod!
Hee casts contempt on Kings! A Vicar-God?
846.
A foote-stoole-King may make Meere man so stout,
The Swelling Pride may give a Pope the Gout!
847.
Th' Eight Boniface was great, till hee seem'd great:
H' had Wit to get, but not to keep, his Seat.
848.
Laurence de Medices, Judge of Strife unjust,
Did in Himselfe make friends Wisdome and Lust!
849.
Castruccius toild with Conquest to bee great,
Looses his Life and Plots with Cold and Heat!
850.
Sforza a Duke and Traitour calls to his plot
Helpe: His Helpe 's Ruine! Jaile and Shame 's his Lot!
851.
Pope Borgias did a poisned draught designe:
Err'd hee in Faith? Erre hee did in the Wine.
852.
Had Borgias Peter's Key? Mischief of Sinne!
What is 't to Open Heav'n, and not Get-in?
853.
Borgias his Sonne Caesar was sold to Evil:
Proceeding hee took all Degrees of Devil?
854.
Whiles Others Death Proud Caesar Borgias sought
His Pois'nous Plot upon his Owne plot wrought.
855.
Mistaken Borgias by High projects led,
Like Sampson, pull'd the house upon his head.
856.
Macchiavell's working Mind stories compacts
Into new Rules: Bold Judge of sacred Acts!
857.
Were Macchiavell's Prince, Satyre, passe it might
As Florence-Libel; Witty, if not Right.
858.
Macchiavell's Wit nothing but Danger winnes,
If't Undertakes the shame of Others Sinnes.
859.
In sadnesse Macchiavel thou didst not well
To helpe the World to runne faster to Hell!
860.
Who can 't Dissemble, Lewis th' Eleav'nth said,
Can't Live: Craft should not have this Craft betrayd.
861.
What Blood in Paris-slaughter, Guise, did'st spill?
Thy Owne flow'd next: didst thou not teach to kill?
862.
Charles Loraine's Cardinal speeches so fine
Did make, which part hee tooke None could divine!
863.
Such Secrets to the Eye Botero brings,
Hee Audits the Estates of the World's Kings!
864.
Paul the Third and Morone (they so compact)
At Rome and Trent, Volpone and Mosca act.
865.
Rome's conclave's Vulcan's Forge, where make they doe
Invisible nets for Bodies and Soules too.
866.
In th' Orbe of Belgique Spaine see th' Excellence:
Marg'ret was starre; Granville th' intelligence.
867.
Spaine's Second Philip, Master of his Art,
His Wit and Pow'r sometimes seemes to Out-start.
868.
The Indies, Philip, spread not like Thy roabe:
Art thou the New Horizon to the Globe?
869.
How Philip in his Gallery views his Mappes!
Consults! Intents in Mystery hee wrappes!
870.
Escurial's Hammon's Oracle in Sand:
What's wondrous, Philip, does in Desert stand!
871.
Perez flies Philip; Plots shews: reinvited
By Hopes, relents: Abroad's Fear'd; At Home Sleighted.
872.
Philip, Day ends in Night: was Alva Lot,
Or Choise? Neglect of Cales too, was't a blot?
873.
'T was Gondomar's great Aime, nor did hee cease
In Project, to contrive all Christians Peace.
874.
Spalato moves, removes: H' had Time and Scope:
At last hee leaves his Conscience for his Hope.
875.
Strange Campanella would bestow on Spaine
The World: but Hee'd bee Monarch of the Braine.
876.
Rare B [...]ccaline, such Policy th' hast express'd,
That th' hast Out-Macchiavell'd Machiavel in jest.
877.
Paul the Fift by his Venice-strife Was sham'd:
By him his Cardinals, to his Gaine were tam'd.
878.
Ʋrban the Eight in Fear and Wit fell Sicke:
Hopes bandy: Plots appear: Hee's well. A Tricke!
879.
Thrice ten times Barnevelt from Holland went
Embassadour; at last his Head they sent.
880.
The Rhene-Elector lost much by Bavare
His friend: A kinder Cozen is not rare.
881.
Nothing would Walstein but a Crown content:
His Life was but in Hope and Treason spent.
882.
Had not the Empire's Troubles Spaine halfe-maimd,
Richele [...]'s Wit had ne're been halfe so sam'd.
883.
Is Portugal a Cere-cloth on Spaine's side!
To Kill, or Vexe, or Cure, is it applied?
884.
William the First, whom Pride, Craft, Profit Sway'd,
Did England, but his Conscience first, Invade.
885.
Beau-Clerke a Saxon Lady weds: deep Art!
The Head is Norman: Saxon's now the Heart.
886.
Steph'n a Choise Courtier grows King: and wrong'd Maud
Enforc'd Consents: Can forc'd Consent mend fraud?
887.
The Spirits are Blood: Wit moves in finest Spirits:
By wit? by Blood, Steph'n thinks a Crowne hee merits.
888.
D'Or [...]ton, thy Oracle (was Delphian stranger?)
Prompted bad Edward's death: yet thou scap'st danger!
889.
How Craft does in the Close it selfe oft mocke!
M [...]rtimer Great, But Bad, stoopes to the blocke!
890.
Bullingebrooke's made a King: A great Pow'r chose him:
In Death Fear Checks him: would his Fear depose him?
891.
When the Sunne's Hid, yet the Eclipse is seane:
Crooke-back's Deeds Obscur'd Heav'n: yet knowne th' have been.
892.
Morton fear'd his owne Head; yet so well us'd it,
That Buckingham's, and Crooke-backe's Life, excus'd it.
893.
Does Warwick's death our Wisest Henry taxe!
Crownes got by th' sword, are oft kept by the Axe.
894.
Had Wolsey Faults? H' had worth! know Thou Thy Lot:
Hee's Fame! Bee Thou content to bee Forgot.
895.
Gard'ner had Art, Zeale, Rigour, Craft profound:
A Palsy-Priest, that was halfe-sicke, halfe-sound.
896.
Walsingham's Wit, Slander or Ghuesse did say,
Could through a Wall, Letter or Voice conveigh.
897.
Raleigh, had thy brave Spirit been judg'd sincere,
As thy wit Sharpe, th' had'st scap'd both Axe and Fear.
898.
The most swell'd Politique's Vexation's Doubled,
To thinke, His Glory must bee All Unbubled!
899.
The Grief the Subtlest Traitour can't Expel,
Is't This, That hee can find no Crowne in Hell?
900.
Ages to come shall bee Thy Just Adorer.
Truly Wise Albemarle, England's Restorer!
BOOK X. OF Divines.
901.
ALl things are Wonder since the World began:
The World's a Riddle, and the Meaning's Man!
902.
All Men are not Alike: Some can Discerne,
And wisely Teach Truth: Some can only Learne.
903.
Happy the Sheep are, that Enjoy fresh springs:
Happier is Hee, the Sheep that thither Brings.
904.
To make the Sheep the Sheapheard is a Mocke:
A Sheapheard then there must bee, as a Flock.
905.
Wee're Kings and Priests; The King of Heav'n so makes us:
Wee're yet but Kings, as Priests: Man els mistakes us.
906.
Kings wee are in Conscience, Subject but to God:
Not All men yet must scepter't: That were Odd.
907.
Priests Men are heere in their Own Closets; where
All for themselves their Hearts and Hands must reare.
998.
All may not Raigne, neither all Priest it may;
The God of Wisdome has giv'n no such Sway.
909.
To a Kings Counsailes All are not admitted:
By Wisdome and High Favour Men are Fitted.
910.
The Meanest Sheapheard should have Age and Skill:
Els with the Flock it quickly will goe ill.
911.
One Timothy the Gospel once did spread:
But of an Age of Timothies wee ne're read.
912.
A Taske and Honour 't is, but to Refine
The Body: Soules to Cure's a Taske Divine.
913.
A surer Copy of Truth's Worth's not had,
Then by the view of Men some Good, some Bad.
914.
Philo a Jewish Priest Christians Commends:
Shall Christians bee worse Jews to such just friends?
915.
To Moses's Laws Philo would adde a grace:
Indeed hee takes the veile from Moses's face.
916.
Josephus says, that Christ was more then Man;
Rose the Third day: Was Hee not Christian!
917.
Josephus did Vespasian's Raigne foretel,
In Prophesy, or Ghuesse, hee did Excel.
918.
If to th' Apostles, Canons doe belong,
The Question'd Number does the Right ones wrong.
919.
Growth's not the size of Grace: Judge not by th' Eye:
Saint Paul was but fow'r soote and a halfe high.
920.
The Third Heav'n was beheld by Silent Paul:
Saint Denis saw it not: Yet would tell All!
921.
Ignatius's Copies did they Credit need.
Vatican Manuscripts small saith would breed.
922.
Justin Philosophy in Life profess'd:
[...] Martyrdome a better hee Express'd.
923.
Wise Irenaeus soberly acute,
The Valentinian Madnesse did refute.
924.
Though Irenzus Heresy O'rethrew;
In Phansy yet hee Millenary grew.
925.
Tertullian's Mantle is a Mantle, which
Shows his stricte Life; Halse hides his Wit, though Rich.
926.
Tertullian, Thy Prescriptions are a Guide:
Need'st Thou one? Is't from phansy, or from Pride?
927.
Clemens the Alexandrian needs must gaine yee,
With His Choise store; Hee is but One, yet Many.
928.
Minutius Felix is a Purer fire:
Hee's Wit ad Octo: Would hee yet rise higher?
929.
Julius Africanus writ a brief Story
Of a long time: The Worke's Lost, not the Glory.
930.
Origen without Death, by Art began
To bee a Saint; by being not a Man.
931.
A Doubt it may bee, whither Origen writ
With greater Errour, or with greater Wit.
932.
Victor the Pope more Busy was, then Wise:
The Paschal Quarrel hee did Overprise.
933.
To Heav'n from Hell Christ's Way's without Compare:
Magique and Martyrdome, Cyprian's Lot's [...]are!
934.
Fond Manichie; what's Chief, only That's God?
Two Chiefes there are not: what's Supreme, is Odd.
935.
Arnobius does with Learning and much Zeale
Hate [...]gan Rites, if not too much reveale.
936.
Lactantius happy Eloquence displays:
His Doctrine's not so happy, as his Phrase.
937.
Thou Epicycle of the Church Donatus, why
Art not contented with the Common Sky?
938.
Donatus would his Church a new Arke make;
When as 't is Flood, not Arke! A strange Mistake!
939.
The Gyant Arius saigne to Heav'n would Climbe,
To fight with God? Is hee not too Sublime.
940.
'T was Pitty. Arius did Eusebius [...]aint.
Taking the Sonne of God but for a Saint.
941.
A Bishop Athanasius faign'd, whiles under
The Age of Wit: Sport was the Type of Wonder.
942.
Most Christian Athanasius! Rare Projector
Of a stranger same; that was his God's Protector!
943.
The Nice [...] Creed Christ's Godhead does professe:
Were hee a Saviour els? Sure hee were Lesse.
944.
Saint Hilary, who in High Languague rowl'd,
Christian and Bishop's made, when hee is Old.
945.
Of Baptisme could vaine Mac [...]donius boast,
And for a Creature take the Holy Ghost?
946.
Grave, Wise, Sweet Basil, [...] from fo [...]d desires,
Was his Owne Mon [...]st'ry, his Thoughts the Friers.
947.
Nyssene, thy brother Basil might bee same
For both; but Thou too Liv'st by thy Owne Name.
948.
High Nazianzene and sta [...]ing! That 's thy D [...]e.
Harke how it Thunders! And it Lighte [...]s too!
949.
Cyprus, thy Wood does from Corruption sa [...]e;
Thy Ephiph [...]ius from Hor [...]sie's Grave.
950.
Ambrose, upon thy Infant-Lippes Bees sate:
Still on the Hony of thy Lippes All Waite.
951.
Constantinople-Fathers did Inherit
God's Grace, whiles they Profess'd the Holy Spirit [...]
952.
True Musique, Chrysostome, Thou wast: The [...]pheare
Was saign'd: Bee Thou Still Tongue, wee'll still bee Eare
953.
Sharpe Jerom, to whose Critique Skill all seeke,
Tutor'd th' Old Church in [...]a [...]i [...], H [...]brew, Greek.
954.
Great Austin! To bee Good, thou didst not saint:
Thy Youth was Austia: but thy Age was Saint.
955.
Austin, thou Christian Hercules, same did'st winne
From Monsters! Thou stalt weare the Lion's Skinne.
956.
In Britaine first, Pel [...]gius, sawist the Sky?
Wee'll pray two, that in Britains thou maist Die.
957.
Seleucian Basil, like strong fire's thy soule:
Whence still doe mount Sounes of the Burning coule.
958.
Noble Synesius, d [...]licate as the Dove!
Downe's not so So [...]t: as Soft thou are as Love!
959.
Salvian, art Over-righteous? Thy [...]ierce Zeale,
Wee Hope, mistakes: thou would'st, whom thou would Heal [...]
960.
Cyryll his Alexandri [...] did and [...]dorne,
Whiles his Wit on Nest [...]riu [...] [...] just Scorne.
961.
Theodoret from Cyril once dissented:
Hee had not els so lear [...]edly r [...]pented.
962.
Th' Ephesian Fathers did Nestorius quell:
Hee thought Two Persons did in one Christ dwell.
963.
Two persons can't make One: Two natures can
One Person make: Thus is Christ God and Man.
964.
God is not Man; This would Confusion make:
But into God, God did the Manhood take.
965.
Truth and Saint Austin [...]r [...]sper did defend;
A friend hee was to Truth [...] to Truth's friend.
966.
Vincentius Judge of trutly next to the Best [...]
Th' art Sentence, not Discourse: Th' hast all express'd.
967.
Leo unarm'd did turne-back Attila's Sword:
And arm'd with Truth quell'd Heresy wit [...]'s Word.
968.
Christ's Manhood Eu [...]ie [...]th' Absurd denied:
Wee His; if Manhood bee by Reason tried.
969.
Christ if not God, From Sinne Can no man quit:
By being Man, Christ to five Man, is Fitt.
970.
Sidonius his wit, Muse and Honour claime
Like-Right, to blazo [...] his [...] happy Fame.
971.
Chrysologus upon himselfe did try
Practice: His Wit and his Devotion vie.
972.
Fulgentius, thy true: Lustre [...]'ere shall waine;
That didst Christ's Godhead and his Grace Maintaine.
973.
Time's Date from Dioclesian once begunne:
From Christ's Birth Dionysius made it runne.
974.
Job had fow'r Counsailours: but his Fist Friend,
Great Gregory, does on us his Counsaile spend.
975.
Eve, Solomon and Isid [...]re would know
All things: Doe they in Heav'n None Here below.
976.
Poppy-braind Mahomet dream'd a Religion;
H' had need to bragge, sure, of his holy pidgeon!
977.
Peruse the Various Labours of Old Bede;
You'll muse, whither hee did more Write, or Read.
978.
Wrong'd Da [...]ascens did loose his hand [...] betwixt
Errour and Truth he writ: the Man is Mixt.
979.
Photius the Pope of Greece learnedly knowne
By Others Workes, makes Their Workes Halfe his Owne.
980.
Bernard so happily imploi'd his thought,
Hee scarce had time to thinke of what was nought.
981.
Fable and Malice is a Rabbine's Skill;
Their Rites excepted: the Rest th' expresse ill.
982.
Of Jewish Rites Ben-maimon does write true:
Happier Lyranus was a Christian-Jew.
983.
Galily's Glasse would in Heav'n find-out Ground:
In high Aquinos's Wit errour is sound.
984.
Scotus oppos'd Aquinas's Wit; nay more,
Head [...]d a Sect: yet Died at Thirty sow'r.
985.
Many built Bable's Tow'r; but Nim [...]d's Fame:
Other mens Piles so raise T [...]status's Name.
986.
Luther and Calvin Differd and Agreed:
Their Difference has made them both worse speed.
987.
Beza, though Critiques still Thy Taske pursue
Thy Diligence and Copy will bee true.
988.
Montanus in Translating seldome trippes:
Rare Man! In Fear yet the Lord's Prayer hee Clippes,
989.
Bellarmine pleads for Truth with Reasons fit:
Against Truth hee brings Names and Seeming Wit.
990.
Founder of th' Annels, whiles as partial blam'd,
May [...]'t thy worke bee Massa Corrupt [...], Nam'd!
991.
Though Method, Clearnesse, and Compleatnesse, call
Valentia Happy; Hee writ since the Fall.
992.
Vasquez is a deep Pioner; his Vau't
Hee makes with Art: yet sometimes 't is at fau [...]t
993.
[...]arez his Curious Webbe so fine does spinne;
Ar [...] makes it weake; and oft it proves too Thinne.
994.
S [...]cinus would an Archi [...]edes prove:
Stepp'd from the Church, the Church he would remove.
995.
Posa his Creed, Pope and Aquinus sleighted!
In Spaine too! Hee was Over-Jesuited!
996.
Wise Martyr [...], stout Cheminitius, and the Mild
Wh [...]taker, have Sathans Hopes much beguil'd.
997.
Ch [...]ier comes in the Beere: Hee s [...]ornes to yield;
Conquers; and take the full spoile of the field.
998.
Though some, of Earth j' th; Moone, doe vainly tell,
Elect Earth shall in Heav'n for ever dwell.
999.
A Thousand Beauties Solomon injoi'd.
Some will bee with these Thousand Thoughts Imploy'd.
1000.
Father of Gifts, who to the Dust did'st Give
Life, say to these my Meditations, Live.
FINIS.
Emendations.
NUmb. 45. l. 1. r. cold is n. 60. l. 1. r. feares, n. 82. l. 2. r. Nature's Art. n. 119. l. 1. r. shrimp. n. 231. l. 2. r. Bysantium. n. 255. l. 1. r. show'd. n. 265. l. 1. r. Globes. n. 273. l. 1. r. joint-meale. n. 320. l. 1. r. shows. n. 321. l. i. r. twenty-two. n. 439. l. 1. r. instructs. n. 441. l. 1. r. and. n. 470. l. 2. r. it. selfe. n. 483. l. 2. r. what so e're rare. n. 504. l. 2. r. hi [...] skill, n. 506. l. 1. r. Tamely indure n. 590. l. 2. r. Byetius. n. 625. l. 1. r. senators. n. 645. l. 1. r. reare; n. 745. l. 1. r. Apocryphal. n. 786. l. 1. r. eight. n. 819. l. 2. r. Court-taught. n. 876. l. 1. r. Boccaline. n. 886. l. 1. r. Maud. n. 888. l. 1. r. D'Orlton. l. 2. r. scap'dst.