Tećhnepolimogamia: or, The marriage of armes and arts, July 12. 1651. Being an accompt of the act at Oxon. to a friend. / By R. W.

Tećhnepolimogamia: or, The marriage of armes and arts, July 12. 1651. Being an accompt of the act at Oxon. to a friend. / By R. W.

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Title page

Authori Malè feriato quae sequuntur.

Τέξνη-πολομαγαμία: OR, The Marriage of Arms and Arts, &c.

SONG.

CHORUS.

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ΤΈΞΝΗ-ΠΟΛΙΓΑΜΊΑ: OR, THE MARRIAGE OF ARMES and ARTS, JULY 12. 1651.

Being an Accompt of the ACT at OXON. to a Friend.

By R. W.

Quae sequitur manca est numero sensu (que) Propago.

ACADEMIA ◆ OXONIENSIS ◆

LONDON, Printed by J. G. for R. Royston, at the Angel in Ivie-lane. 1651.

Authori Malè feriato quae sequuntur.

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SArcinulam hanc quicunque vides, digitoque flagellas,

Si vis Vulcano mittere, quin & emis?

Ut cineres volutent, (sursum leve) at anguis in urnâ,

Qui Te (si Tu nos) sibilet, Ardelio.

Pone supercilium, leget haec Nemo Hercule? Nemo?

Cedo aurem;—effectum des, & is [...] eris:

Si subitos casus vel adhuc damnaveris, audi,—

Scire Tuum nihil est, dicito scire meum.

Τέξνη-πολομαγαμία: OR, The Marriage of Arms and Arts, &c.

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NOw! are ye not all Infidels that thought

The long-expected Act would come to nought?

As if Mars still were Heathen, had to doe

With Venus, and not with Minerva too:

As if such termes as these were opposite,

The Sword and th' Word, Attlas and th' Stagirite;

Termes meerly Identicall, by Grammer Law,

S [...] suae Protestatis littera;

So Ars and Mars by an Aphaeresis

Become the very same, (shake hands and kisse;)

As if the Gowne were aw'd by the Commander

Or Aristotle at odds with Alexander;

As if the Snake about the knowledge Tree

Still had his Sting, still his Malignity.

Arts now and Armes United, their Protector

Is no fictitious George, but Reall Hector.

In him old Authors all doe acquiesce

(Unlesse Don Scotus be againe i'th' presse)

But Zanchius, Dan Sennert: and all the Maps

May chink within their Chaine nor feare Mishaps;

Euclid was never in esteeme more high

Since

Luc. Flo. li. 1.

Romulus began to fortifie;

When he (the Proto-Leveller) had thrown

(Impregnable!) three mole-hills into one.

But misty Scotus speaks as far from True

As Bonnet from Square-caps, as Black from Blew;

Or Case from Fiddle, as a Groome or Page

From high and Mighty Bajasets i'th' Cage.

Hee's knotty and obscure, (so fare him well)

An other speaks more in a syllable;

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It could not sink of late into our thoughts

Will: Cartwright would goe off for 13. groats;

Since whom 'twas blaz'd that Pegasus was dead

O'th' staggers, or a Dyzinesse i'th' Head,

But since his hoofe was pick't and par'd, 'tis found,

He sets his foot more firmely on the ground.

Judgements the Traytor, Phant'sie is allow'd,

Shees above all, but never in a Clowd;

Or if she be obfuscate, Phoebus will

Enlighten her, and sometimes guide the Quill;

But where the Clowd upon the Brow appeares,

The Bitten Lipp, the blewnesse of the Eares;

Starting and gazing North in stead of East,

These are the Characters, beware the beast.

But Poets, (poore May blossomes) know not how

To be disloyall, or to knit the Brow;

If they offend 'tis on some pleasing theames

(I hope no arraigning Phantsie for her Dreams,)

They never hold up hands but when they see

Lex Talionis, or some Prodigie:

They have no Iron-mittons, socks indeed

Or Buskins they can lend you for a need;

But heer's no Rollo, no pale Ʋmbra— No,

Others have had too much of that, and so

This leads me to the Act, where doth appeare

A Jubile in th' one and fiftieth yeare.

Roome then; but yet no Amphitheater

(The Caledonian Bore may fight elsewhere;)

No Captaine Otto with Bull Beare and Horse,

Or what may fright the female gender worse:

No Melancholly scene of Dumpish Love

Brought in a Maze, or Cupid from above:

No Porcupine, no Dancing on the Rope,

No nipping Cardinall, or cramping Pope:

No Roscius, no Taylor on the stage,

No Cane, nor Timothy (to please the Page)

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Though none of these, though playes are out of date

And exits formidable grown of late;

Though neither Mimick fond, nor satyr rough

To make the Maddam leave behind her Muff;

Yet somewhat was presented by the Arts

Of higher Nature, and as many

[...].

Parts

Besides Trojani Ludi and Florales,

And (to prevent ill luck)

Liv. li. 5. Dec. 3

Apollinares;

And you'l confesse this Rolling eye so cleare,

More spectacles had beene Pleonasmes here.

Now for a stand 5. crownes,—the Devill is

O're Lincolne—Brazen nose is not amisse;

Jove's

Semele.

Phaenix, and our Brother Phaeton

Forbid too neer approaches to the Sun.

Break out the worlds bright Eye! see how they muster

Like Autumne grapes in one entire Ripe Cluster!

Their full-fraught Sable Gownes so large and wide

Demonstrate they can Sayle 'gainst winde and Tide.

Thus Zephyrus brings his offering, that the sweat

Of either fex added to July's heat

(Corrected) might such Atoms get, such Men,

(By Plato's rule) as Oedipus agen.

Wee'l side with him in this, (nor care who know it)

So hee'l allow the Common-wealth a Poet.

(The Musick-Lecturer if he had put on

All his Platonick Ladies, they had got one.)

Those Vestall Virgins that came up to light

Their fire extinct at Phoebus ere 'twas night,

Here I could break Times hower-glasse that run

The day away before it was begun.

Some say, Sol took fresh horses that could fly,

And that he borrow'd two of

The Oxford Carrier.

Edgerly:

When shining in his face, he got's good will,

(And then young Hercules he call'd him still)

And told him if deny'd, he'd make him passe

For th' Sarazan through a Multiplying-glasse:

And so, by consequence, against his will,

Be th'

The Sarazans head his Inne.

Signe and Carrier too upon Snow-hill.

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Help here ye water-Nymphs, and give a word

With glosse enough to set out Oxen-ford;

Would I were now i'th' sell with Timon, he

Once out of Athens had his Privacy;

But O the Dinne! now-now-that Rampant hum

Has put me cleane by an Exordium;

Where shall I now begin, or rally up

The scattered nine, unlesse I had a Cup

Of Helicon—'tis so—well thought upon,

Ile steal to Aristotles Well alone,

And find 'um there—hold, Father—Ile ha'none,

—No Suger—keepe the horne to for—

—A Synagogue here to!—would I were i'th' stocks

At Heddenton, for here my Tinder-box

Is not a place secure enough to keepe

Its anxious Master from the vulgar peepe.

This Act—(I'le rest my Grandsiers bones if I

Am not distracted into Drollery,

And know not how to help it) I say this Act

Was well perform'd de Jure and de fact;

No Muse assizes here, (nequam eget)

Hark! th' Eccho prompts the Malefactor, Legit.

Here's Munus, but no Bustuarii, (Tricks,

O'th' Romans that would fight th' condemn'd to Styx)

By Inspiration of this very place

He finds his Neck-verse, and an Act of Grace.

Free grace (as some will have it) but the wise

Allow (though not o'th' Ropes) yet Exercise.

And such there was i'th' Roman Idiom

(Yet Barklays style) that all was hush and Mum.

And (as 'tis fam'd of Jupiter) their Eare

Chain'd up to Terrae filius his Chaire.

(Besides some subtle questians pro and con

Encouragement for youth to bring it on)

Sarcasmes fly about, and now they itch

Till Terrae filius give the Chain a Twitch,

And then they rayle at Barkley, say he gott

Philoclea with child, and was a Scott.

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Which to define aright (they were so bold)

They said he was a lowse of nine yeares old.

But this was Taylers talke, (to right our Mother)

I mean not Water-Iohn, nor yet that other,

Not [...], but by Profession

(Of these in each new pocket there was one)

These make not

Ipsa Deûm fertur genetrix Berecynthia. Virgil.

Berecynthia's Wedding-Gowne,

Shee'l have the Make and Spinning of her owne,

Not loose, as ready still to fall to th' ground,

Nor yet o'th' newest fashion, pinion'd;

But in the middle way (the Golden Rule

Of Mediocrity is in her Schoole)

And yet by one of her seven Sons she hopes

To have it lin'd with Bayes, and set with Tropes.

Now Orpheus Junior mounts, (begin the Dance)

The Ladies please themselves into a Trance.

To Cato's brood he whispers in their eare,

That th' scornfull Lady is forbidden here,

Who with her queamish stomach cryes—amisse,

Because (forsooth) she would get out—

It works, it works; which to prevent, while he

Division runs, they crosse-legg'd Lo: La: Mi:

Like Randall's meeke

A. B. [...]. i'th' Muses Looking glasse.

Aorgus—O for him

To help me out with matter fill'd to th' brim.

Look how the Swallowes, darting to and fro

St. Maries, imitate the Roman

Lucky.

Crow:

And the Suns bright flame-colour'd beames that come

Upon the Prophets heads, the

A yellow veil used in the Roman Nuptials.

Flammeum.

The Rostrum, and Subsellia, and Men

Speak Marcus Cicero alive agen:

But that the Judges by their smiles portend

Here was no Catiline that did offend.

Who then forbids the Nuptials of the Nine?

Duke Humphrey ne'r afforded better Wine:

A pittance too of

Nepotia▪

Venison to th' Sack,

Enough to prove us sons of Isaac.

The Musick-men will sit and nod all night,

And keep time with their heads till it be light.

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Nay one of them, I heard him tell his fellowes,

Would play to please us, though upon the Gallowes.

Some say Sir Thomas Bodly through a cleft

Of our old dry Nurse (Earth) lookt up, and left

This testimony, that if he were sent

Hither againe, he never would repent.

Who then forbids the Banes? Speak, Shadow, say;

(And vanish) was it not a glorious day?

If nothing be objected, right or wrong,

Wee'l celebrate these Nuptials with a Song.

SONG.

OFF with thy Gauntlet, Mars, and yeeld

The Bucklers, and resigne thy shield,

The Muses judged it fit:

Not to deprive thee of thy right,

But they desire to scowre 'em bright

That on Parnassus sit.

See how the Book expanded lies,

With Wisdome put before our eyes,

And after-happinesse;

The University Arms.

A Crowne for a reward is set

In Gold, as th' letters are in Jett

That never knew the Presse.

Philosophers shall study more

For th' hidden Stone than heretofore,

And Alcumists blow faster:

And when poore

B. J. his Alcumist.

Lungs is worne away,

'Twill be enough for him to say

He did it for his Master.

CHORUS.

Then feare we not those

With Rhinoceros Nose,

Nor the venemous tooth to bite us;

Let us dance out the Rushes

In spite of their Tushes,

For the Goddesses all will right us.

Then let Flora bring Roses,

To make us all Poses,

Sing Talassio, Caius, and Caia;

Let none dare to grin

Till the Dog-dayes begin,

Nor yet stamp, for the Muses will pay-a.

Juno, Diana, Suadula, Venus, Jove,

Crowne what is acted here below, above.

THE END.

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Tećhnepolimogamia: or, The marriage of armes and arts, July 12. 1651. Being an accompt of the act at Oxon. to a friend. / By R. W.

Whitehall, Robert, 1625-1685.

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— Tećhnepolimogamia: or, The marriage of armes and arts, July 12. 1651. Being an accompt of the act at Oxon. to a friend. / By R. W., Whitehall, Robert, 1625-1685..

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Printed by J.G. for R. Royston, at the Angel in Ivie-lane,. London :: 1651.. (R.W. = Robert Whitehall.) (In verse.) (Signatures: A⁴.) (The first word of the title is transliterated from the Greek.) (Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 16th".) (Identified as Wing W79 on UMI microfilm set "Early English Books, 1641-1700" reel 1940.) (Reproductions of the originals in the British Library (Thomason Tracts) and the Bodleian Library, Oxford ("Early English Books, 1641-1700" reel 1940.)

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