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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68703	Philomythie, or, Philomythologie wherin outlandish birds, beasts, and fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely / by Tho: Scot ...	Scot, Tho. (Thomas), fl. 1605.	1622 (1622)	STC 21871; ESTC S1126	100,451	231

and Cate Vnder the ground and what new plots doe come bie did From hell or from hels Councel-chamber Rome And this and all els his blest hand reueales To his elect and with deliuerance seales Attend his pleasure then first we shall see Rome burne and all with Rome that lynked bee Then the whole world and that fire shall disclose Each truth each falshood and each cause of those Till then these waters doe but wash the slime Of Babel from this too indifferent time These petty fires kindle our loue and zeale Halfe-dead to King the Church cōmon-weale Affliction profits Strike vs Lord in loue Let thy milde hand each way our firme faith proue But let not Babel triumph in our fall Nor any that on Baal or Dag●n call ANTIDOTVM CECILLIANVM DEDICATED To the Common-wealth DEsert hath no true follower after death But En●y others flatter with their breath Jn vaine I sought particular Patrons they When life left greatnesse ran with life away Blood kindred friends forsooke him so 't was ●it We might haue doubted else his worth and wit Their compasse was too narrow to ●ield shade To him that both their rootes and fortu●es made But gentle England since he quiet gaue To thee by his cares giue his corps a graue And since his wisdome did renowne thy name Be thou a Sanctuary to his fame And since he gaue for thee his life and health Giue him protection thankefull Common wealth TO THE HONOVR of the illustrious Familie of the CECILLS deseruing of this Commmon-wealth all the Romane wreaths of triumph The memorable Pyramids of Egypt And all other Trophes of Eternitie AS by one mouer motion doth commence Euen from the Center to circumference So from one good Man many may arise Like-good like-apt like-faithfull and like-wise This now is verified The Cecills are Statesmen in time of p●ace Souldiers in warre Epicedium What needs thy Monument be rais'd What needs the Muses singthy worth What needs thy memory be prais'd Or what needs Art thy fame set forth Let Art time gold the Muse and Men Guild falshood folly ignorance Let them conspire gainst thee and then The more they shall thy worth aduance They worke write raile or praise to please But Truth giues vertue life not these Antidotum Cecillianum THESAVRVS INTVS Darius on a Graue stone found This Epitaph Who digs this ground Shall treasure finde The greedy King Dig'd there but found another thing Within was written Had'st not been A beastly-minded man I ween The harm●lesse bones of the deceast Had in their quiet tombes tane rest Who rips the coffins of the dead Finds same and honour thence are f●ed With life the Subiect of their Ire Stench onely stayes to pay their hire Worth hath his Epicedium sung By enuies shrill and slandrous tongue WHen this rich soule of thine now s●inted kept Her State on earth my humble Mu●● nere stept Out of that sweete content wherein shee dwelt To sing thy worth th' eff●cts wher● of we felt But now since death hath freedome giuen to thee To see thy scorne made others flatterie And that each mouse on the dead Lyon leaps And euery riming ●en forg'd matter heaps On thy bright frame casting their owne base durt Vpon thy honour'd hearse minding more hurt To thee then ` Death or He●● can doe I may And must be bold or sinne this truth to say Each euidence thy foes bring speakes thy praise For what can more thy fame and glory raise Then to be rail'd on by the worst of men● Such as like out-lawes liue not in the ken Of Iustice or communitie Base slaues Whose crimes sins make their own nest their graus T' was meet thy vertues eminent and hie Should not vn-en●ied liue vnslandred dye For then we might haue fear'd thou had●st not been So absolute a man now it is seen Euen by those many shadowes Enu● throwes That thy worth was substantiall and not showes De●rac●ion●s ●s perplext aud f●ies about Ouer a world of Acts to single out Some one or two in thy whole life to scan And proue by the what Death did thou wer't man Yet s●eing that past credit she descends To view thy body and her venom spends Not again●t it but nature which did shroud So great a sunne vnder so small a cloud But we that plainly see men sildome rise Though they be learn'd iudicious daring wise Except the body somewhat ●uites the minde And good cloathes sute the body too are blinde And mad with enuie if we yeeld not thee ●orth aboue thought who to that high degree Rose through the eminent parts of thy blest soule Aboue contempt disgrace scorne or controule Nature did recompence thy want of clay With heauenly fire thy body could not stay Thy acti●e soule heere longer t' was too light A clog to keepe from Hean●n so strong a spright Well might thy body be a soule to those Whose more grosse earthen soules did late compose Blacke libels gainst thy fame and rak'd so low Into thy purged excrements to know What foule disease durst kill thee and then found Many were guilty for it could not sound They thought like truth that one disease slue thee When they hauing all yet scape to Deddick free By this they shew that whatsoe're we thinke They know all these diseases by th' instinck They are familiar with them and of kin To their first causes of being deadly sinne And of the elders house too For the diuell Chiefe libeller formes all degrees of euill And like good boies of his these labour too More then disease or Death or Hell can doe To kill the soule and to bely a fame Which laughes to scorn all scorn shames all shame You that stand next the helme and thinkey're free From their sharpe viperous tongues it cannot be If death comes these Rauens follow and perchance Time fauouring their desires th'eile leade the d●nce And raile at you too T is not you they hate But our blest King Religion and the State And if which God forefend so stood the time Y 'ould see they could do worse then they can rime Now I haue throwne my selfe into the way To meete their rage and if I can to stay Their dog-like malice rather on my head Then suffer it pollute and wrong the dead If they alledge I giue him more then due You know their custome they cannot speake true But if they say I gaue him lesse their spite Shewes neither I nor they can do him right Antidotum Cecillianum OPPORTVNE TIBI IN TEMPESTIVE NOBIS The Sunne past by degrees those signes Which to his sotherne seate inclines And now in Leo sate aloft The s●eating labourer bans him ost The Shepheard melts and ore the Plaine His new shorne-sheepe seeke shades in vaine The Marchant Sea man euery T●ade They say by him are Banckrupt made He heares it and at height of noone Hides his bright beames behinde the Moone They sadly know that d●th presage Dearth death

all other passages ●There bee few scraping fathe●s but their children proue witty scatterers or foolish retainers experience of many ages scarce produce one contradiction to this generall obseruation The father vs●th no more diligence in damning his soule by getting goods vnlawfully then the sonne doth in sp●nding them prodigally Let this therefore learne Vsurers Ingrossers and Oppressors of all professions if they loue their wealth and would not haue it wasted or loue their children and would not haue them vndone to secure their estates rather from their children then for them It is not the want but the enioying of aboundance that vndoes many men The rich father who dares bestow nothing on himselfe and the prodigall sonne that spends all on others and keepes nothing for himselfe are the miserablest beggers in the world Others haue pitty and prouision to helpe them t●ese nothing but derision and scorne No Hospitall will entertaine them only the father finds roome in Bedlame and the sonne a hole in the Counter or a dungeon in Newgate ONOCROTALVS DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT hopefull KNIGHT Sir THOMAS SOVTHVVELL YOur name hath long been mist now fairely rise And make your Country flourish All our eyes Are cast vpon your actions then on vs Reflect your loue Shun Onocrotalus VVHilome within the Persian gulfe did haunt A fowle much like our greedy Cormorant Cal'd Onocrotalus who vsde to prey On fish or fowle or beast which past his way He had a crop vnder his bosome wide In compasse like a sacke and thereto side Much harme and spoile he did for none could passe But fild his pouch if bird beast fish it was At length th' oppressed birds with fish and beast Petition to their Soueraignes and request Aide and protection gainst the open wrong This tyrant daily did and had done long The beasts vnto the Lyon made complaint Birds to the Eagle Fishes did acquaint The Seas great Emperour the Whale with griefe They all sustain'd and all implor'd reliefe Long was it ere they could be heard for still The Cormorant for so we call him will Had many friends in euery Court which he Maintainde with large shares and full liberall fee. For still his gorge full laden ready stood And when they mist else-where they here had food Food of each kinde for euery stomacke fit And such as fauorites were had part of it Long thus he put them off yet at the last By counter-bribes their weake petitions past The Eagle first did seeke him and he found The theefe where he would wish vpon the ground Quoth he well met are you the fowle that prey Vpon our harmlesse subiects night and day That none can this way passe and vse his trade But is a subiect to your fury made Not I sir quoth the Cormorant I am one That liue in contemplation all alone This poke I begge with to sustaine my need And I no fowle am but a beast indeed Quoth then the Eagle wherefore serue thy wing O quoth the Cormorant thou mighty king Of feathered fowles these two are my forefeet Held vp to honor thee with reuerence meete And that thou maist be full resolu'd and know That I vnto the Lyon duty owe As subiects to their Soueraignes not to thee Without thou wilt vsurpe authoritie And into other neighbour Realmes incroch Which to thy Iustice were a fowle reproch Heare but my voice With that he steps aside And in the water thrusts his wezand wide And like an Asse gan bray The Eagle straight Hearing his voice suspected no deceit But p●●● away to seeke what now he saw When the late noyse he made did thither draw The kingly Lyon who did hunt about As th' other did to finde th' oppressor out And when he spide him What art thou quoth he The beast gainst whom so many plaine to me O noble Lyon quoth the Cormorant I am a fish the water still I hant And here I take my food and lead my life Free from oppression and each cause of strife Why quoth the Lyon now I heard thee bray Like to an Asse True True my Lord ye say Quoth this smooth hypocrite for I would faine Be like an Asse so innocent and plaine I loue beasts well and next your excellence The humble Asse for still his patience And now to put your highnesse out of doubt Behold me swimme and diue so launcht he out Far from the Lyons reach If beasts quoth he Can swimme and diue thus I a beast may be With that he diues saying Sir fare you well Your faire commends to the King Whale I 'le tell The Lyon parted thence the Whale that way Had sought this Monster all the liue-long day And seeing such an vn●outh thing glide past Within his Kingdome with such nimble hast He call'd and bad him stay and will'd him tell If he were Onocrotalus that fell And cruell murtherer who hauocke made Of all that in that wealthy Rode did trade O mighty Emperour aloud he cri'de I hardly scap't euen now his cursed pride For being by my noble Master sent The Eagle King of fowles you to present With birds and other iunkets in my crop He needs would me from your glad presence stop And but he heard you comming I surmise His lawlesse force had made me lawfull prize Quoth then the Whale I search to meete that slaue But what art thou that canst so well behaue Thy tayle and nimble fins Art not a fish That I were such quoth he it is my wish I like thy milder reigne where subiects say For loue and not for dread they thee obey And would arm'd in white scales if I might choose Serue thee a fish and my blacke feathers loose But Nature this forbids yet still I striue Euen from my youth fish-like to swim and diue And vnderstand their language and conuerse With them whose ciuill manners are lesse fierce Then beasts or birds be For they drinke far more And eat much lesse then we doe on the shore This drinking I delight in and haue tride By all good meanes to make my belly wide Yet see I am a fowle So vp he hies And takes his wings with speede and far thence flies The Whal● then found his cunning and straight sent A priuy letter of his close intent Both to the Eagle and the Lyon stout To meet and ioyne and finde this Out-law out They met and ioynd and then this Out-law found Nor in the Sea nor yet vpon the ground Nor flying in the aire but in a hold A hollow tree whose strength made braggard bold They spoke him faire but he discerned plaine Their drift and cride● Faire words make Idiots faine They threatned him but threats he doth deride And saith by threatning words none euer dyde The Eagle would haue ventred on his neast But he his bill held right vpon his breast Like a stiffe souldi●rs pike sharpe long and armd And no way but right downe he could be harmd The Lyo● would haue torne with teeth