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Vicissitudo rerum An elegiacall poeme, of the interchangeable courses and varietie of things in this world. The first part.
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Norden, John, 1548-1625?
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Elements distributed As may be thought in true proportion And bodies feele them not distempered Fit lineaments and due coniunction There will in fine be yet confusion For what so is compact of contraries By combates fall to mortall maladyes 108. Then is it seene that earth and earthly things Conserued long by Heauens influence And Elements the foure pretended kings That keepe all creatures in obedience Although they haue most due ingredience Their discord seeming most sweete concordance In fine they perish by distemperance 109. Now let vs see the earth and all her parts Her places and her strange diuersities And how the Heauens aspects are found by arts To worke in men and things antipathyes Or by consent of Clymats simpathies How plants and fruites how birds and fishes fare That all throughout this orbe dispersed are 110. The Heauens and earth diuided by the Zones Appeare to haue fiue fit partitions Two cold one hote and two temperate ones Some seeke to proue by strong assertions The cold and hote of these diuisions Were not nor may at all bee habited Two onely are that are well tempered 111. The Zones they say beneath the poles are cold And so exceede in that extreame they kill The creatures that in them doe couet hold The middle Zone neath Equinoxe as ill That burnes the creatures subiect to her will And onely two that lie on either side Do foster men and creatures vndenide 112. Yet is it found by due experience That all haue people and commodious things And Natures might and sweete beneficence So swayes the Clymats and such issue brings Vnto this orbe of earth and earthly things As all her parts and limits are beset With men and fruite that Nature daignes to get 113. Yea in the North vnder the coldest clime Dwell sundrie people and great Nations Long since and some found in this latter time Diuers in tongues and habitations In Lawes Religions and in fashions And though the cold ingender Ice and Snow Men trauaile traffick plant warre ayre and sow 114. As they that dwell in Lythuania Lyuonia Sweden and Estoteland Perima Condora Noua Zembla In Norway Muscouia and Finland In Iseland Freysland and in Lappen-land These and farre more lie in Septentrion Though a distempered and cold Region 115. Yet when the Sunne brings to them wished light And thawes the waters erst congeal'd with cold Then doth retire their long and wearie night And fruits and plants and trees them then vnfold And make the earth more sweeter to behold And men that erst in couert caues did dwell Like winter sleepers rouze them from their cell 116. For as all Regions are found to lie On th' one or th'otherside th' equator line Their distance farre or their propinquitie Doe shew how much or little they decline Which doth the length of nights and dayes define And as the Sunne comes neere the dayes doe grow And as shee passeth from the nights doe so 117. The limites that do bound the world about Are South and North East and West opposited The first two firme and stable seeme throughout Two last moue as Sunne comes low or hight'ned In the Zodiacke and signes obliqued Which makes the East and West to alter so Some hold as Sunne is seene to come and go 118. And though the countreyes in extremities Of hot and cold seeme much distempered They yeeld of precious things varieties Wherewith all other parts are plenished For Nature sweetely hath distributed Her friendly fruites to all that all may see That good and great and full of fruites is she 119. She hath ordain'd the Indies of the East With Pearle of price with stoâ—â—es of highest deeme The Emerald the Ruby and the rest Which potent Princes hold in such esteeme As in respect the purest gold doth seeme More base then these yet these more base then it Tride by the Test the Quintessence of Wit 120. Thence comes the Elephant a beast of might Of maiestie and humane courtesie And the Rinoceros with vertues dight Whose bloud bones flesh and skin haue secrecie As Phisicke rules hold most salutarie There is also the loftie Palme a tree That beares a fruit whereof good wine may bee 121. And thence the silke high Honours ornament Or rather Sirick comes from Sirrick steede In great esteeme yet but wormes excrement That liues and dyes and dying leaues a seede That dieth not but of it other breede High Peeres beholden to this silly beast Deck them with that which it esteemeth least 122. Arabia South not of lesse consequence Yeeldes forth her talent sable Ibony Finest Cottons Mirrhe and sweetest incense And Iewrie which of yore had dignitie Affords the loftie Cedar and sweete Balsamy So much imbraced for her vertues might In healing hurts of wounded men in fight 123. Moluccaes in the farthest part of West Yeelds Pepper Cloues Mace Cinamon and spice Ginger Nutmegs and Phisick drugs the best Yea from the South comes many things of price Else where are found by nauticke arts deuice Sweete Ciuet and the finest Cassia That Marchants bring from Aethiopia 124. In Callicute the ayre most temperate The countrey neuer touch'd with pest All trees and plants are still in greene estate Yeelding each month new fruites then in request Fayre sweete and pleasant diuers yet in test Which eke doe differ from all other frutes In colour forme and in their diuers sutes 125. In Syria where stood fayre Paradise As antique writers doe the place assigne About Damascus Natures benedice Appeares in corne in flesh in fruit in wine Quinces Pomegranets and fruits of that line Oliues and Almonds and the fragrant Rose Sing sundrie prayses by their sweete disclose 126. But contrarie this blessing is deni'de To many people fell and barbarous To them that in Tartara abide And in Arabia robustious That follow cattel liuing beastious Moouing by troupes feeding on milke and grasse Seldome returning as they erst did passe 127. But in the countreyes of Ciuilitie Where Lawes do leade and where Religion guides The people there liue well and decently And plant and sow reape and what besides May yeeld supplie fit for all wants and tydes These changing courses shew dame Nature may Giue or depriue none countermaundes her way 128. Her vertues streames and bountie richly flow From parts and Clymates best etempered Where ayre and waters holsomely bestow Health and fertilitie things gloried Of men and beasts that bee well qualified In vigor colour and complection But in extreames ill constitution 129. The Ethiopians neere to the sunne With parching beames that on them doe reflect Their colours blacke some tawnie some are dunne The head and beard are frisled of that sect Their bodies drier by the same effect Sharp witted fierce sterne and of warlike minds And differ much from them of colder kindes 130. The people in Septentrionall parts In countries cold and Icie regiments Haue softer skinne and white yet brutish hearts For these extreames breede seele good rudiments Yet in them both natures habiliments