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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08316	Vicissitudo rerum An elegiacall poeme, of the interchangeable courses and varietie of things in this world. The first part.	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1600 (1600)	STC 18642; ESTC S113308	17,364	48

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 sto●●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

The Southern Mars the Moone the Wester bindes Some hold the Zodiacks triplicities To cause in th' windes such strange diuersities 61. From East three signes of nature hot and drie That are subiected to Equator line Then from the Pole Antarctick as they lie Three other signes the Southerne assigne The hot and moyst three other then combine In Occident and in Septentrion The cold and moyst sway as the rest alone 62. These foure are windes accounted principall That haue alternate chiefe preeminence These haue againe foure windes collaterall All eight intire sway with high diligence Eight other halfe windes of lesse efficence Betweene them each an equidistant part All thirtie two which manage Nauticke art 63. These yet inconstant full of change do blow Their natures differ and their properties And alter as the part from whence they grow And place whereon they light hath qualities And moouing thus breede strange diuersities In earth and earthie bodies and the seas Which mou'd no wit nor weapons them appease 64. The water next and most contiguous Vnto the ayre hath like varieties Now calme and quiet now more impetous Wherein the ships and mightie Argosies Flote vnder sayle making the voyages That feede one countrey with anothers fruit Perill makes not the greedie gainer mute 65. Yet in his trafficke is alternate state Now golden gaine is guide vnto his ioy His ioy now alters sorrow in like rate The seas are sullen and the winds beene coy Their often combates coyners of annoy The windes and seas and element of ayre Combining bring stout hearts vnto despayre 66. The waters that the highest Powers haue set In secret celles and vallies of the deepe Suround the earth as if they had no let High powers their rage in limits fast doth keepe Taming the bellowes that do mount so steepe And suffers not the proudest waues to passe Nor to breede perill to the earthie masse 67. The seas a vniuersall powerfull band Linckt in the earth with veynes and concaue springs That serue as barres to enter-locke the land And which throughout a needfull moysture brings Wherewith refresh'd all vegitable things Do yeeld their branches buds and bloome and fruit Selfe earth to drie to decke them so in sute 68. Meere reason may admire to see the seas Raging with waues as if infirnall fire Them boyl'd or furies reft the earth of ease And by and by the tempest to retire Of selfe accord without ilke humane hyre And rest appeased calme in quiet case And as in loue the earth againe imbrace 69. Earth yeelds the seas a seat to rest them on And waters all by nature ponderous Though misty Fogges through exhalation Ascend they fall againe more humidous In droppes or mystes sometimes contagious And fill the brookes and riuers of the land Who hasten soone vnto the marine strand 70. So as the Waters in earths bowels spred And Riuers that do runne as ornaments Vpon th' earths surface are not in her bred But friendly lent the Oceans excrements Rising and falling by swayde accidents Salt from the Seas by th' ayre refresh'd againe To shew what changes earth and seas sustaine 71. The earth the waters doth support and beare The Ocean hath tryple motions From East to West from North to South arere Thirdly the ebbings and the fluctions Sixe houres rising sixe howers digressions So eke the sea term'd Mediterrany And other waters of that faculty 72. The motiue causes who so seekes to know The first that moueth from the East to West The firmament is sayd to moue it so And that the spheres are moued and adrest To volue and reuolue by the higher hest Where by the Waters take their orders gate Not of selfe nature but so destinate 73. The fall from North to South is sayd to bee For that the waters in Septentrion Are full and farre the highest in degree Engendred most in that cold Region In South the sunnes hot exhalation Abates those Seas to which the greater fall By changing courses yet perpetuall 74. The third that maketh ebbes and flowing tydes Hath beene and is the Moones volution Most changing in one state she neuer bides Full halfe full and of bicorned fashion White pale red then cleere then spotted on Sometimes apparent sometime hidden so As none perceiueth where the Moone doth go 75. Sometime shee shineth in the merkish night Sometime she riseth in the brightest day Sometimes eclipsed cleane depriu'd of light Sometimes below sometime in higher way Neuer at one but euer in estray East South and West her course vncertaine seene Artists best know how all her courses beene 76. The Moone thus changing in her mouings make Like changes in the vniuersall seas Whose ebbes and flouds like changes by her take And neither seemeth to haue constant ease No art or force their mouings may appease But as the Powers diuine of yore them set So they keepe course vntill that power do let 77. Till then the Moone moues with the Heauens Sphere Twentie foure howres she takes her turne to runne Two ebbes two flowes in seas she makes appeare Sixe houres shee flowes in sixe her ebbe is done In sixe doth each performe her taske begunne Increast and decreast assignd and kept aright Approue the powers that guide them of great might 78. Yet still vnlike shee doth increase and fall Alternately as time and place assigne Seu'n dayes sh'increasing to her highest wall Seu'n dayes likewise shee doth againe decline Sea-men the first Spring-tydes aptly define The latter or decreasing streames they call Nepe-tides when seas grow to the low of all 79. These tydes againe are of vnequall state That swelling high this lower ayn by farre The next more higher or of lower rate All other tydes haue like alternate Iarre Alwayes afflicted with intestine warre That makes the Mariner to sigh or sing Hurl'd downe or heau'd aloft by Neptunes wing 80. The Moone North-east doth make the sea at full South-east low water Thus the Moone doth guide Not onely humors making sharpe or dull Wittes sences bodyes as some verifide But sea and land as things vnto her tide And as she wauers and oft changeth state So do the things by her thus destinate 81. Oft doe some Riuers and some fountaines drie Oft doth the earth yeeld forth new water-springs Oft doth reuiue what seemed erst to die Oft doubtfull ginning sweetest issue brings Oft greatest comfort growes by grieuous things Nothing the same and as the same abides But God the guide nought standeth firme besides 82. Hee is that essence that beganne of nought Hee is that Moouer of the moouing skies Hee is the concord that true vnion wrought Hee is the meane by whom all destinies Turne to the ends that hee did first deuise Yet are the Heauens and the Earth maintain'd By discord excellent that hee ordain'd 83. Can discord then so much dispraysed bee The meane to keepe things by their contraries Can enmitie haue such equall degree As may make vnion in qualities Hath sad contention