dealog de Libero aâ—…bitrio one most rarely wise For want of skill the reason to comprise How seuen times a day * Plin. lib. 2 c 97 Pomp. Mâ—…la li. 2. Euripus floweth And seuen times t' his ebbing prison goeth Egd with despaire and with great shame confounded Drownd him in flouds more fadomed then sounded What would he do if he should beate his braines About the spring that waters Masere plaines Rising at Belestat neare th'hill of Fois That stores with wood the people of Toloise As oft as Phoebus ending his carrier Each horizon with welcome light doth cheare His burthen-bearing streames months fiue or foure Doth runne and stay by turne in each halfe houre For one halfe houre you may passe ouer drie The other halfe it runnes so stickerly As none can passe his waters as they rise The most renowmed streames would equalize A learned streame that doth Nature her guide Without a clocke count euerie time and tide Now the great God by his eternall hand Of the 〈◊〉 oâ—… the earth and the sea Most wisely plac'd the water and the land For one requiring many moistning drops The other chanels banks and vnderprops He enterlin'd them so that the earth widing Her bosome to the sea and the sea gliding About throughout vnder this earthie round That the earth and the water are the center of the world and why Both make the perfect center of the Mound For if their mingled selues be prou'd to be Beside the mid of the worlds axeltree 1 All climats should not haue the silent night In equall ballance counterpoise the light The ill deuided horizons decline 2 Would stretch too farre on one side of the line Th' Antipodes or we should see by night 3 More then sixe signes to shed their glistering light No certaine time should shew th' eclipsed Moone 4 The heauens deboshd should seasons alter soone This doth suffise to shew that so compound The earth and the water make one round globe Into one masse they yet are fully round Which by a turning art made like a ball See day and night successiuely to fall For Americ Doue Pole surnamed Marke The reason Nor anie cunning pilot of a barke One pole to th' other euer could subdue Or liuing on the seas find countries new Nor euer lose the Northerne starre to view The Southerne pole if so the ocean blew To fashion with the earth one globie tumor Did not each where circle his fleeting humor But ô thou heauenly workman whose essayes Why the water is of a sphearicall figure Are nere in vaine what arches or what stayes Couldst thou inuent the sea to vnderprop That by a downward line it should not drop O God is it because the watrie masse 1 Would by his nature to the center passe And striuing so the deepest depth to sound By falling by a line remaineth round Or is' t because the shoares and coasting banks 2 Captiue the seas within their prouder flanks Or is' t because the Sea some stay doth winne 3 By millions of rocks scattered therein Or is' t alonely thy all-working grace 4 That makes it thus the tressed earth embrace It is thy hand thy hand O God alone A transition froÌ„ the water to th' earth wherof the figure situation and stablenesse is described That firmes with piles mans habitation For though it hang in th' aire or else be found To swim vpon the sea though it be round And round about it each thing turne nay more Though her foundations haue bene mou'd of yore Yet it vnmoued is that Adams race Might here obtaine a peacefull biding place The earth the dearest mother the tenderest nource and the kindest hostesse that man finds It is the earth receiues man being borne Receiued fosters him become the scorne Of other elements by Natures enmitie Her lap yeelds place for his last obsequie The aire against vs often doth rebell The whelming waters shew their malice fell Gainst wretched men gainst men supernall fire As well as this below displayes his ire But of the foure onely the humble earth Is mans alone best friend after his birth T is she alone that neuer leaues the place Which earst was her assigned by thy grace Yet is it true that execrable folke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of the earthquakâ—… With their deboshed manners do prouoke Thy angrie hand O Lord some piece to shake Although the totall frame do neuer quake Aided with Northerne winds which being pent Within her bowels cause mad rumblement â—…eare chils our hearts and makes our faces pale The wind doth stirre the woods without a gale High turrets tremble and th' infernall caue Deâ—…oures in choler many a citie bâ—…aue Sith then the earthie and the watrie Round The whole 〈◊〉 earth and the sea is but 〈◊〉 point 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 heâ—…uens whereof the least 〈◊〉 is eighteen times bâ—…gger then the earth Is center heart and nombrill of the mound And that by reason nothing closde about Equals the thing enclosing it without Who doubts but that this earthie watrie spheare Doth lesse proportion then the others beare Iudge who so will the greatnesse of this round Which we admiring doth vs so astound Seemes but a point to that high * spheare aboue Which forceth all the rest with him to moue Sith the least twinkling starre that with our eye We see to glitter in the vaulted skye If so Astronomers count not amisse Then the whole earth twise nine times greater is And if we count all that the Midland maine The Indian seas and all their armes do gaine Beside what other riuers do possesse Or desert is by heate or colds excesse This Little will be nought Lo here â—… men the earth bears to the heauens should reach men not to make a heauen of the earth The place for which you heauen do contemne See with what confines your great'st renomie Bounds your best actions proudest memorie Ye Monarches thral'd to pride that for the gaines Of one haires breadth hide th' earth with slaughtred swains Corrupted Magistrates that on your chaires Sell causes as in markets or in faires Who traffiquing the Law prophane your states To leaue some trifle to your thanklesse brats You that do vse vpon vse multiplie You that do waights and measures falsifie That so for you the yoaked Oxe may beare The coulter that the clodded earth doth teare You that do sell your wals you that would faine Some inch of land vpon your neighbour gaine Mouing by stealth and sacrilegious hands The maâ—…kes that bounded out your grandsires lands Alas what get you When a warlike prince By force or fraud shall all the world euince A needles point a moate an atomie Shall be his vertues largest salarie A point his Empire yea a very nought Yea lesse then nothing if that lesse were ought When God whose word doth more of nothing make Then all the paines that
the nature of the fire and the aire doth in this third booke which is an explanation of the third dayes creation descend from the superior to the two inferior elements in the description of which as of the former being alway like himselfe that is most excellent he doth first inuoke the Diuine assistance then branching his whole discourse into two principall parts he doth in the former describe the manner how the waters were assembled together for the discouerie of the drie land how the sea is situated and restrained within his bounds which it neither doth nor can transgresse and how it imbraceth the earth in his armes which together with the more famous riuers of the world are repeated Vnto which discourse he addeth a briefe consideration of fountaines brookes land-flouds and riuers of their increase and falling into the sea which being no whit augmented by their continuall accesse brings much admiration to those that labour in searching the reasons of the ebbing and flowing of the same which though it be a question full of difficultie and either meerely or nearely vnresoluable yet doth he couch in a very few verses as much as reason or probability can perswade in so abstruse a speculation Then intreating of the saltnesse of the sea and of the admirable effects of diuers springs and bathes he concludes the first part of this booke with an enumeration of those singular commodities which all creatures receiue by the conglobation of the earth with the water In the second part which is an ample and elegant description of the earth the stabilitie and vtilitie therof is first deciphered the quaking ouertures and compasse of the same are proposed which together with the sea being but a point compared to the heauens doth giue him occasion to deduce therehence a necessarie exhortation to withdraw the worldly minds of wretched men from the ouer greedie pursuit of these earthly things Now forasmuch as the earth so separated from the sea was by the heauenly Prouidence pre-ordained to be the mother nource and entertaining hostesse of all mankind he doth most artificially emblason the profitable beauties thereof as being most variously adorned with trees plants hearbes and flowers of such singular and sundrie vertues for the vse of man that they seeme to haue engrauen vpon them and that in Capitall letters the aboundant wisdome and super aboundant grace of the puissant Creator Which is amplified by the admired sympathies of diuerse creatures by the varietie of graine of wools silks cottons flaxe hempe and such other commodities as the diuersified disposition of sundrie clymates produceth all which are yearely renewed by that prouident hand from which they receiued their originall vertues Among other wonders of nature he mentioneth the tree called Cocos whose strange proprieties are almost incredible and desiring more perfectly to anatomize the whole bodie and bowels of the earth he rips vp her very entrailes to find what mettals and minerals are treasured vp in that great store-house of the world Then teaching the true vse of gold and iron he speaketh of the admired vertue of the Load-stone of the mariners compasse-needle and sundrie sorts of earth which by experience are of themselues medicinable Which hauing performed he greets the earth painting out in fresh and liuely colours her deserued prayses and by the example both of ancient Patriarkes and men of great esteeme among the Painims he blames those that contemne husbandrie and the profitable knowledge of simples And so with an excellent amplification of the vnmatchable pleasures and happie securitie of the countrie life he conclusiuely prayeth that he may either end his quiet dayes in the countrie or spend them in the Court without suspition of flatterie The third Day of the first Weeke of the most excellent learned and diuine Poet William Lord Bartas MY Muse that whilome ouer-topt each spheare The Poets tian sition from the superior to the inferior Elements Whose course life-giuing influence doth beare That in so braue a stile discours'd of Winds And ayrie meteors frighting silly minds And did of sulphur'd-lightning stormes intreate And made her verse so graue a path to beate Creeping to day on the base elements Must cloath her speech with base habiliments Where if by chaunce she sing a loftie straine She 's lifted higher by the swelling Maine Great King of earth and of the liquide plaine His inuocation Whose very breath doth dreadfully constraine The sturdiest hils to quake and oft exaults The stormie waues vp to the starrie valuts Grant that my measuring skill may well suruay The fleeting and firme element this Day Grant that my learned verse may well discouer The nature of the sea and of our Mother That with a flowring stile I may pourtray The flowers that cloath the earth with rich array All those high hils whose forked tops do border Vpon the clouds that wander in disorder Did hide their boâ—…sed backes vnder the floud Which on the earth a pudled maâ—…ish stood When heau'ns great King desiring liberally T'enâ—…eoffe vs with this low worlds Empirie Gaue charge that Neptune should the waters gather And shew the earth which but a litle rather They had ore-whelm'd and be content with pleasure That one whole day he had this All in seazure Iust as the heauens showring teares adowne Siâ—…il And froathie flouds hiding the plainer ground Do make the fields a sea then ceassing spoile Inuisibly forsakes the â—…urrowed soile Ploude by the painefull oxe and seemes to drinke It selfe and to some channell straight to shrinke So doth the sea this day leaue his possession Of mountaines knoles and fields by retrogression And in the wombe of a lesse continent Tuns vp with speed that watrie element Whether at first the light by God created CoÌ„iectural reasons how â—…he waters were gathered togâ—…ther for the discoâ—…erie of the 〈◊〉 Had store of this moyst humor eleuated Vnto such places as then highest were Of which he might next day make euery sphaere Or whether the Almightie had created New roomes to which these waters were translated Or opening the poares of hill and plaine Would hide some arme of that so spacious maine Or whether thickening their thinner smother That like a cloake of cloudes this All did couer He did imprison them within their bankes Gainst which the Ocean playes his daring prankes Yet dares not to transgresse for Gods owne might The Sea consined to vnpassable bounds by the puâ—…ssance of the Almighâ—… Kenning their nature mutinous and light Thus bridled them and gainst their fierce brauadoes Made of the flower-clad earth his barricadoes So that sometimes the fleeting hils which roare And threaten to orewhelme the bordring shoare Do wast in froath and breaking neare the brim Dare not beyond their watrie dwelling swim And what could herein be impossible To this high Admirall whose terrible And powerfull voice did riue the depths in twaine To saue his flocke and made the ruddie maine Exod. 14. Hang in
the ayre that forced Iordans course Iosuah 3. 16. Backe to retire toward his double source That drown'd the world become deuoid of good Gen. 7. 21. That made the rocke gush foorth a litle floud Exod. 17. 8. The Earth the great â—…land of the world Lo then the waters crooked circling path An Iland of this world yformed hath As boyling lead pour'd on a place vnplaine Simil. Doth diuers formes and sundrie fashions gaine Here runneth straight there windeth like a snake Here breaking hands there hands againe doth take And in an instant makes his small hote riuers Within the mould to shew themselues so diuers So God did spread the waters on the ground In steeple forme croysure and figure round Crooked and square that in the water cleare The earth might faire more rich and faire appeare Such is the Germaine arme the bay of Ganges The Gulfe of Persia and the sea that ranges By Happie Arabie such the whole Ocean That parts in three this All by od proportion And though that euerie arme how long soeuer Why the â—…mes of the Sea are subdiuided into lesser chanels Compar'd vnto the whole be but a riuer Yet makes a hundred seas in course and name By 's nookes and crookes the water still the same To slake the thirstie drinesse of the plaines With welcome moisture of their secret veines To rampire in the nations and to daunt The proudest champion Princes when they vaunt To confine kingdomes with eternall borders To ease the trauell of the trading orders Shortning their way the wind helping to get With in a month from th' East to the Sun-set Nor doth the earth giue to the sea alone The most renowned riuers of the world relie used These bigger armes she giues the riuer Don And Nilus Egypts store house which doth hide Himselfe so often in the deserts wide She giues the Rhene Danubius and Euphrates Proud Tigris issue of the hill Niphates Broad Ganges riuer of such ample same That Easterne India takes of it her name The golden Tagus Thames Mariza Rhone Tartarian Rha Po Seina and Garone Garone whose name shall sound so in my verse As shall perchance ring through the Vniuerse She giues * Râ—…o de la Plata Parana yeelding siluer matter Great Darien which doth new Castile water Maraignon too flouds of that new-found All Which men for wealth the Golden land may call The fruitfull earth from her doth draw her streames And all the water running in her veines Which she not thanklesse doth in time and place Repay both wayes as it receiued was Sâ—…ll For as the Lembicke heated oft doth hap T'exhale a vapor to his vpmost cap And wanting meanes to draw that fragrant sweat Higher doth gently thicken it and let That cleare as christall humor drop by drop Replenish the receiuer to the top So the thin humor of the brinie streames Is drawne into the aire by sunnie beames Which turn'd to water showres it downe and maketh That to the sea through th' earth a course it taketh For the drie earth this falling water straines Howe the springs are engendred Through the thin boulter of her hollow veines Then makes it way and from the rockie mountaines Makes bubble daily millions of fountaines Of these the litle gurgling brookes do grow Which ioyn'd do make the wasting torrents flow The wasting torrents do proud riuers forme Of which the sailing floud is eftsoones borne The snowie hils that border neare the skie Vnto this grouth contribute willingly How the torrents or land-flouds riuers are engendred For Titans taske begun anew at times Which bring the faire spring to the colder climes He melts vpon their backes the heapes of snow Their tops turne greene each where the waters flow Tumbling and bubling as they froathing runne Along steepe trackes of craggie mountaine stone They make a hundred torrents one of which Seeing his brother ouergo him mich Hastens his course to make with him an vnion Whiles that a third and fourth help their communion Running the same carier and quickly drowne Of their falling into the sea Their names and selues in streames of more renowne Those streames of some great riuer are deuoured Which ouerswaying fields at length is powred Into that Rendez-vous where God assigned They should discharge the taxes they were fined Yet all these riuers running to the sea Why the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 of the fresh waterâ—… Do not a whit enlarge that watrie Lea For besides that these flouds heap't all t 'one top Compar'd to it are lesse then one poore drop Yet doth the Sunne and Aeolus his race Sweeping eftsoones great Neptunes sweating face Exhale as much from that broad wauing field As th' aire and earth vnto the same do yeeld But as the quaking heate and shiuering cold Of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the â—…ea And gnashing teeth which do the feavrous hold Come not hap-hazard but in time and order Bring the weake trembling members in disorder So doth the sea by sits approach to lond And coming to forsakes againe the strond Whether the sea moued with Gods right hand The threâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 toâ—…ching the â—…luxe and 〈◊〉 of the sea Simile Tooke first this motion and may not stand Idle not any while from 's mouing course Like as a whirlegig once turn'd doth force It selfe to moue around and vertue takes From him that formerly the motion makes Or that the sea which men the Midland call 2 Be but a parcell of that liquide All Whose waues falling into some higher ocean Do dash themselues in their so angrie motion Against the rockie hils whose solid strength Quelling their force makes them recueile at length Or that the Moone whose influence aboue 3 Ruling moist bodies cause it so to moue And to speake truth we see the sea to slow Why this last opinion is most probable When on our Hemisphaere the Moone doth show And suddenly to â—…bbe when toward Spaine The Cressant takes her backward course againe Againe soone as her face constant in changing Encreasing shew's th' Antipodes her ranging It marches foorth and when her waning fire Doth passe the other noone it doth retire Yea which is more the Midland sea we know Why some armes of the sea haue greater tides then othersome Doth farther then the Tuscane ocean flow Or that hight Bosphorus and no such motion Doth stirre some duller places of the ocean Because the * Luna siluer Planet which will haue Rule of the flowing and the ebbing waue With lesser force doth shed her influence Vpon a sea where the circumference Is mountainous or streightened twixt two stronds Then where the ocean seemes to want such bonds As in the Sommer if the windie traine Simile Of A Eolus be calme with lesser paine The Delphian flame the champion fields doth drie Then dales immur'd with hils and mountaines hie If so this fluxe do shew
lib. 30. cap. 1. Thessalian sorceries men write The a Aconitum 〈◊〉 vt satua est 〈◊〉 es admotâ—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui rursâ—…m Hellelâ—…ri contactu â—…ciiantur Diosc. li. 4. cap 66. Plin. l 27. c. 2. Libbards-bane touch'd doth of sense depriue The chequerd Scorpion that was earst aliue As b Plin. l. 25 c. 10 Lingwort touch'd reuiues the force Which smotherd was in the dead-seeming corps Serpents which c Betonica vit tanâ—…a perâ—…betur vt â—…clusae circulo cius serpentes ipsae sese 〈◊〉 flagellaÌ„ lo. Plin lib. 25. c 8 Maâ—…hiolus in 1. cap 4. lib Diosc. aâ—…th that the I aliaus in coÌ„mendation of any mans excel ling vertues do vse this proueâ—…biall speech Tu 〈◊〉 vntu â—…he no he la Betonica that is You are more vertuous then Betoniâ—… Betonie compasd around Aduance their wrathfull heads aboue the ground They hisse alowd and from their fire-red eyes The flames of burning candles seeme to rise They stemme each other breake their long allyance And wrathfully do make to each defyance With furious onset they together bring Poison gainst poison sting against a sting Their bloud doth soile the blew-green-yellow grouÌ„ds Their bodies couerd are with deadly wounds Nay but one wound and onely death so cruell Can from their firie feud withdraw the fewell As this dissolues the knots of amitie So d Inueâ—…it Lysiâ—… 〈◊〉 herbam LysinachiaÌ„ vis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est vt 〈◊〉 dis ordaâ—…ibus â—…ugo impositâ—… aspâ—…ritateÌ„ coâ—…beat Plin. li. 25. cap. â—… Water-sage doth stint the enmitie Of sighting Genets if some carefull eye The same vnto their collars chance to tye If so a e Mat. hiol vpoÌ„ Diosc. allegeth as much out of Columella Hogge out of a trough do seed Made of the f Decoctum soliorum cum vinâ—… potum 〈◊〉 absunut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. cap. 99. Tamarix his milt with speed Doth wast as if his teeth did lately bruise g Aâ—…plenuÌ„ vim hanâ—… 〈◊〉 vt per dies 40. potâ—… Lientem absumat Discor lib. 3. cap 128. Idem affirmat Plin. lib. 27. cap. 5. Milt-wast that cunningly doth know to choose By vertue strange among the bowels all The milt and hungerly thereon doth fall Shall I stay here the jades that feeding go Vpon the ground where h The Italians saith Matthiolus call this heâ—…be Sferra-cauallo that is Vnshoe horse â—…lorio seemes to make it all one with the heâ—…be AEthiopis mentioned by Pliniâ—… lib. 26. cap. 4. Lunarie doth grow Their wondring maister then away doth ride Vnshod Moonwort where dost that Loadstone hide That doth the yron keepe in humble awe Moonwort where are thy pincers that do draw So cunningly the yron where dost lay That marshals hand that sweetly puls away Their nailes What locke can serue t'exclude Your craftie skill if so a horse well shood Pacing along where you your growing haue Cannot be sure his nailes from you to saue But I do thinke the world doth not bring forth On hils or dales a plant of rarer worth Then a Produut iâ—… Câ—…ta capraâ—… sagittis perâ—…ussas 〈◊〉 herbae pastu eas excutere Diosc. lib. 3. ca. 31. Idem affirmat Plin. lib 8. cap. 27 lib. 25. cap 8. Aelian lib. 1. de varia hist. Sohu cap. 31 Dittanie which eaten by the Deere Doth not his wounded side from danger cleare Alone but backwardly doth daft Vnto the Archer his life-wounding shaft What should I say O God is' t not thy worke That men may see in euery turfe to lurke A thousand other plants each place t' adorne Diffring in colour in effect in forme And that each one pul'd timely from the ground Doth poyson one and make another sound Th'hearbe b Ferulae asinuâ—… gratissimae sunt in pabulo câ—…teris veâ—…o 〈◊〉 praesentaneo veneâ—…o qua de cau saâ—…d animal Li bero patri assignatur 〈◊〉 serula Plin. lib. 24. cap 1. Ferula brings beeues to deadly passe And yet is wholesome for the drudging Asse c Galen de tâ—…mperamentis dâ—…scribitur bâ—…c herba a Diosc. lib 4. cap. 67. lib. 6. c. 11. Et â—… Plin. li. 25 cap. 13. Hemlocke to Stares is right commodious But vnto man is poison odious The c Galen de tâ—…mperamentis dâ—…scribitur bâ—…c herba a Diosc. lib 4. cap. 67. lib. 6. c. 11. Et â—… Plin. li. 25 cap. 13. Rose of Daphne mules doth euer kill But vnto man is counter-poison still What is to man more poysonfull and vile Then that fell weed which d Rhododendri stores â—…olia muliâ—… cambus asinu quadâ—…upedum plurimis venena sunt hominib verò contra serpentium morsus praesidia èviâ—…opota c. Diosc. lib 4. cap. 70 Plin. 16 lib. 20. cap lib. 20 cap. 11. d 〈◊〉 â—…a est natura vt hominem ocâ—… dat nisi 〈◊〉 quod in homine perimat cum eo solo colluctatur velut part 〈◊〉 inuento sola haec pugna est cum venenum in viscerib reperit mirumâ—… 〈◊〉 per se aâ—…bo cùm finâ—… duâ—… vâ—…ena in homine coâ—…riuntur vt homo supersit Plin. lib. 27. cap. 2. Libbards-bane we stile And yet his iuice doth cure that burning smart That from a Serpents taile would thrill our heart O valiant poyson ô couragious iuice Proud liquor plant full of disdainfull vse That kils vnhelped scornes his force to show Gainst vs if any succour neare he know A poyson giuing health if so he spie Some other poison in vs then he 'le trie His force against it and with secret spite Euen hand to hand most cruelly they fight So long they combat and so strong they striue That they both die that man may scape aliue Briefly be it in fields abroad I walke Of graiâ—…s wool silke cotton flaxe hempe such other commodities as the earth produceth Climbe vp the hils or in the woods do stalke God is each where from him comes each things store He nought but giues and I take euermore Here for my food the haruest fields do waue Their tops and here a thousand flieces braue Worthie to make the greatest kings array Shake in the silken forrests of Catay And here the lower boughs of Malta cottons Do garments beare within their tuffed buttons Here linnen fine is made of flaxe ykempt And sailes and tackling made of hollow hempe That caried on the sea with wind and weather I may acquaint the East and West together And drily passe ouer the watrie lea And many a towne may walke vpon the sea As the diuine onâ—…ipotence did shâ—…w it selfe miâ—…aculously in the creation of all things 〈◊〉 of nothing so doth it shine most gloriously in the yearely renoâ—…ation of some and the daily preseruation of all Here Indian Wheate growes on a loftie reede And thrice a yeare fiue hundred graines doth breede Which Indian men do drie and bray and knead And bake it into hunger-killing bread That puissant voice which built this worldly Round Doth euer glad vs with his
will crowne thy head with verdant bay And say in Natures secrets thou speakst truer Then thy Empedocles or Epicure Bacchus for wine Ceres for corne do bind Of the mariners compasse needle No faster vnto their deserts mankind Then Flauus when he first did bring to light The compasse-needle for the sailing wight His braue inuention guides on watrie rudges The caricke that so slowly onward drudges Serues for a cresset-light and for a guide To search all corners of the earth so wide It makes a ship enforced by the wind Almost a new world in one day to find To marke the clime and pricke vpon the card How farre from th'Aequinoctiall they are squard But th' earth doth not deserue this glorious name Of diuers forâ—… of earth that are medicinable For things that grow alone vpon the same Or in her bowels but her proper merit To sing her praise inuites my thankfull spirit I call to witnesse such as haue made proofe With profit for their feebled healths behoofe Of th' earth of a Diosc. lib. 5. ca. 94 Plin. lib. 35. c. 16. Chios and of Selia Of that of Erithrie and Melia. Haile mother Earth that bearest men and corne Terrâ—… Encomion Gold houses health fruites garments to be worne Thou nourcing wombe faire patient vnmoued Fruitfull and fragrant various and beloued Clad with a robe with flowers all bespangled With riuers lac't fretted with colours fangled Haile heart roote foot to that great Animal Which men the World most vulgarly do call Chast spouse of heauen and foundation sound For all the buildings of this totall Round I greete thee mother sister nource and hostesse Of man the king of creatures all great Princesse Do liue for thee for euery wheeling spheare T'enlighten thee his slaming torch doth beare To giue thee heate the purer fierie slame To motion orbicular doth frame The aire for thy refreshing pleasure taketh When with the North or gentler West it shaketh To moisten thee the sea fountaine and riuer With veines do interlace thy bodie euer Oh! how it grieues me that the wittiest men Against the scornfull con tempt of husbandtie and carelesse regard of searching the natures of simples Do thee O earth so commonly contemne That greatest hearts do husbandrie deride And care of simples proudly lay aside For simplest men and men of no demerits That iron bodies haue and leaden spirits Such were not once those venerable Sages Whose praise the Bible tels to coming ages Noe Moses Abram who did most time spend In tilling or vpon their flockes did tend Such were not Cyrus or king Archelas Hiero Philometor or Attalus Whose royall hands in steade of conquering blade And scepter held a bill-hooke or a spade Such were not Manius Cincinnat Fabricius Vide Plâ—…n lib. 18 cap. 3. Or Serran that made warre gainst passions vicious And did with coulter crown'd with conqu'ring hand With plough triumphant raze the Romane land Yea Scipio tir'd with seeming happinesse With Court-eclipses tedious * The word Aubades signifies such squeaâ—…ing musique as fidling minstrels plav at mens windowes sportfulnesse Of following troupes and that great a Diocletian Emperor That mad a king became a labourer To pettie hamlets did retire againe And did in tilling take as mickle paine As earst in warre setting their trees in rowes As orderly as squadrons gainst their foes An excellent commendation of the countrie life O man thrise happie that himselfe sequesters From Citie troubles and that neuer pesters His thoughts with kings affaires but doth him arme By Ceres taught to plow his fathers farme Pale Enuies poisond tooth doth not him bite Nor greedie Care depriue him of delight His will is bounded iust as is his farme He neuer drinks such potions as do charme Mens Loue in stead of wine nor mong his meate Doth euer life-depriuing * Arsenicum Orpine eate His hand his goblet is the siluer streame His sweetest Ipocras his cheese and creame And apples graffed by his proper hand In vnprepared readinesse do stand False pettifoggers harpies of the barre And bloud-suckers of men with pratling warre Triflingly tedious neuer dull his sence But birds with their melodious eloquence Deceiue the busie time on fragrant twigs Chanting sweet couplets to harmonious jigs His wandring ship vpon the stormie maine Becomes no play-game for the windie traine Nor doth he roame vpon the Ocean wide To seeke where death doth dreadfully abide But quietly his dayes all passing thorough Doth neuer lose the sight of 's natiue borough Nor sea nor riuer doth he euer know Saue such cleare brookes as gurglingly do flow Watring his verdant fields and that selfe earth Enterres him that receiu'd him at his birth To purchase sleepe he drinks no dulling a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 2â—… cap 18. poppie Nor the cold b rush that growes in Aethiopie He doth not like c Mecaenas musique buy When his grieu'd soule in bodie pain'd did lye And had no resting peace but without stay The iealous paine on 's verie bones did play But on greene carpets of soft mosse that growes Fringing the banks from out his side he blowes Sweet slumbring naps enchanted by the sounds Of warbling brookes that runne on stonie grounds Nor warlike trumpe nor clarion drumme or tabour Breaking his sleepe put him to arming labour Nor the commaund of anie chieftaine braue Leades him from bed blindfold vnto his graue The wakefull Cocke makes him the time to know Limits his sleepe and with his chearefull crow Cheares him to walke among the floures early Which with Aurora's teares waxen all pearlie Close stinking aire in streets and filthie lanes His bloud with damps infectious nere enflames But open aire wherein he euer liues Fresh appetite vnto him alway giues Maintaines his health puts verie death in doubt In manie yeares to find his lodging out In clymbe-fall court he spends no wretched yeares His will depends not on the greatest peeres He changeth not religion with his Lord. His mercenarie stile doth not accord With lyes to make an Antan Elephant Or stile a coward hard and valiant Or make an Adon of some foule Thersite Or wrong leud Flora with Alcestes right But liues vnto himselfe serues God in feare And sings the verie thought his heart doth beare Pale feare doth neuer feede vpon his heart Nor doth he practise conicatching art If he thinke on deceipt t is to lay snares For rauenous beasts or to catch vnawares The birds with twigs with wieles the sealie frie. Now if his ward-robe be not sumptuouslie With silkes and tissue stuft if so his chest Be not vnsafe with greedie Lingots prest Yet are his garments made of purer wooll And with vnboughten wines his sellar full His lofts with graine his wels with water cleare His grange with hay his parke is stoar'd with deare For I speake of that countrie-mans good state Whose house a pettie common-wealth doth mate Not of the broken bouth or hungrie neede Of