bloodie noâ— the Bore The Aspe so full of teeâ— So fell the Mantichore So luâ—tfull not the Goat So slothfull not the Beare So proud the Horse doth not Nor Iuâ—oes fowle appeare The Dragon for reuenge For enuy he the Dog And Fox for craft transcends For beastlines the Hog A Tunny to deuoure A Hawke to seeke his pray A c Whirlepoole in to powre A d Cayman to betray How vile a thing is this That all things which are ill In Plants in Beasts or Fish We amply doe excell But indigent in all That we in beasts commend We onely more then all Our Maker still offend a The Zibraes are by some Authoâ—s counted very swife b Daâ—t eiusmodi fertâ—resse â—â—leritate vt cuâ—su fears emnes anteuertat Equos suos empturi vel vendituri Lant farae â—ernicitate pâ—obant Arabes Sâ—al exer 206. pars 5. c This Whirlepoole otherwise called a Phiseter and by some taken to be the Whale drawes inso much water that when he spouts the same forth againe hee is therewith able to ouerset and drowne ships pli l. 9. e. 4. d A Cayman is the same that a Crocodile CHAP. XXXII Faire without foule within OH God how blest were we If as our limbes are white There might like candor be In mind compleate and right But therein are we crosse Black vgly crooked still Turning our gaine to losse Through fond depraued will The pollisht Iuorie â—rought from thee Taproâ—ane Or Callâ—cut from thee Congoe or Mauritane With Pearle of rich Perue Faire Oâ—muz Cameron May not compare their hew Nor whitenesse with Sylon The pure white Syndon â—punne By Brittaâ—ne Virgins here Oâ— by the Belgâ—â—k Nunne To Lillies browne appeare And â—ymster thy pure Fleece Dreft by thy rustick Swaines Tho rich as that of Gâ—eâ—ce No luster it retaines Compared with Atlas Snowes Or Douers Chalâ—â—iâ— Hill Which to repugnant showes To Amphythâ—yâ—es will But Man that is as faire In outside as the best With what shall I compare His darksome sable brest For tho he loue the light And beautie doe admire And most in things delight Which Nature doth attire In this celestiall hew Whereof himselfe doth vaunt Despising both the Crow And cole-black Cormorant Yet he to whitenes still Doth offer most offence To whitenesse that excels To snow-white Innocence And tho vpright he goe And groueling all the rest Yet he in mind doth shoe More crooked then the beast The Cedar he commends So goodly tall and streight And Pine that neuer bends But be ares his top vpright But ne'er obserueth how Himselfe by Nature fram'd Vpright and streight to goe As one to Heauenwards aim'd In mind doth still decline To Earth still downewards beâ—t More then the Dog oâ— Swine Whom Natures lawes content Things proper them suffice For appetite and need But man with Heauen this Flesh His Soule with earth would feed Improperties delight Him best in his desires For like is fed with like But he vnlike requires CHAP. XXXIII Wee praise substances but pursue shadowes HOw wretched and how vaine Aâ—e Mortalls that refuse True substances to gaine And shadowes onely chuse Pigmalion like we doe On pictured beautie dote Like Rhodian Youthes we woe The shadowes that are not And substances despise Tho fitter to be lou'd The things beneath the skies By Mortals most approu'd For which our soules we sell Are Beautie Wealth and Fame For these we visit Hell And Plutoes firie raigne For these we hourely part With Ease with Health and Friends For these we make a mart Of Liues and Innocence And what is Beautie now That thus the mind can fire That makes vs languish so And pine with fond desire An accidentall thing A type and shadow bare Of that Almightie King Whose beauties â—ubstance are On Men not onely plac't For many thousand be Both Beasts and Plants high grac't Therewith in their degree And what is Wealth for which We â—oyle and hazard still It makes vs not more rich Nor happie Heauens high will Hath not these things confind To Measure nor to weight But plac't them in the mind Content makes all things streighâ— Euen In the greatest want But base Desire opprest With heapes of wealth feeles scant Is poore and cannot rest Much poorer thing is Fame Peruâ—ian Ayre lesse lighâ— T is but a heauenly name In earthly raggs bedight And base Pâ—eâ—eyan breath Which oft on wings doth raise The lumps of worth'elle earth But spots faire vertues praise With black and vgly feeâ—e Now which of these is best Imperfect all in sight And shâ—dowes all exprest Glorie Wealth Beautie lent To men bare shadowes be In Earth but accidents In Heauen essentially Earths glorie doth appeare Of Heauen a type most bate And Wealth that we haue here With that must not compare Beautie terrestriall In beasts or men combin'd In Earths rich Minerall Or what 's to earth assign'd The beautious Planets seuen The glorious Sunne and Moone The Azure studded Heauen Nights still companion All these one picture frame Of beautie that 's immense Beautie which man may name But not conceiue by sense Though our depraued mind Still fading things pursue VVhich we but shadowes find Yet loose the substance true CHAP. XXXIIII We follow gaine not goodnesse WHo can enough complaine On humane dilligence This Zeale of ours for gaine It breeds my great offence Too short's the longest day Too long the shortest night Desires brooke not delay But croft no peace admit The Raine the Frost and Snow And Tempests of the Ayre These neuer make vs bow If gaine be our affaiâ—e For profit we doe saile Amongst the fleeting Ice T' encounter with the Whales And Beare we are not nice And in these places strange We seeke the morsses shole Both Lands and Seas we range Neere to the frozen Pole Then to the burning Line And Affricks Desarts drie Where many thousands pine And perish wilfully Where by the Sunne and Wind They Mummey doe become Yet we with this in mind To th'same misfortunes â—un How small a thing doth man In magnitude appeare Compar'd with Seas and Land As if he nothing were But all this earthly ball Both Earth and Seas vast frame To mans desires more small Doe seeme then he to them If profit may redound No dangers doth he doubt How oft he circles round This massie frame about The Currents Sands and Rocks The Typhons and Ternades The falling Spouts he mocks And Monsters that inuades The flying Fires that seeme By th'Winds attrition bred The Waues which some would deeme The Graues where hope lies dead The Tempests and the Stormes Death and Diseases all Triumphantly he scornes If profit may befall For this he trauels both By day and darksome night No labour doth he lothe Or Office thinke vnmeet For this he Marts frequents And place where pleadings be Which wise men are content To haue but seldome see Amongst the fooles he gapes And hunts about for pelse But knowes not that he takes Paines to condemne himselfe If to Gods
house he goe But once or twice a weeke And spend an houre or two How oft he falls asleepe How long he thinkes the time His soule is at his Farme His Ship his Shop the Wine Or on his neighbours harme How great alacritie And chearefulnesse of mind In worldly things shew we In these how dull and blind One houre to holy workes And meditation lent More troubles and more irkes Then yeeres in ill mis-spent Therefore this trauell great For things terrene and base This labour and this sweat Must one day come in place VVhere Iustice in her scale These times and workes shall lay To see which will preuaile The darknes or the day Oh let vs then be wise And coueâ— riches true These onely fill your eyes But nothing profit you CHAP. XXXV We dote on earthly pleasures and in them vainely pursue Happines which indeed are not so much as shadowes of the true Ioyes and Happinesse aboue Pâ—â—asure how great a VVitch Art thou to humane minds The potent and the rich In seruile câ—â—aines thoâ— binds Not Epicurus Bowers North'charmed cups of Câ—rceâ— Alâ—yâ—ous Founts and Flowers Nor Antiochiaâ— Daphnay Not Tawris flowrie Groues Nor ancient Bayas plenty Amara whom Heauen loues Nor blest Arcadian Tempe VVhich whilom were belieued Thy Parents Pleasure where Thy strength thou first atchiued And where thou fosterdst were These doe not now confine Thy Seruice nor thy Psalter Augmented much with time The whole world is thine Altar VVhere fond ingratefull men Giue vp their hearts and minds To transitorie things VVhich Heauen to vs assignes But not intending we Should these for Gods adore VVorking idolatrie VVith creatures base and poore But with intent that these Characters of his loue Our minds to thankfulnesse And Loue should frame and moue For this the Plants and Rootes And Seeds to earth assign'd The Fish the Foule the Fruits And Beasts of various kind Are sent in place and time That best his needs may fit And euery sort of VVine To warme and â—heare the wiâ— The Simples for health sent The Silke the VVooll and Skynne The Iemms for ornament Are all t' allure and wiâ—ne Mans heart to loue and feare That Lord which these conferrâ— But he then saluage Beare Or Tyger saluager Once of the gift possest The Giuer quite forgets His soule in these seekes rest His heart on them he sets Seeking true happines And good in earth alone Beleeuing not true blisse To be in things vnknowne Thus our desires impure Peruert the blessings kind Wherewith Heauen seekes t' allure Our heart and thankfull mind To sorrowes and to grieues To curses and to snares But why doe men beleeue This gulfe and Sea of cares To be a place of blesse And therein so delight As if Heauen did possesse Nothing so faire and sweet If trauelling we spie Some silly earthen Cell We argue instantly That beggers therein dwell But seeing buildings faire Some Castle or rich thing We streight coniecture there Remaines some Lord or King Why doe we not the same When we poore Earth behold And Heauens bright Azure frame With lights so manifold Doe beggers Cells abound With so great wealth and store And shall the Kings be found More indigent and poore No doubt the Heauens containe More worthy things and high Then doth on earth remaine Tho hid from mortall eye Tho by affirmatiues We can but scarcely show VVhat we by negatiues And opposites best know In nature and in sight Is Earth to Heauen oppos'd In Earth dwells endlesse Night And Ignorance enclos'd Excessiue Heate and cold Labour and VVearines And Torments manifold But Heauen hath none of these In Earth Strife and debate Eternall Sorrowes dwell Fraude Rapine Lust and Hate Diseases Death and Hell But Heauen 's the place of Ioy VVhere God himselfe vnuailes VVhere Sinne where Sad annoy VVhere Death no more preuailes Therefore you holy Soules Seeke happines aboue None seeke it here but fooles VVhose ioyes do sorrowes proue CHAP. XXXVI And all this Worlds Torments and Miseries no more but shadowes of those that remaine for the damned Soules in Hell WHere blessings infinite And mercies cannot moue There paine an obiect fit And torments we doe proue To rouze the soules closde eies From sad and dismall slumber Of false securities That most our soules encumber But as this worldly blesse And glory to earth giuen Is but a type and lesse Of that which is in Heauenâ— So all the torments dire That Tyrants here deuise To feede the flaming fire Of their sad cruelties No more then shadowes be Of that tormenting paine That for impietie Th' infernall Lakes containe Name all th' inuentions old Deuisde by haples wits Those torments manifold Where death and horror sits Enthron'd in burning flames With Chaines with Cords and Steele With bloodie seruile traines With Gibbets Racke and Wheele The cursed â—cythian hate That sow'd vp liuing men In Beasts exentorate And there did nourish them Till putrifaction might Engender creatures new And death produce to light Her self deuouring crew The liuing men to kill Tho killing they bestow'd A Tombe on him they kild More then the Tyrants would The fearefull brazen Bulls Of Phalleri expose The poore vnhappy Sculls Made Goblets by their foeâ— Obserue the Pirameds Not those by Niles fat side But piles of slaughtred heads Fram'd so by Turquish pride See all the dreadfull things Brasilia and her feasts The Bowkans fraught with limbs Of men to feed men beasts Yet all these torments here Which tongue cannot reueale As shadowes doe appeare To that the damned feele Below there is a pit Within the Center closde VVherein to torments fit The damned are exposde VVhere Horror like a Queene Sits thron'd in burning steele And Torture with whips keene Close tending at her heele Ten thousand vgly Hags Ten thousand fierie Drakes Are there with burning Drags Ten thousand hissing Snakes Ten thousand Damps and Smells Eternall darksome Night Ten thousand thundring Yells Of Furies that doe fight Ten thousand Blasphemies Gainst Heauen doe there rebound Ten thousand Curses Cryes And Othes make all resound Ten thousand pale Fires run Through black Cocytus waues In burning Phlegiton As many Furies raues Ten thousand greedy VVolues Ten thousand grisely Beares Ten thousand gaping Gulphes Breed here ten thousand Feares Ten thousand Harpies then And Vultures there doe stay To tyre on wretched men That earst on men did pray Excesse here leane and poore Vpon her owne flesh feeds And VVrath hath wounds great store Ten thousand thousand bleeds There Pride is neatly put In new and strange attire In Red and Crimson cut Lac't through with gards of fire But for the greedy Syres That meanes nor measure hold In their vniust desires Are cups of moulten Gold For itching Lust remaines Not least respect and grace The Frends with burning flames Them euery houre embrace Ambition hath no doubt A fitting plague assign'd A rack to lengthen out The bodie to the mind For Enuie is a drest The wreathes of hissing Snakes From
whence into her brest New poysons still she takes Then in the Soule recides Furie Despaire and Rage At God which them diuides From him an endlesse age Thus both aliue and dead Scorcht both with Frosts and Flames One while in burning bed And streight in Iere streames Stench neuer kills them here Night neuer shuts their eyes Noyce neuer deafes there â—are By wants or wounds none diesâ— The senses all remaine And euery facultie To worke their greater paine Their selfe tormenters be Therefore feare God and dread Not men that can impose Nothing vpon thee dead Shun Hells eternall woes CHAP. XXXVII The comparison of the great and little Worlds Et creauit Deus hominem ad imaginem similitudinem suam ad imaginem Dei creauit illum Genes 1. HOw much vnlike this great World seemes to be Vnto this little World in quantitie And yet in qualitie how neere they come Within the compasse of a comparison The Heauens and Earth this greater World we name Of Heauen and Earth's composde this lesse Worlds frame The Sunne illuminates the Heauens all And giues earth life So in these bodies small The soule performes as much The Sunne transmits His influence his light and benefits Through the tralucent bodies interposed And triple Ayre in Regions three disposed Euen so the sentient Soule likewise susteines Both moues and gouerns as with certaine reines On th' ayrie wings of b threefold Spirits sent Each facultie of this her instrument And as the Sunne from two halfe Hemispheares Illumines Earth which otherwise appeares But a sad mansion So the soule affords The like through her halfe seene halfe hidden Orbes The Sunne by rarifaction doth euoke Th'attenuated Waters vaprous Smoke To th'ayres cold Region and condensed there Melts them to feede the Earth and coole the ayre The like againe doth Natures lesser Sunne The Soule I meane when through concoction Motion or other cause the vapours flie Vpwards if through the head transpired they be They haue their vses in Dame Natures Hall But if dissolu'd like showres in Haruest fall And many a time the worst disease beget Thus squares the sentient facultie with it But the supreame irradiance of the mind Farre liker to the Worlds high Soule we find Both incorporeall essences and high Vnbounded by c Time Place or Quantitie And as the Worlds high Soule containing all Is not contained d The like thing doth befalâ— To this of ours As that hath supreame powre In all so by Creations right hath ours Ore this her petty Kingdome And as that Doth this great World two waies illuminate By e corporall and incorporeall meanes So seemes the soule to powre forth two-fold beameâ— Beames that doe this dead earth viuificate Beames that doe this darke sence illuminate Beames that forth from that f light and essence flow That in it selfe both light and essence holds And as God is by his infinite Of essence euery thing g So mens soules be After a sort by apprehending all Materiall things and immateriall And as that hath perfect knowledge and will So had this tho now spoild by Satans ill But much they differ in existencie God of himselfe subsists But by him we By whom our soules were first of nothing made The perfect patterns of th'â—de â—s laid Vp in the secret closets of his mind Now for the h Earth altho therein we find Betwixt things ouall and things angular But little semblance Yet some things there are Which in a measure paralels may seeme We haue both frozen Poles and burning Line The head and feete that furthest off remaine The frozen Poles I may imagine them The parts precordiall Line and Center be Where natiue heare consumes humiditie Within the earth is many a burning fire And in our selues Diseases and Desire No small flames breed When Water Fire or Aire Would from Earthes wombe vnto their homes repaire But are deteynd what Feauors they ingender And in our selues the same effects they render As diuerse know * An oylie humor feeds Our Natiue heate Trees haue the like and Seeds Our flesh is but a humour that 's concreat Earths superficies is no more the sweat And fatnes of the clouds Nature alone Imparts not i fat and marrow to our bone Earth hath her fat which k sulphure we doe call Which feeds her Bones her Mines and Minerall Nature to vs alone haire hath not lent The Woods and Groues are Earths like ornament Dame Nature not alone our wants supplies With fruitfull Veines and panting Arteries The christall streames and Riuers â—alt tide wasâ—t In stead of these arâ— reasonantly plac't The two great Seas the l Terrene and the Ocean That mouing still this seeming void of motion Natures Magazines of humiditie Be as in vs the heart and Liner be Hâ—w like are these yet how vnlike againe All faire did not mans sinne their beauties staine a Nonne capitis situs in quo intellectus rationis sapientiaeofficina supremam illam inuisibilis mundi partem quae summi illius numinis intelligentiarum sedes creditur reffert nonne mens Des â—lla portio corporis domina tribus potentijs sâ—u facultatibus eandem tamen cum anima rationalâ— essentiam perticipantibus Dei ousian amâ—riston in personis interim trinam adumbrat tacite quasi ingerit Nonne interiorum sensuum triga tres illas hierarâ—hias in quas religiosa antiquitas intelligentiarum numerum innumerum est partita exteriores autem sensus eas intelligentias quaerationem Angelorum induunt vt sunt Apostolo citante virtutes principatus throâ— Archangeli Angeli tanquam stipatores Deâ— omnipotentis thronum circumstantes iussa illius capessentes salutemque humani generis quouis modo promouentes representant innuunt Galen 1. de temp ad finem Galen 1. de vsu partium cap. 2. 3. Ex Knoblochio Institu Anato b Animall Vitall Naturall c Demonstratum est extra coelum necesse câ—rpus nec etiam esse posse patet ergo neque locum extra coelum esse neque vacuum neque tempus Arist. de coelo lib. 1. cap. 9. d Quid igitur continet animam si sua natura est partibilis Profecto non corpus nam potius econtrario videtur animam continere corpus vnde eâ egressâ euanessit putrescit Arist. de an l. 1. cap. 9. e Per solem nempe instrumentum materiale luminis per spiritum inuisibiliter irrhadiant em omnes piorum fidelium mentes f Quid enim aliud ipse Deus quam lux est sed tamen illa neque visa nec affatu facilis Scaliger Excert 297. 3. excer 365. 6. g Vt ergo Deo quam similimus homo reddatur necesse est cum quoque omnia fieri Cumque omnia fieri non possit per infinitudinem essentiae vt Deus est omnia ideo opportebat fieri per imaginem rerum omnium in mente hominis impressam diiudicatam Keckerman sâ—st Phys. l. 4. cap. 4. hominem intelligendo omnia omnia fieri
â—under But Innocence no change at all doth feele At sight of tyrants tempests fires or steele Blest Innocense then Lillies farre more white The vernall Roses are not halfe so sweete More cleare and faire then all those beauties goâ— On Christall fronts of Thames of Scyâ—e and Poâ— The Silks of Tâ—urus cloth of Tyrus die Are ornaments of no such dignitie The Cypresse Ceader and the Ebene locks The stateliest Towres with Chyan marble tops Reach not so neare to heauen The flowrie greene So flourishing and fresh doth neuer seeme The Mines of Peru and of Ophir be Vnto their owners not so rich as thee Which then the bright Carbuncles of Cambaiâ— And stones do'st far more brighter beames display The seats of Kings and most resplendant throne With beames more bright then thine they neuer shone Oh holy Innocence which good men loue The Manna of the Saints and soules aboue How poore are all these things to shew thy praise Yet still we tell thee for the worst of these CHAP. IX A deploration of mans misery subiect to so many tribulations and errours in this life more then other creatures OH then what tongue can speake what wit discriâ— The wretched state of mans sad miserie Begot in sinne and form'd in grones and teares Brought forth with pain bred vp with cares feares Pollisht in youth ofttimes with fruitlesse Art In riper age to giue each better part To feede of pride and lust the fatall fires We pine our soules to feast our foule desires We kill our friends to feâ—de and cloth our foes And at their lure we stoope to greatest woes Blind in our selues depriu'd of heauenly light We praise the day but yet pursue the night We health commend yet deare disâ—â—ses buy We honour wealth yet run for poueâ—tie We wish for ease yeâ— seeke our owne 〈◊〉 We couer Kingdomes yet forgo the best For trash and toyes then Indiâ—ns more vnwise That sell pure Gold for basest merchandize Oh happie you in libertie created That to disease and death were neuer â—ated Man onely may lament that liues exiled From Heauen his country and is forc't to builâ— These brittle mansions in this barren clay Where mists and dampie vapours euery day Cause vs our path directed homeward misse And oft to fall from â—ome high precipise Downe to the center oft in foule myres fall And there like swine stâ—ll wallow Often call In vaine for mortall helpe The wisest err Being still misled bâ— this â—ild wanderer And most when most of all oâ— Hâ—â—uen they tell And thinke they touch the Gates then knock at Hell Oâ— God how blest were man 〈◊〉 be were wâ—e But as he is how full of miseries You scalie creatures in the 〈◊〉 deepe Which know not what it is to â—igh or weepe You flying armies in the ayre that houer Yoâ— you are blest that mens griefes nere discouer You Heards are happy that one hills doe â—eed Free from the woes that humaine hearts doe breed You smiling Flowers in colours freshly seene You lowly Vallies clothed in louely greene You fruitfull Oliues seâ— in comely rankes You long liu'd Cedars on Grot â—â—â—es bankes Your state is blest you flourish fade and die And know not any future miserie CHAP. X. A further exemplification of mans misery by comparison to flowers to leaues to fields to fishes THe race of men is like the leaues of trees The greatest part whereof in ditches fall Or straw the durtie earth tost by the brize Of wanton winds that sporâ— themselues withall Few doe they lay aloft on towres of state Much fewer thence doe not precipitate The race of men are like the Flowers that be By Nature giuen their mother Earth t'adornâ— As well with beautie as varietie Of their indowments Some haue comely form But little vertue Noble some not faire Some great but weake some small whose force most rare Oft-times misplast The cordiall Violet And fragrant Rose in ditch or high-way side And Henbane and Cicuta ranke vnset In fairest Gardens are not seldome spied But most in this doe we resemble Flowers We spring we flourish wither in few howres The race of men are like the scalie traine Of nimble Fish in siluer Iourdans streame That while they follow prey or sportfull game Ignorant of the danger nearest them Fall with the sliding waues that swiftly fliâ— Into the Mare Mortuum and die The world 's a streame most pleasing to our eâ—es But from our sights much faster swifter gliding Then Iourdan to the Marâ— Mortuum flies The Fish are men that in the same are biding Who while in Pleasures streames they bathe dwell Are carried downe therewith and slide to Hell Now for the Leaues and Flowres they may accuse The Winds that most their beauties doth deface The Fish of apprehension most obtuse May challenge Nature for their wretched case But man that little lesse then Angels knowes Can blame none but himselfe for all his woes CHAP. XI Mans estate in this present world resembling a ship tost vpon the waters described with her tackling what it now is and what it ought to bâ— written at Sea as a Sea-compassâ— fâ—r Saylors but may serue for any profession THis flesh is but the barke â—nto the soule Whose Harbour's Heauen and the â—arth her Sea Her lading's sinne which when the weather 's foule Still shoores and hazards ruine instantly Tho it misdoubting neither threatning skies Nor wants nor haplesse Pilot onward 〈◊〉 Tho all wrong sâ—ted Sayles and Mâ—sâ—s all wrong Her Shrouds are Vanitie her rigging Pride Her Mâ—sâ—s Youth Strength â—he Saile that bâ—aâ—e her on Custome and Ignorance She knowes not tide But th'â—bs Floods of Fortune which 〈◊〉 proue her Loue Hate Feare Hope these be the winds that moue her Her Houlds ill mann'd there Ease and barren Sleepe Seâ—uritie and Vnbeliefe lie snâ—rting Scorâ—e Stubbornâ—esse Reuenge the Hatches keepe And Auâ—ries her â—â—earesman still stands porting Desire the Master Sensuall appetite Her Compasse from the right way wander equite Her Ordnance are Othes Pikes Pollicies Cables and Anchors Fortunes various measures While thus accommodated swift she flies About the world to seeke the Ports of Pleasure And Game â—ho missing these she ofter hit Destruction and Dispatres sad Rocks and â—plit Therefore this way to ruine leading iust Needs must this tyre and â—ackle altred be Râ—pentaâ—ce therefore be her lading must Then must Humilâ—â—â—e and Modestie Be Shrouds and Tackle for her Patience Must be her Masts and snow-white Innoâ—ence Wisdome and Knowledge ought the Sayles to be The Tides t' obserue are th'ebbs and floods of Grace Her Wâ—nds are Thank fulnesse and Pietie Loue Charâ—tie which driue to heauen apace Her men are Vigilancie Warinesse Diligence Constancie Contentednesse Her Stearesman must be Prouidence herein Gods Spâ—rit her Master Compasse Holy Writ Her Ordnance they must be Sighs for â—in Pikes Prayers Bullets Teares thus must she fight The â—ables whereupon she may depend Are Faith aâ—d Hope in Christ hâ—r onely friend Obedience is her
rather heare thinke why then what they be First what a spatious and maiestick Hall Full of officious seâ—uanâ—s for your vse Hath Heauen ordained to entertaine you all Wherein if any want t is but th' abuse Of foule excesse whose surfets wasts the store That might supply the needies wants twice orâ— With what a downie Carpet hath he spread The flowrie earth to entertaine your feete Where euery plant and flowre that shewes his head Brings with it profit wonder and delight How many a pretty flie with spotted wing Vpon there slender stalkes their Canzons sing How many fruitfull Champains feeding flocks How many beautious Forrests clad in greene Where watry Nimphes with soft embraces locks Such shadie Groues as for true Loue may seeme Fit Chappels to the winged singers layes And burbling streames to chaunt true Beauties praise Yet more he lodges in earths secret vaines Ten thousand things of farre more valued prise And th' Sea for pleasure and for vse conteines The choisest beauties richest sinells and dies Thus hath our Maker for touch tast and smell For Eie and Eare puruey'd compleatly well But man himselfe alone must feâ—d the mind And contemplation onely cooks the dish What is it then Hath Heauen all these assigned For our vse to that end we should be his Then must we giue him one poore little part The onely thing he craueâ— A thankefull heart CHAP. XIX His Benificence IF from a friend some trifle we receiue Some bracelet gloues or some such common thing We thinke our selues ingratefull if we leaue These vnrequiâ—ed and can we lesse bring To him which giues vs all that we possesse Then the poore hearts true loue and thankfulnesse How can his râ—iall bounties be exprest The things ordained for ornament and vse The various fare prepar'd to feast his guests Where each one for his appetite may chuse Oh who can count the various kinds of creatures Their wondrous shapes their colours their features Ten thousand flocks that ore our heads still houers Which daily seeme to bid vs kill and eate Ten thousand fruits which time to vs discouers Ten thousand plants and rootes and seeds for meate The sculles Oh Lord of all the Lakes â— Fountaines The Hâ—ards are thine vpon ten thousand mountaines Ten thousand creatures for delight assignd Ten thousand stones that precious vertues hold Ten thousand flowers to recreate the mind Ten thousand healthfull Drugs more worth then Gold Ten thousand more then I can sum or count Thy blessings Lord all tongues and wits surmount And euery blessing is so double blest That they not onely food for vs containe But bounreous Nature locks within the least Of these some helpe for our disease and paine One thing sometimes hath such varietie That many pretious vertues hidden lie For all which God requires but thankfulnes Tho thanklesse we too often not agnize The author of these benefits of his Buâ— either Chance or Natures gifts them prize For those that with these blessings moâ—t abouâ— Arâ— commonly the most ingratefull found CHAP. XX. His Magnificence not onely affording things necessary but heaping his benefits vpon vs with so great varietie that the vnderstanding of man cannot vtter it ME thinkes it were enough if God did giue But bread and water to his enemies And some one kind of food to make vs liue Temperate and secuâ—ed from Luxuries And not to frame so many thousand kinds Of bread of vyands and of tempting wines Cuba her Iucca vaunts Peru her Mayze Pegue and rich Cambaya theirs of Rice Congo her bread of a Luco's graine doth praise And Palme-tree fruite Guynce no lesse doth prize Her bread of rootes Inama tearm'd by them But Heauen faire Europ crownes with the best graine Italy vaunts Falerne and Setyne wine Germany Rhennish Claret France Spaine Sack Candyse and Cyprus their 's of Muskadine Greece hath her Chyan India Palme and Rack Drie b Ferrall her Heauens-dew-distilling tree Turkey her Cossa Corne made Wines haue we Me thinks our Maker had great bountie showne If he our nakednes such clothes had giuen As our first Parents had from Eden throwne But he hath made the little flies to spin And many a beast to yeeld their haire wooll And trees and plants from whence more soft we cull Me thinks for beggers too it had been faire One onely kind to haue of Wood and Stone To build defensiues for the Winter ayre But who can count the kinds of any one Oke Cedar Cypresse c Teyxo Ebony A thousand sorts of Marble Porphery Me thinks againe one beast were well for ease But drie Arabia that doth water want Hath the moyst Cammell Danzieks frozen Seas The sprightfull â—lland The huge Elephant Our Maker vnto fruitfull â—nde assignes The little dockâ—â—ed Asse to barren Climes a This Luco is a little small graine round like musterd-seed which makes bread not inferior to our Wheate Hisâ— congo b Ferrall one of the Canarie Ilands hath no water in it but that which drops from the leaues of one onely tree for ouer the top of this tree there houers continually a moist cloud by Gods appointment from whence the tree receiues this aboundant moisture for the benefit of men and beasts Linschott c This wood called Teyxo is a stranger in these parts growing onely in the Iland Terâ—cara a tree of marueilous largenesse and the wood exceeding hard red within and waued with an admirable beautie This is not cut but for the King of Spaine himselfe CHAP. XXI No Place emptie and vnfurnisht of Creatures for Mans behoofe but all full without scarcitie or scant to this end that man for this fulnesse and bountie of externall things might returne a proportionate fulnesse in his affections towards God which bestowes all this vpon him FOr Gods most compleate bountie not content With such a single liberalitie Therefore this great varietie hath lent As much abhorring pore vacuitie And indigence in all his workes diuine Which all with compleat bounteous fulnes shine The Riuers and the Seas be full of fish The earth is full of trees of grasse of plantâ— And full of creatures fram'd to feed on this The ayre is full of her inhabitants All things on earth doe of this fulnes share No emptie place all fild with viâ—all ayre But man may sooner loose himselfe in quest And suruey of these blessings manifold Much sooner then discouer in the least The sâ—uerall gifts and vertues that they hold For in the least so many worths we find As much surmount mans weak sin darkned mind How many seuerall gifts hath the Maguayze How many hath Maldiuars fruitfull tree Which are as foyles to beautie and praile Our plenties infinite varietie One tree doth them with all abundance store And sweet content and all ours can no more Yet here with vs some one thing seeme to stand In stead of thousands As the Sheepe and Cow This brings the Oxe that tills and fats the land That warmely clothes vs. This our feeâ—e doth shoo And with
call the noone-day night And herein is that darknesse more accurst Of th'vnderstanding then the senses sarre For this defectiue we 're content to trust A friend to guide vs lest our steps should erre But that most wretched calls the darknesse day And thewd the light in darknesse striues to stay And why 's this cause we trust the sence alone And this light through the sences neuer past The Eyes no obiects haue but bodies knowne To speake of light vnseene to th'sence is waste But vnbeleeuing man that doest agnize Onely things obuious to thy sence and eyes When hast thou seene the Ayre at any time The chiefe sustaining meanes by which we liue Or thine owne soule whose beauties clearer shine More splendant beames then fading earth can giue For each thing is more noble in degree As'ts freer from Materialitie Water therefore 's aboue th'condensed dust Ayre aboue that then th'element of fire Then th'Orbes tralucent a incorporeall most Of bodies Lastly th'Angels that aspire Nearest that incorporeall Sunne aboue That giues the light of wisdome warmth of loue a Most incorporeall of bodies because of tralucent so many hundred thousand miles tho of Adamantine haranesse Coeli enim qualitates sunt 4. 1. Subtilitas siue puritas 2. Indissipabilitas seu soliditas 3. Immutabilitas 4. Rotunditas CHAP. XXIX Gods Wisdome YOu Nations then that starres and fire inuoke To this a light let your hallowed Incense smoke All Lights are darknesse else no other light Can guide your steps from errors dismall night Come then but when to see this light you come You must doe like those that behold the Sunne Looke on some third thing that reflects the skies Because two vehement obiects spoyle the eyes The Bashawes in the Turkish presence bow Their heads and bend their eyes to th' earth downe loe Fearing to gaze too freely on their Prince Then shall we dare more then the Scraphins They to behold this Light in highest place Doe interpose their wings before his face Not able so great glories to behold Then shall we wretched mortals farre more bold Gaze full vpon those beames that make vs blind No let vs for this weake eie of the mind Find some reflecting mirror as we doe For th'sences that t' our intellect may show As in a glasse the shadow of this light For this it selfe is in it selfe too bright For creatures to behold of so low state We haue a glasse a glasse of things create Wherein this wisdome doth so clearely shine That euery eye may see this light diâ—â—ne Therefore in this glasse of the creatâ—res we The glorie of our Maker best may see Who infinite vnbounded vnconteynd Himselfe in limits yet hath all things fram'd By number weight and measure for both Heauen Earth Sea Sun Moone the Stars the Planets seuen The Elements Men Beasts and Plants we find In these termes and dimensions all confind The Heauens in reuolution iumpe with time No accident doth ere their course decline From their first order Such proportion Of magnitude assignd to euery one And distance that if ought herein were chang'd From order the whole frame were quite estrang'd From goodnesse and pernitious to men But this is not ordaind alone to them The little Bees and Ants therewith are blest Such true proportion both in man and beast Of weight and measure in each member plac't And euery part with such true number grac't That if therein the least transgression be It brands the creature with deformitie God giues to man one head two hands two feete If any where this orders changd we meet A Monster If the Nose or Mouth or Eare Be fram'd too large they make the whole appeare Vncomely What an vniformitie In Flowers and Fruits in Seeds and Leaues we see Fram'd with such euennes that oft-times our sight Cannot distinguish all with number weight And measure And what can the wisdome show Of our great Maker more then this to know The number weight and measure of each part Shall not he know the motions of the heart He knowes the number of our steps and haires Shall not he know our secretest affaires And close affections He the drops of raine And of the Sands that on the shores remaine The number knowes And tell me shall not he The number of our words and actions see Yes For his Wisdome yet farre more appeares In that he at one instant sees and heares The actions thoughts and words of euery man Mans lame imperfect knowledge hardly can By many acts discoursing too and fro Scarcely attaine not fully come vnto The knowledge of some one thing But this King By one act sees himselfe and euery thing That Heauen and Earth containes But now we come To th'weighâ— and measure of perfection This Earth for which men striue so much we deeme Compar'd with Gold and Iems of small esteeme But these compar'd with things that life can saue Farre sleighter and much lower value haue The beasts that haue the benefit of sence Offencelesse creatures haue preheminence But men endued with reasons facultie Obtaine a splendor farre more cleare and high Yet these compared with those cleare minds aboue Whom no soule appetiâ—es of sences moue Are poore and low How great diuerâ—â—tie Of weight and measure is in digâ—itie In mens estates and callings here on earth Some wise some weake some meane and low by birth Others noble some indigent and poore Others swelling with abundant store But in the most mans weake opinion erres For tho the state of pouertie appeares Irksome and heauy vnto earthly minds The holy soule therein aduantage finds For wealth 's a snare that doth our soules betray But want's a tutor whips vs to the way That leads vnto eternall happines So that these present discommodities Returne in time an ample recompence When the faire guilded sweets of oppulence Repay their weight in bitternes and gall Oh how inscrutable are his workes all Who can declare the secret simpathies The hidden causes of antiphathies Who can expresse the wondrous properties Of Plants and Beasts their hidden qualities How many excellencies each were dwells Within the fabrick of these earthen cells For of the fairer faculties of mind The mind 's reflected knowledge darke and blind With such imperfectnes it selfe doth view We justly doubt if what we know be true Tho most we find our imbecillitie In contemplation of that Maiestie Which like a Faâ—lkon through the high clouds towres Where we come tardy with these wings of ours a God is light and there is no darknesse in him Iohn 1. 1. CHAP XXX His Power HIs Power againe as hard a taske I find For infinite can neuer be confind To place or number worke too hard and high To shew his powre that rules both earth and skie To whom the Saints and Angels all obey To whom the Lampes that rule both night day For he their Maker and their Mouer is Nor doe they runne their proper course but his Who sometime doth subiect their glorious
Arist. de an 3. h Vniuersus mundus ex sua tota materia constat materia namque ipsius naturale est at que sensibile corpus Arist. l. 1. c. de Coelo * Preter quatuor primaros humâ—res in sanguine venis contentos tres alios humores ostendunt medici inter quos oleoginosum hunc ponunt humorem sedem natiui caloris et vehiculum vitae Fernelius de spiritu innato calido cap. 6. namsulphur quicunque metallorum naturas perserutantur terrae adipem vel oleum appellant Ibid. cap. 3. i This is true of the inner Mediterrane Sea which neither ebbs nor flowes but not so of the vpper Terrane calld the Gulph of Venice which doth ebbe and flowe Acosta Hist. Indies lib. 3. cap. 14. k Stellarum errantium forsan ducatû in microcosmo desideras En Lunam Cerebrum Mercurium Lingua facies Venerem genitalia Solem cor Iouem epar Martem vesica fellis Saturnum Lien tibi perpulchre referunt Quin imo si modo fas vela pandere nauimque altius in simplicia mixta corpora in quae mundum Parapatetici partiuntur immittere ea quoque in microcosmo adumbrata â—uadantenus esse haud facile quis negatum iuerit cum spiritus humani corporis coelum quintam illam essentiam quatuor vero humores bilis ignem sanguis aerem pituita aquam terram atrabilis exprimant Knobloche institut Anatom XXXVIII An Elegie vpon the Death of the most Illustrious Prince HENRIE I Doe not grieue when some vnwholsome aire Mildewes rich fields nor when the clusters faire Of Claret â—ot through too abundant shovers I grieue not when some gay vasauory Flowers Are nipt and withered by ta'vntimely Frost Onely herein my patience suffers most When the sweet Haruest and expected gaine Of Vertues Vintage ere full ripe is slaine When Time the Wheat with cruell sythe cuts downe But leaues such vulgar weeds as we vnmowne Darnell and Vetches When these â—â—ortall lights Extinguisht be should guide our dimmer sights Then then I weepe and wish the warry clouds Would furnish me with reares to weepe whole flouds Then wish I BOREAS whose killing breath is ne'er perfum'd with sweets of Indian Earth To lend me sighs I wish the Culuers groanes The Pellicans shrill shrikes to expresse my moanes I wish my selâ—e those 〈◊〉 wings To search the glorious Courts of th'Fasterne Kings And a strong Partent seaâ—'d from powerfull IOVE Freely to take all that my thoughts approue First would I then in Indian Forrests â—lit The weeping Plant with Iuorie Knife to get Such pretious liquor vncorrupted cleare As might enbalme herâ—â—â—ck â—enrie here Then would I next to Tauris Gardens pierce For rarest flowers to strew vpon his Hearse Th' Indies should yeeld vs Diamonds China Gold Peâ—â—e the Siluer that her lap doth hold Sylon and Ormus all their Pearle should send The Congian Slaues from secret Caues should rend The Chyan Marble white Cassidonie Greene Lacedemon and red Porpherie The pure white Marble got in Palestine And rare Numidian spotted Serpentine Tuskane should yeeld me then some Architect Whose artfull wit should first these Stones dissect With Sand and toothlesse Saw and then engraue What stories there you memoriz'd would haue Which worke let mine imagination frame So large that the whole Earth might seeme to th'same A fitting Basis whence a lofue Spire Through the triple aiâ—e Regions and much higher Should penetrate so should the whole Earth be His tombe and the faire◠〈◊〉 his Canopie This Piramed a Pharos ferâ—ing right For to direct the storme-lost wandring VVight To saferie for since Fate did's life designe A patterne vnto this Cimmerian time To imitate tho ATROPOS accurst His Clew but new begun in sunder burst Yet that small piece in tables SMARAGDINE I would preserue for light therein to shine From these our Labyrinthian waies vneuen To guide vs iust that way he went to Heauen XXXIX MOrtalls lament for Nature now and Fate Seeme at great odds and both with mutuall hate To crosse each other Else why is it still If ought be faire or good by Natures will Fate cuts it off Your Peach with much adoe Escapes the Frost yet liues the bitter Sloe In spite of Winter Wheate and other Graine These oft are blasted Weeds are seldome slaine A thousand mischiefes and diseases tend The towring Falkon soone to worke her end When Puttocks last and Crowes liue many a yeare Th' Arabian Courâ—er prized so high and deare He 's melted in one day perhaps and dies But th' wretched Asse suruiues all miseries Strokes endlesse toile and faâ—â—ine And we sâ—e The like in men If Natâ—â—â—â—ounteous be Once in an Age and striuâ—â— to make one blest With her rich fauours him before the rest Fate soonest aimes at Let me instance take That Royall hope whom Nature stroue to make The very modell of Perfection How soone Fate cut him off And now is gone O word scarce to be nam'd with fewer teares CANDISHE the Noble Vertuous tho in yeares Younger then ADON yet like NESTOR wise Though greene in blooming youth ripe in aduice Whom Nature as a Cabinet did frame Therein to stow all things that Mortals name Rich faire or good which Death by Fates decree â—â—th broken vp and now quite robd we be Of treasure had enricht this barren time And reduc't plenty Fate these workes of thiâ—â— Are much too deepe for dim eyes to discerne For though some ignorant perchance would terme This Ciuill warre yet farre be such offence From vs to thinke the diuine prouidence Which leades these second causes euer may Be selfe diuided But this right we say That as these mortall Gods on earth doe vse All things or rich or faire themselues to chuse Thinking th' inferiour sort vnworthy such So seeme the Heauens herein to doe as much If Mines of Marle or Coale or such like stuffe Be found the Soueraignes thinke it good enough For the meane people But if Gold or Plate That 's for themselues Wherein they imitate The Heauens so that indeed there seemes to be In their designes a kind of simpathie Both choose vnto themselues what good they deeme Tho men mistaken oft-times most esteeme That which most harmes them But the Heauens which know The natures all of things they frame below With cunning hand in this faire Garden gather Each beautious flower leauing the weedes to wither By time and courses fit for them ordain'd Since these likewise for hidden ends were fram'd Iohn Hagthorppe XL. Teares for Sir THO. O. YOu Culuers of the VVood lend me your grones You Mandrakes shrikeâ— and mournefull Pellicanes You mid-night Birds lend me your dismall tones And all that wrongfull villanie complaines Oh lend me lend me all the dying straines You Snow-white Swans which on Meander swim Doe at your deaths in funerall Dirgessing You Elephants caught in the Peguan Toyle You Nubian Lions that the naked Moore Or wilde Arabian for your ancient spoile Compells in vaine