be defin'd by mortall man Some call him Ioua for his Existence Some Eloâ—ym for his excellence Some call him Theos for his burning light Some call him Deus for his fearefull might Some call him mightie Tetragrammaton Of letters fower in composition There is no Region vnderneath the skie But by foure letters write the Deitie For fower is a perfect number square And aequall sides in euerie part doth beare And God is that which sometime Good we nam'd Before our English Tongue was shorter fram'd Pan in the Greeke the Shepheards doe him call Which we doe tearme the whole vniuersall All in himself All one All euerie where All in the Center All out All in the Spheare All seeing all All comprehending all All blessed Almightie All aeternall Comprehended in no circumference Of no beginning nor ending essence Not capable of composition Qualitie accident diuision Passion forme or alteration All permanent without Mutation Principall Mouer alwaies in action Without wearinesse or intermission Immortall and without infirmitie Of euerlasting splendent Maiestie One in Essence not to be deuided Yet into Trinitie distinguished Three in one essence one essence in three A wonder I confesse too hard for mee Yet diuine Poets innumerable With strong Arguments vnresistable As Theorems and Demonstrations Deliuer it to our Contemplations The Father Sonne and holy Ghost these three Are subsistent persons in the Deitie Abba Ben Ruach blessed Poets sing Are the true Names of Pan coelestiall King This may suffice to shewe a mysterie That passeth mortall Mans Capacitie Now to proceed Blessed immortall Pan Was not alone before this world began Yet were no Angels as then created Nor Angels Offices destinated Nor could their attendance doe him pleasure In whom consisted all blessed treasure All comprehending Pan was then no where A certaine place must euery Angel beare Not circumscriptiue but definitiue Pan fils eache place in manner repletiue But Abbae Ben Ruach in Trinitie Making one Pan in perfect vnitie Whole Pan in eache and each of these in Pan A mystery that passeth reach of Man These were sufficient of themselues to frame This glorious Engine which we Cosmos name Who when he pleas'd to make his glory know'n And haue his power manifestly show'n He putteth on triumphant Maiestie That all his creatures might him glorifie And at one instant with his onely word As a most mightie and imperiall Lord This wondrous frame of Heauen and Earth we sâ—e At once were made in substance as they bee Yet was this frame a Masse vnpolished Void of all forme rude and vngarnished Water Earth Ayre Fire togither blended As if Confusion were the thing intended But mightie Ruach spread his powerfull wings Vpon this Masse of all confused things And kept it warme making it apt to take Such different forme as pleased Pan to make So mightie Ioue commaunded separation Twixt light and heauie things for generation And of light Bodies made a Circumference In circle wise from th' earth for difference And made the earth both fast and permanent The Center of th' vniuersall continent And all these light bodies did he then dispose Into ten Heauens the rest to enclose The Imperiall Heauen first and principall Most large and beautifull glorious eternall Where Pan himselfe doth vsually rest Where Angels dwel and sacred soules are blest The second the first mouing heauen is Not Christaline as many thinke amisse Whereby all other Orbs doe chiefly moue According to the will of Pan aboue The third is call'd the starrie Firmament which to our view is alwayes eminent Packt full of starres as Goulden Nailes in Poast To giue a luster vnto euery coast To giue direction to them that saile From port to port for their Countries auaile To bring sweete shewers to Tellus excellence As they arise by blessed influence One shepheard thought this Orbe the first that moued But false it is by many reasons proued In order then doe follow 〈…〉 Knowne to each Figure-stinger vnder heauen That wize from thence many aâ— vncouâ—h-tale As if great â—an were closed in their Male With fierie Trigons and watrie Tripliciâ—â—â— They dazell the mindes of humane simplicitie Turning the true nature of Astâ—onomie Into iudiciall Egyptian Sophistrie For Planets shew by their opposition Trine Quartile Sextile or Coniunction Whereto the weather and bodies doe encline By Natures course not prophecie diuine Nor can they shew by any secret starre Whether thou shalt die in prisâ—n or in warre Yet doubt we not the Starres haue operation Working a secret inclination But what and how many of these Starres there bâ—â— Of that infinite number which we see Whether the thousand and two and twentie Which Shepheards single out of that plentie Or all the starres togither in the Skie Can shew when and where thou and I shall die Or al the vertues of the Planets seauen Can proue thee damn'd or bring thee vnto heauen Sith iudgement of the starres can all things shew They can vnfold this Mysterie I trow The end of starres as seely shepheards saine Was to illuminate this darkesome plaine And to demonstrate to men of reason Spring Sommer Haruest and Winter season Not to foreshew what certaine shall befall To euerie part of this vniuersall But to conclud I say as I began A modest wisdome well beseemes a man Yet these are the names of the Planets seuen As neere as simple shepheards 〈◊〉 them 〈◊〉 Saturne Iupiter and Mars are three Next to the starrie Welken in degree Much slower than the rest in motion Because of their loftie Constitution Phoebus is next which we call Sol the Sunne Without whose light the world were cleane vndone Without whose heate nothing that liu's could liue For Light and Heate No Planet else doth giue He is the Fost'rer of this earthly Round And all the creatures that therein be found Piercing all things belowe with powerfull Raies Harke how the chirping Birds do chaunt his praise He swiftly runnes ouer th' vniuersall In twentie foure howres a day naturall And yet he keepes a station diuine Staying one Month in euerie Zodiake Signe Producing creatures of such varietie As mou's all men t' admire his Deitie No Starre within the VVelkin taketh place But borrowes light of his resplendent grace The mightie Ocean is nourished by him Phaebe her selfe without his light is dim Ioues winged messenger sweete Mercurie Is fed by Phoebus blessed harmonie Venus the darling to the god of warre Doth neuer rest if Phoebus be too farre The bottom of the Sea the fish the sand Receiue their comfort from his blessed hand Tellus her selfe and Flora in her pride Die and consume if Phoebus looke aside The Diamond Saphyr and Rubie red By Phoebus scorching heate are ingendred The golden mettals in the deepest Mine Do consecrate their being to his Shrine Ceres that Queene doth fade and pine away If mightie Phoebus hide his golden ray Yea Bacchus and
or gargaâ—ise Marking the signe wherein faire Phaebe lyes These sacred vertues qualities diuine Do make her wonderfull in shepheards eine And straine the world to celebrate her name With louely Hymnes and euerlasting fame Thus were the heauens orderly disposed By glorious Pan as you haue heard disclosed Yet is Endymions taske but now begonne When one would think his webbe were wholly sponne Vnfold he must an other Mysterie And anatomize diuine Philosophie How the vast space t'wixt heauen and earth was fil'd With elementall Spheares as Ioua wil'd That Emptinesse might haue no habitation Amongst the workes of Gods creation O you Caelestiall euer-liuing fires That done inflame our hearts with high desires Our Spokes beene blunt rude haâ—â—â—ish vncooth Vnable in Mysteries to know the sooth Vnkempt vnpolished ignorant lewde Vneth with one drop of Nectar bedewde High are the Mysteries we take 〈◊〉 hand To discussâ— of fire aier sea and land With euery thing therein contained And by the wisdome of Pan ordeyned On bended knee therefore with humble prostration Endymion maketh his supplication To illuminate th' Eyes of his blinded minde The secrets of this lower world to finde To discouer them to men vnlettered Whose knowledge with Ignorance is fettered And hee will sacrifice vnto your shrine The fat of Lambes and sweetest Eglantine With Garlands of Roses and Gilliflowers Hee 'l decke and garnishe all your sacred Bowers And with his choycest Notes and Roundelayes Cause Hil's and Dales to celebrate your praise And all the bordring Shepheards shall admyre The strange effects of your Coelestiall Fyre The force whereof doth make me to entreat Of that which doth adioyne to Phoebus seate Which is thought to bee the firy Element Aboue the rest for lightnes excellent Most rare and thinne most hot yet doth not shine Of no colour yet of qualitie Diuine Rounde in Fygure yet most swiftly moues Not of it selfe as Aristotle proues But by the mightie Agitation Of Planets superior in operation Next to the Moone in constitution Speedie and swifte in reuolution Giuing heate to euery thing compounde That hath his being in the lower round Not Conspicuous to any mortall Eye Because of his Thinnes and Raritie Yet burneth and consumeth vtterly What so resisteth his flaming Furie Hee worketh straunge Meteors in the Night Which shepheards hau'n often in their sight By vapors drawne from the heate of the Sunne From out the Earthe to Aâ—rs high Region Which vapours once by this Fyre oâ— flamed Expresse strange formes which Meteorâ— are named Such as be Comets and the blaâ—â—ing Staâ—s By which some shepheards progâ—â—sticate wars But certaine they signifie stiriliâ—iâ— By reason of the Earth's great â—iceity For want of Shewers and sweet moystening Rayne The cause of springing and growing of Grayne For Comets alwayes in Summer appeere When Ceres calleth Aquarius for â—eere The shortest Time that blasing starres remayne Is seuen dayes as Phylosophers â—ayne The longest time is dayes foure-score Too long by so long for Piercâ— Plâ—m-mans store And then they disolue into Ayrâ— or fire As the substance of the vapors require Starres of false Helena and Starres flying Knowne to Marriners in their long sayling Are within the Comets comprehended And from th' Elemental fire descended So Castor and Pollux are to Saylers knowne By these their Ruine or safetie is showen This Comet sometime lighteth on the Mast Thence flyeth to the Sayl's and â—acklings in hast Skipping heere and there without certaine byding The matter 's vnctuous and must needs be glyding And if it appeare before the storme beginne It foretels the perrils that the Ship is In. Then they call it the starre of Helena Hell's Furie Deaths messenger fierce Megara They waile and wring their wofull hands for greife They looke for death expecting no reliefe But if such Comets fall when stormes are ended They say that Castor and Pollux them defended They ioy and reuell vowing Sacrifize For life is esteemed the richest prize This Comet constraineth the greatest wight To magnifie Pans maiestie and might Who forewarn's them of dangers imminent To make the Saylers wise and prouident All meanes within board carefully t' aduise For dreadfull stormes shall presently arise If stormes be ended when they see it fall It is a Messenger vnto them All His glorious Name on knees to magnifie That hath preserued them so gratiouslie Such firie vapors often-times are seene In Church-yards and places where dead bodyes beene Buryed or executed in Summer-time In time of pestilence or for some cryme Which Idiot's say'n bin dead-mens Ghosts or Sprighâ—s Walking those places in the Irke-some Nights When as no mortall man can be able To prooue or defend such ridiculous Fable For Shepheards sayne by naturall reason That from Bodyes buried in Sommer season An vnctuos vapour hot and dry doth rise Which Phoebus seazeth according to his guise And doth inflame it in a little space Making it tumble vp and downe the place Such fiery vapours sometime do abide Vpon the bodyes of men that lightly ride Or on their horses-bodyes as they nimbly pace Daftly remoouing seat from place to place For when men post lightly they getten heate VVhich being turned to an Oyly-sweate Sends forth dry vapours which the Sunne doth 〈◊〉 VVhereof he doth a skipping fire make For colours which oft in the Welkin seeme VVhich been firie Meteors as men doe deeme They be not very colours in the Skie Our eye-sight fayl's vs looking so high These haue not the Sunnes Inflamation Nor any firy Generation But mightie vapours drawne from the Sunne aloft Which to vs representen colours oft A circling garland compasseth the Moone Presaging windes and Tempests â—â—sing soonâ— Blackish in colour of thicke composition Shewing the weather by foule disposition This is no inflamed fiery Meteoâ— But a cloudy moysty darke thicâ—â— vapor One bright shining circle greatest of All VVhich learned Spephards Galaâ—â—a call A beaten high-way to the Gods Palace Glorious beautifull full of Solace Shyning most cleare in a Frostie Night And in the starrie firmament is pâ—ght Yet is not a vapour nor meteor we know Nor drawne from the Sunne which is farre below But shineth most bright by respleâ—dant grace By the beautie of starres that furnish the place Besides starres dispersed one hundred and eight Starres of Note of high regard and weight With glorious beames their shining display And hence it 's called the milky-white waye And if you will weet what starreâ— they hight That maken the Welkin in that place so bright Lysten you Shepheards I le set them in order As they done garnish that circulare Border Cassiopeia hath thirteene starres of Note VVherewith she frettizeth her purple Cote The siluered Swan that dying sweetly sings Adorn's with twelue starres her beautifull wings The soaring Eagle bearing Ioues Ganymed VVith foure Orientall Starres garnished The hatefull Scorpion doth neuer fayle Of fiue bright Torches in her poysoned
seemeth nothing comfortable Is a Meteor watrie amongst the rest And for mans auaile is not reckned lest Of a thinne watrie vapour is ingendred Which to the wintrie Aire soone is tendred And by the same in crustie Pearles concreate Falles on the grasse and pincheth vitall heate It crusheth and abateth Floras pride Stripping her naked as a naked bride Spoyling her flowers discolouring her greene Imprisoning her as if she were no Queene All these be discommodities I trowe Obserue the commodities which doe growe By this Meteors vertue and qualitie Which grow'n by his forces abundantly All hurtfull wormes in the earth it doth kill And all noxious humors in the bodie spill These are the benefits which Pan doth giue To a colde frost that mortall man might liue The name of a Clowde is so commonly knowne That labour is lost if more should be showne For it is a vapour moyst grosse eleuate By Phoebus force to the Region scituate In the middst of the Aire where being compact By the colde circle till it be ransact by Phebus heate so moystned againe Is squeezed into a shower of raine As a Sponge in water deeply sunken Vntill it hath the whole moysture drunken If with force of hand you squeeze it suddainly Water from sundrie parts thereof will fly Raine is an issue from a Clowde watrie By drops discending from a Region ayrie The middle Region of that Element To moysten this habitable Continent Where man and beast receyuen nourishment And Flora makes her mantle orient When a moyst vapour thicke eleuated And by the colde Region maceâ—â—â—ed Descendeth downe vpon the earth belowe It is then called a Meteor of snowe The drops that done fall resemble a feather Not as rain's-round-drops contracted together The feathered-flakes dispersed are bound To couer the lower circulare round Shepheards at this time fodderen their â—â—ocke With the prouision of the Sommer â—tocke Boyes setten Lime-twigs and diggen pit-falles Watching hungrie Birds behind trees and walles Which comming thither for food vnawares Are tangled in lyme or taken in snares Shepheards weare Freezes and Ladies vse furres To keep them from Rewmes Caâ—arres cold Murres Snow water Hus-wiues at euerie turning Saue in a glasse gainst scalding or burning So farre is the snow from doing of harme That rootes of trees corne and grasse it keepes waâ—â—e As with a mantle the earth it enfoldes Preseruing the same from violent coldes It fattons the Fallow as Shepheards rehearse Mellowing the ridges for Coulters to pearse In the highest mountaine and frozen hill Snow gendreth Cristall and shyning Berrill Thus is Snow not the meanest ornament For vs that in the earth are resident The Haile is reckoned as a mightie cursse Making all worldly creatures much the worsse And in Sommer season is ingendred When grasse and corne is chiefly tendred The reason why it is hard compacted Is because it hath his cold contracted For when it came to the middle region He found it colder in disposition Then it was wont to be because the heate Of Phoebus beames doth now more strongly beate Which when it cannot beare it gathereth round It selfe least Phoebus should his force confound And so dissolue it into raine or sleete To do some good for which Haile is not meete Therefore round colde and hard it doth discend Of purpose princely Flora to offend For there can be no perfect conâ—enience Twixt noble Nature and maleâ—olence Vpon her fruits it makes intrusion Beating in peeces with confusion The buds of trees the hearbs the corne the flowers Which Tellus kept for Floras Paraâ—ours There is no watrie Meteor in the Ayre But is profitable and debonaier Except this crabbed and furious Haile That fiercely our nourishment doth assaile For Sleete is not so forcible or strong To doe Dame Flora and her Babies wrong Discending in March or in Februarie When Phoebus shews his burning luminarie But here some may a question propound Requiring a Philosopher profound Why is the Ayres middle Region Coldest in the burning Sommer season And in the Winter time more temperate Raine and not Haile fitter to generate Answere Two contraries doe alwayes flie The one from the other naturally So when it is extreame hottest weather The cold collecteth his forces together And keepes himselfe close in his owne defence Least heate should surprize or expell him thence Then is he colder then he was before Hauing abundance of coldnesse in store But if that heate be from him deuided His force is dissolued Our poynt decided Now is the discourse of the water ended And the shepheard to the earth discended The Centre of the whole vniuersall Whose circumference is Emperiall Whose bodie is round wholy considered Though of other forme in peeceâ— seuered Colde and dry by naturall propertie Seated permanent on her Axeltree Aequallie standing no way declyning Solid and heauier not bright or shyning Full of Creatures of Diuine Excellence Gracing high Pans might and magnificence The mother of all grosse and heauie things That grow creepe or goe or fly'n with wings Fynnie footed fowles excepted and fishes VVhich â—eruen for Thetis banquetting dishes Although their might arise some difference VVhether Sea or Land hath the preheminence For fethered fowles first Generation Which in the seas haue propagation For that Sea-fowles as Shepheards vnderstand Layen and hatchen their eggs on the land And also neuer to Saylers appeare But it is certaine some Yland is neere Yt seemes I might conclude in generall Tellus is mother of Fowles vniuersall A mother adorned with vertues excellent In Action Passion and habit different From all other Elements supernall The Center of Creation-naturall Hauing seuen rare speciall properties Whereof each-one a Mother glorifies Fruitefull Good Neuer-weary Patient Most Constant Faithfull liberally-bent Fruitfull alwayes parturient and teeming VVhat heauenly Forces beget to our seeming Shee dayly produceth and bringeth to light Shee 's alwayes with childe in winters despight Good of nature and kinde by creation To all her Babyes by generation Cherishing them all in their infancie Till they may shift for themselues hansomlie Neuer wearie of worke still dooing well Cheerefully viewing each place of her Cell Swathing and Bathing well the tender Limmes Of all her yonglings and with butter Tâ—â—mmâ—s The chafed Places of their Fylmy-skinne Curing their Bodies without and within Patiently suffring sclaunderous words VVhich wounden the mind more deeper then swords She suffereth worldings to spit in her face To disgorge to trample spurne and disgrace To wound with ploughing where they liken best To search her bowels her belly her brest To steale her iewels and deepe hidden treasure Both for necessitie and for pleasure Constant not wauering alwaies the same Immooueable keeping her glorious Frame Faithfully sauing what to her you tender Vntill you require her the same thing to render If wheate you deliuer wheat shall you receiue Shee meanes not with Darnell your Barne to deceiue
If gold you deliuer then golde shall you finde For Tellus beareth a most faithfull minde But if you will speake of her liberall plentie For one Corne of Graine you shall receiue twentie VVhen all thy friends thy body haue forsaken Then marke the Earth what she hath vndertaken A body dead stinking corrupt impure VVhose stench and gastly-view none can endure Opening her wombe she takes it in againe And keep 's it safe from Pâ—utos fierie traine Rendring't againe in shining puritie From putrifaction to immortalitie Obserue thou well her qualities diuine And by immitation make them all thine For further must my wearied Pipe assay By part 's her hidden treasures to display Shewing the glorie of her blessed face Her breast her wombe and euery secret place Arcadian Orpheâ— make my musicke able To annatomize Mysteries vnspeakable Hearken great Cynthiâ— how Euterpe sings Of Tellus Mantle which sweet Flora brings Of colour greene with flowers entercheckt By curious skill of princely Architect With hearbs and Plants and grasse for euery beast Tapistred with Foules and beasts comely dreast Now hath Queene Tellus put her Mantle on Flora tryumphing in her Paragon She deckes her Queene with Roses white and red Muske and sweet Roses in Damasco bred Fragrant Gilliflowers and Carnation Enamiled with pure Vermilion The purple Violet and Columbine The silu'red flower of sweete Eglantine The Dasie Cow-cup sweet smelling-Walflower The Flower de Luce the Raine-bowes Paramour The whitest Lillie and the Daffadill The Paggle and the blessed Pimpernill The Mary golde and partie coloured Pinke The Paunsey and the Hearts-ease as Shepheards think With others infinite in variation Differing in colour forme and creation With Sauour and odoriferous smell Refreshing the braine as Ladies can tell The Gilliflower striketh admiration To Shepheards marking her creation Marking the Substance whereof it is framed The different forme whereby it is named The precious colour wherewith it 's varnished And the sweet sauour where with it 's garnished Besides the flowers which in the Mantle been Diuersitie of hearbs and Plants are seene VVherewith our Ladies curen Maladies Sauing our Bodies from extremities These doon fayre Ladies in their Gardens Plant As in a store-house to supply their want The Sage the Basill and the Lauender The bitter Worme-wood Rue and Germander The louely Veruin Balsam Sauory The Smaladge Liuer-wort and Centorie The Eye-bright and the powerfull Celâ—dony The Camomill head-purging Betoâ—y Bloodwort Muggwort Hartestrong and Patience Parcelye Penny-Reall for ingredience Leaues of Violets Strawberries Succory Endiue Time Buglosse Spannish Pellitory Margerom-gentle Spikenard Southern-wood Burnet Burrage for Claret Wine good Sauen and Spurge for strong purgation Hurtfull to womens generation Clary Dragans blessed Angelica Holy Thistle and Indian Tobacca Featherfew Knot-grasse and Mayden Hearâ— The brest and Longs from Phlegme cleare Speremit Playntaine and faire Eâ—â—mony Spinage Costmary for a Timpany Sparage Beares-foote and Oculus-Christi Whose black-seedes Purgen eyes dimme and Mistie Eight or ten of these seedes put in thine eye VVill runne vp to the eye lids Immediately Not grieuing the eye or hindring the â—ight And there will they worke till they haue made bright And purged the eye from all corruption Then full of white slime will drop out alone Besides these Hearb's beene Trees innumerable Some bearing fruite of taste deâ—ectable And some for stately buildingâ— profitable Whereof men maken Shippes Naâ—igable It were a matter hard and intricaâ—e Orderly of each to particulate But these were all made for mans sustentation Or else of purpose for his recreation And on the face of mightie Telluâ— stand Admirable workes of Pans powerfull hand The loftie Caedar and Sable Cypresse Threatening the welkin with his mounting Tresse Sweet smelling Firre and Saxifrace VVhich men venerous done highly grace Besides their smell yeeld Turpentine Profitable Pitch and richest Rozine The builders Oake and Plough-mens Ashen tree Princes and Souldiers regard in their Degree The weeping Elme the Beâ—ch the Byrch the Playnâ— Haue vertues rare and were not made in vaine For fruitfull Trees that beene commodious Are so well known that it were tedious To recken them in order seuerally For it is thought fond in Philosopy To prooue a thing by demonstration That none denies or needs probation So many fruites of blessed qualitie Doth Pan prouide for mans necessitie That would the minde of mortall men amaze No Pamphlet but huge volumes must them hlaze VVe know we haue we vse we taste we eate The vertue tree the leafe the fruite the meate Now must Endymion dresse himselfe to sing Of beasts of Fowles Of euery creeping-thing Of Bees of Waspes of Hornets and of Flyes VVhich Pan made not But of corruption rise Wilde feirce raging beasts garnishen her Robe And with varietie diaper her Globe The roaring Lyon and dreadfull Tyger The strange Hyena and fearefull Panther Armed Rhinoceros the vgly Beare The precious Vnicorne whose horne is deare The Ermine Leoparde Martin and Sable VVhose princely skins beene rich and marchantable Rich Luzerns white and blake Foxe Mineueer Elke and Bugle Budge and the swift Reine Deer Gemps Shamoys Roe-bucke and the stately Hart The VVolfe The Squirill iumping by Art From tree to tree with that dexteritie As makes men wonder her celeritie The siluered white blacke and gra◠〈◊〉 Good for the House and sparing of moâ—â—ey The skinnes of these beasts beene profitable Highly prized and to Marchants â—â—able The Vrchin the quilled Porpenâ—ine Are good for medicine as the greaâ—e of Swine Th' emparked nimble Deere Red and fallowe Making hornes to Sound and Hunters â—allowe Light footed Hare a Game for mighty Kings At whose Pursute The Faery 〈◊〉 sings Redoubling twise or thrise the merry Soundes Of hallowing Knight shril-horne 〈◊〉 chauÌ„ting houÌ„des The craftie Badger the Watry Ottâ—â— Whome Howndes pursue till they hauen got her These Beastes been of highest Regard and Price To pleasure Princes and to murder vice Wilde Apes and Monkies with the Marmezite Wherein our noble Ladies Done delight The Rammish filthie stinking Babâ—oun That lewde Mountie-banks leaden vp and downe To make of fond people a great coâ—â—â—ouâ—se A notable bayte for Perkin-Pickpâ—rse These been all wilde and yet of great esteeme Though some of these later as tamed seemâ— The Pole-catte and wilde-catte thâ— Weezle Stoate Are wilde yet discribed in great Teâ—lus Coate The Muske-Catte for Ciuet and the Dormouse Damn'd Rats and vilde-Mise the plague of a house Flora's sworne-foe the Mould-warpe or Wante Subuerting the Corne the grasse and the Plant Spoyling the Medow's and the Pasâ—ure ground With infinite Hillocks rayâ—â—d vp round Out of the earth cast vp with her Nose Neither is she blinde as many suppose These beene Floras foes scarce worth the naming On whome no wise Man bestowes the taming Besides sauadge Beastes there been domesticall Seruing for mans vse as friendes naturall The friendly Elephant powerfull and Strong Armed with
Composed by Arte Geometricall Whereby beene wrought thinges Supernaturall Men with halfe bodies men going in th' Ayre Men all deformed men as angels fayre Besides other thinges of great admiration Wrought by this Glasses Fabrication Drinking Glasses and plaine window Glasse Placed by Arte that light and heate may passe Though it be strange we know 't may come to passe To set â—ire on a Towne or a Ship by a glasse How are old men bound to Pans Maiestie Whose sight is dimme with their antiquitie That they might in age reade his Oracles He helps their sight with glassie spectacles You learned Searchers of ritch natures skill That oyles and waters souereigne distill What glassie Limbecks and receptacles And closed fast luted Tabernacles Frame you of this one brittle treasurie Safelie to keepe distilled misterie Nimble quicksiluer what shall I say of thee Minerall excellent in thy degree Mother of Metals transformer of all The seauen Metalls vniuersall How shall I celebrate thine excellence Or glorifie thy great Magnificence Golde ioyneth not to siluer but by thee Thou piercest all Mettalles that formed be No Mettall hindereth thine agiliâ—â—â— Tou flyest the sight of mans iniquitie Admirable thinges might well be wrought If man by Arte could fixe thee as they ought And beate thee foorth into a siluer Plate Whome neyther Tuch nor Teste couâ—d macerate No siluer then to thee were comparable Made with small cost excellent and durable This I thinke were a farre greater misterie Worthily fit to bee called Alchymie Then thus to make our wealth and witte to range Good Copper into seeming golde to change Which thing is as possible to be doone As for a Weezle to eate vp the Sunne But Mercury whome we quicke siluer call May be fixed as siluer naturall Perfect good siluer permanent and 〈◊〉 And shall all proofes of Tuche and 〈◊〉 endure No difference twixt other siluer and this But that is steedefast and this running is Yet as it is it cureth Maladies Ache in the ioynt's and french infirmitieâ— And men once cur'd with neuer dying praise With sacrifice and sacred rounded layes Doe blaze with Trumpe of euerlasting fame The glorious order of this circled frame And now Endymion hath Anatomized The vniuersall world and all therein comprised One onely thing remain's as yet vntouch'd Which is moste admirable yet closely couch'd T is this to what end all these thingâ—â— were fram'd Which in this particular we haue nam'd The answere is the vse thereof is great Eyther for contemplation or Meate Principallie for blessed mans behoofe These things were framed as a certaine proofe That he would loue him euerlastingly For whome he framed vniuersalitie For when worlds engine was thus finished And all the parts perfectly polished Yet this whole frâ—me serued Pan to no purpose Nor did he benefite by one of those Whom he had made vpon and in this round Heauen or Earth or what therein is found For next to heauen were the Angels made And shortly after some fell Retrograde And became diuels by alteration Of all their qualities in creation And haue their place within the spacious ayre Kept in Chaines of euerlasting Despaire Yet not of Angell Diuell or ought created And Pan neede in pleasure scituated Yet would he make this glorious world and why For that he ment to frame a Monarchie Or large Empire full of soueraigntie Then formed he a Prince of royall dignitie Of a wonderfull Grace and Maiestie To sway this Imperiall Monarchie He framed first his bodies lineaments With all his admirable Complements As a yong man of thirtie yeares of age Beautifull gratious of comely visage Yet dead he lay as carkasse on a greene No life or motion in him felt or seene Like sweete Adonis sleeping on the Mount Whom peerlesse Venus had in high account Then breath'd he into him the breath of life Where presently began a gentle strife When euery limme began it selfe to moue And stretch it selfe his vitall force to proue The closed eyes their Curtaines did display The rowling eye had motion euerie way The nosthrils gan to feele the fragrant smell Of sweetest sented flowers which there did dwell The eare began to heare melodious notes Of daintie Birds from out their warbling throates The Rubie liquid warming vitall blâ—â—d Pass'd euerie veine as riuerâ— streaming flood From Liuers fountaine t' impart nourâ—â—hment Vnto the heart that hath the gouernment And so through conduits secretly conâ—riu'd Is blood to euery humane part deriu'd This life to euerie part gaue perfect â—ense To feele according to their differencâ— Within his head by hidden instruments Were placed Natures blessed Ornaments The forehead kept obiected phantasie The hinder part reteyneth memorie Intelligence hath her place principaâ—l In the crowne of the head highest of all Fit to receiue obiects from phantasie And to commit them vnto memorie Within a branchie filme there lyeth the braine Close rampir'd vp with Barracados twaine Both maters and the flint-hardie Scull Here reignes the Soule in maner wonderfull From thence she doth diffuse her operation To euerie member in his scituation This breathed Soulâ—s an immortall substance Simple spirituall and of puissance Though breathed yet no part of Panâ— Essence But a created glorious existence Fitting the bodie for Procreation It selfe not fit for generation A simple essence cannot be deuided As Philosophers haue well decided Thus being animated his tongue did moue And spake some words which tended vnto loue Then neuer present Pan tooke him by th' hand And set him on his feete making him stand And made him view his glorious Maiestie As farre as might his perspicacitie And made him view the glorie of the place With all things fram'd and set before his face Producing to him all creatures framed So to be termed as he would haue them named He made EDEN GAN IEHOVAH habitation Fit for a Prince of his creation Replenished with fruites of euery kinde To â—it the belly and to please the minde In the midst of the round world Scituate The rest with great easâ— to contemplate There he inuested him as in a Throne Giuing him season and possession And imperiall domination Of all this lowest roundes creation Gracing his gouernment with certaine law's Which Clarkys comprehenden in their Saw's And being high pointes of Theologie Surpasse Endymions Philosophie Marke Cinthia where Philosophie doth linne There alwaies doth Theologie beginne He cal'd him ADAM ISCH an earthly man Worldes wonder Monarche Terrestriall Pan. So glorious shining Princely excellent Vertuous holy wise and continent Sober modest strong graue and temperate Amiable Magnanimous and moderate Of comely jesture and sweetest carriage Fit to possesse Ioue's Queene in marriage Yet desolate alone and comfortlesse Ritch yet poore pinch'd with solitarines Commaunding all thinges that were created Yet could not his minde bee recreated Because he was constrain'd to liue alone Without inioying a companion
Which Pan perceiuing cast him in a sleepe Commaunding Morpheus this prince to keepe As one receiuing Opium or Dwall Depriu'd of vitall sence doth deadly fall So falleth downe this mightie earthly Prince Neuer felt Flora such a creature since Except he were more then a mortalâ— man Receiuing Pearle of Tullus part of 〈◊〉 Falling she tooke him in her blessed armes And lul'd him fast a sleepe with sacrâ—d charmes Soe dead a sleepe with Incantations She dressed his bodie with Carnations Crimsen Gilliflowers Pinkes and Paunsâ—es Muske-Roses and other pleasing Pâ—ansies Thinking herselfe a Queene moste fortunate If she might liue to chuse him for heâ— mate But mightie Pan prouided otherwise Out of his sencelesse side he made to rise A young Princely gratious louing creature Far surpassing any former feature Of such a shape diuine and Majestie As amazeth my best Philosophie Her face was like my fairest Cinthya And peraduenture like Musophila Her grace behauiour and modestie Surmounteth any mans Capacitie Nor by Endimion can be blazed But it will make the whole world amazed Heauen and earth cannot the like afford As must be wife to this imperiall Lord. For she must be of bodie excellent That must lie by a King Magnificent And it behooueth her to be precise To talke with him that 's absolutely wise Pan therefore taking consultation Said she should serue for generation Her skinne was white as was the Iâ—orie Thinne and smooth as the finest Tiffany Where through a man might perfectly beholde The azured veynes her inward parts to folde A reddie intermixt vermilion Diffused was pleasant to looke vpon Her golden hayre dispersed to her thighes Close shrowd's Lucina's sacred Misteries Her modest eyes like sparkling Diamondâ— Pure and chaste vnlike to Rosamonds Piercing like Cupids fixed fierie Darts Sterne fierce and bloody Marble Martiall-hearts Loues mountaines apples of Hisperida Such were her brests witnesse my Cinthia From whence by corall conduits flowing are Streames of the sweetest caelestiall Nectare Her crimson smyling lipps did make a showe That mirth and pleasure in her mouth did growe Her teeth euen set by natures curious hand As rowes of orientall Pearles did stand These keepe her tongue and instruments of voice Of purpose made to cause her Lord reioyce Tender her hands her fingars long and small Fit to delight her Lord and sport withall Thus fram'd she was in iust proportion Which made the world amaz'd to looke vpon But for the Ornaments of her princely minde For excellency were not farre behinde The noble soule of Adam first created If they be view'd and iustly estimated Some shepheards hau'n seely folkes abused Which donne denie her soule to be infused Into her bodie as blessed Adams was But rather that creation came to passe By propagation out of Adams soule We finde no warrant for this in our rowle For simple essence can no way generate His like and yet conserue his former state Thus was the glorious Queene accomplished And with caelestiall beautie furnished Pan blessed her and call'd her Adamah A female earth and after Nekebah By reason of her great concauitie To take and holde begotten progeny This being doon he viewd the sleeping man At his commaund Morpheus swiftly ran In the darkesome Caues of Eâ—ebus With all his mistie charmes Somnifeâ—â—us And left the sleeping Prince in Floraâ— lappe Not knowing what was done for his good happe At last his lustrious eyes he gan aduaâ—nce Rouzing himselfe and shaking of hiâ—â—raunce And standing vp vpon his princely feete Pan caused his vertuous Lady him to greete Whose suddaine view strook him to such amaze As marueling a while did naught but gaze He wondered at her beautifull proportion Her gratious lookes and constitution And looking well vpon himselfe quoth he So well this peerelesse frame resembleth me As if she were my propper flesh and bone In bodie and soule wee seeme to be but one In all the earth her match can not be found In whome humanitie doth so abound Then euer liuing euerlasting Pan Acquaintd him how euerie thing began And said absolute shall be thy pleasure Take heere to wife this surpassing treasure The Prince obey'd the Lady was content Mightie Pan marryed them incontinent And blessed them saying they should increase And fill the world till heauen and earth did cease This pleas'd the Prince in token of consent He gaue her halfe this worldly regiment Parting betweene them earthes circumference And calâ—d her ISKAH for prehemâ—â—ence Then was the marriage solemnized And in our sacred rowles eterniâ—ed Where blessed Angels sounded harmonie And chirping Birds chaunted their Melodie The King and Queene with ioyfull hearts did sing And hils and dales rebounding Eccho's bring Tellus and Flora kep't it holy-day Attired in their moste gorgeous array And all the Orbs and Spheres gaue looking on When Princely Adam tooke his Paragon How long they liu'd in their felicitie Is not containâ—d in Natures Mysterie What was their arte their life their fall their end By sacred layes and Oracles beene pend WIth that Endymion cast his eyes aside And saw a gentle Knight come pricking on Swift was his pace and knightlie did he ride Bending his race towards Endymion As stately Knight he was to looke vpon Complet his armes in rich Caparison His horse like Pegasus and he Belerophon Likely he was to mannage Martiall armes Well could he couch in rest his dreadfull Speare He rode as one that scorn'd Thessalian charmes Nor did he any strange aduentures feare The Armes and Shield which I did see him beare Were coloured blew thicke set with siluer Starrs His Shield an azur'd Porpentine with golden barrs His wauing Bases manaced the skies Like as his Armour to Welkin semblant Couch'd in his Saddle close to enterprize Stratagems and aduentures puissant If any in the earth were commorant And single Combat quicke to vndertake Gainst hellish Monsters or Lernaean snake His steely helme a Corronet of Bayes Empaled round the penon of his Launce The ignorance of all the world displayes For when he gan his warlike Speare ta'duaunce Some golden Letters writ I read by chaunce The Motto was if I remember right Learning Triumphâ— in Enuâ—es great dâ—spighâ— The simple Shepheard cried out 〈◊〉 Flie noble Cynthia we are betrai'd So sore amazed was the Countrey swaine That he forgot what he had done or 〈◊〉 Renowmed Cynthia was no whit dismaid But comforted th' amazed senselesse man Willing him hold his course as he began And all the Ladies from their seates arose To view the comming of this warlike Knight In circle-wise they faire Cynthia closâ— To shrowde Diana from Acteons sight The Shepheard would haue ta'ne himselfe to flight But that he was asham'de to runne away Leauing the Ladies to the warriers pray He layd a side his Pipe and tooke his Hooke As if he would an armed Knight withstand The seely soule put on a manly looke Yet better was his running then his hand He wisht himselfe farre off in other land For
Her robes vnmade her Coronet vntwin'd Nor was the quintesence of nature fin'd Neither was yet great Astrophill awake That might her entertainment vndertake Cinthia replyed not as one resolued Her will to put in execution Oftentimes her sacred soule reuolued Which way to make a dissolution Of this her bodies constitution And justly knowing t wa's not in her power Determined to stay her fatall houre And yet to spend in contemplation The better part of her remaining daies Which vow she keepes in veneration Witnesse her learned Poems and her Layes So often crowned with Arcadian Bayes Thus long sitting silent in that place Aurora gan to showe her blushing Face Then all the Ladies hasted to depart And Cinthia turn'd her to Eâ—dimionâ— With wordes of grace proceeding frâ—m her heart She thank'd him for his former caâ—tion This Mount quoth she take for thy mansion Here shalt thou dwell and feede thy little flocke I with my Ladies will encrease thy â—â—ocke The stately Garland of her blessed 〈◊〉 For beautie matchlesse incomparable With greatest fauours grac'd this coâ—ntrie Swaine Particulers will be admirable Of esteeme they were vnualuable And out of doubt they had been durable If worldly enuie had been curable He liu'd a while in reputation Expounding Oracles of Theologie His flocke was had in estimation As guided well by his Phylosophy Profoundly could he chaunt that misterie In languages of higest Poetrie Vnfolding riddles of antiquitie I left the Shepheard in this happy stâ—â—e Feeding his lambs in mirth and iolliâ—ie But it fell out when I return'd of late His mirth was moane his solace misâ—â—ie Loe heare worlds-glasse of mutabilitie He wrung his hands and made a ruâ—ull moane His drops of teares might pierce a Marble stone I wondred how his blessed Comâ—edie Could haue so suddaine alteration I ask'd the cause of this his Tragaediâ— Hee answered enuies sophisticatâ—â—â— I thought to write the whole narratiâ—â— But â—ith Tragaedies haue a bloody eâ—d During his life he will not haue 〈…〉 â— B. FINIS To the right Worshipfull Sir Iohn Smith of Olde-Hunger Knight a worthie fauourer of learning YOur ancient loue to him that wrote this Booke Hath made Ourania speake an English verse The Greekish Ladies of Castalion Brooke Entombed are close couch'd in Sable-herse The mourning Cypresse and darke Popler-tree Aâ—e testimonies of their lowe degree Endymion lay's aside his Hebrew Reed And bids Ourania harpe Philosophie Whereof his English Lambs and flocke may feed Till Phoebus rayes dispell obscuritie He will'd her yet such pleasing Musicke sing As might conâ—ort with Aristotles wing Such as delights Arcadian Cynthia And comforts Schollers at their idle times Viewing the secrets of Ourania As she will chaunt them in her homely Rymes Wonders aboue and all within this round Must be the subiect of her daintie sound Shee sings of Sunne and Moone and wandring starres Of vncouth Elementall Meteors Comets Heraulds of death and dreadfull warres Fire ayre winds vapours Ocean showers And whatsoeuer you can thinke vpon Ourania sings so bids Endymion Read learne and heare trie ponder write digest Words matter song truth arte wit Misterie Commend Ourania take her to your guest Shee 'l teach the yonger Lambs Philosophie Such Mysteries as neuer English Pen Afforded yet vnto the view of men N. B. To my Worshipfull â—renâ—h 〈◊〉 Stone Esquire Counsellor at the Law and Secondarie of the Counter in VVoodstreet London NO liquid Oyle proceedes froâ— a Pumice-stone Nor Alchimist produce an Oyle from thence T is hard indeed if thou wert such a one As lou'd a Scholler onely for his Pence But since th'enclosing of Endymion He found some Oyle from Secondarie STONE Counsell they say is no commaundement That 's false if counsell be but equitie Whereto a man must be obedient If he aspire vnto faelicitie No wrong had seazed olde Endymion If he had taken counsell of a Stone Things past and things to come be different For they are gone and these are in expect Thinke not on former dayes maleuoâ—ent The fates to come worke contrarie effect And cause thee blesse the day the place the houre That thou receyued'st Endymions Pâ—ramour Ourania sings obscure Philosophie Like Bats and Owles in silent darkâ— some night In Olderne times she chanted melodie Of highâ—er straine And when she comes to light Shee'lâ— sing thee such a blessed Madrigall As thâ—â— shalâ— thinke the lay Caâ—â—â—â—iall â— B FINIS Vera. Calandra Hastingua Ashebie de la Zouch Agape Wrotha Musophila Herberta Phileta Clara. Candida Iehoâ—a Eloâ—â—m Theos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tiâ—or The Deitie written by 4. Letters We call'd that Good which now we call God Abba Father Ben Sonne Ruach Spirit Angels not made before Heauen The Reason Place Circumscrip Definitiue Repletiue Cosmos the world Ten heauens Coelum Empyreum Primum Mobâ—le Coelum Stâ—llâ—ticum 〈◊〉 Hyades Arist. de 〈◊〉 Caster of figures 1022. starres knowne The end why the stars were made Three other heauens or Orbs. Saturne ♄ Iupiter ♃ Mars ♂ Sol. ☉ Day and night before the sun was made Genes 1. Venus ☿ Mercurius ☿ Lun◠☽ Apostrophe ad Herâ—â—nam qu◠〈◊〉 Maâ—iam Pemb. The Moone the 39. part of the earth Lympet a round shell which womeÌ„ lay vpon the nepples of their sore breasts The Element of Fire Fiery meteors What a Meteor is Comets They Signifie want of corn The shortest and longest time that Comets endure Starres of Helena Castor and Pollux When that Comet is called Helena when Castor and Pollux The profit we reape by this Comet Fyerie vapors in Church-yards and about places of â—xecuâ—ion Colours about or aboue the Moone A circle about the Moone Galaxia a shining white path in the midddest of Heauen in a frosty-night The starres of Note that maketh Calaxia cleere Cassiopeia 13. Cygnus 1â— Aâ—uila 4. Caâ—da Scorpionâ—â— â— Sagitarius 3. Centaurus 6. Nauis Argolâ— 23. Gemini 1â— Aâ—riga 7. Perseus 1â— Sporades Stella dispersa sine or dine 〈◊〉 the rayne-bow Raynebow in the Night Thunder-bolt and lightning whirle windes drie Prester Spoutes of water in the Sea The vse of this point of Phylosophy The Ayre Three Regions of the Ayre The middle Region coldâ— The highest hot The Ayrie Meteors simple Included Meteors Windes Windes 32. Another coÌ„moditie by the winds viz. to make raine Earthquake The Profit we get by this Meteor A stormy-winde Thunder Watrie Elâ—ment What are the waters aboue the earth The cause of ebbing and flowing Saltnesse of the Sea Watrie Meteors eight The Mist. Deaw The cause The Hinderance Fittest time for Deaw The effects of Deaw Manna a woÌ„derfull deaw The Frost It killeth wormes and hurtfull humours This Cloude compared to a Spunge Raine Snowe Lime-twigs Snow-water The vtilitie of snow Snow gendreth Cristall Haile The reason of Haile in Summer and not in Winter Sleete Sleet alwayes in Februarie or March and neuer in December A question Answer Earthly Element The Earth Mother of all Creatures therein She hath 7.