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.
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
properties of a good Mother or wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The couering of the earth called Tellus-Mantle Flowers A flower a wonder Hearbes The admirable vertues of the Herbe called Oculus Christi Trees Lyon Tygre Hyena Panther Rhinoceres Beare Vnicorne Ermine Leopard Martin Sable Luâ—erns Fox white and blacke Mineueer Elke Bugle Budge Bucke Gemps Shamoys Harte Wolfe Squirrell Conâ—â—y Vrchin Porpeâ—tine Deer Hare Badger Ottâ—â— Apes Monkies Marmezite Babioun Polcat Wild-cat Weezle Stoate Musk-cat Dormouse 〈◊〉 Mice Mold-warpe Not blind Tame beasts Elephant Horse Camell Dromedary Spanish IeÌ„net Ireish Hobby Galloway Nagge Engl Nagge Turkish horse Mule Asse Oxe Cow Sheepe Goate Catte Dogge Mastif Greyhound Hownde Spannell Water-spannell Tumbler The Ladies Spannell Serpents Lyzard Salamandar Wormes Earth-worms Dodman Snailes Glow-worme To catch fish Silke-wormes Doct. Muffets Booke of the Silke-worme Spider Pismire Prou. 6. Butterfly The Pismires head The Pismires burie their dead The Flea the Louse Fowles Eagle The Phaenix The vsâ— Griffin Vulture Ostrich Goss-hawâ—â— Faulcon Ierfaulcon Tersell Lanâ—ret Lanner Muller a bastard Hawke Marlion Hobby Sparhawke Musket Kistrell Kite Buzzard Ringtaile Rauen. Dangerous for the eyes Crow Rooke Chough Daw. Mag-pie Michael Draitons Owle Bat. To see as well by night as by day Kings-fisher Woodspite Cormorant Swan Hearne Crane Goose Duck Widgeon Teale Curlew Dotterell Pewet Bustard Godwet Plouer Heath-cocke Partrich Pheasant Rayle Quaile Larke Ouzle Thrush Nightingale Lynnet Canary birds Redbrecht Wren Parret Parakito Gould-finch Bul-finch Marâ—let Swallow A red stone in the Craw of a Swallow prob Oyle of Swallowes English iayes haue the falling sicknes Peacocks Turkey Cock Turtledoue Doue Stockdoue Storke Iris the basest beggar that liued in his time Pellicane House-cocke The Cocâ—â— loues his wife Titmouse Flyes Bees The Bees body described Euery lodging 〈…〉 Honry Riuers Fishes of the Riuer Carpe Tench Pool Springs Bathes Colde Bathes Whoâ— The Iewels treasure within the earth All thinges within the earth are eyther Metalls Stones or Mixt. 7. Metalls The cause of different Metals No plentye of Golde in Virginia why Gold the Obiect of the world Women forsake their husbands beds for gold and their excuses Pandresse Bankrupt becomes a preacher for gold To be a Puritane Marke his subtiltie Mutabilitie Marke here he subscribeth Mâ—ke his hypocrisie An other excuse A Booke called the Suâ—uâ—y of Discipline An olde wife chosen and made yong by Golde A foule and foolish daughter made faire and wise by Golde Alchimie Brasse Iron and Steele Peace commended Discommodities of warre Leade Tinne Corrupted by Mixture of Leade Stones with their deuisioÌ„s Precious stones How they come to resist the fire yet being endred water Gemmae perspicuae Opâ—caâ— Mâ—xâ—aâ— Perspiâ—â—â— Opâ—â—a â— Mysâ—â— Many stones of more vertue theÌ„ beasts and plants Load-stone Diamond His vertues Carbuncle or Rubie Vertues Emerald Vertues Blew Saphyr Vertues Iacinth Vertâ—eâ— Marble Porphyrie Alablastar Three kindes of Whetstones Touch-stone Damasco Whet-stones of an Aâ—hecolour Indian Whet-stones yellow Flynt-stone Men much bound to God for this Stone especially Students Souldiers Mariners Stones ordinary Load-stone Vertues Mariners Hercules the first inuentor of the Load-stone Smiris for Teeth Pumcâ— for Parchment Taâ—tarum for Spots in the face Lapâ—â— Sectilâ—s Acthites Vertues for womeÌ„ trauelling with child Corall no stone but an Herbe Ieat Mixt mineralls Sal Géma Ammoniacum Salt Peter Sulphur Alume Glasse Looking-glasses Perspectiue glasses Drinking Glasses Glasse for windowes Burning-Glasses Spectacles Limbecks Viols Quickesiluer Quicke siluer may be 〈◊〉 The vse of this philosophiâ— When the Angels were made The fall of Angels and their place Man made and why A perfect man Ephe. 4. A liuing soule Life the effects of the soule The Liuer fountaine of blood The heart principall The head receptacle of senses intellectuall Fantasie in the forehead Memorie in the hinder part of the head VnderstaÌ„ding in the crowne of the head Dura Mater Pâ—a Mater The soule Immortall Simple No part of Gods essence Created that is breathed Not ex tradâ—â—â—â— that is One soule to beget another He saw God as he might behold him He named all things his Mansion Paradice in the middest of the earth Man King of the earth Diuinitie begins where Philosophie doth end WomaÌ„ made The womans soule was not made of 〈◊〉 soule but infused by God Obserue Adam Adamah Nekebah perâ—oratâ— boared as with a wimble of the word Nâ—kab signifying to beare a thing Hollow Iskah a Mannesse as we say a Dutchesse Drayton vpon the death of S.P.S. Galaxia the white path in the firmament