MICROCOSMOS THE DISCOVERY OF THE LITTLE World with the government thereof Manilius An mirum est habitare Deum sub pectore nostro Exemplumque Dei quisque est sub imagine paruâ By IOHN DAVIES At Oxford Printed by Ioseph Barnes and are to bee solde in Fleetestreete at the signe of the Turkes head by Iohn Barnes 1603. TO MY MOST DEERE AND dread Soveraigne IAMES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland be all heavenly and earthly happinesse THoughts fight no more but now with Wits accord Yeeld al obedience to Arts rightest rule Then like a constant treble-twisted cord Binde vp the sweet'st affections of my Soule And in a Poesy giue them to O no They are too base for such high Excellence Yet prostrate giue them to him and say so So I may shunne dislike you insolence Great ó too narrow is this name for thee King yet too straite a stile for thy great worth And Monarch this with it doth best agree Deigne to accept a Base base Wit brought forth And base it is great Highnesse in each line Because indeede it is too rightly mine His Maiesties lesse then least and most vnworthy Subiect IOHN DAVIES To the sacred Queene of Englands most excellent Maiestie IF those VVombs blessed be from whom proceedes A world of blessings to the VVorld accurst Or if that gracious be that Graces breedes To make Men gracious being at the worst O then how blest and gracious is thy VVombe Deere Daughter Sister VVife vnto a King Wherein Heaven wrought as in a sacred roome Strong Props of peace which blest Time forth did bring Vnto a Mother-maide we all are bound For bringing forth our Soules preservatiue Who for the same is Queene in Heaven Crownd And sith thou bring'st our Corpes conservatiue We must crown thee in Earth or els we should Doe otherwise then Saints Angels would Your Highnesse most humbly devoted Vassall IOHN DAVIES The vvhole I le of greate Brittaine vvas of yore divided into 13. Kingdoms as by Monuments of antiquity and Historie the vvitnesses of time appeareth viz. England into 8. namelie Kent South-Saxons East-Saxons VVest-Saxons Bernnicia aliàs Northumberland Deira or Southumberland Est-Angles Mercia Scotland into 2. viz. Scottes Picts The Scottes on the VVestside the Picts on the East called Pictlād as the other Scotland VVales into 3. viz. North-wales Southwales and Povvys-land Vppon vvhich Plaine-songe thus I descant AN Articke I le there is most famous found In the great Lavor of this lesser Round Which Neptunes hand as most esteemd infolds And in his vnsweet-sweating bozome holdes On whom at once Heavens providence begate Thirteene Kinges ' which did her participate Shee fedd them sweetlie made them fatte to grow For from her Brest did Milke and Hony flow Who being pampred so ambitious made Gainst Nature gan each other to invade Shee greatly griv'd they quited so her loue And ay to make them one shee oft did proue But froward at the least they would be Twoo So lived long in strife with much adoo Yet like a tender Mother vext to see That hir deere children could no better gree Shee laboured night and day with Tyme to doe That which shee tride but could not bring them to Who both togither ioyn'd did them attone So Tyme and shee at last haue made them One. Then if in One Thirteene vnited be How great how glorious and how good is hee IOHN DAVIES AENIGMA A Treble paire doth our late wracke repaire And sextiplies our mirth for one mishappe These six as hopes to keepe vs from dispaire When clappes wee feard were sent vs at a clappe That we might clapp our hands in his high praise That made vs by our Heads losse much more faire And vs beheaded so our Head to raise One headlesse made all looke as blacke as Hel◠All headlesse makes the Head and all looke well SPHINX IF this a Riddle be then so be it Yet Truth approues what therein hid doth lie And Truth 's most louelie in the Eye of VVit When she is rob'd with richest misterie In few by losse we haue gott benefitt That 's six for one by lawfull vserie Then if we gaine by losse our losse is gaine So saith France Flāders Scotland Irelād Spaine To the iudicious Reader THou seest this great VVorld Reader perchāce Thine Eie is cloid with often seeing it Then see the Lesse with noe lesse circumstance Aud with VVittes Eie that Monarchy of VVitte The Heav'ns and Earth do make the greater VVorld And Soule and Bodie make the Lesse we prove The Heav'ns doe moue the Earth they are whirld By Him that makes the Soule the Body moue Who conquers it at least are Monarchs great Greater then those that conquered the greater For from their goodnesse Men their greatnes gette And they are best that doe subdue the better The great VVorld's good but better is the least Then view it to subdue it thou wert best IOHN DAVIS A Request to the Cittie of Hereford Deere Mother in whose Wombe my vitall flame Was kindled first by the Almighties breath Lend me thy name to adde vnto my name That one with other may keepe both from death Vnto thy conscience I poore I appeale Whether or no I haue deserved it My conscience telles me I haue sought thy weale With al my skill my will my woorth my witte Iudge God iudge good men iudge my truth herein Impartiall Iudges you shall iudge for me If so my soule is sear'd or I haue bin Deere Mother what I now would seeme to thee And doe confesse though vnkinde Parents proue Yet are their children bound to seeke their loue Iohn Davies of Hereford In Microcosmon IOH. DAVIS II Herefordiensis EN tibi Pythagorae sacram diamque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Almae Naturae scatebram fontemque perennem Cuius quis pandet mysteria quisve profundos Audebit timidogressu tentare recessus Audet Davisius nec magnis excidit ausis Non is Daedaleâ per coelum remigat alâ Nec Phaetontaeo raptatus in aethera curru Stellarum inspector stupet aut Iovis atria lustrat In se conversus Divinae particulam aurae Non lippo aut lusco solers rimatur ocello Hunc lege quisquis aves Animani tam nobile germen Noscere decerptum delibatumque supremi Quod de mente Dei quisque hoc in corpore gestat Non te AEgyptiacus teneat tardetve character Nulla Syracusij Senis arte inventa morentur Suspensus coeli fornix vitreus orbis AEdibus in proprijs quae recta aut prava gerantur Inspicias haustamque polo vigil excute mentem Coelitùs emissum descendit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 IO. SANFORDVS Charissimo Iohanni Davisio Salutem OXoniae vates cum sis Herefordia quare Davisi in titulo pristina scripta tuo Crede mihi doctam non vrbem tale pigebit Ingenium in numero nomen habere
Hath made Arch-Master of each excellence It needes must follow that succeeding daies Cannot detract from what he dain'd to praise Nicholas Deeble Ad Lectorem de libro BEnigne lector parvuli orbis incola Qui coeca falsi transfretans mundi vada Dirigere recto tramite exoptas ratem Istum libellum vt Nauticum Indicem sequens Fugies Ceraunia saxa Syrenas leves Fugies trucem Carybdin Syrtes vagas Vide Teipsum in spice omnes angulos Quisquis seipsum non videt cernit Nihil Noscito Teipsum cordis explorans sinus Quisquis seipsum nescit hic novit Nihil Cura teipsum vt proprij medicus mali Quisquis seipsum negligit curat Nihil Vides teipsum modò Animam inspicias tuam Curas teipsum modò Animam sanes tuam Nathanael Tomkins TO praise thee beeing what I am to thee Were in effect to dispraise thee and mee For who doth praise himselfe deserves dispraise Thou art my selfe then thee I may not praise But this in Naâ—ure may I say by Arte Thine Arte by Nature makes thee what thou art Your louing Brother and worst part of your selfe Richard Dauies A Preface in honor and devotion vnto our most puissant and no lesse roially-accomplished Soveraigne Iames by the grace of God King of England Scotland France Ireland defender of the faith c. THou blessed I le white Marke for Envies aime If Envy aims at most felicity Triumph sith now thou maist by iustice claime Precedence in the VNIVERSITY VVherein best Iles doe striue for mastery Now shalt thou be great MODERATOR made In each Dispute that tendes to EMPERY So that AMBITION shall no deeper wade Then thy DECREES in iudgment shall perswade Now Grand-dame ALBION in thy grandure thinke Thinke seriously vpon each circumstance Sith late thou wert at Pitt of Perills Brincke That may make thee though old as yong to dance Mou'd by sweete straines of more sweete Concordance But staie deere Mother ô I doe thee wrong To putt thee in thy Muses now advance Thy voice in Praise to whom it doth belong GOD and thy KING that made thee fainting strong Thy God and King King given thee of GOD To make thee loue thy Goâ— and like thy Kinge And so gaue thee a Royall for a Rod To punish thee with what doth comfort bring And make thee richer by his chastening Hee came by no Meanders of Mans bloud Vnto our Land but with a sure slow winge Hee â—lew farre from it and did leaue that Flud On the left hand for those that Right with-stoode Though home-bred harts may harbour strange desires Nere-pleas'd Perversnesse yet must needes confesse He to this Crowne by double right aspires Bloud and Bequest say Male-contentednesse If thou dost liue but I hope nothing lesse Ist true or no I see Shame holdes thy tongue From such deniall then for shame expresse Thy loue to right and doe thy Liege no wrong But say long may our Crowne to him and his belong His precious Veines doe flow with our deer'st bloud Bone of our bones Flesh of our Flesh is he If he by vs then should haue beene withstoode We had withstoode our selues and cursed bee The hand that with the head doth disagree Beyond his birth he was a Kinge in right And borne to beare rule in the high'st degree Whose hand and head endowed are with might Scepters and Crownes to weld and weare aright And giue we her her due that now is gone Who had in her a World of Princely Parts Yet shee hath left her World and Worth to one That 's Master of himselfe and of the Arts Which Art and Nature but to Kings impartes And as this Queene was oft from death preserv'd When in his lawes he had got all her partes â— So was this King from like distresse conserv'd And both no doubt for Englands life reserv'd And right well worthy of the Crowne is hee Were it more deere then Caesars Diadem When envious World did him her Monarch see That never did molest our Queene and Reame That might with bloud for bloud haue made it streameâ— That God that tenders all that tender bloud Blesse him and his for it and make his Stemme Yeeld many Branches that may ever bud And bring sweete fruit for Scottish-Englands good Much Bloud though drawne from Heavens vnholy foâ—s Seemes irksome if not loathsome to their sight For when iust David thought their Arke t' inclose Within a Temple with all glory dight Which hee in zeale meant to erect outright Hee was forbad by Heav'ns most holy One For making Bâ—oud to flow though in their right And that Taske put on peacefull Salomon Then peacefull be thy Raigne deare Lord alone To build the Temple of true Vnion But though our Bloud were thus deere in thine Eies More deere then Gold although a double Crowne Yet did our feare thy Loue with care surprize And bee'ng our owne we vs'd it as our owne For safe we kept it as to thee it s knowne We lou'd thee so as still we fear'd thy powre For if a wren from vs to thee had flowne We as supposing that hee ment to towre Would keepe him safe for loue and feare in Towre Deere King drade Sov'raigne sacred Maiesty And what stile els a mortall state may beare We truely English doe but liue to die For thee for that thou stirred didst not steere Thy powre against our peace but didst indeere Vs to thee by thy peerelesse patience showne True token of thy loue-begotten care Of vs and ours as if that loue alone Had held our losse of bloud as t is thine owne Had not our blouds beene precious in thine Eie Thou mightst perhaps haue made vs buy it deare Or made thee heire apparant publikely As Iustice would but croâ—t by private feare Stories swarme with Examples farre and neere That many further off and of lesse force To catch at Crownes would heires thereto appeere Or pull of Crownes and heades of them perforce That wearing Crownes crost their vnblessed course But thou to thy true glory be it said Though having hands of powre to reach a Crowne Thou didst thy selfe containe and praid and staid Till now in peace thou haste it for thine owne And still may thee and thine by it be knowne That Scots and English no more may be two But made by true-loues artlesse Art all one As Nature hath made vs and Contry too Both which to vnitie vs both doe woo So neighbour Nations seeing our concent Shall stand in awe of our vnited powr's And of our friendshippe glad shall vs present With precious gifts and all that loue alures So all as friends while friends we are is ours And may hee bee a terror made to all That twixt vs the least discontent procures And as a Monster most vnnaturall Let odious bee his damn'd memoriall If wee when wee were but halfe what we are And had a woman to our soveraigne Were able all foes at
their dores to dare VVhat may we doe when over vs doth raigne A kingly King and one Realme made of twaine If ever therefore twixt our Fathers were That now are rakt in dust cause to complaine Let it be rakt with them for wee are cleere From wronging each and each to other deere Both subiect to one Soveraigne then draw wee Togeather kindlie in subiections Yoke God and our King will ioy if wee agree But greive if we each other shal provoke And make vs feele their wrathes resistlesse stroke Then dwell in our harts for ioyes cordiall VVhich nothing but your sorowes can revoke Haue made them large ynough to hould you all And lend vs yours to doe the like withall Call for them when yee will they shal be yours Togither with the Tenaâ—nts harbred there But take our harts for now they are not oures But yours for ever let vs then ende ere Vs to you ever who are to vs deere My voice though base to highest Concord tends Then t is in tune I trust to ev'ry Eare If it be harsh my hart shall make amendes For it doth relish Loue which nere offends Then weigh our Prince our Peace with Vprightnesse And presse him to no more then that will way For if not too perverse we must confesse Our best requests sometimes may haue a nay For better ends which he may not bewray It is no ease for one two friends to please VVhen both perhapps doe but for one thing praie Then die ô die ere once him so displease As to vrge that that may his hart disease O that I had a Soule-enchanting Tongue That with an Eare-bewitching violence I might persuade to all that doth belong To perfect Loue and true obedience Sith our felicitie must flow from thence If so it be then nought the VVill can moue To loue if obiects of such excellence cannot allure the Mind and Will to loue As the felicitie which now we prove Our King comes not to our late barren Crowne Himselfe alone but brings a fruitfull Queene And Englands comfortes children of their owne By which the state ay stablisht may be seene Then blest are wee if ere wee blest haue beene O let vs then blesse him whose blessednesse Hath when our sinnes expected sorrowes keene Preserv'd vs both from warres and wretchednesse And let vs loue in Soule and singlenesse Giue vs your Daughters and take ours in marage That Blouds so mixte may make one flesh and bloud We will not yours then doe not ours disparage But ballance all by woorth and Liuely-hood By Vertue Beauty and what ere is good Each bend his wittes and all his industrie To make all one in body minde and mood Then God will blesse all bent to vnity And plunge vs all in all felicity If Concord makes of weake most mightie things And Discord of most mightie things most fraile If subiects peace and glorie be the Kings And their Disgrace and strife his disâ—vaile Then ô let my weake words strongly prevaile To strongest peace that makes weak'st weaknesse strong Then nought shall dare our daring peace t'assaile But we shall right th' oppressed Neighbours wronge And make them holde their owne as we doe longe As when a humane-flesh-fedd Caniball Hath singled out some weakling for a Pray And by the power of some Knight armed all Is sker'd at point to feede with skath away So from th' opprest we shall oppressors fray And be as Gods Liuetenants heere belo To see his highest iustice done each way That Heau'n by vs may make the Earth to kno We are Heau'n holpe to helpe all wronged so Whiles Myne and Thyne did disvnite our Crownes Two things for which the Sire and sonne will iarre There was some cause sometimes of secret frownes That ended too too oft with open warre But now both We and They vnited are And surely to sustaine that double Crowne Fiue Proppes we haue Ambition so to barre Made of each others substance so our owne Then what remaines but still to loue as One. The Lion to the Dragon 's reconcil'd That whilome did vpon each other feede Ierusalem hath David erst exild Free denized King proclaim'd with speede Whose Members dance for ioy of that iust deedâ— Hir King is now according to his Hart VVhich with saue goodnesse nothing is agreedâ— He is a King in all and in earth part By bloud without bloud Nature Minde and Arte. Fortune that crost the will and worke of Nature For many yeares hath now made her amends By making vs as we are one in nature And of vnfaithfull foes most faithfull friends That Hand on whose direction all depends Disposing Crownes and Kingdomes as it lists Hath made vs one I hope for endlesse endes Then curst be he that Heau'n herein resists And blest be him that it therein assists And though I be no Seer yet let mee Out of my darke foresight in things future Speake like a Seer that can snch things see That may be seene without the seeing pow'r And their like seene of blind men ev'ry howr If sinne crosse not the course of Heau'n herein Our Land that flowes with Hony Milke and Floure Shall be an Earthlie Paradice wherein Plentie and Peace shall woo from and to sinne But Plenty like an Eaue-enticing Snake Shall tempt vs with the Eye-delighting frute Of all voluptuousnes which if wee take There is a powr that can our fortunes sute VVith Adams when hee Eadâ—â— was cast out And with stil-sweating sorrow-furrowed Browes To liue or begge or starve if we be mute For nought hath roote so fast or gaily growes But Heaâ—â—nâ— least puffe extirpes and overthrowes O t is perfection next to that of Gods When Men are compast with all sensuall sweetes Then then to make the Will to know the odds Betwixt that sweete that lasts and this that fleetes And so restraine harts ioy when pleasure greetes An abiect Slaue will glutt his greedie Maw VVith what so ere his Sense with sweete regreetes If he can snatch it but great Myndes withdraw Their Wills from such base blisse by Glories law A Beare will breake her Belly if shee may So hoony be the meane to doe the deede And so will Men-beares doe as well as thay If they catch hoonied sweetes themselues to feede VVho make it their Minds laboure onely meede Basse humane Beasts how senselesse is your â—ense That will gainst sense and Reason so exceede Base is your minde worse your intelligence Odious to God and vnto Men offence If Landes are saide to flourish and reioyce Vnder new Kinges though oft worse then the old How may this Land as if shee had made choise Of hir Liege Lord that now the same doth hold For vertue onely ioy him to infold If Soules extreame ioy makes the Body dance VVittnesse sweete Psalmist then deere Liege behold Thy subiects iesture at thine enterance And be assur'd they besse this blessed chance And see how Vertue pulls to and putts
suo Charus illius mihi nomine charus huius Vrbis es hinc artes ducimus indegenus Charior at proprio mihi nomine fas mihi suave Ingenium mores fas sit amare probos Ingenium moresque tuos redamem illud istos Plura mihi cunctis hic libâ—r ipse probat Robertus Burhillus Coll. C.C. Soc. Liber Lectores alloquitur HEm tu qui leve paginas pererrans Nostras pollice inquiete ocello Piscaris rabidum tibi venenum Ex hoc fonticulo scaturienti Nisi Castaliae liquore nullo Abito procul hinc facessat ist hic Ocelli malè prurientis ardor Non nostris olidae natant papyris Algae nec levibus tume sco nugis Molestanta scelus Patre expiandum Lemnio hinc profugus Cupido lirae Sordes qui squiliae exulant omnis Putredo iuveni nocens legenti Quin tu sobrie docte perspicacis Cui luces Aquilae altiusque acumen Cultor Virginis integer Patrimae Et tu Montis amans biforme culmen Chara progenies novem Dearum Adsis genium meumque carmen Expendas rogo strictiore lance Tui iudicij sagacioris Non supercilium striasve frontis Declino tetric as minacioris Thaletem accipio venito Brute Censorem volo te severioris Nec durum fugio Catonis vnguem Hoc est quod fugio labore tanto Commentum peperisse mollicellum Veltricas apinasve queis inepto Ridendi moveatur aâ—sa vulgo N. Debillus In Libri Auctorem PHilosophi laudes laudes meruêre poêtae Davisius vatem philosophumque refert Ergo Parnassi lauro lauroque Lycaei Philosopho vati cinge Britanne caput Nam quorum Pylios vnum dare postulat annos Haec effecta duo sedulus ille dedit MIrum in modum Men did wonder-maze Which wonderment this later worke of thine Not by detracting from it doth deface How so by giving out a greater shine The soules Horizon that made light whil-ere But this inlightens her whole Hemispheare Blest be thou Sunne froÌ„ wheÌ„ce this light doth spring And blessed be this little World of light By which who walkes perforce must be a King King of a little World in Fortunes spight For force and vertue in the soule doe sitte And they doe raigne that ruled are by it TheÌ„ raigne thou in Mens thoughts thou thoughtful Soule Whil'st thy rare Worke among their Workes shall raigne For it in passion passion doth controule Then mightie is thy grace thine Arte thy paine As thou for writing faire art most renownd So writing thus thou must be Lawrell cround IOHN IAMES Mihi charissimo Iohanni Dauisio Herefordiensi QVid petis nostrae leviora Musae Fila Davisi fateor Sorores Tardus ignoro Ardalides quid isthoc Me-ne lacessas Eia nec factum bene mellilinguis Te canat Maiâ genitus Camoenae Te canant diuae ingeminentque cantus Agmina vatum Cui bono Maiâ genitus Camoenae Agmina vatum procul ite mirum In modum dio cecinit seipsum Carmine vates Dij boni talis titulus Pöesi Optimae quà m conveniens isthic Microcosmos sed tamen acquiesco Ipse loquatur Desinas tu steriles arare Me citando arvos niveum Libelli Est scelus frontispicium lituris Tinguere nostris T. R. To the Author MAns soule th' Idea of our Makers mould Whiles it doth harbour in this house of clay Is so ore-whelm'd with passions manifold Is so ore-throwne with Adams olde decay That much like bastard Eagle dimme of sight It dares not take a view of Reasons light O then redoubled thankes deserues thy VVorke Whose Verse Prometheus-like striues to enflame That sacred Sparke which in our Soules doth lurke Giving blinde Reason eies to see the same Davies thine Arte beyond our Arte doth reach For thou each Soule soule-humbling Arte dost teach Thus Oxford Artists are oblig'd to thee Who Stork-like building heere a while thy Nest For Earthly Lodge dost leaue an heav'nly fee Giving a Sword to kill that foe of Rest Faire learnings blott which Scollers know to well I mean Self-loue which thy Self-Arte doth quell DOVGLAS CASTILION Vpon Master Iohn Davies Beginning his Discoverie of the litle VVorld with a Preface vnto the most high and mightie Prince Iames the first King of England c. SO ere he dare adventure on the Maine The prudent Sailoure prostrate on the shoare Makes first his vovves vnto the swan-bred Twaine And their aspect religiously implores So ere vnto the Ocean he sets-forth Who is this lesse Worlds great Discouerer He turns his eies vnto the hopefull North And viewes the Cynosure that shineth there Auspicious Star at whose divine arise Earth did put of her saddest maske of Night Shine mildely on him who beholdes thine Eies As sole directors of his course aright So that the great world may the lesse world see By that faire Light he borrowed first of thee Vpon the Discoverie of the litle VVorld By Master Iohn Davies GOe Drake of England Doue of Italie Vnfolde what ever Neptunes armes infolde Travell the Earth as Phoebus doth the skie Till you begette newe Worlds vpon this olde Would any wonders see yet liue at rest Nor hazard life vpon a dangerous shelfe Behold thou bear'st a World within thy brest Take ship at-home and sayle about thy selfe This Paper-Bark may be thy Golden-Hinde Davies the Drake and true discou'rer is The end that thou-thy-selfe thy-selfe maist finde The prize and pleasure thine the trauell his See here display'd as plaine as knowledge can This litle World this wondrous I le of Man Charles Fitz-Ieffry To the Reader BEyond the reach of vulgar intellect Inbred by Nature but refin'd by Art Doth wisdomes Heyre this monument erect Grace't with what ere the Graces can impart Here Wits not soild with looser blandishment The Subiect pure abstruse and worthy paine Annatomizing civill goverment And of the Soule what Reason can attaine The many sweetes herein contained be Epitomiz'd would aske too large Narration To be compris'd within this narrow station Reade then the VVorke when if thou canst not see Th'infolded flame be rapt with admiration But censure not for Owles haue bleared eies Dazled with every Starre that doth arise To the Booke as it is dedicated vnto his most excellent Maiestie THrise happy Issue brain-begotten Birth Wits pure Extraction life of Poesie Togither borne with Englands endlesse mirth How haue the Heauens grace 't thy nativity Wast from disdaine to powre th'ambrosian dew Dropping like Nectar from a sacred quill Into the common Lavour vulgar view That Heaven deferd thy birth these howres vntill O blessed Booke reserv'd to kisse that hand From which desert nere parted discontent Go pay thy vowes await his dread command To whom in prostrate duety thou art sent Shall He say liue flie Time swell Lethe lake Burst fell Detraction thou liu'st and when A thousand Ages dust shall over-rake Thy living Lines shall please both God and men For grace 't by him whom swift intelligence
silly Henry though a Saint he bee Must beare the plagues his Grandsires guilt incurr'd When he imbrude his hands or did agree To have his Sov'raignes bloud shedd savaglee His Vncles more like Fathers first he looseth Then by a woman most improvident He is ore ruâ—'d foâ— shee of all disposeth Till Hate and Factions ore-grew government Then Richard Duke of Yorke in Parliment Claimed the Scepter being so ill swai'd Where was examin'd his claime and descent And then gaue waie to it when all was wai'd So silly Henry was by law betrai'd The title of Duke Richard thus admitted But an Vsurper needes must make the King Yet t' was decreed that he should bee permitted For life to hold the Crowne which death doth bring When as the Crowne is held as no such thing Making the Duke by Act of Parliament His Heire apparant without altering Which for them both was most malevolent For hardly can one Crowne two Kings content This was a fond conspiring Parliment Against their Liege directlie and the Lawes No lesse disloiall then improvident And of effectes most bloudie was the cause For now the King his Friendes together drawes VVho for his safetie straight began to lay VVhich could not be without the fearefull Pawse Of Yorke that Lion cleane were cut away Downe must his Den his Howse must haue no stay VVho like him selfe beeing truely Leonine Stood on his strength so to defeate his foes And having wisedome truelie serpentine Still compassing about the crowne he goes Whom Henry tripping in his course orethroes But his Sonne Edward kept the claime a foote Vntill that civill bloud the Land oreflowes Who in conclusion pull'd vp by the roote All Lets got th'imbrued crowne with mickle boot Whilst this was doing the Realme was vndunne The Common-wealth became a Common-woe Iustice and government by Rogues ore runne The Ministers whereof tost too and fro Like foote-balls over which al men may goe All was quite out of square by squaring thus The Ground did grone enforc'd to vndergoe Continued Armies most contentious That made the State poore as prodigious This Claime was wel examin'd and admitted Here was Succession wel established What villanie was not thereby committed What vertue was not quite abolished And who so high that were not drown'd in dreade Yonge olde rich poore and Babes vnborne or borne Beasts things senselesse had cause Teares to shedd For all hereby away perforce were worne And far'd at least as Creatures most forlorne Woe woorth such vip'rous Cousins that wil rend Their Mothersâ—wombe the CoÌ„mon-wealth to raigne From such apparant-Heires God vs defend That care not who doe lose so they may gaine And long may Hee in peace the Crowne sustaine That for our peace his such Heires hath brought We all of late for such did stil complaine Then now sith we haue such and cost vs nought Lett 's thankfull be and know them as we ought As Pow'r doth want so Claimes Factions cease Might Right orecomes chiefly in Kingdoms claimes Pow'r Titles stirrs and Conquest makes their peace The Sword the Law how firme soever maymes Which at a Conquest though vnlawful aymes Though Prince and Peeres provide for future rule Ambition hardly her estate disclaimes Though for a time the Lawes her over-rule Yet when time serues the Law shee wil misrule Our State stands not on Armes as others doe Our force lies most dispersed at the Plow Vnready rude and oft rebellious too Whose Sun-burnt Necks oft rather breake theÌ„ bow Not caring whom ne what they doe alow These and such like enduced our late Prince Such motions vtterly to disalowe For this and many an inconvenience Whereof all Times affoord experience This made this careful Queene as knowing well By fortie fiue yeares proofe and her sharpe sight Into events whereof al Stories tell How safe to rule and keepe the State vpright For her rights sake right close to keepe this right Better she thought such Hëires two daies old Then two yeares and as strong in Law and Fight So lou'd her States life and her owne to hold And made her Hart that Heires securest Hold. But sith shee did conclude this great affaire Both Law and Conscience doe conclude the State And who resists by birth that lawful Heire Resists the lawful Sov'raigne Maiestrate Made both by birth and Law from iust estate Monarchicall-inheritance resides In him from her then who doth violate Obedience to him wounds the tender sides Of Law and Conscience and al good besides Edward the fourth thus hauing caught the Crown The weake Lancastrians drave to the wall And spared none till all were overthrowne That might lie in his waie to make him fall His Brother Clarence ô Crime Capitall He did rebaptize in a Butt of VVine Being ielous of him how soere Loiall A Turkish providence most indivine Yet Crownes wil rest on such ere thei 'le decline Besides a sliding and new-fangled Nation Ful of Rebellion and Disloyaltie May cause a Prince for his securer station To stand vpon the like extremitie VVhere Vertue hath no place of certenty VVhat Prince if provideÌ„t wil stick to straine Both Law and Conscience in secresy To cutt one MeÌ„ber off that letts his raigne VVhich the states Body doth in health maintaine The more perfection and Heroick worth Such Heires great Cousines or great Subiects haue The more the Multitude wil sett them foorth And more and more their rule they seeke and craue Then must we lose a part the vvhole to saue These haue Achitophells to egge them on And make them much more restlesse then a wave Vntil their Soveraignes they sett vpon To make them yeeld vp their Dominion Manie a busie Head by VVords and Deeds Put in their Heads how they may coÌ„passe Crownes That Crownes at last may compasse so their Heads And sitt victoriously on steedfast Thrones All these like humming Bees ensue those Drones To gather Hony if they chance to rest And store themselues with sweete provisions VVhilst the Crown-greedy Cousine in vnrest Lives but for them with feares and cares opprest Now though King Edward like a wary Prince To remoue Obstacles bent all his might Yet could no skill or humane providence Protect his Sonnes from their Protectors spight VVho as he seru'd King Henry seru'd them right The blood of Innocents on Innocents VVith heavy vengeance mixte amaine doth lightâ— Thus Innocents are plagu'd for the Nocents Such are the High'sts inscrutable Iudgments And as He murdred Henrie for his Crowne So for their Crowne were his Sonnes murdered By hardest Harts in softest Bedd of Downe They were deere Harts at once quite smothered VVhich some ignoble Nobles furthered And rather then they should not die by force Or want a VVant-grace to performe the Deede Their Vncle and Protector must perforce Their Crowne from Head and Head froÌ„ Life divorce Now vp is
rag'd being racked most And with their losse the King lost many frends VVhich were as Fortes to guard his Kingdoms coast But ill beginnings haue vnlucky ends And worse proceeding worse in fine offends In the last Richard may be liuely seene Ambition really annatomiz'd VVhich orelookes all and yet is overseene Advising all yet none more vnadvis'd Destroying all till shee be sacrifiz'd Shee Faith Sex Age Bloud State and Contery Divine and humane lawes immortaliz'd Respects not in respect of Empery All which appeer'd in this King copiouslie In his Successor Englands Salomon Are diverse things well worth the imitation In our states policie for he alone Bent all his powres to benefit this Nation He saw our forraine Conquests ill probation And that for Islanders it was vnmeete To spend their wealth for forraine domination Which was no sooner fixed but did fleete And did this state with ill Salutes regreete He thought it losse to purchase warre and hate Where loue and Traficke might be helde with gaine He well remembred how each Runnagate And wandring Nation here ran in amaine Making their profit of this Nations paine He saw the safetie and weale of this state Rested in wealth and peace and quiet raigne And not in forraine Conquests and debate VVhich haue as short as most vncertaine date Through Peace and perfect government this Land May in her rich Commodities abound Which may coÌ„firme the Neighbor-friendships band And intertrafficke with them tunne for pound So make the Landes adiacent to her bound Thus God is pleasd and King and Contrey eas'd The Tradsmen thriue that dearth wars coÌ„found The People are as with great profit pleas'd And none but those that liue by spoile displeas'd This prudent Prince perceav'd this Common-weale To be by Trafficke strong made in the backe So as an head that Members wants doth feele He leagu'd him where might be suppli'd their lacke Or be as walls to keepe the Realme from wrack He seeing that which he did often trie The Money-Sacke best kept the Land from sack Therefore the Angells which from him did fly Had but short wings and lighted but hard by Among the things which he did least regard His Belly and his Backe were more then least He fared wel when so his Commons far'd Although his commons were not of the best Yet fared like a Kinge without a feast He rather chose to haue Exchequers rich Then wealthy VVardropps yet would well be drest When it his Maiestie and State did touch Yet held save Common-wealth all wealth too much Where Kings be not in ceasselesse guard of Armes Like these of ours the State lying open so T' invasion and Rebellions soddaine harmes Let not the Kinge looke Friends should â—oile the Foe At their owne charge for feare of overthro And in tumultuous times to breake their backs Will make them from their Necks the yoke to thro And to be freed from such tormenting Racks Wil ruine all though them with al it wracks Such great improvidence and want of heede vnseasonable Taxing Tempting rather Hath made the Soveraigne with the Subiect bleede Witnesse the two last Richards among other That knew how greevous then it was to gather Store is no Sore they say except of Sores Yet t is sore store with hate to heape togither Hate havocks in each hole in al vprores As VVater havocks life through all the Pores This spectacle of Kingly providence Nere cloi'd the subiect with too great estate Nor would he of a Pesaunt make a Prince His best belov'd he held in sober state That he might liue with them without debate Of all the Kings that ere this Land possest For government discreete and temperate This King deseruedly is deemed best And to be imitated worthiest In his Triumphant most victorious Son Henry the last in name and first in fame Is to be seene great wisedome vsd to shun Crosse Accidents and courage in the same Yet some suppose that he incurred blame For be'ng too open-handed in expence And giftes excessiue but it is a shame For Kings not roially to recompence The rich desert of any Excellence Ingratitude in all 's most monsterous But most of all in roiall Maiestie Wherein it s more then most prodigious Munificence makes great Authoritie And standes with Greatnesse in great policie The force of Guifts doth offer violence Even to savage Inhumanity Forcing therefrom such loues obedience As singlie workes with double diligence His forraine Conquests much more famous were Then any way commodious to this state Yet â—hem his actiue sp'rite could not forbeare For Caesar-like he would predominate VVhere he had least iust coulor of estate In raising lowest shrubs to Cedars hie He from his sage Sire did degenerate Yet vertue though it nere so low doth lie Is vvorthy of high praise and dignitie In the last Edwards and Queene Maries raigne Is seene what to those states is incident VVhere subiects doe not feare their Soveraigne But striue to liue beside their Regiment Contemning so their too-weake government This made the Rebell rise in strength and pride From Sov'raignes weaknesse taking couragement T' assault their Gates led by a feeble Guide Shaking their Thrones a while from side to side In our Queenes no lesse long then peacefull reigne Blest as appeer'd by that blest Prince of Peace VVas seene much more then wisedome feminine If wee respest how soone shee made to cease The olde Religion for the oldes increase That suddaine change that did the soule acquite Of olde devotion which none will release Vpon the suddaine still to stand in might May make a Newter deeme sh'was in the right And now descend yee spirites Angelicall That chargde doe guard th' Anointed of your Lorde Crowne my Liege Lord with crowne imperiall And put into his hand the awfull Sword Of Iustice so the good shall bee assur'd And so may yee bee freed from your charge VVhereby the good are evermore secur'd For hee that office will for you discharge Sith Iustice goodmens surance doth inlarge Blesse him ô ever-blessed Vnion Making a no lesse blessed Trinitie Blesse him as thou hast never blessed one That ever did possesse this Monarchy Showre downe thy blessings on his family The blessings of the womb giue to his Queene And let them as the Sea-sand multiplie That froÌ„ their roiall loines may still be seene Heires as the starres of heau'n for store and sheene Thus haue I breath'd my Muse in Policie Or rather runne her out of breath therein That so shee may with more facility Runne ore the rest lesse difficult vvherein Shee hath much more then much delighted bin But Policie is but abus'd by me I doe but mangle her and make her sinne But were shee whollie seene as shee should be Sh'would seeme no daughter of Mortalitee REturne my Muse froÌ„ whence thou hast digrest To toile thy selfe in
â—o traÌ„sgres theÌ„ a They that favor sin are aâ— worthye of death as they that coÌ„mit the sin Rom 1.31 The way by precepts is obscure long but by exampleâ— shoâ—te plaine Senec. b Princes and Priests ought to be the Exchequers of Gods inestimable Graces c Good works ar much more perswasiue to good life theÌ„ good wordes d Good life is the effect and glory of the church militaÌ„t of the good Pastors thereof Blessed is the Prince Priest whose liues serue for vnwriâ—en law Mâ—s-goveâ—nment â—or the most parte iâ— cauâ—e of rebellion an aâ—gument of the goodnes of ours WilliaÌ„ Duke of Normandy Others harme teach vs to shuÌ„ what caused them Brittanâ— Saxon Dane It is a glorious matter to coÌ„quer but a much more glorious to vse the Conquest well The way to establish a state purchased with the sword A consequent of removing great ones in a newe-conquered kingdome 20 And odde descentes of Kings and Queens since the conquest As this of this Conqueror France Our glory shame Avaâ—ice and Pride the perverters of Peace It is meer madnes to trust the Crown in their handes that long to put it on their owne heads Rich 1. taken prisoner in Austria The sincerest minds may be teÌ„pted aboue their strength by the glitering glosse of a crown lying within reach The Pope interdicted the land By poison as some saie Edward 1. All kings that thought so thrivâ—d the better * WaÌ„ ScotlaÌ„d That which is gotâ—eÌ„ with the Sword must so bee mainetained which little instrument can remooue Obstacâ—es bee they never so gâ—eat or keep them downe that wold rise without permission To rule is as much as to amend that which is amisse or awry b A Prince once in obloquie doe hee wel or ill al is ill taken of his subiects Tacitus Hist. Simil. Claw-backs and Sinn-soothers d The more wealth the more woo if evil imployed Edward 3. The divine Vengeance sleepes not though it wincks Richard of Burdeux One evil corrupteth another and evill put to evill is cause of mutuall destructioÌ„ h God executes his owne iustice by the iniustïce of others i Present pleasures take away the thought of future paine Henry 4. k A Kinge should be able to councell as chiefe councellor and direct as chiefe Captaine Henry 5. l Vengeance attends the 3. and 4 generation of mercilesse maÌ„quellers Henry 6. Rich. Duke of York claimed the crowne in Parliament * No king iâ— but halfe onâ—â— The fruites springing froÌ„ the powâ—e of ParliameÌ„ts to make Kings in England * Germanicus because one or two in the Army had only a purpose to salute him by the name of Emperor was never wel brooked til by his own death he had paide the price of other meÌ„s rashnes Tac Hist. * No wisdome prevailes against Gods decree Edward 4. a The effects of civil warre for looke how much Peace is betâ—er then warr so mâ—ch is â—orraine invasion better then civill dissention b Civill warre tenâ—es to the preiudice of the yet vnborne c Kings houses yeeld many such Vermine d For a poore and hungry Army cannot observe military disciplin Casiodorus e Ambition vpon the least opportunitie setts vpoÌ„ what so ere hinders hir rising f More coÌ„mon weales are ruined for want of good obayers theÌ„ good commanders g Iealousy is glued to loue and to a Crowne h Birth Bequest Laws of God Nature Nations and ReasoÌ„ togeather with all kingly worthines makes good our now kings possession i Neerenesse of blood doth oft put hartes furthest a sunder in Kâ—ngdomes cases k The Lawe it selfe will rather admitt a mischiefe theÌ„ an inconvenience l He alwaies shal be suspected hated of the Prince in possession whoÌ„ men doe account worthy or like to be Prince in succession Tacitus Hist. The Valor fierce courage of the great Cousin displeaseth the iealous Soveraigne Tacit. m All crafty Achitophell-like councels are in showe pleasant in execution hard and in event deadly dangerous n A BaÌ„kerours peace is in civill discord his discord is in peace o Gods Iudgments are inscrutable but none vniust p Iustice equal in quality quantity for Henry 6. and his Sonne were murdered c. q Man ought not to vse maÌ„ prodigally Seneca Richard 3. r Vnder this King to do ill wasâ— not alwaies safeâ— alwaies vnsafe to doe well as Tacitus reports of Neros raigne Princes that tyrannously governe their people haue greater cause to feare good men then theÌ„ that bee evill They which coÌ„teÌ„n peace and covet honour doe lose both peace honor A good cause in publike war like the Cape Bone spei coÌ„ducts to the laÌ„d of triumph Hen. 7. A good prince makâ— war that hee may haue peace and endures labor in hope of rest Salust Eccles. 5 8â— * Where God is praised meÌ„s endevors are blessed * Two things doe establish the Throns of kings prudeÌ„ce pietie the one aâ—earing in their Actions the other in their manners 1. King 3.12 Homer faineth all the Gods to sleep except Iupiter implying ther by the care of a good King for his subiectâ— Princes ought to measure their Actions by the standerd of their Laws as this did Hen. 8. His sword was so successefull as made his neighbours glad of his friendship feareful of his indignation Mercie may haue her excesse in humaÌ„ things Clemency is most daungerous where wheÌ„ soft quiet dealing draweth on more evil then severityâ— * Forrain CoÌ„questes were costly in achiving costly in holding oft no lesse costly then dishonoâ—rable in forgoing * In liberal larges to his friends servants Our Kinges might haue had a double intrest in their subiectes The hearts of Kings are in his hands that disposeth all things to effect his inevitable decrees Beheaded him He knew it was not the speach of a wise man to say who woulde haue thought it Edw. 6. Simil. a For private good b Disorder mother of Confusion c Sedition the plague of perverâ—nesse d Fortune ofteÌ„ reserveth tâ— the hardest chanceâ— them whoÌ„ she advaÌ„ceth to the greatest dignity The fortunate cannot doe ill iâ— they would He is made wise too late that is made wisâ— by his owne hâ—rme and irrecovâ—rable lâ—sâ—e f Dâ—pâ—â—t from thâ—â—e enemies and bewâ—re of thy fâ—iendes Eccle. 6.13 g Frailty is ful of falshood h There is nothing more profitable to mortall men then distrust Euripides i They that stand with all worldes will stand with no world if the world stand not with theÌ„ Queen Mary k Love covers the multitude oâ— sins in our neighboure what should it doe theÌ„ in our Soveraignes that haue more meanes inducemeÌ„ts to sin theÌ„ private peâ—sons l Queene Elizabeth m All that vnderstand the worth of blessed Peace will say Amen to a praier for Peace God will rather heare the Orisons of theÌ„ that pray for Peace theÌ„ the TruÌ„pets that proclaime warres n So often wee play with Gods
iudgmeÌ„ts because we feele not the force therâ—of that at length like the Fly in the flame we are consumed of them o Civill warre is faâ—re worse then Tyranny or vniust iudgmeÌ„t Plutarch in Bruto p Gods commandements A Recapitulation of what hath bin discoursed touching the Kings of England their governments William Conqueror q Vis vnita fortior New Lords new Lawes r To hurt and heale for more health is holsome s Blessed is the affliction that procures greater perfection t Soone ripe soone rotten Edward 1. Longshancks Edw. 2. Rich. 2 Hen. 6. Edw. 5. a Ambition gathers resistles strength in a Kings weakenes Maiesty without magnanimity is vnassured Livie 2. â— b I haue seene servaÌ„ts on horses Princes walking like â— servaÌ„ts on the ground Eccl. 10.7 Edw. 3 Hen 4. Hen. 5. Edw. 4. Loving feare a sure guarde to Soveraigns No kingdâ—me free froÌ„ Ambition Kingdoms the obiects of fortune Envy Simil. a PerfectioÌ„ humane AmbitioÌ„ a sore of the minde incurable b An inevitable incoÌ„venience Richard 3. a Ambition would destroy al to be aboue all Hen. .7 Vniust peace is to be prefer red before iust warre Livie Yet open war is more secure theÌ„ suspitious peace Tac. 4. Hist. Great heapes are made of many litle thiÌ„gs in peace brought to nothinge in warre Peace good government the Parents of Prosperity God selleth vs riches for the price of labor We are said to be well backt when wee are no worse frended a Gold makes al thinâ—s pregnable b Money is the very sinâ—wes of a State Mucian c The good of the Subiects is the obiect of the good â—rince d Money saith Thucidides makes weapoÌ„s forcible and profitable Cyrusâ— was wont to say he heaped great treasures wheÌ„ he enriched his friends Subiects f Let Kinges that desire to live in peace provide in time thinges necessary for warre g Tiberius of Constantinople accounted that for counterfet coyne that was levied with Teares and cryings of the people h The bitings of enraged necessitie are most dangerousâ— Portiuâ— latro Hen. 7. a true Paâ—terne of a wise and vertuous Prince Hen. 8. Bounty doeth cover manie faults Avarice obscureth many vertues Guiftes doe superinduce the heart to loue He more respected honor then profit Edward 6. Qâ— Marie Contempt in subiects is the conâ—usion of government Qâ— Elizabeth Act. 5.35,36 37,38,39 The Mindes pleasurs much more pleasant theÌ„ corporal delightes Sensuall persons are vselesse burdens to the earth The senses soone weery of their pleasures Wine sicknes 2. Obstacles that lets the mâ—ndes actions Simil. Wee ought to propose nothing to the minde vnworthy of her Simil. Sense must awhile forbear pleaâ—ures to make them more pleasaÌ„t * The pleasurs which sense receiues from natural things are more pleasant theÌ„ those froÌ„ Artificiall * Nothing vnder the SuÌ„ne long coÌ„tents therefore wee should seeke contentment aboue the Sunne * Birdes Simil. None know it but they that feele it a The propertie of true felicity is alwaies to coÌ„cent the desire and exclude feare b St. Paule Loue doth descend not ascend How love is bredd Doating bâ—ings loathing God should simply be loved for his own goodnes It is selfe-loue to love God for his bounty towards vs onely b Loue made vs to loue God is mans beginning his end The order of loues progres He workes in vs both the will and the deede Selfe-loue is iustifiable wheÌ„ we loue our selues for god only Beauty is a speciall cause of loue God the FouÌ„t of all Beauty Painting the face * Without coulor of Reason Outward argues inwarde beauty Sinne is conceived in the womb of concupiscence * They rather ruine then repaire the â—ender honors of women A well teÌ„pred body makes a like tempered mind ordinarily An vnchaste eie loues to looke vpon â— light eie Beauty â—igniorizeth the sense The beauty of a WomaÌ„ cheereth the face and a man loues nothing better Eccl. 36.22 * Maried Adultery Luxury wantonnesse slouth Pride c. are sins in Specie the Genus to all these is Caro. 4. Kindes of divine furie Loues force is vnvtâ—erable Alexander Mag. b Plutar. in Alexand. Loue is lawlâ—â— Lust is blinde Such lovers are as sensles as the stones which they loue Lust is most willfull O toile intollerable Quoth Speculation Beâ—uty promisâ—th more honesty then deformity 3. Causes of loue viz Pleasant pâ—ofitable honest Perfect loue God the Exchequer of Beauty Goodnesse is mother to loue beauâ—y Goodnes hath made 4 especiall beautieâ— The little consideration we haue of Gods goodnesse towards vs is the cause of our coldnesse in loue to him The loue that is bought is â—â—ark nought A natural reâ—son why loue descendeth In him we liue move haue our being To know godâ— loue is the way to make Man loue All true loue is either Amor Coeâ—i or amor Seculâ— this of our neighbouâ—e that of God As â—here is no lâ—ue without faith so there is no faith without loue Loue of all humane Affections is the most puiâ—ant passionate b Loue is the Bond that vnites God man Brothers by redemption ought to be more neere deere to each other theÌ„ Brothers by creation In good desires there is pleasure and paine * God When loue is in the height of perfection â—owe favoure iâ— bredd Reverence springs from powre and goodnesse Simil. We reverence God more for his goodnesse then for his powre To whom honor and reverence are due vpon Earth Mercy and compassion Affectes flowing from loue Loue hath nothing in private Man made of earth CompassioÌ„ extendeth her vertue to man and beast Mercy Iustice are godâ— almightie Armes Gods Mercie triumpheth over his Iustice towards Man Priâ—ces and Maiestrates Inhumane affections howe bred 4. Perturbations froÌ„ whoÌ„ do flow al immoderate passions of the soule Wherefore God doth blesse man with abundance There is no greater temptation theÌ„ never to be teÌ„pted no sorer punishmeÌ„t then of God never to bee punished Sinne offers the senses their severall satisfactions Vertue without adversitie withereth and loseth her force There is no other passage to heaven theÌ„ through the fire of Afflictions Griefe fear accompanie transitory riches Simil. Good Affects proceede froÌ„ the opinion of good and evill froÌ„ evill OffeÌ„ce what All mundane things are as they are takeÌ„ Offenses against the outward Senses are much lesse osâ—ensiue then those against the inward * Nothing moues our patience that moves not our will Man of all creatures hardest to please * Who so pleaseth all doth more then he that made all Some to bee thought more iudicious are most censorious Criticks of these times A Foole may make the wise ridiculous to Fooles These be men of partes that would have al whollie The coÌ„plaint of base male-contents * Without good partes Divells incarnate tempt meÌ„ desperate * The PestileÌ„ce which infects al that comes neere it * They walke like Devills invisible A