bosome spâ—ings The people that in shoals do swim Walls windowâ— ooft â—owers steeples all were set With severall eyes that in this object met Children uncapable to all mens thinking Were dâ—unk with joy as others were with drinking And stâ—ikâ—s the heavens with sound of trembling bells The Vocal Gâ—ddesse leaving dâ—sart woods Slâ—des down the Dales and dancing on the floods Observes our woods and wiâ—h repeating noise Contends to double our abundant joyes Mirth digs her pits in every cheâ—k To bury grief and sorrow Casheer all care and chear the foolish soul To joyn To marâ—y glue paste wed wedge â—iveâ— yoke manacle fetter shackcle sodder cement knit tie Iris v. Rainbow Heavens Embassadresse the thousand coloured dame She that paints the clouds Golden wing'd Thaumantia The goddesse with the painted bow The painted mother of the showers Juno 's embassad resse Judas The damned Iscariot He that betray'd his master with a kisse And miss'd of heaven even at the gates of blisse Judge Grim pronouncers of the Law Living Law Sâ—rict conservers of the Laws Grave Stewards and dispensors of the Laws That sit on bright Astraea's sacred Throne That speaks nothing but chains and shackles Whose stubble beard doth grate poor prisoners eyes Whose stern faces look Worse than the Prisoner that 's deni'd his book Or Pilate painted like a scalded Cook Day of Judgement The worlds combustion The generall Bonefire The grand Sessions Natures Funerall The worlds sad hour Dooms-day When souls shall wear their new array When the words masse shall shrink in purging flame The last dayes summons when earths Tâ—ophies lie Ascattered heap and time it self shall die When the Sun shall From the blind heavens like a dead cinder fall And all the elements intend their strife To ruine what they fram'd When desperate time lies gasping When thunder summons from eternal sleep Th' imprison'd ghosts and spreads â—'th frighted deep A veil of darknesse When the knot of nature is dissolved And the worlds ages in one hour involved In their old Châ—os seas with skies shall joyn And stars with stars confounded lose their shine The â—arth no longer shall extend her shore To keep the Ocean ouâ— the Moon no more Follow the sun but scorning her old way Crosse him and claim the guiding of the day The falling worlds now jarring frame no peacâ— No league shall hold great things themselves oppresse When earth and seas to flâ—mes are turn'd And all the world with one sad fire is burn'd The utmost date of time When rocks and all things shâ—ll disband The great and universal doome When Christ shall in a throne of clouds descend To judge the earth With rusty maske the heavens shall hide their face The aged world dissolved by the last And fatal houre shall to old Chaos hast Stars justling stars shall in the deep confound Their radiant fires the land shall give no bound To swallowing seas the moon shall crosse the sun With scorne that her swift wheeles obliquely run Daies throne aspiring discord then shall â—end The worlds crackt flame and natures concord end The frame Of nature then shall feed the greedy flame Men cities floods and seas by ravenous lust Of fire devoured all shall resolve to dust When the dancing poles Shall cease their whirling galliard When Lachesis hath no more thread to spin Nor time a feather on his crazy wing When this vast oâ—be of earth shall blazing burn And all the world in funeral flames shall mourn When heaven and hell amazâ—ng must appear In two extreams joy and excessive fear The hindge of things Is broke all ends run back into their springs The second Chaos When earth and sea in fiery flames shall frie And time lies buried in eternity When as to those enchaind in sleepe The wakeful trump of doome shall thunder through the deepe With such an horrid clang As on mount Sinai rang While the red fire and smouldring clouds out brake The aged earth agast With terrour of that blast Shall fâ—om the surface to the center shake When at the worlds last session The dreadful Judge in midle aire shall spread his throne July That month whose fame Growes greater by the man that gave it name When many well pil'd cocks of short sweet hay stands in the field What time soft night had silently begun To steal by minutes on the long-liv'd day The furious dog pursuing of the sun Whose noisome breath ads fervour to his ray v. Summer Zodiack Leo. June Sol leaving Gemini and drawing near Unto his height in Cancer when shortest night Urg'd the Thessalian archer v. Summer Zodiack-Cancer Juno Saturnia Great Queen of Gods Great matron of the Thunderer That chariots through the skies By peacocks drawn stuck full of Argus eyes Heavens Queen The Empresse of the skie Silver-arm'd goddesse White-arm'd deity Saturnia that makes the white embrace The ivory fingerd Queen Drawn with a team of harnest peacocks With silken bridles in a coach of gold Lined with Estrich plumes Shee That shares with Joves imperial soveraignty Joves sister and his wife That kindles Hymens fires The Queen of marriage and of chast desires Heavens great dame That hath the charge to rule the nuptial flame In nuptial bands That ties the hearts and then the willing hands Jupiter Saturnius The Almighty Thunderer To give the soul a goal delivery To deal their martial almes To suffer shipwrack of the soul And with his blood embrued The blushing earth Making a fatal rest to lulâ— Him in the sleep of death which clos'd his sight Shutting his eyes up in eternal night Taught him the way to his grave Driving the soul out at the yawning wound Uncase dislodge untenant uncage a soule As when a spring conducting pipe doth break The waters at a little breach burst ouâ— And hissing through the airy regions smoke So â—lusht the blood To Kill ones self To leave the warfare of this life Without a passe from the great general He gives himself a period to the race Of his loath'd life To abridge their own lives pilgrimage To be a traitour to ones selfe To let out life and so unhouse the soul To break the prison As if'â—were sweet to dye when forc't to live Accessary to their own death Self murtherer Kings Gods enshrin'd in earthly frames Fineâ— but more britle ware Sifted from common bran Inferiour Gods Earthly Deities Mortal God Whos 's awfull eye Bears signes of an imperious majesty That swaies the awful scepter in his hand The supream moderators of the law Astâ—â—a's princely stewards Men in Text letters Whose roval temples are impal'd With the enamel'd crown and diadem Who on th'â—mperial throne Doth alwaies sit and alwaies sits alone Whose lives are gaudy troubles whose crowns are Not more beset with pearls than stuft with care He that bears Heavens Scepter and the clouds with thunder tears The King of Gods That power from whom what ere hath being springs The goat-nurst God who three-forkt lightning flings Whose nod the worlds foundation
slavish servile detested crooked odious painful displeasing tyrannous Youth Unbrideled wild hot fresh loose manly blooming vigorous ungoverned unruly amotous giddy immoderate flowing waxie pliant budding green rude raw unexperienced untutor'd active stirring unreined lustful smiling downy wanton vernant burning coltish able intemperate dissolute untamed proud ambitious voluptuous luxurious unwary rash haire-braind inconsiderate flowry lascivious soft tender free boyling impatient furious hardy unwise lively quick-headed impetuous audacious daring couragious sprightful active generous chearful merry ingenious witty briske neat inconstant sportive gamesome frolick jovial cholerick uncontrolled unmellow unripe unfledge sleeke smooth unsifted unreclaimed indiscreet riotous Z. Zeal COouragious industrious religious affectionate passionate vertuous fervent hot burning ardent officious pious sacred inflaming flamy devoted superstitious ravisht intemperate wel-tempered careful cordial hearty hot-mouthed frantick Zephirus Balmy spicy flowry cooling life-breathing life-infusing courteous mild kind odorous winged warme swift-winged wanton enamoured Zodiak Crooked painted starry heaven-girdling sparkling star-enameld star-embossed Zoylus Envious calumniating backbiting babling biting injurious detracting convitious barking carping reproachful snarling supercilious disdainful lashing captious censorious exceptious currish capricious invective sharp-toothed tongue-wounding quipping girding jeering snapping condemning reviling unknowing ignorant fantastick grinning Who with condemning eyes doth on me look Is that which gives a period to my book FINIS The ENGLISH PARNASSUS A. Abel DEaths first fruits Deaths handsel who first did lead That way which all succeeding men must tread Envies first object who first did feel the hand of fate In a short life and cursed brothers hate The first of martyrs The worlds proto-marryr Murthers first essay who first bedew'd the ground With drops of blood showâ—'d from his gushing wound whose blood doth cry And with revengeful language pierce the skie Abortive v. Embrion whom untimely birth Excus'd from all the sorrowes of the earth Imperfect Embrion Half-made man that from the wombe Took but his rise to leap into the tombe Finding a night before they see a morne The wombe Is both his crable and his tombe Abraham That miracle of faith abstract of obedience Great soul of faith who with unpalsied hands Can sacrifice his son when God commands Whose countless issue did in number vse With all those lights that twinkle in the skie whose pious prayer Hid sav'd five Cities if ten had been there As righteous as he Isaacs old fire Sarah's loyal mate Great Terah's faithful son Absolom Davids rebellious son That piece of ill plac'd beauty Whose chiefest ornament beâ—â—â—e The instrument of death and shame That double Rebel who at once did do What were too much of crime though shar'd to two Whom neither civil nor domestick law Neither a father nor a king can aw And keep from treasonable acts Who in incestious pleasures bathing lay And made the blushing sun close up the day Amaz'd to see such acts as those were done At once both by a subject and a son Envying his father should enjoy alone By him unrival'd either bed or throne Abstemious v. Temperate One that in wine tasts water in water wine As if he had drunk of the Clytorian fount which who so tasts nere after relish wine One that can slake His thirst with waters of the running lake Whose drink 's of natures brewing Who if his drink but a cold moysture have No other qualities doth in it crave And with a rich contentment can resigne To others all the pleasures of the vine Absurd things indecently joyned So have I seene the pride of Natures store The orient pearl chaind to the sooty Moore So hath the diamonds bright ray been set In night and wedded to the Nigro jet Like Delphins ranging in the wood Whilst boars are swimming on the flood Heaven and hell together lie With reconcil'd antipathie Acheron The joyless lake the flaming torrent gloomy water dismal wave Where never fish were seen to play Nor water Nymphs to keepe their holy-day The sad infernal streame the moate of hell Where the sad Furies bath their ugly limbs Achilles Faire Thetis godlike son Chirons stour pupil The Trojans fear and hate Unvanquisht mortal that from Thetis sprang He whom the silver footed goddess bore That brave attemprive spirit that could feele Deaths wounding stroke at no place but his heele Swift as the dart he cast as arrowes fleete Who though he best could laest did use his feete He for whose armes such sterne debate did rise That Ajax would not live without the prize Actaeon Unhappy hunter who became To his own dogs th' unlucky game By whom was naked in the fountain seene The beauty of the quiver-bearing Queen whom his own dogs did teare Transform'd into the figure of a deare who as he flies Wonders at the new swiftness of his thighes Adam The highest pitch of perfect nature The lively image of the great Creatour In whom comprized was what ever can Belong to the perfection of a man Reasons eldest master Gods eldest son That Universal father The general kinsman That spring of men Manhood without foregoing infancy Adamant The unrelenting stone Which nought can break but the warm blood of Goats Which fire cannot warme nor hammer bruise Poyson hating stone cut with nothing but it selfe Admire v. Wonder Admiration strikes mine eyes And all my apprehensive faculties To view with wondering amazed admiring eies With adoration to admire I 'me ravisht with just wonder To scatter the spirits in admiration Intranc'r with wonder Struck with admiring wonderment All eies that saw their lids with wonder raised Admirable v. Incredible Transcending the power of a strong belief The greaeest miracle that ever challenged wonder Each thing we see did yeeld-subject for admiration Where art and miracle draw equal breath The amazed beholders wondering eyes Were taken captive with the sight So much of miracle it hath Adonis Venus fair minion He whom his sister bore his grandsires son Faire but unhappy hunter in whom the foamie boare Sheath'd his sharp tushes wounded late before Adorne To grace embellish enamel beautifie fringe lace edge embroyder embosse enchase inlay spangle sleeke smooth file enrich varnish Adultery Adulterer The beast with two backs Adulterate mixture Stoln pleasures of the lustful bed Loves felony Venus theft That unrepaired injury Hymens high treason disloyal traitor to the marriage bed Stoln meetings in unlawful sheetes Whose longing eyes wait for the twilight Adversity v. Miserable The spight of srowning fortune Fortunes storme Fortunes clowdy brow The melice of the angry fates Heavens sowre and most malignant influence The schoole of patience Unstâ—ppy opportunity to try a friend The souls night clothes Aeacus Grim Judge of trembling ghosts Inâ—zorable shade Hells sterne triumâ—â—â— Witty inventor of sad punishment Aeneas Anchyses pious son Cytherean Heroe Venus loved darling That truest Trojan The Trojans glory and their hope More valour mixâ— with greater piety Then was in him the world could nere discrie Who on his shoulders with triumphant joy Bore his old father from the
Whose spiriâ—'s onely active in his heâ—l One that hath indented with the grave to bring all his limbs thither A Câ—rpet knight That date do nought but fear Possessed with an ignominâ—ous fear That manhood only by their beard bewray Alivelâ—sse damp beleaguers every joynt as oft he swounds As ere he views his sword or thinks on wounds That swings his sword about his head and cuts The empty aire which hâ—sseth him in scorne Ready to run away from himselfe like the Satyr that ran away aâ—â— the noyse of the noyse of the horne which he himself blew Looks as if his eyes would run into his soul and his soul out of his body upon the least sent of danger Castâ—ng such unlikely dangers as all the planets together could â—â—arce conspire Clinias Damaetas â—hersites A valiant voice that is resolved to have his sword never curst by any widow Hâ—s blcod not daring to be in so dangerous a place went out of his face and hid it selfe more inwardly and his very words as if affraid of blowes came slowly from him Affraid of his own sword he wears and affrighted wiâ—h the clashing of his own armour VVhose feet is his best defence and his tongue his best weapon A dish of skimm'd milke Tost and butter That fear the report of a calâ—ver VVorse than a stâ—uck foole or hurt wild-duck The fanning of his enemies plume would nod him inâ—o despaire Cream-fac'd fellow lilly-liverd whey-face linnâ—n cheâ—kes pigeonliverd That wears all his daggers in his mouth And will see his sister sooner naked than a sword His blood runs thick as if it would blot a sword Prometheus was a sleepe while his heart was making and forgot to put fire in it If once his eye be struck with terrour all the costick phisick in the world cannot stay him Wonderful exceptious and cholerick where he sees men are loâ—â— to give him an occasion and you cannot pacifie him better than by quarrelling with him Whom when he is most hot you may easily threaten into a very honest quiet man The sight of a sword wounds him more sensible than the stroke every man is his master that dare beat him and every man dares that knowes him He is a Christian merely for fear of hell fire and if any religion could fright him more he would be of that Such as would conquer victory it self if it stood in their way as they fly Loving to shew a nature steep'd in the gall of passion display the ignoble tyranny of prevailing discords being valiant against no resistance and making no resistance when they meet true valour That would sooner creep into a scabbard than draw a sword and endure a bullet than shoot of a musket Coy A piece of pettish froward wanton anger Such as possest Narcissus Pâ—ssest with savage chastity Coy as the plant Pudâ—setan That shrinks at the approach of man Rustick chastity Discourteous modesty That as long as they are chast think they may be discourteous And lawfully scratch men if they do not kisse them Consume their own Idolater Of such a goddesse no time gives record That burnes the temple where she is ador'd Crafty The subtile fox Hyoena Crocodile and all beasts of craft Have been distil'd to make one nature up Volpone Cranes That watchful fowl the Pygmies enemy Direct their flight on high And cut their way they in a trigon â—ly Which pointed figure may with ease divide Opposing blasts through which they swiftly glide Which with loud clangors fill the â—kie When they from cold and stormy winter fly Toth ' Ocean and that aires more temperate breath Inflicting on the Pygmies wounds and death The Thracian fowle which with their loud alarmeâ— Make little Pigmies souldiers run to armes Strimonâ—an birds in Pygmies death rejoyce And tear the aire before them with their voice Which while they sleepe make one keepe senâ—inel Pâ—lamedes â—utors Which by their flying taught Him letters and his warlick discipline Credulous A man of easie confidence of rash belief That hath the only disadvantage of an honest heart To Cry out v. Noyse To rive â—ear the aire with cries To fill the bosome of the shricking aire With loud complaints Crime v. Wicked Guilty of a blacker crime Than ere in the large volume writ by time The sad historian reads acting black mischief A fault Not to be purged with brimstone fire and salt A sin no praiers or tears Can ere wash off That blurs the grace and blush of modesty Critick That beholds nothing but with a mind of mislike Writing with oyle and fire The least child their pen is delivered of comes into the world with all its teeth The Muses Cerberus Archilochus himself was not more bitter Churlish reteiner to the Muses One that hath spell'd over a great many of books and all his observation is the Orthography The surgean of old authouâ—s healing the wounds of dust and ignorance He is a troublesome vexer of the dead which after so long sparing must rise up to the judgment of his castigation He is one that makes all books sell dearer whilst he swells them into folios by his comments Crocodile Niles fell rover Niles poisony Piâ—ate Niles greedy beast That kills the man then bathâ—s him in his tears That beast which opposite to natures law In other creatures mooves the upper jaw Crowne Cornet chaplet garland diadem incirclet wreath fillet circlet ringe â—inglet cincture anadem impalement Cruell Like Ounces Tygers or the Panthers whelps Whose healths are morning draughts in blood As Lycaon when he chang'd his shape VVâ—â—h Selmus turned into an Adamanâ— The swallowing Syrts Charybdis chaft with wâ—nd Or some fell Tyger of th' Armenian kind Did him beget his cruel brest Rough flint hard steele or adamant invest As if he had drunk of the Ciconian stream That freâ—zeth all the entrailes into stone He on the cruel Caucasus hard mounts VVas bred or suckt from Tygers milky â—ounts Of some Tygers bâ—ood Bred in the wast of frâ—st-bit Calydon An heart hewn from a Parian stone Mortar made of blood and clay By rocks engendered â—ib'd with steel Like Tygers felâ— VVhâ—m their fierce dams with slaughterd cattels blood VVere wont to nourish in th' Hircanian wood Most delighted when They bath and paddle in the blood of men To whose heart nature hath set a lock to shut out pitie Cataline Marius Nerâ— Mâ—zentius Qâ—â—affers of humane blood Savage rigour More cruel than a Turke or Troglodite Than the Laestrigon The savages to Sâ—ythian rockes confind VVho know no God nor vertue of the mind But only sence pursue who hunger tame VVith slaughtered lives they and their food the same Are not so cruel As Phalaris or fam'd Gemonides Hircanian Tygar Numidian Getulian Lion Anthropophagi The horse-blood-swell'd Sarmatian In whose heart a vein of matble growe Enough to make men waver in the faith And hold opinion with Pâ—thagoâ—as That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men whose cuâ—rish spirit Governd a wolfe who hang'd
kindled exhalations in the aire At midnight glowing his stiffe bolting haire Not much unlike the pens of porcupines Parboild in sweat and making fearful signes With a look so pitious in pourport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrours The bolting haire Staring upright on their affrighted heads Heave up their hats Horrour and heart-amazing fear possest The fainting powers of my troubled brest Fear is the carefullest and greatest housewife of our passions keeping all the rest in Centinel Fear the Jaylour of the soul A flesh quake doth possesse their powers My knees each other stâ—uck the frighted blood Fled to my heart my ears like bristles stood Feast The table groans as though this feast Would as the flood destroy all fowle and beast The boards are princely serv'd and Bacchus flowes In burnisht gold With feasts they crown this day And wanted nought to crown the appetite With rich content Where all the guests impaild with dishes sit Studied dishes Where lusty diet and the frolick cup Doth rouse and raise the quickned spirits up And brave triumphing Bacchus doth display His conquering colours in their cheekes The wanton cook prepares his poynant meat To teach the satiate palate how to eate Where every dish invites the likorish sight A table whose spread sides admit A large accesse of friends to fill the seats of this capacious circle fill'd with meats Of choicest rellish till his oaken back Under the load of pil'd up dishes crack Giving the eyes a pleasant tast before They come unto the mouth When with choice viands they delight And satisfie the wanton a petite Feaver The pulses spur Within the deserts of Arabia nor in the entrails of the sea was there ever so furious a monster found and if Tyrants whose memory is hateful to us had been stored with such instruments for effecting their cruelties surely the martyrs had endured a feaver for religion and not that outward fire nor bitings of wild beasts At every sting it caâ—ries a poor sick person to the borders of the other world and causeth him sensibly to touch the extremities of life To support it long a greater remedy than paâ—ience is no lesse than requilite and other forces than those of man Enough to make a man pity him four hundred leagues off yet he is so valiant he would not fly though pursued by an army and so stately he would not rise from his bed to salute a King If God had conferred a kingdome upon him with condition never to sleep more than he doth he would prove the most vigilant prince living not would need either guards or sentinels about his person Feet The pedestals Bases of the frame of man Like Thetis The tramplers Feet that print the farewel of all beauty Cupids pursuivants That set an heaven on earth The precious rootes of understanding trees With whose pace doth move A band of beauties Fierce v. Cruel Violent Fierce as the Midian tyger Fidler A man and a fiddle out of case That rubs a living out of two sticks So many strings above a beggar His life is so many fits of mirth A country wedding and a whitsonâ—â—le are the â—wo main places he domineers in where he goes for a musitian and overlooks the bag-pipes Fight v. War Sea-fight Ships against ships beaks meeting beaks resound And run a stern the aire is darkned round Wiâ—h flying darts which falling th' Ocean hide Then â—urning their fore-castle far more wide They make their horns engirt the adverse fleet As when strong winds with tides repugnant meet One way the sea the waves another go The ships upon the furrowed Ocean so Make different tracts and waves upon the Main That oares rais'd up the sea beats down again They grapling fall into the crimson lake Nor-there alas their emnity forsake But weakly try the combate out where he That conquers can no long survivor be At whose ingrapling natures mantle took A purple colour Their armed naval forces made Blew Neptunes face the first discolour'd stage Of war a scene of their incensed rage Men would have thought some forrest moov'd from far When winters rage the pines proud tops doth bar Or that the fam'd Aegean Cyclades Torn from their roots had floated on the seas Blood fill'd the wrinkles of the sea 's visage which the water would not wash away that it might witnesse it was not alwaies his fault when we condemn his cruelty Fingers Fingers might Bacchus grace Five nimble brethren small Arm'd with pearl-shell helmets all Cupids shafts Fire Domestick sun Weightlesse fire Whose flames unto the highest arch aspire To vomit flâ—kes of fire Wrapt in the embracements of th' unwilling fire So Mâ—leager fâ—ied when to the flames His mother cast the fatal brand Flamy Pyramids Sleeping in his ashie bed The soule of Chymick art Pâ—omethean theft The sun of night and dark dayes Darting its scatâ—eâ—ed shines in crispy spires The fiery tent The fiery vault The hot bright flamer The elemental flame Fountain of life Source of motion That mercilesse impartial element The waters flaming enemy Firme Firme as those celestial poles Twixt which the stars in all their course do move Firme as the center As the golden taper of the sun Which hourely sailes the circuit of the skie Firme as the northern star As that bright line the measure of the years Which makes a league betwixt the poles And joynes the Hemisphears Fishes The Oceans frie. Sea citizens The scaly finny crue Watry citizens wâ—try leagions scaly legions The inhabitants of the briny regions The natural boats The living ships Neptunes busie burgers Spawning legions armies Watry burgeâ—les Free people of the sea The scaly train The finny coursers The denisons of floods Nâ—ptunes finny subjects 〈◊〉 that row themselves with finny oares The anglâ— râ—â—nibling prey The watry constellations The sâ—as stars planets The innumerable legions Of greedy mouâ—hes that haunt the briny regions The scaly nation arm'd in silver male That cut with golden oares the silver stream Proteus finny flock Neptunes watry heard Proteus scaly infantry Fit As a pan-cake for shrove tuesday a morâ—is for May-day a candle for the candlestick a nayle for the hole a Nuns lips for a Fâ—â—ars mouth Mâ—de for no other use Designed by nature for no other end Which on good advantage stands For c. Flattery Flatterer Language stow'd with flowers Court-mothes Erewiggs A shadow of a foole Flies of estate and sun-shine Gilt fiâ—'d soothing tongue Born in the country of good words Court-erewigs wrigling in the ears of greatnesse Oâ—ly eloquence Catching oratory Words steep'd in oyle Charitable lyars smooth-fac'd silken soft velvet words That dresse their speech in plush Those worst of ravens that devoure The quick when others â—rey but on the dead The tame wild beast The servile tyrant Glutinous bodies that can stick Like snailes on painted walls That poure their oyle into the ears Make their revennues out of legges and faces That spin their raiment Out of observance
His soul lies fallows Ida. The mount enchas'd with silver springs The famous mount of Troy Where Paris judge'd the naked goddesses Whose wealthy top Is alwayes crowned with a plenteous crop The stately hill of Troy Whence Jove's great eagle snatcht the beauteous boy Idolater Thâ—t to the woâ—d and stone devotion do More senselesse than the stones they bow unto Jealous Jealousie Burning like Aetna with an imbowell'd fire Self-torturing Martyr Hollow-ey'd Snake-hair'd monster That watches himself a mischief and keeps a lear eye still for fear he should escape him Hundred ey'd Argos ever waking spie Pale hag infernall Fury pleasures smart Envious observer viewing every part Pin'd With seeking that he would be loath to find The frensie of of the wise Unkind carefullnesse Self-punishment for others fault Cousin of envy Daughter of love and mother of hate Self-misery for others happinesse Beauties watchfull guard Diligent in hope to lose his labour That fruitfull mischief ferall malady Conâ—inuall Feaver The furious bâ—tter passion Self-harming passion Vertue drowning flood That hellish fire not quenched but with blood One that dates scarce trust his mother in bed with his wife An head fly-blown with suspition Argos was not so jealous of his Cow Nor th' watchful dragon of the golden fleece An ill Jailour that makes many break prison It opens more wayes to wickednesse than it stops and where it finds one makes ten dishonest Ignorant Things like men which seem far off a man Of scarce so much understanding as will deliver him from being a fool Onely his lineaments bely a man A son of earth A narrow flat soul A man of a lank shallow brain Dull unconceiving brains Idiot Dâ—zzard Speaking beast A greater babie Cumine asse Old children A piece of earth that Prometheus put not half thâ—s pâ—oportion of fire into A soul drown'd in flesh Ignorant rich man A glorious fool a golden asse Shâ—ep with a golden fleece a crowned asse Dull as a thick-skul'd Justice drunk with sloth Or Alderman far gone in capon-broth Island Ground hugg'd in Neptunâ—s arms Clasp'd in the embraces of the sea Hoopt with a watry girdle Hedg'd in with water Neptunes enclosures Immortall v. Eternall That may challenge time and out wear it What neither age winter nor death can know Above times battery which ages cloud can nâ—'r benight That neither stoop to age nor death Imperfect Embryon'd unpolisht unfill'd not thâ—oughly anvill'd Impossible v. Never Incredible Not within the sphear of omnipotency Not within the capacity of being an object to an alâ—ighty power Meer contradictions Chymera ' of a restlesse brain We may hope as soon to calm a tempest with a song Should all the world their daâ—ing wits confer They should not make this lesse impossible You may as soon go kindle fire with snow As easily may'st thou thâ—ow A drop of water in the breaking gulph And take it thence again unmiâ—gled Without addition or diminishing As soon The whole earth may be bored and the Moon May through the Centre creep and so 〈◊〉 Her brothers noon-ride with th' Antipodes Imprison It s easier far The torne and injur'd panther to restrain In 's hot pursuit or stroke him coole again To tell the cause why winds do disagree Divide them when in stormes they mingled be Strait fix them single where they breath'd before Or fan them with a plume from sea to shore Than men shall sooner see The inticed needle disobey the tempting Adamant Imprison Confine enjayle enclose fetter shackle gyre manacle chain enthral enslave Impudent Of a â—ear'd impudence Who have confirm'd their faces like to flint Against all die of modesty Who nere had somuch grace As is portended by the blushing face Ashâ—m'd of nothing but of modesty One that hath dispensed with all shame A reprobate in vertue Without restraint of shame or modesty An headstrong impudence that mocks reproofe Which with small change might be turn'd into flint Inconstant v. Changeable Incredible v. Admirable I adde no more least truth it self should blush Fearing to loose its credit Wer 't not avouched by antiquity Who durst believe it Behold What hope transcends nor can with faith be told 'T is past my creede Beyond the credit of the credulous Above all history stands not within the prospect of belief Which to believe Is a faith which reason without miracle Can never plant in understanding judgements Not believ'd without some difficulty Without all appearance of reason There 's nothing is incredible after this Which none would speak but he that thought He had a priviledge without controll To speak things unlikely Posterity will scarce the same believe Which no wise man can lend a thought to I sooner will believe Medusa's head With snaky hairs was round encompassed Or Scylla or Chymaera's monstrous frame Lyon and serpent parted with a flame Or that the Minotaure hath ever been Or Cerberus with triple dog-face seene Or Sphynx or Harpyes Giants that had feete Like serpents Gyges or the Centaures fleete I will believe all these can sooner be Than that c. v. Never Impossible Indian That sucks sweet liquor from his sugar cane That dives for pearls within the wealthy maine That within The streams of Ganges bathe their swarthy skin Infamous Whose name is in black letters registred In the eternal book of infamy From out the book of honour razed quite Infant Non-age pupillage mino ity dawne of life The new-spun thread of life That hath but yet an inch of life Bonelesse gums Unbreathed suckling Whose lips hang on the mothers brest Whose cries A estill'd with rattles and fond lullabies A thrumbe of man Natures epitome The handfull of a man Not much in debt to time The mothers late deliver'd load Whose young breath scarce knowes the way VVhose pretty smiles could never yet descry The deep affect on of a mothers eye VVhose imperfect pace Can hardly lead his feet from place to place Inocent A man as free from wronging others as himself VVhose hands are free And yet unstaind with any injury From all aspersions clear Whose souls unsullied yet with â—oul offence Enthroned sit in spotlesse innocence Pure as the stream of aged Symois untainted with offence White as the unsullied lilly was her soul His looks doth raise from blemish clear Intice To train toll ensnaâ—e becken wooe court allure baiâ— Job That spectacle of patient miserie All the ulcers that had been In Aegypt cured were broke out again In his distempered flesh The patient Edomite He that trâ—'d both estates Acquainted with the smiles and frowns of fate Paâ—â—ent unto a Pâ—oveâ—â— Whom neither riches could make insolent Nor naked pâ—verty impatient John the Baptist The son of Zachay Late issue of the barrâ—n womb Christs former trumpet The head of Prophets Forerunner to the King of heaven The morning-star of the eternâ—l son Whose head was price unto the Dâ—msels feet Joyfull v. Glad Jâ—y Publick v. Shout Noise The Palace with the peopâ—eâ— praises rings And sacred joy in every
shakes Father of men and Gods Great Berecynthia's son Great founder both of Gods and men Grim Saâ—urnes son The great Olympick Jove The spirit that all the world maintains And the poiz'd earth in empty aire sustainâ— That with his dreadful thunder rends the skies Who day with light inspires Dividing duskie clouds with glittering fires Who the dull earth and tempest-tossed seas Câ—ties and hells sad kingdome doth appease And with the equal power of a just law Doth Gods above inferiour mortals awe Great Panomphaeus v. Gods Thunder Justice Whose looks are â—ixt and sad her left hand holds A paire of equal ballances her right A two edg'd sword her eyes are quick and bright Not apt to sqint but nimble to discerne Her visage lovely is yet bold and sterne Unpartial maid Unbâ—ibed virgin Beauteous Astraea K. To Kill v. To Wound WIth thousand wounds divorâ—'â— the trembling soul The pavements blush with blood Thâ—s hand thy breath hath crusht to aire Made him a morsel for the jawes of death And wâ—th his sword he sign'd his fatal passe Ly bathing in their blood Dâ—ath with his purple finger shuts their eyes That command the crowching knee And the officious feet Walking upon the battlements of Soveraignty Kisse v. Lips The seals of love set on the red-wax lips Inspiring souls and whispering taâ—es of love Dumbe wooing Harmelesse adultery The melting sip Loves alarme Loves sweet indearments The close conjunction of the happy lips When zealous love print stories on thir lips On lips to print the volumes of their love Loves silent but perswasive Rhetorick Loves silent Oâ—atoâ—y language The soft and warm impression of the lips The lips dissolv'd Hymens lesse delights The lovers oath when lips are made the book To coyn young Cupids Loves mintage Loves indentures Their lips do meet so near That cockles might be tutor'd there Whose kisses raisâ— betwixt them such a fire That should the Phoenix see he to expire Would shun the spicy mountains and so take Himself between their lips a grave to make Loves tribute To seal loves contract Honest adultery As if he pluckt up kisses by the roots That grew upon her lips The blind Gods darts The abstract of true love Loves print Knee Where the thighes Knit with the ham-strings in the knotty joynt The parts sacred to mercy The supple bender L. Laborious HIs sauce was labour exercise his fire Industrioâ—s Bees so in the prime of May By sunshine through the flowry meadowes stray In every joynt about him moves An Intellectus Agens Labour needlesse To powre â—â—o the sea an uselesse shower To guild refined gold To paint the lilly To throw perfume upon the violet Send owls to Athens To smooth the ice or adde another hiew â—â—o the rainbow or with taper light To seeke the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish To adde stars to the enamel'd firmament To give drops to the swelling Ocean And adde more beams to the Garish sun To give more trees unto the thronged wood â—ore leaves unto those trees Labour in vain v. Impossible To number sands and drink the Ocean dâ—y To wash the brick or the scorcht Aethiop To sow their seed upon the plashie shore To roll the restlesse stone of Sisyphus And cast in water to th'unbottom'd tub To teach the crab go forward To make a bucket of a five Make thornes bear figs and make the thistles stoope Prest with her grapie clusters Make fire and water meet without contention And seek to reconcile antipathies Go tutour stocks preach to the sencelâ—sse stones Go and sheare wool from the dull affes back From the smooth bladders go and pull the haires Go boyle a stone and plough the barren shore Or throw thy seed upon the mooving wave Wâ—ite on the water go and cut the fire Build on the sand and teach the stones to swim Go hunt the winds seek to revive the dead Sing to the deaf or the â—egardlesse shores Teach eagles how to fly Dolphins to swim Dig through the Isthmus prattle to the stones Go glue the bâ—oken shell spin spiders webs Fâ—ght with the Gods teach asses for the race Go tie a knot on Dolphins slippery tayles And think to bake thy loaves in a cold oven Go feed a whetstone till thou makst it fat Kâ—â—k against pricks and strive against the stream That since she clean forgot her former note His fear the stout asp could not then dissemble Which since that time is ever seen to tremble The stars for pity drop down from their sphears And Cynthia in gloomy vale of night Inshrowds the pale beams of her borrowed light Then envy slept and waking wept And cruelty it selfe sate almost crying There 's not in all The stock of sorrow any charme can call Death sooner up For misick in the breath Of thunder and a sweetnesse even in death It brings with it if you with this compare All the loud noises that torment the aire Able to move And justifie compassion in the brest Of unrelenting Stoicks Fit object for the weeping eyâ— If time will not allow His death-prevented eyes to weep enough Then let his dying language recommend What 's left to his posterity to end Let such as shall rehearse This story howle like Irish at an hearse Which who so hears It makes the eyes pay ransome for the ears Larke The wakeful herald of the morne Days mounting herald The bird that learns observance to the sun Quavering her clear notes in the quiet aire The ploughmans clock The bird that to the morning sings The Lyrick trumpeter of day To laugh Mood by the itching spleen Smiling his face into more lines than are in the new maps with the Augmentation of the Indies The cirles of the eyes flow with distilled laughter Mirth digs her dimpling pits within the cheeke Steeping their hard dry bisket jests In their own laughter The eyes invested with the loveliest smiles â—raw dry the sea or set it all on fire Gorob the naked man of all his clothes â—rom the childs elbow go and pluck a beard Labaerinth v. Minotaure Art therein would needs be delighâ—ful counterfeiting its enemy â—â—rour and making order in confusion Meanders winding intricate mazes Which so beguil'd The troubled sence that he which made the same Could scarce retire The mazâ—e house of Daedalus The winding prison of the Minotaure To Lament v. to Mourne To tear the aire with cries So wept the Fawnes that in the forrâ—st keepe So all the Nymphes and shaggâ—e Satyrs weepe Lamenting their lov'd Marsyas They with remorselesse hands their bosoms tear And wailing call on him that cannot hear And with torn garments they present their woe v. Elegie Tears Weep Lamentable Sorrowfull Which who so reads His eyes may spare to weep and learn to bleed Carnation tears Like Niobe let every one That cannot melt at this turne to a stone To hear of this Each heart was turn'd a wardrobe of true passion Where griefs were clothed in a several fashion Grief went her progresse through all
silenc'd by a calme The seas flat face now all becalmed lies Like standing pooles no waves or billowes rise The bridled sea stands and observrs no more Her antient course she had forgot to roare No tides flow to and fro nor seemes the sun To dance upon the waters motion No winds then wrastled Her waves the tired main By the winds leave compos'd and smooth'd again The heavens and seas put on their robes Of setled motions VVhen Triton drives his blew steedes â—re the seas Calme winds have smooth'd the seas rough brow The waves were all at peace The flagging mainsail flapt against her yard The uselesse compasse and the idle card VVere both neglected upon every side The gamesome Porpoyse tumbled on the tide Grim Neptune wip'd his foamy mouth Held his tridented Mâ—ce upon the south The whispering winds do tell their tale In such a breath as may but fill a saile No winds but such as rock the waves asleepe The smooth â—ac'd Keptune with his gladder smiles Visits the banks of his beloved Isâ—â—s The winds retire and sink into their seaâ— And sea-green Triton sounds a shrill retreat When the ships glide upon the sleeping wave The smiling Nimphes dance upon the rising wave The wind courts the sails The sea Wears browes as smooth as virgins be Tempting the Marchant to invade his face The winds were like a servant waiting on them So just that they might fill the sailes as they listed Old Nereâ—es on his Dolphin rides Presenting bridles to direct the tides No wind rebells The aire was calme and on the level brine Slick Panope with all her sisters plaid As still as midnight were the sullen waves And Neptunes silver-ever-shaking brest As smooth as when the Halcion builds her nest None other wrinkles on his face were seene Than on a fertile mead or sportive greene Where never plow share ript his mothers wombe To give an aged seed a living tombe The winds with wonder whist Sweetly the waters kist Whispering new joyes to the mild Ocean Who now hath quite forgot to rave Whilst birds of calme sit brooding on the charmed wave Nor blinded Mole the batning earth ere stird Nor boyes made pitfals for the hungry bird The whistling reeds upon the waters side Shot up their sharp heads in a stately pâ—ide And not a binding Osier bowd his head But on his root him bravely carried No dandling leaf plaid with the subtile aire So smooth the Sea was and the skie so faire Cameleon Those foodlesse creatures fed by aire alone Which every colour that they touch put on Cancer The spreading cancer scorning helplesse art Creeps from the infected to the sounder partâ— Candles On guilded yards light-bearing cressets hung Which sullen night subdue with flaring beams Domestick stars Tallow stars In golden lampes the lights are placed round And make a forced day the night confound The house stars The candle sleepy grew and winkt Care Careful Swarmes of perplexing care buzze in his brain A studious care boyld in his zealous mind The theefe of youth and beauty tempest of the soul Perplexing and enaging cares That without years can snow down silver haires The Chaos of the mind the noyse the tumult of the thoughts Tempest of the troubled mind Unquiet thoughts The journey of the head Millions of cares Beats on the anvile of my poor weak head My heart 's an anvile hammerd by my thoughts My head 's a crazie hive for swarmes of thoughts Which have more sting than honey Care seeks out wrinkled browes and hollow eyes And builds himself caves to abide in them Swarmes of buzzing cares hive in his head Carrier A man unlearned and yet a man of letters His own hackney man letting himself out to travel as well as his horses The ordinary Embassadour betwixt friend and friend A great afflâ—cter of high wayes To Cary away violently To traile hale drag hurry To hurry with them like the spreading flood Râ—pt as a ship upon the high wrought flood By savage tempests chac't which in despaire The Pilot leaveth to the Gods and praier As when by Ganges flood A Tyger draggs a fawne through silent woods Castle v. Building Safe for defence And sweetly wanton with magnificence With all the cost and cunning beautifide That adds to state where nothing wants but pride Castor and Pollux Joves egge-borne isâ—ue Leda's twin sons Tyndarian brothers The Amyclaean youths The glistering brothers Helens fair brothers whome mariners invoke When the victorious waves their ships have broke The famous Argonautes Caucasus The Sâ—ythians snowie mountains on whose top Prometheus growing liver feeds the Crop Of Joves great bird Inhospitable rock Whose craggie sides have oft endur'd the shock Of the fierce north Which with lesse distance looks at heaven by far And with more large proportion shewes the stars Cave Under the hollow hanging of this hill There was a cave cut out by natures skill Or else it seemd the mount did ope his brest That all might see what thoughts he there possest Whose gloomy entrance was environd round With thick set trees c. In which no chearing light At all ere peep'd but sad and driery night A squallid filth and moldinesse had made From whence exhaled stenches did invade The upper aire There 's bred by dreary night Pale moldy filth and darknesse sad no light But light by Magick made ere shined there A deep black cave low in the earth is found Whose duskic entrance like pase Morpheus cell With strange Meanders windeth under ground Where sooty darknesse evermore doth dwell With torches now attempting the sad cave Which at their entrance seemeth in a fright At the reflexion that the brightnesse gave As till that time it never saw the light Centaures Wretched Ixions shaggie-footed race The cloud born issue Which first bestrid the horse Cerberus That scoulding cur who barking shakes About his tripple browes Medusa's snakes The dreadful dog of hell The viper curled dog The tripple headed cut that shakes His dreadful main curled with hissing snakes His dâ—reful head With hundred snakes encompâ—ssed And noysome breath whilst bloody drops Flow from his tripple tongued chaps Grim porter of the Stygian hall Ceres The yellow goddesse The gold haird mother of life-strengthening seed The fair browd Queen that shakes her golden haires And makes the fields to wave their golden ears The grain-rich goddesse The sheavie Queen Who first instructed duller mortals how To make earths surface weare a furrowed brow As if she frownd on them and storm'd to feele Her bowels gashed by the ripping steele Who causeth Aetna from her jawes expire Thick vapours lin'd with dust and wrapt in fire Sad mother of fair Pâ—oserpine The Elâ—usinian Queen that clothes the fields with grain Whose yearly feast Grave matrons in long linnen stoles invest With sacred undivulged rites do keepe Offering garlands of their first ripe corne Forbidden Venus for nine nights forborne And touch of man Certain Grown to a certainty unto assurance grown Certain as the unchanged
slew Next Hydra did with sword and fire subdue The Erimanthian Bore with Javelin stroke The brasse hoov'd stagge with golden antlers took The chac't Stimphalides his arrowes felt From th'Amozonian won her precious belt Then cleans'd Augaeus stalls with ordure full And vanquished the furious Cretan bull Sâ—erne Diomed his ravenous horses threw Three-headed Gerion in Iberia slew The Hesperian dragon-guarded apples won And scowling Cerberus shewed to the sun Hermophradite Sir and Madam twisted both together One orbe contains both sun and moon Within whose eyes Both Venus and Adonis lies In every simple sound A perfect dialogue is found Tib and Tom in a trick Natures Philip and Mary's sixpence Two sexes in one Individual Hermit v. Anchorite High Which with lesse distance peeps into the stars Than which no place of earth doth swell more high In any place nor nearer meets the skie Which by their wondrous height Might seem to threat the skies and once more fright The Gods with a gigantick war That out-braves the skie Till as Atlas pillars which did tack Heaven to the earth That to an immense height drawes up the eye A cliffe As high as the Canarian Tenariffe Which lift their swelling tops above the skies Which shrouds His airy bead in hanging clouds Whose lofty top Nature hath made contiguous to the heavens Whose lofty top doth know No distance from the Skies Singing his pate against the torrid Zone Makes Offa like a wart That emulate the Skie As they would ease great Atlas of his load That rear Their glitering tops which fatall lightning fear Invade the Skies And bid defiance to the Skie That lick the stars and steal a kisse from heaven That muffle up their heads within the clouds Like Athos Mount Or Erix steep and long Or like old Apeninus rais'd on high Into the Air kissing the starrie Skie Whose top seems to despise The under vale doth rise In stately height to parly with the Skies As Mountains on whose barren brest The labouring clouds do often rest Whose stately eminence Vassals the under vales circumference So high as if they meant To ease strong Atlas of his punishment Whose head like winged fame Might pierce the clouds yea seem the stars to kisse And Mausolus great tomb might stand in this Tempting the Skie so â—gh From thence swell'd mountains seem but to the eye As atoms losing their heads within the Skie Bearding the stars thrusting acquaintance on the Skie Proudly insulting o'r the under Skie Whose lofty foreheads brush the stars As if thee meant to put out heavens bright eyes As if they meant to scale the Skies Whose height doth court the clouds Scaling Olympus snowie brow Knocking their hâ—ows against heavens brazen doors That heaven and earth attone That reach heavens battlements So high They thrâ—atned to give battell to the Skie Which show Against the height of heaven their pointed brow Skie-kissing air-invading High as Riphoean hills Hill v. High Two rockie hills lift their proud tops on high And make a vale beneath Their lofty brows display Earths dugges wart risings tumours blisters Athos Atlas Haemus Rhodope Ismarus Eryx Cithaera Taurns Caucasus Alps Appenine Oeta Tmolus Aetna Paâ—nassus Othrys Cynthus Mimas Dyndimus Mycale Pâ—lion Pindus Offa Olympus Helicon Ida. History The rorch of truth The treasure-house of time The glasse of ages past The Matron with her eyes behind her Hippocrene The fount Made by the horse hoof on the Muses Mount â—ganippe's spring The Heliconian well The Muses sacred rill The Poets fount Where they to drench their ravisht lips are wont V. Muses-Parnassus Forked Parnassus spring where those sweet maids of memory do sing Homer The Grecian Merlin The Muses high Priest Blind Bard of Greece The Muses Purveyor Apollo's Caterer The Priest of Smyrna that took such delight In knowledge that for it he chang'd his sight Whose pen The Scepter was which rul'd the souls of men Honest v. Forms of Commending A man of a most confirmed honesty He would not flatter Neptune for his trident Or love for power to thunder His heart 's his mouth Would not betray The Devil to his fellow and delights No lesse in truth than light A mind keeps correspondence to his tongue A mind allied unto his words He hath all the entendmenrs of an honest man From whose free tongue proceedeth nought That is not correspondent to hâ—s thought Whose head and heart keep alwayes one pace His conscience and his tongue keep the same tune Who punishment lesse than the trespasse fears Honey The sweets that crown the labours of the Bee The sweet provision of the Bee Bees flowrie task The riches of Hyblean Cottagers The treasures of industrious Bees Honour The waxen Palace of the Bee The waxie Cabbins of industrious Bees The Bees hollow home The Bees arched cells The dainty wax divided rooms The honey Merchants shop The waxen Canopie Honor. The inheritance of air Prides Stirrup That glorious nothing Ambitious wish and scope Which envy ever lackies at the heels That great engagement to great purposes Swelling Titles gilded emptiness vertues due guerdo Dreams in career Embroydered names The creature of authority Hope The poor mans god The lullabie of care The greatest antidote against despair Miseries babie rattle lenitive Ingaging expectation The parasite of thought The dream of mad men Ever-changing gale Swelling with wanton breath the gaudy sayls Of glorious fools Miseries cordiall The onely happinesse of those that are deprived of all other The hope with expectation feed The dame of beggars and the Queen of Kings Our joy in sorrow and our peace in strife The waking dream Brave temper of resolved spirits Valours incentive Patience's pillow Lawfullest flatterer The pullies to draw up dejected hearts The first-born of experience Horns The terrour of the skull Natures offensive arms And her defensive too Horse High bounding Steeds whose rich caparison With Scarlet blush with gold their bridles shone The best that ever trode The sounding Centre Like to the breed of great Laomedon â—r those which Jove gave Tros The bloody spur thrusts anger in his side Which perform their fiery course â—â—rinckling their foam and snowing on the dust â—â—e Steed in stately trappings proudly stamps â—nd in his mouth the foamy bridle champs 〈◊〉 forth the ringled bit and with his hooves Checks the submissive ground He lifts his hasty hoof as if he scorned The earth as if his tabering feet had found A way to go and yet ne'r touch the ground Bounds from the earth as if his entrails were hairs He is pure air and fire Earth and water never shew â—hemselves in him but in his still patience to let his â—ider mount him There stamps a Steed that champs the frothy steel This strokes the ground that scorns it with his heel His neck with thunder arm'd his breast with force Who from his nostrils throws a dreadfull light Eâ—alts in his own courage proudly bounds With trampling hoof the sounding Centre wounds Breaks through the order'd ranks
store Untill her glutted orb can suck no more Nights bashfull Empresse which doth often wain Yet oft repents her darknesse primes again And with her circling horns doth re-embrace Her brothers wealth and orbs her silver face The still Commandresse of the silent night Phoebus pale sister which strikes her silver horns quite Through the clouds The lowest of Celestial bodies And darts a beam upon nights swarthy face Great Queen of shadows governesse of floods Cynthia seated in her silver chair The Moon at full thought no scorn to be torch-bearer to a greatter beauty guiding her steps whose motions bare a mind that bore in it self more stirting motions â—hat with long beams the shamefac'd night arrayes Full Moon The moon doth join â—er growing horns and with replenish'd shine â—e views the earth â—hen in a silvver orb her horns unite Space of Moneths â—o times her roundles Phoebe had compleat Seven times had Phoebe from her wain â—ith Phoebus fire fill'd her horn again â—ith joyned horns 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Moons their orbs had filled â— 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Crescents now had made their orbs compleat Their growing horns unite â—nd had as oft withdrawn their â—eeble light â— 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Aged Moons grew young â— 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Crescents had full displaid â—eir joyning horns repleat with borrowed flame â—e twice the Moon her shining Crescents fill Thrice had the Queen of night Shifted her robes and chang'd her horny light â—re Phoebe thrice twelve times have fill'd her horns Thrice hath the pale fac'd Empresse of the night â—ent in her chaste increase her borrowed light To guide the vowing marriner Seven times had Cynthia fill'd her wained light The tenth moneth was in her bright Chariot thron'd Before the moons sharp horns were twice grown round Untiâ—ll seven Moneths had gain'd and lost their fire When as the fair directresse of the night Had thrice three times repair'd her waining light Tâ—e horned Moon three courses did expire Tâ—â—ice three times had the Soveraign of the night Repair'd her empty horns with borrow'd light Bright Cynthia's head had three times thrice â—epair'd the empty horns and fill'd the eyes Of gazing mortals with the Globe of light Twice six moneths have run Their tediouâ— courses Thrice had the Moon renew'd her wained pride Moore v. Aethiopian Morning â—y in its cradle day in its swathing clouts Infant day day new hatcht from the shell The day in dressing The Infancy of day The bloom the bud of day The blooming light buds from the blushing East Day new apparrelled Thy Morn with pearls of dew bedecks the plains The prime of springing day Nonage of the day The Maidenhead of day Pupillage of day The eldest daughter of the light Aurora rides And throws the light from off her Saffron whâ—els The wakefull morning from the East displayes Her purple doors and odoriferous bed With plenty of dew-dropping Roses spread Clear Lucifer the flying stars doth chase And after all the rest resigns his place Early Sun-shine Now the bright morning star dayes harbenger Comes dancing from the East When Titan saw the dawning ruddy grew And how the Moon her silver horns withdrew He bad the light-foot hours without delay To joyn his steeds The Goddesses obey Who from their lofty mangers forthwith led His fierie horses with Ambrosia fed The humid night Beyond th' Hesperian vale hath tane her flight Aurora's splendor re-enthrones the day Aurora doth her dapple cheeks display And from the East doth usher in the day When aged night Aurora's blushes fled When from th' approaching morn the stars withdrew And that the Sun had drunk the scorched dew Lucifer displayes Aurora's blush and she Apollo's raies The dewie confines of the night and day When gray Aurora now had vanquâ—sht night When Sol had rais'd his beams above the flood Now Lucifer exalts the day to hell Old night descended Day sprung and mountains shone with early beams The morning night dismasks with welcome flame Now Lucifer awakes The dewit morne The time when light the gloomy nighâ— invades Bâ—ight Lucifer his taper showes The harbenger of day Tâ—â—'enlightned world resignes to Phaebus sway That time the light Begins his triumph ore the vanquisht night Aurora now begins to creepe Out of her easterne cradle Already in the ruddy east Bâ—ight Eâ—ycina with the beaming crest Calls up Aurora The day the suns bright son Now awake doth first discover Mountain tâ—pâ— new gâ—lded over With his ruddy raies thereon Then Aurora richly dight In an azure mantle faire Fring'd about with silver bright Pearl dews droping through the air Hung the gate with golden tissues Where Hyperioâ—'s chariot issuâ—s About the houre when the heavenly teame Begins her golden progresse from the east The dawne scarce drew the curtains of the east The dawne usur pes upon the night What time the sun first gilds th' Horizon with his radiance Blushing Aurora sweetly peeping out Chides in the stars The sun begins to suck His early balme and Iland spices The glory of the next dayes light Had chac't the shadowes of the tedious night The darknesse flies and light is hurld Round about the silent world When the shrill cock proclaims the infant day The day begins to disclose his comfortable beauties The rosie morning drawes away The sable curtain and lets in the day Like Venus rising from a sea of jet When as the shâ—dy gloome Doth give the day her roome Tâ—e rising sun Doth shew the victory that he hath won Of cloudy night The houre when we might Not speak a falshood if we call'd it night The morning having dispossest the night Makes the skie wear her livery of light The pale-fac't empresse of the night Hath resurrender'd up her borrow'd light And early Hesper shoots his golden head To usher Titan from his purple bed When dewie cheek't Aurora's purple die Dapples the beauty of the morning skie Aurorora doth display Her golden locks anu summons up the day Titan heaves up his head From off the pillow of his saffron bed Titan now ready for his journal race Hath rows'd his dewie locks and rosie face Enricht with morning beauty Phaebus hath now upheav'd his golden head From the soft pillow of his sea-green bed And with his rising glory hath possest The spatious borders of th' enlightned east Gray lines do fret the clouds the messengers of day The winking Mary buds ope their golden eyes The rising breaking light The stars are vanquisht by the mornings flame The morning sun erects his beames And rarifies the earth with peircing gleames Lady of light the rosie fingred morne Sol with his face new wash't in cleansing waves Enchac't the skies The new fir'd sun Strikes the broad fields The chearful Lady of the light Clad in her saffron robe Disperst her beams through every part Of th' enflowred globe The mornings beauty now had glaz'd the skie The rosie morne holds out her silver light Now drew the
the woods on every side While his faire mistresse like a stately bride With flowers and gemâ—s and Indian gold doth spangle Her lovely locks her lovers looks to tangle When gliding through the aire in mantle blew With silver fringe she drops the silver dew Aurora now her treasures forth had brought Edging the silver clouds with fringe of gold And hangs the skies with arras rarely wrought â—ouder'd with pearl and pretious stones untold Yet weeps shee for she thinks it all too small To welcome great Apollo to her hall The glorious sun doth gild the day â—ights chearâ—ul dame in safâ—ron robes did shine Whose silver beams through every part dispeâ—st Of the terrestrial globe did now refine The thickned aire and leavie forâ—ests peirâ—'t Now sparkling Titan burnisht Neptunes waves And spread his beams on earths enamelâ—'d brest The bashful morne doth long in vain Court the amorous Marigold With sighing blasts and weeping rain Yet she refuseth to unfold But when the planet of the day Approacheth with his powerful ray Then she spreads then she receives His waâ—mer beams into her virgin leaves The blushes of the morne appear And now she hangs her pearly store Fiâ—hed from the easterne shore 〈◊〉 cowslips bell and roses leaves The rapid motion of the spheers Old night from our Horâ—zon bears And now declining shades give way To the reâ—urne of chearful day The morne doth now display The purple ensigne of ensuing day The sun ready to ride Nights duskie shadowes flie And morning flecks the rose-enamell'd skie Phebus now prunes himself His way is strow'd with roses The beauteous Harbenger of day â—â—â—sht from the Eastern pillow where she lay Claspt in her Tythons armes red with those kisses Which being enjoy'd by night by day she misses As soon as Titan gilds the eastern hills And chirping birds the Saints-bell of the day Ring in our ears a warning to devotion Light now repaâ—â—es the wrongs of night When Sol with morning glory fills the eyes Of gazing mortals whose victorious ray Chacing the night rethrones deposed day The illustrious prince of light Riseth in glory from his Crocean bed And tramples down the horrid shapes of night The early bugle horne Of Chantecleer had summon'd up the morne The easterne lamps begin To faile and draw their nightly glory in Ere the first cock his maâ—â—ens rings By this the bâ—oad saâ—'â— Quirister of night Surceas'd her screeching note and took her flight To the next neighbouring ivie Birds and beasts Forsake the warme pâ—otection of their nests And nightly dens whilst darknesse doth display Her sable curtains to let in the day Phaebe now to the lower world râ—tires Attended with her train of lesser fires The gray-ey'd â—anitor doth now begin To ope his easterne portals and let in The new borne day which having lately hurld The shades of night into the lower world The dewie cheek'â— Aurora doth unfold Her purple curtains all besring'd with gold And from the pillow of his Crocian bed Don Phaebus raiseth his refulgent head That with his all discerning eyes survaies And gilds the mountains with his morning raies In the flowry east Fair Erycina with her beamy crest Raiseth Aurora and she starts with blushing From aged Tithons cold armes quickly rushing Opens the wide gaâ—â—s of the welcome day And with a beck summons the sun away Who quickly mounting on his glistering chaire Courseth his nimble horse through the aire With swiâ—ter pace than when he did pursue The lawrel changed Nimph that from him flew The morne in russet mantle clad Walks ore the dew on yond high eastern hill The glow wormes uneffectual fire begins to pale Aurora rising from her blushing wars Doth with her rosie hand put back the stars Now ore the sea from her old love comes she That drawes the day from heavens cold axletree When light â—â—â—ps through the glimmering eye-lids of the morne Flame-snorting Phlegon's ruddy breath began â—educing day to gild the Indian Aurora's saffron ray On the Horizon doth renew the day Auâ—oâ—a weary of her cold embrace With her old spouse began in Inde apace To paint her portal of an opal hue Before the worshipt sun Pears through the golden windowes of the east The all chearing sun In the remotest east begins to draw The shady curtains of Aurora's bed The gray eyed morne smiles on the frowning night Checkering the easterne clouds with streaks of light And freckel'd darnesse like a drunkard reeles From sorth daies path and Titans burning wheeles When silver streaks do lace the blushing clouds Nights candles are burnt out and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountains top The rising sun peeps ore the hills with a hearty draught Of morning dew salutes the welcome day Aurora now puts on her crimson blush And with resplendent raies gilds ore the tops Of th' aspiring hills the pearly dew Hings on the rose bud tops and knowing it â—ust be anon exhal'd for sorrow shrinks And melts into a tear The larke begins his flight And singing startles the dull night From his watch tower in the skies Till the dapled morne doth rise The early laâ—k With other winged choristers of the morn Chant forth their anthems in harmonious aires The morning strows roses and violets Upon the silver pavements of the heaven Against the coming of th' approaching sun The morning had given the stars leave to take their rest By that the next morning begins to make A gilded shew of a good meaning Ere that the morning shall new christen day The morning drawes dew from the fairest greenes Against th' approach of her burning lover to wash her face withall The morning winning the field of darknesse The night grown old his black head waxen gray The morning steals upon the night Melting the darknesse The wolves have preyed and the gentle day Before the wheâ—les of Phaebus round about Dapples the drowsie east with spots of gray Ghosts wandering here and there Troope home to Churchyards damned spirits all Unto their wormy beds repaire The easterne gates all fiery red Opening on Neptune their dispersed beams Turne into yellow gold his salt-green streams Sol fires the proud tops of the easterne pines And darts his lightning through each guilty hole Out from the fiery portal of the east When ruddy Phaebus had with morning light Subdued the east and put the stars to flâ—ght When Phaebus harbenger had chas'd the night And tedious Phosphar brought the breaking light When the plowman near at hand Whistles ore the surrow'd land And the milk maid singeth blithe And the mower whets his sithe And every shepheard tells his tale Under the hawthorne in the dale Morpheus v. Sleep His dreaming pace was so That none could say he moov'd he moov'd so slow His folded armes athwart his breast did knit A â—luggards knot his nodding chin did hit Against his panting bosome He wore a Crown of poppy on his head And in his hand he bore a Mace of Lead He yawned c. The drowsie
molten lead do never want â—hat iust excuse vnanswerable argument Neck 〈◊〉 neck that polisht ivory weares â—ilver pillar whiter far â—hâ—n towers of polisht ivory are Negro V. Aethiopian Nemesis â—â—st goddesse of revenge sterne Rhamnusia â—other of fate and change 〈◊〉 bearer of eternall providence Daughter of frowning iustice â—hich from black clos'd Eternity â—rom thy darke cloudy hidden seate â—he worlds disorders dost descry Which when they swell so proudly great Reversing the order nature set Thou givest thy all confounding doome Which none doth know before it come Neptune The aged father of the floods The wavie Monarch The great sea Admirall The trident armed God Whose state Is next to Ioves Great ruler of the floods The king of surges The Saphyr God of seas The Monarch of the sacred floods The father of the swelling Maine Cerulean God The God whose trident calmes the Ocean The god that earth doth bind In brackish chains He that girds earth in cincture of the sea Whose vast embrace ensphears whole earth He that all lands Girds in his ambient circle and in air Shakes the curl'd tresses of his Saphyr hair The watry King that holds the three tooth'd scepteâ— The god that rides In his blue chariot o'r the surging tides That makes the roaring waves shrink when they feel The heavy burthen of his pressing wheel Whose threeforkt scepter rules the sea Tâ—e Saphyr visag'd God Great master of the floods The unresisted power of the deeps King of waves He that unlocks The gaping quicksands undermines the rocks Saturns warry son Joves watry brother Sea Deitie Tattarean god The universall Admirall Nereides That on the Dolphines back ride o'r the seas Their finning coursers Thet is virgin train The Watry powers goddesses Deities The Nymphs that float upon the watry seas The wanton Nymphs within the watry bowers That o'r the sand with printlesse foot Chace ebbing Neptune That on their heads wear caps of pearly shells Green goddesses of Seas gray Doris daughters That in low corall woods String pearls upon their Sea green hair Psamathe Thetis Doâ—o Galenae Clotho Galaâ—aea Eucrato Glauce Leucothoe Proto Doris Spio Cymodorea Idya Endore Sao Eunica Dynamene Thâ—iaa Pasithee Eulimenâ— Cymathoe Mâ—lite Pherusa Phao Agave Poris Nesaea Erato Panopa Protomedea Hyppothoe Actaea Lâ—ssiaâ—issa Pronaea Euagore Pantoporea Autonone Neso Eione Beâ—oe V. Hesiods Theogonia v. 230. 346 Glauconome Alimeda Hipponeo Laomedia Liagore Cymo Eupompe Themiste Euarne Menippe Petâ—aea Nemertea Ocyrâ—oe Cydippe Tyche Acaste Clyâ—ie Ianthe Lycoris Plexaure Nestor That miracle of aged eloquence He that three ages saw Eloquent gravity The Pylian sage That liv'd to see a treble age Net Corded toyles corded snares Corded mashes Windowie toyles Masht in the net Never The sun shall change his course and find new pathes To drive his chariot in The loadstone leave His faith unto the North. The vine withdraw Those strict embraces that infold the elme In her kind armes ere c. First shady groves shall on the bâ—llowes grow And sea weeds on the tops of mountains show Their flimy chires Heavens fiâ—es shall first fall darkned from their spheare Grave night the light weed of the day shall wear Fresh streams shall chace the sea tough plowes shall tear Their fishie bottome c. Before Sooner fleet minutes shall back rescued be Soonner expect the harvest from the sand Sooner every star May in his motion grow irregular The sun forget to give his welcome flame Unto the teeming earth December sooner shall see primrose grow And swift-pac't rivers in soft murmures flow No more shall mead be deckt with flowers Nor sweetnesse dwell in rosie bowers Nor early buds on branches spring Nor warbling birds delight to sing Nor April violets paint the grove The fish shall in the Ocean burne And fountains sweet shall bitter tuâ—ne The humble oake no flood shall know Black Lethe shall oblivion leave Love shall his bow and shaft lay by And Venus doves waâ—t wings to fly The sun refuse to shew his light And day shall then be turn'd to night And in that night no star appeare No joy above in heaven shall dwell Nor pain torment poor souls in hell Can earth forget her burthen and ascend Oâ— can aspiring flames be taught to tend To earth Then c. Can hills forget their ponderous bulks and fly Like wandering Aromes in the empty skie Or can the heavens grown idle not fulfill Their certain revolutions but stand still And leave their constant motion to the wind T' inherit Then c. Sooner the sun and stars shall shine together Sooner the wolfe make peace with tender lambes Sooner shall rigid Boreas first take wing At Nilus head and boisterous Auster spring From th' icie floods of Izland Then c. You may sooner part the billowes of the sea And put a bar between their fellowship Sooner shut Old time into a den and stay his motion Wash off the swift houres from his downy wing Or steal eternity to stop his glasse Sooner the pibbles on the hungry beach Shall â—illop stars and the mutinous winds Throw the proud Cedars up against the sun When Poe shall wash the topps of Matine hill Or the sea swallow lofty Apennine And strange effâ—cts of love new monsters joyne That Tygers may from hindes seeke lusts delight And the meeke dove is troden by the kite When flocks the Lyons friendship entertain And wanton goats affect the brackish main Then c. Sooner the mountains shall want shady trees Sooner the ships shall not â—aile on the seas And rivers make recourse unto their springs The rivers shall recoile unto their springs The sun shall from the west his course begin The earth shall first with shining stars be fill'd The skies unto the furrowing plough shall yeild The water shall send forth a smoaking flame The fiâ—r shall yeild water back again First shall the birds that welcome in the spring All mute and dumbe for ever cease to sing The summer Ants leave their industrious pain And from their full mouthes cast their loading grain The swift Maenalian hounds that chasing are Shall frighted run back from the trembling â—â—are First nature shall become preposterous No element shall hold his constant seat Heaven shall be earth and earth Joves starâ—y house Fier shall be cold and water shall give hea Summer shall give a snowie livery Unto the ground and does shalllyons fright Through aire the crowes whiter than snow shall fly And the daies brightnesse turne into the night The fish shall not inhabit in the flood And silver swans shall take a jetty die The chaâ—ing boare shall not then haunt the wood With wings then oxen shall divide the skie Marble shall then the wax in softnesse passe The chicken then shall prey upon the kite In the vast welkin shall the staggs seâ—ke grasse The dog forget Arcadian wolves to bite Stars shall enamel earth and from the tree No leaves shall dangle eagles court the dove The highest mounâ—ains then shall levell'd be
And the fierce griffons shall the horses lovâ— V. Famous Ever Incredible Impossible New years day The birth and infant of the year That day which is the prime To the slow-gliding moneths when every eye Weaâ—s Symptomes of a sober jolity And every hand is ready to present Affection in a real complement When even the peasant thinks that he Cannot without a grosse absurdity Be that day frugal and not spare his friend Some gift to shew his love finds not an end With the deceased year When every street Sounds with the trampling of presenters feet When as the lowest fortune will not fear To give a welcome to the new come year With some proportioned gift The day old time doth turne his annual glasse New Infant blooming budding That counts not many years Scarce yet hath seen the publick light Newes Whose itching ears even smart to know the newes Fames plumed birth Sad Newes v. Harsh sounding Sounds like a mandrake torne out of the earth That living mortals hearing it run mad Kâ—lling stabbing wounding accents Good Newes v. Sweet sounding The sweetest tidings and the greatest wonder As ever broke in sunder the lips of panting fame Which to hear There 's none but would wish all his body eare The happiest newes that ever beg'd an eare Night The nights black wings mask up the light The obscure mantle of the night The shady gloome Whose sable wing In gloomy darknesse husheth every thing Under her sable pinions folds the world When Cynthia darts her borrowed raies The lights black curtain cypresse The gloomy night With sable curtains had beclouded all Daies elder sister Best patronesse of griefe Heavens surrounding steeds Quell their proud courage turne their fainting heads Into the lower hemispheare to coole Their flaming nostrills in the westerne poole When Morpheus with his leaden keyes Locks up the sences Night sheds her poppy on the weary world When leaden sleepe hath seald up all mens eyes The time when mortals take their soft repose The friend to secrets The face of heaven studded with stars The nurse of cares her curtains drawes Nights heavie charmes â—â—ad clos'd all eyes When sleepe bestowes On men and on their cares a sweet repose Night spangs the skie with stars Light â—ies in the shady coverture of night That obscure mantle that invelopes â—ight When silent darknesse doth invite Our eyes to slumber When night hath spread her dusky dampe The sober suited matron Daies sable herse The ebon box wherein heaven puts her light â—haebe's black coachman Deceased lights black coffin The black browd lady Black ey'd empresse That Ethiopian Queen Negro Queen Sâ—art night her brows exalts with stars impal'd The gloomy night on light extends her shades The winter of the day The earth borne shades had clos'd the world with night The nights dew dropping shadowes hide The face of earth The maske of day Night laies her sable mace on earth Sols glorious light Dives to the sea and brings up drowsie night The peaceful night treads busie day under her sable feet The pâ—ndant spangles Beam from the skie and drowsie sleepe entangles The eyes of mortals Nights moist shades the earth doth hide And Cyâ—â—hiâ— in her golden châ—â—iot rides Dark night rusht down and hid the face of earth With her spread sable pinions Heavens eye doth gild the seas In his days journey to th' Antipodes When heaven that was a Cyclops late before Becomes an Argus Over the pole night her thick mantle throwes The time the jetty charioter Huâ—les her black mantle ore our Hemispheare Mother of sleeps and feares That with her sable mantle friendly covers The sweet stollen sports of joyful meeting lovers The day is sunke in hideous night The black-ey'd night her â—able mantlehurld And in thick vapours muffled up the world Which in dull darknesse canopies the light When nights black muffler hoodeth up the skies The sun doth leave us to our rest And Cynthia hath her brothers place possest Now had the glorious sun tane up his Inne And all the lamps of heaven englightned been Virgins now day is fled Make pooâ—e their garments t' enrich their bed Which in a carre of Jet By steeds of iron gray whâ—ch mainly sweat Moist drops on all the world drawn through the skie When we may The bright Celâ—stial spheare sorvey So rich in jâ—wels hung that night appears Like to an Aeâ—hiope bride Now in the sea bright sol had hid his head And stars appear'd the moone her shadowes spread Nights silent reign had â—ob'd the world of light To lend in lieu a greater benefit Repose and sleepe when every mortal brest Whom care or grief permitted took their rest Now nights black mantle had the earth orespread And all the â—â—st of stars in Pâ—aebus stead Though with lesse light adoâ—n'd the spangled skie The night did â—rowning rise Into her throne and from her humerous breasts Visions and dreams lay sucking all mens rests Fell like the mists of dâ—ath upon their eyes Loves Mart of kâ—sses Venus day Soft rest of cares Night laies her velvet hand upon daies face The aire with sparks of living fire is spangled And night deep drencht in misty Acheron Heav'd up her head and halfe the world upon Bâ—eath'd darknesse forth The skie appear'd in sable mourning dresse The ebon night brought in a coach of jet Drawn by her sable feathered steeds ravens When Morpheus â—eâ—geant of the night Had laid his mace upon the dying light And with his listlesse limbes had closely spread The sable curtains of his drowsie bed Darknesse had stain'd The Chrystall brow of day and gloomy night Had spoil'd and rifled heaven of all his light Grim night lookt forth with grizly countenance Her smoakie breath in duskie clouds doth fly â—rom her pale lips and darkned heavens bright glance â—â—evailing ore the earth and azure skie When as the unâ—versal shade Of th' unspangled heaven and earth had made An utter darknesse When as the heavens by the suns teame untrod Hath took no print of the approaching light And al the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright Her body is confin'd Within a coleblack mantle thorough lin'd With sable surres her tresses were of hiew Like Ebony on which a pearly dew Hung like a spiders web her face did shroud Aswarth complexion underneath a cloud Of black curld cypresse on her head she wore A crown of burnisht gold bâ—shaded ore Wiâ—h fogs and roâ—y mists her hand did bear A scepter and a sable Hemispheare Death resembling shades of night Had drawn their misty curtains twixt the light And every darkned eye Sols horses now eat their Ambrosia Within the westerne meads deposed day Surrenders up her throne and yeilds her right Unto her Negro sister In the raging sea The sun is drown'd and with him falls the day When Cynthia whips her drowsie teame When the wings of night fans sleep on mortals Now was ouâ— heavenly vault deprived of the light With suns depart and now the darknesse of the night
in midst of Tanais did lie Padus or Rhodonus he would be drie Worse than any comes From the fel aspects foul infectious gummes Which doth breath â—â—aths secret errand What an hot summer's â—n my bosome That all my bowels crumble up to dust Bid winter come â—d thrust his icie finger in my maw Or let all riveâ—s take their course Though my burnt veins intreat the North To make his bleak wâ—nds kisse my parched lip â—â—d breath me some cold comfort v. Hot. Prayer â—â—ous airs pious orgies pious orisons â—â—ch was Deucailon such was Pyrrha's prayer To Themis drown'd in water and despair To â—ear the trembling hands Then to the stars his hands advancing cryes To throw the eyes to heaven He vows to heaven addrest With eyes and hands to heaven advanc'd he prayes In accents cloath'd with reverence With such a fervent grace as if Devotion had borrowed her body to make of it self a most beautifull representation with her eyes so lifted to the Skies as if they had begun to flie thitherward 〈◊〉 take their place amongst their fellow stars To pay our pious debts to heaven Tâ— pour out the eyes in a petition The Churches banquet angels Godâ— breath in man returning to his birth The soul in paraphrase heart in pilgrimage The Christian plummet sounding heaven and earth Engine against the Almighty sinners tower â—â—versed thunder Christs side-piercing spear Gâ—â—dnesse of the best Heaven in ordinary man well drest The milkie way the bird of paradise Church bells beyond the stars heard the souls blood The land of spices something understood To invade gods ear with welcome importunity Prayse â—welling encomiums elogiums To strew praises in their way â—o exalt unto the stars Prejudice The Jaundies in the eyes of the soul V. Forms of commending Presently Before the air had cool'd his hasty breath Ere the quick motion of the eye Sooner than thought could change its present object Pride The Magistrate of sins That solemn vice of greatnesse That rude vice Of ignorance and pitied greatnesse Primrose The first born issue of the â—eeming spring The eldest children of the spring The springs maidenhead The firstlings of the winter year The first appearing beauties of the Spring The springs first Infants Prison Prisoner The grave of the living the worms that gnaw them their owâ— thoughts house of meager looks and ill smells where to be out aâ— elboows is in fashion and a great indecoâ—um not to be thread bare Where a doublet with buttons is more out of fashion than trun lâ— breeches wearing out their life like an old suit the faster the better it teacheth much wisdome too late and a man had better bâ— a fool than come thither to learn it So cursed a piece of land that the son is ashamed to be his fathers heir in it Banisht at home The dunghill of the Law upon which are thrown the ruines of the Gentâ—y and the nasty heaps of decayed bankrupts The University of poore Schollars wherein three arts are chiefly studied to pray to curse and to write Letters A place where all the inhabitants are close fellows and fast friends sure men and such as you may know where to have them A â—enement which none will take over their heads Old men and young men there are much alike for neither go far Prodigies v. Omens Profound v. Obscure Craving a mind from earth and ignorance refin'd Promercheus That fetâ—ht from heaven the living fire That on the Scythian mountains snowie top Doth th' Eagle with his growing liver feede Jâ—peâ—us bold son that brought from heaven The sparke of life from Phaebus chariot wheele For which on Câ—ucasus he chained lies And with his heart the eagle satisfies Shaper of man Prophecie Prophet His brest Was by a prophecying rage possest And the included God inflam'd his mind To have an entheated breast Enthusiastick Gods interpreter Toucht with adiviner fire Sees long before what others will admire Many years hence Whose words are oracles Whose soul receives a clear and holy light Convey'd by the still visions of the night Heavens familiars Entrusted with heavens secrets Gods sacred heralds Inspired Soules Sacred Bards Proserpina Bright Empresse of th' Elysian sâ—â—des Ceres fair daughter Queen of Erebus The Lady of the infernal ghosts Persephone Tâ—e Stygian goddesse Queen of Phlegethon Pluto's sad wiâ—e The sad fac'd Goddesse Hecate By Dis stollen from the plains of Sâ—cily V. Ovid. Met am lib. 5. Prosperity That lolle on beds of roses Flowing in a golden swim â—ladulgent fortune smiles on him Finding no want of any thing but want Living in fortunes sunshine A prosperous gale â—anns courteous wind upon the swelling sayle V. Happy Fortunate Protesilaus By instinct of fate The first that fell in Greece and Tâ—oy's debate That boldly leapt on the Sygaeum shore Deceiv'd by sly Ulysses who before Appear'd to have trod upon the fatal strand But lighted on his shield first thrown to land Proâ—eus Gray prophet of the sea Tâ—â— juggling sea-god Blew scalie god that in the sea doth range Who now a man a lion now appears Now a fell boar a serpents shape now beaâ—s A bull with threatning horns now seems to â— Now like a stone now like a spreading tree And sometime like a gentle river flows Sometimes like fire averse to water shows Proud v. Ambitious Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in his eyes Misprising what they look on Which as he goes Kicâ—s at the earth with a disdainfull scorn Whose brow is cloath'd with proud disdain Upon whose surly brow state sits in scorn As if he meant to tear from heaven their stars If it be true the giants ere made war against heaven he had been a fit ensign-bearer of that company whose thoughts fly a pitch beyond ambition Looking at himself through a multiplying glasse and the bigger end of the prospective He that rides on a winged horse to tell him of his good parts shall come too late to bring him stale news of what he knew too well before One of tolerable parts but intollerable pâ—ide Pâ—re v. Bright Pure as the brightest beams shoâ— from the sun At his full heighâ— Pyrates That play the parts of tempests in the sea That with the sea contend to try Whether can shew a greater cruelty Sea-vermin Seas water rats That act the part of â—empests in the seas Pythâ—goâ—as The first that called himself Philosopher â—â—mian wiseman That held the transmigration of the soul â— first his Funies five years silence taught V. Ovid. Met. Lib. 5. Q. Quake v. Tremble â—s doth the trembling earth â— Beat by the sea Gods â—rident â— sudden fear unnerves his quaking thighs â— Phaeton when from the arched Skie â— earth at such a distance he did eye â— Europâ— quake when on the back â— the lov'd bull she rode A death resembling cold â—g'd her heart and vitall heat controll'd â—yblis quak'd when her repulse she heard â—â—ees unknitting one another strook â—yrtha entred to her fathers bed â—joynts pale horrour shook
west indians kine for their tallow V. cruel V. Vale. Valley WHere the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds and gushing brooks On whole fresh looks the swart star sparely looks Embroidered o'r with quaint ennamell'd eyes That on the green turf suck the honied showers And purple all the ground with vernall flowers â—ac'd with silver rills Encompass'd round with gently rising hills V. Pleasant Place Valiant Valour Puissance pâ—owesse fortitude chivalty The souldiers vertue the soul of war A man made all of fire Attemptive spirits â—ndaunted high erected spirits The dead quake in their grave to think of them One that dare prop the sun if it should fall Dares grasp the bolt from thunder And through a Canon leap into a town One that dare die next his heart in cold blood That leads the fight and lets no danger passe Without improvement The flâ—nts he treads upon Sparkle with lustre from his arms As if in love with danger That life can sobetly despise Undaunted spirits that encounter those Sad dangers we to fancy scarce propose That deride Pale death and meet with triumph in a tomb Who to pale fear Whispering danger never lent an ear That sells his life dear to his foes Whom dangers do encourage and invite A spirit scorning justest fears As if incapable of fears Who when a foot is mounted upon an high spirit Flying nothing more than the mention of flying The sweetnesse of life cannot so flatter the palate of the soul as make him swallow the bitternesse of an eternall disgrace As the Indian for his gem doth sound the stood He dives for honour in a sea of blood Glazing his valour in a crimson flood A spirit that hath outgrown his years Trampling depressing fears Under his valiant feet sets bravely on The Front of danger 'Twixt whom an fear there 's an antipathy A spirit that durst war against the fates That dare set his naked breast Against the thunder Giving a Majesty to adversity Making time hast it self to be witnesse of their honours and oâ— place witnesse to another of the truth of their doings Men of such prowesse as not to know fear in themselves aâ— yet to teach it others that had to deal with them A courage apt to climb over any danger Observing few complements in matters of arms but such as proâ— anger did indite to him Giving as many wounds as blows as many deaths as wound That can face the murdering Canon When it blows ranks into the air like chaffe A courage that knows not how to fear As full of spirit as the Moneth of May. A spirit of greater confidence Than can admittance give to thoughts of fear Will fight untill his thighs with dares Be almost like a sharp quill'd porcupine Every gash he receives is a grave for him that made it That being angry doth forget He ever heard the nime of death An unaffrighted mind Didaining fortune with his brandisht steell Which smoakt with bloody execution Like Valours minion carved out his passage Bellona's Bridegroom ushrinking spirit So daring that he would Go on upon the gods kisse lightning wrest The engine from the Cyclops and give fire At face of a full cloud Looks like Apollo rais'd to the worlds view The minute after he the Python slew An heart that scorneth danger With a brain Beating for honour Like Eagles his undazzeled eyes Affront the beams that from the steel arise That looks on his enemies with a kind of noble heavinesse no insultation A spirit that to sullen fear Whispering death ne'r lent a gentle ear Like to the Roman Scevola dothstand Bathing in flames his Salamander hand And with a sober scorn doth laugh to see The worst incensed fates can do Amazing death to see with dying pride In her pale chariot him in triumph ride That wear their lives at their swotds point Whose courage out-brave all fear If he do not live to enjoy the honour he purchaseth with his blood he leaves the world his Executor and to it bequeaths the rich inheritance of his memory Ready to disburse his life upon a good occasion Adventuring upon such designs as have no more probability Than is enough to keep them from being impossible That ne'r saw fear but in the face of the enemy Hands of steel and hearts of diamond His valour like the Fairy Arthurs shield Which but disclos'd awak'd the weaker eyes Of proudest foes and won the doubtfull field A God-like courage which no soft delight Can weaken nor the face of death affright A courage us'd to victory as an inheritance Having the Thracian God tied to their swords More than his body was to Vulcans chain A wise well tempered valour Those gyants death and danger Are but his ministers and serve a master More to be feard than they and the blind Goddesse Is led amongst the captives in his triumphs Veins Twining Mâ—anders of the blood The bloods meandting â—â—sterneâ— The purple channels of the blood The pipes of blood The laces of the skin The purple conduit pipes The crimson brooks Fair rivulets which for the food Of living bodies bear the crimson flood To every part within the liver meet And there with kisses numberlesse do greet Themselves and as they through each other glide Make many knots as if they took a pride In their strange foldings and themselves did please In their admired Apostomoses The airy paths Where ruby fairies dance their liquid rounds The chrystal cases of the blood The azure chaines Purple Labyrinth Those saphyr colour'd brooks Which conduit like with curious crooks Sweet Islands make in that fair land The natural gates and allies of the body The bodies purple lanes A zure rivulets Venus The queen of beauty Cyprian Queen Paphian Goddesse Loves fair Empresse The power that rules in love The Cyprian Deity The Queen of all that 's faire Shee that governs chamber sport Mother of love Loves golden arbitresse Cupids beauteous mother Vulcans lovely wife Mars gamesome mistresse The sea born Queene The fair wife of the sooty blacksmith God Loves sportive mother Loves lascivious dame The rosy Queen of love Fair Erycina Great Queen of Paphos and Cythaera's shrine The blushing Queen of love 's Drawn in a chariot by a team of doves â—ut whips her doves and smiling rides away â—e froth-borne goddesse Laughter loving dame Tho Câ—idos and bright Cyclads holds Tho Paphos with pair'd swans doth view That from the Ocean drawes her pedigree Neptunes Neece â—ormed out of Ambergreece Who in her snowie armes The God of rage confines Her whispers are the charmes Which only can divert his fierce designes The pleasant Queen to Paphos thence retires Where stood her temple there an hundred fires Whose fragrant flame Sabaean gums devoures Blâ—ze on as many altars crown'd with flowers Aged Anchysa's sprightly wife Adonis goddesse Aeneas beauteous mother Idalian Queen Samian goddesse Acidalian mother Bright Cythâ—rea Verse v. Poetry Weighty numbers Victorious rime Revenge their masters death and conquer time Soul-raping numbers