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A46261
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The muses melody in a consort of poetrie with diverse occasionall and compendious epistles / composed by the author Tho. Jordan.
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Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685?
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1680
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Wing J1048; ESTC R29883
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Will make Dice on 's Bones so doth he cry Who hath the debtor in Captivity Take heed ther 's none will pity thy disaster When Lucifer at last cryes Come the Caster On Rebellion REbellion is a Paradox for they Are onely put in trust that do betray UILLAINIE Anagram I LIVE IN AL. I Live in al shew me that Name That hath a larger Anagram But lest some should think that I Do assume ubiquity Let them know I want the Art To be All in every part But yet I live in all I know All Languages and Nations too 'T is not France with all her Apes Can outvye me in my shapes I wear a Cope I wear a Crown A Souldiers sword a Lawyers gown And with rev'rence be it spoke The Surplice and extempore cloak I wear a chain sometimes a ruff A purple Robe a sute of Buff A livery-hood a Country coat A seaman's cap whose subtle boat Sailes with all windes and as I can Change shapes I liâ—…e in every Man And every Place I live at Court And where an Army doth resort By which so many men are undon I live at sea I live in London In all parts of it I range And I alwayes keep the change I live in Courts of peace and war On the Bench and at the Bar Sometimes like to love and fury I have been in Iudge and Iury In Physitians I live close But am us'd in every dose In my coat of Armes I bear A Roundhead and a Cavalier I wear all Passions but I move Surest in the shape of Love Or in Religion there I flye why At God knows who and who knows In a Shopkeeper you 'l guess What I am when I profess In a Politick I cry Law Religion Liberty In a Justice I lye hid Yet in 's Clerk I 'm quickly spid But my subtleties grow evener In a Broker and a Scrivener In a Sectarist I flame Like the Aire of Amsterdam Covenants and Protestations Are my yeerly Recreations But I am such is my fate Never from the Counter-gate And a house in Broadstreet where I am in my proper sphere But to cut off prolixity you shall Find by my Anagram I Live in all Defence composed for his friend Mr. Th. Ea. who ignorantly had perswaded some Gentlemen his friends to wash their faces with Mercury one of them being an elect Bridegroom the night immediately before the Nuptials who the next day were much blistered with the venome and he much accused by the Ladyes as if it had been done on purpose THE winged feet of fame that alwayes brings On swiftest pinnionâ—… most unwelcome things Inform'd the Centinel that waits upon My late araigned Reputation That I have done an Act which much offends Men whom I balance with the best of friends That I with venome should deform those faces Wherein faire Ladyes found so many graces At such a season when bright Hymens taper Inflam'd the Bride and made the Bridegroom caper When all prepar'd themselâ—…es in the best dress Of civil Art and 〈◊〉 comlâ—…ness When active youth and Beautâ—… did put on Their smoothest brows and best complexion That I against this Time without incitement Should perpetrate this fact so runs th' inditement To which I plead Not guilty cause th' event Doth make men Criminal or innocent That I was instrumental in 't I grant But of the vile event as ignorant As cradled infants 't is an Act below My name my spirit and my Nature too Did my Accusers know how much I prize My friends they would with more indulgent eyes Look on this chance the Ladyes as I hear For it esteem me much their injurer Which is indeed the greatest cause that I Make this Confession and Apology I am so much a servant to that Sex Whose ruby lips bright brows and Ivory necks Surprize all eyes that their alone commands Have power enough to stay my active hands From my worst Enemy if he be one That wears the badge of their Affection How then should I accomplish a design Of such dishonour to their friends and mine Salute the Ladies from me let them see My Penitence and my integritie Assure them that the sacred Nuptials which Their precious presence lately did enrich Is of so much esteem with me that I Disclaim all thoughts or Acts of injury Tell them I am divided from all rest Till they have sign'd me a Quietus est A Letter to the Gentlemen in which this Poem was inclosed To his honoured friends c. Gentlemen I Am so sensible of the Ladyes sorrows for your disasters and my own sufferings for their displeasures that I have penned this Poetical Apology to soften their â—…ensures which being assisted with your manuduction may be the more conducible to their satisfaction The result of it will I hope beget such a faire understanding that the mistaken difference shall be reconciâ—…ed and his repute restored who is theirs and Your faithful servant The. Ea. An Ode composed for three voices at a celebration of the Birth-day of the much honoured G. D. Gent. on Novemb. 29. I. Voc. â—…Oy in the Gates of him whose biâ—…h Gives generation to our Mirth Whose Fame and meritorious dayes â—…clipse the lustre of all praise Chorus Then let our invention Exceed Apprehension Let liberty dance a Lavalto Till Ceres and Bacchus With jollity rack us And ev'ry mans brains are in Alto. II. Voc. Let none appear under this roof Whose spirits are not sorrow-proof All constellations we defie That frown at this Nativitie Chorus We laugh at the silly Presages of Lilly We fear not the force of Invasion The Schoolemen are dullmen They fool men and gull men 'T is Love is the Art of perswasion III. Voc. Let no man in this Circle move Whose soul is crost with Law or Love We likewise do exclude his Pate That deals in stratagem and State Chorus The sum of our treasure Is freedom in pleasure Nor will we forget to remember The motive that raises Our voices with Praises The 20 day of November Vote to the much honored THOMAS BRIDGES Merchant in Alderman-bury London and to his most vertuous wife IF Health and Treasure Love and Mirth Be all the happiness on earth 〈◊〉 wish that every thing you touch Or can but think on may be such May all the Pleasures that we see â—…nder bright heaven's Canopie Waite upon you and may old Fame Receive advantage from your Name Let your quick understanding be Clear and serene as Purity May all your Excellencies prove The powerful Adamants of Love And may that lustre of your life Your fertile chast ingenious wife Continue in her loyal flames And be the guide to vertuous dames May your Childrens childrens merits Be the pictures of your spirits Then may you draw an equal breath With long sweet life and easie death May Cities Towns Ships fields bowers Talke of no other worth but yours And may no company one minute Be sorrowful when you are in it An Epitaph on a scold