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A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

them in many places of the world To the intent then that we may soundly iudge of Astrologie let vs conclude following the common opinion that Astrologers generally cannot foretell any other thing by the knowledge of their art but that which concerneth the constitution of the ayre and the particular change of that according to the demonstration of the coelestiall signes But concerning those tokens and signes that appeare extraordinarily in the heauens as Comets and such like strange apparitions although the prediction of their effect depend sometimes on caelestiall causes yet notwithstanding in my opinion such signes are more certaine and sure in their operation to signifie the change and euents of Common wealths then any other for if wee would search the histories of all times wee shall finde that neuer Comet appeared which vndoubtedly brought not after it some generall or particular change and most often the sad and lamentable euents of warre plague famin deluges the death of great personages and the like but by reason that these fall out extraordinarilie so likewise their effects are extraordinarie Those that are curious to knowe the euents which at all times haue been obserued wherof the histories are full may read the catalogue of wonders written in latine by M. Fritschius and imprinted at Noremberge where he recites abundance in all kindes And of late time in respect of those in the Lowe Countries they may feele the effect by their scarce well tuned iarres in the middest of their best townes which begā immediatly after the Comet in the yeare 1577. and the earthquake which followed which is also numbred amongst strange and prodigious signes A certaine Mathematician in his booke of the discourse and Pronostication by him made concerning a Comet seene in the yeare 1581. saith amongst other things that the Comet in the yeare 1577. whereof wee spake was in the Horoscope of Don Iohn and in the sixt house of Mounsieur the Duke of Alenson which two had both been partakers of the same fortune if credit might haue been giuen to that Certaine it is that Comets and extraordinarie signes of heauen doe daylie portend some noueltie good or euill for some The redemption of mankinde was presaged by an extraordinarie signe of Heauen in forme of a Starre which guided the wise men of the East to adore and worship him who was descended from heauen to drawe vs from eternall damnation And in the time of the Emperor Augustus before the birth of our Sauiour Christ many signes extraordinarily appeared in heauen in such manner that all the Diuines small and great were in armes as it were and flockt together to aduise vpon it And then whē as the Massacre continued throughout al France a new starre begā to appeare in the heauē whereof the Lord Plesseyes speaking saith that since the creation of the world the like was not seene but at the birth of our Sauiour Iesus Christ Al the world marked it for 3. yeares together al the Astronomers admyred it remaine yet astonished The wise of the world who in a deepe irreligious policy thought al things to be eternal now began to worship a Creator And what shall wee thinke sayth he but that it signifieth the newe birth of Christ in earth by the preaching of the Gospell Wee reade also of a certaine flame of fire which shewed it selfe miraculously in the heauen right aboue the armie of Licinius the Emperour of the East at the same time when hee lost the battell against Constantine the Great then when there was question for an vniuersall chaunge of the Romane Empire and a totall destruction of Gods Church for the one maintained the Christians the other tyrannized vpon them and in the cruellest manner put them to death Hereupon followed a most bloudy and deadly warre betwixt these two It was then or a little before that Constantine had seene in the heauen the victorious Crosse of Christ whereof Eusebius speaketh so assuredly For when he would combate Maxence hauing seene the foresayd Crosse with this inscription about it In this signe shalt thou ouercome thy enemies he caused then the Christians to come and enquired of them concerning our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ of his natiuitie of his passion of his resurrection The scripture likewise teacheth vs that the signes tokens from heauen threaten vs and bring strange punishments as appeareth by the place of Ieremie where he sayth A signis coeli nolite timere which some would haue expounded that wee should not relie vpon the starres nor haue any care of that which they may signifie these are such as are most willing to contemne the arte and skill of Astronomie The meaning of Ieremies words are no such thing for he would not seeme either to contemne or condemne the signes of heauen thereby to despise Astronomie but only to admonish the faithfull fearing God to the intent they might remaine confirmed strengthened in Gods promises without being discouraged or fearefull in their mindes by the sight of the signes in heauen On the other side a man may set downe the same iudgement of many other strange signes which are shewed in the heauens contrarie to the course of nature as Armies Dragons raining downe of bloud fire fearefull Eclipses and such like which bring often times after them like chaunges to their owne strangenes Cleanthes the Philosopher hauing marked foure causes wherby a man may know the mightie puissance of the gods hath put the extraordinarie signes of the heauēs for the third cause the Greekes called this kind of Diuination Teratoscopia that is to say a monstrous and strange vision But when these and such calamities are whole and entire as it happened to the townes of Sodom of Gomorrah which in Abrahams time were made a lake of Brimstone and since that to the townes of Helice and Bura that change is then as it were from death to life by consequent farre more great and more notable then of a Monarchie turned into an Aristocratie and Democratie or any other kind of common wealth and therfore well deserueth to bee added to the chapter of chaunges and ruines of Common wealths The foresayd Catalogue containeth many sorts as well of townes swallowed by the earth as consumed by thunder from heauen and otherwise Inundations vniuersall and particular are of this sort Furthermore wee may here adde to the Diuinations aboue sayd the great Coniunctions of the hye Planets which are principallie set to play together thereby to iudge of the chaunge and fall of a Common-wealth And although these depende likewise vpon Astrologie yet notwithstanding these seeme to bee more certaine and better grounded then any other particular predictions of the stars by reason of their reuolution and ordinarie running euerie eight hundred yeare or there about according to the opinion of Master Augier Ferrier which as a man would think

am loath to vpbraide your vnthankfulnes by remembring of my fauours Haue you not had and so long may haue vnlesse your selues be iniurious to your selues a Princesse truelie nobled with all vertues a Queene matchles in whome honors vnsteined pure die hath set foorth such liuely colours as enemies must and doe feare friendes ought and should loue whome the age now present must admire and the time following still praising wonder at more courteous then the churle-sauing Abigal more courtly then the friendes-honoring Hester more valiant then prince-killing Iudith who blessing me by her meanes with a plentious peace beautifying her courte with eternall praise hath made both to bee enuies marke in her enemies eye the shadowing Cedar to her distressed friends and the force conquering sworde to her professed foes Here might my muse dare to flie a matchles pitch but that faintinglie I feele my Icarian wings to melt with the heate of so bright a sunne this onelie shall snffice without further repeatings of her worth thereby to make your faulte far greater conceiued with teares accented with sighes and vttered by truethes naked oratresse that what praise euer wisdome gained as al praise is but wisedomes due that same is and shall bee your sacred princesse her inheritance who hath so often contended whether her glorie might mount higher vnto fames tower blowne vp with the vowes of mortall men or her thankes ascend further vnto heauen conueyed by thousand Seraphins Liue thē though sorrowfull to see mee sad diuine and renowmed Empresse earths glorie religions comfort admired wisdomes inheritrix here perpetuallie to bee praised of men and else where immortallie to be crowned of God himselfe Haue you not had thousands of worthie and braue ladies bewtifying poore me who all seeme vestall-like to haue lighted virginities lampe from the euer-burning taper of chaste Elizas vertues Haue you not had in me things hardlie found else where sage and wise Nestors such whose state guiding wisedomes were able to equalize if it were not your faulte mee a poore Iland to the former monarchies were but those famous and neuer enough commended lawes made by them in their deepe scanning iudgements practised by you then how shuld I iustly pride it in my worth bee valiantly couragious where now I feare haue you not had for the space of these many yeares though but two yet eternallie famoused vniuersities Cambridge and Oxford where Englands youth haue learned such worthie precepts as ill beseemes thē to requite me with such ingratitude These serue to beautifie in their want my plentie with their wisedom whilest you vngratefull you in your plētie seeke through their want to contemne their wisedome here could I iustly complaine for them but that I want teares to expresse my owne sorrowe for I see those who most are bound if benefites receiued might binde to respect them in the iniurious opinion of learned-modest-naked-humilitie wrongfully to depriue them of things necessarie And least they should grow too glorious to obscure thē too farre to learnings infamie I cease to repeate the smaller fauours matters iustly deseruing a thankfull loyaltie content my selfe with these that for the greatest benefites that euer inhabitants enioyed since Paradices first erection I distressed Iland haue by discord of my owne lamentably indured the greatest wrongs my enemies haue seene into the seed plots of my discord long since and haue found them to threaten my ruine they haue bred dissentions and make me nourish them to my owne destruction they haue strook fire into the tinder of my soft heart and haue made me blow it till I burne to ashes Is it the inequalitie of cōdition that makes this discord Is it the might of some few ouershadowing the meaner that fils you with enuie against mee I cannot liue howsoeuer Plato foolishly dreamed but my harmonie must bee made of diuers sounds my sinewes must bee of sundrie strength and my states full of inequalitie yet for all this the meanest can haue no wrong the greatest shall do no violence I wil liue neuer to permit a tyrannie both equal deare to me whereof neither can suffer danger but I must needes perish for thus to see either my Nobility a thing not yet heard of or my Cleargie a thing too vsuall or my cities a thing too commō or my subiects a thing too lamentable fondly to disagree what is it els but to breede within my borders wolues which I banished long since by my Edgars means and to nourish that flame which consumed Greece I meane the enuie between her two eyes Athens and Lacedaemon to the great contentment of their sworne enemie Philip the King of Macedon and shall not your hatred discord and such like tennising your owne infamies to make others smile make me perpetually mourne as solde to sorrowe and the Spanish Philip more ioyfull then the King of Macedon Let vs not stay till we bee vnited by our enemies crueltie as Xerxes oftē caused the Greekish vnion Shall they perswade you degenerous mindes to bee perswaded that it is better to suffer tyrannie of a stranger then inequalitie of a friend Deare countrimen and so still to be reputed vntill extreamely you deserue otherwise in a humane bodie doe the hands the feete and the head fall at discorde among themselues Is not a wound sometimes as deadly in the heele for so perished the thrise valiant Achilles as dangerous in the head Are not my parts so vnited amongst themselues that the least iarre is a fault the least discord a fall Were I made so absolute that I could stand haue no parts then might iarres be and I in tune were I not a mother that bred you both then might you dissent and I not fall Suppose some part of my Iland hath bewtie of townes yet other parts haue fertiltie of soile some place hath wise inhabitants yet others are valiant some are plaine full of all pleasure yet others are walled as it were with mountaines and full of all saftie some are shadowed with thicke trees to auoid heat yet others are compassed with siluer streames to beget colde thus all partes of my Iland and the particulars of my state are such that each imparting dignitie all of them make mee partaker of an absolute happines so that whilst vnitie is maintained amongst my people I vniuersallie enioye those benefites which I lacke as looselie being dispersed by cruell discord alas in what Common wealth can equalitie bee founde Thinke you if I were sould to strangers you were free from emulation vnlesse it were by this meanes by being miserable the Philosophers sometimes desired this in their Common wealths but foolish men are ignorant of the trueth not sounding into the depth of eternities wisdome who ordained the inequalitie of things to preserue each other amongst the elements is not the fire tempered with the water in the bodie