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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05291	Vertue triumphant, or A liuely description of the foure vertues cardinall dedicated to the Kings Maiestie.	Leighton, William, Sir, fl. 1603-1614.	1603 (1603)	STC 15435; ESTC S108435	25,756	64

VERTVE TRIVMPHANT OR A LIVELY DESCRIPTION OF THE FOVRE VERTVES CARDINALL Dedicated to the Kings Maiestie Prima canenda venit mater prudentia rerum Ordine tunc sequitur mens moderata suo Pòst animus magnus postremò munera dico Iustitiae per quam nectitur orbis amor AT LONDON Printed by Melchisedech Bradwood for Matthew Lownes 1603. TO THE RIGHT HIGH AND MIGHTIE Prince IAMES King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith THe deepe-grounded root most dread Soueraigne of my duteous loue to your famous and memorable Sister my gracious Queene and Mistresse being newly watered with the drops of your Princely fauour spreadeth it selfe into many branches of much loialtie and full desire to bring forth the fruit of my most humble zeale and faithfull seruice to your Maiestie And albeit my best labours being brought into a choise and Princely taste can neither desire nor deserue greater grace than to be held as perfunctorie and triuiall yet vouchsafe most mightie King to giue so fauourable a passage in your gracious consideration that were the stocke answerable to the bud of my deuoted minde or the fruit agreeable to my faith and loialtie it should at least haue carried the relish in your iudiciall allowance of good fruit Kirnels being set at first in time beare fruit but being vn-graft neuer come to perfection So may it please your Highnesse from this tender plant of mine there can appeare nothing woorthie either keeping or gathering but being grasted in the least fauour of your Maiesties protection it may hereafter bring forth matter of more approbation content and consequence I must confesse that this so woorthy a subiect might haue beene written with greater maturitie and deliberation but the golde of my inuention hath prooued too base therein to set the rare-orientall pearles of these roiall vertues onely my much respectiue dutie hath thus dared to vent her greatnesse which though it make no large current from the first head yet is it as pure and vndistained as where it floweth most The God of Heauen indue your Highnesse with all Princely blessings and dayly more and more propagate and spread abroad the glorious lustre of your Maiestie to the which as England Scotland France and Ireland so likewise the whole world may haue regard vnto as their true marke and perfect Cynosure since the vniuersall schoole of the world is the Person the House and Court of a vertuous Prince Your Maiesties humbly deuoted seruant of the honourable band of Pensioners William Leighton VERTVE TRIVMphant to the Kings Maiestie 1 NOw that Hyperion with his chearefull beames Hath cleer'd the troubled skie of cloudie state Since little springs do runne to largest streames And mutuall faith determins feare of hate Oh happie land who such a King do'st gaine By whom are dri'd the teares of sorowes raine 2 Our earth esteem'd halfe dead through Winters spight Grones vnderneath the burden of her spring The fields with natures Tapistrie are dight For ioy whereof the winged consort sing Ech vegetable Plant late nipt with frost Vowes treble hope for all the fruit we lost 3 Our memorable Phoenix now takes rest Her ashes doth a mightie Monarch raise Whom best men loue and God himselfe hath blest For all our good and his eternall praise Chosen by him on highest throne to sit For Wisdome Temperance Iustice Power Wit 4 Our cleerest skies with darke clouds ouer-cast In splendent brightnesse shew their wonted hue Our doubts of death are turn'd to life at last All wounds are cur'd and we reuiu'd anew Twixt present hope ioy past and former feare We scarse know what we are or late we were 5 Elizaes losse made wet the driest eies And spred sad sorow through our state and land But present blisse shone from the glorious skies For mightie Ioue stretcht forth his holy hand In one sad morne by death our hearts were slaine Which at midmorow were reuiu'd againe 6 As Pharoes heart most deeply hard'ned was And would not let Gods chosen people goe Nor suffer them from yoking bondage passe But sought their liues and hopes to ouerthrow Through raging Sea without thought of despaire God made their passage easie drie and faire 7 Yet he with might and maine did still pursue Our Gods elected Nation to confound Till in that Sea himselfe he ouerthrew And all his host were in an instant drou'nd The like God works to those whose hate would bring Death to his elect or his anointed King 8 Our state that liu'd so many months and yeeres Odde weeks and daies with fearfull thoughts of death See how Gods power and mightinesse appeares To giue vs life that gron'd and gaspt for breath And doth defend our countrey state and land As those he loues from cruell Pharoes hand 9 Yet some may seeke by enuie and debate To sow sedition in our fields of peace But they shall reape the sheaues of Pharoes hate That sunke in Seas when they sought to increase God grant all those that grudge our Regall power The Sea may drowne or earth may quicke deuower 10 Our ships of care on dangerous Seas were tost Our hopes of life the waues of death sanke downe Like Ionas in the fishes bellie lost Till God gaue grace where first he gan to frowne Now doe our storm-beat-ships their full sailes spread And we like Ionas liue ere-while thought dead 11 As Sidrach Misach and Abednego Did safely walke amids the burning heat And in the flames aliue themselues did show That force of fire could not them ill intreat So we beset about with flames of fire God quencht the rage and sent our hearts desire 12 What people liu'd more fit for mourning cheere What countrey left in greater griefe and scorne Our fall lookt for by Neighbours far and neere Drownd in despaire we held our selues forlorne Yet see the worke of Mightie Ioue his hand That sent such comfort to a wofull land 13 Our Kingdome cast in dreadfull desolation Our mindes seduc'st with spight and proud sedition Our factions fraught with secret expedition To take our liues and worke vs all perdition How great a debt owe we to him aboue That sends a King to worke vnited loue 14 Pardon dread Lord these harsh and ruder times Vnfitting obiects for a Princes eies The thunder-scorning bird of Ioue sometimes Makes a lowe pitch to earth from loftie skies Enough is me if but your Highnesse daine The smallest approbation of my paine 15 To Maiestie alone belongs my Theame The sure foundation of a Royall state Breaking the boistrous surge of fortunes streame Held vp by Prouidence the Curbe of fate In this as in a Crystall thou shalt see What best befitteth Rule and Emperie 16 Vertue that labours like heauens golden eie To light the world with her admired raies Comes to salute your sacred Maiestie Tendring her ofspring to your happie daies First Prudence next to her comes Temperance Then Fortitude whom

is a beame proceeds from that true sunne Which giues not only vnderstanding light But kindles our affection still to shunne What should offend the God of power and might She is the quicke the cleere and purest light Which doth direct all other vertues right 69 As sight amongst our numbred senses fiue Accounted is as fairest and most cleare So other vertues must their light deriue And brightest splendor from her glorious Spheare By her direction all good works are wrought And mēs minds cloth'd with mild cōstant thought 70 This vertue doth containe three other parts As Vnderstanding Memory Foresight Esteemed Eyes by learned men of Arts Which makes her iudge and censure times aright Time present first and past the second showes The last of these doth future times disclose 71 Nor may we here exclude the Canonists Nor Schoole-men which auouch fiue needfull parts Which in this Princely vertues power consists Liuely described in the liberall Arts. These do attend obserue and keepe their place For humane good and heauenly works of grace 72 The first of them they terme Didacticall Which teacheth vs our selues to know and guide The second they holde Oeconomicall To rule ones house and maintenance prouide By this our selues our house and people learne Twixt good and euill rightly to discerne 73 The third is taken for a warlike Spirit By which an Armie 's marshal'd rul'd and led To yeeld reward to valiant men of merit To cure the hurt and care to burie dead Which giues ech one his office and his place Pleasing the best and giuing none disgrace 74 The fourth is deem'd for Politicke estate Which Architecton men of wisdome name Ordaining lawes the trueth for to debate As right falles out to censure of the same Establish such Decrees as may vs leade To know the path of perfect good to treade 75 The last is pure and simple Policie By which the subiects do their fortunes shroud Vnder the King in their extremitie As skies ou'rcast within a mighty cloud Which Prince for peace sets downe and keeps good lawes And with iust care doth heare the poore mans cause 76 Prudence doth manage exercise and trie The secret acts and functions of the rest Respecting parts of true Philosophie Wherewith so many vertues are possest Aethicke and Oeconomicke those they call And Politicke they terme the last of all 77 The first true maners in it selfe doth frame The second families doth rightly guide The third doth gouerne cities of great fame And mightie kingdomes where good lawes abide So that our selues our houshold-state and lands What best becomes are brought to vnderstand 78 This vertue is threefold in secret skill Whereof the first is taken from the hart Disposing things that are in present still And noteth all what 's past on eu'ry part It doth prouide for future times euent That Had I wist prouoke not to repent 79 The second from the mouth doth aye proceed Which doth consist in mod'rature of speech This is the badge of wisdome pure indeed As proofe and eke experience doe teach For fooles that holde from prattle and vaine talke Shall in account of perfect wise men walke 80 The third is of the worke and true effect Which in this place as proper doth consist To shew good actions and the bad reiect And from the works of faith not to desist But meat such measure vnto all we should As euery one to giue to vs we would 81 Well may we further note and so obserue The worlds Prudence and next thereto humane The third diuine which doth the soule preserue All call'd alike but not in worke the same Yet two do seeme from vertue to proceed In outward shew but not in worke or deed 82 The first is busied dayly to procure All temp'rall things which most mens humor feed The second neuer ceaseth to allure Carnall desires which soules confusion breed The third with zeale indeuours Christ to please And craues his helpe Gods anger to appease 83 Against this vertue there are opposit Foure vices couer'd vnderneath a vaile Resembling in some sort true signes of merit But not abiding touch their purpose faile Yet do they striue and worke and labour still With goodly shew to worke the course of ill 84 The first Prudentia carnis we do name Astutia the second we may call The third Dolus a branch is of the same And Fraus the last though not the least of all Which euer in their actions do agree With vertues cloke to worke all villanie 85 Yet finde they in themselues a different course Though in vile plots and purposes one head For Craft we may of these account the worst Which first the path to wickednesse doth tread These with their subtill false and slie deceits In shew like honest lay soule-trapping baits 86 Next Dole and Fraud do cunningly defend And still excuse the damned works of euill But Dolus to deceit is surest friend And couching close doth seeke the soule to spill Yet Fraud most properly doth rest in facts Not in the words of such deceitfull acts 87 This vertue did with orient brightnesse shine In Salomon that matchlesse king of praise Who left with fame his Prouerbs most diuine To be true Prudence guide for vs alwaies Whose holy wisdome all the world bereft That since his death the like was neuer left 88 Who did true wisdome in his censure show Betwixt two women striuing for a childe An inward prudence wrought the trueth to know That the true mother should not be beguilde In offring them the infant to diuide He both the trueth of loue and nature tri'de 89 The lawfull mother did lament and crie She would not any such diuision make But rather seem'd her right cleane to denie And bid the mother false the whole to take By which the King in wisdome vnderstood The mother right whose loue preseru'd the blood 90 I rightly may of Iesus Sirach speake And famous Esdras who did both designe Such prudent rules they neuer meant to breake But all mens faults by vertue to refine And by their light and holy works to moue Mens mortall hearts to honour God aboue 91 By Prudence Alexander did obtaine Two battels of Darius Persians King Which time twelue hundred thousand men were slaine And fifteene Nations did to bondage bring Fiue thousand Townes and Cities he that day By wisdome power and rule did ouersway 92 Did not this vertue Iulius Caesar show In reconciling Senators of Rome By whome he learn'd the perfect way to know For Consulship to haue the peoples dome Then Prudence ioyn'd with bounty worth and wit Brought him in Rome an Emperour great to sit 93 The worthie fame of Solons prudence springs With branches great of endlesse memorie Which the Athenian iarres to concord brings And all to liue in loue and vnitie This he obtain'd