tooke Hermes on her knee Danc't him sung to him and vpon him smil'd And vow'd she neuer saw so sweet a child To take him as her owne she then decreed And call'd for milke the pretty Babe to feed But when him to be Maia's Son she knew By Iupiter the Lad from her she threw And call'd him Bastard and began to frowne And in her rising cast the Pitcher downe Spilt was the Milke and wheresoe're it lyte The place appeares than all the rest more white The golden Ramme styl'd Prince of all the Signes Rising his Crest he tow'ards the East inclines In th' AEquinoctiall Circle with his head Reacheth Deltoton with his feet doth tread Vpon the Pistrix Thus his story was Phrixus and Helles bred from Athamas And Nebula were at domesticke strife With their proud Step-dame and pursu'd her life But thence cast out into the Woods they came Where wandring long their Mother brought a Ramme Who mounting on his backe she bids them fly They take the sea but soone the winde growes high And the waues troubled Helles is afraid Le ts go her hold and then downe slides the Maid The angry billowes her of life bereaue She forc't her name vnto that Sea to leaue But Phrixus to the Isle of Colchos steeres And when arriv'd before the King appeares Who for he had so past and scap'd the Brine There offered vp the Beast at Mars his Shrine But the rich Fleece whose euery haire was gold Which did amase King Octa to behold He left to him which with such care he kept That to a monstrous Dragon that ne're slept He gaue the charge thereof till Iafon landed Who the swift Argo at that time commanded But by Medea's aid as most auer He bore from Colchos both the Fleece and her Some thinke the Ramme therefore immortalis'd By reason that when Bacchus enterpris'd An expedition into Africa And was distrest for water by the way A Ram was seene out of the Sands to make Whom they pursu'd but could not ouertake Till he had brought them vnto Fountaines cleare Which hauing done he did no more appeare Bacchus who thought him as Diuinely sent Because his Army was nigh tyr'd and spent With heate and thirst and by that means preserv'd Who else in that wilde Desart had been starv'd To Iupiter call'd Ammon there erected A stately Temple and withall directed His Statue rear'd that for the Beasts more grace They on his forehead two Rams hornes should place For so we finde him figur'd Why the Bull Hath place aboue Some thinke because Ioves Trull Europa he from Sidon into Creet Transwafted whilest the waue ne're toucht her feet Some hold him rather for that Beast of note On whom Pasiphae did so madly dote Others for Iö in an Heifers shape By Iove transform'd Queene Iuno's rage to scape The reason is because the head 's sole seene The hinder parts as hid behinde a Skreene He lookes vpon the East and in his face The Hyades fiue Sisters haue their place They Nurses vnto Bacchus haue been thought Call'd the Dodonean Nymphs and thither brought By his great Power Nor are they seen in vain Who neuer rise but they portend some raine They were call'd Atlas Daughters and tooke name From their sole brother Hyas who to tame A Lion striuing was depriv'd of breath For whom the Sisters wept themselues to death The Pleiades they be in number seuen Deare Sisters and together shine in heauen Six only seen at once The reason why Six with the gods congrest but one did ly With Sisiphus a Mortall for which reason She hides her face as had she done some treason The Gemini who louingly embrace Take on the right hand of Auriga place Aboue Orion who his rise begins In the mid place betwixt the Bull and Twinnes Such as deepe knowledge in the Stars professe Castor and Pollux call them Others ghesse Them to be Zeâ—us and Amphion who Were most kinde Brothers To which some say no But that Triptolimus and Iasion claime Scite in that Orbe and in the Heauens the name But of the first th' opinion best doth please And that they are the two Tindarides Brothers to Hellen two the most entire That e're could yet boast of Coelestiall Fire They in their life the Seas from Pyrats freed And after death it was by Iove decreed To set them so that from their glorious Sphere They may behold what euer is done there To curle or calme the Ocean they haue power To cleare the Aire or dampe it with a shower To tosse the Robbers ships on shelues and sands And steere the Merchants safe to forrein lands In Wracks they can preserue in stormes appease No stars haue more dominion on the Seas O're which th' are knowne to beare such watchfull eies That when one sets the other 's seene to rise The AEstiue Circle Cancer doth diuide Iust in the middle but a little wide From Hydra yet aboue his eyes reflect Directly on the Lions sterne aspect But why the Crab should be allow'd his Sphere It may be askt I 'le tell you what I heare When mighty Hercules did vndertake To combat Hydra neere the Lernian Lake As with his club he made the Monster reele This crept behinde and pincht him by the heele At which the Prince more angry for bee'ng stayd In his hot sight lookt backe to see what aid Hydra had got and when the Câ—ab he spy'd A Worme so base his fury was supply'd Then with a looke of anger mixt with scorne He stamp'd vpon 't vntill he saw it torne And shatter'd all to pieces with one spurne Halfe burying it in th' earth Then did he turne Againe vpon the Monster nor withdrew Till Hydra with her numerous heads he slew This seene by Iuno who the Crab had sent To vex the Heroë she incontinent The limbes disperst did suddenly combine And plac'd it one amongst the Twelue to shine Who beares vpon him Stars that shine but dull Call'd Asini yet make his number full The cause of their translation thus we read When all the gods assembled and made head Against the Gyants in that glorious war Where hills and rockes were tost and throwne from far It is remembred how amongst the rest To take the gods part Liber Pater prest Satyres and Sylvâ—nes Shepheards he from Pan And Neatheards tooke not sparing god nor man That neere to him were knowne to haue abode Not his owne Priests and they on Asses rode Now when the battell was to ioyne the cry On both sides 'gan to mount vp to the Sky At which the poore beasts much affrighted they Aboue the rest were loudly heard to bray The Gyants hearing it not knowing whence That noise should come began to hatch suspence How Iove had made of such strange Monsters choice Whose strengths perhaps might match that horrid voice Which made
quae Caeptis conscia nostris Adnutrixque c. Thou three-shap'd Hecate with me take part Who guilty of my vndertakings art Teaching what spels we Witches ought to vse And what rare Herbs out of the earth to chuse Thou Aire you Winds Hils Lakes and Riuers cleare Gods of the Winds gods of the night appeare By whose strong aid I when I please can make The fearefull and astonisht bankes to quake To see the streames backe to their heads retyre If on the seas a tempest I desire The troubled waues in mighty mountaines rise Threatning to spit their brine-drops in the eyes Of the bright Stars and when th' are most in rage I with a word their fury can asswage Blacke threatning clouds if I but speake appeare And with a becke I make the Welkin cleare The Windes I from their brasen dens can call To blow downe hills or not to breathe at all The Vipers jawes I with my spels can breake The stedfast rockes remoue whâ—n I but speake The grounded Okes I by the roots vp rend Woods I can shift and mountaines that transcend My Charmes can shake The groaning Earth help craues From me whilest Ghosts I summon from their graues And thee ô Moone my Incantations can Draw this or that way make thee pale and wan Through feare or red with rage Aurora knowes I from her blushing cheeke can teare the Rose c. Here I might introduce many to the like purpose but I return where I left and thus proceed That this swift transportation of Bodies though it seeme strange is not altogether impossible Which will the better appeare if either wee aduisedly consider the velocitie of Spirits or the admirable celerity of the Spheres from whence it comes that Magitions haue such speedy intelligence almost in an instant of things done in the farthest and remotest places of the world To approue which if wee shall but examine Historie there be many examples extant When Antonius the great Captaine made an insurrection in Germany against the Emperor Domitian and was slain in the battel the death of that Revolter was confidently reported the same day in Rome with the manner of his Armies ouerthrow though the places were distant as some account it little lesse than fifteene hundred miles And Cedrenus writeth That when Adrianus Patricius was sent by the Emperour Basilius to war against the Carthaginians before he had ouercome halfe his way and whilest hee yet stayed in Peloponnesus with the greatest part of his Nauy by the help of such Spirits as it seemed he was certainly informed That Syracusa was taken and destroyed by fire the very selfe same day and houre that the disaster hapned Panlus Diaconus and Nicephorus haue left to memorie That one Calligraphus of Alexandria walking late in the night by certaine Statues erected without the city they called vnto him aloud and told him That the Emperour Martianus with his Queene and princely Issue were all at that very instant murthered in Constantinople Which when he came to his house he told to some of his Familiars and Friends who seemed to deride his report as a thing not possible but beyond Nature But nine dayes after came a Post with certaine newes of that barbarous and inhumane act which by true computation happened the very same houre that it was deliuered to Calligraphus Platina in Dono telleth vs That Partharus sonne to the King of the Longobards being expelled from his Countrey by the vsurpation of Grinnaldas shipt himselfe for England to be secured from the sword of the Tyrant and hauing beene a few dayes at sea hee was sensible of a loud voice which admonished him to change the course of his intended journey and instantly to return backe into his owne Countrey for the Tyrant hauing been troubled with the Plurisie and aduised by his Physitions to haue a Veine opened in the left arme the flux of bloud could not by any art be stopped but that he bled to death Vpon this warning the Prince Partharus returned and finding it to be true within three months after his arriuall he was inaugurated and freely instated in his proper inheritance Zonarus and Cedrenius affirme That the same day in which the arch-Traitor and Regicide Andraea slew the Emperour Constantine bathing himselfe in Syracusa his death by voices in the aire which could be no other than Spirits was not onely noised but proclaimed openly in Rome the same day Zephilinus in Domiti and Fulgâ—t lib. 1. cap. 6. haue left remembred vnto vs That Apollonius Tianaeus being in a publique Schoole in the city of Ephesus and disputing at that time with diuers Philosophers in the midst of his serious discourse was on the sudden mute and fixing his eyes stedfastly vpon the ground remained for a space in a still silence but at length erecting his head and casting vp his eyes hee suddenly broke forth into this loud acclamation Stephanus hath slaine an vniust man And after hauing better recollected himselfe he told vnto those which were there present That at that instant the Emperor Domitian fell by the hand of one Stephanus The circumstance being after examined it proued true according to his relation Olaus Magnus lib. 3. cap. 16. of his Gothicke History writeth That Govarus King of Norway being resident in his owne Court knew in the same houre of all the machinations and plots intended against him in Normandy though he was distant by land and sea many hundred miles Fulgotius relateth That in the wars betwixt the Locrenses and the Crotoniatae two spirits appeared like two yong men in white vesture who when the Locrenses had woon the battaile left the field and vanished and in the selfe same houre were seene both in Athens and Corinth in both which places they proclaimed the newes of that great victory though these places were distant many leagues one from another And so much for the Velocitie of Spirits The Emblem IT figureth an Hedge-hog who insidiates the silly field-Mice playing about her den and fearelesse of any present danger who the better to compasse her prey wrappeth her selfe into a round globe-like compasse appearing onely a ball of pricks contracting her head within her skinne where nothing is seene saue a small hole for such a little creature to shroud her selfe in and thus she lieth confusedly vpon the ground without any seeming motion The apprehension thereof is borrowed from Greg. lib. 13. Moralium from whence this Motto is deriued Abiecta movent The words of the reuerend Father be these Prius complexionem vnius cuiusque Adversarius perspicit tunc tentationis laqueos exponit alius namque laetis alius tristibus alius timidis alius elat is moribus existit c. i. Our Aduersarie the Diuell first looketh into the complexion and disposition of euery man and then he layes the snares of tentation for one is of a merry and pleasant constitution another sad and melancholy
Vertent comes we shall againe Be borne as heretofore on earth remaine Iust the same time and leade the selfe same liues Haue the same Neighbours marry the same Wiues Get the same children haue that house that land We now enioy liue vnder the command Of the same Soueraigne see iust iudgement done On Malefactors who shall after run Into like forfeit by that Iudge be try'de And dye againe where they before-time dy'de To buy to sell to build all that we see Here done once was and shall hereafter be And to reduce all parcels to one summe So the past Cataclisme must againe come Yet these most fabulous assertions tho They sweetned Plato with a many mo Reputed wise were by them that respected Reason ' boue Will exploded and reiected In that reputing the Professors Fooles And their Positions hist out of the Schooles The Iewish Rabbins likewise held them vaine And I leaue this to touch an higher straine Nihil notum in Terra Nihil Ignotum in Coelo Bern. Theologicall Philosphicall Poeticall Historicall Apothegmaticall Hierogriphicall and Emblematicall Obseruations touching the further illustration of the former Tractate COncerning the three diuisions of the World Sublunarie Coelestiall and Super-Coelestiall as also what a true correspondence the Arke of Tabernacle of Moses had vnto them being a small yet a most curious model of the greater and most admirable Fabricke hath beene sufficiently discoursed And therefore as well to auoyd prolixitie as other impertinent circumstances I purpose with no iterations to trouble or tempt the patience of the Reader but rather proceed to the illustrating and inlarging of such things as haue been meerely epitomised and little more than mentioned in the premisses and first to define vnto you what the Wold is Mundus or the World is in the Hebrew Language Holam which implyeth thus much Quod iam per aliquot secula subsistat In quo rerum ortus interitus sitâ—ed Which is to subsist and continue for certaine Ages and in which shall be the birth and destruction of things The word in the Originall directly reprouing all such as are of opinion That it hath alwaies beene and shall euer last The Greekes call it Cosmos which signifieth Ornament Which the Latines for the perfect and absolute elegancie thereof call Mundus i. Cleane because than it there is nothing more neatly polished or more rarely beautified for so saith Pliny Possidonius in Meteor calleth that Mundus or the World which consisteth of Heauen and Earth Coelestiall and Terrestrial natures or of gods and men and of those things which were created for their vse Some call it Muudus quasi Ornatus Muliebris a Womans Ornament or Munitus i. Defenced Others à Mouendo i. Mouing because Mundus is that kind of Ornament which women carefully put on in the morning and carelesly throw aside at night Mundus Muliebris as Vlpian will haue it is per quod Mulier mundior fit That by which a woman is made more faire and spectable Amongst which necessaries he reckoneth vp her Myrrhor her Matula her Vnguents boxes of Ointments c. Of this vaine World which men so much doat on heare what Gregorie in one of his Homilies saith Ecce Mundus qui diligitur fugit i. Behold the World of which they are so much besotted passeth away from vs. The Saints whose memories are only remaining vnto vs did scorne it when it was most flourishing they had long life constant health riches in plenty fertilitie in Issue tranquilitie in peace yet when in it selfe it most flourished in their hearts it most withered But now when the World begins to grow old and barren in our hearts it is still greene and burgeoning Death mourning and desolation beguirts vs on all sides yet we hood-wink'd by the blinde will of Concupiscence are in loue with the bitternesse thereof we follow it flying vs we leane vnto it shrinking from vs we catch hold vpon it falling with vs. Chrisostome wee may reade thus As when wee see a very aged man we presently coniecture that his end is neere but yet we cannot presume of the day of his death when that shall be so when we truly consider the World and from how long it hath been we know the end thereof cannot be far off yet of the time when this dissolution shall be wee are altogether ignorant Againe in another place As all men assuredly know that they shall die by seeing others daily to depart the world yet thinke not of their owne ends nor how soone they shall follow them so wee certainely know that the World shall one day bee consumed yet scarcely will we giue beleefe to our knowledge Elsewhere he vseth these words As it is a much easier thing and sooner done by man to pull downe than to build to ruin than to erect as in all structures it is commonly seene it is not so with God for he with more facilitie maketh than marreth buildeth than casteth downe sooner iustifieth than destroyeth For he made the whole frame of the World with all the Creatures therein in six dayes and yet that onely city Iericho he was seuen dayes in destroying You may finde it thus in Lactantius Who can be so foolish or idle to make any thing friuolous and for no vse by which hee can neither receiue pleasure nor profit He that buildeth a house doth not build it only to be a house and to be called so but hee hath a further purpose to make it habitable for some or other to dwell therein The Ship-wright that maketh a ship doth not spend all that labour and art that it may onely be called a Ship but his intent is to make it fit for nauigation So he that models or fashions any Cup or Vessell doth not doe it onely to the end that it shall retain the name of such a thing but to be imployed in those necessarie vses for which the like things are framed So of all other things there is nothing made for shew only but some seruice Euen so the World was created by the Almightie not onely to be meerely called so and retaine the name neither did he frame his Creatures for the World it selfe as if it either needed the heate or light of the Sunne the breath of the windes the moisture of the clouds or nourishment from those things which it selfe yearely produceth but he made all those things for the vse of man and that man in it should magnifie and glorifie his Name I conclude these with that remarkable saying of S. Chrisostome vpon Mathew Habemus pro Mare Mundum c. We haue for the Sea the World for the Ship the Church for our Mast the Crosse for the Sailes Repentance for our Pilot Christ for the Winde the Holy-Ghost c. Diuers of our antient Poets made no question of the dissolution of the World but that as it had a beginning so consequently it must haue an end Though
are farther remote are lesse able and preualent The Water is known to be of more swiftnesse and validity than the Earth the Aire than the Water and the Moone than either and of all the other Planets as they exceed in height so they excel in vertue euen vntill you come to the Primum Mobile whose strength and puissance is such that it circumrotes and turneth about all the Spheres below it and in it's incredible celeritie euery minute ouercomes more than a thousand miles as astronomers report Yet notwithstanding the incogitable force and dexteritie of Spirits the Theologists are of opinion That they are not of power to destroy any one Element or to peruert that constant order by which the fabricke of the World is guided and gouerned Yet of their incredible celeritie and strength histories are very frequent both in the sacred Scriptures and elsewhere We reade That the Diuell tooke our blessed Sauiour and by the permission of this Godhood placed him on the top of the pinacle of the Temple and in a moment tooke him from thence and bare him into an exceeding high mountaine from whence hee shewed him all the Kingdomes of the earth and the glory thereof Wee reade likewise That the Angell of the Lord tooke the Prophet Habbacuck as he was carrying meat vnto the Reapers by the haire of the head and in the strength of spirit in an instant transported him from Iudaea to Babylon And as soone as the Prophet Daniel had tooke his repast left him in the twinkling of an eye in the selfe same place where he first found him The like wee reade in the Gospell of Philip the Apostle who was snatched vp by the Angell and brought where the Eunuch of Candaces was reading in Esaias the Prophet which after he had expounded vnto him and then baptised him in the riuer hee was suddenly taken from his sight Other histories to this purpose there be many Pythagoras if we may beleeue Apollonius was seene in one day both in Croton and Metapontus And Apollonias Tyanaeus the notable Magitian being at Rome in the presence of the Emperor Domitian and commanded to be bound hand and foot before him yet he suddenly vanished out of his sight and was the selfe same houre hurried as farre as Puteoli to keepe a former appointment which he had made to make merry with some of his acquaintance and friends Iamblicus a notorious Inchanter hauing sacrificed vnto the Diuell was raised vp ten cubits from the earth seeming to the wonder and amasement of all there present to walke in the aire And as Evanippus testifieth of him his garments were strangely altered appearing as if they had been newly dipt in a thousand sundry glorious colours Iohannes Teutonicus a Cannon of Halbersted in Germanie hauing by art Magicke performed many strange prestigious feats almost incredible in one day which was the birth day of our Sauiour was transported by the Diuell in the shape of a blacke horse and seene and heard to say Masse the same day in Halbersted in Mentz and in Cullein Plutarch telleth vs That the Grecians hauing ouerthrowne the Persians in the great battell of Marathon they purposed a great and solemne sacrifice to the gods in thankefull remembrance of so miraculous and vnexpected a victory who for their better instruction how the more reuerendly to mannage it sent to aske counsell of the Oracle in Delphos Who returned them answer That they should first build a new Altar and consecrate it to Iupiter the Deliuerer and not to make their Offering till all the fire throughout whole Greece was quite extinguished and not one sparke remaining as being polluted by the Barbarians and therefore by the gods of Greece held execrable Which done they should with all speed send to Delphos and from thence fetch pure and vnpolluted fire to kindle the Sacrifice According to this imposition of the Oracle by a strict order made by the Princes and chiefe Magistrates all the fire was extinct and then one Euchides of Plataea a man of an vnbeleeuable swiftnesse after he had been first washed and after that crowned with Lawrel was sent to Delphos distant from that city more than a thousand furlongs who went and returned within the compasse of one day and hauing brought the sacred Fire he had no sooner deliuered it vp to the Priest who was then chiefe in the Sacrifice but hee instantly fell downe dead Yet the ceremonies went on and after by the command of the Princes his body was taken vp and by their appointment had the honour to be buried in the great and famous Temple of Diana with this inscription vpon his Tomb Euchides Delphos cucurrit Et die reversus est vna Euchides to Delphos sent Who in one day both came and went I haue read of a noble Centurion in the lower part of Germanie of great opinion and estimation with the people for his approued goodnesse and knowne honestie who reported this Discourse following That walking one euening through a Thicket or Groue not farre distant from the place in which he liued with onely one man and a boy in his company to attend him hee saw approching towards him a faire and goodly company of Knights and Gentlemen all seeming persons of great eminence for they were mounted on great and braue horses and well accommodated at all points all which without any salutation in great silence past by him In the lag of which troup he fixt his eye with some astonishment on one who to his present imagination had serued him and bin his Cook who was dead and buried some few dayes before this apparition This Fellow was as well mounted as the rest and lead an empty or spare horse by the bridle The Centurion being a man of an vndaunted spirit went vp close to him and demanded what he was and whether hee were the same Cooke who had lately serued him and whom hee had seene coffined and layd in the earth Who answered him againe That without any doubt or scruple he was the selfe same man His master then asked him what Gentlemen or rather Noblemen as appeared by their habit were those that rid before Whether he himself was then trauelling And to what purpose he led that empty horse in his hand To all which he replied in order That all those horsemen were men of note and qualitie naming to him diuers whom he knew were deceased and that they were now vpon a voiage to the holy-Holy-land whether he himselfe was likewise bound and that spare horse was prouided of purpose to doe him seruice if it so pleased him and that hee had any desire to see Hierusalem The Centurion made answer That with great willingnesse hee could finde in his heart to see the City and visit the holy Sepulchre whether had meanes and leasure serued to his purpose hee had long since intended a pilgrimage The other told him Now was the time his horse ready no
seene Or like Adonis fitted to the chase Whom Venus met and sweetly did embrace Had she had wings as she had Shafts and Bow Saue in her stature you could hardly know Her from the Loue-god Cupid Now her minde She fresh and suting with her shape doth finde Ceasing her former losses to bewaile Thus with a sprightly courage she fets saile At ev'ry Coast she landeth she enquires But findes no answer fram'd to her desires Twelue times the Moone had wain'd and fill'd her round And yet her sister no where to be found At length vpon the fortunat Isle she lands Where then her wretched father was in bands And the bright Damsell new instated Queene Not many dayes before the King had beene Inuited two great Princes to attone In whose forc'd absence she now reignes alone In which short int'rim newes is brought to Court Of a strange ship new landed in the Port But chiefely That one passenger therein Is of a choice aspect whose beardlesse chin No manhood shewes they tooke him at first sight To be no other than Ioves Catamite For such was Ganimed by all account What time he snatcht the Boy from Ida Mount. The Queene all spirit before is now growne fiery To know him better by more strict enquiry Answer 's retun'd his person is Diuine As one made sacred at Apollo's Shrine And there 's no greater sacriledge than wrong And that to Apollo shall belong A Lord is sent the yong Priest to inuite He comes and she affects him at first sight For Nature hath a secret working still And to her owne ends swayes the captiv'd will Nor is it wonder she so soone is woon Since such neere bloud in both their veines doth run The Delphian Idoll when he saw the state The Lady bore was much amas'd thereat Her princely habit and her numerous Traine The distance that she kept thereby to gaine The more obseruance seated in a Throne And marking with what gems her garments shone The Diamonds that were wouen in her haire And ev'ry thing about her then so rare For she in all respects so far surpast His fathers Daughter when he saw her last It neuer once could sinke into his minde Seeking a Captiue he a Queene should finde Besides her port her gesture garments strange Suting that Countrey bred in her such change The disguis'd Priest hath quite forgot her face And apprehends some goddesse is in place Againe The Delphians habit did so blinde The Princesse eyes she little dream'd to finde Though else he hardly could her knowledge scape A woman or a Sister in that shape And though they make a serious inter-view Looking both oft and long yet neither knew Though an alternate sympathie appear'd That one vnto the other was indear'd She feasts the Priest and with such sumptuous cheare As if Apollo's selfe had then been there Some short discourse they had the banquet ended But nothing to their owne affaires that tended All the choice fauors she can well affoord She freely giues night growes he hasts aboord But shee 'l not suffer him to lye so hard For in the Court his lodging is prepar'd And in that Island whilst he makes aboad He is to her as welcome as his god Now curteously compel'd Time calls to bed And they are both to sundry lodgings led His chamber rich and his Attendants great She now retyr'd begets a stronge conceit Which may in her the better be allow'd Since there 's no Faire-one but is somewhat proud Thinks she My beauty is of such rare note That all who looke on me from liking dote My royall husband Soueraigne of the land Swayes all his Subiects and I him command If any of my feature make relation His praise he soone turnes into admiration I am not seene in publique but they cry She is descended from some Deitie But what 's all this if onely these allow My Beauty such as neuer tooke strict Vow Here 's one that 's to the Votaries ally'd By a religious Oath from Venus ty'd Now were there in my face such vertue found To pierce his chaste brest with an vnseene wound Should it tempt him whom all lust doth abjure To gaine the Palme by merit I am sure But till of such a tryall I haue made To be still equal'd I am much afraid Shee 's now resolv'd to put her to the test And the next morning sends to see her guest Hee 's brought into her presence whom she spies No sooner but she courts him with her eyes Next change of blushes in her lookes appeare As if she would say something but did feare She then began to wooe him with her hand But that he would not seeme to vnderstand Then with her sighes but all the while was mute And she no whit the neerer in her suit But to breake silence she is now decreed Knowing Who spares to speake oft failes to speed To proue how far bright beauty can preuaile She to this purpose frames a passionate Tale. No Sex saith she no Age Degree or State But all are subiect to the will of Fate Their pow'r so strong I cannot say so just As what they bid we shall do that we must Our Wills are not our owne nor can we do But meerely that which they enforce vs to That their strict Lawes no Mortals can evade Ev'n I this day am an example made Who apprehend the best and would pursue it But 'gainst mine owne best nature must eschew it With that she blusht and turn'd her cheeke aside As if the loue she shew'd she faine would hide Proceeding thus I that am now a wife Did once resolue to leade a Vestall life And gladly would haue kept it to this hower But my chast Will they alter'd by their power After my Virgin girdle was vnty'de And that I was made both a Queene and Bride My best endeauors I did then imply To keepe vnbroken our conjugall Ty. But they haue brought thee from I know not whence To make me with my nuptiall Oath dispenceâ— They haue enforc'd my Lord to a faâ— Clime To sort to vs conuenient place and time If to do what Thou dost desire to heare Looke in my face and thou mayst reade it there And if I to my Lord proue thus ingrate What is it but our fortunes and his fate My loue-sicke thoughts are thus before thee layd And know she sues that must not be gain-sayd For vnresistable is my desire Pause but returne short answer I 'le retyre This spoke as much asham'd away she flings Now the yong Priest conceiues a thousand things What say or do he doth both feare or doubt Insnar'd he is and no way can get out Such a Dadalian Mase should Theseus try He ne're could finde the dore he entred by He apprehends what strange malicious spleenes Meane women loue-crost haue then what 's in queens By them he may coniecture as to swell More by how much in greatnesse they excell