mortall temper Hearts are Loues food his drinke is louers teares Loue is a golden bubble full of dreames That waking breakes and fils vs with extreames The gaine is griefe to them that traffique loue Loue is in prime of youth a Rose in age a Weed Loue for a minutes ioy payes endlesse paine Meane men in loue haue frownes as well as Kings Two constant louers being ioyned in one Yeelding to one another yeeld to none Loue truly bred true triall will abide Mens loue is written on the Angels brests Loue with true friends will alwaies liue and die Loue is refiner of inuention The faultes that are in loue by loue committed By loue for loue doe claime to be remitted Loue teacheth musicke to vnskilfull men Loue woon by vertue still is permanent The loue of beautie reason oft beguiles Loue is the Lord of hope and confidence Loue wheâ—s the dâ—llest wits his plagues are such Yet makes the wise by pleasing dote as much Likenesse in manners maketh loue most pure Vertue cannot be perfect wanting loue Loue is most fortunate where courage liues Concealed loue burnes with the fiercest flame Louers best like to see themselues alone Or with their loues if needs they must haue one A cold base loue cooles not a hot desire Hate in the name of loue doth oft presume Selâ—e loue of mischiefe is the only ground The â—owards warfare is a wanton loue Where â—rowes a perfect sympathie of hearts Eâ—h passion in the one the other paineth Pure loue did neuer see the face of feare Lasciuious loue is root of all remorse Loue wonne in heat will with a cold be lost Loue and high seat no equals can endure Louers haue quick all corners searching eyes Similies on the same subiect LIke as the waxe doth quench and feed the flame â—o loue to men giues both despaire and life As luie finds fit meanes whereby to climbe So loue sorts out his subiect where him list As fire with violence consumeth wood So scorne with crueltie doth murder loue As young vines yeeld most wine but old brings best So young loue speaketh much but old doth most Like as affection is in louers restlesse So being perfect it is likewise endlesse As fancie must be cured by affection So loue is onely remedied by loue Examples likewise on the same PAusanias lou'd his wife with such firme loue As no description well could set it downe Prediccas for his loue to Alexander Refused mightie wealth in Macedon The Emperour Claudius would not loue or hate But as he waâ— thereto by others led Scipio so lou'd the Poet Ennius That being dead he kept his picture still Zeno although a Stoicke yet did yeeld That loue in young men was most requisite Cicero not gain-said wise men to loue So they might loue without deepe cares and sighes Of Hate Hate is loues enemie and Friendships foe Neighbourhoods bane and Peaces ouerthrow HAte cannot worke where nature planteth loue Hates eies may slumber but can hardly sleepe Hatred is chiefest enemie to loue That which is hâ—ld with hate we feare to loose Who hates himselfe to loue another man Sencelesse should be esteemed of all men The deadliest hate with sâ—iles securely stands Where rancour rules there hate doth most preuaile Lewd loue is hate and base desire is shame Youth old in will age young in hate doth make 'T is incident to them who many feare Many to them more grieâ—oâ—es hate doe beare In meckenesse maskes the most distemperd hate True faithfull loue will neuer turne to hate Men oft shew fauour to conceale theâ—â— hate Hatred attendeth on prosperitie The sweetest loue changing his propertie Turnes to the sowrest and most deadly hate Loue so thou maist haue little feare to hate Few hate their faults all hate of them to heare A rooted hate will hardly be displac'd Fie on the loue that hatcheth hate and death These are the greatest spoilers of a state Young â—â—nsell priuat gaine and partiall hate Hate without might comes euer more too late A poore mans hate is very perillous Mercie may mend whome hatred made transgresse From deepe desireâ— oft comes the deadliest hate Hatred must be beguil'd by some new course Where states are strong and Princes doubt their force Neuer put trust in them that hate their blood Hate seekes to salue his harmes by swist reuenge Enforced wedlock breeds but secret hate Hate euurmore is blind and so is loue In vâ—â—lgar eares delight it alwaies breeds To haue the hated authors of misdeeds Where hâ—â—e doth rule Lordship small safetie hath Hate nourisheth contempt debate and rage Hate furrowes vp a graue to burie loue But few will follow them whom princes hate Hate and disdaine doe neuer brooke respect Consisting in true louing hearts neglect To colour â—aâ—e with kindnesse some commend Hid hate exceâ—deth open enmitiâ—â— Lookes oft tiâ—â—â— hate when as the heart doth loue No hate like that of friends once chang'd to foes Who foster hate can neuer find out loue Most happie he to whome loue comes at last And doth restore what hate before did wast Hate many times is hid in smoothest lookes The wrong of friends exceeds the soe-mans hate Hate buried once hurts deadly afterward A bâ—d mans hate can neuer harme the good With pleasing speech men promise and protest When hatefull hearts lâ—e lurking in their breast Whome all men hate none is so fond to loue Hate commonly doth most offend it selfe Hates winking is a prep'ratiue to death Similies on the same subiect AS Lyons are discerned by their pawes So hatefull men are by their qualities As enuie braggeth and can draw no blood So hate in stead of hurt oft doth men good As greenest wood lies long before it burne So hate stands watching till fit time to harme As blindnes led by blindnes needs must fall So hate vrg'de on by hate harmes least of all As children for their faults haue slye excuses So hates smooth lookes hide very foule abuses As crauen Cocks make shew yet dare not fight So hate makes proffers when he dares nor bite Examples likewise on the same DEmetrius Phalerius did condemne Any that iustly could be said to hate Stesilia did procure Themistocles Euen to the death to hate Aristides Cato and Caesar hated not each other Vntill Seruilia made them enemies Clodius did hate the men that lou'd him most And therefore was of all abandoned Cicero saith No honest citizen Can be procur ' de to hate his enemie Pindarus held no vice more odious Than enuious hatred in what man so ere Of Chastitie Chast life is graces seale deuotions staffe Marke of the iust and crowne of martyrdome CHastitie is bright honours glorious crowne Lost iewels may be found Chastitie neuer That 's lost but once and once lost lost for euer Shee is most chast that 's but enioyd of one Pure chastitie is beautie to our soules Grace to our bodies peace to our desires We breake chast vowes when we liue loosely euer The purest
to liue Hope not for that which iustice doth denie Where grace begins hope makes a happie end Similies on the same subiect AS greatest calmes oft turne to thunderclaps So sweetest hopes doe change to sowrest haps As in meane places may much wealth be hid So little hopes may mightie things expect As sadnes is the hearts chiefe punishment So hope is highest helpe in deepe distresse As one part of the body toiles for all So hope striues to accomplish all desires As euery mettall is of Sulphur made So euery pleasure doth from hope proceed As honest pastimes can no way offend So good mens hopes must needs haue happy end Examples likewise on the same WHen Alexander gaue great gifts away Being askt What for himselfe he kept replied Hope Caesar continually wasled with hope That he should gouerne many Monarchies Androclidas derided being lame Said Then in fight I hope I shall not flie Pindarus calleth hope The nource of age And Thales said Hope was a common helpe Learned men differ from the ignorant As Bias saith but onely by their Hope Hope as Simonides the Poet saith Is the sole guide and gouernour of men Of Loue. Loue is a vertue measur'd by duteous choice But not if it be maim'd with wilfull chaunce TRue loue is simple like his mother Truth Firme and vntainted loue had neuer meane In long delay loue most impatient is Our treasure we may hide but not our loue The truest loue is most suspitious Loues eyes in looking neuer haue their fill MAY is not loues month MAY is full of flowers But dropping APRIL Loue is full of showers Leud loue breeds losse ill peace hath deadly fight Life is most loath'd where loue may not preuaile Loue is the mistresse of a many minds Loues little sweet oft finds a longer sower Loue 's like the winters Rose or Sommers Ice Loue where it likes life where it loues would be Loue doth desire the thing belou'd to see That like it selfe in louely shape may be As loue is loth to part so seare shunnes death Luke warme desires best fit with crazed loue Valour nor loue dwells where diuision is Nought worth is loue without true constancie Loue cannot sound well but in louers tongues Loues strongest bands vnkindnes doth vnbind Firme loue that is in gentle brests begun No idle charme may easily remooue Short is the ioy of him that longest loues Loue neuer can endure a Paragon The greater loue the greater is the losse True loue is often sowne but seldome growes Loose loues are vaine and vanish still to smoake Loue that two hearts makes one so frames one will Too hard a lesson t is for liuing clay From loue in course of nature to refraine Firme loue the dread of daunger doth despise Loue may not be compeld by masterie Sweet loue barres lewdnesse from his companie Causelesse to chaunge loue is most foule reproch Loue hateth thought of all vngentlenes A louers heauen must passe by sorrowes hell All losse is lesse yea lesse is infamie Than losse of loue to him that loues but one They cannot iudge of loue that ne're did loue Loue wants his eyes yet shoots he passing right The shrine of loue doth seldome offrings want What can be said that louers cannot say Blind loues best Poets haue imperfect sight Loue deeply grounded hardly is dissembled Loue is a fiend a fire a heauen a hell Where pleasure paine and sad repentance dwell Where both deliberate the loue is light True loue is mute and oft amazed stands Who euer lou'd that lou'd not at first sight The darkest night is Cupids brightest day Loue alwaies makes those eloquent that loue There 's nothing more than counsell louers hate The light of hidden fire it selfe discouers And loue that is conceald betraies poore louers A louer most restraind the worser fares Loue is too full of faith too credulous Great force and vertue hath a louing looke No stonie limits can hold out true loue What loue can doe that dare it still attempt Sweet are those bands that true loue doth combine Loue goes toward loue like schoole-boyes from their bookes But loue from loue to schoole with heauie lookes No loue so sweet as where both soules consent True perfect loue is quickest of beleefe It 's better loue and liue than loath and die Free vent of words loues fire doth asswage Lookes doe kill loue and loue by lookes reuiues Foule words and frownes will not compell a louer Louers well wot what griefe it is to part When twixt two bodies liueth but one heart Loue easily commenteth on euery woe Loues gentle spring doth alwaies fresh remaine Loue maketh young men thrall and old men dote In follie loue is wise and foolish wittie A louers houres are long though seeming shoâ—â— Louers doe say The heart hath treble wrong When it is bard the ayding of the tongue Loue doth with gall and hony both abound It is not loue that loues to anger loue Loue still is free and led with selfe-delight Sweet is the loue that comes with willingnes Who learnes to loue the lesson is so plaine That once made perfect neuer lost againe There is no paine like loues sweet miscrie Great talke of loue proceeds but from the tongue Loue makes blunt wits right pleasing Oratours All loue deceits are held excusable Loue is most sweet and faire in euery thing Loue well is said to be a life in death That laughes and weepes and all but with a breath Such veâ—â—ue loue hath to make one of two The fire of loue is blown by dalliance Loues speciall lesson is to please the eye Loues glorie doth in greatest darknes shine Loue is a spirit all compact of fire Not grâ—sse to sâ—â—ke but light and will aspire Loue paints his longings in faire virgins eyes If merit looke not well Loue bids stand by Loue loftie doth despise a lowly eye Loue neuer will be drawn but must be led Although sweet loue to conquer glorious be Yet is the paine farre greater than the fee. He that shewes all his loue doth loue but lightly Fauours make happy louers euer dumbe The latest wonne is alwaies lou'd the longer Equall estate doth nourish equall loue Loue in braue spirits kindles goodly fire Which to great height of honour doth aspire Loue makes at once sicke sound aliue and dead Loue makes diuided creatures liue in one Loue is a thing that feeds on care and feare Poore is the loue that pouertie impaires All loues conceits are excellently wittie Two eyes him needeth both to watch and wake That louers will deceiue and find their scape That loue is singular is least in sight A pregnant loue conceits a thousand things Wanton conceits are rife where loue is wittie Disdaine to true loue yet was euer foe That loue is it which alwaies lasteth long That tends to neither of the louers wrong Vnwoed loue knowes not what pittie meanes They loue indeed that dare not say they loue Loues workes are more than of a
please So gentle minds are easily ouer-rul'd As heauines fore-tels some harme at hand So minds disturb'd presage ensuing ills As sickly bodies brooke not heat nor cold So crazed minds dislike of euery thing As working vessels are by vent kept sound So troubled minds by conference find ease As fennie grounds send forth vnsauorie sents So bad minds blâ—nder out distempered thoughts Examples likewise on the same SCeuola in the greatnesse of his mind Entred Porsennaes Tent to murder him Queene Tomiris to shew her dauntlesse mind With Cyrus blood reueng'd her deare sonnes death Zenobia told Aurelian in the field He was not able to subdue her mind Lucius Dentatus neuer matcht for mind Came eighteene times a conquerour from field Cicero saith the goodnesse of the mâ—nd Is most discern'd in pardoning iniuries Socrates said His quietnes in mind Was cause he neuer sickned till his death Of Affection c. Affection and sweet fancies secret fire Kindle the coales that quicken vp desire WHere we affect we seldome find defect Of things vnknowne we can haue no desire Men ost affect them that doe loue them least And least doe loue them whome they should like best That one desires another doth disdaine Affection by the countenance is descried Full easily the fault may be redrest Where kind affection onely hath transgrest Kindly affection youth to liue with youth Truest affection doth no bounds retaine Affection is a â—ierce yet holy fire Free of him-selfe and chain'd to strong desire Desire with small encouraging growes bold It 's easie to desire but hard to chuse Affections speech that easily can dissolue Doth moisten Flint yet Steele in stiffe attire The sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none In darkest nights desire sees best of all Sweet are the kisses the embracements sweet When like desires with like affections meet Affections slaue regards no oathes nor lawes Luke-warme desires best fit with crazed loue Affection is a coale that must be coold Else suffered it will set the heart on fire Entire affection hateth nice coy hands Affection will like fire him-selfe betray Affection faints not like a pale fac'd coward But then wooes best when most his choise is froward The coales are quicke where fancie blowes the fire Desire can make a Doctor in a day Where loue doth reigne disturbing iealousie Doth call him selfe affections Sentinell Fauour and grace are tearmed fancies fuell An equall age doth equall like desires Bad mens affections turne to feare and hate And hate to daunger and deserued death That 's hardly kept which is desir'd of many The most maid-seeming is not without affection That needs must issue to the full perfection Hath grounded-being by the minds affection There 's nothing can affections force controll Drunken desire doth vomit his receit Affections gawdie banner once displayed The coward fights and will not be dismayed Things much restrain'd make vs the more desire them In meanest shewe the most affection dwells Small drops doe oft-times quench a mightie fire But hugest Seas not qualifie desire All qualifide affections loue doth hate Beautie strikes fancie blind vaine shewes deceiue Sad perâ—urâ—ations that affections guide Should not giue iudgement till their cause be tride Desire is life of loue and death of feare Death is the finall end of all desires Nothing can quench an infinite desire Once kindled through the first conceiued fire Sad sighes doe shew the heat of hearts desire Desire controld doth aggrauate desire Desire being fierce is spring of sighes and teares Men once degenerate and growne deprest Are pleasd to share affections with a beast Desire doth spring from that we wish and want Fancie is blind deafe and incredulous Fancie is watchfull and doth seldome sleepe Fancie compeld to Lute strings is compar'd Which ouer stretcht doe cracke before they sound Lawfull desires are honesties best notes Affection's rest lesse yet being perfect end-lesse Delay is preiudiciall to desire The greater part leane to example so That what they fancie they will sâ—ant forgoe Fancies best cure is mutuall affection Fancie soone â—ires but long before it quench When loue leads lookes no compasse keepes desire A hot desire on present heat doth dote When cold repentance will it not fore-note Low fortunes often times haue high desires Like fortunes globe euen so is fancies seat Appetites flame with wisdome best is quencht There neuer did all circumstances meet With those desires which were conceiu'd before Affection brooketh no diuision Sleepe hath no priuiledge ouer desire Similies on the same subiect AS poyson sweetly mixt is sooner ta'ne So fancie close conceal'd is soonest fier'd As Chrysolites are prooued in the fire So is affection in enforc'd restraint As cities wanting Magistrates decay Euen so desire vngouern'd hurts it selfe As all the world were darke but for the Sunne So life but for affection were vnsure As steele brings fire from the hardest flint So fancie mollisies the stearnest mind As Almond trees in age doe beare most fruit So yeares doth best approoue affections Examples likewise on the same ZAleucus to the Locrians made a law To loose their eyes that sinn'd in foule desires Appius was banished the cittie Rome For leud affection to Virginia Marke Anthonie disgrac'd his former fame By not restraining his affections King Alexander hated to the death In men or women loose and leud desires Fancie saith Aristotle often makes A frenzie in their soules are led thereby Desire saith Socrates no limits holds And therefore hardly can be mastred Of Disdaine c. Contempt and Scorne are Wits infirmitie Wherwith Disdaine and Scoffes keepe company FLint frost disdaine weares melts and yeelds we see Things long in getting quickly are disdain'd Present disdaine oft after-loue diuines Prayers preuaile not where is coy disdaine Better to die a thousand deaths and more Than liue contemn'd that honour'd was before Disdaine deliuers a depraued mind Griefe often-times giues place to nice disdaine Too much precisenesse sauours of selfe-loue Gibing demaunds deserue scornefull replyes Neither can wit or Art take any place Where aduerse scorne with feare strikes boldnesse dead Presumption giues no guerdon but disdaine Despised men on earth must liue in heauen There must be some contempt ere plagues ensue Disdaine attends where greatest honour haunts In high disdaine loue is a base desire And Cupids flames doe seeme but watrie fire Disdaine repines at all good things it sees They others vertues scorne that doubt their owne Mocke none in need beware thine owne mishap Scoffes without feare from follâ—e doe proceed The choice â—â—hard wheâ—e silence kills with griefe Oâ— speech reapes no reward but base contempâ— To mocke a friend is held no manly part Scorne can haue no reward but like contempt Ieasting is tollerable but scorne most vile Disdaine declares a proud presuming heart Loues passions quenched by vnkind disdaine Doth often times encrease the more desire Scorning is artificiall iniurie Who scorneth most shall be but paid with scoffes Scorne not thy wife least scorn'd she do thee
Bel-vedére OR THE GARDEN OF THE MVSES Quem reâ—erent Muse viuet dum robora tellus Dum â—â—â—â—â—â—ollâ—â— â—â—â—â— veâ—â—t amnis aquas Imprinted at London by F. K. for Hugh Astley dwelling at Saint Magniâ— corner 1600. To the Vniuersitie of Oxenford Thou eye of Honour Nurserie of Fame Still teeming-Mother of immortall seed Receiue these blessed Orphanes of thy breed As from thy happie issue first they came Those flowing wits that bathed in thy foord And suck't the honie dew from thy pure pap Returne their tribute backe into thy lap In rich-wrought lines that yeelde no idle woord O let thy Sonnes from time to time supplie This Garden of the Muses where dooth want Such Flowers as are not or come short or scant Of that perfection may be had thereby So shall thy name liue still their fame ne're dye Though vnder ground whole worlds of time they lie Stat sine morte decus To the Vniuersitie of Cambridge Mother of Muses and great Nurse of Art Which lent'st the roote from whence these sweets are grown Now with increase receiue a bounteous part Which thou mayst iustly chalenge as thine owne That Grant may to the comfort of her streames Behold her Seedes of late now Dulcet flowres And with the plentie of the famous Thames Attyre her Nymphs and decke her watry bowres And cherishing these Choyces of delights With daintie Garlands Crowne the peacefull shore Prepard for Feasting and Triumphant sights More Beautifull than ages heretofore Whil'st all the Floods so famous but of late Shall giue their glorie to adorne her state Sua cuique gloria To his louing and approoued good Friend M. Iohn Bodenham TO thee that art Arts louer Learnings friend First causer and collectour of these floures Thy paines iust merit I in right commend Costing whole years months weeks daily hours Like to the Bee thou euery where didst rome Spending thy spirits in laborious care And nightly brought'st thy gather'd hony home As a true worke-man in so great affaire First of thine owne deseruing take the fame Next of thy friends his due he giues to thee That loue of learning may renowme thy name And leaue it richly to posterity Where others who might better yet forslow it May see their shame and times hereafter know it A. M. Of this Garden of the Muses THou which delight'st to view this goodly plot Here take such flowres as best shal serue thy vse VVhere thou maist find in euery curious knot Of speciall vertue and most preâ—â—â—us iuyce Set by Apollo in their seuerall places And nourished with his celestiall Beames And watered by the Muses and the Graces With the fresh dew of those Castalian streames What sente or colour canst thou but deuise That is not here that may delight the sense Or what can Art or Industry comprize That in aboundance is not gather'd hence No Garden yet was euer halfe so sweet As where Apollo and the Muses meet A. B. A Sonnet to the Muses Garden FAire planted Eden of collected sweets Cropt from the bosome of the fertile ground Where Science with her honey-current greets The sacred Sisters where her liberall sound Makes Angels ecchoes and to heauens rebound The repetition of sententious spirits Oh deare belou'd in vertues painfull merits Fruit-furnisht Tempe all the worlds abstract For flowres of vertue hearbs of rare effect From whence as well soules Physicke is extract As bodies gouernment hold in respect What Science giues though Ignorance reiect For euery maime and sicknesse of the mind A wounded life a precious balme may find Shee sends you not to search the hidden mynes For gorgeous iewels nor to forraine lands But in one casket all her wealth combines And giues it freely with heart-open hands Shee limits not her bountie within bands Looke first then like suruey take one or all Choose with the mind the eye is fancies ball W. Rankins Gent. Of the Booke THe sundry beames proceeding from one Sunne The hiue where many Bees their honey bring The Sea to which a thousand riuers runne The garden where suruiues contiâ—uall spring The Trophee hung with diuers painfull hands Abstract of knowledge Briefe of Eloquence Aiding the weake preseruing him that stands Guide to the soule and ruler of the sense Such is this Volume and the fraight hereof How-euer ignorance presume to scoffe R. Hathway Of God God is beyond â—raile sence to comprehend He first began all and of all is end VVHere God puts too his hand all else is vaine God thunders oftner than he strikes or beates God giues his wrath by weight but mercie free Where God doth blesse abundaÌ„ce quickly springs Gods wisdome too much sâ—archt is daungerous Gods iustice ouer-vrgde strikes heauily Without the vnderstanding of Gods will Our wiâ— is follie and our best sight ill God doth not hate to loue nor loue to hate God with his finger strikes and not his arme No m 〈…〉 o â—oâ—re but God can blesse his dayes Who â—aâ—iâ—n Iob did from the dunghill raise In vaine it is for man with God to stand God will controll when mortall men haue done Gods eqâ—â—â—â—â— doth euery action â—â—ooue Gods haâ—â—hâ—â—â—â—s thunder who dare him offâ—nd Faith finds â—â—â— passage to â—ods mercie seate Where vertue raiseth men to dignitie There God his blessings still doth multiply Little auailes Gods gifts where wants his grace Men order warre but God giues victorie Gods mercie doth his iustice farre exceed God deales not with vs as our sinnes deserue Gods doctrine is the rule of prouidence God is eternall therefore without end God made all mortall things and orders them According to his wisdome where and when Gods greatnes is more seene in loue than wrath God ne're made any equall to himselfe If God heâ—â—e not yet deeme him not vâ—iust Gods mercie is the worke of our redemption If thou lifâ— vp thy selfe God flyes from thee If thou be humble then he comes to thee If God dart lightning soon he dewes down raine Gods wrath soone kindled is as quickly quencht No misaduentures crosse where God doth guide Where God doth saue no other sâ—lue doth need How can that enterprise ill issue haue Where God himselfe doth guide doth speed doth saue Happy are they who fauour from God find God and our shame are staies vnto our sinne Gods iustice doth mans iustice farre excell Those that God loues in them he nothing hates How can a simple current him withstand Who all the mightie Ocean doth commaund God loues the faithfull but doth hate their sinne Good life begun in earth in heauen is ended When Sathan tempts he leads vs vnto hell But God doth guide whereas no death doth dwell When Sathan tempts he seekes our faith to foile But God doth seale it neuer to recoile God makes our burning zeale full bright to shine Amongst the candles of his Church diuine God euer seekes by triall and temptation To sound mans heart and secret cogitation God well knowes men and still his eye doth see All thoughts of
incense on the altar smokes But chastest thoughts are Nectar in Ioues sight Chastitie lost can neuer be restor'd Eternall thraldome rather should be wisht Than losse of chastitiâ— or chaunge of loue Chast loue is founded on a iust desire When chastitie is rifled of her store Lust the proud theefe is poorer than before Chast things are charie to the Gods themselues Chast eyes are blind at any gaudie gift And dease her eares to goodliest promises Chast eyes will banish lustfull sights away Riches and beautie praiseth not a wife But pleasing of her husband and chast life No princes wealth can prize true chastitie The browne complexion fam'd for chastitie Exceedeth farre the fair'st suspected beautie No life to libertie no loue like chastitie Chastitie beautifies the meanest coat Better than blame in richest clothing clad Beautie vnchast is reckned nothing worth Chastitie weakely can withstand proud wealth And dignitie both leagued to assault Chastitie is the crowne of happy life In wedlocke chastitie is speciall good But more in virgins life and widowhood Chastities wrongs bondage awarrants not Chastitie is the beautie of the soule The ioy of heauen best iewell here on earth Wanton desire chast lookes doth often hide Chastitie charitie and humilitie Are the united vertues of the soule Frugalitie is badge of chastitie Beautie vnchast is like the Mandrakes fruit Sightly in shew but poysonous in tast Idlenes is the foe to chastitie Nothing in women worthy praise remaines If once their glorie chastitie be lost Where gold 's too plentie chastitie growes cheape Faire is the face which promiseth pure loue But that celestiall liues by chastitie Fortitude with chast life adorne the soule Shee is not chast that is by feare compeld Neither she honest that with need is wonne Modest and chast is dourie rich enough Chastitie in extremitie is knowne And in the end crownd with eternitie A wandring eye bewrayes an vnchast mind With reasons reines chastitie bridles lust Where needie want is ioynd with chastitie There vncleane life gets some authoritie Chast eares cannot endure dishonest talke The modest eye controlles loues wanton ryot Chast modest thoughts beseeme a woman best Similies on the same subiect AS beautie lookes like flowers in the spring So chastitie is like the starres of heauen As Violets smell sweet in any sente So chastitie shines bright in euery eye As water-drops will pearce the hardest flint So chast resolue o'recomes the proudest lust As glasses broke can neuer be repaird So chastitie once lost is ne're restor'd As lust and libertie doth shorten life So chastitie makes endlesse liue the soule As champions by their manhood are best knowne So is good life by spotlesse chastitie Examples likewise on the same THe Spartane virgins rather chose to die Than loose the honour of pure chastitie Nicâ—nor moou'd a Thebane maid to lust Which to preuent she gladly slue her selfe Lucrece once rifled of her chastitie Imagin'd following life but infamie Diripenâ—â—na by her fathers hands Was done to death to saue her chastitie Vaâ—ro did hold the man religious That made a conscience of his chastitie Quâ—â—tâ—lâ—an saith I hat heauens chiefest gift Bestowed on man is blessed chastitie Of Beautie Beautie is Natures priuiledge a close deceit A short times tyrant and vast Monarchie BEautie but seldome seene makes vs admire it Beautie is such a bait that swallowed choakes Beauties best treasure is the owners harme Selfe-pleasing soules doe play with beauties baites There is no name if shee be false or not But being faire some enuious tongue will blot Beautie doth varnish age as if new borne Where faire is not no boor to paint the brow Beautie being borrowed merits no regard Simples fit beautie fie on drugs or Art Beautie doth sweetly quicken when 't is nigh But distant farre murders where 't is belou'd Seldome want guests where beautie bids the feast Care and suspition is faire beauties dower Beautie brings perill wanting safe protection Beautie at death can be bequeath'd to none Were beautie vnder twentie loâ—kes kept fast Yet lâ—uâ— will through and picke them all at last Nice fooles delight to be accounted faire Beautie is soonest lost too choicely kept Beautie to beautie alwaies is benigne Beautie within it selfe should not be wasted Bright beautie is the bait which with delight Doth most allure man to encrease his kind Beautie and wealth are fraught with coy disdaine Beautie is often with it selfe at strife True beautie needs no other ornament Men praise the face yet blame the flintie mind The fairest flower of beautie fades away Like the fresh Lillie in the Sun-shine day Swift time makes wrinkles in the fairest brow Faire women grieue to thinke they must be old Pittie and smiles doe best become the faire Beautie hath priuiledge to checke all dutie All things that faire that pure and glorious been Offer themselues on purpose to be seene Alluring shewes most deepe impression strike Sweetly it fits the faire to wantonnize Nothing but crueltie misseemes the faire Beautie is nothing if it be not seene No greater corsiue to our blooming yeeres Than the cold badge of winter-blasted haires Beautie will be where is the most resort Beautie is mightie yet her strength but weake Beautie like Autumne fades and falls away Beautie hath power to ouercome the strong Faire flowers that are not gathered in their prime Râ—t and consume themselues in little time The Summers beautie yeelds to winters blasts By clouds of care best beauties are defac'd Beautie being shamelesse soemes a loath some sight Amongst faire Roses grow some stinking weeds The fairer and more beautifull the skie The ouglier seeme the clouds that in it lye Nothing so soone allures as beautie doth Religion is austere but beautie mild The fair'st in shew must carrie all away At fairest signes best welcome is surmiz'd Beautie in heauen and earth this grace doth win It supples rigor and it lessens sinne Dainties are made for tast beautie for vse Seeds spring from seeds and beauty beauty breedeth Beautie oft crazeth like a broken glasse Both old and young and all would fairest be Hardly perfection is so absolute But some impuritie doth it pollute A small fault soone impaires the sweetest beautie The verie fairest hath her imperfection Beautie to dwell with woe deformes it selfe As fairest beautie fades so loue growes cold Beautie it selfe doth of it selfe perswade The eyes of men without an Oratour If beautie were not loue were quite confounded The fairest flowers haue not the sweetest smell The painted face sets forth no perfect blood The beautie of the mind excels the face Desire being Pilot and bright beautie prize Who can feare sinking where such treasure lyesâ— Beautie is able sorrow to beguile There 's none so faire whose beautie all respect The fairest buds are soonest nipt with frosts Who builds on beautie builds but for a while Beautie is cuer held so much more faire By how much lesse her hate makes loue despaire That 's quickly staind which is the purest fine In
fairest stone small raine soone makes a print Ill fare that faire which inwardly is foule Beautie is inward vertue of the soule We trample grasse and prize the flowers in MAY Yet grasse is greene when fairest flowers decay The loue of beautie Reason quite forgets The cause of loue is only beauties lookes Beautie and youth once banisht ne're returne Chast thoughts makes beautie be immortallizd Faire beautie is the sparke of hot desire And sparkes in time will kindle to a fire Sicknesse and age are beauties chiefest foes Weeds oft times grow when fairest flowers fade Beautie is like a faire but fading flower Where beautie most abounds there wants most ruth The goodliest gemme being blemisht with a cracke Looseth both beautie and the vertue too Beautie doth whet the wit makes bold the will Beautie makes Art to worke beyond it selfe Vnhonest beautie is a deadly poyson Vertue-Iesse beautie doth deserue no Ioue The fairest flower nipt with the winters frost In shew seemes worser than the basest weed The perfect glasse of vertue beautie is No bait so sweet as beautie to the eye White seemes the fairer when as blacke is by The purest Lawne is apt for euery staine Better it is with beautie to be blinded Than beauties graces should be blindly minded Beautie is tearm'd the mistresse of delight Beautie oft iniures them endued there with Beautie enflates and puffeth vp the mind Humilitie with beautie seldome is Beautie brings fancie to a daintie feast And makes a man that else were but a beast Man of all creatures is most beautifull Beautie not proud nothing more excellent Similies on the same subiect AS the right Corall need no other grace So Artlâ—sse beautie best sets sorth the face As finest cloth will soonest catch a staine So fairest lookes may shadow minds most vaine As greatest feasts seldome can want fit friends So beauties house will hardly lacke resort As medlers with the fire are easily scorcht So they that gaze on beautie soone are caught As coldest Climates haue their Summer dayes So coolest thoughts are fierd at beauties blaze As that same Speare which harme must heale the wound So looke where beautie kills it must reuiue Examples likewise on the same HErcules being a mightie conquerour Yet vaild his courage at faire beauties feet The â—ybian Lyons looâ—e their sternest might If of a beauteous face they once get sight The Sâ—anâ—ian Lord by nature dull and rude By sight of beautie lost this seruitude Alcestaes beautie made Mâ—andeâ—s Swannes To leaue the stood and on her shoulders pearch Chrysippus held that beautie did preserue Kindnes and all societie with men Zeno the Prince of Stoickes did agree That beautie like could very hardly be Of Iealousie Iealousie is hells torment to the mind Quite quenching reason and encreasing rage LOue euer laughes when Iealousie doth weepe If age be iealous youth will be vntrue No hell can be compard to Iealousie This still we find where iealousie is bred Hornes in the mind are worse than on the head Suspect bewraies our thoughts betraies our words Suspitious eyes are messengers of woe Iealous suspect is linked with despaire Well fares the man how ere his cates doe tast That tables not with foule suspition Better to die than be suspitious Trust not too soone nor all too light mistrust Mistrust doth treason in the trustiest raise Where Iealousie directesh forward wills Beauties sweet dalliance with despight a kills Iealousie kindles enuieâ— quenchlesse fire Suspition alwaies haunts a guiltie mind Suspition often wounds as a â—â—ope as death When sweet repose doth calme the troubled mind Then base suspect soon'st leaues his â—â—ing behind Daungerous suspect still waits on loues delight Suspition oft times breeds a further ill Once guiltie and suspected euermore O Iealousie when truth once takes thy part No mercie-wanting Tyrant so seuere No secrecie can be without suspect Iealousie is the father of reuenge Iealousie pines it selfe to death aliue Thy wise being faire be not thou iealous Because suspition curâ—â— not womens follies Iealousie growes extreame by lengthning it A iealous man no counsell will admit Iealousie is the sruit of suddaine choice The heart being once infect with iealousie Griefe is the night and day darke miscrie No thraldome like the yoke of iealousie Suspition giues continuall cause of care Iealousie is Disdaines blacke harbinger Iealousie is the torment of the mind For which nor wâ—t nor counsell helpe can find Suspition wounds but iealousie strikes dead Suspect sends men too swiftly to their end Who trauailes in suspect are bound to haste Too much sâ—spition oâ— another is A flat â—â—ndâ—â—â—â—ng of ouâ— owne amisse Passioâ—â— kept priuat doe most preiudice Suspition needs no vrger but it selfe Wise men haue alwaies hated iealousie Where once suspition breedeth enmitie 'T is hard with shewes to compasse amitie Iealousie murdereth hospitalitie Iealousie rootes vp all good neighbourhood Iealousie reckons friends no more than foes Similies on the same subiect AS no content is like the sweetes of loue So no despaire can match with iealousie Loue as it is diuine with loyaltie So is it hellish wrapt in iealousie As from small brookes great riuers doe arise So huge distemper springs from iealousie As Crowes do deeme their brood the fairest birds So iealous men their owne choise most commend As shippes in tempests by the winds are tost So fond conceits doe hurrie iealous heads As kindnesse doth delight in companie So is it poyson to mad iealousie Examples likewise on the same THe Persians were so iealous of their wiues As but in waggons they ne're went abroad Phanius lockt vp his wife through iealousie Whereby she compast what she could not else Procris was slaine through her owne iealousie Hid in a bush to watch her husbands walke Argus albeit he had an hundred eyes Yet could not keepe from Io Iupiter Cicero calleth Iealousie a feare Of loosing that belongs to ones owne selfe Chrysippus holds that iealousie ill brookes A partner in the thing it most esteemes Of Wit and Wisdom Wisdome is Natures child Experience heire Discretely rul'd while Wit gads euery where WIsdome seemes blind when she beholdeth best Wisdome growne wealthie liueth then at quiet No wisdome with extremities to deale It 's wisdome to giue much a gift preuailes When deepe perswading Oratorie failes Mans wit doth build for time but to deuoure Wisdome is alwaies held the chiefest wealth Ech soyle oâ— couâ—trey is a wise mans home He is not wise that hauing scapâ—â— a harme Will afterward goe meddle with it more Faire sober speed is counted wisdomes hast All after-wit is euer dearely bought Wisdome bids stay though foot be in the gate Not cowardise but wisdome warnes to yeeld When fortune aids the proud iusulting foe Feed 〈…〉 les with toyes and wise men with regard When clouds appeare wise men put on their cloakes He wisely walketh that doth safely goe All places that the eye of heauen surâ—aies Are to a wise man happie ports and hauens What wise men see
comes each mans good As Captaines are the eyes to lead their men So kings are Load-starres to their common-weales Examples likewise on the same VLysses lou'd so deare his natiue land As for it he refus'd to be immortall Aglaurus to redeeme his countries peace From Athens walls himselfe threw headlong downe Faire Iphigenia for her kingdomes good Made willing sacrifice of her owne blood King Codrus rather than his realme should perish Gladly did runne vpon his foe-mens swords Xenophon did thinke them vnworthie life That made no conscience of the common-wealth He that denyes to die in countries cause Deserues saith Tullie hate of all good men Of Nobilitie Nobilitie is a sir-name or praise Which to our selues by vertue we doe raise A Noble nature no mishap can daunt Vertue feeds scorne and noblest honour shame A noble mind doth neuer dread mischaunce That which in meâ—ne men we call patience In noble breasts is pale cold cowardise Noblenes neuer stoupes to seruile feare A noble heart doth still contemne despaire Oft noble deeds by falshood are desac'd Good gisâ—â—are sometimâ—s giuen to men past good And noblesse stoopâ—s oâ—t times beneath his blood Our vertues make vs noble nothing else Nobilitie from kinred is but borâ—owed It is thine owne desâ—â—ts â—nnobles thee He is not noble but most basely â—â—ed That ransacks tombes and doth dâ—â—ace the dead A noble nature is to all men kind Nobilitie contâ—â—neth â—latterie A noble resolution makes men iust Nobilitie is best continued â—â— those conuâ—nient meanes that made it rise In boldest actions noblesse shines most cleare He is not noble beares a niggaâ—ds mind True noblâ—sse is a signe of happie life In chaunge of streames â—ch fish makes shifâ— to liue And euery place a noble mind contentâ— Nobilitie to bad men is reproch To vertuous men nobilitie brings glorie Nothing are noblâ— tiâ—â—es worth if life be bad If noblenesse geâ—â— bâ—t a minutes slaâ—â—e An hundred yeares sâ—ant makes it well againe Truth is the title of true noblenesse 'T is vertue only giues nobilitie In vertues loue no noble mind dismayes Faire speech with vsage affable and kind Wipes malice out of any noble mind Much babbling doth offend a noble â—â—re A noble nature is religious Pouerties best friend is the noble mind Noble discents make vertue more diuine Similies on the same subiect AS none but Eagles gaze against the Sunne So none but vertuous eyes discerne nobilitie As credit from opinion often comes So from desert ensues nobilitie As bricks from clay haue their originall So noblesse first rose from meane parentage As grosse thicke clouds obscure the Suns faire light So muddie crimes disgrace nobilitie As bitter roots may yet yeeld pleasant fruit So meane discent may bring forth noble minds As in the barren grounds best gold doth grow So poorest race sâ—aines not true noblesse Examples likewise on the same CAmillus did expresse a noble mind In safe returning tâ—e â—alâ—riâ—n youthes Pyâ—â—â—us well found â—â—bâ—itiâ—s noble nature When his Physicion would haue poyson'd him Lysander in his famous viâ—toâ—ies Euer declar'd his minds trâ—â— noblenesse Catilines wicked life disgraced him And quite obscur'd his former noble race The name of Noblenes saith Cicero Must giue them place that by their vertue claime it Plato affirmeth that a noble heart Will not by base attempts once wrong it selfe Of Honor dishonor Honour is that the mind doth couet most And no dishonour like that honour lost HOnour once lost can neuer bâ— repair'd Honor ambitious womens sexe doth please It is no honour to be Princes heires When we can boaâ—t but only birth is theirs Their fall is great that from high honour slide Honour is least where oddes appeareth most Honour was first ordained for no cause But to see right maintained by the laweâ— To honour beautie is a due by right Die rather then doe ought dishonour yeelds True loue doth alwaies bring forth bourteous deeds And in good minds desire of honour â—reeds It is more honour to preserue than sâ—ill Who cheapneth honour must not stand on price Fie on the fawe for which good same is sold Or honour with indignitie embaâ—'d Honour is grounded on the tickle Ice No kingly vaile can couer villanie An honourable graue is more esteem'd Than the polluted closeâ— of a king No scepter serues dishonour to excuse No subtill plea reuokes dishonours error Prâ—fiâ—e with honour still must be commixt Or else our actions are but scandalous Honour and enuie are companions Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we doe To frustrate them that but expect their due Doth ill beseeme an honourable mind On generall bruit honour doth most depend With painfull â—oyle is honour soonest found Honour will hardly fellowship endure Nor neuer Crowne corriuall could abide Some honour liues in honourable spoile 'T is honour to forgiue a yeelding foe The mightier man the mightier is the thing That makes him honour'd or begets him hate Daunger hath honour great dessignes their fame Honour 's a thing without vs not our owne It 's honour to depriue dishonour'd liâ—e The one will liue the other being deâ—d Honour by oath ought right poore Ladies wrongs Honours are smoakes and dignities haue câ—â—es Honour and beautie in the owners armes Are weakely fortrest from a world of â—armes Honour relieues a foe as well as friend It is no honour to be swolâ—e with pride Honour doth scorne dishonourable thoughts The vâ—â—tor can no honour iustly claime To loose the meanes that should aduance the same Where hate beares soueraigntie there honour diâ—s He that regards his honour will not wrong it Disquiet honour hurteth more than helpes Honour and wealth oft times too dearely cost The death of all so altogither lost Honour doth euer iudge with lenitie No greater honour than a quiet mind Honour 's no priuiledge against defame Alwaies doth great employment for the great Quicken the blood and honour still beget Honour to many is more sweet than life Honour is fruit of vertue and faire truth Honour once gone bids farewell to all hope The inward touch that wounded honour beares Findeth no helpe till death cure the disease Honour and glorie labours in mistrust Honour is first step to disquietnesse How hard is princely honour to attaine High honour not long life the treasure is Which noble mindes without respect defend Dishonest deeds no honour can attaine The praise of honour is not alwaies blood Neuer retire with shame bright honour saith The worst that can befall thee is but death Honour doth scorne the height of Fortunes pride Great honours youth may loose it selfe in age Report that seld to honour is true friend May many lies against true meaning mint No honour comes by spilling aged blood Who seekes for honour lingers not his time Vilde is that honour and the title vaine The which true worth and honour did not gaine Honour doth hate with base delights to dwell Honour helpes nothing where contentment wants He that contends with th' inferiour sort May
neighbour is a double ill Similies on the same subiect As Bauens by their bands are easily knowne So enuies lookes doe most disclose her selfe As greatest floods haue alwaies quickest ebbes So enuies heat is commonly soone cold As rigour blasteth fancies fairest bloomes So enuie doth the no lest man disgrace As no disease with inward griefe compares So nothing more than enuie wounds the mind As fire not maintain'd is quickly out So enuie not supplyed dies of it selfe As in the Cedar wormes doe neuer breed So in the wise enuie can haue no power Examples likewise on the same PHilip was told that men enuied him Quoth he I care not I haue giuen no cause Caligula had such an enuious heart As he repin'd at all mens happinesse Th'Athenians so enuied Themistocles As they made verses in reproch of him Pompey and Caesars enuie to each other Can scant be matcht in any histories Plutarch saith enuie is damn'd sorcerie And therefore witht it generally abhorr'd Thucidides graunts wise men may be enuied Only to make their vertues shine the more Of Lust. Lust is the minds disturber purses foe The conscience wronger and first step to woe LVst oft is fill'd but neuer satisfied Lasciuious lust the sences doth deceiue Where lust gets footing shame doth soon ensue Lust like a lanthorne sheweth through it selfe The poysoned venime hid within it selfe Lust puts the most vnlawfull things in vre The Leachers tongue is neuer void of guile Lust liues by spoile like theeues that rob true men Lust makes obliuion beateth reason backe Forgetteâ—h shames pure â—lush and honours wracke The flames of lust doe from loues fewell rise The filâ—h of lust vncleannesse wallowes in Lust gads abroad desire doth seldome sleepe Most sweet it is swift same to ouer-goe But vile to liue in lusts blacke ouerthrow Where lust is law it booteth not to plead Lust lacks no wings when loue is fled away Blind is base lust false colours to descrie Iustes Owle-sight eyes are dazeled with the light Yet see too clearely in the darkest night Loue surfets not lust like a glutton dies Loue is all truth lust full of perjur'd lyes Lusts winter comes ere sommer halfe is done While lust is in his pride no exclamation Can curâ—e his heat or reine his rash desire Lust being Lord there is no trust in kings Leud lust is endlesse pleasure hath no bounds As corne o're-growes by weeds so feare by lust All faire humanitie abhorres the deed That staines with lust loues modest snow-white weede Teares harden lust though marble weare with drops Faire loue foule lust are deadly enemies Lust blowes the fire when temperance is thawed Faire day discouers lustes obscurest wayes And sheweth ech thing as it is indeed The loue of lust is losse vnto our health Lust led with enuie dreads no deadly sinne Sower is the case that from lusts root doth spring Inchastitie is euer prostitute Whose tree we loath when we haue pluckâ— the fruit It is great vertue to abstaine from lust Who followes lust can neuer come to loue Lust alwaies seekes the ruine of chaste loue Better seueritie that 's right and iust Than impotent affections led with iust Greatnesse doth make it great incontinence No bondage like the slauish life to lust Lust is a pleasure bought with after paine The gate that opens to iniquitie Is vnrestrained lust and libertie Lust by continuance growes to impudence Shame and disgrace attend vnbridled lust Adulterie is iniurie to nature Where wicâ—ed lust doth dwell in foule excesse That is no house but for damn'd beastlines Adult'rie is vnlawfull matrimonie Adult'rie is despis'd among bruit beasts Concupiscence doth violence the soule Loue comforteth like Sun-shâ—ne after raine But lustâ— effect is tempest after Sinne. No beastlines like base concupiscense Lust is the path way to perdition Concupiscense leads on the way to death Poore sillie flyes may teach great men be lust And not to yeeld them selues a prey to lust Lust is in age most loathsome vile in youth Lust makes vs couet things beyond our power Lust cuts off life before the dated time Lust neuer taketh ioy in what is due But still leaues knowne delights to seeke out new A man long plung'd in lust is hard v purg'd Slothfulnesse is the nourisher of lust Similies on the same subiect AS fire consumeth wood into it selfe So lust drawes men into her deepest sinnes Aâ— Sulphur being hot is quickly fier'd So lust vnbâ—â—dled easily is prouokt As wanton thoughts are full of wanton speech So leud conceits are fild with loose desires As greedie minds encroch on other right So lust makes no respect of leud delight As leprosie the members doth corrupt So luxurie enuenometh the soule As rauenous binds make no respect of prey So all are apt that come in lusts foule way Examples likewise on the same Cleopatra had her brothers companie Wronging thereby her husband her selfe Thalestris trauail'd five and twentie dayes To lye one night with mightie Alexander Claudius of his owne sisters made no spare Semâ—ramis in lust desir'd her sonne Nero slew Atticus the Romane Consull That he might haue accesse vnto his wife Aristotle saith that lust mens bodies chaunge And likewise breedeth madnesse in their soules Hippocrates call'd lust the foule disease Than which could be no worse infection Of Pride c. Pride is a puft vp mind a swolne desire That by vaine-glory seeketh to aspire PRide is the chiefe disgrace beautie can haue Pride drawes on vengeance vengeance hath no meane Weake weapons doe the greatest pride abate When pride but pointeth once vnto his fall He beares a sword to stay him-selfe withall Vaine-glorie neuer temperance doth retaine Vaine-glorie fondly gazeth on the skies Pride gapes aloft and scorneth humble lookes Pride is contemned scorn'd disdain'd derided While humblenesse of all things is prouided Proud will is dease and heares no heedfull friends The flesh being proud desire doth sight with grace Suppresse the proud helpe to support the mâ—â—ke Vaine-glories vice lâ—â—e to thâ— n 〈…〉 Doth blemish oft oâ—r 〈…〉 Small Onats enforc'd â—â—oud â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— to stoope Very vnsurely stands the â—â—â—t oâ—â—â—â—â—â— Vaine-glorious men desâ—â—â— to â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â—iâ—â—â—â—â— Such is the nature still of haughtie pride Than others praise can nothing worse abide In-sight illustrates outward brauerie blinds Shame followes pride as doth the bodies shade Wit oft-times wrackes by selfe-conceit of pride Though pride leads on yet shame doth wait behind And shame for pride by iustice is assign'd Beautie breeds pride pride bringeth forth disdaine Vertue is plac'd where pride may not presume The plague of pride presumption did begin Nothing there is that heauen can worse abide Amongst mens deeds than arrogance and pride Trust not to choise of proud confederates High-builded castles ouer-looke low lands Enuie is auncient'st sinne but pride is greatest Proud thoughts that greatest matters take in hand Falls soonest where they safest thinke to stand Sorrow ne're followes him that flyes from pride Where least desert is alwaies pride is
the thing that doth procure the feare Solon gaue instance to his country-men That shame did euermore attend on feare Of Fortune c. Fortune is nource of fooles poyson of hope Fewell of vaine desires deserts destruction WHat fortune works seemes not alwaies pretended Fortune not alwaies doth poure forth her bagges Fortune in tariance to her selfe is straunge Fortune her gifts in vaine to such doth giue Who when they liue seeme as they did not liue The end is it that maketh fortune good The sea of fortune doth not alwaies flow Hap commeth well although it come but late When Fortune all her vtmost spight hath shewen Some blisse-full houres may ne're thelesse appeare Fortune 's not alwaies good nor alwaies ill Fortune doth some times laugh as well as lower Misfortune followes him that tempteth fortune How can mischaunce vnto that ship â—etide Where fortune is the pylot and the guide Fortune oft hurts when most she seemes to helpe Wisdome predominates both fate and fortune Oft where best chaunce begins ill chaunce doth end Misfortune is attended by reproch Good fortune fame and vertue siâ—llifies Th' euent oft times makes soule faults fortunate What follie hurts not fortune can repaire Like clouds continually doth fortune chaunge Where Fortune doth her bountie franke bestow There heauen and earth must pay what she doth owe. Mishaps are mastred by discreet aduise The helpe-lesse hap it booteth none to grieue Misfortune waits aduantage to entrap Misfortunes power can neuer â—â—yle thy right Doe thou but beare a mind in her despight Misfortune followes many ouer-fast Where first mishap began there will she end A chaunce may win what by mischance was lost Where great mishaps our errours doth assault There doe they easiest make vs see our fault Nimble mischaunce is verie swift of foot Silent mishap discloseth mourning griefe Our friends misfortune doth encrease our owne A mischiefe seene may easily be pâ—euented But being hapt not helpt though still lamented In some things all in nothing all are crost On mischiefes maine mishap full saile doth beare The greatest losses seldome are restor'd Nothing so much a mans mishap torments As who to him his good state represents Harmes vnexpected still doe hurt vs most Vnlookâ— for things doe happen soon'st of all Power hâ—th no priuiledge against mishap Complaine not tâ—y misfortune to thy foe For he wâ—llt iâ—ntoâ— when he sees thy teares The highest state awarrants not mishaps Vnfortunate are some men that be wise Happy he liues that tasteth no mischaunce Oft times we see amidst the greatest cares Some ill successe doth slip in vnawares No wit nor wealth preuailes against mischaunce If ill approch vs onely that is ours Of greatest ill a greater good may spring The man that still amidst misfortunes stands Is sorrowes slaue and bound in lasting bands Neuer stayes tickle fortune in one state The basest meanes oft highest fortune brings Well may he swimme held vp by fortunes hand The world is rightly tearmed full of rubâ— When all our fortunes runne against the byas Fortune hurts not where she is held despis'd The fleece of fortune striues to haue the fell Who keepes his fortunes wisely needs no more They fall which trust to fortunes fickle wheele But stayed by vertue men shall neuer reele Time goes by turnes and chances change by course A tragicke note best fits a tragicke chaunce By fortunes smiles ensues the greatest falls He cannot iudge aright of fortunes power Nor taste the sweet that neuer tride the sower Fortune may raise againe a downe-cast foe The cards once dealt it boots not aske why so Loue throwes them downe whom fortune raised vp Riches are nothing else but fortunes gifts Anâ— bring with them their owne confusion Mariners sound at first for feare of rockes Fortune assaults but hurts no constant mind Physicall drugs helpe not sinister chaunce It 's seldome seene in any high estate Father and sonne like good like fortunate Fortunes fierce frownes are oft times princes haps Fortunes being equall are loues fauorites Where Fortune fauours much she flatters more Nothing is ours that we by hap may loose What nearest seemes is furthest off in woes Birth many times by fortune is abas'd Fortune in sleepers nets poures all her pride To painfull persons fortune is ingrate When Fortune doth most sweetly seeme to smile Then soone she frownes she laughes but little while Few reape the sweete that taste not of the sower Whome fortune scornes the common people hate Trust not to Fortune when she seemes to smile For then she doth intend the greatest guile Fortune is tear'md a bog or dauncing mire Fortune though fickle sometime is a friend Fortune helps hardie men but scorneth cowards Long-passed cares renew againe their course When fatall chaunce doth chaunge from bad to worse Fortune can take our goods but not our vertues Fortune is first and last that ruines states Fortune oft brings vs to misfortunes gate Desert awaits while fortune makes prouision For fooles and dolts and men of base condition While worthiest fall fortune doth worth-lesse raise Fortune best shewes her-selfe in women kind Fortune doth glorie in her chaunging mood While grasse doth grow the labouring Steed may starue For fortune seld each wishers turne doth serue On vertuous actions fortune hath no power Fortune can neuer hurt a steadfast mind Who farthest seemes is to misfortune nighest Similies on the same subiect EVen as the racket takes the balls rebound So doth good fortune catch ill fortunes proofe As winds blow some men good and other harme So fortune friending some on others frownes As Archers alwayes cannot hit the white So no man may of fortune alwaies boast As glasses shew the figure of the face So doe our fortunes best disclose our minds As Hedge-hogs doe fore-see ensuing stormes So wise men are for fortune still prepar'd As haile hurts not the house though makes a noise So haps may daunt but not dismay the mind Examples likewise on the same SCylla for multitude of high good haps Would often say That he was Fortunes child Caesar said to the Pilot in a storme Feare not thou cariest Caesar and his fortune Augustus wished Scipioes valiancie And Pompeys loue but Fortune like him-selfe Paulus Aemilius greatly feared Fortune Chiefly in those things which he held diuine To him whose hope on fortune doth depend Nothing can be assured Tully saith Pindarus said the Romanes did rely Only on Fortune as their patronesse Of Fate c. Destinie or the firme decree of Fate Is sure to happen be it soone or late NO priuiledge can from the fates protect The fates farre off sore-seene come gently neere Men are but men in ignorance of fate To alter chaunce exceedeth humane state Mens haps by heauen are fram'd preposterous That yeelds to fate which will not stoope â—o force We often find the course of fatall things Is best discern'd in states of â—ealmes and kings No one can turne the streame of destinie No man can shun what destinie ordaines Iâ—
is still a page that waits on youth The Summers glorie figures youths vanitie The winters wracke ages declining steps Youth hardly can obey an old decree Looke what impression we in youth retaine In age our reason hardly will refraine Loue is youths plague wits scourge and ages hell Looke where vnbruised youth with vnstufâ— braines Doth couch his limbes there golden sleepe remaines The spring hath flowres but autumne witheâ—d leaues It 's often seene that loue in young men lyes Not truely in their hearts but in their eyes Youths loue is quicke swifter than swiftest speed Nothing can temper well a young mans rage But thraldome wedlocke or the staffe of age Youth is too hot and void of care or dread Youth learnes to chaâ—nge the course that he hath run When he perceiues and knowes what age hath done Youth minds no daunger in his hastines Young slips new set are quickely pluckt away But elder roots cleane faster to the clay Youth into needlesse quarrels soone is led How euer youngsters seeme to boast and braue Their worth and wit they from their elders haue Lewd obiects forward natures soone retaine Youths common fault is to admit and chuse Those errours which their lawlesse parents vse Youth by encreasing doth as fast decrease What thingâ— by vaine examples youth conceiues The same â—or lawfull daily he receiues Youth well instructed makes age well dispos'd The faults â—nd follies men in youth commit Are causes of repentance in old age Examples are best presidents for youth The prime of youth is like the pine tree flowers Seemely in sight vnsauorie in their sente Like to a shipwracke is the death of youth He that in youth by reason guides his life In age shall find the foot-steps from decay Youth vseth pastimes but as naturall rest The better that a child is borne by birth The more respect should wait vpon his youth So tutour youth that ages sinnes may die Good doctrines characters being stampt in youth No age or fortune once can weare them out Vanitie is the maske for youths fond march Where vice in youth doth beare the chiefest sway Their vertue is neglected most in age Lesse paine to learne in youth than dote in age Tyrannie is no schoole-master for youth Rather vse kindnessae than compulsion Wild youth by gentlenesse will soonest yeeld When beautie and sweet youth are banished They neuer after can be call'd againe Young willowes easily bend greene wit soon caught Youth grac'd with vertue then most perfect is Similies on the same subiect AS sinne is soonest entertain'd in youth So is it hardly shaken off in age As gentle mould is apt for any print So youth receiues what-e're impression As vntill'd fields bring nothing â—orth but weeds So vntaught youth yeelds all but vanitie As freshest flowres the canker soonest eats So youthfull heads are quickly caught by vice As vnripe apples fall not but by force So vnconstrain'd â—outh hardly yeelds to die As youngest nettles are not free from stings So wisest youth hath imperfections Examples likewise on the same COmodus not well tutor'd in his youth Did afterward prooue a most wicked Prince Neroeâ— vnbridled youth made him to fall To greater leudnesse than was euer heard Cato would to his sonnes be schoole master Because he would not haue their youth infected Scemides and her sonne were cast in Tyber For bringing vp the gulfe of shame to Rome Youth well instructed saith Euripides Doth after make his age more honourable Pythagoras bad tutor so young youth The sinnes of age be not imposde on thee Of Age. Age is the gift of Heauen expence of yeares Exchaunge of haps and graue experience schoole AGe is a Cinicke not a flatterer Age or infirmitie soone blasteth beautie Age iâ— alike in Kings and other men Gray haires in youth kindles no greene desires The power of Kings may well with-stand proud foeâ— But cannot keepe backe age with time that growes In womens honour age is worst disease Let sâ—ringing youth râ—iourne old ages woes For age to die is right for youth it 's wrong Blame we not youth if wantonly he wooes Since doting old and booke-wise cannot choose Follie in youâ—h is sinne in age it 's madnesse Age though conceal'd doth warme with thoughts desire Cold age dotes most when heat of youth is gone Age still is prone to credit what it likes Mens chiefest aime is but to nource vp life With honour wealth and ease in waining age Respect and Reason wait on wrinkled age Youthfull delights lode crooked age with griefe Age is as credulous as suspitious What can auaile vnpleasurable age That feeds on lust or base vnable rage Age is a glorious crowne adorn'd with grace Death is the due to nature ages almes Gray haires are fruits for death not flowers for life Trees may haue roots although they beare no leaues Loue as a vertue is in age allowed Except vnequall choise doe disallow Age well may ioyne with youth in law not loue When old Bees dye the young possesse the hiue Age is chill cold and full of doubts and feares Pleasant conceits are blossoms for young yeares But melancholly thoughts fruits of gray haires Age with fore-sight a many harmes preuents Age takes aduise ere he presume too farre Age is ordaind to counsell youth to fight Age lends fore-sight young courage must enact Age is allowed to gaze at beautieâ— tree But youth must clâ—mbe and gather vp the fruit Old age helpes by good counsell and fore-sight Old age can neuer pay youthes debt set downe Discretion waxeth young when age drawes neere Care keepes his watch in euery old mans eye And where â—are lodgeth sleepe can neuer lie Age breedeth no dâ—â—â—ct in innocence Innocence is an excellence in age Old age being come life cannot long endure Each age of man hath end but old age none Age can report and youth doth â—aily prooue There is no comfort like the sweets of loâ—e Sicknesse and age are ouâ— conducts to death It helpes not age to wiâ—h him young againe It 's grieuous to be old with feares not yeares It 's time to flye from brawles of iudgement seat And publique noise when age once geâ—â— the start Gray haires are wisdomes badge and ages pride The benefit of age is libertie Respect old age it commeth not alone Old men are young mens meetest presidents Aduised age right warily doth keepe VVhat headstrong youth would loose and loosing weepe Youth runneth well when age the bâ—idle holds Old age hath all things and yet all things wants Our parents age worse tâ—an our granâ— sâ—â—es be VVe worst bâ—gâ—t our children worse than we White haires are grauities embassadours Aged and wise deserues great reuerence Similies on the same subiect AS Cedars in their age the straighter gâ—owes So men in age should haue the grauer showes As boâ—ds being seald are past recalling backe So age once comâ— by no meanes can be shund As floâ—d-gates helpe not when the towne is drown'd So câ—â—â—â—â—g helpes not