and to forget as unwilling The mean of both I undertake that is to greet you with my gratefull and remembring respects which if you please to entertain in my sense it shall be interpreted a new added favour and speak me thankful Gratefull minds can acknowledge what they cannot retribute and this is both my fortune and meaning Sir that I may be some imperfect Index or like the Westminster Tomb-shewer tell who or what lyes here You have or shall find in the center a Neats Tongue empanched by a Goose next both tongue and Goose like the Isle of Candia swallowed up by the Turk Round these some few other Volatils as lookers on and though not main Partizans yet not unimbroyl'd in the danger for their curiosity At last comes fierce Generall Cook and fortifies all as he hopes with a strong line of Circumvallation and having perfected his works sends the besieged captive to your best appetite whereto they are left for triumph and conquest Sir now were it not for fear of making this our Post-paste over tedious and coming too neer the heels of time I could so compare these Animals or their corps that there might rise upon their conditions both Emblems and Morals But this saceteness I will leave to your self and good company to recreate and abetter your digestion with What I chiefly desire to hear in this point is that you have been merry in parting the fray friendly accepted what was cordially meant That you have vanquished the cruell Turk the peevish Goose the betrayiâ—g Tongue the wild Pouline the long-nos'd Woodcocks yea that you have razâ—d the very proud out-works to the ground This done I pray you may conquer your worse enemies and number me in the Albâ— of Your humble servants D.W. XX. A Letter to excuse silence and acknowledge past favours Sir I Have long done you the service not to trouble you with my lines but durst no longer pursue this method lest it might degenerate into the semblance of neglect It verâ—ue for her better practice be enthron'd twixt two extreams writing as an act of vertue must also keep due distance with them neither lean to importune frequency without leave nor be benumb'd by the Lethargy of Omission And you whose favours have always engaged me yours will believe my aimes have no other end then to be so as well in forbearances as actions provided I fail not as your votary a crime I should hate my self to think I could be wicked enough to commit and am sure I never yet was Sir you have I know received my former Letter and dained the civility of receiving from it my humble gratitudes for the liberalities it acknowledged This wil not so far encroach upon the Office of my better expressions as to repent that duty but must again and again pronounce me Sir Your gratefull servant D.W. XXI A Letter of thanks c. Honored Sir I Have received your friendly Letter and by Proxie your bounty I am obliged by both yet am by you debar'd by pen to answer either You fetter me in the limits of ten lines and these too must be silent of your self the best subject I could observe your number and yet be tedious did I write short hand or would I imitate the Lawyers length of a Chancery Bill But I will not force a double sense on your sincerity What you will not have in paper shall warm my brâ—ast those gratefull thoughts and unfeigned devotions that vow and maintain me Sir Your ever most affectionate servant D.W. XXII To a Lady upon her weaving hair-bracelets Madam LAst night when I found you in a pretty harmless employment weaving hair-bracelets you commanded me to make you some Poesies for that purpose which I told you was a work fitter for Poets and men of wit then for me whose Cabinet enshrineth no such Treasure yet Madam that you may see what a supremacy of power you have over all my faculties I send you these inclosed if any of which prove worth your use the composure must be ascribed to the vertue of your commands rather then to any skill of mine which as I disclaim to have out of a just sense of my own imperfections so must I always subscribe my selfe out of a like sense of your worth Madam Your most devoted servant T. B. Qui est tout de Coeur n'a point de langue Qui dedit se dedit Nec fallit nec fallitur A se convertitur in se Vnus una unum Wear this dear heart and prove as true In faith to me as I to you This gift shall tell you that I do Love you alone and none but you No heart more true Then mine to you Cupid has bound me by this band To be your servant at command I find it true since you are gone That Love makes perfect union XXIII A Letter complaining of Absence Madam IF I could find out words to express the language of my heart I should then be able to demonstrate how little I enjoy my self whilst I am absent from you in whom all my joyes and all my felicities are so wealthily sum'd up that as I live by none but you so were it as much in my power as desires I should never be absent from you But since Fate hath thus decreed a separation I beseech you let nothing make you forget him who always remembers you in quality of Madam Your greatest admirer T. B. XXIV In answer to one that congratulated an arrivall in the Countrey Sir THat you congratulated our well-coming to G. was so necessary for us and so great a mark of goodness in you that I believe without your good wishes we had taken up our quarters on Saturday night in the Forrest where we were benighted a sad thing to think on and lost our way But being as I say arrived here by the help of God and your good wishes I find little subject for envy in our enjoyments not a Deer being left in the Park nor a Kid in season unless a woodden one nor a Walk dry enough for a Spanish-leather shooe and I am sure you will not envy us a little fresh air since we have paid so dear for it by the fatigues of a long journey Trust me Sir these things however you value them bend my thoughts towards London and the rather in respect of your dear self to whom I am by manifold obligations An affectionate humble servant T. B. XXV Vpon the late Commotions SIR HAd not Pithagoras excepted our Terrestriall Orbe when hee asserted the Orbes harmonious this Age had clearly confuted him For how musicall soever those higher are this I am sure sounds nothing but harsh Discords and so lowd that wee cannot but hear them so unpleasant that the dinne discomposes quiet minds The way to ease our selves is hard yet not impossible but what is it 't is this To elevate our abode To Compose our own interiour He that enjoyes in time Peace is not open to extern
a wind that against the tide can carry us mâ—rrily with it make us flie Feltham Desire so blew the fire of his new conceived rage that Desert HOw much my smâ—ll deserts are overballanced by your unspeakable goodnâ—ss You whose desert passâ—th my best endeavours of requiâ—all Iâ— flies to the sacred Alâ—ar of your immutable goodness set off with all the additions of greatness which nature or affection can throw upon unmatched desert Thiâ— is the hard fate my just merit hath encountred It is a matter so far above my merits that I 〈◊〉 not think upon iâ— without presumption Despair THe fire of mine affection was blown by the bellows of despair Despair of success was the hearse of his supposed idle thoughts Love wanting desire makes the mind desperate and fixed fancy â—erâ—ft of love turnes into fury My Lords I speak to minds too Noble to be stifled in the narrow conâ—inâ—s of fear follow your Prince whose vertue the spight of Fortune shall not wrack into despair Whilst I wear a hand commanded by a heart that knows no fear I shall not despair of Displeasure Yâ—uâ— displeasure is so contrary to my desâ—â—t and your wâ—rds so â—ar beyond all expectations that I have least abiliâ—y now I have mâ—st need to speak in the cause upon which my life depends What hath your poor servant deserved to have his own misfortune loadeâ— with your displeasure Eloquence ELoquence is a way of speech prevailing over thâ—se whom we design it prevail That is if we will take it in the short or Laconick way a distilling our notions into a quintessence or forming all our thoughts in a Cone and smiting with the point c. Mr. Hall in his Epistle before Longinus A man who filling the sails of Eloquence as easily moved his auditors as winds do the sands of Lybia which stir at their pleasure His Speech appeared in costly robes adorned with lofty and glorious language sweetned by many a pleasant and clear Simile quickned by divers acute and learned Criticismes My Cabinet enshrineth no such treasure Though I have not eloquence enough to win yet I hope to find language enough to perswade He was dazled with â—he brightness of her aspect buâ— when she bâ—gan to unloose her tongue never was Syren so attractive with songs as she with words 'T is a speech wherein the abundance of supereminent conceits choakes not the grace nor doth curiosity take any thing from the propriety thereâ—f Your maner of speech is indeed Prinâ—â—-like flowing aâ— frâ—m a fountain and yet streaming and branching it selâ— into Natures order full of facility and felicity imitating none and inimitable of any Bacon Your conceptions are inimitable your language sweet and polite your Sentences are ful of weight your Arguments of force and your Words glide along like a River and ever bear in them some slashes of lightning How greedily my ears did feed upon the sweet words she uttered Were not your affection stronger tied to the Orator then the Oratory I should not hope to perswade you that Her He with a fearless fashion thus bespake the audience Every accent falls like a fresh jewell to increase her value His masculine eloquence was thought worthiest to enjoy the maidenhead of the Cities attention Forcibly won by the smooth artifice of speech It is no small dominion the imagination hath in perswasions insinuated by the power of Eloquence Bac. You have truly found out the Philosophers stâ—ne for every gross matter you can convert into the gold of fine language Eloquâ—nce does commonly storm the mind of the Auditor and at length take him in Entertainment I want expression to give you the circumstance â—itâ— what a â—owing lâ—ve or rather with what 〈◊〉 deâ—oâ—ion I entertain you Gâ—at Ser. Yâ—u much honâ—r me for â—ill this white 〈◊〉 thâ—se walls were never proud to enclose a â—â—â—st â—he Gâ—nius of my house is by sâ— grâ—at a preâ—â—â—â—e wakâ—d and glories to entertain you Could this roof â—e capable of ill your only preâ—â—nce Lady would convert it There is a vertuous magick in yâ—ur eye for wheresoe're it casts a beam it does creaâ—es a gâ—odness I am much confoundâ—d for this honor you do me Madam but yet I am more ashamed â—o see you in a place where vertue never entred but in your attndance Ariana Y'â—re each of you a various banquet where a breathing sweetness feasts the spâ—ctators and diverts all thought of eaâ—ing to beholding and from beholding to enjoying Am. War Your presence is restorative Friendship AS Passion hath been well said to be Friendship run mad So Friendship may be properly stiled Sober passion as having all the spirit and cordiality of the wine of Love without the offensive fumes and vapours of it Mr. Montagu in his Misceâ—lenea The love of men to women is a thing common and of couâ—se but the friendship of man to man is infinite and immortall Plato The words of a friend joyned with true affection give life to the heart and comfort to a care-oppressed mind Chylo The mutual habitude of no intermiting-friendship between us hath strongly confirmed Receiving so dear witnesses of your friendship The resemblance of their beauties and of their wits joyned their souls together and soon after that of their fortunes made this friendship perfect Ar. which your friendship rather finds then I acknowledgâ— Hence grâ—ws the height of friendship when two similiary souls shal blend in their commixions Feltham As nothing unites more then a reciprocall exchange of affection So there is nothing hinders the knot of friendship more then then apparent neglect of courtesies Feltham Friendship a diligenâ— Officer takes care to see the bonds thereof fully executed Frindship iâ— the soul of humane society Fâ—iendship is a pleasant sauce to any temporall happiness Bacon The worst solitude is be destitute of sincere friendship Gift TRuly Sir I doubt whether is greater the poverty of the Gift or the boldness of the giver whoâ—e true respects have encouraged him to this small expression of service I beseech you to excuse me that this Present is not corrâ—spondent to your merit Please to respect the enlarged heart of the giver more then the quality of the gift Since the meanness of this can onely serve to express the well-meaning of the other Hypocrisie DO not we know that Hypocrisie is the same the same thing to vertue which painting is to Faces and that it is the very moath which devours sanctity What doth not a plaistered sanctity for the subversion of the simple What doth not a bad servant when once he possesseth the easie nature of his Master Inconstancy INconstancy is properly a levity and an irresolution of mind which shewes it self in his manners actions and words who is touched with it To say truth this passion is a Divell that inhabits in a land of Quicksilver where Earthquakes are alâ—ost perpetuall windes blow on each side and blowing make many weather-cocks turn to fro and every moment change
his mouth was the Oracle whereby I directed my actions As I could not be without his presence so I never would do any thing without his counsel When I am from you I am dead till I be with you when I am with you I am not satisfied but would still be nearer you vnited souls are not satisfied with imbraces Rel. Med. In the intercourse of affection my love surmounts yours Fire comes out of the hardest Flint with a steel oyl out of the driest jet by fire love out of the stoniest heart by faith by trust by time Eupheus I cannot but admire thy love knowing from what height of vertue it proceeds as I will not envy thee thy death so I wish a glory may await thy end great as the constancy that advanc'd thee to it Her Two neighbouring Lillies whom rude winds disperse ' mongst restless dust may sooner meet upon their stacles again and kiss each other in a second growth then we our loves renew Love is the good which by being diffused is corrupted she that loves one another and a thrid takes in men at the coyle and loves onely for her pleasure The object of true love is but one From the Infancy of Time to her decrepitude the love between two hath been held most honorable Heroinae Our mutuall mindes thus combined was like the Garden of Eden wherein grew more delights then either Nature now affords or Art can expâ—ess Graâ—ious is the face that promiseth nothing but love and most celestiall the resolution that lives upon chastity She had a pure flame shot from heaven into her breast from no other place could so generous a mind be fired My love shall never end but with my life There is nothing that belongs to us both that can be divided our wills united make but one mind which ruling all our actions it seems we are in like manner but one body Ariana He was so rapt with these dear engagements that the commotions of his heart disturbed his mind and stop'd the freedom of his thoughts I must confess my self in prison but 't is a prison of love where my desires my thoughts my hopes my joys are chains H.C. Chast love She changes the fire of Babylon into that of Jerusalem Her hâ—irs which were the nets wherein so many captive souls did sigh under the yoke of wanâ—â—n love are now as the Ensignes and Standards of wicked Cupid traâ—pled under the feet of the Conqueror Those kisses which carried the poyson of a luxurious passion in her heart do now breath fâ—om her nothing but thâ— delicacies of chasâ—iâ—y Her leasing odâ—urs which before were vowed to sensuality are now become the sweetest exhalations from that Amber Isle which brings forth an odoriferous perfume Entertainments for Lent My passion hath for its object a thing too perfect to permit me a thought that may be unworthy of the cause of it I like that love which by a soft ascension does degree it self in the soul Feltham Your presence is like Homers Nepenthe that can banish the sadness of the mind The heart of a lover is a Citie in which upon one and the same day are seen sports and bankets battels and funerals Plutarch Who does not know that love took away the senses of wise Solomon and made him violate the sacred law Love moved Biblis to be enamoured on her own brother Caunus and Pasiphae to accompany vvith a Bull Love is like a pan of Charcoal vvhich meeting vvith the vvind its contrary makes it turn more ardent or like a rapid torrent vvhich justing against adam swells higher so love meeting with opposition grows hotter and stronger Dodona's Grove These two hearts being dissolved into love spake in thoughts not having language enough to express their affection H.C. Since then I cannot retaliate your love or retribute your favours yet vvill I receive them vvith a desire â—o pay The vvorthy St. Dionysius in the book of Divine Attributes distinguisheth three sorts of love one is called circular the other love in a right line and the third oblique Love saâ—th an ancient Lover hath made a But of my heart vvhere so soon as it had shot all its arrows it threw it self as an inflamed dart into the bottom of my heart to set me all on fire There is nothing comparable to the Martyrdom of love It is an exhalation in a cloud It is a fire in a Mine a torrent shut up in ditches a night of sâ—paration lasteth ages and all waxeth old for it but its desires The life of this young Hero vvhich vvas ever hanging about the heart of his Mistress ever in the contemplation of her goodness perpetually in the furnace of love vvholly tranformed it self into his vvel-beloved as one vvax melted into another as a drop of vvater poured into a great vessell of Wine as incense wasted in flames H. Court He said what a warm lover when desire makes eloquent could speak he said she was both Star and Pilot. No birth or estate can chalenge a prerogative in love The deep wound of his love being rubbed afresh with began to bleed again Love is to the soul that which vvings are to Birds to carry us to its fruition For vvant of vvell loving vve apply the most precious thing which is love to gain wretched creatures as if one used a golden hook to fish for frogs and a scepter to shake hay I 'le always dwell with you like your shade I 'le keep a Jubile to your memory My eyes pay tribute where my heart pays love I vvill repay your love vvith usury Love making in the field of his memory a muster of the vertues of that Lady The man that applies not himself to some love is like a body vvithout life Love is the Wine of the soul Love is the greatest Philosopher in the vvorld He can transmute substances vvithout altering the accidents Man commended MAn is the pride of Heavens creation 〈◊〉 A man vvhose life needs no Advocate vvhom detraction it self cannot mention vvithout addition of some Epithetes of respect to conclude him in a vvord no object for any evill passion but envy and a subject for no discourse but vvhat ends vvith admiration It seems Nature from above had been dispatch'd as a brave Harbinger to score out a lodging for this great Soul and give him a Body suitable to the vigor of his Spirit so vvel vvas it composed c. H. Court What he is according to nature a Master piece vvhere many prerogatives meet together a Body composed of a marvellous Architecture a Soule endowed vvith He is the Orpheus vvho vvith his looks onely vvithout setting his hand to the Lyre enchants and ravishes the most savage of our Wilderness Aristotle that Linceus of Nature Nature vvas sent by God as a gallant Harbinger to compose a Body for him suitable to his great Spirit He did vvith great nobleness and bounty which vertues at that time had their turns in his Nature restore Lo. Bacon
Garden nor have I in the Rhetorick or Letters transplanted much from my own barren Seminary I may say to some noble Correspondents what the Poet did of old in a like Case sic vos non vobis But you will easily distinguish Tinsill from better mettal what is mine will appear to be so by the Bluntismes that frequently occur the rest are of better allay So that if the defects of my own Essayes be but pardoned the rest I am confident will abide the touch and pass for Sterling T. B. AN English Rhetorique exemplified FIgures and Tropes sayes Alexander the Sophister are the vertues of Speech and Stile as Barbarismes and Solecismes are the vices we shall then begin with A METAPHOR or Translation is the friendly and neighbourly borrowing of a word to express a thing with more light and better note though not so directly and properly as the naturall name of the thing meant would signifie As to say Drops of Dew are Pearls Flowers in Meadows are Starres and the murmuring of waters Musick that little Birds are Angels of the Forrests Whales are living Rocks or Ships with souls that the Sea is a moving Earth and fountain water liquid Crystall And in expressing Desirous a kind of Desire is thirst and not much different from thirst is hunger Therefore for swords desirous of bloud Sir Philip Sidney says hungry of bloud Where you may note three degrees of a Metaphor in the understanding First the fitness to bloudshed in a weapon usurps the name of Desirous which is proper to a living Creature and then that it proceeds to thirst and so to hunger The rule of a Metaphor is that it be not too bold nor too far fetch'd And though all Metaphors go beyond the true signification of things yet are they requisite to express the roving fancies of mens minds which are not content to fix themselves upon one thing intended but must wander to the confines Like the eye that cannot chuse but view the whole knot when it purposely beholds but one flower in the Garden Or like an Archer that knowing his Bow will overcast or carry too short takes an aim on this side or beyond the mark Besides a Metaphor is pleasant because it enriches our knowledge with two things at once with the Truth and a Similitude As this Heads disinherited of their naturall Seigniories whereby we understand both beheading and the government of the head over the body as the heir hath over the Lordship which he inherits Of which in another place To divorce the fair marriage of the Head and body where besides the cutting off of the head we understand the conjunction of the head and body to resemble a marriage The like in concealing love uttered in these words To keep love close Prisoner There came along the street a whole fleet of Coaches for a great number Longinus saith That Metaphors and exchanges of words are of excellent use and much conducing to height in eloquence An Allegory is the continuall prosecuting of a Metaphor which before I defined to be a translation of one word and that proportionably through the whole sentence or through many sentences As Philoclea was so invironed with sweet Rivers of vertue that she could neither be battered nor undermined Where Philoclea is expressed by the similitude of a Castle her naturall defence by the naturall fortification of Rivers about a Castle and the Metaphor continues in the attempting her by force or craft expressed by battering or undermining Another But when she had once his Ensign in her mind then followed whole squadrons of longings that so it might be with a main battle of mislikings and repinings against their Creation where you have Ensigns Squadrons main Battels Metaphors still derived from the same thing i. Warr. As I said before a Metaphor might be too bold or too far feâ—ch'd so I now remember it may be too base and too bald a translation As the Tempest of judgment had broken the main mast of his will A goodly Audience of sheep Souldiers of friendship or such like Too base as in that speech Fritter of fraud and seething pot of iniquity And they that say A Red herring is a shooing horn to a pot of Ale But if you speak of disdainfull â—atter you may use the grosser terms Therefore for generall delight take your expressions from ingenious Arts and Professions to please the learned in severall kinds As from the Meteors Plants Beasts in naturall Philosophy And from the Starres Spheres and their motions in Astronomy from the better part of Husbandry from politick government of Cities from Navigation from the military profession from Physick but not out of the depth of those mysteries And unless your purpose be to disparage let the word be always taken from a thing of equall or greater dignity As speaking of Vertue The skie of your vertue overcast with sorrow where 't was thought unfit to stoop to any Metaphor lower then the Heaven An Embleme an Allegory a Simile a Fable a Poeticall Fiction differ thus An Embleme is but one part of the Similitude in the body and the other part under application in the words An Allegory is the similitude of the application exprest indifferently and joyned in one sentence with words some proper to one part some to another A Simile hath two sentences of severall proper terms compared A Fable is a Simile acted by Fictions in Beasts A Poets Tale for the most part by Gods and Men. In the former example Paint a Castle compast with Rivers and let the Motto be NEC OBSIDIONE NEC CUNICULIS Neither by siege nor undermining that is an Embleme Lay it as it is in Sir Philips Philoclea Vertue environed Rivers battering undermining the terms of the other part Put all these terms in one sentence and it is an Allegory But let it be thus There was a Lamb in a Castle and an Elephant and a Fox besieged her The Elephant would have assaulted her but he could not swim over the River the Fox would make an earth to get under her but he feared the River would sink in upon him and drown him then it is a Fable Let Spencer tell you such a Tale of a Fairy Queen or Ovid of Danae and 't is a Poeticall Fiction But utter it thus in one sentence As a Castle compassed about with rivers cannot be battered or undermined And thus in another So Philoclea defended round about with vertuous resolution could neither be forced nor surprized by deceit Then it is a Similitude in its own nature which is the ground of all Emblemes Allegories Fables and Fictions METONIMIA is an exchange of a name when one word comes in lieu of another not for a similitude but for other naturall affinity and coherence As when the matter is used for that which consists thereof As I want silver for money When the efficient or author is used for the thing made As my blade is right Sebastian for of Sebastians
the midst and the beginning are the same As If there were any true pleasure in sleep and idleness then no doubt the Heathen Philosophers would have placed some part of the felicity of their heathen Gods in sleep and idleness Your diligence to speak well must be great but you shall be abundantly recompenced for the greatness of your diligence in the success of perswasion If I should ever wish the perfection of your eloquence it is for your instruction and for your benefit that I would wish you eloquent This kind of Repetition and the former EPANALEPSIS are most easily admitted into discourse and are freest from the opinion of affectation because words recited at the beginning of many sentences or at both ends of the same are more remarkable ANTIMETABOLE or COMMUTATIO is a sentence inverst or turn'd back as If any for love of honor or honor of love c. That as you are the child of a mother so you may be mother of a child c. They misliked what themselves did and yet still did what themselves misliked c. If before he languished because he could not obtain his desiring he now lamented because he could not desire the obtaining Either not striving because he was contented or contented because he would not strive Just to exercise his might mighty to exercise his justice Learned Sir Philip slipt often into this Figure yet he sometimes conceald the particularity of his affection to it by not turning the words wholly back as they lay To account it not a purse for treasure but as a treasure it self worthy to be purs'd up c. Men venture lives to conquer she conquers lives without venturing c. Shewed such fury in his force such stay in his fury which is rather EPANADOS Sometimes the same sense inverst in contrary words As Parthenia desir'd above all things to have Argalus Argalus feared nothing but to misse Parthenia Where he returns fear to misse in stead of desire Neither could you have thought so well of me if extremity of love had not made your judgement partiall nor could you have loved me so intirely if you had not been apt to make so great undeserved judgment of me Where he returns for extremity of love loving intirely and for partiall judgement great undeserved judgement Though this be a sharp and witty Figure and shews out of the same words a pretty distinction of meaning very convenient for Schoolmen yet to â—â—e this or any other unreasonably or unseasonably is ridiculous Let discretion therefore be the greatest and most generall Figure of Figures PARANOMASIA is a present touch of the same letter syllable or word with a different meaning And as for the running upon the letter more then very little is more then too much Sir Philip Sidney in Astropell and Stella calls it the Dictionary method and verses so made Rimes running in ratling rowes which is is an example of it There is an old Swinish Poem made of it in Latine call'd PUGNA PORCORUM Hector Hanno Haniball dead Pompey Pyrrhus spild Cyrus Scipio Caesar slain And Alexander kill'd Agnomination of some syllables is somtimes found in the Arcadia as Alas what can saying make them believe whom seeing cannot perswade And while he was so followed by the valiantest he made a way for the vilest She went away repining but not repenting Our Alms-deeds are turned into all Mis-deeds our praying into playing our fasting into feasting That kinde of breaking words into another meaning is much sed in Drolerie and youthful Discourse as you will have but a bare gain out of this bargain A man not only fit for the gown but for the gun for the pen but for the pike for the book but for the blade The garnish of this figure hath been in much request in less serious matters but the more learned have avoided this kinde of flourish lest their writings should savour more of the general humor then of private judgement POLEPTOTON or TRADUCTIO is a repetition of words of the same linage that differ only in termination as exceedingly exceeding His faulty using of our faults Sometimes the same word in several cases as for fear conceal'd his fear Sometimes the same word in several voyces as forsaken by all friends and forsaken by all comfort Sometimes the same adjective in several comparisons as much may be said in my defence much more for love and most of all for that divine creature who hath joyned me and love together This is a good figure and may be used with or without passion yet so as the use of it come from choice and not from barrenness To Amplifie and Illustrate are two of the principal Ornaments of Eloquence and gain mens mindes to the chiefest advantages Admiration and Belief For how can you commend any thing more acceptable to our Attention then by telling us it is extraordinary and by demonstrating it to be evident We love to look upon a Commet above all Stars for these two excellencies its Greatness and its Clearness such in speech is Amplification and Illustration We amplifie five ways by Comparison Division Accumulation Intimation and Progression Comparison is either of things contrary or equal or things different Equal as Themistoâ—les and Coriolanus both great States-men both of great deserts to their Countrey both banished both dead at one tâ—me Themistocles his Councel could not prevail against the Ingratitude of the Athenians nor Coriolanus his Discretion overcome the unkindeness of the Romans the one was too excellent the other too noble for the envious eyes of their Countrymen to endure such is the force of vertue above all quarrels of Nations or divisions of Allegiances that their exiles were honorably entertained Coriolanus by the Volsci Themistocles by the Persians both by their enemies and both leading great Armies against those Countreys which so ingratefully expelled them were so inwardly restrained with a conscience of sacking their native soil that they rather chose violence to their own lives then to the lives of their fellow Citizens and took it for a sufficient revenge to make it evident that they might be revenged But this is not so forcible an Amplification of things equal indeed wherein as you see all the several points of a consorted equality are to be searched out as when things seeming unequal are compared and that in Similitudes as well as in Examples for instance where a woman is compared to a ship out of Plautus both ask much tacking and sometimes rigging And you shall profit most of all by inventing matter of agreement in things most unlike London and the Tennis-Court are like for in both all the gains go to thâ— hazard Policy is like the Sea it serves for intercourse of profit for defence against inâ—asions theâ—â— are both â—â—bings and flowings calms and tempests the observation whereof may make a man first wise then rich But as the water serves for many outward uses so can it not please if it be inwardly
almost incurable A talkative fellow is the unbrac'd drum which beats a wise man out of his wits Love LOve in the interpretation of the envious is sofâ—ness in the wicked good men suspect it for lust and in the good some spiritual men have given it the name oâ— Charity And these are but terms to this which seems a more considerate defâ—nition That indefinite Love is Lust and Lust when it is determinâ—d to one is Love This definition â—oo does but intrude it self on what I was about to say which is and spoken with soberness though like a Lay-man that Love is the most acceptable imposition of nature the cause and preservation of life and the very healthfulness of the minde as well as of the body But Lust our raging feaver is more dangerous in Cities then the Calenture in ships Sir William Davenant in his Preface to Gondibert Love in the most obnoxious interpretation is natures preparative to her greatest works which is the making of life ibid. Love in humane nature is both the source and center of all passionâ— for not only hope fâ—ar and joy but even anger and hatred rise first out of the spring of love Mr. Montagu To be in love is the most intensive appropriaâ—ion of all the powers of our minde to one design ibid. Sensual love is the most fatal plague among all passions It is not a simple malady but one composed of all the evils in the world it hath the shiverings and heats of Feavers the ach and prickings of the Meagrum the rage of Teeth the stupeâ—action of the Virâ—â—go the furies of Frenzie the black vapors of the Hypocondry the disturbances of the Waking the stupidities of the Lethargy the fits of the Falling-sickness the faintness of the Tysick the heavings of the passions of the heart the pangs of the Colick the infections of the Leprosie the venom of Vlcers the malignity of the Plague the putrifaction of the Gangrene and all which is hoâ—rible in nature Holy Court Love Care is thy Court Tyranny thy Raign Slaves thy Subjects Folly thy Attendance Lust thy Law Sin thy Service and Repentance thy Wages Fear breedeth Wit Anger is the cradle of courage Joy opens and enables the Heart Sorrow weakneth it but love is engendred betwixt lust and idleness his companions are unquietness longings fond comforts faint discomforts hopes jâ—alousies ungrounded rages causeless yieldings the highest end it aspires to is a little pleasure with much pain before and great repentance after At that time the flames of his chast love began to burn more forcible then ever He loved her with a love mingled with respect of merit and compassion of her persecuted innocency To love is natural not to love is monstrous H.C. Such was the unresistable force of his unlimitable affection that in spite of reason he was enforced to do homage unto passion Her love was a rich rock of defence against all Syrene songs It received such an impression of that wonderful passion which to be defined is impossible because no words reach to express the strange effects of it they only know it who inwardly feel it it is called Love He besought him not to make account of his speech which if it had been over passionate yet was it to be born withal because it proceeded out of an affection much more vehement Humanity enjoyns you to love me seeing I hold my life an easie sacrifice to enjoy you It is no pilgrimage to travel to your lips Worldly loves are the true Gardens of Adonis where wâ— can gather nothing but trivial flowers surrounded with many bryars Christian Diary A silent expression gives the pregnant'st testimony of a deep grounded affection where every look darts forth love Nothing shall have power to alien my love from you Let me draw from your look one blush of love or line of fancy Let me become an abject in the eyes of fame an object oâ— contempt to the world if my faithful devotion and observance supply not all my defects I am he who either you have great cause to love or no cause to hate She loved him as the pledge-bearer of her heart You towards whom I know not whether my love or admiration be greater Your affection hath got a Lordship in my thoughts Love to a yielding heart is a King but to a resisting is a Tyrant Sealing up all thoughts of love under the image of her memory The extream bent of my affection compells me to Love in the heart is an exhalation in a cloud it cannot continue idle there it daily forms a thousand imaginations and brings forth a thousand cares it findes out an infinity of inventions to advance the good of the beloved c. H.C. Death may end my life but not my love which as it is infinite must be immortal Him whose love went beyond the bounds of conceit much more of utterance that in her hands the ballance of his life or death did stand Such a love as mine wedded to vertue can never be so adulterated by any accident no nor yet ravish'd by passion as to bring forth a bastard disobedience whereof my very conscience not being able to accuse my thoughts I come to clear my self The proportion of my love is infinite So perfect a thing my love is to you as it suffers no question so it seems to receive injury by addition of any words unto it The more notable demonstrations you make of the love so far beyond my desert with which it pleaseth you to make me happy the more am I even in course of huâ—anity bâ—und to seek requitals witness Having embarked my careful love in the ship of my desire Good God! what sublimate is made in the lymbeck of Love His eyes were so eager in bâ—â—â—lding her that they were like those of the Bird that â—atches her eggs with her looks Stratonica He expected her at A. with so great impatience of love that he would have willingly hastned the course of the Sun to measure it by his affections He beholding her so accomplished easily felt the glances shot from her eyes were rays from her but arrows for his heart from whence he could receive nought but honorable wounds If you have as much confidence in me as I have love towards you Love is in effect a force pardon the exorbitancy of the word that is unresistable so strong a war is that which the appetite wageth against reason Then then in the pride of your perfections you paradized me in the heaven of your love The rare Idea that thus through the applause of mine eye hath bewitched my heart is the beautious image of your sweet self pardon me if I presume when the extremity of love pricks me forward Faults that grow by affection ought to be forgiven because they come of constraint Then Madam read with favor and censure with mercy Why should not that which is one rest in unity Bacon His bosom was the Cell wherein I hid my secrets
then by continued devotion to your self and service to purchase at length the esteem of Madam Your most faithfull servant T.B. XXXV To his Lady M riâ— complaining of her cruelty Madam TYranny as ill becomes a subject as a Prince and cruelty is the natural issue of that Monster To say your Ladyship is guilty of both in some kind is a truth undeniable For ever since fortune made me happy in your knowledge my affection hath had no Centre but your breast my faith no fellow and my constancy such as can never admit a change yet my sighes are unpittied my love unregarded my faith and constancy answered with nothing but your disproportionate denialls Nor can I without wonder consider that your Ladyship should be 〈◊〉 all the world so perfectly charitable to mee so cruell unles 't were ordained by fate That the first fruits of my love which should be the first step to happines must be made abortive by your incompassion Madam the more you deny the more fuel you add to those flames which if not suddenly allai'd by your pittie will consume my very being into ashes of mortalitie These are Madam the reall dictates of a heart that 's wholly benâ— To serve you T. B. XXXVI A consolatory letter to a Mother upon the death of her first born Honoured Madam THe sad need a Comforter and a Soul in desolation requires to bee assisted with reasons to bear the cause of its griefs That you are both sad and grieved I can no more doubt then I can be without a share in your passions That you have many comforters because friends many solid considerations from your own pietie and pious wisdome to salve your sorrowes I am as confident Yet as none more tenders your happinesse then my self so could not I alone be silent in this motive of your teares what I would say is Dearest Madam be comforted and this were 't in my power I would effect The reason of your sable thoughts the spring that streames your cheekes rise I know from the sad accident of your childs death It was I confess the first image of your likenes the first blessâ—â—g that heaven honored your body with the first pledge of nature the first title you had to be a Mother And to bee deprived of this almost as soon as 't was given could not but find and afford matter both for teares and grief in a disposition so natural and good But Madam there 's a time for all and a meane also What could not be denied to your sweetness must be moderated by your discretion 'T is true that sweet infant was yours 't was your first 't was dear and you suffered many dolours to give it life But withall you consider as 't was yours so given you by God as the first so more due to him as dear yet could it not be too dear for him that hath it Although of painfull birth yet that your throwes brought forth a Saint that your dolours were endured so soon to enthrone a part of your self among the Angels these dolours these throwes happily suffered Those whom God makes Parents he makes but Nurses of his own children he lends them to be brought up for heaven and if hee hath so soon discharged you of this obligation t is not so much a cross as a blessing Had it lived to mature age perhaps he saw danger both to It and you it might have been more cause of grief to you more loss to it self it might have been unfortunate in life in death unhappy 'T is not the being children of either good or great extract that makes them alwayes either good or happy And this perhaps God that provident Parent of all foresaw Be it so or not certaine it is the bodies but the souls prison wherein 't is no soner breathed from Heaven but 't is maculated by this corrupt Earth and in this as it longer sojournes so is it not only debarred of its true happiness welfare but also offends its great Creator and consequently is miserable Therefore would God make the cradle of yours its death bed that he might hasten its blisse As he breathed a pure soul into it so would he again take it before defiled by the actuall blemishes of sin Had it liv'd it could have afforded no comfort to your piety but being in health prosperity and pious and can it be more pious then in heaven more prosperous then in heavens joyes more healthfull then in the enjoyance of immortality O consider t is now past all danger 't is freed from all misery 't is blessed in blessedness it prayes for you And can there be any sorrow so great that these considerations cannot consolate O what more happy then to be so happy a Mother no sooner a Mother then a Mother to heaven Nor doubt dear Madam but hee that gave you this dear pledge of his love will give you more and as he took this to his own joyes so will he leave in its stead more to your comfort This he took to give it as soon happiness as being and therein to try your virtue and resignation to his will this as I doubt not but he will find so may you be confident he will bee bountifull a sure rewarder of your patience a prosperer of your soul body and its fruitfulness But pardon most honoured Madam my loves redousness and if in this unpolishd Consolatory I have errd let it be as it is loves fault a fault that your nobleness I am certain will remit Thus with humblest respects he takes his leave that will no longer bee then be yours the daily Petitioner to heaven for your most wished comforts of both Worlds Madam Your humble and most affectionate servant D.W. XXXVII To excuse the not answering a letter SIR THat I have committed so great a Solaecisme in good manners as to receive two letters from you without giving you humble thanks for either I beseech you ascribe not to any want of zeal to your service for in earnest you cannot make me more happy then in vouch safing mee the honour of your commands which shall alwayes find as ready an obedience in mee as any thing that most concernes my own interest In the assurance â—â—ereof I give you the humble respects of Sir Yours ad nutum T. B. XXXVIII Vpon a Motion of marriage Dear Sir I Give you many humble thanks for your tendring mee a wife and your good advise in that affair I well remember the Counsell of a prudent friend was not to marry till I were 30 years of age and then to have a wife ten years younger then my self because women especially teeming ones sooner decay then men I have also read that there are 3 principall motives to a wedded life Procreatio Prolis Conservatio Domus and Consolatio vitae Now the gentlewoman you write of in stead of being ten years younger I believe is ten years elder then my self and so may be in danger to