seemes Not to beleeue and yet too credulous Thy weale and woe are both of them extreames Dispaire and hope makes thee ridiculous The one doth flatter the inthoughts vnlikely The likely thoughts the other killeth quickly W. Sha. Loue goes towards loue as schoole boyes from their bookes But loue from loue toward schoole with heauy lookes Idem Loue can comment vpon euery woe Idem Cupids deep riuers haue their shallow fordes His griefe bring ioyes his losse recompences He breeds the sore and cures vs of the paine Achilles launce that wounds and heales againe Ed. Fairfax Wonder it is to see in diuers mindes How diuersly loue doth his pageant play And shewes his power in variable kindes The baser wit whose idle thoughts alway Are wont to cleaue vnto the lowly clay It stirreth vp to sensuall desire And in leaud sloth to waste his carelesse day But in braue spirits it kindles goodly fire That to all hie desert and honour doth aspire Ed. Spencer Such ones ill iudge of loue that cannot loue Ne in their frozen hearts feele kindly flame For thy they ought nothing vnknowne reproue Ne naturall affection faultlesse blame For it of honor and all vertue is The roote and brings forth glorious fruites of fame That crowne true louers with immortall blisse The meed of them that loue and do not liue amisse Idem The persons must in passions iumpe else loue is but a game Nor thinke I of a womans graunt but as a wooers game VV. Warner Pure loue said she the purest grace pursues And there is contract not by application Of lippes or bodies but of bodies vertues As in our elementall motion Starres by their powers which are their heat and light Do heauenly workes and that which hath probation By vertue all contract hath the noblest plight Both for the lasting and affinitie It hath with naturall diuinitie G. Chapman Loue is a lord of truth and loyaltie Lifting himselfe out of the lowly dust On golden plumes vp to the purest skie Aboue the reach of loathly sinfull lust Whose base affect through cowardly distrust Of his weake wings dare not to heauens flie But like a mold warpe in the earth doth lie Ed. Spencer One louing howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence A dramme of sweet is worth a pound of sowre Idem Loue and maiestie dwell ill together S. Daniell The ioyes of loue if they should euer last Without affliction or disquietnes That worldly chaunces do among them cast Would be on earth too great a blessednes Liker to heauen then mortall wretchednes Therefore the winged God to let men weet That here on earth is no sure happines A thousand sowres hath tempered with one sweet To make it seeme more deare and daintie as is meet Ed. Spencer True it is said what euer man it said That loue with gall and hony doth abound But if the one be with the other waid For euery dramme of hony therein found A pound of gall doth ouer it abound Idem Loue hath delight in sweet delicious fruite Loue neuer takes good counsell for his friend Loue author is and cause of idle care Loue is destraught of wit he hath no end Loue shooteth shafts of burning hot desire Loue burneth more then either flame or fire Loue doth much harme through Iealousies assault Loue once imbrac't will hardly part againe Loue thinkes in breach of faith there is no fault Loue makes a sport of others deadly paine Loue is a wanton childe and loues to brall Loue with his warre brings many soules to thrall Th. Watson Gods themselues are chaung'd by Loue Ioue steales from skies to lie by Laedaes side Arcas descends for faire Aglauraes sake And Sol so soone as Daphne is espide To follow his chariot doth forsake Idem The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his owne deliciousnesse And in the tast confounds the appetite Therefore Loue moderately long loue doth so Too swift arriues as tardie as too slowe W. Shakespeare The rights In which Loues beautious empresse most delights Are banquets Doricke musicke midnight reuelling Plaies maskes and all that sterne age counteth euill Ch. Marlowe Those easily men credit whom they loue S. Daniell Play with the fire yet die not in the flame Shew passion in thy words but not in hart Least whē thou think'st to bring thy thoughts in frame Thou proue thy selfe a prisoner by thy art Play with these babes of loue as Apes with glasses And put no trust in feathers wind or lasses D. Lodge The greedie moone along her giddie spheare Boads not such change in her inconstant course No crinite comet in the waine of yeare No rising rage nor swelling of sourse As Loue in shape in substance and effect But Gods and men with fury doth infect A morning starre that peereth from the pride Of siluer floate bedew'd and sparkling bright Borne from the second forme of waters glide The queene of Loue the mistresse of delight Aye such is loue in semblance at the first But his effects are cruell and accurst D· Lod Albeit bewtie moues to loue and loue doth make thee sue Better at first be nonsuite then at length not to subdue W. Warner It hath bene when as heartie loue did treat and tie the knot Though now if gold but lacking be the wedding fadgeth not Idem Loue learnes rural wits and base borne brats to be reading Heartburning secrets and wonders daintily written In faire flaming eyes by the hand of louely Cupido A. Fraunce Loue nill consent that bewties fiel◠lie waste Ed. Fairfax T is often seene Loue workes a man a weake deiected minde For euer seene a womans loue doth alter as the winde W· VVarner No stile is held for base where loue well named is Each eare suckes vp the words a true loue scattereth S. Ph. Sydney All losse is lesse and lesse the infamy Then losse of loue to him that loues but one Ne may loue be compeld by maisterie For as soone as maisterie comes sweete loue anon Taketh his nimble wings and soone is gone Ed. Spencer For euery pleasure that in loue is found A thousand woes and more therein abound Th. Watson Like as a nibling fish that halfe mistrusts The golden shew of an enticing baite Makes many offers for the thing she lusts Daring to deale with that she deemes deceite So plaies the amorous God with his faire prize Whom loue and lust bids board but shame denies Ch. Middleton From these hie hills as when a spring doth fall It thrilleth downe with still and subtill course Of this and that it gathereth aide and shall Till wit haue iust done flowed to streame and force Then at the foote it rageth ouer all So fareth Loue when he hath tane a course Rage is vaine resistance vaileth none The first issue is remedie alone E. of Surrey Not all the writs Diana hath can Cupids plaint remoue W. Warnaer Lordly Loue is such a Tyrant fell That where he rules all power he doth expell Ed. Sp. If Loue
compelled be and cannot chuse How can it gratefull or thanke worthy proue Loue must free harted be and voluntary And not enchaunted or by fate constrain'd Nor like that loue which did Vlisses carry To Circes Ile with mightie charmes I. Dauies Where heate of Loue doth once possesse the hart There cares oppresse the minde with wondrous ill Wit runnes awrie not fearing subtill smart And fond desire doth euer maister will The belly neither cares for meate nor drinke Nor ouerwatched eyes desite to winke Footesteps are false and wauering too and fro The brightsome flower of beautie fades away Reason retires and pleasure brings in woe And wisedome yeeldeth place to blacke decay Councell and fame and friendship are condemned And bashful shame and Gods themselues conteÌ„ned Watchfull suspect is kindled with dispaire Inconstant hope is often drownd in feares What folly hurts not fortune can repaire And miserie doth swim in seas of teares Long vse of life is but a liuing foe As gentle death is onely end of woe Th. Watson Vnlawfull meanes doth make loue lawfull gaine He speakes most true when he the most doth faine M. Drayton As many bees as Hybla daily sheelds As many frie as fleet in Oceans face As many heards as on the earth do trace As many flowers as deckt the fragrant fields As many starres as glorious heauen containes As many cloudes as wayward winter weepes As many plagues as hell enclosed keepes So many griefes in Loue so many paines Suspicions thoughts desires opinions praiers Mislikes misdeeds fond ioyes and fained peace Illusions dreames great paines and small encrease Vowes hope acceptance scornes and deepe dispaires D. Lodge The gnawing enuie the heartfretting feare The vaine surmises the distinctfull shewes The false reports that flying tales do beare The doubts the dangers the delaies the woes The fained friends the vnexpected foes With thousand more then any tongue can tell Do make a Louers life a wretches hell Ed. Spencer T is folly by our wisest worldlings prou'd If not to gaine by loue to be belou'd B. Ihonson Against Loues fier feares frost hath dissolution W. Shakespeare Greater conquest of hard Loue he gaines That workes it to his will then he that it constraines Ed. Spencer â—nto a Knight there is no greater shame â—hen lightnes and inconstancie in loue Idem â—oues weeping flames by reason do subdue â—efore their rage grow to so great vnrest â—s miserable louers vse to rue â—hich stil wax old in woes whil'st woe stil waxeth new Ed. Spencer Old Loue is litle worth when new is more preferd Idem Who can shew all his loue can loue but lightly S. Daniell No man from the monarch loue by wit or weapoÌ„ flies W. Warner Loftie Loue doth loathe a lowly eye Ed. Spencer Loue thriues not in the heart that shadowes dreadeth W. Shakespeare Gather I say the Rose while it is time For soone comes age that will her pride deflame Gather the Rose of Loue while yet is time Whil'st louing thou mai'st loued be with equall aime Ed. Sp. O learne to loue the lesson is but plaine And once made perfect neuer lost againe VV. Shakespeare Louers their loued Ladies loues to gaine Promise protest and sweare without regard That God doth see and know their falshood still And can and shall reuenge it at his will Their oathes but words their words are all but wind Vttered in heart and with like heart forgotten As bundles are trust vp coards all rotten Coinesse is nought but worst to be too kind Men care not for the good that soone is gotten But women of their wits may chiefly boast That are made wiser by an others cost S. I. H. He that bindes himselfe in worthy bands Although his shew but grace him small Although he finde no fauour at her hands Sharp words coy lookes small thanks hope none at all Though more and more aloofe from him she stands Yet for his heart and thoughts be highly placed He must not mourne although he die disgraced Idem Dumbe Swans not chattering Pies do Louers proue They loue indeed who dare not say they loue S. Ph. Sydney The Louer and beloued are not tied to one Loue. VV. Sh. He that on Loues blind snares once sets his foote Seemeth to draw it backe but findes it caught And madnesse meere in Loue to ouershoote The foole hath felt the wise hath euer taught And though in all alike it take not roote Yet all shall finde Loue is a thing of nought For sure it is an open signe of madnesse To haue an others pleasure breed thy sadnesse S. I. Harrington The birds their beake the lion hath his taile And louers nought but sighes and bitter moane The spotlesse force of fancie to assaile D. Lodge Sweete are the kisses the embracements sweete When like desires and affections meete For from the earth to heauen is Cupid raised Where fancie is in equall ballance peized Ch. Marlowe Foule words and frownes must not repell a Louer What though the Rose hath prickles yet t is pluckt Were bewtie vnder twentie locks kept fast Yet Loue breakes through and breakes them all at last W. Shakespeare Louers houres are long though seeming short If pleasde themselues others they delight In such like circumstance with such like sport Their copious stories oftentimes begun End without audience and are neuer done Idem A Louer may bestride the Gossamours That Idles in the wanton sommer aire And yet not full so light is vanitie Idem The Dutch in loue is proude Italians enuious The French man full of mirth the Spanyard furious Magicke Three kindes there are for natures skill The first they naturall do name In which by hearbes and stones they will Worke wondrous things and worthy fame The next is Mathematicall Where Magicke workes by nature so That brazen heads make speake it shall Of woods birds bodies flie and go The third Veneficall by right Is named for by it they make The shape of bodies chang'd in sight And their formes on them to take M. of M. Oh who can tell The hidden power of hearbes and might of magicke skill Ed. Spencer Man In time conuenient this world Almightie created And it a large theater to behold his glory appointed Which wheÌ„ he had with store of treasures richly replenisht And with aboundant grace causd euery part to be furnisht Man was made at length Adam was quickly created Most perfect creature and like to the mightie Creator Good wit immortall of mankind only beginner But proud ambition the serpent craftily cloaking With curst and bitter sweete his cankred poyson abounding Adam dispossest of pleasant beautifull harbors Adams heart possest with most vnspeakable horrors Man was mard at length Adam was fouly defaced Last worke and lost worke Adam was filthily fowled Most cursed creature vnlike to the mightie Creator Bad foolish mortall of mankind only the murderer A. France Vile man begot of clay and borne of dust Ed. Fairfax Man composed first of slime Doth liue to lead his
were weake and yoong But thrust them forth still as they waxed old And on her head she wore a tyre of gold Adorn'd with Gems and Owches wondrous faire Whose passing price vnneath was to be told And by her side there sate a gentle paire Of Turtle-doues she sitting in an Iuorie chaire Ed. Spencer Due Charitie in louing doth preferre Her neighbours good fore her vtilitie I. Syluister Transl Who may but will not helpe doth hurt we know and curious they That dribling alms by art disband wel meÌ„t froÌ„ wel done pay And he that questions distresse and doth not help endeuour TheÌ„ he that sees nothing saies or cares is lesse deceauour W. Warner It is a worke of Charitie God knowes The reconcilement of two mortall foes Ch. Middleton Charitie brings forrh but barren seeds And hatred still is sowne in so great store That when the fruites of both came to be reaped The tone is scarce the tother ouerheaped S. I. Harr. Chastitie O Chastitie the chiefe of heauenly lights Which mak'st vs most immortall shape to wearâ— S. Ph. Sidney Chastities attire The vnstained vaile which innocents adorne Th'vngather'd rose defended with the thorne S. Daniel O Charitie the gift of blessed soules Comfort in death a crowne vnto the life Which all the passions of the minde controlles Adornes the maide and bewtifies the wife That grace the which nor death nor time attaints Of earthly creatures making heauenly Saints M. Drayton A Woman cannot take vpon her With bewtie riches nor with hie nobilitie To claime the true deserued praise of honour If Chastitie do faile by her fragilitie This is the vertue that defends her honour S I. Harrington Who doth desire that chaste his wife should bee First be he true for truth doth truth deserue Then he be such as he his words may see And alwaies one credit which her preserue Not toying kind nor causlesly vnkinde Not stirring thoughts nor yet denying right Not spying faults nor in plaine errors blinde Neuer â—ard hand nor euer raines to light As farre from want as farre from vaine exspence Th' one doth enforce th' other doth entice All owe good company but driue from thence All filthy mouthes that glory in their vice This done thou hast no more but leaue the rest To nature fortune time and womans brest S. Ph. Sydney Penelope in spending chaste her daies As worthy as Vlisses was of praise S. I. Harrington Of Christ. The brooser of the serpents head the womans promiz'd seed The second in the Trinitie the foode our soules to feed The vine the light the doore the way the shepheard of vs al Whose manhood ioynd to deitie did raunsome vs from thrall That was and is and euermore will be the same to his That sleeps to none that wakes to him that turns our curse to blis WhoÌ„ yet vnseen the Patriarks saw the Prophets had foretold The Apostles preacht the Saints adord Martyrs do behold The same Augustus Emperor in Palestine was born AmoÌ„gst his own yet his own did curse their blis in scorn W. Warner Augustus quailing Anthonie was Emperour alone In whose vnfoed monarchy our common health was knowne The bruizer of the serpents head the womans promisd seed The second in the Trinitie the foode our soules to feede The vine the light the doore the way the shepheard of vs all The same Augustus Emperor in Palestine was borne AmoÌ„gst his own yet his own did curse their blis in scorn Idem Children Riches of children passe a princes throne Which touch the fathers heart with secret ioy When without shame he saith these be mine owne S. Ph. Sidney This patterne good or ill our children get For what they see their parents loue or hate Their first caught sence prefers to teachers blowes The cockerings cockerd we bewaile too late When that we see our ofspring gayly bent Women man-wood and men effeminate Idem What children apprehend The same they like they followe and amend D. Lodge There is no loue may be compa'rd to that The tender mother beares vnto the childe For euen so much the roote it doth encrease As their griefe growes our contentation cease G. Gas Chaunge All is but fained and which oaker died That euery showre will wash and wipe away All things do Chaunge that vnder heauen abide And after death all friendship doth decay Therefore what euer man bear'st worldly sway Liuing on God and on thy selfe relie For when thou diest all shall with thee die Ed. Spencer All suffer Chaunge our selues new borne euen then begin to die W. Warner The euer Chaunging course of things Runne a perpetuall circle euer turning S. Dan. Change liues not long time fainteth and time mourns Solace and sorrow haue their certaine turnes M. Drayton All Chaunge is perillous and all chaunce vnsound Ed. Spencer Seldome Chaunge the better brought Content who liues with tried state Need feare no Chaunge of frowning Fate But will seeke for vnknowne gaine Oft liues by losse and leaues with paine Idem What doth remaine to man that can continue long What sun caÌ„shine so cleare but clouds may rise amoÌ„g G. Gascoigne No flower is so fresh but frost can it deface No man so snre in any seate but he may loose his place Idem Most true it is as we doo daily proue No good nor ill can stand still at one stay S. I. Harrington The man that of himselfe is most secure Shall finde himselfe most fickle and vnsure Ed. Spencer Men change the ayre but seldome change their care M. Drayton Chaunce What should we thinke of signes they are but haps How may they then be signes of after-claps Doth euery Chaunce foreshew or cause some other Or ending of it selfe extend no further As th'ouerflowing flood some mount doth choake But to his guide some othet flood it yoake So if that signes thy sinnes once ioyne beware Else-whereto Chaunces tend do neuer care M. of M. True it is if fortune light by Chaunce There fortune healpes the boldest to aduance G. Gascoigne Counsaile Sacred Counsaile true heart suppling balme Soule-curing plaister true preseruing blis Water of life in euery sudden qualme The heauens rich store-house where all treasure is True guide by whom foule errors due we mis Night burning-beacon watch against mishaps Foresight auoyding many after claps M. Drayton Euery strawe proues fewell to the fire When Counsell doth concurre with our desire Idem What eld hath tried and seeene good counsell is D. Lodge Counsell still is one When fathers friends and worldly goods are gone Idem Counsell that comes when ill hath done his worst Blesseth our ill but makes our good accurst M. Drayton Vaine sounds of pleasure we delight to heare But Counsell iarres as discord in our eare Idem A King that aimes his neighbours crowne to win Before the fruite of open warres begin Corrupts his Counsell with rich recompences For in good Counsell stands the strength of Princes I. Syl. Transl A Kingdomes greatnesse hardly can he
are subiect to the power of heauen Nor wrongs passe vnreuenged although excus'd Idem Would heauen her bewtie should be hid from sight Nere would she thus adorne her selfe with light With sparkling Lamps nor would she paint her throne But she delighted to be gaz'd vpon And when the glorious sunne goes downe Would she put on her stary bestudded crowne And in her masking sure the spangled skie Come forth to bride it with her reuellry Heauens gaue this gift to all things in creation That they in this should immitate their fashion Idem M Drayton Heauens influence was neuer constant yet In good or bad as to continue it Th. Kyd. If thou be wise hold this as ominous The heauens not like disposed euery houre The starres be still predominant in vs Fortune not alway forth her bagge doth powre Nor euery cloude doth raine a golden showre M. Drayton Heart Free is the Heart the temple of the minde The sanctuarie sacred from aboue Where nature keepes the keys that loose and binde No mortall hand force open can that doore So close shut vp and lock to all mankinde S. Daniell The bodies wound by medicines may be eased But griefes of heart by salues are not appeased R. Greene. By thought of heart the speech of tongue is carried S. I. Harr. Tran. Happinesse vid. Felicitie Hate Hate is the elder loue the yonger brother Yet is the yonger stronger in his state Then th' elder and him mastereth still in all debate Ed. Spencer Nor Hate nor loue did euer iudge aright Innated hate will hardly be displaste Out of high hearts and chiefly where debate Happeneth amongst great persons of estate I. H. Mirr of M. Hatred must be beguilde by some new course Where states are strong Princes doubt their force S. Daniell Spight bites the dead that liuing neuer darde Ed. Spencer Sildome doth malice want a meane to worke M. Drayton Hate hits the hie and windes force tallest towers Hate is peculiar to a Princes state R. Greene. Hatred accompanies prosperitie For one man greeueth at an others good And so much more we thinke oâ—r miserie The more that fortune hath with others stood So that we seld are seene as wisedome would To bridle time with reason as we should Th. Kyd. Haste Oft times the greatest haste the worser speeds S. I. Harr. Transl As busie braines must beat on tickle toyes As rash inuention breeds a raw deuice So suddein falles do hinder hastie ioyes And as swift baits do fleetest fish intice So haste makes waste and therefore now I say No haste but good where wisedome beares the sway G. Gascoigne The swiftest bitch brings forth the blindest whelpes The hottest feuers coldest crampes ensue The nakedst need hath ouer-latest helpes Idem Hastie respect repents when t is too late I. Markeham Rashnesse sees all but nothing can preuent M. Drayton Fore-iudging puts out one of wisedomes eies If by rashnesse valour haue got honour We blame the rashnesse but reward the valour Ch. Fitz Ieffrey O rash false heat wrapt in repentance cold Thy haste springs still blood and nere growes old W. Sh. Hell An hidious hole all vast withouten shape Of endlesse depth orewhelm'd with ragged stone With ougly mouth and grifly iawes doth gape And to our sight confounds it selfe in one Here entred we and yeeding forth anon An horrible loathly lake we might discerne As blacke as pitch that cleped is Auerne A deadly gulfe where nought but rubbish growes With foule blacke swelth in thickned lumps that lies Which vp in th' aire such stinking vapour throwes That ouer there may fly no fowle but dies Choakt with th'pestilent sauours that arise M. Sackuile Thence come we to the horror and the hell The large great kingdomes and the dreadfull raigne Of Pluto in his throne where he did dwell The wide waste places and the hugie plaine The waylings shrikes and sundry sorts of paine The sighes the sobbes the deep and deadly grone Earth aire and all resounding plaine and mone Idem Then turning backe in silence soft they stole And brought the heauy course with easie pace To yawning gulfe of deep Auernus hole And by that same an entrance darke and base With smoake and Sulphur hiding all the place Descends to hell their creature neuer past That back returned without heauenly grace But dreadfull furies which their chaines haue brast And damned sprights sent forth to make ill men agast Ed. Spencer Darksome den of Auernus Wher 's no path to returne nor starting holes to be scaping Desteny death and hell and howling hidious hell-hound Loathsom streames of Stix that nine times compasse Auernuâ— Ab. Fraunce They passe the bitter waues of Acheron Where many soules sit wayling wofully And come to fiery flood of Phlegeton Whereas the damned ghoasts in torments fry And with sharpe shrilling shrikes do bootlesse cry Cursing high Ioue the which them thither sent Ed. Spencer About the desart parts of Greece there is a vally low To which the roaring waters fall that froÌ„ the mouÌ„tains flowâ— So rocks do ouershadow it that scarse a man may vew The open aire no sun shines there amidst this darkesom creâ— Doth stand a citie to the same belongs one onely gate But one at once may come therto the entrance is so strait Cut out the rough maine stony rocke this citie did belong To Pluto and because that he was doing alwaies wrong And kept a theeuish rable that in mischiefe did excell His citizens were diuels said and citie named hell W. Warner Honour In woods in waues in warres doth honour dwell And will be found with petill and with paine Ne can the man that moulds in idle cell Vnto her happie mansion attaine Before her gate hie God did sweat ordaine And wakefull watches euer to abide Ed. Spencer Honour is purchas'de by the deeds we doo Ch. Marlowe Honour is not wonne Vntill some honourable deed be donne Idem Danger bids seeke the softest way one way But what saith honour honour saith not so Neuer retire with shame this honour saith The worst that can befall one is but death S. I. Harr. In braue pursuit of honourable deed There is I know not what great difference Betweene the vulgar and the common seed Which vnto things of valerous pretence Seemes to be borne by natiue influence As feates of armes and loue to entertaine But chiefly skill to ride doth seeme a science Proper to gentle blood some others faine To manage steed c. Ed. Spencer Euer great imployment for the great Quickens the bloud and honour doth beget S. Daniell Promotion is a puffe These worldly honors are but shades of sweete Who seeke too much before they get enough Before they meet the meane with death they meete With death they meete the hauen of all desire Where will must waâ—ne and pride cannot aspire D. Lodge Honour a thing without vs not our owne S. D. What doth auaile to haue a princely place A name of honour and an high degree To
dispaire annext to hope a fancie that is fed Sweete poyson for his taste a port Charibdis like Ascylla for his safetie though a Lyon that is meeke Th. Turberuile O brawling loue O louing hate O any thing of nothing first created O heauie lightnesse serious vanitie Mishapen Chaos of well seeing formes Feather of lead bright smoke cold fier sicknes helth Still waking sleepe that is not what it is W. Shakespeare Sight is his roote in thought is his progression His childhood wonder prentiship attention His youth delight his age the soules opression Doubt is his sleepe he waketh in inuention Fancie his foode his cloathing carefulnesse Beautie his booke his play Louers discention His eies are curious search but vaild with warefulnesse His wings desire oft clipt with desperation Largesse his hands could neuer skill of sparefulnesse But how he doth by might or by perswasion To conquer and his conquest how to ratifie Experience doubts and schooles had disputation S. Ph. Sidney Loue hath two shafts the one of beaten gold By stroake whereof a sweete effect is wrought The other is of lumpish leaden mold And worketh no effect but what is nought Th. Watson At Venus intreatie for Cupid her sonne These arrowes by Vulcan were cunningly done The first is Loue as here you may behold His feathers head and body are of gold The second shaft is Hate a foe to loue And bitter are his torments for to proue The third is Hope from whence our comfort springs His feathers are puld from Fortunes wings Fourth Iealousie in basest mindes doth dwell This mettall Vulcans Cyclops sent from hell G. Peele Hard is the doubt and difficult to deeme When all three kinds of loue together meet And do dispart the heart with power extreame Whether shall waigh the ballance downe to weet The deare affection vnto kindred sweet Or raging fier of loue to woman kinde Or zeale of friends combinde with vertues meet But of them all the band of vertues minde Me seemes the gentle heart should most assured finde Ed. Spencer Of vertue onely perfect loue doth grow Whose first beginning though it be more slow Then that of lust and quickens not so fast Yet sure it is and longer time doth last The strawe inkindles soone and slakes againe But yron is slow and long will heat retaine Th. Hudson Most true it is that true loue hath no power To looken back his eyes be fixt before W. Sha. Loue alwaies doth bring forth most bounteous deeds And in each gentle heart desire of honor breeds True loue is free and led with selfe delight Ne will inforced be with masterdome or might Idem Loue naked boy hath nothing on his backe And though he wanteth neither arme nor legge Yet maim'd he is sith he his sight doth lacke And yet though blind he bewtie can behold And yet though nak'd he feeles more heat then cold H. C. Loue staies not long it is but one yeares bird Th. Churchyard Loue must haue change to season sweet delight Idem Loue lawes and Iudges hath in fee Nature and vse his iudges bee To whom his whole course censures flee Since past and things to come they see G. Chapman Loue is in power felt of all in person found of none Or rather is not reall but some fancie If not then Fantasticall in women but essentiall in men W. Warner Loues eyes in viewing neuer haue their fill W. Marlowe This is the least effect of Cupids dart To change the mind by wounding of the hart Th. Watson Vnto the woods runs loue as well as rides to the pallace Neither he beares reuerence to a prince nor pitie to beggere But like a point amidst of a circle still of an euennesse All to a lesson he drawes neither hills nor caues can auoyd him S. Phil. Sidney The throne of Cupid hath an easie staire His barke is fit to saile with euery winde The breach he makes no wise man can repaire Ed. Fairfax Loue will haue his godhead seene In famous queenes and highest princes hearts S. I. H. Loue wants his eyes yet shootes he passing right His shafts our thoughts his bowe he makes our sight His deadly pilles are tempered with such art As still directs the arrow to the hart M. Drayton Loue doth raigne In stoutest minds and maketh monstrous warre He maketh warre he maketh peace againe And yet his peace is but continuall warre O miserable men that to him subiect are Ed. Spencer First loue is firme and toucheth very neare W. Warner Loue vnto life this cognizance doth giue This badge this marke to euery man that minds it Loue lendeth life which liuing cannot die Nor liuing loue G. Gascoigne Loue is too full of faith too credulous With folly and false hope deluding vs. Ch. Marlowe Loue is not full of mercy as men say But deafe and cruell where he meanes to pray Idem Loue paints his longings in sweet virgins eyes G. Chapman Loue gainsaid growes madder then before Th. Watson Loue findeth meane but hatred knowes no measure Ed. Spencer As Bacchus opes dissembled harts So loue sets out our better parts M. Roydon As loue hath wreathes his pretie eyes to seare So louers must keep secret what they feare D. Lodge Loue keeps his reuels where there are but twaine W. Shakespeare As Iris coate in sundry taints doth showe So loue is clad in weale and strait in woe D. Lodge Loue can abide no law loue alwaies loues to be lawlesse Loue altereth nature rules reason mastereth Olympus Lawes edicts deerees contemnes Ioue mightily thundring Ioue that rules and raigns that with beck bendeth Olympus Loue caried Hyppolitus with briars thorns to be mangled For that he had the faire foule lusting Phedra refused Loue made Absyrtus with sisters hands to be murdred And in peeces torne and here and there to be scattered Loue forst Pasiphae mans company long to be loathing And for a while bulls flesh bulls company long to be taking Loue and luring lookes of louely Polixena caused Greekish Achilles death when he came to the church to be wedded Loue made Alcides that most inuincible Heros Maister of all monsters at length to be whipt of a monster Loue drownd Leander swimming to the beautifull Heâ—o Vnto the towne Cestos from towne of cursed Abydos Loue made Ioue that 's ruler of earth and ruler of heauen Like to a silly shepheard and like to the fruitfull Echidua Like to a fish to a swan a spawne to a bull to an eagle Sometimes Amphitrio sometimes Dictinua resembling Ab. Fraunce Trifling attempts no serious acts aduance The fier of loue is blowne by dalliance G. Chapman Where there growes a sympathy of harts Each passion in the one the other paineth And by euen carryage of the outward parts Wherein the actuall worke of loue remaineth The inward griefes mislikes and ioyes are taught And euery signe bewraies a secret thought D. Lodge Loue deeply grounded hardly is dissembled Ch. Marlowe O bold beleeuing loue how hote it
West Orion lift aloft His stately crest and smilde vpon the twins And Cynthia seemely bright whose eye full oft Had watcht her loue with radiant light begins To pierce the vaile of silence with her beames Sporting with wanton cleere in Ocean streames VVhen little winds in beating of their wings Did woe the eyes to leaue their constant walke And all was husht saue Zephirus that sings With louely breathings for the sea nymphs sake My wrathfull greefes perplexe my mind so sore That forth I walkt my sorrowes to deplore D. Lodge Poeticall Descriptions Of Theologie In chariot framed of celestiall mould And simple purenesse of the purest skie A more then heauenly nymph I did behold Who glauncing on mee with her gracious eye So gaue mee leaue her beautie to espie For sure no sence such sight can comprehend Except her beames theyr fayre reflection lend Her beautie with eternitie beganne And onely vnto God was euer seene When Eden was possest with sinfull man She came to him and gladly would haue beene The long succeedings worlds eternall Queene But they refused her O hainous deede And from that garden banisht was that seede Since when at sundrie times and sundry wayes Atheisme and blinded ignorance conspire How to obscure those holy burning rayes And quench that zeale of heart-inflaming fire As makes our soules to heauenly things aspire But all in vaine for maugre all their might She neuer lost one sparkle of her light Pearles may bee foyld and gold bee turn'd to drosse The sunne obscur'd the moone bee turn'd to bloud The world may sorrow for Astreas losse The heauens darkened like a duskie wood Wast deserts lie where watrie fountaines stood But fayre Theologie for so shee hight Shall neuer loose one sparkle of her light Such one she was as in his Hebrew song The wisest king for fairest creature prooues Embracing her the Cedar trees among Comparing her to roses and to Doues Preferring her before all other loues Such one she was and euerie whit as fayre Besides these two was neuer such a payre T. Storer Astrologie Her hand-maides in Amazon-like attire Went chaste and modest like Dianaes traine One by her gazing lookes seemes to aspire Beyond the Moone and in a high disdaine To deeme the world and worldly treasures vaine She hight Astrologie on whose bright lawne Spheres Astrolabes and skilfull globes are drawn Retoricke The next fayre smiling with a pleasing cheeke Had power to rauish and inchaunt mens eares Hight Rhetorick whose shadowed vaile showen cleere With siluer tongues and ouer it she weares A wimpled scarfe bedewd with hearers teares Whose captiue hearts she should detaine long while With pleasance of her vnaffected stile Of Logicke The third a quicke-eyde dame of piercing sight That reasons worth in equall ballance wayed The truth shee lou'd aboue all earthly wight Yet could not tell her loue but what shee sayd Was certaine true and shee a perfect maide Her garments short tuckt vp to earth preparde And shee calld Logicke without welt or gard Th. Storer Arith. Musicke Geometrie Next these whose outward lookes I knew aright And had some portion of their endlesse treasure Fayre Algebra with fingers richly dight Sweete Musicke founder of delightsome pleasure Earth-scanning nymph directresse of all measure These humbly did her soueraigne highnes greet And meekely layd their garlands at her feete From euerie one shee pluckt a speciall flower And layd each flower vpon a seuerall part Then from her one a stemme of wondrous power Whose leaues were beames whose stalke a fiery dart And that she layd vpon my trembling heart These were the buds of art this plant of blisse This gaue them life they yeelded grace to this Th. Storer Of Battaile Two greater kings were neuer seene before Then camped was in Ragan field at morne With haughtie hearts enarmed all on ire Each souldiour set another so on fire Thar scarcely they could keepe them in their bounde Till pipe or Cymball or the Trumpet sound Denounce the chocke but with their furious faces They threate their foes with fell menaces And stroks at hand two thousand lads forlorne To blunt the sword were downe in battaile borne Vpon their flames flew feruently their stones That bet theyr bucklers to their brused bones The Squadron then steps sternely to the stroke With hearts inhumane all the battaile yoakes And are supplyde with many mightie bands Some counters them and sternely them withstands With foote to foote each other ouerpries Both Medes and Caldes claspe with gastly cryes Like Nylus streames that from the rocke do rumble 〈◊〉 Encelade when he in tombe doth tumble Tho. Hudsâ—â— Of a kisse Best charge and brauest retrait in Cupids fight A double key which opens to the heart Most rich when most his riches it impart Neast of yong ioyes schoole-master of deâ—ight Teaching the meane at once to take and giue The friendly stay where blows both wound heale The pettie death where each in other liue Poore hopes first wealth hostage of promise weake Breakefast of loue S. Ph. Sydney Of People People lesse setled then the slâ—ding sand â—ore mutable then Proteus or the Moone Tâ—â—nd and â—eâ—urnd in turning of a hand â—â—â—e Euâ—â—pusâ—bâ—e flowing euery noone Thou thousand headed headlesse monster most Of slâ—ine like Antheus and as oft new rising Who hard as steele as light as wingd art tost Camelion like each obâ—ects colour prising I. Syluester Disdaine A sturdie villaine stirring strife and bold As though the highest God defie he would In his right hand an iron clubbe hee held But hee himselfe was all of golden mould Yet had both life and sence and well could weilde That cursed weapon when his cruell foes he queld Dâ—sdaine he called was and did disdaine So to be calde and who so him did call Ed. Spencer Of the same Loe a knight vnto his socour went All arm'd in shining steele and on his shield He bare a yoake in sundrie peeces rent And flames of fire all in a yellow field So weaponed he was as if hee ment To make all that incountred him to yeeld A sword and speare hee had and to the same A mace from whence he threw continuall flame His mace was storde with euerlasting fire That euer burned and did neuer waste No other wagon needed one desire To make good way which way soere he past And sure Rinaldoes danger did require Quicke remedie wherefore the knight did haste And when hee saw this monster and did vew her VVith his stiffe speare forth with hee ouerthrew her But this same fall did her no whit annoy Wherefore to vse his speare he now misliketh Onely hee will his fierie face imploy And with thar same the monster foule hee striketh Then shee no longer could her force inioy S. I. H. Of Dearth Dearth the liuely forme of death Still yawning wide with lothsome stinking breath VVith hollow eyes with meger cheekes and chinne VVith sharpe leane bones piercing her sable skinne Her emptie bowels may bee plainely spide
Hudson There quakes the plant which in Pudefetan Is call'd the shamefac't for asham'd of man If toward it one do approach too much It shrinkes the boughes to shun our hatefull touch As if it had a soule a sense and sight Subiect to shame feare sorow and despight I. Syluester Of Acheron Rude Acheron a loathsome lake to hell That boiles and bubs vp swelth as blacke as hell Where grisly Charon at their fixed tide Still ferries ghosts vnto the farther side M. Sackuile Echidna Echidna is a monster direfull dread Whom Gods do hate and heauens abhorre to see So hidious is her shape so huge her head That euen the hellish fiends affrighted bee At sight thereof and from her presence flie Yet did her faire and former parts professe A faire young maiden full of comely glee But all her hinder parts did plaine expresse A monstrous Dragon full of fearefull vglinesse Ed. Spencer 4. Cardinall vertues Andronica that wisely sees before And Phronesis the Iudge and chaste Drucilla And she that boldly fights for vertues lore Descending from the Romine race Camilla S. I. Harrington Of the Eagle The Cedar-building Eagle beares the winde And not the Falchon though both Haukes by kinde That Kingly bird doth from the clouds command The fearefull fowle that moues but nere the land M. Dray Phoenix The bird of fame That still renewes it selfe and neuer dies And onely one in all the world there flies S. I. Harrington * Of all chast birds the Phaenix doth excell Of all strong beasts the Lyon beares the bell Of all sweete flowers the Rose doth sweetest smell Of all pure mettalls gold is onely purest Of all the trees the Pine hath highest crest Of all proud birds the Eagle pleaseth Ioue Of pretie fowles kind Venus likes the Doue Of trees Minerua doth the Oliue moue T. Lodge * Who holdeth league with Neptune and the winde S. Dan. The Phaenix gazeth on the sunnes bright beames The Echinaeus swims against the streames R. Greene. Impossibilities He that the number of the leaues could cast That in Nouember falles by winters blast He that could tell the drops of raine and sleete That Hyad Orion or Pleyiades weete Sheds on the ground that man might onely tell What teares from Iudiths eies incestant fell Th. Hudson Like Coruiue who forgate His Proper name or like George Trapezunce Learned in youth and in his age a dunce I. Syl. The firmament shall retrograde his course Swift Euphrates go hide him in his sourse Firme mountains skip like lambes beneath the deepe Eagles shall diue whales in the aire shall keepe Ere I presume with fingers end to touch Much lesse with lippes the fruite forbid too much I. Syluester Flie from thy channell Thames forsake thy streames Leaue the Adamant Iron Phoebus lay thy beames Cease heauenly spheres at last your watrie warke Betray your charge returne to Chaos darke At least some ruthlesse Tigre hang her whelpe My Catisbye so with some excuse to helpe M. M. Ceston That girdle gaue the vertue of chast loue And wiuehood true to all that did it beare But whosoeuer contrary doth proue Might not the same about her middle weare But it would loose or else asunder teare Whilom it was as Faieries wont report Dame Venus girdle by her esteemd deare What time she vsde to liue in wiuely sort But laid aside when so she vsde her sport Her husband Vulcan whilome for her sake When first he loued her with heart intire This precious ornament they say did make And wrought in Lemnos with vnquenched fire And afterward did for her first loues hire Giue it to her for euer to remaine Therewith to bind lasciuious desire And loose affections straightly to restraine Which vertue it for euer did retaine This goodly Belt was Ceston call'd by name Ed. Spencer * The noble Lyon neuer slaies the least But alwaies praies vpon some worthy beast The thunder throwes his sulphured shafts adowne On Atlas high or cold Riphins crowne The tempest fell more feruently doth fall On houses high then on the homely hall Th. Hudson * Saturn taught men vntaught before to eare the lusty land And how to pierce the pathlesse aire with shafts from bowmans hand God Dis did quaile to see his gold so fast conuaid from hell And fishes quakt when men in ships amidst their flouds did dwell VV. VVarner Twelue foule faults A wise man liuing like a drone an old man not deuout Youth disobedient rich men that are charitie without A shameles womā vicious Lords a poore man proudly stout Cōtentious Christiās Pastors that their functiōs do neglect A wicked King no discipline no lawes men to direct Are twelue the foulest faults that most all common-wealths infect W. Warner Engines of warre The Inginers haue the Trepan drest And reared vp the Ramme for battery best Here bends the Briccoll while the Cable crackes There Crosbowes were vprent with yron Rackes Here crooked Coruies fleing Bridges tall Their scathfull Scorpions that ruines the wall On euery side they raise with ioynture meete The timber Towres for to commaund the streete The painfull Pioners wrought against their will With fleakes and Faggots ditches vp to fill Th. Hudson * The happie Arabs those that builds In thatched Wagons wandring through the fields The subtil Tirians they who first were Clarkes That staid the wandring words in leaues and barkes Idem * At Babell first confused toongs of euery language grew W. Warner Idolatry did growe * From Ninus first he first a Monarchy did frame Idem * Lord Dane the same was called thē to thē a pleasing name Now odiously Lordan say we when idle mates we blame Idem * The Turtle that is true and chaste in loue Shewes by her mate something the spirit doth moue The Arabian byrd that neuer is but one Is only chaste because she is alone But had our mother Nature made them two They would haue done as Doues and Sparrowes do But therefore made a Martyr in desire And doth her pennance lastly in the fire M. Drayton * I cast not with fooles suffer Saints let mighty fooles be mad Note Seneca by newes done for precepts pennance had VV. Warner * The Romane widow dide when she beheld Her sonne whom erst she counted slaine in feeld G. Gascoigne Riuers Faire Danubie is praisde for being wide Nilus commended for the seuen-fold head Euphrates for the swiftnesse of the tide And for the garden whence his course is led The bankes of Rhine with Vines are ouerspred Take Loyre and Po yet all may not compare With English Thamesis for buildings rare Th. Storer FINIS FAmes windy trump blew up this haughty mind To do or wish to do what here you find T was ne're held error yet in errant Knights Which priviledge he claims to dress their fights In high hyperbolies for youths example To make their minds as they grow men grow ample Thus such atchievements are assaid and done As pass the common power and sence of man Then let high spirits strive to imitate Not what he did but what he doth relate
their hie protections do containe All mortall Princes and imperiall states And fairer yet whereas the royall seats And heauenly Dominations are set From whom all earthly gouernance is fet Yet farre more faire be those bright Cherubins Which all with golden wings are ouer dight And those eternall burning Seraphins Which from their faces dart out fiery light Yet fairer then they both and much more bright Be th' Angels and Archangels which attend On Gods owne person without rest or end Ed. Spencer The first composing of the number nine Which of all numbers is the most diuine From orders of the Angels doth arise Which be contained in three Hierarchies And each of these three Hierarchies in three The perfect forme of true felicitie And of the Hierarchies I spake of erst The glorious Epiphania is the first In which the hie celestiall orders bin Of Thrones of Cherubs and of Seraphin The second holds the mightie Principates The Ephionia the third Hierarchie With Vertues Angels and Archangels bee And thus by threes we aptly do define And do compose this sacred number nine Yet each of these nine orders grounded be Vpon some one particularitie M. Drayton Out of the Hierarchies of Angels sheene The gentle Gabriell God cald from the rest Twixt God and soules of men that righteous beene Embassador he is for euery blest The iust commands of heauens eternall king Twixt skies and earth he vp and downe doth bring Ed. Fairfax Transl Our walls of flesh that close our soules God knew how weak and gaue A further gard euen euery man an Angell guide to saue And men for vs be angels while they work our souls to saue VV. VVarner If Angels fight Weake men must fall for heauen stil gards the right W. Shakespeare Ambition Ambition is a Vultur vile That feedeth on the heart of pride And finds no rest when all is tride For worlds cannot confine the one Th' other lists and bounds hath none And both subuert the mind the state Procure destruction enuy hate S. Daniell Ambition fie vpon thy painted cheeke Woe worth the beautie sleepes not with the face For thou art hatefull foule vnfaire vnmeete A poyson-painted pleasure mads men chase Thou reasonlesse desire that makes men seeke To kisse the same whilest fire doth thee imbrace Thou onely strong disordered rulest passion Thou marst mens minds and puâ—st them out of fashioÌ„ I. Markham The golden chaine of Homers hie deuise Ambition is or cursed auarice Which all gods haling being tied to Ioue Him from his setled height could neuer moue Intending this that though that powerfull chaine Of most Herculean vigor to constraine Men from true vertue or their present states Attempt a man that manlesse changes hates And is enobled with a deathlesse loue Of things eternall dignified aboue Nothing shall stirre him from adorning still This shape with vertue and his power with will G. Chapman The greedy thirst of royall crowne That knowes no kindred nor regards no right Stird Porrex vp to pluck his brother downe Who vnto him assembling forraine might Made warre on him and fell himselfe in fight Whose death to auenge his mother mercilesse Most merciles of women Eden hight Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse Ed. Spencer A diademe once dazeling the eie The day too darke to see affinitie And where the arme is stretcht to reach a crowne Friendship is broke the dearest things thrown downe M. Drayton Realme-rape spareth neither kin nor friend I. Higgins Mir. of Ma. Who fight for crownes set life set all to light Who aime so hie wil die or hit the white Doctor Lodge One riseth by an others fall and some do clime so fast That in the clouds they do forget what climats they haue past W. Warner The Eagle minded minds that nestle in the sun Their lofty heads haue leaden heeles and end where they begun Idem O fatall is the ascent vnto a crowne From wheÌ„ce men come not down but tumble downe S. Daniell Like as the heauen two Sunnes cannot containe So in the earth two Kings cannot remaine Of equall state so doth Ambition craue One King will not another equall haue Tho. Hudson Transl Whom so the mindes vnquiet state vpheaues Be it for loue or feare when fancie reaues Reason her right by mocking of the wit If once the cause of this affection flit Reason preuailing on the vnbrideled thought Downe falls he who by fancie climbd aloft I. H. M. of Magist Desire of rule within a climbing brest To breake a vowe may beare the buckler best G. Gascoigne In some courts shall you see Ambition Sit peecing Dedalus old waxen wings But being clapt on and they about to flie Euen when their hopes are busied in the cloudes They melt against the sunne of maiestie And downe they tumble to destruction Tho. Dekkar Better sit still men say then rise and fall High state the bed wherein misfortune lies Mars most vnfriendly when most kind he seemes Who climeth hie on earth he hardest lights And lowest falles attends the highest flights Ed. Fairfax Transl As highest hils with tempest be most touched And tops of trees most subiect vnto winde And as great Towers with stone strongly couched Haue many falles when they be vnderminde Euen so by proofe in worldly things we finde That such as climbe the top of hie degree From feare of falling neuer can be free I. H. M. of Magist Ambition with the Eagle loues to build Nor on the mountaine dreads the winter blast But with selfe soothing doth the humour guild With arguments correcting what is past Forecasting kingdomes dangers vnforecast Leauing this poore word of content to such Whose earthly spirits haue not fiery tuch M. Drayton The ambitious once inur'd to raigne Can neuer brooke a priuate state againe S. Daniell Warlike Caesar tempted with the name Of this sweet Island neuer conquered And enuying the Britons blazed fame O hideous hunger of dominion hither came Ed. Spencer Ambition In princely pallace and in stately townes Doth often creep and close within conuaies To leaue behind it damage and decaies By it be loue and amitie destroid It breakes the lawes and common concord beates Kingdomes and realmes it topsie turuy turnes G. Gascoigne Be not ambitiously a king nor grudgingly decline One God did roote out Cis his stock and raise vp Iesses line VV. Warner The aspirer once attain'd vnto the toppe Cuts off those meanes by which himselfe got vp S. Daniel Haughtie Ambition makes a breach in hills Runs drie by sea amongst the raging scills Th. Hud Affection Affection is a coale that must be coolde Else suffered it will set the heart on fire The fire hath bounds but deepe desire hath none VV. Shakespeare Affection by the countenance is descri'de The light of hidden fier it selfe discouers And loue that is conceal'd betraies poore Louers Th. Marlowe Most wretched man That to affections doth the bridle lend In their beginning they are
weake and wan But soone through sufferance growe to fearefull end Whil'st they are weake betime with them contend For when they once to perfect strength do growe Strong warres they make and cruell battrie bend Gainst fort of reason it to ouerthrowe Ed. Sp. Affliction If so Affliction once her warre begin And threat the feeble sense with sword and fire The mind contracts her selfe and shrinketh in And to her selfe she gladly doth retire As Spiders toucht seeke their webbes in most part As Bees in stormes vnto their hiues returne As bloud in daunger gathers to the hart As men seeke townes when foes the country burne I. Dauies If ought can touch vs ought afflictions lookes Make vs to looke into our selues so neare Teach vs to know our selues beyond all bookes Or all the learned schooles that euer were Idem This makes our senses quicke and reason cleare Resolues our will and rectifies our thought So do the winds and thunder clense the aire So working seas settle and purge the wine So lopt and pruned trees do flourish faire So doth the fire the drossie gold refine I. Dauies Audacitie What need we creepe the crosse to giue vnto a begging saint Tush tush a fig for booke loue none be fortunate that faint W. Warner Things out of hope are compast oft with ventering Chiefly in loue whose leaue exceeds commission Affection faints not like a pale fac'd coward But then woes best when most his choice is froward W. Shakespeare Blushing and sighing Theseus neuer stroue To wooe and winne Antiope his loue I. Weeuer VVhen all is done that do we may Labour we sorrowing all the night and suing all the day The female faultie custome yeelds lesse merit greatest pay And ventrous more then vertuous means doth bear the bel away W. Warner Art Art hath a world of secrets in her powers M. Drayton Art curbeth nature nature guildeth Art I. Marston Things sencelesse liue by Art and rationall die By rude contempt of Art and industrie G. Chapman Art hath an enemy cald ignorance B. Iohnson Arts perish wanting honour and applause D. Lodge Arts best nurse is honours chast desire And glory sets all studious hearts on fire Tho. Storer Art must be wonne by art and not by might S. I. Harr. Transl Valour and Art are both the sonnes of Ioue Both brethren by the father not the mother Both peeres without compare both liue in loue But Art doth seeme to be the elder brother Because he first gaue life vnto the other Who afterward gaue life to him againe Thus each by other doth his life retaine Ch. Fitz. Ieffery Art is nobilities true register Nobilitie Arts champion still is said Learning is fortitudes right calender And fortitude is Learnings saint and aide Thus if the ballances twixt both bewaide Honour sheelds Learning from all iniurie And Learning honour from blacke infamie Idem Vaine is the Art that seeks it selfe for to deceiue Ed. Spencer Auarice Greedie Auarice by him did ride Vpon a Camell loaden all with gold Two iron coffers hung on either side With precious mettall full as they might hold And in his lap a heape of coyne he tolde For of his wicked pelfe his god he made And vnto hell himselfe for money solde Accursed vsurie was all his trade And right and wrong alike in equall ballance waied Ed. Spencer Forth of a Desart wood an vgly beast There seem'd to come whose shape was thus defined Eares of an Asse a Wolfe in head and breast A carkasse all with pinching famine pined A Lyons grisly iawe but all the rest To fox-like shape did seeme to be enclined In England France in Italy and Spaeine Yea all the world this monster seem'd to raine Where ere this cruell monster set his foote He kild and spoyld of euery sort and state No height of birth or state with him did boote He conquered Kings and crownes all in like rate Yea this beasts power had tane so deep a roote It entred in Christs Vicars sacred gate And vexed Cardinalls and Bishops chiefe And bred a scandall euen in our beliefe S. I. Harr. Python whom Phoebus kil'd with thousand darts Was monster lesse then this by thousand parts Idem Eriphilaes Armor In vaine it were for to declare in Verse How sumptuously her armour all was wrought All set with stones and set with Indian Gold Perfect for vse and pleasant to behold Mounted she was but not vpon a steede In stead whereof she on a Wolfe did sit A Wolfe whose match Apulia doth not breede Taught to obey although she vs'de no bit And all of sandy colour was her weede Her armes were this for such a Champion fit An vgly toade was painted on her shield With poyson swolne and in a sable field Idem Auarice all arm'd in hooking â—enters All clad in birdlime without bridge she venters Through fell Charibdis and false Syrtes Nesse The more her wealth the more her wretchednesse Cruell respectlesse friendlesse faithlesse else Those foule base figures in each dunghill poole Like Tantalus staru'd in the midst of store Not that she hath but what she wants she counts A well-wing'd Bird that neuer loftie mounts I. Syluister Transl Regard of worldly mucke doth fowly blend And lowe abase the hie heroike spirit That ioyes for crownes and kingdomes to contend Ed. Spencer We aged carke to liue and leaue an ouerplus in store Perhaps for spend-alls so amidst abundance liue we pore W. Warner Those which much couet are with gaine so fond That what they haue not that which they possesse They scatter and vnloose from their bond And so by hoping more they haue but lesse Or gaining more the profit of excesse Is but to surfet and such griefes sustaine That they proue banckrout in this pore rich vaine VV. Shakespeare Those that will all deuour must all forgoe Tho. Dekkar CoÌ„tent thee with vnthreatned mean play not Aesops dog The gold that geÌ„tle Bacchus gaue did greedy Mydas clog Commit not treasure with thy child to greedy minded men Thou leauest Polydor a spoile to Polymnestor then VV. VVarner Beautie Sacred Beautie is the fruit of sight That curtesie that speakes before the toong The feast of soules the glory of the light Enuy of age and euerlasting yoong Pitties commaunder Cupids richest throne Musicke entraunced neuer duly sung The summe and court of all proportion And that I may dull speeches least afford All Rhethorickes Flowers in lesse then in a word G. Chapman Bewtie borne of heauenly race Bewtie daughter of maruaile ô see how Thou canst disgracing sorrowes sweetly grace What power thou shew'st in a distressed browe That mak'st affliction faire giu'st teares their grace What can vntressed locks can torne rent haire A weeping eye a wailing face be faire I see then artlesse feature can content And that true Bewtie needs no ornament S. Daniell Bewtie is the bait which with delight Doth man allure for to enlarge his kinde Bewtie the burning lampe of heauens light Darting her beames into
each feeble minde Against whose power nor God nor man can finde Defence reward the daunger of the wound â—ut being hurt seeke to be medicinde Of her that first did stirre that mortall wound Ed. Spencer Bewtie is womans golden crowne Mans conqueresse and feminine renowne â—ot ioind with loue who deare yet euer sold it â—or bewties cheape except loues eye behold it I. Weeuer Bewtie is an adamant to all â—ewtie natures Iuie-bush each passenger doth call W. Warner â—eldome wants guests where Bewtie bids the feast â—ens eyes with wonders nere are satisfied At fairest signes best welcome is surmised The shrine of loue doth seldome offring want Nor with such counsell clients neuer scant M. Drayton All Orators are dumbe where Bewtie pleadeth W. Shakespeare Bewtie it selfe doth of it selfe perswade The eyes of men without an Orator What needeth then Apollogies be made To set forth that which is so singular Idem Nought vnder heauen so strongly doth allure The sense of man and all his minde possesse As Bewties louely bate that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigor to represse And mightie hands forget their manlinesse Driuen with the power of an heart-robbing eye And wrapt in flowers of a golden tresse That can with melting pleasance mollifie Their hardned hearts enur'd to bloud and crueltie Ed. Spencer O how can bewtie maister the most strong And simple truth subdue auenging wrong Idem No armour can be found that can defend Transpercing raies of christall pointed eyes S. Daniell Hard is that heart which Bewtie makes not soft Ed. Fairfax Transl Who so young that loues not Or who so olde that womens Bewtie moues not W. Weeuer A sparke of Bewtie burns a world of men Idem O what is Bewtie if it be not seene Or what is' t to be seene and not admir'd And though admir'd vnlesse in loue desir'd Neuer were cheekes of Roses locks of Amber Ordain'd to liue imprisoned in a Chamber S. Daniell Nature created Bewtie for the view Like as the fire for heate the Sun for light The faire do euer hold this pledge as due By auntient charter to liue most in sight As she that is debar'd it hath not right In vaine our friends from this do vs dehort For Bewtie will be where is most resort Idem All excellence of shape is made for sight To be a beetle else were no defame Hid Bewties lose their ends and wrong their right G. Chapman Heauen made bewtie like her selfe to viewe Not to be lapt vp in a smoakie mewe A rosie tainted feature is heauens golde Whil'st all men ioy to touch all to behold M. Drayton The ripest corne dies if it be not reapt Bewtie alone is lost too early kept Ch. Marlowe It hath bene through all ages euer seene That with the praise of armes and chiualrie The praise of Bewtie still hath ioyned beene And that for reasons speciall priuitie For either doth on other much relie For he me seemes most fittest is to serue That can her best defend from villanie And she most fit his seruice doth deserue That fairest is and from her faith doth neuer swarue Ed. Spencer Bewtie is more bright and cleare The more it is admir'd of many a wight And noblest she that serued is of noble Knight Idem Rich Bewtie that each Louer labours for Tempting as heapes of new coynd glowing Golde Rackt of some miserable treasurer Drawes his desires and them in chaines enfold Vrging him still to tell it and conceale it But Bewties treasure neuer can be tolde None can peculiar ioy yet all must steale it O Bewtie this same bloodie siege of thine Starues me that yeeld and feeds me till I pine G. Chapman O Bewtie still thy Empire swims in blood And in thy peace warre stores himselfe with foode Idem O Bewtie Syrene faire enchaunting good Sweete silent Rhethoricke of perswading eyes Dumbe eloquence whose power doth moue the blood More then the workes or wisedome of the wise Still harmony whose Diapazon lies Within a brow the key which passions moue To rauish the sence and play a world in loue S. Daniell Beautie enchasing loue loue gaining Beautie To such as conflict Sympathies enfold To perfect riches doth a sounder dutie Then all endeuours for by all consent All wealth and wisedome rests in time content More force and art is beautie ioynd with loue Then thrones with wisedom ioyes of them composde Are armes more proofe gainst any griefe we proue Then all their vertue scorning miserie Or iudgements graue in stoicke grauitie G. Chapman Beautie a begger fieit is too bad When in it selfe sufficiencie is had It was not made to please the wandring eie But an attire to adorne sweet modestie If modestie and women once do seuer Farwell our fame farwell our name for euer M. Drayton O Beautie that betraies thy selfe to euery amorous eie To trap thy proud professors what is it but wantons trie VVhere through it sildom haps the faire from mean deceits to flie W. Warner This Beautie faire is an inchauntment made By natures witchcraft tempting men to buie With endlesse showes what endlesly will fade Yet promise chapmen all eternitie But like to goods ill got a fault it hath Brings men inricht therewith to beggery Vnles the enricher be as rich in faith Enamourd like god self-selfe-loue with her owne Seene in an other then t is heauen alone G. Chapman Beautie is a baine To such as feed their fancy with fond loue That when sweet youth with lust is ouerthrowne It rues in age R. Greene. Where Venus strikes with Beautie to the quicke It little vailes safe reason to apply Fewe are the cares for such as are loue sicke But loue Idem Truce warre and woe do wait at Beauties gate Time lost laments reports and priuie grudge And last fierce loue is but a partiall iudge Who yeelds for seruice shame for friendship hate D. Lodge The bees of Hybla haue besides sweet hony smarting stings And beauty doth not want a bait that to repentance brings W. Warner Faire colours soonest soyle Things of best price are subiect most to spoyle Ch. Middleton The fairer cheeke hath oftentimes a soule Leprous as sin it selfe then hell more foule Th. Dekkar All men do erre because that men they bee And men with Beautie blinded cannot see G. Peele Beautie heauen and earth this grace doth win It supples rigor and it lessons sin G. Chapman Nought is vnder heauens wide hollownes That moues more deare compassion of mind Then Beautie to vnworthy wretchednes Through enuies snares or fortunes freakes vnkind Ed. Spencer Nothing ill becomes the faire But crueltie which yeelds vnto no praier S. Daniell Like as the Sun in a Diameter Fires and inflames obiects remoued far And heateth kindly shining laterally So Beautie sweetly quickens when t is nie But being seperated and remoued Burnes where it 's cherisht murders where it loued Ch. Marlowe Simples fit Beautie fie on drugs and art M. Drayton Faire words and powre-attractiue bewtie Bring men
body thin and bare as any bone Whereto was left nought but the case alone And that alas was gnawne on euery where All full of holes that I ne mought refraine From teares to see how she her armes could teare And with her teeth gnash on her bones in vaine When all for nought she faine would so sustaine Her staruen corps that rather seem'd a shade Then any substance of a creature made Great was her force whom stone walles could not stay Her tearing nayles snatching at all she sawe With gaping iawes that by no meanes y may Be satisfied from hunger of her mawe But eates her selfe as she that hath no lawe Gnawing alas her carkas all in vaine While you may count each sinew bone and vaine On her while we thus firmly fixt our eie That bled for â—uth of such a drery sight Lo suddenly she shrikte in so huge wise As made hell gates to shiuer with the might Where with a dart we sawe how it did light Right on his brest and therewithall pale death Enthrilling it to reaue her of her breath M. Sackuile Meane cates are welcome still to hungry guests B. Ioh. Fancie Fancie we feele includes all passions might S. Phil. Sydney Fancie by kind with reason striueth still Th. Watson Vid. loue Fate What God hath said that cannot but ensue Though all the world would haue it ouerthrowne When men suppose by fetches of their owne To flie their Fate they further on the same Like blasts of winde which oft reuiue the flame M. of M. The heauens do rule in their continuall course That yeelds to Fate that doth not yeeld to force M. Drayton Chaunce is vncertaine fortune double faced Ed. Fairfax Transl Demogorgon ruler of the Fates R. Greene. The Fates can make Waie for themselues their purpose to pertake Ed. Spencer What the Fates do once decree Not all the gods can chaunge nor Ioue himself can free Idem The lawes of Fate Being grau'n in steele must stand inuiolate Th. Dekkar Who can escape what his owne Fate hath wrought The work of heauens wil surpasse all humane thought Ed. Spencer Who can deceiue his destenie Or weene by warning to auoid his Fate That when he sleepes in more securitie And safest seemes him soonest doth amate And findeth due effect or soone or late So feeble is the power of fleshly arme Idem Indeed the Fates are firme And may not shrinke though all the word do shake Yet ought mens good endeuours them confirme And guide the heauenly causes to their coÌ„stant terme Idem Each man they say his Fate hath in his hands And what he makes or marres to leese or saue Of good or euil is euen selfe do selfe haue I. H. M. of M. The Fates farre off foreseene come gently neare M. Drayton Our Fate is not preuented though fore-knowne For that must hap decreed by heauenly powers Who worke our fall yet make the fault still ours S. Daniell Fate Keeps in eternall darke our fortunes hidden And ere they come to know them t is forbidden Idem All men are men in ignorance of Fate To alter chance exceedeth humane state I. Markham The heauens do rule in their continuall course That yeelds to Fate that doth not yeeld to force M. Drayton Feare Feare all arm'd from top to toe Yet thought himselfe not safe enough thereby But fear'd each shadow mouing too and fro And his owne armes whom glistering he did spie Or clashing heard he fast away did flie As ashes pale of hew and winghie heeld And euermore on danger fixt his eie Gainst whom he alwaies bent a brazen sheeld Which his right hand vnarmed faithfully did weeld Ed. Spencer Who so for fickle feare from vertue shrinkes Shall in his life imbrace no worthy thing No mortall man the cup of suretie drinkes S. Phil. Sid. Feare is more paine then is the paine it feares Disarming humane minds of natiue might Where each conceit an vgly figure beares Which were not euil well viewd in reasons light Idem The gift being great the feare doth still exceed And extreame feare can neither fight nor flie But cowardlike with trembling terror die W. Shakespeare The feare of ill exceeds the ill we feare Ed. Fairfax Transl Feare lendeth wings to aged folke to flie And made them mount to places that were hie Feare made the wofull child to waile and weepe For want of speed on foote and hands to creepe Th. Hudson Transl Feare in a fearefull heart frets more then plagues that he feareth A. Fraunce Feare that is wiser then the truth doth ill S. D. Feare casts too deepe and neuer is too wise Idem In vaine with terror is he fortified That is not guarded with firme loue beside Idem A fearefull thing to tumble from a throne M. Drayton Where crowned might crossed right so near togither dwel Behoues that forrest flying feare whereof the Foxe doth tel Our factious Lancaster Yorke thereof could witnes wel VV. Warner Thunder affrights the Infants in the schooles And threatnings are the conquerors of fooles I. Markham Whom feare constraines to praise their Princes deeds That feare eternall hatted in them feeds R. Greene. Feare misinterprets things each angury The worser way he fondly doth imply Weaknes is false and faith in cowards rare Feare findes our shifts timitidie is subtill S. Daniell T is incident to those whom many feare Many to them more greeuous hate to beare M. Drayton He whom all men feare Feareth all men euery where Hate inforcing them thereto Maketh many vndertake Many things they would not do Th. Kyd. The only good that growes of passed feare Is to be wise and ware of like againe Ed. Spencer A man to feare a womans moodie eire Makes reason lie a slaue to seruile feare S. Ph. Sydney Nothing seene fearefull we the most should feare Great amistes rise before the greatest raine The water deep'st where we least murmure heare In fairest Cups men temper deadliest baine The nearer night the ayre more cleare and still The nearer to one deaths least fearing ill M. Drayton Bloodlesse trustlesse witlesse feare That like an Aspen tree trembles each where She leads blacke terror and blacke clownish shame And drowsie sloth that counterfeiteth lame With snailelike motion measuring the ground Foule sluggish drone barren but sinne to breed Diseased begger steru'd with wilfull need I. S. Transl The feare of euill doth affright vs more Then th' euill it selfe though it seeme nere so sore Fortitude Rich buskind Seneca that did declaime And first in Rome our tragicke pompe compile Saith Fortitude is that which in extreame And certaine hazard all base feare exile It guides saith he the noble minde from farre Through frost and fire to conquer honours warre I. Markham Honey tong'd Tully Marmaid of our eares Affirmes no force can force true Fortitude It with out bodies no communion beares The soule and spirit soly it doth include It is that part of honestie which reares The heart to heauen and euer doth
thoughts aspiring to eternall fame Ed. Spencer In friendship soueraigne 't is as Mithridate Thy friend to loue as one whom thou maist hate M. of M. Ne certes can that friendship long endure How euer gay and goodly be the style That doth ill cause or euill end endure For vertue is the band which bindeth hearts most sure Ed. Spencer Enmitie that of no ill proceeds But of occasion with the occasion ends And friendship which a faint affection breeds Without regard of good lies like ill grounded seed Ed. Spencer With vertue chuse thy friend with vertue him retaine Let vertue be the ground so shall it not be vaine S. Th. VViat Try frends by touch a feeble freÌ„d may proue thy stroÌ„gest foe Great Pompeys head to Caesars hand it was betraied so VV. VVarner In perfect friendship no suspect for two in one are all Communitie or doubling ioy or making griefe more small Idem The truest friendship in miserie is tride For then will none but faithfull friends abide G. Turberuile Right true it is and said full yore agoe Take heed of him that by the backe thee claweth For none is worse then is the friendly foe Though thee seeme good all things y t thee delighteth Yet know it well that in thy bosome creepeth For many a man such fiers oft times hee kindleth That with the blaze his beard himselfe he singeth E. of Surrey None can deeme right who faithfull friends do rest While they beare sway and rule in hie degree For then both fast and fained friends are prest Whose faiths seeme both of one effect to bee But then reuolts the first and fained guest When wealth vnwindes and fortune seemes to flie But he that loues indeed remaineth fast And loues and serues when life and all is past S. I. Harr. Transl Oft times we see in house of meane estate In fortunes bad and chances ouerthwart That men do sooner laie away debate And ioyne in sound accord with hand and hart Then Princes courts where riches genders hate And vile suspect that louing minds doth part Where charitie is cleane consumde and vanished And friendship firme is quite cast out and banished Idem Who so wants friends to backe what he begins In lands farre off gets not although he wins S. Daniell If fortune friendly fawne and lend thee wealthy store Thy frends conioined ioy doth make thy ioy the more If frowardly she frowne and driueth to distresse His aide releeues thy ruth and makes thy solace lesse S. Th. Wiat. They are not alwaies surest friends on whoÌ„ we most do spend W. VVarner True friends haue feeling of each others wo And when ones hart is sad all theirs is so Ch. Middleion A golden treasure is the â—ried friend But who may gold from counterfeits defend Trust not to soone nor yet to soone mistrust With th' one thy selfe with th' other thy friend thou hurtst Who twines betwixt stears the goldeÌ„ mean Nor rashly loueth nor mistrusts in vaine Mir. of M. Friends are geason now a daies And growe to fume before they taste the fier Aquersitie bereauing mans auailes They flie like feathers dallying in the winde They rise like bubbles in a stormy raine Swelling in words and flying faith and deeds D. Lodge Faint friends when they fall out most cruel foemen be Ed. Spencer Better a new friend then an old foe is said Idem Frugalitie He that will thriue must thinke no courses vile B. Iohnson No hurt but good who meanes to multiplie Bought wit is deare and drest with sower sauce Repentance comes too late and then say I Who spares the first and keepes the last vnspent Shall find that sparing yeelds a goodly rent G. Gascoigne Let first thine owne hand hold fast all that comes But let the other learne his letting flie Idem Furie Furie furiously mans life assailes With thousand cannons sooner felt then seene Where weakest strongest fraught with deadly teene Blind crooked blisterd melancholy sad Many-nam'd poyson minister of death Which from vs creepes but to vs gallopeth Foule trouble rest phantasticke greedy-gut Bloud sweating hearts-theefe wretched filthy-slut The childe of surfait and aires-temper vicious Perillous knowne but vnknowne most pernicious I. Syluister Furie cruell cursed wight That vnto Knighthood workes much shame and woe And that same hag his aged mother hight Occasion the roote of all wrath and dispight With her who so will raging Furie tame Must first begin and welther amenage First her restraine from her reproachfull blame And euill meanes with which she doth enrage Her franticke sonne and kindles his courage Then when she is withdrawne or strong withstood Is eath his Idle Furie to asswage And calme this tempest of his passion wood The bankes are ouerflowne when so sped is the flood Ed. Spencer Furie was red with rage his eyes did glowe While flakes of fier from forth his mouth did flowe His hands and armes y bath'd in bloud of those Whom fortune sinne or fate made countries foes T. Lodge This fell fury for forerunner sends Manie and phrenzie to subborne her frends Whereof the one drying th' other ouerwarming The feeble brain the edge of iudgement harming Within the soule phantastickly they faine A confus'd hoast of strange Chimeraes vaine I. Syluister Gifts T is wisedome to giue much a Gift preuailes When deepe perswading Oratorie failes Ch. Marlowe A giuing hand though foule shall haue faire praise S. Daniell The greatest Gifts whereof we boast Are those which do attempt and tire vs most T. Lodge Onely wisedome graue and iudgements cleere Gifts giu'n from heauen that are not common heere S. I. H. Transl Goods Gifts are often giuen to men past good G. Chapman Good Gifts abus'd to mans confusion turne Th. Dekkar Testators and Executors so giue and so receaue As doubtful whethers ioy or griefe is more to take or leaue For as do hogs their troghs to houÌ„ds so these giue get place Death not the Dier giues bequests and therfore but graue grace W. Warner To loiter well deserued Gifts is not to giue but sell When to requite ingratitude were to do euill well Idem Gentlenesse The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne For a man by nothing is so well bewraide As by his maners in which plaine is showne Of what degree and what race he is growne Ed. Spencer Sweete gentlenesse is Bewties waiting maide Th. VVatson In gentle thoughts Relenting thoughts remorse and pittie rests Ch. Marlowe All like as Phoebus with his chearefull beames Doth freshly force the fragrant flowers to flourish So gentle rulers subiects loue do nourish I. H. Mir. of M. Like as the gentle heart it selfe bewraies In doing gentle deeds with francke delight Euen so the baser minde it selfe displaies In canckered malice and reuenge for spight W. Shakespeare O what an easie thing is' t to discrie The gentle bloud how euer it be wrapt In sad misfortunes foule deformitie And wretched sorrowes which haue often hapt For howsoeuer it may grow mishapt That to
exhailes And is the cause that oft the euening lowers When foggy mists enlarge their duskie sailes That his owne beames he in the cloudes impailes And either must extinguish his owne light Or by his vertue cause his proper right M. Drayton To be huge is to be deadly sicke I. Marston O blinded Greatnesse thou with thy turmoile Still selling happy life mak'st life a toile S. Daniel He that striues to manage mightie things Amidst his triumphes beares a troubled minde The greatest hope the greatest haruest brings And poore men in content there glory finde D. Lâ—dge The man that furthereth other men to thriue Of priuate greatnesse doth himselfe depriue Th. Storer Griefe Griefe all in sables sorrowfully clad Downe hanging his dull head with heauie cheare Yet inly beine more then seeming sad A paire of pincers in his hand he had With which he pinched people to the heart That from thenceforth a wretched life they lad In wilfull languor and consuming smart Dying each day with impair'd wounds of dolors dart Ed. Spencer Griefe onely makes his wretched state to see Euen like a toppe which nought but whipping moues This man this talking beast this walking tree Griefe is the stone which finest iudgements proues For who grieues not hath but a blockish braine Since cause of Griefe we cause from life remoues S. Ph. Sydney Griefes deadly sore Vnkindnes breeds vnkindnes fostereth hate Idem Griefe to it selfe most dreadfull doth appeare And neuer yet was sorrow voyd of feare But yet in death they both do hope the best M. Drayton Griefes be long liu'd and sorrowes seldome die Idem Griefe hath two tongues and neuer woman yet Could rule them both without tenne womens wit W. Shakespeare He oft findes medicine who his griefes imparts But double Griefe afflicts concealing harts As raging flames who striueth to suppresse Ed. Spencer Found neuer help who neuer could his griefe impart Idem No greater ease of heart the griefes to tell It daunteth all the dolours of the minde Our carefull hearts thereby great comfort finde I. H. Mir. of Mag. An Ouen that is stopt or Riuer staied Burneth more hotely swelleth with more rage So of concealed Griefe it may be said Free vent of words loues fier doth asswage But when the hearts atturney once is mute The Client breakes as desperate in his sute W. Shakespeare No one thing doth auaile man more To cure a griefe and perfectly to heale it Then if he do vnto some friends reueale it S. I. Harr. Transl Griefe it is inough to vexed wight To feele his fault and not be farther vext Fd. Spencer Some griefe shewes much of loue But much to griefe shewes still some want of wit W. Shakespeare Great griefe can not be told And can more easily be thought then found Ed. Sp. Paine Thou Paine the onely ghuest of loath'd constraint The child of curse mans weaknesse foster child Brother to woe and father of complaint Thou Paine thou loathed paine from heauen exild H. C. The scourge of life and deaths extreame disgrace The smoake of hel that monster 's called paine Idem The thing that grieuous were to do or beare Them to renew I wot breeds no delight Ed. Spencer True griefe is fond and testy as a childe Who wayward once his moode with nought agrees Old woes not infant sorrowes beare them milde Continuance tames the one the other wilde Like an vnpractiz'd swimmer plunging still With too much labour drownes for want of skill W. Shakespeare Paine paies the income of each precious thing W. Sh. Heauen From hence with grace and goodnesse compast round God ruleth blesseth keepeth all he wrought Aboue the aire the fire the sea and ground Our sense our wit our reason and our thought Where persons three with power and glory crownd Are all one God who made all things of nought Vnder whose feete subiected to his grace Sit nature fortune motion time and place This is the place from whence like smoake and dust Of this fraile world the wealth the pompe the power He tosseth humbleth turneth as he lust And guides our life our end our death and hower No eye how euer vertuous pure and iust Can view the brightnes of that glorious bower On euery side the blessed spirirs bee Equall in ioyes though differing in degree E. Fairfax Transl In this great temple richly bewtified Pau'd all with starres disperst on Saphire flower The Clarke is a pure Angell sanctified The Iudge our hie Messias full of power The Apostles his assistance euery hower The Iury Saints the verdit Innocent The Sentence Come ye blessed to my tent The speare that pierst his side the writing Pen Christes bloud the Inke red Inke for Princes name The vailes great breach the miracles for men The sight is shew of them that long dead came From their old graues restor'd to liuing fame And that last signet passing all the rest Our soules discharg'd by Consumatum est Here endlesse ioy is there perpetuall cheare Their exercise sweete songs of many parts Angells the quier whose symphonie to heare Is able to prouoke conceiuing harts To misconceiue of all inticing arts The dirty praise the subiect is the Lord That tunes their gladsome spirit to this accord Th. Storer What so the Heauens in their secret doombe Ordained haue how can fraile fleshly wight Forecast but it must needs to issue come Ed. Spencer What in the heauenly parliament aboue Is written by the finger of the first Mortalls may feele but neuer can remoue For they are subiect to the heauens worst I. Markham By mortall lawe the bond may be diuorced The heauens decrees by no meanes can be forced M. Drarton In vaine doth man contend against the Starres For what he seekes to make his wisedome marres S. Daniell Humane wishes neuer haue the power To hurt or hast the course of heauen one hower Th. Hudson Transl Experience proues and daily it is seene In vaine too vaine man striues against the heauens G. Gascoigne It is most true that eyes are bound to serue The inward part and that th'heauenly part Ought to be King from whose rules who doth swerue Rebelles to nature striue for their owne smart True that true bewtie vertue is indeed Whereof this bewtie can be but a shade Which elements with mortall mixture breed True that on earth we are but pilgrimes made And should in soule vp to our countrey moue S. Ph. Sydney Heauen is our home we are but straungers here M. Drayton The heauens earth and aire and seas and all Taught men to see but not to shunne their fall S. Daniell Things which presage both good and ill there bee Which heauen foreshewes yet will not let vs see M. Drayton From them comes good from them comes also ill That which they made who can them warne to spill Ed. Spencer In vaine be armes when heauen becomes thy foe Idem Looke when the heauens are to iustice bent All things be turn'd to our iust punishment Idem All powers
did showe Ed. Spencer Humilitie to heauen the step the staire Is for deuotion sacrifice and praier M. Drayton The bending knee in safetie still doth goe When others stumble as too stiffe to bowe Idem As on the vnsauourie stocke the Lillie is borne And as the Rose growes on the pricking thorne So modest life with sobs of grieuous smart And cries deuout comes from an humble hart Th. Hudson Transl More honour in Humilitie then safetie in walles Proud liuers proue not monuments saue onely in their falles VV. Warner Ah God shield man that I should clime and learne to looke aloft This reed is ripe that oftentime great climers fall vnsoft In humble dale is footing fast the trode is not so fickle And though one fall through heedlesse haste yet is his misse not mickle Ed. Spencer The lowly heart doth win the loue of all But pride at last is sure of shamefull fall G. Tur. Hypocrisie Hypocrisie hath bred of Godlike diuels store That speake to serue that serue to shift that shift to spare by guile And smoothe and soothe and yet deceiue with scriptum est meane while W. Warner But let thē heaue their hāds to heauē they show they 'r here in hell That seeme deuout to cloake deceit and say but do not well Idem Who cloakes their mindes in hoods of holinesse Are double villaines and the Hypocrite Is most odious in Gods glorious sight That takes his name to couer wickednesse I. Syl. Many vse temples to set godly faces On impious hearts those sinnes vse most excesse That seeke their shrowdes in fained holinesse G. Chapman Vide Dissimulation Iealousie Shee seem'd of womans shape but in her head A thousand eyes she had that watch did keepe As many eares with which she harkened Her eyes want lids and therefore neuer sleepe In stead of haire her crowne snakes ouerspred Thus marched she forth of the darknes deepe Her tayle one serpent bigger then the rest Which she with knots fastened about her brest S. I. Harrington Transl A monster others harme selfe miserie Bewties plague vertues scourge succour of lies Who since he hath by natures speciall grace So piercing pawes as spoile when they embrace So nimble feete as stirre though still on thornes So many men seeking their owne woe So ample eares that neuer good newes kowes Is it not ill that such a beast want hotnes S. Ph. Sydney O hatefull hellish snake what furie first Broughr thee from balefull house of Proserpine Where in her bosome she the long had nurst And fostered vp with bitter milke of time Foule iealousie that turnest loue diuine To day lesse dread and mak'st the liuing hart With hatefull thoughts to languish and to pine And feed it selfe with selfe consuming smart Of all the passions in the minde thou viler art Ed. Spencer O Iealousie daughter of Enuie and loue Most wayward issue of a gentle sire Fostred with feares thy fathers ioies to proue Mirth marring monster borne in subtiltie Hatefull vnto thy selfe flying thy owne desire Feeding vpon suspect that doth renew thee Happie were Louers if they neuer knew thee Thou hast a thousand gates thou entrest by Condemning trembling passions to our hart Hundred eyed Argus euer making spy Pale hagge infernall furie pleasures smart Enuious obseruer prying in euery part Suspitions fearefull gazing still about the hart O would to God that loue could be without thee S. Daniell A new disease I know not new or old But it may well be term'd poore mortall plaine For like the pestilence it doth infect The houses of the braine first it begins Solely to worke vpon the phantasie Filling her seat with such pestiferous aire As soone corrupts the iudgement and from thence Sends like contagion to the memorie Still each of other taking like infection Which as a searching vapour spreads it selfe Confusedly through euery sensiue part Till not a thought or motion in the minde Be farre from the blacke poyson of suspect B. Iohnson Where loue doth raigne disturbing iealousie Doth call himselfe affections Centinell And in a peacefull houre dooth crye kill kill Distempering gentle loue with his desire As ayre and water dooth abate the fire This sound informer this bare-breeding spie This cancker that eates vp this tender spring This carry-tale discentio's iealousie W. Shakespeare Fowle weatherd iealousie to a forward spring Makes weeds growe ranke but spoiles a better thing Sowes tares gainst haruest in the fields of loue And dogged humor dogdayes like doth prooue Scorching loues glorious world with glowing tong A serpent by which loue to death is stonge A foe to waste his pleasant summer bowers Ruine his mansions and deface his bowers E. Guilpin Pale Iealousie childe of insatiat loue Of heartsicke thoughts which melancholy bred A hell tormenting feare no faith can moue By discontent with deadly poyson fed With heedlesse youth and error vainly led A mortall plague a vertue drowing floud A hellish fier not quenched but with bloud M. Drayton What state of life more pleasant can we finde Then these that true and heartie loue do beare Whom that sweet yoake doth fast together binde That man in Paradice first learnd to weare Were not some so tormented in their minde With that same vile suspect that filthy feare That torture great that foolish phrenezie That raging madnes called Iealousie For euery other sower that gets a place To seate it selfe amidst this pleasant sweete Helpes in the end to giue a greater grace And make loues ioies more gracious then they were He that abstaines from sustenance a space Shall finde both bread and water relish sweete S. I. Harr. Transl Iealousie is Cupids foode For the swift steed runnes not so fast alone As when some other striue him to out goe Ed. Fairfax Transl Loue wakes the iealous eye least then it moues The iealous eye the more it lookes it loues S. Ph. Sydney No iealousie can that preuent Whereas two parties once be full content Idem Impatience changeth smoake to flame but iealousie to hell W. Warner On loue saies some waits iealouzie but iealousie wants loue When curiously the ouerplus doth idle quarels moue Idem Where iealousie is bred Hornes in the mind are worse then hornes in the hed B. Iohnson That canker-worme that monster iealousie Which eates the heart and feeds vpon the gall Turning all loues delight to miserie Through feare of loosing his felicitie Ed. Spencer Shun iealousie that hart-breake loue if cat will go to kinde Be sure that Io hath a meanes that Argus shall be blinde VV. Warner True loue doth looke with pale suspicious eie Take away loue if you take iealousie M. Drayton No beast is fierer then a iealous woman S. Daniell Idlenesse Prides coach was drawne of sixe vnequall beasts On which her sixe sage counsellours did ride Taught to obey her bestiall beheasts With like conditions to their kindes applide Of which the first that all the rest did guide Was sluggish Idlenesse the nurse of sinne Vpon a slothfull Asse
power the world was made of yore And all that therein wondrous doth appeare Ed. Spencer Loue is the Lord of all the world by right And rules the creatures by his powerfull saw All being made the vassalls of his might Through secret sence which thereto doth them draw Idem Vapour eterne in man in beast in tree In plant and flower is loue and so of might For in the world may not contained bee Without accord and Loues imperiall right Yet wends the foxe in holy hood full oft And craft in stead of truth beares crest aloft D. Lodge That true Loue which dauncing did inuent Is he that tun'd the worlds whole harmonie And link't all men in sweete societie He first exaulted from th' earth mingled minde That heauenly fier or quintessence diuine Which doth such sympathy in bewtie finde As is betwixt the Elme and fruitfull Vine And so to beautie euer doth encline Lifes life it is and cordiall to the hart And of our better part the better part I. Dauies Sweete loue is a celestiall harmonie Of likely hearts compos'd of hearts consent Which ioy together in sweete sympathie To worke each others kind and true content Which they haue harboured since their first discent Out of these heauenly bowers where they do see And know each other here belou'd to bee Ed. Spencer Iron with wearing shines rust wasteth treasure On earth but Loue there is no other pleasure H. Constable Loue a continuall fornace doth maintaine Idem Wealth maister is and porter of the gate That lets in loue when want shall come too late Th. Churchyard Loue to heauen is fled Since swearing lust on earth vsurpt his name Vnder whose simple semblance he hath fled Vpon fresh bewtie blotting it with blame Which the hot tyrant staines and soone berâ—aues As caterpillers do the tender leaues W. Sh. Loue is a spirit all compact of fier Not grosse to sinke but light and will aspire Idem Loue is a golden bubble full of dreames That waking breakes and fills vs with extreames G. Chapman Loue is a discord and a strange diuorce Betwixt our sence and rest by whose power As mad with reason we admit that force Which wit or labour neuer may diuorce It is a will that brooketh no consent It would refuse yet neuer may repent Loue 's a desire which for to waight a time Doth loose an age of yeares and so doth passe As doth the shadow seuerd from his prime Seeming as though it were yet neuer was Leauing behind nought but repentant thoughts Of dayes ill spent of that which profits noughts It 's now a peace and then a sudden warre A hope consumde before it is conceiu'd At hand it feares and menaceth a farre And he that gaines is most of all deceiu'd Loue whets the dullest wits his plagues be such But makes the wise by pleasing dote as much E. O. Loue is a brain-sicke boy and fierce by kind A wilfull thought which reason cannot moue A flattering Sycophant a murdering theefe A poysoned choaking baite a ticing greefe A Tyrant in his lawes in speech vnknowne A blindfold guide a feather in the winde A right Chamelion for change of hew A lame-lime-lust a tempest of the minde A breach of charitie all vertues foe A priuate warre a toilsome web of woe A fearefull iealousie a vaine desire A labyrinth a pleasing miserie A shipwracke of mans life a smoakelesse fier A ship of teares a lasting lunacie A heauie seruitude a dropsie thirst A hellish Iaile whose captiues are accurst Th. Watson A sugred harme a poyson full of pleasure A painted shrine ful-fill'd with rotten treasure An heauen in shew a hell to them that proue A broken staffe which fully doth vphold A flower that fades with euery frostie cold An Orient rose sprung from a withered plant A game in seeming shadowed still with want A minutes ioy to gaine a world of griefe A subtill net to snare the idle minde A seeing scorpion yet in seeing blinde A poore reioyce a plague without teliefe D. Lodge Loue is a smoake made with fume of sighes Being purg'd a fier sparkling in Louers eies Being vext a sea nourisht with louing teares What is it else a madnesse most distrest A choaking gall and a preseruing sweet W. Shakespeare It is a doubled griefe a sparke of pleasure Begot by vaine desire and this his loue Whom in our youth we count our chiefest treasure In age for want of power we do reproue Yea such a power is Loue whose losse is paine And hauing got him we repent againe D. Lodge Loue the Idle bodies worke and surfet of the eye W. Warner Loue is but a terme like as is Eccho but a voice That this doth babble that doth breed or not is ours the choice W. Warner Loue is a subtill influence Whose finall force still hangeth in suspence D. Lodge Loue is a wanton famine rich in foode But with a riper appetite controlled An argument in figure and in moode Yet hates all arguments disputing still For sence against reason with a sencelesse will G. Chapman Of euery ill the hatefull father vile That doth the world with sorceries beguile Cunningly mad religiously prophane Wits monster reasons canker sences bane Loue taught the mother that vnkind desire To wash her hands in her owne Infants blood Loue taught the daughter to betray her fire Into most base and worthy seruitude Loue taught the brother to prepare such foode To feast his brothers that all seeing sunne Wrapt in a cloude that wicked sight did shunne I. Dauies Loue is a sowre delight a sugred griefe A liuing death an euer dying life A breach of reasons law a secret theefe A sea of teares an euerlasting strife A baite for fooles a scourge of noble wits A deadly wound a shot which euer hits Loue is a blinded god and angry boy A labyrinth of doubts an idle lust A slaue to bewties will a witlesse toy A rauening bird a tyrant most vniust A burning heate a cold a flattering ioy A priuate hell a very world of woe Th. VVatson Loue bewitcher of the wit The scorne of vertue vices parasite The slaue to weakenesse friendships false bewraier Reasons rebell fortitudes betraier The churchmeÌ„s staffe court camp countries guider Arts infection chaste thoughts and youths defiler I. VVeeuer Controlling Loue proud fortunes busie factor The gall of wit sad melancholies schoole Heart-killing corsiue golden times detractor Life-fretting canker mischiefes poysoned toole The Ideots ydle brother wise mens foole A foe to friendship enemie to truth The wrong misleader of our pleasing youth M. Drayton Loue is roote and onely crop of care The bodies foe the hearts annoy cause of pleasures rare The sicknesse of the minde the fountaine of vnrest The gulfe of guile the pit of paine of griefe the hollow chest A fiery frost a flame that frozen is with Ice A heauie burden light to beare a vertue fraught with vice It is a worldlike peace a safetie seeing dread A deepe
must Be torturde with the racke of his owne frame For he that holds no faith shall finde no trust But sowing wrong is sure to reape the same Idem Cunning sinne being clad in vertues shape Flies much reproofe and many stormes doth scape D. Lodge Place for people people place and all for sinne decay vv vvarner To punish sinne is good it is no nay They wrecke not sinne but merit wrecke for sinne The fathers fault that wreake vpon the kin M. of M. The sinne to which a man by loue is driuen So much rhe rather ought to be forgiuen S. I. H. Slaunder Her face was vgly and her mouth distort Foming with poyson round about her gils In which her cursed tongue full sharpe and short Appeard like Aspes sting that closely kils Or cruelly does wound whom so she wils A distaffe in her other hand she had Vpon the which she litle spins but spils And faine to weaue false tales and leasings bad To throw amongst the gods which others had dispred Ed. Sp. Her nature is all goodnesse to abuse And causelesse crimes continually to frame With which she guiltlesse persons may abuse And stole away the crowne of her good name Ne euer knight so bold ne euer dame So chaste and loyall liu'd but she would striue With forged cause them falsly to defame Ne euer thing was done so well aliue But she with blame would blot and of due praise depriue Idem All like the stings of Asps that kill with smart Her spightfull words do pierce and wound the inner part Idem Foule canker of faire vertuous action Vile blaster of rhe fresh bloomes here on earth Enuies abhorred child detraction I. Marston Happie is he that liues in such a sort That need not feare the tongues of false report E. of S. The vulgar tongues are armed euermore With slaunderous brute to blemish the renowne Of vertuous dames which though at first it spring Of slender cause yet doth it swell so fast As in short space it filleth euery eare With swift report of vndeserued blame G. Gascoigne It euer hath bene knowne They other vertues scorne that doubt their owne S. Daniell No plaister heales a deadly poysoned sore No secret hid where slaunder keepes the dore M. Drayton Against bad tongues goodnesse cannot defend her Those be most free from faults they least will spare But prate of them whom they haue scantly knowne Iudging their humours to be like their owne S. I. H. Slaunder once set on foot though false is talkt in euery street VV. VVarner No wound with warlike hand of enemie Inflict with dint of sword so sore doth light As doth the poysonous sting which infamie Infuseth in the name of noble wight It neuer can recured be againe Ne all the skill which that immortall spright Of Podalyrius did in it retaine Can remedie such hurts such hurts are hellish paine Ed. Sp. A sprightly wit disdaines detraction I. Marston Backbiting pens and pens that sooth vp sinne â—nuious the one th' other clawbacks binne I. Syl. Sleepe Amidst a darke thicke wood there is a caue Whose entrance is with Iuie ouerspread They haue no light within nor none they craue â—ere Sleepe doth couch her ouerdrowsie head â—nd sloath lies by that seemes the goute to haue â—nd Idlenes not so well taught as fed â—hey point forgetfulnes the gate to keepe â—hat none come out or in to hinder Sleepe â—he knowes no meanes of men ne none will learne â—heir messages she list not vnderstand She knowes no busines doth her concerne Silence is Sentinell of all this band And vnto those he comming doth discerne To come too neere he beckens with his hand He treadeth soft his shooes are made of felt His garment short and girded with a belt S. I. H. By care lay heauie sleepe the couzen of death Flat on the ground and still as any stone A very corps saue yeelding forth a breath Small keepe tooke he whom fortune frownd on Or whom she lifted vp into the throne Of high renowne but as a liuing death So dead aliue of life he drew the breath M. Sack A drowsie head to earth by dull desire Draws downe the soule that should to heauen aspire Writing these later lines wearie well-nie Of sacred Pallas pleasing labour deare Mine humble chin saluteth oft my brest With an Ambrosian deawe mine eies possest By peece-meale close all moouing powers die still From my dull fingers drops my fainting quill Downe in my sloath-bound bed againe I shrinke And in darke Laethe all deepe cares I sinke I. Syl. Solitarinesse Sweete solitarie life thou true repose Wherein the wise contemplate heauen aright In thee no dread of warre or worldly foes In thee no pompe seduceth mortall sight In thee no wanton eares to winne with words Nor lurking toies which silly life affords D.L. Souldiers O Souldiers enuie neere ally to Kings Maiesticke humour carefull iealous thought Thou which awak'st vs from ignoble things A passion nearest to a godhead brought Onely indefinite to whom none brings Limit or bound thou greater then our thought Who holds thee holds a power to make him able Who looses then becomes most miserable I. Mark None is so poore of sence and eine To whom a souldier doth not shine G. Chap. No elegancie can bewtifie A shamelesse lumpe of gluttonie His heart sweete Cupids tents reiects That onely meate and drinke affects O Flora all mens intellects Know souldiers power such respects Meere helpes for need his minde sufficeth Dull sleepe and surfets he despiseth Loues trumpe his temples exerciseth Courage and loue his life compriseth Idem Soule He that spread the skies And fixt the earth first form'd the soule in man This true Prometheus first made men of earth And shead in him a beame of heauenly fier Now in their mothers wombes before their birth Doth in all sonnes of men their soules inspire And as Minerua is in fables fainde From Ioue without an other to proceed So our true Ioue without an others aide Doth daily millions of Mineruaes breed I Dauies Like as the sunne aboue the light doth bring Though we behold it in the aire belowe So from the eternall light the soule doth spring Though in the body she her powers do showe Idem The soule a substance and a body is Which God himselfe doth in the body make Which makes the man or euery man from this The nature of a man and name doth take And though the spirit be to the body knit As an apt meane her power to exercise Which are life motion sense and will and wit Yet she suruiues although the body dies Shee is a substance and a reall thing Which hath it selfe an actuall working might Which neither from the senses power doth spring Nor from the bodies humours tempered right She is a vine which doth no propping need To make her spread her selfe or spring vpright She is a starre whose beames do not proceed From any sinne but from a natiue light Idem She is
a spirit and an heauenly influence Which from the fountaine of Gods spirit doth flowe Shee 's a spirit yet not like aire nor winde Nor like the spirits about the heart or braine Nor like the spirits which Alchimists definde When they in euery thing seeke gold in vaine Idem To shew her powerfull deitie Her sweete Endimion more to beautifie Into his soule the goddesse doth infuse The fierie Nature of an heauenly Muse Which the spirit labouring by the mind Partaketh of celestiall things by kind For why the soule being diuine alone Exempt from grosse and vild corruption Of heauenly secrets incomprehensible Of which the dull flesh is not sensible And by one onely powerfull facultie Yet gouerneth a multiplicitie Being essentiall vniforme in all Not to be seuered or diuiduall But in her function holdeth her estate By powers diuine in her ingenerate And so by inspiration conceiueth What heauen to her by diuination breatheth M. Drayton Like as the soule doth rule the earthlie masse And all the seruice of the body frame So loue of soule doth loue of body passe No lesse then perfect gold surmounts the meanest brasse Ed. Spencer Euerie good motion that the soule awakes A heauenly figure sees from whence it takes That sweetelesse bloome which by power of kinde Formes like it selfe an image of the mind And in our faith the operations be Of that diuinesse which by fayth wee see Which neuer erres but accidentally By our fraile fleshes in becilitie By each temptation ouer-apt to slide Except our spirit becomes our bodyes guide For as our bodyes prisons bee the towres So to our soules these bodyes be of ours Whose fleshly walles hinder that heauenly light As these stone walles depriue our wished sight Idem As Phoebus throwes His beames abroade though hee in clouds bee clos'd Still glauncing by them till she finde oppos'd A loose and rorid vapour that is fit T'euent his searching beames and vseth it To forme a twentie coloured eie Cast in a circle round about the skie So when our fierie soule our bodies starre That euer is in motion circular Conceiues a form in seeking to display it Through all our cloudy parts it doth conuey it Forth at the eye as the most pregnant place And that reflects it round about the face Idem Like as the moysture which the thirstie earth Sucks from the Sea to fill her emptie vaines From out her wombe at last doth take a birth And runnes a nymph along the grassie plaines Long doth shee stay as loth to leaue the land From whose soft side she first did issue make She tasts all places turnes to euerie hand Her flowing bankes vnwilling to forsake Yet nature so her streames doth leade and carrie As that her course doth make no finall stay Till shee her selfe vnto the Ocean marrie Within whose watrie bosome first shee lay Euen so our soule within this earthly mould The spirit doth secretly infuse Because at first shee doth the earth behold And onely this materiall world shee viewes At first our mother earth shee holdeth deere And doth imbrace the world and worldly things She flies close to the ground and houers heere And mounts not vp with her celestiall wings Yet vnder heauen shee cannot light on ought That with her heauenly nature doth agree She cannot rest she cannot fixe her thought She cannot in this world contented bee I. Dauies When the soule findes heere no true content And like Noahs Doue can no sure footing take She doth returne from whence shee first was sent And flies to him that first her wings did make Idem Heuen waxeth old and all the spheres aboue Shall one day faynt and their swift motion stay And time it selfe shall cease in time to mooue Onely the soule suruiues and liues for aye Idem When as the soule is drowned once in vice The sweete of sinne makes hell a Paradice M Drayton â—s is the fable of the Lady faire VVhich for her lust was turnde into a cow VVhen thirstie to a streame she did repaire And saw her selfe transformde she knew not how At first she startles and she stands amazd And loathes the watry glasse wherein she gazd At last for terror she from thence doth flie And shunnes it still though she for thirst doe die Euen so mans soule which did Gods image beare And was at first faire good and spotlesse pure Since with her sinnes her beauties blotted were Doth of all sights her owne sight least indure For euen at first reflecting she espies Such strange Chimeraes and such monsters there Such toyes such antickes and such vanities As she retyres and shrinks for shame and feare I. Dauis Euen as the man loues least at home to bee That hath a sluttish house haunted with spirits So she impatient her owne faults to see Turnes from her selfe and in strange things delights Idem T is a sacred cure To salue the soules dread wounds omnipotent That nature is that cures the impotent Euen in a moment sure grace is infusde By diuine fauour nor by actions vsde Which is as permanent as heauens blisse To them that haue it then no habit is I. Marston That learned Father which so firmely prooues The soule of man immortall and diuine And doth the seuerall offices define Anima Giues her that name as she the body moues Amor. Then is shee loue imbracing charitie Animus Mouing a will in vs it is the mind Mens Retaining knowledge still the same in kind Memoria As intellectuall it is the memorie Ratio In iudging Reason onely is her name Sensus In speedie apprehension it is Sence Conscientia In right or wrong men call her Conscience Spiritus The Spirit when to Godward it doth inflame These of the soule the seuerall functions bee M. Drayton Like as two bellowes blowne turne by turne By little and little make cold coles to burne And then their fire inflamde with glowing heate An iron barre which on the Anuile beate Seemes no more yron but flies almost all In hissing sparkles and quicke-bright cinders small So the worlds soule should in our soule inspire Th' eternall force of an eternall fire And then our soule as forme breathe in our corse Her countlesse numbers and heauens turned force Wherewith our bodyes beautie beautified Should like our deathlesse soule haue neuer died I. Syluester Of Sorrow In blacke all clad there fell before my face A ptiteous wight whom woe had all forewast Forth on her eyes the cristall teares out brast And sighing fore her hands shee wrung and fold Tare all her haire that ruth was to behold Her body small sore withered and fore spent As is the stalke that summers drought opprest Her welked face with wofull teares besprent Her colour pale as it seemed her best In woe and plaint reposed was her rest And as the stone that drops of water weares So dented were her cheekes with fall of teares Her eyes swollen with flowing streames afloate Wherewith her lookes throwne vp full pitiously Her
forcelesse handes together oft she smote With dolefull shrikes that ecchoed in the skie Whose plaints such sighs did strait accompanie That in my doome was neuer man did see A wight but halfe so woe-begone as shee Sorrow I am in endlesse sorrowes pained Among the furies in the infernall lake Where Pluto God of hell so grisly blacke Doth hold his throne and Laethes deadly taste Doth riue remembrance of each thing fore-past M. Sackuile Sorrows first leader of this furious crowde Muffled all ouer in a sable clowde Olde before age afflicted night and day Her face with wrinkles warped euerie way Creeping in corners where shee sits and vies Sighs from her heart teares for her blubbered eies Accompanied with selfe-consuming care With weeping pittie thought and mad dispayre That beares about her burning coles and cords Aspes poysons pistols haulters kniues and swords Foule squinting enuie that selfe-eating elfe Through others leannesse fatting vp her selfe Ioyning in mischiefe feeding but with langour And bitter teares her toad-like swelling anger And iealousie that neuer sleepes for feare Suspitious flea still nibling in her eare That leaues repast and rest neere pinde and blinde With seeking what shee would bee loth to finde I. Siluester Two inward vulturs sorrow and disdaine Sorow misfortunes sonne dispayres foule fire Ed. Fairfax Sorrow breakes seasons and reposing howres Makes the night morning and the noone tide night W. Shakespeare Sorrow is still vnwilling to giue ouer S. Daniell Sorrow grows sencelesse when too much she beares M. Dr. Sad sorrow like a heauie ringing bell Once set in ringing with his owne weight goes Then little strength rings out the dolefull knel. W. Sh. It is some ease our sorrowes to reueale If they to whome we shall impart our woes Seeme but to feele a part of what we feele And meete vs with a sigh but at a close S. Daniell Sighes are the ease calamitie affoords Which serue for speech when sorrow wanteth words Idem Fell sorrowes tooth neuer ranckles more Then when it bites but launcheth not the sore Idem Sorrow close shrouded in the heart I know to keep it is a wondrous smart Each thing imparted is more ease to beare When the raine is fallen the cloudes waxe cleere Ed. Spencer Sorrow ne neede be hastened on For he will come without calling anon Idem Snarling sorrow hath lesse powrc to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light Ed. Spencer He that his sorrow sought through wilfulnesse And his foe fettered would release againe Deserues to tast his follies fruit repented paine Ed. Spencer Mirth doth search the bottom of annoy Sad soules are slaine in mirthie companie Greefe best is pleasde with griefes societie True sorrow then is feelingly suffizde When with like sorrow it is sympathizde True sorrow hath not euer a wet eye Th. Dekker Sad sorrow euer ioyes to heare her worst S. D. Suspition False suspition of another is A sure condemning of our owne amis Edw. Gilpin Mistrust doth treason in the truest raise Suspitious Romulus stain'd his walles first rear'd VVith brothers bloud whom for light leape he feard The iealous cuckold weares th' infamous horne So not in brotherhood iealousie may bee borne M. of M. Riualles in loue will be suspitious quickly I. Weeuer The Marchant traffiking abroad suspects his wife at home A youth wil play the wanton a wanton proue a mome W. Warner Teares These two parts belong Vnto true knowledge words and teares haue force To mooue compassion in the sauage mindes Of brutish people reason wanting kindes Tho. Middleton Teares vows and prayers gaine the hardest hearts S. Daniell Teares worke no truce but where the heart is tender D. Lodge Teares harden lust though marble weare with raine W. Sh. Seld speaketh loue but sighes his secret paines Teares are his truch-men words do make him tremble R. Greene. Teares cannot soften flint nor vowes conuert S. D. A dolefull case desires a dolefull song Without vaine art or curious complement And squallid fortune into basenesse flung Doth scorne the pride of wonted ornament Ed. Spencer Temperance Temperance which golden squire Betwixt these two can measure out a meane Neither to melt in pleasures hot desire Nor frie in heartlesse greefe and dolefull teene Thrise happie man who faires them both a tweene Ed. Spencer Who euer doth to Temperance applie His stedfast life and all his actions frame Trust mee shall finde no greater enemie Then stubburne perturbation to the same To which right well the wise doe giue that name For it the goodly peace of stayed mindes Does ouerthrew and troublous warre proclaime His owne woes author who so bound it finds As did Pyrrhocles and it wilfully vnbinde Idem A harder lesson to learne continence In ioyous pleasure then in greeuous paine For sweetenesse doth allure the weakest sence So strongly that vnneath it can refraine From that which feeble nature couers faine But greefe and wrath that bee her enemies And foes of life shee better can restraine Yet vertue vaunts in both theyr victories Idem O in what safetie Temperance doth rest VVhen it findes harbour in a kingly brest M. Drayton Of all Gods works which do this world adorne There is none more fayre and excellent Then is mans body both for power and forme VVhilst it is kept in sober gouernement But none then it more foule and indecent Distempered through misrules and passions base It growes a monster and incontinent Doth loose his dignitie and natiue grace Ed. Spencer Thoughts Thoughts are the slaues of life and life times foole And time that takes suruey of all the world Must haue a stop W. Shakespeare Thoughts are but dreames till their effects be tried Idem Who so thinkes many things brings few to a fortunate ending A. Fraunce The feeble eyes of our aspring thoughts Behold things present and record things past But things to come exceede our humane reach G. Peele Vnfained thoughts do seldome dreame on euil Birdes neuer limde no secret bushes feare W. Sh. If all mens thoughts were written in their face Some one that now the rest doth ouercrow Some others ebbe that wants his soueraignes grace VVhen as the Prince their inwarde thoughts should know The meaner then should take the better place The greatest man might stoope and sit below S. I. Harrington Time Beauties great enemie and to all the rest That in the garden of Adonis springs Is wicked Time who with his sithe addrest Does mow the flowing herbes and goodly things And all their glorie to the earth downe flings VVhere they do wither and are fouly marde He flies about and with his flaggie wings Beates downe both leaues and buds without regard Ne euer pittie may relent his malice hard E. Spencer Mishapen Time coapsmate of vgly might Swift subtill poast carrier of grislie care Eater of youth false slaue to false delight Base watch of woes sinnes packhorse vertues snare Thou nursest all and murtherest all that are W. Shakespeare Stealing Time the subiect to delay S. Ph.
eye appeares It fits that youth the spring of man should bee Richt with such flowers as vertue getteth thee R. Greene. For noble youth there is no thing so meete As learning is to know the good from ill To know the tongues and perfectly endite And of the lawes to haue the perfect skill Things to reforme as right and iustice will For honour is ordained for no cause But to see right maintained by the lawes M. of M. The youth of Princes haue no boundes for sinne Vnlesse themselues doe make the bounds within S. Daniell Most true it is as vessels of first licours euer taste Loue seasoned so with sweetnes of youth the same dooth euer last W. Warner Like as the vessell euer beares a taste Of the same iuice wherewith it first was fil'd And as in fruitfull ground the seede growes fast That first is sowen after the ground is till'd So looke what lore in youthfull yeeres is plast By that they grow the worse or better willed When as they came to manly age and stature Sith education is another nature S. I. H. The tunne retaineth long the taste and sent Of that pure licour which at first it hent And what impression one in youth retaine In age our reason hardly will restraine D. Lodge What by vaine example youth conceiues The same for lawfull daily he receiues Idem Age is deformed youth vnkind Wee scorne their bodyes they our mindes Th. Bastard The youth are foolish hardy or lesse hardy theÌ„ they ought Effeminate fantasticke in few not few are nought W. Warner Forward sinne in raines of foolish rage Leaues heedlesse youth inchaind his captiue page D. Lodge Youth doth deserue by might But old age by good counsell and fore-sight Idem Youth may loue and yongmen may admire If old age cannot yet it will desire I. Weeuer In grained habits died with often dips Are not so soone discoloured yong slippes New set are easily mou'd and pluckt away But elder rootes clippe faster in the clay I. Murston The plow-man first his land doth dresse and turne And makes it apt or ere the seede he sow VVhereby hee is full like to reape the corne VVhere otherwise no seede but weed should grow By which example men may easily know When youth haue wealth before they can well vse it It is no woonder though they doe abuse it M. of M. Reform the eueÌ„ to day vnapt to day least apt to morrow Youth aptly offers vertues such as yeares vnaptly borrow VV. VV. Looke what wee haue when youth is most in prime That shall wee want in age by course of time Th. Churchyard The diuision of the day naturall Mediae noctis inclinatio Night was farre spent and now in Ocean deepe Orion flying fast from hissing snake His flaming head did hasten for to steepe Ed. Sp. By this th' eternall lamps wherewith high Ioue Doth light the lower world were halfe yspent And the moyst daughters of huge Atlas stroue Into th' ocean deep to driue their wearie droue IdeÌ„ The gentle humorous night Implyes her middle course and the sharpe east Breathes on my spirit with his fierie steedes G. Chapman The silent night that long had soiourned Now gan to cast her sable mantle off And now the sleepie waine-man softly droue His slow-pac't teeme that long had trauailed Th. Kyd. Gallicinium By this the Northerne Wagoner had set His seuen-fold teeme behind the stedfast starre That was in Ocean waues yet neuer wet But firme is fixt and sendeth light from farre To all that in the wide deepe wandring are And cheereful chauntte cleere with his notes shrill Had warned once that Phebus fierie carre 〈◊〉 haste was climing vp to Esterne hill Full enuious that the night so long his roome did fâ—ill Ed. Spencer What time the natiue Bel-man of the night The bird that warned Peter of his fall First rings his siluer bel to each sleeping wight That should their mindes vp to deuotion call Idem The cheerefull cocke the sad nights trumpeter Wayting vpon the rising of the sunne Doth sing to see how Cynthia shrinks her horne Where Clitia takes her progresse to the East VVhere wringing west with drops of siluer dew Her wonted teares of loue she doth renew The wandering swallow with her broken song The countrie wench vnto her worke awakes Whilst Cytherea sighing walks to seeke Her murdered loue transformed to a rose Whom though she see to croppe shee kindly feares But kissing sighes and dewes him with her teares Th. Kyd. Now ere the purple dawning yet did spring The ioyfull Larke began to stretch her wing And now the cocke the mornings trumpeter Plaid hunts vp for the day-starre to appeare Downe slideth Phebe from her cristall chayre S'daigning to lend her light vnto the ayre M. Drayton Diliculum At last fayre Hesperus in highest skie Had spent his lamp brought forth dawning light Ed. Spencer The night growen old her blacke head waxen gray Sure shepheards signe that morn wil soon fetch day S. Ph. Sydney It was the time when gainst the breaking day Rebellious night yet stroue and still repined For in the east appeares the morning gray And yet some lampes in Ioues high pallace shined Ed. Fairfax By this Apolloes golden harpe beganne To send forth musicke to the Ocean Which watchfull Hesperos no sooner heard But hee the day bright bearing carre prepar'd And ranne before as harkenger of light And with his flaming beames â—ockt vgly night Ch. Marlow Lycaons sonne The hardy plough-swaine vnto mightie Ioue Hath trac'd his siluer furrowes in the heauen And turning home his ouer-watched teeme Giues leaue vnto Apolloes chariot R. Greene. Nights candles are burnt out and iocond day Stands tiptoe on the mistie mountaines top VV. Sh. Loe now the gentle Larke wearie of rest From his moyst cabynet mounts vp on hie And wakes the morning from whose siluer breast The sunne ariseth in his maiestie VVho doth the world so gloriously behold That Cedar tops and hilles seem'd burnisht gold Idem Mane The ioyous day gan earlie to appeare And fayre Aurora fro her dewy bed Of aged Tithon gan her selfe to reare With rosie cheekes for shame as blushing red Ed. Spencer Now when the rosie-fingred morning fayre Wearie of aged Tithons saffron bed Had spread her purple robe through dewie ayre And the high hilles Titan discouered The royall Virgin shooke off drowsie bed Idem Now sullen night with slow sad pace descended To vgly hell when loe the blushing morrow Lends light to all faire eyes that light will borrow W. Sh. Soone as the morrow saire with purple beames Disperst the shadowes of the mistie night And Titan playing on the easterne streames Gan cleare the dewie ayre with springing light Ed. Spencer The dewie Rose at morne had with her hayres In sundrie sorts the Indian clime adornde And now her eyes apparelled in teares The losse of louely Memnon long had mornde D. Lodge The gaudie morne out of her golden sleepe Awakte and little birdes vncagde
tremble when I thinke Her cheekes are like the blushing clowde That beautifies Auroras face Or like the siluer crimson shrowde That Phoebus smiling locks doe grace Her lips are like two budded Roses Whom ranks of Lillies neighbour nie vvhich with bounds she stil incloses Apt to intice a deitie Her necke is like a stately towre vvhere Loue himselfe in pleasure lies To watch for glaunces euery howre From her diuine and sacred eyes Her paps are centers of delight Her paps are rocks of heauenly flame vvhere Nature moulds the dew of light To feede perfection with the same With orient pearle with Rubie red vvith Marble white with azure blew Her body euery way is fed Yet soft in touch and sweet in view Nature herselfe her shape admires The Gods are wounded in her sight And Loue forsakes his heauenly fires And at her eyes his brands doth light D. Lodge She lay and seemd a flood of Diamant Bounded in flesh as stil as Vespers haire When not an Aspen leafe is stird with ayre She lay at length like an immortal soule At endlesse rest in blest Elizium And then did true felicitie inroule So faire a Lady figure of her kingdom Now as she lay attirde in nakednes His eye did carue him on that feast of feasts Sweet fieldes of life which deaths foote dare not presse Flowrd with th'vnbroken waues of my loues breasts See wherewith bent of gold curld into knots In her heads groue the spring-bird Lameat nests Her body doth present those fields of peace vvhere soules are feasted with the soule of ease To proue which Paradice that nurseth these See see the golden riuers that renowne it Rich Gyhon Tigris Phison Euphrates Two from her bright Pelopian shoulders crowne it And two out of her snowy hills doe glide That with a deluge of delight doe drowne it These highest two their precious streames deuide To tenne pure floods that do the body dutie Bounding themselues in length but not in beauty These wind theyr courses through the paynted bowers And raise such sounds in theyr inflection As ceaselesse start from earth fresh sorts of flowers And bound that booke of life with euery section In these the Muses dare not swim for drowning Theyr sweetnes poysons with such sweet infection And leaues the onely lookers on them swouning These formes and colour makes them so to shine That Gods for them would cease to be diuine G. Chapman Her Lilly hand her rosie cheekes lie vnder Coosning the pillow of a lawfull kisse Who therefore angry seemes to part in sunder Swelling on eyther side to want his blisse Betweene whose hills her head entombed is Where like a vertuous monument she lyes To be admirde of lewd vnhallowed eyes VVithout the bed her other fayre hand was On the greene Couerlet whose perfect white Shewd like an Aprill daisie on the grasse vvith pearlie sweat resembling dewe of night Her eyes like Marigolds had sheath'd theyr light And canopied in darknes sweetly lay Till they might open to adorne the day Her haire like golden threds playd with her breath O modest wantons wanton modestie Shewing lifes tryumph in the Map of death And deaths dim lookes in lifes mortalitie Each in her sleepe themselues so beautifie As if betweene them twaine there were no strife But that life liu'd in death and death in life Her breasts like Iuory globes circled with blew A payre of mayden worlds vnconquered Saue of theyr Lord no bearing yoke they knew And him by oath they truly honoured These worlds in Tarquin new ambition bred vvho like a foule vsurper went about From this faire throne to heaue the owner out W. Shakespeare Starres fall to fetch fresh light from her rich eyes Her bright brow driues the sunne to clowdes beneath Her haires reflexe with red strakes paint the skies Sweet morne and euening dew falls from her breath T. Nash Fayrer then Isaacks louer at the vvell Brighter then inside barke of new hewen Cedar Sweeter then flames of fire-perfumed Mirrhe And comlier then the siluer clowdes that daunce On Zephyrus wings before the King of heauen G. Peele Her lookes were like beames of the morning sunne Forth-looking through the windowes of the East When first the fleecie cattell haue begunne Vpon the pearled grasse to make theyr feast Her thoughts are like the fume of Francensence Which from a golden Censor forth did rise And throwing forth sweet odours mounts from thence In rolling globes vp to the vaulted skies There she beholds with hie aspyring thought The cradle of her owne creation Among the seates of Angels heauenly wrought Much like an Angell in all forme and fashion S. Daniell Her locks are pleighted like the fleece of wooll That Iason with his Grecian mates atchiu'd As pure as gold yet not from gold deriu'd As full of sweets as sweet of sweetes is full Her browes are prety tables of conceate Where Loue his records of delight doth quote On them her dallying locks doe daily floate As loue ful oft doth feede vpon the baite Her eyes faire eyes like to the purest lights That animate the sunne or cheere the day In whom the shining sun-beames brightly play vvhilst fancie doth on them deuine delights Her cheekes like ripened Lillies steept in wine Or fayre Pomegranate kirnels washt in milke Or snow-white threds in nets of Crimson silke Or gorgeous clowdes vpon the sunnes decline Her lips like Roses ouer-washt with dew Or like the Purple of Narcissus flowre No frost theyr faire no wind doth wrest theyr powre But by her breath theyr beauties do renew Her christal chin like to the purest mould Enchast with dainties Daisies soft and white Where Fairies faire pauilion once is pight Whereas embrasd his beauties he doth hold Her necke like to an Iuory shining towre Where through with azure vaines sweet Nectar runnes Or like the downe of swanns Or like delight that doth it selfe deuoure Her paps are like fayre apples in the prime As round as orient pearles as soft as downe They neuer vaile theyr faire through winters frowne But from these sweets Loue suckt his sommer time Her bodies beauties best esteemed bowre Delicious comely dainty without staine The thought whereof not toucht hath wrought my paine Whose face so faire all beauties doth distaine Her maiden wombe the dwelling house of pleasure Not like for why no like surpasseth wonder O blest is he may bring such beauties vnder Or search by suite the secrets of that treasure R. Greene. Like to Diana in her sommer weede Girt with a Crimson robe of brightest die goes fayre Samela As fayre Aurora in her morning gray Deckt with the ruddy lustre of her loue is fayre Samela Like louely Thetis on a calmed day When as her brightnes Neptunes fancie moues Shines faire Samela Her tresses gold her eyes like glassie streames Her teeth are pearle the breasts are Iuory of faire Samela Her cheekes like rosie-lillies yeeld forth gleames Her browes bright arches framde of Ebonie thus faire Samela Passeth faire Venus in
hope is left to quench this fire That kindled is by sight blowne by desire D. Lodge Fayrer then was the Nymph of Mercurie Who when bright Phaebus mounteth vp his coach And tracks Aurora in her siluer steps And sprinckling from the folding of her lap White Lillies Roses and sweet Violets R. Greene. Her Angels face As the great eye of heauen shined bright And made a sunshine in the shady place Did neuer mortall eye behold such heauenly grace Edm. Spencer Not that night-wandring pale and watry starre vvhen yawning dragons draw her thirsting carre From Latmus mount vp to the gloomie skie vvhere crownd with blazing light and maiestie She proudly sits more ouer-rules the flood Then she the harts of those that neere her stood Ch. Marlow O Daphne is more fayre Then Angels swimming in the fluxiuyce ayre Could Loues rich bed-chamber her two bright eyes Lodge but two guests at once Beautie and Mercy Beauty lyes alwayes there did Mercy too Phaebus were then Daphne should be Transformd into a stately dignitie Th. Dekkar Her stature comly tall her gate well graced and her wit To maruaile at not medle with as matchlesse I omit A globe-like head a gold-like haire a forhead smooth hieâ— An euen nose on eyther side stoode out a grayish eye Two rosie cheeks round ruddy lips white iust set teeth within A mouth in mean vnderdeath a round dimpled chin Her snowish neck with blewish vaines stood bolt vpright vpon Her portly shoulders beating balls her vained brests anon Ad more to beauty wand-like was her middle falling still And rising whereas women rise imagine nothing ill And more her long limber arms had white and azurd wrist And slender fingers answer to her smooth lilly fists A leg in print a prety foote coniecture of the rest For amorous eyes obseruing forme think parts obscured best W. Warner See where she issues in her beauties pompe As Flora to salute the morning sunne vvho when she shakes her tresses in the ayre Raines on the earth dissolued pearle in showres vvhich with his beames the sunne exhales to heauen She holdes the spring and sommer in her armes And euery plant puts on his freshest robes To dannce attendance on her princely steps Springing and fading as she comes and goes G. Chapman Her hayre was loose bout her shoulders hung Vpon her browes did Venus naked lye And in her eyes did all the Graces swim Her cheekes that showd the temper of the mind Were beauties mornings where she euer rose Her lyps were loues rich altars where she makes Her hart a neuer-ceasing sacrifice Her teeth stoode like a ranke of Dians maydes vvhen naked in a secrete bower they bathe Her long round necke was Cupids quiuer calld And her sweet words that flew from her his shafts Her soft round brests were his sole trauaild Alpes vvhere snow that thawed with sunne did euer lye Her fingers bounds to her rich deitie Idem â—n Paradise of late a Dame begun To peepe out of her bed with such a grace As matcht the rising of the morning sunne â—vith drops of honney falling from her face Brighter then Phaebus fierie-pointed beames Or ycie crust of christall frozen streames Her hayre like Amber twisted vp in gold Passing the pride or riches of the East With curious knots were into trammels rould As snary nettings for a wandring guest The feathers deckt her with a quaint disdaine Like Iunos byrd in pompe of spotted traine Her shining forhead doth suppresse the starres New lightning sparkles from her louely cheekes Her percing sight the stroake of beauties warres Wherewith the conquest of the world she seekes Braue be the darts that from her eyes she throwes When Cupid lurkes betweene her louely browes Arabian odours breathe out of her talke Which she betweene the pearle and Ruby breaketh So smooth a compasse hath her tongue to walke As makes both heauen earth blush wheÌ„ she speaketh No singing bird in all the ayre but doates And lay theyr eares attentiue to her notes Her necke her shoulders and her breasts were bare Diana-like aboue the water smiling No snow Iuory or Alablaster there No statue of white Marble me beguiling But the sweet season of the yeere I found When Lillies peepe out of the grassie ground Her other parts vnto my view denide Much like the lampe that burnt at Psyches bed Made such a fire into my hart to glide That loue awaked and my body bled O had she not so great a force to please Desire had slept and I had liu'd at ease S. G. Astronomers the heauens doe deuide Into eyght houses where the Gods remaine All which in thy perfections doe abide For in thy feete the Queene of silence raignes About thy wast Ioues messenger doth dwell Inchaunting me as I thereat admire And on thy duggs the Queene of loue doth tell Her godheads power in scroules of my desire Thy beautie is the worlds eternall sunne Thy fauours force a cowards hart to darres And in thy hayres Ioue and his riches wonne Thy frownes hold Saturne thine eyes the fixed starres H. C. What length of verse braue Mopsus good to show â—hose vertues strange beauties such as no man may them know Thus shrewdly burdned theÌ„ how can my Muse escape The gods must help precious things must serue to show her shape Like great god Saturne faire like faire Venus chast As smooth as Pan as Iuno mild like goddesse Iris gracst With Cupid she foresees and goes Gods Vulcans pace And for a tast of all these gifts she steales god Momus grace Her forhead Iacinth like her cheekes of opall hue Her twinckling eyes bedeckt with pearle her lyps as Saphires blew Her haire like crapal stone her mouth ô heauenly wide Her skin like burnisht gold her hands like siluer-ore vntride As for her parts vnknowne which hidden sure are best Happy be they which wil beleeue and neuer seeke the rest S. Phil. Sidney O words which fall like Sommer dew on me O breath more sweet then is the growing beane O tongue in which all honnied licours be O voyce that doth the Thrush in shrilnes staine Gay haire more gay then straw when haruest lies Lips red and plum as cherries ruddy side Eyes fayre and great like fayre great Oxes eyes O breasts in which two white sheepe swell in pride But thou white skin as white as curds well prest So smooth as Sleeke-stone like it smooths each part And thou deere flesh as soft as wooll new drest And yet as hard as Brawne made hard by art S. Phil. Sidney Poeticall comparisons Beautie As that fayre starre the messenger of morne His dewy face out of the sea doth reare Or as the Ciprian Goddesse newly borne Of the Oceans fruitfull froth did first appeare Such seemed they and so theyr yellow haire Christalline humour dropped downe apace Edm. Spencer As when faire Cinthia in a darksome night Is in a noyous clowde enuoloped vvhere she may finde the substance thin
dimme my light Not with his worth but with his places height Th. Storer Of Adam Thou seest no wheat Helleborus can bring Nor barly from the madding Morrell spring Nor bleating lambes braue lyons do not breed That leaprous parents raise a leaprous feed Euen so our grandsyre liuing innocent Had stockt the whole world with a saint descent But suffering sinne in Eden him inuade His sonnes the soones of sinne and wrath he made I. Syluester As done the pots that long retaines the taste Of licour such as first was in them plaste Or like the tree that bends his elder braunch That way where first the stroke had made his launch◠So see we wolfes and beares and harts full old Some tamenesse from their daunted youth to hold Th. Hudson Loues fiery dart Could nere vnfreeze the frost of her chaste hart But as the diamond bides the hammer strong So she resisted all her suters long Idem Drunkards The more he dranke the more he did desire Like to the Ocean sea though it receaues All Nilus flouds yet all fresh water craues From East to West yet growes he not a graine But still is ready for as much againe Idem * The staues like yce in shiuers small did flie The splints like byrds did mount vnto the skie M. Drayton Ill Companie Like as the perfect Pylot feares to runne Vpon the rocks with singling sheet doth shunne Cydnaees straits ot Syrtes sinking sands Or cruell Capharois with stormy strands So wisely she dishaunted the resort Of such as were suspect of light report Well knowing that the quaintance with the ill Corrupts the good and though they euer still Th. Hudson Fol. 452. * Looke how the peacocke ruffes his flanting taile And strutts vnder his mooned canapie And how he quiuers with his mooned saile Yet when his lead pale legs he haps to see With shame abates his painted iollitie The King as proud as peacocke in his loue Yet droupes again when words nor tears will moue M. Drayton Night Looke how a bright starre shooteth from the skie So glides he in the night from Venus eye Which after him she darts as on a shore Gazing vpon a late embarqued frend Till the wild waues will haue them see no more Whose ridges with the meeting cloudes contend So did the mercilesse and pitchy night Fold in the obiect that did feed her sight W. Sha. King When as the Sun forsakes his christall spheare How darke and vgly is the gloomy skie And in his place ther 's nothing well appeare But cloudes that in his glorious circuit flie So when a King forsakes his royall place There still succeed oblique and darke disgrace Ch. Middleton Looke how the day hater Mineruaes bird Whilest priuiledged with darknes and the night Doth liue secure himselfe of others feard But if by chaunce discouered in the light O how each little foule with enuy stird Calls him to iustice vrges him with spight Summons the feathered flocks of all the wood To come to scorne the tyrants of their blood So fares the King laid open to disgrace S. Daniell And forth hee 's brought vnto the accomplishment Deckt with the crowne and princely robes that day Like as the dead in other lands are sent Vnto their graues in all their best aray And euen like good did him this ornament For what he brought he must not beare away But buries there his glory and his name Intomb'd for euermore in others blame Idem Companie Remaine vpright yet some will quarrell pike And common brute will deeme them all alike For looke how your companions you elect For good or ill so shall you be suspect Th. Hudson Of Victorie Like as whilome that strong Tyranthian swaine Brought forth with him the dreadfull dog of hell Against his will fast bound in yron chaine And roring horribly did him compell To see the hatefull sun that he might tell To grisly Pluto what on earth was donne And to the other damned ghoasts which dwell For aye in darknesse which day-light doth shunne So led he forth this captiue and like conquest woone Ed. Spencer Like as in sommers day when raging heate Doth burne the earth and boyled riuers drie That all brute beasts forste to refraine from meate Do hunt for shade where shrowded they may lie And missing it faine from themselues to flie All trauailers tormented are with paine A mightie cloud doth ouercast the skie And powreth forth a suddaine showre of raine That all the wretched world recomforteth againe So did the warlike Britomart restore The prize of knights of mayden-head that day Idem As when a troupe of haruest thrifty swaines With cutting sythes earth ripened riches mowes Whole sheaues of corne lye strowen vpon the plaines So fall the Scots before the conquering foes D. Lodge Death On Appenine like as a sturdy tree Against the windes that makes resistance stout If with a storme it ouerturned bee Falles downe and breakes the trees and plants about So Latine fell and with him felled hee And slew the nearest of the Pagan rout Ed. Fairfax Like as the sacred oxe that carelesse stands With gilden hornes and flowry girlonds crownd Proud of his dying honour and deare bands Whilest Theaters fume with frankensence around All suddenly with mortall stroke astoind Doth grouelling fall and with his steaming gore Distaines the pillers and the holy ground And the faire flowers that decked him afore So fell proud Marinell vpon the precious shore Ed. Spencer Like as a shippe whom cruell tempest driues Vpon a rocke with horrible dismay Her shattered ribbes in thousand peeces riues And spoyling all her geares and goodly ray Does make her selfe misfortunes piteous pray So downe the cliffe the wretched giant tombled Idem Like an autumall starre which ruddy doth foreshewe Some death some pestilence some bloudy ouerthrowe He buskles with his foe the assailant he assaults And resolute he markes his arrowes weake defaults Then entring in betweene his brest plate and his bases He seeks his sinful soule there finds thence it chases I. Syl. Fight Like as two mastiffe dogs with hungry iawes Mou'd first to hate from hate to raging ire Approach with grinning teeth and grisly iawes With staring eyes as red as flaming fire At last they bite and scratch with teeth and clawes Tearing themselues and trembling in the mire So after biting and reproachfull words Sarcapant and Rinaldo drew their swords Ed. Spencer Like as an exhalation hot and drie Amongst the aire bred moisty vapours throwne Spilleth his lightening forth couragiously Renting the thick clouds with a thunder-stone As though the huge all couering heauen did grone Such is the garboyle of this conflict then Braue English men encountring English men M. Drayton Like as ye see the wallowing sea to striue Flood after flood and waue with waue to driue Thē waues with waues thē floods with floods to chace And eft returnes vnto their former place Or like the crops of corne in midst of May Blowne vp with westerne wind