adversity which in this point are as pellucid and diaphanous as any Chrystall we com to see God and the immensity of his love in a fuller proportion Ther cannot be clearer evidences of his care than his corrections when he makes the world to frown then he smiles most upon us though it be through a mask besides it is always his method to stroke them whom he strikes We have an ordinary salute in English God blesse you and though the verb be radically deriv'd from the Dutch word yet it would bear good sense and be very pertinent to this purpose if we would fetch it from the French word blesser which is to hurt This speculation raiseth my spirits to a great hight of comfort and patience that notwithstanding they have been a long time weigh'd down and quashd yet I shall at last oreâ—…om all these pressures survive my debts and surmount my enemies God pardon them and preserve you and take it not ill that in this my conclusion I place you so neer my enemies Whatsoever Fortune light on me com fair or foul Weather I shall be still Fleet 5 of Aug. 1644. Your constant Servitor J. H. LVI To Tho. Ham. Esqr. SIR THer is no such tresure as a true frend it is a tresure far above that of Saint Marks in Venice a tresure that is not liable to those casualties which others are liable unto as to plundering and burglary to bankrups and ill debtors to firing and shipwracks for when one hath lost his fortunes by any of these disasters he may recover them all in a true frend who is alwayes a set and staple commodity This is verified in you who have stuck so close unto me in these my pressures Like a Glow-worm the old emblem of true frendship you have shin'd unto me in the dark Nor could could you do offices good to any that wisheth you better for I always lov'd you for the freedom of your genius for those choice parts and fancies I found in you which I confess hath made mee more covetous of your frendship than I use to be of others And to deal clearly with you one of my prime arrands to this Town when this disaster fell upon me was to see you God put a speedy period to these sad distempers but this wish as I was writing it did vanish in the impossibility of the thing for I fear they are of a long continuance So I pray God keep you and comfort me who am The Fleet May 5. 1643 Your true frend to serve you J. H. LVII To Phil. Warwick Esquire SIR THe earth doth not always produce Roses and Lillies but shee brings forth also Nettles and Thistles So the world affords us not always contentments and pleasure but somtimes afflictions and trouble Ut illa tribulos sic iste tribulationes producit The Sea is not more subject to contrary blasts nor the Surges therof to tossings and tumblings as the actions of men are to encombrances and crosses The Ayr is not fuller of meteors than mans life is of miseries but as we find that it is not a clear skie but the clouds that drop faâ—…es as the holy Text tells us so adversity is far more fertil than prosperity it useth to water and mollifie the heart which is the center of all our affections and makes it produce excellent fruit wheras the glaring Sun-shine of a continuall prosperity would enharden and dry it up and so make it barren Ther is not a greater evidence of Gods care and love to his creature than affliction for as a French Author doth illustrat it by a familiar example If two Boys should be seen to fight in the streets and a ring of peeple about them one of the standers by parting them le ts the one go untouch'd but he falls a correcting the other wherby the beholders will infer that he is his child or at least one whom he wisheth well unto So the strokes of adversity which fall upon us from heaven shew that God is our Father as well as our Creator This makes this bitter cup of â—…ffliction becom Nectar and the bread of carefulnes I now eat to be true Ambrosia unto me This makes me esteem these walls wherin I have been immur'd these thirty months to be no other than a College of instruction unto me and wheras Varro said That the great World was but the House of little man I hold this Flâ—…ct to be one of the best lodgings in that House Ther is a peeple in Spain call'd Los Pattuecos who som threescore and od yeers since wer discoverd by the flight of a Hawk of the Duke of Alva's this peeple then all Savage though they dwelt in the center of Spain not far from Toledo and are yet held to bee part of those Aborigines that Tubal Cain brought in being hemm'd in anâ—… imprison'd as it were by a multitude of craggy huge mountains thought that behind those Mountains ther was no more Earth I have bin so habituated to this prison and accustomd to the walls therof so long that I might well be brought to think that ther is no other world behind them And in my extravagant imaginations I often compare this Fleet to Noah's Ark surrounded with a vast Sea and huge deluge of calamities which hath overwhelmd this poor Island Nor although I have been so long aboard here was I yet under Hatches for I have a Cabin upon the upper Deck whence I breath the best ayr the place affords Ad heerunto that the society of Master Hopkins the Warden is an advantage to me who is is one of the knowingst and most civill Gentlemen that I have conversd withall Moreover ther are heer some choice Gentlemen who are my Co-Martyrs for a Prisoner and a Martyr are the same thing save that the one is buried before his death and the other after God Almighty amend these times that make imprisonment to be preferd before liberty it being more safe and desirable by som though not by From the Fleet Nov. 3. 1643. Your affectionat Servitor J. H. LVIII To Sir Ed. Sa. Knight SIR VVEr ther a Physitian that could cure the maladies of the mind as well as those of the body hee needed not to wish the Lord Major or the Pope for his Uncle for he should have Patients without number It is true that ther be som distempers of the mind that proceed from those of the body and so are cureable by Drugs and Dyets but ther are others that are quite abstracted from all corporeall impressions and are meerly mentall these kind of Agonies are the more violent of the two for aâ—… the one use to drive us into Fevers the other precipitat us oftentimes into Frensies And this is the ground I beleeve which made the Philosopher think that the rationall soul was infus'd into man partly for his punishment and the understanding for his executioner unless wisdom sit at the Helm and steer the motions of his Will I
by the next shipping besides she entreats you to send her a pot of the best mithridate and so much of treacle All your frends here are well and joviall T. T. drank your health yesternight and wish'd you could send him a handsome Venetiaâ—… Courâ—…isan inclos'd in a letter he would willingly be at the charge of the postage which he thinks would not be much for such a light commodity Farewell my dear Tom have a care of your courses and continue to love him who is Westmin 15 Ian. 1635. Yours to the altar J. H. XVIII To Mr. T. Jackson at Madrid SIR THough a great sea severs â—…s now yet 't is not all the water of the Ocean can drowne the remembrance of you in me but that it floats and flows daily in my brain I must confess for 't is impossible the mind of man should fix it self alwaies upon one object it hath somtimes its ebbs in me but 't is to rise up again with greater force At the writing heerof 't was floud 't was spring-tide which sweld so high that the thoughts of you overwhelm'd all others within me they ingross'd all my intellectualls for the time You write to me fearfull news â—…ouching the revolt of the Catalan from Castillia of the tragicall murthering of the Viceroy and the burning of his House Those mountaneers are mad Lads I fear the sparkles of this fire will fly further either to Portugall or to Sicilia and Italy all which Countries I observ'd the Spaniard holds as one would do a Woolf by the â—…ar fearing they should run aâ—…ay ever and anon from him The newes here is that Lambeth House beares all the sway at White-Hall and the Lord Deputy Kings it notably in Ireland som that love them best could wish them a little more moderation I pray buy Suarez works for me of the last edition Mr. William Pawley to whom I desire my most hearty commends may be presented will see it safely sent by way of Bilâ—…ao your frends here are all well as is thanks be to God Holborn 3 Mar. 1638. Your true friend to serve you J. H. XXIX To Sir Edward Sa. Knight Sir Edward I Had a shrewd disease hung lately upon mâ—… proceeding as the Physicians told me from this long reclused life and close restraint which had much wasted my spirits and brought me low when the Crisis was past I began to grow doubtfull that I had but a short time to breath in this elementary world my feaver still encreasing and finding my soule weary of this muddy mansion and me thought more weary of this prison of flesh than this flesh was of this prison of the Fleet. Therfore after som gentle slumbers and unusuall dreames about the dawnings of the day I had a lucid intervall and so I fell a thinking how to put my little house in order and to make my last will Heerupon my thoughts ran upon Grunnius sophista's last Testament who having nothing else to dispose of but his body he bequeathed all the parts therof in Legacies as his skin to the Tanners his bones to the Dice makers his guts to the Musitians his fingers to the Scriveners his toung to his fellow sophisters which were the Lawyers of those times and so forth as he thus dissected his body so I thought to divide my mind into legacies having as you know little of the outward pelf and gifts of fortune to dispose of for never any was less beholden to that blind baggage In the highest degree of Theoricall contemplation I made an entire sacrifice of my soul to her maker who by infusing created her and by creating infused her to actuate this small bulk of flâ—…sh with an unshakeâ—… confidence of the redemption of both in my Saviour and consequently of the salvation of the one and resurrection of the other my thoughts then reflected upon divers of my noble frends and I â—…ell to proportion unto them what Legacies I held most proper I thought to bequeath unto my Lord of Cherbery and Sir K. Digâ—…y that little Philosophy and knowledg I have in the Mathematicks My historicall observations and criticall researches I made into antiquity I thought to bequeath unto Dr. Vsher Lord Primate of Ireland My observations abroad and inspection into forrein States I thought to leave to my Lord G. D. My poetry such as it is to Mistress A. K. who I know is a great minion of the Muses School languages I thought to bequeath unto my dear mother the Vniversity of Oxford My Spanish to Sir Lewis Dives and Master Endimion Porter for though they are great masters of that language yet it may stead them somthing when they read la picara Iustina My Italian to the worthy company of Turky and Levantine Merchants from divers of whom I have received many noble favours My French to my most honoured lady the Lady Cor and it may help her somthing to understand Rablais The little smattering I have in the Dutch British and my English I did not esteem worth the bequeathing My love I had bequeathed to be dufâ—…'d among all my dear frends specially those that have stuck unto me this my long affliction My best naturall â—…ffections betwixt the Lord B of Br. my brother Howell my three dear Sisters to be transferr'd by them to my cousins their children This little sackfull of bones I thought to bequeath to Westminster Abbey to be interred in the cloyster within the Southside of the Garden close to the wall wher I would have desired Sir H. F. my dear Frend to have inlayed a small peece of black marble and caus'd this motto to have bin insculp'd upon it Huc usque peregrinus heic domi or this which I would have left to his choice Huc usque Erraticus beie fixus and instead of strewing my grave with flowers I would have desired him to have grafted theron som little Tree of what sort he pleas'd that might have taken root downward to my dust because I have bin alwaies naturally affected to woods and groves and those kind of vegetables insomuch that if ther wer any such thing as a Pythagorean Metempsuchosis I think my soul would transmigrat into som Tree when she bids this body farewell By these extravagancies and od Chimera's of my brain you may well perceive that I was notwell but distemper'd specially in my intellectualls according to the Spanish proverb siempre desvarios 〈◊〉 la calentura fevers have alwaies their fits of dotage Among those to whom I had bequeath'd my dearest love you wer one to whom I had intended a large proportion and that love which I would have left you then in legacy I send you now in this letter for it hath pleased God to reprieve me for a longer time to creep upon this earth and to see better daies I hope when this black dismall cloud is dispell'd but com foul or fair weather I shall be as formerly Fleet 26 Mar. 1643. Your most constant faithfull Servitor J.
subject to starving to diseases to the inclemency of the weather and to be far longer liv'd I then spyed a great stone and sitting a while upon 't I fell to weigh in my thoughts that that stone was in a happier condition in som respects than either those sensitive creatures or vegetables I saw before in regard that that stone which propagates by assimilation as the Philosophers say needed neither grass nor hay or any aliment for restauration of nature nor water to refresh its roots or the heat of the Sun to attract the moisture upwards to encrease growth as the other did As I directed my pace homeward I spyed a Kite soaâ—…ing high in the ayr and gently gliding up and down the clear Region so far above my head I fell to envy the Bird extremely and â—…epine at his happines that hee should have a privilege to make a nearer approach to heaven than I. Excuse me that I trouble you thus with these rambling meditations they are to correspond with you in som part for those accurat fancies of yours you lately sent me So I rest Holborn 17 Mar. 1639. Your entire and true Servitor J. H LII To master Sergeant D. at Lincolns Inn. SIR I Understand with a deep sense of sorrow of the indisposition of your son I fear he hath too much mind for his body and that he superabounds with fancy which brings him to these fits of distemper proceeding from the black humor of Melancholy Moreover I have observed that hee is too much given to his study and self-society specially to convers with dead men I mean Books you know any thing in excess is naught Now Sir wer I worthy to give you advice I could wish he wer well married and it may wean him from that bookish and thoughtfull humor women wer created for the comfort of men and I have known that to som they have prov'd the best Heleborum against Melancholy As this course may beget new spirits in him so it must needs ad also to your comfort I am thus bold with you because I love the Gentleman dearly well and honor you as being West 13 Iune 1632. Your humble obliged servant J. H. LIII To my noble Lady the Lady M. A. Madame THer is not any thing wherin I take more pleasure than in the accomplishment of your commands nor had ever any Queen more power o're her Vassalls than you have o're my intellectualls I find by my inclinations that it is as naturall for me to do your will as it is for fire to fly upward or any body els to rend to his center but touching the last command your Ladiship was pleased to lay upon me which is the following Hymne if I answer not the fulness of your expectation it must be imputed to the suddennes of the command and the shortnes of time A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity To the First Person To thee dread Soveraign and dear Lord Which out of nought didst me afford Essence and life who mad'st me man And oh much more a Christian Lo from the centre of my heart All laud and glory I impart Hallelujah To the Second To thee blessed Saviour who didst free My soul from Satans tyrannie And mad'st her capable to be An Angel of thy Hierarchy From the same centre I do raise All honor and immortall praise Hallelujah To the Third To thee sweet Spirit I return That love wherwith my heart doth burn And these bless'd notions of my brain I now breath up to thee again O let them redescend and still My soul with holy raptures fill Hallelujah They are of the same measure cadence and ayr as was that angelicall Hymne your Ladiship pleased to touch upon your instrument which as it so enchanted me then that my soul was ready to com out at my ears so your voice took such impressions in mee that me thinks the sound still remains fresh with Westm. 1 Apr. 1637. Your Ladiships most devoted Servitor J. H. XLIV To Master P. W. at Westminster SIR THe fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom and the Love of God is the end of the Law the former saying was spoke by no meaner man than Solomon but the latter hath no meaner Author than our Savior himself Touching this beginning and this end ther is a near relation between them so near that the one begets the tother a harsh mother may bring forth somtimes a mild daughter so fear begets love but it begets knowledg first for Ignâ—…ti nulla cupido we cannot love God unless we know him before both fear and love are necessary to bring us to heaven the one is the fruit of the Law the other of the Gospell when the clouds of fear are vanish'd the beams of love then begin to glance upon the heart and of all the members of the body which are in a maner numberless this is that which God desires because 't is the centre of Love the source of our affections and the cistern that holds the most illustrious bloud and in a sweet and well devoted harmonious soul cor is no other than Camera Omnipotentis Regis 't is one of Gods closets and indeed nothing can fill the heart of man whose desires are infinite but God who is infinity itself Love therfore must be a necessary attendant to bring us to him but besides Love ther must be two other guides that are requir'd in this journey which are Faith and Hope now that fear which the Law enjoyns us turns to faith in the Gospell and knowledg is the scope and subject of both yet these last two bring us onely towards the haven but love goes along with us to heaven and so remains an inseparable sempiternall companion of of the soul Love therfore is the most acceptable Sacrifice which we can offer our Creator and he who doth not study the Theory of it heer is never like to com to the Practise of it heerafter It was a high hyper physicall expression of St. Austustine when he fell into this rapture that if hee wer King of Heaven and God Almighty Bishop of Hippo he would exchange places with him because he lov'd him so well This Vote did so take me that I have turn'd it to a paraphrasticall Hymn which I send you for your Violl having observed often that you have a harmonious soul within you The Vote Oh God who can those passions tell Wherwith my heart to thee doth swell I cannot better them declare Than by the wish made by that rare Auâ—…elian Bishop who of old Thy Oracâ—…es in Hippo told If I were Thou and thou wert I I would resign the Deity Thou shouldst be God I would be man Is 't possible that love more can Oh pardon that my soul hath tane So high a flight and grows prophane For my self my dear Phil because I love you so dearly well I will display my very intrinsecalls to you in this point when I exmine the motions of my heart I find that I
blossoming as it were in every Line I mean those sweet expressions of Love and Wit which in every period were intermingled with so much Art that they seem'd to contend for mastery which was the strongest I must confesse that you put me to hard shifto to correspond with you in such exquisit strains and raptures of Love which were so lively that I must needs judg them to proceed from the motions from the Diastole and Systole of a Heart truly affected certainly your heart did dictat every syllable you writ and guided your hand all along Sir give me leave to tell you that not a dram nor a doze not a scruple of this pretious love of yours is lost but it is safely tresur'd up in my Brest and answer'd in like proportion to the full mine to you is as cordiall it is passionat and perfect as love can be I thank you for the desire you have to know how it fares with me abroad I thank God I am perfectly well and well contented with this wandring cours of life a while I never enjoyed my health better but I was like to endanger it two nights ago for being in som joviall company abroad and coming late to our lodging we were suddenly surprized by a crue of Filous of night Rogues who drew upon us and as we had exchang'd some blowâ—… it pleas'd God the Chevatieur de Guet an Officer who goeâ—… up and down the Streets all night a horseback to prevent disorders pass'd by and so rescued us but Iack White was hurt and I had two thrusts in my Clock Ther 's never a night passeth but some robbing or murther is committed in this Town so that it is not safe to go late any where specially about the Pont-Neuf the New Bridg though Henry the Great himself â—…ies Centinell ther in Arms upon a huge Florentine horse and sits bare to every one that passeth an improper posture me thinks to a King on horseback not longsince one of the Secretaries of 〈◊〉 wherof ther are here always four having bin invited to the Suburbs of Saint Germains to supper left order with one of his Laquays to bring him his horse about nine it so happen'd that a mischance befell the horse which lam'd him as he went a watring to the Seine insomuch that the Secretary was put to beat the hoof himself and Foot it home but as he was passing the Pont-Neuf with his Laquay carrying a Torch before him he might ore hear a noise of clashing of Swords and Fighting and looking under the Torch â—…d perceiving they were but two he bad his Laquay go on they had not made many paces but two armed men with their Pistols cock'd and swords drawn made puffing towards them whereof one had a paper in his hand which he said he had casually took up in the streets and the difference between them was about that Paper therefore they desir'd the Secretary to read it with a great deal of complement the Secretary took out his spectacles and fell a reading of the said Paper whereof the substance was That it should be known to all men that whosoever did passe over that Bridge after nine a Clock at night in Winter and ten in Summer was to leave his Cloak behind him and in case of no Cloak his Hat The Secretary starting at this one of the Camerades told him That he thought that Paper concern'd him so they unmantled him of a new Plush Cloak and my Secretary was content to go home quietly and en Cuerpo This makes me think often of the excellent Nocturnall Government of our City of London wher one may passe and repasse securely all hours of the night if he give good words to the Watch. Ther is a gentle calm of Peace now throughout all France and the King intends to make a progresse to all the Frontier Towns of the Kingdom to see how they are fortified The Favourit Luines strengthneth himself more and more in his minionship but he is much murmured at in regard the accesse of Suiters to him is so difficult which made a Lord of this Land say That three of the hardest things in the world were To quadrat a Circlâ—… to find out the Philosophers Stone and to speak with the Duke of Luines I have sent you by Vacandary the Post the French Bever and Tweeses you writ for Bever-hats are grown dearer of late because the Iesuits have got the Monopoly of them from the King Farewell dear child of Vertue and Minion of the Museâ—… and continue to love Paris 1. of May. 1620. Your J. H. XVIII To Sir James Crofts from Paris SIR I Am to set forward this week for Spain and if I can find no commodity of embarcation at Saint Malos I must be forc'd to journey it all the way by Land and clammer up the huge Pyreneyhills but I could not bid Paris adieu till I had conveyed my true and constant respects to you by this Letter I was yesterday to wait upon Sir Herbert Croft at Saint Germains where I met with a French Gentleman who amongst other curiosities which he pleased to shew me up and down Paris brought me to that place where the late King was slain and to that wher the Marquis of Ancre was shot and so made me a punctuall relation of all the circumstances of those two acts which in regard they were rare and I beleeve two of the notablest Accidents that ever happen'd in France I thought it worth the labour to make you partaker of som part of his discours France as all Christendom besides for ther was then a truce twixt Spain and the Hollander was in a profound Peace and had continued so twenty yeers together when Henry the fourth fell upon some great Martiall design the bottome whereof is not known to this day and being rich for he had heap'd up in the Bastile a mount of Gold that was as high as a Lance he levied a huge Army of 40000 men whence came the Song The King of France with fourty thousand men and upon a sudden he put this Army in perfect equippage and some say he invited our Prince Henry to come unto him to be a sharer in his exploits But going one afternoon to the Bastile to see his Tresure and Ammunition his Coach stopp'd suddenly by reason of some Colliers and other Carts that were in that narrow street whereupon one Ravillac a lay Jesuit who had a whole twelve month watch'd an opportunity to do the act put his foot boldly upon one of the wheels of the Coach and with a long Knife stretch'd himself over their shoulders who were in the Boot of the Coach and reach'd the King at the end and stab'd him right in the left side to the heart and pulling out the fatall Steel he doubled his thrust the King with a ruthfull voice cryed out Ie suis blesse I am hurr and suddenly the bloud issued at his mouth The Regicide villain was apprehended and
England I am well assur'd I bear still the same mind and therein I verifâ—… the old vers Coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt The Ayr but not the mind they change Who in Outlandish Countreys range For what alterations soever happen in this Microcosm in this little World this small bulk and body of mine you may be confident that nothing shall alter my affections specially toward you but that I will persever still the same The very same J. H. Ven. 25. Iun. 1621. XXXII To Richard Altham Esquire Dear Sir I Was plung'd in a deep fit of melancholly Satum had cast his black influence ore all my intellectuals me thought I felt my heart as a lump of Dow and heavy as Lead within my Brest when a Letter of yours of the third of this month was brought me which presently begot new Spirits within me and made such strong impressions upon my Intellectuals that it turn'd and transform'd me into another man I have read of a Duke of Milan and others who were poyson'd by reading of a Letter but yours produc'd contrary effects in me it became an antidot or rather â—… most Soverain Cordial to me more operative then Bezar of more vertue then Potable Gold or the Elixir of Ambar for it wrought a sudden cure upon me That fluent and rare mixture of love and wit which I found up and down therein were the Ingredients of this Cordiall they were as so many choice Flowers strw'd here and ther which did cast such an Odoriferous sent that they reviv'd all my senceâ—… and dispell'd those dull fumes which had formerly ore clouded my brain Such was the operation of your most ingenuous and affectionat Letter and so sweet an entertainment it gave me If your Letter had that vertue what would your person have don and did you know all you would wish your person here a while did you know the rare beuty of this Virgin-Clty you would quickly make love to her and change your Royall Exchange for the Rialto and your Grayes-Inne Walks for Saint Marks place for a time Farewell dear child of Vertue and minion of the Muses and love still Ven. 1. Iuly 1621. Your J. H. XXIII To my much honoured frend Sir John North Kt. from Venice Noble Sir THe first office of gratitude is to receive a good turn civilly then to retain it in memory and acknowledg it thirdly to endeavour a requitall for this last office it is in vain for me to attempt it specially towards you who have laden me with such a variety of courtesies and weighty favours that my poor stock comes far short of any retaliation but for the other two reception and retention as I am not conscious to have bin wanting in the first act so I shall never fail in the second because both these are within the compasse of my power for if you could pry into my memory you should discover there a huge Magazin of your favours you have bin pleas'd to do me present and absent safeiy stor'd up and coacervated to preserve them from mouldring away in oblivion for courtesies should be no perishable commodity Should I attempt any other requitall I should extenuat your favours and derogat from the worth of them yet if to this of the memory I can contribut any other act of body or mind to enlarge my acknowledgments towards you you may be well assured that I shall be ever ready to court any occasion wherby the world may know how much I am Ven 13. Iul. 1621 Your thankfull Servitor J. H. XXXIV To Dan. Caldwall Esq from Venice My dear D. COuld Letters flie with the same Wings as Love useth to do and cut the Ayr with the like swiftnes of motion this Letter of mine should work a miracle and be with you in an instant nor should she fear interception or any other casualty in the way or cost you one penny the Post for she should passe invisibly but 't is not fitting that paper which is made but of old Ragg's wherwith Letters are swadled should have the same priviledg as Love which is a spirituall thing having somthing of Divinity in it and partakeâ—… in â—…elerity with the Imagination then which ther is not any thing more swift you know no not the motion of the upper sphere the 〈◊〉 mobile which snatcheth all the other mine after it and indeed the whole Macrocosm all the world besiâ—…es except our Earth the Center which upper sphere the Astronomers would have to move so many degrees so many thousand miles in a moment fince then Letters are denied such a velocity I allow this of â—…ine twenty dayes which is the ordinary time allow'd twixt Venice and London to com unto you and thank you a thousand 〈◊〉 over for your last of the tenth of Iune and the rich Venison Feast you made as I understand not long since to the remembrance of the at the Ship Tavern Believe it Sir you shall find that this love of yours is not ill imployed for I esteem it at the highest degree I value it more then the Treasury of Saint Mark which I lately saw wher amongst other things ther is a huge Iron Chest as tall as my self that hath no Lock but a Crevice through which they cast in the Gold that 's bequeath'd to Saint Mark in Legacies wheron ther is ingraven this proud Motto Quando questo scrimio S' Aprirá Tutto'l mundo tremera When this Chest shall open the whole World shall tremble the Duke of Ossuna late Vice-Roy of Naples did what he could to force them to open it for he brought Saint Mark to wast much of this Tresure in the late Wars which he made purposely to that end which made them have recours to us and the Hollander for Ships not long since Amongst the rest of Italy this is call'd the Maidin Citie notwithstanding her great number of Courtisans and ther is a Prophecy That she shall continue a Maid untill her Husband for sake her meaning the Sea to whom the Pope married her long fince and the Sea is observ'd not to love her so deeply as he did for he begins to shrink and grow shallower in som places about her not doth the Pope also who was the Father that gave her to the Sea affect her as much as he formerly did specially since the extermination of the Jesuits so that both Husband and Father begin to abandon her I am to be a guest to this Hospitable Maid a good while yet and if you want any commodity that she can afford and what cannot she afford for humane pleasure or delight do but write and it shall be sent you Farewell gentle soul and correspond still in pure love with Ven 29. of Iul. 1621. Your J. H. XXXV To Sir James Crofts Kt. from Venice SIR I Receiv'd one of yours the last week that came in my Lord Ambassador Wâ—…ttons Packet and being now upon point of parting with Venice I could not
1500 that very week and two out of White-Hall it self Ther is high clashing again 'twixt my Lord Duke and the Earl of Bristoll they recriminat one another of divers things the Earl accuseth him amongst other matters of certain Letters from Rome of putting His Majesty upon that hazardous jorney of Spain and of som miscarriages at his being in that Court Ther be Articles also against the Lord Conway which I send your Lordship here inclosed I am for Oxford the next week and thence for Wales to fetch my good old Fathers blessing at my return if it shall please God to reprieve me in these dangerous times of Contagion I shall continue my wonted service to your Lordship if it may be done with safety So I rest Lond. 15 of Mar. 1626. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XXI To the honble the Lord Viscount C. My Lord SIr Iohn North delivered me one lately from your Lordship and I send my humble thanks for the Venison you intend me I acquainted your Lordship as opportunity serv'd with the nimble pace the French Match went on by the successfull negotiation of the Earls of Carlile and Holland who outwent the Monsieurs themselves in Courtship how in less than nine Moons this great busines was propos'd pursued and perfected wheras the Sun had leasure enough to finish his annuall progres from one end of the Zodiac to the other so many years before that of Spain could com to any shape of perfection This may serve to shew the difference 'twixt the two Nations the Leaden-heeld pace of the one and the Quick-silver'd motions of the other It shews also how the French is more generous in his proceedings and not so full of scruples reservations and jealousies as the Spaniard but deales more frankly and with a greater confidence and gallantry The Lord Duke of Buckingham is now in Paris accompanied with the Earl of Montgomerie and hee went in a very splendid equipage The Venetian and Hollander with other States that are no friends to Spain did som good offices to advance this Alliance and the new Pope propounded much towards it But Richelieu the new Favorit of France was the Cardinall instrument in it This Pope Urban grows very active not onely in things present but ripping up of old matters for which ther is a select Committee appointed to examin accounts and errors pass'd not only in the time of his immediat Predecessor but others And one told me of a merry Pasquill lately in Rome that wheras ther are two great Statues one of Peter the other of Paul opposit one to the other upon a Bridge one had clapt a pair of Spurs upon Saint Peters Heels and Saint Paul asking him whither hee was bound he answered I apprehend som danger to staie now in Rome because of this new Commission for I fear they will question me for denying my Master Truly brother Peter I shall not staie long after you for I have as much cause to doubt that they will question me for persecuting the Christians before I was converted So I take my leave and rest London 3 May. 1626. Your Lordships most humble Servitor J. H. XXII To my Brother Master Hugh Penry SIR I Thank you for your late Letter and the severall good tydings you sent me from Wales In requitall I can send you gallant news for we have now a most Noble new Queen of England who in true beuty is beyond the Long-Woo'd Infanta for she was of a fading Flaxen-Hair Big Lipp'd and somwhat heavy Ey'd but this Daughter of France this youngest Branch of Bourbon being but in her cradle when the great Henry her Father was put out of the World is of a more lovely and lasting complexion a dark brown shee hath eyes that sparkle like Stars and for her Physiognomy she may be said to be a mirror of perfection She had a rough passage in her transfretation to Dover Castle and in Canterbury the King Bedded first with her ther were a goodly train of choice Ladies attended her coming upon the Bowling-green on Barram-Down upon the way who divided themselves into two rows and they appear'd like so many Constellations but me thought that the Countrey Ladies out-shin'd the Courtiers She brought over with her two hundred thousand Crowns in Gold and Silver as halt her portion and the other Moitie is to be payed at the yeers end Her first suit of servants by Article are to be French and as they die English are to succeed shee is also allowed twenty eight Ecclesiastics of any Order except Iesuits a Bishop for her Almoner and to have privat exercise of her Religion for her and her servants I pray convey the inclosed to my Father by the next conveniency and present my dear love to my Sister I hope to see you at Dyvinnock about Michaâ—…mas for I intend to wait upon my Father and will take my Mother in the way I mean Oxford in the interim I rest London 16 May 1626. Your most affectionat Brother J H. XXIII To my Unkle Sir Sackvill Trever from Oxford SIR â—… Am sorry I must write unto you the sad tydings of the dissolution of the Parliament here which was don suddenly Sir Iohn Eâ—…liot was in the heat of a high speech against the Duke of Buchingâ—…m when the Usher of the Black-Rod knock'd at the door and signified the Kings pleasure which strook a kind of consternation in all the House My Lord Keeper Williams hath parted with the Broad-Seal because as som say he went about to cut down the Scale by which he rose for som it seems did ill offices 'twixt the Duke and him Sir Thomas Coventry hath it now I pray God he be tender of the Kings conscience wherof he is Keeper rather than of the Seal I am bound to morrow upon a journey towards the Mountains to see som Friends in Wales and to bring back my Fathers blessing for better assurance of Lodging wher I pass in regard of the Plague I have a Post Warrant as far as Saint Davids which is far enough you 'l say for the King hath no ground further on this Island If the sicknes rage in such extremity at London the Term will be held at Reding All your friends here are well but many look blank because of this sudden rupture of the Parliament God Almighty turn all to the best and stay the fury of this contagion and preserve us from â—…urther judgements so I rest Oxford 6 Aug. 1626. Your most affectionate Nephew J. H. XXIV To my Father from London SIR I Was now the fourth time at a dead stand in the cours of my fortunes for though I was recommended to the Duke and receiv'd many Noble respects from him yet I was told by som who are neerest him that som body hath don me ill offices by whispering in his ear that I was two much Digbified and so they told me positively that I must never expect any imployment about him of any
30 Ian. 1633. Your much obliged Servitor J. H. XII To the Lord Vicount Wentworth Lord Deputy of Ireland and Lord Precedent of York c. My Lord I Was glad to apprehend the opportunity of this Packet to convey my humble service to your Lordship Ther are old doings in France and t is no new thing for the French to be always a doing they have such a stirring genius The Queen Mother hath made an escape to Brussells and Monsieur to Lorain wher they say he courts very earnestly the Dukes sister a young Lady under twenty they say a Contract is pass'd already but the French Cardinall opposeth it for they say that Lorain Milk seldom breeds good bloud in France Not only the King but the whole Gallican Church hath protestâ—… against it in a solemn Synod for the Heir apparant of the Crown of France cannot marry without the Royall consent This aggravats a grudg the French King hath to the Duke for siding with the Imperialists and for things reflecting upon the Dutchy of Bar for which he is hommogeable to the Crown of France as he is to the Emperor for Lorain A hard task it is to serve two Masters and an unhappy situation it is to lie 'twixt two puissant Monarchs as the Dukes of Savoy and Lorain do So I kiss your Lordships hands and rest My Lord Your most humble and ready Servitor J. H. VVestmin 1 of April 1633. XIII To my most Noble Lady the Lady Cornwallis Madam IN conformity to your commands which sway with me as much as an Act of Parlement I have sent your Ladiship this small Hymn for Christmas day now neer approaching if your Ladiship please to put an Air to it I have my reward 1. Hail holy Tâ—…de VVherin a Bride A Virgin which is more Brought forth a Son The like was don Ne're in the world before 2. Hail spotless Maid Who thee upbraid To have been born in sin Do little waigh What in thee lay Before thou didst Lie-in 3. Three months thy Womb Was made the Dome Of Him whom Earth nor Air Nor the vast mould Of Heaven can hould 'Cause he 's Ubiquitair 4. O would â—…e daign To rest and raign I' th centre of my heart And make it still His domicill And residence in part 5. But in so foul a Cell Can he abide to dwell Yes when he please to move His Herbenger to sweep the Room And with rich Odors it perfume Of Faith of Hope of Love So I humbly kiss your hands and thank your Ladiship that you would command in any thing that may conduce to your contentment Westmin 3 Feb. 1633. Your Lapp s most humble Servitor J. H. XIV 〈◊〉 the Lord Clifford at Knasburgh My Lord I Receiv'd your Lordships of the last of Iune and I return mâ—… most humble thanks for the choice Nagg you pleas'd to send me which came in very good plight Your Lordship desires me to lay down what in my Travells abroad I observ'd of the present condition of the Iews once an Elect peeple but now grown contemptible and strangely squander'd up and down the World Though such a Discours exactly fram'd might make up a Volume yet I will twist up what I know in this point upon as narrow a Bottom as may be shut up within the compass of this Letter The first Christian Countrey that expell'd the Iews was England France followed our example next then Spain and afterwards Portugall nor were they exterminated these Countreys for their Religion but for Villanies and cheatings for clipping Coins poisning of Waters and counterfeiting of Seals Those Countreys they are permitted to live now most in amongst Christians are Germany Holland Bohemia and Italy but not in those parts where the King of Spain hath to do In the Levant and Turkey they swarm most for the gran Vizier and all other great Boshawes have commonly som Iew for their Counsellor or Spie who inform them of the state of Christian Princes possess them of a hatred of the Religion and so incense them to a war against them They are accounted the subtill'st and most subdolous peeple upon Earth the reason why they are thus degenerated from their primitive simplicity and innocence is their often â—…ptivities their desperat fortunes the necessity and hatred to which they have been habituated for nothing depraves ingenuous spirits and corrupts cleer wits more than want and indigence By their profession they are for the most part Broakers and Lombardeers yet by that base and servile way of Frippery trade they grow rich whersoever they nest themselves and this with their multiplication of Children they hold to be an argument that an extraordinary providence attends them still Me thinks that so cleer accomplishments of the Prophecies of our Saviour touching that peeple should work upon them for their conversion as the destruction of their City and Temple that they should becom despicable and the tail of all Nations that they should be Vagabonds and have no firm habitation Touching the first they know it came punctually to pass and so have the other two for they are the most hatefull race of men upon earth insomuch that in Turkie where they are most valued if a Musulman com to any of their houses leave his shoos at the door the Iew dare not com in all the while till the Turk hath don what he would with his Wife For the last 't is wonderfull to see in what considerable numbers they are dispers'd up and down the World yet they can never reduce themselves to such a coalition and unity as may make a Republic Principality or Kingdom They hold that the Iewes of Italy Germany and the Levant are of Benjamins Tribe ten of the Tribes at the destruction of Ieroboams Kingdom were led Captives beyond Euphrates whence they never return'd nor do they know what became of them ever after yet they beleeve they never became Apostats and Gentiles But the Tribe of Iuda whence they expect their Messias of whom one shall hear them discours with so much confidence and self-pleasing conceit they say is setled in Portugall wher they give out to have thousands of their race whom they dispense withall to make a semblance of Christianitie even to Church degrees This makes them breed up their children in the Lusitanian Language which makes the Spaniard have an odd saying that El Portuguez se criò del pedo de un Iudia A Portugues was engendred of a Iews Fart as the Mahuâ—…ans have a passage in their Alcaroâ—… That a Cat was made of a Lions breath As they are the most contemtiblest peeple and have a kind of fulsom sent no better then a stink that distinguisheth them from others so are they the most timorous peeple on earth and so utterly incapable of Arms for they are made neither Souldiers nor Slaves And this their Pusillanimity and cowardise as well as their cunning and craft may be imputed to their various thraldo us contempt and poverty which
they lost one another how they might be retreevd and meet again Fire said wher you see smoak ther you shall find me Water said wher you see marsh and morish low grounds there you shall find me but Fame said take heed how you lose me for if you do you will run a great hazard never to meet me again ther 's no retreeving of me It imports you also to conform your self to your Commanders and so you may more confidently demand obedience when you com to command your self as I doubt not but you may do in a short time The Hoghen Moghen are very exact in their polemicall government their pay is sure though small 4. s. a week being too little a hire as one sayd to kill men At your return I hope you will give a better account of your doings than he who being ask'd what exploits he had don in the Low Countrys answerd that he had cut off a Spaniards leggs reply being made that that was no great matter it had bin somthing if he had cut off his head O said he you must consider his head was off before excuse me that I take my leave of you so pleasantly but I know you will take any thing in good part from him who is so much Westmin 3. Aug. 1634. Your truly affectionat Cosen J. H. XV. To Cap. B. Much endear'd Sir THer is a true saying that the spectator oft times sees more than the gamester I find that you have a very hazardous game in hand therfore give it up and do not vie a farthing upon 't Though you be already imbarqued yet ther is time enough to strike sail and make again to the port otherwise t is no hard matter to be a Prophet what will becom of you ther be so many ill favoured quicksands and rocks in the way as I have it from a good hand that one may easily take a prospect of your shipwrack if you go on therfore desist as you regard your own safety and the seasonable advice of your Westminst 1 May 1635. J. H. XVI To Mr. Thomas W. at his chamber in the Temple SIR YOu have much streightned that knot of love which hath bin long tied between us by those choice manuscripts you sent me lately amongst which I find divers rare pieces but that which afforded me most entertainment in those miscellanies was Doctor Henry Kings Poems wherin I find not onely heat and strength but also an exact concinnity and evennes of fancy they are a choice race of brothers it seems the same Genius diffuseth it self also a among the sisters It was my hap to be lately where Mistress A. K. was and having a paper of verses in her hand I got it from her they were an Epitaph and an Anagram of her own composure and writing which took me so far that the next morning before I was up my rambling fancy fell upon these lines For the admitting of Mistris Anne King to be the tenth Muse. Ladies of Helicon do not repine I adde one more unto your number nine To make it even I among you bring No meaner than the daughter of a King Fair Basil-Ana quickly passe your voice I know Apollo will approve the choice And gladly her install for I could name Som of less merit Goddesses became 〈◊〉 Anna King F. C. soares higher and higher every day in pursuance of his platonic love but T. Man is out with his you know whom he is fallen to that aversness to her that he swâ—…ares he had rather see a Basilisk than her This shews that the sweetest wines may turn to the tartest vinegar no more till wee meet Westmin 3 Feb. 1637. Yours inviolably J. H. XVII To the Lord C. My Lord THer are two sayings which are father'd upon Secretary Walsingham and Secretary Cecil a pair of the best weighd Statesmen this Island hathbred one was used to say at the Councell Table My Lords stay a little and we shall make an end the sooner the other would oft-times speak of himself It shall never be said of me that I will dâ—…fer till to morrow what I can do to day At first view these sayings seem'd to clash with one another and to be diametrically opposite but being rightly understood they may be very well reconcil'd Touching the first 'T is true that hast and choler are enemies to all great actions for as it is a principle in Chimistry that omnis festinatio est a Diabolo all hast comes from Hell so in the consultations contrivings and conduct of any busines of State all rashnes and precipitation comes from an ill spirit Ther cannot be a better pattern for a grave and considerat way of deliberation than the ancient course of our High Court of Parliament who when a Law is to be made which concerns the welfare of so many thousands of men after a mature debate and long discussion of the point beforehand cause the bill to be read solemnly three times in the House ere it be transmitted to the Lords and there also 't is so many times canvas'd and then presented to the Prince That which must stand for law must be long stood upon because it imposeth an universall obedience and is like to be everlasting according to the Ciceronian maxime Deliberandum est diu quod statâ—…endum est semel such a kind of cunctation advisednes and procrastination is allowable also in all Councells of State and War for the day following may be able commonly to be a master to the day passed such a world of contingencies human actions are subject unto yet under favour I beleeve this first saying to meant of matters while they are in agitation and upon the anvill but when they have receiv'd form and are fully resolv'd upon I beleeve then nothing is so advantagious as speed And at this I am of opinion the second saying aimes at for when the weights that use to hang to all great businesses are taken away 't is good then to put wings unto them and to take the ball before the bound for Expedition is the life of action otherwise Time may shew his bald occiput and shake his posteriors at them in deâ—…ision Among other Nations the Spaniard is observ'd to have much phlegme and to be most dilatory in his proceedings yet they who have pryed narrowly into the sequell and success of his actions do find that this gravity reservednes and tergiversations of his have turn'd rather to his prejudice than advantage take one time with another The two last matrimoniall treaties we had with him continued long the first 'twixt Ferdinand and Henry the seventh for Catherine of Aragon seven yeers That 'twixt King Iames and the now Philip the fourth for Mary of Austria lasted eleven yeers and seven and eleven's eighteen the first took effect for Prince Arthur the latter miscarried for Prince Charles and the Spaniard may thank himself and his own slow pace for it for had he mended his pace to perfect
civility by this they use to distinguish a Gentleman from a Clown besides they hold it one of the most â—…ertuous ways to employ time I am the more covetous of a punctuall correspondence with you in this point because I commonly gain by your Letters your stile is so polite your expressions so gallant and your lines interspers'd with such dainty flowers of Poetry and Philosophy I understand ther is a very able Doctor that reads the Anatomy Lecture this terme if Ploydon will dispense with you you cannot spend your hours better than to hear him So I end for this time being crampd for want of more matter and rest West 3 Iul. 1631. Your most affectionat loving Cosen J. H. XXI To my Nephew J. P. at St. Johns in Oxford Nephew I Had from you lately two Letters the last was wel freighted with very good stuff but the other to deal plainly with you was noâ—… so Ther was as much difference between them as twixt a Scots Pedlars pack in Poland and the Magazine of an English Merchant in Naples the one being usually full of Taffaty Silks and Satins the other of Calicoes threed-ribbands and such polldavy ware I perceive you have good Comodities to vent if you take the pains your trifles and bagatells are ill bestowed upon me therfore heerafter I pray let me have of your best sort of wares I am glad to find that you have stor'd up so much already you are in the best Mart in the world to improve them which I hope you dayly do and I doubt not when the time of your apprentiship there is expir'd but you will find a good Market to expose them for your own and the publick benefit abroad I have sent you the Philosophy Books you writ to me for any thing that you want of this kind for the advancement of your studies do but write and I shall furnish you When I was a student as you are my practise was to borrow rather than buy som sort of Books and to be always punctuall in restoring them upon the day assign'd and in the intrim to swallow of them as much as made for my turn this obligd me to read them thorow with more haste to keep my word wheras I had not been so carefull to peruse them had they been my own Books which I knew wer always ready at my dispose I thank you heartily for your last Letter in regard I found it smelt of the Lamp I pray let your next do so and the oyl and labor shall not bee lost which you expend upon Westm. 1 Aug. 1633. Your assured loving Uncle J. H. XXII To Sir Tho. Haw SIR I Thank you a thousand times for the choice Stanzas you pleas'd to send me lately I find that you wer throughly heated that you wer inspir'd with a true enthusiasme when you compos'd them And wheras others use to flutter in the lower Region your Muse soars up to the upper and transcending that too takes her flight among the Celestiall bodies to find a fancy your desires I should do somthing upon the same subject I have obeyd though I fear not satisfied in the following numbers 1. Could I but catch those beamy Rayes Which Phaebus at high noon displayes I 'de set them on a Loom and frame A Scarf for Delia of the same 2. Could I that wondrous black com near Which Cynthia when eclips'd doth wear Of a new fashion I would trace A Mask therof for Delia's face 3. Could I but reach that green and blue Which Iris decks in various hue From her moist Bow I 'de drag them down And make my Delia a Summer Gown 4. Could I those whitely Stars go nigh Which make the milky way in skie I 'de poach them and at Moon-shine dress To make my Delia a curious mess. 5. Thus would I diet thus attire My Delia Queen of hearts and fire She should have every thing divine That would befitt a Seraphin And 'cause ungirt unbless'd we find One of the Zones her wast should bind They are of the same cadence as yours and aireable so I am Westm. 5 Sept 1633. Your humble Servitor J. H. XXIII To the R. H. the Lady Eliz. Digbye Madame IT is no improper comparison that a thankfull heart is like a box of precious ointment which keeps the smell long after the thing is spent Madame without vanity bee it spoken such is my heart to you and such are your favors to me the strong aromatic odor they carryed with them diffus'd it self through all the veins of my heart specially through the left Ventricle wher the most illustrious bloud lyes so that the persume of them remains still fresh within me and is like to do while that triangle of flesh dilates and shuts it self within my brest nor doth this perfume stay there but as all smells naturally tend upwards it hath ascended to my brain and sweetned all the cells therof specially the memory which may be said to be a Cabinet also to preserve courtesies for though the heart be the box of love the memory is the box of lastingnes the one may be term'd the source whence the motions of gratitude flow the other the cistern that keeps them But your Ladiship will say these are words onely I confess it 't is but a verball acknowledgment but Madame if I wer made happy with an opportunity you should quickly find these words â—…urnd to actions either to go to run or ride upon your arrand In expectation of such a favorable occasion I rest Madame Your Ladiships most humble and enchained Servitor J. H. West 5 Aug. 1640. XXIV To Sir I. B. Noble Sir THat od opinion the Jew and Turk have of women that they are of an inferior Creation to man and therfore exclude them the one from their Synagogues the other from their Meskeds is in my judgment not only partiall but profane for the Image of the Creator shines as clearly in the one as in the other and I beleeve ther are as many female-Saints in heaven as male unless you could make me adhere to the opinion that women must be all Masculine before they be capable to be made Angels of Adde heerunto that ther went better and more refined stuff to the creation of woman than man 'T is true 't was a weak part in Eve to yield to the seducements of Satan but it was a weaker thing in Adam to suffer himself to bee tempted by Eve being the weaker vessell The ancient Philosophers had a better opinion of that Sex for they ascribed all Sciences to the Muses all sweetnes and morality to the Graces and Prophetic Inspirations to the Sybills In my small revolving of Authors I find as high examples of vertue in Women as in Men I could produce heer a whole Regiment of them but that a Letter is too narrow a field to muster them in I must confess ther are also counter instances of this kind if Qu â—…bia was such a precise pattern of
vaâ—…t bounds throughout An Academe of note I found not out But now I hope in a successfull proâ—…e The Fates have fix'd me on sweet Englands shore And by these various wandrings 〈◊〉 I found Earth is our comâ—…n Mother every ground Maâ—… be one's Countrey for by birth each man Is 〈◊〉 this world a Cosmopolitan A free-born Buâ—…gess and receives therby Hâ—… 〈◊〉 frâ—…m Nativety Nor is this lower world but a huge Inne And men the rambling pâ—…ssengers wherin Sâ—…m do warm lodgings find and that as soon As out of natures â—…lossets they see noon Anâ—… find the Table ready laid but som Must for their commons trot and trudg for room With easie pace som climb Promotions Hill Som in the Dale do what they can stick still Som through false glasses Fortune smiling spy Who still keeps off though she appears hard by Som like the Ostrich with their wings do flutter But cannot fly or soar above the gutter Som quickly fetch and double Good-Hopes Cape Som ne'r can do 't though the same cours they shape So that poor mortalls are so many balls Toss'd som o'r line som under fortun 's walls And it is Heavens high pleasure Man should ly Obnoxious to this partiality That by industrious ways he should contend Nature's short pittance to improve and menâ—… Now Industry ne'r fail'd at last t' advance Her patient sons above the reach of Chance Poet. But whither rov'st thou thus Well since I see thou art so strongly bent And of a gracious look so confident Go and throw down thy self at Caesars fâ—…et And in thy best attire thy Soveraign greet Go an auspicious and most blissefully yeer Wâ—…sh Him as e'r sh n'd o'r this Hemisphear Good may the Entrance better the middle be And the Conclusion best of all the three Of joy ungrudg'd may each day be a debter And evry morn still usher in a better May the soft gliding Nones and every Ide With all the Calends still som good betide May Cynthia with kind looks and 〈◊〉 rays One clear his nights the other gild his days Free limbs unpâ—…ysic'd health due appetite Which no sauce else but Hunger may excite Sound sleeps green dreams be his which represent Symptomes of health and the next days content Chearfull and vacant thoughts not always bound To counsell or in deep Idea's drown'd Though such late traverses and tumults might Turn to a lump of care the airiest wight And since while fragile flesh doth us array The humors stil are combating for sway Which wer they free of this reluctancie And counterpois'd Man would immortall be May sanguin o'r the rest predominate In Him and their malignant fiux abate May his great Queen in whose Imperious ey Reigns such a world of winning Majesty Like the rich Olive or Falernian Vine Swell with more gems of Cians masculine And as her fruit sprung from the Rose and Luce The best of stems Earth yet did e'r produce Is tied already by a Sanguin lace To all the Kings of Europe's high-born race So may they shoot their youthfull branches o'r The surging seas and graff with every Shore May home-commerce and trade encrease from far That both the Indies meet within his bars And bring in Mounts of Coin His Mints to feed And Banquers trafics chief suporters breed Which may enrich his Kingdoms Court and Town And ballast still the coffers of the Crown For Kingdoms are as ships the Prince his chests The ballast which if empty when distres't With storms their holds are lightly trimm'd the keel Can run no steedy cours but toss and reel May his Imperiall chamber always ply To his desires her wealth to multiply That she may prize his Royall favour more Than all the wares fetch'd from the great Mogor May the Grand Senate with the Subjects right Put in the Counter-scale the Regall might The flowrs o' th' Crown that they may prop each other And like the Grecians twin live love together For the chief glory of a people is The power of their King as theirs is His May He be still within himself at home That no just passion make the reason rome Yet passions have their turns to rouse the Soul And stir her slumbring spirits not controul For as the Ocean besides ebb and flood Which Nature 's greatest Clerk ne'r understood â—…s not for sail if an impregning wind Fill not the flagging canvas so a mind Too calm is not for Action if desire Heats not it self at passion's quickning fire For Nature is allow'd somtimes to muster Her passions so they only blow not bluster May Iustice still in her true scales appear And honour fix'd in no unworthy sphear Unto whose palace all access should have Through virtues Temple not through Plutos Cave May his tru subjects hearts be his chief Fort Their purse his tresure and their Love his Port Their prayers as sweet Incense to draw down Myriads of blessings on his Queen and Crown And now that his glad presence did asswage That fearfull tempest in the North did rage May those frog vapours in the Irish skie Be scatter'd by the beams of Majesty That the Hybernian lyre give such a sound May on our coasts with joyfull Ecchoes bound And when this fatall planet leaves to lowr Which too too long on Monarchies doth powr His direfull influence may Peace once more Descend from Heaven on our tottering shore And ride in triumph both on land and main And with her milk white steeds draw Charles his wain That so for those Saturnian times of old An Age of Pearl may com in lieu of Gold Virtu still guide his cours and if ther be A thing as Fortune Him accompanie May no ill genius haunt him but by 's side The best protecting Angell ever bide May He go on to vindicate the right Of holy things and make the Temple bright To keep that Faith that sacred Truth entire Which he receiv'd from Salomon his Sire And since we all must hence by th' Iron Decree Stamp'd in the black Records of Destinie Late may his life his Glory ne'r wear out Till the great year of Plato wheel about So Prayeth The worst of Poets to The best of Princes yet The most loyall of His Votaries and Vassalls JAMES HOVVILL FINIS Additionall LETTERS Of a fresher Date Never Publish'd before And Composed By the same AUTHOR Vt clavis portam sic pandit Epistola pectus LONDON Printed by W. H. for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his Shop at the Princes Arms in St Pauls Church-yard 1650. To the Right Honorable EDVVARD Earl of DORSET c. My Lord THe two preceding Dedications being the one to a King the other to a Prince I hope this Third consisting all of new Matter will be the more excusable that I make to your Lpp who if ther were a generall Muster of Mankind and due regard had to Gallantry and worth would appear like a King among Princes and a Prince among Peers I humbly
Fancy drew on another towards the Evening as followeth As to the Pole the Lilly bends In a Sea-compas and still tends By a Magnetic Mystery Unto the Artic point in sky Wherby the wandring Piloteer His cours in gloomy nights doth steer So the small Needle of my heart Mov's to her Maker who doth dart Atomes of love and so attracks All my Affections which like Sparks Fly up and guid my soul by this To the tru centre of her bliss As one Taper lightneth another so were my spirits enlightned and heated by your late Meditations in this kind and well faâ—…e your soul with all her faculties for them I find you have a great care of her and of the main chance Prae quo quisquiliae caetera You shall hear further from me within a few days in the interim be pleas'd to reserve still in your thoughts som little room for Your most entirely affectionat Servitor J. H. From the Fleet 10 of Decemb 1647. V. To Mr. T. W. at P. Castle My precious Tom HEE is the happy man who can square his mind to his means and fit his fancy to his â—…ortune He who hath a competency 〈◊〉 live in the port of a gentleman and as he is free from being a 〈◊〉 Constable so he cares not for being a Justice of Peace or 〈◊〉 He who is before hand with the world and when he â—…oms to London can whet his knife at the Counter gate and needs â—…ot trudg either to a Lawyers stâ—…dy or Scriveners shop to pay fee 〈◊〉 squeez was 'T is conceit chiefly that gives contentment and 〈◊〉 is happy who thinks himself so in any condition though he have 〈◊〉 enough to keep the Wolf from the door Opinion is that great â—…ady which sways the world and according to the impressions 〈◊〉 makes in the mind renders one contented or discontented Now touching opinion so various are the intellectualls of human â—…reatures that one can hardly find out two who jump pat in â—…ne Witnes that Monster in Scotland in Iames the 4ths reign â—…ith two heads one opposit to the other and having but one bulk 〈◊〉 body throughout these two heads would often fall into alterâ—…ations pro con one with the other and seldom were they of one opinion but they would knock one against the other in eager disputes which shews that the judgement is seated in the animall parts not in the vitall which are lodg'd in the heart We are still in a turbulent sea of distractions nor as far as I see is ther yet any sight of shore M. T. M. hath had a great loss at sea lately which I fear will light heavily upon him when I consider his case I may say that as the Philosopher made a question whether the Marineâ—… be to be ranked among the number of the living or dead being but four inches distant from drowning only the thicknes of a plank so 't is a doubt whether the Merchant Adventurer be to be numbred twixt the rich or the poor his estate being in the mercy of that devouring element the Sea which hath so good a stomack that he seldom casts up what he hath once swallowed This City hath bred of late yeers men of monstrous strange opinions that as all other rich places besides she may be compar'd to a fat cheese which is most subject to engender 〈◊〉 gots God amend all and me first who am Fleet this St. Tho. day Yours most faithfully to serve you J. H. VI. To Mr. W Blois My worthy esteemed Nephew I Received thâ—…se rich nuptial favours you appointed me foâ—… hands and hat which I wear with very much contentment anâ—… respect most heartily wishing that this late double condition mâ—… multiply new blessings upon you that it may usher in fair and goâ—…den daies according to the colour and substance of your bridaâ—… riband that those daies may be perfum'd with delight and pleâ—…sure as the rich sented gloves I wear for your sake May sucâ—… benedictions attend you both as the Epithalamiums of Stellâ—… iâ—… Statius and Iulia in Catullus speak of I hope also to be marrieâ—… shortly to a lady whom I have wooed above these five years but â—… have found her â—…oy and dainty hitherto yet I am now like 〈◊〉 get her good will in part I mean the lady liberty When you see my N. Brownrigg I pray tell him that I did not think Suffolk waters had such a lethaean quality in them as to cause such an amnestia in him of his frends heer upon the Thames among whom for reality and seriousnes I may march among the foremost but I impute it to som new task that his Muse might haply impose upon him which hath ingross'd all his speculations I pray present my cordiall kind respects unto him So praying that a thousand blisses may attend this confarreation I rest my dear Nephew From the Fleet this 20 of March 1647. Yours most affectionately to love and serve you J. H. VII To Henry Hopkins Esq â—…IR TO usher in again old Ianus I send you a parcell of Indian perfume which the Spaniard calls the Holy â—…erb in regard â—… the various virtues it hath but we call it Tobacco I will not â—…y it grew under the King of Spains window but I am told it â—…as gather'd neer his Gold-mines of Potosi where they report â—…hat in som places ther is more of that oar than earth therfore it â—…ust needs be precious stuff If moderately and seasonably taâ—…en as I find you alwaies do 't is good for many things it helps digeâ—…ion taken a while after meat it makes one void â—…heum break â—…ind it keeps the body open A leaf or two being steept ore-nighâ—…â—…n a little white wine is a vomit that never fails in its operation â—…t is a good companion to one that converseth with dead â—…en for â—…f one hath bin poring long upon a book or is toild with the pen â—…nd stupified with study it quickneth him and dispels those clouds that usually oreset the brain The smoak of it is one of the wholesomest sents that is against all contagious airâ—… for it oremasters all other smells as King Iames they say found true when being once a hunting a showr of rain drave him into a pigstie for shelter wher he caus'd a pipe full to be taken of purpose It cannot endure a Spider or a flea with such like vermin and if your Hawk be troubled with any such being blown into his feathers it frees him It is good to fortifie and preserve the fight the smoak being let in round about the balls of the eyes once a week and frees them from all â—…heums driving them back by way of repercussion being taken backward t is excellent good against the cholique and taken into the stomack 't will heac and cleanse it for I could instance in a great Lord my Lord of Sunderland President of York who told me that he taking it downward into his stomack it made him cast up an