deforme VVithout constraint for Hee Her freedome gaue And did with vnderstanding her informe That voluntarie service hee might haue As that his nature most doth loue and crave For as himselfe doth nothing by constraint So he constraines not those that him obay Lest that their vvil might haue cause of complaint For want of libertie it selfe to sway Those praiers please him not Constraint doth say But true obedience flowing from the vvill Then vvill should force her selfe for so shee may His gratious good will freely to fulfiil Sith good he made hir loue and loath the Ill. Then Iustice would that God mans will should doe When Man doth Gods vvill this exchang is iust And Gods free-wil must needes subscribe thereto Sith it is free to doe that needes itmust VVhich cannot doe the thing that is vniust For that were bondage free or freedome bound Sith ro doe evill but to haue a lust VVere Vassallage to Sathan that Hel-hound VVhich fredome to doe good would quite confound But yet the vvill hath many motions else Diverse degrees therein doe plaine appeare Some haue such open harts and wilful vvills As that they loue and hate through passion meere So Reason their Mindes Sterne in vaine doth steere For sense they serve and have no patience The seemeing neerest pleasure to forbeare For further good but forth-with please their sense As sensuall appetite doth them incense But vvill in others so hir selfe commaunds And those Pow'rs to her pow'r subordinate That being free shee bindeth both in bands And vnto Reason all doth captivate As many Dropsy-drie forbeare to drincke Because they know their ill t' would aggravate So vvill herein from her owne selfe doth shrinke And cleaves to that that Reason best doth thinke The Heau'ns and Earth and all the Elements And what besides Man is of them compos'd Doo GOD obay in his commaundements For as Hee wils so are they al dispos'd Yet never he himselfe to them disclos'd Then not from knowledge their obedience springes But from the nature in their kinds inclos'd Yet Men he made to know and doe the things That be of him which grace and Knowledge bringes And that he should with more heede doe the same A VVill he giues him ioyn'd wirh griefe and Ioy Which vvill might ioy when she doth passion tame And in the contrary might feele annoy All as shee doth her natiue powres imploy Here hence we know the odds twixt Ioy and Griefe For in extreames they comfort or destroy Such as leade here a good or evil life Both flowing from the vvill their fountaine chiefe This pow'r hath highest vertue of Desire And Caesarizeth ore each Appetite Shee rules being taught with libertie intire VVhose actions are to vvill and nill aright VVhose Obiect 's real good or so in sight In nature shee hates ill in deede or show And in the true or false good doth delight If ill for good shee choose hence it doth gro Because ill seeming good shee takes it so Shee nought can loue but hath some show of good Nor ought can loath but hath like show of ill Desire of good by her may be with-stoode But it shee cannot loath or leave it still So may shee choose to execute her will VVhen ill is tendred her indeede or sho Bnt cannot lâ—aue it or her wil fulfill Because to ill shee is a mortall foe And lothes it as sole worker of her woe Then must shee needs be ever vnconstrain'd Sith her Creators Wil would haue it so Shee could not be her selfe were shee restrain'd And though shee waites on Reason to and fro Yet shee makes Reason waite her will to kno For touching her her Lord confines his powre Which cannot take that he did once besto Namely arbiterment her richest dowre Except Not-beeing should her quite devoure For shee hath powre to obiect to the Minde What pleaseth her or not the same obiect And while the Thoughts the same do turne winde Shee may oreturne those Thoughts or them neglect And turne the Minde to what shee shal direct Yea when as Iudgments final doome is giv'n Shee may or may refuse the same t' effect For Men are not as Beasts by Nature driv'n Vnlesse of Reason they are quite bereav'n About shee goes when Iudgements doome is past And re-examines what it hath decreed Which done perhaps the same shee will distast Although the sentence be direct indeede And runnes another course lesse right with speed Which second search yet aimes at greater right Though shee mistakes the same for want of heede Which want proceeds froÌ„ Sins extreame dispight That blindes our Mindes eies in extreamest light Wherefore it vs behoues Grace to invoke Whereby wit vprightly may weld the will For as ill Sprites our fantazies provoke So on our wils they may the like fulfill And make her scorne to rule by Reasons skill For shee 's ambitious and delights to raigne Without controle how euer well or ill And beeing free shee runneth on amaine To ioy if wel if otherwise to paine This liberty of Monarchizing thus Shee deemeth good what ill so ere ensues Which libertie is bondage base to vs And free we were if our will could not chuse But vse His will that gaue vs wils to vse Whose only service only freedome is And only they are Slaues that it refuse Sith they are Sathans servants if not his Which please him most when they do most amisse For in this great commerce of terrene things The bad whereof exceeding so the good And that so fast the one to other clings That twixt them both there is great likelyhood Hardly by will can they be vnderstood And sith Men Bodies haue aswel as Soules Things bodily best like the bodies moode Which often so the Minde and VVill controules That as it lusts it rules and over-rules Herehence it is some mortall life doe prize Aboue eternal and their guts aboue The highest God that doth their guts suffize And though the will herein may rigor proue Yea may be forc'd to leaue what it doth loue Yet nought can her resistlesse powre constraine For nothing can desire from her remoue Although shee cannot doe what she would faine So maugre force shee freedome doth retaine Sith Reason then the VVils desires should sway And bring th' Affections to obedience It s requisite they should accorde alway To mainetaine warres against rebelling Sense Which is the rule of Reasons consequence Wherefore we may wel iudge of Reasons rule By the Affections and VVils continence As a good Prince or Master of a Schoole Make them they governe hate and shun misrule And for th' Affections from the hart proceede Which is the Seate of loue to God and Men If then the hart and Minde be wel agreed The hart with flames of lasting loue will bren And fire out froward Passions from their den Then wil the Tongue from harts aboundance speake Gods highest laudes till
hart doth then possesse the heele But most of all when hart doth most transgresse And divine vengeance it with feare doth feele Then Strength may seeke to stay it but t' wil reele In spight of morrall strength that it should sway And as starke drunke with fear turne like the wheele That wheeles the nether heauens without stay Let courage say the while what courage may No harnesse though by Vulcan forg'd can make Feare to be hardy or not hartlesse quite If Armors could from Art such tempers take The Artist should be king'd in Fortunes spight For many kings would crowne him for this sleight But he it is whom heav'n and hell doth feare Can take feare from and arme vs with his might For he alone the faint hart vp doth reare Or make the stowtest hart most faint appeare Wee must then armed be from Feare by feare Gods feare that strong Vulcanian Armor must Guard such good Soules as doe regard it heere Because such feare is euer full of trust That feares no threate of any mortal thrust For Hope in him doth make the dareing hart Which hope no hart can haue that is vniust For Conscience prickes will make the same to start When the least Leafe doth wagge by winde or Art When therfore divine Iustice sinne wil scurge He doth dishart their harts in whom it raignes In sort that they themselves with horror purge When he on them his heavy vengeance raynes So that their feare exaggerates their paines The haughti'st Hart erst swolne with Valours pride Feare striks stone-dead wheÌ„ he but veÌ„geance faines And greatest strength by vveakenesse is defide When as his pow'r in vveakenesse doth abide Then Courage comes from Hope Hope froÌ„ Heau'n The Donor is the highest Diety The praise is His that is to prowesse giv'n For he alone the Minde doth magnifie Then praise him Lowe if courage make you Hie And laude him High if feare make yee not lowe Yea high and lowe praise Him alone whereby You gaine the praise that men on you bestowe From Whom as froÌ„ the Fount al praise doth flowe How is it then that Divills in Mennes forme swaggring Man-quellers are so desperate Who with strong hand Gods Images deforme Fearing no man but give the checke or mate To good and badd of what soever stateâ— This is not courage but an hellish fire That boiles their bloud cal'd Ire inflam'd by Hate And oft of Saints they Fiendes haue their desire No otherwise then Iob felt Sathans ire So cursed Caine slue Abell in that moode Abell that Innocent the Highests belov'd Yet Caine had hart and hand to broach his blood The like Men Angell-like haue oft approv'd By those whome God in this life nere reprov'd This secret is obscure but light to those That take it light and it abide vnmov'd Them Faith assures He doth of all dispose In whome come life or death they hope repose If divine LOVE desires my Bodies death By soddaine death my Soule so straight to haue VVhat matters it though he bereave my breath By Div'll or Angell so my Soule he saue The pow'r they both possesse to them he gave Both are his Ministers to doe his will If Sathan then my Corpes bring to the Grave To me it is so farre from being ill That Sathan doth me good against his wil. Me good said I well may I call it good Sith it is good of goods good all in all The fount whereof all goodnesse is the floud That never yet was gag'd nor never shall By Men most wise or spirits Angelicall It is th' Abysse of true Felicity VVhich some men more then most fantastical Suppose they have had they high dignity VVith pleasure fac'd and lyn'd with Misery Thus Ioy and Hope were by th' all Giver giv'n As sweete Conductors to his sweetest Sweete And Feare and Griefe from his wrath are deryv'n To awe the Mind which first therwith doth meete And that which that Mind hath fore-done vnmeete should be thereto as Scourge and Scouger iust VVhich doe remaine when sinnes sowre Sweetes do fleete To make the Mind abhorre her former lust For Griefe and Feare are iust to Mindes vniust Now the true pleasure which our Nature craues The whiles the Soule remaines the Bodies Ghest Is the true rest some Good the Soule vouchsaves Which the Hart holdeth and esteemeth best As Contemplation is Reasons rest Yet can there be no pleasure in that good If it be greater then Hart can disgest For if the Continent bound not the floud Confusion must ensue in likely-hood If Light ioy of the Eye be as the Sunne Too great for the Eyes small capacity They may be dymmed so if not vndunne Or if it be too small they cannot see As they are strong or weake so Light must bee The like of other senses may be sedd Outward or inward bound to forme or free Who must with moderation still be fedd For excesse theÌ„ annoies nay strikes theÌ„ dead As therfore God is most most infinite So hee 's with ioy receaved of that part That 's likst himself which is the Soul or sp'rit But for that he cannot himselfe impart being Immense to them by pow'r or arte they being not so he is to them applied By Vnderstanding yet but so in part If otherwise he should with them abide They would through glory be quite nullified Now as a man takes pleasure by these partes So in that part he takes the most delight That to his Flesh or sp'rite most ioy imparts And with those pleasures is he swallowed quight That doe affect that part with maine and might Therefore the brutish Vulgar most are pleas'd In things substantial which appeare to sight And things divine which cannot so be seas'd They hold as vaine and are therewith displeas'd Amonge the pleasures which are sensuall The vilst is that we feele by that we touch Because it is the Earthli'st sense of all The Tast's of better temper though not much Smelling is light and lightly more will grutch At vnsweete Savors then in sweete will ioye The Hearing is more worthie farre then such Sith its more Airâ—y and doth lesse annoy Whereby we gaine the Faith which we enioy But Seeing Sov'raigne of each outward sense Holds most of Fire which is in nature neere To the Celestiall Natures radience Therefore this sense to Nature is most deere As that which hath by Natures right no Peere Thus much for pleasures which these senses giue VVhereof the best must needs most base appeare Compared to the worst our Soules receave Whose powres haue much more pow'r to take and give These are the Lures of lust that never lyn To draw the vvorld to be a pray to vvoe These make fraile flesh Blood the founts of sinne From whence all mortall miseries doe sloe Which flesh and blood doe groning vndergoe In these are Baites for Beggars as for Kinges VVhich pleasures streames
of such consequence Wherein there is such depth of Misterie That it wil blunt the sharpest Senses sence Of the acut'st and swift'st Intelligence Ne shall Deliberation be assur'd Of their effect vntill their evidence Tyme doth produce or triall hath procur'd Wherein rash Iudgment must not be endur'd The heav'nlyest Hav'ns m'haue Hellish entries Therefore wise Pilots keepe them in the Maine And rather brooke rough Tempests miseries Then by vnknowen perrils rest to gaine They shunne the flats by their experience plaine For in all perils such experience Must guide the course els perillous is paine Nay death may follow double diligence Not set on worke by single Sapience Experience is the guide of Policie Whose nere-deceaved eie sees all in all Shee can make light the darkest mistery Then her at all assaies to councell call Especially in matters mysticall Realmes haue a world of crannies where doe lurke Ten thousand mysteries from view of eie VVhich nerethelesse vncessantly doe worke And often giue the state a deadly Iurke Shee would haue Kings to haue such Councellors That might be learn'd in state-Philosophies For Kingdomes govern'd by Philosophers No Constellations feare nor Destinies They know what should the Soveraigne suffice And what the Subiect bending al their might T' accomplish both their long felicities By seeing that each one may haue his right Preventing forraine and domesticke spight As when a Shippe that liues vpon the Downes Of Neptune â—ightie Monarch of those Plaines Is neere at point to perish if hee frownes Without a sterne and one that it sustaines For maine is perill els vpon those Maines So fares that state that hath nor Lordes nor Lawes Wherewith the Liege the State from ruine raines In stormes of troubles and Contentions flawes VVherein wise Councels calme effectes doe cause They are the VVatch-men that stand Sentinell T' examine all that may impeach the state They make the Common-wealth a Paralell To that of Rome when shee was fortunate And Caesar make of a meane Magistrate VVho Baracado vp with Lawes strong Barres All that lies ope for Vice to ruinate And stoppe the Passages of Civill VVarres VVith martiall law which Male-contents deterres Nor neede the Statesman gage Philosophie Deeper then well to know how well to liue In Peace and VVealth this worldes felicitie And Rules of Life to that effect to giue They diue too deepe if they doe deeper diue VVhat is the knowledge of the Transcendents To him that learnes men onlie how to thriue Though he nere red such wilde Artes Rudiments Hee 's fitter farre for civill governments The Mathematickes and the Metaphysickes Haue no necessitie in government But Ethickes Politickes and Oeconomicks These to good Governours are incident VVhere morrall vertue sitteth President To bee well red in all good Historie VVhich makes the sp'rite much more intelligent Doth stand with state and perfit policie And maketh dexterous Authoritie The boundes of knowledge are the highest spheares For all is knowne in their circumference And what soere this Nurse of Earthlings beares Is subiect to humane intelligence Then knowledge is vnknowne by consequence In which respect Men doe their wits apply To this or that Arte with all diligence Vnable to know al Philosophie Because it stands not with mortality In all things as it s sedd are three degrees To weet Greate Small and the Indifferent And that which doth participate of these Is in perfection held most excellent Which is the Councellor in government For hee twixt Prince and People beeing plac'd Best sees what is for both convenient And for his vertue is of both embrac'd For vertue from the midst is nere displac'd If any one supply that vertuous place And is not vertuous he a Monster is For in the midst can nothing sit that 's base Sith Vertue there as in her Heav'n of blisse Her selfe enthrones to all eternities Physitions labour aimes at nought but health Sailors good passage Captaines victories So Councellors should for the Common-wealth Which iustly to her limbes her dowry dealth He had neede be more then honest yea much more Then vertuous that is vertuous past compare Who wheÌ„ his King 's with-drawn may ope the dore And in a Closet diue into his eare To put into his Head how all things are This if ill Sp'rits perceiue and hee will bee Corrupted with pure gold or what soere Some Fiend will say all this wil I giue thee Shewing him VVorldes if thou wilt honor mee Then how behouefull t is for Kinge and state To make such Minnions if he must haue such That in their Soules corruption deadly hate And having much desire not overmuch But to finde such an one were more then much For to be neere and deere vnto a Kinge Fils hart with pride and pride doth empt the pouch TheÌ„ for supply sowre sweete a sweete-sowre thing Which may the Sov'raign wrest the subiect wring Call'd Lieges-loue abus'd the same must bring But where shall Princes then bestow their loue Sith loue they must and ought where it is due On any one that still his grace wil moue For Common-good and private doth ensue But for that good This Minion in a Mew Had neede be kept for if he flie abrode Divels-incarnate will him still pursue Till they haue made a Divell of a God Or if hee scape t is with temptations lode An Hart that 's truely humbled and is dead For loue of Heav'n to all the earth holds deere Yet serpents wisedome hath in his doues head And from all spots of pride is purged cleere And stil would fast to make the rest good-cheere This were a Minion for a God or King Worthy to weld the VVorld and who drawes neere In nature to this Man or divine Thing A Prince should vse with all deere cherishing For Vertue onely makes good Councellors Who in great wisedome hold the State vpright No Halles orehang'd with Armes of Ancestors Haue in their right creation any might But if they haue them too they are most right Yet Vertue found not Tully nobly borne But made him Noble by his wisedomes weight Vertue respects not fortune nor doth scorne To dwell with those whose fortunes are forlorne Kinges come from slaues and slaues froÌ„ Kings desceÌ„d Bloud 's but the water wat'ring Fleshes dust Which by its nature ever doth descend And makes fraile Flesh to fall to things vniust For t is but Blood in the vniust and iust And al alike it is in high and lowe Not halfe so ful of life as ful of lust Making vs rather abiect then to growe To high accoumpt for ought that from it flowes Yet some times evil men make Rulers good As good Musitions oft in life are badd These last make discords ioyne in pleasant moode The first the like in Common-weales have made So either may be vertuous in his Trade How ever vitious in their lives they are But Policy the Prince doth still disswade
good hart will haue consideration of his meate diet Eccl. 30.25 Eccl. 10.17 Note Simil. a Corne. Psal. 144. 13 Pro. 27. 26. The person that is ful despiseth an hony-combe but vnto the hungry Soules as hunger-bitteÌ„ Soldiers every bitter thing is sweete Prov. 27.7 * The fore part of the Scull Psal. 104. 1â— Eccl. 31.28 When the righteous are in auctority the people reioyce but when the wicked bear rule the people sigh Prover 29 2. * Psal. 144. 9. Ps. 119.67.71 God King Sir Phil. Sidâ— Sir R. Sidney Sir Ed. Dy. Sir Ed. Wingfield The light of the kings couÌ„tenaÌ„ce is life his fauour is as a clowde of the later raine Prover 16.15 * 1. Tim. 6.15 Rom. 19.16 * Psa. 64.45.6 2. Pet. 2.4 In Gâ—d are all sith without him are no Ioyes Math. 11 2â— Deut. 32.42 Ramuâ— Paris Rochel They disease thereby killing and ease them being killed 2. Kin. 11.1,2,3 2. Kin. 16. 3. 2 Chro. 28.16 * 2. Kin 6.26 27,28,29 2. Sam 7.18 Gen 10.6.8.10 Isai. 66.19 Sir Roger Williams f P. Parmâ— Ioh. 10.12.18 * Christ the true God of Wisedome the onelie Sunne inâ—lightning our Intelligence * The secrets of the highest Heaven are farre aboue the reach of humane Reasonâ— * Every knowledge hath its beginning of the senses which are often deceiu'd Therefore all scieÌ„ces which are deriu'd fast rooted in the senses are vncertaine deceiptfull a The vnderstanding abused by the misreport of the inferior senses diverts the will from embracing good obiected to hir 3. Kinds of Appetites in all creatures The naturall apetite two-folde Soules Vegetatiue The natural desire how devided The sensitiue apetite two-fold a Though Beastâ— haue much more perfect outwaâ—d senses then Men yet can thâ—y not imploy them reasonably as Men doo b Free-will is not avoided by grace but established because grace healeth the Will that is giveth vs a will to righteousnes Aug. de spiritu littera Cap. 30. c That we doâ— will wellâ— God worketh of himself without vs and when we will so well that we doe accordingly God worketh togither with vs. August De gratia libero arbitrio Cap. 17 d God draweth vnto him but he draweth none but the willing e God giues regenerate Men free-will to do well but the reprobate haue free-will onely to doe evill Musculus coÌ„moÌ„ places f Godlinesse hath the promises of this life and that to come When Man pleaseth God God wil please Man All is to be given to God who prepareth the good-will of Man to bee holpen and helpeth i being pâ—epared Aug Enchir. ad Laurent Cap. 22. g These are Beasts in humane shape whereof the World 's too full h Griefe Ioy are alwaies Consociates of our will i The will naturally cannot desite that which in nature is evill Will makes Reason to attend her The Wil may obiect or not obiect what shee will to the Minde The vnderstaÌ„ding straineth out of the secret hidâ— causes of thinges that which to wisdoÌ„e is incident Wil exacting the saÌ„e * The Wil refuseth Good being found not for being good but not being so good as it willingly would hauâ— Iâ—l spirits may provoke our faÌ„tasies wilâ— It is a kind of bondage to haue powre wil and liberty to doe ill Whosoever seekes felicity where it is not shall finde infelicity where it is Reason and mans desires shoulde be in continuall league The Hart and Minde beeing at Vnity procure the tranquility of the Affections The Braines and Hart are the Seates of Reason and the AffectioÌ„s Sin is nothing because it was made without him without whoÌ„ nothing was made that was made a Sinne. b The scriptur c That is betweene Reason and the Affections Reason Concupiscence Ire 3. speciall powres of the Soule Anima Mens Animus Ratio Spiritus Scientia The soule vseth not the ministry of the outward senses when shee is swallowed vp with divine meditations The soule being divine works divinely if shee bee not hindred by her Clog the body The Hart the Mirror of the Minde A cleane Hart and a cleane soule are convertible * Natures providence for Manns good should lift vp his minde to the consideration of the loue of a greater Good The Hart is the fountaine of naturall heate The Hartes motion is double * A motiue to brotherly loue taken from the disposition of the Members The flesh of the Hart is the firmest flesh of any part of the Body * Iniustâ—ce makes great Kinges lesse then Fame can take notice of The Hart is hang'd in the Brest by even counterpoise Many good comâ—lexions are ill in conditions Mutual loue is to be learned from the mutuall assistaÌ„ce of the partes of the body Vertues Throne is erected iust betweene extreames * Murder themseluâ—s a The Soule Vegeâ—atiuâ— dâ—siâ—es to Be The Sensitiue to be well The reasonable to be best and therfore it never rests till it be ioyned to the best * Eviâ—l cleaves to each worldly Good as Canker doth to Silver * Ioy and sorrow as Plato affirmes are the Ropes wherewith we are drawne to the embracing or avoiding of euery action * Iudgement foregoes the Affections * The Affections may work without souÌ„d advisement a The Soule worketh by motion and the Body by Action * Phisicke can extenuate the Humors that make the Body vnapt to execute the workes of Vertue * Humors be the children of the Elements An Element what 2. Elements in Phisick-Arte Complexion what Wel tempred Complexion what Il CoÌ„plexion what The Bodies temper is fiue waies discerned A natural reason for the gurmaÌ„dizing and quaâ—fing of the Flemmings The Coulor shews the bodies temper The reason why men cholericke of coÌ„plexion are â—oone angry A humor what Howe the meates are changed to Humors How the Humors raigne in mans body How when the Planets rule in mans body Precise dates assigned to severall changes of mans age in his life Psal. 31.11 * Paint the face * Bis puer The Aire wee breath may hasteÌ„ our age Causes of the Aiers putrification consequently of grosse witte The passions of the Aier do affect our Minds The situation of the Place makes the Aier good or badde Foode good or badd helpes or hinders Witte a The Hart Brayne * Wine moderatly taken cheeâ—es â—he Haâ—t spiâ—itâ— 3. Offices of Drinke f Vomittâ— g Gluttony Drunkenâ—sâ—e are he horrible sepultureâ— of mans reason iudgment Temperate exercise available to minde and bodie Natural heate The Sons of Adam borne to labour Divinity oft in dreames A natural reason for the divinity of Dreames Over much watching debilitates our wittes This waking care breaketh the sleepe as a great sickenesse breakes the sleepe Eccle 31 2. â—â—re enemy â—o sleâ—pe and â—â—â—epe coÌ„â—orâ—â—â— of Care Care a CaÌ„ker to Minâ—e and Body a The laboure of like Bodies be not a like painfull For glory in a Prince makes the laboure lighter then that
one selfe-wombe that both should be the same In Spirite in vertue nature and in name This World beginnes to cotton now for thee For whom the World sometimes was much to blame Vertue deere Sidney now advaunc'd shal be Sith Vertue knowes no partialitee Thou virgin Knight that dost thy selfe obscure From Worlds vnequall eies and faine wouldst dy Er ' thy name should be knowne to Worlds impure Now shew thy selfe thou canst not hidden lie From our newâ— Worlds desert â—out-searching Eie Great Sidneies loue true proofe of thy great worth Liue now for now thou maist not living die Vertue must vse thee then Dyer Knight come forth To haile thy vertues Loadstarre from the North. And Albions Scaeva whose crosse-wounded Corse Like t' an imbalmed dead-Corpse in aspect Twenty times dead yet still hast vitall force And so dost cousin death through deaths defect Yet scornst nay hat'st thy life in Fames respect Vp with thy Coate of Steele its time for thee No foe is now in field and in effect Thy Veines are drie thine eies do dimmely see Then ioy in peace with life at last agree Great Maiestie last let the least of all Thy Subiects least send from his hart a signe Of that it holds and whiles it is it shall That is that loue thou only mai'st define By that vnbounded loue to vs of thine I haile thee happy Sov'raigne from a farre Vnworthy to approach thy view of Eine Saying blest be him that blessed thee from warre To be our peace in whom we blessed are And be thine owne though others praise come short O sacred Sou'raigne Soule of Englandes ioy Let matchlesse vertues Vertues praise report VVhich thou alone dost questionlesse enioy The Vulgars laudes thine Eares doe nought but cloy The Concaue of a Crowne may cause that winde VVhich froward Fates haue power to destroy But that pure praise that 's due to thy pure Minde From Fates is free'd being of immortall kinde VVell wott'st thou Princes liues haue much more force Then purest Lawes their Subiects to refine For Subiects follow still their Sov'raignes course As Sunne-like Marigolds doe Sol divine VVho lose their grace when hee doth ceasse to shine This makes thee shun what may ecclipse thy light Because thou lead'st all by that light of thine And striv'st to glitter in all vertue bright That all might haue thereby direction right Though at thy becke be all sons-pleasing sweetes Yet art thou pleas'd with what thy sense containes In Straightes where Abstinence with Reason meetes Which head-strong Appetite Synne-spurred raignes And binds thy Passions in Soule-staying chaines Thus Reason strictly ruleth thee we see VVhich over thee as thou raign'st ore vs raignes If Reason thou obai'st much more should wee That are borne to obey Reason and thee How came I with thee to bee so acquainted That so I should discribe each part of thee Thy Booke wherin so liuely thou art painted Deere Liege I once ioy-ravished did see For which I shall till death the better bee Then saw I thee and then I heard thy VVordes VVhich with Gods and thy glory did agree And Charity beliefe to them affords Sith â—hee knowes nothing that with them discords And if the Bookes compil'd by vs do beare The Image of our Mindes as thou do'st say Then in that Booke that Image doth appeare Bright as the Sunne in Vertues best araye To light all Kinges to keepe their Kinges high Way No Sentence Line Clause VVord or Syllable Therein contain'd but doth pure thoughts bewraie Then sith thy Minde is to it semblable No Earthly King is to thee sutable Never was Piety with Policy So well componnded in the Head of State The Serpents wisedome many Snakes apply To Sores of Kinges Simplicity but hate The Doue-like innocence as out of date If Piety and Policy doe iarre As some suppose then can we bee s'ingrate As not to crowne him that did end the warre Nor be compos'd by such a Temperer For if from Hartes abundance Mouthes disperse Vertue or Vices Mammon all abroade What may we deeme thee theÌ„ that did'st reherse Such precepts as beseem'd a Semi-God How best the Sonne should beare an Empires Lode Which weakenesse oft back-broken vndergoes We needes must weene that Vertue makes abode As in her home in thy Hart sith it floes VVith goodnesse like Gods to thy Friends Foes How like a Lord of thy selfe do'st thou striue To conquer Passion Princes great'st disease In him that likely is thee to survive And as an oldâ—tride Sea-man tells at Seas VVhat Rocks and â—latts a yong one may displease Ere â—irst he setts out that he them may shunne So from thy proofe for thy Succeeders ease Thou tell'st him ere to rule he hath begune What Compasse he should keep safe Course to run For Empire is a Sea most faire to see But perillous to proue as they best kno That all their life-long to it bounden be Subiect each Tyde to be orewhelm'd with woe If not to wracke and finall overthro Wherein thou dost thy course so wisely guide That like a skilful Pilot thou dost sho By demonstration how this Sea t' abide And safely saile or else at Ancor ride Then ô how blessed is this blisful Ile VVhose God is Loue whose King is Vertues Host VVhose Grace and VVisdome with an holy guile Doth catch the Least and binds them to him most As to their Piller and vpholding Post VVho makes his Subiects great as good as great By his example without Checke or cost And to vnequalls equal Law doth meate With Loues right haÌ„d which stil doth hate defeate The Fire as be'ng the noblest Element Is plac'd by Natures hand aboue the rest That by it's actiue vertue prevalent It might repurifie the worst and best That be inferior or in lesse request So thou art iustly plac'd in Natures right Aboue the great'st that with thy vertue least Canst purge them from their greatest vices quight And make them shine through thy high vertues light Such Kings should be obaid and glory-cround Because their Vertues al mens else exceede For they that are in all abundance drownd Yet set no more in then may Nature feede And spare the rest for those that haue more need O! these are rightly Fames Superlatiues Gods vpon Earth that 's Kings like Gods in deede From whom the subiect vertue high derives VVhose liues are Lights to lead obscurer liues And Vertue in a King is more of price Then in a poore man though most vertuous For Kings haue more meanes to be drawn to Vice And may without controle be vicious But poore-men not for Want and Summumius If Sol would Venus vse what Starre comes not At becke wel-neere too neere to him to vse But if a naked poore Snake be so hott He may be coold but so be coold cannot VVhat glory gettes constrain'd Sobrietie If glorie gotten be by Vertue right Constrain'd b'imperious Necessitie Other then to be chast for want of might In
VVelcome ten-thouzand times ye sacred Paire Great Atlas and Alcides of this Land Vpon whose shoulders safe from all impaire The Common-wealth thereof doth fixed stand VVhich dext'rously your Vertue doth coÌ„mand Deere Prince the weale of Wales the Brittains blisse By me thine owne VVales lets thee vnderstand That shee desires thy princely feete to kisse And praies as for her Heau'n on Earth for this Then come sweete Prince thy Principalitie Doth long to beare thee on her blisful Brest There shalt thou see the Hart of Loyalâ—y Loue-sicke for want of thee in great vnrest Then come Deere sweete and to thine owne giue rest For as an hungrie Stomacke bites the more The neerer meate is to the same addrest So is thy Peoples longing made more sore To hold thee now they haue thee then before There shalt thou finde Brutes venerable Stocke To loue thee as the Creame of their best bloud For all about thee wil they thronging flocke To tender thee their Eies to doe thee good Such is the nature of their loving moode As when a Father fallen in decay Doth see his Sonne that giues him Cloth and foode â— Crown'd as a King Ioy makes his hart her Pray So will they ioy to see their Ioy to sway From Owen Thewdor who from Camber came From Camber Sonne of Brute who came froÌ„ Troy Art thou descended and thy Bellsires name VVas Thewdor let vs Brittaines then enioy Our owne in thee in thee our onely Ioy. VVe haue bin long afflicted and opprest By those that sought our whole Race to destroy Then sith we are in thee so highly blest Lett 's haue our owne thy selfe to giue vs rest O come and comfort vs our Ioy our Peace Let vs haue thee then haue we all in thee All that that tends to Peace and ioyes increase And in thy presence we shall blessed be For thou art blest then in thee blest are wee Sith blest thou art with all that Heau'n doth cast Vpon the Heau'n of Earthes felicitee Our bloud in thee craues part of it at lastâ— In recompence of all our sorrowes past VVhat shall oppunge this our bloud doth coÌ„vince Nature hath made thee ours and we are thine VVe are thy people and thou art our Prince Betwixt vs Loue will haue nor Thyne nor Myne But the VVord Oures she doth to vs Assigne Our Land our Prince our People and our Lawes Our State our Common-weale our Hand Seale Signe All ours nought but ours deere Prince because Both Prince and People clos'd are in this clause Then come All ours blesse all ours with our Eies Plac'd in the Head begotten by our Head VVhich was begotten by our bloud likewise Come rule thou vs in that Heads place steede Till thou that Head in his place shalt succeede Here shalt thou see cas'd in poore Coates of freeze Rich Spirits of Troians which on glory feede VVho for they are and rightly came of these Each with the nature of the Stocke agrees Our greatest braverie lies all within Where greatest Harts do loue the same to haue VVe say to braue an abiect sprite is sinne But to be braue in Sp'rite is passing braue VVe scorne a double-gilt base-mettled Slaue For we are harted-vvhole true Iovialists Making our glorie goe beyond our Graue So to dissolue Oblivions foggy mists And blind the Eies of squint-Ei'd Satyrists For be it that we know no Complement Other then such as our deere Ancients knew That 's plaine and simple like our harts intent Yet if we pleasd we could be fash'ond new Lou'd we not more our Fathers to ensue We want nor wit nor sp'rit nor wealth perchance Swift-flying Fash'on swiftlie to pursue In guize in gate and courtly dalliance At Tilt each way with Loue or Marses lance VVitnesse our Owen Thewdor who could giue True demonstration how to court a Queene Who from the seede of Ioue did grace receiue To beare him selfe in her Eie best-beseene And made her thoughts a demy God him weene He so could draw the motion of her eie By motions seemely which in him were seene That he alone best pleas'd her fantazie As beeing full of best-grac'd Maiestie Now from the Court descend we to the Campe And from those elder times to these of ours There finde we no lesse currant for the stampe WILLIAMS worlds wonder for his natiue powers Out-daring Death in many sanguine showres The singing Bullets made his soule reioice As Musicke that the hearing most alures And if the Canons bas'd it with their voice He seem'd as ravisht with an Heav'nly noise And when the Fo mens Muskets spight did spitt Then would he spitt in sport at them the while The Blowes his courage gaue were plac'd by witâ— For VVitt and Courage dwelt still in his Stile VVhile Cowardize and Folly made them vile VVhose glory lay all in their Ladies Lappe And when he came to Court at them would smile Yea smoothlie iest at their soft silken Happe Yet could like Mars take there somtimes a Napp Runne over all the Stories Tymes affoord Or prie vpon them with the sharpest sight VVe shall not finde one did more with his Sword Then this braue Brittaine and true Troian-Knight VVho putt Achilles in his Tent to flight By such an over-dareing Enterprize As all that that heare it not beleeue it might But that these Tymes haue seene it with their Eies And that the fame thereof to Heaven flies Quite through through Deaths grizely Iawes hee ranâ— And made a way through Horrors vgli'st Hell Yea danted Death more like some God then Man Vntill the Prince and Death he did compell To flie for life which his sword sought to quell O Skinck how blessed wert thou in his loue That drue thee on through Death to Glories well From whence the life of Fame doth flowing move To all that for her sake such Dangers prove Should I recount the pettie Miracles By him performed in his martiall course My words would scarse be held for Oracles Suffizeth me the VVorld that knew his force VVell knew his Hart was VVitt and Valours Source And they that most envie our Brittish fame Must needs thus much of him confesse perforce That whatsoever from this Brittaine came VVas VVitt and Spright or savor'd of the same But should I instance in particuler What Truth doth warrant for the Brittaines glory I could perhaps runne vp their Race as farre As loue and finde them famoused in story But for in me it may be thought vaine glorie Sith being one my selfe I seeme to praise I will desist although my soule be sory I should desist from that which many waies Might Camber crowne with everlasting Baies TheÌ„ come sweet Prince take thou vs to thy charge And we the while will take the charge of thee Thou shalt thine office easily discharge For we will more then most obedient bee Which to his comfort thy dread Sire shall see For when obedience flowes from ardent loue It is perform'd with all alacritee Which
the glory of thy Court advance Sith they theÌ„selues keepe Demi Courts perchaÌ„ce Then come sweet Prince Wales woeth thee by me By me hir sorrie Tongs-man to be pleas'd To liue with hir that so shee may by thee Bee rul'd in loue and ruled so be eas'd Of what in former times hath hir displeas'd The Sheepe their Owners keeping most approue For he will cure them when they are diseas'd With Loues right hand But Hirelings Truth doth prove Doo keepe the Flocke for Lucre more then Loue. Wales hir most vnworthie Solicitor IOHN DAVIâ—â— MICROCOSMOS THE DISCOVERY OF THE LITTLE VVORLD VVITH the government thereof SIth that thou hast so soundly slept my Muse Dreaming on that which thou before had'st doÌ„e Being awake againe thy Spirits rowze To make an end of what thou hast begun Be'ng rest-refresht therefore now forwards run With bright Apollo pray him be thy guide Vntill thou touch the Tropicke of Reason Where VVisdome puts Plus vltra there abide For past that point to passe is passing pride For our VVill's Baiard blind yet bold and free And had she way made in hir maine Carreere sh'would runne into that Light that none can see Saue light of Lights to feele the secrets there Which Angells wonder at yet not come neere But Reas'ns conduct is nothing safe herein Therefore the VVill hath too iust cause of feare Lest shee should runne into presumptuous sinne For which divinest Angells damn'd haue bin For since our Proto-parents lowest fall Our wisdoms highest pitch God wot is low But had they stood Hee had infus'd in all His VVord selfe VVisdome which alone to know Is to know all that VVisdomes selfe can showe But since the state of things is so vnstay'd That humane vvisedome stands it wotts not howe Vnsure in all for Iudgment 's oft betrai'd In that which proofe before had well assai'd But having toucht the Braine the Soule the VVill All which saue of the soule can brooke no touch It rests that Reasons heasts wee doe fulfil To prosecute much more or more then much That VVitt for VVill wil willingly avouch Th'al-giving Giver giveth al that liue His Creatures such desires and Natures such As for their good with good wil stil should striue And shun what ere should them of it depriue Beasts more theÌ„ Men the more Beasts meÌ„ the while Pursue that good that doth their natures fitt To them for that though they be nere so vile Is highest knowledge giv'n and they vse it Thereby condemning both mans VVill and VVitt And yet hath Man a synn-peruerted will To seeke that good he knowes most â—requizit Who knowes loues the good yet takes the ill Oft for the good but for the evill stil. Yet as he was ordain'd to greater good So greater knowledge was in him infus'd With no lesse will were it not sinn withstood To seeke that Good yet the will witt-abus'd When it hath found it is oft witt refus'd Vnhallowed sense drown'd in that damned iuyce Synnes Syder from Eaues fatall Apple bruiz'd Be'ing deadly drunck makes stil the worser choise Wherein like Sow in mire it doth reioyceâ— Among the hoast of Natures creatures bee Three kindes of Appetites there ay consorts Naturall sensitive and Voluntarie The first divided is into two sortes One found in all that to the VVorld resortes That 's inclination voide of Sense or Soule To doe what the owne nature most importes As light things mount and heavy downwards roule Which nature Natures selfe cannot controule The other with this vertue action haue Which nerthelesse proceedeth not from sense To Vegetatiue Soules this Nature gaue Which in Trees Plants and Grasse hath residence Who doe desire to sucke that influence That feedes them and avoides the contrary A plant will thirst for moistures confluence And draw to it all kinde humidity Retayning that it liues and proâ—pers by The like in our owne members we obserue Who wanting nutriment doe sucke the vaines The vaines doe sucke the bloud themselues to serue Thus each attracteth foode when neede constraines And all things living seeke the same with paines Hence we devide this naturall desire Into two kindes the one each plant retaines The other things which life doth sense-inspire As Man and Beast and what doth els respire The Seate of this desire stands on two feete Which fixt are in two places That 's to say The liver and the Stomacke there doe meete The forces of this Appetite to slay With famine or with foode fraile life to stay The sensitiue desire is two-fold too From sense the first the last comes not that way The first to ioy and griefe is fixed so That no force can it from the same vndoe For in the sinewes Feelings instruments This pow'r is plac'd or in the Synewy skin And that the Synewes ioyes or discontents That wel or ill affecteth them within By heate or cold they paine or pleasure wyn As they to them are wel or ill applied For sense and motion synewes made haue bin That by them paine or pleasure should be tride And make our Bodies moue on ev'ry side Nor doe these Appetites wait on the will Ne from the Phantazie doe they proceede For wil we nil we we shal hunger stil WheÌ„ food 's with-drawn that should our Bodies feed And we shal feele what sense affects with speede How ere the will or Phantazy impung We may abstaine from nurrishment in deede But then thereby much more for it we long And Flesh wil pine with paine if hunger-stung But th' other Appetites bredd without touch Are forged by the thoughts or Phantazie These discreete Nature in the hart doth couch Which be Affectes that lurke in secresie Be'ng motions of the hartes Hart properlie These wait on witt and choose or else reiect What it holds deerest or doth most defie So VVitt's the cause and they are the effect That loue or loath as witt doth them direct This vvitt and vvill the Beasts doe not possesse For their most knowledge is most sensuall Guided by Nature in their Brutishnesse Onely by inclination naturall Which moues their sense vn-intellectual Or this or that way without Reasons sway Then vvitt and vvill their sense wee cannot cal Though sensuall will and witt we cal it may For man alone hath both to guide his way The Voluntary Appetite we finde Is gott by Reason and produc'd by vvill By it we are to good or ill inclin'd As Reason doomes of them by Iudgments skill Two actions hath the vvill in reason still By which we good embrace and ill refuse Reason revealing what is good or ill Who rules hir not as though will could not choose But as one teaching Hirâ— hir pow'r to vse As in the Vnderstanding and the Minde Of Men and Angells God hath fixt his forme So to Mannes will his loue was no lesse kinde That to Gods wil he might his vvill conforme Ah woe that sinne should since the same
force As it hath powre it selfe to overcome How blest are they that doe themselues divorce From Custome ill by force of good custome And ten times blessed they that from the VVombe Accustom'd are to Vertues straightest VVay For such by Custome vertuous become Though powreful Nature doe her selfe say nay For Nature Customes powre is forc'd t' obay When the Affections Acts are habits growne Then Vertues or els Vices are they nam'd A vicious Habit 's hardly overthrowne For our Affection is therewith enflam'd As with the fire infernall are the damn'd Who though they would and though they anguish haue Yet cannot that outragious mood be ram'd But still they raging sin and cannot saue Themselues from that that makes their griefe their graue A vicious Habit is Hels surest Gin Wherewith a Man is sold to sinne and shame Running from sinne to sinne and nought but sinne As Rivers runne the same and not the same Til the mindes Iointes sinnes force doth so vnframe That it becomes most loose and dissolute Neither regarding heav'n hell shame nor fame But to liue loathsomly its resolute Thus Habits ill make evill absolute But few there are in whom all vice concurres And fewer are they that all faults doe want Vnto the worst offences cling like Burres And to the best as to the Adamant The Iron cleaues for the Church militant By nature is accompanied with sinne Yet the least force of faith partes them I grant Because it cleaues but sleightly to the skinne But to the wickeds flesh its fastned in For as a burre the longer it abides Vpon a garment being cott'nd hy The more the VVooll windes in his hooked sides So sinne the longer it in Flesh doth ly The faster to the same it s fixt thereby If Nature then sinne soone doth entertaine Vse violence to Nature by and by That it perforce may from the same refraine For what skill cannot force may yet constraine And as the Burre to VVooll so being fixt With skill or force cannot be parted thence But that some part will with the VVooll be mixt So sinne where it hath had long residence Will leaue remaines there maugre violence But Iron from the loadstone cleane will fall With but a touch and so wil sinnes offence From those in whom it s not habitual With but a touch of Faith though nere so small That I may touch the Subiect of my Rimes More home though homely I the same doe touch And for my travell'd Muse might breath somtimes And that the Reader too might doe as much Lest that prolixitie might make him grutch Here shall shee make a stande and looke a-backe As Riders rancke on Steepes haue customes such To breath their bony Nags when winde they lacke And courage them againe like toile to take THe knowledge of the Soule and of her Powres Is the well-head of morrall-VVisedomes flood Hence know we al worth knowing that is ours In body or in Soule that 's ill or good And if these Powres be rightly vnderstoode We know the founts from whēce our Actions slow And from what cause proceedeth ev'ry moode Or good or ill and where that cause doth grow Al this and more this knowledge makes vs know For in the Soule doth shine though sinne-obscur'd By Natures light great light of such science Whereby the Soule is made the more assur'd In all her Actions and Intelligence Though oft deceav'd by seeming goods pretence And for the Soule is to the body bound Affections therein haue their residence That as with wings the soule with thē might boūd Aboue her selfe from being bloud y drown'd Wherefore shee hath Affections of two kinds The one eggs on the other doe restraine By which the Minde the body turnes and windes As they the mind and minde the Corpes constraine Yet whē these Curbs our head-strong nature paine It winceth with the Heele of willfull-will Orethrowing those Affects that doe it reigne And in extremities it runneth still Which is the Race of Ruine Rest of Ill. This comes to passe when as we overpasse The bounds of Nature by our Natures vice And in some one excesse we do surpasse Desiring more then Nature may suffice To which our corrupt natures vs intice For let the least Necessity appeere A ken from vs though neere so smal of price We hold what els we hold though nere so deere VVorthlesse and for that want with woe we steere Hence is it that with never-ceasing toile And no lesse care we traverse all this All Nay all that All we restleslie turmoile And bandy as it were this Earthie Ball Past reasons reach to win worlds wealth withal Desire of having thus still moiles the minde Though Nature be suffis'd with pittance small VVhich makes vs loose our selues when wee it finde Sith see our selues we cannot being blinde It blinds our Eyes that seldom'st are deceav'd Eyes of our Soule that make our Bodies see Then Soule and Bodie cannot be perceav'd By their owne vertue when they blinded be And mine and thine doth sever mee and thee Nought can content vs. Therefore the Affects Are in the soule like windes that nere agree Vpon the Sea and worke the like effects Some great some smal yet like in most respects Beside the chiefe windes and Collaterall Which are the VVindes indeede of chiefe regard Sea-men observe more thirtie two in all Al which are pointed out vpon their Carde But our Minds Mapp though many may be spar'd Containeth many more Affects then these All which though sett our Minds Content to guard Yet sturr they vp as VVindes doe on the Seas Vnquiet Passions which the Minde disease When Zephire breathes on Thetis she doth smile Shee entertaines that gale with such content But if proude Boreas doe puffe the while Shee 's madd with rage and threates the Continent For those proud puffes her soule doe discontent So some Affections our soules browes vnbend And other some doe sextiply each dent Some meanely please some meanely doe offend And some doe make the Soule her Soule to rend Those that doe meanely moue Affections hight The other Huff-snuffes Perturbations be These later rudely gainst their Guides doe fight And so enfume them that they cannot see Or make them from their Charge away to flee So that the soule being left without a Guide And tost with Passions that still disagree Doth like a Sternelesse Shippe at randon ride On mightiest Seas wrack-threatn'd on each syde For if our Reasons iudgment blinded be Th' Affections needes must ever run awrie And draw with thē each sense tumultuoslee To offer violence to lowe and hye That God and Nature tast their tyranny Let but the Hart bee loue-sicke and the same Will carry Iudgment where his Loue doth ly And there confine it setting all on flame That offers but resistance once to name The lower Iudgment in our blood is sunck The lower is her reach in Reas'ns discourse For Iudgmēt
hot The eare shee tickles with such wordes and Notes That Hearing ravisht hath her selfe forgot With eie bewitching Faires the eie shee dotes And thus each sense in pleasures seas shee flotes These senses thus bewitch'd Fancie allures To share the sweetnesse which they say they finde Fancie consents and Iudgement soone procures T' approue their pleasure which betraies the Minde Betrai'd and quite misled by Iudgement blind Thus in prosperitie sinne domineers VVho vvith strong cordes of Vanity doth biâ—de The soule and body as it vvel appeeres By those whom welfare to the world endeeres O Flesh didst thou but know how suger-svveete The pleasures vvere proceeding from the Crosse Th'wouldst runne amaine the coÌ„ming crosse to meet And count al gaine saue that alone but losse All sensual Ioies doe thee but turne and tosse With restlesse proofes of false felicitie Which Ioies retaile but vtter griefes in grosse For corp'rall pleasure in extremitie The center is of endlesse miserie Now Griefe and Feare though they accompany These evil goods goods evil by abuse Yet they respect all kinde of misery VVhich we conceiue vvhen wee haue not their vse Through vvant vvhereof as through an open sluce Flow all vexations and annoies of minde Into the emptie souâ—e which they reduce To their obedience in rebellious kinde For Reason they in rage doe rudely binde The Body hereby puling pines away Like to a Bladder whose winde is out strain'd By such degrees as it doth by the way A whyning make as if the same were pain'd So fares the Body by the Minde constrain'd Till she be breathles she breathes out but mone For want of Goodes but fain'd her griefes vnfain'd Doe drie vp quite the Marrow of the Bone As if shee were in wretched plight alone For as al good Affections doe proceede From the opinion which we haue of Good So doth th' opinion of evill breede All ill Affections and each evil moode For ill Conceipt conceaues this cursed Broode Now the first touch of ill is call'd Offence FroÌ„ whence if it contynewe foorth do budd Griefe Envy Hate and fell Impatience As Loue proceeds from true Goods residence And sith ther 's nought that doth to Earth belonge In which both Good and Ill in deede or sho Are not like Phisick-Potions mixte amonge Therfore froÌ„ thence may be drawne VVeale or VVoe As they are tane sith both from thence doe flo For that which likes some some doth most displease According to the humors which they owe Some take repose in that which most disease As some delight in VVarre but most in Peace And the more inly that offences touch So much the more they doe thereby offend The inward'st is the better part by much Then that which thereto doth annoyance send To the tormenting of the VVhole doth tend Offences done to the externall Sense Are not so grievous as those which doe wend To the internall Noâ— is VVitts offence So sore as that which doth the VVill incense Nay if our VVill be not offended we Can suffer what not without al offence In which respect we willingly agree That FrieÌ„ds reproofs should proue our patience When with our Foes we would not so dispence Likewise oâ—r selues of our selves so may speake That others speaking so would vs incense And make vs mortally revenge to seek Thus VVill bee'ng pleas'd nought can our patience breake Then sith Offence most grieves the tender'st Sense Therefore are they offended soon'st of all Whose Mindes and Bodies haue most excellence And are most delicate and speciall Bee it by accident or naturall And mong the Hoast of Natures Creatures Man Is hard'st to please and most to Anger thrall For he with nought will beare nor suffer can Yet al haue cause this wayward VVaspe to ban If therefore One it be so hard to please How much more hard to please an Hoast of Men What can be saide or done so wel but these Will all or some of all speake there agen They care not against whom nor where nor when Aske Generalls if this be true or no Who though they make their Purs-strings cracke agen To please the Presse yet they shal not doe so But some will murmur and speake broadly to For some are so invred fault to finde That they offended are without offence Nothing they heare or see but irkes their minde So all offendes them without difference And to be thought of tall intelligence Their Tongues dispraise what their Thoughts highly praise Because they weene great praise proceeds froÌ„ theÌ„ce For he thinke they that sees what to dispraise Sees and knowes how t' amend it many waies How many may we heare and see of these Who with bent brow scue looke and mouth awry Sleightly survaie the workes that wise men please Protesting them to be but poore And whie Because they proue their VVitts base povertie They faine would faine to haue vnfained skill In ev'ry thing wherein they faults espie And by depraving VVitt t' haue witt at will When all 's but fain'd and strain'd and passing ill When Men adore their owne sufficiencie And weene their excellence doth check the Skies What marvel i st if al beneath the Skie They check and through their selfe-conceite dispise Who but to see their owne woorth haue no Eyes These Men are inly mov'd with much offence When they another see by Vertue rise Because high State they weene should recoÌ„pence No others but their onely excellence Bee they most poore yet be they much more proude Exclaiming on the tymes wherein they live For Men of woorth say they with parts indow'd The tymes doe not respect nor wil relive But wholly vnto partlesse Spirits giue Thus doe they melt awaie in Envies fire And whilst hart-burnings theÌ„ of rest deprive They them bestirre to part that is intire And CommoÌ„-wealthes orethrow so to aspire These vnwise wittie Mal-contents are they That egge on Men vnwise and violent T' attempt the over-sway of Princes Sway Or rather to confound their government That so they might be made preheminent For sly Vlysses must point out the place Gainst which the force of Aiax must be bent And Men made desp'rate hold it no disgrace To be directed in a desp'rate case These waspish over-weening idle Drones Are mortal plagues to ev'ry Publike-weale Right anti-Kesars vndermyning Thrones Yet Princes hardly shal their motions feele Vntil their States and Seates begin to reele And then too late perhapps seeke fast to sitt VVheÌ„ they must rest vpoÌ„ the pointed Steele These are th' effects of mal-contented VVitt Which not lookt to wil haue a madding fitt All which proceedeth meerely of Offence CoÌ„ceav'd by hateful natures hard to please VVhich mischiefe and great inconvenience Bring to a State and neither Land nor Seas Can possibly be priviledg'd from these VVho still doe feare their mis-imploied time VVill bring vpoÌ„ theÌ„ that which wil displease VVhich to
Robert Lord Sidney Baron of Penshurst c. THy vertue and the conscience of the grace Thou hast vouchsau'd me not deserving it Doth like two spurres provoke my will and wit Thy name with my loues lines to interlace Thy honor'd name name honored of all That honors grace by man made glorious Can of it seâ—fe rowze vp the dullest Muse To make thereof divine memoriall Then should â— it commende to Monument No miracle should I perfourme thereby Sith it by Nature liues eternally Such life to Sidneys being incident And sith divine S r Philip liues in thee Be thou that Monument and so ease me I. D. To the Right Honorable the Lord Home c. The place meÌ„ say thou holdst great Lord in court Was held before by three Superlatiues Most wise most lov'd most lowly in high port The place I weene hath such prerogatiues Then were thy vertue not in that degree The vertue of the place would it reiect But it s a powrefull argument to mee That thou art vertuous Lord in each respect The rather sith thy Liege that plac'd thee there Doth heaue vp none so high but for high worth Whose Iudgements eie is admirable cleere Which warrants me to put thy praises forth My coulors ready are I lacke but light Which I will haue to paint them out aright I. D. To the Right Honorable the good Lord of Kinlosse c. Praise that proceedeth from a Poets Pen That faines by nature may want powre perchaÌ„ce To adde renowne to the renownes of Men Whom goodnesse without glozing doth advance If then my Pen though it too open be To gloze disabled be by Envies spight To register the right that 's due to thee Yet should it wrong thee to conceale thy right Thy VVorld-conteÌ„ning Thoughts the world do make As knowledging the ods twixt good and Ill To rev'rence thee for thy rare goodnesse sake Which harts with loue mouthes with praise doth fill They stile that praise but with one only word Which being Good with God doth still accord I. D. To the Right Noble Lady the Lady Rich. TO descant on thy name as many doe Sith it is sit t' expresse thine excellence I should deere Lady but allude vnto That vvhich with it compar'd is indigence Yet to bee rich was to bee Fortunate As all esteem'd and yet though so thou art Thou wast much more then most vnfortunate Though richly-well thou plaid'st That haplesse part Thou didst expresse what Art could never sho The Soules true griefe for losse of her Loues soule Thine Action speaking-passion made but ô It made thee subiect to a Iailes controule But such a Iaile-bird heauenly Nightingale For such a cause sings best in greatest bale I. D. To the intire Body of the Kinges Maiesties most Honorable Privie Councell WHere Loue devided is shee hardly can Be like her selfe But when shee is intire In sacred flames shee burnes more hot then fire Bee it in abstract Formes or mortall Man Yet Loue and reverence are due to those Whose wakefull wits still worke for publike good So rev'rence I your honor'd Fatherhood As Founts from whom our publike proffit floes In you wise Pilots of this ioy-fraught Barke Barke of our blessed Common-weale it is To make her keepe her course in lasting blisse Which charge requires your well-directing carke You cannot better spend lifes benefit Then for so good an ende at Sterne to sit I. D. To my much honored and intirely beloued Patronesse the most famous Vniversitie of Oxford TO mount aboue Ingratitude base crime With double lines of single-twisted Rime I will though needlesse blaze the Sun-bright praise Of Oxford where I spend some gaining daies Who entertaines me with that kinde regard That my best words her worst deedes should reward For like a Lady full of roialtie Shee giues me Crownes for my Charactery Her Pupils crowne me for directing them Where like a King I liue without a Realme They praise my precepts my LessoÌ„s learne So doth the worse the better wel governe But Oxford ô I praise thy situation Passing Pernassus Muses habitation Thy Bough-deckt-dainty VValkes with Brooks beset Fretty like Christall Knots in mould of Iet Thy sable Soile's like Guians golden Ore And gold it yeelds manur'd no mould can more The pleasant Plot where thou hast footing found For all it yeelds is yelke of English ground Thy stately Colledges like Princes courtes Whose gold-embossed high-embattl'd Ports With all the glorious workmanshippe within Make Strangers deeme they haue in Heaven bin When out they come from those celestiall places Amazing them with glorie and with graces But in a word to say how I like thee For place for grace and for sweete companee Oxford is Heav'n if Heav'n on Earth there be JOHN DAVIES To the most Honorable and Valorous Knight Sir Thomas Erskin c. HOny of Hybla if my Pen could dropp Nay Nectar subtilized to the Spright Were not too sweet to varnish Vertues Propp That holpe t'vphold our staie in Treasons spight Gainst Traitors did thy trustinesse appeere VVho were the Foiles to make thy Tâ—uth to shine How blest wert thou that did'st thee so besteere As made Treas'n pay for her demaund a Fine How art thou bound to Opportunity That put her Fore-locks freelie in thy Fist And how ought we to praise thy valiancy Where through and through our Kinges we all are blist One hardie Hand ioyn'd to a valiant Kinges A Tribe of Traitors to confusion bringes I. D. To the thrice Noble and valorous Knight Sir Edward VVingfield TO thee Belonas choisest Champion Whose woundes if steept in dew of Castalie As they deserve would make thee such an one As Pagans vs'd for God to glorifie How oft hast thou thy selfe to wouÌ„ds expos'd To let in glory through thy gored sides That through thy flesh it might be so dispos'd As in each part thereof it now abides How prodigall hast thou bin of thy bloud No more is left theÌ„ meerely life maintaines The fatt Calfe must be kill'd to do thee good Thy hart to comforrt and to fill thy Vaines O t is a glorious prodigalitie That spends what not for God Conterie I. D. To the Noble discreete and wellbeloved Knight Sir Henry Nevill THere was a Time when ah that so there was Whie not there is There is and was a Time WheÌ„ Men might cal Gold Gold Brasse but Brasse â— And saie it without check in Prose or Rime Yet should I cal thee Gold some Brasse perchance VVould saie err'd because I nere toucht thee And so did cal thee through meere ignorance Or which is worse through abiect Flatteree I am too ignorant I doe confesse To iudge thy wooâ—th which worthiest Men coÌ„mend Yet may I say I hope and not transgresse Th' art Vertue Valour Truth and Honors friend All which presume thou art not gilt by guile Because thy noble name denies the vile I. D. To the Right VVorshipfull and most worthy Knight Sir Edward Dyer
accursed times that doe constrain Princes to doe this for the safety of thâ—ir States bodies that is so perrillous touching the State of their Souleâ— m Ere the Subiect be in Armes A Subiect placed in high dignitie hath more adoo to hold it then others to gett it Brutus n Tacit Histâ— Abraham and Lott must part when their wealth is over growne o All Wisdome assisted both by nature and Arte is little ynough to effect so great an Act by reasoÌ„ of the perversnes of maÌ„s nature p They ought to feare many whom many feare q Familiaâ—itïe in Princes breedes contempt in Subiectes a Maiestie in a Prince is no lesse commendable then behooful b A Crowne devided vvill serue no kings head c The Creator of all coupled Envy a Kingdome together Seneca d The Multitudes love is light their hatred heavy e To attain to Empire ïs a work humane but to retaine it being attayned is a grace divine Innovation most dangerous to a state f Over much pittie bringes oveâ—much perill to Soveraignes An ynch of liberty more then ought maks the CoÌ„mons much more loose then they should WheÌ„ the Rod is in the magistrats hand he may correct but if it be out hee may bee corrected It is a sure guarde of thy principality if thou doe not suffer great commaundemeÌ„t to indure long Livie 4. Hardly caÌ„ meÌ„ keepe a mean in dignities surmounttng mediocritye Wee read but of one Scilla that having gâ—tâ—eÌ„ absolute empiry gaue it over voluntarily Simil. Not to bee overcome with praises acclamations of people is incident to God only Simil. We ought to endevor even by laws to hinder strife and partakings among nobles Ari. 5. Pol. c. 8. * Scripture * Divinity Kings shoulde bee so framed as they may be altogither good or halfe good and not altogither wicked but halfe wicked Ari. â— Pol c II * The divine Precepts The Soule is the true lover of Truth Proverb 17. These are the last and therfore the worst daies Aug. in Psal. 5. A Kingdome is a schoole of deceipt Sen. Thyest. We bear mâ—st reverence to Maiesty a far off It is a great felicity not to be overcome of great felicity Poets Historiographers haue powre to giue immortality The Golden Worlds returned froÌ„ exiâ—e Yet learning and Armes should bee in league by the law of nature * Yet if some mens wittes were measured by their wealth they would be accounted Salomons that are nothing else but money-baggs ïn whoÌ„ there is nothing but money As poore as a Poet. a It is good to doe well so it is also to support well doing b But Poets lie open to a mischiefe for â—as Alchimists are suspected for coyning so are Poets for libelling c Good and ill renowme are immortal and prevaile even over the remembrance of Tyme which Poets have powre to give When Poets coÌ„mend mens names to monument they neede no Tombes d Lascivious obscene c. e As good no compleyning as complayning for no good The putâ—ing vp of one iniurie be ettes another f They that possesse all thinges want nothing but a man that will speake the truth Seneca g Prov. 25.23 The further Flatterers and Avaritious persons stand froÌ„ the Soveraign the surer hee stands Take away the wicked froÌ„ the King and his Throne shal be established in righteousnes Prov. 25.5 h The Frogs in AEsop insulted vpon the Logg and held it in scorne i Not to be able to do evill is great power It is an excellent necessity not to bee suffered to do evill k God governs that common weale that is governed by a written law Aristot. l Statute of Reteyners It is an Aphorisme amonge the Lawes of the 12. Tables Let the protection of the People be the chiefest Law m Civill Policy n Ouer-weening a pestileÌ„t disease of the Mind most familiar with Fooles o Take couÌ„cell of thine owne hart for there is no maÌ„ more faithfull to thee then it Eccles. 37. 13. p He is more discreete with whom provident councels that carry reason with them do prevaile theÌ„ prosperous deliberations which happen by chaunce Tacit 2. An. Treasons prevaile on the sodaine good Councells gather sorce by leisure Tacitus Hist. * The faster meÌ„ run being out of the way the further they are out of the way Experience is the eie of humane wisdom A Prince ought to bestowe more in getting a wise couÌ„celler theÌ„ in achiueing a coÌ„quest Quintus Curtius Wher no couÌ„cel is the people fall but where manie couÌ„cellors are ther is healâ—h Proveâ— 11.14 Simil. A good councellor is an Argust o the CoÌ„moÌ„-weale * They will distracte his thoughts and government requires the whole man To bee well seene in history necessarâ—e in a Magistrat SalomoÌ„ knew all in all 1 King 3.12 Eccles. 1.16 The Councellor should bee vertuous for hee supplieth vertues place which is in the middest Those whom the king will know shal bee to wel known but those hee looks strange vpon no man wil know theÌ„ A man maye light a candle at noone and seek amoÌ„gst a multitude yet misse to sinde such an one * Minions are for the most part so It is daÌ„gerous ventering abroade the Aire is so infectious Maximilian the Emperour answered one that desired hiâ— letters pattents to ennoble him I am able quoth he to make thee rich but Vertue onelie mâ—st make thee noble b It is better to bring honour to a mans house then to diffame it being there already c Act. 17.26 The higher the Sunne is the lesse shaddow he maks the greater a mans vertue is the lesse glory he seekes d They will make sale of the Princes favour to the preiudice of his people Eccl. 38.33 f They are as the feete nâ—cessary members nor could a common-wealth stand without them howbeit they are as the feete furthest remoued from the head being ReasoÌ„s Seate g Crafts-men h Had men no other fault yet are they therfore vnfit for government because so desirous to governe Authority should be denied to such as seeke it given to those that like wise meÌ„ refuse it i Example of rich men doth much good or hurt in the coÌ„mon-weale k Alexander Severus causâ—d such to be deposed and severely punâ—shed that bâ—ught their Offices saying they sold deerer in retaile then they bought in the grosseâ— l The Philosopher saith God is an infinite actuall VnderstaÌ„ding m Honor is the Prize for which Vertue endureth what not Honors given to vertue in former times Simïl a From whâ—m the libâ—rty of disorder is taken awaâ— he iâ— over-ruled for his owne benefit b Romulus Remus c Scipio Affricanus d The oath of xpiaÌ„n Kinges is I will minister Lawe iustice and protection aâ—ight to every one It behâ—ues theÌ„ theÌ„ to see that their vnder-Maiâ—strates make a coÌ„science of thâ—er owne oathes the Kingesâ— * To mak laws for others traÌ„sgresse theÌ„ our selus is to teach others