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A02823	Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes symbolically set forth and enriched with pious deuises and emblemes for the entertainement of deuout soules; contriued al to the honour of the incomparable Virgin Marie mother of God; for the pleasure and deuotion especially of the Parthenian sodalitie of her Immaculate Conception. By H.A.	Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.; Aston, Herbert, b. 1614, attributed name.; Langeren, Jacob van, engraver.; Langeren, P. van, engraver.	1633 (1633)	STC 12958; ESTC S103886	142,987	288

of Heauens and she as manie points It is a verie Mart of silks sarcenets taffeties and satins al of Gingeline in graine because in fashion If the Rose excel in sauour which she professes not to vtter in her shop she vowes to be more loyal and constant to her Paramour then it She is so amourous dotes so much vpon him that she can not liue without his conuersation which she hath so much as she almost is turn'd and quite metamorphosied into him and now become already in the Garden what he is in his Zodiack the true and real flower of the Sun or Sun of Flowers as he himself the Sun of starres or that great Starre they cal a Sun It is the true Alferes of hearbs bearing vp the standard of Flora amidst the rest of flowers the Pharus to direct the Gardē-Nimphs whē they loose themselues in the labyrinth of flowrie knots or Maze of flowers the Beacon al on fire to giue warning to the rest of flowers of the arising of the Sun to beware of his parching rayes for feare of withering before their times It is euen the Daphne of flowers whom Phoehus followes al the day and if she fly she hath her eye on her shoulder to looke behind her as she runnes THE MORALS AD ME CONVERSIO EIVS PIctures likely are so framed that be you in the roome in anie part they wil seeme to look vpon you Looke where the Panther is in woods and forests there wil commonly other beasts resort to look and gaze vpon him whether it be the beautie of his spotted coat or sweetnes of his breath which attracts I know not but this is sure the effect is so as I haue heard The Turtle seemes to haue no eye but for his mate and where they sit togeather their eyes wil be as glued vpon each other The Pole that drawes the Needle to it the load-stone that attracts the iron the ieat that puls the fescue what is it el's but a natural instinct or Moral rather I may say of more then mutual loue that makes the one so powerfully to allure and the other to be so easie and wiling to be drawne This I am sure of Vertue is so specious and so goodlie a thing that it drawes the eyes of al to look vpon her and where they haue not harts to follow her faire steps yet wil they stand to gaze vpon her and admire at least The litle IESVS lying in the Crib like a Loadstone drew the Shepheards from their flocks Kings from their peoples a Starre from the rest of the fellowship of starres yea euen the Angels from the Heauens to sing a Gloria in excelsis vnto God and peace to men What trow you but a secret instinct that could be no lesse then Heauēlie and Diuine made so great a conuersion of Terrestrials and Celestials to a litle Infant And as for the Mother her self that held him in her lap the while she before sitting in her little Nazareth obscure drew so the eyes of the Almightie to her that He could not choose but so conuert himself vnto her as to descend and lodge within her and she truly say AD ME CONVERSIO EIVS THE ESSAY THE honour of our Gardens and the miracle of flowers at this day is the Heliotropion or Flower of the Sun be it for the height of its stem approaching to the heauens some cubits high or beautie of the flower being as big as a man's head with a faire ruff on the neck or for the number of the leaues or yellow vying with the marigold or which is more for al the qualities nature and properties of the Flower which is to wheel about with the Sun there being no Needle that more punctually regards the Poles then doth this Flower the glorious Sun For in the morning it beholds his rising in his iourney attends vpon him and eyeth him stil wheresoeuer he goes nor euer leaues following him til he sink downe ouer head and eares in Tethis's bed when not being able to behold him anie longer she droops and languishes til he arise and then followes him againe to his old lodging as constantly as euer with him it riseth with him it falles and with him riseth againe Nature hath donne wel in not affording it anie odour at al for with so much beautie and admirable singularities had there been odour infused therinto and the sweetnesse of odoriferous flowers withal euen men who are now half mad in adoring the same for its excellent guifts would then haue been stark mad indeed with doting vpon it But Nature it seemes when first she framed a pattern for the rest not being throughly resolued what to make it tree or flower hauing brought her workmanship almost vnto the top after a litle pause perhaps at al aduenture put a flower vpon it and so for haste forgot to put the Musks into it Whervpon to countervaile her neglect heerin the benigne Sol of meer regard and true compassion graced her by his frequent and assiduous looke with those golden rayes it hath And as the Sun shewes himself to be enamoured with her she as reason would is no lesse taken with his beautie and by her wil if by looks we may guesse of the wil would faine be with him But like an Estrich with its leaues as wings it makes vnprofitable offers to mount vp vnto him and to dwel with him but being tyed by the root it doth but offer and no more It is like the Scepter which the Payn●ms attribute to their Deitie that beares an Eye on the top while this flower is nothing els but an Eye set on the point of its stem not to regard the affayres of Mortals so much as to eye the Immortal Sunne with its whole propension the midle of which flower where the seed is as the white of the eye is like a Turkie-carpet or some finer cloth wrought with curious needle-work which is al she hath to entertaine her Paramour THE DISCOVRSE COuld there be deuised a more noble Symbol of our Incomparable LADIE then this flower regarding indeed the true Sunne 〈◊〉 Iustice whom she followed stil in the whol● course of her life vnto her death Therefore whom we haue already represented as a Rose Lillie and Violet let vs now contemplate as a true Heliotropion Compare we then first by certain Analogies the Sunne being the king of Planets with the Sunne of Iustice King of the Sunne and Planets and the Heliotropion with the Virgin Marie The Sun chief of Planets fils the earth with his influences the Sun of Iustice the world with the effects of his power The Sun of Planets is the First cause among the Seconds the Sun of Iustice the First before them al that trauerses al places this penetrates al harts that lends his light to the moon and starres this giues both life and being to al creatures The Sun the Planet is the origin of life the Sun of Iustice

life itself that is soueraignly visible this most soueraignly intelligible In the Sun of Planets is fruitfulnes light and heat essentially but one and the self same thing and the Sun of Iustice with the Father and the Holie-Ghost substantially is but One God The Sun of Planets was neuer without these properties nor the holie Diuinitie of the Sun of Iustice without these Three eternal Persons And for our Ladie herself our faire Heliotropion as the Sun of Planets illumines the Starres so the Sun of Iustice enlightned her thoughts The Sun of Planets is the eye of the world the ioy of the day the glorie of heauens the measure of times the vertue of plants and flowers the perfection of the starres and the Sun of Iustice is the eye of her thoughts the ioy of her hart the glorie of her soule the rule of her desires the vigour of her spirit the maister of her loues and euen the center of her propensions He was I say the obiect of her looks the Monark of her wils the thought of her thoughts the light of her vnderstanding and the absolute Moderatour of al her passions Looke where the Sun is the Heliotropion being nothing els but eye hath the same stil cast vpon it and so the Virgin had the eye of her soule stil on the Sun of Iustice. I to my beloued and his conuersion to me Examine each day of her blessed life runne ouer the howers tel the quarters discusse the moments and you shal alwayes find her turned to the Sun In her Natiuitie an Heliotropion in the Presentation an Heliotropion in the Annunciation an Heliotropion in the Purification and euerie action a true Heliotropion For she neuer sayd did or thought anie thing which she directed not to GOD as to the Authour which she reduced not to him as to the last end which she began not for his seruice and finished not for his glorie and lastly wherin she followed not her Sonne that true Sun of iustice which is to be a true Heliotropion indeed And for her bodilie eyes she was directly so when she stood dolourous by the tree of the Crosse on the top wherof was CHRIST the true Sun indeed in the height of the Zodiack as in his proper Orbe whē not only with the face but with the whole bodie also she regarded her Sonne and with eyes fixt attentiuely indeed beheld him fully and as the flower Heliotropion is wont to flag with the leaues at the setting of the Sun so likewise was she had she been left only to the strength of nature readie to fal and sinck to the ground when her Sonne drooped Plinie wonders at the Holiotropion for conuerting itself to the Sun euen vnder a clowd and that in the night also but MARIE our true Heliotropion heer takes not her eye of Contemplation of from her Sonne so much as in the night For manie Doctours most constantly hold her Contemplation was neuer interrupted so much as in her sleep and that she slept in bodie but waked in hart I sleep and my hart wakes There was neuer knowne a time more clowdie nor euer night more obscure then that wherin the Sun of Iustice being set the whole light seemed quite extinguished nor anie Heliotropion appeared in the Garden of the Church so to gaze on the Sun vnder a clowd but only those two beautiful Heliotropions Iohn and MARIE neuer creatures better resembled that flower being of the self-same posture of the same pale sad coulour and with the whole countenance cast stil vpon him and she especially not taking off her eye from him who was enwrapped in the clowd of Death Behold now this rare Heliotropion of Ours euen at the point of death as she lay a-dying dying doe I say or sleeping rather For if the death of anie mortal wight may be tearmed a sleep surely that of the Mother of God is not to be called a death so much as a sweet Sleep She lyes in her death-bed as burning al with loue like a true Heliotropion turning to her Sonne stil casting her eyes vpon him I to my beloued and his conuersion vnto me The Eternal Father like the Sun darts most radiant beames of loue vpon her she endeauours of the other side with reciprocal looks of loue as darts to returne to him the like but sincks and fayles in the midst of the endeauour and like a flower hangs downe the head and dyes With this kind of death the Fathers of the Church clients of that great Mother affirme she was translated from the earth and assumpted into heauen THE EMBLEME THE POESIE HEer you behold the handmaide of the Sunne That waites vpon him as his stallions runne There in the Moone an other flower attends And followes her that borrow'd brightnes sends Vpon its gazing eyes Eue like this flower Was al for change Her happines an howre Continued not Alas 't was altred soone Affected Deitie was like the Moone Which she beheld But Marie's thoughts were high Vpon the Sunne of Iustice fixt her eye Her Soule with al her powers were stil theron As flowers leaues of Heliotropion THE THEORIES CONTEMPLATE first how as soone as the golden Sun peers and puts forth his head in the morning the Heliotropion displayes itself to the Sunnie beames circles with the Sun and when he comes to the West bowes downe the head and sits with him So MARIE as sooneas CHRIST the Sun of Iustice arose in his natiuitie framed and composed her countenance to his with him fetching her compas in the Zodiack of his life she ordered her course as it were by the same coasts by the South of Loue when he redeemed mankind by the North of Patience in so manie aduersities by the East of Resignation whē he satisfyed the Eternal Father by his passion and lastly in the West in the setting of her Sonne the Sun in her solitarie retirement til his glorious Resurrection the new Aurora of the Eternal day Consider then how we first conuert not ourselues to the Sun of Iustice nor attract the rayes of the Diuine benignitie vnto vs but he with a gracious cast of his beames vpon the Heliotropion of our hart excites the flower and allures it to turne the face vnto it back againe Conuert me and I shal be conuerted sayth the Prophet But the Mother of God the true Heliotropion indeed doth otherwise and therefore I to my beloued that is I conuert myself vnto him and so it followes and his conuersion vnto me Imagine you behold artificially painted a IESVS sporting in his Mothers armes looke which way you wil of anie side he alwayes seemes to haue his eyes cast vpon you So surely the most sweet face of IESVS whose eyes shine like starres of their parts are alwayes conuerted towards thee so as if thou perceauest not thyself to be especially regarded by them it proceeds no whit from them but from thyself who turnest away thy face or dost not marke or eye