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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11625	The second part of Philomythie, or Philomythologie Containing certaine tales of true libertie. False friendship. Power vnited. Faction and ambition. / By Thomas Scot Gent..; Philomythie. Part 2.	Scot, Tho. (Thomas), fl. 1605.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626, attributed name.	1616 (1616)	STC 21871A.7; ESTC S116842	14,994	40

a dame Such as the Ladies of the house did name Who there attended that they might direct This high attempt with order and respect The Squires with willing minds the knight obaide And each behind them tooke a louely maide Prudence directs her Squires to lead the way Who followes her direction cannot stray At length they come vnto a fruitfull wood Wherein a world of vpright timber stood Tall Cedars Cypres Pine and royall Okes With country Elmes and Ash for plow and yokes The learned Laurell and the weeping Mirrh The smarting Birch and the sweet smelling Firr Grew there in order and all trees beside Wherein the thrifty Woodreeue taketh pride The knight suruaies all this yet finds not one Fit to be feld till Prudence lights vpon A proud straight Aspe whose waueing top did leane On a slight Poplar with some shrubs betweene The cursed Eldar and the fatall Yewe With Witch and Nightshade in their shadowes grew Whose saples tops with mildewes often stood And grew self-seare and ouertopt the wood The Rauen Shreikeowle there did build their neasts And at their roots did harbour harmefull beasts Which Prudence saw but mercy would not see Till shee perceiu'd how euery other ttee Droop'd vnderneath the height of these alone And could not thriue or grow till these were gone She therefore ioynd with Constancie and Zeale Besought sharpe Iustice who doth euenly deale Her warie blowes to fell all these with speed Who soone consents and soone performes the deed At euery stroke she fetcht the trees did grone The rest did eccho laughter to their mone And now they lye along their branches topt Their barke pild off their trunks asunder chopt Then Art with rule and line these vselesse payer Frames engine-like a straight clowd climing stayer To mount Fames house this ●uery Squire doth reare And brauely on their backs do thither beare But Mercy seeing all the other ment To burne the Chips to saue them she is bent And with her Squire the knight praies let them lye For he shall gaine and glory get thereby Since chips which cut from Aspe and Poplar bee Do soone take roote ech growes a goodly tree The knight consents and fenceth round the spring Whose forward growth doth hope of profit bring And now together to the house of Fame With speede they passe where first the falsest Dame Salutes them with a lye and saith shee heares Her Sisters are together by the eares And haue destroyde ech other this she had From her Twin-sister who tells rumors bad They slight her leasings and with speed assay To raise the lather where bold Zeale makes way But false Fame and her Sister lay about To hinder her with all their rascall route Slander foole-hardines and heartles feare With foolish Pittie and false Loue was there Damnde Infidelitie and secret Hate And treason too that close dissembling mate Who all with open mouth and open lyes All waies to stop this honord worke deuise They raile and fight intreat and curse and ban The Knight proceeds in scorne of what they can And mounts the ladder with his sword in hand Which soone disparkles such as dare withstand Zeale hales him vp and Prudence guides him right True Constancie encourageth the fight Mercy saues all the innocent who swarme For companie not with intent of harme Art orders euery act the engine staies And helpes the Knight step after step to praise The lusty squires below with sword and lance Withstand bad fame whilst Justice doth aduance Her heauy hatchet and strikes off the head Of both the leaders and there leaues them dead Which when their troopes discouer they forsake Th' vsurped fortresse and themselues betake To heady flight into a marsh neere hand Where many whispering reeds and Osiars stand There they like out-lawe doe themselues inclose In wilfull banishment with all the foes Of this good knight whose valure vndertooke This high attempt that Fame might rightly looke On all deseruers and that man might finde Like freedome for his tongue as for his mind That vertue might be crowned by true fame And honest meaning liue with honored name Which promise gladly both the sisters swore In solemne forme and now as heretofore The freedome of their tongues they both possesse And worth is knowne from base vnworthinesse The knight they humbly thanke and him they crown The Soueraigne of glory and renowne Which stile Fames trumpetters the fowre winds blow Through th' earths foure quarters that the world may know Th'extent of vertuous actions how no power Can stop their passage nor lanke Time deuoure Their sweet remembrance which shall liue as long As nature hath an eare or eye or tongue To euery Squire then they this fauour giue That after death their Fames shall euer liue For still those Ladies whose imploiment they So well aduanc't shall duly night and day Repeate their labors and prefer them far Beyond Alcides workes as peace doth war Surpasse in glory or those works we doe VVhen others wills and ours we conquer too Now'tis proclaimd that if we tell no lies We may with boldnesse speake and feare no spies That what this age hath done this age may heare As well repeated now as the next yeere That all our words our selues shall first expound And that no forc't construction shall confound Our honest meaning but bee 't ill or well We may with freedome our opinions tell Since no man dares to doe the thing which he Would not haue all the world both heare and see These orders ratified they fall to sport And fill with maskes and reuells all the Court The seqell refer to Fames relation Whose golden trumpe sounds vs a blessed nation Satellitium Dedicated to all that stand Sentinell that watch and ward in defence of this kingdome especially to the strength and guard of the State Be of one minde Religion tyes a knot Which none vndoes by practise or by plot But if in that we differ be our breed Within one house or wombe of all one seede T is seuerd soone by hate respect or gold Which Law can neuer soulder art make hold Faith only ioynes what nothing sunder can Beasts loue for benefits for vertue Man WHo guarded round about with Parthian bowes Or Spanish pikes or hedg'd and dikt with rowes Of sturdie Ianisaries or the shot Of hardy Swizzars or the valiant Scot. And after these with walles of steele and brasse Hemd in so close that scarce the ayre may passe Betwixt the cliffes is not so free from doubt As is that King whom loue doth guard about Whom subiects loue doth guard because that he Guards them from all oppression and makes free His noble fauourers to desert and worth Spreading his radiant vertues frankly forth That both his owne may finde and neighbors know What glorious fruit doth from religion grow How sweet an odor Iustice sends to heauen How rare example is to Princes giuen By vertuous deeds to stop the mouthes of those Who vnreform'd are reformations foes

Such one sleepes safe within the armes of loue Diuine regard doth all his subiects moue To due obedience and with sacred awe Binds conscience with a stronger bond then lawe Such heauen informes whilst hell doth vndermine And spite of darkest plots with grace diuine Doth hedge about that naked in the armes Of enemies he is preseru'd from harmes They sleepe securely feed on holesome cates Angels their beds make cookes their delicates Giues Antidotes gainst poysons doth defend Gainst damned witches and their God the fiend No Iesuits at their elbowes can do hurt Nor troopes of Papists that their courts ingirt For God doth them in his blest armes inclose Safe though their chiefest fauourites were foes O happy then good Kings proceed Psal 45. ride on Grow vp in glory as you haue begun Ride on for truths sake looke on either band How you are guarded with a heauenly hand Of blessed spirits who shall lead you still In holy paths and guide your steps from ill These being with you Psal 91. you shall boldly tread Vpon the Lyon and the Dragons head And trample danger vnderneath your feete As men tread stones or dirt within the street Which only spraids them your heauen-garded state Is safer far then that of Mithridate The King of Pontus vnto whom befell What strange aduenture in this tale I tell This King perceiuing well there was no band Of duty loue or nature AElianus could withstand The strong inticement of corrupting gold Or baser lust or humor ouerbold Or fond ambition which makes empty slaues Swim bladder borne vpon the floting waues Of false Opinion with the arme of pride Of borrowed power and ignorance beside But that these would peruert the faith they had And cause them after farther hopes run mad Did to preuent all this a guard prouide Of faithfull beasts whose strength had oft been tried A Bull a Horse a Hare the Captaines were Of this strong guard whose force did nothing feare But falshood and Ingratitude and Treason From which they were as free as man from reason Why knowing more then beasts he should not hate As they doe to be treacherous and ingrate These three together being put to feed And sport themselues till there were farther need Of their knowne faith together long did dwell In peace and loue till on a time it fell That they with rest and ease full fed and fat Had time to play to dally and to chat Then did the wanton Hart propound a course Betwixt himselfe and the couragious Horse The warlike Horse did dare the horned Bull To make one in the race who straight way full Of burning choller and adusted blood Bad cowards run he for no footman stood T was meet for them that durst not stand it out To vse their heeles his heart was too too stout The angry Hart replies ther 's none of you But may to me as to your better bow I swifter then the Horse my feet can vse And for my head the Bull I le not refuse To combat with my courage I am sure Is like my strength as able to indure And doe as either of you dare or can And more I am esteemd by royall man Those Serpents which you run from I seeke forth And teare them with my teeth as nothing worth And as my life to man is sweet and pleasing So is my death each part some sorrow easing My hornes all mortall poyson can expell My marrow makes stiffe ioynted misers well My fat yeelds strength and sweetnesse that fierce lad Achilles neuer otherspoonemeat had Which made him such a Captaine euery part Is physicall and comforteth the heart Yea euen my excrements the dropsie cures My teares like precious lewels man allures To seek them vp wheres'euer they be shed My skin great Captaines weare when I am dead And boast that they haue such a coat of proofe Which wounds withstands whence venome stands aloofe Then why O baser creatures dare you brag And match your selues with the long liuing Stag My life is long cause I with cost am wrought But nature slights your liues as good for nought The crested Horse with fiery eies did show What inward rage did in his hot blood flow To heare this bold speech vttered and with head Tost in the ayre his hardned hoofes doth tread The sc ornd earth with contempt then thus breaks out O thou the fearefullest of all the rout Of hunted beasts how haps it that you dare With me your master and your Lord compare Forget ye my preheminence the loue Man beares me how one spirit seems to moue Me and my rider that we start and run Stop turne trot amble as we were but one Haue you at any time been calld to war Where none but Captaines and great Souldiers are Trusted to heare their Councels on your backe Borne the Commander of that royall packe I haue done this and more borne him about Through worlds of danger and then bornehim out He trusts me when his legs he dare not trust And when his hands faile then performe I must Nay when he failes himselfe in euery part I adde another life another heart In war I thus befriend him in his need And so in peace I helpe his wants to feed I till his land that else would barren be Beare all his carriage and am sildome free From sum imploiment but must neere him stand As being fit and apt for his command If he to visit friends abroad doth fare I must along with him true friends we are If he intends to hunt such beasts as you For sport or hate or need he lets me know The time the place the end and we agree I see the sport and hunt as well as he How often haue I seene some fearefull Hart Perhaps your sire at my dread presence start Fly hence with vtmost speed and neuer slacke His willing pace when I vpon my backe Bearing my noble master haue at length O'retane the lubber hauing lost bis strength Whilst I still forming courage breathing sprite Haue sought another conquest long ere night And after that a third vnwearied yet Yet you your selfe as Paralell will set To match and ouermatch my worth my force As if weake Stags might braue the peerlesse Horse For physicall receipts I le easily yeeld Aliue I profit man you being kild This makes him seeke your death my liue to saue Yet being dead my parts their vertues haue Which I refer to others to relate As scorning Hog-like to doe good so late This only I conclude If man should choose To saue but one hee 'd both of you refuse The armed Bull sweld puft and roard alowd To heare the Hart so bold the Horse so proud And all the while they spake he tost about With hornes and hoofes the dust then bellowed out This bolder braue What ignorance is this That causeth both of you so much amisse To boast yourfalse worths and neglect the true Which rests in me belongs to none of you The