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A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

he sawe a peece of barlie bread which turned into the Campe of Madian and came to his pauillion and beate it to make it fall and then returned when the pauillion was fallen The same may appeare in the Dreames of Nabuchadnezzar in respect of things prefigured in the forme of a high Image and a great as it is set downe in Daniel But for so much as the manner of Dreames aboue sayd seemeth to be very strange and altogether vncredible by reason of the Sympathie spoken of before and that there be some skilful mē who holding it impossible that which some go about to haue to bee beleeued of that Sympathie betwixt earthly heauenly things are perswaded it is impossible from thence to haue such intelligence Others who are of opinion that this Sympathie both may bee and is suppose for instāce the Sympathie betwixt the starres of the North and the Adamant stone whereas wee see continually that those starres draw that stone Likewise we see that certaine flowers open and shut after the approaching departing of the Sunne That the Nightingall and the Cuckow both grow hoarse at the rising of Syrius the Dogge starre that the humours abound in the full Moone afterward diminish In like manner that some constitutions of starres can gouerne and maintaine and on the contrarie others corrupt the humours in some parts of the bodie And for confirmation hereof they alleadge vs a reason that God in the beginning hath giuen and ingrafted in euery of his creatures made by his owne hand a speciall vertue and a secret propertie which are hid and contained in the seedes of them from whence successiuely are procreated all corporall things receiuing their forme by a commixtion and temperature of qualities according to that order of nature which God hath appoynted And although the starres so drawing the Adamant stone haue not a power or vertue to giue entyre formes to creatures themselues yet notwithstanding the world below being compassed with the heauen as it is and all that it containeth as wel in respect of things created as generated they are all gouerned and maintained by a diuine power of a celestial light and the especial vertue of the aire which not only shines through darknes as the common sort doe imagine but containeth in it an excellent and diuine vertue sustaining with a life-making heate al the creatures of the world according to the course of nature for as one sayth the heauen so commādeth the earth as God commandeth the Angels the Angels men men beasts the soule the bodie the reason the appetite Neither must we think that these creatures are onely maintained by their proper seede and the mixture of the qualities aboue said but likewise that there is another vertue proceeding from the heauenly light which doth sustaine gouerne them in most miraculous manner the vaines and arteries shining like little flames in naturall bodies doe shew vnto vs plainly the spirituall vertue that is in them likewise in men the spirits and the naturall heate which sustaines them for euen as the light of the fire comming out of the flint constantly shewes it selfe vntill that be consumed which is enlighted euen such a light commeth from aboue which gouerneth and sustaineth as a nurse all the liuing creatures belowe Master Barlasse in the second day of his weeke speaketh fitly to that purpose and saith Cela se voit a laeil dans le brulant tison Son feu court vers sa natale Maison Son aer vole en fumee en cendre chet saterre Son aeau bout dans ses naeus vne semblable querre Tient en paix nostré corps la Terre est sa chaire Semee de maint os au lieu de maint rocher Dans les vitaux esprits git son aer sa flamme Dans les humeurs son flot et le ciel dans son amé Then from this coniunction and heauenly allyance proceedeth a meruailous concord and naturall agreement betwixt heauenly and earthly bodies There is no man who findeth not in himselfe the vertue proceeding from the Sunne beames which in the exposition of Iosephs dreame is called the Father and nourisher as it is written in the second booke of the antiquities of the Iewes The bodies spirits of all things are recreated by the rising of the Sunne The soule is as it were awaked with a certaine nimblenes finding a wholesome fine time by the good disposition of the ayre On the contrarie we growe drowsie melancholie and as it were in a deadly lethargie by the indisposition and change of the ayre The naturall constitution and complexion of men changeth after the manner of the foure seasons in the yeare wee see a mans spirits to bee more quicke and nimble at one time then another without any manifest discerning of cause why It is the aboue named heauenly light which awaketh in vs some part of that vertue which she lent vs at our first beginning hereby happeneth the change of flowers of the beastes before mentioned of the inclination of the Adamant towards the North. In like sorte if we would suppose the foresaid coniunction and naturall agreement which is in the creatures aboue mentioned we should finde it no whit strange the Sympathie which is saide to bee betwixt some heauenly and earthly bodies which is made by an interchangeable touch of the supposed naturall coniunction consisting in the agreement of their formall qualities Thus much of Sympathie Notwithstanding all that wee haue said both concerning the singular vertue of the starres causing the foresaide presaging dreames as also in respect of Astrologie it selfe there is an opinion at this day quite contrarie For Nicodem Frischlin a late Astronomer holdeth it as a Paradoxe that none of all the starres haue any vertue either generall or speciall vpon the things belowe and hee derideth all those who think the Starres haue vertue to warme to coole to drie to moysten And in like manner that neither Aries Leo Taurus or any other of the celestiall signes haue any force to affect the things belowe Moreouer that the art of Astrologie and all the credit it hath vntill present time was inuented by the craft and subtletie of the Chaldaeans and Arabians who following the fables of Poets haue themselues imposed the names to the signes in the Zodiacke and to the other starres which are obserued at this day whereat the heathen themselues scoffed as Ouid. Vacca sit an Taurus non est cognoscere promptum Pars prior apparet posterior a latent Or Cowe or Bull if it be it cannot well be knowne The former parts are seene the hinder be not showne By meanes whereof hee maintaines it a thing impossible either to measure the height of the heauen aboue or the depth of the earth belowe according to the testimonie of the Prophet Ieremie saying If the heauens can

am loath to vpbraide your vnthankfulnes by remembring of my fauours Haue you not had and so long may haue vnlesse your selues be iniurious to your selues a Princesse truelie nobled with all vertues a Queene matchles in whome honors vnsteined pure die hath set foorth such liuely colours as enemies must and doe feare friendes ought and should loue whome the age now present must admire and the time following still praising wonder at more courteous then the churle-sauing Abigal more courtly then the friendes-honoring Hester more valiant then prince-killing Iudith who blessing me by her meanes with a plentious peace beautifying her courte with eternall praise hath made both to bee enuies marke in her enemies eye the shadowing Cedar to her distressed friends and the force conquering sworde to her professed foes Here might my muse dare to flie a matchles pitch but that faintinglie I feele my Icarian wings to melt with the heate of so bright a sunne this onelie shall snffice without further repeatings of her worth thereby to make your faulte far greater conceiued with teares accented with sighes and vttered by truethes naked oratresse that what praise euer wisdome gained as al praise is but wisedomes due that same is and shall bee your sacred princesse her inheritance who hath so often contended whether her glorie might mount higher vnto fames tower blowne vp with the vowes of mortall men or her thankes ascend further vnto heauen conueyed by thousand Seraphins Liue thē though sorrowfull to see mee sad diuine and renowmed Empresse earths glorie religions comfort admired wisdomes inheritrix here perpetuallie to bee praised of men and else where immortallie to be crowned of God himselfe Haue you not had thousands of worthie and braue ladies bewtifying poore me who all seeme vestall-like to haue lighted virginities lampe from the euer-burning taper of chaste Elizas vertues Haue you not had in me things hardlie found else where sage and wise Nestors such whose state guiding wisedomes were able to equalize if it were not your faulte mee a poore Iland to the former monarchies were but those famous and neuer enough commended lawes made by them in their deepe scanning iudgements practised by you then how shuld I iustly pride it in my worth bee valiantly couragious where now I feare haue you not had for the space of these many yeares though but two yet eternallie famoused vniuersities Cambridge and Oxford where Englands youth haue learned such worthie precepts as ill beseemes thē to requite me with such ingratitude These serue to beautifie in their want my plentie with their wisedom whilest you vngratefull you in your plētie seeke through their want to contemne their wisedome here could I iustly complaine for them but that I want teares to expresse my owne sorrowe for I see those who most are bound if benefites receiued might binde to respect them in the iniurious opinion of learned-modest-naked-humilitie wrongfully to depriue them of things necessarie And least they should grow too glorious to obscure thē too farre to learnings infamie I cease to repeate the smaller fauours matters iustly deseruing a thankfull loyaltie content my selfe with these that for the greatest benefites that euer inhabitants enioyed since Paradices first erection I distressed Iland haue by discord of my owne lamentably indured the greatest wrongs my enemies haue seene into the seed plots of my discord long since and haue found them to threaten my ruine they haue bred dissentions and make me nourish them to my owne destruction they haue strook fire into the tinder of my soft heart and haue made me blow it till I burne to ashes Is it the inequalitie of cōdition that makes this discord Is it the might of some few ouershadowing the meaner that fils you with enuie against mee I cannot liue howsoeuer Plato foolishly dreamed but my harmonie must bee made of diuers sounds my sinewes must bee of sundrie strength and my states full of inequalitie yet for all this the meanest can haue no wrong the greatest shall do no violence I wil liue neuer to permit a tyrannie both equal deare to me whereof neither can suffer danger but I must needes perish for thus to see either my Nobility a thing not yet heard of or my Cleargie a thing too vsuall or my cities a thing too commō or my subiects a thing too lamentable fondly to disagree what is it els but to breede within my borders wolues which I banished long since by my Edgars means and to nourish that flame which consumed Greece I meane the enuie between her two eyes Athens and Lacedaemon to the great contentment of their sworne enemie Philip the King of Macedon and shall not your hatred discord and such like tennising your owne infamies to make others smile make me perpetually mourne as solde to sorrowe and the Spanish Philip more ioyfull then the King of Macedon Let vs not stay till we bee vnited by our enemies crueltie as Xerxes oftē caused the Greekish vnion Shall they perswade you degenerous mindes to bee perswaded that it is better to suffer tyrannie of a stranger then inequalitie of a friend Deare countrimen and so still to be reputed vntill extreamely you deserue otherwise in a humane bodie doe the hands the feete and the head fall at discorde among themselues Is not a wound sometimes as deadly in the heele for so perished the thrise valiant Achilles as dangerous in the head Are not my parts so vnited amongst themselues that the least iarre is a fault the least discord a fall Were I made so absolute that I could stand haue no parts then might iarres be and I in tune were I not a mother that bred you both then might you dissent and I not fall Suppose some part of my Iland hath bewtie of townes yet other parts haue fertiltie of soile some place hath wise inhabitants yet others are valiant some are plaine full of all pleasure yet others are walled as it were with mountaines and full of all saftie some are shadowed with thicke trees to auoid heat yet others are compassed with siluer streames to beget colde thus all partes of my Iland and the particulars of my state are such that each imparting dignitie all of them make mee partaker of an absolute happines so that whilst vnitie is maintained amongst my people I vniuersallie enioye those benefites which I lacke as looselie being dispersed by cruell discord alas in what Common wealth can equalitie bee founde Thinke you if I were sould to strangers you were free from emulation vnlesse it were by this meanes by being miserable the Philosophers sometimes desired this in their Common wealths but foolish men are ignorant of the trueth not sounding into the depth of eternities wisdome who ordained the inequalitie of things to preserue each other amongst the elements is not the fire tempered with the water in the bodie

the heart cooled by the lightes in the soule the affections ruled by the reason and what nature hath done in these shall wee thinke vntollerable in a Common wealth Looke but vpon the Low-countries where vnequall Cantons bred such a fire increased by false reporte that whilst some boasting of their valour did disgrace others all haue bin in danger of the enemies conquest and howsoeuer their gouernours could not easilie see to what this tended yet lamentable experience hath taught them now that discorde is fatall to a Common wealth The disagreement of Italie was the ouerthrowe of their conquering empire the same made the Gaules subiect to Iulius Caesar thus if Europe the grandmother of vs poore Ilands had not dealt by misconstring her owne friendes the Turke had not so farre made entrance into Greece Slauonia Hungarie and other countries that he should proudely dare to encounter the German Emperor and stand thereby to threaten vs like as a tempest vpon the top of a mountaine readie with his showres to ouerflow the valleyes But what firme constancie can bee expected in the vniuersall palsey of all Europe How can kingdomes vnite themselues when I but one small Iland haue a number of such contrarie mindes to harbor in mee This might possiblie bee hoped for if wee had but learned this that one of vs cannot perish without another and as wee see in a firme pillard vaulte that some few stones being taken away the other incontinentlie fall and then in time ruines the whole worke so fareth it with my state whose contrarie minds may seeme smallie dangerous at the first view but swiftlie though vnseene it doth tumble downe Surueie but the groundes of our libertie and foundations of our Common wealth which were laide by the mercie of God the valour of our vnion the reliefe of brethren and the concord of all if I were indangered by my allies and distressed by the multitude of my acquaintance as sometimes hath beene the state of Flaunders whose enemies haue caused by corruption her supposed friendes to diuide her body selling her to them that haue offered the vtmost farthing then might I iustly blame not you but those whom coloured tearmes christened by the name of friends but now seeing I haue relieued manie sent my souldiers to take armes not for my own but for their good seeing I opened not my citie gates to admit strangers who were able to commaunde my strongest walles but hoyste vp my sayles to conuey out my souldiers to defend others then let not mee perish by you whom I haue deemed no lesse deare then my owne life trecheries haue taught states to take heed with whome they ioyne in amitie and Demosthenes wished the Greekes to take heede of this which if they had wisely followed Amintas sonne and his successors had not oppressed Greece by a fained amitie Thus forewarned Nicolaus vnder vauld the Flemmings forefathers to take heede of forrainers which if they had wisely followed so many cities of trafficke had not been townes of Garrisons But my ruine if it vnhappelie happen which God forbid is not by strangers force for they are too feeble to weaken my state but by such as I kindely nourish in mine owne bowels for whilst one holdeth for Spaine another for France the third for the Lowe Countries and euerie quarter of the land hath such as being displeased with mee are desirous to please strangers it must needes happen that my ioynts being racked with so great a torment I liue feeble confesse that mine owne inhabitants did worke my ouerthrowe the gold and siluer of mine enemies is able to preuaile as much with my vniustly tearmed English men as in the daies of Scaurus Fondlie are you deceiued with a hope of quiet to your minds howsoeuer in show they pretend so for credit me that haue tried it long since they meane nothing lesse But as Philip made the Athenians beleeue that he had pretences against the Plotenses Olynthians and others thereby to passe further but Demosthenes told the citizens that if Philip had once wonne Olyntha and Loreyra who demaunded succour of the Athenians hee would not rest till hee had conquered whole Grecia which by little and little he effected after And howsoeuer coūtrimen Philip may perswade you that his purpose is but onely to reforme religion and to passe no further yet vnder this pretence hauing gottē footing within your walles harbor within your townes and hands within your treasuries you shall finde his entent to be farre otherwise and neuer vnles your wiues conspire against them to bee rooted out Thus hauing obtained Corinth hee shall after come to ride vpon the backe of Greece or as Cassius perswading the Heluetians vnder pretence of alliance and showe of a good cause broched a discorde and so made France subiect to the Romane Empire For if Maximilian the Duke of Austrich durst say that hee treated of agreement with King Lewes the 12. onely to be reuenged of the seuenteen iniuries which he had receiued of the French men although they were scarce thought to haue done him any what shall wee thinke the Spanyard will performe against vs of whō he supposeth to haue receiued so many harmes and so foule dishonors No valerous and noble Englishmen credite not so farre either the hope of Spanish gold a canker that hath fretted the greatest kingdomes or the free passage of religion a thing neuer thought of by them but shewe your selues valiant as earst you haue bin loyall as still you should be then shall you be conquerous as stil you may be For Flanders had neuer bin so firmely vnited with France if Lewes the 12. being but then Daulphin sollicited by Pope Eugenius and Fredericke the Duke of Austrich to breake the counsel of Basill and to ouerrun the countrey had not bin incountred with some fewe Flēmings and put to such famous flight that he was constrained to praise their valour and to make an alliance with them which continued long after The like had the French King stirred vp by Pope Iulius who considering their ancient magnanimitie hath desired to be vnited with the Flemmings as the chief pillar of his crowne and kingdome this was continued to them in the said manner first obtained by their true valour by Henry the 2. and after by Charles the 9. and so lately by these two last Henries In like manner if you continue as you haue begun to bee vnited amongst your selues to be suspitious of forraine flatterie to distrust vpon al pretences the Spanish treacherie then shall I florish as most fortunate and cause them sue for my truce That one conquest when seas did swel with so great pride obtained against their Nauie 1588. hath by Fames alarme been sounded in the vtmost parts of the world hath made the Spanyard desirous of my fauour And if I bee challenged to buy my