show For benefits receiued that may require Hauing got meanes so often wisht and doe If future vse or seruice not inuite I could name thousands that expecting right And merited reward at last haue gaind Nought but disgrace or death where loue was aim'd 34 How many youthfull Heyres are to be found Altho their Syres haue toyld hard many a day And yeare for them to adde ground vnto ground And Coine to Coine that sit not downe and pray Great Iupiter to take them soone away Or Wiues that teares for dying Husbands shed That wish not pleasures new from wanton bed 35 No man by thee the honester is made These qualities vnto the soule adhere Not things We see the mightie men inuade The weaker and them grind deuoure and teare The poore are curb'd by law restraind by feare Presumpteous greatnesse acteth farre more ill Then impotencie vrg'd by want not will 36 Thou mayst affoord an honourable name But these bare shadowes without substance be T is onely vertue that acquires cleare fame Which he that wants is like a fruitlesse tree VVhere nothing else but leaues and blossoms be Or like an Apple whose exterior part Perchance seemes faire but 's rotten at the heart 37 Least needst thou boast of Valour Health or Wit Excesse corrupts the body dims the mind A thousand Feauers Gouts and Dropsies sit VVayting vpon full platters and we find An actiue soule but seldome is confind To full fed body where the mists and showres Of daily surfets suffocates her poâ—…res 38 As touching peace thou no such thing do'st giue The sting for wealth extorted feare to loose Anxietie wherein they howerly liue Still doubtfull where to leaue 't to these or those Their soules like beasts in Toyles so fast enclose That both in life and death to earth fast glew'd They make it doubtfull that no peace ensu'd 39 Now for my selfe to answer in excuse Thy false obiections whereby thou wouldst show That euery mischiefe which the times produce Proceâ—…des from me that men dishonest grow Hence onely I denie that this is so Then Fortune were a Goddesse but we see VVealth makes not worth nor want dishonestie 40 I no man dull whom Nature did not frame Of courser mould as spurâ—…es I rather scrue To prick him on by vertue to aâ—…taine Those Glories VVisdome honestie deserue And valour and what Fortune doth reserue For her owne children and to him denie To make him gaine by worth and industrie 43 Indeed I build no Cities nor proud Towres Of costly things of Treasures vaunt not I I liue in humble Cottages and Bowres In peace except I be disturbde of thee But thou art cheynd in lou'd captiuitie Most strongly gyude and all that take thy part Not loosely by the legs but by the heart 44 No rest at all thou giu'st of peace no taste Which not in outward things but in content And right religion of the soule is plaste Thy peace beaâ—…es euery hower some detriment Each losse of Office fauour suit or rent Orethrowes it quite to be in brauerie Out-shind perchance a frowne makes diuers die 45 The vanitie of which did whilome moue Those worthy Pagans most of all to prize That kind of peace my humble state doth proue And counting thee the baite of miseries Despisde thee so that Aristippus wise Threw all thy guyts i' th' sea who sure did find That they disturbde his peace and vext his mind 46 Xenocrates and diuers other moe Diogenes did wholly thee refuse Because he held thee vnto peace a foe And vertue And euen God himselfe did chuse My ranke while he did mortall body vse So did his friends and seruants both by word And by example all my praise record 47 Scarce had Penia spoke these words of ours When Oppuleâ—…ce like some great Riuer swoâ—…ne By Wintâ—…rs tempests and excessiue showres Which beares down Corne and Meadows lately moâ—…ne And mightie Woods in many ages growne Flew on Penâ—…a and her passion swellinâ—… Ore Reasons bancks was scarcely held from killing 48 But halfe her cote there from her back she tore VVhich she did chalenge to her selfe as due By rights I knew not and away thence bore As 〈◊〉 of the praise to'er conquest due And with her traine in haste away thence flew So swift that scarce mine eyes could â—…rackt her pace Returning streight vnto her natiue place 49 Long after whom Penâ—…a did not stay But followed speedily to get redresse By some petition or some other way VVith weeping cheare and hearts great pensiuenesse I loâ—…ging much to vnderstand no lesse The end then entrance to this tragedie To old Eyrema Artfull VViâ—…ch I flâ—…e 50 And her besought out of her powrefull skill To Oppulentia's Palace me to beare VVhich granted vp we flew more high then hill Higher then th'avrie dwellers euer were From whence great Cities but small Townes appeare And Mountaines Mose hills Here she made me vieâ—… Faire Belgiâ—… s rich Townes and Seeples new 51 But here she said Penia was not knowne Yet were she there the liberalitie And kind compassion should to her be showne And various waies for fruitfull industrie VVould change her Nature But from thence flew we Ouer the vast sea and the continent Through strange lands to Stambolds City went 52 Neere which she said this Opulentia boad And had for vse and ostentation raysde Ten thousand stately buildings Then she show'd When on the sight we thorowly had gazde Structures indeed deseruing to be praysde For richnesse beautie pleasure and by Art Vnseene coâ—…ueyde me through each secret part 53 There did she shew a thousand workes diuine Wrought in white Paros and red Porpherie In Golden Thebaâ—… spotted Serpeutiue Tables and Collumes throwne most curiossâ—…e Whole rooms seel'd through with sable â—…bonie And hung with Clothes from Niles blest Memphis brought Or those more faire by Virgins fingers wrought 54 Then show'd she me the Beds in-laid with Gold And some with richer Stones embellished The Sheets peâ—…fum'd with Sweets from Baâ—…tham sold The Flores with costly Carpets ouer-spred Through which into the Wardrops me she led Where Silke and Cloth for differing seasons fit In monstrous shapes beâ—…ray'd her wandring wit 55 From thence into her Cabbinet she went And show'd of Ormuz Pearles the costly Chaines The sparkling Diamonds from Caâ—…baya sent 〈◊〉 pure Gold digg'd from rich 〈◊〉 veynes Which Stella wearing Iunâ—…'s forme reteynes Then show'd she all her masks her 〈◊〉 her tyres Ruffes garteâ—…s scarfes plumes lotions pendants wires 56 Which hauing seene without the least offence Or notice taken of our being there We next obseru'd her great magnificence Her state attendants and excessiue cheare Her traines of seruants euer ready neere With huâ—…ble reuerence with cap and knee And Kookes that still deuising dishes be 57 Her Cup-boards loaden all with Red and White And all her vessells wholly of the same Loaden with dainties all that may delight Both Venson Pheasant Quaile and all else tane In Earth
To Luxurie Delitious Cates VVine Silke and costly Stones To Venus then ten thousand little ones 91 Here-with me thought the Altars fiercely blaz'd The flameâ—… theâ—… earst asâ—…rnded much more high The smoke ten thousand pitchy turrâ—…ts raisde And so transcended boue the Starry skie Piercing the nostrils of Ioues Maiestie VVhereat aâ—…azde my haires vpright they run 〈◊〉 grew dim and tongue grew stiffe and dumb 92 For straight me thought the earth began to quake The water murmurd and the ayre did sigh The leauy Groues seem'd sadder sounds to make The Oâ—…en groned and Horses snorted high All rebels to their Masters â—…eeling nigh This end of things and all in heart request Great God to right their wronges and giue theÌ„ 〈◊〉 93 The Sun and Moone then streight me thought grew dim The Starres from heauen they fell and lost their light And all the world seemd now returnd againe To her first Chaos and eternall night Then were my feares and hopes in doubtfull â—…ight When straight me thought this voice came frâ—… aboue Is this the fruit of Heauens long care and loue 94 The Earth cries out that man her gifts abuseth The Sea whose bending backe â—…e 〈◊〉 for gaâ—…ne That bloody streames he in her waues infuseth And doth coâ—…rupt her spawne with bodies slaine The Aire that it 's polluted doth complaine The Fire cries ouâ—… he doth so oft enrage it That Cities melt and Floods can not asswage it 95 The Towre-bearer and proud couragious 〈◊〉 Crie out he forceth them against their will T' assaile with aâ—…med fides and barbest crest The liues of men to murther and to kill The Lions rore that earst were taught to fill Themselues on Men whom hunger only forceth To feed on those Ioues fatall brand endorceth 96 The weeping Woods of haplesse Arabye The sweetes which for delight and health he fram'd Euen these complaine and doe for vengeance cry Because so oft on Idoll shrines they flam'd And by his lusts impure haue been defam'd The powrefull Hearbs which flying breath recall Made by themselues Deaths Agents in their fall 97 The Beasts Fowle Fish and Fruit of various kind Ordain'd for health for pleasure and for vse The hidden treasures to the earth assign'd All these likewise doe witnesse his abuse With which he truth and iustice doth traduce With which he surfeâ—…s while his brâ—…thren â—…ine And in his heart denies the powre diuine 98 The Saints lament that Heauen he still reprocheth The Angels grieue at his ingâ—…atitude The Deuils cry out that he on them encroeheth And now begins to teach them to be leaud Therefore Iehouah doth in 〈◊〉 conclude 〈◊〉 all 's accomplishâ—… was decreed before The World shall end and Time shall be no more 99 Here-with the fires th' etheriall tracts retaines The hidden sparkles both in Wood and 〈◊〉 The Sulphur lurking in earths secret veyneâ—… Burst forth me thought and all conucend in one Men Beasts Trees Houses for to feede vpon This fierie Sergeant in an houre did 〈◊〉 Of many hundred yeares the 〈◊〉 to I le 100 Then gaspt earths marble iawes her hungry 〈◊〉 It opned wide tho now no more to take But to restore the surfets of her youth Each Goale a free deliuerance to make The Sea restorde her Dead each Streame and Lake And all the earth with new borne limbs it trembled VVhile soules and bodies themselues re-assembled 101 The Kings and Princes they did sore lament VVishing the earth would ope and swallow them The gallant Dames that liu'd incontinent For whose deare sakes so many earst was slaine VVith horror here confounded and with shame They wayled they wept they wisht to change their statâ—… VVith meanest slaues or beasts they fed on late 102 But all in vaine they wisht what cannot be The Trumpet sounds and they must all appeare They see the angry Iudge sitting on high Beneath them Hell the obiect of their feare No pleaders need they neither witnesse here Three Bookes of Conscience Passion Life lies ope Then cease the good to feare the bad to hope 103 The senâ—…ence past the blessed soules reioyce The wicked gnasht their teeth gainst Heauen blaspheming The Deuils howld and made a fearefull noyse And all the poyson of their malice teeming On 〈◊〉 mortalls hopelesse of redeeming In burning carrs chaineâ—… towards Hell them hayld FroÌ„ whâ—…ce me thought these words mine eareâ—… assaild 104 Vox gehenna Oh cursed you that why lest yee earst had time No councels betterd nor examples moued To keepe the statutes and the lawes diuine But still your blinded sence your banes approued Tho Christ for sinners suffred whom he loued We but for one offence are hither driuen You 're lost for want of faith whose sins were giuen 105 VVith flaming forkes therefore wee le tosse and turne yee In Stigian streames to Christall will we freeze yee In Phlegâ—…ton then will we thaw then burne yee Our comfort is we 're sure we cannot leese yee Death grazeth on yee but he euer flies yee Here shall ye freeze with feare burne with anguish And pine with famine and in darke fires languish 106 You Tygers which did thirst for bloody streames And teares of others here shall drinke your owne You Moles whose eyes were dazde with Golden beames Yee shall haue store great measure shall be showne With Ladles downe your throtes it shall be throwne You lustfull Goats that ioyd in amorouâ—… gracos You shall be glutted here with our embraces 107 You angry Doggs here shall you 〈◊〉 your fill You rauenous Wolues here shall ye eate your dung You enuious Dragons to that dyde to kill That hated still the good the wise and strong Your selues vnapt for any thing but wrong Here shall ye feed on Aspecks and your head With Snakie tresses shall be couerd 108 Poena sensus You Eyes that heretosore could not endure To looke vpon the â—…ores of Lazarus But highly feasted were with things impure With costly Pictures and lasciuious With Gownâ—…s with Gauds with fashions rare and vicious With Maskes with Shows here shâ—…ll ye nothing see But Serpents flying Firâ—…s and vgly We. 109 You you whose noses still â—…o close were pent In passing by the poore and needy wight For whom from Ganges Odours rich were sent And nothing was thought costly that was meet To couer Natures faults or to delight You you that Chimneys were for Indian smoke With pitchy Clouds and Brimstone shall yee choke 110 You eares that earst were deafe vnto the poore Whom flatteries or gaine or charming sound Of Musick only pleasde you shall no more Heare names of Honor Grace of Wit profound Valour or Beautie here all things resound And eccho horror grones of wretched Ghosts Othes Blasphemies and Yells of vs your Hosts 111 You you for whom the Virgins fingers spunne The silkes of Naples and proud Genoa For whom were brought soft Sables from the Donne And costly Ermines from Rhezania Who pin'd the poore that you might feast and play You you whose curious touch
in the meane time goes to the Knights house and rauishes his Lady Which the Knight vnderstanding at his returne in reuenge laid an ambush for the Earle and slew him Historie of the Netherlands pag. 67. FINIS § 〈◊〉 * Folly 1 Mutation Times eldest child 1 Reason 1 The fal mutation of the Angels into deuils 1 Change in the Planets 2 The continuall change and transmigration in the Elements 1 The cause of Fountaines and Riuers according to Aristotle by reason of the Ayres condensation and changing into water 2 The generation of Thunder 3 The change of Winds Seas Dayes Nights Winter Summer c. 1 The fall of Adam and his change from great happinesse to vnspeakable miserie 2 Change and viâ—…issitude of Greatnesse 1 Agathocles a Potters sonne attained the Kingdome of Sicily and being driuen from his Kingdome yet againe regained it and in his old age againe lost all and died in miserie Iustine 2 Mithridates Kindred in his Infancy sought his life many waies setting him to mannage a fierce Horse which danger by his dexteritie he escaped They attempted the like by Poison and thereby compeld him for safeguard of his life to liue foure yeares in the Wildernesse After which reassuming his state and kingdom his wife hauing plaid false seekes to poyson him which hee escapes by his Antidotes Growes mightie conquers diuers Kingdomes with good successe But making warre with the Romans he suffers all the changes and aduersities of Fortune with great constancie the very Elements fighting against him and his most trustie Seruant betraying his children to the Romans till his owne Sonne rising against him and besieging him constrained him at last to kill himselfe Iustine 3 Valerian Emperour of Rome being ouercome in battaile by Sapor King of the Parthians was made his Foote-stoole 4 To wipe away his teares To make him merrie To relieue his hunger 1 The change and demolition of Cities 4 Deinde reductum pro fundum littus in finum Baias apperit aqua s que calidas ad voluptatem ad sanandos morbos accommodissimas Strab. Geographicorum lib. 5. 5 Cuma vetustissimum Chalcedensium Cumeorum aedificium antiquitate cunctas Sicilliae Italiae vrbes antecellit Strabo Ibidem 1 Changes in the intrals of the Earth her Mines and Treasures exhausted those places that in former times haue been rich becomming poore 1 Changes of Religion 1 Ierusalem That is in Iseland and some parts of Norway 〈◊〉 the cirâ—…le Artick 1. The changes Men suffers in Bodie 6 Pendentes que genas tales aspice rugas quales vmbriferos vbi pandit Tabraca saltus In vetula scalpit iam mater simia bucca Iuuenal Sat. 10. 193. 1 Of the Soule briefly 1 This was written whilest I liued in the cold Câ—…stle of Scarborough standing vpon a most high Rocke almost surrounded by the Sea 1 The Dragon and the Elephant haue betweene them a naturall antipathie and warre therefore the Dragon watches him by the way and from some high tree launces himselfe vpon him The Elephant makes towards some tree to rub off these his vnkind embracements but to preuent him the Dragon then manacles his legs with his long winding taile Then tries the Elephant with his hand his Trunke to vnloose himselfe Into this the Dragon presently chops his head and there so long sucks his blood which he mightily thirsts for to coole himselfe that at last the Dragon drunke and the Elephant drie they both fall downe dead together for the Elephant falling vp-vpon the Dragon crushes him to death gaining that reuenge in death which in life he could not attaine to Plin. lib. 3. cap. 11. 12. 2 The Ichnewmon or Rat of Nilus watching the Crocodile while he sleeps leps in at his mouth whips from thence into his belly and from thence gnawes her selfe a passage killing the Monster Plin. lib. 8. cap. 25. lin 5. 3 The Serpent being the naturall enemie of the Camelion is watcht by him where he vseth to sleepe vnder the shadow of some tree and there the Camelion attends him in the tree and while hee sleepeth she distills from her mouth a cleare shining drop by a thred of the same stuffe iust vpon the Serpents head which no sooner toucheth him but he dies so strong a poyson it is M. Sands his Trauels fol. 121. 4 The Halcyon builds a neast of the dride Sea-froth so strong that Iron cannot hurt it Arist. Animalium lib. 9. cap. 14. 5 This bird called Auis Paradisus by some Apodes or Manu codiata it is found onely in the Mollucaes of the East Indies It is neuer found aliue for it neuer toucheth the earth but flies and houers continually aloft in the ayre where they lay their Eggs in a certaine hollow place of their Males backe and their sit and hatch their young liuing as some thinke onely by the Ayre It is now worne as a Plume the Bird being but a very small thing in the head of the Plume Scal. Excercitations 228. 1 The Tomaneio is a very small Bird little bigger then a Flie or a bumble Bee hauing most delicate Feathers a most loftie shrill and delightfull Note not inferiour to our Nightingale which is most admirable in so little a bodie whose Neast with her selfe in it haue been found to weigh but twentie foure Graines they be common in the West Indies Lerius and Acosta 2 The Cucuuio a small Bird of Hispaniola hath two marueilous bright Eyes vnder her Wings besides those in her head which serue the Barbarians in stead of Candles or Torches either abroad or at home abroad they tie them to their shoâ—…es if at any time they chanc't to trauell late Pet. Mart. Decades pag. 274. 3 The Barnacle 4 The Silke-worme 1 Balsam this grew first in Iudea from thence transplanted neere Cairo in Egypt where they built a great wall to fence it to keepe it safe They say there is now but little of it remaining They slit the Barke of it with an Iuorie instrument and from thence the precious liquor distills Paulus Iouius That which we haue now comâ—…s from the West Indies 2 The Frankencense and Mirrhe trees they vse to cut them at the time of the yeare and from them distills a liquor which after turnes to this kind of Gum. Plin. They grow in Arabia Foelix 1 Arbore de rais it is a Tree in the hot Countries whose boughes by reason of his naturall humiditie after they haue spread a pretty distance from the first Trunke or Bole bend downe to the earth againe and there take new roote and from thence grow vp as it were a new tree some of them in this sort couering an Italian mile Linsc p. 103. 2 The Herba Sentida when any man comes towards it shrinkes in all the Leaues and going away she displayes her beautie as before Scal. Excercitation 182. And Captaine Hercourts Traâ—…ailes in Guiana 3 Arbore triste de diu is a
by violence but placed there by an artificiall handiworke In this Stone were written diuers lines in a strange and vnknowne character The three men were slaine at the fall of the stone the women with great amazement ran home and shewed what had happened The newes comes to Basilides hee repaires to the place demands of the Metropolitan what the words did import he in great perplexitie replies he knowes not Calling then certaine captiues which had a great opinion of learning he requires of them the exposition of this inscription they fearing to be silent told him that these signes did pertaine to himselfe and did concerne his People and Empire Hereupon hee causes his Guard to breake the Stone all in pieces and in stead of penitence goes home and prepares for the Polonian warre He died very lamentably of an Vlcer in his priuie parts so lothsome and stinking that the smell of it poysoned diuers Hee had vpon his death-bed some trances wherein it seemes hee had some taste of the infernall â—…orments His life and death are written at large by Paulus Oderbornius a Germaine Diuine in three Bookes dedicate to Henrie Iulius Duke of Brunswick His body was not from the day of his death to be found in any place but was supposed to be conueyed away by the Deuill not content with his soule onely Ibidem He liued in Queene Elizabeths time 24 The Egyptians did worship some things generally as of beasts their Apis or Oxe the Dog the Cat of Fowle the Hawke and the Ibis of Fish the Lepidotus and the Oxirinchus beside these they had particular worships They of Arsinoe to the Crocodile They of the Citie of Hercules did worship the Ichnewmon The Cinopolitani a Dog The Licopolitani a Wolfe The Leontopolitani a Lion The Mendesii worshipt a Goate The Athribitae a blind Mouse They of Abidon worshipt Osiris whom Herodotus page the 150 calls Bacchus They of Hermonthis Iupiter and an Oxe and Orus which Herodotus calls Apollo pag. 199 and others other things Strabo Geography lib. 17. The Bubasti honourd Diana The Citizens of Busiris Isis which the Greekes call Demeter that is Ceres The City of Say worshipt Minerua The Helipolitanes the Sunne They of Buris Latona The Papremians Mars Herodotus Euterpe pag. 158. 25 Strabo saith he saw a Crocodile in a Lake in the Shire of Arsinoe neere to the Temple vpon which the Priests tended with great religion and fed him one holding open his chaps and an other powring in certaine Rost-meates and sweet Wine and that hauing fild his belly he retired streight into the Lake till he were called againe by some new Guest comming with new Oblations Ex Strabone lib. 17. 26 Porrum cepe nefas violare ac frangere morsu et Paulo post Carnibus humanis vesci licet Iuuen. Satyra 15. linea 9. 27 This Deitie of Iupiter Hammon was worshipt in the likenesse of a Ram. Herodotus Euterpe pag. 151. Here it was that Alexander was premonisht of his death with the circumstances both of time place and the manner as after they befell Quintus Curtius lib. 4. and in Alexanders owne Epistle to Arestotle and Iust. l. 11. It seemes their Iupiter was something mutable and humerous for his shape as men are now adayes for their fashions for Herodotus describeth him like a Ram and Quintus Curtius lib. 4. saith Id quod pro Deo colitur non eandem effigiem habebat quam vulgo diis accommodauerunt artifices Sed vmbilico maxime similis est habitus smaragdo etiemmis coagmentatus a Dianae templum Chersiphron fabricatus est Sed cum Herostratus quidam id incendâ—…o consumpsisset aliud prestantius construxerunt mulierum ornamentis Strabo Geogr. lib. 14. 28 Baalzebub was worshipt in the likenesse of a Flie. Purch 29 The Sydonians worshipt Iuno in the likenesse of a Sheepe 30 Quintus Curtius in oppugnatione Alexandri 31 The Phoenicians had a stately Temple dedicated to the Sunne of which Anthonine Emperour of Rome was in his priuate fortunes the High Priest and therefore surnamed Heliogabalus or Priest of the Sunne Herodian lib. 5. 32 This Temple had in it a stone which had thereon the figure of the Sunne Ibid. 33 The men of Carras that ouercame their wiues vsed to sacrifice to god Lunus in the Temple of the Moone but if their wiues had the better they offered vnto Luna to appease her displeasure Herodian lib. 3. 34 This place was some fiue mile from Antioch a Groue of mightie Cypresses ten miles in compasse where stood the Temple and Oracle of Apollo Daphneus Here Iulian the Apostate desiring answere the Deuill would not speakâ—… because the bones of Babillus the Martyr lay so neare him Socrates lib. 3. cap. 16. In this place of delight and Paradise of prophane pleasure the Antiochian youths and amorous Gallants vsed to pay their vowes to the Nimph Daphne the burbling streames calme winds and flowre-be spotted earth conspiring with the opacitie and retirednes of the place to make the Votaries of Diana worship Daphne Strabo Geogr. pag. 510. lib. 15. 35 The Persians did principally honour the Fire counting it a God they worshipt the Sunne and Moone Venus the Winds and the water into which it was not lawfull to spit to pisse or to cast any dead thing Strabo lib. 15. Herodotus lib. 1. pag. 90. lib. 3. pag. 226. 36 The Tartarians beyond Volga that belong to the Great Cham and the Crym Tartars which inhabit on this side Volga which Herodotus calls Scythia and them Scythes though these professe Mahumet yet haue they in their houses Idols and Puppets of Felâ—… which they offer to Doctor Fletcher and W. de Rubruquis in Hacluyt 37 The Chynoys haue Idols in their houses and Images if the deuil with Serpentine locks and as ill-fauoured lookes as he hath heare a tripple Crowne vpon his head great teeth standing out from his mouth and an vgly face vpon his belly him for feare they worship saying that God is good and will doe no man harme They paint the Deuill in their ships and in any storme him they inuocate sometime working by lots sometime by writing which way he neuer failes to answer them as appeares in the Discourse of Chinay Chap. 15. where the Spanish Friers to their no small terrâ—…r heard him talking to the Chynois in the same Ship § The Iapons haue a strange kind of shrift the Deuill once a yeare playing the Confessor hee puts his Penitent into a paire of Weigh-Scales hung vp vpon a high Spire or Piremed from whence if he confesse not truly he breakes his neck Acosta lib. 5. cap. 25. 38 The Deuill is highly worshipt in Pegue to whom they erect a stately Altar adorned with varietie of Flowres and Meates to fee and feede him that hee should not hurt them Hist. India pag. 321. 39 Cidambaran is the Mother-Citie of these Pagan Rites Here in the Temple of Perimall they worship an Ape called Haynemant the tooth of this Ape
Emperour Maximine A Thracâ—…an Shepheard by originall Who did by all the staires of Fortune climbe Vnto the throne and seate Imperiall But as she raiâ—…de him so she wrought his fall A full cram'd Glutton so 〈◊〉 fed with cheare That two strong men were plac's his paunch to beare 70 Diuers there were of later times that seem'd Amongst the rest she noted onely two The first at first great 〈◊〉 I deem'd But better viewd by â—… picture streight I know He softly pac't but sore did puffe and blow He dranke to Bachus and with all his heart Presented Venus with his secret part 71 Next him came Muleasses that 〈◊〉 ' d His dishes with so rare and costly Sweeâ—…es That one three little birds there were consum'd An hundreth Crownes Next these came diuers Knights And Princely Dames assisting at these Ritâ—…s And millions of each banke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she Cut off through th'entrance of 〈◊〉 companie 72 Much was I moued with what I earst had 〈◊〉 My heart it vented sigheâ—… mine eyes 〈◊〉 Recording things which so long past had â—…een But now alas renewed my grâ—…efes and feares Seeing a world of Clergic men by th' eares Striuing and strugling who sâ—…ould first begin To kill the greatest Hecatombs to sinne 73 Foule worke they made and many a bloodie streame Forth from their broken head did trickle downe Sore tugged they at a triple Diademe And for the same was many a clouen crowne Their Croysiers crackt and Miters ouerthrowne Such stirre there was as any man might well Thinke onely bred in Babylon or Hell 74 In most disordred sort along they went Amongst themselues each striuing first to be With single sacrifizes not content Each of them did to euery Altar flie With equall zeale and like Humiliue Out stripping farre if all she told me true The vildest Paganâ—… either old or new 75 Then quoth my Faire Conuert then thine eyes and find In these the compleate ill of all the rest And vice accomplishe in so high a kind That Nero here would Crueltie detest Maximine thinke his Auarice were blost Mad Anthonine would Luxurie deride Messalme would hate lust Poâ—…pea pride 76 Loe first comes he that drew the putrid Corse Of 's predecessor from his Marble Vrne And in a Synode voyde of all remorse First plac't him in Saint Peters Chaire in scorne Did him with Robes pontificall adorne Degrades him then from 's hands three fingers cuts Lastly with 's corpse pure Tyburs waues polutes Platina de formoso in vita Stephani sexti Hee that desires satisfaction for these ensuing Stories may be truly enformed of their truth from these Authors Platina de vitis pontificum Onuphrius Petrarche Guiccardine eminent men in their times and all employed in great places vnder Popes 77 Then Iohn the twelfth a monster vile behold To hunting more adicted then to prayer When tend it for venerian tilts he could The Lateran he made a brothell faire Saint Peters golden Challices the ware He Healths to Pluto drunke and for his paine By him i'th'act of lust impure was slaine 78 I would not load thy membrie too sore Quoth she mongst many will I name but two Damd Sorcerers that Leagues accursed swore And did in woods and secret places bow And sacrifice th'infernali powres vnto Contracting most deare bargains to obtaine A short disquiet aye repented raigne 79 The first loe there is Siluester by name Whose bargaine was that he on earth should stay So long till to Ierusalem he came A further iourney then he meant to stray But going to the Church so call'd to pray His Feindâ—… appeares the Churches name he craues Which knowne he droopes dies Thus falfe Feinds deceiues 80 That other Benedict the ninth we call So farre indeed from what his name imports That to obtaine the cursed Romain Pall And that with women he might freely sport Sealed couenants written with his owne blood for t. And whilest he once his wicked homage made His Master kild him and his owne debts paid 81 There goes another no lesse liberall Another Benedict a blessed one Of Priestly gifts and grace spirituall A man of equall note with those best knowne Who rauisht Nuns and Virgins pittied none A daâ—…ned Atheist blind with â—…ust and pride The soule to be immortall he denide 82 That Hildebrand loe here that Hellish brand The sower of tedition murther strife Before whose Gate an Emperour did stand Barefoore three dayes attending with his wife Yet still he sought to rid him of his life Not pleasde altho his Crowne vpon his knee He offerd him with base seruilitie 83 Then show'd she him that did Pope Iohn benight Imprisond and in prison causde him pine Then he that crown'd the Emperour with his feete That dogged incaelestiall Calestine Then Alexander Pope farre lesse diuine Then Pagan Alexander Persia's god Who vnder 's feete Great Caesars neuer trod 84 Next these a Wretch that murtherd two Popes goes Calixtus then that Gregorie displac't Making him passe in manner dolerous Through Rome where earst he had been highly grac't Vpon a Cammell leane and badly pac't Trapt with raw Goats hides then to prisne confind him Where with Petre an charitie he pyn'd him 85 Loe Balthasar that Balthasar excell'd Poysoning his Predecessor to acquire Saint Peters Chaire whoth'holy Relicks sell'd To feed the fewell of his Paphian fire For rapes of Nunnes and fortie vertues higher And Atheisme was at Constance last deposde And in strong Manheyms walles he dyde enclosde 86 Next him obserue Aeâ—…eas Siluius That made old Rome a new stage of delight Learned but 〈◊〉 and luxurious Next whom comes Peter Barbo into sight Whose soule liu'd here in a Cimmerian night And tho his rich stones dimd the Moone dy'd poore Consuming all on 's Bastard and his Whore 87 There others goe whom lust and beautie hent To highest place Then Sixtus loe quoth she That Brothels built t' encrease Saint 〈◊〉 rent And with his friends dispenc't for Sodomie Three moneths the yeere Iune August Iuly And he that sometime did Auignion feast Most prodigally yet but one dish drest 88 Then Borgia behold well nigh the last Whose auarice I doe not meane to touch Slight vice for vertues oft-times here hath past But diuelish Artes and lust in him were such That to corriue with sonnes he thought not much In 's daughters bed so mixt he many a cup Of death for 's friends and last himselfe did sup 89 Then after these she let me see that Iulius That Peters Keyes in Tyburs waues did throw And Pauls keeâ—…e Sword then tooke in hand most furious When he before Mirandula did go VVherewith he made whole streames of blood to flow Then Leo last an Atheist worst of all VVho did the Gospell but a Fable call 90 These Clergie men brought vessels full of bloud And poisoned bowles they offerd crueltie Then Teeth Bones Haire old Reliques rotten VVood. And Idols more their Nile to Idolatrie To Auarice a world of soules