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A02475	Visiones rerum. = The visions of things. Or Foure poems 1. Principium & mutabilitas rerum. Or, the beginning and mutabilitie of all things. 2. Cursus & ordo rerum. Or, art and nature. 3. Opineo & ratione rerum. Or, wealth and pouertie. 4. Malum & finis rerum. Or, sinne and vertue, concluding with the last Iudgement and end of all things. Wherein the author expresseth his inuention by way of dreame. By Iohn Hagthorpe Gent.	Hagthorpe, John.	1623 (1623)	STC 12604; ESTC S105951	64,913	148

braue to see her thus adorn'd Two wings she fitted then with nimble pride To her owne shoulders hanging downe each side And to be sure Times Glasse should not run out She broke that all and strew'd the sand about 8 Then quoth she for thy Hat and reacht her wing Pluck out this feather t is an ornament For all my followers well fashioning And such as scorne old Cronos detriment Come let vs spend our time in merriment Let 's laugh let 's gather Flowers Here many a Dance She learnt me and much wanton Dalliance 9 But streight she vanisht euen as Phantasmes doe Or Demons which doe ayrie shapes acquire When Cronos in the throng himselfe did show And both his old armes and his Sithe did tire With killing and left me her tales t' admire For noting Cronos had both Sythe and Wings I thought her false and long'd to know these things 10 Within this Hall a world of people were All Cronos children yet destinguisht tho Some Friends and some as Seruants did appeare Then lookt I round wishing to see or know Some stranger like my selfe and thinking so A thing of greatest strangenes did afford It selfe to view which here I will record 11 Amongst the rest an Actor did I spie Whose force tho weake in shew did Giants proue I say I saw but nothing perfitly For in a Cloud it euer seem'd to moue A mightie Globe it seem'd to rowle and shoue Where millions sought with ladders still to attaine The top but when she st●…rd still downe they came 12 This made me now wish more then earst I did Some wise Oe●…ipus to shew me all Nor sooner had I wisht but I descried A reuerend Syre which gen●…ly did me call Into a secret corner of this Hall And first of all himselfe to me he nam'd Logos and afterward this speech he fram'd 13 Young man quoth he I see thou lately art Armed within this place of miserie I am to let thee know it is my part and Office to direct this companie Tho most of them indeed my precepts flie Trusting Moria rather and her Mates But I of thee diuine some better Fates 14 Thou seest how here each hath his seuerall guise Each followes his owne way and choose their like Some here consume their time in flatteries And some in Pride diuers delight to strike And kill their fellowes others nothing like But ease and belly-cheare to feele to tast But Cronos sweepes them all away at last 15 A few there be whose well directed mind Retire themselues from forth the presse and throng Whose thoughts to contemplation are design'd Not to preuent old Cronos nor prolong But to prepare for what they cannot shun And to auoid Morias cunning bai●…es Who first abusde the entring at the Gates 16 Logos quoth I Gramercy I doe owe To thee my selfe t hast cured my doubts and feares And now my chiefe desires remaines to know Her that behind that turning Globe appeares Content quoth he lend then a while thine eares While these feast fight or sleepe my taske shall be To spend an houre vpon her Historie 17 It is Mutation Goddesse great of things That in her turne doth triumph ouer all Who tramples on the heads of mightie Kings And makes the strongest Towres demolisht fall Of whom I muse and maruaile euer shall That ancient Rome such Temples should erect To triuiall things and yet her power neglect 18 For if the course of mundane things below Be guided by the ●…uer chan●…ing Fate Of Heauenly Orbes from whence the causes flow Of their effects and what they procr●…ate Her birth is then Diuine and may relate And challenge Alta●…s farre more due then either Fortune Lyeus Venus altogether 19 Some few examples therefore will I take And small remonstrance from the memorie Of former times her forces knowne to make That men asleepe rockt by 〈◊〉 Which vainely dreame here of eternitie May wake and see since Human and Diuine Things feele her force they must account with Time 20 That they which d●…e repute their states so fixt As Lightning cannot blast misfortune shake Might hence obserue the web of chance is mixt And as they giue themselues so must they take Whereof examples thousands may we make From euery Age yet shall a few suffi●…e Drawne both from Mens and Times best memories 21 First to begin with Heauen the Heauenly Quires Haue not been euer from her powre exempt But fell by Pride into eternall fires From compleat Ioy from happie true content To be tormented there and to torment Where tho the rest 's by one example warn'd Yet are not men by thousand thousands arm'd 22 The Lampes of Heauen the Planets change aboue As well in sight aspect as influence The Sunne from his diurnall arch doth moue After his proper motion either hence Certaine degrees or neerer vs from whence Proceede the diuers seasons Autumne Spring Winter Summer whose change change ●…ch thing 23 And gadding Phoebe whose still changing face Doth so much spot her female chastitie Varies not onely in her way but pace And to our seeming in her quantitie Which some ascribe to excentricitie But all of them till Plato's yeare be run Stray from the place of their creation 24 The Elements on which each thing 's composde Beneath the Moone beeing and Vegetiue To daily transmigrations are disposde And mongst themselues retaine a mutuall strife Each to become other much like our life Ayre doth sometimes to Fire or Water run And Fire an earthly habit doth put on 25 Some thinke the Ayre in hollow Caues condenc't To be the Founts of Or●…noque or R●…yne But all men see the vapours which 〈◊〉 And ra●…ified ambitiously doe clime To th'Ayres cold Region whence they streight decline To snow●…e Clouds conucrted then to ●…aine And seeking so their natiue place againe 26 The hot drie ●…umes with watery clouds shut in Enuiron'd round and as in prison gyude To struggle streight for liberty begin Tho long in va●…ne repulst on euery side Vntill at last enflamde ●…hey flames forth glide Shunning their foes embracements while their thunder Amaze the people both with feare and wonder 27 The Winds still change the Seas still ebbe and flow The Dayes succeed the Nights Nights follow Dayes The checquered Meades giue place to Frosts and Snow And cloudy Winter when the Sun●…e displayes His Sun-daies suit her sto●…my Campe doth raise And yeelds to conquering Time as Time must doe To him that Earth shall change and Heauen to 28 Who maruels now if ha●…lesse Adam fel●… From Innocence and from his blest estate His earthly part being stuffe so mutable Subiected vnto change by lawes of Fate And influence of Starres contaminate Amongst things euer changing here confinde Or that to 's issue he this plague resignde 29 VVho maruels now that Princes great and wise Are subiect to her powre mongst other things Th' Assirian Monarchs whose great Emperies Reacht VVesterne 〈◊〉

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 vi●…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 cir●…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 C●…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 sho●…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 com●…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 Tra●…ailes in Guiana 3 Arbore triste de diu is a