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A90256	Ovid's Invective or curse against Ibis, faithfully and familiarly translated into English verse. And the histories therein contained, being in number two hundred and fifty (at the least) briefly explained, one by one; with natural, moral, poetical, political, mathematical, and some few theological applications. Whereunto is prefixed a double index: one of the proper names herein mentioned; another of the common heads from thence deduced. Both pleasant and profitable for each sort, sex and age, and very useful for grammar schools. / By John Jones M.A. teacher of a private school in the city of Hereford.; Ibis. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Jones, John, M.A.	1658 (1658)	Wing O678; Thomason E1657_2; ESTC R208994	89,564	191

Paris son of Primus King of Troy took away Helena wife of Menelaus a Grecian King and kept her in Troy therefore the Grecians besieged the city and in the tenth year of their siege burned it 1 Woful experience hath taught us by too many a short siege what lamentable effects a long one will produce Lord defend our Troynovant In wars without send us peace within As Paeans son club'd Hercules his heyre So in thy thigh a poyson'd ulcer beare Philoctetes son of Paean swore to Hercules dying on the hill Oe●e that he would never reveal his grave to bind which trust Hercules gave him his arrows Without these arrows Troy could not be stormed Philoctetes earnestly sollicited by Ulysses would not express by words but gave signs with his foot where Hercules was buried Philoctetes carrying those arrows towards Troy was wounded by one of them in that part which divulged the secret 1 In trust be just if thou be executor performe the will of the Testator Much more let Christians keep the covenant in the Testament of Christ on their part 2 Without the arrows of Hercules Troy could not be taken without the arrows of Gods judgment for sin souldiers besiege us in vaine 3 Equivocate not as Philoctetes did and Papists do by words nor by signs or tokens 4 Though treason prevaile the Traytor is punished 5 God punisheth the member that sinneth as Dives tongue and Philoctetes foot Be vex'd no less then he that Hind did suck Who by an unarm'd man being arm'd was struck Telephus son of Hercules and Auge King of Mysia was nursed by an Hinde hindring the Grecians army to pass through his Countrey towards Troy he was wounded by Achilles in his thigh nothing could cure the wound but the rust of the same spear that gave it which Telephus desired and obtained But some conjecture that he was cured by the Magnetical oyntment applied to the spear 1 It is no piece of safe policy in a Prince to suffer a forreign Prince to enter into his territories For give him an inch and he will take an ell 2 If an army be terrible to a great kingdome what may it be to a small Countrey 3 They say the love of a Lady that wounded the heart can cure it as Achilles his spear did Telephus doubtless our offended God can wound by his darts of judgments and cure us by his salve of mercy 255. Or who in forreign parts from horse fell dead Whose beauty had his life endangered Bellerophon a comely person being falsly accused of Antaea or Stenobaea wife to King Praetus for tempting her chastity was sent by Praetus with Letters to Jobas desiring that he would kill him he employs him against the Solymi Chimaera and Amazons by the help of the winged horse Pegasus he overcometh them all For which noble acts Jobas gave him his second daughter and half his kingdome Antaea hearing of this hanged her self Bellerophon proudly mounting his horse towards heaven fell off and died 1 Note the malice of an harlot missing her aime she will plo● thy undoing Thus Potiphars wicked wife abused honest Joseph but providence will alwayes preserve the innocent and bring to a shameful end their persecutors A good Conscience like a brasen wall retorteth all false accusation upon the head of the enemy 2 Christians must fight against Solymi Chimaera and Amazons the world the flesh and the Devil and raise their souls on the wings of meditation as a Pegasus up to heaven 3 The Proverb is fully verified in Stenobaea Harme watch harme catch Envy not prevailing turnes fiercely upon it self 4 Some do physically take Bellerophon for the moysture of the earth exhaled by the Sun and falling down again but the morality of this story may be this Pride will have a fall Or like Amyntors son be thou struck blind And trembling grope with staff thy way to find Phoenix son of Amyntor by his Mothers advice lay with his Fathers Concubine for which bold attempt his Father cursed him he flying to Peleus was made Tutor of his son Achilles he is reported to have first invented the Greek Letters but at last he was struck blind 1 Climb not thy fathers bed with Phoenix and Reuben lest a curse befall thee 2 Follow not thy own mothers counsel to do evil 3 Take heed to thy wayes and incur not a parents imprecation for it happeneth too often very fatal See thou no more then whom his daughter led 260. That kill'd his Father did his Mother wed Oedipus son of Laius King of Thebes and Jocasta whom the Oracle foretold should kill his Father and marry his Mother as soon as he was born was by his Father delivered to his shepherd to be killed the shepherd pittying him bored two holes in his feet whence he gain'd the name of Oedipus that is swollen-foot and hanged him on a tree Phorbas the King of Corinths shepherd found him and gave him to his Queen being then childless when he came to mans estate he unawares killed his Father and married his Mother which when he once knew he plucked out both his eyes and was led by his own daughter Antigone 1 Let not childless parents repine or be impatient better want then have a son like Oedipus 2 Too many by ill courses bring their fathers gray hairs with sorrow to the grave Therefore Augustus Caesar wished that he never had been married or never been a father 3 Oedipus repenting plucked out his eyes Eyes are the holes through which sin enters into the soul yet we must not follow his example when our Saviour bids us pluck out the offending eye the meaning is that it is better lose an eye then a soul better to part with a sin as dear as thy eye then lose heaven Or that old Judge i' th' merry case of Jove That famous in Apollo's art did prove Tiresias son of Udaeus one of the five captaines that survived the unnatural war of Cadmus killing of a female Serpent was turn'd to a woman long after killing a male was turned into a man againe Being a fit and elected Judge betwen Jupiter and Juno he gave this sentence That the woman had nine ounces in the vigor of Love and the man but three therefore Juno deprived him of his sight which Jupiter supplies with the gift of Prophesie 1 Histories if we may believe them tell us that some women have been turned to men not men to women 2 Tiresias judgment between Jupiter and Juno was in this kind just as Jupiter is taken for the element of fire and Juno for the air For the air confers thrice as much as the fire to the generation of vegetables moysture yielding the chiefest part of the materials and heat producing form and maturity Nor without cause among Grammarians are the two superiour elements Fire and Air of the masculine gender and the two inferiour Earth and Water Feminine because the superiour have predominancy over the inferiour as the husband hath or

man more sometimes then in granting him his desires The father here grants what an enemy would have wished thus ruine comes by indulgence For History Phaeton King of the The sports is feigned to be son of Phoebus and to fall from his chariot in that he first assayed to find out the course of the Sun but was prevented by death Nat. Com. In that time abundance of fire fell from heaven therefore he is said to burn the world Physically Phaeton as his name signifies is a bright and burning inflammation which proceeds from the Sun Clymene his mother is water from whom the Sun attracts those exhalations these set on fire produce a vehement heat which thunder and lightning follow hence he is said to be struck with lightning by Jupiter For Morality Behold here a rash and ambitious Prince presented to the life inflamed with desire of rule The horses of the Sun are the common people unruly and prone to innovation who finding the weakness of their Prince flie into all exorbitances so to a general confusion As Aeolus son and one of that fierce straine Whence Arctos came that seldome threatens rain 1. Salmonius son of Aeolus not the King of the winds was King of Elis where he built a City not so contented he gave out that he was Jupiter and to gain credit to his report he feigned thunder and lightning by ratling of brass pans and drums in his coach and casting up squibs into the aire at last Jupiter by true thunder killed him 1 Content is a lesson too hard for the headst of the highest forme a King We seldome see an humble Prince but we commonly see proud beggars 2 Tempests beat at lofty Cedars and thunder smites the highest mountains when humble shrubs and lowest vallies be in safety 3 We may and must imitate our Redeemer as he is Man in Mercy and Humility not as he is God in Miracles and Majesty 2. Menius son of Lycaon brother of Calistho that was turned into a dry Star in the North called Arctos seeing his father turned into a Wolfe and his house on fire railed against Jupiter and was therefore slain with a thunder-bolt 1 The voice of a King is like the roaring of a Lion but the voice of God like thunder A King will do what pleaseth him and who dare say what doest thou Eccles 8.3 Who art thou then that contendest with thy Maker who is just in all his works and holy in all his wayes A swine will cry a Lamb is dumb at the slaughter so is the good Christian and the bad under the hand of affliction Better with Eli say It is the Lord let him do what he pleaseth or with the Church to tremble at the judgment of God upon Ananias c. then as Jobs wife bid her husband curse God and die If we kick against the pricks we shall like stubborn Jades be kick'd and prick'd the more As Macedon by lightning and her mate Were burn'd on thee fall like avenging fate Macedon a Queen of Macedonia with her husband for their impiety were both burned to death with lightning 1 It is dangerous when subjects in a kingdome do give themselves over to impiety for when the Body Natural or Politick is diseased it will affect or infect the Head More dangerous when the sickness begins in the head for all the members are apt to sympathize Regis ad exemplum Therefore Jeroboam in holy Writ is so often famed with this infamous addition Jeroboam the son of Nebat that caused Israel to sin Though virtue seems more amiable vice seemes more imitable chiefly in a Prince Therefore the strumpet Lais boasted that she had a greater company at her school then Socrates at his 475. Those tear thee whom Latona hath exil'd From Delos ' cause young Thrasus they had kill'd Thrasus a young man coming to offer sacrifice in Diana's Temple was killed by dogs therefore she commanded that no dogs should ever after come near that place and sent a plague among them 1 Thus the Devil that hellish Cerberus who is like a dog in a manger is most busie in tempting us when we are most busie in serving God So Pharaoh was never so violent against Israel as when they were departing from Egypt towards Canaan And have not later ages afforded some snarling curres to bite and blind whelps to bark at us when we offer to serve the true God in his holy Temple God sent Lions among the Assyrians for hindering devotion 2 Kings 17. and plagues upon the Egyptians Beware of the concision beware of dogs Or those tore him that spi'd Diana bare Or Linus who was King Crotopus heir 1. Diana bathing her self in the valley of Gergaphia Acteon by chance beheld her naked the blushing and angry Goddess transformes him into the shape of a long-liv'd Hart and his dogs tore him in pieces 1 Some Authors report that Diana possessed his dogs with an imagination that their master was a Hart. And perhaps they ran mad in the Canicular dayes Sandys through the power of the Moon that is Diana augmented by the entrance of the Sun into Leo and what force then could resist the worrying of their master Some do aver that Lucian the Apostata and Atheist came to the like end But this Fable may teach us what dangerous curiosity it is to search into the secrets of Princes or by chance to discover their nakedness who thereby incurring their hatred ever after live the life of an Hart full of fear and suspic●on often accused by their own servants to their utter ruine Let us therefore guard our eyes and ears nor desire to know or see more then concern us Acteon may be said to cast off the mind of a man and degenerate into a beast when he neglected the pursuit of virtue and heroick actions Some imagine that he is said to be devoured of his hounds because he was impoverished by maintaining them but what was that expence unto a Prince I rather agree with those that think it was by maintaining ravenous and riotous scycophants who have too oft exhausted the Exchequers of wealthy Princes and reduced them to extreme necessity Those whom we feed at our own tables will first seek to cut our throats 2. Linus son of Apollo and Psammate daughter of Crotopus King of the Argives in fear of her fathers wrath was hidden among sedge where dogs came and devoured him 1 Indulgence of too kind mothers hath I confess undone more children but severity of unkind fathers hath destroyed too many Some flying the fury of a dogged father have desperately dispatched themselves by a dogs death Art thou a father take heed lest by cruelty to thy own child thou prove to thy own self as Menedemus Heautontimorumenos thy own tormentor Be stung of venemous Snakes no less then she 480. Oeägrus daughter by Calliope Euridice wife to Orpheus son of Oeägrus and Calliope sporting among the herbs and flowers was stung by a Serpent

till they drink and then can much less rest till they die It is a fools paradise and wilful unquietness 2 Ambition is still climbing but not on Jacobs ladder for the higher it mounts the farther it is from heaven yet this sin doth ambitiously insinuat among the best as Satan among the children of God Joh 1. It crept into the very hearts of Christs own disciples they strove as Lycophron who should be the greatest Let kinsfolks through a wood thy torn limbs rake As him at Thebes whose grandsire was a snake Pentheus grand-child of Cadmus that was turned into a Snake despising the religion in Thebes established by Bacchus the God of wine notwithstanding the counsel and requests of Cadmus and Athamas with all speed would alter it His mother with his Aunt 's Ino and Autonöe all distracted with the fury of Bacchus supposing Pentheus to be a Bore transfixed him with Javelins and tore him in pieces 1 Noah was first after the flood that planted vineyards and taught men the use of wine therefore some write that of Noachus he was called Boachus Sandys and afterwards by the Heathens Bacchus by contraction or ignorance of Etymology 2 Nothing as King Pentheus well perceived can more please the vulgar then Innovation of government and religion to this they do throng in multitudes 3 Wise Princes should rather endeavour to pacifie then violently oppose a popular fury which like a torrent breaks all before it but being let alone exhausteth it self and is easily suppressed Reformation is therefore to be wrought by degrees lest through their too forward zeal they encounter too strong opposition and ruine themselves and the cause as this Pentheus did 3 The blind rage of superstition extinguisheth all affection Agave murders her own son and their Aunt their Nephew Nor have the latter ages been unacquainted with such horrors Or as th' imperious wife of Lycas thou Be dragg'd by Bulls along a mountain brow Lycas King of Boeotia first married Antiopa she was got with child by Epopus and was brought to bed of Zethus and Amphion whom she fathered upon Jupiter Dirce second wife to Lycas caused Antiopa to be bound with chains by prayer to Jupiter her chains are loosed and she freed her sons drag Dirce at Bulls tailes the Gods turn her into a fountain 1 Many sin willingly as Antiopa and lay the blame on God whereas God tempteth no man to that which he hateth forbiddeth and punisheth but every man is tempted of his own lust 2 Adultery overthrows whole families Antiopa was the cause of her own divorce and imprisonment or her husbands death and the murder of Dirce. 3 In distress as Antiopa pray unto God he will not onely loose thy chains and open the prison gate as to Paul and Sylas but in the end he will loose the chains of death and open the prison of the grave 535. As th' Harlots to her sisters husband let Thy tongue cut out fall down before thy feet Tereus ravished Philomela his wises sister and cut out her tongue Progne revengeth it by killing their son Itys Tereus is turned into a Lapwing Philomela into a Nightingall and Progne to a Swallow of this read more before 1 Pausanias observeth that no Nightingall doth sing nor Swallow build in Thracia as hating the countrey of Tereus But where Swallows build the Archietecture of their nest is admirable and to rob it or pull it down was among some people held not onely unfortunate but sacrilegious When cold weather comes and Flies which are their chiefest food be gone they creep into the clefts of rocks or sink to the bottom of a water Mr Burton and Mr Sandys do report that it is not extraordinary to draw Swallows out of some ponds with the fish which do seem dead but being put in a stove or to the fire they revive and take them to their wing As Blesus that knew Myrrha dull'd to a tree So childless found mayst thou in all parts be Blesus it seems first knew the virtue of the Myrrhe tree for he was childless And Dioscorides saith that Myrrhe openeth the Matrix and helpeth child-birth and why not child-begetting Ovid here wisheth Ibis that though he should change many climats and many wives yet he should still be childless Which doubtless is an heavy curse and reproch to man as Barrenness among the Jews was to a woman For he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them See more of Myrrha before 1 Myrrha is feigned to be turned into a tree because after that horrid fact in the fruition of her own fathers bed she ever after hid her self and though unsensibly she shed bitter tears for her transgression signified by the gumme distilled from that tree 2 This tree doth prosper the better when the root is boared and distills most juyce in blustering winds So an upright setled mind remains immoveable and I bears most fruits of virtue in the stormes of envy and affliction appearing more comfortable and glorious being oppressed Virescit vulnere virtus Let busie Bees fix in thine eyes their stings 540. Such creatures to Achaeus did like things Achaeus devising a Poem in his garden was stung in the eyes with bees and so made blind 1 Thus envious enemies of the Gospel of peace as busie bees or rather wasps put pricks in our eyes to blind us that we might not see the truth But behold and tast that honey-like comfort of the sweet singer of Israel They came about me like bees yet they are extinct as the fire among the thornes for in the name of the Lord will I destroy them Nay they will destroy themselves As wheresoever a bee stings she leaves her sting behind and then turns a buzzing idle drone despicable to all ingenious industrious bees Fixt to a rock gnaw'd be thy bowels as He to whom Pyrrha brothers daughter was Prometheus brother to Epimetheus that was father of Pyrrha for his bringing fire out of heaven unto earth was bound on the hill Caucasus where an Eagle fed upon his heart 1 Menander the Greek Poet thinks that Prometheus was thus tormented not because he brought fire from heaven but because he bought woman which is worse into the earth 2 Our daily labours be refreshed by sleep at night as Prometheus heart Cura cor urit Renew the pattern of Thyestes meat Thee like Harpagus son thy father eat Harpagus because he killed not Cyrus as his grand father King Astyages had commanded him was invited by the King to a feast where Harpagus own son was the chiefest dish being killed and his limbs sod and rost Read this history at large in Justin l. 1. So was Thyestes served by his brother Atreus Good Authors do relate this of Harpalice who being forced by her father Clymenus when she was delivered killed the child and made it for her fathers table Of Thyestes read before 1 Maugre all the bloudy malice and preventing plots of Astyages Cyrus his grandchild and

ascended and used her father as he had used his daughter 1 See here the disposition of a cruel father though the offence of a child be great the punishment of a father should be gentle Pro peccato magno paululum supplicii satis est patri It is unnatural for a man to be cruel Terence whose name should mind him of pity Homo ab humanitate but for a father to be cruel is hard and barbarous 2 Frankincense serves for many uses in Physick whereof Apollo is the God It grows in Sabaea as naturally loving heat therefore Apollo and Leucothōe are feigned reciprocal lovers 2 Frankincense smells not sweet unless it be melted by the Sun or fire so prayers in themselves have no savour unless inflamed with zeal and devotion expressed in the Ceremonial Law by the Censer Such monster spoil Thine as Chroraebus kill'd That ease unto poor Grecians did yield Linus begot by Apollo upon Psamathe daughter of Crotopus King of Argives was killed by his grandfathers dog In revenge whereof Apollo sent a monster to plague the Countrey called Paena that would pull the Infants from the mothers breast and kill them before their faces This monster was slain by Choraebus 1 A trivial saying there is that Wine Women and Dogs be the occasions of most part of mischiefs 2 For a personal offence though suffered not acted comes a National punishment as here for Crotopus dogs This Monster may be some filthy catching disease as the small Pox that plucks away and destroyeth Infants Choraebus the skilful Physician Conquers and kills it 575. As Aethra's Nephew slain by Venus wrath Let scared horses drag thee unto death Hippolitus son of Theseus by Antiope who had denied Venus a courtesie upon false accusation of his step-mother Phaedra that he should tempt her chastity was by his credulous father abjur'd and cursed to death which Neptune accomplished for the horses of Hippolitus affrighted with a sea calf threw him down and dragg'd him to pieces on the ●ock Aesculapius restores him to life and changeth his ominous name Hippolitus to Virbius signifying twice a Man 1 Curses of parents fall heavy upon children though undeserved 2 Rash belief is the author of much mischief and unsuspended wrath of too late repentance The chast youth suffers for anothers inchastity but virtue though for a time afflicted cannot be finally suppressed 3 This Virbius by some is thought to be a cunning impostor suborned by the Priests of Diana Aricina to draw a greater concourse to that grove that their gain may increase by more frequent devotion And have not others in later dayes used such incredible forgeries to serve their own turn One host for his great wealth his guest did slay For thy small wealth thy host make thee away Polymnestor to enjoy the gold sent by King Priamus to him with his son Polydorus killed the young Prince his pupil Read more before 1 The wisest Creator hath placed the basest part of his creatures as gold and silver under our feet the noblest over our heads on purpose that we should neglect and scorn the one admire and love the other yet we by a simple conversion or Hysteron Proteron embrace the worst and slight the best trampling under foot affinity consanguinity fidelity yea Christianity and humanity it self for filthy lucres sake losing the crown of glory to gain a crown in gold Virgil. Quid non mortalia pectora cogis Auri sacra fames With Damasicthon were six brothers slain 580. So of thy kin let none alive remaine Amphion King of Thebes had by Niobe seven daughters and seven sons whose names were Ismenus Siphus Phedinus Tantalus Alphenor Damasicthon and Ilioneus The daughters were slain by Diana and the sons by Apollo's arrows because Niobe presumed to prefer her self before Latona and Niobe was turned into a Marble 1 Wealth and honour ingender pride in the hearts of Mortals whence proceeds the contempt of God and man and insolent forgetfulness of humane instability Thus from the height of glory by divine vengeance they are made spectacles of calamity and subject to their pity whom they formerly despised so wanting valour to support and virtue to make use of afflictions with immoderate sorrow they are besotted and stupified like stones 2 A raging plague in Boeotia swept away the children of Niobe with other people which is caused by extreme heat and contagious vapors signified by Apollo's arrows and Diana Niobe is said to be turned into a stone because excessive sorrow made her sensless Senec. Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent The Harper to his children joyn'd his death So be thou justly weary of thy breath Amphion husband of Niobe son of Jupiter and Antiopa was brought up among shepherds and taught Musick by Mercury he built the walls of Thebes with stones drawn thither by playing on his instrument Afterwards outbraving Apollo and Diana he was killed 1 Amphion the Musician is son of Jupiter because that Musick is from God Or Jupiter is the air because as Jupiter gave life to Amphion so doth air unto Musick Amphion was bred among shepherds for these people leading an idle life were invited to invent Musick by singing of birds whistling of winds and running of waters he was taught by Mercu●y to shew that Eloquence and Musick have equal power upon the affections Eloquence is a musical speech and Musick a speechless Eloquence He built Thebes by Musick that is Eloquence by it rude people are drawn to Religion Policy and Civility He out-braving Apollo and Diana the Sun and the Moon shews that Musick doth as much affect the soul by the Ear as light doth the Eye 2 Christ the heavenly Amphion by the harmony of his word hath made us being dead and scattered to become living stones toward th● building of his Church Amphion civiliz'd sensless creatures but could not charm his own wifes pride Christ could not cure the pride of the Jews whom he had married to himself He piped to them in the musick of the Gospel but they would not dance unto it by obedience Like Pelops sister hard'ned stone become Or Battus like whose tongue did make him dumb Niobe sister of Pelops was turned into Marble Battus a shepherd was turned into a Touch-stone by Mercury because when Mercury had stollen from Apollo some of the Cattel of Admetus he gave Battus a Cow to conceal the business which he vowed to do but Mercury having chang'd his habit promising Battus a cow and a bull he revealed to him where the cattel were therefore he was so punished 1 Mercury it seems was a very early thief for Homer reports that he stole those cattel the first day he was born Not long after he stole Apollo's arrows Vulcans tools Venus girdle Joves scepter when he was yet a child nay he had stole his lightning too but that he was afraid to burn his fingers 2 This fiction sheweth that Eloquence hath a bewitching power to deceive and that

imaginary hope to be called immortal in the mouth of poor credulous mortals But these Impostors have some odd slip or other that bewrayes their jugling as Empedocles shooes discovered him The Egyptian Sorcerers Exod. 8. could imitate Moses in the hardest miracles but failed in the lowest they could not make Lice The Swan is comely white in body but his feet are ugly black Hypocritical professors appear like Angels of light yet the feet of their souls run not the narrow milky way of Gods Commandments but the broad black way of the prince of darkness for they are not soundly shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace Thinking thee Orpheus let the wives of Thrace With mad nails tear thy limbs place after place Orpheus having lost his wife Euridice determined to marry no other but lived a single life and disswaded others from marriage at last he fell to the devillish use of boyes and therefore the wives of Thrace by scratching killed him 1 A shipwrack'd mariner being once arrived home with his tattered vessell hangs up his tacklings in Neptunes Temple and fears to adventure to sea again I could not blame perplexed Socrates had he been so happy as to have buried his cursed wise Xantippe if he had vowed perpetual abstinence And were I a widdower should I marry a worse wife then the former I should grieve at her life if as good I should grieve at her death Yet better it is saith the Apostle to marry then to burn Nay in such an extreme the Devil with his fiery darts may kindle an obstinate Votary as he did Orpheus with those filthy men Rom. 1. to leave the natural use of women and burn in lust of one towards another 600. Althea 's son was burn'd by flames not nigh So by a fatal brand live thou and dye Meleager son of Oeneus King of Calidonia by Althea was to live as long as the stick which the Fates gave his mother should last Diana being angry that Oeneus offered not sacrifice unto her sent a Bore to devour the Countrey Meleager accompanied with his Uncles Plexippus and Toxus and fair Atalanta killed the Bore and presented the head unto the Lady which his Uncles took from her and were therefore both slain by Meleager In revenge of her brothers bloud his mother cast the fatal stick into the fire which being burnt out Meleager died 1 No evil happens to a man but it proceeds either from omission of divine worship or actual impiety Sandys and though it seems to proceed from natural causes as concealed from our understanding it is inflicted by supreme appointment 2 Dishonour to a mistress is an injury to the Lover implacable and immortal as Atalanta's to Meleager But wich the brand in the fire his life was extinguished This is thought to have been effected by witchcraft his image being carved upon the brand Plinie speaketh of wax●n Images made by Magicians And Bucanan relates that Duff the eig●teenth King of Scotland p●ned away with perpetual sweat but when a witch that was ●o●●d rosting the Kings Image in wax at a ●oft fire was taken and executed and the Image broken the King recovered in a moment From the crafts and assaults of the Devil good Lord deliver us Or as the Phasian chaplet burnt the spouse With her her father and her fathers house Medea of Colchos by which place the river Phasis runneth drawn through the air by her Dragons arrived at Corinth where her husband Jason was married to Creusa daughter of King C●eon whence being condemned to banishment she obtain'd a dayes respite in the interim she sends a crown and robe to Creusa which being put on set her on fire with her father that came to rescue her and at last the whole house 1 All creatures and plants do increase to a period and then do incline and decay except the Crocodile Dal. Aph. which grows bigger and bigger to her death All perturbations of mind have their intentions and remissions except malicious revenge chiefly of alienated love the longer it lasteth the stronger it waxeth as we may see by Medea 2 That wherewith she anointed the garment sent to Creusa is by Plutarch called Naptha which is a slimie chalk engendred among the rocks in Parthia between this chalke and the fire is so great sympathy that it draws the fire unto it as the load-stone doth iron and is incensed with the natural heat of the body enraged rather then subdued by water Alexander for sport sake caused his boys garment to be anointed with it which being set on fire burned him to death though all means possible was used to quench it and preserve the youth As bloud like poyson Hercules limbs did fill So let ranke poyson all thy vitals kill Hercules swom over the river Evenus and trusted the half-horse Nessus to carry over his wife Dejanira but the perfidious Centaure attempting mean time on the bank to ravish her was prevented by a mortal wound from Hercules arrow Dying Nessus perswaded her to give Hercules a garment dipt in his bloud saying it would revive her husbands decaied affection Hercules wearing it broyls with extreme heat and miserably dies 1 Nessus was one of those that fled from the battel between the Centaures the Lapithits whom Hercules helped to subdue yet contrary to humane policy Hercules gives credit to a reconciled enemy But credulity proceeds from a mans own Integrity a vice more honest then safe Thus Dejanira like a woman that is either too affectionate or too jealous acc●pts the gift not considering that it came from an enemy which ever tends to mischief More circumspect was the Trojan Timeo Danäos dona ferentes The Greeks though bringing gifts I fear Thus noble and worthy Heroes have been ruined by too much confidence in perfidious cowards 605. And as his heir revenged Pentheus son Lycurgus with like dart be thou undone Lycurgus son of Pentheus that was son of Dryas because he cut down the vines in Thracia was infuriated by Bacchus Priests and so cut his own shins Buthes or Bethes son of Lycurgus in his fathers revenge slew them 1 It is too much like Bacchus Priests to be drunk alone but to provoke others doth aggravate the offence Thus persons sick of the plague take delight to infect others And as it was lawful in former times to kill a pestilent person that presumed to go abroad upon that design so was it natural in Butes the son to destroy the pestiferous Priests that did intoxicate his father to his ruine As Milo stout to cleave an Oak assay But faile to pluck thy fastned hand away Milo of Crotonia a man of incomparable strength carried an Ox on his back over the Olympian stage in one breath then knockt him in the head with his fist and in one day eat him every bit being too confident of his strength he took upon him to pluck out the wedges that the clevers had stuck fast in an oak which he

Christians there is but one God represented under those fictious names He is All in All our Help Wisdom Captain and Comfort To me to me with ears and hearts attend And let my prayers have their weight and end Hear me O Earth hear me O boysterous Main Hear me O skie let me your favours gain O Starres O Sun most glorious in thy rayes O Moon appearing not alike alwayes 75. O Night renown'd for shade O Triple Fate That spin our lives to the appointed rate The Gentiles made Night a Goddess but gave her no Temple nor sacrifice She is painted like a woman because that sex is more fearful and so are men by night more then day She bears a white child in the right hand that is Sleep and a black one in the left that is Death The three fatal Sisters are Clotho that holds the distaff Lachesis that spins the thred of mans life and Atropos that cuts it off 1 There is a three-fold estate of man Birth Life Death Hence the first Fate is called Nona because man is born in the ninth moneth the second Decima because man liveth ten times ten years the third Morta Death They are called Parcae because Death spares none They are the daughters of Jupiter and Themis God of Heaven and Goddess of Justice for Death is Gods just decree for sin Styx whom the Gods do swear by that dost glide With murmuring noise through valleys by Hell side Styx indeed is a Well in Arcadia whose water is strong poison so cold that nothing can contain it but a Mules hoof with this Alexander is thought to be made away by Antipater not without some aspersion upon Aristotle The Poets feign that this is a river in Hell that the Gods did swear by it which oath if any brake he was for certain years debarr'd from Nectar and Ambrosia the food of Deities 1. Styx signifies Hate because men dying begin to hate their former sins Heathens durst not take the name of Styx in vain but Christians take the name of God in vain what then may such sinners expect but to be debarr'd from Nectar and Ambrosia life and immortality Furies whose tresses winding snakes do tie 80. Who at the gates of that dark prison lie The three Furies Alecto Megaera and Tisiphone daughters of Pluto and Proserpina were called in heaven Dirae in earth Harpyae in hell Furiae 1 These are taken for the tortures of a guilty conscience where the torments of hell begin or for the commotions of the mind Covetousness Envy Discord or for Gods three judgments Megaera Plague sweeping all away Alecto Famine never satisfied Tisiphone Sword a murtherer and revenger of sin These are worshipped not because they can do good but lest they should do hurt Fawnes Satyres Lares Gods of low degree Rivers and Nymphes and you that half-Gods be 1. Faunus king of the Latins had a wife called Fauna or Fatua from prophecying she read fortunes Hence foretellers of things are called Fatuarii and inconsiderate speakers Fatui The Faunes are thought to have sent the disease called Ephialtes or Night-mare which Pliny terms Faunorum ludibria Faunus was worshipped as a God for teaching Tillage and Religion much more should we worship the true God that giveth all good things These Gods had hornes to fright men to religion whom reason would not draw Primus in orbe Deum fecit timor 2. Satyres were lascivious creatures their descent I find not they were like the Faunes with a m●ns head horned all hairy with Goates feet they were Deified because they should not hurt the catel 1 These are but rude rustick clownes given to drinking wenching and dancing ●acchus is said to be their companion because ●ine provokes lust This conception of Satyes may proceed from savage men discovere● in woods by the civil wearing beasts skins on ●heir tawny bodies with the tail hanging do●n behind and hornes on their heads either for ornament or terrour such are yet amo●g the West-Indians Mr Sandys to these ignorance and ●ar ascribed a celestial Deity 3. Lares ●ere begot of Mercury and Lara Some think the L●rvae and Lemures to be the same they are as Penates Gods of houses and Lar is painted like a dog a good house-keeper which is kind to the houshold fie●e to strangers Men sacrificed to him in the ch●ney hence the house and so the fire is called La. 1 Th●se were Gods of low degree among the ancient Romans and what higher have the new 4. Nymphae quasi Lymphae were Deities of the Waters if sprung from Mountains they were called Oreades if from Woods and Trees Dryades and Hamadryades if from moisture of flowers Napeae if from the Sea Nereides if from Rivers Naiades 1 These Nymphs were daughters of Oceanus because Rivers return into the Sea fro● whence they came So should we return thanks to God from whence comes all These Nymphs are painted spinning It is no sh●me for a Lady to be a Spinster or a ●uswife 2 In Poets there be Gods of Haven Earth Hell Woods Waters c. T● shew that Gods power and providence d● reach unto every place If I climbe to ●eaven thou art there if to Hell thou art t●ere also Enter presenter Deus hic ubiq potenter Gods old and new that do remain till now From the first Chaos listen to my vow 85. While ' gainst this hateful wretch with c●●rms I pray While grief and wrath their several parts di●play Gods of each rank let power my wish att●in And let no jot nor point of it prove vain As I do wish Gods do that all may be 90. Thought by Pasiphäes step-son said ot me Theseus son of Aegeus that took ● wife Ariadne daughter of Pasiphäe whom Bacch● after married being too credulous to the false acusation of his son Hippolitus made by Phoedra ●s Mother-law prayed Neptune to destroy him ●e caused a Sea-calf to startle his Coach-horses they threw him dragg'd him and kill'd him 1 If Theseus his curse prevailed against his own son why not Ovids against his foe 2. Note the malice of a Stepmother 3. Take heed of a parents curse Let him endure those pains which I omit And let his torments far exceed my wit I feign his name but let my vote no lesse Vex him or with the Gods find less success 95. He whom I curse goes now on Ibis score That knows he hath deserv'd these plagues and more I le not delay but speedily proceed To sacred Rites all people hear and heed Utter such dolefull words become a Herse 100. And let your faces overflow with tears Come to him with bad Omens and left feet Put on such robes as be for Mourners meet Ibis put on thy sacrificing weed Here stands the altar for thy death make speed 105. The pomp's prepared for thy Obsequies Hasten lay down thy throat curs'd sacrifice Earth thee no food no water streams allow A prosperous gale wind on thee never blow Let neither

Sun nor Moon on thee shine clear 110. Let no propitious Star to thee appear Let Fire and Aire deny thee common use To yield thee passage Sea and Land refuse Wander thou poor and banish'd haunt the door Of strangers crusts with trembling mouth implore 115. From grievous pain be soul nor body free Be night than day day worse than night to thee Be fit for pitty but still pittilesse Let man and woman laugh at thy distresse Let tears gain hate be thou thought worthy mo●e 120. To suffer having suffered much before And which is rare instead of favour let The view of thy sad fortune envy get Of pain want store not cause let panting breath Of thy tir'd life miss long desired death 125. Then let thy soul thy tortured corps forsake Yet no great haste in her departure make 'T will be by signes Apollo lately sayd And an unlucky bird on left hand fled That day shall ease me which takes thee away 130. That day shall ease me though it long delay First this my life much envied by thee Shall death cut off which comes too slow to me Before my kindled anger shall decrease Or my deserved hate against thee cease 135. While darts shall Thracians and while bowes shall arm Jazigs while Ister's cold while Ganges warm Thracians and Scythians were of old one nation and were taught by Scythus Apollo to fight with darts Jaziges people neer bordering to Scythia fought with bowes and arrowes Ister is a river in Germany called Danubius it runneth into the Northern seas therefore cold Ganges a river in Scythia it runneth from the East therefore it is luke-warm While Oak in Woods while Grass in Medows grow While Thuscan Tibris shall with water flow I le fight nor shall thy death conclude my rage 140. But with thy ghost fierce skirmishes I le wage And when my breath to aire is chang'd by fate Then my revenging ghost thy ghost shall hate Yea then remembring thy old wrongs I le dare A bony shape into thy face to stare 145. If I by age which Jove forbid shall die If to be murder'd be my destinie If ship wrack'd in the Ocean I shall perish And my drown'd carkass forreign fish shall cherish If ravenous birds shall make my fl●sh their food 150. And greedy wolves shall glut them with my blood If earth I be vouchsaf'd or if some friend Shall to a simple grave my bones commend What e're I be from Styx I le break away And on thy guilty face my cold hands lay 155. Awake thou shalt me see in silent night A ghastly shade I will thy sleep affright Do what thou wilt before thy face I le flie And shreek in no place shalt thou quiet be Smart stripes shall sound before thee hell-brands smoak 160. Tw●sted with snakes thy damned soul to choak These Furies thee alive and dead shall tear Thy life 's too short all thy deserts to bear May'st thou of burial and of mourning fail Cast out with scorn let no man thee bewail 165. The people shouting by the hangmans hand Thou shalt be dragg'd hooks in thy bones shall stand The fire that all consumes shall thee defy Just earth to thy base corps shall room deny Vultures but slow thy guts with beak and claw 170. Shall pluck out dogs thy perjur'd heart shall gnaw And though this honour mak●s thee proud I wish That wolves may strive who first shall taste thy flesh In parts far distant from th' Elysian coast With damned shades shall dwell thy horrid ghost Elysium or the Elysian fields was a pleasant place as some report between Britan and Thule or in the Fortunate Islands here the soules of good men are feigned to converse enjoying all delights whereof the chief was a fruitful tree the way to it was through Acheron Phlegeton and other Hell-rivers 1 The ancient being ignorant of true blisse conceived as the Mahometans do now that reward after death consisted in the fruition of sensuall delights therefore to incite the mind to virtue invented this fiction of happy fields perhaps derived from the Terrestrial Paradise 2 In Jerusalem above our heavenly Paradise is the tree of life and pleasures for evermore Hither we must pass through fire and water persecutions and tribulations 175. There 's Sisyphus whose stone no ease doth feel Ixion bound unto a restlesse wheel 1. Sisyphus son of Aeolus Secretary to Jupiter a great Robber neer the Corinthian Isthmos for his treachery in divulging his Lords secrets and oppression of men was killed by Theseus and cast into hell where he rolls a stone up a hill that still tumbles down again 1. Learn by Sisyphus his torments to keep close the secrets of friends chiefly of Princes 2. Oppresse not now on earth lest you be punished in hell hereafter 3. Trust not in wealth and honour they roll as Sisyphus stone To day a high King to morrow a low Beggar 2. Ixion son of Phlegias King of Thessaly killed his father-in-law and after was a vagabond Jupiter pittied his misery expiated his crime and received him in heaven to his own table but hearing that he had tempted his Queen Juno presented to him a cloud of which he begat the Centaurs after he was thrown to the earth thence because he boasted that he lay with Juno he was cast into hell where he was bound to a wheel that still is whirled about 1 Though God the true Jupiter hath pardoned our sins and received us to mercy we still offend him with spiritual fornication 2 Covetous and ambitious men when they think to enjoy real happinesse they find all like Ixions cloud 3 The spirits of Tyrants as Ixion are wracked on the wheel of restless cares 4 The Heathens perswaded themselves the soul was immortal 5 Ixion having tasted of Nectar could not dye 6 To what insolencies and preposterous humours doth drunkenness provoke Ixion being drunk presently lusts for Juno And Belides that husband-killing crew That pour and pour and still their work renew Belides the fifty daughters of Danaus son of Belus by the command of their father were married to fifty sons of their uncle Aegyptus all whom they killed in one night but Hypermnestra saved her husband Lynceus those murderers in hell draw water in a sieve which is never filled 1 Marriage with too neer of kin is both incestuous unfortunate 2 What trust can we repose in others when friends in our own bosomes shall prove treacherous as these wives unto their husbands 3 Children should obey their Parents but not in evil 4 Covetous voluptuous yea and learned men the more they draw the more they desire 5 Unthankful and hollow-hearted men are like these sieves benefits are lost secrets do run out of them 6 Schoolmasters too oft find boyes like sieves they retain nothing which they learn 7 All humane indeavours are done and demolished like water leaving no impression behind There Tantalus though apples be at hand 180. Doth starve and in a river thirsty