Commonly all that counterfeit In any thing exceed the naturall meane And that for feare of faâ—â—ing in their feat Idem The louely lookes the sighes that storme so sore The due of deep dissembling doublenesse These may attempt but are of power no more Where beautie leanes to wit and soothfastnesse D. Lodge Who hath to doo With deep dissemblers must dissemble too Ch. Middleton Vid Hypocrisie End The End doth alwaies proue the fact By End we iudge the meaning of the act S. I. H. Transl Begin where lightnesse wil in shame it ends G. Chapman Earth Thus whilest he laid his head vpon her lap She in a fiery mantle doth him wrap And carries him vp from his lumpish mould Into the skies whereas he might behold Th' earth in perfect roundnesse of a ball Exceeding globes most artificiall Which in a fixed point nature disposed And with the sundry elements inclosed Which as the Center permanent doth stay When as the skies in their diurnall sway Strongly maintaine the euerturning course Forced alone by their first mouers source Where he beholds the aiery regions Whereas the clouds and strange impressions Maintaind by coldnesse often do appeare And by the highest region of the aire Vnto the clearest element of fire Which to her siluer footstoole doth appeere M. Drayton The Moone is darkned to all creatures eies Whilest in the shadow of the earth she lies For that the earth of nature cold and drie A very Chaos of obscuritie Whose globe exceeds her compasse by degrees Fixed vpon her superficies When in his shadow she doth hap to fall Doth cause her darknes to be generall Idem Earth Beares all her sonnes and daughters in one wombe She Europes Ameriques Affriques Asians toombe Idem Earth cannot comprehend The secret depths of iudgements all diuine Where is no ground beginning midst nor fine I. Syluester Transl O trustlesse state of earthly things and slipper hope Of mortall men that swinke and worke for nought And shooting wide doth misse the marked scope Now haue I turnd a lesson dearly bought That nis on earth assurance to be sought Ed. Spencer A narrow roome our glory vaine vnties A little circle doth our pride containe Earth like an I le amid the water lies Which sea sometime is cald sometime the maine Yet nought therein resounds a name so great It 's but a lake a pond a marish street Ed. Fairfax Transl Our mother earth nere glories in her frute Till by the sunne clad in her tinsell sute Nor doth she euer stare him in the face Till in her glorious armes she him imbrace Which proues she hath a soule sence and delight Of generation feeling appetite M. Drayton To know our selues to come of humane birth These sad afflictions crosse vs here on earth A taske imposde by heauens eternall lawe To keepe our rude rebellions well in awe M. Drayton Next vnto him malicious Enuie rode Vpon a rauenous Wolfe and still did chawe Betweene his cankred teeth a venomous tode That all the poyson ranne about his iawe But inwardly he chawed his owne mawe At neighbours wealth that made him euer sad For death it was when any good he sawe And wept that cause of weeping none he had But when he heard of harme he waxed wondrous glad Ed. Spencer The other held a snake with venome fraught On which she fed and gnawed hungerly As if that long she had not eaten ought That round about the iawes we might discry The bloody gore and poyson dropping loathsomly Her name was Enuie knowne well thereby Whose nature is to greeue and grudge at all That she sees done praise worthily Whose sight to her is greatest crosse may fall And vexeth so that makes her eate her gall For when she wanteth other thing to eate She feedes on her owne maâ— vnnaturall And of her owne foule entrailes make her meate Meate fit for such a monsters monstrous diet Idem I chaunced on a monster of a man With health heart sicke sterued with store of foode With riches poore with beautie pale and wan Wretched with happinesse euil with good One eye did enuie at the th' other eie Because the other enuide more then hee His hands did fight for the first iniurie So Enuie enuide enuide to be And as he went his tender foote was sore And enuide at the foote that went before Th. Bastard This monster honors hurt is like the curre That barkes at strangers comming at the durre But sparing alwaies those are to her knowne To them most gentle to the others throwne This monster al 's is like a rauing cloude Which threatens alwaies kindly Vulcan loude To smore and drowne him with her powring raine Yet force of fire repels his force againe K. of S. Oft malice makes the mind to shed the boyled brine And enuies humor oft vnlades by conduits of the eine T. W. Enuy liues with vs whilst our selues suruiue But when we die it is no more aliue Ch. Fitz Ieffry. The knottie Oake and wainscot old Within doth eate the silly worme Euen so a mind in enuy cold Alwaies within it selfe doth burne Idem Each sence may common subiects comprehend Things excellent the sensitiue confound The eye with light and colours may contend The care endure the note of common sound Both faile when glorious beames and strokes abound So Enuy that at meanest things beares spight Stands mute at view of vnexspected height Th. Storer Enuy harboureth most in feeblest brest S. Phil. Sidney Fell enuies cloud still dimmeth vertues ray Ed. Spencer Foule enuie thou the partiall iudge of right Sonne of deceit borne of that harlot hate Nursed in hell a vile and vgly sprite Feeding on slaunder cherisht with debate Neuer contented with thine owne estate Deeming alike the wicked and the good Whose words be gall whose actions end in blood M. Drayton Enuie doth cease wanting to feede vpon Idem Like as the poyze that would the palme represse Doth cause the bowes spread larger round about So spite and enuie causeth glory sprout And aye the more the top is ouertroad The deeper doth the same roote spread abroad M. of M. Sicilian Tyrants yet did neuer finde Then Enuie greater torment of the minde Idem Our dayes are stampt in Enuies mint And this our age cast in the Iron mold Our hearts are hew'd out of Cancasean flint And two leau'd plates of brasse our brest enfold Hate waxeth yoong the world thus waxing old And best we like them that do vs loue the least And least we loue them whom we should like best Ch. Fitz Geffrey Error His glisteâ—ing armour made A little glooming light much like a shade By which she saw the vgly monster plaine Halfe like a serpent horribly displaied But th' other halfe did womans shape retaine Most loathsome filthy foule and full of vile disdaine And as she lay vpon the dyrtie ground Her huge long taile her den all ouerspred Yet was in knots and many bouts vpwound Pointed with mortall sting of her there bred
A thousand yoong ones which she daily fed Sucking vpon her poysoned dugges each one Of sundrie shapes yet all ill sauoured Soone as the vncouth light vpon them shone Into her mouth they crept and suddenly were gone Ed. Spencer To erre is proper vnto men and but brutish to persist W. Warner Errors are no errors but by fate For oft the euent makes foule faults fortunate S. Daniell Errors left vnpunisht are profest And being not defended are opprest Ch. Middleton To heare good counsell error neuer loues D. Lodge Errors are hardly moued That loue doth breed in an vnaduised brest S. I. H. Transl A stony coldnesse hath benumbde the sence And liuely spirits of each liuing wight And dim'd with darknesse their intelligence Darkenes more then Cymerians day by night And monsters Error flying in the aire Hath mar'd the face of all that seemeth faire Ed. Spencer Faith Fidelia Like sunny beames threw forth her christall face That could haue mazde the râ—r'st beholders sight And rouÌ„d about her head did shine like heauens light She was araied all in Lilly white And in her right hand bare a Cup of Gold With wine and water filld vp to the height In which a serpent did himselfe infold That horror made to all that did behold But she nowhit did change her constant minde And in her other hand she full did hold A booke that was both signd and seald with bloud Ed. Spencer Faith sits triumphant on a coach of gold Of Tuballs worke where costly Saphires shine Rich Diamonds and many Rubies fine And if ought else the worke more costly hold This glorious chariots rowling wheeles are like The holy wheeles the great Ezechiel sawe For owne selfe spirit selfe winde and will doth drawe Their restesse courses equall both alike The bird that led the Romaine standerds out The bird that fixed can oppose his eies Against the greatest light in all the skies High through the ayre drawes this rich Coach about Faith flaunts it not in siluer nor in gold Nor precious scarlet of the Tyrian die Nor paints her face to hide deformitie But as she is she doth her selfe vnfolde Her body that all bodies doth disgrace Like Iunoes bird is full of watching eies Whose holy glaunces pierce the loftie skies Pierce the hie heauens and see God face to face She hath great store of flowing tongues to praise The Lord of hoastes she hath most mightie wings Passing the swiftnes of all mortall things That in a moment vp to heauen her raise Her glorious head is compast with a crowne Nor made of Oliue pine or Lawrell bowe Nor Parsly wreath which Graecians did allowe Th' olympian gaimes for signalls of renowne But of fresh Roses pluckt from honours tree That neuer shrinke for winters chilling frost Nor wither not when Titan hotely tostes But by the Lord for euer watered bee I. Syl. Transl Faith friendly porter of heauens Christall hold Conduct vs straight before the throne of gold Oâ— Gods great grace there prostrate on her knee Doth praier speake in name of all the three I. S. Transl What was the world before the world or God ere he was God Why this he did or doth not that this biddeÌ„ or forbod I dare not thinke or arrogate such misteries diuine Faith with her wits significant suffice these wits of mine To loue God and our neighbours as our selfe is all in fine W. Warner Drawe thy forces all vnto thy hart The strongest fortresse of this earthly part And on these three let thy assurance lie On faith hope and humilitie M. Drayton Faith is thy Fort thy shield thy stronger aide Neuer controll'd nere yeelded ne dismaide Which doth dilate vnfold foretell expresseth Which giues rewards inuesteth and possesseth Idem Faith hath not onely power on things terrene Both hie and lowe but oftentimes doth force Gods iustice too and sometimes seemes perforce Gods purposes to change and alter cleane I. Syl. The hardest things faith makes most possible Idem Euen the faithfull flocks are like the ground That for good fruite with weedes will still abound If that the share and coulter idle lie That riues the share and rootes the brambles bie Th. Hudson Transl Adde faith vnto your force and be not faint Ed. Spencer Onely faith doth iustifie say we of Gods free grace By Christ nor faith is idle but doth charitie embrace W. Warner Fame A monster swifter none is vnder sunne Encreasing as in waters we discrie The circles small of nothing that begin Which at the length vnto such breadth do come That of a drop which from the skies do fall The circles spread and hide the waters all So Fame in flight encreasing more and more For at the first she is not scarcely knowne But by and by she flits from shore to shore To clouds from th' earth her stature straight is growne There whatsoeuer by her trumpe is blowne The sound that both by sea and land out-flies Rebounds againe and verberates the skies They say the earth that first the Giants bred For anger that the Gods did them dispatch Brought forth this sister of those monsters dead Full light of foote swift wings the winds to catch Such monster erst did nature neuer hatch As many plumes she hath as top to toe So many eyes them vnderneath or moe And tongues do speake so many eares do harke By night tweene heauen she flies and earthly shade And shreaking takes no quiet sleepe by darke On houses roofes or towers as keeper made She fits by day and cities threates to inuade And as she tells what things she sees by view She rather shewes that's fained false then true I. H. Mir. of M. Fame in a stoale of purple set with eies And eares and tongues caried a golden booke Vpon the couer this I sawe engrau'd Pauci quos aequus amauit Iupiter aut ardeus euerit ad aethera virtus Dijs geniti G. Peele Fame with golden wings aloft doth flie Aboue the reach of ruinous decay And with braue plumes doth beate the ayrie skie Admir'd of base borne men from far away Ed. Spencer The Brazen Trompe of Iron winged fame That mingleth truth with forged lies E. Fairfax Transl Then came they to the foule and loathsome lake Darke deepe and mirie of a dreadfull hue Where was the aged man that neuer stinted To carrie bundles of the names imprinted This was the man whom as I told before Nature and custome so swift of foote had made He neuer rested but ran euermore And with his comming he did vse this trade A heape of names within his cloake he bare And in the Riuer did them all vnlade Or to say truth away he cast them all Into this streame which Laethe we do call This prodigall old wrerch no sooner came Vnto this cursed riuers barren banke But desperately without all feare of blame Or caring to deserue reward or thanke He hurl'd therein full many a precious name Where millions soone into the bottome sanke Hardly in euery
with their mother vaile The bright lampe of heauen from Thetis hid Apolloes sister in her starry rayle Along her lower Sphere in triumpeled D. Lodge Cynthia companion of the night With shining brand lighting his eben carre Whose axeltree was iet auchact with starres And roofe with shining rauens feathers cealed Piercing my eye lids as I lie along Awaked me through G. Peele Thus whiles dumb sights their yeelding hearts entaÌ„gled The aire with sparks of liuing fire was spaÌ„gled And night deepe drencht in mistie Acheron Heaued vp her head halfe the world vpon Breath'd darknes forth darke night is Cupids daie Ch. Marlow From deepe of regions vnderneath Nights vaile arose and sunnes bright luster chacde Ed. Fairfax Inuested in her stately vale the night In her kind armes embraced all the round The siluer moone from Sea vprising bright Spred frostie pearle vpon the canded ground Idem Now blacke-browde night plast in her chaire of iet Sat wrapt in cloudes within her cabinet And with her duskie mantle ouer-spread The path the sunnie Palfraies vsde to tread And Cynthia sitting in her Cristall chayre In all her pompe did ride along her Sphere The honyed dew descended in soft showres Drizled in pearle vpon the tender flowers And Zephire husht who with a whispering gale Seemed to harken to the nightingale Which in the thornie brakes with her sweet song Vnto the silent night bewrayde her wrong M. Dra. Noctis concubium Now was the heauenly vault depriude of light With sunnes depart and now the darknes of the night Did light those beamy stars which greater lite did dark Now each thing that inioyd that fierie quickning spark Which life is cald were moud their spirits to repose And wanting vse of eyes their eies began to close A silence sweete each where with one consent imbrast A musicke sweete to one in carefull musing plast And mother earth now clad in morning weed did breathe A dull desire to kisse th' image of our death S. Ph. Sydney It was the time when rest soft sliding downe From heauens height into mans heauie eyes In the forgetfulnesse of sleepe doth drowne The carefull thoughts of mortall miseries Ed. Spencer The sunne alreadie sanke Beyond our world and ere I got my boothe Each wight with maÌ„tle black the night doth scooth Sauing the glow-worm which would courteous be Of that small light oft watching sleepers see The welkin had full niggardly inclosde In coffer of dimme cloudes his siluer groates I cleped starres each thing to rest disposde The caues were full the mountaines voyde of goates The birds eyes closde closed their chirping notes As for the nightingale woods musicke King It August was hee daind not then to sing S. Ph. Sydney Now the sable shade I cleped night had thicke enueloped The sunne in vaile of double darknes made Sleepe eased care rest brought complaint to bed Ed. Fairfax Now from the fresh the soft and tender bed Of her still mother gentle night out-flew The fleeting balme on hilles and dales shee shed With honey drops of pure and precious dew And on the verdure of greene forrests spred The virgin prime rose and the violet blew And sweete-breath Zephire on his spreading wings Sleepe ease repose rest peace and quiet brings The thoughts and troubles of broade waking day They softly dip in milde obliuions lake Idem Intempesta nox Now when Aldeboran was mounted hie Aboue the shinie Cassiopeias chaire And all in deadly sleepe did drowned lie Ed. Spencer Midnight was come when euerie vitall thing With sweete sound sleepe their wearie limbs did rest The beasts were still the little birds that sing Now sweetely slept besides their mothers brest The old and all were snrowded in their rest The waters calme the cruell seas did cease The woods the fields and all things held their peace The golden starres were whiâ—ld amidst theyr race And on the earth did laugh with twinckling light VVhen each thing nestled in his resting place Forgat dayes payne with pleasure of the night The hare had no the greedie hounds in sight The fearefull Deare of death stood not in doubt The Partrich dreamd not of the falchens foot The vgly beare now minded not the stake Nor how the cruell mastiffes doe her teare The stagge lay still vnroused from the brake The foamie bore fear'd not the hunters speare All things were still in desart bush and breere The quiet heart now from their trauailes rest Soundly they slept in most of all their rest M. Sackuile The midnights waking starre Sad Cassiopeia with a heauie cheere Pusht forth her forehead to make knowne from farre What time the deadly dole of earth drewe neere I. Markham With falling mists the darkesome night extended Her sable wings and gently ouer-spread Heauens gloomie vaile whence Phoebus lampe was fled Dead time of rest to euerie mortall wight To cheerefull mindes that bringeth wanton sleepe With many a phantasie and deluding toy And pensiue heart it doth delaie and keepe From tedious companie that would annoy Dull Saturnists that haue abiurdall ioy Th. Storer Now spread the night her spangled canopie And summond euerie restlesse soule to sleepe On beds of tender grasse the beasts doe lie The fishes slumbred in the silent deepe Vnheard was Serpents hisse and Dragons crie Birds left to sing and Philomele to weepe Onely that noyse heauens rolling circle kest Sung lullaby to bring the world to rest Ed. Fairfax Noctis initium When low the night with mistie mantle spread Gan darke the day and dimme the azure skies And Venus in her message Hermes sped To bloudy Mars to will him not to rise While shee her selfe approacht in speedie wise And Virgo hiding her disdainfull breast VVith Thetis now had layd her downe to rest While Scorpio dreading Sagitarius dart Whose bow prest bent in fight the string had slipt Downe slid into the Ocean floud a part The beare that in the irish seas had dipt Hs grisly feete with speede from thence he whipt For Thetis hasting from the virgins bed Pursude the beare that ere she came was fled And Phaethon now neere reaching to his race With glistering beames gold streaming where they bent VVas prest to enter in his resting place Enryhius that in the carte first went Had euen now attain'd his iourneyes stent And fast declining hid away his head Where Titan coucht him in his purple bed And now pale Cynthia with her borrowed light Beginning to supplie her brothers place Was past the noone-sted sixe degrees in sight When sparkling starres amidst the heauens face With twinckling light shone on the earth apace That while they brought about the nights chaire The dark had dimd the day ere I was ware M. Sac. Such time as from her mothers tender lap The night arose garded with gentle winds And with hâ—r precious dew refresht the sappe Of bloome and darke whilst that her mantle blinds The vaile of heauen and euery birde was still Saue Philomele that did bemone her ill When in the
did showe Ed. Spencer Humilitie to heauen the step the staire Is for deuotion sacrifice and praier M. Drayton The bending knee in safetie still doth goe When others stumble as too stiffe to bowe Idem As on the vnsauourie stocke the Lillie is borne And as the Rose growes on the pricking thorne So modest life with sobs of grieuous smart And cries deuout comes from an humble hart Th. Hudson Transl More honour in Humilitie then safetie in walles Proud liuers proue not monuments saue onely in their falles VV. Warner Ah God shield man that I should clime and learne to looke aloft This reed is ripe that oftentime great climers fall vnsoft In humble dale is footing fast the trode is not so fickle And though one fall through heedlesse haste yet is his misse not mickle Ed. Spencer The lowly heart doth win the loue of all But pride at last is sure of shamefull fall G. Tur. Hypocrisie Hypocrisie hath bred of Godlike diuels store That speake to serue that serue to shift that shift to spare by guile And smoothe and soothe and yet deceiue with scriptum est meane while W. Warner But let thē heaue their hāds to heauē they show they 'r here in hell That seeme deuout to cloake deceit and say but do not well Idem Who cloakes their mindes in hoods of holinesse Are double villaines and the Hypocrite Is most odious in Gods glorious sight That takes his name to couer wickednesse I. Syl. Many vse temples to set godly faces On impious hearts those sinnes vse most excesse That seeke their shrowdes in fained holinesse G. Chapman Vide Dissimulation Iealousie Shee seem'd of womans shape but in her head A thousand eyes she had that watch did keepe As many eares with which she harkened Her eyes want lids and therefore neuer sleepe In stead of haire her crowne snakes ouerspred Thus marched she forth of the darknes deepe Her tayle one serpent bigger then the rest Which she with knots fastened about her brest S. I. Harrington Transl A monster others harme selfe miserie Bewties plague vertues scourge succour of lies Who since he hath by natures speciall grace So piercing pawes as spoile when they embrace So nimble feete as stirre though still on thornes So many men seeking their owne woe So ample eares that neuer good newes kowes Is it not ill that such a beast want hotnes S. Ph. Sydney O hatefull hellish snake what furie first Broughr thee from balefull house of Proserpine Where in her bosome she the long had nurst And fostered vp with bitter milke of time Foule iealousie that turnest loue diuine To day lesse dread and mak'st the liuing hart With hatefull thoughts to languish and to pine And feed it selfe with selfe consuming smart Of all the passions in the minde thou viler art Ed. Spencer O Iealousie daughter of Enuie and loue Most wayward issue of a gentle sire Fostred with feares thy fathers ioies to proue Mirth marring monster borne in subtiltie Hatefull vnto thy selfe flying thy owne desire Feeding vpon suspect that doth renew thee Happie were Louers if they neuer knew thee Thou hast a thousand gates thou entrest by Condemning trembling passions to our hart Hundred eyed Argus euer making spy Pale hagge infernall furie pleasures smart Enuious obseruer prying in euery part Suspitions fearefull gazing still about the hart O would to God that loue could be without thee S. Daniell A new disease I know not new or old But it may well be term'd poore mortall plaine For like the pestilence it doth infect The houses of the braine first it begins Solely to worke vpon the phantasie Filling her seat with such pestiferous aire As soone corrupts the iudgement and from thence Sends like contagion to the memorie Still each of other taking like infection Which as a searching vapour spreads it selfe Confusedly through euery sensiue part Till not a thought or motion in the minde Be farre from the blacke poyson of suspect B. Iohnson Where loue doth raigne disturbing iealousie Doth call himselfe affections Centinell And in a peacefull houre dooth crye kill kill Distempering gentle loue with his desire As ayre and water dooth abate the fire This sound informer this bare-breeding spie This cancker that eates vp this tender spring This carry-tale discentio's iealousie W. Shakespeare Fowle weatherd iealousie to a forward spring Makes weeds growe ranke but spoiles a better thing Sowes tares gainst haruest in the fields of loue And dogged humor dogdayes like doth prooue Scorching loues glorious world with glowing tong A serpent by which loue to death is stonge A foe to waste his pleasant summer bowers Ruine his mansions and deface his bowers E. Guilpin Pale Iealousie childe of insatiat loue Of heartsicke thoughts which melancholy bred A hell tormenting feare no faith can moue By discontent with deadly poyson fed With heedlesse youth and error vainly led A mortall plague a vertue drowing floud A hellish fier not quenched but with bloud M. Drayton What state of life more pleasant can we finde Then these that true and heartie loue do beare Whom that sweet yoake doth fast together binde That man in Paradice first learnd to weare Were not some so tormented in their minde With that same vile suspect that filthy feare That torture great that foolish phrenezie That raging madnes called Iealousie For euery other sower that gets a place To seate it selfe amidst this pleasant sweete Helpes in the end to giue a greater grace And make loues ioies more gracious then they were He that abstaines from sustenance a space Shall finde both bread and water relish sweete S. I. Harr. Transl Iealousie is Cupids foode For the swift steed runnes not so fast alone As when some other striue him to out goe Ed. Fairfax Transl Loue wakes the iealous eye least then it moues The iealous eye the more it lookes it loues S. Ph. Sydney No iealousie can that preuent Whereas two parties once be full content Idem Impatience changeth smoake to flame but iealousie to hell W. Warner On loue saies some waits iealouzie but iealousie wants loue When curiously the ouerplus doth idle quarels moue Idem Where iealousie is bred Hornes in the mind are worse then hornes in the hed B. Iohnson That canker-worme that monster iealousie Which eates the heart and feeds vpon the gall Turning all loues delight to miserie Through feare of loosing his felicitie Ed. Spencer Shun iealousie that hart-breake loue if cat will go to kinde Be sure that Io hath a meanes that Argus shall be blinde VV. Warner True loue doth looke with pale suspicious eie Take away loue if you take iealousie M. Drayton No beast is fierer then a iealous woman S. Daniell Idlenesse Prides coach was drawne of sixe vnequall beasts On which her sixe sage counsellours did ride Taught to obey her bestiall beheasts With like conditions to their kindes applide Of which the first that all the rest did guide Was sluggish Idlenesse the nurse of sinne Vpon a slothfull Asse
in her degree And next her self her righteous ballance hanging bee Ed. Spencer Then iustice comes the last of all the gods That left her residence here on the earth For lacke of whom the world grew all at ods And man to man curses each others birth For then vsurping wrong succeeded straight That no man knew how long to hold his right Then calls the world for Iustice back againe Complaining how they now were ouerrunne And they would suffer any scourging paine In pennance for those sinnes themselues had donne For that their wickednesse did force that power To leaue the seate whereas she sate before Whereas the Gods did in their courts decree Iustice should be transformed to the starres There foolish men might euery minute see Her that should helpe these miseries of theirs But stand like Tantalus within those brinkes Where he sees water but yet neuer drinkes Ch. Middleton Faire Astraea of the Titans line Whom equitie and iustice made diuine M. Drayton Well did the Anticke world inuent That Iustice was a God of soueraigne grace And Altars vnto him and temples lent And heauenly honours in the highest place Calling him great Osyris of the race Of th' old Aegyptian Kings that whilome were With fained colours shading a true case For that Osyris whil'st he liued here The iustest man aliue and truest did aspire His wife was Isis whom they likewise made A goddesse of great power and soueraigntie And in her person cunningly did shade That part of Iustice which is equitie Ed. Spencer Vntill the world ftom his perfection fell Into all filth and foule iniquitie Astraea here mongst earthly men did dwell And in the rules of iustice then and stumbled well Idem Where Iustice growes there growes eke quiet grace The which doth quench the brand of hellish smart And that accurst hand-writing doth deface Idem Sparing Iustice feeds iniquitie W. Shakespeare The first was Bacchus that with furious might All th' east before vntam'de did ouerrunne And wrong repressed and establisht right Which lawlesse men had formerly foredone Their iustice forc't her princely rule begunne Next Hercules his like ensample shewed Who all the west with equall conquest wonne And monstrous Tirants with his club subdued The club of Iustice dread with kingly power endued Ed. Spencer Who so vpon himselfe will take the skill And Iustice vnto people to deuide Had need of mightie hands for to fulfill That which he doth with righteous doome decide And for to maister wrong and puissant pride For vaine it is to deeme of things aright And make wrong doers Iustice to deride Vnlesse it be perform'd with dreadlesse might For power is the right-hand of iustice truly hight Idem Offences vrg'd in publike are made worse The shew of Iustice aggrauates despight The multitude that looke not to the cause Rest satsfied so it be done by lawes S. Daniel It often falles in course of common life That right long time is ouerborne of wrong Through auarice or power or guile or strife That weakens her and makes her partie strong But Iustice though her doome she do prolong Yet at the last she will her owne cause right Fd. Spencer Good causes need not curious termes equall Iudges heare The equitie not eloquence W. Warner Who passeth iudgement for his priuate gaine He well may iudge he is adiudg'd to paine R. Greene. Kings Kings are the Gods vicegerents on the earth The Gods haue power Kings from that power haue might Kings should excell in vertue and in birth Gods punish wrongs kings should maintaine right They be the sunnes from which we borrow light And they as Kings should still in iustice striue With Gods from whom their beings they deriue M. Drayton The baser is he comming from a King To shame his hopes with deeds degenerate The mightier man the mightier is the thing That makes him honoured or begets him hate For greater scandall waits on greater state The Moone being clouded presently is mist But litle starres may hide them where they list The Crowe may bathe his cole-blacke wing in mire And vnperceiu'd flie with the filth away But if she like the snow white swan desire The staine vpon his siluer downe will stay Poore groomes are sightles nights kings glorious day Gnats are vnnoted wheresoeuer they flie But Eagles are gaz'd vpon with euery eie VV. Shakespeare Since the heauens strong arms teach Kings to stād Angells are plac't about the glorious throne To gard it from the stroakes of traitrous hand Th. Dekkar When thou becom'st an earthly God mens faults to ouersee Forget not that eternall God that ouerlooketh thee W. Warner The least part of a King is allowing him and none Lesse priuate then a Prince the weale or woe of euery one Idem He and his people make but one a body weake or strong As doth the head the limbs or limbs the head assist or wrōg Idem Kings Lords of times and of occasions May take th' aduantage when and how they list S. Daniell Kings will be alone Competitors must downe Neare death he stands that stands to weare a crowne Idem It is a daungerous thing In rule of loue but once to crosse a King M. Drayton Endles cares concur with crowns a bitter sweeting is raign W. VVarner Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balme from an anoynted King The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputie elected by the Lord. W. Shakespeare He knowes not what it is to be a King That thinkes a Scepter is a pleasant thing R. Greene. A glittering Crowne doth make the haire soone gray Within whose circle a king is but arrested In all his feasts hee 's but with sorrow feasted And when his feete disdaine to touch the mold His head 's a prisoner in a Iaile of Gold M. Drayton Vnhappy Kings that neuer can be taught To know themselues or to discerne their fault S. Daniell No outragious thing From vassall actors can be wipte away The Kings misdeeds can not be hid in clay W. Shakespeare No Scepter serues dishonour to excuse Nor kingly vaile can couer villainie Fame is not subiect to authoritie M. Drayton Thinke not but Kings are men and as the rest miscarry Saue that their fame and infamy continually doth tarry VV. VVarner Kings want no meanes to accomplish what they will M. Drayton Mislikes are silly lets where Kings resolue them Where counsell chasing will hath emperie Deeds are too prest for reason to dissolue them In mightie mindes a grounded vanitie Like springs that ceassesse neuer stoppeth Vntill her neighbour Oake she ouertoppeth D. Lodge Great men too well grac'd much rigor vse Presuming fauorites mischiefe euer bring So that concluding I may boldly speake Minions too great argue a king too weake S. Daniell New kings do feare when old kings farther straine Establisht state to all things will consent Idem Good from kings must not be drawne by force Idem A Scepter like a pillar of great height Whereon
vs roare Yet are they not dismai'd one whit therefore One with a whistle hang'd about his necke Shewes by the sound which cord must be vndone And straite the ship-boy ready at a becke Vnto the tops with nimble sleight doth runne The other Marriners vpon the decke Or at the steere the comming vvaues doe shunne And then by turnes they pump the water out By paine and care preuenting euery doubt S. I. Harrington The heauens on euery side inclosed be Black stormes and foggs are blowen vp from farre That now the Pilot can no Load-starre see But skies and Seas doe make most dreadfull warre The billowes striuing to the heauens to reach And th' heauens striuing them for to impeach R. Greene. Of the Spring The soote seasons that blood bloome foorth brings With greene hath clad the hill and eke the vale The Nightingale with feathers new she sings The Turtle to her mate hath told her tale Sommer is come for euery spray now springs The Hart hath hung his old head on the pale The Bucke in brake his Winter-coate he flings The Fishes fleete with new-repared scale The Adder all her sloth away she flings The swift Swallow pursueth the flies small The busie Bee her honey now she mings Winter is worne that was the flowers bale E. of Surrey The Winters wrath begins to quell And pleasant Spring appeareth The grasse now gins to be refresht The Swallow peepes out of her nest And cloudy welkin cleareth E. Spenser Flora now calleth for each flower And bid's make ready Maias bower That new is vp rise from bed Idem The earth late choakt with showres Is now arai'd in greene Her bosome springs with flowers The ayre dissolues her teene The vvoods are deckt with leaues And trees are cloathed gay And Flora crown'd with sheaues With oaken boughs doth play The birds vpon the trees Doe sing with pleasant voyces And chaunt in their degrees Their loues and luckie choyces D. Lodge The tenth of March when Aries receau'd Dan-Phoebus rayes into his horned head In flowry season of the yeare And when the firmament was cleare When Tellus her balls painted were With issue of disparent cheere When the Vsher to the morne did rise Sleepe gaue their vituall liberties To Phillis and to Floraes eyes G. Chapman The ayre was calme the day was cleare Loues wanton winds with wooing breathe Gan greete the sweetest of the yeare The flower forgot his Winters death The earth reuiued by the sunne To let in gay attire begunne The leafe allied vnto the tree By helpe of spring in coate of greene Stole forth my wandring eye to see The beauties of the Sommers Queene D. Lodge The Winter with his grisly stormes no longer dare abide The pleasant grasse with lusty greene the earth hath newly died The trees hath leaues the boughs do spred new changed is the yeare The water brooks are clean sunk down the plesant boughs appeare The Spring is come the goodly Nimphs now dance in euery place Thus hath the yeare most pleasantly of lately chang'd her face E. of Surrey Now each creature ioyes the other Passing happy dayes and howers One bird reports vnto an other In the fall of siluer showers vvhilst the earth our common mother Hath her bosome deckt with flowers Whilst the nearest torch of heauen vvith bright rayes warmes Eloraes lap Making nights and dayes both euen Chearing plants with freshnes sap S. Daniell Of VVinter The wrathfull Winter proching on a pace vvith blustring blasts had all ybard the treene And old Saturnus with his frosty face vvith chilling cold had pearst the tender greene The mantles rent wherein inwrapped beene The gladsome Groues that now lay ouer-throwne The Tapers torne and euery tree downe blowne The soyle that erst so seemely was to seeme vvas all dispoiled of her beauties hewe And stole fresh flowers wher-with the somers Queene Had clad the earth now Boreas blast downe blew And small fowles flocking in their songs did rew The vvinters wrath where-with each thing defast In wofull wise bewayl'd the Sommer past Hawthorne had lost his motly liuerie The naked twigs were shiuering all for cold And dropping downe the teares aboundantlie Each thing me thought with weeping eye me told The cruell season bidding me with-hold My selfe within for I was gotten out Into the fields whereas I walkt about M. Sackuille When ye count ye free from feare Comes the breame Winter with chamfered browes Full of wrinkles and frosty furrowes Shooting his grisly dart Which cruddles the blood and pricks the hart Ed. Spenser Ianuarie Now sad Winter welked hath the day And Phoebus weary of his yearely taske Yshackled hath his steeds in lowly lay And taken vp his Inne in fishes haske Idem Autumnus The wearied nights approached on a pace With darksome shades which somwhat breedeth care The sunne hath take more neere the earth his race In Libra then his greatest sway he bare For pardy then the dayes more colder are Then fades the greene fruite liuely hearbs are done And Winter gins to wast that Sommer wone I. H. Mir. of Mag. Sommer Iulie Now the sunne hath reared vp his siluer footed teame Making his wayte betweene the cup and golden Diademe The rampant Lyon hunts he fast with doggs of noysome breath VVhose balefull barking brings in hast pine plague and drery death Edm. Spencer August That time of yeere when the inamoured sunne Clad in the richest roabes of liuing fires Courted the Virgin signe great Natures Nunne â—vhich barraines earth of all that earth desires â—uen in the month that from Augustus wone His sacred name which vnto heauen aspiâ—es And on the last of his tentrebled dayes W. Shakespeare â—t was the month in which the righteous mayde That for disdaine of sinfull worlds vpbraid â—ed backe to heauen where she was first conceiu'd â—nto her siluer bower the sunne receiu'd And the hote Syrian dog on him awayting After the chafed Lyons cruell bayting â—orrupted had the ayre with noysome breath And powrd on earth plague pestilence dearth Rob. Greene. â—ow was the month that old Sextilis name â—hangd by the Romaine Senates sage degree And glorying so to innouate the same â—o haue himselfe new christned did agree â—oude that Augustus God-father should be 〈◊〉 whilst Ceres clad him in a mantle fayre Of bearded Corne still quauering with the ayre Char. Fitz Ieffrey Iulie VVhat time sleepes Nurse the silent night begun To steale by minutes on the long-liu'd dayes The furious dog-starre chasing of the sunne Whose scorching breath adds flames vnto his raies At whose approch the angry Lyon braies The earth now warm'd in her celestiall fire To coole her heate puts off her rich attire M. Drayton Of Morpheus Morpheus the liuelie sonne of deadly sleepe VVitnes of life to them that liuing die A prophet oft and oft an historie A Poet eke as humors flie or creepe S. Phil. Sid. Hee making speedy way through persed ayre And through the world of waters wide and deepe To Morpheus house doth
water doth Ch. Marlow All touch sweet tast sweet eie sweet eare sweet sweet sence sweet souâ—e is A vertuous match but vicious loue in all contrary this W. Warner One is no number maides are nothing then Without the sweet societie of men Ch. Marlow Marriage will soone destroy Those passions which to youthfull head do clime Mothers and nurses of all vaine annoy Idem Wretched wedlock breeds but hated heat Where no loue seemes so sweet as stolen and secret D. Lodge Offer no loue rights but let wiues still seeke them For when they come vnsought they sildom like them B. Iohnson Euen as Adam wrote his ouerthrow By tasting fruite that God did him forbid So he that curiously will search to know All that his wife hath said or what she did May fortune at the last himselfe beshrow S. I. H. Let him that his wife to his bent will drawe Match with a virgin and keepe her in awe To loue and wed for loue is perfit blisse G. Turb His be the hurt that lookes not ere he wed The husband may the woman make or marre Idem We are not male nor female borne that we should fruitlesse die W. Warner Experience bidding vs doth bid vs lay to thriue The first degree to which say some is warily to wine But wife if shrow or saint become as not vnlike a shrow Then is that first degree to thrift the third degree in woe Idem Let nothing seuere those whom God doth linke S. I. H. The chance that once befell To wandring Dina may be witnesse well That secret mariage that to fewe is kend Doth neuer lead the louers to good end For of our bodies we no power may claime Except our parents do confirme the same Th. Hud We worldly folkes account him very wise That hath the wit most worthily to wed By all meanes therefore alwaies we deuise To see our issue rich in spousall fed We buy and sell rich Orphans babes scant bred Must match ere they do know what marriage meanes Boyes marrie old trots old fooles wed yoong queanes We call this wedding which in any wise Can be no marriage but pollution plaine A new found trade of humaine marchandize The diuells net a filthy fleshly gaine Of kind and nature an vnnaturall staine A foule abuse of Gods most holy order And yet allow'd almost in euery border M. of M. A filthy trull is irksome to the eie A gallant gyrle allures the lookers mind A wanton wench will haue the head to die An aged trot to like is hard to find A bearing wife with brats will cloy the store A greater care then childrens care is none A barren beast will grieue thee ten times more No ioy remaines when sappe of fruite is gone Wherefore let wiuing goe liue single aye A shrew we see is wedded on a day But ere a man can shift his hands t is long G. Turb Maladie Fast by old age pale Maladie was plac't Sore sicke in bed her colour all forgone Bereft of stomacke sauour and of taste Ne could she brook no meate but broaths alone Abhorring her her sicknesse past recure Detesting phisicke and all phisicks cure M. i Sackuill Sicknesse the herauld of armes hearts and all Th. Storer Th'humorous sicke remouing find no ease When chaunged chambers helpe not the disease S. Dauiell O sicknesse thou art oft betide When death hath many woes to come beside Idem Might The meanest fault is hie offence vrg'd of a mighty foe W. Warner To shadow sinne Might can the more pretend M. Dr. Might is euer absolute alone When of two powers ther 's true coniunctione Idem Power constrain'd is but a glorious slaue Ed. Fairfax Slight force are mightie things From which much if not most earths glory springs If vertues selfe were clad in humaine shape Vertue without these might go beg and scrape I. Marston Vnited powers makes each the stronger proue S. Ph. Sydney Honey words make foolishnesse And power the greatest wit with error blinds D. Lodge All as the highest trees do sheeld the shrubs From posting Phlegons warmth and warming fier So mightie men obscure each others fame And make the best deseruer fortunes game Idem Excellencie neuer beares this minde By no inferiour skill to be definde Th. Storer Where power decreed hath to find th' offence The cause is better still then the defence S. Daniell Miserie His face was leane and some deale pinde away And eke his hands consumed to the bone But what his body was I cannot say For on his carkasse rayment had he none Saue cloutes and patches peeced one by one With staffe in hand and scrippe on shoulder cast His chiefe defence against the winters blast His food for most was wilde fruites of the tree Vnlesse sometimes some crummes fell to his share Which in his wallet long God-wot kept he As one the which full daintily would fare His drinke the running streame his cup the bare Of his palme clozd his bed the hard cold ground To this poore life was Miserie ybound M. Sackuill This Iron world Brings downe the stoutest hearts to lowest state For Miserie doth brauest mindes abate And makes them seeke for that they wont to scorne Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne Ed. Spencer He hath a foolish fantasie That thinkes to find a friend in miserie G. Gascoigne O Miserie where once thou art possest How soone thy faint infection alters kind And like a Circe turnest man to beast And with the body dost transforme the mind That can in fetters our affection bind M. Drayton Miserie is troden on by many But being lowe neuer relieu'd by any W. Shakespeare The mightiest that haue liu'd Haue falne and headlong too in Miserie It is some comfort to haue companie G. Peele Men flie from foes but not from Miserie M. Drayton Let him that sees his priuate Miserie Auoyd the prospect of prosperitie It breeds pale enuie and sad discontent Procures offence before a profered wrong Torments it selfe till all conceits are spent And thoughts deliuered by malitious tongue Then rapt with violent fury goes so strong That it enuenomes all our humaine parts Blind iudging in eyes and sence confounding harts Th. Storer Melancholy Melancholy from the splene begunne By passion mou'd into the vaines doth runne Which when this humour as a swelling floud By vigour is infused in the bloud The vitall spirits doth mightily appall And weakeneth so the parts Organicall And when the sences are disturb'd and tir'd With what the heart incessantly desir'd· Like trauellers with labour long opprest Finding reliefe eftsoones they fall to rest M. Drayton Thou nursing mother of faire wisedomes lore Ingenious Melancholy I. Marston Those men to Melancholy giuen we Saturnists do call VV. Warner Memorie This Lidger booke lies in rhe braine behinde Like Ianus eye which in his poll was set The lay mans table Storehouse of the minde Which doth remember much and much forget I. Dauies Here sences apprehensions end doth take As when a stone
is into water cast One circle doth an other circle make Till the last circle touch the banke at last Idem Remēbrance is the life of grief his graue forgetfulnes Ed. Fairfax Remembrance fresh makes weakened sorrows strong Idem Mischiefe The cause once gone th'ffects thereof surcease And mischiefes being preuented whil'st they are yong Cannot braunch forth themselues to do that hurt That time their natures and bad men would worke Ch. Middleton A Mischife seene may easily be preuented But being hapt not helpt yet still lamented M. Drayton Faire goodnesse is foule ill if mischiefes wit Be not represt from leaud corrupting it Idem Mischiefe is oft made good by speeding well S. Daniell Mercie Some Clarkes do doubt in their deuisefull art Whether this heauenly thing whereof I treat To weeten Mercie be of Iustice part Or drawne forth from her by diuine extreat This well I wot that sure she as great And meriteth to haue so hie a place She first was bred and borne of heauenly race From thence powr'd downe of men by influence of grace Ed. Spencer O who shall shew the countenance and gestures Of Mercie and iustice which faire sacred sisters With equall poize do euer ballance euen Th'vnchaunging proiects of the King of heauen Th' one sterne of looke th' other mild aspecting The'one pleasd with teares th' other bloud affecting Th' one beares the sword of vengeance vnrelenting Th' other brings pardon for the true repenting I. Syluicter Still as rage kindleth the fire of wrath Mercie to quench it store of water hath S. I. Harrington This noble vertue and diuine Doth chiefly make a man so rare and od As in that one he most resembleth God Idem Then come we nearest to the Gods on hie When we are farthest from extremitie Giuing forth sentence of our Lawes with Mercie Tho. Achely Mercie may mend whom malice made offend Death giues no thankes but checks authoritie So Rulers mildnesse subiects loue do nourish S. Daniell Soft pittie enters at an Iron gate VV. Sh. Mercie but murders pardoning those that kill Idem Pittie drawes loue bloud-shed as natures griefe Compassion followeth the vnfortunate S. D. VVhen pittie runneth afore loue alwaies followeth after A. Fraunce As it is greater praise to saue then spill So better to reforme then to cut off the ill Ed. Spencer How deare is mercie hauing power and will When pittie helpes where equitie doth kill M. Drayton Minde The Minde hath in it selfe a deitie And in the stretching circle of her eie All things are compast all things present still Will fram'd to power doth make vs what we will G. Chapman It is the minde that maketh good or ill That makes a wretch or happie rich or poore For some that haue a boundance at their will Haue not inough but want in greatest store An other that hath little askes no more But in that little is both rich and wise Ed. Spencer The Minde is free what ere afflict the man A King 's a King do fortune what she can M. Drayton The Minde times enemie obliuions foe Disposer true of each note worthy thing Ed. Fairfax Our mindes discerne where eies could neuer see M. Draiton That Minde most is bewtifull and hie And nearest comes to a diuinitie That farthest is from spots of earthes delight Pleasures that loose their substance with their sight Such one Saturnius rauisheth to loue And fills the cup of all content to Ioue G. Chapman The setled mind is free from fortunes power They need not feare who looke not vp aloft But they that are too carefull euery hower For when they fall they light not very soft M. of M. What plague is greater then the griefe of minde The griefe of mind that eates in euery vaine In euery vaine that leaues such clods behinde Such clods behind as breed such bitter paine So bitter paine that none shall euer finde What plague is greater then the griefe of minde E. of Ox. Ill mind to mind so much of others ill As to become vnmindfull of his owne Ed. Spencer Into our minds let vs a little fall And we shall finde more spots then leopards haue S. Phil. Sidner O vanitie of mans vnstable minde Puft vp with euery blast of friendly winde Ed. Fairfax In base minds no friendship dwels nor emnitie Ed. Spencer Oft times we see that sorrowes of the minde Finde remedie vnsought which seeking cannot finde Ed. Spencer Weak body wel is chang'd for minds redoubled force Idem So moue our minds as motions moue the aire M. of M. Nor is it his our minds that make our natiue homes our graue As we to ours others to theirs like parciall fancie haue Transmut we but our minds and then all one an alien is As if a natiue once resolu'd makes euery country his VV. Warner Monarchs Augustus quailing Anthony was Emperour alone In whose vnfoed Monarchy our common health was knowne W. Warner A mighty monarch must whilest greening youth doth flowe Make one or two or three proofes of his peerles power For valour is the gate of honour beautified The first staire step it is wherby good hap doth guide Our feete to glories mount and nothing hartens so The men of armes to fight as valiant prince we know But afterward he must with wary wisedome warre More often with his wit then with his weapon farre And feeding so his spirit with sweet sharpe easie paine Not keep a souldiers place but captains roome retaine I. Syluester Mildnesse fitteth maiestie hie minds are disalowed VV. Warner No man from the Monarch loue by wealth or weapon flies Idem Mildnesse would better suite with maiestie Then rash reuenge and rough seueritie M. Dray Murder Black hell-bred humor of fier-venging sin By whose inticements murders we commit The end vnthought of rashly we begin Letting our passion ouerwhelme our wit Who may and will not murder in truth committeth S. Phil. Sidney Vnpunisht scapes from hainous crime some one But vnreueng'd in mind and body none Idem The cruell man a cruell death shall tast And blood with blood be venged at the last I. Syl. Those that in blood such violent pleasure haue Seldome descend but bleeding to their graue B. Iohnson Vengeance on minde the fretting furies take The sinfull corps like earth-quake agues shake Their frowning lookes their troubled minds bewray In hast they run and midst their race they stay As gidded Doe amidst their speech they whist At meate they muse no where they may persist But some feare netleth them aye hang they so So neuer wants the wicked murderer woe M. of M. Muses Imps of K. Ioue and Queene remembrance loe The Sisters nine the Poets pleasant pheers Calliope doth stately style bestowe And worthy praises paints of princely peers Clio in sullen songs reneweth all day With present yeares conioyning age by past Delightfull talke loues comicall Thalia In fresh green youth who doth lawrell tast With voyces tragicall sounds Melpomen And as with chaines th' allured eares she binds Her