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The epigrams of P. Virgilius Maro, and others With the praises of him and his workes. Also his epitaphs composed by diuers illustrious persons. And lastly, the arguments of his workes. Englished by I.P. louer of learning.
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Penkethman, John.; Virgil, attributed name.
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fall in loue as I may say with the worth of Learning and thereupon doe seeke to furnish their children with what they see wanting in themselues hoping that the like fruit may be produced by their future studies and that at length the Fathers obscure family may as hath beene lately knowne and some Latine Authors testifie be ennobled by their sonnes aduancement And thus hauing briefly and plainely forthe better vnderstanding of the vnlearned yet I hope sufficiently apologized for this my translation I leaue you to peruse it The Contents of this TRANSLATION Epigrams THe praise of the Garden Epig. 1 Of Wine and Women Epig. 2 Of Enuie Epig. 3 Of the Syrens charmes Epig. 4 Of the birth day of Asmenus Epig. 5 Of Orpheus Epig. 6 Of gaming Epig. 7 Of the letter Y. Epig. 8 Of the 12. labours of Hercules Epig. 9 Of the same Labours Epig. 10 Of these words 'T is and Not. Epig. 11 Of a good man Epig. 12 Of the ages of diners liuing creatures Epig. 13 Of the Muses inuentions Epig. 14 Of our Image in the water Epig. 15 Of a Riuer frozen Epig. 16 Of Iris or the Rainbow Epig. 17 Of the rising of the Sunne Epig. 18 Of the 12. celestiall Signes Epig. 19 Of the foure seasons of the yeere Epig. 20 In honour of Augustus Caesar Epig. 21 Vpon the same Augustus Epig. 22 Vpon Balista a Schoole-master Epig. 23 Vpon a beautious Boy Epig. 24 Vpon the Crow on Tarpeius Epig. 25 Of Letters Epig. 26 Vpon the death of three Epig. 27 Of Fortune Epig. 28 Of loue to Theotimus Epig. 29 Of Roscius his beauty Epig. 30 To Phileros of loues power Epig. 31 To Pamphila of an amorous extasie Epig. 32 To Shepheards of loues fire Epig. 33 Vpon a Thracian Boy Epig. 34 The Tombe of Lucrece Epig. 35 Vpon Narcissus Epig. 36 Vpon 3. Shepheards Epig. 37 Vpon 3. Amazons fight Epig. 38 Of an Hermaphrodite Epig. 39 Of Acis a beautifull Boy Epig. 40 The Tombe of Hector Epig. 41 The Tombe of Achilles Epig. 42 The seuerall Praises of Virgil and his workes Virgil of himselfe Epig. 1 Of Virgil. Epig. 2 Of Virgils Aeneid Epig. 3 Caesars edict for the preseruation of the Aeneid Epig. 4 Of Virgils Aeneid preserued Epig. 5 In praise of the Aeneid Epig. 6 Of Virgils wanton writing Epig. 7 Of Virgil. Epig. 8 Vpon Virgil and his workes Epig. 9 Vpon his Georgicks Epig. 10 The Epitaps vpon Virgil Owens Epitaph The Arguments of his Workes viz. Monosticks of all his workes Epig. 1 Tetrastichs of his Georgicks Epig. 2 Monostichs of his Aeneids Epig. 3 Pentestichs of the same with the Supply by Mapheus Epig. 4 Decastichs of the same Epig. 5 THE EPIGRAMS of VIRGIL and others The praise of the Garden FRom greatest Ioue ye Muses that doe spring The Gardens praise come helpe me all to sing With wholsome food the hungry flesh it fils And diuers fruits affords to him that tils Sweet Pot-herbs and of many kinds more deare Delicious Grapes and what the Trees doe beare Nor does the Garden speciall pleasures want But those it hath with profits nothing scant The murmuring glassie Brooke the same besets Whose Seeds the furrow-guided water wets With diuers-colour'd buds gay flowers abound With gemmy glories garnishing the ground The gainefull Bees with gentle noise doe hum Flowers tops or new dews gathering where they come The fertile Vine th'Elme her Yoke-fellow lades And with her Branches th 'others wouen shades Faire-shady-sheltring Bowers the Trees doe yeeld vs And their thicke boughs from Phoebus parching shield vs Sweet sounds the pratling Birds abroad doe send Their Songs our Eares alluring to attend The Garden doth excite deteine feed please And our sad minds of heauy sorrowes ease Brings vigour to our bodies cheeres our sight With fuller fauours doth our paines requite And giues the trimmer manifold delight 2. Of Wine and Women LEt not the loue of wine or women seize thee For wine and women both alike disease thee As Venus mars the strength so Bacchus flowing Workes weaknesse in our feet and trips our Going Many their secrets through blinde Loue detect And Drunkennesse doth worke the like effect Fierce loue is often cause of deadly war So copious Cups not seldome make vs iar With fearefull fight vile Venus wasted Troy So Bacchus thou the Lapithes didst destroy In short when either doth mans minde possesse He 's void of goodnesse feare and shamefastnesse In bonds Lyaeus fettring Venus binde Least thou i' th gifts of either damage finde Wine slakes our thirst Lust for creation serues Beyond these bounds he suffers harme that swerues 3. Of Enuie ENuy a poison of corrupting power In wicked men whose bosomes it conteine The bones vntouch't the marrow doth deuoure And drinkes vp all their bloud through euery veine For he that doth anothers Fortune spight Becomes his owne Tormenter as by right His heauy griefes with Groanes he doth vnfold He sighs he frets his Teeth together hits Beholding what he hates he sweats with cold And from his euill mouth blacke venim spits His eie-lids a pale fearefull colour takes And bare his Bones vnhappy leannesse makes To him nor light nor diet seemeth sweet No drinke delights him nor the taste of Wine Though Ioue himselfe should deigne his lips to greet With propination from his cup diuine Or Hebe reach and serue the same vnto him Or Ganimede with profer'd Nectar wooe him He neuer sleepe enioyes or bosome-peace That bloudy Torturer his bowels vexeth And mouing secret furies doth increase Flames of Erynnis that his heart perplexeth And Titius-like within him he doth finde A vulture that doth rend and eat his minde Close in his pining breast doth liue a wound Which not the hand of Chiron can make sound Nor Phoebus or his Ofspring most renownd 4 Of the Syrens charmes VArietie of Songs and Heauy notes Were wont to issue from the Syrens throtes Their voyces and their warbling Muse did moue All tunes that pleasant Thymele did loue That which the Trumpet and hoarse Horne laments That which the Pipe sounds with a thousand vents What the light Reeds or what sweet Aedon can What the Harpe yeeldeth or the dying Swan Shipmen with measures musicall prouokde In flouds Ionian they haue often chokde Vlysses great from Sisiphus descended Safely by this Art onely his defended Subtly with wax his fellowes eares he shut And his owne hands in manicles he put The Rocks and dangerous shores his nauy past And in the Sea themselues the Syrens cast Thus flattring Notes and Songs he ouer went And rauishing Monsters into ruine sent 5 Of the birth day of Asmenus TItan come forth with vnoffended light And cheerfull Morne greet all with heauen bright You young men also kinde in heart and voice With happy vowes this Holy day reioyce That it returning prosperous euery yeare His children gifts to him with ioy may beare 6 Of Orpheus THe Thracian Poet with sweet Harpe is thought In sauage Beasts milde motions to haue
wrought And stayd the waters as they past along The senslesse Rockes alluring with a song And Trees attending such sweet-sounding Layes Him as they say one shadow'd in his wayes Yea more he made by pleasing speeches milde And ciuill by lips learned people wilde To one Societie this Orpheus brought them Polisht their Manners rude and Iustice taught them 7 Of Gaming HAte Lucre mad Desire doth deeply grieue Old men flie Fraud vnskill'd the skill'd beleeue Gamesters their mindes must with their money lay Shun spightfull Strife when thou art queld in play Play ye secure that still haue coyne in store Who comes in monyed so departs no more Couetous Gamesters goe by weeping Crosse Good men loue peace leaue Anger hauing losse No man in Game can euer luckie bee Wrath make the Furies Foure at first but Three Chastise thy raging spirits true to play Timely fly fighting and put Ire away 8 Of the Letter y. THis Two-horn'd letter of Pythagoras Seemes to do denote how Men their liues doe passe Steepe on the Right hand Vertues way is bent Which at first sight hard entrance doth present Yet giues the wearied Rest when they attaine The highest Top the left way broad and plaine Shewes a soft iourney but the bounds at last Captiu'd by steepe Rockes headlong all doe cast For whosoere for Vertues loues endures Both praise and honour to himselfe procures But he that artlesse Luxury pursues Or Sloth and labour offerd doth refuse With inconsiderate minde his time shall spend In shame and want and reape a wretched end 9 Of the 12. Labours of Hercules CLeone saw him first the Lion fell Next Lerna's serpent Shaft and fire did quell After with life th' Erymanthian Bore did part Which done of golden hornes he reft the Hart. Those won the Birds of Stymphalus he foild Then th'Amazonian of her Belt he spoild By seuenth toyle he purg'd a Stable full By eighth he triumpht in th'expulsed Bull. By ninth both Horse and Master he confounded For Geryons end Spaine his tenth glory sounded Apples of Gold were his eleuenth gaines And Pluto's Porter period of his paines 12 A good Man A Wise good man where wisdomes God in many Yea many thousands hath found hardly any Himselfe doth censure and search euery where And what Repute with all sorts he doth beare Round like the World abiding and secure Lest his plague Out-side blemish doe endure He weighes in Cancer when the day-light ends How farre the night in Capricorne extends And with iust Ballance himselfe poyseth well Lest either Cleft appeare or Angle swell That all his parts may equally befit And that the Plumbe line may not swerue a whit He must be sollid all no emptinesse Let erring fingers force in him expresse Let not his Eye lids be to sleepe inclinde Ere he his daies whole actions call to minde What he hath slipt what done in out of season Why this fact wanted comelinesse that reason What I haue past why this opinion stood Which for me to haue chang'd it had beene good Why pittying him that feels wants bittersmart I suffered Griefe with an effeminate heart Why would what I should not and why gaine Rather then goodnesse did I entertaine Whether in Speech or Lookes harsh any knew me Why Nature more then Learnings vertue drew me Thus passing through what he hath sayd and done And not long after Setting of the Sun All things reuoluing with the Bad offended He giues the Palme to th' Good by him commended 13 Of the ages of diuers liuing creatures THe life of Man most commonly outweares Being complete fourescore and sixteene yeares And these nine times exceeds the pratling Crow Yet doth the Hart that age foure times o're goe And thrice his yeeres expirde the Rauen dies But those the Phoenix nine times multiplies Yet th'Hamadriades Nymphs past compare Breathe nine times longer then that Bird so rare Those creatures vitall fates these bounds restraining The rest God knowes the secret Age ordaining Some men set before them these two others AHedge three yeeres a Dog three hedges courses A Horse three Dogs a Man out-liues three Horses 14 Of the Muses inuentions CLio things done doth afterwards reherse Melpomene shewes all in Tragicke verse To wanton words her minde Thalia bends Sweet sounds from hollow reeds Euterpe sends Terpsichore loue with Harpe moues rules augments With songs lookes dances Erato contents Calliope indites heroicke lines Vrania notes heauens motions starres and signes Speaking with gesture Polymneia stands And figures all things with her learned hands These on all parts Apollo's vertue guides And he ith'midst embracing all abides Of the same in prose Clio inuented Histories Melpomene inuented Tragedies Thalia inuented Comedies Euterpe inuented Flutes and such like Terpsichore inuented The Harpe Erato inuented Geometrie Calliope inuented Letters Vrania inuented Astrologie Polymneia inuented Rhetoricke 15 Of our Image in the water Distichs varied 12. seuerall wayes 1 THe looker sees his lookes in water cleare As in an obiect-myrror they appeare 2 Pure formes from water to the sight doe passe As from the splendour of a looking glasse 3 The fountaine represents our likenesse right Such as the steele-glasse which is plaine and bright 4 Still Waters figures opposite no lesse Then myrrours through their brightnesse doe expresse 5 Springs voyde of mud dissemble our Aspects As each bright myrrors orbe the same reflects 6 Cleare Water is the chrystall mirrors ape For either to Spectators tels their shape 7 Fountaines most cleare shew faces seeming true Like Glasse that women for their dressing view 8 As the Beholders forme Steele-glasses take So Formes their Image in the water make 9 Feign'd Shapes in Conduit-heads the Right ingender As to each face the Glasse a face doth render 10 The Spring vntroubled Shape for Shape doth yeeld As Substance Shadowes in a Glassie field 11 Bodies in quiet Springs are seene againe As Images appeare in Mirrors plaine 12 The Viewer viewes himselfe in glassie Brookes As in that brittle stuffe whereon he lookes 16 Of a Riuer Frozen Distichs varied 12. seuerall wayes 1 WHere Ships did vse to plow yok'd Oxen drew When once hard Winter did the Waters glew 2 The Floud beares Wheels where Shipmen sails did strike So soone as Frost congeales it Marble-like 3 Hardned with Winters cold the Waters bore Waines drawne with Oxen that Ships cut before 4 To solid Ice the Riuer being chang'd Indures the Wheele where fleeting vessels rang'd 5 The Carres where Ships were wont haue past the flood Since turn'd to Ice like Marble it hath stood 6 A road for Carres where Ships did run is made With Frost the Waters being firmly laid 7 In place of Ships the Trackt of Wheeles is found Since Icy Winter the loose Waters bound 8 Yok'd Oxen draw the Waine where Ships did reele Winds hauing hardned Waues to beare the Wheele 9 The Beast now drags where Mariners did sound The Riuer being turn'd to massie ground 10 The Streame with cold extreme now firme abiding Beares