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water_n	earth_n	fire_n	heat_n	4,965	5	8.4696	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96944	Characters and elegies. By Francis VVortley, Knight and Baronet.	Wortley, Francis, Sir, 1591-1652.	1646 (1646)	Wing W3634; Thomason E344_21; ESTC R200973	32,406	78

Et quantum natura petit Non Auro Myrrhâve bibunt sed gurgite pure Populis satis est fluviusque Ceresque OUr Prodigall Ryot will not be content With mean provisions Caterers must be sent To search both Sea and Land and scarce are able To serve th' ambitious hunger of one Table Learne with how small Allowance man may live Nature doth no such vast Allowance give The people drinke brooke water cleere and cold Not perfum'd wines with Myrrhe in Cups of Gold Of wholesome Bread let them but have good store And cleere brooke water they desire no more VI De Archmedis Sphera JUpiter in parvo cum cerneret aethera vitro Risit ad Superos talia dicta dedit Huccine Monopolis progressa potentia cura Jam mens in parvo triditur orbe labor Jura poli rerumque fidem legemque deorum Ecce Syracusus transtulit arte senex Percurrit totum mentibus signifera annum Et simulatu nova Cinthia mense redit Jamque suum voluens audax industria mundum Gaudet humana sidera mente regit Ergo quid insontem tonitru Salmonea miror Emula natura parva repertu manus JOve when in Glasse he saw a Spheare was made He smild and this unto the Gods he said Of man we need to take no further care They Jeere our paynes they now such Artists are Old Archimedes undertakes our Trade He in a Spheare hath all heavens motions made In which a Spirit included seemes to move The severall Orbs and Stars like those above A Sun runs through the 12. signs makes the yeere Cynthia with all her Aspects doth appeare The Rapid motion men dare undertake To rule their stars too since they heaven can make Why should we vex at Salmons guiltles thunder Since emulous man hath framed a greater wonder VII De remora piscicula SOlus ego Actiacum potui retinere carinam Et potui Baii rostra tenere duci● Semipedalis ego quis haec corpuscula cr●dat In cursu tantas detinuisse naves CEsar for Actium bound even I alone Could stay when with his fleet he would be gone My length but halfe a foote my Body small How could I stay Ships under sayle so tall VIII De flamma perenni inventa in urna apud Patavium qua fracta extincta fuit flamma PLutoni sacrum munus ne attingite fures Ignotum vobis est hoc quod in orbe latet Namque elementa gravi clausit digesta labore Vase sub hoc modico maximus Olibius THis sacred Gift to Pluto I forbid Your theeves to touch for t is a secret hid With Art and paines hath great Olibius shut In this small Urne th' unruly Elements up IX De vicissitudine rerum PAuperies pacem pax opes copia luxum Sed luxus bellum bellaque pauperiem Pauperies turbam causat turbaque quietem Stant qui deciderent quique stetere cadunt Captivi capiunt qui domuere domantur Jam victi suplex qui modo victor erat Sic plebae ●ndomitae sic sunt sua fata tyrannis Sic Deus alternas versat in orbe vices OUr Poverty makes peace Peace wealth and ryot Riot makes war War makes us poore and qui et Our wants breed troubles after troubles rest They fall who stood those lately fell stand best The Prisoners take those captives them even now The Conqueror late must to new Conquerors bow So God disposes of all earthly States Kings and wild Commons take by turnes their fates X. De Ethiope baptizato ILle niger sacris lotus quam exit ab undis Nec frustra Ethiopem nempe lavare fuit Mentem quam niveam piceae cutis umbra fovebat Jam volet ad nigras sancta columba lares HOw white the Sun-parcht Moor from Jordan came To wash the Blackmore thus was not in vaine So white a soule lives in that pitch-staind Cell The sacred Dove in that makes choice to dwell XI De quinque panibus tot mille pascentibus QUis novus Agricola quae nova semina crescit Cum perit major fit minuendo ceres Millia tot virum panum sed quinque putasses Millia tot panum quinque fuisse virum Who that new seedes man or that seede can guesse Which spending growes and wasting doth increase Five loaves whereof so many thousands fed Yo'ud think the five were men the thousands bread XII Ovidius in Ibim DEsinit esse prius contrarius ignibus humor Et tepidus gelidus flavit ab axe nothus Et ver autumno brume miscebitur aestas Atque eadem regio vesper artus erit Quam mihi sit tecum positis quae sumpsimus armis Gratia commissis improbe ruptatuis Pax erit haec nobis semper dum vita manebit Cum pecore infirmo qua solet esse Lupis Terra tibi fruges amnis tibi deneget undas Deneget a●flatus ventus aura su●s Nec tibi sol calidus nec sit tibi lucida Phoebe Destituant oc●los sydera clara tu●s Nec tibi Vulcanus nec se tibi praebeat ●er Nec tibi det tellus nec tibi pontus iter Exul inops erres alienaque limina lustres Exiguumque pet●s ore tremente cibum Nec corpus querulo nec mens vacet aegra dolore Moxque die gravior sit tibi nocte dies Sisque miser semper nec ●is miserabilis ulli Gaudeat adversis faemina virque tuis Qui mala cum tuleris plurima plura feras Causaque non desit desit tibi copia mortis Optatam fugiat vita coacta necem Luctatusque diu cruciatos spiritus artus Deserat longa torqueat a●te ●ora My Translation transferred in wishes to him deserted and betrayed Cesars Cause and his Comrade in adversity FIrst fire and water shall to friendship grow And from the North-pole warm South-winds shall blow The Spring shall change to Autumne snow shall burn The Easterne Regions shall to Westerne turne Sooner then I friendship renew with thee Once my Comrade forsook thy Arms and me Such peace shall henceforth betwixt thee and me As wont betwixt the Wolfe and Lambe to be May Brooks their waters Earth her fruits deny Nor wind nor aire thee with their breath supply May not the sun lend heat nor moone shine cleare May never a star by night to thee appeare May fire and ayre grow concreat as the glasse May sea and land refuse to give thee passe All tatter'd maist thou goe from doore to doore And beg thy bread amongst the wretched poore May nere thy soule or body want their griefe May dayes give thee no ease nor nights reliefe Maist thou most wretched be pityed by none May they rejoyce who should thy state bemoane May all thy evils still increase and grow Maist thou desire to die and no meanes know May thy strong heart strive with thy will to die As in the rack maist thou in sicknesse lye Like those that dye by piece-meale or

chance That the Masculine is more worthy then the Feminine Gender is a rule we take up in our childhood and lay downe with our lives but she gives Lilly the lye she proves that the Theologicall and Cardinall vertues are of the female gender and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} potestas and potentia power and ability too and concludes like a Mathematician demonstratively As a chaste wife and happy mother she brought her husband a son in whose education she shewes her selfe more like a father in her discreet management of his youth in travell then a tender mother in distrust of Gods providence abroad and doth in this like the wise Merchant who trusts the Sea with his bullion and stock and transacts it where exchange runnes highest and so ballances his trading by the probability not certainty of advantage in the returne whereas her husband would wrap his talent in a napkin or hide it in a dung-hill and breed his sonne no better then himselfe were not she the better Merchant yet hers is but a mothers interest his a fathers hers in blood his in perpetuity As for the sisters part she hath out-done all presidents in that more then both the other it being hard to finde a sister can be so tender a mother to her Brothers Orphane that the childe were he come to her owne sonnes age could scarcely misse his mother such is her care of it And that which most commends her is she in her Noble Brothers imprisonment hath managed his misfortunes with as much or more advantage then her owne wasting her weak body in those noble services nay over-witting those engins imployed to ruine her Brother Like Moses shee stood in the gap betwixt her Brother and the Parliaments displeasure nor would give over untill like him she by her intercession had set him free and delivered him from the judgements which hung like a cloud over his head She lost not the least advantage in relation to her Brothers honour fortune or happiness In a word she is to her husband a loyall wife to her sonne a discreetly indulgent mother to her Brother such a Sister as the wisest man would wish his owne and I mine Mothers Wives Sisters you who would not erre Steere all your courses by this Character This is no faigned Character but true My soule could wish it were my Sisters due Nor wealth nor titles could inrich our blood So much as this would could they make it good X. The politique Neuter IS an Hermaphrodite partaking of two sexes and as unfruitfull to his Prince or country a man that dares not professe the Religion he was baptized to nor protest against an Innovation and so no Protestant he reserves his choice for the prevailing partie and for the present professeth that which they doe wonders at the distractions in the Church and Common-wealth and in the mean time is more distracted in himselfe he dares not owne his conscience now and therefore that will change Masters and turne witnes against him when he stands most need of it he would fain serve two Masters at once and please both but finding our Saviours words true that he must hate the one and love the other he resolves to hate him he fears most and to love neither not firme to either he loses the good opinion of both and so fals betwixt two stools God calls on him in the Old Testament with a quere how long he will halt betwixt two opinions and Christ in the New promises him the Laodiceans reward he is so far from trusting Gods mercie in Martyrdome that he dares not trust his providence in wants he is as much troubled as David at the prosperitie of the wicked but hath not the patience to goe to Gods House with him to enquire of their ends he will not beleeve Davids experience concerning the Children of the righteous whom he never saw begging their bread he had rather leane upon the rotten reeds of his owne policie then trust the firme rock of Gods providence if he ever professed to be for the King when his cause prospered he presently repented it and purchased the Parliaments pardon and protection and paid at least two yeares purchase for it if he be a Prisoner it is with accommodation and by it he saves the charges of hospitalitie yet hopes that moneys thus disburst makes him a Martyr and may be pleaded as well in bar of further assistance to the King as a Privie seale though it be disburst for the Parliaments use if for the Parliament you shall never find him without a Royall protection and purchased friendship at Oxford and that sometimes is mistaken and shewn to the wrong partie and then he payes for it if either partie prevaile he is in Misericordia if an Accommodation for which he prays more heartily then the forgivenesse of his sins help not he hath so long endeavoured to get a dexterous use of his left hand that he hath almost lost the perfect use of his right and is become an imperfect perfect Ambodexter or at best so cunning at leger-demaine that he gets the repute of a notable Jugler In a word he dares not seeme what he is nor be what he seemes but like luke-warme water having neither heat enough to warme the Stomacke nor being cold enough to coole it is rejected of both and spued out as friend to neither XI The Citie Paragon IS a woman whose birth was greater then her portion but her vertues greater then her birth who was marryed to a husband whose fortune exceeded his wisdome yet his fortune in her was greater then his wealth who manages his fortune so that she improves his conscience as much as his wealth and her wit makes him eminent in the City She loves not with the Pharisees the highest places at Feasts nor salutations in Assemblies knowing Envy attends the first and Pride the other Her dresse is more comely then costly modest then garish her visits like Sabboth dayes labours not frequent and never without charity or necessity undertaken her entertainment to her husbands friends or her owne suits both their conditions more neat it is then curious and is more reall and solid then ceremonious She desires her children may be so bred that they may be seasoned in their childhood with those vertues which may make them happy in their age And knowing Examples prevaile more then Precepts she gives them none but such as she would have them follow Those troubles incident to rich men which they call misfortunes she makes blessings by her right use of them knowing it is not the fruition but right use that makes us truly rich nor the losse of wealth can make any so miserable as the abuse of it If she heare any ill of her neighbour she had rather suppresse it then report it if any good she will rather improve it then enviously diminish it If any uncertaine evill be reported of