deeds hold The twigs of the rod of war wherewith God scourgeth a want nation into repenâ—nce When the sword is once drawn he wisheth all scabbards cut in pieâ—â— Soul The heavenly spark the better part of man Of a fair lodging brighâ—er guest The bodies inmate The rationall and nobler part The bodies Tenant The best first part the Monarch of the breast The bodies best perfume Souls departed Spirits which have thrown away All their envious weights of clay And by their glorious troops supply The glorious winged Hierarchy Whom their great Creators sight Inebriateth with delight Spirits imparadised Freed souls Uncaged spirits Flidge souls that leave their shells Uncased unorganed unsheathed souls Ghosts repurified unhoused uncloathed souls That have put on the glistering Pall Of immortality That clothed be In garments wove of immortality Divorced infranchised refined souls That have put off their gowns of clay Harsh sound The bells in pestilence ne'r made like sound The croaking raven or the engendring toad The mandrakes shriek not half so harsh Killing accents No harsher news did ever strike the ear Heart-wounding news Sinking the soul with the report Where truth is worse than any forgeriâ— Where we may curse the mouth that doth not lie Where fame goes off with a most sad report Oh wound us not with sad a tale for bear To presse our grief too much we cannot hear This all at once such heavy news as these Must gently sink into us by degrees Let us digest This first then try our patience with the rest Practise us first in lighter griefs that we 〈◊〉 grow at last strong for this Tragedy 〈◊〉 it in whispers and uncertainty â— some new unauthoriz'd bâ—zze without â—â—ason or warrant to confirme our doubt South Where Auster vailes â—â—d heavens with clouds and earth with showers assails Sew The cunningest painter might have learn'd of her needle which â—â—h so pretty a manner made his careere to and froâ— through the â—â—h as if the needle would have been loth to have gone from such â—â—istresse but that it hoped to returne thitherward very quickly aâ—in the cloth looking with many eyes upon her and lovingly emâ—â—acing the wounds she gave it the shears were also at hand to beâ—â—d the silk that was grown too short And if at any time she 〈◊〉 it to her mouth to bite it off it seemed that where she had been â—â—g making roses with her hands she would in an instant make â—â—ses with hâ—r lips the lillies seemed rather to have whitenesse of â—e hand that made them than the matter they were made of and 〈◊〉 they grew there by the suns of her eyes refreshed by that aire â—hich an unawares sigh might bestow upon them Like artificial Gods creating flowers Sparke â—s fire his strength being wasted hides his head â—n the white ashes sleeping though not dead Who ever saw a dying sparke of fire â—â—ke in warme embers till some breath inspire â—â—orc't revival how obscure it lies And beeing blowne glimmers awhile and dies â—â—eping in his ashy bed Speake To breake the yeilding aire His tongue begun his taske His lipâ— he thus unlocks unsealâ— â—o present the aire with To saluâ—e the ears To cloath the thoughts in airy garments To forme a speech to shape a voice And wings gave to this speech To digest his thoughts in words As if a God did break The aire amongst us and vouâ—hsafe to speak He straight divides The portals of his lips and thus replâ—'d His lips such accents break To unseal the red virgin wax To break the bars of silence Open once more those rosie twins Opâ—ning the cherrie of her lips The conceptions of the mind discharge their birth Spider Industrious Spinster That weaves the waving tiffany That on high rafters layes her thin spun net To catch the buzzing flie That weaves her own Lawn hanging canopie Ingenious spinner twining with her feet What from her bowels comes Spinne To twine the carded wooll The carded wooll With following twine their busie fingers pull And with soft murmures draw the teased wool From their small spindles twerl the twining thread A Spring or Fountain Chrystall riverlings purl on the pebbles The lesser daughters of the sea Edged with poplar trees Where Chrystal springs do wooe the meeker ground And makes the pebbles dance unto their sound The Chrystall spring Got newly from the earths imprisoning The Chrystall current of the plains The water turns in many a ring As if it staid to hear the wood quire sing The water so transparent pure and clear That had the self enamour'd boy gaz'd here So fatally deceiv'd he had not been While he the bottome not his face had seen A Chrystall rill Gently diâ—burd'ned from a swelling hill Which from the green side of a flowry bank Eat down a channell where the wood nymphs drank That smileth as she floats And in her face so many dimples show And often skips as it did dancing go Whose fretful waves beating against the hill 〈◊〉 all the bottom with soft mutterings fill The murmuring brooke That wantons through the meadowes Sweet springs in which a thousand nimphes did play â—oft rumbling brooks that gentle slumber drew By whose falls â—elodious birds sing madrigalls â— babling spring that trips upon the stones â—nd with soft murmure rocks the sence asleepe The Christal Nymph The flowing deity â— bubling spring with streams as clear as glasse â—n chiding by enclos'd with matted grasse A Chrystal spring Presenting the impartial shapes of things The spring â—regnant with flowers now the spring Like a new bride appears â—hose feather'd musick only bring Caresses and no requiem sing On the departed year The earth like some rich wanton heire Whose parents conffind lie â—orgets it once lookt pale and bare And doth for vanities prepare As if spring nere would die â—hen temperate breath â—â—es to the glad fields truitful birth â—h ' enamour'd spring soft blushâ—s blowes Upon the roses cheeks The south inspires Life in the spring and gathers into quires The scaâ—ter'd nightingales Now th' astonisht spring â—ears in the aire the feather'd people sing The easie spring â—â—icht with odours wantons on the wing â—f th' Easterne wind â—â—ir Mistresse of the earth with garlands crown'd 〈◊〉 out her flowry wealth The trees put on their leavy hats Then glad earth gives new liveries to the trees When sturdy Aries ushers in the spring Now each creature joyes the other Passing happy dayes and houres One bird reports unto another In the fall of silver showers Whilst the earth our common mother Hath her bosome deckt with flowers Whilst the greatest tofch of heaven Wâ—th bright raies warmes Flora's lap Making nights and daies both even Chearing plants with fresher sap When proud pyde April drest in all his trim Hâ—th put a spirit of youth in every thing That heavy Saturn laught and leapt with him The summers front The foyzen of the year When nightingales do hush the silent night When nightingales do sing the sun asleepe And a wild
molten lead do never want â—hat iust excuse vnanswerable argument Neck 〈◊〉 neck that polisht ivory weares â—ilver pillar whiter far â—hâ—n towers of polisht ivory are Negro V. Aethiopian Nemesis â—â—st goddesse of revenge sterne Rhamnusia â—other of fate and change 〈◊〉 bearer of eternall providence Daughter of frowning iustice â—hich from black clos'd Eternity â—rom thy darke cloudy hidden seate â—he worlds disorders dost descry Which when they swell so proudly great Reversing the order nature set Thou givest thy all confounding doome Which none doth know before it come Neptune The aged father of the floods The wavie Monarch The great sea Admirall The trident armed God Whose state Is next to Ioves Great ruler of the floods The king of surges The Saphyr God of seas The Monarch of the sacred floods The father of the swelling Maine Cerulean God The God whose trident calmes the Ocean The god that earth doth bind In brackish chains He that girds earth in cincture of the sea Whose vast embrace ensphears whole earth He that all lands Girds in his ambient circle and in air Shakes the curl'd tresses of his Saphyr hair The watry King that holds the three tooth'd scepteâ— The god that rides In his blue chariot o'r the surging tides That makes the roaring waves shrink when they feel The heavy burthen of his pressing wheel Whose threeforkt scepter rules the sea Tâ—e Saphyr visag'd God Great master of the floods The unresisted power of the deeps King of waves He that unlocks The gaping quicksands undermines the rocks Saturns warry son Joves watry brother Sea Deitie Tattarean god The universall Admirall Nereides That on the Dolphines back ride o'r the seas Their finning coursers Thet is virgin train The Watry powers goddesses Deities The Nymphs that float upon the watry seas The wanton Nymphs within the watry bowers That o'r the sand with printlesse foot Chace ebbing Neptune That on their heads wear caps of pearly shells Green goddesses of Seas gray Doris daughters That in low corall woods String pearls upon their Sea green hair Psamathe Thetis Doâ—o Galenae Clotho Galaâ—aea Eucrato Glauce Leucothoe Proto Doris Spio Cymodorea Idya Endore Sao Eunica Dynamene Thâ—iaa Pasithee Eulimenâ— Cymathoe Mâ—lite Pherusa Phao Agave Poris Nesaea Erato Panopa Protomedea Hyppothoe Actaea Lâ—ssiaâ—issa Pronaea Euagore Pantoporea Autonone Neso Eione Beâ—oe V. Hesiods Theogonia v. 230. 346 Glauconome Alimeda Hipponeo Laomedia Liagore Cymo Eupompe Themiste Euarne Menippe Petâ—aea Nemertea Ocyrâ—oe Cydippe Tyche Acaste Clyâ—ie Ianthe Lycoris Plexaure Nestor That miracle of aged eloquence He that three ages saw Eloquent gravity The Pylian sage That liv'd to see a treble age Net Corded toyles corded snares Corded mashes Windowie toyles Masht in the net Never The sun shall change his course and find new pathes To drive his chariot in The loadstone leave His faith unto the North. The vine withdraw Those strict embraces that infold the elme In her kind armes ere c. First shady groves shall on the bâ—llowes grow And sea weeds on the tops of mountains show Their flimy chires Heavens fiâ—es shall first fall darkned from their spheare Grave night the light weed of the day shall wear Fresh streams shall chace the sea tough plowes shall tear Their fishie bottome c. Before Sooner fleet minutes shall back rescued be Soonner expect the harvest from the sand Sooner every star May in his motion grow irregular The sun forget to give his welcome flame Unto the teeming earth December sooner shall see primrose grow And swift-pac't rivers in soft murmures flow No more shall mead be deckt with flowers Nor sweetnesse dwell in rosie bowers Nor early buds on branches spring Nor warbling birds delight to sing Nor April violets paint the grove The fish shall in the Ocean burne And fountains sweet shall bitter tuâ—ne The humble oake no flood shall know Black Lethe shall oblivion leave Love shall his bow and shaft lay by And Venus doves waâ—t wings to fly The sun refuse to shew his light And day shall then be turn'd to night And in that night no star appeare No joy above in heaven shall dwell Nor pain torment poor souls in hell Can earth forget her burthen and ascend Oâ— can aspiring flames be taught to tend To earth Then c. Can hills forget their ponderous bulks and fly Like wandering Aromes in the empty skie Or can the heavens grown idle not fulfill Their certain revolutions but stand still And leave their constant motion to the wind T' inherit Then c. Sooner the sun and stars shall shine together Sooner the wolfe make peace with tender lambes Sooner shall rigid Boreas first take wing At Nilus head and boisterous Auster spring From th' icie floods of Izland Then c. You may sooner part the billowes of the sea And put a bar between their fellowship Sooner shut Old time into a den and stay his motion Wash off the swift houres from his downy wing Or steal eternity to stop his glasse Sooner the pibbles on the hungry beach Shall â—illop stars and the mutinous winds Throw the proud Cedars up against the sun When Poe shall wash the topps of Matine hill Or the sea swallow lofty Apennine And strange effâ—cts of love new monsters joyne That Tygers may from hindes seeke lusts delight And the meeke dove is troden by the kite When flocks the Lyons friendship entertain And wanton goats affect the brackish main Then c. Sooner the mountains shall want shady trees Sooner the ships shall not â—aile on the seas And rivers make recourse unto their springs The rivers shall recoile unto their springs The sun shall from the west his course begin The earth shall first with shining stars be fill'd The skies unto the furrowing plough shall yeild The water shall send forth a smoaking flame The fiâ—r shall yeild water back again First shall the birds that welcome in the spring All mute and dumbe for ever cease to sing The summer Ants leave their industrious pain And from their full mouthes cast their loading grain The swift Maenalian hounds that chasing are Shall frighted run back from the trembling â—â—are First nature shall become preposterous No element shall hold his constant seat Heaven shall be earth and earth Joves starâ—y house Fier shall be cold and water shall give hea Summer shall give a snowie livery Unto the ground and does shalllyons fright Through aire the crowes whiter than snow shall fly And the daies brightnesse turne into the night The fish shall not inhabit in the flood And silver swans shall take a jetty die The chaâ—ing boare shall not then haunt the wood With wings then oxen shall divide the skie Marble shall then the wax in softnesse passe The chicken then shall prey upon the kite In the vast welkin shall the staggs seâ—ke grasse The dog forget Arcadian wolves to bite Stars shall enamel earth and from the tree No leaves shall dangle eagles court the dove The highest mounâ—ains then shall levell'd be
tongue made up of harmon Those ranks of orient pearls The pearlie pales That hedge of ivory The ivory bounders of the tongue The pearly row The ivory Precincts The double pearly guard of speech The pearl-pott cullis that adorns The two leav'd ruby gate The second sweetly fenced ward An heavenly dewed tongue to guard Natures shedding knives Temperate v. Abstemious Content with natures courtesie His feast but hungers banishment That ne'r refus'd The diet Curii and Camillus us'd Whose unbought cates please their unlearned throats That lives at natures cheap expence That feeds at natures charge Tempest The furious winds with one another scold Lightning is all our light and it rain'd more Than if the sun had drunk the sea before Darknesse lights elder brother his birthright Chain'd o'r this world and to heaven chas'd this light The seas are ruffled into billows Eurus stiffely blew And high wrought seas with chafing foamie grew The tossing seas appear to touch the skie And wrap their curls in clouds Ambitious seas to gloomie heaven ascend Sails suck the falling rain Showrs joyn with floods The assailing waves the vessel rock On every rising wave Death sits in triumph and presents a grave The giddy seas do whirl and pitchie clouds Obscure the skie The wild Ocean knows no shore â—e roaring surges rake the ratled shore â—s thrust their waves upon the groaning shore â—â—stle their backs and spit their angry foam The tempest raves â—oops from the clouds and cuffes the purple waves â—e destinies sat dancing on the waves â—â—see the wrastling winds with mutuall braves â—â—sume each other The waves do knit their brow â—he ruffled waves of the enraged sea Then every puffe of wind blows up a grave â—â—thin the bosome of the angry wave Neptune then gathered clouds up from the Land â—ighted the seas up snatcht ino his hand Is massie trident and aloft did tosse Of all the winds all storms he could ingrosse â—ll earth took into sea with clouds grim night â—ell tumbling headlong from the cope of light The East and south wind justled in the air â—oll'd waves before them With clouds did Jove heavens heightned fore head bind Then tyranniz'd the wrath of all the winds The floating ship was cuff'd from wave to wave Made the winds tennis ball â—uch was the tempest when Ulysses lost All his companions The waves and winds in mutinie O stempered waters Jove drives his flock of clouds The stormy tyranny of winds The Ship is made the scorn of sea and winds Winds quick winds up the waves the billows rise Dark clouds â—oll up and take day from our eyes With our laborious oaâ—s we ply Slice up the foam and sweep blew waves on high The bow backt waves tosse us up to the skie A storm whose blacknesse frights the sea Horrour in triumph rides upon the waves And all the furies from their gloomy caves Hovered upon our ship Where howling trenches of self-drowning waves And stormy gusts throw up untimely graves Where billows with white foam shew angry minds For not outroaring all the high rais'd winds The Dolphins that presage a coming storme Swiming on the waves to teach us none should dare Excepting fishes then to venture there When the distracted Ocean Swells to sedition and obeyes no law The stormes speak loud And the astonisht day doth turne to night The seas are rais'd so high That waves do hang like tears in the suns eye That we as in vast cataracts they fall Think that he weeps at natures funeral Such was the tempest in wich Caeser sayl'd In a small barke from Greece to Italy Proud billowes rise and war against the skies The waves in crooked furrowes flow As if that Aeolus and Neptune strove For the seas empery The threatning Ocean spends his swelling spight The tenth wave rears the ship The Porpoise dance upon the swelling wave Whilst every billow is her sisters grave The angry tumults of the sea and skies Aeolus lets loose his uncontrolled breath Whose language threatens nothing under death The rudder failes the ships at random driven The eye no object ownes but sea and heaven The heavens begin to roare As they would split the massie globe in sunder From those that live above to those live under The winds above rhe water underneath Joyn in rebellion and conspire death Each one becomes an Oratour for life Their hands are busie while their hearts despaire The waves With unresisted tyranny outbraves And threats to grapple with the darkened skies Whilst like to mooving mountains they arise From their distempered Ocean and assaile Heavens batlements High tides do flow Whose brackish waves do lash the broken shore Seas smooth back roll'd before with gentle breath In brissels set now spits her foamy wrath A pitchy storme wrapt up in swelling clouds â—â—ster clad in a cloak of clouds and lin'd â—â—â—h thunder mufiled up the heavens â—able aire so muffles up the skie â—â—at the sad sailers can no light descry 〈◊〉 if some beam break through their pitchy night â—s but dread flashing of the lightning's light â—â—d with their top-saile tilt up at the stars The sea doth rage and rore â—â—menacing to swallow up the shore The troubled waves in mighty mountains rise Threatning to spit their brine drops in their eyes The sea her billowes musters proudly up â—nd shoots them at the sun â—â— if all elements and all their power Were turn'd into one vow'd destruction The ship with main mast bores the moone The troubled billowes chasing with the shores The scolding winds â—ive up the knotty oakes Th' ambitious Ocean swells rageth and foams To be exalted with the threatning clouds The chiding billow seems to pelt the clouds The wind shakt surge with high and monstrous main Seems to cast water on the burning bear And quench the guard of th'ever fixed pole â—â— never did like molestation view On the incensed flood Winds blow as if they meant to waken death The labouring bark climbes up vast hills of se as Olympus high and ducks again as low As hell's from heaven A water combate on the sea betweeen Two toaring angry boyling billowes how They march and meete and dash their curled brows Swelling like graves as if they did intend Tentombe each other ere the quarrel end Ulysses ships found not the seas more rough Nor the unhappy navy that from Troy Once with Aeneas sayl'd The sea is not more troubled than their breast All the tempestuous stars Their Constellations join and on them pour Their most malignant influence Sterope Artophylax The kids Hyades Orion Africus Notus Euroclydon Tempestuous winds V. Dunnes storm Sands Ovid. Metam Lib. 11. p. 379. Virgil. 1. book aâ—nexed p. 535. The frighted sea-calves sculk away and hide Their quivering heads within the swelling tide The crooked Dolphins bristle up their backs Amaz'd to hear such loud voic'd thunder cracks And all those massie whales that brush the seas Dive down for fear to find the Antipodes The juggling sea god trusting to no shape Nor any
The English PARNASSUS OR A HELPE TO English Poesie Containing A COLLECTION Of all Rhyming Monosyllables The choicest Epithets and Phrases With some General Forms upon all Occasions Subjects and Theams Alphabetically digested By JOSUA POOLE M. A. Clare Hall Camb. Together with A short Institution to English Poesie by way of PREFACE London Printed for Tho. Johnson at the golden Key in St. Pauls Church-yard 1657. TO My Worthily Honoured FRIEND Mr. FRANCIS ATKINSON I Shall not need to derive any confidence from the long acquaintance and friendship hath passed between us to presse you to the Patronage of this work when there are so many other Considerations that in a manner force it on you as having a certain right in it it is the account of many a years Stewardship the product of many a midnight thought during my relation to you and those young Gentlemen committed by you to my charge and oversight in a word it had the first and last hand put to it that is ows both its originall and perfection to your house at HADLEY There are indeed abroad in the world many books conducing to the improvement of youth in good Letters whereof it may be said of some they are superfluous of others they are burthensome and by multiplicity of instruction distract the Learner And this proceeds partly from an itch of reputation which even those of that laborious nay by many sleighted profession are not free from partly from the difficulties that attend the education of youth and partly from that generall humour in most men of discovering their invention in furnishing the world with something that is new or their wit in reforming and advancing what had been done by others But for this of mine you are not ignorant of the difficulty of the attempt what a strange multitude of Authors I have been forced as it were to anatomise and that I may say without any great losse of Modesty that there never came yet abroad so methodicall an Institution of ENGLISH POESIE For you who look on education through other prospective glasses than those of necessity or advantage know that it requires a person of generous inclinations that as an exrprest Architect layes the solid foundations of humane life and undertakes a businesse that hath the greatest influence on Policy Morality and Religion This once granted no pains no care no vigilancy can be too great that is spent upon the cultivation of these noble plants were there only this inducement that we should transmit them such to posterity as that they may in them perceive our care and tendernesse Upon these grounds did I enter into the present relation to you which being as I said a stewardship it is but just I should bring something to testifie my faithfulnesse You know how beneficial this work hath been where it was brought forth and exercised and I leave it to you either to communicate it or conceale it If ever it come abroad into the world I desire it may be under the conduct of your name that for your particular it may be satisfied how much you have contributed to the the Commonwealth of Learning and for mine be convinced how conscientious I have been in the discharge of my duty what great respects I have for you and how passionately desirous I am to expresse my self Sir Your most affectionate Friend and faithful Servant Josua Poole To the hopeful young Gentlemen his Schollers in that private School at Hadley Kept in the house of Mr. Francis Atkinson SWeet impes of early hopes whose smiling brow Beckens the cincture of the laureate bough Whose lips seem made to tast no other spring Than that by which the The spian virgins sing Whose sprightly face and active eyes descry The Muses in a rising majesty You that without th'edition of a book Can make men read a Poet in your look Whose downy plumes with happy augurie Presage betimes what the fledge soul will be For you Ingenious spirits thus I trie To find a milkie way to Poesie That babes as they the coral nipples lugge May find an Hippocrene within the dugge And the first milk that they shall feed upon May be the sacred dew of Helicon And when at first their steps the earth shall greete At once may find their own and verses feete After as they grow up Pegasus may Be the first hobby-horse with which they play And when to higher sports they come may put An Homers Iliads in their game some nut And whilst they take their pastime in the sun Together make their tops and verses run Nay to that height they shall their phancies raise That whilst they run at they shal win the Baies In all their sports they shall the Poets play And make the Birch prevented by the Bay For they shal need no Masters to rehearse Long tedious precepts of the lawes of verse In them so printed shall those lawes be seen As if they had the lawes of Nature been The only taske their Masters shall impose On them will be to learn to speak in prose In which they shall have if they chance t' offend As boys scan verses at their fingers ends Pleading like Ovid for to save their breech As if Prosodia went before In speech Or that they had into the world been brought As Lucan died with verses in their throat Their cradles of the verdant laurel been Or of those learned trees which once were seene After the Thracian Harper dance along Wedding their motions to his well-tim'd song And all that shal their sodain raptures hear That Poets are not made but born will swear The early blossoms which I see in you Makes me believe these my presages true For if you can so much already do What will they that may sooner come unto Parnassus mount If you so much can see On plainer ground what will they that shal be Advantag'd by that hill whose tops do rise In stately height to parly with the skies On then sweet souls that sacred verse may be No longer call'd the thred-bare mystery Let the world see what yet it scarce before Hath known there are good Poets yet not poore Whose inspirations and rich phancies be More than a Taverns frothy tympany That conjure not up wit with spirit of wine Nor make the bay supported by the vine Like those whose thirsty fancies ebbe and flow lust as their cups greater or lesser grow Phaebus and Bacchus that together link And never write but in or after drink As when great showers of rain fall from the skies In standing waters bubbles will arise And for my selfe though I did ne'r bestride The winged horse and through the welkin glide Vnto the forked hill nor saw the spring Where those sweet maids of Memory do sing Whilst their harmonious aires give easie birth Vnto the flowers and help the teeming earth Whilst shaggy Satyrs yeild their sences thrall To the sweet cadence of their madrigals And all the leavy standards of the wood Quitting the place
slavish servile detested crooked odious painful displeasing tyrannous Youth Unbrideled wild hot fresh loose manly blooming vigorous ungoverned unruly amotous giddy immoderate flowing waxie pliant budding green rude raw unexperienced untutor'd active stirring unreined lustful smiling downy wanton vernant burning coltish able intemperate dissolute untamed proud ambitious voluptuous luxurious unwary rash haire-braind inconsiderate flowry lascivious soft tender free boyling impatient furious hardy unwise lively quick-headed impetuous audacious daring couragious sprightful active generous chearful merry ingenious witty briske neat inconstant sportive gamesome frolick jovial cholerick uncontrolled unmellow unripe unfledge sleeke smooth unsifted unreclaimed indiscreet riotous Z. Zeal COouragious industrious religious affectionate passionate vertuous fervent hot burning ardent officious pious sacred inflaming flamy devoted superstitious ravisht intemperate wel-tempered careful cordial hearty hot-mouthed frantick Zephirus Balmy spicy flowry cooling life-breathing life-infusing courteous mild kind odorous winged warme swift-winged wanton enamoured Zodiak Crooked painted starry heaven-girdling sparkling star-enameld star-embossed Zoylus Envious calumniating backbiting babling biting injurious detracting convitious barking carping reproachful snarling supercilious disdainful lashing captious censorious exceptious currish capricious invective sharp-toothed tongue-wounding quipping girding jeering snapping condemning reviling unknowing ignorant fantastick grinning Who with condemning eyes doth on me look Is that which gives a period to my book FINIS The ENGLISH PARNASSUS A. Abel DEaths first fruits Deaths handsel who first did lead That way which all succeeding men must tread Envies first object who first did feel the hand of fate In a short life and cursed brothers hate The first of martyrs The worlds proto-marryr Murthers first essay who first bedew'd the ground With drops of blood showâ—'d from his gushing wound whose blood doth cry And with revengeful language pierce the skie Abortive v. Embrion whom untimely birth Excus'd from all the sorrowes of the earth Imperfect Embrion Half-made man that from the wombe Took but his rise to leap into the tombe Finding a night before they see a morne The wombe Is both his crable and his tombe Abraham That miracle of faith abstract of obedience Great soul of faith who with unpalsied hands Can sacrifice his son when God commands Whose countless issue did in number vse With all those lights that twinkle in the skie whose pious prayer Hid sav'd five Cities if ten had been there As righteous as he Isaacs old fire Sarah's loyal mate Great Terah's faithful son Absolom Davids rebellious son That piece of ill plac'd beauty Whose chiefest ornament beâ—â—â—e The instrument of death and shame That double Rebel who at once did do What were too much of crime though shar'd to two Whom neither civil nor domestick law Neither a father nor a king can aw And keep from treasonable acts Who in incestious pleasures bathing lay And made the blushing sun close up the day Amaz'd to see such acts as those were done At once both by a subject and a son Envying his father should enjoy alone By him unrival'd either bed or throne Abstemious v. Temperate One that in wine tasts water in water wine As if he had drunk of the Clytorian fount which who so tasts nere after relish wine One that can slake His thirst with waters of the running lake Whose drink 's of natures brewing Who if his drink but a cold moysture have No other qualities doth in it crave And with a rich contentment can resigne To others all the pleasures of the vine Absurd things indecently joyned So have I seene the pride of Natures store The orient pearl chaind to the sooty Moore So hath the diamonds bright ray been set In night and wedded to the Nigro jet Like Delphins ranging in the wood Whilst boars are swimming on the flood Heaven and hell together lie With reconcil'd antipathie Acheron The joyless lake the flaming torrent gloomy water dismal wave Where never fish were seen to play Nor water Nymphs to keepe their holy-day The sad infernal streame the moate of hell Where the sad Furies bath their ugly limbs Achilles Faire Thetis godlike son Chirons stour pupil The Trojans fear and hate Unvanquisht mortal that from Thetis sprang He whom the silver footed goddess bore That brave attemprive spirit that could feele Deaths wounding stroke at no place but his heele Swift as the dart he cast as arrowes fleete Who though he best could laest did use his feete He for whose armes such sterne debate did rise That Ajax would not live without the prize Actaeon Unhappy hunter who became To his own dogs th' unlucky game By whom was naked in the fountain seene The beauty of the quiver-bearing Queen whom his own dogs did teare Transform'd into the figure of a deare who as he flies Wonders at the new swiftness of his thighes Adam The highest pitch of perfect nature The lively image of the great Creatour In whom comprized was what ever can Belong to the perfection of a man Reasons eldest master Gods eldest son That Universal father The general kinsman That spring of men Manhood without foregoing infancy Adamant The unrelenting stone Which nought can break but the warm blood of Goats Which fire cannot warme nor hammer bruise Poyson hating stone cut with nothing but it selfe Admire v. Wonder Admiration strikes mine eyes And all my apprehensive faculties To view with wondering amazed admiring eies With adoration to admire I 'me ravisht with just wonder To scatter the spirits in admiration Intranc'r with wonder Struck with admiring wonderment All eies that saw their lids with wonder raised Admirable v. Incredible Transcending the power of a strong belief The greaeest miracle that ever challenged wonder Each thing we see did yeeld-subject for admiration Where art and miracle draw equal breath The amazed beholders wondering eyes Were taken captive with the sight So much of miracle it hath Adonis Venus fair minion He whom his sister bore his grandsires son Faire but unhappy hunter in whom the foamie boare Sheath'd his sharp tushes wounded late before Adorne To grace embellish enamel beautifie fringe lace edge embroyder embosse enchase inlay spangle sleeke smooth file enrich varnish Adultery Adulterer The beast with two backs Adulterate mixture Stoln pleasures of the lustful bed Loves felony Venus theft That unrepaired injury Hymens high treason disloyal traitor to the marriage bed Stoln meetings in unlawful sheetes Whose longing eyes wait for the twilight Adversity v. Miserable The spight of srowning fortune Fortunes storme Fortunes clowdy brow The melice of the angry fates Heavens sowre and most malignant influence The schoole of patience Unstâ—ppy opportunity to try a friend The souls night clothes Aeacus Grim Judge of trembling ghosts Inâ—zorable shade Hells sterne triumâ—â—â— Witty inventor of sad punishment Aeneas Anchyses pious son Cytherean Heroe Venus loved darling That truest Trojan The Trojans glory and their hope More valour mixâ— with greater piety Then was in him the world could nere discrie Who on his shoulders with triumphant joy Bore his old father from the
her Elixar of all Beauty Zeuxes his labour might have sav'd And made her stand for all that he did view When Venus beauteous pourtraiture he drew Beauty and Vertue have no other sphear Whose rare composure doth abstract the Story Of true perfection modellizing forth The height of beauty in whose face Nature and curious Art had done their best To summe that rare perfection which transcends The power of strong belief Narcissus change sure Ovid quite mistook He died not looking in a Chrystall brook But as those which with emulation gaze He pin'd to death by looking on this face When he stood fishing by some â—ivers brim The fish would leap more for a sight of him Than for the fly The Eagle highest bred Was taking him once up for Ganymed Naâ—ure by some device Had to her face transplanted Paradise A beauty that might free A ravisher and make adulterie No crime at all Nature did wondering stand At â—er own work Eclipsing all other objects The wealth she wore about her seemd to hide Not to adorn her native beauties pride Though there bright Pearls from Erythrean shores From all the Assyrian lakes the wealthy store Of silver Ganges and Hydapses shore And chearfull Emralds gathered from the green Arabian rocks were in full splendour seen Pale Onyx Jaspers of a various die And Diamonds darkned by her brighter eie The Saphyâ—es blew by her more azure veins Hung not to boast but to confess their stains The blushing Rubies seemd to loose their dye When her more Ruby lips were moving by It seem'd so well became her all she wore She had not rob'd at all the creatures store But had been natures self there to have showed What she on creatures could or had bestowed And Jupiter would revel in her bower Were he to spend another golden shower Whose eyes dart glowing raies Would thaw the frozen Russian to lust And parch the Negro's hotter blood to dust So the loose Queen of love did dress her eyes In the most taking flame to winne the prize At Ida. The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes Whose bright eyes rain influence Oft have we viewd In one heaven many stars but never yet In one star many heavens till now were met A breathing Star His orient cheeks and lips exceeding his That leapt into the water for a kiss Of his own shadow and despising many Dyde ere he could enjoy the love of any Had wild Hyppolity this beauty seen Pierc't with his darts he had enamourd been Nature wept when she saw her as undone And rob'd of all her treasure Aurora took him for her Cephalus Phoebe mistook him for Endymion Venus for her Adonis Each wandering eye inflam'd that lookt upon her A beauty in whose radiant eye Love sate enthron'd and full of Majesty Sent forth such glorious eye-surprizing rayes That she was thought the wonder of her dayes Repress those flames that furnace from thine eye They ravish with too bright a â—yranny The Diapason of all symmetry Incarnate Angel Mortall Venus Nature seald her the Charter at her birth Mirrour of heaven the wonder of the earth Beauty hath no Exchequer now but him And proud of many lives upon his gains And him she stores to shew what wealth she had In dayes long since Fairest peece of well formd earth As if she swaid an Empire in her face Nature her self did her own self admire As oft as she were pleased to attire Her in her native lustre and confess Her dressing was her chiefest comeliness Where every limb takes like a face One accent from whose lips the blood more warms Than all Medea's Exorcismes and charms He that since nature her great works began She made to be the mirrour of a man That when she meant to form some matchless limb Still for a pattern took some part fâ—om him And jealous of her cunning brake the mold In his proportion done the best she could If he discourse his lips such accents break As love turnd aire breaths from him as he speaks Makes Jove invent a new disguise In spight of Juno's jealousies Whose every part doth re-invite â—he cold decayed appetite â—hich shall be nurse as Juno swears â—o the next Cupid that she bear The onely scope â—f mens affections and their envied hope If ever jewels had cause to be proud it was with â—e wearing of them â—hey took the vaile of which her face had hid â—t which the very aire seemd to grow proud â—s when the Sun new breaks out of a Cloud To shine with greater fulgence Such the censorious Cynink might affect Though he had promised abstinence That beaâ—s the light about her and strikes dead With flashes of her eye Beautie which might an Angels envie move Enough for all the â—exe And make them proud to know 't is part of hers Whose feeâ— print the farewell of all beauty Beauty to teach beholders chastity On others Painters in their pictures bestow beauty Her beauty bestowed skill on the Painter The fair Embassadour of a fairer mind â— All that beheld her and all that could did behold her made â—heir eyes quick messengers to their minds to let them know they had seen the uttermost that could be seen and despair of ever meeting a fairer object All eyes degenerate from their creation That do not honour and adore her beauty She apparrel'd her apparrel Modell of Heaven triumph of Nature life of Beauty â—f there be any beauty left in others it is in their Eyes to whom her presence hath imparted it Sometimes mine eyes would lay themselves open To receive all the darts she could throw Sometimes close up with admiration As if with a contrary fancy they would preserve The riches of that sight they had gotten Or cast my lids as curtains over that image of beauty Her presence â—ad printed in them Beauty in which by all right all hearts and eyes â—hould be inherited Which in a definite compass sets forth infinite beautie Dead beauties heir Each night she impoverisheth her clothes To enrich her bed which might well scorn the shrine Of Venus whose clothes proud to be worn by her Eclypse a sun of beauty Beauty too much for patient â—ight Whose face carried such a lightning As none could look on nor would look off Diana apparelld in the garments of Venus Making each beholding eye A blinded mole or else a burning flye Beautie which pictured the curious eye would repeat An imaginary rapture of some transported Conceit ayming at in impossibility Dumb eloquence commanding without authority And perswading without speaking Working unwitting effects of wonder The red and white rose quarterd in her face A face that bears a wanton modesty and inticing Soberness Beauty not to be matcht but by the fairness Of her mind Where Nature doth with infinite agree The miracle of flesh and blood Able to make Hercules to turn the spit and Cleave his club to make the fire The withered Hermit fourscore winters worn Might shake off fifty looking in her eye Such beautie
silenc'd by a calme The seas flat face now all becalmed lies Like standing pooles no waves or billowes rise The bridled sea stands and observrs no more Her antient course she had forgot to roare No tides flow to and fro nor seemes the sun To dance upon the waters motion No winds then wrastled Her waves the tired main By the winds leave compos'd and smooth'd again The heavens and seas put on their robes Of setled motions VVhen Triton drives his blew steedes â—re the seas Calme winds have smooth'd the seas rough brow The waves were all at peace The flagging mainsail flapt against her yard The uselesse compasse and the idle card VVere both neglected upon every side The gamesome Porpoyse tumbled on the tide Grim Neptune wip'd his foamy mouth Held his tridented Mâ—ce upon the south The whispering winds do tell their tale In such a breath as may but fill a saile No winds but such as rock the waves asleepe The smooth â—ac'd Keptune with his gladder smiles Visits the banks of his beloved Isâ—â—s The winds retire and sink into their seaâ— And sea-green Triton sounds a shrill retreat When the ships glide upon the sleeping wave The smiling Nimphes dance upon the rising wave The wind courts the sails The sea Wears browes as smooth as virgins be Tempting the Marchant to invade his face The winds were like a servant waiting on them So just that they might fill the sailes as they listed Old Nereâ—es on his Dolphin rides Presenting bridles to direct the tides No wind rebells The aire was calme and on the level brine Slick Panope with all her sisters plaid As still as midnight were the sullen waves And Neptunes silver-ever-shaking brest As smooth as when the Halcion builds her nest None other wrinkles on his face were seene Than on a fertile mead or sportive greene Where never plow share ript his mothers wombe To give an aged seed a living tombe The winds with wonder whist Sweetly the waters kist Whispering new joyes to the mild Ocean Who now hath quite forgot to rave Whilst birds of calme sit brooding on the charmed wave Nor blinded Mole the batning earth ere stird Nor boyes made pitfals for the hungry bird The whistling reeds upon the waters side Shot up their sharp heads in a stately pâ—ide And not a binding Osier bowd his head But on his root him bravely carried No dandling leaf plaid with the subtile aire So smooth the Sea was and the skie so faire Cameleon Those foodlesse creatures fed by aire alone Which every colour that they touch put on Cancer The spreading cancer scorning helplesse art Creeps from the infected to the sounder partâ— Candles On guilded yards light-bearing cressets hung Which sullen night subdue with flaring beams Domestick stars Tallow stars In golden lampes the lights are placed round And make a forced day the night confound The house stars The candle sleepy grew and winkt Care Careful Swarmes of perplexing care buzze in his brain A studious care boyld in his zealous mind The theefe of youth and beauty tempest of the soul Perplexing and enaging cares That without years can snow down silver haires The Chaos of the mind the noyse the tumult of the thoughts Tempest of the troubled mind Unquiet thoughts The journey of the head Millions of cares Beats on the anvile of my poor weak head My heart 's an anvile hammerd by my thoughts My head 's a crazie hive for swarmes of thoughts Which have more sting than honey Care seeks out wrinkled browes and hollow eyes And builds himself caves to abide in them Swarmes of buzzing cares hive in his head Carrier A man unlearned and yet a man of letters His own hackney man letting himself out to travel as well as his horses The ordinary Embassadour betwixt friend and friend A great afflâ—cter of high wayes To Cary away violently To traile hale drag hurry To hurry with them like the spreading flood Râ—pt as a ship upon the high wrought flood By savage tempests chac't which in despaire The Pilot leaveth to the Gods and praier As when by Ganges flood A Tyger draggs a fawne through silent woods Castle v. Building Safe for defence And sweetly wanton with magnificence With all the cost and cunning beautifide That adds to state where nothing wants but pride Castor and Pollux Joves egge-borne isâ—ue Leda's twin sons Tyndarian brothers The Amyclaean youths The glistering brothers Helens fair brothers whome mariners invoke When the victorious waves their ships have broke The famous Argonautes Caucasus The Sâ—ythians snowie mountains on whose top Prometheus growing liver feeds the Crop Of Joves great bird Inhospitable rock Whose craggie sides have oft endur'd the shock Of the fierce north Which with lesse distance looks at heaven by far And with more large proportion shewes the stars Cave Under the hollow hanging of this hill There was a cave cut out by natures skill Or else it seemd the mount did ope his brest That all might see what thoughts he there possest Whose gloomy entrance was environd round With thick set trees c. In which no chearing light At all ere peep'd but sad and driery night A squallid filth and moldinesse had made From whence exhaled stenches did invade The upper aire There 's bred by dreary night Pale moldy filth and darknesse sad no light But light by Magick made ere shined there A deep black cave low in the earth is found Whose duskic entrance like pase Morpheus cell With strange Meanders windeth under ground Where sooty darknesse evermore doth dwell With torches now attempting the sad cave Which at their entrance seemeth in a fright At the reflexion that the brightnesse gave As till that time it never saw the light Centaures Wretched Ixions shaggie-footed race The cloud born issue Which first bestrid the horse Cerberus That scoulding cur who barking shakes About his tripple browes Medusa's snakes The dreadful dog of hell The viper curled dog The tripple headed cut that shakes His dreadful main curled with hissing snakes His dâ—reful head With hundred snakes encompâ—ssed And noysome breath whilst bloody drops Flow from his tripple tongued chaps Grim porter of the Stygian hall Ceres The yellow goddesse The gold haird mother of life-strengthening seed The fair browd Queen that shakes her golden haires And makes the fields to wave their golden ears The grain-rich goddesse The sheavie Queen Who first instructed duller mortals how To make earths surface weare a furrowed brow As if she frownd on them and storm'd to feele Her bowels gashed by the ripping steele Who causeth Aetna from her jawes expire Thick vapours lin'd with dust and wrapt in fire Sad mother of fair Pâ—oserpine The Elâ—usinian Queen that clothes the fields with grain Whose yearly feast Grave matrons in long linnen stoles invest With sacred undivulged rites do keepe Offering garlands of their first ripe corne Forbidden Venus for nine nights forborne And touch of man Certain Grown to a certainty unto assurance grown Certain as the unchanged
her misdeeds That daâ—k shadow ever waiting on shining vertue That banquets in anothers miseries Epicure v. Glutton Voluptuous That â—ect which acknowledge no greater evill than pain nor hâ—gher blâ—sse than pleasure An easie soul made tender with delight Which thinks that he hath forfeited that houre That adds not to his pleasure or his power Epitaph In deathlesse verse Bestowing same on noble sepulchers The lying postscript of a perjur'd stone The sad elogium of a speaking stone Epithalaminm The Nuptial song Hymenaean verse Thou that dwell'st on Helicon That to men dost virgins hale With sweet flowred Margerum With a smiling look appear Let this day with pleasure spring Nimbly dance the flaming pine VVith good auguries come wed Like a myâ—tle ever green VVhere the Nymphs their sports pursue Come O with a willing mind Sunk in Thespian rocks where chill To the Bridegroome call the Bride As when closely creeping vines Chastest virgins you who may Make the aire with Hymen ring Fairest souls that shine more bright Than your nuptial tapers light And with deeper piercing dart Beams af love into the heart Modest Hymen dare not here At your sacred rites appear Blushing that his paler light Is by you eclips'd to night And your power far above All that presidents of love He his saffron robes neglects And his garlands disaffects All his tapers all his flowers All his fillets all his powers All the pleasures all the sweets That attend the geniâ—l sheets All his chains and loving bands He resignes into your hands Mâ—y soft joyes now you are wed Be the curtains for your bed May faire honour and delight Câ—own your day and blesse your night May your oft repeated kisses Bring with them as many blisses And the warm embrace of love Be soft as Downe on Venus Dove May the pleasures of your bed Pass the hairs upon your head And your joies out-vie the sand O thou faiâ— Uranias son Hymen O thy brows impale Take thy Safferon vail and come Yellow stocks of woollen weare Shrill Epithalamiums sing Shake in that fair hand of thine Those two to an happie bed On the shore of Cyprus seen Fostering it with Rosie dew Leave the Aonion Caves behind Aganippe's waters drill In Affections fetters tyde Claspes the Oake in amorous twines Taste the like another day Hymen Hymenaeus sing What 's that we see from far the spring of day Bloomd from the East or fair enameld May Blown out of April or some new Star filled with glorie to our view Reaching at heaven To adde a nobler Planet to the seven Say or do we not descrie Some Goddess in a Cloud of Tiffany To move or rather the Emerging Venus from the sea 'T is she 't is she or else some more divine Enlightned substance see how from the shrine Of holy Saints she paceth on Throwing about Vermillion And Amber spice â—ing the chaste Aire with fumes of Paradise Then come on come on and yield A savour like unto the field When the bedabled morn Washeth the ears of corn Lead on fair pair of Nymphes the whilest her eyes Guiltie of somewhat guild the straw-berries And cherries in her cheâ—ks ther 's cream Already spilt her rayes must gâ—eam Gently thereon And so create lust and temptation To surphet and hunger Help on her pace and though she lag yet stir Her homeward well she knows There is her heart where ere she goes See where she coms and smels how all the street Breaths Vâ—neyards and Pomgranates oh how sweet As a fir'd Altar is each one Breathing pounded Cynnamon The Phoenix nest Built up of odours burneth in her brest Who would not there consume His soul to cyndars in that rich perfume The while He burns to embers in the pile Hymen O Hymen tread the sacred ground Show thy white feet and head with marioram crownâ— Mount up thy flames and let thy torch Display the Bridegroom in the porch In his desires Towring more more disparkliâ—g than the fires Shew her how his eyes do burn And roul about and in their motion turn Their balls to ash heaps hast Or else to nothing he will wast Glide through the banks of virgins then and pass The showres of Roses luckie four-leav'd grass The whiles the clouds of younglings sing And drown you with a flowry spring Whilest some repeat Your praise and bless you covering you with wheat Whilest others do divine Blest be the Bride on which the Sun doth shine And thousands gladly wish You multiply as doth a fish Why theâ— on forward fair aspitious Bride And come upon the Bâ—idegroom like a tide Bearing down time before you hie Swell more and loose your selves imply Like streams which flow Encurld together and no difference show In their moâ—t silver â—un Into your selves like wooll together spun Or blend so as the sight Of two makes one Hermophradite Welcome at last unto the threshold Time Thron'd in a saffâ—on evening seems to chime All in kiss and so enter if A prayer must be said be brief The easie gods â—or such contempts have onely myrtle â—ods To stroak not strike fear you No more wild Nymphs than they would have you do But dread you more offend In that you do begin than end And now you are enterd see the codled cook Runs from his torâ—id zone to pâ—y and look And bless his dainty mistress see Now th' aged whisper this is she Who now must sway Us peace shield her she 's pretty yea and nay And the smiâ—k butler thinks it Sin in his wappery not t' express his wit Each striving to devise Some ginne to take her eyes Now if we must for Ceremony sake Bless a sack posset luck go with it take The night charm quickly you have spels And Magick for to end and hells To pass but such And with such torture as no God would grutâ—h To live there and for ever frie Yea and consume and grow again to die And live and in that case Love the damnation of the place To bed to bed sweet Turtles now and write This the long day and that the shortest night And yet though short for you for me I count this night as long as three Lying alone Estrige That drops her egs upon the naked land And wraps them in a bed of hatching sand Exposed to the wandering traveller And feet of beasts which those wild deserts tear Eternitie The soft down of Eternitie Unfathom'd circle Endless duration The boundless Ocean of conceit That great uncenterd vast circumference That knows no limits unconfined by time From all Eternitie Ere by the sphears times motions were created Ere the astonisht spring Heard in the Aire the feathered people sing Ere time had motion or the Sun obtaind His Province ore the day Ere the worlds great Creator did From the dark formless Chaos light divide Sâ—ablish eternal lawes to which he tide His creatures and himself and did divide The worlds set ages by unchanged fate When fea and earth and heaven was yet
boy The button on fortunes cap. I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fates Happy enough to pity Caesar As if both heaven and earth should undertake To extract the best from all mankind to make One perfect happy man He takes it for an injury If fortune chance to come behind his wish Nor doth wide heaven that secret blessing know To give that she on him doth not bestow Blind fortune is his slave and all her store The lesse he seeks her followes him the more Born under joyful destinies and smiling stars Like to the stately swan Rididing on streams of Blisse more rich array'd With earths delight than thoughts could put in ure To glut the senses of an Epicure Tired with the surfet of delight More fortunate than he To whom both Indies tributary be To move as a star in the orb of happinesse Moving in a Labyrinnth of delight Which have More happinesse than modesty could crave Fortunes great pledge to whom Faâ—e ever ow'd so much Environ'd with delights Commanding Fortune The favourite of heaven In favour with the stars Fortunes darling Minion Swimming bathing in felicity One that knows not so much as the name of misery To whose nativity the Fates doow A swelling glory For whom A glorious thread they spin such as their Loom Is proud to see An happinesse worthy the envy of the gods Happinesse courts him in her best array To whom all blessednesse in nature is a servant Child of indulgent fortune As if Fortune had got eyes onely to cherish him As happy as Metellus As Polycrates Thy tents shall flourish in the joyes of peace The wealth and honour of thy house encrease Thy children and their offspring shall abound Like blades of grass that cloath the pregnant ground Thou full of dayes like weighty shocks of corn In season reap'd shall to thy grave be born The fight of him doth strike the envious blind As the mounted Sun Breaks through the clouds and throws his golden rays A out the world so his increasing dayes Succeed in glory Fountain v. Springs Foul. v. Deformed Free Free as the air Free as the mountain wind My soul enjoyes an unrestrained freedome With all th' indulgence of fair liberty My thoughts disclaim all right and interest Any can challenge in me Unshâ—ckled souls Unengaged thoughts Friends A pair of friends or rather one call'd two Our but divided selves Diapason of vows and wishes A mind in two divided but not partâ—d A double body and yet single hearted Pylades soul and mad Orestes was In these if we believe Pythagoras That partake of one anothers good and evill with so lively a reflexion that there needs but one blow to make two wounds Oâ—r second selves Our other selves Achilles Patroclus Hercules Hylas Joâ—athan David Titus Gesippus Theseuâ— Perithous Pilades Oâ—estes Damon Pithias Nisus Eurialâ—s Wrapt and woven into all trusts and counsels Nor the silvet doves that flie Yoak'd in Cytherea's Car Nor the wings that lift so high And convoy her sun so far And so lovely sweet and fair Or do more innoble love And so choicely match'd a pair Or with more consent do move Frost Keen frosts have chained up the deep The streams are bound with ribs of ice The floods in icie fetters bound Crusted earth Every honey-headed twig Wears his snowie Periwig And every bough his snowy beard Waters have bound themselves and cannot run Suffering what Xerxes fetters would have done The fish are froze as they swim in the wave The wine is frozen in the cup. The Countrey swain O'r the stiffe waves doth drive his loaded Wain The frozen wine hoth keep the vesselâ— shape A shell of ice doth glaze the Rivers o'r And had Leander such a shore descry'd Then in that narrow sea he had not dy'd The Frost doth cast an icie cream Upon the lakes and Chrystall stream Shew me those flames you brag on you that be Arm'd with those fires wine and Poetrie You are now benumm'd spight of your god and verse And do your Metaphors for prayers rehearse Whilst you that call snow fleece and feâ—thers do Wish for true fleeces and true feathers too Our rivers are one Chrystall shores are fit Mirrours not being now like glasse but it Our ships stand all as planted we may sweaâ— They are not onely born up but grow there While waters they are pavements firm as stone And without faith are each day walk'd upon What parables cal'd folly heretofore Was now discreet to build upon the shore There 's not one dines amongst us with washt hands Water is scarce here as in Africk sands And we expect it not but from some god Opening a fountain by some Prophets rod Who needs not seek out where he should unlock A streâ—m what e'r he struck would be true rock When as heaven drops some smaller drops our sense Of grief 's encreas'd being but deluded thence For whilst we think those drops to entertain They fall down pearls which came down half way rain Green Lands removall now the poor man fears Seeing all water frozen but his tears We suffer day continuall and the snow Doth make a little night become noon now We hear of some inchrystall'd such as have That which procuâ—'d their death become their grave Bodies that destitute of soul yet stood dead and fell not drown'd yet without a Flood Nay we who breath still are almost as they And onely may be call'd a softer clay We stand like Statues as if cast and fit For life not having bâ—t expâ—cting it Each man 's become the Stoicks wise man hence For can you look for passion where's no sense Which we have nor resolv'd to our first stone Unlesse it be one sense to feel w' have none Our very Smiths now work not â—y what 's more Our Dutch men write but five hours and give o'â— We dare provoke faith now we know what 't is To feel cold death onely by suffering this All fires are Vestal now and we as they Do in our Chimnies keep a lasting day Boasting within doores our domestick Sun Adoring it with our Religion We laugh at Fire-briefs now although they be Commended to us by his Majesty And 't is not treason for we cannot guesse That we should pay them for their happinesse Each hand would be a Scevola's let Rome Call that a pleasure hence forth not a doom A Feaver is become a wish we siâ— And think faln angels have a benefit Nor can the thoughts be impious when we see Weather that Booker durst not prophesie Weather may give new Epocha'â— and make Another Since in his bold Almanack Weather may save his doom and by hy his foe Be thought enough for him to undergoe We now think Alabaster true and look A sudden trump should antedate his book For whilst we suffer this we ought not fear The world cannot survive to a fourth year For sure we may conclude weak nature old And
slew Next Hydra did with sword and fire subdue The Erimanthian Bore with Javelin stroke The brasse hoov'd stagge with golden antlers took The chac't Stimphalides his arrowes felt From th'Amozonian won her precious belt Then cleans'd Augaeus stalls with ordure full And vanquished the furious Cretan bull Sâ—erne Diomed his ravenous horses threw Three-headed Gerion in Iberia slew The Hesperian dragon-guarded apples won And scowling Cerberus shewed to the sun Hermophradite Sir and Madam twisted both together One orbe contains both sun and moon Within whose eyes Both Venus and Adonis lies In every simple sound A perfect dialogue is found Tib and Tom in a trick Natures Philip and Mary's sixpence Two sexes in one Individual Hermit v. Anchorite High Which with lesse distance peeps into the stars Than which no place of earth doth swell more high In any place nor nearer meets the skie Which by their wondrous height Might seem to threat the skies and once more fright The Gods with a gigantick war That out-braves the skie Till as Atlas pillars which did tack Heaven to the earth That to an immense height drawes up the eye A cliffe As high as the Canarian Tenariffe Which lift their swelling tops above the skies Which shrouds His airy bead in hanging clouds Whose lofty top Nature hath made contiguous to the heavens Whose lofty top doth know No distance from the Skies Singing his pate against the torrid Zone Makes Offa like a wart That emulate the Skie As they would ease great Atlas of his load That rear Their glitering tops which fatall lightning fear Invade the Skies And bid defiance to the Skie That lick the stars and steal a kisse from heaven That muffle up their heads within the clouds Like Athos Mount Or Erix steep and long Or like old Apeninus rais'd on high Into the Air kissing the starrie Skie Whose top seems to despise The under vale doth rise In stately height to parly with the Skies As Mountains on whose barren brest The labouring clouds do often rest Whose stately eminence Vassals the under vales circumference So high as if they meant To ease strong Atlas of his punishment Whose head like winged fame Might pierce the clouds yea seem the stars to kisse And Mausolus great tomb might stand in this Tempting the Skie so â—gh From thence swell'd mountains seem but to the eye As atoms losing their heads within the Skie Bearding the stars thrusting acquaintance on the Skie Proudly insulting o'r the under Skie Whose lofty foreheads brush the stars As if thee meant to put out heavens bright eyes As if they meant to scale the Skies Whose height doth court the clouds Scaling Olympus snowie brow Knocking their hâ—ows against heavens brazen doors That heaven and earth attone That reach heavens battlements So high They thrâ—atned to give battell to the Skie Which show Against the height of heaven their pointed brow Skie-kissing air-invading High as Riphoean hills Hill v. High Two rockie hills lift their proud tops on high And make a vale beneath Their lofty brows display Earths dugges wart risings tumours blisters Athos Atlas Haemus Rhodope Ismarus Eryx Cithaera Taurns Caucasus Alps Appenine Oeta Tmolus Aetna Paâ—nassus Othrys Cynthus Mimas Dyndimus Mycale Pâ—lion Pindus Offa Olympus Helicon Ida. History The rorch of truth The treasure-house of time The glasse of ages past The Matron with her eyes behind her Hippocrene The fount Made by the horse hoof on the Muses Mount â—ganippe's spring The Heliconian well The Muses sacred rill The Poets fount Where they to drench their ravisht lips are wont V. Muses-Parnassus Forked Parnassus spring where those sweet maids of memory do sing Homer The Grecian Merlin The Muses high Priest Blind Bard of Greece The Muses Purveyor Apollo's Caterer The Priest of Smyrna that took such delight In knowledge that for it he chang'd his sight Whose pen The Scepter was which rul'd the souls of men Honest v. Forms of Commending A man of a most confirmed honesty He would not flatter Neptune for his trident Or love for power to thunder His heart 's his mouth Would not betray The Devil to his fellow and delights No lesse in truth than light A mind keeps correspondence to his tongue A mind allied unto his words He hath all the entendmenrs of an honest man From whose free tongue proceedeth nought That is not correspondent to hâ—s thought Whose head and heart keep alwayes one pace His conscience and his tongue keep the same tune Who punishment lesse than the trespasse fears Honey The sweets that crown the labours of the Bee The sweet provision of the Bee Bees flowrie task The riches of Hyblean Cottagers The treasures of industrious Bees Honour The waxen Palace of the Bee The waxie Cabbins of industrious Bees The Bees hollow home The Bees arched cells The dainty wax divided rooms The honey Merchants shop The waxen Canopie Honor. The inheritance of air Prides Stirrup That glorious nothing Ambitious wish and scope Which envy ever lackies at the heels That great engagement to great purposes Swelling Titles gilded emptiness vertues due guerdo Dreams in career Embroydered names The creature of authority Hope The poor mans god The lullabie of care The greatest antidote against despair Miseries babie rattle lenitive Ingaging expectation The parasite of thought The dream of mad men Ever-changing gale Swelling with wanton breath the gaudy sayls Of glorious fools Miseries cordiall The onely happinesse of those that are deprived of all other The hope with expectation feed The dame of beggars and the Queen of Kings Our joy in sorrow and our peace in strife The waking dream Brave temper of resolved spirits Valours incentive Patience's pillow Lawfullest flatterer The pullies to draw up dejected hearts The first-born of experience Horns The terrour of the skull Natures offensive arms And her defensive too Horse High bounding Steeds whose rich caparison With Scarlet blush with gold their bridles shone The best that ever trode The sounding Centre Like to the breed of great Laomedon â—r those which Jove gave Tros The bloody spur thrusts anger in his side Which perform their fiery course â—â—rinckling their foam and snowing on the dust â—â—e Steed in stately trappings proudly stamps â—nd in his mouth the foamy bridle champs 〈◊〉 forth the ringled bit and with his hooves Checks the submissive ground He lifts his hasty hoof as if he scorned The earth as if his tabering feet had found A way to go and yet ne'r touch the ground Bounds from the earth as if his entrails were hairs He is pure air and fire Earth and water never shew â—hemselves in him but in his still patience to let his â—ider mount him There stamps a Steed that champs the frothy steel This strokes the ground that scorns it with his heel His neck with thunder arm'd his breast with force Who from his nostrils throws a dreadfull light Eâ—alts in his own courage proudly bounds With trampling hoof the sounding Centre wounds Breaks through the order'd ranks
god Lethargick Deity Shape-feigning god who of those brother sprites With the most subtle art and cunning can â—â—urp the gesture visage voyce of man His habit and known phrase and onely takes An humane form Another shews a Snakes A birds a beasts this Icelos they call Whom heaven embowr though Phobetor by all Of mortall birth he 's nam'd But Phanâ—â—sies Of different faculty indues a tree Earth water stone the several shape of things That life enjoy not The Lead-Mace-bearing Sergeant Mountain v. Hills High The rockie ribs of earth Earths warâ—s Blisters Mountebank Wâ—xing rich at others cost and smart Grow famous Doctours purchasing promotions Whilst the Churchyard swells with their hurtfull potions Who hang men like fearlesse and shamelesse too Are pray'd and pay'd for murders that they do Play bootie with a sicknesse Turn A Consumption to mens purses and purge them worse thâ—n their bodies Setting up an Apothecaries shop in private chambers Living by revenues of close stools and urinalls Defeâ—â—ing sick mens health from day to day As if they went to law with their disease A fool to fill a close stool The best cure he hath done is upon his own purse His learning consists in reckoning names of diseases in which he is onely languag'd and speaks Greek ofâ—entimes when he knows it noâ— If you send your water to him you must resolve to be sick for he will never leave examining your water till he hath shak'd it into a disease then follows a writ to his Drugger in a strange tongue which he understands though he cannot construâ— He tronslates his Apothecaries shop into your chamber and the â—eâ—y windows and benches must â—ake Physick One that dares not come to a dead patient lest his carcasse should bleed A sucking Consumption Impostors that do give To sick men potions that themselves may live Skilfull to spur on nature to her end That have an art to cure poverty Quacking Leeches Empyricks Who by corosive plaisters oft make more And deeper wounds than were receiv'd before And by their Chancery cures make men worse To heal the gashes of their crazie purse Yo mourn v. Lament To shead from drowned eyes vain offerings to the dead Who with remorselesse hands their bosome tear And wailing call on him who cannot hear She rudely tears th' adornment of her hair And with redoubled blows her breast invades Her face as much as grief would suffer fair She sighs and shaking her dishevel'd hair And with torn garments did present their woe Her ruffled hair As at a wofull Funerall she tare Wringing her upheav'd hands He dust upon his clouded foreheaâ— throws So Seres mourn'd her daughters ravishment So Philomel mourn'd her Virginity The father and sad sisters did not more Mourn him that slew the Câ—lydonian bore Her garments from her bruised breasts she tare So mourned Venus drawn by silver Swans Her lov'd Adonis To cloud the face with grief Trees shed their leaves streams with their tears encrease The Naiades and Dryades invest Themselves in sullen sable and display Their scattered hair in uncomposed curls Feeding on tears Hugging grief with strict embrace Venting the sad tautologies of lavish passion Loading the bosome of the fleeting air With sad complaints Raise clouds of dust that fâ—ll upon their hair Springs that â—long time before had held no drop Now welled forth and overwent the top Bâ—rds left to pay the Springs their wonted vows And all forloâ—n saâ— drooping on the boughs The Springs and birds trees with unwonted grones Bewail her chance and force it from the stones v. Weep Multitude v. Many Murmure v. Noise The people such a murmuring make â—â— when far off the roaring surges rake â—â—e ratled shore or when loud Eurus breaks Though tufted Pines Muses â—oddesses of verse The sacred nine â—amassian girls Aonian Maids Apollo'â— quire â—he presidents of verse and sacred numbers â—he learned maidâ— which by the mossie banks â—f drizling Helicon in airy ranks â—read roundelayes upon the silver sand â—hilst shaggie Satyrs tripping o'r the strand â—and still at gaze and yield their senses thrall To the sweet cadence of their Madrigalls â—he learned â—isters of the sacred well Those virgins imps of Mneme which do bring Dâ—ws of invention from their sacred Spring The virgin Choristers of Castalia â—â—eet Maids of memory Fair Thespian Ladies That on the two topt mountains dwell And daily drink of the Castalian well The heavenly sisters by whose sacred skill Sweet sounds are raiâ—'d upon the forked hill Of high Parnassus they whose tuned strings Can cause the birds to stay their nimble wings And silently admire before whose feet The lambs as fearlesse with the lions meet Which did the harp of Oâ—pheus so inspire He from the Stygian Lake could safe retire And did Amphions heart with vertue fill That even the stones were pliant to his will The sweet infusers of diviner strains That sitting sing upon the flowry banks Of sacred Helicon in spangled ranks Pierian Quire Calliope Clio Erato Tnalia Melpomene â—erpsicore Evterpe Polyhimnia Urania Musick v. Sweet sounding Break in sweet sounds the willing air Well digested sounds Speechlesse song universall language That innocent pleasure which the sphears Vouchsafe to make and gods do deign to hear Melodious harps and songs salute the â—ar The wanton airs in twenty sweet forms dance After her fingers The air and fingers meet In sweet contention raping the ears into attention true concord of well tuned sounds By unions married each string husband to the other Marrying his voice unto the strings Making the Lute in his language shew how glad he was to bâ— grac'd with the touch of her fingers VVith the choice Musick of her hand and voice Stills the loud wind and makes the wild Incensed Bore and Panther mild Harmonious airs Break in sweet sound the willing air Musick Like an hostesse that hath no Arithmatick but her brain to seâ— down her reckoning N. Naiades THe fountain Deities The fountain Queens The watry Deities of the winding brooks VVith fedgie Crowns and ever harmlesse looks Dance in the crispiâ— channels Hyale Niphe Rhanis Psecas Phiale Crocale Phaethusa Lampetie Neaera Arethusa Doris Naked Disrobed vnarraied dismantled vncloathed vnmasked vnvailed Name To christen to confer impose a name Narcissus The selfe enamour d boy That leapt into the water for a kisse Of his owne shadow and despising many Dy'd ere he could enjoy the love of any Once a Câ—pid adde but wings Who too much trusted to deceitfull springs A flower now to the floods inclines that so He might by that which was his ruâ—ne grow V. Ovid. Metam Lib. 3. Nature Gods lievetenant Gods vice gerent â—he mother of all things â—â—at nere can stray so far not to returne â—â—changed inclination Near As neare 〈◊〉 clamour might informe an eare Their eies their masters object were Necessity Victorious rebell against strongest lawes That lawlesse tyrant â—olding in brazen hands as pledge of woes â—ormenting beames and wracks and more to daunt â—â—pe hooks and
musick burthens every bough The winter-starved earth By nature teeming labours towards her birth Still as the day upon the dark world creepes One blossome forth after another peepes Till the small flower whose roote is now unbound Gets from the frosty prison of the ground Spreading the leaves unto the powerful noone When gardens prankt with rosie buds do spring Whilst Flora dallies in her flowry bed Whom Zephyr courts and sweetly to her sings Wâ—ping away the tears Aurora shed When vernal blasts and gentle windsappear Such as blow flowers and through the glad boughs sing Many soft welcomes to the lusty spring In verdant weeds fresh earth the spring arraies Flora with tapestry checkers the fields The trees and earths embroyderer Phaebus in his yearly race Pranketh in perfumed robes All these goodly nether globes Paving the ground with flowers The morning of the year From the awakened rootes the buds do grow The fragrant spring with flowry chaplets crown'd â—he year in its sucking infancy bloome â—hen flowers paint the gaudy fields When balmy showers â—â—ck the soft bâ—est of fragrant meads with flowers The quickening spring â—hen birds are tutoring their young to sing The jocund spring â—herein the leaves to birds sweet caroling â—â—nce with the wind When May â—â—cks up the fiâ—lds in holidayes array â—hen well appareled April on the heele Of limping Winter tâ—eads â—he ram that bore fair Hellen once away 〈◊〉 made the dark night equal to the day â—â—ir coloured flowers in the meadowes spring â—nd now the birds their untaught notes do sing The seed which long time in the earth hath laid â—s now shot forth into a tender blade The birds salute the growing spring The jolly tide â—hen the earth in all her pride And the lady of the May â—â—imm'd up in her best array â—ath invited all the swains With the lasses of the plains The warme sun doth thaw the earth And gives the fleet-wing'â— swallow birth â—aking within the hollow tree The cuckoe and the humble bee The flowry prime â—hen lavish nature in her best attire Cloathes the gay spring the season of desire The time that the Lady Flora useth to cloath our granâ—â—me earth with a new livery diapred with vaâ—ious flowâ—â—s and checquer'd with all delightful objects A season no lesse proper than propitious to lovers Now winters gone the earth hath lost â—er snow white robes and now no more the fâ—ost Candies the grasse or casts an ice cream Upon the silver lake and chrystal stream But the warme sun thawes the benummed earth And makes it tender gives a sacred birth To the dead swallow wakes in hollow trees The drowsie cuckoe and the humble Bee Now do a quire of chirping minstrels bring In tâ—iumph to the world the youthful spring The vallies hills and woods in rich array Welcome the coming of the long'd for May. The smiling spring Danceth on Zephyres rosie wing And with a pregnant flowry birth Doth retresh the teeming earth The gâ—ound doth smile at the springs flowry birch The spring crown'd with the glories of the earth Rides on the heavenly ram When Zephyâ—'s muskie kisses breath Fresh honour on the smiling trees When the earth begins to put on her new apparrel against the approach of her lover and the sun running an even course became an equal arbiter betwixt night and day VVhen every thing doth make a gleesome boast The birds chant melody on every bush The snake lies â—olled in the chearful sun The green leaves quiver with the fanning wind And make a checkerd shadow on the ground Now snowes are quite dissolv'd fiesh grasse we see To cloath the fields and leaves on every tree Earth â—â—angeth hiew the swelling waters sinke And with soft current slide within their brinke Aglaiâ— naked dares upon the ground VVith Nimphes and her bright â—isters dance a round South winds the spring attending still Bâ—â—alme the seas and sayles do fill Now â—rost makes not the meadowes hoare Not winters snow swollen rivers rorâ— The lucklesse bird her nest doth frame Bâ— wayling â—â—ys and the shame of Cecrops house The shepherds of rich flocks rehearse And to their pipes chant rural verse Seeking his godhead to appease VVhom flocks and hills Arcadian please The long'd for sun Peepes through the hornes of the celestial ram The winter to the spring be queaths The rule of time and mild Favonius breaths A quire of swans to that sweet musick sing The aire resounds the motion of their wing VVhen over plains they fly in ordered rankes To sport themselves upon Caysters banks VVhilst every bushie vaile â—nd grove and hill sounds of the nightingale The sun breaks up earths rugged chains â—herein rude winter bound her veins The naked trees get crisped heads And colour'd coats the roughest meads And they with growing glory rise That lately fetter'd were with ice Stagge v. Swift Upon the bâ—ink Of some smooth stream about to drinke With shame remembers that he fled Surveying thâ—re his armed head The scorned dogs resolves to try The combate next but if their cry â—â—â—ades again his trembling eare â—e strait resumes his wonted fear Leaves the untasted spring behind â—nd wing'd with fear out flies the wind Whom fences long with held â—rom meadowes where the spring in glory raignes â—ow having levelâ—'d those unpleasing chains â—nd treading pâ—oudly ore the vanquisht flowers â—â— in his hopes a thousand joyes devoures The long-liv'd beasts That bears thâ— branched hornes Whose life four times exceeds the câ—owes The knaggy-horned beast Stars â—eavâ—ns sparkling fires Heavens fiery sparks â—angles of heavens canopies The burnisht lamps Those freckles in the beauâ—eous face of heaven The burning tapers of the skie Heavens bright torches The bright eyes of the firmament â—eavens twinkling pride Heavens golden studds 〈◊〉 twinkling spangles of the firmament The gilt nails in the wheele of heaven The heavens bright crescents The powdered embroidery of heaven â—eavens golden bosses ingots beads Immortal synod of the glorious skie The twinkling eyes That with disordered order gild the skies The gilt studs of the firmament The wandering armies of the skies Which march above in blew gold tinsell'd lawne Tilting at ours their many-pointed eyes The common people of the skies Heavens clear fires Which with the moone succeede when day retires The spangling light That sparkle on the brow of shady night The glorious wonders of the skies Th' Almighties mystick characters The powdering of heavens azure tapestry The flaming letters of the book of heaven The sparkling beauties of the night Heavens shining pendants Nights giudy jewels The sparkling diamonds of the skie The skies bright sentinels The starry senate of the night The parliamâ—nt of stars The pretty wonders of the skie Nights rich expâ—nsion The golden issue of the skie The skies enamelling Annâ—aling of the skies Wel ordered Armies of the skies Nights spangled host The moâ—â—s silver-â—râ—ssâ—d torch bearers The servants to the humerous night The gliâ—tering sparkes Bâ—ight squadrors of the skies Whose light undarkes The gloomy shâ—dowes of
bend the grasse Swim Pace with the native stream the fish do keepe To move the bodies oares Himself the oares The pilot and the boat To bâ—est the surge and row himselfe With his own armes Himself the ship and wares Bâ—ffâ—t the stream with lusty sinewes Swine Tusked swine That foe unto the corn and vine The bristle-bearing beast The beast that first taught mortalls how To rip the earth with shared plough That with such pleasure can desire To wallow in the durt and mire The nasty cattle which the Jew With so much hatred did pursue The beast which lovely Venus hates Remembring her Adonis fate And Bacchus from them doth decline As the destroyers of his vine Sword A Millain hilt Damasco blade Toledo As good a sword as ever rid on Gentlemans thigh Imprisoned weapon Morglay Excalibur Durindana Swound Then grief contracts the soule a sodain night Invades the sence and reaves the eyes of light The nerve forsaken joynts all faile cold ice Freezeth the heart with hope of death she lies Deceiv'd Souls eclypse Extasie Counterfeit of death Syrens Those impes that with their charms Woo'd wise Ulysses to his harmes The rude sea growes civill at their song And ravisht stars shoot madly from their sphears To hear their musick Great Theâ—is train That on the shores do plain And trammell up their sea-green haire Acheloides Those deathlesse powers Were with the Goddesse when she gather'd flowers Whom when through all the earth they sought in vaiâ— They wish for wings to fly upon the main That pathlesse seas might testifie their care The easie Gods consented to their praier Strait golden feathers on their backs appear But least that musick fram'd t' â—nchant the ear And so great gifts of speech should be prophand Their virgin lookes and humane voyce remaind Ne'r man in sable bark sail'd by That gave not ear to their sweet melody â—ut the sly Greek They to the Temple went among the rest There where Aenarian waves that Isle invest Their faces with an oilie fucus spread Their lips so rosie not with their own red Their necks and breasts shone with adulterate white â—â—re to the wast the better to invite VVith painted eyes and tresses of false hair VVhich jointly bear off lust the badge and snare VVhom when Minerva from her shrine had spied She hid her eyes and turn'd her head aside If I a goddesse nor in vertue fail â—â—ight of force or modesty prevail They shall not said she herein glory long â—ly grief shall arm me to revenge this wrong New scarce departed from her Tâ—mple doore VVhen scarce their feet had prest the beachy shore Their legs united in a scaly hide And bones in finnes thrust out on either side Nor yet their former mind unchanged keep But hold themselves for monsters of the deep Who now upon the dancing billows move â— shes below the wast and maids above Harmonious daughters of Calliope Parthenope Ligea Leucasia T. Talkative TYâ—ng his ear to no tongue but his own An ocean of words That lions tail tongue ever in motion That tyrant in discourse Drum of the company That spend thrift of his tongue Unthrifty babler A pattentee of speech Ingrosser of discourse Two grains of wheat in two bushels of chaffe Such are his words Thinking silence commendable in nothing but a dead neats tongue whose tongue hath a good turn when he sleeps Too mâ— of the mother in him Long winded monster Crispinus Hydra discourse Land remora wordie prodigall Speaking frying pan One that hath got a patent for prating and it were no lesse tâ—â—â— to take his purse to speak a word in his company A flood a 〈◊〉 Vollies hail shot of words His tongue goes continually his erraâ—â— but never speeds enough to make a mans memorie ake with câ—â—â—ing such dirty stuffe into it Able to speak far more with ease tâ—â—â— any man can endure with patience One that drops out at his mouth whatsoever is poured in at ears That sows his words by sacks whilst others do it by handfulls rolling tongue They which converse with him run the same fortune which they which live by the fall of Nile there is no overflowing like that his words a man cannot safely give him audience an head ach three days after is the least hurt he can take that but hears him â—â—ter dinner Upon any occasion he will find a mouth find a speech wâ—â—â— will His talk at table like Beniamins messe five times to his paâ—t Tantalus Hungry whilst ripened fruit hangs by his lip Thirsty whilst water by his chin doth slip Pelops great father Allowed to feast with gods Admitted to the secrets of the gods Unhappy father of proud Niobe That made a bloody feast Of his own son and call'd the gods his guests From whom the long desired waters slâ—p And catch'd at fruit steals from his touched lips He that doth daily dread The hanging stone that hovers o'r his head Thrown headlong into hell Cause he the secrets of the gods did tell Tantalise As when beyond our greedy reach we see Inviting fruit on too sublime a tree As when the greedy dog sees that repast Which awed by the whip he dares not tast A Tavern â— degree or a pair of stairs above an alehouse There men are drunk with more credit and apologie A broacher of more news than hogsheds suckt up here by some â—â—gie brain and then squeâ—zed into a Comedy The common â—â—sumption of after noons and the murderer or maker away of a â—â—nie day The busie mans recreation and the idle mans buâ—â—nesse Teach â—esson Tutor inform instruct Tears The best expressours of true sorrows the urine of the eys â—ad daughters of the eyes The pearly floods The pearl and chrystall showers the wine of love The balmy sweat of the eyes The watry language of the â—â—tys Dumb Eelegy the numerous issue of the eyes The liquid amber The lovers pleading eyes The watry oratours dumb perswasion Rhetorick eloquence â—â—ll tide of sorrow The sadder straining of the melting eyes Wet badge of weak mortality The Plaintive floods fruits of the funerall The brinie showers sad tribute of the eyes Sorrows liverie the dumb Ambassadours of grief Streams of liquid pearl Soft dew distilled â— from the two chrystall limbecks of her eyes Those moving agents Due tribute of the dead watering those plants are sown in corruption The innundation deluge of the eyes The issue of the pregnant teeming eyes The flood of pearly moisture The tributary drops of woe The pearly treasure of the eyes The eye-offending brine sorrowfull water The fruitfull river in the eye The watry trappings and the suits of woe The flushing of the galled eyes The pâ—ous beads False tears Such Tereus shed when he Pandion sues In Progne's name for Philomel So weeps the monster of the seven mouth'd Nile Instructed tears Lovers Tears v. Love Tedious So many minutes as in hours there be So many hours each minute seem'd to me Teeth Those ivory pales which enclose a
seemed to blush it had defended its master no better Making many windowes in their armour for death to come in at Bleeding in such measure as if they meant to lend Charon a flood to ferry ore their departing souls The cannons spit their iron salutation With bullets wrapt in fire They make a shaking feavour in the walls The sleeping stones By the compulsion of the ordinance Are raised from their fixed beds of lime Now death lines his dead chaps with steele The swords of souldiets are his fangs The summer dust is laid with showres of blood Tearing the clowdy cheeks of heaven With roaring bellowes from the iron mouth Of loud voic't cannons V. Dubartas The vocation Ovid Mat. lib. 12 Centaures Lapithae Virgil. 4. last books Aeneids Lucan by May translated Civil war To distain In their own bowels their victorious swords Where kindred hosts incounter Known ensignes ensignes do defie Piles against piles eagles against eagles flie Like those on the Aemathian plains Like the Serpentine brood by Cadmus sprung Like ensignes all against like ensignes band Bowes against bowes the crown against the crown Whilst all pretending right all right throw downe Convulsions of the state Untuned drums That viperous worme That gnawes the bowels of the common wealth The trumpet gives uncertain sounds Where both most loose though but one party win Wast of the body A wast as strait and clean As Cupids shaft and Hermes rod And powerfull too as either God Strait as Circe's wand Water The christal regions Issue of the springs The liquid christal Flowing deity Chrystal Nymph liquid glasse melting chrystal Shaking chrystal impartial mirrour undeceiving glasse Watch Wake v. Sleepe As the keen dogs keep sheep in coats Oâ— folds of hurdles bound And grin at every breath of aire Envious of every sound Sleep wanteth weight to close a winke Light doth divorce The low and upper lids His eyes resume their charge On leaden wings sleep from him flew My weakened sâ—nces had unlockt mine eyes Wave Billowes surges flowes the rolling hills Frothy mounts Liquid mountains The foamy wrinkles of the main Wâ—try heaps Neptunes watry brissells Rolling trenches moving mouâ—tains The swelling clusters of enraged seas Thetis glassie mountains Those sparkling furrowes of the swelling tide Weave Arachne's fatal yet deserved doome Nere gave such glory to Minerva's loome As did her weaving this that did but show Her art was great this shew'd her Goddesse too Such as Arachne on her loome Wove before she had her doome Weep v. Tears I will weepe a flood Deep as Deucalions and again the Chaos Shall muffle up the lamentable world In sable cloaks of grief and black confusion Then with the pressure of her eyes she freed One tear from prison The trickling tears ore flow the blubberd cheeke The flowing eyes send out their numerous tears To poure out the soul at the eyes So wept Deucalion when he saw the state And face of nature deadly desolate With tears which might have made another flood Bathing her cheeks in tears To shead From drowned eyes vain offerings to the dead So wept th' Heliades When they bewail'd their brother so their trees Yet amber weepe Such was Ocyrrohoe's tears and such her care When she perceiv'd her self become a mare So wept old Inachus then when he found His unfound Io. So wept the skilful Centaure when the faire Ocyrrhoe his daughter turn'd a mare Warme tears did from her charged eye-springs drain So wept Andromeda as to the rock She chained lay So Cyane when thaw'd into a lake She mourn'd the ravishment of Proserpine The drops of rears at every accent fall Griefe dissolved eyes Eyes drown'd in tears Sorrow impatient to be slowly uttered â—â— her often stopping speeches poured it self in tears Eyes big with tears Like a proud river peering o'r his bounds â—o water the plants the roses and lilies in the cheeks My cheeks are guttered with my fretting tears â—o launder cheeks and handkerchiefs in tears So wept Pandyon when to Tereus he Gave Philomel Scarce could he bid farewell â—obs so engage his troubled speech Such tears wept myrrha now become a treee Abortive tears flow from their spring So wept old Hecuba then when she wash'd The wounds of her beloved Polyxena And saw dead Polydore float on the Main To mellt his grief in tears Washing her eyes with their own native tears Fresh streams of loves salt flood â—illowed on her soft cheeks To drown the eyes in tears Steep the eyes in tears Make Limbecks of the eyes The melting thawing eye The deluge of her melting tears disgrace And drown'd the world of beauty in her face Hard was it to descry Whether the drops were clearer or her eye Tears fearing conquest to the eyes might fall An innundation brought and drowned all There remain'd a feature Made sorrow sweet plac'd in so sweet a creature Showring eyes Run floods of sorrows Distill the soul in tears Channell their cheeks with tears To drop the brain in tears His eyes look through his tears A flowing tide of tears gush from his eyes Tears wrapp'd in sighs With eyes that threatned they would drown his face Eyes great in labour with their tears With rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosome of the earth And with the southern clouds contend in tears Lik one was born in April The falling tears fret channels in her cheeks The eyes Drop faster tears than the Arabian trees Their medicinall gum Down from his eyes a shower of tears did flow Like water running from the melted snow So Ariadne left by Theseus wept Whom she seeks Whilst showers of tears made furrows in her cheeks Mine eyes do flow Like Nilus when it scorns the opposed shore Tears the best Expressors of true sorrow speak the rest Dâ—opping his tears upon one place As if he meant to fret himself a grave To spend the pearly treasures of the eyes His eyes out flow the ocean To weep for joy v. Lovers Tears Have you beheld an April shower Send down her hasty bubbles and then stops Then storms afresh through whose transparent drops The unobscured lamp of heaven conveys The brighter glory of his sparkling rayes Even so upon her blushing cheeks resided A mixt aspect 'twixt smiles and tears divided Welcome v. Glad More welcome than was light To the disordered chaos Welcome as are the ends unto my wishes Nay far more welcome than the happy soil To sea scourg'd Merchants after all their toil Kings meet Queens So Cleopatra met Mark Antony So soft streams meet so springs with gladder smiles Meet after long divorcement made by Isles When love the child of likenesse urgeth on Their chrystall waters to an union Welcome as quiet rest To one by pain and want of sleep opprest Health to the sick drink to the thirsty soul Is not more welcome As is the journies end To weary travellers Ulysses after all his toil at sea â—as not more welcome to Penelope The scorned beggar could not entertain With greater joy should he a