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A03032 The riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus 1598 (1598) STC 13174; ESTC S118769 15,010 32

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amorous sportes I kild my selfe Foole propagating kinde 15 VPon some pale or pearch Or stond or rotten tree In watrie lowes and fennie grounds Where store of fishes bee There will he gazing stand And fish be faine would eate Bur he disdaines to touch a fish If that it be not great Right good ones he lets goe For better still to stay Till that the sunne is welnigh set And gone almost the day Then downe vnto the ground In stately sort he hies Where he a hungrie supper makes On wormes and butterflies 16 THe welkin is welnigh out of our seeing Our eies and thoughts are on the ground remaining On th' earth or no where is our happie being Yet there we euer grudge and are complayning But turne vs so that heauen hang in our spying And straight we leaue our murmur and our crying 17 ONe rips the earth another cuts the seas And runs the world in circuite round about All for my sake I doe all men so please That all doe seeke which way to finde me out In Diadems in scepters and in Crownes In robes in rotchets in a Cardnals hat In scarlet silkes in costly furred gownes In stones and pearles and in I wot not what In horses haukes bounds harlots and in bookes One flieth for me vp into the skies Another downe to Plutoes raigne he tookes Where all this glistering Or and argent lies This search declares how greatly men doe leeke me But they are mad so far from home to seeke me 18 A Neuer wearied but euer bearing mother was deliuered of children all in a maner of stature equall which though they were being yong very like one vnto another yet by diuer sitte of bringing vp they were transmuted so that vnneath they might be discerned to be of one linage Some of them were made carters plowmen some serued in cities as porters sergeants and hangmen some became mariners and serued at sea Some were fine lier trained vp and for their delicacie waxed in fauour with faire virgins great matrones gentlewomen and great Ladies To all which they were so inwarde and neerely conioyned that scarcely brother or husband was permitted to be with them of equall trust Many of these waxed so skilfull and stored with all manner of learning that more of them became diuines lawiers and states-men then are to be found in Paris Padua Bononia Venice or Vienna Of this last sort sundry which grew to be embassadours secretaries and intelligencers were finally brought to violent death by fire or interred in so fowle a fashion that not knowing with what termes to expresse it I must of force leaue it to be deuined at 19 AFter midnight ere it was day His eies he did vnclose And striuing for to get away From prison he arose With bodies two as colde as Leade He wrought so fine a feate That other two which seemed dead Receiued life and heate Then dead men came about him round I wot not who they were But of much thing deepe and profound With them he did confer 20 WE are in number not fiue times fiue No one of vs two handfull long Nor any of vs takes care to thriue Yet all together we doe so throng That if a man would list to striue T'extinguish or to doe vs wrong Were he the greatest prince aliue We should be found for him too strong And could make him infamous in time to come Though most of vs beene deafe and dombe 21 BY helpe of fiue and sixe and seuen And lines and distances betweene A scale is made that brings from heauen A virgine sweete that nere was seene Nor any man euer see her shall Though heauen and earth together fall Vnseene of louers she hath choice That are not led by wanton eies But they doe loue her Angels voice And he that rules aboue the skies Doth daine a listening eare to lend Her earnest praiers to attend 22 I Am not but am said to bee And many things are told of mee As first for sooth that I am blinde And bushed before and balde behinde And that I halting come to one And flie when as I will be gone With fooles my godhead is not small With wise men it is none at all 23 SVch as the companie is such am I And I thinke some other folke are so too To two Ladies great I euer am nie And we with the world haue much to doo Tis hard for a lowte to tell ye my name And shame for a clerke if he hit not the same 24 IT is not more fabulous what Prometheus did then ridiculous what Paracelsus promiseth yet there is one to no man of great vnderstanding vnknowen that not onely maketh persons at her pleasure but also bringeth them from hell or heauen to life againe when they be dead Yea she maketh pillers wals or any thing to speake not by sorcerie witcherie or imprecation of deuils but by fine arte to the face of iudges for iustice she hath heretofore practised her skill and of her propertie a long time borne speciall denomination 25 THis is the age that I would haue These times for me are woondrous fit Each Ladie that is fine and braue With me delights to goe and sit My liuing lieth not in my lands Yet I am daintie fine and sweete The Ladies take me in their hands Their lips and mine full often meete Their paps their cheekes I well may touch In smiling sort with me they play Their husbands thereat thinke not much No though I downe with them doe lay In sooth it is a foolish sin When foolish husbands iealous bin 26 TWo forward went and one did seeme to stay them Foure after ran and fiue did ouerlay them Of which one dead foure quicke was comprehending And all these twelue vnto one marke were tending 27 FIrst I was small and round like a pearle Then long and slender as braue as an Earle Since like an hermit I liude in a cell And now like a rogue in the wide world I dwell 28 THere is a bodie without a hart That hath a toong and yet no head Buried it was ere it was made And lowde it speakes and yet is dead 29 FArre in the west I wot not wheare Are trees men say which oisters beare I woonder how that comes about Those oisters she not out of doubt And fall straight like a swarme of bees At home here on our apple trees Growe they on trees those oisters fie Me thinkes it soundeth like a lie A kinde of trees I know tis true In purpoole lane beare oisters new And fish and flesh and now and then They beare I tell you honest men 30 THe new world is enuironed with a deepe ditch whereinto many riuers do fall continually in so much that it would ouerflow the whole world were it not that from the water of this ditch there riseth and is ingendred great store of barnacles and other sea fowle of diuers colours and proportions some of them being bigger by great ods then