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Partly in verse. Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 15". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Characters and characteristics -- Early works to 1800. Elegiac poetry, English -- 17th century. A96944 R200973 (Thomason E344_21). civilwar no Characters and elegies.: By Francis VVortley, Knight and Baronet. Wortley, Francis, Sir 1646 18963 46 65 0 0 0 0 59 D The rate of 59 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Robyn Anspach Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Robyn Anspach Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion CHARACTERS AND ELEGIES . BY FRANCIS VVORTLEY , Knight and Baronet . Printed in the Yeere , M DC XLVI . TO THE LOVERS OF HONOUR & POESIE . GENTLEMEN , YOu whose constitutions are even and equall , not over-balanced with earthly and base metall , love Honour and Gallantry in any man , & virtus in hoste probatur . You who know God made all things by his owne Rule of Proportion , ( in weight , measure and number : ) you who are friends to that Divine , Noble , and Royall Art of Poesy , for what is it but well weighed words , made even by that Lesbian Rule of Proportion ? you can best judge of these phancies dedicated to you , as they are meant . The subject of my Poetry is noble , and the noblest of Gods creatures , Man , brave men , loyal men , who have dyed like Ionathan and his brothers , either with the King , or in his Cause , ( most of them ) the other were worthy a better Muse as well as they . This way of service to the memory of the dead wants not presidents worthy our imitations , Kings and Prophets , and the greatest Law-giver , whom I will take for my first president of Poetry , even Moses , who from Gods owne mouth gave the Law to his owne people : he composed such a song , as the Lambe and Angels make use of it , ( Apoc. 15. ) which was his song of deliverance he left composed , and so first sanctified Poetry , as Christ and his Apostles in the New Testament by the allegation of the Psalmes and Prophets , who were both Poets and Vates . Also S. Paul sanctified the Heathen Poets . David , vir secundùm cor Dei , that pious Prince , that martiall King , that glorious man of God , truly deserved that glorious Epithet , Princeps Poetarum . Solomon , the wisest of men , composed his Songs and Canticles . David in this way of Poesy made an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for Saul and Ionathan . And Ieremy made the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for good Iosias . He that goes up to the mountaine of God , shall meet the Prophets with musicall raptures . The Jewes buryed their dead with great ceremony , and had their Praeficaes , women singers , their {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , their songs of mourning and lamentation , their burning of Incense and sweet odours for their Kings , and solemn mournings for their Princes . They mourned and fasted ( 1 Sam. 31. 13. and 2 Sam. 1. 12. ) for their Kings , they mourned many dayes , as for Moses and Ioshua , and so for Iosias ; for whom ( as I said ) Ieremy made the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . The chief mourner at every resting place sung the usuall {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , or as we call it , the burden of the song ; like that in Ier. 9. 18. that our eyes may run downe with teares , and our eye-lids gush out with waters . And this they did in hope of Resurrection , as well as honour of the dead , for they comforted their friends with places of Scripture fullest of comfort , as that of Esay 25. 8. He will swallow up death in victory , and wipe away all teares : And Psal. 72. 16. They shall flourish and spring againe as the grasse on the earth . And they called the Church-yard , or burying place , BETH CHAIIM , Domus viventium , the house of the living . The Primitive Church used such Ceremonies in this way , as would passe for Popery amongst us now adayes ▪ though it was in the purest times of the Church used , ( so much as it was by mistake abused ) and turned to Idolatry . But if that were a just exception against lawfull Ceremonies , it may stand as well against Doctrine as Discipline , for both have beene abused , the one by Heretiques , the other by Schismatiques , and both ought to be observed , the one in ordine ad esse Ecclesiae , the other ad bene esse . So this kind of Poesie hath warrant beyond exception , and this ceremony of Buryall : He who wanted it amongst the Jewes was said to have the buryall of an Asse , so Ier. 22. Ieconia vvas said to have such a buryall . Thus much I have said to satisfie the curious , or rather ignorant concerning Poesy , and the honourable mention and memory of the dead : And they who had it not in the Primitive Church ( if it could be had ) were said to have insepultam sepulturam . As for my Characters and Translations , they are fruits of Phansie , and vvere but as Salads are to solid dishes , to sharpen the appetite : so these to my serious studies vvere , or as Davids Harp , to the melancholy thoughts of my imprisonment . I must acknowledge ( with thanks to God ) I found singular comfort in this way , and this sufferance , and that it set an edge upon my over-tyred and dulled braine , and these Phancies vvere the fire vvarmed them . My vvish is , they may be accepted of such as know how to judge , and have so much honour not to misinterpret good meaning , and my zeale to the Cause vvherein I suffer . I thanke heaven , God hath supplyed me vvith a large measure of patience and comfort , as pledges of his favour , and so much charity ▪ I wish them rather a right understanding , then any ill ; and such a proportion of inward comfort as may make them as happy in their Liberty as I am in prison . Let them therefore with Charity reade , what they find in this little Volume , and such an encouragement may produce to the view of the world , my more serious Studies , to which these were but a preparative , and as I said before , a salad to more solid dishes , which I will promise you shall be served up , if this please ; if not , I have not lost my patience , much lesse the comfort of my phancie , ( which none can take from me ) and I can content my selfe with that Greek saying , which suits me as well as if it had been made for me , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . The Motto of my Family . AMICITIAS VOLO , INIMICITIAS SPERNO . I study my friends , and scorne my causelesse enemies . This is the Resolution of your Servant , Fr. Wortley . CHARACTERS AND ELEGIES . CHARACT . I. The Character of His Royall Majestie . MY Soveraigne is a King , whose Vertues make his claim as good to a Crown , as his blood and his birth-right doth to this : yet no King in Europe can derive his right from more royall , vertuous , and victorious Predecessors then he , nor better prove his title in relation to all three , then my Master can . What the Brittains lost to the Saxons , they to the Danes , and the Norman got from both , is his birth-right , besides the Kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland , and Principality of Wales , additions to the Normans Conquest : Had he begun his first Quinquenium , as he hath spent these last , and drawne that blood abroad which hath been spilt at home ; had he been as quick in justice , as he hath been apt to mercie ; had he brought in the Scots into this Kingdome , ( as his Father did ; ) had they not been called in , my Master had been the most powerfull and the most happy King in Christendome , but he was born to raigne when the Aspects of the Planets were malignant , and in unhappy conjunctions or oppositions , in relation to his Kingdomes , disposing Subjects to innovation in Religion , and immoderate desires of libertie , ( as that great Master in Astrologie , Tichobrahi , in his Observations upon that fatall Comet preceded the Germane war , foretold . ) T is true , Planets may dispose , but cannot necessitate ; Imperant astra sensui , non rationi , nil voluntatem impellunt , for otherwise they should be guilty of our sins , not we . When my Master is upon his Throne of Justice , he is like the tongue of the Ballance , and makes the Scales stand right and equall betwixt the extreames , Mercie and Judgement : but God cast into the scale of Mercie some grains of his favour , which turn'd the scale , and made him the most mild , pious , and best beloved Prince of Christendome : yet who can say that ever he feared to doe justice , or spared it , if not over-intreated by such as made too great an advantage of his goodnesse ? It was a saying of Seneca's , that Parcere omnibus & nullis est aequa crudelitas , but it is greater cruelty to the good to spare all , then to the bad to spare none . Seneca sayes , Clementia tutum Regem in aperto ostendit , for that , he said , begot the love of the people , and I say it should make him raigne in the hearts and affections of his Subjects ; but never good King was worse understood , nor more unhappily mistaken . All I can or will say , is , the faults which were laid to his charge in the beginning of his troubles , ( but whispered ) are now thwarted so , that they become {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , contradictory one to the other , and one of them must fall . At first he was weak , now he is thought too politique ; at first easie , now too stiffe ; at first too peacefull , now too martiall : In a word , I need not write his Character , if his History be not wronged ; I cannot make so good an one , as that will prove him : To which I leave him , but with hopes to see him break through this cloud , ( which over-shadowes him ) and shine as bright and gloriously as ever , or more , ( improved by these sad tryalls ) which shall be my Prayer for my Master , and ought to be of every loving Subject for his Soveraigne . II. The Character of the Queenes Majestie . THe Queene is a Lady of Illustrious blood and birth , as any of Europe , ( except her own daughters ) whose Father casts the scale , and gives it them , derived from him , who is really one of the best borne Princes of Christendome , except his owne Son . She was daughter to that Mars of France , Henry the Great , ( truly the greatest France ever had ) as well for Royall blood , Heroick vertues , as power and dominion . At home few Princes were so beloved , abroad none more feared , for his Sword was as glorious as his Wisdom . Her mother was a Lady of great blood and wisdome , as appeared by her Government of France , ( a people uncapable of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , the government of Woman ) that must , and wil confesse it self more happy in her regiment , then it hath been ever since ( although victorious ) under the service or command of her two great States men the Cardinals , she commanding that in love and obedience , which reason of State hath since conquered in France . The beauty of our Queene was as royall and soveraigne as her bloud and vertues , and true parallels , yet concur in the centre . Wisdome and Constancie are her portion in this world , and her Piety bids faire for the next . Her Wisdome appeares to all admiration , for she hath out-done all agents of her sexe , much more of her quality , in her negotiations , her love adding wings to her spirit , and that strength to her body , to expedite what the most active here or abroad thought improbable , nay impossible to be effected . For her Constancie , I wonder at that , more then this , that for a Crowne she dare not change her Religion , having such a President as her glorious Father , ( in all but that ) and yet admire it more , considering her love to the King , and the advantage her wisdome assures the change would bring to their designes , the perfection of the presidents , the one in constancie , the other in change , Ladies being more apt to follow the old French , then the new English fashion . If I knew her not wise , as royall and pious as either , I could most admire her favours to those of our Nation in France , considering her sufferance , and her Husbands here ; yet she is still a Sanctuary to her Husbands friends , ( a rare president of Charitie ) and in all this so cheerfull , she rather encourageth others , then seemes to sinke under such a weight of afflictions , and in this exceeds her selfe as much as her sexe in the other . Though I would not have her mutable , yet from my soule I wish her conformable to the King in her Religion , which must be the work of heaven ; In the meane time I wish that we were as really charitable , as she is truly pious , that she could see our faith by our good works , that they might as much convince her conscience to change , as reason of State might and does move her reason to that conformitie , and truly binds her to it . In a word , were she thus , I know no Nation under heaven so happy as we must then confesse our selves , who have now made our selves Ludibrium mundi , the scorne of the world , as much despised abroad , as we lately were glorious : who like Esops dog , have forsaken the substance , and snatched at shadowes , and our losse is really as irreparable , as his is fained , if heaven help not . III. The hopefull Prince . AS the sea is the Centre of the Element of water , to which all rivers tend , and in which they emptie their fulnesse : So is my Prince the Sea of Royall vertues , the Centre of Princely blood , from which we hope springs of vertues , and honor , nay rivers will break forth and inrich the world in future ; As all Rayes have a point where they begin , and a Centre or point of concourse either directly or by reflex where they meet or terminate , so there is no line or ray of vertue , that meets not in this point of concourse , no point of pietie of honor which we may not petere principia from his Royall Progenitors , and terminate it in him . Fashions follow the humours of the people , and they the dispositions of mens mindes , dispositions are much governed ( in respect of the remote cause ) by the influence and aspects of the Stars , and that by the supreame cause of causes : If we looke with the eyes of nature , we may wonder at the times ; if of grace ; wee have deserved the worst wee suffer , by abusing the best blessings wee injoyed . If this hinder not , I know no reason , but wee may looke for happy times , and derive them from these lesser wheeles , moved by the greater . Looke on my Prince , if you ( Martiall spirits ) expect action , and derive him from that Boanerges , the sonne of Thunder , Henry of France , the greatest of that name , nay of her Kings : If for peacefull and politique government , looke northward upon King James the Solomon of his time , the Prince of peace on earth : If you looke to be glorious in forraigne conquests , derive him from William the Conqueror ( who began younger then he ) and with happy successe subdued his Rebels , joyned with the power of France , and made both Henry of France and Philip his Sonne know , that he meant to be a Conqueror : If you looke for glorious action further from home , derive him from the First Richard , or the First Edward , whose names were as terrible to Infidells , as William to the Saxons , & as much renowned amongst all Christian Princes : If nearer home , draw his line from the Victorious Edwards , the glorious Henries : If you would have him subtilly politicke , with lesse respect to Soveraign honour , fetch him from the Eleventh Lewis of France : If more wise and truly valiant , and better skill'd to govern the English , either in the Martiall or Civill way , or Politicke , derive him from him , from whom he derives his right to the Crowne , the Seaventh Henrie : If you would have him pious and patient , and struggle with his Stars with prudent magnanimitie : joyned with these vertues , looke upon his Royall Parents , and pray that like our third Henrie , they after these stormes may be as happy in my Prince their Sonne , our hopes , as he and his Queene were in our First Edward , in relation to both Kingdomes : that after as long a raigne of his Royall Parents , he may ( as he did ) give law to both Kingdomes , and settle the three Kingdomes , and leave them in as much glorie , as he did this . IV. A true Character of the Illustrious James Duke of York . THe Duke of Yorke is a Prince for his birth may compare with any of Europe , ( being my Master , his Brothers parallel ) and I dare say cannot suffer in the comparison . He ownes his Royall Father , and is as like him as Nature could cast him in so Princely a mould : so like he is , we may invert that Royall Epithet was given his Father , Jacobissimus Carolus , to Carolissimus Jacobus : and he makes it good . Those who know him , know I flatter him not , if I say his disposition ownes his Illustrious blood , and his Gallantry speaks the languages of his birth . I dare promise his Princely Brother a gallant second , and as faithfull as he can hope him . As valiant Clarence was to our glorious 5. Henry , so shall James be to his victorious Brother . Had Frances Mars her glorious 4. Henry seene these blossomes springing from his Flower-de-luce , he would have rejoyced as much as so great a King could , to see his dearest daughter , and his so lively Character their mother so happy in this blessing , as it repayres or counterballances the sad condition of her present fortune : And he would have righted his interest in them , and have made England know he was their Grandfather , ( which the world shall see by their glorious actions . ) It is not novelty , out of our Histories to produce examples , that our wisest and most victorious Kings and Princes have by a supreme power been raised out of the dust , and have erected stately monuments and glorious Tropheys upon such sad foundations as ours must build on ; So William triumphed over his Rebellious Normans , in spite of the power of France , and after over the English : so our second Henry , our third , our fourth , and seventh , ( to omit others ) made themselves glorious in spite of suppression and sad tryals , and were ( like gold refined in the fornace ) made more glorious , happy , and wise by their afflictions , for the sweetnesse of changes appeares best in oppositions . He knowes not true happinesse , who hath not felt some adversity . Sharp Schools make the best Scholars . Who knowes not the sad effects of Warre , cannot value Peace . And no Prince manages Peace so happily , as he who knowes the evil of War , yet knowes how to put on his Armes , as well as to lay them aside . In a word , this hardship our hopes have suffered , hath much improved them , and I dare promise to the world happinesse from it , and I hope a share in his , whose title entitles my hope and interest in him , as well as my Princely Master . V. The Character of a Noble Generall . A Noble Generall is a man who hath peace with heaven , and forgets not he is to make his accompt to God , as well as man , and therefore dares not doe that he knowes not how to answer to God , in respect of his conscience , nor man in regard of his honour : he knowes he is not fit for command of others , is not master of himselfe , and therefore studyes that first ; yet is not such selfe-lover that he forgets his duty to either God or his Prince , it being no question , whether a Generall should obey God , or man , he first examines the quarrell before he accepts his Commission , and that satisfyed dares dye in it , and that is his rule by which he directs his service . And as the Seaman by his compasse stears his course by that Card , yet varies his course as he does in his voyage , applying his experience to Occasions , yet still with an eye upon his Card , he often turnes his eyes inward , and there findes his Character of his owne charge : An Army of as different humours , and dispositions , as Hannibals Army was , and desires to governe his way : never one Nation was more intire in obedience , never Generall more absolute in command , never Generall studyed his Commission more , never Army executed it better . Had Carthage beene as good a master , as he a servant , he had mastred Rome . He cannot be happy in command , that knows not to obey , and by that learnt to command . That Prince or State puts an Army into a young Souldiers charge , its probable may pay as dear for his Learning , as he that trusts his fortune in a Ship without a Pilot : If he speede well he is more beholden to chance , then discretion ; this disadvantage is too great for a wise man to adventure the trust , and an honest man the charge : Passions and sensualities are not more obnoxious to the soule in the naturall Body , then these are to a Generall in relation to the body Politique , good servants they are , but dangerous masters : As the senses present objects to the Phancie , and that to the intellect , yet still the Will commands : so he is not in this without his well-chosen and well-rewarded intelligence and correspondency , nor without his owne Jugdement , and his choice Councells , yet keepes still the prerogative of his command , not so premptory , as absolute . And as the soule loves every member , yet makes use of it , and communicates liberally to its occasions , as it relates to the body , so he commands not but with as much love , yet indulges not so any member of his body , nor sense , or faculty of his soul , but he prefers the body to any member , and the soul to any sense , and will rather curbe , and suppresse an insolency or presumption in either , then indanger the whole , and knows that is lesse cruelty to the good to spare all , then to the bad to save none . He looks upon his Officers as his senses , and his Souldiers as his members , yet had rather cut off a finger then be deaf , or lose a hand then his eies . And this care of his is happily requited with a dutiful regard and affection unto his Souldiers . And yet he in respect to his Officers accompts himself singulis major , and to his Army , universis minor . In a word , as God trusts the soule with the charge and command of the body , so is he trusted with his Army , and is as loath to hazard that , but feares not : Much lesse denies to deliver up his commission , or make his accompt , when called for , by the supream power , and hath alwayes his accompt ready in respect to that supreame Commission of Gods , or that inferiour of Mans , and therefore feares no more to hazard or leave it ( when a just occasion commands it ) then a well satisfyed Christian to dye in God and his Princes just cause , whose faith hath already Crowned his head with glorious Martyrdom , and such a Generall deserves as well the glory of a Rom● Triumph , as the Martyr his Aureola . VI . A true English Protestant IS one who professeth the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England , established first by General Councels and Synods , and after confirmed by the knowne Lawes of the Kingdome , and professeth against the contrary . He sticks to the Protestation of Ausburge , whence he had his name ; he loves the unity of the Church so , that he endeavours next her verity in faith , her unity and conformity in Discipline with that Church , not daring to broach new opinions , nor preach them to disturbe the peace of his aged Mother . Private interpretations of Scripture he approves not , but submits his owne , and maintaines none against the received and approved Doctrine of the Church , whereof he is a member : He thinks that Evangelicall counsel is to be observed , that all things must be done in order and decencie : He conceives the King to be the Head of the Church , as it is personall , not spirituall , and hath sworne him Gods Deputy in Government , and trusted with the sword , which he must not beare in vaine : He dares not question his Authority , who is onely answerable to God , but in his heart honours him as his Vice-gerent , and knowes that to resist his power , is to resist him that gave it ; and though the penalty be damnation , yet he feares not that so much as the offence given to God , who gave the power : He confesses an obligation to Gods Morall Lawes , and Mans Judiciall , and that there must be as well obedience active as passive , to the one , as the other : He knowes Christs spirituall Kingdome opposeth not the temporall claime and power of Kings , but Cesar must have his tribute ( the badge of Conquest ) as God must have his in the acknowledgment of his protection . He dares call his Soveraigne the Anointed of God , since God called Cyrus a Heathen so , not for the holinesse of externall unction , but the internall character of supreame power , and Saul a demoniack , a persecutor , a murtherer : so he can make a difference between types and metaphors , the one being in persons , the other in words . He conceives passive obedience alwayes due to the power of the King , where active cannot be performed with a good conscience . He beleeves faith alone cannot , nor doth justifie without works , but both together , the first before God , the second before men . He beleeves God rewards above merit , yet that there is difference in glory , and reward , though all have fulnesse . Traditions and Ceremonies he reverences , as they are in Antiquity , and streame from the springs of originall purity , not to the necessity of Doctrine , but Discipline . He detests Parity in Church or in Common-wealth , as tending to Anarchy , and destroy those it will follow . He thinkes it not fit to pull downe the Cantrells of an Arche till the key-stone be settled , and then the greater the weight is , the stronger it will be ; he likes the fabrick of the old so well , he thinks the change may be dangerous . He dares not sweare against his conscience , nor vow implicite obedience to occasionall ordinances . He thinks no authority but the same , or a greater then that to whom he hath made a Judicial vow , can disanull it . He is loyall for Conscience sake to his Soveraigne , charitable for Gods sake to his Neighbour , and dares not doe that unto another , he cannot be content should be done to himselfe ; much lesse rob his Soveraigne of his birth-right , or deface Gods character ; he thinks Dixi vos dii estis belongs supremely to his Soveraign , ministerially to his subjects : he dares not distinguish betwixt the King and his Person , and thinke the one at Westminster , the other in his Armie ; and hazard that in the feild to save that at Westminster , he likes not that nice distinction forged in the Scoole of the Jesuits , derived from the Devills Logicke : His heart thinks no disloyall thought , much lesse dares he speake a word to lessen the reverence due to Majestie , not for feare of punishment , but the sinne ; who dares not forsake his Soveraigne in his adversity , lest God deny him in his necessity ; who in a dungeon can finde more comfort , then they who commanded him thither . He with Joseph finds his Keepers wrought by a supreme power to mercy , if not trust , whose cheerfulnesse is a comfort to his fellow-Prisoners , and no lesse advantage to himselfe , God making him the instrument of their happinesse in their adversities , and him happy in his gallant cheerfulnesse , and magnanimous patience . In a word , he dares in his Princes just quarrell meet death with as much courage , as David met Goliah , as Daniel went into the Lions Den , or the three Children into the fiery fornace , and in the midst of his tortures , can with as much cheerfulnesse sing his Nunc dimitte , as Simeon did with his Christ in his armes . This is your true Cavallier . VII . An Antinomian , or Anabaptisticall Independent IS one who wonders that S. Paul would refer himselfe ( though for conformities sake ) to a Councell , he having an equall share with Peter in the division of the Circumcision , and the uncircumcision : he cannot endure to heare of Councells or Synods , and is much troubled that he approves of the Altar , and yet well pleased that he refers the Minister for his livelihood to it , though he tythes not mint nor anise ( as not approving tythes ) yet he neglects the waightiest matters of the Law , and in this agrees with the Pharisee . You shall find him pointed in the New Testament ( with a Vae vobis ) who love the chiefe seats at feasts , and make long prayers in Widdowes houses , and lead silly women captive ; He approves not that Evangelicall councell , to worke out salvation with feare and trembling , for this toucheth too much upon our obligation to the Law ; Besides , feare is opposite to faith , and trembling to boldnesse ; he is as bold as blind Byard , and scarce will be beholding to Christ for his securitie ; He thinks himself of a higher form in the school of Gods Church , then to submit to the pedagogie of the Law Morall , Iudiciall , or Ceremoniall ; he hath found a shorter cut to heaven then the Catholicke Church ever heard of , and a cheaper , ( faith without workes ) he thinks Canonicall obedience a badge of the beast , and subordination to temporall or ecclesiasticall powers , of a forfeiture of the freedome of faith ; An oath he avoides as a snare for his Conscience , and is so tender in this kinde , he wisely refuseth the Nationall Covenant ; if he hath taken the oath of Supremacie , or that of Allegiance , he hath repented it with more sorrow and detestation then any of his sinnes ; he is confident the spirituall power of Christs Kingdome here , disingages him of all temporall obligation ; The Hornet is not a worse Neighbour to the Bee , then he is to the Presbyterian , and robs his Hive as oft both of his Honie and Bees ; he talkes much of a new began Kingdome of Christ , set up in the hearts and soules of the Saints , which dischargeth him of all Secular duty . He is confident , that this is that Kingdome of Glory here , which shall last a thousand yeeres , and expects no other . He hath heard the last Trumpe , which like the voyce of an Angel is not heard , but of those to whom it was sent . He is confident Christ hath already divided the world into two parts , the Goats and the Sheep , and they are severed . He thrusts the Presbyterian out of the flock , as Linsey Wolsey was out of the Jewish Temple . He will not allow a Bishop and Presbyter to differ in power , but Roman-like takes that himselfe as his due , which they could not agree on , and would make a Congregationall Hierarchie as absolute , as the Presbyter a Classicall , or the Bishop an Episcopall . In a word , he hath spun his Religion to so fine a thred , that it may more fitly be termed a Mysterie then a Profession : his Charitie is as invisible as his Faith , and his Hope as his Charitie : he is in this indeed to be praised , he is of so publike a spirit , that he would have a community of all things : he can endure no prerogative but that of theirs , ( that of Faith ) which gives him a title to all ours : and of so harmlesse an humility he is , he avoweth that we need no fig-leaves to cover nakednesse , Crescite & multiplicamini is the first command , and all he sticks to , he would have none baptized but such as can give an account of their faith , but thinks it needlesse to give any either to God or man of their works : he thinks that Faith is the forme that gives the esse to the Sacraments , but not good works the bene esse to Faith , and so either he will goe to heaven without them , or else he thinks that God doth his Faith wrong , and his owne promise more . VIII . A Jesuite IS to the moderate Papist , as the Puritan to the Protestant ; For his originall he is descended from Ignatius , and begotten in spirituall adultery upon the Popes Spouse : he was nurst with much care , and educated with as much in the Popes Schoole , at the Austrian charge , better read in the Politicks then Divinity , though in both learned beyond the common reach . The Anabaptist and hee looke severall wayes , yet they are like Sampsons Foxes tyed together by the tails with fire-brands , and commonly endanger the Country that harbours them . The Esseni were not more austere in the Jewish Church , then he in the Christian . They agree in this both alike , enemies to Cesar . He is to the Pope , as the Pharisee was to the High-Priest , alwayes of his councell , commonly of the Quorum : he will compasse as much ground as either to gaine a Proselyte : his endeavour is thankfulnesse to the Pope for care of his education , and to the Austrian for his charges : he requites them both , and becomes an usefull instrument to advance the Hierarchie of the one , and the Tyrannie of the other . The Pharisee was not a greater observer of Traditions then he , nor prouder of his Philacteree , then he of his Order ; he is so well vers'd in Questions , that the Pharisee did not trouble our Saviour more with Dilemmaes , then he with dangerous Problems doth the Catholique Church ; none improves an Order more then hee , nor is a greater husband of the common stock , which is so great an one , that with his golden key , and his pick-lock , or his scrue of Confession , he rules the Councels of most Princes , and crooks them to his owne ends . Though he seemes to deny the world , no man hath a greater share in it ; No man pretends greater piety to God , purity and humility in himselfe , nor charitable equity to Man , then he . He dares challenge God to account , and thinks him so great a debtor , that he is able to leave a huge treasure of Supererogation to the Church , and quit scores with him ; yet in conclusion proves a Bankrupt , and owes more then he can ever hope to pay ; and yet so proud , he scornes to compound with his Redeemer , or make use of his Surety . He thinkes Christ did himselfe and his Master the Pope wrong with his humility , and blames him he made no more use of his Legions of Angels to establish a Temporall Monarchy . There is no Text troubles him more then Peters paying tribute to Cesar , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , & ter negabis , are farre more easie of digestion , and trouble him lesse to answer . Pro te & me he conceives are words of dangerous consequence , and had he been of Christs councell , should have beene spared . In a word , he hath gotten more for his Master and himselfe , then Christ ever challenged , or meant to Saint Peter , or his Successor , either in that Hierarchie hee claimes , or the Temporall power he usurpes , which he pretends is propter bonum Ecclesiae , with which clause or caution , he can absolve any Judiciall Oath , though sealed with the Sacrament , and signed by a Legion of Cardinalls , as Pope Paschall did his with Henry the Emperour ; so he prefers the Churches Liberties in Temporall things before his owne salvation , and the royall signature of the Sacrament . IX . The true Character of a Northerne Lady , as she is Wife , Mother , and Sister , IS the Wife to a Husband as intollerably hard as harsh ; yet like the Bee , she sucks honey out of this Hemlock , and gaines a good stock of honour and happiness out of this misfortune , and lets the world see it is more his then hers . She manages her little deduction out of his fortune so , that by her discreet disbursements he may see the true use of wealth , which he thinkes is rather in possession then use ; so he hath no more comfort of his wealth then the Indian mole in the golden mines , if he cast up any it may cost him deare , yet he gaineth not by it , it is for others use , not his owne ; not with any intention to inrich others , but by chance . That the Masculine is more worthy then the Feminine Gender , is a rule we take up in our childhood , and lay downe with our lives ; but she gives Lilly the lye , she proves that the Theologicall , and Cardinall vertues are of the female gender , and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , potestas and potentia , power and ability too ; and concludes ( like a Mathematician ) demonstratively . As a chaste wife and happy mother she brought her husband a son , in whose education she shewes her selfe more like a father in her discreet management of his youth in travell , then a tender mother in distrust of Gods providence abroad , and doth in this like the wise Merchant , who trusts the Sea with his bullion and stock , and transacts it where exchange runnes highest , and so ballances his trading by the probability , not certainty of advantage in the returne ; whereas her husband would wrap his talent in a napkin , or hide it in a dung-hill , and breed his sonne no better then himselfe , were not she the better Merchant ; yet hers is but a mothers interest , his a fathers ; hers in blood , his in perpetuity . As for the sisters part , she hath out-done all presidents in that more then both the other , it being hard to finde a sister can be so tender a mother to her Brothers Orphane , that the childe ( were he come to her owne sonnes age ) could scarcely misse his mother , such is her care of it . And that which most commends her , is , she in her Noble Brothers imprisonment , hath managed his misfortunes with as much or more advantage then her owne , wasting her weak body in those noble services , nay over-witting those engins imployed to ruine her Brother . Like Moses shee stood in the gap betwixt her Brother and the Parliaments displeasure , nor would give over untill ( like him ) she by her intercession had set him free , and delivered him from the judgements which hung like a cloud over his head . She lost not the least advantage in relation to her Brothers honour , fortune or happiness . In a word , she is to her husband a loyall wife , to her sonne a discreetly indulgent mother , to her Brother such a Sister , as the wisest man would wish his owne , and I mine . Mothers , Wives , Sisters , you who would not erre , Steere all your courses by this Character . This is no faigned Character , but true , My soule could wish it were my Sisters due . Nor wealth nor titles could inrich our blood So much as this would , could they make it good . X. The politique Neuter IS an Hermaphrodite partaking of two sexes , and as unfruitfull to his Prince or country ; a man that dares not professe the Religion he was baptized to , nor protest against an Innovation , and so no Protestant : he reserves his choice for the prevailing partie , and for the present professeth that which they doe : wonders at the distractions in the Church , and Common-wealth , and in the mean time is more distracted in himselfe : he dares not owne his conscience now , and therefore that will change Masters , and turne witnes against him , when he stands most need of it : he would fain serve two Masters at once , and please both , but finding our Saviours words true , that he must hate the one , and love the other , he resolves to hate him he fears most , and to love neither , not firme to either : he loses the good opinion of both , and so fals betwixt two stools : God calls on him in the Old Testament with a quere how long he will halt betwixt two opinions , and Christ in the New promises him the Laodiceans reward : he is so far from trusting Gods mercie in Martyrdome , that he dares not trust his providence in wants ; he is as much troubled as David at the prosperitie of the wicked , but hath not the patience to goe to Gods House with him to enquire of their ends ; he will not beleeve Davids experience concerning the Children of the righteous , whom he never saw begging their bread ; he had rather leane upon the rotten reeds of his owne policie , then trust the firme rock of Gods providence : if he ever professed to be for the King , when his cause prospered , he presently repented it , and purchased the Parliaments pardon and protection , and paid at least two yeares purchase for it ; if he be a Prisoner , it is with accommodation , and by it he saves the charges of hospitalitie ; yet hopes that moneys thus disburst makes him a Martyr , and may be pleaded as well in bar of further assistance to the King , as a Privie seale , though it be disburst for the Parliaments use ; if for the Parliament , you shall never find him without a Royall protection , and purchased friendship at Oxford , and that sometimes is mistaken , and shewn to the wrong partie , and then he payes for it ; if either partie prevaile , he is in Misericordia ; if an Accommodation ( for which he prays more heartily then the forgivenesse of his sins ) help not , he hath so long endeavoured to get a dexterous use of his left hand , that he hath almost lost the perfect use of his right , and is become an imperfect perfect Ambodexter , or at best so cunning at leger-demaine , that he gets the repute of a notable Jugler ; In a word , he dares not seeme what he is , nor be what he seemes , but like luke-warme water having neither heat enough to warme the Stomacke , nor being cold enough to coole it , is rejected of both , and spued out as friend to neither . XI . The Citie Paragon IS a woman whose birth was greater then her portion , but her vertues greater then her birth ; who was marryed to a husband whose fortune exceeded his wisdome , yet his fortune in her was greater then his wealth , who manages his fortune so , that she improves his conscience as much as his wealth , and her wit makes him eminent in the City . She loves not ( with the Pharisees ) the highest places at Feasts , nor salutations in Assemblies , knowing Envy attends the first , and Pride the other . Her dresse is more comely then costly , modest then garish ; her visits , like Sabboth dayes labours , not frequent , and never without charity , or necessity undertaken : her entertainment to her husbands friends , or her owne , suits both their conditions ; more neat it is then curious ; and is more reall and solid then ceremonious . She desires her children may be so bred , that they may be seasoned in their childhood with those vertues which may make them happy in their age . And knowing Examples prevaile more then Precepts , she gives them none , but such as she would have them follow . Those troubles incident to rich men ( which they call misfortunes ) she makes blessings by her right use of them , knowing it is not the fruition , but right use , that makes us truly rich , nor the losse of wealth can make any so miserable as the abuse of it . If she heare any ill of her neighbour , she had rather suppresse it , then report it ; if any good , she will rather improve it , then enviously diminish it . If any uncertaine evill be reported of any good man or woman , shee breaks it in the egge , and will not give it the reputation of credit , much lesse of report : if any uncertain good , she had rather beleeve it then question it ; so she makes her worst neighbours better , and her good she improves . In bargaines for her husband , she rather makes a wise bargaine then a crafty ; she had rather save then circumvent ; the loves not to hide leven in the lump of her husbands fortune , nor dares trust her stock with laying up what Oppression must make good againe . She likes not gilded pills , she knowes they may prove too Cathartick . In a word , the State suffers what her husband gaines , that she wanted the power of a greater man , to doe more good , since her will is answerable to the best , and her wisdome not inferiour to her will . You City-dames who imitate Court-Ladies in their greatest state , Learne but the dresse which here you have , You may much cost and labour save : And be esteemed better far , Nay honoured more then Ladies are . Then thank my Country which hath lent Your City such a president . XII . A sharking Committee-man Is one trusted with more then he is worth : he is like Ezechiels lesser wheele , moved by the greater ▪ if he doe discharge his trust , yet there may be Treason in it ; if not , there must be knavery . He reads the Turkish History with passion , when he considers the great Turks policy to imploy greedy slaves , and the cunningest , in the places of greatest profit , that he may satisfie his people with his justice , and get all that by escheat , which hee had heaped by oppression . Hee feares not God so much as the people doe him , who sacrifice to him ( as the Indians to the Devill ) ne noceat . He hath still in his bosome the horror of two dayes of Judgement , the one at Westminster , which he fears more then the last when ever it come . The faces of the Committee for Examinations are more dreadfull to his sense , then the thought of the last day to his ●eared conscience . His Antidote is a Paramount friend of the Quorum , and if he faile him , he is a lost man . No Sheriffe was ever quicker with his Elegit , then he with his Capias for Body , Goods and Lands , which they call a Sequestration , though the party may justly plead the Statute of this Parliament in barre of his oppression , if the priviledge of person , or propriety of goods were as really intended as pretended , yet he fears no futura contingentia but his Paramounts favour , in which he hath no more terme then Villains have in Villanage , ( during pleasure ) that is , Dum bene se gesserit in omnibus . He heaps wealth to purchase favour , and gets that to purchase wealth , with which he buyes his Heire a Command , and in conclusion gets a Garrison of ease , where he and his Cub may kennell , and like the Fox retreats to his hole when he is hunted , this will make his peace ( if well managed ) with either party . In a word , if ever he come to a Jury , his countenance will cast him , for that is as full of guilt , as his conscience of horror . He who hath the least skill in Phisiognomie , shall finde furcam in fronte , or crucem in facie ; and if any cast his nativity , and will be at the charge of a Scheame , you shall finde Saturne and Mars in conjunction in the house of Mercurie , all malignant : yet he a sincere Professor , alias , a knave in graine , or a Traitor gradibus intensis . XIII . Britanicus his pedigree . A fatall prediction of his end . I Dare affirme him a Jew by descent , and of the Tribe of Benjamin , lineally descended from the first King of the Jewes , even Saul , or at best he ownes him and his Tribe , in most we reade of them . First , of our English Tribes , I conceive his Fathers the lowest , and the meanest of that Tribe , Stocke , or generation , and the worst how bad soever they be : melancholly he is , as appeares by his sullen and dogged wit ; malicious as Saul to David , as is evident in his writings ; he wants but Sauls javelin to cast at him ; he as little spares the Kings Friends with his pen , as Saul did Jonathan his Sonne in his reproach ; and would be as free of his javelin as his pen , were his power sutable to his will as Ziba did to Mephibosheth , so does he by the King , he belies him as much to the world , as he his Master to David , and in the day of adversitie is as free of his tongue , as Shimei was to his Soveraigne , and would be as humble as he , and as forward to meet the King , as he was David , should the King returne in peace . Abishaes there cannot want to cut off the Dogs head , but David is more mercifull then Shimei can be wicked ; may he first consult with the witch of Endor , but not worthy of so noble a death as his owne sword , die the death of Achitophel for feare of David , then may he be hangd up as the Sonnes of Saul were against the Sunne , or rather as the Amalekites who slew Isb●sheth , and brought tidings and the tokens of the treason to David ; may his hands and his feet be as sacrifices cut off , and hung up , and so pay for the Treasons of his pen and tongue ; May all heads that plot Treasons , all tongues that speake them , all pens that write them , be so punisht . If Sheba paid his head for his tongues fault , what deserves Britanicus to pay for his pen and trumpet ? Is there never a wise woman in London ? we have Abishaes . XIIII . The Phaenix of the Court IS a Ladie whose birth and beautie called her to the Court , as fit to attend Majestie ; yet her vertues and discretion fixt more honour upon her then either , though admired for the one , as much honoured for the other . Though her beautie like Hellens might beget a war in competition , yet these command a reverence , as much as those inforce affection : her words hold waight as well as her actions , she waighes them before she utters them , much more her actions which are twice waighed , and give authoritie to others , and are rather admired then imitated , yet ought as well to be imitated as admired : for her companie it is ( if voluntarie ) such as she would be thought to be : her reall devotion is canonicall in relation to order , if occasion fail not , and to her self , yet none more duly observes the assigned houres for Gods Worship : her frequent attendance on Gods service is not enjoyned as a penance , but spontaneous ; not with hope of merit , for that spoils and prejudices even charitie , which is the seasoning of our workes , but lookes upon mercie with humilitie , rather then merit with confidence , for she workes her salvation out of the fire with feare and trembling , yet she wants not a graine of lively faith , nor charitie , the one assuring her Soule , the other the world of that happinesse , which neither the subtiltie nor malice of the wicked , or their master can rob her of , nor the world take from her : As for her dresse , she had rather owne any infirmitie , either in colour , shape , or feature , then cover them with an undecent , much lesse an immodest attire , though her judgement even in this be like the royall stamp to bullion , which gives it reputation and denomination , and makes it currant , so doth her approbation any fashion ; In a word , she is honoured of those she reverences , and reverenc'd by those she loves ; she had rather know her self truly wise , then be thought so , yet would not onely be vertuous , but be esteemed so ; she knows there may be envie in the first without cause , and dishonour in the other without reason . Come Ladies you at deare rates buy The French wash and Italian dye : All you who paint they say will trade , Here is true beautie will not fade . Looke well into this right Court glasse , And learne by it your selves to dresse . AN ELEGIE Vpon the Right Honourable The Earle of LINDSEY . 1. GReat Lindsey's falne , yet did not fall by chance , For Sparrowes fall not but by Providence . What are our sinnes when such as Lindsey fall ? One who so often had been Generall . One nere deceiv'd our hopes by Sea or Land , And had been now as glorious in Command , Had our Reserve of Horse as bravely stood To their great Charge , as Lindsey made it good . But they pursue the chase , therefore we may ( And justly too ) say they lost us the day . Sure their Commission was not left so large , That a Reserve without Command should Charge . For a Reserve for safe Retreat should stand , And should not stir without expresse Command . Their Zeale to honour , and the Kings just Cause , Might make brave men forget strict Martiall Lawes . So Lindsey fell , as when the Phenix lyes In her rich Urne , another doth arise Even from her ashes : So from Lindsey's grave , Another Phenix ( we ) or Lindsey have . A gallant man , and of most noble parts , As great a Master of his trade , as hearts ; But the old Phenix ( in his Martiall heat ) Did great Gustavus , past his Cannon beat : With reverence yet old Christian speaks his name , Then boasts from Danish blood the English came ; Wee must acknowledge and confesse t is true , The Normans their discent from Rollo drew . And Rollo was a Dane by birth , yet wee Thought Lindsey ( mongst the Danes ) as brave as he : And we beleeve that our young Lindsey rather Improves his stocke , then borrowes from his Father . Hic jacet Robertus Bartu , Baro Willoughby , Dominus de Ersby , Comes de Snidsey , Magnus Angliae Camerarius , apud Edghill Serenissimi Regis Caroli {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , A turmis Equitū ( in regis presidiū relictus ) in prelio vulneratus ( etiam ad mortem ) sed non sine Victoria cecidit . An Elegy upon the right Honourable the Earle of Northampton . I Must acknowledge , now I love thee more , ( When thou art not ) then ere I did before . The love wherewith I living loved thee , Is changd to honour of thy memory : As rarifi'd ayre turns to the purest fire , So what I lately lov'd , I now admire . Many professe , they for the King would die ; Thou for his sake , didst offered life deny ; Thou wouldst not beg , but Martyrdom command , They offered what thou wouldst not understand ; There 's not a hayre , which from thy head was torn , And in despite to Loyalty was worn In Triumph ; not a wound to thee was given , But they are in the black Records of Heaven : And when the Grand Inquest for blood shall come , They must strike Tallies for thy Martyrdom . How many Scotch Bawbies , cast in account , Would to the Talents David left amount ? For if wee reckon , wee cannot go lesse Then this proportion , this they must confesse ; They noble loyall blood , I dare be bold , Compar'd with theirs , will this proportion hold : What disadvantage hath our Cause , since ▪ we Become such loosers by a Victory ? Hic jacet Spencer Dominus Compton , Comes Northamptontae , progenie nobilis , & Conjugio foelix , & filiis utrisque dignus , qui sanguineo regi fidelitatem martyrio obsignivit : Nec magno Gustavo dissimilis victor in praelio ; juxta Stafford , per infortunium cecidit , Anno salutis , 1644. An Elegy upon the right Honourable the Earle of Kingston . KIngston , thy losse was Epidemicall ; It was indeed a generall losse to all . I will not name thy Ladies interest , Childrens , nor servants , theirs were farre the least ; Though I dare say thus much , for all the three , Th 'ave lost as much as in a friend could be ; No better husband liv'd , nor kinder father , Nor nobler master , joyning these together . I speak the losse but as it did relate , To God his Church , the King , and to the State : For his Religion it was pure and sound , And no man better understood his ground : A Protestant he liv'd , a Martyr dy'd , Professing truth , his truth by death was try'd : This I dare say , the King had none more able Nor really loyall at his Councell Table : Of brave resolves , and of a publick spirit , Who knew him best , knew he conceald his merit ; Discreet he was , and providently wise ; Kinde to his friends , and faithfull in advise . No man his Countrey better understood , Nor was more apt to do it reall good . Though he was rich , I dare pronounce him just , No man was more religious in his trust ; Nor better understood this kingdomes Lawes ; Yet he with noble blood durst seal the Cause ; Nor would great Kingston in the Cause have dyed , Had he not been in Conscience satisfyed As well as Law . These two hee durst not sever , Since God in this Cause joynd them both together . Hic jacet Robertus Comes de Kingston , ortu nobilis , conjugio nobilior , sed prole nobilissimus . {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . An Elegy upon the right Honourable the Earle of Carnarvan . HEre lies the highest Fancy of our Times , Who Lucian like could sharply scourge our crimes . Whose wit Mercuriall was , high , and sublime , So near ceration , ' ●wanted only time : For he had all our Artists could require To m●ke th'Elixar , matter , art , and fire : All three sublimed to as great a heigth As Art and Nature could ; ( and all set right ) Thus near perfection brave Carnarvan fell , Who left behinde him scarce a paralell . If men shall rise in judgement , then I fear This loyall Lord shall condemn many a Peere , Who more obliged to the King then he , Have scarce returnd or thanks or loyalty . Hic jacet Comes de Carnarvan , & Baro Dormar , Mercurio magnus , sed Marti major , qui vitam hanc in Regis causa , cum armis deposuit , vulnere sed nobili ictus ( heu ) cecidit invictus . An Elegy for the Princely Brothers of the Illustrious Duke of Lenox . STay passer by , and fix thine eye , Oh see who here Intomb'd doth lye ; Three Brethren of Illustrious birth , Loyall as ever breathed on earth : Stuarts , and of the Noblest blood , But more because they made it good ; I dare pronounce their deaths as loyall As was their births , and actions Royall . Mistake mee not , it is their dust ▪ ( Not they ) the earth hath here in trust . Their soules are mounted up farre higher , Above the Element of fire , And shall unto this dust returne , Nay shall this very dust informe , When all this world shall be calcin'd , And in that generall urne refin'd : Nay which is more , they shall appeare , More glorious then they ever were : If Chymists by their art can show , What vegetives from salt may grow ; And make them in a glasse appeare , In specie , as they growing were . If salt of flowers , their formes can keep , Till fire shall cause them from their sleep ; How much more when that Trump shall sound , Shall fire , and ayre , the sea , and ground , Their treasures to their formes restore , More glorious then they were before . If Martyrs as the Romists say , Can Merit an Aureala ; I dare pronounce these three lie here , Deserve those Diademns to weare . It is the Cause men undertakes , Not sufferance , the true Martyr makes : The Cause is Gods , and therefore good , They seal'd this Cause , with Royall blood : If these to any can be due , Why not ( brave Brothers ) then to you ? En jacent hic tres Heroes Illustrissimorum Principum Lenoxiae , nec non Richmundiae ducum filii , & fratres , nec tanto patre , nec fratre ( quamvis Regali ) Indigni , qui diversi in preliis , sed unanimiter cecidere , qui Regi fideles , sanguine nec minus Regali , Regis causam obsignarunt , & morte verè nobili triumpharunt . An Elegy upon my much honourable friend the Lord Viscount Falkland . HEre Beuclark lies , Arts monopolist rather , Who engrost more then that most painfull Father , Grea●Origen ▪ who so out-vi'd the rest , Even all the glorious ▪ Fathers of the East . Besides he was a compleat Courtier too , Yet could the Souldier in his trade out do ; His noble fancy was indeed so rich , No pen of Europe flew a higher pitch : Envy it selfe must needs confesse that hee , Was Mars i' th Camp ▪ yet the Court Mercury . Faukland too forward prest in his advance ▪ Hoping to beat them from their Ordinance : An ill meant shot both to the King , and State , Untimely put a period to his date : Gods powerfull hand turns that great wheel we know , The lesser moves , so Starres work here below ; How else should Twinnes so differ in their fate , If Starres mans fortune did necessitate ? When heaven does with its punishments begin , It oft makes sinnes the punishment of sinne . We were Rebellious unto heaven , 't is reason We should be scourged with the Whips of treason . This is not done by fortune , chance , or fate , Our sinnes heavens justice doth necessitate . Vicecomes de Falkland vir Regi merito Charus , ex intimis ejus conciliis , & fidelitate clarus ; Musarum Militumque patronus , vir pius & virtute plenus , en jacet hic intempestive sepultus : Qui apud praelium juxta Nuebery vulneribus transfixus , in Regis causa ( Rege teste ) ●ecidit invictus , Anno Domini 1644. An Elegy upon the truly honorable Sir Charles Cavendish . VVE won thee Gainsborough , but with thee lost more Then thou wert worth , or all we got before . There noble He●ne , Marcham , and Beeton fell . ( Men whom their Armies could not paralell . ) There Candish fell , a man whose very name , Like Ziscus drumme , struck terror where it came . A man whose vertues justified his blood , And prov'd his own of Cavendish's as good , As that of Bruces , both did run in 's veines , And in his actions , men might read both streynes . Who knew him , knew there never lived a creature Of a more noble sweet engaging nature ; Yet to his daring nothing was a task , Should he his courage , not his reason ask : His errour was still where he had command , In action he would have too deep a hand . So by his own example , thought to make The too reserv'd , their cautious feares forsake : And so too farre engag'd brave Candish fell , A man whom both the Nations lov'd so well : As t' was with Homer in the Grecian Story , Both Nations claime an interest in his glory ; Where ere the Sun is by his journeys known , As his companion , there we Candish own . Hence we derive and prove his title good , The Scots derive him from great Bruces blood . Although the Scots in competition are With us for Bruces blood , we have our share In him , as well as they : from subjects we , They from their Kings derive his pedigree . But as for Candish we derive a claime , As just as their 's both in his blood and name . Hic jacet Carolus Cavendish vere miles , Gulielmi secundi Devoniae Comitis filius , & tertii frater , qui sub Illustrissimo Gulielmo Cavendish Novi Cast● : comitis , nec non Marthiniae , Equitum Cohortium praefectus , insolita magnanimitate Equitum Rebellantium Cohortem Caedens , heu cecidit invictus . An Elegy upon his noble friends and Allies the Earle of Chesterfields Sonnes . BRave Stanhops you have really made it good , You are discended from true Royall blood : Few Fathers have in this kinde been more crost , But fewer could so gallant sonnes have lost . But th' are not lost , who suffer in this cause , If we respect , or God's , or humane Lawes : Did Christ to Caesar tribute money pay ( The badge of Conquest ? ) what can subjects say ? Would he submit himselfe to Caesars Law , Who was a King ? must not his subjects draw ? You paid your Caesars tribute , in such blood , That I dare say , few subjects have so good : You drew your sword for Caesar , and you tri'd Your Fathers right ( which cannot be deni'd . ) Who is 't hath done the cause more right , then they ? And none could die more nobly for the way : There are but few to whom the King owes more , ( Except the Duke ) look through the Royall score , Then unto you ; he hath lost more then you , Three of the Royall blood , and you but two . Your sonnes have such a stock of honour wonne , They have enrich the blood of Huntington : What they had purchas'd , they on yours bestowed , And bravely paid to nature , what they owed . Pernobilis Philippi Chesterfeldiae Comitis , & Clarissimae Conjugis ejus , Regali stemate Huntingtoniae Comitis filiae , filii en jacent hic qui sanguinem sanguine sublimarunt , & morte etiam illustri ditarunt . Upon the right worshipfull and my valiant Countreyman Sir Richard Hutton Knight . DIvide the World ▪ twixt Peace and Warre , And these two have a glorious share ; This for them both I le boldly say , There 's none can go a Nobler way . What Honour can be due to either , Must needs be due to both together . The one a Judge , of whom we must Confesse , his Epithet , The Iust : The other , his renowned Sonne , Who hath farre greater justice done , That to his Conscience bravely stood , This seal'd his Loyalty with Blood . Our groanes are but like wombes of earth , Which labour in a second Birth , When all the World shall be calcin'd These shall appear like Gold refin'd : Our Saviour shall his Mintage own , Stampt with the Miter and the Crown , For this Badge all his Saints shall weare , Who in this Cause have suffered here . Hic jacet Richardus Hutton , Miles praenobilis , Iustissimique patris ejusdem nominis filius togatus : Prior , ban● obiit senectute , famâ foelix , patriae charus , & in pace : Marti dicatus alter , Regi fidelis ; apud praelium juxta Sherburne , in patria propria ; nec minus patriae quam Regi charus , in Regis causa , Bello ( heu sed civili ) cecidit . Upon the truly noble and valiant Sir Bevell Greenfield Knight . I Lov'd thee dearly Brother I confesse ; And shall I now begin to love thee lesse ? Thy death was truly noble , as thy blood ; Had not this beene so , that had made it good . Thy Grandsire had a Noble Spanish grave , And to thy name , a stock of Honour gave . Were our Chronology lost , Spaine for her glory , Will in her Annals write thy Grandsires story : We must confesse , a Gallant man we lost , But let Spaine speak , how deare the victory cost . I' have heard the Donnes themselves confesse it here , They scarce would buy a Navie now so deare . Neptunes in 's bounds ▪ near saw a bloodier fight , He never fear'd so much , to loose his right . The Proverb was made true , the Sea then burn'd , And all the Elements , to fire were turn'd ; The fearefull fishes , fled into the deep ; The unweeldy Whale then an even course could keep ▪ With the swift Dolphin ; they could not endure That horid fight , nor think themselves secure ; Neptunes Sea-mantle , was turn'd Scarlet then , Stain'd with the precious blood of dying men . This was thy Gransire ; yet we understand , Thy Noble death as glorious was by land . For thou hast added to thy Grandsires blood , And made that better which before was good . Hic jacet Dominus Benellus Greenfield , miles , sanguine clarus , Deo & Regi fidus , ad aras ; Amicis & patriae charus , Devoniae gloria , perpetuà dignus historiâ . An Elegy upon the Honourable his noble friend and Countreyman Sir William Evers . BRave Evers , men were borne to die we know ; How happy wert thou then , who couldst die so , That when thou didst this troublesome life lay down , Thou could'st exchange thy Helmet for a Crown ; And with the ' xchange , couldst so enrich thy blood , To make that better , was before so good ? Thy blood was noble , that we knew before ; But all men must confesse that now 't is more : Thy loyall death being added makes it mount , As figures enrich cyphers in accompt . If heavenly souls knew ought of earthly blisse , Thy happy soule would then rejoyce in this . Few who are now with thee in heaven above , Have left behind a greater stock of Iove : Yet you in stock of loyall honour were Thought to be richer then in that by farre : What would a soule have more then he'vens joyes there ▪ And such a stock of love and honour here ? When such a life shall such a death precede , We need no prayers ; nor offerings for the dead . Hic jacet Gulielmus Evers , Vitâ , sanguine & fidelitate clarus , qui Equitum turmacum praefectus apud Hessam juxta Eborarum in Regis causa cecidit : sic Martyrii Corona meruit aureola , sed certius à nobis aeterna meruit memoria . A remembrance dedicated to his noble friends and Allies , Sir Thomas Metham and Sir William Wentworth , who were slaine at Marston Moore neare York . SInce you two durst so bravely die together , My Muse dares not presume such friends to sever . I am no stranger to the noble blood Ranne in your vaines ; I know few have so good : Yet you have gone the Chymists subtile way , And have by death improv'd your blood wee say . Chymists the noblest vegetives destroy , Before they can their quintessence enjoy . Your bloods you two have quintessenced now , We to your memories reverence must allow : You have with honour both your lives laid down , And shall be stiled Martyrs for the Crown ; And in your Graves you shall that honour have , Which glorious Martyrs merit in the grave . An Elegy upon the truly noble and valiant Sir John Smith . HEe who a Romane Citizen could save From being made prisoner , was by Law to have A Civick Crown , which he might justly beare , As a distinction , and at Triumphs weare . So thankfull was wise Rome in her reward , And to her Citizens had such regard : What Honour then , what value , and esteeme , Was due to him , the Eagles could redeeme . Our Royall Standard at Edgehill was lost , At least engag'd , so that much blood it cost . Yet this brave man , made him who got it know , What duty Subjects to that Standard owe . Have you e're seen a chafed Lyon stand , With Hunters vext , and gall'd on every hand : Whilst all the Hunters various wayes contrive , To take this Lyon if they can alive : So gall'd , so vext , our noble Champion stood , The English earth dy'd with rebellious blood . Whilst none within the Lists presumes to enter , Least he should pay too deare for his adventure . At last resolv'd , he cuts himselfe a way , Not through meane Troops , but Regiments they say : Then straight he doth this welcome present bring , This new redeemed Prisoner , to the King ; The King doth both himselfe , and service right , He with that sword had serv'd him , made him Knight . Would this were written in the hearts of Kings , Both Peace and Warre , are manag'd by two things ; 'T is Punishment , and just Rewards that are The Weights and Ballance , both of Peace and Warre . From Noble Houses he , and Loyall came , Marcham he was by blood , and Smith by Name . But he made better , what before was good , I meane his Loyall name , and Noble blood . Hic jacet Dominus Johannes Smith sanguine satis nobili natus , qui Regis insignia ( etiam capta ) Regi , sed non sine Caede restituit , fidelis in bello ( heu civili ) dolo cecidit circumventus . An Elegy for Sir Henry Spilmam Knight . VVHilst thou yet livedst ( Spilman ) I honoured thee , I reverence now thy sacred memory ; Ther 's none I know hath written heretofore , Who hath oblig'd this Church , and Kingdome more . Thou hast deriv'd , nay prov'd our Church as high , As Rome can boast , and giv'n her pride the lie . Thou hast the series of her story shown , So hast o're us her Hirarchy o'rethrown . I read thy books , and I admire thy soule , Thy daring soule that durst proud Rome controule : Thou with their own Authorities , dost prove That which they would , but never shall remove : Thou prov'dst that Gregories Monke found Bishops here Durst check his pride , who after Martyrs were : Who held the rites and customes of the Fast , Which Polycarpus durst approve the best . Who twice to Rome as an Officiall came , To fix that feast , which now we must not name : Thou'st prov'd our Church as glorious as Romes , For Doctrine , Discipline , and Martyrdomes . Thou'st prov'd to us the mighty power of Kings , In calling councells even in spirituall things ; And temporall rights the Churches pedigree , Her frequent councels even in Brittany ; As a choyce piece of evidence a story Which we may stile great Brittaines chiefest glory , The Brittish Church , our Kings owe this to thee ; Shall we not reverence then thy memory ? Had'st thou been Rome's , thy supererogation , Had rais'd a stock of merits for our Nation . But thou ' art ours , I joy I live to know I had a friend good men shall reverence so . Henricus Spilmanus Eques auratus hic jacet , cujus solertissimae industriae non minus Ecclesia debet , quam Respublica Brittanorum ; namque Saxonum nostrorum mores , Concilia , Leges , etiam amissa nobis restituit . Nec in se magis , quam Prole Faelix : Obiit Anno Salutis 1642. Upon his Noble Friend Colonell Slanning . HEre Slanning lies who was the second best , Brave Greenefields rivall Vesper of the West ; As Pompey was to Caesar , so would he , None should his equall but a Caesar bee : For when he heard how bravely Greenfield fell , He would not over-live his paralell ; But covetous of as brave a death as he , He crowned his with glorious loyaltie : Of all the West the King had no two friends More really his , more glorious in their ends . An Elegy for my dear Godson and Nephew Henry Morton , Sonne to my good brother Sir George Morton Baronet . HAve you observ'd a Cedar wonderous straight ? Admired for its freshnesse , youth and heigth ; Cut down before it came to its full growth , Such the proportions were of this sweet youth : And such his fortune , loyall to the Crowne , Scarce writing man ( though man enough ) cut down . I must confesse ( brave youth ) thou hast made good My share both in thy name , and loyall blood ; The first I gave thee ( that 's thy name ) the other Thy blood , my sister was thy vertuous Mother : A Mother worthy of so brave a Sonne ; If heavenly soules know what on earth is done , Her 's would rejoyce , that thou could'st so improve So small a stock of time to purchasse love : And die so rich in that and reputation , Thou wert an honour to thy blood and Nation . All this in noble Morton was ; lies here A name will force from every eye a teare , Nay , from the souldiers heart knowes not to weep . Yet know he is not dead , he doth but sleep . As souldiers being alarum'd rub their eyes , So when the trump shall blow , Morton must rise , Not to a battell ( there no more shall be ; ) But to triumphant glorious victory . The crown of glory ( such as Martyrs there Are crowned with ) shall loyall Morton weare . An Elegy upon my honoured friends and Countreymen the valiant Collonels Howard , Heron , Fenwick , Lumpton , Claverin , and Carnaby . FIrst high born Howard to Heron led the way , Fenwick and Lampton , both fell on one day : Brave Claverin's heart was burst with griefe that he , Without revenge should their survivor be : The next to these stout Carnaby he fell , To make the number a just paralell . Six braver men then these the fruitfull North , Of Martiall spirits , in one age near brought forth : If we may nature check without offence , Shee was too prodigall in her expence : Six such brave men to be borne in one age And fall so soone must some sad fate presage . Had these six liv'd , the King had had no need T' have rais'd the South-parts , to make good the Tweede . These six I dare say had secur'd it more , Then Rome did with her Legions heretofore . Had Claverin liv'd t'have been their generall , H'had more secur'd the North-parts then that wall Severus rais'd so high , had it still stood , The presence of these six had been as good : But those same sinnes which cut of these , I feare Will make the passes over Trent as cleare : Our sinnes have brought in strangers heretofore , ( As friends proud conquerours ) and may do once more . An Elegy upon the right honourable the Countesse of Dorset . DOrset is dead , even she who could support Unenvied power ; and honour in a Court : Who by a wise King was plac'd there to be , The Tutresse of his Royall Progeny . Shee for the Mirrour of the Court might passe , Who ever lookt vertue reflected was . This Glasse was wrought and polisht with that skill , That would reflect still truth , but nothing ill ; She by sweet Gravity reproved youth , As God does lying , by his stedfast Truth ; High Close Committee proofe her vertues were , A Spanish Inquisition she could beare . Should both the Houses joyn , should they advance That powerfull Engine cald their Ordinance , And rayse a Battery , I dare undertake , It scarcely would the least impression make Into her Honour ; for her vertues were Above the proofe of that strange Engine farre . No pen is so Malignant , will not write , The Vertuous Lady , was her Epithite . Hic jacet Comitissa Dorsetiae , animae , corporis , & fortunae dotibus clara ; marito chara , & mundo : pro liberis provida , nec minus suis benigna , filiis foelix , fama foelici●r , sed fide foelicissima : Sic Vixit etiam in Aula ut Aulic●s vivere , Principes mori doceat . In this mean Grave which scarce appeares , A Lady lies , embalmd in Teares . That you may know these Teares to prize , They were distild from Princes eyes . Committed to this Ladies Care , Who in the losse had greatest share . Poore Princes you have lost much more Then you could value heretofore . Your Father stranger to his crowne , Scarce to his own deare children knowne : Nay , which is worse then this , you are Deprived of your mothers care . What loyall heart reads what 's writ here , Can chuse but sacrifice a teare ; I must confesse when this I writ , With loyall teares I watered it , To think how glorious I have seen My royall Soveraign and his Queen ; And to think how some now endeavour These two whom Heaven hath joynd , to sever ; T is Heavens Decree , it must be so , This is our faith , and this we know ; They both are pious , God is just , The Cause is his , and there 's my trust . Vpon Francis Quarles . I Must confesse that I am one of those Admire a Fancy more in Verse then Prose ; Yet thou in both workst on my judgement so , I scarce know which to choose , which to let go , As if Platonick transmigrations were , The Harp of David still me thinks I heare . Thy powerfull Muse hath so strong influence , Vpon my troubled Soule , and every Sense : For when thou Solomons mystick strayns dost sing , Thy Muse then speaks the language of that King . And when thou undertakst the Kings just Cause , Thy strength is such ; thy Reasons binde like Lawes . This doth thy reason and thy loyalty prayse , That crowns thy Statues with eternall bayes : Thy muse hath raisd , a Monument for thee , Thy prose a Pyramid of loyalty . Thy memory shall be precious here below , Whilst men the use of sacred learning know . Thy soule is with thy deare beloved Kings , And there with them new Halelujahs sings . Upon a true contented Prisoner . VVHat 's liberty it should be so desir'd ; 'T is only when deni'd to men , admir'd : W' are more displeased with the least negative , Than pleas'd with all that God to man can give . We are scarcely pleasd with Gods great'st blessings , health And liberty , unlesse God give us wealth . A little tooth-ach , a fit of the stone , Or gowt , destroys them ; and all these are gone : We are imprisoned in our beds and then , We wish the use of these good things agen . Yet whilst we had them , we scarce knew their good , They were heav'ns blessings , but scarce understood . The wretched slave is chaind unto his Oare , Now prizes that , he valued not before , His liberty ; yet may be in that State , He is more happy then he was of late In all these blessings free men could enjoy ; For their abuse , doth all their use destroy : If want of these a thankfulnesse produce For blessings , which we had not in their use : Are we not then more happy in their losse , ( Had we all that Lucullus did engrosse ? ) 'T is then the use , makes happy men , not having Of that we use not well , or still are craving More then we have ; be it or more or lesse , A thankfull state is mans true happinesse . Imprisonment , admit it neere so close , Is to a wise man but his soules repose ; And the lesse roome he hath , his soul 's more free Then when she had her wanton liberty . Weak eyes cannot endure the glaring light , Of the bright Sunne ; nor things which are too white . These doe disperse the Radii of the eyes , We better can endure the cloudy skies ; Were I immur'd so I could see no Sunne , My soule her wing'd horses could out-runne : I could with heaven a correspondence keep , As Ionas did close prisoner in the deep . The Prophet in the Dungeon was in heaven , Iohn in the Isle had all his visions given : Men in the deepest pits , see best by farre The Sunnes Eclipses ; and finde every starre , When sight 's contracted and is more intent ; ( So is mens soules in close imprisonment , ) We then can upwards look on things above , Worthy our contemplation and our love : We are not Sunne ▪ blin'd with reflections then , Of dazling glory , nor depend on men ; These mediums cannot then the soule deceive , It s in a dungeon can more cleere perceive : And lights most welcome ; then the least is more , When thus contracted , then the Sunne before . Are we not happyest when we least desire , And nothing that 's below the sunne admire ? When w' are united to our God above ( As wives to absent ▪ husbands whom they love ) By our souls union , when our souls on fire Inwardly burning with zeale melt in desire . A Nunc dimittis , with old Simeon sing , And wish each bell we heare , his knell should ring : And yet not weary of our lives , for then Imprisonment is a hell on earth to men . I have sometimes seene an indulgent father Make his deare child , rods for himselfe to gather , And then his wanton liberty restraine , Nay make him fetters of a slender twine , Sharply correct him , make him kisse the rod , Tries his obedience : And just thus does God With his deare children , ( if well understood ) Wise parents know t is for their childrens good . And know we not , God is more wise by far , And more indulgent then our parents are ? Art thou injur'd ? yet take thus much from me , Who sent thee thither , knowes what 's best for thee . Remember Job was for a tryall lent To Satan ; how he bore his punishment : God crown'd his patience , for he gave him more ( Besides the honour ) then he had before . Yet if in this thou lovest thy reward , God will not then thy patience regard . Nor paines nor patience the true Martyr makes , It is the Cause the Martyr undertakes . Martyrs are witnesses of truth to death ; This is but duty , so falls far beneath The weight of the reward : we dare not say That Saints can merit an Aureola . For we say when man does , what he is able , Come to Gods Scale , he is unprofitable , Our haires are numbred by our God we know , He sets them highest , whom he finds placed low . He in the Lyons den , did Daniel owne , And set upon his head the Favourites Crown . Art thou imprison'd ? looke up thou shalt find , Thou hast a strange enlargment in thy mind . Th' are more ingaged far , Imprisoned thee ; And shall come to accompt , when thou art free . I. Scilicet ut fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum , Tempora sic du●o est inspicienda fides . Dum Juvat , & vultu ridet fortuna secundo , Indelibatas cuncta sequuntur opes : Vix duo tresve inter , tot restatis amici Cetera fortunae , non me turba fuit . Illud amicitiae sanctum , & venerabile nomen , Re tibi pro vili sub pedibusque jacet . Donec eris faelix , multos numerabis amicos , Tempora si ●uerint nubila , solus eris . Horrea formici tendunt ad mania nunquam , Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes . Mobile sic sequ tur fortunae legitima vulgus , In duris autem , remanentem rebus amicum Callebit inviso Caesar in hoste probatur . AS Gold 's unknowne , by fire not purify'd , So Friendship by Adversity is try'd . Whilst we can help , or Fortune seemes to smile , Friends follow bounty , as the Souldiers spoile . Scarce two or three of all my crowds remaine : The rest were Fortunes rabble , and not mine . That reverend , sacred name of Friendship lyes Without regard , as things they most despise . Whilst thou art happy , thou some friends mayst count , If the time cloud , thy sunne will scarce amount To Cyphers : For these friends like Ants will runne To better Stoicks , when all thy store is done . The giddy people follow Fortunes flowes , T is adverse fortune reall friendship shewes . Cesar ever in his greatest foe approves This pious friendship , and this vertue loves . II. De Ape . Martial . lib. 7. 32. inclusa electro . ET latet & lucet , Phaetontida conditu gutta , Ut videatur Apis nectare clausa suo . Dignum tantorum pretium , tulit ille laborum ; Credibile est ipsum sic voluisse mori . HId , yet transparent , in an Amber drop , As if inclos'd whilst she did Nectar sup , T is like enough , the Bee chose so to dye , Her paines cast in , might raise her price so high . III. De Formica . Martial . lib. 6. 15. DUm Phaetontea Formica vagatur in umbra , Implicuit tenuem , succina guttu feram . Sic modo quae fuit contemptu vita manente , Funeribus facta est , jam preciosa suis . THe Sun-bred Ant , being travelling in the shade , An Amber drop the slender creature staid . So she , who living , was despis'd of late , Being thus embalm'd , becomes a jemme of State . IV. Martial . de Vipera . FLentibus Heliadmi ramis , dum vipera serpsit , Fluxit in instanti , viperafera Gemam . Quae dum miratur , pingi se rore teneri , Riguit ; obstante factu repente gelu . Metetam nobili placeas Cleopatra sepulchro , Vipera si tumulo nobiliore jacet . A Viper creeping up an Amber stemme , The weeping Heliads turn'd her to a jemme : Whilst she admires to find her selfe thus held , She instantly was in that ice congeal'd . Why should that rich tombe Cleopatra please , Since Vipers have such noble tombes as these ? V. — O prodiga rerum Luxuries , nunquam parvo contenta paratu , Sed quaesitorum terrae , pelagique ciborum , Ambitiosa fames , & lautae gloria mensae , Discite , quam parvo , liceat producere vitam , Et quantum natura petit . — Non Auro Myrrhâve bibunt , sed gurgite pure Populis satis est , fluviusque Ceresque . OUr Prodigall Ryot will not be content With mean provisions , Caterers must be sent To search both Sea and Land ; and scarce are able To serve th'ambitious hunger of one Table . Learne with how small Allowance , man may live ; Nature doth no such vast Allowance give . The people drinke brooke water , cleere , and cold , Not perfum'd wines with Myrrhe in Cups of Gold : Of wholesome Bread , let them but have good store , And cleere brooke water , they desire no more . VI . De Archmedis Sphera . JUpiter in parvo cum cerneret aethera vitro , Risit , & ad Superos talia dicta dedit : Huccine Monopolis progressa potentia cura , Jam mens in parvo triditur orbe labor . Jura poli , rerumque fidem , legemque deorum , Ecce Syracusus , transtulit arte senex . Percurrit totum mentibus signifera annum , Et simulatu nova Cinthia , mense redit . Jamque suum voluens , audax industria mundum , Gaudet , & humana sidera mente regit . Ergo quid insontem , tonitru , Salmonea miror , Emula natura , parva repertu manus . JOve when in Glasse he saw a Spheare was made , He smild , and this unto the Gods he said ; Of man we need to take no further care , They Jeere our paynes , they now such Artists are : Old Archimedes undertakes our Trade , He in a Spheare , hath all heavens motions made . In which a Spirit included , seemes to move , The severall Orbs , and Stars , like those above . A Sun runs through the 12. signs , makes the yeere , Cynthia , with all her Aspects , doth appeare . The Rapid motion men dare undertake , To rule their stars too ; since they heaven can make . Why should we vex at Salmons guiltles thunder , Since emulous man , hath framed a greater wonder ? VII . De remora , piscicula . SOlus ego Actiacum potui retinere carinam , Et potui Baii rostra tenere duci● Semipedalis ego , quis haec corpuscula cr●dat , In ▪ cursu tantas detinuisse naves . CEsar for Actium bound , even I alone , Could stay ; when with his fleet he would be gone . My length but halfe a foote , my Body small , How could I stay Ships , under sayle so tall ? VIII . De flamma perenni inventa in urna apud Patavium , qua fracta extincta fuit flamma . PLutoni sacrum munus ne attingite fures , Ignotum vobis est , hoc , quod in orbe latet . Namque elementa gravi clausit , digesta labore , Vase sub hoc modico maximus Olibius . THis sacred Gift to Pluto I forbid Your theeves to touch , ( for t is a secret hid ) With Art and paines hath great Olibius shut In this small Urne , th'unruly Elements up . IX . De vicissitudine rerum . PAuperies , pacem ; pax , opes ; copia , luxum ; Sed luxus bellum , bellaque pauperiem . Pauperies turbam causat , turbaque quietem , Stant qui deciderent , quique stetere cadunt . Captivi capiunt , & qui domuere domantur , Jam victi suplex , qui modo victor erat . Sic plebae ●ndomitae , sic sunt sua fata tyrannis , Sic Deus alternas versat in orbe vices . OUr Poverty makes peace ; Peace , wealth and ryot ; Riot makes war ; War makes us poore and qui et : Our wants breed troubles ; after troubles , rest : They fall , who stood ; those lately fell , stand best . The Prisoners take those captives , them even now The Conqueror late , must to new Conquerors bow . So God disposes of all earthly States , Kings , and wild Commons , take by turnes their fates . X. De Ethiope baptizato . ILle niger sacris lotus quam exit ab undis , ( Nec frustra ) Ethiopem nempe lavare fuit . Mentem quam niveam , piceae cutis umbra fovebat , Jam volet ad nigras sancta columba lares . HOw white the Sun-parcht Moor from Jordan came To wash the Blackmore thus , was not in vaine , So white a soule lives in that pitch-staind Cell , The sacred Dove in that makes choice to dwell . XI . De quinque panibus , tot mille pascentibus . QUis novus Agricola , quae nova semina crescit , Cum perit , & major fit minuendo ceres . Millia tot virum panum sed quinque putasses Millia tot panum quinque fuisse virum . Who that new seedes , man , or that seede can guesse , Which spending , growes , and wasting doth increase , Five loaves whereof so many thousands fed , Yo'ud think the five were men , the thousands bread . XII . Ovidius in Ibim . DEsinit esse prius , contrarius ignibus humor , Et tepidus gelidus , flavit ab axe nothus . Et ver autumno , brume miscebitur aestas , Atque eadem regio vesper , & artus erit . Quam mihi sit tecum positis , quae sumpsimus armis . Gratia commissis improbe ruptatuis . Pax erit haec nobis semper dum vita manebit ▪ Cum pecore infirmo , qua solet esse Lupis . Terra tibi fruges , amnis tibi deneget undas , Deneget a●flatus ventus , & aura su●s . Nec tibi sol calidus , nec sit tibi lucida Phoebe : Destituant oc●los , sydera clara tu●s . Nec tibi Vulcanus , nec se tibi praebeat ●er : Nec tibi det tellus , nec tibi pontus iter . Exul inops erres , alienaque limina lustres , Exiguumque pet●s ore tremente cibum . Nec corpus querulo , nec mens vacet aegra dolore , Moxque die gravior sit tibi nocte dies . Sisque miser semper , nec ●is miserabilis ulli : Gaudeat adversis faemina virque tuis . Qui mala cum tuleris plurima , plura feras . Causaque non desit , desit tibi copia mortis , Optatam fugiat vita coacta necem . Luctatusque diu cruciatos spiritus artus Deserat , & longa torqueat a●te ●ora . My Translation transferred in wishes , to him , deserted and betrayed Cesars Cause , and his Comrade in adversity . FIrst fire and water shall to friendship grow , And from the North-pole warm South-winds shall blow , The Spring shall change to Autumne , snow shall burn , The Easterne Regions shall to Westerne turne Sooner then I friendship renew with thee , Once my Comrade , forsook thy Arms and me . Such peace shall henceforth betwixt thee and me , As wont betwixt the Wolfe and Lambe to be . May Brooks their waters , Earth her fruits deny , Nor wind , nor aire , thee with their breath supply ; May not the sun lend heat , nor moone shine cleare ; May never a star by night to thee appeare . May fire and ayre grow concreat as the glasse ; May sea and land refuse to give thee passe . All tatter'd maist thou goe from doore to doore , And beg thy bread amongst the wretched poore . May nere thy soule or body want their griefe ; May dayes give thee no ease , nor nights reliefe . Maist thou most wretched be pityed by none ; May they rejoyce , who should thy state bemoane . May all thy evils still increase and grow ; Maist thou desire to die , and no meanes know . May thy strong heart strive with thy will to die ; As in the rack maist thou in sicknesse lye . Like those that dye by piece-meale , or slow fire , Maist thou both feare to die , and death desire . XIII . A Paraphrase upon the Verses which Famianus Strada made of the Lutanist and Philomell in contestation , Pag. 399. Jam Sol , &c. WHen past the middle Orbe the parching Sun Had downward nearer our Horizon run , A Lutenist neare Tibers streames had found Where the Eccho did resound . Under a holme a shady bower he made To ease his cares , his severall Phancies playd , The Philomell no sooner did the Musicke hear , But straight wayes she drew neare . The harmlesse Syren musicke of the wood Hid in a leavy bush , she hearking stood , She ruminates upon the Ayers he plaid , And to him answers made . With her shirl voyce doth all his paines requi●● . Lost not one note ; but to his play sung right , Well pleased to heare her skil , and envy , he Tryes his Variety . And dares her with his severall notes , runs throw Even all the strains his skill could reach unto : A thousand wayes he tryes , she answers all , And for new straynes dares call . He could not touch a string in such a straine , To which she warble and not sung it plaine ; His fingers could not reach to greater choice , Then she did with her voyce . The Lutenist admir'd her narrow throat Could reach so high , or fall to any note : But that which he did thinke in her most strange , She instantly could change . Or sharpe , or ●lat , or meane , or quicke , or slow , Whar ere he plaid , she the like skill would show : And if he inward did his notes recall , She answer made to all . Th'inraged Lutenist he blusht for shame , That he could not this weake corrivall tame , If thou canst answer this I 'le breake my Lute , And yeild in the Dispute . He said no more but aimes at such a height Of skill he thought she could not imitate : He shows the utmost cunning of his hand And all he could command . He tryes his strength , his active fingers flye To every string , and stop , now low , now high , And higher yet he multiplyes his skill , Then doth his Chorus fill . Then he expecting stands to try if she His envy late would yeeld the victory , She would not yeeld , but summons all her force Though tyred out and hoarse . She strives with various strings the Lutes bast chest , The spirit of man , one narrow throat and Chest : Unequal matches , yet she 's pleasd that she Concludes Victoriously . Her spirit was such , she would not live to heare The Lutenist bestow on her a jeere , But broken hearted fell upon the Tombe She choose the sweet Lutes wombe . The warbling Lutes doe yet their Triumphs tell , ( With mournfull accents ) of the Philomell , And have usurpt the title ever since Of harmony the Prince . The Morall this , by emulation wee May much improve both art , and industry ; Though she deserve the name of Philomell , Yet men must her excell . Comparison . COblers are call'd Translators , so are we , ( And may be well call'd so ) we so agree : They rip the Soale first from the upper leather , Then steepe , then stretch , then patch up all together . We rip , we steep , we stretch , and take great paines , They with their fingers worke , we with our Braines . They trade in old shooes , as we doe in feet , To make the fancy , and the Language meete . We make all smooth ( as they doe ) and take care , What is too short , to patch : too large , to pare : When they have done , then to the Club they goe , And spend their gettings , doe not we doe so ? Coblers are often poore , yet merrie blades , Translators rarely rich , yet cheerefull lads . Who thinkes he wants , he is in plentie poore , Give me the Coblers wealth , I le aske no more . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A96944e-670 Ziba of Sauls Tribe . Shimei of Sauls Tribe ▪