THE MIRROR OF MAJESTY: OR, THE BADGES OF HONOUR CONCEITEDLY EMBLAZONED: WITH EMBLEMS ANNEXED, POETICALLY UNFOLDED.  
— Nec his Plebecula gaudet.  
LONDON, Printed by William jones, dwelling in Red-crosse-streete. 1619.   

TO THOSE NOBLE Personages ranked in the catalogue.  

MY feebler Muse far too too weak to sing,  
Has got your Honours on her flaggring wing,  
And borne them to the loftiest pitch she may:  
Therefore (submissive) she does humbly pray,  
That when her tongue reels, or Invention haults,  
Your Favours will give crutches to her faults.   
Your LORDSHIPS in all dutiful observancy, H. G.   

❧ A catalogue OF THOSE NAMES UNTO WHOM this work is appropriated.  

THE King's Majesty.  
The Queen.  
The Prince.  
The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.  
The Lord Chancellor.  
The Lord Treasurer.  
The Lord Privy Seal.  
The Lord Admiral.  
The Duke of Lenox.  
The marquess of Buckinghame.  
The Lord Chamberlain.  
The Earl of Arundel.  
The Earl of Southampton.  
The Earl of Hertford.  
The Earl of Essex  
The Earl of Dorset.  
The Earl of Mountgomerie.  
The Viscount Lisle.  
The Viscount Wallingford.  
The Bishop of London.  
The Bishop of Winchester.  
The Bishop of Ely.  
The Lord Zouch.  
The Lord Windsor.  
The Lord Wentworth.  
The Lord Darcie.  
The Lord Wootton.  
The Lord Stanhope.  
The Lord Carew.  
The Lord Hay.  
The Lord Chief justice of the king's-bench.  
The Lord Chief justice of the Common-Pleas.  
The Lord Chief Baron of the Excheaquer.   
FINIS.   

TO THE KING.  

I R  
QVI MAL Y PENSE HONI SOIT   

THose (mighty Sovereign) are your Grace's text,  
Right King of Heralds, not to any, next:  
You might their mystic learning blazon best,  
But you reserve your knowledge unexprest:  
As being most peculiar to you:  
And yet because the people may allow  
That which concerns yourself: Let me to them  
Unlock the value of this priceless gem:  
The Lions trebled thus, may represent  
Your equal fitness for the Regiment  
Of this fair Monarchy: Britain then  
Which ever has been stuffed with valiant men,  
May fittest bear a Lion, urged to spoil:  
Your Irish Kerns, who never used to toil,  
Are in their silver-studded Harp explained.  
These Splendent Beauties limned by Nature's hand,  
By grace of Ancient Kings, made Royal flowers,  
But now thrice Royal made, by being Yours.    

EMBLEM 1  

REX ✚ ET ✚ SACERDOS ✚ DEI ✚   

WHy be these marshaled equal, as you see?  
Aretina they disranked, or not? No: they should be  
Thus placed: for Commonweals do tottering stand,  
Not underpropt thus by the mutual hand  
Of King and Priest, by Gods and human laws:  
Divine assistance most effectual draws  
Kings to confess, that t'heav'n they homage owe;  
Which consequently leads a King to know,  
That, that Ambition's by dead Embers fired,  
Which has no▪ beyond earth to heaven aspired:  
Earth can but make a King of earth partaker,  
But Knowledge makes him nearest like his maker.  
For man's mere power not built on Wisdoms for't,  
Does rather pluck down kingdoms than support.  
Perfectly mixed, thus Power and Knowledge move  
About thy just designs, ensphered with love;  
Which (as a glass) serve neighbour-Kings, to see  
How best to follow, though not equal thee.    

EMBLEM 2  

NULLUM BONUM INREMUNERATUM   

SEated on this three-headed Mountain high,  
Which represents Great Britain's Monarchy,  
Thus stand I furnished t'entertain the noise:  
Of thronging clamours, with an equal poised:  
And thus addressed to give a constant weight  
To formal shows, of Virtue, or Deceit:  
Thus armed with Power to punish or protect,  
When I have weighed each scruple and defect:  
Thus plentifully rich in parts and place  
To give Abundance, or a poor disgrace:  
But, how to make these in just circle move,  
Heaven crowns my head with Wisdom from above.  
Thus Merit on each part, to whom 'tis due,  
With Godlike power disbursed is by you.    

TO THE QUEEN.  
 

OF all proportions (Madam) divers dare  
Conclude that absolute, which is most square:  
Well may they prove that Theorem: for I know  
Square Bodies do the most perfection show:  
Perfection still consisting in this best,  
To stand more sure, the more it is suppressed.  
Which special virtue chiefly doth belong  
Unto square bodies, or right does them wrong:  
Your Scutcheon therefore, and the Honour's due,  
May constantly support your Worth and You;  
Whose life's drawn out (unsoild with subjects hate)  
By such a Sampler, none can imitate.    

EMBLEM 3.  

❀ unica ✚ ETERNA ✚ ALL ✚ MONDO ✚   

HEre above number, doth one wonder sit;  
But One, yet in her own, an infinite:  
Being simply rare, no Second can she bear,  
Two Suns were never seen stalk in one Sphere.  
From old Eliza's Urn, enriched with fire  
Of glorious wonders, did your worth suspire:  
So must, from your dead life-infusing flame,  
Your Multiplyed-selfe rise thence the Same:  
She whose fair Memories, by Thespian Swains  
Are sung, on Rheins green banks, and flowery plains.  
Thus Time alternates in its single turns;  
One Phoenix borne, another Phoenix burns.  
Your rare worths (matchless Queen) in you alone  
Live free, vnparalleed, entirely One.    

TO THE PRINCE.  

C P  
ICHE DIEN   

YOur Princedome's Ensign here (Right-Royall Sir)  
May pinion your up-soaring thoughts, and stir  
Them to a pitch of loftier eminence,  
Then can be reached by base vulgar sense.  
These Plumes (charactered lively signify  
Valour in war, joined with velocity.  
The black Prince (bearing Plumes) approves this true,  
When through the French he like win'gd-lightning slew,  
And pulled down lives about him to the ground,  
Till he himself with death had circled round;  
His very look did threaten public death:  
With every stroke fell from him, fled a breath.  
Armed in the confidence of his just cause,  
Thus freely fearless his foes overthrows.  
Those high-born acts which from his valour slew,  
With new-additions are impressed in you.    

EMBLEM 4.  

POST ✚ NUBILA ✚ PHOEBUS' ✚   

WHen Peace (suspecting he would war infer,)  
took Henry hence, to live above with her,  
She bade Ioues Bird return from's quick convoy  
Of his fair soul, left in heavens lasting joy,  
And mildly offer to your Princely hands,  
This Emblem of soft Peace and Warlike bands:  
Both which (used rightly) their large cares extend.  
To gain o'er others, and their own defend.  
Though all bright Honours did their Beauty's shroud  
In his Eclipse, like Phoebus in a cloud:  
Yet at your Rising, they more clear again  
Peept-forth, like Sunshine after clouds and rain.  
And in your worth their worthiness displays  
To worthiest Princes; as the Sun, his rays.    

TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.  
 

HOw well these sacred Ornaments become  
One, who by earth walks t'his celestial home:  
The Staff of Comfort this, to lean upon,  
This, Pall of peace▪ these, Crosses undergone:  
How easily good men (known well by this)  
Lodge at the Inn of their eternal Bliss:  
These Fruits, are works, from Bounty springing found,  
Perfuming Heaven, & with heavens bounties crowned:  
These shadowed fruits, but by a figure, show  
The joys of Paradise prepared for you.  
Sail thither with good speed then, yet make stay;  
Good Angels guide you, y'are i'th' Abbots way.    

EMBLEM 5.  

MORIR ✚ PIV ✚ TOSTO ✚ I ✚ MANCAR ✚ DIEGO ✚ FEED.   

THese Hands connexed, engird Religion,  
Deciphring th'holy Concord's unison,  
Of faiths full harmony: this spiny pale  
Sharp conflicts are, who still the Truth assail:  
This Heart the Church is, th'holy Ghost being Centre,  
Afflictions may surround, but cannot enter.  
You are the prime link of this manual chain,  
Whereby Religion does its strengthmaintaine:  
O! may the Reverend Rest to you stick fast,  
That Truth (though long) yet conquer may at last.    

TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.  
 

THe North and Southern Poles, the two fixed Stars  
Of worth and dignity, which all just wars,  
Should still maintain, together: be here met  
And in yourself as in your Scutcheon set:  
The half Moon 'twixt, threatens as yet no change,  
Or if she do, she promises to range,  
Till she again recover what she lost:  
Your endless fame, (so) gains your Bounty's cost.    

EMBLEM 6.  

SUB ✚ VMBRA ✚ ALARM ✚ TVARUM ✚   

Never should any think himself so sure  
Of friend's assistance, that he dares procure  
New enemies: for vnprouok'd they will  
Spring out of forged, or causeless malice still.  
Else, why should this poor creature be pursued,  
Too simple to offend, a beast so rude.  
Therefore provide (for malice danger brings)  
house-room to find under an Eagles wings.  
You are this Eagle, which o'ershades the sheep  
Pursued by human wolves, and safe doth keep  
The poor man's honest, though might-wronged cause,  
From being crushed by oppressions paws.  
Fair Port you are, where every Goodness finds  
Safe shelter from swollen Greatness, stubborn winds▪  
Eager to drench it: but that fearless rest  
Dwells in your harbour, to all good distressed.  
I bid not you provide, you are complete,  
The good for to protect, or bad defeat.    

TO THE LORD TREASURER.  

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

YOur sable Crescent might to some (whose lips  
Speak ignorance) portend a black Eclipse:  
I rather thus discern, how Time would shroud  
Your radiant Crescent in a sable Cloud:  
And hold those envious, ignorant, or dull,  
That cannot see, your Crescent growing full.    

EMBLEM 7.  

QVI ✚ CURAT ✚ VIGILANS ✚ DORMIT.   

THe careful Statesman, who the Key doth carry  
Of a a King's Treasury, must not (partial) vary:  
But to just causes compass still be tied:  
For justice (unjust shutting) opens wide,  
And lets in hard Opinion, to disgrace  
His Sovereign's self, his Person, and his place.  
Nor must he careless slumber: but thus keep  
His lids unshut-up by soft-fingred Sleep:  
And hold a Counsel with the saddest hours  
Of silent Night: and spend his purest powers  
In care, to render to whom dues belong,  
That Subjects may have right, and Kings no wrong.  
But you (Great Lord) bear up this weight of Trust.  
With a most easy Care, because most just.    

TO THE LORD PRIVY SEAL.  

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

THose dress that adorn both parts of Nature,  
First, is expressed in this Majestic Creature:  
Next, in these Flowers of Light both which present  
Your Honours at full height of complement,  
And Clearness, which runs through your noble Blood,  
Mixed with this twofold tincture, Great and Good:  
What's here but shadowed then, by outward kind,  
Bedeckes the inner Rooms of your brave mind.    

EMBLEM 12.  

ET ✚ DEO ✚ ET ✚ PATRIAE ✚   

WHen ere thou drawest out thy revenging rod,  
Let be for Country, and the cause of God:  
Else thy Oblations will thy curses be,  
When thou encounterest with thine enemy.  
Nor is it sacrifice that can appease  
God's wrath, unless the man's obedience please  
More than his offering: for if his dull heart  
Thinks he enricheth God in any part,  
By offering Hecatombs, he looseth all:  
Nay further yet, he gives a sword with all  
To heavens high justice, by invoking down  
Revenge, in am of Guerdon, or a Crown.  
Such as were sacrifices once, such be  
Our prayers still, and our true Sanctity:  
Which is your Inmate, and familiar guest,  
More clearly seen in You, than here expressed.    

TO THE LORD ADMIRAL.  

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

YOur sable mullet like a Star in black,  
Shows what our honoured Admiral doth lack:  
And shows as if that Star of Effingham,  
Were thus bemourned in a brief Epigram:  
This may your pole-star be, most noble Lord,  
And guide you unto that (so much abhorred)  
The mournful, yet the blessed, Port of death,  
Blown by the prayers of all good men's breath.    

EMBLEM 9  

QVEL CHE DRITTO DA IL CIEL ✚ TORCER NON PVOSSI ✚   

suppose a Globe were fastened in the sky,  
With cords depending on it quarterly,  
And men should strive by violence to wrest  
That cordage to what crooked form they list,  
All wise men would conceive them madly bend,  
Why should they else impossibles attempt?  
And we may think it as absurd a drift  
In him, who craftily shall hope to shift  
When Fate forbids him, or shall hope to thwart  
The good intentions of an honest heart.  
For that which heaven directs (all ages see)  
May injured, but not diverted be.  
Seek then no further, honest meanings can  
Make a plain mind best policy in man.    

TO THE DUKE OF LENOX.  

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

WHat need I further strive to amplify  
Your high-born worths, and noble dignity:  
Then by these beauteous flowers, which declare:  
Your mind's fair purity, unstained, and bare:  
These golden Buckles bordering them about,  
A Palizado, to keep Foulness out.    

EMBLEM 10.  

NON MANCHA ALL FIN SE BEN TARDA. A VENIRE.   

THe Wolf and Lion once together met,  
And by agreement they their purpose set  
To hunt together: when they had obtained  
Their booty long pursued, the Wolf refrainde  
No more then formerly, from greediness:  
The Lion apprehending, that much less  
Might satisfy a beast no bigger grown,  
Thought all the purchase rather was his own:  
And thought suppression of a beast so base  
Was justice, to preserve the common race  
Of harmless beasts; then speedily he tears  
The Wolf, to take away their usual fears.  
e'en thus when our great Monarch clearly saw,  
How that insatiate Wolf of Rome did draw  
More riches to his coffers, then dear souls  
To Heaven, he like this Lion then controls  
His usurpation, deeming him a slave,  
Who more intended to devour, then save.  
But you know best to follow, in free course,  
The Best in best things, and pass by the worse.    

TO THE MARQVESSE OF BUCKINOHAM.  

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

ALL that we see is comely, and delights▪  
The eyes; which still are pleased with precious sights:  
And (as your golden Scallops) You appear  
To promise (that which we may value dear)  
More than a glorious outside, which contains.  
Meat, not to be disclosed without due pains:  
Thus is it scarce to be imagined how  
Desert should parallel your worth, or You.    

EMBLEM 11.  

INVIDIA ✚ SWM ✚ TORQVET ✚ AUTHOREM.   

THis glorious Star attending on the Sun,  
Having, from this low world, just wonder won  
For brightness; Envy, that foul Stygian brand,  
T' extinguish it thrusts forth her greedy hand:  
To catch it from it's mounted moving place,  
And hurl it lower to obscured Disgrace:  
But while she snatches, to put out the flame,  
Foolishly fires her fingers with the same.  
Who others glories strivet ' eclipse (poor Elves)  
Do but draw down selfe-mischiefe on themselves.  
You waiting on the Sun of Majesty  
May that elamping Heliotropium be:  
Still bright in your Ecliptic circle run,  
YE are out of Envies reach, so near the Sun.  
Move fairly, freely in your wont Orb,  
Above the danger of Detractions curb,  
And her selfe-bursting Brood: sit there, contemn,  
Nay laugh, and scorn both their despite, and them.    

TO THE LORD CHAMBERLINE.  

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

NOt because you are given to rage or spoil,  
Like rampant Lyonse, which deserve a Toil:  
Nor yet because your gifts divided be,  
Do Lions thus divide themselves in three:  
But (when provoked) to show you can resist,  
Or show your courage when Your Honour list:  
Or thus in number they do look one way,  
To show, what You command, your friends obey.    

EMBLEM 12.  

CANDIDA, ✚ SAL DA, ✚ ET ✚ IMMOBILE ✚   

Fixed here snow-vested Piety remains  
Al-pure, and in all pure, purged from the stains  
Of all false worship, chaste as air, untainted  
With the foul blemishes of that al-painted  
Proud Courtesan: nor wander does her mind,  
She best content in Constancy doth find:  
To Alethea's pillar close she clings,  
Maugre the rapting strains Rome's Siren sings:  
Who is athirst, and does but touch her Cup,  
Drinks, with delight, his soul's salvation up.  
Thus comprehends she joys, which most would buy  
At the highest rate, in this one Constancy,  
So above others may your Honour's shine,  
As past all others, does this Form Divine,  
With her ingenuous Beams blaze bright in you,  
Who's doubly gilded, with Her, and Learning too.    

TO THE EARL OF ARUNDEL.  

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

ON Gules you bear the figure of a Bend  
Between cross crosselets fixed: which all intent  
Rightly to shadow Noble birth, adorned  
With valour, and a Christian cause, not scorned  
By any but by Infidels, and they  
Mistaking this, their hellbred hate display.  
But to leave shadows, you (substantial) shine  
With those good things, which make a man divine.    

EMBLEM 13.  

PACE ✚ FERMEZZA, ✚ E ✚ FRUTTO ✚ ALL' ✚ ALME ✚ APPORTO. ✚   

KNow (honoured Sir) that th'heat of Prince's love,  
Thrown on those real Worths, good men approve,  
Doth, like the radiant Phoebus shining here,  
Make fruitful virtue at full height appear:  
T'illustrate this in you, were to confess  
How much your Goodness doth your Greatness bless,  
By its own warm reflex: Thus both survive,  
And both i'th' Sun of Royal favour thrive.  
O mays reverberating rays still nourish.  
Your noble Worths, and make your virtues flourish.    

TO THE EARL OF SOVTH-HAMPTON.  

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

NO storm of troubles, or cold frosts of Friends,  
Which on free Greatness, too too oft, attends,  
Can (by presumption) threaten your free state:  
For these presaging sea-birds do amate  
Presumptuous Greatness: moving the best minds,  
By their approach, to fear the future winds  
Of all calamity, no less than they  
Portend to seamen a tempestuous day:  
Which you foreseeing may before hand cross,  
As they do them, and so prevent the loss.    

EMBLEM 13.  

IN ✚ VTRAQVE ✚ PERFECTUS ✚   

WHat coward Stoic, or blunt captain will  
Dislike this Union, or not labour still  
To reconcile the Arts and victory?  
Since in themselves Arts have this quality,  
To vanquish errors train: what other than  
Should love the Arts, if not a valiant man?  
Or, how can he resolve to execute,  
That hath not first learned to be resolute?  
If any shall oppose this, or dispute,  
Your great example shall their spite confute.    

TO THE EARL OF HERTFORD:  
 

THese lions gardant wisely seem to take  
The name of gardant, for the flowers sake:  
As if they kept the flowers-de-luce thus  
From them, who any way obnoxious,  
Might gather them: it is a noble part,  
To keep the glories purchased by desert.    

EMBLEM 12.  

VNUM ✚ COR ✚ VNUS ✚ DEUS ✚ una ✚ RELIGIO ✚   

THis Triple Close, if disunited, none:  
But knit by faith, an individual One.  
Standing unmoved, like an heroic rock,  
Affronts the batteries of fierce envies shock.  
God, Heart, Religion, these, One, made of three,  
Joined in unsevered threefold Unity,  
Royal paire-royall (see) three are the same,  
He that hath this paire-royall wins the game.  
View, how this heart, and how these hands agree,  
Whose heart, and hands are one, thrice happy he.  
And though two hands, yet but one are these two,  
Both do the same, and both the same undo.  
Concord makes in a million, but one heart,  
Whereat stern Hate may level her fierce dart,  
And deeply wound too, yet cannot that wound  
Disanimate, or her free thoughts confound:  
But with a double Valour she up-beares  
Such hearts, above the stroke of base fears.  
Thus you within have raised up such a fort,  
As keeps out Ills, and doth your good support.    

TO THE EARL OF ESSEX.  
 

THe chiefest of this Scuchion comprehends  
Three Torteaux, which unto all commends  
A firm and plenteous liberality,  
Proper to you, and to your family:  
And this one virtue, in you (clear as day)  
All other virtues elements display.    

EMBLEM 16.  

QVIS ✚ CONTRA ✚ NOS ✚   

NO wild, or desperate fool can hence collect  
Proof to applaud his vice, or to protect:  
Nor can this Figure civil war portend,  
Whither oppose, or whither it defend:  
But ancient Valour, that which hath advanced  
Our Predecessors, (while fine Courtiers danced)  
That's here inferred, to reinform the mind  
By view of instances, wherein we find  
Recorded of your Ancestry, whose fame  
Like forked thunder, threatened cowards shame;  
Who fearing, lest on their deboshed base merit,  
Heaven should drop Bolts, by a flame-winged spirit.    

TO THE EARL OF DORSET.  
 

'tIs true, your various Bend thus quarterly  
Described, points out the great antiquity,  
Of Honour, and of Virtue truly claimed  
By You, who have preserved them free, unmaimed.  
Let none that's generous think his time ill spent,  
To imitate your Worths so eminent.    

EMBLEM 17.  

D'ODORE ✚ IL ✚ MONDO ✚ E ✚ D'ACVTEZZA ✚ IL ✚ GIELO. ✚   

THe world whose happiness, and chief delight,  
Nay more, whose ▪ Wisdom lies in Appetite,  
Rather than Knowledge; claims the largest share  
Of that which pleaseth most: nor doth it care  
To comprehend a higher mystery:  
And therefore well doth nature dignify  
Th' ascending point, with heavens near neighbour hood  
Leaving to earth what's great, to heaven what's good.  
Which you perceiviug, wisely do bestow,  
Your thoughts on Heaven, your wealth on things below.    

TO THE EARL OF MOUNTGOMERY.  

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

THe Crescent to a second House belongs,  
The golden Crescent (worth a Poet's songs)  
Well appertains unto thy House and thee,  
Thou Arch-supporter of Mountgomery.  
For not the vaprous breath of bad report,  
Can cloud the splendour thou deservest in Court:  
But as in gold no rust can find a place,  
So hath thy Crescent no enforced disgrace.    

EMBLEM 18.  

MUSICA ✚ DII ✚ PLACANTUR ✚ MUSICA ✚ MANES.   

AS busy Bees unto their Hive do swarm,  
So does th'attractive power of Music charm  
All Ears with silent rapture: nay, it can  
Wild Reason re-contract, divorced from man.  
Birds in their warble imitate the Spheres:  
This sings the Treble, that the Tenor bears:  
Beasts have with listening to a Shepherds lay,  
Forgot to feed, and so have pined away:  
Brooks that creep through each flowr-befretted field,  
In their harmonious murmurs, music yield:  
Yea, senseless stones at the old Poet's song,  
Themselves in heaps did so together throng,  
That to high beauteous structures they did swell  
Without the help of hand, or use of skill:  
This Harmony in t'humane Fabric steals:  
And is the sinews of all Commonweals.  
In you this Concord's so divinely placed:  
That it by you, not you by it is graced.    

TO THE LORD VISCOUNT LIS●E.  

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

LEt there be no addition, this alone  
Will make an Emblem, and a perfect one.  
Conceive it thus then: A Darts forked head  
Apt to endanger, though not striking dead.  
Such is, or should be every noble mind,  
Prepared like this in most resolved kind  
To wound, or kill offensive injury,  
And though unurged, yet threatens dangers nigh.    

EMBLEM 19  

ORDINE ✚ TEMPO ✚ NUMERO ✚ EMISURA ✚   

HEre Sience does in contemplation sit,  
Distinguishing by forms, the soul of wit:  
Knowing, perfection has no proper grace,  
If wanting Order, Number, Time, or Place:  
The Theoric and practic part must be  
As heat and fire: the Sun, and clarity:  
Such twins they are, and such Correlatives,  
As the'one without the other seldom thrives.  
How can a man the feats of Arms well do,  
If not a Scholar, and a Soldier too?  
If either than be missing in's due place,  
Defect steps in, and steals from all their grace:  
On good acts you employ the practic part,  
The Theory lies lodged within your heart.    

TO THE LORD VISCOUNT WALLINGFORD.  

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE   

WEll may you never find the want, or loss  
Of that most hallowed, and instructing Cross,  
On which our Saviour died: for these will show  
The many blessed thoughts of that, in few:  
here you may overlook the world, and see  
Nothing so plentiful, as crosses be:  
Thence you may take occasion to prepare  
Your soul, to bear those that worse crosses are.  
These are the badges of Your noble breast,  
That will conduct You to heavens quiet rest.    

EMBLEM 20.  

SOT ✚ HUMANO ✚ SEMBIANTE ✚ EMPIO ✚ VENENO ✚   

THus plays the Courtly Sycophant, and thus  
Self-pleasing Sin, which poisons all of us:  
Thus played the whore whom the wise King describes:  
Thus he who rails at, and yet pockets bribes:  
Thus plays the Politician, who will smile,  
Yet like this Serpent sting your heart the while.  
Bung up thine ears then, or suspect the harm,  
When sweet Cyllenian words begin to charm.  
But you, can these unmask by knowing best  
How to keep such from lurking near your breast.    

TO THE BISHOP OF LONDON.  
 

TWo swords there be, which all Divines should take,  
ere they this victory can perfect make:  
Prevailing Language is a powerful one,  
Zeal for the truth, the other: these have done  
More noble acts, than war could ever boast:  
Both are in your Field found, though elsewhere lost.    

EMBLEM. 21.  
 

ME thinks (Right Reverend) here you silence  
Viewing this Emblem, & it thus bespeak: (break.  
Ride on Triumphing, make a glorious show,  
Catch those, who only but thy Outside know:  
Hold forth thy witching Cup, advance thy Crown,  
And ' Mounted think thyself past pulling down:  
Yet after all, thou canst be proved no more,  
Then a deluding, and deluded whore.    

TO THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.  
 

THe Sword and Keys to Churchmen been bequeathed,  
Since Paul and Peter were of life bereaved:  
The Keys, a type of Prayers, which unlock  
Heavens glorious gates, to let in those that knock.  
The Spirits zealous, and soul-saving Word,  
Is shadowed by the sinne-subduing Sword:  
Of Word and Sword th'incorporate quality  
Has power to heave base earth above the sky.  
Your powerful, and victorious elegance,  
Which overcomes bold vice and arrogance,  
Does prove, no weapons to the Church belong,  
But such as Heaven makes to encounter wrong:  
Nor does your Gentry differ: Lozenges  
Are curing Cordials: Gentrous thoughts like these.    

EMBLEM 22.  

SERO ✚ JUPITER ✚ DIPHTHERAM ✚ INSPEXIT ✚   

BEhold, on what the Roman Faith consists:  
So tossed by Errors winds; so leapt in Mists;  
That their Arch-pilot scarce can rule the stern▪  
He lacks foundation, therefore still to learn  
How to makes Ship his Harbour. O I wonder  
Th'ore burdened Vessel cracks not quite asunder,  
And sinks not down, oppressed by its own weight,  
With sinful souls so stuffed, and over-freight.  
The high Avenger (though he seems to fail)  
With winged wrath will split their proudest sail.  
heavens yron-hand (most slowly heaved aloft)  
Falls quick, dead-sure, and home, although not oft.  
All wish, for their sakes of Rome's simpler sort,  
That you might steer their vessel to the Port:    

TO THE BISHOP OF ELY.  
 

HOw much more better may you challenge these,  
Then all your Predecessors, who in ease,  
And sloth (you being considered) did neglect  
That which deserves a Crown, or good respect:  
These then the Heralds may think rather due,  
Not to your place of state, but unto you.    

EMBLEM 23.  

VNUM ✚ ET ✚ ALTERUM ✚ DIVINUM ✚   

REligion still its own, cannot be lost,  
Nor from itself divorced, though to the most,  
Who judge by guess and slight formality,  
There might appear schism in Divinity:  
When not Divinity, which cannot change,  
But human reason to schisms vild doth range:  
For so the fruits of divers plants may seem  
divers in quality: and men may deem  
Nature hath erred in such a serious course,  
When both considered be the same in force.  
You, that best judge of Schisms, can clearly see,  
Error termed Truth, and Truth termed Heresy.    

TO THE LORD ZOUCU:  
 

SEe, how a worthy spirit not employed  
May seem to lookers on, or vain, or void:  
These golden pieces thus vnshaped, uncoined,  
Seem as if worth and they were quite disjoined:  
When brass or copper being stamped or framed  
Into the shape of plate, is oft misnamed,  
And oft mistaken for the purest gold:  
But you are ever active, and unfold  
Your precious substance, that yourself may take,  
Honour's true stamp; what's counterfeit forsake.    

EMBLEM 24.  

CHIARO ✚ QVIETO ✚ PROFONDO ✚ E. ✚ DIVINO.   

Here Phoebus and the Sacred Sisters sit,  
Chiefly attending Harmony, and Wit:  
Who stay to hear the dying Swans to sing  
Sad Epods; riding on the Thespian Spring.  
here the Wingd-Horses hoof digs up that Well  
Whence gurgle streams of Art, and sacred Skill.  
Divines (like Pegasus) divinely move  
In Man, springs of profound, and precious love  
To heavenly Wisdom; who t'eacheach passing by,  
Points out the pathway to Eternity.  
And whilst You do your noble thoughts confine  
To what Divines preach, You become Divine.    

TO THE LORD WINDSOR.  
 

ME thinks, I see in this, the true estate  
Of man still subject to a luckless fate:  
As if the greatest Cross did represent  
The general curse, which even all over went.  
From Adam to his wretched progeny:  
The lesser Crosses which accompany  
The greater, be each several hapless chance:  
And all together show, that ignorance  
Is irrecoverably blind, where none  
Prevents what happens thus to every one.  
But You do well support the weightiest crosses  
With Patience, and esteem them but light losses.    

EMBLEM 25.  

PACE ✚ A ✚ GLIELETTI ✚ E ✚ GVERRA ✚ A ✚ GLIEMPI ✚ E ✚ REI.   

Ye, whose blind folly doth not so maintain  
A former choice, but ye may choose again:  
And ye, whose innocence (not knowing yet  
The worse from better) carelessly doth let  
Both rest unchosen: now begin to make  
Your new, or first choice, and here wisely take e  
The pattern: if you would incline to Peace,  
Love books with Virtue stored, so will decrease  
Your troubles: those will bring such powerful fame,  
As shall the sternest Lion soonest tame.  
Experience leads thee to this certain choice,  
Choose then at first, to grieve, or to rejoice.  
You have already chosen true Content:  
Nor needs your Honour ever to repent.    

TO THE LORD WENTWORTH.  
 

Leopard's have ever ranked been among  
Those nobler beasts, which are both swift & strong.  
Swiftness alludes to a dexterity,  
Or quick dispatch without temerity.  
Their Strength alludes to judgement which endures,  
When flashing Wit no long delight assures.  
Make these your own, and then you bear displayed,  
Your Scutcheons moral, in yourself portrayed.    

EMBLEM 26.  

JOVIS ✚ APOLLINIS ✚ ET ✚ MINERVAE ✚   

Jove, Phoebus, and Minerva were assigned,  
To be the three chief ornaments of mind.  
jove figured Providence, Minerva, Wit,  
Phoebus, Content: and all that purchased it  
Well are they seated in a holy place,  
To show the Continent of all, is grace:  
It seems that you have well considered thus:  
The fairest of titles is, Religious.    

TO THE LORD DARCIE.  
 

THese health-preserving leaves thus inly fixed  
Amongst the Crosselets; show, heavens favours mixed  
With all calamities that seize on man,  
If patiently he entertain them can.  
To find cure then for Crosses, look above:  
See, ill made well by heavens all-curing love.    

EMBLEM 27.  

ET ✚ TENEBRAE ✚ FACTAE ✚ SUNT ✚   

Sleep, being the type of death: darkness must be  
The shade of that, which we evanisht see:  
Men so departed, that it may be said,  
A Bird, as well, as such a man, is dead:  
Chase, while thou liv'st, the clouds of death away:  
Or dying, never look to see more day.  
You have on earth, so studied heavens delight,  
That you can never be obscured: though night  
Should threaten to obscure noonday, yet will  
Your Noble mind vanquish death's darkest ill.    

TO THE LORD WOTTON.  
 

Settled afflictions may be well expressed  
Under this form of Crosses, which men blest  
Have still endured to prove their patience:  
But I would rather in another sense  
Have this appli'de to such a man, whose vows  
Have fixed him to the faith Christ's Church allows:  
And such a man (scorning ungrounded wrongs)  
Are you, to whom this fixed Cross belongs.    

EMBLEM 28.  

TEMPUS ✚ CORONAT ✚ INDUSTRIAM.   

TH'ascending Path that up to wisdom leads  
Is rough, uneven, steep: and he that treads  
Therein, must many a tedious Danger meet,  
That, or trips up, or clogs his wearied feet:  
Yet led by Labour, and a quick Desire  
Of fairest Ends scrambles, and clambers higher  
Than Common reach: still catching to hold fast  
On strongest Occasion, till he come at last  
Up to Her gate, where Learning keeps the key,  
And lets him in, Her best Things to survey:  
There he unkend (though to himself best known)  
Takes rest, till Time presents him with a Crown:  
In quest of this rich Prize, your toil's thus graced:  
Ever to be in Time's best Border placed.    

TO THE LORD STANHOPE.  
 

THis interchanged variety of Fur,  
And naked quarters, fitly do concur.  
To show the seasonable contenting store  
That rich wise men enjoy, alike with poor:  
Both are provided (lest they might take harm)  
To keep their innocence, both safe and warm.    

EMBLEM 29.  

BIS ✚ INTERIMITUR ✚ QVI ✚ SVIS ✚ ARMIS ✚ PERIT ✚   

IMagine here, Christ strongly fortified,  
Against the Pope's bold heresy and pride:  
And think, whilst his Accomplices combine  
The Castle of Christ's truth, to undermine;  
A flame breaks forth, which doth consume them all:  
So seeking his, they meet with their own fall.  
And thus whilst heretics (like wretched elves)  
Outstare the Truth, they do condemn themselves,  
subjecteth to the twofold victory  
Of Truth, and of their own impiety.  
Take refuge then, in heavens eternal rest,  
And see Christ's foes against themselves addressed.    

TO THE LORD CAREW.  
 

THe noblest parts of Wisdom, as clear wit,  
High Courage, and such virtues kin to it:  
Should ever be proceeding, and go on  
Forward, as seem these Lions; urged of none.  
So (like to these) You keep a passant pace,  
Till Wisdom seat You in your wished place.    

EMBLEM. 30.  

VIRTUS ✚ unita ✚ FORTIOR ✚   

Force's united geminate their force,  
And so doth virtue: never should remorse  
Nor obstacle restrain that man, who may  
Strengthen his virtues by a noble way:  
Who cannot perfect be, needs not repent  
To add his own t' another's Precedent.  
And he that is entire may therewithal,  
By others help prove more effectual.  
So help me Learning, as I do not know,  
Where I this Emblem fitter may bestow.    

TO THE LORD HAY.  
 

Beauty's chief elements of White and Red  
Is all that in your Coat is figured:  
Nor is it needful, any thing should be  
Added to this most copious mystery:  
Gules upon Argent to conceit are plain,  
And portray out a life without all stain.    

EMBLEM 31.  

MERITUM ✚ SIBI ✚ MUNUS ✚   

SEe Bounty seated in her best of pride,  
Whose fountains never ebb, ever full tide  
At every change: see, from her streaming heart,  
How rivulets of Comfort do impart  
To Worth dried up by Want; and to assuage  
The drought of Virtue in her pilgrimage.  
Looke, how her wide-stretcht, fruit-befurnisht hand  
Unlocked to true Desert, does open stand:  
But if she should not be Deserts regarder,  
Yet is it, in itself, it's own rewarder.  
This Emblem's not presented (Noble Sir)  
Your bounteous nature to awake, or stir:  
For you are Bounties Almoner, and does know,  
How to refrain, distribute, or bestow.    

TO THE THREE LORDS CHIEF JUSTICES.  
 

BY these life-lengthning Lozenges, are shown  
Cares to cure Ills, by times corruption grown▪  
To comfort virtues heart, at point to die  
Of a Consumption, and doth bedrid lie:  
This Star, that justice is, which is not blind,  
(As th'ancient Hieroglyphickes her defined)  
But searcheth out with quick discerning eye  
Th'hard difference twixt Faith and Fallacy.  
These Birds, as yet unlearnt to light on earth,  
Figure that justice, which from Heaven has Birth,  
And scorns to look so low, as base respect  
Of its own private ends, and Truth neglect.  
Care, Truth, and justice thus unite, we see  
Make in their Goodness mixed, a Sympathy,  
On whose joint pinions the realms Peace up-towres  
T'her Chair of State, subsisteted by your powers.    

EMBLEM 32.  

SIC ✚ VBIQVE ✚   

SHe that illuminates the midnight, may  
Be well admitted to take rest all day:  
Yet have our antic Poets rather made  
Night-wandering Luna t'have a daily Trade;  
Reporting, that by day she takes delight  
To hunt wild creatures, and then shines at night:  
Teaching (or I mistake) how Magistrates  
Should quell Disorders in all civil States.  
In darkness they should watchful insight keep,  
To hunt out Vice, when men are thought asleep:  
For Mischief (as in darkness) skulkes disguised,  
And therefore needs some watchfully advised,  
Who having scented out this secret game,  
May then pursue them to a public shame.  
But your deep wisdoms, better know, than this,  
What in our Commonweal most needful is.