MINERVA BRITANNA OR A GARDEN OF HEROICAL devices, furnished, and adorned with Emblems and Impresa's of sundry natures, Newly devised, moralised, and published, By HENRY PEACHAM, Mr. of Artes.  
LONDON Printed in Shoe-lane at the sign of the Falcon by Wa: Dight.   

ICH DIEN i (Germanicé,) Servio.  
Epigramma Authoris.  
Se dicit Servum modo patre supersti●e Princeps,  

Ephes. 4. 1.  Primus at Imperio Servus 
b ICH DIEN Anagramma.  HIC, IN DE regit.   

TO THE RIGHT HIGH AND MIGHTY HENRY, ELDEST SON OF our Sovereign Lord the KING, Prince of Wales, DUKE of CORNWALL and ROTHSAY and Knight of the most noble order of the GARTER.  
MOST EXCELLENT PRINCE. Having by more than ordinary signs, tasted h●eretofore of your gracious favour: and evidently known your Princely and Generous inclination, to all good Learning and excellency. I am emboldened once again, to offer up at the Altar of your gracious acceptance these mine Emblems: a weak (I confess,) and a worthless Sacrifice, though an assured pledge, of that Zeal and Duty, I shall for ever most Religiously owe unto your Highness: showing herein rather a will to desire, then worth to deserve, so peerless a patronage. Howsoever the world shall esteem them in regard of their rude and homely attire, for the most part they are Royally descended, and repair into your own bosom (far from the reach of Envy) for their protection. For in truth they are of right your own, and no other than the substance of those Divine Instructions, his Majesty your Royal Father prescribed unto you, your guide (as that golden branch to AENEAS, 
AEneid● 6. ) to a virtuous & true happy life. It is now two years since I presented unto your Highness some of them, then done by me into Latin verse, with their pictures drawn and limned by mine own hand in their lively colours; wherein, as near as I could, I observed the Method of his majesties BASILICON DORON, but by reason of the great number I had since that, newly invented: with some others collected, (tying my invention to ●o one Subject as before) I am here constrained aswell of Necessity as for variety sake, to intermix (as it were promiscuè) one with the other in one entire volume, the rather because of their affinity & end, which is one and the self same, that is, the fashioning of a virtuous mind. I dare not discourse at large unto your Highness, of the manifold Use, Nature, Liberty, and ever esteemed excellency of this kind of Poesy: it being the rarest, and of all others the most ingenious, and wherein, the greatest Princes of the world, many times have most happily exercised their Invention: because I doubt not, but your Highness already knoweth whatsoever I might speak herein. Only what I have done, I most humbly offer up the same unto your gracious view, and protection. Desiring of GOD to beautify and enrich your most hopeful & Heroic mind, with the divinest gifts of his grace, and knowledge, hearty wishing, there were any thing in me, worthy of the least favour, and respect of so excellent a Prince.  
To your Highness, The most sincerely and affectionately devoted in all duty and service. HENRY PEACHAM.   

To the Reader.  
I have here (kind Reader) sent abroad unto thy view, this volume of Emblems, whether for greatness of the charged, or that the Invention is not ordinary: a Subject very rare. For except the collections of Master Whitney, and the translations of some one or two else beside, I know not an Englishman in our age, that hath published any work of this kind: they being (I doubt not) as ingenious, and happy in their invention, as the best French or Italian of them all. Hence perhaps they term us Tramontani Sempii, Simple and of dull conceit, when the fault is neither in the Climate, nor as they would have it, in the constitution of our bodies, but truly in the cold & frozen respect of Learning, and arts, generally amongst us: coming far short of them in the just valueing of well deserving qualities. To begin at the foot of their Alpes, and so descend by Germany (which Bodine truly termeth officinam hominum, a shop of absolute men for all Arts) how she hath excelled in this, as in all other rare Invention, witness the many volumes she hath sent us over of this Subject. With what excellent Bodies, and Mottoes, have the Netherlandes especially Holland, and Zealand, upon sundry occasions (as the recovery of their Liberty, the overthrow in eighty eight, and the like) commended their Invention to the world? as we find in Meteranus, and others. I should seem partial, if I should lay to your view, the many and almost unimitable Impresa's of our own Country: as those of Edward the black Prince, Henry the fourth, Henry the seventh, Henry the eight, Sir Thomas Moor, the Lord Cromwell, & of later times, those done by Sir Philip Sidney, and others. Nor were it needful since their Memory is fresh, and many of their shields yet scarce dry in the world. Who hath ever seen more witty, proper, & significant devises, than those of Scotland? (to omit more ancient times) as that of King james the third, devising for himself (to express the care he had of his country and People) a Hen sitting over her Chickens, with the word Non dormit qui custodit: as also of james the fourth, taking to himself a bifront, or double face, placed upon the top of a Column: the heads crowned with Laurel, the word Vtrumque: meaning (as it is thought) he would constantly, and advisedly like janus, observe the proceed aswell of the French as the English, holding them both at that time in jealousy. Many and very excellent have I seen of his majesties own Invention, who hath taken herein in his younger years great delight, and pleasure, by which thou mayest see, that we are not so dull as they would imagine us, nor our Soil so barren as that we need to borrow from their Sunne-burnt brains, our best Invention. Whereas I have here dedicated many Emblems to sundry and great Personages, (yea some to Foreign Princes,) I have herein but imitated the best approved Authors in this kind: as Alciat, Sambucus, junius, Reusnerus, and others: they being such, as either in regard of their transcendent dignity, and virtues, deserve of all to be honoured: or others whom for their excellent parts and qualities, I have ever loved, and esteemed: or lastly some of my private friends, to whom I have in particular been most beholden some way or other. Wherein I trust thou wilt not condemn me, since I have no other mean then by word to show a thankful mind towards them.  
It is not my intent here (which I might well do) to diseourse at large of the Nature and Liberty of Emblem, wherein it differeth from the Impresa; because herein I have been already prevented by 
Paulns' jovius. Sambucus. Mr. Sam. Daniel.  others. The true use hereof from time to time only hath been, utile dulci miscere, to feed at once both the mind, and eye, by expressing mystically and doubtfully, our disposition, either to Love, Hatred, Clemency, justice, Piety, our Victories, Misfortunes, Griefs, and the like● which perhaps could not have been openly, but to our prejudice revealed. And in truth the bearer herein doth but as the Traveller, that changeth his Silver into Gold, carry about his affection in a narrow room, and more safely; the value rather bettered then abated.  
Accept I pray thee in good worth, what I have here done, not for any hope of reward, or gain, but only for thy pleasure, and recreation, Imagining thou art delighted (as I have ever been myself) with these ever esteemed, honest, and most commendable Devises.  
Thine assuredly, HENRY PEACHAM.   

AD AVGVSTISSIMVM" ET LONG NOBILISSIMUM HENRICUM WALLIAE PRINCIPEM.  

Carmen Panegyricum.  
Quae damus ista novis excusa EMBLEMATA formis,  
(Docta sonare priùs numeris sua verba Latinis;)  
Accipe quo soleas vultu, votisq secundis  
Annue, parva licet, nec sint te Principe digna.  
Cum rabidus latê torreret SIRIVS arva,  
Flavaque anhelantis premeret Sol terga LEONIS,  
Frond sub umbrosa patulae requievimus ulmi,  
Ad ripas GRENOVICA tuas; (ubi THAMESIS unda  
Alluit ANGLIGENUM regalia tecta Monarchae.)  
Hic ubi sollicita dum plurima m●nte revolvo,  
Adstitit insomni corâm pulcherrima Virgo,  
Tecta caput galea, gemmis auroque nitente:  
Pone suas diffusa comas, clypeusque sinistrâ,  
GORGONIS ostendens argenteus ora MEDUSAE:  
undique fraxineam dum dextra viriliter hastam  
Torquet, et incerto circûm aëra verberat ictu.  
Obstupui, et gelidus tremor inde per ossa cucurrit,  
Cum Dea facunda extempló sic ora resolvit.  
Pone metum Vates, animos timor urget inertes,  
Consilijque venit sani notissimus hostis:  
Hinc citus exurgas et summi Principis Aulam  
Ipete, qua silvas Nymphae coluêre virentes:  
Qua DRYADUM sedes THAMESIDOS unda salutat,  
Turrigerumque caput iactat RICHMUNDIA coelo.  
Est HENRICUS ibi, quo non clementior alter,  
Quoque Deus nostro dederit nil dulcius aevo;  
Aemulus Herôum veterum ac virtutis avitae;  
(Et mea siquid habent unquam praesagia veri)  
PIERIDUM pater, et doctis decus omne futurus.  
Excipiet longos hic laeta fronte labores,  
Aspice ut huic desint provecti judicis ora,  
Nec sulcat faciem minitantis ruga Tyranni:  
Candor inest vultu placidus, mens concolor isti.  
Insuper invitet te Bibliothêca referta,  
Artibus omnigenis MUSAE quam struxit Asylum:  
Namque feros toto compescuit orb tumultus  
Candida PAX, coelo laetis invecta triumphis.  
Non furit indomitus MARS ferro et caede nefanda,  
Buccina non orbis exosaque matribus arma;  
Infestant nostras subitis terroribus oras.  
jam posuêre NOTI immites, creberque procellis  
AFRICUS, et BOREAS solito sunt carcere vincti:  
Occidui spirant ZEPHYRI, nunc omnia Tellus  
Parturit, atque novo rident animalia Vere.  
Dum Nymphae ducunt circûm per opaca choreas,  
Et Rosa verna viret, silvis dum mill sonoras,  
Gutture multiplici renovat PHILOMELA querelas:  
Ad gelidos fontes, vel forte legaris in umbra,  
Gratior aut hospes sis (post convivia) mensae.  
Vix ego servo librum, properantem visere tecta  
Regia, et HENRICI notos pietate Penátes.  
Iste tibi veniat modo qualiscunque libellus,  
Inconcinna, levis, male culta, incompta MINERVA,  
Hanc precor excipias placidê, (Dignissime PRINCEPS.)  
Maiori interea nitetur carmine Musa,  
(Pone legens rerum vestigia lata tuarum)  
Vt magnum resonent GANGETICA littora nomen;  
Et reducem (
b Arthurum. ) HEROEM horrescant grassantia latê,  
(Sacrilege ACHMETES) olim tua castra BRITANNUM,  
Cum tua non tantum tibi serviet ultima THULE  
Vaticinor, toto regnabis latiús orb,  
Et reditura tuis sunt aurea sêcla BRITANNIS.  
Tu vero interea vive, (Augustissime PRINCEPS,)  
Ducat et ad seros CLOTHO tua fila nepôtes:  
Vt tua te longum, BRITANNIA laeta fruatur,  
Immensumque tuis repleas virtutibus orbem.  
HENRICUS PEACHAMUS.   

AD D. HENRICUM PEACHAMUM DE SVA MINERVA.  
Prodiit ex cerebro JOVIS, alma MINERVA profundo;  
Vt quondam cecinit PINDARVS ore fluens.  
Prodiit ast ictu VVLCANI emissa securi:  
Dum caput AEGIOCHI percutit ille jovis ●  
Prodiit e coelo RHODIIS dum depluit aurum,  
Aureus est in quo nata MINERVA dies;  
Prodiit et cataphracta: caput bene casside tecta,  
AEgide tuta sua, cuspide tuta sua.   

Fabulae applicatio.  
Est PEACHAME, JOVIS cerebrum tibi, prodiit illinc  
Hic liber, ingenii vera MINERVA tui.  
Singula sunt in eo quamvis extempore nata,  
WLCANI liber hic totus habebat opem,  
De summo (PEACHAME) polo, tibi depluet aurum,  
Illico et incipient, aurea secla tibi.  
Armatur galea, clypeo, ense, MINERVA BRITANNA,  
Et contra MOMOS, est ea tuta satis.   

Ex puris jambis. Ad eundem.  

Iniquus aestimator ille ducitur,  
Suo metitur omne qui modo ac pede;  
Sapitque perparum ille, cui nihil sapit,  
Nifi quod approbatur a sua nota.  
At aequus ille, quisquis addit ipsius  
Opinioni, acu●ioris arbitr●  
Probationem, et acre testimonium,  
Et ●ius, et suis videns ocellulis.   

Peritiorum amica testimonia  
Habes, labour de tuo probissimo;  
Nec illa pauca, laud te ferentium  
Ad astra, sicut hoc meretur inclitum  
Opus. Mihi nec est opus quid amplius  
Loqui, quasi adderem mari meas aquas;  
Tamen quod ipse postulas, ego libens  
Eos sequor, meumque iungo calculum.   

PECHAME perge fausto ut incipis pede  
Et ede plura, lividumque ZOILUM,  
Malumque virus huius invidentiae  
Teruntio valeto, cuncta qui potest,  
Placere non potest ei, ipsen JUPITER;  
Nihil morare candidum lapillulum,  
Nigrumque faecis infimae, places quibus  
Sat est placere, doctioribus viris.  
THO: HARDINGUS.    

IN CLARISSIMI VIRI D. HENRICI PEACHAMI POETAE ANGLI CANTABRIGIENSIS Minervam Britannam.  
Nendo tulit palmam de stulta PALLAS Arachnê  
Ingenij, cum lis inter utramque foret:  
Nec satis. offensam facto illam habuisse MINERVAM  
Legimus, et poenas inde dedisse Deae.  
Tela ●ua est opus hoc ipsa vel PALLADE dignum  
Ingenio, et doctae facta labore manus  
Quam culpare velit quisquis, vel vincere certet,  
Fata fere● stolidae MOMVS araneolae.  
Hannibal Vrsinus Neapolitanus.   

SOPRA LA MINERVA BRITANNA DEL SIGr: HENRICO PEACHAMO. ODE.  

Tosto ch' almondo apparse  
Questa PALLA novella,  
Fulminó d' ira, ed' arse  
GIOVE d' invidia, e sdegno.  
Tremó la terra, e lo stellante regno.   

Stupìdo APOLLO fisse  
Le luci riverente  
Nell Padre, e cosi disse  
Mentre la terra lieta  
Albel lume di lui, tornó quieta.   

Esposto hà fuor dal seno  

* ANNA Regina,  La BRITANNA GIUNONE  
Parto: non giaterreno;  
Mà quel novello MARTE  
Promesso al mondo in non 
* Gildam et Merlinum fortasse intelligit.  mentite cart.   

Da un tronco DANO altiero,  
Fiorito è ' l PRENCE HENRICO  
Ritratto illustre, et vero  
D' ARTV. cui sort accerba  
Tolse quello; chi à questi il Ciel riserba.   

Visto'l novello parto,  
Illuminar la terra:  
Invido dal ciel parto,  
Bramando dare in luce  
Altro parto chi servi al novo Deuce.   

Dalinea capo di PEACHAMO,  
Lieto discopro all mondo  
Quell che cotanto bramo,  
Che quegli usci d' ANNA  
Questi produce MINERVA BRITANNA  
Giovan: Batista Casella.    

AV TRESEXCELLENT ET TRES-DOCTE POET MONSR. HENRY PEACHAM SONNET.  
On cognoit des grands Dieux ou l' aise ou la doleur,  
A ces pourtraicts astres, que le Ciel nous figure:  
Et leurs fils, ces Herôs de leur noble valeur,  
En leurs riches blasons tousiours on't quelque Augur.  
Tell fust l' ancien devis, qui premier fust parleur  
Des Mistress plus beaux, la voix et l' escriture,  
Luy servoient come aux Dieux, d' un servile MERCURE  
Truchemens' à qui manque et le uray sens et l' heur.  
PEACHAM, ce beau devis est ton choix, et ta Muse;  
Les points Hebreux, le traicts dont le MEMPHITIQVE use,  
Ains Dive mesme, et le Ciel, t' apprend ce stile vieux  
Que tu peux bien nommer, lafoy MINERVE BRETONNE;  
Car par dessus la Grecque, on luy doibt Couronne;  
Si le filer n' est plus, que le scavoir de. Dieux.  
N. M. Fortnaius.   

UPON THE AUTHOR AND HIS MINERVA.  
PALLAS thou hast a second champion bred,  
As great in Arts, as was stout DIOMEDES  
In Arms; that 'gainst enraged MARS could stand,  
And dared to wound fair VENUS in the hand:  
The ARGIVE fleet his sole Arm could defend,  
And with the Gods he durst alone contend;  
All this thy influence gave, and more desired,  
Like power thou hast into this brain inspired:  
Thy champion too, whose Arts are famed as far,  
As was TYDIDES for his deeds of war.  
We know thou art MINERVA that alike  
Hold'st Arts and Arms, canst speak as well as strike.  
Tho: Heywood.   

UPON THE AUTHOR AND HIS MINERVA.  

All eyes behold, and yet not all alike,  
Effects, and defects, both are in the eye,  
As when an object 'gainst the eye doth strike,  
Th' imagination straightways doth imply  
Shapes, or what else the object doth present,  
Weaker or stronger, as the sight is bend.   

Within the mind two eyes there are have sight,  
To judge of things interior having sense;  
Foresight, and Insight, judgement makes them bright,  
And most perspicuous through intelligence.  
Foresight, foreseeth harms, that may ensue:  
Insight, doth yield to reason what is due.   

Then let not men deem all with corp'rall ei'ne,  
Eyes may deluded be by false illusions:  
Eyes may be partial, eyesight may decline  
By weakness, age, or by abusions.  
Pride, envy, folly, may the sight pervert,  
And make the eye transgress against the heart.   

With outward ei'ne first view, and mark this book,  
Variety of objects much will please●  
With inward ei'ne then on the matter look,  
Foresee the Authors care, and little ease  
T' invent, t' imprint, and publish for delight,  
And for reward but craves your good insight.   

Peacham my friend, I must confess to thee,  
My Insightis but weak; such as it is,  
I verdict thus, no better work I see  
Of this same kind, nothing I find amiss,  
If any fault there be, it is not thine,  
The fault shall rest in men's imperfect ei'ne.  
William Segar Garter. Principal king of Arms.    

TO MASTER HENRY PEACHAM. A VISION UPON THIS HIS MINERVA.  

Me thought I saw in dead of silent night  
A goodly City all to cinders turned,  
Upon whose ruins sat a Nymph in white,  
Rending her hair of wiry gold, who mourned  
Or for the fall of that fair City burned,  
Or some dear Love, whose death so made her sad:  
That since no joy in worldly thing she had.   

This was that GENIUS of that ancient TROY,  
In her own ashes buried long ago:  
So grieved to see that BRITAIN should enjoy  
Her PALLAS, whom she held and honoured so:  
And now no little memory could show  
To eternize her, since she did infuse,  
Her Enthean soul, into this English Muse.  
E. S.     


Nisi desuper. To my dread Sovereign JAMES, King of great BRITAIN. etc.  

A SECRET arm out stretched from the sky,  
In double chain a Diadem doth hold:  
Whose circlet bounds, the greater BRITANNY,  
From conquered france, to 
* 
Tibi serviet ultima Thule, Virgil: THULEM procu● Axe remotam.  
Claud●an.  
Sch●t●and. et nautis nostris ●odie Thilen●el.   THULE sung of old:  
Great JAMES, whose name beyond the IND is told:  
To GOD obliged so by twofold band,  
As borne a man, and Monarch of this land.   

Thus since on heaven, thou wholly dost depend:  
And from 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Homer.  above thy Crown, and being haste:  
With malice vile, in vain doth man intend,  
T'unloose the knot that GOD hath linked so fast:  
Who shoots at 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Homer.  heaven, the arrow down at last  
Lights on his head: and vengeance fall on them,  
That make their mark, the Sovereign Diadem. 


〈…〉 pag. ●.  Nubibus e● d●plici vi 〈…〉,  
Quoth prockl a nostro 〈…〉:  
N●● al●a ●e lege Deus (IACOB●) ligavit,  
〈…〉, fecit, et esse vi●um.      

Initium Sapientiae.  

A poisonous Serpent wreathed up around  
In scaly boughts, a sharp two edged Sword,  
Supported by a book upon the ground,  
Is worldly wisdom grounded on GOD'S word,  
The which unless our projects doth sustain,  
Our plot is nought, and best devises vain.   

What ever then thou hap to take in hand,  
In foremost place, the fear of GOD prefer,  

* Firmamentum est Dominus timentibus eum. Psalm:: 24.  Else, like the Fool thou buildest on the sand,  
By this (the Lesbian 
* Aristot: in Ethicis.  stone) thou canst not err,  
Which who so doth, his 
* Consiliorum gubernaculum lex divina sit. Cyprian in Epistolis.  first foundation lay,  
Contrives a work that never shall decay.   

Squammiger in gyros gladio se colligit anguis,  
Naturam signant quae POLITIA tuam; 
Basili: Doron. lib: 1. pag: 3.   
Effera justitia est, Prudentia vana SOLONIS,  
Haec nisi sustentent Biblia sacra DEI. 
T●●or igitur DEI solus est, qui custodit hominum inter se societatem, per qu●m vita ipsa sustin●tur, m●nitur, gubernatur● etc. 
Lactantius de Ira divina. Cap 21.      

Cui cedet.  

Two hands together here with griping hold,  
And all their force, do strive to take away  
This burning Lamp, and Candlestick of Gold,  
Whose light shall burn in spite of Hell for ay:  
And brighter than the beams of PHOEBUS' shine,  
For 'tis the Truth so holy and divine.   

Which foul Ambition hath so often vexed,  

Quoties hominibus praeesse desidero, toties Deo meo prae●e contendo. August: super Psa●m:  And swelling pride of prelates put in doubt,  
With covetousness that greedy Monster next,  
That long I fear me since it had been out,  
Did not thy hand (dear Saviour) from above  
Defend it so, that it might never move. 


●asil: Doron. l●b: 2● pag: 38.  Perdita Avarities, et dira Superbia, Pestis  
Christiadum infoelix, Ambitioque simul:  
Certatim ut tentent extinguere lampada verbi,  
Ni tua succurrat (CHRIST miserte) manus.     


G●egor: Moral: 2●.  Summus locus bene regitur cum is qui praeest, vitiis potius quam fratribus dominatur.  
Omnis adeundi honoris ecclesiastici abscinderetur ambitio, ●i se iudicandos, 
Origen: s●per E●●●●: ad Roman:  potius quam iudicaturos hi qui praeesse volunt populis cogitarent.    

Nusquam tuta.  

The silly Hind among the thickets green,  
While nought mistrusting did at safety go,  
His mortal wound received with arrow keen  
Sent singing from a Sheepeheard's secret bow;  
And deadly pierced, can in no place abide,  
But runs about with arrow in her side.   

So oft we see the man whom Conscience bad  
Doth inwardly with deadly torture wound,  
From 
* Mala conscientia in solitudine anxia, et sollicita est. Seneca Epist: 14.  place to place to range with Fury mad,  
And seek his ease by shifting of his ground  
The mean neglecting which might heal the sin,  

* Perfecto demum scelere magnitudo eius intelligitur. Tacitus 14.  That hourly rankles more and more within.   

Dictaeus volucri quam fixit arundine pastor  
Cerva fugit, nullis convalitura locis; 
Basil: Doron. lib: 1. pag: ●5.   
Cons●ia mens sceleris quem torquet, ubique pererrat,  
Vulnere neglecto quod miser intus alit. 

Tran●u●l●itate conscie●tiae nil beatiu● ex●●gitari potest. 
Aug●stin: 21. de ci●itate DEI.   
Conscientia aff●ctuum corrector et animi paedagogus. 
Origen.       

Philautia.  


Vide Alciatum. Einbl: 69.  A VIRGIN'S face with Robes of light array,  
Why hath (Self-love) our Poets thee assigned?  
Philaut: Love should be young, and fresh as merry MAY,  
Such clothing best agreeth with my mind.  
What means that poisonous Serpent in thy hand?  
Philaut: My bane I breed, by this you understand.   

I'th' other hand say why that looking glass?  
Since in thee no deformity I find,  
Philaut: Know how in Pride Self-love doth most surpass,  
And still is in her Imperfections blind:  
And save her own devises 
* Quod volumus sanctum est. Augustin: contra Cresconium Grammat:  doth condemn,  
All others labours, in respect of them.   

Cur Virgo incedis Philautia? PHILA: Virgins ora  

Pasili: Doron. lib: 2. pag: 65.  Malit amor. S●rp●ns q●id simios● ma●u?  
Phil●●t: Pectore viru● alo. Speculum sed consulis. PHI: inde  
Caetera d●dignor, dum m●as●la plac●nt.    

Humanae traditiones.  

AT last my branch doth whither and decay, 
Omnis plantatio quam non plantaverit pater meus coelestis, eradicabitur. Math: 15.   
And with the ruin down myself do fall,  
Whose pride did loath on surer ground to stay,  
But needs would reign as KING upon the wall,  
To overlook in scorn the shrubs below,  
That did (I find) in greater safety grow.   

By this same tree, are all Traditions meant, 
Si ad divinae traditionis caput, et originem revertamur, cessat onnis error humanus. Cyprian ad Pompeium.   
And what else hammered out of human brain,  
That on the Rock, to rest are not content,  
But puffed up with pride, and glory vain;  
Unto their shame, do moulder down, and fall,  
As doth this Elder growing on the wall.   

Spreta cado tandem lapidum compâge soluta 
Basili: Dor●n.   
Nec terrae ramos r●bar ●gere meos:  
Sic freta elangu●n● humano cuncta c●rêbro,  
Vt stabilis fugiant foedera firma DEI.    

Cuique et nemini.  

My hope is heaven, the cross on earth my rest,  
The food that feeds me is my Saviour's blood,  
My name is FAITH to all I do protest,  
What I believe is Catholic and good,  
And as my Saviour strictly doth command,  
My good 
* Tunc veraciter fideles sumus, si quod verbis promittimus, operibus adimplemus. Gregor: Homi●: 29.  I do with close and hidden hand.   

Nor Heresy, nor Schism, I do maintain,  
But as CHRIST'S coat so my belief is one,  
I hate all fancies forged of human brain,  
I let contention and vain strifes alone;  
If aught I need I crave it from above,  
And live with all in Charity and love. 


Basil: Doron. lib: 1. pag: 11.  Crux mihi grata quies, sola et fiducia, coelo  
Me terris la●t●nt ●ulnera (CHRIST) t●a:  
Sancta Fi●e● dicer, cunctis mea dogmata pando  
Abdo sed occu●te Religionis opus.     


Titus. 3.  Curent b●nis ope●ibus pr●●sse qui credunt Deo.  
Mors fid●i ●st separatio charita●i●, cred●s in ●●ris●um? fac C●risti opera ut vivat fides tua. 
Bernar: in C●●t S●●m: 24.     

〈…〉 nec ●●●es.  

The AEthiopian Princes at their feasts,  
Did use amid their cates, and costly cheer  
A dedman's head, to place before their guests,  
That it in mind might put them what they were:  
And PHILIP daily caused one to say,  
Oh King remember that thou art but clay. 
Memorare novissima et no● peccabis in eternum. Ecclesiarch 7.    

If Pagans could bethink them of their end,  
And make such use of their mortality, 
Timor futurae mortis quasi cla●is carnis om●es motus superbiaeligno crucis affigit. Aug: lib: ● de doct: christiana.   
With greater hope their course let christians bend,  
Unto the haven of heaven's felicity;  
And so to live while here we draw this breath,  
We have no cause to fear, or wish for death.   

Perge tuo laute genio indulgere PHILIPPE, 
Basil: Doron. lib: 1. pag: 17.   
Imperium cernis quam brevis hora manet:  
Non properans timeo lethum mens conscia recti 
Mortem optare malum timere peius. Seneca in Oedipo.   
Inculcat quovis tempore christ veni. 
Sed hoc meditatum ab adolescentia esse debet, mortem ut negligamus, sine qua meditatione, tranquillo esse animo nemo potest. 
Cicero in lib: etc. senectute.      

Psalms 〈◊〉. To the right Reverend Father in GOD, 〈…〉. 
Basilic: Doron. lib: 1. pag: 11.   

TO sundry keys doth 
* Liber omnis Psalmorum similis est urbi pulchrae, atque magnae, cui aedes complures diversaeque sint, quarum fores propriis clavibus diversisque claudantur, quae cum in unum locum congestae per mixtaeque sint. etc. Hilar: in prolog: psalmor explanat  HILARY compare  
The holy Psalms of that prophetic King,  
Cause in their Natures so disposed they are,  
That as it were, by sundry doors they bring,  
The soul of man, oppressed with deadly sin,  
Unto the Throne, where he may mercy win.   

For wouldst thou in thy Saviour 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Athanasius tomo primo in Episti ad Marcellinu● de interpreta: psalm 〈◊〉.  still rejoice,  
Or for thy sins, with tears lament and pray,  
Or sing his praises with thy heart and voice,  
Or for his mercies give him thanks always?  
Set DAVID'S Psalms, a mirror to thy mind,  
But with his Zeal, and heavenly spirit joined. 

Clavibus innexis h●mnos HILARIVS ●●●at,  
Iess●i ceci●●t quos pia Musa senis,  
Et vere, innumeros aditus high quip recludant  
Mens quibus aetherei pulsat Asyla DEI.      

Priu● ablue sordes.  

WHO takes in hand to turn this sacred book,  
And heavenly wisdom, doth from hence require,  
His hands be clean, I wish him first to look:  
No Dog or Swine, that walloweth in the mire, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. ●esiod:   
Let dare to come, this precious jewel nigh,  
The foe to filth, and all impurity.   

But if thou needs wilt launch into this sea,  
Where Lambs may wade, and Elephants may swim,  
Cast all unclean affections away,  
And first with hearty prayer call on him,  
Whose holy Spirit must guide thee in the sense,  
A thousand times else better thou wert thence.   

Sacra tuis manibus quicunque volumina versas  
Sordibus immunis quaere salutis iter: 
Basil: Doro●. lib: 1. pag: 10.   
Quoque volutaras carnis prius exue coenum,  
Aut Sus c●nsilium linque lutosa DEI. 
Veluti in coroni● flores es●e puros et s●aves, ●isi pura sit et ●●sta manus contexens: 
Tuitiensis.  sic non satis est ut in sacrarum litera●●m l●ctione ve●ba si●t sancta et pia nisi pura etiam ac sanctissima mente haec legantur, ac a●i●o concipiantur. 
* Cicero.  Ad Divos caste adeunto.     

Sic pacem habemus. To the High and mighty JAMES, King of great Britain,  

TWO Lions stout the Diadem uphold,  
Of famous Britain, in their armed paws:  
The one is Red, 
●cilicet Anglicus et Scoticus.  the other is of Gold,  
And one their Prince, their sea, their land and laws;  
Their love, their league: whereby they still agree,  
In concord firm, and friendly amity.   

BELLONA henceforth bound in Iron bands,  
Shall kiss the foot of mild triumphant PEACE,  
Nor Trumpets stern, be heard within their lands;  
Envy shall pine, and all old grudges cease:  
Brave Lions, since, your quarrel's laid aside,  
On common foe, let now your force be tried. 

unum sustentant gemini Diadema Leo●es●  
Concords uno Principe, mente, fide.  
F●edere iunguntur 〈◊〉, coe●oque, saloque,  
Nata ●●●bus Pax h●c inviolanda●n a●et.      

Quae plant●vi irrigabo.  

THE Thistle armed with vengeance for his foe,  
And here the Rose, fair CYTHERAEAS flower;  
Together in perpetual league do grow,  
On whom the Heavens do all their favours power;  
For what 
* 1. Cor 3.6.  th' Almighty's holy hand doth plant,  
Can neither cost, or careful keeping want.   

Magnific PRINCE, the splendour of whose face,  
Like brightest PHOEBUS virtue doth revive;  
And far away, light-loathing vice doth chase,  
These be thy Realms; that under thee do thrive,  
And which unite, GOD'S providence doth bless,  
With peace, with plenty, and all happiness.   

Terror hic hostilis, Cypriae sacra illa puellae,  
Carduus unanimes, et rosa verna virent.  
Quae gelidus coelo foecundans imber ab alto  
Omina dat regnis (sum Monarcha) tuis.    

TO THE THRICE-VERTVOUS, AND FAIREST OF queens, ANNE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN. In ANNA regnantium arbour. ANNA Britannorum Regina. 
Anagramma D: Gul: Fouleri.   

AN Olive lo, with branches fair dispred,  
Whose top doth seem to pierce the azure sky,  
Much seeming to disdain, with lofty head  
The Cedar, and those Pines of THESSALY,  
Fairest of Queens, thou art thyself the Tree,  
The fruit 
* Non classes, non Legiones, period firma imperii munimenta quam numerum liberorum. Tacitus. 4. Hist:  thy children, hopeful Princes three.   

Which thus I guess, shall with their outstretched arms,  
In time o'erspread Europa's continent,  

* parcere subiectis. etc.  To shield and shade, the innocent from harms,  
But overtop the proud and insolent:  
Remaining, reigning, in their glories green,  
While man on earth, or Moon in heaven is seen.    

Fatum subscribat Eliza. To the most excellent Princess ELIZABETH, only Daughter to our Sovereign Lord King JAMES, King of great BRITAIN. ELISABETHA Stevarta. Has Artes beata velit. 
Anagramma.   

FAIR Princess, great, religious, modest, wise,  
By birth, by zeal, behaviour, judgement sound,  
By whose fair arm, my Muse did first arise,  
That crept before full lowly on the ground,  
And durst not yet from her dark shade aspire,  
Till thou sweet Sun, didst help to raise her higher.   

Thus since by thee, she hath her life and sap,  
And finds her growth by thy dear cherishment,  
In thy ●aire eye consists her future hap:  
here writ her fate, her date, her banishment,  
Or may she that day-lasting Lily be,  
Or 
* The flower of the Sun (some take it for the Marigold) continually following the same.  SOLI-SEQVIUM e'er to follow thee.    

Auspice coelo. To the most Christian King LOVIS, XIII. King of france and NAVARRE. Henricus IV Galliarum Rex. 
Anagram, Henr● four occisi a scolestissimo illo Ravillac. G.F.  In Herum exurgis Ravillac.  

MOST Christian King, if yet hast turned away,  
Those kindly rivers, from thy royal eyes  
For Father's loss, this little view I pray  
Our Muse reserves from his late Exequys:  
The least of littles, yea though less it be,  
It's thine, and sign, of her loves loyalty.   

Which, wheresoe'er presented to thy view,  
(For all things teach us) think a heavenly mind  
Is meant unto thee, by that colour Blew,  
The Gold, the golden plenty thou dost find;  
The number of thy 
* Tria lilia coelitus de●ata. S: Cli●hoveo.  Heaven-sent Lilies, three,  
Is concord's ground, the sweetest harmony.    

Vnitav●le●●●●. To the high and mighty PHILIP King of Spain etc.  

TO you great Prince, strong stay, and powerful prop  
Of Christian state, who by thy feared might,  
And restless care; the same supportest up;  
From neighbour MAHOUNDS undermining spite;  
From thy GADE'S pillars, to the west as far,  
As THETIS leads us to the Southern star.   

I offer up these Arrows, with the Tree  
Of thy 
* In the time of King HENRY the 7. in memory of which battle won by Archerre, the chief of Arrows is yet given on the Spanish come  Grenade, the Symbol long ago  
Of great FERNANDO'S famous 
* In the time of King HENRY the 7. in memory of which battle won by Archerre, the chief of Arrows is yet given on the Spanish come  victory,  
What Time he gave the moors their overthrow:  
Though here it may impart, the fruit that springs  
By Peace and concord of all Christian Kings.    

TO THE MOST RENOWNED, AND Hopeful, HENRY Prince of WALES, etc. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 
An.  HENRICUS Walliae Princeps. Par Archillis, Puer une vinces.  

THUS, thus young HENRY, like Macedo's son,  
Oughtest thou in arms before thy people shine.  
A prodigy for foes to gaze upon,  
But still a glorious Lodestar unto thine:  
Or second PHOEBUS whose all piercing ray,  
Shall cheer our hearts, and chase our fears away.   

That (once as 
* Plutarch in Alexandro.  PHILIP) JAMES may say of thee,  
Thy BRITAIN scarcely sh●ll thy courage hold,  
That whether TURK, SPAIN, FRANCE, or ITALY,  
The REDSHANK, or the IRISH Rebel bold,  
Shall rouse thee up, thy Trophies may be more,  
Then all the HENRY'S ever lived before. 

Macte tua virtu●e d●cus, ●pe●a●ma BRITANNUM  
〈◊〉 ALEXANDER co●sp●c●e●de ●uis: 
Basil: Doro●.   
〈…〉, se● Tur●a, rebelli H●be●●us  
Heru●●● a tergo five ia●●●●at ino●s.      

E corpore palch●o Gr●●ior● TO THE RIGHT NOBLE, AND MOST TOWARDLY YOUNG PRINCE, CHARLES DUKE OF YORK.  

SWEET Duke, 
videtur mihi Venus quaepiam, a● gratia concomitari principem. Xenoph: in Hier●  that bearest thy Father's Image right  
Aswell in 
* Et divitiarum, et formae gloria, fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus ●lara aeternaque habetur. Sallust: Cat:  body, as thy towardly mind;  
Within whose cheek 
* Et divitiarum, et formae gloria, fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus ●lara aeternaque habetur. Sallust: Cat:  me thinks in Red and white  
Appear the Roses yet again conjoind;  
Where, howsoe'er their wars appeased be,  
Each, strives with each, for sovereignty.   

Since Nature then in her faire-Angell mould,  
Hath framed thy body, show'd her best of art:  
Oh let thy mind the 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Menander.  fairest virtues hold,  
Which are the beauty of thy better part:  
And which, (brave CHARLES) shall make us 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Menander.  love thee more,  
Then all thy state we outwardly adore.    

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT, EARL OF SALISBURY, AND LORD HIGH TREASURER OF ENGLAND, etc. ROBERTUS CAESAR CIL●VS. 
Anagramma Authoris.  Is coelebs, Vrit cura.  

TH' Arabian PHOENIX here, of golden plumes.  
And bicie breast, upon a sacred pile  
Of sweetest odours, thus himself consumes;  
By force of PHOEBUS' fiery beams, the while,  
From forth the ashes of the former dead,  
A fair, or fairer, by and by is bred.   

You, you (Great Lord) this wondrous PHOENIX are,  
Who wast yourself in Zeal, and hot desire,  
Of Country's good, till in the end 
* Alia ex aliis cura fatigat, vexat animos nova tempestas. Sene●a.  your care  
Shall work your end, as doth this PHOENIX fire.  
But while you are consuming in the same,  
You breed a second, your immortal Fame.    

His servire. To the Right Honourable and my singular good Lord HENRY HOWARD Earl of Northhampton, Lord Privy Seal. etc. HENRICUS HOWARDUS Comes Northamptoniensis. 
Anagramma Authoris.  Pius, Castus huic mentis honour, merè honorandus.  

A SNOWWHITE Lion by an Altar sleeps,  
(Whereon of Virtue are the Symbols placed,)  
Which day and night, full carefully he keeps,  
Lest that so sacred thing mought be defaced  
By Time, or Envy, who not far away,  
Do lurk to bring the same unto decay.   

Great Lord, by th' Altar Piety is meant,  
Thus, whereupon is virtue seated sure:  
Which thou protectest with dear cherishment;  
And dost thy best, their safety to procure  
By hourly care, as doth this Lion white  
Type of thy mildness, and thy feared might,    

Gloria Principum. To the right truly Noble, and most Honourable Lord WILLIAM, Earl of Pembroke.  


In med: Adriani Imp:  A LADY fair, who with Majestic grace,  
Supports a huge, and stately Pyramid.  
(Such as th'old monarchs long ago did place,  
By NILUS' banks, to keep their memories;)  
Whose brow (with all the orient Pearls beset,)  
Begirte's a rich and precious Coronet.   

She Glory is of Princes, as I find  
Described in Monies, and in Meddailes old;  
Those Gems are glorious projects of the mind,  
Adorning more their Royal heads, than Gold.  
The Pyramid the worlds great wonderment,  
Is of their fame, some 
* Ingenii praeclara facinora sic●t Anima Immortalia sunt. Sallust:  lasting Monument. 

Facta Ducis vivent operosaque gloria rerum  

Ovid: ad Liviam.  Haec manet haec avidos effugit una rogos.      

●agione di stato. To the right Honourable Sir JULIUS CAESAR, Knight.  

WHO sits at stern of Common wealth, and state  
Of's charged and office here may take a view,  
And see what dangers hourly must amate,  
His ATLAS-burden, and what cares accrue  
At once, so that he had 
* Princeps su● scientia non potest cuncta complecti. Tacitus Annal: 3. Nec vn●us mentem molis tantae esse capacem. Annal: 1.  enough to bear,  
Though HERCULES, or BRIAREUS he were.   

He must be strongly armed against his foes  
Without, within, with hidden Patience:  
Be served with 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Xenophon. in Paedia. Cyri.  eyes, and listening cares of those,  
Who from all parts can give intelligence  
To gall his foe, or timely to prevent  
At home his malice, and intendiment.   

That wand is sign of high Authority,  

* Rex velut deliberabundus in hortum aedium transit etc. Livi: lib: prim● Decad: 1.  The Poppy heads, that wisdom would betime,  

* Ne patiatur h●bescere aciem suae authoritatis. Tacitus Annal: ●.  Cut of rank weeds, by might, or policy,  
As mought molest, or ov●r-proudly climb:  
The Lion warns, no thought to harbour base,  
The Book, how laws must give his projects place.    

His ornari aut mori. To the right Honourable, and most noble Lord, HENRY, Earl of Southampton.  

THREE Girlondes once, COLONNA did devise  
For his Impresa, each in other joined;  

Caesar Ripa in Iconol:  The first of OLIVE, due unto the wise,  
The learned brow, the LAUREL green to bind:  
The OAKEN was his due above the rest,  
Who had deserved in the Battle best.   

His meaning was, his mind he would apply  
By due d●sert, to challenge each, his prize:  
And rather choose a thousand times to die,  
Than not be learned, valiant, and wise.  
How few alas, do now adays we find  
(Great Lord) that bear, thy truly noble mind.   

 
WHEN Trojan youth went out into the field,  
With courage bold, against the Greeks to fight;  
With 
* Ense levis 〈◊〉 parmaque inglorius alba. Vir●● AEneid:  naked Sword they marched, and their Shield  
Devoide of charge, save only painted white:  
Herein the Captain with his hand did write,  
(The Battle done,) some Ensign of his fame,  
Who had by valour, best deserved the same.   

Oh Age of justice, yet unlike to this  
Wherein we live, where MOME and MIDAS share  

* Virtutis Hono● uberrimum alimentum. Valer● Max: de institute antiquis.  In virtues merit, and th'inglorious is  
Allowed the place sometimes in Honour's chair,  
Wherein Arms, ill, but worse, Arts do fare,  
Time's haste, be gone, with all the speed ye may,  
That thus we lived, no after Age may say.    

〈…〉 To my Honourable Lord OLIVER Lord Saint JOHN of Bletnesho.  


julla Mammea.  felicity by JULIA once devised  
This shape doth bear, a Lady lovely bright  
With Mercury's Caduceus, enthronised,  
Her golden hair with flowery garlands dight:  
The horn of plenty, th'other hand doth hold  
With all the fruits, and dainties may be told.   

For why? content, she reigneth like a Queen;  
Richest in Quiet, and the Muse's skill,  
Without the which, we most unhappy been  
The 
* Quae (tamen) alia res civiles p●perit furores quam nimia foel●cita●. Flo: 3. cap. 12.  plenty that her horned cup doth fill;  
Our labours fruit, the which when we possess  
We have attained our worldly happiness.    

Doctrina.  

HERE Learning sits, a comely Dame in years;  
Upon whose head, a heavenly dew doth fall:  
Within her lap, an opened book appears:  
Her right hand shows, a sun that shines to all;  

* Exempla omnia iacerent in tenebris nisi literarum lumen Historiae accederet. Cicero. pro Archia Poeta.  Blind Ignorance, expelling with that 
* Exempla omnia iacerent in tenebris nisi literarum lumen Historiae accederet. Cicero. pro Archia Poeta.  light:  
The Sceptre shows, her power and sovereign might.   

Her out 
* Studiis ac literis res secundae ornantur adversae iuvantur: Cic: ad Luceium Epist. 5 fa●il: vide plura in orat: pro Ar●hia poeta.  spread Arms, and book her readiness,  
T' embrace all men, and entertain their love:  
The shower, those sacred graces doth express  
By Science, that do flow from heaven above.  
Her age declares the study, and the pain;  
Of many years, ere we our knowledge gain.   

Via ad Deum est Scientia quae ad institutionem recte et honest vivendi pertinet. 
Hugo.     

Sine refluxu. TO the honourable Lord, the L: Harrington.  


D: Philippi Sydnaei.  THE CASPIAN Sea, as Histories do show,  
(Whom Rocky Shores, on every side surround,)  
Was never seen by man, to ebb and flow:  
But still abides the same, within his bound;  
That drought no whit, diminisheth his store,  
Nor neighbour streams, augment his greatness more.   

Thus should we bear, one and the self-same sail,  
In what ere fortune, pleaseth God to send,  
In midst of trouble, not of courage fail,  
Nor be to proud, when fortune is our friend:  
And in all honest acts, we take in hand,  
Thus constant, in our resolutions stand.   

Nec tamen hic mutata quies, probitasve secundis  

Stat●us 5 filva●: 2.  Intumuit, tenor idem animo, moresque modesti  
Fortuna crescente manent.—    

〈◊〉. TO the honourable the Lord Wootton.  

YE Noblest fprightes, that with the bird of JOVE,  
Have learned to leave, and loath, this base earth,  
And mount, by your inspired thoughts above,  

* 
Virtus recludens immeritis mori  
Coelum, negata tentat iter via Coetu que vulgares, et udam s●ernit humum fugiente penna: Horat: 3 carm: ode. 2.   To heavenward, homeward, whence you had your birth:  
Take to you this, that monarchs may envy,  
Your hearts content, and high felicity.   

You, you, that overlook the clouds of care,  
And smile to see a multitude of Ants,  
Upon this circle, striving here and there,  
For THINE and MINE, yet pine amid their wants;  
While ye yourselves, sit as spectators free,  
From action, in their folly's trag●edie.    

Sol alter, ver●●●●. To the honourable Sir EDWARD COKE, Lord chief justice of the comen Pleas.  

THE fiery Coals, that in the silent night,  
(When vail of darkness, all had overspread)  
With glowing heat, about did give their light,  
Since glorious PHOEBUS hath discovered  
Do lose forthwith their splendour, at his sight:  
And of themselves, do fall to Cinders quite.   

So 
* judices istis dātor qui sacrilegis solent.  traitorous projects, while they lie obscure,  
They closely feed the plotter, with their light,  
Who thinks within, he hath the matter sure,  
Not dreaming how, the Truth that shineth bright;  
Will soon reveal the secret of his thought;  
And bring his ripest practices to nought.   

Nu●la ●sse potest in tantisceleri● immanitate punienda crudelitas.  
Cice●o. 4. in Catiline.    

Rex medicus patria.  

A DRAGON lo, 
Me●am: 25.  a Sceptre grasping fast  
Within his paw: doth show a King should be  
Like AEsculapius, ev'er watchful placed;  
Amongst his subjects, and with skill to see,  
To what ill humours, of th'infectious mind.  
The multitude, are most of all inclined.   

And when he finds corruption to abound,  
In that Huge body, of all vices ill,  
To purge betimes, or else to 
* Immedicab●●● vulnus ense resecandum est ne pars ●incera t●a●atur. Ovid.  launch the wound,  
Lest more, and more, it rankles inward still:  
Or when he would, it bring to former state,  
Past all recure, his physic comes to late.   

Quae mala contraxit populus contagia morum,  
Ne pigeat medica tot resecâsse manu:  
(Et Reges olim iuvit medicina) venenis,  
Hinc citus occurras quae valuêre mora.    

Protegere Regium.  

WHILE deadly foes, their engines have prepared,  
with fury fierce, to batter down the walls,  
My duty is the City gate to guard,  
And to rebate their Rams, and fiery balls:  
So that if firmly, I do stand without,  
Within the other, need no danger doubt   

Dread Sovereign JAMES, whose puissant name to hear,  
The Turk may tremble, and the Traitor pine:  
Beloved of all thy people, far and near:  
Be thou, as this Portcullies, unto thine,  
Defend without, and thou within shalt see,  
A thousand thousand, live and die with thee.   

Obsessis ut opem certo muni●ine pr●estem,  
Qu●e non sustineo d●mna creata mihi.  
Sis cataracta tuis (animose Monar●ha) Britannis,  
In●us et invenies pectora firma tibi. 

Si status Imperii, aut salus provinciarum  
in discrimen vertatur, debebit (Princeps) in acie stare. 
Tacit: 4. Hist.       

〈…〉. TO the worthy Lady the L: E: W.  

THE feircest natures; whom in youthful prime,  
Nor counsel good, nor reasons rule, could tame,  
Are by their own experience, and in time;  
To order brought, and 
* Ingenia no●tra ut nobiles et generosi equi, melius facili fr●en● reguntur: Seneca de clementia●  taught themselves to frame,  
To honest courses, and to loathe the ways;  
So well they liked, in their youthful days.   

Why then despair ye Madame, of your son,  
Whose wit, as in the sap, doth but abound:  

* Velvets in ●dolescente quod amputem. Cicero ● de oratore.  These branches pruned, that over rankly run,  
You'll find in time, the body inward sound:  
When Dullard spirits, like fenny flags below,  
Or fruitless been, or rot while they do grow.   

Eximit ipsa dies omnes de corpore mendas, 
Ovid: 2. de arte amandi.   
Quodque fuit vitium, desinit esse, mora.    

Labour 〈…〉. TO the most Honourable Lord, the L: Dingwell.  


H●gonis Capeti Symbolum.  WHO thirsteth after Honour, and renown,  
By valiant act, or lasting work of wit:  
In vain he doth expect, her glorious crown,  
Except by labour, he atcheiveth it;  
And sweaty brow, for never merit may,  
To drowsy sloth, impart her living bay.   


* primus sumpsi le labores primus iter sumpsisse pedes. Silius: ●.  HAMILCARS' son, hence shall thy glory live,  
Who o'er the Alpes, didst foremost lead the way,  
With Caesar's eke, that would the onse● give,  

* Ipse manu sua pila gerens praecedit anheli militis o●apedes mostrat tolerare laborem, non jubet. L●●an de Catone.  And first on foot, the deepest foor●ds assay:  

Munditias mulieribus laborem vi●ris convenire. Marius' apud Salustium.  Let Carpet Knights, of Lady's favours boast,  
The manly heart, brave Action-loveth most.   

Disce puer virtutem ex me verumque laborem  
Fo●tunam ex aliis: nunc te mea dextera bello  

Virgil AEneid: 2  Defensum dabit, et magna inter praemia ducet,    

Ex malis moribus bonae leges. To the most judicious, and learned, Sir FRANCIS BACON, Knight.  

THE Viper here, that stung the shepherd swain,  
(While careless of himself asleep he lay,)  
With Hyssop caught, is cut by him in twain,  
Her fat might take, the poison quite away,  
And heal his wound, that wonder 'tis to see,  
Such sovereign help, should in a Serpent be.   

By this same Leech, is meant the virtuous King,  
Who can with cunning, out of manners ill,  
Make wholesome laws, 
* vitiorum emendatricem legem esse oportet Cic: 1. de legibus.  and take away the sting,  
Wherewith foul vice, doth grieve the virtuous still:  
Or can prevent, by quick and wise foresight, 
Salus Civ●tatis in legibus. Arist:   
Infection ere, it g●thers further might.   

Afra venenato pupugit quem vipera morsu,  
Dux Gregis antidotum l●esus ab hoste petit:  
Vipereis itidem leges ex moribus aptas  
Doctus Apollinea conficit arte SOLON. 

vitiis quae plurima m●nti  
Foemineae natu●a ●e●it humana mal●gnas  
Cura dedit leges, 
Ovid Metamor● lib 10.  et quod natura remittit  
Invida ●u●a ●egant etc.      

To the right worshipful Sir Thomas Chaloner, Knight. Est hac almus honour. 
Anagramma Authoris.  Thomas Chalonerus.  

HERE Virtue stands, and doth impart a scroll,  
To living fame, to publish far and near:  
The man whose name, she did within enroll,  
And kept to view, unseen this many year,  
That erst me thought, she seemed to envy,  
The world his worth, his fame, and memory.   

But since she sees, the Muse is left forlorn,  
And fortune fawning, on the worthless wight,  
And eke herself, not cherished as before.  
She brings Moecenae once again to light:  
The man (if any else) a friend to Arts,  
And good rewarder, of all best desertes●.    

Virtus Romanaet antiqua. To the right worshipful Sir DAVID MURRAY Knight.  

THUS HERCULES, the Romans did devise, 
Virtus hominis proprium bonum Tacitus lib: 4.   
And in their Temples, him a place assigned:  
To represent unto the people's eyes,  
The image of, th'heroic virtuous mind:  
Who like ALCIDES, to her lasting praise,  
In action still, delights to spend her days. 
1 Moderation of anger.    

Within whose hand, three apples are of gold, 
2 Contempt of pleasure.   
The same which from th' Hesperides he fetched, 
3 Abstinence from covet●●ousnes.   
These are the three Heroic virtues old,  
The Lion's skin, about his shoulders stretched,  
Notes fortitude, his Club the crabbed pain,  
To brave achievements, ere we can attain.   

Mecum honor et laudes, et laeto gloria vultu,  
Et decus, et niveis Victoria concolor alis: 
Silius Ita●: lib 1. Virtus loquitur   
Me cinctus Lauro perducit ad astra triumphus,  
Casta mihi domus, et celso stant c●ll● penates.    

Sic utile dulci. Ad generosissimum et opt: spei invenem Nobilem D.C.M. in Italiane nuperrime profectum.  

THE Spartan virgins, ere they had composed;  
Their Garlands, of the fairest flowers to sight:  
The wholesom'st herbs, they here withal enclosed,  
And so their heads, full jollily they dight,  
In memory of that same leech they wright:  
Who first brought simples, and their use to light.   

So ye brave Lord, who like the heavenly Sphere,  
Delight in motion, and about to roam:  
Must learn to mix in travail far and near,  
With pleasure profit, that returning home;  
Your skill, and judgement, more may make you knowen●  
Then your French suit, or lock so largely grown.   


〈◊〉 in Epist: ad 〈◊〉.  For who's he, that's not ravished with delight,  
far Countries, Courts, and Cities, strange to see;  
To have old Rome, presented to his sight:  
Troy-walls, or Virgil's sweet Parthenope.  

Congressus ●ay ●●●tum confert ●rudentiam non montes aut maria. Era●mu●  Yet nothing worth, unless ye herewith find,  
The fruits of skill, and bettering of your mind. 
Omnis peregrinotio obscura et sordida est iis, quorum industria in patria potest esse celebris. Cicero ad caelium. Epist.     

Tandem divulganda.  

THE weighty counsels, and affairs of state,  
The wiser mannadge, with such cunning skill,  

Omnia facta 〈◊〉 ●●que Principis rumor excipit, me magis ei q●●● soli latere contigit. Seneca de Clemen●ia.  Though long locked up, at last abide the fate,  
Of common censure, either good or ill:  
And greatest secrets, though they hidden lie,  
Abroad at last, with swiftest wing they fly.    

open mutua. To the right worshipful and my singular good friend Mr: ADAM NEWTON Secretary to Prince Henry.  

THE Laurel joined to the fruitful vine,  
In friendly league perpetually do grow,  
The Laurel dedicated to wits divine,  
The fruit of Bacchus that in clusters grow,  
Are such as do enjoy the world at will,  
And swim in wealth, yet want the muse's skill.   

This friendship should inviolate remain,  
The 
* Studia recipiant spiritum et sanguinem sub t● Plin: in panegy●.  rich with Bounty should reward the Arts,  

(ita) temporibus tuis dicendis nou deerunt ingenia Tacitus 1 Annal:  The living muse should gratefully again,  
Adorn Moecenae with her learned parts:  

Omnis ratio et i●stitutio vit● adiu●enta hominum desi●●●at. Cicero in 〈◊〉:  And when his branch is dry, and withered seen,  
By her support, preserve him always green.    

Salomonis prudentia. To the right worshipful Sir DAVID FOULIS Knight.  

THE means of wisdom, here a book is seen,  
Sometime the glory of great Solomon,  
A Cedar branch, with Hyssop knotted green,  
The heart and eye withal, placed hereupon:  
For from the Cedar saith the Text he knew,  
Unto the Hyssop, all that ever grew.   

The eye and heart, do show that Princes must,  
In weightiest matters, and affairs of state,  
Not unto others over rashly trust,  
Lest with repentance they incur their hate,  
But with sound judgement, and 
* Qualis Poeta●um ille Cyclops amisso oculo, ta●is Princeps cui defit hic oculus Prudentiae. Lipsius' in politic:  unpartial eye,  
Discern themselves twixt wrong and equity.   

Vis consilij expers mole ruit sua. 
Hora●: ode 3●     

Vicinorum amicitia.  

SUCH friendly league, by nature is they say;  
Betwixt the Myrtle, and Pomegranate tree,  
Who, if not planted over-farre away,  
They seek each others mutual amity:  
By open signs of Friendship, till at last,  
They one another have with arms embraced.   

Which doth declare, how 
* Melior est vicinus iuxta● quam fr●ter procul. Proverbs  neighbours should unite  
Themselves together, in all friendly love;  
And not like Tyrants, excercise their spite,  
On one another, when no cause doth move:  
But letting quarrels, and old grudges cease,  
Be reconciled, to live, and die, in peace.   


Ovid 3. Tri●t: 4.  Vive sine Invidia, mollesque inglorius annos  
Exige, amicitias et tibi iunge pares.    

To the right worshipful Sir Edmund Ashfeild Knight. Edmund Ashfeild. 
Anagramma Authoris.  I fled unshamed.  

THE clouded Sun, that westward left our sight,  
And for a night, in THETIS lap had slept,  
Againe's returned, with far more glorious light,  
" To cheer the world, that for his absence wept: 
Noctes rorulentas volo.   
His beams retaining, uncorrupt and pure,  
Although he lay imprisoned and obscure.   


* Adversus virtutem hoc possunt calamitates, et damna, et iniuriae quo● advers●s solemn Nebula potest: Seneca Epist: 113.  So, Si●, although the clouds of troubles, had  
A while concealed you, from your loving friends;  
You do appear at length to make them glad,  
And so much higher still your name ascends,  
By how much Envy, seeketh to oppress,  
And dim the splendour of your Worthiness.    

Proemio et poena.  

THE vernant Bay, with living fame shall crown,  
Victorious Caesar, or sweet Maro's brow,  
As due reward of Learning, and renown:  
To justice hand, we do the Sword allow:  
For by these two, all commonwealths do stand,  
And virtue is 
* Nec Domus, nec Respublica, stare potest, si in ea nec recte factis proemia extent ulla, nec supplicia peccatis Cicer: de natura Deorum.  upheld in every land.   

For Honour, Valour draws her sword to fight,  

* illi aes triplex circa pectus erat Qui fragilem primus pelago commisit ratem. Horatius.  Devoide of fear, or cuts the foamy surge:  
The Muse for glory labours day and night,  
To brave attempts, yea this doth cowards urge:  
When justice sword, th' inglorious and the base,  
Unworthy life, pursues with all disgrace.    

Quae pondere maior.  

BEHOLD a hand, extended from the sky; 
Incerti Autho●is.   
Doth steadily a peized balance hold,  
The dreadful Cannon, in one scale doth lie,  
The Bay ith'other, with a pen of Gold;  
Due to the Muse, and such as learned are,  
Th'other Symbol, of th'u'rt Military.   

Though MARS defends the kingdom with his might,  
And braves abroad his foe, in glorious arms,  
Yet wiser PALLAS guides his arm aright,  
And best at home preventes all future harms:  
Then pardon 
* Regina El●zabetha. N●m ●oc cum paucu●is aliis ex illis Hastiludiorum troph● is in regia pe●gula adhuc ●erv●tis descr●pū●us. ut Minerva nostra non vnd●que non conci●na foret.  Sovereign, if the pen and bay,  
My better part, the other down do weigh.    

Hibernica Respub: ad jacobum Regem.  

WHILE I lay bathed in my native blood,  
And yielded nought save harsh, & hellish sounds:  
And save from Heaven, I had no hope of good,  
Thou pittiedst (Dread Sovereign) my wounds,  
Repair'dst my ruin, and with Ivory key,  
Didst tune my strings, that slacked or broken lay.   

Now since I breathed by thy Royal hand,  
And found my concord, by so smooth a tuch,  
I give the world abroad to understand,  
ne'er was the music of old Orpheus such,  
As that I make, by mean (Dear Lord) of thee,  
From discord drawn, to sweetest unity.   

Cum m●a nativo squallerent sceptra cruore,  

Basil: Doro●.  Edoque lugubres undique fracta modos:  
Ipse redux nervos distendis (Phoebe) rebels,  
Et stupet ad nostros Orpheus ipse sonos.    

Poenitentia.  

HERE sits Repentance, solitary, sad;  
Herself beholding in a fountain clear,  
As grieving for the life, that she hath lad: 
Septies in die cadet justus et resurget: impii a●tem corruent in malum. Proverb: 24.   
One hand a fish, the other birch doth bear,  
Wherewith her body, she doth oft chastise;  
Or fasts, to curb her fleshly enemies.   

Her solemn cheer, and gazing in the fount,  
Denote her anguish, and her grief of soul,  
As often as her life, she doth recount,  
Which Conscience doth, with hourly care enroll,  
The colour green, she most delights to wear,  
Tells how her hope, shall overcome despair.   

Poenitentia aboleri peccata indubitanter credimus, 
Augustin: de Eccles: dog: 48.  et in ultimo vitae spiritu si admissorum poeniteat.  
In tribunal mentis tu●e ascend contra te, et reum te constitue ante te, 
Idem in libro de utilitate agendi poenitentiam.  noli te ponere post te, ne Deus te ponat ante te.   

utile propositum est saevas extinguere flammas, 
Ovid: 1 de remedio amoris.   
Nec servum vitiis pectus habere suum.    

Dolu●.  

OF simple look, with countenance demure,  
In golden coat, lo here DECEIT doth stand,  
With eyes to heaven upcasted, as he were pure,  
Or never yet, in knavery had a hand,  
Whose nether parts, resemble to our sight,  
The figure of a fearful Serpent right.   

And by his side, a Panther close you see,  
Who when he cannot easily catch his prey,  
Doth hide his head, and face, with either knee,  
And show his back, with spots bespeckled gay  
To other Beasts: which while they gaze upon,  
Are unawares, surprised every one.   


job. 30.  Simulatores ●t callidi provocant Iram Dei  
Neque clamabunt cum vincti fuerint, morietur in tempestate anima ●orum, et vita eorum in●er effoeminatos.   


Proverb: 4.  Abhominatio Domino est omnis illusor.    

Crimina gravissima.  

UPON a Cock, here Ganymede doth sit,  
Who erst road mounted on joves Eagles back,  
One hand holds Circe's wand, and joined with it,  
A cup top-filed with poison, deadly black:  
The other Medals, of base metals wrought,  
With sundry moneys, counterfeit and nought.   

These be those crimes, abhorred of God and man,  
Which justice should correct, with laws severe,  
In 
* 
O fuge te tenerae puerorum credere turbae, Nam causam i●iusti semper amoris habent.  
Tibullus.   Ganymede, the foul Sodomitan:  
Within the Cock, vile incest doth appear:  
Witchcraft, and murder, by that cup and wand,  
And by the rest, false coin you understand.   

Ista a te puniantur (o Rex) ne tu pro illis puniaris. Cyprian. de utilitate Poenitentiae.    

Virtutem aut vitium sequi Genus.  


D: Bright in his treatise of melancholy.  A FAMILY in Libia's said to be,  
For prowess, far renowned above the rest:  
With whom no wholesome diet can agree,  
But easily, all poison they digest:  
The Asp, the Adder, and the viper's brood,  
Are said to yield their ordinary food.   

To these infected races, I resemble,  
Of Traitors vile, as Gourie and the rest,  
To tell whose legend, each good heart may tremble,  
While Psilli-like, they suck from Mother's breast,  
The poison of the sire's infected mind,  
Transmissing it, to theirs that come behind.   

Fort●s creantur fortibus et bonis,  

Horatius' lib: 4 ode 4.  Est in iuvencis, est in Equis patrum  
Virtus: nec imbecillem feroces  
Progenerant Aquilae columbam.    

Vos vobis.  

THE painful Bee, when many a bitter shower,  
And storm had felt, far from his hive away,  
To seek the sweetest Hunny-bearing flower,  
That might be found and was the pride of May:  
here lighting on the fairest he mought espy,  
Is beat by Drones, the wasp and butterfly.   

So men there are sometimes of good desert,  
Who painfully have laboured for the hive,  
Yet must they with their merit stand apart,  
And give a far inferior leave to thrive:  
Or be perhaps, (if gotten into grace)  
By waspish Envy, beaten out of place.    

Sic opibus mentes.  

THE Hyosciame, that about the plains  
Of Italy, doth in abundance grow,  
Doth bear a flower, wherein a seed remains,  
Of Birds the most desired, (as herbals show:)  
Which tasted by them, giddy down they fall,  
And have no power, to fly away at all.   

To this same fruit, I riches do compare,  
Which though at first, with sweetness they bewitch:  
Within a while, they breed our bane of care,  
Or else we surfeit, cloyed with overmuch:  

Sed plures nim●a congesta pecunia cura 〈◊〉— Invenom Satyr. 1●.  Or with their poison, 
* Magnae opes possessori fastum et supercilium conciliant. Erasmus.  breed out frantic fits:  
Or with their loss, 
* Foelix qui simul opes et mentem habet. Demosthen: in Olynth.  bereave us of our wits.   

Divitiae inflant animos, superbiam et arrogantiam pariunt,  

 i●vidiam trabunt, et eòusque mentem alienant, ut fama  
p●cuniae, nos ●ti●m nocitura del●●tet.    

undique flamma.  

WHO ever dost a Royal Sceptre sway,  
Or fit'st at stern of public government,  
So bear thyself, that all Inferiors may, 
Magnum est personam in Repub: tueri Principis, qui non animis solum debet, sed oculis servire civium. Cic: Philip: 8.   
Behold thee as, a bright example sent;  
From God above, and clearest light to show,  
The virtuous paths, wherein they ought to go.   

For people, are like busy Apes inclined,  
To imitate the sovereigns manners still,  
And to his Actions, frame their varying mind:  
So that he stands, as Torch upon a hill,  
In open view, and ever shining bright,  
In good or ill, to thousands giving light.   

Quo fugis imperii, quisquis moderaris habênas?  
Ceù procul illucens flamma benigna tuis, 
Ba●i●: D●ron.   
Lumina quae reddas hinc inde imitamina morum  
Regis ad exemplum plebs numerosa rapit.    

Regia liberalitas.  

OF all the virtues, that do best beseem;  
Heroic valour, and high Majesty,  
Which sooner love, and Honour win, I deem,  
None may compare, with Liberality:  
Which well the mighty ALEXANDER knew,  
As by this Impre'se following here I show.   


Melius beneficiis Imperium custoditu● quam armi● Seneca de brevi●ate vitae.  Ere to the charge, he did himself advance,  
His purse by giving he would empty quite;  
And cause the same be borne upon a lance,  
Throughout the camp, in all the armies sight:  
And herewithal proclaim, see, all is gone,  

„ Spes supere●t: dictu● Alexandri  We live in hope, to purchase more anon.   


Cic●● de 〈…〉  Liberalitate qui utuntur, benevolentiam sibi conciliant, et quo  
apt●ssimum 〈◊〉 ad quieté vivendum caritatem.    

In actione consistit.  

THE Dread-nought Argo, cuts the foaming surge,  
Through dangers great, to get the golden prize,  
So when ourselves, Necessity doth urge,  
We should avoid ignoble Cowardice,  
And undertake with pleasure, any pain,  
Whereby we might our wealth, or honour gain.   

For all in vain, our parts we keep within, 
Ipsemet plerunque in opere, in agmine gregario militi mixtus incorrupto Ducis honore: Tacitus 5. Histor:   
Unless we act, or put the same in ure:  
Or hope hereafter, Fame our friend to win,  
If can no labour, constantly endure:  
Which from above, is with abundance blest,  
When slothful wights, by nature we detest.   

Facta, non dicta mea vos milites sequi volo. 
●● Livius lib: 7.   
Quibus sudor, pulvis, et alia talia, ●pu●is iucundiora sunt. 
Sallust: I●gurth●     

Humilibus dat gratiam.  

THE Mountains huge, that seem to check the sky,  
And all the world, with greatness overpeere,  
With Heath, or Moss, for most part barren lie:  
When valleys low, doth kindly Phoebus' cheer,  
And with his heat, in hedge and grove begets,  
The virgin-Primrose, or sweet Violets.   

So God, oft times denies unto the great,  
The gifts of Nature, or his heavenly grace,  
And those that high, in Honour's chair are set,  
Do feel their wants, when men of meaner place,  
Although they lack, the others golden spring,  
Perhaps are blest, above the richest King, 

Humilitas meretur ut homo virtut●s occup●t, Qui● 〈…〉.  

Bernar●●● 〈…〉 ad Socru●.  Servat accepta, quia non req 〈…〉.      

Ca●dor immun●s e●it.  

THE burning glisse, that most doth gather fire,  
While Sirian Dog doth parch the meadows green,  
Doth never burn (a thing we much admire)  
The cloth, or stuff, that perfect white is seen:  
But soon inflames, all colours else beside,  
The black, the blue, the red, and motley pied.   

To this same glass, I slander still compare,  
That by degrees, doth subtly gather heat,  
And doth not with malicious envy spare,  
The good, the bad, the little or the great,  
Who though she hath, o'er other virtues power,  
The conscience clear, she never shall devour.    

Scripta non temere edenda.  

BY work of wit, who thirsteth after Fame:  
And by the Muse, wouldst live a longer day,  
What ere thou writ'st, see carefully the same,  

 Thou oft peruse, and after pause, and stay;  
Mend what's amiss, with ARGUS hundred eyes,  

— nonumque premantur in annum Horatius.  I mean advice, and judgement of the wise.   

For as in Children, easily we behold,  
Some near resemblance of the mouth, or eye:  
Of Parent's likeness: so our works unfold,  
Our minds true Image, to posterity.  
Beside, lewd lines, our loves, and leasings vain  
Do die: when wise words ever do remain.    

Pulchritudo foeminea.  

A VIRGIN naked, on a Dragon sits,  
One hand outstretched, a crystal glass doth show:  
The other bears a dart, that deadly hits;  
Upon her head, a garland white as snow,  
Of 
* A●ba ligu●●r● cadunt—  print and Lilies. Beauty most desired,  
Were I her painter, should be thus attired.   

Her nakedness us tells, she needs no art:  
Her glass, how we by sight are moved to love,  
The wounds unfelt, that's given by the Dart  
At first, (though deadly we it after prove)  
The Dragon notes loves poison: and the flowers,  
The frailty (Ladies) of that pride of yours.   

Cumque aliquis dicet, fuit haec formosa, dolebis; 
Ovid: 2. de A●te amandi.   
Et speculum mendax, esse querêre tuum.   

Nec s●mper violae, nec semper Lilia florent: 
Idem.   
E●●●ge● amissa spina relicta rosa.    

Nil inde insipidum.  

A SILVER Salt, here on the Table stands,  
On which the peaceful Turtle Dove doth sit,  
Who at the board, a 
* Nec magnae res sustineri possunt ab eo, cui silere grave est. Curtius' lib: 4.  silent tongue commands:  
The Salt, that we should season still with it  
Discourses honest, not with idle tongue,  

Arist: 4. Ethic.  Speak what we list, to do another wrong.   


Imminuunt Dicteria Maiestatem.  Some men there are, whose glory's to deprave,  
With ill report, a man behind his back,  
And then suppose, their credits best they save,  

Ad vinum diserti. Cicero pro M: Caelio.  With slanders vile, when they another's crack:  
When wisdom stayed, will let such leasings rest,  
And speak even of, her enemy the best.    

Ni undas ni vientoes.  

WHO wouldst dispend in Happiness thy days,  
And lead a life, from cares exempt and free,  
See that thy mind, stand irremoved always,  
Through reason grounded on firm constancy,  
For whom opinion doth 
* Maximum indicium malae men●is fluctuatio. Se●eca in proverb:  unstaiedly sway,  
To fortune soonest, such become a prey.   

Ye lofty Pines, that do support the state  
Of common wealths, and mighty government,  
Why stoop ye soonest, unto the blast of fate,  
And fawn on Envy, to your ruin bend:  
Be taught by me, to scorn your worse hap,  
The wave by Sea, or land the Thunderclap.    

In alijs tempestiuè consulentes non sibi.  

THEY tell me Tusser, when thou wert alive,  
And hadst for profit, turned every stone,  
Where ere thou camest, thou couldst never thrive,  
Though hereto best, couldst counsel every one,  
As it may in thy Husbundry appear,  
Wherein a fresh, thou liv'st amongst us here.   

So like thyself, a number more are wont,  
To sharpen others, with advice of wit,  
When they themselves, are like the whetstone blunt,  
And little care, to keep or follow it:  
Eke here I must, the careless Pastor blame,  
That teacheth well, but follows not the same.    

Quicquid delirant Reges— 
Horatius.   

IT was the Custom of the Thracians once, 
Plutarc●:   
Ere they would over a frozen river pass,  
To take a Fox, and turn him for the Nonce,  
Upon the Ice, to try how thick it was,  
Who to the stream, by laying down his ear,  
Can hear the noise, and know the thickness there.   

Which if he found to tender for his weight,  
He back returned, and thanked them, he would none,  
Which showeth us of some, the subtle sleight,  
Who hazard first, the poor, and weaker one  
To serve their turns, whom God preserveth oft,  
When they themselves, within the pit are caught.    

In timidos et iactantes.  

THE Fenny Bitter, that delights to breed  
In thickest sedge, by moor, and river side,  
By thrusting low his bill into a reed,  
All summer long, at morn and even tied:  
Though near, yet makes far seeming such a sound  
That oft it doth, the Passenger astounded.   

This Figure fits, two sorts of people base,  
The Coward one, that will with words affright,  
When dares not look, true Valour in the face:  
The other is, the proud vainglorious wight,  
Who where he comes, will make a goodly show  
Of wit, or wealth, when it is nothing so.    

Deos inprimis placandos.  

THE Roman Ladies, yearly did present  
Their jewels, 
Plutarch in Sy●●pos: sap:  and the best attire they wore  
To Delphos, which were by commandment  
Into a Goblet turned, and placed before  
The Pythian God, as offering for the sin  
Of loathed pride, they feared they lived in.   

A mirror for such wights, as will allow  
Religion, or the church, the least of all,  
Nay, from the same purloin they care not how,  
Till Church perforce, hath stripped them out of all:  
This also tells our gallant Dames beside,  
No vice offends the Lord, so much as pride.   

Quod in divinis rebus sumas sumptus sapienti lucro est. 
Plautus in Mili●e Glor:     

Deus ultimum refugium. To the right worshipful, Mr: D: Laifeild, sometimes my Tutor in Trinity College in Cambridge.  

WHEN Priam saw his City set on fire,  
At once and drowned, in his People's blood,  
To pacify the heavens enkindled ire,  
(Since human help, doth fail to do him good:)  
Creusa warns him to the Altar fly,  
Although he were assured there to die.   

The ●ase is every christians in distress,  
Who to the Lord, himself should recommend,  
As who can best the wrongful cause redress,  
And patiently t' abide, what he shall send:  
Fallen into hands of foes, our freedom thence,  
Or glorious death, to crown our innocence.   


Augustin: supe● Psalm:: 74.  Non est quo fugias a Deo irato, nisi ad Deum placatum.    

Allah vere. i. Deus dabit.  

PROUD Empress, of the prouder Tyrant mind,  
Of Soliman's high boundles-swelling thought:  
When like the Ocean, boiling with the wind, 
Q●i tot armatorum millibus viennam Austriae patrum memoria obsideba●, fo●iter tamen vi ●t virtute Carol● 〈◊〉 et Gen●a●●●●um, re i●fe●ta ●●●cedere coa●●●s.   
Of vain Ambition, all in vain he wrought,  
To undermine our Christian happy state,  
And drown her in, a deluge of his hate.   

But as our God, hath given the Sea his bound:  
So (Pagan) scattered he, thy frothy Ire:  
And while thou dreamest, of compassing this round,  
Thy Snuff went out, and yet thou want'st no fire:  
Not that same which, thy fat Ambition fed,  
But that of Hell, that eats thee, living-dead.    


Persius. — Nec te quaesiveris extra.  

ALTHOUGH the staff, within the river clear,  
Be strait as Arrow, in the Persian bow:  
Yet to the view, it crooked doth appear,  
And one would swear, that it indeed were so:  
So soon the Sense deceived, doth judge amiss,  
And fools will blame, whereas none error is.   

This staff doth show, how oft the honest mind,  

1 Cor: 11. 31.  That meaneth well, and is of life upright,  
Is rashly censured, by the vulgar blind,  
Through vain Opinion: or vile envious spite:  
But if thou knowst, thy 
* Bona conscientia quo●i lie virescit, laboribus non affligitur, afficit gaudio vivence●n, aeternumque durat B●r●ard: in lib: de ●o●●ci●n●ia.  conscience clear within,  
What others say, it matters not a pin.   


O●id: 1. F●s●o:  Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra  
Pectora, pro facto spemque metumque suo.    

Fit purior haustu.  

IF that the Well we draw, and empty oft:  
The water there remaineth sweet and good:  
But standing long, it grows corrupt and nought,  
And serves no more, by reason of the mud,  
In Summer hot, to cool our inward heat,  
To wash, to water, or to dress our meat.   

So, if we do not excercise our wit,  
By daily labour, and invention still:  
In little time, our sloth corrupteth it,  
With in bred vices, foul and stinking ill:  
That both the glories of our life deface,  
And stop the source, and head of heavenly grace.    

Tutissima comes.  

LO Pallas here, with heedful eye doth lead;  

Homer: Odyss: lib:  Ulysses in his travail far and near:  
That he aright, might in his journey tread,  
And shun the train of Error, every where:  
NOT aught had Ulysses, ever brought to pass,  
But this great Goddess, his directress was.   

Though Homer did invent it long ago,  
And we esteem it as a fable vain:  
While here we wander, it doth wisely show,  
With all our actions, Wisdom should remain; 
Wisdom is only the Prince's virtue. Arist: 3. politic:   
And where we go, take Pallas still along  
To guide our feet, our ears, and lavish tongue.   


Euripides.  Mens una sapiens plures vincit manus.   


Valerius Flaecu● 3. Argonaut: — Non solis viribus aequum  
Credere, saepe acri potior prudentia dextra.    

In dilapidantes sibi credita aliena.  

THE Hounds, sometimes the Fox had put in trust,  
From Town, to Town, to beg for their relief:  
Who was a while in's office very just,  
But shortly after, proved an errant thief:  
By eating, or embezzling, of the best,  
And casting to, the starved Hounds the rest.   

Of Regnards' kind, there is a crafty crew,  
Who when at death of friends, are put in trust,  
Do rob the Church, or Infants of their dew,  
Disposing of another's as they lust:  
Whom being bound, in Conscience to preserve,  
They suffer oft, in open street to starve.    

Patientia laesa furorem.  

WHO lightly sets his enemy at nought,  
And fears him not because he is too weak:  
Or that he is thy prey, already caught,  
Within such net, he cannot easily break:  
Reputes him often, and doth prove too late,  
No so so dangerous, as the desperate.   

Wherefore saith one, give passage to his Ire,  
Abuse him not with too much insolence:  
Lest hopeless back, he doth again retire,  
With Fury armed, in stead of Patience:  
And proves the Victor, when with cunning skill,  
Thou mightst before, have ruled him at thy will.    

Te aspicit unam. Ad Sidoniam virginem nobilem.  

thou grievest Sidonia, that I thus divide,  
My Love so largely, to a several friend:  
While thou, thou thinkest, remainedst vnespi'de:  
Or takest thy fortune, at the latter end:  
And certes who his love, imparts to all,  
Affects but coldly, nay loves not at all.   

With wonder rapt, though much I do admire  
Some Stars for lustre, and their glories best:  
You are that Arctic; most I do desire,  
Whereon my hope, hath wholly set her rest:  
And who (sweet Maid,) when others down do slide,  
To unknown Fate, must be my surest guide.    

Maior Hercule.  

TWO Columns strong, here little Love doth bear,  
Upon his shoulders bare: though Lily white,  

Vis magna mentis. Seneca.  As if another Hercules he were:  
And would erect them, in a deep despite,  
Of that Colosse, or Pharos fiery bright  
Th' Egyptian Piles, proud Mausolaeus tomb  
Spain's Pillars, or great Traian's, yet in Room.   

Nor may you less imagine Cupid's might:  
Though (Ladies) he, but seem a child in show,  
Since hand to hand, himself in single fight,  
Hath given the great'st Hero'es their overthrow:  
Ne could the wisest man avoid his bow:  
Who●e Trophies, & brave triumphs, were they●sh  
Thy Son Al●mena, never had been known. 

C●ecus est ignis, stimul●tu● ira  

Seneca in Me●●a  Ne● regi curate, patiturve ●●nos  
Haud timet ●o●tem, cupit ire m●ip●os  
Obvius enses.      

Erit altera merces. Ad amicum suum johannem Doulandum Musices peritissimum. johannes Doulandus. 
Anagramma Authoris.  Annos l●dendo hausi.  

HERE Philomela, in silence sits alone,  
In depth of winter, on the bared brier,  
Whereas the Rose, had once her beauty shown;  
Which Lords, and Ladies, did so much desire:  
But fruitless now, in winter's frost, and snow,  
It doth despised, and unregarded grow,   

So since (old friend), thy years have made thee white,  
And thou for others, hast consumed thy spring,  
How few regard thee, whom thou didst delight,  
And far, and near, came once to hear thee sing:  
Ingrateful times, and worthless age of ours,  
That let's us pine, when it hath cropped our flowers.    

Cui candor morte redemptus.  

THE Ermine here, whom eager hounds do chase,  
And hunters have, around environed in,  
(As some do write) will not come near the place,  
That may with dirt, defile his dainty skin:  
But rather chooseth, than the same should soil,  
Be torn with dogs, or taken with the toil.   

Me thinks even now, I see a number blush,  
To hear a beast, by nature should have care,  
To keep his skin, themselves not care a rush,  
With how much filth, their minds bespotted are:  
Great Lords, and Ladies, turn your cost and art,  
From body's pride, t' enrich your better part.    

Status humanus.  

FOUR Captive Kings, proud Sesostris did tie,  
And them compelled his chariot to draw, 
Fortunam tuam (Prince●s) pressi● man●bus te●e lubrica est nec invita teneri potest Courtesan: lib: 7.   
Whereof the one, did ever cast his eye  
Unto the wheel: which when the Tyrant saw,  
And asked the cause, the chained King replied,  
Because herein, my state I have espied. 
Vidi cruentoes carcere includi D●ces, et impotentis terga plebeia manu scindi T●ranni— Seneca in Her●:    

For like ourselves, the spoke that was on high,  
Is to the bottom, in a moment cast,  
As fast the lowest, riseth by and by,  
All human things, thus find a change at last:  
The Tyrant fearing, what his hap might be,  
Released their bands forthwith, and set them free.   

AEstuat ambiguis vita hae● agitata procellis, 
Ba●●●: Doro●.   
Fertque refertque vices sors male fida suas;  
Hunc de plebe create, regnantem deprimit illum:  
Vel rota tot casus una SESOSTRIS habet.   

In tranquilissimis rebus interdum existit periculum quod nemo expectat. 
Erasmus.   
Vita Fortuna regitur, non Sapientia. 
Cic: in Tusculans     

Cum severitate lenitas.  

OF orient hue, a Rainbow doth contain,  
An hideous shower, within her Circlet round,  
Resembling that great punishment of rain,  
The Lord inflicted when the world was drowned:  
The Rainbow, of his Mercy, here a sign,  
Which with his justice, he doth ever join.   

For though we hourly, do the Lord provoke,  
By crying Sins, to bring his vengeance down,  
The salve he tempers, while he strikes the stroke,  
And joins his favour, with a bitter frown:  
To let us know, that wrath he keeps in store,  
And grace for such, as will offend no more.   


Quintil: declam: 1●.  Oh quam difficile hominibus misereri et sapere.   

— P●r●git tran 〈…〉  

Claudian:  Quod viol●nta n●quit, manda●a● 〈◊〉 urget  
I●p●ri●●● qui●s—    

Sine pluma.  

THIS warlike Helm, that naked doth appear,  
Not gold-enchased, or with Gems beset,  
Yet doth the marks, of many a battle bear,  
With dints of bullets, there imprinted yet,  
No feathery crest, or dreassing doth desire,  
Which at the Tilts, the vulgar most admire.   

For best desert, still liveth out of view,  
Or soon by Envy, is commanded down,  

*— Emitur so●● virtute potestas. Claudian:  Nor can her heaven-bred spirit lowly sue,  
Though 'twere to gain, a kingdom, and a crown:  
Beside it tells us, that the valiant heart,  
Can live content, though wanteth his desert.    

Vmbra tantum.  

THE Pl●tane Tree, that by the banks of PO,  
With gentle shade refresheth man and beast,  
Of other Trees, doth bear the goodliest show,  
And yet of all, it is the barrenest:  
But Nature though, this tree of fruit bereaves,  
It makes amends, in cooling with the leaves.   

This Platane Tree, are such as grow aloft,  

* Contemptor animus et superbia commune nobilitatis malum. Sallust: I●gurth:  Ore-dropping others, with their wealth or might,  
And yet, they of themselves, are barren oft,  
Wanting th' endowments, of the meaner wight:  
Who many times, in virtue doth excel,  
When these but have, the shadow, or the shell.    

Vita tota dies unus.  

OF all our life, behold the very sum,  
Which as this flower, continueth but a day:  
Our youth is morn, our middle age is come  
By noon, at night as fast we do decay,  
As doth this Lily flowering with the Sun,  
But withered ere, his race be fully run.   

Wherefore our life's resembled to a ship, 
Chrysostom.   
Which passeth on, though we do what we please,  
A shade, a flower, that every frost doth nip,  
A dream, a froth, a wave upon the Seas,  
Which hath a while his being, till anon,  
Some else intrude, and he's forgot and gone.   

Cuncta mortalium incerta, quantoque plus adeptus sis, tanto te magis 
Ta●itus 1 Annal.  in lub●ico censcas.   

Br●vi● est vita, ●t brevitas ipsa semper incerta. 
Augu●t: de ve●bis Domini.     

Divitiae.  

THE country Swains, at football here are seen,  
Which each gapes after, for to get a blow,  
The while some one, away runs with it clean,  
It meets another, at the goal below  
Who never stirred, one catcheth here a fall,  
And there one's maimed, who never saw the ball.   

This worldly wealth, 
* Caduca haec fragilia, puerilibu●que consentanea crepundiis, quae vires atque opes humanae vocantur: Vale●ius lib 6. cap ultimo.  is tossed too and fro,  
At which like Brutes, each strives with might and main,  
To get a kick, by others overthrow,  
Hear one's fetched up, and there another slain,  
With eager haste, and then it doth affront  
Some slander by, who never thought upon't.    

Arb●●●●●●se mei.  

UNTO his life, who looks with heedy eye,  
And labours most to keep a conscience pure,  
And doubts to tread, in errors paths awry:  
That man is blest, and deemed happy sure:  
When vicious persons, even unto their graves,  
Are lewd affections, and their vices slaves.   

For as the Lion, that hath slipped his band,  
Or sheared the chain, that did his courage hold,  
Doth not in awe, of churlish keeper stand,  
But since is waxed, more courageous bold:  
The righteous man, so from hell's bondage free,  
Hath hearts content, 
Basil: Doron.  joined with his liberty. 

Ardua res Caesar gentes domuisse rebels,  
herrea Sauromatum et colla de●isse iugo:  
Verius at vincis tua cum vindicta lacessit,  

* Duo adversis●imarectae ●●nti Cele●●ta● et ●●a. Thucydides.  Pectora, et hanc poteris sumere nolle tamen.     

Latius regnes avidum domando  
Spiritum; quam si Lybiam remotis  
Gadibus iungas et uterque Poenus  
Serviat uni. 
〈◊〉 c●●m: lib● 2. Ode 2.     

Vulnerat i●●e medem●r.  

THIS Sword, a Symbol of the Law, doth threat  
Perpetual death, to all of Adam's race:  
But yet th' Almighty, of his mercy great,  
Sends, after sentence, pardon of his grace:  
For when he found us, maimed on the ground,  
With wine, and oil of grace, he healed the wound.   

Our parts it is, since by the Law we see,  
The fearful state, and danger we are in,  
To do our best, then to his mercy flee,  
And new again, our sinful lives begin:  
Not trusting to our deeds, and merits vain,  
Since nought but death, doth due to these remain. 



Basil: Doron.  Just a licet seros Adae sub lege nepotes  
Impetat a tergo vindicis Ira Dei,  
unius haec praestat medicamina gratia Chri●ti●  
Vulnere ne pereas quam redivivus habes.   


August: de verbis Apost:  Si levis mo●bus esset, medicus non quaereretur, si medicus non quaereretur, morbus non fi●iretur: ideo ubi abundavit peccatum, superabundavit et gratia:   


D● B●rnard● serm super Cant: ●4.  Gratia balsamum purissimum est, et ideo purum, solidum et profundum vas requirit:       

In prodigos.  

THE watery willow, growing by the shore,  
Of trees the foremost, forth her fruit doth send,  
But laden with her bee-desired store,  
Ere ten days fully come unto an end,  
Her Palme's so sweet, we loved and looked upon,  
With Boreas' breath, are blown away and gone.   

To this same tree, did Homer once compare, 
Frugi perd●.   
Such heirs as strait, their Patrimony waste,  
In ri' tous wise: and such as Artistes are,  
Who getting much, do let it fly as fast:  
Eke such of wit, or wealth, that make a show,  
In substance when, we find it nothing so.   

Dilapidare cave nummos ceu n●sciu● uti  
Pelle tamen sordes, modus op●ima r●gula r●rum. 
Vrsinus velus.     

Te Deuce.  


Perdices foeminae vocem sequntur. Xenophon.  THE Partridge young, in fowlers net y caught,  
Too late the error of their dam repent,  

Nunquam deceptus est princeps nisi qui prius ipse decepent. Livi: lib: 4 in panegyr:  For why? her call them into danger brought,  
And taught at first, the heedless way they went:  
Hereby are kings our common nurses meant,  
When to their lusts, themselves become a prey,  
And by 
* unius invidia et culpa ab omnibus peccatur. Tacitus Annal 3.  example, thousands cast away.   

Not hereupon, as may of most be thought,  
We should our Prince, like Rebels disobey,  
When they be Tyrants, or with 
* Haec conditio principum ut quicqu●d faciant praecipere videantur. Q●intilia: declamat: 4.  vices nought,  
Do hasten others, and their own decay:  
But to the Lord, like Christians rather pray  
For mercy, who hath in his anger sent  

* T●ranni Dei voluntate praesút. jerem: 27. 8.  Such wretches vile, to be our punishment. 

Dum tua qua ducis legimus vestigia passim  

Basil: Doron.  Alma parens, capimur praeda misella plagis,  
Proh dolour, innocuos quam multos perdis, ab uno  
Te, modo diductum principe crimen erit.      

In salo sine sale. To the Hon: and most worthy Lady, E: L:  

THE friendly Dolphin, while within the main,  
At liberty delights, to sport and play,  
Himself is fresh, and doth no whit retain  
The brinish saltness of the boundless Sea  
Wherein he lives. Such is the secret skill,  
Of Nature working, all things at her will.   

So you great Lady, who your time have spent,  
Within that place, where dangers oft abound,  
Remain untainted of your Element,  
And to your praise● yet keep your honour sound  
Diana-like, whose brightness did excel,  
When many stars, within your climate fell.    

una dolo Diuûm. To the most Honourable and worthy Lady the Lady Alicia D:  

AND ye great Lady, that are left alone,  
To merc'les' mercy, of the worlds wide sea,  
Behold your fair, though counterfeited stone,  
So much you joyed in, on your wedding day,  
And took for true, how after it did prove,  
Unworthy jewel, of so worthy love.   

Ah how can man, your sex (fair Ladies) blame,  
Whose breasts, are virtues precious Carcanets,  
When he himself, first breaks the bounds of shame,  
And dearest love, and loyalty forgets:  
Yet herein happy, ye above the rest,  
Beloved of Heaven, and in your children blest.    

Paulatim.  

BY violence who tries to turn away,  
Strong nature's current, from the proper course,  
To move the Earth, he better were assay,  
Or wrest from jove, his thunderbolts perforce,  
Bid the Spheres stay, or join by art in one,  
Our Thames with Tiber, Pined with Pelion.   

For nought at all herein prevails our might,  
With greater force she doth our strength withstand,  
The River stopped, 
ldquor; Et ab obices●evior ibat Ovidis Metamor:  his bank downe-beareth quite,  
And seldom boughs, are bend with stubborn hand:  
When gentle usage, fierceness doth allay,  
And brings in time, the Lion to obey.    

Sic vos non vobis. To my worshipful and kind friend Mr. William Stallenge, searcher of the Port of London, and first Author of making Silk in our Land.  

THESE little creatures here, as white as milk,  
That shame to sloth, are busy at their loom.  
All summer long in weaving of their their Silk,  
Do make their webs, both winding sheet and tomb,  
Thus to th' ingrateful world, bequeathing all  
Their lives have gotten, at their funeral.   

Even so the webs, our wits for others weave,  
Even from the highest to the meanest, worn,  
But Siren-like it'h end, ourselves deceive,  
Who spend our time, to serve another's turn:  
Or paint a fool, with coat, or colours gay,  
To give good words, or thanks, so go his way.    

Tyranni morbus suspicio.  

WHEN valiant Richmond, gave the overthrow  
T'vsurping Richard, at that fatal field  
Of Bosworth, as our Histories do show,  
This 
* Passim in fenes●ris vere reg●j illius operis apud Westmon: in venitur.  Emblem he devised for his shield,  
(For when the battle, wholly was his own,  
He found his crown, within a Hawthorne thrown.)   

Whereat he sighed they say, and uttered this,  
A 
* Multae illi manus tibi una cervix. Ex dicto Caligulae.  Kingdom easeth not, the guilty mind,  
Nor Crown contents, where inward horror is,  
Withal it shows, how I am like to find,  
With Honour, and this dignity I bear,  
My part of grief, and thorns of heavy care.    

Innocentia muninem tutissimum.  

THE Lion once, whom all the Beasts did dread,  
Doth in a thicket deadly wounded lie,  

Plutarch: in libello ●e utilitate capienda ab inimicis.  About whose carcase, yet not fully dead,  
Do flock the Vulture, Puttock, and the Pie,  
And where the wounds are green, and freshly bleed,  
They light thereon, and most of all do feed.   

Such carrion Crow, think thou thine enemy,  
Who seldom dare assault thee being sound,  
But where he doth thy guiltiness espy,  
With eager hate, he praeies upon thy wound:  
But wisely if thou leadest thy life upright,  
He leaves thee then with starved appetite.   


●●●ero in o●●●e:  Innocentia est puritas animi omnem iniuriae illationem abhorrens.    

Amor coniugalis aeternus. To my Loving and most kind friends, Mr Christopher Collarde, and Mrs Mabell Collarde his wife, of St Martin's in the fields. Mabella Colarde. 
Anagramma Authoris.  Bella, alma cord.  

DEAREST of friends, accept this small device,  
Wherewith I would your courtesies requite,  
But that your loves invaluable price,  
Must hold me debtor, while I view this light,  
Nor can my heirs, these papers dead and gone,  
Repay the favours for me, you have done.   

A 
* Exemple iunctae tibi sint in amore Columbae: Proport: 2. 15.  Turtle here, upon an Olive sits,  
Upon whose branch, depends a Ring of gold,  
As best the love of Matrimony fits,  
Thus ever endless, never waxing old, 
Aurum rubigine non corrumpitur quocirca in maximo pretio semper habebatur.   
The branch and bows, the fruit that from you spring,  
The Dove yourself, your wife that golden RING.    

Temperantia.  

HERE Temperance I stand, of virtues, Queen,  
Who moderate all human vain desires,  
Wherefore a bridle in my hand is seen,  
To curb affection, that too far aspires:  
I'th' other hand, that golden cup doth show,  
Unto excess I am a deadly foe.   

For when to lusts, I loosely let the rain,  
And yield to each suggesting appetite,  
Man to his ruin, headlong runs amain,  
To friends great grief, and enemies delight:  
No conquest doubtless, may with that compare,  
Of our affects, when we the victors are.   

Quae rego virtutes placido moderamine cunctas  

●asil: D●r●●.  Affectusque potens sum Dea SOPHROSYN●●  
Effraenes animi doceo cohibere furores,  
Sustineo, abstineo, displicet omne nimis.   

Nihil est tam praeclarum, tamque magnificum, quod non moderatione temperari debea●. 
Max: 〈◊〉 ●.     

Servire nescit.  

THE Princely Falcon, that hath long been man'd,  
And taught to stoop, unto the tossed lure,  
Is now escaped from his masters hand,  
And will no more such servitude endure,  
But better likes the field, and forests spray,  
And for himself, in elder age to pray.   

The virtuous mind, and truly noble sprite, 

Species ipsa g●●tiosi liberti, a●t servi dignitate● nullam habere potest.  
●ic: ad Q: fratre●●●pist: 1. lib: ●.    
Can seldom brook, in bondage base to serve,  
But most doth in his liberty delight,  
Still rather choosing, by himself to starve,  
Then eat some caterpillar's envied bread,  
Or at another's courtesy be fed.   

Durum, invisum, et grave est, Servitia far. 
Sene●a ●● Tro●de Act: 4.     

Vis Amoris.  

ALCIDES here, hath thrown his Club away,  
And wears a Mantle, for his Lion's skin,  
Thus better liking for to pass the day,  
With Omphale, and with her maids to spin,  
To carded, to reel, and do such daily task,  
What ere it pleased, Omphale to ask.   


Si temperata accesserit Venus non alia Dea est adeo gratiosa. Euripides in Mede●.  That all his conquests won him not such Fame,  
For which as God, the world did him adore,  
As loves affection, did disgrace and shame  
His virtues parts. How many are there more,  
Who having Honour, and a worthy name,  
By actions base, and lewdness lose the same.   


Proper●.  Quicquid amor jussit, non est contemnere tutum,  
Regnat et in superos ius habet ille Deos.    

Vini vis.  

HERE Bacchus winged, midst his cups doth sit,  
With Mercury's Caduceus in his hand,  
As God of wine no more, but God of wit,  
And Eloquence, which he hath at command,  
(Since he hath drawn, his bowls and bottles dry,)  
Wherewith he seems, to mount above the sky.   

For when his liquor hath possessed the brain,  
The fool himself, the 
* Ad vinsi diserti. ●ic: pro M: Coeli●  wisest thinks to be,  
And then so gives his lavish tongue the rain,  
You'd swear ye heard another 
* F●ecundi cali●●● etc.  Mercury,  
For lies of Lady's loves, or travails far,  
His birth, his wounds, or service in the war.    

Honos venalis.  

WHO seek'st Promotion through just desert,  
And thinkest by gift, of body, or of mind,  
To raise thy fortune, whosoe'er thou art,  
This new Impresa take to thee assigned,  
To warn thee oft, such labour is in vain,  
If hereby thinkest, thy merit to obtain.   


F●s ubi maxima merces. Lucan:  For now the golden time's returned back,  
And all's kept under, by th' Athenian Cat,  

Nummorum Felis Emb: apud Plutarch● Graeci enim (eodē●este) huius effigie sua ●umismata ●●debant.  Whose help, and favour, whosoe'er doth lack,  
May cool his heels, with Homer at the gate:  
Such is our age, where virtue's scarce regarded,  
And arts with arms, must wander unrewarded.    

Divinitùs. To the thrice famous and far renowned University of Oxford.  

DEAR Sister of my ever-loved 
Cambridge and herein Trinity College.  Mother,  
From whom this little that I have I drew,  
Ingratefully great light I cannot smother,  
Some lesser sparks, which I derived from you,  
Which first inflamed to this, my duller sprite,  
And lent in dark, my Muse her candle light.   

Fair Academe, whom Fame and Arts conspire,  
To make thee mirror to all mortal eine,  
Within our Sphere, that Europe may admire,  
The gracious Lamp that on thy brow doth shine:  
And shows the TRUTH around by land and sea,  
Directing thousands erring, in their way.    

Atheôn exitus.  

THE Atheist vile, that Giantlike attempts,  
To bandy faction with Almighty JOVE,  
And thinks this frail world's privilege exemptes,  
All Faith, and Fear, due unto heaven above:  
Unto his terror, let him here behold,  
What Histories of JULIAN have told.   

For after that he had his Lord defi'de,  
And wounded deadly lay in deep despair,  
Thou, GALILAEAN now or'ecom'st, he cried,  
Wherewith he cast his blood into the Air:  
A fit example, for the faithless wight,  
And such as in profaneness do delight.    

Sic et Ingenium.  

THE Roses sweet, that in the Garden grow,  
If that not often dressed where they abide,  
Become as wild as those, we see do blow  
In every field, and hedge-row as we ride:  
And though for beauty, once they did excel,  
They now have lost, both colour and the smell.   

So many men, whom Nature hath endu'de,  
With rarest parts, of body, or the mind,  
Do in themselves by Sloth, grow rank and rude,  
Not leaving any memory behind,  
Save that they lived here, and sometime were,  

* Telluris inutile pondus.  A needless burden which the Earth did bear. 

Cernis ut ignavum corrumpant otia corpus  
Vt capiant vitium ni moveantur aquae,  
Et mihi siquis erat, dicendi cauminis usus 
O●idius.   
De ficit, estque minor factus inerte sitis.     

Ite nunc fortes ubi celsa magni 
Boethius. 4●7.   
Ducit exemplis via, cur inertes  
Terga nudatis? Superata tellus  
Sidera donat.     


MINERVA BRITANNA: THE SECOND PART OR A GARDEN OF heroical Devices: furnished, and adorned with Emblems, and Impresa's of sundry natures. Newly devised, moralised, and published, BY HENRY PEACHAM, Mr, of Artes.  
  

The Author to his Muse.  

NOW strike we Sail, and throw aside our oar,  
My weary Muse, the worst is well nigh passed:  
And take a while, our pleasure on the shore,  
Recounting what we overcame at last:  
To what deep danger were our fortunes cast:  
What Rocks, the greatest, & unknown shelves,  
We dared to touch, and yet did save ourselves.   

HENRY, who art both Loadstone, and the star,  
Of Hearts and Eyes, our wished Love and Light:  
By thee conducted, we arrive thus far;  
That now OPINIONS uttermost despite,  
Nor ENVY, that the justest one doth bite,  
We doubt at all; but forth into the main,  
With doubled courage, put ourselves again.   

And you great PRINCESS, through whose crystal breast,  
ELIZA'S Zeal, and Piety do shine,  
Heir of her Name, and Virtues, that invest  
You in our Hearts, and loves immortal shrine:  
Oh send from that pure Majesty of thine,  
Those beams again, from whence (as PHOEBUS bright)  
Our feeble Muse, derives her life and light.   

Eke pardon (PEERS,) that here my ruder verse,  
Unto your worths, and greatness dares aspire;  
Or out of course, if I your ranks rehearse:  
But as i'th' Presence, twixt the Lord and Squire,  
(He near the state, the other by the fire,)  
Small difference seems; so here most Honoured train,  
Ye take your lots about your Sovereign.   

A●d whatsoever EYE shalt else peruse,  
These ruder lines, devoid of skill and Art;  
Reserve thy good opinion of our Muse,  
That may hereafter wor●e of worth impart:  
And though she t●stes of Country and the Cart, 
●IN●INATVS a no●●e Ro●ane, called from his plough, t● the Dictatorship.   
(As that DICTATOR) all in time she may,  
Within the City bear a greater sway.    


Presidium et dulce decus. Illustrissimo et potentissimo Principi ac Domino, D: Mauritio Hessiae Lantgravio, Comiti in Catzenellen bogen Dietz, Zigenhain, et Nidda etc.  


This most noble Prince beside his admirable knowledge in all learning, & the languages, hath excellent skill in music. Mr Douland hath many times showed me 10 or 12 several sets of Songs for his Chapel of his own composing.  TO you great Prince, who little need be known,  
By me or by my worthless Poesy,  
Since those admired virtues of your own,  
Have made you object of the worlds wide eye,  
Your bounteous mind, your matchless Piety,  
Your languages, and learning in all arts,  
That gain you millions of remotest hearts.   

I consecrate in gentle Muses name  
This Monument, and to your memory,  
Which shall outwear the utmost date of Fame,  
And wrestle with the worlds Eternity:  
For as Art's glory is your GERMANY,  
For rarest invention, and design of wit,  
So ye brave Maurice are the pride of it.    

Distantia iungo. To the thrice Noble, and excellent Prince: Ludowick Duke of Lennox ●  

NOR may my Muse great Duke, with prouder sail,  
O'erpass your name, your birth, and best deserts:  
But lowly strike, and to these colours vail,  
That make ye yet beloved in foreign parts,  
In memory of those disjoined hearts:  
Of two great kingdoms, whom your grandsire wrought,  
Till Buckle-like, them both in one he brought.   


*— Pax optima rerum Quas homini novisse darum est, pax una triumphis Immeriti● potior Silius lib: 11.  Mild Peace herein, to make amends again,  
Ordains your days ye shall dispend in rest,  
While Horror bound, in hundred-double chain,  
At her fair feet, shall tear her snaky crest,  
And Mars in vain, with Trumpet stern molest  
Our Muse, that sh●ll her los●iest numbers frame,  
To eternize your STEWARTS Royal name. 

Q●●d p●oavum vir●●● disco●d●a i●nxit in v●●um  
Regna d●o, haec facto praem●a ●●gna tu●t:  
C●i LVDOVICE VIC●S iterum PAX alma rependens,  
Tem●ora that reb●s DIVA quieta tuis. 
Basilic: D●ron.       

Nostro elucescis damno.  

THE Steel and Flint, do here with hardy strokes,  
And mutual hewing, each the other waist:  
While underneath the open Tinderboxe,  
Unto his gain, consumes them both at last:  
And to the backs, when they are spent and worn,  
He throws them by, for he hath served his turn.   

So, when the Peasant with his neighbour wars,  
They wear away themselves, in golden sparks;  
The Box, are Pettifoggers from their jars,  
Who walk with Torches, ushered by their clerk:  
While blind by Owl-light, Hoidon stumbling goes,  
To seek his Inn, the Windmill, or the Rose.    

Ex Avaritia Bellum.  

THE hand that gripes, so greedily and hard,  
What it hath got by long unlawful gain;  
Withal for Battle ready is prepared,  
Still to defend, what it doth fast retain:  
(For wretches some, will sooner spend their bloods,  
Then spare we see, one pennyworth of their goods.)   

Of Avarice, such is the nature still,  
Who hardly can endure, to live in Peace;  
But alway priest, to qu●rrell, or to kill,  
When sober minds, from such contention cease:  
And seek no more, then quiet and content,  
With those good blessings, which the Lord hath sent.    

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  

THE glorious Sun, that cheers us with his light,  
And giveth life, and growth to every thing:  

* Arduum semper eodem loci, potentiam et concordiam esse: Tacitus lib: 4 Annal:  Can brook no peer, to check his sovereign right,  
But only will remain, the heavens sole king:  
When lesser stars, that borrow from his light,  
Do keep their course, in numbers infinite.   

So fares it with the vulgar that do go,  
In love, and mutual concord most secure,  
When Parity procures the overthrow,  
Of Monarchies, that else might well endure:  

* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 etc. Si duo Soles velint esse, periculum ●e ince●dio omnia per dantur. S●rm●s.  And like more Suns in sky, portendeth still,  
The Prince's ruin, or a worse ill.   


T●c●tus 1. Hist:  Et Pac●● interest, p●t●st●t●m omnem ad unum c●●fe●●●   


●●sili●: Doron.   
 
 
   

Non invicta recedo. To my Scholar Mr. HANNIBAL BASKERVILE. 
This Emblem● was devised as first by Paul●s jovius.   

THIS Indian beast, by Nature armed so,  
That scarce the Steel can pierce his scaly side: 
A Rhinoceros was sent to Rome by Emanuel king of Portugal who fought with it coming on land though rough Provence: but by the way, by hard fortune it was drowned near Porto Venere: seeking a long time to save itself among the Rocks. Paulus jovius.   
Assaulteth oft the Elephant his foe,  
And either doth the conqueror abide,  
Or by his mighty combatant is slain,  
For never vanquished, he returns again.   

So you that must encounter Want, and Care,  
To overcome your hard, and crabbed skill,  
Take courage, and tread under foot despair,  
For better hap, attends the venturous still:  
And sooner leave, your body in the place,  
Then back return, unlettered with disgrace.    

Non Honos, sed Onus.  

VAIN man who thinkest, that happiness consists,  
In great command, and Royal dignity;  
And Kings with Sceptres hold within their fists,  
The perfect sum of all felicity:  
No no, their Crowns are lined with pricking thorn,  
And sable cares, with crimson Robes are worn.   

Who list describe the motion of the Sphere,  
Another, some rare, beauteous model draw;  
With Eloquence, let him go charm the ear,  
Thy only art, must be to keep in awe,  
And curb with justice, the unruly crew,  
To favour skill, and give the good their due.   


Virgil● AEneid: 6.  Excudant alii spirantia mollius aera  
Credo equidem et vivos ducent de marmore vultus  
Orabunt causas melius etc.    

Quem timuisti, timet. Ad BRITANNIAM.  

WITH hair dishevelled, and in mournful wise, 
Inter Claudijnumismata.   
Who spurns a ship, with Sceptre in her hand:  
Thus Britaines drawn in old Antiquities,  
What time the Romans, overran her land:  
Who first devised her, sitting in this plight,  
As than their captive, and abandoned quite.   

But what can long continue at a stay,  
To all things being, Fates a change decree:  
Thrice-famous I'll, whom erst thou didst obey,  
Usurping Room, stands now in awe of thee:  

* Qui Sceptra d●ro ●aevus imperio regit Timet cimentes, ●●●us in auctorem redi● Sene●a Trag:  And trembles more, to hear thy sovereigns name,  
Then thou her Drums, when valiant Caesar came.    

Eo magis caligat.  

WHY doth vain man, with 
* Compescat se Humana temeritas et id quod est non quaerat, ne illud quod est non inveniat: Augustin: de Gent: contra Manic: lib: 1.  rash attempt desire,  
To search the depth, of Mysteries divine:  
Which like the Sun upon his earthy fire,  
With glory inaccessible do shine:  
And with the radiant splendour of their ray,  
Chase all conceited Ignorance away.   


Multo facilius invenit syderum conditorem humilis pietas, quam syderum ordinem superba curiositas Idem de Eclipse: Solis.  What mortal man might ever comprehend,  
God's sacred essence, and his secret will,  
Or his soul's substance, or could but intend,  
Lest while to view, this glorious creature still:  

* Imo, Deus melius nesciendo scitur: Augusti- lib: 11 the ord::  Be wise in what the word doth plainly teach,  
But meddle not, with things above thy reach.   

Quid volucri tentas humana scientia penna  
Quaerere inaccessi Mystica sacra Dei:  
Caligans oculis, obtusae et acumine men●is,  

B●silic: Doron.  Dum petis igniculis alta negata tuis.    

Piorum vita luctuosa. To the modest and virtuous minded, Mrs. Elizabeth Apsley, attending upon the most excellent Princess, the Lady Elizabeth her grace.  

WHILE that the Mavis, and the morning Lark,  
Do cheerly warble their delicious strains,  
The Turtle likes the shade, and thickets dark,  
And solitary by herself remains,  
Recording in most doleful wise her woe,  
Letting the pleasures, of the season go.   

The godly wight, whom no delight of Sin,  
Doth with vain pleasure draw: or worldly care,  
Esteemeth not, these fleeting joys a pin:  
But to the Lord, in private doth repair,  
With quiet Conscience; when the wicked oft,  
Are in the midst, of all their pleasures caught.   

Deus vitam annuntiavi tibi, posuisti lachrymas meas in conspectu tuo. 
Psalm:: 55.     

Coniugij Symbolum.  

BEHOLD a Stork, between two Torches placed,  
Of milky hue, with wings abroad displayed;  
In ancient time, the mark of wedlock chaste,  
Because this Bird, a deadly foe is said  
TO Adultery, and foulest foul Incest,  
The Vestal maid, the fire beseemeth best.   

chaste Love, the band of everlasting Peace,  
The best content we have, while here we live,  
That blessest Marriage, with thy sweet increase,  
And dost a pledge, of that conjunction give  
Twixt Soul, and Body, eke the mutual Love,  
Between the Church, and her sweet Spouse above.   

Foelices ter, et amplius,  

Ho●at: ● carm● 13  Quos irrupta tenet copula: nec malis  
Divulsis quaerimoniis  
Suprema citiùs solvet amor die.    

In eos qui cum amicis fruantur, uti nesciant.  

THIS simple Fool, that here bestrides the bow,  
And knowing well, the danger underneath,  
Yet busily doth saw the same in two,  
Like idle Ape, though to his present death:  
Which if he had forborn, and let it grow,  
He free from harm, had scaped the pikes below.   

To this same Idiot, such we liken may,  
Of trusty Friends as do not know the use,  
But while they are their props, and only stay,  
Will cut them off, by this, or that abuse;  
Or lose their favour, by behaviour ill,  
Who otherwise, might have upheld them still.    

Sic nos Dij.  

THE Tennis-ball, when strucken to the ground,  
With Racket, or the gentle Schoolboys hand,  

Caroli Ursini Symbolum Gnome vero mutata.  With greater force, doth back again rebound,  
His Fate, (though senseless) seeming to withstand:  
Yea, at the instant of his forced fall,  
With might redoubled, mounts the highest of all.   

So when the 
* Dijnos homines quasi pilas haben●. Plautus. So the Philosophers have heretofore said.  Gods above, have struck us low,  
(For men as balls, within the●● hands are said,)  
We chiefly then, should manly courage show,  
And not for every trifle be afraid:  
For when of Fortune, most we stand in fear,  
Then Tyrantlike, she most will domineer.    

Par nulla figura dolori. The device of the late Honourable, Earl of Essex.  

WE easily limb, some lovely-virgin face,  
And can to life, a Lantscip represent,  
Afford to Antiques, each his proper grace,  
Or trick out this, or that compartement:  
But with the Pencil, who could ere express,  
The face of grief, and hearty pensiveness.   

For where the mind's with deadly sorrow wounded,  
There no proportion, can effect delight,  
For like a Chaos, all within's confounded,  
Resembling nothing, save the face of night,  
Which in his shield, this noble Earl did bear,  
The last Impresa ', of his grief, and care.    

I●repetundos, et adulatores.  

OF Virgin's face, with wings, and talons strong,  
Upon thy table, PHINEUS here behold,  

Ovid: Metam: lib: 6.  A monstrous Harpy, that hath praeied long,  
Upon thy meats, while thou art blind, and old,  
And at all times, his appetite doth serve,  
While unregarded, thou thyself dost starve.   

The Courts of Kings, are said to keep a crew  
Of these 
* Hirudines aerarii. Cic: ad Atticum 1.  still hungry for their private gain:  
The first is he, that carries tales untrue,  
The second, whom base 
* Nihil in penatibus eius sit vaenale, aut ambitioni pervium. Tacitus Annal: 13.  bribing doth maintain,  
The third and last, the Parasite I find,  
Who bites the worst, if Princes will be blind. 

Insidit dapibus volveris foedissima Phineu  
(Harpyiam vocitant) ungul rapace tuis:  
Crimina qui d●fert, repetundus, Gnato 〈◊〉  
Vile genus fucos, quos alit Aula su●s.     


Basilic: ●or●●.  Est et apud Reges rudis, invida, rustica turba,  
Histrio, scurra, quibus virtus odiosa, Po●t●s  

B: Mantu●●: 〈◊〉 AEglog:  mill modis abigunt, ut quando cadavera corvi  
Invenere, fugant alias volucreique ferasque.    

Salomone pulchrius.  

LET courtly Dames, their costly jewels boast, 
Math: 6. 24.   
And Rhodopis, in silks and satins shine;  
Behold the Lily, thus devoid of cost, 
Albedo obiectum visus. Arist:   
In flowery fields, is clothed by power divine,  
In purest white, fairest object of the eye,  
Religion's weed, and badge of Chastity.   

Why should ye then as slaves to loathed pride,  
And frantic fools, think ye are half undone,  
When that ye go not in your colours pied,  
Or want the grace, of newest fashion:  
When even the Lily, in glory doth surpass,  
The rich, and roiallst King, that ever was.   

Splendida fluctivagos quid iactitat Aula lapillos?  
Intumet et Rhodopis bombycis arte levis?  
Regibus anteferor, mediis quod vestit in agris  
Vita oculi candour, virgineumque decus.    

Soboles damnosa parenti.  


Ex AEsopi fabu:  THE Husbandman, in depth of winter field,  
An aged Willow, fuel for to burn,  
But wanting wedges, Grandsire was compelled,  
To rend with bows, the body for his turn:  
And while the Willow, now was rend in twain,  
It gave a groan, and thus seemed to complain.   

Oh grief, of griefs! that thus I should be torn,  
And have my heart, by those asunder rend,  
That are my fruit, and of my body borne,  
Who for my stay, and comfort, should be sent:  
You Parents good, yourselves behold in me,  
Whose Children wicked, and ungracious be.   

Parents charissimos debemus habere, quod ab his vita.  

Cicero post re●it: ●e Senatis●  patrimonium, libertas, civitas data est.    

Innocentiam iniurijs maximè obnoxiam esse.  

THE Cat, the Cock held prisoner in her paw,  
And said of Birds, he most deserved to die,  
For that contrary unto Nature's Law,  
Hi● kindred he abused incestuously:  
His Mother, Sisters, and a noise did keep,  
With crowing still, when others feign would sleep.   

In his defence, hereto replied the Cock,  
My fault of lust, is for my masters gain,  
I am for crowing, called the Ploughman's clock,  
Whom I awake betime, to daily pain:  
No doubt (quoth Pusse,) of reasons thou hast store,  
But I am fasting, and can hear no more.    

Humanae miseriae.  

SEE here our human miseries in brief,  
That do our life, unto the last amate,  
And sauce the sweet, with fear, and hourly grief,  
Diseasing oft, the high, and happiest state:  
A Rod, the world, a Woman, Age's grief,  
Which four, the wisest do account the chief.   

His childish years, the 
* Quid prodest manum ferulae minantis Tot pati poenas teneris sub annis Et met● sequi Samium b●cerni Tramite call●m. Camp:  Rod keeps under still,  
His youth with Love, and strong affects is vexed,  
That headlong force him, 
* Cereus in vitium flecti: Hor●●:  pliable to ill,  
A reckless wife, and worldly cares are next:  
And when both youth, and middle age be past,  
Diseases strange, do end him at the last.    

Vireo tamen.  

THE 
* Some would have it the ●●pine.  Semper-vivum, though from earth removed,  
His leaf with flower, are fresh and growing seen,  
And many times, as by experience proved,  
It will abide, in sharpest winter green,  
As fair, and full of life, unto the view,  
As if abroad, in fertil'st soil it grew.   

So many men, of rarest parts there are,  
Who though the world afford them not a foot,  
Yet do they thrive, within the empty air,  
As well as they, that have the richest root:  
Yea, when as some, that are upheld like Hops, 
In murum cad●●um inclinante●   
Do droop, and die, even underneath their props.    

Dij laboribus vendunt.  

THE slothful man, that loves in idle seat,  
And wanton pleasures, to dispend his days:  
The Scripture plain denieth for to eat,  
And laws severe, do punish many ways:  
And never Heavens, with their bounty bless,  
The hand addicted unto Idleness.   

On th'other side, when for our sweaty pain,  
To sale they set us, all the precious things,  
The Earth within her bosom, doth contain,  
Gems, Herbs of virtue, Diadems of Kings,  
All sorts of Girlondes, and the Quill of Fame,  
To keep alive, the honour of our name.    

Gloriae lata via.  

Though life be short, and man doth as the Sun,  
His journey finish, in a little space,  
The way is wide, an honest course to run,  
And great the glories of a virtuous race,  
That at the last, do our just labours crown,  
With threefold wreath, Love, Honour, and Renown.   

Nor can Night's shadow, or the Stygian deep,  
Conceal fair Virtue, from the worlds wide eye,  
The more oppressed, the more she strives to peep,  
And raise her Rose-bound golden head on high:  
When Epicures, the wretch, and worldly slave,  
Shall rot in shame, alive, and in the grave.    

Tu contra audentior.  

THE valiant heart, that feels the utmost spite,  
Of envious Fortune, who with Sword and fire,  
Awaits his ruin, with redoubled might,  
Takes courage to him, and abates her ire,  
By resolution, and a constant mind,  
To deed of virtue, evermore inclined.   

Whose sprite, a spark of heavens immortal fire,  
Inglorious Sloth, may not in embers keep,  
But spite of hell, it will at length aspire,  
And even by straws, for want of fuel creep:  
When fearful natures, and the mind unsound,  
At every blast, is beaten to the ground.    

Huic ne credere tutissimum.  

SWEET Bird, who taught thee here to build thy nest?  
(In greater saf'tie than MEDEA's shrine,)  
Did Hap, or that thou knowest Crown the best,  
From injury to shelter thee and thine?  
How much I did thy happiness envy,  
When first I saw thee singing, hither fly.   

Your glory's Type, even so ye sacred Kings,  
In highest place, the weaker one to shield,  
Thus under that sweet shadow of your wings,  
Best loves the Arts, and Innocence to build:  
And thus my Muse, that never saf'tie knew,  
With weary wing, great HENRY flies to you.    

To the Honourable, Sir Thomas Ridgewaie, Knight, and Baronet: Treasurer at wars in Ireland, and one of his majesties Privy Counsel there etc. Thomas Ridgewaie. 
A●agramma.  Mihi gravato Deus.  

THE Camel strong, with burden great oppressed,  
Is forced to yield unto his load at last,  
And while he toils, himself enjoys the least,  
Of all the wealth, that on his back is cast:  
For why? he must the same, to those impart,  
Whose due it is, by Fortune, or desert.   

So honoured Sir, you, as your Camel, bear  
A Treasures charge, that pulls you on your knee,  
And though that thousands, ask it here, and there,  
To those that aught, and best deserving be,  
You only give, their wages, and their due,  
The while the care, and peril lies on you.    

Melancholia.  

HERE Melancholy musing in his fits,  
Pale visaged, of complexion cold and dry,  
All solitary, at his study sits,  
Within a wood, devoid of company:  
Save Madge the Owl, and melancholy Puss,  
Light-loathing Creatures, hateful, ominous.   

His mouth, in sign of silence, up is bound,  
For Melancholy loves not many words:  
One foot on Cube is fixed upon the ground,  
The which him plodding Constancy affords:  
A sealed Purse he bears, to show no vice,  
So proper is to him, as Avarice.    

Sanguis.  

THE Airy Sanguine, in whose youthful cheek,  
The Pestane Rose, and Lily do contend:  
By nature is benign, and gently meek,  
To Music, and all merriment a friend;  
As seemeth by his flowers, and girlondes gay,  
Wherewith he dightes him, all the merry May.   

And by him browzing, of the climbing vine,  
The lustful Goat is seen, which may import,  
His proneness both to women, and to wine,  
Bold, bounteous, friend unto the learned sort;  
For studies fit, best loving, and beloved,  
Fair-spoken, bashful, seld in anger moved.    

Cholera.  

NEXT Choler stands, resembling most the fire,  
Of swarthy yellow, and a meager face;  
With Sword a late, unsheathed in his Ire:  
Near whom, there lies, within a little space,  
A stern eyed Lion, and by him a shield,  
Charged with a flame, upon a crimson field.   

We paint him young, to show that passions reign,  
The most in heedless, and unstaid youth:  
That Lion shows, he seldom can refrain,  
From cruel deed, devoid of gentle ruth:  
Or hath perhaps, this beast to him assigned,  
As bearing most, the brave and bounteous mind.    

Phlegma.  

HERE Phlegm sits coughing on a Marble seat,  
As City-usurers before their door:  
Of Body gross, not through excess of meat,  
But of a Dropsy, he had got of yore:  
His slothful hand, in's bosom still he keeps,  
Drinks, spits, or nodding, in the Chimney sleeps.   

Beneath his feet, there doth a Tortoise crawl,  
For slowest pace, Sloths Hieroglyphic here,  
For Phlegmatic, hates Labour most of all,  
As by his course araiment, may appear:  
Nor is he better furnished I find,  
With Science, or the virtues of the mind.    

Ad jesum Christum oped: Max: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Thou art that sheep. 
An●gramma G: Camdeni aut inc●iti cuiuspiam.   

THE silly Lamb, on Altar lieth bound,  
Prepared ready, for the Sacrifice,  
Who willingly awaits his mortal wound,  
Without resistance, or help calling cries,  
To move the tender hearted to relent,  
Or heavens to hear a dying Innocent.   

Thou art (dear Lord) this Lamb, who for our guilt, 
isaiah: 53.7.   
Forsook'st the Throne, of highest Majesty, 
Acts 8. 32.   
And gav'st thy blood, for sinners to be spilled,  
Friend to thy foes, high in humility:  
And is this creature innocent, and dumb,  
Till Lion-like, thou shalt to judgement come.   

Redemptor noster homo nascendo, agnus moriendo, Leo resurgendo,  
et ad coelos ascendendo, aquila facta est.    

Nec amicis, nec cognatis fidendum.  

THE Partridge building in the ripened wheat,  
Did charge her young, (while she abroad did fly,  
With tender care, to search about for meat,)  
To mark the talk, of those that passed by:  
Ere long there came, the owner of the corn,  
Who said by friends, next day it should be shorn.   

There is no danger, quoth the old one yet,  
Be still a while, I once abroad again,  
Then heard they, he his kinsmen would entreat,  
Without delay, to fell that field of grain:  
Some fear there is, quoth Dam, but if he says,  
he'll come himself, than time to go our ways.    

Matrimonium:  

WHO loveth best, to live in Hymen's bands,  
And better likes, the careful married state,  
May here behold, how Matrimony stands,  
In wooden stocks, repenting him too late:  
The servile yoke, his neck, and shoulder wears,  
And in his hand, the fruitful Quince he bears.   

The stocks do show, his want of liberty,  
Not as he wont, to wander where he list:  
The yoke's an ensign of servility:  
The fruitefullnes, the Quince within his fist,  
Of wedlock tells, which 
* Plutarch.  SOLON did present,  
THE Athenian Brides, the day to Church they went.    

Sed frigida pulchra. Ad Lesbiam.  

LESBIAN, that dost th' Elysian Rose excel,  
Or Cyprian Goddess, for a beauteous grace;  
Forgive me, here that I so plainly tell,  

Dum licet iniusto subtrahe colla iug● Propert: 2. 5.  My loves long errors, wandering in thy face:  
Thy face that takes, like that Daedalian maze,  
All eyes thereon, that shall with wonder gaze.   

Though fairest fair, thou be'st yet like the Snow,  
Or shamefast Rose, thou inwardly art cold,  
Nor can the beams, that gentle Love doth throw,  
Exhale the sweet, thy bosom doth enfold:  
As thou art fair, so wert thou Lesbian kind,  
My wrongs had di' de, and none had known thy mind.   


Ovid Epist: 1●.  Sive latet Phoebus, seu terris altior extet,  
Tu mihi luce dolour, tu mihi nocte venis.    

Veritas.  

A BEAUTEOUS maid, in comely wise doth stand:  
Who on the suns bright globe, doth cast her eye:  
An opened book, she holdeth in her hand,  
withal the Palm, in sign of victory;  
Her right foot treadeth down the world below:  
Her name is TRUTH, of old depainted so.   

Her nakedness beseems simplicity:  
The Sun, how she is greatest friend to light:  
Her book, the strength she holds by 
Historia custo● illustrium virorum virtutis, testis malorum sceleris, benefica in omne humanum Genus: Diodorus Siculus. 1. Biblothec:  history:  
The Palm, her triumphs over Tyrant's spite:  
The world she treads on, how in heaven she dwells,  
And here beneath all earthly thing excels.    

Etiam hosti servanda. 
Inter Augusti Numismata.   


Vide historiam M: Artilii Reguli in Cic: officiis.  OF CONCORD firm, the Romans in their coin,  
This symbol gave, their peace about to make,  
That as their hands, in one their hearts should join,  

Fides etiam perfidis praestanda, Ambros:  And sooner first, they would their lives forsake,  
Then treachr'ously, their vow and promise break,  
Though to their foe, if they the word did speak.   


Card: julianus: vide Bohemorun annal. et Fox ium in suo Martyrolog:  For lo, the Lord who secrets all doth know,  
With vengeance most, doth plague the faithless wight:  

Nec regnis post ferte fidem. Silius lib: 11.— optimus ille Militiae cui postremum est primumque tueri Inter bella fidem Idem lib: 14.  As that same" Cardinal, proved not long ago,  
Who in the field against his faith would fight:  
With God and man, the truth accepted is;  
Oh! let not heathen, us excel in this.   

Nam illis promssiis standum quis non videt? quae coactus quis metu, au● decep●us dolo promiserit. Cicero in office:   

Publica Romulides pacturi foedera iungunt  
Concords geminas oreque cord manus.  
Ingens crede nefas hostiles fallere dextras,  

Ex Bas: nos●●o.  Quod poenas meruit vindice saepe Deo.    

justitia militaris.  

WHEN SCAURUS forth the Roman youth did lead, 
Memoriae tradiderit Scau●●s pomiferam arborem quam in pede castrorum fuerat complexa metatio postero die abeunte exercitu intactis fructibus relictam. Front, Sratagem: cap 3.   
To prove their valour on the common foe:  
Within his Camp, in authors as I read,  
A pear tree laden with the fruit did grow,  
Which at's departure, kept the wont store,  
As full remaining as it did before.   

A mirror for commanders in our age,  
Who deem it honour, and a soldiers guise,  
To use on foes all 
* In omne fas nefasque avidi aut vaenales, non sacro non prophano abstinentes. Taci●us. 2. hist:  villainous outrage:  
Rapes, murders, rapines, burnings robberies:  
And greatest part of valour to consist,  
Like savage bruits, in spoiling what they list. 

Nemo pullum rapiat, ovem nemo contingat, segeten nemo detera●, oleum, sal, lignum nemo exigat, annona sua contentus sit.  
Vopise. in Au●:      

Regum Maiestatem non imminuendam.  

THE ancient Romans by their Temples used,  
To paint a serpent, or such hideous thing:  
That holy places, might not be abused  
By children, whom they told, that these would sting:  
And made believe they lived, to that intent,  
To Sacred things they should be reverend.   


●ingo meos angues: Pers ●  Vile Traitor, of some Hyrcane Tiger bred,  
Such Serpents still, thy sovereigns crown do guard:  
But think not as the other, these are dead,  

jovi eura est veneranda principis Theocritus.  Like child or fool: but that they are prepared,  
With mortal stings, to be revenged on them,  
That shall abuse, tha'nointed Diadem.   


T●citu●. 1. An●●●:  Proditores etiam iis quos ante ponunt invisi sunt.    

Dolis minime fidendum.  

THE Cat and Fox, while that alone they sat 
Ex AEsop fab.   
Consulting, Regnard thus began to boast,  
And soberly to tell unto the Cat,  
His shifts, when danger did assail him most:  
The Cat said, one is proper unto me  
If worst should come, that is to take a tree.   

Mean time of hounds, there came a yolping crew,  
Who found the Fox: Pusse trusting to her claws,  
And seeing him torn in pieces, in her view,  
Said to herself, after a little pause;  
One honest shift is better now I see,  
Then all thy cunning in extremity.    

Vigil utrinque.  

A BEACON standing on the Rocky shore,  
Upon whose top, a cock to sit you see:  
Gods Ministers doth show, should evermore,  

Super speculam Domini ego ●um s●ans iugiter per Diem. Ezech● 3  Stand Sentinel; and hourly watchful be,  
Upon their flock, defending every port,  
Whereto the foe, is likeliest to resort.   


Speculatorem dedi te. isaiah 21.  For many are the stratagems of sin,  
And Satan labours still with might and main,  
Within our souls, a landing place to win:  
It is your parts, with fervent prayer again;  
And faith the spirits sword, and all ye may,  
To keep his malice, from your flocks away.   


Ex ●as●l: 〈…〉 P●●●ci●●m.  Peccatis totos ne vos sopor opprimat altus,  
Excubias perago nocte dieque pias:  
Cumque gregi Daemon mart insidietur aperto,  
Littore ab aequoreo taeda cavere jubet.   


Gr●g●r. Hom. 19 〈◊〉 E●●ch:  Quisquis populi speculator ponitur, in alto debet stare per vitam, ut possit prodesse per providentiam.    

Vindicta Divina.  

WHILE sinful Sodom dreads the heavenly fire, 
Zachar: 3.   
And Nero trembles at his shadows sight:  
This book, the Herald of 
Periurii p●ena divina exitium, humana dedecus Cicero. 2 de legibus.  th'Almighties Ire,  
Doth on the house, of every swearer light:  
To Punish justly, so profane a sin,  
With all the plagues, that are contained therein.   

A warning good for swearers, and for those,  
That think such sin, their actions only grace:  
And him the man, that can with fearful oaths,  
Blaspheme the Lord of heaven unto his face:  
But know profane, ere many years be past, 

In prolem dilata ruunt periuria patris.  
Et poenam merito filius ore luit: Claudian:    
A plague will come, with winged speed at last.   

Dum Sodoma immissos horret sibi coelitus ignes,  
Terga sua et Nemesi dat paricîda Nero: 
Ex Basilico nostro.   
Advolitans coelo liber hic requievit in illum,  
Numina periuro qui vocat ore Dei.    

Eternitas.  

A VIRGIN fair, purtraicted as you see,  
With hair dispred, in comely wise behind:  
Within whose hands, two golden balls there be:  
But from the breast, the nether parts are twined  
Within a starry circle, do express,  
Eternity, or everlastingness.   

ETERNITY is young, and never old:  
The circle wants 
In aeterno nihil praeteritum est, neque venturum.  beginning and the end:  
And uncorrupt for ever lies the gold:  

Philo judaeus.  The heaven her lights for evermore did lend,  
The Heathen thought, though heaven & earth must pass,  
And all in time decay that ever was.   


C●c: 1. d● Natura D●orum.  Fuit quaedam ab infinito tempore aeternitas, quam nulla circumscriptio temporum metiebatur, spatio tamen qualis ea fuerit intelligi non potest.    

Hei mihi quod vidi.  

LOOK how the Limbeck gently down distil's, 
Incerti. Ex pergula Regia:   
In pearly drops, his hearts dear quintessence:  
So I, poor Eye, while coldest sorrow fills,  
My breast by flames, enforce this moisture thence  
In crystal floods, that thus their limits break,  
Drowning the heart, before the tongue can speak.   

Great Lady, Tears have moved the savage fierce,  
And wrested Pity, from a Tyrant's ire:  
And drops in time, do hardest Marble pierce,  
But ah I fear me, I too high aspire,  
Then wish those beams, so bright had never shined,  
Or that thou hadst, been from thy cradle blind.    

Sic audaces fortuna.  

LYSIMACHUS adjudged once to die,  
By sentence just, for that he poisoned,  
CALISTHENES his master privily,  
And lying long in dungeon fettered  
To end his days, did in the end request,  
He might be thrown, unto a savage beast.   

The which was strait of ALEXANDER granted,  
And naked he unto a Lion cast,  
But having one arm closely armed, undaunted,  
By th'upper jaw, he holds his foe so fast,  
That down his throat, that armed arm he sends,  
And even the heartstrings, from the body rends.   

Which bold attempt, when ALEXANDER knew,  
Thy life is thine, LYSIMACHUS quoth he,  
Besides I give, (as to thy valour due,)  
My friendship here, my Sceptre after me:  
For thus the virtuous, and the valiant sprite,  
Triumphs o'er Fate, and Fortune's deadliest spite.    

Et minimi vindictam.  

WE do adore by nature, Princes good,  
And gladly as our Parents, them obey,  
But loath the 
* Leo rugiens e● Vrsus e●uriens, princeps impius super populum pauperem: Pro: 25.  Monsters, that delight in blood,  
And think their People sent them for a prey:  
To whom the Lord, doth in his judgement send,  
A loathed life, or else a fearful end.   

Once NERO'S name, the world did quake to hear, 
Nihil tam firmum est, cui non sit periculum etiam ab invalido. Curtius' lib. 7.   
And ROME did tremble, at DOMITIAN'S sight:  
But now the Tyrant, cause of all this fear,  
Is laid full low, upon whose tomb do light,  
To take revenge, the be, and summer 
* Otiosus enim Muscas necare solet: hinc illud: Ne Musca quidem cum Imperatore.  Fly,  
Who not escaped sometime his cruelty. 

Sponte pios Reges reveremur, at art Tyramnos,  
Arte regunt itidem, funere et arte cadunt:  
Vellicat extinctum cum turba togata NERONEM, 
Basilic: Doron.   
Muscula ●t illudit, DOMITIANE tibi.  
De Tyranno IOB loquens, sonitum ait terroris semper esse in auribus illius. 
job. 15.      

— sollicito bibunt  
Auro superbi; quam iuvat nuda manu 
Seneca.   
Captasse fontem   

Ad generum Cereris sine caede et sanguine pauci 
juvena: satire: 10   
Descendun● Reges, et sicca morte Tyranni.    

Ex utroque Immortalitas. Ad pijssimum jacobum magnae Britanniae Regem.  

BUT thou whose goodness, Piety, and Zeal,  
Have caused thee so, to be beloved of thine,  
(When envious Fates, shall rob the Common weal,  
Of such a 
* Bonus Princeps nihilo differt a bono patre.  Father,) shalt for ever shine:  
Not turned as 
* Have animam interea caeso de corpore raptam Fac iubar ut semper Capitolia nostra forumque Divus ab exelsa prospectet julius aede. Ovid: Metamor: 15.  Caesar, to a feigned star,  
But placed a 
* Pietate, et justitia, Principes Dij fiunt. Augusti dictum. apud Senecam in Lu d●.  Saint, in greater glory far.   

With whom mild Peace, the most of all desired;  
And learned Muse shall end their happy days;  
While thou to all eternity admired,  
Shalt live a fresh, in after age's praise:  
Or be the Loadestarre, of thy glorious North,  
Drawing all eyes, to wonder at thy worth.   


Ex ●asil: nostro:  Te tua sed Pietas omni memorabilis aevo,  
Sidus ad aeterni Caesaris usque feret:  
justitia occumbet tecum, quia Musa, Fidesque  
In patriam, raris pax et habenda locis.    

Icon Peccati.  

A YOUNG man blind, black, naked here is seen,  
o'er Mountain steep, and Thorny Rock to pass,  
Whose heart a Serpent gnaws with fury teen,  
Another's wound about his waist; alas,  
Since ADAM'S fall, such our estate hath been,  
The lively picture of our guilt and sin.   

His age denotes youths follies and amiss,  
His blindness shows, our want of wisdoms sight;  
sins deadly ways, those dangerous steps of his, 
Heu quan●um misero poenae men● conscia donat Lucan:   
His nakedness, of grace deprived quite:  
Hell's power the Serpent, which his loins doth girt,  
A 
* Grave pondus Conscientia. Cicero lib: 3. de natura Deorum.  Conscience bad, the other eats his heart.    

Inconstantia.  

INCONSTANCY with fickle foot doth stand,  
Upon a Crab, in gown of paly green,  
A shining Cressaunt showing in her hand,  
Which as herself, is changing ever seen:  
That colour light, she borrows from the Sea,  
Whose waves continue, never at a stay.   

Forward, and backward, Cancer keeps his pace,  
Th' inconstant man, so doubtful in his ways,  
The private life, one while will most embrace,  
In travail then, he lists to spend his days:  
Which was the Kitchen, that he makes a Tower,  
Then down goes all together in an hour.    

In Amicos falsos.  

TWO friends there were that did their journey take, 
Ex AEsopifabu:   
And by the way, they made a vow to either,  
What ere befell, they never would forsake,  
But as sworn brethren, live and die together:  
Thus wandering through deserts, here and there,  
By chance they met, a great and ugly Bear.   

At whom, amazed with a deadly fear,  
One leaves his friend, and climbeth up a tree:  
The other, falls down flat before the Bear,  
And keeps his breath, that seeming dead to be,  
The Bear forsook him, (for his nature's such,  
A breathless body never once to touch.)   

The beast departing, and the danger past,  
The dead arose, and kept along his way:  
His fellow leaping from the tree at last,  
Asked what the Bear, in's care did whispering say,  
Quoth he, he bade me, evermore take heed,  
Of such as thou, that failest in time of need.    

Levitas.  

A YOUTH arrayed, in sundry colours light,  
And painted plumes that overspread his crest:  
Describes the varying and fantastic wight,  
(
ecclesiast:  For like our minds, we commonly are dressed:)  
His right hand holds, the bellows to his ear,  
His left, the quick, and speedy spur doth bear.   

Such is Capriccio, or th'unstaid mind,  
Whom thousand fancies hourly do possess,  
For riding post, with every blast of wind,  
In nought he's steady, save unstableness:  
musicans, Painters, and Poetic crew,  

Caes: Ripa perugino.  Accept what RIPA, dedicates to you.    

Adhuc mea messis in herba. Ad D. M. L. nobilem quandam Italam Mediolanensem quinquagenariam, quae puero vix 15. annos nato non ita pridem nupsit. jocosum. Pasquini.  

ADMIRED Lady, I have mused oft,  
In silent night, when you have been in bed,  
With your young husband, whereupon you thought,  
Or what conceit possessed your careful head,  
Since he we know, as yet had never seen,  
His tenderest years, amounted to fifteen:   

No question but you grieved inward much,  
As doth the Miser, in a backward year:  
When others reap, to see your harvest such,  
And all your hopes, but in their blade appear:  
Lady, let henceforth nought disease your rest,  
For after-crops do sometime prove the best.    

Somniorum Dea.  

WHAT lovely Goddess do mine eyes behold?  
That powers such plenty with her bounteous hand:  

Frischlinus in Persium:  Her name is BRYSUS, whom the Greeks of old,  
As Queen of dreams adored within their land:  
Whom if they served, devoutly as they should,  
They made no doubt, of having what they would.   

And well may BRYSUS, be a Goddess thought,  
So many who with fancies vain deceives:  
Whom when she to fools Paradise hath brought,  
For golden Apples, scarce she gives them leaves:  

Non aug●rabimi●●, non ob●ervabitis somnia. Levitic: 19  To visions vain, and dreams than take no heed,  
Which had in Christ, their ending as you read.   

Somnia fallaci ludunt temeraria nocte,  
Et pavid●s men●es falsa timere jubet.   


T●●u●lus 34.  Cerno Deae ●ffigiem, cuius sed dicito? ●RYSVS,  
Quam numen credunt somnia vana suum:  

Ba●●●i●: Do●●n.  Fundit opes varias. stultos spe lactat inani,  
Quos bullis ditat crastina lusa dies.    

Libidinis effecta.  

THE Viper when he doth engender, lo,  
Thus down the females throat, doth put his head, 
Thriver: in Apotheg:   
Which of she bites, as learned Authors show,  
And ne'er conceives, before the male be dead:  
Eke when s●e forth, her poisonous brood doth send,  
Her young ones likewise, bring her to her end.   

Of Beastly lust, th' effects herein perceive,  
How deadly, and how dangerous they be,  
Of life and soul, that do at once bereave,  
Turning abundance into beggary:  
Daughter of Sloth, vile canker of the mind,  
Leaving repentance, and foul shame behind.   

Saevus criminum stimulus libido est, quae nunquam manner  
quie●um patitur affectum, nocte fervet, die anhelat. 
Bernard de Abel et Cain.     

Sors.  


Ex Epigrammate graeco vetusto:  A WOEFUL wretch, that languished in despair,  
Withouten friends, and means of living here,  
A halter took, to make an end of care,  
The while beneath hid treasure doth appear:  
Which to his lot assigned, by fortune's doom,  
He takes, and leaves his halter in the room.   

The owner after missing of his pelf,  
For deadly grief, his heaps and hopes were gone,  
The others halter takes, and hangs himself:  

Fortuna vitrea est, cum splendet frangitur: Pub●●us  Fortune thus dallies ever, and anon  
o'erswaying all, with Sceptre in her fist,  
And bandieth us, like balls which way she list.    

Inani impetu.  

THE Crocodile along th' Egyptian NILE,  
That lurks to make the passenger his prey,  
The most of all delights, to rob and spoil  
The Hunny-hives, were he not kept away  
By Saffron planted, round on every side,  
Which this sly thief, could never yet abide. 
unde Crocodili ●omen habet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. quod Crocum maxime timeat, Nam Apiarij in AEgypto (teste Plinio,) circum alvearia Crocum conserunt ne a praedone isto di●ipia●tur:    

This Crocodile, I count the Ghostly foe,  
Who evermore lies watching, to devour  
Our Hopes increase, that in the soul doth grow,  
Did not the grace divine, this Saffron flower  
(Most wholesome herb) prevent his deadly spite,  
And guard the Garden, safely day and night.    

Secundus deteriora dies.  

WHEN as TIBERIUS CAESAR passed along  
The streets of Rome, by chance he did espy  
A Lazar poor, who there amid the throng,  
Did full of sores, and loathsome ulcers lie,  
About the which, so busy was the fly:  
That moved with pity, CAESAR willed some,  
Stand by to kill them, as they saw them come.   

Whereat the wretch, did suddenly reply,  
These flies are full, pray let them yet alone,  
For being killed, a fresher company,  
More hunger pinched, would bite me to the bone:  
So when the wealthy judge, is dead and gone:  
Some starue● one succeeds, who 
* Caninum legis stu●ium dixit. 〈…〉: 1.  biteth more,  

Q●ema● nodum vis mo●b●rum pretia 〈…〉 An●●●. 11.  A thousand times, then did the full before.    

Silentij dignitas.  

Lo SOLON here th' Athenian sage doth stand, 
Angerona Dea praeses silentij apud Romanos, obsignato ore antiquitus efficta est   
The glory of all GRECIA to this day,  
With courage bold who taketh knife in hand,  
And with the same, doth cut his tongue away:  
But being asked of some, the reason why,  
By writing thus he answered by and by.   

Oft have I heard, that many have sustained, 
Res omnium difficillima silere ●t audire: Gellius lib: 1.   
Much loss by talk, and lavishnes of tongue,  
Of silence never any yet complained,  
Or could say justly, it had done him wrong:  
Who knows to speak, and when to hold his peace, 
Quingennium filentium in Pythagorae schola quam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vocabant, teste Laertio indicebatur. L●ertius lib: 22.   
Finds fewest dangers, and lives best at ease.    

Vini Energia.  

THE husbandman, laid sometime to his vine,  
To make it bear, the dung of sundry beasts,  
Whose virtue since, hath quite possessed the wine,  
As may appear, at many drunken feasts:  
One 
* Vina dabant animos— Ovid: Met●m: 12.  Lion-like, doth quarrel with his host,  
stars, swears, breaks windows, or behacks the post.   

Apelike you see, the second merry still,  

— geminata libidine surgit ibidem.  Or hot with lust, he never thinks of sleep:  
Another 
*— Affigit humo divinae particulam aurae. Horat: lib: Serm: 2. Satyr: 2  swinish, feels his stomach ill:  
The fourth is soft, and simple as the sheep:  
A Roman sage, did sometime thus express,  
In brief th' effects, of loathsome Drunkenness.    

Nec igne, nec unda.  

AMID the waves, a mighty Rock doth stand,  
Whose ruggy brow, had bidden many a shower,  
And bitter storm; which neither sea, nor land,  
Nor joves sharpe-lightening ever could devour:  
This same is MANLY CONSTANCY of mind,  
Not easily moved, with every blast of wind.   

Near which you see, a goodly ship to drown,  
Herewith bright flaming in a piteous fire: 
Vide Lipsium de Constantia.   
This is OPINION, tossed up and down,  
Whose Pilot's PRIDE, & Steeresman VAIN DESIRE,  
Those flames HOT PASSIONS, & the WORLD the sea,  
God bless the man, that's carried thus away.    

Praecocia non diut●rna.  

WHILE gentle Zephir, warms the tender spring,  
And Flora glads all creatures at her sight:  
The Almond-trees, ere any leaves they bring,  
Unfold their pride, their blossoms red and white:  
But withered soon, unto the ground they fall,  
Or yield their fruit, the least and last of all.   

So many children in their tender years,  
Do promise much by towardliness of wit,  
From such, yet seldom any fruit appearest  
When as some plodder, that below doth sit,  
Of whom both friends, and master did despair,  
As hindmost hound doth soon catch the Hare.    

Ira Principum: Quocunque ferar.  

BY rash attempt, who injures mighty men,  
Or by base deed, incurs the Prince's Ire, 
Principes non irritandos. Proverb ●●5. 15.   
Doth often wish, it were to do again,  
And that his hand, perhaps were in the fire,  
That fought against him, or with Libel base,  
Sedition sowed, or slander in disgrace.   

For as this Engine, where the same doth light,  
Like JOVE'S swift-thunder, merciless it strikes,  
And by the root, rends up rebellion quite:  
The wiser man, will then aware the pikes,  
And frame himself, to live without offence,  
First 
* Let the first ●are, be of God, & divine things. Arist: politic: 7. cap. 8.  God to serve, and afterwards his Prince.    

Vlterius durabit.  

THE Monuments that mighty monarchs rear,  
COLOSSO'S statües, and Pyramids high,  
In tract of time, do moulder down and wear,  
Ne leave they any little memory,  
The Passenger may warned be to say,  
They had their being here, another day.   


Scindentur vestes, geminae frangentur et aurum, Carmina quem tribuent fama perennis erit: Ovi●: Amor: Eleg: 10.  But wise words taught, in numbers sweet to run,  
Preserved by the living Muse for aye,  
Shall still abide, when date of these is done,  
Nor ever shall by Time be worn away:  
Time, Tyrants, Envy, World assay thy worst,  
Ere HOMER die, thou shalt be 
„ Exitio terras cum dabit una dies. Ovi●:  fired first.   

Ergo cum silices, cum dens patiatur aratri  
Depereant aevo, carmina morte carent.  

Ovid: E●●g● ultra  Cedant carminibus Reges, Regumque Triumphi,  
Cedat et auriferi ripa beata Tagi.    

Pro Regno, et Religione. 
Henrici. 4. Angliae Regis, Symbolum.   

THE monarchs good, that do deserve the name  
Of 
„ Patres Pat●●●  Country Parents, by their love and care  
Of commonwealth, and to defend the same  
From public harms, by wise foresight, prepare:  

* 
Non sic excubiae, nec circumstantia ●ela, quam tutatur amor.  
Claudian: ad h●●●r.   By loving hearts, are guarded surer far,  
Then some unwieldy SWIZZES, or JANIZAR.   

HENRY this once, thy Royal Impreze stood,  
To show, thy foe should find thee ready priest,  
For Church, and Country, to dispend thy blood,  
When danger, or occasion did request,  
And further, though the Trumpet stern did cease,  
Thus evermore, to go prepared in PEACE.    

Non Nubila tangant.  

THE godly mind, that hath so oft assayed,  
The perils that our frailty here amate,  
Through heavenly wisdom, is no more afraid  
Of Fortune's frown, and bitter blasts of Fate:  
For though in vale of woes, her dwelling be,  
Her nobler part's above untouched and free.   

For mortal things do find their change below,  
And nought can here defend us from the shower,  
Now greatest winds do threat our overthrow,  
Our golden morn anon gins to lower:  
And while our hopes, are yet but in their sap,  
Their buds are blasted by the Thunderclap.    

Ordo.  

THE Commonwealth, whose Base is firmly laid  
On evenest ground, of justice and the right,  
By time or change, in vain we see assayed,  
But where affection overswaies with might:  
Confusion there, all unto havoc brings,  
And undermines, the thrones of mightiest Kings. 
The Impreze of King Stephen.    

Our English STEPHEN, did take unto him this  
Fair falling Plume, resembling best of all,  
The new establshed government of his,  
Whereas each feather keeps his rank and fall:  
So should that state, (let Fortune do her worst,)  
As fair, and firm, as ever at the first.    

His graviora.  

THE valiant mind, whom nothing can dismay,  
The loss of friends, of goods, or long exile  
From native country, perils on the Sea,  
Night-watching, hunger, thirst, and hourly toil,  
Takes courage, and the same abideth fast,  
With resolution, even unto the last.   

Such show'd himself, AENEAS unto those  
Of his poor remnant, on the Tyrrhene Seas;  
When even despair, their eyes began to close,  

* 
O pas●● graviora Deus dabit his quoque finem.  
●i●gil● AEn●id: 2.   We greater brunts, have borne (quoth he) than these:  
And God, (my Mates,) when he shall please will send,  
Unto our greatest miseries an end.    

In vos hic valet. 
Anagramma Authoris.  Nicolas White.  

WHO strives to keep a heart and conscience pure,  
Devoide of vice, and inward guilt of Sin:  
Is guarded by his Innocence more sure,  
And witness of an honest mind within,  
Then if he were in complete armour clad,  

* Integer vitae scelerisque purus Horatius.  Or Bow and quiver of the Moor he had.   

For Innocence resembled by the WHITE,  
And manly courage by the constant heart,  
Way not a straw the force of SLAUNDERS' might,  
deaths Ebony shaft, or Cupid's golden dart:  
When, whom Affection, or their guilt do wound,  
Even at the first, are stricken to the ground.    

Nitor in adversum.  

THE Cypress tree, the more with weight oppressed,  
The more (they say) the branch will upward shoot,  

Plini: in Histor: naturals  And since the body doth resemble best,  
A Column strong and stately from the root:  
The Ancients would, it should the Impreze be,  
Of Resolution, and true Constancy.   

Though Fortune frown, and do her worst to bend,  
Th' undaunted spirit with her weary weight,  
His virtue yet, doth ever upward tend,  

Excelsus animus non movetur minis, aut Fortunae saevientis procellis. Seneca.  And he himself, stands irremooved straight,  
Laughing to scorn, the paper blasts of Fate,  
That would remove, or undermine his state.    

Vanae merces. In Naupalum. 
Epigramma.   

RICH NAUPALUS, hath secretly convaid,  
Our English fleece so long beyond the sea,  
That not for wit, but for his wealth 'tis said,  
he's thence returned a worthy Knight away,  
And brought us back, beads, Hobby-horses, boxes,  
Fans, Windmills, Ratles, Apes, and tails of Foxes.   

And now like JASON, up and down he goes,  
As if he had th' Hesperian Dragon slain,  
And equalized in worth, those old Heroe's,  
That in the ARGO cut the Grecian main:  
Honour thou didst, but do his valour right,  
When of the fleece, thou dubbest him a Knight.   

Vellera divendit Belgis laudata Britannûm,  
S●d nugas referens NAUPLUS inde domum: 
Basilic: Doron.   
Vellere factus eques, volitat novus alter JASON  
Vilescit (rides) velleris ordo nimis.    

Haud conveniunt.  


Ovid: Metam t 10  I MUCH did muse, why Venus could not brook,  
The savage Boar, and Lion cruel fierce,  
Since Kings and Princes, have such pleasure took  
In hunting: haply cause a Boar did pierce  
Her Adonis fair, who better liked the sport,  
Then spend his days, in wanton pleasures court.   

Which fiction though devisd by Poet's brain,  
It signifies unto the Reader this;  
Such exercise Love will not entertain,  
Who liketh best, to live in Idleness:  
The foe to virtue, canker of the wit,  
That brings a thousand miseries with it.   

Exosos Veneri lepores mirâre fugaces,  
Siluestres ceruos, setigerumque genus●  
Ex animis cecidit vel quod 
* Adonis.  Cynarëius Heros,  
Aut his quod non sit lusibus aptus amor.    

Zelus in Deum. To my Father, Mr. Henry Peacham, of Leverton in Holland, in the County of Linc:  

WITH Breast inflamed, and longing hearts desire,  
Thus winged Zeal, to heavenward casts her eye:  
And loathing what the world doth most admire,  
Vpborne by Faith, ascends above the sky:  
Whereby Oh God, thy mysteries we learn,  
And all beyond, our reason's sight discern.   

And as the heart embosed, doth long to taste  
The pearly-trickling stream, or crystal fount,  
Even so the soul, by Sin pursued and chased,  
Thee, thou, (oh Lord) desires, who dost surmount  
All treasures, pleasures, which we here possess,  
The sum and substance, of our happiness.   

Nullum omnipotenti Deo tale est sacrificium, quale est zelus animarum. 
Gregor: Homily 12 in Ezechi●l:   
Animi acrimonia cum ad Pietatem accesserit, zelum parit, zelus autem fidei praesidium est. 
Nazianzen: ora● 23.     

Sanctitas simulata.  


There is more pride, under one of their black Bonnets, them under Alexander's Diadem. King james in his Bisilicon Doron:  UPON a Crown with precious gems beset,  

Earl Gourie one of the greatest Puritans of his time in Scotland, in his travails through France and It●lie, used with his Diamond, (for the most part) to draw in his Chamber window, a man in armour, with a Sword in his right hand, pointing towards a Crown, adding this or the like word, Te solum, which yet renaines in many places to be seen, what he meant hereby it might easily 〈◊〉 have b●n g●●●sed.  Say what's the reason thus a hat we see,  
Since Diadems of Princes ever yet,  
From base control, have been exempt and free:  
There is a sect, whom PURITANS they call,  
Whose pride this Figure fitteth best of all.   

Not such I mean, as are of Faith sincere,  
And to do good endeavour all they can,  
Would all the world of their religion were,  
We tax th'aspiring factious Puritan:  
Whose 
* Paritas confusionis matter. August.  Parity, doth worst confusion bring,  
And Pride presumes to overlook his King.    

De Morte, et Cupidine.  

DEATH meeting once, with CUPID in an Inn, 
Ho idem habet Whitnaeus in ● Embls: quod bona cum illius venia ab Authore etiam mutuatus sum.   
Where room was scant, together both they lay.  
Both weary, (for they roving both had been,)  
Now on the morrow when they should away,  
CUPID Death's quiver at his back had thrown,  
And DEATH took Cupid's, thinking it his own.   

By this o'resight, it shortly came to pass,  
That young men died, who ready were to wed:  
And age did revel with his bonny-lasse,  
Composing garlands for his hoary head:  
Invert not Nature, oh ye Powers twain,  
Give CVPID'S darts, and DEATH take thine again.    


— V●IANIVS armis Herculis ad postem fixis late● abdit●s agro. Horat: — Latet abditus agro.  

THE valiant mind that once had most delight,  
By sea and land to make his prowess known,  
And in defence of King, and countries right,  
So much his valour, and his virtue shown,  
Some wished port, doth at the last desire,  
And home whereto in age he may retire.   

For infinite's the sum of world affairs,  

* Nihil novum sub Sole. Solomon in Ecclesiastes.  Nor new, nor strange, that do afflict the mind,  
And show before the day our silver hairs,  
Yea even before we can experience find:  
That frailest man, by course of nature dies,  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Solon.  Even at his first beginning to be wise.    

Sine Cerere et Baccho.  

SAY Cytharaean maid, why with thy son,  
Both hands and feet thou warmest at the fire?  
Who want yourselves, t'enkindle many a one,  
With gentle flames, of kindly loves desire:  
I guess cause BACCHUS is not present here,  
With mirthful wine, nor CERES with her cheer.   

Where Temperance and Sobriety do reign,  
There lustful vice, and pleasure frozen are:  
And virtue best, there liketh to remain;  
When often times th' effects of dainty fare,  
And drunken healths, are quarrels and debate,  
Blaspheming, whoredom, oaths and deadly hate.    

Laboris effecta. To the no less virtuous than fair, Mrs. Anne Dudleie. é l' nuda DIANA. Anna Dudleia. 
A●agramma.   

DIANA chaste, doth eagerly pursue  
With swiftest hounds, the aiery-footed Stag:  
And while they keep, the merry chase in view,  
The woods with Echoes thundering, Love doth lag  
Behind the thickets, and with arrow keen,  
Doth lie in wait, to wound this maiden Queen.   

But all in vain he doth his shafts bestow,  
For Labour did this Goddess fair defend,  
And saved her harmless from his deadly bow,  
And poisonous darts: so if thou dost intend,  
To overcome the force of Cupid's might,  
Fly Idleness, and then he leaves thee straight.    

Gratis servire libertas.  

THE gentle Merlion, wearied long with flight,  
While on the spray in shady grove she sleeps,  
With tender foot, a Lark she holdeth light,  
Which till the morning carefully she keeps,  
Then lets it go, and lest she should that day  
Praeie on the same, she flies another way.   

Such than●kfullnes in bird and beast we find,  
By Nature's first instinct observed still,  
When worse, man in benefits is blind,  
Nay oftentimes, for good will render ill:  
And rather seek ingratefully his blood,  
That saved his life, or daily gave him food.   

Fallitur egregio quisquis sub principe credit  
Servitium, nunquam libertas gratior extat, 
Claudia● ●. S●i●ic● ●   
Quam sub Rege pio—    


A●agra●ma No●i●is Authority.  Hìn● super haec, Musa. Henricus Peachamus.  

BID now my Muse, thy lighter task adieu,  
As shaken blossom of a better fruit,  
And with URANIA thy Creator view,  
To sing of him, or evermore be mute:  
Let muddy Lake, delight the sensual thought,  
Loath thou the earth, and lift thyself aloft.   

Repent not (though) thy time so idly spent,  
The cunning'st Artist ere he can, (we see)  
Some rarest Model bring to his Intent,  
Much heweth off in Superfluity:  
A●d many a precious hour, I know is lost,  
Ere aught is wrought to countervail the cost.    

Mov●re levis●ima sensum.  

SO quick of sense as hath experience taught,  
The Tortoise lives within her armed shell,  
That if we lay the lightest straw aloft,  
Or touch that Castle wherein she doth dwell,  
She feels the same and quickly doth retire,  
A work of Nature we do most admire,   

So many men are in their Nature prone,  
To make the worst of matters vain and light,  
And for a straw will take occasion,  
In choler moved to quarrel and to fight,  
Then meddle thou the least for fear of wrong,  
But most of all beware a lavish tongue.    

Negatur utrumque.  

WHAT shall we do? now tell me gentle Muse,  
For we well-nigh have finished our task,  
Thy tender hand could never Mattock use,  
Full well I wots, nor canst thou humbly ask  
At greatness gate, or for reversions sue,  
As beggars, and the basely minded do.   

Desire of God but this, when thou art old,  
To have a home, and somewhat of thine own,  
To keep thyself from hunger and the cold,  
And where thou mayest in quiet sing alone:  
For think it hell, 
* Alterius non si● qui suus esse potest: frequens Parac●●so dictum.  to live as bird in cage,  
At others curtsy, in thy latter age.   


 Bene paupertas humili tecto contecta latet,  
Quatiunt altae saepe procellae,  
Aut evertit fortuna Domos.    

Sorte, aut Labour.  

IF neither art, by birth, nor fortune blest,  
With means to live, or answer thy desire,  
With cheerful heart, on labour set thy rest,  
To bring to pass the thing thou dost require,  
For lot, or labour, must our calling give,  
And find the word, that all do seek, TO LIVE.   

Though thousands have been raised by their friends,  
By death, by dowries, even when least they thought,  
The Lord a blessing, still to labour sends,  
When lightly come, doth lightly go as oft:  
And goods ill got, by use, and wicked gain,  
Do seldom to the second heir remain.    

Amicitiae effigies.  

THERE was in Rome a goodly statue framed  
Of youthful hue, arrayed all in green,  
Which of the people was TRVE-FRENDSHIP named:  
Winter and S●mmer, on his brow were seen:  
Within his breast, his heart did plain appear,  
Whereon these words were written, far, and near.   

Upon his skirt, stood LIFE and DEATH below,  
To testify in life and death his love,  
That far and near, with open heart do show,  
Nor place, nor space, true friendship should remove:  

* Delicata est Amicitia quae amicorum foe●icitatem seq●itur: Hieron: super Mi●h: Pr●p●etam.  Winter and summer, whatsoever came,  
In fair or foul, we should be still the same.   


Hesiod:  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉   

Obsecro te ne amicum qui diu quaeritur, vix invenitur, difficile servatur.  

〈…〉 Epis●: ad 〈◊〉.  pariter cum oculis, mente amittas.    

Nulli penetrabilis.  

A SHADY Wood, pourtraicted to the sight,  
With uncouth paths, and hidden ways unknown:  
Resembling CHAOS, or the hideous night,  
Or those sad Groves, by bank of ACHERON  
With baneful Ewe, and Ebon overgrown:  
Whose thickest boughs, and inmost entries are  
Not peirceable, to power of any star.   

Thy Impreze SILVIUS, late I did devise,  
To warn the what (if not) thou oughtest to be,  
Thus inward close, unsearched with outward eyes,  
With thousand angles, light should never see:  
For fools that most are open-hearted free,  
Unto the world, their weakness do bewray,  
And to the net, the first themselves betray.    

unum, et semel.  

A GARDEN think this spacious world to be,  
Where thou by God the owner's leave dost walk,  
And art allowed in all variety,  
One only flower to crop from tender stalk,  
(As thou thinkest good) for beauty or the smell,  
Or some one else, whose beauty doth exell.   

This only flower, is some one calling fit,  
And honest course wherein to lead thy life,  
Thyself applying carefully to it,  
Or else the heedy choosing of thy wife:  
Wherein thou wisely dost thyself prefer,  
Or to thy ruin ever after, err.    

In R●quie, Labour.  

EXESSE we loath, of want we most complain,  
The golden mean we prove to be the best,  
Let idle fits refresh thy daily pain,  
And with some Labour exercise thy rest,  
For overmuch of either, dulls the sprite,  
And robs our life, of comfort and delight.   

If that thou wouldst acquaint thee with the Muse,  
Withdraw thyself, and be thou least alone,  
Even when alone, as SOLON oft did use,  
For no such friend to Contemplation,  
And our sweet studies, as the private life,  
Remote from City, and the vulgar strife.    

Rura mihi et silentium.  

WERT thou thy life at liberty to choose,  
And as thy birth, so hadst thy being free,  
The City thou shouldst bid adieu, my Muse,  
And from her streets, as her infection flee:  
Where CHAOS and CONFUSION we see,  
Aswell of language, as of differing hearts,  
A body severed in a thousand parts.   

Thy solitaire 
* A wood near Athens, wherein the Philosophers used to study.  Academe should be  
Some shady grove, upon the THAMES fair side,  
Such as we may near princely RICHMOND see,  
Or where a long doth silver SEVERNE slide,  
Or AVON courts, fair FLORA in her pride:  
There shouldst thou sit at long desired rest,  
And think thyself, above a Monarch blest,   

There moughtst thou sing thy sweet Creator's praise,  
And turn at quiet o'er some holy book;  
Or tune the Accent of thy harmless lays  
Unto the murmur of the gentle brook:  
Whiles round about thy greedy eye doth look,  
Observing 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in re minima esse pulchre dixit. Aristo●eles.  wonders in some flower by,  
This bent, that leaf, this worm, that butterfly.   

Where mightst thou view at full the Hemisphere  
On some fair Mountain, in a Summer's night,  
In spangles there embraudered is the 
* Vrsa maior au● minor.  BEAR,  
And here the FISH, there THESEUS 
* Ariadne.  lover bright,  
The watery HYADS, here deceive our sight,  
ERIDANOS, and there ORION bound,  
Another way the silver SWAN is found.   

Or wouldst thou Music to delight thine ear,  
Step but aside into the neighbour spring,  
Thou shalt a thousand winged musicans hear,  
Each praising in his kind the heavenly King:  
Here PHILOMELA, doth her shrill TREBLE sing,  
The THRUSH a TENOR, off a little space,  
Some mateless DOVE, doth murmur out the BASE.   

Geometry or wishest thou to learn,  
Observe the Mill, the Crane, or Country Cart,  
Wherein with pleasure, soon thou shalt discern  
The grounds, and use of this admired Art,  
The rules of NUMBERING, for the greatest part,  
As they were first devised by Country Swains,  
So still the Art with them entire remains.   

If lov'st thy health, prefer the Country air,  
Thy Garden fore the Apothecary's shop,  
Where wholesome herbs, shall it at full repair,  
Before a Quint'sence, or an oily drop:  
There groweth the Balm, there shooteth Endive up:  
Here Paeonte for th' Epilepsy good,  
There Dill, and Hyssop, best to ●●nch the blood.   

The cooling Sorrel, and the Perslie hot,  
The Smallage, for a bruise, or swelling best,  
The Mercury, the foremost in the Pot,  
The Lavender, beloved for the Chest,  
The costmary, to entertain the guest,  
The Rosemary, and Fenel, seldom set,  
The lowly Daisy, and sweet Violet.   

Nor Princes richest Arras may compare  
With some small plot, where Nature's skill is shown,  
Perfuming sweetly all the neighbour air,  
While thousand colours in a night are blown:  
Here's a light Crimson, there a deeper one,  
A Maidens blush, here Purples, there a white,  
Then all commingled for our more delight.   

Withal (as in some rare limned book) we find,  
Here, painted Lectures of God's sacred will,  
The Daisy, teacheth lowliness of mind,  
The Camomile, we should be patiented still,  
The Rue, our hate of vices poison ill,  
The Woodbine, that we should our friendship hold,  
Our Hope, the Sav'rie, in the bitter'st cold.   

Yet love the City, as the kindly Nurse  
Of all good Arts, and fair Civillitie:  
Where though wi●● good, be intermixed the worse,  
That most disturb our sweet tranquillity:  
Content thyself, till thine Ability,  
And better hap, shall answer thy desire,  

* Vive tibi, et long nomina magna fuge: Ovid: 1 Trist 4.  But Muse beware, lest we too high aspire.    

Omnis a Deo Sapientia.  

THE Poets feign, JOVE to have been with child,  
But very strange, conceived within his head,  
And knowing not, his burden how to yield,  
Lo! MULCIBER doth bring the God a-bed,  
By cutting with an Axe, his skull in two,  
When issueth PALLAS forth, with much ado.   

By PALLAS, is all heavenly wisdom meant,  
Which not from Nature, and ourselves proceeds,  
But is from God, immediately sent,  
(For in ourselves, how little goodness breeds)  
That threefold power of the Soul again  
Resembling God, resideth in our brain.   

Some wits of men, so dull and barren are,  
That without help of Art, no fruit they bring,  
Whose Midwife must be toil, and endless care,  
And Constancy, effecting every thing:  
And those who wanting Eloquence, are mute,  
Some other way like JOVE, must 〈◊〉 d their fruit.    

Divina misericordia.  

THE greedy Eagle here, upon the tree,  
PROMETHEUS heart with teen doth praey upon,  

when the Oake's down, ever● one gathers sticks. Schol: Theocrit:  But this example doth admonish thee  
On wretches poor to have compassion:  
To pity those, on whom doth fortune frown,  

Minimum debet libere, cui nimium libet. Seneca in Trod:  And Tyrantlike, not more to crush them down.   

This pleaseth God, this Piety commands,  
Nature, and Reason, 
* Ignoscendo auxit magnitudinem pop: Romanus. Sallust:  bids us do the like,  
Yea though our foes, do fall into our hands,  
We should 
* Severitas amittit assiduitate authoritatein. Seneca 1 de Clementia.  have mercy, not in malice strike:  
Who helps the sick, and pities the oppressed,  
He lives to God, and doubtless dieth blessed.   

Pulchrum est eminere inter illustres viros,  
Consulere patriae, parcere afflictis,  

Senec● in Octavio.  Fera caede abstulere, tempus atque irae dare;  
Orbi quietem, Saeculo pacem suo,  
Haec summa vi●●●, petitur hac Coelum via.    

Homo Microcosmus.  

HEAR what's the reason why a man we call  
A little world? and what the wiser meant  
By this new name? two lights Celestial  
Are in his head, as in the Element:  
Eke as the wearied Sun at night is spent,  
So seemeth but the life of man a day,  
At morn h●e's borne, at night he flits away.   

Of heat and cold as is the Air composed,  
So likewise man we see breath's hot and cold,  
His body's earthy: in his lungs enclosed,  
Remains the Air: his brain doth moisture hold,  
His heart and liver, do the heat enfold:  
Of Earth, Fire, Water, Man thus framed is,  
Of Elements the threefold Qualities.   

And as we fitly INFANCY compare  
Unto the SPRING, so YOUTH we liken may  
To lazy SUMMER, hot devoid of care:  
His middle Age to AUTUMN, his decay  
To WINTER, snowy white, and frosty grey,  
For then his vigour fails, his heat is cold,  
And like the sapless Oak he dieth old.    

Vini natura.  

BEST BACCHUS Ivy thy fair brow befits,  
Thy wings withal, that proud Gorgonean horse:  
Because thou addest vigour to our wits,  
Heat to our blood, unto our body force:  
Mirth to our hearts, unto the dullard sprite  
A quick Invention, to the Sense delight.    

unum alum.  

THE Husband good, that by experience knows,  
With cunning skill, to prune, and when to plant,  
Must lop the Tree where rank abundance grows,  
Aswell as help the barren in her want:  
Else happily, when Summer season's passed,  
With leaves he may go satisfy his taste.   

Even so the wit, that rankly doth abound,  
With many fancies but itself deceives:  
And while it seems in sundry Arts profound,  
In no one good it's fruitful, but in leaves:  
Then some one calling choose, whence good may grow,  
And let the rest, as 
* Vellem in Adolescente quod ●putem. Cicer● 〈…〉.  needless branches go.    

Terminus.  


Symbolum fuit Erasmi Roterodami quod licet Crambe a Poetis nostris toties repetitum, illius postremo memoriae dedico consecroque.  A PILLAR high, erected was of stone,  
In former times, which TERMINUS they named:  
And was esteemed, a God of every one:  
The upper part, was like a woman framed,  
Of comely feature down unto the breast,  
Of Marble hard a Pillar was the rest.   

Which when JOVE passed by, with stern aspect,  
He bade this God remove, and get him gone,  
But TERMINUS as stoutly did neglect  
His hest, and answered, I give place to none:  

Varro.  I am the bound of things, which God above  
Hath fixed, and none is able to remove.    

Fortuna maior.  

HERE Poverty, doth conquered Fortune bind,  
And under keeps, like HERCULES in awe,  
The meaning is, the wise and valiant mind,  
In Poverty esteems not Fate a straw:  

* Non est fortu●● saepius tentanda. Iul: Caesar Comen● lib: 4.  And though a while this angry Goddess frown,  
She utterly shall never cast him down.   

If Wisdom have but what the corpses doth crave,  
Convenient food and raiment for the back:  
And liberty to live, not like a slave  
Here in this world, she little else doth lack:  
But can contented in her cottage sing,  
In greater safety, than the greatest King.    

Nec in una sede morantur.  

THE awful Sceptre though it can compel  
By powerful might, great'st monarchs to obey:  
Love, where he listeth, liketh best to dwell,  
And take abroad his fortune as he may:  
Ne might, or gold, can win him thence away,  
Whereto he is through strong affection led,  
Be it a Palace, or the simplest shed.   

But VENUS Infant, dread of all beneath,  
Imperious fear from my sweet Saint remove,  
And with thy soft Ambrosial kisses, breath  
Into her bosom meek, and mildest Love  
With melting Pity, from thy Queen above:  
That she may read, and oft remember this,  
And learn to love, who most beloved is.    

Super terram peregrinans.  

NOR house, nor home, hath wretched man on earth,  
Ne ought he claimeth justly as his own:  
But as a 
* 1 Pet: cap.: 2 11  Pilgrim wandering from his birth  
In Country's strange, and Deserts wild unknown,  
Like 
* jeremiaes 35.7.  RECHABITE, or those Tartarian 
* Companies of Ta●tars, and subjects of the great CHAM, living in Tents in the wilderness, without Civility, together with their wives, children, and cattle, never abiding in one place, but ranging and robbing up and down where they list.  HORDES,  
Whose vastest Region but a Tent affords.   

Betime hence learn we wisely to supply  
Our inward wants, ere hence we flit away:  
And hide in Heaven, that treasure carefully,  
Which neither Moth, nor Canker shall decay:  
In 
* Sequor nil consequor. dictum Ariosti.  following state, eke not to spend our stock,  
Where oft for merit, we but gain a mock.    

Sapiential, Avaritia, et Dolus, decipiunt.  

AH pity PALLAS, who hath thee enwrapped?  
And in a snare, thus brought thee to distress:  
The wisest now I see may be entrapped,  
And Virtue stoop to Fortune's fickleness:  
Nor Scholarship, or wit, at all times can  
From sad disaster, keep a mortal man.   

The love of Money, and Dissimulation,  
Hold thee MINERVA tangled in their snare:  
For now the world, is grown to such a fashion,  
That those the wisest, that the richest are,  
And such by whom the simpler should be taught,  
Are in the net, like PALLAS soonest caught.    

Personam non animum.  

THE Hypocrite, that doth pretend in show,  
A feigned Zeal of Sanctity within,  
Eschew betime, nor have with such to do,  
Whose hoods are but the harbour of their Sin,  
And humblest habits, but a false disguise,  
To cloak their hate, or hidden villainies.   

No HIRCAN Tiger, ERYMANTHIAN Bear,  
So armed with malice, thirsty after blood,  
To high estate aspiring, as they are,  
The worst of men, nay man it is too good.  
Where LUCIFER did openly rebel  
To God, these Traitors even within the Cell.    

Honours isti ●liunde.  

THE chiefest good, (ah would so good it were)  
That most imagine Honours bring with them,  
We pick from others praises here and there,  
So patch herewith an Indian Diadem  
Of Parrot's feathers, vocal favours light,  
And Plumes indeed, whereto we have no right.   

He is not honoured that Descents can show,  
Nor he that can command a numerous train,  
Nor he to whom the vulgar lout so low,  
Nor he that follows Fashion light and vain,  
Saluting windows, and around doth wheel,  
Like VRSA MAYOR, stars from head to heel.   

We honour him, whose Actions not deface,  
The Glories which his Ancestors have won,  
By Cowardice, or vicious living base,  
Ne wrong for Passion, or Affect hath done:  
In whom at once, Arts, Bounty, Valour, dwell.  
Contending each which other should excel.    

Non alit, ene●at.  

THE Laurel green, that long in safety stood  
By PENEUS stream, the Muse's chaste delight,  
Oft watered by the NAIAD'S of the flood,  
And oft revived by her 
„ PHOEBUS, whom the Poets feign to have loved ●he Bay● under the name of DAPHNE.  Lover bright,  
The Wave assaileth with her swelling might,  
And overthrows in time, (but who doth know  
Their misery, that near to Greatness grow.)   

This sacred Bay, is Learning and the Arts,  
In former times that flourished at will,  
Now washed and worn by some, even to the hearts,  
Who should have succoured and upheld them still,  
Who eat the Corn, but throw the Chaff to Skill:  
And what the Church had once to holy uses,  
Serves them to pride, and all profane abuses.    

Minimus in summo.  

IF that thy Fortunes have their height attained,  
And bid thee not on greatness BASE to fear,  
Let not with that preferment thou hast gained,  
Unwonted Pride, or Insolence appear:  
But how much higher thou art placed in sight,  
So much the less affect thy state and might.   

For Honours, know, but lend Ambition wing,  
And like false mirrors, make us seem too great,  
Vpborne by vulgar breath, (the vainest thing,)  
Till all be melted by the Sovereign heat:  
That left abandoned, in a trustless air,  
We drown within an Ocean of despair.    

Nil viribus impar.  

FIRST try thy strength, and ponder well the end,  
Ere thou attemptest a business of weight,  
By trial made of wit, thy wealth, or friend,  
Who can advise, or judge of thy conceit:  
Thou else but hastest, to thy loss and shame,  
While abler judgements, bear away the game.   

Hence noblest houses, their decay have known,  
And greatest Clerks in vain opinions erred,  
And wits too heavy-rancke been overthrown,  
Who else in time, mought well have been preferred:  
Withal we tax, the glorious fool that cracks,  
Yet good at nothing, that he undertakes.    

Sic bellica virtus.  

THE valiant minds, that do delight a far,  
By virtuous deed to make their prowess known,  
Who not of 
* Nam genus et proavos etc. Ovid: Metamorph: 13.  Father's Acts ambitious are,  
But of the brave Achievements of their own,  
Thus as their Ensigns folded up unshown,  
In Peace rejected, or forgotten lie:  
Till new Alarms, advance them out on high.   

But Wisdom ever armed with Foresight,  
Then rateth Valour at her weight in gold,  
For though the easeful world her merit slight,  
She seees aloof the storm. How Malice old  
Plays lose a while to get the better hold,  
And bids us arm, when least we think of knocks,  
For 
* A Proverb well known in ●●e low Countries  Foes asleep, (they say) the Devil rocks,    

Tantó dulcius.  

THE mortal strifes that often do befall,  
Twixt loving brethren, or the private friend,  
Do prove (we say) the deadliest of all:  
Yet if 
* The first Discord here taken is from the eleventh to the tenth, that is from b fa b ini, unto alamire, a tenth to f fa ut in the Base, The second from the ninth, or second to the 8. or unison.  composed by concord, in the end  
They relish sweeter, by how much the more,  
The jars were harsh, and discordant before.   

How oft hereof the Image I admire,  
In thee sweet MUSIC, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  Nature's chaste delight,  
The 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  Banquet's friend, and 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  Lady of the Choir;  
Physician to the melancholy sprite: 
Homer: in Hymnis, Musicam alloquens.   
Mild Nurse of Piety, ill vices foe;  
Our Passions Queen, and 
* According to the opinion of Pythagoras.  Soul of ALL below.    

Per far denari.  

THE worldly wretch, that day and night doth toil,  
And tyre himself in body and in mind,  
To gather that by all devises vile,  
He must be feign ere long to leave behind:  
All shapes like PROTEUS gladly entertains,  
No matter what, so that they bring the gains.   

Abroad Religion, Flattery at the Court,  
Plain dealing in the Country where he dwells,  
Then Gravity among the wiser sort,  
Where Fools are rife, his Folly most excels:  
Thus every way transform himself he can  
Save one, in time to turn an honest man.    

Aula.  

WITH mighty men, who likes to spend his prime,  
And loves that life, which few account the best,  
In hope at length unto his height to climb,  
By good desert, or through Fortune blest,  
May here behold the Model of his bliss,  
And what his life, in sum and substance is.   

A Lady fair, is FAVOR feigned to be,  
Whose youthful Cheek, doth bear a lovely blush, 
C●sa●e Ripa●● Iconologia.   
And as no niggard of her courtesy,  
She bears about a Holy-water brush:  
Where with her bounty round about she throws,  
Fair promises, 
* Byssina verba. Plutarch: in Ap●theg:  good words, and gallant shows.   

Herewith a knot of guilded hooks she bears,  
With th' other hand, a pair of 
* Aureae compedes. Al●iatus.  Stocks she opes,  
To show her bondage: on her feet she wears  
Lead-shoes, as waiting long upon her Hopes:  
And by her doth the fawning Spaniel lie,  
The Prince's bane, the mark of 
* Cui omnia principum honesta atque inhonesta laudare mos est. Tacitus A●●al: 3.  Flattery.   

Stet quicunque volet potens  
Aulae culmine lubrico  

Se●eca in Thirsty.  Me dulcis saturet quies;  
Obscurus positus loco  
Leni perfruar otio.      

The Author's Conclusion.  

AS then the Sky, was calm and fair,  
The Winds did cease, and Clouds were fled,  
AURORA scattered PHOEBUS hair,  
New risen from her Rosy bed:  
At whose appoach the 
FLORA sometimes a famous Harlot in Rome, and after Goddess of flowers, in whose honour they kept their feasts called FLORALIA.  Harlot strew,  
Both mead, and mountain, with her flowers:  
While ZEPHYRE, sweetest odours threw,  
About the fields, and leavy bowers.   

The Woods and Waters, left their sound,  
No tenderest twig, was seen to move,  
The Beast lay couched on the ground,  
The winged People perched above,  
Save PHILOMELA, who did renew,  
Her wont plaints unto the Morn,  
That seemed indeed, her state to rue,  
By shedding tears upon the Thorn.   

When I as other taking rest,  
Was show'd (me thought) a goodly plain,  
With all the store of Nature blest,  
And situate within the main,  
With Rocks about environed quite,  
But inward round, in rows there stood,  
Aswell for profit, as delight,  
The Trees of Orchard, and the Wood.   

The builder Akorne long ago,  
To DODONAEAN lOVE adjoined,  
And there the lofty Pine did grow,  
That winged flies before the Wind:  
LEUCOTHOE that wounded bleeds,  
Nor wanting was, nor that same Tree,  
That bears the stain, in fruit and seeds, 
The Mulberry.   
Of THISBE'S woeful Tragedy.   

The Elm embracing BACCHUS stood,  
And there the Beech was also placed,  
That gave the golden Age her food:  
Though we esteem it, but as mast;  
The Walnut, praised for her hue,  
The Ash, the best for helve, and sta●es,  
The Yew, unto the bender true,  
The Sallow soft, that water craves.   

Th'unblasted Bay, to conquests due,  
The Persian Peach, and fruitful Quince:  
And there the forward Almond grew,  
With 
Erasmus in his Commentaries upon St. Hierom affirmeth Cherries to have been known to these parts of Europe little above two or three hundred years, being first brought from CERASV●TIS a City of PONTVS● whence they have their name.  Cherries known no long time since:  
The Winter-Warden, Orchards pride,  
The 
The Filbert so named of PHILIBERT a king of FRANCE, who caused by Art, sundry kinds to be brought forth, as did a Gardener of OTRANTO, in Italy by clove gilly-flowers, and Carnations, of such colours as we now see them  PHILIBERT, that loves the vale,  
And red Queen-apple, so envi'de,  
Of Schoolboys, passing by the pale.   

With many more, of me forgot,  
Upon the which the Aëry crew,  
Each in his kind, and order sat,  
And did his wont note renew;  
The long-lived Eagle, JOVE forsook,  
And hither in a moment flew,  
Who to the Oak, himself betook,  
As King, his multitude to view.   

And JUNOS Bird, not far away,  
Displayed her ARGUS hundred eyes;  
By him sat perched on a spray,  
The Swan, that sweetly singing dies:  
The Crane, who Sentinel hath stood,  
The Herne, highest soarer in our sight,  
The Pheasaunt fetched from PHASIS flood,  
With Falcon for the King's delight.   

The Turtle here to each did tell,  
The loss of his beloved mate,  
And so did 
Thracia pellex Seneca in Hercules: sur:  THRACIAN Philomela,  
In sweetest tunes, her bitter Fate:  
Ne wanted there the envious Stare,  
The thievish Chough, and prating jay,  
The Rail, and frosty Feldefare,  
And Lark abroad by break of day.   

Within there was a Circlet round,  
That raised itself, of softest grass,  
No Velvet smother spread on ground,  
Or Em'rald greener ever was:  
In midst there sat a beauteous Dame,  
(Not PAPHOS Queen, so fair a wight)  
For Roses by, did blush for shame,  
To see a pure●, red and white.   

In rob of woven Silver fine,  
And deepest Crimson she was clad:  
Then diapered with golden twine,  
Aloft a Mantle green she had,  
Whereon were wrought, with rarest skill  
Fair Cities, Castles, Rivers, Woods;  
And here, and there, embossed a hill  
With Fountains, and the Nymphs of Floods.   

A massy Collar set with stones,  
Did over all, itself extend,  
Whereon in sparkling Diamonds,  
SAINT GEORGE, her Patron did depend;  
A Crown Imperial on her head,  
One hand a bright drawn Sword did hold,  
The other (most that made her dredd,)  
Three Sceptres of the finest gold.   

While proudly underfoot she trod,  
Rich trophies, and victorious spoils,  
Achieved by her might abroad:  
Her name is EMPRESS OF THE ISLES:  
There Chariots were, that once she wan,  
From CAESAR, ere she was betrayed,  
With standards got from Pagans, when  
She lent the Holy Land her aid.   

Here saw I many a shivered lance,  
sword, Battleaxes, Cannons slings,  
With th' Arms of PORTUGAL, and france,  
And Crownets of her petty Kings:  
High-feathered Helmets for the Tilt,  
Bowes, Steelie Targets cleft in twain:  
Coats, Cornets, Armours richly guilt,  
With tattered Ensigns out of SPAIN.   

About her now on every Tree,  
(Whereon full oft she cast her eye,)  
Hung silver Shields, by three and three,  
With Pencil limned curiously:  
Wherein were drawn with skilful ●uch,  
Impresa's, and Devises rare,  
Of all her gallant Knights, and such  
As Actors in her Conquests were.   

Eke some of Queens, and Ladies too,  
As pleased their Invention best,  
(For wit o● woman, much can do,)  
Were fastened up among the r●st,  
In sundry tongues, whose Mottoes old,  
And names, though scarcely could be read,  
She wished their Glories mought be told,  
To after times, though they were dead.   

Great EDWARD third, you might see there,  
With that victorious Prince his son:  
Next valiant JOHN of LANCASTER,  
That SPAIN, with English overran:  
And those brave spirits Marshaled,  
The first that of the Garter were,  
All Soldiers, none to Carpet bred,  
Whose names to tell I must forbear.   

Fourth HENRY'S Sunbeams on the Cloud,  
Fift HENRY'S Beacon flaming bright,  
YORK'S Lock, that did the Falcon shroud,  
Was here, so were his Roses white:  
The Marshal MOUBRAIE NORFOLK'S Duke,  
Yet living in great HOWARDS' blood,  
With valiant BEDFORD, Symbols took  
As pleased them, to adorn the Wood.   

By whom the BEAUCHAMPES worn away,  
And noblest TALBOT, scourge of france,  
With nevil's whom could nought dismay,  
Left Relics of their Puissance:  
The loyal VERE, and CLIFFORD stout,  
Great STRONGBOWES' heir, with BOURCHIER, GREY,  
Brave FALCONBRIDGE, and MONTACUTE:  
Courageous ORMOND, LISLE, and SAY.   

With other numberless beside,  
That to have seen each one's devise,  
How lively limned, how well appli'de,  
You were the while in Paradise:  
Another side she did ordain, 
Charles E: of No●t●ngham L: Admiral. Thomas E: of Suffolk, and L: Chamberlain. George E: of Cumberland. L: Willowghby. Sir Philip Sidney Sir John Nor●is. etc.   
To some late dead, some living yet,  
Who served ELIZA in her reign,  
And worthily had honoured it.   

Where turning, first I spied above,  
Her own dear PHOENIX hover,  
Whereat, me thought, in melting Love,  
Apace with tears mine eyes did spring;  
But Fool, while I aloft did look,  
For her that was to Heaven flown,  
This goodly place, my sight forsook,  
And on the sudden all was gone.   

With grief awaked, I gazed around,  
And casting up to Heaven mine eye,  
Oh GOD I said! where may be found,  
These patrons now of Chivalry,  
But Virtue present and secure,  
We hate, when from our knowledge hid,  
By all the means we her allure,  
To take her dwelling where she did.   

Now what they were, on every Tree,  
Devises new, as well as old,  
Of those brave worthies, faithfully,  
Shall in another Book be told.   
FINIS. 1612.