A SURVEY OF THE WORLD. IN TEN BOOKS  
BY BARTEN HOLIDAY D. D. And Archdeacon of OXFORD.  
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OXFORD, Printed by Will. Hall, for the Author.  
Anno MDCLXI.   

TO The Worthily Honoured, the Virtuous and Learned Sr. RICHARD BROWN, Knight and Baronet, one of the Clerks of his MAJESTIE'S Most Honourable Privy Council.  
Noble Sr.  
THe Remembrance of Just Delight delights; which as it is an acknowledged Truth in Nature; so especially in the nature of knowledge. This at this time of Joy and Happiness for our Return to these blessings, under our greatest blessing, our most gracious Sovereign, aptly prompts to a Repetition of those Studies, to which the Love and Prudence of your Eminent Father promoted your Youth and my Industry about forty years since, in your Academical Institution. The Improvement whereof as your Wisdom has showed in additions of Persevering Loyally, weighty Employment and Nineteen Years Absence from your dear Country: So in the Importunity of the late wars and opinions, some addition, I have made of After-studies in the defence of Religion and Arts. With a necessary variety therefore from the singularities of the Divine Power and Wisdom, I here present the Thea●●er of Providence, in some things strange, in All warrantable, by testimony of Men famous among Heathens and Christians. Which diligence may be to some a Direction for Choice and Censure; to Others no uncourteou●● Recollection of their Own Thoughts. And as they were a Summer's recreations of my Age, cast thus into the Fashion of Ancient Memorials; so I intent them not as a Laborious Sum of knowledge; but only, as in the Liberty and Pleasure of a garden, as some more; pleasing flowers cropped for the Compliment and Enchridion 〈◊〉 a Posy: which by the Novelty may last a Day, and by the Art of Friendship, may, as Friendship should, outla●● the vanity of the Flower. Yet as this pleases by Intermission, the seeming Neglect renewing the delight, I but present, not obirude, to the leisure of Your great affairs, respectfully remaining.  
Noble Sr. The Glad Observer Of Your Choice Accomplishments And Eminent Merits, BARTEN HOLIDAY.   

To the Studious Reader.  
AS weary travelour that climbs a Hill,  
Looks back, sits down, and oft, if hand have skill,  
Landskippes the Vale with pencil; placing here  
Meadow, there Arable, here Forest, there  
A Grove, a City, or a Silver-streame,  
As offering to yield beauty to his Scheme;  
Then decks it for the Gallery, and Views  
If th' Eye and Fancy count it Pleasing News:  
So now my Thoughts and Hopes, that long have climbed  
Learning's Ascents, by which True Art's sublimed,  
Turn, Rest, and their own wander View. Here Light  
They see, by which they see; there deepest Night,  
The World's New Chaös: here a tinselled Sky,  
That does with beauty please and pose the Eye;  
There Earth, Beast, Fowl, Mystical Man, whose brain,  
A less World, would the greater world contain,  
These, if by Nature's Herald, Art, well placed,  
Present Nature and Art by Union graced.  
To view which, no new Alps we need, whose height  
Shows Europe's dress, which Thence may it Please, or Fright?  
We need no Ararat to show Asian Glory,  
Itself having Ark'd-up rich Asia's story.  
No Atlas need we, Africa's proud eye,  
The Mysteries of its Deserts to descry.  
The New world's Andes we can wisely spare:  
The prospect there, but not quick death, is rare.  
We need no Tenariffa, which does shoot  
So high, my eye J'de lend it, not my foot.  
No cunning mountain need we, whence the Devil  
Would show the whole world's Glory, not the Evil:  
Feared he it would spoil his Bribe? But here below  
From Art, not Mountain, Truth enough we show.  
If then thy Eye venter's to be so kind,  
Scone View the Long View of a Searching Mind.  
Thine, BARTEN HOLIDAY.   

The ARGUMENTS Of The Several Books.  

1. OF Inanimate Creatures.  
2. Of Living Creatures.  
3. Of Nations.  
4. Of Languages and Arts.  
5. Of Philosophers and Historians.  
6. Of Physicians.  
7. Of Lawyers.  
8. Of Kings and other Worthies.  
9 Of Politicians.  
10. Of Divines.    

BOOK I. OF Inanimate Creatures.  

1.  
THe Heaven is Arch; Therefore itself Sustains:  
The Earth is Centre; Therefore So Remains:   

2.  
●he World's a Prison; no man can get out:  
●et th' Atheist storm then; it is Heaven round about.   

3.  
heaven is the Silke-worme's Sphere: what Art did spin it  
●oes at its pleasure choose to dwell within it.   

4.  
●ow blest was Steph'n, whose eje Heaven did permi●  
●o see, who does at th' Father's right hand sit!   

5.  
Was Paul more happy at the Third Heavens' sight  
●r more Tormented to Delay Delight?   

6.  
Who first Moved Heaven, Philosopher's halfe-skill  
●nquir'd: IT was He, that made the Sun stand still.   

7.  
〈◊〉 weight from the Ninth Sphere Ninety years spends,  
●y two hundred miles an hour, e'er't quite Descends!   

8.  
●f Man Ascended still towered the Highest sphere,  
●ight thousand years he'd spend,  he were There!   

9  
●he white and yelke are closures in a shell:  
Art thus makes Orbs kindly in Orbs to dwell.   

10.  
Though Many heavens wee think there are below  
The Highest: to This by Those fair steps we go.   

11.  
The Low'st Ascents in Heaven have each their Light:  
The Next is Filled with stars; No point is Night.   

12.  
The Starry Heaven, which Divine power so paints,  
In Figure shows th' Assembly of the Saints.   

13.  
Saturn, next the fixed stars, wise death may preach:  
Thoughts must be sober, that think Heaven to reach.   

14.  
Jove was in Fiction Joy: but in the Sky  
'Tis the next step to Saturne's Gravitic.   

15.  
A Heavenly Mars, what is't, but a stour hand,  
Against the Dragon, in Saint Michael's Band?   

16.  
The Sun is a Great Light to all eyes free:  
And yet heavens Greatest Light we cannot see.   

17.  
The Hurry of the Sun in his Own Sphere,  
That measures Thrice five Miles each Minute Hear!   

18.  
Seems not the Sun, for Speed of course, to merit  
The name, not of a Body, but a Spirit?   

19  
Copernicus' will have the Sun stand still,  
To scape doubts: He makes New! This is New skill!   

20.  
Some New Astronomers in the Sun find Spots:  
Heaven was ne'er Cursed: The sun's Light knows no Elot!   

21.  
Some find of late New stars about the Sun!  
Needs he more light? God's work with wisdome's done!   

22.  
Venus in Heaven must needs be Fair and Pure:  
●f it Invites, it mocks, the Epicure.   

23.  
●sercurie's Wit and Tongue do plainly tell  
The Wit and Tongue find place in Heaven, used well.   

24.  
The Moon is the World's Glass, in which, it were strange,  
●f we saw Hers, and saw not our Own Change!   

25.  
The learned Fa●er has the Journey measured  
Up to the Moon: sure, wise men he has pleasured.   

26.  
News from the Moon; it is told by very Fame,  
There's a strange Man, from Adam that ne'er came!   

27.  
Galilee in the Moon finds yet more Change:  
The Man i' th' Moon, once Tale, seems Truth! That's strange!   

28.  
Trasfique to th' Moon! Is't done by art of Wing?  
To Ascend, proved Christ God what proves this New thing?   

29.  
Who'll fly to Heaven, must store of Vict'alls keepe!  
And sometimes must at once both Fly and sleep!   

30.  
Some think the Stars Holes, through which Heaven sends Light:  
Then into Heaven might not ascend Our night?   

31.  
Some think the Earth a star: then should it Light  
Send forth abroad upon the Heaven by Night.   

32.  
Th' Arabians will the Stars like Letters spell;  
But who did  Demonstrate what they tell?   

33.  
Experience oft Pretends, not so True Art:  
That may mistake; from Truth This does not start.   

34.  
Foreknowledge is Divine; Man's Wit Ambitious:  
What's Hali, Nabod, Bonat, Alcabitius?   

35.  
Goate-witted Man to climb will venture, if  
He may; though he hangs by th' claws against a cliff!   

36.  
The Art of stars who knows, but He that made them?  
But Man's bold Guess, to God's wrong, would invade them.   

37.  
To found an Art on Figurative Grounds,  
Reason without true Art sondly confounds.   

38.  
What though, to work on Earth, the Stars Endeavour;  
Since what's received is changed by the Receivour?   

39  
What though the Stars with lower causes close,  
If in Man's Actions Grace does Interpose?   

40.  
The Milky Way which does the Heaven embrace,  
Shows, Men of Small Light may in Heaven find place;   

41.  
The Milky Way must with the stars be ranged:  
What's out of Heaven continues not Unchanged.   

42.  
Light, what it is, does Sense, nay Wit, well know?  
Light is scarce light enough, itself to show.   

43.  
The World's a picture; Light at first was hurled  
Upon't: Is it God's shadow in the world?   

44.  
The Fire next heavens like zeal; but not so Cruel;  
●t Burnes, yet not Devours: it is its Own Fuel.   

45.  
Th' air's Highest Region's Hot; Cold in the Middle;  
The Low'st by Reflex Warm: See Nature's Riddle!   

46.  
Thunder presents God's Majesty to th' Ear;  
Which is the Gate of Faith and Holy Fear!   

47.  
When Hear and Cold, met in the same cloud, jolt;  
The Thunder's Sentence! Guilt's the Thunderbolt!   

48.  
When, on Mount Sinai, Thunders loud did roar,  
They shaken the Mount, and th' Holy Cloud they toare.   

49.  
One most strange Meteor has itself renowned,  
The Sinai-Trumpet, which itself did sound!   

50.  
At the Last-Day, when all things down are hurled,  
Jehovah's Voice shall Trumpet-up the World!   

51.  
Lightning Appears first: Thunder's first: The Eye  
Of Conscience sees Gild, before judgement's Nigh!   

52.  
Lightning, the Mother Saved, the Child within  
Has killed! The Soul saved, Conscience so kills Sin!   

53.  
A Comet, is't the Carbuncle of Sin,  
Mass'd-up from th' Earth and Hell, whence it did begin?   

54.  
How at a Comet every one does stare?  
When many, who thus Gaze, worse Comets are!   

55.  
Who Many Suns sees, sees not his Abuse;  
Unless of his Mistake he makes more Use.   

56.  
Clammy Smokes Fired and Falling stars some call:  
Their fancy errs; Truth from their wit does fall.   

57  
The Foolish Fire oft, that by night does move,  
Does by Mistake or Fear, Focles make or prove.   

58.  
What Blustering, Hit, Thick air's This? 'Tis the Wind;  
Faint Emblem yet of Man's more Troublesome Mind!   

59  
Whirl Wind, th' art a Surprise! Nothing's like Thee  
But Rapture, from the Spirit of Prophecy!   

60.  
Raine's Cloud Dissolved: Thus from the Law, Sad Fears.  
By warmth of grace, descend in fruitful Tears!   

61.  
●y Red, Green, Blue, which sometimes paint the Air,  
●uilt, Pardon, Heaven, the Rainbow does declare.   

62.  
The Rainbow to the Sun yields due respect:  
●race, the soul's beauty, does to God Reflect.   

63.  
When Heaven reigned Clouds, and did Our World confound;  
The Air ran Channel, and All Seas were Drowned!   

64.  
●ome make Dutch Schuarts Founder of Guns and Shot:  
The Volley of Hail and th' Amorites they forgot.   

65.  
Th' Earth through great Heat, Cold, Wind, Dew oft does lack:  
●y Lust, Despair and Rage, Grace is kept-backe.   

66.  
Hoare-Frost, a Dew congealed, on high Hills ne'er  
●s found: Presumption unacquainted is with Fear.   

67.  
Snow is a Cloud, Light, but congealed: Grace Joined  
With Doubt, may knowledge, yet less Comfort, find.   

68  
At the last Day shall the Saints Meteors be?  
Their Earth sublimed shall yet from Change be Free!   

69.  
Sea is the Earth of Water: The sun drains  
What's pure s●om Grosse: Sea, that is, Salt, remains.   

70.  
The Sea is salt; Salts Wisdom: That can rear  
The weight of ship; This the world's burden bear.   

71.  
It is the moon's Increase, that swells the Ocean:  
'Tis the First mover shows the Way o'th' motion.   

72.  
Vanity does too oft man's large Mind fill:  
But the First mover Guides th'obedient will.   

73.  
River is Time in Water: as it came,  
Still so it flows; yet never is the same.   

74.  
Some think th'Earth star: Indeed stars send forth Beams.  
we'll call it Heaven; the Springs so send forth streams.   

75.  
Shoot up an arrow, not fare off 'tis found:  
Moves th' Earth then swift enough, if it turns round?   

76.  
Shall not the Air turn faster than the Earth?  
To think it moves not so, is't Truth, or Mirth?   

77.  
Wonders we have on Earth; thus we may know  
What things there are Above, by what's Below.   

78.  
Clay, Sand and Rock, seem of a  birth:  
So men; some Stiff, some Lose, some Firm: All Earth!   

79.  
Down Picke-axe, to the Depth for Gold let's go:  
we'll undermine Pe●u: isn't Heaven Below?   

80.  
Quicksilver, Nature's juggler's Many in One:  
Now it is Fixed: Now 'tis Lose: now 'tis Gone!   

81.  
Quicksilver Conscience, play not Fast and Lose:  
Fast will the Lose be, to it's Own Abuse!   

82.  
Marble, a stately Vanity, does show,  
In nature's A●●●, Spots do for Beauty go.   

83.  
Each Dust Loadstone has two points: it will rise  
To th' Loadsotone: Many at once may fright our eyes!   

84.  
Why should the world the Diamond so commend?  
This Constant is: the World's a Crumbling friend.   

85.  
The Emerald's the eye's Favourite: we do  
In One find the Object and Spectacle too.   

86.  
The Ruby is an Earth, and yet a Fire:  
A Holy Man! What Earth to Heaven comes Nigher?   

87.  
The Margarite's composed of Heavenly Dew:  
Heaven is the Pearl, that is prepared for Few!   

88  
Cedar the Dead from Putresaction keeps:  
The just more safely in Christ's merits sleeps.   

89.  
The Oak bears Fruit, though Blossom it bears none:  
The just bears fruit, though of it is not known.   

90.  
The Olive loves Hot ground, not fat, nor lean:  
Grace is the Just Man's Joy, in state though Mean.   

91.  
The Serpent shuns the Odour of the Vine:  
A Venomed Soul flies from the Sacred Wine.   

92.  
The Laurell's a perpetual Green: we may  
See Grace thus flourish. Grace is its own Bay.   

93.  
By whom shall Cinnamon's praise be fully Chanted?  
'Tis as Restorative, as Desire Granted!   

94.  
The Corn, the Grass, for Man, for Beast, renew:  
God teaches them to Feed and Teach us too.   

95.  
Course wonder, Garlic! beggar's Galen! Wise  
Thy Clowns are: Nose-coy fools thy Wit Despise.   

96.  
The Pink by Nature's so refined, we dare  
Almost to ask, withered is Flower, or Aire.   

97.  
The Violet, the Flower of Courtesy, Delight  
Does yield unto the Touch, Taste, Smell and Sight.   

98.  
The Rose is but the Flower of a Brier:  
The Good man has an Adam to his Sire.   

99  
What's Beauty without Virtue, but the Lily?  
Fair to the Eye; the scent will quickly fill ye.   

100  
To weed the Garden pleasure prompts some Care:  
To weed the Mind, shall safety no time spare?    

BOOK II. OF Living Creatures.  

101.  
WHo can Acres of Whale, in the Ocean See,  
And with's Own wonder, not Astonished be?   

102.  
To see Nine hundred foot of Whale, may make  
One think, Island for Fish he does mistake.   

103.  
The Whale, a Live Sea, Jonah did enclose:  
Were Night, Fear, Grave and Hell at once his foes?   

104.  
Jonah found Air in water: though command  
Freedom he could not; did he not find Land?   

105.  
Woder in Wonder do the Seamen note:  
The Whale's vast bulk has but a narrow throat.   

106.  
What's great Leviathan, that does turmoil  
Himself so much in Wave, but Bone and Oil?   

107.  
Oil makes the wool run in the Cards the better:  
Satan's glibbe arts make Man to Grace more debtor.   

108.  
Though the Whale's Bone finds use too much about us,  
Yet Grace and Wit keep the Devil and that without us.   

109.  
The Whale's Mouth's a Portcullis, but Inverted?  
Th' under jaw's Teeth into Holes above inserted.   

110.  
O Man take heed of Hell: if that once Swallow,  
Leviathan does show thee, what does follow!   

111.  
The Greene-Land Sea's the world: with happy Gale  
And Art of grace, let's master the Great Whale!   

112.  
Out with your barrels, Sailours, the Whale's near:  
Upon another point instantly steer.   

113.  
A black beast with square head, fiery eyes, it is Tradition,  
Island-Seas show: Is't Fish, or apparition!   

114.  
The Cuttlefish with's Ink the Sea does stain:  
His wit's his Veil: A search is then but vain.   

115.  
The Rémora a shippe's course stopps some say:  
The devil indeed our Christian course would stay.   

116.  
The Crampe-fish does the Fisher catch: his hand  
He stupifies: Thus Craft 'gainst Craft does band.   

117.  
Polonians to Revenge do not more throng,  
Then Dolphin's shoal it, if you do them wrong.   

118.  
A Porpoise, the Sea- Almanac, fore-shows  
A Storm: he's happy that worse storms fore-knows.   

119.  
Shrimp●, Sea- Elixir. though thy Circle's small,  
Thou art to man Food, Temperance, Life and all.   

120.  
The Prince of Feasts, the Sturgeon, does command  
The Guests: Th' Obey, that think they understand.   

121.  
The Dainty Salmon Courtier of the Seas,  
With Temperance is pleasure; else Disease.   

122.  
Why should the backward Crabbe be so ashamed!  
They rather that Abuse him should be Blamed.   

123.  
Lobster, the warmth of Age, is but Repair;  
'Tis but Abused, when Used for prouder fare.   

124.  
Lamprey is Danger; stomach is but Coy;  
Pleased you may be; you may yourself Annoy.   

125.  
Nine times an Eel through a Cormorant has passed.  
 killed: A slippery Sinner's caught at last.   

126.  
The Seal, the Pike, the Perch, though fish, we must  
For true repair, call flesh: it were else Unjust.   

127.  
The Gudgeon is the tender stomach's meat  
And Sauce: of this the Rich and Poor may eat.   

128.  
The Trout represses Choler: what is Coole.  
Hot, Moift, or Dry, in fare; should be our School.   

129.  
Fish speak God's Love and Wisdom, without Voice:  
All's not for All; but Some for All with Choice.   

130.  
The Shark, the Otter, Vex the Sea and River:  
What Sanctuary can Man still deliver?   

131.  
The Dying Mole, say some, Opens his eyes:  
The Rich, till 'tis too late, will not be wise.   

132.  
The Worm Lives in his Grave: Do what he can,  
He's but a worm. No muckworme is a Man.   

133.  
To Heaven a Soul some Old Philosophy gives:  
On Earth the Gloow-worme is a Star, and Lives.   

134.  
See the aunt's Mountain! Babel's Tower again?  
here's as much Business! Though't is not so Vain.   

135.  
What Seeds th' Ant Stores, he Bites: what Grows, he Lose  
Scarce shall he grow, whom a Grand Politic Uses.   

136.  
The Spider builds in Palaces; Her own  
Is web: i' th' midst whereof she's Queen Alone.   

137.  
To One man's peace, the Spider's Wisdom shows,  
An Other man his peace oft wisely Owes.   

138.  
Flies oft removed return: Do they want Fear,  
Or Shame, or Memory? Flies are every where.   

139.  
A dried Toad laid nigh th' Heart, stays blood: we have  
Sin, which if laid to Heart, the Soul may save.   

140.  
The Flea, that feeds on Dust and Blood, not long  
Triumphs; he's Snapped: Such is the end of Wrong!   

141.  
The Gnat is the poor man's Revenge: He brings  
●mall strength; yet makes great noise, and shrewdly stings.   

142.  
What in the flower is found most pure and Sweet,  
That only for his Comb the Bee thinks meet!   

143.  
The Monarch Bee, when feeble, by the rest  
●s carried: So Jrrev'rence they detest.   

144.  
Whole pits with Honey in Lithuania flow:  
●uge Bears are Choked in it; Pleasure's a Foe!   

145.  
The Silke-worme's its own wonder, without Loom  
●t does provide itself a silken room.   

146.  
The Silke-worme's Nature's Poet, who excels  
●n fancy, in whose Court with Art he dwells.   

147.  
See how the Eagle mounts towards Heaven: he's gone  
Choir out of sight; Right Emblem of Saint John!   

148.  
Brave bird of Thunder! Capaneus was Fable:  
'Tis th' Eagle Dares breast Lightning, and seems Able.   

149.  
Eagle and Lightning met, in just account,  
May make us think, we see Eliah mount.   

150.  
In th' Eagles' Eye see th' Eye of Justice, fierce  
Both seem, and, what they view, they deeply pierce.   

151.  
Th' Eagles' Thigh does the Lion's thigh Outweigh!  
Is' not a Bird of an Imperial Sway?   

152.  
The Eagle to the Sun presents his young:  
Is't Bold? He Ownsed: Aoe●'t Turn? Awayed is fling.   

153.  
Mount, O my Soul, and to thy maker bring  
Thy lostiest Thoughts, his Gift, with Soaring Wing!   

154.  
Descend, My Soul, sometimes, but to repair  
Strength for New Flight into Discovering Air.   

155.  
The Eagle casts his Bill, and becomes New:  
Oh, may my Soul find but a Change as true!   

156.  
The Vulture will draw blood from his Own thigh,  
If he wants Prey! Herodian Cruelty!   

157.  
Man, hast thou Grace? The hast Sin! See, 'tis but Meet  
Not only the Swan's Feathers, but his Feet.   

158.  
Pride can not see itself by Mid-day-light: l  
The Peacocke's Tail is Farthest from his Sight!   

159.  
A Parrot learned the Creed: may not such, grieve,  
As can not say't, or can not it Believe?   

160.  
The Nightingale's a Choir, no Single Note:  
O Various power of God in One small Throat!   

161.  
The cuckoo's but Two Notes: what Artist tells  
The Cause? Or why the Nightingale excels?   

162.  
The cuckoo's Halse an Owl; He flies Man's fight:  
The Owl, a double Cuckoo, flies by Night.   

163.  
Wonder it sees, where so  the Eye does Rowel:  
The Bat is the Aire-Mouse; The Night's his Hole.   

164.  
The swallows a Quick Arrow, that may show  
With what an Instant Swiftness Life does flow.   

165.  
Though the Cocke's Music from his Vigour be,  
●an is left posed: The full cause can he see?   

166.  
●eese Saved Rome's Capitol, the Cock Saint Peter:  
●o a wise Mind his Musique's sure the sweeter.   

167.  
●er Young the Pigeon first with Salt-earth feeds:  
●ise Education thus a wise man breeds.   

168.  
With what a Roar of Fury Lion's rage?  
'Tis Half a Fright, to see the Lion's Cage!   

169.  
That do we talk of Wild beasts more than One?  
The Lion is a Wilderness Alone!   

170.  
The Lion vexed, with tail strikes th' Earth; Next blow  
●ates his Own Back: The Last Confounds his Foe.   

171.  
The Ly●ian Lion eats Man, Woman, Child:  
Eats Him; Then Them: His Hunger's wisely Mild!   

172.  
The Leopard's so strong, so Quick, so Fierce;  
As if, whiles named, he'd Leap too in the Verse.   

173.  
As from the Tiger swift and fierce we'd run:  
With greater Care our greatest Foe lets shun.   

174.  
Cruell's the Bear, he has yet but a weak head;  
A blow has killed him: by Christ's Death sin's Dead.   

175.  
Th' Arabian Fox robs Houses, and steals Shoes:  
Our Foe would us spiritually so abuse.   

176.  
The Ravenous Wolf will feed on Mice and Moles:  
Satan does thus devour dark Earthy souls!   

177.  
O mock of Pride! Man can not Change his Shape:  
Though, whiles unchanged, he is but like an Ape.   

178.  
The shifting Hear we pity; scorn the Hart;  
To fly when Armed, is but the Coward's part.   

179.  
The Sick Hart eats a Snake, and so grows well:  
Repentance Digests Sin, and Man escapes Hell.   

180.  
Much it is the Afrique Camels Long can fast:  
More, that they Incest Hate, admir'dly chaste!   

181.  
enormous Excellency! Th' Elephant  
Nor strength, nor wit, nor words, some say, does want!   

182.  
●n the Elephant's Heart is found a mighty Bone:  
Inhappy Man, whose Heart is oft All stone!   

183.  
The Ass for Burden, as the Horse for Speed,  
God has given Man, Man's Double help at need.   

184.  
Th' Egyptian thought the Dog a God He might  
Take him a Friend: he's Safety or delight.   

185.  
Glutton- Jew of all men was most crossed:  
The various dainties of the Hog he lost.   

186.  
The Cow yields milk; the Sheep : both are good,  
Thus both Alive; and when Both Dead, th' are Food.   

187.  
The Catt's Eye's Providence, It Sees by Night:  
〈◊〉 Guard of Angels yields both Joy and Might.   

188.  
●ore Life to Man, then to the Crow God gives:  
●ong lives the Crow: Man lives, and Dies, and Lives!   

189.  
●an's Brain is Curds and Wonder! Truth this clears:  
●athushelah's was unchanged nine hundred years!   

190.  
Blood Circles from the Heart unto the Heart:  
●an's New America speaks Harvie's Art!   

191.  
I Wake and so new Live: a Night's Protection  
Is a new Wonder, whiles a Resurrection.   

192.  
I Wake and too too soon my Thoughts begin  
To stray: Can Sleep halfe-Rescue us from Sin?   

193.  
The sun's up: yet Myself and God most bright  
I can't see: I'm too Dark, and he's too Light!   

194.  
, which Hid shame, shame us, sin they present:  
we're Clothed yet in the Grave, when Innocent!   

195.  
Hand, wash thy fellow; yet the washing's vain:  
We are sin's Blackmoors, though we wash again.   

196.  
Let devout Prayer cast me to the Ground:  
So shall I yet to Heaven be Nearer found.   

197.  
What shall I Do to day? I prayed to shun  
All Sin; but, from my Prayer 'tis, I run.   

198.  
Hunger says, Feed: Feed? says Temperance;  
Through Food, Sloth, Sleep and Lust, Life's but a Dance.   

199.  
The Holy Book is my Receipt; a Sure  
Cordial, a Powerful Trouble, and a Cure.   

200.  
Advance My Task, Thy Praise, Spirit Divine!  
I'll 'Slight the Aid then of Poëtique Wine!    

BOOK III. OF Nations.  

201.  
'tIs Morning; therefore Night; This Order keeps  
The world: still One Half wakes; the Other Sleeps.   

202.  
●ow Nations fill the Earth, like  Seeds!  
●●ch Country unlike Men and Manners breeds!   

203.  
●he Spanjard's Sober, Wise, Constant, Devout;  
〈◊〉 Avarice, Pride, Lust, Blood! Th' Indian cried out!   

204.  
●aine's the Third Indieses; Spice and Gold it sleights:  
〈◊〉 Deeper Mines of Counsel it delights.   

205.  
〈◊〉 the French, wine of Orleans? Flame, Wounds, Scars?  
●●ates he the Chronicle by Civil wars?   

206.  
●h' Italian's the World's Gentleman; A Court!  
●o which, Thrift, Witt, Lust and Revenge resort.   

207.  
●hey err, who Rome's Hills by the Old names call:  
●he Vatican is now the Capitol.   

208.  
halie's Church is Rome; Naples the Court:  
●ononia the Great School; Venice the Port.   

209.  
●ame does for wisdom Venice highly rear:  
●he Turk suspects, their Wisdom is Half Fear.   

210.  
●ybaris once for Vice was the World's Blot:  
●he World's a stain! Sybaris now's no Spot.   

211.  
When from the Alps the Afrique-General  
Viewed Italy, their Top was Hannibal.   

212.  
Britan's, ye are stout men; be also wise:  
They'd need be so, on whom are all men's eyes.   

213.  
Fashions and Prophecies are England's stain:  
Let's not be Mad too, though we have been vain.   

214.  
Bogs, Purgatory, Wolves and Ease, by Fame  
Are counted Ir'land's Earth, Mistake, Curse, Shame.   

215.  
Earthquake is scarce acquainted with Scotch Ground:  
Yet many Jolts of State have There been found.   

216.  
The Belgian's the World's Scout: Water's his Land:  
His Fleete's his Country; and his Art's his Hand.   

217.  
The Portly Alman, if wine says not Nay,  
Bears his Head high, as if his head bare sway.   

218.  
Of Danish kings Christian's a Name and Riches,  
Can they make Christians of their Norway-Witches.   

219.  
Whom more than the First Suede did Fame  cloy?  
This made Lutzen more Grief, than His Life Joy.   

220.  
Russia is wilderness; the Man is Fur:  
Thatch is his House; his Winter's One Long Murr.   

221.  
Against his Own Foes the Polonian's bold:  
〈◊〉 'Gainst heavens has his Own Winter been more Cold?   

222.  
Can the Racovian think troubles can cease,  
●f with Socinus God's Foe he's in peace?   

223.  
Hungarie's king is also Damocles:  
His Right gives Throne; th' Impendent Sword no Ease?   

224.  
Th' Old Greek was Mirth and Wine; now wretched fears  
May make him drink in Silence his own tears!   

225.  
The Turk sells Liberty! The Turk does prise it  
Though't's Above price! The poorest Gre●ke yet Buys it!   

226.  
The Owl, Athens held Sacred: sure a soul  
Mistake of fancy! Athens was the Owl!   

227.  
Th' Athenian Wit scorned to be Paul's wit's Debtor:  
●ust Paul ne'er graced th' Athenians with a Letter!   

228.  
Candie's the Christian Were: the Seas oft rack  
Amaine, from Hellespont: yet oft roll bacl.   

229.  
The turk's Mad to be Mad: he's a Dark Mind:  
Which can no Heaven, but his Own Body, find.   

230.  
To Homer's Muse, but first to its Own shame  
And Ruin, Troy owes its Unhappy Fame!   

231.  
Caesar once thought to make Troy a New Rome:  
Bysanti●um got the Name; He got a Tomb!   

232.  
A stately Shrine the devil at Ephesus  
Did raise: he would supply a Lost Heaven Thus!   

233.  
Paradise o'er Granada hangs; Spain boasts!  
But Heaven Saint John saw, o'er the Pathmian Coasts!   

234.  
When Israel Canaan left; Canaan became  
Egypt: but Goshen got Canaan's Fame.   

235.  
Old Salem Longer was, then broad; though Fair:  
But New Ierusalem's a perfect Square.   

236.  
God's Temple was Earth's Heaven, yet Heaven he bowed:  
Came down, and dwelled in Mystery and Cloud.   

237.  
Arabia once was happy: Now what's Left,  
But Sottish Mecha, Wilderness and Theft?   

238.  
When God dwelled forty years midst Rocks and Sand,  
Was not the Wilderness a Holy Land?   

239.  
Babel was Nabuchadnezzar! at least  
In pride! In Judgement too! 'Tis very Beast!   

240.  
Babel's proud walls, that were an Army, Now  
By turns do to the Turk and Persian bow.   

241.  
The Persian Dwells on Horseback: Surely He  
Was the Right Centaur in Old Poëtry.   

242.  
The Tartar, Nature's Heretic, Roaves in State:  
he's a Land-Planet; or, what some call Fate.   

243.  
India's the World's Fair: Gold, Spice, Gems, d' ye want●  
They're There; the Carrier too, the Elephant.   

244.  
With Silks and fancies th' East the world does fill:  
How fare we fail to please but our Own Will?   

245.  
The China-Anchorets Wall'd-up did dwell;  
The Snail was not more faithful to his shell.   

246.  
Amboina's Spices do the Body warm:  
But Got by violence do the Soul more harm.   

247.  
Ormuz, Eye of the Sea, if thou ' dst shine bright,  
●hine with a Christian Crystalline, thou ' lt shine right.   

248.  
Aloes from Zocatrà who but procures  
●or Health? Bitter Repentance who Endures?   

249.  
When God to Sheba wisdom did unfold,  
〈◊〉 sent him its First wisdom, Spice and Gold.   

250.  
The Sheba-Queene, who moved by Solomon's fame,  
●ame to be wise, was wise before she came.   

251.  
Th' Abissine-Child Baptised in Fire may start:  
Grown Man, a fire he must have in his Heart.   

252.  
Mountains o' th' Moon we hear of; whose Footes 〈◊〉  
Whose Top is Heaven! who'll then a fall There Vent●   

253.  
Earth in the Moon has Galilaeus found?  
The Mountains of the Moon are surer ground.   

254.  
Nilus is Aegypt's Almanac, prevails  
To foretell store; how sh' ere the Starres-Man failes.   

255.  
When Aegypt's king God's word Translated should,  
Sure thrice five Cubits than Nilus oreflowed!   

256.  
Vast and Full Cair, if Fame does not beguile us,  
The art Double-stored: Thy People is a Nilus!   

257.  
Thy Founder, Alexandria, makes thee story:  
Thy Athanasius is thy Greatest glory.   

258.  
Who thinks Cyréne Barren, his wit's Gross:  
It brought forth Simon, who did bear Christ's Cross.   

259.  
Carthage and Rome did once each other fear:  
But Austin's Hipp● conquered both; 'tis Clear.   

260.  
Great Hannibal, be it set upon thy tomb:  
Treacherous Carthage was great Hannibal's Rome!   

261.  
Who thinks Algier's Holy, surely believes  
〈◊〉 House of Pray'r's sometimes a Den of Thiefs.   

262.  
●oledo's prelate won Oràn to Spain  
●nd Christ: a Two-edged Sword's a Double gain.   

263.  
●ez wonder is: a Building without Ground!  
mosques and Hospitals, where no Faith's found!   

264.  
●ez observes Mahomet's Birthday: Verse does flow!  
●hall we do less for Christ, who more do Owe?   

265.  
●arocco's Tower three Globe of Gold, most fair  
●or Art and Weight, grace: 'Tis a Mine i' th' Air!   

266.  
●hree Silver-Globes surmount Marocco's Spire  
●lmansor's worth above them yet mounts Higher.   

267.  
numidia's sand and wild Beast! Is aught worse?  
●he Mankind of the Country is the Curse!   

268.  
〈◊〉 way to Atlas, you whom Lust does please:  
●h' Air cures, though not the Soul, the Rank Disease.   

269.  
●lia, thy Lions like Thy Sunbeams rage:  
●unger and Flame more easy it is to 'swage.   

270.  
●abia once Christian was; sure Arian too!  
●he Rankest poison's There, that e'er man knew.   

271.  
The Unknown Lands ' i' th' South; your Mappe-men say:  
It is as well i' the Midst of Africa.   

272.  
Congoant, when Heathen, made their Foe their Meat:  
Now no man, but their friend, by Faith they eat.   

273.  
Angola Slaves, for gain, once joint-meat sold '  
Can Nature be unnatural, though Bold?   

274.  
Why are Some Negroes? Did it first proceed  
From proper Situation? Now, from Breed?   

275.  
The Guinean fires his house, when Wars begin!  
In Holy warfare could we so leave Sin!   

276.  
Canarie's grape was in the Portugall's power;  
Xerez in Spaine's: Has Spain now Sweet and Sour!   

277.  
Had Teneriffa●s top by th' Ark been found,  
Would then the Babel-men have raised their ground?   

278.  
Towards Africa a Sea of Weeds we have:  
Is't not the picture of the World in wave?   

279.  
Stranger, wouldst Die? Saint Thomas-Iland see:  
By Fifty, Nature's Jubily sets thee free.   

280.  
On Good Hope's Cape seems there a Paradise Spread!  
Fruit There Man eat; with raw guts Hear they're fed!   

281.  
●f Wisdom may discover; Speed and Way  
May make us think, Ophir was Sofalà.   

282.  
Destroy the World's store, and but Zeilan spare,  
May ned we from Thence (D' ye doubt?) the World repair?   

283.  
●eas Cement Lands: did then by th' Art of Boat  
Cross th' Anyan Ferry World to World first float?   

284.  
The Southeast Lands did New Guiny fill:  
Might they not teach Fogo Like Love and Skill?   

285.  
Mayre's straits and Magellan's Fogoans passover:  
Three times as fare from Calais it is to Dover.   

286.  
Magellan Giants do like Canon, roar:  
●ure then they need no Beacons on the shore.   

287.  
Perù's a Land of promise: is it so Holy?  
●t Tempts; yet some, for Gold, find their own Folly.   

288  
Potosi Mines seem Midas' Hell; a Hold  
For Dev'lls? what is digg'd-up is thought but Gold.   

289.  
●n th' Andes-Hills, he that Takes breath, does Lose it;  
Cold breath of Death! To view two Seas, who ' d Choose it?   

205.  
The Plate-Streame seemed at first a Silvermine:  
But water there, not Silver, now does shine.   

291.  
The Brazile-Cannibal is his Enimie's Grave!  
Two Resurrections yet at last they will have.   

292.  
We sought Guiana-Gold out at the Line:  
We lost a Raleigh, a fare richer Mine.   

293.  
Cut Aegypt's Isthmus South will some Seas go?  
Cut Darien-Isthmus th' Ocean West will flow.   

294.  
The Old World still did see New Generations.  
Of Men: but Our World does behold New Nations.   

295.  
New Spain, France, England, now Rise in the West:  
In our Sunset they Rise, if they prove Best.   

296.  
Mexico first was founded in a Lake:  
Was't not in Earth, Aire, Water, a Mistake?   

297.  
In Feather-worke the Mexicans so acquaint;  
That Feather is the Creature and the Paint.   

298.  
A Spanish Card of the North-Seas was played:  
To Mock, not Guide, some think it first was laid.   

299.  
Divers a North-West-Passage feign would find:  
The Wind's content; The Frozen Sea's Unkind.   

300.  
America's North's Triangle; Souths a Heart:  
Be th' Isthmus Faith, from God can th' Indian start?    

BOOK iv OF Languages and Arts.  

301.  
WHat by an angel's done with Instant Thought,  
That by Discourse, in Man About is brought.   

302.  
●ightly to Understand is Happiness:  
●oore it is, what's Understood, well to Express.   

303.  
grammar does Guide the Tongue; Logic the Reason:  
●hey witt-up Youth to Man in Nature's Season.   

304.  
●het'rique does Language grace: in Age it is Youth:  
'tis not mere Shape; the Beauty it is of Truth.   

305.  
Sceleton to th' Eye presents each Bone;  
●ith Truth, not pleasure: Bore it is, and Alone.   

306.  
●he Divine Wisdom does Man's Frame present;  
●ut  each part with Flesh, its Ornament.   

307.  
●he Mind forms Thoughts, Thoughts, Words: which undivided,  
〈◊〉 Art's Choice Order, aptly may be Guided.   

308.  
●ature produces Art; by Help Divine  
●he Curious Worm extends his Silken Line.   

309.  
●●e Ear is a great Critic; and can tell  
〈◊〉 sound, if but an Accent falls not well.   

310.  
〈◊〉 a Greek slip Caninius strait would Smile:  
●anklin would say, that it does All quite spoil.   

311.  
Great Judges of Jöt● count nor Little,  
The error of a Breathing, or a Tittle.   

312.  
Without your Art-Markes Language knows no Laws;  
The Wrinkles of the Knuckes have their Cause.   

313.  
Heralds of Accents Books and Braines'doe Vex,  
To Place the Grave, th' Acute, the Circumflexe.   

314.  
Stephanus is Great Treasurer o' th' Greek:  
To Joseph so for Bread th' Egyptians seek.   

315.  
Though Athens for Choice phrase was a Choice piece,  
Budaeus it was, that was the Greece of Greece.   

316.  
Slips th' Hebrew Accent, Schindler strait descries it:  
More too: but Curious Donat most defies it.   

317.  
Weigangmeir Tables-up each point and Letter;  
It can not stir: You will find it in its setter.   

318.  
Does Pagnine or Marinus Masse-up words?  
Hutter's or Schwenter's small Cube all affords.   

319.  
Kirsten and Raphelenge are th' Arabic Moon:  
Erpen, Giggeius, Pococke are High Noon.   

320.  
Megeser Turkish show; The Persian, Greave:  
What Tongue untaught do some or other Leave?   

321.  
Great Mithridate spoke Dialects Twenty-too:  
With Half th' Art Nimrod had made more ado.   

322.  
Your throttling Tongues who would not scape? They're worse  
Than Ignorance! To Learn then is the Curse!   

323.  
The West-Tongues to the Latin, are but sleight:  
They are but obliqne Cases from the Right.   

324.  
The slippery French, and Mouth-roofed Spanish know  
No Mean: Th' Italian does more wisely flow.   

325.  
Mechóac an Out-smooths Latin, as Fame says:  
The Fiction sure is smother than the Phrase.   

326.  
Latin is Rhet'rique; Rhet'rique's Music too:  
It does the Ear, by Art of Leasure, woe.   

327.  
All Art is Logic: in All it is th' Immixed  
Cement: Reason in Man is not more Fixed.   

328.  
Logic Defines, Divides, Collects; and Can  
Clear Fallacy. It is the Man of Man.   

329.  
Logic, they say, is glad to go on foot:  
It treads sure ground then; else it could not do't.   

330.  
Peter of Spain, a Logique-Pope, who will say,  
Was Poor? Pope's have Six thousand pound a day.   

331.  
Suicet's Old Subtil'ties did fall to Banding  
With's Young: His Wit grew past his understanding.   

332.  
Wit by itself and Language is still shown;  
Yet without Pride: It can not else be known.   

333.  
Demosihenes did Rhine th' Athenian's neck:  
His Eloquence, though it could spur, could Check!   

334.  
In Tully see how high Rhet'rique can grow:  
He was Rome's Tiber, when it does Overflow!   

335.  
Rome's High Wit, Porcius Latro, no man Can  
With highest Wit Outspeak, or speak the Man.   

336.  
Quintilians Bees such Honey have brought home;  
Who would not long to taste so sweet a Comb?   

337.  
Tyre calls Choice Maximus Hers: Indeed, the Man  
Is Milk and Honey; a mere Canaan.   

338.  
Poetry is Wit 's Springtide, On it rowles;  
And what it meets, Surmounts, or else Controls.   

339.  
H●mer's th' Atlantic Ocean, wherein brave  
Nature expatiates in Voluminous wave.   

340.  
Ma●o, though some may seem of higher strain,  
Thy blood flows Rightly in thy Happy Vein.   

341.  
●ucan, thy Age was less, than thy Great Story:  
But thy Great Wit has Doubled Age with Glory.   

342.  
Statius his Wit and Language is so brave;  
he's in his Wits, and yet may seem to Rave.   

343.  
Statius makes Capaneus so fierce a Wonder,  
As if he durst stand to Contest with Thunder.   

344.  
Martial, th' art a sure Mark's-man; what thy Dart  
Of Wit Aims at, it Hits, and makes it Start.   

345.  
●vid was banished Rome: it had been more fit,  
Wantonness had been banished from his Witt.   

346.  
Claudian in too straight Compass does Engage  
His Muse: He is a Lion in a Cage.   

347.  
The Senecas in their Tragedies do show  
That Wit, which they to Spain, not Greece, did owe.   

348.  
●eemes Lycophron to write, or rather Think?  
●r writ he with Cassandra's Tears, white Ink?   

349.  
●●aliger rendered Lycophron in jest:  
●n Verrian Latin, like his Sense, he's Dressed.   

350.  
●ucretius, Nature's Favourite, excels;  
〈◊〉 All's Truth; or, if not Too Much he tells.   

351.  
How vainly at th' Olympic Games, Renown  
Was sought by Kings! Pindarus wins the Crown.   

352.  
Though to the Grape Anacreon did incline,  
His Song is Above Grape; His wit's his Wine.   

353.  
Horace, thy Art of Ode is choice: it will Please  
Whiles Mankind shall delight in Song and Ease.   

354.  
Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, were Dante's Three Themes.  
Two were Wise Melancholy; yet Extremes.   

355.  
What Petrarch Lost, he kept: His Laura dies:  
He Lost his Love, not Wit: his Wit was Wise.   

356.  
Bartas, the Sun makes Half the World still Bright:  
Thou dost Illustrate All both Day and Night.   

357.  
Without Arithmetic we can't know God:  
We must distinguish between Even and Odd.   

358.  
Needs must we know, what is One, Two and Three:  
How know we else, what is a Trinity?   

359.  
To Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide,  
Does private Doubts, and public too, Decide.   

360.  
To Number Rudely, is to do it Ill:  
What must be done, who would not do●●c with Skill?   

361.  
We may have Napier's Bones, or Pratt's small Table:  
Number and Art will thence us soon Enable.   

362.  
A seventh Day and Ten Laws Number require:  
The Art then, as the Law, we should Desire.   

363.  
If Holy Meditations you'd Rehearse,  
How will you find the Chapter and the Verse?   

364.  
Can we forget how holy David prays,  
God would him reach th' Arithmetic of his Days?   

365.  
Who takes the Book of Numbers in his hand,  
Without Arithmetic can he Understand?   

366.  
Musique's Number in Sound: Instruments long  
Since, Jubal made; and Moses had his Song.   

367.  
David kept Number in his Dance: yet free  
His Voice and Joy were; as his Harp would be.   

368.  
Saint Paul, who bids our Joy break-forth and sing,  
Forbids not to the Voice to Add the string.   

369.  
Boethius' Learned Music and his Witty  
Philosophy, are th' Happy Tune and Ditty.   

370.  
Music so variously affects Men's Minds,  
The Art is not more wondrous, than the kinds!   

371.  
Th' Jonique's Quick; Lydian, Sweet; Phrygian, Brave;  
Aeölique's Soft; Mixed is All; Dorique's Grave!   

372.  
If Lands were not Divided, Men would be:  
The use then of Geometry we see.   

373.  
When Joshua into Canaan Israel brought,  
Measure kept peace: else all had come to nought.   

374.  
Between Some Tribes Jordan became a Line:  
Division it was, which Tribe to Tribe did Join.   

375.  
In the Beginning had not Paradise bound?  
It had lain open else, as common ground.   

376.  
God measured Goshen with a Line of Light;  
When it was Divided from th' Aegyptian's Night.   

377.  
Measure can measure Light; Hence th' Optic Art;  
Mistaken view has made an Army Start!   

378.  
The Waters have seemed blood by dusky light:  
The same seems not the same by Different site.   

379.  
To enlighten Light Vitellio does surpass:  
To see Reflected Light, Porta's a Glass.   

380.  
By light Collected, Archimedes fired  
A fleet: Rare Art! But th' Artist's most admired.   

381.  
To know Refraction, needs a help but small:  
The Air and Water's Mathematical.   

382.  
Measure and Number spread and Dress the Sky:  
Distance and Stars teach us Astronomy.   

383.  
How the moist Pleyades, how Orion shines,  
Astronomy, and Scripture too, Defines.   

384.  
Without Astronomy Time knew no Dress:  
The Marks were lost: Story were Wilderness.   

385.  
Scaliger would mend Time; Petavius would  
Mend his Amendment: Art by Art is Schooled!   

386.  
From Censorinus  Years we know;  
From Lalamantius, sinces Doubts else might grow.   

387.  
Some have thought Lilius' Account well done:  
Their Dialls shamed by Clear Vieta's Sun.   

388.  
From Earth and Heaven Ptolemy won renown:  
Deserved not this Noking a starry Crown?   

389.  
Copernicus does err with great pretence  
Of Art: but Galilaus errs by sense.   

390.  
Who in his Eyes will place his Faith, may know,  
The devil a lie may by Permission show.   

391.  
Great Tycho Brahe Instruments did fit  
To Measure Heaven; Sized by his work, or Wit?   

392.  
Waggoner does the world's Chief Havens sound:  
For Our Last Port, a surer Pilot's sound!   

393.  
To know the Loadston's Mysteries and Law,  
Gilberts the Loadstone, that does All men Draw!   

394.  
Lomazzo's a rich piece, which itself praises:  
Whiles Art by Light and shade, just wonder Raises!   

395.  
Antiquities Refine Times from Fire and Flood:  
By Statues Time's Recalled and Understood.   

396.  
Tais'ner shows Seventeen Hundred different Hands:  
By's Own, he's Gypsy: Them who understands?   

397.  
Strabo, almost what Country, but th' hast Viewed it?  
Hadst been a Judge, Mankind would su●e have rued it.   

398.  
Euclid and Rathbourne may layout a Bound:  
Vitruvian Art must Build upon the Ground.   

399.  
Search we the Mine for Gold, strait make a Vaued  
We must; else quickly all will be at sau'ce.   

400.  
Come, Let's be Wise, and for the Arts Rejoice:  
God's Word is Chief; yet Art too is God's Voice!    

BOOK V OF Philosophers and Historians.  

401.  
High Metaphysique, that on Horeb Dwellest;  
Great Queen of Reason; Thou All Arts Excell'st!   

402.  
Religion, Thou on Sinai's Top dost sit,  
Higher than Horeb; Empress of All Wit!   

403.  
Horeb was but Ascent to Sinai's Top:  
Blessings from Sinai may on Horeb drop.   

404.  
Let's Teach what we are Taught: not Inspiration  
We now do bring; but Nature's Demonstration.   

405.  
Reason Alone in Man High Truths can reach:  
Mistaken Inspiration can't so teach.   

406.  
Before Time Somewhat Was, that could Make Time:  
That Being therefore must be Most Sublime.   

407.  
That Being was but One: had it been Two,  
What One did, than his Equal might Undo.   

408.  
The First One must be True; else it is not One:  
What's Feigned No Being has; and so is None.   

409.  
What's True is Therefore Good: and thus we know,  
All Goodness else, must from This Goodness flow.   

410.  
The First One, True, and good, by a clear Right  
Of Power, as Being, must be Infinite.   

411.  
How, what was First, was First, exceeds All wonder!  
Whisper has more proportion unto Thunder!   

412.  
What knowledge may of the First Being be,  
Nature first Learns of what's Philosophy.   

413.  
What's Good, we soon Corrupt: thus with the Love  
Of Wisdom, that's Philosophy, it did prove.   

414.  
Some thought all Knowledge could but Probable be:  
For them to Affrme'●, was it not Absurdity?   

415.  
Some thought No Knowledge Man could have at all:  
How knew they then, what they did Ignorance call?   

416.  
The Doubtfull's Vexed; the Ignorant is Mad!  
He that Attains Sure Truth, is Surely Glad.   

417.  
An Ague some, physician's Blush do name:  
Are Hidden Qualities the Philosopher's shame?   

418.  
From  fancies  Sects arise:  
Thus Seeking Wisdom some become unwise.   

419.  
The sceptics in uncertainties still dwelled;  
The Stoiques Over-wise not passions felt.   

420.  
Pythagoras by his Father, was a Jew;  
Circumcised: known and Taught by Ezechiel too!   

421.  
Pythagoras with the Gods did seigne to dwell;  
Lay hid, Returned: and what had passed could tell!   

422.  
Fool Man, that's his Own Mock! Whom pride makes quick  
To Hope, to get a Godhead by a Trick!   

423.  
Pythagoras did eat nor Flesh, nor Beans:  
More does He, that Himself from Himself weanes.   

424.  
Pythagoras did love Musique's sweet Close:  
Silence on's Scholars he might well impose.   

425.  
Godhead and Wit Empedocles does lack:  
Aetna holds Him; His Brasse-slipper's cast back!   

426.  
From speech with God Moses his ●ace did shine:  
Plato having read Moses, seemed divine.   

427.  
Plato's Ideas shaped in Heaven what's Hear:  
Did he then see his own Idea There?   

428.  
The Stagirite, that in all Arts excelled,  
●new not Himself, nor how the Ocean Swelled.   

429.  
●pinion's made men's God; their Joy then sure:  
●v'ry Philosopher's Thus an Epicure.   

430.  
When Aristotle did make Sleep his Theme,  
●hould he have writ Waking or in a Dream?   

431.  
For Skill i' th' Creatures Aldrovand's so Famed,  
You'd think it were Adam, who the Creatures named.   

432.  
Serpents, with Gesner, we may safely view:  
Learning he had; yet he no Juggling known.   

433.  
Salvian so presents your various Fish,  
He may be the Carthusian's wisest Dish.   

434.  
Wise Dioscorides, wheres'e'erw he grew,  
Was a rare Plant; Best Artists Him must view.   

435.  
Aesop saw Man oft become Beast: His wit  
By Beast then, to show Man, might think it fit.   

436.  
Kind Heraclitus' Eyes with Tears still ran:  
Democritus still Laughed: Both make One Man.   

437.  
Socrates' wisdom did to Virtue tend:  
He did Himself, that would all others, mend.   

438.  
Diogenes did Philosophy O're-doe:  
He made Virtue Absurd, and so scarce True.   

439.  
Cebes wisely instracts us in his Table:  
'Tis True Lise; yet, like Life, looks like a Fable.   

440.  
A Good Example still continues New:  
Cleanthes' Tankard is the Conduit too.   

441.  
To Man's short life an Memory Thou dost size  
Thy work, Good Epictetus: Briese and wise!   

442.  
Seneca's a rare Surgeon; He Inures  
His hand to Gentleness; pleases and Cures.   

443.  
Seneca's persevering Wit was Good,  
Till from his Opened Veins flowed Lines of Blood.   

444.  
The Moralist with skill scarce more profound  
Dresses the Mind, than Others dress the Ground.   

445.  
Contented House-hold-Art cares not to Roam  
Abroad; it is its Own Happy World at Home.   

446.  
How prudent Hesiod Laws of plough rehearses,  
Breaking the Mould with a Glad Teeme of Verses?   

447.  
How Mar● does the Bee home lo●den bring  
With Honey? he's a Bee without a sting.   

448.  
How Varro does both Hen and Nest prepare?  
The Chick's Halfe-hatched, by his fine Wit and Care.   

449.  
For Farmer's Life Acquaint Tusser All contains:  
The Wains, the Chains, the Swains, the Pains, the Gains.   

450.  
For Village- Lord, Brave Heresha●h does mark  
What's Worth: he's a N●ah in his Arke●   

451.  
Th' Italians Lafoy Lesina shows, what ought  
In Curious Thrift be saved. we'll save a Thought.   

452.  
Philosophy is Humble, like the Eye:  
On Earth it Dwells; and yet surveys the Sky.   

453.  
See Story, Life's Example; how it spreads  
A Pattern; in which out man All men reads.   

454.  
Where Moses his High History began,  
Who knows? Was Sinai's Top his Vatican?   

455.  
Moses is Text; Josephus is Tradition:  
Him our Faith reads; This read we with suspicion.   

456.  
Herodotus is a World, part Truth, part Fable:  
To know ●are Truths yet, we be by Him more able.   

457.  
Herodotus is History's Fresh Youth:  
Thucydides is Judgement, Age and Truth.   

458.  
Herodotus is Gold of a Rich Vein:  
Thucydides no Melting needs! Pure Grain!   

459.  
Story supposes Rule; Then pattern Finds:  
Xenophon yet to Rule hiS Cyrus Winds.   

460.  
Philosopher, Historian, Warrior too,  
Who Xenophon instyles, speaks but-his Due.   

461.  
Who can not Ost sweet Xenophon repeat,  
And see from Persia his Admired Retreat?   

462.  
Polybius against Hannibal Counsel gave:  
His pen presents him yet profound and Brave.   

463.  
Greece raised, Polybius, statues to thy Glory:  
But thy most lasting statue's thy Own Story.   

464.  
The Heathen World's Antiquities may know,  
They All to Sicilie's Diodorus Owe.   

465.  
Thirty years' toil it Diodorus cost,  
That, in the World, the World might not be Lost.   

466.  
Brave Sallust, thy rare Wit and Pen so act,  
As if th' hadst been with Catiline in his fact.   

467.  
Choice Sallust, Thou thyself canst so Disguise,  
Th' art Ingurth, Fierce; and Mansinissa, Wise!   

468.  
Caesar's Memorials are Pure, Modest, Plane:  
Had's Life been such, he had ne'er at home been slain.   

469.  
Halicarnassius did Dionysius breed:  
Rome had of Him, than He of Rome, more need.   

470.  
Rome's old Rites Dionysius' Care has shown:  
Rome now were else unto in self unknown.   

471.  
Livie's Rome's Empire! glory's Ample Sphere!  
Senators, Generals, Provinces are There!   

472.  
Valerius Maximus with such light abounds,  
he's a bright Set of pointed Diamonds!   

473.  
Paterculus his Wit we must commend;  
Unless where he appears an Over-friend.   

474.  
Had Curtius marched with Alexander, Word  
And Art had conquered All without the Sword.   

475.  
When withered Salem felt the wrath of God,  
Josephus was a bud on Aaron's rod.   

476.  
Josephus, but where from the Text he strays,  
For JeW's Affairs almost in all things Sways.   

477.  
Story is Patterne: well Compared 'tis Double:  
Ours is the Gain, Plutarch: The Taske's thy Trouble.   

478  
Pcace; you shall strait hear a Court-Whisper: Thus  
To Listen, may ned we learn by Tacitus?   

479.  
What Luck thy Wit had, Tacitus, to mark  
Rare Secrets? hadst thou Catt's eyes in the Dark?   

480.  
A Secretary Sueton was, and knew  
The Counsels of th' Emperor, and th' Empress too?   

481.  
Sueton his Method does from Rhet'rique take:  
Tacitus keeps the Order Time does make.   

482.  
Sueton and Tacitus too much did know;  
And, but that Shame's heavens Vengeance, too much show!   

483.  
●a●sanias, choicest Travailour, Thy Fields  
Are Greece: 'Tis Thine, what Rare it yields.   

484.  
Justin, whither thou dost contract or Make,  
We will praise the for thy Own and Trogus 's sake.   

485.  
Though thy Great work, Justin, about does roll,  
Yet thy Great Wit does thy great work Control.   

486.  
Florus is Livie's Margin; yet does Vie:  
Liv●e's a Goodly statue! Florus th' Eye.   

487.  
Thought and Tongue by Herodian is refined:  
Politian is his Mercury and Mind.   

488.  
New Livy, Dion! Thou, whose Life was Story,  
●halt by thy Pen Live with a Double Glory!   

489.  
To Search Vopis●us and some few, who writ  
Like Actions, Aesop's cock may reach us wit.   

490.  
〈◊〉 wish Eusebius, when on thee I look▪  
Thou hadst been the Best Christian in thy book.   

491.  
Marcelline Sense, scarce Words, could well Command:  
He written sure with his Gauntlet on his hand.   

492.  
Severus, Christian Florus, Other Men  
Whiles Thou so writ'st, thou meritest Thy Own Pen.   

493.  
Story of late from Tacitus takes life;  
Good stories of bad Actions now are rife.   

494.  
Guicciardine Drifts and Shifts of Crimes has Writ:  
Cambden and Strada show Wisdom and Witt.   

495.  
Europe's Intelligencer Thua●us brings  
To light, the more Retired Affairs of Kings.   

496.  
In Priorato's story Warriors march:  
But due to Him is the Triumphal Arch.   

497.  
Venetian Paul's Trent-Columne Fixed does stand:  
The neighbour Alps are not a firmer Land!   

498.  
The Centuries are Truth's bulwarks on a Rock:  
The Winds, the Seas may beat: They'll stand the Shocke.   

499.  
Baronius His Roma's story does Indite:  
The Centurists do the Church-story write.   

500  
Baronius' Pyramids Renown do win:  
Yet is there Embalmed Rottenness within!    

BOOK VI OF Physicians.  

501.  
HIppocrates and Galen are renowned,  
Though Health's a Riddle not where to be found.   

502.  
An Atome's Restless; witness the sun's beam:  
A Droppe's still Changed; though still it is the same stream!   

503.  
For Health to the Physician all Men go:  
Health yet, is it the physician's Friend or Foe?   

504.  
Hypocrates with Art the World did fill:  
Yet his Pure Oath's more Wondrous, than the Skill.   

505.  
Physicians are Halfe-Priests: if then Impure,  
Or Blabs they be; they rather Wound then Cure.   

506.  
Physique's as Old as Sin: Endure  
Disease, since Nature can't, it strait seeks Cure.   

507.  
All Ages have their Help: Diet is Art:  
Polybus, Nature's Scholar, taught this part.   

508.  
Hyssop is purging; purging makes Man New:  
IT was well then Solomon the Herbal knew.   

509.  
Diocles both Physician was, and sure  
Physic! Before shows Disease and present Cure!   

510.  
Mithridate his own Antidote became:  
That was Right kingcraft! who else claims That Fame?   

511.  
Choice Dioscorides makes Man so wary,  
He may become his own Apothecary.   

512.  
Archigenes his Wit the Sponge does Squeeze:  
Thought he upon his Patient and his Fees?   

513.  
Apicius' Cookery was a fullsome ●oile:  
We scarce prescribe Salt, more than He does Oil.   

514.  
Celsus is Art and Elegance: it were  
A Curious Art, to cure men by the Eare.   

515.  
Brave Oribasius did with skill abound?  
For wounded Julian yet what skill was found?   

516.  
To think the body's Temperament does Guide  
The Soul, Great Sinners are on Galen's side.   

517.  
Galen is Man: his works the Body's Frame:  
Their Number and perfection all praise claim.   

518.  
Galen did live, as Some say, seven score years;  
A rare Physician sure them; it appears.   

519.  
Rhazes for learned practice is a new  
And clear Hypocrates and Galen too.   

520.  
At ten years old Avicens Zeal and Art  
Vied: HE had almost All th' Alcoran then by Heart!   

521.  
Avicen writes of Cordials; with the rest  
●et numbers not Himself, though fare the Best.   

522.  
Avicens Canticles briefly renew  
Memory: Canon th' are, and Cordials too.   

523.  
To Make thy Canons, Avicen, which Contain  
All Art of Health, thy Canon was thy Brain.   

524.  
●ushius soils Avicen, physician's Mirroir;  
●ee broke before Threescore: That was an Error.   

525.  
Who th' Aphorisms wants, wants Art and Ease:  
To want rare Faventinus is Disease.   

526.  
Massaria, had thy Care and Judgement gone  
Through All thy Art, we had then All in One   

527.  
●assavol's th' Apothecary's Commission:  
●assavol is the Rarest Composition.   

528.  
〈◊〉 Ancient times their Physique-Rules were True:  
〈◊〉 These, Truth's so Refined, that Truth seems New.   

529.  
●ugenius dares Massaria to refute:  
Wit against Wit is still in glad Dispute.   

530.  
Accurate Argenterius will not rest  
〈◊〉 Old Truths: He ●ll consult with his Own breast.   

531.  
Suchten your Antimony does cry-up;  
By Art and Hope now Formed into a Cup.   

532.  
Anatomy and Surgery do raise  
Fallopius' Name: from Quick and Dead he has Praise.   

533.  
The learned Wecker's books Secrets Unfold:  
If so, Secrets they are but till they're told.   

534.  
Experience has taught Cures: but who is it knows  
The true Disease? This Rondeletius shows.   

535.  
Montanus, though't seems Paradox, does hold  
And prove, Distilled, or Hot Waters, are All Cold.   

536.  
A Golden Tooth grew in a Child Though All,  
Ruland, admire; was Nature Chemical?   

537.  
Mercurialis' Praise and Worth mount high;  
Yet in his Ointment may be found a Fly!   

538.  
Kind Montagnana, though on Land, does show,  
How they are Ordered, that by Sea do go.   

539.  
Bright Capivacci●s, praising Thee we have done:  
Is it Art to hold a Candle to the Sun?   

540.  
Sweet Fracastorius, thou wast double blessed:  
Thy Muse, or Physic; who knows which is best?   

541.  
Dutch Æsculapius, Paracelsus, Darest  
By Art Frame Man; and with God's Work Comparest?   

542.  
Would Nature seem to make Old Galen New?  
Of Great Forestus it may seem but True.   

543.  
Whiles with Courteous Fernelius we but Talk,  
●nto his Art he does us Gently walk.   

544.  
Quakes any at his Climacterical Year?  
Codronchius will Rule him from his Fear.   

545.  
From Physic did Wiërus run to Evil?  
Shall we begin in Art, and End in Devil?   

546.  
Curious Mizaldus, writ he Wrong or Right,  
Can not be read, without a Choice Delight.   

547.  
Sound Cordus, Thy Dispensatory teaches  
Such Art, as scarce Another Artist reaches.   

548.  
Man's Heaven and Earth: from Heaven and Earth's his Cure:  
The Medicine, Earth; the Time, Heaven must Assure.   

549.  
Maginus' Art and Confidence will tell,  
How Physic with Astrology must dwell.   

550.  
●age, in his Calculated Tables, shows  
The Sick Man's state: His Death's Day too He knows!   

551.  
A Questioned were decided not with ease,  
If Clusius were Physician, or Disease!   

552.  
Ankle, Thigh, Arm and Belly-●●rst, Foot sprained;  
Fever, Stone, Dropsy, Coliques, Clusius pained.   

553.  
Some vaunt, they can all  Pulses show:  
Can fancy? Sense this Riddle ne'er shall know.   

554.  
Seasons of th' year, five thousand times though passed,  
Only Catosius does know now at last!   

555.  
Sanctorius 's Physic is the Body and Scales:  
Weigh Right, and mend: Thank thyself, if Health fails.   

536.  
Obicius would Sanctorius 's Work Demolish:  
Which cost the Builder, Thirty years to polish.   

557.  
Sanctorius, a Wise Builder, does with Care,  
His Statique Art, which he well Raised, Repair.   

558.  
All Helmond writes, we'll hope to say, Is Good;  
When we shall understand, All's understood.   

559.  
Some secrets Helmond shows, which were more fit,  
If True, to be concealed! Hence, Dangerous Wit!   

560.  
Sennertus does all arguments pursue  
So well, he's Text and Commentary too.   

561.  
Venice, thy Trincavel yields thee a Name  
Beyond thy wedding Ring, though of great Fame.   

562.  
When Galen and Hypocrates seem foes,  
Learned Rorarius does the strife Compose.   

563.  
Whiles great Hypocrates obtains his Due,  
Hollerius shall be Aphorism too.   

564.  
Crato, thy wise and plentiful Advise,  
Shows, thou got'st same not from some New Divise.   

565.  
Causes of sudden Death Terillus tells:  
Wisdom, and prayer, sometimes Death Repels.   

566.  
The Quintessence of Man's Blood is rare Cure:  
The Quintessence of God and Man's most Sure!   

567.  
A Child Cried in the womb, Libavius says;  
Did he begin his Griefs, before his Days?   

568.  
Horstius the Lover's pulse by Art would find:  
Let's learn by Grace the pulse of our Own Mind.   

569.  
Baldus man's mind will tell vi● wing his Nalles:  
Place the Commandments there, the Art ne'er fails.   

570.  
From Curtius th' Art of Dosing let us learn:  
Strong Physic does not a weak mind concern.   

571.  
Crinitus, Weighest Man's Heart? If Grace it fill,  
'Tis Light: If Empty it is, then sink it will.   

572.  
Melampus by the body's Moles would saigne  
Divine: by Inward Spots it were not Vain.   

573.  
Anatomists Man's Body still so View,  
As if this Art, when Man Dies, still were New!   

574.  
Laurentius is th' Anatomist of his Art,  
Transcending in the Philosophical part.   

575.  
New Remelinus takes off Man's first Skin:  
So by Degrees unclothes each part within.   

576.  
Platerus Chippes-out Man, and every part  
Lays by itself, with special Care and Art.   

577.  
Vesalius does Fallopius dissect:  
Anatomy by Anatomy is Checked!   

478  
Bartholine's Art and Eye are Quick of sight:  
His View's Review: he does the Mind Invite.   

579.  
Casserius the Instruments of Sense does show:  
Our Senses to His Reason This do Owe.   

580.  
Spigelius presents Man, as at his Rise:  
You'd think ye saw Adam in Paradise.   

581.  
Some the Anatomy of the Living write:  
Let th' Eye to its Own Conscience cast its sight.   

582.  
Has every sore a Salve? Erastus then,  
Not Paracelsus, proves the Man of Men!   

583.  
Libavius the Parisian Check does sleight:  
Showing what Chemistry he does count Right.   

584.  
Libavius does your Crollian Magic try:  
And to the Roseal Cross has a like eye.   

585.  
What's searching Lullus, the Philosopher's Stone  
And Augurellus? Sure their Worth's All One!   

586.  
Camphire-Oile, and some more, for Liquid Gold,  
With Gold-Dust, pass; by Beguin yet contro●ld.   

587.  
What's not performed by Nature, Art or Grace,  
Is Bad: where then shall Weapon-Salve find place?   

588.  
Taliacotius will a maimed face Close  
To another's flesh, and thence make a new nose!   

589.  
Mathiolus and Lobel are choice plants:  
Without Them th' Herbal would confess its wants.   

590.  
If to the Spa a journey thou wouldst make,  
G●ringus and Byetius with thee take.   

591.  
Who Travail would by Sea, Wagon, Horse, Foot;  
By Gratarol's Advice may better doced.   

592.  
The Instruments of speech in Beasts, who reach?  
Rare Aquapendens yet even This dares Teach.   

593.  
Quercetan does a learned Choice propose  
Of Meats: He does deserve the Help he shows.   

594.  
Old Trapezuntius did his Skill and Name  
Forget by Sickness: Sickness was His Fame.   

595.  
Drink, fourteen Ounces daily, by just w●ight,  
Bread and Meat Twelve! Cornar●'s strict Receipt!   

596.  
Who was the Best Physician? shall we say?  
Judge by success; It was Methus●elah.   

597.  
Almost a Thousand years Methushelah told:  
In God's Account he was not One day Old.   

598.  
Twice as much Bread as Flesh; Thrice as much eat,  
As Fish: Once and a Half as Egge's Receipt.   

599.  
The Lamp is Life: Man's Heat does daily dry  
His moisture up; so that to lives to Die.   

600.  
What's Life, Health, Physic? though one daily quaffed  
With Thirst and Fancy, Doctor antony's Draught!    

BOOK VII. OF Lawyers.  

601.  
Let's keep Possession; Cries the Law●er still?  
IT is well, if the Possession proves not iii.   

602.  
Two things there are, the One of which is Mine:  
The Other e'er I have it, shall I call Thine!   

603.  
Nature, art Cain? sayest thou at every strife,  
Though Brother th' art, J'll have thy Goods or Li●e?   

604.  
Nature, although Corrupt, will have some Law;  
To scape wrong, we'll do Right: Danger does Awe.   

605.  
Conscience is Law, Accuser, Witness True;  
Judge, Prisoner, Jailor, Executioner too.   

606.  
The Heavenly Angels know their Laws: without  
Order, Heaven not Assembly were, but Rout.   

607.  
The Dev'lls, that raise all strife, strife yet do quell  
Amongst themselves: A Law there is in Hell!   

608.  
Relations must be owned: Husband and Wife;  
Father, Son; Master, Servant: Order Life.   

609.  
The Head and Feet do still their Distance keep:  
The Natural body's Politic, even in Sleep.   

610.  
No Nation but does in itself keep Law:  
The Cannibal's Own Family escapes his Maw.   

611.  
Nimrod more sought for Glory, then for Blood:  
Much loss of This, Only with Justice, stood.   

612.  
What Blood the Body loses, the Head feels:  
There's quick Intelligence between Head and Heels,   

613.  
All Fault was Death with Draco: This Severe  
Decree was Life: Safety thus sprung from Fear,   

614.  
Frail are Man's Laws; Israel's Laws are sure:  
And only by Gods will Change or Endure.   

615.  
Of Heathen Laws the Roman bears the Name:  
In Different Times yet, Roman's not the same.   

616.  
Laws under Kings Rome had: P●pirius's Name  
They bear, by Him Collected: He the Fame.   

617.  
When Tribunes Ruled, the Law uncertain grew:  
And Rome then thought, that All's not Best, that's New.   

618.  
Troubles teach Wit: thus Rome did fetch from Greece  
Laws in Ten Tables: it was a Golden Fleece.   

619.  
Ten Tables were at Rome to Twelve improved:  
To help what wanted, Rome it so behoved.   

620.  
Th' Ephesian Hermodorus, though Exiled,  
The Author is of Rome's Twelve Tables styled.   

621.  
Plato must write of Law; it was Intended  
By Art and Blood: from Solon he descended.   

622.  
Charondas 'gainst his own Law, to his pain,  
Comes armed to Council: by's Own sword he's s●aine.   

623.  
What Various Laws Rome's Commonwealth did know,  
We may: Zasius shows Them: They him do show.   

624.  
Papirian, Flavian, Aelian Law Rome knew:  
Yet wise Necessity still added New.   

625.  
Rome's People from the Senator's did fall:  
Made Laws; and these The People's Law● did call.   

626.  
A People Needs a Senate: This does make  
Laws, which their Name do, from the Senate, take.   

627.  
Rome's Prat●● had his Honorarious Law:  
At last the Consul's Laws kept Alkin Awe.   

628.  
The Senate gave Nasica House and Fame:  
For Law-Advise to Him the People came.   

629.  
Servius a famous Orator, by shame  
Wisely provoked, in Law got Skill and Fame.   

530.  
Labeo in Rome six months' spents six he Writ  
Retired: The Country was his Fame and Wit.   

631.  
Trebati●s's Skill; Cascelius' Eloquence;  
Ofilius' Learning; was their Difference.   

632.  
Augustus did Himself, whiles Law, advance:  
His Noble Art shamed Wrong and Ignorance.   

633.  
Man Raised Art; Art Man: Law did Lawyers rear:  
Some knights, some Senators, some Consuls were.   

634.  
By Caracalla's Sword Papinian died:  
He scorned to Excuse an Emperor Fratricide.   

635.  
Th' Imperial Laws, that lay before Disjoind,  
By wise Justinian in One Code we find.   

636.  
What the Gregorian, Hermogenian Code,  
And Theodosian had, Tribonian showed.   

637.  
Profane and Greedy though Tribonian were,  
Just and Free Art does his Name highly rear.   

438.  
Law includes Power and Wisdom: These we find,  
To have their Empire in Justinian's Mind.   

639.  
The well Digested Pande●ts do display  
The Law: whiles what the wisest Lawyers say.   

640.  
The Code has Power: The Pandects have profound  
Reason; These are the Law's sure Depth and Ground.   

641.  
Law's Institutions are the Youth of Law:  
Law's Constitutions do keep Age in Awe.   

642.  
The Novel Constitutions show they are  
As a new Code, sormed with Authentic Care.   

643.  
The Feudal Customs may as Pandects be:  
Their Right the Learned Lawyers make us see.   

644.  
Wit teaches Wit: Th' Imperial Artists show  
Rome's Clergy, Wits which way they have to go.   

645.  
Scholars Quick Scholars are: Gregory the Great  
Sent-out commands, as Lofty as his Seat.   

646.  
A Canon-Law Gratian's Decree does rear.  
As the Church- Pandects, for a Thousand year.   

647.  
Gregory the Ninth unto the Church first showed  
Decretal Constitutions Rome's Church-Code.   

648.  
Th' Eight Boniface his Decretals does spread;  
By Dynus' Art; which Roman Lawyers read.   

649.  
Clemens the Fist His Decretals presents:  
Ambitious Men succeed to proud Intents.   

650.  
The Two-and-Twentith John does make new room:  
Thus his Extravagant Constitutions come.   

651.  
Rome's Church is now grown Empire: Has This Code?  
Like Reverence to the Decretals is showed▪   

652.  
La Civil, has it Pandects? The Decree  
Shall to the Roman Church as Pandects be.   

653.  
The Canonists, that do their Task pursue,  
Have now, by Lancelet, Institutions too.   

654.  
Has not the Church a surer Guide than Man?  
With Scripture-Canon sure the Church began.   

655.  
Scripture's Church- Code: The first fow'r Councils know  
They're Pandects, which Themselves to This Code owe.   

656.  
Th' Apostles Canons Zonaras explains:  
To Prove them, then to Expound them, is more pains.   

657.  
The Gen'ral Church a Code had; th' African too 〈◊〉  
All that is Good in Gratian is not New.   

658.  
Isidore, Burchard, Ivo, Laws Collected,  
Which before Gratian, Church-Affaires directed.   

659.  
Photius his Nomocanon's a Greek Light:  
Balsamon strives to make it shine more bright.   

660.  
Lotharius and Bononia Irnerius Cherished:  
By is Interlinear Law-Glosse They too flourished.   

661.  
Though Azo's Industry was more than's part;  
His Summe's the Sum of Azo and his Art.   

662.  
But for Accursius Law had had a Loss:  
He first, the whole Imperial Law did Gloss.   

663.  
Who th' Emp'rour's Right Opposed Vinea defied;  
Was he not Wise? The Sword was on his side.   

664.  
Accurate Hostiensis much does write:  
His Learned Summe't is that does Much Invite.   

665.  
Law's Lookingglass the clear Durantes writ:  
A Glass, in which you may behold his Wit.   

666.  
Guido the Gross Clemens the First became:  
●oth Laws he knew; One Law he Now might Frame.   

667.  
Bartolus Law, itself is enough Fear:  
Wouldst thou both Pleader be, and Judge Severe?   

668.  
Baldus with study, Age and Fame even wearied,  
●hy in Saint Francis Habit wouldst be buried?   

669.  
●f Francis was, as Truth can Franc'is paint,  
Baldus more Lawyer was, than Francis Saint.   

670.  
Panormitan in Basil Council sat  
When Pope Eugenius had his Fate-well Date.   

671.  
Jason did the Whole Civil Law expound:  
Lived Long, and almost fifty years Renowned.   

672.  
Zasius in Law did Reason most esteem:  
Of His Choice Thoughts he shows us how to deem.   

673.  
For Practise in the Law Oldendorpe's Way,  
As Once With Him, with Others still may Sway.   

674.  
Civil and Canon Law Oldendorpe's Care  
Does Sort: Knows the Comparison Compare?   

675.  
Budaeus' Choice and Learning give such Light,  
He does New Pandects on the Pandects Writ.   

676.  
Alciat's Wit and Fame were Milan's Jewel:  
His Own was his selected work, His Duel.   

677.  
Cujacius, still be't Doubt, that neither boast,  
If Thou to Law, or Law to Thee, Owes most.   

678.  
Rare Wesembecius' Artificial Frame  
Of Law, which Tully wished, Raises his Name.   

679.  
The Institutions many a Wit have Vexed:  
Mynsinger may be Law without a Text.   

680.  
Hotoman's worth is by his writings known:  
Can His Pen Junius Brutus' writings Own?   

681.  
Spain on the Law Imperial will attend:  
Her Covarruvia● was her Pride and Friend.   

682.  
Antonius Augustinus tries the Ground  
Of Law; He the Twelve Tables does expound.   

683.  
Calvin's an Honest Lexicon: who fears  
To be phrase-jugled? Every word He Clears.   

684.  
The Greek and Roman Laws receive great praise  
From Leunclavius: Sh●'n't They His fame raise?   

685.  
Exquisite Gothofrede does so Transcend.  
The Law's perfection makes us fear's will End.   

686.  
The brave Welsh Solon, Howell D●a, much Glory  
Unjustly wants: His worth does Claim more Story.   

687.  
By Law of Wales no Mortgaging of Land  
Was good, unless into a Kinsman's hand.   

688.  
The Spring and Harvest Welsh Vacations were:  
No Suit For Land the Judges Then might hear.   

689.  
Wales, at thy Judge's Right hand the Priest sat;  
Who with the Judges did Deliberate.   

690.  
The Rhodian Laws show Wellwood's settled Wit:  
Though of the Sea, upon the Land he writ.   

691.  
The Grecian Arms and Tongue proved both but vain:  
The Amphyctyones were the Wise Brain.   

692.  
Linwood and Spelman Ancient wisdom show:  
Noveltie's Danger: with Time Errors grow.   

693.  
cowel, Thou hast Ordered the Law: given Light:  
Sundered what lay confused, and placed all right.   

694.  
Littleton's Tenure's Ground: Free Land's rich mould:  
Fee-tail is Gravel: Sand is Copyhold.   

695.  
Lambard, Law's Antiquary, makes us see,  
By what High Courts Once were, what they should be.   

696.  
Fulbecke Law Civil, Canon, Common, shows:  
Compares: Discovers, where they're Friends, where Foes.   

697.  
Fitsherbert, what in Year-bookes lay confused,  
Has wisely saved, from being more abused.   

698.  
What is English Law's Hope after Clear Brook,  
Deep Plowden, Quick-brained Dyer, Learned Cook?   

699.  
Beware the Shark: if in Law's Sea we fall,  
A limb is lost! If Lost we are not All.   

700.  
Against Both Parts Law so does Oft prevail,  
They're Swallowed worse, than Jonah by the Whale!    

BOOK VIII. OF Kings and Other Worthies.  

701.  
Just Empiere's Shuneshine; Power, that's got by wrong,  
Is Tempest: A fierce Tempest lasts nor Long.   

702.  
Nimrod was not of his own Kin the First:  
The Chief he was: but what was worse, the Worst.   

703.  
Semiramis, didst ill, to rule thy Son?  
Rule him whiles Child: when Man, His rule beguane.   

704.  
Pharaoh's hard heart no showers of grace obtains:  
Now we'll believe in Egypt it scarce raines.   

705.  
Why did the Pharaohs raise such massy Tombs?  
Feared they to come unto their Heavier Dooms?   

706.  
Tremble fond Pyramids! The Last Thunder can  
Startle your Guilty Mumy into Man?   

707.  
Vain Pharaohs, when your Piles are hurled asunder;  
Not They, your Folly it is, shall prove the Wonder.   

708.  
Though Nimrod's Tower and Pride th' Egyptians led,  
He for the Living built; They for the Dead.   

709.  
Moses, to Die in Nebo, did God send?  
Death was his Way: but Lifeed was, was his End.   

710.  
Joshua, Thou wast King ' of th' Holy sword:  
Was't double edged, like God's Victorious word?   

711.  
Adonib●zec ●ut-off Thumbs and Toes:  
Cruelty's Folly! Feared he Kicks and Blows?   

712.  
Envious and Bloody Saul! Nothing could win him.  
From his Fierce will: His worst Wireh was within him.   

713.  
David was Moon; knew Increase, Full and Wain;  
Change too yet did in th' Heaven of Grace remain.   

714.  
Solomon's Fame did from his Wisdom rise:  
His Wisdom, nay His Folly, makes Us wise.   

715.  
David cut-off Saul's Skirt: The Ten Tribes do  
Leave Rehoboam but a skirt or Two.   

716.  
Jehosaphat made Judges: some agree,  
The last great ' size shall in his Valley be.   

717.  
Sardanapalus did himself perplex:  
This Distaffe-King could not himself Unsex●.   

718.  
To Heaven sad Ezechia●'s prayer goes;  
Comes down in Angel, and Destroys his Foes.   

719.  
Impious Sennacherib blasphemed his Maker:  
In his shed blood his Son with's son's partaker.   

720.  
Manasses lost a Crown; The Lot of Many●  
Again receives it; scarce the Lot of any!   

721.  
Josiah was Extremes; All Acclamation,  
His Passover! His Death, All Lamentation!   

722.  
High Nebucha Inezzar a God began  
To Act: God made him Beast, to make him Man.   

723.  
Wine in God's bowls Belshazzar quaffed in Flout:  
That night by th' Enimie's Sword His Blood flow'd-out.   

724.  
After Long Glory and its strong delusion,  
Th' Assyrian Felt and Saw his Own Confusion.   

725.  
The Mede th' Assyrians Spoilt; Persians the Mede:  
Captived in Sin, Sinners thus sinners lead.   

726.  
Cyrus decreed God's Temple's Reparation:  
Happy it was, if it was his Own Foundation.   

727.  
A King and No King? Riddle, shall we say?  
By Esther's hand thus Mordecha● did sway   

728.  
Happy Assuerus whiles with Esther joined:  
Was't Jew and Gentile in one Christ refined?   

729.  
Was Persia's Glory in Darius Ended?  
By his rare Patience was it not Extended?   

730.  
Darius' Mother, Daughter, Wife (Love-snares)  
Were Alexander's Captives; Not He Theirs?   

731.  
Swift Alexander's Land-flood! Such his Sway  
That his own Fierceness swept him soon away.   

732.  
Was Alexander more than To●le and Sin?  
Vexing Desires, in Greatness, still Begin.   

733.  
Great Alexander Living is the Great:  
His Death, of Him and His was the Defeat.   

734.  
Abusive power calisthenes Defaced:  
Proud Alexander Himself most disgraced.   

735.  
The Macedonian built his Horse a Tomb:  
A poisoned Hoose provided Him Like room.   

736.  
The Macedonian Lost the Asian Throne:  
His Kin soon Lost, or never Got, their Own.   

737.  
Who gripes too much casts all upon the ground:  
Too great a Greatness Greatness does confound.   

738.  
In Alexander's Wife 's and 's Child's blood  
Cassander's slippery Throne no long time stood.   

739.  
In th' East the Grecian's Pride first Raised its Crest:  
Perseus captived by Rome drooped in the West.   

740.  
Scripture is Library: Egypt, thy King  
Ptolemy Philadelph Thee Both did bring.   

741.  
Seemed Pompey Rome's Head? Egypt was Rome's store;  
When Pompey left his Coarse on Aegypt's shore.   

742.  
Antony was devoured by Aegypt's guile:  
Fair Cleopatra was the Crocodile!   

743.  
Anthiochus the Great, Fortune's shrine saigne  
Would spoil: By Fortune was't? There he was slain!   

744.  
Antiochus the Mad, God's Temple spoilt:  
Was plagued; Grieved; Died: it was Gain to be thus soiled.   

745.  
The Macchabies, Apocryhal in Story,  
The World strives yet to Canonize in Glory.   

746.  
Mithridate forty years a war maintained  
With Rome: He Fought; he Lived not; much less Reigned▪   

747.  
Mithridate slew Wife, Mother, Child; Remorse  
Knew not! Some Wives, He Nature did Devores!   

748.  
Rome was Tigranes his last Overthrow:  
Active Tigranes was his Own First Foe.   

749.  
Herod, though Fox, more Crafty was, then Wise:  
he's Fool, that acts crimes before Public eyes.   

750.  
Caesar was War: Augustus Peace: Impure  
Tiberius was; Caligula past Cure.   

751.  
Claudius was Dotard; Nero beastly Mad:  
Galba stolen; Otho Trim; Vitellius, Swad.   

752.  
Vespasian's Shrewd, and Base: Titus more Good  
Then Bad: Domitian is Pride, Lust and Blood!   

753.  
Nerva's a Snuff, that in the Socket blazes:  
And soon gooes-out, whiles the Eye upon it gazes.   

754.  
From Spain to th' Indies Trajan did prevail:  
Of Christ and th' Indies Trajan yet did fail.   

755.  
Adrian was Mercury; a Mixture strange  
Of Vice and Virtue; Of Great Art and Change!   

756.  
Once Alexander could Diogenes be:  
Antonine, King and Stoic was in Thee.   

757.  
Severus might amongst the Best shine bright.  
But that he was th' Eclipse of his Own Light.   

758.  
Who does not Commodus and Bassian Loath?  
Heliogabalus was Himself and Both!   

759.  
The Persian state Alexander O'erthrew:  
Rome's Alexander did Himself subdue.   

760.  
Valerian Christians vexed: Sapores flayed him!  
How Cruelty helps Justice? They Repaid him!   

761.  
Aurelian from Zenobia won some fame:  
Zenobia's Worth did the fierce Conqueror came.   

762.  
Great Constantine thou wast the Spirits of Wine:  
Thou gav'st the World Tincture, or Taste, Divine.   

763.  
Julian revolts from Christ: yet can not start  
From Death: was not Apostasy the Dart?   

764.  
Though Theodosius Raged, his Happy Shame  
Proved, Holy Ambrose, His and Thy true Fame.   

765.  
Attila's Pride and Fury did decline  
At once: He Lived in Blood, and Died in Wine!   

766.  
Deposed Glycerius is, by Nepos' Will,  
Made Prelate; Had he seeming Empire still?   

767.  
A●gustulus his Name was like his Throne:  
A little Caesar First; then Quickly None.   

768.  
●ustinian gave Constantinople Law:  
But Belisarius' Sword the World did Awe.   

769.  
●ustinian, Belisarius hast Conremned?  
He was thy prisoner: Thou it is art Condemned.   

770.  
Many Wars caused Ravenna's Exarchate:  
Too many made Two hundred years its Date.   

771.  
Mauritius Captive blood would not redeem;  
That shed; his own did find as much esteem.   

772.  
Charles the Great his battles did record  
In blood: He writ them with the Spirit of Sword!   

773.  
The Grecian Empire Constantine begun:  
And in a Constantine shall it be undone?   

774.  
Otho the Great did stoutly quell his foes:  
This Double Caesar did a Pope depose!   

775.  
Hildebrand did Henry the Fourth debase:  
But sweet Revenge Raptur'd him from disgrace!   

776.  
Saladine to his grave bid his friends bear  
His spoils of th' East, his Shirt upon a spear!   

777.  
For Seav'nty years Rome to Avignon fled:  
There Rome was, where Clemens the Fist, its Head.   

778.  
Queen Joan of Naples so did act her Life,  
She seemed as much an Hostess, as a Wife.   

779.  
England's Fist Henry was a Sun too soon  
Removed: heavens sun's less strange: Ours set at Noon   

780.  
Zisca Alive his foes by Fight O'ercome:  
When Dead, he'd Conquer with his Skin made Drum.   

781.  
Five hundred thousand warriors fight with rage▪  
Yet Bajazet can't scape Tamerlan's Cage!   

782.  
Columbus was by his brave Spirit so hurled,  
He seemed the Sea-Apostle of the World.   

783.  
Ferdinand from the Moors won his Own Spain;  
From th' Indians, Gold: from Him They Heaven should gain.   

784.  
Charles the Fist scorned Glory, Pleasure, Pelse:  
Turned Court-Monke and the Emperor of Himself.   

785.  
Henry of Portugal's Old Age was Spring:  
He Lived a Cardinal, and Died a King!   

786.  
Henry, Our Eight, few Painters have well made:  
Some give him too much Light, some too much shade▪   

787.  
Our English Mary in wrong Zeale's Desire,  
Poor Christians Burned: The Counsel was the Fire▪   

788.  
Elizabeth was Tempered to Inherit  
Her Grandsire's Wisdom, and her Father's Spirit.   

789.  
Scotland's Fair Mary Vexed in Life and Story,  
England has yet unridled to her Glory.   

790.  
Drake in New Albion might a Crown have worn;  
Wisely Denied: Though't was not made of Thorn!   

791.  
When Truth, Peace, Justice, Mercy, Arts, did flourish,  
Not Henry, but James Beauclerke did them nourish.   

792.  
Charles the First, the First his people's Martyr!  
A Saint was Too, by right of th' Holy Charter!   

793.  
The Body strikes-off it's Own Head! Strange deed!  
The Head Cutoff, the Body Too Must bleed.   

794.  
King of Rare Lott and Virtue, charles's the First!  
The Best of Men! Judged, by the Worst, the Worst!   

795.  
Beheaded England, strange shall be Thy Story:  
Revive in thy New Charl's, to a New Glory!   

796.  
Our High-noon Star, Charles the Second, Shines!  
IT is blest Success, when Heaven with Earth Combines!   

797.  
With glittering Swords, yet without shedding blood,  
See, Our Great Britain Comes! 'Tis Charles, the Good.   

798.  
York winged with Lightning, in a full career  
Flies-on, and respites not his Foe to Fear!   

799.  
Kind Glo'ster seeing Charles Blest 'midst just Desires;  
To Heaven, whence his Own Graces came, Reti'res,   

800.  
King's Choose their friends: But Charles is such Delight.  
He is the heavens and England's Favourite!    

BOOK IX. OF Politicians.  

801.  
PAint me a Politician with right foot  
Tip-toed, and Slily aiming for a shoot.   

802.  
Your Politic, that will be held most acquaint,  
Must seem, nay bee Believed to be a Saint.   

803.  
Nimrod had Art, before he had great Power:  
He built Himself, before he built his Towed.   

804.  
Semiramis her Sex and Plot did Hid:  
Scarce could she else th' Assyrian Empire guide.   

805.  
Nature taught Jacob Policy: by which  
He made his Flock, and Him his Flock made Rich.   

806.  
Shechem had Craft; but that on Lust Heaven lowers:  
Let's Marry; then all Jacob's Wealth is Ours.   

807.  
●f any a Shee-Politique would paint,  
potiphar's Wise is Copy for such Saint.   

808.  
The Midwives obtain mercy, whiles they Muse,  
Their Mercy to the Hebrew Babes t' Excuse.   

809.  
Rahab on the housetop hide Israel's spies:  
Heaven saw't; though it had not been so near the Skies.   

810.  
●ael's sharp Nail through Sisera's Temples went:  
●t was the surest nail in Ja●l● ten●.   

811.  
Abimelech his seav'nty brethren killed:  
By soulness of his plot, his Plot he spilled.   

812.  
Absalon's Rage was more; Sampson's more fit:  
Both did fire Corn: but Samson with Foxe-wit.   

813.  
Philistines th' Israelite no Smith afford:  
heavens plot! The Fools do fall by their Own sword!   

814.  
Michal helps David's flight, feigning him saint:  
Choice Wit! That makes an Image save a Saint!   

815.  
Seems David Mad? Fear is Madness: the Abuse  
Of Sanctity and Reason needs Excuse.   

816.  
David's friends scape in a well O'erspread with Meal:  
Them, not the Woman's Wit, it did conceal.   

817.  
Achitophel did hang himself; We will tell  
But Truth too; Hushai hanged Achitophel.   

818.  
Had fair Bathsheba ne'er been Too much seen,  
Fair though she were, she ne'er had been a Queen.   

819.  
Bathsheba's shape was her First Wit: That Wit  
Court-taught, in David's Throne made Solomon sit.   

820.  
A Crown to Jeroboam's a strange thing;  
That would adore a Calse to be a King.   

821.  
Proud Athalia a King's Wife had been:  
Rule she will still: She will Live or Die a Queen.   

822.  
By Night the Mede did Baltasar beset:  
By Night he sees, that can a Kingdom get.   

823.  
Romulus gives Rome Bulk; Numa a Mind:  
Yet, though his Wit sees, his Devotion's Blind.   

824.  
Hannibal to his Gods Rome's Empire vows:  
Revenge for Sacrifice Heaven ne'er allows.   

825.  
Hannibal's Vow would have fierce Vengeance thrown  
Upon Rome's head: it Falls upon his Own.   

826.  
Old Masinissa's Wisdome's his best Power:  
●ee leagues with Rome; Rome else would all devour.   

827.  
●ugurth's Trust in a Father-in-law O're-sways him:  
●y Treachery, not Wit, Bocchus betrays him.   

828.  
subtle, Stout, treacherous Jugurth, who can purge?  
Who can scape God? The Roman was his scourdge.   

829.  
●ertorius's Sword and Wit durst try to do  
●s much as Romulus and Numa too.   

830.  
●ome greedy Swine will kill their Young: Is it true?  
herod his Children killed: was This Hog Jew?   

831.  
Sejanus, thy Tiberius was as Quick,  
As Old: at last he Showed his Master-Tricke.   

832.  
In Senate, Hopes Sejanus must adorn:  
Strange! he's Accused; Mased; Haled; in pieces torn!   

833.  
The Jews kill Christ, to save their state: profound  
Wit! But Humane! IT was That did All confound!   

834.  
At Once Rome Thirty Tyrants had: This Fits  
A Monster: Many Heads! How many Wits?   

835.  
Shrewd Dioclesian Empire Got: Designed  
Partners! reigned Long: then Rule and Wit Resigned.   

836.  
Ruffinus Guards Arcadius; still to reign,  
Raises the Goths to war; His Plot's his Bane.   

837.  
False Stilico brings down the Goth to Rome:  
His Hope's his Throne: His Lot's worse than a Tomb!   

838.  
Eudoxia her Ambition should exile,  
Not chrysostom, for all his holy toil.   

839.  
Phocas destroys Mauritius; who does strain  
Conscience for Glory, does mistake his gain!   

840.  
Phocas by bold Heraclius 's sword does fall:  
Great Craft and Power are Much; yet are not All!   

841.  
France, whiles thy Kings grow slugges, Pipin intrudes:  
Keeps Court: the King was but the Movable Goods!   

842.  
The Second Sylvester, as fame than ran,  
Seemed Witch: Indeed a Pope's a cunning Man.   

843.  
Gregory the seventh many a Pope had made:  
At last he became free of the same trade.   

844.  
Alexander the Third by th' Painter's work  
Rodolfe betrayed to the Turk! The Pope 's more Turk!   

845.  
Pope Alexander's Pride on th' Emperor trod!  
He casts contempt on Kings! A Vicar-God?   

846.  
A foote-stoole-King may make Mere man so stout,  
The Swelling Pride may give a Pope the Gout!   

847.  
Th' Eight Boniface was great, till he seemed great:  
HE had Wit to get, but not to keep, his Seat.   

848.  
Laurence de Medici's, Judge of Strife unjust,  
Did in Himself make friends Wisdom and Lust!   

849.  
Castruccius toiled with Conquest to be great,  
Loses his Life and Plots with Cold and Heat!   

850.  
Sforza a Duke and Traitor calls to his plot  
Help: His Help 's Ruin! Jail and Shame 's his Lot!   

851.  
Pope Borgia did a poisoned draught design:  
Erred he in Faith? Err he did in the Wine.   

852.  
Had Borgia Peter's Key? Mischief of Sin!  
What is it to Open Heaven, and not Get-in?   

853.  
Borgia his Son Caesar was sold to Evil:  
Proceeding he took all Degrees of Devil?   

854.  
Whiles Others Death Proud Caesar Borgia sought  
His Poisonous Plot upon his Own plot wrought.   

855.  
Mistaken Borgia by High projects led,  
Like Samson, pulled the house upon his head.   

856.  
Macchiavell's working Mind stories compacts  
Into new Rules: Bold Judge of sacred Acts!   

857.  
Were Macchiavell's Prince, Satire, pass it might  
As Florence-Libel; Witty, if not Right.   

858.  
Macchiavell's Wit nothing but Danger wins,  
If't Undertakes the shame of Others Sins.   

859.  
In sadness Macchiavel thou didst not well  
To help the World to run faster to Hell!   

860.  
Who can it Dissemble, Lewis th' Eleav'nth said,  
Can't Live: Craft should not have this Craft betrayed.   

861.  
What Blood in Paris-slaughter, Guise, didst spill?  
Thy Own flowed next: didst thou not teach to kill?   

862.  
Charles Loraine's Cardinal speeches so fine  
Did make, which part he took None could divine!   

863.  
Such Secrets to the Eye Botero brings,  
He Audits the Estates of the World's Kings!   

864.  
Paul the Third and Morone (they so compact)  
At Rome and Trent, Volpone and Mosca act.   

865.  
Rome's conclave's Vulcan's Forge, where make they do  
Invisible nets for Bodies and Souls too.   

866.  
In th' Orb of Belgic Spain see th' Excellence:  
Margaret was star; Granville th' intelligence.   

867.  
Spaine's Second Philip, Master of his Art,  
His Wit and Power sometimes seems to Out-start.   

868.  
The Indies, Philip, spread not like Thy robe:  
Art thou the New Horizon to the Globe?   

869.  
How Philip in his Gallery views his Maps!  
Consults! Intents in Mystery he wraps!   

870.  
Escurial's Hammon's Oracle in Sand:  
What's wondrous, Philip, does in Desert stand!   

871.  
Perez flies Philip; Plots shows: reinvited  
By Hopes, relents: Abroad's Feared; At Home Slighted.   

872.  
Philip, Day ends in Night: was Alva Lot,  
Or Choice? Neglect of Cales too, was't a blot?   

873.  
IT was Gondomar's great Aim, nor did he cease  
In Project, to contrive all Christians Peace.   

874.  
Spalleto moves, removeth: HE had Time and Scope:  
At last he leaves his Conscience for his Hope.   

875.  
Strange Campanella would bestow on Spain  
The World: but he'd be Monarch of the Brain.   

876.  
Rare B●ccaline, such Policy th' hast expressed,  
That th' haste Out- Macchiavelled Machiavelli in jest.   

877.  
Paul the Fift by his Venice-strife Was shamed:  
By him his Cardinals, to his Gain were tamed.   

878.  
Vrban the Eight in Fear and Wit fell Sick:  
Hopes bandy: Plots appear: he's well. A Trick!   

879.  
Thrice ten times Barnevelt from Holland went  
Ambassador; at last his Head they sent.   

880.  
The Rhene-Elector lost much by Bavare  
His friend: A kinder Cousin is not rare.   

881.  
Nothing would Walstein but a Crown content:  
His Life was but in Hope and Treason spent.   

882.  
Had not the Empire's Troubles Spain halfe-maimd,  
Richele●'s Wit had ne'er been half so famed.   

883.  
Is Portugal a Cere-cloth on Spaine's side!  
To Kill, or Vex, or Cure, is it applied?   

884.  
William the First, whom Pride, Craft, Profit Swayed,  
Did England, but his Conscience first, Invade.   

885.  
Beauclerke a Saxon Lady weds: deep Art!  
The Head is Norman: Saxon's now the Heart.   

886.  
Steph'n a Choice Courtier grows King: and wronged Maud  
Enforced Consents: Can forced Consent mend fraud?   

887.  
The Spirits are Blood: Wit moves in finest Spirits:  
By wit? by Blood, Steph'n thinks a Crown he merits.   

888.  
D'Or●ton, thy Oracle (was Delphian stranger?)  
Prompted bad Edward's death: yet thou scapest danger!   

889.  
How Craft does in the Close itself oft mock!  
M●rtimer Great, But Bad, stoops to the block!   

890.  
Bullingebrooke's made a King: A great Power chose him:  
In Death Fear Checks him: would his Fear depose him?   

891.  
When the sun's Hid, yet the Eclipse is scene:  
Crooke-back's Deeds Obscured Heaven: yet known th' have been.   

892.  
Morton feared his own Head; yet so well used it,  
That Buckingham's, and Crooke-backe's Life, excused it.   

893.  
Does Warwick's death our Wisest Henry tax!  
Crowns got by th' sword, are oft kept by the Axe.   

894.  
Had Wolsey Faults? HE had worth! know Thou Thy Lot:  
he's Fame! Be Thou content to be Forgot.   

895.  
Gardener had Art, Zeal, Rigour, Craft profound:  
A Palsy-Priest, that was halfe-sicke, halfe-sound.   

896.  
Walsingham's Wit, Slander or Ghuesse did say,  
Can through a Wall, Letter or Voice convey.   

897.  
Raleigh, had thy brave Spirit been judged sincere,  
As thy wit Sharp, th' hadst scaped both Axe and Fear.   

898.  
The most swelled Politique's Vexation's Doubled,  
To think, His Glory must be All Unbubled!   

899.  
The Grief the Subtlest Traitor can't Expel,  
Is't This, That he can find no Crown in Hell?   

900.  
Ages to come shall be Thy Just Adorer.  
Truly Wise Albemarle, England's Restorer!    

BOOK X. OF Divines.  

901.  
ALl things are Wonder since the World began:  
The World's a Riddle, and the Meaning's Man!   

902.  
All Men are not Alike: Some can Discern,  
And wisely Teach Truth: Some can only Learn.   

903.  
Happy the Sheep are, that Enjoy fresh springs:  
Happier is He, the Sheep that thither Brings.   

904.  
To make the Sheep the Shepherd is a Mock:  
A Shepherd then there must be, as a Flock.   

905.  
we're Kings and Priests; The King of Heaven so makes us:  
we're yet but Kings, as Priests: Man else mistakes us.   

906.  
Kings we are in Conscience, Subject but to God:  
Not All men yet must sceptered: That were Odd.   

907.  
Priest's Men are here in their Own Closets; where  
All for themselves their Hearts and Hands must rear.   

998.  
All may not Reign, neither all Priest it may;  
The God of Wisdom has given no such Sway.   

909.  
To a King's Counsels All are not admitted:  
By Wisdom and High Favour Men are Fitted.   

910.  
The Meanest Shepherd should have Age and Skill:  
Else with the Flock it quickly will go ill.   

911.  
One Timothy the Gospel once did spread:  
But of an Age of Timothy's we ne'er read.   

912.  
A Task and Honour it is, but to Refine  
The Body: Souls to Cures a Task Divine.   

913.  
A surer Copy of Truth's Worth's not had,  
Then by the view of Men some Good, some Bad.   

914.  
Philo a Jewish Priest Christians Commends:  
Shall Christians be worse Jews to such just friends?   

915.  
To Moses' Laws Philo would add a grace:  
Indeed he takes the veil from Moses' face.   

916.  
Josephus says, that Christ was more than Man;  
Rose the Third day: Was He not Christian!   

917.  
Josephus did Vespasian's Reign foretell,  
In Prophecy, or Guess, he did Excel.   

918.  
If to th' Apostles, Canons do belong,  
The Questioned Number does the Right ones wrong.   

919.  
Growth's not the size of Grace: Judge not by th' Eye:  
Saint Paul was but fow'r soot and a half high.   

920.  
The Third Heaven was beheld by Silent Paul:  
Saint Denis saw it not: Yet would tell All!   

921.  
Ignatius' Copies did they Credit need.  
Vatican Manuscripts small saith would breed.   

922.  
Justin Philosophy in Life professed:  
〈◊〉 Martyrdom a better he Expressed.   

923.  
Wise Irenaeus soberly acute,  
The Valentinian Madness did refute.   

924.  
Though Irenzus Heresy O'erthrew;  
In Fancy yet he Millenary grew.   

925.  
Tertullian's Mantle is a Mantle, which  
Shows his strict Life; Halse hides his Wit, though Rich.   

926.  
Tertullian, Thy Prescriptions are a Guide:  
Needest Thou one? Is't from fancy, or from Pride?   

927.  
Clemens the Alexandrian needs must gain ye,  
With His Choice store; He is but One, yet Many.   

928.  
Minutius Felix is a Purer fire:  
he's Wit ad Octo: Would he yet rise higher?   

929.  
Julius Africanus writ a brief Story  
Of a long time: The work's Lost, not the Glory.   

930.  
Origen without Death, by Art began  
To be a Saint; by being not a Man.   

931.  
A Doubt it may be, whither Origen writ  
With greater Error, or with greater Wit.   

932.  
Victor the Pope more Busy was, then Wise:  
The Paschal Quarrel he did Overprise.   

933.  
To Heaven from Hell Christ's Way's without Compare:  
Magic and Martyrdom, Cyprian's Lot's ●●are!   

934.  
Fond Manichie; what's Chief, only That's God?  
Two Chiefs there are not: what's Supreme, is Odd.   

935.  
Arnobius does with Learning and much Zeal  
Hate ●●gan Rites, if not too much reveal.   

936.  
Lactantius happy Eloquence displays:  
His Doctrine's not so happy, as his Phrase.   

937.  
Thou Epicycle of the Church Donatus, why  
Art not contented with the Common Sky?   

938.  
Donatus would his Church a new Ark make;  
When as it is Flood, not Ark! A strange Mistake!   

939.  
The Giant Arius saigne to Heaven would Climb,  
To fight with God? Is he not too Sublime.   

940.  
IT was Pity. Arius did Eusebius ●aint.  
Taking the Son of God but for a Saint.   

941.  
A Bishop Athanasius feigned, whiles under  
The Age of Wit: Sport was the Type of Wonder.   

942.  
Most Christian Athanasius! Rare Projector  
Of a stranger same; that was his God's Protector!   

943.  
The Nice●● Creed Christ's Godhead does profess:  
Were he a Saviour else? Sure he were Less.   

944.  
Saint Hilary, who in High Language rolled,  
Christian and Bishop's made, when he is Old.   

945.  
Of Baptism could vain Mac●donius boast,  
And for a Creature take the Holy Ghost?   

946.  
Grave, Wise, Sweet Basil, 〈◊〉 from fo●d desires,  
Was his Own Mon●st'ry, his Thoughts the Friars.   

947.  
Nyssene, thy brother Basil might be same  
For both; but Thou too Liv'st by thy Own Name.   

948.  
High Nazianzene and sta●●ing! That 's thy D●e.  
Hark how it Thunders! And it Lighte●s too!   

949.  
Cyprus, thy Wood does from Corruption sa●e;  
Thy Ephiph●●ius from Hor●sie's Grave.   

950.  
Ambrose, upon thy Infant-Lippes Bees sat:  
Still on the Honey of thy Lips All Wait.   

951.  
Constantinople-fathers' did Inherit  
God's Grace, whiles they Professed the Holy Spirit●   

952.  
True Music, chrysostom, Thou wast: The sphere  
Was saigned: Be Thou Still Tongue, we'll still be Ear   

953.  
Sharp Jerom, to whose Critic Skill all seek,  
Tutored th' Old Church in ●a●i●, H●brew, Greek.   

954.  
Great Austin! To be Good, thou didst not saint:  
Thy Youth was Austia: but thy Age was Saint.   

955.  
Austin, thou Christian Hercules, same didst win  
From Monsters! Thou stalt wear the Lion's Skin.   

956.  
In Britain first, Pel●gius, sawist the Sky?  
we'll pray two, that in Britain's thou mayst Diego   

957.  
Seleucian Basil, like strong fire's thy soul:  
Whence still do mount 'Zounds of the Burning cowl.   

958.  
Noble Synesius, delicate as the Dove!  
Downe's not so So●t: as Soft thou are as Love!   

959.  
Salvian, art Over-righteous? Thy ●ierce Zeal,  
We Hope, mistakes: thou wouldst, whom thou would Heal●   

960.  
Cyryll his Alexandri● did and adorn,  
Whiles his Wit on Nest●riu● 〈◊〉 just Scorn.   

961.  
Theodoret from Cyril once dissented:  
He had not else so learnedly repent.   

962.  
Th' Ephesian Fathers did Nestorius quell:  
He thought Two Persons did in one Christ dwell.   

963.  
Two persons can't make One: Two natures can  
One Person make: Thus is Christ God and Man.   

964.  
God is not Man; This would Confusion make:  
But into God, God did the Manhood take.   

965.  
Truth and Saint Austin ●r●sper did defend;  
A friend he was to Truth 〈◊〉 to Truth's friend.   

966.  
Vincentius Judge of trutly next to the Best●  
The art Sentence, not Discourse: Th' haste all expressed.   

967.  
Leo unarmed did turne-back Attila's Sword:  
And armed with Truth quelled Heresy wit●'s Word.   

968.  
Christ's Manhood Eu●ie●●●th ' Absurd denied:  
We His; if Manhood be by Reason tried.   

969.  
Christ if not God, From Sin Can no man quit:  
By being Man, Christ to five Man, is Fit.   

970.  
Sidonius his wit, Muse and Honour claim  
Like-Right, to blazon his 〈◊〉 happy Fame.   

971.  
Chrysologus upon himself did try  
Practice: His Wit and his Devotion vie.   

972.  
Fulgentius, thy true: Lustre ne'er shall wain;  
That didst Christ's Godhead and his Grace Maintain.   

973.  
Time's Date from Dioclesian once begun:  
From Christ's Birth Dionysius made it run.   

974.  
Job had fow'r Counsellors: but his Fist Friend,  
Great Gregory, does on us his Counsel spend.   

975.  
Eve, Solomon and Isid●re would know  
All things: Do they in Heaven None Here below.   

976.  
Poppy-braind Mahomet dreamed a Religion;  
HE had need to brag, sure, of his holy pigeon!   

977.  
Peruse the Various Labours of Old Bede;  
You'll muse, whither he did more Write, or Read.   

978.  
Wronged Da●ascens did lose his hand● betwixt  
Error and Truth he writ: the Man is Mixt.   

979.  
Photius the Pope of Greece learnedly known  
By Others Works, makes Their Works Half his Own.   

980.  
Bernard so happily employed his thought,  
He scarce had time to think of what was nought.   

981.  
Fable and Malice is a Rabbine's Skill;  
Their Rites excepted: the Rest th' express ill.   

982.  
Of Jewish Rites Ben-maimon does write true:  
Happier Lyranus was a Christian- Jew.   

983.  
Galily's Glass would in Heaven find-out Ground:  
In high Aquinos' Wit error is sound.   

984.  
Scotus opposed Aquinas' Wit; nay more,  
Headed a Sect: yet Died at Thirty sour.   

985.  
Many built Bable's Tower; but Nim●●d's Fame:  
Other men's Piles so raise T●status's Name.   

986.  
Luther and Calvin Differed and Agreed:  
Their Difference has made them both worse speed.   

987.  
Beza, though Critics still Thy Task pursue  
Thy Diligence and Copy will be true.   

988.  
Montanus in Translating seldom trips:  
Rare Man! In Fear yet the Lord's Prayer he Clips,   

989.  
Bellarmine pleads for Truth with Reasons fit:  
Against Truth he brings Names and Seeming Wit.   

990.  
Founder of th' Annels, whiles as partial blamed,  
May ●'t thy work be Massa Corrupt, Named!   

991.  
Though Method, Clearness, and Completeness, call  
Valentia Happy; He writ since the Fall.   

992.  
Vasquez is a deep Pioneer; his Vaued  
He makes with Art: yet sometimes it is at fau●t   

993.  
●●arez his Curious Web so fine does spin;  
Ar● makes it weak; and oft it proves too Thin.   

994.  
S●cinus would an Archi●edes prove:  
Stepped from the Church, the Church he would remove.   

995.  
Posa his Creed, Pope and Aquinus slighted!  
In Spain too! He was Over-Jesuited!   

996.  
Wise Martyr●, stout Cheminitius, and the Mild  
Wh●taker, have Satan's Hopes much beguiled.   

997.  
Ch●●ier comes in the Beer: He s●●ornes to yield;  
Conquers; and take the full spoil of the field.   

998.  
Though some, of Earth j' th'; Moon, do vainly tell,  
Elect Earth shall in Heaven for ever dwell.   

999.  
A Thousand Beauties Solomon enjoyed.  
Some will be with these Thousand Thoughts Employed.   

1000  
Father of Gifts, who to the Dust didst Give  
Life, say to these my Meditations, Live.   
FINIS.   

Emendations.  
NUmb. 45. l. 1. r. cold is n. 60. l. 1. r. fears, n. 82. l. 2. r. Nature's Art. n. 119. l. 1. r. shrimp. n. 231. l. 2. r. Bysantium. n. 255. l. 1. r. showed. n. 265. l. 1. r. Globes. n. 273. l. 1. r. joint-meale. n. 320. l. 1. r. shows. n. 321. l. i r. twenty-two. n. 439. l. 1. r. instructs. n. 441. l. 1. r. and. n. 470. l. 2. r. it. self. n. 483. l. 2. r. what so e'er rare. n. 504. l. 2. r. hi●● skill, n. 506. l. 1. r. Tamely endure n. 590. l. 2. r. Byetius. n. 625. l. 1. r. senators. n. 645. l. 1. r. rear; n. 745. l. 1. r. Apocryphal. n. 786. l. 1. r. eight. n. 819. l. 2. r. Court-taught. n. 876. l. 1. r. Boccaline. n. 886. l. 1. r. Maud. n. 888. l. 1. r. D'Orlton. l. 2. r. scap'dst.