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 T Hc Sunne is glorious Rill, and maketh day, 
 Where ever Ihineth his Eternall Ray ; 
 
 Yec when he fets,fo clouds may vaile the skye. 
 That men may thinke him drownded to the eye. 
 Faire,ftrong is Man,if one (houid fay 3 heTe dye, 
 Scarce can he well bdeeve it ffore he try* 
 
 But feeing death in others, then he fayes’; 
 
 Surely Deaths conftant ftroke will end my dayes. 
 
 Spring’s dainty $ Summer vigorous and ftrongr 
 Autumne hath plenty; Winter dyes ere long. & 
 
 £f The Sunne at G lory fet ,and then was night. 
 
 And darkendle.in the true beleevers fight j 
 Th’ Eclipfe did paffe,and He was feene, by all, 
 
 Afcending, whether he the. world doth call. 
 
 Let man behold his Saviour, he will fay, 
 
 VVelcome fwcete. death,my Ie/us\ed the way. 
 
 Infants, and babes,young meii,you ftrong, and old, 
 
 Tume to the right- hand,and the Sunne behold $ 
 
 For as He conquers darkened, fo we ftiall 
 Triumph o’re death, by Him who conguerd All. 
 
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 THE, 
 
 KALFNDLR OF 
 MANS LIFE, . 
 
 operio Variaro, 
 
 fcofo infamo. 
 
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ILLVSTRISSIMO 
 
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 NOBILISSIMO 
 
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 jDjzo. 
 
 Comiti a Summer/ec, See 
 
 Gyptii inter primos Sapienti# pa* 
 tres 5 fie Jibi confnluerunt , ut 
 
 Utifimis ip forum conviviis 
 fceleton interejfet 5 Cum imperio 
 
 J delati funt mores\ & Philippus 
 
 qui Gr&cam monarchiam fundavit 5 voluit 
 adole [cent em fe mortalitatis fu a admonere 5 ipfe 
 Auguftus Ca?far noluit . fine hoc more 5 
 
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 Epiftola 
 
 imperium mplefii,qai & micmjfy grabatum 
 
 fuumhabuit. 
 
 *Xibi (Nobilifirne Heros ) hoc mortalitatis 
 fmbolum offero^ atque eo magis? quod friant 
 J ?e vera Nobilitate peditum, cuiipfius mortis 
 memoria femper erit gratifsima ? cujus nomine 
 ipfa philo fophia dignata ejl. Accipe -quafb? 
 
 ( Nobili fsime Heros ) hoc qualccnnque efi? hu~ 
 mani tat is jfokov 9 *c que enim ab hujufmodi flu- 
 diis ipfe abhorres , quum mortis meditationi 9 
 futura vita contemplationi ?lucerna tua ole- 
 um [oleas impendere : accipe inquam (vere He - 
 ros) hanc?qua folitus es clementi 4 ?animi potius 
 integritatem?quam folertem exquifiti ingenii 
 velitationem. CM eum putabam hoc opuf 
 
 culum, quod mortale ejfety Tu Domine , Je 
 luum dux eris ? immortale proculdubip erit •? & 
 quod a meo ingenio ffterare minime potuit $ hoc 
 Tuo Genio ( nobilis ingeniorum & mufarum 
 Pater ) libenter debebit. jrtve? & Vale? a cujus 
 ore ? & favore? ipfarum charitnm (!r mufarum 
 vitaque & valetudo dependet 3 Illa )am dedif- 
 sent Apollinem, lovemque fuum ? & Gr acorum 
 numero fos deos implorare*? Deum unum ? ve- 
 rum } bonum?fnpphcibus votis adorabunt? ut Te 
 
 - ' t ' v>si ' 1 v ° patronum? 
 
Dedicatoria. 
 
 Fatronum y ipfo lM ec anate benignior» m & co- 
 mem magis, bicin terris , omni honore y poBea 
 in Coelis y omni felicitate & beatitudine accumu- 
 let* Effata pronunciat 
 
 Celfitudini Tuae ad- 
 didiffimus 
 
 Robirtts FariuEvs. 
 
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To the Author. 
 
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 F Ame pluckcs a pinion from the wings of Time: 
 
 Dips itinnettar, graves thy mighty rime 
 Within her brafen (heetes, makes envy (land 
 ( Mauger her heart ) and light her duskie brand: 
 
 Whii’ft (he in crimfon letters writes ; Thefe, thefe , 
 
 Shatt be the whole wen Ids Ephemerides. p 
 
 Did notVrania loofe thy fetter’d minde, 
 
 Otikofthe clayek prifon, and refign'd 
 Her place to i c ? did not thy purer lay 
 Elowfrom the fountaincof the Millie way ? 
 
 Did not (he didate to thee, how to skan 
 Thefe moneths of woe, this Almanack* of man I 
 An Almanae^ that ne’re (hall b’ out of date, 
 
 Butlaft as long as time, as firme as fate. 
 
 She did, (heare, envie, heare and burft) and by 
 Herfiajfe thou took’ft the height of Poetry : 
 
 Th' Arcadian Shepbeards (hall make thee their (larre* 
 And place this next to Tityrus Calendar, 
 
 Like to another Pheebus thou doft take 
 Thy twelvemoncthstaske through lifes (hort Zodiacal 
 But thefe are too too narrow bounds for thee» 
 
 Beach moneth’s an age, each age eternitie. 
 
 The names, not nature’s of the monethsj 1 fee 
 Defcribed in thy cadeftiall poctne. 
 
 Frefh May and lufty Iune triumph alone 
 In thy warme breaft, December there is none. 
 
 Envie her felfe.can findc no fault but this, 
 
 Perfed thy moneths, thy globe im per fed is. 
 
 No paralleli is feene in all thy fpheare, 
 
 Befides too, no ^Equator doth appease. 
 
 E, Coleman. 
 
To the Author . 
 
 S Ome ufe to flatter worth by too much Pfaife» 
 Who rather doc detra& than give him Bayes^ 
 Who merits it : And fomc againe betray 
 (Like fome courfe Prologue to a courier Play) 
 
 The Authors Subjects both are bad : but I 
 Wfll none of both • rather I will belye 
 Defert» and fay this Poeme fpeakes thee vaine; 
 
 For to fpeake truth, I'm angry with thy StraineS 
 For that it is lo fliort r (though fweete) expefta 
 lie taxcthee alwayes with that fmail defeft. 
 
 Yet ( out of Policie ) perhaps thy Lyre 
 Thou layd’ft afide fo foone, ieaft we Expire; 
 
 And the chiefe caufe proceede from thence : For 
 
 9nl aine d I s tco much S ric f e is mortali, foof blitfe. 
 
 AII I will fay 3 is,my belcefe is fuch 
 
 That after- times will thanke thee for this touch • 
 
 A nd fuch my Charity > I wilh it may 
 
 an ^ kmgeft Summersday# 
 
 And that this prefent Age, may pleafe to give 
 It pleaiant fmikij and he/pe its Hope tg lire, 
 
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 READER. 
 
 The Rofes , 
 
 Rocne did fiye,and Parti-colour’d F/ofc i 
 Now felt foft nipping colds breath from Au?Q* 
 And Pbabut s u(herd with the cooler day, (r<fo 
 Gave warning to prevent his fcorching ray ; 
 Whilel the checkerd gardens walk’d along. 
 Seeking refreihment dainty flowers among s 
 I faw the fragrant herbes bending their tops. 
 
 With pearl eslike dew hanging in filver drops! 
 
 And inthe Coleworts cabb'mes I did fee. 
 
 The queeres of Neftar dancing joyfully , 
 
 1 faw the Rofe beds in their pefian weeds. 
 
 Wet with the foame of Ph&b us neighing fteedeg I 
 The tender buds did in their night-geare ftand. 
 
 Of hoary plufh, wrought by dame Natures hand» 
 
 Ready to put it off,when they did fpy 
 Dayescharritercourfing along the sky 5 
 One might have doubt, whether the Heav n did dfe 
 The Rofes , or they purple*paint the skye : 
 
 The Sunne and Rofe, were in oneliv ry clad, 
 
 For they one Lady A pbrodite bad 5 
 
 Perhaps one fmell they had,but that as higher 
 
 lEvanilh'd, this breath’d fweetely from the brier* 
 
 How many minutes draweth forth an hoare, 
 
 So many habits chang’d this curious flower» 
 
 It fometimes nimph-like, maiitled was in greneC» 
 auch like the Pair y Queens 
 
To the Reader* 
 
 Sometimes it woare a comely purple creft. 
 
 And had its haire in anticke falbion dreft * 
 
 Then by and by her bred unlac'd, to Ihew 
 What heavenly fragrant Ne&ar did thence flows 
 At laft {h’unvail'd herfelfe ,and Chew’d her face. 
 
 To PhtshtSi with a modeft blulhing grace ; 
 
 Her dandling trefics wreath’d like threds of Gold. 
 Scarfe withouo envy Titan could behold ; 
 
 Butlo dame Matures darling, which jhft now 
 Did flourilhjnaked ftands,I know not hovtj 
 Of fo great glory then,I thought it ftrange. 
 
 To fee fofuddaine andfo fad a change. 
 
 The Rofe to bud,to bloflome in her prime, 
 
 To fade # tofall,to wither atone time. 
 
 Then for her mantle greene,a murry clout 
 All torne did hang her gaftly lookes about s 
 The cap* the purple creft and all was gone, 
 Baldijefle her wrincltled head did feize upon. 
 
 O what a fight it was to fee her lie 
 Vpon her mothers lap ready to die ! 
 
 Small comfort had the earth,to fee her brood 
 PI uckt from her milky breads, and bath’d in blood 
 Fbesbus who riling from the glaffie flreames 
 Did court this Virgin with his chearefull beames, 
 Gding to bed he fees the naked thqrne, 
 
 And cannot love her ’caufe Ihee is forlorne. 
 
 So long as lafts a day, a Rofe may live. 
 
 That day doth kill the Rofe, which life did give i 
 A Virgin in the morning, and at noone 
 Which had. her pf ime,becomes decrepit foone. 
 
 So pull the Rofe, and thinke,when thou doft fee 
 It’s brittle beauty, that it points to Thee, 
 
 Farewell. 
 
VER. 
 
 Martius five Natalis. 
 
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 Abrlcu multiplicem qu<e ftc glomeratur in orbem , 
 T am -variis facunda bonis , tot dcedala formis» 
 
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 Vnda priufquam pontus eratfT erra arida centrum* 
 Nutabat levi vertigine ftellifer orbis 3 
 Sordebat deforme chaos, primordia mundi 
 Parturients rerum & difeordi femine pnegnam : 
 
 Talis origo hom.nisjmgni compendia mundi 
 Corporis exigui angufto qui limite claudit , 
 
 JZmpynifdniida priufquam vivida Coli 
 Vita auget , fenfu movet , aut ratione gubernat 
 Ante fibi quam Elementa legant dtfcordia fedes } 
 Organaque J affeftusq i , anim.e & parentia membra s 
 Ante futim referat quam lov<e patris Imago 
 Ad Coelos atqucafira genus » vultumque fupinets 
 Patre fcit genitura rudis, communia vermi 
 Semina fort itas, limaci/que amula cunis : 
 
 Sed tamen hos artus 4 auguftos fingit in orius 
 CuraDeis twwenfitmex nihilo qu<s este udit olymPum, 
 
 Qualia frugifero concredita femina Terne 
 Ceu tumulo defoJJ a, jacent in vifcere falci 5 
 Nafcmdt virtm tamen & genitabilis arvi 
 Natura, hybem defendit frigoris itm 9 
 
 

 His Sphere- redoubling Fabricke wheeling round. 
 Which bjg with beings doth with ihapes abound. 
 Before the Heavens did move J & Earth was ftable 5 
 Before the boundleffe Waves were Navigable^ 
 
 It was a Chaos and confufed mafle. 
 
 Wherein the jarring feeds of all things was j 
 Such is the birth of Man,wbo doth cojnprife 
 The greater Fabricke in a.lefler fife : 
 
 Before Heavens facred (park, whereby heliveth 
 His vegetation, fenfe and reafpn giveth. 
 
 To Elements ’fpreplaces bee affign’d. 
 
 And qualities to Organes.ate confin’d. 
 
 Before loves Image from the ftarrie light 
 Dothclaime his race 5 and looke with face upright., 
 'What is he atfirfl: butfeede, whereof we fee 
 The bafeft vevmine take their pedegreej 
 Yet God the great Creator of all things 
 This vileneffe to a glorious creature brings. 
 
 Like as the Graine doth in earths ft uitfull wombe. 
 As it were deadjit felfe in duft entonibe. 
 
 Yet by earths vertue and his feeding power 
 Prefcrye it felfe fafe from the winters ftouie ? 
 
 <s5March , or Mans birth. 
 
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 Martius five Natalis. 
 
 Quadrupedi* donec Pbryxat cornua fc audit 
 Phoebus^ iUuflri radio, fee toque calere 
 Jnque diem 3 tS* Cedi virales elicit auras : 
 
 T ali i homo ctcis uteri jacet embryon antri* 
 
 Natura ingeniofie opus, (g* compago recentis 
 Laclea ceu mafia teneros coale fcit in artus. 
 
 Semina habent filiqua*, tegitur majjainque volucris 
 peUicute,cognataipfi quafafeia crevit. 
 
 T um Dem tnjpirante animam qua vivida furgunt 
 Omriia,divin& largitur particulam dura. 
 
 Conjugium firmat flabile hic Hy menam Olympii 
 Nubit tara polo, decus immortale caduci 
 Corporis ingluviem confortem in facula ducit . 
 
 Sic ne ergo (hei mi fer a') impura cam con juge vivet 
 Virgo anima, <& cafiis contagia prendet in ulnis ? 
 Sed bene quod furvis coeant fime luce, tenebris, 
 
 T eda fiso impuram prodat ne lumine fponfam. 
 
 Quid fi antm-e vox ulta foret? quam trifle queratur 
 Se ceetum mutaffe luto, caligine lucem , ' 
 
 Vel 2 on<e [ tmilem , fu peris defedtbus imum 
 Jn ceti cecidiffe uterum , nollem que profundam ! 
 Amula T artareo domas e fi habitanda barathro , 
 Gurgufi i piceus career \ pi firma malorum. 
 
 Cernimus hic quoties /afflari, dum impete fallo 
 Rumpere vallate conatur vincula vuhue 5 . 
 
 Sape etiam ingreditur mox egre (fur a, perofum 
 S ic antri hofpitiumfic diver for ia for dent 5 
 Cernere ( pro dolor) efl fecunda vifcera matrk 
 JLffe urnam fee tus, intefiinumque /epuler um.. 
 
 Mitte fid mf tuflos cafus, & refpice partus 
 Quos natura volet,prx /cripta lege, labores 5 
 Tor mina tconvulfique artmdrepidique dolores s 
 Et genuum cor dif % tremor, lament a, duellum 
 Tale cient inter matrem natumque tumultus 
 
 
SVRIN G. 
 
 \Marcb, or Mans birth.’ 
 
 Vntill like Pbryxus, Phcebus ride upon 
 The Ramme,and more confpicuous in his Throne, 
 With geniali heat, and life- begetting ray 
 He twift it forth and make it fee the day ; 
 
 So manin wombe an Embryon doth lye. 
 
 Curded like milke,and wrought miraculoufly. 
 
 Clothed like feede with huskes,wrapt up in bags, 
 
 Which are its native homeTpun fwadling rags. 
 
 Then God Almighty,who life to all things givet'h. 
 Breaths in that Divine foule,whereby it live th. 
 
 Here i« a marriage made ; to duft and clay 
 The Heaven is wedded, ftill with it tp fhy j 
 Here immortality, by Gods command , 
 
 Poore fra ile mortality takes by the band 5 
 O what a pitty,that the Virgin foule 
 Should have a mate fo leprous and fo foule / 
 
 In well in darkeneffe they the match doe make, 
 
 For if it faw, the body it would forfake. 
 
 O if it could then fpeake,what would it fay. 
 
 That it hath come from Heaven, to dwell in clay? 
 
 Or that like Ionasfoom the Saphire vaile 
 Its fallen into the belly of a Whale ? 
 
 The lodging they have got is darke as hell. 
 
 But if notthere, they know not where to dwell 5 
 So oft wc fee them tumbling to and fro. 
 
 They (hew themfelves content,but fo and fo : 
 
 Yea many times the foule fo loath s this Inne, 
 
 It leaves it, when it feafee hath entred in 5 
 
 ■And oft the bowels doe become a grave 
 
 For their owne brood,to which they lodging gave. 
 
 But take the beft,and you your felfc will bliffe, 
 
 To fee in birth what mifery there is 5 
 
 Clamorous eonYulfions,painefull throwes,and cries, 
 
 Sharpe ihewes ftrayning the backc,weakmugthe chighes 
 
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 1 i Martius fi ve Nataljs. 
 
 , i Quatis avernales 9 vento fubeunte 3 cavernas 
 Concitat jn tremulos tollens ima antra tumores. 
 Ergoni prxnovit ventura incommoda vita 
 Nondum nam Homo , lucemque exterritu* odit ? 
 ^ic pugnans contra mairem>& molimina partus 
 Vipereo miferam exanimavit more parentem . 
 Credideris animam for dent em labe paterna, 
 VoUefuUre dim 3 ne fe fuus inquinet error , 
 
 Ne cum damnatu exclamet forte catervis 5 
 
 0 utinam mihi natalis lux nuUafuiffet . 
 
 Aft ubi nunc infans uterina repagula rupit , 
 Symbola fecum ad fert vita mantfefi a futura : 
 Dextram protendens, manuum mercede beatum 
 Se fore demonjlrat j pede nudo trill e capejftl 
 Viuiter 3 & fuperum adventat pmgnnus ad auras. 
 Vtcunfa ingreditur nudmdacrymabilu infans 
 *D ollior ad fetum e fi, rudior % ad extera natus. 
 Vagitus cudit lacrymas non verba querela» 
 
 V* bene quum nequeat fari , (vd) ttiflius edit : 
 Threicio fic more fu is natalibus infans » 
 
 Sollicitat lull us, etiam (me voce, loquentes. 
 
 Omen habet vit<e partu» ; portendit acirbuy 
 Hic dolor & Labor, humanos triftefy labores. 
 Haturx praferipta manet Lex i cufpice luftu 
 Vt nafcatur Uomo 3 ccmitetk hoc pergat ad Orcum- 
 Natura exponit nudum.mors excutit jtrna 
 Excipit >& nudum vrofevpina manibus addit. 
 
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 Ergo quum partus rudimenta nofiri 
 Inchoet damni, renovato mentem 
 integram (Chrifte) vt videam parenta 
 
 Telia beata. 
 
 Hunc novum partum comites fequuntu? 
 
 1 • *4nxtj cor dii tremuit timores 3 
 
$ piling: 
 
 UManh, or Mans birth • 
 
 |4ueh like an Earthquakes (halting you may fee s 
 Betwixt them fuch inteftine warres there be. 
 
 O doth the child then know,what is this life. 
 Who will not enter itwithout fuch ftrife ? 
 
 Yea oft the one fo fights againft the other. 
 
 That Viper* like the child doth kill the mother? 
 May you not thinke,the foule defild with finil$ 
 (6riginajl,doth to regrate begin, 
 
 And wi£h it may not fee this life at all, 
 
 Leaft it fhould adde there to finne a ftuai i, 
 
 And once perhaps 3 (hould with the wicked fay#» 
 O if it never had feene light of day. 
 
 But marke,when he is borne, how he will give 
 An Embleme of the life,which he muft li ve j 
 Telling as’t were, when he his hand puts forth. 
 That he muft worke for what he (hall be worth 
 Or thrufting downe his naked foote he fayes. 
 That he muft walke a Pilg,rime aj| his dayes. 
 How e’re he comeSjhe naked poofe doth lye . 
 And can doe nothing filly babe but cry $ 
 
 He cannot fpeake,but yawle for greefe,and fo 
 His rude expreftion cryeth (wa ) for (woe) 
 $QTbrddaff»\fke into this world of feares 
 He ufhereth himfelfe with many teares. 
 
 Thefe paines of birth and woefull agony 
 . Foretokneth our enfuing mifery ; 
 
 They clearely doe point forth the curfe of man, 
 That he muft live in forrow,as he began : 
 
 His nafcednefTe fhewes he muft nothing hav£ 
 Which with him he may carry to his grave, 
 
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 Since then my birth is of my bane 
 The primer, me beget againe, 
 
 Renew my fpirit Lord/o with Thee 
 1 Ml thy fathers dwellings fee. 
 
V E R. 
 
 Martius fi ve N atalis, 
 
 Tfomtta in largas lairymas foluta, et 
 
 Turba dolorum,. 
 
 Hum fufurr antis tacitum querela 
 Murmur triftis frexitm leonis 
 Temperat, luflus Pelicani ad infiaf 
 
 Trifle quet entis 
 
 Gaudium 1st luUws park ille vit « 
 Caelitis, ver<e pietatis ante — - 
 Ambulo in unis, fuper as Olympe 
 
 ■ *Duch adatses* 
 Tunc geni meefiklacrymis carente , 
 
 Et coheredes Domino» beato 
 JTojfummnoflri patris intueri 
 
 Lumine vultus» 
 
 Invkem lu&us nova cantilena 
 Tanget aettmi decus Haleluj a» 
 
 Et novmc&wn modulis fonomm 
 
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 Aprilis 
 
SPRING. 
 
 \March, or Mans birtb. 
 
 His feeond birth is brought with feare s, 
 
 A broken heart, and floods of teares. 
 Roaring, chatt’ring in the night. 
 
 Like Pelican from mortalis fight. 
 
 Heart- confuming fighes and cries, 
 Soule.quelling fits and agonies, 
 ThoughtJrilling muttring, when the heasi 
 Xnowcs no wayes how to play its part* 
 
 But moment-laftingforrowis 
 Fore-runner to eternal! bliffe. 
 
 If here on earth it doth annoy. 
 
 Yet leads it us to Heavens joy. 
 
 When we (haH with tearelefieeyes, 
 
 Meete our Saviour in the skies. 
 
 When we with him coheiresftiali be 
 Of glory and immortality. 
 
 Then fliall our teares be wip’t away. 
 
 Then fhall there be n© night, but day$ 
 Then for our mourning vve (hall (ing, 
 
 A Hslelujah to Heavens King. 
 

 D W'hat a pleafure is*t to fee 
 
 ^y?™-jprmg bud y which will be tree l 
 weghflrmggraffe with Vhczbm ray 
 Votbnake me cheer efullloe^ andgiyr 
 Mrn (ah l ) if thefe my flowers fhould die 
 Lord what would then become of me. 
 
 % H e tell the e 9 this thy brood will wither. 
 
 *Jf oe not dejpare , yotf le have another* 
 
 
 
Aprilis five Infantia." 
 
 QValis odonfemmfmundam imber Aprilem 
 n& w Manis lactentia germina veBis 
 MeOsre Olympus altt dulci, PbceHfque calore, * 
 Fpg&tone exmsmttfimius vel teneat aftus s 
 Stc gremm dm* matris dum tollitur infans , 
 *"P & trifiisegefias. 
 
 ■ftummafl v* gemmo mammatum e tubere manant* 
 $*pe n&vercatm Natura, aut turgida fafiu 
 Neci ai m bm gaudet genitrix occludere rivos > 
 
 BjS® ubi mnfoffmt duram ex orare parentem , 
 *Mendicmt aliunde, luparumque uber a fugunt 5 
 Sapeetism tomum ederunt fua pignora matres y 
 Smaautfoik ut nata exponet e fylvis; 
 
 Tunc fvpnant pktatefera voluercfque parentes j 
 zDant aiiemgenu quando ubera mutua natis i 
 Oepifmt rabtem hpa, dum laftaret alumnos , 
 Mmatum,mmrm & domina fe offender et orbis £ 
 djs iit mm laffie lupa fitxere furorem, 
 
 Wratetm% mbem ftabilivit fanguine frater, 
 Expofmt quem dtrus avus,jufftt % necari, 
 
 Im cams fata a mamma laMante pependit, 
 inde ft» Imper tenuitveftna erueris, 
 T**dandiquefams, humano f anguine donec 
 Imtmfum caput, f otiatum aede natavit* 
 
 Degenerem toties patriis e fi cernere prolem 
 Moribus, ttvetfo fan quam fit fidere nata. 
 
 Nutricis cum laffie bibat quoaftmlm morum y 
 fjnbutufque fmelfuedt quo parvus odors 
 Infans, hunc redolet maturis mUiw mm 
 
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 April, or Mam lnjancie. 
 
 Aprils Toft snd balmy (bowers doe nourifh 
 The March~hred Budxjunnil they come to ftourlfts; 
 Ssnne with its heate,Heav’n with its, dew them cherifi?. 
 Left they with nipping cold, or drought (hould perifts s 
 Even fo the infant on his mothers kiiee. 
 
 Left he (hould ftarve for want or penury, 
 
 With milky Neftar he ftis belly fills 
 
 Which floweth from the two breaft -to wring hills,* 
 
 Oft times Stepmother nature. Mothers pride 
 Doth flop thofe fources,wbich when they are dry’d* 
 What they cannot obtaine from cruell mothers, * 
 Poore Infants ! they are forc’d to beg from others J 
 Sometime the parents fo unnaturall prove 
 That they expofe 3 which they fould deareft love- 
 Then beafts and birds,againft their nature, (hew * 
 
 More love then parents, who this duty owe ; 
 
 Did not the Woolfe herfiercentflelay aftde. 
 
 To give what curs’d Amulius deny*d ; 
 
 f° x ms twinnes fo nurs’d with Woolfes unkindly focM 
 
 Like ravenous beafts, one (bed the others blood. 
 
 A Bitch did nurfe great Cyras, when they dkf 
 Expofe him, caufe his furly Grandfire b id. 
 
 From that time forth in jarres his life he led 
 Seeking for prey, and thirfting blood to (bed/ 
 
 ^ntiil by Schythian T omyris at laft, 
 
 His head into a bag of blood was caft. 
 
 What is the caufe, why children oft times are 
 V nkind unto their parents ? caufe they were 
 Weaned from others*, and it (lands with reafonl 
 rfeat they (hould fmcll of, what Sift did them ftafonf 
 
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 Aprilis live Infantia.- 
 
 Vberejam fatur eft puerjntitnabula fmm§' 
 Pofcityubi tremuli* agitatur nutibus , inter 
 Metm & requiem , mifcYse dans fymbola vit£ s 
 Cujus,ceu navU+wedijs j affatur in undis 
 Sperne^ metum % inter, nec cejf at, lumina donec \ 
 Mors claudat] Longoque Ora act feJJ’a /operi , 
 Ramicibus fed ne turgentibus ilia rumpat. 
 Blanda foporifero demulcet carmine nutrix • 
 Infantis vel nulla at as a crimine pura , 
 
 Ejt in fons, fraudis non gnara, exptrffa nocendi 3 
 Innumeris tamen ilia malis obnoxia vita, 
 Ludibriumque recens cafus } cr for iis iniqua 
 fjhod [t crudeles Her odes ajperct iras. 
 
 Innocuo infantes maculabunt f anguine ferrum* 
 Obt) ce formicas quantumvis Gracia Midee, 
 Mellifica fque Platonis opes , facundia lingua 
 Enthea queh portenta, & cornucopia rerum (ft 
 Inftibus aujpuijsfcdnoftra infant ta fur git. 
 Contemplatur aves /cavas, quas omina dira 
 Infaufiantjuta qua facit at as plena dolorum » 
 Triftiti£ 3 lufius 9 cur<e, duricp laboris. 
 
 Hoc folo felix, miferum quod ne [dat infans 
 In mediis fe/e ejje malis , care at que timore » 
 
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 Cum mere matris niveo liquore 
 Nettariiytttrm # / celeris reatum 
 imbibi, primi patris inquinatus 
 
 Labe cruenti, 
 
 -Addidi vita proprium nefandre 
 Crmen,cnnojque in vitiis peregi , 
 
 Mleque fatali capulo propinquum 
 
 Detinet error, 
 
 Chrifie da cunas pietatis, at que 
 
SPRING, 
 jjprill, er Mans Infancie. 
 
 But when the babe hath fuckt,then muft it goe 
 To Cradle, there to cry rockt too and fro, 
 
 ( A pregnant Embleme of his life thatfollowes, 
 
 Where like a barke, hee’s toft among the billowes 
 Of hope and fearc, nor refts riil cruel! fates 
 Doe thruft him into Profer pines black gates,) 
 
 But left with crying he ftiould be oppreft. 
 
 Humming Enchantments lull him to his reft. 
 
 If any life be innocent at all. 
 
 The filly Infants life fuch may you call $ 
 
 Ti et to how great and various miferies. 
 
 Good God ! the harmelefle Infant fubjed lies $ 
 
 Nay ,if an Herod fliew his cruelty, 
 
 Thefe guiltlefTc children every one muft die. 
 
 Greece talkes of Midas Welth - prefaging Aftts, 
 OfP/dfocsBeehiv’delocjuence die vaunts, 
 
 And Cradle-luck fent from the God j but f 
 Can fee nothing foremeant in Infancie > 
 
 Befides great forrow,trouble , care, and toyle, 
 
 And whatfoever can true pleafure fpoyle. 
 
 Tet there’s one comfort, children doe not know 
 Their mifery, which leffheth much their woe. 
 
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 With Nurfes milke I have drunke in 
 The deadly guilt of parents finne > 
 
 So am I, as my parent was 
 Infe&cd with Adapts trdpraffe. 
 
 , But (ah) that is the meaneft (hare 
 Considering what mine aduall are | 
 
 1 have my ycares in finning paft. 
 
 Nor can l leave them now at laft, 
 
 I O make me (Lord) in grace begin 
 ,T o liye before I end in finne 5 
 
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ver; 
 
 Aprilis live Infantia. 
 
 Pare* peccato gravid* fenetUe 
 
 Finiat annos. 
 
 Pagit infans h&c anima > 6 (alutis 
 Author jnfimam fatura beato 
 Laffe j & eterno faturaio divi 
 
 Neftare verbi. 
 
 •Ablue, 6 for des uteri » meique 
 Criminis navo ti placida quiete % 
 
 Vt tui regni fruar i & piis tur— 
 
 -*-* Mak bus addar . 
 
 Ne fin as vani hanc modulo fopiribanc 
 Caminis ySb en recinet dolojh 
 £>uale j fed Cali vigiles ocellos 
 
 Tendat ad arces. 
 
 Neve mergatur rapidis procella 
 F luftibus, prendas Bomine in tuumqus 
 Sufcipe amplexum 5 pantos Olympi 
 Defer ad arces. 
 
 Sic tu*, a cunis (*Deuc) ajfuefiet 
 Gratify tufic animim hanc amabit 
 Ut Tibi grata aget hcec perennas 
 Invicem amato. 
 
 Maius 
 
SPRING, 
 frilly or Mans tnfancU. 
 
 Thine Infant (Lord) to be I crave, 
 
 Let not my gray hairers finne to grave. 
 
 My foule doth cry>ltill thou it Lord 
 With imlke of thy eternal! Word j 
 Author of grace, nurfe grace in me, 
 
 Sol at length fhaMrengihned be. 
 
 Oenfe me from firft and fecohd guilt, 
 
 Onely thou canft (Lord) if thou wilt; 
 
 Then (hall I be a Dennizon 
 There,where uncleanntfle commeth nonei 
 ' Let not Hells Siren lull afleepe 
 My foule to drowne it in the deepe S 
 Lord make it watch for H cay’ns joyes 
 Regarding nothing worldly toyes. 
 
 JJehold my foule rock’c too and fro. 
 
 Doth cry for feare and cannot goe - 
 flow lead in ftorme it drowned be. 
 
 Take it into the (hip with Thee. 
 
 So (hall Thou thinke me to be thine. 
 
 And I (hall thinke thy kingdome minei 
 So (hall my foule thy mercies prove 
 And learnc tKy mercies how to love. 
 
N Ow are my Flowers with Aurora dight y 
 And Flora fees her long wifit-for delight • 
 Each Tree a fluire>earh Leafe a 'Bird doth beare 3 
 All finginq Harmony to He av' ns Spheare • 
 
 The Lambkins skipping trip , they dance and gl&Jr, 
 This is the glory of the moneth 
 Remember Flowers fade^come will the nighty 
 When Nightingale fhall fing from Mortals fight. 
 
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 Maius five Pueritia. 
 
 QEminaque genuit Mars>qu * Laft.vit Jprilis 
 Nunc geminant decus, & tMaij pingutotur honbre 
 Vndiq^peftano tic jp Undent cun fia nitore 
 Vt gnat# Natura rudis contendere dextree 
 -drtijicis po (fit; Zephyr it is gramina pwgit 9 
 Gramina Panchteos fupra fragrantia indor» 
 
 Vlumea genus auras tenuimodulmine mulcet) 
 'derat&i & fylvas , habitantem &f mentibus echo: 
 Talis Homo puer in teneros quando emicat annos 3 
 Securas f aliens inter fua gaudia luet si 
 4dde alas, C ali credas fi c Bantu alumnum 
 Pennigerum Aa.mra.ra nov* fiat gratia forma t 
 Huic cedant piftu albentia lilia campis, 
 
 Mmula Sithoni)? invibm, pure^ elephanto j 
 Huic cedant biferi rubicunda rofdria pe fit 1 
 Tumeat ingenuos tam pulchra modeftia vultus» 
 Tancheum pueri fpirant precor dta amomum 4 
 Ajfpiofi halant accenfi thuris honores 
 Impar quch fordet medicata c pia naris 
 Termultos avium f educit ad avia cantas , 
 
 Certat ubi turdus merulis, ubi Lucanae inthis 
 Confonat j & noflemfylve citbarijlria mulcet $ 
 
 Me juvat ingenui vocem exaudire puelli. 
 
 Dum tener oi fingit (emones aure magifira, 
 
 Mmula fyderibus cui adamantina Lumina fulgent s 
 Shtalia in humanos defigit fietiio vultus : 
 
 Gratia jucundat faciem, fimplex % venu fias, 
 
 T otm amor iVenerisqfiecus pigm/que parentum ej% 
 -dd {pice, fed tempus gaudet quo fallere Ludo, 
 Ingcmmartifau mentitus arma,manm^. 
 Sive equitat mulo Matiano, aut agmina ducit , 
 
 Sive molam mditgelfo vel mitia twvU* 
 
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 May or Mans Childhood. 
 
 W7Hen Af<ty,Springs*glory paints the gaudy fields, 
 
 ™ And beauty t’ Aprils fucking mfanrs yeelds. 
 
 The bloomesand bloffomes are fo ftrangely dy’d. 
 
 That Nature feemes her cunning to have try’d. 
 
 Flora perfumes her brood, which give a fmell* 
 
 That may the Phcenix neft well paralell, 
 
 The plumed minftrels with their Mulicke fils 
 The fmiling heav’n, the wood, and ecchojng hil*. 
 
 Ma ns Childhood is.his May,' wherein he playes. 
 
 And wantonly beguiles his careldle dayes : 
 
 Then lookes he like an AngeII,had he wings. 
 
 He is the prettied ’mongft a thoufand things. 
 
 What Snow-white Lilly s can Flora afford fo faire. 
 
 Which with his fpotleffe beauty may compare? 
 
 Peftans twice-bearing rofe-beds s blu(h to fee 
 
 His Virgins red-enamelled modefty 5 
 
 His fragrant breath fo from his bread doth fmell,' 
 
 As if Arabias bird did therein dwell j 
 Nor fancied nofegay,nor compos’d perfume. 
 
 Above his Ample nature dare prefume. 
 
 Many repaire to Groves and love to heare 
 The Nightingale, the Thru(h,and plumed quire. 
 
 If I ftiould choofe,I could take greater joy 
 To heare the pratling of a lovely boy. 
 
 His eyes like gliftring Ehamonda to (bine, 
 
 Twinckling like Lizards jwhile they dare on thine. 
 
 But marke what pleafantfport t»hirnfelfe he makes, 
 
 All Arts and Trades he boldly undertakes:, 
 
 He’le raife a Caftle,build a fandy Mill, 
 
 HeTe ride a horfe,he’le traine,he’s what you will S 
 He doth what ever unripe Nature can> 
 
 He is the pleafant, pretty ape of man ; 
 
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 Maius five Pueritia. 
 
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 Cerem ingenio cuneas fi fingit ad artet , 
 famulus <etatii matur*,cunfta retenter 
 spe flat, ( 3 * efiviu,quam cernit, fimus a fla. 
 
 Ne, nimium miferi tamen exaltate parentes, 
 Prxcocia hac dtirm comitetur gaudia mceror : 
 Cernitis , ut pifl* pulses Alabandica Flora ■ 
 Marce fiitjnudm^ relinquit faucia jpimm ; 
 
 NuUa nitet teffcllati fic gloria veris , 
 
 Imbriferi quam non afflatus dcftruat Auflri : 
 Sifemel imbriferi tetigit contagia morbi, 
 languent membra, fugit^ decus mirabile forty* z 
 Vallent es artuspiflicf gravedine preffim 
 Tunc caput, immodicam condemnant jure patentum 
 Laetitiam, e geminis oculorum fata fenefiris 
 Vr officiunt, gehdotf meat vix oie mephitis: 
 Improba vis morbi cogit mutare querelis 
 Blanditias, temroftf files, linguarf lepores * 
 Maxima tum fuperant majores gaudia iuflus. 
 Mutantur vices trifii tum funere Ut*. 
 
 Hic fidum ajfulfit. Boree Impendente procelld. 
 Hic po fuit mare tranquillum, fed fluminis iras 
 Parturiente falo, medi tanti <$> prtlia vento. 
 
 - 4 ' 1 • quid fata fugit? mortali propriavit* 
 
 Res e fi nuda j dedit qua firs, mors omia raptat . 
 
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 Gratie vires /Deus 0, recent is 
 Suffice, infans h*c puera fcatttas, 
 
 Ttifcat ut certos magis magis pts 
 
 . Figere greffki, 
 
 Vajfibut dum T e fequor haud fecundis 
 Cbrifte, pr* cedat jubar ( equitatis , 
 
 T e nc% affieflufl) animre redemptor > 
 
 1 Subtrahe noflro. 
 
SPRING. 
 
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 M 4ff,or Mans childhood * 
 
 HU wit like wax to every thing ca n ply, 
 
 A ftrange obferver,what he fees hee'Ie try. 
 
 But harke you Parents, be not overjoy’d, 
 
 Yourpleafure (Yh) may quickely be deftroy’d. 
 
 T ou fee the Damaske Role, which is the peer 
 Of flowers, it fades and leaves the naked brier: 
 
 No bloflfome is fo glorious and fo fa ire , 
 
 But may be nipped with a noyforne site, 
 
 Jf an encountring blaft offickenefTe blow. 
 
 All feature paflethlikea minutsfliew. 
 
 He droopes hts head,his gaflly Iookes condemnc 
 ^ he fondneffe of child-deifying men. 
 
 Then through his eyes as windoweslooketh death, 
 
 A ioathfome earthly fmell mfe&s his breath , 
 
 His merry tales and chat, is then forgor, 
 
 For painefull nckeneffe makes him change his note. 
 
 Then Iooke how great your joy excell’d before, 
 
 Your griefeis doubled nov\', if *fc be not more. 
 
 Here was a Sun-fhine blinke, before the clouds 
 Bid fend the winds to combat with the floods^ 
 
 Here was a calme above, while as belo/v 
 
 The fea was great with ftorme, winds threatn’d to blow* 
 
 Ah world of woe / what thing canft thou call thine, 
 
 Poore man, but death can quickly fay its mine ? 
 
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 Gram ftrength of grace, O Lord, to me. 
 
 And make me grow from infancy 
 lo childhood j teach me how to trace 
 1 he footeffeps of thy fa ving grace. 
 
 While with unequal! paces I, 
 
 £>oe lag, (hew forth thy Light from high 5 
 O doe not goe q uite out of fight ' 
 
 Lord Soules Redeemer, foie delight* 
 
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 Maius, five Pueritia.^ 
 
 Cerne,quo patio vagulus vacillat 
 Grejfus,^ fr atlas animos adauge % 
 
 Erigas quando titubo >f alutis, 
 
 . , , Anchors certs, 
 
 Vt via longos tolerent Labores 
 
 IFtrto opem lajjo, exhilara dolentem 
 Et retretlantem male gratuitis 
 
 „ Allice donis, 
 
 Dum vtceatiguftas meo per faltbras . 
 
 Ad] uva, &* dextra fiabilito plantam : 
 
 %uasi largiri, pueris, Olympi 
 
 + „ ,, Ducito ad arces. 
 
 Tunc era Ceeli empyrei mini fi et 
 
 Aliger y d\va [pecte decorus , 
 
 r #lu & ducam nihili beatos , 
 
 Ne ft or U annos, 
 
 Iunius 
 
SPRING. 
 
 tMay, or Mans childbetd. 
 
 Looke to my wadiing pace and if 
 i fall,raife me, and comfort give 
 Lord, when I ftagger j fet me righ|, 
 
 O Soules eternall anchor plight. 
 
 And that I may the way endure, 
 
 With thy free graces me allure. 
 
 Lord if I faint encourage me j 
 feut pull me if I ftubborne be. 
 
 Thus fufFer me ( not, Lord»to llray 3 
 put guide me on the narrow way ; 
 And’caufethy Kingdome doth belong 
 To Children, place me them among: 
 
 Then Heavens bright Angeli {hall I be 
 Cioathed with immortality. 
 
 Rather fuch Childhood to me give. 
 
 Then here Methujhalems age to live. 
 
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 Iunius,fi?e Adolefcentia, 
 
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 C Vrwti quum P habus equos per brachia Cancri» 
 Cogit anhelantes 3 accltvi in vertice coali. 
 Fervidiore calet radio tunc fi o dia 7eHuS, 
 
 Et prima fatu% adolefcmt flore juvenia $ 
 
 Letas promittunt finges, & figna futuri , 
 
 Dant findas yavidumq^ beat fpesprimaColotoHtDi 
 Human# talis flore flit ephebia vita» 
 
 Cum pia fcinti flant cceleftis femina 
 JErudii ingenq moles , fed cerea , Lambi 
 V oft'tt 3 & e ft Ratio ftudio formanda colendi. 
 
 Humani generis pater ex quo tempore lapfus , 
 
 Huma :# in cineresmerfaeft fcintiUula mentUi 
 Voti ni fi 'mcxbauftojam recuperanda Labore, 
 
 Gemma velut Stygio Lethes in gwgitemerfa 
 Vdnatoris desstra expijianda profundo eft. 
 
 Tempus erat quo flabat homo de ftirpe deorum^ 
 
 Dotibus ingenij plufquam mortalibus audm : 
 jtrbitrij fed frena regentem devius error 
 st b fluit sty redo avet fum de tramite flexit ? 
 
 Inde fumus flhpis prave vitio fa propago. 
 
 Degeneres fandi primevdab origine Cati 9 
 Najcimur ignari rerum, virtutis inanes 
 Omnigena, veluti pidoris rafa tabella 
 Infcribenda notis queis vi t, tamen oblita nullis. 
 
 Nam velutidiftorta recens que pullulat arbor 
 Corrigitur, quamditi ladenti cortice mUet, 
 
 Solliciti teneros animos fic curamagiftri. 
 
 Et cultura SchoU tortum fed molle refingit 
 ingenium , ftud ijs& cerea pedor a format. 
 
 Cortinae quem certa Sophm fujfragiaprimum 
 Dixerunt ,quondam a vultus senforefophifta 
 ijitux ta cite An fu lfaaae mmitie» 
 
SPUMER 
 
 June t or Mans young age, . 
 
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 I N Iune when Vhtxbm up to Canter hies. 
 
 Driving aloft his Chariot in the skies. 
 
 The Earth ischerifht with a warmer ray. 
 
 Her Youthfull brood lufty appeare and gay 5 
 Then promife they fome fruit and give cfTayes, 
 
 Of what (hall be their further ripening dayes : 
 
 Such is the tripling halfe-growne age of man. 
 When fiery feed ©f reafon fparkle can. 
 
 When his rude wit >but waxen (as the Beare 
 Fafhions her cub)i$ lickt and fram’d with care. 
 Since mans great Sire did from his maker fall. 
 Mans reafon’s loft> fcarce to be found at all; 
 
 Much like a gemme in darkeneffe Lethe drownd. 
 With dangerous painefull dyving to be found. 
 There was a time,when man Gods off -fpring flood 
 Indued with gifts greater then mortali good ; 
 
 But whilft he rul'd his reines,his will did ftray# 
 Withdrawing him out of the righterway : 
 
 Thus when corrupted was the ftocke and tree. 
 
 We branches thereof rouft corrupted be. 
 
 Borne voidc of knowledge, rude and ignorant. 
 
 The cneaneft character of good we want. 
 
 Like to a fmooth and waxed writing table. 
 
 Its void® j but write you, to receive its able. 
 
 A tree which crooked growes and bends awry* 
 While it is young, skill can it re&ifie 5 
 So tender mindes the Matters care corre&eth 
 What Nature could not,DifcipIine effs&eth ; 
 Learning makes ftraight perverfe and crooked W it $2 
 And them like wax to any fattiion fits. 
 
 He whom ^pojfos Oracle did call, 
 m Wife» [mn$ thgCr mmn Sophfcs all| 
 

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 Iunius, five Adolefcentia, 
 
 Talem vitales primum fee luminis auras 
 Haufijje aiebat Jiro fub fidere natum i 
 Pojleafedfa&um Sophi* Cczleftis alumnum , 
 
 In melius mutaffee animum, Gcniumque malignum 
 Quum benaddapidat genitor, juga dura fiubire 
 Compedit natos duritnftifque laboris j 
 Qu'am gravis (ah) laker eft tap pm reparare parentis] 
 Et nunquam tamen amffas attingere dotes! 
 
 Natura naft entis erant elementa loquendi , 
 
 Cornea qua pueris time abecedaria monftrant » 
 
 Jii velutifolijt oracula J cripta Sibylla 
 Penelopes opus e ft, [alvo componere ferifti a 
 Utendas [iciitemlis conjungere oportet 
 Syllabo: ut aicnfcmt > quarum farragine voces 
 Burn jiunt, operam crebro damnamus inanem. 
 
 Nunc fluxa & ft agi lis, fuerat firmijfma quondam 
 Mnemc , depoliti cuftos firmi fjima } proma——* 
 
 Conda penus nvftri , loculis f en fata reponens > 
 Depromens^ eadem, fi quando poficeret ufius y 
 Fidit fed mnemte qui nunc jn pulvere [cubit * 
 
 Scnfia animi >aut ftuxee ftuftra committit arena s 
 Nunc vaga congeries rerum,c ce cif recejfus 
 Confundunt if ecus, velimqua cbliterat afass 
 Obsiat fttpe (ibi rerum male congrua moles 
 Fermentata ChaoJnfaufto partuque labor at j 
 *Dumque homo rimatur cerebrnm,qu * ficrtniapulfei 
 Ftefcitit? in feno fimilh ft at pharmacopola, 
 
 Om&ia fcv utatur, nec quod petit ftnvenit ifquam ; 
 Cogimur hinc nimium ft agili diffidere mnctna s 
 Et chartis mandare alta molimina mentis* 
 
 Sic mutis vox viva tacet concredita libris j 
 
 
 Quum^ foret quondam patulis mos auribus artem 
 H aut ire, a tacitis nunc e ft difeenda magiftris , 
 Atque legenda oculis 5 v artis vox pifla figuruo 
 
SVM MERo 
 Unty or CWansyofWgdges 
 
 Condemned,by acritickeofmans face. 
 
 As dull and ftupid,void of wit and grace. 
 
 Made anfwer, fuch himfelfe by birth to be. 
 
 But better*d by Divine Philofophy. 
 
 A lavifh Father, when his Bate he fpoiles. 
 
 He puts his children to a thoufand toyles ; 
 
 Good God l what pairies and care it doth us coft 2 
 To feeke and not to finde what Adam loff . 
 
 Language was Natures worke^we fhould be borne 
 There to, without fefcue, or booke of horne. 
 
 But as to gather Sibyls leaves difperfed 
 Is defp’rate worke t© find what (he reheaffed j 
 To gather letter by Ietter,fo w’are faine 
 Syllabe by fyllabe,word by word in vaine. 
 
 Our fraile and britle memory before 
 Did fafely keepe the whole conceptions fiore 5 
 A faithfull Steward, what (he kept, (he could 
 Diftribute that, when ufe and Teafon would i 
 But now who to his .memory doth truft , 
 
 He writes the charter of his mind in duft. 
 
 Now wandring, braineficke thoughts the fpeces kill; 
 And what they fpare,old age aboiifh will. 
 
 Oft fo a mafle of things is hurld together. 
 
 That Chaos -like, one parts not from another! 
 When men now fearch their braines,they cannot find 
 The box,which holds the conceit of their mind ; 
 They fret, much tike to dull Apothecaries 
 Who cannot hit upon their box and wares. 
 
 Hence memories diftruft makes us to write 
 Our minds in papers, that they may end's te 
 Againc to us,fo word of mouth is come 
 To filence of our writings, which are dumbe, 
 
 'And what was got before b’ attentive eare 
 Dumbe boofcci doe teach u$,*caufe they’re oculare. 
 
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 gj luniuSjfivc Adolcfcentia. 
 
 Singula nee tamen bate profunt, quo nefciofato 3 
 S/tpe latet tantis hominis mttis prejfa teneor is'. 
 
 Nil filii a lava-, pigri de more caballi 
 Promovet hauJ> quamvis vireas calcaribus addas. 
 Quam gravis (ah) labor efi nobis,qu<e perdidit hor 
 In nullos reparare dies, laterem <£ lavare . 
 
 Dicite Adamigene porno quid vilius uno ? 
 
 Et tamen hoc tantos potuit generare Laboret . 
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 Oqui Mofaici dogmata f aderis 
 Impubis poteras pandere patribus 
 Jud<£jfeita tui da mihi nofcere 
 patris ^morigerum reddito legibus 
 Coeli. Cimmerijs mens mea ccecutit 
 Caligans tenebris pandito Lumina. 
 
 Non me uteri crimina polluunt; 
 
 Nec morum impietas inquinat Unguibus 
 Me fic a teneris, quin tua gratia 
 *4fcedisUteri [ordibus expiet , 
 
 Et morum maculas uni ta diluat • 
 
 Dotes ingenij quas m nuit pater 
 Humani generis 3 gratia farciet. 
 
 Fac me, C mile, tua difdpulum Schola j 
 Cenfurd ferula leniter uteri > 
 fendas profa meti verbera viribus. 
 
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 Nor is this all, oft times theScholIar’s fo 
 Vtitoward,without rod he will not goe 3 
 Sometimes,caufe nothing in his left fide Otirres^ 
 Hee’le neither ride with rod. nor yet with fpurres 
 O what adoe is here for to fupply 
 That which we loft, hut cannot now come by 1 
 Tell fonnes of Adam, what you thihke of one 
 Poore apple,whicb,hath mankind thus undone. 
 
 G Lords Who in this age was preaching found - 
 And teaching thofe who did the Law expound, 
 Teach me, my Saviour,what$ thy Fathers will. 
 And grant me grace that 1 may it fulfill, 
 
 I am by naturc>and in grace a mouk, 
 
 Redeemer touch mineeyes,Ulighten my Soule, 
 
 I am not Lord by Parents finne fo fpilt. 
 
 Nor fo defil’d with mine owne aftuall guilt j 
 But if thou wilt, thott canft by thy free grace, 
 Clenfeme from all which doth my Soule deface* 
 What ever gifts Adam hath loft to me, 
 
 Thole and farre greater,Lord, ( find by Thee. 
 JMafter,make me thy Scholiar ; when I fhall 
 Cor reft ion crave,ufe mercy there wi thal 1 ; 
 Mailer, thy Schollar humbly begs of thee, 
 
 That go my ftre&gth thy rod may tempered be. 
 
A Ries was prong. Taurus did [Wronger prove. 
 Then Gemini did double beat and love i 
 Cancer who mounted, firaight returnd againe. 
 That Leo might couragwm remaine * 
 
 Till V irgo with her fruitfully hopeful! ear eg 
 Doe rellijh well the Farmers greedy feares , 
 f Since Signes for c Mortals good can fo agrtfe 9 
 To Heav'n let ev'rj one mop thanks full he* 
 
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 Iuli us, five Ephebia. 
 
 F lavus uhteflivos Quintilii promovet ortus. 
 Exhilarant blandum radi) $ ferventibus annum. 
 Luxurians arbor fiuflus maturat adultot. 
 
 Foeta fuiyUtnllem tentat producere prolem : < 
 
 Talis Homo quum floriferos adolejcitad annoh 
 Parturit, & Geni} Jpeiiken maturius edit > * 
 Vullulat ing ( riij foetus qitcw cura &tagiflri 
 Lambit, urfno deformem more re finxit. 
 
 Tunc vite molitus itet fe acungit ad artem 
 Vivendi modum •> nec enim (unt ocia tuta . 
 Progenies Hybla v eluti fragrantia rura 
 Pervolati as Flora ludentia germina libat, 
 Parfquerofas carp it, pars fugit amabi’e nedar 
 Narcijft,aut fltmitlis albentia lilia tentat > 
 
 MiUe legunt florum fucce* y tf/ mille viarum 
 Ambages Luflrant , una eft fed meta laboris * 
 
 Tam varij s fertur Qucitj sfevVenttor *fas 
 Fatorum quum lege trahit fua quernfe voluptas 
 Mfopi haud major calvis currentibus error i " ! 
 Senfibus humanis quam flat fententia difeors $ 
 
 Sed tamen ad metam vitte contenditur unam , 
 tegete, & trifli que defendenda baciUo cfl* 
 
 Quam varie rerum species, quot membra, quot artus 
 Corporis humani» quot (unt molimina mentis, 
 
 Eelicu quot funt [en[as,vitt}s^ laborat 
 £*u<tmv*rp male- fenus bovio; bona denifa quot funi ^ 
 Quot mala ; tot proflant artes, queU queeumus illd 3 
 H^r. vitamus \ & efl vite mitltiplicu Hydra . 
 
 Cara fuit, mundo na fcent e parabile yidus 
 Mfepenu % tutofa,rudi licet , indui amjdu i 
 ingenio fa adeo morta'ia pedor a vexit 
 luxuries nunc, ut T enas, oibeftfa fatiget; 
 
SPMME% 
 
 ]uly t cr Striplings age, 
 
 T^r "THen rypcning luly brings Hyperion forth, 
 
 \l \i From Tethys chambers lying towards North, 
 
 * » The fruitfull tree,adv»nceth snorcand more 
 
 His fruit j defiring flill his kind to flore : 
 
 So Man when his Youths bloflomes gin to blow. 
 
 Defires fome way wits timely fruir.es to {how. * 
 
 After thefe wits, which imperfc & were wrought. 
 
 Are now by licking intofalhion brought , 
 
 Then every man betakes him to atradc. 
 
 For no man e’re for idlenelle was made. 
 
 Like as the Bees the meddowes range about. 
 
 Tailing ©f every flower the field throughout; 
 
 Some brotch the Primrole ne&ar fome the Lillies, 
 
 Some crop the Thyme, and Co me the Daffodillies; 
 
 Bach one a fundry way and flower doth take. 
 
 And yet all to one Hive doe honey make : 
 
 So men, in Youth, according fro their mindes. 
 
 Doe choofe their trades * of fundry diverfc kindcsS 
 For E/ops skuls did not fo difagree. 
 
 As men in feverall phanfies different be : 
 
 Yet though there is’mongft men lb great divifion, 
 
 All feeke one thing,this mortali lifts provifion. 
 
 How many fortsot things how many joynts 
 Are of the body, how many crotchet points 
 Are of the mind,or fenfes fond delights. 
 
 How many vices are in wicked wightes 5 
 
 For goods, for evils, the’rc equa!! artes in number * 
 
 Which like an Hydra doth this life encumber. 
 
 Fathers of old time, furcly, crav’d no mort, 
 
 But clothes for backe and lor the belly ftore; 
 
 Now pride and ryots humors for to fit, 
 
 Whole countries; nations, doe employ their wit ; 
 
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 u E ST AS. 
 
 Iulius five Ephebia. 
 
 IDifcen&e fint mille artes, fi fingere ad unguem 
 Ingenium humanum, mor es, tempora pofcas > 
 Luxuries fic forte juvat,* quod mide nepoti 
 Artifices debent tolerandae commoda vitee. 
 Efuriunt quando latis animantia campis , 
 
 In mundo dai T erra dapes, dant pocula lymph# i 
 Vira fames hominem quoties ad turpia cogit , 
 Infandas acuens (pes & prae or dia rodens ? 
 Importuna fames morof* debita cejfit 
 fana guhe : juftd nemefi fic numina plefflunt $ 
 lUicitasgufiare dapes homo fortiter aufus, 
 
 Sape nequit licitis jejunia pedere menfis. 
 Sudandum e fi igitur, (vendunt df) ctmfta labore) 
 Ante fuum mi fero quam pandat Edulia cornu, 
 Solikittefic dura capefj ens munia vit* 
 
 2 ) e gener aquali fitfaftos origine, cernit. 
 
 Interea aneftas qu* vox mihi verberat aures 
 Ocia tuta beans tranquilla caftra Minerva » 
 Mufarumque leves choreas, placido fque recefifm^ 
 Tetmcjfi faltas, & flamina grata poetis ? 
 Invidi* vox e fi laudans diver fafequentes* 
 7)amocles celfa recubet fi fede Tyranni, 
 
 "Nuda laborabit jucundum mufa foporezn. 
 
 Vt venias hederd dignus , tua lumina fornum 
 s*pe vident nudum ? an Undid macnfiit imago ?■ 
 lapetonid * volucres funt cura , labor 4 , 
 
 Pervigil ,& fiudij fitu implacata profundi. 
 Horologi fufum veluti , frenumque, rota/que 
 Spira regit, fecumque luo conamine raptat : 
 Anxia fic curis quum mens diftrafta laborat, 
 TJuUa Joporiferam fenitfcunt membra quietem. 
 Adjpice cognatas cyclon qui circinat aries, 
 goudm mifer* vitee dispendia quanta catenet, 
 fumigem quia dedidicit vermsula lingu *, 
 
SVUM E*. 
 
 July, or Strifling age. 
 
 ithctufand trades* now, doe the beft you can, 
 ire too too little to complcate a mao > 
 
 'his accidentali good doth riot give, 
 
 >ne fpendthrift makethmany poore men live, 
 f bcafts be hungry in the defert field, 
 he earth their raeate, their drinketfee rivers yeeldj 
 if hat wicked hopes doe mortals entertaine 
 ■ - * i-t „1 — * paine 
 
 lan eate,when God forbad him to doe lb# 
 
 'herefore when man would eate,oft Gfed fayes no I 
 'hus man before he is thought worthy of meate, 
 le muft find out fome way to toyle and fweate : 
 io when the Youth begins his painefull trade, 
 le fees what he is now»what he was made. 
 
 But loe,X heare fome fay 5 the Schollar s blcft, 
 
 Is free from laboured enjoying reft# 
 
 falking of daunting Nymphes, and (haddowy woods, 
 
 'arnaffus groves, and pleafant running floods 5 
 
 t*s envyes voice ; who difeontented ft ill, 
 
 that which fheknowesnot,difcpmmend Ihe will* 
 
 ?ut ©amocles in Dionyfius place, 
 
 rlee’le praife the pleafure, but enjoy no peace: 
 
 That thoumay’fl: weare the Ivy, canft thou looke 
 Nit h fleepclefie eyes, and paleface on thy booke ? 
 A/hat meane the Vultures which Prometheus teare, 
 5ut vvatchfull ftudy, and hearueating care. 
 
 $ks in a docke/prings motion doth make 
 The barrel!, fufie,wheeles, and ballance (hake • 
 
 >0 when the minde doth ftirre with thoughts oppteft, 
 rhinke you the bodies fpirits are at reft. 
 
 5ut looke what doth his encyclopedy 
 reach him, but lcdurcs of his mjfcry. 
 
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M STAS. 
 
 Iulius five Ephebia. 
 
 Cogitur Ignitas Babylonis di/cere voces j 
 SQuodqm prius dederant ctma> nunc vix capitatae ; 
 Si numeres linguas , Mithridates occidit infans • 
 
 Ejf tantilla fdeiijine Rhetoris arte 
 
 He fetat ut fibi concordes inducere fenfut 9 
 Quodque nequit ratio fucato fuadeat ore > 
 
 Verhaque det levibus toties diffundere ventis. 
 Caligat tantis scies interna tenebris ? 
 
 €onfufiz que latent Jpecies, Platonis ut annue 
 Eruere hanc fat agat cariofi e ferdelibrorum s 
 Qui ratiom probant hominem rationis egentem ; 
 "Dum numeros neEiit numera >dum vili ibus auget 
 Mi fracum paribus aiftingutt littora micis . 
 
 'Dum numerat fellas, guttis diferiminat aquor 9 * 
 
 jn leva digito fluxos] (ibi computat annos. 
 
 ^ulce mtlos, trifiiy quamvis medicina doloris 
 Dicitur 3 hoc tamen (ab) lacrymarum fluit us acerbat 
 D um fatum recolens ijfmdv flebile carmen t 
 .Quali cient memores vicina mortis olores. 
 
 'Quam dolet laflref yum radio dam menfus Olympum, 
 Mic contemplatur radiantes eminus orbes , 
 
 Nec licet ad patrias furfum t ontendere fedes, 
 
 Fnde genus traxit cognata ab origine Divum. 
 Denique dum vm fodefcrtbit fchemate Tenen 
 Quinque fecans \onis,diflmguens climate lucem 
 i ! Tdaxima qua vertit cyclis / ola ibus annum > 1 
 
 € onvexum paribus menfurans pafftbas orbem , 
 
 Qua jubar auricomum Terris ortenfque cadenfque 9 
 Tunicat equoreas pifeofie T ethyos undas 
 Quaque dxs medium q*a noxdifpefcit Olympum , 
 Mejpiciem modulum ipje fuum ; quid metior, inquit» 
 Hanc molem , Archytas prope littus dona malinum 
 Ptilver is exigui po/cit } cur mente rotundam 
 Pa curro Cee lum moriturus 5 flamina vite. 
 
SVMMMtL. 
 
 July, er Striplings age. 
 
 Caufe Paradifes tongue he cannot reach. 
 Grammar doth him Mbels confufion teach j 
 His life time canribt give what cradles could» 
 Mithridate was a babe,if tongues were tould. 
 
 So little credite man hath, without art 
 Of Rhetdricke 5 he cannot move the heart $ 
 
 His fmoothed tongue he doth more powerful! find, 
 Thenreafon j'yet his words are oft but wind. 
 Darke ignorance fo mantles up his wit. 
 
 That Pldtoes yeare can fcarce deliver it* 
 
 Prpm rotneffe of the Lo^ickfyftemes rabie» 
 
 Which proving all things, proveth manabablc# 
 He by Arithmeticke can picket he (Hore 
 Of all hisfandsjand adde to millions more. 
 Divide and multiply the ftarre 5 ,and tell 
 How many drops doc make the Ocean fwcl!$ 
 
 But when he comes his dayes 10 calculate. 
 
 He finds a figure or two doe ftand for that. 
 
 Though muficke be a fweet folatious thing. 
 
 It teacheth him his Lachrim* to fing. 
 
 And Swandike in a dolefull Elegy, 
 
 A dying to bewaile mortality. 
 
 Aftronomy doth make him difeontent, 
 
 That he (hould peepe «p through an ii*ftrument. 
 And take the elevation of th at place* ; ‘ 
 
 From whence he had his bwng and his race. 
 Whiles that Geometry doth teach' him how 
 The furface of this earthly globe to view, 
 
 T o cut it out by zones aud climates way. 
 
 By hotter *colder,and the longer day* 
 
 To pace it forth , in inches, rods 2 and miles. 
 
 From Eafterne SeaSjuntothcWefterneTfles, 
 
 From dayes Meridian, to the midnight line, 
 Wfiere night is darkeft,day doth brighteft fldne $ 
 
JEST AS. 
 
 Mhs, five Ephebia; 
 
 pared mibi fimul ac fee nit : feptempeda corpus 
 Exanimum tumuli angi ft o mihi limite claudet 
 Cernere mortalem eflplures adolefcere ad &nm 
 Mrutmafque fimul>trijti$ l inolere dolori : 
 me tantum eftmifir i forfan folamen Ephebe, 
 ErMtrijffe aliquas lapfbcum tempore curas . 
 
 C aleftis Genitor 3 quce mare ccer alum 
 guoe Tellus viridans , GT liquidi aetherii 
 Nutrit b ce c regio ,T e Dominum fuum 
 AgneJiantyVatuhe munera dextera 
 Expofimty tua : Tu fatur as dape 
 Qukqmd te precibus foil icit at Deum. 
 Cervus nm didicit vertere vomite 
 Telluris gr avida fd xeavifcera , 
 
 Optatis epulis no» tamen indiget . 
 Nunquam pen fd trahunt candida lilia , 
 'Flora at luxuriant Jplendida firmate, 
 Quali Rex Solymae non nituit pix. 
 
 C uris diUrabera mens mca } cur metu 
 Quajfarhyftabikm jjiem ubi colloca 
 Jnrertm Domine , qui dabit omnia 
 Qua vitssfidgili commoda fenferit. 
 
 Sed ne debilitent ocia languidam 
 Mentemjuxuru & pe flora diffluant 
 Bydra multiplicis ne mala pullulent : 
 Quo vitam tolerem 3 munere da fiut 
 Artis ,qu* fenium fuftheat meum 9 
 Et viflu invalidos fufUneat dies . 
 
 Me quafo JEther eis dotibus infime. 
 Quadratas fabrica dum lego liter as $ 
 Caelorum fpeculans tam varias vias 3 
 Etw pennigmsaerU incolas» 
 
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SVMME& 
 
 lalj , or Stripling age? 
 
 When he lookes home t 4 himftlfe,he fights and fayesi 
 In meafuring earth, why fpend I thus my dayes ? 
 Archytas ghoft, neere to the Matin (hore, 
 
 Bcfides a little dull, doth feeke iio more; 
 
 Why Ihould I then furvey this globe with eyes. 
 
 And fore with thought above the Inhered skyes ? 
 When deftiny (hall cut my fataji haire, 
 
 Of all this earth,feven foote (hall be my (hare. 
 
 Thus may we fee, that as in age we grow, 
 
 Sorrowes along With us in age doegoe* 
 
 A Youth one comfort after ail,at laft 
 Recdyesjfomeof his toyle and forrowes paft. 
 
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 What Heaven above, below, the Sea, and land 
 Containe,all ftand and fall at thy command. 
 
 Father, all things to thee their eyes doe bend. 
 
 Thou do’ft, td them their food in feafon fend} 
 
 What ere thou haft created by thy word. 
 
 Thou keepftjif they acknowledge Thee their Lord, 
 Thou with thy bleffingfeedft the wandring Crow, 
 Although it cannot either till or fow, 
 
 Ttie Lillies 6fthe field they cannot twift 
 Or fpinne, yet are they,Lord,fo by Thee blcft. 
 
 That Salomon in all his rich aray. 
 
 Was notfo glorious as they are gay. 
 
 Why art thou Soule caft downe with feare and care ? 
 T iuli in thy Lord and Maker, He’s thy (hare 
 And portion fure,whowill unto thee grant. 
 
 What ufefull things for life he fenowes thee wanf. 
 
 But yet left idlencfTefitouldon meceafe. 
 
 Which is the Hydra of vice,and Soules difeafe ; 
 
 Give me fome calling Lord, whereby I may, 
 
 I kVeate tnj^Iy for my daily bread, this day. 
 
M S T A S. 
 Julius, five Ephebis 
 
 Tatvcmmth hvmc*daU gemina f, 
 Bmmtefyae greges, filviu las fei as 9 
 Mtrnam/fte wet [crmipeSoris, 
 duttuatqm ammam,do/-aque coelitut 
 
 Te reram Dominam* mmt ficum patrem 
 AgBOfcaw^Mtlmeis laudiki; efferens 
 Dontcjae aligeris ciwkts addito, 
 
 M warns dederit mrsmmmmk* 
 
SV MMERl 
 July, or flriplings Age? 
 
 Which may maintaine my gray*fcaires,when I can 
 Doc nothing but bewaile the (late of man. 
 
 W hat knowledge, Lord.,thou giv’ft me of the creature, 
 Make it the 077 ot Thee my great Creator. 
 
 When I behold the Criflall Heavens fo faire. 
 
 So many winged troopes piercing the aire. 
 
 So many finned armies in the flrands. 
 
 Rowing themfelves amongft the rockes and lands » 
 When I behold the flowers ,the fields and fennes, 
 Jhe gracing flockes } thewild beafts m their dennesj 
 When 1 rip up my breaft »and there doe finde. 
 
 An earthly body, but an heavenly oiiridej 
 I fee thy greatnefle Lord, in every thing, 
 
 To thee therefore I will herepraifes fing: 
 
 Till I (hall come unto thy blefltd traine, 
 
 , Then death (hall put an end to all my paine* 
 
Hat Plough & harrow with laboriom wile] 
 'Did trtifi to mother earthy & fimiftitl Joilcf 
 Aftrsea, juftice Scepter who can fa>ay 3 
 To Sickle and the Bdrne doth that repay « 
 
 The Hufiandman he will now Weepe no more * 
 
 When juft Aftrsea [hews him hope of flore. 
 
 The Gods are juft Jet men thenpioPPS be% 
 
 To ufe their bleffings with fobrietj % 
 
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 /EST AS. 
 
 Aiguftus fi V s ? Iuventus: 
 
 P Hcebui quum blandis Aftrce\ amplexibus h&ret 9 
 Et cultos maturat agros > tun\ gemina Terree 
 Omnigenos patiunt fruttus, pdn fota veneno, 
 Netlare pars dulci, virtus non omnibus vna esi ; 
 r alis Homo at at is juvenili robore gtifcitp 
 Aclx dans Jpedmen vite, fignumfc futura. 
 
 Vt cinera qm tmmerfa latet fciutiUa,mufcat 
 Et rapit ardentem crepitanti in fomite flammam : 
 
 Sic Natura prius teneris mali debilis annis , 
 
 Nunc fervore viget venarum <& robore nervi. 
 
 V ma velut generofa cadis Jpumantia fervent, 
 Exirtanfo novas per ae ca foramina vires : 
 
 Sic fermentata luvenis fervore fovente 
 Exerit affMus vires^gaudetlj tumultu. 
 
 Non citius levibus jiiputis Vulcanius ardor 
 GraJJ atur, juveni quam mens compta furore 
 Flagrat, & infulfo probat entbyememata fafo 
 EfJ'e Stote, virtuti animos affettibm addens . 
 
 Sic domuit matutinum PeU as deem orbem, 
 
 Et capita Alcides dir ce demeffuit Hydra, 
 
 Rettulit vellus Pbryxaum Ttoriea pubes 
 Theem Argivam per inbotyila cerula pinum . 
 
 Vajfto virtutis cos efl acuminat aufus, 
 
 S.ipe etiam exitium languens calcaribus urget. 
 Perfephones male farms amor fub Tartara mijtt 
 P entboum,Stygiafo domos penetrare coegit . 
 
 P r&ceps ira truces in mutua vulnera frjtfr es 
 Compulit, at% odium cinerum pofl bufw fopgrftesl 
 Materno fodare manus vindika eruor e 
 Horrend* ju(Jit fitienlem cadis Ore f en. 
 
 Sic dolor A yacm fregit male famis, ut enfis 
 Vm proprii ferret, fortem^ ad vulnera dextram! 
 
 Hac ignara modi tntenfis affeffibus cetas 
 fertur, & eft pya%i penitus fivfcofa juyemt 3 
 
 
SVMME% 
 
 nfi , or (JHans 
 
 y Hen Plmbns doth with chaft Aflrea mecte^ 
 
 , %/ \/ Crowning the fruits & fields with influence fweefc 
 ¥ ▼ rhen plants bring forth their fruifSjafter their 
 
 Not all alike, fonae goodfonae bad we finde. (kindc* 
 
 So man in Youth ftiewes by his converfauaft. 
 
 His towardne(fe,aiid former educat iop , 
 
 Like as the fire which long hathlurkt in afhes* 
 
 When it gets ftronger few el, flames and flaihes. 
 
 So nature which in weakenefle long did luvke, 
 
 Doth now in heateof blood begin to worke : 
 
 Or like flrong wine s in caske, when firft they vent, 
 
 They ihe w rhemfelves in motion vehement» 
 
 Soman inleavned age, and youthfull prime 
 Gives pafltons moft violent for a time 5 
 Tinder nor flaxe takes not with Vulcanes ire 
 More qttickei y, than youths bloods fet on fire. 
 
 And oft condemnes the Stoicke apathie, 
 
 A s by his paflionate v alour we may fee. 
 
 So Petta 5 flower did conquer all the Eaft^ 
 
 ^Uides kill’d the manysheaded bea ft, 
 lafon with the noble Youths of Greece, 
 
 In fpight of dangers wonne the golden fleece % : 
 
 This paffion as it isa whetting fione 
 T o goodaeffe, fo to evil! it fpurreth on. 
 
 Loves pa (lion made V without defeend 
 To P lutoes houfe t’ attendhis Iuftfoll ends 
 linger made Ereoc/es kill^is brother, 
 
 Nor could their funerali fmoake agree together^ 
 
 Revenge did caufe Orcfies put to death 
 His mother, who did give him life and breath. 
 
 So griefe made Ajax turnc his wrath from Troy 2 
 And with the fatall fword himfeife deftroy ; 
 
 This age ftill in extremes can fcarce obey 
 
 RsafoPi cwfc pafllon bear* 
 
& S T A S. 
 Auguftus five Iuvenhis. 
 
 Artibus aut intenta bonis , & gnara findendi , 
 
 In nimios femper timor ejl ne exardeat mfm« 
 
 Haie <etas juvenes bivii ad divortia duett, 
 Conftitit Alcides quondam quo incertus eundi . 
 Alter a lat a via, eft, multo flore decora 
 
 Vndifa Pellam veris fubridet honore , 
 
 Vberibus Cerer U crefcunt ubi munera fulcis, 
 Nefiareos latices Bacchi carchefia fundunt, 
 Mollia cycmis (tam pulvinaria plumis , 
 
 Vudiquz Panchaeos Jpirant r$* aromata odo- es, 
 
 ■A ligeriqu . chori mulcent concentibus auras , 
 Vernantefque replent tremulo modulamine Jylvas . 
 Hic levibus recubat plumis fucata Voluptas 
 Floribus in medix Cr/uavia cinnama fpirat, 
 Ddiciofa jacet, facies oftentat amores, 
 
 Lumina fidereo jplendmt acctnfa nitore , 
 
 T ot a lepos (qualis parebat ab aquor e Cypris) 
 Mellitas voces 9 & verba papavere condit, 
 
 E ft ex term foris Jpecies , & gratia vultus > 
 
 Pedoris interni ot pateat fi forte recejfus 
 Fee da latet fcabies pifto mali diftolor oris * 
 Pigmento quocunque animum c er afflat, amam 
 Corde latet, dolor exanimans tsr turpis ege ft as, 
 vfL nula lummibas Bafitifci lumina tollunt 
 Evira quodcunque vident, ceu noxia Siren 
 Cantat, Miliaci aut fletu infidiatur alumni; 
 
 Sed lacrymis ne crede, fcatent qua fraude, metuam 
 Pocula Ciraek prabet medicata venenis, 
 
 Lethceam mifcens Loton , virufque rubete* 
 
 Jnque f ites homines vertit , caprcfque falmes. 
 Rugent efque feras,&, mimos cercopithecos, 
 Sapefcyphk madidos deponit ,pettora vino 
 -Accendens, foeto mox reflinguendv cruore» 
 tam lautas damnum exitiale eorowt 
 
SVM MMR' 
 duguft, er CMans Y outh \ 
 
 And oft, when reafon and affe &ion too 
 Concurre, the danger’s, not t© overdoe. 
 
 It leadeth us unto a forked way. 
 
 Where the great Hercuhs was fayd to /lay, 
 
 The one is broad, plumed on every fide. 
 
 With Damaske Rofes, and with Flora’s pride. 
 There Ceres gifts in great aboundance grow. 
 
 And Bacchus cupps with ne&ar overflow. 
 
 There’s downy beds (luffed with fwan/ike plumes, 
 There every thing is fweetned with perfumesj 
 he winged quirifterswith their fweete throates, 
 oe wai ble forth their earesbereavine notes; 
 And painted pleafure lyeth all along 
 Vpon her downes,the fragrant flowers among; 
 rier lookes are lovely, and her eyes arc cleare 
 Wuch J/(ce to Penus, when (he did appeare 
 Fitlt from the fea; the honey’s not fo fweete. 
 
 As are her words, (he’s outwardly compleate, 
 
 »ut O if one fhould fee her bread within, 
 arre different would he fiode it from herskinne. 
 w nat ever (lie pretends fhe meanes no Idle 
 Than death, definition, gall, and bittemeflej 
 Her eyes^J ike Baflhskes^they fee and kill, 
 
 «er voyce like Sirens doth entife to ill . 
 
 BeJeeve her no wayes jW hen fhe fhedderh teares, 
 For like the Crocodiles^they’re full of fearesS 
 e gives Circean cuppes of giddy wme 
 Mixt with toades poyfon, and the Lotifh rine 
 And turnes man into Goate,or mimicke Ape ’ 
 
 Or Wolfe, or Lyon,which doth roar e and gape- 
 Ok times fhe with her cupps fo doth them drench. 
 That without blood their thirft they cannot quench 
 But which is worll of all behold the end, H 
 • mifci 7 death they are condemn’d, 
 
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'.sstas; 
 
 Auguftus, five Iuventus.' 
 
 'Delicias, mortis mifercepr renuntia tabes». 
 
 H ervorum vel dir a lues.aut hettica fehris, 
 
 "jut laterum dolor, & (lagnans pituita fatigat 
 Sic mferoSydir<e cupiant ut tadia vita, ^ 
 
 Btquamcun fa petant, nequeant quum vivere t mormu 
 Quod fi quis Polemo primos differ didit annos 
 lmpruiens,cafiam luxu tentare juventam 
 A ufusjam^ Soph i monitis reflpi flere tandem 
 tneipit s & Baccho facras lacerare corollas $ 
 
 Talis erit f redi Phenix , rariflimn ales» 
 
 Qualis tum piceis cycnus fleat aera pennis 5 
 Confuetude mahtamcrecopefoora callo 
 Obdurat, nequeant utta ut moUeflcerecurd, 
 
 Sic vitiat Geni) dotesjic inquinat auree 
 Particulam, ut pbi natur re jus veniteet omne s 
 Vrifiina nec profit fludiofl cura magiflri 9 
 Quam penitus dirus peccandi ob liter at ttjui . 
 
 Proh dolor ! ergo parens genuit Haturabeatm 
 Indolc^ure Iret tege fi bat femina frugis ? 
 
 E rgone laffabat mater, prmoj que fovebat 
 Carmine vagitus 3 omen mentita fecundum , 
 
 Curacy pollicitu efi demandatajnagifiris 5 
 Scilicet ut pubes primo fubflore periret ? 
 
 Altera dura via efi, acclivi tramite callem 
 Anguftam, niflgraffantinon pervia dextr<e. 
 
 Sente ( catet multa , nud» fiat [emit affinis, 
 
 Hanc pipant dira monfir&rum hinc inde caterva 
 QualtaT artaret Jlrvant penetralia Regis. 
 
 Hic fm mordaces po fuere cubilia curte, 
 
 Hi c tremuli genibus, flant paHcniefqne timores 5 
 lUic pervigiles acie flammante dracones 
 Ignea queis fomno non mulcet lumina Morpheus I 
 Improbus & vanus labor hic ad culmina montis 
 gifypheum volvit fdwmfiuftrafa revolvit • 
 
SVMMER. 
 
 Auguft, or M ant Youth* 
 
 A little fwinifb pleafure deare they buy, 
 
 With Gout, Confumption, or the Pleurifie, 
 
 And brings upon themfelves fuch mifery. 
 
 That they can choofe,or doe nothing, but dye. 
 
 Perhaps one Polemo who in her waies. 
 
 Hath Javifh’d out his young and tender dayes. 
 
 When he a wife Xenocrates doth heare. 
 
 Will be a(hamed,and his garlands tearej 
 But he is one amongft a thoufimd,who 
 Farre otherwayes, then he hath done,wili doe. 
 
 For vitious cuftome puts them fo in ure. 
 
 As that it doth their hearts and minds obdure ; 
 
 Their better parts from Heav n it doth deface. 
 
 And tyran-like ufurpeth Natures place. 
 
 Then nothing profits carefull education) 
 
 And hope is gone of healthfull reformation. 
 
 O what a pitty’s this / Nature brought forth, 
 
 A towardnefl'e, which gave fome hopes of worth j 
 Their mother fuffered paines, and gave them fucke. 
 
 And dandled them with fongs of happy Iucke, 
 
 Then were they put to Schooles,and learning taught. 
 
 And now whentis their prime,all is for naught. 
 
 The other is a fteepe and narrow path , 
 
 And, befide which you make,no paflage hath. 
 
 Its ftraw ? d with briers ,thomeserow all along, 
 
 Through which, who ere fo walkes, he needs mufl: throng • 
 
 On every fide are monftet s,fuch as dwell 
 InP/«twprifons»and the pits of hell % 
 
 Here fits gray-headed,and heart killing cares, 
 
 Here lyes pale£aced,and joynt-fhaking fearesj 
 Here watchfull Dragons,whofe unfieepy eyes. 
 
 The care* relenting Morphews never fees > 
 
 There vaine and phrenticke labour rowles a ftone 
 I*ikc Sifjphus the craggy rockes upon* 
 
 E 4 At 
 
& s T A S. 
 
 Auguftus, five luventus. 
 
 flic exanguis flat 7) efferatio fuces 
 yix iaquco flr ingens, vitam^ exoja fatifcit . 
 
 Hu adverfa -venit lymphatis pajfp turmis , 
 Ordimbufique inflrufta ferocia ventilat am& » 
 i/ a oculos abdens, torvo (men fa juror e 
 JEtherid de fede lavem turbare minatur » 
 
 Hanc comitatur Er is, facibusque incendia mundo 
 Wrd parat , gaudens orbem mifiers tumultu i 
 Hic vecors odium tacito fub pe ft or e celat 
 Horrendum (celas, & diras excogitat artes | 
 Imprudens tenfos hic fcandit Abulia funes. 
 
 Et nonfueta prius tertiare pericula gaudet ; 
 Ceratis hic vana petit Spes JEtbera pennis, 
 
 Icario ardi ntem vifens, conamine Solem . 
 
 Hczc angujlavia horrendis fcatet undiefa mnftris, 
 IJ vite innumeris e fi interclufa periclis, 
 
 § e d tamen incolumes hac virtus ducit alumnos 
 Extrema ut vitent, ne pes hinc inde vacittct ; 
 gwjcjz wugis per CMeaudri curvamina pergant , 
 Ipfa AriadK£0 regit hos Prudentia fio 
 Mox Aret e, fid* comites Conflantia 0* Ardor 
 p e ft or is, infra flos avisos currentibus addunt ; 
 Spem fovet hic, monftratfc intentas eminus aregp 
 Vir tutis, quarum tenet Elpu florida culmen. 
 Siquando offendit gr e fias, Conflanda eurfum 
 Firmans ,ad metam laudis calcaribus urget. 
 Proclamat longe Spes fic fiunt digna laboris 
 Pr*mia,& excipient mordaces gaudia curas t 
 pax fincera quies mitto temeranda dolore, 
 tat itiahic habitatu magnum, five fine, per avwfi* 
 Sic ubi mtandros cmnfi & mmflxrt viarum. 
 Tandem pertingunt hilares ad culmina montis. 
 Splendida quadratis ubi flat fufl ulta columnis 
 Kegia Vtttuti* \ porta hm CtjflallVM claudis 
 
 
SUMMER. 
 
 KJtuguft, or OWms Youth. 
 
 Atlaft Defpaire dropping and aim eft dead. 
 
 Scarcely can pull the rope over her head 
 On th’othcrfide,tl3e furious Paftions ftand, 
 Marching with armes along, in trained ike band. 
 Anger with fiery eyes and frowncs doth threat 
 To pull high -thundring love downs from his feats $ 
 Next comes Contention with her cur fed brands 
 Seeking to fe t on fire both fea and lands $ 
 
 Then Hatred in her hollow heart doth keepe 
 Revcnge^and for occafion forth doth peepe j 
 There Rafhnefte, on a rope hangs by rhe'hoe. 
 
 And of herboldnefle makes a foolilh (how : 
 
 Vaine Hope with waxen wings doth love to Rye 
 
 Like Icarus, shove the Azure sky- 
 
 Fierce monfters doe this narrow paflage bound^ 
 
 And deadly dangers it encompaffe round. 
 
 Yet Vertuedoth her followers fafely guide, 
 
 Leaft they fhould goeaftray on either fide. 
 
 Prudence through the darke winding* doth them lead 
 Safely with Ariadnas clew of thread. 
 
 ThenVertues uftiers, Courage, Conftancy, 
 poe hearten them on againft adverfity .* 
 
 And (how them Venues Caftlcjhovs on high. 
 
 It (lands refplendem all with Ma jelly. 
 
 If they doe ftumble gainft a felocke or ftone . 
 
 Then Conftancy faies, ftay not hcre,goe on ; 
 
 And Hope proclaipes afarre : Loe here you fhall 
 Have joy for forrcfvV, Hony for your gall. 
 
 Here peace and joyfullreft 5 for ever dwell 
 Which neither crofTe nor time fliall ever quell, 
 
 $o when they jhaye thele hideous monfters pall 
 With joy they reach the mountaines top at laft. 
 Where Values pallace ftandson pillars fquare 
 The courts of goId,che gates of chryftall are. 
 
iESTAS. 
 
 Auguftus, five Iuventns^ 
 
 litria Taft oil flank rutilantia arena* 
 
 Et varijs, quales vix nota dat India >getttmk , 
 Anteferes livor jacet ater flumina tanto 
 Saucius afpefliiidam quam videt flnvidet arci. 
 Hunc fimulacpr effere duces 9 per fplendida templa 
 Virtutis Magni fubeant penetralia Honoris. 
 
 Gloria mox dark fublimat facta trophais , 
 
 Famafe Scrapkicuinfertat nomina turmis. 
 
 Hoc bivium eft i teritur tamen altera femita y fbrdet 
 diter a caca fitu 3 rara & veftigist monftrat . 
 
 Sape Voluptatem mmerofa colonia ftipat, 
 Incomitata folet divinaincedere Virtus ; 
 pone etiam mortale genus» quod mfcitisr, omne 
 Errati & a redo obliquos fert tramite greffus y 
 T elix ad veram quieten^ reemrere metam 
 Toffit» & errori non indulgerc nefando. 
 
 Tranfverfos ducit caca ignorantia multos » 
 
 Dum carpunt Virtutis iter >mediumq i capeflunt» 
 Extremis Hiabuntur > vixlittore folvit 
 NavkyCum cacis impingit naufraga faxis* 
 
 A ft ali) meliora vident , cupiunt %, fed obftat 
 JR.es anguftafleafa ira importuna noverca > * 
 
 Paupertatis onus dira fic viribus impar 
 Deprimit 3 ut longo vix repant intervallo . 
 
 Quam pauci juvenumfle tot modo mi!libus 3 aftu 
 Extremo funfti 3 fcenamcum laude relinquunt ! 
 Parva manus (< qualis Gideonh ) laude juventa 
 Clarefcittp arvam decimant tamen invida fata, 
 Incipiunt teneri quum maturefeere fruftus y 
 Enecethos Bdteavh importuna furentis » 
 
 T lorefcens pereat fic trifti funere pubes. 
 
 JEqua fenum juvenumque fimul mors funera denfit > 
 JRugofle quam fape gem juvenilia bufta 
 Effect is lacrymisfficco fletuque rigirunb 5 
 Sape ilex mufeoja recentem turbine fagum 
 
 SubvetflM 
 
SVMME R : 
 
 jittguft, or t^tins Touth. 
 
 And all this glorious caftle’s founded on 
 The Chryfolite,Saphire,and Berill done. 
 
 Before the {lately gates> blackc Envy lies. 
 
 Tormented with the afpeft of her eyes y 
 On whom» when once thefe Champions doe trample. 
 Through Vertues Courts, they enter Honours Temple 
 Then Glory doth eternall Trophees raife, 
 
 And Fame Seraphik-Iike, their name doth blaxe. 
 There but two wayes ; and yet where one dare venter 
 On this, a thoufand by the other enter : 
 
 Vertuc,oft,all alone doth goe and dwell 5 
 Pleafure doth lead whole colonies to hell* 
 
 Nay,I dare fayjthe mod of men doe ftray 
 At fir ft , and enter in the broader way ; 
 
 JSappy are they who doe returne, before 
 They runne too deepe in curfcd pleafures fcore, 
 
 Darke ignorance doth blindfold manyfo. 
 
 That from the raeane into th’ extremes they goe. 
 Their {hip fcarce from the (bore her cour f e doth take," 
 When (he on deadly rockes doth (hipwracke make-, 
 Others have knowledge and the belt defire, 
 
 3ut croft with ftormes and fortunes fpightfull ire. 
 There ftrength and meanes anfwer not tc their mind, 
 Andfo poore foules they’re for ft to lag behind. 
 Amongft fo many thousands of this, age 
 How few with faire applaufe goe oft' the ftage % 
 
 And yet thofe few like Gideons fleece, we fee 
 Tith’d by untimely fates mortality. % 
 
 Whenfruites are almoft ripe, (lot me can them (hake. 
 When Youth i» almoft man,death may him take. 
 Search you deaths Lime pits, and youle finde therein, 
 As oft the Young Steeres as the Oxes skinne 5 
 Qft time old gray-haird wrinkles fwim in teates, 
 Foryouthes who dyed in their prime of yeeres ; 
 
JE STAS. 
 
 Auguftus, five Iuventu* 
 
 Suhverfam videt » oppedit tamen ip fa, proceUde* 
 Sola homini reflat mortali i propria vitee 
 Conditio » & fort Ulex e fi pra fer ipt a cadus#* 
 Vna patet euntia mfcentu femitet vite» 
 
 Mille via mrtis ad /at a latentia tendunt 
 
 f 
 
 Non tot multi fremam flatilibus Adria 
 TargetyquumpiceU nahbus ce quot a 
 Mifcet,quot tremulam cor tumet abibus» 
 
 Et fervent dubijs pellor a motibus* 
 
 Ira pr<ecipite$ 3 fyf furor impius 
 Mefepe exagitant exanimant metus $ 
 
 T oifunt fpefque levet excruciat dolor , 
 
 T ranquiHum Domine, at da mihi jpiritum $ 
 
 Tdk & cunffia meum qu<e mala lancinant 
 Vetitus 3 da placida mente qulefaere* ' 
 
 JEvi priwitias fanttifica Deus, 
 
 Vtfk artus ^animam fic mihi robora § 
 
 Grejfus per% tuam dirige femitam 
 *Ad C ce ii Empyrei qua penetralia 
 Ducit» Coelicolam & belliferas domos» 
 
 Serva me incolumem a Tartareo grege. 
 
 Sic, metam potero 'vi/ere ad ultimam . 
 
 T une Vxana canam pennigeris choris , 
 Morscmleiisubi jam ftimulustuus- 
 Inter Ghrifiicolos vilior ovans greges , 
 
 Dicam tunc tumulo gloria ubi eft tua* 
 
 Mallem per latebras tendere Dxdali, 
 
 Et vita omnigenis eafibus obuci $ 
 
 ££& tw Coeli canam dulcibus octji • 
 
 E vi; pr*peti bus tranfvolat ocyor % 
 
 V \t£ luliificx dira mole fi ia : 
 
 Durant afirigeri gaudia fed poli» 
 
 Nmen dum adnumer at fecula faculis* 
 
SVMMER. 
 
 Anguft^ or Mans Youth, 
 
 The ancient Pollard Oakc ofttimes doth fee. 
 
 The overthrowing cf a Young Beech tree. 
 
 This onely law is propper unto man, 
 
 To dye, or foone,or late, doe what be can. 
 
 One way he comes to life, if Fates difpofe 
 Will once of him, a thoufand wayes he goes. 
 
 n 
 
 T he ftormy feas dee not with waves fo fret? 
 
 When roaring furges,glowming clouds doe threat. 
 
 As with contrary tides my breaft doth (well, 
 
 And doubtful! thoughts my plunged foule doth quell i 
 Whilft furious anger doth me headlong lead. 
 
 And (ha king feares doe ftrike me almoft dead * 
 
 While hope doth raife and forrow downe me caft 5 
 Lord after ftorme 3 fhew forth thy caime atlaft . 
 
 Chafe anger, feare,vaine hope and griefe away. 
 
 That joy and re# of foule, enjoy I may. 
 
 The fir ft fruites of my young agefan&ifie, 
 
 „ With ftrength of body,ftrength thy grace in me, 
 
 Oired me Lord along thy narrow path, 
 
 Which may lead'me to Heaven,by laving faith. 
 
 Strengthen me with perfcverance to the end. 
 
 From Satan, and Hels monfters me defend ; 
 when I fhall come to Heavtns reft, I’Ic ling, 
 
 0 cruell death, vehere is thy deadly fling : 
 
 And when I fhall triumph in Heaven with thee, 
 
 1 le fay,0 Grave , where is thy vi fiery. 
 
 Before I want this reft,I had rather goe 
 Through thoufand Lab’rinths of this mortal! Woe. 
 
 T hefe woi Idly crofles,laft but for a day. 
 
 And like the Eaft wind, quickly flye away : 
 
 -But fure I am when earthly forrow ’s paft, 
 
 Heav ns thought-furpaffing joy ftiall ever M, 
 
 September 
 
AVTVMNVS* 
 
 September, fijye /Etas virilis 
 
 S O l miles tucefque pad quum examine UhraU 
 Et media Pbpbbus difpefcit tramite mundum , 
 Hatwatmc grata, futtm dant gemina femen^ 
 !pfa% qumbabmre, atijs dantfaztibua or tat y 
 Exwie unmum rimas, rerum <& latebras , 
 
 Omnia Natura Species 9 &' femina fer vans § 
 
 Sic verier natura jubit foboicfcere fexti , 
 
 Intents qua cun % vigenhCrelc^, marig. 
 
 NulU qmdem tanto tut gsfeit corpore motets 
 
 Emmm cujus non d.it compendia femen 5 
 Claudit** & motes arfto tam limite nulla, 
 gate non muttifiici fcecundet femina prole, 
 
 Cuwfma Humanam difiingumt tempora vitam 
 inque dm retro , & venturas pofiea luces : 
 
 Tunc Jibi confriem *vit<s, lettique jugilis 
 To fit HmoMtjpcciem fervet, fobokmque propagi 
 gutque H amini dixit ‘ t ve foil 5 ad gaudta viu 9 
 Buie dedtt tixoiem Deus,& fobolefcere juft. 
 
 Non pictam hmnis avenhcaprmve falacem s 
 T&tracmve canem 9 vel mimam voce vo'ucrems 
 Sed lateris ccftam confortem junxit 0 ejjet 
 Ipfftbifolojexiis dif cr mine, con jux, 
 
 HaBenushtttnano generi infe/Hffimus hoflk 9 
 Ijiffimul&ns Satanas tacuit, mendacia fiaum 2 
 Contigit at pi f quam fequiorem cernere fexum» 
 
 C&nftlij instruxit cuneos , fiaudumque phalangas i 
 Nmmacbus ut quondam dux, qui verfabai ^tbtnass 
 E illotum mperij moderantem induxit habenas : 
 
 Optabat qu< namque puer 9 fententia matris 
 Una fuit, pueri mox rependere rogatis 9 
 %t mandare «mo, regni qui fceptra gerebat. 
 
 Sic puero imperium Sontis tinea defert : 
 
AV TFMNE. 
 
 September , or Mans age . 
 
 T T T Hen in e< l ua ^ ^ es weiohs night and days 
 
 . \ f \f And Phoebus through the midline makes liiswa 
 1 » » Then every plant thankefiill to nature feedeth» 
 
 As it was bred, fo other plants it breedeth. 
 
 For view the Vniverfe and you (hall finde. 
 
 That every thing feekes to preferve its kind; 
 
 With fexe and feede nature bids multiply 
 Man, beaft, the foule and fi(h, the hear be and tree* 
 
 None of their volumes ere fo great can be, 
 
 Which compendiz’d in feed, we doe not lee. 
 
 And none fo meane and fmall but doe encreafe 
 And multiply the more, becaufe they’re leffe. 
 
 Mans age,mans life when it doth equall (hare, 
 
 In by pad nights, and dayes which combing are. 
 
 Then man in his September feekes a mate. 
 
 His fpeece for to conferve and propagate. 
 
 WhenGod into mans noftrils breached life. 
 
 He fitted thought for himto have a wife. 
 
 And he who fayd, woe to him who’s alone. 
 
 Gave man a confort and companion * 
 
 He gave him nota Peacock nor a Goate, 
 
 Nor &ogge, nor Parrct with her mimicke chroate, 
 
 But of himfelfe his fellow he did make. 
 
 And from his fide his confort he did take. 
 
 But al| this while Sathan mans mortali foe, 
 
 Lurkipg his craft and malice did not (how. 
 
 So when he faw the weaker fexe of man. 
 
 To ufe his ftratagems then he began. 
 
 Sometimes Themidocleswas wont to fay. 
 
 That Viopbantus Athens date did fway* 
 
 The Childes defire was all his mothers will» 
 
 N©r would the reft till he did that fulfill ; r 
 
 F A ad 
 
 OH 
 
AVTMNVS: 
 
 September, five iEtas virilis 
 
 Haud aliter Satinas, quodvir axorim effet 
 Noverat, & facilem vidit parere maritum , 
 Agnovit^ ream, divino ex f cedere , prolem , 
 
 Patraret quacunque parens & /anguinis author . 
 
 S ic ubi mendaci pater , imp o ft or % fopbifta 
 Vxorem mei Labyrintho incLufit elenchi. 
 
 Blanditiis fuit itta nocens Sirenis inflat 
 
 allexit miferum, ad fraudem ,exitmmque, maritum* 
 
 23 ignafuit violata fides hoc nomine muldlce. 
 
 Credere quum .Aut ori renuit , rerrmque parenti , 
 Conjugium fis triftefuit , quod gaudia primum 
 Spondebat, juffique vices mutare parentes « 
 
 O rerum dubios capus ! quo vertere (efe 
 Pofsit homo? tenet aure Lupum , bivioque vaciffat . 
 Caelebs fi vivet , meer e bit fo'ws & O’bus 
 Occidet , ($* veneris nun dulcia preemia norit» 
 
 Audiet ingratus Natures, babuijfe parentes. 
 
 Nec tamen eftepar*m\ut quondam fama Catonem 
 Ad F Loram venifje refert , ut fugerit inde ; 
 
 Sic ccelebs gaudet natura intrare theatrum. 
 
 Exeat ut cosicbsi tzdas dabit invida parca 
 Ferales , non dat i xdas Cytherea jugales, 
 
 Vivit , fed [olus vivit, quo? ftilicet orbem 
 Vt videat tanttim, vifumque ut ephemera linquat» 
 
 Se capule torn m tradit, poft fata fupe^ftes 
 Nulla parte fui eft, & vulnere concidit uno ; 
 
 Omnia dignus peend, quia femine gentem 
 jpfe fu >m jpoliat,crefcentique invidet orbi i 
 Huic hmana foret quid fi gens amula. Terras 
 Qui colerent homines, colerent qu<e numina t ales i 
 Tunc merito Xerxes confcendcm culmina month 
 deploret mortale genus, fpeiiefque caducas j 
 Gaudia fi quando contingunt, gaudia folm 
 Nefcit, & eft vita pars dimidiata fecunda» 
 
AfTfUltiBl 
 September^ or M ans ago* 
 
 And Athens was obedient to his call. 
 
 So by Sorites Diophan; wars all 5 
 
 And wherein Adam did trefpafl'e he knew i 
 
 His off-fpring thereof (hould be guilty too / 
 
 St> when the dsvill that lying Sophifter. 
 
 With cunning captions had feduced her, 
 
 She with her Complements to cogge began* 
 
 In place of joy becomroing woe to man 5 
 And juftly fo for trotting her relation, 
 better then God, and workes of the Creation 9 
 Thus marriage which before a bleffing was 
 Became a turfe,becaufe of mans trefpafie. 
 
 O dolefull,doubtfuil cafe / what (hall man doe 2 
 He knowes net here what hand to turne him to* 
 If l e live all aloae,hechildleffegoes 
 Tograve, chsft Venta joyes he never knowes I 
 Vnthankefull to dame Nature be doth live, 
 
 Wh o life receiv’d, but life to none will give 5 
 Suchlike as Cafe came to Flora’s play, 
 
 And having entred,ftraigbt did runne away 5 
 So Natures ftage, he entring rather can 
 Depart, before head the married man 5 
 before he willglad marriage torches have. 
 
 With funerali Lights he’s carried to his grave $ 
 He lives, but to what end ? that he may fee. 
 
 The wor!d,and like Ephemeron quickdy die; 
 All of him dies ac once, his overthrow 
 Is total Ijdeath doth kill him at one blow 5 
 The curfe of Onen he muft undergoe, 
 
 Caufe being bid raife feed he did not fo $ 
 
 What if all were like him, where (hould there be 
 Saints for the Heaven, tor earth pofterity 5 
 
 Xerxes then might juftly (hed his teares* 
 And f«y,that all (hould dye within few yeares a 
 
AVTVMNVS. 
 
 September, five Jitas virilis. 
 
 Mi emtatta gravis nimiam, nee grande lev art 
 Solus pojfit ontu/ebufque efi triftibus impar * 
 7>hitias dgros ignotas pojfidet bares 
 B ignior, ipfius fruitxr qui mefifie labor»: 
 
 Quod fi forte fuam reparet fine femine gentem 
 Solis avis, renovant fobolem cui incendia thuris , 
 Thynice [que hominum quos ardens gloria tollit 
 Mortalem fupra fortem, pvft funera poffmt 
 Et cineres [immortali dare nomina fama i 
 Psro monjlro exemplum e ft, inter tot millia , quorum 
 Vita, & fama fimul Leth<£U mergitur undis . 
 
 Quid faciet, ducet ne ? mali % obnoxia vita hac 
 Innumeris, multos dira ad fisfyendia cogit , 
 
 Socratica haud quemvis tranquilla moieftia mentis 
 Temperat, ut pofit Xavtippes ferre querelas . 
 
 Uiia viae ft, qua nos calefies ducit ad arces. 
 
 Ocior eft cur fus, quum farcina nuffa fatigat^ 
 
 Militat omnis homo virtutis caftrafequutws , 
 
 Statfa novercam is contra fera {picula fortis, 
 Qufogrdvm premit hunc onus, e ft midonem armis 
 Hoc magis, 6r vires bar entia pondera frangunt | 
 fuos Matara jubet fentifeere manes , 
 
 Vxoris ducit curas & jurgia conjux, 
 
 Curarum quamvis f at agat miferipfe fuarum i 
 ■Alter iu manes, proprijs fert manibus impar \ 
 
 ‘Uxorem fi forte virumfa examine libres 
 dEqiw, femineus dependet amaror,amor% t 
 Si formo fa juvat, foma eft mimica puderi 
 Non tute Jpeftata Gygi,noQurna% regis 
 Vr $ da, pudicitiam mul&avit vulnere lafatit* 
 
 Si dotata, vtrum maBat Jafttt^ fitperbil 
 Turgia dita ciens, aurata & cornua tollit $ ; 
 
 Rxipuit eloquium morofa Terentia TuUi » 
 
 F tdviafy dnteni potuit eempefieere Quadam i 
 
' ' A VtV M N E. 
 
 Sept ember , or Mm Age . 
 
 In joy he hath no true companion, 
 
 Andknowes not hovvfor to rejoyce alone» 
 
 Woes him in forrow, he muft needes defpaire, 
 
 Who hath no fellow, who may with him fhare s 
 His riches who (hall have, he doth not know, 
 
 A ftranger reapes them,who did never low, ' 
 
 What if tlf^jfyrian bird lives without mate, 
 
 And yet her rareft kinde doth propagate ? 
 
 What if fome PhenixsUke can Virgins live ? 
 
 To thofe we honour due and reverence give; 
 
 For when they’re burn*d in glory’s fpycie Same, 
 
 They leave eternall cff- r pr.ing of their fame. 
 
 But we of mankind talke, where one fo dyes*, 
 Athoufand batchlersin oblivion lyes. 
 
 What (hall he marry ? that’s a life of care. 
 
 Of forrow, poverty, ifnot defpaire. 
 
 For every one is not a Socrates 
 Who can a bold and mad Xanttype pleafe. 
 
 Our life’s a journey to our heav'nly aboa.j. 
 
 He walkes with cafe, who walkes without a load 5 
 This life’s a warrefare, wherein we muft fight * 
 Againft Step-mother Fortunes ire; and fpight 
 The greater burthens doe a man oppreffe, 3 9 
 He needes nauft findre the more, and fight theleffc. 
 What man hath not his erode, which he muft carrV 
 He’s fubjeft to anothers if he marry- h 
 
 Weigh man and wife, and fas Tirepoi fiyd 
 Of her defire) you’le finde her croffe downe weigh’d, 
 Both beauty like thee? that a foe doth prove 
 O fames to chaftity and mariage love. 
 
 Not fit for Gyges fight, once made a prey 
 To luft, for greefe, it made it felfe away. 
 
 Great portions pleafe thee; thefe are caufe of pride, 
 Dudame and bf aiding j arres on either fide. 
 
AVTVMNVS. 
 
 September five y£tas virilis» 
 
 Sapm uxor y qux debebat nubere» ducit» 
 
 Imperitare viro, nonnmquam toller e gaudet 
 Aut tunica tabo medicata, aut fraude aconiti , 
 
 Maffagetdm Ac more alia communia quzrunt 
 Gaudia, queis lecli reverentia nuttet jugaiis» 
 
 Improba fi ce fit conjux,eft heftica febrit. 
 
 Mors nifi»nuUa tibi tollant medicamina damnum* 
 
 Penelope tibi cafta platet , mirandaque conjux 
 
 Admeti , tuaque o Hieronignara virorum i 
 
 Contigithaud cuivis vento petiijje Corinthum ? ynon nFvvis hemm 
 
 Nec cunilis ce/fere, petunt quzgnaviter omm s; t-mfi p<j it- a dirt 
 
 Sorte uxor ducenda tibi eft, fors candida rara QrtrtlfitTrt- 
 
 T#if, nigrarum vomit undam mobilis urna 5 
 
 Finge probam cecidijfe tibi, qu<e pulchra, pudica , 
 
 Et dotata, tamen cOmis, qu<e fedula , prudens , 
 
 Sobria prole beet , non ulla & lite fatiget 
 JBmula Corneli ee & claris gravitate Sabinis £ 
 
 Hanc ubi mors inopina rapit, vel cafus iniquus 
 jDefiruit, aut fato nati moriuntur acerboy 
 
 gravis ( ah)penfat tuqprisiina gaudia meer or ( 
 
 Tunc felix ejjes, ntfi felix ante fuiffes, 
 fualu ab atria, viduus gemit arbore turtur , 
 
 Et querulo /olas funefiat murmure fylvas, 
 
 V emolat omm nemus, foetam non invenit ufquam, 
 
 Ufque tamen queerit» folics dum vivere nef :it j 
 Sic tu quem focii fidi fs ima junxit amoris 
 Copula, tam dulcem nefis dedi fur e amorem. 
 
 Parte carens meliore tui confumere tabo 
 Jngram Soliyrapidoque injurius Orco, 
 
 Dimidius jam vivis homo, Te infomnia noRk 
 Forte beant, quoties fomno obverfatur imago 
 Conjugis» & quondam dulces mentitur amores. 
 
 Moerorem fed pul fa quies luftumque recent ai, 
 
 Plmflifas & gemtunottefqiie diefque fatiga^} 
 
^ivxrun e. 
 
 Sep ember 5 or lMsws age* 
 
 Ttmtia queld TuUyes fwcete eloquence. 
 
 To Antony oft Fulvia gave offence $ 
 
 In marriage who are vail’d for modelly» 
 
 Once marryed take to the jn Supremacy i 
 I will not talke of great Alcides wife 
 And Claudius (hrew, judges of death and life » 
 
 Some thinking joyes 3 the more they common are 
 The greater, will have no peculiare ; 
 
 A bad wife, a confumption you may call» 
 
 For none but death can free thee from her thrall, 
 Y'ou’le pr'aife Penelope and Alcejiu care , 
 
 And fhe,who thought all » like her hub and were s 
 But every one cannot to Corinth fade. 
 
 All wilh the beft,but all cannot prevaile *, 
 
 Wife’s choos’d by Lotfry s be you ne’refowife. 
 You may have forty blanks, and not oneprife. 
 Suppofe you have a good one,chafte and faire 5 
 Both rich and modeft, prudent, full of care. 
 Teeming with children,never railing ftrifc. 
 
 Like to Come It a or a Sabin wife 5 
 If death (hall take her, or fatality 
 Vndoe her,if thy children deare (ball dye* 
 
 Then for thy former joyes, what griefe is feene. 
 Happy wert thou, if happy th’hadft not beene. 
 
 Like as the widdewer turtle all alone, 
 
 Makes fad the fhaddowy groves with dolefiill rnone 
 Searching each wood j no wood his mate doth give 
 Yet fearch he will j alone he cannot live : 
 
 So is’t with thee, whom love ty’d with h ; s knot. 
 By thee, that love can never be forgot 5 
 Thou'ft loft thy better part ,thou pin’ll away, 
 
 Halfe man, defrauding grave, and wronging day j 
 Perhaps thy dreames in fleepe doe make thee bkft? 
 IWhile as thou fancies her in midnight reft* 
 
AVTVMNVS/ 
 September, five ^Etas virilis. 
 
 Orpheu* Eurydice quondam ceu flevit adempta» 
 
 Obmutuit^ lyrafraftj, fidihofy rtvulfis, 
 
 2)enub quum trifles con] ux raperetur ad umbras, 
 
 0 hominis duram fortem,(g* crudelia fata. 
 
 Seu ducasyvivas ceu coelebs, vita dolori 
 Subjacet yinfa uflk femper temeranda querelis ! 
 
 Huecine mortalis pertingunt tempora vita, 
 
 Gaudianecpoflunt placida [enti fcer e forth ? 
 
 Siprmi Autumni tantas dedit hora procellas , 
 
 Quas dabit acris hyem$,(&* iniqui fideris annus i 
 
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 fu magne rerum mdimjmperas 
 Qifl, lege fan&ifPatr ibus obfequi % 
 
 Honore cbarot Parentes 
 Afficere >ut patria fluamur, 
 
 idem Parentes linquere nos finis, 
 
 Caflos amores conjugis & {equi, 
 
 Vt nos propago conjugalis 
 Exhilarans decoret Parentes* 
 
 Sed, chrifletfui non omnia defer it 
 Nec gaudet orbi qai valedicere 
 Vt te fluatur ,non Iefa 
 
 Dignus erit 'DominofOecq^ 
 
 Sunt queii pe raltis gaudia mpt tjs $ 
 
 Et vina dulcis Utilia fluunt, 
 
 Quos non dolores faeculenti, 
 tlon aquern cruciant amaror . 
 
 MMft acefcunt arida dolia, 
 
 I mo manet fi pejfimum & ultim um s 
 Mutato Lymphatum dolores 
 Mtkmiatk^fapore, ^ 
 
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AvrrWx 
 
 September , or c Age « 
 
 And (he belyes thy joy, but once awake. 
 
 Then more, and more thou grieveft for her take* 
 
 Thou wear’ftxmt nights anddayes in griefe and moanc# 
 LikeOrpheus, when Eurydice was gone. 
 
 He broke his firings, and H3rpeaway he caft. 
 
 When (he the fecond time to hell had paft, 
 
 O dolefull cafe of man ! O cruell fate l 
 Marry, or not, ft ill wretched is hi-s ftate. 
 
 Good God S hath wretched man come this farre on. 
 And yet can finde no joy to build upon , 
 
 In Autumefuch a tempeft if he fee, 
 
 What thinke you will his ftor my Winter be ? 
 
 Almighty God, who gaveft ftrait command, 
 
 To honour parents and our facred Siresj 
 That fo we may enjoy the promis’d land, 
 
 And brookethy bleffings and our hjearts defiresj 
 Thou like wife fayeft, men doe parents leave 
 Betaking them to marriage chaftity. 
 
 That they may to their lawful! conforta cleave. 
 
 And have fome comfort of pofterity • 
 
 But he that will not for thy fake leave all, 
 parents, wife, children, and what goods he hath, 
 Vnworthy of thee (O Lordj thou doft him call. 
 
 Who ftiould be faved by thy blcffed death 
 Some after wedding, drinke the cheerefuli wine 
 Of gladneffe, while their cup doth overflow. 
 
 While without dregges of forrow it doth Chine*, 
 
 What want and trouble meanes they doe not, know* 
 
 If I fhali drinke the water of afflidion, 
 
 Becaufc the marriage wine is gone and paft ?) 
 
 Turne’t into nedar of thy benedidion- 
 Softjall the wine be beft which comes at I aft. 
 
AVTVMNV$: ' 
 
 September, five iEtas virilis; 
 
 T)amihiconfians tebas in omnibus 
 EeHusJecundh ne nimii efferat» 
 dtherfane ft angant, pramantquc 
 Inmbiles male res timentem „ 
 
 Quacunque fors fit coning it mthi , 
 
 Solatium ment&m hoc reficit mem 
 Hmtpoffe Chrifto conjugari * 
 
 Stelliferi ^Domino theatri I. 
 
 I [acidam qui progenuit tribu s 
 lude Vate* pr* Labanti* pio 
 admote, duram lervitutem 
 Sufimuit vigilis laboris, 
 
 -N»a ego dum pertolerem metus 
 Cajus iniqui, <£* eun&a pericula 
 dmorechrifliy qui maritus 
 Hanc animam fac# t beataml 
 
 Qjfi me redemit faucibus inferi , 
 
 Crttore fervavit pofyporpbyro. 
 
 Tandem que coeli cum triumpho 
 Lmpyteos feret ad penates. 
 
 Excubias mens nunc age fedula , 
 
 T>um fpon/us adventat tuus» infirm 
 Lucernam oliva , mox lefus 
 Navoat atherias eboreas * 
 
 Quando angelorum millia, millia, 
 
 Et cel fi Olympi pennigeri greges 
 Latum Paattem fujciubunt» 
 
 Et tqnltru refonqbit orbl/ c 
 
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kJVTVMNE. 
 
 September y or dgc* 
 
 In all eftates,Lord grant me conftancy , 
 
 Leaft l with good (ucceffe be overjoy d. 
 
 Or yet aft downe with fcreat adverfity^ 
 
 Let me net be with croifes much annoy d. 
 
 What e’rc the ft ate of this my man iige is, 
 
 I (hall one day a better wedding fee; 
 
 With this one comfort, Lord, my Soule I biilic. 
 
 With thee Heav’ns Lord, my Soule (hall marryed be. 
 Jacob, great Iuda's fire wrought eare and late. 
 
 He thought the time quickly away did flide. 
 
 Though worne in night with cold, in day with heat. 
 All feemed nothing.aufe he loy d his bride. 
 
 Shall not my Soule,for Chrift the bridegrooms glory, 
 
 Suffer what ever mortali erode fhall&e. 
 
 For all thefe erodes are but tranfitory. 
 
 His joyes {halt laft to all eternity. 
 
 He did poore foule/o much of thee efteeme, 
 Delivering thee from Hcls infernali pit. 
 
 That with his bipod, he did thy life redeems. 
 
 That thou may'ft with him in his glory lit. 
 
 Watch therefore, Soule,lcc not thy Lightsgoe out. 
 Let conflant hope,and faith, ftill perfevere, 
 
 So when thy bleffed Bridegroomes joy.ull thout. 
 
 Shall rife .thou mayeft enter without feate. 
 
 Then millions of winged Angels (hall, 
 
 Vnto Heav’ns glorvous firyscourts thee bring. 
 
 And there amongft thefe troopcs Ccelettiaii, 
 
 The Scraphines thy marriage fong (hall ling. 
 
 0 Bober, 
 
T A 'ke heed when Barnes ays fnd^and wine doth flow 
 Leaf Scorpius with hi$ fimgall overthrow* 
 
 D og-dayes are pafi y when men were glad to we Are 
 *Tome c loathes, if j on be wife , OBober feare* 
 Mxtre&mes are dangerous y doe not you make bold 
 F rom fire 3 to rnnne out nakgd in the cold* 
 ttnd§ of plenty , let us thinks on want* 
 
 If we be heakhfnll left not therefore vant 9 
 
AVTVMNVS. 
 O&obcr, five /Etas media 
 
 C Vtn jubar murvk Vhabaum ampleftiturulnh 
 Scorpitifp & pofsim flavefcit frugibus annus* 
 apparent primum tune tempora grata colonu, 
 Me/sh & expeffata dies,quam ruftica voto 
 Turbo, t hit divas Ceicrem pctieu Palemque. 
 
 Falce caduni fruges, /poliantur fatibus horti, 
 
 Om/ze labore pecus fer vent, homnefque,bovefqu<s 
 SoUidtu tend fnmmt fudoribus agri, 
 tum venit blandis Jperata parentibus at as 
 Et natos videre viiosi tune fervida mejjis 
 Humant vitee e fi : neque enim cendsnfius agtxen 
 Formicarum urget rapidos per rura labores, 
 quinos pupula frumenta parantur, 
 tsr totijubito minuuntur acervi, 
 
 Smula quam variis ftudiis ruit unda virorum 
 Et mundi populantur opes, Qute di/dia tellus 
 S^ita regio /ab f ole jacens, quceFethyos unda 
 4>ii<e loca Natura excis abflrufa tenebris , 
 
 Cognilanee Soli , humani non plena labetis ? 
 
 Hoc queritur quondam dives Gangetica tellus, 
 
 Et fluvius, pofuit Phrygi# quo vota tyrannus 
 -f ur ea, Tirteffumque fluit quam propter Iberus , 
 
 Et T agtts huic popular d, arenis inclyta quondam 
 F lumina , nunc vili dec urrunt languida mufeo , 
 
 Quafque dab-nt, coguntur opes nunc queerer e ab otu 
 N on vifo qua Sole calent, rapuere Corinthi 
 JEra viri, folam deftruxit <! Mummius urbem , 
 
 Heliades ficc<e latrymis augere fluenta 
 Eridani nequeunt, Erythraoin lit Ure gemmas 
 lam fruftra fer utatur drabs * conchy 'ia Sido» 
 
 Miratur non ire freto, jam deficit oftrum 
 Spartanum , luna fruftra celebrantur 
 
APTpMtlEl Z 
 
 0 Bober, or middle age, 
 
 W Hcnt Scorpius in his bending deyes doth gripe 
 Phabus, end gray-haird Cerex fmites arc ripe. 
 Then wiflnt * for times to husbandmen apptare. 
 When rurali Gods hath bleft the fruitefull yeare- 
 Then Corne is reapt,and joyfully they mow. 
 
 And gather, what in hopes they firft did fow $ 
 
 Then evry man and beaft,with fweat doe toyle. 
 
 To take the Harvcft from the fertile foyle. 
 
 When Parents doe enjoy their with, and fee 
 Their children come to full maturity. 
 
 Then is the Harveft of the life of man. 
 
 Then ev*ry one endeav’reth what he can. 
 
 Like as the Pifemireswith their numerous bands. 
 
 Six -footed creatures cover fields and lands. 
 
 When they doe carry home their Winter ftore, 
 
 Great ftackes of Corne, they leflen more and more : 
 
 So men in companies themfelves divide , 
 
 And rob the world of riches and her pride. 
 
 What Country doth beneath th’Hcraon lye. 
 
 What fea 3 what place,not feene by fbcebus cyc 9 
 What depth, what darkeneffe neere unto the Center, 
 
 Is there,to which mans labour doth not venter / 
 
 Thus India fometime rich, doth now complaine. 
 
 And PadoljWhich with Gold, Midas did ftaine ; 
 Tagus,and Iber,once did richly flow. 
 
 But now their Channels meffe doth overgrow* 
 
 Now feeke they,what they gave, from forraigne coaftes, 
 In vaine now Corinth of her Copper boafls : 
 
 The daughters of the Sunne doe not decorc 
 With Amber tearcs Eridanus his (hore : 
 
 In vaine th* Arabian picks the gliftring fands 
 Gemmes a Sidon admires her empty ftrands* 
 
AVTVMNVS; 
 Q<ftobsr, five dEtas medial 
 
 He flit ubiponat nidos Panchaius ales, 
 
 Maflu’a odcrif ru quum defint thura Sabxu > 
 Ernnada, Sparta,Paros Mygdonia nulla columnas 
 Marmoreas jattant ; citreas Maurufta mcnf0 
 Dedidicit flavis auri (inundare lamnis * 
 
 AVktflque prius Eabyhnformfa fuperbis. 
 
 Hui la Semi amio decoras jam te ft a tapete, 
 
 Dxdala nam defecit acus. Tu Perfia nuUm 
 Mox jdtabis opes 5 hac ferrea ft licet ut as. 
 
 Ignorant chalybes ferrum, nec tela Salonis 
 Spumiferi flavis extintta gelantur in undis : 
 
 Gargara defer uit me (Jis, vix fertilis Enna 
 Trinacrias nutrit Cereali munere Terras , 
 NonDodon jam glande pluit , non flumina Hili 
 Lente flatent, gravidifque tumet Methymna racemis 
 Rarior efi vitk Gaurofliiiq, Falerno : 
 cwficanon taxos metuit, nec flavws Hymetti 
 Mella favus [udat 5 calvefcit pinifer Ida : 
 
 No?? Fhcebo Parnajf i tuo das laurea ferta : 
 
 Non taxum Cynus , non palmam mittit idutm s 
 Ree flagrant biferi rubiemdarofarm Ve fit. 
 
 Et crocus a Cilicum nunc rarior advenit hortis, 
 Defauit ripas Eurota paHadis arbor ; 
 
 Pontus Cafiored, Colchis jamnulla veneno 
 CJarcfcitidudumfa gemit quid viderit Argo . 
 Daedala gens hominum /edes mutare coegit 
 *Monfira, feras >homi?ies,pifces tvariafque volucres » 
 Bellat otis equi efi Epiro glorta nulla , 
 
 Euganeas pecudes ,Calabrafque Britannia vincit 
 Infula dans niveis jpummtia vellera floccis j 
 Terra lubee quondam quos pavit.vwcla leones 
 Nofira tenent f£s annof & lupos, catulo fque IMoloJfoS» 
 Spartanofy canes, & fievos dentibus apros 
 
 *Marfe twt } & quosfiondm dm M*nalusurfis % 
 
UVTVMtti: 
 
 O elder, or middle agf. 
 
 Sparta no (carlo: i Akycle no wooll 
 Produceth, other coafts are thereof full; 
 
 The Phoenix knowes not where her neft to build» 
 
 Saha cannot favory fpices yeeld, 
 
 Paros exhaufted is of Marble done, 
 
 Maurifim precious tables are all gone» 
 
 And thou faire Babylon, fame time agoe 
 What were thy hangings, now thou doft not knowj 
 Per Jia take heede, the Chalybes can give 
 No iron, though in this iron age they live* 
 
 Salon thy darts are gone» which thou was wont, 
 
 Amidft thy ftreame s to temper hard as flint* 
 
 Ceres from fertile Gargara hath fled, 
 
 AndSjci/yby Enna fcarceisfed J 
 Vodon no A comes, Egypt Lentilcs fend. 
 
 Nor doe we now OAethymnas grapes commend^ 
 
 In Gaurus and Falernas wines are rare. 
 
 With Hymet any place dare rood compare, 
 
 Corfiote no honey yeeldsj Ida hath loft 
 His pines j of groaves Parnaff us cannot boaft» 
 idumt fends no palmes, nor Cyrnus yewes. 
 
 Nor Pefium rotes of fo many hewes; 
 
 Cilicias gardens Celdome fafl?ron*(eesi 
 Eurotas banck’s doe beare no olive trees. 
 
 Now Pontus bexer, Colchis poyfon Iacke, 
 
 This long agoe doth mourne for Argos fake, 
 
 Induftrious mankind patient of great toyle. 
 
 Make monfters, men,beafts,fi(h, fowles change their foyle. 
 The glory of horfes, Epire hath forfaken, 
 
 And Brit aine huh Ca'abnus glory taken, 
 
 Whofcfheepe doe goe beyond Euganean flockes. 
 
 With fnowlike fleeces and their curled lockes. 
 
 The Lyons which kings lubas land hath bred, 
 
 W efee them in our chaines and fetters led * 
 

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 AVTVMNVS. 
 O&ober, five media Aim. 
 
 Mk afii fua monftra videnti captiva, volucrum 
 Agmina pictarum nofir as ducuntur ad oras • 
 
 O genus humanum natum indulgere labori 
 Audax natwt vetitos tranfcendcre fines ! 
 
 Sava tridentiferi calcas tu dorfa tyranni 
 EluUibrn in ful tans tumidis , Ccelique fiagorei 
 Vertice fuflentam mediis involveris undis, 
 
 F’imque offers ventis, f$* mortis tela fatigoi. 
 Naufragus (ab) quoties fedifiiin cantibus horrens, 
 Tuncfcopuli bojpitio felix , cum Vontus dr &tbet 
 Nubibus hic favos, undis daret iUe tumultus. 
 
 Aut tabute in f dens fimtafii in gurgite vafio 
 Ludibrium Calique , falique, tuofque videres 
 Circum te nantes poji fatum trifie fodales , 
 
 Incertus num dira fames, dn fieva precellce 
 Fk daret infandi genus (ah) mi fer abde leti*- 
 Supplicibus votis tunc C celt numen adorans ' 
 Addebas Lachry mas undis , fuffiria ventisi 
 Optati tamen ut tetigifii Litteris oram, 
 
 Neptuno madidas renuis fajpeodere vefles, 
 Atque'vovam meditare ratem fub pondere pi^U 
 Pteffus adhuc tabui, r, dum vis mifereffe liknter 
 indocilis tutam cum paupertate quietem 
 Ferre domi, ignotis malis confmdier undis» 
 
 Vars quarum N ili fontes,] pars ultimThules 
 Frigora, dT ad gelidam propius quod pertinet axem» 
 Fna dies totum , nex una ubi dividit annum, 
 invenere novas Terras, nec fuffeit unus 
 Orbis, eo humani generis vejdnia crevit, 
 
 'Pars terram fodiunt c<ecis gens aemula Talpis, 
 Exofique diem gaudent habitare tenebris 
 Cimmeriae rwftis, Summani Tartara pulfant 
 Divitiafque a dite petunti pars amula mutk 
 Gentibus dEquoreas [emantur fiepe latebras 
 
AV T VM N El 
 
 Off fiber, or middle age. 
 
 The 2 Damian wolves, spartan y Molojfm dogges/ 
 
 The Mar fian Bor qs Orcadian bcares,and hogged 
 The African may here his monfteis find , 
 
 H*s painted birds,and foufes of ftrangeft kind. 
 
 O mankind borne to beare care and diftrdTe, 
 
 Who dareft Natures furtheft bounds trangreffe, 
 
 Thou plow’ll the feas,not fearing dolefull wracke a 
 And tram pi eft on the Tyran Neptanes backe. 
 
 Thou doll the ruines of the Heav’n upheld. 
 
 Thou doft thy felfc in foamy waves enfold. 
 
 Thou dar’ft the wind, and weary eft threatning fate, 
 When Heav’n and ftormy feas,*are at debate j 
 Oft times thy lodging is a roaring rocke. 
 
 Or planke, t© ftormes thou’rt then a mocking ftocke . 
 Thou feeft thy fellowes tumble, nor doft know. 
 
 What firftfliall give thee deaths laft curled blow. 
 
 Then call’ll thou Heaven for hel pe,and none canft find, 1 
 Encreafing Teas with teares,with fighes the wind i 
 But when thou corn’ll unto the wilht-for Chore, 
 
 Thou wilt not vow,that thou (halt faile no more. 
 
 But while thou ftiipbrOkejbca’ft for mifery. 
 
 Thou think’ft another voyage hovv to try. 
 
 Thou know’ll not how at home to live in reft, 
 
 Meanely >and therefore Hill will be diftrell. 
 
 Some feeke Niles four ce> the Poles fome come fo neere. 
 That light and darkenelfe doth compleat a yeere; 
 
 There new-found Lands>nor can one world fuffice. 
 What mans toocurious v fancy doth devife ; * 
 
 Some digge earths cavernes ,not unlike to moles, 
 
 Hating the day, they live in pits and holes, 
 
 And from Cimmerian darkenefle of the hell, 
 
 They feeke their riches from cur ft Pluto’s cell. 
 
 <bme like the fiihes dive into the llrands » 
 
 Ithsre doc gropie ’mohgft the rockcS andfaiid*. 
 
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AVTVMNVS. 
 
 O Sober, five /Etas media. 
 
 Et fcopuloscatcos,^ arenas gurgitis alti. 
 
 O duras hominum fortes 1 fic vivere pare* 
 luffemnt ? 0 crudeles adnumia? areas ! 
 
 Natur# placuit pretio fa dbfeondere rerum 
 Bumim pretio tantum acquirenda laboris ; 
 tiybheum neflar fervant armata juventus 
 T auriginx fobolis y nec fit fine vulnere prxda 5 
 Cupide munitur numerof d gloria Pe/H> 
 
 Carpuntur Veneris rari (m [anguine Flores i 
 VOifcolor in lucem niveo qmc vertice fur git 
 Herba } pici fimilem radicem in vifeera ten * 
 
 Mitt it y mor tale fque beat, fed vellitur xgre: 
 
 Et media in fylva fulvo qua virga metallo 
 Frondefcitytegitur net convallibus urn fox 
 .Ac luco latet omni,aurato vimine ramus $ 
 
 cupit Helper idum rutilantia carpere poma, 
 Cujlodes domuifjt prius fit cura Dracones . 
 
 Omnia, qux mater genuit Natura laborant : 
 Continua rapitur circum vertigine C er Ium 
 Ignorauf vices oti ; Sol furgit a b ortu , 
 
 Occidua /que petit ceu cur for frenum oras , 
 
 N c minrn a capro verfus tua brachia Cancer 
 Scandit ytetrogrado repetit vel tramite Caprum t 
 ingeminat Phctbe motm,nec cernitur uno 
 Vultu • T erra vices ob fervat qaatuor anni. 
 
 Fere novo pilfos d finguit germine fiores f 
 Hos xUu mitrit> Solify calore fociUat t 
 Autumno canos fcecundat frugibus agros, 
 
 Infa hyeme fcolijs nimborum vapulat auRrls, 
 
 Nulla quiispohto c fl * f abeant jumenta labores , 
 Tyamnatirf jugis Tauri $ requie fine jufftt 
 Nos “ etiam piatura dies tranfire fugaces . 
 Eiaigiturfocy per tot mala tadia vim 
 crgUtfper duri cafm difemm miUc : 
 
%^/rrr mn e. 
 
 Ottober, or middle Age. 
 
 O teylefome Lots of men/ hath fo the fates 
 Ordain’d their life? O hard comrr andingfates / 
 Nature thought good her treafurcs to conceale. 
 
 Which nothing, befidts labour, canreveale. 
 
 The Oxe bred bees with flings defend their hives. 
 And fight for them, as for their deareft lives : 
 TheRofeis fenc’t with prickles round about. 
 
 He muft be priclct, who feekes to finde them out. 
 
 The Moly bsares a blofl'ome white as fnow, 
 Hisfwarthy roore deepe in the earth doth grow. 
 
 It ctireth maladies of every kinde, 
 
 But hardly digged up, when men it finde : 
 
 With all the grove fo Profcfpine doth cover 
 
 The bough, with which men Lethes flood pafle over. 
 
 Who feekefrom the Hefperides a prize, 
 
 Muft lull a fleepethe Dragons watchfull eyes. 
 
 What nature hath produced worke it muft, 
 
 Heav’n by th’ intelligence about i*> thruft. 
 
 It knowes no reft, the funne from Eaft doth rife. 
 
 And towards Weft doth cotufe along the skies, 
 Vpfrocn the Goate he climes to Cancers featc. 
 
 Then to the Goate againt he makes recreate. 
 
 The Moone her courfes n uitiplyeth fo 
 That ft til one countenance (he ne’re doth fnew. 
 
 The earth keepes feafons of the yeere, in fpring 
 She bringeth forth the buddes of every thing 5 
 In fummerihe them heate and moyfture ye elds, 
 
 With come in Autumne fhe doth crowne the fields. 
 But when the Winter ftortres and windes doe bloW 3 
 She’s wrapped up with feede in fleece of Snow J 
 The Sea refts never, beads muft undergoe 
 The yoke of toyle, and mankinde muft live fo. 
 
 Then you my felloweslet us ftill advance, 
 t Through all thefe hazards pf unluckie chance, 
 
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AVTMNVS: 
 
 O (Sober, five media ALtas. 
 
 Nos alio divina vocat for sagiat a fequentur 
 Ocia- } fc olim dm a htc mmmjfc juvabit. 
 
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 Qua Tena longam circinat or bit m 
 Solis, polorum qua cadit ambitus 
 Aut fur git orbi, fraudulenta 
 Sors homines trahit impotentes . 
 iQuarmt quod ignis deshuat, aut aqua 
 Autfur refojfts parietibus domus 
 Aut tine# deni vellicantis 
 Hollis & infidians rapina . 
 
 Cesium tenet fed divitias meas 
 Chriflum redemptorem pia & agmina 
 C alituum qui ter beatas 
 
 Hoc duce concelebrant chordas , 
 
 BtcNeSar atto flumine defluit , 
 
 Hic fiant acervis Ambrofix poli 
 Hic gloria & pax , & triumphus 
 Omnia qua exbilareni ovantes. 
 
 Non finient b^c gaudia fecula 
 Won peculor um fistula, fecula» 
 
 Non quotquot erunt (ST dierum 
 Que nebula (it tenebris c arebunt. 
 
 Huc ducito m e cunela per ardua, 
 fer faxa terra* fer fc opulos maris, 
 fer quicquid Orbi esi inquietum 
 fulgur a per, tonitru, procellas . 
 
 Sit modo portm fotlicit£vi£ , 
 
 QuiesOlympi, metaque fit mihi 
 'Sedes corufcans jingelorum 9 
 | it patris fupetg penates. 
 
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AVtVMNE. 
 
 Oflober^ or middle lAtge* 
 
 Our lotis elfewherejoy fhall come at Iaft, 
 
 Then gladly fhall wc thinke of troubles paft. 
 
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 From mornings Eaft,unto the evenings Weft , 
 
 From South, to North, as Poles doe rile and fall. 
 
 Men framing Fortune ftill fecke for the beft. 
 
 And oft too curious are deceiv’d of all. 
 
 They feeke what fire and water can deftroy , 
 
 Or moth confume,or theefe can fteale away> 
 
 Or Wherein they doe place their greateft joy. 
 
 The enemy can take it as a prey. 
 
 Heav*n hath my treafure with my Lord and King,, 
 
 With companies of glorious Saints in bljfte, 
 
 Where holy quires doe dance triumph and ling, 
 
 They follow, and our Saviour leader is. 
 
 Here Ne&ar rivers every where doe flow, 
 
 Ioy without forrowjholy daliance , 
 
 Here (lands Ambrofias heapes,where ere you goe* 
 
 And what immortali glory can advance. 
 
 If you (hould multiply ten thoufand ages. 
 
 They (ball not end this joy and glorious light. 
 
 Nay though you goe beyond ten thoufand ftages* 
 
 Nor all the dayes which never fhall know night. 
 
 Hither lead me,0 Lord through all diftreffe, 
 
 O’re mountaines of the land,rockes of the Teas, 
 
 Through whitfoever hath no quietneffe. 
 
 Through ftormes and thunder, if it fo Thee pkafe*. 
 
 So tha t the Haven of this my voyage be, 
 
 Heav’ns reft,fo that the goale be of my race. 
 
 The Court of AngeI$ 4 who attend on Thee, 
 
 And in thy Fathers houfe fome dwelling place. 
 
 G 4 November 
 
N Ow piercing darts defcendfrom heav'n above. 
 We are corjlets if jour bodyes healthyou love. 
 For Autumnes Utter raine,flrikes to the heart , 
 
 O finer than doth the flyiug Parthians dart m 
 When Sagittarius bends hU bow, take heede , 
 
 For if you Jhmt not, he can ftrikeyou dead. 
 f 0 gracious Heaven who can make mortals fad, 
 ^And merry •fill foretelling good and bad» 
 

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 November, five iEtas provediior. 
 
 P ieiacfes Eoo Cali cum cardine furgunt, 
 
 Pucspitemque rapit rmfflkm penultimm anm 
 /tuber, <& in ft ant U procurrit frigora bwm& 
 
 C*dua calcatur me fits, calet ana fruges 
 Exfiliquat tritura boum i part munera Bacchi 
 Temperat, £? variis jpumantia prela racemis i 
 Tmgtda ferventi ftant labra undantia mufio } 
 
 MeUa premunt alii, poliant que examina ceris, 
 
 HybUifque favis; Jiat nebaris amphora plena, 
 cr vet opus varium , nec mejfts omnibus una effc 
 Talis gens humana, quibus non difcolor oris 
 Wf figura po te/i mage quam fententia mentis s 
 TJtverfis diverfa placent, fludioque trahuntur 
 Nonum mortale genus, /ublimis Olympi 
 Van legit amfrattus, & Caeli fydtra pulfat 
 Venice 5 reptat humi ignavi pars maxima vulgi • 
 
 Sed paupi virtutis iter, medrumque feqmntm * 
 
 Galling mve<e pulli, quos a rdor honoris 
 Accendit veri, & rerum prudentia folers. 
 
 Ambitio humani generis dirifftmapeftis 
 Turget, & icariis fummum petit & there pennis 
 Nobilitat que polum fafiu, Terrafque ruina. 
 
 Terrigenum Coelos temerans de more Gigantum * 
 
 Jmpiaque in numen Divinum affeflat honorem . 
 
 Vejens juvenis devtffo non fatur orbe , 
 
 Nec patre contentus mortali, gurius efe 
 /Maluit illius » nomen qui debet arenis $ 
 
 Vngula mortalem fecit JLethefque liquore 
 Ebrius, angufto tandem fub careers claufus 
 Sarcophagi, pofuit faflusimmenfaque votdl 
 Scilicet attenuat magnos, frangit que /uperbUM 
 Omne Deus, nullo regnans , rivale fecunde* 
 
APTFMKE'i 
 
 November, or age farrefyent. 
 
 _ _ — T Hen Pleiades doe rife from Eafterne hindge, 
 \/ \/ And now November latter harveft brings 
 V V Vfhering the Winter j men doe Cats hucceu 
 Which is unhusked by hard treading Oxen 5 
 Then from the pteffed grapes the wine njnnes downe, . 
 And Mufte with Neaars toame, the Fats duth crowne* 
 From waxen cels»fome doe the bony ftraine. 
 
 And pots are full, while empty hives complaine I 
 Then every one workes what in him can lye 
 Yet all one and the fame worke doe not ply * 
 
 Even fuch-like men in full ripe ase,we finde» 
 
 Whofe faces differ no more then their miude » 
 
 Each one a diverge palate hath, nor can 
 One tafte that which likes well another man $ 
 Somefoare like Eagles, and will reach the sky. 
 
 Others, like vermine in earths duft doe lye » 
 
 There few, or none, but whom great love doth love. 
 Who keepe the meant, who wife and happy prove. 
 Ambition mortals greateft plague doth hye, 
 
 Vpwards , and with .lemon wings willflye $ 
 
 While Gyant4ike,(he will rob Heav n of all t 
 She catcheth ftill the more notorious fell. 
 
 Pellas hire flower, who could not be content 
 With the rich conqueft of the Orient, 
 
 Nor with a mortali father did proclaime 
 Himfelfe loves baftard,to his Parents (hame 5 
 The hoofe which Lethes water did comame , 
 
 ©id prove him mortali, and his hopes but vame, 
 Whofehuge defites, one world could not lumce? 
 
 A (hort and narrow coffin was his prize. 
 
 God tyrans flouts# nor can with pride away. 
 
 Without a rivall, he the world doth fway. 
 
AVTVMNVS. 
 November, five jEtas provc&ior. 
 
 Commode non clava defendere fata trinodi 
 Tapster as, nec te Hercules fine vulnere tutum 
 ■&xuvi<e dederant, laqueo expirare coattum , 
 
 Decollare Deos Poterat, cui caftra dederunt 
 Cognomen caligt, proprium^ imponere truncis 
 Ridiculum caput ,ut templi decoretur honore , 
 
 Ofcelus horrendum fate nullo, thure piandum t 
 Mortales fuperi fic regna capeffere Coeli, 
 
 Invidi^ lovis componere fulmina fceptris , 
 
 Sceptris, qu<e baculo mutant cafus iniquus. 
 
 Et Nemefis divina, lovis nam dextra Tyrannos 
 Imperio regit , £ 7 * graviori regna coercet 
 Regno-, purpuream tribuunt crudelia mortem 
 Purpureis cur fata viris, nec funera ficca i 
 Scilicit injufti quia Coeli numina temnunt , 
 
 JEmxli &* a olida mendacia fulmina mittunt . 
 
 Sunt ali) fortuna dedit queis provida cunas 
 Privat as,vetnit^ manu contingere fceptrum. 
 
 Hos tamen accendit regnandi dira cupido , 
 
 Vivere Romulea qui nolunt w be fecundi , 
 
 M onflra hominum ft en nq lues, Acherontia proles i 
 Mr go Veos nequeunt cum flerer e, tota movebunt 
 Tartara, & infidi) 5 factum diadema cruentis > 
 
 F raude 3 dolifq i petent : fed Cedi dextra tuetur 
 Cognatum imperium>& numen venerabile regis , 
 
 Exitij furit caufa fui, inveniunt % ruinam 
 Quam meruere gravem, & dfgnas conamine poenas, 
 Vumfcandunt altas Cedros, /ub pondere rami , 
 
 P tanguntur, mittunt^ truces ad Tartara faftas : 
 
 Turbo velut rapida erumpens de mbe proceldt. 
 Ingeminans motu vires, fervefit eundo. 
 
 Crebrius aeria quatiendo cacumina quercus 
 Concutitur magis Mnfy in robore perdit* 
 
 Ambitio vexat fic hot dum dira, feruntur 
 
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ArTrMtiE. 
 
 N «vernier, er Kjigt ferre fient» 
 
 Nor could Ulcidei club or hayrie coate. 
 
 Save from a fatall rope Commodus throate. 
 
 Ctligula mod impious amongft men, 
 
 Dar’d to behead his Country Gods, and then 
 Did caufe their (houldershis gold'n head up beare^ 
 
 That all might worship him with divine feare. 
 
 O curft impiety that can no way 
 Beex^iatedl which with Heaven's fcepter fway. 
 
 And match their Scepters with loves thundring hand. 
 
 Who doth the grcateft Monarchies commands 
 There Scepters are butfraile, and fortune ftrange. 
 
 There Scepters with a begger* ftaffe doth changes 
 Why doe thefe purple tyranes often dye 
 Shedding their purple foules mod cruelly ? 
 
 Becaufe Heav’ns Deity then doe contemne, 
 
 And like Salmonius thunder amongft men. 
 
 For others Fortune wifely did forefee, 
 
 Cradels well fitting with their low degree, 
 
 Commanding them no wayes t’ afpire fo high 
 As to ufurpe facredfupremacy: 
 
 Yctfome have fo ambitious defire. 
 
 They will notlive fecond in Romes Empire. 
 
 Monftcrs of men, Earths plagues, Hells curfed brood. 
 
 They willbe wicked caufe the Gods are good. 
 
 Seeking t* enfnare Earthes Sacred government ; 
 
 Befidcs curft treafon they have no intent. 
 
 But yet heav’ns hand can ftill that power defend. 
 
 Which to its bleft anoynted it doth lendj 
 They’re authors of their woe, they catch a fall. 
 
 And curfed death juft Ncmcfis of all. 
 
 Who fcale the Cedars finde top* boughes too weafce. 
 
 Which once ©ppreffed eafily doe brealte; 
 
 Much like a whiricewind rulhing from above, 
 
 Jtfaxiag fti]I mwtytbc mm thatic doth move. 
 
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HI AVTVMNV5. 
 
 November, five provc&ior JJ Cas 
 
 Impete pracipiti, & perplexo ad culmina rerum f 
 Melt ruunt tandemqup ftud : conatibus impar 
 Mepperit hmndos injufta fuperbia lap fits. 
 
 Quid juvat ex cel ft icmfcendere culmen honoris 
 Invito love, percellunt ft fulmina montes 
 Berios > costi fup&ant qm vertice nube si 
 tutius eft latui ft cafe fub cecfite vilis, 
 
 Attfea qukra Regum captare palatia fraude, 
 
 Tutim eft Clymenes tenues coluiJJ'e penates , 
 
 Qgampimbi ignitos temere teniare jugaleti 
 Fidere c crat is ft omv a eft tnfania pernis, 
 time qua sde ft? urn-, quid turgida toUis 
 y elaptr horrendas , ftmofi gurgite undas P 
 Mrn forms fottuna petit, rieprendit in alto 
 Sed naves, quarum contingunt fuppara nubet* 
 
 F elix ^ heu nmlumfdix ft forte quieftcat 
 Contentum mortale genus, tmiftima vita eft 
 SPftp^didict fervarc modum, quee 'nefeia fraudis 
 An bitime caret } populi non toUitur au^d. 
 
 Idee cadit ufani levia ad fuffragia vulgi , 
 
 Fan timet hac uncos Sejant & tnftta Man's 
 Funera, quifaxum qui deturbaverat koftes 
 Cadefda /par fit, dum Romamnon capit impar „ 
 
 Sunt quibus unum onus eft loculos di ftendere, plenas 
 C ond ere ftaviffas , toiifque incumbere gasjs. 
 
 Corradunt quodcunque trahunt torrentibus amnes 
 Auriferi, quod cunque tenet ferupuiofius unda 
 Littus Erythraee, qui coeli numina taftqudms 
 Sufficiunt ga\&s, quarum quo copia major 
 Boc magis ardet opes, & non fiu uratur ege ft as. 
 
 Semper hiat rimis non auro exple hile pelius , 
 
 i inopes voto ftunt,creftcit CenfitS, habendi ' 
 Qtefcit iniquus awoy, quantumque accedit ad (tUTUM* 
 Saeta fames astri, tant um Juli viflere glijcfy 
 
KsiVTVMNE. 
 
 November , or age fine (pent. 
 
 While it doth wraftle with the aged Oake, 
 
 It weak* ns its eager flrength at every ftroke : 
 
 So doth ambition vex thofe,who doe flyc. 
 
 With all theirhiight to fupreame dignity > 
 
 Which when they cannot reach 5 they breake their ftrength 
 And with their weight, they fall to ground at length, J 
 They feeke the honours gainft the Eternall Will 
 Of love. When thunder ftrikes the higheft hill. 
 
 More fafely in a cottage you may lurke, 
 
 Then in a Pallace curled treafon worke, 
 
 Better with C lyvteve at home t’abide. 
 
 Then P hxbus flamin'» horfes tp mifguide ; 
 
 What greater madnefie then to tempt the Sunne 
 With waxen wings, which prefently wi'l tunne ? 
 foile fottly $ Fortune pafleth by the Ihores, 
 
 Catching the (hip,whichwith her dreamers foares. 
 
 O happy mankind, if men once did know 
 With meane eftare themfelves content to (how / 
 
 That life is fafeft which doth keepe a meane. 
 
 Free from ambition, and from falfhood deane 5 
 It neither ftands nor fals at vulgars breath. 
 
 Nor feares ambitious Sejans cixrfed death * 
 
 Nor Manlius fate,who wou'd be Lord of Rome » 
 
 And from the Capitol had both praife and doome. 
 
 Some men doe feeke with gold, their bagges to fill. 
 
 And hoording treafure$,thirft for treafures flill ; 
 
 They fc^ape what ever flowes from HermusC&ndj 
 And what the redfea cafteth forth to land. 
 
 They dcifie their riches and their flore j 
 The more it is,they feeke for more and more 5 
 Their chincky breads they cannot fill with gold* 
 
 Their hearts defire their coffers cannot hold ; 
 
 They covet more,the greater date they have, 
 having purchas’d more^ill more they crave* 
 
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AVTVMNVS. 
 
 N ovcrober, five AStas provc&ior.' 
 
 C entis avaritia ham an £ dirijftva peflis. 
 
 Metropolis feeler um y Gemo qua dedita terne» 
 
 Heglsgii tether t as Divini numinis arces $ 
 
 Indulges tibi dira lues, ut languor aquofus 
 JLccendtt potando (itim •, tu pluribus auftd 
 *?lura petis bona fortuna, qutefordida cur a 
 ac ctmulat ,fervat% t war ,pcrdum% dolores £ 
 
 T ejke C&leflem potuijf. nt ducere vitam 
 orta' es -qualem fetura fecula quondam 
 Digenmt fub patre lovis >qumforsfua quenf^ 
 ditabat [me Uge bomm , fine fraude beatum . 
 
 Sunt & qui (olidas inter convivia lue s 
 Ccnfuwuntyprocer efque gula Saliaria men fis 9 
 Vercula dant Siculis^c^piuntq, in vifcera fylvas » 
 
 Et waru,<e terno fque lacus, codify Falernos, 
 
 Imitant Solem, propinant pocula nocti, 
 
 Contimmfydapcs redivivae ad tcedia lucis $ 
 
 Exercere gulas vadata * gloria fltmma e fi : 
 
 Dicite quos pati' a Mfopiflutumcfa Minerva, 
 
 Tingue juvat, dubia & Cerealis ccena /aginat $ 
 
 Vicite,que fmprn & tot dtjpendia rerum» 
 
 %MsUia nervo fas ui frangant ocia vires 
 Et folvat morbi pituita intercut is atm ; 
 
 Quid de ter dapibm fiet ? f entina cloaca 
 Hoc dtcat , totos vertit , qua tn flavor a cenfi ^ 
 
 Ter felix quifquis vit a nephalia fervat 
 Contentus tenui menfa parvofc falillo » 
 
 Sobria cui exiguam jucundat calda farinam 5 
 Hic lites nefcit,nec magna e fi ajjecla men [a. 
 
 Huic fatu parca tribuunt quod numina dextri * 
 
 Nullo pauper eget, neo enim penuria parvi eft » 
 
 HtCsbbifar modicum , po/iquam quafivit arati Oa 
 Ad fluvium canat ,genero fi netfariilinfiar 
 Hauftift aquafaptt indoftojrugifo palato > 
 
aftfMne. 
 
 Nevemkr, tr ^Age Jarre fftnU 
 
 Thou cnrCed Plague of mankindc avarice, 
 
 Author of woe and Hydra of all vice. 
 
 Earths Genious thou onely doft adore, 
 
 Negledting Heav’n which lafts for evermore! 
 
 Thou like the dropfie ftill thy thirft do'ft fet de. 
 
 The more thou drinkeft, greater is thy neede. 
 
 With care and feare, the more thou doft poffeffe. 
 
 With griefe thou thinkeft thy riches leiTe and Itflfc, 
 Were’t not for thee, mortals might happie be. 
 
 Such as the bleffed golden age did fee; 
 
 Good without feare of Eawes,who {fill did fmilc 
 Content with ev’ry Hate, rich without guile. 
 
 Some love to feaft their bellies all the day. 
 
 With Saltan cates in idlenelfe and plays 
 
 They doe devoure whole woods and lakes, and Seas* 
 
 And Falerne mountaines, fo their gut to pleafe; 
 
 They feaft the Sunne , carowfing to the night. 
 
 And wearie out the next infuing light. 
 
 Tell rne whofe glory is onely dainety fare, 
 
 Such as ViteUiui) JEj'ops diihes were 5 
 Tell me who Ceres doubtfull fuppers love. 
 
 At laft, what doth your wafte and charges prove? 
 Thefe fofc delights doe breake vour finewie ftrengtfe. 
 And dropfie ftafeeth loofe your jcynts at length} 
 
 What comes of all your cates ? the j ikes can tell. 
 Which turnes your gold into Mephitis fmell. 
 
 Thrice and more happy is the fober maa. 
 
 Who on a little live contented can; 
 
 Like Heraclim, who with meale and water 
 Maintaines the peace, and knowes not how to flatt 
 'He think't enough, what God doth fparelygive. 
 
 And in his meane eftate doth richly live,* 
 
 He doth his bread* corne by the Plough provide, 
 to fug hard by the river fide: 
 
 Whofe 
 
 
AVTVMNVJ; 
 November, five ^Etasprovc&ior. 
 
 Huk mens ftcc cl, tenax refli, moderata, pudica* 
 
 Ip Ce probict, feeler is pum,fe flator bonefti , 
 
 Integer atque animi forth* cmdufque vigore 
 Quales prifia dabat curios cafa cejp ietefla 
 Pugnaces , tenuique beatos forte camillos 
 Fabrtcios parvo contentos ; qualis aratrum 
 Serranus liquit propriam, fdfeefque recepit $ 
 
 Felices anima patriam qui laude bearunt, 
 
 Et fibi perpetuum fecere in facula nomen / 
 
 CMtles in adverfas acies qui fortiter audet 
 Cernere, & ho f ilem dextra confundere dextram, 
 
 Enfe viam fi eruens ($* multa cade decorus , 
 
 Befendit) qui marte focos & nummis aras j 
 Sive opus excubiis tenebras defendere noflu , 
 
 Metari feu cajlra } fudum circvndare vaUo 
 Agmina* vel duro fylvas fuccidcre ferro. 
 
 Aut per operta foli medias emergere in urbes » 
 
 -Aut liquidos remigi fluvios fuperare natatu. 
 
 Proterere hter entem glaciem , calcare paludes * * 
 
 Arietibus muros , tefludine vellere portas*. 
 
 Pro patria e fi huic dulce mori, dum vulnera fronte 
 Excipit, primus ccnfcendit manta, vallum 
 Perrumpit ., cuneo ve anima jam prodigus inflat. 
 
 Ergo ubi jam viflos trahit arfla catena duelles* 
 
 F en atique via currum comitantur, equique * 
 
 Bellorum exuviis Uti trumifque trophteis* 
 
 Pugna triumphali legitur quum fortis in arcu , 
 
 Infiaurant que diem feflu conviviapomph s 
 Cumpepuli Paeana canunt, & clajflca diras 
 7)eponunt iras, & Martis gaudia clangunt, 
 
 Jpfeviro major dux auro inflgnis & Ofiro 
 Sublimis curru ingreditur, tot millia pafcens 
 Speflantarum , urbh fcandit cum laude ruinas * 
 
 Supra qub tendat non efl; efi culmen bomrh 9 
 
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 November , or age farte font 
 
 Whofe water to his fober pallate tafteth. 
 
 Better then NedarjWhich the gluttons waileth % 
 His minde is conftam,chafte,and modcratci 
 Himfelfe is honefbflrong, and temperate j 
 Like Cutij and Cawilli 9 who did dwell 
 Ifn cottages, whom nothing ere could quell j 
 Or lijke Senanus who his plough did leave. 
 
 That he Romes powerfull enfignes might receive^ 
 O happy Soules, who with eternall praife, 
 
 Wd blelTe their Country, and their propheesraife. 
 
 The Souldier,who with firy courage Hands, 
 Againft the Martiali fierce encountring bands. 
 Who with his fword makes way, and will not flic, 
 Maintaining Church >and Countries liberty . 
 Whether in darkeneffe he ly’th centenail, ’ 
 
 Or doth entrench his forces with a wall. 
 
 Or on a fuddaine fell downe talleft woods. 
 
 Or undermine ftrongTownes,orfwim o’refloods. 
 Or breake the ice,fearch Fcjordes,afiailc the Ports, 
 Or with fierce warlike engines batter Forts $ 
 
 He for his Countryes fake,is glad to dye, 
 
 And will with honeft wounds his courage try. 
 While firft he feales the wall, and thorow runnes, 
 The Fortlets,fearing neither fwordsner gunnes. 
 
 So when he leads his captive foes in chaines, 
 
 When iron* men, when Horfe,and Mays his traines 
 Ooe fhow his fpoyles,and with his Trophees march 
 The fight is read in the triumphali Arch, 
 
 With feafls and fhewes,they doe renue the day. 
 With triumph-fongs his glory they difp lay*, 
 Trumpets forgetting ire, found joy and peace. 
 
 He in his chariot rides aloft with grace * 
 
 So through the ruine of the wall he gees? 
 
 •And feeds the eyes of all men with bis fhoWes 5 
 
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AVTVMNVSj 
 November, five .ffitas provenior . 1 
 
 Unie cadat, graviorermns in Tartara lap/u. 
 
 Sors infida foist Ut os fa dare triumphor , 
 
 Et dubijs nimium volitat viftoria pennis : 
 
 Lufce tuis turge quantumvis pme trophceU, 
 
 Et Rom re terrore trementes concute portat > 
 
 « •Metire in modi) s equites, & montis aceto 
 Er ange jugum j fimulac fallax fortuna reflant 
 Bithynio time cogeris fervire Tyranno , 
 
 Et mi/eram tacito vitam finire veneno. 
 
 Heeler a priamidem cur ceefumjaftat Achilles 
 Priamide Paridis moritur vindice telo ? 
 
 Quid juvat incenfam vafianAgamemnona Trojam , 
 
 Si reduci parat mfidias feviffima eonjux i 
 O fors fluxa hominum male penfas magna ruinit 
 Nec pateris conjlare diu mortalia j cafu 
 Omnia fed 'fiuxo,& fatorum turbine ver fas, 
 
 Quod fi fummci rota teneat fafiigia Cmfws 3 
 Mox cadit, & radio vi flor flat Cyrus in alio. 
 
 Impatiens donec Tomyris de fede Tyrannum 
 Excutit , humano gaudens fatur are cruore > 
 
 Sic ludens non certa fui fallax % clienti 
 Jnconfians Fortuna fupr emis infima mutas. 
 
 Felix qui cafus fefe componit ad omnes, . 
 
 In duris Jperani meliora hic , infa [ecufidh 
 Deteriora timens, medio fic tramite vitam, 
 
 Dirigit, ut nullo noceat Rhamnufia vultu • 
 lima velutptlagi rupes immobilish&ret 
 Quadrata, radice [edens, temmtfa procedas 
 Et concurrentes ad fervida pr<elia ventosi 
 Flstflmfe Mdunt [copulis, fi aftofc re fidunt 
 Impete, idufo perdunt conamine vires : 
 
 Non aliter i quando reru m fiemuere tumultus, 
 
 Ipfe fibi confiat fapiens, ridet (fa timores 
 infant vulgi, (2* torquentia fata fatigat 
 
K^ivrr mn e. 
 
 November, or Age fane Jpent. 
 
 Higher he cannot reach, but fall he may. 
 
 From top of glory into mire and clay* 
 
 Fortune with Triumphs deales unconftantly. 
 
 And viftory with doubtfull wings doth fl ye. 
 
 Boaft of thy ttiumphs Hannibal’ and ceil. 
 
 How thou the Ports of Rome with feare didft quell, 
 Meafure their Knights in bulhels, mountaines breake 
 With vineger $ when fortune fhall for/afce 
 Thy fiandard,thou muftfeive a forraigne King, 
 
 Till thou at length dy'ft by thy poyfon’d ringj 
 Why boafts ^cbittes that fierce He&or’s gone. 
 
 If Par# fhall revenge his death anone; 
 
 From Troy with triumph Jgammnon goes. 
 
 But (ah J at home he findes his fatall foes. 
 
 Inconftant lot of men, which greateft things, 
 
 To greater downfall and confufiem brings l 
 If Cr eefus hold the toppeof Fortunes wheek, 
 
 Qyrui anon will caufe him downeward reele, 
 
 Vncill incenfed Tomyru doth thruft 
 His head in blood, his honour in the duftj 
 So fortune confiant in unconftancy. 
 
 And falfe, thou changed loweft things with high. 
 Happy is he who fets himfclfe for all 
 Chances, who hopes a riling, feares a fall. 
 
 And fo doth guide his life in all eftates, 
 
 That he nor cares for Fortunes fmiles nor threats ; 
 Tike as a rocke which Hands with fixed rootes, 
 Atwindes and whirling tempefts fcoffes and flouts* 
 They breake themfelves while with impetuous chocke 
 They dalh and butteagainfi tlr unmoved rocke $ 
 Evcnfo a wife man, if a tumult rife. 
 
 Can vulgar feares and levity defpife, 
 
 If fates doe crolfe him with an hatefull ire. 
 
 Before his patience, their defpight doth tire. 
 
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 November, five JEtas provectior» 
 
 Quodfidifruptis rueret compagibus orbis 
 CMacbim, non trepidum tumularent rudera mandit 
 
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 7)a Cbrifie vires , da mihi grati $ 
 
 Virtute , diras ire per hoUtum 
 Turmas y & infanas phalangas 
 Perfaia, invidi £, timoris: 
 
 Internus boflii me mdefauciat. 
 
 Externus hofiis vulnere lancinat, 
 
 Q uoemque me verto , cruentis 
 Obfideor Satance catervis. 
 
 Tu dux j Deus Tu, Tu 'Dominus mihi 
 Arx , falus , rupes , pr/e fidium, decus 
 Tua fub umbra militabo i 
 
 Nec metuam rabidos duelles. 
 
 TDonec fugatis liberor boftibus , 
 
 Quum tu potenti numine proteres 
 Gentes rebelles , & fuperbis 
 Iniicies manibm catenas. 
 
 Quando fonabunt atbere clajftca 
 Parebis altis nubibus in fidens, 
 jid Te vocabis tunc amicos 
 in patre Ccelttuunt beatos. 
 
 Qualis triumphi tunc facies erit 
 Quando refurget turba fidelium 
 Stabunt que catus impiorum 
 Numinis ad fuperum tribunal. 
 lAgmen malorum fulpbunas domos 
 Intrabit or ci, facula in omnia 
 Tormenta pafjurum Gehenna 
 Et tenebras Stygri barathri. 
 
 Scandent polorum culmina fed pii 
 Inter corufeas Seraphici gregis 
 Turmas , & at emo fruenmr 
 Gloria impertOj ac honore. 
 
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kAVTVMN e. 
 
 November , or age farre (front. 
 
 Nay if the world Ihould fall about his eares. 
 
 It would not quell his conftant heart with feares. 
 
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 Grant courage Lord,and by thy faving grace, 
 
 Through all mine hoftile troupes me fa.fely Ieade, 
 Suffer me not tofhrinke from ranke and place. 
 
 But fight ’gainft treach’ry,envy,feare and dread. 
 
 My inward enemy doth my heart afiaile. 
 
 My outward foe with wounds upon me fet, 
 
 Goe where I v?ill,my foemendoe prevaile. 
 
 With Satans bloody ambufh X’me befet. 
 
 Thou’rt my Captaine,Thouit my God and Lord, 
 
 My caftle,fafety,rocke,defence,and prize 
 Thy fhaddowjfafeguard can to me afford, 
 
 Gainft all whatever enemies devife. 
 
 Till they be put to rout, and I fet free, 
 
 Then (halt thou Tyrans to fubje&ion bring 
 Vnderthy great Man-perfon’d Deity, 
 
 And with their bands, their rebel f neck's (hill wring. 
 When from Heavens corners, trumpets loud {hall blow* 
 When thou O Lord, the wicked doft endite, 
 
 Thou in the clouds (halt make a glorious (how 
 And with thy Fathers bleffed ones invite. 
 
 O what a triumph {hall that triumph be. 
 
 When godly menihall from their graves arife 
 Before their Saviour; and impiety 
 Shall ftand before their Iudges flaming eye$ t 
 The wicked lhall paffe to Sulphureous fire , 
 
 There tortures to endure without all end. 
 
 The flame, the wprme,the whips that never tyre, 
 
 And toeternall darkenefie be condemn’d. 
 
 The godly mount on high with glorious fong, 
 
 Mongft Seraphims and Cherubims tnoft bright. 
 
 With triumph-pomp, convoying Chrift along 
 T’enjoy all pleafure, glory in Gods fight. 
 
HYEMS. 
 
 December, five Sene&us.' 
 
 P Ronus adbirfuti qmm Titan cornua capri 
 Pertigit , aufiralem C cell relegatus ad aulamz 
 Incipiant Languere dies, & triftior ami 
 Apparet vultus, multum mutatus ab itto 
 Qn primi pitf os veri* jattabat honores 
 Lilia purpureis dans intermtfta rofetis 5 
 Llico dimidice incipiunt decrefcere luces 
 *. Ducere & exiguos arcus i longi (sima noftis 
 Tempora dant immortales mortalibus umbras^ 
 Frigoribus venti borrefcunt, aurceque pruinis , 
 Flumina pigritie torpentor ford ibus arva. 
 
 Nube riget Ccelum, lacrymrum gurgite Hagnat 
 T eduris gremium,canefcit fluftvous aquor 
 / Omniaque invetfum contrifimt Lutiibus annum' 
 Obrepit fic tardahomini, trifiifque {enc6lus 
 innumeris comitata malis, obnoxia morbis » 
 
 EflqUe odiofa fibi, nonnunqum digna cicutis» 
 
 Ft fragiles cani cycnxis tempora plumis 
 Cingunt , & nivea crines ajpergine tingunt > 
 
 Scepe velut Borea rapidis percuffa procellis 
 Quercus piat foliis jam dejpoliata caducis » 
 Corticeque horre fcit fcabra, nec frondibus umbra 
 Sed trunco reddit : fic nofiramalignior <etas 
 Crine caput fpo lians, levi ceu pumice calvam 
 Nudat, & excuffis hyemem tesiuta capillis , 
 Perdit quos voluit Vroferpina tollere crines. 
 Nunc eboris quid forma juvat candore corufcant 
 Vurpureoque rof 'ce quondam diftinfta colore. 
 
 Lilia ceu rubris fu' gent contexta Amarantbis* 
 
 M totis aut minio qualis mx certat Hibero » 
 Nunc abit in rugas macie livente feniles» 
 
 Et pallet calido Siri ceu prata vapore 
 
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WjT^TE 
 
 December , or old age. 
 
 Hen Phcebus makes to Capricorne retreat. 
 
 In Southward declination Ieflbning heat. 
 Then days doe languifhand the fadderycarc 
 
 Lookes gloomy vfithhis cold and dokfull cheare* 
 Not like that yeare, which Flora ' s pride did (how. 
 
 With Rofes red, and Lillies white as (now 5 
 Thedayes halfe-fhortned more and more decreafe. 
 The nights extended and the Light growes lefic 5 
 Then mortals in Cimmeriandarkcnefle dwell. 
 
 The aire with hoare-fr oft, winds with ct Idnefle fwell 5 
 Rivers are duld with ice,the earth is bound 
 With cold, and pooles of teares o’reflow the ground I 
 The Sealookes gray with waves 3 and every thing 
 Both droope,for abfence of the pleafant fpring : 
 
 So fad and flow add age on man doth feize,» 
 draughted with evils, an Hydra of curfd difeale, 
 Nothing it feIfe,ofc (b it hates the day. 
 
 That joyfully it makes it felfe away. 
 
 Then crafie gray-haircs cloathts the head with fnow. 
 And fwanlike plumes about the temples grow? 
 
 Tike asanOake which Boreas hare hath made. 
 
 Look’s baldjonely its ftocke doth caft a (hade; 
 
 So mans malignant age,viith dreary fate. 
 
 Both rob him of hislockes,and peelehis pate* 
 
 Leafs fall, (he wes Winter, man is neereto dye. 
 
 When age the fatall razor doth fupply. 
 
 What now avaifes the Ivory beauties grace. 
 
 Which did with Peftane Rofes paint the face. 
 
 As Amaranths which grow white Lillies by, 
 
 Or Thracian fnow, which takes vermillion dye. 
 
 Now is it plough’d with wrinckles 3nd lookes wan, 
 lcane,tnore like a withered weed then man 5 
 
H Y E M S. 
 December, five Sene&us 
 
 Marcent , folUitij geminat o. uando hora calores s 
 Ruganturfa gence,dependetpro cute peUu. 
 
 Lumina no&ivagas quondam fuperantia fell as 
 JEmttla flammivomis, Erythraeo in littoregemmls f 
 Occipitis fugiunt cceca , ad penetralia, damni 
 Sicpudetipfafuijenebr# pro lumine regnanti 
 Caligant ip ft Soiifeniofcfatifcunt. 
 
 Spina riget lacer iproten Jo tubere dorp* 
 
 Q u<efa humero Pelopis poterant contend er e, nut ani 
 Incurvae in peftu&fcapuU, fitfe ojfea imago 
 Corpus, quod pulchrum [udabat pingue nitorem . 
 
 O vecors [me mente Paris ! Lacedaemona clajf i 
 Cur petis, hojpitij rupturus foedera faert ? 
 
 Cur trahis ad Troja miferanda incendia G racas 
 Non nifi pofl patria redituras funera clajfes ? 
 Scilicet Argiva flagrat tibi peftus amore 
 TyndaridiSifiagilifijf juvat te gloria formae ? 
 Alpice fed rugas Hecubejnai im %fltum(k » 
 
 Offa tumore macro crefcenttafumim lemis j] 
 Apice & iUm forma dijpendia,quondam 
 Quee priamo dulces juveni dedit una Calores * 
 Tyndaris illa ture nunc unica gaudia mentis, 
 
 •pofl fatum crudele tuum, pofl fata parentum y 
 Cognata fque neces .incendia, furta, rapinas , 
 Tandem rugo fas fcalpet ceu pmiabuccas , 
 Dijfimilifque fui ad tpcculi fmulacra dolebit . 
 
 Quid vires , robur <& juvant, qutejfodtajeneflm 
 frangi?, & enervi labe fallat pondere molis ? 
 Sacra lovi quercus, pofl quam duo fac taper egit 
 Crefcemyconfiflenjque at as, ubi tertia venit 
 Fatalifque sevi feries , radice vacillat 
 Exefd, nutat $ auris bacchantibtti impar > 
 
 Tpfe Atla^humeris qui coelum ($* fydera fulfil* 
 Annorum Jpatio mfe&m fuppofuit , quem 
 
WINTER. 
 
 X>tcemkr 3 or old Age. 
 
 like fcorched gra(Te,when S'mm heate doth burne, 
 
 And into a(hes doth earths moyfltire tume : 
 
 His cheekes are hollow? his body lookcth thin 
 In place of mufcles hangs a wrinckled skin: 
 
 His gemme-like eyes fometime Dames nature* pryde 
 Are dim, and now for (hame themfelves doe hide. 
 
 They fcarce can fee the Sunne, they’re blinde as Moles* 
 
 In place of eyes, we fee nothing but holes. 
 
 His back’s a ridged bone, his (boulders bend. 
 
 Which fometimes could with P elops well contend* - 
 
 All feature’s gone, his beauties faire and bright 
 Is made a fceleton and ugly fight. 
 
 Mad Parity why to Sparta doft thou hye. 
 
 To breake the lawes of hofpitality ? 
 
 Why doft thou call the Grecian fleete to Ttoj, 
 
 Which Tore it doth returne will it deftroy 2 
 Is ’t caufe thy breft with love is fet on Hi e. 
 
 And thou nothing but Hellen canft dtfire ? 
 
 Looke to thy mothers wrinckles and her face. 
 
 Which age and filthy leanneffe doth difgrace; 
 
 Her bleardneffe and her age thou doft deteft 
 Yet once it kindled fire in Priams breft; 
 
 Helen thy greateft joy and foie delight. 
 
 After thy death and lunos deadly fpighc. 
 
 After friends daughters} aftd thy fitters rape. 
 
 Shall feratch her wrinckles like a munckie Ape, 
 
 And oft with teares (hall blot the looking glaffe* 
 
 Seeing what (he is now? and what (he was. 
 
 What profits ftrength, when feeble age doth (hr mice» 
 
 The body underhis owne weight (hall finke, 
 loves facred oake, whofe growing (landing age. 
 
 Two hundred ycercs hath flood ’gainft Boreas rage* 
 
 When the third fatall age is come at laft, 
 it daggers yeelding to the meaneft blaft; 
 
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HYEMS. 
 
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 December, five Sene&us.’ 
 
 Nex in fi rediens ge nnit , dum furta mantis 
 Optato pulchrte Alcmenes fateantur amore s 
 ghtididkit portare bovem, totique theatro 
 O fient arefias populi ad fcettacula vires > 
 
 Jam finio gravis, & longcevis debilis annis 3 
 Se minor effatos vidit pendere U certos, 
 ingmuitque, animo non recondere vietos 
 Cernuh <?£* in terram proni jam corporis artus I 
 Vi Leo fylvanm quondam formido , fenetta 
 Jgnava fta&us morbo, vix languida pofife 
 JMembta trahens , impune videt pier pa/cua tauros 
 infirmo /que errare greget, fame fandus agrd, 
 Sedfenio tardus flaccenti debili* alce 
 Vndique quamde dat, nefiit deprendere puedansi 
 Sicmifes quercus quondam decoratus honore, 
 
 De vitio duxit qui fiepius hofle triumphos 
 (Qualis pom fietit Cocles , quali /que Sutrinus 
 Rettulit jtennem Iovis ad delubra Feretri, 
 Quique ducem potuere fequi Marcellus,^ acer 
 Cojfus,vi£lores, & opimi gloria Martis ) 
 
 Jam rude donatus fufpen fis de fidet armis $ 
 claffca turmarum rauce quum murmure clangunt , 
 Tympanaque ingeminant pulfus, hinnitus equorum 
 Qmm fremit , exurgitque minax ad fydera clamor % 
 Hic [edet immotus, nulloque cientur ab are 
 VeJiora magnanimos qua dididicere calores • 
 Navita , Vygmaos legit qui clajf e- penates, 
 
 Vofl coeli, Pontique hyemes, in tuta recedit 
 Ocia, quum laxis tremuli compagibus artus 
 Infanos nequeunt pelagi tolerare labores , 
 
 Neptuno piceas gaudet fafpendere vefies$ 
 
 *D imida ut navis rimis atque imbre dehifcem 
 In fcco laceras re/upinatlittorecoflas 
 lam dudum pzrtxfa maris? fio tardus ($* ttgtr 
 
winter. 
 December , er eld Kjlge. 
 
 Atlas , who did the ftarry Heaven uphold. 
 
 When worne with fpace of yeares.be waxed old. 
 
 He laide his charge Alcida necke upon. 
 
 Whom love begetting jdrove two nights inoncS 
 Adilonjjvho learnd to carry by degrees 
 A Bull, did weep e to fee his feeble knees. 
 
 When worne with age, his finews he did find. 
 
 And Limbcs not anfwering to his champion minde. 
 
 The Lyon, at whofe noyfe, the woods did quake* 
 
 And every beaft,with dreadfull fearc did (hake. 
 
 Now broken with yeares,he fcarce his taile can drags 
 Behind the filly flockes he’ s forc’d to lagge, 
 
 He’s hunger* bitten,the herds fecurely play. 
 
 He feesjbut cannot catch his wonted prey. 
 
 Evenfo the Souldier who did weare a Crowne 
 Of Oake,and oft triumphed with renowne, 
 
 (Siach as brave Cocks for his Country (food. 
 
 Or Romulus iprinkled with Mtons blood. 
 
 Or ftout MarcelluSyCt fierce Coffin which 
 Did Jupiter Feretrius all enrich) 
 
 Now free to Mars he hangeth up his armes. 
 
 Nor is he (burred up with fierce alarmes 3 
 When Martiali trumpets found, and drummesare beaten. 
 When horfes neigh, when noyfe the (lanes doth threaten. 
 He fits unmov’d,nothing his courage whets. 
 
 His wonted heate and (pint he forgets. 
 
 The Marriner who faild the Pygmies coaft. 
 
 After with many ftormes he hath beene toft. 
 
 He takes himfclfe to reft, becaufe he can 
 
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 ■wot now endure the raging Ocean ; 
 
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HYEMS. 
 
 December, five Scneflus 
 
 Nauta domirccubat 9 terra ut committere fojflt 
 ReRiquias marinae inarata tcedia vita* 
 
 Dukefuit quod cuffy prius defluxit, in into, 
 yltima fold manet fex deterrima fundo. 
 
 PoJcitisO rnijeri feros cur Ne floris annos 
 Alterna wmir are mam, contendere cervo 
 Vivaci % & vet kl<e coni is ducere vitam ? 
 
 Nulla dies mceiore vacat, net lull thus bora 
 "OUa cantycrefcit cumcfy anxietatibus at as. 
 
 Longius f« fluid us ft quaff a car in a pr 9 fundos 
 Egreditur, ditis dibet ludibria ventis 
 Hocmagifyfg* timor cfl : repetat n> naufraga littus * 
 T roile tu felix impubes fortiter armos 
 Fmifii,ferocuinon temerata dolore efl 
 lmbeliis , trifliffy cetos : f fata dedi flent 
 Banc infelici Priamo cum conjuge mortem. 
 
 Non tot vidiflet natorum funera, rapt as 
 Crinibus Iliad as lacer is, nec Pergama flammis 
 * Diruta , non rivo maculajfet f anguinis aras . 
 
 Quid non longaevi labe faftat temporis alas f 
 Pyramides cedunt annis ,& MaufoUa, 
 
 *DeHrUxit Rhodium curiofa Jenclla Coloflumi 
 Longa dies minuit vires, forti [que vigorem 
 Corporis exilem citius perducit ad umbram . 
 
 Forma perit bcevfus non agro in corpore fen fiti 
 Jntfaurat 5 pereunt Naturae &* munera fortis $ 
 Virtm fola manet Jludio quam prima juventus 
 Quafivit, triflem confolatuvfy feneftam ; 
 
 Hcec pr te ft at mifer is facunda viatica canis , 
 
 X)t fcimillantes T it anis lumtna jfleltas 
 Obfcmanty virtus trifles fic mole dolores 
 Opprimit, in fanas nonpajja exire querelas § 
 
 Jpfa fibi merces pulcherrima Aigrtafy votis 
 sola pqsycafu tranquillos reddit in omr&* 
 
WINTER ;2 
 "December ^ or old age» 
 
 That which the Sea hath left, and ftormes and toyle^ 
 tie minds to truft it to his Country foyle. 
 
 Sweetenefle is gone,nothin2 but dregs remaine. 
 
 The bottosne doth both leaft and worft containe. 
 
 Why feeke you wretched men to reckon your dayes 
 With three ag*d Neftor ? as if it were praife. 
 
 To live beyond the Stagge,and Crowiiio day 
 Doth want his crofle s each houre vyhich doth delay 
 Our deathjprolongsour mifery,our woe 
 | Encreafeth more,themore in age we grow 3 
 The leaking (hip, the longer way (he makes* 
 
 The greater danger (till (he undertakes > 
 
 And if (he (hall lanch further in the deepe, 
 
 No skilfull Art can her from fhipwracke kecpe. 
 
 Thrice happy Troile who did bravely dye. 
 
 Before thy gray -haires rafted mifery 5 
 If deftinies had fo with Priame delt. 
 
 He lhould not have fo grievous forrowe’s fclc> 
 
 His childrens death, rapes,flames.and clam’rous groanes 
 
 h ! S bloodj have diench ’ d the Altar ftoncs. 
 What doth not age confume? The monument 
 ut Cana r gone, the Pyramids are fpent $ 
 
 AMei gract ColoJJik now is turn’d to nought 
 And ft^ngth of body is to weakenefle brought.' 
 
 Age ie lining vigour turnc ? man to a ghoft, 3 
 
 Who lately did of nerves and finewes boaft. 
 
 Eeauty decayes, wealth cannot cure difeafe, 
 p n Matures gifts, confuting age doth fefze i 
 ^onftant and firme, Vertue remaines alone, * 
 
 And comforts age,when ftrength and all are gone, 
 
 ^ ay-haires provifion.. Like as P h*bus bright 
 _ kneth the Planets with his greater light * 
 
 a° 7r^ S S reatneffe d °th all forrowes quell * 
 
 And luffeis not hearts fad complaints to fweli. 
 
H Y E M S. 
 
 December, five Senedus. 
 
 "Dir a SyYdcufia* qum flamma incenderet arces > 
 
 CMarceUi^ manus den [arent undiq cades* 
 
 Inter tot fremim, Strepitus Uamnta ruinas , 
 
 Inter tot gemitus flandus, querulo fik dolores * 
 
 Cosli doclcfcncxanino ftudiiffe vacabas , 
 
 Alcyon veluti medqs fecururin undis* 
 yi% hoflile tuo fenfifli in petfore fenum» 
 
 O animi dulcis reqakSyO fo'a voluptas 
 j/irm ! Tu tollis humana incommoda vit<e* 
 
 7) mna fine flutis minuis wulcefy dolores , 
 
 Latitiam, quamvis mifer immortalibus adfers. 
 
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 Horrida cycnxi vallant mihi tempora cant, 
 
 T eflanturfa byemis tempus adeJJ e nives* 
 
 Luxfa maligna meas obfufiat nube feneflras * 
 
 Attritu dentes confinuere mol*. 
 
 Corporis fiaft* incipiant nutare column * 9 
 
 Ac labat tn firma mole caduca domus, 
 lam trifles adfert morbos curio/a Scnetfus, * 
 
 Debilis enervat languida membra fiupor . 
 
 Quicquid dulce fuitperijt > mihigaudia vita 
 
 Si qua fuere me<e,jam meminijfe grave eft, 
 
 M&flath pallentes Lethes mens fomniat umbras 
 Occur fatqoculu mortis imago meis . 
 
 Impia dum recolo lafeivafafla juvent £, 
 
 Concidit ad gemitus mwfta fene fla graves* 
 
 Vifla velut nubm juvenilis gl oria fugit s 
 Iris utijn locrymas vita foluta fluit. 
 
 0 simem iyiofce pater ,dam>mm^ feneflte 
 Salvifica reparet gratia fanfla fide. 
 
 Spiritus M therios inflauret pedore fenfus» 
 
 Vt folum fapiat mens animufqfpolum * 
 
 DcUf mihi noxa tecmeria certa remiffx» 
 
 Cedat & fiterni feeder is arrba vM : c . 
 
WINTER. 
 December, or Old Age. 
 
 It doth content it felfe, it» owne reward 
 In greateft dangerjftill th« fafeft guard. 
 
 When flames did Syratufes Caftle* burne, 
 
 When Roman forces did them overturhej 
 Mongft (laughters, clamours, ruines, deadly noyie* 
 Thoti Archimedes onely didft rejoyces 
 Attyotlzhkt in trouble thou hadft reft, 
 
 And fcarfely felt the fword thruft in thy breft. 
 
 O happy reft of minde, O onely pleafure, 
 p Comfort of age, mans bleft and onely treafurc, ] 
 Thou leffnift woe, nothing can thee annoy* 
 
 In midft of mifery, thoh affordeft joy. 
 
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 Gray hayres encompafle now my head, fnowes 
 Tell rue that Boreas blower 
 A foggy dimmencffe doth my eyesaflaile. 
 
 My grinders gin to faile. 
 
 My flagger iog pillars cannot ftand at all* 
 
 My houfc is neere to fall. 
 
 Old age brings with it ficknefle anddifeafe. 
 
 My limbes fl eke fluggifo cafe. 
 
 All pleafure*$ gone* it doth me fore annoy. 
 
 To thinke ofyciiths delight and former joy, 
 
 My mi nd doth dreame of Ghoflcs , before tnineeyes 
 , Deaths imigeftill doth rife, 
 
 when crrours of my youth I call to mind, 
 
 V t. i Old age doth forrow finde. 
 
 Youths glory like the rainebowes painted jfpheres, 
 
 , Doth vanifh into teares. 
 
 O Father pardon and with faring faith, 
 t Repaire what lofle age hath, 
 
 let thy good fpirit quicken thy grace in me. 
 
 That Hcav’ft my thought, my hearts defire may be # 
 
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 HYEMS. ? 
 
 December, five Sene&us* 
 
 Sic ego Ccelefiis patria obleffabor amore % 
 
 Hos mihi lenimen dulce datoris erit, 
 
 1 Sic cupiam grata dijfohi morte, parentem 
 
 Cbrifie , tuum ut poffim cemere 3 Chnfte 3 meutiU 
 Empyreas gterna tuas ubi pax colit arces , 
 Gaudiaque in>nuUos interitura dies, 
 Spefialitque fides 3 qua credidit, & potietur 
 Spes wto> C celi regna tenebit amor . 
 
 
 
 Januarius 
 
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Winter. 
 
 December, er eld \*/[ge. 
 
 Grant me alTurance of forg'rvnefle Lord, 
 
 Eatrneft offpritand word* 
 
 So {hall the thought of Heavens eternal! reft s 
 
 Comfort my foule diftreft. 
 
 So let me be dilToIv’d, to be with Thee, 
 
 .. „ ° ur Father>Lord 3 tofec* 
 
 Where b!efledpeace 5 eternall joy doth dwell. 
 
 Which no time e're can quell. 
 Where faith doth fight,and hope doth wifli obtaine. 
 Where endjeffe Ioye for eyermore (hall raigne. 
 
 3 3 January 
 
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 I nAm Aquarius 5«^ V m J 
 
 To throw forth balefull floods out of mine urns? 
 Sprwgwhe/s thy dreffe? Summer thy fragrant flowers? 
 jiutUTYiHC thy p leaf ant fruits? loo here s my fhowtrs* 
 What ever pleafure in the world was found. 
 
 By this my fatali deluge now is drown'd. 
 q when men a Noah fo long preaching hear e s 
 JjCt ev*ry one take heede and fi and in fear?» 
 
5 iwsssISiisssI 
 
loss 
 
 
 HYEMSL 
 Januarius five Mors. 
 
 T Rift is ubi inveflam profundit aquarius urnam « 
 lupitor &* gdido de ficendit plurimus imbre , 
 
 Ac nebulis urget mundum, brumamque flagcttat 
 Stridula tempeftas , • Ccelt grando fovora $ 
 
 Omnia tunc refugo in terram fiant marcida fuccpa 
 Exanimata gela moriuntur femina vti<e. 
 
 Si qua manent, m2 tUmulaniur vifleere terta*. 
 
 Mole gemunt ntvium flaltus , lacer iflque rigefeit 
 Ramis fis* rupto macreflcit cortice fylva> 
 
 Stant & aqua petfftm glaciali compede vintft 2 , 
 Immenfofque lacus capuli crystallina condit 
 ,Arca, natant vivi torpenti in flumine pi fleet $ 
 
 Terra fcpulta jacet nivibus, torpedine ta£H 
 \ Erigaris , exangues perdunt flka gramina camph 
 itatis defevit byems , quum incurva vacillat 
 Fixqueejfceta levi fuflentat membra bacillo . 
 
 Se minor eU homo majus onus, quum cernuus agrum 
 Obfiipat caput in filices , capularis ad orcum 
 Feftinat pedibus trinis, fled grejjibus impar 
 Inque potens ruit m prtectps, inopina cbaronth 
 Ad ferrugineam dum fertur flarclna cymbam . 
 
 Naflcendt lex certa , via efi mortalibus una 
 M lucem, fed mille patent ad funeret port t. 
 
 Farcte molle fleant primi lanugine flamen. 
 
 Et quod rugo fd carie, caniflque rige flit ^ 
 Verfdphonxafugit nullum, non Proteus oret 
 Tot poterat mutare, vices variare quot illa > 
 
 Savior in quofdm torbtenta excogitat , arma 
 Carnificis, clavos, uncos, cuneo flque trabalesi 
 Editior e(l aliis, flnfimque in corpore vires 
 iit fibras minuit, jrangitque state cicadas • 
 
 Immcros fui caflws, diferimm mille _ 
 
I amtary, or Death. 
 
 Hen cold Acpuariui empties all his paile. 
 
 And lupirer with clouds the world doth vnile. 
 When noyjfing tempeft jerks the winter sky, 
 
 And crackling hajIe,aIongs the aire doth flye, 
 
 Then to earths bowels Plants do fend their juice. 
 And every thing benum med {tends with ice » 
 
 If any feeds of life are to be found, 
 
 They lye entombed in the frofi y ground 5 
 The groaning woods , their burthens cannot beare. 
 Which from the jftocke the boughs and barkedoe teare. 
 With icy letters rivers faft are bound, , 
 
 And in a Cryflall coffing Lakes are found, 
 jLive fifties in dead waters iwimme,and cold. 
 Cramplike, the earth doth with Convultion hold! 
 Mans winter is, when he hath waxed old. 
 
 And with his ftaffe ? can fcarce himfelfe uphold j 
 The Ieffe he grower ,the heavier he him finds. 
 
 And Hooping downe, nothing but grave he mind?, 
 Thither he haftnins with three fecte,cannot 
 Make good his pacc,and fals in Charons boat. 
 
 We know our birth ; there’s one way to this light, 
 
 ®ut more then thoufahd wayesro fatall night ; 
 
 The deftinies doe cut the threed new fpunne. 
 
 As well as that,which wearing hath undone, 
 
 Death miffeth none 3 and Proteus could not take 
 More (hapes, then (he ftrangc kinds of death can mafee'j 
 To fome more cruell torments Ihe invents, 
 
 Gibbet and Racke, which naturali dea'h prevents 5 
 To fome more meeke,them foftly (he oatweares, 
 Subftrad:inglife,by multiplying yeares j 
 What man ca h tell the many thoufmd kindes 
 Of ftrange difeafes, which for man flu findes ? j 
 
 Sunn 
 
HYEMS J 
 Ianuarius, five Mors.’ 
 
 Morborum» diras febrium numerare cohortes 
 Quit valeat ? non m volitant fab fy der e claro 
 Corpora que fallant oculos fine lumine Solis, 
 Quot mala verfut <s comitantur flamina parca > 
 Quilibet unm figitur qui munere vitee 
 MiMe modis pereat $ tot non arteria motui, 
 Vebrkulofa ciet, quot mors dare vulnera pojfii» 
 Sive placet macte gracilenti corporis artus , 
 
 f JJ t i ; # //,*,*/* r A,j fait risi fl/immit 
 
 inch % 
 
 EttonftUarumvts flammea pauce tumejeunt ; 
 
 Stu capitis dolor affligit, tephaltafa rumpent 
 Tempovayqu^ oculos tendit catalepfis hiantes j, 
 
 Sive veter no fi tabes lethargica [omni 
 'Enervat, faltufy rotans vertigine corpus. 
 
 Et morbus rigidos convellens fp a fmate nervos 5 
 Sive cutem (cabris maculis elephantia pingit » 
 
 Seu nitet hac multum diftenta inter cute lympha » 
 Seu phagedena nocet, five orthopnea meatum 
 Non facilem prabet vitalis follibus aura , 
 
 Seu papulis turgens boa : Mors efl gnara nocendi 
 {MiUe artes doUa»& -fraudum (ludio fa novarum. 
 Sed gravior nuSus quam Ceeli morbus , & atthre 
 Exitio fa lues, populatrix unica mundi S 
 E lumina Letheis quum currunt languida lymphis» 
 
 E t gravidat letho nubes fatale venenum 
 {Diffundunupatulifa meat mors faucibus oris i 
 Ne&areo pro me greges aconita trilinguis 
 * Dira fer# lambunt» flant lurida pabula tabo J 
 ln% homines fievire folet crudelius (eheu) 
 
 Vidimus, & tanti fuimus pars magna doloris i 
 Puum fave /a» rubitb Aniligenas graffata per eras 
 
winter. 
 
 fynmrjyOr Death. 
 
 Sunne never fo many A tomes fly, 
 
 As fates have way es for our Mortality * 
 
 We have one life, we may a thoufand wayes 
 3 Lofe it ;each ftroke of pulfe can end our dayes. 
 Whether confumption us ext nuate. 
 
 As waxe with lingrmg fire is macerat e, 
 
 (Sr too much beate or moyft ure doth us quel!. 
 
 Or fquincie inflames the jawes and males them fwelJj 
 Oraches, meegrimes, head-tormenting paine. 
 
 And flaring catalepfis 1 from the braine* 
 
 Or a continuall fleepe oflethargie. 
 
 Or giddy ihaking of fome Artery* 
 
 Or ftrong Convulfion fits of crampe or goute» 
 
 Or leprofie which paints the skinne without* 
 
 And deadly water which pufles up the skin, 
 
 ThirflijJg the more, the more it fwilleth in : 
 
 Or runhing cancer uiher us to death, 
 brvitall bellowesfcarce afford us breaths 
 Or poxe or meafles* cunning death doth knovy 
 A thoufand trikes mans life to overthrow. 
 
 But none mor^ grievous than infe&ious ayre. 
 
 Which Iyeth wafte this Fabricke every where} 
 
 Then fainting brookes with Lethes ftreames doe flow. 
 Clouds big with death abroad doc poyfbn blow. 
 
 When men and beafts mortality doe breath, 
 Andbeaftsfor dew, from grafle doelicke their death* 
 Hcav'nraines infection, fuddaine death doth fall 
 Like Manna, meat’s made poyfon, honey gall. 
 
 It rageth moft ’gainft men, as vve have feene. 
 
 Who of this evil! partakers late have beene* 
 
 When raging in this land both night and day. 
 
 It did not tithe, but fVifeepe who’e townes away 5 
 As thou (alaffe) faire London well canft tell, 
 
 Sow thou Thames river with thy team didfilwell* 
 
 * * i ... e' >• ‘V v 
 
H Y E M S. 
 Januarius five Mors. 
 
 Vrbibus exhaaflos tetovaflare penates. 
 
 Londinum quoties T amifinas /Ictibus undos 
 Auxifli , dicant , quos vix dum cymba Charontu 
 ranfmfit , mancfpe tui, quos vix capit Orcus ? 
 <Z\lorte gravi gravior pejiis , teterrima lethi 
 Eft facts a pigr u for dent languori bus artus , 
 
 Lumina flant flammis» exardent ora rubore > 
 
 Corporis inque arcem fcandit vapor igneus } artus 
 Pafcitur, tS* exefeit flammis torrentibus herpes » 
 Indeflupore rigent oculi, de naribus ater 
 Sanguinisit rivus, reformat tinnitibus aures ' 3 
 ilia fingultu tenduntur, fur git ab alto 
 Spiritus, arcano gemitu, gravisi ajpera cl&ufas 
 Lingua premit fauces » fit is infitiabilis urget 9 
 Amplexuque crebro torpentia faxa fatigant , 
 
 Et gelidos po /eunt fontes, cuftode remoto ; 
 
 Liventes papulce dant jfi&rfo in corpore navos, 
 Etmaculce narrant difrumpi flamina vit<e . 
 
 Huic genus omne mali cedit mortalibus agris 
 JQuod Pandora dedit» vU morbi haud triilior uUa eflj. 
 Non tantum nocuit gravis amphisbena veneno , 
 
 Non tantum ammodites flavis agnatus arenis. 
 
 Viper a* nec fcytak vario qu<t tergore fallit , 
 
 Non falamandra gravis, fitienfque in flumine dlpfm , 
 Nonfeps tabificus ,nontr i fli Scorpio cauda , 
 
 Frigidus aut Bufo ? non fu leans arva pareas * 
 
 Non afpu , diroque necas qui regule vi/u. 
 
 O fupen ! procul a noflru htec exulet orw. 
 
 Ut liceat patribus natorum claudere ocellos* 
 
 Ft natis gelidas animas haurire parentum. 
 
 M quot a quot vaflo magum in gurgite, &idr$ 
 
 Quot furor exitio dedit, tst vefanacupido , 
 
 Et male fanusamoY, vi/que implacabilis irce ? 
 Ofiagilis vita» o incena» o fluxa* caduca* 
 
WINTER, 
 
 January, er Death. 
 
 They could dedare,whom feptdchers cannot 
 Coiitaine>ncr yet have paft in Charons boat $ 
 
 The Plague more grievous is » hen death,no wits 
 Can ere devife more fcarefull lookes andfitsj 
 A heavy languor doth their fpirits tire. 
 
 Their eyes with j0am.es »their faces burne with fires 
 A fcorching vapour doth their head poffefiej 
 The fore burfts forth . their eyes with ftupidnefle 
 Doe flare $ their noftrils drop with filthy gore. 
 
 Their cares doe tingle, and their griefe is more : 
 
 Their bowels like to burft with fighes and mones, 
 
 Draw from their inward parts moft grievous grones. 
 
 Their tongues fwell in their throates,and thirft themkils. 
 They grafp cold ftcnes,when they have their wils ? 
 
 Blacke wheales arifing give a certaine token. 
 
 That now their fatal! threed of life is broken. 
 
 No mortali evill like this Pandora brought. 
 
 Nor fuch difeafo ftepmother Nature wrought? 
 
 The double-headed ferpent with his fling. 
 
 Nor fandy viper, can fuch venime bring, 
 
 Nor Scytale, whofe back’s like gliftring gold. 
 
 Nor thirfty Snake, nor Salamander cold, 
 
 Nor rotting Horne, worne, nor the Scorpions taile. 
 
 Nor Toade,nor wide * mouth’d ferpent fo prevaile. 
 
 Nor Africks Afpe nor Bafiliske, who fees 
 Afarre.and kils wkh poyfon of his eyes, 
 
 Good God, doe banifh fuch a curfe away. 
 
 That friends,their friends in ficknefle comfort may. 
 
 How many in the Oceans bottome lye. 
 
 Or elfe by love, or w arres revenge, doe dye ? 
 
 O brittle,fraile, uncertaine life, undone 
 By thoufand evils, and yet not match to one 1 
 Shall fury of Heavn 3 of Sea, and Land this blow. 
 
 And winds soncurre a bubble to ©’rethrew. 
 
* 
 
 H V E M S. 
 
 Ianuarius, five Mors. 
 
 inmmeris ohftff a malis, impar tamen ani i 
 siecine ventorum concurrunt agminajbullam 
 Ft frangant C<eli&>fali& i folifa furores 
 Ergo anima hotpitioqoum corporis exulat,drcz& 
 Empyreas repetit, patnum^ inilfit Olympum t 
 Felix po ft tantos vita^ viaque labores » 
 
 Optatos O 'i poterit qua intrare penates, 
 JEternaque frui requie^clatifque triumphis i 
 Felix incerta po(l tot dif crimina fortis. 
 
 Contigit Mtherto cuijamrequicftere portu i 
 intend corpus vary ludibria caJus , 
 
 Pr^da jacet cruda fylva, aut fublme putre/ cent 
 Vat corvis, caloque dapes j quot gurgite vdfto 
 Corpora dar,t avidis inopinam pifeibus ejeam ? 
 Pauca fu<e matris redeunt in vifcera terra , 
 Imponuntque regis clamdta cadavera, paucos 
 Frafica deftet anus , lugubris vel nariia pompa, 
 Quits ante ora patrum , natorum, vxoris y amicti 
 Contigit oppetere capulo mutare penates. 
 
 Sic anima po^quam dtfceffus [oberit artus 
 in luti deforme Chaos: non frigidiora 
 Membra jacent ,quam f iget amor lugentis amick 
 Vxorifque novos meditamis tunc bymentos. 
 ScUhiut luUumpuliifque nitoribus hares 
 Gaudia per fonatftum toto latior afft 
 Naturam beat Cjr* parcas, quod cana parentis 
 Funera foUntur loculi [olentur & arca. 
 
 Lenius & plena fu (p iret plavflus ih atda. 
 
 Sic ubi, qui cunque e ft bares (hxc funt mea )dixi$i 
 IDefunflus proprios jufim mutare penates 
 Effertur) foribus quia non pedes ocyus exit : 
 Agmina amicorum ftipant ex ordine longo , 
 
 Arma viri claris portant jp e flanda tropkais, 
 
 M oeftitimqM tub * fngmt ifuffataqm ttffbd 
 
WINTER. 
 
 lMnuary i $r Death. 
 
 So when the foule the body doth forfake 
 And can it felfe to fyrie heav’n betake» 
 
 Happy that after labours it cah goc 
 To HeavVis etcrnall maniions from below, 
 
 T' enjoy the pleafures of eternall reft, 
 
 With triumphs ’mongft the Angels to be bleftj 
 Happy who after fo uncertaine chance 
 Can fafely to the haven of Heav’ns advance. 
 Perhaps the body hath become a prey 
 To bcaftsjOr in the ayre doth rot away» 
 
 Or feedes the vultures, or by cruell fate. 
 
 To greed y fifties hath become a bate : 
 
 Pew to their mothers belly doe returne, 
 
 And few are layd onfav’ry piles to burne. 
 
 For whom old women fing a mourning fongj 
 None befide s thoie, who dye their friends among» 
 Whofe kinfmen deere their dying eyes doe (hut* 
 And from their beds them in a coifing put. 
 
 So when the foule hath parted cleane away 
 And left the body like a lumpe of clay: 
 
 The carcafe is not colder then the love 
 Of wife and friends, who doe unconftant prove* 
 Theheire in mourning weedes lockesvery fine» 
 He maskes his joy, andthankes the fates divine» 
 And natufe,that his gray-hayr’d father’s gone. 
 And he o f all his bagges left heire alone ; 
 
 He joyesto fee the treafures newly found. 
 
 The more he fees, his fighes more foftly found: 
 The dead is facrificed on t he flirine. 
 
 Of Profer pine, the heire fayes, Allii mine % 
 
 And ’caufe he cannot goe, he’s caried forth 
 Accompany’d with all his friends of worth* 
 
 His trpphees flye abroad, and martiall armes. 
 
 And warlike trumpets whifper fad alarmes. 
 
HYEMS. 
 Januarius fi ve Mors. ; 
 
 Pita antics newer at-, pralvftiis it undique pompa 
 Sed pofiquam ventum e ft ad tetra palatia mortis» 
 Inglvviemqae Orci, tsr putres telluris hiatus 
 imtcimt nudum capulum! deque agmine tanto 
 JNon eftj ( um veter i qui nunc inhumetur amico 
 Dfjeedunt omnes > fotus jacet ikefepukbro» 
 
 Vt: mibus ejia, chaos capuli putre, fabula vulgi* 
 
 
winter. 
 
 lMwry t or Death. 
 
 fayt'd mourners Chew his y ceres, the pompe fo braved 
 Convoy him to his cold and fad like grave : 
 
 But when they come to deaths pale habitation 
 And fee the pit which gapes with de (elation. 
 
 They throw the naked ccffing inj of all 
 His friends, not one for love will with him fall 
 All gets them gorte,he {kill alone doth lye, 
 Jtottfinnefle, wormed bate,ta!eof mortality. 
 
 t*„. 
 
HYEMS; 
 
 Ianuarius five Mors.' . / 
 
 if , 
 
 Opera? precium hic videbatur cycnseum illud Car- 
 men poeta? quidem clariflimi, fed anonymi, la- 
 tinitate donare, quod homines mortalitatis fuse 
 non infuaviter moneat. 
 
 f\Valk Veflam pubes Alabandica flora, 
 Qu alix & arborea gloria prima coma, 
 Quale decus florum verno [kb tempore ridet$ 
 Quale nitet prim o mane ferena dies. 
 
 Quale jubar rutilans > quahfque evanida nubes % 
 Qualis Amatbid, 't roflida /cena fuit » 
 
 Talis homo > cujus fatalia flamina vita 
 Net ftmuli & diro pollice parca fecat: , 
 Spina to fee fupexefl, funduntur ab arbore florei 
 Herba perit, parvo tempore mane fugit. 
 Occiduum jubar efl, nubis pratervolat umbra , 
 Scena repente cadit , vita caducaperit • 
 
 Qualia flant teneris na flentia gramina campis. 
 Qualis & in vanum fabula coepta jocum, 
 gua’is avis fylva nulla qua f ede moratur, 
 
 Qualis & in pratis pendula roris onyx, 
 
 Qualn <3* efl hora, [ fithama dimen jio qualis'. 
 Quale folet carmen fundere trifiisolor: 
 
 Talis homo , cujus non certo obnoxia fato 
 Tempora, & Iliacis accumulata malisi 
 Gramma flacce f eunt» properum dat fabula fluet#, 
 Avolat hinc volucrk, ros (ff in alta micat, 
 Bora brevis > jpitham# non efl dimenfjo longa, 
 
 Vt moriturus olor, fle moriturus homo* 
 
 QualubuUa natat tremuli prurigine rivi. 
 Qualis #* injpmlo lev* imago nitet , 
 
H Y E M S. 
 Ianuarius, five Mors." 
 
 Qualis Macbmm telam per cur fit ctrundo, 
 Qualis mnofo littera fcriptd /olo. 
 
 Qualis & eft nictus mentis fomnt. 
 Quale fluit murmur defilientis aqua | 
 
 Talis homo duris debens ludibria parch. 
 
 Errat inflabiles it $ reiitc^viees > 
 
 Bulla crepat devis jpccult drjparet imago s 
 Torquetur peblen,c&ca litura perit. 
 
 Excidit exanimo fenfmfle lumine fomnuii 
 Et tanquam rivi murmure vita fluit . 
 
 Quales decurrunt fiuvij torrentibus undis t 
 Ojialis a Parthi mijfa fagitta manu , 
 
 Qualis equi cur [m Ruperat qualis pila metam 2 
 Qualis & e diti fl/oitula miff a domo , 
 
 Quales non certo curfu Uant aequoris «eftus. 
 Qualis Arachneei pendula tela laris : 
 
 Talis homo vit<e medi) i j allatus in undis, 
 
 Nu/la cui mentis gaudia, nulla quies 5 
 Miflile abit telum, reduces funt cequoris ceflus) 
 Nuda mora e ft curfiu,rupta(b tela cadit y 
 Emicat ad metam pi } a,moxe$ portula nuda , 
 
 Sic repetetis mams eft modo nudus homo . 
 
 Quale corufcmti defeendit ab JE there fulgur, 
 <Angarus ad Dominum quale capejjtt iter 
 Quales funt cantus paufre numeric \ minores 9 
 Aut viaper tridui continuata moras , 
 tipitm teflivo qualis mxfauciafole. 
 
 Quale pyrum pnecox, qualia pruna cadunt % 
 Halk t$* accumulat fatali lege dolores, 
 
 Etfubii hanc lucem cras moriturus homo s 
 Wmefcit fulgur, feftinat nuncius, omnem 
 TAufa rapit cantus» & via parva moram# 
 
H Y E M S. 
 Ianuarius, five Mors. 
 
 Et pyr a putrefiunt, funduntur pYma } liquefcit 
 Nix, tandem quic quid vixit in orbe, perit , 
 
 Reforreftio. 
 
 fiVdia frugiferis concredita femina fulcis 3 
 Quale \a iMarthiden ceperat urna putris » 
 Qualis mortifero Tabitha oppejja fopore , 
 
 Oualis , qui ceti viva fabarrafuit , 
 
 Quaha lucifugae fcintilUnt fydera nottis. 
 
 Et condunt vultus adveniente die . 
 
 Talis & Hmanzcondit mors lumina vita*. 
 
 Mone tamen vitta fit redivivus Homo. 
 Semina viv if cunl> Marthides furgit ab urnd 3 
 FitTabithzvigil, belluareddit onus, 
 
 Nox fugit, &r fi ell<e > fubeunt mox gaudia lucis, 
 Atque Homo pofi fatum Uitte fuperfies ov&U 
 
 
 M En,beafls and birds y mountaines,andcAfile$ bp 
 Like fifhes in oblivion drowned lj e • 
 
 The feas and floods prevAile y an d all is gone 9 
 Deucalion *nd Pyrra, ure left alone * 
 
 The f aire, the p leaf ant , fruitfully eare ispaft, 
 
 $And Confummatum now hath com* d at laftl 
 As in the feas, the life fiber e fijbes have y 
 So fhall we take our being from the grave* 
 
HYEMS. 
 
 Februarius, fiye Mortuorum Februa» 
 
 Epitaphium Adami primi humani 
 generis conditoris. 
 
 J -| Vmctni ge neris pater 3 immortalis in horam^ 
 Mox mihi mox cuneis mortis origo fui, 
 Solm ego vixi felix, conferte beatus . 
 
 . & felici, fcittut utere^ mi fer. 
 
 Vrmus pecCavi^vonfolus 5 nam mea proles 
 lnmepeccavitydehet & illamori, 
 Qmia divina mihi primo miff a / alutis , 
 
 Vt i proles hanc habitura §de e8 c 
 
 Mcthuflialami omniumjqui vixerunt^ 
 maxime longaevi* 
 
 JLU Ego fam long# monHrum admirabile vita 
 dEvi non numerent aBra minuta mei. * 
 
 St mare clepfedra vitreo fit career e claufum 
 Non fatis efl horis gurgitis unda mei, r, 
 
 T ot maris immenfi non furgunt turbine fluffy 
 Quot vidi Eoo /urgere ab axe dies . 
 
 Sapius ardenti zidi fub Sole recentes 
 Phoenices nidis exiluiffe fuit . 
 
 Ef /oboles Quercus, que nafcunturab iBis* 
 
 m Noferorum armorum confennete moris, 
 
 Credideram non poffe mori me 3 ve&t at aurem 
 Sera licet t dicms parca , neceffi mori eft. 
 
 Hoc me folatur, fuerit quo longior atao> 
 
 Hoc brevior mortis pofeeafemnas erit» 
 
 Abraham! 
 
I 
 
 WINTER* 
 
 February, or Epitaphs, which may he termed 
 Februa, celebrated for the memory of cer- 
 tame fifties . 
 
 Epitaph of Adam the firfi father of mankind* 
 
 t Firft of mankind, made by power divine, 
 
 -Immortali once, brought death on me and mine. 
 
 Alone I flood, but marryed, I became 
 Curfed, aslikewife eurfed was my dame. 
 
 I finned firft, but not alone, my brood » 
 
 Were one with me, whether I fell or flood. 
 
 Salvation firft was preacht to me, as I 
 By faith, fo may my off fprirgeome thereby. 
 
 0/Methufalem the hngeFl liver of mankind, 
 
 1*Me he, whom all for age doe wonder at, 
 
 Whofe minutes fixed ftarres fcarce calculate; 
 
 If of the fea,an houre glafle you fhould m ike, 
 
 Each houre of mine each drop of fea could takes 
 How many waves in Sea can you de vife* 
 
 Asl have feene Sunnes from the Sea arife i 
 Oftner than once the Phenix I have knowne. 
 
 From fpycie cradles frefhly to have flowne ; 
 
 Oakes and their off fprings offspring I did fee 
 Decay’d with fatall yeeres antiquity : 
 
 I thought I could not dyej but death me told, 
 
 That dye I rauft, though I were ne’re fo old : 
 
 This comforts me, the longer I did live, 
 
 The fates the Ihorter fleepe of death {hall give. 
 

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 HYEMS: 
 
 Februarius, five Mortuorum Februa 
 
 Ahrthami patris fidelium# 
 
 QVumJpes nulla font prolis, rugofaque conjux 
 Rideret Domini feeder a lotta fui . 
 
 Ecce ftatim pulchra fecit me prole parentem. 
 
 Et quia credideram me fore, faflus era w* < 
 lUe puer magna fuerat jpes unit a gentis, 
 
 Jguce Cceli fiellu aquiparama foret. 
 
 Sed maffiare Deus juffiti quod dr emus egi : 
 
 Velle meum Dominus credidit ejfe fatis. 
 
 %Ua fdes mihi vera fuit, fre natum habiturum 
 Credere , & hoc C£fo,me tamen e(fe patrem . 
 
 Zlno (ic nato , gemino fed nomine f alius 
 Sanfforumque parem » Ifaiidumque pater . 
 
 Vtque ego , fic (oboles terra perigrina per oras 
 Errat,& e fi patriam mox habitui apolum. 
 
 Samfoni fortiffimi Ifraelitarnm ducis* 
 
 ftfJiarita Deo facer ipfo a femine patris, 
 
 AbfiemU natus de genetrice fui . 
 ifacidum fulmen gentis , vindexque ducMm ( 
 
 No firci Paltfiinos perdidit ira duces, 
 guodfenfere gtavi rivales clade perempti , 
 
 Et qm vulpind fraude cremata /eges. 
 
 Qtiofque afim cafu gingiva oblata cecidit 9 
 Sedarunt cujus pocula mira fitim. 
 
 Quafque tuli , meajnnt te slat a robora porta. 
 
 Et quae difrupi fortia vincla manu. 
 
 Sed tamen has vires vicit muliercula frauds $ 
 
 ' am s robora vifladA 
 
W I NiTER. 
 
 JFebr turgor Epitaphs on the dead. 
 
 0/Abraham, th$. father of the Fdkhfn&l 
 
 W Hen hope of iflue now was all forlorne. 
 
 And Sara laughed God of Heaven to fcorne, 
 Sheftraight brought forth, and me a Father made, 
 Caufe I beleeved what Almighty faid 3 
 The child the hope was of pofterity. 
 
 Which to the ftarres of Heav’n (hould equal! be 5 
 God bid me facrifice this onely Sonne, 
 
 My will h’ accepted,as it had been® done. 
 
 Tell me, was not this conftant faith in me. 
 
 To looke for f ruites and yet to burne the tree ? 
 
 So by one Sonne, I was made father then 
 Of Ifraet^nd of all faithful! men: 
 
 As 1 ,fo (hall my off-fpriftg travlers be 
 On earth, untill their Country Heav’n they fee. 
 
 O/Sampfon the firottgefi judge of Until 
 
 A Rayifitt from the wombe,God did me call, 
 f*My mother did not tafte of wine at all ± 
 
 The Mighty Iudgeof ifrael^nd the fell 
 Revenge of J*hiliftime$ , as well could tell. 
 
 My rivales, whom I quickdy did confound, 
 
 The Corne which firy foxes burnt on ground, 
 Tljofe whom I kild with jawbone of an afie. 
 Which in my deadly third my fountainewas : 
 So Ga%as gates my firength did teftify» 
 
 The withes,ropeSjWeb,which 1 broke eafily • 
 Yet all this ftrength a filly woman could 
 y^dos/edyced with fbes-hriding gold. 
 
HYEMS. 
 
 februarius five Mortuorum Februa. 1 
 
 Bsvidis Sanftifllini Ifraelitaram Regis^ 
 
 t Lie ego qui quondam pledlro modulatus (<f ore 
 * Camina grata mihi y carmma grata "Dee, 
 
 Arc A qui coram,popula jfettante choragus 
 Ludibrium tMichabefirx pietate, fui . 
 
 Barbitos y at% lyre concentus , nablia ducis 
 Gaudia,cui medix gaudia wftis erant , 
 
 Ittterdumrivts lacrymarum prata rigavi. 
 
 Et cinere, atfe fttu diriguere gena. 
 
 Scilicet humanis ut rebus jriftia Utis 
 &Mfcentur y fic funt in pietate vices, 
 
 Nam modb tranquillas perfundunt gaudia mentes, 
 
 T otafa funt nofiro pefloraplena 2 >eo. 
 
 Et modo Cimmerijs merguntur corda tenebris % 
 lnfa animis vifus nullus adejfe Deus . 
 
 Ne defponde animm,Cceli qui numen adoras , 
 difficiles, faciles experiere vices, 
 
 Abfalomi Ifraelitarum pulcherrimi» 
 
 J^Avidide l [acidas inter pulcherrime natosp 
 Oris tam pulchri gloria vana fuit* 
 
 Comptafc Ctfaries promiffo crine decora , 
 
 Lumina, qua clavum ceu nituere jubar» 
 
 Florentefy genx,mimo(f rubentidtabra. 
 
 Quales condecorant lilia putchraro 
 Threicias qux coBa nives, burner Elephantum 
 Vincebant, juvit nil juvenile decus 3 
 Brachia candidulis multum formo fa lacertis , 
 
 Corporis & facies immaculata tui 
 Quum tua probro fo fovdefcat crimine fama 9 
 Sordeat & nomen tempus in omne tuum» 
 
 Mentis erat virtus , pilaff petenda 5 fine iUa 
 F orm bonum fragile effjp ni Am k&U 
 
 M I 
 
WINTER. 
 
 February or Epitaphs on tht dtad. 
 
 0/David the mop; holy King of Ifrad* 
 
 | The fweete finger once in Ifrael 
 'Who lov’d thefe fongs, which lik’d Almighty well. 
 Who danc’d before the Arke in peoples fight. 
 Accounted therefore by my Mhbal light; 
 
 I made Harpe, Timbrell, Lute, my whole delight, 
 Heav’ns harmony, my joy both day and nights 
 Yet fometimes on my couch thefe joyes did turne. 
 
 In floods of teares, and I did fadly mourne ; 
 
 As in all things, fo in the godly heart 
 Sorrow and joy by courfe doe pi ay their parr; 
 Sometimes the heart is calme and fweetely ftill. 
 When God the foule doth with his prefence fill; 
 Sometimes in deadly forrow it is drown’d. 
 
 And then no gracious prefence can be found. 
 
 Be not call downegood foule, how e’re it goe; 
 
 If thou be fad, it (hall not ftill be fo. 
 
 Of Abfaiom the faiyefi of IiraeL 
 
 'J'Hou Abfalomgtzzt Ifraels beamy rare. 
 
 did a vaile thy (hape, and feature fee, 
 what profit made thy Iockes and weighty haire. 
 
 Thy eyes with which the ftarres could well compare 
 Thy comely cheekes, thy lipj> vermilion red. 
 
 As hllies doe decore the rofes bed. 
 
 Thy iv’ry (houlders and thy fnow-whitc necke, 
 
 Lhy youthrull grace which did thy body decke; 
 
 Thy dainty armes with their embracements fweete, 
 1 ny body without blemifti all compleat ? 
 
 If now reprochfull vice doth brand thy fame. 
 
 And leudnefle of thy life difgrace thy name. 
 
 he vertue of the mind thou (houldft have fought. 
 ^heauty 3 wiehoutthat,is painting thought. 
 
 
HYEMS. 
 
 Februarius, five Mortuorum Februat 
 
 Salmonis fapientiffimi & ditiffimi Ifraeli. 
 tarum Regis. 
 
 I flLLe ego fwn Salomon , cujus fapkntia metam» 
 
 J Diviti* cujm non habuere modum. 
 
 Omnia qui noram, cedro/que, hederafquefequacets. 
 
 Saxorum argenti copia adindar erat. 
 
 Orbu & extremu mea fama vocavit ab oru 
 Reginam, teflh qu* foret ipfa mei. 
 
 Venit , me vidit, (iifpcxit, deinde beavit 
 Turbam qu* menfe tunc famulata me* e ft. 
 
 Omnia qu* human* poterant contingere fortia 
 Noftrafuem decus, gloria, jplendor, opes . 
 
 Omnia at inveni , qu* fublunaria , vana » 
 
 Vota hominum fenf fluxa, caduca, nihil . 
 
 FINIS. 
 
win tee: 
 
 2 tbruarj^ or Epitaphs on the dead» 
 
 of Solomon the wife ft and riche ft King o/IfraclJ 
 
 1 Once the Solomon , who did excell 
 *In wit, in riches had no paralell. 
 
 Who did from Cedars to the Ivy know, 
 
 Whofe plenteous filver did like flaiteftones goe, 
 
 Whofe glorious fame a Qucene brought from the South, 
 iThat (he a witneffe might be of the truth. 
 
 S he came, and faw,and wonderd>anddid fay. 
 
 That thofe were happy, who did with me itay> 
 
 I had alone,which all their owne doe call. 
 
 Riches, and honour ,pieafure,I had all : 
 
 Vet I did find all under Sunne to be 
 Mor tall/raile? brittle, and but vanity . 
 
 eiviv t* 8s*» 
 
 finis: 
 
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