Sir Philip Sydneys ouránia that is, Endimions song and tragedie, containing all philosophie. Written by N.B.

Sir Philip Sidney's Our●nia . OR ▪ ENDIMIONS Song and Tragedie , Containing all Phylosophie . WHen Phoebus gaue his fierie horses rest ▪ And circled had his glorious Hemisphere : When euery Creature thought him fully blest And Tytan gan old Thetu● bed to cheere , When silent-nights blacke mantle did appeare , In secret sort I gaue the looking on , While blessed Cynthia grac't Endymion . I saw how that the sacred Nymph came downe In purple Robe , with starres y●retyzed I sawe her guard , chaste Ladyes of renowne , Blest of the Gods , with fame enthronized : In neuer-dying Rowles eternized . I knew them all ; Endymion the Swayne ▪ And mightie Cynthia with her blessed Traine . Shee is well knowne whom all the world admires For vertuous life , and prudent modestie ; Rare are her gifts full of Sydner●an-fyres , Muses and Graces of high soueraigntie : Attend and garnish her with modstie . I meane not now therefore to paint her praize , Being a taske too high for withered Baize . But shew the storie as it then fell out , When she first fauoured Endymion : And how false Lyuidus brought it about , That Cynthia had him in suspi●ion : ( No heart can shrowde it in obl●uion ) And who so reades Endymions wofull Verse Let him with teares his Tragedie reherse . It greeues my heart to se the gentle Swayne , That kept his tender Lambes on Ida Mount : And brought them downe againe into the plaine , To take their pleasure by the siluered Fount , Folding them all , and taking iust account , Least one of them by Carelesse ouersight Should wandring perish in the darke-some night . It greeues my heart ( I say ) to heare his moane , Fast by the walles of Troy where once he dwelt : With wringing hands and many a greeuous groane , He did expresse the miseries he felt . A heart of flint I thinke would surely melt , To see a gentle Shepheard thus cast downe , By Enuies practise and great Cynthyas frowne . You mightie Princes and high Potentates , That with your Scepters swaye great Monarchies , You Lords and Knights and all you meaner States ▪ Which doe excell in happie dignities : Fore-see your fall by enuies Treacheryes ; And chase her from your habitation , As Hagge of Hellish generation . Obserue her practises in tumbling downe , The greatest princes of the Oulderne times : Bereauing Monarchs of th' Imperiall Crowne , Against their persons vrging fayned Crymes , As you may read in Poets golden Rymes . And see in this most wofull Hystorie , Glorious Endymions Catastrophie . In Troy Towne scituate in Cambria , There dwelt this Sheapherd of a gentle race ; Neer fronting vpon great Mongomria , Where Princely Arthur kept his courtly place , Guiding great Albion with his golden Mace , Where Knights and Ladies cladde in princely wee●s , Shew'd testimonie of their worthy deedes . There did this gentle Shepheard feed his flocke ; There tuned hee his well contryued Reede : Sitting on top of highest Ida rocke , Suffring his tender Lambes meane while to feede , Whiles he , clad in his homely Countrey weede , Sang Madrigals and Stanzies of great worth , And descanted to bring his Musicke forth . Well could he sing diuine and sacred layes , With blessed notes as Poets did record , In siluered lines painting high Ionahs praise . And eke the death of Christians dying Lord . Such Musicke did he oft his ●●ocke afford . As made them leaue their foode to listen well , As if they were inchaunted with the spell . Satyrs and Siluans at the harmonie , Sometime came darting from the darkesome Groue , Approouing oft the chaunting melodie , And with their harsh and rurall voyces stroue , To sound the praises of celestiall Ioue ; But when their Pipes and voices disagreed , They held their peace and cast away their reed . Sometimes he made the Rocks for to rebound , With Eccho of his Notes ; sometime the dales , And woods , and springs , to yeeld a burbling sound , As beaten with reflexe of Madrigales ; Sibillas Oracles , and prophets ●ales : Which shew the way to immortalitie , In perfect Hymnes of true diuinitie . So well he could his warbling Notes diuide , That other Shepheards did his ●ayes admire , And set their Notes , as he their Pipes did guide , Vntill they could vnto the like aspire : Yet neuer tooke he recompence or hire , But as he lay vpon th' Idaean hill , He dayly sounded lowde his 〈◊〉 quill , Long liu'd vpon this Mounte the gentle Swayne , Recording songs vnto the Deitie : Till Cynthia walking with her blessed Traine , Approach'd the shepheard and his melodie . Where she obseruing well the Harmonie , With Maiestie diuine and princelie grace , Retyr'd her selfe and pauz'd a little space . I well did view the Coronet she ware , With Diamonds and Saphyres orient , A Carkenet most pretious and rare , Fretized with Carbuncles which Hebae sent , ( The same which Pyrocles did first inuent ) Did circle twise , her sacred necke , & brest , In which the Muses , and the Graces , rest . Betweene her paps a lustrious Diamond ; Link'd to her Carkenet by curious Arte , ( Of yore found out by skilfull Belysond , And giuen by the mightie Britomarte ) So placed was , that light it might imparte , To all inferiour Orbs in darkest night , When Phoebus had with-draw'n his glorious light ▪ A surcote all of purple silke she wore , Diapred with Flora's curious skill , Butned with orientall Pearles before , with golden loops to fasten at her will , Fram'd for her bodie by great Astrophill . Such as Bellona vsed heretofore , In chasing of the feirce Adonian Bor● . Wauing and wide tuck 't vp vnto her knee , Adorned with a frinoge of purest gould , Whence parcell of the Lawne I chanc'd to see , That whiter then it selfe , her skinne doth fould ; By Physis fram'd for feature vncontrould : Like whitest Iuorie beautifull and trymme ▪ Whiter then Swannes that in Meander swimme ▪ Part of her legges gaue lustre to my viewe , As Iuorie pillars bearing vp the frame ; By that I iudge my other speeches true , Which who so sees shal verifie the same . Pardon diuine and most Illustrious Dame , Though simple Swaynes do glorifie thy name , Since by this subiect get we lasting fame . Her Iuorie legs and feet the bu●ltins hide , Of curious stuffe with gold imbellished , Lest natures Ornaments should be espyed , Of worth-lesse wantons , rude , vnpolished , Or Venus brats of wits vnfurnished : For ouer all , she vaild her with a Robe , As azur'd welkin ouer-spreads the Globe . Two Grey-hounds swift and white as whitest snow , Attend her to pursue the nymble Deere : And in her hand she bare a dreadefull bowe , To kill the game , if any should appeere , Or any deadly foe approach too neere , Thus stands great Cynthia in the midst of May , With all her Traine to heare Endymions Lay. What was the Subject of the Shepheards Song , Aske noble Cynthia , for shee can tell : I list not now to keep you ouer-long , For needlesse things become not stories well : The Stationers the Shepheard● musicke sel. But listen well I le tell you more anon , Of Cynthias Ladies and Endymion . The first was Vera daughter to an Earle , Vera. Whilom a Paragon of mickle might : And worthily then termed Albions Pearle , For bountie in expence , and force in fight , ( Mee list to giue so great a prince his right ) In all the Tryumphs held in Albion soyle , He neuer yet receiu'd disgrace or foyle . Onely some thinke he spent too much in vaine , That was his fault : but giue his honour due , Learned he was , iust , affable and plaine ; No traytor , but euer gratious , and true : Gainst Princes peace , a plot he neuer drewe . But as they be deceiu'd that too much trust : So trusted hee some men , that prou'd vnjust . Weake are the wits that measure Noble-men , By accidentall things that ebbe and flowe ; His learning made him honourable then , As trees their goodnesse by their fruites doe showe , So we doe Princes by their vertues knowe . For riches , if they make a King ; tell then ; What d●ffer poorest Kings , from poorest men ▪ One branch amongst the rest ; he left behinde , To spread the glory of th' Oxonian lyne : Noble by birth , true , liberall , and kinde . The glorious fruite of high Cecilian vine ; Sacred in marriage with euerlasting twyne , Which Iuno sponne for great Mongomria , A mightie Prince in western Cambria . Calandra , Hastingua . Calandra was the next of Princely race , Hastingua bred her , in her sacred Cell , Of wisedome excellent , of modest grace , Profoundest Oracles of Christian spell , Shee wisely could vnfould and plainely tell , Ashebie de la Zouch . Shee learn'd this skill of that Ashbeian Prince , Who often did Carpocrates conuince . Agape , Wrotha . Agape , with Musophila the Bride , Ladyes of worthe , and babes of Sydneia , Euph●es ornaments , and natures pride , Musophila , Herberta . Nimphs , Pastorellas of Arcadia ; Fostered in the Muses Gunakeia . These foure followed blessed Cynthia , To view the gardens of Hesperida . With many another honourable Dame , Blessed Phileta , Clara , Candida ; These lodge within the house of Cynthia , Phileta . Clara. Candida . Within the Lande of Terra Florida , Fronting the Fountaines of Ca●●alida● ; These circle fairest Cynthia in a King , While she doth stay to heare Endymion sing . The Iewels which they wore gaue such a shine , Vpon a suddaine to the sillie Swaine , That all vnable were his feeble ●yne , So great a luster longer to sustaine , Downe fell his pipes , dead was his musick●straine , For priuate men , hardly behold● her face , But straite they stande amazed in the place . But Cynthia stoop'd and tooke him vp againe , And rub'd his Temples with her tender hand : Each Ladie stroue to take the greatest paine , To rouze him from his Trance , and make him stand . Each way to saue his life , was deepely scand , But all in vaine , till Cynthia layde aside , Her Maiestie , that daunteth rurall pride . At last the sillie Shepheard gan reuiue , Yet as amaz'd he knew not where he was : But stood as one halfe dead , and halfe aliue , As often times we see it come to passe , ( For mortall man compared is to grasse ) Flora cannot susteine the parching heate , Of Phoebus beames vncessantly to beat . But shee that knew the cause of his distresse , Releiued him with words of sweetest grace And saide : Thou gentle Swayne , the Gods thee blesse , Be of good cheere : Cast sorrowe from thy face : Keepe on thy Laye , and blessed be thy race , Thrice happie he that taught thy Musicke sownd , Ioye to their hearts , whom Mis●rye doth wound . Cast feare away , I le be thy Patronesse : While Chynthia liues Endymion is sure ; Let no astonishment , thy minde oppresse : Thus did her gracious words , the Shepheard cure . Who looking vp with countenance demure , Bowing himselfe with humble reuerence , Address●d this speech , vnto her Excellence . Renowned Cynthia glorie of thy Sexe , For learning had in admiration : The shine of whose illustrious reflexe , May dazle wits of high inuention : Diuine Mistresse of Elocution , Pardon poore Shepheards rude , and worthlesse Rymes , Not such as were the Layes of Olderne Tymes . Rare is thy skill , in mightie Poesie ; Whom Poets Laureat crowne , with lasting Bayes , In Songs of neuer dying Memorie , Such as greater Homer sung in former dayes . When he with Hymnes , did chaste Cassandra praise . O let me liue I pray thee , on this Hill , And tune in Country sort my crazed Quill . This modest sute , ( quoth Cynthia ) is not fit For thee to craue ; nor for my state to graunt : Thou oughtst in higher straine t' aduance thy wit , And sacred Notes mongst learned men to chaunt ; Mee list not to thy face thy Musicke vaunt . I like it well , and this may thee suffice , Songs of no worth I vtterly dispise . If thou accountst my iudgement any thing , And deemst mee farre remote from flatterie , Let me entreate thee once againe to sing , Melodious Notes of sweetest Harmonie . For such doe please the highest Deitie , And comfort vs after our weary Howers , Which we haue spent in gathering Gilliflowers . The Shepheard lowting low , m●●le obeysance , To all the blessed Ladies in their gre● : Hee promised to shew his puissance , And tooke his Pipe downe from a lawrell Tree . ( For hundreds such on Ida planted be ) Appollo set them circle-wise for w●nder ▪ To shrowd the Shepheards from lame Vulcans thunder . And all the Ladies plac'd themselues a rowe , To compasse round the mightie Cynthia . Before was neuer seene such glorious showe ▪ To grace Endymion in Cambria . Who ( encouraged by Musophila , The Lady Bride , and Bride of happy choyce ) Tun'de well his Pipe , vnto his trembling voice ▪ And sang the Song of vniuersall Pan , High Soueraigne God , and Prince of Happines : When , where , and how , great Iou● this Globe began , To shew his euerlasting Mighti●es . How euerie Orbe his center doth possesse , And all things else as now they framed beene , In blessed order , comelie to be seene . I heard him sing a Laye of mickle worth , Which I by partes will orderly relate , Helpe me great Cynthia to set it foorth , Being choice Melodie and intricate , Prized by Poets at the highest rate , A Subject fit for Sydneys eloquence , High Chaucers vaine , and Spencers influence .

The Song . BEfore this world ( quoth he ) ●as set in frame , Or any thing , had Essence , fo●●e , or Name , Or Sunne or Moone or starry F●●mament , Or Planetarie Orbes , or Element ▪ Or Snow ▪ o● Haile , or any Meteore , Whereof each Element produceth store : Or Sea , or Sand , or Pearle ▪ or Fowle , or Fish , Or any Iewell , which the world may wish , Or Flora● Mantle garnished with flowers , Wherewith you Ladies , decke your princely Bower● : Or Trees , or Beasts , or any creeping thinges , Which nature in abundance dayly brings : Or Golde , or Siluer , Copper , Leade or Brasse , Or glorious Man , or blessed woman was , Or any thing that may be thought vpon , Had eyther state ▪ or constitution ; There was one Soueraigne God , which we call Pan , That cannot be defin'd by mortall man .

Ieho●a . Elo●●m . Theos 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 .

Deus quasi 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 Ti●or .

Some call him Ioua for his Existence , Some Elo●ym for his excellence , Some call him Theos for his burning light Some call him Deus , for his fearefull might . Some call him mightie Tetragrammaton Of letters fower in composition , There is no Region vnderneath the skie , But by foure letters write the Deitie . For fower is a perfect number square ,

The Deitie written by 4. Letters .

We call'd that Good , which now we call God .

And aequall sides in euerie part doth beare . And God is that , which sometime Good we nam'd . Before our English Tongue was shorter fram'd : Pan in the Greeke , the Shepheards doe him call , Which we doe tearme the whole vniuersall . All in himself , All one , All euerie where , All in the Center , All out , All in the Spheare , All seeing all , All comprehending all , All blessed , Almightie , All aeternall , Comprehended in no circumference Of no beginning , nor ending essence , Not capable of composition , Qualitie , accident , diuision , Passion , forme , or alteration . All permanent without Mutation ▪ Principall Mouer alwaies in action , Without wearinesse or intermission . Immortall , and without infirmitie , Of euerlasting splendent Maiestie . One in Essence , not to be deuided , Yet into Trinitie distinguished ▪ Three in one essence , one essence in three ▪ A wonder I confesse too hard for mee . Yet diuine Poets innumerable , With strong Arguments vnresistable , As Theorems , and Demonstrations , Deliuer it , to our Contemplations . The Father , Sonne , and holy Ghost these three , Are subsistent persons in the Deitie : Abba , Ben , Ruach , blessed Poets sing , Abba , Father . Ben , Sonne . Ruach , Spirit Are the true Names of Pan coelestiall King . This may suffice , to shewe a mysterie , That passeth mortall Mans Capacitie . Now to proceed : Blessed immortall Pan , Angels not made before Heauen . Was not alone before this world began , Yet were no Angels as then created , Nor Angels Offices destinated . Nor could their attendance doe him pleasure , In whom consisted all blessed treasure , All comprehending Pan was then no where . A certaine place must euery Angel beare . Not circumscriptiue but definitiue .

The Reason . Place . Circumscrip Definitiue . Repletiue .

Pan fils eache place in manner repletiue . But Abbae , Ben , Ruach in Trinitie , Making one Pan in perfect vnitie , Whole Pan in eache , and each of these in Pan , A mystery that passeth reach of Man , These were sufficient of themselues to frame , This glorious Engine which we Cosmos name . Cosmos : the world . Who when he pleas'd to make his glory know'n And haue his power manifestly show'n , He putteth on triumphant Maiestie , That all his creatures might him glorifie . And at one instant with his onely word , As a most mightie , and imperiall Lord , This wondrous frame , of Heauen and Earth we s●e ▪ At once were made in substance as they bee . Yet was this frame a Masse vnpolished , Void of all forme , rude and vngarnished , Water , Earth , Ayre , Fire , togither blended , As if Confusion were the thing intended . But mightie Ruach spread his powerfull wings , Vpon this Masse , of all confused things ; And kept it warme , making it apt to take , Such different forme as pleased Pan to make . So mightie Ioue commaunded separation , Twixt light and heauie things for generation . And of light Bodies made a Circumference , In circle wise from th' earth for difference . And made the earth both fast and permanent , The Center of th' vniuersall continent . And all these light bodies did he then dispose , Ten heauens . Into ten Heauens , the rest to enclose , The Imperiall Heauen first and principall , Coelum Empyreum . Most large and beautifull glorious , eternall , Where Pan himselfe , doth vsually rest , Where Angels dwel , and sacred soules are blest : Primum Mob●le . The second the first mouing heauen is , Not Christaline as many thinke amisse , Whereby all other Orbs doe chiefly moue , According to the will of Pan aboue . Coelum St●ll●ticum The third is call'd the starrie Firmament , which to our view is alwayes eminent . Packt full of starres as Goulden Nailes in Poast , To giue a luster vnto euery coast : To giue direction to them that saile , 〈◊〉 Hyades . From port to port , for their Countries auaile . To bring sweete shewers to Tellus excellence , As they arise by blessed influence . One shepheard thought this Orbe the first that moued , Arist. de 〈◊〉 . But false it is by many reasons proued , In order then doe follow 〈…〉 , Knowne to each Figure-stinger vnder heauen , That wize from thence many a● vncou●h-tale , As if great ●an were closed in their Male , With fierie Trigons and watrie Triplici●●● , They dazell the mindes of humane simplicitie , Turning the true nature of Ast●onomie , Into iudiciall Egyptian Sophistrie , Caster of figures . For Planets shew by their opposition , Trine , Quartile , Sextile , or Coniunction , Whereto the weather and bodies doe encline , By Natures course not prophecie diuine . Nor can they shew by any secret starre , Whether thou shalt die in pris●n or in warre , Yet doubt we not ; the Starres haue operation , Working a secret inclination . But what and how many of these Starres there b●● , Of that infinite number which we see , Whether the thousand and two and twentie , Which Shepheards single out of that plentie ; 1022. starres knowne . Or all the starres togither in the Skie , Can shew when , and where , thou and I shall die . Or al the vertues of the Planets seauen , Can proue thee damn'd , or bring thee vnto heauen : Sith iudgement of the starres can all things shew , They can vnfold this Mysterie I trow . The end of starres , as seely shepheards saine , The end why the stars were made . Was to illuminate this darkesome plaine , And to demonstrate to men of reason , Spring , Sommer , Haruest , and Winter season . Not to foreshew what certaine shall befall , To euerie part of this vniuersall . But to conclud , I say , as I began , A modest wisdome well beseemes a man .

Three other heauens or Orbs. Saturne ♄ . Iupiter . ♃ Mars . ♂

Yet these are the names of the Planets seuen , As neere as simple shepheards 〈◊〉 them 〈◊〉 , Saturne , Iupiter , and Mars , are three , Next to the starrie Welken in degree , Much slower than the rest in motion , Because of their loftie Constitution . Sol. ☉ Phoebus is next which we call Sol , the Sunne , Without whose light the world were cleane vndone Without whose heate nothing that liu's could liue , For Light and Heate , No Planet else doth giue . He is the Fost'rer of this earthly Round , And all the creatures that therein be found , Piercing all things belowe with powerfull Raies ( Harke how the chirping Birds do chaunt his praise ) He swiftly runnes ouer th' vniuersall , In twentie foure howres a day naturall And yet he keepes a station diuine , Staying one Month in euerie Zodiake Signe . Producing creatures of such varietie , As mou's all men t' admire his Deitie . No Starre within the Welkin taketh place , But borrowes light of his resplendent grace . The mightie Ocean is nourished by him , Phaebe her selfe without his light is dim . Ioues winged messenger sweete Mercurie , Is fed by Phoebus blessed harmonie . Venus the darling to the god of warre , Doth neuer rest if Phoebus be too farre . The bottom of the Sea , the fish , the sand , Receiue their comfort from his blessed hand . Tellus her selfe , and Flora in her pride , Die and consume , if Phoebus looke aside . The Diamond , Saphyr , and Rubie red , By Phoebus scorching heate are ingendred : The golden mettals in the deepest Mine , Do consecrate their being to his Shrine . Ceres that Queene doth fade and pine away , If mightie Phoebus hide his golden ray . Yea Bacchus and Pales , are soone withered , If Phoebus in the Spring doe hide his head . Aeternall night shall all the world oppresse , If Phoebus doe with-draw his golden Tresse . There was a Light before there was a Sunne , And Day and Night before Phoebus begunne . Yet is the Sunne the cause of Day and Night . Day and night before the sun was made , Genes , 1. Shepheards diuine must iudge the reason right , They say a glimering light did whirling wend , From East to West , vnto none other end , But to supplie for a time Phoebus place , Till he was made to runne his princely race . But then this whirling light that Heau'n graced , Contracted was , and in great Phoebus placed , Who euer since was cause of Night and Day , As learned Shepheards sounden in their lay . Next is the Orbe , and Spheare of Cytharaeae , Lame Vulcans wife , vnconstant Dal●la , Venus . ☿ Cupids mother , Diana's mortall foe , Cause of most warres which Gallants vndergoe . When bloodie fight the god of warre hath grieued , The ioyes of Venus hath him oft relieued : Therefore hath Venus Vulcans bed forsaken , And dreadfull Mars his lodging vndertaken , But why doth Beauties Queene loue man so well ? Whose words are wounds , whose frowns do death foretell Shee Triumpheth in his Coniunction , She 's grieued at his opposition : When he is merrie , then shee laughes or smiles , And with conceits the longest nights beguiles . Can there ●e any perfect Sympathie , T'wixt bloodie warres , and Chamber-melodie ? Else Pan forbid : but let vs vnderstand , The matter well that we do take in hand . T'wixt warres and peace can be no Sympathie , But man and woman are in peace pardie . Great Pan ordain'd as Shepheards do relate , Contrarie Elements without debate , Should altogither in one bodie dwell , Louing each other , and agreeing well : So though Mars be bloodie in his Center , Yet is he pacified if Venus enter . Againe faire Venus with smyling pleasance Know's how t' asswage his angrie countenance , So that there is a perfect harmonie , Twixt white and blacke directly contrarie , Which being mixed do agree for euer , Whom neither Art , or Nature , can disseuer . And this is the reason , as shepheards skan , Why a faire Ladie loues a Martiall man . Next comes to our consideration , Mercurius . ☿ Mercurie fraught with sophistication . Nimble , ingenious , busie as the Bees , Wittie , as an Ape , to follow what he sees . In each thing some skill , in full Arte no bodie● Thus whirleth about this Mercurial nodie . Prate like a Perrot and readie of tongue , At dice ▪ Cards , and gaming all the day long . Of wit sharpe and subtile , of quicke apprehention , Fit to exployte any rare mad inuention . Why these be Mercurial , if thou wouldest weet ! It 's because Mercurius hath winged feet , All designments to put in execution , As Planets superior worke reuolution . Faithfully keeping his circular Spheere , Passing the Zodiak signes in one whole yeere . Lun● . ☽ Now must we speake of earths blessed mother , The lowest Planet swifter than other . Lowest of all , and nearest to our view , Resplendent Phaebe , chaste , powerfull and true . Glorious Nurse of all this lower frame , Infusing moysture to the burning flame , Of parching Phoebus , whose fierie beames , She doth allay , and coole with moistning streames . The Moone , Dyana , Phaebe , Cynthia , Shepheards call hir in Terra Florida Apostrophe ad Her●●nam qu● 〈◊〉 Ma●iam Pemb. One of hir names I doe ascribe to thee , In whom her princely vertues seated bee . Dee'r Princesse Laureat of Helli●on , Deigne to accept it from Endymion . Since thou participat'st with her in qualitie , Her name thy mightinesse shall dignifie . I call her Phaebe now for difference , Betweene thy selfe and her magnificence . All things vpon , and all within the round , Vnto her Soueraigntie are deepely bound , Her greatnesse is the nine and thirtieth part , The Moone the 39. part of the earth . Of all the earth as shepheards finde by Art . In eight iust houres , and seuen and twentie dayes , She runs through the twelue Zodiack signes alwayes , She swiftly passeth through the Zodiacke , Great Phoebus in his course to ouertake . In twelue houres and nine and twentie dayes , She ouertak's the Sonne , Ptolom●e sayes . And this is iustly called Heauens wonder , That these two Planets distant farre a sonder , Once euery month , meete in Conjunction . To celebrate matrimoniall function . O joyfull time when these two ●ouers meet ! When with sweet Congies one doth th' other greet . But when they meete long time they cannot stay , Phoebus must part , swift time calles him away . Phaebe returnes to vndertaken 〈◊〉 , No hower granted in idlenesse to ma●ke . Phoebus parting giues her light sufficient , T'lluminate th' inferior Continent . Which like a faithfull wife she doth dispose , Proportionable to the neede of those , That high or lowe haue their habitation Capable of her Constellation ; She waggoneth to Neptunes Pallace than , That wonneth in the mightie Ocean : She views the Creekes , Ports , Hauens ▪ and Towers , And giu's them Floods and Ebbs at certaine houres . Which euermore she truly doth obserue , Not one momentall minute doth she swerue , Which skilfull Mariners aswell 〈◊〉 tell , As little babies can their Crosse 〈◊〉 spell . Thence she doth se●rch the Cauerns of the deepe , Where strange and hydeous monsters vse to keepe . Hydrippus , Balana , and Hydra fell , Gendred by Cerberus Porter of Hell , Hin'dring by vertue their venemous brood , Drenching their spawne in the brinish flood . That sayling passengers at their leysure , Mought safely touch their Porte with pleasure . She viewes the bottom of the Ocean , Where neuer walked mortall liuing man . There beene shell-fishes innumerable , Armed with scaly-shields impenetrable . There lies Muscles with Pearles replenished , Wherewith the Robes of Nymphes beene garnished . There growen the Scallop , Cockle , Welke and Oyster ▪ The Tortoyse , Creuise , and creeping Lobster , Lympet , a round shell , which women lay vpon the nepples of their sore breasts . The Lympet , Sea-snaile , with infinite moe , Which in the treasury of Thetis goe ; All these shee cherisheth , as if they were The noblest creatures in the highest Sphere . She giu's them gifts that most of them should yawne , At each full Sea for comforting their spawne . And to the sea she giues dayly motion , To ebbe and flow to voyde corruption . She giu's her fertill generation , And perfect Meanes of Vegitation . So that Thetis hath more prouision , of fish and foule in great diuision : Then all th' inhabitable Earth can show , Or skill of mortall man can know . But all that of the Sea is said , or done , Is to demonstrate the glorie of the Moone , For the Seas place and constitution , Requireth a speciall discourse alone . And is reserued to his proper place , So I 'le proceede to speake of Phaebes grace , And show how she within her Spherick Globe , Cherisheth great Tellus and Flora's Robe ; Cotchelling all things in their 〈…〉 , Till they haue got strength and maturitie . There is no man , or woman , 〈◊〉 , or Trade , Nor any thing that mightie 〈◊〉 hath made , Nor Tree , nor Plant , nor hearbe , nor grasse , nor flower , But is maintained by her mightie power . She shewes the Plowman when to sowe the ground , To crop , to fell , to haue his timber sound ▪ She wizeth Surgeons when to ope a veine ; To ease the sicke , and stop it fast againe . She showes Physitions times necessarie , To purge by Pils , drinke or E●ectuarie . To cure Rheums , fluxes , and bodies laxatiue , To giue a medicine preparatiue , To giue a vomit , clister , or garga●ise : Marking the signe wherein faire Phaebe lyes . These sacred vertues , qualities diuine , Do make her wonderfull in shepheards eine , And straine the world to celebrate her name , With louely Hymnes , and euerlasting fame . Thus were the heauens orderly disposed , By glorious Pan as you haue heard disclosed . Yet is Endymions taske but now begonne , When one would think his webbe were wholly sponne Vnfold he must an other Mysterie , And anatomize diuine Philosophie . How the vast space t'wixt heauen and earth was fil'd , With elementall Spheares as Ioua wil'd , That Emptinesse might haue no habitation , Amongst the workes of Gods creation . O you Caelestiall euer-liuing fires ▪ That done inflame our hearts with high desires ; Our Spokes beene blunt , rude , ha●●●ish , vncooth , Vnable in Mysteries to know the sooth . Vnkempt , vnpolished , ignorant lewde , Vneth with one drop of Nectar bedewde . High are the Mysteries we take 〈◊〉 hand , To discuss● of fire , aier , sea , and land . With euery thing therein contained , And by the wisdome of Pan ordeyned ▪ On bended knee therefore with humble prostration , Endymion maketh his supplication , To illuminate th' Eyes of his blinded minde , The secrets of this lower world to finde , To discouer them to men vnlettered , Whose knowledge with Ignorance is fettered . And hee will sacrifice vnto your shrine , The fat of Lambes and sweetest Eglantine : With Garlands of Roses and Gilliflowers , Hee 'l decke and garnishe all your sacred Bowers , And with his choycest Notes and Roundelayes , Cause Hil's and Dales to celebrate your praise , And all the bordring Shepheards shall admyre , The strange effects of your Coelestiall Fyre . The force whereof doth make me to entreat , Of that which doth adioyne to Phoebus seate ; Which is thought to bee the firy Element , The Element of Fire . Aboue the rest for lightnes excellent , Most rare and thinne , most hot , yet doth not shine , Of no colour , yet of qualitie Diuine . Rounde in Fygure , yet most swiftly moues , Not of it selfe as Aristotle proues : But by the mightie Agitation , Of Planets superior in operation . Next to the Moone in constitution , Speedie , and swifte in reuolution . Giuing heate to euery thing compounde , That hath his being in the lower round . Not Conspicuous to any mortall Eye Because of his Thinnes , and Raritie , Yet burneth and consumeth vtterly , What so resisteth his flaming Furie . Hee worketh straunge Meteors in the Night , Fiery meteors . Which shepheards hau'n often in their sight . By vapors drawne from the heate of the Sunne , What a Meteor is . From out the Earthe to A●rs high Region . Which vapours ( once by this Fyre o● flamed ) Expresse strange formes which Meteor● are named ▪ Such as be Comets and the bla●●ing Sta●s ▪ Comets . By which some shepheards prog●●sticate wars . But certaine they signifie stirili●i● , By reason of the Earth's great ●iceity , For want of Shewers and sweet moystening Rayne , The cause of springing , and growing of Grayne , They Signifie want of corn . For Comets alwayes in Summer appeere , When Ceres calleth Aquarius for ●eere . The shortest Time , that blasing starres remayne , Is seuen dayes as Phylosophers ●ayne ; The shortest and longest time that Comets endure . The longest time is dayes foure-score , ( Too long , by so long for Pierc● Pl●m-mans store , ) And then they disolue into Ayr● or fire , As the substance of the vapors require . Starres of false Helena , and Starres flying , Starres of Helena . Knowne to Marriners in their long sayling , Are within the Comets comprehended , And from th' Elemental fire descended . So Castor , and Pollux , are to Saylers knowne , Castor and Pollux . By these their Ruine , or safetie is showen . This Comet sometime lighteth on the Mast , Thence flyeth to the Sayl's and ●acklings in hast ; Skipping heere and there without certaine byding , The matter 's vnctuous , and must needs be glyding : And if it appeare before the storme beginne , When that Comet is called Helena , & when , Castor and Pollux . It foretels the perrils that the Ship is In. Then they call it the starre of Helena , Hell's Furie , Deaths messenger , fierce Megara ; They waile and wring their wofull hands for greife , They looke for death expecting no reliefe . But if such Comets fall when stormes are ended , They say that Castor and Pollux them defended . They ioy and reuell vowing Sacrifize ▪ For life is esteemed the richest prize , This Comet constraineth the greatest wight . The profit we reape by this Comet . To magnifie Pans maiestie and might . Who forewarn's them of dangers imminent , To make the Saylers wise and prouident , All meanes within board , carefully t' aduise , For dreadfull stormes shall presently arise . If stormes be ended when they see it fall , It is a Messenger vnto them All , His glorious Name , on knees to magnifie , That hath preserued them so gratiouslie . Such firie vapors often-times are seene , Fyerie vapors in Church-yards and about places of ●xecu●ion . In Church-yards , and places where dead bodyes beene Buryed , or executed in Summer-time , In time of pestilence , or for some cryme , Which Idiot's say'n bin dead-mens Ghosts or Sprigh●s , Walking those places in the Irke-some Nights . When as no mortall man can be able , To prooue or defend such ridiculous Fable . For Shepheards sayne by naturall reason , That from Bodyes buried in Sommer season , An vnctuos vapour , hot and dry doth rise , Which Phoebus seazeth according to his guise , And doth inflame it in a little space , Making it tumble vp , and downe the place . Such fiery vapours , sometime do abide , Vpon the bodyes of men that lightly ride , Or on their horses-bodyes as they nimbly pace , Daftly remoouing seat , from place , to place . For when men post lightly they getten heate , Which being turned to an Oyly-sweate . Sends forth dry vapours which the Sunne doth 〈◊〉 , Whereof he doth a skipping fire make . Colours about or aboue the Moone . For colours which oft in the Welkin seeme , Which been firie Meteors as men doe deeme : They be not very colours in the Skie : Our eye-sight fayl's vs looking so high ; These haue not the Sunnes Inflamation , Nor any firy Generation , A circle about the Moone . But mightie vapours drawne from the Sunne aloft , Which to vs representen colours oft ; A circling garland compasseth the Moone ▪ Presaging windes and Tempests ●●sing soon● ▪ Blackish in colour , of thicke composition , Shewing the weather by foule disposition . This is no inflamed fiery Meteo● , But a cloudy , moysty , darke , thic●● vapor . One bright shining circle greatest of All , Which learned Spephards Gala●●a call , Galaxia a shining white path , in the midddest of Heauen in a frosty-night . A beaten high-way to the Gods Palace ▪ Glorious , beautifull , full of Solace . Shyning most cleare in a Frostie Night : And in the starrie firmament is p●ght . Yet is not a vapour , nor meteor we know , Nor drawne from the Sunne which is farre below . But shineth most bright by resple●dant grace , By the beautie of starres that furnish the place . Besides , starres dispersed , one hundred and eight , Starres of Note , of high regard , and weight : With glorious beames their shining display , And hence it 's called the milky-white waye , And if you will weet what starre● they hight , The starres of Note that maketh Calaxia cleere . That maken the Welkin in that place so bright : Lysten you Shepheards I le set them in order , As they done garnish , that circulare Border . Cassiopeia hath thirteene starres of Note , Cassiopeia , 13. Wherewith she frettizeth her purple Cote ▪ The siluered Swan that dying sweetly sings , Cygnus . 1● . Adorn's with twelue starres her beautifull wings . The soaring Eagle bearing Ioues Ganymed , With foure Orientall Starres garnished . A●uila . 4. The hatefull Scorpion doth neuer fayle , Ca●da Scorpion●● ● . Of fiue bright Torches in her poysoned Tayle . Sagitarius the Archer bringeth Three , Sagitarius . 3. And the Centaur twise as many as hee , Centaurus . 6. Twentie three starres , the noble ship of Greece , Nauis Argol● . 23. Bring 's in , as Lamp's to spie the golden fleece . The Twinn's eighteene ; The Wag●●er seauen , Gemini . 1● . A●riga . 7. Perseus seauenteen , to lighten this heauen . Perseus . 1● . All these Starres maken one hundred and eight , Bright and conspicuous without deceite . Sporades Stella dispersa sine or dine . Sporades also dispersed Starres been , Confusedly mixing their glimmering Sheem These beene the starres that maken so bright , The welkins broad way which seemeth so white . Yet not in any sort colour verament , For no colours hath the starrie Firmament . 〈◊〉 the rayne-bow . Nor is the Rayne-bowe a firie Meteor , Though there appeare in it colours store , But is a mystie exhallation , By great Phoebus without inflamation , After a Shower appearing in the ayre , Shewing the weather thence foorth to be fayre . And euer appeareth halfe circlewise , Oppos●te to Phoebus alwayes doth rise ; Hauing three colours seeming in our eye , Red , Yellowe , Greene ▪ in the low Region Aerie . Red highest , as neerest th' Elementall Fyre , A white waterish Yeallow , next place doth require ▪ The lowest like Emeraulde , greene as the grasse , Reflecting such colours to vs ( like a Glasse , Taking the forme as it is obiected , Presently sending the same forme reflected , Backe to the Author , and doth not containe , Any such forme till you showe it againe ) Raynebow in the Night . Sometimes a Rayne-Bow sheweth in the night , After a shower of Colour watrish white , Not red , nor greene ; to the Moone opposite . Thus glorious Pan discouereth his Mighte . But diuine Shepheards soothly sayen , In their high Layes with wordes plaine : That though it be , one thing by generation , Yt's another thing in contemplation . Representing to vs all sickerly , A sealed eternall Testimonie , That this center of the vniuersall round , As once it was should not againe be drownde . Nor cloudy water● hi● 〈…〉 belowe , Should dare presume the earth to ouer-flowe . But should them holde in their habitation , That man and beast should ha●● a quiet Station . Thus blessed glorious euerlasting Pan , Safely prouided for the life of man . Some other things the Philosopers haue named , That Firie beene , and are not yet inflamed . The burning Thunderbolt , the lightning flash . Thunder-bolt and lightning . That Trees , Beasts , and buildings in peeces dash . Wreaking by fell spite on the world this injurie : Confounding all things in their spightfull fury , That mortall wights , takne them for Fiends of Hell , That in a moment simple creatures quell . Of so swift and forceable penetration , Of so sudden motion , and operation , Yea , of so wonderfull a qualitie , By reason of their hotte agilitie ▪ That things incredible by them been done , As sowring the Wine , and sauing the Tonne ; Breaking the sword not hurting the sheath , The stemme of an Oke in peeces they wreath . And vpon the world bring desolation , Seeming to spoyle the frame of creation . The fiery whirle-windes which we Prester call , Of fearefull wonders exceeden All. whirle windes drie Prester . Which beene hote dry vapours whirled together , From th' earth to heauen , no man knowes whither . In forme of a circled Piller they wend , And through our Region of th● Ayre ascend . with violent motion making a praye , Of each loose parcell that stands in their waye . Gyring and whirling it vp to the skie , ( Some Laundresses seene their ●ynnen so ●lye ) Brute beasts at the comming thereof doe crye , As fearing their immynent ieopardy . These taken ships out of the Ocean , And caryen them beyonde the skill of man . Letting them fall from the Ayrie region , To their vtter Ruine and Subuersion . Whole Flouds of waters from the brynish-store , Of Thetis they sucke vp for euermore ▪ Carrying them to the Ayers middle region , The coldnes whereof stoppeth them Anon. Driuing them downe headlong to the Center , Not suffering them that Region to enter . Spoutes of water in the Sea . So all at once they fall downe suddainly , As a great Mountaine by extremitie . Drowning whole ships vnder-sayle in their Rage , For nothing but death may their furie asswage . The profit we get by this consideration , Is to haue Gods workes in Admiration , The vse of this point of Phylosophy . And to bethinke vs , with what facilitie , Pan can destroy , all humane Hostilitie . And so to humble vs vnder his hand , That free from dangers wee may safely stand . Stedfastly hoping to stand vnreprooueable , As mightie Mountaines vnremooueable . Now hence must we proceed incontinent , The Ayre . To discant of the Ayery Element , Being simple , and subtile , thinne , rare , and quicke , Pierced by grose substance , heauie , and thicke : Capable of all formes and Figures jniected , Whererby her body , is often jnfected ; Scituate next to the fire in degree , By reason of his transparant Leuitee . Receiuing Meteors elementarie , According as ascending vapours varie . Affording breath to euery earthly thing , That openeth mouth , or flyes with feathered wing ▪ Yea the Fishes in the Ocean were dead , If colde thicke-yce the Ocean ouer-spread . Which ioyeth in Ayres respiration , To keepe the waters from corruption . For Fishes in the deepe beene murdered , If Ayers refreshing Gales been hindered . Hotte and moyst , by essentiall qualitie , Yet hath a coole-refreshing propertie . By reason of the waters vicinitie , Sending forth vapours colde continuallie . Which by the Ayers Agitation , Are made a temperate respiration ; Ayded by the cooling of the breathing winde , Whereby this Element is oft refin'de , And man , and beast , and euery thing that liu's , Is nourished by the temperature it giu's . And Wormes abandoned from budding trees , And extreme heate , allayed by degrees . Thus was this splendent Ayrie Element , Placed by Pan with perfect Complement , Distinguished into Regions three , As bookish shepheards euidently see ; The highest next the firie Element , Three Regions of the Ayre . The middle second 's it incontinent : The lowest is that space wherein we dwell , Whereof great Philosophers wonders tell . The first is hotte : the middle extreme colde ; The third is temperate for reasons tolde . The lowest Orbe ▪ the Fowles ●oon glorifie , And with sweet Notes great 〈◊〉 doe magnifie . The Eagle , Griffin , Falcon , Marlion , The Nightingale , and turtle Pidgeon , The Thrush , the Lynnet , and mounting Larke , Besides the Fowles that flyen in the darke , The Bittour pyping in a Syrin● Reede , Wayling that virgins losse in mourning weede . With Fowles of Price and worth Innumerable , Where-with great states gar●ishen their Table . These take delight to sporte them in their Ayre , Cheefely if Phoebus make the Region fayre , The middle Region's coldest in his Place , The middle Region cold● . For Phoebus there yet neuer shewed his Face . Which is the cause of Slee●e ▪ of Hayle , of Snowe , All which by vertue of this Region growe . The highest hot . The highest Region of the Ayre is hot ; Where all the fiery Meteors are begot . Being placed next the fiery Element , Which doth inflame with heate that Regiment The Meteors to the Ayre destinated ,

The Ayrie Meteors simple .

Included Meteors .

Are simply windes , and Earth-quakes nominated Included in a vapor others there be , Which yet are Meteors in their degree . As stormes , & whirl-windes , and the mightie Thunder , Rumbling as if heauen would cleaue a sunder . Windes are vapors included in a Caue , Windes . Whence by Phoebus force they issue haue ; And drawne by heate to the mid Region , ( Which is all colde by constitution ) There they would enter , but being expelled , To be dispersed they are compelled . To euerie part of this our lower ayer , Whereby they purge it , And make it soe fayer . All Merchants and Saylers are highly bound , To the time when first this Meteor was found . Windes . 32. Two and thirtie windes Maryners finde out , By which they saylen the round worlde about . To east and west , Indies fayre Virginia , Guyana , Chyna , P●ru , and Gynnea ; And whatsoeuer the Southerne Pole descryes , What hidde treasure in America lyes , The winds discouer to great Brittania , The noble Empire of old Albania ; Another commoditie Shepheards finde , By the excellent nature of the winde , Another commoditie by the winds . viz. to make raine . When a watry-cloude from the sea is taken , By the winde it is , all-in-peeces shaken ; And so disseuered into drops of rayne , To comfort the withered , and parched plaine : The scorched-grasse , on the loftie Mountaine , Reuiu's it selfe and getteth life againe . For if this watry clowde should whollie fall , The weight would destroy and ouer-whelme all . These are not winds of monstrous generation , But naturall windes of gentle inclination . The earth-quake is a simple Meteor , Ayrie and vncompounded as before ; An Ayrie vapor , closed in some de● , Or concaue of the earth , remote from men , Earthquake . Serching for an issue , and finding none , Beateth vp and downe , seeking to be gone , But all in vayne , then being fast enclosed , It shak's the earthe in searching to be losed . This is the cause of great Tellus trembling ( A man in a shaking Feuer resembling ) What future euents it doth prognosticate , I will not presage , th' effect is intricate . But if a smale vapor be of that power , The Profit we get by this Meteor . To shake the whole frame of the earth in one houre , How may proud man full of infirmitie , Susteine the furie of the Deitie ? Of the Whirle-windes we haue spoken before , Neyther will we as now adde any more . But that they be not Meteors conta●ned , In the Fire , or Ayre , but to both restrained . A storme is of a windie propertie , With force dispersing vapors watery , With great droppes of rayne so beating the place , A stormy-winde . As if it would beate the skin off a mans face . Such fearefull stormes , are hurtfull to the Tree's , They pinch the Cattell and destroy the Bees , Beate down the Hearbes , and grasse ▪ & blades of graine , Wherewith the Shepheards must their flockes sustaine . The fearefull Thunder must not be forgot , Of ayerie , and watry vapors begot ▪ Thunder . Drawne by force to the highest Region , ( where it may haue no perfect Mansion ) Rowleth in the ayer with fearefull sound , Till water gets issue to moyst the ground . Then downe it falleth with drops violent , Therefore be sure it cannot bee permanent . Now comes the watrie Element in hand , Watrie El●ment . Enuroning round the habitable-land , A bodie moyst fluent , circular , and thinne , Penetrable and colde containing therein , Innumerable fishes of great varietie , Differing in magnitude and qualitie . Continually moouing in forme circular , About the brim of this earth particular , The substance of this Element ouerspred , And the bodie of this earth enuironed , So that the face thereof could not be seene , But hidden lay as if it had not beene , Till almightie Pan this watrie Element , Gathered togither from the Continent ; Into one vaste-roome , station and place ; Leauing faire Tellus ▪ with vnuailed face , Drie and vnmantled , without viriditie , Hard and solide without humiditie . Then gan the mountaines of Armenia , Burning Tartarus , Aetna in Sycillia , Sacred Olympus , Parnassus Crowned By the Muses , Hermon renowned , Tabor , Horeb , euer blessed Syon , Sometime Iehouah's habitation . All rocks and hilles though they were farre distant , Appeared eminently at one instant . The Dales and Plaines , and barren Wildernesse , Appeared drie , all voyd of comelinesse . For Flora yet was hidden in her Bower , Grinding her colours fit for euerie flower , Greene , Vitrioll , Violet , Vermilion , To garnish vp the Queenes Pauilion . The siluered Ceruse , and Cuchenella , The azured Blew and Purpurella , With these colours must be enamiled , The flowers which Tellus haue apparelled ; Naked therefore and void of Ornament , Pan discouereth this earthly Element . And these huge waters he diuided ▪ That some in Clowds aboue th' earth should go , That with distilling drops of moysth●ng raine , What are the waters aboue the earth . Might comfort Tellus parched face againe . The rest might keepe their perfect ●●ation , T' ingender fish , and further nauiga●ion : He made it of continuall motion , To keepe the fishes from corruption , He made it salt aboue for speciall reason , That it might the slymie fishes season . In twentie fower howers it ebbs and flow's twise , The cause of ebbing and flowing . Impossible therefore to be ouerflowen with ice . The cause of this swift agitation , Is mightie Phaebes alteration , For as she wanes , or doth in light encrease , So doth the Sea her floods augment , 〈◊〉 cease . The cause of her saltnesse is by accident , Of Phoebus piercing beames so vehement . Bringing from the Seas foundation , Saltnesse of the Sea . Drie vapours which by inflamation : Are burn'd to salt by the heate of the Sunne , And hence the saltnesse of the Sea begunne ▪ For waters themselues haue no sau●●r at all , But as it comes by cause accidentall . Hence are ingendred moyst Meteors , Almightie Iouah's strong Ambassadors , Watrie Meteors eight . The Mist , the Deaw , the Frost , the hollow Clowd , That doth the Elementall vapors shrowd . The Raine , the Snow , the fearefull Haile , the Sleete , Wherewith in Februarie or March we meete . The Sleete can neuer in the Summer fall , For then the middle Region's coldst of all , The Mist is a vapour which all men knowe The Mist. And doth of watrie Exhalations growe , If it ascendeth before it doth raine , Of much Raine it is a token certaine , But if it doth rise when shower is e●ded , Fowle weather 's gone , and th' aire amended , It is the matter also of the falling Dewe , Which doth the face of great Flora renewe . And if this vapour be foggie and thicke , The raine will ensue : then speed away quicke , If not raine , then snow , or haile without doubt : Shall be the issue , therefore looke about , But if this myst appeare subtile , or thinne , Deaw . Then shall the sweete Deawes , or sharpe Frosts begin . But in Summer , Deaw : in Winter the Frost , Do follow the myst in euerie coast . The cause . The cause of the Deaw as Shepherds do finde , Is Luke-warme breathing of the Southern winde . The cause that hindereth the Deaws generation , Is the Northren winds cold inflation , The aptest times for the Deaw to abound ,

The Hinderance .

Fittest time for Deaw .

Spring , Haruest , faire-day , when no winds do sound , This Meteor worketh mightie effects ; And is high prized for many respects , When hearbs and grasse are parched and combust , And Phoebus burning flames colours them like dust , The effects of Deaw . Then comes the Deaw , and doth them recreate : Making them fresh , virent and fortunate , The bowels of the beasts it maketh soluble , And all the grasse more sweete and voluble , A wonder yet he●e-hence , is collected , Which some Wise shepheards hau'n obiected . How Manna a Deaw which is hot and drie , Withering the hearbs and making them die , Manna a wonderfull deaw . And now is taken for purgation : Should haue a contrarie operation ; And nourish th' Israelites in the Desert , The solution is for men expert , This is wonderfull to a mortall eye , Yet is no matter in th' Almightie , The Frost . The Frost to vs men most profitable , Though it seemeth nothing comfortable , Is a Meteor watrie amongst the rest , And for mans auaile is not reckned lest . Of a thinne watrie vapour is ingendred , Which to the wintrie Aire soone is tendred . And by the same , in crustie Pearles concreate , Falles on the grasse , and pincheth vitall heate , It crusheth and abateth Floras pride , Stripping her naked , as a naked bride : Spoyling her flowers , discolouring her greene . Imprisoning her as if she were no Queene ; All these be discommodities I trowe , Obserue the commodities which doe growe By this Meteors vertue , and qualitie , Which grow'n by his forces abundantly . All hurtfull wormes in the earth it doth kill , And all noxious humors in the bodie spill : It killeth wormes and hurtfull humours . These are the benefits which Pan doth giue To a colde frost , that mortall man might liue . The name of a Clowde is so commonly knowne , That labour is lost if more should be showne : For it is a vapour moyst , grosse , eleuate , By Phoebus force to the Region scituate In the middst of the Aire : where being compact , By the colde circle till it be ransact by Phebus heate : so moystned againe , Is squeezed into a shower of raine , As a Sponge in water deeply sunken , This Cloude compared to a Spunge . Vntill it hath the whole moysture drunken : If with force of hand you squeeze it suddainly , Water from sundrie parts thereof will fly : Raine is an issue from a Clowde watrie ; Raine . By drops discending from a Region ayrie : ( The middle Region of that Element ) To moysten this habitable Continent . Where man and beast receyuen nourishment , And Flora makes her mantle orient ▪ When a moyst vapour thicke eleuated , And by the colde Region mace●●●ed , Descendeth downe vpon the earth belowe , It is then called a Meteor of snowe . Snowe . The drops that done fall , resemble a feather , Not as rain's-round-drops contracted together , The feathered-flakes dispersed are bound , To couer the lower circulare round . Shepheards at this time fodderen their ●●ocke , With the prouision of the Sommer ●tocke . Lime-twigs . Boyes setten Lime-twigs , and diggen pit-falles Watching hungrie Birds behind trees and walles : Which comming thither , for food , vnawares , Are tangled in lyme , or taken in snares ; Shepheards weare Freezes , and Ladies vse furres , To keep them from Rewmes , Ca●arres , & cold Murres ; Snow-water . Snow water , Hus-wiues at euerie turning , Saue in a glasse gainst scalding or burning . So farre is the snow from doing of harme , The vtilitie of snow . That rootes of trees , corne and grasse , it keepes wa●●e ▪ As with a mantle the earth it enfoldes , Preseruing the same from violent coldes . It fattons the Fallow as Shepheards rehearse , Mellowing the ridges , for Coulters to pearse . In the highest mountaine and frozen hill , Snow gendreth Cristall . Snow gendreth Cristall and shyning Berrill . Thus is Snow not the meanest ornament , For vs that in the earth are resident ▪ Haile . The Haile is reckoned as a mightie cursse , Making all worldly creatures much the worsse . And in Sommer season is ingendred , When grasse and corne is chiefly tendred . The reason why it is hard compacted , The reason of Haile in Summer and not in Winter . Is because it hath his cold contracted . For when it came to the middle region , He found it colder in disposition Then it was wont to be ; because the heate Of Phoebus beames , doth now more strongly beate ▪ Which when it cannot beare , it gathereth round , It selfe , least Phoebus should his force confound . And so dissolue it into raine , or sleete , To do some good ▪ for which Haile is not meete . Therefore round , colde , and hard , it doth discend , Of purpose princely Flora to offend . " For there can be no perfect con●enience , " Twixt noble Nature and male●olence . Vpon her fruits it makes intrusion , Beating in peeces with confusion , The buds of trees , the hearbs , the corne , the flowers , Which Tellus kept for Floras Para●ours . There is no watrie Meteor in the Ayre , But is profitable and debonaier , Except this crabbed and furious Haile , That fiercely our nourishment doth assaile , For Sleete is not so forcible or strong , To doe Dame Flora and her Babies wrong . Sleete . Discending in March , or in Februarie , When Phoebus shews his burning luminarie ,

Sleet alwayes in Februarie or March , and neuer in December .

A question .

But here some may a question propound , Requiring a Philosopher profound , Why is the Ayres middle Region , Coldest in the burning Sommer season ? And in the Winter time more temperate , Raine ( and not Haile ) fitter to generate ? Answere . Two contraries doe alwayes flie , Answer . The one from the other naturally , So when it is extreame hottest weather , The cold collecteth his forces together , And keepes himselfe close in his owne defence , Least heate should surprize or expell him thence . Then is he colder then he was before , Hauing abundance of coldnesse in store . But if that heate be from him deuided , His force is dissolued : Our poynt decided , Now is the discourse of the water ended . And the shepheard to the earth discended : The Centre of the whole vniuersall , Earthly Element . Whose circumference is Emperiall , Whose bodie is round wholy considered . Though of other forme in peece● seuered . Colde , and dry by naturall propertie , Seated permanent , on her Axeltree , Aequallie standing , no way declyning , Solid , and heauier , not bright , or shyning , Full of Creatures of Diuine Excellence , Gracing high Pans might and magnificence . The mother of all grosse , and heauie things That grow , creepe , or goe , or fly'n with wings ; ( Fynnie footed fowles excepted , and fishes , Which ●eruen for Thetis banquetting dishes ) Although their might arise some difference , Whether Sea , or Land hath the preheminence . For fethered fowles first Generation , Which in the seas haue propagation . For that Sea-fowles , as Shepheards vnderstand , Layen , and hatchen , their eggs on the land , And also neuer to Saylers appeare , But it is certaine some Yland is neere ; Yt seemes , I might conclude in generall , Tellus is mother of Fowles vniuersall . A mother adorned with vertues excellent , The Earth , Mother of all Creatures therein . In Action , Passion , and habit , different , From all other Elements supernall , The Center of Creation-naturall ; She hath 7. properties , of a good Mother or wife . Hauing seuen rare , speciall properties , Whereof each-one a Mother glorifies : Fruitefull , Good , Neuer-weary , Patient , Most Constant , Faithfull , liberally-bent . Fruitfull , alwayes parturient , and teeming ▪ What heauenly Forces , beget to our seeming . Shee dayly produceth , and bringeth to light . Shee 's alwayes with childe , in winters despight . Good of nature , and kinde by creation , To all her Babyes , by generation . Cherishing them all in their infancie , Till they may shift for themselues hansomlie . Neuer wearie of worke , still dooing well , Cheerefully viewing , each place of her Cell . Swathing , and Bathing , well the tender Limmes , Of all her yonglings , and with butter T●●mm●s , The chafed Places of their Fylmy-skinne , Curing their Bodies without and within . Patiently suffring sclaunderous words , 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . Which wounden the mind more deeper then swords . She suffereth worldings , to spit in her face , To disgorge , to trample , spurne , and disgrace , To wound with ploughing , where they liken best , To search her bowels , her belly , her brest ; To steale her iewels , and deepe hidden treasure , Both for necessitie , and for pleasure . Constant , not wauering , alwaies the same , Immooueable , keeping her glorious Frame . Faithfully sauing , what to her you tender , Vntill you require her the same thing to render . If wheate you deliuer , wheat shall you receiue ; Shee meanes not with Darnell , your Barne to deceiue . If gold you deliuer , then golde shall you finde , For Tellus beareth , a most faithfull minde . But if you will speake of her liberall plentie , For one Corne of Graine you shall receiue twentie . When all thy friends thy body haue forsaken ; Then marke the Earth what she hath vndertaken . A body dead , stinking corrupt , impure , Whose stench and gastly-view none can endure , Opening her wombe , she takes it in againe . And keep 's it safe from P●utos fierie traine . Rendring't againe in shining puritie : From putrifaction to immortalitie . Obserue thou well her qualities diuine : And by immitation make them all thine . For further must my wearied Pipe assay , By part 's , her hidden treasures to display . Shewing the glorie of her blessed face , Her breast , her wombe , and euery secret place . Arcadian Orphe● make my musicke able , The couering of the earth called Tellus-Mantle . To annatomize Mysteries vnspeakable . Hearken great Cynthi● how Euterpe sings Of Tellus Mantle , which sweet Flora brings , Of colour greene with flowers entercheckt : By curious skill of princely Architect . With hearbs and Plants , and grasse for euery beast , Tapistred with Foules , and beasts comely dreast . Now hath Queene Tellus put her Mantle on , Flora tryumphing in her Paragon ▪ She deckes her Queene with Roses white and red , Muske and sweet Roses in Damasco bred . Flowers . Fragrant Gilliflowers and Carnation , Enamiled with pure Vermilion , The purple Violet , and Columbine , The silu'red flower of sweete Eglantine , The Dasie , Cow-cup , sweet smelling-Walflower , The Flower de Luce : the Raine-bowes Paramour , The whitest Lillie , and the Daffadill , The Paggle , and the blessed Pimpernill : The Mary golde , and partie coloured Pinke : The Paunsey , and the Hearts-ease , as Shepheards think With others infinite in variation , Differing in colour , forme , and creation , With Sauour , and odoriferous smell : Refreshing the braine , as Ladies can tell , The Gilliflower striketh admiration , To Shepheards marking her creation . A flower , a wonder . Marking the Substance whereof it is framed , The different forme whereby it is named , The precious colour wherewith it 's varnished And the sweet sauour where with it 's garnished . Besides the flowers which in the Mantle been , Hearbes . Diuersitie of hearbs , and Plants , are seene . Wherewith our Ladies , curen Maladies : Sauing our Bodies , from extremities . These doon fayre Ladies , in their Gardens Plant , As in a store-house , to supply their want . The Sage , the Basill , and the Lauender , The bitter Worme-wood , Rue , and Germander , The louely Veruin , Balsam , Sauory , The Smaladge , Liuer-wort , and Centorie , The Eye-bright , and the powerfull Cel●dony , The Camomill , head-purging Beto●y : Bloodwort , Muggwort , Hartestrong , and Patience , Parcelye , Penny-Reall , for ingredience , Leaues of Violets , Strawberries , Succory , Endiue , Time , Buglosse , Spannish Pellitory , Margerom-gentle , Spikenard , Southern-wood , Burnet , Burrage for Claret Wine good . Sauen and Spurge , for strong purgation , Hurtfull to womens generation ▪ Clary , Dragans , blessed Angelica , Holy Thistle , and Indian Tobacca . Featherfew , Knot-grasse , and Mayden Hear● , The brest and Longs , from Phlegme cleare . Speremit , Playntaine , and faire E●●mony , Spinage , Costmary , for a Timpany ▪ Sparage , Beares-foote , and Oculus-Christi : Whose black-seedes , Purgen eyes , dimme and Mistie : The admirable vertues of the Herbe called Oculus Christi . Eight or ten , of these seedes put in thine eye , Will runne , vp to the , eye lids Immediately : Not grieuing the eye or hindring the ●ight , And there will they worke till they haue made bright , And purged the eye , from all corruption : Then full of white slime , will drop out alone . Besides these Hearb's , beene Trees innumerable , Trees . Some bearing fruite , of taste de●ectable , And some for stately building● ▪ profitable , Whereof men maken Shippes Na●igable . It were a matter hard , and intrica●e , Orderly of each , to particulate , But these were all made , for mans sustentation , Or else of purpose , for his recreation , And on the face of mightie Tellu● stand , Admirable workes of Pans powerfull hand . The loftie Caedar , and Sable Cypresse , Threatening the welkin , with his mounting Tresse . Sweet smelling Firre , and Saxifrace , Which men venerous , done highly grace . Besides their smell yeeld Turpentine , Profitable Pitch , and richest Rozine , The builders Oake , and Plough-mens Ashen tree : Princes , and Souldiers , regard in their Degree . The weeping Elme , the Be●ch , the Byrch , the Playn● ▪ Haue vertues rare , and were not made in vaine . For fruitfull Trees , that beene commodious , Are so well known , that it were tedious To recken them in order seuerally , For it is thought fond in Philosopy , To prooue a thing by demonstration , That none denies , or needs probation . So many fruites of blessed qualitie Doth Pan prouide for mans necessitie . That would the minde of mortall men amaze , No Pamphlet , but huge volumes must them hlaze ; We know , we haue , we vse , we taste , we eate : The vertue , tree , the leafe , the fruite , the meate : Now must Endymion dresse himselfe to sing , Of beasts , of Fowles , Of euery creeping-thing ▪ Of Bees , of Waspes , of Hornets ▪ and of Flyes , Which Pan made not : But of corruption rise . Wilde , feirce , raging beasts garnishen her Robe : Lyon , Tygre , Hyena , Panther , Rhinoceres , Beare , Vnicorne , Ermine Leopard , Martin , Sable , Lu●erns Fox . white and blacke .. Mineueer , Elke , Bugle , Budge , Bucke , Gemps , Shamoys , Harte , Wolfe , Squirrell , And with varietie diaper her Globe ; The roaring Lyon , and dreadfull Tyger , The strange Hyena and fearefull Panther , Armed Rhinoceros , the vgly Beare , The precious Vnicorne , whose horne is deare . The Ermine , Leoparde , Martin , and Sable , Whose princely skins beene rich and marchantable Rich Luzerns , white and blake , Foxe , Mineueer , Elke , and Bugle , Budge , and the swift Reine Deer , Gemps ; Shamoys , Roe-bucke ; and the stately Hart ; The Wolfe , The Squirill iumping by Art . From tree to tree , with that dexteritie , As makes men wonder her celeritie . The siluered white , blacke and gra● 〈◊〉 : Con●●y . Good for the House and sparing of mo●●ey . The skinnes of these beasts beene profitable , Highly prized and to Marchants ●●able . The Vrchin & the quilled Porpen●ine ; Vrchin , Porpe●tine . Are good for medicine as the grea●e of Swine . Th' emparked nimble Deere Red and fallowe , Deer . Making hornes to Sound , and Hunters ●allowe . Light footed Hare a Game for mighty Kings , Hare . At whose Pursute , The Faery 〈◊〉 sings : Redoubling twise , or thrise , the merry Soundes , Of hallowing Knight , shril-horne , 〈◊〉 chaunting houndes . The craftie Badger , the Watry Ott●● Whome Howndes pursue , Badger , Ott●● . till they hauen got her These Beastes been of highest Regard and Price To pleasure Princes and to murder vice . Wilde Apes ,

Apes , Monkies , Marmezite .

Babioun .

and Monkies with the Marmezite Wherein our noble Ladies Done delight . The Rammish filthie stinking Bab●oun , That lewde Mountie-banks leaden vp and downe , To make of fond people , a great co●●●ou●se , ( A notable bayte for Perkin-Pickp●rse . ) These been all wilde , and yet of great esteeme , Though some of these later , as tamed seem● . The Pole-catte , and wilde-catte , th● Weezle , & Stoate , Polcat , Wild-cat , Weezle , Stoate . Musk-cat . Dormouse . 〈◊〉 , Mice . Mold-warpe . Are wilde , yet discribed in great Te●lus Coate . The Muske-Catte for Ciuet , and the Dormouse , Damn'd Rats , and vilde-Mise , the plague of a house . Flora's sworne-foe , the Mould-warpe ▪ or Wante , Subuerting the Corne , the grasse and the Plant : Spoyling the Medow's and the Pas●ure ground , With infinite Hillocks , ray●●d vp round , Out of the earth , cast vp with her Nose , Neither is she blinde , as many suppose . Not blind . These beene Floras foes , scarce worth the naming , On whome no wise Man , bestowes the taming . Besides sauadge Beastes there been domesticall , Tame beasts . Seruing for mans vse , as friendes naturall . The friendly Elephant , powerfull , and Strong ▪ Elephant . Armed with Tushes , of Yuorie long , Sharpe , solide , and of mightie quantitie , Wherewith he macerates his enemie . With these , the haughtie Porus of India . Fronted Alexander of Macedonia . These breaken rankes of the great Battalia ▪ These feare not the Cannons of Romania , These carrie mightie Castles of lightest wood Vpon their backes , to make their parties good : Wherein some twelue or thirteene armed men , May vse their Armes ▪ and one too good for ten : One may rule him , with a twisted thread , So wise is he , and hath his lesson read : I say one man , this mightie beast , may guide , Being the King of all the Babes of pride . Horse . The fierce and warlike horse , which Chiron bred , And princely Hector often nourished : Whose fierie eyes done threaten blood and death , Whose furious Nosethrils smoken flaming breath , Whose crest is Proude , loftie , thinne , halfe circled , Whose Mane with siluer lockes , his necke doth spred , Whose eares beene short , and pricked neere do stand , As if some mightie battaile , were in hand : Little , and short , and thinne is his visage , His nosethrils wide , his teeth in equipage , Whose foaming mouth bends to his stately brest , Scorning the foe-mans Lance in armed rest : Champing the Bit , and trampling with his feete , Crushing the fierie stones amid the streete . Broad breast , straite backe , large and spacious , Couragious , nymble , soone check , and gracious , Broad-buttocks , long-taile , cleane-legs , Pastorns-shor● , Like great Bucephalus in Greekish Fort. Round-bellied , not grosse , nor gaunt , footlocks hairi● ▪ Proude in his trot , not cutting , faint or wearie . Barbed in steele with rich caparison , Fit for the God of warre to mount vpon . O how he glorieth in the bloodie fight : At Trumpetters dreadfull sound to shew his might . Looke how he bites and strikes on ●●erie side , To shew the glorie of th' Hipp●●an pride . But when great Caesar's mounted on his backe , He breakes the squadrons like 〈◊〉 thunder-cracke : Disordereth rankes , Launces knapping in sonder , Witnesse Sidneyan-Knight Alba●i●● wonder . High Ioue bestowed him for an ornament , To make a mortall ma● more excellent . He knowes , he lou's , He markes his masters voice , A stranger cannot make him to reioyce : But you shall heare him laugh after his kinde , If he but chaunce his masters person winde . The stately Camell , Camell . Dromedary , swift Dromedarie That Merchants goods done speedily carrie : The Spanish Iennet glorious in his pace , Spanish Iennet , Th' Irish Hobbie of a stately grace . Ireish Hobby , The Scottish Nagge of ancient Galloway , Galloway ▪ Nagge , That nimbly knowes to runne and pace his way . Englands Paulfrey our English La●ies please , Engl: Nagge , To go their iournyes , and returne a●●ase ▪ The Turkish horse of Pegasus discended , Turkish horse Charlemaine hath mightily commended : The Mule , the Asse , the Lawyers doe maintaine , Mule . Asse , Their Clients cause softly to entertaine : For coursing Nagges are not for m●n of state , To mount and mannage causes intricate . The Oxe , the Cowe , the Sheepe , the Goat , the Cat , That murders in the night the Mouse and Rat. Oxe , Cow , Sheepe , Goate Catte , Dogge , The fawning Dog full of saga●i●i● ▪ Excelling in sense and capacitie . The hardie Mastife , and nimble Greyhound , Mastif : Greyhound . The ornament of Floras blessed round , Whose vse we know , the Hare doth ●eare his might , The squatting Hare doth ●remble at his ●ight . The noble chaunting Hound with pleasing throat , Hownde . With bace and treble , m●ane , and 〈◊〉 n●at . Warbling his voice , making the horne to sound , Orderly tunes t' immortilize the Hound : Spannell . Quicke ●enting Spannell , sit for Princelie game , To pearch the Pheasant , and rare Birds of name . To set the Heath-cocke , Partrich and the Quaile , The Snype , the Woodcocke , and the dainty Raile . To serue the Spar-hawke , Faulcon and Laneret , The Gosse-hawke , Ger-faulcon and young Eglet ▪ The Marlyon , Hobby , Hawkes of swiftest wing , Which many pleasures vnto Ladies bring . Deserueth praise of the best fluent Pen , That euer wrote the benefits of men . The Spannell for the water and the land , Water-spannell . That all their Maisters rules doon vnderstand , To couch , to retriue , and to range the field , Of purpose , game to spring , and sporte to yeilde : And of their Masters seeke none other gaines , But comfortable words for wearie paines . How may 〈◊〉 pen these Spanniels commend Whose qualities are such as haue no end ? If thou wilt seeke a constant faithfull friend In life and death , thy bodie to defend Walking and running by thy Horses side , Scorning all dangers that may thee betide Being a faithfull and true Companion In ioy , and wofull desolation Whome neither change , or sad calamitie , Nor raging famine , or aduersitie , Nor naked state , or pyning pouertie : Can make to shunne , or leaue thy company : Then take thy Dogge : or finde thou such another , Let him be thy nearest kins-man or Brother Or conuerse with thee all daies of thy life ( Except thy dearest Mother , or thy wife ) And take for thy paines , if I be contrould , The fattest Lambe conteyned in my fould . Tumbler . The Tumbler a Dogge of rare quallitie , To furnish the Kitchin abundantly , With Connyes in a Warren suddainly , Surprising with Arte so cunningly The silly Connyes before they be aware , That the beholders thinke it wondrous rare ▪ This Dogge deserueth commendation As a wonder of Pans creation . The little Spannell in the Ladies lappe , The Ladies Spannell . Is blest with extraordinarie happe , Feeding and lodging in that Princely place , That whilom did renowmed Hector grace . Young louing Lords doe wish , it were their Doome A little while to take their Spannels ●oome . Now must Endimion make the world acquainted , With Serpents , Serpents . and wormes which Flora painted Vpon the face of Tellus Mansion Where nature shewes her deepe inuention . The fearefull Crocadil , and Scorpion , The flying Dragon from the Dungeon Of Nessus springing : the poyzoned viper ▪ The Snake , the Slowe-worme , and the Adder , The monstrous Cerberus , and Hydra venemous , The Cocatrice , of sight so perrilous . The creeping Dragon and the swelling Toade , The Neught , the Swift , lurking in the Roade ▪ The Aspe couering herselfe in high-way dust , Whome carefull passengers will hardly trust . These Serpents been of great defor●●tie Yet excell all other in Subtilty . Of great force , and incredible furie , Of great fore-sight to preuentiniurie , Capitall enemies to Mortall man , And he to them by all the meanes he can . Except the Lizzard a Serpent admirable , Lyzard . Of colour greene , to man Amiable . Before him running on a little space , Delighting herselfe to beholde his f●●e . Well watching the place , where a man doth sleepe , Guarding his bodie doth him safely keepe . From other Serpents which would him deuoure , As he carelesse sleepeth in Floras bower . Salamandar . The Salamander liuing in the fire , The greatest Phylosopher may admire . Wormes . For seely wormes and other creeping things Which of corrupt putryfaction springs . By these doth Phisi● shew her Deitie , In framing them with such varietie . In Number infinite , and in qualitie Surpassing the Serpents excellency : Earth-worms . The Oyle of Earth-wormes mightily preuailes , Against the Gowte , that humane ioynts assailes . Dodman . Snailes . The shelled Dodman , and white , and blacke Snaile , Ioynt-eating Fellon , cureth without fayle . Glow-worme The Glowe-worme shining in a frosty night , Is an admirable thing in Shepheards sight . To catch fish . Twentie of these wormes put in a small Glasse , Stopped so close that no issue doe passe ; Hang'd in a Bow-net and suncke to the ground , Of a Poole , or Lake , broad , and profound : Will take such plentie of excellent fish , As well may furnish an Emperors dish . But of all creatures , which nature did forme Silke-wormes Of this kinde is th' admirable Silke-worme , Whose daintie webbe doth cloath potentates , Kinges , Queenes , Princes and Magistrates : All princely Ladies celebrate her fame , Shining in glorie of the Silke-wormes frame . This might abate , the glorie of humane pride , Since a poore Silke-worme hath it magnified . Why boastest thou thy shining Satten Sute ? Is 't not a part of the Caterpillers mute ? Her forme , her life , her foode , her worke , her end , Doct. Muffets Booke of the Silke-worme . Spider . By Doctor Muffet is eloquently pen'd . The Spyder next in contemplation , Excellent in her operation . 'Mong'st creeping thinges , is numbred in her kinde ▪ Though she be thought to beare a hatefull minde . To vitall heate , and healthfull 〈◊〉〈◊〉 , Because colde poyson , she doth generate . Yet if you marke her composition , And view her vertuous disposition , To sucke from Earth the fell deadly poyson , That so corrupteth natures blessed ●oyzon : And with her feete weaueth a daintie Net , To shew that Ladies webbes beene counterfet : If with her smallest threds they beene compared , So rare , so thinne , so excellently shared ▪ Marke how in her , Dame nature shew's her Art , Tryumphing in her worke in euery Part. And tell me then , if all the world beside , Bee not meere-bunglers vnto Natures pride ▪ Mount little Pismire , from thy hollow caue , Thy turne com's next , thine honor shalt thou haue , Pismire . Sith mightie Pan within his sacred Layes , Prou. 6. Did make thee rowze , the Sluggard from his wayes . How doost thou labour in the Summer season , When Butter-flyes done range voide of Reason . Butterfly . Through grassie Meades shewing their painted coate , Scorning the Winters blasts as lightest Moate . But when fell Boreas shew's his Ghostly face , They pine , they sterue , they die , gone is their grace , Their winges beene worne , no meate to liue vpon , Repentance comes too late , Time's past , t is gone . Thou , thou art appointed a Schoolemaster , To retchlesse , carelesse , Ryotous-waster . In Summer time , thou lay'st thy limmes to worke , Noe idle person , in thy Caue doth lurke , Thou packest vp thy strawes for winter fewell , Esteeming warm'th , and meate , a princely Iewell . Thou fillest thy Barnes , and 〈◊〉 with thy Corne , when beggers dye for colde , for food , forlorne . Nature tryumpheth in thy bodies Frame , Thy small compacted limmes , witnesse the same . Who vieweth but the Pismires little head The Pismires head . And sees the Organs therein comprised . Her little mouth to apprehend her meate , Her tongue to taste , her throte hollow and neate , To swallow downe the iuyce of what she takes : Her hot stomacke which good digestion makes . Her lower parts egesting excrements , Her nimble legs with other complements : One ioint to another soundly compacted , Orderly couched , no way distracted : Her wit to discerne when Sommer begins , Presaging foule weather or euer she lins , Or leaues her worke for herselfe and her traine : With labour seeking her house to maintaine . The Pismires burie their dead . Her orderly care to burie her dead , Some carrying the feete , some other the head . To a place remote from her habitation , T' avoid the stench of mortall contagion . Who vieweth these things , must greatly admire , The noble vertues of the little Pismire , What shall I sing more ? The least creeping thing , The Flea , the Louse . Brings admiration to a mightie King . The skipping Flea , and the poore beggers louse , May make a wonder in a Princes house : Viewing their mouthes , their bodies and legges , In eating their meat , and laying their egges . Fowles . Floras rich mantle was fretiz'd with Fowles , Which Shepheards haue discribed in their rowles : And now enioyning poore Endymion , As plaine song for his Pipe to warble on : Birds of pray for our meane capacitie , Deuouring Birds of great rapacitie . Then smaller Birds that are of lower size ; That gentle Ladies rate of higher prize , Must be the tenor of the shepheards song , Though wearied voyse cannot endure long : Eagle . High soaring Eagle Empiring and bolde ; The shining face of Phoebus to beholde . In the Ensigne of victorious Emperours , Impressed ; flying as great conquerours , Of all furious 〈…〉 ▪ Woe to yong 〈…〉 way . The Phaenix bred in great Arabia , The Phaenix . ( A countrie knowne to might● 〈◊〉 Of golden colour and ●are qua●ities , Who liuing alwayes cha●● , ●he burning d●es . Two of these Bird● the world cannot 〈…〉 , From bird to worme , from worme to 〈…〉 ▪ Vsing no act of generation , As egges vsed for procreation ▪ But fire onely for priuation , Whence must proceede the 〈…〉 ▪ And then behold an alteration , Which deserueth admiration : The Ashes yeelden forth a creeping worme Which Time doth cause to take the 〈…〉 . Hereby 〈◊〉 learned Shepheards high●y scan , The vs● . The resurrection of a mortall man , To be as possible out of the ground , As , of a worme a Phaenix to be found . The Griffin halfe a bird , and halfe a be●s● , Griffin . Strong arm'd with mightie beak , 〈◊〉 , & creast , Making an armed man his Euening 〈◊〉 , The mounting 〈…〉 . The monstrous Vulture , Pro●●●heus to mentor , Vulture . ( Of fire naturall the first inuent●● ) Mercilesse , not sparing in his 〈◊〉 , To offer harmelesse creatures iniurie ▪ The Ostrich of deuou●ing qualitie . Ostrich . Oxe-footed , broad beak'd , 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 title , And of incredible ceteriti● ▪ And yet of grosse and 〈…〉 ▪ Not able to mount , but holp●● by 〈…〉 ▪ Great admiration to the hunters bring● ▪ Disgesting steele , and breathing 〈…〉 ▪ Yet she adornes our Gallants with 〈…〉 . The spoyling Goss-haw●●● not so goo● for sport , Goss-haw●● . As fit to feed an armie in ● Fo●● ▪ The Faulcon , and Ierfaulcon for pleasure , Faulcon , Ierfaulcon ▪ Tersell . Lan●ret . Lanner , Muller , a bastard Hawke . Marlion . Are accounted for a Princes treasure : Terscell , Tarcell-gentle , and Laneret , The Lanner , bastard Muller , Malleret , The princely Sagar , and the Sagaret , Which Bastard-Hawkes , Faulconers can hardly get , The thrice renowmed noble Marlion , Which Ladies vse for recreation , Hobby . The long-wing'd Hobbie for the mounting Larke , Fit for young eyes the towring game to marke . Sparhawke . The Irish Sparhawke to follow slender game , Deserues with Hawkes to register her name : Musket . In Winter time the Musket at a bush , Will serue shepheards to maze a simple Thrush : Kistrell . The Kistrell if he be well managed , For swiftnesse will not be disparaged : Kite . The Coward Kite fittest to ceaze the Mouse , To gurmandize young chickens from thy house . She serues to take the garbage from the field , Least putrifaction might infection yeeld . The Buzzard most hurtfull to thy warren , Buzzard . With spoyle of Rabbets making it barren , Deserueth not so much to be hated , If he were to gaming animated . Ringtaile . The Ring-taile eke will truely kill her game , If cunning hand and wit her nature tame . The Rauen ( some say ) if she be cicurated , Rauen. Deserues in some sort to be nominated : Dangerous for the eyes . But take thou heed of all the Birds that flyne , The Eagle and Rauen will strike out thine eyne : Preuent it therefore , least it come to passe , And arme thy face with spectacles of glasse . The siluer stringed sweet sounding Virginall , Without the Rauens quils is rusticall . To write the Roman hand , and Secretarie , The Rauens Pen is found most necessarie . Thus for supposed inconuenience , Her feathers yeeld young Ladies recompence : And some commoditie doth seem 〈◊〉 grow , By the noysome deuouring 〈…〉 . Crow . To clense the streets neare to 〈…〉 , Of stinking carions corruptio● The Rooke , the Chough , th● 〈…〉 for borne , Rooke , Chough , Daw. Mag-pie . Which feede not of the carion 〈◊〉 of corne . The partie-coloured chattering 〈◊〉 , Gorgeth herselfe vpon impuritie ▪ Learned Drayton hath told Madge-ho●●ets tale , Michael Draitons Owle . In couert verse of sweetest Madrigal● ▪ She whoops at all the World in fro●●●●ight ▪ Blazing the sinnes wherein it takes delight . The Bat and she doth take their recreation , Bat. If Phoebus be in declination The Owle , banquets with Chickens at ●er feast , To see as well by night as by day . The Bat delights herselfe with Bacon b●●t . If you will see as cleare by night as day Annoynt your eyes with blood of Bats they say . But daunce not thou after Albertus 〈◊〉 , Till thou canst better vnderstand this ●iddle : For of this poynt Shepheards warne th●● before , Eyes so annoynted shall neuer see mor● The Kings-fisher laboureth in her kinde , Kings-fisher . With her breast opposite against the 〈◊〉 , To seaze the fishes spawne , and little frie , That heedlesse in a Riuer swimmen by Her painted feathers maken Flies counterfet , Tied vpon Hookes the leaping Trout●● get : The coloured Woodspite runs along the trees , Woodspite . Killing for foode the creeping worme slu●●ees : The filthie Cormorant , and the Sea-gull , Cormorant Whose Crawes with eating will be neu●● full ; In Floras mantle haue some place afforded , Therefore Endymion hath them recorded , But leaue we these , and let our Musick ●●ount To sing of princely fowles in our account . Paire sweetest Laeda's Swan both wild and tame , Which mightie Monarchs keep'n for their game . Swan . Hearne . Crane . The towring Hearnshaw , and the wake●●ll 〈◊〉 ▪ Shaming Ca●cas●s , fearing to be ●ane , By dreadfull Eagle watching for her pray , Trussing the Cranes a● they flyen that way . They keepen therefore silence in their Flight , Till they haue scap'd that mountaine in the night . As two lynes of a Tryangle meeting together , At the end , so flyen they in colde weather , In two rankes spredding themselues a sonder , They ●oyne at one sharpe end , great is the wonder . They haue one leader , whome they duly marke , Following one another in the darke . This leader lighteth farre off from the rest , As one with solitarinesse opprest . Hee keepes his standing as a Centinell , That all his Souldiers might in safetie dwell . But if an aduersary come that way , He makes a noyse : The troup is in array . He mountes , they mount , they take them to their wing●s To seeke some place that lesser perrill brings . Goose , Duck , Widgeon , Teale . Curlew , Dotterell , Pewet , Bustard , Godwet , Plouer , Heath-cocke , Partrich , Pheasant , Rayle , Quaile Larke . The Goose , The Ducke , the Widgeon and Teale , Like order keepe as in a common weale . The daintie Curlew , Dottrell and Pewet , The Redshanke , Bustard , Bittor , and Godwet , The Snipe , the Woodcocke , Plouer , Gray and Greene , Garnish the Table of the greatest Queene . The Heath-cocke , Partrich , Rayle , Quaile & Phesant , Are Princes dishes , and pastimes pleasant . Sweet sounding Larke art not the meanest wish , That oft is made to furnish Princes dish . Furthermore in blessed Tellus coate , Are framed Birds , of sweet and pleasing noate . Long liuing Ouzle , little chaunting Thrush , Ouzle . Thrush . Singing on tops of trees , and highest bush ; Delighting passengers with Melodie , Varying their tunes so curiously . That Shepheards wonder how so diuers Noates , Should couched be within such little throates . But 't is an admirable 〈…〉 To heare the delectable 〈◊〉 Of sweetest Noates , with 〈…〉 ▪ With loftie streynes , Musi●● 〈…〉 , Of little Philomela , 〈…〉 ▪ Phoebes Phoenix , Organ●●● 〈◊〉 ▪ Nightingale . Let no Musition with her 〈…〉 ▪ No voice so sweete , so exquisite and 〈◊〉 . Dame Linnet , and birdes of Ca●●ria , Lynnet , Canary birds . With Musicke please Arcadian 〈◊〉 . Robin-red-brest , the little dainty 〈◊〉 , Redbrecht . Wren . With sweetest noates content the 〈◊〉 of men . Some other Birds Flora brought in 〈◊〉 , Which not in voice , yet 〈…〉 Pride . The prating Parret , Parakito small , Parret . Parakito . Which please our Cinthian Ladies best of all . As these beene taught , so vtter they 〈◊〉 voice They make much sport , and Ladies ●oo●e reioyce , Orientall beene their Feathers de●estable , Of colour excellent , and variable . But other vertues in them know I none , But to eate a soppe and burnish a bone . The Golde-finch , Bulfinch ,

Gould-finch . Bul-finch . Mar●let , Swallow .

A red stone in the Craw of a Swallow prob Oyle of Swallowes .

English iayes . haue the falling sicknes . Peacocks .

Marlet and Swallow Of colours diuers , in vertues shallow . The Red-stone in a Swallowes 〈◊〉 is good , To stop the Fluxe and efusion of blood . The Oyle of Swallowes , Phisition● haue tolde , Help 's swelling of ioyntes , proceeding of colde . Thou shalt not once handle our English Iay , The falling-sicknes infects her a●way . Peacocks beene Birds of rare qualitie , Of shining Feathers , pride , and Maiestie , Foes to the Adder by creation : Contriuing alwaies his distruction ▪ Sabaean Queene for estimation , Presented these to mightie Salomon ▪ The Turkie-cocke , a Crauen by 〈◊〉 , Turkey Cock Is excellent meate , and of Large st●●ure . Turtledoue . The simple harmelesse groaning Turtle-doue , Twixt man and wife paints neuer-dying loue : Doue . The Doue commended in Diuinitie , Grac'd by the third person , in Trinitie , Her bodies heate for sustentation , Her qualities for imitation . Stockdoue . The dolefull mourning Stock-doue may thee moue , To view thy state and praise thy God aboue . Storke . The Storke may teach children with reuerence , To yeeld their parents due obedience . When crooked age their parents doth possesse , And stiffened lims waxe faint with wearinesse ▪ When pouertie their substance doth assaile : And vitall blood their Arteries doth faile . When blinded eyes done sinke in hollowed head ▪ When trembling hands that should the mouth haue fed ; Steddily can hold no sustenance , And grinding teeth ( the stomacks maintenance ) Their offices no longer can fulfill : And way wardnesse attacheth aged will : When legs doe faile , that should the rest support ; And cold , and age , and griefe afoords no comfort : Then marke the young , the strong and lustie Storke , That day and night vncessantly doth worke , Her aged dying parents to maintaine , Refusing pleasure , and enduring paine . To bring in food his parents to sustaine , Thinking the parents life the children● ga●●e . And if he doe perceiue that food be scant , And that his parents perishen for want ; So that constrained he must leaue the place : Then wofully he viewes his fathers face , Shewing his griefe to see his parents lacke , And all at once he takes them on his backe . And adding force vnto his fearfull wings , Swiftly flees to the pallaces of Kings . And laying aged parents safely downe , For foode he rangeth all about the towne . Which got , he brings 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 speede , Whereof his parents and himselfe do ●eede . But here Endymion began to 〈◊〉 , As if himselfe were drown 〈◊〉 sorro●es deepe . I know not what did touch the seely man ▪ But yet at last he thus againe began . O blessed Pan grant vs that Shepheards beene , Aged , vnwildie , with choller ouersee 〈◊〉 To find young Storks to carrie vs 〈…〉 ▪ To feede our mouthes to beare our 〈◊〉 rage : Alas I feare it will be otherwise Now children done their parents 〈…〉 despise : And if they done to a little money 〈◊〉 , Their Parents may in no 〈…〉 , To call them sonnes , the bl●●●-mon●●'d filthy Asse , Thinks himselfe sham'd if that should come to passe . For Hercules must needs be this man ●ather , When he might iustly challenge Iris ●ather . Iris the basest beggar that liued in his time . A fustie golden Bragga●ochio , A Lumbardarie scauld Bora●●●o . The disgrace of an honourable how●● ▪ As to a Ladie is a bodie lowse . But let this rest● A b●ond of infamie , ( There pride abhor'd 〈…〉 ) With frumps derides them 〈…〉 , And secretly pursues them with 〈◊〉 . Endymion must take another subiectl● Of high regard and princely by respec● , A wonder for the world to gaze vpon , Which still is out of forme and fashion . A seely fowle , a Pellicane by name , Shall shew how much this world in out of frame . Pellicane . The Pellicane will spend his chiefest blood , To doe his friends or yonglings an● good ; But we will spend our warme and 〈◊〉 blood , To hang our friends or children in our mood : We bragge , we prate of Christiani●●● , Our hands are full of blood and cru●ltie : Our tongues can talke of Iesus Christ his death , And cursse , and sweare , with one , and the same breath . We fast , we pray , we sigh , we groane , we preach , We write , we reade , we heare , catechise , and teach , We bend our knees , aloft we lift our eyes , As if our hearts were rauish'd to the skies . We rage at others vice , reproue corruption , Speake against vsurie as abhomination : We speake gainst the pomp of Prelates in their gree , And yet who liues in action worsse then wee ? There is no sinne that worthily is blamed , But we commit , and are not ashamed . If true pietie consisted in wordes , When working actions fro● the same discordes : Then are we perfect in Religion , Our words been plentifull , our deedes beene gon . Except we take corrupt and stinking weeds , For blessed sacred and religious deeds . We had rather cut our poore neighbours throat , Then releeue his want with one seely groat . And if he fall into extremitie , By shipwracke or other casualtie : Shall we releeue his wofull penurie , Or helpe to keepe his wife and familie Of our owne purse ? nay let him sterue and die , And wife and children begge . O Christianitie ▪ Thy sacred lore teacheth quite contrarie , From which who so doth obstinately varie , Shall be acknowledged for none of thine , Nor be partaker of that glorious shine , Of blisse , of honour , and of maiestie , And liue with th' euerlasting Deitie . Another Bird I haue yet in my rowle , Which may be spoken of without controwle , A bird for courage , and for qualitie , For husbandrie , thrift , and vtilitie : Inferior to none that Nature hath framed , House-cocke . And is the proude and wakefull House-cocke named . Armed with spurr's to daunt assayling ●oe● , Crown'd as a King , tryumphing as he goes . Obserue the tender loue , borne to his wife , The Coc●● loues his wife . For whose saueguard , he spareth not his life . If Corne or bread he finde , if but a cro●me , He chucks , and calls his wife vntill shee come : Before he layeth downe that peece of bread , Not feeding himselfe , if she be vnfed . Each man knowes his nature by experience , To holde you long were inconuenience . The Titmouse and the multiplying Wren , Titmouse . That deuours Spiders , and liues amongst men , For order of our Sonnet as it lies , Requireth that we speake ●f diuers flyes : And specially of flies by creation , Flyes . For many Flies rise of corruption . The Bees from Pan haue their originall , At creation of things naturall . Flesh-Flyes , and Wasps , and Grassehoppers , Crickets , Hornets , and Cowsherders , Dorr's , and such like , as flying 〈◊〉 , Haue their originall as Mise and Rats . By Phoebus Heate , and putrifaction , They taken forme and generation . As mightie Cursses , and great plagues are sent , Vpon this wicked world for punishment . Great is thy wisdome euerlasting Pan , In all thy workes seruing the vse of Man : All thy creatures strike admiration , To Shepheards in their contemplation . But when we neerely marke the ●ittle Bee , Bees . Our hearts must needes be rauished in thee . That such a little Flie should farre surpasse , The wisest workeman , euer framed was , And all the Artist's in the world beside , Are argued of insolence and pride , If they presume by superficiall skill , To knowe the cause of this thy secret will . The Bees body described . How is her bodie framed in euery parte , Admirably contriu'd beyond all Arte ? Her little head her eyes , her mouth , her tongue , Her throate , her brest , her little heart , her longue . ( As some doe thinke , to houlden breath and heate ) Their little Stomacke , to disgest their meate : What Lower intrayles Dame Nature inuents , To emptie , or auoide their Excrements , Their alwaies-Armed-sting for their defence , Their little ioynts , and legs of finest sence , Their wit to sucke the iuyce from fragrant flower , Their skill to keepe , and carrie it to their bower : Their Arte to flye a mile into a playne , And euerie Bee to finde his home againe . But when we come to see their Citadell , As by a Serieant Maior squared well : How iustly are Philosophers amazed , When they haue proportionably gazed , Vpon a little concaue or a Hiue , In which they doe their pollicie contriue ? Circle-Muring strong their pettie-fort ▪ With Pallazado , Flanker , Loop and Porte , Rampiers of waxe , and thicke Baracados , To withstand the theeuish Rats-Brauados . But enter once within their Hiue , or wall , And see their order vniuersall : Marking how they doe place their Colonyes , To dwell according to their qualities : First for the King his Tent imperiall , Next been placed States , Peers principall . Then euerie other state in his degree , According to his seruice hath his fee : For him and his , a house peculiar : Priuate for euerie thing particular : For meate , for rest & Cradles for their young : So neately drest as passeth Shepheards toung . Framed sixe square Geometricall , Each side to the other , proportionall , And euerie one his lodging seuerall , Framed by nature artificiall . Euery lodging 〈…〉 . Not seiled with vnprofitable knacks , But euerie lodging of the purest waxe , These lodgings are appointed in rega●d , That euerie one should labour , watch and ward . Thus setled in their Cell against the Sunne , Each falleth to his worke till day be done . Some maken Honny-pots , some Ho●●y clense , Which closely they hide , and hourden ●n their De●s . Of all the flowers growing in the field , Which fragrant smell vnto the sense doe yielde : They gatheren this composition , Honry . The sicke mans Leeche , and best Phisitio● . They nourish vp their younglings in their trade , Till time and practise hath them skilfull made . When Summer hath prouision for their health , They swarme them foorth into the common-wealth . To get some place for their habitation , And labour in their generation . If any one among them chaunce to die , Hee is remooued thence immediatly . For they can abide no dead carion , For feare of pestilent infection . By iust desert therefore they are recorded , That haue to Man such benefits afforded . Riuers and Springs , and Bathes , Riuers . and pooles there beene That Beautifie the Mantle of this Queene . That flowen from the mightie Ocean Running againe thither where they began . Loosing their saltnesse in the hollow vaine : Of Tellus Intrayles where they doe remaine . Their swiftnesse spoyles the force of Phoebus Heates , Which on the buttom of the Riuer ●eates ▪ The Pike , the Roach the Cheu●● and the Dace , Fishes of the Riuer . The Breame , the Barble , with his ●earded face , The Pearch , the Gudgeon , and the siluer Eele , Which Millers taken in thei● 〈◊〉 weel● : Dwell in the Riuer as principall fish . And giuen by Pan to garnish thy Dish , The Salmon , Trout , Flounder and Creuise , Doe dwell in Riuers where the Menow is . Carpe . Tench . The Princely Carpe , and medicinable Tench , In bottom of a Poole themselues doe trench . Pool . The Poole of necessitie hath a spring , Which feedeth it , and doth fresh water bring , Least Phoebus burning beames doon make it drie , The mudde to stinke and all the fish to die . Who dare the noble burbling Spring despise , Springs . Which from the belly of great Tellus rise ? Where Birds doon drink for sustentation , Where Nimphes and Graces , take their recreation . Swiftly descending from Parnassus mount , To sporte themselues by coole Castalion-Fount . Bathes . There beene Bathes also of high Soueraignetie Med●cinable for mans infirmitie . Colde Bathes . Colde Bath's springing vp from an Allum-mine , Curing hot Gowts , and Maladies of eyne . Who● . Hot Bath's alwaies worken quite contrarie , As spring from a hot Mine Sulphurie . And thus is Tellus Mantle finished : And with beauties rich glorie garnished . There resteth that Endimion begin , The Iewels & treasure within the earth . To shew what treasures Tellus hath within . Thrice honoured Cinthia deigne to heare this song , Blame it not , as teadious or to long : For thou shalt heare therein discouered , Thinges that before in darkenes houered . The Mothers wombe throughly Anatomized , With glorious Meteors therein comprized . So that if I should haue a Trophae made , When Shepheards life were turned retrograde : Of all my skill except Theologie : Set vp his pillar of Philosophy , And let thy Poet be eternized , For Phylosophy epitomized . And let Arcadian Cynthia neuer die , But liue in records of Antiquitie . And euer tryumph in Endymions Layes , With flourishing and euerlasting Bayes ▪ For listen how by Indagation , In Tellus Belly by Creation Are perfect mettals , Stones , and things betweene That neyther perfect Stones , nor mettals been Gould , Siluer , Brasse , Yron , Steele , heau●●-lead , Tinne , Are Metals seauen ,

All thinges within the earth are eyther Metalls , Stones , or Mixt.

7. Metalls .

contained within In Tellus belly whereunto some adde : Copper which is fine Brasse if truth be had . All these by Phoebus made effectuallie , As hee 's remote , or in propinguitie , The neerer Phoebus commeth to the lyne , So is the Metall eyther course or fine . As Phoebus fierie Steedes circlen the Spheare , Declyning the line , or approchen neare : So are his beames of force , or weake estate Minerall Mettals to operate , As is the substance of the earth in qualitie . So is the Mettall fram'd in pouertie . The cause of different Metals . Plenty of Gould is in America , Peru , Moluccus , and Phillipina , Little Gould , or Siluer in Virginia , France , Ireland , or Brittania . No plentye of Golde in Virginia , & why . Yet Copper , Tinne , Iron , Brasse , or Le●de ▪ Are in those Countries plentifully bred . America so neare the burning line , Breedeth abundantly the golden Mine ▪ These other Countries subiect to the colde , Can yeelde lesse plenty of siluer and golde . For Gould and Siluer is the Care of man , Gold the Obiect of the world . For these men maken warres , and 〈◊〉 and ●an : Forsweare themselues , and sell their dearest life . For these the husband and kils his guil●lesse wife . Friend sels his Friend as Iudas did his Lord : Simplicitie , truth , vertue is abhorr'd . Kings make war with their neighbour Kings for gold● Religion is wounded , conscience is bought & sold● . Abbayes , Churches , Altars ruinated , Whilom to pietie consecrated . Bishoprickes spoyled , their Lands deuided , Studie decayed , Schollers deryded . Schollers constrained to buy their places deere , The Parsonage farmed , it lyes the Patrone neere . The Patrone claimes the Tithe to finde his Diet : Or else the Parson must not liue in quiet . But out of doubt , my Lord 's a Puritan , A vertuous and a moste Religious man . Making a Scruple of his conscience , As doth a Begger to take a sixe pence , The Mistresse weares the Parsonage on her backe , The Peacher , his wife , and family doe lacke . But tell me , is not this a golden age , When Rascalls ride in Golden Equipage With Princely Lords and men of highest blood , As Tarleton clad in Caesars goulden Hood ? When guilded spurres , adorne Hodge-Cli●●perton , To friske the Hay with Glabbring-Iillion ? Fetching a Caper full as high from ground , As fortie Angells is from twentie pound ▪ Spoyling more Cates and Viands at one Meale , Then fiue great Mastiffes in a common weale . Prouided it be of an others coste , For his great Grand father neuer eate Roste. And tell me ? ys t' not a goulden season , When Golden fooles are pr●●sed for reason ? As eloquent as learned Cicero , As sententious as aged Cato : Pithye , sage , and Graue , with a long white beard , Like mine olde Horned Goate , praeceeding the heard ▪ What Stratagems of warre , are wrought by golde ? What secret misteries doth it not vnfolde ? What Townes and Cities hath it not betrayd ? What Princes councels , hath it not bewray'd ? What strange aduentures doe men 〈…〉 , And all for golde , commoditie to make ▪ A man regardeth nor Age , nor qualitie Sexe , witte , learning , vertue nor honest●e . Friendship , faith , Soule , credit , Sinceritie ▪ So he get golde and worldly dignitie . Damnable Vsurers Suburds of hell , Iewes by profession , Baw'ds of Bride-well , Deuouring English Gentle-men aliue , That once approchen your pestilent 〈◊〉 Nets of Belzebub t' ensnare noble frye ▪ Pretending conscience their wants to supplye . Protesting that for perfect amitie ( Hoping there may be some Affinitie By marriage , betweene your sodaine Daughter , And this wanting wanton youth heareafter ) If hee 'l knowledge a Satute of his Land ▪ For men are mortall : and a single Band ▪ Is not for you that are a Citizen . When hee 's content : what doe you for him the● ▪ You will furnish him immediatly : Eyther with money , or commoditie , But wot ye what ? ( Pouchmouth Ciuilitie ) Now begins your packe of Scurrillitie ▪ You dampne your selues and sweare that money's 〈◊〉 But ritch commodities he shall not want , That certaine Money presently will ●eeld : If he be skilfull to Marshall the field ▪ Silks , and veluets at Intollerable price ▪ Embroydered Hangars , Pepper and Rice ▪ Browne Paper , Lute-strings , buckle● for a Saddle , Perwigs , Tiffany , Paramours to wadd●e . Great bars of yron , and Spanish Tuck● : ( Thus like a Horse●leech thy vanitie suc●es ) These takes the Gentleman , at such a Rate , As brings repentance speedy ▪ but to late . For halfe in halfe , is losse reasonable ▪ The Broker sweares they are not seasonable . O inchaunting golde , O alluring witch ▪ Doth not a minde contented make men rich ▪ Desire of Thee , hath damn'd the Vsurer , His wife , and children , and fil the Broker . Desire of Thee makes many Marchants wiues , Forsake their husbands beds , their soules , their liues . Women forsake their husbands beds , for gold , and their excuses . Pandresse . Vnder pretence of blessed Religion , Inflamed with caelestiall vision : To haunt the beds of yonger golden states , Buying short pleasures at the highest rates . Desire of Thee constraines the Pandresse seeke , Each angle of the towne , each house and Creeke , To bend , perswade , allure , a simple Maid , For Gold to haue her honestie betraid . This Pandresse she , alas , she 's past the best , And knows the fittest meanes t' ensnare the rest ▪ Bankrupt becomes a preacher for gold . Desire of Thee draw's the bankrupt marchant , To become a blind Buzzard praedicant . To blaze the Bible farre aboue the reach , To be a Puritane . To be a Puritane , Catechise , and preach : To single out a Church remote for ease , Where he may best his auditorie please . Where neuer commeth wise nor learned man , Their fond absurdities to heare or scan . But sweete Kate and Cisse , Bab , and Iulian , Faire Parnell , and my blessed sister Anne . Pen at a push , diuine ●●inophila , Prudence , Priscilla , with Polonyma . These know to vse the sacred Oracles , As lack-an-Apes a paire of Spectacles . With diuinitie aswell edified As a red Bricke by water 's Albified . Marke his subtiltie . This fellow first to get the worlds applause , Cries out against the policie and law's . And saith the Chuch is full of superstition , And her officers without commission ▪ Thrust thereinto by Romish Antichrist ▪ Defended by Popish Artagonist . Archbishops , Bishops , Deanes , Prebendaries , Parsons , Vicars , Curates , Commissaries , Common-set-prayer , and Citations , Suspensions , and Excommunications : Lord Bishops , Barons of Parliament , Made Iustices of ciuill gouernment . These are not of Christs institution , But by corrupt times Reuolution . Infecting the Church by Popes intrusion , Poysoning her with wofull confusion . He saith vnpreaching Ministers been dumbe dogs , Fitter for plough and seruing of hogs , Then to taken Christs blessed 〈◊〉 in hand , Reading the things they doe not vnderstand . If this be true thou pecuniarie Asse , Art not thou come to a wofull passe ? That into Christs Church hast thrust thy selfe , To coffer vp this yellow worldly pelfe ? And in a Pulpit doost but prate and clatter , Without Diuinitie , Methode , or matter ? Thy foolish spokes all learned men do scorne , As spur-gall'd-words , triuiall , and threed-bare worne . Thy sences need Eleborus , They are too too blunt , Such Parradoxes of thy selfe to ●unt . The Hebrue , Greeke , and Latin , vnto thee , As the renowm'd and ancient fathers bee , Thou speakest as perfect Ciceronian , As a Monkey iabbereth Italian . If I demaund how thou attain'dst thy skill , Thou simply answerest : it was Ioues will ▪ It came to thee by inspiration : And by a secret Reuelation . Thus thou obtain'dst thy Consecration , By an extraordinarie vocation . Contrarie to the sacred Regiment , Setled by Iesus Christ , and parmanent . But for the Registers of Antiquitie , And interpreters of Diuinitie , The holy fathers blessed Monuments , Which Christ hath vsed as his Instruments , To make diuine Theorems perspicuous . And obscure sentences illustrious : Thou do●st reiect them as ridiculous , And interpretations perillous . Thou onely read'st the inuectiues of T.C. Which by profound writers answered bee . Why without blushing dar'st thou discommend , The orders of the Church , or thus contend About high poynts beyond thine Element ? Thy time in learning might be better spent . But well I know what brought thee to this vaine , Not conscionable zeale , but hope of gaine . And this thou shalt acknowledge euident , Vpon record as certaine Precedent . Thou that before with railing bitter words , Denied'st Christian Bishops to be Lords : And squared Cap , and Surplesse didst forsweare , Shunning the Ministers that did it weare , Saying t' was a Relique of Antichrist , Brought into the Church by the diuels high Priest . The Crosse in Baptisme , and Ring in mariage , Is a foolish toy , and meere Surplussage , The Booke of Common-prayer is tittle tattle , Much like to a Babies playing rattle . But now thou hast by thine owne subscription , Retracted thy former assertion . Mutabilitie , Marke here he subscribeth . Affirming the pollicie of our land , With Gods eternall veritie to stand . Vsing the Ceremonies as they beene , Established as all thy people weene . And what thou formerly hast contemned , As things by Christianitie condemned . By thy hand writing thou hast approoued , ( As plaine truth hath farre thy betters mooued ) Thou wear'st the Surplesse , and the cornerd cappe , Onely but for a bush to stop a gappe . Thine Audience demaund of thee the cause , Why thou subiects thy selfe vnto these lawes ? Sith thou hast preached direct contrarie , As white and blacke in colours seeme to varie . M●ke his hypocrisie . Thouh sai'st fowle iniquitie of this time , Procured thee to perpetrate this crime . Out of thy mouth I straight do argue thee , Of false dissembling hypocrisie . For if it be direct iniquitie , Discording from true Christianitie ; Why wilt thou thy conscience contaminate , And with thy pen and hand corroberate , Things meerely false and diabolicall , Forsaking God , and things Caelestiall ? Answere me now or be thou well directed , Least of hypocrisie thou be detected . Thou sai'st thy skill is greater now then then ; An other ▪ excuse . ( You blessed people answer all Amen . ) Then shall thy flocke be excellently fed , Like the Camelion of the Ayre bred . Thou hast nor Arte , nor wit , to feed thy sheepe , No more then Wolfe , or Foxe thy lambs to keepe . Thou know'st no more the Scriptures to vnfolde , Then doth Aphron th' Alchimist to make golde . But flesh is fraile , and thou art loath to say , That which we shepheards ●ounden in our lay . That thou wilt stay thy selfe vpon this ground ▪ As fast as will the Hare before the Hound . Returne therefore vnto thy trade againe , For in the Church thou labourest in vaine . Think'st thou our Bishops will thee deigne to preach , Rude , vnlearned , a Mercinany ▪ Dog-leach ? No ▪ no : Saint Nicholl is too wise for that , Thou 'st neuer in an English Pulpet chat . Till thou hast better skill to manage well , The mysteries diuine of sacred spell . Yet herein art thou worthily commended , That hast the Churches policie defended . And forsworne Geneuian Presbyterie , Being a phantasticall Anarchie . But if thou wilt be an euerlasting so , To this new vpstart Disciplinado : Studiously with Pen marke each word and line , A Booke called the Su●u●y of Discipline . Of that learned suruey of Discipline , That which thou doost doe of intelligence , Not for lucres sake , but for conscience . Vpon this condition I le let thee goe , And speake of certaine golden wonders moe . For out of doubt it worketh strange effects , When euerie man the golden Asse respects . An olde wife chosen and made yong by Golde . A lustie Gallant seekes his wife for golde , Though the withered Crone be foure-score yeare olde , Blind , crooked , lame , deformed , full of gout : Her gold , her gold , shall paint the Buzzard out , As yong , as beautiful● , as Pollix●n● , Wise , courteous , witte learned , as my Cynthia . Gentle as a Doue , for why she cannot bite , Fortie yeares agone she was toothlesse quite . A foule and foolish daughter made faire and wise by Golde . Yea a yong puppet , ill fauoured idiot , A slabbering , grenning , laughing foole ( God wot ) Gold can transforme to faire and gracious , Wittie , and sober , in talke sentencious , Able as wisely to vtter hir minde , As Seneca's wife could see being starke blinde . Yea , in a Countrey where no golde doth growe , By arteficiall skill wee 'll make golde , I trowe . That shall abide the fierie test as well , As stubble can abide the fire of hell . Alchimie . This skill is called the noble Alchimie , Which bringeth all her friends to beggerie : For with great expence and longation , Must come this mettals alteration ; Perillous is the way by curtation , Hauing no certaine operation , By the white and greene , and red Lion , By fixing Sulphurs liquefaction ; To haue a perfect calcination , Right Tincture , and Maleation , To make it ductible and fusible , Close lured in an earthen Crusible , Bewaring of too hot combustion , Till fortie dayes and nights be come ▪ and gone : Secretly working by thy selfe alone : Thou shalt obtaine the Philosophers stone . A fine red powder , which being proiected , ( By great Arte and skill , least thou ●e detected ) Vpon a peece of Brasse as bigge as a house , Shall make a peece of golde as bigge as a louse . Goodly Mannors and Possessions are solde , To make simple Brasse artificial Golde . But as a Veluet Ape remaines an Ape , Though he be attired in golden shape : So shall a peece of Brasse be perfect Brasse , Though it be somewhat purer then it was . Well , this that is spoken proueth euident , That this Mettall of Golde is exce●lent . For which all states and sexes macerate , Themselues and theirs with labours intricate . Though Golde it selfe , as by creation , Is not the cause of such corruption ▪ But mans vile insatiable desire , To lade themselues with this thicke earthly mire , Brasse for vessels , and fodder fast our Steele , Brasse . To make Canons , whose force our foes doe feele . Iron and Steele are mettals of dignitie , Iron and Steele . Of great esteeme , vertue , and qualitie , The one with th' other may so be tempered , That by no Arte they may be entered , They make mightie instruments of warre , Bellona , and Pallace with these armed are . With these the Captaines of Britannia , Beard the proude Monsters of Romania . The force of these hath conquered India , These fright the Muses and faire Cynthia . And all young Ladies that delight in peace , Whereby their ioy , their loue , their sports encrease , Praying great Mars , no more to manage armes , That they might claspe him in their Iuory armes . The vse of these for which they were intended ; Was that our confines might be defended , From foe mans force , and fierce Inuasion That blessed peace might build her station , That there might bee no fell corrasion , Death , nor bloodie depopulation . But out alasse ! Sacred intent of Pan , Is quite peruerted by the minde of man , By a malitious disposition , That turne these Mettals to pardition . They kill , destroy , and murder one another , The Father kils the Sonne , the childe the Mother : Man killeth man , whome he ought to defend : Kniues were ordained to a better end . Woe worth the man , that first the sword inuented , Neuer sufficiently to be lamented . For since the time these weapons first began , In small regard was had the life of man . Each swaggering Ruffin now that walk's the streetes ▪ Proud as Lucifer , stabbeth whome he meetes . Trampling the Guts of men vnder his feete , Tryumphing in his brothers winding sheete . O blessed region where no Iron growes , Where no man Steele , nor golde , nor siluer knowes , Where Guns and swords , beene reputed wonder Where roring Cannon is holden thonder . Where neuer wonned any martiall Man , Where men doon neuer cu●sse , nor sweare , nor ban , For Golde : but ledden a contented life , Voide of pride , Mallice ▪ contention , strife , Giuing a lumpe of Golde for a small Bell , A needle or a pinne , contents them well . Peace commended . Thou Salomon renowned prince of peace , How did thy kingdome flourish and increase ? When Siluer was compared vnto dust , Voide of contention , malice and distrust ? Golde was as plenty as stones in the streete , Neighbour vsed neighbour solemnlie to greete . Saying ( Shalumleca ) peace be vnto thee , Then was Ierusalem in high degree . But after he was dead , then warres began , Peace was exiled , waxed sick and ●an , Ciuill sedition , and dichostasie : Clangor of Trumpets , noyse and fearefull crie Trampling of warlike Steedes , Banners displaide , Discommodities of warre . Beating of Drums : Armor rustie Assayed . Mightie men at armes , raunged in array . Townes full of clamor , women ran away . Lamenting of Mothers , wiues wringing hands , Blood-breathing Mars , at each corner stands . Two Kings in one Land , each clayming right , Souldiours ignorant on which side to fight . The whole land full of desolation , Expecting nothing but diuastation ▪ A lamentable wofull Spectacle , When closed was the blessed Tabernacle , The lawes worship and Sacrifice d●d cease , Exterminated quite with sacred Peace . The champing horse vp to the Foot●locks stood , In flowing streames of dying Sould●ers blood . No reuerence to the aged man at all , The wife doth dye to see her husband fall . The Children weepe to see their Fathers death ; The aged Matron yeeldeth vp her breath ; Young virgins without regard deflowred , Studies decayed , Students deuoured . Merchants spoyled , and their goods deuided , Iustice dispised , Iudges derided , The whole Kingdome brought to confusion , Thy house , thy good 's , thy land 's by intrusion , Of a godlesse impudent companion , Taken by force from thy possession . Thy wofull wife rauish'd before thy face , And presently thou murther'd in the place . Tell me now if thou hast any conscience , Yf this in making Steele were Pans pretence ? The armed Plough-Share in making Furrowes long : Our Horses Yron shodd , to footen strong . Boord's strong nail'd , to couch together close : Keyes , and artificiall locks , to shut and lose : With other infinite commodities : Which by this Mettals principally rise . Of these two Mettals shewn , vse principall , For deadly warres beene thinges accidentall . The leaden mines , are now in chiefe request , Leade . For which we riuen sacred Tellus brest . And turne them to bad vses contrary , Vnto their first created destiny . We vse it now to make Bullets round , To gorge our Pistols Christians to wound . Caliuers , Muskets , and such Trumpery , Executors of humane crueltie . Are stuf'd with Bullets of the purest Leade , To kill a harmlesse Man vnfurnished . Wee vs'd them first holy Church to couer , At the charge of many a Christian Louer . To couer close , the Pallaces of Kings : Least raine might enter which corruption brings . Glasiers can tell of vses manifold , That neede not in our storie bee enrould . This proo●'s there is a strange mutation , Of all things from their first creation . Tinne . Excepting Tinn formed for Vtensils , Which sculleries of Noble Ladies fils . This mettall receiueth corruption , By Pewterers sophistication . Corrupted by Mixture of Leade . Chargers , Basens , Platters , Pots of Tinne , Mixed with leade craftily foysted Inne . Making them heauie , and of colour blew , But Tinn's light , and white , if Substance be trew . If otherwise it is adulterated ▪ And by Cosonage sophisticated . Thus is rich Tellus glorious within , In deeper search if thou wilt wisdome winne : Stones doon occurre next to be sur●ey'd , As nature hath them orderly conue●'d . Stones with their deuisions . Gems , Marble , whetstones , Flmt's & building bones , Are ribb's of this Ladie , or our Mothers bones ▪ Hearken the musicke of mine Oaten Reed , As Endymion doth orderly proceed . Gems are principally memorable Precious stones . As Iewels of price inestimable In barryne Rocks , and mountaines engendred , And by great Pan to Ladies tendred ▪ To garnish all their Princely Ornaments , Tyres for their heads , vailes , and Abbillements ▪ Their caules , their haire , their neck● , their brests , their hands Whose price none but the owners vnderstands . Of watry substance beene they composed , And by the burning heate of Phoeb●● disposed . Into diuers colours hard orientall , Shining throughout , not superficial● . The thicker they beene the more of regard , So they beene impenetrable and ha●d , This watry●substance by colde is congealed How they come to resist the fire , & yet being endred water . And then by Phoebus long time A●ealed . Yea hardned so by the heate of the Sunne By continuall Reuerberation . So hard compact by Phoebus burning charme , That the flaming fire can doe them no harme . These beene called precious for their qualities , Not for their Maginitude or quantities . These casten such a luster to the 〈◊〉 , As might a mazen Shepheards tha● been wise . Resembling often with their splendent light ▪ Gemmae . perspicuae . Op●ca● . M●x●a● . Twinckling and shining Starres i● frosty night . Of precious stones some shining a●d cleere , Some been obscure , and therefore not so deere . Some partly cleare , and in some part obscure , Yet verie precious , and will long endure . Perspi●●● ▪ The Diamond , Carbuncle perspicuous , Blew Saphyre , Emerald , Iacynth lustrious , Obscure , and darke , is the iewell Onix , Op●●a , ● Mys●● ▪ Cleare and obscure , Iasper , and Sardonix . All beasts and plants of force must needs giue place , Many stones of more vertue , than beasts and plants . Load-stone . Diamond His vertues . To many stones precious for vertuous grace . The truth hereof is euidently showne , By the Load-stone vniuersally knowne . The Princely Diamond of high respect , Pierceth an armor with his hard effect : Nine dayes togither resisteth the fire , Who doth not then his qualities admire ? It expelleth feare , as Shepheards haue tride , If it be to a Ladies left wrist tide : Carbuncle , or Rubie . At midnight Carbuncles giue such a shine , As if Phoebus blazed his power diuine : It makes a man merrie that lookes thereon , Vertues . Gainst Melancholy preuailes this stone . Emerald . Most precious of all is the greene Emrald , Which of vs Shepheards a chaste stone is call'd . It is the softest , and foe to Venerie , Vertues . When thou and thy wife go to bed , lay 't by : If thou haue drunke venom , or poysoned thing , Drinke this in wine , it will remedie bring . Gainst falling sicknesse it is a remedi● , Which Phisitians call Epilepsie . The fearefull dreames that risen vp in vs , The Emeralde doth vtterly discusse . Blew Saphyr . Vertues . The blew Saphyr maketh found the eyes , That beene opprest with mystie maladies , Choler-adust , it cureth perfectly , Drunke in wine , and powdred cunningly . It doth preuaile against the Scorpions sting , The powder also remedie doth bring , Against a Carbuncle , or pestilent sore , Strawde vpon it and drunke as before . The Iacinth preserueth from the lightning , Iacinth . Those that weare it garnish'd 〈◊〉 ▪ From the pestilence it keep 's men sound , Vert●e● . That ayer infected may them no● confound . A precious helpe for them that cannot Sleepe , Get this stone and doe it safely keepe . The Marble stones excell in Dignitie , Marble . All other stones that beene ordinarie . Representing a shining looking-glasse , Shewing the faces of them that doon passe . Excellent for building of gorgeous Roomes , Theators of state , and Emperors Toombes . some white , some black , some green , with spots distinct , Such as great Cynthia hath in her precinct . Porphirie for ritches is commended , Porphyrie . Wherein Phisis hath her skill extended . Alablaster shall not in silence sleepe , Alablastar . Wherein our Ladies doon their Oyntments keepe . Whet-stones been next as Endimio● findes , Three kindes of Whetstones Deuouring Metalls : heereof been three kindes , The Touch-stone , and Whet-stone of Darnasco , Touch-stone . And the Indian Whet-stone , the razors Foe . Damasco Whet-stones of an A●hecolour . Gould-Smiths vse the first to try their Mettals by , As Golde and Siluer from false Alchymie . The second common vs'd to this intent , To whet our kniues , or other instrument . The third is yellow which the Barbers haue , Indian Whet-stones yellow . To whet their Razors if they meane to sha●e . The nature of the flint all men do● admire , Flynt-stone . How that speciall stone is fit to strike fire , Schollars ▪ Souldiers , and Maryners are bound , Men much bound to God for this Stone especially , Students , Souldiers , Mariners . To blesse the time when first this stone was found , If all the fire in the whole world ●ere gone : Tellus can helpe thee with one silly stone , For common stones of great infinitie , Framed by caelestiall Diuinitie . Different in colour , forme and fashion , For nature , vse , and Operation . Stones ordinary Hardned by the burning beames of the Sunne , Being dust and sand , ere they were begunne . I le single some as stones of rarest name , Which iustly doe deserue Records of fame , The Load stone first comes to my memorie , Load-stone . A Stone of admirable vtilitie . Drawing by secret diuine influence , Iron and Steele surpassing humane sence . Two ends it hath , if they be rightly squar'd , Doone wondrous thinges which cannot be declar'd . Nor can we all the secret vertues tell , Which in this little ragged stone doon dwell . For one among the rest is admirable , The reason whereof is Ins●rutable . Vertues . One end drawes yron to it all the day ; The other end doth make it runne away . One end drawes yron to the southern Pole , The other , to the center of the Northern-hole : So strange and implacable enmitie , Such hidden raging Malignitie In working nature of this stone is found , As doth the wit of all the wo●ld confound . All Mariners of force must be dismayed , Mariners . If they should want the Load-stones blessed ayde , By this they saile , else knowe not where they were , Such sou'reigntie in Ship doth Magnes beare . Lapis Herculeus it is called those ,

Hercules the first inuentor of the Load-stone .

Smiris for Teeth .

Pumc● for Parchment . Ta●tarum for Spots in the face .

Lap●● Sectil●s .

That say Herculeus did it first disclose , Smiris a noble stone in operation Much vsed for the Teeth's purgation . The Pumice stone was not formed in vaine , To clense your parchment and to make it plaine . Tartar found in the bottom of Wine-Leyes , For Pimpled spotted face , is of high Price . A stone there is of colour blacke as sables , Which Marchaunts oft , vse for wrighting-tables . This also deserueth some memorie , Because it serueth mans commoditie . The stone which Shepheards doon Acthites call , Acthites . Is of great vertue , though the stone 〈◊〉 small , For this I wish young Ladies vnderstand , Vertues for women trauelling with child If they hold this stone closely in their hand , Or apply it , to the place Parturient They shall be deliuered incontinent . This soundeth Endimions in his Layes , Make vse thereof and after giue him praise . Redde and white corall as hard as a stone , Tellus refuseth because it is none , But a sea hearbe combust by the hea●e of the Sunne , Corall no stone but an Herbe . Wherewith some women faine wonders been done . Drunken in powder , it vertue impart's , To the Greene-sicknes ▪ and languishing Heart's , Neither is Ieat within the stony Lawe Ieat . As sit for naught , but to take vp a straw , The third part of all the mineral's that beene , Mixt mineralls . Found in earthes-bellye , and dayly seene : Haue strange and secret vertues intricate , Profitable for mortall mans estate . And first Phisitions done highly ex●●t , Sal Géma . Ammoniacum . Salt Peter . The Pearled , and th' Ammonian Sa●● . Salt-Peter , Minerall of high regard ▪ Digg'd by commission , in each hou●e and warde , Where by the Deuill inuented Gun-powder , That hell might tryumph and death ●e prowder ▪ Which with sulphury composition , Procurs fatall death and Perdition . Sulphur the Damme of wilde fire and brimstone . Sulphur . By a filthie diuelish commixion , Which hath brought to finall subuersion , Many a strong and worthie champion . Many a learned Scholler of renow●● : The princely Souldier , and the rural● Clowne : No Citie , Castle , Fort , or stately Tower , Is able to withstand his raging power : This hath Dame Tellus in her regiment , Close coffred against the day of iudgement : If mindes reuenging would vouchsafe it rest , In darkesome closset of his Mothers brest . Alume . Alume is also a famous minerall , Cold , Abstersiue , peircing , medicinall . For Cankers in the mouth , Vlcers and blaynes , Hot and dry Scab's , and itching of the vaines . Glasse . Of Viscous matter , is glasse composed , Which in her brest , Tellus hath enclosed . Whereof men vessels ▪ excellent contriue , Looking-glasses . Looking-glasses , and Glasses perspectiue ▪ Composed by Arte Geometricall , Whereby beene wrought thinges Supernaturall . Perspectiue glasses . Men with halfe bodies , men going in th' Ayre . Men all deformed men as angels fayre . Besides other thinges of great admiration , Wrought by this Glasses Fabrication . Drinking Glasses . Glasse for windowes . Burning-Glasses . Drinking Glasses , and plaine window Glasse , Placed by Arte , that light and heate may passe . Though it be strange , we know 't may come to passe , To set ●ire on a Towne , or a Ship by a glasse . How are old men bound to Pans Maiestie : Whose sight is dimme , with their antiquitie ? That they might in age reade his Oracles , Spectacles . He helps their sight with glassie spectacles . You learned Searchers of ritch natures skill , That oyles and waters souereigne distill , Limbecks Viols . What glassie Limbecks , and receptacles , And closed fast luted Tabernacles , Frame you of this one brittle treasurie , Safelie to keepe distilled misterie ? Nimble quicksiluer what shall I say of thee ? Quickesiluer . Minerall excellent in thy degree . Mother of Metals , transformer of all ▪ The seauen Metalls vniuersall . How shall I celebrate thine excellence , Or glorifie thy great Magnificence , Golde ioyneth not to siluer but by thee , Thou piercest all Mettalles that formed be . No Mettall hindereth thine agili●●● Tou flyest the sight of mans iniquitie ▪ Admirable thinges might well be wrought , If man by Arte , could fixe thee as they ought , And beate thee foorth into a siluer Plate , Whome neyther Tuch , nor Teste cou●d macerate . No siluer then , to thee were comparable , Made with small cost , excellent and durable , This I thinke were a farre greater misterie , Worthily fit to bee called Alchymie ▪ Then thus to make our wealth , and witte to range , Good Copper , into seeming golde to change . Which thing is as possible to be doone ▪ As for a Weezle to eate vp the Sunne . But Mercury whome we quicke siluer call , Quicke siluer may be 〈◊〉 . May be fixed as siluer naturall : Perfect good siluer , permanent and 〈◊〉 , And shall all proofes of Tuche , and 〈◊〉 endure . No difference twixt other siluer and this : But that is steedefast , and this running is , Yet as it is it cureth Maladies , Ache in the ioynt's , and french infirmitie● . And men once cur'd , with neuer dying praise , With sacrifice and sacred rounded layes Doe blaze with Trumpe , of euerlasting fame , The glorious order of this circled frame . And now Endymion hath Anatomized , The vniuersall world , and all therein comprised , One onely thing remain's as yet vntouch'd , Which is moste admirable , yet closely couch'd , T is this : to what end all these thing●● were fram'd ? Which in this particular we haue nam'd . The answere is the vse thereof is great ▪ The vse of this philosophi● . Eyther for contemplation or Meate . Principallie for blessed mans behoofe , These things were framed as a certaine proofe , That he would loue him euerlastingly , For whome he framed vniuersalitie . For when worlds engine was thus finished , And all the parts perfectly polished : Yet this whole fr●me serued Pan to no purpose , Nor did he benefite by one of those , Whom he had made , vpon , and in this round , Heauen , or Earth , or what therein is found . For next to heauen were the Angels made , When the Angels were made . And shortly after some fell Retrograde . And became diuels by alteration , Of all their qualities in creation . And haue their place within the spacious ayre , Kept in Chaines of euerlasting Despaire . Yet not of Angell , Diuell : or ought created , The fall of Angels , and their place . And Pan neede in pleasure scituated , Yet would he make this glorious world , and why ? For that he ment to frame a Monarchie : Or large Empire full of soueraigntie , Then formed he a Prince of royall dignitie Man made , and why ? Of a wonderfull Grace and Maiestie , To sway this Imperiall Monarchie , He framed first his bodies lineaments , With all his admirable Complements . As a yong man of thirtie yeares of age , A perfect man . Ephe. 4. Beautifull , gratious , of comely visage . Yet dead he lay , as carkasse on a greene , No life or motion in him felt or seene . Like sweete Adonis sleeping on the Mount , Whom peerlesse Venus had in high account . A liuing soule . Then breath'd he into him the breath of life , Where presently began a gentle strife . When euery limme began it selfe to moue , And stretch it selfe his vitall force to proue , Life the effects of the soule . The closed eyes their Curtaines did display , The rowling eye had motion euerie way . The nosthrils gan to feele the fragrant smell , Of sweetest sented flowers which there did dwell , The eare began to heare melodious notes ▪ Of daintie Birds , from out their warbling throates . The Rubie , liquid , warming vitall bl●●d , Pass'd euerie veine , as riuer● streaming flood . From Liuers fountaine t' impart nour●●hment , The Liuer fountaine of blood . The heart principall . Vnto the heart that hath the gouernment ▪ And so through conduits secretly con●riu'd , Is blood to euery humane part deriu'd . This life to euerie part gaue perfect ●ense , To feele according to their differenc● ▪ Within his head by hidden instruments , Were placed Natures blessed Ornaments .

The head receptacle of senses intellectuall . Fantasie in the forehead : Memorie in the hinder part of the head .

Understanding in the crowne of the head . Dura Mater , P●a Mater .

The forehead kept obiected phantasie , The hinder part reteyneth memorie . Intelligence hath her place principa●l , In the crowne of the head highest of all , Fit to receiue obiects from phantasie , And to commit them vnto memorie . Within a branchie filme there lyeth the braine , Close rampir'd vp with Barracados twaine : Both maters , and the flint-hardie Scull ▪ Here reignes the Soule , in maner wonderfull . From thence she doth diffuse her operation , To euerie member in his scituation .

The soule Immortall , Simple .

No part of Gods essence . Created , that is , breathed .

This breathed Soul●s an immortall substance , Simple , spirituall and of puissance . Though breathed , yet no part of Pan● Essence , But a created glorious existence . Fitting the bodie for Procreation , It selfe not fit for generation . Not ex trad●●●● that is , One soule to beget another . A simple essence cannot be deuided , As Philosophers haue well decided . Thus being animated his tongue did moue , And spake some words which tended vnto loue . Then neuer present Pan tooke him by th' hand , And set him on his feete , making him stand . He saw God as he might behold him . And made him view his glorious Maiestie , As farre as might his perspicacitie . And made him view the glorie of the place , With all things fram'd , and set before his face . Producing to him all creatures framed , He named all things his Mansion . So to be termed , as he would haue them named . He made EDEN , GAN , IEHOVAH habitation , Fit for a Prince of his creation , Replenished with fruites of euery kinde , To ●it the belly and to please the minde . In the midst of the round world Scituate , Paradice in the middest of the earth . Man King of the earth . The rest with great eas● to contemplate . There he inuested him , as in a Throne , Giuing him season and possession , And imperiall domination . Of all this lowest roundes creation . Gracing his gouernment with certaine law's , Which Clarkys comprehenden in their Saw's . And being high pointes of Theologie , Surpasse Endymions Philosophie . Diuinitie begins , where Philosophie doth end . Marke ( Cinthia ) where Philosophie doth linne , There alwaies doth Theologie beginne . He cal'd him ADAM : ISCH : an earthly man , Worldes wonder , Monarche , Terrestriall Pan. So glorious shining , Princely excellent , Vertuous , holy , wise , and continent : Sober , modest , strong , graue , and temperate , Amiable , Magnanimous , and moderate . Of comely jesture , and sweetest carriage , Fit to possesse Ioue's Queene in marriage . Yet desolate alone , and comfortlesse , Ritch yet poore , pinch'd with solitarines , Commaunding all thinges that were created , Yet could not his minde bee recreated Because he was constrain'd to liue alone , Without inioying a companion , Which Pan perceiuing , cast him in a sleepe , Commaunding Morpheus , this prince to keepe . As one receiuing Opium , or Dwall , Depriu'd of vitall sence , doth deadly fall : So falleth downe this mightie earthly Prince ▪ Neuer felt Flora such a creature since , Except he were more then a mortal● man , Receiuing Pearle of Tullus , part of 〈◊〉 . Falling she tooke him in her blessed armes , And lul'd him fast a sleepe with sacr●d charmes . Soe dead a sleepe with Incantations ▪ She dressed his bodie with Carnations : Crimsen Gilliflowers , Pinkes and Pauns●es , Muske-Roses , and other pleasing P●ansies . Thinking herselfe , a Queene moste fortunate , If she might liue to chuse him for he● mate . But mightie Pan prouided otherwise , Woman made . Out of his sencelesse side he made to rise , A young Princely gratious louing creature , Far surpassing any former feature . Of such a shape diuine , and Majestie , As amazeth my best Philosophie . Her face was like my fairest Cinthya ▪ And peraduenture like Musophila ▪ Her grace , behauiour ; and modestie , Surmounteth any mans Capacitie . Nor by Endimion can be blazed , But it will make the whole world amazed . Heauen and earth cannot the like afford , As must be wife to this imperiall Lord . For she must be of bodie excellent , That must lie by a King Magnificent , And it behooueth her to be precise , To talke with him that 's absolutely wise . Pan therefore taking consultation , Said she should serue for generation . Her skinne was white as was the I●orie , Thinne and smooth as the finest Tiffany , Where through a man might perfectly beholde , The azured veynes , her inward parts to folde . A reddie intermixt vermilion , Diffused was pleasant to looke vpon . Her golden hayre dispersed to her thighes , Close shrowd's , Lucina's sacred Misteries . Her modest eyes like sparkling Diamond● , Pure and chaste ( vnlike to Rosamonds , ) Piercing like Cupids fixed fierie Darts , Sterne , fierce , and bloody , Marble : Martiall-hearts , Loues mountaines , apples of Hisperida , Such were her brests witnesse my Cinthia , From whence by corall conduits flowing are , Streames of the sweetest caelestiall Nectare , Her crimson smyling lipps did make a showe , That mirth and pleasure in her mouth did growe . Her teeth euen set by natures curious hand , As rowes of orientall Pearles did stand . These keepe her tongue , and instruments of voice , Of purpose made to cause her Lord reioyce . Tender her hands , her fingars long and small , Fit to delight her Lord and sport withall . Thus fram'd she was in iust proportion , Which made the world amaz'd to looke vpon . But for the Ornaments of her princely minde , For excellency were not farre behinde . The noble soule of Adam first created , If they be view'd and iustly estimated . Some shepheards hau'n seely folkes abused , The womans soule was not made of 〈◊〉 soule , but infused by God . Which donne denie her soule to be infused Into her bodie , as blessed Adams was , But rather that creation came to passe , By propagation out of Adams soule . We finde no warrant for this in our rowle . For simple essence can no way generate , Obserue . His like : and yet conserue his former state . Thus was the glorious Queene accomplished ,

Adam , Adamah .

Nekebah per●orat● , boared as with a wimble , of the word N●kab signifying to beare a thing Hollow .

And with caelestiall beautie furnished . Pan blessed her , and call'd her Adamah , A female earth , and after Nekebah . By reason of her great concauitie , To take and holde begotten progeny , This being doon , he viewd the sleeping man , At his commaund Morpheus swiftly ran . In the darkesome Caues of E●ebus ▪ With all his mistie charmes Somnife●●us . And left the sleeping Prince in Flora● lappe , Not knowing what was done for his good happe , At last his lustrious eyes , he gan adua●nce , Rouzing himselfe , and shaking of hi●●raunce , And standing vp vpon his princely feete , Pan caused his vertuous Lady him to greete . Whose suddaine view , strook him to such amaze , As marueling a while did naught but gaze , He wondered at her beautifull proportion , Her gratious lookes and constitution . And looking well vpon himselfe ( quoth he ) So well this peerelesse frame , resembleth me , As if she were my propper flesh and bone , In bodie and soule ▪ wee seeme to be but one . In all the earth her match can not be found , In whome humanitie doth so abound . Then euer liuing , euerlasting Pan ▪ Acquaintd him how euerie thing began , And said absolute shall be thy pleasure , Take heere to wife this surpassing treasure , The Prince obey'd , the Lady was content , Mightie Pan marryed them incontinent . And blessed them : saying they should increase , And fill the world till heauen and earth did cease . This pleas'd the Prince , in token of consent , He gaue her halfe this worldly regiment . Parting betweene them , earthes circumference , And cal●d her ISKAH for prehem●●ence , Iskah a Mannesse as we say a Dutchesse . Then was the marriage solemnized , And in our sacred rowles eterni●ed . Where blessed Angels sounded harmonie , And chirping Birds chaunted their Melodie , The King and Queene , with ioyfull hearts did sing , And hils and dales , rebounding Eccho's bring . Tellus and Flora , kep't it holy-day ▪ Attired in their moste gorgeous array . And all the Orbs and Spheres gaue looking on , When Princely Adam tooke his Paragon . How long they liu'd in their felicitie , Is not contain●d in Natures Mysterie . What was their arte , their life , their fall , their end , By sacred layes and Oracles beene pend . WIth that , Endymion cast his eyes aside , And saw a gentle Knight come pricking on , Swift was his pace , and knightlie did he ride , Bending his race towards Endymion . As stately Knight he was to looke vpon , Complet his armes in rich Caparison , His horse like Pegasus , and he Belerophon . Likely he was to mannage Martiall armes , Well could he couch in rest his dreadfull Speare , He rode as one that scorn'd Thessalian charmes , Nor did he any strange aduentures feare : The Armes and Shield which I did see him beare , Were coloured blew , thicke set with siluer Starrs : His Shield an azur'd Porpentine , with golden barrs . His wauing Bases manaced the skies , Like as his Armour to Welkin semblant , Couch'd in his Saddle close to enterprize , Stratagems and aduentures puissant . If any in the earth were commorant , And single Combat quicke to vndertake , Gainst hellish Monsters or Lernaean snake . His steely helme , a Corronet of Bayes , Empaled round : the penon of his Launce , The ignorance of all the world displayes , For when he gan , his warlike Speare ta'duaunce , Some golden Letters writ I read by chaunce . The Motto was ( if I remember right ) Learning Triumph● in Enu●es great d●spigh● . The simple Shepheard cried out 〈◊〉 ; Flie noble Cynthia we are betrai'd , So sore amazed was the Countrey swaine , That he forgot what he had done or 〈◊〉 . Renowmed Cynthia was no whit dismaid , But comforted th' amazed senselesse man , Willing him hold his course as he began . And all the Ladies from their seates arose , To view the comming of this warlike Knight : In circle-wise they faire Cynthia clos● ▪ To shrowde Diana from Acteons sight , The Shepheard would haue ta'ne himselfe to flight , But that he was asham'de to runne away , Leauing the Ladies to the warriers pray . He layd a side his Pipe , and tooke his Hooke , As if he would an armed Knight withstand , The seely soule put on a manly looke , Yet better was his running then his hand . He wisht himselfe farre off in other land , For fitter were his hands to vse a pen , Then mannage Armes with any Ma●shall men . But making vertue of necessitie , He made a show as if he ment to fight , Vpon his feet , he started suddenly , To shield these Ladies from that manly Knight . No question there had beene a noble sight , To see him wield a woodden rustie ●ooke , That fitter were to mannage sacred ●ooke . O how the Shepheard would haue 〈◊〉 his stumps , And laid about him with his smo●tie Boke , His woodden Crooke had giuen such deadly thumps , As would haue stricken downe a falling Oxe . So would the Knight haue feard the Shepherds knocks , As if a Bulrush hit him on the Crest , Or if a Gnat had stung his armed b●est . But all was well , no terror was intended , The Knight nor car'd , nor knew Endymion . He rein'd his Steed , and lightly downe discended , And with a Courtly disposition , Lift vp his Beuer , whereby euery one , Knew him to be , the mightie Astrophill , Whose prayse is paynted with an Angels quill . Prince of all Poets in Acadia , Magnanimous of euerlasting Fame , Of chiefe regard , with famous Cynthia , Appollo parted with him halfe his name , And gaue him skill darke ignorance to tame , Appollo twined with his learned hand , The Lawrell Crowne , which on his head doth stand . But when my Cynthia knew 't was Astrophill , She ranne to claspe him in her daintie Armes , But out alas , it passed mortall skill ; Inchaunted was the Knight with sacred Charmes . His bodie dead of yore , the more our harmes . O noble Drayton well didst thou rehearse , Drayton vpon the death of S.P.S. Our Damages in dryrie Sable verse . Thrice Cynthia tri'd to folde him in her armes , But all in vaine , she nothing comprehended : Her vitall blood that all the bodie warmes . Forsooke her veynes , and to her heart ascended . For loe , she fainting fall's as life were ended : Making most wofull lamentation , Yet Astrophill still kept his station . The worthy Nimphes that circled Cynthia , Amazed at her fall made such a crie , As wak'd the Satyrs of Syluania . And feeding Lambs did greatly terrifie : The Shepheard in a mortall trance doth lie , The tender Ladies had the better hart ▪ Setting all cowardice and feare apart . Nymbly they tooke , and rubbed Cynthia ▪ Till she reuiu'd , who lifting vp her ●yes , Behelde the Elsin of Arcadia , And cri'de deare : brother do not ●e●porise : Nor do thou Ladie Cynthia despise , Why speak'st thou not to her that loues thee best , What dismall humor hath thy minde possest● With that as from a deepe concau●ti● , A siluered voice , and words of grea● import , Proceeded from the Knight with Maiestie , Distinct , pithie , plaine , but wond●o●● short , Yet such as vnto vs gaue great comfort . A man , a ghost , a knight , a potentate , Humane , diuine , forcible , laureate . Dies , liues , fights not , yet mortally doth wound , Death , life , time , fortune , wisedome , learning , wit , Nature , Arte , forme , languages pro●ound , Glorious earthlie-pompe , fame ex●●lling it : No earthly thing eternally shall si● ▪ Vertue , Pietie , and pure Sanctitie , Shall weare the Crowne of immortalitie . These words the trembling Shephe●rd did reuiue , They were so full of raritie and choyse , Resembling skill of Astrophill aliue ▪ The sound he thought was not vnlike his voice . Endymion did mightily reioice , And said aloud , or thou ar● Astrophill , Or thou hast learn'd this Sonnet from his skill . Shepheard ( quoth he ) I am and am not hee , I am not perfect Astrophill , but 〈◊〉 , The shade which now appeareth ●●to thee , Is substance spirituall fram●d by Arte ; What mortall was , is slaine by dea●ly Dart Of Thanatos , corrupt consum'd to ●●st ; Such is the end of all this worldly 〈◊〉 . But what art thou that sitst among these baye● ? Vnfold to me for I must needes be gone , I was reader ( quoth he ) in former daies , Vnto great Astrophill ▪ but now am one , Stripped , and naked , destitute alone . Naught but my Greekish pipe , and staffe haue I , To keepe my Lambs and me in miserie . Art thou ( quoth he ) my Tutor Tergaster , He answered yea : such was my happie chaunce , I grieue ( quoth Astrophill ) at thy disaster : But fates denie me learning to aduaunce . Yet Cinthia shall afford thee maintenance . My dearest Sister keepe my Tutor well , For in his element he doth excell . And for thy selfe , I bring thee happie newes , Thou shalt inioy a long and happie peace : Which former bloodie wars , and death ensues , For ciuill heate in Albion-soyle shall cease , And noble blood shall perfectly encrease , Church-men heareafter shall agree in one , Bannishing sects , and superstition . Pride shall be turned to humilitie , Each man shall keepe himselfe in his degree , Discurtesie shall be ciuilitie , Wanton Maydes shall modest Matrons bee , Noe Man shall seeke the fruite of others tree . Noe Rapine , swearing ▪ or abusion , Noe Murder , ribauldrie , confusion . Each man shall seeke , to doe his neighbour right , Greene grasse shall florish in Westminster Hall : You shall discerne a beggar from a Knight , Extortion and briberie shall haue a fall . Golde exchanged for thinges caelestiall . Vertue , Truth , Honestie , Religion , Shall Tryumph in the brittish Regyon . Caesar shall see his foes subuersion , No man shall lift a sword against h●s Crowne , His issue shall not feare dispersion . Christo Mastix shall be tumbled do●ne , Peace , faith , loue ▪ ioy , honor in euery Towne . Trumpets shall sound , and bels sha●l ring for ioy , Virgins and boyes , shall sing Vine ●● Roy. Reuerend olde age , shall bring thee to thy Herse , And glorie shall adorne thy progenie : Eternall fame shall blaze in golden verse , Thine honorable life and destinie . Renowned Poet 's of highest Ingenie , Shall decke thy Tombe with euerlasting fame , And with goulden pens celebrate thy name . And when thy bodie shall consume to dust , Resting it selfe in deepe obscuritie ▪ With dreadfull Trumpe shall rise againe the iust , Thy bodie shall surpasse in dignitie , The welkin which thou seest in Maiestie , Meane while thy spirit a substance diuine , In tryumph rid's in equipage with mine . About the Orb 's and Spheares caelestiall , Dignified with euer shining light , Viewing the majestie imperiall , Clad in a vesture of the purest white . Which Amnos made before the world was dight , Where thou with me , and I with thee shall sing , Eternall prayses to the immortall king . These blessed Nimphs , enuironing thee round , Thrice noble , by their propagation : Neeces to Astrophill , of honor ●ound , Of modest , vertuous inclination , Happie shall be their generat●●n . And blessed they till Ioue haue w●ought his will , And caus'd them mount , the 〈…〉 Ast●ophill . And now my Cinthia time sommons me henee , My newes been done I can no longer stay . He mounted Pegasus and hy'de from thence , Piercing the welkin , vanished away . Leauing the Ladies in wofull dismay , Lifting their heads , and gazing on the skies , Obseruing the course , as Astrophill flies . Galaxia the white path in the firmament . Galaxia tooke him in her splendent armes , Sweetely she couch'd him in her Canapie , She seal'd the passage , with her counter charmes , To guard her sleeping Knight from Ieopardie . Without regard of impaciency , Cinthia would needes ascend Olympus hill , To liue or dye , with blessed Astrophill . Nature perswaded her to stay a while ▪ Her time prefixed was not yet assign'd : The fatall Sisters , would not cut her file ▪ Her robes vnmade , her Coronet vntwin'd . Nor was the quintesence of nature fin'd , Neither was yet great Astrophill awake , That might her entertainment vndertake . Cinthia replyed not , as one resolued , Her will to put in execution : Oftentimes her sacred soule reuolued , Which way to make a dissolution , Of this her bodies constitution And justly knowing t wa's not in her power , Determined to stay her fatall houre . And yet to spend in contemplation , The better part of her remaining daies : Which vow she keepes in veneration , Witnesse her learned Poems , and her Layes , So often crowned , with Arcadian Bayes . Thus long sitting silent in that place , Aurora gan to showe her blushing Face ▪ Then all the Ladies hasted to depart ▪ And Cinthia turn'd her to E●dimion● ▪ With wordes of grace proceeding fr●m her heart , She thank'd him for his former ca●tion . This Mount ( quoth she ) take for thy mansion . Here shalt thou dwell , and feede thy little flocke , I with my Ladies , will encrease thy ●●ocke . The stately Garland of her blessed 〈◊〉 , For beautie matchlesse , incomparable ▪ With greatest fauours grac'd this co●ntrie Swaine , ( Particulers will be admirable ) Of esteeme they were vnualuable . And out of doubt they had been durable , If worldly enuie had been curable . He liu'd a while in reputation , Expounding Oracles of Theologie His flocke was had in estimation , As guided well by his Phylosophy . Profoundly could he chaunt that misterie . In languages of highest Poetrie , Vnfolding riddles of antiquitie . I left the Shepheard in this happy st●●e , Feeding his lambs in mirth and iolli●ie : But it fell out , when I return'd of late , His mirth was moane his solace mis●●ie , ( Loe heare worlds-glasse of mutabilitie ) He wrung his hands , and made a ru●ull moane , His drops of teares might pierce a Marble stone . I wondred how his blessed Com●edie , Could haue so suddaine alteration . I ask'd the cause of this his Tragaedi● , Hee answered : enuies sophisticat●●● . I thought to write , the whole narrati●● , But ●ith Tragaedies haue a bloody e●d , During his life , he will not haue 〈…〉 ▪ ● . B.

FINIS .