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FAire is the heauen where happie soules haue place , In full enioyment of felicitie , Whence they do still behold the glorious face Of the diuine eternall maiestie . More faire is that where those Idees on hie Enraunged be , which Plato so admirde , And pure intelligences from God inspirde . Yet fairer is that heauen , in which do raigne The soueraigne powers and mightie Potentates , Which in their hie protections do containe All mortall Princes and imperiall states . And fairer yet , whereas the royall seats And heauenly Dominations are set : From whom all earthly gouernance is fet . Yet farre more faire be those bright Cherubins Which all with golden wings are ouer dight , And those eternall burning Seraphins Which from their faces dart out fiery light . Yet fairer then they both , and much more bright Be th' Angels and Archangels , which attend On Gods owne person , without rest or end . Ed. Spencer .
The first composing of the number nine , Which of all numbers is the most diuine , From orders of the Angels doth arise , Which be contained in three Hierarchies , And each of these three Hierarchies in three , The perfect forme of true felicitie : And of the Hierarchies I spake of erst , The glorious Epiphania is the first , In which the hie celestiall orders bin Of Thrones , of Cherubs , and of Seraphin : The second holds the mightie Principates The Ephionia , the third Hierarchie With Vertues , Angels , and Archangels bee . And thus by threes we aptly do define , And do compose this sacred number nine : Yet each of these nine orders grounded be Vpon some one particularitie . M. Drayton .
Out of the Hierarchies of Angels sheene , The gentle Gabriell God cald from the rest : Twixt God and soules of men that righteous beene . Embassador he is for euery blest . The iust commands of heauens eternall king , Twixt skies and earth he vp and downe doth bring . Ed. Fairfax . Transl .
Our walls of flesh that close our soules , God knew how weak , and gaue A further gard , euen euery man , an Angell guide to saue : And men for vs be angels , while they work our souls to saue . W. Warner .
— If Angels fight Weake men must fall , for heauen stil gards the right . W. Shakespeare .
Ambition is a Vultur vile , That feedeth on the heart of pride , And finds no rest when all is tride . For worlds cannot confine the one , Th' other lists and bounds hath none . And both subuert the mind , the state Procure destruction , enuy , hate . S. Daniell .
Ambition , fie vpon thy painted cheeke , ( Woe worth the beautie sleepes not with the face ) For thou art hatefull , foule , vnfaire , vnmeete : A poyson-painted pleasure ▪ mads men chase . Thou reasonlesse desire that makes men seeke To kisse the same , whilest fire doth thee imbrace . Thou onely strong disordered , rulest passion , Thou marst mens minds , and pu●st them out of fashion . I. Markham .
The golden chaine of Homers hie deuise Ambition is , or cursed auarice : Which all gods haling being tied to Ioue Him from his setled height could neuer moue . Intending this , that though that powerfull chaine Of most Herculean vigor to constraine Men from true vertue , or their present states , Attempt a man , that manlesse changes hates : And is enobled with a deathlesse loue , Of things eternall dignified aboue : Nothing shall stirre him from adorning still , This shape with vertue and his power with will . G. Chapman .
— The greedy thirst of royall crowne That knowes no kindred , nor regards no right , Stird Porrex vp , to pluck his brother downe : Who vnto him assembling forraine might , Made warre on him , and fell himselfe in fight : Whose death to auenge his mother mercilesse Most merciles of women , Eden hight : Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse , And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse . Ed. Spencer .
A diademe once dazeling the eie , The day too darke , to see affinitie : And where the arme is stretcht to reach a crowne , Friendship is broke , the dearest things thrown downe . M. Drayton .
— Realme-rape , spareth neither kin nor friend . I. Higgins . Mir. of Ma.
Who fight for crownes , set life , set all to light , Who aime so hie , wil die , or hit the white . Doctor Lodge .
One riseth by an others fall , and some do clime so fast , That in the clouds they do forget what climats they haue past W. Warner .
The Eagle minded minds that nestle in the sun , Their lofty heads haue leaden heeles , and end where they begun . Idem .
O , fatall is the ascent vnto a crowne , From whence men come not down , but tumble downe S. Daniell .
Like as the heauen two Sunnes cannot containe , So in the earth two Kings cannot remaine Of equall state : so doth Ambition craue , One King will not another equall haue . Tho. Hudson . Transl .
Whom so the mindes vnquiet state vpheaues , Be it for loue or feare ; when fancie reaues Reason her right , by mocking of the wit , If once the cause of this affection flit , Reason preuailing on the vnbrideled thought , Downe falls he , who by fancie climbd aloft . I. H. M. of Magist .
Desire of rule within a climbing brest To breake a vowe , may beare the buckler best . G. Gascoigne .
In some courts shall you see Ambition Sit peecing Dedalus old waxen wings : But being clapt on and they about to flie , Euen when their hopes are busied in the cloudes They melt against the sunne of maiestie , And downe they tumble to destruction . Tho. Dekkar .
Better sit still men say then rise and fall . High state the bed wherein misfortune lies . Mars most vnfriendly , when most kind he seemes : Who climeth hie on earth , he hardest lights , And lowest falles attends the highest flights . Ed. Fairfax . Transl .
As highest hils with tempest be most touched , And tops of trees most subiect vnto winde , And as great Towers with stone strongly couched , Haue many falles when they be vnderminde , Euen so by proofe in worldly things we finde , That such as climbe the top of hie degree , From feare of falling neuer can be free . I. H. M. of Magist .
Ambition with the Eagle loues to build , Nor on the mountaine dreads the winter blast : But with selfe soothing doth the humour guild With arguments , correcting what is past . Forecasting kingdomes , dangers vnforecast : Leauing this poore word of content to such , Whose earthly spirits haue not fiery tuch . M. Drayton .
— The ambitious once inur'd to raigne , Can neuer brooke a priuate state againe . S. Daniell .
— Warlike Caesar tempted with the name Of this sweet Island neuer conquered , And enuying the Britons blazed fame , ( O hideous hunger of dominion ) hither came . Ed. Spencer .
— Ambition In princely pallace and in stately townes , Doth often creep , and close within conuaies ( To leaue behind it ) damage and decaies : By it be loue and amitie destroid . It breakes the lawes , and common concord beates . Kingdomes and realmes it topsie turuy turnes . G. Gascoigne .
Be not ambitiously a king , nor grudgingly decline , One God did roote out Cis his stock , and raise vp Iesses line . W. Warner .
The aspirer once attain'd vnto the toppe , Cuts off those meanes by which himselfe got vp . S. Daniel .
Haughtie Ambition makes a breach in hills , Runs drie by sea amongst the raging scills . Th. Hud .
Affection is a coale that must be coolde , Else suffered , it will set the heart on fire , The fire hath bounds , but deepe desire hath none . W. Shakespeare .
Affection by the countenance is descri'de , The light of hidden fier it selfe discouers , And loue that is conceal'd , betraies poore Louers . Th. Marlowe .
— Most wretched man , That to affections doth the bridle lend , In their beginning they are weake and wan , But soone through sufferance growe to fearefull end , Whil'st they are weake , betime with them contend . For when they once to perfect strength do growe , Strong warres they make , and cruell battrie bend , Gainst fort of reason , it to ouerthrowe . Ed. Sp.
If so Affliction once her warre begin , And threat the feeble sense with sword and fire , The mind contracts her selfe and shrinketh in , And to her selfe she gladly doth retire . As Spiders toucht seeke their webbes in most part , As Bees in stormes vnto their hiues returne , As bloud in daunger gathers to the hart , As men seeke townes when foes the country burne . I. Dauies .
If ought can touch vs ought , afflictions lookes ( Make vs to looke into our selues so neare ) Teach vs to know our selues beyond all bookes , Or all the learned schooles that euer were . Idem .
This makes our senses quicke and reason cleare , Resolues our will and rectifies our thought : So do the winds and thunder clense the aire , So working seas settle and purge the wine , So lopt and pruned trees do flourish faire . So doth the fire the drossie gold refine . I. Dauies .
What need we creepe the crosse to giue vnto a begging saint , Tush , tush , a fig for booke loue , none be fortunate , that faint . W. Warner .
Things out of hope are compast oft with ventering , Chiefly in loue , whose leaue exceeds commission : Affection faints not like a pale fac'd coward , But then woes best , when most his choice is froward . W. Shakespeare .
Blushing and sighing Theseus neuer stroue To wooe and winne Antiope his loue . I. Weeuer .
— When all is done that do we may , Labour we sorrowing all the night , and suing all the day , The female faultie custome yeelds lesse merit , greatest pay : And ventrous more then vertuous means doth bear the bel away . W. Warner .
Art hath a world of secrets in her powers . M. Drayton .
Art curbeth nature , nature guildeth Art . I. Marston .
Things sencelesse liue by Art , and rationall die , By rude contempt of Art and industrie . G. Chapman .
Art hath an enemy cald ignorance . B. Iohnson .
Arts perish , wanting honour and applause . D. Lodge .
— Arts best nurse is honours chast desire , And glory sets all studious hearts on fire . Tho. Storer .
Art must be wonne by art and not by might . S. I. Harr. Transl .
Valour and Art are both the sonnes of Ioue , Both brethren by the father not the mother : Both peeres without compare , both liue in loue , But Art doth seeme to be the elder brother , Because he first gaue life vnto the other . Who afterward gaue life to him againe , Thus each by other doth his life retaine . Ch. Fitz. Ieffery .
Art is nobilities true register , Nobilitie Arts champion still is said : Learning is fortitudes right calender , And fortitude is Learnings saint and aide , Thus if the ballances twixt both bewaide , Honour sheelds Learning from all iniurie , And Learning honour from blacke infamie . Idem .
Vaine is the Art that seeks it selfe for to deceiue . Ed. Spencer .
— Greedie Auarice by him did ride , Vpon a Camell loaden all with gold , Two iron coffers hung on either side , With precious mettall , full as they might hold : And in his lap a heape of coyne he tolde , For of his wicked pelfe his god he made , And vnto hell , himselfe for money solde Accursed vsurie was all his trade , And right and wrong alike in equall ballance waied . Ed. Spencer .
Forth of a Desart wood an vgly beast There seem'd to come , whose shape was thus defined , Eares of an Asse , a Wolfe in head and breast , A carkasse all with pinching famine pined , A Lyons grisly iawe , but all the rest To fox-like shape did seeme to be enclined , In England , France , in Italy and Spaeine , Yea all the world this monster seem'd to raine , Where ere this cruell monster set his foote , He kild and spoyld of euery sort and state : No height of birth or state with him did boote He conquered Kings and crownes all in like rate . Yea this beasts power had tane so deep a roote , It entred in Christs Vicars sacred gate , And vexed Cardinalls and Bishops chiefe , And bred a scandall euen in our beliefe . S. I. Harr.
Python whom Phoebus kil'd with thousand darts , Was monster lesse then this by thousand parts . Idem .
Eriphilaes Armor . In vaine it were for to declare in Verse , How sumptuously her armour all was wrought , All set with stones , and set with Indian Gold , Perfect for vse , and pleasant to behold . Mounted she was , but not vpon a steede , In stead whereof , she on a Wolfe did sit : A Wolfe whose match Apulia doth not breede , Taught to obey , although she vs'de no bit . And all of sandy colour was her weede , Her armes were this , for such a Champion fit , An vgly toade was painted on her shield , With poyson swolne , and in a sable field . Idem .
— Auarice , all arm'd in hooking ●enters , All clad in birdlime , without bridge she venters , Through fell Charibdis and false Syrtes Nesse , The more her wealth , the more her wretchednesse , Cruell , respectlesse , friendlesse , faithlesse else , Those foule base figures in each dunghill poole , Like Tantalus staru'd in the midst of store , Not that she hath , but what she wants she counts , A well-wing'd Bird , that neuer loftie mounts . I. Syluister . Transl .
Regard of worldly mucke doth fowly blend , And lowe abase the hie heroike spirit , That ioyes for crownes and kingdomes to contend . Ed. Spencer .
We aged carke to liue , and leaue an ouerplus in store , Perhaps for spend-alls : so amidst abundance liue we pore . W. Warner .
Those which much couet , are with gaine so fond , That what they haue not that which they possesse : They scatter and vnloose from their bond . And so by hoping more , they haue but lesse , Or gaining more , the profit of excesse Is but to surfet , and such griefes sustaine , That they proue banckrout in this pore rich vaine . W. Shakespeare .
Those that will all deuour , must all forgoe . Tho. Dekkar .
Content thee with vnthreatned mean , & play not Aesops dog The gold that gentle Bacchus gaue , did greedy Mydas clog : Commit not treasure with thy child to greedy minded men , Thou leauest Polydor a spoile to Polymnestor then . W. Warner .
— Sacred Beautie is the fruit of sight , That curtesie that speakes before the toong : The feast of soules , the glory of the light , Enuy of age , and euerlasting yoong : Pitties commaunder , Cupids richest throne , Musicke entraunced , neuer duly sung : The summe and court of all proportion . And that I may dull speeches least afford , All Rhethorickes Flowers , in lesse then in a word . G. Chapman .
— Bewtie borne of heauenly race . Bewtie ( daughter of maruaile ) ô see how Thou canst disgracing sorrowes sweetly grace , What power thou shew'st in a distressed browe , That mak'st affliction faire giu'st teares their grace . What ? can vntressed locks , can torne rent haire ? A weeping eye , a wailing face be faire ? I see then artlesse feature can content , And that true Bewtie needs no ornament . S. Daniell .
— Bewtie is the bait which with delight Doth man allure for to enlarge his kinde , Bewtie the burning lampe of heauens light , Darting her beames into each feeble minde , Against whose power , nor God nor man can finde Defence , reward , the daunger of the wound : ●ut being hurt , seeke to be medicinde , Of her that first did stirre that mortall wound . Ed. Spencer .
— Bewtie is womans golden crowne , Mans conqueresse and feminine renowne : ●ot ioind with loue , who deare yet euer sold it ? ●or bewties cheape , except loues eye behold it . I. Weeuer .
— Bewtie is an adamant to all . ●ewtie , natures Iuie-bush each passenger doth call . W. Warner .
●eldome wants guests where Bewtie bids the feast , ●ens eyes with wonders nere are satisfied , At fairest signes best welcome is surmised , The shrine of loue doth seldome offring want , Nor with such counsell , clients neuer scant . M. Drayton .
All Orators are dumbe where Bewtie pleadeth . W. Shakespeare .
Bewtie it selfe doth of it selfe perswade The eyes of men , without an Orator ? What needeth then Apollogies be made , To set forth that which is so singular ? Idem .
Nought vnder heauen so strongly doth allure The sense of man , and all his minde possesse , As Bewties louely bate that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigor to represse , And mightie hands forget their manlinesse . Driuen with the power of an heart-robbing eye , And wrapt in flowers of a golden tresse . That can with melting pleasance mollifie , Their hardned hearts enur'd to bloud and crueltie . Ed. Spencer .
O how can bewtie maister the most strong , And simple truth subdue auenging wrong ? Idem .
No armour can be found that can defend , Transpercing raies of christall pointed eyes . S. Daniell .
Hard is that heart which Bewtie makes not soft . Ed. Fairfax . Transl .
— Who so young that loues not ? Or who so olde that womens Bewtie moues not ? W. Weeuer .
A sparke of Bewtie burns a world of men . Idem .
O what is Bewtie if it be not seene ? Or what is 't to be seene and not admir'd , And though admir'd , vnlesse in loue desir'd . Neuer were cheekes of Roses locks of Amber , Ordain'd to liue imprisoned in a Chamber . S. Daniell .
Nature created Bewtie for the view , ( Like as the fire for heate , the Sun for light ) The faire do euer hold this pledge as due , By auntient charter to liue most in sight , As she that is debar'd it , hath not right : In vaine our friends from this do vs dehort , For Bewtie will be where is most resort . Idem .
All excellence of shape is made for sight , To be a beetle else were no defame : Hid Bewties lose their ends , and wrong their right . G. Chapman .
Heauen made bewtie like her selfe to viewe , Not to be lapt vp in a smoakie mewe : A rosie tainted feature is heauens golde , Whil'st all men ioy to touch , all to behold . M. Drayton .
The ripest corne dies if it be not reapt , Bewtie alone is lost too early kept . Ch. Marlowe .
It hath bene through all ages euer seene , That with the praise of armes and chiualrie , The praise of Bewtie still hath ioyned beene , And that for reasons speciall priuitie , For either doth on other much relie , For he me seemes most fittest is to serue , That can her best defend from villanie , And she most fit his seruice doth deserue , That fairest is , and from her faith doth neuer swarue . Ed. Spencer .
— Bewtie is more bright and cleare . The more it is admir'd of many a wight , And noblest she that serued is of noble Knight . Idem .
Rich Bewtie , that each Louer labours for , Tempting as heapes of new coynd glowing Golde , ( Rackt of some miserable treasurer , ) Drawes his desires , and them in chaines enfold , Vrging him still to tell it and conceale it : But Bewties treasure neuer can be tolde , None can peculiar ioy , yet all must steale it . O Bewtie , this same bloodie siege of thine , Starues me that yeeld , and feeds me till I pine . G. Chapman .
O Bewtie , still thy Empire swims in blood , And in thy peace , warre stores himselfe with foode . Idem .
O Bewtie Syrene faire enchaunting good , Sweete silent Rhethoricke of perswading eyes : Dumbe eloquence , whose power doth moue the blood More then the workes , or wisedome of the wise . Still harmony whose Diapazon lies Within a brow , the key which passions moue To rauish the sence and play a world in loue . S. Daniell .
Beautie enchasing loue , loue gaining Beautie , To such as conflict Sympathies enfold : To perfect riches doth a sounder dutie Then all endeuours , for by all consent All wealth and wisedome rests in time content . More force and art is beautie ioynd with loue , Then thrones with wisedom , ioyes of them composde , Are armes more proofe gainst any griefe we proue : Then all their vertue scorning miserie , Or iudgements graue in stoicke grauitie . G. Chapman .
Beautie a begger , fieit is too bad When in it selfe sufficiencie is had : It was not made to please the wandring eie , But an attire to adorne sweet modestie . If modestie and women once do seuer , Farwell our fame , farwell our name for euer . M. Drayton .
O Beautie that betraies thy selfe to euery amorous eie , To trap thy proud professors , what is it but wantons trie ? Where through it sildom haps the faire from mean deceits to flie . W. Warner .
This Beautie faire , is an inchauntment made By natures witchcraft , tempting men to buie With endlesse showes , what endlesly will fade , Yet promise chapmen all eternitie . But like to goods ill got a fault it hath , Brings men inricht therewith to beggery , Vnles the enricher be as rich in faith Enamourd , ( like god selfe-loue ) with her owne Seene in an other then t is heauen alone . G. Chapman .
— Beautie is a baine To such as feed their fancy with fond loue , That when sweet youth with lust is ouerthrowne , It rues in age . R. Greene .
Where Venus strikes with Beautie to the quicke , It little vailes safe reason to apply : Fewe are the cares for such as are loue sicke , But loue . Idem .
Truce , warre , and woe , do wait at Beauties gate , Time lost , laments , reports and priuie grudge : And last , fierce loue is but a partiall iudge , Who yeelds for seruice shame , for friendship hate . D. Lodge .
The bees of Hybla haue besides sweet hony smarting stings , And beauty doth not want a bait that to repentance brings . W. Warner .
— Faire colours soonest soyle , Things of best price are subiect most to spoyle . Ch. Middleton .
The fairer cheeke hath oftentimes a soule Leprous as sin it selfe , then hell more foule . Th. Dekkar .
All men do erre , because that men they bee , And men with Beautie blinded , cannot see . G. Peele .
Beautie , heauen and earth this grace doth win , It supples rigor , and it lessons sin . G. Chapman .
Nought is vnder heauens wide hollownes , That moues more deare compassion of mind : Then Beautie to vnworthy wretchednes Through enuies snares , or fortunes freakes vnkind . Ed. Spencer .
— Nothing ill becomes the faire , But crueltie which yeelds vnto no praier . S. Daniell .
Like as the Sun in a Diameter Fires and inflames obiects remoued far , And heateth kindly , shining laterally , So Beautie sweetly quickens when t is nie : But being seperated and remoued , Burnes where it 's cherisht , murders where it loued . Ch. Marlowe .
Simples fit Beautie , fie on drugs and art . M. Drayton .
— Faire words and powre-attractiue bewtie , Bring men to want on in subiectiue dutie . I. Weeuer .
— Wayward Beauty doth not fancy moue . A frowne forbids , a smile ingendreth loue . Ed. Fairfax . Transl .
— What els is forme , but fading aire ? Yea oft , because assaulted of , it hurteth to be faire . W. Warner .
Full soone the fairest face would cease from being such , If not preserued curiously from tendring more then much That wondrous patterne where soeuer it bee Whether in earth laid vp in secret store , Or els in heauen that no man may it see With sinfull eies , for feare it to deflore : Is perfect Beautie which all men adore . Whose face and feature doth so far excell All mortall sence , that none the same may tell . Ed. Spencer .
O Beautie , how attractiue is thy power ? For as the liues heat clings about the hart , So all mens hungry eyes do haunt thy bower : Raigning in Greece , Troy swumme to thee in art . Remoued to Troy , Greece followed thee in feares , Thou drewest ech syrelesse sword , ech childlesse dart And puldst the Towers of Troy about thine eares . G. Chapman .
The harbingers of lust his amorous eyes did walke , More clogd with change of Beauties than K. Midas once wit● gold Now this , now that , and one by one he did them all behold . This seemed faire , & that as faire , and letting either passe , A third he thought a proper girle , a fourth , a pleasant lasse . Louely the fift , liuely the sixt , the seuenth a louely wench , The eight of sweet complexion , to the ninth he altereth thē●● That mildly seem'd maiesticall , tenth modest lookes & toong The eleuenth could sweetly entertain , the twelft was fresh & yoong The next a gay brownetta , next admir'd & yoong . And euery feature so intic't his intricate affection , As liking , all alike , he lou'd confounded in election . W. Warner .
No Banishment can be to him assignde , Who doth retaine a true resolued minde . M. Drayton .
●n exile , euery man or bond or free Of noble race , or meaner parentage : ●s not in this vnlike vnto the slaue That must of force obey to each mans will , And praise the peeuishnesse of each mans pride . G. Gascoigne . Transl .
— So respected Was Bashfulnesse in Athens it erected To chast Agneia , which is shamefastnesse A sacred temple , holding her a goddesse . G. Chapman .
Preferment sildome graceth Bashfulnesse . Idem .
Let sobernesse be still thy wisedomes end , Admitting what thou canst not comprehend . I. Syluester . Transl .
These dayes example hath deep written here Deep written in my heart with yron pen , That Blisse may not abide in state of mortall men . Ed. Spencer .
Doth sorrow fret thy soule ? ô direfull spirit , Doth pleasure feed thy heart ? ô blessed man . Hast thou bene happie once ? ô heauy plight . Are thy mishaps forepast ? ô happie than : Or hast thou blisse in eld ? ô blisse too late : But hast thou blisse in youth ? ô sweet estate . E. of O.
— Hard it is To immitate a false and forged blisse , Ill may a sad mind forge a mery face , Nor hath constrained laughter any grace . G. Chapman .
— Blisse not in height doth dwell . Idem .
— Quiet Blisse in no state lasteth long . Assailed still by mischiefe many waies , Whose spoyling battery glowing hote and strong , No flowing wealth , no force nor wisdome staies . Her smoakelesse powder , beaten souldiers slaies . By open force , foule mischiefe oft preuailes : By secret sleight , she sild her purpose failes . I. H. of Magist .
Blessed the man that well can vse his blisse . Ed. Spencer .
We think no greater blisse , then such to be , as be we would , When blessed none , but such as be , the same , as be they should ▪ W. Warner .
Our blisse consists not in possessions , But in commaunding our affections . In vertues choyce , and vices needfull chace , Far from our harts for staining of our face . Tho. Kid.
O sacred Bountie , mother of content , Proppe of renowne , nourisher of Arts : The crowne of hope , the roote of good euent , The trumpe of fame , the ioy of noble hearts , Grace of the heauens , diuinitie in nature , Whose excellence doth so adorne the creature , M. Drayton .
— On the other part was to be viewde His vertues , each one by it selfe distinct , Prudence and temperance , , and Fortitude , And Iustice , and a fift vnto these linckt So nie , that who with it is not indued ? The rest may seeme blotted , or quite extinct , Bountie , employed in giuing and in spending , A speciall grace to all the other lending . S. I. Harr. Transl .
Augustus Caesar was not such a Saint , As Virgill maketh him by his description , His loue of learning scuseth that complaint , That men might iustly make of his proscription● Neither the shame that Neroes name doth taint , Confirm'd now by a thousand yeares prescription , Be e'ne as it is , if he had had the wit , To haue bene franke to such as Poems writ , Idem .
— This reason is the chiefe , That wits decay because they want their hire , For where no succour is , nor no reliefe , The very beasts will from such place retire . Idem .
— He is mad and worse , That plaies the nigard with a Princes purse . M. Drayton .
— Another shape appeares Of greedy Care still brushing vp the knees , His knuckles knobd , his flesh deep dented in : With tawed hands , and hardy tanned skin , The morrow gray no sooner hath begun To spred his light , euen peeping in our eies , When he is vp and to his worke yrunne , But let the nights black mistie mantels rise , And with foule darke neuer so much disguise The faire bright day , yet ceaseth he no where , But hath his candles to prolong his toyle . M. Sackuill .
Rude was his garment , and to rags all rent , No better had he , ne for better carde : With blistered hands among the cynders brent , And fingers filthy , with long nayles vnpared , Right for to rend the food on which he fared . His name was Care ; a black Smyth by his trade : That neither day nor night from working spared . But to small purpose yron wedges made , Those be vnquiet thoughts , that woful minds inuade . Ed. Spencer .
Care keepes his watch in euery olde mans eye , And where Care lodges , sleepe will neuer lie : But where vnbruiz'd youth with vnstuft braine Doth couch his limbs , there golden sleepe doth raine . W. Shakespeare .
Care and suspition are faire Bewties dower . M. Drayton .
Care the consuming canker of the minde , The discord that disorders sweet-hearts tune , Th' abortiue bastard of a coward minde , The lightfoote lackie that runnes poste by death , Bearing the leters which containe our end : The busie aduocate that sells his breath , Denouncing worst to him is most his frend , H. Constable .
●he was a woman in the freshest age , Of wondrous bewtie , and of bowntie rare , With goodly grace , and comely personage , That was on earth not easie to compare , ●ull of great loue ; But Cupids wanton snare As hel she hated , chaste in worke and will , Her necke and brest were euer open bare , That aye thereof her babes might sucke their fill , The rest was all in yealow robes araied still . A multitude of babes about her hung , Playing their sportes that ioyed her to behold , Whom still she fed , while they were weake and yoong , But thrust them forth still as they waxed old , And on her head she wore a tyre of gold : Adorn'd with Gems and Owches wondrous faire , Whose passing price vnneath was to be told , And by her side there sate a gentle paire Of Turtle-doues , she sitting in an Iuorie chaire , Ed. Spencer .
Due Charitie in louing doth preferre , Her neighbours good , fore her vtilitie . I. Syluister . Transl .
Who may but will not helpe , doth hurt we know , and curious they , That dribling alms by art , disband wel ment from wel done pay , And he that questions distresse and doth not help endeuour , Then he that sees & nothing saies , or cares is lesse deceauour ▪ W. Warner .
It is a worke of Charitie God knowes , The reconcilement of two mortall foes . Ch. Middleton .
— Charitie brings forrh but barren seeds , And hatred still is sowne in so great store , That when the fruites of both came to be reaped , The tone is scarce , the tother ouerheaped . S. I. Harr.
O Chastitie the chiefe of heauenly lights , Which mak'st vs most immortall shape to wear● , S. Ph. Sidney .
— Chastities attire , The vnstained vaile which innocents adorne , Th' vngather'd rose defended with the thorne . S. Daniel .
O Charitie , the gift of blessed soules , Comfort in death , a crowne vnto the life : Which all the passions of the minde controlles , Adornes the maide , and bewtifies the wife , That grace , the which nor death , nor time attaints . Of earthly creatures making heauenly Saints . M. Drayton .
— A Woman cannot take vpon her , With bewtie , riches , nor with hie nobilitie , To claime the true deserued praise of honour , If Chastitie do faile by her fragilitie , This is the vertue that defends her honour . S , I. Harrington .
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should bee , First be he true , for truth doth truth deserue , Then he be such as he his words may see , And alwaies one credit , which her preserue Not toying kind , nor causlesly vnkinde . Not stirring thoughts , nor yet denying right , Not spying faults , nor in plaine errors blinde , Neuer ●ard hand , nor euer raines to light , As farre from want , as farre from vaine exspence : Th' one doth enforce , th' other doth entice , All owe good company , but driue from thence All filthy mouthes that glory in their vice . This done , thou hast no more , but leaue the rest To nature , fortune , time , and womans brest . S. Ph. Sydney .
Penelope in spending chaste her daies , As worthy as Vlisses was of praise . S. I. Harrington .
The brooser of the serpents head , the womans promiz'd seed The second in the Trinitie , the foode our soules to feed . The vine the light , the doore the way , the shepheard of vs al , Whose manhood ioynd to deitie , did raunsome vs from thrall That was and is , and euermore will be the same to his , That sleeps to none , that wakes to him , that turns our curse to blis , Whom yet vnseen the Patriarks saw , the Prophets had foretold The Apostles preacht , the Saints adord , & Martyrs do behold The same ( Augustus Emperor ) in Palestine was born Amongst his own , & yet his own did curse their blis in scorn , W. Warner .
Augustus quailing Anthonie , was Emperour alone , In whose vnfoed monarchy our common health was knowne The bruizer of the serpents head , the womans promisd seed The second in the Trinitie , the foode our soules to feede . The vine the light , the doore the way , the shepheard of vs all , The same ( Augustus Emperor ) in Palestine was borne , Amongst his own , & yet his own did curse their blis in scorn Idem .
Riches of children passe a princes throne , Which touch the fathers heart with secret ioy . When without shame he saith , these be mine owne . S. Ph. Sidney .
This patterne good or ill our children get , For what they see , their parents loue or hate , Their first caught sence prefers to teachers blowes , The cockerings cockerd , we bewaile too late , When that we see our ofspring gayly bent , Women man-wood , and men effeminate . Idem .
— What children apprehend , The same they like , they followe and amend . D. Lodge .
There is no loue may be compa'rd to that , The tender mother beares vnto the childe , For euen so much the roote it doth encrease , As their griefe growes , our contentation cease . G. Gas .
All is but fained , and which oaker died , That euery showre will wash and wipe away , All things do Chaunge that vnder heauen abide , And after death , all friendship doth decay , Therefore what euer man bear'st worldly sway Liuing , on God and on thy selfe relie , For when thou diest , all shall with thee die . Ed. Spencer .
All suffer Chaunge , our selues new borne euen then begin to die . W. Warner .
— The euer Chaunging course of things , Runne a perpetuall circle , euer turning . S. Dan.
Change liues not long , time fainteth , and time mourns , Solace and sorrow haue their certaine turnes . M. Drayton .
All Chaunge is perillous , and all chaunce vnsound . Ed. Spencer .
— Seldome Chaunge the better brought , Content who liues with tried state , Need feare no Chaunge of frowning Fate : But will seeke for vnknowne gaine , Oft liues by losse , and leaues with paine . Idem .
What doth remaine to man that can continue long ? What sun cāshine so cleare , but clouds may rise among ? G. Gascoigne .
No flower is so fresh , but frost can it deface , No man so snre in any seate , but he may loose his place Idem .
Most true it is , as we doo daily proue . No good nor ill , can stand still at one stay . S. I. Harrington .
The man that of himselfe is most secure , Shall finde himselfe most fickle and vnsure . Ed. Spencer .
Men change the ayre , but seldome change their care . M. Drayton .
What should we thinke of signes ? they are but haps , How may they then be signes of after-claps ? Doth euery Chaunce foreshew , or cause some other ? Or ending of it selfe , extend no further ? As th' ouerflowing flood some mount doth choake , But to his guide , some other flood it yoake , So if that signes thy sinnes once ioyne , beware Else-whereto Chaunces tend do neuer care . M. of M.
True it is if fortune light by Chaunce , There fortune healpes the boldest to aduance . G. Gascoigne .
Sacred Counsaile , true heart suppling balme , Soule-curing plaister , true preseruing blis , Water of life in euery sudden qualme , The heauens rich store-house , where all treasure is . True guide , by whom foule errors due we mis , Night burning-beacon watch , against mishaps , Foresight , auoyding many after claps , M. Drayton .
— Euery strawe proues fewell to the fire , When Counsell doth concurre with our desire . Idem .
What eld hath tried and seeene good counsell is . D. Lodge .
— Counsell still is one . When fathers , friends , and worldly goods are gone . Idem .
Counsell that comes when ill hath done his worst , Blesseth our ill , but makes our good accurst . M. Drayton .
Vaine sounds of pleasure we delight to heare ▪ But Counsell iarres as discord in our eare . Idem .
A King that aimes his neighbours crowne to win , Before the fruite of open warres begin , Corrupts his Counsell , with rich recompences , For in good Counsell stands the strength of Princes . I. Syl. Transl .
A Kingdomes greatnesse hardly can he sway , That wholsome Counsell did not first obey . M. Dr.
Euen as by culling fruitefull Vines encrease , So faithfull counsailes worke a Princes peace . D. Lodge .
— Concord , Mother of blessed peace and friendship true , They both her twins , both borne of heauenly seed , The which her words diuine right well do shewe , For strength and wealth , and happinesse she lendes , And strife , and warre and anger does subdue , Of little , much , of foes she maketh frendes , And to afflicted mindes , sweet rest and quiet sends . Ed. Spencer .
The richest Iewell of all heauenly treasure , That euer yet vnto the earth was showne , Is perfect Concord , th' onely perfect pleasure , That wretched earth-borne men haue euer knowne ▪ For many hearts it doth compound in one , That what so one doth , will , or speake , or doo , With one consent , they all agree there too . I. Dauies .
By her the heauen is in his course containd , And all the world in state vnmoued stands : As their almightie maker first ordaind , And bound them with inuiolable bands , Else would the waters ouerflowe the lands , And fire deuoure the water , and hell them quite , But she them holds with her all-blessed hands , She is the nurse of pleasure and delight And vnto Princes grace the gates doth open right . Ed. Spencer .
O blessed concord bred in secret brest Of him that guides the restlesse rolling skie : That to the earth for mans assured rest , From height of heauens vouchsafest once to flie : In thee alone the mightie power doth lie . With sweet accord to keep the frowne starres , And euery Planet els from hurtfull warres . G. Gascoigne . Transl .
When tract of time returnes the lustie Ver , By thee alone the buds and blossomes spring : The fields with flowers be garnish● eu'ry where , The blooming trees aboundant leaues do bring , The cheerfull birds melodiously do sing . Thou doest appoint the crop of sommers seed For mans reliefe , to serue his winter need . Idem .
— Within the ports and iawes of hell , Sate deep remorse of Conscience , all besprent With teares : and to her selfe oft would she tell Her wretchednes , and cursing neuer stent To sob and sigh , but euer thus lament With thoughtfull care , as she that all in vaine Would were and wast continually in paine : Her eyes vnstedfast rolling in her head : Whurld on ech place , as place that vengeance broght , So was her mind continually in feare , Tossed and tormented with tedious thought Of those detested crimes which she had wrought . With dreadfull lookes and cheare throwne to the skie , Wishing for death , and yet she could not die . M. Sackuill .
So gnawes the griefe of Conscience euermore , And in the heart it is so deeply graue That they may neither sleepe nor rest therefore : Ne thinke one thought , but on the dread they haue , Sill to the death sore tosled with the waue Of restlesse woe , in terror and dispaire They lead a life continually in feare . Idem .
The feare of Conscience entreth yron walles . M. Drayton .
No armour proofe against the Conscience terror . Idem .
A guiltie conscience neuer is secure , Idem .
No meanes at all to hide Man from himself can find No way to start aside , Out from the hell of mind , But in himself confinde , He still sees sin before , And winged footed paine That swiftly comes behind The which is euermore The sure and certain gaine Impietie doth get , And wanton boast respect , That doth himselfe forget . S. Daniell .
Like to the Deare that striken with the dart Withdrawes himselfe into some secret place , And feeling griefe the wound about his hart , Startles with pangs till he fall on the grasse , And in great feare lies gasping there a space . Forth braying sighes , as though each pang had brought The present death which he doth dread so oft . So we deep wounded with the bloudy thought And gnawing worme that greeu'd our conscience so , Neuer tooke ease but as our heart out brought : The strained sighes in witnesse of our wo. Such restlesse cares our fault do well be know , Wherewith with our deserued fall , the feares , In euery place rang death within our eares . M. Sackuill .
— Loose Conscience is free From all Conscience what els hath libertie : As 't pleasd the Thracian Boreas to blow , So turnes our weary Conscience too and fro . I. Marston .
Kings but the Conscience all things can defend . M. Drayton .
When as thou feel'st thy conscience toucht with greefe , Thy selfe pursues thy selfe , both robd , and theefe . Idem .
— Many with the Conscience of the crime ●n colder blood will curse what they designde : And bad successe vpbraiding their ill fact , Drawes them , that others draw from such an act . S. Daniell .
What man so wise , what earthly wit so ware , As to descry the craftie cunning traine By which Deceit doth maske in vizard faire : And cast her colours died deep in graine , To seeme like truth , whose shape she well can faine , And fitting gestures to her purpose frame , The guiltlesse mind with guile to entertaine . Ed. Spencer .
Fraud showd in comely cloathes a louely looke , An humble cast of eye , a sober pace : And so sweet speech , a man might her haue tooke For him that said haile Mary full of grace : But all the rest deformedly did looke , As full of filthinesse and foule disgrace : Hid vnder long large garments that she ware , Vnder the which , a poysoned knife she bare . S. I. H.
Oft Craft can cause the man to make a seeming show Of hart , with dolor all distaind , where grief doth neue● grow ▪ S. T. B.
— Craft wrapt still in many comberments , With all her cunning thriues not though it speed . S. Daniell .
Craft findes a key to open euery doore . M. Dr.
Who hopes a conquest , leaues no conquest sought . M. Drayton .
T is much to conquer , but to keep possession Is full as much , and if it be not more . I. Syluester . tran●
To win the field against our armed foes , Is counted honourable any waies , Whether it be with pollicie or blowes : Yet bloodie conquēst staines the Captaines praise . But chiefest honour doth belong to those Whom fortune to such height of hap doth raise , To haue their foes supprest and ouerthrowne , With little losse and daring of their owne . S. I. Harr. Transl .
Whereas proud conquest keepeth all in awe , Kings oft are forst in seruile yoakes to drawe . M. Drayton .
We must affect our Country as our parents , And if at any time we alienate Our loue or industry from doing it honor , It must respect effects and touch the soule , Matter of conscience and religion , And not desire of rule or benefit . G. Peele .
Necessitie enforceth euery wight , To loue his natiue seat with all his might . A happie quarrell is it and a good , For countries cause to spend our dearest blood . G. Gascoigne .
That publike weale must needs to ruine go , Where priuate profit is preferred so . G. Geffrayes .
Home though it homely be , yet is sweet , And natiue soyle is best . S. I. Harr.
If so the temperature of Common-weale Be guided by the course of heauenly powers , Such as in deep affaires will iustly deale , Must haue an eye to those eternall bowres , And by their view direct this state of ours . Then how can he a perfect states man proue , That knowes not how celestiall bodies moue ? Th. Stouer .
— The loue That men their country and their birth-right beare , Exceeds all loue , and dearer is by farre : Our countries loue , them friends or children are . T. Kyd.
All wealth and wisedome rests in true Content . Contentment is our heauen , and all our deeds Bound in that circle , seld or neuer closde . G. Chapman .
Who seekes to haue the thing we call enough , Acquaint himselfe with Contentation : For plenteousnesse is but a naked name : And what sufficeth vse of mortall men , Shall best apay the meane and modest harts . G. Gascoigne .
The noblest mind the best contentment hath . Ed. Spencer .
High climing wits do catch a sudden fall , With none of these Content doth dwell withall . D. Lodge .
Content feeds not on glory nor on pelfe . Content can be contented with her selfe . Th. Bastard .
Content is worth a monarchy , and mischief hits the hie . W. Warner .
Who so contented liues , is happie wise . D. Lodge .
Inconstant change such tickle turnes hath lent , As who so feares to fall , must seeke Content . Depriue the world of perfect discontent . All glories end , true honour strait is stain'd : And life it selfe in errors course is spent . All toyle doth sort but to a sory end , For through mislikes each learnes for to amend . D. Lodge .
He only liues most happily That 's free and farre from maiestie : Can liue content , although vnknowne : He fearing none , none fearing him : Medling with nothing but his owne , While gazing eyes at crownes grow dim . Th. Kyd.
— To Courage great It is no lesse beseeming well to beare , The storme of fortunes frowne , or heauens threat , Then in the sun-shine of her countenance cleare , Timely to ioy and carry comely cheare . Ed. Spencer .
High Courage with true wisedome euer backt , Winnes perfect fame . Th. Lodge .
Nere was there euer noble courage seene , That in aduantage would his puissance boast , Honor is least where ods appeareth most . Ed. Spencer .
Where is no courage , there is no ruth nor mone . Idem .
Good hart in ill , doth th' euil much amend . Idem .
Courage imboldneth wit , wit courage armes . M. Drayton .
They make their fortune who are stout and wise , Wit rules the heauens , discretion guides the skies . Ed. Fairfax . Transl .
Action is fiery valou●s souerainge good . G. Chapman .
No foote to foe Repining courage yeelds . Ed. Spencer .
Then are the valiant who more vaine , then cowardes who more wise , Not men that trauell Pegasus , but fortunes fooles do rise ? W Warner .
Be valiant , not too ventrous , but fight to fight againe , Euen Hercules did hold it ods , for one to striue with twaine . Idem .
Might wanting measure , moueth surquedrie . Ed. Spencer .
— More is he that ventureth for more , Then who fights but for what he had before . S. Daniell .
— Valour mixt with feare , boldeneth dread , May march more circumspect with better heed . Idem .
Valour in greatest daungers shewes most bright . As full-fac't Phoebe in the darkest night . Ch. Fitz Geffrey .
The Spartanes once exilde Archilochus , The Author of Lycambes Tragedie , Because he said it was commodious , Rather to cast away his shield and flie , Then boldly to resist , and brauely die . Idem .
The Princes Court is mansion of the wise . Figure of heauen , faire fountaine of delights , Theater of honours , earthly paradice , Sudden aduancer , Spheare of purest light , The liuely Vatican of bewties bright . Thither let Phoebus progenie resort , Where shines their father , but in Ioues great Court ? Th. Storer .
— This is euer proper vnto Courts , That nothing can be done but fame reports . S. Daniell .
To censure is the subiect of the Court , From thence fame carries , thither fame doth bring , There too each word , a thousand ecchoes ring , A Lotterie , where most loose , but fewe do winne . M. Drayton .
Nothing in Court is done without a fee , The Courtier needs must recompenced bee . E. Sp.
Most miserable man , whom wicked fate Hath brought to Court to sue for , had I wist , That fewe hath found , but many one hath mist . Idem .
— The Court is counted Venus net , Where gifts and vows , forestalls are often set : None be so chaste as Vesta , but shall meere , A curteous tongue , to charme her eates with sweete . R. Greene .
— The Court hath much of vanitie and painfull ease . W. Warner .
— The Court is now become a skittish colte , Of wise men hardlier man aged then of the glorious dolt , Idem .
These all deformities in forme in some one man we see , More garded then regarded , franke not to continue free , When as the merchants booke , the map of all his wealth shal be . Idem .
Sometimes the courts of kings were vertuous schooles , Now finde we nought in Court , but curious fooles . O you whose noble hearts cannot accord , To be the the slaues to an infamous Lord , And knowes not how to mixe with perillous art , The deadly poyson with the amorous dart , Whose natures being found , wills no constraint , Nor will your face with flattering pensill paint . For wee le nor woe , for pitie nor for hire , Of good my Lords their fauours to require , Goe not to Court , if ye will me beleeue , For in that place where ye thinke to releeue : The honour due for vertue yee shall finde , Nought but contempt which leaues good men behind . Th. Hudson . Transl .
The wanton luxurie of Court , Doth forme the people of like sort . S. Daniell .
Ye worthy dames that in your breasts do beare , Of your all-seeing god , no seruile feare : Ye that of honour haue a greater care , Then sights of Courts , I pray you come not there , Let them that in their purse haue not a mite , Cloathe them like Kings , and play the Hypocrite , And with a lying tale and fained cheare , Court-coozen them whom they would see on beare , Let there the Pandar sell his wife for gaine , With seruice vile , his noblesse to attaine : Let him that serues the time , chaunge his intent , With faith vnconstant saile at euery vent . Th. Hudsrn . Transl .
The Court was neuer barren yet of those Which could with subtill traine , and hard aduise , Worke on the Princes weakenes and dispose , Of feeble frailtie easiest to entice . S. Daniell .
Golden cuppes do harbor poyson , And the greatest pompe dissembling , Court of seasoned words hath foyson Treason haunts in most dissembling . D. Lodge .
Ye fearefull wits , ye impes of Achelous , Which wracks the wisest youth with charming voice , Ye Circes , who by your enchauntment strange , In stones and swine , your Louers true doo change : Ye Stymphalids , who with your youth vptakes , Ye Rauens that from vs our riches takes . Ye who with riches , art , and painted face , For Priams wife puts Castor's sister in place . Ye Myrrhaes , Canaces , and Semyrames , And if there were yet moe defamed dames , Come all to Court , and there ye shall receiue A thousand gaines , vnmeete for you to haue , There shall you see the gifts of great prouinces , There shall you see the grace of gracelesse Princes . Th. Hudson . Transl .
Courtiers as the tide do rise and fall . Ed. Spencer .
— It doth not sit With Courtiers maiestie to be reputed Too learn'd , too graue , too fine , or too conceited . Thomas Stouer .
Who full of wealth and honours blandishment , Among great Lords his yoonger yeares hath spent , And quaffing deeply of the Court delights , Vsde nought but tilts , armours , and maskes , and sights , If in his age his Princes angry doome , With deepe disgrace , daine him to liue at home In homely cottage , where continually The bitter smoake exhales aboundantly , From his before vnsorrowe-drained braine , The brackish vapours of a siluer raine , Where vsher lesse both day and night the North , South East , and West windes enter and go forth . Where round about the lower roofte-broke walles , In stead of Arras , hang with Spider calles : Where all at once he reacheth as he stands , With brows the roofe , both walls with both his hands . He weepes and sighes , and shunning comforts aye , Wisheth pale death a thousand times a day , And yet at length falling to worke , is glad To bite a browne crust that the mouse hath had , And in a dish , in stead of Plate or glasse , Sups oaten drinke , in stead of Hypocrasse . I. Syluister .
Of Court it seemes , men Courtesie do call , For that it there most vseth to abound , And well beseemeth that in Princes hall , That vertue should be plentifully found . Which of all goodly manners is the ground , And roote of ciuill conuersation . Ed. Spencer .
Mongst vertues all growes not a fairer flower , Then is the bloome of comely Courtesie , Which though it on a lowely stalke do bower , Yet brauncheth forth in braue nobilitie , And spreads it selfe through all ciuilitie : Of which though present age doo plentious seeme , Yet being matcht with plaine antiquitie , Ye will them all but fained shewes esteeme , Which carry colours faire , which feeble eies misdeem . Idem .
— In the triall of true Courtesie , It s now so farre from that which once it was , That it indeed is nought but forgerie , Fashion'd to please the eyes of them that passe , Which see not perfect things but in a glasse , Yet is that glasse so gay , it cannot blinde The wisest sight , to thinke that gold is brasse . But vertues seate is deepe within the minde , And not in outward shew , but inward thoughts defind . Idem .
— This noble vertue and diuine , Doth chiefly make a man so rare and odde , As in that one , they most resemble God . S. I. Harr. Transl .
— Courteous speech vsage milde and kinde , Wipes malice out of euery noble minde . S. I. Harrington .
— Courtesie ofttimes in simple bowers , Is found as great , as in the stately towers . Idem .
T is meete a gentle heart should euer showe By Courtesie , the fruites of true gentilitie , Which will by practice , to an habit growe , And make men do the same with great facilitie . Likewise , the dunghill-blood a man shall know By churlish parts , and acts of inciuilitie , Whose nature apt to take each lewde infection , Custome confirmes , and makes ill in perfection . Idem .
All lay on hands to punish Crueltie . M. Drayton .
— Cruell deeds can neuer scape the scourge Of open shame , or else some bloody death , Repentance selfe , that other sinnes may purge , Doth flie from this , so sore the soule it sleieth , Dispaire dissolues the cruell caitiffes breath , For vengeance due doth suddenly alight On cruell deeds , the mischiefe to requite . I. H. Mir. of M.
Round headed Custome th' apoplexie is , Of bedrid nature , and liues led amis , And takes away all feeling of offence . G. Chapman .
Custome abusd brings vertue in disdaine . Nature with Custome ioyned , neuer failes But by her selfe , and her selfe preuailes . D. Lodge .
Whereas to nature , forward to retaine , Lewde obiects are annext , and Customes vaine , The wounds grow desperate , and death doth ●nd , Before good counsell can the fault amend . Idem .
Custome the worlds iudgement doth blind so farre , That vertue is oft arraign'd at vices barre . I. Syl. Transl .
— Danger cloath'd in ragged weede , Made of beares skinne , that him more dreadfull , made , Yet his owne face was dreadfull , ne did neede Strange horror to deforme his grisly shade , A net in th' one hand , and a rustie blade ●n th' other was , this mischiefe , that mishap With th' one , his foes he threatned to inuade , ●or whom he could not kill , he practis'd to intrap . Ed. Spencer .
Danger hath honour , great designes their fame . S. Dan.
The greatest daungers promise greatest blisse . M. Drayton .
Danger deuiseth shifts , wit waits on feare . W. Shakespeare .
Daunger 's the chiefest ioy to happinesse , And resolution honours fairest ayme , Ch. Marlowe .
The path is smooth that leadeth vnto Daunger . W. Sh.
When as we thinke we most in safetie stand , The greatest daunger then , is neare at hand . M. Drayton .
The Daunger hid , the place vnknowne and wilde , Breeds dreadfull doubts : oft fire is without smoake , And perill without shewe . Ed. Spencer .
Ay-me , how many perills do enfolde The righteous man , to make him daily fall : Were not that heauenvly grace did him behold , And steadfast truth acquite him out of all . Idem .
A thousand perills lie in close awaite , About vs daily to worke our decay , That none except a god , or god his guide , May them auoyd , or remedie prouide . Idem .
In perill , we do thinke our selues most sure , And oft in death some men are most secure . No Danger but in hie estate , none enuies mean degre● W. Warner .
— Daungerous things dissembled sildome are , Which many eyes attend with busie care . M. Drayton .
The absent danger greater still appeares , Lesse feares he , who is neare the thing he feares . Most strong is he when daungers are at hand , That liues prepard ' their furies to withstand . Of common sence he is depriued cleane , That falles with closed eyes on daunger seene : And he that may both paine and hurt eschue , Is vaine , if he his proper death pursue . S. Daniell .
Next sawe we Dread , all trembling how he shooke , With foote vncertaine profered here and there : Benumbd of speech , and with a gastly looke , Searcht euery place , all pale and dead for feare : His cap borne vp with staring of his haire . Stoynd and amaz'd at his owne shade for dread , And feeling greater daungers then was need . M. Sackuill .
— Coward Dread lackes order , feare wants art , Deafe to attend , commaunded , or defirde . Ed. Fairfax . Transl .
— A dumbe dead course we ●awe , Heauy and cold the shape of death aright , That daunts all earthly creatures to his lawes Against whose force in vaine it i● to fight , Ne Peeres , ne Princes , nor no mortall wight , No Townes , ne Realmes , Cities ne strongest Tower , But all perforce must yeeld vnto his power . His dart anon out of his corpes he tooke , And in his hand ( a needfull fight to see ) With great tryumph eftsoones the same he shooke : That most of all my feares affraied me , His body dight with nought but bones perdie . The naked shape of man there sawe I plaine , All saue the flesh , the sinew , and the vaine . M. Sackuill .
Death is a port , whereby we passe to ioy , Life is a lake , that drowneth all in paine : Death is so neare it ceaseth all annoy . Life is so leaud , that all it yeelds is vaine . And as by life to bondage man was brought , Euen so likewise by death was freedome wrought . E. of Surrey .
Nought is immortall vnderneath the Sun , All things are subiect to deaths tyrannie : Both clownes & kings , one selfesame course must run , And whatsoeuer liues is sure to die . Th. Kyd.
Death's alwaies readie , and our time is knowne To be at heauens dispose , and not our owne . Idem .
The brauest are as blossomes , and the longest liuer dies : And dead , the loueliest creature as the lothsoms carion lies . W. Warner .
Our frailties done are written in the flowers , Which flourish now , and fade away ere many howres . S. Daniell .
— All earthly things be borne To die the death , for nought long time may last : The sunne his beautie yeelds to winters blast . I. H. M. of Magist .
Is' t not gods deed what euer thing is done , In heauen and earth ? Did not he all create To die againe ? all ends that was begunne : Their times , in his eternall bookes of fate , Are written sure , and haue their certaine date . Who then can striue with strong necessitie , That holds the world in his still chaunging state ? Or shun the death ordaind by desteny , When houre of death is come , let none aske whence or why . Ed. Spencer .
— Death amongst all deales equally , For hee 's impartiall , and with one selfe hand Cuts off both good and bad , none can withstand . Ch. Middleton .
Death certaine is to all the prouerbe saith : Vncertaine is to all the houre of death . S. I. Harr. Transl .
Pale fearefull death with bloudy dart doth strike , The wretched caitiffe and the king alike . Vntimely neuer comes the lifes last meere , In cradle death may rightly claime his debt , Straight after birth , is due the fatall beere : By deaths permission th' aged linger heere . Euen in the swath-bands our commission goeth , To loose thy breath , that yet but yoongly bleweth . I. H. Mir. of M.
All musicke sleepes where death doth lead the daunce . Ed. Spencer .
Let nature for perfection mould a paragon each way , Yet death at last on finest lumps of liuing flesh wil pray For nature neuer framed it , that neuer shall decay . W. Warner .
— Fatall death the emperor of graues . I. Markham .
Death is the key which vnlockes miserie , And lets them out to blessed libertie . M. Drayton .
All is but lost that liuing we bestowed , If not well ended at our dying day . O man haue mind of that last bitter rage , For as the tree doth fall , so lies it euer lowe : Ed. Spencer .
No feare of death should force vs to do ill . Th. Kyd.
— When for feare of an ensuing ill We seeke to shorten our appointed race , Then t is for feare that we our selues do kill : So fond we are to feare the worlds disgrace . Idem .
Happie , thrice happie , who so lost his breath , That life he gaineth , by his godly death . Vnwise and wretched men to weet what s good or ill , We deeme of death as doome of ill desert : But know we fooles what it vs brings vntill : Die would we daily once it too expert . No danger there the shepheard can a start , Faire fields and pleasant fields there beene , The fields aye fresh , the grasse aye greene . Ed. Spencer .
— This same Which we call death , the soules release from woe , The worke which bring our blisse to happie frame : Sildome arrests the bodie , but we finde Some notice of it written in our minde . I. Markham .
The worth of all men by their end esteeme , And then due praise , or due reproach them yeeld . S. Spencer .
— Death is an euill doome . To good and bad , the common Inne of rest , But after death the triall is to come When best shall be to them that liued best , But both alike when death hath both supprest . Religious reuerence doth buriall teene , Which who so wants , wants so much of his rest . For all so great shame after death I weene , As selfe to dien bad , vnburied , bad to beene . Ed. Spencer .
— Beasts with carelesse steppes to laethe go , Where men whose thoughts and honours clime on hie , Liuing with fame , must learne with fame to die . D. Lodge .
Death but an acted passion doth appeare , Where truth giues courage and the conscience cleare . M. Drayton .
Who dies , the vtmost dolour must abide : But who that liues , is left to waile his losse , So life is losse , and death felicitie . Sad life worse then glad death , and greater crosse To see friends graue , then dead , the graue selfe to engrosse . Ed. Spencer .
— In wretches sudden death at once There long-some ill is buried with their bones . Th. Hudson . Transl .
Death is to him that wretched life doth lead Both grace and gaine ; but he in hell doth lie That liues a loathed life , and wishing cannot die . Ed. Spencer .
Death is most louely sweet and amiable : But captiu'd life for foulenesse admirable . I. Marston .
— The toongs of dying men Inforce attention like deep harmony , Where words are scarce , they are sildom spent in vaine : For they breath truth , that breath their words in paine . He that no more must say , is lissened more , Then they whom youth & ease haue taught to glose : More are mens ends markt , then their liues before . The setting sunne and musick at the close , As the last tast of sweet is sweetest tast , Writ in remembrance more , then things long past . W. Shakespeare .
On the one side doubt , on the other sate Delaie , Behind the gate , that none her might espie ; Whose manner was , all passengers to staie , And entertaine with her occasions slie . Through which , some lost great hope vnheedilie , Which neuer they recouer might againe : And others quite excluded forth did lie . Long languishing there , in vnpittied paine , And seeking often entrance afterward in vaine . Ed. Spencer .
— Daunger growes by lingring till the last , And phisicke hath no helpe when life is past . Th. Watson .
— Oft things done , perhaps , do lesse annoy Then may the doing , handeled with delay . S. Daniell .
Delaie in close awaite Caught hold on me , and thought my steps to stay , Faining stil , many a fond excuse , to prate : And time , to steale the treasure of mans day , Whose smallest minute lost , no riches render may . Ed. Spencer .
— Times delay new hope of helpe still breeds . Idem .
— Fearfull tormenting Is leaden seruitor , to dull delay . W. Shakespeare .
He that will stop the brooke must then begin When sommers heat hath dried vp the spring : And when his pittering streames are low and thin ▪ For let the winter aid vnto them bring , He growes to be of watry flouds the king : And though you damme him vp with loftie rankes , Yet will he quickly ouerflow his bankes . R. Greene .
Ill newes deferring , is a plague as great as an ill newes . Ab. Fraunce .
Delay in loue breeds doubts , but sharpe deniall death· W. Shakespeare .
— Intermission suffers men dispute , What dangers are , and cast with further care , Colde doubt cauells with honour , scorneth fame , And in the end feare waighes downe faith with shame ▪ S. Daniel .
Where hearts be knit , what helpes if not in ioy ? Delay breeds doubts , no cunning to be ioy . M. D.
In things without vs , no Delight is sure· G. Chapman .
A sweete in shape is but a bad Delight . D. Lodge .
Prosperitie a flatterer is found , Delight is fearelesse till it feele the wound . M. D.
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Pleasure
— Desire , whom not the firmament , Nor aire , nor earth , nor Ocean can content , Whose lookes are hookes , whose bellies bottomlesse , Whose hands are gripes to scrape with greedines , Vnder whose command , She brings to field a rough vnruly band , First , secret burning , mightie swoln ambition , Whom Epicurus many worlds suffice not , Whose furious thirst of proud aspiring dies not , Whose hands transported with phantasticke passion , Beare painted steeples in imaginaton . I. Syluister . Transl .
Amongst the most , the worst , we best can chuse , T is easie to desire , but hard to vse . M. Drayton .
Desire hath philters , which desire procure . Idem .
If blinde desire thy heart hath once embraced , Inthrall'd it is , and honour so defaced . . ˙ . ˙
Desire with small encouraging growes bolde . M. Drayton .
What can be said that Louers cannot say ? Desire can make a Doctor in a day . Idem .
Things much retain'd , do make vs much desire them , And bewties seldome seene , makes vs admire them . Idem .
Sad Clotho held the rocke , the whiles the thrid By grisly Lachesis , was spunne with paine , That cruell Atropos eft-soones vndid , With cursed knife cutting the twist in twaine , Most wretched men , whose daies depēdonthrids so vain . E. of S.
The holy Prophet brought Astolpho , where A Pallace ( seldome seene by mortall men ) Was plac't , by which , a thicke darke riuer ran , Each roome therein was full of diuers fleeces : Of Wolle , of Lint of Woll , or else of Cotten , An aged woman spunne the diuers peeces . Whose looke and hue did shew her old and rotten , Nor much vnlike vnto that labour this is . By which in sommer a new made silke is gotten , Where from the silke-wormes his fine garment taking , They reaue him of the cloathes of his owne making . For first in one large roome a woman span , Infinite thrids of diuers stuffe and hew , An other doth wi●h all the speed she can , With other stuffe the distaffe still renew : The thrid in feature like , and pale and wan , Seuers the faire f●om foule , the olde from new . Who be these here , the Duke demaunds his guide ? These be the fatall sisters he replide : The Parcaes that the thrid of life do spin To mortall men , hence death and nature , knowe When life must end , and when it must begin . Now she that doth deuide them , and bestow The course from finer , and the thick from thin Workes to that kinde , that those which finest grow , For ornaments in Paradice must dwell . The course are curst , to be consum'd in hell . Further , the Duke did in the place behold , That when the thrids were spent that had bene spunne Theit names in brasse , in siluer , and in gold Were wrote , and so into great heapes were donne . From which , a man that seemed wondrous old With whole loades of those names away did runne , And turn'd againe as fast , the way he went , Nor neuer weary was , nor neuer spent . This aged man did hold his pace so swift , As though to runne , he had bene onely borne , And in the lappet of his cloake were borne The names , &c. This was time . An heape of names within his cloake he bore , And in the riuer did them all vnlade : Or to say truth , away he cast them all , Into this streame , which Laethe we do call . S. I. Harr. Transl .
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Fame
— You sad daughters of the quiet night , Which in your priuate resolution wright , What hath , or shall vpon our fortunes light , Whose stories none may see , much lesse recite ; You rulers of the Gods . I. Markham .
Downe in the bottome of the deepe Abisse , Where Demogorgon in dull darknesse p●nt , Far from the view of Gods , or heauens blisse , The hidious Chaos , there dreadfull dwelling is . Ed. Spencer .
What man can turne the streame of Destenie ? Or breake the chaine of strong necessitie ? Which fast is tide to Iones eternall seate ? Idem .
— What shal be shall . There is no choice , Things needs must driue as Destenie decreeth : For which we ought in all our haps reioyce , Because the eye eternall , things foreseeth : Which to no ill at any time agreeth , For ills , too ill to vs , be good to it , So farre his skill exceeds , our reache of wit . I. H. Mir. of M.
Woe worth the wight that striues with Gods foresight They are not wise , but wickedly do erre , Which thinke ill deeds due destenies may barre . Idem .
No humble speech nor mone , may moue the fixed stint . Of Destinie or death : such is the will that paints The earth with colours fresh , the darkish skies with store Of Starry light . Ed. Spencer .
Walls may a while keepe out an enemie , But neuer castle kept out destinie . M. Drayton .
— Who can deceiue his destinie ? Or weene by warning to auoyd his fate ? That when he sleepes in most securitie , And safest seemes , him soonest doth amate , And findeth due effect , or soone , or late , So feeble is the power of fleshly arme . Ed. Spencer .
— That which Ioue and Destinie haue done , Men may lament , but neuer disanull . Ch. Fitz.
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fate
Ere long they came where that same wicked wight His dwelling has , lowe in a hollowe Caue , Farre vnderneathe a craggy clift vpright , Darke , dolefull , drery , like a drery graue , That still for carion carkasses doth craue . On top whereof , aye dwells the ghastly Owle , Shriking his balefull note , which euer draue Farre from that haunt , all other chearefull fowle . And all about it wandring ghostes do waile and houle ▪ And all about olde stockes and stubs of trees , Whereas , nor fruite , nor leafe was euer seene , Did hang vpon the ragged rocky trees , On which had many witches hanged beene , Whose carkasses were scattered on the greene , And throwne about the cliffes . Ed. Spencer .
That darkesome caue they enter , where they finde That cursed man , lowe sitting on the ground , Musing full sadly in his sullen minde : Hi● grisly locks , long growne and vnbound , Disordered hung about his shoulders round And hid his face ; through which his hollowe eies Lookt deadly , dull , and stared as astound . His rawebone cheekes through penurie and pine , Were shrunke into his iawes , as he did neuer dine , His garment nought but many ragged clouts , With thornes together pind and patched was , The which his naked sides he wraps abouts . And him beside , there lay vpon the grasse , Adrery coarse , whose life away did passe , All wallowed in his owne , yet luke-warme blood , That from his wound yet welled fresh a lasse . In which a rustie knife fast fixed stood , And made an open passage for the gushing flood . Idem .
Me thought by night , a grisly ghost in darke I sawe , Eke euer still to me with stealing steps she drew , ●he was of colour pale , and deadly hew , Her clothes resembled thousand kinds of thrall , And pictures plaine of hastned deaths withall . I. H. Mir. of M.
— Dispaire The factor for improuident restraint . I. Markeham .
— Dispaire , that deepe disdained elfe , Delightlesse liues , still stabbing of her selfe . D. Lodge .
— As it is not lawfull for a man At such a Kings departure or decease , To leaue the place , and falsifie his faith , So in this place we ought not to surrender That deerer part , till heauen it selfe commaund it . For as they lent vs life to do vs pleasure , So looke they for returne of such a treasure . Th. Kyd.
Farre greater folly is it for to kill Themselues dispairing , then is any ill . I. H. M. of M.
Be resolute , not desperate , the Gods that made thee poore , Can if they will ( do wait their will ) thy former state rest●●● W. Warner .
— When last need to desperation driueth Who dareth the most , wisest counsell giueth . S. I. Harrington .
We may in warre sometime take truce with foes , But in Dispaire , we cannot with our woes . M. Drayton .
Dispaire hath euer daunger all contemned . Idem
Hells prince , sly parent of reuolts , and lies . I. Syluister .
O ruthlesse murderer of immortall soules , A lasse , to pull vs from the happie poales , And plunge vs headlong in the yawning hell , Thy ceaselesse fraudes and fetches who can tell ? Thou play'st the Lyon when thou doost ingage , Blood-thirstie Neroes barbarous heart with rage , While flesht in murders , butcherlike he paints The Saint-poore world , with the dear blood of Saints ▪ Thou plaiest the dog , when by the mouth prophane , Of some false Prophets thou doest belch thy bane . Where from the Pulpet barkingly he rings , Bold blasphemies against the King of Kings . Thou plai'st the swine when plung'd in pleasures vile , Some Epicure doth sober mindes defile , Transforming lewdly by his loose impietie , Sweete Lacedemon to a soft societie . Thou plaiest the Nightingale , or else the swan , When any famous Rhetorician With captious wit , and curious language drawes , Seduced hearers , and subuerts the lawes . Thou play'st the foxe when thou doest faine aright . The face and phrase of some deepe Hypocrite . True painted tombe , dead seeming cole , but quicke , A scorpion fell , whose hidden taile doth pricke : Yet this were little , if thy spight audacious , Spar'd ( at the least ) the face of angels gracious , And if thou didst not apely immitate Th' almighties workes , the wariest wits to mate . I. Syl. Transl .
The ghostly enemie doth not stay , Till tempted persons do obay . Yeeld to him , he a Lyon is , Gaine stood a flie , his pray doth mis. Ignoto .
A subtill Pandar with more inticing rights , Then sea hath fish , or heauen hath twinckling lights . I. Syl.
As a false Louer that thicke snares hath laide , To entrap th' honour of a faire yoong maide , When she ( though listening ) litle eare affords , To his sweete courting deepe affected words , Feares some asswaging of his freezing flame , And soothes himselfe with hope to gaine his game , And wrapt with ioy vpon this point persists , That parlying cittie neuer long resists . Euen so the serpent that doth counterfet A guilefull call to allure vs to his net : Perceiuing Eue his flattering gloze disgest , He prosecutes , and iocund doth not rest , Till he haue tried foote , hand , head and all , Vpon the breach of this new battered wall . I. Syl. Transl .
Hard by the gates of hell her dwelling is , There where as all the plagues and harmes abound ▪ Which punish wicked men that walke amis . It is a darkesome delue , far vnder ground , And thornes which barren brookes inuirond roun● That none the same may easily out win , Yet many waies to enter may be found , But none to issue forth when one is in , For Discord harder is to end then to begin . Ed. Spencer .
Ate , mother of debate And all dissention which doth daily grow Amongst fraile men , that many a publike state And many a priuate oft it doth ore●unne . Idem .
— He knew her weed of sundry hew , Patched with infinit vnequall lists , Her skin in sundry naked places view , At diuers rents and cuts he may that lists : Her haire was gray , and red , and black and blew , And hard and soft , in laces some she twists : Some hangeth downe , vpright some standeth staring , As if each haire with other had bene squaring . Her lap was full of writs and of citations , Of processes , of actions , and arrests , Of bills , of answeres , and of replications , Greeuing the simple sort with great vexations . She had resorting to her as her guests Attending on her circuits and her iournies , Suters and Clarkes , Lawiers , and Atturnies . S. I. Harr. Transl .
Her face most foule and filthy was to see , With squinted eyes contrariwise intended : And loathly mouth'd , vnmeet a mouth to bee . That nought but gall and venome comprehended , ●nd wicked words that God and man offended . Her lying tongue was in two parts diuided , ●nd both the parts did speak , and both contended : ●nd as her tongue so was her heart descided . That neuer thought on them , but doubly still was guided Ed. Spencer .
All like as drops ingender mightie flouds , And little seeds sprout forth great leaues and buds : Euen so small strifes if they be suffered runne , Breed wrath and warre , and death ere they be donne . M. of Magist .
Concord in kingdomes is great assurance , And royall fame lies do neuer fall : But where discord doth lead the doubtfull dance , With busie brawles , and termes of variance , Where malice minstrell is , the pipe ill report , The mask mischiefe , and so doth end the sport . , Idem .
Fire-brand of hell first tinde in Phlegeton , By thousand suries , and from thence outthrowne Into this world , to worke confusion , And set it all on fire by force vnknowne , Is wicked discord ; whose small sparkes once blowne , None but a God or godlike man can slake : Such as was Orpheus , that when strife was growne Amongst those famous Imps of Greece , did take His siluer harp in hand , & shortly friends them mak● Ed. Spencer .
O cruell discord , food of deadly hate , O mortall corsiue to a common-weale : Death-lingring consumption to a state , A poysoned sore that neuer salue could heale . O soule contagion , deadly killing feuer , Infecting oft , but ●o be cured neuer . M. Drayton .
A state diuided , cannot firmly stand : Two Kings within one realm could neuer rest . T. Kyd.
— Fierce lightening from her eies Did set on fier faire Heroes sacrifice : Which was her torne robe and inforced haire , And the bright flame became a maid most faire For her aspect ; her tresses were of wire , Knit like a net , where harts all set on fire , Struggled in pants and could not get releast : Her armes were all with golden pincers drest , And twentie fashioned knots , pullies and brakes , And all her body girdled with printed snakes . Her downe parts in a scorpion taile combinde , Freckled with twenty colours p●edwings shinde Out of her shoulders ; cloth did neuer die , Nor sweeter colours euer viewed eie . In scorching Turkey , Cares , Tartarie : Then shinde about this spirit notorious , Nor was Arachnes web so glorious . Of lightning and of shreds she was begot , More hold in base dissemblers is there not . Her name was Eronusis . G. Chapman .
The colours of dissemblance and deceit , Were died deep in graine , to seeme like truth . Ed. Spencer .
Better a wretch then a dissembler . E. Gilpin .
— Commonly in dissimulations Th' excesse of glauering doth guile ●●tect , Reason refuseth falshood to direct . The will therefore for feare of being spied , Exceedeth meane , because it wanteth guide . M. of M.
— Commonly all that counterfeit In any thing , exceed the naturall meane , And that for feare of fa●●ing in their feat . Idem .
The louely lookes , the sighes that storme so sore , The due of deep dissembling doublenesse : These may attempt , but are of power no more , Where beautie leanes to wit and soothfastnesse . D. Lodge .
— Who hath to doo With deep dissemblers , must dissemble too . Ch. Middleton .
Vid.
Hypocrisie
— The End doth alwaies proue the fact , By End we iudge the meaning of the act . S. I. H. Transl .
Begin where lightnesse wil , in shame it ends . G. Chapman .
Thus whilest he laid his head vpon her lap , She in a fiery mantle doth him wrap : And carries him vp from his lumpish mould , Into the skies whereas he might behold Th' earth in perfect roundnesse of a ball , Exceeding globes most artificiall . Which in a fixed point nature disposed , And with the sundry elements inclosed . Which as the Center , permanent doth stay , When as the skies in their diurnall sway : Strongly maintaine the euerturning course , Forced alone by their first mouers source . Where he beholds the aiery regions , Whereas the clouds and strange impressions Maintaind by coldnesse often do appeare : And by the highest region of the aire Vnto the clearest element of fire , Which to her siluer footstoole doth appeere . M. Drayton .
The Moone is darkned to all creatures eies , Whilest in the shadow of the earth she lies : For that the earth of nature cold and drie , A very Chaos of obscuritie : Whose globe exceeds her compasse by degrees , Fixed vpon her superficies . When in his shadow she doth hap to fall , Doth cause her darknes to be generall . Idem .
— Earth Beares all her sonnes and daughters in one wombe , She Europes , Ameriques , Affriques , Asians toombe . Idem .
— Earth cannot comprehend The secret depths of iudgements all diuine , Where is no ground beginning , midst nor fine . I. Syluester . Transl .
O trustlesse state of earthly things , and slipper hope Of mortall men , that swinke and worke for nought : And shooting wide , doth misse the marked scope . Now haue I turnd ( a lesson dearly bought ) That nis on earth assurance to be sought . Ed. Spencer .
A narrow roome our glory vaine vnties , A little circle doth our pride containe : Earth like an I le amid the water lies , Which sea sometime is cald , sometime the maine . Yet nought therein resounds a name so great , It 's but a lake , a pond , a marish street . Ed. Fairfax . Transl .
Our mother earth nere glories in her frute , Till by the sunne clad in her tinsell sute : Nor doth she euer stare him in the face , Till in her glorious armes she him imbrace . Which proues she hath a soule , sence , and delight , Of generation , feeling , appetite . M. Drayton .
To know our selues to come of humane birth , These sad afflictions crosse vs here on earth . A taske imposde by heauens eternall lawe , To keepe our rude rebellions well in awe . M. Drayton .
Next vnto him , malicious Enuie rode , Vpon a rauenous Wolfe , and still did chawe Betweene his cankred teeth a venomous tode , That all the poyson ranne about his iawe . But inwardly he chawed his owne mawe At neighbours wealth , that made him euer sad , For death it was when any good he sawe , And wept , that cause of weeping none he had , But when he heard of harme , he waxed wondrous glad . Ed. Spencer .
The other held a snake with venome fraught , On which she fed and gnawed hungerly : As if that long she had not eaten ought , That round about the iawes we might discry The bloody gore , and poyson dropping loathsomly . Her name was Enuie , knowne well thereby , Whose nature is to greeue and grudge at all That she sees done praise worthily : Whose sight to her is greatest crosse may fall , And vexeth so , that makes her eate her gall : For when she wanteth other thing to eate , She feedes on her owne ma● vnnaturall . And of her owne foule entrailes make her meate , Meate fit for such a monsters monstrous diet . Idem .
I chaunced on a monster of a man , With health heart sicke , sterued with store of foode , With riches poore , with beautie pale and wan , Wretched with happinesse , euil with good . One eye did enuie at the th' other eie : Because the other enuide more then hee , His hands did fight for the first iniurie , So Enuie enuide , enuide to be . And as he went , his tender foote was sore , And enuide at the foote that went before . Th. Bastard .
This monster honors hurt , is like the curre That barkes at strangers comming at the durre . But sparing alwaies those are to her knowne , To them most gentle , to the others throwne . This monster als is like a rauing cloude , Which threatens alwaies kindly Vulcan loude To smore and drowne him with her powring raine , Yet force of fire repels his force againe . K. of S.
Oft malice makes the mind to shed the boyled brine , And enuies humor oft vnlades , by conduits of the eine . T. W.
Enuy liues with vs whilst our selues suruiue , But when we die , it is no more aliue . Ch. Fitz Ieffry.
The knottie Oake and wainscot old , Within doth eate the silly worme , Euen so a mind in enuy cold , Alwaies within it selfe doth burne . Idem .
Each sence may common subiects comprehend , Things excellent the sensitiue confound : The eye with light and colours may contend : The care endure the note of common sound Both faile , when glorious beames and strokes abound ▪ So Enuy that at meanest things beares spight , Stands mute at view of vnexspected height . Th. Storer .
— Enuy harboureth most in feeblest brest . S. Phil. Sidney .
Fell enuies cloud , still dimmeth vertues ray . Ed. Spencer .
Foule enuie , thou the partiall iudge of right , Sonne of deceit , borne of that harlot hate : Nursed in hell , a vile and vgly sprite , Feeding on slaunder , cherisht with debate , Neuer contented with thine owne estate : Deeming alike , the wicked and the good , Whose words be gall , whose actions end in blood . M. Drayton .
Enuie doth cease , wanting to feede vpon . Idem .
Like as the poyze that would the palme represse Doth cause the bowes spread larger round about : So spite and enuie causeth glory sprout , And aye the more the top is ouertroad , The deeper doth the same roote spread abroad . M. of M.
Sicilian Tyrants yet did neuer finde Then Enuie , greater torment of the minde . Idem .
Our dayes are stampt in Enuies mint , And this our age cast in the Iron mold , Our hearts are hew'd out of Cancasean flint , And two leau'd plates of brasse our brest enfold , Hate waxeth yoong , the world thus waxing old , And best we like them , that do vs loue the least , And least we loue them , whom we should like best . Ch. Fitz Geffrey .
— His gliste●ing armour made A little glooming light , much like a shade : By which she saw the vgly monster plaine , Halfe like a serpent , horribly displaied , But th' other halfe did womans shape retaine , Most loathsome , filthy , foule , and full of vile disdaine . And as she lay vpon the dyrtie ground , Her huge long taile , her den all ouerspred , Yet was in knots , and many bouts vpwound : Pointed with mortall sting : of her there bred A thousand yoong ones , which she daily fed , Sucking vpon her poysoned dugges , each one Of sundrie shapes , yet all ill sauoured . Soone as the vncouth light vpon them shone , Into her mouth they crept , and suddenly were gone . Ed. Spencer .
To erre is proper vnto men , and but brutish to persist ▪ W. Warner .
— Errors are no errors , but by fate , For oft the euent makes foule faults fortunate . S. Daniell .
— Errors left vnpunisht , are profest , And being not defended , are opprest . Ch. Middleton .
To heare good counsell , error neuer loues . D. Lodge .
— Errors are hardly moued , That loue doth breed in an vnaduised brest . S. I. H. Transl .
A stony coldnesse hath benumbde the sence , And liuely spirits of each liuing wight , And dim'd with darknesse their intelligence , Darkenes more then Cymerians day by night , And monsters Error flying in the aire , Hath mar'd the face of all that seemeth faire . Ed. Spencer .
— Fidelia Like sunny beames threw forth her christall face , That could haue mazde the r●r'st beholders sight , And round about her head did shine like heauens light She was araied all in Lilly white , And in her right hand bare a Cup of Gold , With wine and water filld vp to the height . In which a serpent did himselfe infold , That horror made to all that did behold , But she no whit did change her constant minde . And in her other hand , she full did hold , A booke that was both signd and seald with bloud . Ed. Spencer .
Faith sits triumphant on a coach of gold , Of Tuballs worke , where costly Saphires shine , Rich Diamonds , and many Rubies fine , And if ought else , the worke more costly hold , This glorious chariots rowling wheeles are like The holy wheeles the great Ezechiel sawe , For owne selfe spirit , selfe winde and will doth drawe , Their restesse courses equall both alike , The bird that led the Romaine standerds out The bird that fixed can oppose his eies , Against the greatest light in all the skies , High through the ayre drawes this rich Coach about . Faith flaunts it not in siluer nor in gold . Nor precious scarlet of the Tyrian die : Nor paints her face to hide deformitie , But as she is , she doth her selfe vnfolde , Her body that all bodies doth disgrace , Like Iunoes bird is full of watching eies , Whose holy glaunces pierce the loftie skies , Pierce the hie heauens , and see God face to face . She hath great store of flowing tongues to praise The Lord of hoastes : she hath most mightie wings , ( Passing the swiftnes of all mortall things ) That in a moment vp to heauen her raise , Her glorious head is compast with a crowne Nor made of Oliue , pine , or Lawrell bowe , Nor Parsly wreath which Graecians did allowe . Th' olympian gaimes for signalls of renowne , But of fresh Roses pluckt from honours tree , That neuer shrinke for winters chilling frost , Nor wither not when Titan hotely tostes , But by the Lord for euer watered bee . I. Syl. Transl .
Faith friendly porter of heauens Christall hold , Conduct vs straight before the throne of gold : O● Gods great grace , there prostrate on her knee , Doth praier speake in name of all the three . I. S. Transl .
What was the world before the world ? or God ere he was God Why this he did , or doth not that , this bidden or forbod : I dare not thinke , or arrogate such misteries diuine , Faith with her wits significant suffice these wits of mine : To loue God and our neighbours as our selfe is all in fine . W. Warner .
Drawe thy forces all vnto thy hart , The strongest fortresse of this earthly part : And on these three , let thy assurance lie , On faith , hope , and humilitie . M. Drayton .
Faith is thy Fort , thy shield , thy stronger aide , Neuer controll'd , nere yeelded , ne dismaide : Which doth dilate , vnfold , foretell , expresseth , Which giues rewards , inuesteth and possesseth . Idem .
Faith hath not onely power on things terrene Both hie , and lowe , but oftentimes doth force Gods iustice too , and sometimes seemes perforce , Gods purposes to change and alter cleane . I. Syl.
— The hardest things faith makes most possible . Idem .
— Euen the faithfull flocks are like the ground , That for good fruite , with weedes will still abound : If that the share and coulter idle lie , That riues the share , and rootes the brambles bie . Th. Hudson . Transl .
Adde faith vnto your force , and be not faint . Ed. Spencer .
Onely faith doth iustifie say we , of Gods free grace , By Christ , nor faith is idle , but doth charitie embrace . W. Warner .
A monster swifter none is vnder sunne . Encreasing as in waters we discrie , The circles small of nothing that begin , Which at the length , vnto such breadth do come , That of a drop which from the skies do fall , The circles spread , and hide the waters all . So Fame in flight encreasing more and more , For at the first , she is not scarcely knowne , But by and by she flits from shore to shore , To clouds from th' earth , her stature straight is growne There whatsoeuer by her trumpe is blowne , The sound that both by sea and land out-flies , Rebounds againe , and verberates the skies : They say , the earth that first the Giants bred , For anger that the Gods did them dispatch , Brought forth this sister of those monsters dead , Full light of foote , swift wings , the winds to catch , Such monster erst did nature neuer hatch . As many plumes she hath as top to toe , So many eyes them vnderneath or moe : And tongues do speake : so many eares do harke , By night tweene heauen she flies and earthly shade , And shreaking takes no quiet sleepe by darke , On houses roofes , or towers as keeper made , She fits by day , and cities threates to inuade , And as she tells what things she sees by view , She rather shewes that's fained false , then true , I. H. Mir. of M.
Fame in a stoale of purple set with eies , And eares , and tongues , caried a golden booke , Vpon the couer , this I sawe engrau'd . Pauci quos aequus amauit Iupiter , aut ardeus euerit ad aethera virtus Dijs geniti . G. Peele .
Fame with golden wings aloft doth flie , Aboue the reach of ruinous decay , And with braue plumes doth beate the ayrie skie , Admir'd of base borne men , from far away . Ed. Spencer .
The Brazen Trompe of Iron winged fame , That mingleth truth with forged lies . E. Fairfax . Transl .
Then came they to the foule and loathsome lake , Darke , deepe , and mirie , of a dreadfull hue , Where was the aged man that neuer stinted To carrie bundles of the names imprinted . This was the man , whom ( as I told before ) Nature and custome so swift of foote had made , He neuer rested , but ran euermore . And with his comming he did vse this trade : A heape of names within his cloake he bare , And in the Riuer did them all vnlade : Or to ( say truth ) away he cast them all , Into this streame which Laethe we do call . This prodigall old wrerch no sooner came Vnto this cursed riuers barren banke , But desperately without all feare of blame , Or caring to deserue reward or thanke , He hurl'd therein full many a precious name , Where millions soone into the bottome sanke : Hardly in euery thousand one was found , That was not in the gulfe quite lost and dround : Yet all about great store of birds there flew , As vultures , carren crowes , and chattering pies , And many moe of sundrie kinds and hew , Making leaude harmonie with their loude cries , These when the carelesse wretch the treasure threw Into the streame , did all they could deuise , What with their tallents some , and some with beake To saue these names , but find themselues too weake . For euer as they thought themselues to raise , To beare away those names of good renowne , The waight of them , so heauie downeward waies , They in the streame were driuen to cast them downe , Onely two swans sustain'd so great a paize In spight of him that sought them all to drowne , These two did still take vp whose names they list , And bare them safe away , and neuer mist . Sometime all vnder the foule lake they diued , And tooke vp some that were with water couered : And those that seem'd condemned , they repriued . And often as about the banke they houered , They caught them , ere they to the streame arriued , Then went they with the names they had recouered , Vp to a hill that stood the water nie , On which a stately Church was built on hie . This place is sacred to immortall fame , And euermore a Nimph stands at the gate , And tooke the names wherewith the two swans came , Whether they early come , or whether late . Then all about the Church she hang'd the same , Before that sacred Image in such rate , As they might then well be assur'd for euer , Spight of that wretch , in safetie to perseuer . S. I. Harr. Transl .
Fame on his right hand in a roabe of gold , Whose stately traine , Time as her page did beare : On which for rich imbroydery was enrold , The deeds of all the Worthies euer were : So strongly wrought as wrong could not impaire , Whose large memorialls she did still reherse , In Poets man immortallizing verse . Two tablets on her goodly brest she bore , The one of Christall , the other Ebonie , Engrau'd with names of all that liu'd before That ; the faire booke of heauenly memorie : Th' other , the base scrowle of Infamie . One stuft with Poets , Saints , and Conquerors , Th' other , with Atheists , Tyrants , Vsurers , And in her word appeared as a wonder , Her daring force , and neuer failing might : Which softly spake farre off , as 't were a thunder , And round about the world would take their flight , And bring the most obscured things to light . That still the farther off , the greater still , Did euer sound our good , or make our ill . M. Drayton .
Her dwelling is betwixt the earth and skies , Her Turret vnto heauen her top vpreares : The windowes made of Lynceus piercing eies , And all the walles be made of daintiest eares , Where euery thing that 's done in earth appeares . No word is whispered in this vaultie round , But in her pallace straitwaies it doth sound : The rafters , trumpets which do rend the aire , Sounding aloud each name that thither comes . The chinkes like tongues of all things talking heere , And all things past , in memorie do beare . The doores vnlocke with euery word man saith , And opens wide with euery little breath . It 's hung about with armes and conquering spoiles , The pillers which support the roofe of this , Are trophies grauen with Herculean toiles . The roofe of garlands , crowne , and ensignes is : In midst of which a Christall Pyramis , All ouer caru'd with men of most renowne , Whose base is her faire chaire , the spire her crowne . Idem .
— Fame Refuge of hope , the harbinger of truth , Hand-mayd of heauen vertues skilfull guide , The life of life , the ages springing youth : Tryumph of ioy , eternities faire bride , The virgins glory , and the martyrs pride . The courages immortall raising fire , The very height to which great thoughts aspire : The staire by which men to the starres do clime : The minds first mouer greatnes to expresse , Faiths armour , and the vanquisher of time . A pleasant sweet against deaths bitternesse , The hie reward which doth all labours blesse : The studie which doth heauenly things impart , The ioy amidst the tedious waies of art . Learnings greene lawrell , Iustice glorious throne , The Muses chariot , memories true food : The Poets life , the gods companion , The fire-reuiuing Phaenix sun-nurst brood . The spirits eternall image , honours good . The Balsamum which cures the souldiers scarres , The world , discouering seamens happy starres . Idem .
A loftie subiect of it selfe doth bring , Graue words and waightie , of it selfe diuine : And makes the authors holy honour shine . If ye would after ashes liue , beware : To do like Erostrate , who burnt the faire Ephesian Temple , or to win a name To make of brasse a cruell calfe vntame . K. of S.
— Incorporeall Fame Whose waight consists in nothing but her name , Is swifter then the wind , whose tardy plumes Are reeking water , and dull earthly fumes . Ch. Marlowe .
Fame ( whereof the world seemes to make such choyce ) Is but an Eccho and an idle voyce . S. Daniell .
Vnto this Hydra are we subiect still , Who dares to speake , not caring good or ill . Better it is without renowne to be , Then be renownd for vile iniquitie . K. of K.
— Fame the queene of immortalitie . Ch. Fitz Ieffrey .
Death hath no dart to slay deserued Fame . Ch. Fitz.
This iealous monster hath a thousand eies , Her aiery body hath a thousand wings : Now on the earth , now vp to heauen she flies . And here and there with euery wind she flings : Nothing so secret but to her appeareth , And apt to credit euery thing she heareth . Foule babling , tell tale , secrets soone bewraier , The aire bred Eccho , the speaker of lies : Shrill-sounding trompet , truths vnkind betraier . False larum-bell , awaking dead mens eies . Fond pratling parrat telling all thou hearest , Oft furthest off , when as thou shouldst be nearest . M. Drayton .
The path is set with danger , leads to fame , When Minos did the Grecians flight denie , He made him wings and mounted through the skie . Idem .
Still fame wil grow if once abroad it flie , Whether it be a troth , or be a lie . Idem .
Fame doth explore what lies most secret hidden , Entring the closet of the pallace dweller , A broad reuealing what i● forbidden , Of truth and falshood both an equall teller , T is not a guard can serue for to expell her : The sword of iustice cannot cut her wings , Nor stoppe her mouth from vttering secret things . S. Daniell .
Celestiall goddesse euer-liuing fame , Mineruaes daughter by faire Maias sonne , Of all th' inhabitants of heauens faire frame : Most highly honored since the world begunne , And shall be till the fatall glasse be runne . Soules sweet receit , the healths restoratiue : Hearts cordiall , the minds preseruatiue . Goddesse of thoughts , muse animating appetite , Aulter of honour , simple of renowne , Shrine of deuotion , yeelding art her merite : Lifes richest treasure , vertues gorgious gowne , Heauens best abilliment , Ariadnes crowne . The Cynosura of the purest thought , Faire Helice , by whom the heart is taught . Ch. Fitz Ieffrey .
A grisly shape of Famine might we see , With greedy lookes and gaping mouth that cride And would torment as she should there haue dide : Her body thin and bare as any bone , Whereto was left nought but the case alone : And that alas was gnawne on euery where , All full of holes , that I ne mought refraine From teares to see how she her armes could teare , And with her teeth gnash on her bones in vaine , When all for nought she faine would so sustaine Her staruen corps , that rather seem'd a shade , Then any substance of a creature made . Great was her force , whom stone walles could not stay , Her tearing nayles snatching at all she sawe : With gaping iawes , that by no meanes y may Be satisfied from hunger of her mawe , But eates her selfe , as she that hath no lawe : Gnawing alas her carkas all in vaine , While you may count each sinew , bone and vaine : On her , while we thus firmly fixt our eie , That bled for ●uth of such a drery sight , Lo suddenly she shrikte in so huge wise , As made hell gates to shiuer with the might : Where with a dart we sawe how it did light Right on his brest , and therewithall pale death Enthrilling it , to reaue her of her breath . M. Sackuile .
Meane cates are welcome still to hungry guests . B. Ioh.
Fancie we feele includes all passions might . S. Phil. Sydney .
Fancie by kind , with reason striueth still . Th. Watson .
What God hath said , that cannot but ensue , Though all the world would haue it ouerthrowne : When men suppose by fetches of their owne To flie their Fate , they further on the same , Like blasts of winde , which oft reuiue the flame . M. of M.
The heauens do rule in their continuall course , That yeelds to Fate , that doth not yeeld to force . M. Drayton .
Chaunce is vncertaine , fortune double faced . Ed. Fairfax . Transl .
— Demogorgon ruler of the Fates . R. Greene \.
— The Fates can make Waie for themselues , their purpose to pertake . Ed. Spencer .
— What the Fates do once decree , Not all the gods can chaunge , nor Ioue himself can free . Idem .
— The lawes of Fate Being grau'n in steele , must stand inuiolate . Th. Dekkar .
Who can escape what his owne Fate hath wrought , The work of heauens wil , surpasse all humane thought . Ed. Spencer .
— Who can deceiue his destenie ? Or weene by warning to auoid his Fate ? That when he sleepes in more securitie And safest seemes , him soonest doth amate , And findeth due effect , or soone or late So feeble is the power of fleshly arme . Idem .
— Indeed the Fates are firme , And may not shrinke though all the word do shake : Yet ought mens good endeuours them confirme , And guide the heauenly causes to their constant terme . Idem .
Each man they say his Fate hath in his hands , And what he makes or marres to leese or saue , Of good or euil , is euen selfe do , selfe haue . I. H. M. of M.
The Fates farre off , foreseene come gently neare . M. Drayton .
Our Fate is not preuented though fore-knowne , For that must hap decreed by heauenly powers , Who worke our fall , yet make the fault still ours . S. Daniell .
— Fate Keeps in eternall darke our fortunes hidden , And ere they come to know them , t is forbidden . Idem .
All men are men in ignorance of Fate , To alter chance , exceedeth humane state . I. Markham .
The heauens do rule in their continuall course , That yeelds to Fate , that doth not yeeld to force . M. Drayton .
— Feare all arm'd from top to toe , Yet thought himselfe not safe enough thereby , But fear'd each shadow mouing too and fro , And his owne armes whom glistering he did spie , Or clashing heard , he fast away did flie As ashes pale of hew , and winghie heeld , And euermore on danger fixt his eie , Gainst whom he alwaies bent a brazen sheeld , Which his right hand vnarmed faithfully did weeld . Ed. Spencer .
Who so for fickle feare from vertue shrinkes , Shall in his life imbrace no worthy thing , No mortall man the cup of suretie drinkes . S. Phil. Sid.
Feare is more paine then is the paine it feares , Disarming humane minds of natiue might : Where each conceit an vgly figure beares , Which were not euil , well viewd in reasons light . Idem .
The gift being great , the feare doth still exceed , And extreame feare can neither fight nor flie , But cowardlike with trembling terror die . W. Shakespeare .
The feare of ill , exceeds the ill we feare . Ed. Fairfax . Transl .
Feare lendeth wings to aged folke to flie , And made them mount to places that were hie . Feare made the wofull child to waile and weepe , For want of speed , on foote and hands to creepe . Th. Hudson . Transl .
Feare in a fearefull heart , frets more then plagues that he feareth . A. Fraunce .
Feare that is wiser then the truth doth ill . S. D.
Feare casts too deepe , and neuer is too wise . Idem .
In vaine with terror is he fortified , That is not guarded with firme loue beside . Idem .
A fearefull thing to tumble from a throne . M. Drayton .
Where crowned might , & crossed right so near togither dwel Behoues that forrest flying feare whereof the Foxe doth tel , Our factious Lancaster & Yorke , thereof could witnes wel . W. Warner .
Thunder affrights the Infants in the schooles , And threatnings are the conquerors of fooles . I. Markham .
Whom feare constraines to praise their Princes deeds , That feare eternall , hatred in them feeds . R. Greene .
Feare misinterprets things , each angury The worser way he fondly doth imply . Weaknes is false , and faith in cowards rare , Feare findes our shifts , timitidie is subtill . S. Daniell .
T is incident to those whom many feare , Many to them more greeuous hate to beare . M. Drayton .
— He whom all men feare , Feareth all men euery where : ( Hate inforcing them thereto ) Maketh many vndertake Many things they would not do . Th. Kyd.
The only good that growes of passed feare , Is to be wise , and ware of like againe . Ed. Spencer .
A man to feare a womans moodie eire , Makes reason lie a slaue to seruile feare . S. Ph. Sydney .
Nothing seene fearefull , we the most should feare , Great amistes rise before the greatest raine : The water deep'st , where we least murmure heare , In fairest Cups men temper deadliest baine . The nearer night , the ayre more cleare and still , The nearer to one deaths , least fearing ill . M. Drayton .
— Bloodlesse , trustlesse , witlesse feare , That like an Aspen tree , trembles each where , She leads blacke terror , and blacke clownish shame , And drowsie sloth that counterfeiteth lame , With snailelike motion measuring the ground . Foule sluggish drone , barren ( but sinne to breed ) Diseased begger , steru'd with wilfull need . I. S. Transl .
The feare of euill doth affright vs more , Then th' euill it selfe , though it seeme nere so sore .
Rich buskind Seneca , that did declaime And first in Rome our tragicke pompe compile , Saith Fortitude is that , which in extreame , And certaine hazard all base feare exile . It guides saith he , the noble minde from farre , Through frost and fire , to conquer honours warre . I. Markham .
Honey tong'd Tully Marmaid of our eares , Affirmes , no force can force true Fortitude : It with out bodies no communion beares . The soule and spirit , soly it doth include . It is that part of honestie , which reares The heart to heauen , and euer doth obtrude , Faint feare and doubt , still taking his delight In pe●ills , which exceed all perils might . Patience , perseuerance , greatnes , and strong trust , These Pages are to Fortitude their King : Patience that suffers , and esteemeth iust , What euer we for vertue fortunes brine . Perseuerance holds constant what we must , Greatnes that effects the guilded thing , And armed trust which neuer can dispaire , And hopes good happe how euer fatall deare . Idem .
The man that hath of Fortitude and might , And thereto hath a Kingdome voyd withall , Except he also guide himselfe aright , His power and strength preuaileth but a small , He cannot scape at length , an haplesse fall . I. H. M. of M.
The Romaine Sergius hauing lost his hand , Slew with one hand foure in a single fight , A thing all reason euer did withstand , But that bright Fortitude spreads forth her light . Pompey by shore held from th' Italian Land , And all his saylors quaking in his sight , First hoysed sailes , and cried amidst the strife , Ther 's need I goe , no need to saue my life . I. Markeham .
Force without wisedome , is of little worth . G. Gascoigne .
Greater force there needs to maintain wrong them right . Ed. Spencer .
Agis that guilt the Lacedemon streete , Entending one day battaile with his foes , By counsell was repeld as thing vnmeete , The enemie being ten to one in shoes , But he replied , t is needfull that his feete With many heads , should lead to many blowes . And one being good , an armie is for ten : Foes to Religion , and knowne naughtie men , To him that told Dineceus how his foes Couered the sunne with darts and armed speares . He made replie , thy newes is ioy in woes , Wee 'le in the shadow fight , and conquer foes . I. Markham .
— As to loue , the life for vertues flame , Is the iust act of a true noble will : So to contemne it , and her hopes exclude Is basenesse , rashnesse , and no Fortitude . Idem .
Rash Isadas the Lacedemon Lord , That naked fought against the Theban power , Although they chain'd his valour by a cord , Yet was he finde for rashnes in that hower . And those which most his carelesse praise afford , Did most condemne what folly did deuoure : For in attempting , prowesse is not ment , But wisely doing what we do attempt . Idem .
O had Felicitie feeling of woe ? Or could on meane but moderately feede ? Or would looke downe the way that he must goe ? Or could abstaine from what diseases breede ? To stop the wound before to death it bleede ? Warre should not fill Kings pallaces with mone , Nor perill come , when t is least thought vpon . M. Drayton .
Folly in youth is sinne , in age is madnes . S. Daniel .
A greater signe of Folly is not showne , Then trusting others force , distrust our owne : S. I. Harr. Transl .
— Wicked men repine their sinnes to heare , And Folly flings , if counsell touch him neare . D. Lodge .
Faire fooles delight to be accounted wise . Ch. Marlowe .
Fooles will find fault without the cause discerning . And argue most of that they haue no learning . S. I. Harr. Transl .
— There is a method , time , and place , Which fooles obseruing do commence , ere wise men haue their grace . W. Warner .
T is better be a foole then be a foxe , For Folly is rewarded and respected , Where subtiltie is hated and reiected . D. Lodge ▪
— The foolish commmons vse Obey them most , who doth them most abuse . S. I. Harrington . P.
A witlesse foole may euery man him gesse , That leaues the more , and takes him to the lesse . G. Gascoigne .
— Foule leasings and vile flatterie , Two filthy blots in noble genterie . Ed. Sp.
When as we finely soothe our owne desires , Our best conceits do proue the greatest hers . M. Drayton .
Nere was pretence so foule , but some would flatter it ▪ Nor any thing so pestilent , as misapplied wit . W. Warner .
To be officious , getteth friends , plaine dealing hated is Yet better plainly to reproue , then fainedly to kis : We cannot also loue our friends , & Flatter their amis . Idem .
— Flattery can neuer want rewards . D. Lodge .
He twice offends , who sinne in flattery beares , Yet euery houre he dies , who euer feares . D. Lodge .
The Lords & Ladies ouer rent , and cunningly the fine , The Parasite doth ouerreach , and bears away the gain . W. Warner .
Yee sonnes of craft bearing as many faces , As Proteus , takes among the marine places , And force your natures all the best you can , To counterfeit the grace of some great man Chamelion like , who takes him in each hew , Of blacke or white , or yellow , greene , or blew , That comes him next , so you that finde the fashion To hurt the poore , with many a great taxation , You that do prease to haue the princes eare , To make your names in prouinces appeare , Ye subtill Thurins sell your fumish winde To wicked wights , whose sences ye do blinde . Th. Hudson . Transl .
Time fawning spaniels , Mermaids on the earth . Trencher fed flies . Base Parasites , these elbowe-rubbing mates , A plague to all lasciuious wanton states : O filthy monkies , vile and beastly kind , Foule prating Parrats , birds of Harpy brood , A corasiue to euery noble minde . Vipers that sucke your mothers dearest blood : Mishapen monster , worst of any creature , A foe to all , an enemie to nature . M. Drayton .
Fortune as blinde as he whom she doth lead , Her feature chaung'd each minute of the houre , Her riggish feete fantastickly would tread : Now would she smile , and suddenly would lowre , And with one breath , her words are sweete and sowre . Vpon her foes she amorously doth glaunce , And on her followers coyly looke askaunce , About her necke ( it seem'd as for a chaine ) Some Princes crownes and broken scepters hung . Vpon her arme a lazie youth did leane , Which scornfully vnto the ground she flung , And with a wanton grace passing alone , Great bags of gold from out her bosome drew , And to base Pesants and fond Idiots threw . A duskie vale which hid her sightlesse-eies Like cloudes , which couer our vncertaine liues , Painted about with bloodie Tragedies , Fooles wearing crowns and wise men clog'd in giue● Now how she giues againe , how she depriues : In this blacke map this she her might discouers , In Camps and Courts , on souldiers , and on louers . M. Drayton .
A hap , a chaunce , a casuall euent , The vulgars Idoll , and a childish terror : A what man will , a silly accident The maske of blindnesse , and disguise of error , Natures vile nickname , follies foolish mirror : A terme , a by-word , by tradition learn'd , A hearsay , nothing not to be discernd , A wanton feare , a silly Infants dreame , A vaine illusion , a meere fantasie : A seeming shade , a lunaticke mans dreame . A fond Aenigma , a flat heresie . Imaginations doting emperie . A folly in it selfe , it one selfe loathing , A thing that would be , and yet can be nothing . Disease of time , ambitions concubine : A minde intrancing snare , a slippery yce , The bait of death , destructions heady wine . Vaine-glories patron , the fooles paradice . Fond hope wherewith confusion doth intice . A vile seducing f●end , which haunts men still , To loose them in the errors of their will . Idem .
O fortune the great Amorite of kings , Opinions breath , thou Epicurian aire : Inuention of mans soule , falsest of things , A step beyond our iudgement , and a staire Higher then men can reach with reasons wings . Thou blindfold Archeresse , thou that wilt not heare : Thou foe to persons , manners , times and all , That raisest worthlesse , while the worthiest fall . I. Markham .
Ah fortune , nurse of fooles , poyson of hope , Fuell of vaine desires , deserts destruction ▪ Supposed soueraigne , through our vaine construction Princes of Paganisme , roote of impie●ie , Diuell on earth , masked in pietie . Scorne of the learned , follies elder scholler , Bastard of time , begot by vaine opinion : Against thy power , a peeuish proud resister . Mother of lies , and witnesse of illusion : Lampe of vain-glory , double faced shroe , Who smiles at first , succesfull , ends in woe . D. Lodge .
Who wins her grace , must with atchiuements wo he● As she is blind , so neuer had she eares , Nor must with puling eloquence go to her : She vnderstands not sighes , she heares not praiers . Flattered she flies ; controld she euer feares . And though a while she nicely do forsake it , She i● a woman , and at length will take it . Nor euer let him dreame once of a crowne , For one bad cast that will giue vp his game , And though by ill hap he be ouerthrowne , Yet let him manage her till she be tame . M. Drayton .
Fortune the folly is , and plague of those Which to the world their wretched will dispose . M. of M.
All flesh is fraile and full of ficklenesse , Subiect to fortunes charme , still changing new , What haps to day to me , to morrow may to you . Ed. Spencer .
Fortune the foe to famous chieuisance , Sildome or neuer yeelds to vertue aide : But in her way throwes mischiefe and mischance , Whereby her course is stopt , and passage laide . Idem .
Mocke Gods they are , and many Gods induce , Who fortune faine to father there abuse . M. of M.
— In vaine do men The heauens of there fortunes fault accuse , Syth they know best what is the best for them , For they to each such fortune do diffuse , As they do know each can most aptly vse : For not that which men couet most is best , Nor that thing worst which men do most refuse . But fittest is , that all contented rest With that they hold : each hath his fortune in his brest . Ed. Spencer .
No fortune is so bad , our selues ne frame There is no chance at all hath vs preseru'd . There is no fate whom we haue need to blame : There is no desteny but is deseru'd : No lucke that leaues vs safe , or vnpreseru'd . Let vs not then complaine of fortunes skill , For all our good descends from Gods good will , And of our lewdnesse , springeth all our ill . M. of M.
— They that do dwell on fortunes call , No sooner rise , but ready are to fall . D. Lodge .
Looke how much higher fortune doth erect The climing wight on her vnstable wheele : So much the nigher may a man exspect To see his head where late he sawe his heele . Policrates hath prou'd it in effect , And Dyonisius that too true did feele Who long were luld on hie in fortunes lap : And fell downe suddenly to great mishap . On th' other side , the more man is oppressed And vtterly ouerthrowne by fortunes lowre , The sooner comes his state to be redressed , When wheele shall turn and bring the happie howre . Some from the Blocke haue growne to be so blessed . Whole realmes haue bene subuerted to their powre . As Marius and Ventidius sample is , In former age , and Lewes of France in this . S. I. Harr. Transl .
— As the boystrous winde Doth shake the tops of highest reared towers , So doth the force of froward fortune strike The wight that highest sits in haughtie state . G. Gascoigne .
— So wills the wanton queene of chance , That each man trace this Labyrinth of life : With slippery steps now wrongd by fortune strange , Now drawne by counsell from the maze of strife . D. Lodge .
We all are proud when fortune fauours vs , As if inconstant chaunce were alwaies one : Or standing now , she would continue thus , O fooles looke backe , and see the rolling stone Whereon she blindly lighting sets her foote , And slightly sowes , that sildome taketh roote . Th. Kyd.
Fortune the first and last that gouernes states . I. Markham .
The blind-fold mistresse of vncertaine chaunge . D. Lodge .
The wayward lady of this wicked world . Idem .
Blind fortune faileth mighty ones , & meaner doth aduance . W. Warner .
Blind fortune findeth none so fit to flout As Sures by sotts , which cast no kind of doubt . M. of M.
— Fortune cannot raise Any one aloft without some others wracke , Flouds drowne no fields vnlesse they finde a bracke . Idem .
Where power dwelles and riches rest , False fortune is a comely guest . E. of S.
Think fortune newly hatcht is fledge , & waggeth wing to flie All suffer change , our selues new born , euen then begin to die . W. Warner .
The man that fortune at commaund will keepe , He must be sure he neuer let her sleepe . M. Drayton .
There neuer yet was Emperour or King , Could boast that he had fortune in a string . S. I. Harr. Transl .
— All things to fortune are subiected , Chiefly in warres , that are by chaunce directed . Idem .
Wheresoeuer fortune her bountie will bestow , There heauen and earth must pay what she doth owe. M. of M.
The man whose thoughts to fortunes height aspires , Were better die then liue in lowe desires . Th. Achelly .
Admit thou hadst Pactolian waues to land thee gold at will , Know Craesus did to Cyrus kneele , and thou maist speed as ill . W. Warner .
Attempt not things beyond thy reach , ioyne fortune to thy will , Least Phebus chaire do els surcharge rash Phaethon his skill Idem .
If fortune help whom thou woldst hurt , fret not at it the more , When Aiax storm'd , then from him the prize Vlisses bore . Idem .
Good fortune drawes from heauen her descent , Making hie Ioue the roote of her large tree : She showes from him how many Godheads went , Archangels , Angels , heauens posteritie , From thence she showes the glorious thrid she lent , To Monarkes , Emperours and Kings in fee. Annexing as collateralls to her loue , Honour , vertue , valour and endlesse time . N●thelesse ill fortune will be elder borne She saith she springs from Saturne , Ioues wrongd syre , And heauen and earth , and hell , her coate haue borne Fresh bleeding hearts within a field of fyre : All that the world admires she makes her scorne , Who farthest seemes , is to ill fortune neere . And that iust proofe may her great praise commend , All that good chaunce begins , ill chaunce doth end . I. Markham .
Ill fortune is attended by reproach , Good fortune fame and vertue stellifies . Idem .
— What man can shun the happe , That hidden lies , vnwares him to surprise : Misfortune waits aduantage to entrappe The man most wary , in her whelming lappe . Ed. Spencer .
The fortune that misfortune doth affoord , Is for to liue and die vnfortunate . Th. Achelly .
Misfortune followeth him that tempteth fortune . Ch. Fitz Ieffrey .
The naturall affection soone doth cease , And quenched is with Cupids greater flame : But faithfull friendship doth them both suppresse : And them with maistring discipline doth tame Through thoughts aspiring , to eternall fame . Ed. Spencer .
In friendship , soueraigne 't is as Mithridate , Thy friend to loue , as one whom thou maist hate . M. of M.
Ne certes can that friendship long endure , How euer gay and goodly be the style , That doth ill cause or euill end endure , For vertue is the band which bindeth hearts most sure . Ed. Spencer .
— Enmitie that of no ill proceeds , But of occasion , with the occasion ends , And friendship which a faint affection breeds , Without regard of good , lies like ill grounded seed . Ed. Spencer .
With vertue chuse thy friend , with vertue him retaine , Let vertue be the ground , so shall it not be vaine . S. Th. Wiat .
Try frends by touch , a feeble frend may proue thy strongest foe ▪ Great Pompeys head to Caesars hand , it was betraied so , W. Warner .
In perfect friendship no suspect , for two in one are all , Communitie , or doubling ioy , or making griefe more small . Idem .
The truest friendship in miserie is tride , For then will none but faithfull friends abide , G. Turberuile .
Right true it is , and said full yore agoe , Take heed of him that by the backe thee claweth , For none is worse , then is the friendly foe , Though thee seeme good , all things that thee delighteth : Yet know it well , that in thy bosome creepeth , For many a man such fiers oft times hee kindleth , That with the blaze his beard himselfe he singeth . E. of Surrey .
None can deeme right who faithfull friends do rest , While they beare sway and rule in hie degree : For then both fast and fained friends are prest . Whose faiths seeme both of one effect to bee . But then reuolts the first and fained guest , When wealth vnwindes and fortune seemes to flie , But he that loues indeed , remaineth fast , And loues and serues when life and all is past . S. I. Harr. Transl .
Oft times we see in house of meane estate , In fortunes bad , and chances ouerthwart : That men do sooner laie away debate , And ioyne in sound accord with hand and hart , Then Princes courts , where riches genders hate : And vile suspect that louing minds doth part . Where charitie is cleane consumde and vanished , And friendship firme , is quite cast out and banished . Idem .
Who so wants friends to backe what he begins , In lands farre off , gets not , although he wins . S. Daniell .
If fortune friendly fawne , and lend thee wealthy store , Thy frends conioined ioy , doth make thy ioy the more If frowardly she frowne , and driueth to distresse : His aide releeues thy ruth , and makes thy solace lesse . S. Th. Wiat.
They are not alwaies surest friends on whom we most do spend . W. Warner .
True friends haue feeling of each others wo , And when ones hart is sad , all theirs is so . Ch. Middleion .
A golden treasure is the ●ried friend , But who may gold from counterfeits defend ? Trust not to soone , nor yet to soone mistrust , With th' one thy selfe , with th' other thy friend thou hurtst , Who twines betwixt , & stears the golden mean , Nor rashly loueth , nor mistrusts in vaine . Mir. of M.
— Friends are geason now a daies , And growe to fume before they taste the fier : Aquersitie bereauing mans auailes , They flie like feathers dallying in the winde . They rise like bubbles in a stormy raine , Swelling in words , and flying faith and deeds . D. Lodge .
Faint friends when they fall out , most cruel foemen be . Ed. Spencer .
Better a new friend , then an old foe is said . Idem .
He that will thriue , must thinke no courses vile . B. Iohnson .
No hurt but good ( who meanes to multiplie ) Bought wit is deare , and drest with sower sauce , Repentance comes too late , and then say I , Who spares the first , and keepes the last vnspent ▪ Shall find that sparing yeelds a goodly rent . G. Gascoigne .
Let first thine owne hand hold fast all that comes , But let the other learne his letting flie : Idem .
— Furie furiously mans life assailes With thousand cannons , sooner felt then seene , Where weakest , strongest , fraught with deadly teene , Blind , crooked , blisterd , melancholy , sad , Many-nam'd poyson , minister of death , Which from vs creepes , but to vs gallopeth . Foule , trouble rest , phantasticke , greedy-gut , Bloud sweating , hearts-theefe , wretched , filthy-slut The childe of surfait and aires-temper vicious , Perillous knowne , but vnknowne most pernicious . I. Syluister .
— Furie cruell cursed wight , That vnto Knighthood workes much shame and woe , And that same hag , his aged mother hight , Occasion , the roote of all wrath and dispight . With her , who so will raging Furie tame , Must first begin , and welther amenage , First her restraine from her reproachfull blame And euill meanes , with which she doth enrage Her franticke sonne , and kindles his courage , Then when she is withdrawne , or strong withstood , Is each his Idle Furie to asswage , And calme this tempest of his passion wood , The bankes are ouerflowne , when so sped is the flood . Ed. Spencer .
Furie was red with rage , his eyes did glowe , While flakes of fier from forth his mouth did flowe His hands and armes y bath'd in bloud of those Whom fortune , sinne , or fate made countries foes . T. Lodge .
— This fell fury , for forerunner sends Manie and phrenzie , to subborne her frends , Whereof the one drying , th' other ouerwarming . The feeble brain ( the edge of iudgement harming ) Within the soule phantastickly they faine , A confus'd hoast of strange Chimeraes vaine . I. Syluister .
T is wisedome to giue much , a Gift preuailes , When deepe perswading Oratorie failes . Ch. Marlowe .
A giuing hand though foule , shall haue faire praise . S. Daniell .
— The greatest Gifts whereof we boast , Are those which do attempt and tire vs most . T. Lodge .
— Onely wisedome graue , and iudgements cleere , Gifts giu'n from heauen , that are not common heere . S. I. H. Transl .
Goods Gifts are often giuen to men past good . G. Chapman .
Good Gifts abus'd , to mans confusion turne . Th. Dekkar .
Testators and Executors so giue and so receaue , As doubtful whethers ioy or griefe , is more to take or leaue For as do hogs their troghs to hounds , so these giue & get place Death not the Dier giues bequests , and therfore but graue grace . W. Warner .
To loiter well deserued Gifts , is not to giue but sell , When to requite ingratitude , were to do euill well . Idem .
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne , For a man by nothing is so well bewraide , As by his maners , in which plaine is showne , Of what degree , and what race he is growne . Ed. Spencer .
Sweete gentlenesse is Bewties waiting maide . Th. Watson .
— In gentle thoughts , Relenting thoughts , remorse , and pittie rests . Ch. Marlowe .
All like as Phoebus , with his chearefull beames , Doth freshly force the fragrant flowers to flourish , So gentle rulers subiects loue do nourish . I. H. Mir. of M.
Like as the gentle heart it selfe bewraies , In doing gentle deeds with francke delight : Euen so the baser minde it selfe displaies , In canckered malice , and reuenge for spight . W. Shakespeare .
O what an easie thing is 't to discrie The gentle bloud , how euer it be wrapt , In sad misfortunes foule deformitie And wretched sorrowes which haue often hapt . For howsoeuer it may grow mishapt , That to all vertue it may seeme vnapt , Yet will it shew some sparkes of gentle minde , And at the last , breake forth in his owne proper kinde . Ed. Spencer .
— True Gentrie standeth in the trade Of vertuous life , not in the fleshly line , For bloud is knit , but Gentrie is diuine . I. H. M. of M.
Aboue cognizance or armes , or pedigree farre , An vnspotted coate , is like a blazing starre . G. Gascoigne .
Kind Amalthea was transformd by Ioue , Into his sparkling pauement , for his loue , Though but a goate , and giuing him her milke , Bazenes is flinty Gentrie , soft as silke . In heauen she liues , and rules a liuing signe In humane bodies : yet not so diuine , That she can worke her kindnes in our hearts . G. Chapman .
The true Gentilitie by their owne armes Aduance themselues , the falls by others harmes . Th. Bastard .
— By his side rode loathsome Gluttonie , Deformed creature , on a filthy swine : His belly was vpblowen with luxurie , And eke with fatnes , swollen were his eine . And like a Crane , his necke was long and fine , With which he swallowed vp excessiue feast , For want of which , poore people oft did pine , And all the way most like a brutish swine , He spued vp his gorge , that all did him detest . Ed. Spencer .
Fat paunches haue leane pates , and daintie bits Make rich the ribs , but bankrout quite the wits . W. Shakespeare .
Your appetites O gluttons to content , The sacred breast of Thetis blew , is rent : The aire must be dispeopled for your mawes , The Phoenix sole can scarce escape your clawes . Th. Hudson . Transl .
Of little nature liues , superfluous meate But dulls the spirit , and doth the stomacke freate . Idem .
Who fareth finest , doth but feed , and ouerfeedeth oft , Who sleepeth softest doth but sleep , and sometimes ouersoft . W. warner .
— Excesse doth worke accesse to sinne . Idem .
O plague , O poyson to the warlike state , Thou mak'st the noble hearts effeminate , While Rome was rul'd by Curioes and Fabrices , Who fed on rootes , and sought not for delices . And when the onely Cressons was the foode , Most delicate to Persia then they stoode In happie state , renown'd in peace and warre , And through the world their triumphs spread a farre . But when they after in th' Assirian hall , Had heard the lessons of Sardanopall , And when the other giuen to belly-cheare , By Galbaes , Neroes , Vitels gouern'd were , Who gloried more to fill a costly plate , Then kill a Pirrhus or a Mithridate . Then both of them were seene for to be sacked By nations poore , whom they before had wracked . Th. Hudson . Transl .
O glutton throates , O greedie guts profound , The chosen meates which in the world his bound , By th' Abderois inuented , may not stanch Nor satisfie your foule deuouring panch , But must in Moluke seeke the spices fine , Canary suger , and the Candy wine . Idem .
Fatnesse by nature ( not immoderate ) Kils not the wit , quels not the mindes estate . But fatnes by intemperance increast , When liuing man resembseth loathsome beast : And belly cheare , with greedie gluttonie Is held the fulnesse of felicitie . This maketh men addicted to the same , Dull in conceit , grosse minded , worthy blame . Of such do Basis , Galen , Plato write : That fattest belly hath the weakest sprite . D. Lodge .
— O short , ô dangerous madnesse , That in thy rage doest trustie Clytus smother , By his deare friend : Panthea by his mother . Phrenzie , that makes the vaunter insolent , The talkefull blab , cruell and violent , The fornicator waxe adulterous , Th' adulterer to become incestuous , With thy plagues leuen , swelling all our crimes Blinde , shamelesse , senslesse , quenching oftentimes The soule within it selfe : and oft defames The holiest men , with execrable flames . I. Siluester .
Like as the must beginning to reboyle , Makes his new vessell wood-bands to recoyle : Lifts vp his lees , and spues with fuming vent , From this tubbes ground his scumming excrement . So ruinist thou thy hoast , and foolishly From his hearts bottome driu'st all secrecy . Idem .
The voyce that goeth of your vnspotted fame , Is like a tender flowre , that with the blast Of euery little winde doth fade away . G. Gascoigne . Transl .
The purest treasure mortall times affoord , Is spotlesse reputation , that away , Men are but guilded trunkes , or painted clay . W. Shakespeare .
You cannot be too curious of you name , Fond show of ill ( though still the mind be chaste ) Decaies the credit oft that Ladies had , Sometimes the place presumes a wanton minde , Repaire sometimes of some doth hurt their honour . Sometimes the light and garish proud attire , Perswades a yeelding bent of pleasing youthes . G. Gascoigne .
— Euen with Goodnesse men grow discontent . Where allare ripe to fall , and vertue spent . S. Daniell .
Good things may scarce appeare , But passe away with speedie wing . M. Roydon .
I am that one , is , was , and aye shall be , Who create all of nought , as pleaseth me : I can destroy , I am the great and iust , The faire , the good , the holy one to trust : Whose strong right hand this world hath set in frame . I plague my foe , and graunt my seruants grace , All those that knowledge me , and all their race . Th. Hudson . Transl .
— How soeuer things in likelyhood discent In birth , life , death , our God is first , the middle and euent . And not what he can do he will , but what he will he can , And that he do or do it not , behoues vs not to scan . W. Warner
God first made Angels bodilesse pure mindes , Then other things , which mindlesse bodies bee : Last he made man the Horizon twixt both kindes , In whom we do the worlds abtidgement see . I. Dauies .
How fond is that man in his fantasie Who thinkes that Ioue the maker of vs all , The Sunne , the Moone the Starres celestiall , So that no leafe without his leaue can fall . Hath not in him omnipotence also , To guide and gouerne all things here below . G. Gascoigne . Transl .
— Heauen is his seate , Th' earth his footestoole , and the prison great . Of Plutoes raigne , where damned soules are shut , Is of his anger euermore the but. I. Syluester . Transl .
— Full hard it is to read aright The secret meaning of the eternall might : That rules mans waies , and rules the thoughts of liuing wight . Ed. Spencer .
The man of earth sounds not the seas profound Of Gods deepe iudgements , where there is no ground Let soberr●esse be still thy wisedomes end , Admiring that thou canst not comprehend . I. Syluester . Tran.
Vnder his feete ( subiected to his grace , Sit nature , fortune , motion , time , and place . Ed. Fairfax . Tran.
— Is there care in heauen ? is there loue In the heauenly spirits to these creatures base , That may compassion of their euils moue ? There is : els much more wretched were the case Of men , then beasts ; but ô the exceeding grace Of highest God , that loues his creature so : And all his workes with mercy doth imbrace . That blessed Angels he sends too and fro , To serue to wicked man , to serue his wicked foe . Ed. Spencer .
Our gracious God makes scant waight of displeasure , And spreads his mercy without waight or measure , I. Syluester .
The eternall power that guides the earthly frame , And serues him with the instrument of heauen : To call the earth , and summon vp our shame : By an edict from euerlasting giuen , Forbids mortalitie to search the same . Where sence is blind , and wit of wit bereauen : Terror must be our knowledge , feare our skill , To admire his worke , and tremble at his will . S. Daniell .
— Howsoeuer things in likely hood discent , In birth life , death , our god is first , the middle & euent And not what he can do he wil , but what he wil he can , And that he do or do it not , behoues vs not to scan . W. Warner .
God may all that he wills , his will is iust , God wills all good to them that in him trust . Th. Hudson . Transl .
Where the Almighties lightening brand doth light , It dimmes the daz'led eies , & daunts the sences quight Ed. Spencer .
— The Gods are euer iust , Our faults excuse their rigour must . S. Daniell .
The Lord law-maker iust and righteous , Doth frame his lawes not for himselfe but vs : He frees himselfe ; and flies with his powers wing , No where but where his holy will doth bring . All that he doth is good , because it doth proceed From him : that is the roote of good indeed From him ; that is the spring of righteousnesse : From him , whose goodnesse nothing can expresse . I. Syluester .
— Indeed the euil done Dies not when breath the body first doth leaue , But from the gransire to the nephewes sonne , And all his seed the curse doth often cleaue , Till vengeance vtterly the guilt bereaue : So straightly God doth iudge . Ed. Spencer .
There is no strength in armour , man or horse , Can vaile , If Ioue on wronged take remorse : For he on whom the deadly dart doth light , Can neuer scape by raunsome , friend nor flight . I. Harr. Mir. of Mag.
Eternall prouidence exceeding thought , Where none appeares , can make her selfe away . Ed. Spencer .
If Gods can their owne excellence excell , It 's in pardoning mortalls that rebell . M. Drayton .
God most doth punish , whom he most regardeth . S. I. Harr. Transl .
— Where Gods do vengeance craue , It is not strong deensiue walls that any thing can saue . W. Warner .
— God hath made a salue for euery sore , If men would learne the same for to apply . S. I. Harr. Transl .
Man purposeth , but all things are disposed By that great God that sits and rules aboue . Idem .
What man is he that boasts of fleshly might , And vaine assurance of mortalitie ? Which all so soone as it doth come to fight , Against spirituall foes , yeelds by and by , Or from the field most cowardly doth flye ? Ne let the man ascribe it to his skill , That though grace hath gained victory . If any sleight we haue it is to ill , But all the good is Gods , both power and eke the will . Ed. Spencer .
God neuer seekes by tryall of temptation , To sound mans heart and secret cogitation . For well he knowes man , and his eye doth see All thoughts of men , ere they conceaued bee . I. Syluester . Transl .
— God Conioynes no lesse our willes then bolds our harts , A sure presage that he is on our parts . Th. Hudson . Tran.
Our God is iust , whose stroke delaid long , Doth light at last with paine more sharpe and strong . I. H. M. of Magist .
The mistie cloudes that fall sometime And ouercast the skies : Are like to troubles of our time , Which do but dimme our eies . But as such deawes are dried vp quite When Phebus showes his face : So are sad fancies put to flight , When God doth guide by grace . G. Gascoigne .
Gods mercy gently waighes his iustice downe . Th. A●helly .
So blinds the sharpest counsell of the wise , This ouershadowing prouidence on hie : And dazeleth the clearest sighted eies , That they see not how nakedly they lie . There where they little thinke the storme doth rise , And ouercast their cleare securitie . When man hath stopt all waies saue only that , That ( least suspected ) ruine enters at . S. Daniell .
When Sathan tempts he leades vs vnto hell , But God doth guide whereas no death doth dwell . When Sathan tempts he seekes our faith to foyle , But God doth seale it neuer to recoyle . Sathan suggesteth ill , good moues to grace , The diuel seekes our baptisme to deface . But God doth make our burning zeale to shine , Amongst the candels of his Church diuine . I. Syl. Transl .
— Gods word ( Which made the world , sustaines and guides it still ) To diuers ends conducts both good and ill . He that preferres not God fore all his race , Amongst the sonnes of God deserues no place . And he that plowes the furrowes of Gods feeld , May not turne backe his fainting face nor yeeld . Idem .
God with eternall bread in time of need , His loued Iacob fortie yeares did feed . And gaue them water from the solid stone , Which of it selfe had neuer moysture none . Their caps , their coats , and shoes that they did weare , God kept all fresh and new full fortie yeare . Th. Hud . Tran.
The most iust God when once mans sinnes do grow Beyond the bounds of pardon and of grace : Because that men his iudgements best may know : Like to his loue , to rule on earth doth place Monsters most vile to tyrannize vs so , With wrong the right , with lust lawes to deface . For this said cause were Scylla sent and Marius , The Nerons both , and filthy minded Varius : For this Domitian held in Rome the raigne , And Antoninus of that name the last : And Messinine a base vnworthy swaine . To place mankind in princely throne was plaste : For this in Thebes did cruell Creon raigne , With other tyrants more in ages past . For this of late hath Italy bene wonne , By men of Lombardie , of Goth and Hunne . S. Daniell .
Who wold to God but workes no good , who seeketh fame by ease , Comes short of both , no lesse then maps to very lands and seas . W. Warner .
Good deeds in case that they be euil placed , Ill deeds are reckoned and soone disgraced . That is a good deed that preuents a bad . G. Chapman .
Well doing , farre exceedeth well to say . G. Turberuile .
Ill deeds may better the bad words be bore . Ed. Spencer .
Let euery one do all the good they can , or sildom commeth harme of doing well . Though iust reward it wanteth now and than . Yet shame and euill death it doth expell : But he that mischieueth an other man , Seldome doth carry it to heauen or hell . Men say it , and we see it come to passe , Good turnes in dust , and bad turnes writ in glasse . S. I. Harrington . Transl .
Wretched is he that thinkes by doing ill , His euill deeds long to conceale and hide : For though the voyce and tongues of men be still , By foules and beasts his sinne shall be discride , And God oft worketh by his secret will , That sinne it selfe , the sinner so doth guide , That of his owne accord without request , He makes his wicked doings manifest . Idem .
Our bodies buried , then our deeds ascend , Those deeds in life to worth can not be rated , In death with life , our fame euen then is dated . M. Drayton .
Great things still orewhelme themselues by waight . E. Guilpin .
Greatnesse like to the sunnes reflecting powers , The fier bred vapours naturally exhailes , And is the cause that oft the euening lowers , When foggy mists enlarge their duskie sailes . That his owne beames he in the cloudes impailes , And either must extinguish his owne light , Or by his vertue cause his proper right . M. Drayton .
To be huge is to be deadly sicke . I. Marston .
O blinded Greatnesse , thou with thy turmoile , Still selling happy life , mak'st life a toile . S. Daniel .
— He that striues to manage mightie things , Amidst his triumphes , beares a troubled minde : The greatest hope the greatest haruest brings , And poore men in content there glory finde . D. L●dge .
The man that furthereth other men to thriue , Of priuate greatnesse doth himselfe depriue . Th. Storer .
Griefe all in sables sorrowfully clad , Downe hanging his dull head with heauie cheare , Yet inly beine more , then seeming sad , A paire of pincers in his hand he had . With which , he pinched people to the heart , That from thenceforth , a wretched life they lad : In wilfull languor and consuming smart , Dying each day with impair'd wounds of dolors dart . Ed. Spencer .
Griefe onely makes his wretched state to see , ( Euen like a toppe , which nought but whipping moues ) This man , this talking beast , this walking tree , Griefe is the stone , which finest iudgements proues , For who grieues not , hath but a blockish braine , Since cause of Griefe we cause , from life remoues . S. Ph. Sydney .
— Griefes deadly sore , Vnkindnes breeds , vnkindnes fostereth hate . Idem .
Griefe to it selfe most dreadfull doth appeare , And neuer yet was sorrow voyd of feare : But yet in death , they both do hope the best . M. Drayton .
Griefes be long liu'd , and sorrowes seldome die . Idem .
Griefe hath two tongues , and neuer woman yet Could rule them both , without tenne womens wit . W. Shakespeare .
He oft findes medicine , who his griefes imparts , But double Griefe afflicts concealing harts , As raging flames , who striueth to suppresse . Ed. Spencer .
Found neuer help , who neuer could his griefe impart . Idem .
No greater ease of heart the griefes to tell , It daunteth all the dolours of the minde : Our carefull hearts thereby great comfort finde . I. H. Mir. of Mag.
An Ouen that is stopt , or Riuer staied , Burneth more hotely , swelleth with more rage : So of concealed Griefe it may be said . Free vent of words , loues fier doth asswage . But when the hearts atturney once is mute , The Client breakes , as desperate in his sute . W. Shakespeare .
No one thing doth auaile man more , To cure a griefe , and perfectly to heale it , Then if he do vnto some friends reueale it . S. I. Harr. Transl .
— Griefe it is inough to vexed wight , To feele his fault and not be farther vext . Fd. Spencer .
— Some griefe shewes much of loue , But much to griefe shewes still some want of wit . W. Shakespeare .
— Great griefe can not be told , And can more easily be thought then found . Ed. Sp.
Thou Paine , the onely ghuest of loath'd constraint , The child of curse , mans weaknesse foster child , Brother to woe , and father of complaint , Thou Paine , thou loathed paine from heauen exild . H. C.
The scourge of life , and deaths extreame disgrace , The smoake of hel , that monster 's called paine . Idem .
The thing that grieuous were to do or beare Them to renew , I wot breeds no delight . Ed. Spencer .
True griefe is fond , and testy as a childe , Who wayward once , his moode with nought agrees , Old woes not infant sorrowes beare them milde , Continuance tames the one , the other wilde , Like an vnpractiz'd swimmer plunging still With too much labour drownes for want of skill . W. Shakespeare .
Paine paies the income of each precious thing . W. Sh.
From hence with grace and goodnesse compast round God ruleth , blesseth , keepeth , all he wrought : Aboue the aire , the fire , the sea , and ground , Our sense , our wit , our reason , and our thought : Where persons three , with power and glory crownd , Are all one God , who made all things of nought . Vnder whose feete subiected to his grace , Sit nature , fortune , motion , time , and place . This is the place from whence like smoake and dust Of this fraile world , the wealth , the pompe , the power He tosseth , humbleth , turneth as he lust , And guides our life , our end , our death and hower : No eye ( how euer vertuous , pure and iust ) Can view the brightnes , of that glorious bower , On euery side the blessed spirirs bee Equall in ioyes , though differing in degree . E. Fairfax . Transl .
In this great temple , richly bewtified , Pau'd all with starres , disperst on Saphire flower , The Clarke is a pure Angell sanctified , The Iudge our hie Messias full of power , The Apostles , his assistance , euery hower The Iury Saints , the verdit Innocent , The Sentence , Come ye blessed to my tent . The speare that pierst his side , the writing Pen , Christes bloud the Inke , red Inke for Princes name , The vailes great breach , the miracles for men , The sight is shew of them that long dead came From their old graues , restor'd to liuing fame . And that last signet passing all the rest , Our soules discharg'd by Consumatum est . Here endlesse ioy is , there perpetuall cheare , Their exercise , sweete songs of many parts , Angells the quier , whose symphonie to heare , Is able to prouoke conceiuing harts , To misconceiue of all inticing arts . The dirty praise , the subiect is the Lord , That tunes their gladsome spirit to this accord . Th. Storer .
What so the Heauens in their secret doombe , Ordained haue , how can fraile fleshly wight Forecast , but it must needs to issue come . Ed. Spencer .
What in the heauenly parliament aboue , Is written by the finger of the first , Mortalls may feele , but neuer can remoue , For they are subiect to the heauens worst . I. Markham .
By mortall lawe the bond may be diuorced , The heauens decrees by no meanes can be forced . M. Drarton .
In vaine doth man contend against the Starres , For what he seekes to make , his wisedome marres . S. Daniell .
— Humane wishes neuer haue the power To hurt or hast the course of heauen one hower . Th. Hudson . Transl .
Experience proues , and daily it is seene , In vaine ( too vaine ) man striues against the heauens . G. Gascoigne .
It is most true , that eyes are bound to serue The inward part , and that th' heauenly part Ought to be King , from whose rules who doth swerue , Rebelles to nature , striue for their owne smart . True that true bewtie , vertue is indeed , Whereof this bewtie can be but a shade : Which elements , with mortall mixture breed , True that on earth we are but pilgrimes made , And should in soule vp to our countrey moue . S. Ph. Sydney .
Heauen is our home , we are but straungers here . M. Drayton .
The heauens , earth , and aire , and seas and all , Taught men to see , but not to shunne their fall . S. Daniell .
Things which presage both good and ill there bee , Which heauen foreshewes , yet will not let vs see . M. Drayton .
From them comes good , from them comes also ill , That which they made , who can them warne to spill . Ed. Spencer .
In vaine be armes , when heauen becomes thy foe . Idem .
Looke when the heauens are to iustice bent , All things be turn'd to our iust punishment . Idem .
All powers are subiect to the power of heauen , Nor wrongs passe vnreuenged , although excus'd . Idem .
Would heauen her bewtie should be hid from sight , Nere would she thus adorne her selfe with light , With sparkling Lamps ; nor would she paint her throne But she delighted to be gaz'd vpon . And when the glorious sunne goes downe , Would she put on her stary bestudded crowne , And in her masking sure , the spangled skie Come forth to bride it with her reuellry , Heauens gaue this gift to all things in creation , That they in this should immitate their fashion . Idem . M Drayton .
Heauens influence was neuer constant yet , In good or bad , as to continue it . Th. Kyd.
If thou be wise hold this as ominous , The heauens not like disposed euery houre , The starres be still predominant in vs : Fortune not alway forth her bagge doth powre , Nor euery cloude doth raine a golden showre . M. Drayton .
Free is the Heart , the temple of the minde , The sanctuarie sacred from aboue , Where nature keepes the keys that loose and binde , No mortall hand force , open can that doore , So close shut vp , and lock to all mankinde . S. Daniell .
The bodies wound , by medicines may be eased , But griefes of heart , by salues are not appeased . R. Greene .
By thought of heart , the speech of tongue is carried . S. I. Harr. Tran.
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Hate is the elder , loue the yonger brother , Yet is the yonger stronger in his state Then th' elder , and him mastereth still in all debate . Ed. Spencer .
Nor Hate nor loue , did euer iudge aright , Innated hate will hardly be displaste Out of high hearts , and chiefly where debate Happeneth amongst great persons of estate . I. H. Mirr . of M.
Hatred must be beguilde by some new course , Where states are strong , & Princes doubt their force . S. Daniell .
Spight bites the dead , that liuing neuer darde . Ed. Spencer .
Sildome doth malice want a meane to worke . M. Drayton .
Hate hits the hie , and windes force tallest towers ▪ Hate is peculiar to a Princes state . R. Greene .
Hatred accompanies prosperitie , For one man greeueth at an others good : And so much more we thinke o●r miserie , The more that fortune hath with others stood . So that we seld are seene as wisedome would , To bridle time with reason as we should . Th. Kyd.
Oft times the greatest haste the worser speeds . S. I. Harr. Transl .
As busie braines must beat on tickle toyes , As rash inuention breeds a raw deuice : So suddein falles do hinder hastie ioyes , And as swift baits do fleetest fish intice , So haste makes waste , and therefore now I say , No haste but good , where wisedome beares the sway . G. Gascoigne .
The swiftest bitch brings forth the blindest whelpes , The hottest feuers coldest crampes ensue . The nakedst need , hath ouer-latest helpes . Idem .
Hastie respect , repents when t is too late . I. Markeham .
Rashnesse sees all , but nothing can preuent . M. Drayton .
Fore-iudging , puts out one of wisedomes eies . — If by rashnesse valour haue got honour , We blame the rashnesse , but reward the valour . Ch. Fitz Ieffrey .
O rash false heat wrapt in repentance cold , Thy haste springs still blood , and nere growes old . W. Sh.
An hidious hole all vast withouten shape , Of endlesse depth , orewhelm'd with ragged stone : With ougly mouth and grifly iawes doth gape , And to our sight confounds it selfe in one . Here entred we , and yeeding forth anon An horrible loathly lake we might discerne As blacke as pitch , that cleped is Auerne , A deadly gulfe , where nought but rubbish growes , With foule blacke swelth in thickned lumps that lies : Which vp in th' aire such stinking vapour throwes . That ouer , there may fly no fowle but dies , Choakt with th' pestilent sauours that arise . M. Sackuile .
Thence come we to the horror and the hell , The large great kingdomes and the dreadfull raigne , Of Pluto in his throne where he did dwell , The wide waste places and the hugie plaine : The waylings , shrikes , and sundry sorts of paine . The sighes , the sobbes , the deep and deadly grone , Earth , aire , and all resounding plaine and mone . Idem .
Then turning backe , in silence soft they stole , And brought the heauy course with easie pace , To yawning gulfe of deep Auernus hole , And by that same an entrance darke and base , With smoake and Sulphur hiding all the place , Descends to hell , their creature neuer past , That back returned without heauenly grace . But dreadfull furies , which their chaines haue brast , And damned sprights , sent forth to make ill men agast . Ed. Spencer .
— Darksome den of Auernus Wher 's no path to returne , nor starting holes to be scaping , Desteny , death , and hell , and howling hidious hell-hound , Loathsom streames of Stix , that nine times compasse Auernu● . Ab. Fraunce .
They passe the bitter waues of Acheron , Where many soules sit wayling wofully : And come to fiery flood of Phlegeton , Whereas the damned ghoasts in torments fry , And with sharpe shrilling shrikes do bootlesse cry : Cursing high Ioue , the which them thither sent . Ed. Spencer .
About the desart parts of Greece there is a vally low , To which the roaring waters fall , that from the mountains flow● So rocks do ouershadow it , that scarse a man may vew The open aire , no sun shines there ; amidst this darkesom cre● Doth stand a citie , to the same belongs one onely gate , But one at once may come therto , the entrance is so strait . Cut out the rough maine stony rocke : this citie did belong To Pluto , and because that he was doing alwaies wrong , And kept a theeuish rable that in mischiefe did excell , His citizens were diuels said , and citie named hell . W. Warner .
In woods , in waues , in warres doth honour dwell , And will be found with petill and with paine : Ne can the man that moulds in idle cell Vnto her happie mansion attaine , Before her gate hie God did sweat ordaine , And wakefull watches euer to abide . Ed. Spencer .
Honour is purchas'de by the deeds we doo . Ch. Marlowe .
— Honour is not wonne Vntill some honourable deed be donne . Idem .
Danger bids seeke the softest way one way . But what saith honour ? honour saith not so . Neuer retire with shame ; this honour saith : The worst that can befall one , is but death . S. I. Harr.
In braue pursuit of honourable deed , There is I know not what great difference Betweene the vulgar and the common seed , Which vnto things of valerous pretence Seemes to be borne by natiue influence : As feates of armes , and loue to entertaine , But chiefly skill to ride , doth seeme a science , Proper to gentle blood ; some others faine . To manage steed . &c. Ed. Spencer .
— Euer great imployment for the great , Quickens the bloud , and honour doth beget . S. Daniell .
— Promotion is a puffe , These worldly honors are but shades of sweete : Who seeke too much before they get enough , Before they meet the meane , with death they meete . With death they meete the hauen of all desire , Where will must wa●ne , and pride cannot aspire . D. Lodge .
Honour a thing without vs , not our owne . S. D.
What doth auaile to haue a princely place , A name of honour , and an high degree : To come by kindred of a noble race , Except we princely worthy noble Bee , The fruite declares the goodnesse of the tree . Do brag no more of birth or linage than , Sith vertue , grace , and manners make the man . M. of M.
Search all thy bookes , and thou shalt finde therein , That honour is more hard to hold then win . G. Gascoigne .
Defeated honour neuer more is to be got againe . W. Warner .
— Vile is honour , and a little vaine , The which true worth and danger do not gaine . S. Daniell .
Vertue can beare what can on vertue fall . Who cheapneth honour must not stand on price . M. Drayton .
It most behoues the honourable race Of mightie peeres , true wisedome to sustaine : And with their noble countenance to grace The learned forheads without gifts or gaine . Or rather learnd themselues behoues to bee , That is the garland of nobilitie . Ed. Spencer .
— If that honour haue one minutes staine , An hundred yeares scant can it cleanse againe . S. I. H. Transl .
A shame to fetch our long discent from kings , And from great Ioue deriue our pedigree : The braue atchiements of an hundred things , Breathing vaine boasts the world to terrifie , If we our selues do blot with infamie . And staine the right and honour that is theirs , Men cannot leaue their vertues to their heires . M. Drayton .
Honour is grounded on the tickle yce . The purest lawne most apt for euery spot . Idem .
Honors shade , thrusts honors substance from his place . I. Marston .
Honour by due right is vertues hire . Th. Watson .
Honours without imployment of estate , Are like to sun-beames without heate or light : A noble man and not a magistrate Shines halfe eclipsed in his clearest bright . Ioyne heauenly gifts to earthly , light to light . Let these great excellencies make a truce , Fortune shall need no wheele-wright for her vse . Th. Storer .
Great is the choise that growes in youthfull minde , When honour falles at variance with affection : Nor could it yet be knowne or well definde , Which passion keeps the other in subiection . Both do allure , both doth the iudgements blinde , Both do corrupt the heart with strong infection . Yet loe sometimes these hurts procure our weale , Euen as one poyson doth another heale . S. I. Harr. Transl .
The fiery sparkling precious Chrysolite Spangled with gold , doth most transplendent shine : The pearle grac'd by the ring , the ring by it , The one , the others beautie doth refine : And both together beauties do combine . The iewell decks the golden haire that weares it , Honour decks learning , that with honour reares it . Ch. Fitz.
The inward touch that wounded honour beares , Rests closely ranckling , and can find no ease , Till death of one side cure this great disease . S. Daniell .
Faiths yonger sister that Speranza hight , Was clad in blew , that her beseemed well : Not all so chearfull seemed she of sight As was her sister : whether dread did dwell Or anguish in her heart , is hard to tell : Vpon her arme a siluer anchor lay , Whereon she leaned euer as befell . And euer vp to heauen as she did pray , Her eyes were bent , ne swarued other way . Ed. Spencer .
— Hope a handsome maide , Of chearfull looke and louely to behold : In silken Samite she was light araide , And her faire locks were wouen vp in gold : She alway smilde , and in her hand did hold An holy water sprinkle , dipt in dewe , With which she sprinkled fauours manifold . On whom she list , and did great liking shewe , Great liking vnto many , but true loue to fewe . Idem .
True hope is swift , and flies with swallowes wings , Kings it makes Gods , and meaner creatures Kings . W. Shakespeare .
Wan Hope poore soule , on broken anchor sits Wringing his armes , as robbed of his blisse . D. Lodge .
What better emperor can the body hold , Then sacred Hope ? the element from whence , Vertue is drawne fresh looking , neuer old : Matter most worthy of a strong defence . It animates yoong men , and makes them bold , Arming their hearts with holy influence , It like a seale in tender thoughts doth presse The perfect Image of all happinesse . L. Markham .
— Hope is double , and hath double power , As being mortall , and immortall fram'de : In th' one shee 's mouelesse , certaine euery houre : In th' other doubtfull , and incertaine nam'de . Th' immortall Hope raines in a holy bowre , In earthy closures is the mortall tam'de . And these two contraries , where ere they meete , Double delight , and make our thoughts more sweete . Idem .
He that hopes least , leaues not to hope at all , But hopes the most , hoping so little hope , Augmenting of our hope , makes hope growe small , And taking from it , giues it greater scope . The desperate man which in dispaire doth fall , Hopes by that end ill fortune to reuoke , And to this hope belongs a second part , Which we call confidence , which rules the hart . This second part of hope , this confidence , Doth Tully call a vertue that doth guide The Spirit to an honest residence , Without whose aide , no pleasure will abide In our world-wearied flesh . I. Markeham .
All men are guests where hope doth hold the feast . G. Gascoigne .
Such is the weakenesse of all mortall hope , So tickle is the state of earthly things , And brings vs bale and bitter sorrowings , That ere they come vnto their aimed scope , They fall too short of our fraile reckonings , In stead of comfort which we should embrace . This is the death of Keysars and of Kings , Let none therefore that is in meaner place , Too greatly grieue at any vnluckie case . Ed. Spencer .
Vnworthy they of grace , whom one deniall Excludes from fairest hope , without farther triall . Idem .
Hope like the Hyenna comming to be old , Alters his shape , is turned to dispaire . H. C.
Sorrow doth vtter what vs still doth grieue , But hope forbids vs sorrow to beleeue . Idem .
— Our hopes good deceiues vs , But that we would forgoe that seldome leaues vs . Idem .
None without great hopes will follow such , Whose power and honour doth not promise much . S. Daniell .
Who nothing hopes , let him dispaire in nought . Th. Achelly .
To liue in hope of that they meane to giue , Is to deceiue our selues , and not to liue . D. Lodge .
Hope lost , breeds griefe , griefe paine , and paine disease . Th. Watson .
Our haps do turne as chaunces on the die . Nor let him from his hope remoue , That vnder him , hath mou'd the starres aboue . M. Drayton .
Hope and haue , in time a man may gaine any woman . A. Fraunce .
Hope well , feare not , marke this , be wise , Droupe not , for to dispaire , is to die twise . Ignoto .
Bad haps are holpe with hap and good beliefe . S. I. Harrington . Transl .
O Hope , how cunning with our cares to gloze ? Griefes breathing poynt , the true man to desire , The rest in sighes , the very thoughts repose , As thou art milde , oh wert thou not a lier ? Faire speaking flatterie subtill soothing guile : Ah Hope , in thee our sorrowes sweetly smile . M. Drayton .
He was an aged syre , hoary gray , With lookes full lowly cast , and gate full slowe , Wont on a staffe his feeble steps to stay , Hight Humilta : they passe in stouping lowe , For straight and narrow was the way that he did showe . Ed. Spencer .
Humilitie to heauen , the step , the staire Is , for deuotion , sacrifice , and praier . M. Drayton .
The bending knee in safetie still doth goe , When others stumble , as too stiffe to bowe . Idem .
As on the vnsauourie stocke , the Lillie is borne , And as the Rose growes on the pricking thorne , So modest life with sobs of grieuous smart , And cries deuout , comes from an humble hart . Th. Hudson . Transl ,
More honour in Humilitie , then safetie in walles , Proud liuers proue not monuments , saue onely in their falles . W. Warner .
Ah God shield man that I should clime , and learne to looke aloft : This reed is ripe , that oftentime : great climers fall vnsoft . In humble dale is footing fast , the trode is not so fickle : And though one fall through heedlesse haste , yet is his misse not mickle . Ed. Spencer .
The lowly heart doth win the loue of all , But pride at last , is sure of shamefull fall . G. Tur.
— Hypocrisie hath bred of Godlike diuels store , That speake to serue , that serue to shift , that shift to spare by guile , And smoothe and soothe , and yet deceiue , with scriptum est meane while . W. Warner .
But let them heaue their hands to heauen , they show they 'r here in hell , That seeme deuout to cloake deceit , and say , but do not well . Idem .
Who cloakes their mindes in hoods of holinesse Are double villaines , and the Hypocrite Is most odious in Gods glorious sight , That takes his name to couer wickednesse . I. Syl.
Many vse temples to set godly faces On impious hearts ; those sinnes vse most excesse , That seeke their shrowdes in fained holinesse . G. Chapman .
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Shee seem'd of womans shape , but in her head A thousand eyes she had that watch did keepe : As many eares with which she harkened , Her eyes want lids , and therefore neuer sleepe . In stead of haire , her crowne snakes ouerspred . Thus marched she forth of the darknes deepe , Her tayle one serpent bigger then the rest , Which she with knots fastened about her brest . S. I. Harrington . Transl .
A monster , others harme , selfe miserie Bewties plague , vertues scourge , succour of lies . Who since he hath by natures speciall grace , So piercing pawes as spoile , when they embrace , So nimble feete , as stirre though still on thornes . So many men seeking their owne woe . So ample eares that neuer good newes kowes Is it not ill that such a beast want hotnes ? S. Ph. Sydney .
O hatefull hellish snake what furie first Broughr thee from balefull house of Proserpine ? Where in her bosome she the long had nurst , And fostered vp with bitter milke of time , Foule iealousie that turnest loue diuine . To day lesse dread , and mak'st the liuing hart With hatefull thoughts to languish and to pine , And feed it selfe with selfe consuming smart , Of all the passions in the minde , thou viler art . Ed. Spencer .
O Iealousie , daughter of Enuie and loue , Most wayward issue of a gentle sire Fostred with feares thy fathers ioies to proue , Mirth marring monster , borne in subtiltie , Hatefull vnto thy selfe , flying thy owne desire , Feeding vpon suspect that doth renew thee , Happie were Louers , if they neuer knew thee . Thou hast a thousand gates thou entrest by , Condemning trembling passions to our hart . Hundred eyed Argus , euer making spy , Pale hagge , infernall furie , pleasures smart : Enuious obseruer , prying in euery part , Suspitions fearefull , gazing still about the hart . O would to God that loue could be without thee . S. Daniell .
A new disease ? I know not , new , or old ; But it may well be term'd , poore mortall plaine . For like the pestilence , it doth infect The houses of the braine : first it begins Solely to worke vpon the phantasie , Filling her seat with such pestiferous aire , As soone corrupts the iudgement , and from thence Sends like contagion to the memorie , Still each of other taking like infection , Which as a searching vapour spreads it selfe , Confusedly through euery sensiue part , Till not a thought or motion in the minde , Be farre from the blacke poyson of suspect . B. Iohnson .
Where loue doth raigne , disturbing iealousie , Doth call himselfe affections Centinell , And in a peacefull houre , dooth crye kill , kill , Distempering gentle loue with his desire , As ayre and water dooth abate the fire : This sound informer , this bare-breeding spie , This cancker that eates vp this tender spring , This carry-tale , discentio's iealousie . W. Shakespeare .
Fowle weatherd iealousie to a forward spring , Makes weeds growe ranke , but spoiles a better thing . Sowes tares gainst haruest in the fields of loue , And dogged humor dogdayes like doth prooue , Scorching loues glorious world with glowing tong , A serpent by which loue to death is stonge A foe to waste his pleasant summer bowers , Ruine his mansions , and deface his bowers . E. Guilpin .
Pale Iealousie childe of insatiat loue , Of heartsicke thoughts , which melancholy bred , A hell tormenting feare , no faith can moue : By discontent with deadly poyson fed , With heedlesse youth and error vainly led . A mortall plague , a vertue drowing floud , A hellish fier , not quenched but with bloud . M. Drayton .
What state of life more pleasant can we finde , Then these that true and heartie loue do beare ? Whom that sweet yoake doth fast together binde , That man in Paradice first learnd to weare . Were not some so tormented in their minde With that same vile suspect that filthy feare , That torture great , that foolish phrenezie , That raging madnes , called Iealousie , For euery other sower that gets a place To seate it selfe amidst this pleasant sweete , Helpes in the end to giue a greater grace , And make loues ioies more gracious then they were , He that abstaines from sustenance a space , Shall finde both bread and water relish sweete . S. I. Harr. Transl .
— Iealousie is Cupids foode , For the swift steed runnes not so fast alone , As when some other striue him to out goe . Ed. Fairfax . Transl .
Loue wakes the iealous eye , least then it moues The iealous eye , the more it lookes it loues . S. Ph. Sydney .
— No iealousie can that preuent , Whereas two parties once be full content . Idem .
Impatience changeth smoake to flame , but iealousie to hell . W. Warner .
On loue , saies some , waits iealouzie , but iealousie wants loue When curiously the ouerplus doth idle quarels moue . Idem .
— Where iealousie is bred , Hornes in the mind , are worse then hornes in the hed . B. Iohnson .
That canker-worme , that monster iealousie , Which eates the heart , and feeds vpon the gall , Turning all loues delight to miserie , Through feare of loosing his felicitie . Ed. Spencer .
Shun iealousie that hart-breake loue , if cat will go to kinde , Be sure that Io hath a meanes , that Argus shall be blinde . W. Warner .
True loue doth looke with pale suspicious eie , Take away loue , if you take iealousie . M. Drayton .
No beast is fierer then a iealous woman . S. Daniell .
Prides coach was drawne of sixe vnequall beasts , On which her sixe sage counsellours did ride : Taught to obey her bestiall beheasts , With like conditions to their kindes applide . Of which the first that all the rest did guide , Was sluggish Idlenesse , the nurse of sinne , Vpon a slothfull Asse he chose to ride , Arraid in habit black and amis thin , Like to an holy Monke , the seruice to begin . Ed. Spencer .
— Idlenesse pure innocence subuerts , Defiles our bodie , and our soule peruerts : Yea soberest men it makes delicious , To vertue dull , to vice ingenious . I. Syl. Transl .
— Ill humours by excessiue ease are bred , And sloath corrupts and choakes the vitall sprights , It kills the memorie , and hurts the sights . D. Lodge .
— Drowsie sloth that counterfeiteth lame With Snaile like motion measu●ing the ground : Hauing her armes in willing fetters bound . Foule , sluggish drone , barren ( but sinne to breed ) Diseased , begger , staru'd with sinfull need . I. Siluester .
If thou flie Idlenesse , Cupid hath no might , His bowe lyeth broken , his torch hath no light .
At last with creeping crooked pace forth came An old old man , with beard as white as snow : That on a staffe his feeble limbs did frame , And guide his weary gate both too and fro . For his eye sight him failed long ago , And on his arme a bunch of keyes he bore , The which vnvsed , rust did ouergrow . But very vncouth sight was to behold How he did fashion his vntoward pace : For a● he forward mou'd his footing old , So backward still was turnd his wrinckled face● Vnlike to men who euer as they trace Both feete and face one way are wont to lead , His name Ignaro , did his nature right aread . Ed. Spencer .
Image of hellish horror , Ignorance , Borne in the bosome of the blacke abisse , And fed with furies milke for sustenance , Of his weake infancie begot amisse : By gnawing sloth , vpon his mother night , So he his sonnes , both Syre and brother hight . Idem .
— All is turned into wildernesse , Whilest Ignorance the Muses doth oppresse . Idem .
— Hell and darknesse and the grisly graue , Is Ignorance , the enemy of grace : That minds of men borne heauenly , doth deface . Idem .
T is nought but showes that Ignorance esteemes The thing possest , is not the thing it seemes . S. Daniell .
— Great ill vpon desert doth chance , When it doth passe by beastly Ignorance . M. Dray .
Impatience ehangeth smoake to flame , but iealousie to hell . W. Warner .
Make not thy griefe too great by thy suppose , Let not Impatience aggrauate thy woes . D. Lodge .
— To attempt hie daungers euident , Without constraint or need is Infamie . And honour turnes to rashnesse in th' euent : And who so dares , not caring how he dares , Sells vertues name , to purchase foolish cares . I. Markham .
— Reproach A vile disease that neuer time can cure . M. Drayton .
Sinne in a chaine leades on her sister shame , And both in giues fast fettered to defame . Idem .
Thy name once foild , incurable the blot , Thy name defaste whch toucht with any staine , And once supplanted neuer growes againe . Gainst open shame no text can well be cited , The blow once giuen cannot be euited . M. Drayton .
Vnthankfulnesse is that great sin , Which made the diuel and his angels fall : Lost him and them the ioyes that they were in , And now in hell detaines them bound and thrall . S. I. Harr. Transl .
Thou hatefull monster base Ingratitude , Soules mortall poyson , deadly killing wound : Deceitfull serpent seeking to delude , Blacke loathsome ditch , where all desert is drown'd : Vile pestilence , which all things doest confound . At first created to no other end , But to greeue those , whom nothing could offend . M. Drayton .
Ingratefull who is call'd , the worst of ill is spoken . S. Phil. Sidney .
T is true that slaue whom Pompey did promote , Was he , that first assaid to cut his throte . D. Lodge .
A plaint of guiltlesse hurt doth pierce the skie . S. Phil. Sidney .
Sildome vntoucht doth Innocencie escape , When errour commeth in good counsels shape . A lawfull title , counterchecks proud might , The weakest things , become strong props to right . M. Drayton .
Pure Innocence sildome suspecteth ought . Idem .
A guiltlesse mind doth easily deeme the best . M. of M.
The lyon licks the sores of filly wounded sheep , The dead mans course doth cause the crocodile to weep : The waues that wast the rocks refresh the rotten weeds , Such ruth the wrack of innocence in cruel creatures breeds . M. of M.
Well gaue that Iudge his doome vpon the death Of Titus Laelius that in bed was slaine : When euery wight the cruell murder laith To his two sonnes that in his chamber laie , That Iudge that by the proofe perceiueth plaine That they were found fast sleeping in their bed , Hath deem'd them guiltlesse of this bloudy shed . He thought it could not be that they which brake The lawes of God and man in such outrage , Could so forth with themselues to rest betake : He rather thought the horror and the rage Of such an hainous gilt , could neuer swage . Nor neuer suffer them to sleepe or rest , Or dreadlesse breathe one breath out of their brest . M. Sackuile .
Vnto the world such is Inconstancie , As sappe to tree , as apple to the eie . D. Lodge .
All like as sicker as the end of woe is Ioye , And glorious light to obscure night doth tend , So extreame Ioy in extreame woe doth end . M. of M.
For why extreames are haps rackt out of course , By violent might far swinged forth perforce : Which as they are piercingst they violentest moue : For that they are nere to cause that doth them shoue . So soonest fall from that their highest extreame , To th' other contrary that doth want of meane , So laugh'd he erst that laughed out his breath . Idem .
The pleasing meanes bode not the luckiest ends , Nor aye , found treasure to like pleasure tends . Mirth meanes not mirth alwaies thrice happie lyne Of witte to shun th' excesse that all desire . Idem .
Ioy lighteneth woe , woe Ioy doth moderate . M. Drayton .
Ioy is forgetfull , weale thinkes not of woe . Idem .
— Ioy ascends , but sorrow sinks below . Ch. Fitz.
Fruits follow flowers , and sorrow greatest Ioyes . As sudden griefe , so sudden Ioy doth kill . Th. Achelly .
The Romane widow died when she beheld Her sonne who erst she counted slaine in field . G. Gascoigne .
— Excessiue Ioy Leapeth and likes finding the Appian way Too strait for her : whose sences all possesse All wished pleasure , in all plenteousnesse . I. Syluester .
Iniustice neuer yet tooke lasting roote . Nor held that long , Impietie did winne . S. Daniell .
So foule a thing , ô thou Iniustice art , That torment'st both the dooer and distrest : For when a man hath done a wicked part , O how he striues to excuse , to make the best : To shift the fault t'vnburden his chargde hart . And glad to find the least surmise of rest . And if he could make his , seeme others sin , O what repose , what ease he findes therein . Idem .
Iniustice neuer scapes vnpunisht still , Though men reuenge not , yet the heauens will . Idem .
Now when the world with sin gan to abound , Astraea loathing longer here to space Mongst wicked men in whom no truth she found , Returnd to heauen whence she deriu'd her race , Where she hath now an euerlasting place . Mongst those twelue signes which rightly we do see , The heauens bright shining bawdrick to inchace : And is the virgin sixt in her degree , And next her self , her righteous ballance hanging bee . Ed. Spencer .
Then iustice comes the last of all the gods , That left her residence here on the earth : For lacke of whom the world grew all at ods , And man to man curses each others birth . For then vsurping wrong succeeded straight , That no man knew how long to hold his right : Then calls the world for Iustice back againe , Complaining how they now were ouerrunne , And they would suffer any scourging paine , In pennance for those sinnes themselues had donne . For that their wickednesse did force that power To leaue the seate whereas she sate before , Whereas the Gods did in their courts decree , Iustice should be transformed to the starres : There foolish men might euery minute see Her that should helpe these miseries of theirs , But stand like Tantalus within those brinkes , Where he sees water , but yet neuer drinkes . Ch. Middleton .
— Faire Astraea of the Titans line , Whom equitie and iustice made diuine . M. Drayton .
— Well did the Anticke world inuent , That Iustice was a God of soueraigne grace , And Altars vnto him and temples lent , And heauenly honours in the highest place . Calling him , great Osyris of the race , Of th' old Aegyptian Kings , that whilome were , With fained colours shading a true case : For that Osyris whil'st he liued here , The iustest man aliue and truest did aspire . His wife was Isis , whom they likewise made A goddesse of great power and soueraigntie : And in her person cunningly did shade , That part of Iustice which is equitie . Ed. Spencer .
Vntill the world from his perfection fell , Into all filth and foule iniquitie : Astraea here mongst earthly men did dwell , And in the rules of iustice then and stumbled well . Idem .
Where Iustice growes , there growes eke quiet grace , The which doth quench the brand of hellish smart , And that accurst hand-writing doth deface . Idem .
— Sparing Iustice , feeds iniquitie . W. Shakespeare .
The first was Bacchus , that with furious might , All th' east before vntam'de did ouerrunne , And wrong repressed and establisht right , Which lawlesse men had formerly foredone , Their iustice forc't her princely rule begunne . Next Hercules , his like ensample shewed , Who all the west with equall conquest wonne . And monstrous Tirants with his club subdued , The club of Iustice dread , with kingly power endued . Ed. Spencer .
Who so vpon himselfe will take the skill , And Iustice vnto people to deuide , Had need of mightie hands for to fulfill That which he doth , with righteous doome decide , And for to maister wrong and puissant pride : For vaine it is to deeme of things aright , And make wrong doers Iustice to deride Vnlesse it be perform'd with dreadlesse might , For power is the right-hand of iustice truly hight . Idem .
Offences vrg'd in publike , are made worse , The shew of Iustice aggrauates despight : The multitude that looke not to the cause , Rest satsfied , so it be done by lawes . S. Daniel .
It often falles in course of common life , That right long time is ouerborne of wrong , Through auarice or power , or guile , or strife , That weakens her , and makes her partie strong , But Iustice though her doome she do prolong . Yet at the last she will her owne cause right . Fd. Spencer .
Good causes need not curious termes , & equall Iudges heare The equitie , not eloquence . W. Warner .
Who passeth iudgement for his priuate gaine , He well may iudge he is adiudg'd to paine . R. Greene .
Kings are the Gods vicegerents on the earth , The Gods haue power , Kings from that power haue might : Kings should excell in vertue and in birth : Gods punish wrongs , & kings should maintaine right , They be the sunnes from which we borrow light , And they as Kings , should still in iustice striue With Gods , from whom their beings they deriue . M. Drayton .
The baser is he comming from a King , To shame his hopes with deeds degenerate : The mightier man , the mightier is the thing , That makes him honoured , or begets him hate : For greater scandall waits on greater state . The Moone being clouded , presently is mist , But litle starres may hide them where they list . The Crowe may bathe his cole-blacke wing in mire , And vnperceiu'd , flie with the filth away , But if she like the snow white swan desire , The staine vpon his siluer downe will stay , Poore groomes are sightles nights , kings glorious day . Gnats are vnnoted wheresoeuer they flie , But Eagles are gaz'd vpon with euery eie . W. Shakespeare .
— Since the heauens strong arms teach Kings , to stand , Angells are plac't about the glorious throne , To gard it from the stroakes of traitrous hand . Th. Dekkar .
When thou becom'st an earthly God , mens faults to ouersee , Forget not that eternall God , that ouerlooketh thee . W. Warner .
The least part of a King is allowing him , and none Lesse priuate then a Prince , the weale or woe of euery one . Idem .
He and his people make but one , a body , weake or strong , As doth the head , the limbs , or limbs the head assist , or wrong . Idem .
Kings , Lords of times and of occasions , May take th' aduantage when and how they list . S. Daniell .
Kings will be alone , Competitors must downe , Neare death he stands , that stands to weare a crowne . Idem .
— It is a daungerous thing In rule of loue , but once to crosse a King . M. Drayton .
Endles cares concur with crowns , a bitter sweeting is raign . W. Warner .
Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balme from an anoynted King : The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputie elected by the Lord . W. Shakespeare .
He knowes not what it is to be a King , That thinkes a Scepter is a pleasant thing . R. Greene .
A glittering Crowne doth make the haire soone gray , Within whose circle , a king is but arrested , In all his feasts hee 's but with sorrow feasted , And when his feete disdaine to touch the mold , His head 's a prisoner in a Iaile of Gold . M. Drayton .
Vnhappy Kings that neuer can be taught , To know themselues , or to discerne their fault . S. Daniell .
— No outragious thing From vassall actors can be wipte away , The Kings misdeeds can not be hid in clay . W. Shakespeare .
No Scepter serues dishonour to excuse , Nor kingly vaile can couer villainie . Fame is not subiect to authoritie . M. Drayton .
— Thinke not but Kings are men , and as the rest miscarry , Saue that their fame and infamy continually doth tarry . W. Warner .
Kings want no meanes to accomplish what they will , M. Drayton .
Mislikes are silly lets where Kings resolue them , Where counsell chasing will hath emperie , Deeds are too prest for reason to dissolue them , In mightie mindes a grounded vanitie . Like springs that ceassesse neuer stoppeth , Vntill her neighbour Oake she ouertoppeth . D. Lodge .
— Great men too well grac'd , much rigor vse , Presuming fauorites mischiefe euer bring : So that concluding , I may boldly speake , Minions too great , argue a king too weake . S. Daniell .
New kings do feare when old kings farther straine , Establisht state to all things will consent . Idem .
— Good from kings must not be drawne by force . Idem .
A Scepter like a pillar of great height , Whereon a mightie building doth depend : Which when the same is ouer-prest with waight , And past his compasse forc't thereby to bend . His massie roofe downe to the ground doth send . Crushing the lesser part , and murthering all Which stand within the compasse of his fall . M. Drayton .
Too true that tyrant Dyonisyus Did picture out the image of a king : When Damocles was placed in his throne , And ore his head a threatning sword did hang , Fastened vp only by a horses haire . R. Greene .
A rule there is , not failing but most sure , Kingdome no kin doth know , ●e can endure . M. of M.
Thebes , Babell , Rome , these proud heauen daring wonders Loe vnder ground in dust and ashes lie , For earthly kingdomes , euen as men do die . I. Syluester . Transl .
If thou wilt mightie be , flie from the rage Or cruell will , and see thou keep thee free From the fowle yoake of sensuall bondage : For though thy Empire stretcheth to Indian sea , And for thy feare trembleth the farthest Thisce , If thy desire haue ouer thee the power , Subiect then art thou , and no gouernour . E. of Surrey .
Through knowledge we behold the worlds creation , How in his cradle first he fostered was : And iudge of natures cunning operation , How things she formed of a formelesse masse . By knowledge we do learne our selues to knowe , And what to man , and what to God we owe : From hence we mount aloft vnto the skie , And looke into the christall firmament : There we behold the heauens great Hierarchie . The starres pure light , the spheares swift mouement , The spirits and intelligences faire : And Angels waiting on th' almighties chaire . And there with humble mind and hie in sight , Th' eternall makers maiestie we viewe , His loue , his faith , his glory and his might , And mercy more then mortall men can viewe . Ed. Spencer .
Soule of the world , knowledge withouten thee , What hath the earth that 's truly glorious . Why should our pride make such a stirre to bee , To be forgot ? What good is like to this ? To do worthy the writing , and to write , Worthy the reading , and the worlds delight . S. Daniell .
What difference twixt man and beast is left , When th' heauenly light of knowledge is put out , And the ornaments of wisedome are bereft ? Then wandreth he in errour and in doubt , Vnweeting of the daunger he is in , Through fleshlesse frailtie , and deceit of sin . Ed. Spencer .
— Our new knowledge hath for tedious traine , A drouping life , an ouerracked braine : A face forlorne , a sad and sullen fashion , A restlesse toyle , and cares selfepining passion . Knowledge was then euen the soules soule for light , The spirits calme port , and lanthorne shining bright . To thait-stept feet cleare knowledge : not confusde , Not sower but sweete , not gotten , but infusde . I. Syl. Transl .
— We see to know , men still are glad , And yet we see knowledge oft makes men mad . S. I. H. Transl .
Who so knowes most , the more he knowes to doubt , The best discourse , is commonly most stout . S. Daniell .
— Common is the proofe That enuying is not cunning if it standeth not aloofe . W. Warner .
By knowledge thine , thou hast no name , Least others know , thou know'st the same . Skill comes too slow , and life so fast doth flie . We learne so little , and forget so much . I. Dauies .
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Where ease abounds , it 's death to do amisse , But who his limbs with labours , and his minde Behaues with cares , cannot so easie misse : Abroad in armes , at home in studious kinde , Who seekes with painfull toyle , shall honor soonest finde . Ed. Spencer .
Learne with the Ant in sommer to prouide , Driue with the Bee the drone from out the hiue , Build like the Swallow in the sommer tide . D. Lodge .
Much labor is too litle , that should houshold charge defraye . W. Warner .
— Industry well cherisht to his face , In sun-shine walkes in spight of sower disgrace . M. Roydon .
The noblest borne dame should industrious bee , That which doth good , disgraceth no degree . G. Chapman .
Let Mandeuile example be to men not to be idle In amorous passions : labour is to loue at least a bridle ▪ W. Warner .
Adams labour in Eden . — Edens earth was then so fertill and so fat , That he made only sweet assaies in that . Of skilfull industry and naked wrought , More for delight , then for the gaine he sought . In briefe , it was a pleasant exercise , A labour likte , a paine much like the guise Of cunning dauncers , who although they skip Run , caper , vault , trauerse and turne and trip , From morne til euen , at night againe full merry Renew their daunce , of dauncing neuer weary : Or els of hunters , that with happie lucke , Rowsing betimes some often breathed bucke Or goodly stagge , their yelping hounds vncouple , Wind loud their horns , their hoopes & hallows double Spurre on and spare not , following their desire : Themselues vnweary , though their hacknies tire . But for in th' end of all their iollitie Their 's found much stifnesse , sweat and vanitie ; I rather match it to the pleasing paine Of Angels pure , who euer sloth disdaine . Or to the Suns calme course , who plainlesse aye About the welkin poasteth night and day . I. Syl. Transl .
O blessed letters that combine in one All ages past , and make one liue withall : By you we do conferre , with who are gone , And the dead liuing vnto counsaile call . By you the vnborne shall haue communion Of what we fe●le , and what doth best befall . S. Daniell .
By the cleare beames of learnings light , We tread the obscure pathes of Sages right . Idem .
— But that learning in despight of fate Will mount aloft and enter heauen gate : And to the seat of Ioue it selfe aduance , Hermes had slept in hell with ignorance . Yet as a punishment they added this , That he and pouertie should alwaies kis . And to this day is euery scholler poore , Grosse gold from them runnes headlong to the boore . Ch. Marlowe .
Of little worth is learnings worthy skill , Where Pilots wisedome is not perfect still . Corinnaes praise , and Sapphoes are discerned Aboue the rest , because they both were learned . S. I. Harr. Transl .
K. Cecrops and his royall seed did honor Athence so , As that from thence are said the springs of sciences to flow . W. Warner .
Next vnto him rode lustfull Lechery Vpon a bearded Goat , whose rugged haire And whally eyes ( the signe of iealousie ) Was like the persons selfe whom he did beare , Who rough and blacke and filthy did appeare : Vnseemly man to please faire Ladies eie , Yet he of Ladies oft was loued deare , When fairer faces were bid standen by , O who doth know the bent of womens fantasie ? Ed. Spencer .
Incontinence , dull sleepe , and idle bed , All vertue from the world haue banished . The tickling flames which our fond soules surprize , ( That dead a while in Epilepsie lies ) Doth starke our sinewes all by little and little , Drawing our reason in fowle pleasure brittle . I. Syl. Transl .
Loue comforteth like sun-shine after raine , But lusts effect , is tempest after sunne : Loues gentle spring doth alwaies fresh remaine , Lusts winter comes ere sommer halfe be donne . Loue surfets not , but like a glutton dies , Loue is all truth , lust full of forced lies . W. Shakespeare .
Where whoredome raignes , there murder follows fast , As falling leaues before the winters blast . R. Greene .
Lust is a fire , and for an houre or twaine ▪ Giueth a scorching blaze , and then he dies . H. C.
O deeper sinne then bottomlesse conceit Can comprehend in still imagination : Drunken desire must vomit his receit , Ere he can see his owne abhomination : While lust is in his pride , no exclamation Can cure his heate , or raigne his rash desire , Till like a Iade , selfe-will himselfe do tire . W. Shakespeare .
Lust neuer taketh ioy in what is due , But leaues knowne delights to seeke out new . S. Daniell .
In chastitie is euer prostitute , Whose trees we loath when we haue pluckt the fruite . G. Chapman .
Eschue vile Venus toyes , she cuts off age , And learne this lesson of ( and teach thy friend ) By pocks , death sudden , begging , harlots end . M. of M.
The lechars toong is neuer voyd of guile , Nor Crocodile wants teares to win his praie : The subtillest temptor hath the sweetest stile , With rarest musicke , Syrens soon'st betraie . M. Drayton .
Lust puts the most vnlawfull things in vre , Nor yet in limits euer could be bounded , Till he himselfe himselfe hath quite confounded . Idem .
Abandon lust , if not for sin , yet to auoyd the shame , So hogs of Ithacus his men the Latian witch did frame . W. Warner .
That great Phisition that had liu'd in helth & age admirde , Did answer askt the cause , not he had done , as flesh desirde . Idem .
The Spartans war for rapted queene to Ilions ouerthrow , The Monarch of Assiria chang'd , and Latine kings also , For Tarquins lust . Idem .
Each house for lust a harbor and an Inne , Each citie is a sanctuary for sinne . And all do pitie beautie in distresse , If beautie chaste , then onely pittilesse . M. Drayton .
Deriue thy lawes from wisest heads , to be vpholden still , Not adding or abstracting , as conceited tire brains will . Encourage good men by thy loue , reforme the bad by lawe , Reserue an eare for either plea , and borrow leaue of awe . W. Warner .
In vaine be counsells statutes , humaine lawes , When chiefe of Councells pleades the iustest cause . M. Drayton .
So constantly the Iudges conster lawes , That all agree still with the stronger cause . M. of M.
Pansamias and Lisander , by their swords And warlike vertues made Lacaena rich , Fame followed them where they the tents did pitch , But graue Licurgus by his lawes and words , Did merit more then these renowned Lords . D. Lodge .
Licurgus for good lawes , lost his owne libertie , And thought it better to prefer common commoditie . G. Gascoigne .
That Lawyer thogh he more by art than right doth ouerthrow Consents to sin , deceiues the Iudge , wrong right is iustice foe . W. Warner .
Sweete libertie to vs giues leaue to sing , What world it was where loue the rule did beare , How foolish chaunce by lots rul'd euery thing , How errour was maine saile , each waue a teare . The Mr. loue himselfe ; deepe sighes weare winde , Cares rowd with vowes , the ship vnmerry minde . False hope as firme oft turn'd the boate about , In constant faith stood vp for middle mast , Dispaire the cable , twisted all with doubt , Held griping griefe the piked Anchor fast , Bewtie was all the rockes . W. Watson .
O liberty how much is that man blest , Whose happie fortunes do his fa●es areede , That for deserts reioyces to be freede ? Th. Storer .
Sweete libertie the lifes best liuing flame . I. Markham .
Our lands may come againe , but libertie once lost , Can neuer find such recompence as counteruails the cost . G. Gascoigne .
Learne freedome and felicitie , haukes flying where they list , Be kindlier & more sound then haukes best tended to the ●ist . w . warner .
He liues to die a noble death , that life forefreed once spends . Idem .
— The name of Libertie , The watchword of rebellion euer vsde , The idle Eccho of vncertaintie That euermore the simple hath abusde . S. Daniell .
— All mans life me seemes a Tragedie , Full of sad sighes and sore Catastrophes , First comming to the world with weeping eie , Where all his dayes like dolorous Trophies , Are heapt with spoyles of fortune and of feare . And he at last laid forth on balefull beare . Ed. Spencer .
Our life is but a step in dustie way . S. Phil. Sidney .
This mortall life as death is tride , And death giues life . M. Roydon .
What in this life we haue or can desire , Hath time of grow'th and moment of retire . D. Lodge .
Our bodies , euery foot-step that they make , March toward death , vntill at last they die : Whether we worke or play , or sleep or wake , Our life doth passe , and with times wings doth flie . I. Dauies .
The life of man a warfare right , in body and in soule , Resignes his robbed carkasse to be rolled in the mould . W. Warner .
— The terme of life is limited . Ne may a man prolong or shorten it , The souldier may not moue from watchfull stid , Nor leaue his stand vntill his captaine bid . Ed. Spencer .
The longer life I wot the greater sin , The greater sin , the greater punishment . Idem .
Thus passeth with the ouerplus of life , The pleasant spring and flower of mortall life : The Aprils pompe once subiect to decay , Returnes not in the bud that earst was rife . Whilest mornings weepe , the liuely flower doth bost , Then pluck the stalke , and let not it be lost . D. Lodge .
The sunne doth set and brings againe the day , But when our life is gone , we sleepe for aye . Th. Ach.
Sunne sets and riseth , goes downe and quickly reuiueth , But mans light once out , eternall darknesse abideth . Ab. Fraunce .
All mortall men must from this life be gone , Of life and death , there are more soules then one . The greatest and most glorious thing on ground , May often need the helpe of weakest hand , So feeble is mans state , and life vnsound , That in assurance it may neuer stand , Till it disordered be from earthly band . Ed. Spencer .
— The restlesse life which men here lead , May be resembled to the tender plant : It springs , it sprouts , as babes in cradle breed , Flourish in May , like youthes that wisedome want , In Autumne ripe , and rots least store waxe scant . In winter shrinkes and shrowdes from euery blast , Like crooked age , when lustie youth is past . G. Gascoigne .
The wicked liuers oftentimes haue wicked ends . S. I. H.
Life is not lost said she , for which is bought Endles renowne , that more then death is to be sought . Ed. Spencer .
Better it is for one to liue obscure , Then in a publike state to liue vnsure . D. Lodge .
No life is blest that is not grac't with loue . B. Ihonson .
They double life that dead things griefe sustaine , They kill , that feele not their friends liuing paine . G Chapman .
That life 's ill spar'd that 's spar'd to cast more bloud . S. Daniell .
Of Loue 's perfection perfectly to speake , Or of his nature rightly to define : Indeed doth farre surpasse our reasons reach , And needs this priest t' expresse his power diuine : For long before the world he was yborne , And bred aboue in Venus bosome deare , For by his power the world was made of yore , And all that therein wondrous doth appeare . Ed. Spencer .
Loue is the Lord of all the world by right , And rules the creatures by his powerfull saw : All being made the vassalls of his might , Through secret sence , which thereto doth them draw . Idem .
Vapour eterne in man , in beast , in tree , In plant and flower is loue , ( and so of might ) For in the world may not contained bee , Without accord and Loues imperiall right . Yet wends the foxe in holy hood full oft , And craft in stead of truth , beares crest aloft . D. Lodge .
— That true Loue which dauncing did inuent , Is he that tun'd the worlds whole harmonie , And link't all men in sweete societie , He first exaulted from th' earth mingled minde , That heauenly fier or quintessence diuine , Which doth such sympathy in bewtie finde . As is betwixt the Elme and fruitfull Vine , And so to beautie euer doth encline . Lifes life it is , and cordiall to the hart , And of our better part , the better part . I. Dauies .
Sweete loue is a celestiall harmonie , Of likely hearts compos'd of hearts consent , Which ioy together in sweete sympathie , To worke each others kind and true content , Which they haue harboured since their first discent , Out of these heauenly bowers , where they do see And know each other here belou'd to bee . Ed. Spencer .
Iron with wearing shines , rust wasteth treasure On earth , but Loue there is no other pleasure . H. Constable .
Loue a continuall fornace doth maintaine . Idem .
Wealth maister is , and porter of the gate , That lets in loue , when want shall come too late . Th. Churchyard .
— Loue to heauen is fled , Since swearing lust on earth vsurpt his name , Vnder whose simple semblance he hath fled Vpon fresh bewtie blotting it with blame , Which the hot tyrant staines , and soone ber●aues , As caterpillers , do the tender leaues . W. Sh.
Loue is a spirit all compact of fier , Not grosse to sinke , but light and will aspire . Idem .
Loue is a golden bubble full of dreames , That waking breakes , and fills vs with extreames . G. Chapman .
Loue is a discord and a strange diuorce , Betwixt our sence and rest , by whose power , As mad with reason , we admit that force , Which wit or labour neuer may diuorce . It is a will that brooketh no consent , It would refuse , yet neuer may repent . — Loue 's a desire , which for to waight a time , Doth loose an age of yeares , and so doth passe , As doth the shadow seuerd from his prime , Seeming as though it were , yet neuer was . Leauing behind , nought but repentant thoughts , Of dayes ill spent , of that which profits noughts . It 's now a peace , and then a sudden warre , A hope consumde before it is conceiu'd , At hand it feares , and menaceth a farre , And he that gaines , is most of all deceiu'd . Loue whets the dullest wits his plagues be such , But makes the wise by pleasing , dote as much . E. O.
Loue is a brain-sicke boy , and fierce by kind , A wilfull thought , which reason cannot moue , A flattering Sycophant , a murdering theefe , A poysoned choaking baite , a ticing greefe . A Tyrant in his lawes , in speech vnknowne , A blindfold guide , a feather in the winde : A right Chamelion for change of hew , A lame-lime-lust , a tempest of the minde . A breach of charitie , all vertues foe , A priuate warre , a toilsome web of woe . A fearefull iealousie , a vaine desire , A labyrinth , a pleasing miserie , A shipwracke of mans life , a smoakelesse fier , A ship of teares , a lasting lunacie . A heauie seruitude , a dropsie thirst , A hellish Iaile , whose captiues are accurst . Th. Watson .
A sugred harme , a poyson full of pleasure , A painted shrine , ful-fill'd with rotten treasure . An heauen in shew , a hell to them that proue , A broken staffe , which fully doth vphold , A flower , that fades with euery frostie cold : An Orient rose , sprung from a withered plant , A game in seeming , shadowed still with want . A minutes ioy to gaine a world of griefe , A subtill net , to snare the idle minde , A seeing scorpion , yet in seeing blinde , A poore reioyce , a plague without teliefe , D. Lodge .
Loue is a smoake made with fume of sighes , Being purg'd , a fier sparkling in Louers eies , Being vext , a sea , nourisht with louing teares , What is it else ? a madnesse most distrest , A choaking gall , and a preseruing sweet . W. Shakespeare .
It is a doubled griefe , a sparke of pleasure , Begot by vaine desire , and this his loue : Whom in our youth , we count our chiefest treasure . In age for want of power we do reproue , Yea such a power is Loue , whose losse is paine , And hauing got him , we repent againe . D. Lodge .
Loue the Idle bodies worke and surfet of the eye . W. Warner .
Loue is but a terme , like as is Eccho but a voice , That this doth babble , that doth breed , or not , is ours the choice . W. Warner .
— Loue is a subtill influence , Whose finall force still hangeth in suspence . D. Lodge .
Loue is a wanton famine , rich in foode , But with a riper appetite controlled , An argument in figure and in moode : Yet hates all arguments ; disputing still , For sence against reason , with a sencelesse will . G. Chapman .
Of euery ill the hatefull father vile , That doth the world with sorceries beguile , Cunningly mad , religiously prophane , Wits monster , reasons canker , sences bane , Loue taught the mother that vnkind desire , To wash her hands in her owne Infants blood . Loue taught the daughter to betray her fire Into most base and worthy seruitude : Loue taught the brother to prepare such foode ; To feast his brothers , that all seeing sunne Wrapt in a cloude that wicked sight did shunne . I. Dauies .
Loue is a sowre delight , a sugred griefe , A liuing death , an euer dying life , A breach of reasons law , a secret theefe , A sea of teares , an euerlasting strife . A baite for fooles , a scourge of noble wits , A deadly wound , a shot which euer hits , Loue is a blinded god , and angry boy , A labyrinth of doubts , an idle lust , A slaue to bewties will , a witlesse toy . A rauening bird , a tyrant most vniust , A burning heate , a cold , a flattering ioy , A priuate hell , a very world of woe . Th. Watson .
— Loue bewitcher of the wit . The scorne of vertue , vices parasite , The slaue to weakenesse , friendships false bewraier , Reasons rebell , fortitudes betraier . The churchmens staffe , court , camp , & countries guider , Arts infection , chaste thoughts , and youths defiler . I. Weeuer .
Controlling Loue , proud fortunes busie factor , The gall of wit , sad melancholies schoole , Heart-killing corsiue , golden times detractor , Life-fretting canker , mischiefes poysoned toole , The Ideots ydle brother , wise mens foole . A foe to friendship enemie to truth , The wrong misleader of our pleasing youth . M. Drayton .
— Loue is roote and onely crop of care , The bodies foe , the hearts annoy , & cause of pleasures rare . The sicknesse of the minde , the fountaine of vnrest , The gulfe of guile , the pit of paine , of griefe the hollow chest : A fiery frost , a flame that frozen is with Ice , A heauie burden , light to beare , a vertue fraught with vice . It is a worldlike peace , a safetie seeing dread , A deepe dispaire , annext to hope , a fancie that is fed , Sweete poyson for his taste , a port Charibdis like , Ascylla for his safetie , though a Lyon that is meeke . Th. Turberuile .
— O brawling loue , O louing hate , O any thing of nothing first created : O heauie lightnesse , serious vanitie , Mishapen Chaos of well seeing formes , Feather of lead , bright smoke , cold fier , sicknes , helth , Still waking sleepe , that is not what it is . W. Shakespeare .
Sight is his roote , in thought is his progression , His childhood wonder , prentiship attention : His youth delight , his age the soules oppression , Doubt is his sleepe , he waketh in inuention . Fancie his foode , his cloathing carefulnesse , Beautie his booke , his play , Louers discention . His eies are curious search , but vaild with warefulnesse , His wings desire , oft clipt with desperation : Largesse his hands , could neuer skill of sparefulnesse . But how he doth by might or by perswasion , To conquer , and his conquest how to ratifie , Experience doubts , and schooles had disputation . S. Ph. Sidney .
Loue hath two shafts , the one of beaten gold , By stroake whereof , a sweete effect is wrought : The other is of lumpish leaden mold , And worketh no effect but what is nought . Th. Watson .
At Venus intreatie for Cupid her sonne , These arrowes by Vulcan were cunningly done : The first is Loue , as here you may behold , His feathers head and body are of gold . The second shaft is Hate , a foe to loue , And bitter are his torments for to proue . The third is Hope , from whence our comfort springs , His feathers are puld from Fortunes wings . Fourth , Iealousie in basest mindes doth dwell , This mettall Vulcans Cyclops sent from hell . G. Peele .
Hard is the doubt , and difficult to deeme , When all three kinds of loue together meet : And do dispart the heart with power extreame , Whether shall waigh the ballance downe ; to weet The deare affection vnto kindred sweet , Or raging fier of loue to woman kinde , Or zeale of friends combinde with vertues meet . But of them all the band of vertues minde , Me seemes the gentle heart should most assured finde . Ed. Spencer .
Of vertue onely , perfect loue doth grow , Whose first beginning though it be more slow Then that of lust , and quickens not so fast : Yet sure it is , and longer time doth last . The strawe inkindles soone , and slakes againe , But yron is slow , and long will heat retaine . Th. Hudson .
Most true it is that true loue hath no power To looken back , his eyes be fixt before . W. Sha.
Loue alwaies doth bring forth most bounteous deeds , And in each gentle heart desire of honor breeds . True loue is free , and led with selfe delight , Ne will inforced be with masterdome or might . Idem .
Loue naked boy hath nothing on his backe , And though he wanteth neither arme nor legge , Yet maim'd he is , sith he his sight doth lacke : And yet ( though blind ) he bewtie can behold , And yet though nak'd , he feeles more heat then cold . H. C.
Loue staies not long , it is but one yeares bird . Th. Churchyard .
Loue must haue change to season sweet delight . Idem .
Loue , lawes and Iudges hath in fee , Nature and vse his iudges bee : To whom his whole course censures flee , Since past , and things to come they see . G. Chapman .
Loue is in power felt of all , in person found of none , Or rather is not reall but some fancie ; If not , then Fantasticall in women , but essentiall in men . W. Warner .
Loues eyes in viewing neuer haue their fill . W. Marlowe .
This is the least effect of Cupids dart , To change the mind by wounding of the hart . Th. Watson .
Vnto the woods runs loue , as well as rides to the pallace , Neither he beares reuerence to a prince , nor pitie to beggere But ( like a point amidst of a circle ) still of an euennesse , All to a lesson he drawes , neither hills nor caues can auoyd him . S. Phil. Sidney .
The throne of Cupid hath an easie staire , His barke is fit to saile with euery winde : The breach he makes , no wise man can repaire . Ed. Fairfax .
— Loue will haue his godhead seene In famous queenes , and highest princes hearts . S. I. H.
Loue wants his eyes , yet shootes he passing right , His shafts our thoughts , his bowe he makes our sight , His deadly pilles are tempered with such art , As still directs the arrow to the hart . M. Drayton .
— Loue doth raigne In stoutest minds , and maketh monstrous warre , He maketh warre , he maketh peace againe : And yet his peace is but continuall warre , O miserable men , that to him subiect are . Ed. Spencer .
First loue is firme and toucheth very neare . W. Warner .
Loue vnto life this cognizance doth giue , This badge , this marke , to euery man that minds it : Loue lendeth life , which liuing cannot die , Nor liuing , loue . G. Gascoigne .
Loue is too full of faith , too credulous , With folly and false hope deluding vs . Ch. Marlowe .
Loue is not full of mercy as men say , But deafe and cruell where he meanes to pray . Idem .
Loue paints his longings in sweet virgins eyes . G. Chapman .
— Loue gainsaid : growes madder then before . Th. Watson .
Loue findeth meane , but hatred knowes no measure . Ed. Spencer .
As Bacchus opes dissembled harts , So loue sets out our better parts . M. Roydon .
As loue hath wreathes his pretie eyes to seare , So louers must keep secret what they feare . D. Lodge .
Loue keeps his reuels where there are but twaine . W. Shakespeare .
As Iris coate in sundry taints doth showe , So loue is clad in weale , and strait in woe . D. Lodge .
Loue can abide no law , loue alwaies loues to be lawlesse , Loue altereth nature , rules reason , mastereth Olympus : Lawes , edicts , deerees , contemnes Ioue mightily thundring . Ioue that rules and raigns , that with beck bendeth Olympus . Loue caried Hyppolitus with briars & thorns to be mangled For that he had the faire foule lusting Phedra refused . Loue made Absyrtus with sisters hands to be murdred And in peeces torne , and here and there to be scattered . Loue forst Pasiphae mans company long to be loathing , And for a while bulls flesh , bulls company long to be taking . Loue and luring lookes of louely Polixena caused Greekish Achilles death when he came to the church to be wedded . Loue made Alcides that most inuincible Heros , Maister of all monsters , at length to be whipt of a monster . Loue drownd Leander , swimming to the beautifull He●o , Vnto the towne Cestos , from towne of cursed Abydos . Loue made Ioue that 's ruler of earth , and ruler of heauen , Like to a silly shepheard , and like to the fruitfull Echidua . Like to a fish , to a swan , a spawne , to a bull , to an eagle : Sometimes Amphitrio , sometimes Dictinua resembling . Ab. Fraunce .
Trifling attempts no serious acts aduance , The fier of loue is blowne by dalliance . G. Chapman .
— Where there growes a sympathy of harts , Each passion in the one , the other paineth : And by euen carryage of the outward parts , ( Wherein the actuall worke of loue remaineth . ) The inward griefes , mislikes and ioyes are taught , And euery signe bewraies a secret thought . D. Lodge .
Loue deeply grounded , hardly is dissembled . Ch. Marlowe .
O bold beleeuing loue , how hote it seemes , Not to beleeue , and yet too credulous : Thy weale and woe are both of them extreames , Dispaire and hope makes thee ridiculous . The one doth flatter the inthoughts vnlikely , The likely thoughts the other killeth quickly . W. Sha.
Loue goes towards loue , as schoole boyes from their bookes , But loue from loue toward schoole with heauy lookes . Idem .
— Loue can comment vpon euery woe . Idem .
Cupids deep riuers haue their shallow fordes His griefe bring ioyes , his losse recompences . He breeds the sore , and cures vs of the paine , Achilles launce , that wounds and heales againe . Ed. Fairfax .
Wonder it is to see in diuers mindes , How diuersly loue doth his pageant play , And shewes his power in variable kindes : The baser wit whose idle thoughts alway Are wont to cleaue vnto the lowly clay . It stirreth vp to sensuall desire , And in leaud sloth to waste his carelesse day , But in braue spirits it kindles goodly fire , That to all hie desert and honour doth aspire . Ed. Spencer .
Such ones , ill iudge of loue that cannot loue , Ne in their frozen hearts feele kindly flame : For thy they ought nothing vnknowne reproue , Ne naturall affection faultlesse blame . For it of honor and all vertue is The roote , and brings forth glorious fruites of fame . That crowne true louers with immortall blisse , The meed of them that loue , and do not liue amisse . Idem .
The persons must in passions iumpe else loue is but a game , Nor thinke I of a womans graunt , but as a wooers game . W. Warner .
Pure loue said she , the purest grace pursues , And there is contract not by application : Of lippes or bodies , but of bodies vertues , As in our elementall motion . Starres by their powers , which are their heat and light , Do heauenly workes , and that which hath probation By vertue all contract hath the noblest plight , Both for the lasting and affinitie It hath with naturall diuinitie . G. Chapman .
Loue is a lord of truth and loyaltie , Lifting himselfe out of the lowly dust : On golden plumes vp to the purest skie , Aboue the reach of loathly sinfull lust . Whose base affect through cowardly distrust Of his weake wings dare not to heauens flie , But like a mold warpe in the earth doth lie . Ed. Spencer .
— One louing howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence , A dramme of sweet , is worth a pound of sowre . Idem .
Loue and maiestie dwell ill together . S. Daniell .
The ioyes of loue , if they should euer last Without affliction or disquietnes : That worldly chaunces do among them cast , Would be on earth too great a blessednes . Liker to heauen then mortall wretchednes : Therefore the winged God to let men weet That here on earth is no sure happines , A thousand sowres hath tempered with one sweet , To make it seeme more deare and daintie as is meet . Ed. Spencer .
True it is said , what euer man it said , That loue with gall and hony doth abound : But if the one be with the other waid , For euery dramme of hony therein found , A pound of gall doth ouer it abound . Idem .
Loue hath delight in sweet delicious fruite , Loue neuer takes good counsell for his friend . Loue author is , and cause of idle care . Loue is destraught of wit , he hath no end . Loue shooteth shafts of burning hot desire , Loue burneth more then either flame or fire . Loue doth much harme through Iealousies assault . Loue once imbrac't will hardly part againe . Loue thinkes in breach of faith there is no fault . Loue makes a sport of others deadly paine . Loue is a wanton childe , and loues to brall , Loue with his warre brings many soules to thrall . Th. Watson .
— Gods themselues are chaung'd by Loue , Ioue steales from skies to lie by Laedaes side : Arcas descends for faire Aglauraes sake , And Sol so soone as Daphne is espide , To follow his chariot doth forsake . Idem .
— The sweetest honey , Is loathsome in his owne deliciousnesse , And in the tast confounds the appetite , Therefore Loue moderately long loue doth so , Too swift arriues as tardie as too slowe . W. Shakespeare .
— The rights In which Loues beautious empresse most delights , Are banquets , Doricke musicke , midnight reuelling , Plaies , maskes , and all that sterne age counteth euill . Ch. Marlowe .
Those easily men credit whom they loue . S. Daniell .
Play with the fire , yet die not in the flame , Shew passion in thy words , but not in hart , Least when thou think'st to bring thy thoughts in frame Thou proue thy selfe a prisoner by thy art . Play with these babes of loue , as Apes with glasses , And put no trust in feathers , wind or lasses . D. Lodge .
The greedie moone along her giddie spheare , Boads not such change in her inconstant course , No crinite comet in the waine of yeare , No rising rage nor swelling of sourse . As Loue in shape , in substance and effect , But Gods and men with fury doth infect , A morning starre ( that peereth from the pride Of siluer floate ) bedew'd and sparkling bright , Borne from the second forme of waters glide , The queene of Loue , the mistresse of delight . Aye such is loue in semblance at the first , But his effects are cruell and accurst . D· Lod ,
Albeit bewtie moues to loue , and loue doth make thee sue , Better at first be nonsuite , then at length not to subdue . W. Warner .
It hath bene when as heartie loue did treat and tie the knot , Though now if gold but lacking be , the wedding fadgeth not . Idem .
Loue learnes rural wits and base borne brats to be reading , Heartburning secrets , and wonders daintily written , In faire flaming eyes , by the hand of louely Cupido . A. Fraunce .
Loue nill consent that bewties fiel● lie waste . Ed. Fairfax .
T is often seene , Loue workes a man a weake deiected minde , For euer seene , a womans loue doth alter as the winde . W· Warner .
No stile is held for base , where loue well named is , Each eare suckes vp the words a true loue scattereth . S. Ph. Sydney .
All losse is lesse , and lesse the infamy , Then losse of loue to him that loues but one , Ne may loue be compeld by maisterie , For as soone as maisterie comes sweete loue anon : Taketh his nimble wings , and soone is gone . Ed. Spencer .
For euery pleasure that in loue is found , A thousand woes and more therein abound . Th. Watson .
Like as a nibling fish that halfe mistrusts The golden shew of an enticing baite , Makes many offers for the thing she lusts , Daring to deale with that she deemes deceite : So plaies the amorous God with his faire prize , Whom loue and lust bids board , but shame denies . Ch. Middleton .
From these hie hills as when a spring doth fall , It thrilleth downe with still and subtill course , Of this and that it gathereth aide , and shall Till wit haue iust done , flowed to streame and force , Then at the foote , it rageth ouer all : So fareth Loue when he hath tane a course . Rage is vaine resistance vaileth none , The first issue is remedie alone . E. of Surrey .
Not all the writs Diana hath , can Cupids plaint remoue . W. Warnaer .
— Lordly Loue is such a Tyrant fell , That where he rules , all power he doth expell . Ed. Sp.
If Loue compelled be and cannot chuse , How can it gratefull or thanke worthy proue ? Loue must free harted be and voluntary , And not enchaunted or by fate constrain'd . Nor like that loue which did Vlisses carry , To Circes Ile with mightie charmes . I. Dauies .
Where heate of Loue doth once possesse the hart , There cares oppresse the minde , with wondrous ill , Wit runnes awrie , not fearing subtill smart , And fond desire doth euer maister will . The belly neither cares for meate nor drinke , Nor ouerwatched eyes desite to winke . Footesteps are false , and wauering too and fro , The brightsome flower of beautie fades away , Reason retires , and pleasure brings in woe , And wisedome yeeldeth place to blacke decay . Councell and fame , and friendship are condemned , And bashful shame , and Gods themselues contenned . Watchfull suspect is kindled with dispaire , Inconstant hope is often drownd in feares : What folly hurts not , fortune can repaire , And miserie doth swim in seas of teares . Long vse of life is but a liuing foe , As gentle death is onely end of woe . Th. Watson .
Vnlawfull meanes doth make loue lawfull gaine , He speakes most true when he the most doth faine . M. Drayton .
As many bees , as Hybla daily sheelds , As many frie as fleet in Oceans face , As many heards as on the earth do trace , As many flowers as deckt the fragrant fields , As many starres as glorious heauen containes , As many cloudes as wayward winter weepes , As many plagues as hell enclosed keepes . So many griefes in Loue , so many paines , Suspicions , thoughts , desires , opinions , praiers , Mislikes , misdeeds , fond ioyes , and fained peace , Illusions , dreames , great paines , and small encrease , Vowes , hope , acceptance scornes and deepe dispaires . D. Lodge .
The gnawing enuie , the heartfretting feare , The vaine surmises , the distinctfull shewes , The false reports that flying tales do beare , The doubts , the dangers , the delaies , the woes , The fained friends , the vnexpected foes , With thousand more then any tongue can tell , Do make a Louers life a wretches hell . Ed. Spencer .
T is folly by our wisest worldlings prou'd , If not to gaine by loue ) to be belou'd , B. Ihonson .
Against Loues fier feares frost hath dissolution . W. Shakespeare .
— Greater conquest of hard Loue he gaines , That workes it to his will , then he that it constraines . Ed. Spencer .
●nto a Knight there is no greater shame , ●hen lightnes and inconstancie in loue . Idem .
●oues weeping flames , by reason do subdue ●efore their rage grow to so great vnrest , ●s miserable louers vse to rue , ●hich stil wax old in woes whil'st woe stil waxeth new Ed. Spencer .
Old Loue is litle worth when new is more preferd . Idem .
Who can shew all his loue , can loue but lightly . S. Daniell .
No man from the monarch loue by wit or weapon flies . W. Warner .
— Loftie Loue doth loathe a lowly eye . Ed. Spencer .
Loue thriues not in the heart , that shadowes dreadeth . W. Shakespeare .
Gather I say , the Rose while it is time , For soone comes age that will her pride deflame : Gather the Rose of Loue while yet is time , Whil'st louing , thou mai'st loued be with equall aime . Ed. Sp.
O learne to loue , the lesson is but plaine , And once made perfect , neuer lost againe . W. Shakespeare .
Louers their loued Ladies loues to gaine Promise , protest and sweare without regard , That God doth see and know their falshood still , And can and shall reuenge it at his will . Their oathes but words , their words are all but wind , Vttered in heart , and with like heart forgotten , As bundles are trust vp coards all rotten . Coinesse is nought , but worst to be too kind ; Men care not for the good that soone is gotten : But women of their wits may chiefly boast , That are made wiser by an others cost . S. I. H.
He that bindes himselfe in worthy bands , Although his shew but grace him small : Although he finde no fauour at her hands , Sharp words , coy lookes , small thanks , hope none at all , Though more and more , aloofe from him she stands : Yet for his heart and thoughts be highly placed , He must not mourne , although he die disgraced . Idem .
Dumbe Swans , not chattering Pies do Louers proue , They loue indeed , who dare not say they loue . S. Ph. Sydney .
The Louer and beloued are not tied to one Loue . W. Sh.
He that on Loues blind snares once sets his foote , Seemeth to draw it backe , but findes it caught , And madnesse meere in Loue to ouershoote , The foole hath felt , the wise hath euer taught . And though in all alike it take not roote , Yet all shall finde , Loue is a thing of nought . For sure it is , an open signe of madnesse , To haue an others pleasure breed thy sadnesse . S. I. Harrington .
The birds their beake , the lion hath his taile , And louers nought but sighes and bitter moane , The spotlesse force of fancie to assaile . D. Lodge .
Sweete are the kisses , the embracements sweete , When like desires , and affections meete : For from the earth to heauen is Cupid raised , Where fancie is in equall ballance peized . Ch. Marlowe .
Foule words and frownes must not repell a Louer , What though the Rose hath prickles , yet t is pluckt , Were bewtie vnder twentie locks kept fast , Yet Loue breakes through , and breakes them all at last , W. Shakespeare .
— Louers houres are long , though seeming short , If pleasde themselues , others they delight : In such like circumstance , with such like sport , Their copious stories oftentimes begun , End without audience , and are neuer done . Idem .
A Louer may bestride the Gossamours , That Idles in the wanton sommer aire , And yet not full so light is vanitie . Idem .
The Dutch in loue is proude , Italians enuious , The French man full of mirth , the Spanyard furious .
Three kindes there are for natures skill : The first they naturall do name , In which by hearbes and stones they will Worke wondrous things , and worthy fame . The next is Mathematicall , Where Magicke workes by nature so , That brazen heads make speake it shall , Of woods , birds , bodies , flie and go , The third Veneficall , by right Is named , for by it they make The shape of bodies chang'd in sight And their formes on them to take . M. of M.
— Oh who can tell The hidden power of hearbes , and might of magicke skill ? Ed. Spencer .
In time conuenient this world Almightie created , And it a large theater to behold , his glory appointed : Which when he had with store of treasures richly replenisht , And with aboundant grace causd euery part to be furnisht , Man was made at length , Adam was quickly created Most perfect creature , and like to the mightie Creator , Good wit , immortall , of mankind only beginner . But proud ambition the serpent craftily cloaking , With curst and bitter sweete , his cankred poyson abounding . Adam dispossest of pleasant beautifull harbors . Adams heart possest with most vnspeakable horrors . Man was mard at length , Adam was fouly defaced . Last worke and lost worke , Adam was filthily fowled : Most cursed creature , vnlike to the mightie Creator , Bad , foolish , mortall , of mankind only the murderer . A. France .
— Vile man begot of clay , and borne of dust . Ed. Fairfax .
Man composed first of slime , Doth liue to lead his daies in strife : And as the heauens do that dispose , So shuts and spreads he with the rose . D. Lodge .
Time ouer old and yoong is still reuolued , Within it selfe , and neuer tasteth end : But mankind is to nought for aye reserued , The filthy snake her aged coat can mend . And getting youth againe , in youth doth flourish : But vnto man age euer death doth send . The very trees with grafting we can cherish : So that we can long time produce their time , But man which helpeth them , helplesse must perish . S. Phil. Sidney .
O trustlesse state of miserable men , That build your blisse on hope of earthly thing : And vainly thinke your selues halfe happie then , When painted faces with smooth flattering Do fawne on you , and your wide praises sing . And when the courting masker louteth low , Him free in heart , and trustie too you know . Ed. Spencer .
He that comparde mans body to a hoaste , Said that the hands were scouts discouering harmes : The feet were horsemen thundering on the coaste . The brest and stomacke foe men , huge in swarmes , But for the head in soueraigntie did boast , It captaine was , directer of alarmes . Whose rashnesse if it hazarded any ill , Not he alone , but all the hoast did spill . I. Markeham .
Each creature not grudging at mans glorie , Vnto his life becomes contributorie . Idem .
Like flouds in sommer , or flowing springs in the winter , So man consumeth : No trust or firmenesse in life , that flies like a shadow ? What then alas is man That so presumeth ? D. Lodge .
The shadow of the clocke by motion wends , We see it passe , yet marke not when it parts : So what is mans declines , and sudden ends , Each thing begins , continues and conuerts . Idem .
— Man to woman giueth all perfection , And as our chiefe Philosophers do say , Woman by man is perfect made each way . I. Weeuer .
— Man is loaden with ten thousand languors , All other creatures only feele the angors Of fewe diseases ; as the gleaming quaile , Only the falling sicknes doth assaile . The turne-about and murraine trouble cattle , Madnesse and quincie bid the mastife battle . I. Siluester .
●t doth exceed mans thought to thinke how hie God hath raisd man , since God a man became : The Angels do admire this mysterie , And are astonisht when they view the same . I. Dauies .
Men do not know what they themselues will bee , When as more then themselues , themselues they see . S. Daniell .
●ike as the fatall rauen that in his voyce ●arries the dreadfull summons of our deaths , ●ies by the faire Arabian spiceries , ●er pleasant gardens and delightfull parts , ●eeming to curse them with his hoarse exclaimes : ●nd yet doth stoupe with hungry violence , ●pon a peece of hatefull carrion . So wretched man displeas'd with those delights , Would yeeld a quickning sauour to his soule , Pursues with eager and vnstanched thirst , The greedy longings of his loathsome flesh . G. Peele .
Man is a little world , and beares the face And picture of the vniuersitie : All but resembleth God , all but is glasse , All but the picture of his maiestie . Man is the little world ( so we him call ) The world the little God , God the great all . Th. Bastard .
The gallant courser in his full carrire Is made by man to stoppe with slender raine : But man himselfe his lust and fond desire Is sildome drawne by reason to refraine . T is hard to stop , but harder to retire , When youthfull course ensueth pleasure vaine . As beares do breake the hiues and weake defences , When smell of hony commeth to their sences . S. I. H.
Great Pompey in the midst of victorie , All vnexpected happened to his end : And Caesar in his greatest maiestie Vntimely murdered by his dearest friend . Such are mens best estates , more wretched they , In greatest pompe most subiect to decay . Ch. Midleton .
What doth make men without the parts of men , Or in their manhoods lesse then children But manlesse natures ? all this world was namd'd A world of him for whom it first was framde ( Who like a tender cheuerell shrunke with fire Of base ambition , and of selfe desire ) His armes into his shoulders crept , for feare Bountie should vse them , and fierce rape forbeare , His legs into his greedy belly runne , The charge of hospitalitie to shunne ) In him the world is to a lumpe reuerst : That shrunke from forme that was by forme disperst . And in nought more then thanklesse auarice , Not rendring vertue her deserued price . G. Chapman .
Like as rude Painters that contend to showe Beasts , fowles , or fish , all artlesse to bestowe On euery side his natiue counterfet , Aboue his head his name had need to set . So men that will be men in more then fate ( As in their forheads ) should in actions place More perfect characters to proue they be No mockers of their first nobilitie . Els may they easily passe for beasts or foules , Soules praise our shapes , and not our shapes our soules . Idem .
When as men all do know , then nothing know . S. Daniell .
— The milder passions doth show man . For as the leafe doth bewtifie the tree , The pleasant flowers bedeck the flourishing spring , Euen so in men of greatest reach and power , A mild and piteous thought augments renowne . D. Lodge .
No man before his end is truly blest . T. Dekkar .
— Man to man , as beast to beast , holds ciuil duties vain . W. Warner .
Mans inward parts are colder and the nummer , When outwardly they feele a boyling sommer . Mans voyce in euery ones opinion , is but an airie repercussion ▪ D. Lodge .
Hymen that now is god of nuptiall rights , And crownes with honor loue and his delights . G. Chapman .
Before them on an altar he presented Both fire and water , which was first inuented : Since to ingenerate euery humane creature And euery other birth produc'st by nature , Moysture and heate , must mix , so man and wife For humane race , must ioyne in nuptiall life . Idem .
— In Athence The custome was , that euery mayd did weare During her maydenhead , a silken spheare : About her waste aboue her inmost weed Knit with Mineruaes knot , and that was freed By the faire bridegroome on the mariage night , With many ceremonies of delight . Idem .
Shouldst thou but dream what mariage is , thou wouldst not liue a maid , One hart of two , two soules of one , by wedlocke is conuaid . W. Warner .
Beleeue me man , there is no greater blisse , Then is the quiet ioy of louing wife : Which who so wants , halfe of himselfe doth misse . Friend without change , play-fellow without strife . Food without fulnesse , counsaile without pride , Is this sweet doubling of our single life . S. Phil. Sidney .
In choyce of wife , preferre the modest chaste , Lillies are faire in shew , but foule in smell : The sweetest lookes by age are soone defaste , Then choose thy wife by wit and louing well . Who brings thee wealth , and many faults withall , Presents thee hony mixt with bitter gall . D. Lodge .
Wild sauages that drinkes of running springs , Thinkes water faire , exceeds all other things . But they that daily taste meate , nere despi●e it , Virginitie , al be some highly prise it , Compar'd with marriage , had you tride them both , Differs as much , as wine and water doth . Ch. Marlow .
All touch sweet , tast sweet , eie sweet , eare sweet , sweet sence , sweet sou●e is , A vertuous match , but vicious loue in all contrary this . W. Warner .
One is no number , maides are nothing then Without the sweet societie of men . Ch. Marlow .
— Marriage will soone destroy Those passions which to youthfull head do clime , Mothers and nurses of all vaine annoy . Idem .
— Wretched wedlock breeds but hated heat , Where no loue seemes so sweet , as stolen and secret . D. Lodge .
Offer no loue rights , but let wiues still seeke them , For when they come vnsought , they sildom like them . B. Iohnson .
— Euen as Adam wrote his ouerthrow By tasting fruite that God did him forbid , So he that curiously will search to know All that his wife hath said , or what she did , May fortune at the last himselfe beshrow . S. I. H.
Let him that his wife to his bent will drawe , Match with a virgin and keepe her in awe . To loue , and wed for loue , is perfit blisse . G. Turb .
His be the hurt that lookes not ere he wed . The husband may the woman make or marre . Idem .
We are not male nor female borne , that we should fruitlesse die . W. Warner .
— Experience bidding vs , doth bid vs lay to thriue . The first degree to which say some , is warily to wine : But wife if shrow or saint become ( as not vnlike ) a shrow , Then is that first degree to thrift , the third degree in woe . Idem .
Let nothing seuere those whom God doth linke . S. I. H.
— The chance that once befell To wandring Dina , may be witnesse well That secret mariage that to fewe is kend , Doth neuer lead the louers to good end . For of our bodies we no power may claime , Except our parents do confirme the same . Th. Hud .
We worldly folkes account him very wise , That hath the wit most worthily to wed , By all meanes therefore , alwaies we deuise To see our issue rich in spousall fed , We buy and sell rich Orphans ; babes scant bred Must match , ere they do know what marriage meanes : Boyes marrie old trots , old fooles wed yoong queanes . We call this wedding , which in any wise Can be no marriage , but pollution plaine : A new found trade of humaine marchandize , The diuells net , a filthy fleshly gaine , Of kind and nature , an vnnaturall staine : A foule abuse of Gods most holy order , And yet allow'd almost in euery border . M. of M.
A filthy trull , is irksome to the eie , A gallant gyrle allures the lookers mind : A wanton wench will haue the head to die , An aged trot to like , is hard to find . A bearing wife with brats , will cloy the store , A greater care then childrens care is none : A barren beast will grieue thee ten times more , No ioy remaines when sappe of fruite is gone . Wherefore let wiuing goe liue single aye , A shrew we see is wedded on a day , But ere a man can shift his hands t is long . G. Turb .
Fast by old age pale Maladie was plac't , Sore sicke in bed her colour all forgone , Bereft of stomacke , sauour , and of taste , Ne could she brook no meate but broaths alone . Abhorring her , her sicknesse past recure , Detesting phisicke , and all phisicks cure . M. i Sackuill .
Sicknesse the herauld of armes , hearts , and all . Th. Storer .
Th' humorous sicke , remouing , find no ease , When chaunged chambers helpe not the disease . S. Dauiell .
— O sicknesse thou art oft betide , When death hath many woes to come beside . Idem .
The meanest fault is hie offence , vrg'd of a mighty foe . W. Warner .
To shadow sinne Might can the more pretend . M. Dr.
— Might is euer absolute alone , When of two powers ther 's true coniunctione . Idem .
Power constrain'd is but a glorious slaue . Ed. Fairfax .
— Slight , force , are mightie things , From which , much , if not most , earths glory springs : If vertues selfe were clad in humaine shape , Vertue without these , might go beg and scrape . I. Marston .
Vnited powers , makes each the stronger proue . S. Ph. Sydney .
— Honey words make foolishnesse , And power the greatest wit with error blinds . D. Lodge .
All as the highest trees do sheeld the shrubs , From posting Phlegons warmth , and warming fier , So mightie men obscure each others fame , And make the best deseruer fortunes game . Idem .
— Excellencie neuer beares this minde , By no inferiour skill to be definde . Th. Storer .
Where power decreed hath to find th' offence , The cause is better still , then the defence . S. Daniell .
His face was leane and some deale pinde away , And eke his hands consumed to the bone : But what his body was I cannot say , For on his carkasse , rayment had he none . Saue cloutes and patches peeced one by one , With staffe in hand , and scrippe on shoulder cast , His chiefe defence against the winters blast . His food for most , was wilde fruites of the tree , Vnlesse sometimes , some crummes fell to his share , Which in his wallet long , God-wot kept he , As one the which full daintily would fare : His drinke the running streame his cup , the bare Of his palme clozd , his bed the hard cold ground , To this poore life , was Miserie ybound . M. Sackuill .
— This Iron world Brings downe the stoutest hearts to lowest state , For Miserie doth brauest mindes abate , And makes them seeke for that they wont to scorne , Of fortune and of hope , at once forlorne . Ed. Spencer .
— He hath a foolish fantasie , That thinkes to find a friend in miserie . G. Gascoigne .
O Miserie , where once thou art possest , How soone thy faint infection alters kind , And like a Circe , turnest man to beast , And with the body dost transforme the mind , That can in fetters our affection bind . M. Drayton .
— Miserie is troden on by many , But being lowe , neuer relieu'd by any . W. Shakespeare .
— The mightiest that haue liu'd , Haue falne and headlong too , in Miserie , It is some comfort to haue companie . G. Peele .
Men flie from foes , but not from Miserie . M. Drayton .
Let him that sees his priuate Miserie Auoyd the prospect of prosperitie : It breeds pale enuie , and sad discontent Procures offence before a profered wrong . Torments it selfe till all conceits are spent , And thoughts deliuered by malitious tongue , Then rapt with violent fury goes so strong , That it enuenomes all our humaine parts , Blind iudging in eyes , and sence confounding harts . Th. Storer .
— Melancholy from the splene begunne , By passion mou'd , into the vaines doth runne : Which when this humour as a swelling floud , By vigour is infused in the bloud , The vitall spirits doth mightily appall , And weakeneth so the parts Organicall , And when the sences are disturb'd and tir'd , With what the heart incessantly desir'd· Like trauellers with labour long opprest , Finding reliefe , eftsoones they fall to rest . M. Drayton .
Thou nursing mother of faire wisedomes lore , Ingenious Melancholy . I. Marston .
Those men to Melancholy giuen , we Saturnists do call . W. Warner .
This Lidger booke lies in the braine behinde , Like Ianus eye which in his poll was set : The lay mans table , Storehouse of the minde , Which doth remember much , and much forget . I. Dauies .
Here sences apprehensions end doth take , As when a stone is into water cast : One circle , doth an other circle make , Till the last circle touch the banke at last . Idem .
Remembrance is the life of grief , his graue forgetfulnes . Ed. Fairfax .
Remembrance fresh , makes weakened sorrows strong . Idem .
The cause once gone , th' ffects thereof surcease , And mischiefes being preuented whil'st they are yong Cannot braunch forth themselues to do that hurt , That time , their natures , and bad men would worke . Ch. Middleton .
A Mischife seene may easily be preuented , But being hapt , not helpt , yet still lamented . M. Drayton .
Faire goodnesse is foule ill , if mischiefes wit , Be not represt from leaud corrupting it . Idem .
Mischiefe is oft made good by speeding well . S. Daniell .
Some Clarkes do doubt in their deuisefull art , Whether this heauenly thing whereof I treat , To weeten Mercie be of Iustice part , Or drawne forth from her by diuine extreat . This well I wot , that sure she as great , And meriteth to haue so hie a place : She first was bred and borne of heauenly race , From thence powr'd downe of men by influence of grace . Ed. Spencer .
O who shall shew the countenance and gestures Of Mercie and iustice ; which faire sacred sisters , With equall poize do euer ballance euen , Th' vnchaunging proiects of the King of heauen . Th' one sterne of looke , th' other mild aspecting , The'one pleasd with teares , th' other bloud affecting : Th' one beares the sword of vengeance vnrelenting , Th' other brings pardon for the true repenting . I. Syluicter .
— Still as rage kindleth the fire of wrath , Mercie to quench it , store of water hath . S. I. Harrington .
— This noble vertue and diuine , Doth chiefly make a man so rare and od , As in that one , he most resembleth God . Idem .
Then come we nearest to the Gods on hie , When we are farthest from extremitie , Giuing forth sentence of our Lawes with Mercie . Tho. Achely .
Mercie may mend whom malice made offend , Death giues no thankes , but checks authoritie , So Rulers mildnesse , subiects loue do nourish . S. Daniell .
Soft pittie enters at an Iron gate . W. Sh.
Mercie but murders , pardoning those that kill . Idem .
Pittie drawes loue bloud-shed , as natures griefe , Compassion , followeth the vnfortunate . S. D.
When pittie runneth afore , loue alwaies followeth after , A. Fraunce .
As it is greater praise to saue then spill , So better to reforme , then to cut off the ill . Ed. Spencer .
How deare is mercie hauing power and will , When pittie helpes where equitie doth kill ? M. Drayton .
The Minde hath in it selfe a deitie , And in the stretching circle of her eie , All things are compast , all things present still Will fram'd to power , doth make vs what we will . G. Chapman .
It is the minde that maketh good or ill , That makes a wretch , or happie , rich or poore , For some that haue aboundance at their will , Haue not inough , but want in greatest store . An other that hath little , askes no more , But in that little is both rich and wise . Ed. Spencer .
The Minde is free what ere afflict the man , A King 's a King , do fortune what she can . M. Drayton .
— The Minde times enemie , Obliuions foe , Disposer true of each note worthy thing . Ed. Fairfax .
Our mindes discerne where eies could neuer see . M. Draiton .
— That Minde most is bewtifull and hie , And nearest comes to a diuinitie , That farthest is from spots of earthes delight , Pleasures that loose their substance with their sight , Such one Saturnius rauisheth to loue , And fills the cup of all content to Ioue . G. Chapman .
The setled mind is free from fortunes power , They need not feare who looke not vp aloft : But they that are too carefull euery hower , For when they fall they light not very soft . M. of M.
What plague is greater then the griefe of minde ? The griefe of mind that eates in euery vaine : In euery vaine that leaues such clods behinde , Such clods behind as breed such bitter paine . So bitter paine that none shall euer finde What plague is greater then the griefe of minde . E. of Ox.
Ill mind , to mind so much of others ill , As to become vnmindfull of his owne . Ed. Spencer .
Into our minds let vs a little fall , And we shall finde more spots then leopards haue . S. Phil. Sidner .
O vanitie of mans vnstable minde , Puft vp with euery blast of friendly winde . Ed. Fairfax .
In base minds no friendship dwels , nor emnitie . Ed. Spencer .
Oft times we see that sorrowes of the minde Finde remedie vnsought , which seeking cannot finde . Ed. Spencer .
Weak body wel is chang'd , for minds redoubled force . Idem .
So moue our minds , as motions moue the aire . M. of M.
Nor is it his our minds that make our natiue homes our graue , As we to ours , others to theirs , like parciall fancie haue . Transmut we but our minds , and then all one an alien is , As if a natiue once resolu'd , makes euery country his . W. Warner .
Augustus quailing Anthony , was Emperour alone , In whose vnfoed Monarchy our common health was knowne W. Warner .
A mighty monarch must whilest greening youth doth flowe , Make one or two or three proofes of his peerles power : For valour is the gate of honour beautified , The first staire step it is , wherby good hap doth guide , Our feete to glories mount ; and nothing hartens so The men of armes to fight , as valiant prince ( we know ) But afterward he must with wary wisedome warre : More often with his wit , then with his weapon farre . And feeding so his spirit with sweet sharpe easie paine Not keep a souldiers place , but captains roome retaine . I. Syluester .
Mildnesse fitteth maiestie , hie minds are disalowed . W. Warner .
No man from the Monarch loue by wealth , or weapon flies . Idem .
Mildnesse would better suite with maiestie Then rash reuenge and rough seueritie . M. Dray .
Black hell-bred humor of fier-venging sin , By whose inticements murders we commit : The end vnthought of , rashly we begin , Letting our passion ouerwhelme our wit . Who may and will not , murder in truth committeth . S. Phil. Sidney .
Vnpunisht scapes , from hainous crime some one , But vnreueng'd , in mind and body none . Idem .
The cruell man a cruell death shall tast , And blood with blood be venged at the last . I. Syl.
Those that in blood such violent pleasure haue , Seldome descend but bleeding to their graue . B. Iohnson .
Vengeance on minde the fretting furies take , The sinfull corps like earth-quake agues shake . Their frowning lookes , their troubled minds bewray , In hast they run , and midst their race they stay . As gidded Doe : amidst their speech they whist , At meate they muse ; no where they may persist . But some feare netleth them , aye hang they so , So neuer wants the wicked murderer woe . M. of M.
Imps of K. Ioue , and Queene remembrance loe , The Sisters nine , the Poets pleasant pheers : Calliope doth stately style bestowe , And worthy praises paints of princely peers . Clio in sullen songs reneweth all day , With present yeares conioyning age by past , Delightfull talke , loues comicall Thalia . In fresh green youth , who doth lawrell tast . With voyces tragicall sounds Melpomen , And as with chaines th' allured eares she binds , Her strings when Terpsichore doth touch , euen then She toucheth hearts , and raigneth in mens minds , Fond Erato , whose looke a louely cheare Presents in dauncing , beares a comely grace , With seemly gesture doth Polhymnie stirre place . Whose words whole routs of rankes doo rule , Vraine her globes to view are bent , The nine-fold heauen obserues with fixed face , The blessed Eutrope tunes her instrument With solace sweete , hence heauy dumps to chace , Lord Phaebus in the midst whose heauenly spirit These Ladies doth inspire . E. of Surrey .
The golden brood of great Apolloes witte . Ed. Spencer .
Sweet Lady Muses , Ladies of delight , Delights of life , and ornaments of light . Idem .
Then followed on the Muses sacred nine , With the first number equally diuine : In virgins white , whose liuely mayden browes Were couered with tryumphant lawrell browes : And on their garments painted out in glory , Their offices and functions in a story : Imblazoning the fury and conceat Which on their sacred company await . M. Drayton .
From these the Muses only are deriu'd , Which of the Angels were in nine contriu'd , These heauenly inspired babes of memory , Which by a like attracting sympathy Apolloes prophets in their furies wrought , And in their spirit inchaunting numbers taught , To teach such as at poesie repine , That it is only heauenly and diuine . And manifest her intellectuall parts , Sucking the purest of the purest arts . And vnto these as by a sweet consent , The sphery circles are aequiualent : From the first mouer and the starry heauen , To glorious Phaebe , lowest of the seuen . Which Ioue in tunefull Diapazons framde , Of heauenly musicke of the Muses namde : To which the soule in her diuinitie By her Creator made of harmonie , Whilest she in fraile and mortall flesh doth liue , To her nine sundry offices do giue : Which offices vnited are in three , Which like the orders of the Angels bee , Prefiguring thus by the number nine The soule , like to the Angels is diuine . Idem .
— Prouide ye Princes whilest ye liue , That of the Muses ye be friended be : Which vnto men eternitie doth giue , For they be daughters of dame memorie , And Ioue , the father of Eternitie . And do those men in golden chrones repose , Whose merits they to glorifie do choose ? The seuenfold yron gates of grisly hell , And horrid house of sad Proserpina , They able are with power of mighty spell , To breake , and thence the soules to bring away Out of dread darknesse to eternall day . And them immortall make which els would die In fowle forgetfulnesse , and namelesse lie . Ed. Spencer .
— Wise words taught in numbers for to runne Recorded by the Muses liue for aye , Ne may with storming showers be washt away . Ne bitter breathing windes with harmfull blast , Nor age nor enuie shall them euer last . Idem .
The Muses not long since intrapping loue In chaines of Roses linked all aray : Gaue bewtie charge to watch in their behoue With Graces three , least he should wend away . Who fearing yet he would escape at last , On hie Parnassus top they clapt him fast . When Venus vnderstood her soone was thrall , She made post-haste to haue god Vulcans aide : Sold him her Iemmes and Ceston therewithall , To raunsome home her sonne that was betraid . But all in vaine , the Muses made no store Of gold , but bound him faster then before . Th. Watson .
The Muses basely beg or bibbe , or both , and must , for why They find as bad Bestoe , as is their portly beggery . w ' warner .
— Thou sweet Musicke , dauncings only life , The eares sole happinesse , the aires best speech : Load-stone of fellowship , charming rod of strife , The soft minds paradize , the sicke mans leech . With their own tongue that trees & stones canst teach . That when the aire doth daunce her finest measure , Then art thou borne , the gods and mens sweet pleasure . I. Dauies .
As without breath no pipe doth moue , No Musicke kindly without loue . S. Phil. Sidney .
Esclepiad did cure with Trompets sound , Such men as first had lost their hearing quite : And many such as in their drinke lay drownd , Damon reuiu'd with tunes of graue delight . And Theophrast when ought his mind opprest , Vsde Musicke sound to bring himselfe to rest . With sound of Harpe Thales did make recure Of such as laie with pestilence forlorne : With Organ pipes Xenocrates made pure Their wittes , whose minds long lunacy had worne . Th. Watson .
Some that report great Alexanders life , They say that harmony so mou'd his minde : That oft he rose from meate to warlike strife , At sound of Trompe , or noyse of battell kinde . And then that Musicks force of softer vaine , Caus'd him returne from strokes to meate againe . Idem .
Nature in which diuinitie doth shine , Liuely presenting vnborne deitie : Is that same spirit of reason most diuine , Which causeth euery naturall worke to be . All things she doth preserue , and can refine Muddy pollutions from impietie . Philosophy can teach no art nor ground , Which Nature ( elder borne ) had not first found . I. Markham .
— Nature in mans heart her lawes doth pen , Prescribing truth to wit , and good to will , Which do accuse , or els excuse all men , For euery thought or practise good or ill . I. Dauies .
Nature aboue all things requireth this , That we our kind do labour to maintaine . S. Phil. Sidney .
Nature which headlong into life doth throng vs With our feete forward to our graue doth bring vs : What is lesse ours , then this our borrowed breath ▪ We stumble into life , we go to death . Th. Bastard .
Inexplicable nature by the God of nature wroght , Makes things seeme miracles to some , to some not wonders thoght . And euery climates people both as they are men and liue , Do differ : if obseru'd , she not admir'd doth giue The workman rather than the work extoll we , though in her Not curiously , and all things to his prouidence refer . W. Warner .
Nature hath powr'd inough in each mans lappe , Could each man learne to vse his priuate happe . Th. Storer .
— Markes descried in mens natiuitie , Are natures faults , not their owne infamie . W. Shakespeare .
Nature is Learnings eyes , she natures thought , Vse wanting either , is imperfect made , They without vse , no better then a shade . I. Markham .
— Nature seemeth onely faire in chaunge . D. Lodge .
— Where nature failes in strength she addes in wit . W. W.
Nature giues bewtie , fortune wealth in vaine . Ed. Fairfax .
— The desire of nature is not vaine , She couets not impossibilities , Fond thoughts may fall into some Idle braine , But one assent of all is euer wise . I. Dauies .
Nature doth hate and shunne her contrarie . Idem .
— Nature teacheth euer Who loues preferment , needs must loue the giuer . Th. Storer .
If to be noble and hie thy mind be moued , Consider well the ground and thy beginning , For he that hath each starre in heauen fixed , And giues the moone her hornes and her eclipsing , Alike hath made the noble in his working : So that wretched no way mayst thou bee , Except foule lust and vice do conquer thee . E. of Surrey .
Let each man cracke of that which was his owne , Our present vertues are theirs , and no whit ours : Who therefore will of noble birth be knowne , Ought shine in vertue like his auncestors . Gentry consisteth not in lands and townes , He is a churle though all the world were his , Yea Arthurs heire if that he liu'd amis . M. of M.
Behold of nobles new the diuerse sourse , Some vertue raiseth , some climbe by sluttish sorts : The first though onely of themselues begunne , Yet circle-wise into themselues do runne , Within themselues therefore vnited so , Both endlesse is , and stronger gainst their foe : For when ends it that neuer hath begunne ? Or how may that hath not end , be vndone ? The other as by wicked meanes they grew , And raignd by flatterie , or violence ; so soone rue . First stumbling step from honours old is vice , Which once stept downe , some linger , none arise To former Type : but they catch vertues spray , Which raiseth them that climbe by lawfull way . Beware to rise by seruing princely lust , Surely to stand on mean , is rising iust . M. of M.
The Rose although in thornie shrubs she spread , Is still the Rose , her bewties waxe not dead . And noble mindes , although the court be bare , Are by resemblance knowne how great they are . R. Gree●e .
A noble minde disdaineth seruitude . Th. Kyd.
True noblenesse neuer doth the thing it should not . Idem .
The noble heart that harbours vertuous thought , And is with childe with glories great intent : Can neuer rest vntill it forth haue brought Th' eternall broode of glory excellent . Ed. Spencer .
— Next in order , sad old Age we found , His beard all hoare , his eyes hollow and blinde , With drouping cheere still poaring on the ground As on the the place where valour him assign'd To rest , when as the sisters had vntwind His vitall thred , and ended with their knife , The fleeting course of fast declining life . M. Sackuill .
Crookt backt he was , tooth-shaken and bleare eide , Went on three feete , and sometime crept on foure , With old lame bones that ratled by his side , His scalpe all pild , and he with eld forlore , His withered fist still knocking at deaths dore , Fumbling and driueling as he drawes his breath , In breefe , the shape and messenger of death . G. Gascoigne . Transl .
Old age and winter do accord full nie , This chill , that cold , this crooked , that awrie . Ed. Spencer .
— He that plies the laps and lips of Ladies all his time , And fals to arms when age fails arms , then also looseth time : As if a beare in Moone-shine , shuld attempt the Moone to clime . W· Warner .
Our infancie is feeble , and our lustie youth vnstaid , Our manhood carking , and our age more loathed then obaid . Idem .
Our heires wax sickish of our health , too long our here abode Mean while the nerer to our graues , the farther we from God Gripple in works , testie in words , loathsom for most at length , And such at foure score , as at foure , for maners wit and strength . Idem .
Eld is ordaind to counsell , youth to fight , Age to foresee , yoong courage to inact . D. Lodge .
Skill and experience good companions beene , Age knoweth whatsoeuet youth hath seene . S. I. H.
Decrepit age and hoary siluer haires , Still craueth helpe of lustie youthfull yeares . G. Gascoigne·
It is a common point whereon the aged grosly runne , Once to haue dared said , & seene , more then was euer done . W. Warner .
— The equall age doth equall life desire . S. Daniel .
Small drops God knowes do quench age heatlesse fire , When all the strength is onely in desire . M. Drayton .
O male-content seducing ghuest , Contriuer of our greatest woes : Which borne of winde and fed with showes , Dost nurse thy selfe in thine vnrest , Iudging vngotten things the best , Or what thou in conceit designest . S. Daniell .
Thou all things in the world dost deeme , Not as they are , but as they seeme , Idem .
Thou soule of pleasure , houres onely substance , Great arbitrator , vmpire of the earth , Whom fleshly Epicures call vertues essence Thou mouing Orator , whose powerfull breath Swaies all mens iudgements , Great Opinion , I. Marston .
Opinion is as various as light chaunge , Now speaking courtlike friendly , straight as strange . Shee 's any humours perfect parasite , Displeasd with her , and pleasd with her delight . Shee is the Eccho of inconstancie , Soothing her no with nay , her I with yea . E. Guilpin .
This syren or Opinion , wind-borne lame , Seeking to ease vs , brings vs to vnrest : For it adiudgeth nothing it doth see , By what it is , but what it seemes bee . I. Markham .
We must in matters morall , quite reiect Vulgar Opinion , euer led amisse : And let autenticke reason be our guide , The wife of truth , and wisedomes gouernesse . G. Chapman .
Opportunitie thy guilt is great , T is thou that execut'st the traitors treason , Thou setst the wolfe where he the lambe may get , Who euer plots the sinne , thou points the season . T is thou that spurn'st at right , at lawiers reason : And in thy shady Cell where none may spie him , Sits sinne , to feare each soule that wanders by him . W. Shakespeare .
Faire Opportunitie can winne the coyest she that is , Then he that rules her gamesome vaine , & tempers toies with art , Brings loue that swimmeth in her eyes , to diue into her hart . W. Warner .
When loue hath knit two parts in perfect vnitie , They seldome faile to finde th' opportunitie . S. I. Harrington .
Occasion 's wingd , and euer flyeth fast , Comming she smiles , and frownes once being past . M. Drayton .
Now by the forehead let vs take Occasion , Least after all our trauell and expence , He hide away his haire , and turne his balld , And we vnprouident bethought and calld . S. I. H.
If lust or age doth minde assaile , Subdue Occasion , so thou shalt preuaile . Idem .
True iudgement sleight regards Opinion . I. Marston .
Opinion how dost thou molest Th' affected mind of restless man ? Who following thee neuer can , Nor euer shall attaine to rest , Forgetting what thou saist is best , Yet loe , that best he findes farre wide , Of what thou promisest before , For in the same he look't for more , Which proues but small when once is tried . S. Daniell .
He onely treads the sure and perfect path To greatnesse , who loue and opinion hath . Idem .
Let vs esteeme Opinion as she is Fooles bable , Innouations mistris . The Proteus Robin good fellow of change , Smithfield of iaded fancies , and th' exchange Of fleeting censures , nurse of heresie , Begot by nature on inconstancie , It s but the kisse of griefe , the peoples noise , The tongue of humors and fantastick voice , Of haire braind apprehension it respects With all due titles , and that due neglects Euen in one instant . Ed. Guilpin .
Patience doth beare a neuer pierced sheeld , Whose brightnesse hath enforc'r more monsters yeeld , Then that of vgly Gorgons head was made . I. Syluister .
Patience is angers subiect , and controll'd With euery fury , which men would redresse , But cannot do it , for she is gentle milde , Orecome and kept downe like a strengthlesse childe . Ch. Middleton .
Patience a praise , forbearance is a treasure , Sufferance an angell , a monster rage . Ed. Fairfax .
Let gentle Patience profit thee , for Patience is a thing , Whereby a begger gaineth of a discontented King . W. Warner .
Man in himselfe a litle world doth beare , His soule the Monarch euer ruling there , Where euer then his body do remaine , He is a King that in himselfe doth raigne , And neuer feareth fortunes hot'st alarmes , That beares against her Patience for her armes . M. Drayton .
The lesser pangs can beare , who hath endur'd the chief . Ed. Sp.
What fortune hurts , let Patience onely heale , No wisedome with extremities to deale . M. Dr.
By patient sufferance could we mildly beare With fortune , yet we equally might share , And ouercomming that which all do feare . By present cure , preuent ensuing care . Idem .
Who in distresse from resolution flies , Is rightly said to yeeld to miseries . That life is only miserable and vile , From which faire Patience doth it selfe exile . Idem .
Though eyes want sight of that they would see faine , The thought yet sees , and heart with patience likes it : Long absence greeues thee when they meet againe , Absence delights , and doth more pleasant make it To serue and sue long time for little gaine . ( So that all hope do not quite forsake it ) One may endure , for when the paine is past Reward though long it staie , yet comes at last . S. I. H.
Let Brontes and blacke Steropes Sweat at the Forge their hammers beating : An houre will come , they must affect their ease , Though but while mettall's heating . And after all their Aetnean ire , " Gold that is perfect will out-liue the fire . " For Fury wasteth , " As Patiend lasteth . " No armor to the Mind : " He is shoot-fire From Iniury , That is not hurt ; not hee , that is not hit : So Fooles we see , Oft scape their Imputation , more through luck , then wit . B. Iohnson .
Passion deuours , but time digests our woe . Passion beares hie , when puffing witts do blowe : But is indeed a to● , if not a toy , True cause of euils , and cause of caused th showe . S. Phil. Sid
They only aptest are for to reueale Their priuate passions who the same do feele . D. Lodge .
None doth liue not passionate of loue , ire , mirth or griefe . W. Warner .
A man may not of passions iudge aright , Except his mind be from all passions free : Nor can a Iudge his office well acquite , If he possest of either partie bee . I. Dauies .
It is as common as vnkind a fault In youth ( too subiect to this worlds assault ) To imitate , admit , and daily chuse Those errors which their lawlesse parents vse . D. Lodge .
If damned dice the father doth affect , The selfe-like folly doth his heire infect . If lust , to lust the sonne is to procliue , If fraud , by fraud his wanton race will thriue . If surfit , surfit is esteem'd no sin , For youth perseuers as he doth begin . Idem .
— From damned deeds abstaine , From lawlesse riots and from pleasures vaine . If not regarding of thy owne degree , Yet in behalfe of thy posteritie , For we are docible to imitate Depraued pleasures , though degenerate . Be carefull therefore least thy sonne admit By eare or eye things filthy or vnfit . Idem .
The Babe is blest that godly parent● bred , And sharpe-sweet tutors traine in louing dred : But chiefly that ( in tender cradle bed ) With sincere milke of pietie is fed . I. Syl.
— Charitable , godly , wise and continent were fit Should parents be ; so prosper they , theirs , and whom they beget . W. Warner .
— Oft we see men so fond and blinde To carry to their sonnes too much affection : That when they seeme to loue they are vnkinde , For they do hate a childe that spare correction . S. I. H.
— Parents thoughts in loue , oft steppe awry . G. Peele .
Our parents age worse then our graund-syres bee , We worse , beget our children worse then wee . Th. Storer .
— Mother of the liuing , second nature Of th' elements , fire , water , earth and aire : The grace whereby men clime the heauenly chaire , Whence voyd , this world harbors no happie creature . Piller of lawes , religions pedestall , Hope of the glory , glory of the immortall . Honor of cities , pearle of kingdomes all , The nurse of vertues , Muses chiefe supportall . Patron of arts , of good the speciall spring . I. Syluester .
Heauens sacred nymph , faire goddesse that renuest The golden age , and brightly now revewest , Our cloudy skie , making our fields to smile , Hope of the vertuous , horror of the vile . Virgin vnseene , in France this many a yeare , O blessed peace , we bid thee welcome heere . Idem .
O holy peace by thee are only found , The passing ioyes that euery where abound . G. Gascoigne . Transl .
— Most sacred peace Doth nourish vertue , and fast friendship breeds , Weak she makes strong , & strong things does increase : Till it the pitch of highest praise exceeds . Braue be her warres , and honorable deeds , By which she tryumphs ouer ire and pride , And wins an Oliue garland for their meeds . Ed. Spencer .
Peace doth depend on reason , warre on force , The one is humane , honest and vpright : The other brutish , fostered by despight . The one extreame , concluded with remorse , The other all iniustice doth diuorce . D. Lodge .
Peace brings in pleasure , pleasure breeds excesse , Excesse procureth want , want worse distresse . Distresse contempt , contempt is not repaired , Till liuelesse death determine hope dispaired . Idem .
Warres greaest woes , and miseries increase , Flowes from the surfets which we take in peace . B. Iohn .
Physche in stedfast loue and happie state With Cupid liues , and hath him borne a childe , Pleasure that doth both Gods and men aggrate . Ed. Spencer .
Most easie is the way and passage plaine , To Pleasures pallace ; it may soone be spide , And day and night her doores to all stand open wide . Idem .
Her face was wan , a leane and withered skin , Her stature scant three horsloaues did exceed : Her haire was gray of hue , and very thin , Her teeth were gone , her gummes seru'd in their steed . No space there was betweene her nose and chin . Her noysome breath contagion would breed . In fine , of her it might haue well bene said , In Nestors youth she was a prettie maid . S. I. Harr.
O poysoned hooke that lurkes in sugred bait O Pleasures vaine , that in this world are found : Which like a subtill theefe do lie in wait To swallow man in sinke of sin profound . Idem .
— Reuels , daunces , maskes and merry howers , Forerun faire loue , strowing her way with flowers . W. Sha.
O Pleasure thou the very lure of sin , The roote of woe , our youths deceitfull guide : A shop where all infected persons bin , The bait of lust , the instrument of pride . Inchaunting Circes smoothing couert guile , Alluring Syren , flattering Crocodile . M. Drayton .
Pleasures be poore , and our delights be dead , When as a man doth not enioy the head . Idem .
Neuer haue vniust pleasures bene compleat In ioyes intire ; but still feare kept the dore : And held backe something from that hell of sweet , To inter sowre vnsure delights the more . For neuer did all circumstances meet With those desires which were conceiu'd before . Something must still be left to cheare our sin , And giue a touch of what should not haue bin . S. Daniell .
Pleasure is felt , opinion but conceiu'd . Idem .
In feare her arts are learned now a daies , To counterfait their haire and paint their skin : But reasons ring their craft and guile bewraies , No wise men of their paintings passe a pin . S. I. H.
Too much desire to please , pleasure diuorces , Attempts , and not intreat , get Ladies larges . G. Chapman .
Our fond preferments are but childrens toyes , And as a shadow all our pleasures passe : As yeares increase , so waining are our ioyes , And beautie crazed like a broken glasse , A prettie tale of that which neuer was . M. Drayton .
— Pleasures neuer dine but on excesse , Whose diet made to draw on all delight : And ouercome in that sweet drunkennesse , His appetite maintained by his sight , Strengtheneth desire , but euer weakeneth might . Vntill this vlcer ripening to an head , Vomits the poyson which it nourished . Idem .
Short houres worke long effects minutes haue change , While pleasure ioyeth , paine more ripe doth growe . Idem .
The secret sweet is sweetest , sweet to fall . Th. Achilley .
— To them that know not pleasures price , All s one , a prison , or a paradice . M. Drayton .
All art is learnd by art , this art alone It is a heauenly gift : no flesh nor bone Can preise the hony we from Pind distill , Except with holy fier his brest we fill . From that spring flowes , that men of speciall choose Consum'd in learning and perfit in prose : For to make verse in vaine do is trauell take , When as a prentise fairer words will make . K. of S.
Whilome in ages past none might professe But princes and hie priests that sacred skill : The sacred lawes wherein they wont expresse , And with deepe oracles their verses fill , Then was he held in soueraigne dignitie , And made the noursling of nobilitie . But now nor Prince nor Priest doth her maintaine , But suffer her prophaned for to bee , Of the base vulgar that with hands vncleane Dares to pollute her hidden misterie . And treadeth vnderfoote her holy things , Which was the care of Keysars and of Kings . Ed. Spencer .
Those numbers wherwith heauen & earth are mou'd , Shew , weaknes speaks in prose , but power in verse . S. Daniell .
— Man from man must holy parted bee , If with his age his verse do well agree . Amongst our hands , he must his wits resing , A holy traunce to highest heauen him bring . For euen as humane fury makes the man Lesse then the man : so heauenly fury can Make man passe man , and wander in holy mist Vpon the fiery heauen to walke at list . Within that place the heauenly Poets sought Their learning , sin to vs here downe it brought . With verse that ought to Atropos no due , Dame Natures trunchmen , heauens interpret true , K. of Scots .
The vaunted verse a vacant head demaunds , Ne wont with crabbed care the Muses dwell , Vnwisely weaues that takes two webbes in hand . Ed. Spencer .
O peerlesse Poesie , where is then thy place ? If not in princes pallace thou doest sit , And yet is princes pallace the most fit . Or breach of baser birth doth thee embrace , Then make thee wings of thy aspiring wit , And whence thou cam'st fly backe to heauen apace . Idem .
All art is learn'd by art , but poesie It is a gift diuine , and cannot die . Idem .
Like as into the waxe the seales imprent , Is like a seale : right so the Poet gent , Doth graue so viue in vs his passions strange , As makes the reader halfe in author change , For Verses force is like that softly slides , Through secret poris , and in our sences bides , As make them haue both good and ill imprented , Which by the learned worke is represented . K. of Scots .
— Onely he of Lawrell is condigne , Who wisely can with profit pleasure minge , The fairest walking on the sea coast beene , And surest swimming where the braes are greene , So wise is he who in his verse can haue Skill mixt with pleasure sports , with doctrine graue . Idem .
Who euer casts to compasse waightie prise , And thinks to throw out thundering words of threat : Let power in lauish cups and thriftie bits of meat , For Bacchus fruite is friend to Phoebus wise , And when with wine the braine begins to sweat , The numbers flowe , as freely spring doth rise . Ed. Spencer .
Ridled poesies and those significantly flowe , Differ in eares , as do in mouths the apricocke and sloe . W. Warner .
What reason mou'd the golden Augustine To name our Poetrie vaine errors wine ? Or Hierome deeply sighted in their euills , To tearme it nothing but the foode of deuils . Nought but the misimployment of our gifts , Ordaind for Art , but spent in shamlesse slufts . D. Lodge .
Looke as the sun-beame in a burning glasse , Doth kindle fier where euer it doth passe , But freely spread vpon th' engendring earth , Egges on the spring , and bils the cause of dearth , So Poesie restraind in errors bounds , With poisoned words and sinfull sweetnesse wounds , But cloathing vertue and adorning it , Wit shines in vertue , vertue shines in it . Idem .
The Greekes do paint the Poets office whole , In Pegasus their fained horse , with wings , Whom shaped so , Medusaes bloud did foyle , Who with his feete strake out the Muses springs Fro flintie rocks to Helicon that clings , And then flew vp into the starry skie , And there abides among the Gods on hie : For who that will a perfect Poet bee , He must be bred out of Medusaes blood , He must be chaste and vertuous as was shee , Who to her power , the Ocean God withstood . To th' end also his doombe be iust and good , He must as she , looke rightly with one eie , Truth to regard , ne write one thing awrie . In courage eke , he must be like a horse , He may not feare to register the right . What though some frowne ? thereof he may not force No bit , ne raine his tender iawes may twight , He must be arm'd with strength of wit and sprite , To dash the rocks , darke causes and obscure , Till he attaine the springs of truth most pure . His houes also must pliant be and strong , To riue the rocks of lust and errors blind . In brainelesse heads that alwaies wander wrong , These must be bruis'd with reasons plaine and kind , Till springs of grace do gush out of thy mind : For till affections fond be from thee driuen , In vaine is truth told , or good counsell giuen . Like Pegasus , a Poet must haue wings , To flie to heauen , or where him liketh best , He must haue knowledge of eternall things , Almightie Ioue must harbour in his brest , With worldly cares he may not be opprest . The wings of wit and skill must heaue him hier , With great delight to ratifie desier . He must also be lustie , free , and swift , To trauell farre to view the trades of men . Great knowledge oft is gotten by the shift , Things that import he must be quicke to pen , Reprouing vices sharply now and then . He must be swift when touched tyrants chafe , To gallope thence , to keepe his carkas safe . M. of M.
A Poet must be pleasant , not too plaine , Faults to controll , ne yet to flatter vice , But sound and sweete , in all things ware and wise . Idem .
— Poets onely pride , Is vertue to aduance , and vice deride . Ed. Spencer .
— Poets right are like the pipe alway , Who full doth sound , and emptie , staies to play : Euen so their fury lasting , lasts their tone , Their fury ceast , their muse doth stay anone . K. of Scots .
When heauen would striue to doo the best she can , And put an Angels spirit into a man , Then all her powers she in that worke doth spend , When she a Poet to the world doth send . The difference onely twixt the Gods and vs , Allowd by them , is but distinguisht thus . They giue men breath , men by their powers are born , That life they giue , the Poet doth adorne : And from the world when they dissolue mans breath , They in the world do giue man life in death . M. Drayton .
— Who so will with vertues deeds assay To mount to heauen on Pegasus must ride , And with sweete Poets verse be glorifide , For not to haue bene dipt in Laethe Lake , Could saue the sonne of Thetis for to die , But that blind bard did him immortall make , With Verses dipt , in deaw of Castelie , Which made the Easterne Emperour to crie . O fortunate yoong man whose vertue found So braue a trumpe thy vertues to resound . Ed. Spencer .
Phisitions bills not patients but Apothecaries knowes , Some moderne Poets be hardly inward so , Not intellectually to write , is learnedly they trowe , Whereby they hit capacities , as blind men hit the crowe . W. Warner .
As now by melancholy walks , and thredbare coats we gesse , At clients and at Poets none worke more , and profit lesse . None make to more vnmade of more , the good of other men For those enrich the gownists , these eternize with their pen. Yet soothly nods to Poets now , are largesse and but lost , For Pallas hermits liue secure , obscure in roofes embost . Idem .
The world and they so ill according bee , That wealth and Poets hardly can agree : Fewe liue in court , that of their good do care , The muses friends are euery where so rare . M. Draiton .
He giues a Poet that his verses heares . Idem .
But oh Mecenas is yclad in clay , And great Augustus long ago is dead , And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead , That matter made for Poets on to play ●or euer , who in dorring do , were dead , The loftie verse of them was loued aye : But after vertue , gan for age to stoupe , And mightie manhood brought to bed of ease , ●he vaunting Poets found nought worth a pease , ●o put in preaze among the learned troope , ●ho gan the streames of flowing wits to cease , And sun-bright honour pend in shamefull coope . Ed. Spencer .
— These frugall patrons who begin To scantle learning with a seruile pay , Make Poets thinke their negligence no sin , The cold conceit of recompence doth flay , Their fiery furie when they should begin , The Priest vnpaid , can neither sing nor say , Nor Poets sweetly write , except they meete With some rewards for sermoning so sweete . D. Lodge .
— Platoes Common-weale did packe None of those Poets , who by Verse did make The good men euill , and the wicked worse , Whose pleasant words betraid the publike corse , Nor those who in their songs good termes , alwaies Ioynd with faire theames : whil'st thundring on the praise Of God , iust thunderer ; whiles this holy speach , Like Hermes did the way to strayers teach . K. of Scots .
— Such is th'ffect of two much store , It makes them loathe that which they lou'd before . Ch. Middleton .
The stately Eagle on his pitch doth stand And from the maine the fearefull foule doth suit , Yet scornes to touch them lying on the land , When he hath felt the sweete of his delight , But leaues the same a pray to euery Kite , With much we surfet , Plentie makes vs poore , The wretched Indian scornes the golden Oare . M. Drayton .
O pollicie scarce knowne in times that 's past , Or being knowne , yet least of most esteemd , Thy prouidence most worthily shall last , And in these latter dayes be better deemd . L. Markham .
— Warre , honour doth deserue , Yet counsell in all Kingdomes pollicied , Is farre more worthy and more dignified : For armes but in extreames do neuer serue , To reconcile and punish such as swerue . D. Lodge .
He that will gaine what pollicie doth heed , By Mercurie must deale , or neuer speed . M. Drayton .
Grounded aduice in daunger seldome trips The deadliest poyson still can safely drinke : Foresight , stands fast where giddie rashnes slides , Wisedome seemes blind , when eyed as a Lin● Preuention speaketh ill , but what he thinkes , The deadliest hate which smiles securely stands . Idem .
— Pollicie religious habit weares . Idem .
No Pollicie to silence now adaies . Th. Storer .
Our troubles kept abroad , although to cost , A●e well bought out , for least by them is lost . D. Lodge .
T is better farre thy enemy to aband Quite from thy bowers to a stranger soyle , Then he at home thee and thy country foyle . M. of M.
The head that deemes to ouertop the skie , Shall perish in his humane pollicie . R. Greene .
How oft haue watching pollicie deuizde A cunning clause which hath himselfe surprizde ? How often hath leaud fraud bene set a flore Of purpose that his goods might cut his throte ? Who builds on strength by pollicie is stript , Who hurts his wit by wit , is soonest tript . D. Lodge .
Endeuours polliticke take small effect , That wants assistance from the heauenly word : Beside fome helpe must wealth and state afford . For iudgement vttered by the mouth of want , Is either partiall or admired scant . Th. Storer .
A Clergie man his calling much impaires , To meddle with the polliticke affaires . Idem .
Though Marius could begin and make the fray , Yet Scaurus pollicie deserues the baye . D. Lodge .
Let Catulus with Pompey be comparde , Or wittie Cicero with Cateline : And to preuent with pollicie diuine , That which the other ouer-rashly darde , Deserues such fame as may not be imparde . Idem .
Say military vertues do require A valiant heart , great strength and constancie : The selfe like gifts in ciuil pollicie , Are requisite for such as do aspire To gaine renowne by counsell for their hire . Idem .
A little harme done to a great good end , For lawfull pollicie remaines inacted , The poysonous simple sometime is compacted In a pure compound ; being so applied His venome in effect is purified . W. Sha.
O pouertie , chiefe of the heauenly broode . Ed. Fairfax .
— Such is the world , this cros-blis world of ours , That vertue hardly hides her self in poore & desart bowers , And such be best as seeme not best , content exceeds a crowne W. Warner .
— Powerfull need ( arts auncient dame , and keeper ) The early watch clocke of the slothfull sleeper . I. Syluester .
— Lacke is thrall and slaue to euery thing . Th. Churchyard .
Need is mistresse of all exercise . Th. Bastard .
A schollers want exceeds a clownes content . Idem .
No danger but in hie estate , none erre in meane degree . W. Warner .
— Where imperious need doth tyrannize , The holy heate through worldly cares doth pawse It s soild with earthly thoughts and downward drawes . Hence come those dull conceits among the wise , Which coy eard readers censure to proceed From ignorance , whereas they grow by need . D. Lodge .
The citizens like ponned pikes , the lesser feeds the great , The rich for meat seek stomachs , and the pore for stomach meat . W. Warner .
Be as thou art , not as thou wouldst , it will be as it is , Learne then to lack , and learn to liue , for crosses neuer misse . Idem .
Prayers heart and sides , and feet , are full of wings ( Like to th' Arcadian which Ioues arrand brings ) Her body burning , from her lips doth come The smoake of Incense , and of sweet Amome . I. Syluester .
Heauens are propitious vnto fearfull prayers . R. Greene .
Fasting ( though faint ) her face with ioy she cheares , In weaknes strong , and young in aged yeares . Quicke health preseruer , curbing Cupids fits , Watchfull , purge humors , and refining wits . I. Syl.
This false painted deitie called Laude , Which makes vs thirst for vaine eternitie : Twixt our desires and hope , a cunning baud Vshers the soule vnto extremitie : And helpt by slye insinuating fraud , Couers her deeds in scrowles of pietie . I. Markham .
The hope of praise makes men no trauell shunne , To say an other day this haue we donne . S. I. H.
Who rightly climes the top of endlesse praise , Regards not what the wise discourser saies . Th. Storer .
— From praise takes enuie cause . W. W.
The chiefest praise is to imbrace the man In wealth and woe , with whom our loue began . G. Turb .
The greatest praise , in greatest perils wonne . Ed. Fairfax .
The looser wantons sild are praisde of many , Vice oft findes friends but vertue sildome any . M. Dray .
In Athence where Themistocles remaind , Though much he conquered by his regiments , Yet Solon was more praised for his intents . D. Lodge .
Praise not the bewty of thy wife , though she of fame be spred , For Gyges moued so , did graft on Caudales his hed . W. Warner .
O Prouidence the conduct to our life , The ground of vertue , hostile foe to sin : That re●●est Towers , and appeasest strife : Thou gatherest all dispearsed exiles in . Thou that inuentest lawes gainst man and wife . Thou mistresse vnto auncient discipline . Thou that bear'st heauen and nature round about thee : That makest all things , nothing being without thee . I. Markham .
Of grisly Pluto she the daughter was , And sad Proserpina the queene of hell : Yet doth she thinke her peerlesse worth to passe , That parentage with pride so doth she swell , And thundering Ioue that high in heauen doth dwell : And weeld the world , she claimed for her sire . Or if that any els doth Ioue excell , For to the highest she doth still aspire , Or if ought higher were , then that doth it desire . — And proud Lucifera men did her call . Ed. Spencer .
O pride , the shelfe close shrowded in the port Of this lifes Ocean , drowning all resort . D. Lodge .
Pride makes her rownds , for she hath neuer end , And sonnets , for she neuer leaues her noyse : She makes her dumps if any thing offend , And to her Idoll-selfe with warbling voyce Sings Hymnes and Anthems of especiall choyce . And yet prides quiuer's put to silence cleane , Wanting a base , a tenor , and a meane . Th. Storer .
The winged giant loftie staring pride , That in the cloudes her brauing brest doth hide . I. Syl.
Pride is the roote of ill in euery state , The sourse of sin , the very fiend his fee : The head of hell , the bough , the braunch , the tree . From which do spring and sprout such fleshly seeds , As nothing els but moane and mischiefe breeds . G. Gascoigne .
Pride drawes on vengeance , vengeance hath no mean . — Nemesis hath euery howre reseru'd A plague for pride that hath from iustice sweru'd . D. Lodge .
— Such is the nature still of hautie pride , Can nothing lesse then others praise abide . M. of M.
— When once pride but pointeth toward his fall . He beares a sword to wound himselfe withall . M. Drayton .
— Loftie pride that dwells In towred courts , is oft in shepheards cells . Ch. Marlowe .
A proud man may his owne musition bee , His heads deuise makes pauins to his hart : This heart with lippes and pleasures daunceth free , All but the measures framing euery part Like organis worthy of so sweet an art . His thoughts plaies marches to his vaulting minde , And memorie his Recorder stands behinde . Th. Storer .
Gay without good , is good hearts greatest loathing . Ed. Spencer .
The very place wherein a Prince appeares Discernes his presence , makes his chamber blest : Like Planets are they knowne within their spheares , Or as Halcion with her luring brest : Demonstrates winde from winde , and East from West . This is a certaine nature of estate , It cannot masked be , nor chaunge his gate . Th. Storer .
A Princes safetie lies in louing people , His fort is Iustice ( free from stratageme ) Without the which strong citadels are feeble , The subiects loue is wonne by louing them . Of louing them no oppression is the tryall , And no oppression makes them euer loyall . I. Syl.
To be a Prince , is more then be a man . S. Daniell .
— Princes are the glasse , the schoole , the booke where subiects eies do liue , do read , do looke . w . warner .
Howbeit subiects falsly iudge their Princes blessed are , when both of peace & perils they contain the common care . And yet for this they grudgingly from pounds a penny spare . Idem .
Princes in subiects wrongs must deem themselues abusd S. Phil. Sidney .
Priuate men sound not the hearts of Princes , Whose actions oft beare contrary pretences . S. Daniell .
Princes like Lyons neuer will be tamde , A priuate man may yeeld and care not howe , But greater hearts will breake before they bowe . Idem .
The Princes armes are stretcht from shore to shore . M. Drayton .
— As the pawnce doth circle with the Sunne , So to the vice , or vertue of the Prince , are people wonne . W. Warner .
Good Princes sorrow more in punishing , Then euil subiects in committing sin . Ch. Mid.
Euen as defaults will more conspicuous be How much th' offender greater is esteemd : So vertue in a princely body seene , Lamp-like and far more excellently deemd , That in such vinitie it s seldome seene . In mutuall approach of highest blisse , Whether more graced each by other is . Th. Storer .
O happie Princes whose foresight and care Can winne the loue of writers in such sort As Caesars did , so as you need not dread The lake of Laethe after ye be dead . S. I.H.
— Princes neuer do themselues more wrong Then when they hinder iustice or prolong . Idem .
In whose high brest may Iustice build her bower When Princes hearts wide open lye to wrong ? G. Gascoigne .
We imitate the greater powers , The princes manners , fashion ours : The example of their light regarding , Vulgar loosenes much incenses , Vice vncontroll'd , growes wide inlarging , Kings small faults be great offences . S. Daniell .
Oft for the pleasure of a prince go many things awry . W. Warner .
Princes like sinnes be euermore in sight , Ill see the clouds which do eclips their light . Yet they which light all downe from their skies , See not the cloudes offending others eies . And deeme their noonetide is desirde of all , When all exspect cleare changes by their fall . M. Dray .
Princes haue but their titles for their glories , An outward honor for an inward toyle : And for vnfelt imagination They often feele a world of restlesse cares . So that betwixt their titles and low names Their 's nothing differs but the outward fame . W. Sha.
Seld shall you see the ruine of a prince , But that the people eke like brunt do beare : And old records of auncient times long since From age to age , yea almost euery where , With proofe hath glutted euery yeare . Thus by the follies of the princes hart , The bounden subiect still receiueth smart . G. Gascoigne .
The wind is great vpon the highest hills , The quiet life is in the dale below : Who tread on y●e shall slide against their wills , They want not cares that curious arts would know . Who liues at ease and can content him so Is perfit wise , and sets vs all to schoole : Who hates this lore , may well be call'd a foole . M. of M.
— Quietnes the onely nurse or ease . M. Dray .
Wellwot I sooth they say that say , more quiet nights and daies . The shepheard sleeps & wakes , then he whose cattell he doth graze ▪ W. Warner .
— Logicke , reason in a daunce ( Reson the Cynosure and bright load-starre In this worlds sea ) t' auoyd the rocke of chaunce , For vith close following and continuance , O●e reason doth another so ensue , A in conclusion still the daunce i● true . I. Dauies .
— Reason should haue abilitie To h●ld these worldly things in such proportion , As lethem come or go with euen facilitie . S. Phil. Sidney .
— ●uery thing that is begun with reason Will c●●e by ready meanes vnto his end , But thi●gs miscounselled , must needs miswend . Ed. Spencer .
Reason by prudence in her function , Had wont to tutor all out action , Ayding with precepts of Philosophie Our feebled natures imbecillitie , But now affection with concupiscence , Haue got ore reason chiefe preheminence . I. Marston .
What warre so cruell , or what siege so sore As that which strong affections do applie Against the fort of reason euermore , To bring the soule into captiuitie ? Their force is fairer through infirmitie Of the fraile flesh , relenting to their rage , And exercise most bitter tirannie , Vpon the parts brought into their bondage ; No wretchednesse is like to sinfull villanie . Ed. Spencer .
But in a body which doth freely yeeld His parts to reasons rule obedient , And letteth not that ought the scepter weeld , All happie peace and goodly gouernment . Is setled there in sure establishment . Idem .
He that is of reasons skill bereft , And wants the stuffe of wisedome him to stay , Is like a subiect midst of tempest left , Withouten helme or pilot her to sway , Full sad and dreadfull is that ships euent : So is the man that wante intendment , Idem .
Reason doth teach vs that the care is vaine , For ill once past which cannot turne againe . Th. watson .
If reason bandie with opinion , Opinion winnes in the conclusion : For if a man be once opinionate , Millions of reasons will extenuate His forced malice : conference Cannot asswage opinions insolence . But let opinion once lay batterie To reasons for t , she will turne heresie Or superstition , wily politist , But she will win those rampi●es which resist . Ed. Gilpin .
— Nought can reason auaile in heauenly matters . S. Phil ▪ Sid.
She whom sauns reason men haue reason hight , Since first in ●ire the Lord the aire inclosde : In aire the sea , in sea the earth disposde Hath with mild faith maintaind continuall fight . I. Syluester .
— The eye of reason is with raging ybent . Ed. Sp.
Sacred Religion , mother of forme and feare . S. Daniell .
O that this power from euerlasting giuen , The great alliance made twixt God and vs , The intelligence that earth doth hold with heauen . Sacred Religion , O that thou must thus Be made to smooth our vniust vneuin , Brought from aboue earths quarrell to discusse . Must men beguile our soules to win our wills , And make our zeale the furtherer of ills ? Idem .
No one quailes religion more then foundring presbitie , Each s●t impugning order , saith and doth his infancie . W. Warner .
What may not mischiefe of mad man abuse ? Religions cloake some one to vice doth chuse . And maketh God protector of his crime , O monstrous world , well ought we wish thy fine . M. of M.
— English men , nay Christian men , not only seeme prophane , But man to man , as beast to beast hold ciuil duties vaine . Yea pulpits some like pedlers packs yeeld forth as men affect : And what a Synode should conclude , a souter doth correct . The rude thus bos●ing literature , one sin begets another And grosly thogh a schisme , yet hath ech Schismatick his brother Mean while the learned want their meed , & none with profit hears , The tedious dolt whose artlesse tong doth preach to verie eares . W. Warner .
— Since pure religion doth install Learned professors , Prelates of deserts , Let them aspire and reac instructed harts Against the base bestowers of church liuings , That vse their graunts in tellings , not in giuings . Th. Storer .
Repentance makes two riuers of her eies , Her humble face dares scant behold the skies : Her broken breast is beaten blew and blacke , Her tender fleshis rent with rugged sacke , With sorrowes snowes her hoary waxen head , With ashes pale , and dust is ouerspread . I. Syluister .
Repentance , hope , and soft humilitie , Do flanke the wings of faiths triumphant carre , Idem .
Repentance , A salue , a comfort , and a cordiall , He that hath her , the keies of heauen hath , This is the guide , this is the port , the path . M. Drayton .
O happie they that keepe within their measure , To turne their course in time , and sound retreit , Before that wit which late Repentance tought , Were better neuer had then so deare bought . S. I. H.
Sinnes haue their salues , repentance can do much . R. Greene .
— To be penitent for faults , with it a paron beares . W. W.
Then hope we health when sinne is left repentantly in hart , Adde then new life , and we to God , God doth to vs conuart . Idem .
Yet stay thy feete in murders vgly gate , Ill comes to soone , repentance oft too late . M. Dr ,
Their liues no man so setled in content , That hath not daily whereof to repent . D. Lodge .
We see what 's good , and thereto we consent , But yet we chuse the worse and soone repent . S. Daniell .
— What so strong , But wanting rest , will also want of might ? The sunne that measures heauen all day long , At night doth bath his steeds , th' Ocean waues among . Ed. Spencer .
Vntroubled night they say , giues counsell best . Idem .
Who long hath rested cannot runne apace , The fettered horse is hindmost in the chase .
— Next within the entrie of the gate , Sate fell reuenge , gnashing her teeth with ire , Deuising meanes how she may vengeance take , Neuer in rest till she haue her desire . But frets within so farre forth with the fier Of wreaking flames , that now determines shee , To die by death , or vengd by death to bee . M. Sackuill .
O fearefull frowning Nemesis , Daughter of iustice most seuere , That art the worlds great arbitresse , And Queene of causes raigning heere . S. Daniell .
Fierce Nemesis mother of fate and change , Sword bearer of th' eternall prouidence . Idem .
— Nemesis whose hastie reuenging Hands are euer at hand : whose mind is mutable alwaies , At miseries laughing , at mens felicitie grudging . A. Fraunce .
— Nemesis hie mistris of reuenge , That with the scourge keepes all the world in awe . Th. Dekkar .
The minde by wrong is made a male-content , And cloudes her shine in pleaslesse melancholy , Her holy humours are in passion spent , Till by reuenge shee 's set at libertie . For t is reuenge that satisfaction brings To iniur'd mindes , and to oppressed things . I. Markham .
The soule is like a boystrous working sea , Swelling in billowes for disdaine of wrongs , And tumbling vp and downe from bay to bay , Proues great with child of indignations . Yet with reuenge is brought to calme allay , Disburdend of the paine thereto belongs . Her bowers are turnd to bright-fac't sun-shine braues , And faire content plaies gently on her waues . Idem .
Reuenge dies not , rigour begets new wrath , And bloud hath neuer glory , mercie hath . S. D.
Reuenge is mine , saith he that sits on hie . Th. Achelly .
O dire reuenge when thou in time art rakte , From out the ashes that preserue thee long , And lightly from thy cinders art awakte , Fuell to freedome , and reuiu'd with wrong : How soone from sparks the greatest flames art sprung ? Which doth by nature to his top aspire , Whose massy greatnes once kept downe his fier . M. Drayton .
Reuenge in tears doth euer wash his hands , Idem .
Who so doth threat meanes of reuenge doth loose . S. D.
Had I reuenged bene of euery harme , My coate had neuer kept me halfe so warme . G. Gascoigne .
Though vengeance come behind , and her foote sore , She ouertakes th' offender going before .
At last he came vnto a gloomy glade , Couered with boughes and shades from heauen light : Whereas he sitting found in secret shade , An vncouth , saluage , and vnciuill wight , Of grisly hue , and foule ilfauoured sight : His face with smoake was tand , and eies were bleard , His head and beard with sowte were all bedight , His coale blacke hands did seeme to haue bene seard , In smith-fiers spitting forge , & nails like claws appeard . His Iron coate all ouergrowne with rust , Was vnderneath enueloped with gold , Whose glittering glose darkened with filthy dust Well it appeared to haue bene of old , A worke of rich entraile and curious molde , Wouen with Anticks and wilde Imagerie , And in his lap a masse of coyne he tolde And turned vpside downe to feed his eie , A couetous desire with his huge treasurie : And round about him lay on euery side , Great heapes of gold that neuer could be spent , Of Mulcibers deuouring element : Some others were nere driuen and distent Into great Ingoes and to wedges square , Some in round plates without monument : But some were stampt , and in their end all bare , The Anticke shapes of Kings and Keysars , strange and rare . Ed. Spencer .
— I riches reade And deeme them roote of all disquietnes : First got with guile , and then preseru'd with dread , And after spent with pride and lauishnes : Leauing behind them griefe and heauines . Infinit mischiefes of them do arise , Strife and debate , blood-shead and bitternes , Outragious wrong , and hellish couetize , That noble heart as great dishonor doth despise . Idem .
— It 's but a little slide That doth the house of riches from her mouth diuide . Before the doore sate selfe-consuming care , Day and night keeping wary watch and ward : For feare least fotce or fraud should vnaware Breake in and spoyle the treasure there ingard . Ne would he suffer sleepe once thitherward Approach , albe his drowsie den were next , For next to death is sleepe to be compar'd , Therefore his house is vnto his annext , Here sleep , there riches , & hel gate them both betwixt . Ed. Spencer .
Well may a rich mans hearse want teares , but heires he shall not misse , To whom that he is dead at length no little ioy it is . w . warner .
Good is no good , but if it be spend , God giueth good for no other end . Ed. Spencer .
Vessels of brasse , oft handled brightly shine , What difference betweene the richest mine And basest earth , but vse ? for both not vsde Are of little worth : then treasure is abusde When misers keepe it , being put to lone , In time it will returne vs two for one . Ch. Marlowe .
Gold is a sutor , neuer tooke repulse , It carries Palme with it , ( where e're it goes ) Respect , and obseruation ; it vncouers The knottie heads of the most surly Groomes , Enforcing yron doores to yeeld it way , Were they as strong ram'd vp as Aetna gates . It bends the hams of Gossip Vigilance , And makes her supple feete , as swift as winde . It thawes the frostiest , and most stiffe disdaine : Muffles the clearnesse of Election , Straines fancie vnto foule Apostacie . And strikes the quickest-sighted Iudgement blinde . Then why should we dispaire ? dispaire ? Away : Where Gold 's the Motiue , women haue no Nay . B. Iohnson .
Wealth in this age will scarcely looke on merit . Idem .
— Gentry doth small auaile , And vertue lesse , if lands and riches faile . S. I. H.
The common text shall haue a common glosse , Receits in parcels , shall be paid in grosse . This doctrine preach'd who from the church doth take At last shall trebble restitution make . M. Dray .
— Secrecie the crowne of a true Louer . M. Drayton .
— Hard it is to proue By sight or speech , what bides in secret brest . S. I. H.
— What can so secret bee , But out of it will when we do least suspect ? For posts haue eares , and walles haue eyes to see , Dumbe beasts and birds haue toongs ill to detect . Idem .
Dumbe Silence , sworne attendant on black night , Thou that hast power to close vp murmures iawe : To stop the barking of the watchfull hound , And charme the gagling of those waking fowle , That sau'd Ioues Capitoll , milde Queene of rest . Th. Dekkar .
Soft Silence , and submisse obedience , Both linkt together neuer do depart : Both gifts of God , nor gotten but from thence , Both girlonds of his saints , against their foes offence . Ed. Spencer .
— Silence wisedomes mother . S. Phil. Sidney .
Silence doth seem the maske of base oppression . Idem .
Although things sensible be numberlesse , But only fiue the Sences organs bee : And in those fiue all things their formes expresse , Which we can touch , taste , feele , or heare or see . I. Dauies .
Mans eye makes what is seene to seeme so faire , Mans eare makes what is heard to sound so sweete : His touch by softnesse euery sence is meete For his owne obiect . Idem .
— The two eyes which haue the seeing power , Stand as one watchman , spie , or Sentinell : Being plac'd aloft within the heads hie tower , And though both seeing , yet both but one thing tell . Idem .
— Nine things to sight required are , The power to see , the light , the visible thing : Being not too small , too thin , too nigh , too farre , Cleare space ; and time the forme distinct to bring . Idem .
Like as a glasse is an inanimate eye , And outward formes imbraceth outwardly , So is the eye an amimate glasse that showes In formes without vs . G. Chapman .
What we behold is censured by the eyes , Where both deliberate the loue is slight : Who euer lou'd , that lou'd not at first sight ? Ch. Marlowe .
I trow that countenance cannot lye , Whose thoughts are legible in the eye . M. Roydon .
Often the eye mistakes , the braine being troubled . W. Sha.
All amorous eyes obseruing forme , thinks parts obscured best . w . warner .
A greedy eye will haue a greedy hand . D. Lodge .
— A monstrous rabblement Of fowle mishapen wights , of which some were Headed like Owles , with beakes vncomely bent : Others like dogs , others like gryphons dreare , And some had wings , and some had clawes to teare . And euery one of them had Linceus eies , And euery one did bowes and arrowes beare . All those were lawlesse lusts , corrupt enuie , And couetous aspects , all cruell enemies . Those same against the bulwarke of the sight Did laie strange siege and battailous assault , Ne once did yeeld it respit day or night , But soone as Titan gan his head exault , And soone againe as he his light withhault Their wicked engines they against it bent : That is each thing by which the eyes may fault . But to them all more huge and violent , Bewtie and money , they that bulwarke shroudly rent . Ed. Spencer .
Eares office is the troubled aire to take , Which in their mazes formes a sound or noyse , Whereof her selfe doth true distinction make . The wickets of the soule are plac'd on hie , Because all sounds do lightly mount aloft : And that they may not pierce too violently , They are delaid with turnes and windings oft . I. Dauies .
As streames which with their winding bankes do play , Stopt by their creekes runne softly through the plaine : So in the eares labyrinth the voyce doth stay , And doth with easie notice touch the braine . Idem .
It is the slow'st yet the daintiest sence , For euen the eares of such as haue no skill , Perceiue a discord and conceiue offence , And knowing not what 's good , yet finde the ill . Idem .
These conduit pipes of knowledge the minde , But th' other three attend the body still : For by their seruices the soule doth finde What things are to the body good or ill . I. Dauies .
The second bulwarke was the hearing sence , Gainst which the second troupe designment makes Deformed creatures , in straunge difference , Some hauing heads like harts , some like to snakes , Some wild like boares , late rowz'd out of the brakes . Slaunderous reproaches and foule infamies , Leasings , backbitings , and vaine-glorious crake . Bad counsels , praises and false flatteries , All those against that first did send their batteries . Ed. Spencer .
Next , in the nosthrils she doth vse the Smell , As God the breath of life in them did giue : So makes he now his power in them to dwell , To iudge all aires whereby we breathe and hue . This sence is also mistresse of an art , Which to soft people sweet petfumes doth sell : Through this deare art doth little good impart , Since they smell best that doth of nothing smell . And ye good sents do purifie the braine , Awake the fancie , and the wittes refine : Hence old deuotion in aduise did ordaine , To make mens spirits more apt to thoughts diuine . I. Dauies .
Likewise that same third fort that is the smell , Of that third troupe was cruelly assaide : Whose hideous shapes were like to fiends of hell . Some like to hounds , some like to apes dismaide . Some like to puttocks all in plumes arraide , All shapte according their conditions , For by those ougly formes werren portraide Foolish delights and fond abusions , Which do that sence besiege with light illusions . Ed. Sp.
The bodies life with meates and aire is fed , Therefore the soule doth vse the tasting power , In vaines which through the tong & pallat spred . Distinguish euery rellish sweet and sower . This is the bodies nurse : but since mans wit Found the Art of cookery to delight his sence , More bodies are consumde and kild with it , Then with the sword , famine , or pestilence . I. Dauies .
— That fourth band which cruell battery bent Against the fourth bulwarke , that is the taste : Was as the rest , a grisly rabblement , Some mouth like greedy Estriges , some fac'st Like loathly Toades , some fashioned in the waste Like swine , for so deseru'd his luxurie , Surfet , misdiet , and vnthriftie warke , Vaine feasts , and idle superfluitie , All those this sences for t assaile incessantly . Ed. Sp.
Lastly , the feeling power which is lifes roote , Through euery liuing part it selfe doth shed , By sinewes which extend from head to foote , And like a net all ouer the body spred . Much like a subtill spider which doth sit In middle of her web which spreddeth wide : If ought do touch the outmost thred of it , She feeles it instantly on euery side . I. Dauies .
By touch the first pure qualities we learne , Which quicken all things , hot , cold , moist , and drie : By touch , hard , soft , rough , swoot , we do discerne , By touch , sweet pleasure and sharpe paine we trie . These are the outward instruments of sence . These are the guardes which euery one must passe , Ere it approach the mindes intelligence , Or touch the phantasie , wits looking glasse . Idem .
But the fift troupe most horrible of hue , And fierce of force was dreadfull to report : For some like snailes , some did like spiders shewe , And some like ougly vrchins thicke and short , Cruelly they assailed that fift fort ▪ Armed with darts of sensuall delight , With strings of carnall lust and strong effect . Of feeling pleasures , with which day and night Against the same fift bulwarke they continued fight . Ed. Spencer .
First we do taste the fruite , then see our sin . S. Daniell .
Shame followes sin , disgrace is daily giuen , Impietie will out , neuer so closely donne , No walles can hide vs from the eye of heauen , For shame must end what wickednes begun , Forth breakes reproach when we least thinke thereon . Idem .
Like as diseases common cause of death , Bring daunger most when least they pricke and smart : Which is a signe they haue expulst the breath Of liuely heate which doth defend the hart , Euen so such sinnes as felt are on no part , Haue conquered grace , and by their wicked vre , So kild the soule that it can haue no cure . I. Hig. M. of M.
Sinnes haruest neuer failes , but grace hath death . D. Lodge .
Couer thou fier neuer so close within , Yet out it will , and so will secret sin . M. of M.
It doubles sinne if finely sinne we practise to preuent . W.W.
Man may securely sinne , but safely neuer . B. Ihonson .
What wight on earth can voyd of fault be found ? What Saint is that who doth not sinne sometime ? Tweene good and bad this difference sole is found , That good men sinne but seld , and mend betime . The bad man ( making scruple none nor question ) Yeelds willingly to euery leaud suggestion . S. I. H.
Sinnes oft assaid , ere thought to be no sin , So soileth sinne , the soule it sinketh in . M. of M.
Shame leaues vs by degrees , not at first comming , For nature checks a new offence with loathing . But vse of sinne doth make it seeme as nothing . S. Daniell .
What though our sinnes go braue and better clad ? They are as those in rags , as base , as bad . Idem .
The spot is foule , though by a Monarch made , Kings cannot priuiledge a sinne forbade . Idem .
— Sinne euer must Be torturde with the racke of his owne frame , For he that holds no faith , shall finde no trust , But sowing wrong , is sure to reape the same . Idem .
— Cunning sinne being clad in vertues shape , Flies much reproofe , and many stormes doth scape . D. Lodge .
— Place for people , people place , and all for sinne decay . w . warner .
To punish sinne is good , it is no nay , They wrecke not sinne , but merit wrecke for sinne The fathers fault that wreake vpon the kin . M. of M.
The sinne to which a man by loue is driuen , So much the rather ought to be forgiuen . S. I. H.
Her face was vgly , and her mouth distort , Foming with poyson round about her gils , In which her cursed tongue full sharpe and short , Appeard like Aspes sting , that closely kils , Or cruelly does wound , whom so she wils , A distaffe in her other hand she had , Vpon the which she litle spins but spils , And faine to weaue false tales and leasings bad To throw amongst the gods which others had dispred . Ed. Sp.
Her nature is , all goodnesse to abuse , And causelesse crimes continually to frame : With which she guiltlesse persons may abuse , And stole away the crowne of her good name , Ne euer knight so bold , ne euer dame So chaste and loyall liu'd , but she would striue With forged cause , them falsly to defame . Ne euer thing was done so well aliue , But she with blame would blot , and of due praise depriue . Idem .
All like the stings of Asps , that kill with smart , Her spightfull words do pierce and wound the inner part . Idem .
Foule canker of faire vertuous action , Vile blaster of the fresh bloomes here on earth , Enuies abhorred child detraction . I. Marston .
Happie is he that liues in such a sort , That need not feare the tongues of false report . E. of S.
The vulgar tongues are armed euermore With slaunderous brute , to blemish the renowne Of vertuous dames ; which though at first it spring , Of slender cause , yet doth it swell so fast , As in short space it filleth euery eare With swift report of vndeserued blame . G. Gascoigne .
— It euer hath bene knowne , They other vertues scorne that doubt their owne . S. Daniell .
No plaister heales a deadly poysoned sore , No secret hid where slaunder keepes the dore . M. Drayton .
Against bad tongues goodnesse cannot defend her , Those be most free from faults , they least will spare , But prate of them whom they haue scantly knowne , Iudging their humours to be like their owne . S. I. H.
Slaunder once set on foot though false , is talkt in euery street . W. Warner .
No wound with warlike hand of enemie Inflict with dint of sword so sore doth light , As doth the poysonous sting which infamie Infuseth in the name of noble wight . It neuer can recured be againe , Ne all the skill which that immortall spright Of Podalyrius did in it retaine , Can remedie such hurts : such hurts are hellish paine . Ed. Sp.
A sprightly wit disdaines detraction . I. Marston .
Backbiting pens , and pens that sooth vp sinne , ●nuious the one , th' other clawbacks binne . I. Syl.
Amidst a darke thicke wood there is a caue , Whose entrance is with Iuie ouerspread , They haue no light within , nor none they craue , ●ere Sleepe doth couch her ouerdrowsie head , ●nd sloath lies by that seemes the goute to haue . ●nd Idlenes not so well taught as fed , ●hey point forgetfulnes the gate to keepe , ●hat none come out or in to hinder Sleepe . ●he knowes no meanes of men , ne none will learne , ●heir messages she list not vnderstand : She knowes no busines doth her concerne , Silence is Sentinell of all this band , And vnto those he comming doth discerne To come too neere , he beckens with his hand , He treadeth soft , his shooes are made of felt , His garment short , and girded with a belt . S. I. H.
By care lay heauie sleepe , the couzen of death , Flat on the ground , and still as any stone : A very corps , saue yeelding forth a breath , Small keepe tooke he whom fortune frownd on , Or whom she lifted vp into the throne Of high renowne : but as a liuing death , So dead aliue , of life he drew the breath . M. Sack .
A drowsie head to earth by dull desire Draws downe the soule that should to heauen aspire . Writing these later lines , wearie well-nie Of sacred Pallas , pleasing labour deare , Mine humble chin saluteth oft my brest , With an Ambrosian deawe mine eies possest By peece-meale close ; all moouing powers die still , From my dull fingers drops my fainting quill . Downe in my sloath-bound bed againe I shrinke , And in darke Laethe all deepe cares I sinke . I. Syl.
Sweete solitarie life thou true repose , Wherein the wise contemplate heauen aright , In thee no dread of warre or worldly foes , In thee no pompe seduceth mortall sight . In thee no wanton eares to winne with words , Nor lurking toies which silly life affords . D.L.
— O Souldiers enuie neere ally to Kings Maiesticke humour , carefull iealous thought : Thou , which awak'st vs from ignoble things , A passion nearest to a godhead brought . Onely indefinite : to whom none brings Limit or bound , thou greater then our thought , Who holds thee , holds a power to make him able , Who looses then , becomes most miserable . I. Mark ,
None is so poore of sence and eine , To whom a souldier doth not shine . G. Chap.
No elegancie can bewtifie A shamelesse lumpe of gluttonie : His heart sweete Cupids tents reiects , That onely meate and drinke affects . O Flora all mens intellects , Know souldiers power such respects , Meere helpes for need his minde sufficeth , Dull sleepe and surfets he despiseth : Loues trumpe his temples exerciseth , Courage and loue his life compriseth . Idem .
— He that spread the skies And fixt the earth , first form'd the soule in man , This true Prometheus first made men of earth , And shead in him a beame of heauenly fier , Now in their mothers wombes before their birth , Doth in all sonnes of men their soules inspire . And as Minerua is in fables fainde From Ioue , without an other to proceed , So our true Ioue without an others aide , Doth daily millions of Mineruaes breed . I Dauies .
Like as the sunne aboue the light doth bring , Though we behold it in the aire belowe , So from the eternall light the soule doth spring , Though in the body she her powers do showe . Idem .
The soule a substance and a body is , Which God himselfe doth in the body make , Which makes the man ; or euery man from this The nature of a man and name doth take . And though the spirit be to the body knit , As an apt meane her power to exercise : Which are , life , motion , sense , and will and wit , Yet she suruiues , although the body dies . Shee is a substance and a reall thing , Which hath it selfe an actuall working might , Which neither from the senses power doth spring , Nor from the bodies humours tempered right . She is a vine which doth no propping need , To make her spread her selfe , or spring vpright , She is a starre whose beames do not proceed From any sinne , but from a natiue light . Idem .
She is a spirit and an heauenly influence , Which from the fountaine of Gods spirit doth flowe , Shee 's a spirit , yet not like aire nor winde , Nor like the spirits about the heart or braine , Nor like the spirits which Alchimists definde , When they in euery thing seeke gold in vaine . Idem .
— To shew her powerfull deitie , Her sweete Endimion more to beautifie , Into his soule the goddesse doth infuse , The fierie Nature of an heauenly Muse : Which the spirit labouring by the mind , Partaketh of celestiall things by kind : For why the soule being diuine alone , Exempt from grosse and vild corruption , Of heauenly secrets incomprehensible , Of which the dull flesh is not sensible ▪ And by one onely powerfull facultie , Yet gouerneth a multiplicitie , Being essentiall , vniforme in all , Not to be seuered or diuiduall : But in her function holdeth her estate , By powers diuine in her ingenerate : And so by inspiration conceiueth , What heauen to her by diuination breatheth . M. Drayton .
Like as the soule doth rule the earthlie masse , And all the seruice of the body frame , So loue of soule doth loue of body passe , No lesse then perfect gold surmounts the meanest brasse , Ed. Spencer .
Euerie good motion that the soule awakes , A heauenly figure sees from whence it takes , That sweetelesse bloome which by power of kinde , Formes like it selfe an image of the mind , And in our faith the operations be , Of that diuinesse which by fayth wee see , Which neuer erres but accidentally , By our fraile fleshes inbecilitie , By each temptation ouer-apt to slide , Except our spirit becomes our bodyes guide . For as our bodyes prisons bee the towres , So to our soules these bodyes be of ours , Whose fleshly walles hinder that heauenly light , As these stone walles depriue our wished sight . Idem .
— As Phoebus throwes His beames abroade , though hee in clouds bee clos'd Still glauncing by them till she finde oppos'd A loose and rorid vapour , that is fit T'euent his searching beames , and vseth it To forme a twentie coloured eie , Cast in a circle round about the skie . So when our fierie soule , our bodies starre , ( That euer is in motion circular ) Conceiues a form in seeking to display it , Through all our cloudy parts it doth conuey it : Forth at the eye , as the most pregnant place , And that reflects it round about the face . Idem .
Like as the moysture which the thirstie earth Sucks from the Sea to fill her emptie vaines , From out her wombe at last doth take a birth , And runnes a nymph along the grassie plaines : Long doth shee stay , as loth to leaue the land , From whose soft side she first did issue make , She tasts all places , turnes to euerie hand , Her flowing bankes vnwilling to forsake , Yet nature so her streames doth leade and carrie , As that her course doth make no finall stay , Till shee her selfe vnto the Ocean marrie , Within whose watrie bosome first shee lay . Euen so our soule within this earthly mould , The spirit doth secretly infuse , Because at first shee doth the earth behold , And onely this materiall world shee viewes . At first our mother earth shee holdeth deere , And doth imbrace the world and worldly things , She flies close to the ground and houers heere , And mounts not vp with her celestiall wings . Yet vnder heauen shee cannot light on ought , That with her heauenly nature doth agree , She cannot rest , she cannot fixe her thought , She cannot in this world contented bee . I. Dauies .
When the soule findes heere no true content , And like Noahs Doue , can no sure footing take , She doth returne from whence shee first was sent , And flies to him that first her wings did make . Idem .
Heuen waxeth old , and all the spheres aboue Shall one day faynt , and their swift motion stay , And time it selfe shall cease in time to mooue , Onely the soule suruiues and liues for aye . Idem .
When as the soule is drowned once in vice , The sweete of sinne makes hell a Paradice ▪ M , Drayton ,
●s is the fable of the Lady faire , Which for her lust was turnde into a cow , When thirstie to a streame she did repaire , And saw her selfe transformde she knew not how , At first she startles , and she stands amazd , And loathes the watry glasse wherein she gazd : At last for terror she from thence doth flie , And shunnes it still , though she for thirst doe die . Euen so mans soule , which did Gods image beare , And was at first faire , good , and spotlesse pure , Since with her sinnes her beauties blotted were , Doth of all sights her owne sight least indure : For euen at first reflecting she espies Such strange Chimeraes and such monsters there , Such toyes , such antickes , and such vanities , As she retyres , and shrinks for shame and feare . I. Dauis .
Euen as the man loues least at home to bee , That hath a sluttish house haunted with spirits , So she impatient her owne faults to see , Turnes from her selfe , and in strange things delights ▪ Idem .
— T is a sacred cure To salue the soules dread wounds , omnipotent That nature is , that cures the impotent Euen in a moment , sure grace is infusde By diuine fauour , nor by actions vsde : Which is as permanent as heauens blisse , To them that haue it , then no habit is . I. Marston .
That learned Father which so firmely prooues The soule of man immortall and diuine , And doth the seuerall offices define . Anima .
Giues her that name as she the body moues . Amor.
Then is shee loue imbracing charitie . Animus .
Mouing a will in vs , it is the mind . Mens .
Retaining knowledge still the same in kind . Memoria .
As intellectuall it is the memorie . Ratio .
In iudging , Reason onely is her name . Sensus .
In speedie apprehension it is Sence . Conscientia .
In right or wrong men call her Conscience . Spiritus .
The Spirit , when to Godward it doth inflame . These of the soule the seuerall functions bee . M. Drayton .
Like as two bellowes blowne turne by turne , By little and little make cold coles to burne , And then their fire inflamde with glowing heate , An iron barre which on the Anuile beate , Seemes no more yron , but flies almost all , In hissing sparkles and quicke-bright cinders small . So the worlds soule should in our soule inspire , Th' eternall force of an eternall fire , And then our soule ( as forme ) breathe in our corse , Her countlesse numbers , and heauens turned force , Wherewith our bodyes beautie beautified , Should like our ( deathlesse soule ) haue neuer died . I. Syluester .
In blacke all clad there fell before my face , A ptiteous wight whom woe had all forewast , Forth on her eyes the cristall teares out brast , And sighing fore her hands shee wrung and fold , Tare all her haire , that ruth was to behold ; Her body small , sore withered and fore spent , As is the stalke that summers drought opprest , Her welked face with wofull teares besprent : Her colour pale ( as it seemed ) her best , In woe and plaint reposed was her rest : And as the stone that drops of water weares , So dented were her cheekes with fall of teares : Her eyes swollen with flowing streames afloate , Wherewith her lookes throwne vp full pitiously , Her forcelesse handes together oft she smote , With dolefull shrikes that ecchoed in the skie , Whose plaints such sighs did strait accompanie , That in my doome was neuer man did see A wight but halfe so woe-begone as shee . Sorrow I am , in endlesse sorrowes pained , Among the furies in the infernall lake , Where Pluto God of hell so grisly blacke , Doth hold his throne and Laethes deadly taste , Doth riue remembrance of each thing fore-past . M. Sackuile .
Sorrows first leader of this furious crowde , Muffled all ouer in a sable clowde , Olde before age , afflicted night and day , Her face with wrinkles warped euerie way , Creeping in corners , where shee sits and vies ; Sighs from her heart , teares for her blubbered eies , Accompanied with selfe-consuming care , With weeping pittie , thought , and mad dispayre , That beares about her burning coles and cords , Aspes , poysons , pistols , haulters , kniues , and swords , Foule squinting enuie , that selfe-eating elfe , Through others leannesse fatting vp her selfe , Ioyning in mischiefe , feeding but with langour , And bitter teares , her toad-like swelling anger , And iealousie that neuer sleepes for feare , ( Suspitious flea still nibling in her eare ) That leaues repast and rest , neere pinde and blinde , With seeking what shee would bee loth to finde . I. Siluester .
Two inward vulturs , sorrow and disdaine . Sorow misfortunes sonne , dispayres foule fire . Ed. Fairfax .
Sorrow breakes seasons and reposing howres , Makes the night morning , and the noone tide night , W. Shakespeare .
Sorrow is still vnwilling to giue ouer . S. Daniell .
Sorrow grows sencelesse when too much she beares . M. Dr.
Sad sorrow like a heauie ringing bell , Once set in ringing , with his owne weight goes , Then little strength rings out the dolefull knel. W. Sh.
It is some ease our sorrowes to reueale , If they to whome we shall impart our woes , Seeme but to feele a part of what we feele . And meete vs with a sigh but at a close . S. Daniell .
Sighes are the ease calamitie affoords , Which serue for speech when sorrow wanteth words . Idem .
Fell sorrowes tooth neuer ranckles more , Then when it bites , but launcheth not the sore . Idem .
— Sorrow close shrouded in the heart . I know to keep , it is a wondrous smart , Each thing imparted , is more ease to beare , When the raine is fallen , the cloudes waxe cleere . Ed. Spencer .
— Sorrow ne neede be hastened on , For he will come without calling anon . Idem .
— Snarling sorrow hath lesse powrc to bite The man that mocks at it , and sets it light . Ed. Spencer .
He that his sorrow sought through wilfulnesse , And his foe fettered would release againe , Deserues to tast his follies fruit , repented paine . Ed. Spencer .
— Mirth doth search the bottom of annoy , Sad soules are slaine in mirthie companie , Greefe best is pleasde with griefes societie : True sorrow then is feelingly suffizde , When with like sorrow it is sympathizde . True sorrow hath not euer a wet eye . Th. Dekker .
Sad sorrow euer ioyes to heare her worst . S. D.
— False suspition of another is A sure condemning of our owne amis . Edw. Gilpin .
Mistrust doth treason in the truest raise , Suspitious Romulus stain'd his walles first rear'd With brothers bloud , whom for light leape he feard , The iealous cuckold weares th' infamous horne , So not in brotherhood , iealousie may bee borne . M. of M.
Riualles in loue will be suspitious quickly . I. Weeuer .
The Marchant traffiking abroad , suspects his wife at home A youth wil play the wanton , & a wanton proue a mome . W. Warner .
— These two parts belong Vnto true knowledge , words and teares haue force , To mooue compassion in the sauage mindes Of brutish people reason wanting kindes . Tho. Middleton .
Teares , vows , and prayers gaine the hardest hearts . S. Daniell .
Teares worke no truce , but where the heart is tender . D. Lodge .
Teares harden lust , though marble weare with raine . W. Sh.
Seld speaketh loue , but sighes his secret paines , Teares are his truch-men , words do make him tremble . R. Greene .
Teares cannot soften flint , nor vowes conuert . S. D.
A dolefull case desires a dolefull song , Without vaine art , or curious complement , And squallid fortune into basenesse flung , Doth scorne the pride of wonted ornament . Ed. Spencer .
— Temperance which golden squire , Betwixt these two can measure out a meane , Neither to melt in pleasures hot desire , Nor frie in heartlesse greefe and dolefull teene , Thrise happie man who faires them both a tweene . Ed. Spencer .
Who euer doth to Temperance applie His stedfast life , and all his actions frame , Trust mee shall finde no greater enemie , Then stubburne perturbation to the same : To which right well the wise doe giue that name : For it the goodly peace of stayed mindes Does ouerthrew , and troublous warre proclaime , His owne woes author , who so bound it finds , As did Pyrrhocles , and it wilfully vnbinde . Idem .
A harder lesson to learne continence , In ioyous pleasure then in greeuous paine , For sweetenesse doth allure the weakest sence . So strongly that vnneath it can refraine , From that which feeble nature couers faine , But greefe and wrath that bee her enemies And foes of life shee better can restraine , Yet vertue vaunts in both theyr victories . Idem .
O in what safetie Temperance doth rest , When it findes harbour in a kingly brest . M. Drayton .
Of all Gods works which do this world adorne , There is none more fayre and excellent Then is mans body , both for power and forme , Whilst it is kept in sober gouernement : But none then it more foule and indecent , Distempered through misrules , and passions base , It growes a monster , and incontinent , Doth loose his dignitie and natiue grace . Ed. Spencer .
Thoughts are the slaues of life , and life times foole , And time that takes suruey of all the world Must haue a stop . W. Shakespeare .
Thoughts are but dreames , till their effects be tried . Idem .
Who so thinkes many things , brings few to a fortunate ending . A. Fraunce .
The feeble eyes of our aspring thoughts , Behold things present , and record things past , But things to come exceede our humane reach . G. Peele .
Vnfained thoughts do seldome dreame on euil . Birdes neuer limde no secret bushes feare . W. Sh.
If all mens thoughts were written in their face , Some one that now the rest doth ouercrow , Some others ebbe that wants his soueraignes grace , When as the Prince their inwarde thoughts should know The meaner then should take the better place , The greatest man might stoope and sit below . S. I. Harrington .
Beauties great enemie , and to all the rest That in the garden of Adonis springs , Is wicked Time , who with his sithe addrest , Does mow the flowing herbes and goodly things , And all their glorie to the earth downe flings , Where they do wither , and are fouly marde , He flies about , and with his flaggie wings , Beates downe both leaues and buds without regard . Ne euer pittie may relent his malice hard . E. Spencer .
Mishapen Time , coapsmate of vgly might , Swift subtill poast , carrier of grislie care , Eater of youth , false slaue to false delight , Base watch of woes , sinnes packhorse , vertues snare , Thou nursest all , and murtherest all that are . W. Shakespeare .
Stealing Time the subiect to delay . S. Ph. Sydney .
— Times golden thigh Vpholdes the flowrie body of the earth , In sacred harmonie and euerie birth Of men , audacious makes legitimate , Being vsde aright , the vse of times is fate . G. Chapman .
No mortall forme that vnder moone remaines , Exempt from traiterous Time , continueth one . Now mountes the floud , and straight his waues restrains Now flowes the tyde , and strait the sourse is gone , Who toyles by Sea , must choose the fayrest gale , For time abodes our good or badde auaile ▪ D. Lodge .
Al those that liue and thinke themselues but slime , Must choose and thriue by fauour of the time . Idem .
Swift speedie Time , feathered with flying howres , Dissolues the beautie of the fayrest browe . S. Daniell .
Time doth consume fame , honour , wit , & strength , Time roots out youth and beauties looke at length . Tho. Watson .
Time wanting bonds , still wanteth certaintie . M. Dr.
To Fames rich treasure Time vnlocks the doore , Which angrie sorrow had shut vp before . Idem .
Time is a bondslaue to eternitie . Tho. Kyd.
All that doth liue is subiect to his law , All things decay in time , and to their end do draw . Ed. Spencer .
What wrong hath not continuance out-worne , Yeares makes that right that neuer was so borne . S. Daniell .
Good time is blest , badde time wee hold accurst , Time hurts them oft that he did helpe at first . T. Churchyard .
Times glory is to calme contending kings , To vnmaske falshood , and bring truth to light , To stampe the seale of time in aged things , To wake the morne , and sentinell the night , To wrong the wronger till hee render right : To ruinate proude buildings with his howres , And smeare with dust their glittering golden towres , To fill with worm holes stately monuments , To feede obliuion with decay of things , To blot old Bookes , and alter their contents , To pull the quilles from auncient Rauens wings , To drie the old okes sappe , and cherish springs To spoyle antiquities of hammered steele , And turne the giddie round of fortunes wheele , To shew the Beldame daughters of her daughters , To make the child a man , the man a child , To slay the tyger that doth liuely slaughter , To tame the vnicorne and the lyon wilde , To make the subtill in themselues be guild , To cheere the plow-man with increasefull crops , And waste huge stones with little water-drops . W. Shakespeare .
The Truth doth doth dwell within the holy tables , Of Gods liue word , not in our wanton braine , Which dayly coyning some strange error vaine , For gold takes lead , for truth electeth Fables . I. Siluester .
Truth is no harauld , nor no so sophist sure , She noteth not mens names , their sheelds or crests , Though shee compare them vnto birds and beasts , But whom shee doth fore-shew shall raigne by force , Shee tearmes a woolfe , a dragon , or a beare , A wilfull Prince , a raignelesse raging horse , A boare , a lion , a coward much in feare , A hare or hart , a craftie pricked eare , A lecherous , a bull , a goate , a foale , An vnderminer , a mould-warpe , or a moale . M. of M.
— Tried truth Doth best be seeme a simple naked tale , Ne needes to bee with paynted processe prickt , That in her selfe hath no diuersitie , But alwayes shewes one vndisguised face , Where deepe deceit and lies must seeke her shade , And wrappe their words in guilefull eloquence , As euer fraught with contrarietie . G. Gascoigne .
The truth hath certaine bounds , but falshood none . S. Daniell .
— The naked truth is a well-clothed lie , A nimble quicke pale meunts to dignitie By force or fraud , that matters not a iot , So massie wealth may fall vnto thy lot . Io. Marston .
Conspiracie gainst the person of a Prince , Is treason gainst the deitie of heauen . Th. Achellye .
— Treason is but trusted like the Foxe , Who nere so tamde , so cherisht , and lockt vp , Will haue a wilde tricke of his auncetors . W. Sh.
No vertue merits prayse once toucht with blot of treason . S. Ph. Sydney .
Who fayleth one is false , though trusty to another ▪ Idem .
There is no treason woundeth halfe so deepe , As that which doth in Princes bosome sleepe . M. Drayton .
Who that resisteth his dread soueraigne Lord , Doth damne his soule by Gods owne verie word , A Christian subiect should with honour due , Obey his soueraigne though he were a Iew , Whereby assured when subiects do rebell , Gods wrath is kindled , threatning fire and hell . M. of M.
Was neuer rebell before the world and since , That could or should preuaile against his Prince . Idem .
Reuolted subiects of themselues will quaile . I. Syluester .
— Next to Tyrannie Comes warres , discention , ciuill mutinie . Ch. Middl.
In greatest wants t' inflict the greatest woe , This is the worst that tyrannie can show . Idem .
Hell haleth tyrants downe to death amaine , Was neuer yet , nor shall bee cruell deede Vnquited left , but had as cruell meed . M. of M.
— No tyrant commonly Liuing ill can kindly die , But either trayterously surprizde Doth coward poyson quayle their breath , Or their people haue deuizde , Or theyr Guard to seeke their death . Tho. Kyd.
It is an hell in hatefull vassallage , Vnder a tyrant to consume ones age , A selfe-shauen Dennis , or an Nero fell , Whose cursed Courts with bloud and incest swell : An Owle that flyes the light of Parliaments And state assemblies , iealous of th' intents Of Priuate tongues , who for a pastime sets His Peeres at oddes , and on their furie whets , Who neither fayth , honour , nor right respects . Idem .
What one art thou thus in torne weede yclad ? Vertue , in price , whom auncient sages had : Why poorely clad ? for fading goods past care : Why double fac'd ? I marke each fortunes rare : This bridle what ? mindes rages to restraine : Why beare you tooles ? I loue to take great paine : Why wings ? I teach aboue the starres to flie : Why treade you death ? I onely cannot die . S. Th. Wiat.
The path that leades to Vertues Court is narrow , Thornie , and vp a hill , a bitter iourney : But being gone through , you find al heauenly sweets , Th' entrance is all flintie , but at th' end Two Towres of pearles and cristall you ascend . Th. Dekkar .
Vertue is fayrest in a poore art aye . Idem .
Vertue abhorres too weare a borrowed face . Idem .
The wisest scholler of the wight most wise , By Phoebus doome , with sugred sentence saies , That vertue If it once meete with our eyes , Strange flames of loue it in our soules would raise . S. Ph. Sydney .
That growes apace , that vertue helps t' aspire . M. R●●don .
When vertue riseth , base affections fall . Ed. Fairfax .
Like as the horse well mand abides the bit , And learnes his stoppe by raine in riders hand , Where mountaine colt that is not sadled yet , Runnes headlong on amidst the fallowed land , Whose fierce resist scarce bendes with any band . So men reclaim'd by vertue tread aright , Where ledde by follies , mischiefes on them light . D. Lodge .
Vertue doth ●urb affection , and for conscience flieth sin , To leaue for imperfection feare or shame no praise doth winne . W. Warner .
Vertue it selfe turnes vice , being misapplyed , And vice sometime by action dignified . W. Shakespeare .
Vertue in greatest daunger is most showne , And though opprest , yet nere is ouerthrowne . S. Daniell .
In vertue it is said , that men themselues suruie . W. W.
Honour indeede , and all things yeeld to death , ( Vertue excepted ) which alone suruiues , And liuing toyleth in an earthlie gaile , At last to be extol'd in heauens high ioyes . T. Kyd.
All things decay , yet vertue shall not die , This onely giues vs immortallitie . M. Drayton .
Whence is it that the flower of the field doth fade , And lyeth buried long in winters bale , Yet soon as spring his mantle doth display , It flowreth fresh , as it should neuer faile , But thing on earth that is of most auaile . As vertues and beauties bud , Releeuen not for any good , The branch once dead , the bud needes eke must quaile ▪ Ed. Spencer .
All that wee had , or mortall men can haue , Seemes onely hut a shadow from the graue , Vertue alone liues still . Th. Dekkar .
Vertue is more amiable and more sweete , When vertue and true maiestie doe meete . E. Spencer .
— All the sorow in the world is lesse Then vertues might and valures confidence , For who will bide the burden of distresse , Must not heere thinke to liue , for life is wretchednes . Idem .
Vertue makes honour , as the soule doth sence , And merit , farre exceedes inheritance . G. Chapman .
— Vertue of the ●uncient bloud and kin , Doth onely please the parties shee is in . M. of M.
— Onely vertue noblenesse doth dignifie , And vicious life a linage base doth signifie . S. I. Harrington .
The simple vertue may consist alone , But better are two vertues ioynd in one . D. Lodge .
What vertue gets , once got doth neuer waste , And hauing this , this thou for euer haste . M. Dryaton .
Ioy grauen in sence , like snow in water wasts , Without preserue of vertue nothings lasts . G. Chapman .
Vertue obscurde yeeldes small and happie gaines , But actiuely imployed , shee worth retaines . D. Lodge .
What vertue breedes , iniquitie deuours , We haue no good at all that we can say is ours ▪ But ill annexed oportunitie , Or killes his life or else his qualitie . W. Sh.
Vertue dies not , her tomb we need not rayse , Let them trust tombs which haue out-liu'd their praise . Th. Bastard .
Vice rides a horseback , Vertue doth from out the saddl● boult . W. Warner .
What licour first the earthen pot doth take , It keepeth still the sauour of the same , Full hard it is a camocke straight to make , Or crooked logges with wainscot fine to frame , T is hard to make the cruell Tyger tame : And so it fares with those haue vices caught , Nought ( once they say ) and euer after nought . M. of M.
Although ●hat vertue oft wants due reward , Yet seldome vice wants due deserued blame , S. I. H.
Where vice is countenanc'd with Nobilitie , Art cleane excluded , ignorance held in , Blinding the world with meere hypocrisie , Yet must bee sooth'd in all their slauish sinne , Great malcontents to grow they then beginne , Nursing vild wittes to make their factious tooles , Thus mightie men oft prooue the mightiest fooles . M. Drayton .
With victorie reuenge doth euer cease , S. I. H.
Hee liueth long that liues victorious . Th. Kyd.
The victor can no honour iustly claime , To loose the men who should aduaunce the same .
— That fisher is not fine , Who for a frogge will loose a golden line : The holy head-band seemes not to attyre The head of him , who in his furious ire , Preferres the paine of those that haue him teend , Before the health and safetie of one friend . Tho. Hudson .
Vaine is the vaunt and victorie vniust , That more to mightie hands then rightful cause doth trust . Edw. Spencer .
Losse is no shame , nor to bee lesse then foe , But to be lesser then himselfe , doth marre Both loosers lotte , and victors prayse also , Vaine others ouerthrowes , who self doth ouerthrow . Idem .
Most miserable creature vnder skie Man , without vnderstanding doth appeare , For all this worlds affliction he thereby , And fortvnes freates is wisely taught to beare : Of wretched life the onely ioy shee is , And th' onely comfort in calamitie , She armes the breast with constant patience , Against the bitter throwes of dolours darts , She solaceth with rules of sapience , The gentle mindes in midst of worldly smarts , When hee is sadde , she seekes to make him merie , And doth refresh his spirits when they bee wearie , Ed. Spencer .
Good vowes are neuer broken with good deedes , For then good deedes were bad : vowes are but seeds , And good deedes fruits . G. Chapman .
Wee know not how to vow , till loue vnblind vs , And vowes made ignorantly neuer binde vs . Idem .
Our vowes must bee perform'd to God and King . M. Drayton .
— A promise made for feare is voyde . S. I. H.
— A man such promise must forsake , As at the first vnlawfull was to make . Idem .
Like to the Rose I count the virgin pure , That groweth on natiue stemme in garden fayre , Which whiles it stands with walles enuiron'd sure , Where herd-men with their herds cannot repayre To sauour it , it seemeth to allure The morning dew , the heate , the earthly ayre , Gallant yong men and louely dames delight By their sweete sent , and in their pleasing sight : But when that once t is gathered and gone From proper stalke , where late before it grew , The loue the liking little is or none , Fauour , and grace , beautie and all adue : So when a virgin graunts to one alone , The precious flower for which so many sue : Well hee that getteth it may loue her best , But shee forgoes the loue of all the rest . S. I. H.
Iewels being lost , are found againe , this neuer , T is lost but once , and once lost , lost for euer . Ch. Marlow .
Virginitie though praysed is like a bird , for why , As much the flesh is frayle therein , as in the feare to die , What was it sayd to all but vs increase and multiplie ? W. Warner .
— Virginitie Is neither essence subiect to the eye , No nor to any one exterior sence , Nor hath it any place of residence , Nor i' st of earth or mould celestiall , Or capable of any forme at all . Ch. Marlow .
I know not her that willingly with maiden-head would die . W. W.
Vse make things nothing huge , and huge things nothing . G. Chapman .
Foule cankering rust the hidden treasure frets . But gold that s put to vse , more gold begets . W. Sh.
Lastly stood warre in glistering armes yclad , With visage grimme , sterne lookes and gastly hood , In his right hand a naked sword hee had , That to the hilts was all with bloud imbrude , And in his left that kings and kingdomes rued , Famine and fire he had , and there withall Hee rased townes , and threw downe towres and all , Cities hee sackt , and realmes that whilome flowred In honour , glorie , and rule aboue the best , Hee ouerwhhlm'd , and all their fame deuoured , Consumde , destroyde , wasted , and neuer ceast , Till hee therewith their name and all opprest : His face forhued with woundes , and by his side , There hung his targe with gashes deepe and wide , In midst of which depainted there wee finde Deadly debate , all full of snakie hayre , That with a bloudy fillet was ybound , Out-breathing noght , but discord euerie where . M. Sackuille .
The Poets old in their fond fables faind , That mightie Mars is God of warre and strife : Th' Astronomers think that wheras Mars doth raign That all debate and discord must bee rife : Some thinke Bellona , Goddesse of that life . Among the rest that Painter had some skill , Which thus in armes did once set out the same , A field of gules , and on a golden hill . A stately towne consumed all with flame , On chiefe of sable taken from the dame , A sucking babe ( O ) borne to bide mischance , Begoard with bloud , and pierced with a launce . On high the Helme , I beare it well in mind , The wreath was siluer powdred all with shot , About the which ( goutte du sang ) did twind . A rowle of sable blacke , and foule beblot , The crest two hands , which may not bee forgot , For in the right a trenchand blade did stand , And in the left a fierie burning brand . G. Gascoigne .
— Warre the mistresse of enormitie , Mother of mischiefe , monster of deformitie , Lawes , manners , arts , shee breakes , shee marres , shee chaces , Bloud , teares , bowres , towres , she spils , smites , burns , & races , Her brasen teeth shake al the earth asunder : Her mouth a fire-brand , and her voyce a thunder , Her lookes are lightning , euerie glaunce a flash , Her fingers guns , that all to powder pash , Feare and dispayre , flight and disorder , coast With hastie march before her murderous hoast , As burning , waste , rape , wrong , impietie , Rage , ruines , discord , horror , crueltie , Sacke , sacriledge , impunitie pride , Are still sterne consorts by her barbarous side . And pouertie , sorrow , and desolation , Follow her armies bloudie transmigration . I· Siluester .
O warre begot in pride and luxurie , The child of wrath and of dissention ▪ Horrible good , mischiefe necessarie , The foule reformer of confusion : Vniust iust , scourge for our iniquitie . Cruell recurer of corruption . S. Daniell .
O goodly vsage of those anticke times , In which the sword was seruant vnto right , When not for malice and contentious crimes , But all for praise , and proofe of manly might , The martiall broode accustomed to fight : Then honour was the meede of victorie , And yet the vanquished had no dispight , Let later age , that now the vse enuie , Vild rancour so auoyd and cruell furquedry . Ed. Spencer .
Warre rightly handled is most excellent , And easie makes impossibilitie : It mounts the Alps , and through the seas doth rent ▪ By it in bloud a way to heauen wee see . I. Markham .
Vnder warres brazen feete stoopes all the earth , His mouth a flaming brand , his voyce a thunder , Idem .
No warre is right , but that which needfull is , S. Daniell .
The God of warre hath many men in store , Which wait alwaies to keepe his kingdome vp , Of whom no one doth shew his seruice more , Then lingring hope , which still doth be●re the cup , And flatteringly lendes euerie man a sup , Which haunts his course , or in his progesse passe , Hope brings the bowle wherin they all must quaffe , G. Gascoigne .
Warre seemeth sweete to such as raunge it not . Idem .
Men know not Warre , nor rightly how to deeme it , That first by War haue not been taught t' esteeme it . S. I. H.
— Wise men euer haue preferred farre , Th' vniustest peace , before the iustest Warre . S. Daniell .
— Time obseruing prouidence and Warre , Still makes their foes farre stronger then they are . Idem .
Sad be the sights and bitter fruits of Warre , And thousande furies wait on wrathfull sword , Ne ought the prayse of prowesse more doth marre , Then foule reuenging rage and proud contentious iarre . Ed. Spencer .
— Great reuenew The chiefest sinew vnto Warre affoords . D. Lodge .
— Warres that publike good pretend , Worke most in iustice being doone for spight , For th' agreeued euermore doe bend , Against those whom they see of greatest might , Who though themselues are wrongd and often forst , Yet though they can doe most are thought the worst . S. Daniell .
— Mars is Cupidoes friend And is for Venus loue renouned more , Then al the wars and spoiles the which he did before . Ed. Spencer .
From idle witte , there springs a braine-sicke will , With wise men lust , which foolish make a God , This in the shape of vertue raigneth still . D. Lodge .
Will puts in practise what the wit deuiseth . Will euer acts , and wit contemplates still , And as from witte the power of wisedome riseth , All other vertues daughters are of will . Idem .
Will is the Prince , and wit the counsellor , Which doth for common good in councell sit , And when witte is resolu'd , will lends her power , To execute what is deuis'd by witte . I. Dauies .
Will is as free as any Emperour , Nought can restraine her gentle libertie , No tyrant nor no torrent hath the power To make vs will when wee vnwilling bee . Idem .
Euen as the will should goodnesse truely know , We haue a will which that true good should choose Although will oft , when wit false formes doth show , Take ill for good , and good for ill refuse . Idem .
It liues not in our power to loue or hate , For will in vs is ouer-rul'd by fate . Ch. Marlow .
A stronger hand restraines our wilfull powers , A will must rule aboue this will of ours , Not following what our vaine desires doe woe , For vertues sake , but what wee onely doe . M. Dr.
— Headlesse will true iudgement doth ensnare . Idem .
Selfe-will doth frowne , when honest zeale reproues , Idem .
Whereas our actions measure no regard , Our lawlesse will is made his owne reward . M. Dra.
— With a world of mischiefes and offence , Vnbridled will rebelles against the sence . D. Lodge .
Hee least should list that may doe what he will . S. Dan.
Our God himselfe for wisedome most is praysed , And men to God thereby are nighest raysed . Ed. Spencer .
Wisedome doth warne , whilst foe is in the gate . To stay the step , ere forced to retreate . Idem .
Wisedome must iudge twixt men apt to amend , And mindes incurable borne to offend . S. D.
— In daunger wisedome doth aduise , In humble termes to reconcile our foes . D. Lodge .
— Wisedome and the sight of heauenly things , Shines not so cleere as earthly vanities . G. Chapman .
T is sayd a wise man all mishaps withstands , For though by starres wee borne to mischiefes are , Yet prudence bailes vs quite from carefull bands . M. of M.
Fore-sight doth still on all aduantage lie . Wise men must giue place to necessitie . M. Dr.
— A wiseman poore Is like a sacred Booke that 's neuer read , T 'himselfe hee liues , and to all else seemes dead : This age thinkes better of a gilded foole , Then of thred bare saint in wisedomes schoole . Th. Dekkar .
Wise men let faults ore-passe , they cannot mend . Ch. Middle .
Who can themselues beware by others costs , May bee accounted well among the wise . S. I. H.
— Whatsoeuer Starres seeme to importune , Wisedome predominates both fate and fortune . Ch. Fitz Griffon .
The witte the pupill of the soules cleere eye , And in mans world the onely shining starre , Lookes in the mirror of the phantasie , Where all the gathering of the sences ate , From thence this power the shape of things abstract● And them within her passiue part receiues , Which are inlightened by that part which acts , And so the forme of single things receiues : But after by discoursing to and fro , Anticipating and comparing things She doth all vniuersall natures know , And all effects into their causes bring . Our witte is giuen Almightie God to know , Our will is giuen to loue him being knowne , But God could not bee knowne to vs below , But by his works , which through the sence are knowne . I. Dauis .
Wit is the mindes cheefe iudge , which doth controle , Of fancies Court the iudgements false and vaine , Will , holdes the royall scepter in the soule , And on the passions of the heart doth raigne . Idem .
Emulation the proud nurse of witte . S. D.
— Wit and learning are two Angelles wings , By which meane men soare vp to mightie things . Ch. Middl.
Wit is with boldnesse prompt , with terror daunted , And grace is sooner got of dames then graunted . Ed. Spencer .
Some loose their wit with loue , some with ambition Some running to the sea great wealth to get , Some following Lords and men of high condition , Some in fayre iewelles , rich and costly set . One hath desire to prooue a rare magician , Others with Poetrie their witte forget : Another thinkes to bee an Alchimist , Till all hee spent , and hee his number mist . S. I. H.
Mans wit is monstrous , when the same from vertue doth decline . W. Warner .
Mans witte doth build for time but to deuoure , But Vertue 's free from time and fortunes power . M. Dr.
The wit not hurt , because not vsed more , Growes dull and farre lesse toward then before . — Wits ambition longeth to the best , For it desires in endlesse blisse to dwell . I. Dauis .
Best loues are lost for wit , when men blame fortune . G. Chapman .
— Carelesse wit is wanton bewties page . D. Lodge .
The finest wittes are soonest snarde with loue . Th. Achellye .
A setled braine is worth a world of witte . Th. Storer .
Wits want makes men desirous to seeme wise .
Woe all in blacke within her hands did beare , The fatall torches of a funerall , Her cheekes were wet , dispersed was her hayre , Her voyce was shrill ( yet lothsome therewithal ) D. Lodge .
Short time seemes long in sorrowes sharp sustaining , Though woe bee heauie , yet it seldome sleepes , And they that watch see time how slow it creepes . W. Shakespeare .
— Fellowship in woe , doth woe asswage , As palmers that make short their pilgrimage . Idem .
T is double death to drowne in ken of shore , He ten times pines , that pines behoulding food : To see the salue doth make the wound ake more , Great griefes greeue most at that would doe it good , Deere woes rowle forwarde like a gentle flood : Who being stopt , the bounden bankes ore flowes , Greefe dallied with , nor law nor limmit knowes . Idem .
Distresse likes dumps , when time is kept with teares . Idem .
For stronger woe we hardly long may wrest , The depth of griefe with words is sounded least . M. Dra.
— The Painter Who thought his colours pale could not declare The speciall woe King Agamemnon bare , When sacrificed was his onely rage , With bend of blacke he bound the fathers face . Th. Hudson .
— Words Windie atturnies of our clyent woes , Ayery succeeders of intestate ioyes , Poore breathing Orators of miseries , Let them haue scope , though what it doth impart Helpe not at all , yet doth it ease the heart . W. Sh.
Words are the tennants of an itching toy . D. Lodge .
Allusion of words is no sure ground , For one thereon a steddie worke to found . One word of woe another after traineth . S Ph. Sydney .
— Few words shall fit the trespasse best , Where no excuse can giue the fault amending . W. Sh.
Deepe sounds make better noyse then shallow fords , And sorrow ebbes being blown with wind of words . W. Sh.
Words are but winde , why cost they then so much , The giltie kicke when they too smartly to●ch . Idem .
Forth irreturnable flies the spoken word , Bee it in scoffe , in earnest , or in bourd , Without returne and vnreceiu'd it hangs , And at the takers mercie or rigor stands : Which if hee sowrely wrest , with wrathfull cheare , The shiuering word turnes to the hearers feare : If friendly courtesie doe the word expound , To th' speakers comfort quickly it doth redound . Idem .
Smoothe words dissolue hard stones , faire words inforce Pittie in flintie hearts . Ch. Middl.
Through the world if it were sought , Faire words enow a man should finde , They bee good cheape , they cost right nought , Their substance is but onely winde : But well to say , and so to meane , That sweete accord is seldome seene . S. Th. W.
— Words well plac't moue things were neuer thought . G. Chapman .
Euen as the vapour which the fire repelles , Turnes not to earth , but in mid-ayre dwelles , Where while it hangs , if Boreas frostie flawes , With rigor rattle it : not to raine it thawes , But thunder , lightning , ratling , hayle , or snow , Sends downe to earth , whence first it rose below . But if faire Phebus with his countenance sweete Resolue it , downe the dew or Manna sleete : The Manna dew that in the Esterne lands , Excelles the labour of the Bees small hands , Else for her Memnon , gray Auroraes teares , On the earth it stilleth the partner of her feares , Or sendeth sweet showres to glad their mother earth Whence first they tooke their first in constant birth . To those great greefes ill taken words do grow , Of words well taken such delights do flow . M. of M.
— Men do foulest when they finest speake . S. Daniell .
They wash a Moore , they striue to drie the seas , And plaine proude Atlas , that intend to please By filthy woords , by rayling , and detraction , Proper to Momus , and his hatefull faction : For when they thinke they haue deserued most , Alas sayth wisedome , all the toyle is lost . D. Lodge .
Few words well coucht , doe most content the wise . R. Greene .
Rash words flow from an vnaduised mind . Who once hath past the boundes of honestie In earnest deedes , may passe it well in words . G. G.
Haue care to whom , of whom , and what to speake , though speech be true That misse made Phoebus contrarie his rauens swan-like hue . W. W.
If so the crow would feast him without prate , More meate hee should receiue , lesse brawle and hate A foole hee is that comes to preach and prate , When men with swords their right & wrong debate . — Words well disposed , Haue secret power t' appease inflamed rage . Ed. Sp.
— Women bee Framde with the same parts of the mind as we , Nay nature triumpht in their beauties birth , And women made the glorie of the earth : The life of bewtie , in whose supple breasts , And in her fairest lodging vertue rests , Whose towring thoughts attended with remorse , Do make their fairenesse be of greater force . I. Weeuer .
What art so deepe , what science is so hie , Vnto the which women haue not attain'd , Who list in stories old to looke , may trie And find my speech herein nor false nor fain'd , And though of late they seeme not to come nie The praise their sex in former times haue gain'd . Doubtlesse the fault is either in back-biters , Or want of skill or iudgement in their writers . Idem .
Among the many rare and speciall gifts , That in the female sexe are found to sitte , This one is chiefe , that they at meerest shifts , Giue best aduise , and shew most readie witte , But man except hee chewes and thinks , and fifts , , How euerie part may aunswere to their fit , By rash aduise doth often ouer-shoote him , And doth accept the things that doe no●boote him . Idem .
Those vertues that in women merit prayse , Are sober showes without , chaste thoughts within , Truth sayth , and due obedience to their make , And of their children honest care to take . S. I. H.
Let woolues and beasts be cruel in their kind , But women meeke , and haue relenting mindes . M. Drayton .
Not women , but our wilfulnesse doth work our woe vnrest Though beautie , loue , and they beare fault , we may abuse the best . W. W.
— Men haue Marble , women waxen minds And therefore are they form'd as Marble will , The weake opprest , th' impression of strange kindes , Is form'd in them by force , by fraude , or skill , Then call not them the Authors of their ill , No more then waxe shall bee accounted euill , Wherein is stampt the semblance of the diuell . Their smoothenesse like a goodly champaine plaine , Laies open all the little wormes that creepe , In men as in a rough growen groue remaine , Caue-keeping euilles , that obscurely sleepe , Through cristall walles each little moule will peepe , Though men can couer minds with bold stern looks Pale womens faces are their owne faults Bookes . No man inueyes against the withered flower , But chides rough winter that the flower hath kild , Not that deuourd , but that which doth deuour , Is woorthie blame , O let it not be hild , Poore womens faults , that they are so fulfil'd , With mens abuses those proude lores to blame , Make weake-made women tenants to their shame . W. Shakespeare .
Bee not therefore too proude and full of scorne , O women-kind , that men come of your seede , The fragrant Rose growes on the pricking thorne , The Lillie sayre comes of a filthie weede , In loathsome soyle men sow the wholsome corne , The basest mould the fairest flower doth breede , Vngratefull , false , craftie you are , and cruell , Borne of our burning hell to bee the fuell . S. I. H.
Base bullion for the stampe sake wee allow , Euen so for mens impression doe wee you , By which alone our reuerend fathers say , Women receiue perfection euerie way . Ch. Marlow .
Their Vertues mount like billowes to the skies , And vanish straight out of the gazers eyes , Hate and disdaine is painted in theyr eyes , Deceit and treason in their bosome lies . G. Chapman .
Women were made for this intent , to put vs vnto paine , Yet sure I thinke they are a pleasure to the mind , A ioy which man can neuer want , as nature hath assign'd . Idem ,
Extreamely mad the man I surely deeme , That weenes with watch and hard restraint to stay A womans will , which is dispos'd to goe astray . Ed. Spencer .
In vaine hee feares that which hee cannot shunne , For who wots not that womens subtilties Can gnilen Argus , when shee list misdoone , It is not iron bands nor hundred eyes , Nor brazen walles , nor many wakefull spyes , That can with-hold her wilfull wandring feete , But fast good will with gentle curtesies , And timely seruice to her pleasures meeke , May her perhaps containe that else would algates fleete . Idem .
Such is the crueltie of women-kind , When they haue shaken off the shame-fac't band , With which wise nature did them strongly bind , T' obey the hests of mans wel-ruling hand , That then all rule and reason they withstand , To purchase a licencious libertie . But vertuous women wisely vnderstand , That they were borne to base humilitie , Vnlesse the heauens them lift to lawfull soueraintie . S. Ph. Sydney .
Why ? what be women ? women , geld the latter sillable , Then are they nothing more then woe , their names remaine doth tell , W. W.
Take away weakenesse , and take women too . S. D.
Women may fall , when there 's no strength in men . W. Sh.
They melt with words , as waxe against the sunne , So weake is many womens modestie , For what somtimes they most would seeme to sheeld Another time vnaskte poore soules they yeeld . Ch. Middleton .
— A woman Loues to be woed of a man , thou knowst well Thirsis , a woman Runs , and yet so runs , as though she desir'd to be out-run Saies no , no , yet so as no no , seems to be no , no , Striues , & yet so striues , as though she desird to be vanquisht , Woman's like to a shade , that flies , yet lies by the subiect , Like to a Bee , that neuer striues if sting be remooued . A. Fraunce .
In womens mouthes no is no negatiue . I. W.
Their yea , or no , when as they sweare they loue or loue vs most , Beleeue who list , soone be they got , as sodainely are lost . W. W.
A womans loue is riuer-like , which stopt will ouerflow , And when the current finds no let , it often falles too low . Idem .
Varietie of men to court a woman is her pride , Then which the vanity of men is nothing lesse espide What are to vs but common hurts , Those common hopes they giue , If then their loue doth die to vs , When ours to them doth liue . Idem .
— Women neuer Loue beautie in their sexe , but enuie euer . G. Chapman .
There cannot bee a greater clogge to man , Then to be wearie of a wanton woman . S. I. H.
— What more spight can be a woman told , Then one should say she looketh foule and old . Idem .
— Bee shee base or hie , A womans eye doth guide her wit , & not her wit her eye . W. W.
Women are most wonne , as when men merit least , If merit looke not well , loue bids stand by , Loues proper lesson is to please the eye . G. Ch ▪
He water plowes , and soweth in the sand And hopes the flickering wind with net to hold , Who hath his hopes layd on a womans hand . S. P. S
— Women by kind are mutable euer , Soone hot , and soone cold , like , and mislike in a moment , Change as a weather-cocke , and all as light as a fether . A. Fr.
Women haue tongues of craft , and hearts of guile , They will , they will not , fooles that on them lust , For in their speech is death , hell in their smile . Ed. Fairfax .
One woman with another may do much . Th. Ach.
Like vntund golden strings all women are , Which long time lie vntoucht , will harshly iarre . Ch. Marlow .
Discurteous women natures fairest ill , The woe of man , that first createst curse , Base female sexe , sprung from blacke Ates loynes , Proude , disdainefull , cruell , and vniust , Whose words are shaded with inchaunting wiles , Worse then Med●s● , mateth all our mindes , And in their hearts sits shamelesse trecherie , Turning a truthlesse vile circumference , O could my fury paint their furies forth , For hell , no hell compared to their hearts ▪ Too simple diuelles , to conceiue their arts : Borne to be plagues vnto the thoughts of men , Brought for eternall pestilence to the worlde . R Greene .
with women is too vsual now theirs & themselues to sel , For iointures by indenture with imperious men to dwel And hee doth her , and she doth him with his and her vpbraid , W. W.
Women are kind by kind , and coy for fashion . H. C.
— Fierce reuenging wrath Rides on a Lyon , loth for to bee led , And in his stand a burning brand hee had , The which hee brandished about his head , His eyes did hurle foorth sparkles fierie redde , And stared sterne on all that him beheld , As ashes pale of hew , and seeming dead , And on his dagger still his hand hee held , Trembling through hastie rage when choller in him sweld . Ed. Spencer .
— Boyling wrath , sterne , cruell , swift , & rash , That like a boare her teeth doth grinde and gnash , Whose hayre dooth stare like bristled po●cupine , Who sometimes rowles her gastly glowing eyene , And sometimes fixly on the ground doth glaunce , Now bleake , then bloudy in her countenance , Rauing and rayling with a hideous sound , Clapping her hands , stamping against the ground , Bearing Bocconi , fire , and sword , to slay And murder all that for her pittie pray , Banning her selfe to bane her enemie , Disdaining death , prouided others die , Like falling towres o're-turned by the wind , That breake themselues on that they vndergrinde . I. Syluester .
Full many mischiefes follow cruell wrath , As horrid bloud-shed , and tumultuous strife , Vnmanly murther , and vnthriftie scath , Bitter despight , and rancors rustie knife , And fretting greefe , the enemie of life , All these and many euilles more haunt ire , The swelling spleene , and frenzie raging rife , The shaking palsie , and Saint Fraunces fire . Ed. Spencer .
When men with wrath and sudden paines of ire , Suffer themselues to bee o're-whelm'd and drownd , And hot reuenge that burnes l●ke flaming fire , Moo●es hearts to hurt , or tongs or hands to wound , Though after to a mend , if they desire , Yet place of pardon seldome can be found . S. I. H.
What iron band , or what sharpe hard-mouth'd bitte , What chaine of Diamond ( if such might bee ) Can bridle wrathfulnesse , and conquer it , And keepe him in his bounds and due degree . Idem .
— Hastie wrath and heedlesse hazardie , Doe breede repentance and lasting infamie . Ed. Spencer .
Poore sillie lambes the Lion neuer teares , The feeble Mouse may lie among great Beares , But wrath of man his rancour to requite , Forgets all reason , ruth , and mercie quite . M. of M.
— He is a mad man that doth seeke Occasion to wrath and cause of strife , She comes vnsought , and shunned followes eke : Happy , who can abstaine when rancor rife Kindles reuenge and threates his cruell knife : Woe neuer wants when euery cause is caught , And rash occa●ion makes vnquiet life . Ed. Spencer .
Be not moody in thy wrath , but pawze ere fist be bent , Oft Phillips sonne did rashly strike and sodenly repent . W. Warner .
Achilles when with counterfaited crest , He saw Patroclus bleeding all the way , To kill his killer was not satisfied , Except he hald and tare him all beside . S. I. H.
If fortune helpe whome thou wouldst hurt , Fret not at it the more , When Aiax stormed them from him , The prize Vlisses bore . W. Warner .
Rage , wanne and pale vpon a Tygre sat Gnawing vpon the bones of mangled men , Nought can he view but he repines thereat ▪ His locks were snakes bred forth in Stigian den ▪ T. Lodge .
The antique world in his first flowring youth , Found no defect in his creators grace , But with glad thanks and vnreprooued truth , The gifts of soueraigne bountie did embrace , Like angelles life was then mans happie case : But later ages pride like corne-fed steede , Abvsde her plentie and fatswoln increase , To all licencious lust , and gan exceede , The measure of her meane and naturall first seede . Ed. Spencer .
When arked Noah , and seuen with him the emptie worlds remaine , Had left the instrumentall means of landing them again And that both man beast & all did multiply with store To Asia Sem , to Affrick Cham , to Europe Iapheth bore Their families , thus triple wise the world diuided was W. W.
I take this world to bee but as a stage , Where net-maskt men do play their personages , T is but a murmur and a pleasant shew , Syth ouer all strange vanities do flow . I. Syluester .
The world to the circumference of heauen , Is as a small poynt in Geometrie , Whose greatnesse is so little that a lesse Cannot bee made . Th. Dekkar
The first world blessed was with heauenly fauours , And the last curst with painefull hellish labours . Ch. Middl.
O vaine worlds glorie , and vncertaine state , Of all that liues on face of sinfull earth , Which from their first vntill their vtmost date , Taste no one howre of happinesse or mirth , But like as is the ingate of their birth . They crying creepe out of their mothers wombe , So wayling backe , goe to their carefull tombe . Ed. Spencer .
Ah wretched world , the den of wretchednesse , Deformd with filth and foule iniquitie , Ah wretched world , the house of heauinesse , Fild with the wreakes of mortall miserie , Oh wretched world and all that is therein , The vassals of Gods wrath , and slaues to sinne . Idem .
— O worlds inconstancie , That which is firme doth flit and fall away , And that is flitting doth abide and stay . Idem .
Must not the world wend in his common course , From good and bad , and then from bad to wourse , From worst vnto that which is worst of all , And then returne vnto his former fall ▪ Who will not suffer the stormie time , Where will hee liue vntill the lustie prime ? Idem .
This golden age to yron doth decline , As summer vnto winter must resigne . D. Lodge .
The first and riper world of men and skill , Yeelds to our latter time for three inuentions , Myraculously wee write , wee sayle , wee kill , As neither auncient scrowle nor storie mentions . . The first hath opened learnings old concealed And obscurde arts restored to the light : Loadst . The second hidden countries hath reueald , And sent Christs Gospel to each liuing wight . These we commend , but oh what needeth more , Guns . To teach death more skill then he had before . Th. Bastard .
Take moysture from the sea , take colour from his kind , Before the world deuoyd of change thou finde . — All that in this world is great or gay , Doth as a vapour vanish and decay . Ed. Spencer .
This is the rest the vaine world lendes , To end in death , that all things ends . S. Daniell .
All men are willing with the world to hault , But no man takes delight to know his fault . D. Lodge .
A die , a drab , and filthie broking Knaues , Are the worlds wide mouthes , al-deuouring graues ▪ I. Marston .
Nothing doth the world so full of mischiefe fill . But want of feeling one-anothers will . G. Chapman .
— Not by that which is the world now deemeth , ( As it was woont ) but by that same that seemeth . Ed. Spencer .
There neuer shall bee any age so cleere , But in her smoothe face shall some faults appeare . Th. Middl.
The world must end , for men are so accurst , Vnlesse God end it sooner , men will first . Th. Bastard .
Youth is a bubble blowen vp with a breath , Whose wit is weaknes , and whose wage is death , Whose way is wildnes , and whose Inne penance , And stoope gallant age , the hoast of greeuance . Ed. Spencer .
If crooked age accounteth youth his spring , The spring the fayrest season of the yeere , Enricht with flowers , and sweetes , and many a thing That fayre and glorious to the eye appeares : It fits that youth the spring of man should bee , Richt with such flowers as vertue getteth thee . R. Greene .
For noble youth there is no thing so meete As learning is , to know the good from ill , To know the tongues , and perfectly endite , And of the lawes to haue the perfect skill Things to reforme as right and iustice will : For honour is ordained for no cause , But to see right maintained by the lawes . M. of M.
The youth of Princes haue no boundes for sinne , Vnlesse themselues doe make the bounds within . S. Daniell .
Most true it is , as vessels of first licours euer taste , Loue seasoned so with sweetnes of youth , the same dooth euer last . W. Warner .
Like as the vessell euer beares a taste Of the same iuice wherewith it first was fil'd , And as in fruitfull ground the seede growes fast , That first is sowen after the ground is till'd : So looke what lore in youthfull yeeres is plast , By that they grow the worse or better willed , When as they came to manly age and stature , Sith education is another nature . S. I. H.
The tunne retaineth long the taste and sent , Of that pure licour which at first it hent , And what impression one in youth retaine , In age our reason hardly will restraine , D. Lodge .
— What by vaine example youth conceiues , The same for lawfull daily he receiues . Idem .
Age is deformed , youth vnkind , Wee scorne their bodyes , they our mindes . Th. Bastard .
The youth are foolish hardy , or lesse hardy than they ought Effeminate , fantasticke , in few not few , are nought . W. Warner .
— Forward sinne in raines of foolish rage , Leaues heedlesse youth inchaind his captiue page . D. Lodge .
— Youth doth deserue by might , But old age by good counsell and fore-sight . Idem .
— Youth may loue , and yongmen may admire , If old age cannot , yet it will desire , I. Weeuer .
In grained habits died with often dips Are not so soone discoloured , yong slippes New set , are easily mou'd and pluckt away , But elder rootes clippe faster in the clay . I. Murston .
The plow-man first his land doth dresse and turne , And makes it apt or ere the seede he sow , Whereby hee is full like to reape the corne , Where otherwise no seede but weed should grow : By which example men may easily know , When youth haue wealth before they can well vse it , It is no woonder though they doe abuse it . M. of M.
Reform the euen to day , vnapt to day , least apt to morrow Youth aptly offers vertues , such as yeares vnaptly borrow W. W.
Looke what wee haue when youth is most in prime , That shall wee want in age by course of time . Th. Churchyard .
Night was farre spent , and now in Ocean deepe , Orion flying fast from hissing snake , His flaming head did hasten for to steepe . Ed. Sp.
By this th' eternall lamps wherewith high Ioue , Doth light the lower world , were halfe yspent , And the moyst daughters of huge Atlas stroue Into th' ocean deep to driue their wearie droue . Idem .
— The gentle humorous night , Implyes her middle course , and the sharpe east , Breathes on my spirit with his fierie steedes . G. Chapman .
The silent night that long had soiourned , Now gan to cast her sable mantle off , And now the sleepie waine-man softly droue His slow-pac't teeme that long had trauailed . Th. Kyd.
By this the Northerne Wagoner had set His seuen-fold teeme behind the stedfast starre , That was in Ocean waues , yet neuer wet , But firme is fixt , and sendeth light from farre , To all that in the wide deepe wandring are , And cheereful chauntte cleere with his notes shrill , Had warned once that Phebus fierie carre , 〈◊〉 haste was climing vp to Esterne hill , Full enuious that the night so long his roome did f●ill Ed. Spencer .
What time the natiue Bel-man of the night , The bird that warned Peter of his fall , First rings his siluer bel to each sleeping wight , That should their mindes vp to deuotion call . Idem .
The cheerefull cocke , the sad nights trumpeter , Wayting vpon the rising of the sunne , Doth sing to see how Cynthia shrinks her horne , Where Clitia takes her progresse to the East , Where wringing west with drops of siluer dew , Her wonted teares of loue she doth renew , The wandering swallow with her broken song , The countrie wench vnto her worke awakes , Whilst Cytherea sighing , walks to seeke , Her murdered loue transformed to a rose , Whom though she see , to croppe shee kindly feares But kissing sighes , and dewes him with her teares . Th. Kyd.
Now ere the purple dawning yet did spring , The ioyfull Larke began to stretch her wing , And now the cocke the mornings trumpeter , Plaid hunts vp , for the day-starre to appeare , Downe slideth Phebe from her cristall chayre , S'daigning to lend her light vnto the ayre . M. Drayton .
At last fayre Hesperus in highest skie , Had spent his lamp , & brought forth dawning light . Ed. Spencer .
The night growen old , her blacke head waxen gray , Sure shepheards signe that morn wil soon fetch day . S. Ph. Sydney .
It was the time when gainst the breaking day , Rebellious night yet stroue and still repined , For in the east appeares the morning gray , And yet some lampes in Ioues high pallace shined . Ed. Fairfax .
By this Apolloes golden harpe beganne To send forth musicke to the Ocean , Which watchfull Hesperos no sooner heard , But hee the day bright bearing carre prepar'd , And ranne before , as harkenger of light , And with his flaming beames ●ockt vgly night . Ch. Marlow .
— Lycaons sonne , The hardy plough-swaine vnto mightie Ioue , Hath trac'd his siluer furrowes in the heauen , And turning home his ouer-watched teeme , Giues leaue vnto Apolloes chariot . R. Greene .
Nights candles are burnt out , and iocond day , Stands tiptoe on the mistie mountaines top . W. Sh.
Loe now the gentle Larke wearie of rest , From his moyst cabynet mounts vp on hie , And wakes the morning from whose siluer breast , The sunne ariseth in his maiestie : Who doth the world so gloriously behold , That Cedar tops and hilles seem'd burnisht gold . Idem .
The ioyous day gan earlie to appeare , And fayre Aurora fro her dewy bed Of aged Tithon gan her selfe to reare With rosie cheekes , for shame as blushing red . Ed. Spencer .
Now when the rosie-fingred morning fayre , Wearie of aged Tithons saffron bed , Had spread her purple robe through dewie ayre , And the high hilles Titan discouered , The royall Virgin shooke off drowsie bed . Idem .
Now sullen night with slow sad pace descended To vgly hell , when loe the blushing morrow Lends light to all faire eyes that light will borrow . W. Sh.
Soone as the morrow saire with purple beames , Disperst the shadowes of the mistie night , And Titan playing on the easterne streames , Gan cleare the dewie ayre with springing light . Ed. Spencer .
The dewie Rose at morne had with her hayres , In sundrie sorts the Indian clime adornde , And now her eyes apparelled in teares , The losse of louely Memnon long had mornde . D. Lodge .
The gaudie morne out of her golden sleepe Awakte , and little birdes vncagde gan sing , To welcome home the bride-groome of the sea . G. Peele .
The gray-eyde morne smiles on the frowning night , Cheering the easterne cloudes with streams of light , And darkenesse flected like a drunkard reeles , From forth dayes path-way made by Titans wheels . W. Sh.
Now had the morne espide her louers steedes , Whereat shee starts , puts on her purple weede , And red for anger that hee stayd so long , All headlong throwes her selfe the cloudes among . Ch. Marlow .
As soon as morning her shining haires fro the mountains Had shewen forth & driuen all star-light quite fro the heauens . A. Fraunce .
Faire Aurora betimes by the daies break rose from her husband Husband , old & cold , & draue back clouds from Olympas Making way to the sun , taking her way to the younker , Braue yonker Cephalus whom faire Aurora desired . Idem .
Now was the time when as Aurora faire , Began to shew the world her golden head , And looke abroade to take the coole fresh ayre , Iealous Tithono lying still in bedde . S. I. H.
The sable night dislodgd and now beganne , Auroraes vsher with a windie fanne , Sweetely to shake the woods on euerie side , The whilst his mistresse like a stately bride , With flowers , with gemmes , and Indian gold doth spangle Her louely locks her louers looks to tangle , When passing through the aire in mantle blue , With siluer fringe shee drops the pearlie dew , With her goes Abram out . I. Syluester .
The rosie fringed morne with gladsome ray , Rose to her taske from old Tithonas lap . Ed. Fairfax .
The night beginnes bee angrie when shee sees She can distill no sleepe in louers eyes , Tossing her selfe among the cloudes now hath Sent the red morne as harauld of her wrath , Whose louer Phebus rising from his bed , With dewie mantle hath the world or'e-spread , Shaking his tresses our Neptunes ebbe : And giuing tincture to the spiders webbe , These fayre nimphs rose , seeing the light did call . I. Weeuer .
Aurora bright her cristall gates vnbatr'd , And bridegroome like stept forth the glorious sunne Ed. Fairfax .
The dewie tressie morning newly wake , With golden tinsell scarse had crownd her brow , Riding in triumph on the Ocean lake , Embellishing the hony-fringed bowes . M. Drayton .
The purple morning left her crimsin bed , And dond her robes of pure vermillion hue , Her amber locks shee crownd with roses red , In Edens flowry gardens gathered new . Ed. Fairfax .
At last the golden Orientall gate Of greatest heauen gan to open fayre , And Phoebus fresh as bridegroome to her mate , Came dauncing forth , shaking his dewie haire , And hurles his glistering beames through gloomie ayre . Ed. Spencer .
The fierie sunne was mounted vp on hight , Vp to the heauenly towres , and shot each where Out of his golden chariot glistering light : And faire Aurora with her rosie hayre , The hatefull darknesse now had put to flight . Idem .
The golden sunne rose from the siluer waue , And with his beames enameld euerie grene . Ed. Fairfax .
The snoring snout of restlesse Phlegon blew , Hot on the Indes , which did the day renew With scarlet skie . Th. Hadson .
Hyperion throwing forth his beames full oft , Into the highest toppe of heauen gan clime , And the world parting by an equall lot , Did shed his whirling flames on either side , As the great Ocean doth himselfe diuide . Ed. Spencer .
When as the sunne towred in heauens head , Downe from the siluer mountaines of the skie , Bent his bright chariot on the glassie bed , Fayre Cristall gilded with his glorious eye , Fearing some vsurpation in his sted , Or least his loue should too long dalliance spie , Tweene him and Virgo , whose attractiue face , Had newly made him leaue the Lions chace , In that same middayes hower &c. I· Markham .
— Golden Phoebus now that mounted hie From fierie wheeles of his fayre chariot , Hurled his beames so scorching cruell hot , That liuing creature mote it not abide . Ed. Spencer .
In highest way of heauen the sunne did ryde , Progressing from fayre twins in golden place , Hauing no maske of cloudes before his face , But streaming forth his heate in cheefest pride . S. Ph. Sydney .
Now gan the golden Phoebus for to steepe , His fierie face in billowes of the west , And his faint Steedes watred in Ocean deepe , Whilst from their iournall labours they doe rest . Ed. Spencer .
— Loe the great Automedon of day , In Isis streame his golden locks doth steepe , Sad euen her dusky mantle doth display , Light flying fouls the posts of night doe sport them , And cheerefull looking Phoebe doth comfort them . D. Lodge .
By this the welked Phoebus gan auaile , His wearie waine and now the frostie night , Her mantle blacke through heauen gan ouerhaile , Ed. Spencer .
Such loue as Phoebus from the coloured skie , Did headlong driue his horses toward the west , To suffer horned Luna for ro prye , Amidst the dusky darke . D. Lodge .
When as the Sun hales towa●ds the westerne slade , And the tree shadowes three times greater made . M. Dr.
And now the Sunne was past his middleway , Leaning more louely to his lemmons bed , And the Moones third howre had attacht the day . I. Markham .
By this the sunne had spred his golden locks Vpon the pale greene carpet of the sea , And opened wide the scarlet doore which locks , The easefull euening from the labouring day , Now night beganne to leape from yron rocks . And whippes her rustie waggon through the way . Idem .
The blushing sunne plucks in his smiling beames , ●aking his steedes to mend their woonted pace , Till plunging downe into the ocean streames , There in the froathie waues hee hides his face , Then raines them in more then his vsuall space , And leaues foule darknesse to possesse the skie , A time most fit for foulest tragedie . M.D.
Now the sunne is mounted vp on hie , And pawseth in the midst of all the skie , His fierie face vpon the earth doth beate , And bakes it with intollerable heate . I. Authoris .
— Now the golden Hesperus Was mounted bie in toppe of heauens sheene , And warned had his brethren ioyous , To light their blessed lamps in Ioues eternall house , Ed. Spencer .
〈◊〉 ●his the night from forth the darksome bower 〈◊〉 ●●bus , her teemed steedes gan call , 〈…〉 V●sper in his timely howre , From golden Oeta gan proceede withall . R. Greene .
About the time when Vesper in the West , 〈…〉 ●ing watch , and silent night , 〈…〉 ●is twinckling traine , 〈…〉 to possesse the world , And fantasie to hauzen idle heades , Vnder the stately Canopie of heauen , I layd me downe laden with many cares . G. Peele .
Now the worlds comforter with wearie gate , His dayes hot taske hath ended in the West ▪ The owle ( nights harauld ) shreekes , t is verie late , The sheepe are gone to fold , the birds to nest , The cole-blacke cloudes that shadow heauens light Do summon vs to parte and bid good night . W. Sh.
Now gan the hunni'd vapour shed the ground With pearlie dew , and th' earths gloomie shade Did dimme the brightnesse of the welkin round , That euerie beast and bird awarned made , To shrowde themselues , while sleep their senses did inuade , Ed. Spencer .
The silent shadowes with their mother vaile , The bright lampe of heauen from Thetis hid , Apolloes sister in her starry rayle , Along her lower Sphere in triumpeled . D. Lodge .
— Cynthia companion of the night , With shining brand lighting his eben carre , Whose axeltree was iet auchact with starres , And roofe with shining rauens feathers cealed , Piercing my eye lids as I lie along , Awaked me through . G. Peele .
Thus whiles dumb sights their yeelding hearts entangled The aire with sparks of liuing fire was spangled , And night deepe drencht in mistie Acheron , Heaued vp her head halfe the world vpon , Breath'd darknes forth , darke night is Cupids daie . Ch. Marlow .
— From deepe of regions vnderneath Nights vaile arose and sunnes bright luster chacde . Ed. Fairfax .
Inuested in her stately vale the night In her kind armes embraced all the round , The siluer moone from Sea vprising bright , Spred frostie pearle vpon the canded ground . Idem .
Now blacke-browde night plast in her chaire of iet , Sat wrapt in cloudes within her cabinet , And with her duskie mantle ouer-spread The path the sunnie Palfraies vsde to tread , And Cynthia sitting in her Cristall chayre , In all her pompe did ride along her Sphere , The honyed dew descended in soft showres , Drizled in pearle vpon the tender flowers . And Zephire husht , who with a whispering gale , Seemed to harken to the nightingale , Which in the thornie brakes with her sweet song , Vnto the silent night bewrayde her wrong . M. Dra.
Now was the heauenly vault depriude of light With sunnes depart , and now the darknes of the night , Did light those beamy stars which greater lite did dark Now each thing that inioyd that fierie quickning spark ( Which life is cald ) were moud their spirits to repose , And wanting vse of eyes , their eies began to close : A silence sweete , each where with one consent imbrast , A musicke sweete , to one in carefull musing plast : And mother earth now clad in morning weed , did breathe A dull desire to kisse th' image of our death . S. Ph. Sydney .
It was the time , when rest soft sliding downe From heauens height , into mans heauie eyes , In the forgetfulnesse of sleepe doth drowne The carefull thoughts of mortall miseries . Ed. Spencer .
— The sunne alreadie sanke Beyond our world , and ere I got my boothe , Each wight with mantle black the night doth scooth , Sauing the glow-worm , which would courteous be , Of that small light oft watching sleepers see . The welkin had full niggardly inclosde In coffer of dimme cloudes his siluer groates , I cleped starres , each thing to rest disposde , The caues were full , the mountaines voyde of goates The birds eyes closde , closed their chirping notes : As for the nightingale , woods musicke King , It August was , hee daind not then to sing . S. Ph. Sydney .
— Now the sable shade I cleped night had thicke enueloped The sunne , in vaile of double darknes made Sleepe eased care , rest brought complaint to bed . Ed. Fairfax .
Now from the fresh , the soft , and tender bed , Of her still mother gentle night out-flew The fleeting balme on hilles and dales shee shed , With honey drops of pure and precious dew , And on the verdure of greene forrests spred , The virgin prime rose , and the violet blew , And sweete-breath Zephire on his spreading wings Sleepe , ease , repose , rest , peace , and quiet brings , The thoughts and troubles of broade waking day , They softly dip in milde Obliuions lake . Idem .
Now when Aldeboran was mounted hie , Aboue the shinie Cassiopeias chaire , And all in deadly sleepe did drowned lie . Ed. Spencer .
Midnight was come , when euerie vitall thing , With sweete sound sleepe their wearie limbs did rest , The beasts were still , the little birds that sing , Now sweetely slept besides their mothers brest , The old and all were snrowded in their rest , The waters calme , the cruell seas did cease , The woods , the fields , and all things held their peace The golden starres were whi●ld amidst theyr race , And on the earth did laugh with twinckling light , When each thing nestled in his resting place , Forgat dayes payne with pleasure of the night , The hare had no the greedie hounds in sight , The fearefull Deare of death stood not in doubt , The Partrich dreamd not of the falchens foot , The vgly beare now minded not the stake , Nor how the cruell mastiffes doe her teare , The stagge lay still vnroused from the brake , The foamie bore fear'd not the hunters speare , All things were still in desart , bush and breere : The quiet heart now from their trauailes rest , Soundly they slept in most of all their rest . M. Sackuile .
— The midnights waking starre , Sad Cassiopeia with a heauie cheere Pusht forth her forehead to make knowne from farre , What time the deadly dole of earth drewe neere . I. Markham .
With falling mists the darkesome night extended Her sable wings , and gently ouer-spread Heauens gloomie vaile , whence Phoebus lampe was fled , Dead time of rest to euerie mortall wight , To cheerefull mindes that bringeth wanton sleepe , With many a phantasie and deluding toy , And pensiue heart it doth delaie and keepe From tedious companie , that would annoy , Dull Saturnists that haue abiurd all ioy . Th. Storer .
Now spread the night her spangled canopie , And summond euerie restlesse soule to sleepe , On beds of tender grasse the beasts doe lie , The fishes slumbred in the silent deepe , Vnheard was Serpents hisse and Dragons crie , Birds left to sing and Philomele to weepe : Onely that noyse heauens rolling circle kest , Sung lullaby to bring the world to rest . Ed. Fairfax .
When low the night with mistie mantle spread , Gan darke the day , and dimme the azure skies , And Venus in her message Hermes sped To bloudy Mars , to will him not to rise , While shee her selfe approacht in speedie wise , And Virgo hiding her disdainfull breast , With Thetis now had layd her downe to rest , While Scorpio dreading Sagitarius dart , Whose bow prest bent , in fight the string had slipt ▪ Downe slid into the Ocean floud a part , The beare that in the irish seas had dipt Hs grisly feete , with speede from thence he whipt , For Thetis hasting from the virgins bed , Pursude the beare that ere she came was fled , And Phaethon now neere reaching to his race , With glistering beames gold streaming where they bent ▪ Was prest to enter in his resting place , Enryhius that in the carte first went , Had euen now attain'd his iourneyes stent , And fast declining hid away his head , Where Titan coucht him in his purple bed , And now pale Cynthia with her borrowed light , Beginning to supplie her brothers place , Was past the noone-sted sixe degrees in sight , When sparkling starres amidst the heauens face , With twinckling light shone on the earth apace , That while they brought about the nights chaire , The dark had dimd the day ere I was ware . M. Sac.
Such time as from her mothers tender lap The night arose , garded with gentle winds , And with h●r precious dew refresht the sappe , Of bloome and darke , ( whilst that her mantle blinds The vaile of heauen ) and euery birde was still , Saue Philomele that did bemone her ill : When in the West Orion lift aloft His stately crest , and smilde vpon the twins , And Cynthia seemely bright ( whose eye full oft Had watcht her loue ) with radiant light begins , To pierce the vaile of silence with her beames , Sporting with wanton cleere in Ocean streames . When little winds in beating of their wings , Did woe the eyes to leaue their constant walke , And all was husht saue Zephirus that sings , With louely breathings for the sea nymphs sake , My wrathfull greefes perplexe my mind so sore , That forth I walkt , my sorrowes to deplore . D. Lodge .
In chariot framed of celestiall mould , And simple purenesse of the purest skie , A more then heauenly nymph I did behold , Who glauncing on mee with her gracious eye , So gaue mee leaue her beautie to espie , For sure no sence such sight can comprehend , Except her beames theyr fayre reflection lend Her beautie with eternitie beganne , And onely vnto God was euer seene , When Eden was possest with sinfull man , She came to him , and gladly would haue beene , The long succeedings worlds eternall Queene , But they refused her ( O hainous deede ) And from that garden banisht was that seede , Since when at sundrie times and sundry wayes , Atheisme , and blinded ignorance conspire , How to obscure those holy burning rayes , And quench that zeale of heart-inflaming fire , As makes our soules to heauenly things aspire : But all in vaine , for maugre all their might , She neuer lost one sparkle of her light . Pearles may bee foyld , and gold bee turn'd to drosse , The sunne obscur'd , the moone bee turn'd to bloud , The world may sorrow for Astreas losse , The heauens darkened like a duskie wood , Wast deserts lie where watrie fountaines stood ; But fayre Theologie ( for so shee hight ) Shall neuer loose one sparkle of her light . Such one she was , as in his Hebrew song , The wisest king for fairest creature prooues , Embracing her the Cedar trees among , Comparing her to roses and to Doues , Preferring her before all other loues , Such one she was , and euerie whit as fayre , Besides these two was neuer such a payre . T. Storer .
Her hand-maides in Amazon-like attire , Went chaste and modest like Dianaes traine , One by her gazing lookes seemes to aspire Beyond the Moone , and in a high disdaine , To deeme the world and worldly treasures vaine . She hight Astrologie , on whose bright lawne , Spheres Astrolabes and skilfull globes are drawn .
The next , fayre smiling with a pleasing cheeke , Had power to rauish and inchaunt mens eares , Hight Rhetorick , whose shadowed vaile showen cleere With siluer tongues , and ouer it she weares , A wimpled scarfe , bedewd with hearers teares , Whose captiue hearts she should detaine long while , With pleasance of her vnaffected stile .
The third a quicke-eyde dame of piercing sight , That reasons worth in equall ballance wayed , The truth shee lou'd aboue all earthly wight , Yet could not tell her loue , but what shee sayd Was certaine true , and shee a perfect maide , Her garments short , tuckt vp to earth preparde , And shee calld Logicke without welt or gard . Th. Storer .
Next these , whose outward lookes I knew aright , And had some portion of their endlesse treasure , Fayre Algebra with fingers richly dight , Sweete Musicke founder of delightsome pleasure , Earth-scanning nymph , directresse of all measure . These humbly did her soueraigne highnes greet , And meekely layd their garlands at her feete . From euerie one shee pluckt a speciall flower , And layd each flower vpon a seuerall part , Then from her one a stemme of wondrous power , Whose leaues were beames , whose stalke a fiery dart . And that she layd vpon my trembling heart , These were the buds of art , this plant of blisse , This gaue them life , they yeelded grace to this . Th. Storer .
Two greater kings were neuer seene before . Then camped was in Ragan field at morne , With haughtie hearts enarmed all on ire , Each souldiour set another so on fire , Thar scarcely they could keepe them in their bounde Till pipe or Cymball , or the Trumpet sound , Denounce the chocke , but with their furious faces , They threate their foes with fell menaces , And stroks at hand , two thousand lads forlorne ( To blunt the sword ) were downe in battaile borne , Vpon their flames flew feruently their stones , That bet theyr bucklers to their brused bones , The Squadron then steps sternely to the stroke , With hearts inhumane all the battaile yoakes , And are supplyde with many mightie bands , Some counters them , and sternely them withstands , With foote to foote each other ouerpries , Both Medes and Caldes claspe with gastly cryes , Like Nylus streames that from the rocke do rumble , 〈◊〉 Encelade when he in tombe doth tumble . Tho. Huds●● .
Best charge , and brauest retrait in Cupids fight , A double key which opens to the heart , Most rich , when most his riches it impart , Neast of yong ioyes , schoole-master of de●ight , Teaching the meane at once to take and giue , The friendly stay , where blows both wound & heale The pettie death where each in other liue , Poore hopes first wealth , hostage of promise weake . Breakefast of loue . S. Ph. Sydney .
People , lesse setled then the sl●ding sand , ●ore mutable then Proteus or the Moone , T●●nd and ●e●urnd in turning of a hand , ●●●e Eu●●pus●b●e flowing euery noone : Thou thousand headed headlesse monster most , Of sl●ine like Antheus , and as oft new rising , Who hard as steele , as light as wingd art tost , Camelion like , each ob●ects colour prising . I. Syluester .
A sturdie villaine stirring strife and bold , As though the highest God defie he would : In his right hand an iron clubbe hee held , But hee himselfe was all of golden mould , Yet had both life and sence , and well could weilde That cursed weapon , when his cruell foes he queld , D●sdaine he called was , and did disdaine So to be calde , and who so him did call . Ed. Spencer .
— Loe a knight vnto his socour went All arm'd in shining steele , and on his shield , He bare a yoake in sundrie peeces rent . And flames of fire all in a yellow field : So weaponed he was , as if hee ment To make all that incountred him to yeeld : A sword and speare hee had , and to the same A mace , from whence he threw continuall flame , His mace was storde with euerlasting fire , That euer burned and did neuer waste , No other wagon needed one desire To make good way which way soere he past , And sure Rinaldoes danger did require , Quicke remedie , wherefore the knight did haste , And when hee saw this monster and did vew her , With his stiffe speare forth with hee ouerthrew her : But this same fall did her no whit annoy , Wherefore to vse his speare he now misliketh , Onely hee will his fierie face imploy , And with that same the monster foule hee striketh , Then shee no longer could her force inioy . S. I. H.
— Dearth the liuely forme of death , Still yawning wide with lothsome stinking breath , With hollow eyes , with meger cheekes and chinne , With sharpe leane bones , piercing her sable skinne , Her emptie bowels may bee plainely spide , Cleane through the wrinckles of her withered hide , Shee hath no bellie , but the bellies seate , Her knees and knuckles swelling very great , Insatiate Orque , that euen at one repaste , Almost all creatures in the world with waste , Whose greedie gorge dish after dish doth draw , Seekes meate in meate , for still her monstrous maw Voydes in deuouring , and sometimes she eates Her owne deere babes , for lacke of other meates , Nay more sometimes ( O strangest gluttonie , ) Shee eates her selfe , her selfe to satisfie , Lessning her selfe , her selfe so to inlarge , And cruell thus , shee doth our grandfire charge , And brings beside from Limbo to assist her , Rage , feeblenesse , and thirst her ruthlesse sister . I. Siluester .
— Cruell thirst came out of Cyren land , Where shee was fostered on the burning sand , With hote intracted tongue , and sunken eine , With stomacke worne , and wrinckled visage keene With light and meagre , corse , and pailed vaines , In steede of bloud , that brimstone hot retaines , Her poysoned mouth blew through that holy towne , Such hellish aire , that stiffeled vp and down . Th. Had.
Her eyes were sunk into her head , Her cheeks were leane and lanke , Out stood her chin , Into her mouth her bloudlesse lips they sanke , Her toothlesse chappes Disgraste her tongue in telling of a tale , And sucke she might A teat for teeth and spoonage too did faile , Her haire since sixtie yeeres Not blacke , was now , nor white , or none , The substance of her wrinckled face Were onely skinne and bone , Dimme were her eyes , Deafe were her eares , ranke smelt , if she could sent , A palsie made her feeling cease , Downe tastlesse foode it went . W. Warner .
Sometime they proffer , then they pause a while , Sometime strike out , like masters of the play , Now stand vpright , now stoope , another while , Now open lie , now couer all they may . Now ward then with a slippe the blow beguilde , Now forward step , now backe a little way , Now round about , and where the tone giues place , There still the other presseth in his place . S. I. H.
— Faire Albion glorie of the North , Neptunes best darling held betweene his armes , Diuided from the world , as better worth , Kept from himselfe , defended from all harmes . S. Daniell .
This royall throne of Kings , this sceptred yle . This earth of maiestie , this seate of Mars , This other Eden , this demi-paradise , This fortresse built by nature for her selfe , Against intestion and the hand of warre , This happie breede of man , this little world , This precious stone sette in the siluer sea , Which serues it in the office of a wall , Or as a Moate defensiue to a house , Against the enuie of lesse happier lands , This nurse , this teeming wombe of royall Kings , Fearde by their breede , and famous by their byrth , Renowned in their deedes as farre from home , For charitie , seruice , and true chiualrie , As is the Sepulchre in stubburne Iewrie . M. Dr.
The fairest flower that glories Affrica , Whose beautie Phebus dare not dash with showres , O●er whose climate neuer hung a cloude , But smiling Titan lights the Horizon . R. Greene .
Hierusalem is feared on two hilles , Of height vnlike , and turned side to side , The space betweene a gentle vallie filles , From mount to mount exspansed faire and wide , Three sides are sure imbarde with crags and hilles , The rest is easie ●cant to rise espide , But mightie bulwarks fence that plainer part , So art helps nature , nature strengthneth art . The towne is storde of troughs and cestornes made , To keepe fresh water , but the countrey seemes Deuoyde of grasse , vnfit for plowmens trade , Not fertill , moyst , with riuers , welles , and streames , There grow few trees , to make the summers shade , To shield the parched land from scorehing beames , Saue that a wood stands sixe miles from the towne , With aged Cedars , darke and shadowes browne : By east among the duskie vallies glide , The siluer streames of Iordanes siler floud , By west the mid-land sea with bounders tyde , O● sandie showres , where loppa whilom stood , By North Samaria stands , and on that side , The golden Calfe was reard in Bethell wood , Bethlem by South , where Christ incarnate was , A pearle in steele , a diamond sette in brasse . Ed. Fairfax .
Heauens Cristall windowes with one hand God opes Where on the world a thousand seas hee droppes , With th' other hand hee gripes and wringeth forth , The spungie globe of the execrable earth , So straightly prest that it doth strait restore , All liquid flouds that it had drunke before , In euerie rocke new riuers doe beginne , And to his aide the snowes came tumbling in . The Pines and Cedars haue but bowes to shew , The shoares do shrinke , the swelling waters grow . I. Syluester .
About his necke a carknet rich hee ware Of precious stones all sette in gold well tried , His armes that earst all warlike weapons bare , In golden bracelets wantonly were tied , Into his eares two rings conuayed are , Of golden wire , at which on either side , Two Indian pearles , in making , like two peares Of passing price , were pendant at his eares , His locks bedewd with waters of sweete sauour , Stood curled round in order on his head , He had such wanton womanish behauiour , As though in Valence he had long beene bred , So changd in speech , in manners , and in fauour , So from himselfe beyond all reason ledde , By these inchauntments of this amorous dame , He was himselfe in nothing but in name . S. I. H.
For Adam God chose out an happie seate , A climate temperate both for cold and heate , Which daintie Flora paueth sumptuously , With flowrie Vers inameld tapistrie , Pomona prancks with fruits , whose taste excelles , And Zephir filles with muske and amber smelles , Where God himselfe ( as gardiner ) treades the allies , With trees and corne couers the hilles and vallies , Summons sweet sleep with noyse of hundred brooks , And sunne-proofe arbors makes in sundrie nookes , Hee plants , hee proines , he pares , he trimmeth round , The euer-greene bewties of a fruitfull ground : Heere , there , the course of th' holy lakes he leades , With thousand dies he motleth all the meade . I. Syluester .
— O heauens fresh flames quoth hee , Earths sweeping broomes , O forrests enmitie , O you my haraulds , and my harbengers , My nimble posts , and speedie messengers , My armes , my sinewes , and my Eagles swift , That through the ayre my rowling chariot lift . I. Syluester .
His head growes giddie , and his foote indents , A mightie fume his troub●ed braine torments , His idle prattle from their purpose quite , Is abrupt , fluttering , all confusde , and light , His wine stuft stomacke wrung with wind he feeles , His trembling tent all topsi-turuie wheeles , At last not able on his legges to stand , More like a foule swine then a sober man , Opprest with sleepe hee wallowes on the ground , His shamelesse snorting trounke so deepely drownd , In selfe-obliuion , that he did not hide , Those parts that Caesar couered when hee died . Idem .
A sillie man in simple weede forworne , And soyld with dust of the long dryed way , His sandales were with toylsome trauell torne , And face all tand with scorching sunnie ray , As hee had trauaild many a summers day , Through boyling sands of Affrica and Inde , And in his hand a Iacobs staffe to stay His wearie limbs vpon , and eke behind , His scrip did hang , in which his needmets he did bind Ed. Spencer .
Seuen of them came together in a knot , With womens faces , wanne , with deadly cold , So hunger-staru'd , as death it selfe might not Be at first sight more hidious to behold : Their wings were great , but foule black wings god wot , Theyr tallents sharp to gripe , and strong to hold , A large foule panch , a filthy tayle and long , From whence there came a mighty odour strong . S. I. Harr.
— With filled sayles , in little while , They came as farre as Cyprus , Venus Ile : Heere euery place was full of odours sweet , Of gardens fayre , of spyce of pleasant tast , The people lustfull , ( for dame Venus meete ) From tender yeeres to doating age doe last , With wanton damsels walking in each street , Inuiting men to pleasure and repast . S. I. Harr.
Noah lookes vp , and in the ayre he viewes A semicircle of an hundred hewes ; which bright ascending toward th' aetheriall thrones , Hath a line drawne betweene two Horizons For iust Diameter : an euen bent bow Contriu'd of three : whereof the one doth show To be all painted of a golden hew ; The second greene , the third an orient blew : Yet so , that in this pure blew-golden greene , Still ( ô pall-like ) some changeable is seene ; A bow bright shining in th' archers hand , Whose subtile string seemes leuell with the land , Halfe parting heauen , and ouer vs it bends , within two seas wetting his horned ends ; A temporall beautie of the lampfull skyes , where powerfull Nature shewes her fresh-red dies . And if you onely blew and red perceaue , The same as signes of sea and fire conceaue , Of both the flowing and the flaming doome , The iudgement past , and iudgement yet to come . I. Siluester .
Soone after he a christall streame espying , From foote to head he washt himselfe therein , Then vp he gets him on his courser flying , And of the ayre he more and more doth win : Ascending heauen , all earthly thoughts defying . As fishes cut the liquid streame with fin , So cutteth he the ayre and doth not stop Till he was come vnto the mountaine top . This hill nie toucht the circle of the Moone , The top was all a fruitefull pleasant fielde , And light at night , as ours is heere at noone , The sweetest place that euer man beheld , ( There would I dwell if God gaue me my boone ) The soyle thereof most fragrant flowers doth yeeld , Like Rubies , gold , Saphire , pearles , Topaze stones , Chrisolites , Diamonds , Iacinths for the nonce . The trees that there did grow , were euer greene , The fruite that thereon grew were neuer fading , The sundry coloured birds did sit betweene ( Singing most sweet ) the fruitfull boughes then shading , Riuers more cleere then Christall to be seene , The fragrant smell , the sence and soule inuading ; With ayre so temperate and so delightsome , As all the place beside was cleere and lightsome .
The first with cloths tuckt vp as Nimphs in woods doe range , Tuckt vp euen to the knees , with bowes & arrowes prest Her right arme naked was , discouered was her brest : But heauy was her pace , & such a megre cheere , As little hunting mind ( God knows ) did there appeere . S. Phil. Sidney .
— Now great Phoebe in her tryumph came , With all the titles of her glorious name , Diana , Delia , Luna , Cynthia , Virago , Hecate , and Elythia , Prothyria , Dictinna , Proserpine , Latona , and Lucina most diuine . M. Drayton .
The siluer Moone , dread soueraigne of the deepe That with the floods fills vp her horned head , And by her waine , the waining ebs doth keepe . Iar. Markham .
— With a brase of siluer hindes , 〈◊〉 Iuorie Chariot swifter then the windes , 〈◊〉 great Hyperions horned daughter drawne , ●nchauntresse like , deckt in disparent Lawne . Circled with charmes and incantations , That ride huge spirits and ouragious passions ; Musicke and moode she loues , but loue she hates , As curious Ladies doe their publique cates . G. Chapman .
Natures bright eye-sight , and the nights faire soule , That with thy triple forhead doost controule Earth , seas , and hell , and art in dignitie The great'st and swiftest Planet in the skie . Idem .
— Mounting in the East Faire Venus in her Iuorie coach did hast , And towards those pensiue Dames her course addrest Her Doues so plied theyr wauing wings with flight , That straight the sacred Goddesse came in sight . Vpon her head she bare that gorgious crowne wherein the poore Amintas is a starre , Her louely locks her bosome hanging downe , Those nets that first insnard the God of warre : Delicious-louely shine her louely eyes , And on her cheekes Carnation clowdes arise . D. Lodge .
This goddesse had with art ( more than our women kno● As stuffe meant for the sale , set out to glaring show ) A wanton womans face , & with curld knots had twin● Her haire , which by the help of painters cunning shin'● S. Phil. Sidney .
Amongst this gamesome crue is seene , The issue of the Cyprian Queene , Whose head and shoulders fethered beene ; And as the starres his countenaunce sheene . In his left hand his bow he bare , And by his side his quiuer ware , In power he sits past all compare , And with his flames the world doth dare ; A scepter in his hand he held , With Chloris natiue flowers vntild , And Nectars deathlesse odours stild From his bright locks the Sun digild . The triple Graces there assist , Sustaining with theyr brests commist And knees that Thetis bosome kist The challice of this Amorist . G. Chapman transl .
— Him the greatest of the Gods we deeme , Borne without sinne or couples of one kind , For V●nus selfe doth solie couples seeme , Both male and female through commixture ioynd , So pure and spotlesse Cupid forth she brought , And in the gardens of Adonis nurst : Where growing , he his owne perfection wrought , And shortly was of all the Gods the first . Then got he bow and shafts of gold and lead , In which so fell and puissant he grew , That Ioue himselfe his power began to dread , And taking vp to heauen , him godded new . From thence he shoots his arrowes euery where Into the world at random as he will , On vs frayle men . S. Daniell .
— Now in ire , Shee mounts her chariot swifter then the winde Or subtill comprehension of the minde , which by two nimble Cock-sparrowes was drawne Caparisond but lightly with the lawne Tooke from the Flowre-deluces inner skin , Trapt and imbost with Marigolds : within Sits Venus naked , holding in her hand A tumbling shelfish with a Mirtle wand ; Wearing a garland on her wimpled head , Compacted of the white Rose , and the red . None but the blinde boy Cupid durst approch For to be whurried with her in her Coach , The snow-white Graces running by theyr sides , Were through the heauens theyr wagoners & guides , Lashing the Sparrowes vnder quiuering wings , With whyps of twisted gold , and siluer strings , A beauie of white Doues still fluttring ouer , From the sunnes sight such beautie seem'd to couer ; And thus shee rode in tryumph in her throne , Whose radiant lustre like the sunne-beames shone . I. Weeuer .
As then no winde at all there blew , No swelling clowde accloyd the ayre , The skye like grasse of watched hue Reflected Phaebus golden haire : The garnisht trees no pendant stird , Nor voyce was heard of any bird . Mat. Roydon .
The King of windes calls home his posts againe , And Amphitrite smooth's her watry plaine , The ayre his clowdes hath chang'd to christall cleere , And now the lamps of light from heauen appeare . J. Syluester .
On Neptune war was made by Aeolus and his traine , who letting loose the winds , tost & tormented the ayre , So that on euery coast , men shipwracke did abide , Or els were swallowed vp in open sea with waues , And such as came to shore , were beaten with dispayre . Edm. Spen.
— Within a little season , The winde discouered his deceite and treason , First from the poope , it changed to the side , Then to the prore , at last it whirled round , Long in a place it neuer would abide , which doth the Pilots wit and skill confound ; The surging waues swell still in higher pride , Proteus white flocke , did more and more abound , And seem'd to them as many deaths to threaten , As the shyps sides with diuers waues are beaten , Now in theyr face the winde , straight on theyr back , And forward this , and backward that it blowes , Then on the side it makes the shyp to crack , Among the Marriners confusion growes , The Maister doubts ruine and present wrack , For none his will , nor none his meaning knowes . To whistle , becken , cry , it nought auailes , Sometime to strike , sometime to turne theyr sailes , But none there was could heare , nor see , nor marke : Theyr eares so stopt , so dazeled were theyr eyes , with weather so tempestuous , and so darke , And black thick clowdes , that with the storme did rise , From whence sometimes great ghastly flames did spark● And thunder claps that seem'd to rent the skies ; Which made them in a manner deafe and blind , That no man vnderstoode the Maisters minde : Nor lesse , nor much lesse fearefull is the sound The cruell tempest in the tackle makes , Yet each one for himselfe some busines found , And so some speciall office him betakes : One this vntide , another this fast bound , He the maine bowling now restraines , now slakes , Some take an oare , some at the pumpe take paine , And powre the sea , into the Sea againe . Behold a horrible and hideous blast , That Boreas from his frozen lips doth send , Doth backward force the saile against the mast , And makes the waues vnto the skies ascend , Then brake theyr oares and rudder eke at last , Nothing was left from tempest to defend . So that the ship as swai'd now quite a-side , Vnto the waues laid ope her naked side , Then all a-side the staggering ship did reele , For one side quite beneath the water lay , And on the tother side the very keele , Aboue the water plaine discerne you may ; Then thought they all hope past , & down they kneele , And vnto God to take their soules they pray ; Worse danger grew then this , when this was past , By meanes the ship gan after leake so fast , The winde , the waues to them no respite gaue , But ready euery houre to ouer-throw them ; Oft they were hoist so high vpon the waue , They thought the middle region was below them : Oft-times so low the sand their vessell draue , As though that Charon there his boat wold show them . Scant had they time , or power to fetch their breath , All things did threaten them so present death . S. I. Harr.
— An hoast of blacke and sable clouds Gan to ecclipse Lucinaes siluer face , And with a hurling noyse from forth the South , A gust of winde did raise the billowes vp , Then scantled we our sailes with speedy hands , And tooke our drablers from our bonners straine , And seuered our bonnets from our courses : Our top sailes vp we trusse , our sprite sailes in , But vainely striue they that resist the heauens , For loe the waues incense then more and more , Mounting with hideous rorings from the depth ; Our Barke is battered by encountring stormes , And welnie steemd by breaking of the clouds : The steeres-man pale , and carefull holds the helme , Wherein the trust of life and safety lay , Till all at once , a mortall tale to tell , Our sailes were split by Bisas bitter blast ; Our middle broke , and we bereft of hope ; There might you see with pale and ghastly lookes , The dead in thought , and dolefull Marchant lifts Their eyes and hands vnto their Country Gods , The goods we cast in bowels of the Sea , A sacrifice to swage proud Neptunes ire . D. Lodge .
Now Nerrus foames , and now the wrathfull waue , Tost and turmoild by angry Neptunes slaues , Doe mount and rowle , gainst Thetis heauen doth fight , And she ( inrag'd ) vsurpt on Rheas right , An ayre , black , sable , sad , ore-spread the skies , And reaues all light from wofull Saylers eyes : Or if some beames breake through their pitchy night , This naught , but lighning flashes full of fright . I. Syluester .
The Easterne winds driues on the roring traine Of white blew billowes , and the clouds againe With fresh seas crosse the seas , and she doth send In counter-change a raine with salty blend The heauens , doe seeme in Thetis lap to fall , The Sea-starre , skies , and God to arme this all : Against one ship that skips from starres to ground , From waue to waue ( like windy ballances bound ) The whilst the Pylot on a foamy mount , Thinks from the pole to see hells pit profound ; And then cast downe vnto the sandy shore , Seemes from low hell to see the lofty pole , And feeling foes within and eke without , As many waues so many deaths doth doubt : The Sea sharp-surging round about the ship , Vncaulks their keele , and doth her seames vmip , Whereby the waters entring vncontrold , Ebbing abroad , yet flow a-pace in hold , For euery ●un the plied pump doth free , A flood breakes in , the amazed maister hee , His cunning conquered by the perils plaines , Doubts what to say , or where to turne his raines , Which waue to meete , or which salt surge to flie , So yeelds his charge in sea to liue or die . Strike saile the Maister cries , strike saile amaine , Vaile misme , and sprite saile , but the winds constraine With boistrous blasts that beate vpon his face , His sea-shapt speech to fly before their chace : Of men dismay'd , the sad confused cries , Wroath Neptunes noyse , and bellowing winds likewise ; Heauens thunder-claps , the tacklings whistling , ( Strange Minstrells ) doe dire dreadfull descant sing . Iosuah Syluester .
The day with cloud was suddaine ouer-cast , And angry Joue an hideous storme of raine , Did poure into his Lemmons lap so fast , That euery wight to shroud it did constraine . Ed. Spencer .
The ayre doth on the suddaine grow obscure , Lightened sometimes with lightnings dreadfull light , And saue their houre-glasse , kept the reckning sure , T was hard for to discerne the day from night ; The desperate Marriners doe all indure As men inured to the waters spight ; The heauens aboue , the waues beneath vs roare , Yet are they not dismai'd one whit therefore ; One with a whistle , hang'd about his necke , Shewes by the sound which cord must be vndone , And straite the ship-boy ready at a becke , Vnto the tops with nimble sleight doth runne : The other Marriners vpon the decke ; Or at the steere the comming waues doe shunne , And then by turnes they pump the water out , By paine and care preuenting euery doubt . S. I. Harrington ,
The heauens on euery side inclosed be , Black stormes and foggs are blowen vp from farre , That now the Pilot can no Load-starre see , But skies and Seas doe make most dreadfull warre : The billowes striuing to the heauens to reach , And th' heauens striuing them for to impeach . R. Greene .
The soote seasons that blood , & bloome foorth brings , With greene hath clad the hill and eke the vale ; The Nightingale with feathers new she sings , The Turtle to her mate hath told her tale : Sommer is come , for euery spray now springs ; The Hart hath hung his old head on the pale : The Bucke in brake his Winter-coate he flings : The Fishes fleete with new-repared scale : The Adder all her sloth away she flings : The swift Swallow pursueth the flies small : The busie Bee her honey now she mings : Winter is worne that was the flowers bale . E. of Surrey .
The Winters wrath begins to quell , And pleasant Spring appeareth ; The grasse now gins to be refresht , The Swallow peepes out of her nest , And cloudy welkin cleareth . E. Spenser .
Flora now calleth for each flower , And bid's make ready Maias bower , That new is vp rise from bed . Idem .
The earth late choakt with showres , Is now arai'd in greene , Her bosome springs with flowers , The ayre dissolues her teene ; The woods are deckt with leaues , And trees are cloathed gay , And Flora crown'd with sheaues , With oaken boughs doth play , The birds vpon the trees Doe sing with pleasant voyces , And chaunt in their degrees , Their loues and luckie choyces . D. Lodge .
The tenth of March when Aries receau'd , Dan-Phoebus rayes into his horned head . In flowry season of the yeare , And when the firmament was cleare , When Tellus her balls painted were , With issue of disparent cheere ; When the Vsher to the morne did rise , Sleepe gaue their vituall liberties To Phillis and to Floraes eyes . G. Chapman .
The ayre was calme , the day was cleare , Loues wanton winds with wooing breathe , Gan greete the sweetest of the yeare , The flower forgot his Winters death ; The earth reuiued by the sunne , To let in gay attire begunne . The leafe allied vnto the tree , By helpe of spring in coate of greene , Stole forth my wandring eye to see , The beauties of the Sommers Queene . D. Lodge .
The Winter with his grisly stormes no longer dare abide , The pleasant grasse with lusty greene the earth hath newly died , The trees hath leaues , the boughs do spred , new changed is the yeare The water brooks are clean sunk down , the plesant boughs appeare , The Spring is come , the goodly Nimphs now dance in euery place : Thus hath the yeare most pleasantly of lately chang'd her face . E. of Surrey .
Now each creature ioyes the other , Passing happy dayes and howers , One bird reports vnto an other , In the fall of siluer showers : whilst the earth our common mother , Hath her bosome deckt with flowers . Whilst the nearest torch of heauen , with bright rayes warmes Eloraes lap , Making nights and dayes both euen . Chearing plants with freshnes sap . S. Daniell .
The wrathfull Winter proching on a pace , with blustring blasts had all ybard the treene , And old Saturnus with his frosty face , with chilling cold had pearst the tender greene ; The mantles rent wherein inwrapped beene ; The gladsome Groues that now lay ouer-throwne , The Tapers torne , and euery tree downe blowne ; The soyle that erst so seemely was to seeme , was all dispoiled of her beauties hewe , And stole fresh flowers ( wher-with the somers Queene Had clad the earth ) now Boreas blast downe blew , And small fowles flocking in their songs did rew The winters wrath , where-with each thing defast , In wofull wise bewayl'd the Sommer past : Hawthorne had lost his motly liuerie : The naked twigs were shiuering all for cold , And dropping downe the teares aboundantlie ; Each thing ( me thought ) with weeping eye me told , The cruell season , bidding me with-hold My selfe within , for I was gotten out Into the fields , whereas I walkt about . M. Sackuille .
— When ye count ye free from feare , Comes the breame Winter with chamfered browes , Full of wrinkles and frosty furrowes , Shooting his grisly dart , Which cruddles the blood and pricks the hart . Ed. Spenser .
— Now sad Winter welked hath the day , And Phoebus weary of his yearely taske , Yshackled hath his steeds in lowly lay , And taken vp his Inne in fishes haske . Idem .
The wearied nights approached on a pace , With darksome shades which somwhat breedeth care , The sunne hath take more neere the earth his race . In Libra then his greatest sway he bare , For pardy then the dayes more colder are , Then fades the greene fruite , liuely hearbs are done , And Winter gins to wast that Sommer wone . I. H. Mir. of Mag.
Now the sunne hath reared vp his siluer footed teame , Making his wayte betweene the cup and golden Diademe . The rampant Lyon hunts he fast , with doggs of noysome breath , Whose balefull barking brings in hast , pine , plague , and drery death . Edm. Spencer .
That time of yeere when the inamoured sunne , Clad in the richest roabes of liuing fires , Courted the Virgin signe , great Natures Nunne , ●vhich barraines earth , of all that earth desires : ●uen in the month that from Augustus wone His sacred name , which vnto heauen aspi●es , And on the last of his tentrebled dayes W. Shakespeare .
●t was the month in which the righteous mayde , That for disdaine of sinfull worlds vpbraid , ●ed backe to heauen where she was first conceiu'd ●nto her siluer bower the sunne receiu'd , And the hote Syrian dog on him awayting After the chafed Lyons cruell bayting , ●orrupted had the ayre with noysome breath , And powrd on earth , plague , pestilence & dearth . Rob. Greene .
●ow was the month that old Sextilis name ●hangd by the Romaine Senates sage degree , And glorying so to innouate the same , ●o haue himselfe new christned did agree , ●oude that Augustus God-father should be , 〈◊〉 whilst Ceres clad him in a mantle fayre Of bearded Corne , still quauering with the ayre . Char. Fitz Ieffrey .
What time sleepes Nurse the silent night begun To steale by minutes on the long-liu'd dayes , The furious dog-starre chasing of the sunne , Whose scorching breath adds flames vnto his raies , At whose approch the angry Lyon braies , The earth now warm'd in her celestiall fire , To coole her heate , puts off her rich attire . M. Drayton .
Morpheus the liuelie sonne of deadly sleepe , Witnes of life to them that liuing die , A prophet oft , and oft an historie ; A Poet eke , as humors flie or creepe . S. Phil. Sid.
Hee making speedy way through persed ayre , And through the world of waters wide and deepe , To Morpheus house doth hastily repaire , Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe , And lowe where dawning day doth neuer peepe His dwelling is ; there Thetis her wet bed Doth euer wash , and Cynthia still doth steepe In siluer dew her euer-dropping head , while sad night ouer him her mantle black doth spread Edm. Spencer .
Whose double gates he findeth locked fast , The one faire fram'd of burnish'd Iuorie , The other , all with siluer ouer-cast , And wakefull dogs before them fa●re doe lie . Watching to banish Care , theyr enemie , who oft is wont to trouble gentle Sleepe . Idem .
First came great Neptune with his three-forkt mace , That rules the seas , and makes them rise or fall ; His dewey locks did drop with brine a pace Vnder his diademe imperiall , And by his side his Queene with Coronall , Fayre Amphitrite , most diuinely fayre , whose Iuory shoulders were couered all As with a robe , with her owne siluer hayre , And deckt with pearles , which the Indian seas for her prepare . Edm. Spencer .
Proteus is shepheard of the Seas of yore , And hath the charge of Neptunes mightie heard An aged Sire , with head all frothy hoare , And sprinckled frost vpon his dewie beard . Idem .
Thetis the Mother of the pleasant springs , Grandome of all the Riuers in the world , To whome earths vaines a moystning tribute brings , Nowe with a mad disturbed passion hurl'd About her Caue ( the worlds great treasure ) flings , And with wreath'd armes , & long wet haire vncu●l'd , Within herselfe laments a losse vnlost , And mones her wrongs , before her ioyes be crost . I. Markham .
The golden ofspring of Latona pure , And ornament of great Ioues progenie , Phoebus . Edm. Spencer .
— Dayes King , God of vndaunted verse . G. Chapman .
O Neptune , neuer like thy selfe in shew , Inconstant , variable , mutable , How doost thou Proteus like thy forme renewe , O whereto is thy change impurable ? Or whereunto art thou bent sutable ? Rightly the Moone predominateth thee , For thou art all as changeable as shee . Ch. Fitz Ieffray .
Sacred Apollo , God of Archerie , Of Arts , of pleasure , and of Poetrie , Ioues faire haird sonne , whose yellow tresses shine , Like curled flames ; hurling a most diuine And dazeling splendour , in those lesser fires Which from thy guilt beames ( when thy Car retires , ) Kindle those Tapers that lend eyes to night , O thou that art the Land-lord of all light , Birdegroome of morning , dayes eternall King , To whom nine Muses ( in a sacred ring ) In daunces sphericall trip hand in hand , Whilst thy seauen-stringed Lute theyr feete commaund , whose motion such proportioned measure beares , That to the musicke daunce nine heauenly spheares . Great Delian Priest , we to adore thy name , Haue burnt fat thighes of Bulls in hallowed flame , whose sauour wrapt in smoake and clowdes of fire To thy starre-spangled Pallace did aspire . Tho. Dekkar .
O thou worlds Queene , ô towne that didst extend Thy conquering armes beyond the Ocean , And througdst thy conquests from the Libian shore , Downe to the Scythian swift-foote fearelesse porters , Thou art debasd , and at this instant yeelds Thy proude necke to a miserable yoke . Tho. Kyd.
When Phoebus rose he left his golden weede , And dond attire in deepest pulple dyed , His sanguine beames about his forhead spred , A sad presage of ill that should betide , ●ith vermile drops at euen his tresses bleed ●or shewes of future heate from th' Ocean wide . ●hilst thus he bent gainst earth his scorching raies , He burnt the flowers , and burnt his Clitia deare , The leaues grew wan vpon the withered spraies , The grasse and growing hearbes all parched were . Earth cleft in rifts , in floods theyr streames decaies , The barren clowdes with lightning bright appeare , And mankind feard least Clymens child againe Had driuen away his Syers ill-guided waine . As from a fornace flew the smoake to skies , Such smoake as that when damned Sodome brent : Within his Caue sweete Zephyre silent lyes , Still was the ayre , the racke nor came nor went , But ore the lands with luke-warme breathing flies The Southerne winde , from sun-bright Affrique sent , with thicke and warme , his interrupted blasts , Vpon theyr bosoms , throates , and faces casts . Nor yet more comfort brought the gloomy night , In her thicke shade was burning heate vprold , Her sable mantle was imbrodered bright with blazing starres and gliding fires of gold . Nor to refresh sad earth thy thirsty spirit , The niggard Moone let fall her May-dewes cold , And dried vp the vitall moisture was In trees , in plants , in hearbs , in flowers , in grasse . Ed. Fairefax .
When wells grew dry , the Commons ran in rage And sought out euery sincke , their thirst t' asswage : And dranke with lothsome draught the pooles in has● To quench theyr thirst with ill-contented tast , which poysoned ayre infect theyr purest breath , whereby the drinker dranke his present death : O wretched folke , who felt so hard a strife , Drinke or not drinke , both waies must lose theyr life , For he that dranke , and he that did refraine , Had of theyr enemies both an equall paine : For why ? the water vile slew them throughout No lesse , then did theyr enemies them about . That wretched towne had neuer a street nor vew But Parcaes there had fram'd some fashions new To murder men , or martyr them with feares , As mou'd the most indurate hart to teares , If so much water in theyr braines had beene As might forbeare a drop to wet theyr eyne . One while he spake his hart ( for thirst ) did faint : And life him left , which frustrate his complaint . The souldiour braue , ( oh hart-breake for to tell ) His proper vrine dranke , thirst to expell : The woful mother with her spettle fed Her little child halfe dead in cradle-bed : The Lady with her Lord at poynt of death , Embracing falls , and yeelds theyr latest breath . Thom. Hudson .
— They no lesse prouided are within With rampires , bulwarks , and with doubled dikes : And where theyr foes to clime doe once begin , They push them down with bills , with staues , with pikes . If one be kild , another steppeth in , No man his place for feare of hurt mislikes , Some throw downe blocks , some stones , some scalding water , Greeuing them much with all , most with the latter , Some throw among them newly slaked Lime , That burneth most , when most it seemes to quench , with pots of Brimstone , Pitch and Turpentime , Annoying them with heate , with smoake , & stench . The rest are still imployd , and loose no time with wreathed stakes to fortifie the Trench : Thus all within are busie , all without , Fortune on both sides standing still in doubt . S. I. Harr.
Their hoast with arrowes , pykes , and standards stood As bristle-poynted as a thornie wood , Theyr multitude of men the riuers died , which through the wealthy Iuda swift did slide , So that flood Iordan finding dry his banke , For shame he blusht , and downe his head he shrank , For woe that he his credite could not keepe , To pay one waue for tribute to the deepe . Tho. Hudson .
Then grew the fight on both sides firme and stable , Both sides defend , both sides alike inuade ; They cast on both sides dartes innumerable Making therewith a darke vnpleasing shade , An endlesse worke it were to write the rable The Christians kild with bow , with bill , with blade . Sometime the sway goeth hether , somtime thether , Like waters driuen with doubtfull tydes and wether : When one is slaine , his roome another fills , When one is hurt , another takes his place , And he that now an other smites and kills , Falls dead him selfe within a little space , Great heapes of bodies dead make little hills : The earth it selfe lookes with a bloody face ; The greene where-with it erst was stored , Turneth to sanguine and vermillion red . S. I. Harrington .
Disquiet thoughts the minutes of her watch , Forth from her Caue the fiend full oft doth flie , To Kings she goes , and troubles them with warres , Setting those high aspiring bonds on fire ; That flame from earth vnto the seate of Ioue : To such as Midas , men that dote on wealth , And rent the bowels of the middle earth For coine ; who gape as did faire Danae For showres of gold : there discontent in blacke , Throwes forth the violls of her restlesse cares , To such as sit at Paphos for releefe : And offer Venus many solemne vowes , To such as Hymen in his saffron robe , Hath knit a gordian knot of passions , To these , to all , parting the gloomy ayre , Blacke discontent doth make her bad repaire . R. Greene .
Obscure and darke is all the gloomy aire , The curtaine of the night is ouer-spread ; The silent mistresse of the lowry spheare , Put on her sable coloured vale and lower , Nor starre , nor milk-white circle of the skie , Appeares where Discontent doth hold her lodge , She sits shrin'd in a canapy of clouds , whose massie darknes mazeth euery sence , wan is her lookes , her cheekes of azure hue , Her haire as Gorgons foule retorting snakes ; Enuie the glasse , wherein the hag doth gaze , Restlesse the clocke that chimes her fast a sleepe .
At this sad summons , wofull man resembles , A bearded rush that in a riuer trembles , His rosie cheekes are chang'd to earthen hue , His dying body drops an icie dewe ; His teare-drown'd-eyes a night of clouds bedims , About his eares a burning horror swims , His fainting knees with feeblenes are humble , His faultring feete doe slide away and stumble ; He hath not now his free , bold , stately port , But downward lookes in fearefull slauish sort ; Now naught of Adam doth in Adam rest , He feeles his sences pain'd , his soule opprest , A confus'd hoast of violent passions iarre , His flesh and spirit are in continuall warre . And now no more through conscience of his error : He heares or sees , th' almighty but with terror , And loth he aunsweres ( as with tongue distraught ) Confessing ( thus ) his feare , but not his fault . I Syluester .
— At such times when Lawyers walk the streetes Without long rowles of papers in their hands , When friendly neighbour with his neighbour meetes , Without false challenge to each others lands , The Counsellour without his Clyent stands : When that large Capitall lies void and wast Where Senatours and Iudges late were plast . Th. Storer .
All sodainly a light of twenty hewes Brake through the roofe , and like rainebow viewes Amaz'd Leander ; in whose beames came downe The Goddesse Ceremonie , with a crowne Of all the starres , and heauen with her descended Her flaming haire to her bright feete extended , By which , hung all the bench of deities ; And in a chaine compact of eares and eyes , She led Religion ; all her body was Cleare and transparent as the purest glasse , For she was all presented to the sence , Deuotion , order , state , and reuerence Her shadowes were , society , memorie ; All which her sight made liue , her absence die , A rich disparent pinnacle she weares , Drawne full of circles and strange characters : Her face was changeable to euery eye , One way lookt ill , an other graciouslie , Which while men view'd they cheerefull were & holy , But looking of , vicious and melanchollie ; The snakie paths to each obserued law , Did pollicie in her broade bosome draw , One hand a mathematique christall swayes , Which gathering in one line a thousand rayes ; From her bright eyes confusion burnes to death , And all estates of men distinguisheth , By it mortality and comlinesse , Them selues in all their sightly figures dresse . Her other hand a Laurell rod applies , To beate back barbarisme and Auarice : That followed eating earth and excrement , And humaine limbs , and would make proud ascent , To seates of Gods were Ceremonie slaine , The houres and graces bore her glorious traine , And all the sweets of our societie , Were spheard and treasur'd in her bounteous eyes . G. Chapman .
Who with a mayden voyce , and mincing pace , Quaint lookes , curl'd locks , perfumes , and painted face , Base coward hart , and wanton soft aray , Their manhood onely by their beard bewray , Are cleanly call'd , who likeliest greedy Goates Brothell from bed to bed ; whose Syren notes Inchaunt chast Susans , and like hungry Kite Fly at all game , they Louers are behight . I. Syluester .
Who beare vpon their French-sick-backs about , Farmes , Castels , fees in golden shields cut out , Whose hand had at one Primerorest : One pompous Turney , or on pampering feast . Spends themselues , scrapt by the vsurie and care Of miser parents , liberall counted are . Idem .
Who by false bargaines and vnlawfull measures , Robbing the world , haue heaped kingly treasures : Who cheat the simple , lend for fifty , fifty Hundred , for hundred are esteemed thrifty . Idem .
A trump more shrill then Tritons on the Sea , The said Renowne precursour of the traine , Did sound ( for who rings louder then Renowne : ) He mounted was vpon a flying horse , And cloath'd in Faulcons feathers to the ground , By his Escochion iustly might you gesse , He was the Herauld of Eternity , And Purseuant at Armes to mighte Ioue . G. Peele .
— Doubt had a double face , Th' one forward looking , the other backward bent , Therein resembling Ianus auncient , Which hath in charge the in-gate of the yeare , And euermore his eyes about him went , As if some prooued perill he did feare , Or did misdoubt some ill whose cause did not appeare . Ed. Spenser .
Vulcan begot me , Minerua me taught , Nature my mother , Craft nourisht me yeare by yeare , Three bodies are my foode , my strength is naught , Anger , Wrath , Wast , and Noise my children deere , Gesse friend what I am , and how I am wrought : Monster of sea , or land , or of else-where Knowe and vse me , and I may thee defend , And I be thy enemy I may thy life end . S. Th. W.
He hath his other weapons strange among A trunke of iron hollow made within , And there he puts powder and pellets in , All closed saue a little hole behind , Whereat no sooner taken is the flame , The bullet flies with such a furious wind , As though from clouds a bolt of thunder came : And what-so-euer in the way it finde , It burnes it , breakes it , teares it , spoiles the same ; No doubt some fiend of hell or deuillish wight Deuised it , to doe mankind a spight . S. I. Harrington ,
Round hoof'd , short ioynted , fetlocks shag and long , Broad breast , full eye , small head , and nosthrils wide , High crest , short eares , straite leggs , and passing strong ▪ Thin maine , thick taile , broad buttock , tender hide ; Looke what an horse should haue he did not lacke Saue a proud rider on so proud a backe . W. Shakespeare .
Among a hundred braue , light , lusty horses , ( With curious eye marking their comly forces ) He chooseth one for his industrious proofe , With round , high , hollow , smooth , browne , ielly hoofe , with pasternes short , vpright , but yet in meane , Dry sinewie shanks , strong fleshlesse knees and leane , with hart-like leggs , broad breast , and large behinde , with body large , smooth flanks , and double chinde : A crested necke bowed like a halfe bent bowe , whereon a long thin curled maine doth flowe ; A firme full taile touching the lowly ground , with dock betweene two faire fat buttocks drownd ; A pricked eare , that rests as little space As his light foote ; a leane bare bony face , Thin iowle , and head but of a middling size Full liuely flaming , quickly rowling eyes , Great foaming mouth , hote fuming nosthrill wide , Of chest-nut haire , his forehead starrified ; Three milky feete , a feather on his brest , whom seauen yeares old at the next grasse he gest . I. Syluester .
His sad dull eyes deepe sunke in hollow pits , Could not endure the vnwonted sunne to view , His bare thin cheekes for want of belly-bits , And empty sides deceaued of their due , Could make a stony hart his hap to rue ; His raw bone armes whose mighty brawnie bowres , Were wont to riue steele plates and helmets hewe , Were cleane consum'd , and all his vitall parts Decai'd , & all his flesh shrunk vp like withered flowers . Ed. Spenser .
This said , as soone confusedly did bound , Through all the work , I wote not what strange sound , A iangling noyse , not much vnlike the rumors Of Bacchus Swaines , amid their drunken humors : Some speake betweene the teeth , some in the nose : Some in the throate their words doe ill dispose : Some howle and cry , and some stut and straine , Each hath his gibberish , and all striue in vaine . To finde againe their knowne beloued tong , That with their milk they suckt in cradle yong : Arise betimes while th' opal-coloured morne , In golden pompe dooth May dayes doore adorne ; And patient , heare th' all differing voyces sweet Of painted fingers , that in Groues doe greete : There loue Bon-iours each in his phrase and fashion , From trembling pearch , vttering his earnest passion , And so thou mayest conceite what mingle mangle Among this people euery where did iangle . Bring me ( quoth one ) a trowell , quickly , quicke , One brings him vp a hammer ; hew this bricke Another bids , and then they cleaue a tree : Make fast this rope , and then they let it flee , One calls for planks , another morter lacks : They beare the first a stone , the last an axe , One would haue spikes , and him a spade they gaue , Another askes a sawe , and gets a siue ; Thus crosly crost , they prate and poynt in vaine , what one hath made , another marrs againe , Nigh breathlesse all , with theyr confused yawling In bootelesse labour , now begins appawling . I. Syluester .
Daughter of Time , sincere Posteritie , Alwayes new borne , yet no man knowes thy birth , The arbitresse of pure Sinceritie , Yet , changeable , ( like Proteus ) on the earth , Sometime in plenty , sometime ioynd with dearth . Alwayes to come , yet alwayes present heere , Whom all runne after , none come after neere . Vnpartiall Iudge of all saue present state , Truth 's Idioma of the things are past , But still pursuing present things with hate , And more iniurious at the first then last , Preseruing others , while thine owne do wast : True treasurer of all antiquitie , Whom all desire , yet neuer o●● could see . Char. Fitz Ieffrey .
What tongue can her perfections tell ●n whose each part all pennes may dwell ? Her hayre fine threds of finest gold ●n curled knots , mens thoughts to hold , ●ut that her forehead saies , in mee , A whiter beautie you may see . whiter indeed : more white then snow which on cold winters face doth grow : That doth present those euen browes , whose equall line their angles bowes Like to the Moone , when after change Her horned head abroade doth range ; And arches be to heauenly lids , whose wincke each bold attempt forbids . For the black starres those spheres containe The matchlesse paire euen praise doth staine . No lampe whose light by art is got , No sunne which shines and setteth not , Can liken them without all peere Saue one as much as other cleere , which onely thus vnhappy bee , Because themselues they cannot see . Her cheekes which kindly claret spred , Aurora like new out of bed , Or like the fresh Queene apples side , Blushing at sight of Phoebus pride . Her nose her chin , pure Iuory weares No purer then the prety eares : So that therein appeares some blood Like wine and milke that mingled stood : In whose incircles if yee gaze Your eyes may tread a Louers maze : But with such turnes the voyce to stray , No talke vntaught can finde the way , The lippe no iewell needes to weare , The lippe is iewell of the eare . But who those ruddy lips can misse ? which blessed still themselues doe kisse , Rubies , cherries , and roses new , ●n worth , in tast , in perfect hew : which neuer part but that they show Of precious pearles the double row : The second sweetly fenced ward , Her heauenly dewed tongue to gard , whence neuer word in vaine did flow : ●aire vnder these doth stately grow The handle of this precious work , The necke in which strange graces lurke . ●uch be I thinke the sumptuous Towres ●hich skill doth make in Princes bowres : ●o good a say inuites the eye ● little downeward to espie The liuely clusters of her brests , ●f Venus babe the wanton nests . ●ike pommels rounde of marble cleere , ●here azurde vaines well mixt appeare , ●ith dearest tops of Porphirie ●etwixt these two away doe lie : ●way more worthy beauties fame , ●hen that which beares the milkie name , ●his leades vnto the ioyous field ●hich onely still doth Lillies yeeld , ●t Lillies such whose natiue smell ●he Indian odours doth excell : ●ast it is calld , for it doth wast ●ens liues vntill it be imbrast . ●here may one see , and yet not see Her ribs in white all armed be , More white then Neptunes foamy face when strugling , rocks he would imbrace . In those delights the wandring thought Might of each side astray be brought , But that her nauell doth vnite In curious circle , busie sight : A daintie seale of Virgine waxe , where nothing but impression lacks . Her belly there glad sight doth fill , Iustly intituled Cupids hill : A hill most fit for such a maister , A spotlesse Mine of Alablaster . Like Alablaster fayre and sleeke , But soft and subtile , Satten like : In that sweete sea the boy doth sport , Loth I must leaue his cheefe resort , For such a vse the world hath gotten , The best things still must be forgotten . Yet neuer shall my song omit Her thighes , for Ouids song more fit , Which flanked with two sugred flancks Lift vp theyr stately swelling banks , That Albion cliffes in whitenes passe , with hanches smooth as looking-glasse . But bow all knees , now of her knees My tongue doth tell what fancie sees , The knots of ioy , the iems of loue , Whose motion makes all graces moue : whose bought incau'd doth yeeld such sight , Like cunning painter shadowing white . The gartring place with child-like signe Shewes easie in mettall fine : But then againe the flesh doth rise In her braue calues , like christall skies , whose Atlas is a smallest small , More white then whitest bone of all . Thereout steales out that round cleane foote , This noble Cedars precious roote , In shew and sent , pale Violets , Whose steppe on earth all beauty sets . But backe vnto her backe my Muse , where Ledas swan his feathers mewes , Along whose ridge such bones are met Like Comfets round in Marchpane set . Her shoulders be like two white Doues Pearching in square royall rooues , Which leaded are with siluer skin Passing the hate-spot Ermelin . And thence those armes deriued are , The Phenixe wings are not so rare For faultlesse length and stainelesse hue ; Ah woe is mee , my woes renew . Now course doth leade me to her hand , Of my first loue the fatall band , where whitenes doth for euer sit , Nature her selfe inameld it : For there , with strange compact doth lie Warme snow , moist pearle , soft Iuorie . There fall those Saphire coloured brookes , Which conduit like with curious crookes Sweete Ilands make in that sweet land . As for he fingers of the hand , The bloody shafts of Cupids war , with Amathists they headed are . Thus hath each part his beauties part . But now the Graces doe impart To all her limms a speciall grace , Becomming euery time and place . which doth euen beauty beautifie , And most bewitch the wretched eye . Now all this is but a faire Inne , Of fayrest guests which dwell therein : Of whose high praise , and praisefull blisse , Goodnes the pen , heauen paper is , The Incke immortall fame doth lend . As I began , so must I end : No tongue can her perfections tell , In whose each part all pens may dwell . S. Phil. Sidney .
Her face so faire , as flesh it seemed not , But heauenly pourtrait of bright Angels hue , Cleere as the skie , withouten blame or blot , Through goodly mixture of complexions due , And in her cheekes the vermell red did show , Like roses in a bed of Lillies shed , The which Ambrosiall odours from her threw , And gazers sence with double pleasure fed , Able to heale the sick , and to reuiue the dead . In her faire eyes two liuing lamps did flame , Kindled aboue , at th' heauenly Makers light , And darted fiery beames about the same So passing persant , and so wondrous bright , That quite bereau'd the rash beholders sight . In them the blinded God his lustfull fire To kindle oft assaide but had no might , For with dread maiestie and awful ire Shee broke his wanton shafts & quencht his base desire . Her Iuory forhead , ful of bounty braue Like a broade table did it selfe dispread , For loue his loftie tryumphs to ingraue , And write the battailes of his great god-head , All good and honour might therein be read , For there their dwelling was . And when she spake , Sweet words like dropping honney she did shed , And twixt the pearles and Rubies softly broke A siluer sound that heauenly musick seemd to make . Vpon her eye-lids many graces sate Vnder the shadow of her euen browes , Working belgards and amorous retrate , And euery one her with a grace endowes , And euery one with meekenes to her bowes : So glorious mirror of celestiall grace , And soueraigne monument of mortal vowes , How shal fraile pen describe her heauenly face , For feare through want of skil her beauty to disgrace ? So faire , and thousand thousand times more faire Shee seem'd , when she presented was to sight , And was yclad for heate of scorching ayre All in a silken Camous , lilly white , Purfled vpon with many a folded plight : Which al aboue besprinckled was throughout with golden aygulets that glistered bright Like twinckling starres : and al the skyrt about was hemd about with golden frindge . Below her hamme her weede did somewhat traine , And her straite leggs most brauely were embaild In gilden Buskins of costly Cordwaine , All bard with golden bends which were entaild with curious antiques , and full fayre aumaild . Before they fastned were vnder her knee In a rich Iewell , and therein intrailde The ends of all theyr knots , that none might see How they within theyr foldings close enwrapped bee : Like two fayre Marble pillers they were seene , which doe the temple of the Gods support , whom all the people deck with garlands greene : Those same with stately grace and princely port Shee taught to tread when she herselfe would grace . But with the wooddy Nimphs when she did play , Or when the flying Libbard she did chace , Shee could then nimbly mooue , and after flie a pace . Within her hand a sharp Bore-speare she held , And at her back a bow and quiuer gay , Shaft with steele-headed darts , wherewith she queld The sauage beasts in her victorious play : Knit with a golden bauldrick , which forlay Athwart the snowy breast , and did deuide Her dainty paps , which like young fruite in May Now little gan to swell ; and beeing tyde , Through her thin weede theyr places signified . Her yellow locks crisped , like golden wyre , About her shoulders weren loosely shed , And when the winde amongst them did inspyre , They waued like a Penon wide despred , And low behinde her backe were scattered : And whether art it were , or heedelesse hap , As through the flowring forrest rash she fled , In her rude haires sweete flowers did wrap Such as Diana by the sandy shore Of swift Eurotas , or on Cynthus greene ; where all the Nimphs haue her vnwares forlore , Wandreth alone , with bowes and arrowes keene To seeke her game : or as that famous Queene Of Amazons , whom Pyrhus did destroy The day that first of Priam shee was seene , Did shew herselfe in great tryumphant ioy , To succour the weake state of sad-afflicted Troy . Edm. Spencer .
Her yellow locks exceede the beaten gold , Her sparkling eyes in heauen a place deserue , Her forhead high and faire , of comely mold : her words are musicall , of siluer sound , her wit so sharp , as like can scarce be found . Each eye-brow hangs like Iris in the skyes , Her Eagles nose is straite , of stately frame , On eyther cheeke a Rose and Lilly lyes , Her breath is sweet perfume , or holy flame : her lips more red then any Corrall stone , her necke more white then aged Swans that mone . Her breast transparent is , like christall rock , Her fingers long , fit for Apollos Lute , Her slipper such as Momus dare not mock , Her vertues are so great , as make me mute . what other parts she hath , I neede not say , whose fairest face alone is my decay . Tho. Watson .
Like to the cleere in highest spheare where al imperious glory shines , Of selfe same colour is her hayre whether vnfolded or in twines : Her eyes are Saphyres set in snow , Refyning heauen by euery winke , The Gods doe feare when as they glow , And I doe tremble when I thinke . Her cheekes are like the blushing clowde That beautifies Auroras face , Or like the siluer crimson shrowde That Phoebus smiling locks doe grace : Her lips are like two budded Roses Whom ranks of Lillies neighbour nie , which with bounds she stil incloses , Apt to intice a deitie . Her necke is like a stately towre , where Loue himselfe in pleasure lies , To watch for glaunces euery howre From her diuine and sacred eyes . Her paps are centers of delight , Her paps are rocks of heauenly flame , where Nature moulds the dew of light To feede perfection with the same : With orient pearle , with Rubie red , with Marble white , with azure blew , Her body euery way is fed , Yet soft in touch , and sweet in view : Nature herselfe her shape admires , The Gods are wounded in her sight , And Loue forsakes his heauenly fires , And at her eyes his brands doth light . D. Lodge .
She lay and seemd a flood of Diamant Bounded in flesh : as stil as Vespers haire When not an Aspen leafe is stird with ayre : She lay at length , like an immortal soule At endlesse rest in blest Elizium , And then did true felicitie inroule So faire a Lady , figure of her kingdom . Now as she lay attirde in nakednes His eye did carue him on that feast of feasts , Sweet fieldes of life which deaths foote dare not presse , Flowrd with th' vnbroken waues of my loues breasts , See wherewith bent of gold curld into knots . In her heads groue the spring-bird Lameat nests , Her body doth present those fields of peace where soules are feasted with the soule of ease . To proue which Paradice that nurseth these , See see the golden riuers that renowne it , Rich Gyhon , Tigris , Phison , Euphrates , Two from her bright Pelopian shoulders crowne it , And two out of her snowy hills doe glide , That with a deluge of delight doe drowne it : These highest two their precious streames deuide To tenne pure floods that do the body dutie , Bounding themselues in length , but not in beauty . These wind theyr courses through the paynted bowers , And raise such sounds in theyr inflection As ceaselesse start from earth fresh sorts of flowers , And bound that booke of life with euery section . In these the Muses dare not swim for drowning , Theyr sweetnes poysons with such sweet infection , And leaues the onely lookers on them swouning , These formes and colour makes them so to shine , That Gods for them , would cease to be diuine . G. Chapman .
Her Lilly hand her rosie cheekes lie vnder , Coosning the pillow of a lawfull kisse , Who therefore angry , seemes to part in sunder , Swelling on eyther side to want his blisse , Betweene whose hills her head entombed is ; Where , like a vertuous monument she lyes , To be admirde of lewd vnhallowed eyes . Without the bed her other fayre hand was On the greene Couerlet , whose perfect white Shewd like an Aprill daisie on the grasse , with pearlie sweat , resembling dewe of night ; Her eyes like Marigolds had sheath'd theyr light : And canopied in darknes , sweetly lay , Till they might open to adorne the day . Her haire like golden threds , playd with her breath , ( O modest wantons , wanton modestie ) Shewing lifes tryumph in the Map of death , And deaths dim lookes in lifes mortalitie : Each in her sleepe themselues so beautifie As if betweene them twaine there were no strife , But that life liu'd in death , and death in life . Her breasts like Iuory globes circled with blew , A payre of mayden worlds vnconquered , Saue of theyr Lord , no bearing yoke they knew , And him by oath they truly honoured : These worlds in Tarquin new ambition bred : who like a foule vsurper went about From this faire throne to heaue the owner out . W. Shakespeare .
Starres fall to fetch fresh light from her rich eyes , Her bright brow driues the sunne to clowdes beneath , Her haires reflexe , with red strakes paint the skies , Sweet morne and euening dew falls from her breath . T. Nash .
Fayrer then Isaacks louer at the well , Brighter then inside barke of new hewen Cedar , Sweeter then flames of fire-perfumed Mirrhe , And comlier then the siluer clowdes that daunce On Zephyrus wings before the King of heauen . G. Peele .
Her lookes were like beames of the morning sunne Forth-looking through the windowes of the East , When first the fleecie cattell haue begunne Vpon the pearled grasse to make theyr feast : Her thoughts are like the fume of Francensence , Which from a golden Censor forth did rise : And throwing forth sweet odours , mounts from thence In rolling globes vp to the vaulted skies : There she beholds with hie aspyring thought , The cradle of her owne creation : Among the seates of Angels , heauenly wrought , Much like an Angell in all forme and fashion . S. Daniell .
Her locks are pleighted like the fleece of wooll That Iason with his Grecian mates atchiu'd , As pure as gold , yet not from gold deriu'd , As full of sweets , as sweet of sweetes is full : Her browes are prety tables of conceate , Where Loue his records of delight doth quote , On them her dallying locks doe daily floate , As loue ful oft doth feede vpon the baite ▪ Her eyes , faire eyes , like to the purest lights That animate the sunne , or cheere the day , In whom the shining sun-beames brightly play whilst fancie doth on them deuine delights . Her cheekes like ripened Lillies steept in wine , Or fayre Pomegranate kirnels washt in milke , Or snow-white threds in nets of Crimson silke , Or gorgeous clowdes vpon the sunnes decline . Her lips like Roses ouer-washt with dew , Or like the Purple of Narcissus flowre , No frost theyr faire , no wind doth wrest theyr powre , But by her breath theyr beauties do renew . Her christal chin like to the purest mould Enchast with dainties , Daisies soft and white , Where Fairies faire pauilion once is pight , Whereas embrasd his beauties he doth hold . Her necke like to an Iuory shining towre , Where through with azure vaines sweet Nectar runnes , Or like the downe of swanns , Or like delight that doth it selfe deuoure . Her paps are like fayre apples in the prime , As round as orient pearles , as soft as downe , They neuer vaile theyr faire through winters frowne , But from these sweets Loue suckt his sommer time : Her bodies beauties best esteemed bowre , Delicious , comely , dainty , without staine , The thought whereof ( not toucht ) hath wrought my paine . Whose face so faire all beauties doth distaine , Her maiden wombe the dwelling house of pleasure , Not like , for why no like surpasseth wonder : O blest is he may bring such beauties vnder , Or search by suite the secrets of that treasure . R. Greene .
Like to Diana in her sommer weede Girt with a Crimson robe of brightest die goes fayre Samela , As fayre Aurora in her morning gray , Deckt with the ruddy lustre of her loue is fayre Samela , Like louely Thetis on a calmed day , When as her brightnes Neptunes fancie moues , Shines faire Samela . Her tresses gold , her eyes like glassie streames , Her teeth are pearle , the breasts are Iuory of faire Samela . Her cheekes like rosie-lillies yeeld forth gleames , Her browes bright arches , framde of Ebonie , thus faire Samela . Passeth faire Venus in her brauest hue , And Iuno in the shew of maiestie , for she is Samela . Pallas in wit , all three if you will view , For beauty wit , and matchlesse dignitie , yeeldes faire Samela . D. Lodge .
Their soft young cheeke-balls to the eye , Are of the fresh vermilion die , So Lillies out of Scarlet peere , So Roses bloomd in Lady Vere : So shot two wanton starres yfere , In the eternall burning Sphere . G. Chapman .
Her eyes like Gemini attend on Ioue , Her stately front was figured from aboue : Her dainty nose of Iuory faire and sheene , Bepurfurate with ruddy Roses beene . Her cherry lips doth daunt the morning dew , From whence a breath so pleasant doth ensue As that which layd fayre Psyches in the vale , Whom Cupid woed , and woed to his auaile : Within the compasse of which hollow sweet , Those orient rancks of siluer perles do meet , Prefixing like prefixion to the eye , As siluer clowd amidst the sommers skie , From whence such words in wisedome couched be , As Gods from thence fetch theyr Phylosophie . Her dimpled chin of Alablaster white , Her stately necke , where nature did acquite Her selfe so well , as that at suddaine sight Shee wisht the worke were spent vpon herselfe , Her cunning thus was showed vpon the shelfe ; For in this hand was fancie painted faire ▪ In eyther hand an azure hand she bare . By one , repeating many a sweete consent , By th' other , comfort to the hart she sent : From which a seemely passage there doth flow To strangers pleasures that are placst below ; Like to the furrow Phaeton did leaue Amidst the Welkin , when he did receaue His Fathers charge , and set the world on fire . In this fayre path oft paced sweet desire , At euery turne beholding with delight That marble mount that did affect the sight . Of Virgine waxe the sweet impression was , The cunning compasse thereof did surpasse , For arte concluding all perfections there , Writ this report , all graces dwelleth heere . Which Cupid spying , built his mansion so , As scorning those sweet graces to bestow On mortall man , with bow ybent doth waite Least Ioue should steale impressions by deceit , And wondring at the crisped Comet faire , In thought concludes it meeter for the ayre Then mortall mould : next with the stately thighes , Like two fayre compast marble pillars rise , Whose white doth staine the dainty driuen snow ; Next which the knees with lustie bent below Conioynd with nerues and cordes of Amber sweet , These stately piles with gladsome honour greet : Such stately knees as when they bend alite , All knees doe bend and bow with strange delight . Her calues with stranger compasse doe succeede , In which the azure streames a wonder breede , Both arte and nature therein laboured haue To paint perfection in her colours braue . Next which , the prety ground-worke of the pyle Doth show it selfe , and wonder doth beguile ; The ioynts whereof combinde of Amber sweet , With Corrall cords yeeld bent to seemely feete , From which who list to lift his gazing eye , Shall greater cause of wonder soone espy : When on the backe he bends his wauering looke In which the worke and taske Diana tooke when with Arachne for the prize she straue , Both arte and nature there excellence haue ; Where from Pigmalions image seemelie white , whose close conueyance passing Gordians plight , where louely Nectar , drinke for all the Gods , where euery Grace is stained there by ods , will not content which gazing looke for more , And spy those armes that stand his sight before which for their mould th' Egyptian wonders passe , Which for their beauty staine the christall glasse , which in theyr bosome couer natures sweet , where blushing streames present a secret meet , will now amazde , conclude at last of this , That in the hands all grace concluded is : where nature limits euer fatall time , where fortune figures pleasure in her prime , whence spread those fingers typt with Iuory , whose touch Medusas turne may well supply : where to conclude , now all the shepheards deeme All grace , all beauty , all perfections seeme . D. Lodge .
Yet neuer eye to Cupids seruice vowde Beheld a face of such a louely pride : A Tynsill vale her golden locks did shrowde , That stroue to couer what it could not hide : The golden sunne behind a siluer clowde , So streameth out his beames on euery side , The marble goddesse set at Cnidos naked Shee seemd ; were she vncloth'd , or that awaked . The gamesome winde among her tresses plaies , And curleth vp those growing riches short , Her sparefull eye to spread his beames denaies , But keepes his shot where Cupid keepes his fort . F. G.
Shee was a woman in her freshest age Of wondrous beauty , and of bounty rare , with goodly grace and comly personage That was on earth not easie to compare , Full of great loue , but Cupids wanton snare As hell she hated : chast in word and will , Her necke and breasts were euer open bare , That aye thereof her babes might suck theyr fill , The rest was all in yellow robes araied still . Edm. Spencer .
A shape whose like in waxe was hard to frame , Or to expresse by skill of Painters rare ; Her hayre was long and yellow to the same , As might with wyer of beaten gold compare : Her louely cheekes with shew of modest shame , with Roses and with Lillyes painted are . Her forhead faire , and full of seemely cheere , As smooth as pollisht Iuory doth appeare : Vnder two arches of most curious fashion Stand two black eyes , that like two cleere suns shind . Steddy in looke , but apt to take compassion , Amid which lights the naked boy and blind Casteth his darts that cause so many a passion , Leauing a sweet and curelesse wound behind , From whence the nose in such good sort descended ▪ As enuy knowes not how it may be mended . Vnder the which , in due and comly space Standeth the mouth , stainde with vermilion hew , Two rowes of pearles serue in theyr place , Hence come the courteous words and full of grace That mollifie hard harts and make them new : From hence proceed those smilings sweet and nice , That seeme to make an earthly Paradice . Her brests as milke , her necke as white as snow , Round was her necke , most plum and large her breast , Two Iuory apples seemed there to grow , Tender and smooth , and fittest to be prest , Wauing like seas when wind most calme doth blow . Argos himselfe might not discerne the rest , Yet by presumption well it might be gest That that which was concealed was the best . Her armes due measure of proportion bare , Her fayre white hand was to be viewed plaine , The fingers long , the ioynts so curious are As neyther knot appeard nor swelling vaine , And full to perfect all those features rare , The foote that to be seene doth sole remaine , Slender and short , little it was and round , A finer foote might no where well be found . S. I. Harr.
Apollo when my mistris first was borne Cut off his locks , and left them on her head , And sayd , I plant these wyres in natures scorne , Whose lustre shall appeare when time is dead : From forth the christall heauen when she was made , The puritie thereof did taint her brow , On which the glistering that sought the shade Gan set , and there his glories doth avow . Those eyes , fayre eyes , too faire to be describ'd , Were those that erst the Chaos did reforme , To whom the heauens theyr beauties haue ascribd , That fashion life in man , in beast , in worme , When first her fayre delicious cheekes were wrought , Aurora brought her blush , the Moone her white , Both so combinde as passed natures thought , Compild those prety orbes of sweet delight : When loue and nature once were proud with play , From forth theyr lips , her lips their colour drew , On them doth fancie sleepe , and euery day Doth swallow ioy such sweet delights to view . While one while Venus sonne did seeke a bowre To sport with Psyches his desired deere , He chose her chin , and from that happy stowre He neuer stints in glory to appeare . Desires and ioyes that long had serued loue , Besought a hold where prety eyes might wooe them , Loue made her neck , and for her best behoue Hath shut them there where no man can vndoe them . Once Venus dreamd vpon two prety things , Her thoughts , they were affections cheefest nests , She suckt and sigh'd , and bath'd her in the springs , And when she wakt , they were my mistres breasts . Once Cupid sought a hold to couch his kisses , And found the body of my best belou'd , Wherein he cloyd the beauty of his blisses , And from that bower can neuer be remou'd . The Graces erst when Acidalian springs were wexen dry , perhaps did finde her fountaine Within the bale of blisse , where Cupids wings Doe shield the Nectar fleeting from the fountaine . R. Greene .
Her curious locks of gold like Tagus sands , Her forhead smooth and white as Iuory , where glory , state , and bashfulnes held hands : Her eyes , one making peace , the other wars , By Venus one , the other ruld by Mars . Her Eagles nose , her scarlet cheeke halfe white , Her teeth of orient pearle , her gracious smile , Her dimpled chin , her breast as cleere as light , Her hand like hers whom Titan did beguile . Tho. Watson .
Queene Vertues caue which some call Stellas face Repaird by natures cheefest furniture , Hath his forfront of Alablaster pure , Gold is the couering of that stately place : The doore by which sometimes runnes forth her grace , Red Porphirie which lock of pearle makes sure , Whose porches rich which name of cheekes endure , Marble-mixt red and white doe interlace . The windowes now through which this heauenly gues● Lookes on the world , and can finde nothing such which dare claime from those sights the name of best , Of touch they are that without touch do touch , which Cupids selfe from beauties mine did draw , Of touch they are , and poore I , am theyr straw . S. Phil. Sidney .
Two sunnes at once from one faire heauen there shind , Ten branches from two boughes tipt all with roses , Pure locks , more golden then is gold refinde , Two pearled rowes that natures pride incloses ; Two mounts faire marble , white downe , soft & dainty , Full wofull makes my hart , and body fainty . D. Lodge .
O shee doth teach the torches to burne bright , It seemes she hangs vpon the cheeke of night As a rich Iewell in an Ethiops eare , Beauty too rich for vse , for earth too deare : So showes a snowy Doue trooping with crowes , As yonder Lady ore her fellowes showes . W. Shakespeare .
To make the wondrous power of heauen appeare In nothing more then her perfections found , Close to her nauill she her mantle wrests , Slacking it vpwards , and the folds vnwound , Showing Latonas twins , her plenteous brests : The Sunne and Cynthia in their tryumph robes Of Lady skin more rich then both theyr globes . G. Chapman .
Vpon a bed of Roses she was layd , As faint through heate , or dight to pleasant sin , And was araide , or rather disaraid All in a vaile of silke and siluer thin , That hid no whit her Alablaster skin , But rather showd more white , if more might be ; More subtile web Arachne cannot spin , Nor the fine nets which oft we wouen see Of scorched dew , do not in th' ayre more lightly flie . Her snowy breast was bare to ready spoyle Of hungry eyes , which not therewith be fild , And yet through languor of her late sweet toyle , Few drops more cleere then Nectar forth distild , That like pure orient pearles adowne it thrild , Fraile harts yet quenched not , like starry light , which sparkling on the silent waues , doe seeme more bright . Edm. Spen.
Her Iuory necke , her Alablaster breast , Her paps , which like white silken pillowes were , For loue in soft delight thereon to rest : Her tender sides , her belly white and cleere , Which like an Altar did it selfe vpreare , To offer sacrifice deuine thereon : Her goodly thighes , whose glory did appeare Like a triumphall arch , and thereupon The spoiles of Princes hangd , which were in battaile wone . Idem .
— Her sparkling eyes Doe lighten forth sweet loues alluring fire , And in her tresses she doth fold the lookes Of such as gaze vpon her golden hayre . Her bashfull white , mixt with the mornings red , Luna doth boast vpon her louely cheekes : Her front is Beauties table , where she paints The glories of her gorgeous excellence : Her teeth are shelues of precious Margarite , Richly inclosd with ruddy Currall cleeues . R. Greene .
My mistres is a paragon , the fayrest fayre aliue , Alcides and Aeacides for fairelesse faire did striue , Her colour fresh as damaske rose , her breath as violet , Her body white as Iuory , as smooth as pollisht Iet , As soft as down , & were she downe , Ioue might com down & kisse A loue so fresh , so sweet , so white , so smooth , so soft as this . W. Warner .
Then cast she off her roabe and stoode vpright , As lightning breakes out of the labouring clowde , Or as the morning heauen casts off her night , Or as that heauen cast off it selfe , and showde Heauens vpper light , to which the brightest day Is but a black and melancholy shrowde : Or as when Venus striu'd for soueraigne sway Of choisefull beauty in young Troyes desire , So stoode Corinna varnishing her tyre . G. Chapman .
Herewith she rose , like the Autumnall starre Fresh burnisht in the lofty Ocean flood , That darts his glorious influence more farre Then any lampe of bright Olympus broode : Shee lifts her lightning armes aboue her head And stretcheth a Meridian , from her blood That slept awakt in her Elizian bed : Then knit shee vp , least loosd , her glowing haire Should scorch the centre , and incense the ayre . Idem .
Sweete mouth that sendst a muskie-rosied breath Fountaine of Nectar and delightfull balme , Eyes clowdy-cleere , smile-frowning , stormie-calme , Whose euery glaunce darts me a lyuing death : Browes , bending quaintly , your round Eben arkes , Smile , that then Venus sooner Mars besets , Locks more then golden , curld in curious knots , where in close ambush wanton Cupid lurkes , Grace Angel-like , faire forhead , smooth and hie , Pure white that dimst the Lillies of the vale , Vermilion rose that mak'st Aurora pale . I. Siluester .
Such colour had her face as when the sunne Shines in a watry clowde in pleasant spring ; And euen as when the Sommer is begunne The Nightingales in boughes doe sit and sing , So the blind God , whose force can no man shunne Sits in her eyes , and thence his darts doth fling : Bathing his wings in her bright christal streames , And sunning them in her rare beauties beames . In these he heads his golden-headed dart , In those he cooleth it , and tempereth so , He leuels thence at good Obertos hart , And to the head he drawes it in his bow . S. I. Harr.
— Olympias beauty was so rare As well might moue a man the same to note : Her hayre , her cheekes , her eyes , most amorous are , Her nose , her mouth , her shoulders , and her throat , As for her other parts that then were bare , Which she was wont to couer with her coate , Were made in such a mould as might haue moued The chast Hippolitus her to haue loued : A man would thinke them framd by Phidias arts , Theyr colour and proportion good was such : And vnto them her shamefastnes imparts A greater grace to that before was much . I cease to praise those other secret parts , Nothing so fit to talke of as to touch : In generall , all was as white as milk , As smooth as Iuory , and as soft as silke . Had shee in vally of Idea beene when Pastor Paris hap did so befall To be a Iudge three goddesses betweene , She should haue got , and they forgone the ball : Had she but once of him beene naked seene , For Helena he had not card at all , Nor broke the bonds of sacred hospitalitie , That bred his country wars and great mortalitie . Had she but then been in Crotona towne , When Zeuxis for the Goddesse Iunos sake To paint a picture of most rare renowne Did many of the fayrest damsels make To stand before him bare from foote to crowne , A patterne of theyr perfect parts to take , No doubt he would haue all the rest refused , And her alone in sted of all haue chused . S. I. Harr.
Faire is my loue for Aprill in her face , Her louely breasts September claimes his part , And lordly Iuly in her eyes hath place , But cold December dwelleth in her hart , Blest be the months that sets my hart on fire , Accurst that month that hindreth my desire . Like Phaebus fire , so sparkles both her eyes , As ayre perfum'd with Amber is her breath , Like swelling waues her louely teates doe rise , As earth her hart cold , dateth me to death . In pompe sits mercy seated in her face , Loue twixt her breasts his trophies doth imprint , Her eyes shines fauour , curtesie , and grace , But touch her hart , oh that is made of flint . R. Greene . .
Her hayre not trust , but scattered on her brow , Surpassing Hyblaes honney for the view , Or softened golden wyers . Within these snares first was my hart intrapped , Till through those golden shrouds mine eye did see An Iuory shadowed front , wherein was wrapped Those prety bowers where graces couched be : Next which , her cheekes appeard like Crimson silke , Or ruddy rose bespred in whitest milke . Twixt which , the nose in louely tenor bends Two traces prety for a louers view : Next which her lips like violets commends By true proportion that which doth ensue ; Which when they smile , present vnto the eyes The Oceans pride , and Iuory paradize . Her pollisht necke of milke , where snows doe shine As when the Moone in winter night beholds them , Her breast of Alablaster cleere and fine , whereon two rising apples fayre vnfold them , Like Cynthias face when in her full she shineth , And blushing , to her loue-mates bower declineth . From whence in length her armes doe sweetly spread , Like two rare branchie Saples in the spring , Yeelding fiue louely sprigs from euery head , Proportioned alike in euery thing ; which featly sprout in length like spring borne friends whose prety tops , with fiue sweet roses ends . But why alas should I that marble hide That doth adorne that one and other flanck , From whence a mount of quickned snow doth glide , Or else the vaile that bounds this milk-white banke , where Venus and her sisters hide the fount , whose louely Nectar doth all sweetes surmount . D. Lodge .
Whilst thus she meant vnseene away to slide , Her pearles and iewels causde her to be spide , The muske and ciuet amber as she past , Long after her a sweet perfume did cast : A Carbuncle on her christall brow she pight , whose fierie gleames expeld the shady night : Vpon her head a siluer crispe she pind , Loose wauing on her shoulders with the wind . Gold band her golden hayre , her Iuory neck , The Rubies rich , and Saphires blew did deck , And at her eare , a pearle of greater valew There hung , then that the Egyptian Queene did swallow And through her coller showd her snowy brest , Her vtmost robe was colour blew celest , Benetted all with twist of perfect gold , Beseeming well her comly corps t' enfold . What els she ware , might wel be seene vpon That Queene who built the towers of Babylon . Her wauering hayre disparpling flew apart , In seemely shed , the rest with recklesse art , with many a curling ring decord her face , And gaue her ghastly browes a greater grace . Two bending bowes of Eben coupled right , Two lucent starres that were of heauenly light , Two ietty sparks where Cupid chastly hides His subtile shafts that from his quiuer glides : Tweene those two sunnes and front of equall size , A comly figure formally did rise , which draught vnleuell to her lip descend , where Momus selfe could nothing discommend . Her pittid cheekes appeard to bee depaint with mixed rose and lillies , sweet and saint : Her dulcet mouth with precious breath repleat , Exceld the Saben Queene in sauour sweet : Her corrall lips discouered as it were Two ranks of orient pearles with smyling cheere : Her Iuory necke , and breast of Alablaster , Made heathen men of her more Idolastre . Vpon her hand no wrinckled knot was seene , But as each nayle of Mother of pearle had beene : In short , this Iudith was so passing faire , As if the learned Zeuxis had beene there And seene this dame when he with pensill drew The Croton dames , to forme the picture true Of her for whom both Greece and Asia fought , This onely patterne chiefe he would haue sought . Tho. Hudson .
Her words were like a streame of honny fleeting , The which doth softly trickle from the hiue , Able to melt the hearers hart vnweeting , And eke to make the dead againe to liue : Her deedes were like great clusters of ripe grapes Which loade the bunches of the fruitfull Vine , Offering to fall into each mouth that gapes , And fill the same with store of timely wine . Her breast two hills ore-spread with purest snow , Sweet , smooth , and supple , soft and gently swelling Betweene them lyes a milkie dale below , where loue , youth , gladnes , whitenes make their dwelling , Her enuious vesture greedy sight expelling : So was the wanton clad , as if thus much Should please the eye , the rest vnseene they touch : As when the sunne-beames diue through Tagus waue To spy the store-house of his springing gold , Loue persing thought so through her mantle draue , And in their gentle bosome wandred bold : It viewd the wondrous beautie Virgins haue , And all to finde desire ( with vantage ) bold . Alas what hope is left to quench this fire , That kindled is by sight , blowne by desire . D. Lodge .
Fayrer then was the Nymph of Mercurie , Who when bright Phaebus mounteth vp his coach , And tracks Aurora in her siluer steps , And sprinckling from the folding of her lap , White Lillies , Roses , and sweet Violets . R. Greene .
— Her Angels face As the great eye of heauen shined bright , And made a sunshine in the shady place , Did neuer mortall eye behold such heauenly grace . Edm. Spencer .
Not that night-wandring pale and watry starre , ( when yawning dragons draw her thirsting carre From Latmus mount vp to the gloomie skie , where crownd with blazing light and maiestie She proudly sits ) more ouer-rules the flood , Then she the harts of those that neere her stood . Ch. Marlow .
— O Daphne is more fayre Then Angels swimming in the fluxiuyce ayre . Could Loues rich bed-chamber her two bright eyes , Lodge but two guests at once , Beautie and Mercy ▪ Beauty lyes alwayes there , did Mercy too Phaebus were then Daphne should be Transformd into a stately dignitie . Th. Dekkar .
Her stature comly tall , her gate well graced , and her wit , To maruaile at , not medle with , as matchlesse I omit : A globe-like head , a gold-like haire , a forhead smooth & hie● An euen nose , on eyther side stoode out a grayish eye , Two rosie cheeks , round ruddy lips , white iust set teeth within A mouth in mean , & vnderdeath , a round & dimpled chin : Her snowish neck with blewish vaines stood bolt vpright vpon Her portly shoulders , beating balls her vained brests anon Ad more to beauty : wand-like was her middle , falling still , And rising whereas women rise , imagine nothing ill , And more , her long & limber arms had white and azurd wrist ▪ And slender fingers answer to her smooth & lilly fists , A leg in , a prety foote , coniecture of the rest , For amorous eyes obseruing forme , think parts obscured best W. Warner .
See where she issues in her beauties pompe , As Flora to salute the morning sunne : who when she shakes her tresses in the ayre , Raines on the earth dissolued pearle in showres , which with his beames the sunne exhales to heauen : She holdes the spring and sommer in her armes , And euery plant puts on his freshest robes To dannce attendance on her princely steps , Springing and fading as she comes and goes . G. Chapman .
Her hayre was loose , & bout her shoulders hung , Vpon her browes did Venus naked lye , And in her eyes did all the Graces swim . Her cheekes that showd the temper of the mind , Were beauties mornings where she euer rose , Her lyps were loues rich altars where she makes Her hart a neuer-ceasing sacrifice : Her teeth stoode like a ranke of Dians maydes when naked in a secrete bower they bathe ; Her long round necke was Cupids quiuer calld , And her sweet words that flew from her , his shafts , Her soft round brests were his sole trauaild Alpes , where snow that thawed with sunne did euer lye , Her fingers bounds to her rich deitie . Idem .
●n Paradise of late a Dame begun To peepe out of her bed with such a grace , As matcht the rising of the morning sunne , ●vith drops of honney falling from her face , Brighter then Phaebus fierie-pointed beames , Or ycie crust of christall frozen streames . Her hayre like Amber twisted vp in gold , Passing the pride or riches of the East , With curious knots were into trammels rould , As snary nettings for a wandring guest ; The feathers deckt her with a quaint disdaine Like Iunos byrd in pompe of spotted traine . Her shining forhead doth suppresse the starres , New lightning sparkles from her louely cheekes , Her percing sight the stroake of beauties warres , Wherewith the conquest of the world she seekes : Braue be the darts that from her eyes she throwes , When Cupid lurkes betweene her louely browes , Arabian odours breathe out of her talke , Which she betweene the pearle and Ruby breaketh , So smooth a compasse hath her tongue to walke , As makes both heauen & earth blush when she speaketh No singing bird in all the ayre but doates , And lay theyr eares attentiue to her notes . Her necke , her shoulders , and her breasts were bare , Diana-like aboue the water smiling : No snow , Iuory , or Alablaster there , No statue of white Marble , me beguiling , But the sweet season of the yeere I found When Lillies peepe out of the grassie ground . Her other parts vnto my view denide , Much like the lampe that burnt at Psyches bed , Made such a fire into my hart to glide That loue awaked , and my body bled : O had she not so great a force to please , Desire had slept , and I had liu'd at ease . S. G.
Astronomers the heauens doe deuide Into eyght houses , where the Gods remaine , All which in thy perfections doe abide , For in thy feete the Queene of silence raignes , About thy wast Ioues messenger doth dwell , Inchaunting me , as I thereat admire , And on thy duggs the Queene of loue doth tell Her godheads power in scroules of my desire : Thy beautie is the worlds eternall sunne , Thy fauours force a cowards hart to darres , And in thy hayres , Ioue and his riches wonne , Thy frownes hold Saturne , thine eyes the fixed starres . H. C.
What length of verse braue Mopsus good to show ? ●hose vertues strange , & beauties such , as no man may them know . Thus shrewdly burdned them , how can my Muse escape ? The gods must help , & precious things must serue to show her shape Like great god Saturne faire , & like faire Venus chast , As smooth as Pan as Iuno mild , like goddesse Iris gracst , With Cupid she foresees , and goes Gods Vulcans pace , And for a tast of all these gifts , she steales god Momus grace Her forhead Iacinth like , her cheekes of opall hue , Her twinckling eyes bedeckt with pearle , her lyps as Saphires blew , Her haire like crapal stone , her mouth ô heauenly wide , Her skin like burnisht gold , her hands like siluer-ore vntride : As for her parts vnknowne , which hidden sure are best , Happy be they which wil beleeue , and neuer seeke the rest . S. Phil. Sidney .
O words which fall like Sommer dew on me , O breath more sweet then is the growing beane , O tongue in which all honnied licours be , O voyce that doth the Thrush in shrilnes staine , Gay haire , more gay then straw when haruest lies , Lips red and plum , as cherries ruddy side , Eyes fayre and great , like fayre great Oxes eyes , O breasts in which two white sheepe swell in pride . But thou white skin , as white as curds well prest , So smooth as Sleeke-stone like , it smooths each part , And thou deere flesh , as soft as wooll new drest , And yet as hard as Brawne made hard by art . S. Phil. Sidney .
As that fayre starre the messenger of morne His dewy face out of the sea doth reare , Or as the Ciprian Goddesse newly borne Of the Oceans fruitfull froth did first appeare , Such seemed they , and so theyr yellow haire , Christalline humour dropped downe apace . Edm. Spencer .
As when faire Cinthia in a darksome night Is in a noyous clowde enuoloped , where she may finde the substance thin and light , Breakes forth her siluer beames , and her bright head Discouers to the world discomfited : Of the poore trauailer that went astray , with thousand blessings she is hurried , Such was the beauty and the shining ray With which fayre Britomart gaue light vnto the day . Idem .
Looke how the crowne which Ariadne wore Vpon her Iuory forhead that same day That Theseus her vnto his bridall bore , when the bold Centaures made that bloody fray with the fierce Lapiths that did them dismay , Beeing now placed in the firmament , Through the bright heauen doth her beames display , And is vnto the starres an ornament which round about her moue in order excellent , Such was the beauty of this goodly band . Idem .
Euen as a stage set forth with pompe and pride , Where men doe cunning and theyr arte bestow , When curtaines be remoou'd that all did hide , Maketh by light of torch a glistering show : Or as the sunne that in a clowde did bide , when that is gone , doth cleerer seeme to grow : So Bradamant when as her head was barest , Her colour and her bea●●●e seemed rarest . S. I. Harr. transl .
As when fayre Ver dight in her flowrie raile , In her new coloured liuerie decks the earth , And glorious Titan spreds his sun-shine vaile To bring to passe her tender infants birth : Such was her beauty which I then possest , With whose imbracings all my youth was blest . M. Drayton .
Looke how a Comet at the first appearing Drawes all mens eyes with wonder to behold it , Or as the saddest tale at suddaine hearing , ●lakes silent listning vnto him that told it , So did the blazing of my blush appeare , To maze the world , that holds such sights so deere . S. Daniell .
Euen as when gaudie Nimphs pursue the chace , wretched Ixions shaggy-footed race Incenst with sauage heate gallop a maine From steeppine-bearing mountaines to the plaine , So ran the people forth to gaze vpon her , And all that viewd her , were inamourd on her . C. Marlow .
Like as an horse when he is barded haile , And feathered pannache set vpon his head , Will make him seeme more braue for to assaile The enemie , he that the troope dois lead , And pannach on his helme will set indeid : Euen so had nature to decore her face , Giuen her one top for to augment her grace . Rex . Sco.
Like as a Taper burning in the darke , ( As if it threatned euery watchfull eye That burning viewes it ) makes that eye his marke , And hurles guild darts at it continually : Or as it enuyed any eye but it Should see in darknes : so my mistres beautie , From forth her secret stand my hart doth hit , And like the dart of Cephalus doth kill Her perfect louer , though she meane no ill . G. Chapman .
Now as when heauen is mufled with the vapours , His long since iust diuorced wife the earth In enuy breaths , to maske his spurry tapers From the vnrich aboundance of her birth , When straight the Westerne issue of the ayre Beats with his floury wings those brats of dearth , And giues Olympus leaue to show his fayre , So fled the offended shadowes of her cheere , And shewd her pleasant countenaunce ful as cleere . Idem .
Euen as an emptie Eagle sharpe by fast , Tires with her beake on feather , flesh and bone , Shaking her wings , deuouring all in hast , Till eyther gorge be stuft , or pray be gone , Euen so she kist his brow , his cheeke , his chin , And where she ends , she doth anew begin . W. Shakespeare .
— Looke how close the Iuy doth embrace The tree or branch about the which it growes , So close the louers couched in that place , Each drawing in the breath the other blowes : But how great ioyes they found that little space , Well we may gesse , but none for certaine knowes , Such was theyr sport , so well theyr leere they couth , That oft they had two tongues within one mouth . S. I. Harr.
Like as the wanton Iuie with his twine , When as the Oake his rootlesse body warmes , The straightest saplings strictly doe combine , Clipping the wood with his lasciuious armes : Such our imbraces when our sport begins , Lapt in our armes like Ledaes louely twins . M. Drayton .
Euen as faire Castor when a calme begins , Beholding then his starry-tressed brother , With mirth and glee these swan-begotten twins , Presaging ioy the one imbrace the other : Thus one the other in our armes we fold , Our breasts for ioy our harts could scarcely hold . Idem .
— As when Ioue at once from East to West Cast off two Eagles to discerne the fight Of this worlds centre , both his birds ioynd brest In Cynthian Delphos , since Earths nauill height : So casting off my ceaselesse thoughts to see My harts true centre , all doe meete in thee . G. Chapman .
Like as a well-tunde Lute that 's tucht with skill In musicks language sweetly speaking plaine , When euery string it selfe with sound doth fill , Taking theyr times , and giuing them againe , A diapazon heard in euery straine ; So theyr affections set in keyes so like , Still fall in consort as theyr humors strike . M. Drayton .
A downe his cheekes the teares so flowes As doth the streame of many springs : So thunder rends the clowdes in twaine , And makes a passage for the raine . M. Roydon .
As through an arch the violent roring tide Out-runnes the eye that doth behold his hast , Yet in the Edie boundeth in his pride Backe to the straite that forced him so fast , In rage sent out , recald in rage being past : Euen so his sighes , his sorrowes make a saw , To push greefe on , and back the same greefe draw . W. Shakespeare .
— The storme so rumbled in her breast As Eolus could neuer roare the like , And showres downe rained from her eyes so fast That all bedrent the place , till at the last Well eased they the dolour of the minde , As rage of raine doth swage the stormie wind . M. Sackuile .
As in September when our yeere resignes The glorious sunne vnto the watry signes , which through the clowdes lookes on the earth in scorne , The little bird yet to salute the morne Vpon the naked branches sets her foote , The leaues now lying on the mossie roote : And there a silly chiriping doth keepe , As though she faine would sing , yet faine would weepe , Praysing faire Sommer that too soone is gone , Or mourning winter , too fast comming on , In this sad plight I mourne for thy returne . M. Drayton .
As when the fatall bird of augurie Seeing a stormie dismall clowde arise within the South , foretells with pittious cry The weeping tempest that on suddaine hies , So the poore soule , in view of his disdaine , Began to descant on her future paine . D. Lodge .
All like as Hecuba fell raging mad , with griefe of minde and sorrow sore oppressed , To see her Polydorus little lad By fraud of his kinsman vnkind distressed , So rau'd Olympia fayre . J. Harrington .
The raging pang remained still within , That would haue burst out all at once so fast , Euen so we see the water tarry in A bottle little mouth'd and big in wast , That though you topsie-turnie turne the brim , The licour bides behind with too much hast , And with the striuing oft is in such taking , As scant a man may yet it out with shaking . Idem .
As one that saw in Aprill or in May A pleasant garden full of fragrant flowers , Then when the earth new clad in garments gay Decks euery wood and groue with pleasant bowers , Comming againe on some Decembers day , And sees it mard with winters stormes and showers , So did the Court to Bradamant appeare , When as she saw Rogero was not there . I. Harr.
As gorgious Phaebus in his first vprise , Discouering now his scarlet-coloured head , By troublous motions of the lowring skies , His glorious beames with fogs are ouer-spred So are his cheerfull browes ecclipst with sorrow , which clowd the shine of his youths smiling morrow M. Drayton .
Like as when Phaebus darting forth his rayes , Glydeth along the swelling Ocean streames , And whilst one billow with another playes Reflecteth backe his bright translucent beames : Such was the conflict then betwixt our eyes ▪ Sending forth lookes as teares do fall and rise . Idem .
Like to a vessell with a narrow vent , Which is fild vp with licour to the top , Although the mouth be after downeward bent , Yet is it seene not to distill a drop ; Euen thus our breast brimful with pensiue care , Stopping our tongues , with greefe we silent are . Idem .
As the high Elme ( when his deare Vine hath twind Fast in her hundred armes and holds imbrast ) Beares downe to earth his spouse and darling kind If storme or cruell steele the tree downe cast , And her full grapes to nought doth bruze and grind , Spoyles his own leaues , faints , withers , dies at last , And seemes to mourne and die , not for his owne , But for the death of her that lyes orethrowne : So fell he mourning ▪ mourning for the dame Whom life and death had made for euer his . E. Fairefax .
As when a foggy mist hath ouer-cast The face of heauen , and the cleere ayre ingrost , The world in darknes dwells , till that at last The watry South-wind from the Sea-bord coast Vp blowing doth disperse the vapours lost , And powres it selfe forth in a stormie showre : So the fayre Britomart hauing disclost Her cloudy care into a wrathfull stowre , The midst of greefe dissolued into vengeance powre . Edm. Spen.
— As a stroke giuen on the righter eye Offends the left , euen so by simpathy Her husbands dolours made her hart vnglad , And Iudiths sorrowes made her husband sad . T. Hudson .
As when a wearie trauailer that straies By muddy shore of broad seauen-mouthed Nile , Vnwitting of the perilous wandring wayes Doth meete a cruell craftie Crocodile , which in false greefe hiding his harmefull guile , Doth weepe full sore , and sheddeth tender teares : The foolish man that pitties all the while His mournfull plight , is swallowed vp vnwares , Forgetfull of his owne that minds anothers cares : So wept Duessa vntill euentide . Edm. Spencer .
As cunning singers ere they straine on hie In loude melodious tunes theyr gentle voyce , Prepare the hearers eares to harmonie With fainings sweet , low notes , and warbles choyce : So she , not hauing yet forgot pardie Her wonted shifts and sleights in Cupids toyes , A sequence first of sighes and sobs forth cast , To breede compassion deere , then spake at last . Ed. Fairefax .
As guilefull Goldsmith that by secret skill with golden foyle doth finely ouer-spred Some baser mettle , which commend he will Vnto the vulgar for good gold indeed , He much more goodly glosse thereon doth shed To hide his falshood , then if it were true : So hard this Idole was to be ared , That Florimell her selfe in all mens view Shee seemd to passe , so forged things do fairest shew , Edm. Spencer .
As when two sunnes appeare in th' azure skie , Mounted in Phaebus Chariot fierie bright , Both darting forth faire beames to each mans eye , And both adornd with lamps of flaming light : All that behold so strange prodigious sight , Nor natures work them gesse , nor what to weene , Are rapt with wonder , and with rare affright , So stoode Sir Marinell when he had seene The semblance of this false by this faire beauties queene . Idem .
As men tormented with a burning feauer Dreame that with drinke they swage their greeuous thirst , But when they wake they feele theyr thirst perseuer , And to be greater then it was at first : So shee whose thoughts from loue sleepe could not seuer , Dreamt of that thing for which she wake did thirst : But waking , felt and found it as before , Her hope still lesse , and her desire still more . S. I. Harr.
The man that dwells farre North hath sildome harme With blast of winters winde or nypping frost : The Negro sildome feeles himselfe too warme , If he abide within his natiue coast : So loue in mee a second nature is , And custome makes me thinke my woes are blisse . Tho. Watson .
The Harpie byrds that did in such despight Greeue and annoy old Phineus so sore , Were chasde away by Calais in fight , And by his brother Zeth for euermore : who followed vntill they heard on hie , A voyce that said ; ye twins no farther flie . Phineus I am that so tormented was , My Laura heere I may a Harpie name , My thoughts and lusts be sonnes to Boreas , Which neuer ceast in following my dame , Till heauenly grace sayd vnto me at last , Leaue fond delights , and say thy loue is past . Idem .
All as the greedy fisher layes his hookes Alongst the coast to catch some mighty fish , More for his gaine , then wholsome for the dish Of him that buies : euen so these sisters braue , Haue louers more then honest maydens haue ▪ Tho. Hudson .
— As when mightie Macedon had wonne The Monarchie of earth , yet when he fainted , Greeu'd that no greater action could be done , And that there no more worlds was to subdue , So loues defects , loues conquerour did rue . Edm. Spencer .
Looke as the faire and fiery-poynted sunne Rushing from forth a clowde bereaues our sight , Euen so the curtaine drawne , his eyes begun To winke , beeing blinded with a greater light . W. Shakespeare .
Like as in furie of a dreadfull fight , Theyr fellowes being slaine , or put to flight , Poore souldiours stand with feare of death dead strooken , So at her presence all surprizd and tooken , Await the sentence of her scornefull eyes ; He whom she fauours liues , the other dies . C. Marlow .
Like as a Hinde forth singled from the heard That hath escaped from a rauenous beast , Yet flies away , of her owne feete afrayd , And euery leafe that shaketh with the least Murmure of windes , her terror hath increast , So fled fayre Florimell from her vaine feare . Edm. Spencer .
— He shakes aloft his Romaine blade , Which like a Faulchon towring in the skies Coucheth the foule below with his wings shade , Whose crooked beake threats , if he mount , he dies : So vnder his insulting Fauchion lyes Harmelesse Lucretia , marking what he tells , With trembling feare , as foule heares Faulchons bells . W. Shakespeare .
As the poore frighted Deere that stands at gaze , Wildly determining which way to flie , Or one incompast with a winding maze , That cannot tread the way out readily , So with her selfe she growes in mutinie To liue or die which of the twaine were better , When life is sham'd , and deaths reproches better . Idem .
Like as the Snayle , whose hornes being once hit , Shrinks backward in his shelly caue with paine , And there all smoothred vp in shade doth sit , Long after fearing to creepe forth againe : So at his bloody view her eyes are fled Into the deepe darke cabbins of her head . Idem .
As in the night each little fierie sparke May plainly be discerned with our eyne , But when the day doth come we then shall marke That all are dampt and doe no longer shine : So kindles feare in minde which doubt made darke , Vntill my sunne in my Horizon shine . S. I. Harr.
So great a terror in theyr minde was bred That straight as if with sprites they had beene skard , This way and that , confusedly they fled , And left the gates without defence or gard : As tumults often are at stage plaies bred , When false reports of sudden fits are heard : Or when the ouer-loaden seates doe cracke , One tumbling downe vpon anothers back . Idem .
Like as in time of Spring the water 's warme , And crowding frogs like fishes there doe swarme , But with the smallest stone that you can cast To stirre the streame , theyr crowding staies as fast : So while Iudea was in ioyfull dayes , The constancie of them was worthy praise , For that in euery purpose ye should heare The praise of God resounding euery where : So that like burning candles they did shine , Among theyr faithfull flock , like men diuine , But looke how soone they heard of Holoferne , Theyr courage quaild , and they began to derne . T. Hudson .
Looke how a purple flower doth fade and die That painefull ploughman cutteth vp with share , Or as the Poppies head aside doth lye When it the body can no longer beare : So did the noble Dardanello die , And with his death fild all his men with feare : As waters runne abroade that breake theyr bay So fled his souldiours , breaking theyr aray . S. I. Harr.
As the swift Vre by Volgaes rolling flood Chasde through the plaine the mastife curres to-forne , Flies to the succour of some neighbour wood , And often turnes againe his dreadfull horne Against the dogs , imbrude in sweat and blood That bite not till the beast to flight returne : Or as the Moores at theyr strange tennis runne Defenst , the flying balls vnhurt to shunne , So ranne Clorinda , so her foes pursude . Ed. Fairefax .
Like as a Lyon whose imperiall power A proude rebellious Vnicorne defies , To auoyd the rash assault and wrathfull stowre Of his fierce foe , him for a tree applies , And when in running in full course he spies , He slips aside , the whilst that furious beast His precious horne sought of his enemies Strikes in the stock , ne thence can be releast , But to the mighty victor yeelds a bounteous feast , With such fayre flight him Guion often foyld . Edm. Spencer .
As when old father Nilus gins to swell With timely pride aboue th' Egyptian vale , His fatty waues doe fertile shine out well , And ouer-flow each plaine , and lowly dale , But when his later ebbe gins to auaile , Huge heapes of mud he leaues , wherein there breed Ten thousand kinde of creatures , partly male , And partly female , of his fruitfull seede , Such vgly monstrous shapes elswhere may no man re● Ed. Spen. compard to Errors vomit .
As sauage Bull whom two fierce mastiues bait , When rancor doth with rage him once ingore , Forgets with warie ward them to await But with his dreadfull hornes them driues afore , Or flings aloft , or treads downe in the floore , Breathing out wrath , and bellowing disdaine , That all the forrest quakes to heare him rore , So ragde Prince Arthur twixt his foe-men twaine , That neither could his mighty puissance sustaine . Edm Spen.
Looke what a noyse an heard of sauage swine Doe make , when as the Wolfe a pig doth take That doth in all theyr hearings cry and whine , Flocking about as nature hath them taught : So doe these souldiours murmure and repine To see theyr Captaine thus to mischiefe brought : And with great fury they doe set vpon him , All with one voyce , still crying on him , on him . I. Harr.
As when within the soft and spungie soyle The winde doth pierce the intrailes of the earth , Where hurly bu●ly with a restlesse coyle , Shakes all the centre , wanting issue forth , Tell with the tumour townes & mountaines tremble , Euen such a meteor doth theyr rage resemble . M. Drayton .
As when a Comet farre and wide descride In scorne of Phaebus midst bright heauen doth shine , And tydings sad of death and mischiefe brings , So shond the Pagan in bright armour clad , And rold his eyes . Ed. Fairefax .
Like as a Bull when prickt with iealousie , He spies the riuall of his hote desire , Through all the fields doth bellow , rore , and cry , And with his thundring voyce augments his ire : And threatning battaile to the emptie skie , Teares with his horne each plant , each bush , each brier , And with his foote cast's vp his hand on hight , Defying his strong foe to deadly fight , Such was the Pagans fury , such his cry . Idem .
Like as a Goshauke that in foote doth beare A trembling Culuer , hauing spyde on hight An Eagle that with plumy wings doth sheare The subtile ayre , stooping with all his might The quarry throwes to ground with fell despight , And to the battaile doth herselfe prepare : So ranne the Giantesse vnto the fight ; Her fiery eyes with furious sparks did stare , And with blasphemous bans , high God in peeces tar● Edm. Spencer .
As Lyons meete , or Bulls in pastures greene With teeth and hornes , and staine with blood the field , Such eager fight these warriours was betweene , And eythers speare had peirst the others shield . I. Harr.
Like as with equall rage , and equall might Two aduerse windes combate with billowes proud , And neyther yeeld , seas , skies maintaine like fight , Waue against waue opposd , and clowde to clowde , So warre both sides with obstinate despight , With like reuenge , and neither partie bowd , Fronting each other with confounding blowes , No wound one sword vnto the other owes . Sam. Daniell .
With equall rage as when the Southerne-winde Meeteth in battaile through the Northerne blast , The sea and ayre to weather is resignde But clowd gainst clowd , & waue gainst waue they past : So from this skirmish neither part declind , But fought it out , and keepes theyr footings fast , And oft with furious shock together rush , And shield gainst shield , & helme gainst helme they crush . Ed. Fairefax . transl .
Such was theyr furie as when Boreas teares The shattered crags from Taurus Northerne clift , Vpon theyr helmes theyr Launces long they broke , And vp to heauen flew splinters , sparks , & smoake . Idem .
As when two Tygers prickt with hungers rage Haue by good fortune found some beasts fresh spoile , On which they weene theyr famine to asswage , And gaine a feastfull guerdon of theyr toyle , Both falling out , doe stirre vp strifefull broyle , And cruell battaile twixt themselues doe make , Whilst neither lets the other touch the soile But eyther sdeignes with other to pertake , So cruelly those Knights stroue for that Ladies sake . Edm. Spencer .
From out his fearefull eyes two fierie beames More sharpe then poynts of needles did proceed , Shooting forth farre away two flaming streames Full of sad power that poysonous baite did breed To all that within lookt without good heede , And secretly his enemies did slay : Like as the Basiliske of Serpents seede From painfull eyes close venome doth conuay Into the lookers hart , and killeth farre away . Idem .
As when a Dolphin and a Sele are met In the wide champion of the Ocean plaine , With cruell chafe theyr courages they whet , The maisterdome of each by force to gaine , And dreadfull battaile twixt them doe darraine : They snuffe , they snort , they bounce , they rage , they rore That all the Sea disturbed with theyr traine Doth frie with foame aboue the surges hore , Such was betwixt these two the troublesome vprore . Ed. Spencer .
As when the fierie mounted steedes which drew The sunnes bright waine , to Phactons decay , Soone as they did the monstrous Scorpions view With vgly crapples crawling in theyr way , The sight thereof did them so sore affray , That their well knowne courses they forewent : And leading the euer-burning lampe astray , This lower world nigh all to ashes brent , And left their scorched path yet in the firmament : Such was the furie of these head-strong steedes , Soone as the infants sunlike shield they saw . Idem .
Like as the cursed sonne of Theseus , That following his chace in dewie morne , To flie his stepdames loue outragious , Of his owne steedes was all to peeces torne , And his faire limbs left in the woods forlorne , That for his sake Diana did lament , And all the woodie Nimphs did waile and mourne : So was the Soldane rapt and all to rent , That of his shape appeard no little moniment . Idem .
Like raging Iuno , when with knife in hand Shee threw her husbands murthered infant out , Or fell Medea when on Colchicke strand Her brothers bones she scattered round about , Or as that madding mother mongst the rout Of Bacchus priests , her owne deere flesh did teare : Yet neyther Iuno nor Medea stout , Nor all the Menades so furious were , As this bold woman when she saw the damsell there . Idem .
As the heate hidden in a watry clowde , Striuing for issue with strange murmures loud , Like gunnes astuns , with round-round-rumbling thunder , Filling the ayre with noyse , the earth with wonder , So the three sisters , the three hidious rages , Raise thousand stormes , leauing th' infernall stages . I. Siluester .
Shee pittious nurse applyde her painfull thought To serue and nourish them that her vp-brought ; Like to the gratefull Storke , that gathereth meate , And brings it to her elders for to eate . And on a Firre-tree high , with Boreas blowne Giues life to those of whom she had her owne . Th. Hudson .
As the bright sunne what time his fierie teame Toward the Westerne brim begins to draw , Gins to abate the brightnes of his beame , And feruor of his flames somewhat adaw , So did this mighty Lady when she saw Those two strange Knights such homage to her make , Bate somewhat of her maiestie and awe That whilom wont to doe so many quake , And with more milde aspect those two to entertake . Edm. Spen.
As when the Southerne winde with luke-warme blast Breathing on hills where winter long had dwelt Dissolues the rocks of Ice that hung so fast , And all the new made mounts of snow doth melt : So with this gentle prayer , though spoke in hast , The damsell such an inward motion felt That suddainly her armed hart did soften , As vnto women-kinde it chaunceth often . S. I. Harr.
Like as the winde stopt by some wood or hill Growes strong & fierce , teares bowes & trees in twaine , But with mild blasts more temperate gentle still Against the rocks as sea-waues murmure shrill But silent passe amid the open maine : Rinaldo so when none his force with-stood , Asswagde his furie , calmd his angry moode . Idem .
As when two Rammes stird with ambitious pride Fight for the rule of the rich-fleeced flock , Theyr horned fronts so fierce on eyther side Doe meete , that with the terror of the shock Astonied , both stand sencelesse as a block Forgetfull of the hanging victorie : So stoode these twaine vnmoued as a rock , Both staring fierce , and holding ielely The broken reliques of their former crueltie . Edm. Spencer .
Aboue the waues as Neptune lift his eyes To chyde the windes that Troyan ships opprest , And with his countenaunce calmd seas , winds & skies , So lookt Rinaldo when he shooke his crest . S. I. Harr.
When the ayre is calme and still , as dead and deafe , And vnder heauen quakes not an Aspen leafe , When seas are calme , and thousand vessels fleet Vpon the sleeping seas with passage sweet , And when the variant wind is still and lowne The cunning Pilot neuer can be knowne ; But when the cruell storme doth threat the barke To drowne in deeps of pits infernall darke , While tossing teares both ruther , mast and saile , While mounting , seemes the azure skies to scale , While driues perforce vpon some deadly shore , There is the Pilot knowne , and not before . Th. Hudson .
As a tall shippe tossed in troubled seas , Whom raging windes threatning to make theyr pray Of the rough rocks doe diuersly disease Meets two contrary billowes by the way That her on eyther side doth sore assay , And boast to swallow her in greedy graue ; Shee scorning both their spights , doth make wide way , And with her breast breaking the foamie waue , Doth ride on both their backs , and faire herselfe doth saue , So boldly he him beares . Ed. Spen.
As when a shyp that flies farre vnder sayle A hidden rocke escaped hath vnwares , That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile , The Mariner yet halfe amazed stares At perrill past , and yet in doubt , ne dares To ioy at his foole-hardie ouer-sight : So doubly is distrest twixt ioy and feares The dreadlesse courage of this Elsin Knight . Edm. Spen.
Looke as great Cinthia in her siluer Carre Rides in her progresse round about her sphere , Whose tendance is the faire eye-dazeling starres Trooping about her Chariot , that with cleere And glorious showes makes euery eye delight To gaze vpon the beautie of the night , Clad and attended with the worlds delight , So is the Queene in maiestie brought forth . Chr. Middleton .
Like trident-maced Neptune in his pride , Mounted vpon a Dolphin in a storme , Vpon the tossing billowes forth doth ride , About whose traine a thousand Tritons swarme : When Phaebus seemes to set the waues on fire , To shew his glory , and the Gods desire : Or like vnto the fiery-faced sunne , Vpon his wagon prauncing in the West , Whose blushing cheekes with flames seeme ouer-runne Whilst sweating thus he gallops to his rest : Such was the glory wherein now I stood , Which makes the Barons sweat theyr deerest blood . M. Drayton .
As stately Thames inricht with many a flood And goodly riuers that haue made their graues And buried both theyr names and all theyr good within his greatnes to augment his waues , Glides on with pompe of waters vnwithstood Vnto the Ocean , which his tribute craues , And layes vp all his wealth within that powre , which in it selfe all greatnes doth deuoure : So flockt the mightie with theyr following traine Vnto the all-receauing Bullenbrooke . S. Daniell .
Then thou on thine imperiall Chariot set Crownd with a rich imperled Coronet , Whilst the Parisian dames as thy traine past Theyr precious incense in aboundance cast : As Cynthia from the waue-embateled shrowdes Opening the west , comes streming through the clowds , With shining troopes of siluer-tresled starres Attending on her as her Torch-bearers , And all the lesser lights about her throne , With admiration stand as lookers on , Whilst she alone in height of all her pride The Queene of light along her spheare doth glide . M. Drayton .
Euen like to Rheine which in his birth opprest Strangled almost with rocks and mighty hills , Workes out away to come to better rest , Warres with the Mountaines , striues against their wills , Brings forth his streames in vnitie profest Into the quiet bed he proudly fills , Carrying the greatnes which he cannot keepe , Vnto his death and buriall in the deepe : So did the worlds proude Mistres Rome at first Striue with an hard beginning , ward with neede , Forcing her strong confiners to the worst , And in her blood her greatnes first did breede : So Spaine at home with Moores ere forth it burst , Did practise long , and in it selfe did bleed : So did our state begin with her owne wounds To try her strength , ere it enlargd her bounds . Sam. Daniell .
Like as an exhalation hote and dry Amongst the ayre-bred moistie vapours throwne Spetteth his lightning forth couragiously , Renting the thicke clowdes with a thunder-stone , As though the huge all-couering heauen did grone , Such is the garboyle of this conflict then , Braue Englishmen encountring Englishmen . M. Drayton .
Like as a clowde foule , darke and vgly black , Threatning the earth with tempest euery howre , Now broken with a fearefull thunder-crack , Straight powreth downe his deepe earth-drenching showre , Thus for theyr wrongs now rise they vp in armes , Or to reuenge , or to amend theyr harmes . Idem .
Then downe he tumbled like an aged tree , High growing on the top of rockie clift , Whose hart-strings with keene steele nigh hewen be , The mighty trunck halfe rent with ragged rift , Doth rolle adowne the rocks , & falls with fearfull drift . Edm. Spencer .
Or as a Castle reared high and round , By subtile engins and malicious slight Is vndermined from the lowest ground , And her foundations forst and feebled quite , At last downe falls , and with her heaped hight Her hastie ruine doth more heauie make , And yeelds it selfe vnto the victors might , Such was this Giants fall . Idem .
As when two billowes in the Irish sounds Forcibly driuen with contrary tydes Doe meete together , each aback rebounds With roring rage , and dashing on all sides That filleth all the sea with foame , deuides The doubtfull current into diuers waues , So fell these two in spight of both theyr prides . Idem .
Like as through Tagus faire transparent streames The wandring Marchant sees the sandy gold , Or like as Cynthias halfe obscured beames In silent night the Pilot doth behold Through mistie clowdes , and vapours manifold , So through a mirror of my hop'd for gaine , I saw the treasure which I should obtaine . ●h . Storer .
Like as the sunne at one selfe time is felt With heate to harden clay , and waxe doth melt , So Amrams sacred sonne in these proiects , Made one selfe cause haue two contrary effects ; For Isaack humbly knew theyr Lord diuine , But Pharo more and more did still repine ; Like to the corpslet old , the more t is bet with hammer hard , more hardnes it doth get . Th. Hudson .
This ill presage aduisedly she marketh , Euen as the winde is husht before it raineth , Or as the Wolfe doth grin before he barketh , Or as the berry breakes before it staineth , Or like the deadly bullet of a gunne , His meaning strooke her ere his words begun . W. Shakespeare .
Like as the tiller of the fruitfull ground with suddaine storme and tempest is astonished ▪ who sees the flash , and heares the thunders sound , And for their maisters sake the cattell punished : Or when by hap a faire old Pine he found By force of raging wind his leaues diminished : So stood amazd the Pagan in that place , His Lady present at that wofull case . I. Harrington .
Euen as a Wolfe by pinching famine led That in the field a carrion beast doth finde , On which before the doggs and Rauens haue fed , And nothing left but bones and hornes behind , Stands still and gazeth on the carkasse dead : So at this sight the Pagan Prince repind , And curseth oft , and cals himselfe a beast , For comming tardy to so rich a feast . Idem .
Like to a man who walking in the grasse Vpon a Serpent suddenly doth tread , Plucks backe his foote , and turnes away his face , His colour fading pale , as he were dead : Thus he the place ▪ thus he the act doth shun , Lothing to see what he before had done . M. Drayton .
Looke how the God of wisedome marbled stands Bestowing Laurell wreaths of dignitie In Delphos I le , at whose impartiall hands Hang antique scrolles of gentle Herauldry , And at his feete ensignes and trophies lie , Such was my state , whom euery man did follow , As liuing statue of the great Apollo . Th. Storer .
All as the hungry winter-starued earth , when she by nature labours towards her birth , Still as the day vpon the darke world creepes One blossome forth after another peepes , Till the small flower whose roote is now vnbound , Gets from the frostie prison of the ground , Spreading the leaues vnto the powrefull noone Deckt in fresh colours , smiles vpon the sunne . Neuer vnquiet care lodge in that brest Where but one thought of Rosamond did rest . M. Drayton .
Like as a fire the which in hollow caue Hath long beene vnder-kept and downe supprest , With murmure as disdaine doth inly raue , And grudge in so straite prison to be prest , At last breakes forth with furious vnrest , And striues to mount vnto his natiue seate : All that did erst it hinder and molest , It now deuoures with flames and scorching heat , And carries into smoke , with rage and horror great , So mightily the Brittaine Prince him rousd Out of his hold . Edm. Spencer .
As he that striues to stop a sudden flood And in strong bands his violence inclose , Forceth it swell aboue his wonted moode , And largely ouer-flows the fruitfull plaine , That all the country seemes to be a maine , And the rich furrowes flote all quite fordone , The wofull husbandman doth lowd complaine To see his whole yeeres labour lost so soone , For which to God he made so many an idle boone , So him he held , and did through might amate . Idem .
Like as a Saphire hanging downe the breast A farre more orient glittering doth make , Then doth a Diamond of good request Set in a bracelet , and more glory take , Not for the vertue but the places sake . So did a clowdy saphire dimme my light , Not with his worth , but with his places height . Th. Storer .
Thou seest no wheat Helleborus can bring , Nor barly from the madding Morrell spring , Nor bleating lambes braue lyons do not breed , That leaprous parents raise a leaprous seed . Euen so our grandsyre liuing innocent Had stockt the whole world with a saint descent . But suffering sinne in Eden him inuade , His sonnes the soones of sinne and wrath he made . I. Syluester .
As done the pots that long retaines the taste Of licour , such as first was in them plaste : Or like the tree that bends his elder braunch That way where first the stroke had made his launch● So see we wolfes and beares and harts full old , Some tamenesse from their daunted youth to hold . Th. Hudson .
— Loues fiery dart Could nere vnfreeze the frost of her chaste hart : But as the diamond bides the hammer strong , So she resisted all her suters long . Idem .
The more he dranke , the more he did desire , Like to the Ocean sea , though it receaues All Nilus flouds , yet all fresh water craues From East to West , yet growes he not a graine , But still is ready for as much againe . Idem .
* The staues like yce in shiuers small did flie , The splints like byrds did mount vnto the skie . M. Drayton .
Like as the perfect Pylot feares to runne Vpon the rocks , with singling sheet doth shunne Cydnaees straits ot Syrtes sinking sands , Or cruell Capharois with stormy strands . So wisely she dishaunted the resort Of such as were suspect of light report . Well knowing that the quaintance with the ill Corrupts the good , and though they euer still Th. Hudson . Fol. 452.
* Looke how the peacocke ruffes his flanting taile , And strutts vnder his mooned canapie : And how he quiuers with his mooued saile , Yet when his lead pale legs he haps to see , With shame abates his painted iollitie . The King as proud as peacocke in his loue , Yet droupes again when words nor tears will moue . M. Drayton .
Looke how a bright starre shooteth from the skie , So glides he in the night from Venus eye , Which after him she darts as on a shore , Gazing vpon a late embarqued frend , Till the wild waues will haue them see no more , Whose ridges with the meeting cloudes contend . So did the mercilesse and pitchy night Fold in the obiect that did feed her sight . W. Sha.
When as the Sun forsakes his christall spheare , How darke and vgly is the gloomy skie ? And in his place ther 's nothing well appeare , But cloudes that in his glorious circuit flie . So when a King forsakes his royall place , There still succeed oblique and darke disgrace . Ch. Middleton
Looke how the day hater Mineruaes bird , Whilest priuiledged with darknes and the night : Doth liue secure himselfe of others feard , But if by chaunce discouered in the light , O how each little foule with enuy stird , Calls him to iustice , vrges him with spight , Summons the feathered flocks of all the wood , To come to scorne the tyrants of their blood , So fares the King laid open to disgrace . S. Daniell .
And forth hee 's brought vnto the accomplishment , Deckt with the crowne and princely robes that day : Like as the dead in other lands are sent Vnto their graues in all their best aray . And euen like good did him this ornament . For what he brought he must not beare away , But buries there his glory and his name , Intomb'd for euermore in others blame . Idem .
Remaine vpright , yet some will quarrell pike , And common brute will deeme them all alike . For looke how your companions you elect For good or ill , so shall you be suspect . Th. Hudson .
Like as whilome that strong Tyranthian swaine Brought forth with him the dreadfull dog of hell : Against his will fast bound in yron chaine , And roring horribly did him compell To see the hatefull sun , that he might tell To grisly Pluto what on earth was donne , And to the other damned ghoasts which dwell For aye in darknesse , which day-light doth shunne , So led he forth this captiue , and like conquest woone . Ed. Spencer .
Like as in sommers day when raging heate Doth burne the earth and boyled riuers drie : That all brute beasts forste to refraine from meate Do hunt for shade where shrowded they may lie . And missing it , faine from themselues to flie All trauailers tormented are with paine : A mightie cloud doth ouercast the skie , And powreth forth a suddaine showre of raine , That all the wretched world recomforteth againe . So did the warlike Britomart restore The prize of knights of mayden-head that day . Idem .
As when a troupe of haruest thrifty swaines With cutting sythes earth ripened riches mowes , Whole sheaues of corne lye strowen vpon the plaines . So fall the Scots before the conquering foes . D. Lodge .
On Appenine like as a sturdy tree Against the windes that makes resistance stout : If with a storme it ouerturned bee , Falles downe and breakes the trees and plants about : So Latine fell , and with him felled hee , And slew the nearest of the Pagan rout . Ed. Fairfax .
Like as the sacred oxe that carelesse stands With gilden hornes and flowry girlonds crownd : Proud of his dying honour and deare bands , Whilest Theaters fume with frankensence around , All suddenly with mortall stroke astoind , Doth grouelling fall , and with his steaming gore Distaines the pillers and the holy ground . And the faire flowers that decked him afore , So fell proud Marinell vpon the precious shore . Ed. Spencer .
Like as a shippe whom cruell tempest driues Vpon a rocke with horrible dismay , Her shattered ribbes in thousand peeces riues , And spoyling all her geares and goodly ray , Does make her selfe misfortunes piteous pray . So downe the cliffe the wretched giant tombled . Idem .
Like an autumall starre which ruddy doth foreshewe Some death , some pestilence , some bloudy ouerthrowe He buskles with his foe , the assailant he assaults , And resolute he markes his arrowes weake defaults . Then entring in betweene his brest plate and his bases , He seeks his sinful soule , there finds , & thence it chases . I. Syl.
Like as two mastiffe dogs with hungry iawes , Mou'd first to hate , from hate to raging ire : Approach with grinning teeth and grisly iawes , With staring eyes as red as flaming fire . At last they bite and scratch with teeth and clawes , Tearing themselues , and trembling in the mire . So after biting and reproachfull words , Sarcapant and Rinaldo drew their swords . Ed. Spencer .
Like as an exhalation hot and drie , Amongst the aire bred moisty vapours throwne Spilleth his lightening forth couragiously , Renting the thick clouds with a thunder-stone , As though the huge all couering heauen did grone . Such is the garboyle of this conflict then , Braue English men encountring English men . M. Drayton .
Like as ye see the wallowing sea to striue Flood after flood , and waue with waue to driue : Then waues with waues , them floods with floods to chace , And eft returnes vnto their former place . Or like the crops of corne in midst of May , ( Blowne vp with westerne wind ) aside do sway , Both too and fro as force doth them constraine , And yet their tops redresseth vp againe . So whiles the Sirians are by Medes displaced , And whiles the Medes by Syrians are rechaced . Th. Hudson .
Like as a puttock hauing spied in sight A gentle faulchon sitting on a hill , Whose other wing now made vnmeet for flight , Was lately broken by some fortune ill . The foolish kite led with licentious will , Doth beat vpon the gentle byrd in vaine , With many idle stoopes her troubling still . Euen so did Radagond with bootlesse paine , Annoy this noble knight , and sorely him constraine . Ed. Spencer .
Euen as an Eagle that espies from hie , Among the hearbes a partie coloured snake : Or on a banke sunning her selfe to lie , Casting the elder skin , anew to make Lies houering warily till she may spie Aduantage sure the venomd worme to take : Then takes him by the backe and beats her wings , Maugre the poyson of his forked stings , So doth Rogero both with sword and speare , The cruell monster warily assaile . S. I. Harr.
Like as a mountaine or a cape of land , Assaild with stormes , and sailes on euery side Doth vnremoued stedfast still withstand , Storme , thunder , lightning , tempest , wind and tide . The Souldan so withstood Latinus band . Ed. Fairfax .
So thicke flew flouds and darts that no man sees The azurde heauens , the sunne his brightnes lost : The cloudes of weapons like to swarmes of bees Met in the aire , and there each other crost . And looke how falling leaues drop downe from trees When the moyst sappe is mixt with liuely frost , Or apples in strong windes from braunches fall , The Sarazens so tumbled from the wall . Idem .
As when a windy tempest bloweth hie , That nothing may withstand his stormy stowre , The cloudes as things afraid before him flie , But all so soone as his outragious power Is laid , they fairly then begin to showre , And as in storme of his spent stormy spight , Now all at once their malice forth do powre . So did Sir Guion beare himselfe in fight , And suffered rash Pirrocles want his idle might . Ed. Spencer .
As Eagle fresh out of the Ocean waue , Where he hath left his plumes all hoary gray , And deckt himselfe with feathers youthly gay , Like Eyas hauke vpmounting to the skies , His newly budded pinions to assay , And maruells at himselfe still as he flies , So new , this newborne knight to battle did arise . Idem .
As gentle shepheard in sweete euen-tide , When ruddy Phoebus gins to walke in west , He on an hill his flocke to viewen wide , Markes which do bite his heartie supper best . A cloud of combrous gnats do him molest , All striuing to infixe their feeble stings , That from their noyance , he no where can rest , But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth off , and oft doth marre their murmurings . Ed. Sp.
— They him espying , both with greedie force At once vpon him ranne , and him beset With stroakes of mortall steele , without remorse , And on his shield like Iron sledges bet , As when a Beare and Tigre being met , In cruell fight on Libicke Ocean wide , Espide a traueller with feet surbet , Whom they in equall pray hope to deuide , They stint their strife , and him assaile on euery side . Ed. Spencer .
As great a noise as when in Cymbrian plaine , An heard of bulls , whom kindly rage doth sting , Do for the milky mothers want complaine , And fill the fields with troublous bellowing , The neighbor woods around with hollow murmuring . Ed. Sp.
As when the shapelesse huge Leuiaethan Hath thrust himselfe vpon the sandie shore , Where ( monsterlike ) affrighting euery man , He belloweth out a fearefull deadly rore . Euen such a Clamour through the aire doth thunder , The dolefull presage of some fearefull wonder . M. Drayton .
Much like as when the beaten marriner That long hath wandred in the Ocean wide , Oft sow'st in swelling Tethis saltish teare , And Long time hauing tamde his tawnie hide , With blustering breath of heauen that none can bide , And scorching flames of fierce Orions hound , Soone as the port from far he hath espide , His chearefull whistle merily doth sound , And Nereus crownes with cups , his mates him pledge around , Such Ioy made Vna when her knight she found . Ed. Spencer .
Looke how a troupe of winter prisoned dames , Pent in the inclosure of the walled townes , Welcomes the spring vsher to sommers flames , Making their pas●imes on the flowry downes , Whose beautious Arras wrought in natures frames , Through eies admire , the heart with wonder crownes . So these wood-walled citizens at sea , Welcome be both spring and sommer in a day . I. Markham .
Like as a ship with dreadfull storme long tost , Hauing spent all her masts and her ground hold , Now farre from harbour , like to be lost , At last some fisher barke doth neare betold , That giueth comfort to her courage cold : Such was the state of this most knight . Ed. Spencer .
As when to purge excessiue moist descending , From Saturns spheare , or else superfluous heate , Ioue stird vp by Mars ( common good entending ) Sends lightning flash to lay their angry threate . So wiser heads that knew the scourge of warre , Sought sooth fast meanes to mitigate the iarre . D. Lodge .
As when a skilfull marriner doth read A storme approaching that doth perill threate , He will not bide the danger of such dread , Bur strikes his sailes and vereth his manisheat , And lends vnto it leaue the emptie aire to beate : So did the faiery knight himselfe abeare . Ed. Spencer .
As Pilot well expert in perillous waue , That to a steadfast starre his course hath bent , When foggy mists or cloudie tempests haue , The faithfull light of that faire lampy blent , And couered heauen with hidious dreriment , Vpon his card and compasse formes his eie , The maisters of his long experiment . And to them does the steddie helme applie , Bidding his winged vessell fairely forward flie . So Guion . Ed. Spencer .
Like as ye see sometimes the honey bees , Exerce themselues on buds of sweetest tree , Where they sometime assault the buzzing waspe , That come too neare , their flames away to claspe . Or when they honey draw from smelling time , Or from the palme or roses of the prime , And how they draw their waxe with wondrous art , Obseruing ioynture iust in euery part : Both vp and downe , they build ten thousand shops , With equall space fulfild vp to the tops . Or where the maister Bee of thousand bands , Conducts the rest in legions through the lands , Who daily keepes within their Citie wall , Their house , their worke , their lawes , and maners all . So thus the sonnes of Iacob plide their paine , With whole desire their quarell to sustaine . Th. Hudson .
As do those Emmets that in sommer tide Come out in swarmes their houses to prouide , In haruest time ( their toile may best be seene , In pathes where they their carriage bring betweene , The sicke and old at home do keepe the score , And ouer grainell great they take the charge , Oft turning corne within a chamber large , ( When it is dight ) least it do sprout or seed , Or come againe , or we eulls in it breed . While the Armorers with armour hard and great , On studies strong the sturdie steele do beate , And makes thereof , a corpslet or a Iacke , Sometime a helme , sometime a mace doth make , Whiles shepheards they enarme vnvsde to danger , Whiles simple heards , & whiles the wandring stranger The tilling culter then a speare was made , The crooked Sithe became an euened blade : The people foode forgets , no ease they take , Some on an horse , some on his proper backe , Some on a cart , some on a camell beares Corne , wine , and flesh , to serue for many yeares . Th. Hudson .
Like to a riuer that is stopt his course , Doth violate his bankes , breakes his owne head . Destroyes his bounds , and ouerruns by force The neighbour fieldes , in regularly spread . Euen so this sudden stop of Warre doth nurse Home toiles within it selfe from others lead , So daungerous the chaunge thereof is tried , Ere mindes come soft , or otherwise imploide . S. Daniell .
As when the mast of some well timbred hulke , Is with the blast of some outragious storme Blowne downe , it shakes the bottome of the bulke , And makes her ribs to cracke as they were torne , Whil'st still she stands astonisht and forlorne : So was he stound with stroake of her huge taile . Ed. Spencer .
— Lying still a while both did forget , The perillous present stownd wherein their liues were set , As when two warlike brigandines at sea , With murdrous weapons armd in cruell fight , Do meete together on the watrie Lea. They stem each other with so fell despight , That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might , Their woodden ribs are shaken right asunder . They which from shore behold the dreadfull fight Of flashing fier , and here the Ordinance thunder , So greatly stand amaz'd of such vnwonted wonder . Ed. Spencer .
All as the painefull ploughman plies his toile , With share and culter shearing through the soile That costs him deare , and ditches it about , Or crops his hedge to make it vndersprout , And neuer staies to ward it from the weede , But most respects to sowe therein good seede : To th' end when sommer decks the medowes plaine , He may haue recompence of costs and paine . Or like the maide , who carefull is to keepe The budding flowre , that first begins to peepe Out of the knop , and waters it full oft , To make it seemely shew the head aloft , That it may ( when she drawes it from the stocks ) Adorne her gorget white , and golden locks . So wise Merari all his studie stild , To fashion well the maners of his child . Th. Hudson .
Like to a Lion that escapes his bownds , Hauing bene long restraind his vse to stray , Raunges the restlesse woods , staies on no ground . Riots with bloudshed , wantons with his pray , Seekes not for need , but in his pride to wound , Glorying to see his strength , and what he may . So this vnbridled King , freed of his feares , In libertie himselfe vnwildly beares . S. Daniell .
* Like as the hauke which soareth in the skie , And climes aloft for solace of her wing , The greater gate she getteth vp on hie , The truer stoope she makes to any thing : So shall you see my muse by wandring , Find out at last the right and ready way , And keepe it sure , though erst it went astray . G. Gascoigne .
* Like as the ship that through the Ocean wide Directs her course , vnto one certaine coast , Is met with many a counterwind and tide , With which her winged speed is let and crost . And she her selfe in stormie surges lost . Yet making many a boord and many a bay , Still winneth way , and hath her compast lost . Right so it fares with me in this long way , Whose course is often staid , yet neuer is astray . Ed. Spencer .
* — As she was looking in a glasse , She sawe therein a mans face looking on her : Whereat she started from the frighted glasse , As if some monstrous serpent had bene shewen her : Rising as when the sunne in Leo signe , Auriga with the heauenly goale vpon her , Shewes her hornd head , with her kids diuine . Whose rise kils vines , heauens face with stormes disguising , No man is safe at sea , the Haedy rising . So straight wrapt she her body in a cloude , And threatned tempest for her high disgrace , Shame from a bowre of Roses did vnshrowde , And spread her crimson wings vpon her face . G. Chapman .
Like when some mastiffe whelpe disposd to play , A whole confused heard of beests doth chase , Which with one vile consent runne all away , If any hardier then the rest in place . But turne the head that idle feare to stay , Backe strait the daunted chacer turnes his face : And all the rest with bold example led , As fast runne on him as before they fled . So with this bold opposer rushes on This many headed monster multitude . S. Daniell .
As when the daughter of Thaumantes faire Hath in a watry cloud displaied wide Her goodly bowe which paints the liquid aire , That all men wonder at her colours pride : All suddenly ere one can looke aside , The glorious picture vanisheth away , Ne any token doth thereof abide . So did this Ladies goodly forme decay , And into nothing goe , ere one could it bewray . Ed. Spencer .
Like as a tender Rose in open plaine , That with vntimely drought nigh withered was And hung the head ; soone as fewe drops of raine Thereon distill and deaw her daintie face , Gins to looke vp , and with fresh counted grace Dispreds the glory of her leaues gaye , Such was Iraenas countenance , such her grace . Idem .
Like as the wind and tide when they do meet ▪ With enuious oppositions do affright The lesser streames running for to regreet The Ocean Empire , so do these two fight , One labours to bring all things to his will , The other cares for to preuent that ill . Ch. Middleton .
A stately Pallace built of squared bricke , Which cunningly was without morter laid , Whose walles were high , but nothing strong nor thick , And golden foyle all ouer them displaid . That purest skie with brightnesse they dismaid , High lifted vp were many lofty towres , And goodly galleries farre ouerlaid : Full of fayre windowes and delightfull bowres , And on the top a dyall told the timely howres . Ed. Sp.
The soueraigne Castels of the rocky yle , Wherein Penelope the Princes lay : Shone with a thousand lampes , which did exile The dimme darke shades , and turnd the night to day . Not Ioues blew tent what time the sunny ray Behind the bulwarke of the earth retires , Is seene to sparkle with more sprinkling fires . I. Dauies .
— Such a Castle that in stately showe And costly substance others all surmounted : The valew of the walles cannot man knowe , Except he first vpon the same had mounted . Men haue not Iewels of such price belowe , Diamonds are to these but drosse accounted . Pearles are but pelfe , and Rubies all are rotten Where stones of such rare vertue can be gotten . These walles are built of stones of so great price , All other vnto these come far behinde , In these men see the vertue and the vice That cleaueth to the inward soule and minde , As neither flattering praises shall him blinde With tickling words nor vndeserued blame , With forged faults shal worke him any shame : From hence doth come the euerlasting light , That may with Phaebus beames so cleare compare , That when the Sunne is downe there is no night With those that with those Iewels stored are . These gems do teach vs to discerne aright . These gems are wrought with workemanship so rare , That hard it were to make true estimation Which is more hard the substance or the fashion . On arches raisd of Porphorie passing hie , Were gardens faire , and pleasant to the eie . So hie , that to ascend them seemd a paine , Fewe found so rare below vpon a plaine . Sweet smelling trees in order standing bee , With Fountaines watering them in stead of raine , Which doth the same so naturally nourish , As all the yeare both flowers and fruites do flourish . No weeds or fruitlesse trees are in this place , But hearbes whose vertues are of chiefest price , As soueraigne sage , and thrift , and hearbes of grace , And Tyme , which well bestowed maketh wise : And lowly patience proud thoughts to abase , And harts ease that can neuer grow with vice . These are the hearbes that in this garden grew , Whose vertues to their beauties still renew . S. I. H.
— She then led vp to the castle wall That was so hie as foe might not it clime ▪ And all so faire and sensible withall , Not built of bricke , ne yet of stone and lime , But of thing like to that Egyptian slime . Whereof King Nine whilom built Babell towne , The frame thereof seemd party circuler , And part tryangulare , ô worke diuine , Those two the first and last proportions are , The one imperfect mortall feminine , The other immortall , perfect masculine . And twixt them both , a quadrate was the base , Proportioned equally by seuen and nine : Nine was the circle set in heauens place , All which compacted , made a goodly Diapaze . Ed. Spencer .
Vp to a stately Turret she them led , Ascending by ten steps of Alablaster wrought . That Turrets frame most admirable was , Like highest heauen compassed around : And lifted hie aboue this earthly masse , Which it suruewd as hills do lower ground , But on ground , mote not like to this be found . Not that which Antique Camus whilom built In Thebes , which Alexander did confound . Nor that proud towne of Troy though richly guilt , From which young Herods blood by cruel Greeks was spilt , The roofe thereof was arched ouer head : And deckt with flowres and arbors daintily , Two goodly beacons , set in watches stead , Therein gaue light and flam'd continually : For they of liuing fier most subtilly Were made and set in siluer socketts bright : Couered with lids deuizde of substance , That readily they shut and open might , O who can tell the praises of this makers might ? Idem .
Faire roome the presence of sweet Beauties pride , The place the sunne vpon the earth did hold : When Phaethon his chariot did misguide , The towne where Ioue raind downe himselfe in gold , O if Elizium be aboue the ground , Then here it is where nought but ioy is found . Th. Nashe .
Loe Colin here the place whose pleasant sight From other shades hath weand my wandring minde : Tell me what wanteth here to worke delight ? The simple aire , the gentle warbling winde , So calme , so coole , as no where els I finde : The grassie ground with daintie daizies dight , The bramble bush where byrds of euery kinde , To the waters fall , their tunes attemper right . Ed. Spencer .
In little time these Ladies found A groue with euery pleasure crownd : At whose sweet entry did resound A ford , that flowred that holy ground , From thence the sweet breath'd windes conuay Odours from euery mirtle spray , And other flowers : to whose aray A hundred Harpes and Timbrels play All pleasures study can inuent , The Dames eares instantly present : Voyces in all sorts different , The foure parts and the Diapent . G. Chapman .
— On the other side a pleasant groue Was shot vp hie , full of the stately tree , That dedicated is to Olympicke Ioue : And to his sonne Alcides , when as he Gaind in Nemea goodly victorie : Therein the merry byrds of euery sort Chaunted aloud their chearfull harmonie . And made amongst themselues a sweet consent , That quickened the dull sprites with musicall consent . Ed. Spencer .
Vpon this mount there stood a stately groue , Whose reaching armes to clip the welkin stroue , Of tufted Cedars and the braunching Pine , Whose bushy tops themselues do so intwine , As seemd when nature first this worke begunne . She then conspirde against the piercing Sunne . Vnder whose couert ( thus diuinely made ) Phebus greene lawrell flourisht in the shade . Faire Venus mirtle , Mars his warlike firrhe , Mineruaes Oliue , and the weeping mirrhe . The patient Palme which striues in spight of hate , The Poplar to Alcides consecrate . Which nature in such order had disposed , And therewithall their goodly workes enclosed : As seru'd for hangings and rich tapestry , To bewtifie this stately gallery . M. Drayton .
So faire a church as this had Venus none , The walles were of discoulered Iasper stone : Wherein was Proteus caru'd , and ouer hed A liuely vine of green-sea-aggat spred : Where by one hand light-headed Bacchus hung , And with the other wine from grapes out-wrung Of christal shining faire the pauement was , The Towne of Sestos call'd it Venus glasse . There might you see the Gods in sundry shapes , Committing heddy ryots , incests , rapes . For vnderneath this radiant flower Was Danaes statue in a brazen Tower . Ioue slily stealing from his sisters bed , To dally with Idalian Ganymede . And for his loue Europa bellowing loud , And tumbling with the Rain-bow in a cloud . Blood-quaffing Mars hauing the yron net , With limping Vulcan and his Cyclops set . Loue kindling fier to burne such fiers as Troy , Syluanus weeping for the louely boy , That now is turned into a Cypresse tree , Vnder whose shade the wood-gods loue to bee . Ch. Marlowe .
Not that Colossus reared vp in Rhodes , Nor hanging gardens houering in the skie : Nor all the wonderous mansions and abodes In Egypt , Lemnos , or in Italy . Either for riches , cunning , or expence , Might match this Labyrinth for excellence . D. Lodge .
— Art striuing to compare With nature , did an arbor greene dispred : Framed of wanton yuie , flowring faire , Through which the fragrant Eglantine did spred His pricking armes entraild with Roses red , Which daintie odours round about them threw , And all within with flowers was garnished : That when mild Zephirus amongst them blew , Did breath out bountious smelles and painted colour shew . Ed. Sp.
The Tower of Beautie whence alone did flowe More heauenly streames then former age had seene . Taking their current from that learned hill , Where lodge the brothers of admire and skil . Amongst the sommer blossomes of their bowes , A thousand seuerall coloured byrds was set : Who mou'd ( as seem'd ) by charitable vowes Of excellent compassion , euer wet With honourable teares ( for Fates allowes That sensible from sencelesse still shall set Modells of pitie ) learne there with melodie To cheare mens minde foredone with miserie . I. Markham .
— He leads him to the highest mount , That blood-red billowes like a walled front On either side disparted with his rod , Till that his army dry foot through them yode Dwelt fortie dayes vpon ; where writ in stone With bloudy letters by the hand of God , The bitter doombe of death and balefull mone He did receiue whiles flashing fire about him shonne . Or like that sacred hill whose head full hie Adornd with fruitfull Oliues all around , Is , as it were for endlesse memorie Of that deare Lord , who oft thereon was found , For euer with a flowring garlond crownd . Or like that pleasant mount that is for aye , Through famous Poets verse each where renownd : On which the thrice three learned Ladies play , Their heauenly notes , and make full many a louely lay . Ed. Spencer .
Right in the middest of the paradize There stood a stately mount , on whose round top A gloomy groue of mirtle trees did rise : Whose shady bowes sharpe steele did neuer lop , Nor wicked beasts their tender buds did crop . But like a girlond compassed the height , And from their fruitfull sides sweet gumme did drop : That all the ground with pretious deaw bedight , Threw forth most dainty Odors & most sweet delight . And in the thickest couert of that shade , There was a pleasant arbor , not by art , But of the trees owne inclination made . Which knitting their ranke braunches part to part : With wand in yuie twine intraild a thwart , And Eglantine and Caprifoile among : Fashion'd aboue within their inmost part , That neither Phaebus beams could through them throng , Nor Aeolus sharp blast could worke them any wrong . Idem .
It was an hill plac't in an open plaine , That round about was bordered with a wood Of matchlesse height , that seemd th' earth disdaine : In which all trees of honour stately stood , And did all winter , as in sommer bud , Spreading pauilions for the birds to bowre , Within their lower braunches sung aloud , And in the tops , the soaring haukes did towre , Sitting like King of fowles in maiestie and power , And at the foote thereof , a gentle floud His siluer waues did softly tumble downe , Vnmard with ragged mosse of filthy mud . Ne mote wild beasts , ne mote the ruder clowne Thereto approach , ne filth mote therein drowne , But Nymphes and Fairies by the bankes did sit In the woods shade , which did the waters crowne , Keeping all noisome things away from it , And to the waters fall tuning their accents fit . And on the toppe thereof a spacious plaine , Did spread it selfe to serue to all delight , Either to daunce when they to daunce would faine , Or else to course about their bases light . Ne ought there wanted which for pleasure might Desired be , or thence to banish bale , So pleasantly the hill with equall height , Did seeme to ouerlooke the lowly vale . Therefore it rightly cleped was , Mount Acidale . They say that Venus when she did dispose Her selfe to pleasance , vied to resort Vnto this place , and therein to repose And rest her selfe as in a gladsome port , Or with the graces there to play and sport . Ed. Spencer .
It was a chosen plot of fertile land Amongst the wild waues set like a litle nest , As if it had by natures cunning hand Bene choicely picked out from all the rest , And laid forth for ensample of the best . No daintie flower nor hearbe that growes on ground , No arboret with painted blossomes drest , And smelling sweete , but there it might be found To bud out faire , & her sweet smels throw all around . No tree whose braunches did not brauely spring , No braunch wherein a fine bird did not sit , No bird but did her shrill notes euer sing , No song but did containe a louely dit . Trees , braunches , birds , and songs were framed fit , For to allure fraile minds to carelesse ease . Idem .
A sandy Groaue not farre away they spide , That promisd aid the tempest to withstand , Whose loftie trees yclad with sommers pride , Did spread so broade , that heauens light did hide . Not pierceable with power of any starre , And all within were pathes and allies wide , With footing worne , and leading inward farre . Ed. Spencer .
The porch was all of Porphyrie and Tutch , In which the sumptuous building raised was : With Images that seem'd to moue , see , touch . Some hewd in stone , some caru'd in round cut brasse . Also within the beauty was as much , Vnder a stately arch they strait did passe Vnto a court that good proportion bare , And was each way one hundred cubits square . Each of these sides a porch had passing faire , That with an arch is into colours placed : Of equall sise they seemed euery paire , Yet sundry workes with them they better graced . At each of these a wide large easie staire , Without the which all buildings are defaced . And those same staires so lately mounting , led Each to a chamber richly furnished . The colours hie , the chaplets gilt with gold , The cornishes inricht with things of cost : The marbles set from farre , and dearly sold , By cunning workemen carued and embost With Images and Antiques new and old . Though now the night thereof concealed most , Shew that that worke so rich beyond all measure , Could scant be builded with a Princes treasure . But nothing did so much the sight inrich , As did the plenteous fountaine that did stand Iust placed in the middle , vnder which The Pages spred a Table out of hand , And brought forth napery rich , and plate more rich : And meats the choysest of the sea or land . For though the house had stately roomes full many , Yet in the sommer this was best of any , This fountaine was by curious workemen brought To answere to the rest with double square , Eight female statues of white marble wrought , With their left hands an azure skie vpbare , With raining still expelled heate and drought From all that vnder it or neare it are . In these right hands was Amaltheas horne , By euery one of those eight statures borne . Each of those statues rested both their feete , Vpon two Images of men belowe , That seemd delighted with the noise so sweete , That from the water came that there did flowe , Also they seemd the Ladies lowly greete , As though they did their names and vertues knowe . In all their hands they held long scrowles of writings , Of their owne pennings , and their owne endightings : And in faire golden letters were their names , Both of the women wrought and of the men . The women were eight chaste and sober dames That now do liue , but were vnborne as then , The men were Poets , that their worthy fames In time to come , should praise with learned pen. These Images bare vp a brazen tressell , On which there stood a large white marble vessell : This tooke the water from that Azure skie , From whence with turning of some cocke or vice , Great store of water would mount vpon hie , And wet all that same court euen in a trice . S. I. Harrington .
— When many a weary step Had brought vs to the top of yonder mount , Milde Zephirus embrac'd vs in his armes , And in a cloude of sweete and rich perfumes , Cast vs into the lap of that greene meade , Whose bosome stucke with purple Violets , Halfe budded Lillies , and yoong Musk-rose trees , About whose waste the amorous woodbine twines , Whilst they seeme maidens in a louers armes , There on the curled forehead of a banke , That sweld with camomill , ouer whose bewtie A wanton Hyacinth held downe his head , And by the winds helpe oft stole may abide , He sate vs downe , and thus we did ariue . Th. Dekkar .
The fertile Nile which creatures new doth foame , Long Rhodanus whose sourse springs from the skie , Faire Ister flowing from the mountaines hie , Diuine Scamander purpled yet with blood Of Greekes and Troians which therein did lie : Pactolus glistering with his golden flood , And Tigris fierce , whose streames of none may be withstood . Ed. Spencer .
Great Ganges and immortall Euphrates , Deepe Indus , and Meander intricate , Slowe Peneus and tempestuous Phasides , Swift Rhene , and Alpheus still immaculate , Oraxes feared for great Cyrus fate , Tibris renowned for the Romains name . Idem .
The Cydnus streame ( who for his siluer flood , Esteemd a King ) ran now with humane blood . Th. Hudson .
— Beside their trickled softly downe A gentle streame , whose murmuring waue did play Amongst the pumy stones and made a sound To lull himselfe a sleepe that by it lay . The wearie traueller wandring that way , Therein did often quench his thirstie heate , And then by it his wearie limmes display , Whiles creeping slumber made him to forget His former paine , and wipe away his toylsome sweate . Ed. Spencer .
Faire Danubie is praisd for being wide , Nylus commended for his seuenfold head , Euphrates for the swiftnesse of the tide , And for the garden whence his course is lead , The bankes of Rhene with wines are ouerspread . Take Loyre and Po , yet all may not compare With English Thamesis for building rare . Th. Storer .
Great Nylus land where raine doth neuer fall . Th. Hudson .
Anon he stalketh with an easie stride , By some cleare Riuers lillie paued side , Whose sands pure gold , whose pibbles precious gems , And liquid siluer all the curling streams : Whose chiding murmure mazing in and out , With Christall cesterns , moates a meade about . And th' artlesse bridges ouerthwart this torrent , Are Rocks selfe-arched by the eating current . Or louing palmes , whose lustie females willing , Their marrow-boiling loues to be fulfilling , And reach their husband trees on th' other bankes , Bow their stiffe necks , and serue for passing plankes . I. Syluester .
I walkt along a streame for purenesse rare , Brighter then sun-shine , for it did acquaint The dullest sight with all the glorious pray , That in the pibble paued chanell lay . No molten Christall , but a Richer mine , Euen natures rarest alchumie ran there , Diamonds resolud , and substance more diuine , Through whose bright gliding current might appeare A thousand naked Nymphes , whose yuorie shine , Enameling the bankes , made them more deare Then euer was that glorious Pallas gate , Where the day-shining sunne in triumph sate . Vpon this brim the Eglantine and Rose , The Tamoriscke , Oliue , and the Almond tree , As kind companions in one vnion growes , Folding their twindring armes as oft we see , Turtle taught louers either other close , Lending to dulnesse , feeling Sympathie . And as a costly vallance ore a bed , So did their garland tops the brooke orespred : Their leaues that differed both in shape and showe , ( Though all were greene ) yet difference such in greene Like to the checkered bent of Iris bowe , Prided the running maine as it had beene . Ch. Marlowe .
— In that meade proud making grasse , A Riuer like to liquid glasse , Did with such soundfull murmure passe , That with the same it wanton was . Hard by this brooke a Pine had seat , With goodly furniture compleat : To make the place in state more great , And lesning the the inflaming heat , Which was with leaues so bewtified , And spred his brest so thicke and wide , That all the Sunnes estraunged pride , Sustaind repulse on euery side . G. Chapman .
The well of life , to life can dead restore , And gilt of sinfull crimes cleane wash away : Those that with sicknes were infected sore , It could recure , and ages long decay Renew , as it were borne that very day . Both Silo this and Iordan did excell , And the English Bath , and eke the Germaine Spanie , Ne can Cephise nor Hebrus match this well . Ed. Spencer .
Rich Oranochie though but knowne of late , And that huge Riuer which doth beare his name Of warlike Amazons , which do possesse the same . Idem .
— With the murmuring cadence of the waue , Which made a prettie wrangling as it went : Chiding the bankes which no more limit gaue , There ioynd their wel-rund throats with such consent , That euen mad griefe at sight thereof grew graue , And as inchanted , staid from languishment . Prouing , then their delight was neuer greater , And griefe how much the more , so much the better . I. Markham .
— Laid at ease a cubit from the ground , Vpon a Iasper fringd with Iuie round . Pu●fled with waues , thick thrumbd with mossie rushes , He falls a sleep fast by a silent riuer , Whose captiue streames through crooked pipes still rushing , Make sweeter musicke with their gentle gushing . Then now at Tiuoli , th' Hydrantike brawle , Of rich Ferraras stately Cardinall , Or C●esibes rare engines , framed there Whereas they made of Ibis , Iupiter . I. Syluester .
The sayling Pine , the Cedar proud and tall , The Vine-prop Elme , the Poplar neuer drie , The builder Oake , sole king of Forrests all , The Aspine good for staues , the Cypresse funerall . The Lawrell meed of mighty conquerours , And Poets sage , the Firrhe that weepeth stil , The Willow worne of forlorne paramours . The Eughe obedient to the benders wil , The Birch for shafts , the Sallow for the mil. The Mirrhe sweet bleeding in the bitter wound , The warlike Beech , the Ash for nothing il . The fruitfull Oliue , and the Platane round , The carued Holme , the Maple seldom inward sound . Ed. Spencer .
Downe came the sacred Palmes , the Ashes wilde , The funerall Cypresse , Holly euer greene : The weeping Firre , thick Beech , and sayling Pine , The maried Elme fell with his fruitful Vine . The shooter Eughe , the broad leau'd Sycamore , The barraine Plataine , and the Walnut found , The Mirrhe that her fowle sin doth stil deplore : The Alder owner of all watrish ground , Sweet Iuniper whose shadow hurteth sore , Proud Cedar , Oake , the king of Forrests crownd . Ed. Fairfax . Transl .
Behold fond Boy this Rozen weeping Pine , This mournful Larix , dropping Turpentine . This mounting Teda , thus with tempests torne , With Inkie teares continually to mourne . M. Drayton .
Alcides speckled Poplar tree , The Palmes that Monarchs do obtaine , With loue-iuice staind the Mulbery , The fruite that deawes the Poets braine . And Phillis Philbert there away , Comparde with Mirtle and the Bay . The tree that Coffins doth adorne , With stately height threatning the skie , And for the bed of loue forlorne . The black and dolful Ebonie . All in a circle compact are , Like to an Amphitheater . Math. Roydon .
The Spartane Mirtle whence sweet gums do flow , The purple Hyacinth and fresh Costmary , And Saffron sought , for in Cicilian soile , Lawrel , the ornament of Phaebus toile . Fresh Rododaphne and the Sabine flowre , Matching the wealth of the auncient Frankensence : And pallid Ivie building his owne bowre , And Boxe yet mindfull of his old offence : Red Amaranthus lucklesse paramour : Oxeye still greene and bitter patience . Ne wants there pale Narcisse , that in a well Seeing his beautie , in loue with it fell . Ed. Spencer .
Mirtle's due to Venus , greene Lawrell due to Apollo , Corn to the lady Ceres , ripe grapes to the yong mery Bacchus . Poplar to Alcides , and Oliues vnto Minerua ▪ Gentle Amaranthus thou fairest floure of a thousand , Shalt be loues floure henceforth , thogh thou cam'st from a bleeding , Yet blood shalt thou stanch , this gift will I giue thee for euer . Abr. Fraunce .
Dead-sleeping Poppy and black Hellebore , Cold Coloquintida , and Tetra mad , Mortall Samnites and Cicuta bad , With which th' vniust Athenians made to die , Wise Socrates who thereof quaffing glad , Powr'd out his life and last Philosophie . To the faire Critias his dearest Belamye . Ed. Spencer .
The wholesome Sage , and Lauender still gray , Ranke-smelling Rue , and Comin good for eies : The Roses raigning in the pride of May , Sharpe Isope good for greene wounds remedies . Faire Marygolds and Bees alluring Thime , Sweet Marioram and Daizies decking prime . Coole Violets and Orpin growing still , Embathed Balme , and chearfull Galingale , Fresh Costmary , and breathfull Camomill , Dull Poppey , and drinke-quickning Setnale , Veine-healing Veruin , and head-purging Dill , Sound Sauory , and Bazill harry hale . Fat Colworts , and comforting Perseline , Cold Lettuce , and refreshing Rosmarine . Idem .
A soft enflowred banke imbrac'd the fount Of Chloris ensignes , an abstracted field : Where grew Melanthy , great in Bees account , Amareus that precious balme doth yeeld . Enameld Pansies , vsde at nuptialls still , Dianaes arrow , Cupids crimson sheeld : Ope-morne , Night-shade , and Venus Nauill . Sollem Violets hanging heads as shamed , And Verdant Calaminth for Odour famed . Sacred Nepenthe purgatiue of care , And soueraigne Ruberb that doth rancor kill . Sia and Hyacinth that Furies weare , White and red Iessamines , merry Melliphill , Faire crowne , imperiall emperour of flowres , Immortall Amaranth , white Aphrodil , And cuplike twill pants strewd in Bacchus bowres . G. Chapman .
The Marigold Phaebus beloued friend , The Moly which from sorcery doth defend . M. Dray .
The spotted Panther , and the tusked Boare . The Pardale swift , and the Tygre cruell , The Antelope and Woolfe , both fierce and fell . Ed. Spencer .
There might you see the burly Beare , The Lyon king , the Elephant : The mayden Vnicorne was there , So was Acteons horned plant . M. Roydon .
The fertile Nile , which creatures new doth frame , Long Rhodams , whose sourse springs from the skie , Faire Ister , flowing from the mountaines hie . Diuine Scamander , purpled yet with bloud Of Greeks and Troians , which therein did lie , Pactolus glistering with his golden floud , And Tigris fierce , whose streams of none may be withstood . Ed. Spencer .
Great Gauges , and immortal Euphrates , Deepe Indus , and Meander intricate : Slowe Peneus , and tempestuous Phasides , Swift Rhene , and Alpheus stil immaculate , Oraxes feared for great Cyrus fate , Tibris renowmed for the Romane fame . Idem .
Spring-headed Hydraes , and sea-shouldring Whales , Great Whirpooles which all Fishes make to flie : Bright Scholopendraes , arm'd with siluer scales , Mightie Monoceros , with immeasured tailes : The dreadfull Fish that doth deserue the name Of death , and like him lookes in dreadfull hue , The grisly wasserman that makes his game The flying ships with swiftnesse to pursue . The horrible sea - Satyre , that doth shewe His fearful face in time of greatest storme Huge Ziffius whom mariners do eschewe , No lesse then rockes ( as trauailers informe ) And greedy Rosmarines with visages deforme . Ed. Sp.
Is the braue Normans courage now forgot ? Or the bold Britons lost the vse of shot ? The big bon'd Almains and stout Brabanters ? Or do the Piccards let the Crosbowes lie ? Once like the Centaurs of old Thessaly . M. Dray ..
The skie-bred Eagle royall bird , Percht there vpon an Oake aboue : The Turtle by him neuer stird , Example of immortall loue . The Swan that sings , about to die , Leauing Meander stood thereby . M. Roydon .
The ill fac'te Owle deaths dreadfull messenger , The hoarse night Rauen , trompe of dolful dreere , The lether winged Bat , dayes enemie , The ruful Strich stil wayting on the beere , The Whistler shril , that who so heares doth die , The hellish Harpies prophets of sad destenie . Ed. Spencer .
The red-shankt Orcads toucht with no remorse , The light-foote Irish which with darts make warre . Th' rancke ridin'd Scot his swift running horse , The English Archer of a Lyons force . The valiant Norman all his troopes among , In bloody conquest tryed in armes traind long . M. Drayton .
— Grimme Melampus with the Ethiops feete , White Leucon , and all-eating Pamphagos , Sharp-sighted Dorceus , wild Oribasus , Storme breathing Lelaps , and the sauage Theron , Wing-footed Pteretas , and hind-like Ladon . Greedy Harpia , and the painted Stycte , Fierce Tygris , and the thicket searcher Agre , The blacke Melaneus , and the brisled Lachne , Leane-lustfull Cyprius , and big chested Aloe . G. Chapman .
— Repentance sad , Praier sweete charming , fasting , hairy clad . I. Syl.
— In one consort there sate Cruell reuenge , and rancorous despight , Disloyall treason , and heart-burning hate , But gnawing Iealouzie out of their sight Sitting alone , his bitter lips did bite , And trembling feare still too and fro did flie , And found no place where safe he shrowd him might . Lamenting sorrowe did in darkenesse lie , And shame his vgly face did hide from liuing eie . Ed. Sp.
Fresh Hyacinthus Phoebus paramoure , Foolish Narcisse that likes the watrie shore , Sad Amaranthus made a flowre of late . Idem .
The wooddy Nymphs faire Hamadryades And all the troupes of lightfoot Naides . Ed. Sp.
The Fawnes and Satires from the tufted brakes Their brisly armes wreathd all about with snakes , Their horned heads with woodbine chaplets crownd With Cypresse Iauelings , and about their thies , The flaggy haire disordered loosely flies . M. Drayton .
Fresh shadowes fit to shrowd from sunny ray , Faire fawnes to take the sunne in season due , Sweet springs in which a thousand bubbles play . Soft rombling brookes , that gentle slomber drew . High reared mounts , the lands about to vew . Low looking dales , disioynd from common game , Delightful bowres , to solace louers true . False Labyrinths , fond runners eyes to daze , All which by nature made , did natures selfe amaze . Ed. Spencer .
* Behind Cupid were reproach , repentance , shame , Reproach the first , shame next , repent behinde : Repentance feeble , sorrowfull and lame . Reproach despightfull , carelesse and vnkinde , Shame most il-fauoured , bestiall and blinde . Shame lowrd , repentance sighed , reproach did scold : Reproach sharpe , repentance whips entwinde , Shame burning Taper in her hand did hold , All three to each vnlike , yet all made in one mould . Idem .
* — Stearne strife and anger stout , Vnquiet care , and sad vnthriftie head : Lewd losse of time , and sorrow being dead , Inconstant change , and false disloyaltie , Consuming riotize and guiltie dread Of heauenly vengeance , faint Infirmitie , Vile pouertie , and lastly death with Infamie . Idem .
* His angry steed did chide his frowning bitte . Idem .
Rich Oranochye , though but knowne of late , And that huge Riuer which doth beare his name Of warlike Amazons , which do possesse the same . Ed. Spencer .
The sable Henbane , Morrell making mad , Cold poysoning Poppey , itching , drowsie , sad . The stifning Carpese , th' eyes-foe Hemlock stinking , Limb-numming , belching : and the sinew shrinking . Dead-laughing Apium , weeping Aconite . ( Which in our vulgar deadly Wolfes Bane hight ) The dropsie-breeding , sorrow-bringing Psyllie , ( Here called Fleawurt ) Colchis banefull Lillie . ( With vs wild-Saffran ) blistering , biting fell , Hot Napell , making lips and toong to swell . Blood-boyling Yew , and costiue Misseltoe , With yee-cold Mandrake . I. Syluester .
* — Through crooked woods he wandreth , Round-winding rings , and intricate Meaanders , False guiding pathes , doubtful beguiling straies . And right strong errors of an endlesse maze . Idem .
* There springs the shrub tree foote aboue the grasse , Which feares the keene edge of the Curtelace : Whereof the rich Egiptian so endeares , Roote , barke , and fruite , and yet much more the teares . There liues the sea-oake in a litle shell , There growes vntild the ruddy Cochenell , And there the Chermez , which on each side armes With pointed prickles all his precious armes , Rich trees and fruitfull in these wormes of price , Which pressed , yeeld a crimson coloured iuice , When thousand lambs are died so deepe in graine , That their owne mothers know them not againe , There mounts the Melt which serues in Mexico , For weapon , wood , needle and thred to sowe , Bricke , honey , sugar , sucket , balme , and wine , Parchment , perfume , apparell , cord , and line , His wood for fier , his harder leaues are fit , For thousand vses of inuentiue wit . I. Syluester .
The pedant minister , and seruing clarke , The ten pound base , frize ierkin hireling , The farmers chaplaine , with his quarter warke . The twentie noble Curate and the thing Call'd Elder , all these needs will bring All reuerend titles into deadly hate Their godly calling , and their hie estate . Th. Storer .
The shady Groaues of noble palme-tree spraies , Of amorous mirtles and immortall baies . Neuer vnlearn'd , but euermore there new , Selfe-arching armes in thousand arbours grew . I. Syluester .
Swift Guylon , Phyton and rich Tigris tide , And that faire streame whose siluer waues do kis , The Monarch towers of proud Semyranis . Euprates . Idem .
Sweete numbred Homer . I. Syl.
Heartstealing Homer , marrow of the Muses , Chiefe grace of Greece , best pearle of Poetrie , Drowner of soules , with arts orewhelming sluces , Embellished with Phoebes lunarie , Deckt with the graces rich imbroderie . Sweete honey-suckle , whence all Poets sprights , Sucke the sweete honey of diuine delights . C. Fitz-Ieffrey .
Hector tongu'd Sydney , Englands Mars and Muse . Idem .
— O heauens fresh fannes quoth hee , Earths sweeping broomes , of forrests enemie : O you my Heraulds and my messengers , My nimble posts and speedy messengers , My armes , my sinewes , and my Eagles swift , That through the aire my rolling chariot lift . I. Syluester .
The Aeolian crowde . Idem .
* O sacred Oliue , firstling of the fruites , Health-boading braunch . Idem .
* The proud horse , the rough-skind Elephant , The lustie bull , the Camell water want . Idem .
* — Let the pearly morne The radiant Moone , and rhumie euening see Thy necke still yoaked with captiuitie . Idem .
* There natures story , till th' heauen shaker dread , In his iust wrath , the flaming sword had set , The passage into Paradice to let . I. Syluester .
— He summond vp With thundring call the damned crew , that sup Of sulphurie Stix , and fiery Phlegeton , Bloudie Cocytus , muddy Acheron . I. Syluester .
* The sunne the seasons stinter . Idem .
— Ah that language sweete Sure bond of Cities friendships masticke sweete , Strong curbe of anger yerst vnited , now In thousand drie brookes straies , I wot not how : That rare rich gold , that charme griefe , fancie mouer● That calm-rage , harts theefe , quel-pride coniure-louer , That purest coine then currant in each coast Now mingled , hath sound , waight , and colour lost . T is counterfeit , and ouer euery shoare , The confusd fall of Babell yet doth roare . Idem .
— Then all spake the speech Of God himselfe , th' old sacred Idiome rich , Right perfect language , wher 's no point nor signe . But hides some rare deepe misterie behind . Idem .
— Scaliger our ages wonder , The learned's sunne , who eloquently can Speake Hebrew , Greeke , French , Latine , Nubian , Dutch , Tuscan , Spanish , English , Arabicke . The Sirian , Persian , and the Caldaike . O rich quicke spirit ; O wits Chamelion , Which any authors colour can put on . Great Iulius fame , and Siluius worthy brother , Th' immortall grace of Gascony , their mother , Idem .
Wing-footed Hermes , purseuant of Ioue . Idem .
— All haile thou sempiternall spring Of spirituall pictures , speech of heauens hie King , Mother and mistresse of all the tongues the prime , Which pure hast past such vast deepe gulphs of time , Which hast no word but waies , whose elements Flowe with hid sense , thy points with sacraments . O sacred Dialect , in thee the names Of men , townes , countries , register their fames In briefe abridgements : and the names of birds , Of water guests , and forrest haunting heards , Are open brookes , where euery man might read .
— The Graces daughters of delight , Handmaides of Venus , which are wont to haunt * Vpon this hill , and daunce there day and night , Those three to men all gifts of graces graunt , And all that Venus in her selfe doth vaunt , Is borrowed of them . Ed. Sp.
They are the daughters of skie-ruling Ioue , By him begot of faire Eurynome , The Oceans daughter in this pleasant Groue , As he this way comming from feastfull glee Of Thetis wedding with Aeacidee , In sommers shade himselfe here rested weary . The first of them hight mild Euphrosyne , Next faire Aglaia , last Thalia merry , Sweet goddesses al three , which men in mirth do cherry Therfore they alwaies smoothly seemd to smile , That we likewise should mild and gentle bee , And also naked are , that without guile Or false dissemblance all them plaine may see , Simple and true , from couert malice free : And eke themselues so in their daunce they bore , That two of them stil forward seemd to bee . But one stil forwards shou'd her selfe afore , That good should from vs go , then come in greater store . Idem .
Such men are like our curtaines at their best , To make vs sleepe , or hinder vs from light : Troublers of nature , children of the West , Haters of sence , adopted sonnes of night , In whom the wise both sorrow and delight . Yet were there not such Vegetalls the while , What had the wiser sort whereat to smile ? Th. Storer .
Renowmed Picus of Mirandula , Hated the substance of a Clergy man That was vnlettered , and made a lawe , An ignorant which neuer had began To seeke , or after seeking neuer scan . Some part of somewhat that might wisedome bring , Should be accounted but a liuing thing . Idem .
The noble Tichobraghe for whose deare sake All Denmarke is in admirations loue : In deepe regard such difference doth make Betweene those men whose spirits soare aboue , And those base essents which only moue . That in his Iles Horizon he admits No cloudy Meteors of such foggy wits . Idem .
The multitude to Ioue a sute imparts , With neighing , blaying , braying , and barking , Roring and howling , for to haue a king . A king in language theirs they said they would , ( For then their language was a perfect speech ) The Byrds likewise which chirpes and puing could , Cackling and chattering , that of Ioue beseech , Only the Owle still warnd them not to seek . So hastily , that , which they would repent , But saw they would , and he to desarts went . Ioue wisely said ( for wisedome wisely saies ) O Beasts take heed what you of me desire , Rulers will thinke all things made them to please , And soone forget the swinke due to their hire , But since you will part of my heauenly fire , I will you lend , the rest your selues must giue , That it both seene and felt may with you liue . Full glad they were , and tooke the naked sprite Which strait the earth ycloathed in his clay : The Lyon hart ; the Ownce gaue actiue might . The Horse good shape ; the Sparrow lust to play , Nightingale voyce , entising songs to say . Elephant gaue a perfect memory , And Parrot ready toong that to apply . The Foxe gaue craft ; the Dogge gaue flattery , Asse patience ; the Mole a working thought : ●agle high thought , Wolfe secret crueltie , Monky sweet breath ; the Cow her faire eyes brought The Ermion whitest skin , spotted with nought . The Sheepe mild seeming face , climing the Beare , The Stag did giue the harme-eschuing feare . The Hare her sleights , the Cat his melancholy , ●nt industry , and Conny skill to build : ●anes order ; Storkes to be appearing holy . ●amelion ease to chaunge , Ducke ease to yeeld , ●rocodile teares , which might be falsly spild . Ape greeting gaue , though he did mowing stand , The instrument of instruments the hand . S. Phil. Sidney .
●me built the breaches of their broken towne , ●hat heauen and Panimire had broken downe . ●me other found a Cautell gainst the Ramme , To saue the wall vnbroken where it came . Thus Iacobs townes on all sides had their flankes With Gabions strong , with bulwarkes and with bankes . Some others busie went and came in routs , To Terrace Towers , some vnder baskets louts . Some others also wanting time and might To strength their Townes , yet vsed all kind of slight To dig vp ditches deepe for Cesternes good , To draw to them the best and nearest flood . Th. Hudson .
* — The hidden loue that now adayes doth hold , The steele and load-stone , Hydrargire and gold . The Amber and straw ; that lodgeth in one shell , Pearle-fish and Sharpling : and vnites so well Sargons and Goates , the Sperage and the Rose , Th' elme and the Vine , th' Oliue and Mirtle bush Is but a sparke or shadow of that loue , Which at the first in euery thing did moue . When as the earths Muses with harmonious sound , To heauens sweet musicke humbly did resound . But Adam being chiefe of all the strings Of this large Lute , ore-retched , quickly brings All out of tune : and now for melody Of warbling charmes , it yells so hideously That it affrights fell Enynon , who turmoiles To raise againe th' old Chaos anticke broiles . I. Syl.
* — Holy Nectar that in heauenly bowers Eternally selfe-powring Hebe powers . Or blest Ambrosia , Gods immortal fare . Idem .
* O who shall show the countenance and gestures Of mercy and iustice ? which faire sacred sisters With equal poize do euer ballance euen , Th' vnchanging proiects of the king of heauen . Th' one sterne of looke , the other mild aspecting , Th' one pleasd with teares , th' other blood affecting . Th' one beares the sword of vengeance vnrelenting , Th' other kings pardon , for the true repenting . The one earths Eden , Adam did dismisse , Th' other hath raisde him to a higher blisse . Idem .
* Day hath his golden Sun , her Moone the night , Her fixt and wandring starres , the azure skie : So framed all by their Creators might , That stil they liue and shine , and nere shall die . Till in a moment with the last dayes brand They burne , and with them , burne earth , sea and land . Ed. Fairfax .
— The Wolfe the trembling sheepe pursues , The crowing Cocke the Lyon stout eschues . The Pullaine hide them from the Puttocks flight , The Masties mute at the Hyaenas sight . Yea , who would thinke of this fel enmities ? Rage in the sencelesse trunks of plants and trees . The Vine , the Cole , the Colewort Sow bread dreeds , The Fearne abhorres the hollow wauing Reeds . The Oliue and the Oake participate , Euen to their earth , signes of their auncient hate . Which suffers not ( ô date lesse discord ) th' one Liue in that ground , where th' other first hath growne . I. Syl.
So at the sound of Wolfe-drums ratling thunder , Th' affrighted sheep-skin drum doth rent in sunder . So that fell monsters twisted entraile cuts By secret power the poore Lambes twined guts . Which after death in stead of bleating mute , Are taught to speake vpon an Iuory Lute . And so the princely Eagles rauening plumes , The feathers of all other fowle consumes . Idem .
* — There the tree from of whose trembling top , Both swimming Shoales and flying troupes do drop . I meane the tree now in Iuturna growing , Whose leaues dispearst by Zephyrs wanton blowing , Are metamorphos'd both in forme and matter , On land to fowles , to fishes on the water . Idem .
* — The Partrich new hatched beares On her weake backe , her parents house , and weares In stead of wings , a beuer rupple downe Followes her damme , through furrows vp and downe ▪ Idem .
* — We see the new falne silly Lambe Yet staind with blood of his distressed damme , Knowes well the Wolfe , at whose fell sight he shakes , And right the teate of th' vnknowne Eawe he takes . Idem .
Alecto , sad Megera , and Thesiphon , The nights blacke saunghters grim-fac'd Furies sad . Sterne Plutoes posts . I. Syluester .
Nepenthe is a drinke of soueraigne grace , Deuised of the Gods for to assage Hearts griefe , and bitter gall away to chase , Which stirre vp anguish and contentious rage , In stead thereof , sweete peace and quiet age , It doth establish in the troubled minde Fewe men but such as sober are and sage , Are by the Gods to drinke thereof assignde , But such as drinke , eternall happinesse do finde . Ed. Sp.
— Nepenthe enemie to sadnesse , Repelling sorrowes , and repeating gladnesse . Elyxer that excells , Saue men or angells , euery creature ells . I. Syl.
Th' aires daughter Eccho haunting woods among , A blab that will not ( cannot keepe her tongue ) Who neuer askes , but euer answeres all , Who lets not any her in vaine to call . Idem .
The Marigold so likes the louely Sunne , That wh●n he sets , the other hides his face : And when he gins his morning course to runne , She spreads abroad , and shewes her greatest grace . T. Watson .
No bird but Ioues can looke against the sunne . Idem .
— Enuies bird must say when all is donne , No bird but one is sacred to the sunne . Idem .
Beast , Snake , Bore , Stag , Birds , Belt , Plankes , Bull , Theefe , Fruite , Dog Diomede , Choakt , scard , pauncht , cought , pierst , prizd , Washt , throwen , slaine , puld , chaind , horsed . W. Warner .
Great Nilus land , where raine doth neuer fall . T. Hudson .
There quakes the plant , which in Pudefetan Is call'd the shamefac't , for asham'd of man , If toward it one do approach too much , It shrinkes the boughes , to shun our hatefull touch . As if it had a soule , a sense , and sight , Subiect to shame , feare , sorow and despight . I. Syluester .
Rude Acheron , a loathsome lake to hell , That boiles and bubs vp swelth as blacke as hell . Where grisly Charon at their fixed tide Still ferries ghosts vnto the farther side . M. Sackuile .
Echidna is a monster direfull dread , Whom Gods do hate and heauens abhorre to see : So hidious is her shape , so huge her head , That euen the hellish fiends affrighted bee At sight thereof , and from her presence flie . Yet did her faire and former parts professe , A faire young maiden , full of comely glee : But all her hinder parts did plaine expresse , A monstrous Dragon , full of fearefull vglinesse . Ed. Spencer .
Andronica that wisely sees before , And Phronesis the Iudge , and chaste Drucilla , And she that boldly fights for vertues lore , Descending from the Romine race Camilla . S. I. Harrington .
The Cedar-building Eagle beares the winde , And not the Falchon , though both Haukes by kinde . That Kingly bird doth from the clouds command The fearefull fowle that moues but nere the land . M. Dray .
— The bird of fame That still renewes it selfe and neuer dies , And onely one in all the world there flies . S. I. Harrington .
* Of all chast birds the Phaenix doth excell , Of all strong beasts the Lyon beares the bell : Of all sweete flowers , the Rose doth sweetest smell . Of all pure mettalls gold is onely purest , Of all the trees the Pine hath highest crest . Of all proud birds the Eagle pleaseth Ioue , Of pretie fowles kind Venus likes the Doue , Of trees Minerua doth the Oliue moue . T. Lodge .
* Who holdeth league with Neptune and the winde ? S. Dan.
The Phaenix gazeth on the sunnes bright beames , The Echinaeus swims against the streames . R. Greene .
He that the number of the leaues could cast , That in Nouember falles by winters blast : He that could tell the drops of raine and sleete , That Hyad , Orion , or Pleyiades weete . Sheds on the ground that man might onely tell , What teares from Iudiths eies incestant fell . Th. Hudson .
— Like Coruiue who forgate His Proper name ; or like George Trapezunce , Learned in youth , and in his age a dunce . I. Syl.
The firmament shall retrograde his course , Swift Euphrates go hide him in his sourse : Firme mountains skip like lambes beneath the deepe , Eagles shall diue , whales in the aire shall keepe . Ere I presume with fingers end to touch , Much lesse with lippes the fruite forbid too much . I. Syluester .
Flie from thy channell , Thames forsake thy streames , Leaue the Adamant Iron , Phoebus lay thy beames . Cease heauenly spheres , at last your watrie warke Betray your charge , returne to Chaos darke . At least some ruthlesse Tigre hang her whelpe , My Catisbye so with some excuse to helpe , M. M.
That girdle gaue the vertue of chast loue , And wiuehood true to all that did it beare : But whosoeuer contrary doth proue , Might not the same about her middle weare , But it would loose or else asunder teare , Whilom it was ( as Faieries wont report ) Dame Venus girdle by her esteemd deare What time she vsde to liue in wiuely sort . But laid aside when so she vsde her sport . Her husband Vulcan whilome for her sake , When first he loued her with heart intire , This precious ornament they say did make . And wrought in Lemnos with vnquenched fire , And afterward did for her first loues hire , Giue it to her for euer to remaine , Therewith to bind lasciuious desire , And loose affections straightly to restraine , Which vertue it for euer did retaine . This goodly Belt , was Ceston call'd by name . Ed. Spencer .
* The noble Lyon neuer slaies the least , But alwaies praies vpon some worthy beast . The thunder throwes his sulphured shafts adowne , On Atlas high , or cold Riphins crowne . The tempest fell more feruently doth fall On houses high , then on the homely hall . Th. Hudson .
* Saturn taught men vntaught before , to eare the lusty land , And how to pierce the pathlesse aire with shafts from bowmans hand . God Dis did quaile to see his gold so fast conuaid from hell , And fishes quakt , when men in ships amidst their flouds did dwell . W. Warner .
A wise man liuing like a drone , an old man not deuout , Youth disobedient , rich men that are charitie without : A shameles woman , vicious Lords , a poore man proudly stout . Contentious Christians , Pastors , that their functions do neglect , A wicked King , no discipline , no lawes men to direct , Are twelue the foulest faults that most all common-wealths infect . W. Warner .
— The Inginers haue the Trepan drest , And reared vp the Ramme for battery best . Here bends the Briccoll while the Cable crackes , There Crosbowes were vprent with yron Rackes . Here crooked Coruies fleing Bridges tall , Their scathfull Scorpions that ruines the wall , On euery side they raise with ioynture meete , The timber Towres for to commaund the streete . The painfull Pioners wrought against their will , With fleakes and Faggots , ditches vp to fill . Th. Hudson .
* — The happie Arabs those that builds In thatched Wagons wandring through the fields . The subtil Tirians they who first were Clarkes , That staid the wandring words in leaues and barkes . Idem .
* At Babell first confused toongs of euery language grew . W. Warner .
— Idolatry did growe * From Ninus first , he first a Monarchy did frame . Idem .
* Lord Dane the same was called them , to them a pleasing name , Now odiously Lordan say we , when idle mates we blame . Idem .
* The Turtle that is true and chaste in loue , Shewes by her mate something the spirit doth moue . The Arabian byrd that neuer is but one , Is only chaste because she is alone . But had our mother Nature made them two , They would haue done as Doues and Sparrowes do . But therefore made a Martyr in desire , And doth her pennance lastly in the fire . M. Drayton .
* I cast not with fooles , suffer Saints , let mighty fooles be mad , Note , Seneca by newes done for precepts , pennance had . W. Warner .
* The Romane widow dide when she beheld Her sonne , whom erst she counted slaine in feeld . G. Gascoigne .
Faire Danubie is praisde for being wide , Nilus commended for the seuen-fold head : Euphrates for the swiftnesse of the tide , And for the garden whence his course is led , The bankes of Rhine with Vines are ouerspred . Take Loyre and Po , yet all may not compare With English Thamesis for buildings rare . Th. Storer .