Tobacco battered; & the pipes shattered (about their eares that idlely idolize so base & barbarous a weed; or at least-wise ouer-loue so loathsome vanitie:) by a volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon..

TOBACCO BATTERED ; & THE PIPES SHATTERED ( About their Eares that idlely Idolize so base & barbarous a WEED ; OR at least-Wise ouer-loue so loathsome VANITIE : ) by A Volley of holy Shot Thundered From Mount HELICON .

A Double Anagram , George Viliers : Sir George Viliers , Re-giue glories : Glorie-giuers rise . SIr , Re-giue glories : Glorie-giuers rise . How fits your happy Fate , your happy Name ! Wherein , a Precept with a Promise lies , Presaging Good to grace-full BVCKINGHAM : For , be you Grate-full for your Dignities ; GOD and the KING will still increase the same . GOD , while you honour Him , will honour You : The KING will fauour , while you serue Him , trew .

To the right Honourable Sr. GEORGE VILIERS , Kt. Baron of Whaddon : L. Vicount Viliers : EARLE of BVCKINGHAM : Master of the Horse to his Maty . & Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter , &c. YOur Noble Order , and your hallowed Name , Your Soueraign's Fauor , & your owne Profession , Promise Your Valour towards the Suppression Of Heathen Foes that Christian FAITH defame : Hence , here presume we ( by the Trump of Fame ) To call your Aide against the proud Oppression Of th' Infidel vsurping FAITH'S Possession , That Indian Tyrant , onely Englands Shame . Thousands of Ours here hath He Captiue taken , Of all Degrees , kept vnder slauish Yoak , Their God , their Good , King , Country , Friends forsaken To follow Follie and to feed on Smoake . Be GOD our Guide , St. GEORGE our Generall ; Wee shall repell Him , and redeem Them All. At Your . Lops . Command IS The humble Eccho of The MVSES .

A Warning-Piece . RIght noble Nobles , Generous Gentlemen , Louers of Honor , and Your Countries Weal ; You 'l need no Warning to auoid our Peal ; Nor are in Leuel of our Poudered Pen : Nor Those that Yet will yeeld , and turne agen From th' Idol-Seruice of their Smoaky Zeal , To serue their GOD , their KING , their Common-weale We shoot at Manners , we would saue the Men . But , Those rebellious that will still stand out Vnder the Standard of our Heathen Foe , With Pipe and Pudding rampir'd round about , Puffing & Snuffing at their threatned Woe ; At such , our Canon shall Here thunder thick : Gunner , your Lin-stock , Come , giue Fier quick . T is best Praise-worthy , To haue pleas'd the Best : This Wee endeauour ; and defie the rest .

TOBACCO BATTERED . WHAT-euer GOD created , first was good , And good for Man , while Man vprightly stood But , falling Angels causing Man to fall , His foule Contagion con-corrupted All His fellow-Creatures , for his Sinne accurst , And for his sake transformed from their First ; Till GOD and MAN , Mans Leprie to re-cure , By Death kild Death , re-making All things pure : But , To the pure ; not to the stil-Prophane , Who ( Spider-like ) turne Blessings into Bane ; Vsurping ( right-les , thank-les-need-les ) heer , In wanton , wilfull , wastefull , lustfull Cheer , Earths plentious Crop , which GOD hath onely giuen Vnto his Owne , ( Heires both of Earth and Heauen ) Who onely ( rightly ) may with Praise and Prayer , Enioy th'increase of Earth , of Sea , and Ayre , Fowle , Fish , and Flesh , Gems , Metalls , Cattell , Plants ; And namely , ( That which now no Ingle wants ) Indian TOBACCO , when due cause requires ; Not the drie Dropsie of Phantasticke Squires . None therefore deeme that I am now to learne ( How euer dim I many things discerne ) Reason and Season , to distinguish fit Th' Vse of a thing , from the Abuse of it ; Drinking , from drunking , Saccharum cum Sacco ; And taking of , from taking all TOBACCO . Yet out of high Disdaine and Indignation , Of that sterne Tyrant's strangest Vsurpation , Once , demi-Captiue to his puffing Pride , ( As millions are , too-wilfull foolifi'd ) Needs must I band against the need-lesse Vse Of Don TOBACCO , and his foule Abuse : Which ( though in Inde it be an Herbe indeed ) In Europe , is no better then a Weed ; Which to their Idols Pagans sacrifize , And Christians ( heer ) doe wel-nigh Idolize : Which taking , Heathens to the Diuels bow Their Bodies ; Christians , euen their Soules do vow . Yet th' Heathen haue , with th' Ill , some Good withall ; Sith , Their con-natiue , 't is con-natural . But , see the nature of abounding Sinne , Which more abounding Punishment doth winne For knowing Seruants wilfull Arrogance , Then filly Strangers sauage Ignorance . For , what to Them is Meat and Med'cinable , Is turn'd to vs a Plague intollerable . Two smoakie Engines , in this latter Age ( Sathans short Circuit ; the more sharp his rage ) Haue beene inuented by too-vanted Wit , Or rather , vented from th' Infernal Pit , GVNS & TOBACCO-PIPES , with Fire and Smoak , ( At least ) a Third part of Mankind to choak : ( Which , happely , 9. 17. th' Apocalyps fore-told ) Yet of the Two , We may ( thinke I ) be bold , In some respects , to thinke the Last , the Worst , ( How-euer Both in their Effects accurst . ) For , Gunns shoot from-ward , onely at their Foen ; Tobacco-Pipes , home-ward , into their Owne ( When , for the Touch-hole , firing the wrong end , Into our Selues the Poysons force we send : ) Those , in the Field , in braue and hostile manner ; These , Cowardly , vnder a Couert Banner : Those , with Defiance , in a Threatfull Terror ; These , with Affiance , in a Wilfull Error : Those , ( though loud-roaring , goaring-deep ) quick-ridding ; These , stilly stealing , longer Languors breeding : Those , full of pain ( perhaps ) and fell despight : These , with false Pleasure , and a seem-delight ( As Cats with Mice , Spiders with Flies ) full rife Pipe-playing , dallying , & deluding Life . Who would not wonder , in these Sunny-Dayes ( So bright illightned with the GOSPEL's Rayes ) Whence so-much Smoak , & deadly Vapors come , To dim & damne so much of Christendome ? But , wee must ponder too , These Dayes are Those Wherein the Diuell was to be let lose ; And Yawning broad Gate of that black Abysse To bee set ope , whose Bottome bound-les is ; That Sathan , destin'd , euermore to dwell In Smoakie Fornace of that darkesome Cell , In Smoak & Darknes might inure & train His Owne deere Minions , while they heer remain ; As roaguing Gypsies , tan their little Elves , To make them tann'd and oughe , like them Selves . Then , in Despight , who-ever dare say Nay , TOBACCONISTS , keep-on your Course : You may , If you continew in your Smoakie Vre , The better fat Hell 's sulphurie Smoak indure ; And heerin ( as in All your other Euill ) Grow neerer still and liker to the Diuell : Saue that the Diuell ( if hee could re-voke ) Would fly from filthy & vnhealthy Smoak ; Wherein ( cast out of Heauen for hellish Pride ) Vn-willing Hee , and Forced doth abide : Which , heerin worse than Hee ( the worst of Ill ) You long-for , lust-for , lie-for , die-for still : For as the Salamander liues in Fire , You liue in Smoake ; and with-out Smoake expire . SHould it be question'd ( as right well it may ) Whether Discouerie of AMERICA , That New-found World , haue yeelded to our Ould More Hurt or Good : Till fuller Answer should Decide the Doubt and quite determine it , Thus for the present might we answer fit : That Thereby Wee haue ( rightly vnderstood ) Both giuen and taken greater Hurt then Good : And that on both sides , both for Christians It had been better , and for Indians , That onely Good men to their Coast had come , Or , that the Euill had still staid at home . For , what our People haue brought Thence to vs , Is like the Head-peece of a Polypus , Wherein is ( quoted , by sage Plutarch's Quill ) A Pest'lence great good , and great Pest'lence ill . Wee had from Them , first , to augment our Stocks . Two grand Diseases , Scuruie and The Rocks : Then , Two great Cordials ( for a Counterpeize ) Gold and TOBACCO ; both which , many waies , Haue done more Mischief than the former Twaine ; And All together brought more Losse then Gain . But , true it is , we had this Trash of Theirs , Onely in Barter , for our broken Wares . Ours , for the most part , caried out but Sin ; And , for the most part , brought but Vengeance , in : Their Fraight was Sloth , Lust , Auarice , & Drink ( A Burthen , able with the Waight , to sink The hugest Carrak ; yea , those hallowed Twelue , Spains great Apostles euen to ouer-whelue ) They caried Sloath , & brought home Skuruy-skin , They caried Lust , and brought home Pocks within : They caried Auarice , and Gold they got : They caried Bacchus , & TOBACCO brought . Alas , poore Indians ! that but English , None Could put them downe in their owne Trade alone ! That none , but English ( more Alas ! more strange ! ) Could iustifie their pitifull Exchange . Of All the Plants that Tellus bosome yeelds , In Groues , Glades , Gardens , Marshes , Mountains , Fields , None so pernitious to Mans Life is knowne , As is TOBACCO , sauing HEMP alone . Betwixt which Two there seemes great Sympathy , To ruinate poore Adam's Progeny : For , in them Both a strangling vertue note , And Both of them doo worke vpon the Throte , The one , within it ; and without , the other ; And th'one prepareth Worke vnto the tother . For , There doo meet ( I mean at Gayle & Gallowes ) More of these beastly , base TOBACCO-Fellowes , Then else to any prophane Haunt doo vse , ( Excepting stil The Play-house and The Stewes ) Sith 't is Their common Lot , ( so double-choaked ) Iust , bacon-like , to be hangd vp , and smoaked : A Destinie , as proper to befall To morall Swine , as to Swine naturall . If there be any Herbe , in any place , Most opposite to GOD's good Herb-of-grace , 't is doubt-les This : and this doeth plainly proue-it , That , for the most , most grace-les men doo loue-it , Or rather , doat most on this wither'd Weed , Them Selues as wither'd in all gracious Deed . 't is strange to see , ( and vnto me , a Wonder ) When the prodigious strange Abuse we ponder , Of this vnruly , rustie Vegetal ; From moderne Symmists Iesu-Critical , ( Carping at vs , and casting in our Dish , Not Crimes , but Crums : as eating Flesh for Fish : ) W'hear in This Case , no Conscience-Cases holier . But , like to like ; The Diuell with the Collier . For , a TOBACCONIST ( I dare auer ) Is , first of all , a rank Idolater , As any of th' Ignation Hierarchie : Next , as conformed to Their Fopperie , Of burning Day-light , and Good-night at Noone , Setting vp Candles to enlight the Sun : And last , the Kingdome of NEW-BABYLON Stands in a Darke and Smoakie Region ; So full of such varietie of Smoaks , That there-with all all Pietie it choakes . For , There is , First , the Smoake of Ignorance , The Smoake of Error , Smoake of Arrogance , The Smoake of Merit super-er'gatorie , The Smoak of Pardons Smoaks of PVRGATORIE The Smoake of Censing Smoake of Thurifying Of Images , of Sathan's Furie-flying , The Smoake of Stewes ( for Smoaking thence they come , As horrid hot as torrid Sodome , some ) : Then , Smoake of POVDER-TREASON , Pistols , Kniues , To blow-vp Kingdomes , and blow-out Kings Liues ; And lastly , too , TOBACCO's Smoakie-Mists , Which ( comming from Iberian BAALISTS ) No small addition of Adustion fit Bring to the Smoake of the Vnbottom'd PIT , Yerst opened , first , ( as openeth Saint IOHN ) By their ABADDON & APOLLYON . But , sith They are contented to admire What They dislike not , if they not desire ( For , with good reason may wee ghesse that They Who swallow Camels , swallow Gnatlings may ) ; T is ground enough for vs , in this Dispute , Their Vanities , thus obuious , to refute ( Their Vanities , mysterious Mists of ROME , Which haue so long be smoaked CHRISTENDOM ) . And for the rest , it shall suffice , to say , TOBACCONING is but a Smoakie Play . Strong Arguments against so weake a thing , Were need-less , or vnsuitable , to bring . In this behalfe there needs no more be done , Sith of it Selfe the same will vanish soone : T' euaporate This Smoake , it is enough But with a Breath the same aside to puffe . NOw , My First Puffe shall but repell th'ill-Sauour Of Place & Persons ( of debaucht behauiour ) Where 't is most frequent : Second , shew you will , How little Good it dooth : Third , how great Ill. 't is vented most in Tauerns , Tippling-cots , To Ruffians , Roarers , Tipsie-Tostie-Pots ; Whose Custome is , betweene the Pipe and Pot , ( Th' one Cold and Moist , the other Dry and Hot ) To skirmish so ( like Sword-and-Dagger-fight ) That 't is not easie to determine right , Which of their weapons hath the Conquest got Ouer their Wits ; the Pipe , or else the Pot . Yet , 't is apparant , and by proofe expresse , Both stab and wound the Braine with Drunkennesse : For , euen the Deriuation of the Name , Seemes to allude and to include the same : TOBACCO , as {αβγδ} , one would say ; To ( Cup-god ) BACCHVS dedicated aye . And , for Conclusion of this Point , obserue , The Places which to these Abuses serue , How-euer , of them Selues , noisome ynough , Are much more loathsom with the stench & stuffe , Extracted from their limbeckt Lips and Nose . So that , the Houses , common Haunts of Those , Are liker Hell then Heau'n : for Hell hath Smoake ; Impenitent TOBACCONISTS to choake , Though neuer dead : There shall they haue their Fill : In Heau'n is none , but Light and Glory still . Next : Multitudes them daily , howrely drowne In this black Sea of Smoak , tost vp and downe In This vast Ocean , of such Latitude , That Europe onely cannot all include , But out it rushes , ouer-runns the Whole , And reaches , wel-nigh round , from Pole to Pole ; Among the Moores , Turks , Tartars , Persians , And other Ethnicks ( full of Ignorance Of GOD and Good : ) and , if wee shall look home , To view ( and rew ) the State of CHRISTENDOME , Vpon This Point , we may This Riddle bring ; The Subiect hath more Subiects than the King . For , Don TOBACCO hath an ampler Raign , Than Don PHILIPPO , the Great King of Spain , ( In whose Dominions , for the most , it growes ) . Nay , shall I say , ( O Horror , to suppose ! ) Heath'nish TOBACCO ( almost euery where ) In Christendome ( CHRISTS out-ward Kingdom here ) Hath more Disciples than CHRIST hath ( I feare ) More Suite , more Seruice ( Bodies , Souls , & Good ) Than CHRIST , that bought vs with his precious Blood . O Great TOBACCO ! Greater than Great Can , Great Turk , Great Tartar , or Great Tamberlan ! With Vulturs wings Thou hast ( and swifter yet Than an Hungarian Ague , English Sweat ) Through all Degrees , flown , far , nigh ; vp & down ; From Court to Cart ; from Count to Country Clown , Not scorning Scullions , Coblers , Colliers , Iakes-farmers , Fidlers , Ostlers , Oysterers , Rogues , Gypses , Players , Pandars , Punks , and All What common Scums in Common-Sewers fall . For , all , as Vassals , at Thy Beck are bent , And breathe by Thee , as their new Element . Which well may proue Thy Monarchy the Greater , Yet proue not Thee to be a whit the Better ; But rather Worse : For Hell's wide-open Road Is easiest found , and by the Most still troad . Which , euen the Heathen had the Light to know By Arguments , as many times they show . Heer may wee also gather ( for a need ) Whether TOBACCO be an Herb or Weed : And Whether the excessiue Vse be fit , Or good or bad ; by those that fauour it , Weeds , wild and wicked , mostly entertain it : Herbes , holesom Herbes , and holy minds disdain it . If then , TOBACCONING be good : How is 't , That lewdest , loosest basest , foolishest , The most vnthrifty , most intemperate , Most vicious , most debauscht , most desperate , Pursue it most : The Wisest and the Best Abhor it , shun it flie it , as the Pest , Or piercing Poyson of a Dragons Whisk , Or deadly Eye-shot of a Basilisk ? If Wisedome baulk it , must it not be Folly ? If Vertue hate it , is it not vnholy ? If Men of Worth , and Minds right generous Discard it , scorne it : is 't not scandalous ? And ( to conclude ) is it not , to the Diuell Most pleasing ; pleasing so ( most ) the most Euill . MY second Puffe , is Proof How little Good This Smoak hath done ( that euer heare I cou'd ) For , first , there 's none that takes TOBACCO most , Most vsually , most earnestly , can boast That the excessiue and continuall vse Of This dry Suck-at euer did produce Him any Good , Ciuill , or Naturall , Or Morall Good , or Artificiall : Vnlesse perhaps they will alleadge it , drawes Away the Ill which still it Selfe doth cause . Which Course ( me thinks ) I cannot liken better , Then to an Vsurer's Kindnesse to his Debter ; Who , vnder Shew of Lending , stil substracts The Debters Owne , and then His owne exacts ; Til at the last he vtterly confound-him , Or leaue him Worse & Weaker then he found-him . Next , if the Custome of TOBACCONING Yeeld th'Vsers any Good , in any thing ; Either they haue it , or they hope it prest : ( By proofe and practice , taking stil the best ) For , none but Fooles wil thē to Ought be slaue , Whence Benefit they neither hope , nor haue : Therfore , yet farther ( as a Questionist ) I must inquire of my TOBACCONIST , Why , if a Christian ( as some , sometimes seeme ) Belieuing GOD , waiting all Good from Him , And vnto Him all Good again referring ; Why ( to eschew th'Vngodly's Grace-les erring ) Why pray they not ? Why praise they not His Name For hoped Good , & Good had by this Same ? As all men doo , or ought to doo , for All The Gifts & Goods that from His GOODNES fall . Is 't not , because they neither hope , nor haue , Good ( Hence ) to thank GOD for , nor farther craue : But , as they had it from the Heathen , first ; So Heath'nishly they vse it still , accurst : And ( as some iest of Oysters ) This is more Vngodly Meat , both After and Before . Lastly , if all Delights of all Mankind Be Vanitie , Vexation of the Mind ; All vnder Sunne : Must not TOBACCO be , Of Vanities , the vainest Vanitie ? If Salomon , the Wisest earthly Prince , That euer was before , or hath bin since ; Knowing All Plants , and them perusing All , From Cedar to the Hyssop on the Wal ; In none of all professeth , that he found A firme Content , or Consolation sound : Can We suppose that any Shallowling Can find much Good in oft-TOBACCONING ? MY Third & last Puffe , points at the Great Euil This noisom Vapor works ( through wily diuel ) . If we may iudge ; if Knowledge may be had By their Effects , how things be good or bad ; Doubt-les , th'Effects of This pernitious Weed Be many bad , scarce any good , indeed : Nor dooth a Man scarce any Good contain , But of This Euill iustly may complain ; As thereby , made in euery Part the Worse , In Body , Soule , in Credit , and in Purse . FOr , first of all , it falls on his Good-name ; And so be-smears , and so be smoaks the same , That neuer after scarce discerned is 't . Rare good Report of a TOBACCONIST : Where , if to take it , were a vertuous thing , 't would to the Taker's Commendation bring ; And somwhat grace them ( thogh they els were bad ) Or hide , a little , the Defects they had : But , from their Credit rather it abates , And their Disgraces rather aggravates : And how-much better that they were before , It stinks the worse , & stains their Name the more . For , if a Swearer , or a Swaggerer , A Drunkard , Dicer , or Adulterer , Proue a TOBACCONIST , it is not much : T is sutable , 't is well-beseeming Such ; ( No lesse than flaring , garish , whorish Tire , Which now-adayes most Mad-dames most desire : Owle-fac't Chaprones , Cheeks painted , Izland Tresse , Bum Bosse-about , with broad deep-naked Brests ; Borrowed & brought from loose Venetians , Becomes Pickt-hatch & Shorditch Courtizans ) . Not that TOBACCONING is not amisse : But that the bright Noon of their better Vice , Spred farr & wide , doth darken and put downe TOBACCO-taking , and it 's Twilight drowne . But , let it be of any truely sayd , Hee 's great , religious , learned , wise , or stayd ; But , hee is lately turn'd TOBACCONIST : O! what a Blurr ! What an Abatement is 't ! 't is like a handfull fom Augaeus Stable , Cast in the Face of Beawties fairest Table . Whence it appeares , This too-too to frequent , It is not good ; no , not indifferent . It best becomes a Stage , or else a Stewes , Or Dicing-house , where All Disorders vse . It ill beseems a Church , Colledge , or Court , Or any Place of any Ciuill sort : It fits Blasphemers , Ruffians , Atheists , Damn'd Libertines , to be TOBACCONISTS : Not Magistrates , not Ministers , not Schollers ( Who are , or should be Sinnes seuere Comptrollers ) Nor any wise and sober personage , Of Grauitie , of Honestie , of Age . It were the fittest Furniture ( that may ) For Diuell , in a Picture , or a Play , To represent him with a fierie Face , His Mouth & Nostrils puffing Smoak apace , With staring Eyes , and in his griezly Gripe , An ouer-grown , great , long TOBACCO-Pipe . Which sure ( me thinks ) the most TOBACCONIST Must needs approue , and euen applaud the Iest : But much more Christians hence obserue , how euill It them becomes , that so becomes the Deuill . And therfore , think This Weed , a Drugge for Iewes More fit by far , [ who did so foule abuse ( Base rheumy Rascals ) with their Spawlings base Our louing SAVIOVRS louely-reuerend Face , Whom ( wilful-blind , stiffe-necked , stupifi'd ) They spet on , scorned , scourged , Crucifi'd ] Than for vs Christians , who His Name adore , Whom by His Death he doth to Life restore . If , notwithstanding All that hath bin said , TOBACCONISTS will still hold on their Trade , And by their Practice still hold vp their Name , Though Iewes , though Diuels , better suite the same ; I 'le say no more but only This , of This : Henceforth , let none whose meaner Lot it is To liue in Smoak ; Lime-burners , Alchymists , Brick-makers , Brewers , Colliers , Kitchenists ; Let Salamanders , Swallowes , Bacon-stitches , Red-Sprats , red-Herings , and like Chimnie-wretches , Think no Disparagement , nor hold them base : TOBACCONISTS their Companie will grace , And teach them make a Vertue of Necessitie , Turning their Smoake into a grace-fool Assitie . NExt the Good-Name , now let The Bodie showe What Wrongs to it from out TOBACCO flow : For , as That is Man's baser Part , indeed , It is most basely handled by This Weed . And First ( as was significantlie said Before our Soueraigne , by an Oxford Head ) TOBACCO , Smoak into the Parlour putts , And basest Office in the best Roome shuts , While to the Head it doth exhale and hoist The Bodies filthie and superfluous Moist ; Causing a moist Brain , by vnceast Supply Of Rheumes still drawne to th'Bodies Stillarie : Which in experience , and in reason , make Men most vnapt Deep thing to vndertake . For , for the most part , shallow are the Wits , Conceipts , and Counsaills of TOBACCONITS . Sith Wisedome dwells in Drye : Her proper Seat Is a drye Brain , embatteld well with Heat . Also , it fries and dries away the Blood ( As did that Persian the Euphratean Flood , To conquer Babylon ) by whose incrassion , The Vitall Spirits , in an vnwonted fashion Are bay'd , and barred of their Passage due Through all the veines , their vigour to renew : So that the Humors ( as all out of frame ) Tending to putrefie and to inflame , Fire the whole House ; from whence there followes euer A dangerous , if not a deadly Feuer . Lastly , this boyling , broyling , of the Blood , Breeds much adusted Melancholy-Mood ( Sathan's fit Saddle , from their sullen Cell , To ride , in post , his wretched Slaues to Hell , With Two keen Spurres ( too-quick in their Effect ) Th' one of Excesse , the other of Defect ; A violent Passion , pushing Reason back , Or fell Despaire , when Conscience is awake . ) For , as of all Insensibles , hath none More Melancholie and Adustion , Then Chimnies haue ; What kind of Chimny is 't , Lesse Sensible then a TOBACCONIST ? And in receiuing Smoake , fith th' are so equall ; Can their adustion then be much vnequall ? Thus then the Habit of TOBACCONING , Makes one more Chimny-like then any thing . Some also think it causeth exsiccation ( As of the Blood ) of Seed of generation ; By th' acrimonie stirring more to couet , Then fruitfully producing Issue of it : Whence , we may learne to maruell so much lesse , That ( for the most ) our Gentles , that professe TOBACCONISME , loue Lemman-Sauce so well ; Or that such Legions of the Base pel-mel , Vnder the Standard of TOBACCO , vse To Turn-bull first , then to Our Bartholmewes . And where there haue been many great Inquests To find the Cause Why Bodies still grow lesse , And daily neerer to the Pigmies Size This , among many Probabilities May passe for one : that their Progenitours Did gladly foment their Interiours With holesome Food , vnmired , moderate , And timely Liquors duely temperate : But , now-adaies , Their Issue inly choake And dry them vp ( like Herrings ) with This Smoakes For , Herrings , in the Sea , are large and full , But shrink in bloating and together pull : Whence , in effect , Smoak vnto Smoak referring , TOBACCONISTS are not vnlike Red Herring . Vndoubtedly , beyond all Moderation It dries the Bodie , robs of irrigation The thirstie parts ; so that the bowels cry For Moist and Cold , to temper Hot and Dry : Whence , th'Elementall Qualities of Theirs , In Faction , fall together by the Eares . For , in the Hearb excesse of Dry and Hot , Drawes-in excesse of Cold-Moist from the Pot ; For which they troup to th' Ale-house shortly after , As rats-ban'd Rats doe hie them to the Water . And yet , their liquid Cooler cures them not , No more then Water doth the baned Rat : For th' Heat and Drought of th' Herb American Being intensiue ( fitter call'd Man-Bane ) The one dries-vp the Humour Radicall , The other drownes the Calor Naturall . But the most certaine and apparant Ill Is an Ill Habit which doth hant them still ; Transforming Nature from her natiue Mould : For , Custome we another Nature hold . And This vile Custome is so violent , And holds his Customers at such a Bent , That thogh therby more Hurt then Good they doubt , To die for it , they cannot liue without . Which doubtless , is a miserable State : For , Men are surely the more Fortunate , Of fewer Creatures that they stand in need : More , but more Bondage , and less freedome breed . A House that must haue many Props and Stayes Is neerer Fall , and faster it decayes : Variety and Surfeit feed the Spittle , And fill the Graue . Nature's content with little . Why then should Man , liuing and rationall , Beslaue himselfe to a dead Vegetall ? Why , demi-heauenly , and most free by Birth , Should he be bound vnto this Childe of Earth ? Why , Lord of Creatures , should He serue : at least , Why such a Creature , baser then a beast ? OF : had I seen Fooles of all sorts frequent it , Fooles of all Size , Fooles of all Sexes hant it , Fooles of all Colours , Fooles of all Complexions , Fooles of all Fashions , Fooles of all Affections , Fooles naturall , Fooles artificiall , Fooles rich and poore , young Fooles , old Fooles , & all ; Whom , Foole I pitied , for their wilfull Folly ; Supposing , None discreetly Wise ( or Holy ) Could be entangled with so fond a thing , As is the habit of TOBACCONING . For , what Discretion , or what Wisdome can , Think Physicke Food , or Med'cine Meat , for Man ? I rather thought Vlysses rather would Haue stopt his Eares , Eyes , Hands & Mouth with-hold From such a Cyrcean Drug , whose working strange , Would soon his best into a Beast exchange . But when I saw some Wise-ones snared in This Spanish Cobweb ( Sathans speciall Gin ) And that so fast , they cannot when they would Get out againe ; or will not if they could : Wisedome , me thought , must varie much ; or else This Ware is spiced with some Foraine Spels , So to bewitch the Wise ( need-less , and nilling ) To take and loue ; and not to leaue it , willing . For , those that say and sweare they euen abhorre it , Cannot abandon , but Thus bandie for it : T is good ( say They ) T is speciall good for Rheumes ; Exhales grosse Humors , their Excesse consumes ; And voids with-all , all Inconuenience There-on depending , or descending Thence . Which should I grant , it must be yet with Clauses Of needfull Caution , suitable to Causes ; When time requireth Preparation fit To rarifie congealed Rags of it ; Which by the Heat and Drynesse probably , This Plant performes , in mediocritie : Or else , where the aboundant Quantity , Dangerous Effect , malignant Quality , Of ouer-moistures , aske Euacuation , To free the Parts from totall Inundation . How-be-it , many safer Meanes there are . Better and fitter in themselues by farre ; More certaine , more direct ; with lesse adoo , Lesse Cost , lesse Damage , and lesse Danger too Than Don TOBACCO's damnable Infection . Slutting the Body , slauing the Affection . T were therefore better somewhat else to seek Then rest in this , so worthie of Dis-like ; Sith , curing Thus one small Infirmity , It doth create a greater Malady , When there-by freed ( perhaps ) from Rheumes●e fall In Bondage of this Custome capitall . For , they that Physicke to a Custome bring , Bring their Disease too , to accustoming . Perpetuall Physicke must of force imply Perpetuall Sicknesse : or deep Foolerie Compos'd of Anticke and of Phrantick too : For where 's no Sickness , what should Med'eine doo ? THus for the Bodie : Now the Soule diuine With This wilde Goose-Grasse of the Perusine Hath Foure great Quarels , in foure-fold respect Of her Foure Faculties ; the Intellect , The Memory , the Will , the Conscience ; All which are wronged , if not wounded , Thence . First , in the Intellect , it d'outs the Light , Darkens the House , dims th' vnderstandings Sight ; Through neuer-ceast succession of Humiditie , The Dam of dulnesse , Mother of Stupiditie ; Making Mans generous Brain ( best , dry and hot ) Lie drown'd , and driueling like a Changeling Sot . Why then should Man , to put out Reason's Eye , Suffer his Soule in Smoakie Lodge to lye ? For , though some others , and my Selfe by proofe ( When scornefully I tooke it but in Snuffe ) Haue th●●eby sometimes found some benefit ; Superfluous Humors from the Brain to quit , To cleer the Voyce , and cheer the Phantasie , Which , for the present , it did seem supply : Yet doth the Custome ( as we likewise finde ) Dis-nerue the Bodie , and dis-apt the Minde . Next ; It decayes and mars the Memorie , And brings it to strange Imbecillitie , By still attraction of continuall Moist , Which from the lower parts it wonts to hoist : For , though best Memorie dwel in a Brain Moist-moderate ; Yet ouer-moist , againe Makes it so laxe , so diffluent and thin , That nothing can be firmely fixt there-in ; But instantly it slides and slips-away , As weary heeles on wet and slippery Clay . For Proofe whereof : None more forgetfull is Of GOD and Good , than are Tobacconists . Touching th' Affections , they are tir'd no lesse By This fell Tyrants insolent Excesse : For , the Adustion of th'inherent Heat , Drought , Acrimonie ( Tartar-like ) doth fret ; Makes men more soudain and more heed-less heady , More sullen-sowr , more stubbornely-vnsteady , More apt to wrath , to wrangle , and to braule ; To giue and take a Great Offence , for Small ; Cause-less Reioycing , and as cause-less Sorry , Exceeding-Mournefull , and excessiue-Merry : Whence growes , in fine , excessiue Griefe & Fear ; For Dumpier none than the Tobacconer : None sadder than the gladdest of their Host ; None hating more than hee that loued most ; None fearing more , none danted more than such As , in a Passion , rather dar'd too-much . For , Relatiues inseparable dwell : And Contraries their Contraries expell . And ( with th' old Poet ) T is the Cox-combs Course Flying a Fault to fall into a Worse . But if they say , that sometimes , taking it , The Minde is freed from some instant Fit Of Anger , Griefe , or Feare ; Experience tells It is but like some of our Tooth-ake Spells , Which for the present seem to ease the Pain , But after , double it with more Rage again , Because a little , for the time , it drawes , But leaues behinde the very Root and Cause . Lastly , the Conscience ( as it is the best ) This Indian Weed doth most of all molest ; Loading it daily with such Weight of Sin , Where-of the least shall at the last come-in To strict Account : the Losse of precious houres , Neglect of GOD , of Good , of vs , of Ours : Our ill Example , prodigall Excesse , Vain Words , vain Oathes , Dice , Daring , Drunkennes , Sloath , iesting , scoffing , turning Night to Day , And Day to Night ; Disorder , Disaray ; Places of Scorne and publicke Scandall hanting ; Persons of base and beastly Life frequenting , Theeues , Vnthrifts , Rustians , Robbers , Roarers , Drabbers , Bibbers , Blasphemers , Shiftters Sharkers Stabbers : This is the Rendez-vous , These are the Lists , Where do encounter Most TOBACCONISTS : Wherein they walk , like a blind Mill-horse , round In the same Circle , on the selfe same ground ; Forgetting how , Dayes , Months , and Yeeres do passe ; No more regarding , than an Oxe or Asse , How Age growes on , How Death attendeth them , GOD knowes how neer : ( Whom on each side behem A late Repentance , or a flat Despaire ) And after That , a noysome stinking Aire Of their infamous rotten Memory With Men on Earth ; in Heauen with GOD on hie A Fearefull Doom : and finally in Hell , Infinitie of Fierie Torments fell . The Last and least of all TOBACCO harms Is to the Purse : which yet it so becharmes , That Iuggler-like it iests-out all the Pelfe , And makes a Man a Pick-purse to himselfe . For , as by This th' Iberian Argonauts May be suppos'd ( euen among serious Thoughts ) T' haue kill ' more Men than by their Martyrdome Or Massacre ( which yet to Millions come ) So , by the Same they haue vndone more Men , Than Vsurie ( which takes from Hundred , Ten ) And no-where more than in This witched Isle : Woe to their Fraudes , Woe to vs Fooles , the-while . HOw-many Gentles , not of Meanest Sort ( Whose Fathers liu'd in honourable Port , For Table , Stable , and Attendance fit ; Louing their Countrie , and belou'd of it ) Leauing their Neighbours , fly from their Approach , And , for the most keep House in a Caroach ( Hells new found Cradles ! where are rockt asleep Mischiefes that make our Common-weale to weep . ) Or in some Play-house , or some Ordinarie , Or in some Peece of some Vn-Sanctuarie ; Where , throgh their Pipe-puft Nose more Smoak they waue , Than all the Chimneis their great Howses haue ; Consuming more in their Obscure-Obscoenitie , On Smoake and Smock , with their appendent Vanity , Than their braue Elders did , when they maintaind Honour at home , and forraine Glory gaind . How doe they rack & wrack , & grate , & grinde , Shuffle and cut , wrangle , and turne , and winde , Borrow and begge ( vnder a Courtly Cloake ) And all too-little for This liquorish Smoake ! Alas the while ! that men Thus needs will be Begger'd , vndone ( of no Necessitie ) In Bodie , Mind , and Means ; vnapt , vnable For any Good , through This so need-less Bable . For , What a Folly , through the Nose to puffe Th' whole Bodie's Portion , in This idle stuffe ! Or , what need any with TOBACCO , more Now meddle , than his Ancestors before ? Who knew it not , but had , without it , Health , Liu'd long and lusty , in abundant Wealth . Or , what is any , when he all hath spent , The better for This deer Experiment ? Which now-adaies a number daily finde Like Alchymie ( though in another Kinde ) To circulate , and calcinate ( at length ) Insensibly ( TOBACCO hath such Srength ) Manours , Demains , Goods , Cattell , Elme , & Oake , Gold , Siluer , All ; to Ashes and to Smoake , While all too-busie blowing at the Coale , Deiect their Body , and neglect their Soule . For , O! What place is left to Christianitie , Mongst such a Crew ( nay ; almost to Humanitie ) Where Oathes , Puf-snuffing , Spausing-Excrement , Are reall Parts of GENTLES Complement ? And , for our Vulgar , by whose bold Abuse , TOBACCONING hath got so generall Vse ; How mightily haue They since multipli'd Tauerns , Tap-houses ! where , on euery side , Most sinfully hath Mault been sunken heer , In nappie Ale , and double-double Beer ? Inuincible , in a Threefold Excesse ; Strong Drink , strong Drinking , & strange Drunkenness . Which on the Land hath brought , so visibly , So great a Mischiefe , so past Remedie , That Thousands daiely into Beggery sinke Through Idlenesse ; in wilfull Debt for Drinke . Nor can the Lawe's seuerest Curb keep-in This coltish , common , priuiledged Sin . Then ( shallow Reptile , superficiall Gnat ) Why doe I humme ? why doe I hisse there-at ? BVt , awfull Iustice will with keener Edge Clip short ( I hope ) this sawcie Priuiledge ; And at one Blowe cut-off this Ouer-Drinking , And euer Dropsie of TOBACCO-stinking : When Our ALCIDES ( though at Peace with Men , At Warre with Vices ) as His armed Pen [ Among the LABOVRS of his Royall hand , Where Piety and Prudence ( ioyntly ) stand Eternall PILLERS to His glorious Name ; Vnto all Times to testifie the same , BRITANN'S right Beau-Clerk , both for Word and Writ : For Knowledge , Iudgement , Method , Memory : The Miracle , The ORACLE of Wit : Diuine and Morall ENCYCLOPAEDIE ] Hath , as with Arrowes , from His sacred Sides , All-ready chac't These stinking Symphalides ; Shall , with the Trident of some sharpe Edict , Seuere enacted , executed strict , Clense all the Staules of This Augaean Dung , Which hath so long corrupted Old and Young : Or , at the least , impose so deep a Taxe On All these Ball , Leafe , Cane , & Pudding Packs ; On Seller , or on Buyer , or on Both , That from Hencefoorth the Commons shal be loth ( Vnwilling-Wise ) with that graue Greeke , to buy Smoak and Repentance at a Price so hie . If , notwithstanding , Yet some Wealthy will Needs poyson , and vndoo them with it , still ; It shall be onely some of Those prophane Loose Prodigals ( their Countries Blot and Bane ) Best to be spar'd , least to be mist ; whose Lands ( If anie left ) will come to Wiser hands Than such weak Ninnies , needing Wardship yet ; Not for their want of Age , but want of Wit . Avidius Cassius ( as Lampridius showes ) Did first inuent , and first of all impose That vncouth Manner of tormenting Folk , On a high Beame to smoother them with Smoak : Where , had TOBACCO bin then known , he need But haue enioyn'd them to haue tane that Weed . But , with more Reason and more Equitie , Seuerus Caesar , when he did discry The double-dealing of Vetronius [ A Cousening Courtier ( Such are none with vs ) A Iack-of both-sides , with both hands to play ( As now-adayes some Lawyers doo , they say ) Faining great Fauour with his Soueraign , To take great Bribes of Many , to obtain Great Suits ; for whom his Prince he neuer mou'd ] Aloud complain'd of , and apparant prou'd ; Caus'd his false Minion with this Doom to choak , Let the Smoak-seller suffocate with Smoak : Which , our Smoak Merchants would no lesse befit ; TOBACCO-Mongers , Bringers-in of it : Which yeerly costs ( they say , by Audit found ) Of better Wares an hundred Thousand pound . And , if the Sentence of this Heathen Prince , On That Impostor , for his Impudence , Were iust : How iuster will the Heau'nly GOD , Th' Eternal , punish with infernall Rod , In Hell's darke ( Fornace , with black Fumes , to choak ) Those , that on Earth will still offend in Smoak ? Offend their Friends , with a Most vn Respect : Offend their Wiues and Children with Neglect : Offend the Eyes , with foule and loathsom Spawlings : Offend the Nose , with filthy Fumes exhalings : Offend the Eares , with lowd lewd Execrations : Offend the Mouth , with ougly Excreations : Offend the Sense , with stupefying Sense : Offend the Weake , to follow then Offense : Offend the Body , and offend the Minde : Offend the Conscience in a fearefull kinde : Offend their Baptisme , and their Second Birth : Offend the Maiestie of Heau'n and Earth . Woe to the World because of Such Offenses : So voluntaire , so voyd of all pretenses Of all Excuse ( saue Fashion , Custome , Will ) In so apparant , proued , granted , Ill. Woe , woe to them by Whom Offences come , So scandalous to All our CHRISTENDOME . FINIS .

SIMILE non est IDEM : Seeming is not the-Same . OR All 's not GOLD that glisters . A CHARACTER Of This corrupted Time , which makes RELIGION but A Couer-Crime .

TO The worthily-Honored , Sr. HENRIE BAKER , Knight-Baronet . TIs better late , than neuer to repay : Better a little , than no Part at all : Take therfore , in good-part , This Part ( though smal ) Of your great Debt : & pardon my Delay , Till ( more mine Owne ) with more Respect , I may IN better Measure ( as I hope , I shall ) Answere your Merit ; though not answere all Your Bounties Bonds , renewed Day by Day . Yov mind your MAKER , in your Dayes of Youth : You shew vs , by your Works , your Faith's sincerity : You are so friendly to the Friends of Truth , Your vertuous Life so proues your Loue to Veritie , That None , I thought , could , with more patient Eye , Abide to looke on This ANATOMIE . Your Vertues Humble Honourer , IOSVAH SYLVESTER .

SIMILE non est IDEM : Seeming is not The-Same . or All is not GOLD , that glisters . 1 HOw TIMES are chang'd ! and WEE with Times , In new , nefarious , various Crimes ! Exceeding all that haue preceeded , In Pride , in Fraud , in Filth , in Force , Rape , Treason , Poyson , past Remorse ; Such , as ( in Time ) will scarce be creeded . 2 O Mindes ! O Manners , most absurd ! When ( to the Scandall of The Word ) The more our Light , the worse our Works : When seeming SAINCTS be nothing lesse ; And more Profane , Who most Professe , Than Infidels , or Iewes , or Turks . 3 And when , between our roaring GIANTS , That openly , bid Heau'n Defiance , Heaping-vp Hill's of Wickednes ; And th'undermining close despights Of double-hearted Hypocrites , Masking in Hollow-Holinesse ; 4 From Earth are FAITH & TRVTH exil'd ; False Error hath all Hearts beguil'd : All-ouer All ABVSES raigne . Vertue is Vice ; Vice , Vertue grown , Iustice is iustied from her Owne : Honor and Right are in disdaigne . 5 't is , To be Foolish , To be Wise : With Reason , is Against the Guise : Read they that can My Riddle right . Christ , Sonne of Man ; and GOD of Hoasts , How-many of Thy Baptisme boasts , Whose life doth to the death defi't 6 For , Thy Disciples Thee beleeue ; And in Thee onely double-line ; According to Thy GOSPEL'S veritie : But , dare Wee say , that Wee are such ; When now-adayes in Poore or Rich , Is found nor Faith , nor Hope , nor Charity ? 7 GOD hath engrauen in euery Soule A natiue Law , on Natures Roule ; Whereby ( alas ) We stand convict : And Precedents of pious Zeal , Who by their Bloods , their Hopes did seale , To double Death condemne vs , strict . 8 Wee ought infringe That Statute neuer , From euerlasting firm'd for-euer : Doo as Thou would'st be done vnto : Doo not , what Thou wouldest not accept . O pure , plaine , gentle , iust Precept ! Yet This ( alas ) Who lookes to doo ? 9 When all Degrees , so tender bin Towards them Selues , without , with-in , They , neither Wrong , nor Right , can suffer : But towards Others ( made as They , By the same hand , of the same Clay ) Against all Rights , all Wrongs doo offer . 10 LORD , Thou hast said , & show'n it cleer ( When in thy Flesh , Thou soiourn'dst heer ) Thy Kingdom is not of This World : So shall I euermore suspect , While heer I see , with such neglect , Thy Holy Statutes after-hurl'd . 11 All those ( O Lord ) that cry , Lord , Lord ; With Shadow of thy Sacred Word , To cloak their Wickednesse , with-in ; Are none of Thine : but , of Thy Name Profanely make a Mocking-Game , To countenance their cursed Sin . 12 Like that IGNATIAN-Latian Colledge , Where , vnder Shew of Sacred Knowledge , They studie State and Stratagems ; Making a staple-Trafick of it , ( After their Pleasure , or their Profit ) To murder Kings , and mangle Realmes : 13 Thee , IESVS ( Mercifull and Meek ) They make a Tyrant ( Nero-like ) Bloody and brute , to kill and quell : Thee , SAVIOVR , Source of Innocence , Thee , Prince of Peace and Patience ; They make a Fury , fierce and fell . 14 Thee , Iustice-Fountain , Order's Authour ; They make Wrong's Fort , Confusion 's Fautor : Immortall Spring immaculate Of Loue , of Concord , and of VNION , They make Thee Trumpet of Dis-Vnion , And Tinder of immortall Hate . 15 Such Cannons roare from Trent and Tiber , From Powder Traitors bloodie Briber , Whose HOLINESSE , is Hollownesse ; Whose Synagogue , is Sinners Wrack ; Whose Faith , is FAVX & RAVAILLIAC Whose Deeds & Doctrine , Wickednesse . 16 O , Where is then The Holy Flocke ! Call'd in one Hope , built on one Rock , Into one Faith incorporing ; Thorough one Baptisme , by one Word , Vnder one Father ( God and Lord ) One onely Prophet , Priest and King . 17 There , there ( as Children of one Mother ) They succour and support each other , In Vnion , and in mutuall Charitie ; All making but one Body , being All of One Minde , in One agreeing : Bound by One Bond of Peace , and Verity . 18 O , can Wee ( wretched , witched Elues ) Can Wee , Wee Many , boast our Selues One Bread , one Body ( mystick-wise ) ; And say that Wee are daily fed In common with one Drinke and Bread , Amid our Many Enmities ? 19 Alas ! Where are those Saincts becomne . Worthy the style of Christendome ; From SIN'S Dominion inly freed ; Vessells of Honor , full of Grace , Abounding in good-Workes apace ? None now good Thought hath ; lesse good Deed . 20 Nothing but false EQVIVOCATION : Nothing but wilfull Obduration : Nothing but Error and Disorder : Nothing but Pride and Insolence : Nothing but impious Impudence : Nothing but Treason , Theft , & Murder . 21 Contempt of GOD and of all Good , Rape , Riot , Incest , Bribery , Blood , Periurie , Plotting , all Impietie , With more then brutest Brutishnesse , This more-than-Iron-Age possesse : No Loue , no Friendship , no Societie . 22 Court , Citie , Countrey , Euery Sort Of either Sex , make Sinne a Sport ( Pride , Painting , Poys'ning , Cous'ning , Whoring ) ; In Sloth , or Surfeit , euer-drown'd ; To Bacchus , or Tobacco bound ; With swearing , flaring , stabbing , roaring . 23 Wrath , Enuie , Sclander , and Suspicion , Fraude , Rancour , Rapine , and Ambition , With Blasphemies , all ouer-spread : Th' old Christians Badge , bright Charitie ( Most frequent then ; Now Raritie , Is , now-adayes , not downe , but Dead . 24 We are so Punctual and Precise In Doctrine ( Pharasaik-wise ) To seem ( at least ) the most RELIGIOVS , That true RELIGION we deforme , While to our Phant'sies we reforme Shadowes , and not our Selues , litigious . 25 RELIGION ! O , Thou Life of Life ! How Wordlings , that profane thee rife , Can wrest thee to their Appetites ! How Princes , who Thy Power defie , Pretend thee , for their Tyranny ; And People , for their false Delights ! 26 Vnder Thy sacred Name , all-ouer , All Vicious all their Vices couer : The Violent , their Violence : The Proud , their Pride : the False their Fraud : The Theese his Theft : her Filth the Baud : The Impudent , their Impudence . 24 Ambition , vnder Thee , aspires : Auarice , vnder Thee , desires : Sloath , vnder Thee , her Ease assumes : Luxe , vnder Thee , all ouer-flowes : Wrath , vnder Thee , outragious growes : All Euill , vnder Thee , presumes . 28 RELIGION , yerst so venerable , Th' art now-adayes but made a Fable ; A holy Maske on Follies Browe , Where vnder lyes Dissimulation , Lined with all Abhomination : Sacred RELIGION , Where art Thou ? 29 Not in the Church , with Simonie : Nor on the Bench , with Briberie : Nor in the Court , with Machiauell : Nor in the Citie , with Deceits : Nor in the Countrie , with Debates : For , What hath Heauen to doe with Hell ? 30 Sith whatsoeuer Showe we make ( For Profit or Promotions sake ) What-euer Colour we put-on ; Where , Faith no other Fruits affords , But euill-works ( though ciuill words ) Indeed is no RELIGION . 31 Reuerend RELIGION , Where 's the heart That entertaines thee as thou art , Sincerely , for Thine owne respect ; Where is the Minde , Where is the Man , May right be call'd a Christian ; Not formall , but in true effect ? 32 Who fixing all his Faith and Hope On GOD alone , from sacred Scope Of his pure Statutes will nou stray : Who comes in Zeale and Humblenesse , With true and heartie Singlenesse , Willing to walke the perfect Way : 33 Who loues , with all his Soule and Minde , Almightie GOD , All-Wise , All-Kinde , All-whole , All-Holy , All-sufficing : Who but One onely GOD adores ( Though Tyrants rage , and Sathan roares ) Without digressing , or disguising : 34 Who GOD's due Honour hath not giuen To Other things , in Earth or Heauen ; But bow'd and vow'd to Him alone ; Him onely seru'd with filial Awe , Pleas'd and delighted in his Lawe , Discoursing Day and Night thereon ; 35 Nor , not for Forme , or Fashion sake , Or , for a Time , a Showe to make , Others the better to beguile : Nor it , in Iest , to wrest or cite ; But in his heart it deep to write , And worke it with his hands the-while ; 36 Louing his neighbour as him-Selfe , Sharing to him his Power , his Pelfe , His Counsailes , Comforts , Coates , and Cates : Dooing in all things to his Brother , But as Him-selfe would wish from Other , Not Offring Other what Hee hates : 37 Whose Heart , inclin'd as doth behooue-it , Vnlawfully doth Nothing couet ( To Any an offence to offer ) : But , iust and gentle towards all , Would rather ( vnto great , or small ) Than doe one Wrong , an hundred suffer : 38 Not thirsting Others Land , or Life ; Nor neighing after Maide or Wife ; Nor ayming any Iniury ; Neither of polling , nor of pilling , Neither of cursing , nor of killing , Neither of Fraud , nor Forgerie ; 39 But will confesse , if he offend , Relent , Repent , and soone amend , And timely tender Satisfaction . Sure His RELIGION is not fayned , Who doth and hath him Thus demeaned ; Ay deadly hating Euill-action . 40 Therefore , O! Vassalls of the Diuell , That cannot , will not , cease from Euill , Vessells of Wrath and Reprobation ; Presume no longer Now to shrowd Vnder RELIGION's sacred Clowd Your Manifold Abhomination . 41 If , But to seem good , goodly seem ; To be good , better farre esteem : Why seem you what to be you care not ? If To Seem euill , be amisse ; Sure , To be euill , worse it is : Why be you what To seem you dare not ? Be , as you seem ; or seem the Same You be : to free RELIGION's Blame . FINIS .

A GLIMSE OF HEAVENLY IOYES : Or New HIERVSALEM . In An old Hymne extracted from The most Diuine St. AVGVSTINE .

To the Worthy Friend of Worthiness Sr. PETER MANWOOD , Knight of the Honbl . Order of The Bath . To register , to After-Times , Your noble Fauour to My Rimes ; Your loue to Vertue , Learning , Arts ; Your Bounty towards Worthy Parts ; Your Pitie ; and your pious Zeale To GOD , to Church , to Common-weale ; Your Loyaltie , in euery kinde ; The Honour of your Humble Minde : All , all my MANWOOD to rehearse , Merits a Volume , not a Verse . But , poore diuided I ( that owe , To many , Much ; as many knowe ; And fame would giue Content to Each , So far-forth as my Stocke will reach ) Vnable ( after your Desart ) To render All , must tender Part , To testifie my Thankfull-Thought , ( But as I could ; not as I ought ) And what my Weakenes cannot pay , Th' AL-MIGHTIE-most I humbly pray To guerdon with a Diadem , Within His NEW-IERVSALEM . Yours much Obliged , Iosuah Slyvester .

New HIERVSALEM . MY Heart ( as Hart for Water ) thirsts For Life's eternall Fount : My Soule , my Bodies Prisoner , longs , From Prison free , to mount ; Sighes , sues , puresus , poore Exile heer , Her Country to recouer ; Too-abiect , subiect to Disgrace , And too-too-tryumpht-ouer . ¶ She seemes to see the the Glory now , Which , when she sinn'd , shee lost : An instant III , of Good for-gone Augments the Memory most . ¶ But , of celestiall Soueraine Blisse , Who can set-forth the Solace ! Where stands , of euer-liuing Stones , An euer-lasting Palace ; The lofty Roofes and stately Roomes , Reflecting golden beames : The Gates and goodly Walls about , Of rich and orient Gemmes : The Streets , all pav'd with purest Gold , As smooth as any Glasse is : No Foile , no Soile , no Sorrow there ; No Sicknes thither passes . No Winter's Frost , no Summer's Toast , Doth there Distemper bring : But Flowres perpetuall flowring there , Make there perpetuall Spring . There , Balsame , Saffron , Lillie , Rose , Doe sweat , sent , shine , and blush : There , Mead , and Field spring , spire , and yeeld ; Rills , Milke , and Hony gush : There Aromaticks breath-about Their odoriferous Aire : There , euer dangle dainty Fruits On Trees still blooming faire : There , neuer Moone doth waxe or wane , Nor Sun , nor Starres decline ; But There , the LAMB ( the Light of Lights ) Eternally dooth shine . There , Time hath no alternate Term ; No Night , but euer Day ; For , There , the Saints are ( as the Sun ) Most Bright , in white Aray ; Triumphant ; after Conquest , crow'nd , In mutuall Iov they greet ; Recounting safe the Battels fought , Their Foes now vnder-feet ; Pure , purifi'd from dregs and drosse ; From fleshly Combats freed : Their Flesh , made spirituall , with the Spirit , In One self-same agreed : In perfect and perpetuall Peace ; Subiect no more to sinning : Obnoxious nor to Change , nor Chance ; Return'd to their Beginning . And Face to Face for euer see All Beauties Glory bright , Possessing sempiternall Ioyes , In that supernall Sight ( The Sight of GOD , the Soueraign Good , The Sunne of Happinesse , Such as no heart can heer comprise , Nor any Art expresse . ) Installed in a Bliss full State Of Glory , still The Same ; As sure , as pure , from Faile or Fall , From Sorrow , Sin , and Shame . All ioyous , liuely , louely , bright , To no Misshap exposed : No Danger , Death , Disease , nor Age ; In Health and Youth reposed . Hencefoorth , for all Eternitie , They flourish fresh and green : For , Death is dead , Time termined , Corruption conquer'd cleen . Now know they Him , that knoweth All. And in beholding Him They All behold ( as in a Glasse ) Before them bright and brim . In Vnity of minde combin'd , One very thing they Will ; And euer Constant , neuer crosse , One and the same they Nill . As heer in Grace , in Glory there , Though diuersly , they shine : Loue equall's All ; Each louing All With mutuall Loue diuine . So that the Good of Euery-one Becomes the Good of All. Where lies the Body , lightly there Will Eagles flock and fall . Where-with , with Angels , Saincted-Soules Are aye refresht and fed ( For , Either Countrie's Burgesses Are nourisht with One Bread ) And euer Fain , though euer full ; Wishing but What they haue : Not sated with Satietie ; Nor needing more to craue : Desiring still , their fill they eate ; And eating , still desire . Still , new melodious Songs they sound With Hea'uns harmonious Quire ; And Organs Worthy ( for His Worth Through Whom they ouer-came ) Ring Holy , Holy , Holy , Prayse To HIS most HOLY Name . ¶ O happie , happie , happie , Soules , That see Heau'ns King , aboue ; And vnderneath-them Sun and Moon , And all the World to moue ! ¶ O Christ , victorious Lord of Hoasts , So lead my Soule and Heart . That , hauing fought , as heer I ought , I may haue there a Part Among that Blessed Hierarchie , In Happinesse supreme , A free and fellow-Citizen Of NEW-IERVSALEM . Vouchsafe me Grace , to run my Race , And strenuously to striue Vnto the End , that in the End I may the Crowne atchiue : Not for My Work , but for Thy Worth ; Thy Mercy , not My Merit : So Laud and Prayse be sung alwayes TO FATHER , SONNE , & SPIRIT . TRIN-VNI DEO Creatori , Redemptori , Directori MEO , GLORIA In Secula-Seculorum , AMEN .

AVTO-MACHIA : Or THE SELF-CONFLICT of A CHRISTIAN . from THE LATIN of Mr. GEORGE GOODWIN , Translated & Dedicated To THE HONORABLE ( late ) La : MARY NEVIL . By IOSVAH SYLVESTER .

TO The truely-Honorable Mris . Cecilie Nevil , Anagramma Italiano . Cecilia Nevila . E Vitina al Ciel . Heav'ns Neighbour is your Anagram : Your Noble Graces proue the same . FAire Heire of All Your MOTHERS Good ( Wit , Vertue , Beautie , Bountie , Blood ) Among the Honors that accrue , By Her Decease divolv'd to You , Mine humble Service and This Song , ( How little ) doth not least belong ( In Little lyes a mickle Right : As in a Million In a Mite ) To her Memorial , and Your Merit , True Mirror of MINERVA'S Spirit . Aceept it therefore , double Yours ; By Her Donation , and by Ours , Humbly deuoted ( as most-bound ) To Both Your Noble Families , IOSVAH SYLVESTER .

TO The Right Noble , Vertuous & learned LADIE , The Ladie MARY Nevil . Maria Nevila . Alia Minerva . MAdame , Your loue to Learning , and the Learned , ( In such a time , so fall of Arts neglect ) Right worthily to Your rare Self hath earned The Loue of Learning , and the learned Sect : Whereby , Your Name already is eterned In MEMORIES faire Temple , high erect : And there deuoutiv at Your Vertues Shrine , I humbly offer this poore MITE of Mine ; Too small a Present to so great a GRACE ; And too-vnworthy of Your Worthinesse : Saue that the Matter so exceeds the Masse , That oft ( perhaps ) a greater may be lesse : For , You may see , within This little Glasse , The LITTLE-WORLD'S great-little-Mindednes : MAN'S Strife with MAN ; Our Flesh & Spirit in Duel : Couragious Cowards , too-self-kindly-Cruel . Vouchsafe t' accept then This small New-yeeres-Gift , With humble Vowes of a dis-astred Muse , Which lauishly hath sown her Seeds of Thrife So high and dry , that yet no Fruit ensues . Else need Shee not haue made so hard a Shift ; Nor this small Gift so greatly to excuse . But sith , as yet , Shee cannot what Shee would ; Madame , accept her Zeal , & what Shee could . To Your Honobl . Vertues most deuoted , IOS . SYL .

AVTO-MACHIA . or Self-Ciuil-Warr . I Sing not PRIAM , nor the Siege of TROY : Nor Agamemnon's Iarr with Thetis Ioy : I sing not heer AENEAS stormfull Fate ; Queene Dido's loue , nor Goddesse Iuno's hate : I sing not CAESAR , nor his Sonne-in-law ; Whose ciuill Rage Rome and Pharsalia saw . I sing my SELF ; my C uil-Warrs within ; The Victories I howrely lose and win ; The dayly Duel , the continuall Strife , The Warr that ends not , till I end my life . And yet , not Mine alone , not onely Mine , But euery-One's that vnder th'honor'd Signe Of CHRIST his Standard , shal his Name enroule , With holy Vowes of Body and of Soule . Vouchsafe , O Father , succour from aboue ; Courage of Soule , comfort of he us'nly Loue : Triumphant Captaine , Glorious General , Furnish me Armes from thine owne Arcenall : O Sucred Spirit , My spirit's assistant bee ; And in This Conflict , make Mee conquer Mee . VERTVE I loue , I leane to Vice : I blame This wicked World , yet I imbrace the same . I climbe to Heav'n , I cleaue to Earth : I both Too-loue my Self , and yet my Self I loath . Peace-les , I Peace pursue , in Ciuill Warr , With and against my Self , I ioyne , I iarr : I burn , I freeze ; I fall downe , I stand fast : Well-ill I fare ; I lory , though disgrac't : I die aliue : I triumph , put to flight ; I feed on Cares , in Teares I take delight : My Slaue ( base-braue ) I serue ; I roame at large , In libertie , yet lie in Gaolers Charge : I strike , and stroak my Self : I , kindly-keen , Work mine own Woe , rub my Gal , rouze my Spleen . Oft , in my Sleep , to see rare Dreams I dreame ; Waking , mine Eye doth scarce discerne a Beame . My Minde's strange Megrim whirling to and fro , Now thrusts me hither , thither then doth throw . In diuers Factions I my Self diuide ; And All I trie , and flie to euery Side . What I but now desir'd , I now disdain : What ( late ) I waigh'd not , now I wish again : To-Day , to-Morrow ; This , That , Now , Anon , All , Nothing , craue I ; Euer Neuer-one . Dull Combatant , vnready for the Field , Too-tardie take I ( after wounds ) my Shield . Still hurried headlong to vnlawfull things , Downe-dragging Vice Me eas'ly down-ward dings : But , sacred Vertue climbes so hard and hie , That hardly can I her steeps steps descrie . Both Right and Wrong with Mee indifferent are : My Lust is Lawe : what I desire , I dare . ( Is there so foule a Fault , so fond a Fact , Which , Folly asking Furie dares not act ? ) But , Art-les , heart-les , in Religion's Cause ( To doo her Lessons , and defend her Lawes ) The All-proof Armour of My GOD I lose , Fly from my Charge , and yeeld it to his Foes , Guiltie of Sinn , Sinn's Punishment I shun , But not the Guilt , before th' Offence be don ( For , How could shunning of a Sinn , ensew To be occasion of another New ? ) Oft and again at the same stone I trip , As if I learn'd , by falling , not to slip . Aliue , I perish , and my Self vndoo ; Mine eyes ( Self-wise ) Witting and Willing too . Sick , to my Self I run for my Relief ; So , Sicker of my Physicke , than my Grief : For , while I seeke my swelting Thirst to swage , Another Thirst more ragingly doth rage : While , burnt to death , to coole me I desire ; With Flames my Flames ; with Sulphur , quench I Fire : While that I striue my swelling Waues to stop , More stormily they toste aboue my top . Thus am I cur'd , This is my common Ease ; My Med'cine still , worse than my worst Disease : My Sores with Sores , my wounds with wounds I heal , While to my Self , my Self I still conceal . O what lewd Leagues ! what Truces make I still , With Sin , with Sathan , and my wanton Will ! What slight occasions doo I take to sinn ! What silly Traines am I intrapped in ! What idle Cloaks for Crimes ! what Nets to hide Notorious Sinns , already long descri'd ! I write in Ice ( Windes Witnes , sign'd with Showrs ) I will redeem my foule Life's former howrs : But , soone the swinge of Custome ( Whirlwind-like ) Rapting my Passion ( euer Fashion-sick ) Transports Me to the Contrary ; alone , Faint Guard of Goodnesse : Arm-les Champion . My Green sick Taste doth nothing sweeter finde , Than what is bitter to a gracious Minde : Egypt's fat Flesh pots I am longing-for : Th' eternall Manna I doe euen abhorre . World's Monarch Mammon ( dropsie Mysticall ) Cround , round-fac'd Goddesse , coyned Belial : Midas's Desire , the Miser's onely Trust ; The sacred hunger of Pactolian Dust , Gold , Gold bewitches me , and frets accurst My greedy Throat with more than Dipsian Thirst . My minde 's a Gulf whose Gaping Nought can stuff ; My heart a Hell , that neuer hath enough : The more I haue I craue , and lesse content ; In Store most Poore , in Plenty Indigent . For , of these Gates , how-much so-ere I cram , It doth not stop my Mouth , but strech the same . Sweet Vsurie's Incestuous Interest , For Dallers , Dolours hoordeth in my Chest . The World's Slaue Profit , & the Minde's Slut Pleasue ( Insatiat Both , Both bound-less , Both past measure : This Cleopatra . That Sardanapale ) For huge Annoyes , bring Ioyes but short and small , O , Miracle ! begot by Heauen , in Earth ( My Minde diuine . My Bodie brute by Birth ) O! what a Monster am I , to depaint ! Halfe-Friend , halfe-Fiend , halfe-Sauage , halfe a Saint ; High'r than my Fire doth my grosse Earth aspire : My raging Flesh , my retch-lesse Force doth tire , And ( drunk with Worlds-Must , & deep sunk in Sleep ) My Spirit ( the Spy , that warie Watch should keep ) Betrayes , alas ! ( Woe that I trust it so ) My Soule's deer Kingdome , to her deadly Foe . Through Cares Charybdis , & rough Gulfs of Grief , Star lar-bord run I , Sailing all my Life On merry-sorry Seas ; my Winde , my Will ; My Ship , my Flesh ; My Sense , my Pilot still . As in a most Seditious Common-weale , Within my Brest I feel my Best rebell : Against their Prince my furious People rise ; Their Aw-less Prince dares his owne Lawe despise . Mine Eue's an Out-law : And my struggling Twins Iacob and Esau neuer can be friends . Such deadly Feud , such discord , such despight ( Euen betweene Brethren ) such continuall fight . What 's done in Me , Another doth , not I ; Yet both ( alas ! ) my Guest and Enemy : My minde , vn-kind ( suborned by my Foe ) Indeed , within me , but not with me Tho ; Neer , yet far-off ; in fleshly Lees be-soild , And with the World's contagious Filth defil'd . I am too-narrow for mine owne Desires ; My Selfe denies me , what my Selfe requires : Fearfull I hope : carefull-secure I languish : Hungry too-full ; Dry-Drunken ; sugred Anguish ; Wearie of Life , merry in Death ; I suck Wine from the Pumice ; Hony from the Rock . On Thornes my Grapes ; on Garlick growes my Rose ; From Crums my Sums ; from Flint my Fountain flowes : In showres of Teares , mine houres of Fears I mourne : My Looks to Brooks , my Beams to Streams I turne : Yet , in this Torrent of my Torments rife , I sink Annoyes , and drink the Ioyes of Life . Dim light , brim night ; Beams wauing clowdy-cleer : Vnstable State , void Hope , vaine Help , far-neer : False-true Perswasion , Law-less Lawfulness ; Confused Method , Milde-wilde War-like Peace : Disordered Order , Mournefull Meriments ; Dark Day , Wrong way , Dull double-Diligence : Infamous Fame , known Error , Skil-less Skill : Mad Minde , rude Reason , an vnwilling Will : A healthie Plague , a wealthie Want , poor Treasure : A pleasing Torment , a Tormenting Pleasure : An odious Loue an vgly Beauty ; base Reproachful Honour , a disgracefull Grace : A fruit-less Fruite , A dry dis-flowred Flower : A feeble force , a Conquered Conquerour : A sickly Health , dead Life , and rest-lesse Rest , These are the Comforts of my Soule distrest . O! how I Like , Dis-like ; Desire , Disdaine ; Repell , repeal ; loathe , and delight againe ! O! What , Whom , Whether ( neither Flesh nor Fish ) How , weary of , the same againe I wish ! I will , I nill ; I nill , I will ; my Minde Perswading This , my Mood to That inclin'd . My loose Affection ( Proteus-like ) appeares In euery Forme ; at-once it frownes and fleeres . Mine ill-good Will , is vaine and variable : My ( Hydra ) Flesh , buds Heads innumerable : My Minde 's a Maze ; a Labyrinth , my Reason : Mine Eye ( false Spy ) the Doore to Phantsies Treason : My rebell Sense ( Self-soothing ) still affects What it should fly ; What it should ply , neglects : My flitting Hope , with Passions Storms is tost But now to Heauen , anon to Hell almost : Concording Discord kils me ; and againe , Discording Concord doth my Life sustaine . My Selfe at once I both displease and please ; Without my Selfe , my Selfe I faine would Seaze : For my too-much of Me , Me much annoyes : And my Selfe's Plenty , my poore Selfe destroyes : Who seeks Me in Me , In Me shall not finde Me as my Selfe : Hermaphrodite in minde , I am ( at once ) Male , Female , Neuter : yet What-ere I am , I am not mine , I weet : I am not with my selfe , as I conceiue : Wretch that I am , my Selfe , my Selfe deceiue : Vnto my Selfe , my Selfe my Selfe betray : I , from my selfe , banish my Selfe away : My Selfe agrees not with my Selfe a iot , Knowes not my Selfe ; I haue my Selfe forgot : Against my Selfe , my Selfe mooue Iarres vniust : I trust my Selfe , and I my Selfe distrust : My Selfe I followe , and my Selfe I fly : Besides my Selfe , and in my Selfe , am I : My Selfe am not my Selfe , another-same ; Vnlike my Selfe , and like my Selfe I am ; Selfe-fond , Selfe-furious : and thus , Wayward Elfe , I cannot liue , with , nor with-out my Selfe . FINIS .

A Cup of Consolation for the Christian in his Conflict . WHy , Silly Man , sick of exceeding Griefe , What boots it Thee , vncertain of thy Life , Of thy Disease to make so much adoo ? Thou coward Souldier , and vntoward too , Away with Feare : defie both Death and Hell : Meet Armes with Armes , and Darts with Darts repell : So , the first On-set , in this furious Fray , Shall towards Heauen make thee an easie Way ; And open wide those Gates so hardly wonne , Where Snowie-winged Victorie doth wunne : Thou must be valiant , and with Dant-less brest Rush through the thickest , Run vpon the best Of brauing Foes ; and on their Flight and Foile , Reare noble Trophies of triumphant Spoile . For , This World's Prince , dark Limboe's Potentate , Drifts Man's Destruction , and with deadly Hate ( Still Strife-full ) labours , and by all meanes seeks To trouble All , and Heauen with Hell to mix . Great War with it there is ; great War with-out ; With Flesh and Blood , and with the World about . On this Side , smiling Hope ( with smoothest brow ) False-promiseth long Peace , and Plenty too . On that Side , sallow Feare ( with fainting breath ) Checks those proud thoughts with Threats of War & Death ; And ( weary of it Selfe ) it Self distrusts , It Selfe destroyes , and to Confusion thrusts ; And ignorant of it selfe's Good ( yer Tryall ) In Iealous Rage it euen betraies the loyall . Here , Clowd-browd Sorrow . Whirle-wind-like it hies Th' amated Minde to tosse and tyrannize : There , dimpled Ioy nimbly enringeth round Her gawdy Troops that stand vpon no ground ; Whose brittle Glosse and glorie lasts and shines As Stubble-Fire , and Dust before the Windes . What should I speake of all the snarefull Wiles , And cunning Colours of mysterious Guiles , Where-with Death's Founder , and thy Life's drad Foe , Improuident Man-kind doth ouerthrow ? Yet , be Couragious , yeeld not vnto Euill : Resist Beginnings , and defie the Diuell . For sure Defence amid these fell Alarms , Quick buckle-on these ay-victorious Arms : First , gird thy Loynes with Truth ; thy Bosome dresse In the sure Brest-plate of pure Righteousnesse : Put , on thy Head , the Helmet of Saluation : Vpon thy Feet , Shooes of the Preparation Of Heauen's Glad-tidings : Beare vpon thine Arme The Shield of Faith ( Shot-free from euery harme ) . Hell's fiery Darts repell thou with the same ; And through it 's Splendor , quench their Flame with Flame Take in thy hand the bright two-edged-Sword Of GOD'S Soule-parting , Marow-piercing , Word : Thus compleat arm'd from GOD's owne Arcenal , And watching duely for his Aide to call , Thou without doubt shalt quickly ouer-come The World , the Flesh , Sin , Death , & Hell ( in summe ) . And so ( through CHRIST , thy Captain , & thy King ) Of Sin , thy Selfe , And Sathan triumphing , Thou shalt ( in fine , ) the Happy Crowne obtaine . And in th' eternall Promis'd Kingdome raigne . FINIS .