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<NAME>Olivia Bottum</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="frontispiece">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
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<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>The Fronti&s;peece.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THe Sunne is glorious &s;till, and maketh day,</L>
<L>Where ever &s;hineth his Eternall Ray;</L>
<L>Yet when he &s;ets, &s;o clouds may vaile the skye,</L>
<L>That men may thinke him drownded to the eye.</L>
<L>Faire, &s;trong is Man, if one &s;hould &s;ay, he'le dye,</L>
<L>Scarce can he well beleeve it, 'fore he try;</L>
<L>But &s;eeing death in others, then he &s;ayes;</L>
<L>Surely Deaths con&s;tant &s;troke will end my dayes.</L>
<L>Spring's dainty; Summer vigorous and &s;trong;</L>
<L>Autumne hath plenty; Winter dyes ere long.</L>
<L>&para; The Sunne of Glory &s;et, and then was night,</L>
<L>And darkene&s;&s;e, in the true beleevers &s;ight;</L>
<L>Th' Eclip&s;e did pa&s;&s;e, and He was &s;eene, by all,</L>
<L>A&s;cending, whether he the world doth call.</L>
<L>Let man behold his Saviour, he will &s;ay,</L>
<L>Welcome &s;weete death, my <HI>Ie&s;us</HI> led the way.</L>
<L>Infants, and babes, young men, you &s;trong, and old,</L>
<L>Turne to the right-hand, and the Sunne behold;</L>
<L>For as He conquers darkene&s;&s;e, &s;o we &s;hall</L>
<L>Triumph o're death, by Him who conquerd All.</L>
</LG>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="2">
<P><FIGURE>
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<P>KALENDARIVM HVMANAE VITAE THE KALENDER OF MANS LIFE.</P>
<P><HI>Authore Roberto Farloeo.</HI></P>
<P><HI>S'coto Britaniq.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ip&s;e iubet mortis nos memini&s;se Deus.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON <HI>Printed for William. Hope and are to be &s;ould at y^e vnicorne neare the Royall Ex|change.</HI> 1638.</P>
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<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="3">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>ILLVSTRISSIMO ET NOBILISSIMO Domino <HI>Dno. ROBERTO KARO,</HI> Comiti a Summer&s;et, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_AEGyptii inter primos Sapientiae pa|tres, &s;ic &s;ibi con&s;uluerunt, ut laeti&s;simis ip&s;orum conviviis &s;celeton intere&s;&s;et; Cum imperio delati &s;unt mores; &amp; Philippus qui Graecam monarchiam fundavit, voluit adole&s;centem &s;e mortalitatis &s;uae admonere; ip&s;e <HI>Augu&s;tus Cae&s;ar</HI> noluit, &s;ine hoc more, orbi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB REF="4"> imperium amplecti, qui &amp; micam, &amp; grabatum &s;uum habuit.</P>
<P>Tibi (Nobili&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ime Heros) hoc mortalitatis &s;ymbolum offero; atque e&ograve; magis, qu&ograve;d &s;ciam Te ver&acirc; Nobilitate praeditum, cui ip&s;ius mortis memoria &s;emper erit grati&s;sima, cujus nomine ip&s;a philo&s;ophia dignata e&s;t. Accipe quae&s;o, (Nobili&s;sime Heros) hoc qualecunque e&s;t, hu|manitatis <GAP DESC="foreign">, neque enim ab huju&s;modi &s;tu|diis ip&s;e abhorres, qu&ugrave;m mortis meditationi, &amp; futurae vitae contemplationi, lucernae tuae ole|um &s;oleas impendere: accipe inquam (ver&egrave; He|ros) hanc, qu&acirc; &s;olitus es clementi&acirc;, animi potius integritatem, quam &s;olertem exqui&s;iti ingenii velitationem. Meum putabam hoc opu&s;|culum, quod mortale e&s;&s;et; Tu Domine, &s;i Tuum duxeris, immortale proculdubi&ograve; erit; &amp; quod a meo ingenio &s;perare minim&egrave; potuit; hoc Tuo Genio (nobilis ingeniorum &amp; mu&s;arum Pater) libenter debebit. Vive, &amp; Vale, a cujus ore, &amp; favore, ip&s;arum charitum &amp; mu&s;arum vitaque &amp; valetudo dependet; Illae jam dedi&s;|cent Apollinem, Iovemque &s;uum, &amp; Graecorum numero&s;os deos implorare; Deum unum, ve|rum, bonum, &s;upplicibus votis adorabunt, ut Te
<PB REF="4"> Patronum, ip&s;o Mecaenate benignior<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m &amp; ca|mem magis, h&icirc;cin terris, omni honore, postea in Coelis, omni felicitate &amp; beatitudine accumu|let. Effata pronunciat</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Cel&s;itudini Tuae ad|dicti&s;&s;imus ROBERTVS FARLAEVS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="encomium">
<PB REF="5">
<HEAD>To the Author.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>FAme pluckes a pinion from the wings of Time,</L>
<L>Dips it in nectar, graves thy mighty rime</L>
<L>Within her bra&s;en &s;heetes, makes envy &s;tand</L>
<L>(Mauger her heart) and light her duskie brand:</L>
<L>Whil'&s;t &s;he in crim&s;on letters writes: <HI>The&s;e, the&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Shall be the whole worlds Ephemerides.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Did not <HI>&V;rania</HI> loo&s;e thy fetter'd minde,</L>
<L>Out&punc; of the clayeie pri&s;on, and re&s;ign'd</L>
<L>Her place to it? did not thy purer lay</L>
<L>Flow from the fountaine of the <HI>Milkie way?</HI></L>
<L>Did not &s;he dictate to thee, how to skan</L>
<L>The&s;e <HI>moneths of woe,</HI> this <HI>Almanacke</HI> of man?</L>
<L>An <HI>Almanacke</HI> that ne're &s;hall b' out of date,</L>
<L>But la&s;t as long as time, as firme as fate.</L>
<L>She did, (heare, envie, heare and bur&s;t) and by</L>
<L><HI>Her &s;taffe</HI> thou took'&s;t the height of <HI>Poetry:</HI></L>
<L>Th' <HI>Arcadian Shepheards</HI> &s;hall make thee their &s;tarre,</L>
<L>And place this next to <HI>Tityrus Calendar.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like to another <HI>Phaebus</HI> thou do&s;t take</L>
<L>Thy <HI>twelvemoneths</HI> taske through lifes &s;hort <HI>Zodiacke:</HI></L>
<L>But the&s;e are too too narrow bounds for thee,</L>
<L>Eeach moneth's an age, each age eternitie.</L>
<L>The names, not nature's of the moneths, I &s;ee</L>
<L>De&s;cribed in thy caele&s;tiall poetrie.</L>
<L>Fre&s;h May and lu&s;ty Iune triumph alone</L>
<L>In thy warme brea&s;t, December there is none.</L>
<L>Envie her &s;elfe can finde no fault but this,</L>
<L>Perfect thy moneths, thy globe imperfect is.</L>
<L>No parallell is &s;eene in all thy &s;pheare,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides too, no Aequator doth appeare.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>E. Coleman.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="encomium">
<PB REF="5">
<HEAD>To the Author.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>SOme u&s;e to flatter worth by too much Prai&s;e;</L>
<L>Who rather doe detract than give him Bayes,</L>
<L>Who merits it: And &s;ome againe betray</L>
<L>Like &s;ome cour&s;e Prologue to a cour&s;er Play)</L>
<L>The Authors Subject; both are bad: but I</L>
<L>Will none of both: rather I will belye</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ert, and &s;ay this Poeme &s;peakes thee vaine:</L>
<L>For to &s;peake truth, I'm angry with thy Straine;</L>
<L>For that it is &s;o &s;hort: (though &s;weete) expect,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le taxe thee alwayes with that &s;mall defect.</L>
<L>Yet (out of Policie) perhaps thy Lyre</L>
<L>Thou layd'&s;t a&s;ide &s;o &s;oone, lea&s;t we Expire;</L>
<L>And the chiefe cau&s;e proceede from thence: For 'tis</L>
<L>Certaine, as too much griefe is mortall, &s;o of bli&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>All I will &s;ay, is, my beleefe is &s;uch</L>
<L>That after-times will thanke thee for this touch:</L>
<L>And &s;uch my Charity, I wi&s;h it may</L>
<L>Out live the la&s;t, and longe&s;t Summers day,</L>
<L>And that this pre&s;ent Age, may plea&s;e to give</L>
<L>It plea&s;ant &s;miles; and helpe its Hope to live.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. M.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>TO THE COVRTEOVS READER.</HEAD>
<LG>
<HEAD>The Ro&s;es.</HEAD>
<L><HI>_PRoc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> did flye, and Parti-colour'd <HI>Flora</HI></L>
<L>Now felt &s;oft nipping colds breath from <HI>Auro|ra,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Phoebus,</HI> u&s;herd with the cooler day,</L>
<L>Gave warning to prevent his &s;corching ray;</L>
<L>While I the checkerd gardens walk'd along,</L>
<L>Seeking refre&s;hment dainty flowers among,</L>
<L>I &s;aw the fragrant herbes bending their tops,</L>
<L>With pearle-like dew hanging in &s;ilver drops;</L>
<L>And in the Coleworts cabbines I did &s;ee,</L>
<L>The queeres of Nectar dancing joyfully,</L>
<L>I &s;aw the Ro&s;e beds in their <HI>Pe&s;tan</HI> weeds,</L>
<L>Wet with the foame of <HI>Phoebus</HI> neighing &s;teedes;</L>
<L>The tender buds did in their night-geare &s;tand,</L>
<L>Of hoary plu&s;h, wrought by dame Natures hand,</L>
<L>Ready to put it off, when they did &s;py</L>
<L>Dayes charriter cour&s;ing along the sky;</L>
<L>One might have doubt, whether the Heav'n did dye</L>
<L>The Ro&s;es, or they purple-paint the skye:</L>
<L>The Sunne and Ro&s;e, were in one liv'ry clad,</L>
<L>For they one Lady <HI>Aphrodite</HI> had;</L>
<L>Perhaps one &s;mell they had, but that as higher</L>
<L>Evani&s;h'd, this breath'd &s;weetely from the brier&punc;</L>
<L>How many minutes draweth forth an houre,</L>
<L>So many habits chang'd this curious flower;</L>
<L>It &s;ometimes nimph-like, mantled was in grenee,</L>
<L>Wearing a cap much like the Fairy Queene:</L>
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<L>Sometimes it woare a comely purple cre&s;t,</L>
<L>And had its haire in anticke fa&s;hion dre&s;t;</L>
<L>Then by and by her bre&s;t unlac'd, to &s;hew</L>
<L>What heavenly fragrant Nectar did thence flow;</L>
<L>At la&s;t &s;h'unvail'd her&s;elfe, and &s;hew'd her face,</L>
<L>To <HI>Phoebus,</HI> with a mode&s;t blu&s;hing grace;</L>
<L>Her dandling tre&s;&s;es wreath'd like threds of Gold.</L>
<L>Scar&s;e without envy <HI>Titan</HI> could behold;</L>
<L>But lo dame <HI>Natures</HI> darling, which ju&s;t now</L>
<L>Did flouri&s;h naked &s;tands, I know not how;</L>
<L>Of &s;o great glory then, I thought it &s;trange,</L>
<L>To &s;ee &s;o &s;uddaine and &s;o &s;ad a change,</L>
<L>The Ro&s;e to bud, to blo&s;&s;ome in her prime,</L>
<L>To fade, to fall, to wither at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> time;</L>
<L>Then for her mantle greene, a murry clout</L>
<L>All torne did hang her ga&s;tly lookes about;</L>
<L>The cap&punc; the purple cre&s;t and all was gone,</L>
<L>Baldne&s;&s;e her wrinckled head did &s;eize upon&punc;</L>
<L>O what a &s;ight it was to &s;ee her lie</L>
<L>Vpon her mothers lap ready to die!</L>
<L>Small comfort had the earth, to &s;ee her brood</L>
<L>Pluckt from her milky brea&s;ts, and bath'd in blood;</L>
<L><HI>Phoebus</HI> who ri&s;ing from the gla&s;&s;ie &s;treames</L>
<L>Did court this Virgin with his chearefull beames,</L>
<L>Going to bed he &s;ees the naked thorne,</L>
<L>And cannot love her 'cau&s;e &s;hee is forlorne.</L>
<L>So long as la&s;ts a day, a Ro&s;e may live,</L>
<L>That day doth kill the Ro&s;e, which life did give:</L>
<L>A Virgin in the morning, and at noone</L>
<L>Which had her prime, becomes decrepit &s;oone.</L>
<L>So pull the Ro&s;e, and thinke, when thou do&s;t &s;ee</L>
<L>It's brittle beauty, that it points to Thee.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Farewell.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="illustration">
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<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Pullulo.</HI></P>
<P>I bud.</P>
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<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="version">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>VER.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>Martius &s;ive Natalis.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_FAbrica multiplicem quae &s;ic glomeratur in orbem,</L>
<L>Tam variis faecunda bonis, tot daedala formis,</L>
<L>Vnda priu&s;quam pontus erat, Terra arida centrum;</L>
<L>Nutabat&abque; levi vertigine &s;tellifer orbis;</L>
<L>Sordebat deforme chaos, primordia mundi</L>
<L>Parturiens, rerum &amp; di&s;cordi &s;emine praegnans:</L>
<L>Talis origo hom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nis, magni compendia mundi</L>
<L>Corporis exigui angu&s;to qui limite claudit,</L>
<L>Empyrei &s;cintilla priu&s;quam vivida Caeli</L>
<L>Vita auget, &s;en&s;u movet, aut ratione gubernat,</L>
<L>Ante &s;ibi quam Elementa legant di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ord<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a &s;edes,</L>
<L>Organaque, affectus&abque; animae &amp; parentia membra,</L>
<L>Ante &s;uum referat quam Iovae patris Imag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Ad Coelos atque a&s;tra genus, vultumque &s;upinet;</L>
<L>Putre&s;cit genitura rudis&punc; communia vermi</L>
<L>Semina &s;ortitus, limaci&s;que aemula cunis:</L>
<L>Sed tamen hos artus augu&s;tos fingit in artus</L>
<L>Cura<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ei, immen&s;um ex nihilo quae excudit olympum.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> frugi&s;erae concredita &s;emina Terrae</L>
<L>Ceu tumulo defo&s;&s;a, jacent in vi&s;cere &s;ulci;</L>
<L>Na&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndi virtu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tamen &amp; genitab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tis arvi</L>
<L>Natura, hyberni defendit frigoris i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> as,</L>
<PB REF="9">
<L>Quadrupedis donec Phryxaei cornua &s;candit</L>
<L>Phoebus, &amp; illu&s;tri radio, foetoque calore</L>
<L>Inque diem, &amp; Coeli vitales elicit auras:</L>
<L>Talis ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cis uteri jacet embryon antris</L>
<L>Naturae ingenio&s;ae opus, &amp; compago recentis</L>
<L>Lactea ceu ma&s;&s;ae teneros coale&s;cit in artus.</L>
<L>Semina habent &s;iliquas, tegitur ma&s;&s;a inque volucri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Pelliculae, cognata ip&s;i quae fa&s;cia crevit.</L>
<L>Tum Deus in&s;pirante animam qu&acirc; vivida &s;urgunt</L>
<L>Omnia, divinae largitur particulam aurae.</L>
<L>Conjugium firmat &s;tabile h&icirc;c Hymen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us Olympi;</L>
<L>Nubit terra polo, decus immortale caduci</L>
<L>Corporis ingluviem con&s;ortem in &s;aecula ducit.</L>
<L>Sic ne ergo (hei mi&s;erae) impur&acirc; cum conjuge vivet</L>
<L>Virgo anima, &amp; ca&s;tis contagia prendet in ulnis?</L>
<L>Sed ben&egrave; quod furvis coeant, &s;ine luce, tenebris,</L>
<L>Teda &s;uo impuram prodat ne lumine &s;pon&s;am.</L>
<L>Quid fi animae vox ulla foret? qu&agrave;m tri&s;t&egrave; queratur</L>
<L>Se c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">elum muta&s;&s;e luto, &amp; caligine lucem,</L>
<L>Vel Ionae &s;imilem, &s;uperis de&s;edibus imum</L>
<L>In ceti cecidi&s;&s;e uterum, noctemque profundam&punc;</L>
<L>Aemula Tartareo domus e&s;t habitanda barathro,</L>
<L>Gurgu&s;ti piceus carcer, pi&s;trina malorum.</L>
<L>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rnimus h&icirc;c quoties jactari, dum impete facto</L>
<L>Rumpere vallatae conatur vincula vulvae;</L>
<L>Saepe etiam ingreditur mox egre&s;&s;ura, pero&s;um</L>
<L>Sic antri ho&s;pitium, &s;ic diver&s;oria &s;ordent;</L>
<L>Cernere (pro dolor) e&s;t foecundae vi&s;cera matris</L>
<L>E&s;&s;e urnam foetus, inte&s;tinumque &s;epulcrum.</L>
<L>Mitte &s;ed infau&s;tos ca&s;us, &amp; re&s;pice partus</L>
<L>Quos natura volet, prae&s;cripta lege, labores;</L>
<L>Tormina, convul&s;ique artus, trepidique dolores,</L>
<L>Et gen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">um cordi&s;&abque; tremor, lamenta, duellum</L>
<L>Tale cient inter matrem natumque tumultus</L>
<PB REF="10">
<L>Qualis avernales, vento &s;ubeunte, cavernas</L>
<L>Concitat, in tremulos tollens ima antra tumores.</L>
<L>Ergone praenovit venturae incommoda&punc; vitae</L>
<L>Nondum natus Homo, lucemque exterritus odit?</L>
<L>Sic pugnans contra matrem, &amp; molimina partus</L>
<L>Vipereo mi&s;eram exanimavit more parentem.</L>
<L>Credideris animam &s;ordentem labe patern&acirc;</L>
<L>Nolle &s;ubire diem, ne &s;e &s;uus inquinet error,</L>
<L>Ne cum damnatis exclamet forte catervis;</L>
<L>O utinam mihi natalis lux nulla fui&s;&s;et.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A&s;t ubi nunc infans uterina repagula rup<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&punc;</L>
<L>Symbola &s;ecum adfert vitae manife&s;ta futurae:</L>
<L>Dextram protendens, manuum mercede b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">atum</L>
<L>Se fore demon&s;trat; pede nudo triste cape&s;&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Vitae iter, &amp; &s;uper&ucirc;m adventat p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">regrinus ad auras.</L>
<L>&V;tcun&abque; ingreditur nudus, lacrymabilis infans</L>
<L>Doctior ad fletum e&s;t, rudior&abque; ad c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tera natus.</L>
<L>Vagitus cudit lacrymas non verba querelae,</L>
<L>Vae ben&egrave; quum nequeat fari, (va) t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;tius edit:</L>
<L>Thr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">icio &s;ic more, &s;uis natalibus infans&punc;</L>
<L>Sollicitat luctus, etiam &s;ine voce, loquentes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Omen habet vitae partus; portendit acerbus</L>
<L>Hic dolor &amp; Labor, humanos tri&s;te&s;&abque; labores.</L>
<L>Naturae prae&s;cripta manet Lex; u&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e luctu</L>
<L>&V;t na&s;catur Homo, comite&abque; hoc pergat ad O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">um&punc;</L>
<L>Natura exponit nudum mors excutit, u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">na</L>
<L>Excipit, &amp; nudum Pro&s;erpina manibus addit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Ergo quum partus rudimenta no&s;tri</L>
<L>Inchoet damni, renovato me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tem</L>
<L>Integram (Chri&s;te) ut videam parentis</L>
<L>Tecta beata.</L>
<L>Hunc novum partum comites &s;equuntur</L>
<L>Anxij cordis tremuli timores,</L>
<PB REF="11">
<L>Flumina in largas lacrymas &s;oluta, et</L>
<L>Turba dolorum.</L>
<L>Hunc &s;u&s;urrantis tacitum querelae</L>
<L>Murmur, &amp; tri&s;tis fremitus Leonis</L>
<L>Temperat, luctus Pelicani ad in&s;tar</L>
<L>Tri&s;te querentis</L>
<L>Gaudium &amp; luctus parit ille vitae</L>
<L>Coelitis, verae pietatis ante&mdash;</L>
<L>Ambulo in terris, &s;uperas Olympi</L>
<L>Ducit ad arces.</L>
<L>Tunc gen&acirc; moe&s;tis lacrymis carente,</L>
<L>Et cohaeredes Domino, beato</L>
<L>Po&s;&s;umus no&s;tri patris intueri</L>
<L>Lumine vultus.</L>
<L>Invicem luctus nova cantilena</L>
<L>Panget aeterni decus Haleluja,</L>
<L>Et novum carmen modulis &s;onorum</L>
<L>Audiet Aether.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="12">
<HEAD>APRIL.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>O What a plea&s;ure is't to &s;ee</L>
<L>My new-&s;prung bud, which will be tree!</L>
<L>The gli&s;t'ring gra&s;&s;e with Phoebus ray</L>
<L>Doth make me cheerefull looke, and gay:</L>
<L>But (ah!) if the&s;e my Flowers &s;hould die,</L>
<L>Lord what would then become of me.</L>
<L>&para; Ile tell thee, this thy brood will wither,</L>
<L>Doe not de&s;pare, you'le have another.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="13">
<HEAD>Aprilis &s;ive Infantia.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Q&V;alis odori&s;erum foecundans imber Aprilem</L>
<L>Flore novo Martis lactentia germina ve&s;tit,</L>
<L>Nectare Olympus alit dulci, Phoeb&uacute;&s;que calore,</L>
<L>Frigora ne exurant, nimius vel torreat ae&s;tus&punc;</L>
<L>Sic gremio charae matris dum tollitur infans,</L>
<L>Ne necet importuna fames, &amp; tri&s;tis ege&s;tas,</L>
<L>Nectareo de fonte bibit &s;pumantia lacti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Flumina, quae gemino mammarume tubere manant.</L>
<L>Saepe novercatur Natura, aut turgida fa&s;tu</L>
<L>Nectaris hos gaudet genitrix occludere rivos;</L>
<L>Ergo ubi non po&s;&s;unt duram exorare parentem,</L>
<L>Mendicant aliund&egrave;, luparumque ubera &s;ugunt;</L>
<L>Saepe eti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m tant&ugrave;m od&eacute;runt &s;ua pignora matres,</L>
<L>Sustineant &s;olis ut nata exponere &s;ylvis;</L>
<L>Tunc &s;uperant pietate <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erae volucre&s;que parentes,</L>
<L>Dant alienigenis quando ubera mutua natis:</L>
<L>Depo&s;uit rabiem lupa, dum lactaret alumnos,</L>
<L>Rom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tuos, matrem &amp; dominae &s;e o&s;tenderet orbis:</L>
<L>A&s;t illi cum lacte lupae &s;uxere furorem,</L>
<L>Fraterno&abque; urbem &s;tabilivit &s;anguine frater.</L>
<L>Expo&s;uit quem dirus avus, ju&s;&s;it&abque; necari,</L>
<L>Ille canis foeta a mamm&acirc; lactante pependit,</L>
<L>Inde &s;itis &s;emper tenuit ve&s;ana cruoris,</L>
<L>Praedandique fames, humano &s;anguine donec</L>
<L>Immer&s;um caput, &amp; &s;atiatum caede natavi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</L>
<L>Degenerem toties patriis e&s;t cernere pro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">em</L>
<L>Moribus, aver&s;o tanquam &s;it &s;idere nata,</L>
<L>Nutricis cum lacte bibat quo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;emina morum,</L>
<L>Imbutu&s;que &s;emel fuerit quo parvus odore</L>
<L>Infans, hunc redolet maturis auctior annis.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="14">
<L>&V;bere jam &s;atur e&s;t puer, incunabula &s;omnu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Po&s;cit, ubi tremulis agitatur nutibus, inter</L>
<L>Motun&abque; &amp; requiem, mi&s;erae dans &s;ymbola vitae,</L>
<L>Cujus, ceu navis, medijs jactatur in undis</L>
<L>Spe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&abque; metum&abque; inter, nec ce&s;&s;at, lumina donec</L>
<L>Mors claudat Longoque Orci <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et fe&s;&s;a&s;opori,</L>
<L>Ramicibus &s;ed ne turgentibus ilia rumpat,</L>
<L>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">anda &s;oporifero de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ulcet carmine nutrix.</L>
<L>Infantis vel nulla <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tas a crimine <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ura,</L>
<L>E&s;t in&s;ons, fraudis non gnara, exp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;&abque; nocendi,</L>
<L>Innumeris tamen illa malis o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">noxia vita,</L>
<L>Ludibriumque recens ca&s;us, &amp; &s;ortis iniquae est;</L>
<L>Quod &s;i crudeles Herodes a&s;per<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t iras,</L>
<L>Inno<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uo infantes maculabunt &s;anguine ferrum.</L>
<L>Obijce formicas quantumvis Graecia Midae,</L>
<L>Mellifica&s;que Platonis <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pes, facundia linguae</L>
<L>Enthea que&icirc;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> portenta, &amp; cornu&punc; copia rerum e&s;t;</L>
<L>Tri&s;tibus au&s;pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ijs &s;ed no&s;tra infantia &s;urgit,</L>
<L>Contemplatur aves &s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vas, quas omnia dir&agrave;</L>
<L>Infau&s;tant, rata quae facit aetas plena dolorum,</L>
<L>Tri&s;titiae, luctus, curae, d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ri&abque; laboris.</L>
<L>Hoc &s;olo felix, mi&s;erum quod ne&s;ciat infans</L>
<L>In medijs &s;e&s;e e&s;&s;e malis, careatque timore&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Cum meae matris niveo liquore</L>
<L>Nectaris, tetrum &s;celeris reatum</L>
<L>Imbibi, primi patris inquinatus</L>
<L>Labe cruent&acirc;.</L>
<L>Addidi vitae proprium nefandae</L>
<L>Crimen, anno&s;que in vitiis peregi,</L>
<L>Meque fatal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> capulo propin quu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Detinet error.</L>
<L>Christe dacunas pictatis, atque</L>
<L>Grati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tatem teneram, priu&s;quam</L>
<PB REF="15">
<L>Parca peccato gravidae &s;enectae</L>
<L>Finiat annos.</L>
<L>Vagit infans haec anima&punc; &ocirc; &s;alutis</L>
<L>Author, infirmam &s;atura beato</L>
<L>Lacte, &amp; oeterno &s;aturato divi</L>
<L>Nectare verbi.</L>
<L>Ablue, &ocirc; &s;ordes uteri, meique</L>
<L>Criminis naevos, placid&acirc; quiete</L>
<L>&V;t tui regni fruar, &amp; piis tur&mdash;</L>
<L>&mdash;Malibus addar.</L>
<L>Ne &s;in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s vani hanc modulo &s;opiri</L>
<L>Carminis, Siren recinet dolo&s;a</L>
<L>Qua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e; &s;ed Caeli v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">giles ocellos</L>
<L>Tendat ad arces.</L>
<L>Neve mergatur rapidis procellae</L>
<L>Fluctibus, prendas Domine in tuumque</L>
<L>Su&s;cipe amplexum; patrias Olymp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Defer ad arces.</L>
<L>Sic Tuoe, a cunis (Deus) a&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">efiet</L>
<L>Grati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, tu &s;ic animam hanc amabis</L>
<L>Et Tibi grates aget hoec perennes</L>
<L>Invicem amato.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="16">
<LG>
<L>NOw are my Flowers with <HI>Aurora</HI> dight,</L>
<L>And <HI>Flora</HI> &s;ees her long wi&s;ht-for delight&punc;</L>
<L>Each Tree a Quire, each Leafe a Bird doth beare,</L>
<L>All &s;inging Harmony to Heav'ns Spheare;</L>
<L>The Lambkins skipping trip, they dance and play,</L>
<L>This is the glory of the moneth of <HI>May.</HI></L>
<L>&para; Remember Flowers fade, come will the night,</L>
<L>When Nightingale &s;hall &s;ing from Mortals &s;ight.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="17">
<HEAD>Maius &s;ive Pueritia.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>GErmina quoe genuit Mars, quae lactavit Aprilis</L>
<L>Nunc geminant decus, &amp; Maij pinguntur honore</L>
<L>Vndi&abque; Pe&s;tano &s;ic &s;plendent cuncta nitore</L>
<L>Vt gnarae Natura rudis contendere dextroe</L>
<L>Artificis po&s;&s;it; Zephyritis gramina pingit,</L>
<L>Gramina Panchaeos &s;upra fragrantia indos.</L>
<L>Plumea genus auras tenui modulamine mulcet,</L>
<L>Aera&abque;, &amp; &s;ylvas, habitantem &amp; montibus Echo:</L>
<L>Talis Homo puer in teneros quando emicat annos,</L>
<L>Securas fallens inter &s;ua gaudia luces:</L>
<L>Adde alas, Coeli credas &s;tellantis alumnum</L>
<L>Pennigerum, tamrara novae &s;tat gratia formae:</L>
<L>Huic cedant pictis albentia Lilia campis,</L>
<L>Aemula Sithonijs invibus, puro&abque; elephanto;</L>
<L>Huic cedant biferi rubicunda ro&s;aria Pe&s;ti;</L>
<L>Punicat ingenuos tam pulchra mode&s;tia vultus.</L>
<L>Pancheum pueri &s;pirant precordia amomum</L>
<L>A&s;&s;yrio&s;&abque; balant accen&s;i thuris honores,</L>
<L>Impar que&icirc;s &s;ordet medicatae copianaris.</L>
<L>Permultos avium &s;educit ad avia cantus,</L>
<L>Certatubi turdus merulis, ubi Lucari acanthis</L>
<L>Con&s;onat, &amp; noctem &s;ylvoe citbari&s;tria mulcet;</L>
<L>Me juvat ingenui vocem exaudire puelli,</L>
<L>Dum teneros fingit &s;ermones aure magi&s;tr&acirc;,</L>
<L>Aemula &s;yderibus cui adamantina Lumina fulgent,</L>
<L>Qualia in humanos defigit &s;tellio vultus:</L>
<L>Gratia jucundat faciem, &s;implex&abque; venu&s;tas,</L>
<L>Totus amor, Veneris&abque; decus, pignu&s;zue parentum e&s;t.</L>
<L>Ad&s;pice, &s;ed tempus gaudet quo fallere Ludo,</L>
<L>Ingenium artificis mentitus, &amp; arma, manum&abque;,</L>
<L>Sive equitat mulo Mariano, aut agmina ducit,</L>
<L>Sive molam condit, cel&s;ae vel maenia turris,</L>
<PB REF="18">
<L>Cereus ingenio cunctas &s;e fingit ad artes,</L>
<L>Aemulus aetatis maturae, cuncta recenter</L>
<L>Spectat, &amp; e&s;t vitae, quam cernit, &s;imius actae,</L>
<L>Ne, nimium mi&s;eri tamen exultate parentes,</L>
<L>Praecocia haec durus comitetur gaudia moeror:</L>
<L>Cernitis, ut pictae pubes Alahandica Florae</L>
<L>Marce&s;cit, nudam&abque; relinquit &s;aucia &s;pinam:</L>
<L>Nulla nitet te&s;&s;ellati &s;ic gloria veris,</L>
<L>Imbriferi quam non affla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us de&s;truat Au&s;tri:</L>
<L>Si &s;emel imbriferitetigit contagio morbi,</L>
<L>Languent membra, fugit&abque; decus mirabile formae:</L>
<L>Pallentes artus, tri&s;ti&abque; gravedine pre&s;&s;um</L>
<L>Tunc caput, immodicam condemnant jure parentunc</L>
<L>Laetitiam, e geminis oculorum fata fene&s;tris</L>
<L>Prospiciunt, gelido&abque; meat vix ore mephitis:</L>
<L>Improba vis morbi cogit mutare querelis</L>
<L>Blanditias, tenero&s;&abque; &s;ales, lingua&abque; lepores:</L>
<L>Maximatum &s;uperant majores gaudia luctus,</L>
<L>Mutantur&abque; vices tri&s;ti tum funere laetae.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Hic &s;udum afful&s;it, Borea impendente procell&acirc;,</L>
<L>Hic po&s;uit mare tranquillum, &s;ed fluminis iras</L>
<L>Parturiente &s;alo, meditanti &amp; praelia vento.</L>
<L>Ah! quid fata fugit? mortali propria vitae</L>
<L>Res e&s;t nulla, dedit quae &s;ors, mors omnia raptat.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Gratiae vires, Deus O, recentis</L>
<L>Suffice, infans haec puera&s;cataetas,</L>
<L>Di&s;cat ut certos magis &amp; magis pes</L>
<L>Figere gre&s;&s;us.</L>
<L>Pa&s;&s;ibus dum Te &s;equor haud &s;ecundis</L>
<L>Chri&s;te, praecedas jubar aequitatis,</L>
<L>Te ne&abque; a&s;pectu, O animae redemptor,</L>
<L>Subtrahe ne&s;tro.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="19">
<L>Cerne, quo pacto vagulus vacillat</L>
<L>Gre&s;&s;us, &amp; fract<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s animos adauge,</L>
<L>Er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gas, quando titu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o, &s;alutis,</L>
<L>Anchora certoe.</L>
<L>Vt vioelongos tolerem Labores,</L>
<L>Ferto opem la&s;&s;o, ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ilara dolentem</L>
<L>Et retrectantem male, gratuitis</L>
<L>Allice donis.</L>
<L>Dum vioe angu&s;tas meo per &s;alebr as,</L>
<L>Adjuva, &amp; dextr&aacute; &s;tabilito plantam;</L>
<L>Quas&abque; largiris pueris, Olympi</L>
<L>Ducito ad arces.</L>
<L>Tunc ero Coeli Empyrei mini&s;ter</L>
<L>Aliger, diva &s;pecie decorus,</L>
<L>Talis &amp; ducam nihili beatos,</L>
<L>Ne&s;toris annos.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="20">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Jam me&s;sis in Herb&acirc;.</HI></P>
<P>This will be Wine.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="version">
<PB REF="21">
<HEAD>AESTAS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>Iunius, &s;ive Adole&s;centia.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>C&V;rvati quum Phaebus equos, per brachia Cancri,</L>
<L>Cogit anhelantes, acclivi in vertice coeli,</L>
<L>Fervidiore calet radio tunc florida Tellus,</L>
<L>Et primae faetus adole&s;cunt flore juventae,</L>
<L>Letas promittunt fruges, &amp; &s;igna futuri</L>
<L>Dant fructus, avidum&abque; beat spes prima Colonum:</L>
<L>Humanae tali flore&s;cit ephebia vitae,</L>
<L>Cum pia &s;cintillant coele&s;tis &s;emina flammae.</L>
<L>Hoec rudis ingenij moles &s;ed cerea, Lambi</L>
<L>Po&s;cit, &amp; e&s;t Ratio &s;tudio formanda colendi.</L>
<L>Humani generis pater ex quo tempore lap&s;us,</L>
<L>Humanae in cineres mer&s;a e&s;t &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">intillula mentis,</L>
<L>Non ni&s;i inexhau&s;to jam recuperanda Labore,</L>
<L>Gemma velut Stygio Lethes in gurgite mer&s;a</L>
<L>&V;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">inatoris dextr&aacute; expi&s;canda profundo e&s;t.</L>
<L>Tempus erat quo &s;tabat homo de &s;tirpe deorum,</L>
<L>Dotibus ingenij plu&s;quam mortalibus auctus:</L>
<L>Arbitrij &s;ed frena regentem devius error</L>
<L>Abflulit, &amp; recto aver &s;um de tramite flexit:</L>
<L>Inde &s;umus &s;tirpis pravoe vitio&s;a propago,</L>
<L>Degeneres &s;ancti primev&agrave; ab origine Coeli,</L>
<L>Na&s;cimur ignari rerum, virtutis inanes</L>
<L>Omnigenoe, veluti picto<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is ra&s;a tabella</L>
<L>In&s;cribenda notis queis vis, tamen oblita nullis.</L>
<L>Nam veluti di&s;torta recens que pullulat arbor</L>
<L>Corrigitur, quamdiu lactenti cortice mollet,</L>
<L>Solliciti teneros animos &s;ic cura magi&s;tri,</L>
<L>Et cultura Scholae tortum, &s;ed molle refingit</L>
<L>Ingenium, &s;tudijs &amp; cerea pectora format,</L>
<L>Cortinae quem certa Sophum &s;uffragia primum</L>
<L>Dixerunt, quondam a vultus cen&s;ore &s;ophi&s;ta</L>
<L>Damnatus vitij, &amp; tacitoe, in&s;ul&s;oe que <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">amilloe.</L>
<PB REF="22">
<L>Talem vitales primum &s;e luminis auras</L>
<L>Hau&s;i&s;&s;e ai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bat, diro &s;ub &s;idere natum;</L>
<L>Po&s;tea&s;ed factum Sophiae Coele&s;tis alumnum,</L>
<L>In melius muta&s;&s;e animum, Ge<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iumque malignum;</L>
<L>Quum bonad lapidat genitor, juga dura &s;ubire</L>
<L>Compellit natos duri tri&s;ti&s;que laboris;</L>
<L>Quam gravis (ab) labor e&s;t lap&s;um reparare parentis,</L>
<L>Et nunquam tamen a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;&s;as attingere dotes!</L>
<L>Naturae na&s;centis erant elementa loquendi,</L>
<L>Cornea quae pueris nunc abecedaria mon&s;tran:</L>
<L>Ac veluti folijs oracula &s;cripta Sibyllae</L>
<L>Pen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lopes opus e&s;t, &s;alvo componere &s;en&s;u,</L>
<L>Literulas &s;ic liter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s conjungere oportet</L>
<L>Syllabae ut a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cre&s;cant, quarum farragine vcces</L>
<L>Dum fiunt, operam crebr&oacute; damnamus inaxem.</L>
<L>Nunc fluxa &amp; fragilis, fuerat firmi&s;&s;ima quondam</L>
<L>Mneme, depo&s;iti cu&s;tos firmi&s;&s;ima, proma&mdash;</L>
<L>Conda penus no&s;tri, loculis &s;en&s;ata reponens,</L>
<L>Depromens&abque; eadem, &s;i quando po&s;ceret u&s;us;</L>
<L>Fidit &s;ed mnemae qui nunc, in pulvere &s;cribit</L>
<L>Sen&s;a animi, aut fluxoe fru&s;tr&aacute; committit arenae:</L>
<L>Nunc vaga congertes rerum, coeci&abque; rece&s;&s;us</L>
<L>Confundunt species, veliniqua obliterat atas.</L>
<L>Obstat &s;aepe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bi rerum male congrua moles</L>
<L>Fermentata Chao, infau&s;to partuque laborat;</L>
<L>Dumque homo rimat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r cerebrum, quae &s;crinia pul&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Ne&s;cit, &amp; in&s;ano &s;imilis &s;tat pharmacopolae,</L>
<L>Omnia &s;crutatur, nec quod petit, invenit u&s;quam</L>
<L>Cogimur hinc nimium fragili d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ffidere mnemae,</L>
<L>Et chartis mandare alta molimina mentis,</L>
<L>Sic mutis vox viva tacet concredita libris;</L>
<L>Quum&abque; foret quondam patulis mos auribus artem</L>
<L>Haurire, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tacitis nunc e&s;t di&s;cenda magi&s;tris,</L>
<L>Atque legenda oculis, variis vox picta &s;iguris.</L>
<PB REF="23">
<L><GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB REF="24"> Singula nce tamen haec pro&s;unt, quo ne&s;cio fato,</L>
<L>Saepe latet tantis hominis m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ns pre&s;&s;a tenebris;</L>
<L>Nil &s;alit a laev&acirc;; pigri de more caballi</L>
<L>Promovet haud, quamvis virgas calcaribus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ddas.</L>
<L>Qu&agrave;m gravis (ah) labor e&s;t nobis, quae perdidit hor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>In nullos reparare dies, laterem&abque; lavare.</L>
<L>Dicite Adamigenae pomo quid vilius uno?</L>
<L>Et tamen hoc tantos potuit generare Labores.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>O qui Mo&s;aici dogmata foederis</L>
<L>Impubis poteras pandere patribus</L>
<L>Iudae, &s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ta tui da mih<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> no&s;cere</L>
<L>Patris, morigerum redd<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> legibus</L>
<L>Coeli. Cimmerijs mens mea caecutit</L>
<L>Caligans tenebris, pandito Lumina.</L>
<L>Non me &s;ic uteri crimina polluunt;</L>
<L>Nec <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orum impietas inquinat unguibus</L>
<L>Me &s;ic a teneris, quin tua gratia</L>
<L>A foed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> uteri &s;ordibus expiet,</L>
<L>Et morum macul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s unica diluat.</L>
<L>Dotes ingenij quas m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nuit pater</L>
<L>Humani generis, gratia &s;arciet.</L>
<L>Fac me, Coriste, tuae di&s;cipulum Schola,</L>
<L>Cen&s;ur&acirc; ferulae leniter uteri,</L>
<L>Pendas pro&abque; meis verbera viribus.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="25">
<LG>
<L><HI>ARies</HI> was &s;trong. <HI>Taurus</HI> did &s;tronger prove,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Gemini</HI> did double heat and love:</L>
<L><HI>Cancer</HI> who mounted, &s;traight returnd againe,</L>
<L>That <HI>Leo</HI> might couragious remaine;</L>
<L>Till <HI>Virgo</HI> with her fruitfull, hopefull eares</L>
<L>Doe relli&s;h well the Farmers greedy feares.</L>
<L>&para; Since Signes for Mortals good can &s;o agree,</L>
<L>To Heav'n let ev'ry one mo&s;t thankefull be.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="26">
<HEAD>Iulius, &s;ive Ephebia.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>FLavus ubi ae&s;tivos Quintilis promovet ortus,</L>
<L>Exhilaran<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> blandum radijs ferventibus annum,</L>
<L>Luxurians arbor fructus matural adultos,</L>
<L>Foeta &s;ui, &s;imilem tentat producere prolem:</L>
<L>Talis Homo quum floriferos adole&s;cit ad annos,</L>
<L>Parturit, &amp; Genij &s;pecimen maturius edit;</L>
<L>Pullulat ingenij foetus quem cura Magi&s;tri</L>
<L>Lambit, &amp; ur&s;ino deformem more refinxit.</L>
<L>Tunc vitae molitus iter &s;e accingit ad artem</L>
<L>&V;ivendi&abque; modum; nec enim &s;unt ocia tuta.</L>
<L>Progenies Hybl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> veluti fragrantia rura</L>
<L>Pervolat, ac Fiorae lactentia germina libat,</L>
<L>Par&s;que ro&s;as carpit, pars &s;ugit amabile nectar</L>
<L>Narci&s;&s;i, aut &s;timulis albentia lilia tentat,</L>
<L>Mille legunt florum &s;uccos, &amp; mille viarum</L>
<L>Ambages Lu&s;trant, una e&s;t &s;ed meta laboris:</L>
<L>Tam varijs fertur &s;tudijs fervent<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or aetas</L>
<L>Fatorum quum lege trabit &s;ua que<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&abque; voluptas:</L>
<L>Ae&s;opi haud major calvis currentibus error,</L>
<L>Sen&s;ibus humanis quam &s;tat &s;ententia di&s;cors;</L>
<L>Sed tamen ad metam vitae contend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tur unam,</L>
<L>A tegete, &amp; tri&s;tiquae defendenda baci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">io e&s;t.</L>
<L>Quam variae rerum species, quot membra, quot artus</L>
<L>Corporis hum<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ni quot &s;unt molimina mentis,</L>
<L>Deliciae quot &s;unt &s;en&s;us, vitijs&abque; laborat</L>
<L>Quam varijs male-&s;anus homo, bona deni&abque; quot &s;unt</L>
<L>Quot mala; tot pro&s;tant artes, que&icirc;s quoerimus illa,</L>
<L>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> vitamus; &amp; e&s;t vitae multiplic is Hydra.</L>
<L>Cara fuit, mundo na&s;cente parabile victus</L>
<L>E&s;&s;e penu, tuto&abque;, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">udi licet, indui amictu;</L>
<L>Ingenio&s;a adeo mortalia pectora vexit</L>
<L>Luxuries nunc, ut Terras, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bem&abque; fatiget.</L>
<PB REF="27">
<L>Di&s;cendae &s;unt mille artes, &s;i fingere ad unguem</L>
<L>Ingenium humanum, mores, &amp; tempora po&s;cas;</L>
<L>Luxuries &s;ic forte juvat, qu&ograve;d mille nepoti</L>
<L>Artifices debent tolerandoe commoda vitae.</L>
<L>E&s;uriunt quando latis animantia campis,</L>
<L>In mundo dat Terra dapes, dant pocula lymphae;</L>
<L>Dira fames hominem quoties ad turpia cogit,</L>
<L>Infandas acuens &s;pes &amp; rodens?</L>
<L>Importuna fames moro &s;ae debita ce&s;&s;it</L>
<L>Paena gulae: ju&s;t&acirc; neme&s;i &s;ic numina plectunt;</L>
<L>Illicit as gu&s;tare dapes homo fortiter au&s;us,</L>
<L>Saepe nequit licitis jejunia pellere men&s;is.</L>
<L>Sudandum e&s;t igitur, (vendunt dij cuncta labore)</L>
<L>Ante &s;uum mi&s;ero quam pandat Edulia cornu,</L>
<L>Sollicitae &s;ic dura cape&s;&s;ens munia vitae</L>
<L>Degener aquali factus origine, cernit.</L>
<L>Interea arrectas quae vox mihi verberat aures</L>
<L>Ocia tuta beans tranquilla&abque; ca&s;tra Minervae,</L>
<L>Mu&s;arumque leves choreas, placido&s;que rece&s;&s;us,</L>
<L>Perme&s;&s;i &s;altus, &amp; flumma grata poetis?</L>
<L>Invidiae vox e&s;t laudans diver&s;a &s;equentes;</L>
<L>Damocles cel&s;&acirc; recubet &s;i &s;ede Tyranni,</L>
<L>Nulla laborabit jucundum mu&s;a &s;oporem.</L>
<L>Vt venias heder&acirc; dignus, tua lumina &s;omnum</L>
<L>Saepe vident nullum? an studio macre&s;cit imago?</L>
<L>Iapetonidae volucres &s;unt cura, labor&abque;,</L>
<L>Pervigil, &amp; &s;tudij &s;itis implacata profundi.</L>
<L>Horologi fu&s;um veluti, fraenumque, rota&s;que</L>
<L>Spira regit, &s;ecumque &s;uo conamine raptat:</L>
<L>Anxta &s;ic curis quum mens di&s;tracta laborat,</L>
<L>Nulla loporiferam &s;enti&s;cunt membra quietem.</L>
<L>Aa&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce cognatas cyclon qui circinat artes,</L>
<L>Qu&agrave;m mi&s;erae vitae dispendia quanta catenet.</L>
<L>Primigenae quia dedidicit vernacula linguae,</L>
<PB REF="28">
<L>Cogitur ignotas Babylonis di&s;cere voces;</L>
<L>Quodque prius dederant cunae, nunc vix capitaetas;</L>
<L>Si numeres linguas, Mithridates occidit infans.</L>
<L>E&s;t homini tantilla fides, &s;ine Rhetoris orte</L>
<L>Ne&s;ciat ut &s;ibi concordes inducere &s;en&s;us,</L>
<L>Quodque nequit ratio fucato &s;uadeat ore,</L>
<L>Verbaque det levibus toties diffundere ventis.</L>
<L>Caligat tantis acies interna tenebris,</L>
<L>Confu&s;aeque latent &s;pecies, Platonis ut annus</L>
<L>Eruere hanc &s;atagat cario&s;ae &s;orde librorum,</L>
<L>Qui ratione probant hominem rationis egentem:</L>
<L>Dum numeros nectit numeris, dum millibus auget</L>
<L>Millia, dum paribus di&s;tingutt littora micis.</L>
<L>Dum numerat &s;tellas, guttis di&s;criminat aequor,</L>
<L>In levae digito fluxos &s;ibi computat annos.</L>
<L>Dulce melos, tri&s;tis quamvis medicina doloris</L>
<L>Dicitur, hoc tamen (ah) lacrymarum &s;luctus acerbat,</L>
<L>Dum fatum recolens effundit flebile carmen,</L>
<L>Qualicient memores vicinae mortis olores.</L>
<L>Qu&agrave;m dolet! a&s;trif. rum radio dum men&s;us Olympum,</L>
<L>Hic contemplatur radiantes eminus orbes,</L>
<L>Nec licet ad patrias &s;ur&s;um contendere &s;edes,</L>
<L>Vnde genus traxit cognata ab origine Div&ucirc;m.</L>
<L>Denique dum variode&s;cribit &s;chemate Terras</L>
<L>Quinque &s;ecans zonis, di&s;tinguens climate lucem</L>
<L>Maxima quae vertit cyclis &s;olaribus annum,</L>
<L>Convexum paribus men&s;urans pa&s;&s;ibus orbem,</L>
<L>Qu&aacute; jubar auricomum Terris orien&s;que caden&s;que,</L>
<L>Punicat equoreas pi&s;co&s;ae Tethyos undas</L>
<L>Qu&aacute;que dies medium q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a nox di&s;pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cit Olympum,</L>
<L>Re&s;piciens modulum ip&s;e &s;uum; quid metior, inquit,</L>
<L>Hanc molem, Archytas prope littus dona matinum</L>
<L>Pulveris ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gui po&s;cit, cur mente rotundum</L>
<L>Percurro Coelum moriturus; &s;tamina vitae</L>
<PB REF="29">
<L>Parca mihi &s;imul ac &s;ecuit: &s;eptempeda corpus</L>
<L>Exanimum, tumuli angu&s;to mihi limite claudet.</L>
<L>Cernere mortalem e&s;t plures adole&s;cere ad annos,</L>
<L>Aerumna&s;que &s;imul, tri&s;ti&abque; inolere dolori:</L>
<L>Hoc tantum e&s;t mi&s;eri for &s;an &s;olamen Ephebe,</L>
<L>Praterij&s;&s;e aliquas lap&s;o cum tempore curas.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Coele&s;tis Genitor, quoe mare coerulum</L>
<L>Quoe Tellus viridans, &amp; liquidi oetheris</L>
<L>Nutrit hoec regio, Te Dominum &s;uum</L>
<L>Agno&s;cunt, Patulae munera dexterae</L>
<L>Expo&s;cunt&abque; tuae: Tu &s;aturas dape</L>
<L>Quicquid te precibus &s;ollicitat Deum.</L>
<L>Corvus non didicit vertere vomere</L>
<L>Telluris gravidae &s;a xea vi&s;cera,</L>
<L>Optatis epulis non tamen indiget.</L>
<L>Nunquam pen&s;a trahunt candida lilia,</L>
<L>Flora at luxuriant &s;plendida &s;yrmate,</L>
<L>Quali Rex Solymoe non nituit pies.</L>
<L>Curis distraberis mens mea, cur metis</L>
<L>Qua&s;&s;aris, &s;tabilem &s;pem tibicolloca</L>
<L>Inrerum Domino, qui dabit omnia</L>
<L>Quoe vitoe fragili commoda &s;en&s;erit.</L>
<L>Sed ne debilitent ocia languidam</L>
<L>Mentem, luxuri&acirc; &amp; pectora diffluant,</L>
<L>Hydrae multiplicis ne mala pullulent:</L>
<L>Quo vitam tolerem, munere da frui</L>
<L>Artis, qua &s;enium &s;u&s;tineat meum,</L>
<L>Et victu invalidos &s;u&s;tineat dies.</L>
<L>Me quae &s;o Aethereis dotibus in&s;true,</L>
<L>Quadratas fabricae dum lego literas,</L>
<L>Coelorum &s;peculans tam varias vias,</L>
<L>Et tot pennigeros aeris incolas,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="30">
<L>Et tot pinnigeros Aequoris ordines,</L>
<L>Tot vernantis humi <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aedala germina,</L>
<L>Errante&s;que greges, &s;ilvicolas feras,</L>
<L>Rimatu&s;que mei &s;crinia pectoris,</L>
<L>Artus, atque animam, donaque coelitus</L>
<L>Augu&s;ti tenebris abaita corporis.</L>
<L>Te rerum Dominum, munificum patrem</L>
<L>Agno&s;cam, Aethereis laudibus efferens</L>
<L>Dones, me aligeris civibus addito,</L>
<L>Aerumnis dederit mors requiem meis.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="31">
<LG>
<L>VVHat Plough &amp; harrow with laborious toile,</L>
<L>Did tru&s;t to mother earth, &amp; fruitfull &s;oile;</L>
<L>A&s;traea, ju&s;tice Scepter who can &s;way,</L>
<L>To Sickle and the Barne doth that repay;</L>
<L>The Hu&s;bandman he will now weepe no more;</L>
<L>When ju&s;t <HI>A&s;traea</HI> &s;hews him hope of store.</L>
<L>&para; The Gods are just, let men then pious be,</L>
<L>To u&s;e their ble&s;&s;ings with &s;obriety.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="32">
<HEAD>Augu&s;tus &s;ive Iuventus:</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>PHoebus quum blandis A&s;traeae amplexibus haeret,</L>
<L>Et cultos maturat agros, tunc germina Terrae</L>
<L>Omnigenos pariunt fructus, pars foeta veneno,</L>
<L>Nectare pars dulci, virtus non omnibus vna est:</L>
<L>Talis Homo aetatis juvenili robore gli&s;cit,</L>
<L>Actae dans &s;pecimen vitae, &s;ignum&abque; futurae.</L>
<L>Vt cinerae quae immer&s;a latet &s;cintilla, coru&s;cat</L>
<L>Et rapit ardentem crepitanti in fomite flammam:</L>
<L>Sic Natura prius teneris mal&egrave; debilis annis,</L>
<L>Nunc fervore viget venarum &amp; robore nervi.</L>
<L>Vina velut genero&s;a cadis &s;pumantia fervent,</L>
<L>Exertant&abque; novas per caeca foramina vires:</L>
<L>Sic fermentatae Iuvenis fervore juventae</L>
<L>Exerit affectus vires, gaudet&abque; tumultu.</L>
<L>Non citius levibus &s;tipulis Vulcanius ardor</L>
<L>Gra&s;&s;atur, juveni quam mens correpta furore</L>
<L>Flagrat, &amp; in&s;ul&s;ae probat enthyememata fal&s;a</L>
<L>E&s;&s;e Stoae, virtuti animos affectibus addens.</L>
<L>Sic domuit matutinum Pelloe decus orbem,</L>
<L>Et capita Alcides dirae deme&s;&s;uit Hydrae,</L>
<L>Rettulit &amp; vellus Phryxaeum Dorica pubes</L>
<L>Ducens Argivam per inhospita coerula pinum.</L>
<L>Pa&s;&s;io virtutis cos e&s;t &amp; acuminat au&s;us,</L>
<L>Saepe etiam exitium languens calcaribus urget.</L>
<L>Per&s;ephones mal&egrave; &s;anus amor &s;ub Tartara mi&s;it</L>
<L>Perithoum, Stygia&s;&abque; domos penetrare coegit.</L>
<L>Praeceps ira truces in mutua vulnera fratres</L>
<L>Compulit, at&abque; odium cinerum po&s;t bu&s;ta &s;uper&s;tes.</L>
<L>Materno foedare manus vindicta cruore</L>
<L>Horrendae ju&s;&s;it fitientem caedis Ore&s;ten.</L>
<L>Sic dolor Ajacem fregit male &s;anus, ut en&s;is</L>
<L>Vim proprii fer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">et, fortem&abque; ad vulnera dextram,</L>
<L>Haec ignara modi inten&s;is affectibus aetas</L>
<L>Fertur, &amp; est pra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i penitus &s;tudio&s;a juventus,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="33">
<L>Artibus aut intenta bonis, &amp; gnara &s;tudendi,</L>
<L>In nimios &s;emper timor e&s;t ne exardeat au&s;us.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Haec aetas juvenes bivii ad divortia ducit,</L>
<L>Con&s;titit Alcides quondam quo incertus eundi.</L>
<L>Altera lat a via e&s;t, &amp; multo flore decord</L>
<L>Vndi&abque; Pe&s;tani veris &s;ubridet honore,</L>
<L>&V;beribus Cereris cre&s;cunt ubi munera &s;ul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is,</L>
<L>Nectareos latices Bacchi carche&s;ia fundunt,</L>
<L>Mollia <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ycnaeis &s;tant pulvinaria plumis,</L>
<L>&V;ndique Panchaeos &s;pirant &amp; aromata odores,</L>
<L>Aligeriqu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> chori mulcent concentibus auras,</L>
<L>Vernante&s;que rep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ent tremulo modulamine &s;ylvas.</L>
<L>Hic levibus recubat plumis fucata Voluptas</L>
<L>Floribus in mediis &amp; &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">avia cinnama &s;pirat.</L>
<L>Delicio&s;a jacet, facies o&s;tentat amores,</L>
<L>Lumina fidereo &s;plendent accen&s;a nitore,</L>
<L>Tota lepos (qualis parebat ab aequore Cypris)</L>
<L>Mellitas voces, &amp; verba papavere condit,</L>
<L>E&s;t externa &s;oris &s;pecies, &amp; gratia vultus;</L>
<L>Pectoris interni at pateat &s;i forte rece&s;&s;us,</L>
<L>Foeda latet &s;cabies picto male di&s;color ori;</L>
<L>Pigmento quocunque animum ceru&s;&s;at, amaror</L>
<L>Corde latet, dolor exanimans &amp; turpis ege&s;tas.</L>
<L>Aemula luminibus Ba&s;ili&s;ci lumina tollunt</L>
<L>Evit&acirc; quodcunque vident, ceu noxia Siren</L>
<L>Cantat, Niliaci aut fletu in&s;idiatur alumni;</L>
<L>Sed lacrymis ne crede, &s;catent quae fraude, metuque;</L>
<L>Pocula Cir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> praebet medicata venenis,</L>
<L>Lethaeam mi&s;ce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Loton, viru&s;que rubetae;</L>
<L>Inque &s;ues homines vertit, capro&s;que &s;alaces,</L>
<L>Rugente&s;que feras, &amp; mimos cercopithecos,</L>
<L>Saepe &s;cyphis madidos deponit, pectora vino</L>
<L>Accendens, &s;ocio mox re&s;tinguendo cruore;</L>
<L>Deni&abque; tam lautas damnum exitiale corona<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
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<L>Delicias, mortis mi&s;erae praenuncia tabes,</L>
<L>Nervorum vel dira lues, aut hectica febris,</L>
<L>Aut laterum dolor, &amp; &s;tagnans pituita fatigat</L>
<L>Sic mi&s;eros, dirae cupiant ut taedia vitae,</L>
<L>Et quamcun&abque; petant, nequeant quum vivere, mortem.</L>
<L>Qu&ograve;d &s;i quis Polemo primos disperdidit annos</L>
<L>Imprudens, ca&s;tam luxu tentare juventam</L>
<L>Au&s;us, jam&abque; Sophi monitis re&s;ipi&s;cere tandem</L>
<L>Incipit, &amp; Baccho &s;acras lacerare corollas;</L>
<L>Tal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s erit &s;aecli Phenix, rari&s;&s;imus ales,</L>
<L>Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> cum piceis cycnus &s;ecat aera pennis;</L>
<L>Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">uetudo malitam caeco pectora callo</L>
<L>Ob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urat, nequeant ull&acirc; ut molle &s;cerecur&acirc;,</L>
<L>Sic vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iat Genij dotes, &s;ic inquinat aurae</L>
<L>Particulam, ut &s;ibi naturae jus vendicet omne,</L>
<L>Pri&s;tina nec profit &s;tudio&s;i cura magi&s;tri,</L>
<L>Quam penitus dirus peccandi obliterat u&s;us.</L>
<L>Proh dolor! ergo parens genuit Natura bea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">um</L>
<L>Indole, quae laetae ge&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at &s;emina frugis?</L>
<L>Erg&ograve;ne lactabat mater, primo&s;que fovebat</L>
<L>Carmine vagitus, omen mentita &s;ecundum,</L>
<L>Cura&abque; &s;ollicitis e&s;t demandata, magi&s;tris;</L>
<L>Scilicet ut pubes primo &s;ub flore periret?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Altera dura via est, acclivi trami<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e callem</L>
<L>Augu&s;tans, ni&s;i gra&s;&s;anti non pervia dextrae.</L>
<L>Sente &s;catet mult&acirc;, nudis &s;tat &s;emita &s;pinis,</L>
<L>Hanc &s;tipant dirae mon&s;trorum hinc inde catervae,</L>
<L>Qualia Tartarei &s;ervant penetralia Regis.</L>
<L>Hic &s;ua mordaces po&s;uere cubilia curae,</L>
<L>Hic tremuli genibus &s;tant pallente&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne timores;</L>
<L>Illic pervigiles acie flammante dracones,</L>
<L>Ignea queis &s;omno<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">on mulcet lumina Morpheus;</L>
<L>Improbus &amp; vanus lahor h&icirc;c ad culmina moniis</L>
<L>Si&s;ypheum volvit &s;axum frustra&abque; revolvit.</L>
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<L>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lic exanguis stat De&s;peratio f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ces</L>
<L>Vix laqueo &s;tringens, vitam&abque; exo&s;a fati&s;cit.</L>
<L>His adver&s;a venit lymphatis pa&s;&s;io turmis,</L>
<L>Ordinibu&s;que in&s;tructa ferocia ventilat arma;</L>
<L>Ira oculos ardens, torvo &s;uccen&s;a furore</L>
<L>Aetheria de &s;ede Iovem turbare minatur,</L>
<L>Hanc comitatur Eris, facibusque incendia mundo</L>
<L>Dira parat, gaudens orbem mi&s;cere tumultu;</L>
<L>H&icirc;c veco<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s odium tacito &s;ub pectore celat</L>
<L>Horrendum &s;celus, &amp; diras excogitat artes;</L>
<L>Imprudens ten&s;os h&icirc;c &s;candit Abulia funes,</L>
<L>Et non &s;ueta prius tentare pericula gaudet;</L>
<L>Ceratis h&icirc;c vana petit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Aethera pennis,</L>
<L>Icar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o ardentem vi&s;ens conamine Solem.</L>
<L>Haec angu&s;ta via horrendis &s;catet undi&abque; mon&s;tris,</L>
<L>Et vitae innumeris e&s;t interclu&s;a periclis,</L>
<L>Sed tamen incolumes h&acirc;c virtus ducit alumnos</L>
<L>Extrema ut vitent, ne pes hinc inde vacillet:</L>
<L>Quo&abque; magis per Maea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dri curvamina pergant,</L>
<L>Ip&s;a Ariadnaeo regit hos Prudentia filo</L>
<L>Mox Arete, fidae comites Con&s;tantia &amp; Ardor</L>
<L>Pectoris, infractos animos currentibus addunt;</L>
<L>Spem fove<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hic, mon&s;trat&abque; intentas <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">min<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s arcet</L>
<L>Virtutis, quarum tenet Elpis florida culmen.</L>
<L>Si quan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o offendit gre&s;&s;us, Con&s;tantia cur&s;um</L>
<L>Firmans, ad metam laudis c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lcaribus urget&punc;</L>
<L>Proclamat longe Spes, h&icirc;c &s;unt digna laboris</L>
<L>Praem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a, &amp; excipient mor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aces gaudia curas,</L>
<L>Pax &s;incera quies nullo temeranda dolore,</L>
<L>Laetit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a hic habitant magnum, &s;ine fine, per aevum.</L>
<L>Sic ubi meandros eme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> &amp; mon&s;tra viarum,</L>
<L>Tandem perti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gunt hil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">es ad culmina montis,</L>
<L>Splend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">da quad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">atis ubi &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t &s;uffulta col<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nis</L>
<L>Reg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rtut<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">; <HI>porta</HI> hinc Cry&s;tallina claudi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
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<L>Atria Pactoli flavis rutilantia arenis,</L>
<L>Et varijs, quales vix nota dat India, gemmis.</L>
<L>Ante fores livor jacet ater, lumina tanto</L>
<L>Saucius aspectu, dum quam videt, invidet arci:</L>
<L>Hunc &s;imulac pre&s;&s;ere duces, per &s;plendida templa</L>
<L>&V;irtutis, magni &s;ubeunt penetralia Honoris.</L>
<L>Gloria mox claris &s;ublimat facta trophaeis,</L>
<L>Fama&abque; Seraphicis in&s;ertat nomina turmis.</L>
<L>Hoc bivium e&s;t; teritur tamen altera &s;emita, &s;ordet</L>
<L>Altera caeca &s;itu, rara &amp; ve&s;tigia mon&s;trat.</L>
<L>Saepe Voluptatem numero&s;a colonia stipat,</L>
<L>Incomitata &s;olet divina incedere Virtus;</L>
<L>Forte etiam mortale genus, quod na&s;citur, omne</L>
<L>Errat, &amp; a recto obliquos fert tramite gre&s;&s;us,</L>
<L>Felix ad veram quicun&abque; recurrere metam</L>
<L>Po&s;&s;it, &amp; errori non indulgere nefando.</L>
<L>Tran&s;ver&s;os ducit caeca ignorantia multos,</L>
<L>Dum carpunt Virtutis iter, medium&abque; cape&s;&s;unt,</L>
<L>Extremis illabuntur; vix littore &s;olvit</L>
<L>Navis, cum caecis impingit naufraga &s;axis;</L>
<L>A&s;t alij meliora vident, cupiunt&abque;, &s;ed ob&s;tat</L>
<L>Res angu&s;ta, deae&abque; ira importuna novercae;</L>
<L>Paupertatis onus dirae &s;ic viribus impar</L>
<L>Deprimit, ut longo vix repant intervallo.</L>
<L>Quam pauci juvenum, de tot mod&ograve; millibus, actu</L>
<L>Extremo functi, &s;cenam cum laude relinquunt!</L>
<L>Parva manus (qualis Gideonis) laude juventae</L>
<L>Clare&s;cit, parvam decimant tamen invida fata.</L>
<L>Incipiunt teneri quum mature&s;cere fructus,</L>
<L>Enecet hos Boreae vis importunae furentis;</L>
<L>Flore&s;cens pereat &s;ic tri&s;ti funere pubes.</L>
<L>Aequa &s;enum juvenumque &s;imul mors funera den&s;at,</L>
<L>Rugo&s;ae quam &s;aepe genae juvenilia bu&s;ta</L>
<L>Effoetis lacrymis, &s;icco fletuque rig&acirc;runt;</L>
<L>Saepe ilex mu&s;co&s;a recentem turbine fagum</L>
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<L>Subver&s;am videt, oppedit tamen ip&s;a procellae.</L>
<L>Sola homini re&s;tat mortalis propria vitae</L>
<L>Conditio, &amp; &s;ortis lex e&s;t prae&s;cripta caducae.</L>
<L>&V;na patet cunctis n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;centis &s;emita vitae,</L>
<L>Mille viae mortis ad fata latentia tendunt.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Non tot multifremum fluctibus Adria</L>
<L>Turget, quum piceis nubibus aequora</L>
<L>Mi&s;cet, quot tremulum cor tumet astibus,</L>
<L>Et fervent dubijs pectora motibus.</L>
<L>Irae praecipites, &amp; furor impius</L>
<L>Me&s;aepe exagitant, exanimant metus,</L>
<L>Tollunt spe&s;que leves, excruciat dolor,</L>
<L>Tranquillum Domine, at da mihi &s;piritum,</L>
<L>Pelle &amp; cuncta meum quae mala lancinant</L>
<L>Pectus, da placid&acirc; mente quie&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ere.</L>
<L>Aevi primitias &s;anctifica Deus,</L>
<L>Vt&abque; artus, animam fic mihi robora;</L>
<L>Gre&s;&s;us per&abque; tuam dirige &s;emitam,</L>
<L>Ad Coeli Empyrei quae penetralia</L>
<L>Ducit, C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">licol&ucirc;m &amp; stelliferas domos.</L>
<L>Servame incolumem a Tartareo grege,</L>
<L>Sic, metam potero vi&s;ere ad ultimam.</L>
<L>Tunc Paeana canam pennigeris choris,</L>
<L><HI>Mors c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">elis ubi jam &s;timulus tuus;</HI></L>
<L>Inter Chri&s;ticolos victor ovans greges,</L>
<L>Dicam tunc tumulo <HI>gloria ubi e&s;t tua.</HI></L>
<L>Mallem per latebras tendere Daedali,</L>
<L>Et vitae o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nigenis <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;ibus obijci;</L>
<L>Quam Coeli caream dul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ibus ocijs.</L>
<L>Eu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is praepetibus tran&s;volat ocyor,</L>
<L>Vitae luctificae dira mole&s;tia:</L>
<L>Durant a&s;trigeri gaudia &s;ed poli,</L>
<L>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">men dum adnumerat &s;aecula &s;aeculis.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
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<P><HI>Sementis pervenit ad Me&s;&s;em.</HI></P>
<P>Seed-time is made Harve&s;t.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="version">
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<HEAD>AVTVMNVS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>September, &s;ive Aetas virilis.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>SOL noctes luce&s;que pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i quum examine librat,</L>
<L>Et medio Phoebus dispe&s;cit tramite mundum,</L>
<L>Naturae tunc grata, &s;uum dant germina &s;emen,</L>
<L>Ip&s;a&abque; quos habuere, alijs dant foetibus ortus;</L>
<L>Exc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">um rimas, rerum&abque; latebras,</L>
<L>Omnia Naturae species, &amp; &s;emina &s;ervant;</L>
<L>Sic v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rio natura jub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t &s;obo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;cere &s;exu,</L>
<L>In terris quaecun&abque; vigen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, caelo&abque; mari&abque;.</L>
<L>Nulla quidem tanto turge&s;cit corpore moles,</L>
<L>Exig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">um cujus non dat compendia &s;emen;</L>
<L>Cl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r &amp; moles arcto tam limite nulla,</L>
<L>Quae non mult<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">plici foec<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndet &s;emina prole.</L>
<L>Cum paria Humanam distinguunt tempora vitam</L>
<L>Inque dies retr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, &amp; venturas po&s;tea luces:</L>
<L>Tunc &s;ibi con&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rtem vitae, lectique jugalis</L>
<L>Po&s;cit Homo ut &s;peciem &s;ervet, &s;obolemque propag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t.</L>
<L>Quique Homini dixit; vae &s;oli; ad gaud<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a vitae,</L>
<L>Huic dedit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">xorem Deus, &amp; &s;obole &s;cere ju&s;&s;it.</L>
<L>Non pictam Iunonis avem, capramve &s;alacem,</L>
<L>Latracemve canem, vel mimam voce vo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ucrem,</L>
<L>Sed lateris co&s;tam con&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tem junxit, ut e&s;&s;et</L>
<L>Ip&s;e &s;ibi, &s;ole &s;ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s di&s;crimine, conjux.</L>
<L>Hactenus humano generi infe&s;ti&s;&s;imus ho&s;tis,</L>
<L>Di&s;&s;imulans Satanas ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uit, mendacia frauais:</L>
<L>Contigit at p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tquam &s;equiorem cernere &s;exum,</L>
<L>Con&s;ilij instruxit cuneos, fraudumque phalangas?</L>
<L>Naumachus ut quondam dux, qui ver&s;abat Athenas,</L>
<L>Filiolum imperij moderantem induxit habenas:</L>
<L>Optabat quae namque puer, &s;ententia matris</L>
<L>&V;na fuit, pueri mox respondere rogatis,</L>
<L>Et mandare viro, regni qui &s;ceptra gerebat,</L>
<L>Sic puero imperium Soritis linea de&s;ert:</L>
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<L>Haud aliter Satanas, quod vir uxorius e&s;&s;et</L>
<L>Noverat, &amp; faci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">em vidit parere maritum,</L>
<L>Agnov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t&abque; ream, divino ex foedere, prolem,</L>
<L>Patraret quaecunque parens &amp; &s;anguinis author.</L>
<L>Sic ubi mendaci pater, impo&s;tor&abque; &s;ophista</L>
<L>&V;xorem coeci labyrintho inclu&s;it elenchi,</L>
<L>Blanditiis fuit illa nocens, Sirenis &amp; instar</L>
<L>Allexit mi&s;erum, ad fraudem, exitiumque, maritum.</L>
<L>Digna fuit violata fides hoc nomine mulctae,</L>
<L>Credere quum Autori renuit, rerumque parenti,</L>
<L>Conjugium &s;ic tri&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e fuit, quod gaudia prim&ugrave;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Spondebat, ju&s;&s;iq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e vices mutare parentes.</L>
<L>O rerum dubios ca&s;us! qu&ograve; vertere &s;e&s;e</L>
<L>Po&s;sit nomo? tenet aure lupum, bivioque vacillat.</L>
<L>Coelebs &s;i vivet, moerebit &s;olus &amp; o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bus</L>
<L>Occidet, &amp; veneris n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n dulcia praemia norit;</L>
<L>Audiet ingratus Naturae, habui&s;&s;e parentes,</L>
<L>Nec tamen e&s;&s;e par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ns; ut quondam fama Catonem</L>
<L>Ad Floram veni&s;&s;e re&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rt, ut fugerit inde;</L>
<L>Sic coelebs gaudet naturae intrare theatrum,</L>
<L>Exeat ut coelebs; taedas dabit invida parca</L>
<L>Ferales, non dat taedas Cytherea jugales,</L>
<L>Vivit, &s;ed &s;olus vivit, quo? &s;cilicet orbem</L>
<L>Vt videat tantam&punc; vi&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mque ut ephemera linquat;</L>
<L>Se capul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> totum tradit, po&s;t fata &s;uper&s;tes</L>
<L>Null&acirc; parte &s;ui e&s;t, &amp; vulnere concidit uno;</L>
<L>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">nia dignus paen&acirc;, quia &s;emine gentem</L>
<L>Ip&s;e &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m &s;poliat, cre&s;centique invidet orbi;</L>
<L>Huic humana foret quid &s;i gens amula, Terras</L>
<L>Qui &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erent homines, cole ent quae numina caelos?</L>
<L>Tunc merit&ograve; Xerxes con&s;cendens culmina monti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Deploret mortale genus, &s;pecie&s;que caduca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">;</L>
<L>Gaudia &s;i qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndo contingunt, gaudia &s;ol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Ne&s;cit, &amp; e&s;t vita pars di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">idiata &s;ecunda;</L>
<PB REF="43">
<L>Illi aerumna gravis nimium nec grande levare</L>
<L>Solus po&s;&s;it onus, rebu&s;que e&s;t tri&s;tibus impar;</L>
<L>Divitias &amp; agros ignotus po&s;&s;idet haeres</L>
<L>Dignior, ip&s;ius fruitur qui me&s;&s;e lahoris:</L>
<L>Quod &s;i forte &s;uam reparet fine &s;emine gentem</L>
<L>Solis avis, renovant &s;obolem cui incendia thuris,</L>
<L>Phaenice&s;que hominum quos ardens gloria tollit</L>
<L>Mortalem &s;upra &s;ortem, po&s;t funera po&s;&s;int</L>
<L>Et cineres, immortali dare nomina famae;</L>
<L>Pro mon&s;tro exemplum e&s;t, inter tot millia, quorum</L>
<L>Vita, &amp; fama &s;imul Lethaeis mergitur undis.</L>
<L>Quid faciet, ducet ne? malis obnoxia vita haec</L>
<L>Innumeris, multos dira ad &s;uspendia cogit,</L>
<L>Socraticae haud quemvis tranquilla mode&s;tia mentis</L>
<L>Temperat, ut po&s;&s;it Xantippe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ferre querelas.</L>
<L>&V;ita via e&s;t, quae nos caele&s;tes ducit ad arces,</L>
<L>Octor e&s;t cur&s;us, quum &s;arcina nulla fatigat;</L>
<L>Mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">itat omnis homo virtutis ca&s;tra&s;e quutus,</L>
<L>Stat&abque; novercantis contra fera spicula &s;ortis.</L>
<L>Qu&ograve; gravius premit hunc onus, e&s;t inidoneus armis</L>
<L>Hoc magis, &amp; vires haerentia pondera frangunt;</L>
<L>Quem&abque; &s;uos Natura jubet &s;enti&s;cere manes,</L>
<L>Vxoris ducit curas &amp; jurgia conjux,</L>
<L>Curarum quamvis &s;atagat mi&s;er ip&s;e &s;uarum,</L>
<L>Alterias manes, proprijs fert manibus impar;</L>
<L>&V;xorem &s;i forte virum&abque; examine libres</L>
<L>Aequo, faemineus dependet amaror, amor&abque;</L>
<L>Si formo&s;a juvat, fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ma e&s;t inimica pudori</L>
<L>Non tut&ograve; &s;pectata Gygi, nocturna&abque; regis</L>
<L>Praeda, pudicitiam mulctavit vulnere lae&s;am.</L>
<L>Si dotata, virum mactat, fa&s;tu&abque; &s;uperbit</L>
<L>Iurgia diraciens, aurata&abque; cornua tollit;</L>
<L>Re&s;puit eloquium moro&s;a Terentia Tulli,</L>
<L>Fulvia&abque; Antoni potuit compe&s;cere Suadam;</L>
<PB REF="44">
<L>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pius uxor, quae debebat nubere, ducit,</L>
<L>Imperitare viro, nonnunquam tollere gaudet</L>
<L>Aut tunic&acirc; tabo medicat&acirc;, aut fraude aconiti,</L>
<L>Ma&s;&s;aget&ucirc;m de more aliae communia quaerunt</L>
<L>Gaudia, que&icirc;s lecti reverentia nulla juga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is;</L>
<L>Improba &s;i ce&s;sit conjux, est hectica febris,</L>
<L>Mors ni&s;i, nulla tibi tollant medicamina damnum.</L>
<L>Penelope t&icirc;bi ca&s;ta placet, mirandaque conjux</L>
<L>Admeti, tuaque o Hieronignara virorum?</L>
<L>Contigit haud cuivis vento petii&s;&s;e Corinthum?</L>
<L>Nec cunctis ce&s;&s;ere, petunt quae gnaviter omnes&punc;</L>
<L>Sorte uxor ducenda tibi e&s;t, &s;ors candida rara</L>
<L>Exit, nigrarum vomit undam mobilis urna;</L>
<L>Finge probam cecidi&s;&s;e tibi, quae pulchra, pudica,</L>
<L>Et dotata, tamen comis, quae &s;edula, prudens,</L>
<L>Sobria prole beet, non ull<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp; lite fatiget</L>
<L>Aemula Corneliae &amp; claris gravitate Sabinis;</L>
<L>Hanc ubi mors inopina rapit, vel ca&s;us iniquus</L>
<L>De&s;truit, aut fato nati moriuntur acerbo,</L>
<L>Quam gravis (ah) pen&s;at tua pristina gaudia maeror!</L>
<L>Tunc felix e&s;&s;es, ni&s;i felix ante fui&s;&s;es.</L>
<L>Qualis ab aeri&acirc; vidu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> gemit arbore turtur,</L>
<L>Et querulo &s;olas fune&s;tat murmure &s;ylvas,</L>
<L>Pervolat omne nemus, &s;ociam non invenit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;quam,</L>
<L>&V;&s;que tamen quaetit, &s;olus dum vivere ne&s;cit;</L>
<L>Sic tu quem &s;ocii fidi&s;sima junxit amoris</L>
<L>Copula, tam du<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cem ne&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is dedi&s;cere amorem,</L>
<L>Parte carens me liore tui con&s;umere tabo</L>
<L>Ingratus Soli, rapidoque injurius Orco,</L>
<L>Dimidius jam vivis homo; Te in&s;omnia noctis</L>
<L>Forte beant, qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ties &s;omno obver&s;atur imago</L>
<L>Conjugis, &amp; quondam dulces mentitur amores,</L>
<L>Maerorem &s;ed pul&s;a quies luctumque recentat,</L>
<L>Planctibus &amp; gemita nocte&s;que die&s;que fatigas;</L>
<PB REF="45">
<L>Orpheus Eurydice quondam ceu flevit adempt&acirc;,</L>
<L>Obmutuit&abque; lyra fracta, fidibu&s;&abque; revul&s;is,</L>
<L>Denu&ograve; quum tri&s;tes conjux raperetur ad umbras.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O hominis duram &s;ortem, &amp; crudelia fata,</L>
<L>Seu ducas, vivas ceu coelebs, vita dolori</L>
<L>Subjacet, infau&s;t is &s;emper temeranda querelis!</L>
<L>Huccine mortalis pertingunt tempora vitae,</L>
<L>Gaudia nec po&s;&s;unt placidae&s;enti&s;cere &s;ortis?</L>
<L>Siprimi Autumni tantas dedit hora procellas,</L>
<L>Quas dabit acris hyems, &amp; iniqui <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">deris annus?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Tu magne rerum conditor, imperas</L>
<L>Qui, lege &s;anct&acirc;, Patrsbus ob&s;equi,</L>
<L>Honore charos &amp; Parentes</L>
<L>Affic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re, ut patri&acirc; fruamur.</L>
<L>Idem Parentes linquere nos finis,</L>
<L>Ca&s;tos amores conjugis &amp; &s;equi,</L>
<L>&V;t nos propago conjugalis</L>
<L>Exhilarans decoret Parentes.</L>
<L>Sed, Chri&s;te, qui non omnia de&s;erit,</L>
<L>Nec gaudet orbi qui valedicere</L>
<L>Vt te fruatur, non Ie&s;u</L>
<L>Dignus erit Domino, Deo&abque;.</L>
<L>Sunt qu&ecirc;is peractis gaudia n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ptijs;</L>
<L>Et vina dulcis laetitiae fluunt,</L>
<L>Quos non dolores faeculenti,</L>
<L>Non aqueus cruciant amaror.</L>
<L>Mihi &s;i ace&s;cunt arida dolia,</L>
<L>Imo manet &s;i pe&s;&s;imum &amp; ultimum,</L>
<L>Mutato Lympharum dolores</L>
<L>Aetherei laticis &s;apore.</L>
<PB REF="46">
<L>Damihi con&s;tans rebus in omnibus</L>
<L>Pectus, &s;ecundis ne nimis efferar,</L>
<L>Adver&s;a ne frangant, praemantque</L>
<L>Instabiles mal&egrave;res timentem.</L>
<L>Quaecunque &s;ors fit conjugii mihi,</L>
<L>Solati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m mentem hoc reficit mea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> po&s;&s;e Chri&s;to conjugari</L>
<L>Stelliferi Domino theatri.</L>
<L>I&s;acid&ucirc;m qui progenuit tribus</L>
<L>Iudae Pater prae Labanidi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pio</L>
<L>Amore, duram &s;ervitutem</L>
<L>Su&s;tinuit vigilis laboris.</L>
<L>Non ego duros pertolerem metus</L>
<L>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;us iniqui, &amp; cuncta pericula</L>
<L>Amore Chri&s;ti, qui maritus</L>
<L>Hanc animam faciet heatam.</L>
<L>Qui me redemit faucibus inferi,</L>
<L>Cruore &s;ervavit polyporphyro,</L>
<L>Tandemque c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">li cum triumpho</L>
<L>Empyreos feret ad penates.</L>
<L>Excubias mens nunc age &s;edula,</L>
<L>Dum &s;pon&s;us adventat tuus, in&s;true</L>
<L>Lucernam oliva, mox Ie&s;us</L>
<L>Ne vocet aetherias choreas,</L>
<L>Quando angelorum millia, millia,</L>
<L>Et cel&s;i Olympi pennigeri greges</L>
<L>Latum Peanem &s;u&s;cit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bunt,</L>
<L>Et tonitru re&s;onabit orbis.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="47">
<LG>
<L>TAke heed when Barnes are full, and wine doth flow</L>
<L>Lea&s;t <HI>Scorpius</HI> with his &s;ting all overthrow;</L>
<L>Dog-dayes are pa&s;t, when men were glad to weare</L>
<L>Torne cloathes, if you be wi&s;e, October feare;</L>
<L>Extreames are dangerous, doe not you make bold</L>
<L>From fire, to runne out naked in the cold.</L>
<L>&para; In mid&s;t of plenty, let us thinke on want;</L>
<L>If we be healthfull let's not therefore vant.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="48">
<HEAD>October, &s;ive Aetas media.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>CVm jubar incurvis Phoebaeum amplectitur ulnis</L>
<L>Scorpius, &amp; pa&s;sim flave&s;cit frugibus annus;</L>
<L>Apparent prim&ugrave;m tunc tempora grata colonis,</L>
<L>Me&s;sis &amp; expectata dies, quam ru&s;tica voto</L>
<L>Turba r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> divas Cererem petiere palemque.</L>
<L>Falce cadunt fruges, &s;poliantur foetibus horti,</L>
<L>Oma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> labore pecus fervent, homine&s;que, bove&s;que</L>
<L>Solli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">itis ton&s;i <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">umant &s;udoribus agri.</L>
<L>Cum venit blandis &s;perata parentibus aetas</L>
<L>Et natos videre viros; tunc fervida me&s;&s;is</L>
<L>Humanae vitae e&s;t: neque enim conden&s;ius agmen</L>
<L>Formicaru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> urget rapidos per rura labores,</L>
<L>Sepedibus quan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o populis frumenta parantur,</L>
<L>Granatim &amp; toti&s;ubito minuuntur acervi,</L>
<L>Sedula quam variis &s;tudiis ruit unda virorum</L>
<L>Et mund&punc; populantur opes. Quae di&s;sita tellus</L>
<L>Quae regio &s;ub &s;ole jacens, quae Tethyos unda</L>
<L>Quae loca Naturae <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aecis ab&s;tru&s;a tenebris,</L>
<L>Cognita nec Soli, Humani non plena laboris?</L>
<L>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">c queritur quondam dives Gangetica tellus,</L>
<L>Et fluvi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s, po&s;uit Phrygiae quo vota tyrannus</L>
<L>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rea, Terte&s;&s;umque fluit quam propter Ibrus,</L>
<L>Et Tagus huic popularis, arenis inclyta quondam</L>
<L>Flumina, nunc vili decurrunt languida mu&s;co,</L>
<L>Qua&s;que dab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt, coguntur opes nunc quaerere ab oris</L>
<L>Non vi&s;o quae Sole calent, rapuere Corinthi</L>
<L>Aera viri, &s;olam de&s;truxit Mummius urbem,</L>
<L>Heliades &s;iccae lacrymis augere fluenta</L>
<L>Eridani nequeunt, Erythraeo in littore gemmas</L>
<L>Iam fru&s;tra &s;crutatur Arabs, conchylia Sidon</L>
<L>Miratur non ire freto, jam deficit o&s;trum</L>
<L>Spar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">um, lan&acirc; fru&s;tra celebrantur Amyclae,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="49">
<L>Ne&s;cit ubi ponat nidos Panchaius ales,</L>
<L>Ma&s;cu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a odorif ris quum de&s;int thura Sabaeis;</L>
<L>Synna<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a, Sp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rta, Paros Mygdonia nulla columnas</L>
<L>Marmoreas <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">actant; citr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">as Mauru&s;ia men&s;as</L>
<L>Dedidicit flavis auri circundare lamnis,</L>
<L>Aulae<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;que p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">us Babyl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n formo&s;a &s;uperbis,</L>
<L>Nulla Sem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ami<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> decoras jam <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ecta tapete,</L>
<L>Daedala nam defecit acus. Tu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> er&s;ia nullas</L>
<L>Mox jactabis opes; haec ferr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a &s;it licet aetas,</L>
<L>Ignorant Chalybes ferrum, nec tela <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">alonis</L>
<L>Spumiferi flavis extincta gelantur in undis:</L>
<L>Gargara de&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ruit me&s;&s;is vix &s;ertilis Enna</L>
<L>Trinacrias nutrit Cer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ali munere Terras,</L>
<L>Non Dodo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> jam glande pluit, non flumina Nili</L>
<L>Lente &s;catent, gravidi&s;que tumet Methymna racemis,</L>
<L>Rarior e&s;t viti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ga<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ro, diti&abque; Faler<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o:</L>
<L>Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ica non taxos metuit, nec flavus Hymetti</L>
<L>Mella favus &s;udat; calve&s;cit pinifer Ida:</L>
<L>Non Phoebo Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">na&s;&s;e t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o das l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urea &s;erta:</L>
<L>Non taxum Cyrnus, non palmam mittit Idume:</L>
<L>Nec fragrant biferi rubicu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">da ro&s;aria Pe&s;ti,</L>
<L>Et crocus a Cilicum nunc rarior advenit hortis,</L>
<L>De&s;eruit ripas Eurotae palladis arbor:</L>
<L>Pontus Ca&s;torc&acirc;, Colchis jam nulla veneno</L>
<L>Clare&s;cit, dudum&abque; gemit qu&ograve;d viderit Argo.</L>
<L>Daedalagens hominum &s;edes muta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e coegit</L>
<L>Mon&s;tra, feras, homines, pi&s;ces, varia&s;que volucres.</L>
<L>Bellatoris equi e&s;t Epiro gloria nulla,</L>
<L>Euganeas pecudes, Calabr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;que B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">itannia vincit</L>
<L>In&s;ula dans niveis &s;pumantia vellera floccis;</L>
<L>Terra Iubae quondam quos pavit vincla leones</L>
<L>No&s;tra tenent, Danno&s;&abque; lupos, catulo&s;que Molo&s;&s;os,</L>
<L>Spartano&s;&abque; canes, &amp; &s;aevos dentibus apros</L>
<L>Mar&s;e tuos, &amp; quos frondens dat Maenalus ur&s;os:</L>
<PB REF="50">
<L>Hic afri &s;ua mon&s;tra vident&punc; captiva volucrum</L>
<L>Agmina pictarum no&s;tras ducuntur ad oras.</L>
<L>O genus humanum natum indulge<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e labori</L>
<L>Audax natu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ae vetitos tran&s;cendere fines!</L>
<L>Saeva tridentiferi calcas tu dor&s;a tyranni</L>
<L>Eluctibus in&s;ultans tumidis, Coelique fragores</L>
<L>Vertice &s;ustentans mediis involve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> undis,</L>
<L>Vimque offers ventis, &amp; mortis tela fatigas.</L>
<L>Nau fragus (ah) quoties &s;edi&s;ti in cantibus horrens,</L>
<L>Tunc &s;copuli ho&s;pitio felix, cum Pontus &amp; Aether</L>
<L>Nubibus hic &s;aevos, undis daret&punc; ille tumultus,</L>
<L>Aut tabulae in&s;idens fluita&s;ti in gurgite va&s;to</L>
<L>Ludibrium Coelique, &s;alique, tuo&s;que videres</L>
<L>Circum te nantes po&s;t fatum tri&s;te &s;odales,</L>
<L>Incertus num dirafames, an &s;aeva procelloe</L>
<L>Vis d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ret infandi genus (ah) mi&s;erabile leti.</L>
<L>Supp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cibus votis tunc Coeli numen adorans</L>
<L>Addebas Lachry<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">as undis, &s;u&s;piria ventis;</L>
<L>Optati tamen ut tetigi&s;ti Littoris oram,</L>
<L>Neptuno madidas renuis &s;u&s;pendere ve&s;tes,</L>
<L>Atque novam meditare ratem &s;ub pondere pictae</L>
<L>Pre&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s adhuc tabulae; dum vis mi&s;er e&s;&s;e libenter</L>
<L>Indocilis tutam cum paupertate quietem</L>
<L>Ferre domi, ignotis malis confundier undis.</L>
<L>Pars quaerunt Nili fontes, pars ultima Thules</L>
<L>Frigora, &amp; ad gelidam propius quod pertinet axem,</L>
<L>Vna dies totum, nox una ubi dividit annum.</L>
<L>Invenere novas Terras, nec &s;ufficit unus</L>
<L>Orbis, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&ograve; humani generis ve&s;ania crevit.</L>
<L>Pars terram fodiunt caecis gens aemula Talpis,</L>
<L>Exo&s;ique diem gaudent habitare tenebris</L>
<L>Cimmeriae noctis, Summani Tartara pul&s;ant</L>
<L>Divitia&s;que a dite petunt; pars <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mula mutis</L>
<L>Gentibus Aequoreas &s;crutantur &s;aepe latebras</L>
<PB REF="51">
<L>Et &s;copulos coecos, &amp; arenas gurgitis alti.</L>
<L>O duras hominum &s;ortes! &s;ic vivere parcae</L>
<L>Iu&s;&s;erunt? O crudeles ad numia Parcas!</L>
<L>Naturae placuit pretio&s;a ab&s;condere rerum</L>
<L>Hum ini pretio tantum acquirenda laboris:</L>
<L>Hyblaeum nectar &s;ervant armata juventus</L>
<L>Tauriginae &s;obolis, nec fit &s;ine vulnere praeda;</L>
<L>Cuspide munitur numero&s;&acirc; gloria Pe&s;ti,</L>
<L>Carpuntur &V;eneris rar&ograve; &s;ine &s;anguine Flores;</L>
<L>Di&s;color in lucem niveo quae vertice &s;urgit</L>
<L>Herba, pici &s;imilem radicem in vi&s;cera terrae</L>
<L>Mittit, mortale&s;que beat, &s;ed vellitur aegr&egrave;.</L>
<L>Et medi&acirc; in &s;ylv&acirc; fulvo quae virga metallo</L>
<L>Fronde&s;cit, tegitur c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cae convallibus umbrae</L>
<L>Ac luco latet omni, aurato vimine ramus;</L>
<L>Qui cupit He&s;peridum rutilantia carpere poma,</L>
<L>Cu&s;todes domui&s;&s;e prius &s;it cura Dracones.</L>
<L>Omnia, quae mater genuit Natura, laborant:</L>
<L>Continu&acirc; rapitur circum vertigine Caelum</L>
<L>Ignorat&abque; vices oti; Sol &s;urgit ab ortu,</L>
<L>Occidua&s;que petit ceu cur &s;or &s;trenuus oras,</L>
<L>Neo minus a capro ver&s;us tua brachia Cancer</L>
<L>Scandit, retrogrado repetit vel tramite Caprum:</L>
<L>Ingeminat Phoebe motus, nec cernitur uno</L>
<L>&V;ultu&punc; Terra vices ob&s;ervat quatuor anni,</L>
<L>Vere novo pictos d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tinguit germine flores,</L>
<L>Hos aestu nutrit, Soli&s;&abque; calore focillat,</L>
<L>Autumno canos foecundat frugibus agros,</L>
<L>In&abque; hyeme Aeolijs nimborum vapulat austris,</L>
<L>Nulla quies ponto e&s;t: &s;ubeunt jumenta labores,</L>
<L>Damnati&abque; jugis Tauri; requie fine ju&s;&s;it</L>
<L>Nos etiam Natura dies tran&s;ire fugaces.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Eia igitur &s;ocij per tot mala tadia vitae</L>
<L>Pergite, per duri ca&s;us di&s;crimina mille:</L>
<PB REF="52">
<L>Nos ali&ograve; divina vocat &s;ors; grata &s;equentur</L>
<L>Ocia; &s;ic olim dura haec memini&s;&s;e juvabit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Qu&agrave; Terra longam circinat orbitam</L>
<L>Solis, polorum qu&agrave; cadit ambitus</L>
<L>Aut &s;urgit orbi, fraudulenta</L>
<L>Sors homines trahit impotentes.</L>
<L>Quaerunt quod ignis destruat, aut aquae</L>
<L>Aut fur refo&s;&s;is parietibu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> domus</L>
<L>Aut tineae dens vellicantis</L>
<L>Hostis &amp; in&s;idians rapina.</L>
<L>Coelum tenet &s;ed divitias meas</L>
<L>Chri&s;tum redemptorem pia &amp; agmina</L>
<L>Caelituum qui ter beatas</L>
<L>Hoc duce concelebrant choraeas,</L>
<L>H&icirc;c Nectar alto flumine defluit,</L>
<L>H&icirc;c &s;tant acervis Ambro&s;iae poli</L>
<L>Hic gloria &amp; pax, &amp; triumphus</L>
<L>Omnia quae exhilarent ovantes.</L>
<L>Non finient haec gaudia &s;aecula</L>
<L>Non &s;aeculorum &s;aecula, &s;aecula,</L>
<L>Non quotquot erunt &amp; dierum</L>
<L>Quae nebul&acirc; &amp; tenebris carebunt.</L>
<L>Huc ducito me cuncta per ardua,</L>
<L>Per &s;axa terrae, per &s;copulos maris,</L>
<L>Per quicquid Orbi est inquietum</L>
<L>Fulguraper, tonitru, procellas.</L>
<L>Sit mod&ograve; portus &s;ollicitae viae</L>
<L>Quies Olympi, metaque &s;it mihi</L>
<L>Sedes coru&s;cans Angelorum,</L>
<L>Et patriae &s;uperae penates.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="53">
<LG>
<L>NOw piercing darts de&s;cend from heav'n above,</L>
<L>We are cor&s;lets if your bodyes health you love,</L>
<L>For Autumnes latter raine, &s;trikes to the heart,</L>
<L>Oftner than doth the flying Parthians dart.</L>
<L>When <HI>Sagittarius</HI> bends his bow, take heede,</L>
<L>For if you &s;hun't not, he can &s;trike you dead.</L>
<L>&para; O gracious Heav'n who can make mortals &s;ad,</L>
<L>And merry; &s;till foretelling good and bad.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="54">
<HEAD>November, &s;ive Aetas provectior.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>PLeiades Eoo Coeli cum cardine &s;urgunt,</L>
<L>Praecipitemque rapit me&s;&s;em penultimus anni</L>
<L>Imber, &amp; in&s;tanti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> praecurrit frigora brumae</L>
<L>Caedua calcatur me&s;&s;is, calet area fruges</L>
<L>Ex&s;iliquat tritura bo&ucirc;m; pars munera Bacchi</L>
<L>Temperat, &amp; variis &s;pumantia praela racemis;</L>
<L>Turgida ferventi &s;tant labra undantia mu&s;to;</L>
<L>Mella premunt alii, &s;poliantque examina ceris,</L>
<L>Hyblaei&s;que favis; &s;tat nectaris amphora plena,</L>
<L>Fervet opus varium, nec me&s;&s;is omnibus una e&s;t;</L>
<L>Talis gens humana, quibus non di&s;color oris</L>
<L>E&s;&s;e figura pote&s;t mag&egrave; qu&agrave;m &s;ententia mentis;</L>
<L>Diver&s;is diver&s;a placent, &s;tudioque trahuntur</L>
<L>Non uno mortale genus, &s;ublimis Olympi</L>
<L>Pars legit amfractus, &amp; Coeli &s;ydera pul&s;at</L>
<L>Vertice; reptat humi ignavipars maxima vulgi;</L>
<L>Sed pauci virtutis iter, med<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">umque &s;equuntur</L>
<L>Gallinae niveae pulli, quos ardor honoris</L>
<L>Accendit veri, &amp; rerum prudentia &s;olers.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ambitio humani generis diri&s;&s;ima pe&s;tis</L>
<L>Turget, &amp; Icariis &s;ummum petit Aethera pennis</L>
<L>Nobilitat que polum fa&s;tu, Terra&s;que ruin&acirc;,</L>
<L>Terrigen&ucirc;m Coelos temerans de more Gigantum,</L>
<L>Impiaque in numen Divinum affectat honorem.</L>
<L>Pellaeus juvenis devicto non &s;atur orbe,</L>
<L>Nec patre contentus mortali, &s;purius e&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Maluit illius, nomen qui debet arenis;</L>
<L>Vngula mortalem fecit, Lethe&s;que liquore</L>
<L>Ebrius, angu&s;to tandem &s;ub carcere clau&s;us</L>
<L>Sarcophagi, po&s;uit fa&s;tus immen&s;aque vota;</L>
<L>Scilicet attenuat magnos, frangitque &s;uperbum</L>
<L>Omne Deus, nullo regnans, rivale &s;ecunde.</L>
<PB REF="55">
<L>Commode non clav&acirc; defendere fata trinodi</L>
<L>Tupoteras, nec te Herculeae &s;ine vulnere tutum</L>
<L>Exuviae dederant, laqueo expirare coactum,</L>
<L>Decollare Deos Poterat, cui ca&s;tra dederuni</L>
<L>Cognomen caligae, proprium&abque; imponere truncis</L>
<L>Ridiculum caput, ut templi decoretur honore,</L>
<L>O &s;celus horrendum &s;ale nullo, &amp; thure piandum!</L>
<L>Mortales &s;uperi &s;ic regna cape&s;&s;ere Coeli,</L>
<L>In victi&abque; Iovis componere fulmina &s;ceptris,</L>
<L>Sceptris, quae baculo mutarit ca&s;us iniquus,</L>
<L>Et Neme&s;is divina, Iovis nam dextra Tyrannos</L>
<L>Imperio regit, &amp; graviori regna coercet</L>
<L>Regno; purpuream tribuunt crudelia mortem</L>
<L>Purpureis cur fata viris, nec funera ficca?</L>
<L>Scilicet inju&s;ti quia Coeli numina temnunt,</L>
<L>Aemuli &amp; aeolidae mendacia fulmina mitt unt.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sunt alij fortuna dedit que&icirc;s provida cunas</L>
<L>Privatas, vetuit&abque; manu contingere &s;ceptrum,</L>
<L>Hos tamen accendit regnandi dira cupido,</L>
<L>&V;ivere Romulea qui nolunt urbe &s;ecundi,</L>
<L>Mon&s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hominum, Terrae&abque; lues, Acherontia proles:</L>
<L>Ergo Deos nequeun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> c&ucirc;m flectere, tota movebunt</L>
<L>Tartara, &amp; infidijs &s;acrum diadema cruentis,</L>
<L>Fraude, doli&s;&abque; petent: &s;ed Coeli dextra tuetur</L>
<L>Cognatum imperium, &amp; numen venerabile regis,</L>
<L>Exitij &s;unt cau&s;a &s;ui, inveniunt&abque; ruinam</L>
<L>Quam meruere gravem, &amp; dignas conamine poenas,</L>
<L>Dum &s;candunt altas Cedros, &s;ub pondere rami,</L>
<L>Franguntur, mittunt&abque; truces ad Tartara fa&s;tus:</L>
<L>Turbo velut rapidae erumpens de nube procellae,</L>
<L>Ingeminans motu vires, ferve&s;cit eundo,</L>
<L>Crebrius aeriae quatiendo cacumina quercus</L>
<L>Concutitur magis, vire&s;&abque; in robore perdit,</L>
<L>Ambitio vexat &s;ic hos dum dira, feruntur</L>
<PB REF="56">
<L>Impete praecipiti, &amp; perplexo ad culmina rerum,</L>
<L>Mole <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tandemque &s;u&acirc;: conatibus impar</L>
<L>Repperit horendos inju&s;ta &s;uperbia lap&s;us.</L>
<L>Quid juvat excel&s;i con&s;cendere culmen honoris</L>
<L>Invito Iove, percellunt &s;i fulmina montes</L>
<L>Aerios, coeli &s;uperant qu&icirc; vertite nubes?</L>
<L>Tutius e&s;t latui&s;&s;e ca&s;ae &s;ub cespite vilis,</L>
<L>Aurea qu&agrave;m Regum captare palatia fraude;</L>
<L>Tutius e&s;t Clymenes tenues colui&s;&s;e penates,</L>
<L>Quam phoebi ignitos temer&egrave; tentare jugales;</L>
<L>Fidere ceratis &s;um<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a e&s;tin&s;ania pennis,</L>
<L>Vicino quae Sole fluunt; quid turgida tollis</L>
<L>Vela per horrendas, &s;inuo figurgitis undas?</L>
<L>Non portus fortuna petit, deprendit in alto</L>
<L>Sed naves, quarum contingunt &s;uppara nubes.</L>
<L>Felix, heu nimium felix fi &s;orte quie &s;cat</L>
<L>Contentum mortale genus, tuti&s;sima vita e&s;t</L>
<L>Quae didicit &s;ervare modum, quae ne&s;cia fraudis</L>
<L>Ambitione caret, populi non tollitur aur&acirc;,</L>
<L>Nec cadit in&s;ani levia ad &s;uffragia vulgi,</L>
<L>Non timet haec un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">os Sejani &amp; tri&s;tia Manli</L>
<L>Funera, qui &s;axum quo deturbaverat ho&s;tes</L>
<L>Caede&s;u&acirc; &s;par &s;it, dum Romam non capit impar.</L>
<L>Sunt quibus unum opus e&s;t loculos di&s;tendere, plenas</L>
<L>Condere flavi&s;&s;as, toti&s;que incumbere gazis,</L>
<L>Corradunt quodcunque trahunt torrentibus amnes</L>
<L>Auri&s;eri, quodcunque tenet &s;crupulo&s;ius undae</L>
<L>Littus Erythraeae, qui coeli numina tanquam,</L>
<L>Su&s;piciunt gazas, quarum qu&ograve; copia major</L>
<L>Hoc magis ardet opes, &amp; non &s;aturatur ege&s;tas,</L>
<L>Semper hiat rimis non auro explebile pectus,</L>
<L>Diti inopes voto &s;unt, cre&s;cit cen&s;us, habendi</L>
<L>Cre&s;cit iniquus amor; quantumque accedit ad aurum,</L>
<L>Sacra fames auri, tantum &s;ub vi&s;cere gli&s;cit;</L>
<PB REF="57">
<L>Gentis avaritia humanae diri&s;&s;ima pe&s;tis,</L>
<L>Metropolis &s;celerum, Gento quae dedita Terrae,</L>
<L>Negligis aetherias Divini numinis arces;</L>
<L>Indulges tibi dira lues, ut languor aquo&s;us</L>
<L>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cendit potando &s;itim; tu pluribus aucta</L>
<L>Plura petis bona fortunae, quae &s;ordida cura</L>
<L>Acc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mulat, &s;ervat&abque; timor, perdunt&abque; dolores;</L>
<L>Tefine Coele&s;tem potui&s;&s;ent ducere vitam</L>
<L>Mortales, qualem &s;elicia &s;aecula quondam</L>
<L>Degerunt &s;ub patre Iovi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&punc; qu&uacute;m &s;ors &s;ua quem&abque;</L>
<L>Ditabat &s;ine lege bonum, &s;ine fraude heatum.</L>
<L>Sunt &amp; qui &s;olidas inter convivia luc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</L>
<L>Con&s;umunt, procere&s;que gulae Saliaria men&s;is,</L>
<L>Fercula dant Siculis, capiunt&abque; in vi&s;cera &s;ylvas,</L>
<L>Et maria, aeterno&s;que lacus, colle&s;&abque; Falernos,</L>
<L>Invitant Solem, propinant pocula nocti,</L>
<L>Conti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uant&abque; dapes redivivae ad taedia lucis;</L>
<L>Exercere gulas vallatas gloria &s;umma e&s;t:</L>
<L>Dicite quos patinae Ae&s;opi, &s;cutum&abque; Minervae,</L>
<L>Pingue juvat, dubia &amp; cerealis caena &s;aginat,</L>
<L>Dicite, qu&ograve; &s;umptus &amp; tot di&s;pendia rerum,</L>
<L>Mollia nervo&s;as ut frangant ocia vires</L>
<L>Et &s;olvat morbi pituita intercutis artus;</L>
<L>Quid de tot dapibus fiet? &s;entina cloacae</L>
<L>Hoc dicat, totos vertit, quae in &s;ter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ora cen&s;us.</L>
<L>Ter felix qui&s;quis vitaenephalia &s;ervat</L>
<L>Contentus tenui men&s;&acirc; parvo&abque; &s;alillo;</L>
<L>Sobria cui exiguam jucundat calda farinam;</L>
<L>Hic lites ne&s;cit, nec magnae e&s;t a&s;&s;ecla men&s;ae,</L>
<L>Huic &s;atis parc&acirc; tribuunt quod numina dextr&acirc;,</L>
<L>Nullo pauper eget, nec enim penuria parvi e&s;t;</L>
<L>Hic, &s;ibi far modicum, po&s;tquam quae &s;ivit aratro,</L>
<L>Ad fluvium caenat, genero&s;s nectaris in&s;tar</L>
<L>Hau&s;tus aquae &s;apit indocto frugi&abque; p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lato;</L>
<PB REF="58">
<L>Huic mens &s;icca, tenax recti, moderata, pudica,</L>
<L>Ip&s;e probus, &s;celeris purus, &s;ectator honesti,</L>
<L>Integer atque animi fortis, crudu&s;que vigore</L>
<L>Quales pri&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a dabat curios ca&s;a ce&s;p ie tecta</L>
<L>Pugnaces, tenuique beatos &s;orte Camillos</L>
<L>Fabricios parvo contentos; qualis aratrum</L>
<L>Serranus liquit propr&icirc;um, fa&s;ce&s;que recepit;</L>
<L>Felices animae patriam qui laud&egrave; bearunt,</L>
<L>Et &s;ibi perpetuum fecere in &s;aecula nomen!</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Miles in adver&s;as acies qui fortiter audet</L>
<L>Cernere, &amp; ho&s;tilem dextr&acirc; confundere dextram,</L>
<L>En&s;e viam &s;ternens &amp; mult&acirc; caede decorus,</L>
<L>Defendit, qui marte focos &amp; numinis aras;</L>
<L>Sive opus excubiis tenebras defendere noctis,</L>
<L>Metari &s;eu ca&s;tra, &s;udum circundare vallo</L>
<L>Agmina, vel duro &s;ylvas &s;uccidere &s;erro,</L>
<L>Aut per operta &s;oli medias emergere in urbes,</L>
<L>Aut liquidos remigi fluvios &s;uperare natatu,</L>
<L>Proterere haerentem glaciem, calcare paludes,</L>
<L>Arietibus muros, te&s;tudine vellere portas;</L>
<L>Pro patri&acirc; e&s;t huic dulce mori, dum vulnera fronte</L>
<L>Excipit, &amp; primus con&s;cendit maenia, vallum</L>
<L>Perrumpit, cuneo ve animae jam prodigus in&s;tat.</L>
<L>Ergo ubi jam victos trahit arcta catena duelles,</L>
<L>Ferratique vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i currum comitantur, equique,</L>
<L>Bellorum exuviis laeti trunci&s;que trophaeis,</L>
<L>Pugna triumphali legitur quum fortis in arcu,</L>
<L>In&s;taurantque diem fe&s;tis convivia pompis;</L>
<L>Cum populi Paeana canunt, &amp; cla&s;&s;ica diras</L>
<L>Deponunt iras, &amp; Martis gaudia clangunt.</L>
<L>Ip&s;e viro major dux auro in&s;ignis &amp; O&s;tro</L>
<L>Sublimis curru ingreditur, tot millia pa&s;cens</L>
<L>Spectantarum&punc; urbis &s;candit cum laude ruinas;</L>
<L>Supr&agrave; qu&ograve; tendat non e&s;t; e&s;t culmen honoris,</L>
<PB REF="59">
<L>&V;nde cadat, graviore ruens in Tartara lap&s;is,</L>
<L>Sors infida &s;olet laetos foedare triumphos,</L>
<L>Et dubijs nimium volitat victoria pennis:</L>
<L>Lu&s;ce tuis turge quantumvis poene trophaeis,</L>
<L>Et Romae terrore trementes concute portas;</L>
<L>Metire in modijs equites, &amp; montis aceto</L>
<L>Frange jugum; &s;imulac fallax fortuna refl&acirc;rit</L>
<L>Bithynio tunc cogeris &s;ervire Tyranno,</L>
<L>Et mi&s;eram tacito vitam fixire veneno.</L>
<L>Hectora priamidem cur cae&s;um jactat Achilles</L>
<L>Priamidae Paridis moritur vin lice telo?</L>
<L>Quid juvat incen&s;am va&s;tare Agamemnona Trojam,</L>
<L>Si reduci parat in&s;idias &s;aevi&s;&s;ima conjux?</L>
<L>O &s;ors flaxa hominum ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&egrave; pen&s;as magna ruinis</L>
<L>Nec pateris con&s;tare diu mortalia; ca&s;u</L>
<L>Omnia &s;ed fluxo, &amp; fatorum turbine ver&s;as.</L>
<L>Qu&ograve;d &s;i &s;umma rotae teneat fa&s;tigia Croe&s;us,</L>
<L>Mox cadit, &amp; radio victor &s;tat Cyrus in alto,</L>
<L>Impatiens donec Tomyris de &s;ede Tyrannum</L>
<L>Excutit, humano gaudens &s;aturare cruore;</L>
<L>Sic ludens noa certa &s;ui fallax&abque; clienti</L>
<L>Incon&s;tans Fortuna &s;upremis infima mutas.</L>
<L>Felix qui ca&s;us &s;e&s;e componit ad omnes,</L>
<L>In duris &s;perans meltora hic, in&abque; &s;ecundis</L>
<L>Deteriora timens, medio &s;ic tramite vitam,</L>
<L>Dirigit, ut nullo noc at Rhamnu&s;ia vultu.</L>
<L>Firma velut pelagi rupes im nobilis haeret</L>
<L>Quadrat&acirc; radice &s;edens, temnit&abque; procellas</L>
<L>Et concurrentes ad fervida praelia ventos;</L>
<L>Fluctus &s;e illidunt &s;copulis, fracto&abque; re&s;idunt</L>
<L>Impete, &amp; illu&s;o perdunt conamine vires:</L>
<L>Non aliter, quando rerum fremuere tumultus,</L>
<L>Ip&s;e &s;ibi con&s;tat &s;apiens, ridei&abque; timores</L>
<L>In&s;ani vulgi, &amp; torquentia fat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fatigat</L>
<PB REF="60">
<L>Quod &s;i di&s;ruptis rueret compagibus orbis</L>
<L>Machina, non trepidum tumularent rudera mundi.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Da Chri&s;te vires, da mihi gratiae</L>
<L>Virtute, diras ire per hostium</L>
<L>Turmas, &amp; in&s;anas phalangas</L>
<L>Perfi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iae, invidiae, timoris:</L>
<L>Internus ho&s;tis me male &s;auciat,</L>
<L>Externus ho&s;tis vulnere lancinat,</L>
<L>Quocunque me verto, cruentis</L>
<L>Ob&s;ideor Satanae catervis.</L>
<L>Tu dux, Deus Tu, Tu Dominus mihi</L>
<L>Arx, &s;alus, rupes, prae&s;idium, decus</L>
<L>Tua &s;ub umbra militabo</L>
<L>Nec metuam rabidos duelles.</L>
<L>Donec fugatis liberor ho&s;tibus,</L>
<L>Quum tu potenti numine proteres</L>
<L>Gentes rebelles, &amp; &s;uperbis</L>
<L>Iniicies manibus catenas.</L>
<L>Quando &s;onabunt aethere cla&s;&s;ica</L>
<L>Parebis altis nubibus in&s;idens,</L>
<L>Ad Te vocabis tunc amicos</L>
<L>In patre Coelituum beatos.</L>
<L>Qualis triumphi tunc facies erit</L>
<L>Quando re&s;urget turba fidelium</L>
<L>Stabuntque caetus impiorum</L>
<L>Numinis ad &s;uperum tribunal.</L>
<L>Agmen malorum &s;ulphureas domos</L>
<L>Intrabit orci, &s;aecula in omnia</L>
<L>Tormenta pa&s;&s;urum Gehennae</L>
<L>Et tenebras Styg&icirc;i barathri.</L>
<L>Scandent polorum culmina &s;ed pii</L>
<L>Inter coru&s;cas Scraphici gregis</L>
<L>Turmas, &amp; aeterno fruentur</L>
<L>Gloria &amp; imperio, as honore.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="61">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Friget.</HI></P>
<P>It's cold.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 LANG="lat" TYPE="version">
<PB REF="62">
<HEAD>HYEMS.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>December, &s;ive Senectus.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>PRonus ad hir&s;uti quum Titan cornua capri</L>
<L>Pertigit, au&s;tralem Coeli relegatus ad aulam;</L>
<L>Incipiunt languere dies, &amp; tri&s;tior anni</L>
<L>Apparet vultus, multum mutatus ab illo</L>
<L>Qui primi pictos veris jactabat honores</L>
<L>Lilia purpureis dans intermi&s;ta ro&s;et is;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lic&ograve; dimidiae incipiunt decre&s;cere luces</L>
<L>Ducere &amp; exiguos arcus; longi&s;sim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> noctis</L>
<L>Tempora dant immortales mortalibus umbras;</L>
<L>Frigoribus venti horre&s;cunt, auraeque pruinis,</L>
<L>Flumina pigritie torpent, &amp; &s;or<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ibus arva,</L>
<L>Nube riget Coelum, lacrymarum gurgite stagnat</L>
<L>Telluris gremium, cane&s;cit fluctious aequor</L>
<L>Omniaque inver&s;um contr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tant luctibus annum:</L>
<L>Obrepit &s;ic tarda homini, tri&s;ti&s;que &s;enectus</L>
<L>Innumeris comitata malis, obnoxia morbis,</L>
<L>E&s;tque odio&s;a &s;ibi, nonnunquam digna cicutis,</L>
<L>Et fragiles cani cycnaeis tempora plumis</L>
<L>Cingunt, &amp; nive&acirc; crines a&s;pergine tingunt;</L>
<L>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pe velut Boreae rapidis percu&s;&s; a procellis</L>
<L>Quercus &s;tat foliis jam de&s;poliata caducis,</L>
<L>Corticeque horre&s;cit &s;cabr&acirc;, nec frondibus umbr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Sed trunco reddit: &s;ic no&s;tra malignior aetas</L>
<L>Crine caput &s;polians, levi ceu pumice calvam</L>
<L>Nudat, &amp; excu&s;&s;is hyemem testuta capillis,</L>
<L>Perdit quos volu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t Pro&s;erpina tollere crines.</L>
<L>Nunc eboris quid forma juvat candore coru&s;cans</L>
<L>Purpureoque ro&s;ae quondam di&s;tincta colore,</L>
<L>Lilia ceu rubris fulgent contexta Amaranthis,</L>
<L>Maeotis a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t minio qualis nix certat Hibero,</L>
<L>Nunc abit in rugas macie livente &s;enile<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Et pallet calido Siri ceu prata vapore</L>
<PB REF="63">
<L>Marcent, &s;olstitij geminat quando hora calores,</L>
<L>Rugantur&abque; genae, dependet pro cute pellis.</L>
<L>Lumina noctivagas quondam &s;uperantia &s;tellas</L>
<L>Aemula flammivomis Erythraeo in littore gemmi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Oc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ipitis fugiunt caeca, ad penetralia, damni</L>
<L>Sic pudet ip&s;a &s;ui, tenebrae pro lumine regnant;</L>
<L>Caligant ip&s;i Soli, &s;enio&abque; fati&s;cunt.</L>
<L>Spina riget laceri proten&s;o tubere dor&s;i,</L>
<L>Quae&abque; humero Pelopis poterant contendere, nutant</L>
<L>Incurvae in pectus &s;capulae, fit&abque; o&s;&s;ea imago</L>
<L>Corpus, quod p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lchrum &s;udabat pingue nitorem.</L>
<L>O vecors &s;ine mente Paris! Lacedaemona cla&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Cur petis, ho&s;pitij rupturus foedera &s;acri?</L>
<L>Cur trahis ad Trojae mi&s;eranda incendia Graecas</L>
<L>Non ni&s;i po&s;t patriae redituras funera cla&s;&s;es?</L>
<L>Scilicet Argivae flagrat tibi pectus amore</L>
<L>Tyndaridis, fragili&s;&abque; juvat te gloria formae?</L>
<L>A&s;pice &s;ed rugas Hecubae, ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&abque;, &s;itum&abque;,</L>
<L>O&s;&s;a tumore macro cre&s;centia, &s;umina lemis;</L>
<L>Aspice &amp; illius formae di&s;pendia, quondam</L>
<L>Quae Priamo dulces juvent dedit una calores:</L>
<L>Tyndaris illa tuae nunc unica gaudia mentis,</L>
<L>Po&s;t fatum crudele tuum, po&s;t fata parentum,</L>
<L>Cognata&s;que neces, incendia, furta, rapinas,</L>
<L>Tandem rugo&s;as &s;calpet ceu &s;imia buc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">as,</L>
<L>Di&s;&s;imili&s;que &s;ui ad speculi &s;imula<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ra dolebit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quid vires, robur&abque; juvant, quae effoeta &s;enectus</L>
<L>Frangit, &amp; enerv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> labefactat pondere molis?</L>
<L>Sacra Iovi quercus&punc; po&s;tquam duo &s;aecla peregit</L>
<L>Cre&s;cens, con&s;i&s;ten&s;que aetas, ubi tertia venit</L>
<L>Fatali&s;que aevi &s;eries, radice vacillat</L>
<L>Exe&s;&acirc;&punc; nutat&abque; auris bacchantibus impar;</L>
<L>Ip&s;e Atlas, humeris qui coelum &amp; &s;ydera ful&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Annorum &s;patio confectus &s;uppo&s;uit, quem</L>
<PB REF="64">
<L>Noxin &s;e rediens genuit, dum furta <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">onantis</L>
<L>Opt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">to pulchrae Alemenes &s;atiantur amore;</L>
<L>Qui diduit portare bovem, totique theatro</L>
<L>O&s;tentare &s;uas populi ad &s;pectacula vires,</L>
<L>Iam &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> gravis, &amp; longaevis debilis annis,</L>
<L>Se minor effoetos vidit pendere l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">certos,</L>
<L>Ing<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">muitque, animo non respondere vietos</L>
<L>Cer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ui&punc; &amp; in terram proni jam corporis artus;</L>
<L>&V;t Leo &s;ylvarum quondam formido, &s;enectae</L>
<L>Ignavae fractus morb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, vix languida po&s;t &s;e</L>
<L>Membra trabens, impune videt per pa&s;cua tauros</L>
<L>Infirm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;que errare greges, fame &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cius aegr&acirc;,</L>
<L>Sed &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">io tardus flaccenti debilis alce</L>
<L>&V;ndique quam &s;pectat, ne&s;cit deprendere praedam;</L>
<L>Sic miles quercus quondam decoratus honore,</L>
<L>De victo duxit qui &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pius ho&s;te triumpho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>(Qualis ponte fletit Cocles, quali&s;que Quirinus</L>
<L>Rettulit Acronem Iovis ad delubra Feretri,</L>
<L>Quique ducem potuere &s;equi Marcellus, &amp; acer</L>
<L>Co&s;&s;us, victores, &amp; opimi gloria Martis)</L>
<L>Iam rude donatus &s;u&s;pen&s;is defidet armis;</L>
<L>Cla&s;&s;ica turmarum rauco quum murmure clangunt,</L>
<L>Tympa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aque ingeminant pul&s;us, hinnitus equorum</L>
<L>Quum fremit, exurgitque minax ad &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dera clamor,</L>
<L>Hic &s;edet immotus, nulloque cientur ab <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re</L>
<L>Pectora <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">agnanimos quae dididicere calores.</L>
<L>Navita, Pygmaeos legit qui cla&s;&s;e penates,</L>
<L>Po&s;t coeli, Pontique hyemes, in tuta recedit</L>
<L>Ocia, quum laxis tremuli compagibus artus</L>
<L>In&s;anos nequeunt pelagi tolerare labores,</L>
<L>Neptuno piceas gaudet &s;uspendere ve&s;tes;</L>
<L>Dimida ut navis rimis atque imbre dehi&s;cens</L>
<L>In &s;icco laceras re&s;upinat littore co&s;tas</L>
<L>Iam dudum pertae&s;a maris; &s;ic tardus &amp; aeger</L>
<PB REF="65">
<L>Nauta domi recubat, terrae ut committere po&s;&s;it</L>
<L>Relliquias mari<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, ac ingratae taedia vitae.</L>
<L>Dulce fuit quodcun&abque; prius defluxit, in imo,</L>
<L>Vltima &s;ola manet &s;ex, &amp; deterrima fundo.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Po&s;citis O mi&s;eri &s;eros cur Ne&s;toris annos</L>
<L>Alterna numerare manu, contendere cervo</L>
<L>&V;ivaci, &amp; vet<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lae corri is ducere vitam?</L>
<L>Nulla dies moerore vacat, nec luctibus hora</L>
<L>&V;lla car<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t, tre&s;cit cum&abque; anxietatibus aetas.</L>
<L>Longius ia fluctus &s;i quo&s;&s;a carina profundos</L>
<L>Egreditur, diris d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bet ludioria ventis</L>
<L>Hoc magis, &amp; timor e&s;t, rep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tat n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n aufraga littus,</L>
<L>Troite tu felix impubes fortiter annos</L>
<L>Fini&s;ti, &s;cro cui non temerata dolore e&s;t</L>
<L>Imbe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is, tri&s;ti&s;&abque; aetas: &s;i fata dedi&s;&s;ent</L>
<L>Hanc infelici l'riamo cum conjuge mortem,</L>
<L>Non tot vidi&s;&s;et natorum funera, raptas</L>
<L>Crinibus I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">adas laceris, nec Pergama flammis</L>
<L>Diruta, non rivo macula&s;&s;et &s;anguinis aras.</L>
<L>Quid non longaevi la be factat temporis aetas?</L>
<L>Pyramides cedunt annis, &amp; Mau&s;olaea,</L>
<L>Destruxit Rhodium curio&s;a &s;enecta Colo&s;&s;um;</L>
<L>Longa dies minuit vires, forti&s;que vigorem</L>
<L>Corporis exilem citius perducit ad umbram.</L>
<L>Forma perit; cen&s;us non aegro in corpore &s;en&s;us</L>
<L>Instaurat; pereunt Naturae &amp; munera &s;ortis;</L>
<L>Virtus &s;ola manet, studio quam prima juventus</L>
<L>Quae&s;ivit, tri&s;tem con&s;olatur&abque; &s;enectam;</L>
<L>Haec prae&s;tat mi&s;eris jucunda viatica canis,</L>
<L>&V;t &s;cin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">illantes Titanis lumina &s;tellas</L>
<L>Ob&s;curant; virtus tri&s;tes &s;ic mole dolores</L>
<L>Opprimis, in&s;anas non pa&s;&s;a exire querelas;</L>
<L>Ip&s;a &s;ibi merces pulcherrima, digna&abque; votis</L>
<L>Sola pijs, ca&s;u tranquillos reddit in omni.</L>
<PB REF="66">
<L>Dira Syracu&s;ias quum flamma incenderet arces,</L>
<L>Marcelli&abque; manus den&s;arent undi&abque; caedes,</L>
<L>Inter tot fremitus, strepitus, lamenta ruinas,</L>
<L>Inter tot gemitus, planctus, querulo&s;&abque; dolores,</L>
<L>Coeli docte &s;enex animo &s;tudii&s;&abque; vacabas,</L>
<L>Alcyon veluti medijs &s;ecurus in undis,</L>
<L>Vix ho&s;tile tuo &s;en&s;i&s;ti in pectore ferrum.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O animi dulcis requies, o &s;ola voluptas</L>
<L>Virtus! Tu tollis humanae incommoda vitae,</L>
<L>Damna &s;enectutis minu is, mulce&s;&abque; dolores,</L>
<L>Laetitiam, quamvis mi&s;eris, mortalibus adfers.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Horrida cycnaei vallant mihi tempora cani,</L>
<L>Te&s;tantur&abque; hyemis tempus ade&s;&s;e nives.</L>
<L>Lux&abque; maligna meas obfu&s;cat nube fene&s;tras,</L>
<L>Attritu dentes con&s;enuere molae.</L>
<L>Corporis &amp; fractae incipiunt nutare columnae,</L>
<L>Ac labat infirm&acirc; mole caduca domus.</L>
<L>I am tristes adfert morbos curio&s;a Senectus,</L>
<L>Debilis enervat languida membra &s;tupor.</L>
<L>Quicquid dulce fuit perijt; mihi gaudia vitae</L>
<L>Si qua fuere meae, jam me mini&s;&s;e grave e&s;t.</L>
<L>Moe&s;ta&abque; pallentes Lethes mens &s;omniat umbras</L>
<L>Occur&s;at&abque; oculis mortis imago meis.</L>
<L>Impia dum recolo la&s;civae facta juventae,</L>
<L>Concidit ad gemitus moe&s;ta &s;enecta graves.</L>
<L>Picta velut nubes juvenilis gloria fugit;</L>
<L>Iris uti, in lacrymas vita &s;oluta fluir.</L>
<L>O clemens igno&s;ce pater, damnum&abque; &s;enectae</L>
<L>Salvifica reparet gratia &s;ancta fide.</L>
<L>Spiritus Aetherios in&s;tauret pectore &s;en&s;us,</L>
<L>Vt &s;olum &s;apiat mens animu&s;&abque; polum.</L>
<L>Det&abque; mihi noxae tecmeria certa remi&s;&s;ae,</L>
<L>Cedas &amp; aeterni f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">deris arrha mihi:</L>
<PB REF="67">
<L>Sic ego Coele&s;tis patriae oblectabor amore,</L>
<L>Hoc mihi lenimen dulce doloris erit.</L>
<L>Sic cupiam grat&acirc; di&s;&s;olvi morte, parentem</L>
<L>Chri&s;te, tuum ut po&s;&s;im cernere, Chri&s;te, meum.</L>
<L>Empyreas aeterna tuas ubi pax colit arces,</L>
<L>Gaudiaque in nullos interitura dies.</L>
<L>Spectabitque fides, quae credidit, &amp; potietur</L>
<L>Spes voto, Caeli regna tenebit amor.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="68">
<LG>
<L>I Am <HI>Aquarius,</HI> now is my turne,</L>
<L>To throw forth balefull floods out of mine urne;</L>
<L>Spring wher's thy dre&s;&s;e? Summer thy fragrant flowers?</L>
<L>Autumne thy plea&s;ant fruits? loe here's my &s;howers.</L>
<L>What ever plea&s;ure in the world was found,</L>
<L>By this my fatall deluge now is drown'd.</L>
<L>&para; When men a <HI>Noah</HI> &s;o long preaching heare,</L>
<L>Let ev'ry one take heede and &s;tand in feare.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="69">
<HEAD>Ianuarius &s;ive Mors.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>TRi&s;tis ubi inve &s;am profundit aquarius urnam,</L>
<L>Iupiter &amp; gelido de &s;cendit plurimus imbre,</L>
<L>Ac nebulis urget mundum, brumamque flagellat</L>
<L>Stridula tempe&s;tas, &amp; Caeli grando &s;onora;</L>
<L>Omnia tunc refugo in terram &s;tant marcida &s;ucco,</L>
<L>Exanimata g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">la moriuntur &s;emina vitae,</L>
<L>Si qua manent, imae tumulantur vi&s;cere terrae;</L>
<L>Mole gemunt nivium &s;altus, laceri&s;que rige&s;cit</L>
<L>Ramis, &amp; rupto macre&s;cit cortice &s;ylva;</L>
<L>Stant &amp; aquae pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;im glacia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i compede vinctae,</L>
<L>Immen&s;o &s;que lacus capuli crystallina condit</L>
<L>Arca, natant vivi torpenti i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> flumine pi&s;ces;</L>
<L>Terra &s;epulta jacet nivibus, torpedine tacti</L>
<L>Frigoris, exangues perdunt &s;ua gramina campi:</L>
<L>Aetatis de&s;aevit hyems, quum incurva vacillat</L>
<L>Vixque effoeta levi &s;u&s;tentat membra bacill<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</L>
<L>Se minor est homo majus onus, quum cernuus aegrum</L>
<L>Ob&s;tipat caput in &s;ilices, capularis ad orcum</L>
<L>Fe&s;tinat pedibus trinis, &s;ed gre&s;&s;ihus impar</L>
<L>Inque potens ruit in praeceps, inopina Charontis</L>
<L>Ad ferrug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eam dum fertur fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cina cymbam.</L>
<L>Na&s;cendt le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">certa, via e&s;t mortalibus una</L>
<L>In lucem, &s;ed mille patent ad funera portae.</L>
<L>Parcae molle &s;ecant prim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> lanugine &s;tam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n,</L>
<L>Et quod rugo&s;a carie, cani&s;que rige&s;cit;</L>
<L>Per&s;ophonae a fugit n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">llum, non Proteus ora</L>
<L>Tot poterat mutare, vices variare quot illa;</L>
<L>Saevior in quo&s;dam tormenta excogitat, arma</L>
<L>Carnificis, clavos, uncos, cuneo&s;que trabales;</L>
<L>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tior e&s;t aliis, &s;en&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nque in corpore vires</L>
<L>Et &s;ibras minuit, frangitque atate cic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">das.</L>
<L>Innumeros fati ca&s;us, di&s;crimina mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">le</L>
<PB REF="70">
<L>Morhorum, &amp; diras febrium numerare cohortes</L>
<L>Quis valeat? non tot volitant &s;ub &s;ydere claro</L>
<L>Corpora quae fallunt oculos &s;ine lumine Solis,</L>
<L>Quot mala ver&s;utae comitantur &s;tamina parcae;</L>
<L>Quilibet unius fruitur qui munere vitae</L>
<L>Mille modis pereat; tot non arteria motus,</L>
<L>Febriculo&s;a ciet, quot mors dare vulnera po&s;&s;it;</L>
<L>Sive placet macie gracilenti corporis artus,</L>
<L>Liqui, cera fluit lentis ceu &s;aucia flammis,</L>
<L>Seu calor exurit, mergit &s;eu nimius humor</L>
<L>Et rumpunt elementa fidem; &s;eu dira &s;ynanche</L>
<L>Et ton&s;illarum vis flammea fauce tume&s;cunt;</L>
<L>Seu capitis dolor affligit, cephalaea&abque; rumpens</L>
<L>Tempora, quae&abque; oculos tendit catalep&s;is hiante<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">;</L>
<L>Sive veterno&s;i tabes lethargica &s;omni</L>
<L>Enervat, &s;altu&s;&abque; rotans vertigine corpus,</L>
<L>Et morbus rigidos convellens &s;pa&s;mate nervos;</L>
<L>Sive cutem &s;cabris maculis elephantia pingit,</L>
<L>Seu nitet haec multum di&s;tenta intercute lymph&acirc;;</L>
<L>Seu phagedena nocet, &s;ive orthopnaea meatum</L>
<L>Non facilem pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bet vitalis follibus aurae,</L>
<L>Seu papulis turgens <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oa: Mors e&s;t gnara nocendi</L>
<L>Mille artes docta, &amp; fraudum &s;tudio&s;a novarum&punc;</L>
<L>Sed gravior nullus quam Caeli morbus, &amp; aethrae</L>
<L>Exitio&s;a lues, populatrix unica mundi;</L>
<L>Flumina Lethaeis quum currunt languida lymphis,</L>
<L>Et gravidae letho n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">es fatale venenum</L>
<L>Diffundunt, patuli&abque; meat mors faucibus oris;</L>
<L>Nectareo prorore greges aconita trilinguis</L>
<L>Dira ferae lambunt, &s;tant lurida pabula tabo;</L>
<L>In&abque; homines &s;aevire &s;olet crudelius (eheu)</L>
<L>Vidimus, &amp; tanti fuimus pars magna doloris;</L>
<L>Quum &s;aepe &amp; &s;ubit&ograve; Angligenas gra&s;&s;ata per oras</L>
<L>Noluit haec populum decimare; &s;ed undi&abque; totos</L>
<PB REF="71">
<L>&V;rbibus exhau&s;tos leto va&s;tare penates.</L>
<L>Londinum quoties Tami&s;inas fletibus undas</L>
<L>Auxi&s;ti, dicant, quos vix dum cymba Charontis</L>
<L>Tran&s;mi&s;it, mane&s;que tui, quos vix capit Orcus?</L>
<L>Morte gravi gravior pe&s;tis, teterrima lethi</L>
<L>E&s;t facies; pigris &s;ordent languoribus artus,</L>
<L>Lumina &s;tant flammis, exardent ora rubore,</L>
<L>Corporis inque arcem &s;candit vaporigneus, artus</L>
<L>Pa&s;citur, &amp; cre&s;cit flammis torrentibus herpes;</L>
<L>Inde &s;tupore rigent oculi, de naribus at er</L>
<L>Sanguinis it rivus, re&s;on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt tinaitibus aures,</L>
<L>Ilia &s;ingultu tenduntur, &s;urgit ab alto</L>
<L>Spiritus, arcano gemitu, gravis; a&s;pera clau&s;as</L>
<L>Lingua premit fauces, fitis in&s;atiabilis urget,</L>
<L>Amplexuque crebro torpentia &s;ana fatigant,</L>
<L>Et gelidos po&s;cunt fontes, custode remoto;</L>
<L>Liventes papulae dant &s;par&s;o in corpore naevos,</L>
<L>Et maculae narrant di&s;rumpi &s;tamina vitae.</L>
<L>Huic genus omne mali cedit mortalibus agris</L>
<L>Quod Pandora dedit; vis morbi haud tristior ulla e&s;t.</L>
<L>Non tant&ugrave;m nocuit gravis amphisbaena veneno,</L>
<L>Non tant&ugrave;m ammodites flavis agnatus arenis,</L>
<L>Vipera, nec &s;cytale vario quae tergore fallit,</L>
<L>Non &s;alamandra gravis, &s;itien&s;que in flumine dip&s;as,</L>
<L>Non &s;eps tabificus, non tri&s;ti Scorpio caud&acirc;,</L>
<L>Frigidus aut Bufo, non &s;ulcans arva pareas,</L>
<L>Non a&s;pis, diroque necas qui regule vi&s;is.</L>
<L>O &s;upert! procul a no&s;tris haec exulet oris;</L>
<L>&V;t liceat patribus natorum claudere ocellos,</L>
<L>Et natis geli<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">as animas baurire parentum.</L>
<L>Aequora qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t va&s;to mergunt in gurgite, Martis</L>
<L>Quot furor exitio dedit, &amp; ve&s;anacupido,</L>
<L>Et male&s;anus amor, vi&s;que implacabilis irae?</L>
<L>O fragilis vita, o incerta, o fluxa, caduca,</L>
<PB REF="72">
<L>Innumeris ob&s;e&s;&s;umalis, impar tamen uni!</L>
<L>Siccine ventorum concurrunt agmina, bullam</L>
<L>Vt frangant Coeli&abque;, &s;oli&abque;, &s;oli&abque; furores</L>
<L>Ergo anima hospitio quum corporis exulat, arces</L>
<L>Empyreas repetit, patrium&abque; invi&s;it Olympum,</L>
<L>Felix po&s;t tantos vitae&abque; viaeque labores,</L>
<L>Optatos Coe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ipoterit quae intrarepenates,</L>
<L>Aetern&acirc;que frui requie, clari&s;que triumphis:</L>
<L>Felixincertae po&s;t tot di&s;cremina &s;ortis,</L>
<L>Contigit Aetherio cui jam requie&s;cere portu:</L>
<L>Interea corpus varij ludibria ca&s;us,</L>
<L>Praeda jacet crudae &s;ylvae, aut &s;ublime putre&s;cent</L>
<L>Dat corvis, coeloque dapes; quot gurgite va&s;to</L>
<L>Corpora dant avidis inopinam pi&s;cibus e&s;cum?</L>
<L>Pauca &s;uae matris redeunt in vi&s;cera terrae,</L>
<L>Imponuntque rogis cla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">atu cadavera, paucos</L>
<L>Praefica deflet anus, lugubris vel naenia pompae,</L>
<L>Qu&eacute;is ante ora patrum, natorum, uxoris, amici,</L>
<L>Contigit oppetere, &amp; capulo mutare pen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tes.</L>
<L>Sic animae po&s;tquam di&s;ce&s;&s;us &s;olverit artus</L>
<L>In luti deforme Chaos: non frigidiora</L>
<L>Membra jacent, quam friget amor lugentis amici,</L>
<L>&V;xori&s;que novos meditan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is tunc hymenaos.</L>
<L>Sollicitat luctum, puli&s;que nitoribus haeres</L>
<L>Gaudia per&s;onat, dum toto laetior a&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Naturam beat &amp; parcas, quod cana parentis</L>
<L>Funera &s;olentur loculi, &s;olentur &amp; arcae,</L>
<L>Lenius &amp; plena &s;u&s;piret planctus in a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l&agrave;.</L>
<L>Sic ubi, quicunque e&s;t haeres (haec &s;unt mea) dixit.</L>
<L>Defunctus proprios ju&s;&s;us mutare penates</L>
<L>Effertur, foribus quia non pedes ocyus exit:</L>
<L>Agmina amicorum &s;tipant ex ordine longo,</L>
<L>Arma viri claris portant &s;pectanda trophaeis,</L>
<L>Moe&s;titiam que tub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fingu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t, pullatuque turb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<PB REF="73">
<L>Vitae annos numerat; praelu&s;tris it undique pompa;</L>
<L>Sed po&s;iquam ventum e&s;t ad tetra palatia mortis,</L>
<L>Ingluviemque Orci, &amp; putres telluris hiatus</L>
<L>Iniiciunt nudum capulum: deque agmine tanto</L>
<L>Non e&s;t, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">um veteri qui nunc inhumetur amico;</L>
<L>Di&s;cedunt omnes, &s;olus jacet ille &s;epulchro,</L>
<L>Ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mib<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a, chaos capuli putre, fabula vulgi.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="74">
<HEAD>&para; Operae precium hic videbatur cycnaeum illud car|men poetae quidem clari&s;&s;imi, &s;ed anonymi, la|tinitate donare, quod homines mortalitatis &s;uae non in&s;uaviter moneat.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Q&V;alis Pe&s;tanae pubes Alabandica florae,</L>
<L>Qualis &amp; arboreae gloria prima comae,</L>
<L>Quale de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us florum verno &s;ub tempore ridet,</L>
<L>Quale nitet primo mane &s;erena dies,</L>
<L>Quale jubar rutilans, quali&s;que evanida nubes,</L>
<L>Qualis Amathidae ro&s;cida &s;cena fuit,</L>
<L>Talis homo, cujus fatalia &s;tamina vitae</L>
<L>Net &s;imul, &amp; diro pollice parca &s;ecat:</L>
<L>Spina ro&s;ae &s;upere&s;t, funduntur ab arbore flores</L>
<L>Herba perit, parvo tempore mane f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">git,</L>
<L>Occiduum jubar e&s;t, nubis praetervolat umbr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Scena repente cadit, vita caduca perit.</L>
<L>Qualia &s;tant teneris na&s;centia gramina campis,</L>
<L>Qualis &amp; in vanum fabula c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pta jocum,</L>
<L>Qualis avis &s;ylvae nullae quae &s;ede moratur,</L>
<L>Qualis &amp; in pratis pendula roris onyx,</L>
<L>Qualis &amp; e&s;t horae, &s;pithamae dimen&s;io qualis,</L>
<L>Quale &s;olet carmen fundere tri&s;tis olor:</L>
<L>Talis homo, cujus non certo obnoxia fato</L>
<L>Tempora, &amp; I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iacis accumulata malis:</L>
<L>Gramina flacce&s;cunt, properum dat fabula finem,</L>
<L>Avolat hinc volucris, ros &amp; in alta micat,</L>
<L>Hora brevis, &s;pithamae non e&s;t dimen&s;io longa,</L>
<L>&V;t moriturus olor, &s;ic moriturus homo.</L>
<L>Qualis bulla natat tremuli prurigine rivi,</L>
<L>Qualis &amp; in &s;peculo levi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ago nitet,</L>
<PB REF="74">
<L>Qualis Arachnaeam telam percurrit arundo,</L>
<L>Qualis areno&s;o littera &s;cripta &s;olo.</L>
<L>Qualis &amp; e&s;t nictu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> mentis, vel fictile &s;omni,</L>
<L>Quale fluit murmur de&s;ilientis aquae;</L>
<L>Talis homo duri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ens ludibria parcis.</L>
<L>Errat &amp; in&s;tabiles it&abque; redit&abque; vices;</L>
<L>Bulla crepat, levis &s;peculi di&s;paret imago,</L>
<L>Torquetur pecten, caeca litura perit,</L>
<L>Excidit ex animo &s;en&s;us, de lumine &s;omnu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</L>
<L>Et tanquam rivi murmure vita fluit.</L>
<L>Quales decurrunt fluvij torrentibus undis,</L>
<L>Qualis &amp; a Parthi mi&s;&s;a &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gitta manu,</L>
<L>Qualis equi cur&s;us, &s;uperat qualis pila metam;</L>
<L>Qualis &amp; e diti sportula mi&s;&s;a domo,</L>
<L>Quales non certo cur&s;u stant aequoris <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tus,</L>
<L>Qualis Arachnaei pendula tela laris:</L>
<L>Talis homo vitae medijs jactatus in undis,</L>
<L>Nulla cui mentis gaudia, nulla quies;</L>
<L>Mi&s;&s;ile abit telum, reduces &s;unt aequoris ae&s;tus,</L>
<L>Null<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> mora e&s;t cur&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, rupta&abque; tela cadit,</L>
<L>Emicat ad metam pila, mox e&s;t sportula nulla,</L>
<L>Sic repetens manes e&s;t modo nullus homo.</L>
<L>Quale coru&s;canti de&s;cendit ab Aethere fulgur,</L>
<L>Angarus ad Dominum quale c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pe&s;&s;it iter</L>
<L>Quales &s;unt cantus pau&s;ae numeri&abque; minores,</L>
<L>Aut via per tridui continuata moras,</L>
<L>Liquitur ae&s;tivo qualis nix &s;aucia &s;ole,</L>
<L>Quale pyrum praecox, qualia pruna cadunt:</L>
<L>Tali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp; accumulat fatali lege dolores,</L>
<L>Et &s;ubit hanc lucem cras moriturus homo;</L>
<L>Vane&s;cit fulgur, fe&s;tinat nuncius, omnem</L>
<L>Pau&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> rapit cantus, &amp; via parva moram,</L>
<PB REF="75">
<L>Et pyraputre&s;cunt, funduntur pruna, lique&s;cit</L>
<L>Nix, tandem quicquid vixit in orbe, perit.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>Re&s;urrectio.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Q&V;alia frugiferis concredita &s;emina &s;ulcis,</L>
<L>Quale a Marthiden ceperat urna putris,</L>
<L>Qualis mortifero Tabitha oppre&s;&s;a &s;opore,</L>
<L>Qualis, qui ceti viva &s;aburra fuit,</L>
<L>Qualia lucifugae &s;cintillant &s;ydera noctis,</L>
<L>Et condunt vultus adveniente die.</L>
<L>Talis &amp; Humanae condit mors lumina vitae;</L>
<L>Morte tamen vict&acirc; fit redivivus Homo.</L>
<L>Semina vivi&s;cunt, <HI>Marthides</HI> &s;urgit ab urn&acirc;,</L>
<L>Fit <HI>Tabitha</HI> vigil, bellua reddit onus,</L>
<L>Nox fugit, &amp; &s;tellae; &s;ubeunt mox gaudia lucis,</L>
<L>Atque Homo po&s;t fatum triste &s;uper&s;tes ovat.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<LG>
<L>MEn, bea&s;ts and birds, mountaines, and ca&s;tles hye</L>
<L>Like fi&s;hes in oblivion drowned lye;</L>
<L>The &s;eas and floods prevaile, and all is gone,</L>
<L><HI>Deucalion</HI> and <HI>Pyrra,</HI> are left alone;</L>
<L>The faire, the plea&s;ant, fruitfull yeare is pa&s;t,</L>
<L>And <HI>Con&s;ummatum</HI> now hath com'd at la&s;t.</L>
<L>&para; As in the &s;eas, the life, there fi&s;hes have,</L>
<L>So &s;hall we take our being from the grave.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="76">
<HEAD>Februarius, &s;ive Mortuorum Februa.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD>Epitaphium <HI>Adami</HI> primi humani generis conditoris.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>HVmani generis pater, immortalis in horam,</L>
<L>Mox mihi, mox cunctis mortis origo&s;ui.</L>
<L>Solus ego vixi felix, con&s;orte beatus</L>
<L>Po&s;tquam felici, factus uter&abque; mi&s;er.</L>
<L>Primus peccavi, non &s;olus; nam mea proles</L>
<L>In me peccavit, debet &amp; illa mori.</L>
<L>Gratia divinae mihi primo mi&s;&s;a &s;alutis,</L>
<L>Vt&abque; ego, &s;ic proles hanc habitura fide est.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD>Methu&s;halami omnium, qui vixerunt, maxime longaevi.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>ILle Ego &s;um longae monstrum admirabile vitae,</L>
<L>Aevi non numerent as<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ia minuta mei.</L>
<L>Si mare clep&s;ydrae vitreo &s;it carcere clau&s;um,</L>
<L>Non &s;atis e&s;t horis gurgitis unda meis,</L>
<L>Tot maris immen&s;i non &s;urgunt turbine fluctus,</L>
<L>Quot vid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Eoo &s;urgere ab axe dies.</L>
<L>Saepius ardenti vidi &s;ub Sole r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tentes</L>
<L>Phoenices nidis exilui&s;&s;e &s;uis.</L>
<L>Et &s;oboles Quercus, &amp; quae na&s;cuntur a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> illis,</L>
<L>No&s;trorum annorum con&s;enuere moris,</L>
<L>Credideram non po&s;&s;e mori me, vellit at aurem</L>
<L>Sera licet, dicens par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a, <HI>nece&s;&s;i mori e&s;t.</HI></L>
<L>Hoc me &s;olatur, fuerit qu&ograve; longior aetas,</L>
<L>H&ograve;c me mortis po&s;tea &s;omnus erit.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<PB REF="77">
<HEAD><HI>Abrahami</HI> patris fidelium.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Q&V;um &s;pes nulla foret prolis, rugo &s;aque conjux</L>
<L>Rideret Domini foedera laeta &s;ui.</L>
<L>Ecce &s;tatim pulchr&acirc; fecit me prole parentem,</L>
<L>Et quia credideram me fore, factus eram.</L>
<L>Ille puer magnae fuerat &s;pes uni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a gentis,</L>
<L>Quae Coeli &s;tellis aequiparanda foret,</L>
<L>Sed mactare Deus ju&s;&s;it, quod &s;trenuns egi:</L>
<L>Velle meum Dominus credidit e&s;&s;e &s;atis.</L>
<L>Illa fides mihi vera fuit, me natum habiturum</L>
<L>Credere, &amp; hoc cae&s;o, me tamen e&s;&s;e patrem.</L>
<L>&V;no &s;ic nato, gemino &s;ed nomine factus</L>
<L>Sanctorumque parens, I &s;acidumque pater.</L>
<L>&V;tque ego, &s;ic &s;oboles terrae perigrina per oras</L>
<L>Errat, &amp; e&s;t patriam mox habitura polum.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD><HI>Sam&s;oni</HI> forti&s;&s;imi I&s;raelitarum ducis.</HEAD>
<L>NAzarita Deo facer ip&s;o a &s;emine patris,</L>
<L>Ab&s;temi&acirc; natus de genetrice fui.</L>
<L>I&s;acid&ucirc;m fulmen gentis, vindexque duell&ucirc;m:</L>
<L>No&s;tra Palae&s;tinos perdidit ira duces.</L>
<L>Quod &s;en&s;ere gravi rivales clade perempti,</L>
<L>Et quae vulpin&acirc; fraude cremata &s;eges.</L>
<L>Quo&s;que a&s;ini ca&s;u gingiva oblata cecidit,</L>
<L>Sedarunt cujus pocula mira fitim.</L>
<L>Qua&s;que tuli, mea &s;unt testatae robora portae,</L>
<L>Et quae di&s;rupi fortia vincia manu.</L>
<L>Sed tamen has vires vicit muliercula fraude;</L>
<L>Illim atque auri, robora victa dolis.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<PB REF="78">
<HEAD>Davidis Sancti&s;&s;imi I&s;raelitarum Regis.</HEAD>
<L>ILle ego qui quondam plectro modulatus &amp; ore</L>
<L>Carmina grata mihi, carmina grata Deo.</L>
<L>Arc&acirc; qui coram, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">opulo &s;pectante choragus</L>
<L>Ludibrium Michalae, prae pietate, fui.</L>
<L>Barbitos, at&abque; lyrae concentus, nablia, lucis</L>
<L>Gaudia, cui mediae gaudia noctis erant.</L>
<L>Interdum rivis lacrymarum &s;trata rigavi,</L>
<L>Et cinere, at&abque; &s;itu diriguere genae.</L>
<L>Scilicet humanis ut rebus, tri&s;tia laetis</L>
<L>Mi&s;centur, &s;ic &s;unt in pietate vices.</L>
<L>Nam mod&ograve; tranquillas perfundunt gaudia mentes,</L>
<L>Tota&abque; &s;unt no&s;tro pectora plena Deo.</L>
<L>Et modo Cimmerijs merguntur corda tenebris,</L>
<L>In&abque; animis vi&s;us nullus ade&s;&s;e Deus.</L>
<L>Ne de&s;ponde animum, Coeli qui numen adoras,</L>
<L>Difficiles, faciles experiere vices.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD>Ab&s;alomi I&s;raelitarum pulcherrimi.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>DAvidide I&s;acidas inter pulcherrime natos,</L>
<L>Oris tam pulchri gloria vana fuit.</L>
<L>Compta&abque; Cae&s;aries promi&s;&s;o crine decora,</L>
<L>Lumina, quae clarum ceu nituere jubar,</L>
<L>Florente&s;&abque; genae, minio&abque; rubentialabra,</L>
<L>Quales condecorant lilia pulchraro&s;ae,</L>
<L>Threicias quae colla nives, humeri&abque; Elephantum</L>
<L>Vincebant, juvit nil juvenile decus,</L>
<L>Brachia candidulis mult&ugrave;m formo&s;a lacertis,</L>
<L>Corporis &amp; facies immaculata tui.</L>
<L>Quum tua probro&s;o &s;orde&s;cat crimine fama,</L>
<L>Sordeat &amp; nomen tempus in omne tuum.</L>
<L>Mentis erat virtus, pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ta&s;&abque; petenda; &s;ine ill&acirc;</L>
<L>Forma bonum fragile e&s;t, &amp; ni&s;i fucus iners.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<LG>
<PB REF="79">
<HEAD><HI>Salomonis</HI> &s;apienti&s;&s;imi &amp; diti&s;&s;imi <HI>I&s;raeli|tarum</HI> Regis.</HEAD>
<L>JLLe ego &s;um <HI>Salomon,</HI> cujus &s;apientia metam,</L>
<L>Divitiae cujus non habuere modum.</L>
<L>Omnia qui n&ograve;ram, cedro&s;que, hedera&s;que &s;equaces,</L>
<L>Saxorum argenti copia ad in&s;tar erat.</L>
<L>Orbis &amp; extremis mea fama vocavit oris</L>
<L>Reginam, te&s;tis quae foret ip&s;a mei.</L>
<L>Venit, me vidit, &s;u&s;pexit, deinde beavit</L>
<L>Turbam quae men&s;ae tunc famulata meae e&s;t.</L>
<L>Omnia quae humanae poterant contingere &s;orti,</L>
<L>No&s;tra fuere; decus, gloria, &s;plendor, opes.</L>
<L>Omnia at inveni, quae &s;ublunaria, vana,</L>
<L>Vota hominum &s;en&s;i fluxa, caduca, nihil.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="7">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Terram fodio.</HI></P>
<P>I dig the ground.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 LANG="eng" TYPE="version">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>SPRING.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>March, or Mans birth.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_THis Sphere redoubling Fabricke wheeling round.</L>
<L>Which big with beings doth with &s;hapes abound,</L>
<L>Before the Heavens did move, &amp; Earth was &s;table,</L>
<L>Before the boundle&s;&s;e Waves were Navigable,</L>
<L>It was a Chaos and confu&s;ed ma&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Wherein the jarring &s;eeds of all things was;</L>
<L>Such is the birth of Man, who doth compri&s;e</L>
<L>The greater Fabricke in a le&s;&s;er &s;i&s;e:</L>
<L>Before Heavens &s;acred &s;park, whereby he liveth</L>
<L>His vegetation, &s;en&s;e and rea&s;on giveth,</L>
<L>To Elements 'fore places bee a&s;&s;ign'd,</L>
<L>And qualities to Organes are confin'd,</L>
<L>Before <HI>Ioves</HI> Image from the &s;tarrie light</L>
<L>Doth claime his race, and looke with face upright,</L>
<L>What is he at fir&s;t but &s;eede, whereof we &s;ee</L>
<L>The ba&s;e&s;t vermine take their pedegree;</L>
<L>Yet God the great Creator of all things</L>
<L>This vilene&s;&s;e to a glorious creature brings.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like as the Graine doth in earths fruitfull wombe,</L>
<L>As it were dead, it &s;elfe in du&s;t entombe,</L>
<L>Yet by earths vertue and his &s;eeding power</L>
<L>Pre&s;erve it &s;elfe &s;afe from the winters &s;toure;</L>
<PB REF="9">
<L>Vntill like <HI>Phryxus, Phoebus</HI> ride upon</L>
<L>The Ramme, and more con&s;picuous in his Throne,</L>
<L>With geniall heat, and life-begetting ray</L>
<L>He twi&s;t it forth and make it &s;ee the day.</L>
<L>So man in wombe an Embryon doth lye,</L>
<L>Curded like milke, and wrought miraculou&s;ly,</L>
<L>Clothed like &s;eede with huskes, wrapt up in bags,</L>
<L>Which are its native home-&s;pun &s;wadling rags.</L>
<L>Then God Almighty, who life to all things giveth,</L>
<L>Breaths in that Divine &s;oule, whereby it liveth.</L>
<L>Here is a marriage made; to du&s;t and clay</L>
<L>The Heaven is wedded, &s;till with it to &s;tay;</L>
<L>Here immortality, by Gods command,</L>
<L>Poore fraile mortality takes by the hand;</L>
<L>O what a pitty, that the Virgin &s;oule</L>
<L>Should have a mate &s;o leprous and &s;o foule!</L>
<L>Its well in darkene&s;&s;e they the match doe make,</L>
<L>For if it &s;aw, the body it would for&s;ake.</L>
<L>O if it could then &s;peake, what would it &s;ay,</L>
<L>That it hath come from Heaven, to dwell in clay?</L>
<L>Or that like <HI>Ionas,</HI> from the Saphire vaile</L>
<L>Its fallen into the belly of a Whale?</L>
<L>The lodging they have got is darke as hell,</L>
<L>But if not there, they know not where to dwell;</L>
<L>So oft we &s;ee them tumbling to and fro,</L>
<L>They &s;hew them&s;elves content, but &s;o and &s;o:</L>
<L>Yea many times the &s;oule &s;o loaths this Inne,</L>
<L>It leaves it, when it &s;carce hath entred in;</L>
<L>And oft the bowels doe become a grave</L>
<L>For their owne brood, to which they lodging gave.</L>
<L>But take the be&s;t, and you your &s;elfe will bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>To &s;ee in birth what mi&s;ery there is;</L>
<L>Clamorous convul&s;ions, painefull throwes, and cries,</L>
<L>Sharpe &s;hewes &s;trayning the backe, weakning the thighes,</L>
<PB REF="10">
<L>Much like an Earthquakes &s;haking you may &s;ee,</L>
<L>Betwixt them &s;uch inte&s;tine warres there be.</L>
<L>O doth the child then know, what is this life,</L>
<L>Who will not enter it without &s;uch &s;trife?</L>
<L>Yea oft the one &s;o fights again&s;t the other,</L>
<L>That Viper like the child doth kill the mother.</L>
<L>May you not thinke, the &s;oule defild with &s;inne</L>
<L>Originall, doth to regrate begin,</L>
<L>And wi&s;h it may not &s;ee this life at all,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t it &s;hould adde thereto &s;inne actuall,</L>
<L>And once perhaps, &s;hould with the wicked &s;ay,</L>
<L>O if it never had &s;eene light of day.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But marke, when he is borne, how he will give</L>
<L>An Embleme of the life, which he mu&s;t live;</L>
<L>Telling as't were, when he his hand puts forth,</L>
<L>That he mu&s;t worke for what he &s;hall be worth;</L>
<L>Or thru&s;ting downe his naked foote he &s;ayes,</L>
<L>That he mu&s;t walke a Pilgrime all his dayes.</L>
<L>How e're he comes, he naked poore doth lye</L>
<L>And can doe nothing &s;illy babe but cry;</L>
<L>He cannot &s;peake, but yawle for greefe, and &s;o</L>
<L>His rude expre&s;&s;ion cryeth (wa) for (woe)</L>
<L>So <HI>Thracian</HI>-like into this world of feares</L>
<L>He u&s;hereth him&s;elfe with many teares.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e paines of birth and woefull agony</L>
<L>Foretokneth our en&s;uing mi&s;ery;</L>
<L>They clearely doe point forth the cur&s;e of man,</L>
<L>That he mu&s;t live in &s;orrow, as he began:</L>
<L>His nakedne&s;&s;e &s;hewes he mu&s;t nothing have</L>
<L>Which with him he may carry to his grave.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Since then my birth is of my bane</L>
<L>The primer, me be get againe,</L>
<L>Renew my &s;pirit Lord, &s;o with Thee</L>
<L>I &s;hall thy fathers dwellings &s;ee.</L>
<PB REF="11">
<L>His &s;econd birth is brought with feares.</L>
<L>A broken heart, and floods of teares,</L>
<L>Roaring, chatt'ring in the night,</L>
<L>Like <HI>Pelican</HI> from mortalls &s;ight.</L>
<L>Heart-con&s;uming &s;ighes and cries,</L>
<L>Soule-quelling fits and agonies,</L>
<L>Thought-killing muttring, when the heart</L>
<L>Knowes no wayes how to play its part.</L>
<L>But moment-la&s;ting &s;orrow is</L>
<L>Fore-runner to eternall bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>If here on earth it doth annoy,</L>
<L>Yet leads it us to Heavens joy.</L>
<L>When we &s;hall with tearele&s;&s;e eyes,</L>
<L>Meete our Saviour in the skies,</L>
<L>When we with him coheires &s;hall be</L>
<L>Of glory and immortality.</L>
<L>Then &s;hall our teares be wip't away,</L>
<L>Then &s;hall there be no night, but day;</L>
<L>Then for our mourning we &s;hall &s;ing,</L>
<L>A Halelujah to Heavens King.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="12">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Ecce novum gaudium.</HI></P>
<P>Behold new joy.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="13">
<HEAD>April, or Mans Infancie.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>AS <HI>Aprils</HI> &s;oft and balmy &s;howers doe nouri&s;h</L>
<L>The <HI>March</HI>-bred Buds, untill they come to flouri&s;h;</L>
<L>Sunne with its heare, Heav'n with its dew them cheri&s;h,</L>
<L>Le&s;t they with nipping cold, or drought &s;hould peri&s;h&punc;</L>
<L>Even &s;o the infant on his mothers knee,</L>
<L>Le&s;t he &s;hould &s;tarve for want or penury,</L>
<L>With milky Nectar he his belly fills</L>
<L>Which floweth from the two brea&s;t-towring hills,</L>
<L>Oft times Stepmother nature, Mothers pride</L>
<L>Doth &s;top tho&s;e &s;ources, which when they are dry'd,</L>
<L>What they cannot obtaine from cruell mothers,</L>
<L>Poore Infants! they are forc'd to beg from others:</L>
<L>Sometime the parents &s;o unnaturall prove,</L>
<L>That they expo&s;e, which they &s;ould deare&s;t love;</L>
<L>Then bea&s;ts and birds, again&s;t their nature, &s;hew</L>
<L>More love then parents, who this duty owe:</L>
<L>Did not the Woolfe her fiercene&s;&s;e lay a&s;ide,</L>
<L>To give what curs'd <HI>Amulius</HI> deny'd;</L>
<L><HI>Romes</HI> twinnes &s;o nurs'd with Woolfes unkindly foode,</L>
<L>Like ravenous bea&s;ts, one &s;hed the others blood.</L>
<L>A Bitch did nur&s;e great <HI>Cyrus,</HI> when they did</L>
<L>Expo&s;e him, cau&s;e his &s;urly Grand&s;ire bid,</L>
<L>From that time forth in jarres his life he led,</L>
<L>Seeking for prey, and thir&s;ting blood to &s;hed,</L>
<L>Vntill by <HI>Schythian Tomyris</HI> at la&s;t,</L>
<L>His head into a bag of blood was ca&s;t.</L>
<L>What is the cau&s;e, why children oft times are</L>
<L>Vnkind unto their parents? cau&s;e they were</L>
<L>Weaned from others; and it &s;tands with rea&s;on,</L>
<L>That they &s;hould &s;mell of, what fir&s;t did them &s;ea&s;on.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="14">
<L>But when the babe hath &s;uckt, then mu&s;t it goe</L>
<L>To Cradle, there to cry rockt too and fro.</L>
<L>(A pregnant Embleme of his life that followes,</L>
<L>Where like a barke, hee's to&s;t among the billowes</L>
<L>Of hope and feare, nor re&s;ts till cruell fates</L>
<L>Doe thru&s;t him into <HI>Pro&s;erpines</HI> black gates)</L>
<L>But le&s;t with crying he &s;hould be oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>Humming Enchantments lull him to his re&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If any life be innocent at all,</L>
<L>The filly Infants life &s;uch may you call;</L>
<L>Yet to how great and various mi&s;eries,</L>
<L>Good God! the harmele&s;&s;e Infant &s;ubject lies;</L>
<L>Nay, if an <HI>Herod</HI> &s;hew his cruelty,</L>
<L>The&s;e guiltle&s;&s;e children every one mu&s;t die.</L>
<L>Greece talkes of <HI>Midas</HI> Welth&punc; pre&s;aging Ants,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Platoes</HI> Beehiv'd eloquence &s;he vaunts,</L>
<L>And Cradle-luck &s;ent from the God; but I</L>
<L>Can &s;ee nothing foremeant in Infancie,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides great &s;orrow, trouble, care, and toyle,</L>
<L>And what&s;oever can true plea&s;ure &s;poyle.</L>
<L>Yet there's one comfort, children doe not know</L>
<L>Their mi&s;ery, which le&s;&s;neth much their woe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>With Nur&s;es milke I have drunke in</L>
<L>The deadly guilt of parents &s;inne;</L>
<L>So am I, as my parent was</L>
<L>Infected with <HI>Adams</HI> tre&s;pa&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>But (ah) that is the meane&s;t &s;hare</L>
<L>Con&s;idering what mine actuall are;</L>
<L>I have my yeares in &s;inning pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Nor can I leave them now at la&s;t.</L>
<L>O make me (Lord) in grace begin</L>
<L>To live before I end in &s;inne;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="15">
<L>Thine Infant (Lord) to be I crave,</L>
<L>Let not my gray haires &s;inne to grave.</L>
<L>My &s;oule doth cry&punc; &s;till thou it Lord</L>
<L>With milke of thy eternall Word;</L>
<L>Author of grace, nur&s;e grace in me,</L>
<L>So I at length &s;hall &s;trengthned be.</L>
<L>Clen&s;e me from fir&s;t and &s;econd guilt&punc;</L>
<L>Onely thou can&s;t (Lord) if thou wilt;</L>
<L>Then &s;hall I be a Denninzon</L>
<L>There, where uncleanne&s;&s;e commeth none.</L>
<L>Let not Hells Siren lull a&s;leepe</L>
<L>My &s;oule to drowne it in the deepe;</L>
<L>Lord make it watch for Heav'ns joyes</L>
<L>Regarding nothing worldly toyes.</L>
<L>Behold my &s;oule rock't too and fro,</L>
<L>Doth cry for feare and cannot goe;</L>
<L>Now lea&s;t in &s;torme it drowned be,</L>
<L>Take it into the &s;hip with Thee.</L>
<L>So &s;hall Thou thinke me to be thine,</L>
<L>And I &s;hall thinke thy kingdome mine;</L>
<L>So &s;hall my &s;oule thy mercies prove</L>
<L>And learne thy mercies how to love.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="16">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Flore&s;cunt&punc;</HI></P>
<P>They flouri&s;h.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="17">
<HEAD>May or Mans Childhood.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHen <HI>May,</HI> Springs-glory paints the gaudy fields,</L>
<L>And beauty t' <HI>Aprils</HI> &s;ucking infants yeelds,</L>
<L>The bloomes and blo&s;&s;omes are &s;o &s;trangely dy'd,</L>
<L>That Nature &s;eemes her cunning to have try'd.</L>
<L><HI>Flora</HI> perfumes her brood, which give a &s;mell,</L>
<L>That may the Phoenix ne&s;t well paralell,</L>
<L>The plumed min&s;trels with their Mu&s;icke fils</L>
<L>The &s;miling heav'n, the wood, and ecchoing hils.</L>
<L>Mans Childhood is his <HI>May,</HI> wherein he playes,</L>
<L>And wantonly beguiles his carele&s;&s;e dayes:</L>
<L>Then lookes he like an Angell, had he wings,</L>
<L>He is the prettie&s;t 'mong&s;t a thou&s;and things.</L>
<L>What Snow-white Lilly, can <HI>Flora</HI> afford &s;o faire,</L>
<L>Which with his &s;potle&s;&s;e beauty may compare?</L>
<L>Pe&s;tans twice-bearing ro&s;e-beds, blu&s;h to &s;ee</L>
<L>His Virgins red-enamelled mode&s;ty;</L>
<L>His fragrant breath &s;o from his brea&s;t doth &s;mell,</L>
<L>As if <HI>Arabia's</HI> bird did therein dwell;</L>
<L>Nor fancied no&s;egay, nor compos'd perfume,</L>
<L>Above his &s;imple nature dare pre&s;ume.</L>
<L>Many repaire to Groves and love to heare</L>
<L>The Nightingale, the Thru&s;h, and plumed quire,</L>
<L>If I &s;hould choo&s;e, I could take greater joy</L>
<L>To heare the pratling of a lovely boy.</L>
<L>His eyes like gli&s;tring Diamonds doe &s;hine,</L>
<L>Twinckling like Lizards, while they &s;tare on thine.</L>
<L>But marke what plea&s;ant &s;port t' him&s;elfe he makes,</L>
<L>All Arts and Trades he boldly undertakes;</L>
<L>He'le rai&s;e a Ca&s;tle, build a &s;andy Mill,</L>
<L>He'le ride a hor&s;e, he'le traine, he's what you will;</L>
<L>He doth what ever unripe Nature can,</L>
<L>He is the plea&s;ant, pretty ape of man:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="18">
<L>His wit like wax to every thing can ply,</L>
<L>A &s;trange ob&s;erver, what he &s;ees hee'le try.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But harke you Parents, be not over joy'd,</L>
<L>Your plea&s;ure (ah) may quickely be de&s;troy'd.</L>
<L>You &s;ee the Damaske Ro&s;e which is the peer</L>
<L>Of flowers, it fades and leaves the naked brier:</L>
<L>No blo&s;&s;ome is &s;o glorious and &s;o faire,</L>
<L>But may be nipped with a noy&s;ome aire,</L>
<L>If an encountring bla&s;t of &s;ickene&s;&s;e blow,</L>
<L>All feature pa&s;&s;eth like a minuts &s;hew,</L>
<L>He droopes his head, his ga&s;tly lookes condemne</L>
<L>The fondne&s;&s;e of child-deifying men,</L>
<L>Then through his eyes as windowes looketh death,</L>
<L>A loath&s;ome earthly &s;mell infects his breath.</L>
<L>His merry tales and chat, is then forgot,</L>
<L>For painefull &s;ickene&s;&s;e makes him change his note.</L>
<L>Then looke how great your joy exc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll'd before,</L>
<L>Your griefe is doubled now, if't be not more.</L>
<L>Here was a Sun-&s;hine blinke, before the clouds</L>
<L>Did &s;end the winds to combat with the floods;</L>
<L>Here was a calme above, while as below</L>
<L>The &s;ea was great with &s;torme, winds threatn'd to blow,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ah world of woe! what thing can&s;t thou call thine,</L>
<L>Poore man, but death can quickly &s;ay its mine?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;.</HEAD>
<L>Grant &s;trength of grace, O Lord, to me,</L>
<L>And make me grow from infancy</L>
<L>To childhood; teach me how to trace</L>
<L>The foote&s;teps of thy &s;aying grace.</L>
<L>While with unequall paces I,</L>
<L>Doe lag, &s;hew forth thy Light from high;</L>
<L>O doe not goe quite out of &s;ight</L>
<L>Lord Soules Redeemer, &s;ole delight.</L>
<PB REF="19">
<L>Looke to my wadling pace and if</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fall, rai&s;e me, and comfort give</L>
<L>Lord, when I &s;tagger, &s;et me right,</L>
<L>O Soules eternall anchor plight.</L>
<L>And that I may the way endure,</L>
<L>With thy free graces me allure,</L>
<L>Lord if I faint encourage me;</L>
<L>But pull me if I &s;tubborne be.</L>
<L>Thus &s;uffer me not, Lord&punc; to &s;tray,</L>
<L>But guide me on the narrow way;</L>
<L>And 'cau&s;e thy Kingdome doth belong</L>
<L>To Children, place me them among:</L>
<L>Then Heavens bright Angell &s;hall I be</L>
<L>Cloathed with immortality,</L>
<L>Rather &s;uch Childhood to me give,</L>
<L>Then here <HI>Methu&s;halems</HI> age to live.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="20">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Retrogradus ero.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hall goe backward.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 LANG="eng" TYPE="version">
<PB REF="21">
<HEAD>SVMMER.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>June, or Mans young age.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>IN <HI>Iune</HI> when <HI>Phoebus</HI> up to <HI>Cancer</HI> hies,</L>
<L>Driving aloft his Chariot in the skies,</L>
<L>The Earth is cheri&s;ht with a warmer ray,</L>
<L>Her Youthfull brood lu&s;ty appeare and gay;</L>
<L>Then promi&s;e they &s;ome fruit and give e&s;&s;ayes,</L>
<L>Of what &s;hall be their further-ripening dayes:</L>
<L>Such is the &s;trip<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing halfe-growne age of man,</L>
<L>When fiery &s;eed of rea&s;on &s;parkle can,</L>
<L>When his rude wit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> but waxen (as the Beare</L>
<L>Fa&s;hions her cub) is lickt and fram'd with care.</L>
<L>Since mans great Sir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> did from his maker fall,</L>
<L>Mans rea&s;on's lo&s;t, &s;carce to be found at all;</L>
<L>Much like a gemme in Lethes darkene&s;&s;e drownd,</L>
<L>With dangerous painefull dyving to be found.</L>
<L>There was a time, when man Gods off-&s;pring &s;tood</L>
<L>Indued with gifts greater then mortall good;</L>
<L>But whil&s;t he rul'd his reines, his will did &s;tray,</L>
<L>With drawing him out of the righter way:</L>
<L>Thus when corrupte was the &s;tocke and tree,</L>
<L>We branches thereof mu&s;t corrupted be;</L>
<L>Borne voide of knowledge, rude and ignorant,</L>
<L>The meane&s;t character of good we want,</L>
<L>Like to a &s;mooth and waxed writing table,</L>
<L>Its voide, but write you, to receive its able.</L>
<L>A tree which crooked growes and bends awry,</L>
<L>While it is young, skill can it rectifie;</L>
<L>So tender mindes the Ma&s;ters care correcteth,</L>
<L>What Nature could not, Di&s;cipline effecteth;</L>
<L>Learning makes &s;traight perver&s;e and crooked wits,</L>
<L>And them like wax to any fa&s;hion fits.</L>
<L>He whom <HI>Apollo's</HI> Oracle did call,</L>
<L>The wi&s;e&s;t 'mong&s;t the <HI>Gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">acian</HI> Sophies all,</L>
<PB REF="22">
<L>Condemned, by a criticke of mans face,</L>
<L>As dull and &s;tupid, void of wit and grace,</L>
<L>Made an&s;wer, &s;uch him&s;elfe by birth to be,</L>
<L>But better'd by Divine Philo&s;ophy.</L>
<L>A lavi&s;h Father, when his &s;tate he &s;poiles,</L>
<L>He puts his children to a thou&s;and toyles;</L>
<L>Good God! what paines and care it doth us co&s;t,</L>
<L>To &s;eeke and not to finde what <HI>Adam</HI> lo&s;t.</L>
<L>Language was Natures worke, we &s;hould be borne</L>
<L>Thereto, without fe&s;cue, or booke of horne.</L>
<L>But as to gather Sibyls leaves di&s;per&s;ed</L>
<L>Is de&s;p'rate worke to find what &s;he rehear&s;ed;</L>
<L>To gather letter by letter, &s;o w'are faine</L>
<L>Syllabe by &s;yllabe, word by word in vaine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our fraile and britle memory before</L>
<L>Did &s;afely keepe the whole conceptions &s;tore;</L>
<L>A faithfull Steward, what &s;he kept, &s;he could</L>
<L>Di&s;tribute that, when u&s;e and &s;ea&s;on would;</L>
<L>But now who to his memory doth tru&s;t,</L>
<L>He writes the charter of his mind in du&s;t.</L>
<L>Now wandring, braine&s;icke thoughts the &s;peces kill,</L>
<L>And what they &s;pare, old age aboli&s;h will.</L>
<L>Oft &s;o a ma&s;&s;e of things is hurld together,</L>
<L>That Chaos-like, one parts not from another;</L>
<L>When men now &s;earch their braines, they cannot find</L>
<L>The box, which holds the conceit of their mind:</L>
<L>They fret, much like to dull Apothecaries</L>
<L>Who cannot hit upon their box and wares.</L>
<L>Hence memories di&s;tru&s;t makes us to write</L>
<L>Our minds in papers, that they may endite</L>
<L>Againe to us, &s;o word of mouth is come</L>
<L>To &s;ilence of our writings, which are dumbe,</L>
<L>And what was got before b' attentive eare</L>
<L>Dumbe bookes doe teach us, 'cau&s;e they're oculare.</L>
<PB REF="23">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB REF="24">
<L>Nor is this all, oft times the Schollar's &s;o</L>
<L>Vntoward, without rod he will not goe;</L>
<L>Sometimes, cau&s;e nothing in his left &s;ide &s;turres,</L>
<L>Hee'le neither ride with rod, nor yet with &s;purres</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O what adoe is here for to &s;upply</L>
<L>That which we lo&s;t, but cannot now come by&punc;</L>
<L>Tell &s;onnes of <HI>Adam,</HI> what you thinke of one</L>
<L>Poore apple, which, hath mankind thus undone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>O Lord, who in this age was preaching found,</L>
<L>And teaching tho&s;e who did the law expound,</L>
<L>Teach me, my Saviour, whats thy Fathers will,</L>
<L>And grant me grace that I may it fulfill.</L>
<L>I am by nature, and in grace a moule,</L>
<L>Redeemer touch mine eyes, illighten my Soule.</L>
<L>I am not Lord by Parents &s;inne &s;o &s;pilt,</L>
<L>Nor &s;o de&s;il'd with mine owne actuall guilt;</L>
<L>But if thou wilt, thou can&s;t by thy free grace,</L>
<L>Clen&s;e me from all which doth my Soule deface;</L>
<L>What ever gifts <HI>Adam</HI> hath lo&s;t to me,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e and farre greater, Lord, I find by Thee.</L>
<L>Ma&s;ter, make me thy Schollar; when I &s;hall</L>
<L>Correction crave, u&s;e mercy there withall;</L>
<L>Ma&s;ter, thy Schollar humbly begs of thee,</L>
<L>That to my &s;trength thy rod may tempered be.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="25">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Concurrunt &s;idera Coeli.</HI></P>
<P>The Starres agree in one.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="26">
<HEAD>July, or Striplings age.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVHen rypening <HI>Iuly</HI> brings <HI>Hyperion</HI> forth,</L>
<L>From <HI>Tethys</HI> chambers lying towards <HI>North,</HI></L>
<L>The fruitfull tree, advanceth more and more</L>
<L>His fruit, de&s;iring &s;till his kind to &s;tore:</L>
<L>So Man when his Youths blo&s;&s;omes gin to blow,</L>
<L>De&s;ires &s;ome way wits timely fruites to &s;how.</L>
<L>After the&s;e wits, which imperfect were wrought,</L>
<L>Are now by licking into fa&s;hion brought;</L>
<L>Then every man betakes him to a trade,</L>
<L>For no man e're for idlene&s;&s;e was made.</L>
<L>Like as the Bees the meddowes range about,</L>
<L>Ta&s;ting of every flower the field throughout;</L>
<L>Some brotch the Primro&s;e nectar &s;ome the Lillies,</L>
<L>Some crop the Thyme, and &s;ome the Daffodillies;</L>
<L>Each one a &s;undry way and flower doth take,</L>
<L>And yet all to one Hive doe honey make:</L>
<L>So men, in Youth, according to their mindes,</L>
<L>Doe choo&s;e their trades, of &s;undry diver&s;e kindes;</L>
<L>For <HI>E&s;ops</HI> skuls did not &s;o di&s;agree,</L>
<L>As men in &s;everall phan&s;ies different be:</L>
<L>Yet though there is 'mong&s;t men &s;o great divi&s;ion,</L>
<L>All &s;eeke one thing, this mortall lifes provi&s;ion.</L>
<L>How many &s;orts of things, how many joynts</L>
<L>Are of the body, how many crotchet points</L>
<L>Are of the mind, or &s;en&s;es fond delights,</L>
<L>How many vices are in wicked wightes;</L>
<L>For goods, for evils, the're equall artes in number,</L>
<L>Which like an Hydra doth this life encumber.</L>
<L>Fathers of old time, &s;urely, crav'd no more,</L>
<L>But clothes for backe and for the belly &s;tore;</L>
<L>Now pride and ryots humors for to fit,</L>
<L>Whole countries, nations, doe employ their wit;</L>
<PB REF="27">
<L>A thou&s;and trades, now, doe the be&s;t you can,</L>
<L>Are too too little to compleate a man;</L>
<L>This accidentall good doth riot give,</L>
<L>One &s;pendthrift maketh many poore men live.</L>
<L>If bea&s;ts be hungry in the de&s;ert field,</L>
<L>The earth their meate, their drinke the rivers yeeld;</L>
<L>What wicked hopes doe mortals entertaine</L>
<L>Seeking to &s;hunne hungers heart-biting paine:</L>
<L>Vntimely fa&s;ting, a Neme&s;is we &s;ee</L>
<L>Of mans untimely fea&s;ting impiou&s;ly,</L>
<L>Man eate, when God forbad him to doe &s;o,</L>
<L>Therefore when man would eate, oft God &s;ayes no;</L>
<L>Thus man before he is thought worthy of meate,</L>
<L>He mu&s;t find out &s;ome way to toyle and &s;weate:</L>
<L>So when the Youth begins his painefull trade,</L>
<L>He &s;ees what he is now, what he was made.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But loe, I heare &s;ome &s;ay; the Schollar's ble&s;t,</L>
<L>As free from labour, and enjoying re&s;t,</L>
<L>Talking of dauncing Nymphes, and &s;haddowy woods,</L>
<L>Parna&s;&s;us groves, and plea&s;ant running floods;</L>
<L>It's envyes voice; who di&s;contented &s;till,</L>
<L>That which &s;hek nowes not, di&s;commend &s;he will.</L>
<L>Put Damocles in Diony&s;ius place,</L>
<L>Hee'le prai&s;e the plea&s;ure, but enjoy no peace:</L>
<L>That thou may'&s;t weare the Ivy, can&s;t thou looke</L>
<L>With &s;leepele&s;&s;e eyes, and paleface on thy booke?</L>
<L>What meane the Vultures which Prometheus teare,</L>
<L>But watchfull &s;tudy, and heart-eating care.</L>
<L>As in a clocke, &s;prings motion doth make</L>
<L>The barrell, fu&s;ie, wheeles, and ballance &s;hake:</L>
<L>So when the minde doth &s;tirre with thoughts oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>Thinke you the bodies &s;pirits are at re&s;t.</L>
<L>But looke what doth his encyclopedy</L>
<L>Teach him, but lectures of his mi&s;ery.</L>
<PB REF="28">
<L>Cau&s;e Paradi&s;es tongue he cannot reach,</L>
<L>Grammar doth him <HI>Babels</HI> confu&s;ion teach;</L>
<L>His life time cannot give what cradles could,</L>
<L>Mithridate was a babe, if tongues were tould.</L>
<L>So little credite man hath, without art</L>
<L>Of Rhetoricke, he cannot move the heart;</L>
<L>His &s;moothed tongue he doth more powerfull find,</L>
<L>Then rea&s;on; yet his words are oft but wind.</L>
<L>Darke ignorance &s;o mantles up his wit,</L>
<L>That <HI>Platoes</HI> yeare can &s;carce deliver it,</L>
<L>From rotne&s;&s;e of the Logick &s;y&s;temes rable,</L>
<L>Which proving all things, proveth man a bable.</L>
<L>He by Arithmeticke can picke the &s;hore</L>
<L>Of all his &s;ands; and adde to millions more,</L>
<L>Divide and multiply the &s;tarres, and tell</L>
<L>How many drops doe make the Ocean &s;well;</L>
<L>But when he comes his dayes to calculate,</L>
<L>He finds a figure or two doe &s;tand for that.</L>
<L>Though mu&s;icke be a &s;weet &s;olatious thing,</L>
<L>It teacheth him his <HI>Lachrimae</HI> to &s;ing,</L>
<L>And Swan-like in a dolefull Elegy,</L>
<L>A dying to bewaile mortality.</L>
<L>A &s;tronomy doth make him di&s;content,</L>
<L>That he &s;hould peepe up through an in&s;trument,</L>
<L>And take the elevation of that place,</L>
<L>From whence he had his being and his race.</L>
<L>Whiles that Geometry doth teach him how</L>
<L>The &s;urface of this earthly globe to view,</L>
<L>To cut it out by zones and climates way,</L>
<L>By hotter, colder, and the longer day,</L>
<L>To pace it forth, in inches, rods, and miles,</L>
<L>From Ea&s;terne Seas, unto the We&s;terne I&s;les,</L>
<L>From dayes Meridian, to the midnight line,</L>
<L>Where night is darke&s;t, day doth brighte&s;t &s;hine;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="29">
<L>When he lookes home t' him&s;elfe, he &s;ighes and &s;ayes&punc;</L>
<L>In mea&s;uring earth, why &s;pend I thus my dayes?</L>
<L>Archytas gho&s;t, neere to the Matin &s;hore,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides a little du&s;t, doth &s;eeke no more;</L>
<L>Why &s;hould I then &s;urvey this globe with eyes,</L>
<L>And &s;ore with thought above the &s;phered skyes?</L>
<L>When de&s;tiny &s;hall cut my fatall haire,</L>
<L>Of all this earth, &s;even foote &s;hall be my &s;hare,</L>
<L>Thus may we &s;ee, that as in age we grow,</L>
<L>Sorrowes along with us in age doe goe,</L>
<L>A Youth one comfort after all, at la&s;t</L>
<L>Receives; &s;ome of his toyle and &s;orrowes pa&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>What Heaven above, below, the Sea, and Land</L>
<L>Containe, all &s;tand and fall at thy command.</L>
<L>Father, all things to thee their eyes doe bend,</L>
<L>Thou do'&s;t, to them their food in &s;ea&s;on &s;end;</L>
<L>What ere thou ha&s;t created by thy word,</L>
<L>Thou keep&s;t, if they acknowledge Thee their Lord.</L>
<L>Thou with thy ble&s;&s;ing feed&s;t the wandring Crow,</L>
<L>Although it cannot either till or low,</L>
<L>The Lillies of the field they cannot twi&s;t</L>
<L>Or &s;pinne, yet are they, Lord, &s;o by Thee ble&s;t,</L>
<L>That <HI>Salomon</HI> in all his rich aray,</L>
<L>Was not &s;o glorious as they are gay.</L>
<L>Why art thou Soule ca&s;t downe with feare and care?</L>
<L>Tru&s;t in thy Lord and Maker, He's thy &s;hare</L>
<L>And portion &s;ure, who will unto thee grant,</L>
<L>What u&s;efull things for life he knowes thee want.</L>
<L>But yet le&s;t idlene&s;&s;e &s;hould on me cea&s;e,</L>
<L>Which is the Hydra of vice, and Soules di&s;ea&s;e:</L>
<L>Give me &s;ome calling Lord, whereby I may,</L>
<L>Sweate truely for my daily bread, this day,</L>
<PB REF="30">
<L>Which may maintaine my gray-haires, when I can</L>
<L>Doe nothing but bewaile the &s;tate of man.</L>
<L>What knowledge, Lord, thou giv'&s;t me of the creature,</L>
<L>Make it the on of Thee my great Creator.</L>
<L>When I behold the Cri&s;tall Heavens &s;o faire,</L>
<L>So many winged troopes piercing the aire,</L>
<L>So many finned armies in the &s;trands,</L>
<L>Rowing them&s;elves among&s;t the rockes and &s;ands;</L>
<L>When I behold the flowers, the fields and fennes,</L>
<L>The grazing flockes, the wild bea&s;ts in their dennes;</L>
<L>When I rip up my brea&s;t, and there doe finde,</L>
<L>An earthly body, but an heavenly minde;</L>
<L>I &s;ee thy greatne&s;&s;e Lord, in every thing,</L>
<L>To thee therefore I will here prai&s;es &s;ing:</L>
<L>Till I &s;hall come unto thy ble&s;&s;ed traine,</L>
<L>Then death &s;hall put an end to all my paine.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="31">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Haec Pietas.</HI></P>
<P>This is Piety.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="32">
<HEAD>Augu&s;t, or Mans Youth.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVHen <HI>Phoebus</HI> doth with cha&s;t <HI>A&s;trea</HI> meete,</L>
<L>Crowning the fruits &amp; fields with influence &s;weet</L>
<L>Then plants bring forth their fruits, after their kinde,</L>
<L>Not all alike, &s;ome good &s;ome bad we finde.</L>
<L>So man in Youth &s;hewes by his conver&s;ation,</L>
<L>His towardne&s;&s;e, and former education.</L>
<L>Like as the fire which long hath lurkt in a&s;hes,</L>
<L>When it gets &s;tronger fewel, flames and fla&s;hes,</L>
<L>So nature which in weakene&s;&s;e long did lurke,</L>
<L>Doth now in heate of blood begin to worke:</L>
<L>Or like &s;trong wines in caske, when fir&s;t they vent,</L>
<L>They &s;hew them&s;elves in motion vehement,</L>
<L>So man in leavned age, and youthfull prime</L>
<L>Gives pa&s;&s;ions mo&s;t violent for a time;</L>
<L>Tinder nor flaxe takes not with Vulcanes ire</L>
<L>More quickely, than youths bloods &s;et on fire,</L>
<L>And oft condemnes the Stoicke apathie,</L>
<L>As by his pa&s;&s;ionate <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">alour we may &s;ee.</L>
<L>So <HI>Pellas</HI> flower did conquer all the Ea&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>Alcides</HI> kill'd the many-headed bea&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>Ia&s;on</HI> with the noble Youths of Greece,</L>
<L>In &s;pight of dangers wonne the golden fleece:</L>
<L>This pa&s;&s;ion as it is a whetting &s;tone</L>
<L>To goodne&s;&s;e, &s;o to evill it &s;purreth on.</L>
<L>Loves pa&s;&s;ion made <HI>Perithous</HI> de&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd</L>
<L>To <HI>Plutoes</HI> hou&s;e t' attend his lu&s;tfull end;</L>
<L>Anger made <HI>Eteocles</HI> kill his brother,</L>
<L>Nor could their funerall &s;moake agree together;</L>
<L>Revenge did cau&s;e <HI>Ore&s;tes</HI> put to death</L>
<L>His mother, who did give him life and breath;</L>
<L>So griefe made <HI>Ajax</HI> turne his wrath from <HI>Troy,</HI></L>
<L>And with the fatall &s;word him&s;elfe de&s;troy:</L>
<L>This age &s;till in extremes can &s;carce obey</L>
<L>Rea&s;on, cau&s;e pa&s;&s;ion beares &s;o great a &s;way,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="33">
<L>And oft, when rea&s;on and affection too</L>
<L>Concurre, the danger's, not to overdoe.</L>
<L>It leadeth us unto a forked way,</L>
<L>Where the great <HI>Hercules</HI> was &s;ayd to &s;tay,</L>
<L>The one is broad, plumed on every &s;ide,</L>
<L>With Damaske Ro&s;es, and with Flora's pride,</L>
<L>There <HI>Ceres</HI> gifts in great aboundance grow,</L>
<L>And Bacchus cupps with nectar overflow;</L>
<L>There's downy beds &s;tuffed with &s;wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ike plumes,</L>
<L>There every thing is &s;weetned with perfumes;</L>
<L>The winged quiri&s;ters with their &s;weete throates,</L>
<L>Doe warble forth their eares bereaving notes;</L>
<L>And painted plea&s;ure lyeth all along</L>
<L>Vpon her downes, the fragrant flowers among;</L>
<L>Her lookes are lovely, and her eyes are cleare</L>
<L>Much like to <HI>Venus,</HI> when &s;he did appeare</L>
<L>Fir&s;t from the &s;ea; the honey's not &s;o &s;weete,</L>
<L>As are her words, &s;he's outwardly compleate,</L>
<L>But O if one &s;hould &s;ee her brea&s;t within,</L>
<L>Farre different would he finde it from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> skinne.</L>
<L>What ever &s;he pretends &s;he meanes no le&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Than death, de&s;truction, gall, and bitterne&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>Her eyes, like Ba&s;il<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">skes, they &s;ee and kill,</L>
<L>Her voyce like Sirens doth enti&s;e to ill;</L>
<L>Beleeve her no wayes, when &s;he &s;heddeth teares,</L>
<L>For like the Crocodiles, they're full of feares;</L>
<L>She gives Circean cuppes of giddy wine,</L>
<L>Mixt with toades poy&s;on, and the Loti&s;h rine,</L>
<L>And turnes man into Goate, or mimicke Ape,</L>
<L>Or Wolfe, or Lyon, which doth roare and gape;</L>
<L>Oft times &s;he with her cupps &s;o doth them drench,</L>
<L>That without blood their thir&s;t they cannot quench;</L>
<L>But which is wor&s;t of all behold the end,</L>
<L>To mi&s;ery and death they are condemn'd.</L>
<PB REF="34">
<L>A little &s;wini&s;h plea&s;ure deare they buy,</L>
<L>With Gout, Con&s;umption, or the Pleuri&s;ie,</L>
<L>And brings upon them&s;elves &s;uch mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>That they can choo&s;e, or doe nothing, but dye.</L>
<L>Perhaps one Polemo who in her waies,</L>
<L>Hath lavi&s;h'd out his young and tender dayes,</L>
<L>When he a wi&s;e Xenocrates doth heare,</L>
<L>Will be a&s;hamed, and his garlands teare;</L>
<L>But he is one among&s;t a thou&s;and, who</L>
<L>Farre otherwayes, then he hath done, will doe;</L>
<L>For vitious cu&s;tome puts them &s;o in ure,</L>
<L>As that it doth their hearts and minds obdure;</L>
<L>Their better parts from Heav'n it doth deface,</L>
<L>And tyran-like u&s;urpeth Natures place,</L>
<L>Then nothing profits carefull education,</L>
<L>And hope is gone of healthfull reformation.</L>
<L>O what a pitty's this! Nature brought forth,</L>
<L>A towardne&s;&s;e, which gave &s;ome hopes of worth;</L>
<L>Their mother &s;uffered paines, and gave them &s;ucke,</L>
<L>And dandled them with &s;ongs of happy lucke,</L>
<L>Then were they put to Schooles, and learning taught,</L>
<L>And now when tis their prime, all is for naught.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The other is a &s;teepe and narrow path,</L>
<L>And, be&s;ide which you make, no pa&s;&s;age hath,</L>
<L>Its &s;traw'd with briers, thornes grow all along,</L>
<L>Through which, who ere &s;o walkes, he needs mu&s;t throng;</L>
<L>On every &s;ide are mon&s;ters, &s;uch as dwell</L>
<L>In <HI>Plutos</HI> pri&s;ons, and the pits of hell:</L>
<L>Here &s;its gray-headed, and heart killing cares,</L>
<L>Here lyes palefaced, and joynt-&s;haking feares;</L>
<L>Here watchfull Dragons, who&s;e un&s;leepy eyes,</L>
<L>The care-relenting Morphews never &s;ees;</L>
<L>There vaine and phrenticke labour rowles a &s;tone</L>
<L>Like <HI>Si&s;yphus</HI> the craggy rockes upon;</L>
<PB REF="35">
<L>At la&s;t De&s;paire drooping and almo&s;t dead,</L>
<L>Scarcely can pull the rope over her head.</L>
<L>On th' other&s;ide, the furious Pa&s;&s;ions &s;tand,</L>
<L>Marching with armes along, in traine-like band.</L>
<L>Anger with fiery eyes and frownes doth threat</L>
<L>To pull high thundring Iove downe from his &s;eate;</L>
<L>Next comes Contention with her cur&s;ed brands</L>
<L>Seeking to &s;et on fire both &s;ea and lands;</L>
<L>Then Hatred in her hollow heart doth keepe</L>
<L>Revenge, and for occa&s;ion forth doth peepe;</L>
<L>There Ra&s;hne&s;&s;e, on a rope hangs by the toe,</L>
<L>And of her boldne&s;&s;e makes a fooli&s;h &s;how:</L>
<L>Vaine Hope with waxen wings doth love to flye</L>
<L>Like <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arus,</HI> above the Azure sky.</L>
<L>Fierce mon&s;ters doe this narrow pa&s;&s;age bound,</L>
<L>And deadly dangers it encompa&s;&s;e round.</L>
<L>Yet Vertue doth her followers &s;afely guide,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t they &s;hould goe a&s;tray on either &s;ide.</L>
<L>Prudence through the darke windings doth them lead,</L>
<L>Safely with <HI>Ariadnes</HI> clew of thread.</L>
<L>Then Vertues u&s;hers, Courage, Con&s;tancy,</L>
<L>Doe hearten them on again&s;t adver&s;ity:</L>
<L>And &s;how them Vertues Ca&s;tle, how on high.</L>
<L>It &s;tands re&s;plend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt all with Maje&s;ty.</L>
<L>If they doe &s;tumble gain&s;t a blocke or &s;tone,</L>
<L>Then Con&s;tancy &s;aies, &s;tay not here, goe on;</L>
<L>And Hope proclaimes afarre: Loe here you &s;hall</L>
<L>Have joy for &s;orrow, Hony for&punc; your gall.</L>
<L>Here peace and joyfull re&s;t, for ever dwell</L>
<L>Which neither cro&s;&s;e nor time &s;hall ever quell,</L>
<L>So when they have the&s;e hideous mon&s;ters pa&s;t</L>
<L>With joy they reach the mountaines top at la&s;t.</L>
<L>Where Vertues pallace &s;tands on pillars &s;quare</L>
<L>The courts of gold, the gates of chry&s;tall are,</L>
<PB REF="36">
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<PB REF="37">
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<PB REF="38">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd all this glorious ca&s;tle's founded on</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Chry&s;olite, Saphire, and Berill &s;tone.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">efore the &s;tately gates, blacke Envy lies,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ormented with the a&s;pect of her eyes;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n whom, when once the&s;e Champions doe trample,</L>
<L>Through Vertues Courts, they enter Honours Temple,</L>
<L>Then Glory doth eternall Trophees rai&s;e,</L>
<L>And Fame Seraphik-like, their name doth blaze.</L>
<L>There but two wayes; and yet where one dare venter</L>
<L>On this, a thou&s;and by the other enter:</L>
<L>Vertue, oft, all alone doth goe and dwell;</L>
<L>Plea&s;ure doth lead whole colonies to hell.</L>
<L>Nay, I dare &s;ay, the mo&s;t of men doe &s;tray</L>
<L>At fir&s;t, and enter in the broader way;</L>
<L>Happy are they who doe returne, before</L>
<L>They runne too deepe in cur&s;ed plea&s;ures &s;core,</L>
<L>Darke ignorance doth blindfold many &s;o,</L>
<L>That from the meane into th' extremes they goe.</L>
<L>Their &s;hip &s;carce from the &s;hore her cour&s;e doth take,</L>
<L>When &s;he on deadly rockes doth &s;hipwracke make;</L>
<L>Others have knowledge and the be&s;t de&s;ire,</L>
<L>But cro&s;t with &s;tormes and fortunes &s;pightfull ire,</L>
<L>There &s;trength and meanes an&s;wer not to their mind,</L>
<L>And &s;o poore &s;oules they're for&s;t to lag behind.</L>
<L>Among&s;t &s;o many thou&s;ands of this age</L>
<L>How few with faire applau&s;e goe off the &s;tage;</L>
<L>And yet tho&s;e few like <HI>Gideons</HI> fleece, we &s;ee</L>
<L>Tith'd by untimely fates mortality.</L>
<L>When fruites are almo&s;t ripe, &s;torme can them &s;hake,</L>
<L>When Youth is almo&s;t man, death may him take.</L>
<L>Search you deaths Lime pits, and youle finde therein,</L>
<L>As oft the Young Steeres as the Oxes skinne;</L>
<L>Oft time old gray-haird wrinkles &s;wim in teares,</L>
<L>For you thes who dyed in their prime of yeeres;</L>
<PB REF="39">
<L>The ancient Pollard Oake ofttimes doth &s;ee,</L>
<L>The overthrowing of a Young Beech tree,</L>
<L>This onely law is propper unto man,</L>
<L>To dye, or &s;oone, or late, doe what he can.</L>
<L>One way he comes to life, if Fates di&s;po&s;e</L>
<L>Will once of him, a thou&s;and wayes he goes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>The &s;tormy &s;eas doe not with waves &s;o fret,</L>
<L>When roaring &s;urges, glowming clouds doe threat,</L>
<L>As with contrary tides my brea&s;t doth &s;well,</L>
<L>And doubtfull thoughts my plunged &s;oule doth quell;</L>
<L>Whil&s;t furious anger doth me headlong lead,</L>
<L>And &s;haking feares doe &s;trike me almo&s;t dead;</L>
<L>While hope doth rai&s;e and &s;orrow downe me ca&s;t;</L>
<L>Lord after &s;torme, &s;hew forth thy calme at la&s;t.</L>
<L>Cha&s;e anger, feare, vaine hope and griefe away,</L>
<L>That joy and re&s;t of &s;oule, enjoy I may.</L>
<L>The fir&s;t fruites of my young age &s;anctifie,</L>
<L>With &s;trength of body, &s;trength thy grace in me,</L>
<L>Direct me Lord along thy narrow path,</L>
<L>Which may lead me to Heaven, by &s;aving faith,</L>
<L>Strengthen me with per&s;everance to the end,</L>
<L>From Satan, and Hels mon&s;ters me defend:</L>
<L>So when I &s;hall come to Heavens re&s;t, I'le &s;ing,</L>
<L><HI>O cruell death, where is thy deadly &s;ting:</HI></L>
<L>And when I &s;hall triumph in Heaven with thee,</L>
<L>I'le &s;ay, <HI>O Grave, where is thy victory,</HI></L>
<L>Before I want this re&s;t, I had rather goe</L>
<L>Through thou&s;and Lab'rinths of this mortall woe.</L>
<L>The&s;e worldly cro&s;&s;es, la&s;t but for a day,</L>
<L>And like the Ea&s;twind, quickly flye away:</L>
<L>But &s;ure I am when earthly &s;orrow's pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Heav'ns thought-&s;urpa&s;&s;ing joy &s;hall ever la&s;t.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="illustration">
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<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Aequa Die nox e&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Summers Equinoctiall.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 LANG="eng" TYPE="version">
<PB REF="41">
<HEAD>AVTVMNE.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>September, or Mans age.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVHen Libra in equall &s;cales weighs night and day,</L>
<L>And Phoebus through the midline makes his way:</L>
<L>Then every plant thankefull to nature &s;eedeth,</L>
<L>As it was bred, &s;o other plants it breedeth,</L>
<L>For view the Vniver&s;e and you &s;hall finde,</L>
<L>That every thing &s;eekes to pre&s;erve its kind;</L>
<L>With &s;exe and &s;eede nature bids multiply</L>
<L>Man, bea&s;t, the foule and fi&s;h, the hearbe and tree,</L>
<L>None of their volumes ere &s;o great can be,</L>
<L>Which compendiz'd in &s;eed, we doe not &s;ee,</L>
<L>And none &s;o meane and &s;mall but doe encrea&s;e</L>
<L>And multiply the more, becau&s;e they're le&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Mans age, mans life when it doth equall &s;hare,</L>
<L>In by pa&s;t nights, and dayes which comming are,</L>
<L>Then man in his <HI>September</HI> &s;eekes a mate,</L>
<L>His &s;peece for to con&s;erve and propagate.</L>
<L>When God into mans no&s;trils breathed life,</L>
<L>He fitte&s;t thought for him to have a wife,</L>
<L>And he who &s;ayd, woe to him who's alone,</L>
<L>Gave man a con&s;ort and companion:</L>
<L>He gave him not a Peacock nor a Goate,</L>
<L>Nor Dogge, nor Parret with her mimicke throate,</L>
<L>But of him&s;elfe his fellow he did make,</L>
<L>And from his &s;ide his con&s;ort he did take.</L>
<L>But all this while Sathan mans mortall foe,</L>
<L>Lurking his craft and malice did not &s;how,</L>
<L>So when he &s;aw the weaker &s;exe of man,</L>
<L>To u&s;e his &s;tratagems then he began.</L>
<L>Sometimes Themi&s;tocles was wont to &s;ay,</L>
<L>That <HI>Diophantus Athens</HI> &s;tate did &s;way;</L>
<L>The Childes de&s;ire was all his mothers will,</L>
<L>Nor would &s;he re&s;t till he did that fulfill;</L>
<PB REF="42">
<L>And Athens was obedient to his call,</L>
<L>So by Sorites Diophant was all;</L>
<L>And wherein <HI>Adam</HI> did tre&s;pa&s;&s;e he knew:</L>
<L>His off-&s;pring thereof &s;hould be guilty too&punc;</L>
<L>So when the devill that lying Sophi&s;ter.</L>
<L>With cunning captions had &s;educed her,</L>
<L>She with her Complements to cogge began,</L>
<L>In place of joy becomming woe to man;</L>
<L>And ju&s;tly &s;o for tru&s;ting her relation,</L>
<L>Better then God, and workes of the Creation;</L>
<L>Thus marriage which before a ble&s;&s;ing was</L>
<L>Became a cur&s;e, becau&s;e of mans tre&s;pa&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>O dolefull, doubtfull ca&s;e! what &s;hall man doe?</L>
<L>He knowes not here what hand to turne him to,</L>
<L>If <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e live all alone, he childle&s;&s;e goes</L>
<L>To grave, cha&s;t <HI>&V;enus</HI> joyes he never knowes;</L>
<L>Vnthankefull to dame Nature he doth live,</L>
<L>Who life receiv'd, but life to none will give;</L>
<L>Much like as <HI>Cato</HI> came to Flora's play,</L>
<L>And having entred, &s;traight did runne away;</L>
<L>So Natures &s;tage, he entring rather can</L>
<L>Depart, before he act the married man;</L>
<L>Before he will glad marriage torches have,</L>
<L>With funerall Lights he's carried to his grave;</L>
<L>He lives, but to what end? that he may &s;ee,</L>
<L>The world, and like Ephemeron quickely die;</L>
<L>All of him dies at once, his overthrow</L>
<L>Is totall, death doth kill him at one blow;</L>
<L>The cur&s;e of <HI>Onan</HI> he mu&s;t undergoe,</L>
<L>Cau&s;e being bid rai&s;e &s;eed he did not &s;o;</L>
<L>What if all were like him, where &s;hould there be</L>
<L>Saints for the Heaven, for earth po&s;terity;</L>
<L>Great <HI>Xerxes</HI> then might ju&s;tly &s;hed his teares,</L>
<L>And &s;ay, that all &s;hould dye within few yeares.</L>
<PB REF="43">
<L>In joy he hath no true companion,</L>
<L>And knowes not how for to rejoyce alone;</L>
<L>Woes him in &s;orrow, he mu&s;t needes de&s;paire,</L>
<L>Who hath no fellow, who may with him &s;hare;</L>
<L>His riches who &s;hall have, he doth not know,</L>
<L>A &s;tranger reapes them, who did never &s;ow.</L>
<L>What if th' <HI>A&s;&s;yrian</HI> bird lives without mate,</L>
<L>And yet her rare&s;t kinde doth propagate?</L>
<L>What if &s;ome Phenix-like can Virgins live?</L>
<L>To tho&s;e we honour due and reverence give;</L>
<L>For when they're burn'd in glory's &s;pycie flame,</L>
<L>They leave eternall off-&s;pring of their fame;</L>
<L>But we of mankind talke, where one &s;o dyes,</L>
<L>A thou&s;and batchlers in oblivion lyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What &s;hall he marry? that's a life of care,</L>
<L>Of &s;orrow, poverty, if not de&s;paire.</L>
<L>For every one is not a <HI>Socrates</HI></L>
<L>Who can a bold and mad <HI>Xantippe</HI> plea&s;e.</L>
<L>Our life's a journey to our heav'nly aboad,</L>
<L>He walkes with ea&s;e, who walkes without a load;</L>
<L>This life's a warrefare, wherein we mu&s;t fight</L>
<L>Again&s;t Step-mother Fortunes ire and &s;pight,</L>
<L>The greater burthens doe a man oppre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>He needes mu&s;t &s;incke the more, and fight the le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>What man hath not his cro&s;&s;e, which he mu&s;t carry;</L>
<L>He's &s;ubject to anothers if he marry;</L>
<L>Weigh man and wife, and (as <HI>Tire&s;ias</HI> &s;ayd</L>
<L>Of her de&s;ire) you'le finde her cro&s;&s;e downe weigh'd.</L>
<L>Doth beauty like thee? that a foe doth prove</L>
<L>Oftimes to cha&s;tity and mariage love,</L>
<L>Not fit for <HI>Gyges</HI> &s;ight, once made a prey</L>
<L>To lu&s;t, for greefe, it made it &s;elfe away.</L>
<L>Great portions plea&s;e thee; the&s;e are cau&s;e of pride,</L>
<L>Di&s;daine and brauling jarres on either &s;ide,</L>
<PB REF="44">
<L><HI>Terentia</HI> queld <HI>Tullyes</HI> &s;weete eloquence,</L>
<L>To <HI>Antony</HI> oft <HI>Fulvia</HI> gave offence;</L>
<L>In marriage who are vail'd for mode&s;ty,</L>
<L>Once marryed take to them &s;upremacy;</L>
<L>I will not talke of great <HI>Alcides</HI> wife</L>
<L>And <HI>Claudius</HI> &s;hrew, judges of death and life;</L>
<L>Some thinking joyes, the more they common are</L>
<L>The greater, will have no peculiare;</L>
<L>A bad wife, a con&s;umption you may call,</L>
<L>For none but death can free thee from her thrall.</L>
<L>You'le prai&s;e <HI>Penelope</HI> and <HI>Alce&s;tis</HI> care,</L>
<L>And &s;he, who thought all, like <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er huband were;</L>
<L>But every one cannot to <HI>Corinth</HI> &s;aile,</L>
<L>All wi&s;h the be&s;t, but all cannot prevaile;</L>
<L>Wife's choos'd by Lott'ry, be you ne're &s;o wi&s;e,</L>
<L>You may have forty blanks, and not one pri&s;e.</L>
<L>Suppo&s;e you have a good one, cha&s;te and faire,</L>
<L>Both rich and mode&s;t prudent, full of care,</L>
<L>Teeming with children, never rai&s;ing &s;trife,</L>
<L>Like to <HI>Cornelta</HI> or a <HI>Sabin</HI> wife;</L>
<L>If death &s;hall take her, or fatality,</L>
<L>Vndoe her, if thy children deare &s;hall dye.</L>
<L>Then for thy former joyes, what griefe is &s;eene,</L>
<L>Happy wert thou, if happy th'had&s;t not beene.</L>
<L>Like as the widdower turtle all alone,</L>
<L>Makes &s;ad the &s;haddowy groves with dolefull mone,</L>
<L>Searching each wood; no wood his mate doth give,</L>
<L>Yet &s;earch he will; alone he cannot live:</L>
<L>So is't with thee, whom love ty'd with his knot,</L>
<L>By thee, that love can never be forgot;</L>
<L>Thou'&s;t lo&s;t thy better part, thou pin'&s;t away,</L>
<L>Halfe man, defrauding grave, and wronging day;</L>
<L>Perhaps thy dreames in &s;leepe doe make thee ble&s;t,</L>
<L>While as thou fancies her in midnight re&s;t,</L>
<PB REF="45">
<L>And &s;he belyes thy joy; but once awake,</L>
<L>Then more, and more thou grieve&s;t for her &s;ake,</L>
<L>Thou wear'&s;t out nights and dayes in griefe and moane,</L>
<L>Like Orpheus, when Eurydice was gone,</L>
<L>He broke his &s;trings, and Harpe away he ca&s;t,</L>
<L>When &s;he the &s;econd time to hell had pa&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O dolefull ca&s;e of man! O cruell fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e!</L>
<L>Marry, or not, &s;till wr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tched is his &s;tate.</L>
<L>Good God! hath wretched man come this farre on,</L>
<L>And yet can finde no joy to build upon,</L>
<L>In Autume &s;uch a tempe&s;t if he &s;ee&punc;</L>
<L>What thinke you will his &s;tormy Winter be?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Almighty God, who gave&s;t &s;trait command,</L>
<L>To honour parents and our &s;acred Sires;</L>
<L>That &s;o we may enjoy the promis'd land,</L>
<L>And brooke thy ble&s;&s;ings and our hearts de&s;ires;</L>
<L>Thou likewi&s;e &s;aye&s;t, men doe parents leave</L>
<L>Betaking them to marriage cha&s;tity,</L>
<L>That they may to their lawful<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> con&s;orts cleave,</L>
<L>And have &s;ome comfort of po&s;terity.</L>
<L>But he that will not for thy &s;ake leave all,</L>
<L>Parents, wife, children, and what goods he hath,</L>
<L>Vnworthy of thee (O Lord) thou do&s;t him call,</L>
<L>Who &s;hould be &s;aved by thy ble&s;&s;ed death</L>
<L>Some after wedding, drinke the cheerefull wine</L>
<L>Of gladne&s;&s;e, while their cup doth overflow,</L>
<L>While without dregges of &s;orrow it doth &s;hine,</L>
<L>What want and trouble meanes they doe not know.</L>
<L>If I &s;hall drinke the water of affliction,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e the marriage wine is gone and pa&s;t,</L>
<L>Turne't into nectar of thy benediction;</L>
<L>So &s;hall the wine be be&s;t which comes at la&s;t.</L>
<PB REF="46">
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n all e&s;tates, Lord grant me con&s;tancy,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t I with good &s;ucce&s;&s;e be overjoy'd,</L>
<L>Or yet ca&s;t downe with great adver&s;ity,</L>
<L>Let me not be with cro&s;&s;es much annoy'd.</L>
<L>What e're the &s;tate of this my marriage is,</L>
<L>I &s;hall one day a better wedding &s;ee;</L>
<L>With this one comfort, Lord, my Soule I bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>With thee Heav'ns Lord, my Soule &s;hall marryed be.</L>
<L>Iacob, great Iuda's &s;ire wrought eare and late,</L>
<L>He thought the time quickly away did &s;lide,</L>
<L>Though worne in night with cold, in day with heat,</L>
<L>All &s;eemed nothing, cau&s;e he lov'd his bride.</L>
<L>Shall not my Soule, for Chri&s;t the bridegroomes glory,</L>
<L>Suffer what ever mortall cro&s;&s;e &s;hall be,</L>
<L>For all the&s;e cro&s;&s;es are but tran&s;itory,</L>
<L>His joyes &s;hall la&s;t to all eternity.</L>
<L>He did poore &s;oule, &s;o much of thee e&s;teeme,</L>
<L>Delivering thee from Hels infernall pit,</L>
<L>That with his blood, he did thy life redeeme,</L>
<L>That thou may'&s;t with him in his glory &s;it.</L>
<L>Watch therefore, Soule, let not thy Lights goe out,</L>
<L>Let con&s;tant hope, and faith, &s;till per&s;evere,</L>
<L>So when thy ble&s;&s;ed Bridegroomes joyfull &s;hout,</L>
<L>Shall ri&s;e, thou maye&s;t enter without feare.</L>
<L>Then millions of winged Angels &s;hall,</L>
<L>Vnto Heav'ns gloryous firy-courts thee bring,</L>
<L>And there among&s;t the&s;e troopes Coele&s;tiall,</L>
<L>The Seraphines thy marriage &s;ong &s;hall &s;ing.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="47">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Habet &s;timulum in caud&acirc;.</HI></P>
<P>He hath a &s;ting in his tale.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="48">
<HEAD>October, or middle age.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVHen <HI>Scorpius</HI> in his bending cleyes doth gripe</L>
<L><HI>Phaebus,</HI> and gray-haird <HI>Ceres</HI> fruites are ripe,</L>
<L>Then wi&s;ht-for times to husbandmen appeare,</L>
<L>When rurall Gods hath ble&s;t the fruitefull yeare;</L>
<L>Then Corne is reapt, and joyfully they mow,</L>
<L>And gather, what in hopes they fir&s;t did &s;ow;</L>
<L>Then ev'ry man and bea&s;t, with &s;weat doe toyle,</L>
<L>To take the Harve&s;t from the fertile &s;oyle,</L>
<L>When Parents doe enjoy their wi&s;h, and &s;ee</L>
<L>Their children come to full maturity,</L>
<L>Then is the Harve&s;t of the life of man,</L>
<L>Then ev'ry one endeav'reth what he can.</L>
<L>Like as the Pi&s;emires with their num'rous bands,</L>
<L>Six-footed creatures cover fields and lands,</L>
<L>When they doe carry home their Winter &s;tore,</L>
<L>Great &s;tackes of Corne, they le&s;&s;en more and more:</L>
<L>So men in companies them&s;elves divide,</L>
<L>And rob the world of riches and her pryde.</L>
<L>What Country doth beneath th' Horizon lye,</L>
<L>What &s;ea, what place, not &s;eene by <HI>Phoebus</HI> eye,</L>
<L>What depth, what darkene&s;&s;e neere unto the Center,</L>
<L>Is there, to which mans labour doth not venter?</L>
<L>Thus India &s;ometime rich, doth now complaine,</L>
<L>And Pactol, which with Gold, Midas did &s;taine:</L>
<L>Tagus, and Iber, once did richly flow,</L>
<L>But now their Channels mo&s;&s;e doth overgrow,</L>
<L>Now &s;eeke they, what they gave, from forraigne coa&s;tes,</L>
<L>In vaine now Corinth of her Copper boa&s;ts:</L>
<L>The daughters of the Sunne doe not decore</L>
<L>With Amber teares <HI>Eridanus</HI> his &s;hore:</L>
<L>In vaine th' Arabian picks the gli&s;tring &s;ands</L>
<L>For Gemmes, Sidon admires her empty &s;trands.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="49">
<L><HI>Sparta</HI> no &s;carlet&punc; <HI>Amycle</HI> no wooll</L>
<L>Produceth, other coa&s;ts are thereof full;</L>
<L>The Phoenix knowes not where her ne&s;t to build&punc;</L>
<L><HI>Sabea</HI> cannot &s;avory &s;pices yeeld,</L>
<L><HI>Paros</HI> exhau&s;ted is of Marble &s;tone,</L>
<L><HI>Mauri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ias</HI> precious tables are all gone;</L>
<L>And thou faire <HI>Babylon,</HI> &s;ome time agoe</L>
<L>What were thy hangings, now thou do&s;t not know;</L>
<L><HI>Per&s;ia</HI> take heede, the <HI>Chalybes</HI> can give</L>
<L>No iron, though in this iron age they live;</L>
<L><HI>Salon</HI> thy darts are gone, which thou was wont,</L>
<L>Amid&s;t thy &s;treame&punc; to temper hard as flint;</L>
<L><HI>Ceres</HI> from fertile <HI>Gargara</HI> hath fled,</L>
<L>And <HI>Sicily</HI> by <HI>Enna</HI> &s;carce is fed;</L>
<L><HI>Dodon</HI> no Acornes, <HI>Egypt</HI> Lentiles &s;end,</L>
<L>Nor doe we now <HI>Methymnas</HI> grapes commend;</L>
<L>In <HI>Gaurus</HI> and <HI>Falernas</HI> wines are rare,</L>
<L>With <HI>Hymet</HI> any place dare mo&s;t compare,</L>
<L><HI>Cor&s;icke</HI> no honey yeelds; <HI>Ida</HI> hath lo&s;t</L>
<L>His pines; of groaves <HI>Parna&s;&s;us</HI> cannot boa&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>Idume</HI> &s;ends no palmes, nor <HI>Cyrnus</HI> yewes,</L>
<L>Nor <HI>Pe&s;tum</HI> ro&s;es of &s;o many hewes;</L>
<L><HI>Cilicias</HI> gardens &s;eldome &s;affron &s;ees;</L>
<L><HI>Eurotas</HI> banck's doe beare no olive trees,</L>
<L>Now <HI>Pontus</HI> bezer, <HI>Colchis</HI> poy&s;on lacke,</L>
<L>This long agoe doth mourne for <HI>Argos</HI> &s;ake.</L>
<L>Indu&s;trious mankind patient of great toyle,</L>
<L>Make mon&s;ters, men, bea&s;ts, fi&s;h, fowles change their &s;oyle.</L>
<L>The glory of hor&s;es, <HI>Epire</HI> hath for&s;aken,</L>
<L>And <HI>Britaine</HI> hath <HI>Calabrius</HI> glory taken,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;heepe doe goe beyond <HI>Euganean</HI> flockes,</L>
<L>With &s;nowlike fleeces and their curled lockes,</L>
<L>The Lyons which kings <HI>Iubas</HI> land hath bred,</L>
<L>We &s;ee them in our chaines and fetters led;</L>
<PB REF="50">
<L>The <HI>Daunian</HI> wolves, <HI>Spartan, Molo&s;&s;ian</HI> dogges,</L>
<L>The <HI>Mar&s;ian</HI> Bores&punc; <HI>Arcadian</HI> beares, and hogges;</L>
<L>The <HI>African</HI> may here his mon&s;ters find,</L>
<L>His painted birds, and foules of &s;trange&s;t kind.</L>
<L>O mankind borne to beare care and di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Who dare&s;t Natures furthe&s;t bounds trangre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Thou plow'&s;t the &s;eas, not fearing dolefull wracke,</L>
<L>And trample&s;t on the Tyran Neptunes backe,</L>
<L>Thou do&s;t the ruines of the Heav'n uphold,</L>
<L>Thou do&s;t thy &s;elfe in foamy waves enfold,</L>
<L>Thou dar'&s;t the wind, and wearye&s;t threatning fate,</L>
<L>When Heav'n and &s;tormy &s;eas, are at debate;</L>
<L>Oft times thy lodging is a roaring rocke,</L>
<L>Or planke, to &s;tormes thou'rt then a mocking &s;tocke;</L>
<L>Thou &s;ee&s;t thy fellowes tumble, nor do&s;t know,</L>
<L>What fir&s;t &s;hall give thee deaths la&s;t cur&s;ed blow.</L>
<L>Then call'&s;t thou Heaven for helpe, and none can&s;t find,</L>
<L>Encrea&s;ing &s;eas with teares, with &s;ighes the wind;</L>
<L>But when thou com'&s;t unto the wi&s;ht-for &s;hore,</L>
<L>Thou wilt not vow, that thou &s;halt &s;aile no more,</L>
<L>But while thou &s;hipbroke, beg'&s;t for mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>Thou think'&s;t another voyage how to try.</L>
<L>Thou know'&s;t not how at home to live in re&s;t,</L>
<L>Meanely, and therefore &s;till will be di&s;tre&s;t.</L>
<L>Some &s;eeke Niles &s;ource, the Poles &s;ome come &s;o neere,</L>
<L>That light and darkene&s;&s;e doth compleat a yeere;</L>
<L>There new-found Lands, nor can one world &s;uffice,</L>
<L>What mans too curious fancy doth devi&s;e;</L>
<L>Some digge earths cavernes, not unlike to moles,</L>
<L>Hating the day, they live in pits and holes,</L>
<L>And from Cimmerian darkene&s;&s;e of the hell,</L>
<L>They &s;eeke their riches from cur&s;t Pluto's cell.</L>
<L>Some like the fi&s;hes dive into the &s;trands,</L>
<L>And there doe grople 'mong&s;t the rockes and &s;ands.</L>
<PB REF="51">
<L>O toyle&s;ome Lote of men! hath &s;o the fates</L>
<L>Ordain'd their life? O hard commanding fates!</L>
<L>Nature thought good her trea&s;ures to conceale,</L>
<L>Which nothing, be&s;ides labour, can reveale.</L>
<L>The Oxe bred bees with &s;tings defend their hives,</L>
<L>And fight for them, as for their deare&s;t lives:</L>
<L>The Ro&s;e is fenc't with prickies round about,</L>
<L>He mu&s;t be prickt, who &s;eekes to finde them out,</L>
<L>The Moly beares a blo&s;&s;ome white as &s;now,</L>
<L>His &s;warthy roote deepe in the earth doth grow,</L>
<L>It cureth maladies of every kinde,</L>
<L>But hardly digged up, when men it finde:</L>
<L>With all the grove &s;o <HI>Pro&s;erpine</HI> doth cover</L>
<L>The bough, with which men Lethes flood pa&s;&s;e over,</L>
<L>Who &s;eeke from the He&s;perides a prize,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t lull a &s;leepe the Dragons watchfull eyes.</L>
<L>What nature hath produced worke it mu&s;t,</L>
<L>Heav'n by th' intelligence about is thru&s;t,</L>
<L>It knowes no re&s;t, the &s;unne from Ea&s;t doth ri&s;e,</L>
<L>And towards We&s;t doth cour&s;e along the skies,</L>
<L>Vp from the Goate he climes to Cancers &s;eate,</L>
<L>Then to the Goate againe he makes retreate.</L>
<L>The Moone her cour&s;es multiplyeth &s;o</L>
<L>That &s;till one countenance &s;he ne're doth &s;hew;</L>
<L>The earth keepes &s;ea&s;ons of the yeere, in &s;pring</L>
<L>She bringeth forth the buddes of every thing;</L>
<L>In &s;ummer &s;he them heate and moy&s;ture yeelds,</L>
<L>With corne in Autumne &s;he doth crowne the fields,</L>
<L>But when the Winter &s;tormes and windes doe blow,</L>
<L>She's wrapped up with &s;eede in fleece of Snow:</L>
<L>The Sea re&s;ts never, bea&s;ts mu&s;t undergoe</L>
<L>The yoke of toyle, and mankinde mu&s;t live &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then you my fellowes let us &s;till advance,</L>
<L>Through all the&s;e hazards of unluckie chance,</L>
<PB REF="52">
<L>Our lot is el&s;ewhere, joy &s;hall come at la&s;t,</L>
<L>Then gladly &s;hall we thinke of troubles pa&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>From mornings Ea&s;t, unto the evenings We&s;t,</L>
<L>From South, to North, as Poles doe ri&s;e and fall,</L>
<L>Men framing Fortune &s;till &s;eeke for the be&s;t,</L>
<L>And oft too curious are deceiv'd of all.</L>
<L>They &s;eeke what fire and water can de&s;troy,</L>
<L>Or moth con&s;ume, or theefe can &s;teale away,</L>
<L>Or wherein they doe place their greate&s;t joy,</L>
<L>The enemy can take it as a prey.</L>
<L>Heav'n hath my trea&s;ure with my Lord and King,</L>
<L>With companies of glorious Saints in bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Where holy quires doe dance triumph and &s;ing,</L>
<L>They follow, and our Saviour leader is.</L>
<L>Here Nectar rivers every where doe flow,</L>
<L>Ioy without &s;orrow, holy daliance,</L>
<L>Here &s;tands Ambro&s;ias heapes, where ere you goe,</L>
<L>And what immortall glory can advance.</L>
<L>If you &s;hould multiply ten thou&s;and ages,</L>
<L>They &s;hall not end this joy and glorious light,</L>
<L>Nay though you goe beyond ten thou&s;and &s;tages,</L>
<L>Nor all the dayes which never &s;hall know night.</L>
<L>Hither lead me, O Lord through all di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>O're mountaines of the land, rockes of the &s;eas,</L>
<L>Through what&s;oever hath no quietne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Through &s;tormes and thunder, if it &s;o Thee plea&s;e.</L>
<L>So that the Haven of this my voyage be,</L>
<L>Heav'ns re&s;t, &s;o that the goale be of my race,</L>
<L>The Court of Angels, who attend on Thee,</L>
<L>And in thy Fathers hou&s;e &s;ome dwelling place.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="53">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Sagitta in nervo e&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>I have bended my bow.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="54">
<HEAD>November, or age farre &s;pent.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVHen Pleiades doe ri&s;e from Ea&s;terne hindge,</L>
<L>And now <HI>November</HI> latter harve&s;t brings</L>
<L>V&s;hering the Winter; men doe <HI>Ceres</HI> huccen,</L>
<L>Which is unhusked by hard&punc; treading Oxen;</L>
<L>Then from the pre&s;&s;ed grapes the wine runnes downe,</L>
<L>And Mu&s;te with Nectars foame, the Fats doth crowne;</L>
<L>From waxen cels, &s;ome doe the hony &s;traine,</L>
<L>And pots are full, while empty hives complaine;</L>
<L>Then every one workes what in him can lye</L>
<L>Yet all one and the &s;ame worke doe not ply.</L>
<L>Even &s;uch-like men in full ripe age, we finde,</L>
<L>Who&s;e faces differ no more then their minde;</L>
<L>Each one a diver&s;e palate hath, nor can</L>
<L>One ta&s;te that which likes well another man;</L>
<L>Some &s;oare like Eagles, and will reach the sky,</L>
<L>Others, like vermine, in earths du&s;t doe lye;</L>
<L>There few, or none, but whom great Iove doth love,</L>
<L>Who keepe the meane, who wi&s;e and happy prove.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ambition mortals greate&s;t plague doth hye,</L>
<L>Vpwards, and with <HI>Icarian</HI> wings will flye;</L>
<L>While Gyant-like, &s;he will rob Heav'n of all,</L>
<L>She catcheth &s;till the more notorious fall.</L>
<L><HI>Pellas</HI> faire flower, who could not be content</L>
<L>With the rich conque&s;t of the Orient,</L>
<L>Nor with a mortall father did proclaime</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe Ioves ba&s;tard, to his Parents &s;hame;</L>
<L>The hoofe which Lethes water did containe,</L>
<L>Did prove him mortall, and his hopes but vaine,</L>
<L>Who&s;e huge de&s;ires, one world could not &s;uffice,</L>
<L>A &s;hort and narrow coffin was his prize.</L>
<L>God tyrans flouts, nor can with pride away,</L>
<L>Without a rivall, he the world doth &s;way,</L>
<PB REF="55">
<L>Nor could <HI>Alcides</HI> club or hayrie coate,</L>
<L>Save from a fatall rope <HI>Commodus</HI> throate.</L>
<L><HI>Caligula</HI> mo&s;t impious among&s;t men,</L>
<L>Dar'd to behead his Country Gods, and then</L>
<L>Did cau&s;e their &s;houlders his gold'n head up beare,</L>
<L>That all might wor&s;hip him with divine feare.</L>
<L>O cur&s;t impiety that can no way</L>
<L>Be expiated! which with Heaven's &s;cepter &s;way,</L>
<L>And match their Scepters with Ioves thundring hand,</L>
<L>Who doth the greate&s;t Monarchies command,</L>
<L>There Scepters are but fraile, and fortune &s;trange,</L>
<L>There Scepters with a beggers &s;taffe doth change;</L>
<L>Why doe the&s;e purple tyranes often dye</L>
<L>Shedding their purple &s;oules mo&s;t cruelly?</L>
<L>Becau&s;e Heav'ns Deity then doe contemne,</L>
<L>And like <HI>Salmonius</HI> thunder among&s;t men.</L>
<L>For others Fortune wi&s;ely did fore&s;ee,</L>
<L>Cradels well fitting with their low degree,</L>
<L>Commanding them no wayes t' a&s;pire &s;o high</L>
<L>As to u&s;urpe &s;acred &s;upremacy:</L>
<L>Yet &s;ome have &s;o ambitious de&s;ire,</L>
<L>They will not live &s;econd in Romes Empire.</L>
<L>Mon&s;ters of men, Earths plagues&punc; Hells cur&s;ed brood,</L>
<L>They will be wicked cau&s;e the Gods are good,</L>
<L>Seeking t' en&s;nare Earthes Sacred government:</L>
<L>Be&s;ides cur&s;t trea&s;on they have no intent,</L>
<L>But yet heav'ns hand can &s;till that power defend,</L>
<L>Which to its ble&s;t anoynted it doth lend;</L>
<L>They're authors of their woe, they catch a fall,</L>
<L>And cur&s;ed death ju&s;t Neme&s;is of all,</L>
<L>Who &s;cale the Cedars finde top-boughes too weake,</L>
<L>Which once oppre&s;&s;ed ea&s;ily doe breake:</L>
<L>Much like a whirle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> wind ru&s;hing from above,</L>
<L>Waxing &s;till more, the more that it doth move,</L>
<PB REF="56">
<L>While it doth wra&s;tle with the aged Oake,</L>
<L>It weak'ns its eager &s;trength at every &s;troke:</L>
<L>So doth ambition vex tho&s;e, who doe flye,</L>
<L>With all their might to &s;upreame dignity;</L>
<L>Which when they cannot reach, they breake their &s;trength,</L>
<L>And with their weight, they fall to ground at length,</L>
<L>They &s;eeke the honours 'gain&s;t the Eternall Will</L>
<L>Of Iove. When thunder &s;trikes the highe&s;t hill,</L>
<L>More &s;afely in a cottage you may lurke,</L>
<L>Then in a Pallace cur&s;ed trea&s;on worke,</L>
<L>Better with <HI>Clymene</HI> at home t'abide,</L>
<L>Then <HI>Phoebus</HI> flaming hor&s;es to mi&s;guide;</L>
<L>What greater madne&s;&s;e then to tempt the Sunne</L>
<L>With waxen wings, which pre&s;ently will runne?</L>
<L>Saile &s;oftly; Fortune pa&s;&s;eth by the &s;hores,</L>
<L>Catching the &s;hip, which with her &s;treamers &s;oares.</L>
<L>O happy mankind, if men once did know</L>
<L>With meane e&s;tate them&s;elves content to &s;how!</L>
<L>That life is &s;afe&s;t which doth keepe a meane,</L>
<L>Free from ambition, and from fal&s;hood cleane;</L>
<L>It neither &s;tands nor fals at vulgars breath,</L>
<L>Nor feares ambitious <HI>Sejans</HI> cur&s;ed death;</L>
<L>Nor <HI>Manlius</HI> fate, who would be Lord of <HI>Rome,</HI></L>
<L>And from the Capitol had both prai&s;e and doome.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some men doe &s;eeke with gold, their bagges to fill,</L>
<L>And hoording trea&s;ures, thir&s;t for trea&s;ures &s;till;</L>
<L>They &s;crape what ever flowes from <HI>Hermus</HI> &s;and,</L>
<L>And what the red &s;ea ca&s;teth forth to land,</L>
<L>They deifie their riches and their &s;tore;</L>
<L>The more it is, they &s;eeke for more and more;</L>
<L>Their chincky brea&s;ts they cannot fill with gold,</L>
<L>Their hearts de&s;ire their coffers cannot hold:</L>
<L>They covet more, the greater &s;tate they have,</L>
<L>And having purchas'd more, &s;till more they crave;</L>
<PB REF="57">
<L>Thou cur&s;ed Plague of mankinde avarice,</L>
<L>Author of woe and Hydra of all vice,</L>
<L>Earths Genious thou onely do&s;t adore,</L>
<L>Neglecting Heav'n which la&s;ts for evermore;</L>
<L>Thou like the drop&s;ie &s;till thy thir&s;t do'&s;t feede,</L>
<L>The more thou drinke&s;t, greater is thy neede,</L>
<L>With care and feare, the more thou do&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>With griefe thou thinke&s;t thy riches le&s;&s;e and le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Were't not for thee, mortals might happie be,</L>
<L>Such as the ble&s;&s;ed golden age did &s;ee;</L>
<L>Good without feare of Lawes, who &s;till did &s;mile</L>
<L>Content with ev'ry &s;tate, rich without guile.</L>
<L>Some love to fea&s;t their bellies all the day,</L>
<L>With <HI>Salian</HI> cates in idlene&s;&s;e and play;</L>
<L>They doe devoure whole woods and lakes, and Seas,</L>
<L>And Falerne mountaines, &s;o their gut to plea&s;e;</L>
<L>They fea&s;t the Sunne, carow&s;ing to the night,</L>
<L>And wearie out the next in&s;uing light.</L>
<L>Tell me who&s;e glory is onely dainety fare,</L>
<L>Such as <HI>Vitellius, Ae&s;ops</HI> di&s;hes were;</L>
<L>Tell me who <HI>Ceres</HI> doubtfull &s;uppers love,</L>
<L>At la&s;t, what doth your wa&s;te and charges prove?</L>
<L>The&s;e &s;oft delights doe breake your &s;inewie &s;trength,</L>
<L>And drop&s;ie &s;haketh loo&s;e your joynts at length;</L>
<L>What comes of all your cates? the jakes can tell,</L>
<L>Which turnes your gold into Mephitis &s;mell.</L>
<L>Thrice and more happy is the &s;ober man,</L>
<L>Who on a little live contented can;</L>
<L>Like <HI>Heraclitus,</HI> who with meale and water</L>
<L>Maintaines the peace, and knowes not how to flatter;</L>
<L>He think't enough, what God doth &s;parely give,</L>
<L>And in his meane e&s;tate doth richly live:</L>
<L>He doth his bread-corne by the Plough provide,</L>
<L>And loves to &s;up hard by the river &s;ide:</L>
<PB REF="58">
<L>Who&s;e water to his &s;ober pallate ta&s;teth,</L>
<L>Better then Nectar, which the gluttons wa&s;teth;</L>
<L>His minde is con&s;tant, cha&s;te, and moderate,</L>
<L>Him&s;elfe is hone&s;t, &s;trong, and temperate;</L>
<L>Like <HI>Curij</HI> and <HI>Camilli,</HI> who did dwell</L>
<L>In cottages, whom nothing ere could quell;</L>
<L>Or like <HI>Serranus</HI> who his plough did leave,</L>
<L>That he <HI>Romes</HI> powerfull en&s;ignes might receive;</L>
<L>O happy Soules, who with eternall prai&s;e,</L>
<L>Did ble&s;&s;e their Country, and their trophees rai&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Souldier, who with firy courage &s;tands,</L>
<L>Again&s;t the Martiall fierce encountring bands,</L>
<L>Who with his &s;word makes way, and will not flie,</L>
<L>Maintaining Church, and Countries liberty;</L>
<L>Whether in darkene&s;&s;e he ly'th centenall,</L>
<L>Or doth entrench his forces with a wall,</L>
<L>Or on a &s;uddaine fell downe talle&s;t woods,</L>
<L>Or undermine &s;trong Townes, or &s;wim o'refloods,</L>
<L>Or breake the ice, &s;earch Foordes, a&s;&s;aile the Ports,</L>
<L>Or with fierce warlike engines batter Forts;</L>
<L>He for his Countryes &s;ake, is glad to dye,</L>
<L>And will with hone&s;t wounds his courage try,</L>
<L>While fir&s;t he &s;cales the wall, and thorow runnes,</L>
<L>The Fortlets, fearing neither &s;words nor gunnes.</L>
<L>So when he leads his captive foes in chaines,</L>
<L>When iron-men, when Hor&s;e, and <HI>Mars</HI> his traines</L>
<L>Doe &s;how his &s;poyles, and with his Trophees march,</L>
<L>The fight is read in the triumphall Arch,</L>
<L>With fea&s;ts and &s;hewes, they doe renue the day,</L>
<L>With triumph-&s;ongs his glory they di&s;play;</L>
<L>Trumpets forgetting ire, &s;ound joy and peace&punc;</L>
<L>He in his chariot rides aloft with grace.</L>
<L>So through the ruine of the wall he goes,</L>
<L>And feeds the eyes of all men with his &s;howes;</L>
<PB REF="59">
<L>Higher he cannot reach, but fall he may,</L>
<L>From top of glory into mire and clay;</L>
<L>Fortune with Triumphs deales uncon&s;tantly,</L>
<L>And victory with doubtfull wings doth flye.</L>
<L>Boa&s;t of thy triumphs <HI>Hannibal</HI> and tell,</L>
<L>How thou the Ports of <HI>Rome</HI> with feare did&s;t quell,</L>
<L>Mea&s;ure their Knights in bu&s;hels, mountaines breake</L>
<L>With vineger; when fortune &s;hall for&s;ake</L>
<L>Thy &s;tandard, thou mu&s;t &s;erve a forraigne King,</L>
<L>Till thou at length dy'&s;t by thy poy&s;on'd ring;</L>
<L>Why boa&s;ts <HI>Achilles</HI> that fierce Hector's gone,</L>
<L>If <HI>Paris</HI> &s;hall revenge his death anone;</L>
<L>From <HI>Troy</HI> with triumph <HI>Agamemnon</HI> goes,</L>
<L>But (ah) at home he findes his fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">all foes.</L>
<L>Incon&s;tant lot of men, which greate&s;t things,</L>
<L>To greater downfall and confu&s;ion brings!</L>
<L>If <HI>Crae&s;us</HI> hold the toppe of Fortunes wheele,</L>
<L><HI>Cyrus</HI> anon will cau&s;e him downeward reele,</L>
<L>Vntill incen&s;ed <HI>Tomyris</HI> doth thru&s;t</L>
<L>His head in blood, his honour in the du&s;t;</L>
<L>So fortune con&s;tant in uncon&s;tancy,</L>
<L>And fal&s;e, thou change&s;t lowe&s;t things with high.</L>
<L>Happy is he who &s;ets him&s;elfe for all</L>
<L>Chances, who hopes a ri&s;ing, feares a fall,</L>
<L>And &s;o doth guide his life in all e&s;tates,</L>
<L>That he nor cares for Fortunes &s;miles nor threats:</L>
<L>Like as a rocke which &s;tands with fixed rootes,</L>
<L>At windes and whirling tempe&s;ts &s;coffes and flouts;</L>
<L>They breake them&s;elves while with impetuous chocke</L>
<L>They da&s;h and butte again&s;t th' unmoved rocke;</L>
<L>Even &s;o a wi&s;e man, if a tumult ri&s;e,</L>
<L>Can vulgar feares and levity de&s;pi&s;e,</L>
<L>If fates doe cro&s;&s;e him with an hatefull ire,</L>
<L>Before his patience, their de&s;pight doth tire.</L>
<PB REF="60">
<L>Nay if the world &s;hould fall about his eares,</L>
<L>It would not quell his con&s;tant heart with feares.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Grant courage Lord, and by thy &s;aving grace,</L>
<L>Through all mine ho&s;tile troupes me &s;afely leade,</L>
<L>Suffer me not to &s;hrinke from ranke and place,</L>
<L>But fight 'gain&s;t treach'ry, envy, feare and dread.</L>
<L>My inward enemy doth my heart a&s;&s;aile,</L>
<L>My outward foe with wounds upon me &s;et,</L>
<L>Goe where I will, my foemen doe prevaile,</L>
<L>With Satans bloody ambu&s;h I'me be&s;et.</L>
<L>Thou'rt my Captaine, Thou'rt my God and Lord,</L>
<L>My ca&s;tle, &s;afety, rocke, defence, and prize</L>
<L>Thy &s;haddow, &s;afeguard can to me afford,</L>
<L>Gain&s;t all what ever enemies devi&s;e.</L>
<L>Till they be put to rout, and I &s;et free,</L>
<L>Then &s;halt thou Tyrans to &s;ubjection bring</L>
<L>Vnder thy great Man-per&s;on'd Deity,</L>
<L>And with their bands, their rebell neck's &s;hall wring.</L>
<L>When from Heavens corners, trumpets loud &s;hall blow,</L>
<L>When thou O Lord the wicked do&s;t endite,</L>
<L>Thou in the clouds &s;halt make a glorious &s;how,</L>
<L>And with thy Fathers ble&s;&s;ed ones invite.</L>
<L>O what a triumph &s;hall that triumph be,</L>
<L>When godly men &s;hall from their graves ari&s;e</L>
<L>Before their Saviour; and impiety</L>
<L>Shall &s;tand before their Iudges flaming eyes.</L>
<L>The wicked &s;hall pa&s;&s;e to Sulphureous fire,</L>
<L>There tortures to endure without all end,</L>
<L>The flame, the worme, the whips that never tyre,</L>
<L>And to eternall darkene&s;&s;e be condemn'd.</L>
<L>The godly mount on high with glorious &s;ong,</L>
<L>Mong&s;t Seraphims and Cherubims mo&s;t bright,</L>
<L>With triumph-pomp, convoying Chri&s;t along</L>
<L>T'enjoy all plea&s;ure, glory in Gods &s;ight.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="61">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Fruor Par<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tis.</HI></P>
<P>I enjoy my fruits.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 LANG="eng" TYPE="version">
<PB REF="62">
<HEAD>WINTER.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>December, or old age.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVHen <HI>Phoebus</HI> makes to <HI>Capricorne</HI> retreat,</L>
<L>In Southward declination le&s;&s;oning heat,</L>
<L>Then days doe langui&s;h and the &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">der yeare,</L>
<L>Lookes gloomy with his cold and dolefull cheare;</L>
<L>Not like that yeare, which <HI>Flora's</HI> pride did &s;how,</L>
<L>With Ro&s;es red, and Lillies white as &s;now;</L>
<L>The dayes halfe-&s;hortned more and more decrea&s;e,</L>
<L>The nights extended and the Light growes le&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>Then mortals in Cimmerian darkene&s;&s;e dwell.</L>
<L>The aire with hoare-fro&s;t, winds with coldne&s;&s;e &s;well;</L>
<L>Rivers are duld with ice, the earth is bound</L>
<L>With cold, and pooles of teares o'reflow the ground;</L>
<L>The Sea lookes gray with waves, and every thing</L>
<L>Doth droope, for ab&s;ence of the plea&s;ant &s;pring:</L>
<L>So &s;ad and &s;low, old age on man doth &s;eize,</L>
<L>Fraughted with evils, an Hydra of cur&s;d di&s;ea&s;e,</L>
<L>Lothing it &s;elfe, oft &s;o it hates the day,</L>
<L>That joyfully it makes it &s;elfe away.</L>
<L>Then cra&s;ie gray-haires cloathes the head with &s;now,</L>
<L>And &s;wanlike plumes about the temples grow:</L>
<L>Like as an Oake which <HI>Boreas</HI> bare hath made,</L>
<L>Look's bald, onely its &s;tocke doth ca&s;t a &s;hade;</L>
<L>So mans malignant age, with dreary fate,</L>
<L>Doth rob him of his lockes, and peele his pate.</L>
<L>Leafs fall, &s;hewes Winter, man is neere to dye,</L>
<L>When age the fatall razor doth &s;upply.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What now availes the Ivory beauties grace,</L>
<L>Which did with Pe&s;tane Ro&s;es paint the face,</L>
<L>As Amaranths which grow white Lillies by,</L>
<L>Or Thracian &s;now, which takes vermillion dye,</L>
<L>Now is it plough'd with wrinckles and lookes wan,</L>
<L>And leane, more like a with'red weed then man;</L>
<PB REF="63">
<L>Like &s;corched gra&s;&s;e, when <HI>Sirius</HI> heate doth burne,</L>
<L>And into a&s;hes doth earths moy&s;ture turne:</L>
<L>His cheekes are hollow, his body looketh thin</L>
<L>In place of mu&s;cles hangs a wrinckled skin:</L>
<L>His gemme-like eyes &s;ometime Dames natures pryde</L>
<L>Are dim, and now for &s;hame them&s;elves doe hide,</L>
<L>They &s;carce can &s;ee the Sunne, they're blinde as Moles,</L>
<L>In place of eyes, we &s;ee nothing but holes.</L>
<L>His back's a ridged bone, his &s;houlders bend,</L>
<L>Which &s;ometimes could with <HI>Pelops</HI> well contend;</L>
<L>All feature's gone, his beauties faire and bright</L>
<L>Is made a &s;celeton and ugly &s;ight.</L>
<L>Mad <HI>Paris;</HI> why to <HI>Sparta</HI> do&s;t thou hye,</L>
<L>To breake the lawes of ho&s;pitality?</L>
<L>Why do&s;t thou call the <HI>Grecian</HI> fleete to <HI>Troy,</HI></L>
<L>Which 'fore it doth returne will it de&s;troy?</L>
<L>Is 't cau&s;e thy bre&s;t with love is &s;et on fire,</L>
<L>And thou nothing but <HI>Hellen</HI> can&s;t de&s;ire?</L>
<L>Looke to thy mothers wrinckles and her face,</L>
<L>Which age and filthy leanne&s;&s;e doth di&s;grace;</L>
<L>Her bleardne&s;&s;e and her age thou do&s;t dete&s;t</L>
<L>Yet once it kindled fire in <HI>Priams</HI> bre&s;t:</L>
<L><HI>Helen</HI> thy greate&s;t joy and &s;ole delight,</L>
<L>After thy death and <HI>Iuno's</HI> deadly &s;pight,</L>
<L>After friends &s;laughters, and thy &s;i&s;ters rape,</L>
<L>Shall &s;cratch her wrinckles like a munckie Ape,</L>
<L>And oft with teares &s;hall blot the looking gla&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Seeing what &s;he is now, and what &s;he was.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What profits &s;trength, when feeble age doth &s;hrinke,</L>
<L>The body under his owne weight &s;hall &s;inke,</L>
<L>Ioves &s;acred oake, who&s;e growing &s;tanding age,</L>
<L>Two hundred yeeres hath &s;tood 'gain&s;t Boreas rage,</L>
<L>When the third fatall age is come at la&s;t,</L>
<L>It &s;taggers yeelding to the meane&s;t bla&s;t:</L>
<PB REF="64">
<L><HI>Atlas,</HI> who did the &s;tarry Heaven uphold,</L>
<L>When worne with &s;pace of yeares <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e waxed old,</L>
<L>He laide his charge <HI>Alcides</HI> necke upon,</L>
<L>Whom Iove begetting&punc; drove two nights in one:</L>
<L><HI>Milon,</HI> who learnd to carry by degrees</L>
<L>A Bull, did weepe to &s;ee his feeble knees,</L>
<L>When worne with age, his &s;inews he did find,</L>
<L>And Limbes not an&s;wering to his champion minde.</L>
<L>The Lyon, at who&s;e noy&s;e, the woods did quake,</L>
<L>And every bea&s;t, with dreadfull feare did &s;hake,</L>
<L>Now broken with yeares, he &s;carce his taile can drag,</L>
<L>Behind the &s;illy flockes he's forc'd to lagge,</L>
<L>He's hunger bitten, the herds &s;ecurely play,</L>
<L>He &s;ees, but cannot catch his wonted prey.</L>
<L>Even &s;o the Souldier who did weare a Crowne</L>
<L>Of Oake, and oft triumphed with renowne,</L>
<L>(Such as brave <HI>Cocles</HI> for his Country &s;tood,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Romulus</HI> &s;prinkled with <HI>Acrons</HI> blood,</L>
<L>Or &s;tout <HI>Marcellus,</HI> or fierce <HI>Co&s;&s;us</HI> which</L>
<L>Did <HI>Iupiter Feretrius</HI> all enrich)</L>
<L>Now free to Mars he hangeth up his armes,</L>
<L>Nor is he &s;turred up with fierce alarmes;</L>
<L>When Martiall trumpets &s;ound, and drummes are beaten,</L>
<L>When hor&s;es neigh, when noy&s;e the &s;tarres doth threaten,</L>
<L>He &s;its unmov'd, nothing his courage whets,</L>
<L>His wonted heate and &s;pirit he forgets.</L>
<L>The Marriner who &s;aild the Pygmies coa&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>After with many &s;tormes he hath beene to&s;t,</L>
<L>He takes him&s;elfe to re&s;t, becau&s;e he can</L>
<L>Not now endure the raging Ocean;</L>
<L>He hangs his pitchie cloathes on Neptunes &s;hrine,</L>
<L>The land both him and &s;hip doth now confine,</L>
<L>Both weary of Sea; it rots upon the &s;hore,</L>
<L>He lyes at home, cau&s;e he can &s;aile more;</L>
<PB REF="65">
<L>That which the Sea hath left, and &s;tormes and toyle,</L>
<L>He minds to tru&s;t it to his Country &s;oyle.</L>
<L>Sweetene&s;&s;e is gone, nothing but dregs remaine,</L>
<L>The bottome doth both lea&s;t and wor&s;t containe.</L>
<L>Why &s;eeke you wretched men to reckon your dayes</L>
<L>With three ag'd Ne&s;tor? as if it were prai&s;e,</L>
<L>To live beyond the Stagge, and Crow; no day</L>
<L>Doth want his cro&s;&s;e, each houre which doth delay</L>
<L>Our death, prolongs our mi&s;ery, our woe</L>
<L>Encrea&s;eth more, the more in age we grow;</L>
<L>The leaking &s;hip, the longer way &s;he makes,</L>
<L>The greater danger &s;till &s;he undertakes;</L>
<L>And if &s;he &s;hall lanch further in the deepe,</L>
<L>No skilfull Art can her from &s;hipwracke keepe.</L>
<L>Thrice happy <HI>Troile</HI> who did bravely dye,</L>
<L>Before thy gray-haires ta&s;ted mi&s;ery;</L>
<L>If de&s;tinies had &s;o with Priame delt,</L>
<L>He &s;hould not have &s;o grievous &s;orrowe's felt,</L>
<L>His childrens death, rapes, flames and clam'rous groanes&punc;</L>
<L>Nor with his blood, have drench'd the Altar &s;tones.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What doth not age con&s;ume? The monument</L>
<L>Of <HI>Caria's</HI> gone, the <HI>Pyramids</HI> are &s;pent;</L>
<L><HI>Rhodes</HI> graet <HI>Colo&s;&s;us</HI> now is turn'd to nought,</L>
<L>And &s;trength of body is to weakene&s;&s;e brought;</L>
<L>Age le&s;&s;ning vigour turnes man to a gho&s;t,</L>
<L>Who lately did of nerves and &s;inewes boa&s;t.</L>
<L>Beauty decayes, wealth cannot cure di&s;ea&s;e,</L>
<L>On Natures gifts, con&s;uming age doth &s;eize;</L>
<L>Con&s;tant and firme, Vertue remaines alone,</L>
<L>And comforts age, when &s;trength and all are gone,</L>
<L>Gray-haires provi&s;ion. Like as <HI>Phoebus</HI> bright</L>
<L>Darkneth the Planets with his greater light;</L>
<L>So vertues greatne&s;&s;e doth all &s;orrowesquell</L>
<L>And &s;uffers not hearts &s;ad complaints to &s;well.</L>
<PB REF="66">
<L>It doth content it &s;elfe, its owne reward</L>
<L>In greate&s;t danger, &s;till the &s;afe&s;t guard.</L>
<L>When flames did <HI>Syracu&s;es</HI> Ca&s;tles burne,</L>
<L>When Roman forces did them overturne;</L>
<L>Mong&s;t &s;laughters, clamours, ruines, deadly noy&s;e,</L>
<L>Thou <HI>Archimedes</HI> onely did&s;t rejoyce;</L>
<L><HI>Alcyon</HI>-like in trouble thou had&s;t re&s;t,</L>
<L>And &s;car&s;ely felt the &s;word thru&s;t in thy bre&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O happy re&s;t of minde, O onely plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Comfort of age, mans ble&s;t and onely trea&s;ure,</L>
<L>Thou le&s;&s;ne&s;t woe, nothing can thee annoy,</L>
<L>In mid&s;t of mi&s;ery, thou afforde&s;t joy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>&para;</HEAD>
<L>Gray bayres encompa&s;&s;e now my head, &s;nowes</L>
<L>Tell me that Boreas blowes.</L>
<L>A foggy dimmene&s;&s;e doth my eyes a&s;&s;aile,</L>
<L>My grinders gin to faile.</L>
<L>My &s;taggering pillars cannot &s;tand at all,</L>
<L>My hou&s;e is neere to fall.</L>
<L>Old age brings with it &s;ickne&s;&s;e and di&s;ea&s;e,</L>
<L>My limbes &s;eeke &s;luggi&s;h ea&s;e.</L>
<L>All plea&s;ure's gone; it doth me &s;ore annoy,</L>
<L>To thinke of youths delight and former joy.</L>
<L>My mind doth dreame of Gho&s;tes, before mine eyes</L>
<L>Deaths image &s;till doth ri&s;e.</L>
<L>When errours of my youth I call to mind,</L>
<L>Old age doth &s;orrow finde.</L>
<L>Youths glory like the rainebowes painted &s;pheres,</L>
<L>Doth vani&s;h into teares.</L>
<L>O Father pardon and with &s;aving faith,</L>
<L>Repaire what lo&s;&s;e age hath.</L>
<L>Let thy good &s;pirit quicken thy grace in me,</L>
<L>That Heav'n my thought, my hearts de&s;ire may be.</L>
<PB REF="67">
<L>Grant me a&s;&s;urance of forgivne&s;&s;e Lord,</L>
<L>Earne&s;t of &s;prit and word.</L>
<L>So &s;hall the thought of Heavens eternall re&s;t,</L>
<L>Comfort my &s;oule di&s;tre&s;t.</L>
<L>So let me be di&s;&s;olv'd, to be with Thee,</L>
<L>Our Father, Lord, to &s;ee.</L>
<L>Where ble&s;&s;ed peace, eternall joy doth dwell,</L>
<L>Which no time e're can quell.</L>
<L>Where faith doth &s;ight, and hope doth wi&s;h obtaine,</L>
<L>Where endle&s;&s;e love for evermore &s;hall raigne.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="68">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Cavete.</HI></P>
<P>Take heed.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="69">
<HEAD>Ianuary, or Death.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVHen cold <HI>Aquarius</HI> empties all his paile,</L>
<L>And <HI>Iupiter</HI> with clouds the world doth vaile,</L>
<L>When noy&s;ing tempe&s;t jerks the winter sky,</L>
<L>And crackling haile, alongs the aire doth flye,</L>
<L>Then to earths bowels Plants do &s;end their juice,</L>
<L>And every thing benummed &s;tands with ice;</L>
<L>If any &s;eeds of life are to be found,</L>
<L>They lye etombed in the fro&s;ty ground;</L>
<L>The groaning woods, their burthens cannot beare,</L>
<L>Which from the &s;tocke the boughs and barke doe teare,</L>
<L>With icy &s;etters rivers fa&s;t are bound.</L>
<L>And in a Cry&s;tall coffing Lakes are found,</L>
<L>Live fi&s;hes in dead waters &s;wimme, and cold,</L>
<L>Cramplike, the earth doth with Convul&s;ion hold:</L>
<L>Mans winter is, when he hath waxed old,</L>
<L>And with his &s;taffe, can &s;carce him&s;elfe uphold;</L>
<L>The le&s;&s;e he growes, the heavier he him finds,</L>
<L>And &s;tooping downe, nothing but grave he minds,</L>
<L>Thither he ha&s;tning with three feete, cannot</L>
<L>Make good his pace, and fals in Charons boat.</L>
<L>We know our birth; there's one way to this light,</L>
<L>But more then thou&s;and wayes to fatall night;</L>
<L>The de&s;tinies doe cut the threed new &s;punne,</L>
<L>As well as that, which wearing hath undone.</L>
<L>Death mi&s;&s;eth none, and Proteus could not take</L>
<L>More &s;hapes, then &s;he &s;trange kinds of death can make;</L>
<L>To &s;ome more cruell torments &s;he invents,</L>
<L>Gibbet and Racke, which naturall death prevents;</L>
<L>To &s;ome more meeke, them &s;oftly &s;he outweares,</L>
<L>Sub&s;tracting life, by multiplying yeares;</L>
<L>What man can tell the many thou&s;and kindes</L>
<L>Of &s;trange di&s;ea&s;es, which for man &s;he findes?</L>
<PB REF="70">
<L>Sunne never &s;o many A tomes fly,</L>
<L>As fates have wayes for our Mortality;</L>
<L>We have one life, we may a thou&s;and wayes</L>
<L>Lo&s;e it; each &s;troke of pul&s;e can end our dayes.</L>
<L>Whether con&s;umption us extenuate,</L>
<L>As waxe with lingring fire is macerate,</L>
<L>Or too much heate or moy&s;ture doth us quell,</L>
<L>Or &s;quincie inflames the jawes and makes them &s;well;</L>
<L>Or aches, meegrimes, head-tormenting paine,</L>
<L>And &s;taring catalep&s;is from the braine;</L>
<L>Or a continuall &s;leepe of lethargie,</L>
<L>Or giddy &s;haking of &s;ome Artery;</L>
<L>Or &s;trong Convul&s;ion fits of crampe or goute,</L>
<L>Or lepro&s;ie which paints the skinne without;</L>
<L>And deadly water which puffes up the skin,</L>
<L>Thir&s;ting the more, the more it &s;willeth in:</L>
<L>Or running cancer u&s;her us to death,</L>
<L>Or vitall bellowes &s;carce afford us breath;</L>
<L>Or poxe or mea&s;les; cunning death doth know</L>
<L>A thou&s;and trickes mans life to overthrow,</L>
<L>But none more grievous than infectious ayre,</L>
<L>Which lyeth wa&s;te this Fabricke every where;</L>
<L>Then fainting brookes with Lethes &s;treames doe flow,</L>
<L>Clouds big with death abroad doe poy&s;on blow;</L>
<L>When men and bea&s;ts mortality doe breath,</L>
<L>And bea&s;ts for dew, from gra&s;&s;e doe licke their death:</L>
<L>Heav'n raines infection, &s;uddaine death doth fall</L>
<L>Like Manna, meat's made poy&s;on, honey gall.</L>
<L>It rageth mo&s;t 'gain&s;t men, as we have &s;eene,</L>
<L>Who of this evill partakers late have beene;</L>
<L>When raging in this land both night and day,</L>
<L>It did not tithe, but &s;weepe whole townes away;</L>
<L>As thou (ala&s;&s;e) faire London well can&s;t tell,</L>
<L>How thou <HI>Thames</HI> river with thy teares did&s;t &s;well;</L>
<PB REF="71">
<L>They could declare, whom &s;epulchers cannot</L>
<L>Containe, nor yet have pa&s;t in Charons boat;</L>
<L>The Plague more grievous is then death, no wits</L>
<L>Can ere devi&s;e more fearefull lookes and fits;</L>
<L>A heavy languor doth their &s;pirits tire,</L>
<L>Their eyes with flames, their faces burne with fire;</L>
<L>A &s;corching vapour doth their head po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>The &s;ore bur&s;ts forth; their eyes with &s;tupidne&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Doe &s;tare; their no&s;trils drop with filthy gore;</L>
<L>Their eares doe tingle, and their griefe is more:</L>
<L>Their bowels like to bur&s;t with &s;ighes and mones,</L>
<L>Draw from their inward parts mo&s;t grievous grones,</L>
<L>Their tongues &s;well in their throates, and thir&s;t them kils,</L>
<L>They gra&s;p cold &s;tones, when they have their wils:</L>
<L>Blacke wheales ari&s;ing give a certaine token,</L>
<L>That now their fatall threed of life is broken.</L>
<L>No mortall evill like this Pandora brought,</L>
<L>Nor &s;uch di&s;ea&s;e &s;tepmother Nature wrought:</L>
<L>The double-headed &s;erpent with his &s;ting,</L>
<L>Nor &s;andy viper, can &s;uch venime bring,</L>
<L>Nor Scytale, who&s;e back's like gli&s;tring gold,</L>
<L>Nor thir&s;ty Snake, nor Salamander cold,</L>
<L>Nor rotting Horne&punc; worne, nor the Scorpions taile,</L>
<L>Nor Toade, nor wide&punc;mouth'd &s;erpent &s;o prevaile,</L>
<L>Nor Africks A&s;pe nor Ba&s;iliske, who &s;ees</L>
<L>A farre and kils with poy&s;on of his eyes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Good God, doe bani&s;h &s;uch a cur&s;e away,</L>
<L>That friends, their friends in &s;ickne&s;&s;e comfort may.</L>
<L>How many in the Oceans bottome lye,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e by love, or warres revenge, doe dye?</L>
<L>O brittle, fraile, uncertaine life, undone</L>
<L>By thou&s;and evils, and yet not match to one!</L>
<L>Shall fury of Heavn, of Sea, and Land this blow,</L>
<L>And winds concurre a bubble to o'rethrow.</L>
<PB REF="72">
<L>So when the &s;oule the body doth for&s;ake</L>
<L>And can it &s;elfe to fyrie heav'n betake,</L>
<L>Happy that after labours it can goe</L>
<L>To Heav'ns eternall man&s;ions from below,</L>
<L>T' enjoy the plea&s;ures of eternall re&s;t,</L>
<L>With triumphs 'mong&s;t the Angels to be ble&s;t;</L>
<L>Happy who after &s;o uncertaine chance</L>
<L>Can &s;afely to the haven of Heav'ns advance.</L>
<L>Perhaps the body hath become a prey</L>
<L>To bea&s;ts, or in the ayre doth rot away,</L>
<L>Or feedes the vultures, or by cruell fate,</L>
<L>To greedy fi&s;hes hath become a bate:</L>
<L>Few to their mothers belly doe returne,</L>
<L>And few are layd on &s;av'ry piles to burne,</L>
<L>For whom old women &s;ing a mourning &s;ong;</L>
<L>None be&s;ides tho&s;e, who dye their friends among,</L>
<L>Who&s;e kin&s;men deere their dying eyes doe &s;hut,</L>
<L>And from their beds them in a coffing put.</L>
<L>So when the &s;oule hath parted cleane away</L>
<L>And left the body like a lumpe of clay:</L>
<L>The carca&s;e is not colder then the love</L>
<L>Of wife and friends, who doe uncon&s;tant prove.</L>
<L>The heire in mourning weedes lookes very fine,</L>
<L>He maskes his joy, and thankes the fates divine,</L>
<L>And nature, that his gray-hayr'd father's gone,</L>
<L>And he of all his bagges left heire alone:</L>
<L>He joyes to &s;ee the trea&s;ures newly found,</L>
<L>The more he &s;ees, his &s;ighes more &s;oftly &s;ound:</L>
<L>The dead is &s;acrificed on the &s;hrine,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Pro&s;erpine,</HI> the heire &s;ayes, <HI>All is mine:</HI></L>
<L>And 'cau&s;e he cannot goe, he's caried forth</L>
<L>Accompany'd with all his friends of worth:</L>
<L>His trophees flye abroad, and martiall armes,</L>
<L>And warlike trumpets whi&s;per &s;ad alarmes.</L>
<PB REF="73">
<L>Hyr'd mourners &s;hew his yeeres, the pompe &s;o brave,</L>
<L>Convoy him to his cold and &s;ad like grave:</L>
<L>But when they come to deaths pale habitation</L>
<L>And &s;ee the pit which gapes with de&s;olation,</L>
<L>They throw the naked coffing in; of all</L>
<L>His friends, not one for love will with him fall:</L>
<L>All gets them gone, he &s;till alone doth lye,</L>
<L>Rottenne&s;&s;e, wormes bate, tale of mortality.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="illustration">
<PB REF="75">
<P><FIGURE>
<P><HI>Re&s;urgent.</HI></P>
<P>All &s;hall ari&s;e.</P>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="76">
<HEAD><HI>February, or Epitaphs, which may be termed</HI> Februa, <HI>celebrated for the memory of cer|taine &s;oules.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD><HI>Epitaph of</HI> Adam <HI>the fir&s;t father of mankind.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>I Fir&s;t of mankind, made by power divine,</L>
<L>Immortall once, brought death on me and mine.</L>
<L>Alone I &s;tood, but marryed, I became</L>
<L>Cur&s;ed, as likewi&s;e cur&s;ed was my dame.</L>
<L>I &s;inned fir&s;t, but not alone, my brood</L>
<L>Were one with me, whether I fell or &s;tood.</L>
<L>Salvation fir&s;t was preacht to me, as I</L>
<L>By faith, &s;o may my off-&s;pring come thereby.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD><HI>Of</HI> Methu&s;alem <HI>the longest liver of mankind.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>I'Me he, whom all for age doe wonder at,</L>
<L>Who&s;e minutes fixed &s;tarres &s;carce calculate:</L>
<L>If of the &s;ea, an houre gla&s;&s;e you &s;hould make,</L>
<L>Each houre of mine each drop of &s;ea could take;</L>
<L>How many waves in Sea can you devi&s;e,</L>
<L>As I have &s;eene Sunnes from the Sea ari&s;e?</L>
<L>Oftner than once the Phenix I have knowne,</L>
<L>From &s;pycie cradles fre&s;hly to have flowne:</L>
<L>Oakes and their off &s;prings off-&s;pring I did &s;ee</L>
<L>Decay'd with fatall yeeres antiquity:</L>
<L>I thought I could not dye; but death me told,</L>
<L>That dye I mu&s;t, though I were ne're &s;o old:</L>
<L>This comforts me, the longer I did live,</L>
<L>The fates the &s;horter &s;leepe of death &s;hall give.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<PB REF="77">
<HEAD><HI>Of</HI> Abraham, <HI>the Father of the Faithfull.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHen hope of i&s;&s;ue now was all forlorne,</L>
<L>And <HI>Sara</HI> laughed God of Heaven to &s;corne,</L>
<L>She &s;traight brought forth, and me a Father made,</L>
<L>Cau&s;e I beleeved what Almighty &s;aid;</L>
<L>The child the hope was of po&s;terity,</L>
<L>Which to the &s;tarres of Heav'n &s;hould equall be;</L>
<L>God bid me &s;acrifice this onely Sonne,</L>
<L>My will h' accepted, as it had beene done.</L>
<L>Tell me, was not this con&s;tant faith in me,</L>
<L>To looke for fruites and yet to burne the tree?</L>
<L>So by one Sonne, I was made father then</L>
<L>Of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and of all faithfull men:</L>
<L>As I, &s;o &s;hall my off-&s;pring travlers be</L>
<L>On earth, untill their Country Heav'n they &s;ee.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD><HI>Of</HI> Samp&s;on <HI>the &s;tronge&s;t judge of</HI> I&s;rael.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A <HI>Nazarite</HI> from the wombe, God did me call,</L>
<L>My mother did not ta&s;te of wine at all;</L>
<L>The Mighty Iudge of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and the fell</L>
<L>Revenge of <HI>Phili&s;times,</HI> as well could tell,</L>
<L>My rivales, whom I quickely did confound,</L>
<L>The Corne which firy foxes burnt on ground,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e whom I kild with jaw bone of an a&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Which in my deadly thir&s;t my fountaine was:</L>
<L>So <HI>Gaza's</HI> gates my &s;trength did te&s;tify,</L>
<L>The withes, ropes, web, which I broke ea&s;ily:</L>
<L>Yet all this &s;trength a &s;illy woman could</L>
<L>Vndoe, &s;educed with foes-briding gold.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<PB REF="78">
<HEAD><HI>Of</HI> David <HI>the mo&s;t holy King of</HI> I&s;rael.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>I The &s;weete &s;inger once in <HI>I&s;rael</HI></L>
<L>Who lov'd the&s;e &s;ongs, which lik'd Almighty well,</L>
<L>Who danc'd before the Arke in peoples &s;ight,</L>
<L>Accounted therefore by my <HI>Michal</HI> light:</L>
<L>I made Harpe, Timbrell, Lute, my whole delight,</L>
<L>Heav'ns harmony, my joy both day and night;</L>
<L>Yet &s;ometimes on my couch the&s;e joyes did turne,</L>
<L>In floods of teares, and I did &s;adly mourne:</L>
<L>As in all things, &s;o in the godly heart</L>
<L>Sorrow and joy by cour&s;e doe play their part;</L>
<L>Sometimes the heart is calme and &s;weetely &s;till,</L>
<L>When God the &s;oule doth with his pre&s;ence fill&punc;</L>
<L>Sometimes in deadly &s;orrow it is drown'd,</L>
<L>And then no gracious pre&s;ence can be found.</L>
<L>Be not ca&s;t downe good &s;oule, how e're it goe;</L>
<L>If thou be &s;ad, it &s;hall not &s;till be &s;o.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD><HI>Of</HI> Ab&s;alom <HI>the faire&s;t of</HI> I&s;rael.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THou <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> great <HI>I&s;raels</HI> beauty rare.</L>
<L>What did availe thy &s;hape, and feature faire,</L>
<L>What profit made thy lockes and weighty haire,</L>
<L>Thy eyes with which the &s;tarres could well compare;</L>
<L>Thy comely cheekes, thy lips vermilion red,</L>
<L>As lillies doe decore the ro&s;es bed,</L>
<L>Thy iv'ry &s;houlders and thy &s;now-white necke,</L>
<L>Thy youthfull grace which did thy body decke;</L>
<L>Thy dainty armes with their embracements &s;weete,</L>
<L>Thy body without blemi&s;h all compleat?</L>
<L>If now reprochfull vice doth brand thy fame,</L>
<L>And leudne&s;&s;e of thy life di&s;grace thy name.</L>
<L>The vertue of the mind thou &s;hould&s;t have &s;ought,</L>
<L>For beauty, without that, is painting thought.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<PB REF="79">
<HEAD><HI>Of</HI> Solomon <HI>the wi&s;e&s;t and riche&s;t King of</HI> I&s;rael.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>I Once the <HI>Solomon,</HI> who did excell</L>
<L>In wit, in riches had no paralell,</L>
<L>Who did from Cedars to the Ivy know,</L>
<L>Who&s;e plenteous &s;ilver did like &s;laite&s;tones goe,</L>
<L>Who&s;e glorious fame a Queene brought from the South,</L>
<L>That &s;he a witne&s;&s;e might be of the truth.</L>
<L>She came, and &s;aw, and wonderd, and did &s;ay,</L>
<L>That tho&s;e were happy, who did with me &s;tay,</L>
<L>I had alone, which all their owne doe call,</L>
<L>Riches, and honour, plea&s;ure, I had all:</L>
<L>Yet I did find all under Sunne to be</L>
<L>Mortall, fraile, brittle, and but vanity.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<CLOSER><GAP DESC="foreign">.</CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
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<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="imprimatur">
<PB REF="80">
<P><HI>Imprimatur</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Tho. Wykes R. P. Epi&s;c. Lond. Cap. dome&s;t.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>Feb. 15. 1637.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<PB REF="80">
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