Author: Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604. 1482 Title: The silkewormes, and their flies: liuely described in verse, by T.M. a countrie farmar, and an apprentice in physicke. For the great benefit and enriching of England Date: 1599 Bibliographic name / number: STC (2nd ed.) / 17994 No. of pages: [8], 75, [1] p. Copy from: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery Reel position: STC / 437:09

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THE Silkewormes, and their Flies: Liuely described in verse, by T. M. a Countrie Farmar, and an ap|prentice in Physicke. For the great benefit and enriching of England.

Printed at London by V. S. for Nicholas Ling, and are to be sold at his shop at the West ende of Paules. 1599.

To the most renowned Patronesse, and noble Nurse of Learning MARIE Countesse of Penbrooke.

GReat enuies Obiect, Worth & Wisedoms pride, Natures delight, Arcadia's heire most fitte, Vouchsafe a while to lay thy taske aside, Let Petrarke sleep, giue rest to Sacred Writte, Or bowe, or string will breake, if euer tied, Some little pawse aideth the quickest witte: Nay, heau'ns themselues (though keeping stil their way) Retrogradate, and make a kind of stay. I neither sing Achilles baneful ire,

Nor Man, nor Armes, nor Belly-brothers warres, Nor Britaine broiles, nor citties drownd in fire, Nor Hectors wounds, nor Diomedes skarres, Cease country Muse so highly to aspire: Our Plaine beholds but cannot holde such starres: Ioue-loued wittes may write of what they will, But meaner Theams beseeme a Farmers quill. I sing of little Wormes and tender Flies, Creeping along, or basking on the ground, Grac't once with those thy heau'nly-humane eies, Which neuer yet on meanest scholler fround: And able are this worke to aeternise, From East to West about this lower Round, Deigne thou but breathe a sparke or little flame Of likeing, to enlife for aye the same. Your H. euer most bounden. T. M.

The Table.

• 1 WHen garments were first vsed. Fol. 2 • 2 Whereof garments were first made. 3 • 3 Diuers opinions how and when silke was first inuented and worne. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20. • 4 Whether the Silke-worme or the Silke Flie were first created. 21 22 23. • 5 Whether the egge or the henne be first in nature. 24 25 26 27. • 6 Why the silke flies are onely of a white colour. 28. • 7 What day of the weeke they were first created. 29 30 31. • 8 The rare vertues and chastity of Silke Flies. 27 28 33 38 • 9 That they are not to be scornd as being little and there|fore contemned creatures. 34 35 36

37. • 10 Their wonderful encrease and propagation. 39 and 65 66. • 11 Their manner of dying. 40 66. • 12 That their egges are more worth then the egges of any Flier: yea then the Philosophers egge,

if there were any such. 41 42 43 44 45 46 47. • 13 Their egges must be kept in a temperate place. 48. • 14 They are not to be hatched til the Mulbery tree buds. 50.

• 15 Why the Silke-wormes beeing crept out of the shel feede onely vpon Mulbery leaues. 51 52 53.

• 16 How long they feede: When their meate is to be gathered: In what quantity they are to be dieted. 55.

• 17 That variety of meates is naught for them. 56. • 18 Their table is to be kept cleane. ibid. • How the sicke are discerned. 59. • 19 Of their sleepe: ibid. • 20 How they must be distributed when they grow great. 57. • 21 The causes of their sicknesse. 59. • 22 Signes of their readinesse to worke, and how then they must be vsed. 60. • 23 How long they worke. 61. • 24 When the wormes are metamorphosed into Flies. 61. • 25 When and how their silke is to be winded vp. 61. • 26 The sorts and vse of their silken threede. 63 64. • 27 How their egges are to be preserued. 67. • 28 That the silke of Silke-wormes is the best of al other. 68. • 29 What profit and pleasure ariseth in keeping of them. 71 72 73 74. • 30 Keeping of Silke-wormes hindereth neither Shep|heards, Spinsters, Weauers, nor Clothiers.

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[leaf motif]Of the Silke wormes and their Flies.

SYdneian Muse: if so thou yet remaine, In brothers bowels, or in daughters breast, Or art bequeath'd the Lady of the pla[...]ne, Because for her thou art the fittest guest: Whose worth to shew, no mortall can attaine, Which with like worth is not himselfe possest: Come help me sing these flocks as white as milke, That make, and spinne, and die, and windle silke. For sure I know thy knowledge doth perceiue, What breth embreath'd these almost thingles things: VVhat Artist taught their feete to spinne and weaue: What workman made their slime a robe for kings, How flies breed wormes, how wormes do flies con|ceiue: Fro~ natures womb, how such a nature springs, Whereof none can directly tell or reede, Whether were first, the flie, the worme, or seede. A time there was (sweete heau'ns restore that time,) When bodyes pure to spotlesse soules first knit, Deuoyd of guilt, and ignorant of crime,

Vpright in conscience, and of harmelesse wit, Disdaind to weare a garment nere so fine, As deeming coates and couers most vnfit, Where nothing eie could see, or finger touch, Which God himselfe did not for good auouch. [Note: Gen. 1. verse 3[...]. ] 2 Yea, when all other creatures looked base, As mindful onely of their earthly foode: Or else as trembling to behold the place, Where iudge eternall sate, and Angels stood: Then humane eyes beheld him face to face, And cheekes vnstain'd with fumes of guiltie bloud, Desir'd no maske to hide their blushing balles, But boldly gaz'd and pried on heau'nly walles. The breast which yet had hatcht no badde conceat, Nor harbor'd ought in heart that God displeaz'd, Did it for silken wastcotes then intreate? Sought it with Tyrian silks to be appeaz'd? No, no, there was no neede of such a feate, Where all was sound, and members none diseaz'd: Nay more, The basest parts and seates of shame, Were seemely then, and had a comely name. But when selfe-will and subtile creepers guile, [Note: Gen. 3. ] Made man to lust, and taste what God forbad, Then seem'd we to our selues so foule and vile, That straight we wisht our bodies to be clad, Seeing without, and in such great defile, As reft our wittes, and made vs al so mad: That we resembled melancholique hares, Or startling stagges, whom euerie shadow scares. 3 Then Bedlam-like to woods wee ranne apace,

Praying each tree to lend vs shade or leaues, Wherewith to hide (if ought might hide) our face From his al-seeing eyes, who al perceaues, And with ful-brandisht sword pursues the chace, Traitors of rest, of shade, and al bereaues: Permitting men with nothing to be clad, But shame, dispaire, guilt, feare, and horror sad. These robes our parents first were deckt withal, Then fig tree fannes vppon their shame they wore: Next, skinnes of beasts, (to shew their beastly fall) Then, hairy cloathes, and wooll from Baa-lambs tore, Last, [Note: Plin. lib. 12. ca. 10. & lib. 24. cap. 12. ] Easterne wittes, from mane of Camels tall, Made water-waued stuffe vnseene before, But til the floud had sinners swept away, Nor Flaxe, nor Silke, did sinful man array. For so it seemed iust to Iustice eyen, Defiled men to weare polluted things: And Rebels not to clothe in Flaxe or line, Which from the sacred loines of Vesta spring, Cleane, knotlesse, straight, spotlesse, vpright, and fine, VVhose floure is like fiue heau'nly-azurd wings, Whose slime is salue, whose seed is holsom food, whose rinde is cloth, [Note: Plut. lib. de Isid[...] & Osir. ] whose stuble seru's for wood 4 Or if [Note: A most famous spinner in Lydi|a, of whom Ouid 6 metam. ] Arachne erst made sisters threed, Was it thinke you, for euery man to weare? Or onely for the sacrificers weede, VVho of th'immortall priest a type did beare? Wearing not aught that sprang from brutish seed, But what from out it selfe the earth did reare: So that till holy priesthood first began, [Note: Exodus 28. ] VVe neuer reade that linnen clothed man.

Yet some conceiue when [Note: Orpheus a most famous Poet. Ouid 1 I[...]met. ] Theban singer wanne, VVood-wandring wights to good and ciuill life, (Which erst with beares and wolues in desarts ran, Knowing no name of God, law, house, or wife) That then his brother Linus first began The Flaxmans craft (a secret then vnrife) Deuising beetles, hackels, wheeles, and frame, Wherwith to bruse, touse, spin & weaue the same. But Silke (whereon my louing Muze now stands) Was it the ofspring of our shallow braine? Spunne with these fingers foule? these filthy hands, Tainted with bloud, reuenge, and wrongful gaine? Ah no, who made and numbreth all the sands, Wil teach vs soone that fancie to be vaine: Farre be it from our thoughts, that sinfull sence, Should make a thing of so great excellence. 5 Ne neede wee yet with [Note: Hironimu[...] vi|da[...], Bishop of Alba. lib. 1. de Bombyc[...] ] Tuscane Prelate flie, To fictions strange, or wanton Venus eyen: Who seeing Pallas taught from Saturne hie, To clothe her selfe and hers with weaued line, Yea all the Nimphs and Goddesses in skie, To weare long stoles of Lawne and Cambrick fine: Fretted to see her selfe and boy new borne, Left both to heau'n and earth an open scorne. Reuenge she cri'de vnto the sire of Ioue, As she lay hidde vnder th'Idalian tree: Affoord some rayment from the house aboue, If but to hide the shame of mine and mee. So may thou learne from vs The art of Loue, Whereby to winne each Ladies heart to thee.

But grumbling Chuff reiected still her prayre, Whereat lamented heau'ns and weeping aire. Then Cyprian Queene perceiuing that no cries Could pierce the leaden eares of sullen Sire, Straight lodg'd her sonne in faire [Note: Oceanus his daughter, a most braue vir|gin. Ouid 6 met. ] Phillyraes eies, And caus'd him thence to darte vppe such a fire, As had consum'd the very starres and skies, Yea melted Saturnes wheeles with hot desire: Vnlesse that very houre he had come downe, And beg'd her aide, on whom he late did frowne. 6 How often, as his loue on Pelion hill Stoopt downe to gather herbs for wounds and sores, Strew'd he before her Tutsan, Balme, and Dill, Long Plantaine, Hysope, Sage, and Comfrey moares? Offring besides, the art and perfect skill, Of healing bloudy wounds and festred coares: How oft (I say) did he each day descend, And bootelesse al his vowes and wooings spend? He lou'd· she loath'd, he liked, she disdain'd: He came, she turn'd, he prest, she ranne away, Neither by words, nor gifts shee could be gain'd, (For onely in her eies the Archer lay) Regarding nought but (wherein she was train'd) VVounds how to cure, and smartings to allay: As for the wound of Loue, she felt it none, And therefore litle heeded Saturns mone. Thus thus perplext the chiefe and grauest God, (Or rather God supposd of highest place) Toucht now, nay throughly scourg'd with Cupids rodde,

Sent from the eyes but of a mortal face, Flewe downe forthwith where Venus made abode, And prostrate lying at her feete for grace: Promis'd the richest clothing for her Art, That now she did, or could desire in hart. 7 VVho earelesse of reuenge, and innely grieu'd, (True beauty aye is ful of rueful mone) VVas euer wel til Saturne was releeu'd, His inward griefes asswag'd, & sorrowes gone. And finding him, of hope, and helpe, bereeu'd, (For still Phillira was more hard then stone) Sith that, quoth she, the virgin scorns thy loue, Try whether craft and force wil make her moue. Transforme thy selfe into a Courser braue, (VVhat cannot loue transforme it selfe into?) Feede in her walkes: and in a moment haue VVhat thou hast woo'd to haue with much adooe: VVhereto, consent the auncient Suter gaue, In courser clothes, learning a maide to wooe, Filling ech wood with neighs and wihyes shrill, VVhilst he possest his loue against her will. For lesson which, his Mistris to requite, Not with vaine hopes in lieu of friendly deeds, By Maiae's [Note: Mercurie, postmaster to Iupiter. ] sonne (before it grew to night) He sent a Napkin ful of little seeds, Tane from the tree where Thisbes soule did light, To make her selfe and boy farre brauer weeds, Than Pallas had, or any of the seu'n, Yea, then proud Iuno ware the Queene of heau'n. 8 Withall, by him he sent the mysterie

Of weauing silke, which he himselfe had found, When chac'd from heau'n by sonnes owne trechery, Hee was compel'd to wander here on ground, Where, in the depth of griefe and pouertie, The heigth and depth of Arts he first did sound: Yet would he this to none but her reueale, By whose deuise hee did Phillyra steale. What? shall we thinke, that silke was a reward. Bestow'd on craftie dame for aide vniust? Would men, nay, ought they haue such hie regard, Of that which was the lone and hire of lust? Not so, what ere th'Italian Bishop dar'd To faine for true, and giue it out with trust: Yet sith silke robes the blessed High-priest wore, They were not sure the first fruits of a whore. Vespasians [Note: Plinius Secun|dus, lib. 11. cap. 2 ] Scribe affirmes in Cean lle, Latous [Note: Called Pamphi|a, a most prince|ly Damsell. ] daughter, quicke of eye and wit, Hunting abroad, times trauaile to beguile, Chaunc'd at the length vnder a tree to fitte, Where many silken bottoms hangd in piles, One by another plac't in order fit. Shee tooke one downe, and with her faulcon eye, Found out the end that did the rest vntie. 9 Looke how the hungry Lambe doth friske and play, With restlesse taile, and head, and euery limbe, When it hath met his mother gone astray, Who absent blear'd and tear'd as much for him: Or as Aurora leapes at breake of day, Seeing her louely brother rise so trim, No lesse that Princesse triumph't (if not more) Finding out that which was not found before.

Loues Schoolemaster [Note: Ouid lib. 4. Metam. ] records a tale most sweete, Of louers two that dwelt at Babilon, Equall of age, in worth and beautie meete, Each of their sex the floure and paragon, Next neighbours borne on side of selfesame streete, For twixt their parents houses dwelled none, Him Pyramus, her Thisbe men did call, Coupled in heart, though seuered by a wall. As neighbours children, oft they talke and view, That neighbourship was formost steppe to loue, Loue, which (like priuate plants) in short time grew, Pales, wals, and eues, yea houses and all aboue, Nay Hymeneus feasts were like t' ensue, And sacred hands giue ring and wedding gloue, Had not vnhappie parents that forbad, Which to forbid, no cause but wil, they had. 10 If louers spake, it was now all by lookes, None deign'd or durst be trouchman to their mind, Paper was barr'd, and penne, and inke, and bookes, Not any helpe these parted prisoners find, But of a rift along the wal that crookes, (A wall of flint, yet more then parents, kind) Which, were it old or new, none it espies, But louers quicke, al-corner-searching eyes, This rift they vsde, nor onely as a glasse, Wherein to see daily each others face, But eke through it their voyces hourely passe, In whispring murmurs with a stealing pace: Sometimes when they no longer durst (alas) Send whisprings through, when keepers were in place, Yet would they shift to blow through it a breath, Which fed & kept their hoping harts from death.

Enuious wal (sayd they) what wrong is this? Why doth not loue or pittie make thee fal? Or (if that be for vs too great a blisse) Why is thy rift so narrow and so small, As to deny kind loue a kindly kisse? For which we neuer proue vnthankful shal, Although in truth we owe inough to thee, Giuing our eyes and voyce a way so free. 11 In vaine thus hauing plaind in place distinct, When night approacht, they ech bad ech adew, Kissing their wal apart where it was chinckt, Whence louely blasts and breathings mainely flew: But kisses staide on eithers side fast linckt, Seal'd to the wal with lips and Louers glue: For though they were both thick and many eake, Yet thicker was the wal that did them breake. Rose-fingred [Note: The morning, Homer. Iliad. 4. ] Dame no sooner had put out Nights twinckling fires and candles of the skie, Nor Phoebus [Note: The Sunne. ] brought his trampling steeds about, Whose breath dries vp the teares of Vestaes [Note: The earth. ] eie, But swift and soft, without all noyse or showt, To wonted place they hasten secretly, Where midst a many words muttred that day, Next midnights watch, each vowes to steale away. And lest when hauing house and cittie past, They yet might erre in fields, and neuer meete, At Ninus [Note: Which was without the gates of Balilon, towards the for|rest. Sabell. En|neiad. 1. cap. 6. ] tombe their Rendes-vous is plac't, Vnder the Mulb'ry white, and hony-sweete: Growing hard by a spring that ranne at waste,

With streames more swift then speedy [Note: The swift ri|uer of Donawe. ] Isters feete. There they agreed in spite of spite to stand, Whe~ [Note: The Charles waine. ] Monarchs [...]eame had past [Note: The great star following Vrsa maior. ] Bootes hand. 12 Consent they did, and day consented too, Whose Coach ranne downe the seas in greater hast, Then euer it was wont before to doo, Loue-louing night approched eke so fast, That darknesse leapt, ere twilight seem'd to go, Wherat though some gods frown'd, some were agast, Yet Lethes [Note: Sleep the bro|ther of forget|fulnesse. Ci[...]. lib. de nat. deorum. ] brother did the louers keepe, Chaining their guard with long and heauy sleep. How feately then vnsparred she the doore? How silent turn'd it on the charmed cheekes? And being scap't, how glad was she therefore? How soone arriu'd where she her fellow seekes? Loue made her bold, loue gaue her swiftnesse more Then vsually is found in weaker sexe, But all in vaine: nay rather to her ill, For haste made waste, and speede did speeding kil. The grisly wife of brutish monarch strong, With new slaine prey, full panched to the chinne, Foming out bloud, came ramping there along, To siluer spring, her thirst to drowne therein, Whereat the fearefull maide in posting flung, (For [Note: The Moone|shine. ] Lucines eye bewrayde the Empresse grimme) Into a secret caue: and flying, lost A scarfe (for Pyrams sake) beloued most. 13 When sauage Queene had wel her thirst delayde,

In cooling streames, and quenched natures fire, Returning to the place where late she prayde, To eate the rest when hunger should require, In peeces tore the scarfe of haplesse maide, With bloudy teeth, and firie flaming ire, Whilst she (poore soule) in caue plaid least in sight, Fearing what should her loue befall that night. Who comming later then by vow he should, Perceiu'd a Lions footsteps in the sand, Whereat with face most pale, and heart as cold, With trembling feare tormented he doth stand. But when he sawe her scarfe (wel knowne of old) Embru'd with bloud, and cast on either hand? O what a sigh he fetcht? how deepe he gron'd? And thus, if thus: yea, thus he inly mon'd. Shalt thou alone die matelesse, Thisbe mine? Shall not one beast be butcher to vs both? What? is my Thisbe reft of life and shine? And shal not Pyram life and shining loath? Mine is the cursed soule, the blest is thine, Thou kep'st thy vow, I falsified mine oath, I came too late, thou cam'st (alas) too soone, Too dangerous standing, by a doubtfull moone. 14 O Lions fierce (or if ought fiercer be, Amongst the heards of woody outlawes fell) Rent, rent in twaine this thrise-accursed me: From out your paunch conuey my soule to hell: Whose murdring slouth, and not the sisters three, Did Thisbe sweete, sweete Thisbe fowly quell: But cowards onely call & wish for death, Whilst valiant hearts in silence banish breath.

Then stooping, straight he took hir scarfe fro~ ground, And bare it with him to th'appoynted place, Kissing it oft, watring each rent and wound, With thousand teares, that trailing ranne apace. Salt teares they were, sent from his eyes vnsound, Yea salter then the sweate of Oceans face: At last (hauing vnsheath'd his fatall blade) Thus gan he cry, as life beganne to fade. Hold earth, receiue a draught eke of my bloud, (And therewith lean'd vppon his sword amaine) Then falling backward from the crimsin floud, Which spowted forth with such a noyse and straine, As water doth, when pipes of lead or wood, Are goog'd with punch, or cheesill slit in twaine, Whistling in th'ayre, & breaking it with blowes, Whilst heauie moysture vpward forced flowes. 15 The Mulb'ry strait (whose fruit was erst as white As whitest Lilly in the fruitfullst field) Was then and euer since in purple dight, Yea euen the roote no other staine doth yeeld, With blackish gore being watred all that night, In morneful sort, which round about it wheel'd, Onely her leaues retaind their former hue, As nothing toucht with death of louer true. No sooner was hee falne, and falling, freed Of perfit sence: but she scarce rid of feare, Returnes againe to standing fore agreed, Not dreaming that her loue in kenning were, Her feete, her eyes, her heart and tongue made speed, To vtter all things lately hapned there, And how she scap't the Lionesses clawes, By letting fall a scarfe to make her pawse.

But when she vewd the newly-purpled face Of Berries white: that changing chang'd her mind, New signes perswade her, that is not the place, By either part to meete in fore assign'd. Thus doubting whilst she stood a little space, She heard a flittering carried with the winde, And viewed somewhat shake in quiu'ring wise, Which straite reuok't hir feete, but more her eies. 16 Her lippes grew then more pale then palest Boxe, Her cheekes resembled Ashwood newly feld, Graynesse surpriz'd her yellow amber locks, Not any part their liuely lustre held: Yea euen her vent'rous heart but faintly knocks, Now vp, now downe, now falne, now vainly sweld, Tost like a shippe when [Note: One of the Northwest windes. ] Corus rageth most, That ankers hath, and masts and master lost. But when she knew her faithfull fellow slaine, O how she shrikt and bruz'd her guiltlesse arme, Tearing her haire, renting her cheekes in vaine, On outward parts, reuenging inward harmes, Making of teares and bloud a mingled raine, Wherwith she Pyram drencht, & then thus charmes: Speake loue, O speake, how hapned this to thee? Part, halfe, yea all of this my soule and mee. Sweete loue, reply, it is thy Thisbe deare, She cries, O heare, she speakes, O answere make: Rowse vp thy sprights: those heauie lookers cheere, At which sweete name hee seemed halfe awake, And eyes with death opprest, againe to cleere. He eyes her once, and eying leaue doth take,

Euen as faire Bellis [Note: The white Daisy. ] winkes but once for all, When winters [Note: Haruest. ] vsher hastneth summers fall. 17 When afterwards she found her scarfe al rent, His iu'ory sheath voide eke of rapier gilt: And hath his hand (quoth she) thy soule hence sent? And was this bloud by this thy rapier spilt? Vnhappy I: but I no more lament, But follow thee euen to the vtmost hilt. I was the cause of al thy hurt and crosse, Hold, take me eke a partner of thy losse. Whom onely death could from me take away, Shal death him take from me against my will? Not so, his power cannot Thisbe staye: Who euen in death wil follow Pyram still, His blade (yet warme) then to her brest she lays, And falne thereon thus cri'de with crying shrill: Parents vniust which vs deny'd one bed, Enuy vs not one toomb when we be dead. And al you heau'nly hostes allot the same: And thou O tree, which couerest now but one (One too too hot, for [Note: Pyramus sig|nifieth as much as fiery. ] so imports his name) But couer shalt two carcasses anone: Weare signes of bloud from both our harts that came In mourning weed our mischiefes euer mone. She dead: Tree, Sires, & Gods gaue what she praide, Black growes the fruit, and they together laide. 18 Since which time eke some other [Note: Natal. Com. lib. vlt. Mytho. ] Authors faine, Their humming soules about these haplesse trees, To be transported from th'Elysian plaine, Into the snowy milke-white Butterflyes:

Whose seedes when life and moouing they obtain, How e're they spare the fruit of Mulberies, Leaue yet no leaues vntorne that may be seene, Because they onely still continude greene. Yet that there might remaine some Pyramis, And euerlasting shrine of Pyrams loue, When leaues are gone, and summer waining is, The little creepers neuer cease to moue, But day and night (placing in toyle their blisse) Spinne silke this tree beneath and eke aboue: Leauing their ouall [Note: [...] like ] bottoms there behind, To shewe the state of eu'ry Louers mind. For as in forme they are not wholly round, As is the perfit figure of the skie, So perfit loue in mortals is not found, Some little warts or wants in all we spie, Nay eu'n as fine and course silke there abound, The best beneath, the worst rold vp more hie, So sometimes lust o're-lieth honest loue, Happy the hand that keepes it from aboue. 19 Againe, as these fine troupes themselues deuoure, Spinning but silken hharses for their death: VVhich done, they dye therein, (by Natures power Transform'd to flies that scarce draw one months breath) So louers sweet is mingled stil with sower, Such happe aboue proceeds or vnderneath, That still we make our loue our winding sheete, VVhilst more we loue, or hotter then is meete. Others [Note: Plin. lib. 6. cap. 17. ] report, there was and doth remaine A neighbour [Note: Called Seres. ] people to the Scythian tall,

Twixt Taurus mount and Tabis fruitful plaine, Most iust of life, of fare and diet, smal, Louers of peace, haters of strife and gaine, Graye ey'd, redde cheek't, and amber-headed all, Resembling rather Gods then humane race, Such grace appeard in words, in deeds, and face. VVhose righteous life and iustice to requite, (Whether with wind or raine, no man doth know) God sent vnto them silke-wormes infinite, In Aprils wane when buds the mulb'ry slow, Which here and there in euery corner light, With sixe white feete and body like to snow: Eating each leafe of that renowned tree, The matter of these silken webbes we see. 20 These webbs for wares they on their coast exchange: For alien none must come into the Land, T'infect their people with religions strange, And file their temples with polluted hand: Neither do they to other nations range, New fashions, rites or manners t'understand: Better they haue at home, where euery slaue Weares silks as rich as here our Princes braue. These be the tales that Poetizers sing, Of Silken-worme, and of their seed and meate: Sweete, I confesse, and drawn from [Note: VVherof only the muses drank, as Poets imagine. ] Helique spring, Full of delighting change, and learning greate. Yet, yet, my Muse dreames of another thing, And listeth not of fictions to entreate. Saye then (my Ioye) say then, and shortly reede, whe~ silk was made, & how these silkworms breed.

Was it thinkst thou found out by industry? Inspir'd by vision or some Angells word, When first the name of sacred Maiesty, Was giuen from heau'n to [Note: Melchisede[...]. ] Salems priest and Lord? Did not before tenne thousand Silk-worms lye, And hang on euery tree their little cord? Yes, but (like Hebrues harps on Babels plaine) Vntoucht and vse-lesse there it hang'd in vaine. 21 Before, most men liu'd, either naked quite, Or coursly clad in some beasts skinne or hide: The best were but in linnen garments dight, Wherein themselues the greatest men did pride: Yea afterward in time of greatest light, [Note: Mat. 13. ] When chiefe Baptizer preach't in desart wide, Where said he, silken robes were to be sought, But in kings courts? for whome they first were wrought. Though whether worme or flye were formed first, No man so right can tel as wrong presume: Yet this I hold. Till all things were accurst, Nothing was borne it selfe for to consume. No Caterpillers then which venture durst, To rauish leaues, or tender buddes to plume: For onely life and beauty liu'd in trees, Til falling man caus'd them their leaues to leese. The earthly heards and winged posts of skye, And eu'ry thing that mou'd on Eden ground, Fed first on hearbs (as Duke of [Note: Moses. ] Horeb hie, Author of Natures story most profound, Sets downe to vs for perfit verity, (Gaines aide of none but fooles and wittes vnsound) When for mans foode trees eke allotted were, [Note: Gen. 2. verse 29 ] Which from themselues did fruit or berries beare.

22 Durst then the finest worme but touch the meate, Or dish which for his soueraigne was ordain'd? Durst they figges, nuts, peares, plummes or mulb'ries eate Before their lord with treaso~ foule was stain'd? No certs no, but when ambitious heate, Reuok't the blisse which sinnelesse Sire had gain'd: Then wormes in common fed with vs, and tore Our trees, our fruits, yea eu'n our selues therefore. Say Romanes heau'nly-humane [Note: Herod. Act. 12. ] Orator, Whose words dropt sweeter then Hymettus dewe: Say [Note: Antiochus E|piphanes. ] Salems scourge and Iudaes tormentor, Whose very name doth pomp and glory shewe: Say [Note: Plato, who di|ed eaten of lice, as Diogenes La|ertius writeth. ] thou whose writtes men as diuine adore, Inspir'd from heau'n with knowledge giuen to few: What are you now? what liuing were you then But worms repast, though wise and mighty men? Foule-footed bird, that neuer sleepest well Nor fully, but on highest pearch do'st breathe: Whose outward shreeks bewray an inward hell, Whose glistring plumes are but a painted sheathe: Whose taile, though it with pride so lofty swel, Yet hides it not thy blacknesse vnderneath. Tell me: what hast thou got by climing thus, But to thy selfe a shame, and losse to vs? 23 To vs alone? nay stowtest Okes likewise, Hard-harted willowes by the water side, Sweete Cedar wood which some thinke neuer dies, And [Note: The Bay. ] Daphnes tree though greene in winters tide, Yea stone, and steele, and things of highest prize,

From natures womb that flow in greatest pride: What are they al but meate for wormes and rust? Two due reuengers of ambitious lust. Before thou wast, [Note: Called Cossi, which being fat, were counted a most daintie dish in Rome. C[...]el. Sec. lib. 28. An. lect. ] were Timber-worms in price, And sold for equal weight of purest gold? Fed [Note: Titmise. ] creeping birds one barke-deuouring lice? Were silk-worms from [Note: The first and principall place whence they were brought into Europe. Polyd. virg. lib. 11. de inuent. &c. ] S[...]rinda brought and sold? Deuoured they the leaues of tree most [Note: The Mulbery is called the wi|sest tree, because it neuer buddeth till all danger of cold be gone. ] wise, With fury such as now we do behold? Rather beleeue as yet they were not borne, Or onely fed on grasse, on hearbs, or corne. For sith their chiefest vse is to arraye This little breathing dust when time requires, VVith gallant guards and broydred garments gaye, VVith scarfs, vales, hoodes, and other soft attires: VVhose sense from sense is fled so farre away? Whose mind to beare so wrong a thought conspires, As once to deeme these Silken-mercers sent, VVhen nakednesse was mans chiefe ornament? But sith they are, and therefore framed were, Which first was fram'd? the egge? the worme? or flie? No doubt the flie, as plainely shall appeare, To all that haue but an indiff'rent eye, Though twoo [Note: Euangelus in Macrobius lib. 4. sat. cap. 3. & Fir[...]us in Plu|tarch. lib. 2. symp quest. 3. ] great Clarks contrary thoughts did beare, And sentence gaue, without iust reason why, That egges were made before the hardie Cocke Beganne to tread, or brooding henne to clocke.

Pretend they did, that least and simplest things, (Which none train'd vp in reasons schoole gainsay) Of things compounded are the formost springs, Eu'n as a lumpe of rude and shapelesse clay, Into the mould a Moulder cunning brings, And by degrees compels it to obey. Forming by art what he in mind fore-thought, Out of a masse that iust resembled nought. So eke though egges seeme things confused quite, And farre vnlike what afterwards they prooue: Yet formost place they challenge by their right, For who e're saw a cock or henne to mooue, Till first they came from out the yolke and white, And time, and heate, and place, and sitters loue, Had formed out a nature from the same, Deseruing wel anothers natures name? 25 Springs not from egges that huge [Note: The VVhale ] Leuiathan, The Tortesse eke, and bloudy Crocodile? Fish, Lyzards, Snakes, and [Note: Locusts or grashoppers. ] Skippers African, VVhose hurtful armies waste the coasts of Nile? Nay if with one fitte word the world we scanne, May it obtaine a fitter name or stile, Then that we should a common egge it call, VVhich giueth life and forme and stuffe to all? Nay, did not once that cheerefull brooding sp'rite, Before the earth receiued forme or place, [Note: Gen. 1. verse [...]. ] Sitte closely like a henne both warme and light, Vpon the wauing nest of mingled masse, VVhilst yet nights torches had obtain'd no light Nor Sunne as yet in circled rounds did passe? Yes, yes: the words are so apparant plaine, That to deny them, were but labour vaine.

These some do vse with other arguments, To proue that seede and egges were first in time. VVrested from quires of sacred Testaments, And those of heathen wittes the chiefe and prime: VVhich for authentique held by long descents, If I gainesay, perhaps may seeme a crime: Yet rather would I carry crime and scorne, Then falsely thinke, imperfect things first borne. 26 For reason saith, and sense doth almost sweare, Natures entire to be created furst: Bodies t'haue beene before the members were, The sound before the sicke, the whole, the burst, That confidence had time when lacked feare, That blessed state fore-went the state accurst: Briefely, al bodyes that begotten beene, Were not before created bodies seene. Now what are seedes and egges of wormes or foule, But recrements of preexisting things, The bodies burden voyd of life and soule? Yea, from themselues corruption onely springs, Vnlesse by brooders heate (as from the whole) They changed be to belly, feete, or wings: Resembling them now metamorphosed, In, by, and from whose essence they were bred. Yea, [Note: Diphilus and Senecio, their arguments a|gainst Firmus and Euangelus, of whom at large in Macro|bius and Plu|tarke. ] vsual phrase such dreames confuteth quite, For neuer man, this is an egges henne sayd, But this a hennes egge is, shewing aright, That egges are things by former natures layde, Begotte of mingled seede by day or night,

Neither with skinne, nor shell, nor forme arrayd, Till long they haue abode in natures nest, And wearied womb be with their weight opprest 27 Againe, to thinke that seede was made before, The substance whence it is ingendered, (Namely from out much nutrimental store, Through excesse of humours perfited) Or else to ghesse it formed was of yore, Ere pipes were laid through which it should be shed, What is it but to dreame of day or night, E're darknesse were, or any shew of light? Sith eke all winged creatures by one day, [Note: Gen. 1. verse 20 & 24. ] Are elder then the heards that crawle and creepe, Conclude with truth and confidence wee may, All flies were made ere wormes beganne to peepe, Both they which all day long at base do play, And night once come, do nothing else but sleepe, And these which onely liue to leaue a seede, From whence the neuer-idle spinsters breede. Silke-flies I meane, which not one breast alone, But all throughout, on head, wings, sides, and feete, Besides pure white, else colour carry none, For creatures pure, a colour thought most meete, Martial'd the first of all in glorious throne, Whereon shall sit the Lord and Sauiour sweete, Who with tenne thousand Angels all in white, Shal one day iudge the world with doom vpright 28 No spotte on them, as els on eu'ry flye, Bycause in them no follies euer grew, No crimson redde doth for reuengement crye,

No wauering watchet, where al harts be true: No yellow, where there is no Iealousie: No labour lost, and therefore voide of blue: No peachy marke to signifie disdaine, No greene to shew a wanton mind and vaine. No orenge colour, where there wants despight, No tawny sadde, where none forsaken be: No murry, where they couet nought but light, No mourning black, where al reioyce with glee: In briefe, within, without, they are al white, Wearing alone the badge of chastity: Bycause they onely keepe themselues to one, Who being dead, another chuse they none. True Turtles mine, begotten with the breath, Not of a lewd lasciuious mortal Ioue: Whose lawe was lust, whose life was worse then death, VVhose incests did defile both wood and groue, But with the breath of him who vnderneath Rules Stigian king, and heau'nly hosts aboue, Assist me if I erre in setting forth Your birth dayes story; and surpassing worth. 29 Assoone as light obtain'd a fixed seate, (which equally was first spread ouer all, Giuing alike, both glistring, shine, and heate, [Note: Genesis 1. ] To euery place of this inferiour ball) Two master-lamps appear'd in welkin great, Th'one king of day, whom Poets Phoebus call, And th'other Phoebe, soueraigne of the night, Twinnes at one instant bred and borne of light. Him heau'nly Martiall high, in Pallace plac't,

Built all of cleere and through-shining gold, With columnes chrysolite most brauely grac't, And flaming rubies, glorious to behold, Wearing about his yellow-amber wast, A sloping belt, with studs twise six times told, Wherein were grau'n most artificially, Twelue stately [Note: The twelue signes in the zo|diake. ] Peeres of curious imagery. About him, as in royall Coach hee sate, Attended Houre, Day, Minute, Month, and yeare, Spring, Summer, Haruest, Winter, Morning, Fate, With Instancie, who then was driuer there, Whipping his fiery steedes from [Note: For it was then ful haruest and not spring|time, as the vul|gar sort do hold. ] Libraes gate, Not suffring them to stand still any where, Saue once in Gibeon when fiue kings were slaine, By first-made [Note: Iosua cap. 10. ] Champio~ with their faithles train. 30 His sisters court built al of siluer tri'de, And Iu'ory charret set with Diamons, Embost with Orient pearles on either side, Wheeld al with Saphires, shod with Onyx stones, Declar'd in what great pompe she first did ride Amongst the other twinckling Paragons, Before her honour suffred an eclipse, Through serpents guile, and womans greedy lips. Her handmaids then were perpetuity, Constant proceeding, and continuance: No shew of change or mutability Could iustly then themselues in her aduance: Her face was ful and faire continually Not altering once her shape or countenance, Till those lights chang'd for whom al lights were made, And with whose fall the heau'ns began to fade.

Yet still on her wait [Note: Oceanus is the king, & his wife Thetis is coun|ted the Queene of the seas. ] Ocean and his wife, Nais [Note: The Lady of the riuers. ] the faire, and al the watry crue, Nights, Riuers, Flouds, Springs, hauing else no strife, Then who may formost proffer seruice due: Bloud, choller, phlegme, (the rootes and sappe of life) Are at her beck, waining or springing new, According as from throne celestiall, She deignes to shine in measure great or small. 31 When they were crowned now in royall thrones, And entred in their first and happiest race, Amongst those glistring pointed Diamons, Which cut out times proportion, lotte, and space: Behold the earth with heauy burden grones, And praies them both to eie and rue her case: And with their friendly hands and meeding art, To hasten that which ready was to part. For eu'n next morne the All-creating Sire Had sent abroad, [Note: Gen. 1. ] I know not I, what word: Much like to this, Let Sea and earth conspire All winged troupes the world for to afford: Wherewith the aire: euen to the desart fire, [Note: So called by Pyndarus, be|cause nothing liues in it. ] Was so with great and little flyers stor'd. That none but winged people sawe the eies, Of any star or planet in the skies. O how it ioyes my hart and soule to thinke Vpon the blessed state of that same daye? When at a word, a nodde, yea at a winke, At once flew out these winged gallants gay, Tide each to each in such a friendly linke, That eu'n the least did with the greatest playe:

The doue with hawks, the chickens with the kite. Fearelesse of wrong, rage, cruelty, or spite. 32 Pert marlins then no grudge to larkes did beare, Fierce goshawkes with the Phesants had no warre, Rau'ns did not then the Eagles talens feare, Twixt Cuckoes and the Titlings was no iarre, But coasted one another eu'ry where In friendly sort, as louers woonted were: For loue alone rul'd all in eu'ry kind, As though all were of one and selfe same mind. How safely then did these my Turtle-soules Disport themselues in Phoebus cheerefull shine? How boldly flew they by the iayes and owles, Dreadlesse of crooked beakes or fiery eyen? Nay, who in all the flocks of winged foules Said once in heart, This pris'oner shal be mine? When none as yet made other warre or strife, Then such as [Note: A Poeticall God, and suppo|sed instructor of brides and bride|groomes. ] Hymen makes twixt man & wife. But since the fall of parents pufft with pride, Not onely men were stainde in viciousnesse, But birdes, and beasts, and wormes, and flies beside, Declining from their former perfitnesse, Did by degrees to imperfections slide, Tainted with pride, wrath, enuie, and excesse: Yea, then the husband of one onely henne, Was afterwards contented scarse with tenne. 33 Hence, gowts in cocks, and swelling paines appeare, Hence, Partridge loynes so feeble we do view, Hence, sparrow treaders liue out scarce a yeare,

Hence, leprosie the Cuckoes ouergrew: Breefely, none did in true loue perseuere: But these white Butterflies and Turtles true, Who both in life and death do ne're forsake Her, whom they once espoused for their make. They choose not (like to other birds and beasts) This yeare one wife, another wife the next, Their choyse is certaine, and still certaine rests, With former loues their mindes are not perplext, Hee yeeldes to her, she yeelds to his requests, Neither with feare nor ielosie is vext: She clippeth him, hee clippeth her againe, Equall their ioy, and equall is their paine. Remember this you fickle hearted Sires, Whom lust transporteth from your peereles Dames, To scorch your selues at foule and forraine fires, Wasting your health and wealth in filthie games, Learne hence (I say) to bridle badde desires, Quenching in time your hot and furious flames, Let little flies teach great men to be iust, And not to yeeld braue mindes a prey to lust. 34 When thus they were created the first day, Alike in bignesse, feature, forme and age, Cladde both alike in soft and white array, And set vppon this vniuersall stage, Their seuerall parts and feates thereon to play, Amidst the rest of natures equipage: Who then suppos'd (as since some fooles haue thought) That little things were made & seru'd for nought. Diswitted dolts that huge things wonder at,

And to your cost coast daily ile from ile, To see a Norway whale, or Libian cat, A Carry-castle or a Crocodile, If leane Ephesian [Note: Heraclitus, that euer wept. ] or [Note: Democritus that euer laugh+ed at the worlds folly. ] th'Abderian fat Liu'd now, and saw your madnesse but a while, What streaming flouds would gush out of theyr eies, To see great wittols little things despise? When looke, as costliest spice is in small bagges, And little springs do send foorth cleerest flouds, And sweetest [Note: Called Onis in English. ] Iris beareth shortest flagges, And weakest Ofiers bind vp mighty woods, And greatest hearts make euer smallest bragges, And little caskets hold our richest goods: So both in Art and Nature tis most cleere, That greatest worths in smallest things appeare. 35 What wise man euer did so much admire Neroes [Note: Made by Ze|nodorus: of which, and also of Theodorus image, more in Plin. lib., 4. cap. 7. & 8. ] Colossus fiue score cubits hie, As Theodorus Image cast with fire, Holding his file in right hand hansomly, In left his paire of compasses and squire, With horses, Coach, and footmen running by So liuely made, that one might see them all? Yet was the whole worke than a flie more small. Nay, for to speake of things more late and rife, Who will not more admire those famous Fleas, Made so by art, that art imparted life, Making them skippe, and on mens hands to seaze, And let out bloud with taper-poynted knife, Which from a secret sheat he ranne out with ease: The~ those great coches which the~selues did driue, [Note: Made by Gawen Smith. Anno. 1586. ] With bended scrues, like things that were aliue?

Ingenious [Note: Ioannes Re|gi[...]montanus· of whom Ramus at large in Proem, lib 2. Math. ] Germane, how didst thou conuey Thy Springs, thy Scrues, thy rowells, and thy flie? Thy cogs, thy wardes, thy laths, how didst thou lay? How did thy hand each peece to other tie? O that this age enioy'd thee but one day, To shew thy Fleas to faithlesse gazers eye· That great admirers might both say and see, In smallest things that greatest wonders bee. 36 Great was that proud and feared Philistine, Whose launces shaft was like a weauers beame, VVhose helmet, target, bootes, and brigandine, VVeare weight [Note: For they weied 6000 Shekles of brasse. ] sufficient for a sturdy teame, VVhose frowning lookes and hart-dismaying eyne, Daunted the tallest king of Israels realme: Yet little shepheard with a pibble stone, Confounded soone that huge and mighty one. Huge fiery Dragons, Lions fierce and strong Did they such feare on cruel [Note: Pharaoh. ] Tyrant bring, VVith bloudy teeth or tailes and talens long, VVith gaping Iawes or double forked sting, As when the smallest creepers ganne to throng, And seize on euery quicke and liuing thing? No, no. The Egyptians neuer [Note: Yet for feare of them they honoured their Gods in the forme of cats. Plaut. lib. de Is. & osi. ] feared mice, As then they feared little crawling lice. Did euer [Note: A most famous trumpeter. Plin. lib. cap. 56. ] Piseus sound his trumpet shrill So long and cleere, as doth the summer Gnat, Her little cornet which our eares doth fill, Awaking eu'n the drowziest drone thereat?

Did euer thing do Cupid so much ill, As once a [Note: Anacreon in one of his latter Odes. ] Bee which on his hand did squat? Confesse we then in small things vertue most, Gayning in worth what they in greatnesse lost. 37 But holla, Muse, extol not so the vale, That it contemne great hilles, and greater skie, Thinke that in goodnesse nothing can be small, For smalnesse is but an infirmitie, Natures defect, and ofspring of some fall, The scorne of men, and badge of infamy? For still had men continued tall and great, If they in goodnesse stil had kept their seate. A little dismall fire whole townes hath burnd, A little winde doth spread that dismall fire, A little stone a carte hath ouerturnde, A little weede hath learn'ed to aspire, The little Ants (in scorne so often spurnd) Haue galles: and flies haue seates of fixed ire. Small Indian gnattes haue sharpe and cruel stings, Which good to none, but hurt to many brings, And truely for my part I list not prayse These silke-worme-parents for their little sise, But for those louely great resplendant rayes, Which from their woorks and worthie actions rise, Each deede deseruing well a Crowne of bayes, Yea, to be grauen in wood that neuer dies: For let vs now recount their actions all, And truth wil proue their vertues are not small. 38 First, though fiue Males be brought to Females ten, Yet of them al they neuer chuse but fiue,

Each takes and treads his first embraced henne, With her he keepes, and neuer parts aliue: And when he is enclos'd in Stygian penne, Desireth she one moment to suruiue? No, no, but strait (like a most louing bride) Flies, lies, and dies, hard by her husbands side. In Tuscane towres what armies did I view One haruest, [Note: Anno. Dom. 1579. when I was in Italy. ] of these faithful husbands dead? Bleede, O my heart, whilst I record anew, How wiues lay by them, beating, now their head, Sometimes their feet, and wings, & breast most true, Striuing no lesse to be deliuered, Then Thisbe did from vndesired life, When she beheld her Pyram slaine with knife. But whilst they liue, what is their chiefest worke? To spinne as spiders do a fruitlesse threed? Or Adder-like in hollow caues to lurke, Till they haue got a crust and cankred seed? (Whose yong ones therfore, with dame Natures fork, Iustly gnaw out the wombs that did them breed:) Or striue they Lion-like to seize and pray, On neighbours herds or herds-men by the way? 39 Delight they with strange [Note: Of who~ Pli|ny writeth, lib. 11. cap. 31. ] Ants & Griphins strong, To hoord vp gold and eu'ry gaineful thing? Liue they not beasts, and birds, and men among, Committing nought that may them damage bring? O had I that fiue-thousand-versed song, Which [Note: Thamyris, who wrote 5000. verses of the worlds crea|tion Zetzes, 7. chil: histor. 108 ] Poet prowd did once with glory sing, That whilst I write of these same creatures blest, In proper words their worth might be exprest.

What wil you more? they feede on nought but aire, As doth that famous bird of Paradice, They liue not long, lest goodnesse should empaire, Or rather through that [Note: Atropo[...]. ] Hagges enuious eyes, That sits, and sitting, cuts in fatall chaire That threed first off, which fairest doth arise: Affording crowes and kites a longer line, Then fliers ful of gifts and grace diuine. When maker said to eu'ry bodied soule, [Note: Gen. 1. ] Encrease, encrease, and multiply your kinde: What he or she of al the winged foule So much fulfill'd their soueraigne-Makers minde, As these two flies? who coupled three dayes whole, Left on the fourth more seeds or egges behind Then any bird: yea then the fruiteful wrenne, Numbred by tale a [Note: Sometimes, more, seldom[...] fewer. ] hundred more then tenne. 40 Which donne, both die, and die with cheerefull hart Bycause they had done al they bidden were, Might we from hence with conscience like depart, How deare were death? how sweet & voyd of feare? How little should we at his arrowes start? If we in hands a quittance such could beare Before that iudge, who looks for better deedes, From men then flies, that spring of baser seeds. Go worthy soules (so [Note: [...] is all one name in Greeke for a soule and a but|terflie. ] witty Greeks you name) Possesse for aye the faire Elisian greene: Sport there your selues ech Lording with his Dame, Enioy the blisse by sinners neuer seene: You liu'd in honour, and stil liue in fame, More happy there, then here is many a Queene: As for your seeds committed to my charge,

Take you no care: I'le sing their worth at large. Weepe not faire [Note: The Lady of the plaine. ] Mira for this funeral. Weepe not [Note: Miraes daughter. ] Panclea, Miraes chiefe delight, Weepe not [Note: Gentlewomen attending vpon Mira and her daughter. ] Phileta, nor [Note: Gentlewomen attending vpon Mira and her daughter. ] Erato tall: Weepe not [Note: Gentlewomen attending vpon Mira and her daughter. ] Euphemia, nor [Note: Gentlewomen attending vpon Mira and her daughter. ] Felicia white: Weepe not sweete [Note: Gentlewomen attending vpon Mira and her daughter. ] Fausta. I assure you all, Your cattels parents are not dead outright: Keepe warme their egges, and you shall see anone, From eithers loynes a hundred rise for one.

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[leaf motif] The second booke of the Silke-Wormes and their Flies.

O Thou whose sweet & heau'nly-tuned Psalmes The heau'ns the~selues are scarce inough to praise! Whose penne diuine and consecrated palmes, From wronging verse did Royall Singer raise, Vouchsafe from brothers ghost no niggards almes, Now to enrich my high aspiring layes, Striuing to ghesse, or rather truely reede, What shall become of all this little breede. This little breede? nay euen the least of all, The least? nay greater then the greatest are: For though in shew their substance be but small, Yet with their worth what great ones may compare· What egges as these, are so much sphericall Of all that euer winged Natures bare? [Note: A comparison of the Silkeflies egges with other egges. ]

As though they onely had deseru'd to haue, The selfe same forme which God to heauens gaue. From Lybian egges a mightie [Note: The Ostrich. ] bird doth rise, Scorning both horse and horsemen in the chace, With Roe-bucks feete, throwing in furious wise, Dust, grauell, sand and stones at hunters face, Yet dwels there not beneath the vauted skies, A greater foole of all the feathred race: For if a little bush his head doth hide, He thinkes his body cannot be espide. 42 From egges of [Note: The Eagle. ] her whose mate supporteth Ioue, And dares giue combate vnto draggons great, With whom in vain huge stagges and Lions stroue, Whose onely sight makes euery bird to sweate, Whom Romanes fed in Capitole aboue, And plac't her Ensigne in the highest seate, What else springs out but bloudy birds of praye, Sleeping al night, and murdering al the daye? From egges of famous Palamedian foules, And them that hallow Diomedes toomb, In bodies strange retaining former soules, VVise, wary, warlike, saging things to come, VVhose inborne skil our want of witte controules, Whose timely fore-sight mates our heedlesse doom, Comes ought but cranes of most vnseemly shape, And diuing Cootes which muddy chanels scrape? Yea [Note: Peacocks. ] you whose egges Hortentius sometimes sold, At higher rate then now we prize your sire. Proud though he be, and spotted al with gold, Stretching abroad his spangled braue attire,

VVherby, as in a glasse, you do behold, His courting loue, and longing to aspire: VVhat bring ye forth but spectacles of pride, VVhose pitchy feete marres al the rest beside? 43 Thrise blessed egges of [Note: The Pelicane. ] that renowned dame, Who bleeds to death, her dead ones to reuiue, Whome enuious creepers poyson ouercame, Whilst she fetcht meate to keepe them stil aliue, How wel befits her loue that sacred Lamb, That heal'd vs all with bleeding issues fiue? Yet hath your fruit this blotte, to ouer-eate, And glutton-like to vomit vp their meate. VVinters [Note: Robbin-red-brest. ] Orpheus bloudy breasted [Note: VVrenne. ] Queen, Sommers sweete solace, nights [Note: Nightin|gale. ] Amphion braue, Linus [Note: Linnet. ] delight, Canaries clad in greene, All [Note: Pies, parrat[...], stares, &c. ] linguists eke that beg what hart would craue, Selling your tongues for euery trifle seene, As almonds, nuttes, or what you else would haue: Ofsprings of egges, what are you but a voice? Angring sometimes your friends with too much noyse. Victorious [Note: The house-cocke. ] Monarch, scorning partners all, Stowt lions terrour, loue of martial Sire, True farmers clocke, nights watchman, seruants call, Pressing stil forward, hating to retire, Constant in fight, impatient of thral, Bearing in a little breast a mighty fire: Oh that thou wert as faithful to thy wife, As thou art free of courage voice and life! 44 Chaste is the Turtle, but yet giuen to hate, Storkes are officious, yet not voide of guiles,

Hardy are Haggesses, but yet giuen to prate, Faithful are Doues, yet angry otherwhiles, The whitest swimmer nature e're begate, Suspition blacke and iealousie defiles: Briefely, from egges of euery creature good, Sprang nought distainted but this little broode. As for that [Note: Called by Al|chimists Ouum Philosopho|rum, the Phi|losophers egge. ] egge conceiu'd in idle braine, Whence flowes (forsooth) that endlesse seed of gold, The wombe of wealth, the [Note: A medicine famous in Ho|mer to extin|guish all kinde of griefes and paines. ] Nepenthes of paine, The horne of health, and what we dearest hold: I count it but a tale and fable vaine, By some olde wife, or cousning friar told: Supposed true, though time and truth descries, That all such workes are but the workes of lies. For when the Sire of truth hath truly saide, That none can make the couering of his head, These slender haires, so vile, so soone decaide, Of so smal worth though nere so finely spread Shal any witte by humane art and aide, Transforme base mettals to that essence redde, Which buies, not only pearles and precious stones, But kingdo~s, states, & Monarchs fro~ their thrones· 45 Ah! heau'ns forbid (nay heau'ns forbid it sure,) That euer Art should more then Nature breede, Curse we his worke whose fingers most impure, Durst but to dare the drawing of that seede, Yet when they haue done al they can procure, And giuen their leaden God a golden weede: Zeuxis his painted dogge shal barke and whine, When Ioue they turne to Sol or Luna fine.

Sisyphian [Note: Sisyphus was one of king Aeo|lus sonnes, de|lighted in rob|bing and couse|ning of his neighbours, wherefore this punishment was enioyned him, to roule a stone continually to the top of a Pyramidall and most steepe hil, til it rested there, which was an im|possible thing to performe, because he could neuer pitch it. Ouid 3. met. ] soules, bewitched multipliers, Surcease to pitch this neuer pitched stone, Vaunt not of Natures nest, nor Orcus fires, Hoping to hatch your addle egge thereon: Restraine in time such ouer-prowd desires, Let cre'tures leaue Creators works alone: Melt not the golden Sulphur of your hart, In following stil this fond and fruitlesse art. Record what once befel great Aeols [Note: Salmoneus, another sonne to Aeolus, who for counterfetting thunder, was turned (as Ser|uius conceiued) into a Salmon, ] sonne, For counterfetting onely but the sound, Of heau'nly Canoniers dreadful gunne, That shakes the beams and pillers of this round: A fiery boult from wrathfull hand did runne, Driuing false forger vnder lowest ground: Where stil he liues stil wishing to be dead, Spotted without, within al staind with redde. 46 Remember eke the Vulture gnawing stil, That euer-dying euer-liuing [Note: Prometheus, sonne of Asia & Iaphet, who en|terprising (as Paracelsus doth) to make man, was tied vppon mount Caucasus in chaines, there to be eaten euerlastingly by Vultures, and yet neuer to die. Ouid 10. Metam. ] wretch, VVho stealingly with an ambitious will, From Phoebus wheeles would vitall fire reach, Thinking to make by humane art and skill, His man of clay a liuing breath to fetch: Beware in time of like celestiall rods, And feare to touch the onely worke of gods. But if you still with prowd presumptuous legges,

VVill needes clime vppe the fiery-spotted hil, Pilfring from Ioue his Nectar voyde of dregs, And that immortal meate [Note: Called Ambro sia. ] which none doth fill, If ye wil needes imbesill those faire egges, VVhich in her child-bedde did their [Note: Leda, who be|ing gotten with childe by Iupiter in the forme of a swanne, brought forth two egges, out of the one came Castor and Clytemnestra, out of the other Pol|lux and Hel[...]na· Hesiodus. ] mother kil, Yet say not, that for gifts and vertues rare, They do, or may, with these my egges compare. These, [Note: 4. Cic. 2. de diu. ] these, are they, in dream which Romane spide Clos'd in a slender shell of brittle mould, Holding within, a white like siluer tride, VVhose inward yolke resembleth [Note: VVhence Sa|lomon fetcht gold euerie three yeares, which wisedome would neuer haue per|mitted him to haue done, if he had knowne (as some imagine) how to make the Philosophers stone. ] Ophirs gold, From out whose centre sprang the cheefest pride, That e're Latinus, or his race did hold, Exchanging in al countries for the same, Meate, drinke, cloth, coyne, or what you else can name. 47 Here lies the [Note: Of which Calx, water, and oyle, you may reade more than enough in Li|bauius: Epist. de o[...]o Philoso|phorum, & the troubling Turba Philosophorum, & the reuerent, D Dee, in Mo|nad, Hierogl. ] Calx of that renowned shel, Here flotes that water permanent and cleere, Here doth the oile of Philosophers dwell, Stil'd from the golden Fleece that hath no peere: In midst of whose vnseene and secret cell Dame Nature sittes, and euery part doth steere, Though neither opening shop to euery eie, Nor telling [Note: As one or two fooles haue done. ] Caesar she can multiply. Al-working mother, Foundresse of this All, Ten-hundred thousand-thousand-breasted nurse, Dedalian mouldresse both of great and small, As large in wealth, as liberall of purse,

Still great with childe, [Note: 3 A description of Nature. ] still letting children fall, Good to the good, nor ill vnto the worse, VVhat made thee shew thy multiplying pride, More in these egges, then all the egges beside? VVas it, because thou takest most delight, To print the greatest worth in smallest things? That they, the least of any seede in sight, Might clothiers breed to clothe our mightiest kings? O witte diuine, O admirable spright! VVorthie the songs of him that sweetest sings: Let it suffice that I adore thy name, VVhose works I see, and know not yet the same. 48 But damsels, ah: who rustleth in the skie? Methinks I heare Enithean Ladyes [Note: Boreas, who by force rauished Orythyia King Erictheus daughter. Ouid 6 Metam. ] foe, Blustring in fury from the mountaines hie, Looke how he raiseth cloudes from dust below, Harke how for feare the trees do cracke and crie, Each bud recoyles, the seas turne too and fro: O suffer not his breath-bereauing breath, To slay your hopes with ouer-timely death. Therefore assoone as them you gathered haue, Vpon the whitest papers you can find, In Boxes cleane your egges full closely saue, From chilling blast, of deadly nipping winde, Let not that hoary [Note: Hyems or winter. ] iry-manteld slaue So much preuaile, to kill both stocke and kinde: Farre be it from a tender Damsels heart, On tendrest seedes to shew so hard a part. Yet keepe them not in roomes too hot and close, [Note: The seedes or egges of Silke|flies are to bee

kept neither too cold, nor any thing hot. ] Lest heate by stealth encroch it selfe too soone, And inward matter ripening so dispose, That spinsters creepe ere winters course be done, Whilst woods stand bare, & naked ech thing grows, And Thisbes sap for aide be inward runne: For as with cold their brooding powre is spilde, So are they then for want of herbage kilde. 49 Th'Arch-mason of this round and glorious bal, Of creatures created Man the last, Not that he thought him therefore worst of all, (For in his soule part of himselfe he cast) But lest his wisedome might in question fall, For hauing in his house a stranger plac't, Ere eu'ry thing was made to please and feast, So great a Monarch and so braue a guest. Vnder whose feete where e're he went abrode Vesta [Note: The Earth. ] spread forth a carpet voide of art, Softer then silke, greener then th'Emerode, Wrought al with flowres, and eu'ry hearb apart, Ouer him hang'd where e're he made abode, An azur'd cloth of state, which ouerthwart Was biast (as it were) and richly purld, With twelue braue signes & glistring stars inurld Vppon him then as vassals eu'ry day Stowt Lions waited, tameles Panthers eke, Fierce Eagles, and the wildest birds of pray, Huge whales in Seas that mighty carricks wreake, Serpents and toades: Yea each thing did obey, Fearing his lawes and statutes once to breake: Yet wherto seru'd this pompe and honour great, If man had wanted due and dayly meate?

50 Trace you Gods steppes, [Note: The seedes or egs of Silkeflies are not to be hatched till the Mulberie tree be budded. ] and til you can attaine Wherwith to feed your guests when first they shew, Haste not their hatching, for t'wil prooue a paine, Filling your hearts with ruth, your eyes with dew, As when th'vntimely lambe on Sarums plaine, Fallne too too soone from winter-starued ewe. To pine you see for want of liquid food, Which should restore his wants of vitall blood. Attend therefore, when farmers [Note: The Mullery ] ioy renues Her liuely face, and buddeth all in greene, For Hyems then, with all his frozen crues, Is fully dead, or fled to earths vnseene, Corne, cattell, flowers, feare then no heauie newes, From Northern coasts, or Boreas region keene: Birds sing, flies buzze, bees hum, yea al things skip To see the very blush of Morus lippe. Let swallowes come, let storkes be seene in skie, Let [Note: The Nightin|gale. ] Philomela sing, let [Note: The Wrenne. ] Progne chide, Let [Note: La[...]kes ] T[...]ry-tiry-leerers vpward flie, Let constant Cuckoes cooke on euery side, Let mountaine mice abroad in ouert lie, Let euery tree thrust foorth her budding pride, Yet none can truely warrant winters flight, Till she be seene with gemmes and iewels dight. 51 O peerelesse tree, whose wisedome is far more Then any else that springs from natures wombe: For though Pomonaes [Note: All kinde of round fruit. ] daughters budde before, And forward [Note: The Almonde tree. ] Phillis formost euer come, And Persian [Note: Peaches: brought first out of Persia, as Columella, wri|teth. ] fruit yeeldes of her blossoms store,

And [Note: Aprils signe. ] Taurus hotte succeedeth [Note: March his signe. ] Aries roome: Yet all confesse the Mulbery most wise, That neuer breedes till winter wholly dies. Such is her wit: but more her inward might, For budded newe when Phoebus first appeares, She is full leaued e're it grow to night: With wondrous crackling filling both our eares, As though one leafe did with another fight, Striuing who first shall see the heau'nly spheares, Euen as a liuely chickin breakes the shell, Or blessed Soules do scudde and flie from hell. Yet witte and strength her pittie doth exceede, For none she hurts that neere or vnder grow, No not the brire, or any little weede, That vpward shootes, or groueling creepes below, Nay more, from heauenly flames each tree is freed That nigh her dwels, when fearful lightnings glow: For vertue which, [Note: So writeth Pli|ny, lib. 10, hist, nat. ] the Romanes made a law, To punish them that should her cut or saw. 52 I leaue to tell how she doth poison cure, [Note: Reade Pliny. lib. citate. ] From adders goare or gall of Lisards got, VVhat burning blaines she heales and sores impure, In palat, iawes, and al enflamed throte, VVhat canckars hard, and wolfes be at her lure, What Gangrenes stoop that make our toes to rotte: Briefly, few griefes from Panders boxe out-flew, But here they finde a medcine, old or new. Her bloud retourn'd to sweete Thisbean wine, Strengthneth the lungs and stomacke ouer-weake, Her clustred grapes do proue a dish most fine,

VVhose kernels soft do stones in sunder breake: Her leaues too that conuerted are in time, Which kings themselues in highest prize do reake: Thus giues she meat, and drink, medcine, & cloth, To eu'ry one that is not drownd in sloth. Bragge now no more perle-breeding Taprobane, Of Cocos thine, that [Note: So Monardes calleth it. lib. de arb. Ind. ] all-supplying foode, Vaunt not of Dates thou famous [Note: Leo Afer. ] Africane, Though sweete in taste, and swift in making bloud, Blush Syrian grapes, and plums Armenian, Ebusian figges, and fruit of Phillis good: Bad is your best compared with this tree, That most delights my little flocke and mee. 53 But wil you know, why this they onely eate? Why leaues they onely chuse, the fruite forsake? Why they refuse al choise and sortes of meate, And hungers heate with onely one dish slake? Then list a while, you wonder-seekers great, Whilst I an answere plaine and easie make: Disdaine you not to see the mighty ods, Twixt vertuous worms and sinful humane gods. I thinke that God and nature thought it meete, [Note: Why Silke|wormes eate on|ly Mulberie leaues. ] The noblest wormes on noblest tree to feede: And therefore they else neuer set their feete On any tree that beareth fruit or seede: Others diuine, that they themselues did weere No other tree could yeelde their silken threede. Iudge learned wittes: But sure a cause there is, VVhy they else feede vpon no tree but this. Ne eate they all, as greedy Kafers do,

But leaue the berries to their Soueraigne: Religiously forbearing once to bloe Vpon the fruit, that may their Lord maintaine. Nay, if these leaues (though nothing else doth growe In Eden rich their nature to sustaine) Had erst bin giuen for other creatures meate, They would haue chusde rather to starue then eat. 54 In that they onely feede vppon one tree, [Note: VVhy Silke|wormes feed on|ly vpon one meate. ] How iustly do they keepe dame Natures lore? Who teacheth eu'n the bleare-eyde man to see, That change of meates causeth diseases store: The gods themselues (if any such there be) Haue but one [Note: Called Am|brosia. ] meate, one drinke, and neuer more, Whereby they liue in health and neuer die, For how can one against it selfe replie. [Note: 2 Called Nectas ] Dualitie of meates was sicknesse spring, With whom addition meeting by the way, Begate varietie of euery thing, [Note: 3 Read Plutark ] Who like a whore in changeable array, [Note: 4. Sympos, quaest. 1 ] With painted cheekes (as did Philinus sing) And corall lippes, and breasts that naked lay, Made vs with vnitie to be at warres, And to delight in discords, change, and iarres. Wherefore assoone as they beginne to creepe, Like sable-robed Ants, farre smaller tho, Blacke at the first, like pitch of Syrian deepe, Yet made in time as white as Atlas snow, Send seruants vp to woods and mountaines steepe, When Mulb'ry leaues their maiden lippes do shew: Feede them therewith (no other soule they craue, If morne and eu'n fresh lefage they may haue.)

55 The first three weekes the tend'rest leaues are best, The next, they craue them of a greater size, The last, the hardest ones they can disgest, As strength with age increasing doth arise: After which time all meate they do detest, [Note: So that they eat not in all aboue mine weekes. ] Lifting vp heads, and feete, and breast to skies, Begging as t'were of God and man some shrowde, Wherein to worke and hang their golden clowde. But whilst they feede, [Note: VVhen their meate is to be[...] gathered. ] leral their foode be drie And pull'd when Phoebus face doth brightly shine, For raine, mist, dewe, and spittings of the skie, Haue beene ful of the baine of cattle mine: Stay therfore, stay, til dayes-vpholder flie, Fiue stages ful from Easterne Thetis line: [Note: That is to say, till the sunne be fiue houres high ] Then leaues are free from any poysned seede, Which may infect this white and tender breede. Keepe measure too, [Note: In what quan|titie they are to be dieted. ] for though the best you get, Giue not too much nor little of the same, Satiety their stomacks wil vnwhet, Famine againe wil make them leane and lame: Lend Witte the knife to quarter out their meate, As neede requires and reason maketh clame: Lest belly break, or meagernesse ensewe, By giuing more or lesse then was their due. 56 Ne cha~ge their food (us some haue thought it meet) For Mulb'ries though they are of double kind, [Note: Varietie of meatos is naught for them. ] The blacker ones are yet to them most sweete, From out their leaues most pleasing sappe they find, But whe~ they faile whilst Scythia~ krime [Note: Boreas, the Northwest wind ] doth fleete, (Turne heau'nly hosts, O turne that cruell wind) White Mulb'ry leaues, yea tender Elming bud, May for a shift be giuen in steede of foode.

Sweepe eu'ry morn ere they fresh vittailes see, [Note: Their table is to be kept cleane. ] Their papred boord, whereon they take repast, With bundled Time, or slippes of Rosemary, Leaue nought thereon that from their bellies past, No not th'alf-eaten leaues of Thisbes tree, And when their seates perfumed thus thou hast, Remooue them back againe with care and heede, To former place wherein they erst did feede. Oft shalt thou see them carelesse of their meate, [Note: The sleepe of Silkewormes, ] Yea ouer-tane with deepe and heauie sleepe, Like to that strange and Epidemian sweate, When deadly slumbers did on Britons creepe: Yet feare thou not, it is but natures feate, Who nethelesse hath of peerelesse spinsters keepe, And makes them thus as dead to lie apart, That they may wake and feede with better heart. 57 Thrise thus they sleep, and thrise they cast their skin, The latter stil farre whiter then the rest, [Note: How oft they change their skinnes. ] For neuer are they quiet of mind within, Til they be cleane of blacknesse dispossest, Whether because they deeme it shame and sinne To weare the marke of blackish fiend vnblest: Or that their parents wearing onely white, They therefore in that onely would be dight. As they in body and in greatnesse grow, [Note: How they are to be distributed [...] when they grow greater. ] Diuide them into tribes and colonies, For though at first one table and no mo (Smal though it be) a thousand wormes suffice, Yet afterwards (as proofe wil truly show)

When they proceede vnto a greater size, One takes the roome of tenne, and seemes to craue A greater scope and portion for to haue. The loft wherein their tables placed be, [Note: VVhat manner of roome their table must stand in. ] Must neither be too full, nor voide of light, Two windowes are inough, superfluous three, Plac't in such sort that one regard the light Of Phoebus steeds vprising as we see: And from the other when it drawes to night, We may behold them tired as it were, And limping downe the westerne Hemisphere. 58 Glasde let them be, or linnen-couerd both, To keepe out fell and blacke [Note: Ants or E|mets. ] Monopolites, The Myrmedonian crue, who voide of sloth Do wholy bend their forces, toile, and wittes To priuate gaine, and therefore are ful wroth To see this nation any good besits: Working themselues to death both night & day, Not for themselues, but others to array. The greedy imps of her that slue her sonne, Pandions [Note: Wrennes and Robins. ] daughter, bloudy harted Queene: The winged [Note: Sparrowes. ] steedes in Venus coach that runne, Inflam'd with filthy lust and fires vnseene, Pnrsue this flocke, and wish them al vndone, Bycause they come from parents chaste and cleane: O therefore keepe the casements close and fast, Lest quellers rage your harmelesse cattle wast. If also carelesnesse haue lest a rift, Or chincke vnstopped in thine aged wall: Where-through a noysome mist, or rayny drift,

Or poysned wind may trouble spinsters small, Mixe lime and sand, deuise some present shift How to repel such cruel foe-men al: Small is the charge compared with the gaine, That shal surmount thy greatest cost and paine. 59 I any seeme to haue an amber coate, [Note: How the sicke are known from the whole, & in what sort to bee vsed. ] And swell therewith as much as skinne can hold, Wholy to sloth and idlenesse deuote, Tainting with lothsome gore the common fold, Of deadly sickenesse t'is a certaine note, VVhose cure, sith none haue either writte or tolde, VVisedom commands to part the dead and sicke, Lest they infect the faultlesse and the quicke. Colde sometimes kills them, [Note: Outward causes of their sicknesse ] sometimes ouer-heate, Raine, oyle, salt, old and wet, and musty foode, The smel of onyons, leekes, garlick, and new wheat, Shrill sounds of trumpets, drums, or cleauing woode: Yea some of them are of such weakenesse great, That whisprings soft of men or falling floud, Doth so their harts and senses ouer-wheele, That often headlong from the boord they reele. Forbeare likewise to touch them more then needes, Skarre children from them giuen to wantonnesse, Let not the fruit of these your precious seedes, Die in their hands through too much carelesnesse: VVho tosse and roule and tumble them like weedes From leafe to leafe in busie idlenesse, Now squatting them vppon the floore or ground, Now squashing out their bellies soft and round. 60

Thus being kept and fed nine weekes entire, [Note: Signes of their readinesse to worke. ] Surpriz'd with age ere one would thinke them yong, With what an ardent zeale and hot desire To recompence thy trauels do they long? They neither sleepe, nor meate, nor drinke require, But presse and striue, yea fiercely striue and throng, Who first may find some happy bough or broom, Whereon to spinne and leaue their amber loome. Then virgins then, [Note: They must scoure them|selues two daies before you set them to worke. ] with vndefiled hand Seuer the greatest from the smaller crue, For al alike in age like ready stand, Now to begin their rich and oual clue, (Hauing first paid as Nature doth command, To bellies-farmer that which was his due) For nothing must remaine in body pent, Which may defile their sacred monument. So being clensde from al that is impure, Put each within a [Note: For that is the best and safest way to loose none of them. ] paper-coffin fine, Then shal you see what labour they endure, How farre they passe the weauers craft of line, VVhat cordage first they make and tackling sure, To ty thereto their bottom most diuine, Rounding themselues ten thousand times & more, Yet spinning stil behind and eke before. 61 None cease to worke: [Note: How they work not aboue nine daies. ] yea rather all contend Both night and day who shall obtaine the prize Of working much, and with most speede to end, Whilst rosie [Note: The sunne. ] Titan nine times doth arise From purple bedde of his most louing [Note: Aurora. the morning. ] friend, And eke as oft in [Note: The westerne sea. ] Atlas vally dies) Striuing (a strife not easie here to find) In working well, who may exceed their kind.

Yea some (O wofull sight) are often found Striuing, in worke their fellowes to excell, Lifelesse in midway of their trauerst round, Nay those that longest here do work and dwell, Liue but a while, to end their threed renownd, For I haue seene, and you may see it well, After that once their bottoms are begunne, Not one suruiues to see the tenth dayes sunne. Go gallant youths, and die with gallant cheere, For other bodyes shortly must you haue, Of higher sort then you enioyed here, Of worthier state, [Note: How they are turned into flies when Dogge daies end, or thereabouts. ] and of a shape more braue, Lie but three weekes within your silken beere, Till Syrian dogge be drownd in westerne waue, And in a moment then mongst flying things, Receiue not feete alone, but also wings. 62 Wings whiter then the snow of [Note: An exceeding high hil in Asia ] Taurus hie, [Note: A description of the Silkeflies. ] Feete fairer then [Note: Venus Para|mour, sonne to Cinara, king of Cyprus, by his owne daughter Myrrha. ] Adonis euer had, Heads, bodies, breasts, and necks of Iuory, With perfit fauour, and like beautie clad, Which to commend with some varietie, And shadow as it were with colour sad, Two little duskie feathers shall arise From forehead white, to grace your Eben eyes. Then neither shall you see the bottome moue, Nor any noyse perceiue with quickest eare, [Note: VVhem the silke is to be winded from the bottom ] Death rules in all, beneath, in midst, aboue,

Wherefore make haste you damsels voyd of feare, Shake off delay, as ere you profit loue, In boxes straite away your bottoms beare, Freed from the coffin wherin late they wrought, To gaine the golden fleece you so much sought. First pull away the loose and outmost doune, As huswiues do their ends of knottie towe, [Note: In what sort the silke is to bee winded. ] That which lies vpmost is of least renowne, The finest threed is placed most below: Threed fitte for kings, vnmeete for euery clowne, On Natures quill so wound vp rowe by rowe, That if thine eye and hand the end can find, In water warme thou maist it all vnwind. 63 Three sorts there are, [Note: How many sorts of silke there be. ] distinct by colours three, The purest like to [Note: Phactusa & Lampetia Ph[...]|[...]tons sisters. O|uid 2 Metam. ] their resplendant haire, Who weeping brothers fal from coursers free, Their teares were turn'd to yellow amber faire. The second like [Note: Phillis, De|mophoons spouse turned into an Almond tree. ] her whom impatiencie Made of a spouse a tree most solitary: The last more white, made by the weaker sort, Not of so great a price, nor like report. From out al three, but chiefly from the best, Are made, [Note: The vse of all sorts of silke. ] not onely robes for priests and kings, But also many cordial medcius blest, Curing the wounds that fullen Saturne brings, Which being drunk, how quiet is our rest? How leaps out hart? how inwardly it springs? Speake you sad spirits that did lately feele, The hart-breake crush of melancholies wheele.

Nay euen the doune which lies aloft confusde, Makes Leuant stuffe for country yonkers meete, Though it of court and cittie be refusde, And is not worne in any ciuill streete, But tel me yer, how can [Note: Diogenes that dogge, who with his dirtie shooes trode downe Platoes silken Quilt (as Laer|tius writeth) in greater pride then Plato euer vsed it. ] he be excusde, VVho trampled eu'n the best with mired feete, And in a moment marr'd al that with pride, For making which, tenne thousand spinsters dide? 64 Now if of these your bottoms you require, [Note: The first made bottoms are best to be reserued for seede. ] Some to reserue for future race and seede, Chuse out the eldest, for their forward fire Makes inward flye the sooner spring and breede: Whereas the latter ones haue least desire, And lesser might to perfit Venus deede: For why, their pride is dul, and spirits colde, Borne in the quarter last of [Note: The waining Moone. ] Iune olde. Wind none of them, which you for breede allot, In watrie bath, nor else in wine, or lye, Lest outward moisture innly being got, Surrounding, drownes the little infant-flye, And cause both strings and secundine to rotte, So that before it liues it learnes to dye: Or if you haue them drenched so for gaine, At sunne or fire to dry them take some paine. Singled, then laye them on a table neate, Couered al o're with white [Note: That is to say, white paper, for the first writing paper was the inner rinde of a certaine reede or cane, into which Phillira was transformed. Com. Mat. in Mithol. Within 12 daies after the bottoms finished, the silkeflies are disclosed. ] Philliraes skinne, Stay then againe till Phoebus chariot great In Oceans bath hath twelue times washed bin,

And you shal see an admirable feate, This form'd and yet transformed broode within: From which new shapes new bodies do arise, And tailes to heads, and worms are turn'd to flies. 65 Whereat to wonder each man may be bold, When seely worms themselues new fliers made, Whilst one anothers face they do behold: Muse how, and when, & where, this forme they had, How new hornes sprang fro~ out their foreheads old, Whence issued wings, [Note: Silke flies feede on nothing but aire. ] which do them ouer-lade: For they recording what they were of late, Dare not yet mount aboue their former state. As studying thus they stand a day or more, Offring to feede on nought but onely aire, Lothing the meate so much desir'd before, I meane the leaues of Thisbes tree most faire: Disdaining eke to taste of Nais store, [Note: A day or a little more after dis|closing, they cou|ple togither. ] To quench the heate that might their harts impaire: At length they know themselues to be aliue, And fal to that for which our wantons striue. Both long, [Note: How long they are coupled togi|ther. ] and longing skud to Venus forts, To stirre vp seed that euer may remaine, He runnes to her, and she to him resorts, Each mutually the other entertaine, Ioynd with fuch lincks and glue of natures sports. That coupled stil they rest a day or twaine. Yea oftentimes thrise turnes the welkin round, Ere they are seene vnlocked and vnbound. 66 So hauing left what e're he could impart, [Note: When they die after discou|pling. ]

Of spirits, humors, seede, and recrement, Willing yet further to haue throwne his hart Into her breast, to whom he all things ment, He formost dies and yeelds to fatal dart: Ne liues she long, but strait with sorrow spent, (Hauing first laide the egges she did conceiue) Of loue and life she shortly takes her leaue. Smal egges they be, in bignesse, colour, shape, Like to the meate of Indian Parrachite, [Note: Their egges in colour and big|nesse, are likest of all things to Millet seede, wherewith Par|rachitos are fed. ] Lesse farre in view then seed of garden rape, In number many, yet indefinite: For when the females womb begins to gape, And render what the male got ouer night, Now more, now fewer seeds dropt from the same, As they were short, or longer at their game. Yet seldome are they than a hundred lesse, [Note: VVhat number of egges they lay. ] Sometimes two hundred from their loynes do fall, Round, smooth, hard-shelld, and voide of brittlenes, Whited alike, and yellow yolked all, Whose vertues great no man did yet expresse, Much lesse can I whose knowledge is so smal, Though sure I am hence may we find a theame, Able to drink vp [Note: The wateror riuer wheron all the Muses drinke. ] Aganippes streame. 67 O keepe them then with most attentiue heede, [Note: Haw, the egges are to be preser|ued. ] From Boreas blast and Aeols insolence, From menstruous blasts & breathing keep the~ freed, Auoide likewise the mil-dewes influence, Pray heau'nly Monarch fot to blesse your seede, Helping their weaknesse with his prouidence. So may your milk-white spinsters worke amaine, When Morus lippes shal bud and blush againe.

And [Note: An exhorta|tion to all Far|mers and Hus|bandmen to plant Mulbe|ries. ] thou whose trade is best and oldest too, Steward of all that euer Nature gaue, VVithout whose help what can our rulers doo, Though gods on earth appareld wondrous braue? Behold thy helping hand faire virgins wooe, Yea nature bids, and reason eake doth craue Thy cunning, now these little worms to nurse, VVhich shal in time with gold fill full thy purse. In steed of fruitles elms and sallowes gray, Of brittle Ash, and poyson-breathing vgh, Plant Mulb'ry trees nigh euery path and way, Shortly from whence more profit shal ensue, Then from [Note: Made and planted by Aeg|le, Arethusa, & Hyperethusa, King Atlas daughter. ] th'Hesperian wood, or orchards gay, On euery tree where golden apples grew: For what is silke but eu'n a Quintessence, Made without hands beyond al humane sense? 68 A quintessence? [Note: A commendati|on of this silke, with that which commeth from the Ossereans, as also with that which is made by the In|dian wormes. ] nay wel it may be call'd, A deathlesse tincture, sent vs from the skies, Whose colour stands, whose glosse is ne're appalld, Whose Mulbr'y-sent and sauour neuer dies, Yea when to time all natures else be thralld, And euery thing Fate to corruption ties: This onely scornes within her lists to dwell, Bettring with age, in colour, glosse, and smel. So doth not yours (you [Note: Ofehese Os|serians or Lords of the wood, read Bonfin. lib. 1 Decad 1. Hung Hist. ] Lordings of the woode) Growing like webbs vppon the long-haird grasse, Along the [Note: Aureleanus surnamed the Liberall, liuing 274. yeares af|ter Christ, in whose time a

pound weight of silke was sold for the like weight in fine gold. V[...]piscus. ] Osserian bancks of Scithyan floud, Which into Caspian wombe doth headlong passe. No, no: Although that silke be strong and good In outward shew, and highly prized was, When bounteous Caesar ruled citties prime, Yet soone it fades, and yeelds to rotte in time. If [Note: Pausanias bookes. ] bookes be true, there is an Indian worme, As bigge as [Note: The Dor|beetle. ] he that robbs the Eagles nest, Shap't like [Note: The Spider. ] Arachne that doth tinsels forme, And nets, and lawnes, and shadowes of the best, Fed with [Note: The Reede or cane. ] her locks, who yeelding stands in storm, VVhen [Note: The hie oakes. ] woods-surueyours lye on earth opprest) From out whose belly, broke with surfetting, VVhole clews of silk scarse half concocted, spring. 69 Yet that compar'd with this is nought so fine, Ne ought so sweetely fum'd with daintie sent, Nor of like durance, nor like powre diuine: Mirth to restore, when spirits all are spent, If it be steept in sweet Pomanaes [Note: The goddesse of apples. ] wine, Till colour fade, and substance do relent: Nay, nay, no silke must make that [Note: Called Con|fectio Alkermes a most singular Electuarie a|gainst Melan|cholie, if it be rightly made. ] Antidote, Saue onely which from spinsters mine is got. Whereof, if thou a pound in weight shalt take Vnstaind at all (as Amiens [Note: Io. Fernelius. lib. 7 qui est de compos. med. ] floure doth write) And with the iuce of Rose and pippins make A strong infusion of some day and night, Adding some graines of muske and Ambres flake, And seething all to hony-substance right: O what a Balme is made to cheere the heart, If pearle, and gold, and spices beare a part?

What neede I count how many winders liue, How many twisters eke, and weauers thriue Vppon this trade? which foode doth daily giue To such as else with famine needes must striue: What multitudes of poore doth it relieue, That otherwise could scarce be kept aliue? Say Spaniard proude· & tel Italian youth, Whether I faine, or write the words of truth. 70 Not euer were your princes clad so braue, Not euer were your wiues deckt as they be, Much lesse was silk then worne of euerie slaue, And artists, sprung from base and low degree, That [Note: Heliogabalus, for so writeth Lampridius. ] rioter whose belly diggd his graue, Clothd all in silke, the Romanes first did see: Before whose time silke wou'n on linnen threed, [Note: VVhen the seede of silke|wormes was first brought into Europe. ] Was thought braue stuffe for any Princes weed. But afterwardes, [Note: So Polidor vir|gil writeth out of Procopius, saying that this happened 555. yeares after Christ, lib. 3 cap. 6. de ret. in|uent. ] when holy Palmers twaine From out [Note: A citie of east India. ] Serinda brought these worms of fame, And plauted Mulb'ry plants on hill and plaine, Wherewith to fatte and foster vppe the same: How rich waxt Italy? how braue was Spaine? In Sattin fine, how braggd each man of name? Yea, euery clowne, that euen as now, so then, Habites did scarce discerne the states of men. Vp Britaine blouds, rise hearts of English race, Why should your clothes be courser then the rest? Whose feature tall, and high aspiring face, Aime at great things, and challenge eu'n the best. Begge country men no more in sackcloth base,

Being by me of such a trade possest: That shall enrich your selues and children more, Then ere it did Naples or Spaine before. 71 No man so poore but he may Mulb'ries plant, [Note: How easie and chargelesse a thing it is to keep silkworms. ] No plant so smal but wil a silke-worme feede, No worme so little (vnlesse care do want) But from it selfe wil make a clew of threede, Ech clew weighs down, rather with more then scant, A penny weight, [Note: What ouerplus there is in profite by keeping them. ] from out whose hidden seede, (After the winged wormes conception) A hundred spinsters issue forth of one. Diuine we hence, or rather reckon right, What vsury and proffit doth arise, By keeping well these little creatures white, Worthy the care of euery nation wise, That in their owne or publique wealth delight. And rashly wil not things so rare despise: Yea sure, in time they wil such profit bring, As shall enrich both people, priest, and king. Concerning pleasure: [Note: How great plea|sure there is in keeping them, both to the eies, eares, nose, and hands. ] who doth not admire, And in admiring, smiles not in his hart. To see an egge a worme, a worme a flier, Hauing first shewd her rare and peerelesse art, In making that which princes doth attire, And is the base of euery famous Mart? And then to see the flie cast so much seede, As doth, or may, an hundred spinsters breede. 72

Againe to view vppon one birchen shredde, Some hundred Clewes to hang like clustred peares, Those greene, these pale, and others somewhat red, Some like the locks hanging downe Phoebus eares: And then, how Nature when each worme is dead, To better state in tenne dayes space it reares: Who sees all this, and tickleth not in minde? To marke the choyse and pleasures in each kinde. Eye but their egges, (as Grecians terme them well) And with a penne-knife keene diuide them quite, Behold their white, their yolke, their skin, and shel, Distinct in colour, substance, forme, and sight: And if thy bodies watchmen do not swell, And cause thee both to leape and laugh outright, Thinke God and nature hath that eye denied, By which thou shouldst fro~ brutish beasts be tried. When they are worms, mark how they color cha~ge, From blacke to browne, from browne to sorrel bay, From bay to dunne, from dunne to duskie strange, Then to an yron, then to a dapple gray, And how each morne in habites new they range, Till at the length they see that happy day, When (like their Sires and heau'nly angels blest) Of pure and milk-white stoles they are possest. 73 Lay then thine eare and listen but a while, Whilst each their foode from leafage fresh receaues, Trie if thou canst hold in an outward smile, When both thine eare and phantasie conceaues, Not worms to feed, but showrings to distil. In whispring sort vpon the tatling leaues: For such a kind of muttring haue I heard, Whilst herbage greene with vnseene teeth they teard.

When afterward with needle pointed tongue, The Flies haue bor'd a passage through their clewes, Obserue their gate and steerage al along, Their salutations, couplings, and Adieus: Heare eke their hurring aud their churring song, When hot Priapus loue and lust renewes, And tel me if thou heardst, or e're didst eye, Like sport amongst all winged troupes that flye. Tis likewise sport to heare how man and maide, Whilst winding, twisting, and in weauing, thay Now laugh, now chide, now scan what others saide, Now fing a Carrol, now a louers lay, Now make the trembling beames to cry for aide, On clattring treddles whilst they roughly play: Resembling in their rising and their falls, A musicke strange of new found Claricalls. 74 The smel likewise of silken wool that's new, To heart and head what comfort doth it bring, Whilst we it wind and tooze from oual clew? Resembling much in prime of fragrant spring, When wild-rose buds in greene and pleasant hue, Perfume the ayre, and vpward sents do fling, Well pleasing sents, neither too sowre nor sweete, But rightly mixt, and of a temper meete. As for the hand, looke how a louer wise Delighteth more to touch Astarte slick Then Hecuba, whose eye-browes hide her eies, Whose wrinckled lippes in kissing seeme to prick, Vpon whose palmes such warts and hurtells rise, As may in poulder grate a nutmegge thick: So ioy our hands in silke, and seeme ful loth

To handle ought but silke and silken cloth. Such are the pleasures, and farre more then these, Which head, and hart, eies, eares, and nose, and hands, Take, or may take, in learning at their ease, The dieting of these my spinning bands, VVhose silken threede shal more then counterpeise, Paine, cost, and charge, what euer it vs stands, So that if gaine or pleasure can perswade, Go we, let vs learne the silken-staplers trade. 75 But list, me thinkes I heare Amyntas sayne, That shepheards skill wil soone be quite vndone, [Note: Keeping of silke|wormes hindreth not the keeping of sheepe nor, Sheepheards. ] Behold faire Phillis scuddeth from the plaine, Leauing her flocks at randon for to runne, Lo Lidian clothier breaks his loomes in twaine, And thousand spinsters burne their woollen spunne: Ah! cease your rage, these spinsters hurt you nought But wil encrease you more then ere you thought. For carde an ounce of silke with ten of wooll, How fine, how stro~g, how strange a yarne doth rise? Make trial once, and hauing seene at ful, Your new found stuffe, chaffred at highest prize, Then blame your idle heads and senses dull, Trust not conceit, but credite most your eyes: Laughing as much, or more, the~ ere you mourn'd, When feare you see to ioy and vantage turnd. Laugh now (faire Mira) with thy Virginswhite, For why your egges committed to my care, Are growne so much in bignesse, worth, and sight, That Kings and Queens to keep them wil not spare,

Yea Queen of Queenes, for vertue, witte, and might, Perhaps wil hatch them twixt those hillocks rare, Where al the Graces feede and Sisters nine, Who euer loue, and grace both thee and thine.

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· Reaten~iesObiefl, Wt~rth& WifodtJmspfide, N atMres delight, A rcadia' s heire tnq/ fitte~ Vouchfofeawhiletolay thy t.uke afide,

· ~Let Pmatke ~eep,giue refl to Sacred Writte; Or b'owe,or Jlrin,_~ wiU breake,if euer tied, · S ot»e little pawfe aideth the quickefl 'Witte:

N ay,hea!4'ns tlumfll~es(thouglJ keepingjlittheir w.ay) lf.etr(Jgrad~Jte,and make a kina of .flay.

I neitfoerfing Achilles ban~ful ire, Nor Man,nor Armes,n1r BeUy-brotherswttrres, Nor Britaine broiles ,nor citties drownd in fire, ·Nor HcClors wonn:ls,nor Diomedts skarres. c e4e couNtry Mufe fo J:ighly to '!/}ire: Bur Pla111e beholds btJt cannot hoide .foch j14rreJ:

I ouc-loued wittes may write of w1Mt they will, · But meaner T heams bifeeme a Farmers qtlill.

1 fing of little Wormes and tender Flies, . crupin g .t!ong, or b.u king on the,ground, · Gra(t once with thf!fe thy he.cu'nly-hum.ane ties, Which neuer yet on meanefl fi:holler [round: And t~Me are tl1is worke tuternifl!,

. Frum Faft to Weft abrmt tlJj$/ower Round, Dei;', we thou btlt bre;1the a j}arke tJr litttejlttmt Ofiikeing lo enlife for aye the fizme~

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, .. t'M-e. r-r:;, LJ~ ~· . . -.L. .0. "1.: ""-"' • • I vVHengarmenrswcrc&rCtvfcd. . . . Fol. s 1 Wl!c~cot garments wen: fir(l made. ; 3 Diuers opin:ious how and when filkc was firfl: il'luented andworn~:. • 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 If

I6 17 IS, 19 10. + Whether tijc Sdke-wormc or the Siikc Flic were fir~

crt'at~d. i 21 22 23. s Whcthcrth~cggeorthchenaebcfirfrinnaturc. 24

2S' 26 27~ 6 Why the fil.\ce Ries are oncly of a white coloMr. 2 8. 7 What day of tbc we eke chey were firfi created. 2 9

8 t~1c 3r!;c v~1rtucsandchaCHty ofSilkc Flies. ?.7 2 S 31 38 .

9 That they re not to be fcornd as being little and thcre-forecontc ncdcreatures. 34 3S- 36 37·

I 0 Their wo erful cncrcafe and propagation. 39 and 6S Gfi. i

11 Theh; ma~ncrofdying. .f.O 66. 12 That thci~ cggcs arc more wortL then the cgges of any

Flier :yea t~en the Philofopbers egge,if there were any filch. 1 • 41 42 43 44 45 46 47•

I3 Thcireg~esmutl be kept in a tcmpet· .. r~: place. 48. J 4 They arc !(lot t~ be hatched til the Mulbcry tree buds.

so. : . 1 s Why the I Silkc-wormcs becing crept eut of the lhcl

fecde onclyvponMulbery le.:wes. SI S2 B• 16 How long they fcede : When their me.are 1s to be

gathered ; i In what quantity they are to be dieted. H• 17 That variety of meares is Aaught fonhcm. ·'~· I 8 Their tab~e is to be kept cleane. ibid.

How the (!eke are difccrned. .'J~· I 9 Of their Ubcpe: •bid. :le How rhey!mult be dielributed when they grow great.

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mull bevfed. 6o. ~ 3 How long th11y ·work c. 61. , 2 4 When the wonncs are meramorphored in~o Flies.6I. 2,- Whenandhowtheirfi'~(iSCobewmdcJvr. 61. 26 The fods and '\!fe of tlictr ftlken dncede• .. 63 64. '). 7 Huw fheir egges are to be prcferucd. 67. 28 Thadhc tilke of Sillcc•worDicl is the bcttofal other.

i ',. 68. 29 Whlt profit altd plc alii re arifcth in keeping of them.

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Y dnei4n Mufo: iffo thou yet remainc, . In brothers bow~ls,or in daughters breafi:, Or art bequeath' d the L.:dy of tht pla.n ·,

Becaufe for her thou art th~ fittdl: guefi: Whofc worth to lhew, no morull can atta.ine, Which with like worth i~ not hirn!c!fc poJJdl:: · Come help me fing thcfc flocks as white as milkc,

Th;~t make,and fpinnc,and die,and windlc filkc.

For Cure I know thy knowledge doth pcrcciuc, What breth embrcath'd thcfc almoft thing\cs things: V V hac Anifr taught their fcctc to fpinnc and vvc:auc: What workman made their flimc a robe for kings, How flies breed wormcs,how wormcs do flies con.: Fro natures womb,how fuchanaturc fprings,(cciuc:

Wherdof none can directly tell or rccdc, Whether were firll:,thc flic. the worme, or fccdc.

A time there was (fwecte heau'ns rellorerhar time,) When bodycs pure to fpotlclTc foules fir!!: knir, Deuoyd of guilr,and ignorant of crime, Vprigh tin confcicnce,and ofharmelctfe wit, Difdaind to weare a garmcm nere fo fine, As decmi11g coates and couers m oft vnfic,

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0 f the Si/'<! »Jormts Yea~ vv hqn all other creatures looked bafe, As mind~i.Jl onely oftheir earthly foode: Or elfc a$ trembling to behold the place, Where i4dge eternall fate, and Angels llood: Then bu~ane eyes beheld him face to face, And chcctkcs vnfrain' d with fumes of guiltie blouda

Dc:fir'~ no mas~c to hid.e their blulhing balles, But b.o~dly gaz d and pncd on hcau'nly walles.-

The brea{lwhich yet had hatcht no baddc conccat · N~r.harbpr'd ought in. heart that God dHpleaz'd' Dtd tt fo~ iilken waftcotes 'then intreate? ' ' Sought it1with Tyrian filks to be appeaz'd~ N o,no, t&ere was no needc of fuch a fc:ate, Where alf was found,and members none sifcaz'd:

Nay ~ore, The bafefr parts and feates of•lhame Were fcemely thcn,and had a comely name. '

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But whenifc:lfc-will and fubtilecreepers guile, Made map to lufr,and rafre wh.u God forbad Then fretn'd we to our felues fo fonle and ;de That frraikht we witht our bodies to be clad ,. Seeing w~thour,and in !uch great defile ' As rdt out wittes,and made vs al fo mad:

That ~ere[embled melancl:!olique hares Or ftar~ling fiagges, whom cuerie Jhado~ fcarcs:

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lmtl their Flier.· Then Bcdl~m-lik:e to woods wee ran ne apace~ Pray1ng each tree to lend vs thade or leaucs, Wherewith to hidc:(ifought might ludc) our face From his al- fecing eyes, who al perccaues, And with ful-brandifbt fword purfues the chace, Traitors of reft,of lhadc,and al bereaues:

Permitting men with nothing to be clad, But lhamc,difpairc,guilr,fcare,and horror fad.

Thefe rohe~ eur parents fil·fr were dcckt withal, Then fig~rfe fannc:s vppon their fha~e tliley woro; Next, skm:nc:s ofbeafis,(to Chew thetr bcafrlv fall) Then,hairt cloathc:s,and wooll from Baa-lambs tore, Lafi,Eafteme wittc:s,from mane of Camels tall, fiJJ,.,tJ&.u .c.c. Made water-waued fiuffe vn(eene before, Jo.&lib,lof.

But til the Baud had finners fwept away, ''l!·u.· Nor Flaxe, nor Silke, didfinfulman array.

Forfoit feeemed iufr to lutl:ice eyen, Defiled men to weare polluted things: And Rebels not to clothe in Flaxe or line, \Vhich from the facred loines ofY4/tt fpring, Cleane,knpdeffc,ftraight,fpotle.!fe,vpright,and fine, VVhofc:~~ure is likefiuc heau'nly-azurd wings.

Whcfe :flime is falue,whofe feed is bolfom food, . . whofe rinde is doth,whofc ftuble fcru' s for wood Piul.l~h.dt 1fi4'

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4 0 fthe Silfte wormeJ. r Or if 1 Ardchne crll: madefifiers threed,

.Atlloftf .. Lmou/~ Was it th. inkc you,for euery man to wearel I1,,_"' "' •- : £ ·fi d .. ,.fwho~t~OIIi.l Or oncly or thefacn cers wee e, f> ,.u,.m, VVho o~ th.immortall pride a type did bcarc!

Wearing not aught th:at fprang from brutilb feed. But whatfrom out it fdfe tke earth did rearc:

So that till holy pridl:hood firft began, V V c 11euer readc that linncn dothed m.ln:

~ .rJ Yet fame conceiue when:. Thebiln finger wan ne-~ Orpl•tHl a '""J• d ' d . . h d d .. lll'C: fomous P•e•. VVo? -wan L:m~ wtg ts to goo a~ Cl\11 he, Ouid u.met, (Whtc!t ~dl: wuh bcares and wolues 10 dcfarts ran,

Knowing no name of God,law ,houfe,or wife) That the~ his brother Lim1s firfr began The Flax1~1ans craft (a fecret then vnrife)

DcuHitng beetles,backels, w heeles, and frame, Wherwith to bru!c,toufe,fpin & weaue the fame~

But SilkcGwhereonmy louing Muze now fl:and~) Wa! it th~ offpring of our fuallow braine: Spunne W:ith thde fi~Jgcrs foule? thefe nlthy hands; Tainted with bl~md, reuenge, and wrongful gaine~ Ah no, w fuo made and numbrcth all the fands, Wil te:~ch ~vs foone that fancic to be vainc:

Farre b~, it from our thoughts, that fin full fence, Should ma~e a thi.og of fo great excellence.

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llnd their Flier~ Ne neede wee yet with I Ttl{c~tne Prelate flie, To fiel:ion$ fl:range,or wanton Ym11s cyc:n: Who feeing Pallu taught from Saturnc hie:, Tocluthe her fdfeand hers with weaued line, Yea all the Nimphs and Goddc:lfes in skie, roweare longftolcs of Lawne andCambrickfinc:

Fretted to {ee her felfe and boy new borne , l,eft bath to heau'n and earth an open fcerne.

Rttltngt !he cri' de vnto the fire of I out, As the lay hid de vnder th'Idalian tree: Affoord fome rayment from the hou!e aboue, Ubut to hide the lhamcof mine and mee. So may thou learnc: from vs T/,e art of L6tJt1 Whereby to winnc each Ladies heart to thee. · But grumbling Chuff reieO:ed fiill her prayre~

Whereat lamented heau'n_, and weeping a ire:.

Then Cyprian ~eene perceiuing that no cries Could pierce the leaden cares offullen Sire~ Straight lodg' d her fonne in fait·e 2. Phillyraes eies; And caus' d him thentc to darte vppe fuch a fire, As had confum' d the very fiarres and skies~ Yc:a melted SatNrnes wbeeles with hot dcfirc::

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Hlr&n;muc vi­da•,Bif1J•}' of Alba,/ib,l,ilo Bomb]«-

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0(14nJil /,;$ J~u~httr,.: mofl braue 11h'• zi,,Q,;d 6 lftct,

Vnleilc:that very houre he had comedowne, And bcg'4 per aide, on whom he lace did frowne.

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0 fthe>Jil~.Dormei How often,as his loue on Pt!iln bill · Stoopt dbwnc to gather herbs for wounds and Corer; Strcw'd !he before hcrTutfan,Balme,and Dill, Long Pl~ntainc:jHyfope,SagcJand Comfrey moarcs~ O.tfcing ~efidcs,the art a·nd pc:l'f<:& skill, Ofhealii1g bloudy wounds and fcftred coares:

Howl oft (I fay )did he eachtday defcend, And ~ootcldfe al his vowes and wooing• fpend~

He lou'd~fue loath'd,he liked, lhc: difdain'd: H.: came}fhe turn' d,he preft, fhe ran ne away, Neither ~y words, nor gifts fhee could be gain' d, (For oneJy in her eies the Arch.crlay) Regardi1~g nought but (wherein fhe was train'd) VVoun1s how tO cure,and fmartings tO allay:

As f01; the wound ofLoue,OJe felt it none, And therefore lide hccdedsAturNs mane.

Thus thus pcrplext t~ chiefe and grauell: God, (Or rath~rGod fuppofd ofhigheft place) -Toucht ~ow, nay throughly fcourg'd withCtipiJI Sent frorb ~he eyes but of a mortal face, (rodde, Flewe dowJlC: forthwith where r enus made abode_, And pro:frrate lying at her feete for grace:

Promif'd the rich~ft.clothing for her Arr_, That now !licdi.QI,orcould ddite in hart.

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· 11nd tbeir'F/ieJ. VVho eareleifc: of reuc:ogc:,and innely grieu'd, (True beauty aye is ful of rueful mane) V Vas euer wel til s aturm was rcleeu' d, His inward griefes aiTwag' d,&: forrowcs go?e• And finding hill), ofhope,and helpe,berceu d, (For frill Pbilli'" was more h:n-d. then ftone) .

Sith that,quoth fhe,the vtrgm kerns thy loue, Try whether craft and force vv il make her moue.

Transformc thy felfe inro a Courfer braue, (VVhat cannot loue transforme it !clfe into1) Fcedc in herwalkes:and in a moment hauc VVhat thou hall: woo'd to hauc: with much adooe: VVhereto,confcnt the auncient Surer gaue, In courfet· cloches, learning a maide to w_o~~. .

Fillingech wood w_ith nei.ghs.and w1hyes lbnll~ V V hiHl: he pof!efl: h1s loue ag:.uoft her w sll.

For ldlon which,his Mi{l:ris to requite, Not with v:~inehopes in lieu offriencdlydeeds, By M aiae's 1 fonnc(btfore it grew to mght) He fent a Napkin ful oflittle feeds, Tane from the tree vvhcreThisbes foule did light', To n1ake her felfe and boy farre brauer weeds,.

Than Pall.as had, or any ofthe fcu'n, Yea then proud Iunpware the ~cne ofhcau'n.

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With41l,by him he fent the myfrede Of w~auing filke,which he htmfelfc had found, Whe9 chac'd from heau'n by fonnes owne trechery; Hee '\Tas compel' d to wander here on ground,. Whcrf,iA the depth of gricfc and pquertie, The h1=igch and depth of Arts he lirll: did found:

Y etlwould he this to none but her reueale, ·By ~hofe deuife heedid Phil/yrAfrealc.

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What1 !hall we thinke, t.har illke was a reward. Bell:o,.,i'd on craftic dame fo1· aide vniull~. Would men,nay, ought they haue fuch hie regard, Of that w hi eh was the lone and hire of lulh Not lo1 what ere eh 'Iralian Bithop dar' d To fail~~ fortrue.and giue it out with cruft:

Yet pth filkc robes the bleifedHigh-priefr wore; They were not furc the firft fruits of a w hare •

.,, .• 1.. Yt•fja'iJns 1 Scribe affirmes in Ctifn Ile, .v.mJ,ts ..,tcuu- ':1 P ':J•"r • • tlt~,,fjf,,u,r~p.~ latqus ~ daughtc:t,qlllcke Of eye and Wlt,

, , Huntillg abroad,timcs trauaile to beguile, c~u,,-~ Pa~r~p.,;. C b ' 'd b I h d · r. «,cmo[lprit~et. 3Ul1j: at t C engt VO C( a tree .to Il~tc, 1JD41ilfl/l, vVhereimany filkcn bottoms hangd In ptlcs,

One by: another plac't inot·dcr fit. Shce:took:e one dQwnc,aod with her faulcon eye. Fou*d put the end that did the 1·cll vntie.

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dnatbeir Flie1. Look:e how the hungry Lam be doth fris.ke and play, With rdl:lelfe taile,and head,and euery hmbe, When it bath met his mother gone aftray, . Who abfc:nt blear'd and rear'das much for hlm: Or as .Auror.deapes at brcak:e of day_, Seeing her louely brother ~ife fo ~n~,

No lelie that Prince lie mum ph t(tf not more) Hnding out that w hlch was not found before.

LINts Sch,olm~Ajler I records a tale moft fweete, Oflouers two that dwdt at Babiltm, Equall of age,in worth and beautte meete, Each of their fex the floure and paragon, ,, Next neighbours borne on fide of fclfefame ll:reete, For twixt their parents houfes dwelled none.

Him PJrAtlltll herThisbe men did call, Coupled in h;art~though feuercd by a wall.

A 5 neighbours childrcn,oft they talke alild view~ That neighbomlhip was formofr fieppe t? loue, Lou~,whtch {lfke priuate plants)in lhort wne grew, Pales,wals,and enes,yeo~ houfes a~d all aboue, Nay Hymc:nc:us fea.fh \~ere like t enft~e, And facred hands gme nng and we~dtng gloue,

Had not vnhappic parents that t?rbad, W hkh to fvrbid no caufe but w1l, they had.

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lf loL\crs:Cra,kc,it was now all by Iookcs_, Nonq detgn d ~r durn be troucqman to their mind. Papc( was barr d,and pe(lnc,and inkc,and bookes N0cary helpc: thefe parted prifonero find • But of a rife aluqg the wal that crookes , (A w~l~ offlim,yct more then parents, kind)

Whtth,wcre ~cold or new)none icefpies, But loucrs qlllcke,al-cornc:r-fearchtnlT eves

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This rife they, vfde, not oncly as a o-laiTe Wher.ein eo fee daily each others fa~e> , But ek~ th~ough it their voyces hourcly palTc, In wlufprtng murmurs with a ftcaliug pace• Somc~im~s "':hen they no longer duril:( alasj (place; Send vvl11fpnngs thro~gh, when keepers were in

Yet ~ould they fiuft to blow through it a breach · wluchfcd_ & kept their hoping harts from death:

Enuious wal(fayd chey)what wrong is this~ Why 9oth not loue or pirtic make thee fa!~ Or (if ~hat be for vs too great a bhffe) Why i~ thy rift fo narrow atd fo fmalf, As to deny kind louc a kindly kiffe? Fol" .wijich we ncuer prque vnthankfullbal,

.Altljough·in trJtb we owe inough to thee, Gjujng.our eyes and voyce a way !o free.

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and their Flic1. ln vaine thus hauiog plaind in place difrinCl:, When nigltt approacht, they cch bad ech adew, Kisfing their wal apart where it was chinckt, whence louely blall:s and breathing~ maindy fl(;w: But kdles f.laide on eithers fide fall: linckt, Seal'd to the wal with lips and Louc:rs glue:

For though they were both chick'and many cake, Yet thicker was the wal that did them breakc.

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Rofe-fingred r Dame no fooner had put out . Nights twinckling fires and candles of the skte, Nor PhrrbtiS 1. brought his trampling needs about, ~ Tl!t Sun~,. Whofe breath dries vp the teares ofYeflaes 3 eic, s ,,,..,ru., But {vvift and fofr,without all noyfc or lhowt, To wonted place t,hey hall:en fecrctly ~

'Nherc mid£l:a many woL·ds mumed that day, :t'extmidniglm watch,cach vowcstoftealcaway;

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And left: when hauing houfe and cittie pall, t;"w •fB41ilon,

They yet might enc in fi-:lds,and neuer mcc:cc, toll!"'"" t/,.for. t. d J , rtfi,Sabt/l,E".

At Ninru 4 tom be toeir Rm tS·"PfiUS is p ac c, "'iatl.r,cap.6.

Vnderthe.Mulb'rywhite and hony-fwectc:: srhefivifi ri-G . . I d b r. . ' I 11. ller of Do,4Wt, rowtng 1ar y a 1pnng t 1at ran ne at wa1LC:, 6 Tilt cf11trlts

With ftreames mo~c fwift then fpc:edy S Ijlers fc:ctc, w«i"'· There they agreed in fpite offpitc to frand 7 Th,~rWjldl'

,.. ·· 1 J>IIDil'lnl. V rfo Whe 6 Monarchs tea me had pafr 7 Bootes hand. maior.

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1 Sl••P tl>t bro. t/Jtro{forget­fi<bl<j{t.c; •. M. <le n41, dt~runJ,

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D_fthe Si!~ rwonne1 Confenr they did, and dayconfentcdtoo, WholeiCoach ranne downe t.he feas in greater haCt, Then c~cr tt was wont before to doo, Loue-louing night approchcd eke (o fail, That darknclfe lcapt,ere twilight feem'd t9 go, Wherat!theugh Come gods.f~<own 'd,fome were

Yet iyethes 1 brother diJ the louers keepe, (agaft. Chai?ing their guard with long and heauy fleep.

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How feately then vnfparred ihe the doore~ How lilcnc turn'd it on the charmed cheekes~ And beihg fcap·r,how glad wa~ ihe therefore~ How fo~>nc aniu' d where ihe her fellow feekcs? Louemade het bold, louegaue her fwiftnetle.more Then vf~ally is found in weaker fexe,

But a!\ in va~ne: nay rather to her ill, For h~ftc made w01fieJand fpeede did fpecding kil.

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The grifiy wife ofbtutiih monarch frrong, With ncvv flaine prey,full panched to thechinne:.. Foming ~ut bloud,came ramping there along, To filuer\fpring,her thirfi to drowne therein, Whereat\tne fearefull maide in potl:ingflung, (For 1.Lui·ines eye bewrayde the Emprdlc grim me)

Into a lfccret caue: and tlying;loll: A fc;lrft(for P)rilms !ake)bc:loucd m oft.

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llnJ their Fliu. When (auage Qg,ecne had wel her thitfi delay de, In cooling ftrcamcs>and quenched natures fire:, Returning to the place where late the prayde, To eate the reft when hunger thoulct retluire, l11 peeces tore the fcarfe of hapleiTe maid.::, With bloudy teethJand firie flaming ire, · Whi tft fhe(poore foule )in caue plaid I call: in light,

Fearing what fhould her loue befall that night.

Who comming later then by vow he lhould, Perceiu' d a Lions footll:eps in the fand, Whcreat with face m oft palc3and heart as cold, With trembling feare tormented he doth ftand. :But vvhcn be fa we her !i:arfe(wel knownc of old) Em.bru' d with bloud,and caft on either hand~

0 what a figh hefetcht?howdeepc he gron'd~ And thus,ifthus :yea, thus he inly mon'd.

Shalt thou alone die matelefi"e,Thi.rbt mine~ Shall not one beafr be butcher to vs both! What~ is my 7·hjsbereft of life and thine! And lhal not Pyr11m life and lbining loath! Mine is the curfed foulc,the b\efr is thine~ Thon kep'il:thy vow,l falfified mine oath~ , I came too laLe.thou cam'ft(alas) too Coone;

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14 J OftheSU~wormet 0 dons fierce( or tfought fiercer be, Am?ng£\: the heards of woody otnlawes fell) R.ent,rent in twaine this thriCe-accurfcd me: Frotti out your paunch conuey my foule to bell: W hpfe murdring flouth,and not the fillers three 1 Did rr his be fweete,f weete This be fow ly quell:

B~tcowards oncly caUse wifu ford_eath, 'WbilLl:valiant hearts in filence banilll breath.

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The~ ftooping;firaight he.took hir fcarfc fro grol~nd. And bare it with him to th' appoyntcd place, Kifs~ng it oft, watring each rent and wound, Wi.h thoufand teares,that trailing ranne apace~ Salt tearcs they wcre,fent from his eyes \Tnfound, Yea falter then the fweate of Oceans tace: .

At laft (hautng vnfheath'd his fatatl blade) 'I!hus gan he cry ,as life beganae to fade.

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Heth earth, recdue a draught eke of my bloud, (An~ ther~with lean'd vppon ~is (word amaine) Then falling backward from thecrimfin floud, Wh~ch fpowted forth with fuch a noyfe and ftraine, As \1\·ater doth,when pipes ofleac:l or wood, At·elgoog'd w!th p~nch,orcheef~ll fl!t in. rwaine, ,

\1Vhiftlitig m th ayre, & br~akmg tt wnh blowes, Whilll: bea11ie moyfture vpward forc:ed flowes.

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4nJ their Flies. The Mulb'ry ftrait(whofe fruit was erft as wbite As whiteft Lilly in the fruitfullft field) Was then and cuer fince in purple dight, . Yea cuen the roote no other frame doth yee.ld, With blackHh gore being w;ltred all ~hat nag~t, In morncful fort,whkh round ~bout It wheel d,

Oncly her leaues retaind then former hue, As nothing toucht with death otlouer tr1;1e.

No fooncr was l1ee falne,and falling,freed Ofperfit fenc~: but fue fc~rce rid oHeare, Returnesagamc to fiaudmg.fore ag~eed, ' Not dreaming that her loue tn kenmng were, Her fcctc,her eyc:s,her heart and tongue made fpecd, To vtter all things lately hapned there,

And how {he fcap't the Lioneffes dawes, By letting fall a fcarfe to make her paw (c:.

But when 1he vewd the newly-purpled face Of Bcrrie.~ w bite : that changi n~ cl1ang' d her mind, New fignes per[ wade h~r.t~atJs 1~0t ,the place.,. By either part to mecte 10 fore afs1g~1 d. . Thus doubting w hilll fhe.ftoo~ a bttle fp~ce. She heard a B.ittering camed wtth the wmde, . .

And viewed !omewhat fhake in quiu'ring wt~c, . Which !h:aitc; reuok't hir fccte~but more'hcr etes.

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0 f the S il~ 'A'ormes Her ~ippes grew then more pale then paleft Boxe; Her !chcekes rcfcmbl~d Alhwood 11c;wly feld, Gra~Acffc furpriz'd her yellow ambcrlecks, Not~nypart their liuely luftre held: yea cuen her vent'rous heart but faintly knocks; Novo} vp,now downe,now falae,now v.ainl y Cweld,

Tpft like a fhippe when 1Cwm ragetb molt, T~at :ankers hath,and mafts and mifter loft.

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But ~hen fhc knew her faithfutl fellow flaine~ 0 h~w the fhrikt and bruz' d her guiltletfe arme, T caring her hairc,renting her chcckcs in vaine1

On dutward parts,rcucnginginward harmes.. Mak~ng of tea res and blood a mingled raine, Wh~rwith fhe Pyr~m drench Me then thusc:harmes:

Spi,eake louc,O fpeakc,how hapned this to thee~. · P~n.halfe~yea all of this my foule anti mee.

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Swc~te loue, reply,it is thy T bi1be deare~ She cfies,O.hcare,fhe fpcakcs.O an!were make: Rowfe vp thy fprighti ~ thofc heauic lookers cheere, Atw~ich fweete name bee feemed halfcawake, And FYCI with death oppreft,againe to decre. He c}fes her once,and eying lcaue doth take,

E*n as fairc Beltil.2. winkes but once for all. \1\fhen winters 3' vlhcr hallncth {ummers fall.

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11neltheir Flier. Whon aftecwards ft1e found her fcatfe at rent~ His iu'ory fhcathvoideekeofnpiergilt: And hath.his hand ( quotb the) thy Coulc hence fen~ And w:~s this blood by this thy rapier fpilt! Vnhappy I:but I no more lament, But follow thee euen to the vtmoll: hilt•

I was the caufe of al thy hurt and croffe, Hold, take me eke a partner of thy lollc.

Whom oncly death could from 11_1e take aw_ay, Shal death him take from me agatnft my w tU~ Not (o,his power ran not T hisbt tlaye: . Who eueu in death wil follow Pyram ftill, His blade (yet war me )then to her breft fhc l;~ys, And falnethcreon thus cri' de with crying fhrill:

PatclltS vniuft w hicb vs deny' d one bed, ERuy "'S not one toomb when we be dead.

And al you heau'nly hoftes allot the Came: And thon 0 trce.whichcouereft now but one

· fc r. · h ) r PyrMIIIJ (t.g. (One too too hot, or 110 tmports IS name .Jfirrlu, 111ucn But couer fhalt two carcalfes anone: . '"""'' Weare figncs of bloud from both our ham that came In mourning weed our mifchiefes·cuer m one. .

She dead: Tree.Sires,& Gods gaue what fhc pra1dc:, Black growts the fruit, and they te>gcther laidc ..

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18 Of the SH!(: "Wormes r'}{•~al.com, Sincd which ttme eke fomc other (1) Authors faine~ lib;vlt,M)tho, Theif· bumming foules about tbcfc haplcfle trees,

To bj: tranfportcd from th'Elyfian plainc> Into the fnowy n11lke-white Butterflycs: Whdfdeedcs when hfcand moouing they obtain; How\c're they fpare thcfruitofMulberies, · L~ue yet no Jeaues vntorne that may be feene, B*aufc they ouely l.bll continudc greeoe.

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Yer chat there might rcmaine fome PJramiJ, And ~ucda£l:ing fbrin~ of Pyr,zms louC', VV hef,1lcaues are gone,a. nd fummcr waining is; The l~tde creepers neucr ccafe to m0uc, But d!}y and night (placing in toy le their bliffc) Spio*c !ilke this tree beneath and eke aboue:

Lcjauing their ouall (2) ?otcoms there behind, T <) !hcwc the frate ot eu ry Louers mind.

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For a~ in forme they are not wholly roulld, As i~ the perfit figure of the sk1e, So p1rfit loue in mortals is not found, Somq lmle warts or wants in all weJpi(', Nay ~u'n as fine and coutfe filkc ~here abo1md, The ~eO: benearb,the worfi_rold vp m or bic, ~~ ~ornctimes lufr o 're-lieth honefr lou~, n.~ppy the hand that kecpes it from aboue.

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tznd their Flier. . Agai11e, as thefc fine troupes themfelues dcuourC',

Spinning budilken hharfes for their death: · VVhich done,tbey dye therein,(by N:lturcs power

Transform'<! to flies that fcarce draw one momhs So louers fwect is mingled {bl with fower, (breatil) Such happe abouc proceeds orvnderncath,

That il:ill we make our louc our windtng lbeete, VVhilfr more we louc,or hotter then is meete.

Others(I)report,thcre was anddoth remainc A neighbour( z.) people to the Scythian tall, Twixt Taurus mount and Tabu fruitful p!Jinc, Moll iuft oflife,offare and diet, fmal, Louers of peace, haters of ftri fe and gain e, Graye ey'd,rcddecheek'r,and amber-hc:adcd :~11.,'

Re,fembling rather Gods then hnmanc race, Such grace appeard in words,in deeds land face.

VVhofcrighteous life and iufiice eo require, (Whether with wind or raine,no man do rh know) God Cent vntothem filke-wormc~ infinite, In Aprils wane when buds the mu! b'ry flow, Which here anJ therein cuery cornerlighr, Wtrh fixe whircfeeteancl body like to fi10w:

Eating each leafc of that renow~1cd tree, The matter of rhefc filkcn wcbbes we fee.

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Thef~ web~s for w.arcs tbey on rheircoalt exdlange: For alien n~~ne muftcomc into the Land T'infecc th~r people with religions ltrange An~ .file the~r temples with pofluccd hand: • Neither do fhcy to other nations ran~ New falnio~s.ritcs or manners t'und~ftand:

Better tb~y haue at home.w here euery 1Jaue Wcarc• quu as rich as here our Princes brauc.

The~e be eh~ talcs dlatPoctizcrs ling. Of Sdken ·Worme, and of their feeGI and mcate·

I PPittrofottl;, Swcrre. r ~o.bf~ffe.and drawn from I Helique fpring; '"'-!~"'~• Full ofdehg~tan~ change.o~~nd learning great• ,, 'PHis ••.tg•.w, y AA d "•

et,yct,my ·r·u e ream.cs of another rhing: And liltetb n:oc of lice ions eo cntreare. •

Say~e ~hen € my Ioyc)fay then.and tbordy reede,; whe !ilk w~~ made,& how thefdilkworms breed.

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Was_ i~ think)fi thouJound out by indultry~ I nfpu· d by v~fion or fome Angel Is W&rd, When firfr th~ name of facrcd Maielly ~~~ giuen fr~m heau'n ro ~ SAimu p;iefi and Lord~ Daa not befor~ teAne thoufand Silk-worms lyc:J · ~ And hang on euery trre their Jinlecord~

Yes.but(li~e H '"'"ts harps on B11/,r/s ;Jaine) V ntouchc ~nd vfc~ldTe thel'c it hang'd in vaine.

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Be(ore· mol menliu'cl,eithcrnakedquire;, Or co~rfiy dad info111c bcafts skinne or_bide: The beft were but in linnen garments d_Jghr~ Whercm chemfclucs the grcateft m;n dtd pndc: y caafterward in time of greatcfr hghr. Mlf.r;. When chicfc Bapti-zer preach't in defarr wide, · Where fa id he, filken robes were to be fought.

!we in kings couns I for w home they fidl: were · (wrought.

Though whether worme or flye were formed fittl, No man fo right can tc:l as wrong prefumc: Yetthis I ~old. Til!all things wcreaccurft, Nething ~.as borne 1t fclfc for to confumc. No Cau,rpillen then which venture durfr, • To rauiih leaues,or tender buddes to plume.

Fo~ oncly life and beauty liu'd in trees, Til f.llling mm caui"d them their leaucs to lcefe.

The earthly htards ilf!~ wi~ged pofts of skyc, And eu'ry thing that mou don Eden w:ound,. Fed firft on hearbs(as Duke of rH oreb hJe, Author ofNamres ftory moft profound,

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Sets downe to vs for perfit verity, . (Gaines aide of none but foolc:s and wmes vnfound) G,,,,'fl,jh,

When for mans foodetrees eke aUotted were, Wh1ch from thcmfelues:dtd fruit or berries bcarl".

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·.a \0 fthejil~ 1)orm:es Durfr then ti\e fin eO: wornte but·toYch·tli~ meate' Or dilh whi41 for his {oueraigoe wasm-dain'd? ' Durft they fi~ge~,nuts, peares,plummes or mulb'rics Before thetr l~t·d with treaf~ f~ule was ftain'd? · ( eace No ccrts no, \ut when ambtttons heate Rcuok't the b tffe .which (umelc:ffe ~ir; had gain'd:

Then won es m common fed wtth vs, and tore Our trees, ur h:uid,yea.c:u'now: feluc:s ther.:forc.

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I 1 Her•·'· Say Ron;ancs iheau'nl y:-humafle(I) Oracbr, · AC1.n. Whofc words,r.o.pt lwc:eterthc:n[iymtttm de we: 2. ,\nt1odms l!. 5 ( ) l d . f>ifiJalltl, ay 2_ S,.t er!JSJ courgean /ud .. ustormcntor, ;1'/.tro,,.l,.~i· \!\Thole vccy n medothpompand glory filewc: •d ~"'"' •! ~"· Say 3 thon wh fe writtes men as diuinc: adore, ::,~.:~"g;;~::,t In!pir'd from ne.au'n with knowledge giuen to iew:

What are ypunow~ whatlitling were you then But vvorrns ~!c:pafi,thoughwifc and n;~ighcy men~_

Foul~-fqoted bird,that neuer flcepdt well A

Nor fully,but o11 highefr pc:m.h do'fi breathe: 'Whofeoutward\lhrceks bewrayan inward hell, \Vhofc glill:ritlg\plumes are but a painted lhcathe:· Whofe tailc,tbottgh itwtth pride fblofcy fwcl, Yet hides it not fhy bla.cknctfc vndernrath.

Tdl me:w ha~ haft thou got by dimi.ng thus, But eo thy !elf~ a filame, and·Jofie to vs?

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·. ~nd their Flies. T 0 vs alone? nay ftowteft Okes hke"":i(e, Hard-batted willowes by thewatcdtde, . Swcete Cc.dar wood whkh fometht.nkc ~cucr d_tes, And 1 Daphne!\ tree tbougl~ grecne !n wtntcrs ttdc, 'Tl1c Bay.

Yea ftone, and fieele,and tbmgs of l·llghcll: p~tze, f•om natures womb that flow in greatcft pndc:

• what :\tc they al but me ate for wormes and ru!h Two due reuengers of ambitious lufl:.

Berot·c tho_u wall:, wcre·Timber.worms in price, , ch~111cbdc•fFf, 11 _ • 1: I i> w "1 emg ·''•

And fold tor equal wetght of pure! go. l · . wm '"'"t"l F d 2 creeping bttds one h:nkc-deuour111g hcc~ ,. m•(' daimi'

e J . • d b I d ~old) d"'"" l\9m•. Werefi'k-worrilsfrom4s,rm tt 1'0Ug 1~'111 • c.<l.Sec.I,!J.ls, Dcuourcd rhey the leaucs o{ tree m oft S w tfe, 1\n,tefl.

With fury luch as nmv we do behold~ ! ~;:';)[flanl Rather belceuc as yet they were not bowe, princi;•liplo~c• Or onely fed on grafk,on hcarbs,ot cornc. ~>hm" ''"Y

· · )l>tre bro11gh1 into l!.m·o:-e. 1'olyd;u,rg. lib, l t.de i>menl. &c.

• t• f fl r · , ~ThrM,.Il••'7 For fitb thctr c 11C Cll Vte IS tO atr:aye . ir cn/ltd tht wt. This lmle breathing dufl: when time requtres, Jtfltrte,lm•••fe

V Vith crallant ouards and brovdred garments gaye, it ntmrbllddeth ::> b d' h r 1· · , 11/l all dm>'~" •f

VVithfcarfs,valcs, hoodcs,an oc, er 10 ratttrc:;. cold be ... ,; •• •

VVhol~fcnfefromfcnle.ls fled fufarrcaway? . ·' vVhQk mind w beare fo wrong a thought confp.re~~

As once to dceme thde Silken-mercers il:nt, V V hen nakcdneilc was. mans chide ornament? · But

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But fith th~y are,and therefore framed were; Which fidl\ was fram· d~the q!'~e!thc wormc! or fliet No doubt t~c flie,as plainely !hall appcarc, · To all that ~1auc butatt indiff'rent eye, (bcare

r .,..,.,,.,, ill Though t~oo 1 great Clarks con~rary thoughts did M.,,.w.,,,,., And fcnte~e gaue,wichoutiuftrcafon why {11,t"foJ.t:)o I Fi~r ;, 'P/IJ• That cg cs were made before the hard le Cockc ,.,m.u•.~.flt-t Bcganac: to trc:ad,or brooding benne eo clockc. t•tfi·J· I ·

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Pretend tbeJ oid.thaticaft attd ·fi~plcft things, (Whi.ch no~e train'd vp in·rcafons fchoole gainfay) Ofthtngs c~mpoundcclarethcformoft fprings~ Eu'nasa tu peofrudc and Otapc:le!eclay, Into the mo ld a Mouldec cunning brings2

And by degr~cs compels it to obey; Formingll-y art wbat be in mind fore-thought, Out of a ~atfc that iufi: refemblcd nought.

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So eke thou~ cgges feemc things confufed quite, And fatTe vn ikc what afterwards they prooue: . Yet fo1·moft lace they challenge by the1rriglu, For who e'rc faw a cock or hennc to moouc, Till fidl the)'\ came fmm out the yolke and white, And timc,anthcatc,and place,and fitters loue,

Had forme Ot1t a natm·c fro~ the fame~ DefcruUJg cl anothers natures namet

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dntl their Flier. Springs not from egge1 that huge 1 L~uiath~n, The Tortcffe ckc,ana bloudy Crocod1lc!. L Pilh.Lyurds,Snakcs,and 2. Skippers Afncan,. , VVhofe hurtful armies waftc the coaf.l:s :>fNdc. Nay if with one fittc word the w~rld we fca~ne, May it obtaine a fitter nameod.hle, . 1

Then that we fbould a common eggc tt call, VVhich giueth life and iormund ftuffc to all!

Nay ,di~ not once that cheerefull brooding fp'rite, Before checartb receiued forme or place, . Sittc clofely like a benne both warmc and hght, V~n die wauing neft of mingled ~a~e, VVbiUlyet nights torches had obtau.' d no ltgbt Nor Sunnc as yet in circled round~ d1d p~flc~

Y cs,yer.thc words are fo apparant pla1~e,. , Tlaarco deny tbem,wcrc but labour vamet. "

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Thefcfomedtnfewith othcrargurncn~s, . . _ ·To proue that Cccdeand cgges were firft 1n tu~e. VVrcftcd from quires of racrcd T~amcnts, 1 • And thofc of heathen wittes thcchlefe and p~1me: VVhich for authentique held by long defccncs,. If I gaincfay, perhaps may feeme a crime: i . ·

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Yet rathec would I carry crime and fcornc, Then faJfely chinke, imperfell: things firft born e.

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For re~fc!n faith,and fenfe dotbalmoll: r. N 1 • • . LWearc

atures FDtll'e to be cre~ted furfr· ' . Bodies~~~ aue becnebefore the m~mbers wer . T hefo. u d before th. e ficl:c,the w. oole,the bu~ft . That eo fidencc had time when lacked feare, , That ~le ed fiate fore-went the fiate accurll:· .

Brteft· v, al bo.dyes that beg.ottcn beene. • Wereinot before created bo.dtes fcene.

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~oww~ata~e feedesand eggesofwormes or£ t ,. Utl'errdnencs of prcexill:ing tlungs ou e,

The bod1es burden voyd of life and f~uJe> , y e.1,&o~chemfelues corruptton one! fl. · Vnlc:tfcb brooders heate (as from th~ 1r'fg~•;;. ThRy~ha redbctobclly,feetc;orwing7: 0 le~ ~ :

e em, tngthem now metamorpbofed . . l~T,by,~Id trom whofe c.!Ience they wee; bred.

11nd their Flies. Againe .. to thinkethat feedewas made befOre, The fubll:ancc whence it is ingeodered, (Namely from out much n.utrimentalllore • Through excd{e ofhumours pcrfitcd) Or eHeto gbetleit forme~ wac; of yore, . Ere pipeswere laid through which it Lhould be Lhed,

What is itbuttodreameofdayornighr, E're darkneiie were,or atry fucw ofl i g;b'~

Sith clce all winged creatures by ol'le day~ Are elder then the beards that crawlc and creepe, Conclude with truth and confidence wee may, Allflie~ were made ere wormes beganne to peepe, Both the:Y which all day long at bafe do play, And night once come,do nothing dfe but fier.pc.

And thefe which onely liueto leaue a fcedc, From whence the neuer-idl~ fpinftcrs brc:cdc.

Silke-llies I meane, which not one brcafl: alone~ Eut all thtoughout,on head,wings,ftdes,and fcete, Bdidcs pure whitc~elfet:olour carry H<9nc, For creatures·pure,a colour thought moO: meete, Mmial'e the firfl:.of all in glorious throne, . , Whereon thall fit the Lord ahd Sauio'ur f weete,

Who with tennethoufand Angels all in white; Shal one day iudgc the.vyorldw,ith doom vpright

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No fpot~e on thcm1 as els on cu'ry flye,. Bycau{c tn them no follies cucr grew, No crimfon red de doth for rcucngcmcnr crye~ No waufring watchct,wbcrc al harts be true: No yellow, where there i~ no lcaloufie: No labo\~r loft,and therefore voidc of blue:

No p~achy markc to figni6edi!dainc, No grrcne to fuew a wanton mind and vaimc~

No orenge colour,whcrethcrcwants dcfpigbr_ No tawny tadde.whcrc none foruken be:

· No murry. where they couet nought btJt light~ No moUI'1ning black,whcrcall·cioycewith glc~ ln briefc,."'ithin,withour,they areal whitc.­Wearinglalone the badge of chafticy:

Bycau~ they onely keepe themfclues to one~ Who ~c:ing dead,another chufethcf nom. .

True Tur~lcs mine,bcgotten with the b!eath1

Not of a le~d lafciuious mortal I 1ut: (death~, Whofe la~e was luft, whofc life was wollfe then VVhbfc i*c!h di~ defile' both wood and groue, But with t~e,br.eatb of him who vnderneatb Rules St~~n king,.and heau'nly hofis about,. . Afsift ~c ifr erre in fctcingforth

Youc bitth dayc:s:ftoryaand furpafsing worth. • . AliCJODC'

llnJ their Flies. Attoone as light obtain' d a fixed feate, (which equally was fi.r£1: fpread. ouer all, G"''PII• Giuing alike, both ghftnn~,fiunc,and hcatc, T~euery place of this iofc~i~ur ball) Two mafter-lamps appear d m wclkm grea~, Th•onekingofday,whom P~t'i Phcebus~~ll, · And th'otber PhR>be,loucratgncofthe m~h~,

Twinnc:s at one inftant bred and home o~ ltght.

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Him heau'nly. Martiall h~gh,in J?:al~ace plac~t. Built all of clecre and cbrough-lb.mmg gold, . With columneu:bryfoliu: moft brauely gJ:4c t~ And flaming rubie~ glorious to behold, \Veari~g abeut ~i~ yellow·a~ber w.aft, A fiopmg belt, wttn ftu?s twtfc fi~ tl.mes told,

Whereinwcre grau nmoftarttfictally, · Twelue fb.tdy 1 Pccres of curious imazery.

About him,a1 in·royall Coach hce fate;· \ · Attended Houre,Day ,Minute,Montb,~d ye~re, Spring,Summer,Haruell, ~Nlnter,~ormng,Fate,

J 't/11 twtlu• fignui11 tiN ':(.~• i.JJ,t.

W ith Inftancie. who then was drtuer thcr~, d c. 'b :1. 'loritwu

Whipping his fiery fl:ce c~ 1rom ,t. L1 rats g~te; ,b.,fm IJim••P Notfuffriogthem to fiand ft11lany ~here, ': . fl'' I''"' foring~

Saue once in Gibeon when fiuc kmgs were flat~e, t•mj.u ''; ~~ Jyfirft-madc 3Charopio with their faith~cs tram. r;.;::raf. 1 ~: · E 3 ' Hts.

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, OftheSil'<!~ormet His fiftcb court built al of filuer cri" de, And lu'bry charrc:t fet with Diamons, Em bolt ~itb_Ol"lent pearJes on either fide; Whee~di ?I wah Saphires, ihod with Onyx tlones; Dc.:lar~1n what grelltpompe,thdirfrdidl"ide Amongtl: the other twinckling Paragons.

Befor~ her honour fufli·cd an eclipfe, Tbropgh ferpents guilc,and womans greedy lips.

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Her han~maids then were pet·petuity, · Coni'l:an~ proceeding,and continuance: ' . No lhc:~ of change or mutabili~y, Coul_d 1$1 y then themfelues' in her acfuance: Her face . as ful and fairc colitinuall y Notalte 'lng ~nee her 1ha~e or countenance, (made;

Tdl t ~ft hghts chang d for whom allights were: And· .uh whofcfallthc hc:au'ns began to fade.

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rtJtt.,,.~;,,':' Yet ll:ill1n hct~.wait(I) Oct4nand his wife . f...!wg & hll'wifc N' · ( ) 1.. c. • · d I h ' Th~sis<.,,· J. ~15 :z. r~c: ,arre, an a t . e watry crue, ,,,,m ~,,.. Nrglm, ·Juers,Flouds,Springs,hauing elfe no firife · •f'"l• fw. Then wlfo may form oft• proffer feruice due· • >.7'w Lc,t} •fB1 d I 11 h • thcriHfr~. , ou · ,c,1 er,p le~~e,(thc r~ot~s and. fappe oflife)

Are at he ?eck;warnwg o1· fpnngltlg new, Accor rng as from throne celefriall She d~igocs to thine in r~eafure gr:at or fmalt

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"dnd their Flies. When they were crowned now in reyall thrones. And entred in their firft and happreft race, Amongtl: dtofe glifrring pointed Diatnons, .. Which cut out time~ proportion,lotte,and fpace: . · Behold the earth with he;luy burden grones, And praies them both to eie and rue her cafc~

And with their friendly hauds and meading~rt, To hatlen that which ready.. was to part ..

For eu'n' next mornc the AU-'crtating Sir4 Had fenubroad;l k11ow not I. wh;at word: Much liketothis,Let Sea;anJ earth cpnj}ire All -winted tr1Npeithemtld fwtP4jjorl: Wherewith the aiL-e:~ijc:n to theddar:tnre~ · Was fo with great: and little flyers ftor'd. · That none but winged people fa we the eics~

Of any fiar or planet in the skies.

0 how it ioycs my hart and foule tothinkc­Vpon the bleffed fiate of that fame daye? When ata word, a noddt:J yea at a winke,~ At once flew out thefe winged gallants gay, Tide each to each in fL1ch a friendly linke, That w'n the l.:al.l: did with the greatefr pbye:

The done wttb hawks;thc: chickens with the kite~ Fl:~relcffe of wrong;ra~e.crudty, or fpi tl:'.

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Pert marJins then no grudge ro Iarlces did beare; · Fierce g.f.>lhawkes with the Phefants' had no warre; Rau'ns~'dnotthcn the&gles talcns feare, Tw:i:xt · uckoes and the Tidings was no iarre, Butcoaft d oneanotbercu'ry where In friend y fort,as leuers woomed were:

{7orlo~c alone rul' d all in eu'ry kind, , As thQughall were of one and fd.fe fame mind.

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How rarJty th~n did thefe my .Turde-{ou\es · Difparr t~cmfelues in Pht~hiH cbecrefull thine! How bolUly 1lew they by the iayes and owle~

· Dreadlelte of crooked beake1 or fiery eycn! Nay, w h~ in all the Bocks of winged foulCJ Said.onc~ in heart, This pris 'onedhal be mine!

Whc1i none as yet made other warre or ftrifc~ Then fuchas I Hymen makes twixtman ac: wife.

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But fince·~be fall of parents puft't with pride, Not onely men wercllaindc in vicioufheffe, ·~t ~ir~c:~and be.t~s~ :o~nd wormes, and flies betide, cchmtl~ f(om their former pedicnelfe, id by tle~rees to imperfeltions fiide,

Tainted vyith pride,wrath,cnuie,and cxceffe.: Y ca,th:Cn the husband of one onely hen ne, Was a~terwards contenred fcarfe with'tcnne.

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Hence~gowts in cock$., and fwelling paines appearc-; Hence, Partridge loynes fo feeble we do view, Hence,fparrow treaders liue out fcarce a year~, Hence,lcpro!iethe Cuckoes ouergrew: . Breefely, none did in true loue perfeuere: But chefc white Butterflies and Turtles true ..

Who both in life and death do ne' re for fake Her, whom they once efpoufed for their make.

They choofe not (I ike tG other bird11 and beafts) This yea re one wite,another w ifc the next, Their choyCe is certainc,and frill certaine re{):s, With former loues their mindes are not perplext, Ht:e yceldes to her,fhc yeelds to his requefts, Neichcrwtth feare oorielofie is vext:

She clippeth him,hee clippeth her againc, E<1uall their ioy ,and equall is their paiuc.

Remember this you fickle hearted Sires~ Whom luft tranfporteth fram your peerelcs Dames~ To fcorch your felues at fimle and fonaine fi~es, Wafting your health and wealth in file hie ganm, Learnc hence(! fay) eo bridle bad de deft res, i

~tencbing in time your hoc and furious flames~ · Let little flies teach great men to be iuft,

And nor to yeeld b1aue mindes a prey eo luft. · · F 'When

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When tb~s they werecrearedthe firftday., Alike in ~ignclfe,feature,forme and age, ClaJdcb<j>th alike in foft and white array, And fet vi,pon this vniuerfall frage3

Thci r fcu~r;~h parts and feares thereon to play, Amidfi t11e reft ofnatuw equipage: (thought)

Who tl1en fuppos'd(as (mcdome fooles haue ' That li~tle things were made & feru'd for nought.

DiCwitte~ dolts that huge things wonder ar~· And to yQlll' cofl: coafl: daily ile from ilc, To fee a Norway whale,or Libian cat,

' A Carry·bfilc or a Crocodile, . 1 'R~raclitru, Iflcane E1~hdian (1) or (z. )th' A bderian fat thatet•er we~t, L · 'd • d r · d IT b · · :z. v1mocr;1,., tu novy ,an ~aw your mac nCtlC 'lt a whtle,-'"""Herlaugh What Oreaming flouds WOt)ld gufh out of thcvr f.,~.,,,. .. ,.,tJ, To fee$rcat wittols little things dcfpiie~ {ci~s,

Whcnlodke,as coCWcfl: fpice is in fmaii bagges, And little ~pr1ngs do fend foonh deer eft flouds~

~ c.,u.a OniJ And !wec~cft (3) Iru bearcth lhortefr flagges, mEnglr,J,, And wc:akcfl: Oflers bind vp mighty woods,

And ~reat~fr hearts make euer fmallcfi br<"~ggcs) Andlmlc:~askers hold our richefr goods:

So both in Art and Nature tis m oft cl cere ' , That gr;catcfl: worths in fmalleft things appeare,

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;, tmdtheir Flier. What wi(e man cucr did fo much admire Neroes (t) Coloffi1s fiue fcore cubits htc, 1 Mml. by z~ .. J\sTheodoraslmagecafi:withfire, ... dam: •f Holding his file in rtght hand hlnfomly, .,.,,ic,, .. nda/fo

t{t" /Jcod•ru• In left his paire ofcompaffes and fquire, imag,•,mor~in With horfcs,Coach,and footmen running by 1'/i,.Iib.i+·'"'·

So liuely made,that one might fee them alh 7-t:S 8•

Yet was the whole worke than a flie more [mall.

Nay.for.to fpeake of things more !Jtc and rife, Who wtllnot more admire thofc famous Flea!, Made fo by art, that art imparted life, Making them skipre,and on mens hands to Ccaze, And let out bloud with taper-poynted knife, Which from a fccret !heat he ran ne out w itb cafe:

The thofe great caches which thefelues d1d driuc, ~M4</r7 ., With bended !crues,likc things that were aliuc? .A::~s s~~ '

Ingenious(~) Germant>,how did!l: thou conucy J. Iotlln•J R.!·f . . gr· "'"'tan••' o

Thy Spnngs.thy Scrues,thy rowclls,and thy flte~ whom~"'"'"' Thy cogs,thy wardcs,thy laths, how dJdfl:tthou lay! l~rgrinT;••m, How did thy hand each peccc to other tie: : 1'6 •·M" ''· 0 that this age cnioy;d thee but one day, To ll1ew thy fleas to faithlcffc gazers eye!

That great admirers might both fay and fee, Infmallcft things that greacdl: wonders: bee.

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l Of the Si/fr.! .'rllormu. Great was that proud and feared Pllilifiine · Wh ::>re launces thaft was like a wcaucrs bc~mc; VVhofc ~elm et, target, boote~, and brigandine

1'Fml~,,,.,;,, VVearc weight (r)fufficient for a frurdy reame ~ 6ooosb,kl..,•fvvl ~ ,.~ . I k d • hrwffi. l01C rrownmg ?O esan hart-diftnayingcyuc~

Daunted t/1e tallcfi kmg of Jf;ttt'ls realrne: Yctlm~e Jhepheard with a pibble ftone, Confo~ndc:d foone that huge and m1glny one.

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1-I~tge ficryjDragons,Lions fierce and ftroi'Jg D1J t_ hey ft~,ch fe.treon cruel (2)Tyrantbdng,

1 1'/,.,".1'· V I bl d b V~t 1 0~1 y tecr or tailes and t.alcns long, VVnh g.'lp~ng I awes or double {orkcd frmg, As wh~n t~clrnallefr c~·eepers ganne to throng, And fc1zc qr1 eucry qmcke and liuing thing~

'IYI•f•r fo..,, No,no. fhc Egypua~$ncuer (3)feared mice, •f•h•mthey )AS then :they fc.tred little crawling lice. l>ono•md lheir i GoJr;ntht l forme •f r4tr. Plallt,lib. d•lf. . 6-~{r. : +Amofi '""WNS Did eucr (-t-i)Pifeus round his trumpet thrill ':,~'!'~~6"r~. ,6 So long au~ dect·e,as doth the fummer G11ar T•ln.,, .t•r-, . H )' I ' I •

er ltt e cqrnrt w 1ich ou1· cat·es do rh fill . A ~aking,e~'o t.hc drovvzieLl dmne rhere;t~

~ b~(mn '"D1dcuertt111Jgaocrlbidfo much ill "'"'of'~' l.m.,. A ( : T . • Oits, s oocea 5/Bee wluch on h1s hand did fquat~

Conf~LTci~e then in fmall things vertue rnofr, Gaynmgll•J wonh what they in greatneffe loll:.

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But holb, Mufe,exto! not fo the vale, . ! . That it contcmne great hilles,and greater sku::, Thinke that in goodne[e nothing can be fm~ll,

· For fmalneffe is but an infirmitic, : Natures defeCl-,:md offpring of Come fall, TheiCorne ofmcn,·and badge of infamy~ _1

For frill had men continued tall and great, ! If they in goodndTc frill had kept their fcate.

A little-difmall fit·e whole towncs hath burn4, A little wmdc de>th fpread that difmall fire, !

A little fro ne a carte hath ouermrnde, A little wcede bath I carried to afpire, The \ittle Ants(in fcorne fo often fp:trnd) , Haue gallcs: and flies haue feates ot tixed ne. . ·

Small Indian gnattes haue lharpc and cruel:~mgs, Which good to none,but hurt to many brangs •.

And trudy for my part I lift not prarfc. . Thdc filke-worme-parents fo: their lmle life, But for tbofe louely great re(plendant ~·ayes_. . . Which from their woorks and worthlc achons n(c,

·Each deedc deferuingwell a Crowneo~bayes, yea, to be graucn in wood th~t uet~cr dies:

For let vs now recount then acl:Jons all, A!ld truth wil prouc their venues arc !JO~ fmall.

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Fnfr,thoug;h fiue'Matcs be broughuo'Fcrnales ten~ Yet of thc:~n al they ncuc:r dmfc but fiuc: ' Each take~ and treads his firft embraced heune, WJth ltcr ~ekccpes,and neuer. parts aliuc: And when he is·cnclos'dinS~ygianpenne, Defirc:th fh~ <;>ne moment to funtiuc~

N?,no!~qt ftrait.(likc:amoft louing bride) Fhes~ hbs, and ~1cs, hard by her husbands fide."

In Tu{can~t.owre~ what, armies did J view One harueifr,ofthefc faitnful hulbands dead~ Blecdc:,O 1y heart, whilft l record anew . How ~iu s la~ by them,beattng,now th~ir head,' Somcu~c thm feet, and wings,& breaft moft tr&Je,' Strtutn~ n ~efie to be dcliucred, . . Then T JUbedtdfrot11!Vnddiced life,

.When c behc:ld her Pyr111N llaine with knife.

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But w.hilfir1• h~ l'iue,wh·. at is.chcirchiefe.ft workc:? To fpllme s fplderg do a fruHidfe rhrecd~ · Or Adder- ikc'in hollow caucs to lurke 'Xill they hput: got a ct1~ftan'd can.krcd f;cd! (fork (Whofc yqng ones thei fore~with dame Natures ' lufily gn~t out th~ wo?1bs that did them breed:)

Or ftnuf they Lton-ltkc to feize and pray On. nei hbours herds ol! herds-men by the w_.ay!

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Delight they with fira~ge, 1 Atl~s & Griphin.s ~rong: 1 of-..Tld P/1. T? hoord vp gold and cu ~y gatneful thtng? . , . ''.Y .,.,rimh, Jol>. Lme they uotbeafisJ and b1rds, and men amoqg, . , ~ 1 ·'"i'·Jz, Committing nou'ght that mdy them damage bring~' · 0 had I that fiuc-thoufand-verfed fong, · ' .\IVhich(L)Poct prowd did once with glory fing, !z.h~~:~h,

That whiHt I write of thcfc fame .creatures blcft, 5ooo. "'"fi' •f Iuprop· er words their worth might be cxpreft : lhewvrMscrea.

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What wil yo~ tnorc.~ thcyJcede on nought but aire, As doth that famous bi(d.~fParadice, 1;hey liue notlong, left goodueae fhould cmpairc,

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Or rather through that( 3) Haggcs enuious eyes, 3 Amfo'-That fits,and,fittlog, C\lts in fatall cbail'e , · That threed~firft·oft;whi'lh faitdl:.doth adfe: :

Affording•crowos .and kites a longer line; 1

Then fliers lul of gift~ aud grace d1uine. .

When maker faid to eu'ry bodied foule, fO,,,r.

F.mrettfo,encreafo,~tnd multipl-y Jllttr kindt: What be or (he of al the winged foul; . So much fulfill•d their Coucraigne-Makers minde, . As thefe two flies~ who coupled threedayc:s whole, Left on the fourth more feeds or egges behii1d

Then any bird:yea then the frm tcful wrcm~e, 4Som..,;mtt, b )h d d l morr,[tldom•

Num red by tale a(4 u1~ re more t 1en tenne. firPer. · · · · 'Which

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i Of thefil'<: 12uJrmel Which dottnc,both dic,and die witb cheerefu!l hare B}·cau!e thqy haddoneal they bidden were, M1ghtwc ~rom hence withconfcience l1kedeparr, How ~eare ~ere death? h_ow fwcet & voyd offcarc~ How lrttlc Qiould we at h1s arrowes ftam · If we in haqds a quittance fucb could bearc

Before th~t iudge, who looks for better deedes · From meri then flies, that fpring CJfbafer feeds. I

•JxJ~ : ttllo~tHomt ;, Go worthy routes (f~ (r) witty Gretksyou name) Gm4t for" Poffe!fe for ~ye the fat re Elifit~n greenc: foule anrl" but· S re tl ,; fc I h L d . . . m:Jlie, p~ 1ere 'i~ur e ues cc or tng wtth bts Dame~ .

Emoy the bi:Jlfe by finners ncucr feene: You liu'd in ~onour, and fiilliue in.&me~ More happy chere,dlen here is many a ~eene:

As for yo~r feeds committed to my charge, Take you po care : I'le fing their worth atlarge;

,_ The LtJy &{ W c.' • ( ) , ,,,p14in,, eepe not ~~Ire .z. MtrA for this funeral. JMira, W.eepe 110t(3)P.tncl~.z,MirtUs chiefc ctclighr

tfaMg/Jttr w ( I) 1 I_ • I H 6.;.8, , ecpc not 4 Pml~ta,.nor())Erato tall:

Gtru/,,.,,m W cepe not(6pEup/,emsa, nor(7)Ft'/icia white: •11~"'''''.~ vron Weepe not f\fcc:tc (8) Faufla.;l affure you all ;J.J'r"""'' hrt y l . i it~~~./,(fr, our cme s rarents _at·c not dead outright:

Kcepe ':'aqne theu· egges,and youlhall fee anorie~ From Clthtrs loyncs a hundred rife tor one,

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Wormes and their Flies.

Q Thou whofe fweet & heau'nly-tuned Pfalme!l The heau'ns thefelues are fcarce inough to praifc!

Whofe penne diuineand con{ecrat.ed pal~c:s, From wronging verfc did RfJ)tSlt Stll_f.tr ratfe, Vouchfafe from brothers ghoft non iggards almes, Now to enrich my high afpiringlayes, ,

Striuing to gheffe,or rather true! y reede, What thall become of all this little brecdc.

This little breedd nay euen the lea A of all, The leaft? nay greate~ th~n the greatefi arc: , For though in thew thctr {ubftancc be bu.t fmall, Yet with their worth w bat great ones may comparct Wbat egges as the!e,are fo much fpherkall Of all that euc:r winged Natures bard .A com~4riforuf

h h 1 h d d r: 'd 1 ,,tsm::fl'" As thoug t ey one y a eteru to laue, ·~i!'""''thotlm· The lclfe fame forme which God to hcauens gaue. 'gg•s.

From LybiAn egges a mightie (x) bi~d doth l'ife, r Tin Oftrieh,

Scorning both horfe and horf:me~ tn t~e cha~e, With Roe-bucks feete, throwing 1l1 furt~US wtfe, Dufr,grauell,land and lloae~ at hunters face, Yet dwels there not beneath the vauted skies, A greater foolc: of all t~l c feathred rac_e:

For if a httle bulh hts head doth htde, He thinkes his body cannot be efpide.

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From rggd of famous P ~Jlanmli4n foules, And them ~hat hallow Diomo!'do!'S toomb, In bodies·tljrangc retaining former foules, VVlfc,w3r!Y,warlike,fagingthings to come, . VVhofe inborne ski! our want ofwitte controules; Whore tim~ly fore-light mates our heedlcffe doom,

Comes clught 'but ci:ancs of mofi vnfecmly lhape, And diutng Cootcs "'hich m~ddy chanels frrape!

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V V hat ~~ingye for~h~ut !peCl:ades of pride, :VVho!clpitchy fecte marres al the rdl: be fide~·

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Whome enuious creepers poyfon ouercame. WluUllhc: fetcht mcatc: eo keepe them fiil ali ue, How wel beftts her loue that {acrc:d Lamb, . ' That heal' d vs all with bleeding iffues fiuc? !

yet hath your fruit this blotte,to ouer-care, And glutton-like to vomit vp.che1r meate.!

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VVinters(2)()rphtmbloudybrcalled(3)~~n; · :~~-r..£. Sommers f~eete folac~, ni~h~s (4) Amph11111lbrauc, 3r~;,,.,_,: Linm ( ))deltght,C~tnarus clad In greene, • 4 T(JgTm11- l All (6) ling· uifis eke that beg what hart would crane, ::•11'·. ·a I , s "'"''· Selling your tt>ngues for euery trt _e ecue, . 6 p;"l/!"""''' As ahnonds,nuttes,or what you elle would ~~ue: fi4rcs1t!Jot,

Offprings ofeg~es.whatare.you bur. a vo1ce~ . Angril'lg !o!Jlcumes your fncnds With too much

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Vitl:orious(7 )M IJ11ilrch,(corniri~ par~nm all.,: . Stowtlions terrour .loue of mamal Stte, • · True f;u·mers clocke.nights watchman, feruants call, Prefling ftil forward,hating to retire, Confiant in,fight,impatient ~f thral, Bearing inalutlebrcafta!'ughtyfire: .

Oh tbat thou wert as faithful to thy w1fe, As thou art free ofcourage voice and life!

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Storkes arc:J~fficious,yct not voide of guiles. H~rdy are I( "'.U,elfos,btst yet giuc:n to prate,. F:uchful ar~ Dauts,yct angry othcrwhiles~ The :-':bite~ fwimmer natare e'rc: begates SufpttLOn ~lack:cand iealouficdcfilcs: ·

Briefely .from egges of cuery creature good~ Spra11g noug,ht dibintcd but this lirdc breode-~

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'Ahlbeau'ns forbid(nay heau'ns forbid it fure,) Thateuet Art fhould m()rethe.n Nature·breedc, Curfe we his worke whofc fiogc~s moft 'impure~ Durft but to dare ·the drawing of that feede, · Yet when they haue doncal.they can procu1-e, And giuen their leaderi .God a golden weede: · Zeuxis his painted dogge fhal barke and whine,

Whcnlt~~they tQl'UC to s,/or Lllllll fine.

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-· Sifjphi4n(I) !oules,bewitched multipliers~ 1Sifyp1w .,, Surceafe to pitch this ncuer pitched ftonc~ •nu(kj11g h-

f 11. fi . /m,.,,.,, J,_ Vaunt .not o . Natures neu,nor OrcrH res, 11y,,~ nm/J.

Hoping to hatch your addle egge thereon: • 6ing •rul callfi•

Reftrainc in time fuch ouer-prowd defires, =~::{!,~ Ler cre'tures leaue c,tAtiY:J works alone: .,,_,.fw••hi•

Melt not the: golden Sulphur of your hart, pllllifbmmt._

In following ftil this fond and fmideffe art. ';f:;:~~~~~lu J•~twmt1111111/J;J to tin "P oj 11 'PJr...U.U1111tl m'./1 f/itpe hi4 tll it r~flttl lhtrt1"1Fbiti1·WII-1111 illl• rofsiblt lhin& ID t•r{orrM. """"fi he ,ould ,,,, pilcb it. Ollid ].11111.

Record what once bcfd great Aells(:z.)' fonnc, For countcrfetting on cl y but the found, Ofheau'nly Canoniers dreadful gunne, That lhakes the beams.and piUers of this round; A fiery boult from wrathf.Ul hand did run ne, Driuing falfe forger vnder low eft ground:

Where ft1l he liues ftil wilhing to'be dead, Spotted without, w itbin alfraind with redde. .

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(J fthe Sill(! 'tPormu Remember ~ke the Vulture goawif!g.:!Hl, That euer~d~'ying euer-liuing (1) wretch~

r 1'rtlllttl>eut, VV ho fiealugly with an au1~1tious will fi-1~& . ' J,,f'hrt, w/,. m- From Pha:b 'U whecles wo~Jlq vaall fire reach •. mpri.in,~(at Thinking tcl> make byhuro·ane ar~ an~ ~kill, 1'••rarelf"' ' f 11 1' . b l c I Jcth)IO "'~ l-hs man o. q ~y a IUII~g rtat ~.eo 1etc 1= · ""'"·I'"'' ti•d Beware mitt me of ltke cclcfiiall rods, e-n•" "'•":" And feare ~o touch the onely workc: of gods. Callc.t{H$ m , , \ . • • tb•i!lls,tbtrltf Z.tMit/1 flltrlaflm:;l~ L) Plflturu, tlni:Jfl mHar to dk, Ou1d ro..MetlfM.

• Butifyou .llill with prowd prc(umptuous lcgges~ V V ill needc$ clitne vppc the ficry~fpotted bil,

· Pilfring fro~ I out' !)is Nctl:ar voydc ofdt;"egs, , . 2.Call~d Am&ro And that imblortal meate ( .t) which none doth:£ill~ fi,, If ye wH ncC\des imbefi\1 thofcfaireegges, . 3Lt<l.r,w1, ~~- Vv 'hich in Jlerchild-beddedid rbcir ( 3) mother ~il, h•ggottenW<Idl y cc fay not, that for gifts and vertui:s rare, cbddebyi..p•ttr 1 ,. , • I I . - _ _ _ ;,,ht(ormeofa They do~ ,or may, Wtt 1 ode my egges compare. fi~ame,~roug/,t foro/, t1vo '.~S" 1 ~Hti(tllt Qnf '"mtCrfj/.r 1111d Cl)ttmnejira,t,uto{the ether· '1.'~1· lux .md litlllfla. Hrjioaru,

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-4,C:ie,1.Jediu• Theft',thclc,!al'c they,in drc;tm ~hich Romanc fpidc Clos'd in a ~ehder lhell ofbrittle mould, · Holding w.i.f.hi n,:a white like filucr tridl:';

r Pl'!,cuce s... ~V hofe in\·rud yolke refembleth ( )? Ophirs ~old, lamonf'tuht From out w,ho!e centre fprang the cncefdl prtde, gotdtucri"""' That e're Latinns,or his race did hold, ' ;;:;;;;:,};~uld F:xcharigij1g in al countries for the fi1mc, (name~ """""a"erer· J\·1eare,drrinke,cloth,coync,or wh;lt you c!fe can fllittcd l>int IQ h<ue done, ifh: J,.,d ~1•1~ne( 11s f- imlfgi111) INw to mak,e lllf Phil•fofhlrs f1onr.

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Though neither opening Chop to cucry ei~. Nortellirig (J.) C.tjltr lhe can ~ultiply. .

.Al-working trlother,Foundreffc of this All; T en-hundred,thouf.:md~chou(and-breal1:ed nurfe, Dtialian mouldreilc both of great and fmall, As 1arg~ in wealrh,as iiberall of purle, Still great w 1th childc,:fti 11 lc:tting children fall, Gooxi ·to the good, not ill vnto th.c worfe,

V V hat made thee iliew thy multtplying pride, More in thcfe cgges,thcn all the egges befide~

VVas it,b~~caufe thou takefl: malt ddighr, To prim the greatcl1: worth in ftl'Jallel1: things? That they ,the leafl: of any feede in fight, , Might clothiers breed ro clothe our mightiell: kings.? 0 wit cc diuine,Oadmirable fpright! VVor~hie the longs of him that fweetell: fings:

.. Let itfufficeclllt I adore thy name, .

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7'T.i lofo('lmHm, & 1/u t'tlltl'tnt, D J)u,in Mo­~aJ,H,erogl. :. A.1 one or IWrJ

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But damfels,:xh: who rufrleth in the skie~ 1 Borw,wiJoh:J Meth~nk~ I heare.Enithea•Ladyes.(r) fo~, forct rauished Blufl:rtng '~J fury from the mounta(nes hte. o?tl>)i" King Looke how he raifeth cloudes from dull below; P.r~l!ll>fH! H k h : t: £ h d k d . da"thter olfiJ ar e ow 101: 1eare t e trees. O"crac ean cne~ 6 .Mtt.,;,, Each bud rfcoyles,the feas turne too and fro:

0 fuffer not his breath-bereauing breath,

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To fiay your hopes with ouer-timdy death~

Therefore a[oone as them you gathered haue. Vpon ~hewhitdlpap~rsyou~afind, · In Boxes cleane your egges full clofely faue, From chillh1g bl.tft,ofdeadly nippin~ windc. Let not that hoary(l) iry-manteld flaue So much p~euaile, .to kill both ftocke and kinde:

Farre be1it from a cender Damfels heart, On tendreft feedes to thew fo hard a part.

7""•fl•'""' Yet kecpe them not in roomes too hot and clofe, •gzm{Sit"-!. Left heatc by !l:ealth encroch it fclfe too foone, {;;: ::;,;:,.n;'" And in~ard matteuipenin_g {o difpofe, . Hld,nor4"J That fptnfrers crcepe ere w mters courfe be done, "'"'•""· Whil£1: woods ftand bare.& naked ech thing grows~

And ThisbrsCap for aide be inward runnc: For as with cold their brooding powre isfpilde~ So are tbc.-y then for want of herbage kilde.

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Ere eu'ry thing was made to pleafe and fe.ll, So great a Mon:uch and fo braue a &uefr.

Vnder whofe feece where e're he went ab rode Y~4(1)fprc:ad forth a carpet voide of arc, _ Softer then filke, greener then th' Emer~de, Wrough~ al with flowres.aDd eu"ry hearb apart, Ouer nim hang• q where e'rc he made abode. An azut'dclothofftacc:,which ouerthwart

Was biafl: (as it were)anJ richly purld, With twcluc brauc: figncs & gli!l:a;ing ft;~rs inurld

Vppen hina then as va[als eu'ry day See we Lions waited, t:tmclcs Panthers eke~ Pierce Eagles~~nd thew ilddl: birds of pray, Huge whales 10 Seas that mighty carricks wreake~ Serp~nts a.nd toades:Y ea each thing did obey. Feanng !us lawes and ftatutes once to brea~<e:

Y ~c vvherto ferQ'd this pampeand honour great, ·If man had waocedd~,Jcanddaylymeatc?, ··

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Fall ne too, too foone from wintcr-ftarued ewe, To ~in~ you fee for want o~Hquid food, Wbtch~lhoutd refiore his· wants ofvitall blood .

. arlst Mulli"J Attct~J tMrCfore,when farmets·(t) io}' renu~$'',. . , r . ~er ltucly[facc,and·budi!cth all in grecne, ·: ·

For Hyems. thcn;with all his fro~cq crues, ls fully de~cJ,or fled ro eatths vnfeen~, ' · Corne,cattdl,flowers.fearie then·nb heauie ncwes" J

Frot? No~ther~·coafis,dr Boreas regmn keerte:' :' · Birds fiJ?g,A.Jes buzze,bees bum,yca~l things To fee the veryblufuot.Mwru lippe. · ·(skip

Let fwalld~es come,let O:orkes be fee ne in skiea 1 T1Je'l{i:t,htln- Let (t) PMlti,Jtla (~ng,let (5) Proont chide • . r~i,.wrmm. Lc:t (4)T1rttiry·lteret$ vpward f!ie, , +L•:~'· Let.tanlta~tCIItl:t')ts co:)ke on euery fide,

Let mountainemiceabroad in cuert lie . . , Let cuery ~rcc ~hrufrfoorth bet· budding pride, , '~ Y:et no:~c c:hHt'ucly warral)t 'Vdmct~ flight

. ~ill.ilic:·.~e !e~.p~\:w!~!l ,gctr.mts and !ewds dight. '''· .. 0

ltndtheir Flier~ 0 1 tr: . r .Altf<J,k{tof

peere euc trce.whofc wifedomeis far more . ,.,,Jfruit,

Then any elfc: that fprings from natures·w~mbe~ .. 1'1" Alm ... tlt

Fortbough Pom~tms (1) daughters budde l.icfore, ~~;acbw And forward(z.)Phillis fonnoftcucr come~ . ' &rolfgl,tjirfl

And Per.fi.s,n_. (j)fruityeeldcs of her bloLTo.ms ft"'··e~ ~.,, ofP<rpit,d r .. ~ ~ · C oJNn~t//4 Wrio And(+) T .surus hotce fucccedcth (S) Arits roomc; ·wb. ' ·

Yet all confdfe the Mulbery moft wife, 4 hprilt{ig,r.

That neuer brc:edes till w illter wholly dies. · }.,~~'1' '*

Such is her wit: but more her inward mlghr ,For ~udded new.e ';h~n PheebiiS firft appear~s, ~ Sh~ 1s tullleaued ere tc grow to night: .N· ,

Wrth wondrous crackling filhng both our cares, A~~ough one: Jeafedid with another fight, Strtumg who firft ili:lll fee the heau'nly iphcarcs .. ~

, Euen ~sa liuely chickitl brcakes thdhell, ! · Or bldfed Soules do fcuddc and flic from hell;

Yet witte and firength her pittie doth exceede~ For none !he hurts that neerc or vndcr grow, No not the brire, or any. littlewcede. · That vpward !hootes,or groueling creepcs ,~low; 'N;~y mol·e,from heaucnly flames each u:e~ is freed Tim nigh her dwcls,whcn fearfullighcntng~ glowi

For vcrcuc which the Romaoes made a l01w s, ~·JmT, !'fi. T 'lh t. Jh I nyfii•IO J;if/ opum. tuem t at:ihouldhercn~or raw. ,.,,;, . •. ,

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Of the-Si/~ t~ormes ·I leaue to tell how thedoth poifttncure~ From acoid~rs.goare<?r gall ofLifards gor~

, VVhat burmog blames the hcales and fores impure~ · In palat~ ilwts, and al en flamed throte,; VVhatcat)ckars hard ,and wolfcs be at het· Jure ,What Gangrenes ftoop that make our toes r~ roue: , Br1efly~few griefes from Panders boxe out-flew ' But here they fiude a medcine~ old or new. •

Her bloud retourn' d to fwtete Thil~tan wine~ Strengthneth the lungs and ftomackc ouer-wc:akc) Her dulhed grapes do proue a di1h moft fi•e~ VVhofe kernels foft do ftooes in fundc:r breake: Her leauestoo that conucrtcd are in time · Which ki~'gs themfelues in higheft pri;e do reake:

Thus ~•ues.1he mcat,and drink, mcdcine,& cloth, To cu ry one that is not drpwnd in 11oth.

1 se M•~'"" Bragge no~ no more perle-breedin'g T d}YtJ~4111, ,,/l,,h ''·t1b.tit Of CoctJs thme that(I)all-fupplyingfoode twh,InJ, ' , , LtoAftr.~ Vaun,t no~ of Dates thou famous ( 1.) African~, -

T~ough ~weet.c in tafte,andfwift ia makingbloud, l3lulb S}'l.t1J grapes,ahd plums Armtni~t11, ·

Zbt~Jilln. figges,:md fruit of Phillis good: .Bad IS your beft compared with this tree, T!ut· blollddights my little ~ocke and mee.

. ~ndtheir F/ieJ. l3L1t w il you know1wby. this they oncly cate~· Wby leaucs. they onely chufe,the fruite forfake! Why they rcfufe al choife attd fortes of meate, And hungers heate with oncly one dilh flake? . Then lift a while,you wonder"feekers grear, :Whilft I an anf were plaine and eafie make:

Dif~aine you not to fee the mighty·ods, Twixt vcm~ous worms and finf1.1l humane god ...

Wiry SJ/k,•~ I thinke that God and nature thought it meete; The nob~dl: w9rmes on l\Obldl tree to feede:. And therefore they elfe neuci.fet their feetc On any tree that beareth fruit or fec:dc:

' llltrme lt4tte,.. ' l:JMNl/Jn;. . ll•u.

Others diuine,that they thcm(dues did weete No other tree could yeelde theii filken tbreede.

I udge learned w ittes~Bu t lure a eau fe there is,. VVhy they elfe fet:dc vpon no ttcc buuhis.

Ne eate they all,as greedy K afers do, ' But leaue the berries to their Soueraigne: Rcligioufly forbearingonceto bloc Vpon the fruit,that.may their Lo1=d m~in~aine: . .Nay,jfthefeleaues(though nqthingelfedoth. growc In Eden rich their nature to fufiain~:)

Had erfr bin giuen f9r other creatures meatc, . They wouldh.aue chufde rather to ftarue then eat;

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0 Jtht fil~ werme1 ,yr,ysilk!- tn that tlieyot'!tly fccdeovppo-nbrt~ttee; . · : · wor,rsf•ed .,. How iufriY, do they ke~e da111e Natures lore? ly'llf'•noJie h L h , h 1 d" c ""'"'· W o tcac~·ct . eu n t e eare.ey c man to 1ee,

I Ctlllcl A• lwofi4. I.C •ikd 'l{Jfl<fl

That cha~gc ofmeatas ~aufcth difcafc:s ftore: The gods ~~fclues~if.:any fuafnhere be) Haue but one( t}meate, one drinke, and ncuerlmorc:~

W her~by they liue in ;healthand neuer die a f9r how can one againft it fclfe rep lie.

. Dualitie of meates was ftckne!Te fpring; 1

With wli901 additiot)meeting by the wa)'; 3 Jt!~d':PU.,,~ Beg2te v~dedMftuery thing,' . ;~?;.~~,"' Who like a vyhorc hi changeable array .. · With ·paihc:ea <'heekes(as didPhilinus fmg)

And coral~ lippes~and brealls that naked lay~ Mast· vs -With '\fn.itie to be atwarres,. And 1:~ dtt:ight in difcords,change,and iaues;

Wherefot:e alfo~ne·as:they begin ne to creepe~ Like: rable~robed Ants,farre fmallcr tho, Blacke a~ the fidl:,like pitch of Syrian deepe, Yet made ir1t·ime Its white as Atlas fnow. Scndfd'u~mslvp tO:~oods and l'tiountaines ll:eep~;" When Ml;llb'ry i'caues their maiden lippc~ do fhew:

Fcede them therew ith(no other foule they er aue, Jfmottle an~ eu'n f.relh;lefage they may baue.)

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~tiul their F lieJ• · · The fidl three wcekes the tend'refi le~ues ne befi, The nexr ,they craue tlrc:m of a grentcl' fize~ , The lall;the hatdeft oiles they can difgell. As frrcngth witb age increafing dothatlfe: After which time all rrieate they do detcfi : s~'?4"bo""

d db , 11. 'k' Jtotm«ll•b•~ Liftingvp heads,an feete, an .rca1[to s tes, .,;1u•e4."· Begging as t'wc~e of God-and rn~n .fom:e iliro"':de, :'Nherein to w~-rk:e·and ba11g:thetr · goldenclowdc.

But wltiiUl:they fh:c!e, ltt<ahheirfoo~~ be-~rie · · And puU'd.Y.i·hed Pha>hd:lfaccldoth rbtJghdy_fhine, For raine,mitl,<Icwc,and fplttlngs of the, s~tc, Hauc becneful of thebaine of cattle mm.:;:: , '

P"f'luntbtJr , mMttisto btl :,cthlt'ld,

StOlX therfore·; flay ;til;dhyesl.Vpholder.fii.c,•: · · · ; Fiu~ftagcs ful from Ea~crne :rht"t.h line:· ;. T_hatlstDf.ty,

Thenlcaues arc free tron1 any poyfi1ed f~de, 11/l ,,,. fu.m~be .· . f .n. I . h' d d b d fit4tlmmslus,b Which may lh e"L_t us w Jtt an ten er rc:c c.

Kecpc mcafure too,for though the beftyo~ get, Giucnottoo much norlittleofthefama, · - . Sattcty their ftomacks wil vnwhet~.. :: Famine 01gainc wil nukc: them leane and bPlc: Lend Wtttc the knife toquanerout their. mcate, As neede reqlllires a11d r~afon maketh dame:: .

~eft. belly br~ak, ormeagernefle cn{ookct,· · · ;By;giuing tnote or !t~e d1cn:wa~ !hcir~uc•

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r 4rier.uof , N echagetheir food (us fon).e.ft~ue thought it meet~ ,....,, 11 ltAHgrlt f M b' . L I . . I. fortt,.,.; or ul .~tea t~aough t ~ey. a~e 9f double kind,

The blackt:roncs are y;c~ tO:th~m ~olUwecce, Fl'Om out tbeu,J~,.,u·cs mo~ pJeabng fappc: they find.

=~~4M J'Juc whe the~ faile w hilfl: Sc7thiii ktime 1 doth flect.e., . (Turne beau nl y hofts,O turne that cruc:ll wind) ·

: White;Mulb'ry lca~,~cs,y~.a, tcndc.r E;lmiagbud. May1fot~ fhifc be giueQ iQ ftecdc offoode.

'f'lttlrM£1tirlt S · • h ·c. tl '1 l<fll/'trw.M • .. wee pc eu ry morn ere t cy Jtem vl~taa c.sfee, · Th.cir paptcd boord,whcreon they take rcpaft,

· · ··With bundled Timc,or Qippes of Rofemary, Leaue nought thcreon that from their bellies-p'aft, No not th:al£-:~tcn leau~s of Thisbts tree,

·"'And when their feates.perfumed thus thou .h~ft. Remoo~e them back againe with care and hcedc:, To former place V~rlacrciu theyerftdidfccde.

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Oft fbalcthou f'Ce· them carelcefcoftheir meatc:~ Yea ouc:r-t~nc with deepe.and heal1ic flecpe, Like to tha~ O:rangeand Bpide~lJlian Cweace,J When dea41y Humbei's did on· Britons c:rccpe: Yet fearc: thou nor ,it is but natures fcate J

Who nctbqtc~e bath ofpc:Crcle1Ic · fpi~fl:crs kcepe; And tp~kes tbern thusas1d.cad FP he apart,

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For ncuer are they quietoftnirld Wit!lin,,' . :t:'!:~:'"'' Til they be dearteOf bUekndfe d1fpo11dt,. Whether becaufe they dcetne it ihame and1ftnne Towc:are the marke ofblackilh fiend vnblcO:: · . Or thattheirp~rems wearing one!y white,

They therefore:in· ell at onc:ly would-be aighr.

As they in body and in greatneife grow~ Diuide them into tribes :u1d tolonics, .. For though at firft one table and no mo (Smal though it be)a choufand wormcs f.iffice, Yet afterward's(as proofe wil trt.ily lhow) I When they proceedc: vntO a greater' fitc, i ·

One: takes the roornc of t'enne. and fccme~ to craue A greater fcopc and portion for eo haue.

The loft wherein their tables placed be~ MuO: neither be too full, nor voide ofligh~~ Two windowes are inqugh, fuperfluous three, Plac't in fuch fort that one regard thelight OtPiuebus ll:eeds vpriling as we fee:: And from the other when itdravvcs to night,

\Ne may behold them tired as it were, And limpiug downe tbeweO:erne 11 em!Jlhtrt;

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H •"' d,~y drr' t• be difJrilmted ~ Wllw the]grot/11 greder •.

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0 f tht.SJII{f ~~DrtntJ Glafde let them b~~ or lj~ncn...couerd both, To kcepc ~ut fell and blac~e (I}Mt~lll!(}/itts, The Myrme,J~:nian i=~!le,whu '!c:>ide.o~ floth Do wholy, bend the!r·f()~ces, t.~~le,and wittcs To pduaregainc,~nd~hcrt'foreareful wi:oth To ice chi~nation~ny g~od befits: · .

Worki~1g them(elue~ to death both night & day~ Noc foritbcrnfducs, but others t() array. l

·'The greedyi~.ps.ofhcr thadlue hcr/onne~ .. iWrtt~~~t1 11'1tl. PAndifms( .t)dat!gP·tcr; bloudy barred ~cne: . J;.o6iru, The wing~d (3)ftcedcs in r mm coach t bat run ne, J s,,.,..,.,,, Inflam'd w

1it!1 ~lchy lull: and fires vnfccnc,

Pmfuc tbisi,~',)c_ke,and 'J1o'~,Ql.tl~~m.a.l r:!'Jdope, . . . Bycau(c they, come from Pilrcnts.ch;~,{tc: and dc:anc:

0 chcrctorc kcepe the cafements clofc and fafr. · Lc:fi quGllcrs rage your harmc:~cffecatdc waft.

lf alfo carclcfncffe bauc left a rifr, Or chin eke vnfropped in thine aged wall: Whcrc-thrpugh a noyfomc mift,ot rayny drift, Or poyfnc~ wind may trouble fpinfiers fmall, Mixc lime and fand,deuife fotneprefendbift How to repel fuch cruel foe-men a!:

Smatl is the charge compared with the gaine~ Tbadhal furwount thy greatcfr cofi and pain e.

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dnd the1r Flier. I any Ceeme to hauean amber coat~, And fvveU therewith as much as skmne can hold, W holy to floth and idlene!Te deuote, . ~ . Tainting with lothfomcgore the common fah'• Of deadly fickendlet'is a ettt~ine not~, vvnofc curc:,fith none haue C:lther w rmeor tolde, ' VVifedom commands to part the dead ~r1d ficke,

Left chey infc:a the faultlclle and the qmckc.

Howtf,.lrfi! ., ""' ~''l"'' front the"""''', & U. ""'"'t f.mo ~ -.fed,

Co\de (onletimes kills them, fometimes ot1er-heate; Cuttt~lfl'<lc.tufls Rainc,oyle,falt,old and wc:t,:md mufty foodc, •/ theirfi<":."fc The £mel of o;,yons,leckes,garlick,and n~w w hear, Shrill founds oftrumpct'S,drums,or deautng woodc: yea {a me of them are of fuch wc:akendTc: great. That whifprings loft of men or falling lloud,

Doth fo chc1r hares and fen[es ouer-wheele, That often beadlon& from the boord they l!celc:.

Forbearc likewife to touch them more then nec:de~~ Skarrc children from them giuen to wanconne!Ic, Let not the: fruit of thcfe yout precious fecdes, Die in their hands through too much c.arelefne!Tc: VVho to fie and roulc and tumble: them like wccdes From leafc to leafc in bufic: idleneffe,

Now fquatting them vppon the floorc: or groutlcf, Now fqualhing out their bellies faft and round.

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sir.'"sofr/,eir ·Thus being kept andfcd nincwc.ebs'enrirc-rMJimffiu Surpdz' d w!rth age: c:i:e one would thinkc them yong' . wor~•· With what an ar.def1t zeale and bot defirc •

·To rect,~lpfncechy,~uauds~othty long! They nettll(:r flee~c,b~1: m~atc,oor drinke require, · .. But prdfe and firtud, yea tierccly frriue and throng,·

Who fir lit may ~nd fame happy bough or broom, Whcreon.tofpmneand leauc: their amber loome.

TI"J"'IIfl Then virgins then, with vndcfiled ·hand ~~;:~:.IHd.,i, Seuc:r eh~ gr~atc:ft from the f~E:illcrd~.Le, 6•for• J•"fi' For al alike ,1~1 age l.rk~ re!ldy ftaad, · · them u wor"t. Now to begt n therr nch and oual due,

(Hauing firft paid as Nature dotb commahd To bclltes~fitrmer that: which was his due) •

:. For nothing mlllfi l'emaine in body pent, · Which riuy defik.t•hdr facrt:d monument.

.. 1 • 1 So being cl~nfdc from~f that is im~'~urt". r~'tfMftrt11 ~ • . l' , b.flandf.tfeft • Put eac.h wahrn a(r)pap~r-coffin fine, ,'"".Y'··''•fe Then lhal you fee what labour they endure, DQm ojtiJCin, H £ 10 {f . / . . , ow arre ~ ey pa · et 1e wcauers craft oflme, .

V V hat cordage firft thcymak:e and tackling fure, · To ty thereto their bottom moft dinine, . Rbundingthemfelues ten thoiitrand times & mor~ · Yet !pinning (l:il behtnd·and eke before. •

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4nd their Flies. None ceafe to worke:yea rather all contend Both night and day who lhall obtaine the prize Of working mucli,al'ld with moO: fpeede to end, Whilft rofit; (t) Titan nine times dotb arife From purp~ebcddc of his moft louing (z.)fricnd, And eke as oft ill (3) Atlas vally dies)

Striuing(a ftrife not cafi.e here to find) In WQrktng well, who may exceed their kind.

Yea fom~ (0 wofulllight)are often found Striuing,~n worke their felll!lwes to excell, Lifdc:ffc: in midway of their trauerll round, Nay thofe that longeft here do work and dwell, Line but a while, to end tl1eir threcd renownd, For I baQe feerie.and yotJt may fee it well, , · 'Aft· er that once chd r bottoms are beg.:mne,

Not one furuiucs to fee the tenth dayes fun ne.

Go g:1llant youths,:md die with gallant eh cere, For other bodyes lhortl y mull: you haue, Of higher fort then you enioyed here. Of w orthicr:ftate.lnd of a thape more braue, Lk but three weekcs within your lilken beere, Till Syrian dogge be drownd in wellernc w;,ue

And ~n a moment then mongll: flying things: Rccemc not feetc alone,butalfo wings.

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H'"''"'' wrrk,llol ab0111 nine d.titt, 1 Thefinm~. " Aurora, tf•• mfl'llf!lg. 3 or/,. 'll>tflm~e {elf, .

How they ~re mmed into j/ltJ whw [hs:gc J ai !I :·nc~,(ir lhtunL•uts,

Of the Si/~. ~orme1 Atltfcritll~ .fWings .~hiterthen~fnow of(t) r 1rtNJbic; ''~ Sll/dll": Fccte f.urer then ( z.) Ad4ml cuc:r had · I ""''m'J"'l H d r... 'd. b ·n. . ' bigilhilin Afi• c~ s ,.,o tes. reaus,and necks ofl uory ~ :& PtnH•'P••· Wtth pcrfit &uour,and bke beau tie clad r;ur.ron;.,~~ Which t~ commend with fomcvarieti;_ c~";:.;~,, /:, And lhadbw as it were with colour fad ""n' J,rJ~ur Two *tic duskic feathers ftlall arifc1

MJ"1" From ~orehcad whin·, to grace your Ebcn eycl:

~? •• ,., ftl~ Then nci~hcr lhall you fee the bottomc mouc; I• "'" ,.,;,.{,J Nor any tlloyfepcrcciuewith quickeft care frorubdfflwt~ Death rules in all beneath in mt'd4 b ' , a • u,a oue,

Wherefore make bafrc you damfcls voyd of feare' Sha!c:c offi dc:lay.as ere you profit louc, 1

In boxcs!firaite away your bcmoms beare, . Frecd~rom the coffin whcrin latcthcywroughr~ To gaa;ne the golden tlcc:ce you fo much fought~

1,.,,.,,.,.,.~, Firfr pull away the loofc and outmoft doune~ JI~;,,, m As hufwiucs do their ends oflcnettie towe """''tl.. That w bit:h lies vpmoft is ofleafi renctwne:

The fincft threed is placed moll bdow: Tbrcetl fi(tc for kings;vnmcete for euery clowne; On Natu~es quill fo wound vp rowe by rowe~

That i~ thine eye and hand the end can find, In watef warmc thou maift itall vnwind.

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4nJ their F/ie1. ThrecCorcs there are,ditlintl: by colours thret"~ The purcftliketo(•)rheir refplcndant haire, Who weeping brothers fal from courfers fcee, Their teares were turn' d to ye How amber fa ire. The fecond lik~(.t)hcr whom impatiencie Made of a fpoufe a tree moll: foli tary:

The lafi more whi cc, made by the weaker fort, Not of fo great a price, not like report.

Froo1 out al three,bu t chiefly from the befi,

H•II>~Mpftn• •ffi~thmbr. ~ 'PhtJtiUfo f!1-L11mjlciJtJ l'b.1, •tom fiflm. 0 · 'llid :1. MetA"'•

:1. 7ihl!lis,DI· rnothoom fpo11{i IHrtrttl into 1111 AltnoHtrr•.

Arc made. not oncly,robes for priefis and kiugs, Th• vf• •f•ll But iiUO many cordial medcins blefl:, '"''' •I fil!q. Curing the wounds that full en S aturNt briugs; Which... being drunk, bow quiet is our rdh How leaps ou~ ban~. how inwardly it fplings!

Speakc: you fad fpirits.that did lately fecle. The hart-brcakecrufh of melancholics vv heclct

Nay eucn the doune which lies aloft confufde~ Makes Lcuant Q:uffc for country yonkers meet~, 3 Dltptl ,h,;, Thougl.l it of court and cittie be refu{de, ''JW•"'" .,;,, /,;, rlk1k {hoo11 And is not worne in any ciuill firccte.. ,..d,Jo"'"' Bur.tel me yer ,how can (3) he be excu{de, 'Pitru,fil/p

VVho trampled eu' n the bdl: with mired fcetc, ~~;,:!;;')';'; And in a moment marr'd al that with price, g,..,,,.,,.,u,

_ .. l;or making which,tcnnechoufand fpinficrs ~~~~:.1::"101H'' ..

'T'hi firfl m~J~ Now i£of rhefe your bottoms you require; boitomsarehrft Some to l:'eferue.for fumrc 11accao~ feedc, to6er•ftruJ c' I. fi h' 1~• 1'1. t: h • fo 'dC forfttJ,, ... tlu e ~ut t e e u-eu, 10r t c1r: rwar nre . · · .,.,Jvlakes toward llye·the fooncr,fpring and breedc;

\-Vhereas du~·latter unes haue I ~raft defirc, · And letfe~ might toperfitYtllmdcedc:

11 • For why,theirpridc is dwl,and fpiritsccilde, ,;,~,~. ,"'AI~t~ng Borne Jn·the qullrtcr I all of(t) 111111 o14e.o

Wind nope of diem, which you for bre'edc all or~ In watrie: bach,nor dfe in wine, or lye,. · · Left outw,ard moill:ut·e innly being goc, Surrounding,drownes the little infanr-flyc, And caufelboth things and fecundine to rotte; So that before it liues it lcarncs to dye:

Or if you haue them drenched fe for gaine, At fum~e or .fire to dry them take fomc paice~

. Singlcd,tqen la ye them on a table neate, !L~:;:~·~· Couerc:d ~1 o're with wbitc(2.)Phillir11es skinne; llufirfl.,;/,;~ Stay thea :tgaine till Phaobruchariot great ~er~~tttrtb. In Ou;~ns bath bath twdue times walhcd bin, ;"""'Nod• •f• A d , . '""""'rH<k'" 11 you thal fee an admuable feate, M ... ,,;,r.r.birh This form\'d and yet transformed broode within: !~::1:,;·:/ From Which new lhapcs new bodies doarife, ••m.AI<~~~.i~ ·And taii~s to heads, and worms are rurn 'd to flic:s: .l!fithp/, • ~ W11hi11 u. tl4itlttfitrthl irmo•rfi,llf'm!,,IJeftlft.!flitt4rlllifllofod~ . . ..

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mu/ their Flies. 6)

Whercat to wonder each man may be bold, . When iecly worms themfelues new fliers made Whilll: one anothers face they do behold: . 1

Mu(c how,and when,& whcrc,this forme they had, How new hornes fpranll' fro out their foreheads old Whence ilfued wings,~htch do them oucr·ladc: , Silkt.ftitJfmu

For they recording what they were oflatc, ·~ nctiJiHg t"'

Dare not yet moum abouc their former tl:ate. ""'·

As a.udying thus they fhtnd a day or more, Otfnng to teedc on nought but onely a ire, Lorhing the meatc fo much defir'd before 1 m cane the leaues ofT hilbes tree moll: fat re: Difdaining eke to rall:c of NAil frore, To quench the hc:ate that might their harts impairc::

At length they know themfelucs to bcaliue And f.d to that for which Oblt·wamons frriu;.

A Jt~y., ,./inlt more «{lir tlif•

Both long, and longing skud to renm forts To ll:irre vp feed tbateucr may remaine, • He runnes to her, and the to him rcforcs, Each mutually the other entertaine Ioynd with fu,~ lincks and glue of ~atures fpor[s. Th.ac coupled. frtl they refr a day or twairlc:

Y caoftclltJmes thnfc turncs the wdkh round, Ere they are fccnc: vnlocked and ynbouncJ.

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Of the Silke Dormes 7;'J"'"' Qe So hauing lcfc what e 're he could impart, ;/in;, 'coN· Of fpirits, h~mors,fcede,arid recrement,

\..Villing yet1 further eo haue throwne his ban Into herbre~fi,towhom he all things menr, He formoft ~ics and yeclds to fatal dart: Ne liues the ~ong,but firai t with (orrow fpenr,

(Hauing 4rft laide the eggc:s fbe did concc:iue) Of loue and lite the fhonly takes her leauc.

TT,' 1 ... s·mal egges ~hey be,in bigncfie, colour, lhape » .. ,:,.'!f,' '~~ Like to the me ate of./ ntJjAn Parracbitc:, •1ft, .,., llfl.dl Ldiefarre itil view then feed of garden rape, tJftdlthingtll J b : • d fi • Mill•tft•J.•, n nu""n er rpany, yeun e nne: •"",.,s'" p.,... For when th,e females womb begms to gape:. riKifitot ••frd, And render what the male got ouer night,

Now mo~c,now fewer feeds dropt from the fame. As they were filort, or lon,erat their game.

.,.,.,, ~~~tmwr Yet feld0me are they than a hundred Idle, z;n•ubtJ Sometimes two hundred fro1:1,1 thcirloynes do fall,

' Round, fmooth, hard-lhelld,and voide ofbrinlenc:s, Whited ali~e.and yellow yolked all, Whofc vcrt~cs great no man did yet cxprc:lfc,

1 't'IJt'I!Mirl'~r Much leffc c~n I w hofc: knowledge is fo fmal, ri""'"'"""'llll Though fore I am hence I.'Day we find a thc:amr, :Z~J- Able tl) ~~ink vp(I)A,g.moppcs firc:amc:.

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dntl their Flie1. 0 kecpe them then with moll attentiuc heed~~ ,~,,~ • . • cruo,r fr'Jtr• From BoreM blafr and At1ls udolence, tH/, From menftruous blafts & breathing keep the freed, Auoide likcwHe the mll·dewc:s fnfluence, · Pray heau'nly M IIIArch fott~ ble~e yo~r feede, Helping their weakndfe wub hts proutdence~ .

So may your milk-white fpinfrers worke ~ma1ne. When M wmlippc:ls lbal bu,d and blulh agame.

And(l)thou whofctrade is befhnd oldcft: too~ Steward of all that euer Nature gaue, . VVithout whofe help what can our rulers doo, Though gods on earth apparcld wondrous braue! Behold thy hclpiag hand faire virgins woae, Yea nature bids,and reafon cake doth craue

Thy cunning,now thefe little worms to nurfe, VVhif:h Oaal in time with gold fill full thy purCe.

Jn tleed offruitles elms and Callowes gray; Of brittle Ath,and poyfon•breathing ..-gh, Plant Mulb'ry trees nigh cuery path and way,

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rion re ell 'F4r• _,., tmtl Huf-6.-.CHt• ,14nt MHI6c• rH.. .

Shortly from whence more profit !hal en!ue, . 1'hcn from (z.) th'He!pcrian wood, or orchards gay, ~ "'"'' lllrf ·

h ld 1 plallftrl fiJ llit· On euery tree w ere go ~n app e~ grew: t,,A,.,Imfo, (,.

For what is filke but eu n a Qumtcffenct", Hyprmhufo1

Made without hand~ beyond al humane fcnfe~ ~ingl.~·''"' K z. J\ "''"S.II•'t',

68 Of the Si!'<! wormes J\<~lfflli,..Jati. A qniotetfc:nct=! nay wel. it may be call'd~ ... o( thir filA•, A de;lthldlc tiptture.fenr vs from the skiC'I, noithtl~or~whi<h \ 11 d h r 1 !I · ' lld ,.,11w!1 {r•m Whofe <.o OU\'II3tJ s, w 01e g o e 1~ ne re appa • ,,,, ~)/}:"a"'• VV ho!e Mulbr'y-feM and fauour neuer dieg, a,' "11"1'"/'1

1•. Yea when to time all natures cite be thralld, •. it l\1)"' IJ •. •

m.,Jcbytbtlll· And cuery t'hmg Fate to corn!pt1on tres: tlr.mw ... m.·•, This ond y: !cornes within bcr lifts to dwell.

Bettri ng with ~ge ,in colour,glofic.and fmel.

1 Of•h•f: or- So doth not yours (you (I) Lordings of the wood e) fi•'~"~orLords Growing like webbs vppon the long-ha1rd grafie, •f'11"8w~~d· 1 , Along the(2) Offe~<ian bancks of S<ithyan floud, re4~ onl'n, ID• :JJ" 1 Decad 1, Which iutoC'!f}ian wombe doth headlong paffe. Htmg.Hi(i. N o,no:Although th.;~~ filke be Jl:rong and good a Aurrle.rlllls d 11.. d h' !J · d fi11nam•d 1:,1 In out war 111CW ,an . 1g) y pr1ze. ~as, . L,b., .. U,IiHi•J. When bounteous C tt(ar ruled cm1es pnme, u4,~,·~ift"' ~!- Yet foone it fadcs,and ycelds to rotte in time. -ti'Cm , m - , . . . . 'lrhofi timt tf poNnd 'llltighl •f fil"-! 11'111 fold for 'h' l1/!f "'''!.1Jt m flnt :•IJ.Y.piji111.

J1'·• .. fam.u H(3) bookes be true,thcr~ is an Indian wormep · '-•".!•· As biggc as(.4)hc that robbs the E.:ag!cs ncfr, 4TbcDor• h I d h fc 1 fi £wk. Shap'tlike(S).drAc nt' nat ot tm c s orme, s TheSpiJtr. And nets~ and lawnes,and fhadowes of the befr, ~Thtl\.ewQr Fed witb(6)bcrlocks whoyeeldingfiands in fiorrl'l, ;;n;;,l»u41yt. V V hen (7 )~cods- ft:rueyours ly~ on earth. opprdl)

From out vvhofebclly,brokewtth furfemng, . , VVholc clews of filk Ccarfe half concoCl:cd,lpnng.

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And their 1-'lieJ. Yet that compar'd with thh is nought fo fin~, Neoughtfo!weetelyfum'd with daintident, Nor of like dut·ance,nor like powrediuine: Mirth to rc:Jl:orc,when fpims allarcfpcnr, If it be fiecpc in fwcct PomaNJUS (1)vvine, Till colour fade,and {ub£bnce do relent:

Nay,nay,nofilkc mull: make that (!)Antidote, Sauc onely which fL·om fpinfiers mine is got.

Whereof, if thou a pound in weight fh;~lt take V nfiaind at all(.ls Amiens (3) floure cloth write) And with the iucc of Rofe and pippins make A firong infuhon of Come day and night, Adding fomegraines ofmuskeand Ambres flake, And feething all ro hony-fubfiance right:

0 what a Balme is made to eh cere tbe heart, lfpearle,and gold,and fpiccs beare a pam

What neede I count how many winders liue, How many twifiets eke,and wcauers thriue Vppon this trade? which foode doth daily giut To fuchas elfe with famine nccdes muft firiue: What multitudes of poore doth it rcheue, That otherwife could fcarce be kept aliuc~

Say Spania"rt proud e .. &: tclltalian youth~ Whether I fainc,or write the words of truth,

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~ m>ji fi".~"'•' .E I<Elu"rit a. t,ai,P Mt/~11• cf,lit,i{ it61 rigf11/y m~J,, 3 lo. Ftrntltlll,

lib.7 ']HJ •fl de um}ef.meJ.

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OftheSil~wormeJ

Not eucr were your princes dad fo.br~uc; Not cucr were your wiucs deckt as they be:

t Reli'!,~r..!u•, Much I ciTe was filk then wornc of cuene fiaue · t~/:!J.'::,'" And artifrs,fprung from bafc and low degree,'

'· That (x)rio~cr whofe belly diggd his graue,

, ,,,.~ ,,, fltde o{fil~· ••rmts 111., prjl hrout,l>t i1.U E.uropt,

Clothd all in ulke,the Romancs til·fr did fee: Before whofetime (ilkewou'n on finnen threcd, Was thought braue fruffe for any Princes weed.

So'l'o~cl·r'.,ir- Butafccrwardes, when holy Palmers twaine g•lwrlletllollt F (' ) . d. b b h •fPr(J(0/';11,, rom out :. Strm a roug t t efe worms of fame, r~:~mr,•~>.cr ''"'And plautcd Mulb'ty plants on hill and plaine 114/'Pf"'.~ m· Wherewith to fatte and fofter vppe the fame· ' , •• rrs1111tr H h . , • chrifl,lii•.J · ow r~c waxt It~tly~how braue was Spii~~el *"f'.6.Jmt. in·ln Satttn fine,how braggd each man of namet ~~~~;,;, ,,,~ Y ca,euery clowne, that euen as now,{o then· znJi,.. Habitos did fcarce dHcerne the ftaces of men.~ .

Vp Briuine blouds,· rife hearts ofEnglilb race. Why (houlJ your clothes be courfcr then the reft! Whofe fe~curc talt,and high afpiring face, , J

Aimeat great things,and challenge cu'n thebcil:. Beggc coupccymen no more in fackcloth bafe Being by n;JC offuch a trade polfefr: '

Th~t fu~ll enrich your !dues and children more~ Then ere it did Naples or spaine before.

No

itnd their Flies. No man fo peore but he may Mulb'l'ie~ plant, No plane fo fmal but wila filke-worme fc:edc, No worme (o littlc(vnlcf.Tc care do want) But from it felfc wil make a clew ofthrccdc,

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Ech dew \Ycighs down,rathcrwith more then fcant, A penny weight, from out wh::ifc hidden !cede,

(After the winged wormcs conception) ':"·~ ?";'~'#' A hundred fpiufters iffuc forth of one:~ b;~:;:,~,;;,;:

Diuinewe hence,or rather reek oR right, What vfury and proffit doth arife, By keeping well thde little creatures white, Wonhy the careotcuery nauon wife,· That i11 their ownc or publique wca lth delight~ And ralhlywil not things fo rare defpife:

Yea fure,in time they wil fuch profit bring, As fuall enrich both pcople,pricfi, and king •

Concerning plcafure: who doth not admire; And in admiring,fmilcs not in his hart, To fee ap cgge a worme~ wormc a flier, H;ming firfr lhewd her rare and pcerdellc an. In m.1king that which princes doth attire, And is the b;~fe of cuc:rv famous Mart?

And then to fee the.flic ca(l fo much feede; As cloth, or may,an hundred fpinlters brcede.

Again~

Ht'lflgrllfttltil• fore thm il ;, f,••f'ing tlmn, holl> /0 ,,,. ,;,,

'""''•"•fef'n4 h.ctuls,

•t?. 0 ftke fil~ »>ormet Againc to view vppon'one birchen fhredde~ Some hundred Cl ewes to hang like dufircd pearcs' Thofc grccne,the!e pale,and others fomcwhat red • Somelike the locks hanging downe Plucbm cares; And thcn,how Nature when each worme is dead To better fiate in tcnnc daycs fpace it reares: '

Who ices all this, and cickleth not in mindc ~ To markc thcchoyic: and plcafures in each kinde,

Eye but.their egges,(as Grecians terme them well} ~nd With~ pen~e-koif~ keene di'llide them quite, B.hold rheu: whue,rhe1r yolke, their skin and Jl!d Difii?ct in'colou r,{ub(bnce,fornle,and ftglm ' And rf thy ~odies watchmen do not fwell, And c~ufe ~hee both to leape and langh outright, Thtnk~ God and nature hath that eye denied, By wb1ch thou iho.ulJ.ll: f:o brutilb bealls be tried.

":'hen they are worms,mark how they colorchage. From blackcto br~wne,trom brow ne eo forrel b.r~y, From bay ta dunne,from dunne CO auskie frrangc Then to anyroo,thcn to a dapple gray, , A!1d how ~ach mornc: in habi re~ new they range, Till at the l~ngth t?e~ {ee that happy day,

Whcn(hke thc1r S1res and hcau'nly angels blcfi) Of pure and milk: white !tolcs rhey arc pofidt.

Larg;c:

Anti their Flier. Lay then thine care and lift en buta while; Wbilfr each their foode from leafage freib rcceiues~ Trie if thou canft hold in an outward fmile, When both thine care and phantafie conceauc:s, Not worms to feed,bm !hovvrings to dill:il. In whifpriog fort vpon the tatling lcaues:

For Curb a kind of muttring hauc: 1 heard, ( ceard. Whilft herbage greene with vnfecne teeth. they

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Wheo afrerwatd with needle pointed tongue, The Flies haue bor• d a paffage through tb eir cl ewes, Obferue their gate andfteerage al along, Their falutations,couplings,and Adieus: Heare eke their burring aud theirchurring fong~ When hot Priapt~sloueand luft renewes,

And tcl me if thou heard&, or e'redidfr eye, Like fport amongftall win~ed troupes that flye~

Tis ltkewife fport tO heare how man and maide; Whil\l winding,twifting,and in weauing, thay Now laugh, now chide, 11 ow fc.tn what others faidc; Now fiug a Carrol,now a louers lay, Now make the trembling beames to cry for aide, On clattring treddles w hllfr they roughly play:

Rcfembling in their riling and their falls, A mufic:ke ftt·ange of new found claricaUs.

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Of the Si!'<! ~ormer The fmellikc:w ife offilken wool that's lH~W ~ To heart and head what comfort cloth it bring, . ff WbiHl: we it wind ~nd tooze (romoual dew~ Rcfcmbling much in prime of fragrant fpring, . When wild-rofe buds in grec:ne :md ple~fant hue, Perfume the ayre,and vpwacd fents do flmg,

well pl eafing _fents,neither too fowre nor f vvc:cte, l>ut rightly ,rotxc,. and of~ temper meet e ..

As for the hand,lookc how a loo er :wife: Delightcth more to touch Ajl11rte~lCk . . Then Htcub.t,whofe eyc-browc:s h1dc her CJes.,._ Whofe wrinckled lippc:s in kifsing feeme to py1ck, Vpon who(e p.:almes fuch warts and hu~tclls nfc,.

. As may in poulder grate a nutmegge thtck: So ioy our hands io filkc,;md feeme fulloth To lundle ought b.ut lilke and filkel'l cloth.

Such :.\CC the plcafure~,and farre more then there, Which hc:ad,and bart,cies,eares,and nofe.and hands, Take or may take, in learning at their c:~!e, The dieting of ~hefc my fpinning bands, . VV ho[e filken thrccde fhal more ~hen coumerpeife, Painc,cofr, and charge,"YV hat c:uer lt vs frands,

So that if gaine or plea Cure: can perfw a de, Go we let vs learne the filken:l.l:aplcrs trade. - • - ··· But

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But litl, me thinkc:s I hc:are Amynt.u fayne, That fhcpheards skill w il foone be quite vndone, x.,,1,1"~' •f.fz!~,~ Behold fa ire PhiUis fcuddt.th from the: platnt:, 1~vm'" ;,;,,tmh Lcauing ~1cr flocks at randon for to runne, "•! "" k.!.<Jirrg Lo Lidian clothie_r breaks his loon:es in twainc:, 11::~~;·;:;:[:, .And thoufand fp111fie1·s bumc their woollen {pun ne::

Ah!ceafc your rage,thefc fpinficrs hurt you noutTht But vv il encrcafe you more then ere you thougl1t.

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For cardc: an ounce offilke with ten of wool!, How fine,hoyv ftrog,how firange a y;mie doth rife~ Make trial onc:e,and hauing {eene at tu!. Your new found ftutfc,chaffred at highcftprize, Then blan1e your idle heads and fcnfes dull, Trufi no~ conccit,but creditc moct your eyes:

Laughmgas much,or morc,rhc ere you mourn'& Whco fcare you fee to ioy aud vantage turn d. '

Laugh now(raire .Mira)vvith thy Virginswhitc For why your c(Tges committed to my care ' m . ' Are gro_wne fo mu(.h in bignefle,worth,1nd fight, That K~ngs and Qtccns to keep them wilnot fparc, Yea Q1een ofQuec:nes,forvcJ:rue,V\ ittc,and might, ~erhaps wil hatch them twixt thofe hillocks rare,

VVhere al the Gracts fc:ede and Sijltrs nine, Who cuer loue, and grace both thee and thine:.

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0 f the Si/~ -w.ormes· The frnel likewife offilken wool that's new~ To heart and head what comfortdoth it bring, Whilft we it wind and tooze from oual dew? Rcfcmbling much in prime of fragrant (pting, . When vvild-rofe buds in grcene and pleafant hue. Perfume the ayre,and vpvvard fcnts do fling,

Well pleafing_fcnts,neither too fovvre nor fvvecte, But rightly m1xr,. and of a temper meetc,

As for the hand,looke how a loo er wife Ddightcth more to touch Ajl11rtt~ick . . Then Hm;ba,whofe eyc-browcs htde heretes~. Whofe wrinckled lip pes in kifsillg feemc to pnck, Vpon whore palmes fuch warts and hu~tdls rife,. As may in pouldcr grate a nutmcgge thtck:

So ioy our hands in filke,~nd fee me fulloth To handle ought but filke and filkel'l cloth.

Such :.tte the pleafurc~,and farre more then there, which head and hart,cies,eares,and nofe,and hands, Take or may take, in learning at their eak, The dieting of thefc my fpinning bands, . VV ho[e filketi threedc (ha\ more then coumerpe1fe, Painc,cofr, and charge,w hat c:ucr it vs frands,

So that if gaine or pleafure can perfwade, Go we let vs learnc: the filken.fl:aplcrs trade. - .. - ··· - But

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But lill, me thinkes T heare Amynta fayne, That lhepheards skill wil foone be quite vndone, Xc~Jduiuff::f:t~ Behold fa ire Phillu fcuddt.th from tbc plauJc, lt•'"'" i/jndmf,

Leauing her flocks at ran don for to runne, 110; tl"k•fh':t.

Lo Lidian clothier breaks his loomes in twaine, 1f:.~~;;:~:i:. And thoufand fpinfrers burne their woollen !pun ne:

Ah!ccalc your rage,thcle fpinll:crs hurt you nought But vv il cncreafc you more then ere you thought.

For car de an ounce of filkc with ten of wooll, How fine,hoyv ftrog,how ftrange a yanie do rh rife~ Make trial once,and hauing kene ar tu I, Your new found ftuffe,chaffred at highefrprizc, Then blame yom idle heads and fen[es dull, Truft nGt conceir,but creditc mofr your eyes:

Laughing as much, or more, the ere you mourn\!, When fcare you fee toioy and vantage turn d.

Laugh now(taire Mira)with thy Virginswhitc For why your cggcs committed to my care, ' Are grow ne {o mu<.h in bignelle,wonh,1nd fight, That Kings and Qteens to keep them wilnot fpare: Yea Q1een of Quccncs,forverrucj\'\ ittc,aucl might) ~erhaps wil hatch them twixt thofe hillocks rare,

\N'here al the Gr.sces feede and Sijlers nine, Who eucr louc~and grace both thee and thine.

FINIS.

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