Hora. — Si quid —— Candidus Imperti si non his utere mecum
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why, (being a stranger to your
Lordshippe) I offer this Poem to
your Patronage, I plead this war&rehy;rant;
Men (who neuer saw the
Sea, yet desire to behold that regi&rehy;ment
of waters,) choose some eminent Riuer, to guide
them thither; and make that as it were, their Conduct,
or Position: But the like ingenious means, has your
fame arriued at my knowledge, receiuing it from some
of worth, who both in contemplation, and practise,
owe to your Honour their clearest service. I do not
altogether look up at your title: The ancien'st
Nobility, being but a rellique of time past, and the
truest Honor indeede being for a man to conferre
Honor on himself, which your Learning stiues to
Propagate, and shall make you arrive at the Dignity
of a great Example. I am confident this worke is
no unworthy your Honors perusal for by such
Poems as this, Poets haue kist the hands of Great
Princes, and drawne their gentle eyes to looke downe
upon their sheets of paper, when the Poets them&rehy;selves
were bound up in their wining-sheets. The
like curtesie from your Lordship, shall make you liue
in your graue, and laurell spring out of it when the
ignorant scorners of the Muses (that like a wormes in
Libraries, seem to liue only, to destroy learning)
shall wither, neglected, and forgotten. This worke
and my selfe I humbly present to your approued
censure. It being the utmost of my wishes, to have your
Honorable selfe my weighty and perspicuous Com&rehy;ment:
Vt Lux ex Tenebris ictu percussa TONANTIS;
My brother here (the Cardinall) could neuer abide you.
May be some oblique character in&w4; your face, made him suspect you?
The Dutchesse was deliuer'd of a Sonne, 'tweene the houres twelue, and one, in&w4; the night:
Anno Dom : 1504.
(that&w62; is this yeere)
,
(that&w62; is this night)
taken according to&w4; the
Meridian of Malfy
(that&w62; is our&w62; Dutchesse: happy discouery)
The Lord of the first house, being combust in&w4; the ascendant, signifies short
life: and Mars being in&w4; a human signe, joyn'd to&w4; the taile of the Dragon,
in&w4; the eight house, doth threaten a violent death;
.
Here is an example, for&w4; extortion; what moysture, is drawne out of the Sea, when fowle weather comes, powres downe, and runnes into the Sea againe.
I would know what are your opinions of this Antonio.
Send Antonio to&w4; me; I want his head in&w4; a busines:
I stand ingaged for&w4; your husband, for&w4; seuerall debts at Naples: let not That&w62; trouble him, I had rather have his heart, than his mony.
Doomes-day not come yet? I will&w1; draw it&w62; neerer by&w4; perspectiue, or to&w9; make a glasse, that&w61; shall set all the world on&w4; fire upon&w4; an instant: I cannot sleepe, my pillow is stuff't with a littour of Porcupines.
Hell is a meere glasse-house, where the diuells are continually blowing up&w5; womens soules, on&w4; hollow yrons, and the fire neuer goes out.