Thalia rediviva
THE Pass-Times and Diversions OF A COUNTREY-MUSE, In Choice POEMS On several Occasions WITH Some Learned Remains of the Eminent Eugenius Philalethes, Never made Publick till now.
‘— Nec erubuit sylvas habitare Thalia.’ Virgil.
Licensed, Roger L'Estrange.
London, Printed for Robert Pawlet at the Bible in Chancery-lane, near Fleetstreet, 1678.
TO THE Most Honourable and truly Noble HENRY Lord Marquis and Earl of WORCESTER, &c.
THough Dedications are now become a kind of Tyranny over the Peace and Repose of great Men; yet I have confidence I shall so manage the present Address as to entertain your Lordship without much disturbance; and because my purposes are govern'd by deep Respect and Veneration, I hope to find your Lordship more facile [Page] and accessible. And I am already absolv'd from a great part of that fulsome and designing guilt, being sufficiently remov'd from the causes of it: for I consider, my Lord! that you are already so well known to the World in your several Characters, and advantages of Honour; it was yours by traduction, and the adjunct of your Nativity, you were swaddl'd and rock'd in't, bred up and grew in't to your now wonderful height and eminence: that for me under pretence of the inscription to give you the heraldry of your family, or to carry your person through the fam'd Topicks of Mind Body, or Estate, were all one as to perswade the World that Fire and Light were very bright Bodies, or that the Luminaries themselves had Glory. In point of Protection I beg to fall in with the common wont, and to be satisfied by the reasonableness of the thing, and abundant worthy precedents; and although I should have secret prophecy and assurance that the ensuing Verse would live eternally, yet would I, as I now do, humbly crave it might be fortifi'd with your Patronage; for so the Sextile Aspects and Influences [Page] are watch'd for, and applied to the actions of Life, thereby to make the Scheme and good Auguries of the Birth pass into Fate, and a success infallible.
My Lord! By a happy obliging Intercession, and your own consequent Iudulgence, I have now recourse to your Lordship; hopeing, I shall not much displease by putting these Twin Poets into your Hands. The Minion and Vertical Planet of the Roman Lustre and Bravery was never better pleased, than when he had a whole Constellation about him: not his finishing Five several Wars to the promoting of his own Interest, nor particularly the prodigious success at Actium, where he held in chase the Wealth, Beauty and Prowess of the East; not the Triumphs and absolute Dominions which followed, all this gave him not half that serene Pride and Satisfaction of Spirit as when he retir'd himself to umpire the different Excellencies of his insipid Friends, and to distribute Lawrels among his Poetick Heroes: If now upon the Authority of this, and several such Examples I had the Ability and Opportunity [Page] of drawing the Value and strange Worth of a Poet, and withall of applying some of the Lineaments to the following pieces; I should then do my self a real Service, and attone in a great measure for the present insolence. But best of all will it serve my Defence and Interest to appeal to your Lordships own conceptions and image of Genuine Verse; with which so just, so regular Original, if these Copies shall hold proportion and resemblance, then am I advanced very far in your Lordships pardon: the rest will entirely be supplied me by your Lordships Goodness, and my own awful Zeal of being,
To the Reader.
THE Nation of Poets above all Writers [...] ever [...] perpetuity of Name, or as they please by their Charter of Liberty to call it, Immortality. Nor has the World much [...] claim, either easily resigning a Patrimony in it self not very substantial; or, it may be, [...] of despair to controule the authority of Inspiration and Oracle. Howsoevert he price as now quarrell'd for among the Poets themselves is no such rich bargain: 'tis only a vanishing interest in the Lees and Dreggs of Time, in the Rear of those Fathers and [...] in the Art, who if they know any thing of the heats and fury of their Successors must extreamly pity them.
I am to assure, that the Author has no portion of that aiery happiness to lose by any [...] or unkindness which may be done to his Verse: his Reputation is better [...] in the sentiment of several judicious Persons, who know him very well able to give himself a lasting Monument, by undertaking any Argument of note in the whole Circle of Learning.
But even these his Diversions have been valuable with the matchless Orinda, and [...] they deserv'd [...] esteem and commendations; who so thinks them not worth the publishing, will put himself in the [...] Scale, where his own arrogance will blow him up.
To Mr. Henry Vaughan the Silurist: upon these and his former Poems.
Upon the Ingenious Poems of his Learned Friend, Mr. Henry Vaughan the Silurist.
To my worthy Friend, Mr. Henry Vaughan the Silurist.
Choice POEMS on seveveral occasions.
To his Learned Friend and Loyal FellowPrisoner, Thomas Powel of Cant. Doctor of Divinity.
Thalia Rediviva.
The King Disguis'd.
Written about the same time that Mr.
John Cleveland wrote his.
The Eagle
To Mr. M. L. upon his reduction of the Psalms into Method.
To the pious memorie of C. W. Esquire who finished his Course here, and made his Entrance into Immortality upon the 13 of September, in the year of Redemption 1653.
In Zodiacum Marcelli Palingenii.
To Lysimachus, the Author being with him in London.
On Sir Thomas Bodley's Library; the Author being then in Oxford.
The importunate Fortune, written to Doctor Powel of Cantre.
To I, Morgan of White-hall Esq upon his sudden Journey and succeeding Marriage.
FIDA: [...] The Country-beauty: to Lysimachus.
Fida forsaken.
To the Editor of the matchless Orinda.
Upon sudden news of the much lamented death of Judge Trevers.
To Etesia (for Timander,) the first Sight.
The Character, to Etesia
To Etesia looking from her Casement at the full Moon.
To Etesia parted from him, and looking back.
In Etesiam lachrymantem.
To Etesia going beyond Sea.
Etesia absent.
Translations. Some Odes of the Excellent and Knowing Severinus, Englished.
Metrum 12. Lib. 3.
Metrum 2. Lib. 3.
Metrum 6 Lib. 4.
Metrum 3. Lib. 4.
Metrum 6. Lib. 3.
The old man of Verona out of Claudian.
The Sphere of Archimedes out of Claudian.
The Phoenix out of Claudian.
Pious thoughts and Ejaculations.
To his Books.
Looking back.
The Shower.
Discipline.
The Ecclipse.
Affliction.
Retirement.
The Revival.
The Day-spring.
The Recovery.
The Nativity.
The true Christmas.
The Request.
Jordanis
Servilii Fatum, five Vindicta divina.
De Salmone. Ad virum optimum, & sibi familiariùs notum: D. Thomam Poellum Cantrevensem: S. S. Theologiae Doctorem.
The World.
The Bee.
To Christian Religion.
Revel. Chap. last, vers. 17.
The Spirit and the Bride say, Come.
DAPHNIS. An Elegiac Eclogue.
- Damon,
- Menalcas.
Eugenii Philalethis, VIRI INSIGNISSIMI ET Poetarum Sui Saeculi, meritò Principis: VERTUMNUS ET CYNTHIA, &c.
Q. Horat. ‘— Qui praegravat artes Infra se positas, extinctus ambitur. —’
LONDINI, Impensis Roberti Pawlett, M. DC. LXXVIII.
Ornatissimo viro Domino MATHAEO HERBERT, Institutori suo imprimis suspiciendo.
Vertumnus.
Cynthia.
In Chloen intuentem.
In Ephemeridas J. Kepleri.
Vitrum horarium ex sepulti Mathematici pulvere.
Ad virum eximium. D. Thomam Poellum Cantrevensem S. S. Theologiae Doctorem
Ad Fontem, ex quo bibere solita est Stella.
In Stellam Lachrymantem.
In Eandem acra febre dormientem.
Ejusdem Epitaphium.
Gustavus Adolphus Rex Sueciae Intrat Germaniam.
Tillium congrediens augurium rident.
Moriens Wallenstenium fundit.
Testatur se Germanorum libertatem sanguine suo sigillare.
Carolus Primus, Anglorum Rex.
Disce Lector,
Epitaphium Gulielmi Laud Episcopi Cantuariensis.
Mauritius Pontisfracti Castrum ingreditur.
Propositâ ab hoste pactione, solus excluditur.
Dedito Castro, & pactione exclusus per medios hostes erumpit.
Aliud.
Aliud.
Desiderantur Alcippus & Jacintha (Poema Heroicum absolutissimum,) cum multis aliis [...] ab Authore relictis.
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VIllare Anglicanum, or a view of all Towns, Villages, &c. In England and Wales, so that naming any Town or place, you may readily find what Shire, Hundred, Rape or Wapentake it is in. Also the number of Bishopricks, Counties, under their several jurisdictions, and the Shire-Towns, Burroughs and Parishes in each County, by the appointment of the eminent Sir Henry Spelman Kt.
The Nuns Complaint against the Friers, being the Charge given in the Court of France by the Nuns of St. Katharines near Provence, against the Father Fryers, their Confessors; shewing their abuses in their allowance of undecent Books, and Love-letters, and Marriages of the Friers and Nuns, their Frolicks and Entertainments, &c. several times printed in French, and now faithfully done into English.
Mary Magdalen's Tears wiped off; or the voice of Peace to an unquiet Conscience.
The Golden Remains of that ever memorable Mr. John Hales of Eaton Colledg &c. the second Impression with many additions not before published, in Quarto.
Episcopacy as established by Law in England, written by the command of the late King Charles, by Robert Saunderson, late Lord Bishop of Lincoln, in Oct.
Incestuous Marriages, or Relations of Consanguinity [Page] and Affinity hindering and dissolving Marriage, as making all Marriages within such Relations to be Incestuous, and all Children of such Marriages to be Illegitimate, or Bastards to all intents and purposes.
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Mr. Chillingsworth's Reasons against Popery, perswading his Friend to turn to his Mother the Church of England, from the Church of Rome.
The Book of Homilies appointed to be read in Churches.
Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical.
Divine Breathings, or, a Pious Soul thirsting after Christ in an hundred excellent Meditations.
Hugo Grotius de Rebus Belgicis, or, the Annals and History of the Low Countrey Wars.
A Treatise of English Particles: with a Praxis upon the same; by William Walker B. D. School-Master of Grantham.
The Royal Grammar, commonly called Lillies [Page] [...] explained, with [...] plainness, to Children of the meanest capacity, by William Walker, B. D. Author of the Treatise of English Particles.
A Rationale on the Book of Common prayer of the Church of England, by Anthony Sparrow, Lord Bishop of Norwich, with his caution to his Diocess against false Doctrines.
A Treatise proving Spirits, Witches, and Supernatural operations, by pregnant Instances and Evidences, by Meric Causabon. Octa.
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A Narrative of some passages, in or relating to the long Parliament, by a Person of Honour.
Nemesius, Nature of Man in English by George Withers, Gent.
Inconveniencies of Toleration.
Toleration intolerable.
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