<p>WHEN Fire, and Aire, and Earthe, and Water, all weare one:<lb/> Before that worke deuine was wroughte, which nowe wee<lb/> looke vppon.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_12701"/>There was no forme of thinges, but a confused masse:<lb/> A lumpe, which <rs>CHAOS</rs> men did call: wherin no order was.<lb/> The Coulde, and Heate, did striue: the Heauie thinges, and Lighte,<lb/> The Harde, and Softe, the Wette, and Drye. for none had shape arighte.<lb/> But when they weare dispos'd, eache one into his roome:<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_12702"/>The Fire, had Heate: the Aire, had Lighte: the Earthe, with fruites did bloome.<lb/> The Sea, had his increase: which thinges, to passe thus broughte:<lb/> Behoulde, of this vnperfecte masse, the goodly worlde was wroughte.<lb/> Then all thinges did abounde, that seru'd the vse of man:<lb/> The Riuers greate, with wyne, and oyle, and milke, and honie, ranne.<lb/> The Trees did yeeld their fruite: thoughe planting then vnknowne.<lb/> And <persName type="mythological">CERES</persName> still was in her pompe, thoughe seede weare neuer sowne.<lb/> The season, Sommer was: the Groues weare alwayes greene,<lb/> And euery banke, did beare the badge of fragrant <persName type="mythological">FLORA</persName> Queene.<lb/> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac123"/> This was the goulden worlde, that Poëttes praised moste,<lb/> No hate, was harbor'd then at home: nor hatch'd, in forren coste.<lb/> But after, when the earthe, with people did increase:<lb/> Ambition, straighte began to springe: and pryde, did banishe peace.<lb/> For, as all tymes doe change: euen so, this age did passe.<lb/> Then did the siluer age insue, and then, the age of brasse.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_12703"/>The Iron age was laste, a fearefull cursed tyme:<lb/> Then, armies came of mischiefes in: and fil'd the worlde with cryme:<lb/> Then rigor, and reuenge, did springe in euell hower:<lb/> And men of mighte, did manadge all, and poore opprest with power.<lb/> And hee, that mightie was, his worde, did stand for lawe:<lb/> And what the poore did ploughe, and sowe: the ritch away did drawe.<lb/> None mighte their wiues inioye, their daughters, or their goodes,<lb/> No, not their liues: such tyraunts broode, did seeke to spill their bloodes.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_12704"/>Then vertues weare defac'd, and dim'd with vices vile,<lb/> Then wronge, did maske in cloke of righte: then bad, did good exile.<lb/> Then falshood, shadowed truthe: and hate, laugh'd loue to skorne:<lb/> Then pitie, and compassion died: and bloodshed fowle was borne.<lb/> So that no vertues then, their proper shapes did beare:<lb/> Nor coulde from vices bee decern'd, so straunge they mixed weare.<lb/> That nowe, into the worlde, an other <rs>CHAOS</rs> came:<lb/> But <rs>GOD</rs>, that of the former heape: the heauen and the earthe did frame,<lb/> And all thinges plac'd therein, his glorye to declare:<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_12705"/>Sente <rs>IVSTICE</rs> downe vnto the earthe: such loue to man hee bare<lb/> Who, so suruay'd the world, with such an heauenly vewe:<lb/> That quickly vertues shee aduanc'd: and vices did subdue.<lb/> And, of that worlde did make, a paradice of blisse:<lb/> By which wee doo inferre: That where this sacred Goddes is,<lb/> That land doth florishe still, and gladnes, their doth growe:<lb/> Bicause that all, to <rs>God</rs>, and Prince, by her their dewties knowe.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_12706"/>And where her presence wantes, there ruine raignes, and wracke:<lb/> And kingdomes can not longe indure, that doe this ladie lacke.<lb/> Then happie <rs>England</rs> most, where <rs>IVSTICE</rs> is embrac'd:<lb/> And eeke so many famous men, within her chaire are plac'd.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_12707"/><foreign lang="la">- sed comprime motus,<lb/> Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse licebit,<lb/> Occurat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.</foreign> <gloss target="embstma_1667_12701" lang="la"><name type="author">Ouid.</name> in Metam.<lb/> lib. 1.<lb/> - quia corpore in vno<lb/> Frigida pugnabant ca-<lb/> lidis: humentia, siccis:<lb/> Mollia, cum duris: sine<lb/> pondere, habentia pon-<lb/> dur.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_12702" lang="la"><name type="author">Tibul.</name> 1. 3.<lb/> Non domus vlla fores<lb/> habuit, non fixus in agris<lb/> Qui regeret certis fini-<lb/> bus arua lapis:<lb/> Ipsae mella dabant quer-<lb/> cus, vltróque ferebant<lb/> Obuia securis vbera la-<lb/> ctis oues:<lb/> Non acies, non ira fuit,<lb/> non bella, nec enses,<lb/> Immiti saeuus duxerat<lb/> arte faber, &amp;c.</gloss> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac123"/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_12703" lang="la"><name type="author">Ouid.</name> 1. Metam.<lb/> Iamque nocens ferrum,<lb/> ferróq. nocentiu aurum<lb/> Prodierat, prodit bel-<lb/> lum, quod pugnat vtroq.<lb/> Sanquineáq. manu cre-<lb/> pitantia concutit arma;<lb/> Viuitur ex rapto, non<lb/> hospes ab hospite tutus,<lb/> Non socer à genero: fra-<lb/> trum quoque gratia ra-<lb/> ra est, &amp;c.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_12704" lang="la"><name type="author">Isidor</name>. 2. Ethy.<lb/> Factae sunt leges, vt<lb/> earum metu coërcea-<lb/> tur audacia, tutaq. sit<lb/> inter improbos inno-<lb/> centia, &amp; in ipsis im-<lb/> probis formidato sup-<lb/> plicio refraenetur no-<lb/> cendi facultas.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_12705" lang="la"><name type="author">Anselmus</name> de Iustitia.<lb/> Iustitia est animi li-<lb/> bertas, tribuens vni-<lb/> cuique suam propriam<lb/> dignitatem, maiori<lb/> reuerentiam, pari con-<lb/> cordiam, minori disci-<lb/> plinam, Deo obedien-<lb/> tiam, egeno operosam<lb/> misericordiam.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_12706" lang="la">Imago Iustitiae vide-<lb/> tur apud <name type="author">Plutarch.</name><lb/> lib. De Iside &amp; Osi-<lb/> ride, &amp; apud <name type="author">Gell.</name><lb/> lib. 14. cap. 4.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_12707" lang="la">De officio optimi Iu-<lb/> dicis, <name type="author">Claudianus</name> ad<lb/> Honorium sic,</gloss> </p>

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