Tećhnepolimogamia: or, The marriage of armes and arts, July 12. 1651. Being an accompt of the act at Oxon. to a friend. / By R. W. Whitehall, Robert, 1625-1685. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A96379 of text R206613 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E637_10). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 15 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A96379 Wing W1876 Thomason E637_10 ESTC R206613 99865732 99865732 117981 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A96379) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 117981) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 98:E637[10]) Tećhnepolimogamia: or, The marriage of armes and arts, July 12. 1651. Being an accompt of the act at Oxon. to a friend. / By R. W. Whitehall, Robert, 1625-1685. [8] p. Printed by J.G. for R. Royston, at the Angel in Ivie-lane, London : 1651. R.W. = Robert Whitehall. In verse. Signatures: A⁴. The first word of the title is transliterated from the Greek. Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 16th". Identified as Wing W79 on UMI microfilm set "Early English Books, 1641-1700" reel 1940. Reproductions of the originals in the British Library (Thomason Tracts) and the Bodleian Library, Oxford ("Early English Books, 1641-1700" reel 1940. eng Military art and science -- England -- Poetry. A96379 R206613 (Thomason E637_10). civilwar no Tećhnepolimogamia: or, The marriage of armes and arts,: July 12. 1651. Being an accompt of the act at Oxon. to a friend. / By R. W. Whitehall, Robert 1651 2241 3 15 0 0 0 0 80 D The rate of 80 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-04 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-04 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion ΤΈΞΝΗ-ΠΟΛΙΓΑΜΊΑ : OR , THE MARRIAGE OF ARMES and ARTS , JULY 12. 1651. Being an Accompt of the ACT at OXON. to a Friend . By R. W. Quae sequitur manca est numero sensuque Propago . ACADEMIA ◆ OXONIENSIS ◆ printer's or publisher's device LONDON , Printed by J. G. for R. Royston , at the Angel in Ivie-lane . 1651. Authori Malè feriato quae sequuntur . SArcinulam hanc quicunque vides , digitoque flagellas , Si vis Vulcano mittere , quin & emis ? Ut cineres volutent , ( sursum leve ) at anguis in urnâ , Qui Te ( si Tu nos ) sibilet , Ardelio . Pone supercilium , leget haec Nemo Hercule ? Nemo ? Cedo aurem ; — effectum des , & is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} eris : Si subitos casus vel adhuc damnaveris , audi , — Scire Tuum nihil est , dicito scire meum . Τέξνη-πολομαγαμία : OR , The Marriage of Arms and Arts , &c. NOw ! are ye not all Infidels that thought The long-expected Act would come to nought ? As if Mars still were Heathen , had to doe With Venus , and not with Minerva too : As if such termes as these were opposite , The Sword and th' Word , Attlas and th' Stagirite ; Termes meerly Identicall , by Grammer Law , S●suae Protestatis littera ; So Ars and Mars by an Aphaeresis Become the very same , ( shake hands and kisse ; ) As if the Gowne were aw'd by the Commander Or Aristotle at odds with Alexander ; As if the Snake about the knowledge Tree Still had his Sting , still his Malignity . Arts now and Armes United , their Protector Is no fictitious George , but Reall Hector . In him old Authors all doe acquiesce ( Unlesse Don Scotus be againe i' th' presse ) But Zanchius , Dan Sennert : and all the Maps May chink within their Chaine nor feare Mishaps ; Euclid was never in esteeme more high Since * Romulus began to fortifie ; When he ( the Proto-Leveller ) had thrown ( Impregnable ! ) three mole-hills into one . But misty Scotus speaks as far from True As Bonnet from Square-caps , as Black from Blew ; Or Case from Fiddle , as a Groome or Page From high and Mighty Bajasets i' th' Cage . Hee 's knotty and obscure , ( so fare him well ) An other speaks more in a syllable ; It could not sink of late into our thoughts Will : Cartwright would goe off for 13. groats ; Since whom 't was blaz'd that Pegasus was dead O' th' staggers , or a Dyzinesse i' th' Head , But since his hoofe was pick't and par'd , 't is found , He sets his foot more firmely on the ground . Judgements the Traytor , Phant'sie is allow'd , Shee s above all , but never in a Clowd ; Or if she be obfuscate , Phoebus will Enlighten her , and sometimes guide the Quill ; But where the Clowd upon the Brow appeares , The Bitten Lipp , the blewnesse of the Eares ; Starting and gazing North in stead of East , These are the Characters , beware the beast . But Poets , ( poore May blossomes ) know not how To be disloyall , or to knit the Brow ; If they offend 't is on some pleasing theames ( I hope no arraigning Phantsie for her Dreams , ) They never hold up hands but when they see Lex Talionis , or some Prodigie : They have no Iron-mittons , socks indeed Or Buskins they can lend you for a need ; But heer 's no Rollo , no pale Vmbra — No , Others have had too much of that , and so This leads me to the Act , where doth appeare A Jubile in th' one and fiftieth yeare . Roome then ; but yet no Amphitheater ( The Caledonian Bore may fight elsewhere ; ) No Captaine Otto with Bull Beare and Horse , Or what may fright the female gender worse : No Melancholly scene of Dumpish Love Brought in a Maze , or Cupid from above : No Porcupine , no Dancing on the Rope , No nipping Cardinall , or cramping Pope : No Roscius , no Taylor on the stage , No Cane , nor Timothy ( to please the Page ) Though none of these , though playes are out of date And exits formidable grown of late ; Though neither Mimick fond , nor satyr rough To make the Maddam leave behind her Muff ; Yet somewhat was presented by the Arts Of higher Nature , and as many * Parts Besides Trojani Ludi and Florales , And ( to prevent ill luck ) * Apollinares ; And you 'l confesse this Rolling eye so cleare , More spectacles had beene Pleonasmes here . Now for a stand 5. crownes , — the Devill is O're Lincolne — Brazen nose is not amisse ; Jove's * Phaenix , and our Brother Phaeton Forbid too neer approaches to the Sun . Break out the worlds bright Eye ! see how they muster Like Autumne grapes in one entire Ripe Cluster ! Their full-fraught Sable Gownes so large and wide Demonstrate they can Sayle 'gainst winde and Tide . Thus Zephyrus brings his offering , that the sweat Of either sex added to July's heat ( Corrected ) might such Atoms get , such Men , ( By Plato's rule ) as Oedipus agen . Wee 'l side with him in this , ( nor care who know it ) So hee 'l allow the Common-wealth a Poet . ( The Musick-Lecturer if he had put on All his Platonick Ladies , they had got one . ) Those Vestall Virgins that came up to light Their fire extinct at Phoebus ere 't was night , Here I could break Times hower-glasse that run The day away before it was begun . Some say , Sol took fresh horses that could fly , And that he borrow'd two of * Edgerly : When shining in his face , he got's good will , ( And then young Hercules he call'd him still ) And told him if deny'd , he 'd make him passe For th' Sarazan through a Multiplying-glasse : And so , by consequence , against his will , Be th' * Signe and Carrier too upon Snow-hill . Help here ye water-Nymphs , and give a word With glosse enough to set out Oxen-ford ; Would I were now i' th' sell with Timon , he Once out of Athens had his Privacy ; But O the Dinne ! now-now-that Rampant hum Has put me cleane by an Exordium ; Where shall I now begin , or rally up The scattered nine , unlesse I had a Cup Of Helicon — 't is so — well thought upon , I le steal to Aristotles Well alone , And find 'um there — hold , Father — I le ha'none , — No Suger — keepe the horne to for — — A Synagogue here to ! — would I were i' th' stocks At Heddenton , for here my Tinder-box Is not a place secure enough to keepe Its anxious Master from the vulgar peepe . This Act — ( I 'le rest my Grandsiers bones if I Am not distracted into Drollery , And know not how to help it ) I say this Act Was well perform'd de Jure and de fact ; No Muse assizes here , ( nequam eget ) Hark! th' Eccho prompts the Malefactor , Legit . Here 's Munus , but no Bustuarii , ( Tricks , O' th' Romans that would fight th' condemn'd to Styx ) By Inspiration of this very place He finds his Neck-verse , and an Act of Grace . Free grace ( as some will have it ) but the wise Allow ( though not o' th' Ropes ) yet Exercise . And such there was i' th' Roman Idiom ( Yet Barklays style ) that all was hush and Mum . And ( as 't is fam'd of Jupiter ) their Eare Chain'd up to Terrae filius his Chaire . ( Besides some subtle questians pro and con Encouragement for youth to bring it on ) Sarcasmes fly about , and now they itch Till Terrae filius give the Chain a Twitch , And then they rayle at Barkley , say he gott Philoclea with child , and was a Scott . Which to define aright ( they were so bold ) They said he was a lowse of nine yeares old . But this was Taylers talke , ( to right our Mother ) I mean not Water-Iohn , nor yet that other , Not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , but by Profession ( Of these in each new pocket there was one ) These make not * Berecynthia's Wedding-Gowne , Shee 'l have the Make and Spinning of her owne , Not loose , as ready still to fall to th' ground , Nor yet o' th' newest fashion , pinion'd ; But in the middle way ( the Golden Rule Of Mediocrity is in her Schoole ) And yet by one of her seven Sons she hopes To have it lin'd with Bayes , and set with Tropes . Now Orpheus Junior mounts , ( begin the Dance ) The Ladies please themselves into a Trance . To Cato's brood he whispers in their eare , That th' scornfull Lady is forbidden here , Who with her queamish stomach cryes — amisse , Because ( forsooth ) she would get out — It works , it works ; which to prevent , while he Division runs , they crosse-legg'd Lo : La : Mi : Like Randall's meeke * Aorgus — O for him To help me out with matter fill'd to th' brim . Look how the Swallowes , darting to and fro St. Maries , imitate the Roman * Crow : And the Suns bright flame-colour'd beames that come Upon the Prophets heads , the * Flammeum . The Rostrum , and Subsellia , and Men Speak Marcus Cicero alive agen : But that the Judges by their smiles portend Here was no Catiline that did offend . Who then forbids the Nuptials of the Nine ? Duke Humphrey ne'r afforded better Wine : A pittance too of * Venison to th' Sack , Enough to prove us sons of Isaac . The Musick-men will sit and nod all night , And keep time with their heads till it be light . Nay one of them , I heard him tell his fellowes , Would play to please us , though upon the Gallowes . Some say Sir Thomas Bodly through a cleft Of our old dry Nurse ( Earth ) lookt up , and left This testimony , that if he were sent Hither againe , he never would repent . Who then forbids the Banes ? Speak , Shadow , say ; ( And vanish ) was it not a glorious day ? If nothing be objected , right or wrong , Wee 'l celebrate these Nuptials with a Song . SONG . OFF with thy Gauntlet , Mars , and yeeld The Bucklers , and resigne thy shield , The Muses judged it fit : Not to deprive thee of thy right , But they desire to scowre 'em bright That on Parnassus sit . See how the Book expanded lies , With Wisdome put before our eyes , And after-happinesse ; * A Crowne for a reward is set In Gold , as th' letters are in Jett That never knew the Presse . Philosophers shall study more For th' hidden Stone than heretofore , And Alcumists blow faster : And when poore * Lungs is worne away , 'T will be enough for him to say He did it for his Master . CHORUS . Then feare we not those With Rhinoceros Nose , Nor the venemous tooth to bite us ; Let us dance out the Rushes In spite of their Tushes , For the Goddesses all will right us . Then let Flora bring Roses , To make us all Poses , Sing Talassio , Caius , and Caia ; Let none dare to grin Till the Dog-dayes begin , Nor yet stamp , for the Muses will pay-a . Juno , Diana , Suadula , Venus , Jove , Crowne what is acted here below , above . THE END . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A96379e-320 * Luc. Flo. li . 1. * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . * Liv. li . 5. Dec. 3 * Semele . * The Oxford Carrier . * The Sarazans head his Inne . * Ipsa Deûm fertur genetrix Berecynthia . Virgil . * A. B. ● . i' th' Muses Looking glasse . * Lucky . * A yellow veil used in the Roman Nuptials . * Nepotia ▪ * The University Arms . * B. J. his Alcumist .