The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Harpocrates/Horus ( - )
Greek manifestation of the Egyptian god Horus the Child, god of silence and the rising sun. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606413.001.0001/acref-9780198606413-e-3161?rskey=wlatiP&result=1 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpocrates Relationships: Harpocrates/Horus was a son of Osiris (-)Isis (-) was a mother of Harpocrates/Horus
References in Documents:
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) (a) Seated child Harpocrates . H: 3 cms. An infant Romulus . . . digd out of
Quirinus his temple , on the Quirinal hill , when those ruins were removed to make way for the very
fine, pretty, rich church of S . . . Left hand and foot
missing. B1 .
taMaria della Vittoria
Inventarie of the Gabions, in M. George his Cabinet (1638)
THis This The vvhirling streame did make her run on sand,
Aluif, vve cry'd, but all in vain, t'abide,
We were constrain'd, till flowing of the tide.
Then Master , quod I, even for my blessing
Now let us go, the pretious pearles a fishing,
Fishing of
pearles.
Th'occasion serveth well, while heere we stay
To catch these mussels, you call toyts of Tay :
It's possible, if no ill eye bewitch us
We jewels finde, for all our dayes t'enrich us:
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The waters here are shald, and clear, and warme,
To bath our armes and lims will do no harme,
For these sweet streames have power to bring back
Our spirits which in outward parts make slake
Our naturall strength, but when these sprits retire
They multiplie our heat and inbred fire,
Helping our vitall, and our naturall parts,
Our lungs, our levers, stomachs, and our hearts,
And mightily refrigerat our reanes,
But above all they do refresh our spleans.
For such a bathing bravely doth expell
Melancholie, which makes the splean toswell to swell
More than it should, causing an atrophie,
That we like skelets rather seeme to be
Then men, and Atropos appears to laugh,
Thinking we look liker an Epitaph,
Then marriage song; likewise it doth us make
Both supper and collation freshly take.
Content said Gall : Then off our shoes we drew,
And hose, and from us we our doublets threw,
Our shirt sleeves wreathing up, without more speeches,
And high above our knees pulling our breeches,
In waters go, then streight mine armes I reach
Unto the ground, whence cleaverly I fetch
Some of these living pearled shels, which do
Excell in touching and in tasting too,
As all who search do by experience try,
And we oftimes; therewith I lowdlie cry,
Good Master , behold I found a pearle,
A Jewell, I assure you, for an Earle.
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Be silent, said good Gall , or speak at leasure,
For men will cut your throat to get your treasure,
If they its worth did know so well as I.
Harpocrates my patience will try,Said I againe, for I am not like such
Who hurd their treasure and their speach asmuch as much
But Gall , to stay long, no wayes could be mov'd
This element, said he, I never lov'd.
To land: on goeth our cloaths, alongst the way
Then did we go, and taking cleare survey
How proper Perth did stand, one might have drawn
Its landship fair, on paper, or on lawn.
Gall
pearles.
Gall