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A11395	Du Bartas his deuine weekes and workes translated: and dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Iosuah Syluester; Sepmaine. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.; Pibrac, Guy du Faur, seigneur de, 1529-1584. Quatrains. English.; La Noue, Odet de, seigneur de Téligny, d. 1618. Paradoxe que les adversitez sont plus necessaires que les prosperités. English.; Hudson, Thomas, 16th/17th cent.; Hole, William, d. 1624, engraver.	1611 (1611)	STC 21651; ESTC S110823	556,900	1,016

for their Deities Gods made with hands Gods without life or breath Gods which the Rust Fier Hammer conquereth But thou art Lord th' invincible alone Th' All-seeing GOD the Everlasting ONE And who so dares him gainst thy Powr oppose Seems as a Puff which roaring Boreas blowes Weening to tear the Alps off at the Foot Or Clowds-prop Athos from his massie Root Who but mis-speaks of thee he spets at Heav'n And his owne spettle in his face is driven Lord shew thee such take on thee the Defence Of thine owne glory and our innocence Cleer thine owne name of blame let him not thus Tryumph of Thee in tryumphing of vs But let ther Lord vnto thy Church appear Iust Cause of Ioy and to thy Foes of fear God hears his Cry and from th' Empyreal Round Miraculous slaughter of the Assirians He wrathfull sends a winged Champion down Who richly arm'd in more than humane Arms Mowes in one night of Heathen men at Arms Thrice-three-score thousand and five thousand more Feld round about beside behinde before Heer his two eyes which Sun-like brightly turn Simile Two armed Squadrons in a moment burn Not much vnlike vnto a fier in stubble Which sodain spreading still the flame doth double And with quick succour of som Southren blasts Crick-crackling quickly all the Country wastes Heer the stiff Storm that from his mouth he blowes Thousands of Souldiers each on other throwes Simile Even as a Winde a Rock a sodain Flood Bears down the Trees in a side-hanging Wood Th' Yew overturns the Pine the Pine the Elm The Elm the Oak th' Oak doth the Ash ore-whelm And from the top down to the Vale belowe The Mount's dis-mantled and even shamed so Heer with a Sword such as that sacred blade For the bright Guard of Eden's entry made He hacks he hews and somtimes with one blowe A Regiment hee all at once doth mowe And as a Cannon's thundrie roaring Ball Simile Battering one Turret shakes the next withall And oft in Armies as by proof they finde Kils oldest Souldiers with his very winde The whiffing Flashes of this Sword so quick Strikes dead a many which it did not strike Heer with his hands he strangles all at-once Legions of Foes O Arm that Kings dis-throans O Army-shaving Sword Rock-razing Hands World-tossing Tempest All-consuming Brands O let som other with more sacred fier Than I inflam'd into my Muse inspire The wondrous manner of this Overthrowe The which alas God knowes I little knowe I but admire it in confused sort Conceiue I cannot and much less report Com-on Zenacherib where 's now thine Hoast Where are thy Champions Thou didst lately boast Th' hadst in thy Camp as many Soldiers As Sea hath Fishes or the Heav'ns haue Stars Now th' art alone and yet not all alone Fear and Despair and Fury wait vpon Thy shame-full Flight but bloody Butcher stay Stay noysom Plague fly not so fast away Fear not Heav'ns Fauchin that foul brest of thine Shall not be honor'd with such wounds divine Nor shalt thou yet in timely bed decease No Tyrants vse not to Depart in Peace As bloud they thirsted they are drown'd in blood Their cruell Life a cruell Death makes good For O iust Iudgement lo thy Sons yer-long Zenacherib slain by his owne sonnes At Nisroch's Shrine revenge the Hebrews wrong Yea thine owne Sons foul eggs of fouler Bird Kill their owne Father sheath their either sword In thine owne throat and heirs of all thy vices Mix thine owne bloud among thy Sacrifices This Miracle is shortly seconded By one as famous and as strange indeed It pleas'd the Lord with heavy hand to smight King Ezechiah who in dolefull plight Ezekiah's sicknesse Vpon his bed lies vexed grieuously Sick of an Vlcer past all remedy Art fails the Leach and issue faileth Art Each of the Courtiers sadly wayles a-part His losse and Lord Death in a mourn-ful sort Through every Chamber daunteth all the Court And in the City seems in every Hall T' haue light a Taper for his Funerall Then Amos * The Prophet Isaiah Son his bed approaching pours From plentious lips these sweet and golden showrs But that I knowe you knowe the Lawes Divine But that your Faith so every-where doth shine But that your Courage so confirm'd I see I should my Liege I should not speak so free A comfortable Visitation of the sicke I would not tell you that in continent You must prepare to make your Testament That your Disease shall haue the vpper hand And Death already at your Door doth stand What fears my Lord Knowe you not heer beneath We alwayes say I towards the Port of Death Where who first anch'reth first is glorified That 't is Decreed confirm'd and ratified That of necessity the fatall Cup. Once all of vs must in our turn drink vp That Death 's no pain but of all pains the end The Gate of Heav'n and Ladder to ascend That Death 's the death of all our storms and strife And sweet beginning of immortall Life For by one death a thousands death's we slay Thear-by we rise from Body-Toomb of Clay Thear-by our Soules feast with celestiall food Thear-by we com to th' heav'nly Brother-hood Thear-by w' are chang'd to Angels of the Light And face to face behold Gods beuties bright The Prophet ceast and soon th' Isaacian Prince Deep apprehending Death's drad form and sense Vnto the Wall-ward turns his weeping eyes And sorrow-torn thus to himself he cries Lord I appeal Lord as thine humble childe A Prayer for a sick person mutatis mutandis From thy iust Iustice to thy Mercy milde Why will thy strength destroy a silly-one Weakned and wasted even to skin and bone One that adores thee with sincere affection The wrack of Idols and the Saints protection O! shall the Good thy servant had begun For Sion rest now by his death vndon O! shall a Pagan After-king restore The Groues and Idols I haue raz'd before Shall I dye Childe-les Shall thine Heritage In vain exspect that glorious golden Age Vnder thy CHRIST O! mercy mercy Lord O Father milde to thy dear Childe accord Som space of life O! let not Lord the voice Of Infidels at my poor death reioyce Then said the Seer Be of good cheer my Liege The Kings praier heard and his life prolonged 15 yeares Thy sighes and tears and prayers so be siege The throne of Pitty that as pierçt with-all Thy smyling Health God yieldeth to re-call Wills to his Temple three dayes hence thou mount Retracts his Sentence and corrects his count Makes Death go back for fifteen yeers as lo This Dial's shadow shal heer back-ward go His Word 's confirm'd with wonderfull Effect The Sunne goes backe For lo the Dial which doth houres direct Life's-guider Daye's-divider Sun's-Consorter Shadow's dull shifter and Time's dumb Reporter Puts-vp-again his passed Houres perforce And back-ward goes against his wonted course 'T is Noon at Mid-night and

ours Should not be numbred by yeers dayes and howrs But by our braue Exploits and this Mortality Is not a moment to that Immortality But in respect of Lady Wisedomes grace Euen at their best the rest are all but base Honour is but a puffe Life but a vapour Salomons choise Wealth but a wish Health but a sconce of paper A glistering Scepter but a Maple twig Gold Drosse Pearls Dust how-euer bright and big Shee 's Gods owne Mirror shee 's a Light whose glance Springs from the Lightning of his Countenance Shee 's mildest Heav'ns most sacred influence Neuer decays her Bewties excellence Aye like her-Self and shee doth alwayes trace Not only the same path but the same pase Without her Honour Health and Wealth would proue Three Poisons to me Wisedom from aboue Is th' only Moderatrix spring and guide Organ and honour of all Gifts beside Her her I like her only Lord I craue Her Company for-euer let me haue Let me for-euer from her sacred lip Th' Ambrosial Nard and rosial Nectar sip In euery Cause let me consult with her And when I Iudge be Shee my Counsailer Let with her Staffe my yet-Youth gouern wel In Pastures fair the Flock of Izrael A compt-les Flock a Flock so great indeed As of a Shepherd sent from Heav'n had need Lord giue her me alas I pine I die Or if I liue I liue her * Pyrausta Flame-bred-Flie And new Farfalla in her radiant shine Too-bold I burne these tender wings of mine Hold take her to thee said the Lord and sith No Bewty else thy soule enamoreth For ready hand-maids to attend vpon her I 'll giue thee also Health and Wealth and Honor For'tis not meet so High-descended Queen So great a Lady should alone be seen The rather that my Bounty may inuite Thee seruing Her to serue Me day and night King SALOMON awaked plainly knew That this Diuine strange Uision neuer grew From the sweet Temper of his sound Complexion But that it was some Peece of more Perfection Some sacred Picture admirably draw'n With Heav'nly pencil by an Angels hand For happy He had without Art the Arts And learning without learning in all parts A more then humane Knowledge bewtifies His princely actions vp to Heav'n he flies He dyues to Hell he sounds the Deeps he enters To th' in most Cels of the Worlds lowest Centers The secret Riddles of the sacred Writ His excellent Uisedome and vnderstanding in all things Are plain to him and his deep-pearcing Wit Vpon few Words of the Heav'n-prompted stile In a few Dayes large Volumes can compile He learned sees the Sun's Eclipse sans terror He knowes the Planets neuer erring Error And whether Nature or some Angel moue Their Sphears at once with triple Dance aboue Whether the Sun self-shine his Sister not Whether Spring Winter Autumn Summer hot Be the Suns Sons what kinde of mounting Vapor Kindles the Comet and the long-taild Taper What boy strous Lungs the roaring Whirlers blow'n What burning Wings the Lightning rides vpon What Curb the Ocean in his bounds doth keep What power Night's-Princesse powrs vpon the Deep Whether the Heav'ns sweet-sweating Kisse appear To be Pearls parent and the Oyster's pheer And whether dusk it makes them dim withall Cleer breeds the cleer and stormy brings the pale Whether from Sea the Amber-greece be sent Or be some Fishes pleasant excrement He knowes why th' Earth's immoueable and round The lees of Nature Center of the Mound He knowes her measure And he knowes beside How Coloquintida duely apply'd With-in the darknes of the Conduit-Pipes Amid the windings of our in-ward Tripes Can so discreetly the White humor take Rheubarb the Yellow Hellebore the Black And whether That in our weak Bulks be wrought By drawing 't to them or by driuing't out In brief from th' Hysop to the Cedar-Tree He knowes the Vertues of all Plants that be He knowes the Reason why the Woolfs fell tooth Giues a Horse swiftnes and his footing sloath Why thy Sex-changing fierce Hyena's eye Puts curstest Curres to silence suddenly Why th' irefull Elephant becommeth tame At the approaching of the fleecie Lamb Why th' eye-bold Eagle neuer fears the flash Or force of Lightning nor the Thunder-clash Why the wilde Fen-Goose which keeps warm her egs With her broad feet vnder her heatfull legs And tongue-les cries as wing-lym'd cannot flie Except she glad Seas brynie glasse descrie He knoweth also whether that our Stone Be baked Earth or Exhalation Whether the Metals that we dayly see Be made of Sulphur and of Mercurie Or of some Liquor by long Cold condens't And by the Heat well purified and cleans'd Or of a certain sharp and cindrous humor Or whether He that made the Wauing Tumor The motly Earth and th' Heav'nly Sphears refin'd All-mighty made them such as now we finde He comprehends from whence it is proceeding That spotted Iasper-stones can staunch our bleeding Saphires cure eyes the Topaz to resist The rage of Lust of drink the Amethist And also why the clearest Diamant Ielous impugns the thefts of th' Adamant Tunes Measures Numbers and Proportions Of Bodies with their Shadowes al 's ' he kons And fild with Nectar-Deaws which Heav'n drips The Bees haue made Honie within his lips But he imbraceth much more earnestly The gain-full Practice than cold Theorie Nor reaks he so of a Sophistick pride Of prattling Knowledge too-self-magnifi'd As of that goodly Art to gouern well The sacred Helms of Church and Common-weal And happily to entertain in either A harmony of Great and Small together Especially Hee 's a good Iusticer And to the Lawes dooth Life and strength confer Simile And as the highest of Bigaurian Hils Ay bears his head vp-right and neuer yeelds To either side scorns Winde and Rain and Snowe Abides all weathers with a cheerfull brow Laughs at a Storme and brauely tramples vnder His steddy Knees the prowd lowd rowling Thunder So Hee 's a Iudge inflexibly-vpright No Loue nor Hatred of the Guilty wight What e'r he wear for Calling small or great His Venging blade can either blunt or whet He spurneth Fauors and he scorneth Fears And vnder foot he treadeth priuate Tears Gold 's radiant Lustre neuer blears his Eye Nor is he led through Ignorance a-wry His Voice is held an Oracle of all The soule of Lawes he wisely can exhale In doubtfull Cases he can subtilize And wyliest pleaders harts anatomize Scarce fifteen times had Ceres since his Birth With her gilt Tresses glorifi'd the Earth When he decides by happy Wisedoms means The famous Quarrel of Two crafty Queans Is' t possible O Earth thus cries the first But that alas thou should'st for anger burst The Controuersie between the 2. Harlots for the liue Child And swallow quick this execreable Quean Is' t possible O gracious Soueraign That comming new from dooing such a deed So horrible she shame-les dares proceed T' approach thy sight thy sacred Throne t' abuse Not begging Pardon

compass of three hundred yeers and less And Bugie Argier Oran Thunis Tez Fez Melli Gago Tombut Terminan With hatefull Laws of Heathnish Alcoran If this among the Africans we see Whom cor'ziue humour of Melancholy Doth alwayes tickle with a wanton Lust Although less powr-full in the Paphian Ioust For Propagation for too-often Deed Of Loues-Delight enfeebles much their seed And inly still they feel a Wintery Fever As outwardly a scorching Sommer ever Ghess how much more those whose hoar heads approach And see the turnings of Heav'ns flaming Coach Doe multiply because they seldom venter And but in season Uenus lists to enter And the cold resting vnder th' Artick Star Still Master of the Field in champian War Makes Heat retire into the Bodies-Towr Which there vnited giues them much more powr The North hath exceedingly multiplied in people the South not so For thence indeed Hunns Herules Franks Bulgarians Circassyans Sweues Burgognians Turks Tartarians Dutch Cimhers Normans Alains Ostrogothes Tigurins Lombards Vandals Visigothes Haue swarm'd like Locusts round about this Ball And spoyl'd the fairest Provinces of all While barren South had much a-doot ' assemble In all two Hoasts that made the North to tremble Whereof the One that one-ey'd Champion led Who famous Carthage rais'd and ruined Th' other by Tours Charles Martell martyr'd so That never since could Afrik Army showe Whence our Author taketh occasion to enter into an excellent discourse of Gods wondrous worke in the diuers temperatures qualities complexions and manners of so many Nations in the World O! see how full of Wonders strange is Nature Sith in each Climat not alone in stature Strength hair and colour that men differ doo But in their humours and their manners too Whether that custom into Nature change Whether that Youth to th' Elds example range Or divers Laws of divers Kingdoms vary-vs Or th' influence of Heav'nly bodies cary-vs The Northern-man is fair the Southern foul That 's white this black that smiles and this doth scoul Th' one 's blythe and frolik th' other dull and froward Th' one's full of courage th' other fearfull coward Th' ones hair is harsh big curled th' other 's slender Th' one loveth Labour th' other Books doth render Th' one 's hot and moist the other hot and dry Th' one's Voice is hoarce the other 's cleer and high Th' one's plain and honest th' other all deceipt Th' one 's rough and rude the other handsom neat Th' one giddy-brain'd is turn'd with every winde The other constant never changeth minde Th' one's loose and wanton th' other continent Th' one thrift-less lavish th' other provident Th' one milde Companion th' other stern and strange Like a wilde Wolf loues by himself to range Th' one 's pleas'd with plainness th' other pomp affects Th' one 's born for Arms the other Arts respects But middling folk who their abiding make Between these two of either guise partake And such haue stronger limbs but weaker wit Then those that neer Nyles fertill sides doo sit And opposit more wit and lesser force Then those that haunt Rhines and Danubius shoars For in the Cirque of th' Vniversall City The Southern-man who quick and curious-witty Builds all on Dreams deep Extasies and Traunces Who measures Heav'ns eternall-mouing Daunces Whose searching soule can hardly besuffiz'd With vulgar Knowledge holds the Place of Priest The Northern-man whose wit in 's Fingers settles Who what him list can work in Wood and Mettles Who Salmon-like can thunder counterfait With men of Arms and Artizans is set The Third as knowing well to rule a State Holds grauely-wise the room of Magistrate Th' one to be brief loues studious Theory The other Trades the third deep Policy Yet true it is that since som later lustres Minerua Themis Hermes and his Sisters Haue set as well their Schools in th' Artick Parts As Mars his Lists and Vulcan Shops of Arts. Notable differences betweene the Nations of Europe Nay see we not among ourselues that liue Mingled almost to whom the Lord doth giue But a small Turf of Earth to dwell-vpon This wondrous ods in our condition We finde the Alman in his fight couragious But salable th' Italian too-outragious Suddain the French impatient of delay The Spaniard slowe but subtle to hetray Th' Alman in Counsail cold th' Italian quick The French inconstant Spaniards politik Fine Feeds th' Italian and the Spaniard spares Especially the French German Italian Spaniard Prince-like the French Pig-like the Alman fares Milde speaks the French the Spaniard proud and brave Rudely the Alman and th' Italian grave Th' Italian proud in tyre French changing much Fit-clad the Spaniard and vn-fit the Dutch The French-man braves his Fo th' Italian cheers-him The Alman spoyls the Spaniard never bears-him The French-man sings th' Italian seems to bleat The Spaniard whines the Alman howleth great Spaniards like Iugglers Iett th' Almans like Cocks The French goes quick th' Italian like an Ox Dutch Louers proud th' Italian envious Frolik the French the Spaniard furious Yet would the Lord that Noahs fruitfull Race Causes why the Lord would haue Man-kinde so dispersed ouer All the World Should over-spread th' Earths vniversall Face That drawing so his Children from the crimes Which seem peculiar to their Native Climes He might reveal his grace and that Heav'ns Lights Might well incline but not constrain our sprights That over all the World his Saints alwayes Might offer him sweet Sacrifice of Praise That from cold Scythia his high Name as far Might ay resound as Sun-burnt Zanzibar And that the treasures which strange Soyls produce Might not seem worth-les for the want of vse But that the In-land Lands might truck and barter And vent their Wares about to every Quarter The World compared to a mighty City wherein dwell People of all conditions cōtinually traffiking together exchanging their particular commodities for benefit of the Publike For as in LONDON stuft with euery sort Heer 's the Kings Palace there the Iunes of Court Heer to the Thames-ward all a-long the STRAND The stately Houses of the Nobles stand Heer dwell rich Merchants there Artificers Heer Silk-men Mercers Gold-Smiths Iewellers There 's a Church-yard furnisht with choise of Books Heer stand the Shambles there the Rowe of Cooks Heer wonn Vp-Holsters Haberdashers Horners There Pothecaries Grocers Taylours Tourners Heer Shoo-makers there Ioyners Coopers Coriers Here Browers Bakers Cutlers Felters Furriers This Street is full of DRAPERS that of Diars This Shop with Tapers that with Womens Tyars For costly Toys Silk Stockings Cambrick Lawn Heer 's choice-full Plenty in the curious PAWN And All 's but an Exchange where brieflie no-man Keeps ought as priuate Trade makes all things common So com our Sugars from Canary Iles From Candy Currance Muskadels and Oyls From the Moluques Spices Balsamum From Egypt Odours from Arabia com From India Drugs rich Gemms and Iuorie From Syria Mummie black-red Ebonie From burning Chus From Peru

according to our merit Nor strictly weigh at his High Iustice Beam Our bold Rebellions and our Pride extream But for his Son our deer Redeemer's sake His Sacrifice for our Sins Ransom take And looking on vs with milde Mercies Ey Forgiue our Past our Future Sanctifie That neuer more his Furie we incense To strike as Now with raging Pestilence Much less prouoke him by our guilt so far To wound vs more with Famine and with War Lord cease thy wrath Put vp into thy Quiuer This dreadfull shaft Deer Father vs deliuer And vnder wings of thy protection keep Thy seruant IAMES both waking and a-sleep And furthermore we with the Psalmist sing Lord giue thy iudgements to our Lord the King Psalm 72. And to his Son and let there aye be one Of his Male Seed to sit vpon his Throne To feed thy Folk in Iacob and aduance In Israel thy deer Inheritance And long-long-liued full of Faith and Zeal Reform like Asa Church and Common-weal Raysing poor Vertue razing proudest Vice Without respect of Person or of Price That all bold Atheists all Blasphemers then All Popish Traytors may be weeded clean And Curst be All that say not heer Amen FINIS THE COLVMNES THE IIII. PART OF THE II. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT Seth's Pillars found Heber instructs his Son In th' vse therof and who them first begun Opens the One and findes on seuerall Frames Foure liuely Statues of foure louely Dames The Mathematiks furnisht each apart With Equipages of their seuerall Art Wonders of Numbers and Geómetrie New Obseruations in Astronomy Musiks rare force Canaan the Cursed cause Of Hebers stop and BARTA swittie pause IF euer Lord the purest of my Soule Being about to treat of the M●thematicks our Poet he●r imploreth especiall assistance in handling so high and difficult a Subi●ct In sacred Rage were rapt aboue the Pole If euer by thy Spirit my spirit inspir'd Offred thee Layes that learned France admir'd Father of Light Fountain of learned Art Now now or neuer purge my purest part Now quintessence my Soule and now aduance My care-free Powrs in som celestiall Trance That purg'd from Passion thy Diuine address May guide me through Heav'ns glistring Palaces Where happily my deer VRANIA'S grace And her fair Sisters I may all imbrace And the melodious Syrens of the Sphears Charming my senses in those sweets of theirs So rauished I may at rest contemple The Starrie Arches of thy stately Temple Vnto this end that as at first from thee Our Grand-sires learn'd Heav'ns Course and Qualitie Thou now mai'st prompt me som more lofty Song As to this lofty Subiect doth belong AFTER THAT Mens strife-hatching haut Ambition The occasion and ground of this Discourse Had as by lot made this lowe Worlds partition Phalec and Heber as they wandred sand A huge high Pillar which vpright did stand Much like a Rock amid the Ocean set Seeming great Neptunes surly pride to threat Whereon a Pharos bears a Lanthorn bright To saue from Shipwrack those that sayl by night And afterward another nigh as great But not so strong so stately nor so neat For on the flowrie field it lay all flat Built but of Brick of rusty Tyles and Slat Whereas the First was builded fair and strong Of Iasper smooth and Marble lasting long What Miracles what monstrous heaps what Hills Phalecs Question Heav'd-vp by hand what Types of antike Skills In form-les Forms quoth Phalec Father showe For th' Ages past I knowe full well you knowe Pray teach me who did both these Works erect About what time and then to what effect Old Seth saith Heber Adams Scholler yerst Hebers answer Who was the Scholler of his maker first Hauing attain'd to knowe the course and sites Th' aspect and greatnes of Heav'ns glistring Lights He taught his Children whose industrious wit Through diligence grew excellent in it For while their flocks on flowrie shoars they kept Of th' Eastern Floods while others soundly slept Hushing their cares in a Night-shortning nap Vpon Obliuions dull and sense-les Lap They liuing lusty thrice the age of Ravens Observ'd the Twinkling Wonders of the Heav'ns And on their Grand-sires firm and goodly ground Asumptuous building they in time doo found But by Tradition Cabalist●k taught That God would twice reduce this world to nought By Flood and Flame they reared cunninglie This stately payr of Pillars which you see Long-time safe-keeping for their after-Kin A hundred learned Mysteries therein This hauing sayd old Heber drawing nigher The openìng of the Pillars Opens a Wicket in the Marble Spire Where Phalec following soon perceive they might A pure Lamp burning with immortal light As a mean person who though oft-disgraç't By churlish Porters is conuaigh'd at last Simile To the Kings Closet rapt in deep amaze At th' end-les Riches vp and down doth gaze So Phalec fares O father cries he out What shapes are these heere placed round about So like each other wrought with equall skill That foure rain-drops cannot more like distill What Tools are these what diuine secrets lie Hidden within this learned Mysterie These foure quoth Heber Foure bright Virgins are The liberall Sciences Heav'ns Babes and Sisters the most fair and rare That e're begot th' eternall Spirit ex-pir'd From double Spirit or humane soule admir'd This first that still her lips and fingers moues Arithmetike And vp and down so sundry-wayes remoues Her nimble Crowns th' industrious Art it is Which knowes to cast all Heav'ns bright Images All Winters hail and all the gawdy flowrs Wherewith gay Flora pranks this Globe of ours Shee 's stately deckt in a most rich Attire All kinde of Coyns in glistering heaps ly by-her Vpon her sacred head Heav'n seems to drop A richer showr then fell in Dan●es Lap A gold-ground Robe and for a Glass to look Down by her girdle hangs a Table-book Wherein the chief of her rare Rules are writ To be safe-guarded from times greedy bit Mark heer what Figure stands for One the right Her Numbers Root of all Number and of Infinite 1 Loues happiness the praise of Harmonie Nurcerie of All and end of Polymnie No Number but more then a Number yet Potentially in all and all in it 2 Now note Two's Character One's heir apparant As his first-born first Number and the Parent 3 Of Female Payrs Heer now obserue the Three Th' eldest of Odds Gods number properly Wherein both Number and no-number enter Heav'ns deerest Number whose inclosed Center Doth equally from both extreams extend The first that hath beginning midst and end The Cubes-Base Foure a ful and perfect summ 4 Whose added parts iust vnto Ten doo com Number of Gods great Name Seasons Complexions Windes Elements and Cardinall Perfections Th' Hermaphrodite Fiue neuer multipli'd 5 By'tself or Odd but there is still descri'd His proper face for three times Fiue arriue Vnto Fifteen Fiue Fiues to Twenty fiue The

to digest Whose tongue is still true Trumpet of the minde A body testing when it hath no rest A waxen mildnes in a steely minde A soule tra-lucent in an open brest Which others thoughts through boany wals can finde Whose front reflects maiestical-humillity Whose graue-sweet looke commandingly-intreats Which in one instant fear and loue begets A King still warring to obtain tranquillity To saue his Country scorning thousand dangers Mirrour of Fraunce and miracle of Strangers SONNET 15. If that before thee fall rebellious Towers If battered walls before thy Souldiers loofe If hugest Rocks be pearced by thy powers If 'gainst thine Armes no armour be of proof If that our fields flowe with Iberian blood If that thy Campe compos'd of many a Caesar Can by no dismall dangers be withstood Iousting with Gyants as it were at pleasure If lofty Mountains to thine homage vail If valleys rise to bulwarke thee about If for thy sake rivers doo flowe and fail 'T was neither Canons nor our conflicts stout Nor strength nor stomack got these victories No 't was thy presence Henry and thine eyes SONNET 16. They be to blame then that thy boldnes blame For having put thy self so oft in danger Sith against Rebels and against the Stranger Thy looks like lightning did thy Troops inflame Fraunce fought before all bloody faint and lame Craving thine aid to venge her hatefull wrong When like a Lion to preserue her yong Thou lay'dst about thee to redeem the same Then had'st thou cause to hazard so thy life In extream perils extream remedies But spare thee now thy State is free from strife Soveraign our safety in thy safety lies Codrus could keep his onely by his death Thou thine alone by thine owne living breath SONNET 17. What wreath were worthy to becom thy Crown What Carr-Triumphant equall with thy worth What marble statue meet for thy renown Thou that hast rais'd the Lilly of the Earth What honourable Title of Addition Dost thou deserue who ioyning might with mildenes Hast sav'd this great Ship from a sad perdition Nigh lost in th' Ocean of warrs civill wildenes O modern Hercules thy Countries Father Hope not of vs thy iust-deserved meed Earth is too-base in Heav'n expect it rather Our Laurels are too-pale to crown thy deed Who thus hast salv'd the vniversall Ball For th' health of Fraunce imports the health of all SONNET 18. Pardon me Henry if Heav'ns siluer raine Dewing thy Pearles impearle mine humble Laies And if my verse void both of price and paine Presume thy Vertues passing-price to praise Pardon great King if that mine Infant Muse Stutter thy name and if with skill too-scant I limne thee heare let zeale my crime excuse My steel's attracted by thine Adamant For as the Sunne although he doo reflect His golden Rayes on grosser Elements Doth neuer spot his beautiful aspect So though the praises of thine Excellence Doo brightly glister in my gloomie stile They nothing lose of their first grace the while SONNET 19. Now sith as well by conquest as succession France is thine owne O keepe it still therefore 'T is much to conquer but to keepe possession Is full as much and if it be not more Who well would keepe so plentifull a portion Must stablish first the Heav'nly Discipline Then humane Lawes restraining all extortion And Princely wealth with publike weale combine A Princes safety lyes in louing People His Fort is Iustice free from Stratagem Without the which strong Cittadels are feeble The Subiects loue is wonne by louing them Of louing them n' oppression is the triall And no oppression makes them euer loyall SONNET 20. Bold Martialists braue Imps of noble birth Shining in steele for Fraunce and for your King Yee Sonnes of those that heretofore did bring Beneath their yoke the pride of all the earth It is an honour to be high-descended But more t' haue kept ones Country and fidelitie For our owne vertues make vs most commended And Truth 's the title of all true Nobilitie Your shoulders shoar'd vp Fraunce euen like to fall You were her Atlas Henry Hercules And but for you her shock had shaken All But now she stands stedfast on Ciuill PEACE Wherefore if yet your war-like heat doo worke With holy Armes goe hunt the hatefull Turk SONNET 21. But you that vaunt your antike Petigrees So stately tymbring your surcharged shields Perking like Pines aboue the lower Trees Ouer the Farmers of your neighbour fields Is' t lack of loue or is it lack of courage That holds you Snaile-like creeping in your houses While ouer all your Countries Foes doo forrage And rebell out-rage euery corner rouses If no example of your Ancesters Nor present instance of bright-armed Lords The feeble Temper of your stomack stirres If in your liues yee neuer drew your swords To serue your King nor quench your Countries flames Pardon me Nobles I mistooke your names SONNET 22. You sacred Order charg'd the Church to watch And teach the holy Mysteries of Heav'n From hence-forth all seditious plots dispatch And Father-like to all be alwaies euen Through superstition stirre to strife againe Reuolts a mischiefe euermore pernicious Pluck vp abuses and the hurtfull graine Sprung from the Ignorant and Auaricious Auoid Ambition common cause of strife Your reuerend Robe be free from staines of blood Preach holy Doctrine prooue it by your life Fly Idlenes choose exercises good To wit all workes of liuely faith and pietie So to your fold shall flock the blest Societie SONNET 23. You graue assembly of sage Senators Right Oracles yee Ephori of Fraunce Who for the States and Iustice maintenance Of Sword and Balance are the Arbitrers That from hence-forth against all enemies Our PEACE may seat her in a setled Throne Represse the malice of all mutinies Which through th' aduantage of these times haue growne At a lowe tyde 't is best to mend a breach Before the flood returne with violence 'T is good in health to counsaile with a Leach So while a People's calme from insolence 'T is best that Rulers bridle them with awe And for the future curbe the lewd with law SONNET 24. People lesse setled then the sliding sand More mutable then Proteus or the Moone Turn'd and return'd in turning of a hand Like Euripus ebbe-flowing euery Noone Thou thousand-headed head-les Monster-most Oft slaine like Antheus and as oft new rising Who hard as steele as light as winde arttost Chameleon-like each obiects colour prysing Vnblinde thy blinde soule opethine inward sight Be no more Tinder of intestine flame Of all fantastike humors purge thy spright For if past-follies vrge yet griefe and shame Lo like Obliuions law to cure thy passion State-stabling Peace brings froward minds in fashion SONNET 25. Engins of Uulcan Heav'n-affrighting wonders Like brittle glasse the Rocks to cyndars breaking Deafning the windes dumbing the loudest thunders May yee be bound a thousand yeeres from speaking Yee hate-peace Hacksters flesht in Massacres Be you for euer banisht from our

and all his family To young and old of either Sexe that while Exod. 9 He sent a plage of scalding botches vile So that the Memphites layd on beds to rest VVith vncouth venim daily were opprest To Medciners the medcine valled not So sore the poisond plague did vnder cot He also smote the for rests herbs and grase The flocks of sheep and euery beast that was Throw poison of th' infected ground so ●ell The Morrain made them all to die or swell So that the Shepheard by the riuer side His flock hath rather dead then sick espide He earthly dust to lothly lice did change And dimd the Ayre with such a cloud so strange Of flyes grashoppers hornets clegs and clocks Exod. 10 That day and night throw houses flew in flocks That with incisions sharpe did sheare the skinnes Of Aegypt Panims throw their proudest ynnes And when the heauen most quiet seemd and fair Th' Eternall sent a tempest through the air And at this Hebrew 's prayer such a reare Of thunder fell that brought them all in feare Here lay a Bull that woodran while he brast There lay the Keeper burnt with thunder blast And now the forrest high that hid the air With many a spreeding arme is spoild and bair So that the sap that grafters keeps with paine Which should restore the stock and leafe againe Is lost alas in lesse then halfe a day The husbands hoped fruite gone to decaye What more th' Eternall darkned so the skye For three dayes space none could another spye That cloude so thick the Memphis rebels fand That they might firmly feele it with their hand It seemd that Phoebus left his ancient Round And dwelt three dayes with men of vnderground And as the sunne at one selfe time is felt With heate to harden clay and wax to melt So Amrams sacred sonne in these proiects Made one selfe cause haue two contraire effects For Izak humbly knew the Lord diuine But Pharo more and more did still repine Like to the corpslet colde the more 't is het With hammers hard more hardnes it doth get Yet when his son was slaine by th' Angels hand Exod. 11 Heyre Amongst the eldest heires of Aegypt Land He was afraide and let them go that night Where pleased them to serue their God of might Who sent a cloud before them all the day By night a Piller of fire to guide their way But so dainly this tyrant did gainstand His former graunt and armd all Aegypt Land With hote pursute against all Iacobs hoste That were encamped on the Red-sea coste Such noyse was neuer since the foraigne tide Brak throw Gibraltar when it did diuide The Calp from Abill or when Sicill strand Diuorced was from her Italia Land As was in these two campes that one with boste That other with their wailings fild the coast It seemd the sounds of furious horse and men With hornes and pypes to heaven resounded then Exod. 14. They murmure O Iuggler said the Iewes what hatefull strife Hath moued thee to change our happie life What are we fishes for to swimme the seas Or are we foules to fly whereas we please Beyond the Sea or ouer hilles to soare Was there not graues for vs on Gossen shoare But in this desart heer to dy or haue The blood-red Ocean Sea to be our graue Then Moses with his quickned rod that tide He smote the sea which fearfull did diuide Discouering land that sunne had neuerseene And staid the sea as there two walles had been Which made a passage dry of ample space For all to passe who were of Isaacs race But contrarie the Red-sea did deuower The barbrous tyrant with his mighty power Who proudly durst himselfe to that present Which opened but to saue the innocent O happy race since God doth arme for thee Both fire and aire the windes the clouds and see Which all vnto thy pay haue whole inclinde Let not consuming time weare out of minde So rare a grace but let thine elders shewe This to their noble seed that shall ensewe And let their sonnes vnto their sonnes recorde Throw all the world these wonders of the Lord. God with Coelestiall breade in time of need His loued Iacob fortie yeare did feede Exod. 6. And gaue them water from the solide stone Which of it selfe had neuer moisture none Their caps their coates and shooes that they did weare God kept all fresh and new full fortie yeer And farther least their soules for want of food Exod. 20. Should faint or faile he of his mercies good Gaue them his law pronounced by his voice His spirit to theirs in him for to reioice So teaching them and vs in precepts ten Our dutie first to God and next to men To th' end that man to man should truely stand And ioyne with God and neuer break that band This mightie Prophet dead Duke Iosua than Iosua Their Captaine stout this Palmy province wan Throw might of God he Scepters did subdew Of thirtie tyrant Kings whom all he slew At his commandement like the thunder sound The Rampers strong fell fearefully to ground Before the Tortuse or the horned Ramme Had bet or mined from their wall a dramme For euen of hornes full hoarse their simple blast An engine was their towres adoune to cast He pray'd the heaven for to prolong the day And made the horses of the sun to stay To th' end the night should not with cloud be cled To saue the faithles that before him fled Now when this Panim scourge with age at last Had left this life and vnto heauen past Then Isaac had of Rulers sundry men Whose glorious acts deserues eternall pen. Who knowes not Samgar Barac and Othoniell Iudges Tha valiant Delbor Ahud and good Samuell What Land O Sampson rings not thy renowne Who sole vnarmed bet an Army down What laude to Iephthe iustly might we low Had he not hurt his owne through hastie vow What hill or dale what flood or fixed ground 〈◊〉 not the famous Gedeons praise resound In later time their kings some good some bad Of all the Hebrew state the ruling had Had I the Harpe of Dauid holy King None other sound but Dauid would I sing 〈…〉 uen as all the deeds that Dauid did 〈…〉 ot be done by none but by Dauid So none but Dauid on his yv'rie harpe The glorious praise of God could onely carpe But here his praise I prease not to proclaime Least I throw want of skill obscure the same Yet leaue I not his Son whom grace diuine Salomon Made no lesserich then wondrous of engine Whose doctrine drew to Salem from all wheare A hundred thousand wyzards him to heare From Araby from Ynde to Affrik shore His toung entyste them with his cunning lore Iosias Shall I forget the kings who ouerthrew Idolatrie and plaç't religion dew Shall I forget that King who saw descend Hezekiah Ierusalem Asa. A winged Hoast Solyma to defend Shall I forget him who before his eene Enchast the

absent loue And widowlike all pleasures doth forsake And neuer intends to take a secound make Thus Iudith chaste within her house abode And seldom was she seen to com abroad Vnlesse it were to see som wofull wife Whose childe or husband was bereft of life Or for to visit som in sicknesse rage Their longsom pain and dolours to asswage Or for to go to Church as God allowes To pray and offer and to perform her vowes Thus haue I shortly told you brother dear The state of her on whom our Citie hear Haue fixed all their eyes but I can nought Tell where she goes much less what 's in her thought But if we may of passed things collect The things to come then may we well aspect Great good of her for that euen in her face Is signe of ioy and great presage of grace Or som good hap With this and other talke They cut the night as they together walke This while the worthy widdow with her maid Past towards th' enmies camp not vnafraid For ere she had two hundreth pases past The Syrian Soldiers in her way were cast Who spack her thus O fair excellent wight Whence what art thou what doest thou here this night In Syrian camp I am quoth she again An Israelite whom dolours doth constrain To flee this towne and for my lifes relief Submits me to the mercy of your Chief They took her to the Duke But who hath seen The throngs of folke where proclamations been In som great town or where som monstrous beast Is brought and wondred at by most and least That man might iudge what flockes of soldiers came From euery part to see that Hebrew Dame To see that fair so chaste so amiable The more they gasde she seemd more admirable Her wav'ring hair disparpling flew apart In seemly shed the rest with reckles art With many-a curling ring decor'd her face And gaue her glashie browes a greater grace Two bending bowes of Heben coupled right Two lucent starres that were of heav'nly light Two geaty sparks where Cupid chastly hides His subtill shafts that from his quiuer glydes Tween these two sunnes and front of equall sise A comely figure formally did rise With draught vnleuell to her lip descend Where Momus self could nothing discommend Her pitted cheeks aperde to be depaint With mixed rose and lillies sweet and saint Her dulcet mouth with precious breath repleat Excelde the Saben Queen in sauour sweet Her Corall lips discov'red as it were Two ranks of Orient pearle with smyling chere Her yv'ry neck and brest of Alabastre Made Heathen men of her more Idolastre Vpon her hand no wrinkled knot was seen But as each naile of mothet of pearle had been In short this Iudith was so passing fair That if the learned Zeuxis had been th aire And seene this Dame when he with pensile drew The Croton Dames to forme the picture trew Helen Of her for whom both Greece and Asia sought This onely patron chiefe he would haue sought No sooner Iudith entred his Pauilion But in her face arose the red vermillion With shame fast feare but then with language sweet The courteous Generall mildely gan her greet My loue I am I am not yet so fell As false report doth to you Hebrews tell They are my sonnes and I will be their father That honours me and them I loue the rather That worships for their God th' Assyrian King They shall be well assurde to want nothing And this shall Isaac knowe if they will render Vnto that bountious king as their defender For thy my loue tell me withouten feare The happy motyf of thy comming heare O Prince quoth she with an assured face Most strong and wise and most in heauens grace That drawes the sword with steele vpon his brest With helme on head and launce in yron rest Since that my feeble Sex and tender youth Cannot long time indure the cruell drouth The wakrife trauels frayes and haszards great That day and night our Burgesses doth threat Yet neuerthelesse this is not whole the cause That from my Cities body me withdrawes To this your Camp but that most grudging griefe Which burnes my zealous hart without reliefe Is this my Lord I haue a holy feare To eate those meates that God bids vs forbeare But Sir I see that our besieged towne Is so beset with mischiefevp and downe The people will be forç't to eate in th' end The meats that God expresly doth defend Then will the Lord with iust reuenge him wreak Vpon all those that do his statutes break Withouten fight their Cities he will sack And make one man of thine ten thousand wrack That flyes his fury and thy furious face Now I of Bethul am and in this place Beseech thy noble Grace if so thee please With courteous aide to giue my dolours ease ' Of common sense he is depriued cleene ' That fals with closed eye on daunger seen ' And he that may both paine and hurt eschew ' Is vaine if he his proper death pursew Then in this quiet dale if I may byde In secret for to pray each euening tyde To God I shall as he doth me enspyre Assure you when enkendled is his yre Against our folke Then shall I take on hand To leade thine army through all Iurie Land And streaming standarts set on Syon hill Where none with weapons dare resist thy will No not a very dog in euening dark At noyse of harness shall against thee bark Thy onely name shall fray the Armies bolde R Before thy face the mountaine tops shall folde R The floods shal dry from their running stay R To make thine Hoste a new and vncouth way O Iewell of the world quoth he O Dame For gratious speech and beuty worthy fame Now welcome here would God it might you please Long time with vs to dwell in rest and ease For if your faith and trouth concurrent be To this your talke which greatly pleaseth me I will from this time forth with you accord To serue your onely Hebrews God and Lord And will my seruice whole to you enrowle Not of my Scepter onely but my soule I will your name and honour ay defend From Hebrew bounds vnto the world his end This said with silence as the moone arose This widow her withdrew and forth she goes Vnto avalley close on euery part Where as she washt her corse and clens'd her heart And with her weeping eyes the place be●aid And to the God of Isaac thus she praide O Lord withdraw not now thy helping hand From those that at thy mercie onely stand O Lord defend them that desire to spend Their goods and blood thy cause for to defend O Lord graunt that the cries of Children may With plaints of Oldmen weeping night and day And virgins voyces sad in shroude of shame And laudes of Leuits sounding forth thy fame Mount to thy throne and with dissundring break Thy heauy sleep Wherefore doest thou awreake Thy self on