vices all Brough Mart. Luther Caluin Tremelius Perecius vpon Gen. 4. 26. That Sethes great sonne and all his future Race Did now begin dumb Idols to imbrace And that their rites and sacrifices slaine Were all intended vnto Charles his waine The Sunne and Moone the Starres about this border As blind Deuotion led them out of order Yet Enoch deere my Muse can hardly thinke Nor can it once within my Braines to sinke But that the Plant from whence rose Christ his flock Did yeeld forth fruit according to the stock And that the line from whence the Church is sprung But that must be vnspotted chast and young Cleane vndefiled pure in euery part In Ages all according to the Hart Euen in the time when Adam and Wife Liu'd both in peace deuoid of care and strife And Seth their Sonne though all the rest were bad Yet he the knowledge of the Godhead had And taught it thee to leaue vnto thy seede By which thy soule did hourely on it feede Vntill the last of this thy Glasse was runne Then didst thou dye and leftst it thy sonne And so from thence in euery Age it past Till Noahs Arke was on the waters cast Successiuely from whence it after went Till Christ himselfe vpon the Earth was sent And that the Crosse with crimson bloud was dide To pay the sinnes of all the world beside With such a Ransome of eternall fame As euermore must alwayes blaze his Name From whence the Church now in her latest night In many a place yet hath her Candlelight Full ninty yeares thou liuedst at the least When Kenan was conceiued in the brest Kenan bornâ— Of thy deare Spouse and thou wast all the while Quight out of hope not seene at once to smile In disperation as a man for lorne Till thy first Babe into the World was borne Thy name bewraying of thy discontent When Kenan be to glad thy heart was sent And made thee Father of a thriuing sonne Whose actions all vnto thy mind did run He at the age of threescore yeares and ten Psal 90. 10 Mahalaieel borne In Dauids dayes the dying age of men Did then beget great Mahalaleel young A sweete fac't Imp with nimble pleasing tongue Whose whole delight was working euer still To prayse the Lord and execute his will Whilst by examples void of enuious guile By smooth sweete preaching in a goulden stile And beating downe Oppression Pride and Hate The Churches eyes he did illuminate Iust at the age of threscore yeares and fiue Adam and Eue yet being both aliue Great Mahalaleel sonne of Kenan past He â—ared brings into the world at last Iared borne Whose whole delights were all to goodnesse bent As if that he was from the clouds downe sent To cheere vp Eue and Adam in their Caues And comfort them vnto their happy graues He long time liues the chastest man of all Loues darts were throwne but at a brazen wall Vntill at length it sanke into his brest The Churches Line vpon his Race should Rest Then doth he pause and vnto marriage goe Iust at a hundred threescore yeares and two And in the strength of this his body high Begat a child which neuer liu'd to dye Enoch the seuenth that euer yet was bred Enoch borne Gen. 6. 24. From whom the Church doth now deriue her head But Enoch stay I cannot but admire The chast condition of thy reuerent Sire To liue so long within so prime an Age When euery obiect as a pleasing Page Might rauish sence allure the chastest eye With lookes more cleere then is the purest dye And when the Angels if the Booke be true Book of Enoch Came downe from Heauen their beauties all to view Great powerfull God what can I thinke or speake When all my wits are for this point to weake But to conceiue thy glorious Angels bright How they can be intangled with the sight And pleasing lookes of this fond sinfull sex Though fram'd as t were out of the Virgins wax Yet drawne entiste to euery thing is ill Euen as occasion workes vnto their will I know some thinke their weake opinions sound Viues Euseb Lactan. That in those dayes few women chast were found But that Pride Enuy Lust Dissembling Guile Did their white hands with all foule things defile And that the Diuels with Lucifer which fell From Hell arose with woman kind to dwell By which their seede against dame Natures lawes Prodigiously thus mixed was the cause To bring forth Monsters in that fearefull case Huge Giants tall of Gog and Magogs Race Eze. 38. 23. Reuel 20. 8. Such as not now can any where be found For whom the world was shortly after drown'd Others there be that thinke the Angels bright Tertullian Sarazens l. 3. 5 Which then stood pure before the most of might With twelue great Princes of their royall band Came downe from Heauen in lareds dayes did stand Vpon the top of lofty Hermon Hill There curst and vowd for to obtaine their will Vpon mens Daughters which their eyes had seene Sweete louely faire delightfull young and greene And that the Mount from that time forth was nam'd The Hill of Hermon as not once asham'd That their foule plot to this vile Hidra growne Should by the name still to this day be knowne Semixas great which was their chiefest Prince Book of Enoch Iude. 6. 9. 14. Disswaded first from this foule curst offence Fearing the tortures of the Angells all Their sins and shame vpon his head would fall Till by Arachiell and the rest all ten That in this place my Muse is loath to pen He gaue consent and so from thence all went Euen as their minds on Hermon hill were bent But God aboue soone sendeth Michaell downe Who binds Semixa with a sacred frowne Reu. 12. 7. 8 9. Chaines him in hell and all his of-scum Race Ties to the hils as Fairy Goblins base The rest and all the selfe same cup do taste Heauens fowre Archangels these foule fiends so waste That all Earths monsters sprong from hell at first Must by the flood be washt away and curst A third opinion that our Age doth yeeld In this large goodly ample spatious field Amongst the Arabian Christian Turke and Iew Which sounds to reason likelyest to be true Is that Seths issue from the Church deriued Though in the depth of learned Arts they diued And seem'd Gods Sonnes adopted sweet of face Yet linck't themselues in Caines adulterous Race By which their Spawne from this vile mingle mangle Began with Pride contentiously to brangle With griping pawes to satiate their fill The harmelesse childs poore weake mans state to spill Most barbarously to trample on the head Of the chaste Virgine to deflowre her bed To feed on gore inhumanly to tare Mans flesh in peeces gnawe his bones all bare And tyranize the great to wrong the lesse To act those things which all the world may gesse Out from this
wofull prison sick to lye and rot Not once to case assawge their griefes a iot And all the while in Equity and Right There 's nothing due but what is got by might By Wrong Oppression diuelish traps and guile And wicked plodding in such actions vile Lord pardon them forgiue their great offences Call once againe illuminate their sences Waken their carelesse too secure a slumber Forget their faults too infinite to number Let them Restore what they haue wrongly got Else will those goods consume away and rot And aye the Infant yet vnborne will cry For Vengeance iust on their posterity But let not vs good Lord O let not vs Trace out their steps to giue examples thus Make vs auoyde to fall into the like Lest suddenly thy Iudgements do vs strike With farre more terror on our bodyes knowne Then euer was vpon Gehezi showne Or all thy chosen people thou didst make A warning sad for vs in Time to take Besides the losse eternall of thy Grace Where such a one shall neuer see thy face But chaste Vrania Soueraigne of my Muse In whom the Heauens do their best guifts infuse Why dost thou now thy loue so farre ingage As to descend downe to our times and Age Leauing the world that at the first was drownd To ramble out beyond thy scope to sound Damn'd Vice vnmaske with those that wrest and lurch And all this while thus to forget the Church Retire againe and stay not with vs long Thou maist be blam'd for this thy wholesome song For 't is most true one harldly scapes of ten That hunts the Foxe too neare the Lions den Auoyde begone contend not much with these For feare perhaps thou dost some men displease And so incurre some danger on thy selfe For taxing those which are in loue with pelfe Come to the Church deare Muse where last of all Thou Henoch leftst vpon this goodly Ball. There thou art tide O do not much abound Take sanctuary in their holy ground And from these things till time shall serue surcease Then shalt thou Rest and liue in perfect Peace Henoch the seuenth from Adams pupillage Gen. 5. 21. Iud. 14. At sixtie fiue yeares of his manly Age Begat a childe whose like was neuer found From this worlds birth in all her spatious Round That liu'd to see so many weekes of dayes As this man did and yet no strength decayes Methuselah the wonder of his time Whose age may claime of all the earth the prime Which liu'd to see with Simeons heart inflam'd The Arke of Noah before his death all fram'd Luk. 2. 25. 26. 27. Tipe of that Church which from mount Sion purl'd When Caesars scepter swayd the Westerne world Methuselah both ancient graue and sage One hundred fourescore and seauen yeares of Age All chaste doth liue and then begets a Son Vpon whose death the world was quite vndon Lamech the father of that faithfull child Which sau'd seauens Soules and all the rest beguild When that the Arke was by the waters heaued O then they knew their wits were all deceiued Great Noahs selfe from Lamechs loynes descended When full one hundred eightie yeares were ended And that the Sun had foure times crost the line Then is he borne and in his birth did shine Like to a glimpse of that all sacred light Simile Which in these dayes may dazle all our sight His name fore-tiping from his mothers brest That he was borne to be the Churches Rest Ioh 1. 19. Fiue hundred yeares or neare vpon he past His manly dayes both continent and chaste And then espowsed to his future Fame A Noble Faire and courteous louely Dame Some thinke the sister of great Tubal-Caine Genebrard in Cron Iew Rab. Sweete Naamah his loue at first did gaine Though from the Line of cursed Caine descended Yet of the Heauens she was so highly friended As that her Lot before the world was drown'd Fell lucky forth within the Churches ground Oh God thy workes are farre beyond our reach The least of them may all our Sences teach Thou hast thy sheepe disperst in euery place From Henochs Seths and Caines proud enuious Race It is thy pleasure bad mens sins to pay To saue some yet and cast not all away The Flowres oft times which do mongst Cockle grow May smell more sweet then any plant we sow And tender Seeds out from the Popish Seate May yet at length proue Eares of perfect wheate Chiefly when Noah Gods husbandman shall till And worke the ground according to his will With pruning planting in that forme and manner As was the Church once vnder Caesars Banner So Abraham was out from Chaldee cald Gen. 12. 28. Chap. 12. 2. Cha 41. 42. 43 44. Iob. 1. Exod. 2. 5. 6. 11. 13. 15. Hest 2. 17. cha 7. 6. 10. And Ioseph great in Egypts Court instald Iob in the land of Vz amongst those men Where so he liu'd that grieues my soule to pen And Moses milde amongst the murdring sort Was nurst brought vp within king Pharohs Court Hester the Queene that made her foes a scorne Was marryed tide vnto a Pagan borne And Paul hims elfth ' Apostle of vs all Yet first was bred within prowd Tarsus wal And diuers others which my Muse could name Were traind vp thus and yet deseru'd no blame For he that builds vpon the slippery sand Yet Time may serue to make his fabricke stand And these were such as from the rest reculde The weaker sexe are by the greater rulde Though some perhaps haue tride the same and mist Yet wise men still do winde them as they list As by example from Noahs happy choyce This world of ours may euer iust reioyce To haue a mother without blurre or staine When all were lost to store the Earth againe But what make wee deare Muse with Noahs wife Chaste Matron graue preseruer of our life Whose Fame deserues heauens azurd richest gowne A garland deckt and Lawrell wreathed Crowne And in her lap the Frame of all to hold I fall were made of solid beaten gold What if she be deriued from the Race Of cursed Caine yet hath she better face A Conscience cleane Religion in her brest Within whose Soule Heauens dearest guifts do rest Tipe of the Church now to perfection wrought Which was at first but out of darknesse brought Looke backe againe and post not one too fast For feare thou beest beyond thy compasse cast Tell what befell to Adams issue left What misdemeanours all his ofspring kept Ech man his neighbor deadly hates and wounds Sin ouerflowes in euery place abounds The greater still deuouring vp the small That in the end th' oppressed blood doth call For vengeance iust vnto the God of Powre Who doth descend and on the world doth lowre Repents himselfe that ere he did begin To frame the same thus poysoned all with sin Whose true repentance from his eyes did draw That streame of teares which wofully they saw When all the Earth
THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE two first Ages Diuinely handled By Thomas Peyton of Lincolnes Inne Gent. LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop and are to be had at Laurence Chapmans shop ouer-against Staple Inne 1620. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE Charles Prince of Wales MOst hopefull Prince Europaes richest Iem Successor to these famous westerne Iles Chast Oliue Branch descended of that Stem Whose what he hath all on thy fortune smiles Inheritor to such a Potent King As no Age yet his Like could euer bring Braue Pearle of men within whose louely Face The sacred Muses learned Arts combine And all Heauens gifts from great Apollos Race Apparant seeme within thy Browes to shine Thy Fathers Doran kingly workes of State This more then needs as borne but out of date Yet Royall Prince let but thine eyes behold This lofty Subiect in these Rurall Rimes T' will more encourage then Earths purest gold To make my Muse to all succeeding times Blaze forth thy parts and high deserued Fame That thy rare worth may all the World inflame As in a Garden of sweete fragrant flowers Where each man takes what to his mind seemes best Then sits him downe within their pleasant Bowers Peruseth all and for a Time doth Rest Contented Ioy'd Admiring to haue found So great a change in one small piece of Ground So deerest Prince within thy Fathers workes What Poesies sweete Graue sentences diuine Sad morrall matter in each Subiect lurkes To draw thy youth to trace him line by line Whilst this may chance to recreate thy mind As glimmering Luna in Sols absence shin'd Persist go on and as thy Vertues won The Loyall Loue of euery faithfull heart So to the end thy course directly run And winged Fame shall from thee neuer start But scale the Cloudes and mount the lofty Skyes To sound thy worth as farre as India lyes Your Highnesse in all humblenesse Thomas Peyton TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE FRANCIS Lord Verulam Lord Chancelor of England MOst Honor'd Lord within whose reuerend face Truth Mercy Iustice Loue and all combine Heauens deerest Daughters of Iehouahs Race Seeme all at full within thy Browes to shine The King himselefe T'immortalize thy fame Hath in thy Name Foretiped out the same Great Verulam my Soule hath much admirde Thy Courtly carriage in each comely part Worth Merrit Grace when what the land desirde Is powr'd vpon thee as thy iust desart Graue liberall mind contending with the rest To seate them all in thy Iuditious brest Thrice noble Lord how dost thou prize of gold Wealth Treasures Mony and such Earthly cash For none of them thou hast thy Iustice sold But held them all as base infected trash To snare allure out from a dunghill wrought The seared conscience of each muddy thought Weigh but my cause referre me not to those That from the first were partiall in my right Ah this is more then once thine Honour knowes Thou seest mine owne hath now vndone me quight Whilst by a trick they got me in their paw Against the Order of thy Court and Law If I were such as some would haue thee thinke I meane my Foes which vtterly defame Mine Innocence and all together linke To wound my state and blemish much my name Yet Iustice wils what in their hands hath laine Thus to my losse should be restord againe Ah deerest Lord hold but the Scales vpright Let Court nor fauour ouersway my cause To presse me more then is beyond my might Is but their Reach to crosse thy former Lawes Let me have Peace or that which is mine owne And thy iust worth shall o're the World be blowne Your Lordships in all humblenesse Thomas Peyton TO THE READER The Title described VNto the Wise Religious Learned Graue Iudicious Reader out this Worke I send The tender sighted that small knowledge haue Can litle loose but much their weaknesse mend And generous spirits which from heauen are sent May Solace here and finde all true content A Paradise presented to ech eye Within the Vinnet of the Title page Where Iustice Mercie Nature Loue do lye Beforeth ' Almightie in the first found Age. Time stands betwixt and Truth his daughter beares His traine behind a world of Aged yeares Fierce Nemesis she mounts within the Ayre On Pegasus that winged Horse of Fame And by her side a Sword all naked bare Graue Iustice sits a sable lowring Dame Vnder her feete the worlds most spatious Globe And weighs mens Actions in a scarlet Robe This may denote the goodly glorious worth The pretious Value Maiestie and Grace Of all the Sisters Glory of this Earth Gods deerest daughters in their seuerall place Aboue the world heauens crowne their browes adorne To shew at full how they do bribing scorne Peruse it well for in the same may lurke More obscure matter in a deeper sence To set the best and learned wits on worke Then hath as yet in many Ages since Within so small a little Volumne beene Or on the sudden can be found and seene Vrania deere attired in her silke To draw thee on with more attentiue heede The weaker sort she sometime feedes with milke All guiltie mens damn'd vices vp to weede Th' enuious Momes that her chaste Muse doth tuch She hopes to mend but cares not for them much Thine to his power Tho. Peyton HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Beati Pacifici THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE FIRST AGE The Argument The Author first doth Gods assistance craue Throughout the worke that he his helpe may haue The sacred Sabbaoth Sathans enuious gall The Woman fram'd and Mans most dismall fall The Tree of Life protected from the Brute The Tree of Knowledge with her fatall Fruit For feare the World should finally be ended Gods deerest Daughters downe in hast descended The flaming Sword the Tree of Life which garded The Cherubins vpon the walls that warded The Land of Eden is discrib'd at large Heauens iudgement iust to all men's future charge SInce true examples in Gods holy Booke Are found of those that in it loue to looke Of men whose Image portraiture and soule Haue beene transform'd to monstrous shapes and foule According as their liues haue pleasing beene Gen. 19 26 To him whose sight their secret thoughts hath seene And as his goodnesse sacred is that some Dan. 4. 30 Should be examples for these times to come His Church to comfort Pagans to appall To teach to vs what did to them befall Within the stories of the new and old Rom. 15 4 Of many more then can by me be told And since that Ouid in a pleasing verse Doth pretty Tales and Metaphors rehearse Of men to birds and then againe to beasts To make you parly at your welcome feasts Whose fabled fictions warbled in that age The infancy and sacred pupill-age Of the Religion which we heare maintaine Vnder our Soueraignes thrice most happy raigne May seeme from Moses and the rest diuine In 's Metaphors to trace them line by line
away be washt Yet the Apostles instituted sure A sacred day a holy Rest and pure The Church of God they planted well and watred And but the day they onely chang'd and altred In which the flocke they traind along and fed them As God aboue in 's holy Spirit led them And euer since the Christians kept that day To heare the word to come to Church and pray For God is good and wil be mockt of none His glorious face the Saints behold alone Paul the Apostle that was after cald When Iesus Christ was in th' heauens instald 1. Cor. 16. 13. Heb. 4. 9. Both with the word and holy Spirit annointed The Christian Sabaoth in Gods Church appointed To meete together heare his voyce diuine The Scriptures search to trace them line by line To preach and pray to lay vp for the poore For all the Saints to open wide the doore That sweete Disciple whom the Lord of life Ioh. 21. 7. 20. 33. More dearely loued then any faithfull wife Which euer yet vpon the earth was bred Could seeme to shew vnto her spouse and head The last of all more louing then the rest Which lean'd at suppervpon Christ his brest And stayd behind his holy Church to guide His fellowes thought he should haue neuer dide When by Domitians spightfull cruell word Vit. Sanct. Ore all the world hot persecution stir'd Though often times before he had scap'd the pawes Of barbarous Tyrants and their cursed Lawes Liu'd still secure as not afraid of fire Sword famine murder in their diuellish ire Yet at the length at his most damn'd command Againe he 's caught subiected to their hand And in a Tun of hot and scalding Oyle He hurles his body ore the fire to boyle But seeing that could do no good at all Worse then a Diuell most treacherously doth fall To stratagems inhumane actions vile To banish him in Pathmos wandring Ile Mongst sauage beasts which lurke in euery bowre With open mouth his body to deuoure Where solitary in that vnked place Christ Iesus shewd his glorious burnisht face Reu. 1. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14. Whose feete like Brasse and eyes as flames of fire Rauisht Iohns spirit made his soule admire To see the Lord which for our sins late dy'd His Christian Sabaoth from the Iewes diuide By that all powerfull sharpe two edged sword His glorious holy milde Maiesticke word His owne example to th' Apostles all That on this day was euer seene to call To come amongst them and to shew his face To distribute his goodnes and his grace This great Apostle to heauens potent Prince The Lords day he hath cald it euer since T is writ i' th' Hebrews if the law be ceast That to Gods people there remaines a Rest Heb. 4 9. From sin to cease his holy name to praise Together flocke our meditations raise Aboue the clouds to that commanding king Which out of darknes did our sences bring Disperst the Truth and by his sacred might Plac'd all our thoughts w'thin the Gospels light O let it neuer sinke within my brest That to Gods people should remaine no Rest But toyle and trauell painfull worke alway And Hoddy Loddy Topsie Turuy play T is true they say that Constantine the Great First Emperour of all the Christian Seate A learned wise religious Councell cald First Nicene Counsell Himselfe amongst them in his Robes instald An Order set abuses foule corrected Reform'd the Church which Arrians infected Establisht Peace ador'd the Royall Law Made Penalties to keepe them more in awe Iam. 2. 8. And by his power as head of all the Earth Christs gouernment was now but in her birth According to the word and Scriptures pure Confirm'd our Sabaoth euer to endure In euery Age since first the world was made God shew'd his iudgements on those men which wade Beyond the Truth prophanely still deuise To breake his Rest and publish wicked lies As for example though I could produce A multitude that none might plead excuse Before his Iustice at that dreadfull barre For leading others in a maze so farre And yet of them but three in all I le cite As fitting to the times wherein I write To shew how God hath euer hated curst The very place that Sabaoth breakers nurst The ancient Iewes which in Arabia walked Exod. 13. 16. Before the Law when God with Moses talked And bad him warne the people all that none Should dare to gather euery one alone More then a Omer of that blessed food Which fell from heauen vnto their soueraigne good And in the day before the Sabaoths rest Two Omers full as is before exprest Should then be gathered rosted bak'd and sod But in the rest minde nothing else but God How hath that food releeu'd the lingring mind Of those his people whom true loue did bind In awfull feare diuinely wondrous fed And onely in the light of nature led Those which abusde his sacred Rest and grace How did it then infect the aire and place With putrifaction loathsome deadly ranke In noy some manner ore the earth it stanke Vntill such time that God aboue did please To cleare the aire and send them better ease Causde all that was so lewd prophanely got To wast dissolue consume away and rot The next example of his iudgements great Was in those daies that Babylon did beate The chosen people and the holy Nation Ier. 17 21. to the last With such a scourge as since the worlds foundation Was neuer heard as yet in any land To feele the weight of his most heauy hand For prophanation of his sacred Day In carrying burdens toyling worke and play In reuell rout and such phantasticke sport Eu'n from the greater to the meaner sort All run from Church to damn'd offences foule Neglecting still the danger of their soule But God aboue although he often mand Their chosen Hoast by his victorious hand Brought them from Aegypt through the red seas waue When mighty Neptune fomes aloft and raues And in despight of enuious Fortunes fate Great powerfull riuals and their deadly hate Led them at length with al their ventrous hoast And plast their feete vpon the promist coast Yet for their foule abusing of his rest In all those things which are aboue exprest He sends the Plague pale Famine Sword and Fire Ier. 52. 67 Fowre furious foes to execute his Ire Raz'd downe their walls their temple desolated Their City sack't and Land depopulated That for the space of threescore yeeres and ten It lay vntild and had her rest as then O holy God was euer thing more plaine Then these thy iudgements on thy flock againe 2. Chr. 36. 21 Vpon thy land what stony heart but feares To giue them now a Sabbaoth iust of yeares For all their foule abuses wicked lewd As in my worke shall more at large be shew'd The third example of his wrathfull frowne Was lately shew'd vpon Geneua towne The Imperiall goodly
Iordans siluer sides From Libanon to Sodoms lake that glides Along the plaines where Iesus was baptiz'd The holy Ghost in shape of Doue disguiz'd Mat. 3. 15 16 17. Heauens windowes ope thus speaketh in their sight This is my Sonne in whom I take delight When all was finish't and to Heauen Christ went Then downe came he to giue vs all content As Iustice Mercy both with Loue are linck't Simile So God is one the Persons three distinck't These altogether as the heauens decree'd Iustitia Misrecordia Charitas Veritas The Tree of Life protect from Adams seede The World it selfe with wonderment they fill Their meate is knowne to do their fathers will Who all this while is with their sister sweete Natura His eldest daughter as 't was euer meete When Time had done discharged full his due Aboue the clouds vp to the Heauens God flew Where he remaines leauing the world and all Which euer yet was knowne vpon this ball To the protection of that noble Dame That to the earth with loue her sister came So well affected labouring what she can That all her care is but for sinfull man Let him his mind to goodnesse alwayes bend And Nature euer is his louing friend Great God of Heauen now is thy Iustice showne Thy Loue and Mercy with thy Nature knowne Time hath thy Face and glorious browes vnmask't And thus at first my Rurall Muse hath task't Heere brought forth Truth from her hath neuer sturd Reueal'd the same wrapt in thy holy Word Of Paradise the sacred curtaine drawne The Sabaoth shew'd on no mans vice doth fawne Of all the world hath sung the first beginning Told Adams faults and Eues offensiue sinning Their seede defac't in breaking of thy lawes And heere I le stay and sit me downe and pause The end of the first Age. THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE second Age. Diuinely handled By Thomas Peyton of Lincolnes Inne Gent. Seene and allowed LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop for Lawrence Chapman and are to be sold at his shop ouer against Staple Inne 1620. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Beati Pacifici THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE SECOND AGE The Argument The sacred Muse by envious Foes is crost Adam and Eue how each from other lost Their first borne sonne by cursed malice led Vnkindly wounds his dearest Brother dead Apostacy the cause of all this ill The totall World on euery side doth fill With Bloud Oppression Cruelty and Hate To waste consume and winde each others state The Church deriued from the third borne child Is staind polluted with Caines Race defilde So that the World and all there in was found Besides the Arke were wash't away and drown'd VRania Soueraigne of the Muses nine Inspire my thoughts with sacred worke diuine Come down from Heauen within my Temples Rest Inflame my heart and lodge within my Brest Grant me the story of this World to sing The Glasse of Time vpon the Stage to bring Be Aye within me by thy powerfull might Gouerne my Pen direct my speech aright Euen in the birth and infancy of Time To the last Age season my holy Rime Oh leade me on into my Soule infuse Diuinest Worke and still be thou my Muse That all the World may wonder and behold To see Times passe in Ages manifold And that their wonder may produce this end To liue in loue their future liues to mend Then shall thy lookes with sacred luster shine The Muses all within thy Browes combine Richly adorn'd with all the Nimphes and Graces Shall sound thy prayse with louely pleasing faces Ioying to see thy glorious heauenly hap The golden Ball cast downe into thy lap To thy delight and great contentment more Then if the World were only thine in store Though cursed Enuy on thy Fortune frowne Yet thy chast Browes shall weare heau'ns lawrel crowne In future Ages as the Muses Queene Thy Temples wreath'd shall euer flowrish greene And what if Hymen something doe annoy Thy tender Fruit yet shalt thou liue in ioy And when pale death shall close vp both thine eyes Thy fame shall mount aboue the lofty skyes And yet Vrania how canst thou be glad To see this Age wherein we liue so bad All ouergrowne far worse then at the first Bemir'd in sin as if it were accurst Nothing but bloud contention Brides and braules The Serpent still vpon his belly crawles And round about on enery side doth winde With cunning sleights the Infants face to grinde Nay thouthy selfe noble Vrania deere Since first thy landing and ariuall heere Hast thou not beene on euery side turmoyl'd Tost too and fro by Enuy ouertoyl'd Whose viprous tongue within a sacred place Hath belcht her venome aim'd at thy disgrace Like to the Diuell in Paradise at first Simile That banefull poyson in his Brest hath nurst To wrong thy person weaken much thy state Enrich himselfe to satisfie his hate Tooke all aduantage working on thy youth Suggested lies instead of naked truth Lock't thee vp close Immur'd within a Wall When not a Groate was due to him at all But by the order of this noble Land He in that place for debt to-thee should stand Great God of Heauen it makes me weepe and waile To see Iuiustice oftentimes preuaile To domineere and catch into her hand When Innocence must at her mercy stand Then doth she squeese wring wrest extort and lurch When seldome times oppression comes at Church Deare friends perswasion once can ne're preuaile To worke a peace till all be set to saile Then swallowes all into a griping purse Not satisfied continues ten times worse Vowing to wast and Ruine all thy state Oh cursed malice hatcht by enuious fate When thy false heart hath made the act thy worst What art thou then more then a beast accurst Nay farre more worse for thou must count at large For euery soule committed to thy charge If by thy fault the least of them be lost Thy soule in hell the price of it will cost But yet my Muse vnfold to me the cause Why thou didst fall into the trecherous pawes Of hatefull foes deuouring Tigers fierce False hearted friends which in thy state did pierce That thou shouldst thus be tost on euery side Compeld oft times to be from home and ride To see if Enuy with her viperous face Hath foysted lies in sacred Iustice place I know no cause nor could I euer tell Why she should thus against thee alwayes swell Winding her selfe her mallice best to smother Ier. 23. 12. 10. 11. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Into the habit of thine elder brother One thou hast lou'd inough to make me doate To see vice lurke vnder a formall coate And thou thy selfe that yet didst neuer hurt To harme a childe or throw a worme i'th'durt Or take delight to glory in the fall Of any one much lesle thy tongue to gall Bite scandall blurre to Iniury defame The worth of any in their goods or
Medly sprang those Gyants first Gen. 6. 4. 5. 12. 13. Monsters of men that made the Earth accurst Base diuelish minds with big aspiring lookes When as a man his neighbour hardly brookes But sheds his bloud squeeseth the flesh and gall Licks vp the gore worse then a Canniball Nature prodigious in their mungrell birth Made them adord yet demy Gods on earth Whilst feare restraind the weaker men in aw To Idolize against her sacred law They spend their dayes to treade the selfe same trace Or worse if may be in this barbarous case That in the end with Brazen cotes of maile They tempt the heauens and seeke the clouds to scale To pull downe God from his triumphant throne By their damn'd Pride and hellish power alone Thus whilst oppression ouerflowes the world The little men still by the greater hurld Their states consum'd their lands and liues all spoyl'd Their cause though iust by greatnesse crost and foyl'd Themselues by others basely bought and sold And hardly vs'd as I before haue told Adam he grieues at this accursed Race Eue she laments with discontented face Both prostrate fall before the God of power To take their soules and send them happy howre So deerest Muse heere in this mortall life The Author That swarmes in troupes of those delight in strife Which neuer rest till all my state be spent But at my Ruine all their aime is bent How could I wish that my last dayes were come Or that my foes were Cardinals of Rome Or that my Peace which almost cost the best Of Lands and Life to liue in quiet rest Were granted me I car'd not which of all But in my way would fortunately fall So should I rest no liuing man annoy Or to the Heauens translate my soule with ioy But why do I cast stones against the wind Thus to disclose the secrets of my mind To waile my woes lay open all my griefe My foes wish well as Authors of it chiefe And all this while no comfort yet I haue But still fell Enuy more and more doth raue To wound my Soule with such inueterate hate As murders all to swallow vp my State O pardon me God may an Angell send To worke my Peace or else some welcome friend Conuert my Foes their Conscience touch with feares Or bring my Cause vnto my Soueraignes eares Oh then how ioyfull shall that happy howre Be to my Soule more sweet then sweetest flowre And glad me more then if I treasures found The greatest Riches on this Earthly ground My future life shall warble sacred layes To sound my God and then my Soueraignes prayse But Adam yet according to thy minde Thou dost Gods loue and all his fauours finde Though in thy youth thou wastvntimely croft When Paradise was by thy folly lost Thy first borne sonnes before thine eyes both slaine Thy daughter stole thy dayes to end in paine And worst of all that these vile Monsters base Should but descend and come from this thy Race That thou shouldst liue but to behold the sinnes The wrongs Oppressions in thâ—…â—…nd begins The Horrors Griefes Vexations howrely fall Vpon the heads of this thy of spring all And last these Gyants heauens blew vaile to rend To treade in blood without all hope to mend Made thee desire that thou thy wish mighst haue To come in Peace to this thy welcome Graue God heares thy cry and sends his Angels bright Clad in white garments of heauens sacred light Attir'd like Nymphs of chaste Dianaes traine With glistring wings a Crowne of life to gaine All to be spangled in rich costly Iems From the crowns top vnto their skirts and hems With Lawrels wreathd close to their Temples chaste And Trumpets dangling by ech louely waste These all came downe thy sorrowes to aswage In thine nine hundreth thirtie yeares of Age To guard the soules both of thy selfe and wife From this worlds care vexation griefe and strife Of from the earth vp to the lofty skies When they haue cheerd and clozd vp both thine eyes Then all their Trumpets in the ayre doth sound From Heauens blew wall downe to the lowest ground Melodiously about the clouds resounding The hils and dales with Eccho all rebounding Till at the last they brought both safe and sure Two welcome soules into Gods presence pure Seth yet suruiues grieues for his parents losse Mourns weeps laments at this sad heauy crosse So he conceiues the Loue of two such friends From this worlds poynt vnto hervtmost ends On euery side of all the Earth and Round Can hardly well be parareld and found He sheds salt teares downe from his cheeks distilling Plaining his woes shewing himselfe vnwilling To part with both stoops downe oft times and kisses Their dead pale lips and from his soule he wishes That his liues blood deare tender hearted Seth Had gone before and but excusd their death His friends come in and brothers sisters all Some cheare him vp others to weeping fall Euen as we see the case oft times our owne The losse of friends to cast our courage downe Amate our minds and makes vs vaile our face Knowing that we must tread the selfe same trace Then vp they take their withered bodyes dead Imbalme them both and wrap them close in lead But first with Nitre Orient spices meet And Mummia Cedar fragrant rich and sweet They all perfume and dresse their bodyes cold Then winde them vp as I before haue told And lay them seemly on a Sable Hearse Sad heauenly sight a bleeding heart to pierce To see the Parents of the totall world Before their eyes thus vp to nothing curld Foure of Seths brothers on their shoulders take The Sable trunke and so from thence they make Procession like a solemne sacred way To Caluerie vpon our Lady day For as the Church doth euermore begin Since God heauens crowne for all our sakes did win Vpon that day to count the Christian yeare So some still say he did mans body reare Out of the dust iust at that instant howre The day and time in which himselfe did powre His holy Spirit in the Virgins wombe And did therein the second Adam tombe And true it is that Adam fram'd by God Liu'd yeares compleate no months nor dayes as od By which we gather that that very day They were both buryed wrapt vp cold in clay The Ceremonies and the sacred Rites The forme and manner all my Sences cites Which Seth then vsde and holy Henoch pure Drawes on my Muse as with a golden lure To sing the same vnto all future times In these rude ragged harsh vnpolisht rimes But that my course another way must bend As one that trauells neare his iourneys end And that my Muse may chance for to be curst When this shall grow and swell beyond my first But yet one thing I may not ouer-slip And leaue the Vales vp to the Mounts to skip For certaine t is that euermore the Iew Hath stedfast held his owne opinion