withstand The Heathen host with ech of them in hand An yron mace in stead of launces long And brazen bucklers beating back the throng Their habergions like stiddies stithe they baire With helmets high and pennons pight in aire Of equall age they were and equall length Of equall courage and of equall strength Like Poplers twain that recheth vp their tops And holds their heads so high that none them crops But on the Riuers side do sweetly sway Like germain brether hailsing oft a day The Heathen seeing thus the Iews descend With edge of sword their Citie to defend They left th' assault and thence retyring went As they commanded were vnto their tent But when I think how xxx dayes that towne Tormented was with mischief vp and down Too sad a song I cannot hear inuent So great a sadnesse right to represent My hand for horrour shakes and now no more Can lead my sacred pen as erst before For now mine eyes that watred are with tears Declares my matter all of mischief bears Oh Sprite from whence all sprit and life doth come Thou loosde the tongue of Zacharie that was dōme And sent thy Heralds through the world to preach Thy name and in a hundreth tongues to teach Guide thou my pen and courage to me lend That to thy honour I this worke may end Although that Izak sawe on euery hand A world of folke against his towne to stand Yet tracting time he thought he would prouide No lesse to keep then coole th' Assiegers pride But when they fand the conduits cut and rent By which their water to their towne was sent Their courage bolde and all their craks alas As licour faild so did their stoutnesse pas Their Lords preferring death to bondage vile Made them beleeue the thing did them beguile To wit they gaue men hope that they might keep Sufficient wat'r in wels and cesterns deep Through all the towne the people to relieue That thirst should not the souldiers greatly grieue The magistrates in deed had great regard To see this water wisely spent and spar'd That Bottell sweet which serued at the first To keep the life but not to slocken thirst A viue description of Thirst. When wels grew dry the Commons ran in rage And sought out euery sink their thirst t' asswage And drank with long som draught the pools in haste To quench their thirst with ill contented taste Which poysoned ayre enfect their purest breath Whereby the drinker drank his present death O wretched folke who felt so hard a strife Drink or not drink both wayes must lose their life For he that drank and he that did refrain Had of their enmies both an equall pain For why the water vile slew them throughout No lesse then did their enmies them about That wretched towne had neuer a street nor rewe But Parcas there had found som facion newe To murder men or martyr them with fears As mov'd the most indurate hart to tears If so much water in their brains had been As might forbear a drop to wete their een There plaind the old man that the souldier strong Had reft his Bottell from his head with wrong But while he spake his hart for thirst did faint And life him left which frustrate his complaint The souldier braue Oh hart brek for to tell His proper vryne drank thirst to expell The wofull mother with her spettle fed Her little childe half dead in cradle bed The Lady with her Lord at point of death Embracing fals and yeelds their latest breath For cruell thirst came out of Cyren Land Where she was fostred on that burning sand With hote intracted tongue and sonken een With stomack worn and wrinkled visage keen With light and meigre corse and pailed vains In stead of blood that brimstone hote retains Her poysond mouth blew throw that holy town Such hellish ayr that stifled vp and down The Arters of the Iewes in such a way That nought was seen but burials night and day So that the heauen to see their dolours deep Could scarsly keep his course but preasd to weep And would haue ioind his tears to their complaint If God of hosts had made them no restraint Yea I my self must weep who cannot speak The woes that makes my heavy hart to break And so will silent rest and not rehearse But counterfait the painter in my verse Who thought his colours paile could not declare The speciall woe king Looke the Table Agamemnon bare When sacrificed was his onely race With bend of black he bound the fathers face Now while the people were in this estate And with their princes wrangling in debate They thus besought the Lord for to decide Between their simplesse and their princes pride The Lord be iudge of that which ye haue wrought And what your wicked counsells hath vs brought If you had offred peace to this great Lord At first we might haue wonne him to accord Then happy happy dayes we might haue seen And not so many souldiers murdred been Alas what hope haue we within this holde Our enmies are more meek a thousand folde Then are our owne They haps would vs preserue Our wilfull owne pretends to see vs sterue Our children do our childrens weal denay And headlong hastes vnto their owne decay We knowe O Lord the breaking of thy law Hath caused thee this sword on vs to draw And iustly thou thine yrefull bowe doest bend On our vnloyall heads the shot to send But thou who doth not long retain thine yre Against thine owne thy mercy we require Change thou the purpose of our foolish guides And of these Heathen armed at our sides Or els let vs vpon their weapons fall And of their hands to be destroyed all Er we this drougth and deadly venim haue With languishing to send vs to the graue My brethren dear the Ruler then gan say Our whole desire hath been both night and day Not for to see the seed of Abrahm lost For which we striue against this furious hoste What haue ye pain so likewise pain haue we For in one boat we both imbarked be Vpon one tide one tempest doth vs tosse Your common ill it is our common losse Th' Assyrian plague shall not vs Hebrews grieue When pleaseth God our mischief to relieue Which he will doe if ye can be content And not with grudge his clemency prevent Then striue not you against that puissant king Who create all and gouerns euery thing For comfort of his Church and children dear And succours them though time do long appear Somtime an Archer leaues his bowe vnbent And hong vpon a naile to that intent It may the stronger be to bend again And shoot the shot with greater might and main Right so th' eternall doth withholde his ill A longer time perchance for that he will More egerly reuenge him of their crime Who do abuse his long for bearing time When men applauds to sinne they count it light And but a matter
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 beâ—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
Prince May'st thou surmount all those in Excellence Which haue before thee Rul'd th' hard-ruled Scots And ruder Picts painted with Martiall spots That first Fergusius glory of his dayes Ev'nus and Donald may enuy thy Praise And even the Scott'sh or rather th' Hebrew Dauid Iesses great son so holily-behaved Give place to thy Renown and therewithall Give thee his Zeal and Heart heroïcall And all his best which doth thee best belong As he hath given thee his sweet Harp and Song THOVGH profane service of Idolatry Had drown'd the whole Earth vniversally Though shame-less sin born with the COLONIES Through all the World through all did Tyrannize Yet in Chaldea was their chiefest Seat Their strength in Shinaar and that City great Built on the slymy strand of Euphrates Was the proud Palace where they held their Feasts So that even Sem's and Heber's sacred Ligne Where God his grace yet seemed to confine Sucking the Sin-bane of Assyrian aire Did like the Heathen every day impaire Simile Forgot the true God followed rashly-rude The gross grand Error of the multitude Degeneriz'd decay'd and withered quight Likesom rare Fruit-Tree over-topt with spight Of Bryers and Bushes which it sore oppress With the sowr shadow of their Thorny tress Till choakt withall it dies as they do growe And beareth nought but Moss and Misseltoe But God desirous more for vs then him The Calling of Abraham In som one stock to saue Faith's sacred stem Like as before from the All-drowning Flood He sav'd the worlds seed in an Ark of wood Marks Abram for his owne and from false Rites To men to Beasts to Stocks to Stones to Sprights Him gratiously to his owne Service drawes Not by meer Conduct of exteriour cause As by contempling th' Artship richly-rare Which gilds the Seeling of this Globe so fair Earthsfruitfull power producing goodly-green From so small seeds so huge and mighty Treen Flowrs fragrant aier so fresh and divers-died Seas foaming Course whose ever-Tilting Tide Ebbing or flowing is confin'd to Season Bounded with lists guided with reans of Reason But by the motion of his Spirit which seals In our hearts Centre what his word reveals And prudently in his fit time and place Dispensing frankly his free gifts of Grace Doth inwardly bear-witnes and aver-it Vnder our Spirits that'â—is God's Holy Spirit The sacred Faith of Abram languisht not In Idleness but alwayes waakt and wrought The fruits of a true faith and the effect thereof And ever lively brought forth Patience Humility Hope Bounty Innocence Love fervent Zeal Repentance Temperance Sincerity and true Perseverance Fruits that like Load-stones haue avertue given Through Faith to draw their Father-Tree to Heav'n And guide the soules to God the spring of life Of 's kins-man Lot and Sara his deer Wife Who with him following the Almighti's call Wend to the strand where Iordans course doth craul Their owne deer Country willingly forsake And true-religious less account do make Of goods and lands and quiet-lifes content Than of an end-les friend-les Bannishment O sacred ground of Vertu 's sole perfection O shield of Martyrs Prophets sure direction Soule 's remedy O contrite heart's Restorer Tears-wiping tame-grief Hopes guide hunting horror Path of Salvation Pledge of Immortality O lively FAITH through thy admired quality How many wonders doost thou work at once When from Sin 's slumbers thou hast waakt vs once And made vsmly in our spirits conceiue Beauties that never outward eyes perceiue Alas said Abram must I needs forgoe Natural conside rations to haue stopped the Iourney of Abraha These happy fields where Euphrates doth flowe Heer first I drew this vitall air and pleas'd With my births news my Mothersthroes I eas'd Heer from her tender brest as soft as silk My tender gums suckt my first drop of milk Heer with the pleasure of mine infant-smile Her Cares and Cumbers I did oft beguile Heer my chaste Sisters Vnkles Aunts and Kin My prity prattling haue delighted in Heer many a time I want only haue clung And on my Fathers wrinkled neck haue hung Heer I haue past my Lad-age fait and good Heer first the soft Down on my chin did bud Heer I haue learn'd Heav'ns Motions and the nature And various force of Fire Air Earth and Water Heer I haue show'n the noblest tokens forth Both of my Mindes and of my Bodies worth Heer I have spent the best part of mine age Heer I possess a plentious Heritage Heer I haue got me many friends and fame And by my Deeds attain'd a glorious Name And must I hence and leaue this certain state To roam vncertain like a Runnagate O're fearfull Hils and thorough foaming Torrents That rush-down Mountains with their roring currents In dreadfull Desarts where Heav'ns hottest beam Shall burn without within vs Thirst extream And gloomy Forrests full of ghastly fear Of yelling Monsters that are dwelling there To seek a Country God knowes where and whither Whose vnknowen name hath yet scarce sounded hither With staff in hand and wallet at our back From Town to Town to beg for all we lack To guise ourselues like counterfaiting Ape To th' guise of Men that are but Men in shape T' haue briefly nothing properly our owne In all the World no not our Grave-place knowen Is' t possible I should endure to see The sighs and tears my friends will shed for me O! can I thus my Native soyl forsake O! with what words shall I my farwell take Farwell Chaldea deer delights adieu Friends Brothers Sisters farwell all of you Farwell for ever Can I thus alas Rudely vnwinde me from the kinde embrace Of their deer arms that will me faster holde 2. Comparisons Than trembling Ivie doth the Oak enfolde Or then the Vine doth with her crawling spray The boughs of Elm her limber limbs to stay Can I expose with perill of my life Th' vn-vulgar beauties of my vertuous wife To the none-sparing lust of that loose Nation That brutely burns in all abhomination Besides what rigour nay what paricide To hale from Tygris shoat to Iordans side A weak olde-man a man so weak and olde He scarse can creep without our help and holde Yet 't must be so for so the Lord commands His resolution aboue al discour se of reason A carnall man on carnal reason stands But for all Reasons Faith suffizeth me Who lodge with God can never House-less be Then cheerly marcht he on and though the age And death of Terah slow'd his pilgrimage Therest of His he doth conduct in fine To Canaan since called Palaestine Where God pours down such flouds of goods vpon them The great blessing of God on his obedience And bountiously bestowes such blessings on-them That their abundance shortly seems t' exceed God's Promises and their desires indeed Their fruitfull Heards that hill and dale do haunt Resemble not the breed of th' Elephant Which slowe in coupling and in calving more Pyning her Master so long time
thinke not at all That I of purpose captiue am and thrall So that I meane hereby your wrack to bring For God he knowes I thinke not such a thing But I am captiue thus because I tolde What wondrous workes the Lord hath done of olde To you and your forefathers euer still Deliv'ring them that would obey his will Then doubt not you a thousand â—laâ—â—ing flags Nor horrible cries of â—â—leous heathen hags Coole not your hearts For if the world about Would compasse you with all their warriours stout Prouiding first ye seek your helpe at need At power diuine and not at mortall seede You surely shall see Mocmurs renning flood Made red with Assurs hoste and Ethnique blood Ye surely shall see men not vsde to fight Sub due their foes that seemes of greater might The hand of God assailes you not with hate But for your weale your pride he will abate To let you wit it is within his power To leaue or to relieue you euery houre As on th' vnsauorie stocke the lilly is borne And as the rose growes on the pricking thorne So modest life with sobs of grieuous smart And cryes deuout comes from an humbled hart For euen the faithfull flocke are like the ground That for good fruit with weedes will still abound If that the share and culter idlelye That riues the soyle and roots the brambles bye But in the end God will his yre relent Assoone as sinners truely will repent And saue you from these plagues that present be In shorter time then ye do think to see Take courage friends and vanquish God with teares And after we shall vanquish with our weares These enmies all Now if there rest in me The former force that once was wont to be If elde haue not decaid my courage bolde That I haue had with great experience olde I render me to serue you to my ende For Iacobs weale Gods law for to defend FINIS THE SVMMARIE OF The III. BOOKE IN this third book the Poet setteth forth the seege of Bethulia and the extremity that God permitted them to feele therby to giue an entry to his miraculous deliuerance who is accustomed to leade his people to the gates of death and from thence to retire them aboue all humane expectation to the ende they should confesse that the arme of flesh nor worldly wisedome maintaines not the Church but the only fauour of the Almightie to whome the whole glory of duty should be rendred Father three principall things are to be noted First the preparations of the beseegers and the defences of the beseeged and how after throw the counsell giuen to Holopberne for the restraint of the water from the towne ensâ—wes a furious assault which the Iewes repelled with great paine Secondly the extreame desolation through want of water whereof proceedeth sundry sorts of death with lamentations murmurations and danger of mutiâ—e within the Citie and how the Gouernour endeuours himselfe with wise and godly admonitions to appease the same But the Commons in this hard estate regarding no reason required to render the Citie rather then to perish in such apparant miserie The Gouernour being carried with a humane prudence promiseth to render the Towne within fiue dayes if God send them no succour Yet such is the estate of Gods Church in this world that when all things faileth God manifesteth his power And therefore in the third partis IVDITH introduced who being especially moued by the reading of Holy Scriptures is encouraged to deliuer her Country but when she vnderstood the resolution of the Magistrates Shee being in estimation honourable modestly reproues them After their excuse shee promiseth to attempt something for the publike weale not showing her deuise but onely desired to haue passage by night vnto the enemies campe and this is granted THE THIRD BOOKE of IVDITH THe Snoring snoute of restles Phlegon blewe Hote on the Ynds and did the day renewe With skarlet skie when Heathen men awooke At sound of drumme then pike and dart they tooke In order marching and to combat â—alles Th' vndaunted sonnes within their Cities walles The meeds in Maie with flowers are not so dect Of sundry sauours hews and seere effect As in this campe were people different farre In toungs and maners habits tents and warre Yea Chaos old whereof the world was founded Of members more confuse was not compounded Yet soundly they in vnion did accord To wage the warre against th' Almightie Lord Who shakes the Poles whose onely breath doth beat Libanus mount and makes Caucasus sweat There came the Kettrinks wilde of cold Hircania Ioynd with the men of great and lesse Armania With coppintanks and there the Parthian tall Assaid to shoot his shafts and flee withall The Persians proud th' Empyre was in their hands With plates of gold surbraued all their bands The Medes declar'd through fortunes ouerthwart They lost their Scepter not for lack of hart And that no costly cloath nor rich aray Nor painting fine that on their face they lay Nor borrowd hair of fair and comly length Might ought impair their ancient power and strength There were the happie Arabs those that buields In thatched waggons wandring throu the fields The subtill Tyrians they who first were clarks That staid the wandring words in leaues and barks The men of Moab Edom Ammon and The People sparst on large Elimia land The learned Memphians and the men that dwell Engins of Warre Neere to the Aethiopians black and fell In short the most of Asia as it wair Encamped was within that armie fair So that this Duke mo forraine souldierslad Then all the Hebrewes natiue people had But they who did the Hebrewes greatest wrong Were Apostâ—ts of Ephrem fierce and strong Who fought with hatefull harts them to deface Least they should be esteemd of Izaks race Then as in time of Spring the water is warme And crowping frogs like fishes there doth swarme But with the smallest stone that you can cast To stirre the streame their crouping stayes as fast So while Iudea was in ioyfull dayes The constancie of them was worthy prayes For that in euery purpose ye should heare The praise of God resounding euery wheare So that like burning candles they did shine Among their faithfull flocke like men diuine But looke how soon they heard of Holopherne Their courage quailde and they began to dern Their ardent zeale with closed mouth they choke Their zeale too hote returnd to fuming smoke The fear of losse of life and worldly good Brought Infidels to shed their brothers blood Alas how many Ephramits haue we In our vnhappy time all which we see Within the Church like hypocrits to dwell So long as by the same they prosper well Who feines a zeale th' Euangill to maintaine So long as serues their honour or their gaine But turne the chance with some contrary winde So that their browes but half a blast do finde Then faints their harts and they seek other way Like bankers
in charge And so the Sparrow with her angry bill Defends her brood from such as would them ill I hear the Crane if I mistake not cry The Crane Y Who in the Clouds forming the forked Y By the brave orders practiz'd vnder her Instructeth Souldiers in the art of War For when her Troops of wandring Cranes for sake Frost-firmed Strymon and in Autumn take Truce with the Northern Dwarfs to seek adventure In Southren Climats for a milder Winter Afront each Band a forward Captain flies Whose pointed Bill cuts passage through the skies Two skilfull Sergeants keep the Ranks aright And with theirvoice hasten their tardy Flight And when the honey of care-charming sleep Sweetly begins through all their veins to creep One keeps the Watch and ever carefull-most Walks many a Round about the sleeping Hoast Still holding in his claw a stony clod Whose fall may wake him if he hap to nod Another doth as much athird afourth Vntill by turns the Night be turned forth There the faâ—r Peacock beautifully brave The Peacock Proud portly-strouting stalking stately-grave Wheeling his starry Trâ—yn in pomp displayes His glorious eyes to Pâ—â—bus goldenrayes Close by his side stands the courageous Cock The Cock Crest-peoples King the Peasants trusty Clock True Morning Watch Aurora's Trumpeter The Lyons terror true Astronomer Who dayly riseth when the Sun doth rise And when Sol setteth then to roost he hies There I perceive amid the flowry Plain The Estridge The mighty Estridge striving oftin vain To mount among the flying multitude Although with fethers not with flight indu'd Whose greedy stomack steely gads digests Whose crisped train adorns tryumphant crests Thou happy Witnes of my happy Watches Blush not my Book nor think it thee dismatches Of Insects in the Creation wherof the wisedom of their Makershineth admirably To bear about vpon thy paper-Tables Flies Butterflies Gnats Bees and all the rabbles Of other Insects end-less to rehearse Limn'd with the pencill of my various Verse Sith These are also His wise Workmanships Whose fame did never obscure Work eclipse And sith in These he showes vs every howr More wondrous proofs of his Almighty powr Then in huge Whales or hideous Elephants Or whatsoever other Monster haunts In storm-less Seas raising a storm about While in the Sea another Sea they spout For if olde Times admire Callicrates For Ivory Emmets and Mermécides For framing of a rigged Ship so small That with her wings a Bee can hide it all Though th' Artfull fruits of all their curious pain Fit for novse were but inuentions vain Admire we then th' All-wise Omnipotence Which doth within so narrow space dispence Of Flyes So stiff a sting so stout and valiant hart So loud a voyce so prudent wit and Art For where 's the State beneath the Firmament That doth excell the Bees for Government Of Bâ—â—â— No no bright Phoebus whose eternall Race Once every Day about the World doth pase Sees heer no City that in Rites and Laws For Equity neer to their Iustice draws Not * Venice That which flying from the furious Hun In th' Adriâ—n Sea another World begun Their well-rul'd State my soule so much admires That durst I loose the Rains of my desires I gladly could digress from my designe To sing a while their sacred Discipline But if of all whose skilfull Pencils dare To counterfait th' Almightie's Models rare None yet durst finish that fair Peece wherein Learned Apelles drew Lâ—ues wanton Queen Shall I presume Hymetus Mount to climbe And sing the Bees prayse in mine humble rime Which Latian Bards inimitable Prince Hath warbled twice about the banks of Mince Yet may I not that little * Worm pass-by The Silk-worm Of Flyturn'd Worm and of a Worm a Fly Two births two deaths heer Nature hath assign'd-her Leaving a Post-hume dead-live seed behinde-her Which soon transforms the fresh and tender leaves Of Thâ—sbes pale Tree to those slender sleaves On ovall clews of soft smooth Silken flakes Which more for vs then for her self shee makes O precious fleeceâ— which onely did adorn The sacred loyns of Princes heertoforn But our proud Age with prodigall abuse Hath so profan'd th' old honorable vse That Shifters now who scarce haue bread to eat Disdain plain Silk vnless it be beset With one of those deer Metals whose desire Burns greedy soules with an immortall fire Though last not least brave Aegle no contempt Made me so long thy story hence exempt Nor LESS-E Xtold shall thy true vertues be For th' Eyrie's sake that owes my Muse and mee Whâ—ar Iov's and Iuno's stately Birds be billing Their azure Field with fairest Eaglets filling Azure they hear three Eaglets Argentine A Cheuron Ermin grailed Or between WIâ—t CHiefâ—ie RICHess to THem all I Wish In Earth in Heav'n th' immortall Crown of Bliss For well I knowe thou holdest worthily That place among the Aëry flocks that fly As doth the Dragon or the Cocatrice Among the bancfull Creeping companies The noble Lion among savage Beasts And gentle Dolphin 'mong the Dyving guests I knowe thy course I knowe thy constant sight Can fixly gaze against Heav'ns greatest Light But as the Phoenix on my Front doth glister Thou shalt the Finials of my Frame illustre On Thracian shoar of the same stormy stream A strange and notable story of the loue and death of an Eagle Which did inherit both the bones and name Of Phryxus Sister and not far from thence Whear love-blind Heros hap-less diligence In steed of Loves lamp lighted Deaths cold brand To waft Leanders naked limbs to land There dwelt a Maid as noble and as rich As fair as Hero but more chaste by much For her steel brest still blunted all the Darts Of Paphos Archer and eschew'd his Arts. One day this Damsell through a Forest thick Hunting among her Friends that sport did seek Vpon a steep Rocks thorny-thrummed top Whear one almost would fear to clamber vp Two tender Aeglets in a nest espies Which 'gainst the Sun sâ—te trying of their eyes Whose callow backs and bodies round about With soft short quils began to bristle out Who yawning wide with empty gorge did gape For wonted fees out of their Parents rape Of these two Fowls the fairest vp she takes Into her bosom and great haste she makes Down from the Rock and shiuering yet for fear Tripps home as fast as her light feet can bear Even as a Wolf that hunting for a pray And having stoln at last som Lamb away Flies with down-hanging head and leereth back Whether the Masâ—y doo pursue his track In time this Aegle was so throughly mann'd That from the Quarry to her Mistress hand At the first call 't would com and faun vpon-her And bill and bow in signe of love and honour On th' other side the Maiden makes as much Of her deer Bird stroking with gentletouch Her wings and train and with a want on voice It want only doth
that sup Of Sulphury Styx and fiery Phlegeton Bloody Cocytus muddy Acheron Com snake-trest Sisters com ye dismall Elves Cease now to curse and cruciate your selues Com leaue the horror of your houses pale Com parbreak heer your foul black banefull gall Let lack of work no more from hence forth fear-you Man by his sin a hundred hells doth rear-you This eccho made whole hell to tremble troubled The drowsie Night her deep dark horrors doubled And suddainly Auernus Gulf did swim With Rozin Pitch and Brimstone to the brim And th' vgly Gorgons and the Sphinxes fel Hydraes and Harpies gan to yawn and yel As the heat hidden in a vapoury Cloud Striuing for issue with strange murmurs loud Like Guns a stuns with round-round-rumbling thunder Filling the Ayr with noyse the Earth with wonder So the three Sisters the three hideous Rages Rayse thousand storms leaving th' infernal stages The FVRIES with their furniture and traine representing the Horror of Sinneâ— and the cursed estate of an euill conscience Al-ready all rowle on their steely Cars On th' ever-shaking nine-fold steely bars Of Stygian Bridge and in that fearfull Caue They iumble tumble rumble rage and raue Then dreadfull Hydra and dire Cerberus Which on one body beareth monsterous The heads of Dragon Dog Ounse Bear and Bull Wolf Lion Horse of strength and stomack full Listing his lungs he hisses barks and brays He howls heyels he bellows roars and neighs Such a black Sant such a confused sound From many-headed bodies doth rebound Hauing attain'd to our calm Hav'n of light With swifter course then Bâ—reas nimble flight All fly at Man all at intestine strife Who most may torture his detested life Heer first coms DEARTH the liuely form of Death 1 Description of Famine with her traine Still vawning wide with loathsom stinking breath With hollow eys with meager cheeks and chin With sharp lean bones pearcing her sable skin Her empty bowels may be plainly spi'd Clean through the wrinkles of her withered hide She hath no belly but the bellies seat Her knees and knuckles swelling hugely great Insatiate Orque that even at one repast Almost all creatures in the World would waste Whose greedy gorge dish after dish doth draw Seeks meat in meat For still her monstrous maw Voyds in deuouring and somtimes she eats Her own deer Babes for lack of other meats Nay more somtimes O strangest gluttony She eats her self her self to satisfie Lessening her self her self so to in large And cruell thus she doth our Grand-sire charge And brings besides from Limbo to assist-her Rage Feeblenes and Thirst her ruthe-less sister Next marcheth WARR the mistriss of enormity 2. Of Warre her traine Mother of mischief monster of Deformity Laws Manners Arts shee breaks shee mars she chaces Blood tears bowrs towrs she spils swils burns and razes Her brazen feet shake all the Earth a-sunder Her mouth 's a fire-brand and her voice a thunder Her looks are lightnings every glaunce a flash Her fingers guns that all to powder pash Fear and Despair Flight and Disorder coast With hasty march before her murderous hoast As Burning Waste Rape Wrong Impiety Rage Ruine Discord Horror Cruelty Sack Sacriledge Impunity and Pride Are still stern consorts by her babarous side And Pouerty Sorrow and Desolation Follow her Armies bloody transmigration Heer 's th' other FVRIE or my iudgement fails 3. Sicknes exactly described with all her partakers and dependers Which furiously mans wofull life assails With thousand Cannons sooner felt then seen Where weakest strongest fraught with deadly teen Blinde crooked cripple maymed deaf and mad Cold-burning blistered melancholik sad Many-nam'd poyson minister of Death Which from vs creeps but to vs gallopeth Foul trouble-rest fantastik greedy-gut Blood-sweating harts-theef wretched filthy Slut The Childe of surfait and Ayrs-temper vicious Perillous knowen but vnknowen most pernitious Innumerable kindes of diseases Th' inammeld meads in Sommer cannot showe More Grashoppers aboue nor Frogs belowe Then hellish murmurs heer about doe ring Nor neuer did the prety little King Of Hony-people in a Sun-shine day Lead to the field in orderly array More busie buzzers when he casteth witty The first foundations of his waxen City Then this fierce Monster musters in her train Fel Souldiers charging poor mankinde amain Lo first a rough and furious Regiment The first Regiment sent to assaile the Head Mans chiefest Fâ—rtresse Simile T' assault the Fort of Adams head is sent Reasons best Bulwark and the holy Cell Wherein the soules most sacred powers dwell A King that ayms his neighbours Crown to win Before the bruite of open warrs begin Corrupts his Counsail with rich recompences For in good Counsail stands the strength of Princes So this fell Fury for fore-runners sends Manie and Phrenzie to suborn her friends Whereof th' one drying th' other over-warming The feeble brain the edge of iudgement harming Within the Soule fantastikly they fain A confus'd hoast of strange Chimeraes vain The Karos th' Apoplexie and Lethargy As forlorn hope assault the enemy On the same side but yet with weapons others For they freez-vp the brain and all his brothers Making a liue man like a liue-less carcass Saue that again he scapeth from the Parcas And now the Palsie and the Cramp dispose Their angry darts this bindes and that doth lose Mans feeble sinewes shutting vp the way Whereby before the vitall spirits did play Then as a man that fronts in single Fight A similitude of the effects and endeuors of sicknesse His suddain foe his ground doth trauerse light Thrusts wards auoids and best aduantage spies At last to daze his Râ—uals sparkling eyes He casts his Cloak and then with coward knife In crimsin streams he makes him strain his life So SICKNES Adam to sub due the better Whom thousand Gyues al-ready fastly fetter Brings to the field the faith-less Ophthalmy With scalding blood to blinde her enemy Darting a thousand thrusts then she â—â— backt By th' Amafrose and clowdy Cataract That gathering-vp gross humors inwardly In th' Opâ—â—ke sinnew clean puts out the ey This other caseth in an enuious caul The Crystall humour shining in the ball This past in-steps that insosent insuâ—ter The cruell Quincy leaping like a Vulture At Adams throat his hollow weasand swelling Among the muscles through thick bloods congealing Leauing him onely this Essay for signe Of 's might and malice to his future-line Like Hercules that in his infant-browes Bore glorious marks of his vndaunted prowes When with his hands like steely tongs he strangled His spightfull stepdams Dragons spotty-spangled A proof praesaging the tryumphant spoyls That he atchiv'd by his Twelue famous Toyls The second Regiment with deadly darts Assaulteth fiercely Adams vitall parts The second Regiment assaulting the vitall Parts Al-ready th' Asthma panting breathing tough With humours gross the lifting Lungs doth stuff The pining Phthisick fills them all with pushes Whence a slowe spowt of cor'sie matter gushes A wasting flame
can the Steer The whistling Goad-man's guiding language hear It rain'd indeed but not such fertil rain The manner of their punishment by fire and brimstone from Heaven and the reason thereof As makes the Corn in Sommer sprout amain And all things freshed with a pleasant air To thrive and prove more lively strong and fair But in this sink of Sin this stinking Hel A rain of Salt of Fire and Brimston fel. Salt did consume the pleasant fruitfulness Which serv'd for fewel to their Wantonness Fire punished their beastly Fire within And Brimstone's stink the stench of their foul Sin So as their Sin was singular of right Their Punishment was also exquisite Heer open Flames and there yet hidden Fires Burn all to ashes sparing neither Spires Of Brick nor Stone nor Columns Gates nor Arches Nor Bowrs nor Towrs nor even their neighbour-Marches In vain the-while the People weep and cry The same most liuely represented To see their wrack and knowe no remedy For now the Flame in richest Roofs begun From molten gutters scalding Lead doth run The Slats and Tyles about their ears do split The burning Rafters Pitch and Rosin spit The whirling Fire re-mounteth to the Skie About the fields ten thousand sparks do flie Half-burned Houses fal with hideous fray And VVLCAN makes Mid-night as bright as Day Heaven flings-down nought but flashing Thunder-shot Th' Air 's all a-fire Earth's exhalations hot Are spewing AETNA'S that to Heaven aspire All th' Elements in brief are turn'd to fire Heer one perceiving the next Chamber burning With suddain leap towards the window turning Thinks to cry Fire but instantly the smoke And Flame with-out his with-in Voice do choke Another sooner feels then sees the Fire For while O horror in the stinking mire Of his foul Lust he lies a Lightning flash Him and his Love at-once to dust doth dash Th' abhorred Bed is burnt and they aswell Coupled in Plague as Sin are sent to Hell Another yet on tops of Houses crawls But his foot slips and down at last he falls Another feeling all his cloathes a-fire Thinking to quench them yer it should come nigher Leaps in a Lake but all the Lake began To boyl and bubble like a seething Pan Simile Or like a Chaldron that top-full of Oyl Environ'd round with fume and flame doth boyl To boyl to death som cunning counterfait That with false stamp som Princes Coyn hath beat Another seeing the City all in Cinders Himself for safety to the fields he renders But flakes of Fire from Heav'n distilling thick There th' horror of a thousand Deaths do strike Through Adamah's and Gomor's goodly Plains Sodom and Seboim not a soule remains Horse Sheep and Oxen Cows and Kids partake In this revenge for their vile Masters sake Thus hath the hand of the Omnipotent Inroll'd the Deed of their drad Punishment With Diamantin Pen on Plates of Brass With such an Ink as nothing can deface The molten Marble of these cindred Hills Asphaltis Lake and these poor mock-fruit Fields Keep the Record and cry through every Age How God detesteth such detested rage O chastisement most dradly-wonderfull Th' Heav'n-cindred Cities a broad standing Pool O're-flowes yet flowes not whose infectious breath Corrupts the Ayr and Earth dis-fertileth A Lake whose back whose belly and whose shoar Nor Bark nor Fish nor Fowl hath ever bore The pleasant Soyl that did even shame yer-while The plentious beauties of the banks of Nile Now scarr'd and collowed with his face and head Cover'd with ashes is all dri'd and dead Voyd of all force vitall or vegetive Vpon whose brest nothing can live or thrive For nought it bears save an abortiue suit Of seeming-fair false vain and fained fruit A fruit that feeds theey and fills the hand But to the stomach in no steed doth stand For even before it touch the tender lips Or Ivory teeth in empty smoak it slips So vanishing only the nose receiues A noysom savour that behinde it leaues Heer I adiure you vent'rous Trauailours Exhortation to Trauailers that haue seene to others that shall reade or heare these fearefull monuments of Gods seuere Iustice to make right vse of this fearefull Example That visit th' horror of these cursed shoars And taste the venom of these stinking streams And touch the vain fruit of these wythered stems And also you that do beholde them thus In these sad Verses pourtray'd heer by vs To tremble all and with your pearly tears To showr another Sea and that your hairs Staring vpright on your affrighted head Heave-vp your Hats and in your dismall dread To think you hear like Sulph'ry Storms to strike On our nâ—w Monsters for Offences like For the Almightie's drad all-daunting arm Not only strikes such as with Sodom swarm In these foul Sins but such as sigh or pity Sodoms destruction or so damn'd a City And cannot constant with dry eyes observe God's iudgements iust on such as such deserve LOT hies to SEGOR but his wife behinde Lots wise metamorphozed Lagged in body but much more in minde She weeps and wails O lamentable terror O impicus Pity O kind-cruell error The dire destruction of the smoking Cities Her Sons-in-Law which should haue been she pities Grieves so to leave her goods and she laments To lose her Iewels and habiliments And contrary to th' Angels Words precise Towards the Town she turns her wofull eyes But instantly turn'd to a whitely stone Her feet alas fast to the ground be growen The more she stirs she sticks the faster in As silly Bird caught in a subtil gin Simile Set by som Shepheard neer the Copses side The more it struggles is the faster ty'd And as the venom of an eating Canker Simile From flesh to flesh runs every day the ranker And never rests vntill from foot to head O're all the Body his fell poyson spread This Ice creeps-vp and ceaseth not to num Till even the marrow hard as bones becom The brain be like the seul and bloud convert To Alablaster over every part Her Pulse doth cease to beat and in the air The Windes no more can wave her scattered hair Her belly is no belly but a Quar Of Cardon Rocks and all her bowels are A pretious Salt-Mine supernaturall Such as but Salt I wot not what to call A Salt which seeming to be fall'n from Heav'n To curious Spirits hath long this Lesson given Not to presume in Divine things to pry Which seav'n-times seal'd vnder nine Locks do lie She weeps alas and as she weeps her tears Turn into Pearls fro'rn on her twinkling hairs Fain would she speak but forced to conceal In her cold throat her guilty words congeal Her mouth yet open and her arms a-cross Though dumb declare both why and how she was Thus Metamorphos'd for Heav'n did not change Her last sad gestures in her suddain Change No gorgeous Maâ—sole grac't with flattering verse Eternizeth her Trunk her House and Herse But to
much as dayly doth still newly growe This Monster wuns not in the Cel she wont Description of the Palace of Enuy. Sh' hath rear'd her Palace on the steepest Mount Whose snowy shoulders with their stony pride Eternally do Spain from France divide It hath a thousand loop-holes every-way Yet never enters there one sunny ray Or if that any chance so far to pass 'T is quickly quenched by her cloudy face At every Loop the Work-man wittily Hath plaç't a long wide hollow Trunk wher-by Prattling Renown and Fame with painted wing News from all corners of the World do bring Buzzing there-in as in a Sommer Even Simile From clefts of Medows that the Heat hath riven The Grass-hoppers seeming to fain the voyces Of little Birds chirp-out ten thousand noyses It fortun'd now that a swift-flying Fame To whom Fame reporteth Israels prosperity Which lately but from stately Memphis came Sweating and dusty and nigh breath-less fills With this Report one of hir listening Quills O curious Nymph lives there a Wit with vs Acute and quick that is not curious Most wakefull Goddess Queen of mortall hearts Consort of Honour Wealth and High-Deserts Doo'st thou not knowe that happy ISRAEL Which promiseth the Conqueror of Hell That twice-born King here-after to bring-forth Who dead shall liue again and by his Worth Wipe-out Man's Forfait and God's Law fulfill And on his Cross th' envy of Envy kill Doth even in sight abundantly increase That Heav'n and Earth conspire his happiness That seaventy Exiles with vn hallowed Frie Couer the face of all the World well-nigh And drunk with wealth waigh not thy force a iot Envie thou scest it but fore-seest it not Swolne like a Toad between her bleeding iaws â—â—â—y incenseth Pharaoh to oppresse them Her hissing Serpents wriggling tails she chaws And hasting hence in ISIS form she iets A golden vessell in one hand she gets In th' other a sweet Instrument her hood Was Peacocks feathers mixt with Southernwood A silver Crescent on her front she set And in her bosom many a fostering teat And thus disguis'd with pride and impudence She presses-in to the Bubastik Prince Who slumbring then on his vn-quiet Couch With ISRAEL's greatness was disturbed much Then she the while squinting vpon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre And snuffing with a wrythed nofe the Amber The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the Chamber 'Gan thus to greet him Sleep'st thou sleep'st thou son And see'st thou not thy self and thine vn-don While cruell Snakes which thy kinde brest did warm Sting thee to death with their vngratefull swarm These Fugitiues these out-casts do conspire Against rich Egypt and ingrate aspire With odious Yoak of bondage to debase The noble PHARAOH's Godd's immortall Race With these last words into his brest she blowes A banefull ayr whose strength vnfeltly flowes Through all his veins and having gain'd his heart Makes Reason stoop to Sense in every part Simile So th' Aspick pale with too-right aim doth spit On his bare face that coms too-neer to it The froth that in her teeth to bane she turns A drowzy bane that inly creeps and burns So secretly that without sense of pain Scar wound or swelling soon the Partie 's slain What shall I farther say This Sorrow's-Forge This Rack of Kings Care 's fountain Courtier 's scourge Besides her sable poyson doth inspire Enuies two Twins With Hate and Fear the Princes fell desire Hence-forth therefore poor ISRAEL hath no peace Not one good day no quiet nap no ease Still still opprest Tax vpon Tax arose After Thefts Threats and after Threats com blowes Slauery of the Israelites The silly wretches are compell'd som-while To cut new Chanels for the course of Nile Somtimes som Cities ruins to repair Somtimes to build huge Castles in the air Somtimes to mount the Parian Mountains higher In those proud Towrs that after-worlds admire Those Towrs whose tops the Heav'ns have terrified Those Towrs that scuse th' audacious Titan's pride Those Towrs vain Tokens of a vast expence Tropheis of Wealth Ambition's Monuments To make with their owne sweat and blood their morter To be at-once Brick-maker Mason Porter They labour hard eat little sleeping less No sooner layd but thus their Task-lords press Villains to work what are yee growen so sloth Wee 'll make ye yeeld vs wax and hony both In brief this Tyrant with such servitude Pharao his rain policy Thought soon to waste the sacred multitude Or at the least that over-layd with woe Weakned with watching worn with toyling so They would in time becom less service-able In VENUS Battails and for breed less able Their spirits disperst their bodies over-dri'd And Cypris sap vn-duly qualified But when he saw this not succeed so well But that the Lord still prosper'd ISRAEL Inhumane he commands on bloudy Pain His cruell Edict against the male children That all their male-babes in their birth be slain And that because that charge had don no good They should be cast in CAIRO's silver Flood O Barbarism learned in Hel belowe Those that alas nor steel nor stream do knowe Must Die of steel or stream cruell Edicts That with the Infant 's bloud the Mother's mix That Childe and Mother both at once cut-off Him with the stroke her with the grief therof With two-fold tears Iews greet their Native Heav'n The day that brings them life their life hath reav'n But IOCHEEED would fain if she had durst Her deer son MOSES secretly haue nourç't Yet thinking it better her Babeforgo Than Childe and Parents both to hazard so At length she layes it forth in Rush-boat weaves-it And to God's Mercy and the Flood 's she leaves-it Though Rudder-les not Pilot-les this Boat Among the Reeds by the Floods side did float And saues from wrack the future Legislator Lighting in hands of the Kings gracious Daughter His Daughter finding Moses exposed causeth him to be Princely brought vp Who opening it findes which with ruth did strike-her A lovely Babe or little Angel liker Which with a smile seem'd to implore the ayd And gentle pity of the Royall Mayd Love and the Graces State and Maiesty Seem round about the Infants face to fly And on his head seem'd as it were to shine Presagefull rayes of som-what more diuine She takes him vp and rears him royal-like And his quick Spirit train'd in good Arts is like A wel breath'd Body nimble sound and strong 2. Similes That in the Dance-school needs not teaching long Or a good Tree set in as good a soyl Which growes a-pace without the Husband's toyl In time he puts in Practice what he knowes With curteous Mildnesse manly Courage showes H' hath nothing vulgar with great happiness In choice discourse he doth his minde express And as his Soul's-type his sweet tongue affoords His gracefull Works confirm his gracious Words His Vertues make him even the Empire 's heir So means the Prince
What resteth at this day of Salaminian The inconstancie and vanity of Humane Lawes Laconian LAVVS or of the Carthaginian Yea Rome that made even all the World one City So strong in Arms and in State's-Art so witty Hath in the Ruines of her Pride 's rich Babels Left but a Relique of her Twice-Six-Tables But since in Horeb the High-Thundring ONE Stability and authoritie of the Law of God Pronounç't This Law three-thousands times the Sun Hath gallopt round Heaven's golden Bandeleer Imbosst with Beasts studded with starrs so cleer And yet one tittle hath not Time bereft Although the People vnto whom 't was left Be now no People but expulst from home Through all the corners of the World do roam And though their State through every Age almost On a rough Sea of Mischiefs hath been tost A Butt a Brook a Torrent doth confine All other Lawes Megarian Discipline Hath nought of th' Attick nor the Coronan Of Theban Rytes nor Thebes of Cadmèan But this Set LAVV given IACOB'S Generations Is the true Law of Nature and of Nations Which sacred sounds wher-ever to descry Th' all-searching Sun doth cast his flaming eye The Turks imbrace the Christians honour it And Iews with Fear do even adore it yet I only I Great GOD thy LAVVS do spurn How all men transgresse the same in euery part With my foul feet I do thy Satutes scorn Puft in my Soule with extream Pride before Nay in thy stead I do my self Adore I Serue no wooden gods nor Kneel to Stones But Covetous I Worship Golden ones I Name thee not but in vain Blasphemy Or ACHAB-like in sad Hypocrisie I Rest the Sabboath yet I break thy LAVV Seruing for thee mine idle Mouth and Maw I Reverence Superiors but in showe Not out of Loue but as compelled so I Murder none yet doth my Tongue too-rife Wound others Fame and my Hearts-hate their life I Civilize lest that I seem Obscoene But Lord Thou know'st I am Vnchaste vnclean I seem no Theef yet tempted with my Want I take too oft the Fruit I did not plant I speak not much yet in my little Talk Much Vanity and many Lies do walk I Wish too-earnest and too-oft in fine For others Fortunes male-content with mine Heer lie I naked lo th' Anatomy Remedy for all our sinnes Of my foul Heart O Humane-Deity O Christ th' Almightie's like All-mighty Word O put-me-on Thy Robe as whilom Lord Thou putst-on Mine me in Thy Blood be-laue And in my Soule thy sacred Laws ingraue While with the Duke th' Eternall did deuise And to his inward sight did modulize His Tabernacle's admirable Form And prudently him faithfull did inform In a new Rubrik of the Rytes Divine To th' end the Heirs of promis'd Palestine After their fancy should not worship him Nor Idol-prone example leading them Into his sacred TEMPLE introduce The Sacrifices that the Heathen vse But by their Rytes to guide their spiritual eye To Christ the Rock on whom their hopes should lie In Moses absence Aaron makes the golden Calfe Beholde alas frail Aaron Deputied During his absence all the Flock to guide Dumb coward Curr barks not against their ill But giving way to the mad Peoples will Casteth a Golden Calf and sets it vp For them to worship and vnto it stoop Gold Rings and Iewels which the Lord of Heaven Had as Loue-tokens lately to them given Are cast into a Mould and which is worse Iacob to wed a Calf doth God divorce Those Feet that dry-shod past the Crimsin Gulf Now Dance alas before a Molten Calf That Voice which late on ETHAM sands had rung Th' Almightie's glory now to Satan sung The zealous Prophet with iust fury moov'd Moses sharply reproveth Aaron breakes the Idol and punisheth the Idolaters 'Fore all the Hoast his Brother sharp reproov'd And pulveriz'd their Idol and eft-soons Flankt by olde LEVI'S most religious Sons Throngs through the Camp each-where strowes his way With blood and slaughter horror and dismay As half a score of Reapers nimbly-neat Simile With cheerfull ey choosing a plot of Wheat Reap it at pleasure and of Ceres locks Make hand-fulls sheaves of their sheaves make Shocks And through the Field from end to end do run Working a-vie till all be down and don Or as so many Canons shot at-once A-front a Camp Th' Earth with the Thunder grones Simile Heer flies a broken arm and breaks another There stands th' one half of a halv'd body th' other Falls-down a furlong thence heer flies a shield And deep-wide windows make they in the field All these sure signes of God's deer estimate Aaron Mary or Miriam murmure against Moses Cannot confirm the Hebrew Magistrate In his Authority even AARON spights-it And MIRIAM his Sister too back-bites-it But suddainly on her in his Defence Foul Leprosie did punish this Offence Nadab and Abihu for offering of strange Fire are killed by Fire from Heaven His Nephews scorning his Command aspire Before the Lord to offer forrain Fire But on them soon a heav'nly Flame down-falling As in the Sommer som hot-dry Exhaling Or blazing-Star with suddain flash doth fall At Palmers feet and him affright with-all Fires instantly their beards and oyled hair And all the sacred vestiments they wear Exhales their bloud their Bodies burns to ashes Their Censers melts with heat of Lightning flashes Their coals are quenched all and sacred Flame Th' vn-hallowed Fire devour'd and over-came His Kins-man CORE then with DATHAN ioyn'd Core Dathan and Abiram their conspiracy And with ABIRAM murmur'd and repin'd O see saith he how many a subtil gin The Tyrant sets to snare our Freedoms in How we abus'd with Oracles most vain Which MOSES and his brother AARON fain For idle hopes of promis'd Signories Do simply lose our sweetest Liberties See how they do ingross between them two Into one House SCEPTER and EPHOD too See how they dally and with much delay Prolong our Iourney to prolong their Sway And to conclude see how sly Course they take To build their Greatness on our grievous wrack Hear'st thou me MOSES if thou chiefly ioy To see thy Brethren's torments and annoy 'T were good to walk vs yet for ten yeers more About these Mountains in these Desarts poor Keep vs still Exiles Let vs our Desire Languish wax-olde and in these sands expire Where cruell Serpents haunt vs still at hand A Fruit-les Flood-les yea a Land-les Land If rear'd from Youth in Honour thine Ambition Cannot com down to privat mens condition Be Captain Duke and King for God approves-thee Thy Vertues guard the People fears and loves-thee But as for AARON what is his desert What High-exploit what Excellence what Art Gain'd him th' High-Priesthood O good God what shame Alas hath he for any thing got â—ame But HOREBS Horn-God for despising thee And thy Commands and for Conspiracie The morrow next before the Sacred Tent This Mutiner with sacred Conserwent
Than Pies to Syrens Geese to Nightingalls 17 Then take Me BARTAS to conduct thy â—eâ— Soar-vp to Heav'n Sing-me th' Almightie's prayse And tuning now the Iessean Harp again Gayn thee the Garland of eternall Bayes 18 I cannot grief-less see my Sisters wrongs Made Bawds to Louers in deceitfull faynings In forged sighes false tears and filthy Songs Lascivious shewes and counterfait complaynings 19 Alas I cannot with dry eyes behold Our holy Songs solde and profaned thus To grace the grace-less praising too-too bold Caligula Nero and Commodus 20 But most I mourn to see râ—â—e Verse apply'd Against the Author of sweet Composition I cannot brook to see Heav'ns King defy'd By his own Souldiers with his own Munition 21 Man's eyes are â—ield-vp with Cimmerian mist And if ought pretious in his Life he reach Through sundry hands by the Heav'ns bounty is' t But God himself the Delphian Songs doth teach 22 Each Art is learn'd by Art but POâ—SIâ— Is a meer Heavenly gift and none can taste The Deaws we drop from Pindus plentiously If sacred Fire have not his brest imbraç't 23 Thence is' t that many great Philosophers Deep-learned Clarks in Prose most eloquent Labour in vain to make a grace-full Verse Which many a Novice frames most excellent 24 Thence is' t that yerst the poor Meonian Bard Though Master means and his owne eyes he misses Of Olde and New is for his Verse preferd In 's stout Achilles and his wise Vlysses 25 Thence is' t that Ovid cannot speak in Prose Thence is' t that Dauid Sheapheard turned Poet So soon doth learn my Songs and Youths compose After our Art before indeed they knowe-it 26 Dive day and night in the Castalian Fount Dwell vpon Homer and the Mantuan Muse Climb night and day the double-topped Mount Where the Pierian learned Maydens vse 27 Read while thou wilt read ouer every Book In Pergamus and in the famous Citie That her great name of Alexander took Still ply thy Pen practise thy language wittie 28 Take time inough choose seat and season fit To make good Verse at best aduantage place thee Yet worthy fruit thou shalt not reap of it For all thy toil vnless Minerua grace thee 29 For out of Man Man must him all advance That time-proof Poëms ever hopes to vtter And extased as in a holy Trance Into our hands his Sensiue part must put-her 30 For as a humane Fury makes a man Less than a man so Diuine-Fury makes-him More than himself and sacred Phrenzie than Above the Heav'ns bright-flaming Arches takes-him 31 Thence thence it is that Divine Poets bring So sweet so learned and so lasting Numbers Where Heav'ns and Nature's secret works they sing Free from the powr of Fates eternall slumbers 32 True Poets right are like winde-Instruments Which full do sound emptie their noise surceases For with their Fury lasts their Excellence Their Muse is silent when their Fury ceases 33 Sith therfore Verses have from Heav'n their spring O rarest spirits how dare you damned scorners Profanely wrest against Heaven's glorious King These sacred gifts given for your lives adorners 34 Shall your ingratefull Penns be alwayes waiting As Seruants to the Flesh and slaues to Sin Wil you your Volumes evermore be fraighting With Dreams and Fables idle Fame to win 35 Still will you fill the World with Loue-sick groans Still will you fawn on Fools and flatter Euill Still will you parbreak loathsom passions Still will you make an Angell of a Diuell 36 Still will you comment on this common Storie And Spider-like weaue idle Webs of folly O! shall we neuer hear you sing the glory Of God the great the good the iust the holy 37 Is' t not enough that in Your soules yee feel Your Paphian Fire but every Brothel-Lover T' inchaunt the wanton with his wanton stile Must Strumpet-like his lust full flame discover 38 Is' t not enough that you your selues do wallow In foul delights but that you must intice Your heed-less Readers your loose Race to follow And so for Vertue make them fall to Uice 39 Tunes Notes and Numbers whence we do transfer Th' harmonious powr that makes our Verse so pleasing The sternest Catoes are of force to stir Mans noblest spirits with gentle Fury seazing 40 And as a Seal printeth in wax almost Another Seal A learned Poet graveth So deep his passions in his Readers ghost That oft the Reader th' Authors form receiveth 41 For Verse's vertue slyding secretly By secret pipes through th' intellectuall Notions Of all that 's pourtraid artificially Imprinteth there both good and evill motions 42 Therfore did Plato from his None-Such banish Base Poëtasters that with vicious verse Corrupted manners making vertue vanish The wicked worse and even the good perverse 43 Not those that car'd to match their gracefull Phrazes To grave-sweet matters singing now the praise Of iustest Ioue anon from errors mazes Keeping th' vn-steady calling-back the strayes 44 O prophane Wrighters your lascivious Rime Makes our best Poëts to be basely deemed As Iugglers Iesters and the scum of Time Yea with the Vulgar less than these esteemed 45 You make chaste Clio a light wanton Minion Mount Helicon a Stews your ribaldrie Makes prudent Parents strict in their opinion To bar their Children reading Poëtry 46 But if you would yet'at the last inure-yee Your Gnidian Idols in the dust to trample And rouze the Genius of your sacred-Furie To shewe the World som holy Works example 47 All would admire your Rimes and doo you honour As Secretaries of the Heav'nly Court And Maiesty would make you waite vpon-her To manage Causes of the most import 48 The chain of Verse was at the first inuented To handle onely sacred mysteries With more respect and nothing else was chanted For long time after in such Poësies 46 So did my Dauid on the trembling strings Of his divine Harp onely sound his God So milde-soul'd Moses to lehouah sings Iacobs deliverance from th' Egyptian's Rod. 50 So Debora and Iudith in the Camp So Iob and Ieremy in cares oppressed In tune-ful Verses of a various stamp Their ioys and sighs divinely-sweet expressed 51 And therfore Satan who transforms him slily T' an Angel of the Light the more t' abuse In 's Oracles and Idols speaking wily Not common Prose but curious Verse did vse 52 So the fond Maid-Priests of Apollo sung His Oracles in sweet Hexameters With doubtfull Riddles from a double tongue To hap-less-hopefull conquered-Conquerers 53 So th' ancient voice in Dodon worshipped So Aesculapius Hamon and the fair And famous Sibyls spake and prophecied In Verse in Verse the Priest did make his prayer 54 So Orpheus Linus and Hesiodus Wher of the first charm'd stocks and stones they say In sacred Numbers dar'd to profit vs Their divine secrets of deep skill conuaigh 55 O! you that long so for the Laurel Crown Where 's possible a richer Theam to take Than his high praise who makes the Heav'ns go round The Mountains tremble and
of Christ. On our Horizon brought the dayes broad light Haue led men's soules in dark eternall night Feel torments worthy of their wickedness 23 Next Symmachus Porphirius marches first Lucian and Celsus then whose hardned heart The Gospell knowen did labour to subvert And Iulian also of all Caesars worst 24 Who knowing well that tortures were but vain To force the Saints from the right Faith to straie By sugred stile studies another way Turns truth to lies and lies to truth again 25 Next I perceive the Circumcised Crew 4. Cabalists and Talmudists Rabbies Of Cabalists and butly Talmudists Troubling the Church with their mysterious Mists Who wel-nigh dead'gainst CHRIST do spet and spew 26 Much like to Snakes that wagg their sting-les sting When as their heads and bodies being slain They threat their Foes with force-less fury vain And to their Graues their Thirst of vengeance bring 27 Now com the Doctors of the Alcaron 5. Turkish Doctors Who mingling poyson by their subtill glose The World 's blinde eyes with darker Clouds inclose They shew their sorrow by their saddest mone 28 But who are these that wear Faith's Livery 6. Heretiks old and new And bear the badge of Faith's best Souldiars And yet are laden with such bolts and bars And so despised of Faith's company 29 These if I err not are the Heretiks Who pusht by proud and curious spirits do blend Both Heav'n and Earth and busily contend To lead the World in crooked paths and Creeks 30 Now as soft windes with straight constrayned breath Through chinks and crannies stealing privily Hurt more our health than boistrous blasts that fly And roule abroad the stones vpon a heath 31 And as the Foe that shakes the Citie 's wallâ— With thundring shot is not so dangerous As a lewd Burgess false and mutinous That in the Town stirs-vp domestik brauls 32 So Pagans Turks Iews doo not damnifie The Faith like these their open violence May be avoyded but false fair-pretence Is hardly scaped with much ieopardie 33 They make like vs a fair religious showe They haue like vs one Church one FAITH one Lord They read like vs one Bible and one Word So sly they are Gods Church to over-throwe 34 In foremost rank heer go the Sadduces That to deny Angels and Resurrection Both Spirits of grace and of reiection Then th' Esseans foul and Formal Pharises 35 Next that deceiver that devised first Simon Magus Nicolaus Author of the Sect of the Nicolaites Church-chaffering and after him insues That mariage-Foe who brutishly renews Pluto's not Plato's Common-law accurst 36 Cerinthus next all bruis'd and bleeding fresh Of Beam-pasht wounds that brain'd him suddainly When in the Baths profane he did denie Christs holy God-head hidden in our flesh 37 For having likewise warr'd against the same God-head of th' onely Man-God Ebion Paul Samyan Photin Carp'crate Artemon Shewe by their looks their sorrow and their shame 38 There mourns that Manés who did fondly fain Two divers Gods Authors of Good and Ill There Valentin the air with cries doth fill Who did deny that bodies Rise again 39 Cerdon great Patron of the Stoïcall Marcion Menander pitious Moan do make There sighes Apelles saying Christ did take Not simply flesh but flesh fantasticall 40 There goes Basilides who canoniz'd Cyrenean Simon in our SAVIOVRS steed Montanus there afrantik head indeed Who guiltless Children kill'd and sacrifiz'd 41 There Tatians Encratiâ—s Severioâ—s Sabellians too which seeking th' vnity In Gods great Essence lost the Trinity Abhor too-late their fond conclusions 42 There th' Alexandrian Priest that yerst did voyd Arrius His entrails at the stool whose Heresie Witching wel-neer th' Earths Vniversity With Sword and Schism the World so much annoy'd 43 Sadly beholds sad-marching Macedonius And Eunomus who at the first had sowen His poysonie seeds but after of their owne They gathered two other Sects erronious 44 Bizantian Nestor and our owne â—â—lagius Libian Donatus Luciferians Euticheans fond and fond Priscillians All frown and fret for inward grief outrageous 45 Shall I conceal Seruetus and the train Of those Dëists that in Sarmatia swarms And Kingling Muncer that with frantik arms Founds hundred sorts of Anabaptists vain 46 Both Syrtes sands I might as eas'ly number As number those whose sweet in chanting Writs With Error 's dregs have drenched wanton Wits Chiefly'n this Age which all corruptions cumber 47 For Satan now him so insinuates In faithless hearts that ween themselues be wise That so foul Error can he not devise But shall be backt by strong associates 48 I see the Beast that bears the purple Whore Great Anti-christ vsurping powr divine 7. Antichrist the Schismatiks Set on Seaven Hills who with her whordom's wine Makes drunk the Princes that her Seat adore 49 And last of all I see the Schismatiks Which renting Christ's vnseamed coat in twain Trouble the Church-peace with contentions vain Following too neer the steps of Heretiks Canto III. 1 GReat Sire's great Son Oliue God's liuely face Wisedom conceiued of the onely Wise To vs given Giver First and Last born twise Once in full Time once out of all Times space 2 Beam of that Sun which fills the world with Light Life of our life our death's death Stinger's sting Our perfect wise iust holy valiant King Word that no word can full express aright 3 O Lord draw draw me draw me from this throng Whose feet and hands are bold to war with thee For with dry eyes I can them never see Nor without grief recite them in my Song 4 Ah! I am out now my deer God I goe From Babel to Iernsalem the Land Of Life Saints house and holy Ark to stand Against all Seas and all rough storms that blowe 5 Lo heer these Champions that haue brauely-bold Withstood proud Tyrants stoutly consacring Their liues and soules to God in suffering Whose names are all in Life's fair Book in-roll'd 6 All-hail Saint-Souldiers let vs once imbrace O valiant Knights let me your hands and brows Adorn with Palms and with Apollo's boughs Let present honours former shames deface 7 Com sacred Kings O holy Princes com Com to this Triumph Lords whose valiant hands Haue Satan's kingdom sought to bring in bands And in your Crowns giv'n Faith the chiefest room 8 He that the first Isaac infranchized Moses Iosua Leads by the hand that Duke whose faithfull word Stopt Phoebus Coursers and whose conquering Sword Subdu'd the Land the Lord had Promised 9 He that but armed with an Asses bone Samson Slew thousand Foes Sangar Othoniel Ahod and Ieptha Barac Samuel And th' Heathen's scourge triumphant Gedeon 10 That great King-Prophet Poet Conqueror Dauid Sweet Psalmograph Asa that Idols brake He that made all the Idol-altars quake Iosias And after did the Paschal Lamb restore 11 Iehosaphat Ioathan Azarias And he whose life the Lord did dis-abbridge Whom Heav'nly arms from Assur did vnsiedge The most religious match-less Ezechias 12 Wise
in our Truth finde doubts whence follow Schismes They whose fond Law doth all of Lies consist Abide confirm'd in their vaine Paganismes One nought beleeues another what him list One ouer-Creeds another Creeds too-short Each makes his Church rather his Sect a-part SONNET 37. Put-off deere French all secret grudge and gall And all keen stings of vengeance on all parts For if you would haue PEACE proclaim'd to all It must be first faire printed in your hearts Henry the mildest of all Conquerers Your perfect glasse for Princely clemencie He to appease and calme the State from â—arres For his friends sake hath sav'd his enemie Let 's all be French all subiects to one Lord Let Fraunce from hence-forth be one onely State Let 's all for Gods sake be of one accord So through true zeale Christs praise to propagate May the most Christian King with prosperous power On Sion walls re-plant our Lilly-flower SONNET 38. O Christian cor'siue that the Mahomite With hundred thousands in Vienna Plaine His Mooned Standards hath already pight Prest to ioyne Austrich to his Thracian Raigne Malth Corfu Candie his proud Threats disdaine And all our Europe trembles in dismay While striuing Christians by each other slaine Each other weak'ning make him easieway Rhodes Belgrade Cyprus and the Realmes of Greece Thrall'd to his barbarous yoke yet fresh-declare That while two striue a third obtaines the fleece Though name of Christian be a title faire If but for Earth they all this while haue striu'n They may haue Earth but others shall haue Heau'n SONNET 39. May I not one day see in Fraunce againe Some new Martellus full of stout actiuitie To snatch the Scepter from the Saracen That holds the Holy Land in strait captiuitie May I not see the selfe-weale-wounding Laâ—nce Of our braue Bloods yerst one another goring Turn'd with moâ—e valour on the Musulmans A higher pitch of happy prowesse soaring But who deare Fraunce of all thy men-at-armes Shall so farre â—eâ—ce renue thine ancient Laurels Sith here they plot thine and their proper harmes I rather feare that through these fatall quarrels That hate-Christ Tyrant will in time become The Lord and Soueraigne of all Christendome SONNET 40. Mid all these mischiefes while the friend foe Strangers With vs. against vs had intelligence Henry our King our Father voides our dangers And O Heav'ns wonder planteth PEACE in Fraunce Thou Iudge that sitt'st on thâ— supernall Throne O quench thy furie keepe vs from hostilitie With eyes of mercy looke thou still vpon Our PEACE and found it on a firme stabilitie Sith in despight of discord thou alone Inward and outward hast thus salv'd vs Lord Keepe still our Fraunce or rather Lord thine owne Let Princes loue and liue in iust accord Dis-arme them Lord or iâ— Armes busie them Be it alone for thy Ierusalem FINIS A Dialogue vpon the Troubles past BETWEENE HERAclitus and Democritus the weeping and the laughing Philosophers Acceptam refero A DIALOGVE Heraclitus ALas thou laugh'st perhaps not feeling well The painfull torments of this mortall Hell Ah! canst thou teare-les in this iron Age See men massacred Monsters borne to rage Democritus Ha but why weep'st thou wherefore in this sort Doost thou lament amid this merry sport Ha canst thou chuse but laugh to see the State Of mens now-follies and the freaks of Fate Heraclitus He hath no heart that melts not all in teares To see the treasons murders massacres Sacks sacrileges losses and alarmes Of those that perish by their proper armes Democritus Who all dismayed swouneth sodainly To heare or see some fained Tragedie Held in these dayes on euery Stage as common Is but a heart-les man or but a woman Heraclitus O! would to God our Countries tragick ruth Were but a fable no effected truth My soule then should not sigh to angry Heav'n Nor for her plagues my tender heart be riv'n Democritus I take the world to be but as a Stage Where net-maskt men doo play their personage 'T is but a mummerie and a pleasant showe Sith ouer all strange vanities doo flowe Heraclitus Those vanities I haue in detestation As cursed causes of Gods indignation Which makes me alwayes weepe sith on the earth I see no obiect for the meanest mirth Democritus Thus from one Subiect sundry sequels spring As diuersly our wits conceiue a thing I laugh to see thee weepe thou weep'st to see Me laugh so much which more afflicteth thee Heraclitus Laugh while thou list at mortall miseries I cannot chuse but euen weepe out mine eyes Finding more cause for teares in bloody slaughter Then for thy sense-les ill-beseeming laughter Democritus Melt thee distill thee turne to waxe or snowe Make sad thy gesture tune thy voice to woe I cannot weepe except sometimes it hap Through laughing much mine eyes let fall a drop Heraclitus I weepe to see thus euery thing confused Order disordred and the Lawes abused Iustice reuerst and Policie peruerted And this sicke State neere vtterly subuerted Democritus I laugh to see how Fortune like a ball Playes with the Globe of this inconstant All How she degradeth these and graceth those How whom she lifts-vp downe againe she throwes Heraclitus I raine downe Riuers when against their King Cities rebell through subiects bandying When Colledges through Armes are rest of Art When euery Countie Kingdomes-it a-part Democritus I burst with laughter when confounding State I see those Rebels hunt their Magistrate When I heare Porters prate of State-designes And make all common as in new-found Indes Heraclitus I weepe to see Gods glory made a vaile To couer who his glory most assaile That sacred Faith is made a maske for sinne And men runne headlong to destructions ginne Democritus I laugh with all my heart at the transforming Of Iugling Proteis to all times Conforming But most I laugh t' haue seene the world so mad To starue and die when those damn'd Atheists bad Heraclitus I weepe alas to see the People weepe Opprest with rest-les waight in danger deepe Crying for PEACE but yet not like to get-her Yet her condition is not greatly better Democritus I laugh to see all cause of laughter gone Through those which yerst thou said'st haue caus'd thy mone Noting th' old guise I laugh at all their new I laugh at more but dare not tell it you Heraclitus Som sorrowes also I in silence keepe But in the Desart all my woes shall weepe And there perhaps the Rocks will helpe me then For in these dayes they are more milde then men Democritus I 'le dwell in Cities as my Genius guides To laugh my fill for smiling PEACE prouides Such plentious store of laughing-stuffe to fill me That still I 'le laugh vn-les that laughing kill me FINIS AN ODE OF THE LOVE AND beauties of Astraea To the most matchles-faire and vertuous M. M. H. TETRASTICON THou for whose sake my freedome I forsake Who murdring me doost yet maintain my life Heere vnder PEACE thy beauties Type I make Faire war-like
feeds Divined truely it should never die Then what shall This that far the same exceeds He labour'd Lines which though they doe endure All turns of Time yet was their Stuf profane But These are drawne of STVF more heavenly-pure That most shall shine when Those are in the wane He though his Braines profanely were diuine And glorious Monuments of Art compos'd Was yet exil'd for many a looser Line That made them wantons chastly else dispos'd But Thou cleer BARTAS his dear SYLVESTER Whose Lines do lead to VERTVES only gain And with sweet Poesies strew'st the way to Her How should the World remunerate thy pain And if from Hearts Aboundance Tongues do speak And what we most affect we most do minde It argues thou this Argument didst seek Sith in thy Soule before thou didst it finde So BARTAS was but Mid-wife to thy Muse With greater ease to vtter her Conceits For whose deare birth thou didst all ease refuse Worlds-weal and being a Marchant thy Receits This pain so pleas'd thy labouring Thoughts that thou Forsook'st the Sea and took'st thee to the Soil Where from thy royall Trade thou fell'st to Plow Arts furrows with thy Pen that yeeld but toyl This stole thee from thy self thy self to finde In sacred Raptures on the Muses Hill And went'st out of thy Body with thy Minde More freely so to vse thy Wit and Will And O! how hapless had we Briâ—tans been Sith heer is stor'd such sweet Soule rauishments Hadst thou not made them to vs clearly seen Who giue thee for it praising Discontents If so great Art and Grace finde nought but Fame Of famous Men for grace the Press shall be Prest but for Vices Seruice Sourse of Shame So Times to come in Print our shame shall see But O bee 't farre from this so famous Isle For Armes and Learning either to neglect Sit it doth grace and glory quite exile And is the cause of many a bad effect O terren Gods as ye to State aspire Lift Learning vp with you especially If matcht with Wisedom and divine desire So shall yetwice be like the DEITY And weigh what powr the PENS of such possess Of such for others will but gild your Crimes Their PENS eternize can your worthiness And make ye glorious past succeeding Times But you do iustly to neglect and scorn The cursed crue that do the Muse abuse For they your praises to dispraises turn As Vice in praysing VERTVES grace doth vse Their wine-driuen Braines inuolv'd in Follies Cloud Fly here and there and where not with a trice And though both Beggars base yet passing proude Constant in nothing but in constant Vice Making loose lines forsooth their Scala Coeli A Tauerne for a Temple to adore Their only god their guts their beastly Belly To whom they offer all their slender Store The Laudes of such are odious like their Lives They Pitch pollute what-ere they do but touch Whose glory to the fowlest shame arrives Then well you fence your fame to keep off such But they whose liues and lauds and lines are SOVRCE Of Morall vertue running by each stone Men High and Hard that let them in their Course To Seas of glory like cleere Helicon O! these ye should support and still receiue Into the Ocean of your bound-less love For these like truest Friends will take and give No more but what true Vertue shall approve If these should pine away through your neglect Your memories shall dy or live with shame Sith such a Muse is the chief Architect To reare from Earth to Heav'n a lasting NAME Achilles fame with him had been interr'd Had HOMER'S lines notty'd it to the Starrs And of Aeneas we had never heard Had Virgils STRAINES not been his Trumpetters One of the NINE had been our Warwick's GVY The NINE whose worth all Times so much commend And so disrankt great BVLLENS GODFEREY Had he but had a TASSO for his friend LAVRA had nere so greenly growen above Hir Peeres as now she doth to after-times Had she not had a PETRARCH to hir Love Which made hir mount with Nâ—TCTAR dropping Rimes No no ye cannot but out-liue your Eame If yev phold not FAME'S best Notaries If these yescorn your glory is but game For when ye dye in game your glory dies And though blest PHACE hath turnd our Spears to Spades Let it not turn our Pens to Ploughes or worse By Learning som should live as som by Trades In blessed STATES that would incur no curse Where Vertue is not rais'd and Vice supprest There all to Vice will run and so to wrack For then the worst shall Lord it ore the best And where that is all goes to vtter sack Reward and Punishment like Armes of Steel Do still vphold each KING vpholding STATE For neither wants but it begins to reel But both imploy'd stands sure in spight of Hate Then may thy HOPES wingd by thy virtuous Muse Dear Syluester expect some cherishment In this blest State that still those Armes will vse To staie her Grace and grace her Gouernment But if thy paines acquire but pure renowne Thou art Christ's Image crost for Glories crown Beneficium dando accipit qui digno dedit The vnfained louer of thine Art honesty and vertue IOHN DAVIES of Hereford FINIS A briefe Index explayning most of the hardest words scattered through this whole Worke for ease of such as are least exercised in these kinde of readings A A Bysse a gulfe or bottomles pit Abderian Abderite Democritus the laughing Philosopher of Abdera a citie in Thracia Aben-Roes a learned Philosopher of Corduba sprung from Arabian parents Abidus Leanders Towne Academian Shades Platos Schoole Aceberon a riuer in Hell Acconite Libbards or Wolfes bane Achilles the most valiant captain of the Myrmidons Adonis a most beautiful yong man beloued of Venus Adrian Sea the gulfe of Uenice Adriatike Sea the gulfe of Uenice Aeson the father of Iaso made young againe by the skill of Medea Aethâ—riall heauenly Aesâ—ulapius an excellent Physician father of Apollo Africa the South-quarter of the World Aiax Shield a prouerb for asure defence Aiguescald a bath in Gasconie Alarbies and Alarbians wilde vpland Arabian theeues Albion England the I le of great Brittaine Alcestâ— the most chaste and louing wife of admetus that gaue her owne life to saue her husbands Alcides Hercules Alcides spires Hercules Pillers Alcides griefe the falling Sicknes Alcmaena the mother of Hercules Alcaron the Turks Law and Religion Aleband a Cittie in Caria of olde famous for the best Bowe-strings Alecto looke Furies Alexanders Altars were at the foot of the Ryphean Mountaines Almicâ—â—thâ—rats and Almadarats Arabian names of Circles which are imagined to passe through euerie degree of the Meridian Paralel to the Horizon vp to the Zenith Alhidade a Rule on the backe of the Astrelabe to measure heights breadths depths Amafrosse gutta serena a disease in the sinnewes of the Sight Amalthean Horne plenty of all things Amblygone a flat Triangle
humour like gelly Catiline a factlous Citizen of Rome famous for his dangerous conspirecie against his Country Cato a reuerent and renowned Romane both for his temperate life and resolute death Caudrets a Bath in Gascony Caucasus a verie high Mountaine that diuides Scythia from India Ceres Goddesse of Haruest inuentresse of Tillage and of the vse of Corne somtimes vsed for the earth Cephalus the husband of Pâ—ocris the minion of Aurora Centaures half men half horses hegotten by Ixion on a Clowd Câ—â—asteâ— a Serpent of sundry colours with hornes like a Ramme Cerathus a Riuer in Candiâ— from whence comes the best Malâ—isiâ— Cerbas a Tree in the Indâ—es of 15 fadome about Cerberus the three-headed dogge of Hell the Porter there Celtike a part of France Chaos a confused heape the matter of the World before it receiued forme Chaldea the Country wherein Babylon stood where were great Astronomers Magicians and Sooth-sayers Charles Martel K. of France ouerthrewe 400000. Turks neere vnto Tours Chermez the grain wherewith Skarlat and Crimson are dyed Chymeras strange Fancies monstrous Imaginations Castles in the Aire Cincinnatus one called froÌ„ the Plough all dustie almost naked to the Romane Dictatorship Cimmerians People far North that are thought neuer to see the Sun Cittadel a Castle built with a small Garrison to keepe a great Towne in awe Cirques round Lists to behold publike Races Chus Aethyopia Clio one of the Muses reâ—iting the glorious Acts of Wor thinesse Cliâ—us one of AlexaÌ„ders greatest Minions whome yet in his drunkennesse he slewe Cocos an admirable Nutte brought from the Indies Cocytus a River in hell Coichos Medeas countrie from whence Iason fetcht the Golden Fleece Codrus a King of Athens that gaue his owne life for the safe-guard of his Country Colonies numbers of People sent to inhabite some newe conquered Countrie Colures â— Circles in heauen wherein the Sun-stops are caused Cochenel grain wherwith Purple is died Colosses huge Statues erected in honor of any person Columbus a Genoese discouerer of America for Ferdinando King of Castile Comitiall Ill the Falling sickenesse Commodus a most vicious Emperour Cones geometricall figures broad beneath and sharp aboue with a Circular bottome Concentrik hauing one common Copernicus a learned German that maintaineth the heaueÌ„s to stand stil the Earth to turn round about Coruinus a Roman Orator that after a great sickenes forgat his owne name Corfu an Iland in the Ionian Sea subiect to the VenetiaÌ„s Critik and Criticall sharp Censurers all dangerous dayes for health obserued by Physicians Crescent the Moon increasing Ctesiphon the builder of Dianas Temple at Ephesus Ctesibes an excellentinuenter of water Engines Cubes geometricall figures foure-square like a Die. Cucuio a strange birde in new Spain Cupid the bastard of Mars and Venus the little God of loue Curius a Citizen of Rome famous for frugalitie temperance who delighted rather to commaund the rich then to be rich Cylindres geometrical figures round and long consisting froÌ„ top to toe of two equall parallel-Circles Cyclops GiaÌ„ts with one eie wor king in the Forge of Vulcan Cyprus a fruitfull Iland in the Gulfe of Issa formerly subiect to the Venetians but now vsurped by the Turke aunciently consecrated to Venus Cynthia Phoebe Diana the Moone Cytharea Venus Cynosure 7 starres in the North pole the North Pole the North-starre Cymbrians the people of Denmarke and Nor-way Cyrus the great King of Persia conquerour of the Medes and after slaine by Tomyris Queen of the Massageâ—s Charites looke Graces Clotho looke Parcae Camosh the Idol of the Moabits Chiron a Centaur an excellent both Physician and Musician the Master of Achilles Cornaline looke Onyx Clarian Lot-guider Cornich looke Frize Crisis the daungerous or as Physicians call it criticall day for any disease Clyde a Riuer ruÌ„ning by Dom bertan in Scotland Cyclades floting Ilands in the Aegean Sea Cedron Kedâ—on a Brooke in Iudea Ciuik-Garland a crowne or chaplet of Oaken sprigges giuen to honor Him that had resâ—ued a citie Clytemnestra wife of AgameÌ„non whom with the help of her Adulterer Aegisâ—hus in a sleeue-les shirt she murdered Cypris sap seed of generation Castor Pollux Twinnes begot on Laeda by Iupiter in the shape of a Swan supposed Sea-Gods fauourable to Sailours Crimsin Gulf the red Sea Cecropian that is Athenian of Cecrops first King of Athens Cineas a Thessalian exceeding eloquent and of admirable memory Embassador from King Pyrrhus to the Romans Carthaginian of that famous City of Affrica built by Dido by Hanniball vndon Cadmean by sorn wrighters vsed for Carthage Coronan that is LacedemoniaÌ„ for Corone was a citie of the Messenians who were subiect to that State Cest in Latin Cestus Cestum the Brides Girdle which the Bridegroom took off at night Coloquintida a kinde of wilde Gourd that purgeth Choler Chrysocolle Boras gold-soder Cibele looke Rhea D DAmon the most faithfull friend of Pythias both disciples of Pythagoras Danaâ— daughter of Acrisius who kept her lockt in a brazen Tower Iupiter raynde himselfe in a Golden shower into her lap Darubius the greatest Riuer in Europe called also Isther Dardane Ants Indian Emmets Darius a King of Persia vanquished by Alexander the great Delian Twinnes the Sun and Moone Delian Princesse Diana Delos an Iland one of the Cyclades which for a longtime floated as hidden in the Sea and after suddainly appeared Delphian Oracle the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos Delphos God Apollo Democritus the laughing Philosopher of Abydus Demosthenes the best Orator of the Grecians Denis or Dionysius a Tyrant of Syracusa Deucalion son of Prometheus who with his wife Pyrrah escaped the Flood as the Poets fain restored the world Diabete adisease when one caÌ„not hold his water Diapason a Concord of all Diarrhaea a Laske or loosenes of the Belly Diameter a strait line diuiding any figure into equal parts passing through the middle point of any figure Dialect a forme of speech diuers froÌ„ others in any laÌ„guage Diana the Goddesse of virginity the Moone Dirceanwalles Thebes Disenteria the bloody-flixe Dodochaedrons figures of 12. Angles Druidâ—s ancieÌ„t learned Priests Sages of Fraunce supposed to haue first issued out of this I le of Brittaine Dombertan a Towne in Scotland Dagon the Idoll of the Philistines Demain Possessions of inheritance time out of minde continued in the occupation of the Lord. Duel single Combat Demi-Gods looke Heroik Dorik musike soft and effeminate musike heer opposed to the Phrygian whtch was more lofty and full of life and fitter to stirre vp a Courageous spirit Dan a Town in the North froÌ„tier of Iudea where Ietoboam erected his other Calfe Ditthyrambik Song in the Ho nour of Bacchus E ECliptik line a great Circle in the middle of the Zodiake through which the Sun runneth his proper course in 365. dayes Egyptian flood The Riuer Nilus Electrum Amber Electra one of the sisters o Phaeton who inâ—essantly weeping for her brothers fall was turned into a Tree that droppeth
whom he hath erected aboue vs and aboue all things not to abuse the law of humane hospitality and other holy bands for to giue place to these frenetike opinions so to abolish a pretended tyranny I haue also to warne thee of two different sorts of men of the which one sort is so depraued that they can heare nothing but that which is altogether prophane and the other is so supersticious that they make conscience not onely to write but also to read of holy things in verse as though that the measure and iointure of syllabes were so constrained as it were vnpossible to keepe the sense vnperuerted or at least not excessiuely obscured Now if I perceiue that this my first assay may bee to thee agreeable I shall continue more gladly my newe commenced race in such sort that thou shalt not repent thine indulgence nor I my passed pains But if contrarie fall in time to come I wil be ware to là y out my smalpack in this ample Theatre of France where there is almost as many Iudgements as beholders A Dieu GSSDB The Argument of the whole Historie of Iudith AFter that the Children of Israel were deliuered from captiuitie and returned to their land the Citty of Ierusalem reedified the Temple builded and prepared to the seruice of the Lord the multitude of the people being scattered in sundry towns and places of the Land where they liued in peaceable rest the Lord knowing man to be negligent of GOD and his saluation chiefly when he liues at ease and all things frames vnto his fraile desire to th' end that his people should not fal in such an inconuenience would exercise them with a feareful affliction and temptation sending vpon their Countrey an army so great in number and puissance that made the whole earth to tremble This expedition was vnder the Persian Monark named in the historie Nebuchadnezar which neuerthelesse is not his right name His chiefe Lieutenant generall and Conducter of the whole Armie was Holophernes who wheresoeuer hee came ouerthrewe all religion permitting none to inuocate or acknowledge any other God but Nebuchadnezar his Maister whome hee enforced to constitute and establish for the onely God So entred hee Iudea with intent to destroy it all which the people perceiuing and that his power was so great that no nation could resist him and also knowing his cruell hatred were sore affraied and almost driuen to extreame desperation seeing none other thing present before them but ruine and destruction And this the Lord suffered to showe in time his worke to bee more wonderfull For the people being humbled and hauing called to the Lord for mercie and succour at his hand hee both heard and succoured them at neede The meane was not through strength or stoutnesse of some worthy Captaine but by the hand of Iudith a tender feeble woman to the shame of this most proud and cruell tyrant and all his heathen hoste For shee cut off his head put all his campe to slight destroyed his men of Armes in such wise that they fled here and there and seeking to saue their liues left all their tentes and baggage Thus the Lorde by the weake and those that are not regarded makes his workes admirable By one selfe meane hee saued his owne and executed his iustice against his enemies In which wee haue to consider his singular ptouidence and goodnesse and the care which he hath in especiall for his faithfull and all his whole Church This Historie is intituled by the name of Iudith because it containes the narration of her great vertues and for that the Lorde vsed her as an instrument for the deliuerance of his people It is not certaine who was the first Author hereof neuerthelesse the reading of it hath beene receiued in the Church for the doctrine and vtility of the same THE SVMMARIE OF The I. BOOKE HOLOPHERNâ—â— Lieutenant generall and chief of the army of Nebuchâ—dnezzaâ— K oâ— the Assyrians was in the fielde for to subdue diuers people and amongst others the Iewes All the Nation is seazed with great feare for the cruelties committed by the enemy Then as it fals out â—n bruits of war al the whole people were troubled som sauing themselues in corners for feare others attending in great perplexity some sad and Tragicall ende the last sort calls vpon God This while IOACHIM the chiefe Priest gouerned the people hâ— by his letters and expresse commandement recalls those that were fled and scattered and made them returne to Ierusalem where in presence of the Leâ—its hee made sacrifice earnest prayer vnto God to withdrawe his ire and to bee mercifull to his people which done he enters in counsell and requires his Princes to consult vpon the cause and consider what iâ— most 〈◊〉 and to preferre the loue of Gods law and the countâ— iâ— before all priuate things the first that gainstands this exhortation is an hypocrite and fauourer of the enemy who giues couÌ„sell to render them to HOLOPHERNEâ— calling him a Prince gratious to those that applauds to him and inuincible in battell to those that dare resist him But the second Lord replying â—â—alously againe detecteth his false hypocriâ—ie and carelesse securitie exposing the people to the mercy of a barbarous godless enemy before the duty they ought to their God and their countrey and to establish in place of the true God a wicked Nâ—MROD conâ—ummat in all impiety and wickednes to abolish all vertue and godlinesse For he proues that if the nations should be rooted out for the right religioÌ„ God should be more honored in the death of the Iewes then in their liues and that it is more worthy to die Hebrewes then to liue infidels and free men then slaues Shortly that they ought to prefer honor and duty before feare and a vaine hope to prolong their dolefull dayes This reply encouraged all the aâ—â—istâ—ts wherof IOACHIM gaue thankes to God and resoluing himselfe vpon a iust defence for the onseruation of the seruice of God and the freedome of his nation and the liues of the innocent against this villanous inuatision wise by deâ—aâ—â—ed the regiments of towns to persons conuenient who past to their â—â—â—igned places each one preparing according to their power vnto the warre with courage paine and diligence The first Booke of Iudith I Sing the vertues of a valiant Dame PropositioÌ„ summe of this worke Who in defence of Iacob ouercame Th' Assyriaâ— Prince and slew that Pagan stout Who had beset Bethulia walles about O thou who kept thine Izak from the thrall Inuocation of the true God Of infidels and steeld the courage small Of feeble Iudith with a manly strength With sacred furie fill my heart at length And with thy Holy spirit my spirit enspire For matter so diuine Lord I require No humain stile but that the Reader may Great profit reape I ioy thou praise alway And since in vulgar verse I prease to sing DedicatioÌ„ of the Author altred by the
folke vncircumcis'd our land destroy Because we him offend while we haue breath Alas yet honour honour him in death And if we lose and all be ouercome Let patience winne the glory of martyrdome Forsooth though Assurs soldiers braue and bold Extinguish quite the race of Izak old Yet shall they not deface the liuing Lorde As these Apostats falsly do afforde For he who peopled first this world so round But with one man from whom the rest abound And who long after in an arke of wood Repaird the waste made by the genrall flood May he not eke transforme the hardned stone To people who will honour him alone And may not he do now as he hath donne Who gaue to Abrams barren wife a sonne Them giuing Children moe then in the heauen Are starrie Circles light as firie leauen And mo then Northren windes that driues the Rack Of Cyrene sands in number can compack Who will obserue his lawe an hundreth folde More zealously then wee who should it holde ' Then fathers chose you warres for better tels 'To lose like Iewes then winne like infidels ' Let not the greede of gaine your hearts attame 'To leaue the right preferre not feare to shame Scarce enden was th' Oration of this Lord When all the Princes with a sound accord By word and deed confirmde his good aduise The chiefe Priest gladdest of this enterprise Vnto the heauen held vp his hands and face And sayd I thanke the Lord who of his grace ' Conioynes no lesse our wils then bolds our harts 'A sure presage that God is on our parts This done vnto his princes he diuides The tribes and townes and ordaines them for guides For feare least some of them led with ambition In Izrell might stirre-vp some sedition So they withdrew and stoutly did prouide This furious storme of Mars for to abide Then as ye see sometime the honie Bees Comparison Exerce themselfs on buddes of sweetest trees Where they sometime assault the buzzing waspe That comes too neere their flowrs away to claspe Or when they hony draw from smelling Time Or from the palme or Roses of the prime And how they draw their wax with wondrous art Obseruing iointure iust in euerie part Both vp and downe they build ten thousand shops With equal spaceful fild vpto the tops Or where the master Bee of thousand bands Conducts the rest in legions throw the lands Who daily keeps within their Cities wall Their house their work their lawes and maners all So thus the sonnes of Iacob ply'd their paine VVith hote desire their quarrell to sustaine Some built the breaches of their broken town Preparations of defence That Heaven and Panim yre had casten down Some other found a cautell gainst the Ramme To saue the wall vnbroken where it camme Thus Iacobs towns on all sides had their flanks VVith Gabions strong with bulwarks and with banks Some others busie went and came in routs To terrace towers some vnder baskets louts Some others also wanting time and might To strength their towns yet vs'd all kinde of slight To dig vp ditches deepe for cisterns good To draw them to the best and neerest flood While th' Armorers with hammers hard and great On stiâ—hies strong the sturdy steelâ— doth â—eate And makes thereof a corpslet or a â—acke Sometime a helme sometime a mace doeth make While sheepherds they enarme vnus'd to danger While simple birds and whiles the wandring stranger Thetilling Culter then aspeare was made The crooked Sithe became an euened blade The people foode forgets no ease they take Some on a horse some on his proper backe Some on a Cart some on a Cammell beares Corne wine and flesh to serue for many yeares As done these Emets that in sommer tide Comparison Comes out in swarmes their houses to prouide In haruest time their toyle may best be seene In paths where they their cariage bring betweene Their youth they send to gather-in the store Their sick and old at home do keep the â—kore And ouer grainels great they take the charge Oft turning corne within a chamber large When it is dight least it do sproâ—te or seede Or come againe or weevels in it breede FINIS THE SVMMARIE OF The II. BOOKE VVE haue heard before how the people of God vsed all diligence to maintaine the libertie of Gods true religion their Countrey Now is set forth the extreame pride of Hoâ—ophernes who thought with one word to ouerthrow them all But to make himselfe some pastime he assembleth his Councell to vnderstand of them what people they were that inhabited the mountaines in the Frontieres of IVDEA that durst make him resistance Vpon this he is informed by the mouth of one of his chiefe captaines of that which he looked not for to wiâ—te a discourse of the History of the IEVVES from the time of ABRAHAMS comming out of Caldea to enter into the land of Promise vnto them deliuerance from the Captiuitie of Babylon following the order of the times quoted by the holy scriptures with the praises of the prouidence of the almightie God in defending of his Church and a sharpe threatning to those that dare presume to disquiet the same The chiefe Counsellers of the Heathen hearing this became more trueth incenâ—ing their Generall to murder this Captaine But HOLOPHERNE with vaine ambition deferâ—eth their bloody request and after that he had outraged him in words he further blasphemeth the liuing Lord. And lastly caused him to be bound hand and â—oote and so caried neere to the Citie of Bethulia where he is by the besâ—oged Souldiers brought into the Citie and there declareth his case exhorting them to continue constant to God and their Countrey and promiseth his assistance to his liues end THE SECOND BOOKE of IVDITH Now Holophern in Scythique Rampier stood With standards pight of youthly heathen blood Of nothing thinking lesse then warre and fight But in deuising pastime day and night Till he was war that Iacob would aduance Against his Panim force and arrogance A packe of what a packe of countrey clownes Quoth Holophern that them to battell bownes With beggers bolts and 〈…〉 to arrest My warriours strong with whom I haue supprest Both Tigris swift and faire Euphrates stream People of Asia With frosty Taurus and rocke Niphathoame Are they not wrackt ye Cheefs of Moabits And valiant Ephrem ye strong Ammoniâ—s Ye that as neighbours knowes this folke of olde That scattered thus doe all these mountaines hold Tell me what men are they of what off-spring What is their force their customes and their king ' For wise is he that wots with whom he playes ' And halfe is victor as the Prouerbe sayes The Lord of Ammon then with reverence due Right wisely spaâ—k the Duke and yet for true He was a Panim both of faith and kinde But so with fained tongue he spake his minde And all the Hebrews acts discourst so well That Esdr ' and Moses seemd in him to dwell As
will admire In whose cleer channel mought at pleasure swim Those two bright Fishes that doo follow him Pisces in mid-February But that the Torrent slides so swift away That it out-runs them euer euen as they Out-run the Ram who euer them pursues And by renewing Yearely all renues The names of the Principall stars of the North-Pole Besides these Twelue toward the Artik side A flaming Dragon doth Two-Bears diuide After the Wainman coms the Crown the Spear The Kneeling Youth the Harp the Hamperer Of th' hatefull Snake whether we call the same By Aesculapius or Alcides name Swift Pegasus the Dolphin louing man Ioues stately Aegle and the siluer Swan Andromeda with Cassiopeia neer-her Her father Cepheus and her Perseus deerer The shining Triangle Medusa's Tress And the bright Coach-man of Tindarides Toward th' other Pole Orion Eridanus The names of the Stars of the South-Pole The Whale the Whelp and hot-breath't Sirius The Hare the Hulk the Hydra and the Boule The Centaure VVolf the Censer and the Foul The twice-foul Rauen the Southern Fish and Crown Through Heav'ns bright Arches brandish vp and down Thus on This-Day working th' eightth azure Tent The fixed stars are in the eight Heauen With Art-les Art diuinely excellent Th' Almighties fingers fixed many a million Of golden Scutchions in that rich Pauilion But in the rest vnder that glorious Heav'n But one a-peece vnto the seuerall Seav'n And the seauen Planets vnder them each in his proper Spheare Least of those Lamps the number-passing number Should mortall eyes with such confusion cumber That we should neuer in the cleerest night Starrs diuers Course see or discern aright And therfore also all the fixed Tapers He made to twinkle with such trembling capers Why the Planets twinkle not and the fixed stars do twinkle But the Scaven Lights that wander vnder them Through various passage neuer shake a beam Or he perhaps made them not different But th' hoast of Sparks spred in the Firmament Far from our sense through distance infinite Seems but to twinkle to our twinkling sight The firmament much farther from the Earth then the sphears of the Planets Wheras the rest neerer a thousand fold To th' Earth and Sea we doo more brim behold For the Heav'ns are not mixtly enterlaced But th' vndermost by th' vpper be imbraced And more or less their roundels wider are As from the Center they be neer or far As in an Egg the shell includes the skin Simile The skin the white the white the yolk with-in Two similes representing the motion of the eight inferiour Heav'ns throgh the swift turning of the ninth which is the Primum Mobile Now as the Winde buffing vpon a Hill With roaring breath against a ready Mill Whirls with a whiff the sails of swelling clout The sails doo swing the winged shaft about The shaft the wheel the wheel the trendle turns And that the stone which grindes the flowry corns Or like as also in a Clock well tended Iust counter-poize iustly thereon suspended Makes the great Wheel goe round and that anon Turns with his turning many a meaner one The trembling watch and th' iron Maule that chimes The intire Day in twice twelue equall times So the grand Heav'n in foure and twenty houres Surueying all this various house of ours With his quick motion all the Sphears doth moue Whose radiant glances gild the World aboue And driues them euery day which swiftnes strange-is From Gange to Tagus and from Tay to Ganges But th' vnder-Orbs as grudging to be still Each of the 8. Heauens so traÌ„sported by the Primum Mobilâ— hath also his proper oblique and distinct course each from other So straightly subiect to anothers will Still without change still at anothers pleasure After one pipe to dance one onely measure They from-ward turn and traversing aside Each by himself an oblique course doth slide So that they all although it seem not so Forward and backward in one instant goe Both vp and down and with contrary pases At once they poste to two contrary places Like as my self in my lost Marchant-years A loss alas that in these liues appears Waâ—ting to Brabant Englands golden Fleece The same explaned by a proper Simile A ritcher pryze then Iason brought to Greece While toward the Sea our then Swan-poorer Thames Bare down my Bark vppon her ebbing streams Vpon the hatches from the Prow to Poup Walking in compass of that narrow Coop Maugre the most that Winde and Tide could doo Haue gone at once towards LEE and LONDON too Why som of these Heauens haue a slower course shorter compasse then other some But now the neerer any of these Eight Approach th' Empyreall Palace walls in height The more their circuit and more daies they spend Yeâ— they return vnto their Iourneys end It 's therefore thought That sumptuous Canapy The terme of the reuolution of the Firmament The which th' vn-niggard hand of Maiesty Poudred so thick with Shields so shining cleer Spends in his voyage nigh seaven thousand year Ingenious Saturn spouse of Memory Of the seuenth which is the Spheare of Saturn Father of th' Age of Gold though coldly dry Silent and sad bald hoary wrinkle-faced Yet art thou first among the Planets placed And thirty years thy Leaden Coach doth run Yeâ— it arrive where thy Career begun Thou rich benign Ill-chasing Iupiter Of the 6 which is the Sphear of Iupiter Art worthy next thy Father sickle-bear And while thou doost with thy more milde aspect His froward beams disast'rous frouns correct Thy Tinnen Chariot shod with burning bosses Through twice-six Signes in twice six twelue months crosses Braue-minded Mars yet Master of mis-order Of the 5. which is the spheare of Mars Delighting nought but Battails blood and murder His surious Coursers lasheth night and day That he may swiftly passe his course away But in the road of his eternall Race So many rubs hinder his hasty pase That thrice the while the lively Liquor-God With dabbled heels hath swelling clusters trod And thrice hath Ceres shav'n her amber tress Yeâ— his steel whels haue done their business Pure goldie-locks Sol States-friend Honour-giuer Of the 4. which is the Sphear of Sol. Light-bringer Laureat Leach-man all Reviver Thou in three hundred threescore daies and five Doost to the period of thy Race arrive For with thy proper course thou measur'st th' Year And measur'st Daies with thy constrain'd career Fair dainty Venus whose free vertues milde Of the 3. which is the spheare of Venus With happy fruit get all the world with-childe Whom wanton dalliance dancing and delight Smiles wittâ—e wiles youth loue and beauty bright With soft blind Cupids evermore consort Of light som Day opens and shuts the port For hardly darâ— her siluer Doves go far From bright Apollos glory-beaming Car. Not much vnlike so Mercury the wittie Of the 2. which is the sphear of
Mercury For ship for shop book bar or Court or Citie Smooth Orator swift Pen-man sweet Musician Rare Artizan deep-reaching Politician Fortunat Marchant fine Prince-humour-pleaser To end his course takes neer a twelue-months leasure For all the while his nimble winged heels Dare little bouge from Phoebus golden wheels And lastly Luna thou cold Queen of night Regent of humours parting Months aright Of the 1. which is the Sphear of Lunâ— The lowest Planet nearest the Earth Chaste Emperess to one Endymion constant Constant in Love though in thy looks in constant Vnlike our Loues whose hearts dâ—ssemble soonest Twelue times a year through all the Zodiak runnest Now if these Lamps so infinite in number Should stil stand-stil as in a sloathfull slumber Then should som Places alwaies in one plight Have alwaies Day and â—om haue alwaies Night Of the necessitie of diuers motions of the Heauens Then should the Sommers Fire and Winters Frost Rest opposite still on the self same Coast Then nought could spring and nothing prosper would In all the World for Want of Heat or Cold. Or without change of distance or of dance If all these Lights still in one path should prance Th' inconstant parts of this lowe Worlds contents Should neuer feel so sundry accidents As the Conâ—unction of celestiall Features Incessantly pours vpon mortall Creatures I 'll n'er beleeve that the Arch-Architect Of the force and influence of the Câ—lestiall body vpon the terrestriall With all these Fires the Heav'nly Arches deckt Onely for Shewe and with these glistering shields T' amaze poor Shepheards watching in the fields I 'll n'er beleeve that the least Flowr that pranks Our Garden borders or the Common banks And the least stone that in her warming Lap Our kind Nurse Earth doth covetously wrap Hath som peculiar vertue of it owne And that the glorious Stars of Heav'n have none But shine in vain and haue no charge precise But to be walking in heav'ns Galleries And through that Palace vp and down to clamber As Golden Gulls about a PRINCES CHAMBER Sens-less is he who without blush denies What to sound senses most apparant lies And 'gainst Experience he that spets Fallacians Is to be hisst from learned Disputations And such is he that doth affirm the Stars To have no force on these inferiours Though heav'ns effects we most apparant see In number more then heav'nly Torches be I nill alleadge the Seasons alteration Sundry proofes of the same 1 The diuers seasons 2 The fearefull accideÌ„ts that coÌ„monly succeede Eclipses Caus'd by the Sun in shifting Habitation I will not vrge that neuer at noon daies His enuious Sister intercepts his Raies But som great State eclipseth and from Hell Alecto looses all these Furies Fell Grim lean-fac't Famine foul infectious Plague Blood-thirsty VVar and Treason hatefull Hag Heere pouring down Woes vniuersall Flood To drown the World in Seas of Tears and Blood I 'l overpass how Sea doth Eb and Flowe 3 The ebbing flowing of the sea As th' Horned Queen doth eyther shrink or growe And that the more she Fills her forked Round The more the Marrow doth in bones abound The Bloud in Veins the sap in Plants the Moisture 4 The increase and decrease of marrow bloud and humours in diuers creatures And lushious meat in Creuish Crab and Oyster That Oak and Elm and Firr and Alder cut Before the Crescent have her Cornets shut Are neuer lasting for the builders turn In Ship or House but rather fit to burn 5. The apparant alterations in the bodies of sick persons And also that the Sick while shee is filling Feele sharper Fits through all their members thrilling So that this Lamp alone approoves what powrs Heav'ns Tapers have even on these soules of ours Temp'ring or troubling as they be inclin'd Our mind and humours humours and our minde Through Sympathy which while this Flesh we carie Our Soules and Bodies doth together marry I 'l only say that sith the hot aspect Of th' Heav'nly Dog-Star kindles with effect A particular proose by the effects of certaine notable stars ordinarily noted in some Moneth of â—he yeare A thousand vnseen Fires and dries the Fields Scorches the Vallies parches-vp the Hills And often times into our panting hearts The bitter Fits of burning Fevers darts And opposit the Cup the dropping Pleiades Bright-glistering Orion and the weeping Hyades Neuer almost look down on our aboad But that they stretch the Waters bounds abroad With Clowdy horror of their wrathfull frown Threatning again the guilty World to drown And to be brief sith the gilt azure Front Of Firmest Sphear hath scarce a spark vpon 't But poureth down-ward som apparant change Toward the Storing of the Worlds great Grange We may coniecture what hid powr is given T' infuse among vs from the other Seaven From each of those which for their vertuerare Th' Almighty placed in a proper Sphear Reiecting the Stoiks he sheweth that God as the first Cause doth order all things and what vse we should make of the force Course Light of the coelesti all bodies Not that as Stoiks I intend to tye With Iron Chains of strong Necessitie Th' Eternal's hands and his free feet enstock In Destinies hard Diamantin Rock I hold that God as The first Cause hath giv'n Light Course and Force to all the Lamps of Heav'n That still he guides them and his Providence Disposeth free their Fatall influence And that therefore the rather we belowe Should study all their Course and Force to knowe To th' end that seeing through our Parents Fall T' how many Tyrants we are waxen thrall Euer since first fond Womans blind Ambition Breaking made Adam break Heav'ns High-Commission We might vnpuff our Heart and bend our Knee T' appease with sighs Gods wrathfull Maiestie Beseeching him to turn away the storms Of Hail and Heat Plague Dearth and dreadfull Arms Which oft the angry Starrs with bad Aspects Threat to be falling on our stubborn necks To give vs Curbs to bridle th' ill proclivitie We are inclin'd-to by a hard Nativitie To pour som Water of his Grace to quench Our boyling Fleshes fell Concupiscence To calm our many passions spirituall tumours Sprung from corruption of our vicious humours Latonian Twinns Parents of Years and Months Heer proceeding to the second part of this book he treateth at large of the Sun and Moon Alas why hide you so your shining Fronts What nill you shew the splendor of your ray But through a Vail of mourning Clouds I pray I pray pul-off your mufflers and your moorning And let me see you in your native burning And my deer Muse by her eternall flight Shal spread as far the glory of your Light As you your selues run in alternat Ring Day after Night Night after Day to bring Thou radiant Coach-man running end-les course Of the Sun entring into the descriptioÌ„ wherof he confesseth that he knowes not well where to begin Fountain