Earth more earthlie proue 58 Whyles in some parts whose Ruines Fame renownes In indignation of her sinfull Seede As Men should do their Eyes the Earth GOD drownes Which those to plague who the first cause did breede Doth vomit Mountaines and doth swallow Townes The Worlds Foundation brangling lyke a Reede Whilst with pale Hearts the panting People thinke That Hell will rise or that the Heauen will sinke 59 One Earth-quake toss'd the Turkes imperiall Heade Dayes sensible but violent some Houres Till in that Towne a monstrous Breach was made As charg'd at once by all the damned Powers I know not whether buried first or deade Troupes seem'd to striue in falling with their Towers Whilst those who stood all trembling did attend That all the World at least themselues should end 60 Twix Rome and Naples once in Enuies Eye What stately Townes did the Worlds Conquerours found Which now we not no not their Ruines spye Being laide more low then leuell with the Ground They with all theirs en-earth'd by Earth-quakes lye Whose Stones drawn downe where Darknesse doth abound Lyke Sisiphus perchance a number roulles Else Dis builds Doungeons for the damned Soulles 61 Late neere those Parts whose Ruines men admire Where Wealth superfluous idle Wonders wrought An Earth-quake strange amazement did acquire A Plaine conceau'd and forth a Mountaine brought Which diuerse dayes disgorged Flammes of Fire And Stones whose Substance was consum'd to nought Hells Fire it seem'd which as GODS Wrath still lights Grown great flamm'd forth vp-braiding Sinners sights 62 Last in this Land our Eyes saw one of late Whose Terrour from some Mindes rests not remou'd Then any else as strange though not so great Not violent but vniuersall prou'd As if of Natures Course the threatned Date All at one Houre this Kingdome trembling mou'd The olde State loathing longing for a new Earth leapes for joy as ready to renew 63 But ah who wakes when rock'd is all this Round Or stryues to stand though euen the Earth thus starts Though GOD doth tosse this Ball till it rebound Who least it part from his Corruption parts Ah that the World so senselesse should be found Both Heauen and Earth do shake but not Mens Hearts Since for his Word the World disdaines to bow Dumbe Creatures do denounce GODS Iudgements now 64 I thinke the Earth by such strange Throwes would tell How much she doth her present State despise Or else all those who in her Bowells dwell Do rouze themselues as readie now to rise Her Bellie thus growne Big doth seeme to swell As one whose Trauell soone should her sur-prise And yet her Brood she Viper-like must free Whose Course must end when Theirs beginnes to be 65 As GOD that Day of Doome striues to make known By Monstrous Signes which may amaze the Mind That Iudgement Great by Iudgements is fore-shown Whilst all the Weapons of his Wrath haue shin'd That others may whilst some rest thus ouer-thrown Stand in the fornace of Affliction fin'd For still the Wretched most Religious proue And oft Examples more then Doctrine moue 66 The Sword of GOD shall once be drunke with Blood And Surfette on the Flesh of thousands slaine Of those who following Euill do flee from Good And scorning CHRIST professe to be prophane From GODS Wine-presse of Wrath shall flow a Flood Which shall with Blood their Horses Bridles staine None may abide nor yet can flie his sight When arm'd with Vengeance GOD doth thundring fight 67 When Father-like GOD chastising his Child Plagu'd alt the Subjectes for their Soueraignes Crime What Thousands then were from the World exild Euen in three Dayes so soone turnes Flesh to Slyme The Earth made waste Men had no more defild Had but one Angell warr'd a litle Time Since by GODS Word the World did made remaine Lesse then his Looke may ruine it againe 68 The Pestilence of Wrath chiefe Weapon thought Which of all Plagues the PLAGVE is onely cald As if All else respecting it were nought It hath so much the Minds of Men appald That Wound by GODS owne Hande seemes only wrought Whose mediat Meanes scarse rest to Reason thrald That which we not conceaue admire we must And in GODS Power aboue our Knowledge trust 69 That poyson'd Dart whose Power none can gaine-stand GOD rarely vs'd in time of greatest Wrath And had it once but brangled in his Hand All trembling stood as twixt the Iawes of Death Then now it selfe the Fame more fear'd this Land Of this great Frensie which infects the Breath A thing thought strange by Habit homely proues What first all Griefe at last all Sense remoues 70 Once in one Age few Dayes and in few Parts The Pest some People to Repentance vrg'd And did with Terrour strike the strongest Harts Whilst his Vine-yard the Heauens great Husband purg'd The Quier of whose Wrath did raine down Darts By which of late what Kingdome was not scourg'd So that Men now not feare that VVhip of GOD Like Boyes oft beaten which contemne the Rod. 71 Lo in this stately Ile admir'd so much What Prouince no what Towne hath not bene pind By that abhorr'd Disease which strikes who touch Whilst Byles the Body Madnesse swells the Mind Ah of some Townes the Anguish hath bene such That All all Hope of safetie had resign'd Whilst Friendes no Comfort gaue no no Reliefe The Sicknesse only not the Death bred Griefe 72 This raging Ague bursts so vgly out Till Men of those whom they loue best are dread Then Danger all in euery thing do doubt Men by the Plague made Plagues as Plagues are fled And are with Horrour compass'd round about When that Contagion through the Aire is spred The Air which first our Breath abus'd doth staine It poyson'd so but Poysons vs againe 73 What thing more wretched can imagin'd be Then is the Towne where once the Botch abounds There not one Sense rests from some Burden free Three doe infect and Two though pure beare Wounds Oft in one Hole Heapes thrown at once we see As where to burie Men fear'd Want of Bounds Yea whilst in Plaintes they spend their plaguie Breath Of all things which are fear'd the least is Death 74 Death whilst no Drogue this Feuers Force ou'rthrowes Oft ere the Patient the Physition claimes The Aire they draw their Heate still higher blowes Till euen what should refresh thus most enflames Of damned Soules the State their Torment showes Who gnash their Teeth as cold whilst Fire enflames And twix their Paines this Difference only winnes Death endes the One the Other but beginnes 75 To plague those Parts where CHRISTS own Troupes do dwell The Angell which destroyes hath most bene bent That whom Words could not moue Wounds may compell Ere Ruine come in Time now to repent By Paine on Earth made thinke of Paine in Hell As this they flie that That they may preuent What can discourage those whome CHRIST doth loue To whom Euill Good Griefe Ioy Death Life doth proue 76 Where
Who hauing life what dead things proue doe doubt Who first did found the Doungeons of the Deepes But one in all ouer all aboue about The Floodes for our delight first calme were set But storme and roare since men did God forget 11 Who partes the swelling Spoutes which sifte the Raine Who raines the Windes the Waters doth empale Who frownes in Tempests smiles in Calmes againe And doth dispense the Treasures of the Haile Whose Coach of Cloudes doth driu'd by Windes remaine Whose Darts dread Thunder-bolts makes men looke pale Euen this to shew those workes themselues haue wonne As smoke doth fire as shaddowes doe the Sunne 12 God visibly invisible who raignes Soule of all soules whose Light each light reflects All from confusion freed and still retaines The greatest rules yet not the least neglects Fore-knowes the end of all which he ordaines His Will each Cause each cause breeds fit Effects Who did make all all thus could only leade None could make all but who was neuer made 13 Vile Dog of Truth who would the ground ouerthrow Thou thee to marke thy darkned Iudgement leade For if thy Selfe thou must thy Maker know Who all thy members prouidently made Thy Feet tread Earth to be contemn'd laid low To looke on Heauen exalted was thy Head That there thou might the stately Mansion see From whence thou art where thou should seeke to be 14 The World in Soules Gods Image cleare may see Though Mirrours bruis'd whē fallen sparks dimm'd far flown They in strict Bounds strict Bonds kept captiue be Yet walke ouer all this All and know not known Yea soare to Heauen whiles from their Fetters free And there see things which can not well be shown None can conceaue all must admire his Might Of whom each Atome giues so great a light 15 When troubled Conscience reades accusing Scroules Which witness'd are euen by the brests owne brood O what a Terrour wounds remording Soules Who Poyson find what seem'd a pleasant Food A secret power their wandring thoughts controules And damning Euill an Author proues of Good Thus heere some Mindes a Mappe of Hell do lend To shew what Horrours damned Soules attend 16 To grant a God the Deuill may men entyfe By Magicke when conjur'd such to vpbrayd Who borrowing bodies Horrour doth disguyse Lest some his vglinesse might make afrayd Whyles in more monstrous Formes doth roaring ryse Till euen as charm'd the Charmer stands dismayde He bellowing foorth abominable lyes Blood in his Mouth and Terrour in his Eyes 17 Who saues the World lest that it ruin'd be By him whose thoughts as Arrowes ayme at ill Saue One who is more great more good then he Who makes His Power repugnant to his Will Of this with which oft Sathans words agree He forc'd affords a Testimonie still From euerything thus springs to GOD some praise Men Angels Deuils all must his Glory raise 18 Though trusting more yet some transgresse as much As those who vnto GOD draw neuer neare For what the Fitst not see the Last not touch Ones Eyes are blind the others are not cleare Their Mindes false Mirrours figure GOD but such As Waters straight things crooked make appeare Their Faith is neuer firme their Loue not bright As Ankers without holdes Fyres without light 19 Their Iudgements Fond by Frailtie being confind Whose Soule as Water Vanitie deuoures Doe faine in GOD what in themselues they find And by their Weakenesse judge the POWER of POWERS Then the Vnbounded bounding by their Mind Would staine Heauens Garden with terrestriall Flowres Men still imagine Others as They are And measure all things by Corruptions Square 20 They thinke that GOD soft Pleasure doth affect And Iocund Loftie Lul'd in Ease as Great Doth scorne contemne or at the least neglect Mans sickle abject and laborious State That he disdaines to guerdon or correct Mans good or euill Toyes free from Loue or Hate That when Earth is his prospect from the Skyes As Men on Beasts on Men he casts his Eyes 21 No high in Heauen from whence he bindes and frees He in voluptuous Ease not wallowing lyes What Was what Is what Shall be all he sees Weighs euery Worke each Heart in secret tryes All Registers then filling first Decrees Giues or abstracts his Grace Cause End both spyes His Contemplation farre transcends our reach Yet what fits vs to know his Word doth teach 22 Then to confirme what was affirm'd before That no GOD is or GOD doth not regard Who do blaspheme say fooles or who adore This oft due Vengeance wants and that Reward Then Godly Men the Wicked prosper more Who still presume where they haue oft despair'd Such as they thinke feele Paine and dreame but Ioy Whilst they what can be wish'd do all enjoy 23 The Sunne in all lyke Comfort doth infuse The Raine to all by equall portions parts Heauens Treasures all alyke both haue and vse Which GOD to all as one to him imparts Each Mindes free State lyke Passions do abuse Each bodies Bondage by like Sicknesse smarts Thus all aliue alike all Fortunes trie And as the Bad euen so the Best do die 24 O Men most Simple and yet more then Mad Whose Soules your Hearts whose Hearts Sinne hath subdu'd Whilst good Men now are grieu'd though you be glad They weake yet pure you strong yet stain'd and lewd Huge are the oddes betwixe the Best and Bad Which darkely here hence shall be clearely view'd When of GODS Wrath the Wind sifts Soules at last They shall abide you vanish at a blast 25 GODS Benefites though lyke to both design'd On outward Eyes whilst Iudgement doth depend The inward Eyes a mighty difference find To ballance both whilst spirituall Thoughts ascend The Gift is one but not the Giuers Mind The Vse is one but not the Vsers end GOD so would clogge the one the other raise Those take themselues to please They Him to praise 26 The Good oft euill the Euill oft good may haue And by the contrarie both may be cloyd But as they are all make what they receaue Not reall of it selfe but as employ'd Those temporall Treasures Monuments do leaue As by a Blessing or a Curse convoy'd But this is sure what euer GOD doth send To Good-Mens good to Euil-Mens euill doth tend 27 GOD to cure Soules doth diuerse Baulmes applie Whilst his intent still the euent doth crowne Some are press'd downe lest they should swell too hie Some are rais'd high lest that they should sinke down Some must haue Wealth their Charitie to trie Some Pouertie their Patience to renowne He who made all knowes all and as they neede Not as they wish makes things with his succeede 28 Since Worldly things GOD makes both sorts possesse Ingratitude or Gratefulnesse to moue Let vs seek greater things though seeming lesse Which to one sort doth only proper proue That secret Grace whose power none can expresse Whose fruits are Vertue Zeale Faith Hope and Loue The Wickeds Treasures Godly men may gaine But
Maker crau'd If that his Will had bene by him transgress'd The Woman LORD whom I from thee receau'd She made me eat as who my Soule possess'd The Woman said the Serpent me deceau'd Both burdend Others None the Fault confess'd Which Custome still their faultie Race doth vse All first do rinne to hide next to excuse 67 But he who tries the Reines and viewes the Hart As through the Clouds doth through fraile Bodies see And is not mock'd by Mens ridiculous Art By which their Crimes made more more odious be Who proudly sinne they must submissely smart Loe GOD crau's compt of what he did decree And those who joyn'd in Sinne are punish'd all All Adams Partners crush'd were with his Fall 68 GOD thus first damn'd the Fountaine of Deceate O most accurst of all the Beasts which breede Still wallowing in the Dust a lothsome state Drawn on thy Belly basely shall thou feede The Woman Thee thou shall the Woman hate Which Hatred still inherite shall her Seede Whose fierce Effects both mutually shall feele Whilst he shall breake thy Head thou bruise his Heele 69 And Woman weake whose Thoughts each Fancie blowes I will encrease thy Griefe thy Ioyes restraine And since thy Iudgement doth depend on showes Thou to thy Husband subject shall remaine And bringing forth thy Brood with bitter Throwes What was with Pleasure sown shall reape with Paine Those Beauties now which mustred are with Pride In withred Wrinckles ruinous Age shall hide 70 Fond Adam thou obeying thus thy Wife What I commanded violat who durst Cares shall exhaust thy Dayes Paines ende thy Life Whilst for thy Cause the Earth becomes accurst With Thornes and Thistles guerdoning thy Strife Who sweating for thy Food art like to burst And looke no more for Rest for Toyle thou must Till whence thou came thou be turn'd backe to Dust 71 By Angels arm'd barr'd from the pleasant Place When wretched Adams Pilgrimage was past The Tree of Sinne ou'rshaddowing all his Race They from their minds all Loue of GOD did cast Them to reclaime who did contemne his Grace Who wearie was with striuing at the last Of all the VVorld a Haruest made by Raine He did resolue to trie new Seede againe 72 Yet since that Noah vprightly had liu'd He and his Race stood safe on Horrours hight And when all Creatures Ruine was contriu'd They liu'd secure the fourtie-day-long Night To make the World repent that good Man striu'd His swelling Bulwarke battering in their Sight But with the Wicked nought can well succeede In whom Perswasions Obstinacie breede 73 As the Worlds sinnes ou'rflow'd GODS Wrath ou'rflam'd VVhich when rais'd high down Floods of Vengeance pours As Noahs Preaching oft times had proclaim'd Heauens threatning straight to drown the highest Tours Clouds clustred Darkenesse Lightnings Terrour stream'd And rumbling Thunders vshered vgly Shours Whilst rauenous Tempests swallow'd vp the Light Day dead for Feare brought forth abortiue Night 74 From Guests prophane that Earth might be redeem'd The Lights of Heauen quensh'd in their Lanterns lay The Azure Vaults all but one Cisterne seem'd Whilst safe the Waters All things did decay The Fire drown'd out Heauens all dissolu'd were deem'd Air Water grew the Earth as wash'd away By monstrous Stormes whilst All things were ou'rturn'd Then safe GODS Wrath in all the World nought burn'd 75 Men to the Mountaines did for Helpe repaire Whence them the Waues did violently chace In Natures Scorne came scallie Squadrouns thair The Forrests Guests inheriting their place By too much Water no for lacke of Air All were confounded in a litle Space The Elements with Anguish we enjoy All must nurse one One thus may all destroy 76 That vaulting Vault against the Storme did striue VVhich all the Creatures of the VVorld contain'd And whyls through Depthes whyls through the Clouds did driue Not by the Compasse nor the Rudder rain'd No Port no Land was where it could ariue VVhilst Earth with VVaters leuell all remain'd The VVaues the VVorld all else being hush'd at once Roar'd forth a Consort with Mens dying Grones 77 But when ouer all GODS Breath did Ruine blow The Arke with others Sinne from Death did saue Him whom the raging Floods did not ou'rthrow VVho of GODS Iudgements Iudge did all perceaue A litle Liquor did at last ou'rthrow VVhich to his Sonne to mocke Occasion gaue Thus Drunkennesse disdainfull scorne doth breede A fertile Vyce which Others still succeede 78 As the first World did first by Pryde offend Whose burning Rage to such a hight did win That it to quensh GOD did the Waters bend O Drunkennesse the second Worlds first sinne The course of Vice that Element must end Which is oppos'd to it which did beginne In euery thing GODS Iustice we may spy As Floods drown'd Pryde Flames Drunkennesse must dry 79 When Men againe to fill the World did weare Straight in their Soules did Satan raise his Throne O what a Burden Nature dost thou beare Since that to Sinne and Liue seeme both but one Men Babels Towres against the Starres did reare Since lyke deseruing fearing what was gone As though that GOD could but one Plague command Ah Fooles what Strength against his Strength can stand 80 Whilst fondly They proud weaknesse did bewray Who can the Depths of His high Iudgements sound By making their owne Tongues their Hearts betray Those Titans straight the Thund'rer did confound Here diuerse Tongues the Worke of Men did stay Which afterwards the Worke of GOD did ground The Mind not meanes effectuall doth remaine What help'd Apostles hindred the Prophane 81 When purpos'd to dissolue quicke Clouds of Dust GODS Wrath as stubble Sinners doth deuoure That Towne to sacke which had not tenne Men just He Brimstone rain'd O most prodigious Showre Their Bodies burn'd whose Soules were burn'd with Lust What faire was vglie what was sweet grew sowre Yet of that Fyre Lot scap'd the great Deluge GODS holy Mountaine is a sure Refuge 82 I recken not the ruine of those States Which being but Strangers to the ground of Grace Were caried head-long with their own Conceits And euen though brightly blindlie ranne their Race GODS firme Decrees which fondlie they call'd Fates Did bound their Glory in a litle Space Whil'st Tempests huge toss'd their tumultuous Mindes Lyke Reeds by Riuers wauering with all Windes 83 Such rais'd not for their good but for GODS ends When bent his owne to punish or support Do as his Arrowes hit but where he tends Else of themselues their power doth nought import When he his spotted Flocke to purge intends They are but Tooles vs'd in a seruile sort To fanne or cleanse as Fannes or Beesomes they Which when the Worke is done are throwne away 84 Proud Ashur first did daunt all other Soyles Till barbarous Persia did become her Head The Greekes did glory in the Persians spoyles Whose Prince at last Rome did in Triumph lead Rome rauishing the Earth bred bloody Broyles Yet was by whom she scorn'd a Widow
that Light Whose least-least part may all the World amase That of our Spirit which doth the Powers condense Of muddie Mortalls farre transcends the sense 5 A Fyre before him no resistance findes Fierce sounds of Horrour thunder in each eare The noyce of Armies Tempests and Whirle-windes A weight of Wrath more then ten Worlds can beare Thinke what a Terrour stings distracted Mindes When Mountaines melt and Valleyes burst for feare What what must this in guiltie Mortalls breed Whilst all this All stands trembling like a Reed 6 The GOD of Battells Battell doth intend To daunt the Nations and to fetter Kings He with all Flesh in Iudgement to contend At Mid-night comes as on the Mornings wings O tyme of Ruine ending without End Huge time of Vengeance where all ballanc'd hings The LORDS Great Day a Day of Wrath and Paine Whose Night of Darkenesse neuer cleares againe 7 That Element still cleare in spight of Nights Which as most subtill mounted vp aboue To kindle there perchance those glorious Lights Which dy'd by it as deckt by Beautie moue Of curious Fancies else to stay the Flights As which may not be touch'd a bounds did proue That they presume no higher things to see Then are the Elements of which they be 8 Marke how Aeolian Bands loos'd from the Bounds Where them in Fetters the Eternall keepes As if the angrie Spirit of all the Rounds Like Tyrants rage till Heauen to quensh them weepes Whose rumbling Furie whilst it all confounds Whyles cleaues the Clouds whyles parts the deepest Deepes By Noyse aboue and Violence below Earth-quake and Thunder both at once to show 9 Euen so Fire which was made nought to annoy To liquid Limits clos'd with Clouds retire Lest what it fosters it might else destroy O when enlarg'd and kindled by GODS Ire It him at Midnight doth as Torch conuoy All all will seeme a PYRAMID of Fyre To GOD what is this Vniuersall Frame Now but a Moate at last a litle Flame 10 The Axell-trees on which Heauens Round doth moue Shrunke from their Burden both fall broken downe Those which to Pilots point out from aboue Their Wayes through Waues to richesse or renowne And so though fix'd the Strayers helpers proue Nights stately Lampes borne in an Azure Crown Those guyding Starres may as not needfull fall When worldlings wandrings are accomplish'd all 11 The Vagabonds aboue lasciuious Lights Which from fond Mindes which did their Course admire By strange Effects obseru'd from seuerall hights As Deities Altars Idoles did acquire Thrown from their Spheares expos'd to Mortalls sights As abject Ashes excrements of Fire They in their Ruines farre from what before Shall damne the Nations which did them adore 12 With Ludgings twelue design'd by seuerall Signes Now falls that Building more then Crystall cleare Which the dayes Eye though circling all confynes Still tempring Tymes and seasoning the Yeare All temporall Light no more to ryse declynes That Glory may eternallie appeare All then being Infinit no bounds attend Tymes and halfe tymes being past Tyme takes an end 13 As slymie Vapours whilst like Starres they fall Shot from their Place do hurle alongst the Skie The Pleiades Arcturus Orion all The glistring Troupes Lights languishin do die Lyke other Creatures to confusion thrall They from the Flammes as Sparkes from Fyre do flie The Heauens at last grieu'd for their falling Spheares All else dry'd vp weep down their Starres for Teares 14 As Leafes from Trees the Starres from Heauen do shake Darke Clouds of Smoake exhausting those of Raine The Moone all turnes to Blood the Sunne growes Blacke Which whilst those Monstrous Formes they do retaine Of Vengeance Badges Signes of Ruine make And not eclips'd by vsuall meanes remaine Those common Lights obscur'd the Iust shine bright The Wicked enter in Eternall Night 15 VVhilst staggering reels this Vniuersall Frame The Heauens bow down with GOD as being his Seat His Scepter Iron his Throne a fyrie Flame To bruise the Mighty and to fyne the Great VVho of his Glory can the Greatnesse dreame VVho once was valued at a litle Rate GOD by his Word did first make all of nought And by his Word shall judge All of each thought 16 When GOD his people did together draw On Sions Mount to register his Will He that they might attend with reuerent Aw Came clad with Clouds sterne Trumpets sounding shrill And threatned Death whilst thundring forth his Law To all that durst approach the trembling Hill What compassed with Death he thus did giue Ah who can keep or violat and liue 17 Since this confounding Forme did Myndes to tame That of their Yoke all might the burden know Those dreadfull Statutes terriblie proclaime All Flesh for feare shall fade away below How they were kept when GOD a count doth claime A tyme of Terrour more then words can show He gaue in Mercie shall exact with Ire The Mountaine smoak'd the World shall burne on Fire 18 In spight of Natures powers which then exspyre Through liquid Limits breaking from aboue Lo down-ward tends the Tempest of this Fyre The Airie Region doth a Fornace proue To boyle her Guests the Vessells of GODS Ire Which tortur'd there can no where else remoue Flammes which should still for their confusion rage Thus kindled first perchance nought can asswage 19 The growing Creatures which doe mount most high And as their earthly Bounds they did disdaine Would whilst their Tops encroach vpon the Skie Base Men vpbraide who not their Strength doe straine With heauenly Helps still higher vp to flie And spurne at Earth where rooted they remaine Those leauie Bands while as they fan the Air As fittest Baits for Fire first kindle thair 20 Who can imagine this and yet not mourne What Battell must succede this huge Alarme Of Lebanon the stately Cedars burne The Pines of Idus fall without an Arme The fertill Forrests all to Flames do turne And waste the World which they were wont to warme To plague proud Sinners euery thing accords What Comfort once Confusion now affords 21 The smoaking Mountaines melt like Waxe away Else sincke for Feare O more then fearfull things They which the Fields with Riuers did array As if to quensh their Heat drinke vp their Springs Like faded Flowres their drouping Tops decay Which crown'd with Cloudes stretch'd through the Air their wings As did the Raine the Fire doth sease all bounds What Last the First the Last at First confounds 22 Then of That Birth Hills shall deliuered be Which big by Nature they so long haue borne Though it fond Mortalls Slaues by being free To make Abortiues haue their Bellies torne Gold as when Midas wish O just Decree Shall flow superfluous Couetice to scorne What of All else did measure once the Worth Shall then ly loath'd by Aguous Earth spued forth 23 The godly Kings wise Sonne from Ophir brought With Ethnickes joyn'd all welcome are for Gaines What Spaniards now in other Worlds haue sought That golden Fleece still winne
GODS Sight That he in Darkenesse fall the Light who flies And O this is the vttermost of ill When GOD doth giue one ou'r to his owne Will 40 This Aduersarie of CHRISTS heauenly Word He should himselfe extoll by Sathans Wit Ouer All that is call'd GOD or is ador'd And of Iniquitie no Meanes omit Though worthy of the World to be abhorr'd He in the CHVRCH of GOD as GOD shall sit This Hypocrite huge Mischiefe borne to breede Should looke like GOD yet proue a Deuill indeede 41 This Mysterie of Sinne which GOD doth hate Euen in Pauls Time beganne and since endur'd Yet could not then be known till from the Gate That which then stopt was raz'd and it assur'd The Romane Empire then it was so Greate That of lesse States the Luster it obscur'd The Let which then remain'd being once remou'd This ANTICHRIST the next Aspirer prou'd 42 That spirituall Plague which poysons many Lands Is not the Turke nor Mahomet his Saint Nor none who to crosse CHRIST directly stands He whom the Spirit takes such great Paine to paint It must be one who in the Church commands No Foe confess'd but a Professour faint For if All did him know None would him know Fain'd Friends false Foes may whom they will ou'rthrow 43 Ere that Day come which should the Iust adorne And shall discouer euery secret Thought The ANTICHRIST whose Badge whole Lands haue borne The Prophet false which lying Wonders wrought The Beast with the blasphemous Mouth and Horne Shall be reueal'd and to Confusion brought For Causes hid though GOD a Space spare some Their Iudgements are the heauier when they come 44 The shamelesse Whore which sits vpon seuen Hills Whose Sight lasciuious riotously roules Whose Wine doth make Kings drunke snares thousands will The Deuils chiefe Baud adulterating Soules The Cup of Wrath that filthy Strumpet filles Whose boundlesse Lust no Law no Time controules That stumbling Blocke by whom so many fell Shall once burne here and euer in the Hell 45 The Part where now that Whore her Court doth hold Vile Habylon abominable Towne Where euery thing euen Soules of Men are sold Low in the Dust to lie shall be brought down Her Nakednesse all Nations shall behold And burne that Body which their Soules did drown Whore as she sow'd so shall she reape huge Euills Of the Worlds Mistresse made a Den of Deuils 46 Flie faithfull Christians from that Sea of Sinne Who hate the Whore and the two horned Beast Flie flie in time before their Griefe beginne Lest as their Pleasures so their Plagues you taste When as the Lambe the Victorie doth winne He of fat things will make his Flocke a Feaste This Cloud dispers'd the Sunne shall shine more bright Whilst Darkenesse past endeeres the present Light 47 Now in the dangerous Dayes of this last Age When as he knowes that CHRIST to come prepares The Deuill shall like a roaring Lyon rage And to catch Soules shall set a thousand Snares He gainst GODS Saintes twise deadly Warres shall wage Whilst some Presumption tempts and some Despaires If that this Time not shortned were deceau'd GODS chosen Children hardly could be sau'd 48 Some for a glorious Vse who once did serue As Starres to Eyes cleare Lights of Soules esteem'd Loe stumbling Blockes from their first Course doe swerue Not what they were else were not what they seem'd Such justly damn'd Lights Foes as they deserue From Darkenesse more shall neuer be redeem'd Church Angells all all for Examples vse So that their Fall doth many thousands bruise 49 Men so the World shall loue Religion hate That all true Zeale shall in Contempt be brought The spirituall Lights Eclipse shall grow so greate That Lies the Truth Truth shall a Lie be thought Yet some shall weigh their Works at such a Rate As they Themselues not CHRIST their Soules had bought All just to seeme not be their Thoughts shall bend Not bent to edifie but to contend 50 Some Signes are gone which registred were found To rouze the World before that dreadfull Blast But Ah what All now see and I must founds I wish they were to come or else were past Those Signes those Sinnes I sing do warne shall wound This Age too ag'd and worthy to be last It Signes that shadow'd were doth so designe I must historifie and not diuine 51 The Deuils last charge to shunne CHRIST gaue aduyce Since all the World would be seduc'd by Lies He now whilst all adore their owne Deuyce Taints all mens Hearts or else vpbraides their Eyes The Froth of Vertue and the Dregs of Vice Which onely last the Worlds last Period tryes So high a point Impietie doth winne Not grieu'd no not asham'd men bragge of Sinne. 52 Men with Themselues so much in loue remaine That Rich without and poore within being worne They if not gorgeous Garments do disdaine Though the first badge of Bondage which was borne Yet pampred Bodies famish'd Soules retaine Which seeke the Shadow and the substance scorne Ere high aduanc'd all once must humble proue Those first themselues must loath whom GOD will loue 53 The Greatest number now prophanely sweares And dare to Brawle or Iest name GOD in vaine Yet that Heauen Thunder or Earth burst not feares Lest so they crush'd or swallowed should remaine Some vomit forth polluting purer Eares That what them first may others after staine A filthie Tongue and a blasphemous Mouth Of Sathans Seed doe showe a mighty Growth 54 That Auarice which the Apostle told When as the World declynes Mens Mindes should sway Doth rage so now that euen their GOD for Gold Not onely Men Men in our time betray To Sathan some for gaine their Soules haue sold Whilst what their Hearts hold Trueth their Words gain-say By Ethnickes once those must condemn'd remaine Who change Religion Earthlie things to gaine 55 What Age ere this so many Children saw Who with their Parents O vnhappie Stryfe Plead still at Law though wronging Natures Law And helpe to haste their Death who gaue them Lyfe Now Vertuous Words to vitious Deeds do draw The Loue of GOD is rare of Pleasure ryfe This Darkenesse showes that it drawes nere the Night Sinne it must shortly fall since at the hight 56 Then euen the most of Miserie to make The Soules of some which still being euill grow worse All Sence quyte lost in Sinne such pleasure take That frozen Myndes can melt in no remorse No threatned Terrours can their Conscience wake Sinne hath so much the Spirit so litle force No Physick for the Sicke which liue as sound A Sore past sense doth shew a deadly wound 57 As such a Burden it did burst to beare Through Horrour of our Sinnes the Earth doth shake And shall it selfe oft-tymes asunder teare Ere CHRIST his Iudgement manifest doth make Or else I know not if it quake for feare Of that great Fyre which should it shortly sacke The liuing Earth to moue dead Earth doth moue Yet earthlie Men then
we should alwayes fight the Heauen to gaine By Prayers Plaintes and charitable Deedes To raise vp Earth on Earth our Strength we straine So base a Courage worldly Honour breedes This doth prouoke the Darts of GODS Disdaine By which of some the wounded Conscience bleedes All headlongs runne to Hell whose Way is euen But by a narrow Path are drawn to Heauen 77 Of Vengeance now the Store-house opned stands O what a Weight of Wrath the World now beares Through Terrour straight why tremble not all Lands When GOD in Rage aThrone of Iustice reares And pours down Plagues whilst brandishing his Brands The Pest being past the World next Famine feares Still thinke that Mischiefe neuer comes alone Those who feare more what is the lesse doe moue 78 Since that the World doth loath celestiall Food That spirituall MANNA which Soules Nectar proues By Grace drawn forth from the Redeemers Blood A Gift no Guerdoun giuen to whom he loues Those who terrestriall things thinke only good Them Want shall trie whom no Aboundance moues For Ah of some so fat the Bodies be That of their Soules they not the Leannesse see 79 GODS Creatures oft condemn'd shall once accuse Those who in VVantonnesse them vainly spent And justly what vnjustly they abuse Shall vnto them more sparingly be lent That which they now superfluously vse Shall made a Curse not Natures Neede content A barren Soule should haue a barren Earth Oft temporall Plentie breedes a spirituall Dearth 80 Those in the Dust who still prophanely roule Whose thornie Thoughts do chock that heauenly Seede Which by the Word was sown in euery Soule Shall likewise want what should their Bodies feede What Most they trust shall once their Hopes controule By earthly Hunger heauenly Thirst to breede Thus those like Babes whose Iudgement is not deepe VVho scorn'd a Treasure shall for Triffles weepe 81 What Sauces strange a Fault which Custome clokes To vrge the Bodies Appetit are made Which Natures selfe sufficiently prouokes But of the Soule when carnall Cates it leade The Appetite which Ah euen Nature chokes What Art is vs'd to quicken it when deade VVhen Bodies do too much Soules nought disgest But when the Others fast are fit to feast 82 Base Belly-gods whose Boord is Sathans Bate Whose Iudgements to your Taste rest only thrall The LORD in wrath shall cut away your Meate And for your Honny furnish you with Gall Like lothsome Beasts since you the Acornes eate Yet looke not vp to see from whence they fall Sonnes prodigall who from your Father swerue You keeping worse then Swine shall justly sterue 83 To waken some which sleepe in Sinne as dead The LORD ere CHRIST do come all States to try Since being abus'd shall breake the Staffe of Bread And as we him make Earth vs fruits deny The Corne shall wither and the Grasse shall fade Then to nurce Men being rather bent to die As dutifull to him by whom they breed GODS Creatures pure his Rebels scorne to feed 84 Now in this Tyme which is the last esteem'd The Spirits impure do all in one conspyre And worke that GOD by Men may be blasphem'd To purchase partners of eternall Fire That who should them condemne hath vs redeem'd Makes Enuie blow the Bellowes of their Ire The wicked Angells irritated thus Not seeke their safetie but to ruine vs. 85 More neere doth draw Saluation to the Iust The more the Dragons Mind doth Fnuie wound That Men the Slaues of Death the Sonnes of Dust As Heires of Heauen with Glory should be crown'd And that perpetuall paines they suffer must Though all Immortall to no Bodies bound Nought true repose to the enuious brings Whom their owne harme or others good still stings 86 Mans Foe who first Confusion did deuise By long Experience grown profound in skill Through strength oft try'd our Weaknesse doth despise And knowes what best may serue each Soule to kill He to his part our Passions doth entise And to betray our Wit corrupts out Will Whom GOD not guardes those Satan soone may winne Whilst Force doth charge without and Fraud within 87 That Heire of Hell whom justlie GOD rejects Who sought by subtiltie all Soules to blind Not onely Shafts in secret now directs By Inspirations poysoning the Mind But euen a Banner boldly he erects As this Worlds Prince by publick power design'd From shape to shape this Proteus thus remoues Who first a Foxe and last a Lyon proues 88 He since his Kingdome now should end so soone Doth many Circes and Medeas make That can obscure the Sunne and charme the Moone Raise vp the Dead and make the Liuing quake Whilst they by Pictures persons haue vndone Do giue to some from others substance take Three Elements their tyrannie doth thrall But oft the fourth takes Vengeance of them all 89 Whilst in his Hand the Bolts of Death he beares Still watching Soules the craftie Hunter lyes With inward Fancies and with outward feares Whom he may tempt continuallie he tryes Whyles rumbling Horrour sounds assault the eares Whyles Monstrous Formes paint Terrour in the Eyes He who with GOD euen in the Heauen durst striue Thinkes soone on Earth Mens Ruine to contriue 90 As many did possess'd by Spirits remaine When first CHRIST came Saluation to beginne So lykewise now before he come againe Some Bodies daylie which they enter in By desp'rat meanes would be dispatch'd of paine Else bound in Body loose their Soules to Sinne And if that GOD not interpos'd his Power Straight euery Soule Hells Tyrant would deuoure 91 In some whom GOD permits him to abuse The Lord of Darkenesse doth at diuerse Houres His subtill Substance fraudfullie infuse Till they his Spirit his Spirit their Soules deuoures He as his owne doth all their Members vse And they as Babes with Kniues worke with his Powers O monstrous Vnion Miracle of Euils Which thus with Men incorporates the Deuills 92 When earst in Delphos after vglie cryes The Priestresse Pithia seeming to be sage Big by the Deuill delyuered was of Lies She to the Terrour of that senselesse Age Still panting swolne Hell flamming through her Eyes Roar'd forth Responses by Prophetick Rage She to her LORD whilst prostituted thus An Image was of whom he filles with vs. 93 Of those who are possess'd in such a sort Some to themselues whom Sathan doth accuse They Mad or He in them whyles brag whyles sport And whilst they would the Lookers on abuse Do secrets to themselues not known report And of all Tongues the Eloquence can vse All what each Age deuis'd obseruing still The Deuill knowes much but bends it all to ill 94 O Heauens be hid and lose thy Light O Sunne Since in the World O what a fearefull thing The Deuill of some so great a power hath wonne That what was theirs he doth in bondage bring Then from their Bodie speakes as from a Tunne As sounds from Bells or Floods through Rockes do ring Deare Sauiour ryse and in a Iust disdaine
the Rest Whose generall Flood whilst it the World ou'rcomes None knowes where kindled first nor whence it comes 117 The lucrous Coale though blacke a precious Stone Whose Force as Vulcan will makes Mars to bend Of Albions Iewels second vnto none To Art and Nature both a speciall Frend Then when of it the needfull Vse is gone What it maintain'd it likewise helpes to end And thus the Earth though cold with Fire being stor'd To burne it selfe Materialls doth afford 118 Those bathing Springs which free Physitians proue Yet for all Euills One only Cure can show The which may seeme whilst boyling vp aboue A Part of Phlegeton ou'rflow'd below But for Mans Health Nought can from thence remoue Where he doth dwell who could the World ou'rthrow Whom then to warne their Course to Hell repaires Or else a greater Heate doth drinke vp theirs 119 Great Monarches whom Ambitious Hopes do driue To raise their owne by razing Others Thrones Who spare no Wayes that there they may arriue Through Orphans Teares Mans Blood Womens Grones And all those earthly Minds which for Earth striue By passing Bounds and altering settled Stones All such that Day not Lords of their owne Graue They then no Earth nor them no Earth shall haue 120 The Earth as glorying in her changed State With Face all bright with Flames seemes Lightning smiles Whilst free from Wounds and Toyles indur'd of late All burn'd with Heat with Cold all frozen whyles Though forc'd she must conceaue a fertill Mate Her Husbands Hopes she oftentimes beguiles And as she would reuenge all Troubles past She yeeldes vp Man whom she had hid at last 121 That Element which only needing Aide May be made more and doth on others feede Whose piercing Powers can in no Bounds be staide Such Bodies small that thickned Rarenesse breede The only Essence which can not be weigh'd And voyde of Weight doth alwayes vpward speede That soone may seaze on all when once set free Which infinitly multiplied may be 122 But lest my Furie be too far declin'd That with the Flames to flie haue striu'd in vaine I must a while within my selfe confind Fresh Succoures seeke to charge of new againe So great Amazement hath ou'rwhelm'd my Mind That now I in an Agonie remaine But he who did in firie Tongues descend As through the Fire will leade me to the End DOOMES-DAY OR THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORDS IVDGEMENT The fourth Houre THE ARGVMENT A Hideous Trumpet horribly doth sound Who sleepe in Graues a mightie Voyce doth wake By Angels Messengers charg'd from each ground All Flesh comes forth that euer Soule did take Seas giue Accompt of all whome they haue drown'd The Earth her Guests long hid in Haste giues backe Those who then liue are at an Instant chang'd So from Life neuer still from Death estrang'd 1 SO great a Power my sacred Guide imparts That still my Muse doth raise her ventrous flight Though with Confusion compast on all Parts My troubled Thoughts dare on no Object light The World by Flames a Charmer justly smarts Whose Ashes now seeme to vpbraide my Sight Though Feares would quensh those Fires my Brest which burne Yet I must sing that Thousands else may mourne 2 To plague proud Man who look't so late aloft The Earth still pure till made by him vncleane By whome whyles fierce for Blood by Lust whyles soft She forc'd to beare in both abus'd had beene Straight as a Strumpet Prostituted oft Now by her Louers naked shall be seene An odious Masse euen in her Owners Eyes As bruis'd by Thunder whilst she wither'd lyes 3 Now of all States the fatall Period comes To stay who stumble on this slipperie Ball Fierce Vulcans Furie Neptune so ou'rcomes That not one Drop remaines to weepe his Fall Loe all the World one Continent becomes Whereas saue Man no Creature liues at all The Sea to Earth the Earth all turnes to Fire A monstrous Comet threatning comming Ire 4 O what a Vault I see of Angels Wings Whose greater Brightnesse makes the Fires decline A glorious Guard fit for the KING of Kings Whilst they like Rayes about that Sunne do shine But O his presence past expressing brings A reall Glory all in All diuine All as from Darknesse looke vpon this Light Whilst Flammes as mists do vanish at his Sight 5 Those blessed Bands in state of Grace which stood As Ministers admitted vnto GOD Which whyles told Mortalls Tydings which were good And whyles did stryke with Indignations Rod They who till com'd this tyme not vnderstood With CHRIST arise all ready at his Nod And free from Enuie which did marre their Mates Do seeke with Ioy the Partners of their States 6 The Dregges of Adams Race shall soone disclose What GODS Decree inuolu'd in Cloudes doth keepe That Time that Time which must confound all those Whose Thoughts are plung'd in Pleasures groundlesse Deepe Euen then perchance that Nature may repose When all the Senses buried are in sleepe Ah how those Eyes vnclos'd amaz'd remaine Which from that Time should neuer close againe 7 O ten times curst whom CHRIST that tyme shall finde Still hatching Euill defrauding Natures due Whilst Darknesse mocks the Eyes though open blind And makes the Mind what it affects to view Which wing'd with thoughts farre swifter then the Wind Though still confin'd doth all ouer All pursue What doubtfull proiects slot within his Brest Who dreames yet sleepes not lyes but doth not rest 8 When that crown'd Bird which Peters Bragges did scorne As still a Friend to Light seemes to cite light Some more conceiue then euer could be borne Whilst big with Monsters of imagin'd might And Airie Names with Shadowes to adorne Do build high Hopes which fall ere at the hight Such Bosomes Serpents nurse whose stings they try Pryde Aemulation Iealousie Enuy. 9 As prick'd with Thornes some in their Beds do roule Whilst charg'd with thoughts which but their Cares abuse And make that Mettall Idole of their Soule Which in a Calfe the Iewes great Iudge did bruise Their greedy Course whilst nothing can controule Though hauing more then they themselues can vse Like them who drinke more then they can digest Who keepe the Appetite but not the Taste 10 The Deuill in darknesse being most powerfull still Some when retir'd imagin mischiefe strange And to shed blood do dedicat their Will Whilst tortur'd with a Furie of reuenge More guilty he who in his Heart doth kill Although his Course being disappointed change Then he who doth by Chance ones Death procure No Member guilty is the Mind being pure 11 Though Beds should be as priuat Graues for rest While as of Death the Image buries dust Yet some run-mad as raging in a Pest Voluptuouslie their Fancies surfet must A filthie Furie poysoning the Brest With strange Delights of a prodigious Lust The which whilst waking so corrupts their Will That when they sleep it doth delude them still 12 Not onelie shall this suddain Charge
surpryse Such in such Sinnes which do from GOD rebell But euen all those who euills by Night deuise And louing Darknesse shall in Darknesse dwell Who with a Conscience calme all Feares despise As when that Cerberus slept they might take Hell Such to an Owle make GOD inferiour be As if by Night Nights Maker nought could see 13 Wing'd Messengers may then euen some arrest Who rioting till quite exhausted all Whilst in their Vomits wallowing they rest From Men to Beasts from Beasts to nought do fall Those dead though liuing who can but detest As Natures Monsters Mankind to appall In them who haue their Reason drown'd in Wine No Sparke of GODS nor Natures Light doth shine 14 Some rating Pleasure at too high a pryce Who with the Light do lay all Shame asyde Do prostitute their Soules to euery Vyce If not then free by beastlinesse from Pryde Then their whole States oft venter on the Dyce As who in nought but Fortune do confide By manie odious Oath then mock GODS Migh True workes of Darknesse worthie of the Night 15 Fond Worldlings there inuolu'd in vaine Delight Who to the Senses fraile indulgent are And as soft Sounds the Courage do inuite With measur'd Madnesse march vpon the Aire Whilst from themselues by Pleasure rauish'd quite What it prouokes no kind of sport they spare Their Eares attending Musickes soule to haue Of this dread Blast the first assault receaue 16 By Stratagems a Captain boldly wise His Enemies Campe not look't for whyles confounds But when he first doth Sentinells surpryse That all about the Neighbouring Bounds rebounds In Brests vnarm'd what Terrour strange doth ryse Whilst Drummes yeeld deadly Trumpets liuely Sounds Whilst Showtes make deafe Amazement dumb Dust blind Ere Swords the Bodie feare doth kill the Mind 17 So shall it be with all those broken Bands As for the Godlie they watch still prepar'd Then when Lifes LORD doth come to judge all Lands Like Fishes angled or like Beasts ensnar'd Those whom Hells Badge for endlesse Darkenesse brands Not hauing Power to wish are straight despar'd And soone do see what now they not attend Ere thought by them begunne all at an end 18 What hideous Charge all to compeare compells Whose sound may show what Breath the Blast doth feed No Canons Thunders Tempests Trumpets Bells Nor yet all joyn'd so huge a Noyse could breed Since heard in Heauen on Earth and in the Hells Till dreadfull Silence doth ouer all succeede The harkning World seemes all become one Eare The Graue giues place the Dead His Voyce do heare 19 All you who on or in the dull do lodge A Great-great Court I cite you to attend Euen at CHRISTS Instance where himselfe is Iudge To heare that sentence which none can suspend Of boundlesse Ioyes or else of Anguish huge Which he design'd and you deseru'd in end What from his seruants mouth none would conceaue Heare from himselfe euen what doch damne or saue 20 Passe passe swift Angells ouer all quarters range Force all to ryse who euer down did ly What in their Essence Elements did change Bid them restore that CHRIST all flesh may spy You are the gatherers this that Vintage strange Which in all Soules what Stuffe hath bene must try Twixt Heauen and Hell this is a Iudgement great To Iudge each one their own Contentions date 21 The Word them giues by which they thus are sought Power to obey else were the charge but vaine That Word which first did make them all of nought May now of some thing make them soone againe Past numbring Numbers are together brought That some may thinke what Bounds can them containe Who makes the Dead to rise at his Decree May make a Roome where they may marshald be 22 The Heauenly Soules which with fraile Bodies bound Did act together on this earthlie Stage Though subtill-they oft diuerse Depths did sound In which grosse Organs could not then engadge Yet in all Actions equall Partners found By Reason led or head-long borne by Rage Though once diuorc'd they marrie must againe To ioyne in Ioy or in eternall Paine 23 Those heauenly Sparkes which are flown vp aboue To shine in Glory and in Zeale to burne And shall of Pleasure the Perfection proue With mortall Vailes which mask'd of late did mourne They from their Place a Moment must remoue With CHRIST in Triumph glorious to returne Their twise-borne Bodies when put on they haue First from the Bellie last now from the Graue 24 Those gather vp their Garments from the Dust Which prison'd are in Plutoes vgly Celles Though loth to part thence where returne they must Since by their Conscience being committed else They know their Iudge as terrible as just Will but confirme their holding of the Helles Yet all their Processe must deduced be That Saints GODS Iustice and their Faultes may see 25 Foure Elements with foure Complexions make This mortall Masse soone rais'd and soone ouerthrowne And when that it turnes to Corruption backe With what accrest each doth craue backe the owne The Waters all the liquid Substance take Aire Breath Fire actiue Heat Earth Earth well knowne Which all though thus in their first Fountaines drown'd Not take nor leaue but are the same still found 26 The LORD doth not which some would fondly doubt As once in EDEN a Creation vse As if the first consum'd were all worne out That he not knowes their Substance where to chuse No these same Bodies which we beare about The LORD will raise and cleare or else accuse When done by GOD then Wonders are not strange The Qualitie and nothing else doth change 27 Of our fraile Spoyles each Part where made a Prey Who ouer our Dust doth watch will straight require That which the Waters washed haue away What was in Flames exhausted by the Fire That which Winds scorne toss'd through the Air did stray And what to Earth all rotten did retire All at an Instant shall together rinne To recontinue not againe beginne 28 The Husbands Hopes which Ceres first renown'd Must buried rot made lesse to be made more Yet wrestle vp though in the Earth still bound In Forme more pleasant multiplied in Store So shall our Dust though swallow'd in the Ground Spring from Corruption brighter then before In Bodies new whose State none can surmise Laid mortall downe but must immortall rise 29 Those creeping Creatures which with Silkes conceaue Bred first of Seede their Food with Toyles acquite Then what they win must all to others leaue And lye stretcht out wrapt vp in Funerall white Yet straight reuiu'd where buried burst the Graue And mount aloft with Wings all altered quite In Wormes Mens Types those who do marke this Change How can they thinke the Resurrection strange 30 As Man like Milke was at the first pour'd out Then straight like Cheese turn'd all to Cruds at once Till clad with Skinne his Sexe being free from Doubt With Sinewes joyn'd and fortified with Bones When as the Moone
count his Host Had sought all meanes by which they might be lost 49 All Salaminaes Straits disgorge againe Those whom they swallow'd and disgested had But broken Squadrons are restor'd in vaine Since with no Armes no with no Garment clad Whilst both the parts then joyn'd in one remaine Great is the Number but the Cause is bad Who striu'd for State both as most abiect bow Greekes and Barbarians no way differ now 50 By this last Blast those do assemble all At diuerse tymes who in the Depths fell dead By him almost preuenting Persias fall Who the Greeke Empire had abortiue made Who charg'd with Chaines lay for his Father thrall An Act more great then all his Hostes to lead From Vertues hight this generous course did come A Man most vitious Armies might ouercome 51 The last great Act which Athens did intend It Thousands did defraud their funerall Right Which did presage their Greatnesse neere an end Whose State then chang'd as hauing past the hight Those to pursue that then did Armies send From that tyme forth did for their confines fight A mightie Town whose growing nought could stay When com'd to faile doth wither soone away 52 Their greatest Captain fondly being remou'd The other cold procur'd what he diuinde Who happie first last most vnhappie prou'd Vaine superstition vilified his Minde But Siracusa yet to stand behou'd Whose ruine was for greater foes design'd And those by Sea to winne more Land who striu'd Drownd in the Sea were of all Land depriu'd 53 Faire Sicile long still by great States being sought As fertile Fields weake owners did entyse The fatall Lists where Rome and Carthage fought When all the World was made the Victors pryse Thy bounds oft bath'd with Blood was dearely bought Which Strangers still else Tyrants did surpryse Thy Sea the Stage where Death oft act'd with Wounds Must muster manie when the Trumpet sounds 54 Earst Athens Pirrhus Carthage Rome in Ire Their hungrie Hopes whilst Ceres fill'd with Dreames To daunt that People proudlie did aspire Not fearing Scilla nor Charibdis Streames Nor thundring Aetna vomiting forth Fire Nor Vulcans Forge nor monstrous Giants Names No Plutoes selfe who wedded in those Fields His conquer'd Hells to greedy men he yeelds 55 Those whose great Valour did so honour Wrong That each eternall Pen it yet renownes Who Riualls liu'd in loue of Glorie long And though but Cities did dispose of Crownes Those two by Sea did striue who was most strong As all the Earth could not containe two Townes Each State the World lesse then it selfe contriues A just Proportion Ruine only giues 56 That hautie Race which Kings in Triumph led All not being pleas'd with parting of the Spoyles That Fishes might as well as Beasts be fed The Land else glutted by their guiltie Broyles They on the Sea a Sea of Blood did shed Which wash'd by Waues away might foyle their Soyles That them to plague no Furie Place could find All Objects raz'd which might vpbraide the Mind 57 A spatious Field the Waters did afford Where floting Armies might their Forces trie When free Men fighting who should be their Lord With too much Valour did their Bondage buy Whilst AEolus did rage and Neptune ror'd More cruell Creatures then Themselues to spie Men of all else which this large Circuit fill Most subtill are and violent in Ill. 58 From liquid Fields where Carcasses are rife Now with his Troupe Volteius Passage finds Who were more bold then fortunat in Strife And dying did triumph ouer Foes Waues Winds Of Fame too greedy prodigall of Life As those whose Soules were Strangers to their Minds Who lose their owne to gaine from others Breath Life by Opinion seeke for certaine Death 59 When Father Sonne and Brother bound in Law Did pledge their Liues who only should be free Pale Neptune once at Actium wondring saw His Chrystall Walks all as congeal'd in Tree Which from their Kingdomes diuerse Kings did draw To know whose Slaues they were ordain'd to be As both till clear'd from what they crau'd would stand Two on the Sea did fight for all the Land 60 To lose their Owne or others Shippes to winne When loftie Legions did a Purpose take Of Winds Waues Armes Oares Sounds Showts blowes the din Gaue bold men Courage made the Cowards quake Whilst sloting Forrests did together rin Which Neptune Mars and AEolus made shake The Bellies big with Men abortiue burst By thundring Engines violated first 61 When this Encounter had made many smart A stately meeting terrible to thinke Shippes without Kindnesse kiss'd yet loth to part Stood strugling long which should the other sinke Till some oft pierc'd and past all Hope of Art For Poyson last as desprat Floods did drinke And that none might their conquer'd Ensignes clame Slipt vnder Seas as if to hide their Shame 62 But hautie Romans storm'd to be withstood And vs'd to conquere maruail'd to be match'd From Floods in vaine some drinking backe their Blood Halfe kill'd halfe drown'd Death by two Darts dispatch'd There where they fought whilst Bodies pau'd the Flood Till emptie first no wooden Caue was catch'd O how that Life seemes foule which blots Fames Bookes In Glories Glasse whilst generous Courage lookes 63 Whilst Mars as yet a doubtfull Iudge did proue The barbarous Queene fled with Pelusian Slaues Who liu'd in her with her did straight remoue Not fear'd no not as who in Feauers reaues He fled not Foes but follow'd on his Loue For whom the Hope of all the World he leaues Who vanquish'd Armies oft a Woman foyld Who all of All him of himselfe she spoyld 64 The Seas surrender at that dreadfull Blast Troupes of all Lands which in their Depthes did fall Which Foes fell down rise as in League at last The Cause being common which doth joyne them all Not onely Ancients famous in Times past But Turkes and Christians thence a voyce doth call Whom euen when raging raging Floods supprest That Waues might tosse them still who would not rest 65 What Turband Band abandons Thetis Bowres By their Misfortune fortunat to Fame Who by a ROYALL PENNES Eternall Powers Reft backe from Death Breath whilst Men Breath doth clame How those still Turkes were baptiz'd in few Houres Where Azure Fields fom'd forth a hoarie Streame This my GREAT PHOEBVS tun'd to Trumpets Sounds Whose stately Accents each strange Tongue rebounds 66 Not onely thus by barbarous Bands ou'rthrowne Some whome CHRIST bought a floting Tombe confines But by themselues like Pagans spoyld though knowne In liquid Plaines a Number Breath resignes Whilst those who toyle to make the World their owne Doe with Deuotion paint most damn'd Designes That they when all things else haue faild for Baites May Superstition vse to angle States 67 When hautie Philip with this I le in Loue Whose Rage to raigne no Reason could appease As oft by Fraud it last by Force would proue To barren Spaine whose fertile Fields did please He send huge Hulks which did like
Mountaines moue As Townes for Trafficke Palaces for Ease And of all Sorts did furnish forth a Band As if to People not to winne a Land 68 To braue the Heauens whilst Giants would assay The LORD their Power would wonderfully bounds One litle Barke their Nauie did dismay The mightie Man a VVoman did confound All Elements did arme their Course to stay That VVicked Men might not pollute our Ground For Pride disdain'd for Crueltie abhorr'd Spaine beg'd a Slaue where looking to be Lord 69 O happie those for whom the Heauens will fight Of Angels Armies campe about them still VVhilst Haile and Thunder from Heauens Store-house light Rush armed VVinters forth sterne Tempests kill The stormie VVinds conjur'd in Time charge right As traind in VVarre to spend their Power with Skill Still to the Author Mischiefe doth returne And in the Fires they make the VVicked burne 70 The tumid State a Number doth afford VVho only there could quensh ambitions Fire And Auarice with many hath it stor'd VVho only there could bound their waste Desire Though of the VVealth of diuerse Lands made Lord Who by no Meanes Contentment could acquire Till like themselues still taking fill'd with Nought The Sea and Hell them to Aboundance brought 71 What fearfull thoughts their quaking Stomacks fling When with each Waue a Wound Death seemes to giue That so to charge do for a vantage striue Saue Lightnings whyles some suddaine glances bring Clouds masking Heauen ouer all do darknesse driue That whilst they nothing see and too much heare Falne on the Depths Hells Shaddow doth appeare 72 Some scap'd such Stormes whilst they secure remaine Whose cruell Couetice to render vaine They yield as faint till Foes toward them repaire Then Powder kindled by a lingering traine They all at once are thundred through the Aire In Water burn'd weake thralls kill Victors strong And suffring act reuenge preuenting wrong 73 Thus by the Sea a number is bewray'd Whose dying Eyes a friend did neuer close Not in their Fathers no in no tombe layde Which had when dead no part where to repose But are by Waues to euery Rocke betray'd Till this last Day do of all Flesh dispose Which as would seeme most readie those may find Whom Earth not burdens Wynding-sheets not bind 74 The Face of Earth like those a number yeelds Who for last lodgings could not get a Graue Yet where they fell as hauing wonne the Fields Them dead a tyme from all who liu'd did reaue Thrown in the Dust drawne from their bloodie Shields Whilst naked there they what they clad did saue Till Beasts with some did runne with some Fowles flie As Bodies first Bones bare at last did lie 75 The Bloud of some did staine that golden age To stryke with Iron ere malice did inuent On Ruines Altar offring vp to rage Wrath wants not Weapons when for mischiefe bent Then Indignation Mortalls did asswage With Stones sharpe Stings and what by force was rent From gored Bellies Puddings did gush out And Heads with Braines were compassed about 76 But when Man spud whilst venging wrong by chance That Life was lodg'd in such a fortresse fraile To Court Vaine-Glory which to fooles did glance Some as for Sport their Neighbours did assaile Then last their State of purpose to aduance Stray'd Valour would by violence preuaile All Armies first were by Ambition led Till Auarice a greater furie bred 77 Who first from Death by Deeds redeem'd their Names And eminent magnanimously grew Their fancies frying in ambitions Flames They onely Praise not Profit did pursue And as for Glory who contend in games Sought others to exceed not to subdue Such Scythia one another Egypt gaue From conguer'd Lands who did but Honour craue 78 Those Weapons first were fond which pierc'd or brus'd Ere dreadfull Cyclops made their Hammers reele Of Mars chiefe Minions Sword and Lance were vs'd Ere Men did marche as Statues all of Steele What furie in proud Mindes this rage insus'd That they would suffer to make others feele And striue to further ere to hinder ill Then saue themselues more bent their Mates to kill 79 What Mountaines were of murthred Bodies made Which till falne dust the dust did not receaue Of Ashur Persia Greeks and Romanes dead Who whilst that they more Earth them Earth would haue Whilst of the World each striuing to be Head Those Members main'd which it to rule did craue Then though all Lands one onely did adore As pent in too strict bounds whilst one sought more 80 Of Bones vnburied what huge Heapes were rear'd By Teutons Cimbers Gaules great by doing harmes By Vandalls Allam Hunnes and Gothes long fear'd Danes Longobards and Sarazens in swarmes For which long tyme those Fields could not be ear'd Where they to death had offred vp their Armes Whilst where to lieu to winne more Lands being set Where they might die they onely Land could get 81 Then Nature strong as in her perfite Age As Bees their Swarmes Lands Colonies sent forth Which forc'd by wants else moou'd by generous Rage In Tempests huge inunded from the North Else that high Hopes dream'd Richesse might asswage They sought the South as held of greatest worth To what it pleas'd whilst Power a right did clame Oft with their Dwellers Countries chang'd the Name 82 That Heathnish Hoste by Juda so abhorr'd Whose Captaines railing Vengeance to contriue A godly King did spread before the Lord Whose Wrong his Soule did most of peace depriue Till that an Angell with iust Wrath being stor'd Did kill of thousands thryse threescore and fiue Those who blaspheming GOD by him were slaine Must ryse with feare to looke on GOD againe 83 Thence thousands ryse with Strangers or their own Where still to Broyles the Grecians were inclind Where all the VVorld at Fortunes Dyce was thrown Twixt Syr and Sonne in Law not loue combind By Vertues Clients fall which Fields were known Of all who onely the Scates good design'd None Vertue should adore all reuerence must Men should delight in it not in it trust 84 Thence neuer buried many Bodie springs Where of all Lands oft Armies did contend Slaue by the Senat Emperours or Kings But most by Him who did to Carthage send Reft from Romes Nobles Bushels full of Rings And by Barbarians Lord s of all in end Thus Italie all Nations did obey And to all Nations was expos'd a prey 85 That Field yeelds thousands where VVrong squaring Right For famous Captains twyse a fatall Stage Great Pompey did with Mithridates fight And Tamberlane the Terrour of that age On lightning Bajazet did thundring light Tam'd for a Foot-stoole in an Iron Cage Thus that great Monarch was made worse then thrall Pryde hated stands and doth vnpitied fall 86 All then must marche at this last Trumpets sound Who Fields entomb'd damn'd Floods and Ditches fill'd Whilst Ottoman to make his Crescent round Blood as but Water prodigallie spill'd His Bassaes dash'd ryse groning from the Ground Which oft by
him or else for him were kill'd And as for Bondage borne free but from Graues Did liue to him and died to Sathan Slaues 87 By Violence Death diuerse did surprise Still since the World first peopled did remaine But Men in Mischiefe fondly grown more wise By Bolts vnseene some moe of late are slaine Since some new Sulmons no Deuils did deuise Those Sulphurous Engines bragging GOD againe Which Men yea Towres and Townes in Pieces teare Then Thunder now Men more the Canon feare 88 Those soone start vp which fell whilst as lesse strong By Vulcan forc'd succumbing Thetis ror'd And thundring forth the Horrour of her Wrong The Burden vrg'd straight in Disdaine restor'd The airie Region raging all a long Which Death to them did suddainly afford And by a Blow most strange no Scarre being found The Bones all broken and the Flesh still sound 89 Those whom of Earth the Superfice as forc'd Did beare not burie suffer not receaue By men euen dead as oft aliue extorc'd To Auarice else Crueltie still Slaue Those shall from Dust no sooner be diuorc'd Then they who sought the Center for a Graue Whose Bodies with their Soules did seeme to striue Which first at Hell should with most Haste arriue 90 The mutinous Hebrewes who gainst him repin'd Whose Face as glorious Rayes reflecting still Com'd from the Thunderer like cleare Lightning shin'd GODS Secretarie who first pen'd his Will As soone as they whose Dust no Weight confin'd They rise whom Earth did burie first then kill To offer bent Pride burning in their Brests As like Himselfe whom Pluto tooke for Priests 91 That scorn'd Diuiner is with them expos'd Fooles who fore-know not for their Fate prouide Who by his Wife when lurking was disclos'd And whom at last Earth did as strangely hide And that the Caue which burn'd might so be clos'd He as Romes Best who vnder Ground did ride There greedie to doe good or to get Fame That where his Bodie died might liue his Name 92 Some Feauer strange when Surfets seeme to moue Those of the Earth who in the Entraills dwell Whilst it though trembling raging seemes to proue If it may drinke the World and spue forth Hell They from the Dust as quickly shall remoue As those by Pouder who in Pouder fell By Tyrants fierce being pin'd no freed from Paine VVho falne on Earth or toss'd through Air remaine 93 Now Orpheus shall not neede as Poets faine To charme the Furies with harmonious Sounds Nor Hercules by Violence in vaine To force the Dungeons of the shadowie Bounds The Guests below shall once turne backe againe To see what they haue lost superiour Rounds The Prince of Darknesse will be pleas'd with this Since sure to haue them judg'd for euer his 94 The Earth her Entraills quickly shall discharge That GOD all who had Soules at once may see His Prisoners at last Death must enlarge At that Great Iubilie all once set free Who were so long in passing Charons Barge Some from Obliuions Flood brought backe shall be Ere Cerberus can barke all shall be gone And ere they can be miss'd turn'd euerie one 95 Those whom soft Egypt alwayes Slaue to Lust By Spices Oyntment Baumes and Odours rare To scorne Corruption and to mocke the Dust Did keepe when lost with a ridiculous Care And vs'd as Pledges whyles to purchase Trust Their Bones worth Nought when clad worth lesse when bare Their Vailes renew'd no sooner they resume Then whom at first Corruption did consume 96 Those Piramids whose Points seem'd threatning Heauen Not solitarie Tombes but courted Thrones The huge Mausoleum one of Wonders seuen That Obeliske which grac'd Augustus Bones Late Monuments those aemulous to Euen Of Marber Porphyr Iasp and precious Stones None hides his Guest from this great Iudges Sight Nor yet him sends more gorgeous to the Light 97 Of Place the Distance distant Time not breedes Some who one Field empurple by their Fall Whose Entraills straight another Mansion needes Lest else Corruption might encroach on all Their Bodies Friends as whyles for Pompe succeeds Not seeme farre borne to burie but enstall But though each Part a seuerall Kingdome takes A suddaine Vnion now one Moment makes 98 That Dreame-diuiner by two Tribes call'd Syre Though by them lost who did his Brethren saue His Dust from Goshen quickly shall retire And with the Rest a second Hymen haue Where he when dead as Faith did first inspire Where His might liue Possession did receaue Or since by Him so benefited once That Land ingrate to frustrat of his Bones 99 The third Time then some liue from Tombes rais'd twise Their Resurrection represented else Whom Death it seem'd did but a while disguise For acting Wonders which Amazement tells When wak'd by Force as who did drousie rise They drawn from Lethe or Obliuions Cells Straight with the Place all Priuiledge did leaue Made as who dream'd or in high Feauers reaue 100 Till soar'd from hence where they so long haue striu'd Still charg'd with Flesh all Soules infirme remaine And with their Burdens those who were reuiu'd Their former Frailties did resume againe So that vnknowing where a whyle they liu'd Maim'd Memorie was bounded by the Braine Through earthly Organs Spectacles impure Soules reach but Objects such as they procure 101 Some fondly curious would haue then enquir'd VVhat Lodgings last those Both-world-guests did leaue Which if remembred reuerenc'd and admir'd They would not wrong by Words what none conceaue Great Paul whose selfe could not tell how retird VVhom the third Heauen when rauish'd did receaue He what he saw return'd could not relate Past Mortalls Senses to Immortalls greate 102 Such Soules when last to their first Tents turn'd backe Their Toyles thereby and others Glory grew Whilst to the VVorld that VVay GOD cleare would make That Faith when firme might Death it selfe subdue But then they Flesh as when first left did take Which now at last the LORD will all renew Their Resurrection when no Time confines Whilst rais'd ripe Fruites of what they first were Signes 103 Thus the great Tisbit strangelie did restore That none might trouble haue who gaue him rest Her Sonne whose Victualls did when waste waxe more Like to the like when in like State distrest That Prophet did who crau'd his Spirit in store Not to be press'd by such a second guest Whose Graue wak'd one that there he might not sleepe Where he when dead a quickning power did keepe 104 The blest Bethanian highlie shall reioyce When next he calls who show'd such tender loue As euen to weep for him as a chiefe choyce Till he was brought free from white bands aboue The first who in the graue did heare that Voyce Which from all Graues must make their guests remoue And greater Power when glorified may show Then from fraile Flesh when but breath'd forth below 105 Those soone start vp who quickly come to Light As to applaud what was accomplish'd known CHRISTS acting suffrings when most low at
made The World a Tenniscourt the Rackets Fates Great Kings are Balls when GOD will tosse their States 85 To them whom GOD to do Great things doth chuse He generous Mindes and noble Thoughts imparts And doth in them all Qualities infuse That are requyr'd to act Heroick parts Of Matters base then making others muse He breakes their spirits and vilifies their Hearts As Greatnesse still a gallant Mind preceeds A staggering Courage Fortunes fall succeeds 86 The glancing Glory dazeled euery Eye Of Greece and Rome made all the Muses song On both the Wings of Worth which forth did flie By Valour rais'd borne vp on learning long But now both base in abject Bondage lie Whose Brood proues now as Faint as once thought Strong That with their Empyres made their Enemies Spoyles Their Spirits seeme too transferr'd to forraine Soyles 87 For Nations once which strangers were to Fame On whom as Monsters Ciuill Lands did gaise Those who in scorne did them Barbarians name Do now surpasse in all which Merits praise Thus Glories Throne is made the Seate of Shame Who were obscure do Honour highest raise Nought constant is below no not true Worth It melted South and freezes in the North. 88 What Heart not quakes when as it doth record The Vengeance huge inflicted whyles below Not onely Gentiles thus being then abhorr'd High indignation justlie did ou'rthrow That Heritage long labour'd by the LORD Which as his Portion he would onlie owe As loath'd for Sinne or for Repentance lou'd GODS Minion whyles a Strangers Slaue whyles prou'd 89 By monstrous Plagues GOD did his power expresse In Nilus Bounds which yet admir'd remaines The subtill Sorcerers forcing to consesse That his owne Finger pointed out their paines The Seas retir'd would not his Will transgresse Till Squadrons march'd vpon their Virgin Plaines He gloriously triumph'd ou'r Pharaos Hoste What Israell sau'd that the Egyptians lost 90 GOD Wonders made not strange to Jacobs brood When their great Iourney boldly was begunne Ouer them a Cloud by Day by Night Fyre stood A guide a guard a shadow and a Sunne Rockes vomited a Flood Heauens rain'd downe Food Canaan was miraculouslie wonne Their Armes did Armies spoyle huge Giants kill Weake blasts breath'd walls the Sun as charm'd stood still 91 But who can thinke and trust trust not admire That those Ingrate to such a GOD could proue Who oft had seene aboue their owne Desire By Wonders Power by Benefits his Loue Yet They prouok'd the Holy One to Ire And did the Mighties Indignation moue Till as abhorr'd the Land did spue Them forth And Jordans Glory grac't Euphrates Worth 92 That Realme the Worlds first Froth and now the Lees Of which for Israell Angels Hostes had slaine The Lord transplanting Men as Men do Trees It Israell made a Captiue to remaine The stately Temple nought from ruine frees Whose sacred Vessels Ethnickes did prophane Yet all turn'd back by a repenting Faith Sole Mortalls Teares quench the Immortalls Wrath. 93 And yet of all the Workes which GOD hath wrought None more to stray Opinions course permittes Then our Saluation offred vrg'd not sought At which who highest aymes the Trueth worst hittes What was contemn'd a pretions Treasure bought A Mysterie surmounting Vulgar Wittes The Worker not the Worke must moue our Mindes Celestiall Secrets Faith not Reason findes 94 O who could looke for Glory from the Dust Or for a Sauiour fettred in the Graue The Power which wrought it must giue Power to trust This Iudgetnent else all Iudgements will deceaue O Iustice mercifull O Mercy just He lost his best Belou'd his Foes to saue And euen to suffer suffer did his Sonne The Victorie ouer Hell is hardly wonne 95 The Word was Flesh the God-head dwelt with Men Inuisible yet subject to the Sight He whom no Bounds could bound was bounded then Whilst earthly Darknesse clouded heauenly Light Birds had their Nests and euery Beast a Den Yet had he nought who did owe All of right No Kind of Thing the wicked World could moue Not Wonders done below Words from aboue 96 Those Wonders then which sacred Writes record Did Some conuert A Multitude amaze What did not GODS own Word do by a Word Lame ran Deafe heard Dumb spake Deuils fled Dead raise Of seruants Servant whilst of Lords the LORD Did seeke but his own Paine Mans Good GODS Praise To marie Heauen with Earth He first beganne GOD without Mother without Father Man 97 Who neuer did beginne He would beginne That Life 's chiefe Fountaine might of Life be reau'd The Innocent would beare the Weight of Sinne That by his Sufferings Sinners might be sau'd Yet that which GOD must giue and none can winne Though offred freely many not receau'd Whilst on a Tree CHRIST gain'd when tortur'd most What by a Tree for Pleasure Adam lost 98 The Worlds great Iudge was judg'd and Worldlings stood Euen glorious Glory glorying to disgrace They damn'd as Euill the Author of all Good Though Death of Death who vnto Death gaue Place Ah for our Ransome offring vp his Blood Huge was the Warre he had ro make our Peace The Heire of Heauen daign'd to descend to Hell That in the Heauen Hell-worthy Men might dwell 99 The Father saw the Sonne surcharg'd with Woe Yet would to Calme his Griefe no Fauour show For Man could not refound nor GOD forgoe That Debt which the first Man did justly ow CHRIST as a GOD could not haue suffred so Nor haue as Man preuaild but both below He Men most grac'd when Men him most disgrac'd Iustice and Mercy mutually embrac'd 100 VVhen GOD confirm'd with many fearefull Wonder The great Worke which was wrought for them he lou'd Heauen clad with Darknesse mourn'd Earth sob'd asunder Thus Creatures wanting Sence were highly mou'd VVho should haue had had none nor could not ponder VVhat did import the Anguish which he prou'd But of his Torments strange which did abound Ah Mans Ingratitude did deepest wound 101 O wicked off-spring of a Godly Syre VVho saw the Sauiour of the VVorld arise That which your Fathers did so oft desire Yet could not get that which you did despise VVho Mercy mock'd prepare your selues for Ire He liues he liues whose Death you did deuise His Blood not spent in vaine must wash or drowne Those whome it cannot cleanse it shall sincke downe 102 To rest on them and Theirs Iewes who did cry For CHRISTS contemned Blood had what they sought Then Blood no Burden with more VVeight doth lie Euen as they his so was their Ou'rthrovv vvrought They by the Romane Povver did make Him die And them the Romane Povver to Ruine brought VVhilst for their Cause GOD euery Thing had curst Romes mildest Emperour prou'd for them the VVorst 103 Ierusalem the Faire IEHOV AHS Loue Repudiated by disdainfull VVrath A bastard Race did beare vvhom Nought could moue A vile Adultresse violating Faith Then did the VVorlds Delight her Terrour proue And Harmes perform'd foretold by sacred Breath Nought