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A10846
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Certain selected histories for christian recreations vvith their seuerall moralizations. Brought into Englishe verse, and are to be song with seuerall notes: composed by Richard Robinson citizen of London
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Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.
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1577
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the sleight that longs thereto On warblyng Harpe to plaie adrest The fishes friskyng to and fro Vpon the baite them selues will rest And when thou feelest them feede on faste Drawe vp the fishe on lande them caste So shalt thou hereby frustrate quite This subtill charmer of his praie If thou demainest thee thus a right Confused he shall walke his waie The Harper did this hest fulfill And fecht vp fishe euen at his will A meanyng hereof Morall wise My muse in modest maner showe Who this Tiberus Emperour is The Riuer and Harper also With Fishe and Charmer who thei be Discribed in auncient historie ¶ The Moralization CHriste to Tiberius is comparde Which loueth to heare the melodâ—â— â–ª Of praier vnto hym prefarde And doeth delite huntyng to bee To saue the soule by Sathan sought His spoyle to make and bryng to nought This Riuer with the Fishe therein Resembled are the Worlde vnto And people fraught with odious synne The poore man plaiyng there also â—che Preacher is with sacred lore That drawes vp fishe to heauenly shore But then a Charmer steppeth there The Preachers harpe which doth disturbâ— In triple trade doeth he appere To caste the soules in slepe absurde And whom to sleepe he can not win As Ianglers vaine he hems them in And if he make no Ianglers vaine Enuie in hym yet vigor hath To lure these soules for to abstaine And quite forsake the perfecte path That either thei become abiecte Or neuer the wiser in effecte Wherefore needes must the golden hooke Bee had of euery Preacher here â—or Goddes deuine grace must thei looke That thei maie fishe in faithe and feare â—uche comfortable noyse to make Bothe Charmer and the fishe to take Where sith in faithe we Christe professe God graunt we thereof frutes maie giue With praier to hym and neuer cease Elizabeth our Queene long liue Vs to protecte by grace deuine And gaine celestiall ioyes in fine Finis ¶ The Argument ¶ Amongst the children of this worlde all are not of one seede and generation and therefore puttyng apart the bondwoman and her children from the freewoman and her issue thei are to be reputed accordyngly To the tune of Sondaie Mornyng APollo with thy sacred lore My sclender skill and penne direct The birthe of Christe still to adore With solempne sacred songe select Dame Pallas with thy Nimphes be preste To further this my thirde requeste A noble kyng sometymes did raigne With witte and wealthe endued was he A Queene he had with whom certaine He liude a tyme though vicious shee Three sonnes by straunge seede procreate Digressyng had base borne by kynde On her the fourth sonne he begate More greater comfort to his mynde It chaunced that when Atrapos Of fatall life bereft this Kyng The Queene with her sonnes did dispose The funeralles accomplishyng In yearth with pompe the corps to laye With stately tombe enshrinde for aye Whiche doen beholde within short space These sonnes emong them did contende Who should succede in fathers place In fine yet did thei condiscende Vnto an auncient knight to goe Whiche Secretarie was of late To the dead Kyng and hym thei doe Commit their case to arbitrate The knight when he with pacience heard Them and their case considered well To them he thus his mynde declared My Lordes doe yeelde to my councell Your purpose then shall well proceed This saied thei hereunto agreed My sentence so assigne you shall The buried corps againe vp take â—nd that you gree emongst you all Your bowes and shaftes prepard do make To shoote thereat incontinent And who so pearceth deepest in The same I deeme by myne assent Bothe regal croune and realme shall win All fowre sonnes hereto did agree The buried corps and take from ground Thei binde it faste vnto a tree Eche one to giue his deepest wounde The first the kyngs right hande did hitte Wherefore it was awarded fitte That he as onely heire and Lorde Of Fathers lande proclaimed should bee The secondes shafte with fleshe begorde Through fathers mouthe did perce truly â–ª Wherefore to haue the soueraigne swaie And cheef rule of his Fathers lande More certainly he ought thei saie Of twaine the firmer lot to stande The thirde his harte did penitrate By reason whereof thought it was That he without strife or debate Should cheefly rule in Fathers place But when the fourth sonne should prepare To shoote he shrikte with wofull care Criyng alacke this lucklesse daie I doe lament heare thus to see Thy corps oh Father can he saie Of thy sonnes wounded now to bee The Goddes defende that liue or deade My Fathers corps I perishe should This saied hym in his Fathers steade To raigne as Kyng the nobles would The other three sonnes were dismist From all and euery rule or swaie My muse no longer now desist The Morall hereof to displaie â—his Kyng wise noble and wealthie To Iesus Christe compared maie bee â—hiche did mankinde his spouse ordaine But she in tyme did violate â—he sacred bedde with whoredomes staine After straunge Goddes a miscreate â—onceiued and brought forthe sonnes three Pagants Iues and Papiste secte â—hereof the first did wounde truely The Kinges right hande with shaft infecte â—heÌ„ thei Christes doctrine whiche doth sit At right hande of his Father deare â—â—d quite forsake his seruaunts smite With sondrie woundes vpon yearth heare As persecutyng Pagans fell Enemies to Christe and his Gospell The seconde sonne eke putatiue The Kyng of Kynges more deepely perst When as the Iewes to hym did giue Vineger and Gall to quenche his thirst The thirde moste wicked sonne of three With poysoned shafte did nothyng spare To wound Christes harte the King most hie The Papists doe this sonne declare While thei doe striue with might and maine Christes faithfull flocke on yearth to quell Which should one corps and soule containe In frutes in frutes of the Gospell How haue thei whet their arrowes sharpe To pearce Christes his members harte The fourthe sonne now define I thus That wailde and would not shoote at all Because he sawe so mischeuous Pretence of sonnes vnnaturall Eche Christian true the fourth sonne is Whiche feareth God and would none ill If he doe ill to sacrifise In righteousnesse he hath good will. Suche a one my songe doeth signifie In sacred throne celestiall Shall raigne with Christe in Maiestie At the laste daie Iudiciall For whiche in faithe and feare let ts praie That Christe from ill preserue vs maie And as we subiectes all are bounde For our noble Queene Elizabeth Our praiers to God with ioyfull sounde Let vs directe in health and wealth That it would please the Kyng of Kynges Christe our anker marke and staye Her to preserue in all good thyngs And prosper vs her subiectes aye â–ª Finis The Argument ¶ The life present procureth either fauour and grace at the handes of God if we retourne in tyme either els neglectyng tyme purchaseth vs his heauie indingnation bothe now and in