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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73862	Moyses in a map of his miracles. By Michael Drayton Esquire	Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.	1604 (1604)	STC 7209; ESTC S234	35,694	106

MOYSES IN A MAP OF his Miracles ¶ By Michael Drayton ESQVIRE AT LONDON Printed by Humfrey Lownes and are to be sold by Thomas Man the Younger 1604. TO MY ESTEEMED PATRON SIR Walter Aston Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bathe ALthough our sundry yet our sacred flames Worke diuers and as contrarie effects Yet then your owne we seeke not other names Nor stranger arches our free Muse erects Though limmitlesse be naturally our loue We can her powers officiouslie confine Who can instruct her orderly to moue And keepe the compasse wisely we assigne To take our faire leaue till that ampler times Some glorious obiect strongly may beget We make you tender of these hallowed rimes The vertuous payment of a worthier debt Till to our names that monument we reare That steele and marble vnto dust shall weare MICHAEL DRAYTON To him that will read this Booke REader to thee that wilt not seeme too wise nor art too singular I thinke it not amisse in the behalfe of my Poem to humble my selfe thus farre the better to prepare thy opinion in the same and to tell thee briefely that whatsoeuer we haue from Historie as from Iosephus Lyra or others of lesse authoritie we vse rather as Iems and exteriour ornaments to beautifie our Subiect than any way to mixe the same with the solide bodie of that which is Canonicall and sacred Though chusing rather to suite and pollish it with the colours and rarities of those ancient Writers that haue attended so long the worthines and antiquitie thereof than with any other habiliments of inuention or Poesie should they seeme neuer so delightfull not disagreeing from the state dignitie of so sacred a Subiect as this is of ours Those that haue accompanied vs in this kinde is that Reuerende Hierony Vida his Christeis conteyning the life and miracles of Christ that hath beene and is generally receiued through Christendome and verie worthily Buchanan his Tragedie of Iephtha in another kinde and Bartas his Iudeth I could deriue thee a Catalogue of their like though I cite these onely for the varieties Thus requesting thee in reading to correct some fewe faultes that haue chanced to escape in the Presse I bid thee farewell To this Poem SEe how ingrate forgetfulnesse Cireles vs round with dangers That all the Saints whom God doth highly blesse To vs are strangers Now Heau'n into our soules inspires No true caelestiall motions Lusts ardent flame hath dimm'd the holy fires Of our deuotions While gainst blasphemers gen'rall spight Our painfull Author striueth And happy Spirits which liue in heauenly light On Earth reuiueth Thou Patriark great who with milde lookes His lab'ring Muse beholdest Reach him those leaues where thou in sacred bookes All truth vnfoldest And guide like Israel Poets hands From Aegypt from vaine Stories Onely to sing of the faire promis'd lands And all the glories IOHN BEAVMONT Ad Michaelem Draytonem DVm reluctantem Pharium IEHOVAE Drayton et fractum canis et rubentes Diuidis fluctus equites reducta et obruis vnda Instruis quanto monumenta nisu Quam sacra nomen tibi crescit aede Pyramis cedit peritura cedit totaque Memphis Cedit et quicquid posuere reges Molibus fisi nimium superbis O sacer vatis labor a rapaci tempore tutus BEALE SAPPERTON To the Honourable Knight Sir Walter Aston FRom humble Sheepcoates to Loues bow and fires Thence to the armes of Kings and grieued Peeres Now to the great Iehouahs acts aspires Faire Sir your Poets pen your noblesse cheeres His mounting Muse and with so worthy hand Applaudes her flight as nothing she will leaue Aboue the top whereon she makes her stand So high bright Honour learned Spirits can heaue Such lustre lends the Poets pollisht verse Vnto Nobility as after-times Shall thinke there Patrons vertues they rehearse When vertuous men they Caracter in rimes You raise his thoughts with full desire of fame Amongst Heroes he enroles your name Yours BEALE SAPPERTON To M. Michael Drayton THy noble Muse already hath beene spred Through Europe and the Sunne-scorch'd Southerne climes That I le where Saturnes royall Sonne was bred Hath beene enricht with thy immortall rimes Euen to the burnt line haue thy poems slowne And gain'd high same in the declining West And or'e that colde Sea shall thy name be blowne That Icie mountaines rowleth on her brest Her soaring hence so farre made me admire Whither at length thy worthy Muse would flie Borne through the tender ayre with wings of fire Able to lift her to the starrie skie This worke resolu'd my doubts when th' earths repleate With her faire fruite in Heau'n shee 'le take her seate THOMAS ANDREWE Ex arduis eternitas The Map of Miracle THE FIRST BOOKE ¶ THE ARGVMENT This Canto our attracted Muse The Prophets glorious birth pursues The various changes of his fate From humblenes to high estate His beautie more than mortall shape From Egypt how he doth escape By his faire bearing in his flight Obtaines the louely Midianite Where God vnto the Hebrew spake Appearing from the burning brake And backe doth him to Egypt send That mighty things doth there intend GIrt in bright flames rapt frō celestiall fire That our vnwearied faculties refine By zeale transported boldly we aspire To sing a subiect gloriouslie diuine Him that of mortalls only had the grace On whō the Spirit did in such power descend To talke with God face opposite to face Euen as a man with his familiar frend Muse I inuoke the vtmost of thy might That with an armed and auspitious wing Thou be obsequious in his doubtlesse right Gainst the vile Athiests vituperious sting Where thou that gate industriously mai'st flie Which Nature striues but fainedlie to goe Borne by a power so eminent and hie As in his course leaues reason farre belowe To shew how Poesie simplie hath her praise That from full Joue takes her celestiall birth And quicke as fire her glorious selfe can raise Aboue this base and euitable earth O if that Time haue happily reseru'd Besides that sacred and canonicke writ What once in slates barks of trees was keru'd Thing that our Muses grauitie may sit Vnclasp the worlds great Register to mee That smokie rust hath verie neere defac'd That I in those dim Characters may see From common eyes that hath aside beene cast And thou Translator of that faithfull Muse This ALL 's creation that diuinely song Bartas From Courtly French no trauaile do'st refuse To make him Maister of thy Genuin tong Salust to thee and Siluester thy frend Comes my high Poem peaceable and chaste Your hallow'd labours humblie to attend That wrackfull Time shall not haue power to waste A gallant Hebrew in the height of life Amram a Leuite honourablie bred Of the same offspring wan a beautious wife And no lesse vertuous goodly Jacobed So fitlie pair'd that without all ostent Euen of the wise it hardly could be said Which of the two