requesting others help Yet neither of them knew to ayd himselfe The dying sonne now at the latest gaspe About his clasping fâ—…hers â—…eck did claspâ—… And ready now to bid their lâ—…t farewell Were snatched both with seas and billows fel The Lord seruant both at one time snatched One furiously hold on the other catched And still in surging waues together cleft Till both of breath together were bereft The tyrannizing Giants bodies grim Now with the criples liuelesse corps did swim The subject with the â—…cepter-bearing king The murthring billows spar'd no liuing thing Some might you see half dead and halfe aliue Like water-fowles now rise now to diue Some turning round and violently borne Al headlong downe their lims in sundâ—…r torn The brisle-bearing bore and gentle sheepe Swam both together in the surging deep The silly Lambe was with the rauening Wolfe Drown'd in the vast no-pitie taking gulfe The liuelesse Lyon in the deep did swim Nought did the Tygers courage profit him Nought booted it the Beare to roar and grind No profit by his swiftnesse got the Hind And hauing long time with exceeding paine Flowne through the aire disturbed still with raine The wearie bird not finding any ground Fals downe in seas and at the last is drown'd And now the Arke where Noah did abide Was hoisted vp with ouer-swelling tide One while all hidden to the earth it fell As though it would haue gone to visit hell One while againe it seemed to arrise And suddenly would mount vp to the skies No sterne it had no mast no sayle no guide But caried was at pleasure of the tide Twise twenty dayes as blacke as any cole The murthering raine distilled from the Pole The tallest mountaines in the world so wide Now couered were with ouer-swelling tide The ayrie Alpes and eke Pernassus faire Now hidden were with waues a woonder rare Snow-bearing Pindus and Olympus steep Both at this time lay hidden in the deep Now first of all igniferous Aetnas caues And Ciclops flames were quench'd with salt-sea waues Sweet-smelling Ide and sacered Ismarus Aspiring Pelion and hard Caucasus In Scythian mounts where murthering Tygres hanted Now vgly shapes of monstrous sea-fish vanted The Dolphins woonders vnder watrie floods To see faire turrets and thicke grouie woods In steed of sacrifice on Altars faire Sit seemly Marmaydes combing of their haire In Churches eke their Organists now wanting Melodious Odes and ditties now recanting The vglie dog-fish and deuouring Whales Gainst pinacles did dash their shining skales And where the Goat was woont her food to swallow Foule Porposses and seaish monsters wallow Now from his glorious pallace heauens creator Look'd downe and saw the world a sea of water All was a sea yet wanted it a coast Then thought he on the Arke and Nâ—…ah tost Through all the world and earth which manie a night Hid vnder seas had seen no cheerfull light Foorthwith he charg'd the foggie mysts to vanish Then all the windes tempestuous did he banish And â—…hen retreyt vnto the water soundes Commanding it to keepe within his bounds Commanding it his fountaines to restraine And them to stop their springing heads againe Clouds foorthwith fled and tempestes were appeased The seas return'd and running fountaines ceased The scowling morne now left his mourning robe And smilinglie blush'd on the watery globe And shortly might you see meane turrets peepe And tops of Pine-trees from the flouds to creepe The fleeting arke which long had cleft in sunder the vast deluge both caried vp and vnder Now vnto East and now vnto the west At length in mounts of Arâ—…y did rest Twise twentie times had Phoebus drencht his beames And Car in graue Oceanâ—…s his streames When as the framer of the subtill Barke A window did set open in th Arke And foorth he sent a Rauen thence to know If waters still the land did ouerflow Foorth flew she but returned presently So went and came vntill the earth was drie Againe he sends a siluer-winged Doue To see if still the waters were aboue Out flies the Doue through the aire doth go As swift as any arrow ftom a bowe Much aire she cuts and in the earth not seeing One liuing creature any where haue being Nor any ground wheron she might remaine With weary wings returnes to him againe Then rested he vntill the day-star bright Seuen times remoou'd the canopie of night Then once againe the Doue he sendeth out She mounts aloft and flieth round about And finding much dry ground on earth presumes To fall theron and rouse her ruffled plumes Now shakes her selfe and with her bill them peckes Now layes them downe and orderly them deckes And hauing long time frolik'd at her will Returned with a green leafe in her bill By this knew Noah that the Flood decreased Yet other seuen dayes in the arke he rested And when bright Vesper in the Welkin pale Had thrise and foure times drawne the clowdy vale The third time forth againe he sends the Doue She swiftly in the aire her wings doth mooue And finding food her body to sustaine And ground to rest on neuer came againe Yet rested Lâ—…chs osspring in the Arke Till seuen times againe in Welkin darke Bâ—…otes guider of the greater Beare Had showne himself and then expelling feare Sets ope the doore and plainely did espie Floods quite decreas'd and face of earth all dry And then the lord commandment to him gaue That he with all things els the Arke should leaue No stay they made all things man bird aud beastes VVhom Titaâ—… saw from either of his restes Aliue on earth came foorth with from the arke There streâ—…ht their limmes vnweldy yet and starke There Enochs ofspring to his God erected An altar who from Floods had him protected And theron for his preseruation Did ofâ—…er vp a just oblation The smell wherof vnto his throne arose And cast a pleasant odour to his nose Expelling quite that detestable stinke VVhich erst ascended from worldes filthy sinke Delighted therfore in this pleasant â—…uour He blest all mankind with his gracious fauour Hencefoorth quoâ—…h he no more my wrathfull â—…urse Vpon the world or man I will disburfe For all his thoughts with wickednes are stayned Fuen from his birth to time that he is wayned Hencefoorth in â—…eason shall â—…e plant and sow In season shall he after reape and mowe In his due course hot Sommer will I send And winter till the earth shall haue an end Increase aboundantly bring foorth and breed And earth againe replenish with your seed Beholde your feare all creatures shall appall Rule thou as Lord and maister ouer all Whoso shall man bereaue of vitall breath His life shall be abridg'd with cruell death Blood will haue blood whoso shall cut manslife His also shall be cut with blooudy knife Encrease aboundantly bring foorth and breed The earth againe replenish with your seed Behold with thee I make a couenant sure A couenant which for euer shall endure With earth
the earth and all did quake He sighed and most sorrowfull he was That euer mortall man was brought to passe He grieu'd in heart thâ—…t euer he created Man who with sinne was so contaminated All things quoth he wherin remaineth breath I purpose to destroy 〈◊〉 sudden death This hand which 〈◊〉 all mortall things aliue All earthlie things of life shâ—…ll now depriue From man to beasts from birds to things which creep All flesh shall taste of my displeasure deep The birds swift winges shall not his body saue The Lyons forâ—… nor Gâ—…ants courage braue Thus am I minded thus doe I intend All liuing creatures now shall haue an end But yet on earth one only man there dwelled All other men in justice who excelled The third from Enoch was he in discent Enoch who all his life vprightly spent Enoch of life who neuer was bereauen Enoch â—…ho liuiug was rapt into heauen Methushelah who all men did surpasse In length of life his Grandsire cleped was It was just Nâ—…ah Lamecâ—…s sonne vpright Three sonnes he had Shâ—…m Ham Iaphet hight He loued vertue vice he did eschew Iehouah therfore â—…auour did him shew Againe Earths founder his all seeing eyes Cast on the world from top of Cerule skies Againe he saw all wickednes abound In all the earth no justice could be found The children bathed in their fathers blood All nought he saw and nothing that was good Vast fields of sin Abysses fraught with lewdnes Realmes full of errors mountaines huge of shrewdnes The height whereof vnto his throne ascended And with their stench his nostrils fore offended Then vnto Noah Lâ—…mechs sonne he spake An end of all things now I meane to make All flesh wherin remaineth liuing spirit Of vitall breath I purpose to disherit Ah how it grieues me now that I haue framed Man who wiâ—…h sin the earth hath so defamed Make thee an Arke of Pine trees verie strong Three hundred cubits shalt thou make it long Threescore in breadth and thirty cubits hie Make rooms in it where seueral things may lie Three sundrie stories sâ—…lt thou in it frame And round about with pitch close vp the same For I vpon the earth a flood will bring Wherwith I will subuert ech liuing thing But vnto thee my couenant will I make My couenant which I neuer meane to breake Thou with thy wife thy sons thy sons wiues Shal in the arke be shut and saue your liues Of euery lining creature also twaine A male and female shall with thee remaine And lay vp food for thee and euery creature Euen seuerall food according to their nature The ark was made al things brought to passe As God commanded so it framed was Then spake Iehouah vnto him goe thou Into the arke with all thy houshold now For seu'n dayes hence shall mighty rain abound Wherwith I mean to couer al the ground Then Noah with his family also Iust eight persons into the arke did goe And now the hower was neer the fatal hower Wherin Iehouah meant to shew his power Sixe times Aurorâ—… with her blushing hew Had seene the earth all darke with hoary dew Now pitchie night six times gan dim the skies Last night of sollace vnto mortall eyes O Luna still detaine thy blackish horse Let neuer dismall Tytan run his course Bright Vesper still continue thou thy race Let neuer fatall day-star thee deface Who can alas expresse the doleâ—…ull ruin And piteous horror of the day â—…nsuin Now fro her chamber comes the scowling morning Her selfe still in a night-gowne blacke adorning Tytan arose but yet his glorious head With pitch-resembling cloudes was ouerspread Blacke foggie mystes rose from the earthly mole Ascending vp vnto the aâ—…ry pole Windes thronged foorth and stroue in skies aloft As ciuill warres among them had been wrought As craggie hils had broken been by charmes As all Eâ—…lia had beene vp in armes Windes ayre and cloudes all meant the ayre to sacke O now or neuer goes the world to wracke Then thou O woe heauens Architect began To poure thy feareful threats on mortall man The glowring skies reâ—…ounded like a thunder As though heauens sacred vault had cleft in sunder As though ten thousand Cannons huge discharged Their roaring sounds with fall offorts enlarged His right hand shoke the earth his left hand crushed The clouds then raine in great aboundance rushed Raine poured foorth yet not content his anger Enforced swelling tydes on earth to wander Then broken were the heads of watrie fountaines They gushed from the feet of craggie mountaines Seas lent them waues their courses to maintaine Earth made them passage to his vtter bane Now had the morne still clad in mourning weeds Thrise open'd gates to Phaebus fiery steeds Steeds smoking wet yet from his flaming carre No light did come blacke mystes his light did scarre And now the three dayes raine and flowing flouds Had spoyled quite green hearbs and pleasant buds And shortly did the husband man complaine That all his whole years trauell and his paine Were brought to ruin corne and goodly flowers Were prostrate laid with ouer-flowing showers The sillie birds with violence of weather In bushes thicke did â—…hroud themselues together Beasts shrinking vnder grouie hedges stood Halfe drown'd with wet halfe dead for want of food By this time waters all the earth did couer The falling raine and rising flouds ran ouer All champion countries where men lately plowed Now waters stood and Scullers might haue rowed O then on earth was heard a piteous crie Men crying out beasts roaring plaintiuely Then first of all began the Gyants sterne To shake for feare and flinty hearts to yerne Raine falling and seas rising without piâ—…tie Made entrance into euerie house and cittie As when a Fort or sacked citties walles With violence of â—…ampir'd engines falles The furious foe runnes raging through the streeâ—…s With bloody weapons killing whom he meetes An hideous â—…ry and â—…ound arriâ—…eth then Of maymed women and distressed men Men seeing weapons come to worke their bane Yet could not shun them O what greater paine So fat'd it with the people of this time Some vpon roofes and turrets high did clime One takes the highest mountaine he can see Another sits a fishing in a tree One thrusts himselfe into a wherry boat And desperately vpon the waues doth floate And euery one did seâ—…ke to clyme aloâ—…t For eurie one to shun the waters sought They saw the waters come to stop their bâ—…eath Yet could not shun't O greater griâ—…fe then death Their dollours might haue been compared well To one that dying heares the passing bell Some were already drown'd thus stood the case He liu'd the longest who had highest place And now were turrets high and mountaines couered And leauie trees which in the aire erst houered O lend me words the dollours to display The Fatall horrors of this dismall day There might you see how louingly the mother With her sweet daughter kissed one the other One piteously
shalt thou slide And for thy food dust of the earth shalt licke Such plagues shall thee O lothsome worme betide Such woes on thee Iehouah hath disbursed Pronouncing thee of all his workes most cursed The husband-man among the rurall bushes VVill start and thinke each moouing twig a foe Still fearing-least among the marshy rushes Thou lying hid shouldst worke his second woe Thy deadly sting and golden speckled hew In false pretence thy glosing words doe shew But thou O Sathan proud infernall deuill Chiefe actor in this dolefull tragedie Lord of ambition maister of all euill Thy fatall fall behold I prophecie From out the woman shall an issue spring VVhich will preuayle against thy deadly sting Between her seed and thee O fearfull fiend Shall be continuall enmity and fight Thou shalt but pricke her heele she in the end Shall conquer thee and ouerthrow thy might Then man reioyce O Adam cease to waile Thy conquer or shall now no whit preuaile O woondrous pittie vndeserued kindnesse Of earths-sole founder to the worke he made Who seeing man cast downe in sinne and blindnesse So speedily him promisd help and ayd Ayd certaine ayd his arch-foe to repell To conquer death and conquer conquering hel Rejoyce then earth cease frowning heauens to glower Now broken are hels euer-lasting barres From whence man tooke by Gods almighty power Shall mount aloft aboue the twinkling starres There with the womans seed which promis'd is For euermore to raigne in heauenly blisse Ye chirping birds whose partie colloured plumes With gentle sound the whistling aire doe trouble In shady dales send foorth your dolefull tunes Let Ecchoes shrill your dulcid notes redouble Adaâ—… your Lord exil'd from Eden garden By faith and mercy hath obtayned pardon Haâ—…monious Larke let neue blushing morning See dankish earth but mount thou from the ground And blewish skies with pleasant notes adorning For mans redemption signes of mirth resound Sweet Philomene let neuer Hesper shine Ere thou haue tun'd a thousand ditties fine Mild Eurus raigne in blustering Boreas place Leap sportiue fish aboue the Chrystall riuer Man reconciled to his God by grace Shall now in heauenly blisse abide for euer For these glad tydings frolike tender lambes In pastures pleasant with your merie dammes And lastly Adam sith it is decreed That thou must fight ere thou canst win the fort Fight manfully trust in the promisd seed And be most sure thou shalt arriue the port Port full of joy and heauenly blessednes Free from all cares and worldly wretchednes FINIS The old Worlds Tragedie I Sing of horrors sad and dreadfull rage Of stratagems wrought in the former age Contagious vice and in conclusion Of massacres death and confusion Vouchsafe my muse my dolefulst muse to tell What made the King of heauen to be so fell Sole Architect of earth and earthly landes So furiously the fabricke of his handes To bring to ruine can Iehouah then Poure out such fearfull threats on mortall men Full sixteen hâ—…ndred years from worlds creation And fifty sixe by sacred computation When liuing things replenished the ground And earth with mortall wights did first abound A dolefull Tragedie was brought to passe Earth was the stage whereon it acted was Vpon the stage first came impietie Vaunting her selfe against the Deity She in short time began to growe to hed And all the earth at length she captiue led Then came in foule desire and lothsome lust She in short time seduced euen the just Who gazing on the beautie of the wicked Began with lewd concupiscence be pricked In mattimony to their daughters linking Their sonnes and at sinnes detestable winking The Host was ofttimes slaine by lodged stranger Guest of his hoste stood many times in danger Vile Auarice all mortall hearts possessed The weaker lay in euery street oppressed Men â—…ought by cruell bloodshed gaine to gather The sonne for riches sought to slay his father The brother mixed poyson for his brother She for her daughter daughter for her mother Pale enuie left her Adder-haunted den And rul'd on earth as supreame Queene of men Aspiring pride with weapons in her hand To warre against humility did stand Wherewith in fight she killed her at last And from the stage all massacred her cast Then dreadfull wrath met patience at the field And shortly she compelled her to yeeld Fals-hearted treason like a faithfull louer His woluish backe with sheepish skin did couer And meeting with true friendsâ—…ip sâ—…retely Gaue her the stab O monstrous villanie Fidelity lay slaine by treacherie Pure chastitie by lothsome letcherie Here lay the seruant by the master killled There masters blood lay by the seruant spilled Then might you see man-murthring falshood fâ—…ight With verity and ouercome her quite Religion by Aâ—…heisme proud was banisht And she forth with to heauenly kingdomes vanisht As soone as ere good Conscience shew'd her head By disobedience she was stroken dead Then Gluttony vpon the stage made entrance Prodigiously who slew dame Temperance Excesse appear'd with strange varietie And fiercelie put to flight Sobriety Enuious Anger vehementlie assailed Dame Patience and in the end preuayled Then mouâ—…ted on the earth obliuious Sloth She Industrie and labor conquer'd both Iniustice lastlie with an hideous rout Of hellish furies trac'd the stage abouâ—… Her visage sterne her hands in blood imbrueâ—… Her breast of Iron vgly Toads she spued Her standerd-bearer was ambitious pride And next vnto her went Don Homicide Next vnto them a ranke of Enuies brood Begirt with Adders seâ—…pents were their food Straight after them excesse and gluttonie Deformed Sloth and impious Simphonie A thousand other stygian hagges and moe Then with theiâ—… Queen impâ—…etie did grow Whom just Astrea seeing in this sort A sudden feare amaz'd her mean report And leauing earth with all that hideous crew Vnto the skies without delay â—…he flew And now huge Gyants vpon earth remained with whose vile ofspring al the earth was stained Oâ—… them to Damâ—…els faire committing seed A deuillish kind of people there did breed A People fierce and of exceeding stature Pestifferous and prone to sin by nature These tyranniz'd and liued at their pleasure Oppressing weaker people without measure With dreadfull rigor keeping them in awe Despising iustice breaking Natures law These heaped sinne on sinnâ—… and fault on fault As high as Pelion or 〈◊〉 vault As high as Pindus or steep Ossâ—… either Were Pindus or steep Ossâ—… clapt together When suddenly from his most glorious throne Whereon he sitting guides all things alone Iâ—…ouah founder of the starrie pole Of waterie seas and of the earthly mole Daign'd vpon earth his sacred eâ—…es to cast Eies seeing all things in the world so vast He saw how vice had growne vnto a head Injustice all the earth had ouerspread He saw how sinne and vile impietie Vanted themselues against his Deitie The Adder-pawed gyaâ—…ts mounts of euill Touching the skies base children of the deuill His sacred head heerat he gan to shake Wherat the skies
all posterities the shrewdnesse Of Sathan and his treacherous assaultes VVho hauing once seduced man to lewdnesse Exaggerates the greatnesse of his faults Making him blush like Adam in the garden Only to bring him in dispaire of pardon Ye winged birds send out your wofull quips In leauelesse trees once glutting you with berries Cold winter now your tender bodies nips Depriuing earth of hearbs and trees of Cheries Your euerlasting Spring abridged is And all for Adam who hath done amisse Four-footed beasts inhabitants of field Poure out your plaints among the rurall brambles Now must your hides mans corps from weather shield Your carkasses hang vp on bloody shambles Diue in the deep ye water-hanting Fishes Now must ye serue to nourish man in dishes Help to lament ye water-flowing Fountaines Congealing Frosts your passages will hinder Keep in your buds yâ—… Gote-frequented mountaines Receiuers of the hoarie frosts of winter Woods hearbs and trees all terrene things bewayle Teares ease the mind though little doe preuaile Proud Adam not content with thy condition Blessed estate and ten times happie calling Sought'st to atchieue more glory whose ambition Hath wrought thy fatall ouethrow in falling Aspiring to the knowledge of thy maker hast lost that blisse wherof thou wert partaker This roote of pride this neuer-withering weed Prouoker first of mankind vnto follie Will still attaint and cleaue vnto thy seed As twinding Yuie on the tender Hollie Imbracing it till it hath suck'd it drie And wanting sap they both together die This noysome root in euery ground will spring The meanest man in thought will still aspire The Potentate will seeke to be a King The King to be an Emperour will desire And he to be more higher in degree Will also striue if higher he may bee I sought moe dainties hauing ouer manie From hence shall come desire of varietie Contentment seldome will be found in anie Loth some contempt will wait vpon satietie All men from me will this infection plucke As Spyders doe from flowers poyson sucke Fond wretches who in sinfull follie blinde Did thinke to hide you from Iâ—…houahs face As doth the purblind Hare or fearfull Hind VVhom yelping hounds doe still pursue in chace Ah no ye cannot his all-seeing eie VVill find you out where euer you doe lie Take I to me the south-windes ayrie winges And in the vtmost coast of earth conuay mee Take I to me the Dolphins watery finnes And in the seas vnsounded-bottom lay mee Let earth into her secret wombe me swallow Yet will his glorious eie-beams still me follow My guilty conscience sayd I had offended VVhat â—…ting on earth more hellish can we find A sore it is which cannot be amended A worme which alwayes gnawes vpon the mind Run where I will into all lands betake me Yet will a wounded conscience ne'r forsake me O thundring sayings terrifying wordes Heart-taming speaches cleauing rockes in sunder Proceeding from the supreame Lord of Lords VVhich in mine eares resounded like a thunder Words causing earth an Aspen leafe resemble Which at the breath of euerie wind doth tremble VVhere art thou Adam shamest thou my Deitie Ay me needs must I my sinne display Supposing earst my vicious impietie That euery shaking bramble would bewray Thus shall it also fare with all my seede Committing any detestable deed How faine would I my guiltie mind haue cleared Alleadging Eue was causer of mine euill She to excuse her selfe as then appeared Laid all the fault vpon the subtill Deuill Like clowds which pour their rain vpon hie-waies They into riuers riuers into seas This sayd he turn'd him to the vntill'd field VVhere vncoth weeds and fruitlesse brambles breed The earth which earst most fragrant hearbs did yeeld VVith thornes and thistles now was ouer-spread Oh see quoth he the earth for mine yll deeds Rob'd oâ—… braue robes and clad in baser weedes Deare Grandam earth thy fountaine heads set open Like Chrystall teares my sorrowes to discouer Now must thy mole with deluing share be broken A crooked rake thy tilled field passe ouer For me these shrubs and prickling thorns thou bearest For me these yl-beseeming weeds thou rearest The heifar now in fields must not be idle The seruile Asse must beare an heauy packe The Courser braue restrained with a bridle The silly sheep his woolly fleece must lacke Horse sheepe Asse heifar help me all to mone I causer am of all your woes alone Still thought he on this string to tune his woes And forward went but loe three horned Cattle Neer vnto him amid proud bearing Does With frowning gesture menaced a battle At length not able to forbeare him longer Two weaker ones ran both against the stronger Th'encountred beast receiuing others stroke With like assault the one of them requighted Assault resounding like a falling Oke Which threw th'one backe the other fled affrighted And left his friend distrest his foe inulted The victorer triumphantly insulted Ah see he sayth see heer a world of woe An heap of euils vnto thy seed ensuing What maladies from lewd desires doe growe As beasts so men with sauagenesse induing Ay me what dolors euils and deeds vnjust Shall not arise to man through sinfull lust Heer maist thou haue a president of warres Tumultuous discord horrible dissention Blood-shedding horror disagreeing jarres Inhumaine murthers pitifull contention The mightiest shall be viewed on of all The poore dispis'd the weaker thrust to wall Whilst things go well friends wil be alwayes neer thee Prosperity will loued be of many But falling downe thy dearest friends will feare thee Aduersity not holpen vp of any The fawning beast doth this presignifie Who quite forsooke his friend in misery The small shall subject be vnto the greater Nobility through strength shall make his entrie The welthyer will thinke himselfe the bettâ—…r For couetousnesse will spring the root of Gentry Though all sprong from one father and one mother Yet euery one will striue t'excell his brother See how the Eagle with his bloody clawes Doth massacre the house-frequenting Sparrow The lordly Lyon with his murthering jawes Doth rend the Hind as earth is rent of harrow The fearfull Whale that monster in the deep The lesser fish doth in his bellie keepe Whale Eagle Lyon fitly ye presage Blood-sucking tyrants and inhumaine murtherers Which will the weaker sort oppresse with rage Arch-foes to vertue and to vices furtherers Blush Adam blush to name these dreadful terrors First causer of all maladies and errors The pleasant Larke delights to mount on hie The liâ—…tle wren neer to the earth below The greedy Gleyd betwixt them both doth flie The Doue in course is swift the Lapwing slowe The shew mens sundry callings and conditions These note mens diuers minds and dispositions The ayerie-winged blasts as euer mutable And neuer in one certaine place abide So mans condition shall be euer changeable No ground so firme in which he shall not slide What seat so strong or what so sure estate which shall not subject be to
frowning fate O happie wight ten times shall he be blest VVho with the wren dare not presume to mount VVith meane estate contented who doth rest And blisse in sole tranquility doth count Considering that great things are view'd of all And highest things are soonest like to fall That highest things are soonest like to fall The reaching Pine on mountaines doth betoken which sooner then the shrub or bramble small with raging blastes of hoysting windes are broken VVhat mortall things hencefoorth on earth ensuing Shall not be subject to times fatall ruin Times ruin shall so dyre obliuion breed In men that noting their so frayle variety Forgetting me the cause thereof my seed Shall faine to Fate an euer-changing deity Proportraying her vpon a round wheele dancing Euerting some and other some aduancing Alas no sooner night-expelling morning Al. -hyding heauen from her blacke rug exempteth But viewing me and mine offences scorning Her snowie cheekes with rednes she besprenteth Disdaining Sols bright beams should long behold me In Sable night bright Hesperus doth fold me Vile Couetousnes in me first tooke his roote For moe things thirsting when no thing I wanted Still shall it hold my children by the foote And in the hearts of all my seed be planted Now shall rush in the greedy zeale of mony which men will labour for as Bees for hony Now shall rush in the fiery thirst of gaine And golde in bowels of the earth inclosed Which men by toyle and labour will obtaine And coffer vp from his darke dungeon losed By mortall wightes rare mettals will be knocked Which earth in her close treasure-house had locked Now shall be found the hurtfull mine of Iron For which men wil into earths bellie enter The glittering steele besieged foes t'enuiron They now will into swords and Lances temper What mortall thing so hard or what so geason Wil not be done and found by humaine reason The lofty Pine which mountaine top affoords Cut downe shall now into a Mast be squaâ—…ed The yellow brasâ—…e nayled to Firre-tree boords Shall cut the seas as earth with plough is ared Sea-Porposses and Dolphins huge shall woonder To see their Cerule waters cleft in sunder The ruddie Diamond and the Saphir faire In th'vtmost coast of earth shall now be sought The bright Smaragd the Pearl and Onix rare Fetch'd from the East full dearly shall be bought O into what so deepe and huge an hell Will not the thirst of riches men compell This sayd on earth his glowring eyes he fastned There saw an Ant a little creeping elâ—…e Who dragg'd with her a Barley graine and hastned Home to her caue graine bigger then her selfe O learne he cries learne Adam of this Ant To worke in youth least afterward thou want Behold the Bee a silly painfull creature How wittily shee laboreth in Sommer Reposing food she only taught by nature Least barraine winters penurie â—…hould numb her Her industrie giues to thee an example how thou shouldst liue in what waies to trample Now Adam must thou labour ditch and delue Graft plant walke run hedge fence plow harrow sowe Pluck downe reare vp set munifie build shelue VVeep laugh striue wrastle bind vp gather mowe Thresh cary out grind bake brue spin and card Knock beat wash dry buy sell sleep watch and ward In sweat of browes and horrible vexation To get my liuing shall I be constrained VVhat shall man see but dolefull tribulation Vnto his death from time that he is wained Nought shall his race be but a vale of sinning Fond sinfull fraile in end midst and beginning How vaine is wordly pompe how fraile and briâ—…le How soon is man of earthlie things bereft His pleasures passe as swiftly as a shittle Cast from the weauers right hand to the lest His orient hue as vading as a flower VVhich floorisheth and dyeth in an hower O wretched man O life most transitorie Deceiptfull world foule sinke of filthy errors Eye-pleasing shades of vaine delightfull glorie Deepe gulfe of sinne vast dungeon of terrors Receptacle of woful tribulations Grand treasure-house of all abhominations O sea of sorrowes laborinth of woes Vale full of cares abysse of imbecilitie Thief-harbouring house field full of armed foes Stil-turning orb true map of mutaâ—…ility Affoording man as many false yl-willers As woods haue trees as trees haue Caterpillers Of lumpish earth Iâ—…houah me created To th'end I should not glorie in my feature And I againe to earth must be translated By Gods iust doo me the end of euery creatuâ—…e Then wherto should I trust on earth abiding Sith for my fault all earthly things are sliding When first of all man draweth virall breath And spirite he to die beginneth then No worldly thing more certaine then is death Nor more vncertaine then the hower when O lend me then a font of springing teares To weep my fill for mans vnconstant yeares Ah weladay me thinks for mine offences My God sayth still I must to earth againe O how the thought of death appales my sences Though end it be of all mans woe and paine So likewise shall all my postoritie Feare it though end of all calamity O great Iehouah woonderfull in might How wisely hast thou wrought all things concealing The certaine houre of death from mortal wight Yet certaintie thereof to him reuealing Done surely by thy skilfull prouidence That man should feare and learne obedience Me thinks I see O let me yet diuine How many of my sonnes will goe astray Erecting houses raysing buildings fine As though they were inthroniz'd here for ay O let them know that for my foule offence by Gods just doome all flesh must wander hence Not he that shall on earth the longest dwel Not he that shall in prowesse be the rarest Not he that shall in wisedome most excel Not he that shall in visage be the fairest With wisedome beautie age or courage fell Shall able be impartiall death t'expell O wretched Euah mankinds deadlie Foe Accursed Grandame most vngentle mother Sin-causing woman bringer of mans woe Woe to thy selfe and woe vnto all other Thy mighty maker in his iust displeasure Hath multipli'd thy sorrowes out of measure In paine shalt thou thy seed conceiue and beare In peril shalt thou of it be discharged Thou shalt it foster vp with tender care A thousand wayes thy griefs shal be enlarged Thou shalt be guided by thy mans direction He as a Lord shall haue thee in subjection O cursed worme O exerable serpent Blisse-hating Dragon most abhorred creatuâ—…e Infectious Adder venom breathing verment The food of enuie sdeignfull scorneof Nature Fals-hearted traitor harbourer of euill Darke den of spight foule cabbin of the Deuill Most lothsome be thou of Iehouahs worke Enuyed both of man and feeding cattell In vnfrequented valleyes shalt thou lurke And with thy stinging tongue still menace battell Man seeing thee shall feare and seeke thy bane As instrumentall author of his paine For want of feet through woods and deserts thicke Vpon thy griesllie belly