Storms The lightning Flashes and the hideous Forms Seen in the Aire with language meetly brave Whilom discourst vpon a Theam so grave But This-Day flagging lowely by the Ground She seems constrain'd to keep a lowely â—ound Or if somtimes she somwhat raise her voice The sound is drown'd with the rough Oceans noise O King of grassie and of glassie Plains He calleth vpon the true God be assisted in the description of thâ—se two Elements and the things therein Whose powrfull breath at thy drad will constrains The deep Foundations of the Hills to shake And Seas salt billows 'gainst Heav'ns vaults to rake Grant me To-Day with skilfull Instruments To bound a right these two rich Elements In learned numbers teach me sing the natures Of the firm-Earth and of the floating Waters And with a flowring stile the Flowrs to limn Whose Colours now shall paint the Fields so trim All those steep Mountains whose high horned tops God in this third Day gathers together the Waters separates them from the Earth The misty cloak of wandring Clouds enwraps Vnder First Waters their crump shoulders hid And all the Earth as a dull Pond abid Vntill th' All-Monarch's bountious Maiesty Willing t'enfeof man this worlds Empery Commaunded Neptune straight to Marshall forth His Floods a-part and to vnfold the Earth And in his Waters now contented rest Thaue all the World for one whole day possest As when the muffled Heav'ns have wept a main By an apt coÌ„parison he sheweth how the Water withdrewe from off the Earth And foaming streams assembling on the Plain Turn'd Fields to Floods soon as the showrs do cease With vnseen speed the Deluge doth decrease Sups vp it self in hollow sponges sinks And 's ample arms in straighter Chanell shrinks Even so the Sea to ' tself it self he took Mount after Mount Field after Field forsook And sodainly in smaller cask did tun Her Waters that from every side did run Whether th' imperfect Light did first exhale Much of that primer Humour where withall God on the Second-Day might frame and found The Crystall Sphears that he hath spred so round Whether th' Almighty did new place provide To lodge the Waters whether op'ning wide Th' Earth's Hollow Pores it pleas'd him to conueigh Of the lodging and bed of the sea Deep vnder ground som Arms of such a Sea Or whether pressing waters gloomy Globe That cov'red all as with a cloudy Robe He them impris'ned in those bounds of brass Which to this day the Ocean dares not pass Without his licence For th' Eternall knowing The Seas commotive and inconstant flowing The Sea kept within her bouÌ„ds by the Almighty power of God Thus curbed her and 'gainst her enuious rage For-ever fenç't ouâ— Flowry-mantled Stage So that we often see those rowling Hils With roaring noise threatning the neighbour Fields Through their owne spite to split vpon the shore Foaming for fury that they dare no more For what could not that great high Admirall Work in the Waues sith at his Seruants call His dreadfull voice to save his ancient Sheep Did cleave the bottom of th' Erythrean Deepe Exod. 14 11 Iosuah 3 16 Gen. 7 21 Exod. 17. 6 And toward the Crystall of his double source Compelled Iordan to retreat his course Drown'd with a Deluge the rebellious World And from dry Rocks abundant Rivers purl'd Lo thus the waighty Water did yer-while With winding turns make all this world an I le For like as molten Lead being poured forth A fit Simile shewing the winding turns of the Sea abouâ— the Earth Vpon a leuell plot of sand or earth In many fashions mazeth to and fro Runs heer direct thear crookedly doth go Heer doth diuide it self there meets again And the hot Riv'let of the liquid vain On the smooth table crawling like a worm Almost in th' instant euery form doth form God pour'd the Waters on the fruitfull Ground In sundry figures somin fashion round Some square som crosse som long som lozenge-wise Som triangles som large som lesser size Amid the Floods by this fair difference To giue the world more wealth and excellence Such is the German Sea such Persian Sine Such th' Indian Gulf and such th' Arabian Brine And such Our Sea whose divers-brancht * Windings retortions Divide the World in three vnequall Portions And though each of these Arms how large soever The arms of the Sea distinguished into smaller members with coÌ„modities and vse thereof To the great Ocean seems a little Riuer Each makes a hundred sundry Seas besides Not sundry in waters but in Names and Tides To moisten kindely by their secret Vains The thirsty thickness of the neighbour Plains To bulwark Nations and to serue for fences Against the inuasion of Ambitious Princes To bound large Kingdomes with eternall limits To further Traffick through all Earthly Climates T' abbridge long Iourneys and with ayd of Winde Within a month to visit eyther Inde But th' Earth not only th' Oceans debter is A Catalogue of most of the most famous Riuers in the World For these large Seas But sh' owes him TanaÌ„is Nile Aegypts treasure and his neighbour stream That in the Desart through his haste extream Loseth himself so oft swift Euphrates And th' other proud Son of cold Niphates Fair spacious Ganges and his famous brother That lends his name vnto their noble Mother Gold-sanded Tagus Rhyne Rhóne Volga Tiber Danubius Albis Pô Sein Arne and Iber The Darian Plate and Amazónian River Where SPAIN'S Gold-thirsty Locusts cool their liver Our siluer Medway which doth deep indent The Flowrie Medowes of My natiue KENT Still sadly weeping vnder Pensherst walls Th' Arcadian Cygnet's bleeding Funerals Our Thames and Tweed our Severn Trent and Humber And many moe too infinite to number Of him she also holds her Silver Springs And all her hidden Crystall Riverlings And after greatly in two sorts repaies Th' Humour she borrows by two sundry waies Fountains Springs and Riuers welling out of the Earth For like as in a Limbeck th' heat of Fire Raiseth a Vapour which still mounting higher To the Still's top when th' odoriferous sweat Above that Miter can no further get It softly thickning falleth drop by drop A Similie shewing how the waters of the Earth are exhaled by the Sun then powred into the Sea And Cleer as Chrystall in the glass doth drop The purest humour in the Sea the Sun Exhales in th' Aire which thear resolv'd anon Returns to water and descends again By sundry waies vnto his Mother Main For the dry Earth having these waters first Through the wide sive of her void entrails searst Giving more room at length from Rockie Mountains How the Fountains come to breake forth of the Earth She night and day pours forth a thousand Fountains These Fountains make fresh Brooks with murmuring currents These murmuring Brooks the swift violeÌ„t Torrents These violent Torrents mighty Rivers These These Riuers make
Preacher not the Parasite So Morn and Euening the Third Day conclude And God perceiv'd that All his Works were good THE FOVRTH DAIE OF THE FIRST WEEK THE ARGVMENT The twinkling Spangles of the Firmament The wandring Seav'n Each in a seuerall Tent Their Course their Force their Essence is disputed That they as Beasts doe eat and drink refuted Heav'ns not the Earth with rapid motion roule The famous Stars observ'd in either Pole Heav'ns sloaping Belt the Twelue celestiall Signes Whear Sol the Seasons of the Year confines Dayes glorious Prince Nights gloomy Patroness His Light and Might Her constant Change-fulnes PVre Spirit that rapt'st aboue the Firmest Sphear In the beginning of the fourth booke calling vpon the God of Heauen our Poet prayeth to be lift vp in the Heauens that he may discoursâ— as he ought of the starrs fixed and wandring In fiery Coach thy faithfull Messenger Who smiting Iordan with his pleighted Cloak Did yerst diuide the Waters with the stroak O take me vp that far from Earth I may From Sphear to Sphear see th' azure Heav'ns To-Day Be thou my Coach-man and now Check by Ioule With Phoebus Chariot let my Chariotroule Driue on my Coach by Mars his flaming Coach Saturn and Luna let my wheels approach That having learn'd of their Fire-breathing Horses Their course their light their labour and their forces My Muse may sing in sacred Eloquence To Vertues Friends their vertuous Excellence And with the Load-stone of my conquering Verse Aboue the Poles attract the most perverse And you fair learned soules you spirits diuine To whom the Heav'ns so nimble quils assigne As well to mount as skilfully to limn The various motion of their Taperstrim Lend me your hand lift mee aboue Parnassus With your loud Trebbles help my lowly Bassus For sure besides that your wit-gracing Skill Bears in itself itself's rich guerdon still Our Nephews free from sacrilegious brauls Where Horror swims in bloud about our wals Shall one day sing that your deer Song did merit Better Heav'n better hap and better time to hear-it And though alas my now new-rising Name Can hope heer-after none or little Fame The time that most part of our betterwits Mis-spend in Flattery or in Fancy-Fits In courting Ladies or in clawing Lords Without affection in affected words I mean to spend in publishing the Story Of Gods great works to his immortall glory My rymes begot in pain and born in pleasure Thirst not for Fame the Heathen hope 's chief treasure 'T shall me suffice that our deer France doo breed In happy season som more learned sced That may record with more diuine dexterity Then I haue don these wonders to Posterity Much less may these abortiue Brats of Mine Expect Respect but in respect of Thine Yet sith the Heav'ns haue thus entaskt my layes As darkly Cynthia darts her borrow'd rayes To shadow Thine and to my Countrey render Som small reflection of thy radiant splendor It is inough if heer-by I incite Som happier spirit to do thy Muse more right And with more life giue thee thy proper grace And better follow great du BARTAS trace GOD'S NONE of these faint idle Artizens Heere resuming his course he presecutes the worke of the Creation Who at the best abandon their designes Working by halfs as rather a great deal To do much quickly then to do it well But rather as a workman neuer weary And all-sufficient he his works doth carry To happy end and to perfection With sober speed brings what he hath begun Hauing therfore the Worlds wide Curten spread About the circuit of the fruitfull Bed In the fourth day God created the fixed Stars the two great Lights vid. the Sunne and the Moone together with the other fiue Planets Where to fill all with her vnnumbred Kin Kinde Natures self each moment lyeth in To make the same for euer admirable More stately-pleasant and more profitable He th' Azure Tester trimm'd with golden marks And richly spangled with bright glistring sparks I knowe those Tapers twinkling in the sky Doo turn so swiftly from our hand and eye That man can neuer rightly reach to seeing Their Course and Force and much-much less their Being Of their Course Force Essence and Substance But if coniecture may extend aboue To that great Orb whose mouing All doth moue Th' imperfect Light of the first Day was it Which for Heavn's Eyes did shining matter fit For God selecting lightest of that Light Garnisht Heav'ns seeling with those Torches bright Or else diuided it and pressing close The parts did make the Sun and Stars of those But if thy wits thirst rather seek these things Opinion of the Greek touching the matter of the Stars In Greekish Cisterns then in Hebrew Springs Then I conclude that as of moistfull matter God made the people that frequent the Water And of an Earthy stuff the stubborn droues That haunt the Hills and Dales and Downs and Groues So did he make by his Almighty might The Heav'ns and Stars of one same substance bright To th' end these Lamps dispersed in the Skies Might with their Orb it with them sympathize And as with vs vnder the Oaken bark The knurry knot with branching vains we mark Simile To bee of substance all one with the Tree Although far thicker and more rough it bee So those gilt studs in th' vpper story driven Are nothing but the thickest part of Heav'n When I obserue their Light and Heat yblent Their substance is of Fire Meer accidents of th' vpper Element I thinke them Fire but not such Fire as lasts No longer then the fuel that it wastes For then I think all th' Elements too-little To furnish them only with one days victual And therefore smile I at those Fable-Forges Resutation of such as haue thought that the Stars were liuing creatures that did eat and drinke Whose busy-idle stile so stifly vrges The Heavn's bright Cressets to be living creatures Ranging for food and hungry fodder-eaters Still sucking-vp in their eternall motion The Earth for meat and for their drink the Ocean Sure I perceive no motion in a Star But natural certain and regular Wher-as Beasts motions infinitely vary Confus'd vncertain diuers voluntary I see not how so many golden Postes Should scud so swift about Heav'ns azure coasts But that the Heav'ns must ope and shut som-times Subiect to passions which our earthly climes Alter and toss the Sea and th' Aire estrange From it selfs temper with exceeding change I see not how in those round blazing beams One should imagine any food-fit limbs Nor can I see how th' Earth and Sea should feed So many Stars whose greatnes doth exceed So many times if Star-Diuines say troth The greatnes of the Earth and Ocean both Sith heer our Cattle in a month will eat Seav'n-times the bulk of their owne bulk in meat These Torches then range not at random o're The lightsom thicknes of an vn-firm Floor As heer
below diuersly mooving them The painted Birds between two aires do swim But rather fixed vnto turning Spheares Ay will-they nill-they follow their careeres Simile As Cart-nails fastned in a wheel without Selfs-motion turn with others turns about As th' Ague-sicke vpon his shivering pallet A comparison Delaies his health oft to delight his palat When wilfully his taste-les Taste delights In things vnsauory to sound Appetites Even so som brain-sicks liue ther now-adaies That lose themselves still in contrary waies Preposterous Wits that cannot rowe at ease On the smooth Chanell of our common Seas And such are those in my conceit at least Those Clarks that think think how absurd a iest That neither Heav'ns nor Stars do turn at all Nor dance about this great round Earthly Ball But th' Earth it self this Massie Globe of ours Turns round-about once euery twice-twelue houres And wee resemble Land-bred nouices New brought aboord to venture on the Seas Who at first launching from the shoar suppose The ship stands still and that the ground it goes So twinkling Tapers that Heav'ns Arches fill Opinion of Copernicus coÌ„futed Equally distant should continue still So neuer should an Arrow shot vpright In the same place vpon the shooter light But would doo rather as at Sea a stone Aboord a Ship vpward vprightly throw'n Which not within-boord fall's but in the Flood A-stern the Ship if so the winde be good So should the Fouls that take their nimble flight From Western Marshes toward Mornings Light And Zephyrus that in the Summer time Delights to visit Eurus in his clime And Bullets thundred from the Canons throat Whose roaring drowns the Heavn'ly thunders note Should seem recoyl sithens the quick career That our round Earth should daily gallop heer Must needs exceed a hundred-fold for swift Birds Bullets Windes their wings their force their drift Arm'd with these reasons 't were superfluous T' assail the reasons of Copernicus Who to salve better of the Stars th' appearance Vnto the Earth a three-fold motion warrants Making the Sun the Center of this All Leauing to dispute farther vppon the former Paradox he pro ccedeth in his discourse and by a liuely comparison representeth the beautifull ornament of the Heavens about the Earth Moon Earth and Water in one only Ball. But sithens heer nor time nor place doth sute His Paradox at length to prosâ—cute I will proceed grounding my next discourse On the Heav'ns motions and their constant course I oft admire Greatnes of mighty Hills And pleasant beauty of the flowry Fields And count-les number of the Oceans sand And secret force of sacred Adamant But much-much more the more I mark their course Stars glistering greatnes beauty number force Euen as a Peacock prickt with loues desire Simile To woo his Mistress strowting stately by her Spreads round the rich pride of his pompous vail His azure wings and starry-golden tail With rattling pinions wheeling still about The more to set his beautious beautie out The Firmament as feeling like aboue Displays his pomp pranceth about his Loue Spreads his blew curtain mixt with golden marks Set with gilt spangles sow'n with glistring sparks Sprinkled with eyes specked with Tapers bright Poudred with Starrs streaming with glorious light T' inflame the Earth the more with Louers grace To take the sweet fruit of his kinde imbrace Hee that to number all the Stars would seek The number of Stars vnder both the Poles innumerable Had need inuent som new Arithmetick And who to cast that Reck'ning takes in hand Had need for Counters take the Ocean's sand Yet haue our wise and learned Elders found And why the ancient Astronomers obserued 48. Foure-dozen Figures in the Heav'nly Round For aid of memory and to our eyes In certain Howses to diuide the Skyes Of those are Twelue in that rich Girdle greft Of the fignes in the Zodiacke Which God gaue Nature for her New-yeres-gift When making All his voice Almighty most Gaue so fair Laws vnto Heav'ns shining Hoast To wear it biaz buckled ouer-thwart-her Not round about her swelling waste to girt-her This glorious Baldrick of a Golden tindge Imbost with Rubies edg'd with Siluer Frindge Buckled with Gold with a Bend glistring bright Heav'ns biaz-wise enuirons day and night For from the period whear the Ram doth bring The Zodiacke The day and night to equall ballancing Ninetie degrees towards the North it wends Thence iust as much toward Mid-Heav'n it bends As many thence toward the South and thence Towards th' Years Portall the like difference Nephelian Crook-horn with brass Cornets crown'd Aries in Mid-March begins the Spring Thou buttest brauely 'gainst the New-yeres bound And richly clad in thy fair Golden Fleece Doo'st hold the First House of Heav'ns spacious Meese Taurus in mid-Aprill Thou spy'st anon the Bull behinde thy back Who least that fodder by the way he lack Seeing the World so naked to renewg't Coats th' infant Earth in a green gallant sute And without Plough or Yoak doth freely fling Through fragrant Pastures of the flowry Spring Gemini in mid-May The Twins whose heads arms shoulders knees and feet God fill'd with Starrs to shine in season sweet Contendin Course who first the Bull shall catch That neither will nor may attend their match Then Summers-guide the Crab coms rowing soft Cancer in mid-Iune begins the sommer With his eight owres through the Heavn's azure loâ—t To bring vs yeerely in his starry shell Many long daies the shaggy Earth to swele Almost with like pase leaps the Lion out Leo in mid-Iuly All clad with flames bristled with beams about Who with contagion of his burning breath Both grass and grain to cinders withereth The Virgin next sweeping Heav'ns azure Globe Virgo in mid-August With stately train of her bright Golden robe Milde-proudly marching in her left hand brings A sheaf of Corn and in her right hand wings Libra in mid-September begin neth Autumn After the Maiden shines the Balance bright Equall druider of the Day and Night In whose gold Beam with three gold rings there fastens With six gold strings a payr of golden Basens The spitefull Scorpion next the Skale addrest With two bright Lamps couers his loathsom brest Scorpio in mid-October And fain from both ends with his double sting Would spet his venom ouer euery thing Sagittarius in mid-Nouember But that the braue Half-horse Phylirean Scout Galloping swift the heav'nly Belt about Ay fiercely threats with his flame-feathered arrow To shoot the sparkling starry Viper thorough And th' hoary Centaure during all his Race Capricornus in mid-December beginneth Winter Is so attentiue to this onely chase That dread-less of his dart Heav'ns shining Kid Coms iumping light iust at his heels vnspid Aquarius in mid-Ianuary Mean-whilethe Skinker from his starry spout After the Goat a siluer stream pours-out Distilling still out of his radiant Fire Riuers of Water who but
a storm at Sea All topsie-turned by th' Aeolian slaues Do mount and roule Heav'ns war against the Waters And angrie Thetis Earth's green bulwarks batters A sable ayrso muffles-vp the Sky That the sad Saylers can no light descry Or if som beam break through their pitchy night 'T is but drad flashing of the Lightning's light Strike strike our saile the Master cries amain Vail misne and sprit-sail but he cries in vain For in his face the blasts so bluster ay That his Sea-gibberish is straight born away Confused Cries of men dismay'd in minde Seas angry noise lowd bellowing of the winde Heav'ns Thunder-claps the tackles whisteling As strange Musicians dreadfull descant sing The Eastern winde driues on the roaring train Of white-blew billows and the clouds again With fresh Seas crosse the Sea and she doth send In counter-change a rain with salt y-blend Heav'ns headlong seem in Thetis lap to fall Seas scale the skies and God to arm this All Against one ship that skips from stars to ground From waue to waue like Balloons windie bound While the sad Pilot on a foamy Mount Thinks from the Pole to see Hells pit profound And then cast down vnto the sandie shole Seems from lowe Hell to see the lofty Pole And feeling foes within and eek without As many waues so many deaths doth doubt The Billows beating round about the ship Vncauk her keel and all her seams vnrip Whereby the waters entring vncontroul'd Ebbing abroad yet flowe apace in hold For euery Tun the plied Pump doth rid A floud breaks in the Master mastered With dread and danger threatning euery-way Doubts where to turn him what to doo or say Which waue to meet or which salt surge to flie So yeelds his charge in Sea to liue or die As many Cannons 'gainst a Castle bent Simile Make many holes and much the rampire rent And shake the wall but yet the latest shock Of fire-wingd bullets batters down the Rock So many mounts that muster 'gainst this Sail With roaring rage doo this poor ship assail But yet the last with foaming fury swoln With boistrous blasts of angry tempests boln Springs the main-mast the mast with boystrous fall Breaks down the deck and sore affrights them all Pale Idol-like one stands with arms a-cross One moans himself one mourns his childrens loss One more than Death this form of Death affrights Another calls on Heav'ns vn-viewed Lights One 'fore his eys his Ladies looks beholds Another thus his deadly fear vnfolds Curst thirst of gold O how thou causest care My bed of Doun I change for hatches bare Rather than rest this stormie war I chose T' enlarge my fields both land and life I lose Like piezless plume born-vp by Boreas breath With all these wings I soar to seek my death To Heav'n and Hell by angry Neptune led Where least I scape it all these sails I spread Then thus another Sure no winde quoth he Could raise this Storm som rarer Prodigy Hath caus'd this Chaos cause of all our grief Some Atheist dog som Altar-spoyling theef Lurks in this ship com Mates by lot let 's trie To saue the rest the man that ought to die 'T is I quoth Ionas I indeed am cause Of this black night and all the fearfull flaws Of this rough Winter I must sole appease By my iust death these wrath-full wrackfull Seas Then vp they heave him straight and from the waste Him suddainly into the Sea they cast The King of Windes calls home his churlish train And Amphitritè smooths her front again Th' Air 's cloudy Robe returns to crystal cleer And smiling Heav'ns bright Torches re-appeer So soon as Ionas to them all appease O're head and eares was soused in the Seas Thrice coms he vp and thrice again goes down Vnder the waves yer he do wholly drown But then he sinks and wretched roul'd along The sands and Oase and rocks and mud among Thus thus he cries with lips of zealous faith Mercy my God shew mercy Lord he saith Then God who ever heares his childrens wish Provided straight a great and mighty Fish That swilling swallow'd Ionas in her womb A living Corps laid in a living Toomb Like as a Roach or Ruff or Gudgeon born Simile By som swift stream into a weer forlorn â—risks to and fro aloft and vnder dyves Fed with false hope to free their captive lyves The Prophet so amazed walks about This wondrous Fish to finde an issue out This mighty Fish oâ— Whale-like huginess Or bigger-bellied though in body less Where am I Lord alas within what vaults In what new Hell doost thou correct my faults Strange punishment my body thou bereav'st Of mother earth which to the dead thou leav'st Whither thy wrath drives me I do not knowe I am depriv'd of air yet breathe and blowe My sight is good yet can I see no skie Wretch nor in Sea nor yet a-shore am I Resting I run for moving is my Cave And quick I couch within a living Grave While thus he plain'd the third day on the sand The friendly Fish did cast him safe a-land And then as if his weary limbs had been So long refresht and rested at an Inn He seems to flie and com'n to Niniue Your sins have reached vp to Heav'n quoth he Wo and alas wo wo vnto you all Yet forty dayes and Ninive shall fall Thus Ionas preacht But soon the Citizens Sincerely toucht with sense of their foul sins Dispatch in haste to Heaven Repentance sad Sweet-charming Prayer Fasting hairy-clad Repentance makes two Torrents of her eyes Her humble brow dares scant behold the skies Her sobbing brest is beaten blew and black Her tender flesh is rent with rugged sack Her head all hoar'd with harty sorrows past With dust and ashes is all over-cast Prayer's head and sides and feet are set about With gawdy wings like Ioves Arcadian Scout Her body flaming from her lips there fumes Nard Incense Mummy and all rich Perfumes Fasting though faint her face with ioie she cheers Strong in her weakness young in aged yeers Quick health's preserver curbing Cupid's fits Watchfull purge-humors and refining-wits Then Faith Grand Vsher of th' Empyreal Court Vshers these Legats by a golden Port Into the Presence and them face to face Before th' All-Monarch's glorious Throne doth place Where zealous prostrate on her humble knee Thus Prayer speaks in name of all the Three God slowe to wrath O Father prone to grace Lord sheath again thy vengeance sword a space If at thy beam of Iustice thou wilt waigh The works of men that wander every day If thou their metall by that touch-stone try Which fearfull-sounding from thy mouth doth flie If thou shalt summ their Sins which pass the sand Before thee Lord who shall indure to stand Not Ninive alone shall perish then But all this All be burnt to ashes clean And even this day shall thy iust wrath prevent The dreadfull Day of thy last Dooms event This world to
immortall Layes EVEN NOVV I listned for the Clock to chime Before he conclude the first Day he treateth of Angels Dayes latest hower that for a little time The Night might ease My Labours but I see As yet Aurora hath scarce smil'd on me My Work still growes for now before mine eyes Heav'ns glorious Hoast in nimble squadrons flyes Whether this-This-Day God made you Angels bright The time of their Creation not certainly resolued Vnder the name of Heav'n or of the Light Whether you were after in th' instant born With those bright Spangles that the Heav'ns adorn Or whether you deriue your high Descent Long time before the World and Firmament For I nill stiâ—ly argue to and fro In nice Opinions whetherso orso Especially where curious search perchance Is not so safe as humble Ignorance I am resolv'd that onceth ' Omnipotent Created you immortall innocent Good fair and free in brief of Essence such As from his Own differd not very much But euen as those whom Princes fauours oft Some of theÌ„ are â—allen reuolting from God and are cast into Hell therefore called Euill Angels Wicked Spirits and Diuels Aboue therest haue rais'd and set-aloft Are oft the first that without right or reason Attempt Rebellion and doo practice Treason And so at length are iustly tumbled down Beneath the foot that raught aboue the Crown Euen so som Legions of thoselofty Spirits Envy'ng the glory of their Makers merits Conspir'd together stroue against the stream T' vsurp his Sâ—epter and his Diademe But He whose hands doo neuer Lightnings lack Proud sacrilegious Mutiners to wrack Hurld them in th' Aire or in som lower Cell For where God is not euery where is Hell This cursed Crew with Pride and Fury fraught Of vs at least haue this aduantage got That by experience they can truly tell How far it is from highest Heav'n to Hell For by a proud leap they haue tane the measure When head long thence they tumbled in displeasure These Fiends aâ—e so far-off from bett'ring them The insolent and audacious attempts of Satan and his Fellowes against God and his Church By this hard Iudgement that still more extream The more their plague the more their pride increases The more their rage as Lizards cut in peeces Threat with more malice though with lesser might And euen in dying shewe their liuing spight For euer since against the King of Heav'n Th' Apostate Prince of Darknes still hath striv'n Striv'n to depraue his Deeds t'interr their Story T' vndoo his Church to vnder-mine his Glory To reaue this World's great Body Ship and State Of Head of Maister and of Magistrate But finding still the Maiesty diuine Too strongly â—â—nâ— t for him to vnder-mine His Ladders Canons and his Engines all Force-less to batter the celestiall Wall Too weak to hurt the Head he hacks the Members The Tree too hard the Branches he dismembers The Fowlers Fishers and the Foresters Set not so many toyls and baits and snares To take the Foul the Fish the sauage Beasts In Woods and Floods and fear-full Wildernes As this false Spiritsets Engines to beguile The cunningest that practice nought but wile With want on glaunce of Beauties burning eye The diuers baits of the Diuell to entrap mankind He snares hot Youth in sensuality With Golds bright lustre doth he Age intice To Idolize detested Auarice With grace of Princes with their pomp and State Ambitious Spirits he doth intoxicate With curious Skill-pride and vain dreams he witches Those that contemn Pleasure and State and Riches Yea Faith it selfe and Zeal be somtimes Angles Wherewith this-Iuggler Heav'n-bent Soules intangles Much like the green Worm that in Spring deuours The buds and leaues of choisest Fruits and Flowrs Turning their sweetest sap and fragrant verdure To deadly poyson and detested ordure Who but alas would haue been gull'd yer-whiles Their Oracles With Night's black Monark's most malitious wiles To hear Stones speak to see strange wooden Miracles And golden Gods to vtter wondrous Oracles To see Him play the Prophet and inspire So many Sibyls with a sacred fire To raise dead Samuel from his silent Toomb 1. Samuel 28. 14 17. To tell his King Calamities to-com T inflame the Flamine of Ioue Ammon so With Heathen-holy fury-fits to knowe Future euents and somtimes truly tell The blinded World what afterwards befel To counter fait the wondrous Works of God Their false Miracles Exod. 7 11 22. 8 7. His Rod turn Serpent and his Serpent Rod To change the pure streams of th' Egyptian Flood From clearest water into crimsin blood To rain-down Frogs and Grass-hoppers to bring In the bed-chambers of the stubborn King For as he is a Spirit vnseen he sees The plots of Princes and their Policies Vnfelt he feels the depth of their desires Who harbours vengeance and whose heart aspires And as vs'd dayly vnto such affects Such feats and fashions iudges of th' effects Their Wiles Besides to circumvent the quickest sprighted To blind the eyes euen of the clearest sighted And to enwrap the wisest in his snares He oft fore-tels what he himself prepares For if a Wise-man though Mans dayes be don As soon almost as they be heer begun Wherefore their effects are so strange wonderfull And his dull Flesh be of too slowe a kinde T' ensue the nimble Motions of his minde By th' onely power of Plants and Minerals Can work a thousand super-naturals Who but will think much more these Spirits can Work strange effects exceeding sense of Man Sith being immortall long experience brings Them certain knowledge of th' effects of things And free from bodie 's clog with less impeach And lighter speed their bold Designes they reach Not that they haue the bridle on their neck God restraines them at his pleasure To run at random without curb or check T' abuse the Earth and all the World to blinde And tyrannize our body and our minde God holds them chain'd in Fetters of his Power That without leaue one minute of an hower They cannot range It was by his permission The Lying Spirit train'd Achab to perdition 1. Kings â—2 35 Making him marchagainst that Foe with force Which should his body from his soule diuorce Arm'd with Gods sacred Pass-port he did try Iust humble Iob's renowned Constancy Iob. 1 15 c. He reaues him all his Cattel many wayes By Fire and Foes his faithfull Seruants slayes To losse of Goods he adds his Childrens loss And heaps vpon him bitter cross on cross For th' Onely Lord somtimes to make a tryall Why the Lord sometimes le ts loose those wicked Spirits Of firmest Faith somtimes with Errors violl To drench the Soules that Errors sole delight Le ts loose these Furies who with fell despight Driue still the same Nail and pursue incensed Their damned drifts in Adam first commenced But as these Rebels maugré all their will T' assist the Good befoâ—ç't
this Sea belowe Which round about our Earthly Globe doth flowe Remains still round and maugre all the surly Aeolian Slaves and Water's hurly burly Dares not to levell her proud liquid Heap Neuer so little past her limits leap Why then beleeue we not that vpper Sphear May without falling such an Ocean bear Vncircumcised O hard hearts at least Lett 's think that God those Waters doth digest In that steep place for if that Nature heer 5. Diuers effects continual admirable in Nature Can form firm Pearl and Crystall shining cleer Of liquid substance let 's beleeue it rather Much more in God the Heav'ns and Natur 's Father Let vs much more much more lett 's peiz and ponder Th' Almighties Works and at his Wisedom wonder Let vs obserue and double-waigh it well That this proud Palace whear we rule and dwell Though built with match-less Art had fall'n long since Had 't not ben seel'd-round with moist Elements For like as in Man's Little-World the Brain Doth highest place of all our Frame retain And tempers with it's moistfull coldnes so Th' excessive heat of th' other parts belowe Th' eternall Builder of this beautious Frame To enter-mingle meetly Frost with Flame And cool the great heat of the Great-Worlds Torches this-This-Day spred Water over Heav'ns bright Arches These Seas they say leagu'd with the Seas belowe Hiding the highest of the Mountains tho Had drown'd the whole World had not Noah builded A holy Vessell where his house was shielded Taking occasioÌ„ by his former discourse he treateth of the incouÌ„ ter of the vpper waters with the lower whence followed the general stood in the daies of Noah Which hâ—re he liuely representeth Where by direction of the King of Kings He sav'd a seed-payr of all liuing things No sooner shipâ— but instantly the Lord Down to th' Aeolian dungeon him bestirr'd There muzled close Cloud-chasing Boreas And let loose Auster and his lowring race Who soon set forward with a dropping wing Vpon their beard for every hair a spring A night of Clouds muffled their brows about Their wattled locks gusht all in Rivers out And both their hands wringing thick Clouds asunder Send forth fierce lightning tempest rain and thunder Brooks Lakes and Floods Rivers and foaming Torrents Sodainly swell and their confused Currents Losing their old bounds break a neerer way To run at randon with their spoyls to Sea Th' Earth shakes for fear and sweating doth consume her And in her veins leaues not a drop of humour And thou thy self O Heav'n didst set wideope Through all the Marshes in thy spacious cope All thy large sluces thy vast Seas to shed In sodain spouts on thy proud sisters head Whose aw-less law-less shame-les life abhord Onely delighted to despight the Lord. Th' Earth shrinks sinks now th' Ocean hath no shore Now Rivers run to serue the Sea no more Themselues are Sea the many sundry Streams Of sundry names deriv'd from sundry Realms Make now but one great Sea the World it self Is nothing now but a great standing Gulf Whose swelling surges strive to mix their Water With th' other Waves above this round Theater The Sturgeon coasting over Castles muses Vnder the Sea to see so many houses The Indian Manat and the Mullet float O'r Mountain tops where yerst the bearded Goat Did bound and brouz the crooked Dolphin seuds O'r th' highest branches of the hugest Woods Nought boots the Tigre or the Hart or Hors Or Hare or Grey-hound their swift speedy cours For seeking Land the more they strain breath them The more alas it shrinks and sinks beneath them The Otter Tortois and fell Crocodile Which did enioy a double house yer-while Must be content with only water now The Wolf and Lamb Lions and Buçks do rowe Vpon the Waters side by side suspect-less The Glead and Swallow laboring long effect-less 'Gainst certain death with wearied wings fall down For want of Perch and with the rest do drown And for mankinde imagine som get vp To som high Mountains over-hanging top Som to a Towr som to a Cedar tree Whence round about a World of deaths they see But wheresoeuer their pale fears aspire For hope of safety th' Ocean surgeth higher And still-still mounting as they still do mount When they cease mounting doth them soon surmount One therefore ventures on a Plank to rowe One in a Chest another in a Trough Another yet half-sleeping scarce perceives How 's bed and breath the Flood at once bereaves Another labouring with his feet and hands A while the fury of the Flood withstands Which by his side hath newly droun'd his Mother His Wife his Son his Sister Sire and Brother But tyr'd and spent weary and wanting strength He needs must yeeld too to the Seas at length All all must die then but * Parcae à non parcendo Thenone-sparing Fates that is to say Death th' impartiall Maids Who wont to vse so sundry tools for ayds In execution of their fatall slaughters Had only now the furious foaming Waters Safely the while the sacred Ship did float On the proud shoulders of that boundless-Moat Though mast-les oar-les and from Harbour far For God was both her Steers-man and her Star Thrice fifty dayes that Vniuersall Flood Wasted the World which then the Lord thought good To re-erect in his Compassion great No sooner sounds he to the Seas retreat But instantly wave into wave did sink With sodain speed all Rivers gan to shrink Th' Ocean retires him to his wonted prison The Woods are seen the Mountain tops are risen Out of their slimy Bed the Fields increase And spread apace so fast the waters cease And briefly th' onely thundring hand of God Now Earth to Heav'n Heav'n vnto Earth re-show'd That he again Panchaian Fumes might see Sacred on Altars to his Maiesty He concludeth with a most godly prayer accommodated to the state of the Church in our time Lord sith't hath pleas'd thee likewise in our Age To saue thy Ship from Tyrants stormy rage Increase in Number Lord thy little Flock But more in Faith to build on thee the Rock So Morn and Euen the second Day conclude And God perceiu'd that All his Works were good THE THIRD DAIE OF THE FIRST WEEK THE ARGVMENT The Sea and Earth their various Equipage Seuer'd a-part Bounds of the Oceansrage ' Timbraceth Earth it doth all Watersowe Why it is salt How it doth Ebb and Flowe Rare streams and Fountains of strange operation Earth's firmnes greatnes goodnes sharp taxation Of Bribes Ambition Treason Auarice Trees Shrubs Plants Mines Metals Gemms of price Right vse of Gold the Load-stones rare effects The Countrey-life preferr'd in all respects MY sacred Muse that lately soared high Among the glist'ring Circles of the Sky FroÌ„ the Heauen Regions of the Aire the Poet descendeth to the Earth and Sea Whose various dance which the first Moover driues Harmoniously this Vniverse revives Commanding all the Windes and sulphry
Mercury For ship for shop book bar or Court or Citie Smooth Orator swift Pen-man sweet Musician Rare Artizan deep-reaching Politician Fortunat Marchant fine Prince-humour-pleaser To end his course takes neer a twelue-months leasure For all the while his nimble winged heels Dare little bouge from Phoebus golden wheels And lastly Luna thou cold Queen of night Regent of humours parting Months aright Of the 1. which is the Sphear of Lunâ— The lowest Planet nearest the Earth Chaste Emperess to one Endymion constant Constant in Love though in thy looks in constant Vnlike our Loues whose hearts dâ—ssemble soonest Twelue times a year through all the Zodiak runnest Now if these Lamps so infinite in number Should stil stand-stil as in a sloathfull slumber Then should som Places alwaies in one plight Have alwaies Day and â—om haue alwaies Night Of the necessitie of diuers motions of the Heauens Then should the Sommers Fire and Winters Frost Rest opposite still on the self same Coast Then nought could spring and nothing prosper would In all the World for Want of Heat or Cold. Or without change of distance or of dance If all these Lights still in one path should prance Th' inconstant parts of this lowe Worlds contents Should neuer feel so sundry accidents As the Conâ—unction of celestiall Features Incessantly pours vpon mortall Creatures I 'll n'er beleeve that the Arch-Architect Of the force and influence of the Câ—lestiall body vpon the terrestriall With all these Fires the Heav'nly Arches deckt Onely for Shewe and with these glistering shields T' amaze poor Shepheards watching in the fields I 'll n'er beleeve that the least Flowr that pranks Our Garden borders or the Common banks And the least stone that in her warming Lap Our kind Nurse Earth doth covetously wrap Hath som peculiar vertue of it owne And that the glorious Stars of Heav'n have none But shine in vain and haue no charge precise But to be walking in heav'ns Galleries And through that Palace vp and down to clamber As Golden Gulls about a PRINCES CHAMBER Sens-less is he who without blush denies What to sound senses most apparant lies And 'gainst Experience he that spets Fallacians Is to be hisst from learned Disputations And such is he that doth affirm the Stars To have no force on these inferiours Though heav'ns effects we most apparant see In number more then heav'nly Torches be I nill alleadge the Seasons alteration Sundry proofes of the same 1 The diuers seasons 2 The fearefull accideÌ„ts that coÌ„monly succeede Eclipses Caus'd by the Sun in shifting Habitation I will not vrge that neuer at noon daies His enuious Sister intercepts his Raies But som great State eclipseth and from Hell Alecto looses all these Furies Fell Grim lean-fac't Famine foul infectious Plague Blood-thirsty VVar and Treason hatefull Hag Heere pouring down Woes vniuersall Flood To drown the World in Seas of Tears and Blood I 'l overpass how Sea doth Eb and Flowe 3 The ebbing flowing of the sea As th' Horned Queen doth eyther shrink or growe And that the more she Fills her forked Round The more the Marrow doth in bones abound The Bloud in Veins the sap in Plants the Moisture 4 The increase and decrease of marrow bloud and humours in diuers creatures And lushious meat in Creuish Crab and Oyster That Oak and Elm and Firr and Alder cut Before the Crescent have her Cornets shut Are neuer lasting for the builders turn In Ship or House but rather fit to burn 5. The apparant alterations in the bodies of sick persons And also that the Sick while shee is filling Feele sharper Fits through all their members thrilling So that this Lamp alone approoves what powrs Heav'ns Tapers have even on these soules of ours Temp'ring or troubling as they be inclin'd Our mind and humours humours and our minde Through Sympathy which while this Flesh we carie Our Soules and Bodies doth together marry I 'l only say that sith the hot aspect Of th' Heav'nly Dog-Star kindles with effect A particular proose by the effects of certaine notable stars ordinarily noted in some Moneth of â—he yeare A thousand vnseen Fires and dries the Fields Scorches the Vallies parches-vp the Hills And often times into our panting hearts The bitter Fits of burning Fevers darts And opposit the Cup the dropping Pleiades Bright-glistering Orion and the weeping Hyades Neuer almost look down on our aboad But that they stretch the Waters bounds abroad With Clowdy horror of their wrathfull frown Threatning again the guilty World to drown And to be brief sith the gilt azure Front Of Firmest Sphear hath scarce a spark vpon 't But poureth down-ward som apparant change Toward the Storing of the Worlds great Grange We may coniecture what hid powr is given T' infuse among vs from the other Seaven From each of those which for their vertuerare Th' Almighty placed in a proper Sphear Reiecting the Stoiks he sheweth that God as the first Cause doth order all things and what vse we should make of the force Course Light of the coelesti all bodies Not that as Stoiks I intend to tye With Iron Chains of strong Necessitie Th' Eternal's hands and his free feet enstock In Destinies hard Diamantin Rock I hold that God as The first Cause hath giv'n Light Course and Force to all the Lamps of Heav'n That still he guides them and his Providence Disposeth free their Fatall influence And that therefore the rather we belowe Should study all their Course and Force to knowe To th' end that seeing through our Parents Fall T' how many Tyrants we are waxen thrall Euer since first fond Womans blind Ambition Breaking made Adam break Heav'ns High-Commission We might vnpuff our Heart and bend our Knee T' appease with sighs Gods wrathfull Maiestie Beseeching him to turn away the storms Of Hail and Heat Plague Dearth and dreadfull Arms Which oft the angry Starrs with bad Aspects Threat to be falling on our stubborn necks To give vs Curbs to bridle th' ill proclivitie We are inclin'd-to by a hard Nativitie To pour som Water of his Grace to quench Our boyling Fleshes fell Concupiscence To calm our many passions spirituall tumours Sprung from corruption of our vicious humours Latonian Twinns Parents of Years and Months Heer proceeding to the second part of this book he treateth at large of the Sun and Moon Alas why hide you so your shining Fronts What nill you shew the splendor of your ray But through a Vail of mourning Clouds I pray I pray pul-off your mufflers and your moorning And let me see you in your native burning And my deer Muse by her eternall flight Shal spread as far the glory of your Light As you your selues run in alternat Ring Day after Night Night after Day to bring Thou radiant Coach-man running end-les course Of the Sun entring into the descriptioÌ„ wherof he confesseth that he knowes not well where to begin Fountain
'Gainst Ezechias and that he would give The godly King fifteen years more to live Transgressing Heav'ns eternall Ordinance Thrice in one Day thou through one path didst prance And as desirous of another nap In thy ver million sweet Aurora's Lap Thy Coach turn'd back and thy swift sweating Horse Full ten degrees lengthned their wonted Course Dials went false and Forrests gloomy black Wondred to see their mighty shades go back So when th' incensed Heav'ns did fight so fell Of the Sunnes standing still in the time of Iosuah Ios. 12. 13 Vnder the Standard of deer Israel Against the Hoast of odious Ammorites Among a million of swift-Flashing Lights Rayning down Bullets from a stormy Cloud As thick as Hail vpon their Armies proud That such as scaped from Heav'ns wrathfull thunder Victorious swords might after heaw in-sunder Coâ—â—ur'd by Iosuah thy brave steeds stood still â—â—â—ull Career stopping thy whirling wheel And one whole Day in one degree they stayd In midst of Heav'n for sacred Armies ayd Least th' Infidels in their disordred Flight Should save themselues vnder the wings of Night Those that then liv'd vnder the other Pole Seeing the Lamp which doth enlight the Whole To hide so long his lovely face away Thought never more to haue re-seen the Day The wealthy Indians and the men of Spain Never to see Sun Rise or Set again In the same place Shadows stood still as stone And in twelue Houres the Dials shew'd but one THE FIFT DAIE OF THE FIRST WEEK THE ARGVMENT Fish in the Sea Fowls in the Aire abound The Forms of all things in the Waters found The various Manners of Sea-Citizens Whose constant Friendship far exceedeth Mens Arions strange escape The Fowls attend On th' only Phoenix to her end-less end Their kindes their customs and their plumes variety Som presidents of Prudence som of Piety The gratefull Aegle burning in the Fláme With her dead Mistress the fair Sestian Dáme LAtónian Lamps conducting divers ways After a Poeticall maner he craueth time opportunity to discourse in this Day of the creation of Fishes of Fowles About the World successiue Nights and Days Parents of winged Time haste haste your Carrs And passing swiftly both th' opposed Barrs Of East and West by your returning Ray Th' imperfect World make elder by a Day Yee Fish that brightly in Heav'ns Baldrik shine If you would see the Waters waving brine Abound with Fishes pray Hyperion T' abandon soon his liquid Mansion If he expect in his prefixt Career To hoast with you a Month in every Yeer And thou eternall Father at whose wink To which purpose â—specially he calleth on the true God The wrathfull Ocean's swelling pride doth sink And stubborn storms of bellowing Windes be dumb Their wide mouthes stopt and their wilde pinions num Great Soverain of the Seas whose books can draw A man aliue from the Whales monstrous maw Provide me Lord of Steers-man Star and Boat That through the vast Seas I may safely float Or rather teach me dyue that I may view Deep vnder water all the Scaly crew And dropping wet when I return to land Laden with spoils extoll thy mighty hand IN VAIN had God stor'd Heav'n with glistring studs The first part of this Book wherin he handleth how by the Commandement of the Lord thâ— Fishes began to moue in the Waters The Plain with grain the Mountain tops with woods Sever'd the Aire from Fire the Earth from Water Had he not soon peopled this large Theatre With living Creatures Therefore he began This-Day to quicken in the Ocean In standing Pools and in the straggling Riuers Whose folding Channell fertill Champain severs So many Fishes of so many features That in the Waters one may see all Creatures And all that in this All is to be found As if the World within the Deeps were drown'd Seas haue as wel as Skies Sun Moon and Stars The Seas no lesse stored with priui ledges and presidents of Gods glorious power then Heauen Earth and of the strange Fishes that liue therin As well as Aire Swallows and Rooks and Stares As well as Earth Vines Roses Nettles Millions Pinks Gilliflowrs Mushroms and many millions Of other Plants more rare and strange then these As very Fishes living in the Seas And also Rams Calfs Horses Hares and Hogs Wolves Lions Vrchins Elephants and Dogs Yea Men and Mayds and which I more admire The Mytred Bishop and the Cowled Fryer Wherof examples but a few yeers since Were showen the Norways and Polonian Prince You divine wits of elder Dayes from whom The deep Inuention of rare Works hath com Took you not pattern of your chiefest Tools Out of the Lap of Thetis Lakes and Pools Which partly in the Waues part on the edges Of craggy Rocks among the ragged sedges Bring-forth abundance of Pins Pincers Spoaks Pikes Percers Needles Mallets Pipes and Yoaks Owers sayls and swords saws wedges Razors Rammers Plumes Cornets Kniues Wheels Vices Horns Hammers And as if Neptune and fair Panâ—pé Palaeâ—on Triton and Leucothoé Kept publik Roules there is the Calamary Who ready Pen-knife Pen and Ink doth cary As a rare Painter draws for pleasure heer Why God created so many sorts of strange Fishes A sweet Adonis a foul Satyre there Heer a huge Cyclop there a Pigmè Elf Somtimes no less busying his skilfull self Vpon som vgly Monster seldom seen Then on the Picture of fair Beauties Queen Even so the Lord that in his Work 's variety We might the more admire his powerfull Dëity And that we might discern by differing features The various kindes of the vast Oceans creatures Forming this mighty Frame he every Kinde With diuers and peculiar Signet sign'd Som haue their heads groveling betwixt their feet Examples The Pour-Cuttle Cuttle Crab. Sea Harâ— Oyster As th' inky Cuttles and the Many-feet Som in their breast as Crabs som head-less are Foot-less and finn-les as the bane-full Hare And heat-full Oyster in a heap confus'd Their parts vnparted in themselues diffus'd The Tyrian Marchant or the Portuguez Can hardly build one Ship of many Trees The Tortoise But of one Tortoise when he list to float Th' Arabian Fisher-man can make a Boat And one such Shell him in the stead doth stand Of Hulk at Sea and of a House on land Shall I omit the monstrous Whirl-about Which in the Sea another Sea doth spout Where-with huge Vessels if they happen nigh Are over-whelm'd and funken sodainly Shall I omit the Tunnies that durst meet The Tunnyâ— Th' Eöan Monarchs neuer daunted Fleet And beard more brauely his victorious powrs Then the Defendants of the Tyrian Towrs Or Porus conquered on the Indian Coast Or great Darius that three Battails lost When on the Surges I perceiue from far Th' Ork Whirl-pool Whale or huffing Physeter Diuers kindes of Whales Me thinks I see the wandring Ile again Ortygian Delos floating on the Main And when in Combat these fell Monsters
shall direct my pen to paint the Story Of wretched mans forbidden-Bit-lost glory What Spell shall charm th' attentiue Readers sense What Fount shall fill my voice with eloquence So that I rapt may rauâ—sh all this I LE With graue-sweet warbles of my sacred stile Though Adams Doom in euery Sermon common And founded on the error of a woman Weary the vulgar and be iudg'd a iest Of the profane zeal-scoffing Atheïst Ah! Thou my God euen Thou my soule refining He hath recourse to God the onely giuer of all sufficiency and dex teritie in good and holy things In holy Faith's pure furnace cleerely shining Shalt make my hap farr to surmount my hope Instruct my spirit and giue my tongue smooth scope Thou bountious in my bold attempts shalt grace-me And in the rank of holiest Poets place-me And frankly grant that soaring neer the sky Among our Authors Eagle-like I fly Or at the least if Heav'n such hap denay I may point others Honors beautious Way WHILE Adam bathes in these felicities The enemy of God enuieth Man and plotteth his destruction Hell's Prince sly parent of revolt and lies Feels a pestiferous busie-swarming nest Of neuer-dying Dragons in his brest Sucking his bloud tyring vpon his lungs Pinching his entrails with ten thousand tongues His cursed soule still most extreamly racking Too frank in giuing torments and in taking But aboue all Hate Pride and Enuious spight His hellish life doo torture day and night For th' Hate he bears to God who hath him driv'n Iustly for euer from the glittering Heav'n To dwell in darknes of a sulph'ry clow'd Though still his brethrens seruice be allow'd The Proud desire to haue in his subiection Mankinde in chain'd in gyues of Sins infection And th' Enuious heart-break to see yet to shine In Adams face Gods Image all diuine Which he had lost and that Man might atchieue The glorious bliss his Pride he did depriue Growen barbarous Tyrants of his treacherous wil Spur-on his course his rage redoubling stil. Or rather as the prudent Hebrue notes 'T is that old Python which through hundred-throats Doth proudly hiss and past his wont doth fire A hell of Furies in his fell desire His enuious hart self-swoln with sullen spight Brooks neither greater like nor lesser wight Dreads th' one as Lord as equall hates another And iealous doubts the rising of the other To vent his poyson this notorious Tempter His subtiltie in executing his Designes Meer spirit assails not Eue but doth attempt her In fained form for else the soule diuine Which rul'd as Queen the Littlâ—-worlds designe So purely kept her Vow of Chastitie That he in vain should tempt her Constancy Therefore he fleshly doth the Flesh assay Suborning that her Mistress to betray A subtle Pandar with more tycing sleights Then Sea hath Fish or Heav'n hath twinkling lights For had he beene of an ethereall matter Why he hid him in a Body Of fiery substance or aiereall nature The needfull help of language had he wanted Whereby Faiths ground-work was to be supplanted Sith such pure bodies haue nor teeth nor tongues Lips artires nose Palate nor panting lungs Which rightly plaç't are properly created True instruments of sounds articulated And further-more though from his birth h 'had had Why he appeared not in his owne likenes nor transformed him into an Angel of light Hart-charming cunning smoothly to perswade He fear'd malitious if he care-less came Vn-masked like himself in his own name In deep distrust man entring suddainly Would stop his ears and his foul presence fly As opposite taking the shining face Of sacred Angels full of glorious grace He then suspected least the Omnipotent Should think man's Fall scarce worthy punishment Much like therefore som theef that doth conceiue Similâ— From trauailers both life and goods to reaue And in the twi-light while the Moon doth play In Thetis Palace neer the Kings high-way Himself doth ambush in a bushy Thorn Then in a Caue then in a field of Corn Creeps to and fro and fisk eth in and out And yet the safety of each place doth doubt Till resolute at last vpon his knee Taking his leuell from a hollow Tree He swiftly sends his fire-wingd messenger At his false sute t' arrest the passenger Our freedoms felon fountain of our sorrow Thinks now the beautie of a Horse to borrow Anon to creep into a Haifers side He hides him vnder diuers figures Then in a Cock or in a Dog to hide Then in a nimble Hart himself to shroud Then in the starr'd plumes of a Peacock proud And least he miss a mischief to effect Oft changeth minde and varies oft aspect At last remembring that of all the broods Why he chose the Serpent In Mountains Plains Airs Waters Wildes and Woods The knotty Serpent's spotty generation Are filled with infectious inflammation And though they want Dogs teeth Bores tusks Bears paws The Vultures bill Buls horns and Griphins claws Yea seem so weak as if they had not might To hurt vs once much less to kill vs quite Yet many times they treacherously betray vs And with their breath look tongue or train they slay vs He crafty cloaks him in a Dragons skin All bright-bespect that speaking so within That hollow Sagbuts supple-wreathing plies The mouer might with th' Organ sympathize For yet the faith-less Serpent as they say With horror crawl'd not groueling on the clay Nor to Mankinde as yet was held for hatefull Sith that 's the hire of his offence ingratefull But now to censure how this change befell Sundry opinions hereupon Our wits com short our words suffice not well To vtter it much less our feeble Art Can imitate this sly malitious part Somtimes me seems troubling Eues spirit the Fiend 1 Made her this speaking fancy apprehend For as in liquid clouds exhaled thickly Water and Ayr as moist doe mingle quickly The euill Angels slide too easily As subtile Spirits into our fantasie Somtimes me seems She saw wo-worth the hap 2 No very Serpent but a Sepents shape Whether that Satan plaid the Iuggler there Who tender eys with charmed Tapers blear Trans-forming so by subtile vapoury gleams Mens heads to Monsters into Eels the beams Or whether Diuels hauing bodies light Quick nimble actiue apt to change with sleight In shapes or shewes they guilefull haue propos'd In brief like th' Air whereof they are compos'd For as the ayr with scattered clouds be-spred Is heer and there black yellow white and red Resembling Armies Monsters Mountains Dragons Rocks fiery Castles Forrests Ships and Wagons And such to vs through glass transparent cleer From form to form varying it doth appear So these seducers can growe great or small Or round or square or streight or short or tall As fits the passions they are moued by And such our soule receiues them from our ey Somtimes that Satan only for this work 3 Fain'd him a Serpents shape wherein
and Agent of all accidents With whom at once the three-fold times doe fly And but a moment lasts Eternity O God behold me that I may behold Thy crystall face O Sun reflect thy gold On my pale Moon that now my veiled eys Earth-ward eclipst may shine vnto the skies Ravish me Lord O my soules life reviue My spirit a-space that I may see a-lyue Heav'n yer I die and make me now good Lord The Eccho of thy all-cel estiall Word The power of Gods spirit in his Prophets and the difference between such the distracted frantike Ministers of Satan With sacred fury suddainly he glowes Not like the Bedlam Bacchanalian froes Who dauncing foaming rowling furious-wise Vnder their twinkling lids their torch-like eys With ghastly voice with visage grizly grim Tost by the Fiend that fier cely tortures them Bleaking and blushing painting shreeking swouning With wrath-les wounds their sense-les members wounding But as th' Imperiall Airy peoples Prince With stately pinions soaring hy from hence Cleaues through the clouds and brauely-bold doth think With his firm eye to make the Suns eye wink So Adam mounted on the burning wings Of a Seraphick loue leaues earthly things Feeds on sweet Aether cleaues the starry sphears And on Gods face his eys he fixtly bears His brows seem brandisht with a Sun-like fier And his purg'd body seems a cubit higher Then thus began hee Th' ever-trembling field Adam declares to his Son in how many Daiet the World was created Of scaly folk the Arches starry seeld Where th' All-Creator hath disposed well The Sun and Moon by turns for Sentinell The cleer cloud-bounding Ayr the Camp assign'd Where angry Auster and the rough North-winde Meeting in battail throwe down to the soil The Woods that midling stand to part the broyl The Diapry Mansions where man-kinde doth trade Were built in Six Dayes and the Seav'nth was made The sacred Sabbaoth So Sea Earth and Ayr And azure-gilded Heav'ns Pavilions fair Shall stand Six Dayes but longer diversly Then the dayes bounded by the Worlds bright eye The First begins with me the Seconds morn How many Ages it shall endure Is the first Ship-wright who doth first adorn The hils with Vines that Shepheard is the Third 1. Adam That after God through strange Lands leads his Heard 2. Noah And past mans reason crediting Gods word 3. Abraham His onely Son slayes with a willing sword The Fourth 's another valiant Shepheardling 4. Dauid That for a Cannon takes his silly sling And to a Scepter turns his Shepheards staff Great Prince great Prophet Poet Psalmograph The Fift begins from that sad Princes night 5. Zedechias That sees his children murdred in his sight And on the banks of fruitfull Euphrates Poor Iuda led in Captiue heauiness 6. Messias Hoped Messias shineth in the Sixt Who mockt beat banisht buried cruci-fixt For our foul sins stil-selfly-innocent Hath fully born the hatefull punishment The Last shall be the very resting-Resting-Day Th' Ayr shall be mute the Waters work shall stay 7. Th' Eternall Sabbath The Earth her store the stars shall leaue their measures The Sun his shine and in eternall pleasures We plung'd in Heav'n shall ay solemnize all Th' eternall Sabbaoths end-less Festiuall Considerations of Adam vpon that which shuld be fall his Posterity vnto the end of the first World destroyed by the Flood according to the relation of Moses in Genesis in the 4. 5. 6. and 7. chapters Alas what may I of that race presume Next th' irefull Flame that shall this Frame consume Whose gut their God whose lust their law shall be Who shall not hear of God nor yet of me Sith those outrageous that began their birth On th' holy groundsill of sweet Edens earth And yet the sound of Heav'ns drad Sentence hear And as ey-witness of mine Exile were Seem to despight God Did it not suffize O lust full soule first to polygamize Suffiz'd it not O Lamech to distain Thy Nuptiall bed but that thou must ingrain In thy great-Grand-sires Grand-sires reeking gore Thy cruell blade respecting nought before The prohibition and the threatning vow Of him to whom infernall powrs do bow Neither his Pasports sealed Character Set in the fore-head of the Murderer Courage good Enos re-advance the Standard Of holy Faith by humane reason slaunder'd And troden-down Inuoke th' immortall powr Vpon his Altar warm bloud-offrings pour His sacred nose perfume with pleasing vapour And teend again Trueth 's neer-extinguisht Taper Thy pupil Henoch selfly-dying wholly Earths ornament to God he liueth solely Lo how he labours to endure the light Which in th' Arch-essence shineth glorious-bright How rapt from sense and free from fleshly lets Sometimes he climbs the sacred Cabinets Of the diuine Ideas euer-lasting Having for wings Faith fervent l'rayer and Fasting How at sometimes though clad in earthly clod He sacred sees feels all inioyes in God How at somtimes mounting from form to form In form of God he happy doth transform Lo how th' all-fair as burning all in loue With his rare beauties not content aboue T' haue half but all and ever sets the stairs That lead from hence to Heav'n his chosen heirs Lo now he climeth the supernall stories Adiew deer Henoch in eternall glories Dwell there with God thy body chang'd in quality Of Spirit or Angel puts on immortality Thine eys already now no longer eys But new bright stars doe brandish in the skyes Thou drinkest deep of the celestiall wine Thy Sabbaoth's endless without vail in fine Thouseest God face to face and neervnite To th' ONE-TRINE Good thou liv'st in th' Infinite But heer the while new Angell thou dost leaue Fell wicked folk whose hands are apt to reaue Whose Scorpion tongues delight in sowing strife Whose guts are gulfs incestuous all their life O strange to be beleev'd the blessed race The sacred Flock whom God by speciall grace Adopts for his even they alas most shame-less Do follow sin most beastly-brute and tame-less With lustfull eys choosing for wanton Spouses Mens wicked daughters mingling so the houses Of Seth and Cain preferring foolishly Frail beauties blaze to vertuous modesty From these profane foul cursed kisses sprung A cruell brood feeding on bloud and wrong Fell Gyants strange of haughty hand and minde Plagues of the World and scourges of Man-kinde Then righteous God though ever prone to pa Seeing his milde-ness but their malice harden List plead nolonger but resolues the fall Of man forth-with and for mans sake of all Of all at least the living creatures gliding Along the ayr or on the earth abiding Heav'ns crystall windows with one hand he opes Whence on the World a thousand Seas he drops With th' other hand he gripes and wringeth forth The spungy Globeof th' execrable Earth So straightly prest that it doth straight restore All liquid flouds that it had drunk before In every Rock new Rivers doe begin And to his aid the snowes com tumbling in
wings o're-fly Fit Comparisons to set sorth the nature and property of Slanderers Detracters imitating Cham. The weeping Woods of Happy Araby Despise sweet Gardens and delicious Bowrs Perfuming Heav'n with odoriferous flowrs And greedy light vpon the loath som quarters Of som late Lopez oâ— such Romish Martyrs Or as a young vnskilfull Painter raw Doth carelâ—sly the fairest features draw In any face and yet too neerely marks Th' vn pleasing blemish of deformed marks As lips too-great or hollowness of eys Or sinking nose or such indecencies Euen so th' vngodly Sonns of Leasings Father With black Obliuions sponge ingrately smother Fair Vertues draughts and cast despightfully On the least sinns the venom of the ey Fruâ—p others faults and trumpet in all ages The lightest trips of greatest Personages Like scoffing Câ—am that impudently viewd His Fathers shame and most profanely-lewd With scornefull laughter grace-les thus began To infamize the poor old drunken man Com brethren com com quickly and beholde His speech to his Brethren seeing his Fathers nakednes This pure controuler that so oft contrould Vs without cause see how his bed he soyls See how the wine his master now recoyls By 's mouth and eys and nose and brutely lo To all that com his naked shame doth showe Ah shame-less beast both brethren him reproov'd Both chiding thus both with iust anger moov'd Their discreet behauiour Vnnaturall villain monster pestilent Vnworthy to behold the firmament Where absent we thou ought'st haue hid before With thine owne Cloak but with thy silence more Thy Fathers shame whom age strong wine and grief Haue made to fall but once in all his life Thou barkest first and sporting at the matter Proclaim'st his fault on infamies Theater And saying this turning their sight a-side Their hoarie Fathers nakedness they hide When wine had wrought this good old-man awook Noah awaked curseth Cham and his posterity blesseth Sem and Iaphet their Issue Agniz'd his crime ashamed wonder-strook At strength of wine and toucht with true repentance With Prophet-mouth ganthus his Sons fore-sentence Curst be thou Cham and curst be for thy scorn Thy darling Canaan let the pearly Morn The radiant Nâ—on and rheumy Euening see Thy neck still yoaked with Captiuitie God be with Sem and let his gracious speed Spread-wide my Iapheths fruitfull-swarming seed Error no error but a wilfull badnes An execratioÌ„ of Drunkennes described with its shamefull dangerous and detestable effects O foul defect O short O dangerous madnes That in thy rage doost harm-less Clytus smother By his deer friend Pentheus by his Mother Phrenzy that makes the vaunter insolent The talkfull blab cruell the violent The fornicator wax adulterous Th' adulterer becom incestuous With thy plagues leauen swelling all our crimes Blinde shameless sense-less quenching oftentimes The soule within itself and oft defames The holiest men with execrable blames And as the Must beginning to re-boyl Makes his new vessels wooden bands re-coyl Lifts-vp his lees and spews with fuming vent From his Tubs ground his scummy excrement So ruin'st thou thine hoast and foolishly From his harts bottom driv'st all secrecy But hadst thou neuer don O filthy poyson More mischief heer but thus bereft of reason This Vertues Module rather Vertues best We ought thee more then Death it self detest FINIS BABYLON THE II. PART OF THE II. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT Th' Antithesis of Blest and Cursed States Subiect to Good and Euill Magistrates Nimrod vsurps His prowes-full Policy To gain himself the Goal of Souerainty BABEL begun To stop such out-rages There God confounds the builders Languages Tongues excellent the Hebrue first and Best Then Greek and Latin and aboue the rest Th' Arabian Toscan Spanish French and Dutch And Ours are Honoured by our Author much O Happy people where good Princes raign A preface repre senting the selici tie happy estate of CoÌ„mon-weales gouerned by good and prudent Princes the misery of those that liue in subiection vnto Tyrants which the Poet very fitly proposeth as his introduction to the life and Manners of Nimrod Who tender publike more then priuate gain Who vertue 's patrons and the plagues of vice Hate Parasites and harken to the wise Who self-commanders rather sin suppress By self-examples then by rigorousnes Whose inward-humble outward Maiesty With Subiects loue is guarded loyally Who Idol-not their pearly Scepters glory But knowe themselues set on a lofty story For all the world to see and censure too So not their lust but what is iust they do But 't is a hell in hatefull vassalage Vnder a Tyrant to consume ones age A self-shav'n Dennis or a Nero fell Whose cursed Courts with bloud and incest swell An Owl that flyes the light of Parliaments And State-assemblies iealous of th' intents Of priuate tongues who for a pastime sets His Peers at ods and on their fury wheâ—s Who neither faith honour nor right respects Who euery day new Officers erects Who brooks no learned wise nor valiant subiects But daily crops such vice-vp braiding obiects Who worse then Beasts or sauage monsters been Spares neither mother brother kiff norkin Who though round fenç'â— with gard of armed Knights A-many moc he seaâ—s then he affrights Who taxes strange extorts and â—aniball Gnawes to the bones his wretched Subiects all Print O Heavn's king in our Kings harts a zeal A Prayer sitted to the former discourse and giuing entry to that which followeth First of thy lawes then of their publik weal And if our Countries now Po-poysoned phrase Or now-contagion of corrupted daies Leaue any tract of Nimrodizing there O! cancell it that they may euery where In stead of Babel build Ierusalem That lowd my Muse may eccho vnder them YER Nimrod had attain'd to twise six yeers Nimrods exercises essays to to make himselfe Master of the rest He tyranniz'd among his strippling-peers Out-stript his equals and in happy howr Layd the foundations of his after-powr And bearing Reeds for Scepters first he raigns In Prentice-Princedom ouer sheep-heard Swains Then knowing well that whoso ayms illuster At fancied bliss of Empires awfull lustre In valiant acts must pass the vulgar sort Or mask at least in louely Vertues Port He spends not night on beds of down or feathers Nor day in tents but hardens to all weathers His youthfull limbs and takes ambitiously A rock for Pillow Heav'n for Canapey In stead of softlings iests and iollities He ioyes in Iousts and manly exercises His dainty cates a fat Kids trembling flesh Scarcefully slain luke-warm and bleeding fresh Then with one breath he striueth to attain A Mountains top that ouer-peers the Plain Perseuerance in painfull and laborious exercises of Nimrod growne gracious with the people Against the stream to cleaue the rowling ridges Of Nimph-strong floods that haue born down their bridges Running vnrean'd with swift rebounding sallies A-cross the rocks within the narrow vallies To ouertake the dart
it were to coast the same about And rightly tun'd vnto the golden string Of Amrams Son in grauest verse to sing That Sem and Cham and Iapheth did re-plant Th' vn-peopled World with new inhabitant And that again great Noahs wandring Boat The second time o're all the World did float Not that I send Sem at one flight vnceast From Babylon vnto the farthest East Tartarian Chorat's siluer waues t'essay And people China Cambalu Cathay Iapheth to Spayn and that profanest Cham To thirstie Countries Meder ' and Bigam To Cephala vpon Mount Zambrica And Cape of Hope last coign of Africa For as Hymetus and Mount Hybla were 2. Fit coÌ„parisont to represent the same Not ouer-spread and couered in one year With busie Bees but yearly twice or thrice Each Hyve supplying new-com Colonies Heav'ns tender Nurcelings to those fragrant Mountains At length their Rocks dissolv'd in Hony Fountains Or rather as two fruitfull Elms that spred Amidst a Cloase with brooks enuironed Ingender other Elms about their roots Those other still and still new-springing shoots So ouer-growe the ground that in fewe yeers The sometimes-Mead a greet thick Groue appears Euen so th' ambitious Babel-building rout Disperst at first go seat themselues about Mesopotamia after by degrees Their happy Spawn in sundry Colonies Crossing from Sea to Sea from Land to Land All the green-mantled nether Globe hath mann'd So that except th' Almighty glorious Iudge Of quick and dead this World's ill dayes abbridge Ther shall no soyl so wilde and sauage be But shall be shadowed by great Adams Tree Therefore those Countries neerest Tigris Spring Why the first Monarkie began in Assyria In those first ages were most flourishing Most spoken-of first Warriours first that guide And giue the Law to all the Earth beside Babylon liuing vnder th' awfull grace Of Royall Greatnes sway'd th' Imperiall Mace Before the Greeks had any Town at all Or warbling Lute had built the Dircean Wall Yer Gauls had houses Latins Burgages Our Britains Tents or Germans Cottages The Hebrews had with Angels Conuersation The Hebrewes and their next neighbours were â—â—ligious learned before the Grâ—câ—ans knew anything Held th' Idol-Altars in abhomination Knew the Vnknowen with eyes of Faith they saw Th' inuisible Messias in the Law The Chaldees Audit of the Stars had made Had measur'd Heav'n conceiv'd how th' Earths thick shade Eclipst the siluer brows of Cynthia bright And her brown shadow quencht her brothers light The Memphian Priests were deep Philosophers And curious gazers on the sacred Stars Searchers of Nature and great Mathematicks Yer any Letter knew the ancient'st Attiks Proud Aegypt glistred all with golden Plate The Egyptians Tyrians had their fill of Riches and Pomp and Pleasure before the Greeks or Gauls knew what the world meant Yer the lame Lemnian vnder Aetna grate Had hammer'd yron or the Vultur-rented Prometheus 'mong the Greeks had fire inuented Gauls were not yet or were they at the least They were but wilde their habit plumes their feast But Mast and Acorns for the which they gap't Vnder the Trees when any winde had hapt When the bold Tyrians greedy after gain Durst rowe about the salt-blow Africk Main Traffikt abroad in Scarlet Robs were drest And pomp and pleasure Euphrates possest For as a stone that midst a Pond yee fling About his fall first forms a little ring Wherin new Circles one in other growing Through the smooth Waters gentle-gentle flowing Still one the other more and more compell From the Ponds Centre where the stone first fell Till at the last the largest of the Rounds From side to side 'gainst euery bank rebounds So from th' Earths Centre which I heer suppose About the Place where God did Tongues transpose Man day by day his wit repolishing Makes all the Arts through all the Earth to spring As he doth spread and shed in diuers shoals His fruitfull Spawn round vnder both the Poles Forth from Assyria East-ward then they trauail The first Colonies of Sem in the East Towards rich Hytanis with the golden grauell Then people they the Persian Oroätis Then cleer Choaspis which doth humbly kiss The Walls of Susa then the Vallies fat Neer Caucasus where yerst th' Arsaces sate Then mann they Media then with humane seed Towards the Sea th' Hyrcaniaâ— Plain they speed The Sons of these like flowing Waters spred The second O're all the Country which is bordered With Chiesel Riuer ' boue Thacalistan Gadel and Cabul Bedan Balestan Their off-spring then with fruitfull stems doth stoar The Third Basinagar Nayard and either shoar Of famous Ganges Aua Toloman The kingdom Mein the Musky Charazan And round about the Desart Op where oft By strange Phantasmas Passengers are scoft Som Ages after linkt in diuers knots The fourth Tipur they take rich in Rhinocerots Caichin in Aloes Mangit and the shoar Of Quinz ' and Anie lets them spread no more From that first Centre to the West-ward bending First Colonies of Iapheth in the West Old Noahs Nephews far and wide extending Seiz less Armenia then within Cilicia Possess the Ports of Tharsis and of Issea And the delicious strange Corycian Caue Which warbling sound of Cymballs seemes to haue â—onia Cappadocia Taurus horns Bythinia Troas and Meanders turns The second Then passing Sestos Straights of Strymon cold Herber and Nest they quaff and pitch their Fold In vales of Rhodopé and plow the Plains Where great Danubius neer his death complains Thrace on the other side subtle Greece beswarms The third diuided into many branches Greece Italy famous for Art and Arms Italy France France Spayn and Germany Rhines fruitfull bed and our Great Britanie On th' other side it spreads about Moldauia Mare-Maìour Podolìa and Morauìa With Transyluania Seruia and Panonia The Prussian Plains and ouer all Polonia The verge of Vistula and farther forth Beyond the Alman drawing to the North. First Colonies of Cham toward the South Now turn thee South-ward see see how Chaldéa Spews on Arabia Phoenice and Iudéa Chams cursed Ligne which ouer-fertill all Betweene two Seas doth into Aegypt fall Sowes all Cyrenia and the famous Coast Whereon the roaring Punik Sea is tost Fez Dara Argier Galate Guzol Aden Terminan Tombut Melle Gago Gogden The sparkling Desarts of sad Libya Zeczec Benin Borno Cano Nubia And scalding quick-sands of those thirsty Plains Where IESVS name yet in som reuerence raigns Where Prester Iohn though part he Iudaïze Doth in somsort devoutly Christianize But would'st thou knowe how that long Tract that lies Colonies of the North. Vnder Heav'ns starry Coach covered with yce And round embraced in the winding arms Of Cronian Seas which Sol but seldom warms Came peopled first suppose that passing by The Plains where Tigris twice keeps company With the far-flowing silver Euphrates They lodg'd at foot of hoary Nyphates And from Armenia then Iberia mann'd Albania Colchis and Bosphorian strand And then
perfect Six whose iust proportions gather 6 To make his Whole his members altogether For Three 's his half his Sixt One Two his Third And One Two Three make Six in One conferd The Criticall and double-sexed Seav'n 7 The Number of th' vnfixed Fires of Heav'n And of th' eternall sacred Sabbaoth Which Three and Foure containeth ioyntly both Th' Eight double-square The sacred note of Nine 8. 9. Which comprehends the Muses Triple-Trine The Ten which doth all Numbers force combine 10. The Ten which makes as One the Point the Line The Figure th' Hundred Thousand solid corps 100. 1000. Which oft re-doubled on th' Atlantik shoars Can summ the sand and all the drops distilling From weeping Auster or the Ocean filling See many Summes heer written streight and euen Addition Each ouer other are in one contriuen See here small Numbers drawn from greater count Subtraction Multiplication Heer Multiplid they infinitly mount And lastly see how on the other side Diuision One Summ in many doth it self Diuide That sallow-faç't sad stooping Nymph whose ey Still on the ground is fixed stedfastly Seeming to draw with point of siluer Wand Geometrie Som curious Circles in the sliding sand Who weares a Mantle brancht with flowrie Buds Embost with Gold trayled with siluer Floods Bordered with greenest Trees and Fringed fine With richest azure of Seas storm-full brine Whose dusky Buskins old and tattered out Showe she hath trauail'd far and neer about By North and South it is Geometrie The Crafts-mans guide Mother of Symmetrie The life of Instruments of rare effect Law of that Law which did the World erect Heer 's nothing heere but Rules Squires Compasses Her Instrumēts and Figures Waights Measures Plummets Figures Ballances Lo where the Workman with a steddy hand Ingeniously a leuell Line hath drawn War-like Triangles building-fit Quadrangles And hundred kindes of Forms of Manie-Angles Sraight Broad and Sharp Now see on th' other side Other whose Tracts neuer directly slide As with the Snayl the crooked Serpenter And that which most the learned do prefer The compleat Circle from whose euery-place The Centre stands an equi-distant space See heer the Solids Cubes Cylinders Cones Pyramides Prismas Dodechaedrons And there the Sphear which Worlds Type comprehends In't-selfit-self hauing nor midst nor ends Arts excellence praise of his peers a wonder Wherein consists in diuers sort a hundred Firm Mobile an vp-down-bending-Vault Sloaping in Circuit yet directly wrought See how so soon as it to veer begins Both vp and down forward and back it wends And rapt by other not it self alone Moues but moues others with its motion Witnes the Heav'ns yea it doth seem beside When it stands still to shake on every side Because it hath but one small point wher-on His equal halves are equi-peiz'd vpon And yet this goodly Globe where we assemble Though hung in th' Ayr doth neuer selfly tremble For it 's the midst of the Con-centrik Orbs Whom neuer Angle nor out-nook disturbs All Solids else cast in the Ayr reflect Vn-self-like-forms but in a Globe each tract Seems still the same because it euery-where Is vniform and differs not a hair More-ouer as the Buildings Amblìgon May more receiue then Mansions Oxigon Because th' acute and the rect-Angles too Stride not so wide as obtuse Angles doo So doth the Circle in his Circuit span More room then any other Figure can Th' other are eas'ly broke because of ioints Ends and beginnings edges nooks and points But th' Orb 's not subiect vnto such distress Because 't is ioint les point-les corner-less Chiefly my Phalec hither bend thy minde And learn Two Secrets which but fewe shall finde Two busie knots Two labyrinths of doubt Where future Schools shall wander long about Beating their brains their best endeuours troubling The Circles Squareness and the Cubes Re-doubling Print euer faster in thy faithfull brain The certainty of Geometry Then on brass leaues these Problemes proued plain Not by Sophistick subtle Arguments But euen by practise and experience Vn-disputable Art and fruitfull Skill Which with new wonders all the World shall fill Heer-by the Waters of the lowest Fountains Her rare inuentions Mills Shall play the Millers as the Windes on Mountains And grain so ground within a rowling Frame Shall pay his duty to his niggard Dame Heer-by a Bullet spewd from Brazen brest In fiery fume against a Town distrest Gunnes With roaring powr shall pash the Rocks in sunder And with the noise euen drown the voice of Thunder Heer-by the Wings of fauourable Windes Shall bear from Western to the Eastern Indes Ships From Africa to Thule's farthest Flood A House or rather a whole Town of Wood While sitting still the Pilot shall at ease With a short Leauer guide it through the Seas Heer-by the PRINTER in one day shall rid Printing More Books then yerst a thousand Wrighters did Heer-by a Crane shall steed in building more The Crane Then hundred Porters busie pains before The Iacobs-staff to measure heights and Lands The Staffe Shall far excell a thousand nimble hands To part the Earth in Zones and Climats euen And in twice-twenty-and-foure Figures Heav'n A Wand Sand Water small Wheels turning ay Dials and Clocks In twice-twelue parts shall part the Night and Day Statues of Wood shall speak and fained Sphears Sphears Showe all the Wonders of true Heav'n in theirs Men rashly mounting through the emptie Skie With wanton wings shall cross the Seas wel-nigh And doubt-less if the Geometrician finde Another World where to his working minde To place at pleasure and conuenience His wondrous Engines and rare Instruments Euen like a little God in time he may To som new place transport this World away Because these Two our passage open set To bright Vrania's sacred Cabinet Wherin she keeps her sumptuous Furniture Pearls Diamonds Rubies and Saphires pure Because to climbe starrie Parnassus top None can vnless these Two doo help him vp For whoso wants either of these Two eyes In vain beholds Heav'ns glistering Canapies The Caruer heer close by Geometry Astronomie And Numbring Art hath plaç't Astronomie A siluer Crescent wears she for a Crown A hairy Comet to her heels hangs down Brows stately bent in milde-Maiestik wise Beneath the same two Carbuncles for eyes An Azure Mantle wauing at her back With two bright Clasps buckled about her neck From her right shoulder sloaping ouer-thwart-her A watchet Scarf or broad imbrodered Garter Flourisht with Beasts of sundry shapes and each With glistering Stars imbost and poudred rich And then for wings the golden plumes she wears Of that proud Bird which starrie Rowells bears Bur what fair Globes quoth Phalec seems she thus Her 2. Globes With spreading arms to reach and offer vs My Son quoth Heber that round Figure there 1. The Terrestrial With crossing Circles is the Mundane Sphear Wherin the Earth as the most vile and base
can the Steer The whistling Goad-man's guiding language hear It rain'd indeed but not such fertil rain The manner of their punishment by fire and brimstone from Heaven and the reason thereof As makes the Corn in Sommer sprout amain And all things freshed with a pleasant air To thrive and prove more lively strong and fair But in this sink of Sin this stinking Hel A rain of Salt of Fire and Brimston fel. Salt did consume the pleasant fruitfulness Which serv'd for fewel to their Wantonness Fire punished their beastly Fire within And Brimstone's stink the stench of their foul Sin So as their Sin was singular of right Their Punishment was also exquisite Heer open Flames and there yet hidden Fires Burn all to ashes sparing neither Spires Of Brick nor Stone nor Columns Gates nor Arches Nor Bowrs nor Towrs nor even their neighbour-Marches In vain the-while the People weep and cry The same most liuely represented To see their wrack and knowe no remedy For now the Flame in richest Roofs begun From molten gutters scalding Lead doth run The Slats and Tyles about their ears do split The burning Rafters Pitch and Rosin spit The whirling Fire re-mounteth to the Skie About the fields ten thousand sparks do flie Half-burned Houses fal with hideous fray And VVLCAN makes Mid-night as bright as Day Heaven flings-down nought but flashing Thunder-shot Th' Air 's all a-fire Earth's exhalations hot Are spewing AETNA'S that to Heaven aspire All th' Elements in brief are turn'd to fire Heer one perceiving the next Chamber burning With suddain leap towards the window turning Thinks to cry Fire but instantly the smoke And Flame with-out his with-in Voice do choke Another sooner feels then sees the Fire For while O horror in the stinking mire Of his foul Lust he lies a Lightning flash Him and his Love at-once to dust doth dash Th' abhorred Bed is burnt and they aswell Coupled in Plague as Sin are sent to Hell Another yet on tops of Houses crawls But his foot slips and down at last he falls Another feeling all his cloathes a-fire Thinking to quench them yer it should come nigher Leaps in a Lake but all the Lake began To boyl and bubble like a seething Pan Simile Or like a Chaldron that top-full of Oyl Environ'd round with fume and flame doth boyl To boyl to death som cunning counterfait That with false stamp som Princes Coyn hath beat Another seeing the City all in Cinders Himself for safety to the fields he renders But flakes of Fire from Heav'n distilling thick There th' horror of a thousand Deaths do strike Through Adamah's and Gomor's goodly Plains Sodom and Seboim not a soule remains Horse Sheep and Oxen Cows and Kids partake In this revenge for their vile Masters sake Thus hath the hand of the Omnipotent Inroll'd the Deed of their drad Punishment With Diamantin Pen on Plates of Brass With such an Ink as nothing can deface The molten Marble of these cindred Hills Asphaltis Lake and these poor mock-fruit Fields Keep the Record and cry through every Age How God detesteth such detested rage O chastisement most dradly-wonderfull Th' Heav'n-cindred Cities a broad standing Pool O're-flowes yet flowes not whose infectious breath Corrupts the Ayr and Earth dis-fertileth A Lake whose back whose belly and whose shoar Nor Bark nor Fish nor Fowl hath ever bore The pleasant Soyl that did even shame yer-while The plentious beauties of the banks of Nile Now scarr'd and collowed with his face and head Cover'd with ashes is all dri'd and dead Voyd of all force vitall or vegetive Vpon whose brest nothing can live or thrive For nought it bears save an abortiue suit Of seeming-fair false vain and fained fruit A fruit that feeds theey and fills the hand But to the stomach in no steed doth stand For even before it touch the tender lips Or Ivory teeth in empty smoak it slips So vanishing only the nose receiues A noysom savour that behinde it leaues Heer I adiure you vent'rous Trauailours Exhortation to Trauailers that haue seene to others that shall reade or heare these fearefull monuments of Gods seuere Iustice to make right vse of this fearefull Example That visit th' horror of these cursed shoars And taste the venom of these stinking streams And touch the vain fruit of these wythered stems And also you that do beholde them thus In these sad Verses pourtray'd heer by vs To tremble all and with your pearly tears To showr another Sea and that your hairs Staring vpright on your affrighted head Heave-vp your Hats and in your dismall dread To think you hear like Sulph'ry Storms to strike On our nâ—w Monsters for Offences like For the Almightie's drad all-daunting arm Not only strikes such as with Sodom swarm In these foul Sins but such as sigh or pity Sodoms destruction or so damn'd a City And cannot constant with dry eyes observe God's iudgements iust on such as such deserve LOT hies to SEGOR but his wife behinde Lots wise metamorphozed Lagged in body but much more in minde She weeps and wails O lamentable terror O impicus Pity O kind-cruell error The dire destruction of the smoking Cities Her Sons-in-Law which should haue been she pities Grieves so to leave her goods and she laments To lose her Iewels and habiliments And contrary to th' Angels Words precise Towards the Town she turns her wofull eyes But instantly turn'd to a whitely stone Her feet alas fast to the ground be growen The more she stirs she sticks the faster in As silly Bird caught in a subtil gin Simile Set by som Shepheard neer the Copses side The more it struggles is the faster ty'd And as the venom of an eating Canker Simile From flesh to flesh runs every day the ranker And never rests vntill from foot to head O're all the Body his fell poyson spread This Ice creeps-vp and ceaseth not to num Till even the marrow hard as bones becom The brain be like the seul and bloud convert To Alablaster over every part Her Pulse doth cease to beat and in the air The Windes no more can wave her scattered hair Her belly is no belly but a Quar Of Cardon Rocks and all her bowels are A pretious Salt-Mine supernaturall Such as but Salt I wot not what to call A Salt which seeming to be fall'n from Heav'n To curious Spirits hath long this Lesson given Not to presume in Divine things to pry Which seav'n-times seal'd vnder nine Locks do lie She weeps alas and as she weeps her tears Turn into Pearls fro'rn on her twinkling hairs Fain would she speak but forced to conceal In her cold throat her guilty words congeal Her mouth yet open and her arms a-cross Though dumb declare both why and how she was Thus Metamorphos'd for Heav'n did not change Her last sad gestures in her suddain Change No gorgeous Maâ—sole grac't with flattering verse Eternizeth her Trunk her House and Herse But to
Adorn'd self-gazing with a lofty ey His faction present AARON also by Lord shield thy Cause approve thee veritable Let not thy Name be to the Lewd a Fable Oint thine Anointed publikely by Miracle Showe whom thou hast selected for thine Oracle Said MOSES then and even as yet he spake The groaning Earth began to reel and shake A horrid Thunder in her bowels rumbles Their dreadfull punishment And in her bosom vp and down it tumbles Tearing her Rocks Vntil she Yawn a way To let it out and to let in the Day Heav'n sees to Hell and Hell beholdeth Heav'n And Divels dazled with the glistring leav'n Of th' ancient Sun yet lower fain would dive But chain'd to th' Centre all in vain they strive CORE round compast with his Rebel friends Offers to BELZEBVE and to the Fiends His bodie 's batter'd with Rocks falling down And arms of Trees there planted vp-side-down He goes with Noise down to the Silent Coast Intoombd alive without all Art or cost And all the rest that his proud side assum'd Scaping the Gulf with Lightning are consum'd And AARON'S Office is confirm'd by God Aarons charge is confirmed by miracle With wondrous Signes of his oft-quickned Rod Which dead re-buda re-blooms and Almonds bears When all his Fellows haue no life in theirs Now shall I sing through MOSES prudent Sway Sundry victories of the Israelites vnder the coÌ„duct and direction of Moses How ISRAEL doth AMALEC dismay ARAD and OG that of huge Giants springs Proud HESEBON and the five Madian Kings With the false Prelat who profanely made Of Prophets-gifts a sacrilegious trade Who false sayes true who striving past all shame To force the Spirit is forced by the same Who snaring th' Hebrews with frail Beauties graces Defiles their bodies more their soules defaces Doubt-les his Deeds are such as would I sing But half of them I vnder-take a thing As hard almost as in the Gangik Seas To count the Waves or Sands in Euphrates And of so much should I a little say It were to wrong him and his Praise betray His Noble Acts we therefore heer suspend Reseruing the Warres for another Discourse our Poet hasteth to the death of Moses And skip vnto his sweet and happy End Sith th' End is it whereby we iudge the best For either Life how Man is Curst or Blest Feeling his vigour by degrees to waste And one Fire quencht another kindling fast Which doth his Spirit re-found his soule refine And raise to Heaven whence it was sent divine He doth not Now study to make his Will By his example Men are warned not to deferre to make their Will till it be too late to bee troubled with the busines of this world T' Entail his Land to his Male-Issue still Wisely and iustly to divide his Good To Sons and Daughters and his neerest Blood T' assigne his Wife a Dowry fair and fit A hundred times to add and alter it To quittance Friendships with frank Legacies To guerdon Service with Annuities To make Executors to Cancel som T' appoint himself a Palace for a Tomb. I praise a Care to settle our Estate But when Death threats vs then it is too-late A seemly Buriall is a sacree Rite But let the living take that charge of right He lifting higher his last thoughts besides The Common-Weale's care for the Church prouides And graving his discourse with voice devout Bids thus far-well to all that stand about O IACOB's seed I might say my deer sons He pronounceth the blessings and the curses writteÌ„ in Leviticus 26 Deutro 28. where vnto the people say Amen Y' are sense-les more then metalls stocks or stones If y' have forgot the many-many Miracles Wher-with the Lord hath seal'd my sacred Oracles And all the Favours in this savage Place In forty yeers received of his grace Therefore O ISRAEL walk thou in his fear And in thy hearts-heart not in Marble bear His ever-lasting LAVV before him stand And to his Service consecrate thy hand If this thou do thy Heav'n-blesâ— fleecy Flocks Blessings on those that obey Shall bound about thy Pastures Downs and Rocks As thick as skip in Sommer in a Mead The Grass-hoppers that all with Deaw are fed Thy fruitfull Eaws fat Twins shall bring thee ever And of their Milk shall make a plentious River Th' olde Tyrant loads not with so-many loans Toules Taxes Succours Impositions The panting Vassalls to him Tributary As thy rich Fields shall pay thee voluntary Thy children and thy children's children set About thy Table side by side at meat Shall flourish like a long and goodly rowe Of pale-green Olives that vprightly growe About a ground and full of Fruit presage Plenty of Oyl vnto their Master sage Sons of thy sons shall serue thy reverend Eld Thou shalt die quiet thou shalt live vnqueld Blessed at home and blessed in the Plain The blessed God shall send thee timely Rain And holsom windes and with his keyes of grace Open Heav'ns store-house to thy happy Race Thy proud fell Foes with Troops of armed men Shall charge thee one way but shall flie thee ten The Peace-Plant Olive or Triumphant Bay Shall shade thy gates Thy valour shall dismay And daunt the Earth and with his sacred aw Thy Saviour-King shall giue the World the law If other-wise the Megrim Gowt and Stone Curses on the Disobedient Shall plague thee fel with thousand pangs in one Thy numbry Flocks in part shall barren â—e In part shall bring abortives vnto thee Accurst at home accursed in the Plain Thy labour boot-les and thy care in vain Thy Field shall be of steel thy Heav'n of brass Thy Fountains dry and God displeas'd alas In steed of holsom showrs shall send down flashes Of Lightning Fire Hail Sulphur Salt and Ashes Thou shalt reap little where thou much hast shed And with that little shall thy Foe be fed He shall the fattest of thy Heard devour Before thy face and yet thou must not lowr Thou shalt build fair another haue thy Place Thou wed a wife another 'fore thy face Shal loose her Bride-belt God with rage shall smight Thy stubborn heart with blindnesse and affright So that a wagging leaf a puff a crack Yea the least creak shall make thee turn thy back Thou never shalt thine adverse Hoast survay But to be beaten or to run away A People stout for strength and number ample Which th' Aegle hath for Ensigne and Example With a new Wall thine ancient Wall shall dam And make thee Famisht thy void bowels cram With thine owne bowels and for want of meat Thine owne deer Children's trembling flesh to eat And then thy Remnant far disperst from home O're all the Corners of the earth shall roam To shew their Curse they shall no Country ow'ne And which is worse they shall not be their Owne AMEN said all the Hoast Then like the Swan This dying Song the Man of GOD began SIth ISRAEL O
Amber Elixir an Arabian word signifying Quintessence the Philosophers stone Elisium the fayned Paradise of hethen Poets Eldebag a learned Arabian Satyricall Poet. Embryon the Childe in the mothers Womb before it haue receiued shape Encyclopedie that learning which comprehendeth all liberall Sciences Endimion a young shephearde the fauourite of Cinthya Engastromith one possessed which seems to speak in his belly Empyema an impostume in the Breast Enyon the same that Bellona sister to Mars Goddesse of Battaile Enthousiasmos poeticall fury Eoan Monarke Alexander the great Eolian scoutes the windes Ephemerides Day-books Registers Iournals Ephesian Temple the Temple of Diana in Ephesus Ephesian moan Heraclitus weeping at the worlds miseries Ephori a kinde of Magistrates protectors of the people Epiâ—emik ilâ—es Vniuersall Diseases Epicicle a lesser Circle whose center is in the circumfereÌ„ce of a greater Epicurus a Philosopher that placed mans felicitie in the pleasures of the Sense belee uing no God but Fortune Epilepsis the Falling-sicknesse Epithalamie a nuptiall song Epitaph a funerall song or an Inscription on a Tombe or Graue Epithets additions to nownes expressing some quality Epitome an Abbridgement Epirus a Countrie in Greece now called Albania famous in late times by the Noble exploites of G. Castrâ—ot sir-named Scanderbeg against the Turke Equinoctiall a Circle in HeaueÌ„ through which when the Sun passeth the dayes and nights be of equall length Eroetrian soile medicinable Earth brought from Eretria Erebus a Riuer in hell Hell Erythrean Deep the red Sea Erynnis one of the Furies Eridanus a figuâ—e in HeaueÌ„ the Riuer Po in Lumbardie Eurus the East winde Euripus a narrowe Sea which ebbeth and floweth seauen times in 24. houres Euphrates one of the Riuers of Eden that runnes through Babylon Europa Christendome or this Westerne part of the world Eccentrik that hath his center wholly separated from the Center of the Earth Erysipiles hot red swellings called S. Anthonies fire Erycina Venus Euphrosyne looke Graces Euphorbium a certaine medicinable Plant found and named by Euphorbus King Iubas Physician Ethâ—ik see Pagan Entidorian Etesian gates easterly windes Ephod a linnen garment worne by the Priests and Leuites of Israel Edom and Idumea a part of Palaestine Elâ—utherian Deliuerer Epicarpian Fruit-keeper F FAbritius a famous Roman contemner of Riches and in extreame pouerty most puissaÌ„t for vertuous valour and integrity Faustina a most Iasâ—iuious Em presse wife to Marcus Aurelius and daughter of Antous Pius Fez. a Kingdome in Barbarie Finland a Dukedom vnder the king of Sweden Flamine a Sacrificer or high Priest among the Heathen Flauio Melphio a Neapolitan inuenter of the needle in the Mariners compasse and the vse thereof Foix a Countrey belonging to Nauarr neere the Pyrene Mountains Flora a faire and rich harlot which made the people of Rome her Heire in respect whereof they made her God desse of Flowers and kept yeerely Feasts in honor of of her Furies 3 viz. Alecto Megera and Tesiphone sometimes also called Persyphone which are said to be TormeÌ„ters of the damned in Hell wittily fained to express the fear and Fury of a guilty coÌ„science Frize and Cornich the crests furniture finishing at the vpper end of a column Farfalla a Candle flye Fergusius Euenus Donaldus famous ancient Kings of Scotland Fanes Temples consecrated Places Funambulant a Rope-walker Feretrian Peace-bringer or dread-striker G GAlen a famous Physician born at Pergamus whose learned workes through all ages haue been honoured Galenite one skilfull in Physicke wherein Galen excelled Ganges a great Riuer in India Gaules the ancient name of the French men Genius a mans spirit or naturall instinct or inclination Gemonide or Gemonian Ladders a place in Rome from whence condemned persons were throwne downe Ghion one of the riuers in EdeÌ„ Gnidian Idols Venus and Cupid for in Gnidos shee was worshipped Gonorrhaea a foule and inuoluÌ„tary Fluxe of seed the Running of the Reines Gordian knot a knot thought impossible to bee vndone wherewith Gordius had fastened his Oxe-yoake in the Temple of Apollo Gorgons vgly hellish monsters in forme of scaly Dragons with crooked teeth one eye Iron talents and mighty wings Graces look Charites Gymnosophists Philosophers of India so called because they went naked Groon-land an exceeding colde Countrey butting vpon the Sea beyond Izland Graue is as much as an Earle with vs but in this place vsed for the General and Gouernor IOSVAH Galactite a kind of white Marble or Alabaster H HAlcyon a little water-bird thought to be the kings fisher Harpies rauenous Birdes with faces like woemen Hecatombes HeatheÌ„ Sacrifices wherein were offered 100. Beasts Hebe Ioues Cup-bearer the Goddesse of youth Heber of whome the Hebrues and Hebrue Tongue are so called the great great Grand-Childe of Sem the sonne of Noah Hecuba the Frantike and disfigured olde wythered wife of Priamus King of Troy and heere opposed to the fresh young beautifull Helena the fatall Prize of their sonne Paris Helicon a Mountaine sacred to Apollo and the Muses Helena the wanton wife of Menelaus cause of the tedious siege finall sack of Troy Hemisphear half the compasse of heauen which we beholde Hercules the most renowned Monster-Tamer of Thebes Hermes Mercurie Hero the faire Sestian Nunne for whose sake Leander was drowned in Hellespont Heroes halfe Gods excellent Men for valour and vertue Herophilus a very ancient Phy sician Herodotus an Eloquent Greek Historiographer Hesiodus an ancieÌ„t Greek Poet Hesperian Plant Golden fruit-Trees garded by a Dragon which was slain by Hercules but heer it is vsed for the Sugar Cane a richer Plant theÌ„ those fayned golden fruits Hexameters verses of sixe feet Hiades 5. starres some holde 7. in the head of the Bull. Hiero a king of Sicilia after Agathocles greatly delighted in husbandry Hieroglyphiks secret Cyphers strange characters mysticall wrighting by sundry formes of things Hiram King of Tyrus remem bred in the Scripture for sending Timber and workmen to Salomon to the building of the Temple in Ierusalem Homer so called for his blindnes the most excellent of all the Greek Poets Horizon a Circle diuiding the halfe-spheare of the firmament which wee see â—uer vs from the other halfe vnder vs which we see not Hun furious Attyla who sirnamed himself the scourge of God and Terror of the World Hyantian Fount springs sacred to the Muses Hydrantik braule Musicke artificially made with the fall of waters Hyaena a horrible Beast that counterfaiteth mans voice Hydrargire quick-siluer Hydra a Serpent with 50. heads slain by Hercules Hybla MouÌ„tains abouÌ„ding in bees and hony Hymetus MouÌ„tains abouÌ„ding in bees and hony Hymen the God of Mariage Hyper-borean aboue or beyoÌ„d the blowing of the North-winde Hyppocrates a most excellent Physician Hyppolitus the sonne of Theseus who shunning the waÌ„ton inticements of his stepdame Phaedra was through her false accusations torne in pieces Hyren a faire Greeke Mayden Captiue on whome Mahomâ—t the 2. extreamely doated Hesperus the Euening-starre the Euening Helleborus an herbe whereof be 2. kindes
mend their vertue taste and sauour And Rypen faire the Rest that are behinde The rather if some Clowde of COMFORT drop Amid the Braunches of my blasted Hope Amid the Braunches of my blasted Hope Three Noble pearches had my Muse of late Where Turtle-like groaning Sad tunes she sate But O! curst ENVIE did vntimely lop The First the Next bruiz'd with his Fall did drop The Third remaines growen a great arm of State Most WORTIE So But so prae occupate EVTERPE VVith other MVSES That OVRS hath no scope Wherefore for succour in her wearie flight Hardly pursu'd by that sharpe Vulture WANT Shee 's fain my Liege with your good leaue to light Amid the Top-leaues of Your CEDAR-Plant Where if you daign Her Rest froÌ„ FORTVNE'S wrong Shee shall more sweetely Ende her solemne Song Shee shall more sweetely Ende Her solemne Song If Heaven grant Life and You give leaue to doo-it By adding fitly All those Partes vnto it Which more precisely to Your Praise belong Wherein expresly with a Thankefull tongue To your great Self APOLLO'S self applies-him Yeeldes YOV His Laurells And dooth all agnize-him ERATO Rapt with the VVonder Of Your Uertues Young All the Posthumiall race of that rare Spirit His Swan tunes sweetest neer his latest breath Which of his glory their Childes-part inherit Thogh born alas after their Father's death As Epilogue shall PAYE our gratefull Vowes Vnder the shaddowe of Your Sacred Boughes Vnder the shaddowe of Your Sacred Boughes Great Royall CEDAR of Mounte LIBANON Greater then that great Tree of BABYLON No maruaile if our TVRTLE seek to House Sith CAESAR'S Eagles that so strongly Rouze Th' olde Hâ—gard FALCON hatcht by Pampelon Th' IBERIAN GRIPHIN And not THESE alone POLYMNIA But euerie Birde and Beast With HVMBLE vowes Seekes roost or rest vnder your mighty Bowers So mighty hath th' Almighty made you now O Honour Him who thus hath Honour'd You And build His house who thus hath blessed Yours So STVARTS ay shall stand propt with His Power To Foes a Terrour and to Friendes a Tower To Foes a Terrour and to Friendes a Tower ERROR' 's Defyer and True FAITH'S Defence A Sword to Wrong a Shielde to Innocence Cheering the mild checking the wild with powr The Starre of other States and Sterne of Our The Rod of Vice VERTVE'S Recompence Long liue King IAMES in al MAGNIFICENCE VRANIA And full of DAYES When in his Blis-ful Bowr Heauens king shal crown thee with th' immortal flowr Fall all These Blessings on that forwarde Prince HENRIE our Hope to-Crowne His Excellence A KING at Home abroad a CONQVEROR So Happily that wee may still Conclude Our Sunne did Sette and yet no Night ensew'd SVBSCRIPTIO YOVR MAIESTIES Most loyall Subiect Humble Seruant IOSVAH SYLVESTER The Order of the Bookes or Tracts of this Volume THE FIRST WEEKE containeth Seaven Dayes THE 1. Day pag. 1. THE 2. Day 24. THE 3. Day 59. THE 4. Day 91. THE 5. Day 114. THE 6. Day 144. THE 7. Day 175. THE SECOND WEEK likewise Seauen DAIES whereof Three were neuer finished ADAM 1. Day Eden pag. 215. The Imposture 236. The Furies 254. The Handy-Crafts 276. NOAH 2. Day The Arke pag. 298. Babylon 315. The Colonies 335. The Columnes 358. ABRAHAM 3. Day The Vocation pag. 381. The Fathers 421. The Law 436. The Captains 477. DAVID 4. Day The Tropheis pag. 514. The Magnificence 551. The Schisme 590. The Decay 619. Vrania pag. 656. The Triumph of Faith 672. The Quadrains of Pibrac 697. The miraculous Peace of France 738. A Paradox against Liberty 780. CEs Tempes laurizez du Laurier mesme honeur Ces Yeux contemple-Cieux ou la Vertu se lit Ces traits au front marquez de Scavoir d' Esprit Ne sont que du BARTAS vn ombre exterieur Le Pinçeau n'en peut plus Mais de sa propre Plume Il â—est peint le Dedans dans son divin Volume These laureat Temples which the Laurel grace These Honest Lines these Signes of Wit and Art This Map of Vertues in a Muse-full Face Are but a blush of BARTAS outward part The Pencil could no more But his owne Pen Limms him with-in the Miracle of Men. LECTORIBVS ENGLAND'S Apelles rather OVR APOLLO WORLD' 's wonder SYDNEY that rare more than-man This LOVELY VENVS first to LIMNE beganne VVith such a PENCILL as no PENNE dares follow How theÌ„ shold I in Wit Art so shalow AtteÌ„pt the Task which yet none other can Far be the thought that mine vnlearned hand His heauenly Labour shold so much vnhallow Yet least that Holy-RELIQVE being shrin'd In som High-Place close lockt froÌ„ common light My Country-men should bee debarr'd the sight Of these DIVINE pure Beauties of the Minde Not daring meddle with APELLES TABLE This haue I muddled as my MVSE was able INDIGNIS Hence profane Hands Factors for Hearts profaâ—e Hence hissing Atheists Hellish Misse-Creants Hence Buzzard Kites dazled with Beautie 's glances Hence itching Eares with Toyes and Tales vp-tane Hence Green-sick Wits that relish nought but bane Hence dead lyve Idiots drown'd in Ignorance Hence wanton Michols that deâ—ide my Dance Hence Mâ—mike Apâ—s vaine Follies Counter-pâ—ne Hence prying Critikâ—s carping past your Skill Hence dull Conceipts that have no true Discerning Hence envious Momes converting Good to Ill Hence all at-once that lack or loue not LEARNING Hence All vn-holy froÌ„ the WORLDS BIRTH Feast VRANIA's Grace brookes no vn-worthy Guest OPTIMIS But my best Guest welcom great King of FAERIE Welcom fair QVEEN his vertue 's vertuous Love Welcom right AEGLETS of the ROYAL Eyrie Welcom sound Eares that sacred Tunes approve Welcom pure Hands whose Hearts are fixt aboue Welcom deer Soules that of Art's choise are charie Welcom chaste Matrons whom true zeal doth move Welcom good Wits that grace-full Mirth can varie Welcom milde Censors that mean slips can cover Welcom quick Spirits that sound the depth of Art Welcom MECAENAS each LEARNING-lover Welcom All good Welcom with all my Heart Sit-down I pray and taste of every Dish If Ought mis like You better Cooke I wish Intimo Iosuae Sylvestri Hexasticon VTprodesse suis possit Salustius offert Gallis quod nobis Iosua noster opus Ille ergo eximijs hoc vno nomine dignus Laudibus at duplici nititur hic merito Quem simul Authoris famae charaeque videmus Communi Patriae consuluisse bono Io Bo. Miles Ad Ioshuam Sylvesterum G. Salustij genuinum Interpretem * ⎠* FAre agê divini cultissima lingua Salusti SYLVESTER Clarij ceu fuit ille Dei Elyzij qua parte Iugiconvenerat te Edocâ—it sensus sua verba Senex An mage corpored Herois compage soluta In te Anima Elyzium fecerat ipsa sibi Credo equideÌ„ Samij rata Dogmata sunt Senis vnde Non Translata mihi sed genuina canis Quin Posteritas si pagina prima taceret Interpres dubitet tune vel ille siet Car Fitz-Geofridus Lati-Portensis Iosua
tuis Sic tandem felix te gaudeat Anglia vate Sic te Virgilium norit et ipsa suum Io Mauldaeus Germanus Amicissimo Iosuae Syluestri G. Salustij D. BARTASII interpreti Encomium QVod conspecta Pharus vario dat lumine vasta Aequora sulcanti cum vaga Luna silet Et quod lustratis Phoebi dat flammatenebris Erranti in syluis dum manifestat iter Hoc dat praestanti methodo SALVSTIVS illis Cognitio Sanctae queis placet Historiae Ille dedit Gallis quod nobis IOSVA noster Qui solus patrio ductus amore dedit Ingenium cupitis non fictaque flumina Vatum Hic magnum doctis Hortus acumen habet Musa tua est BARTAS dulcissima Musa videtur Ipsa tamen NOSTRI dulcior esse mihi Si. Ca. Gen. Flexanimo Salustij du Bartas interpreti Iâ— Syluestri carmen Encomiasticon OFt haue I seen sweet fancie-pleasing facts Consort themselues with swart misshapen features To grace the more their soule-subduing graces By the defect of such deformed creatures As Painters garnish with their shadowes sable The brighter colours in a curious Table So English Bartas though thy beauties heer Excell so far the glory of the rest That France and England both must hold thee deer Sith both their glories thou hast heer exprest Shewing the French tongues plenty to be such And yet that ours can vtter full as much Let not thy fairest Heav'n-aspiring Muse Disdaine these humble notes of my affection My faulty lines let faithfull loue excuse Sith my defects shall adde to thy perfection For these rude rimes thus ragged base and poore Shall by their want exalt thy worth the more E. G. In Commendation of du BARTAS and his Translator M. IOSVAH SYLVESTER A SONNET WHile nights black wings the dayes bright beauties hide And while fayre Phoebus diues in western deep Men gazing on the heav'nly stages steep Commend the Moon and many Stars beside But when Aurora's windowes open wide That Sol's clear rayes those sable clouds may banish Then sodainly those petty lights do vanish Vailing the glories of their glistring pride Sa while du Bartas and our Syluester The glorious light of England and of France Haue hid their beams each glowe-worme durst prefer His feeble glimpse of glimmering radiance But now thâ—se Suns begin to gild the day Those twinkling sparks are soon disperst away R. H. In Commendation of this worthy Work FOole that I was I thought in younger times That all the Muses had their graces sowen In Chaucers Spencers and sweet Daniels Rimes So good seems best where better is vnknowen While thus I dream'd my busie phantasic Bad me awake open mine eyes and see How SALVST's English Sun our SYLVESTER Makes Moon and Stars to vaile and how the Sheauâ—s Of all his Brethren bowing do prefer His Fruits before their Winter-shaken Leaues So much for Matter and for Manner too Hath He out gon those that the rest out goe Let Gryll be Gryll let Enuie's vip'rous seed Gnaw forth the brest which bred and fed the same Rest safe Sound truth from fear is euer freed Malice may bark but shall not bite thy Name IOSVA thy Name with BARTAS name shall liue For double life you each to other giue But Mother Enuie if this Arras spunne Of Golden threds be seen of English eyes Why then alas our Cob-webs are vndone But She more subtile than religious-wise Hatefull and hated proud and ignorant Pale swoln as Toade though customed to vaunt Now holds her Peace but O! what Peace hath She With Vertue none Therefore defie her frown Gainst greater force growes greater victory As Camomile the more you tread it down The more it springs Vertue despightfully Vsed doth vse the more to fructisie And so do Thou vntill thy Mausole rare Do fill this World with wonderment and that In Venus Form no clumsie fist may dare To meddle with thy Pencil and thy Plat I fear thy life more till thy goale be run Than Wife his Spouse or Father fears his Son R. R. Malum patienti lucrum An Acrostick Sonnet to his friend M. IOSVA SYLVESTER I IF profit mixt with pleasure merit Praise O Or Works diuine be 'fore profane preferr'd S Shall not this heauenly Work the Workers raise V Vnto the Clouds on Columnes selfly-rear'd A And though his Earth be lowe in Earth interr'd S Shall not du BARTAS Poetspride and glorie I In after Ages be with wonder heard L Liuely recording th' VNIVERSAL Story V Vndoubtedly He shal and so shalt Thou E Eare-charming Eccho of his sacred Voice S Sweet SYLVESTER how happy was thy choise T To Task thee thus and thus to quight thee now E End as thou hast begun and then by right R Rare Muses NON-SVCH shal thy Work be hight R. N. Gen. To the Same HAd golden Homer and great Maro kept In enuious silence their admired measures A thousand Worthies worthy deeds had slept They reft of prayse and we of learned pleasures But O! what rich incomparable treasures Had the world wanted had not this modern glory Diuine du BARTAS hid his heauenly ceasures Singing the mighty World's immortall story O then how deeply is our â—le beholding To Chapman and to Phaer but yet much more To thee deare SYLVESTER for thus vnfolding These holy wonders hid from vs before Those works profound are yet profane but thine Graue learned deepe delightfull and diuine R. N. Du BARTAS His FIRST VVEEK Or Birth of the WORLD Wher-in In SEAVEN DAYES The glorious Work Of The CREATION is diuinely handled In the 1. Day The CHAOS In the 2. Day The ELEMENTS In the 3. Day The SEA EARTH In the 4. Day The HE AVENS SVN MOON c. In the 5. Day The FISHES FOVLES In the 6. Day The BEASTS MAN In the 7. Day The SABAOTH Acceptam refero The first Daie of the First VVeek THE ARGVMENT GOD'S Ayde implor'd the Summ of All propos'd World not eternall nor by Chaunce compos'd But of meer Nothing God it essence gaue It had Beginning and an End shall haue Curst Atheists quipt the Heathen Clarks control'd Doom's glorious Day Star-Doctros blam'd for bold The Matter form'd Creation of the Light Alternate Changes of the Day and Night The Birth of Angels some for Pride deiected The rest persist in Grace and guard th' Elected THou glorious Guide of Heav'ns star-glistring motion The Poet imploreth the gracious assistance of the true God of Hea uen Earth Ayrc and Sea that he may happily finish the work he takes in hand Thou thou true Neptune Tamer of the Ocean Thou Earth's drad Shaker at whose only Word Th' Eolian Scoutes are quickly still'd and stirr'd Lift vp my soule my drossie spirits refine With learned Artenrich This Work of mine O Father graunt I sweetly warbleforth Vnto our seede the WORLD'S renowned BIRTH Graunt gracious God that I record in Verse The rarest Beauties of this VNIVERSE And grant therein Thy Power I may discern That teaching others I
meet Round large and long there of itselfe it thriues And Little-World into the World arriues But that becomes by Natures set direction From foul and dead to beauty life perfection But this dull Heap of vndigested stuf Had doubtlesse neuer come to shape or proof Had not th' Almighty with his quick'ning breath Of the secret power of God in quickning the matter whereof the World was made Blow'n life and spirit into this Lump of death The dreadfull Darknes of the Memphytists The sad black horror of Cimmerian Mists The sable fumes of Hell's infernall vault Or if ought darker in the World be thought Muffled the face of that profound Abyss Full of Disorder and fell Mutinies So that in fine this furious debate Euen in the birth this Ball had ruinate Saue that the Lord into the Pile did pour Some secret Mastik of his sacred Power To glew together and to gouern fair The Heav'n and Earth the Ocean and the Aire Who ioyntly iustling in their rude Disorder The new-born Nature went about to murder As a good Wit that on th' immortall Shrine The Spirit of God by an inconceiueable meane maintained and as it were brooding warmed the shape-lesse Masse Genes 1. Of Memory ingraues a Work Diuine Abroad a-bed at boord for euer vses To minde his Theam and on his Book still muses So did Gods Spirit delight itself a space To moue itself vpon the floating Masse No other care th' Almightie's minde possest If care can enter in his sacred brest Or as a Hen that fain would hatch a Brood Som of her own som of adoptiue blood Sits close thereon and with her liuely heat Of yellow-white balls doth lyue birds beget Euen in such sort seemed the Spirit Eternall To brood vpon this Gulf with care paternall Quickning the Parts inspiring power in each From so foul Lees so fair a World to fetch For 't's nought but All in 't self including All An vn-beginning midless endles Ball 'T is nothing but a World whose superfice Leaues nothing out but what meer nothingis Now though the great Duke that in dreadfullaw Vpon Mount Horeb learn'd th' eternall Law That there is but one World confuting the Error of Leucyppus his Disciples by two reasons Had not assur'd vs that Gods sacred Power In six Dayes built this Vniuersall Bower Reason itself doth ouer-throw the grounds Of those new Worlds that fond Leucyppus founds Sith if kind Nature many Worlds could * embrace clip Still th' vpper Worlds water and earth would slip Into the lower and so in conclusion All would return into the Old Confusion Besides we must imagin empty distance Between these Worlds wherein without resistance Their wheels may whirl not hindred in their courses By th' inter-iustling of each others forces But all things are so fast together fixt With so firm bonds that there 's no void betwixt Thence coms it that a Cask pearç't to be spent Though full yet runs not till we giue it vent Thence is' t that Bellowes while the sâ—out is stopt So hardly heaue and hardly can be op't Thence is' t that water doth not freez in Winter Stopt close in vessels where no ayre may enter Thence is' t that Garden-pots the mouth kept close Let fall no liquor at their siue-like nose And thence it is that the pure siluer source In leaden pipes running a captiue course Contrary to it's Nature spouteth high To all so odious is Vacuity God then not onely framed Nature one But also set it limitation Of Form and Time exempting euer solely From quantity his own self's Essence holy Confutation of another Error of such as make Nature and the Heauens infinita How can we call the Heav'ns vnmeasured Sith measur'd Time their Course hath measured How can we count this Vniuerse immortall Sith many-wayes the parts proue howerly mortall Sith his Commencement proues his Consummation And all things ay decline to Alteration Let bold Greek Sages fain the Firmament To be compos'd of a fift Element Let them deny in their profane profoundnes End and beginning to th' Heav'ns rowling roundnes And let them argue that Deaths lawes alone Reach but the Bodies vnder Cynthias Throne The sandy grounds of their Sophistick brawling Are all too-weak to keep the World from falling One Day the Rocks from top to toe shall quiuer A liuely description of the ende of the World The Mountains melt and all in sunder shiuer The Heav'ns shall rent for fear the lowely Fields Puft vp shall swell to huge and mighty Hills Riuers shall dry or if in any Flood Rest any liquor it shall all be blood The Sea shall all be fire and on the shoar The thirsty Whales with horrid noyse shall roar The Sun shall seize the black Coach of the Moon And make it midnight when it should be noon With rusty Mask the Heav'ns shall hide their face The Stars shall fall and All away shall pass Disorder Dread Horror and Death shall com Noise storms and darknes shall vsurp the room And then the Chief-Chief-Iustice venging Wrath Which heer already often threatned hath Shall make a Bon-fire of this mighty Ball As once he made it a vast Ocean all Alas how faith-les and how modest-les Against iudicial Astrologers that presume to point the verie time thereof Are you that in your Ephomerides Mark th' yeer the month and day which euermore Gainst yeers months daies shal dam-vp Saturnes dore At thought whereof euen now my heart doth ake My flesh doth faint my very soule doth shake You haue mis-cast in your Arithmetike Mis-laid your Counters groapingly yee seek In nights blacke darknes for the secret things Seal'd in the Casket of the King of Kings 'T is hee that keeps th' eternall Clock of Time And holds the waights of that appointed Chime Hee in his hand the sacred book doth bear Of that close-clasped finall Calender Where in Red letters not with vs frequented The certaine Date of that Great Day is printed That dreadfull Day which doth so swiftly post That 't wil be seen before fore-seen of most Then then good Lord shall thy dear Son descend Though yet he seem in feeble flesh ypend In complete Glory from the glistering Sky Millions of Angels shall about him fly Mercy and Iustice marching cheek by ioule Shall his Diuine Triumphant Chariot roule Whose wheeles shall shine with Lightning round about And beames of Glory each-where blazing out Those that were laden with proud marble Toombs Those that were swallow'd in wilde Monsters woombs Those that the Sea hath swill'd those that the flashes Of ruddy Flames haue burned all to ashes Awaked all shall rise and all reuest The flesh and bones that they at first possest All shall appear and hear before the Throne Of God the Iudge without exception The finall Sentence sounding ioy and terror Of euer-lasting Happiness or Horror Som shall his Iustice som his Mercy taste Som call'd to ioy som into torment cast When from
the Goats he shall his Sheep disseuer These Blest in Heav'n those Curst in Hell for euer O thou that once scornd as the vilest drudge Didst fear the doom of an Italian Iudge Daign deerest Lord when the last Trump shall summon To this Grand Sessions all the World in common Daign in That Day to vndertake my matter And as my Iudge so be my Mediator Th' eternall Spring of Power and Prouidence Hauing spoken of the creation of the Matter he sheweth how what Forme God gaue vnto it creating in six Dayes his admirable workes In Forming of this All-circumference Did not vnlike the Bear which bringeth forth In th' end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth But after licking it in shape she drawes And by degrees she fashions out the pawes The head and neck and finally doth bring To a perfect beast that first deformed thing For when his Word in the vast Voyd had brought A confus'd heap of Wet-dry-cold-and-hot In time the high World from the lowe he parted And by itself hot vnto hot he sorted Hard vnto hard cold vnto cold he sent Moist vnto moist as was expedient And so in Six Dayes form'd ingeniously All things contain'd in th' VNIVERSITIE Not but he could haue in a moment made Wherefore God imployed six Dayes in creating the World This flowry Mansion where mankind doth trade Spred Heav'ns blew Curtains those Lamps haue burnisht Earth aire sea with beasts birds fish haue furnisht But working with such Art so many dayes A sumptuous Palace for Mankinde to raise Yer Man was made yet he declares to vs How kinde how carefull and how gracious He would be to vs being made to whom By thousand promises of things to-come Vnder the Broad-Seal of his deer Sons blood He hath assur'd all Riches Grace and Good By his Example he doth also shewe-vs How men should imitate God in his workes We should not heedles-hastily bestowe-vs In any Work but patiently proceed With oft re-vises Making sober speed In dearest business and obserue by proof That What is well don is don soon enough O Father of the Light of Wisedom Fountain The 1. â—reature extracted from the Chaos was Light Out of the Bulk of that confused Mountain What should what could issue before the Light Without which Beauty were no beauty hight In vain Timanthes had his Cyclope drawn In vain Parrhasius counterfeited Lawn In vain Apelles Uenus had begun Zeuxis Penelope if that the Sun To make them seen had neuer showen his splendor In vain in vain had been those Works of Wonder Th' Ephesian Temple the high Pharian-Tower And Carian Toomb Tropheis of Wealth and Power In vain they had been builded euery one By Scopas Sostrates and Câ—esiphon Had All been wrapt-vp from all humane sight In th' obscure Mantle of eternall Night What one thing more doth the good Architect In Princely Works more specially respect Then lightsomness to th' end the Worlds bright Eye Careeâ—ing dayly once about the Sky May shine therein and that in euery part It may seem pompous both for Cost and Art Whether Gods Spirit mouing vpon the Ball Of bubbling Waters which yet couered All Sundry opinions concerning the matter and creation of Light Thence forç't the Fire as when amid the Sky Auster and Boreas iusting furiously Vnder hot Cancer make two Clouds to clash Whence th' aire at mid-night flames with lightning flash Whether when God the mingled Lump dispackt From Fiery Element did Light extract Whether about the vast confused Crowd For twice-six howrs he spread a shining Cloud Which after he re-darkned that in time The Night as long might wrap-vp either Clime Whether that God made then those goodly beams Which gild the World but not as now it seems Or whether else som other Lamp he kindled Vpon the Heap yet all with Waters blindled Which flying round about gaue light in order To th' vn-plaç't Climates of that deep disorder As now the Sun circling about the Ball As Light 's bright Chariot doth enlighten All. No sooner said he Be there Light but lo Gen. 1. 3. The form-less Lump to perfect Form gan growe And all illustred with Lights radiant shine Of the excellent vse and commoditie of Light Doft mourning weeds and deckt it passing fine All-hail pure Lamp bright sacred and excelling Sorrow and Care Darknes and Dread repelling Thou World's great Taper Wicked mens iust Terror Mother of Truth true Beauties onely Mirror God's eldest Daughter O! how thou art full Of grace and goodnes O! how beautifull Sith thy great Parent 's all-discerning Eye Doth iudge thee so and sith his Maiesty Thy glorious Maker in his sacred layes Can doo no less then sing thy modest prayse But yet because all Pleasures wax vnpleasant Why God ordained the Night and Day alternately to succeed each other If without pawse we still possesse them present And none can right discern the sweets of Peace That haue not felt Warrs irkesom bitterness And Swans seem whiter if swart Crowes be by For contraries each other best descry Th' All 's Architect alternately decreed That Night the Day the Day should Night succeed The Night to temper Dayes exceeding drought The commodities that the Night bringeth vs. Moistens our Aire and makes our Earth to sprout The Night is she that all our trauails eases Buries our cares and all our griefs appeases The Night is she that with her sable wing In gloomy Darknes hushing euery thing Through all the World dumb silence doth distill And wearied bones with quiet sleep doth fill Sweet Night without Thee without Thee alas Our life were loathsom euen a Hell to pass For outward pains and inward passions still With thousand Deaths would soule and body thrill O Night thou pullest the proud Mask away Where-with vain Actors in this Worlds great Play By day disguise-them For no difference Night makes between the Peasant and the Prince The poor and rich the Prisoner and the Iudge The foul and fair the Maister and the Drudge The fool and wise Barbarian and the Greek For Night's black Mantle couers all alike He that condemn'd for som notorious vice Seeks in the Mines the baits of Auarice Or swelting at the Furnace fineth bright Our soules diresulphur resteth yet at Night He that still stooping toghes against the tide His laden Barge alongst a Riuers side And filling shoars with shouts doth melt him quite Vpon his pallet resteth yet at Night He that in Sommer in extreamest heat Scorched all day in his own scalding sweat Shaues with keen Sythe the glory and delight Of motly Medowes resteth yet at Night And in the arms of his deer Pheer for goes All former troubles and all former woes Onely the learned Sisters sacred Minions While silent Night vnder her sable pinions Foldes all the World with pain-less pain they tread A sacred path that to the Heav'ns doth lead And higher then the Heav'ns their Readers raise Vpon the wings of their
t' assault the Ill Of the good Angels seruing to the glory of God and good of his Church both in generall and particular Th' vnspotted Spirits that neuer did intend To mount too high nor yet too lowe descend With willing speed they euery moment goe Whether the breath of diuine grace doth blowe Their aims had neuer other limitation Then God's own glory and his Saints saluation Law-less Desire nâ—'r enters in their brest Th' Almightie's Face is their Ambrosiall Feast Repentant tears of strayed Lambs returning Their Nectar sweet their Musike Sinners Mourning Ambitious Mans greedy Desire doth gape Sâ—eptâ—r Scepter Crown on Crown to clap These neuer thirst for greater Dignities Trauail's their â—ase their bliss in seruice lies For God no sooner hath his pleasure spoken Or bow'd his head or giuen som other token Or almost thought on an Exploit where in The Ministry of Angels shall be seen But these quick Postes with ready expedition Fly to accomplish their diuine Commission One followes Agar in hir pilgrimage Gen. 21 17 18. And with sweet comforts doth her cares asswage Another guideth Isâ—â—â—â— mighty Hoasts Exod. 23 23 33 2. Another Iacob on th' Idumean Coasts Another skill'd in Physick to the Light Tobi. 11 7 11 12 14 15 Restores old faithfull Tobies failing sight In Nazareth another rapt with ioy Tels that a Virgin shall bring forth a Boy That Mary shall at-once be Mayd-and-Mother Luk. 1 26. And bear at-once her Son Sire Spowse and Brother Yea that Her happy fruitfull woomb shall hold Him that in Him doth all the World infold Som in the Desart tenderd consolations Math. 4 11. While IESVS stroue with Sathans strong Temptations One in the Garden in his Agonies Luk. 22 43. Cheers-vp his fears in that great enterprise To take that bloody Cup that bitter Chalice And drink it off to purge our sinfull Malice Another certifies his Resurrection Matth. 28 25. Vnto the Women whose faith 's imperfection Suppos'd his colde limbs in the Graue were bound Vntill th' Archangels lofty Trump should sound Another past all hope doth pre-auerr Luk. 1 13. Acts 12. â— The birth of Iohn Christ's holy Harbenger One trusty Seriant for diuine Decrees The Iewes Apostle from close Prison frees One in few howers a fearfull slaughter made Of all the First-born that the Memphians had Exod. 12 29. Exempting Those vpon whose door-postes stood A sacred token of Lambs tender blood 2. Kings 10. 35 Another mowes-down in a moments space Before Hierusalem Gods chosen place Senacharib's proud ouer-daring Hoast That threatned Heav'n and 'gainst the Earth did boast In his Blasphemous braues comparing ev'n His Idol-Gods vnto the God of Heav'n His Troups victorious in the East before Besieg'd the City which did sole adore The Onely God so that without their leaue A Sparrow scarce the sacred Wals could leaue Then Ezechias as a prudent Prince Poizing the danger of these sad euents His Subiects thrall his Cities wofull Flames His Childrens death the rape of noble Dames The Massacre of Infants and of Eld And 's Royall Self with thousand weapons queld The Templeraz'd th' Altar and Censer voyd Of sacred vse Gods Seruants all destroyd Humbled in Sack-cloath and in Ashes cries For ayd to God the God of Victories Who hears his suit and thunders down his Fury On those proud Pagan Enimies of Iury For while their Watch within their Corps de Garde About the Fire securely snorted hard From Heav'n th' Almighty looking sternly down Glancing his Friends a smile his Foes a frown A sacred Fencer 'gainst th' Assyrians sent Whose two-hand Sword at euery veny slent Not through a single Souldiers feeble bones But keenly slyces through whole Troops at once And heaws broad Lanes before it and behinde As swistly whirling as the whisking winde Now gan they fly but all too slowe to shun A flying Sword that follow'd euery one A Sword they saw but could not see the arm That in one Night had don so dismall harm As we perceiue a Winde-mils sayls to go But not the Winde that doth transport them so Blushing Aurora had yet scarce dismist Mount Libanus from the Nights gloomy Mist When th' Hebrew Sentinels discov'ring plain An hundred foure score and fiue thousand slain Exceeding ioyfull gan to ponder stricter To see such Conquest and not knowe the Victor O sacred Tutors of the Saints you Guard Of Gods Elect you Pursuiuants prepar'd To execute the Counsails of the Highest You Heav'nly Courtiers to your King the nighest Gods glorious Heralds Heav'ns swift Harbengers 'Twixt Heav'n and Earth you true Interpreters I could be well content and take delight To follow farther your celestiall Flight But that I fear heer hauing ta'n in hand So long a iourney both by Sea and Land I fear to faint if at the first too fast I cut away and make too-hasty haste For Trauailers that burn in braue desire To see strange Countries manners and attire Make haste enough if onely the First Day From their own Sill they set but on their way So Morne and Euening the First Day conclude And God perceiu'd that All his Workes were good THE SECOND DAIE OF THE FIRST WEEK THE ARGVMENT Lewd Pöets checkt Our Pöets chast Intents Heav'ns Curtain spread th' all-forming Elements Their number nature vse and Domination Concent excesse continuance situation Aire 's triple Regions and their Temper 's change Windes Exhalations and all Meteors strange Th' effects the vse apply'd to Conscience Mans Reason non-plust in som Accidents Of Prodigies of th' Elementall Flame Heav'ns ten-fold Orbs Waters aboue the same THose learned Spirits whose wits applyed wrong With wanton Charms of their in chanting song A iust reproof of wanton lasciâ—ious Poets of our Time Make of an olde foul frantike Hecuba A wondrous fresh fair witty Helena Of lewd Faustina that loose Emperess A chaste Lucretia loathing wantonness Of a blinde Bowe-Boy of a Dwarf a Bastard No petty Godling but the Gods great Master On thankless furrows of a fruitless sand Their seed and labour lose with heedless hand And pitching Netts to catch I little wott What fume of Fame that seems them to besott Resemble Spiders that with curious pain Weaue idle Webs and labour still in vain But though then Time we haue no deerer Treasure Less should I wail their miss-expence of leasure If their sweet Muse with too-well spoken Spell Drew not their Readers with themselues to Hell For vnder th' hony of their learned Works A hatefull draught of deadly poyson lurks Whereof alas Young spirits quaffe so deep The danger of their seduced Readers That drunk with Loue their Reason falls asleep And such a habit their fond Fancy gets That their ill stomack still loues euill meats Th' inchanting force of their sweet eloquence Hurls head long down their tender Audience Ay childe-like sliding in a foolish strife On th' Icie down-Hills of this slippery Life The Songs their Phoebus
doth so sweet inspire Are euen the Bellows whence they blow the fire Of raging Lust before whose wanton flashes A tender brest rak't-vp in shamefaç't ashes Our Poets modest purpose Therefore for my part I haue vow'd to Heav'n Such wit and learning as my God hath giv'n To write to th' honour of my Maker dread Verse that a Virgine without blush may read Again he calleth vpon God for assistance in the descriptioÌ„ of the 2. Dayes worke Clear Source of Learning soule of th' Vniuerse Sith thou art pleas'd to chuse mine humble verse To sing thy Praises make my Pen distill Celestiall Nectar and this Volume fill With th' Amalthéan Horn that it may haue Som correspondence to a Theam so graue Rid thou my passage and make clear my way From all incumbers shine vpon This Day That guided safely by thy sacred Light My Rendez-vous I may attain yer night Which is thè Fir mament meÌ„tioned by Moseâ— in the 1. Ch. of Gen. V. 6 7 8. Comprehending the Heauens and all the Elementary Region Of the foure Elements simple in theÌ„selues wherof all things subiect to our sense are composed THAT HVGE broad-length that long-broad height-profound Th' infinite finit that great moundless Mound I mean that Chaos that self-iarring Mass Which in a moment made of Nothing was Was the rich Matter and the Matrix whence The Heav'ns should issue and the Elements Now th' Elements twin-twins two Sons two Daughters To wit the Fire the Aire the Earth and Waters Are not compounded but of them is all Compounded first that in our sense can fall Whether their qualities in euery portion Of euery thing infuse them with proportion Whether in all their substance they confound And so but one thing of their foure compound As in a Venice Glass before our eyne Diuers similes We see the water intermix with wine Or in our stomack as our drink and food Doe mingle after to conuert to blood This in a Fire-brand may wesâ—e whose Fire Doth in his flame toward 's natiue Heav'n aspire His Ayre in smoak in ashes falls his Earth And at his knots his Water wheezes forth Euen such a War our Bodies peace maintains For in our Flesh our Bodie 's Earth remains Our vitall spirits our Fire and Aire possess And last our Water in our humours rests Nay ther 's no Part in all this Bulk of ours Where each of these not intermix their powers Though 't be apparant and I needs must graunt That ayesom one is most Predominant The pure red part amid the Mass of Bloud The Sanguine Aire commaunds the clotted mud Sunk down in Lees Earths Melancholy showes The pale thin humour that on th' out-side flowes Is watery Phlegme and the light froathy scum Bubbling aboue hath Fiery Cholers room Not that at all times one same Element In one same Body hath the Regiment A vicissitude of the Elements praedominance But in his turn each raigning his subiects draws After his Lore for still New Lords new Lawes As sans respect how rich or Noble-born Each Citizen rules and obayes by turn In chart'red Towns which seem in little space Changing their Ruler euen to change their face For as Chameleons vary with their obiect So Princes manners do transform the Subiect So th' Element in Wine predomining It hot and cold and moist and dry doth bring By 's perfect or imperfect force at length Inforcing it to change the taste and strength So that it doth Grapes sharp-green iuice transfer To Must Must t'wine and Wine to Vineger As while a Monarch to teach others aw ExcelleÌ„t Similes shewing the commodity or discoÌ„modity of the proportioÌ„ or excesse of euery of the Elemente Subiects his own selfs-Greatnes to his Law He ruleth fearless and his Kingdoms flourish In happy Peace and Peace doth Plenty nourish But if fell Tyrant his keen sword be euer Vniustly drawn if he be sated neuer With Subiects blood needs must his Rage at last Destroy his State and lay his Countrey waste So or much like the while one Element Ouer the rest hath modest Gouernment While in proportion though vnequall yet With Soueraign Humours Subiect Humours fit The Body's â—ound and in the very face Retains the Form of beauty and of grace But if like that inhumane Emperour Who wisht all People vnderneath his Power Had but one head that he might butcher so All th' Empires Subiects at one onely blowe It Tyrannizing seek to wrack the rest It ruines soon the Prouince it possest Where soon appears through his proud vsurpation Both outward change and inward alteration So too-much Moist which vnconcoct within Excesse of moisture The Liuer spreads betwixt the flesh and skin Puffs vp the Patient stops the pipes pores Of Excrements yea double bars the dores Of his short breath and slowely-swiftly curst In midd'st of Water makes him euer thirst Nor giues man Rest nor Respite till his bones Be raked vp in a cold heap of stones Of Drought So too-much Drought a lingring Ague drawes Which seeming painless yet much pain doth cause Robbing the nerues of might of Ioy the heart Of mirth the face of moisture euery part Much like a Candle fed with it own humour By little and little it own selfs consumer Nor giues mans Rest nor Respite till his bones Be raked vp in a colde heap of stones So too-much Heat doth bring a burning Feuer Of Heate Which spurrs our Pulse and furrs our Palat euer And on the tables of our troubled brain Fantastikely with various pensill vain Doth counterfait as many Forms or mo Then euer Nature Art or Chance could showe Nor giues man Rest nor Respite till his bones Be raked vp in a cold heap of stones So too-much Cold couers with hoary Fleece Of Colde The head of Age his flesh diminishes Withers his face hollowes his rheumy eyes And makes himself euen his own self despise While through his marrow euery where it enters Quenching his natiue heat with endless Winters Nor giues man Rest nor Respite till his bones Be taked vp in a coldheap of stones Of the continuance of the Elements maintaining that whatso euer is now nâ—w formed hath stil his substance froÌ„ the Materia prima what soeuer dissolues resolues into the same changing onely forme And also consuting the contrary Errors Yet think not that this Too-too-much remises Ought into nought it but the Form disguises In hundred fashions and the Substances Inly or outly neither win nor leese For all that 's made is made of the First Matter Which in th' old Nothing made the All-Creator All that dissolues resolues into the same Since first the Lord of Nothing made This Frame Nought's made of nought and nothing turns to nothing Things birth or death change but their formall clothing Their Forms doe vanish but their bodies bide Now thick now thin now round now short now side For if of Nothing anything could spring Th' Earth without
And want on ENGLAND why hast thou forgot Vpon like consideration the Trāslator sharp ly citeth Eng. to rouze her frō her present securitie proposeth fearfull exāples of her own troublous changes others terrible Chastisements Thy visitation as thou hadst it not Thou hast seen signes and thou hast felt the rod Of the revenging wrathfull hand of God The frowning Heav'ns in fearefull Sightes fore-spoke Thy Roman Saxon Dane and Norman Yoak And since alas vnkinder wounds then those The Ciuillrents of thy diuided ROSE And last of all the raging Wolues of Rome Tearing thy limbs Christs Lambs in Martyrdom Besides Great Plagues and grieuous Dearths which yerst Haue oft the Sinnews of thy strength reuerst But thou more faulty more forgetfull art Then Boyes that fear but while they feel the smart All this is past and thou past fear of it In Peace and Plenty as a Queen doost sit Of Rods forgetfull and for Rest ingratefull That sottish dulnes this a sinne most hatefull Ingratefull to thy God who all hath sent And thy late Queen his sacred Instrument By whose pure hand he hath more blessed Thine Esay Chap. 5. ◠2. 3. c. Then yerst his owne Choice-planted Hebrew Vine From whence hee look't for Grapes as nov from thee That bore him Crabs Thouworse if worse may be That was destroy'd the wilde Boar entred in ENGLAND beware Like punishment like sinne But O! what boots or what auailes my song To this deaf Adder that hath slept so long Snorting so loud on pillows of Securitie Dread-less of danger drowned in Impurity Whose Senses all all ouer-grow'n with Fat Haue left no door for Fear to enter at Yet once again deer Country must I call ENGLAND repent Fall to preuent thy Fall Though Thou be blinde thy wakefull watchmen see Heav'ns Irefull vengeance hanging ouer thee In fearfull Signes threatning a thousand Woes To thy Sinn 's Deluge which allouer-flowes Thine vncontrold bold open Athëism Close Idol-seruice Cloaked Hypocrism Common Blaspheming of Gods Name in Oaths Vsuall Profaning of his Sabbaoths Thy blinde dumb Idol-shepheards choakt with steeples That fleece thy Flocks and do not feed thy Peoples Strife-full Ambition Florentizing States Bribes and Affection swaying Magistrates Wealth 's mercie-less Wrong Vsury Extortion Poore's Idleness Repining at their Portion Thy drunken Surfets and Excess in Diet Thy Sensuall wallowing in Lascivious Riot Thy huft puft painted curld purld Wanton Pride The Baud to Lust and to all Sinns beside These are thy Sinns These are the Signes of Ruin To euery State that doth the same pursue-in Such cost the Iews and Asians Desolation Now turned Turks that were the Holy Nation Happy who take by others dangers warning All that is writ is written for our learning So preach thy Prophets But who heeds their cry Or who beleeues Then much less hope haue I. Wherefore Deer Bartas hauing warned them From this Digression turn we to our Theam As our All-welcom SOVERAIN Englands solace Simile Heav'ns care Earths comfort in his stately Palace Hath next His Person Princes of His Realms Next him in bloud extract from Royall Stems Next those the Nobles next the Magistrates That serue him truly in their seuerall States As more or less their diuers Dignity Coms neer the Greatnes of his Maiesty So next the Heav'ns God marshall'd th' Element Hauing sufficiently discoursed of the Aire he begins to handle the Element of Fire Which seconds them in swift bright Ornament And then the rest according as of kin To th' Azure Sphears or th' Erring Fiers they bin Yet som more crediting their eyes then Reason From 's proper place this Essence doo disseisin Against such as deny the Fire to be an Element And vainly strive after their Fanciessway To cut the World's best Element away The nimble light bright-flaming heat-full Fire Fountain of life Smith Founder Purifier Cook Surgeon Soldier Gunner Alchymist The source of Motion briefly what not is' t Apt for all acting all whose arms embrace Vnder Heav'ns arms this Vniuersall Mass. For if say they the Fire were lodg'd between Their Reasons The Heav'ns and vs it would by night be seen Sith then so far-off as in Meads we pass 1 We see least Glow-wormsglister in the grass Besides how should we through the Fiery Tent Perceiue the bright eys of the Firmament Sith heer the soundest and the sharpest ey 2 Can nothing through our Candle-flames descry O! hard-beleeuing Wits if Zephyrus Aunsweres And Austers sighes were neuer felt of vs You would suppose the space between Earth's Ball And Heav'ns bright Arches void and empty all And then no more you would the Aire allow For Element then th' hot-bright Flamer now Now ev'n as far as Phoebus light excels Difference between th' Elementary fire and ours The light of Lamps and every Taper els Wherewith wevse to lengthen th' After-noon Which Capricorn ducks in the Sea too soon So far in pureness th' Elementall Flame Excels the Fire that for our vse we frame For ours is nothing but a dusky light Gross thick and smoaky enemy to sight But that aboue for being neither blent With fumy mixture of gross nourishment Nor tost with Windes but far from vs coms neer It 's neighbour Heav'n in nature pure and cleer But of what substance shall I after-thee Heere for conclusion of this second booke hee commeth to discourse of the Heauens first intreateth of their matter and Essence According to the opinions of the Philosophers O match-less Master make Heav'ns Canapey Vncertain heer my resolutions rock And waver like th' inconstant Weather-Cock Which on a Towr turning with every blast Changeth his Master and his place as fast Learned Lycaeum now awhile I walk-in Then th' Academian sacred Shades I stalk-in Treading the way that Aristotle went I doo depriue the Heav'ns of Element And mixture too and think th' omnipotence Of God did make them of a Quint-Essence Sith of the Elements two still erect Their course Their motion vp two euer down direct But the Heav'ns course not wandring vp nor down Continually turns onely roundly round The Elements haue no eternal race But settle ay in their assigned place But th' azure Circle without taking breath His certain course for euer gallopeth It keeps one pase and mov'd with waight-les waights It neuer takes fresh horse nor neuer baits Things that consist of th' Elements vniting Are euer tost with an intestin fighting Whence springs in time their life and their deceasing Heauen not subiect to alteration as are the Elements Their diuers change their waxing and decreasing So that of all that is or may be seen With mortall eyes vnder Nights horned Queen Nothing retaineth the same form and face Hardly the half of half an howrs space But the Heav'ns feel not Fates impartiall rigour Years add not to their stature nor their vigour Vse wears them not but their green-euer Age Is all in all still like their Pupillage
Then sodainly turnd studious Platonist I hold the Heav'ns of Elements consist What vse of Elements in the Heauens 'T is Earth whose firm parts make their Lamps apparant Their bodies fast Aire makes them all transparant Fire makes their rest-les circles pure and cleer Hot lighsom light and quick in their career And Water ' nointing with cold-moist the brims Of th' enter-kissing turning Globes extreams Tempers the heat caus'd by their rapid turning Which els would set all th' elements a-burning Not that I doo compare or match the Matter Difference between the Elements whereof the Heauens are composed and these inferiour Elements Whence I compose th' All-compassing Theater To those gross Elements which heer belowe Our hand and ey doth touch and see and knowe 'T's all fair all pure a sacred harmony Those bodies bindes in end-less Vnity That Aier's not flitting nor that Water floating Nor Fire inflaming nor Earth dully doating Nor one to other aught offensiue neither But to conclude Celestiall altogether See see the rage of humane Arrogance Detesting the presumption of those curious wits searching these secrets He limits himselfe within the bounds of Christian Sobriety See how far dares man's erring ignorance That with vnbridled tongue as if it oft Had try'd the mettle of that vpper Loft Dares without proof or without reason yeelded Tell of what timber God his Palace builded But in these doubts much rather rest had I Then with mine errour draw my Readerwry Till a Saint Paule doore-descend from Heav'n Or till my self this sinfull roab be reav'n This rebell Flesh whose counterpoize oppresses My pilgrim Soule and euer it depresses Shall see the beauties of that Blessed Place If then I ought shall see saue Gods bright Face But ev'n as many or more quarrels cumber Diuers opinions of the number of the Heauens Th' old Heathen Schools about the Heav'ns number One holds but one making the Worlds Eys shine Through the thin-thicknes of that Crystal line As through the Oceans cleer and liquid Flood The slippery Fishes vp and down doosâ—ud Another iudging certain by his ey And seeing Seav'n bright Lamps moov'd diversly ' Turn this and that way and on th' other side That all the rest of the Heav'ns twinkling pride Keep all one course ingeniously he varies The Heav'ns rich building into eight round Stories Others amid the Starriest Orb perceiuing A triple cadence and withall conceiuing That but one naturall course one body goes Count nine som ten not numbring yet with those Th' empyreall Palace where th' eternall Treasures Of Nectar flowe where ever-lasting Pleasures Are heaped-vp where an immortall May In bliss-full beauties flourisheth for ay Where Life still liues where God his * Assises Sises holds Environ'd round with Seraphins and Soules Bought with his precious blood whose glorious Flight Yerst mounted Earth above the Heav'ns bright Nor shall my faint and humble Muse presume So high a Song and Subiect to assume O fair fiue-double Round sloath's Foe apparant He stoppeth at the contemplation and praise of the Heauens Which he considereth as distinguished into ten stages or Heauens Life of the World Dayes Months and yeers own Parent Thine own selfs model never shifting place And yet thy pure wings with so swift a pase Fly over vs that but our Thought alone Can as thy babe pursue thy motion Infinite finite free from growth and grief Discord and death dance-louer to be brief Still like thy self all thine own in thee all Transparent cleer light law of this lowe Ball Which in thy wide bout bound-les all doost bound And claspâ—st all vnder or in thy Round Throne of th' Almighty I would fain rehearse Thy various Dauies in this very Verse If it were time and but my bounded Song Doubteth to make this Second Day too-long For notwithstanding yet another day I fear som Critick will not stick to say My babbling Muse did sail with every gale And mingled yarn to length her web withall But knowe what e'r thou be that heer I gather The summe of what hath been handled in this booke what is to be vnderstood by the firmament which Moyses describeth in the first of Gen. â— 6 Iustly so many of Gods works together Because by th' Orbe of th' ample Firmament Which round this-This-Day th' Eternall Fingers pent Between the lower Waters and the higher I mean the Heav'ns the Aire and th' vpper Fire Which separate the Oceans waters salt From those which God pour'd o'r th' Ethereal Vault Yet haue I not so little seen and sought Against those that think there are no waters aboue the firmament Whom he confuteth by diuers Reasons Simile The Volums which our Age hath chiefest thought But that I knowe how suttly greatest Clarks Presume to argue in their learned Works T'o ' r-whelm these Floods this Crystal to deface And dry this Ocean which doth all imbrace But as the beauty of a modest Dame Who well-content with Natures comly Frame And native Fair as it is freely giv'n In fit proportion by the hand of Heav'n Doth not with painting prank nor set-it-out With helps of Art sufficient Fair without Is more prayse-worthy then the wanton glance Th' affected gait th' alluring countenance The Mart of Pride the Periwigs and painting Whence Courtisans refresh their beauties fainting 1. The word of God to be preser red before the voice of man So doe I more the sacred Tongue esteem Though plain and rurall it doe rather seem Then school'd Athenian and Diuinity For onely varnish have but Verity Then all the golden Wit-pride of Humanity Wherewith men burnish their erroneous vanity I 'l rather give a thousand times the ly 2. Gods word meÌ„tioneth waters aboue the firmament To mine own Reason then but once defy The sacred voice of th' ever-lasting Spirit Which doth so often and so loud averr-it That God above the shining Firmament Gen. 1 7 Psal. 104 3 Psal. 148 4 I wot not I what kinde of Waters pent Whether that pure super-celestiall Water With our inferiour haue no likely nature Whether turnd Vapour it haue round embow'd Heav'ns highest stage in a transparent Cloud Or whether as they say a Crystall case Do round about the Heav'nly Orb embrace But with coniectures wherefore strive I thus Can doubtfull proofs the certainty discuss I see not why Mans reason should withstand 3. The power of God ought to be of greater authority then Mans Reason Or not beleeve that Hee whose powrfull hand Bay'd-vp the Red-Sea with a double Wall That Israels Hoast might scape Egyptian thrall Could prop as sure so many waves on high Above the Heav'n Star-spangled Canapy See we not hanging in the Clouds each howr So many Seas still threatning down to pour 4. The consideration of the waters which hang in the Aire and of the Sea which compasseth the Earth Supported only by th' Aier's agitation Selfly too weak for the least waight's foundation See wee not also that
will admire In whose cleer channel mought at pleasure swim Those two bright Fishes that doo follow him Pisces in mid-February But that the Torrent slides so swift away That it out-runs them euer euen as they Out-run the Ram who euer them pursues And by renewing Yearely all renues The names of the Principall stars of the North-Pole Besides these Twelue toward the Artik side A flaming Dragon doth Two-Bears diuide After the Wainman coms the Crown the Spear The Kneeling Youth the Harp the Hamperer Of th' hatefull Snake whether we call the same By Aesculapius or Alcides name Swift Pegasus the Dolphin louing man Ioues stately Aegle and the siluer Swan Andromeda with Cassiopeia neer-her Her father Cepheus and her Perseus deerer The shining Triangle Medusa's Tress And the bright Coach-man of Tindarides Toward th' other Pole Orion Eridanus The names of the Stars of the South-Pole The Whale the Whelp and hot-breath't Sirius The Hare the Hulk the Hydra and the Boule The Centaure VVolf the Censer and the Foul The twice-foul Rauen the Southern Fish and Crown Through Heav'ns bright Arches brandish vp and down Thus on this-This-Day working th' eightth azure Tent The fixed stars are in the eight Heauen With Art-les Art diuinely excellent Th' Almighties fingers fixed many a million Of golden Scutchions in that rich Pauilion But in the rest vnder that glorious Heav'n But one a-peece vnto the seuerall Seav'n And the seauen Planets vnder them each in his proper Spheare Least of those Lamps the number-passing number Should mortall eyes with such confusion cumber That we should neuer in the cleerest night Starrs diuers Course see or discern aright And therfore also all the fixed Tapers He made to twinkle with such trembling capers Why the Planets twinkle not and the fixed stars do twinkle But the Scaven Lights that wander vnder them Through various passage neuer shake a beam Or he perhaps made them not different But th' hoast of Sparks spred in the Firmament Far from our sense through distance infinite Seems but to twinkle to our twinkling sight The firmament much farther from the Earth then the sphears of the Planets Wheras the rest neerer a thousand fold To th' Earth and Sea we doo more brim behold For the Heav'ns are not mixtly enterlaced But th' vndermost by th' vpper be imbraced And more or less their roundels wider are As from the Center they be neer or far As in an Egg the shell includes the skin Simile The skin the white the white the yolk with-in Two similes representing the motion of the eight inferiour Heav'ns throgh the swift turning of the ninth which is the Primum Mobile Now as the Winde buffing vpon a Hill With roaring breath against a ready Mill Whirls with a whiff the sails of swelling clout The sails doo swing the winged shaft about The shaft the wheel the wheel the trendle turns And that the stone which grindes the flowry corns Or like as also in a Clock well tended Iust counter-poize iustly thereon suspended Makes the great Wheel goe round and that anon Turns with his turning many a meaner one The trembling watch and th' iron Maule that chimes The intire Day in twice twelue equall times So the grand Heav'n in foure and twenty houres Surueying all this various house of ours With his quick motion all the Sphears doth moue Whose radiant glances gild the World aboue And driues them euery day which swiftnes strange-is From Gange to Tagus and from Tay to Ganges But th' vnder-Orbs as grudging to be still Each of the 8. Heauens so traÌ„sported by the Primum Mobilâ— hath also his proper oblique and distinct course each from other So straightly subiect to anothers will Still without change still at anothers pleasure After one pipe to dance one onely measure They from-ward turn and traversing aside Each by himself an oblique course doth slide So that they all although it seem not so Forward and backward in one instant goe Both vp and down and with contrary pases At once they poste to two contrary places Like as my self in my lost Marchant-years A loss alas that in these liues appears Waâ—ting to Brabant Englands golden Fleece The same explaned by a proper Simile A ritcher pryze then Iason brought to Greece While toward the Sea our then Swan-poorer Thames Bare down my Bark vppon her ebbing streams Vpon the hatches from the Prow to Poup Walking in compass of that narrow Coop Maugre the most that Winde and Tide could doo Haue gone at once towards LEE and LONDON too Why som of these Heauens haue a slower course shorter compasse then other some But now the neerer any of these Eight Approach th' Empyreall Palace walls in height The more their circuit and more daies they spend Yeâ— they return vnto their Iourneys end It 's therefore thought That sumptuous Canapy The terme of the reuolution of the Firmament The which th' vn-niggard hand of Maiesty Poudred so thick with Shields so shining cleer Spends in his voyage nigh seaven thousand year Ingenious Saturn spouse of Memory Of the seuenth which is the Spheare of Saturn Father of th' Age of Gold though coldly dry Silent and sad bald hoary wrinkle-faced Yet art thou first among the Planets placed And thirty years thy Leaden Coach doth run Yeâ— it arrive where thy Career begun Thou rich benign Ill-chasing Iupiter Of the 6 which is the Sphear of Iupiter Art worthy next thy Father sickle-bear And while thou doost with thy more milde aspect His froward beams disast'rous frouns correct Thy Tinnen Chariot shod with burning bosses Through twice-six Signes in twice six twelue months crosses Braue-minded Mars yet Master of mis-order Of the 5. which is the spheare of Mars Delighting nought but Battails blood and murder His surious Coursers lasheth night and day That he may swiftly passe his course away But in the road of his eternall Race So many rubs hinder his hasty pase That thrice the while the lively Liquor-God With dabbled heels hath swelling clusters trod And thrice hath Ceres shav'n her amber tress Yeâ— his steel whels haue done their business Pure goldie-locks Sol States-friend Honour-giuer Of the 4. which is the Sphear of Sol. Light-bringer Laureat Leach-man all Reviver Thou in three hundred threescore daies and five Doost to the period of thy Race arrive For with thy proper course thou measur'st th' Year And measur'st Daies with thy constrain'd career Fair dainty Venus whose free vertues milde Of the 3. which is the spheare of Venus With happy fruit get all the world with-childe Whom wanton dalliance dancing and delight Smiles wittâ—e wiles youth loue and beauty bright With soft blind Cupids evermore consort Of light som Day opens and shuts the port For hardly darâ— her siluer Doves go far From bright Apollos glory-beaming Car. Not much vnlike so Mercury the wittie Of the 2. which is the sphear of
of Heat of Light the lively sourse Life of the World Lamp of this Vniverse Heav'ns richest Gemm O teach me wher my Verse May but begin thy praise Alas I fare Much like to one that in the Clouds doth stare To count the Quails that with their shadow cover Th' Italian Sea when soaring hither over Fain of a milder and more fruitfull Clime They com with vs to pass the Summer time No sooner he begins one shoal to summ But more and more still greater shoals do com Swarm vpon Swarm that with their count-les number Break off his purpose and his sense incumber Daies glorious Eye even as a mighty King The Sun at Prince of the Ce lestiall lights marcheth in the midst of the other sixe Planets which enuiron About his Countrie stately Progressing Is compast round with Dukes Earls Lords and Knights Orderly marshall'd in their noble Rites Esquires and Gentlemen in courtly kinde And then his Guard before him and behinde And there is nought in all his Royal Muster But to his Greatness addeth grace and lustre So while about the World thou ridest ay Which only lives by vertue of thy Ray Six Heav'nly Princes mounted evermore Wayt on thy Coach three behinde three before Besides the Hoast of th' vpper Twinklers bright To whom for pay thou giuest onely Light And ev'n as Man the little-World of Cares The Sun is in Heauen as the heart in mans body Within the middle of the body bears His heart the Spring of life which with proportion Supplieth spirits to all and euery portion Even so O Sun thy Golden Chariot marches Amid the six Lamps of the six lowe Arches Which seel the World that equally it might Richly impart them Beauty Force and Light Praysing thy Heat which subtilly doth pearce His notable offects vpon the Earth The solid thickness of our Vniuerse Which in th' Earths kidneys Mercury doth burn And pallid Sulphur to bright Metal turn I do digress to praise that Light of thine Which if it should but one Day cease to shine Th' vnpurged Aire to Water would resolve And Water would the mountain tops inuolve Scarce I begin to measure thy bright Face Whose greatness doth so oft Earths greatness pass And with still running the Coelestiall Ring Is seen and felt of every liuing thing But that fantastikly I change my Theam To sing the swiftness of thy tyer-les Teem To sing how Rising from the Indian Waue Thou seem'st O Titan like a Bride-groom brave Excellent comparisons borrow ed out of the 19 Psalme Who from his Chamber early issuing out In rich array with rarest Gems about With pleasant Countenance and lovely Face With golden tresses and attractive grace Cheers at his comming all the youthfull throng That for his presence earnestly did long Blessing the day and with delightfull glee Singing aloud his Epithalamie Then as a Prince that feeles his Noble heart Wounded with Loues pure Honor-winged dart As HARDY LAELIVS that Great GARTER-KNIGHT The same exemplified in an honorable personage of our time now very aged but in his yong years the glory of Armes and Chiualrie Tilting in Triumph of ELIZA'S Right Yeerely that Day that her deerraign began Most brauely mounted on proud RABICAN All in gilt armour on his glistering Mazor A stately Plume of Orange mixt with Azur In gallant Course before ten thousand eyes From all Defendants bore the Princely Prize Thou glorious Champion in thy Heav'nly Race Runnest so swift we scarse conceivethy pase When I record how fitly thou dost guide Through the fourth heav'n thy flaming Coursers pride Of Gods wonder full prouidēce in placing the Sun in the midst of the other Planets of the commodities that come therof That as they pass their fiery breaths may temper Saturn's and Cynthya's cold and moist distemper For if thou gallop'st in the neather Room Like Phaëton thou would'st the World consume Or if thy Throne were set in Saturn's Sky For want of heat then euery thing would dy In the same instant I am prest to sing How thy return reviveth every thing How in thy Presence Fear Sloath Sleep and Night Snowes Fogs and Fancies take their sodain Flight Th' art to be brief an Ocean wanting bound Whear as full vessels haue the lesser sound Plenty of Matter makes the speaker mute As wanting words thy worth to prosecute Yet glorious Monarch 'mong so many rare Of the Sunnes continuall and daily course And match-less Flowrs as in thy Garland are Som one or two shall my chaste sober Muse For thine Immortall sacred Sisters chuse I 'll boldly sing bright Soverain thou art none Of those weak Princes Flattery works vpon No second EDWARD nor no RICHVRD Second Vn-kinged both as Rule-vnworthy recon'd Who to inrich their Minions past proportion Pill all their Subiects with extream extortion And charm'd with Pleasures O exceeding Pity Ly alwaies wallowing in one wanton City And loving only that to mean Lieutenants Farm out their Kingdoms care as vnto Tenants For once a day each Country vnder Heav'n Thou bidst Good-Morrow and thou bidst Good-Ev'n And thy far-seeing Ey as Censor views The rites and fashions Fish and Foule do vse And our behaviours worthy every one Th' Abderian Laughter and Ephesian Moan But true it is to th' end a fruitfull lew May every Climat in his time renew Of his oblique or By-course cause of the foure seasons and of the commodities of all Climates in the world And that all men may neerer in all Realms Feel the alternat vertue of thy beames Thy sumptuous Chariot with the Light returning From the same Portall mounts not every Morning But to make know'n each-where thy daily drift Doo'st every day thy Coursers Stable shift That while the Spring prankt in her greenest pride Raigns heer els-wher Autumne as long may bide And while fair Summers heat our fruits doth ripe Cold Wintets Ice may other Countries gripe No sooner doth thy shining Chariot Roule A pleasant and liuely descriptiō of the foure seasons of the yeare From highest Zenith toward Northern Pole To sport thee for three Months in pleasant Inns Of Aries Taurus and the gentle Twinns But that the mealie Mountains late vnseen Change their white garments into lusty green The Gardens prank them with their Flowry buds The Meads with grass with leaves the naked Woods Sweet Zephyrus begins to buss his Flora The Spring Swift-winged Singers to salute Aurora And wanton Cupid through this Vniverse With pleasing wounds all Creatures hearts to perce When backward bent Phlegon thy fiery Steed With Cancer Leo and the Maid doth feed Th' Earth cracks with heat and Summer crowns his Ceres With gilded Ears as yellow as her hair-is The Reaper panting both for heat and pain With crooked Rasor shaves the tufted Plain The Summer And the good Husband that due season takes Within a Month his year's Provision makes When from the mid-Heav'n thy bright flame doth fly Toward the Cross-Stars in
in charge And so the Sparrow with her angry bill Defends her brood from such as would them ill I hear the Crane if I mistake not cry The Crane Y Who in the Clouds forming the forked Y By the brave orders practiz'd vnder her Instructeth Souldiers in the art of War For when her Troops of wandring Cranes for sake Frost-firmed Strymon and in Autumn take Truce with the Northern Dwarfs to seek adventure In Southren Climats for a milder Winter Afront each Band a forward Captain flies Whose pointed Bill cuts passage through the skies Two skilfull Sergeants keep the Ranks aright And with theirvoice hasten their tardy Flight And when the honey of care-charming sleep Sweetly begins through all their veins to creep One keeps the Watch and ever carefull-most Walks many a Round about the sleeping Hoast Still holding in his claw a stony clod Whose fall may wake him if he hap to nod Another doth as much athird afourth Vntill by turns the Night be turned forth There the faâ—r Peacock beautifully brave The Peacock Proud portly-strouting stalking stately-grave Wheeling his starry Trâ—yn in pomp displayes His glorious eyes to Pâ—â—bus goldenrayes Close by his side stands the courageous Cock The Cock Crest-peoples King the Peasants trusty Clock True Morning Watch Aurora's Trumpeter The Lyons terror true Astronomer Who dayly riseth when the Sun doth rise And when Sol setteth then to roost he hies There I perceive amid the flowry Plain The Estridge The mighty Estridge striving oftin vain To mount among the flying multitude Although with fethers not with flight indu'd Whose greedy stomack steely gads digests Whose crisped train adorns tryumphant crests Thou happy Witnes of my happy Watches Blush not my Book nor think it thee dismatches Of Insects in the Creation wherof the wisedom of their Makershineth admirably To bear about vpon thy paper-Tables Flies Butterflies Gnats Bees and all the rabbles Of other Insects end-less to rehearse Limn'd with the pencill of my various Verse Sith These are also His wise Workmanships Whose fame did never obscure Work eclipse And sith in These he showes vs every howr More wondrous proofs of his Almighty powr Then in huge Whales or hideous Elephants Or whatsoever other Monster haunts In storm-less Seas raising a storm about While in the Sea another Sea they spout For if olde Times admire Callicrates For Ivory Emmets and Mermécides For framing of a rigged Ship so small That with her wings a Bee can hide it all Though th' Artfull fruits of all their curious pain Fit for novse were but inuentions vain Admire we then th' All-wise Omnipotence Which doth within so narrow space dispence Of Flyes So stiff a sting so stout and valiant hart So loud a voyce so prudent wit and Art For where 's the State beneath the Firmament That doth excell the Bees for Government Of Bâ—â—â— No no bright Phoebus whose eternall Race Once every Day about the World doth pase Sees heer no City that in Rites and Laws For Equity neer to their Iustice draws Not * Venice That which flying from the furious Hun In th' Adriâ—n Sea another World begun Their well-rul'd State my soule so much admires That durst I loose the Rains of my desires I gladly could digress from my designe To sing a while their sacred Discipline But if of all whose skilfull Pencils dare To counterfait th' Almightie's Models rare None yet durst finish that fair Peece wherein Learned Apelles drew Lâ—ues wanton Queen Shall I presume Hymetus Mount to climbe And sing the Bees prayse in mine humble rime Which Latian Bards inimitable Prince Hath warbled twice about the banks of Mince Yet may I not that little * Worm pass-by The Silk-worm Of Flyturn'd Worm and of a Worm a Fly Two births two deaths heer Nature hath assign'd-her Leaving a Post-hume dead-live seed behinde-her Which soon transforms the fresh and tender leaves Of Thâ—sbes pale Tree to those slender sleaves On ovall clews of soft smooth Silken flakes Which more for vs then for her self shee makes O precious fleeceâ— which onely did adorn The sacred loyns of Princes heertoforn But our proud Age with prodigall abuse Hath so profan'd th' old honorable vse That Shifters now who scarce haue bread to eat Disdain plain Silk vnless it be beset With one of those deer Metals whose desire Burns greedy soules with an immortall fire Though last not least brave Aegle no contempt Made me so long thy story hence exempt Nor LESS-E Xtold shall thy true vertues be For th' Eyrie's sake that owes my Muse and mee Whâ—ar Iov's and Iuno's stately Birds be billing Their azure Field with fairest Eaglets filling Azure they hear three Eaglets Argentine A Cheuron Ermin grailed Or between WIâ—t CHiefâ—ie RICHess to THem all I Wish In Earth in Heav'n th' immortall Crown of Bliss For well I knowe thou holdest worthily That place among the Aëry flocks that fly As doth the Dragon or the Cocatrice Among the bancfull Creeping companies The noble Lion among savage Beasts And gentle Dolphin 'mong the Dyving guests I knowe thy course I knowe thy constant sight Can fixly gaze against Heav'ns greatest Light But as the Phoenix on my Front doth glister Thou shalt the Finials of my Frame illustre On Thracian shoar of the same stormy stream A strange and notable story of the loue and death of an Eagle Which did inherit both the bones and name Of Phryxus Sister and not far from thence Whear love-blind Heros hap-less diligence In steed of Loves lamp lighted Deaths cold brand To waft Leanders naked limbs to land There dwelt a Maid as noble and as rich As fair as Hero but more chaste by much For her steel brest still blunted all the Darts Of Paphos Archer and eschew'd his Arts. One day this Damsell through a Forest thick Hunting among her Friends that sport did seek Vpon a steep Rocks thorny-thrummed top Whear one almost would fear to clamber vp Two tender Aeglets in a nest espies Which 'gainst the Sun sâ—te trying of their eyes Whose callow backs and bodies round about With soft short quils began to bristle out Who yawning wide with empty gorge did gape For wonted fees out of their Parents rape Of these two Fowls the fairest vp she takes Into her bosom and great haste she makes Down from the Rock and shiuering yet for fear Tripps home as fast as her light feet can bear Even as a Wolf that hunting for a pray And having stoln at last som Lamb away Flies with down-hanging head and leereth back Whether the Masâ—y doo pursue his track In time this Aegle was so throughly mann'd That from the Quarry to her Mistress hand At the first call 't would com and faun vpon-her And bill and bow in signe of love and honour On th' other side the Maiden makes as much Of her deer Bird stroking with gentletouch Her wings and train and with a want on voice It want only doth
By his example giving vs behest On the Seaventh Day for evermore to Rest. For God remembred that he made not Man Of Stone or Steel or Brass Corinthian But lodg'd our soule in a frail earthen Mass Thinner then Water britteler then Glass He knowes our life is by nought sooner spent Then having still our mindes and bodies bent A Field left lay for som fewe Years will yield The richer Crop when it again is till'd A River stopped by a sluce a space Runs after rougher and a swifter pase A Bowe a while vnbent will after cast His shafts the farther and them fix more fast A Souldier that a season still hath layn Coms with more fury to the Field again Even so this Body when to gather breath One Day in Seav'n at Rest it soiourneth It re-collects his Powrs and with more cheer Falls the next morrow to his first Career But the chief End this Precept aims at is To quench in vs the coals of Covetize That while we rest from all profaner Arts Gods Spirit may work in our retired hearts That wee down-treading earthly cogitations May mount our thoughts to heav'nly meditations Following good Archers guise who shut one ey Simile That they the better may their mark espy For by th' Almighty this great Holy-day Was not ordain'd to daunce and mask and play Against profaners of the Sabaoth To slugg in sloath and languish in delights And loose the Reans to raging appetites To turn Gods Feasts to filthy Lupercals To frantike Orgies and fond Saturnals To dazle eys with Prides vain-glorious splendor To serue strange Gods or our Ambition tender As th' irreligion of loose Times hath since Chang'd the Prime-Churches chaster innocence We ought on the Lords Day atteÌ„d his seruice me ditate on the euerlasting Rest on the workes of God God would that men should in a certain place This Day assemble as before his face Lending an humble and attentiue ear To learn his great Name 's deer-drad Loving-Fear He would that there the faithfull Pastor should The Scriptures marrow from the bones vnfold That we might touch with fingers as it were The sacred secrets that are hidden there For though the reading of those holy lines In private Houses som-what move our mindes Doubtlesse the Doctrine preacht doth deeper pearce Proves more effectuall and more waight it bears The practise of the faithfull in all reformed Churches on the Sabaoth Day He would that there in holy Psalmes we sing Shrill prayse and thanks to our immortall King For all the liberall bounties he bestow'th On vs and ours in soule and body both He would that there we should confess his Christ Our onely Saviour Prophet Prince and Priest Solemnizing with sober preparation His blessed Seals of Reconciliation And in his Name beg boldly what we need After his will and be assur'd to speed Sith in th' Exchequer of his Clemency All goods of Fortune Soule and Body lie He would this Sabbaoth should a figure be The Corporall Rest a figure of the spirituall Of the blest Sabbaoth of Eternity But th' one as Legall heeds but outward things Th' other to Rest both Soule and body brings Th' one but a Day endures the others Date Eternity shall not exterminate Shadows the one th' other doth Truth include This stands in freedom that in seruitude With cloudy cares th' one 's muffled vp som-whiles The others face is full of pleasing smiles For never grief nor fear of any Fit Of the least care shall dare come neer to it 'T is the grand Iubilé the Feast of Feasts Sabbaoth of Sabbaoths end-less Rest of Rests Which with the Prophets and Apostles zealous The constant Martyrs and our Christian fellows Gods faithfull Seruants and his chosen Sheep In Heav'n we hope within short time to keep He would this Day our soule sequestered Meditation of the workes of God especially on the day of Rest. From busie thoughts of worldly cares should read In Heav'ns bow'd Arches and the Elements His bound-less Bounty Powr and Providence That every part may as a Master teach Th' illiterat Rules past a vulgar reach Com Reader sit com sit thee down by mee Exhortation to this Meditatiâ— with the vse and profit thereof Think with my thoughts and see what I doo see Hear this dumb Doctor study in this Book Where day and night thou mai'st at pleasure look And therby learn vprightly how to liue For every part doth speciall Lessons giue Even from the gilt studs of the Firmament To the base Centre of our Element Seest thou those Stars we wrongly Wandring call The Planets teach vs to follow the will of God Though diuers wayes they daunce about this Ball Yet ever more their manifold Career Follows the Course of the First Mouing Sphear This teacheth thee that though thine own Desires Be opposit to what Heav'ns will requires Thou must still striue to follow all thy dayes God the first Mover in his holy wayes The Moon teacheth that we haue not any thing that we haue not receiued Vain puff of winde whom vaunting pride bewitches For Bodies beauties or Mindes richer Riches The Moon whose splendor from her Brother springs May by Example make thee vail thy wings For thou no less then the pale Queen of Nights Borrow'st all goodnes from the Prince of Lights Wilt thou from Orb to Orb to th' Earth descend The Elementary fire and ours where our happinesse and where our misery consists Behold the Fire which God did round extend As neer to Heav'n the same is cleer and pure Ours heer belowe sad smoaky and obscure So while thy Soule doth with the Heav'ns converse It 's sure and safe from every thought perverse And though thou won heer in this world of sinn Thou art as happy as Heav'ns Angells been But if thy minde be alwayes fixed all On the foul dunghill of this darksom vale It will partake in the contagious smells Of th' vnclean house wherin it droops and dwells If enuious Fortune be thy bitter foe The Aire that afflictions are profitable for vs. And day and night do toss thee to and fro Remember th' Aire coâ—â—â—reth soon except With sundry Windes it be oâ—t swing'd and swept The Sea which somtimes down to Hell is driv'n The Sea that we ought for no respect to transgresse the Law of God And somtimes heaues afroathy Mount to Heav'n Yet never breaks the bounds of her precinct Wherin the Lord her boisterous arms hath linkt Instructeth thee that neither Tyrants rage Ambition's windes nor golden vassallage Of Auarice nor any love nor fear From Gods Command should make thee shrink a hair The Earth which never all at once doth moue The Earth that we should be constant Though her rich Orb received from aboue No firmer base her burthen to sustent Then slippery props of softest Element By her example doth propose to thee A needfull Lesson of true Constancy The Eares of Corne
Not for th' effect it had but should haue kept If Man from duty never had mis-stept For as the ayr of those fresh dales and hills Preserved him from Epidemik ills This fruit had ever-calm'd all insurrections All civill quarrels of the cross complexions Had barr'd the passage of twice childish age And ever-more excluded all the rage Of painfull griefs whose swift-slowe posting-pase At first or last our dying life doth chase Strong counter-bane O sacred Plant divine The excellencie of that Tree What metall stone stalk fruit flowr root or ryne Shall I presume in these rude rymes to sute I Vnto thy wondrous World-adorning Fruit The rarest Simples that our fields present-vs Heal but one hurt and healing too torments vs And with the torment lingring our relief Our bags of gold void yer our bulks of grief But thy rare fruits hid powr admired most Salveth all sores sans pain delay or cost Or rather man from yawning Death to stay Thou didst not cure but keep all ills away O holy peer-less rich preseruatiue We cannot say what Tree it was Whether wert thou the strange restoratiue That suddainly did age with youth repair And made old Aeson yonger then his heir Or holy Nectar that in heav'nly bowrs Eternally self-pouring Hebé pours Or blest Ambrosia Gods immortall fare Or els the rich fruit of the Garden rare Where for three Ladies as assured guard A fire-arm'd Dragon day and night did ward Or pretious Moly which Ioues Pursuiuan Wing-footed Hermes brought to th' Ithacan Or else Nepenthé enemy to sadnes Repelling sorrows and repealing gladnes Or Mummie or Elixir that excels Save men and Angels every creature els No none of these these are but forgeries But toyes but tales but dreams deceipts and lies But thou art true although our shallow sense May honour more then sound thine Excellence The Tree of Knowledge th' other Tree behight Of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Euill Not that itselfly had such speciall might As mens dull wits could whet and sharpen so That in a moment they might all things knowe 'T was a sure pledge a sacred sâ—gne and seal Which being ta'n should to light man reveal What ods there is between still peace and strife Gods wrath and loue drad death and deerest life Solace and sorrow guile and innocence Rebellious pride and humble obedience For God had not depriv'd that primer season Of the excellence of mans knowledge before Sin The sacred lamp and light of learned Reason Mankinde was then a thousand fold more wise Then now blinde Error â—ad not bleard his eys With mists which make th' Athenian Sage suppose That nought hee knowes saue this that nought hee knowes That euen light Pirâ—â—oâ—s wavering fantasies Reave him the skill his vn skill to agnize And th' Abderite within a Well obscure As deep as dark the Truth of things immure Hee happy knew the Good by th' vse of it How he knew good and euill before Sinne. He knew the Bad but not by proof as yet But as they say of great Hyppocrates Who though his limbs were numm'd with no excess Nor stop this throat nor vext his fantasie Knew the cold Cramp th' Angine and Lunacy And hundred els-pains whence in lusty flowr He liv'd exempt a hundred yeers and foure Or like the pure Heav'n-prompted Prophets rather Whose sight so cleerly future things did gather Because the World's Soule in their soule enseal'd The holy stamp of secrets most conceal'd But our now knowledge hath for tedious train Oâ— mans knowledge sincâ— his Fall A drooping life and over-racked brain A face forlorn a sad and sullen fashion A rest-less toyl and Cares self-pining passion Knowledge was then even the soules soule for light The spirits calme Port and Lanthorn shining bright To straight steptfeet cleer knowledge not confus'd Not sowr but sweet not gotten but infus'd Now Heav'ns eternall all-fore-seeing King Why the Lord put man in the Garden of Eden Who never rashly ordereth anything Thought good that man having yet spirits sound-stated Should dwell els-where then where he was created That he might knowe he did not hold this place By Natures right but by meer gift and Grace That he should never taste fruits vn-permitted But keep the sacred Pledge to him committed And dress that Park which God without all tearm On these conditions gaue him as in farm God would that void of painfull labour he Of his exercise there Should liue in Eden but not idlely For Idlenes pure Innocence subuerts Defiles our body and our soule peruerts Yea soberest men it makes delicious To vertue dull to vice in genious But that first travell had no sympathy With our since-travails wretched cruelty Distilling sweat and panting wanting winde Which was a scourge for Adams sin assign'd For Edens earth was then so fertile fat 4. Comparisons That he made onely sweet Essayes in that Of skilfull industry and naked wrought More for delight then for the gain he sought In brief it was a pleasant exercise A labour lik't a pain much like the guise Of cunning dauncers who although they skip â— Run caper vault traverse and turn and trip From Morn till Even at night again full merry Renue their daunce of dauncing never weary Or else of Hunters that with happy luck 2. Rousing betimes som often breathed Buck Or goodly Stagge their yelping Hounds vncouple Winde lowd their horns their whoops hallows double Spur-on and spare not following their desire Themselues vn-weary though their Hackneis tyre But for in th' end of all their iolity Ther 's found much stifness sweat and vanity I rather match it to the pleasing pain Of Angels pure who ever sloath disdain 3. Or to the Suns calm course who pain-less ay 4. About the welkin posteth night and day Doubtless when Adam saw our common ayr Adam admireth the beauties of the World in generall He did admire the mansion rich and fair Of his Successors For frosts keenly cold The shady locks of Forrests had not powl'd Heav'n had not thundred on our heads as yet Nor given the earth her sad Diuorces Writ But when he once had entred Paradise But most especially of the Garden of Eden The remnant world he iustly did despise Much like a Boor far in the Country born Who never having seen but Kine and Corn Oxen and Sheep and homely Hamlets thatcht Which fond he counts as Kingdoms hardly matcht When afterward he happens to behold Our welthy London's wonders manifold In this comparison my Author setteth down the famous City of Paris but I haue presumed to apply it to our own City of London that it might be more familiar to my meere English and vn-trauaild Readers The silly peasant thinks himself to bâ— In a new World and gazing greedily One while he Art-less all the Arts admires Then the faire Temples and their top-less spires Their firm foundations and the massie pride Of all
giueth vs a good We sought not for or rather we with-stood So that to hear and see these consequences Of wonders strange we scarce beleeue our senses O! let the King let Mounsieur and the Sover'n That doth Nauarras Spayn-wrongd Scepter govern Gratefull remēbrance of the means therof Be all by all their Countries Fathers cleapt O! let the honour of their names be kept And on brass leaves ingrav'n eternally In the bright Temple of fair Memory For hauing quencht so soon so many fires Disarm'd our arms appeas'd the heav'nly ires Calm'd the pale horror of intestin hates And damned-vp the bi-front Fathers gates Much more let vs deer World-diuided Land Extoll the mercies of Heav'ns mighty hand An imitation thereof by the Translatour in honour of our late gracious Soverain Elizabeth in whose happy Raigne God hath giuen this Kingdom so long peace and rich prosperity That while the World Wars bloody rage hath rent To vs so long so happy Peace hath lent Maugre the malice of th' Italian Priest And Indian Pluto prop of Anti-christ VVhose Hoast like Pharao's threatning Israel Our gaping Seas haue swallowed quick to hell Making our Ile a holy Safe-Retreat For Saints exil'd in persecutions heat Much more let vs with true-heart-tuned breath Recorde the Praises of ELIZABETH Our martiall Pallas and our milde Astraea Of grace and wisdom the divine Idea Whose prudent Rule with rich religious Rest VVel-neer nine Lustres hath this Kingdom blest O! pray we him that from home-plotted dangers And bloody threats of proud ambitious Strangers So many years hath so securely kept her In iust possession of this flowring Scepter That to his glory and his deer Sonns honour All happy length of life may wait vppon her That we her Subiects whom he blesseth by-her Psalming his praise may sound the same the higher But waiting Lord in som more learned Laies To sing thy glory and my Soueraigns praise I sing the young Worlds Cradle as a Proëm Vnto so rare and so Divine a Poëm WHO FVL OF wealth and honours blandishment Among great Lords his younger years hath spent An Elegant cōparison representing the lamentable Condition of Adam and Eue driuen out of Paradise And quaffing deeply of the Court-delights Vs'd nought but Tilts Turneis and Masks and Sights If in his age his Princes angry doom With deep disgrace driue him to liue at home In homely Cottage where continually The bitter smoak exhales abundantly From his before-vn-sorrow-drained brain The brackish vapours of a siluer rain Where Vsher-less both day and night the North South East and West windes enter and goe forth Where round-about the lowe-rooft broken walls In stead of Arras hang with Spiders cauls Where all at once he reacheth as he stands With brows the roof both walls with both his hands He weeps and sighs and shunning comforts ay Wisheth pale Death a thousand times a day And yet at length falling to work is glad To bite a brown crust that the Mouse hath had And in a Dish instead of Plate or Glass Sups Oaten drink in stead of Hypocras So or much like our rebell Elders driuen For ay from Eden Earthly type of Heav'n Ly languishing neer Tigris grassie side With nummed limbs and spirits stupefied But powrfull NEED Arts antient Dame and Keeper The first Maner of life The early watch-clock of the sloathfull sleeper Among the Mountains makes them seek their liuing And foaming Riuers through the champain driuing For yet the Trees with thousand fruits y-fraught In formall Checkers were not fairly brought The Pear and Apple liued Dwarf-like there With Oakes and Ashes shadowed euery-where And yet al as their meanest simple cheer Our wretched Parents bought full hard and deer To get a Plum somtimes poor Adam rushes With thousand wounds among a thousand bushes If they desire a Medlar for their food They must goe seek it through a fearefull wood Or a brown Mulbery then the ragged Bramble With thousand scratches doth their skin be-scramble Wherefore as yet more led by th' appetite Great simplicity in their kinde of life Of th' hungry belly then the tastes delight Liuing from hand to mouth soon satisfi'd To earn their supper th' after noon they ply'd Vn-stor'd of dinner till the morrow-day Pleas'd with an Apple or som lesser pray Then taught by Ver richer in flowrs then fruit And hoary Winter of both destitute Nuts Filberds Almonds wisely vp they hoord The best prouisions that the woods affoord Touching their garments for the shining wooll Their Cloathing Whence the roab-spinning precious Worms are full For gold and siluer wov'n in drapery For Cloth dipt double in the scarlet Dy For Gemms brightlustre with excessiue cost On rich embroideries by rare Art embost Somtimes they do the far-spred Gourd vnleave Sometime the Fig-tree of his branch bereave Somtimes the Plane somtimes the Vine they shear Choosing their fairest tresses heer and there And with their sundry locks thorn'd each to other Their tender limbs they hide from Cynthias Brother Somtimes the Iuie's climing stems they strip Which lovingly his lively prop doth clip And with green lace in artificiall order The wrinkled bark of th' Acorn-Tree doth border And with his arms th' Oaks slender twigs entwining A many branches in one tissue ioyning Frames a loose Iacquet whose light nimble quaking Wagg'd by the windes is like the wanton shaking Of golden spangles that in stately pride Daunce on the tresses of a noble Bride But while that Adam waxen diligent Their Winter Sutes Wearies his limbs for mutuall nourishment While craggy Mountains Rocks and thorny Plains And bristly Woods be witness of his pains Eue walking forth about the Forrests gathers Speights Parrots Peacocks Estrich scattered feathers And then with wax the smaller plumes she sears And sowes the greater with a white horse hairs For they as yet did serue her in the steed Of Hemp and Towe and Flax and Silk and Threed And thereof makes a medly coatso rare That it resembles Nature's Mantle fair When in the Sunne in pomp all glistering She seems with smiles to woo the gawdie Spring When by stoln moments this she had contriv'd Leaping for ioy her cheerfull looks reviv'd Sh' admires her cunning and incontinent ' Sayes on herself her manly ornament And then through path-less paths she runs apace To meet her husband comming from the Chase. Sweet-heart quoth shee and then she kisseth him My Loue my Life my Blisse my Ioy my Gemm My souls deer Soule take in good part I pree-thee This pretty Present that I gladly giue-thee Thanks my deer All quoth Adam then for this And with three kisses he requites her kiss Then on he puts his painted garment new And Peacock-like himself doth often view Looks on his shadow and in proud amaze Admires the hand that had the Art to cause Eues industry in making a Gar ment for her Husband So many seuerall parts to meet in one To fashion thus the quaint Mandilion But when
himselfe did throwe And in plain course to catch the Hinde or Roe But when fiue lustres of his age expir'd Feeling his stomach and his strength aspir'd To worthier wars perceiv'd he any-where Boar Libbard Lyon Tiger Ounse or Bear Him dread-less combats and in combat foyls And reares high Tropheis of his bloody spoyls The people seeing by his warlike deed From theeues and robbers euery passage freed From hideous yells the Desarts round about From fear their flocks this monster-master stout This Hercules this hammer-ill they tender And call him all their Father and Defender Then Nimrod snatching Fortune by the tresses Hee abandous his first petty Chase and hunteth wylier for a more pretious Prey Strikes the hot steele sues sooths importunes presses Now these then those and hastning his good Hap Leaues hunting Beasts and hunteth Men to trap For like as He in former quests did vse Cals pit-falls toyls sprenges and baits and glews And in the end against the wilder game Clubs darts and shafts and swords their rage to tame So som he wins with promise-full intreats With presents som and som with rougher threats And boldly breaking bounds of equitie Vsurps the Child-World's maiden Monarchy Whereas before each kindred had for guide Their proper Chief yer that the youthfull pride Of vpstart State ambitious boyling fickle Did thrust as now in others corn his sickle In-throniz'd thus this Tyrant'gan deuise Tyrannicall rule of Nimrod and his proud enterprize To perpetrate a thousand cruelties Pel-mel subuerting for his appetite God's Man's and Nature's triple sacred Right He braues th' Almightie lifting to his nose His flowring Scepter and for fear he lose The peoples aw who idle in the end Might slip their yoak he subtle makes them spend Draws dry their wealth and busies them to build A lofty Towr or rather Atlas wilde W'have liv'd quoth he too-long like pilgrim Grooms Leaue we these rowling tents and wandring rooms Let 's raise a Palace whose proud front and feet With Heav'n and Hell may in an instant meet A sure Asylum and a safe retreat If th' irefull storm of yet-more Floods should threat Le ts found a Citie and vnited there Vnder a King let 's lead our liues for fear Least seuer'd thus in Princes and in Tents We be disperst o're all the Regiments That in his course the Days bright Champion eys Might-less our selues to succour or aduise But if the fire of som intestine war Or other mischief should diuide vs far Brethren at least let 's leaue memorials Of our great names on these cloud-neighbouring wals Now as a spark that Shepheards vnespied Haue faln by chance vpon a Forrest side A comparison showing liuely the efficacie of the attempts of Tyrants the Rods of Gods righteous vengeance vpon vngodly people Among dry leaues a-while in secret shrouds Lifting a-loft small smoaky-wauing clouds Till fanned by the fawning windes it blushes With angry rage and rising through the bushes Climbs fragrant Hauthorns thence the Oak and than The Pine and Firre that bridge the Ocean It still gets ground and running doth augment And neuer leaues till all neer Woods be brent So this sweet speech first broacht by certain Minions Is soon applauded 'mong the light opinions And by degrees from hand to hand renu'd To all the base confused multitude Who longing now to see this Castle rear'd Them night and day in differing crafts bestirr'd Som fall to felling with a thousand stroaks Aduenturous Alders Ashes long-liv'd Oaks Degrading Forrests that the Sun might view Fields that before his bright rayes neuer knew Ha ' ye seen a Town expos'd to spoyl and slaughter Liuely Description of the people occupied in som great busines At victors pleasure where laments and laughter Mixtly resound som carry som conuay Som lug som load 'gainst Souldiers seeking Prey No place is sure and yer a day be done Out at her gate the ransack't Town doth run So in a trice these Carpenters disrobe Th' Assyrian hills of all their leafie robe Strip the steep Mountains of their gastly shades And powle the broad Plains of their branchy glades Carts Sleds and Mules thick-iustling meet abroad And bending axels groan beneath their load Heer for hard Cement heap they night and day The gum my slime of chalky waters gray There busie Kil-men ply their occupations For brick and tyle there for their firm foundations They dig to hell and damned Ghosts again Past hope behold the Suns bright glorious wain Their hammers noyse through Heav'ns rebounding brim Affrights the fish that in fair Tygris swim These ruddy wals in height and compass growe They cast long shadow and far-off do showe All swarms with work-men that poor sots surmise Euen the first day to touch the very skies Which God perceiuing bending wrathfull frowns God displensed with the audacious enterprise of Nimrod and his resolueth so â—â— break their Designes by consoun ding their Language And with a noyse that roaring thunder drowns ' Mid cloudy fields hills by the roots he rakes And th' vnmov'd hindges of the Heav'ns he shakes See see quoth he these dust-spawn feeble Dwarfs See their huge Castles Walls and Counter-scarfs O strength-full Peece impregnable and sure All my iust anger's batteries to endure I swore to them the fruitfull earth no more Hence-forth should fear the raging Oceans roar Yet build they Towrs I will'd that scattered wide They should go man the World and lo they bide Self-prisoned heer I meant to be their Master My self alone their Law their Prince and Pastor And they for Lord a Tyrant fell haueta'en-them Who to their cost will roughly curb and rean them Who scorns mine arm and with these brauing Towrs Attempts to sealâ— this Crystall Throne of ours Com com leâ—s dash their drift and sith combin'd As well in voice as blood and law and minde In ill they harden and with language bold Incourage-on themselues their work to hold Let 's cast a let 'gainst their quick diligence Let 's strike them straight with spirit of difference Let 's all confound their speech let 's make the brother The Sire and Son not vnderstand each other This said as soon confusedly did bound Through all the work I wot not what strange sound Execution of Gods Decree Aiangling noyse not much vnlike the rumors Of Bacchus Swains amid their drunken humors Som speak between the teeth som in the nose Som in the throat their words do ill dispose Som howl som hallow som doe stut and strain Each hath his gibberish and all strive in vain To finde again their know'n beloued tongue That with their milk they suckt in cradle young Arise betimes while th' Opal-coloured Morn A fit comparison In golden pomp doth May-days door adorn And patient hear th' all-differing voices sweet Of painted Singers that in Groues doe greet Their Loue Bon-iours each in his phraze and fashion From trembling Pearch vttering his earnest passion And so thou mayst conceipt what mingle-mangle
Among this people euery where did iangle Bring me quoth one atrowell quickly quick One brings him vp a hammer heaw this brick Another bids and then they cleaue a Tree Make fast this rope and then they let it flee One cals for planks another mortarlacks They bear the first a stone the last an ax One would haue spikes and him a spade they giue Another asks a saw and gets a siue Thus crosly-crost they prate and point in vain What one hath made another mars again Nigh breath-less all with their confused yawling In boot-less labour now begins appawling In brief as those that in som channell deep An other elegaÌ„t comparison showing that there is no Counsail no Endeuour no diligence no might nor multitude that can resist God Begin to build a Bridge with Arches steep Perceiuing once in thousand streams extending The course-chang'd Riuer from the hils descending With watry mountains bearing down their Bay As if it scorn'd such bondage to obay Abandon quickly all their work begun And heer and there for swifter safety run These Masons so seeing the storm arriu'd Of Gods iust Wrath all weak and hart-depriu'd Forsake their purpose and like frantick fools Scatter their stuffe and tumble down their tools O proud revolt O trayterous felony Discommodities proceeding froÌ„ the confusion of Tongues See in what sort the Lord hath punisht thee By this Confusion ah that language sweet Sure bond of Cities friendships mastik meet Strong curb of anger yerst vnited now In thousand drie Brooks strays I wot not how That rare-rich gold that charm-grief fancy-mouer That calm-rage harts-theef quel-pride coniure-louer That purest coyn then currant in each coast Now mingled hath sound waight and colour lost 'T is counterfeit and ouer euery shoar The confus'd fall of Babel yet doth roar Then Finland-folk might visit Affrica The Spaniard Inde and ours America Without a truch-man now the banks that bound Our Towns about our tongues do also mound For who from home but half a furlong goes As dumb alas his Reason's tool doth lose Of if we talk but with our neer confines We borrow mouthes or else we work by signes Vn-toild vn-Tutord sucking tender food We learn'd a language all men vnderstood And seav'n-yeers-old in glass-dust did commence To draw the round Earths fair circumference To cipher well and climbing Art by Art We reacht betimes that Castles highest part Where th' Encyclopedie her darlings Crowns In signe of conquest with etern renowns Now euer-boys we wax old while we seek The Hebrew tongue the Latin and the Greek We can but babble and for knowledge whole Of Natures secrets and of th' Essence sole Which Essence giues to all we tire our minde To vary verbs and finest words to finde Our letters and our syllables to waigh At Tutors lips we hang with heads all gray Who teach vs yet to read and giue vs raw An A. B. C. for great Iustinians law Hippocrates or that Diuiner lore Where God appears to whome him right adore What shall I more say then all spake the speech The Hebrew Tongue in all Mens mouthes before the confusion of Languages Of God himselfe th' old sacred Idiom rich Rich perfect language where 's no point nor signe But hides some rare deep mysterie diuine But since that pride each people hath a-part A bastard gibberish harsh and ouerthwart Which daily chang'd and losing light wel-neer Nothing retains of that first language cleer The Phrygians once and that renowned Nation A conclusion tried whereb appeareth that chil dren are naturally apt to learn to speak not able of themselues to speake without example Fed with fair Nilus fruitfull inundation Longing to know their Languages prioritie Fondly impos'd the censuring authoritie To silly Iudges voyd of iudging sense Dumb stammerers to treat of eloquence To wit two Infants nurst by Mothers dumb In silent Cels where neuer noyse should com Of charming humane voice to eccho there Till triple-twelue months full expired were Then brought before the Memphians and the men That dwell at Zant the faint-breath'd children Crie often Bek Bek Bek is all the words That their tongue forms or their dumb mouth affords Then Phrygians knowing that in Phrygian Bek meaneth bread much to reioyce began Glad that kinde Nature had now graçt them so To grant this Sentence on their side to go Fools which perceiv'd not that the bleating flocks Which powl'd the neighbour Mountains motly locks Had taught this tearm and that no tearms of Rome Greece Egypt England France Troy Iewry com Com born with vs but euery Countries tongue Is learnt by much vse and frequenting long Only we haue peculiar to our race Aptnes to speak as that same other grace Which richly-diuers makes vs differ more From dull dumb wretches that in Desarts roar Now that Buls bellow if that any say Answeres to the obiection taken from the consufused voice of Beasts That Lions roar and slothfull Asses bray Now lowe now lowd and by such languages Distinctly seeme to shew their courages Those are not words but bare expressions Of violent fits of certain passions Confused signes of sorrow or annoy Of hunger thirst of anger loue or ioy To another Obiection of the chirping of Birds And so I say that all the winged quiers Which mornly warble on green trembling briers Ear-tickling tunes for though they seem to prattle A-part by payrs and three to three to rattle To winde their voice a hundred thousand waies In curious descant of a thousand layes T' haue taught Apollo in their School his skill Their sounds want sense their notes are word-less still Their song repeated thousand times a day As dumb discourse flies in the Woods away But only Man can talke of his Creator Aduantage of Man endued with Reason aboue the rest of the Creatures Of heav'n and earth and fire and ayr and water Of Iustice Temperance Wisdom Fortitude In choise sweet tearms that various sense include And not in one sole tongue his thoughts disâ—under But like to Scaliger our ages wonder Iosephus Scaliger skilfull in 13. languages The Learned's Sun who eloquently can Speak Spanish French Italian Nubian Dutch Chaldee Syriak English Arabik Besides the Persian Hebrew Latin Greek O rich quick spirit O wits Chameleon Which any Authors colour can put on Great Iulius Son and Syluius worthy brother Th' immortall grace of Gascony their mother And as for Iayes that in their wyery gail Answer to a third obiection touching Tarotresembling Eccho and speaking without speech Can ask for victuals and vnvictuail'd rail Who daring vs for eloquences meed Can plain pronounce the holy Christian Creed Say the Lords prayer and oft repeat it all And name by name a good great houshold call Th' are like that voice which by our voice begot From hollow vale babbles it wots not what In vain the ayr they beat it vainly cleauing And dumbly speak their own speech not conceiuing Deaf to themselues for speech
compass of three hundred yeers and less And Bugie Argier Oran Thunis Tez Fez Melli Gago Tombut Terminan With hatefull Laws of Heathnish Alcoran If this among the Africans we see Whom cor'ziue humour of Melancholy Doth alwayes tickle with a wanton Lust Although less powr-full in the Paphian Ioust For Propagation for too-often Deed Of Loues-Delight enfeebles much their seed And inly still they feel a Wintery Fever As outwardly a scorching Sommer ever Ghess how much more those whose hoar heads approach And see the turnings of Heav'ns flaming Coach Doe multiply because they seldom venter And but in season Uenus lists to enter And the cold resting vnder th' Artick Star Still Master of the Field in champian War Makes Heat retire into the Bodies-Towr Which there vnited giues them much more powr The North hath exceedingly multiplied in people the South not so For thence indeed Hunns Herules Franks Bulgarians Circassyans Sweues Burgognians Turks Tartarians Dutch Cimhers Normans Alains Ostrogothes Tigurins Lombards Vandals Visigothes Haue swarm'd like Locusts round about this Ball And spoyl'd the fairest Provinces of all While barren South had much a-doot ' assemble In all two Hoasts that made the North to tremble Whereof the One that one-ey'd Champion led Who famous Carthage rais'd and ruined Th' other by Tours Charles Martell martyr'd so That never since could Afrik Army showe Whence our Author taketh occasion to enter into an excellent discourse of Gods wondrous worke in the diuers temperatures qualities complexions and manners of so many Nations in the World O! see how full of Wonders strange is Nature Sith in each Climat not alone in stature Strength hair and colour that men differ doo But in their humours and their manners too Whether that custom into Nature change Whether that Youth to th' Elds example range Or divers Laws of divers Kingdoms vary-vs Or th' influence of Heav'nly bodies cary-vs The Northern-man is fair the Southern foul That 's white this black that smiles and this doth scoul Th' one 's blythe and frolik th' other dull and froward Th' one's full of courage th' other fearfull coward Th' ones hair is harsh big curled th' other 's slender Th' one loveth Labour th' other Books doth render Th' one 's hot and moist the other hot and dry Th' one's Voice is hoarce the other 's cleer and high Th' one's plain and honest th' other all deceipt Th' one 's rough and rude the other handsom neat Th' one giddy-brain'd is turn'd with every winde The other constant never changeth minde Th' one's loose and wanton th' other continent Th' one thrift-less lavish th' other provident Th' one milde Companion th' other stern and strange Like a wilde Wolf loues by himself to range Th' one 's pleas'd with plainness th' other pomp affects Th' one 's born for Arms the other Arts respects But middling folk who their abiding make Between these two of either guise partake And such haue stronger limbs but weaker wit Then those that neer Nyles fertill sides doo sit And opposit more wit and lesser force Then those that haunt Rhines and Danubius shoars For in the Cirque of th' Vniversall City The Southern-man who quick and curious-witty Builds all on Dreams deep Extasies and Traunces Who measures Heav'ns eternall-mouing Daunces Whose searching soule can hardly besuffiz'd With vulgar Knowledge holds the Place of Priest The Northern-man whose wit in 's Fingers settles Who what him list can work in Wood and Mettles Who Salmon-like can thunder counterfait With men of Arms and Artizans is set The Third as knowing well to rule a State Holds grauely-wise the room of Magistrate Th' one to be brief loues studious Theory The other Trades the third deep Policy Yet true it is that since som later lustres Minerua Themis Hermes and his Sisters Haue set as well their Schools in th' Artick Parts As Mars his Lists and Vulcan Shops of Arts. Notable differences betweene the Nations of Europe Nay see we not among ourselues that liue Mingled almost to whom the Lord doth giue But a small Turf of Earth to dwell-vpon This wondrous ods in our condition We finde the Alman in his fight couragious But salable th' Italian too-outragious Suddain the French impatient of delay The Spaniard slowe but subtle to hetray Th' Alman in Counsail cold th' Italian quick The French inconstant Spaniards politik Fine Feeds th' Italian and the Spaniard spares Especially the French German Italian Spaniard Prince-like the French Pig-like the Alman fares Milde speaks the French the Spaniard proud and brave Rudely the Alman and th' Italian grave Th' Italian proud in tyre French changing much Fit-clad the Spaniard and vn-fit the Dutch The French-man braves his Fo th' Italian cheers-him The Alman spoyls the Spaniard never bears-him The French-man sings th' Italian seems to bleat The Spaniard whines the Alman howleth great Spaniards like Iugglers Iett th' Almans like Cocks The French goes quick th' Italian like an Ox Dutch Louers proud th' Italian envious Frolik the French the Spaniard furious Yet would the Lord that Noahs fruitfull Race Causes why the Lord would haue Man-kinde so dispersed ouer All the World Should over-spread th' Earths vniversall Face That drawing so his Children from the crimes Which seem peculiar to their Native Climes He might reveal his grace and that Heav'ns Lights Might well incline but not constrain our sprights That over all the World his Saints alwayes Might offer him sweet Sacrifice of Praise That from cold Scythia his high Name as far Might ay resound as Sun-burnt Zanzibar And that the treasures which strange Soyls produce Might not seem worth-les for the want of vse But that the In-land Lands might truck and barter And vent their Wares about to every Quarter The World compared to a mighty City wherein dwell People of all conditions cōtinually traffiking together exchanging their particular commodities for benefit of the Publike For as in LONDON stuft with euery sort Heer 's the Kings Palace there the Iunes of Court Heer to the Thames-ward all a-long the STRAND The stately Houses of the Nobles stand Heer dwell rich Merchants there Artificers Heer Silk-men Mercers Gold-Smiths Iewellers There 's a Church-yard furnisht with choise of Books Heer stand the Shambles there the Rowe of Cooks Heer wonn Vp-Holsters Haberdashers Horners There Pothecaries Grocers Taylours Tourners Heer Shoo-makers there Ioyners Coopers Coriers Here Browers Bakers Cutlers Felters Furriers This Street is full of DRAPERS that of Diars This Shop with Tapers that with Womens Tyars For costly Toys Silk Stockings Cambrick Lawn Heer 's choice-full Plenty in the curious PAWN And All 's but an Exchange where brieflie no-man Keeps ought as priuate Trade makes all things common So com our Sugars from Canary Iles From Candy Currance Muskadels and Oyls From the Moluques Spices Balsamum From Egypt Odours from Arabia com From India Drugs rich Gemms and Iuorie From Syria Mummie black-red Ebonie From burning Chus From Peru
according to our merit Nor strictly weigh at his High Iustice Beam Our bold Rebellions and our Pride extream But for his Son our deer Redeemer's sake His Sacrifice for our Sins Ransom take And looking on vs with milde Mercies Ey Forgiue our Past our Future Sanctifie That neuer more his Furie we incense To strike as Now with raging Pestilence Much less prouoke him by our guilt so far To wound vs more with Famine and with War Lord cease thy wrath Put vp into thy Quiuer This dreadfull shaft Deer Father vs deliuer And vnder wings of thy protection keep Thy seruant IAMES both waking and a-sleep And furthermore we with the Psalmist sing Lord giue thy iudgements to our Lord the King Psalm 72. And to his Son and let there aye be one Of his Male Seed to sit vpon his Throne To feed thy Folk in Iacob and aduance In Israel thy deer Inheritance And long-long-liued full of Faith and Zeal Reform like Asa Church and Common-weal Raysing poor Vertue razing proudest Vice Without respect of Person or of Price That all bold Atheists all Blasphemers then All Popish Traytors may be weeded clean And Curst be All that say not heer Amen FINIS THE COLVMNES THE IIII. PART OF THE II. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT Seth's Pillars found Heber instructs his Son In th' vse therof and who them first begun Opens the One and findes on seuerall Frames Foure liuely Statues of foure louely Dames The Mathematiks furnisht each apart With Equipages of their seuerall Art Wonders of Numbers and Geómetrie New Obseruations in Astronomy Musiks rare force Canaan the Cursed cause Of Hebers stop and BARTA swittie pause IF euer Lord the purest of my Soule Being about to treat of the Mâ—thematicks our Poet heâ—r imploreth especiall assistance in handling so high and difficult a Subiâ—ct In sacred Rage were rapt aboue the Pole If euer by thy Spirit my spirit inspir'd Offred thee Layes that learned France admir'd Father of Light Fountain of learned Art Now now or neuer purge my purest part Now quintessence my Soule and now aduance My care-free Powrs in som celestiall Trance That purg'd from Passion thy Diuine address May guide me through Heav'ns glistring Palaces Where happily my deer VRANIA'S grace And her fair Sisters I may all imbrace And the melodious Syrens of the Sphears Charming my senses in those sweets of theirs So rauished I may at rest contemple The Starrie Arches of thy stately Temple Vnto this end that as at first from thee Our Grand-sires learn'd Heav'ns Course and Qualitie Thou now mai'st prompt me som more lofty Song As to this lofty Subiect doth belong AFTER THAT Mens strife-hatching haut Ambition The occasion and ground of this Discourse Had as by lot made this lowe Worlds partition Phalec and Heber as they wandred sand A huge high Pillar which vpright did stand Much like a Rock amid the Ocean set Seeming great Neptunes surly pride to threat Whereon a Pharos bears a Lanthorn bright To saue from Shipwrack those that sayl by night And afterward another nigh as great But not so strong so stately nor so neat For on the flowrie field it lay all flat Built but of Brick of rusty Tyles and Slat Whereas the First was builded fair and strong Of Iasper smooth and Marble lasting long What Miracles what monstrous heaps what Hills Phalecs Question Heav'd-vp by hand what Types of antike Skills In form-les Forms quoth Phalec Father showe For th' Ages past I knowe full well you knowe Pray teach me who did both these Works erect About what time and then to what effect Old Seth saith Heber Adams Scholler yerst Hebers answer Who was the Scholler of his maker first Hauing attain'd to knowe the course and sites Th' aspect and greatnes of Heav'ns glistring Lights He taught his Children whose industrious wit Through diligence grew excellent in it For while their flocks on flowrie shoars they kept Of th' Eastern Floods while others soundly slept Hushing their cares in a Night-shortning nap Vpon Obliuions dull and sense-les Lap They liuing lusty thrice the age of Ravens Observ'd the Twinkling Wonders of the Heav'ns And on their Grand-sires firm and goodly ground Asumptuous building they in time doo found But by Tradition Cabalistâ—k taught That God would twice reduce this world to nought By Flood and Flame they reared cunninglie This stately payr of Pillars which you see Long-time safe-keeping for their after-Kin A hundred learned Mysteries therein This hauing sayd old Heber drawing nigher The openìng of the Pillars Opens a Wicket in the Marble Spire Where Phalec following soon perceive they might A pure Lamp burning with immortal light As a mean person who though oft-disgraç't By churlish Porters is conuaigh'd at last Simile To the Kings Closet rapt in deep amaze At th' end-les Riches vp and down doth gaze So Phalec fares O father cries he out What shapes are these heere placed round about So like each other wrought with equall skill That foure rain-drops cannot more like distill What Tools are these what diuine secrets lie Hidden within this learned Mysterie These foure quoth Heber Foure bright Virgins are The liberall Sciences Heav'ns Babes and Sisters the most fair and rare That e're begot th' eternall Spirit ex-pir'd From double Spirit or humane soule admir'd This first that still her lips and fingers moues Arithmetike And vp and down so sundry-wayes remoues Her nimble Crowns th' industrious Art it is Which knowes to cast all Heav'ns bright Images All Winters hail and all the gawdy flowrs Wherewith gay Flora pranks this Globe of ours Shee 's stately deckt in a most rich Attire All kinde of Coyns in glistering heaps ly by-her Vpon her sacred head Heav'n seems to drop A richer showr then fell in Danâ—es Lap A gold-ground Robe and for a Glass to look Down by her girdle hangs a Table-book Wherein the chief of her rare Rules are writ To be safe-guarded from times greedy bit Mark heer what Figure stands for One the right Her Numbers Root of all Number and of Infinite 1 Loues happiness the praise of Harmonie Nurcerie of All and end of Polymnie No Number but more then a Number yet Potentially in all and all in it 2 Now note Two's Character One's heir apparant As his first-born first Number and the Parent 3 Of Female Payrs Heer now obserue the Three Th' eldest of Odds Gods number properly Wherein both Number and no-number enter Heav'ns deerest Number whose inclosed Center Doth equally from both extreams extend The first that hath beginning midst and end The Cubes-Base Foure a ful and perfect summ 4 Whose added parts iust vnto Ten doo com Number of Gods great Name Seasons Complexions Windes Elements and Cardinall Perfections Th' Hermaphrodite Fiue neuer multipli'd 5 By'tself or Odd but there is still descri'd His proper face for three times Fiue arriue Vnto Fifteen Fiue Fiues to Twenty fiue The
fumeth and the sacred Song Of Leuits soundeth in his House again Corona australis Piscis australis And that rich Crown th' Asmonean Race doth gain To rule the Iewes Lo there the happy Fish Which payes Christs Tribute who our Ransom is And heer the Whale within whose noysom breast Balaena The Prophet Ionas for three dayes doth rest A notable correction of the Poet vpon these last Discourses But while my spoaks-man or I rather his Thus Heber comments on Heav'ns Images Through path-less paths his wandring steps doth bring And boldly quavers on a Maiden string Suppose not Christians that I take for grounds Or points of Faith all that he heer propounds Or that old Zeno's Portall I sustain Or Stöâ—k Fate th' Almighties hands to chain Or in Heav'ns Volume reading things to-com Erroneously a Chaldee-Wise becom No no such thing but to refresh again Your tyred Spirits I sung this novell strain That hither-to having with patience past Such dreadfull Oceans and such Desarts vast Such gloomy Forrests craggy Rocks and steep Wide-yawning Gulfs and hideous Dungeons deep You might at last meet with a place of pleasure Wher-on the Heav'ns lavish their plentious treasure Where Zephyre puffs perfumes and silver Brooks Embrace the Meads smiling with wanton Looks Yet curteous Readers who is it can say Whether our Nephews yet another-day More zealous than our selues in things Divine This curious Art shall Christianly refine And giue to all these glistring Figures then Not Heathen names but names of Holy men He â—rocâ—edes to discouer the secrets of Astronomie But seek we now for Heber whose Discourse Informs his Phalec in the Planets course What Epicicle meaneth and Con-centrik With Apogé Perigé and Eccentrik And how fell Mars the Seedster of debate Dayes glorious Torch the wanton Uulcans Mate Saturn and Ioue three Sphears in one retain Smooth Hermes five fair Cynthia two-times-twain For the Divine Wits whence this Art doth flowe Finding their Fires to wander to and fro Now neer now far from Natures Nave above Confusion voyd and rupture to remove Which would be caused through their wanderment In th' Heav'ns inclos'd within the Firmament Have more then men presum'd to make within Th' Eternall Wheels where th' erring Tapers been Sundry small Wheels each within other closed Such equi-distance each-where inter-posed That though they kiss they crush not but the base Are vnder th' high the high the lowe imbrace Simile Like as the Chest-nut next the meat within Is cover'd last with a soft slender skin That skin inclos'd in a tough tawny shel That shel in-cas't in a thick thistly fell Then taks he th' Astrolabe wher-in the Sphear The vse of the Astrolabe Is flat reduced he discovers there The Card of Heights the Almycantharats With th' Azimynths and the Almadarats Pardon me Muse if ruder phrase defile This fairest Table and deface my stile With Barbarism For in this Argument To speak Barbarian is most eloquent On th' other side vnder a veering Sight A Tablevcers which of each wandring Light Showes the swift course and certain Rules includes Dayes names of Months and scale of Altitudes Removing th' Alhidade he spends som leasure To shewe the manner how a Wall to measure A Fountains depth the distance of a place A Countries compass by Heav'ns ample face In what bright starry Signe th' Almighty dread Dayes Princely Planet daily billeted In which his Nadir is and how with-all To finde his Eleuation and his Fall How long a time an entire Signe must wear While it ascendeth on our Hemi-sphear Poles eleuation The Meridian line And divers Hours of Day and night to finde These learned wonders witty Phalec marks And heedfully to every Rule he harks Wise Alchymist he multiplies this Gold This Talent turns encreasing many-fold And then prsents it to his Noble seed Who soon their Doctor in his Art exceed But even as Mars Hermes and Uenus bright Simile Go visit now the naked Troglodite Then Iaue then Guynney and inclin'd to change Oft shifting House through both the Worlds do range Astronomy by whom and how maintained Both Worlds ev'n-halv'd by th' Equinoctiall Line So the perfection of this Art divine First vnder th' Hebrews bred and born anon Coms to the Chaldes by adoption Scorning anon th' olde Babylonian Spires It leaves swift Tigris and to Nile retires And waxen rich in Egypt it erects A famous School yet firm-less in affects It falls in loue with subtil Grecian wits And to their hands awhile it self commits But in renowmed Ptolomeus Raign It doth re-visit the deer Memphian Plain Yet Thence re-fled it doth th' Arabians try From thence to Rome From Rome to Germany O true Endymions that imbrace above Vpon mount Latmos your Imperiall Love Great Queen of Heav'n about whose Bed for Guard The prayse of learned Astronomers and the profit of their Doctrine Millions of Archers with gold Shields do ward True Atlasses You Pillars of the Poles Empyreall Palace you fair learned soules But for your Wrightings the Starrs-Doctrine soon Would sink in Laethe of Oblivion 'T is you that Marshall months and yeers and dayes 'T is you that quoat for such as haunt the Seas Their prosperous Dayes and Dayes when Death ingraven On th' angry Welkin warns them keep their Haven 'T is you that teach the Plough-man when to sowe When the brave Captain to the Field shall goe When to retire to Garrison again When to assault a batter'd Peece and when To conuoy Victuals to his valiant Hoast 'T is you that shewe what season fitteth most For every purpose when to Purge is good When to be Bathed when to be Let-blood And how Physicians skilfully to mix Their Drugs on Heav'n their curious eys must fix 'T is you that in the twinkling of an ey Through all the Heav'nly Provinces do fly 'T is you that greater then our greatest Kings Possess the whole World in your Governings And to conclude you Demi-Gods can make Between your hands the Heav'ns to turn and shake O divine Spirits for you my smoothest quill His sweetest hony on this Book should still Srill should you be my Theam but that the Beauty Of the last Sister drawes my Love and Duty For now I hear my Phalec humbly crave The fourth Mayds name his Father mildely-grave Replyes him thus Obserue my deerest Son Those cloud-less brows those cheeks vermilion Those pleasing looks those eyes so smiling-sweet The description of Musike That grace-full posture and those prety feet Which seem still Dancing all those Harps and Lutes Shawms Sag-buts Citrons Viols Cornets Flutes Plaç't round about her prove in every part This is the noble sweet Voice-ord'ring Art Breath's Measurer the Guide of supplest fingers On living-dumb dead-speaking Sinnew-singers Th' Accord of Discords sacred Harmony And Numb'rie Law which did accompany Th' Almighty-most when first his Ordinance Appointed Earth to Rest and Heav'n to Dance The Heauens Harmony For as they say
clowd And yet his hand still quauers light and lowd But at the last it sinks and offring fair To strike the Base strikes but the empty ayr His soule descending to th' Infernall Coasts Goes to conclude his Song vnto the Ghosts Dolefull it was nor for the Argument For 't was of Loue but for the sad event Another wak'ned with those lowd alarms Starts-vp and groapeth round about for arms Which ah too soon he findeth for his part For a keen poignard stabs him to the heart Simile Like as a Tigress having with the gore Of Bulls and Heifers made her spots the more And pav'd a Plain with Creatures mangled lims Views on each side her valiant stratagems Treads on the vanquisht and is prowdly-sad That no more Foes nor no more Maw she had So th' Hebrew stalking round-about the slain Braues but it boots not and would very fain That those dead bodies might their ghosts re-gather Or that those Mountains would produce him rather Som Foes more wakefull that more manfully In blood-drown'd Valleis might his valour try Amor's three sons did no less slaughter make Abram for zeal they but for Furies sake This nayls a Souldier with his sword to th' ground That at a blowe th' heads of two Heads dis-crown'd This vnderneath a Chariot kils the Driuer That lops off legs and arms and heads doth shiver The Tents already all in blood do swim Gushing from sundry Corps from severall lim In brief so many ravening Woolves they seem Within whose breast fierce Famine biteth keen Who softly stealing to som fold of sheep While both the Shepheard and his Curr doth sleep Furbush their hungry teeth tear kill and prey Vpon the best to eat and bear-away Yet at the length the vanquished awake And re-aray'd the Victors vnder-take Putting the three prowd Amorites to flight Who but for Abram had been routed quite Sleep sleep poor Pagans sith you needs must die Go sleep again and so die easily Die yer you think on death and in your Dreams Gasp-out your soules Let not your dazled beams Behold the havock and the horrour too Of th' Execution that our swords shall doo Hacking your bodies to heaw-out your breaths Yer Death to fright you with a thousand deaths Said Abraham and pointing every word With the keen point of his quick-whirled sword As swift in doing as in saying so More fiercely chargeth the insulting Foe Than ever Storm-full cloud which fed with Water's Thin moist-full fumes the snowy Mountains daughters Comparison Showr'd heaps of hail-shot or pour'd floods of rain On slender stems of the new tender Grain Through blood and blades through danger dust and death Through mangled Corps and carrs he traverseth And partly in the shock part with â—â—â— blowes He breaketh in through thickest of his Foes And by his trauail topsi-turneth then The liue and dead and half-dead horse and men His bright-keen Fauchin neuer threats but hits Nor hits but hurts nor hurts but that it splits Som priuy postern whence to Hel in post Som groaning Pagan may gasp out his ghost He all assayls and him so braue bestowes That in his Fight he deals more deaths than blowes As the North-winde re-cleering-vp the front Simile Of clowdy Heav'ns towards the South doth hunt The showrs that Austers spungy thirst exhales Out of those seas that circle Orans walls So wher-so-e're our Hebrew Champion wield His war-like weapon and his glistring Shield Whose glorious splendor darts a dreadfull light Elamites ouâ—rthrowen by Abraham All turn their backs and all be-take to flight Forgetting Fame Shame Vertue Hope and all Their hearts are don and down their weapons fall Or if that any be so strangely-stout As not to faint but brauely yet holde out Alas it boots not for it cannot stop The victory but haste his own mishap But in what Fence-schoole of what master say God giueth victory Braue pearl of Souldiers learnd thy hands to play So at so sundry weapons such passados Such thrusts such foyns stramazos and stoccados Even of that mighty God whose sacred might Made Heav'n and Earth and them so braue bedight Of meerly nothing of that God of Powr Who swore to be thy Target and thy Towr Of that high God who fortifies the weak Who teacheth His even steely bowes to break Who doth his Childrens zealous hearts inflame But daunts the prowd and doth their courage tame Abraham follows the execution Thy sword abates th' armed the strong the stout Thou cleav'st thou kill'st The faint dis-armed rout The lightning of thine eyes thy voyces thunder And thy prowd dreadfull port confounds with wonder Death and Despair Horror and Fury fight Vnder thine Ensignes in this Dismal Night Thou slayest this and that thou threat'st as much This thou pursu'st that thou disdaign'st to touch In brief thou blest Knight braue thou quelst at once Valiant and vile arm'd and vnarmed ones Heer thine even hand even in a twinkling trice In equall halves a Pagans head doth slyce Down on each shoulder looketh either half To gaze vpon his ghastly Epitaph In lines of blood writ round about him fair Vnder the curtain of his parted hair Heer through a Ierkin more then Musket-proof Made twelue fold double of East-country Buff Clean through and through thy deadly shaft doth thril A Gyants bulk the wounded hulk doth reel The head behinde appears before the feathers And th' Ethnick soule flies both-waies out togethers Heer thou do'st cleaue with thy keen Fauchins force The Bards and Breast-plate of a furious Horse No sooner hurt but he recoyleth back Writing his Fortune in a bloody track Thy barbed dart heer at a Chaldee flies And in an instant lardeth both his thighes While he blaspheming his hard starrs and state Hops like a Pie in stead of wonted gate Now LOT the while escap't from ELAMS hands Lot rescâ—ed revengeth brauely his captivity Free from the burthen of his yron bands With iust reuenge retorts his taken wrong His feet growe swift his sinnews waxen strong His heart reviues and his reviued heart Supplies new spirits to all and euery part And as a wilde and wanton Colt got out Simile Of som great Stable staring scuds about Shakes his prowd head and crest yerks out his heels Butts at the ayr beats on the humble fields His flying shadow now pursues amain Anon amaz'd flies it as fast again Again beholds it with self-prowd delight Looks on his legs sets his stiff tayl vpright And neighs so lowd to Mares beyond the Mound That with the noyse the neighbour Hils resound So one while LOT sets on a Troup of Horse A Band of Sling-men he anon doth force Anon he pusheth through a Stand of Pikes A Wing of archers off anon he strikes Anon he stalks about a steepfull Rock Where som to shun Death's never shunned stroak Had clambred-vp at length a path he spies Where vp he mounts and doth their Mount surprize Whence stones he heaues so heavy and so
this Day strange will it seem to som One and the same is both the Corps and Tomb. Almighty Father Gracious God and Iust Mans pronenesse â—o fall without the support of Gods gracious faâ—â—our O! what hard-heartednes what brutish Lust Pursueth man if thou but turn thy face And take but from vs thy preventing grace And if provoked for our past offences Thou give vs vp to our Concupiscences O Harran'â— Nieces you LOTS daughters saw SODOM consumed in that Sulphury flaw Their Hills and Forrests calcined in fine Their liberall fields sowen with a burning brine Their stately houses like a coal-pitsmoaking The Sun it self with their thick vapours choking So that within a yard for stinking smother The Labourers could hardly knowe each other Their flowring Valley to a Fen exchang'd And your owne Mother to a Salt-stone chang'd Yet all alas these famous Monuments Of the iust rigour of God's Punishments Cannot deter you but even Sodom-like Incestuously a holy-man you seek Even your owne Father whom with wine you fill And then by turns intice him to your will Conceiving so O can Heav'n suffer it Lot drawen by his Daughter in drunkennesse to commit Incest with both of theÌ„ Even of that seed which did your selues beget Within your wombs you bear for nine months time Th' vpbraiding burden of your shame-less Crime And troubling Kindred's names and Nature quight You both becom even in one very Night Wives to your Fathers Sisters to your Sons And Mothers to your Brothers all at once All vnder colour that thus living sole Sequestred thus in an vnhaunted hole Heav'ns envy should all ADAM'S race have reft And LOT alone should in the World be left Had 't not been better never to haue bred Than t' have conceived in so foul a bed Had 't not been better never t' haue been Mothers Than by your Father to have born your Brothers Had 't not been better to the death to hate Then thus t' haue lov'd him that you both begate Him so much yours that yours he mought not be Sith of these Rocks God could immediatly Haue rais'd LOT Son-in-lawes or striking but Th' Earths solid bosom with his brazen foot Out of the dust haue reared suddain swarms Of People stay'd in Peace and stout in Arms. FINIS The FATHERS A PART OF THE II. PART OF THE III. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT The famous FATHER of the Faithfull heer Limn'd to the life in strife of Faith and Fear His Sonn 's sweet nature and his nurture such Endeer his TRIAL with a neerer Touch REASON'S best Reasons are by FAITH refell'd With GOD th' Affection for the Action held So counter-manding His command atchiev'd The Sire 's approoued and the Son repriev'd Heer had our Author liv'd to end his Works Should haue ensu'd the other PATRIARCHS O! 'T is a Heav'nly and a happy turn Of godly Parents to be timely born To be brought-vp vnder the watchfull eyn Of milde-sharp Masters awfull Discipline Chiefly to be even from the very first With the pure milk of true Religion nurst Such hap had Isaac but his Inclination Exceeds his Birth excels his Education His Faith his Wit Knowledge and Iudgement sage Out-stripping Time anticipate his age For yet a Childe he fears th' Eternall Lord And wisely waits all on his Fathers word Whose steady steps so duly he obserues That every look him for a lesson serues And every gesture every wink and beck For a command a warning and a check So that his toward Diligence out-went His Fathers hopes and holy document Now though that Abram were a man discreet Sober and wise well knowing what is meet Though his deer Son somtimes he seem to chide Yet hardly can he his affection hide For evermore his loue-betraying ey On 's darling Isaac glanceth tenderly Sweet Isaac's face seems as his Glasse it were And Isaac's name is musick in his ear But God perceiving this deep-settled Loue Thence takes occasion Abrams Faith to prooue And tempteth him But not as doth the Divell His Vassals tempt or Man his Mate to evill Satan still draws vs to Death's dismall Path But God directs where Death no entry hath Ay Satan ayms our constant Faith to foyl But God doth seal it never to recoyl Satan suggesteth ill God mooues to grace The Divell seeks our Baptisme to deface But God to make our burning Zeal to beam The brighter ay in his Ierusalem A Prince that means effectuall proof to make Simile Of som Man's Faith that he doth newly take Examins strictly and with much a-doo His Words and Deeds and every gesture too And as without within as well to spy-him Doth carefully by all means sift and try-him But God ne'r seeks by Triall of Temptation To sound Man's heart and secret cogitation For well he knowes Man and his ey doth see All thoughts of men yer they conceived be But this is still his high and holy driâ—t When through temptation he his Saints doth siâ—t To leaue for pattern to his Churches seed Their stedfast Faith and never-daunted Creed Yet out of season God doth never try His new-converted Children by and by Such novices would quickly faint and shrink Such ill-rigg'd Ships would even in launching sink Their Faith 's light blossoms would with every blast Be blowen away and bear no fruit at last Against so boistrous stroaks they want a shield Vnder such weight their feeble strength would yield But when his Words deer seed that he hath sowen Within their hearts is rooted well and growen And when they haue a broad thick Breast-plate on High peril-proof against affliction Such as our Abram Who now waxen strong Through exercise of many trials long Of faith of loue of fortitude and right Who by long weary wandrings day and night By often Terrors Lots Imprisonment His Wifes twice taking Ismaels banishment Beeing made invincible for all assaults Of Heav'n and Earth and the infernall Vaults Is tempted by the voyce which made all things Which sceptreth Shepheards and vn-crowneth Kings Giue me a voyce now O voyce all divine With sacred fire inflame this breast of mine Inuocation Ah! ravish me make all this Vniverse Admire thine Abram pourtrayd in my Verse Mine Abram sayd the Lord deer Abraham Thy God thy King thy Fee thy Fence I am Hie straight to Salem and there quickly kill Thine owne Son Isaac on that sacred Hill Heaw him in pieces and commit the same In Sacrifice vnto the rage-full Flame As he that slumbering on his carefull Bed Simile Seems to discern som Fancy full of dread Shrinks down himself and fearfull hides his face And scant draws breath in half an howrs space So Abraham at these sharp sounding words Which wound him deeper than a thousand swords Seised at once with wonder grief and fright Is well-nigh sunk in Deaths eternall night Death's ash-pale Image in his eyes doth swim A chilling Iee shivers through every lim Flat on the ground himself he groveling throwes A
such is the peoples prayer Thus while o're-whelmed with the rapid course Gods prouidence in his preseruation Of Mischief's Torrent and still fearing worse ISRAEL seems help-les and even hope-les too Of any help that Mortall hand can doo And while the then-Time's hideous face and form Boads them alas nothing but wrack and storm Their Castor shines their Saviour's sav'd and Hee That with high hand shall them from bondage free Scourging with Plagues scarring with end-les shame Th' Egyptian Court is raised by the same For though him there they as a God adore Moses affection and duty toward his Parents and care of his Brethren He scorns not yet his friends and kindred poor He feels their Yoak their mournings he laments His word and sword are prest in their defence And as ordain'd for their Deliverance And sent express by Heav'ns pre-ordinance Seeing a Pagan a proud Infidell A Patagon that tasted nought so well As ISRAEL's blood to ill-intreat a Iew Him bold incounters and him brauely slew But fearing then least his inhumane Prince He flies out of Egypt Should hear of it young MOSES flyes from thence And hard by Horeb keeping IETHRO'S sheep He Fasts and Prayes with Meditations deep His vertuous zeal he kindles more and more And prudently he lays-vp long-before Within his Soule his spirituall Armory All sacred Weapons of Sobriety Where-with t' incounter conquer and suppress All Insurrections of Voluptuousness Also not seldom som deep Dream or Trance God talketh to him in the Wildernes Him suddainly doth even to Heav'n advance And He that whilom could not finde the Lord On plentious shoars of the Pelusian Foord In walled Cities with their Towred Ports In learned Colledges nor sumptuous Courts In Desart meets him greets him face to face And on his brows bears tokens of his Grace For while he past his sacred Pentiship In Wildernes of th' Hebrews Shepheardship Moses vision of the flaming Bush In driving forth to kiss-cloud SINA'S foot His fleecy Flock and there attending too 't' He suddain sees a Bush to flame and fume And all a-fire yet not at all consume It flames and burns not cracks and breaks not in Kisses but bites not no not even the skin True figure of the Church and speaking Signe Which seemeth thus to of it self define What AMRAM'S son Doth IACOB'S bitter Teen Dismay thee so Behold this Haw-thorn green Is even an Image of thine ISRAEL Who in the Fire of his Afflictions fell Still flourishes on each side hedged round With prickly Thorns his hatefull Foes to wound This Fire doth seem the Spirit Omnipotent Which burns the Wicked tries the Innocent Who also addeth to the sacred Signe The more to move him his owne Word Divine The voyce of the Lord speaking out of the Bush. I AM I that I am in me for me by me All Beings els Be not or else vn-selfly be But from my Beeing all their Beeing gather Prince of the World and of my Church the Father Onely Beginning Midst and End of all Yet sans Beginning Midst and End at all All in my self compris'd and all comprising That in the World was is or shall be rising Base of this Vniverse th' vniting Chain Of th' Elements the Wisedom Soveraign Each-where in Essence Powr and Providence But in the Heav'ns in my Magnificence Fountain of Goodness ever-shining Light Perfectly Blest the One the Good the Bright Self-simple Act working in frailest matter Framer of Forms of Substances Creator And to speak plainer even that GOD I AM Whom so long since religious ABRAHAM ISAAC and IACOB and their Progenies Haue worshipped and prays'd in humble wise My sacred ears are tyred with the noyse God hath pity on his people afflicted in Egypt Of thy poor Brethren's iust-complayning voyce I haue beheld my Peoples burdens there MOSES no more I will nor can forbear Th' haue groan'd alas and panted all too-long Vnder that Tyrants vn-relenting wrong Now their Deliuerer I authorize thee He ordaineth Moses for their Deliverer giues him commission to goe to Pharao And make thee Captain of their Colony A sacred Colony to whom as mine I haue so oft bequeath'd rich Palestine Therfore from me command thou PHARAO That presently he let my People go Into the Dry-Arabian Wilderness Where far from sight of all profane excess On a new Altar they may sacrifice To ME the LORD in whom their succourlies Haste haste I say and make me no excuse On thy Tongue 's rudenes for the want of vse Nor on thy weaknes nor vnworthyness To vnder-go so great a Business What cannot He that made the lips and tongue Prompt Eloquence and Art as doth belong Vnto his Legat And who every thing Of Nothing made and All to nought shall bring Th' Omnipotent who doth confound for His By weak the strong by what is not what is That in his wondrous Iudgements men may more The Work-man then the Instruments adore Will he forsake or leaue him vn-assisted That in his service duly hath insisted Sith faithfull Servant to do-well affected Can by his Master never be reiected Moses accompanied with his brother Aaron sets forward in his high Embassage No sooner this the Divine Uoice had ended And vp to Heav'n the Bushy Flame ascended But MOSES with his fellow in Commission His Brother AARON wends with expedition First to his People and to PHARAO then The King of Egypt cruellest of Men And inly filled with a zealous flame Thus thus he greets him in th' Almighties name Great NILVS Lord thus sayth the Lord of Hoasts Let go my People out of all thy Coasts Mine ISRAEL PHARAO forth-with release Let them depart to HOREB'S Wildernes That vnto me without offence or fear Their Hearts and Heifers they may offer there Base Fugitiue proud slaue that art return'd Pharaos proud answere Not to be whipt but rather hangd or burn'd What Lord sayd PHARAO ha what Soveraign O seaven-horn'd Nile O hundred-pointed Plain O City of the Sun O Thebes and Thou Renowned Pharos do yee all not bow To vs alone Are yee not onely Ours Ours at a beck Then to what other Powrs Owes your great PHARAO homage or respect Or by what Lord to be controul'd and checkt I see the Drift These off-scums all at once Too idlely pampred plot Rebellions Sloth marrs the slave◠and vnder fair pretence Of new Religion Trayrours to their Prince They would Revolt O Kings how fond are we To think by Favours and by Clemency To keep men in their duty To be milde Makes them be mad proud insolent and wilde Too-much of Grace our Scepters doth dis-grace And smooths the path to Treason's plots a pace The dull Ass numbers with his stripes his steps Th' Ox over-fat too-strong and resty leaps About the Lands casteth his yoak and strikes And waxen wilde even at his Keeper kicks The true Anatomie of a tyrant Well to enioy a People through their skin With scourges slyç't must
arm shaking his Fawchin keen Wher-with he seems inspight of Heav'n and Hell To fight with Death and menace Israel At last he sinks all vnder water quite Spurning the sand again he springs vpright But from so deep a bottom to the top So clogg'd with arms can cleaue no passage vp As the poor Partridge cover'd with the net Simile In vain doth striue struggle and bate and beat For the close meshes and the Fowler 's craft Suffer the same no more to whuâ—e aloft I to your selues leaue to conceiue the ioy Of IACOB'S heirs thus rescu'd from annoy Seeing the Sea to take their cause in hand And their dead Foes shuffled vpon the sand Their shields and staues and Chariots all-to-tore Floating about and flung vpon the shoar When thus th' Almighty glorious God most High For them without them got the Victory They skip and dauâ—ce and marying all their voices To Timbrels Hawbois and lowd Cornets noyses Make all the shoars resound and all the Coasts With the shril Praises of the Lord of Hoasts 2. Part of this Tract where is discoursed of the estate of the People of Israell in the Wildernesse vntill the death of Moses Eternall issue of eternall Sire Deep Wisedom of the Father now inspire And shewe the sequell that from hence befell And how He dealt with his deer Israell Amid the Desart in their Pilgrimage Towards the Promis'd plentious Heritage Tell for I knowe thou know'st for compast ay With Fire by Night and with a Clowd by Day Thou my soul's hope wert their sole guide and guard Their Meat and Drink in all their Iourney hard Marching amid the Desart nought they lack Heaven still distils an Ocean for their sake Of end-les-good and every Morn doth send Sufficient Food for all the day to spend When the Sun riseth and doth haste his Race Half ours half theirs that vnderneath vs pase To re-beholde the bewty number order And prudent Rule preventing all mis-order Of th' awefull Hoast lodg'd in the Wilderness So favour'd of the Sun of Righteousness Each coms but forth his Tent and at his dore Findes his bread ready without seeking more A pleasant bread which from his plentious clowd Like little Haile Heav'ns wakefull Steward strow'd The yellow sands of Elim's ample Plain Were heaped all with a white sugred grain Sweet Corianders Iunkets not to feed God giueth them Manna This Hoast alone but even a World for need Each hath his part and euery one is fed With the sweet morsels of an vn-bought bread It is giuen from day to day It never rains for a whole year at-once But daily for a day's prouisions To th' end so great an Hoast so curbed straight Still on the Lord 's wide open hand should wayt And every Dawning haue due cause to call On him their Founder and the Fount of all Each for his portion hath an Omer-full The sur-plus rots mould knead it how they will The Holy-one iust Arbitrer of wrong Allows no less vnto the weak than strong On Sabbaoth's Eve he lets sufficient fall To serue for that day and the next with-all That on his Rest the sacred Folk may gather Not Bodie 's meat but spirituall Manna rather Thou that from Heav'n thy daily White-bread hast Thou for whom Haruest all the Year doth last That in poor Desarts rich aboundance heap'st That sweat-les eat'st and without sowing reap'st That hast the Ayr for farm and Heav'n for field Which sugred Mel or melled sugar yield That for taste-changing do'st not change thy cheer God's Pensioner and Angel's Table-peer It is a liuely figure of Christ the true bread of life O Israell see in this Table pure In this fair glass thy Saviour's pourtraiture The Son of God MESSIAS promised The sacred seed to bruize the Serpents head The glorious Prince whose Scepter ever shines Whose Kingdom 's scope the Heav'n of Heavens confines And when He shall to light thy Sin-full load Put Manhood on dis-knowe him not for God This Grain is small but full of substance though The same demoÌ„strated by particular conference CHRIST strong in working though but weak in showe Manna is sweet Christ as the Hony-Comb Manna from high and CHRIST from Heaven doth com With that there falls a pleasant pearly deaw CHRIST comming-down doth all the Earth be-streaw With spirituall gifts That vnto great and small Tastes to their tastes and CHRIST is all to all Food to the hungry to the needy wealth Ioy to th' afflicted to the sickly health Pardon to those Repent Prop to the bow'd Life's savour to the Meek Death 's to the Prowd That 's common good and Christ communicate That 's purely-white and Christ immaculate That gluts the wanton Hebrews at the last Christ and his Word the World doth soon dis-taste Of that they eat no less that haue one measure Than who haue hundred and in Christ his Treasure Of Divine Grace the faith-full Proselite Hath no less part than Doctors deep of sight That 's round Christ simple and sincerely-round That in the Ark Christ in his Church is found That doth with certain stinking worms becom Christ th' Ever-Word is scandall vnto som. That raineth not but on the sacred Race Christ to his Chosen doth confine his Grace That 's broken every grain Christ Lamb of God Vpon his Cross-press is so torn and trod That of his Blood the pretious Flood hath purl'd Down from Mount Sion over all the World The people lust for flesh Yet glutted now with this ambrosiall Food This Heav'nly bread so holy and so good Th' Hebrews do lust for flesh a fresh South-winde Brings shoals of Fowls to satisfie their minde God sends them Quailes A clowd of Quails on all the Camp is sent And every one may take to his content For in the Hoast and all the Country by For a days-iourney Cubit thick they lie But though their Commons be thus delicate Although their eyes can scarce look out for fat Although their Bellies strout with too much meat Though Epicures they vomit as they eat Yet still they howl for hunger and they long For Memphian hotch-potch Leeks and Garlick strong They long for the Garlike Onions of Egypt As Childe-great Women or green Maids that miss Their Terms appointed for their flourishes Pine at a Princely feast preferring far Red Herrings Rashers and som sops in Tâ—r Simile Yea coals and clowts sticks stalks and durt before Quail Pheasant Partridge and a hundred more So their fantastick wearisom disease Distastes their tastes and makes them strange to please But when the Bull that lately tost his horn In wanton Pride hangs down his head for lorn For lack of Water and the Souldier bleak Growes without Arms for his owne waight too-weak When fiery Thirst through all their veins so fierce Consumes their blood into their bones doth pearce Sups-vp their vitall humour and doth dry Their whilom-beauties to Anatomy They weep and wail and but their voyce
saw'd in Transomes Beams and Somers Great Rocks made little what with Sawes and Hammers The sturdy Quar-man with steel-headed Cones And massie Sledges slenteth out the Stones Digs through the bowels of th' earth baked stiff Cuts a wide Window through a horned Cliff Of ruddy Porphire or white Alabaster And masters Marble which no Time can Master One melts the White-stone with the force of Fire Another leveld by the Lesbian Squire Deep vnder ground for the Foundation ioynes Wel-polisht Marble in long massie Coines Such both for stuff and for rare artifice As mought beseem som royall Frontispice This heaws a Chapter that a Frize doth frame This Carues a Cornich that prepares a Iambe This formes a Plynth that fits an Architraue This planes a Plank and that the same doth graue Giues life to Cedars dead and cunningly Makes Wood to moue to sigh and speak wel-nigh And others rearing high the sacred Wal By their bold Labours Heav'n it self appall Cheerly they work and ply it in such sort As if they thought long Summer-dayes too-short As in Grape-Harvest with vnweary pains Simile A willing Troup of merry-singing Swains With crooked hooks the strouting Clusters cut In Frails and Flaskets them as quickly put Run bow'd with burthens to the fragrant Fat Tumble them in and after pit-a-pat Vp to the Waste and dauncing in the Must To th' vnder-Tub a flowry Shower doo thrust They work a-vie to th' eye their Work doth growe Who saw 't i' th' Morning scarce at Night can knowe It for the same and God himself doth seem T' haue ta'en to Taske this Work and work for them While in the Night sweet Sleep restores with rest The weary limbs of Work-men ouer-prest Great King whence came this Courage Titan-like So many Hils to heap vpon a rick What mighty Rowlers and what massie Cars Could bring so far so many monstrous Quars And what huge strength of hanging Vaults embow'd Bears such a waight aboue the winged Clowde If on the out-side I doo cast mine eye The Stones are ioyn'd so artificially That if the Maçon had not checkerd fine * Syrian Syre's Alabaster with hard Serpentine And hundred Marbles no lesse fair than firm The whole a whole Quar one might rightly tearm If I look In then scorn I all with-out Surpassing Riches shineth all about Floore Sides and Seeling couerd triple-fold Stone lyn'd with Cedar cedar limn'd with Gold And all the Parget carv'd and branched trim With Flowrs and Fruits and winged Cherubim I over-passe the sacred Implements In worth far passing all these Ornaments Th' Art answers to the stuff the stuff to th' vse O! perfect Artist thou for Mould didst chuse The Worlds Idea For as first the same Was sever'd in a Three-fold divers Frame And God Almighty rightly did Ordain One all Divine one Heav'nly one Terrene Decking with Vertues one with Stars another With Flowrs and Fruits and Beasts and Birds the other And playd the Painter when he did so gild The turning Globes blew'd Seas and green'd the field Gaue precious Stones so many-coloured lustre Enameld Flowers made Metals beam and glister The Caruer when he cut in leaues and stems Of Plants such veins such figures files and hems The Founder when he cast so many Forms Of winged Fouls of Fish of Beasts of Worms Thou doost divide this Sacred House in Three Th' HOLY OF HOLIES wher-in none may bee But God the Cherubims and once a yeer The Sacred Figure of Perfection deer Of Gods eternall Son Sins sin-les check The ever-lasting true MELCHISEDEC The fair mid-TEMPLE which is ope alone To Sun-bright Leuites who on Izrael shone With Rayes of Doctrine and who feeding well On the Lawes Hony seem in Heav'n to dwell And th' vtter PORCH the Peoples residence The Vulgars Ile the World of Elements And various Artist honour'st all the Parts With Myron's Phydias and Apelles Arts. This Pattern pleas'd thee so th' hast fram'd by it Th' eternall Watch-births of thy sacred Wit Thy pithy Book of Prouerbs richly-graue Vnto the PORCH may rich relation haue For that it giues vs Oeconomike Lawes Rules Politike and Priuate civill Sawes And for the most those Lessons general At Humane matters aim the most of all Ecclesiastes the Mid-TEMPLE seems It treadeth down what ever Flesh esteems Fair pleasant precious glorious good or great Drawes vs from earth and vs in Heav'n doth seat And all the World proclaiming Uain of Vains Mans happinesse in Gods true Fear maintains SANCTVM-SANCTORVM is thy Song of Songs Where in Mysterious Verse as meet belongs Thou Mariest Iacob to Heav'ns glorious King Where thou devoted doost divinely sing CHRIST'S and his CHVRCHES Epithalamie Where sweetly rapt in sacred Extasie The faith-full Soule talks with her God immense Hears his sweet Voice her self doth quintessence In the pure flames of his sweet-pearcing eyes The Cabinets where Grace and Glory lies Enioyes her Ioy in her chaste bed doth kisse His holy lips the Loue of Loues her Blisse When he had finisht and had furnisht full The House of God so rich so bewtifull O God sayd Salomon great Only-Trine Dedication of the Temple Which of this Mystike sacred House of Thine Hast made me Builder build Mee in the same A living Stone For thy deer DAVIDS name On DAVIDS branches DAVIDS blisse reviue That on his Throne his Issue still may thriue O All-comprising None-comprised Prince Which art in Heav'n by thy Magnificence In Hell by Iustice each-where by thy Powers Dwell here deer Father by thy Grace to Ours If in a doubtfull Case one needs must swear Loose thou the Knot and punish thou severe Th' audacious Periure that hence-forth none chance Taxe thee of Malice or of Ignorance If our dis-flowred Trees our Fields Hail-torn Our empty Ears our light and blasted Corn Presage vs Famine if with ten-fold chain Thy hand hath lockt thy Water-gates of Rain And towards this House we humbled cast our eye Hear vs O Lord hear our complaint and cry If Captiues we in a strange Land bewayl If in the Wars our Force and Fortune fail And towards this House we humbled cast our eye Hear vs O Lord hear our complaint and cry If Strangers moov'd with rumor of thy Miracles Com heer to Offer to consult thine Oracles And in this House to kneel religiously Hear them O Lord hear their complaint and cry Hear them from Heav'n and by thy Favors prest Draw to Thy TEMPLE North South East and West The passe-Man Wisedom of th' Isacian Prince A Light so bright set in such eminence Vn-hideable by envious Arrogance Vnder the Bushell of black Ignorance Shines every where illustres every place Among the rest it Lightens in the Face Of the fair Princesse that with prudent hand The soft Arabian Scepter doth command The Queen of Saba where continuall Spring The Queene of Saba Red Cinamom Incense and Myrrhe doth bring Where private men doo Prince-like Treasures hold Where Pots be Silver Bedsteds beaten Gold Where Wals
banks he gate Where for his Cooks Caters and Wayters tho From the foure windes the winged people go Thence to Sareptha where he craves the aid The Widow of Sarepta Of a poor Widow who thus mildely said Alas fain would I but God wot my store Is but of bread for one meal and no more Yet give me saith he giue me som I pray Who soweth sparing sparing reapeth ay Sure a good turn shall never guerdon want A Gift to Needlings is not given but lent T 's a Well of Wealth which doth perpetuall run A fruitfull Field which thousand yeelds for one While thus he said and staid the Widow glad The fruits of Charity Gives to him frankly all the bread she had She lost not by 't for all the Famin-while That rag'd in Tyre her little Flowr and Oyl Decreased not yet had she plenty still For her and hers to feed in time their fill At length befell fel Death to take-away Her onely Son and with her Son her Ioy She prayes her Guest and he implores his God And stretching him vpon the breath-les Lad Thus cries aloud Vouch safe me Lord this boon Restore this child's soule which it seems to-soon Thou hast bereft O! let it not be said That heer for nought I haue so ought been fed Let not my presence be each-where abhorr'd Nor Charity with thee to want Reward As a small seedling of that fruitfull Worm Simile Which of it self fine shining Sleaves doth form By the warm comfort of a Virgin brest Begins to quicken creepeth as the rest Re-spins a-fresh and in her witty loom Makes of her corps her corps a pretious Toomb This Childe no Man but Man's pale Module now With death i th bosom horror on the brow The bait of Worms the Booty of the Beer At sacred words begins his ey to rear Swimming in Death his powrs do re-assemble His spirits rewarm'd with-in his artirs tremble He fetcht a sigh then lively rysing too Talks walks and eats as he was woont to doo Fain would the Mother haue besought the Seer T' have past the rest of his colde Olde-age heer But th' holy spirit him sodain hence doth bring Vnto Samaria to th' incensed King Who rates him thus O Basilisk O Bane Art not thou He that sow'st th' Isaacian Plain With Trouble-Tares Seditious hast not thou The like Imputations in our dayes the blind Popelings and profane â—â— orldlings haue layd vpon the Gospell and the Preachers thereof Profan'd the Laws of our Fore-fathers now Broken all Orders and the Altars bann'd Of th' holy Gods Protectors of our Land Since thy fond Preaching did heer first begin More and more heavie hath Heav'ns anger bin Vpon vs all and Baal blasphem'd by thee Hath since that season never left vs free From grievous Plagues it is a Hellwe feel Our Heav'n is Brass our Earth is all of Steel No no O King if I the Truth shall tell Thou thou art he that troublest Israell Thou give me leave thou and thy Grand-sires mad After strange Gods in every Grove to gad Have left the true wise wondrous all-abroad Omnipotent victorious glorious God Such shall you proue him if you dare oppone All your Baal-Prophets against me but one Content quoth Achab then to Carmel's top The Schismik Priests were quickly called vp Vnto their Baal an Altar build they there To God the Prophet doth another rear Both have their Beasts and by their prayer must prove Whose God is GOD by Fier from Heav'n above The People's eyes and eares and mindes are bent Vpon these Maruails to observe th' euent Maruails which might well cleer the difference That had so long depended in suspence 'Twixt Israel and Iuda and direct Th' Earth how to serue Heav'ns sacred Architect As when two Buls inflamed fiercely-fell Simile Met front to front their forked arms do mell The feeble Heards of Heifers in a maze Twixt hope and fear vnfeeding stand at gaze To see the Fight and censure which do prove The valiantest that he may be their Loue. Baal's baalling Priests call and cry out for life They gash their flesh with Launcet and with knife Baals Priests They cruell make their blood to spin about As Claret wine from a pearç't Peece doth spout And madly shaking heads leggs sides and arms They howling chant these Dithyrambik charms Help help O Baal O Baal attend our cryes Baal hear vs Baal O Baal bow down thine eyes O Stratian Clarian Eleutherian Powrs Panomphaean God approve vs thine thee ours O Epicarpian O Epistatirian Phyxian Feretrian O Exacestirian Xenian Messapian O Lebradean BAAL O Assabine BAAL-SAMEN hear our Call Elijah that their bloody Rites abhord And knowes aright the seruice of the Lord T' appease his wrath he doth not scarre his skin Nor with self-wounds presume his grace to win Nor makes himself vnfitting for his function By selfly stripes as causing more compunction Nor thrild with bodkins raves in frantik-wise And in a furie seems to prophetize But offers God his heart in steed of blood His speech is sober and as milde his mood Cry loud quoth he your God is yet perchance Irâ—nia In a deep sleep or doth in Arms advance Against his Foes th' Egyptian Deïties Or is consulting how to keep the Flies From off his Altar But O Izrael Alas why yoakst thou God with Baal or Bel Alas how long thus wilt thou halt twixt either And fondly mix Darnel and Wheat together In thy Faith's Field If Baal be God indeed Then boldly serue him seek him sole at need But if blew Sea and winged Firmament Th' all-bearing Earth and Storm-breed Element Be but the least Works of th' Almighty hand Of Iacob's God If Heav'n Aire Sea and Land And all in all and all in euery one By his owne finger be sustain'd alone If he have cast those cursed Nations out Which yerst defil'd this fair fat Land about To give it thee to plant thee in their place Why him alone doost thou not ay imbrace And serue him onely in thy Soule and Heart Who in his Love brooks none to share a part The cord vn-twisted weakens and who serves Two Lords at-once to lose them both deserves Baal dead thouseest hears not his Servants call Much less can grant them their Desires at all But Iaacob's God IEHOVA ELOHIM Never deceives their hope that trust in him Hear me therefore O Lord and from above With Sacred Fire thy Soverain powr to prove Consume this Bullock and shewe by the same That thou art GOD and I thy Servant am And to thy Fold thy Churches Lap repeal Thy wandring Flock thy chosen Izrael As falls a Meteor in a Sommer Even Simile A sodain Flash coms flaming down from Heav'n Licks dry the Dikes and instantly at-once Burns all to Ashes both the Altar-stones And th' Offered Bullock and the People fall In zealous fury on the Priests of Baal And by Elijah's prayer soon obtain Rain which so often they had
in our Truth finde doubts whence follow Schismes They whose fond Law doth all of Lies consist Abide confirm'd in their vaine Paganismes One nought beleeues another what him list One ouer-Creeds another Creeds too-short Each makes his Church rather his Sect a-part SONNET 37. Put-off deere French all secret grudge and gall And all keen stings of vengeance on all parts For if you would haue PEACE proclaim'd to all It must be first faire printed in your hearts Henry the mildest of all Conquerers Your perfect glasse for Princely clemencie He to appease and calme the State from â—arres For his friends sake hath sav'd his enemie Let 's all be French all subiects to one Lord Let Fraunce from hence-forth be one onely State Let 's all for Gods sake be of one accord So through true zeale Christs praise to propagate May the most Christian King with prosperous power On Sion walls re-plant our Lilly-flower SONNET 38. O Christian cor'siue that the Mahomite With hundred thousands in Vienna Plaine His Mooned Standards hath already pight Prest to ioyne Austrich to his Thracian Raigne Malth Corfu Candie his proud Threats disdaine And all our Europe trembles in dismay While striuing Christians by each other slaine Each other weak'ning make him easieway Rhodes Belgrade Cyprus and the Realmes of Greece Thrall'd to his barbarous yoke yet fresh-declare That while two striue a third obtaines the fleece Though name of Christian be a title faire If but for Earth they all this while haue striu'n They may haue Earth but others shall haue Heau'n SONNET 39. May I not one day see in Fraunce againe Some new Martellus full of stout actiuitie To snatch the Scepter from the Saracen That holds the Holy Land in strait captiuitie May I not see the selfe-weale-wounding Laâ—nce Of our braue Bloods yerst one another goring Turn'd with moâ—e valour on the Musulmans A higher pitch of happy prowesse soaring But who deare Fraunce of all thy men-at-armes Shall so farre â—eâ—ce renue thine ancient Laurels Sith here they plot thine and their proper harmes I rather feare that through these fatall quarrels That hate-Christ Tyrant will in time become The Lord and Soueraigne of all Christendome SONNET 40. Mid all these mischiefes while the friend foe Strangers With vs. against vs had intelligence Henry our King our Father voides our dangers And O Heav'ns wonder planteth PEACE in Fraunce Thou Iudge that sitt'st on thâ— supernall Throne O quench thy furie keepe vs from hostilitie With eyes of mercy looke thou still vpon Our PEACE and found it on a firme stabilitie Sith in despight of discord thou alone Inward and outward hast thus salv'd vs Lord Keepe still our Fraunce or rather Lord thine owne Let Princes loue and liue in iust accord Dis-arme them Lord or iâ— Armes busie them Be it alone for thy Ierusalem FINIS A Dialogue vpon the Troubles past BETWEENE HERAclitus and Democritus the weeping and the laughing Philosophers Acceptam refero A DIALOGVE Heraclitus ALas thou laugh'st perhaps not feeling well The painfull torments of this mortall Hell Ah! canst thou teare-les in this iron Age See men massacred Monsters borne to rage Democritus Ha but why weep'st thou wherefore in this sort Doost thou lament amid this merry sport Ha canst thou chuse but laugh to see the State Of mens now-follies and the freaks of Fate Heraclitus He hath no heart that melts not all in teares To see the treasons murders massacres Sacks sacrileges losses and alarmes Of those that perish by their proper armes Democritus Who all dismayed swouneth sodainly To heare or see some fained Tragedie Held in these dayes on euery Stage as common Is but a heart-les man or but a woman Heraclitus O! would to God our Countries tragick ruth Were but a fable no effected truth My soule then should not sigh to angry Heav'n Nor for her plagues my tender heart be riv'n Democritus I take the world to be but as a Stage Where net-maskt men doo play their personage 'T is but a mummerie and a pleasant showe Sith ouer all strange vanities doo flowe Heraclitus Those vanities I haue in detestation As cursed causes of Gods indignation Which makes me alwayes weepe sith on the earth I see no obiect for the meanest mirth Democritus Thus from one Subiect sundry sequels spring As diuersly our wits conceiue a thing I laugh to see thee weepe thou weep'st to see Me laugh so much which more afflicteth thee Heraclitus Laugh while thou list at mortall miseries I cannot chuse but euen weepe out mine eyes Finding more cause for teares in bloody slaughter Then for thy sense-les ill-beseeming laughter Democritus Melt thee distill thee turne to waxe or snowe Make sad thy gesture tune thy voice to woe I cannot weepe except sometimes it hap Through laughing much mine eyes let fall a drop Heraclitus I weepe to see thus euery thing confused Order disordred and the Lawes abused Iustice reuerst and Policie peruerted And this sicke State neere vtterly subuerted Democritus I laugh to see how Fortune like a ball Playes with the Globe of this inconstant All How she degradeth these and graceth those How whom she lifts-vp downe againe she throwes Heraclitus I raine downe Riuers when against their King Cities rebell through subiects bandying When Colledges through Armes are rest of Art When euery Countie Kingdomes-it a-part Democritus I burst with laughter when confounding State I see those Rebels hunt their Magistrate When I heare Porters prate of State-designes And make all common as in new-found Indes Heraclitus I weepe to see Gods glory made a vaile To couer who his glory most assaile That sacred Faith is made a maske for sinne And men runne headlong to destructions ginne Democritus I laugh with all my heart at the transforming Of Iugling Proteis to all times Conforming But most I laugh t' haue seene the world so mad To starue and die when those damn'd Atheists bad Heraclitus I weepe alas to see the People weepe Opprest with rest-les waight in danger deepe Crying for PEACE but yet not like to get-her Yet her condition is not greatly better Democritus I laugh to see all cause of laughter gone Through those which yerst thou said'st haue caus'd thy mone Noting th' old guise I laugh at all their new I laugh at more but dare not tell it you Heraclitus Som sorrowes also I in silence keepe But in the Desart all my woes shall weepe And there perhaps the Rocks will helpe me then For in these dayes they are more milde then men Democritus I 'le dwell in Cities as my Genius guides To laugh my fill for smiling PEACE prouides Such plentious store of laughing-stuffe to fill me That still I 'le laugh vn-les that laughing kill me FINIS AN ODE OF THE LOVE AND beauties of Astraea To the most matchles-faire and vertuous M. M. H. TETRASTICON THou for whose sake my freedome I forsake Who murdring me doost yet maintain my life Heere vnder PEACE thy beauties Type I make Faire war-like
prodigious strength that carried a Bull on his back killed him with his fist eat him vp in one day Mince a Riuer neere Mantua where Virgil was borne Minerua the same that Pallas Goddesse of wit and warre Moly an herbe brought from heaueÌ„ by Mercury to Vlysses supposed to be our Rue or herbe-grace Moloch the Idoll of the Ammonites Moluques rich Ilands in the East Indies plentifull in all kind of excellent Spices other Treasures Moores the people of Ethiopia subiects of Prester Iohn Morpheus the God of Dreams Mummie a drugg takeÌ„ for part of ancient imbalmed bodies Musculus a little Fish most officious to the Whale Musulmans Arabians Mycaena Agamemnons Kingdome Midas a wealthy King of Phry gia whose touch by the graÌ„t of Bacchus turned all things into Gold so that at last his Gold-turned meate in his mouth choaked him Myrmecides a cunning curious Caruer in small works Myron an excellent statuarie or Image-maker Mounte banks Iugglers Meroe an Iland in the Riuer Nilus Megera look Furies Mages Sages Wise-men Sooth-sayers Morisâ—o and Mattachine Antike fantastike daunces Moderatrix a Regent or Gouernesse MAGNIFICENCE Greatnes State glory pomp MunificeÌ„ce bounty liberality Medalls Images of wood stone or metall Musaik work a kinde of painting so curiously shadowed that it seemes in some places imbost in some carv'd in som in-layde in som grauen c. Meteors or exhalatioÌ„s strange apparitions of comets or other figures in the aire Megarian where flowrished the Philosopher Euclides in the same time that Socrates in Athens N NAcre the Pearle-shell or mother of Pearl Nadir the point directly vnder vs iust opposite to the Zenith or point verticall Natolia Asia minor now whol ly vnder the Turke Nectar the drink of the Gods Neptune the Sea Nephelian Crook-horne the Signe Aries Nepenthe an herbe which being steeped in wine is thought to expell sadnesse Nereus the Sea Nero a most cruell Emperour of Rome the monster of nature shame of mankinde Nestor a wise eloqueÌ„t Greek who being nigh 300. yeers old came to the siege of Troy Nile and Nilus the famous Riuer of Egypt vsed often for Egypt it selfe Nimrod the builder of Babel the first ambitious vsurper of soueraignty Niphates a mountaine from whence the Riuer Tigris hath his source Nitre a light white spongie mater much like salt which som haue falsely thought to be salt-peter Noremberg a City in Germany especially famous for curious handy-crafts Nubian of a Kingdome fronting on the South of Egypt Numidianâ— people of a part of Affrica accustomed to liue continually in the fieldes with their flocks heards remoouing often for fresh pastures Numa Pompileus 2. from Romulus King of the Romanes and their first law-giuer O OBsequies funerall ceremonies Ocean and Oceanus the Sea Odipus a Riddle-Reader of Thebes Oedems thinne waterish and flegmatik swellings Olympius an Arrian Bishoppe strook dead with Lightning for blaspheming the Deitie of Christ. Olympus a very high hill fronting on Macedonia it is often vsed for Heauen Ophthalmy a disease in the Eye through inflamation of the vttermost tunicle Optick sinnew is that which bringeth sight vnto the Eye Orgies Sacrifices to Bacchus Oracles Mysteries of the heathen Gods deliuered by diuers meanes and in diuers manners Orion a tempest-boading star Orpheus an excellent Poet Musician of Thrace Oromene a Mountain in India full of Salt-quarres Ortygian Delos a floating IlaÌ„d where Diana and Apollo were borne Orithias loue Boreas the North-winde Ottoman the first Emperour of Turkes Ouids heires wanton Poets Oxygone a sharp-Triangle Omer a certaine measure among the Hebrues Ophir supposed to be Peru. Onyx a red pretious stone fit for Seales Cleer Orient the East Sun-Rising Oran a Port-Towne in Barbarie within the Streictes of Gibraltar P PActolus a riuer in Lydia which after the washing of King Midas is sayd to haue Golden sands Pallas the Goddesse of Arts Wisedome Palaemon a Sea God called also Melicertes Palestine Iudea the holy land first called Cannan Pan the God of Shepheards Pandects Books treating of all manner of Arguments Panchayaâ— Fumes Incense Pannonia Hungary Austria Panope a Sea-Nymph Pandora fayned by Hesiodus to be the first woman and made by Vulcan indued by all the Gods with seueral excellent gifts but afterwarde by Iupiter in his displeasur sent to hir spouse Epimetheus with a Box full of al maÌ„ner of miseries Paphos Archer Cupid the little God of loue Paphian Fier or shott his Arrowes Parrhasius a most excellent painter of Ephesus Parthians a people of Asia excellent Archers and notorious enemies to the Romans Parâ—s an Iland in the Archipelago which diuideth Europe Asia minor wherein is excellent white Marble or Alablaster Parcas Parcae à non parcendo the Destinies or 3. fatal Sisters viz Clotho Lachesis and Atropos Death it selfe the eneuitable end of all Parallels lines euery wher like distant Paradox an argument maintained contrary to the common and receiued opinion Pegasus the flying Horse of Bellerophon which strayning to flye vp to Heaven with his hoofe rased the top of Helicon whence immediatly gushed out a spring which therefore is called Hyppocrene Penelope the most chaste wife of the wandring Prince Vlysses Peneian Uale is Tempe a most pleasant valley in Thessaly on the verge of the Riuer Peneus Pentheus a young Prince who for contemning the drunkeÌ„ feasts of Bacchus was by his owne mother Agaue murdered Peripneumonie the Impostume of the Lungs Perige that point of Heaven wherein the Sun or other planet is neerest to the center of the Earth Persiphone or Proserpine the Queen of Hell and Horror Perseus a most triumphant ChampioÌ„ that rescued Andromeda from the Sea-moÌ„ster who for his prowesse is both by Poets and Astronomers magnified as a God and placed among the Starres Pernassus the mountain of the Muses Persian Monark with the heauen of glasse was Sapores Peru one of the largest and richest parts of America Phaeton the Son of Phoebus who presuming to guide his fathers Chariot set the world on fire and fell himselfe headlong into the Riuer Eridanus Phoebus the Sunne Phalaris a most cruell Tyrant of Agrigent Phalec the sonne of Heber Pharos a Lanthorne Tower to beare a light for the guide of Saylors in a hauen by night also an Iland Phlegon one of the horses of the Sunnes Chariot Phlegeton a Riuer in Hell taken oft for Hell it selfe philtre-charmd inchanted with loue-potions Phantik such as are haunted with strange illuding Visions Philirian Scout the signe Sagittarius Philometor an ancient king of Egypt much giuen to husbandry and delighting in the Countrie life Phlebotomie Bloodletting Phlegmons hot red inflammations of bloud Phrygian Skinker the signe Aquarius Phrixus sister was Helle drowned in Hellespont which of her is so called Phrenzie a most violent and daungerous disease of the braine Phthisik The consumption of the Lungs Phthiriasis the lowsie disease Pica the longing disease of women with childe Physon one of the Riuers in the garden of
saue vs at thy throne of mercy great Forgiue vs Lord and holde farre from vs all These plagues that on our heads are like to fall Alas what helpeth vs thy heavy stroke To binde our necks to such a servile yoke Wherewith th' Assyrian tyrants long haue grieved Thine Izak till their bondage thou relieved If so this natiue ground that new is tild If so these Hostries new with folke refild If so alas our chaste and modest Dames Our infants young our Virgins good of fames Should be a pray to Ammon and to Perse To Calde and the mutine Parthian fierse If that we see this Altar made prophane And witches it abuse with Idols vain Yet Lord if thou no pittie on vs take At least great God do for thy glories sake Haue pitie on this holy building now Where not a God hath sacrifice but thou Where not a God but thou hast residence To feel the sauour sweet of frankensence Hold back O Lord the Caldean cressets bright From these rich Cedar vaults of stately hight Preserue these vessels ornaments of gold From sacrilegious hands of neighbours bolde And let the blood of beasts before thy face Thy Iustice stay and grant thy seruants grace This prayer done the people went their way Then Ioachim conuen'd that present day The princes all of Iuda and them praid Gainst this mischief for counsell and thus sayd Companions if your former zeal remain If ardent loue to God ye still retain If wife or childe may cause your care or loue Which should the Centers of your senses moue If in your brests a noble hart doth bide Let deed bear witnes at this wofull tide For sauing God and your foresight in deed T is done t is done with vs and all our seed And after this th' Immortall shall not see This altar fume before his maiestee When th' Air is calme and still as dead and deaf Comparison And vnder Heav'n quakes not an aspin leaf When Seas are calme and thousand vessels fleet Vpon the sleeping seas with passage sweet And when the variant winde is still and lowne The cunning Pylot never can be knowne But when the cruell storme doth threat the Bark To drowne in deeps of pits infernall dark While tossing tears both father mast and sail While mounting seems the Azur sky to skail While driues perforce vpon som deadly shore There is the Pylot knowen and not before Alas I pray you then what care and strifes Haue we to keep our honours goods and lifes Forget not then the care of this same place Your countreyes weale Gods glory and his grace But humbly giue your selues into the hand Of God most high and with a holy brand Repurge your spirits from euerie hatefull sinne Which causeth God his Iustice to begin And see what may to God be agreeable For Iacobs weal and for you profitable This said an ancient traytour from his youth Who fostred gall in hart with hony in mouth Enforcing from his eyes som fained tear To cloke his malice spacke as ye shall hear My tongue me fails my hair for dread vp-starts My heavy spirit from pensiue corps departs The oration of a subtill worldling When I be think me of yone tyrant stout Who hath bed round the world with bloud about Approching threats our townes with fiery flames Our selfs with death dishonour to our Dames Yet when I call to minde the curtsie great That this great Lord doth vse who doth intreat Not onely those that beastiall are become And haue their hope in brutall Idols 〈…〉 But euen to zealous folke who do embrace The faith and law like vs of Abrams race Who being well aduisde did humbly sue His pardon and escap't his vengeance due Then thanke I God who sends vs such a foe As plagues the proude and lets the humble goe For we assoone shall vanquish him with teares As will be long to wrack him with our weares Then whil'st we may haue choise of eitherstate Of peace or warres his fauour or his hate Let vs not follow seeing skath at hand The follie of our fathers to gainstand But rather let vs beare another saile And serue his king as best for our availe But think not yet that I this counsell giue For craft or warrant forthy selfe to liue For I haue els my daies so neerely spent That for to dye I could be well content Th' Assyrian neede not in my brest to strike His fethred Dart nor yet his trembling pike Yea if my youth to me should eft returne And make my youthly bloode within me burne So honour I my God and country deare That for to dye for them I would not feare As Sampson did if so my death might yield The victory of the Uizroy and the field But most I feare least we with curious zeale Fight for the lawe yet fight against her weale Against our selfs to bring so great a wrack That proud and cruell tyrants shall vs sack And grow in pride suppressing Iudas strength For to contemne the glory of God at length For Israell being lost who shall ensue To render here to God deuotions due What people sparsâ—d on this earthly ball From Indian shoare to where the Sunne doth fall Or from the Climate of the northren blast Vnto that place where sommer ay doth last Hath God elect save Israell for his owne Vpon this Hill to have his glory showne At this the valiant Cambris of renowne With righteous rage grew pale and gan to frowne And brake the silence with a vehement stile His courage mov'd the Princes all the while Nay rather where I stand let ope the ground Quoth he to swallow me in pit profound Yea rather righteous Heav'n let firy blast Light on my head that thou on Sodom cast Ere I my malice cloke or oversile In giving Izac such a counsell vile For if the Leader of this folk profane Vpon our bodies onely sought to raigne Although that we haue dearely bought alway Our freedom from our first maternall day Which dearer is then gold for to be kept I would assent the holy Church except But since more pride this tyrants heart enroules To lay a greater burden on our soules Who are the vassels of that onely King That Thunder sends and scepters down doth thring ' Should we forget him who made vs of nought ' More then all wondrous things that he hath wrought Who treats and loues vs like our Father King Still vnder shadowes of his wondrous wing Will he that we receiue a Prince ambitious For God a gods contemner Nemrode vitious Whose beastly life is of so vile a fame That of a man he merits not the name Goe to goe to let men for men assaye With sword and shot to deale it as we may The victory lies not in mortall hands Nor barded horse nor force of armed bands These are but second instruments of God Who as him list may send them euen or od But if our soueraigne God willes such annoy That
did that sprite that made the Prophet blesse Num. 23. The Israelites whom Balec did addresse To curse them all and wage his couetous toung Which spake contrarie that he would haue soung So please it you my Lord I shall descrie The storie of Izrell yet so doing I Am like the modest Bee that takes but small Of every flowr though she haue choise of all For where she list the sweetest off she crops These people that ye see on mountain tops A briefe discourse of the estate of the Iewes Encamped in these craggs are of the line Of Abraham who seruing God diuine That mighty God of Gods who creat all And firmely knit and built this mighty ball Came to this Land that then was tild and sowen Gen. 12. And by the name of wealthy Canaan knowen Where onely God his wealth did multiplie In goods and siluer gold and familie And when of age he was an hundred year His wife eake barren neuer child did â—ear God gaue them Isaac swearing that his seed Should many Scepters rule and Land bespreed But when that holy Abraham was old And hoped well the promise made should hold O pitious case Th' immortall voice him spake And bad him sacrifice his sonne Isaac Then like a ship between two windes beset Gen. 22. Vpon the raging sea on both sides bet In doubtsom fear â—e wots what way to keep Least one of them confound her in the deep Makes close her ports and slides on Neptunes back At pleasure of the hoisteous windes to wrack So felt this Hebrew in his heart to fight Both loue and duety reason faith and right Nor wist he way to take his troubled soule From this to that continually did roule Vntill the time his heav'nly fear and loue His naturall earthly pitie did remoue Then hauing built the fire and all anone His sonne he layd vpon the sacred stone And with a trembling hand the curtlasse drewe With heavied arme the stroke for to ensewe When lo th' Eternall staid the balefull knife And down it fell and spaird the guiltless life Then God content to haue so great assaye Of Abrams faith defended him alway Of Isaac Iacob came and Iacob than Of valiant sonnes had twelue in Canaan Who forç't by famine fled to Aegypt Land Where for a while their dwelling good they fand Exod. 1 And grew so great in number that they were A fear to those that had them harbourd there And though th' Egyptians dayly them opprest And burthens on their sweating backs were drest Yet like the valiant Palme they did sustaine Their peisant weight redressing vp againe This mov'd King Pharo to command through all Great Nilus Land where raine doth neuer fall He bad his folke should slay whereso they came All children males the seede of Abraham Assoone as they from mothers wombs were free Their day of birth should be their day to d ee O cruell Tiger thinks thou that this deede Of Izak may cut-off th' immortal seede ExclamatioÌ„ Well may it stay the sucklings for to liue And kill th' accustomde frute that heaven doth giue But spite of this men Iacobs seede shall see In flouring state to rule all Cananee The first of every house shall feele the hand And wrath of God against this law to stand It fortun'd Pharo's daughter with her traine Of Ladies faire to play them on the Plaine Vpon the shoare where Gossan floode doth slide Where after many pastimes they had tride She hears an enfant weepe amongst the reedes Then iudging it for one of Izaks seeds As so it was yet with Paternall feare Against his pitious plaint she clos'd her eare But after vewing in that infants face I know not what of fauour and of grace Which did presage his greatnes to ensew Loue vanquisht lawe and pittie dread withdrew So from the floode not onely she him caught But curiously she causde him to be taught As her owne sonne O sonne elect of God Admiration That once shall rule the people with thy rod Thou haste not found a seruant for thy mother But euen a Queene to nurse thee and none other Now see how God alwaies for his elect Note Of wicked things can draw a good effect His prouidence hath made a wicked thing Vnto his owne great profit for to bring When Iosephs brether sold him like a slaue Gen. 41 He after came a kingly place to haue Of Haman proude the darke enuious hate Brought Mardoche the iust to great estate For where his enemie sought his shamefull end Est. The same vnto the worker he did send This Hebrew Moses once as he did keepe On Horeb mount his father Iethro his sheepe Father in Law He saw a fearefull sight a flaming fire Enclose a thorny bush whole and entire From whence a mighty voice vnto him spake Which made the ground betweene the Poles to shake I am that One is was and ay shall bee Exod. 3. Who create all of nought as pleaseth mee I can destroie I am the great and iust The faire the good the Holy one to trust Whose strong right hand this world hath set in frame I am th' Almighty God of Abraham I plague my foes and grant my seruants grace All those that knowledge me and all their race Then follow thou my will and quickly go From me to that prophane King Pharao Who holds the towrs of Memphis and the field Of Nilus shore that rich encrease doth yeeld And bid him let my people freely goe But if with hardned hart he will not so Stretch out thy staffe for to confirme thy charge And it shall turne into a Serpent large And this he shortly did the thing to proue It quickned lo and on the ground gan moue O Miracle he saw without all â—aile It grew a Serpent fell with head and taile Which crangling crept and ranne from trod to trod In many a knot till time th' Almighty God Commanded him the same for to retaine Which to the former shape returnd againe Thus siling humain sight it changed form One while a Rod one while a creeping worm Then armed with this staffe the Lord him sent The proud idolatrous princes to torment He in the name of God full oft did pray The King to let the Hebrews go their way Vnto the desert where he did deuise To offer God a pleasant sacrifise But Pharo clos'd his eare against the Lord And to his holy word would not accord Then God th' Eternall wrought by Moses hand Exod. 4 To approue his word great wonders in that Land For he not only Riuers turnd to blood Exod. 7 But also all the heads of Nilus flood Which watreth wealthy Egypt with his sources Was turnd to blood amid their siluer courses So that the king himselfe his life to feede Was faine to vse such water for his neede This Moses made the froggs in millions creep Exod. 8 From floods and ponds and scrall from ditches deep Who cled all Misraim with their filthy frie Euen on the king
and all his family To young and old of either Sexe that while Exod. 9 He sent a plage of scalding botches vile So that the Memphites layd on beds to rest VVith vncouth venim daily were opprest To Medciners the medcine valled not So sore the poisond plague did vnder cot He also smote the for rests herbs and grase The flocks of sheep and euery beast that was Throw poison of th' infected ground so â—ell The Morrain made them all to die or swell So that the Shepheard by the riuer side His flock hath rather dead then sick espide He earthly dust to lothly lice did change And dimd the Ayre with such a cloud so strange Of flyes grashoppers hornets clegs and clocks Exod. 10 That day and night throw houses flew in flocks That with incisions sharpe did sheare the skinnes Of Aegypt Panims throw their proudest ynnes And when the heauen most quiet seemd and fair Th' Eternall sent a tempest through the air And at this Hebrew 's prayer such a reare Of thunder fell that brought them all in feare Here lay a Bull that woodran while he brast There lay the Keeper burnt with thunder blast And now the forrest high that hid the air With many a spreeding arme is spoild and bair So that the sap that grafters keeps with paine Which should restore the stock and leafe againe Is lost alas in lesse then halfe a day The husbands hoped fruite gone to decaye What more th' Eternall darkned so the skye For three dayes space none could another spye That cloude so thick the Memphis rebels fand That they might firmly feele it with their hand It seemd that Phoebus left his ancient Round And dwelt three dayes with men of vnderground And as the sunne at one selfe time is felt With heate to harden clay and wax to melt So Amrams sacred sonne in these proiects Made one selfe cause haue two contraire effects For Izak humbly knew the Lord diuine But Pharo more and more did still repine Like to the corpslet colde the more 't is het With hammers hard more hardnes it doth get Yet when his son was slaine by th' Angels hand Exod. 11 Heyre Amongst the eldest heires of Aegypt Land He was afraide and let them go that night Where pleased them to serue their God of might Who sent a cloud before them all the day By night a Piller of fire to guide their way But so dainly this tyrant did gainstand His former graunt and armd all Aegypt Land With hote pursute against all Iacobs hoste That were encamped on the Red-sea coste Such noyse was neuer since the foraigne tide Brak throw Gibraltar when it did diuide The Calp from Abill or when Sicill strand Diuorced was from her Italia Land As was in these two campes that one with boste That other with their wailings fild the coast It seemd the sounds of furious horse and men With hornes and pypes to heaven resounded then Exod. 14. They murmure O Iuggler said the Iewes what hatefull strife Hath moued thee to change our happie life What are we fishes for to swimme the seas Or are we foules to fly whereas we please Beyond the Sea or ouer hilles to soare Was there not graues for vs on Gossen shoare But in this desart heer to dy or haue The blood-red Ocean Sea to be our graue Then Moses with his quickned rod that tide He smote the sea which fearfull did diuide Discouering land that sunne had neuerseene And staid the sea as there two walles had been Which made a passage dry of ample space For all to passe who were of Isaacs race But contrarie the Red-sea did deuower The barbrous tyrant with his mighty power Who proudly durst himselfe to that present Which opened but to saue the innocent O happy race since God doth arme for thee Both fire and aire the windes the clouds and see Which all vnto thy pay haue whole inclinde Let not consuming time weare out of minde So rare a grace but let thine elders shewe This to their noble seed that shall ensewe And let their sonnes vnto their sonnes recorde Throw all the world these wonders of the Lord. God with Coelestiall breade in time of need His loued Iacob fortie yeare did feede Exod. 6. And gaue them water from the solide stone Which of it selfe had neuer moisture none Their caps their coates and shooes that they did weare God kept all fresh and new full fortie yeer And farther least their soules for want of food Exod. 20. Should faint or faile he of his mercies good Gaue them his law pronounced by his voice His spirit to theirs in him for to reioice So teaching them and vs in precepts ten Our dutie first to God and next to men To th' end that man to man should truely stand And ioyne with God and neuer break that band This mightie Prophet dead Duke Iosua than Iosua Their Captaine stout this Palmy province wan Throw might of God he Scepters did subdew Of thirtie tyrant Kings whom all he slew At his commandement like the thunder sound The Rampers strong fell fearefully to ground Before the Tortuse or the horned Ramme Had bet or mined from their wall a dramme For euen of hornes full hoarse their simple blast An engine was their towres adoune to cast He pray'd the heaven for to prolong the day And made the horses of the sun to stay To th' end the night should not with cloud be cled To saue the faithles that before him fled Now when this Panim scourge with age at last Had left this life and vnto heauen past Then Isaac had of Rulers sundry men Whose glorious acts deserues eternall pen. Who knowes not Samgar Barac and Othoniell Iudges Tha valiant Delbor Ahud and good Samuell What Land O Sampson rings not thy renowne Who sole vnarmed bet an Army down What laude to Iephthe iustly might we low Had he not hurt his owne through hastie vow What hill or dale what flood or fixed ground 〈◊〉 not the famous Gedeons praise resound In later time their kings some good some bad Of all the Hebrew state the ruling had Had I the Harpe of Dauid holy King None other sound but Dauid would I sing 〈…〉 uen as all the deeds that Dauid did 〈…〉 ot be done by none but by Dauid So none but Dauid on his yv'rie harpe The glorious praise of God could onely carpe But here his praise I prease not to proclaime Least I throw want of skill obscure the same Yet leaue I not his Son whom grace diuine Salomon Made no lesserich then wondrous of engine Whose doctrine drew to Salem from all wheare A hundred thousand wyzards him to heare From Araby from Ynde to Affrik shore His toung entyste them with his cunning lore Iosias Shall I forget the kings who ouerthrew Idolatrie and plaç't religion dew Shall I forget that King who saw descend Hezekiah Ierusalem Asa. A winged Hoast Solyma to defend Shall I forget him who before his eene Enchast the
withstand The Heathen host with ech of them in hand An yron mace in stead of launces long And brazen bucklers beating back the throng Their habergions like stiddies stithe they baire With helmets high and pennons pight in aire Of equall age they were and equall length Of equall courage and of equall strength Like Poplers twain that recheth vp their tops And holds their heads so high that none them crops But on the Riuers side do sweetly sway Like germain brether hailsing oft a day The Heathen seeing thus the Iews descend With edge of sword their Citie to defend They left th' assault and thence retyring went As they commanded were vnto their tent But when I think how xxx dayes that towne Tormented was with mischief vp and down Too sad a song I cannot hear inuent So great a sadnesse right to represent My hand for horrour shakes and now no more Can lead my sacred pen as erst before For now mine eyes that watred are with tears Declares my matter all of mischief bears Oh Sprite from whence all sprit and life doth come Thou loosde the tongue of Zacharie that was dōme And sent thy Heralds through the world to preach Thy name and in a hundreth tongues to teach Guide thou my pen and courage to me lend That to thy honour I this worke may end Although that Izak sawe on euery hand A world of folke against his towne to stand Yet tracting time he thought he would prouide No lesse to keep then coole th' Assiegers pride But when they fand the conduits cut and rent By which their water to their towne was sent Their courage bolde and all their craks alas As licour faild so did their stoutnesse pas Their Lords preferring death to bondage vile Made them beleeue the thing did them beguile To wit they gaue men hope that they might keep Sufficient wat'r in wels and cesterns deep Through all the towne the people to relieue That thirst should not the souldiers greatly grieue The magistrates in deed had great regard To see this water wisely spent and spar'd That Bottell sweet which serued at the first To keep the life but not to slocken thirst A viue description of Thirst. When wels grew dry the Commons ran in rage And sought out euery sink their thirst t' asswage And drank with long som draught the pools in haste To quench their thirst with ill contented taste Which poysoned ayre enfect their purest breath Whereby the drinker drank his present death O wretched folke who felt so hard a strife Drink or not drink both wayes must lose their life For he that drank and he that did refrain Had of their enmies both an equall pain For why the water vile slew them throughout No lesse then did their enmies them about That wretched towne had neuer a street nor rewe But Parcas there had found som facion newe To murder men or martyr them with fears As mov'd the most indurate hart to tears If so much water in their brains had been As might forbear a drop to wete their een There plaind the old man that the souldier strong Had reft his Bottell from his head with wrong But while he spake his hart for thirst did faint And life him left which frustrate his complaint The souldier braue Oh hart brek for to tell His proper vryne drank thirst to expell The wofull mother with her spettle fed Her little childe half dead in cradle bed The Lady with her Lord at point of death Embracing fals and yeelds their latest breath For cruell thirst came out of Cyren Land Where she was fostred on that burning sand With hote intracted tongue and sonken een With stomack worn and wrinkled visage keen With light and meigre corse and pailed vains In stead of blood that brimstone hote retains Her poysond mouth blew throw that holy town Such hellish ayr that stifled vp and down The Arters of the Iewes in such a way That nought was seen but burials night and day So that the heauen to see their dolours deep Could scarsly keep his course but preasd to weep And would haue ioind his tears to their complaint If God of hosts had made them no restraint Yea I my self must weep who cannot speak The woes that makes my heavy hart to break And so will silent rest and not rehearse But counterfait the painter in my verse Who thought his colours paile could not declare The speciall woe king Looke the Table Agamemnon bare When sacrificed was his onely race With bend of black he bound the fathers face Now while the people were in this estate And with their princes wrangling in debate They thus besought the Lord for to decide Between their simplesse and their princes pride The Lord be iudge of that which ye haue wrought And what your wicked counsells hath vs brought If you had offred peace to this great Lord At first we might haue wonne him to accord Then happy happy dayes we might haue seen And not so many souldiers murdred been Alas what hope haue we within this holde Our enmies are more meek a thousand folde Then are our owne They haps would vs preserue Our wilfull owne pretends to see vs sterue Our children do our childrens weal denay And headlong hastes vnto their owne decay We knowe O Lord the breaking of thy law Hath caused thee this sword on vs to draw And iustly thou thine yrefull bowe doest bend On our vnloyall heads the shot to send But thou who doth not long retain thine yre Against thine owne thy mercy we require Change thou the purpose of our foolish guides And of these Heathen armed at our sides Or els let vs vpon their weapons fall And of their hands to be destroyed all Er we this drougth and deadly venim haue With languishing to send vs to the graue My brethren dear the Ruler then gan say Our whole desire hath been both night and day Not for to see the seed of Abrahm lost For which we striue against this furious hoste What haue ye pain so likewise pain haue we For in one boat we both imbarked be Vpon one tide one tempest doth vs tosse Your common ill it is our common losse Th' Assyrian plague shall not vs Hebrews grieue When pleaseth God our mischief to relieue Which he will doe if ye can be content And not with grudge his clemency prevent Then striue not you against that puissant king Who create all and gouerns euery thing For comfort of his Church and children dear And succours them though time do long appear Somtime an Archer leaues his bowe vnbent And hong vpon a naile to that intent It may the stronger be to bend again And shoot the shot with greater might and main Right so th' eternall doth withholde his ill A longer time perchance for that he will More egerly reuenge him of their crime Who do abuse his long for bearing time When men applauds to sinne they count it light And but a matter
Contract indeed cruell yet could not be Infring'd or broken without Crueltie Tell it O Tongue why stay'st thou so vpon-it Dar'st thou not say-it hauing dar'd and don-it Not having fear'd Heav'ns King how canst thou fear An earthly King Then thus my Liege while-yer I and my Neighbour desperately agreed Iointly to eate successiuely our seed Our owne deer Children and O luck-les Lot Mine first of all is destin'd to the Pot Forth-with I catch-him and I snatch him to-me Vp in mine armes he straight begins to woo-me Stroaks colls and huggs me with his arms and thighes And smiling sweet Mam-mam mam-mam he cryes Then kisses me and with a thousand toyes Thinks to delight me with his wonted ioyes I looke away and with my hand addrest Bury my knife within his tender brest And as a Tigresse or the Dam of Bears A Fawn or Kid in hundred gobbets tears I tear him quick dress him and on our Table I set him oh 't is now no time to fable I taste him first I first the feast begin His blood my blood runs round about my Chin My Childe returns re-breeding in my Womb And of my Flesh my Flesh is shamefull Tomb Soon cloyd alas but little could I eat And vp again that little striues to get But she she layes it in she greedy plyes-it And all night long she sits to gourmandize-it Not for her fill so much of such think I As to prolong the more my misery O God sayd she and smiles in eating it What a sweet morsell what a dainty bit Blest be the brest that nuâ—c't such meat for me But more the Womb that bare it so to be So to be brief my Son is eat But hers Alive and lustie in her arms she bears Why should her Pittie rather her despight Doo both her Faith Me and my Son vn-right Ah! for her belly rather then her Boy She playd this prank and robd me of my Ioy She did it not of tender hart to save him But greedy-gut that she alone might haue him Therfore O King doo Iustice in this case Nor craue I pardon of thy princely grace For mine Offence such an Offence I knowe As yet grim Minos never iudg'd belowe For if I should how should I doo for meat Not having now another Childe to eat No this is all I crave before I die That I may taste but of Her sonns sweet thigh Or that at least mine eye more iust then cruell May see him slain by her my Horrors Fuell But if you waigh not mine vnfained â—ears Indeed vn-worthy yet vouchsafe your ears To the loud Plaints of my lamenting Son Who with strange murmurs rumbling vp and down Seems in my bowels as reviv'd to groan And to your Highnes thus to make his moan Sir will you suffer without all revenge Mens cursed malice boldly to infringe Law Faith and Iustice Vows and Oaths and all As buzzing Flies tear Cob-webs on a wall Ah! shall I then descend alone belowe Dy vn-reveng'd foster my cruel Foe And then-cast-forth in foulest Excrement Infect the Aier offend the Element The while her Darling on his Hobby-horse About the Hall shall ride and prance and course And imitate Mens actions as an Ape Build paper-Towrs make Puppets sit in Lap No let him die let him as I be cut Let him as I be in two Bellies put Full-fill the Pact that so our wretched Mothers Their Guilt and Grief may either's match with others The King less mov'd with pitty than with horror Thunders these words raging in threat-full terror Vengeance and mischief on mine owne head light If curst Elisha keep his head this night And as he spake forth in a rage he flings To execute his bloody Threatenings Sir said the Prophet you have seen the skathe Deuouring Famin heer performed hath But by to-morrow this time God hath said Samaria's Gates shall even abound with Bread Tush sayd a Minion of the Court hard by Of surly speech proud gait and lofty ey Though God should open all Heav'ns windows wide It cannot be Yes Infidell reply'd The zealous Prophet Thouthy Self in sum Shalt see it then but slialt not taste a Crum Thus said Elisha and th' Almightie Powr Perform'd his Sayings in the very howr Her scarlet Robe Aurora had not donn'd Nor had she yet limn'd the Euphratean strond With trembling shine neither was Phoebus yet Willing to wake out of a drouzie Fit When pallid FEAR flyes to the Pagan Hoast Description and effects of Fear Wilde-staring Hag shiv'ring and wavering most She that her voice and visage shifts so oft She that in Counsails strives to lift aloft Irresolution to be President Canker of Honor curse of Government She that even trembles in her surest Arms Starts at a leaf swouns at report of harms Beleeves all sees all and so swayeth all That if she say the Firmament doth fall There be three Suns This or that Mountain sinks Paul's Church doth reel or the foundation shrinks It is beleev'd 't is seen and seis'd by Her The other Senses are as apt to err Clashing of Arms Rattling of iron Cars Murmur of Men a World of Soldiars Neighing of Horse noise of a thousand Drums With dreadfull sound from the next Vale ther coms The Syrian Camp conceiuing that the Troups Of Nabathits Hethits and Ethyops Hyr'd by th' Isaacians came from every side To raise their Siege and to repell their pride Fly for their lives disordered and disperst Amid the Mountains so well-ordered yerst One in his Cap-case leaves-behinde his Treasure To bridle 's horse another hath not leasure Another hungry on the grass hath set His Break-fast out but dares not stay to eat One thinks him far that yet hath little gon Another weens him in plain ground anon He breaks his neck into a Pit another Hearing the Boughs that brush against each other And doubting it to be the Conquerer He wretched dies of th' only wound of FEAR As after tedious and continuall rain Simile The honey-Flies haste from their Hiues again Suck heer and there and bear into their bowr The sweetest sap of euery fragrant flowr So from besieg'd Samaria each man hies Vnto the Tents of fear-fled Enemies Wherein such store of corn and wine they pill That in one day their hungry Town they fill And in the Gate the Croud that issueth Treads th' vnbeleeuing Courtier down to death So that at once even both effects agree Iust with Elisha's holy prophecie From this School comes the Prophet Amethite The twice-born Preacher to the Niniuite Ionas be gon hie hie thee said th' Almightie The ship-Wrack of IONAS To Niniuè that great and wanton Citie Cry day and night cry out vnto them all Yet forty daies and Niniue shall fall But 'gainst th' Eternall Ionas shuts his eare And ships himself to sail another-where Wherfore the Lord incensed stretcht his arm To wrack the wretch in suddain fearfull Storm Now Nereus foams and now the furious waues A liuely Description of