THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE two first Ages Diuinely handled By Thomas Peyton of Lincolnes Inne Gent. LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop and are to be had at Laurence Chapmans shop ouer-against Staple Inne 1620. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE Charles Prince of Wales MOst hopefull Prince Europaes richest Iem Successor to these famous westerne Iles Chast Oliue Branch descended of that Stem Whose what he hath all on thy fortune smiles Inheritor to such a Potent King As no Age yet his Like could euer bring Braue Pearle of men within whose louely Face The sacred Muses learned Arts combine And all Heauens gifts from great Apollos Race Apparant seeme within thy Browes to shine Thy Fathers Doran kingly workes of State This more then needs as borne but out of date Yet Royall Prince let but thine eyes behold This lofty Subiect in these Rurall Rimes T' will more encourage then Earths purest gold To make my Muse to all succeeding times Blaze forth thy parts and high deserued Fame That thy rare worth may all the World inflame As in a Garden of sweete fragrant flowers Where each man takes what to his mind seemes best Then sits him downe within their pleasant Bowers Peruseth all and for a Time doth Rest Contented Ioy'd Admiring to haue found So great a change in one small piece of Ground So deerest Prince within thy Fathers workes What Poesies sweete Graue sentences diuine Sad morrall matter in each Subiect lurkes To draw thy youth to trace him line by line Whilst this may chance to recreate thy mind As glimmering Luna in Sols absence shin'd Persist go on and as thy Vertues won The Loyall Loue of euery faithfull heart So to the end thy course directly run And winged Fame shall from thee neuer start But scale the Cloudes and mount the lofty Skyes To sound thy worth as farre as India lyes Your Highnesse in all humblenesse Thomas Peyton TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE FRANCIS Lord Verulam Lord Chancelor of England MOst Honor'd Lord within whose reuerend face Truth Mercy Iustice Loue and all combine Heauens deerest Daughters of Iehouahs Race Seeme all at full within thy Browes to shine The King himselefe T'immortalize thy fame Hath in thy Name Foretiped out the same Great Verulam my Soule hath much admirde Thy Courtly carriage in each comely part Worth Merrit Grace when what the land desirde Is powr'd vpon thee as thy iust desart Graue liberall mind contending with the rest To seate them all in thy Iuditious brest Thrice noble Lord how dost thou prize of gold Wealth Treasures Mony and such Earthly cash For none of them thou hast thy Iustice sold But held them all as base infected trash To snare allure out from a dunghill wrought The seared conscience of each muddy thought Weigh but my cause referre me not to those That from the first were partiall in my right Ah this is more then once thine Honour knowes Thou seest mine owne hath now vndone me quight Whilst by a trick they got me in their paw Against the Order of thy Court and Law If I were such as some would haue thee thinke I meane my Foes which vtterly defame Mine Innocence and all together linke To wound my state and blemish much my name Yet Iustice wils what in their hands hath laine Thus to my losse should be restord againe Ah deerest Lord hold but the Scales vpright Let Court nor fauour ouersway my cause To presse me more then is beyond my might Is but their Reach to crosse thy former Lawes Let me have Peace or that which is mine owne And thy iust worth shall o're the World be blowne Your Lordships in all humblenesse Thomas Peyton TO THE READER The Title described VNto the Wise Religious Learned Graue Iudicious Reader out this Worke I send The tender sighted that small knowledge haue Can litle loose but much their weaknesse mend And generous spirits which from heauen are sent May Solace here and finde all true content A Paradise presented to ech eye Within the Vinnet of the Title page Where Iustice Mercie Nature Loue do lye Beforeth ' Almightie in the first found Age. Time stands betwixt and Truth his daughter beares His traine behind a world of Aged yeares Fierce Nemesis she mounts within the Ayre On Pegasus that winged Horse of Fame And by her side a Sword all naked bare Graue Iustice sits a sable lowring Dame Vnder her feete the worlds most spatious Globe And weighs mens Actions in a scarlet Robe This may denote the goodly glorious worth The pretious Value Maiestie and Grace Of all the Sisters Glory of this Earth Gods deerest daughters in their seuerall place Aboue the world heauens crowne their browes adorne To shew at full how they do bribing scorne Peruse it well for in the same may lurke More obscure matter in a deeper sence To set the best and learned wits on worke Then hath as yet in many Ages since Within so small a little Volumne beene Or on the sudden can be found and seene Vrania deere attired in her silke To draw thee on with more attentiue heede The weaker sort she sometime feedes with milke All guiltie mens damn'd vices vp to weede Th' enuious Momes that her chaste Muse doth tuch She hopes to mend but cares not for them much Thine to his power Tho. Peyton HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Beati Pacifici THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE FIRST AGE The Argument The Author first doth Gods assistance craue Throughout the worke that he his helpe may haue The sacred Sabbaoth Sathans enuious gall The Woman fram'd and Mans most dismall fall The Tree of Life protected from the Brute The Tree of Knowledge with her fatall Fruit For feare the World should finally be ended Gods deerest Daughters downe in hast descended The flaming Sword the Tree of Life which garded The Cherubins vpon the walls that warded The Land of Eden is discrib'd at large Heauens iudgement iust to all men's future charge SInce true examples in Gods holy Booke Are found of those that in it loue to looke Of men whose Image portraiture and soule Haue beene transform'd to monstrous shapes and foule According as their liues haue pleasing beene Gen. 19 26 To him whose sight their secret thoughts hath seene And as his goodnesse sacred is that some Dan. 4. 30 Should be examples for these times to come His Church to comfort Pagans to appall To teach to vs what did to them befall Within the stories of the new and old Rom. 15 4 Of many more then can by me be told And since that Ouid in a pleasing verse Doth pretty Tales and Metaphors rehearse Of men to birds and then againe to beasts To make you parly at your welcome feasts Whose fabled fictions warbled in that age The infancy and sacred pupill-age Of the Religion which we heare maintaine Vnder our Soueraignes thrice most happy raigne May seeme from Moses and the rest diuine In 's Metaphors to trace them line by line
Iordans siluer sides From Libanon to Sodoms lake that glides Along the plaines where Iesus was baptiz'd The holy Ghost in shape of Doue disguiz'd Mat. 3. 15 16 17. Heauens windowes ope thus speaketh in their sight This is my Sonne in whom I take delight When all was finish't and to Heauen Christ went Then downe came he to giue vs all content As Iustice Mercy both with Loue are linck't Simile So God is one the Persons three distinck't These altogether as the heauens decree'd Iustitia Misrecordia Charitas Veritas The Tree of Life protect from Adams seede The World it selfe with wonderment they fill Their meate is knowne to do their fathers will Who all this while is with their sister sweete Natura His eldest daughter as 't was euer meete When Time had done discharged full his due Aboue the clouds vp to the Heauens God flew Where he remaines leauing the world and all Which euer yet was knowne vpon this ball To the protection of that noble Dame That to the earth with loue her sister came So well affected labouring what she can That all her care is but for sinfull man Let him his mind to goodnesse alwayes bend And Nature euer is his louing friend Great God of Heauen now is thy Iustice showne Thy Loue and Mercy with thy Nature knowne Time hath thy Face and glorious browes vnmask't And thus at first my Rurall Muse hath task't Heere brought forth Truth from her hath neuer sturd Reueal'd the same wrapt in thy holy Word Of Paradise the sacred curtaine drawne The Sabaoth shew'd on no mans vice doth fawne Of all the world hath sung the first beginning Told Adams faults and Eues offensiue sinning Their seede defac't in breaking of thy lawes And heere I le stay and sit me downe and pause The end of the first Age. THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE second Age. Diuinely handled By Thomas Peyton of Lincolnes Inne Gent. Seene and allowed LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop for Lawrence Chapman and are to be sold at his shop ouer against Staple Inne 1620. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Beati Pacifici THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE SECOND AGE The Argument The sacred Muse by envious Foes is crost Adam and Eue how each from other lost Their first borne sonne by cursed malice led Vnkindly wounds his dearest Brother dead Apostacy the cause of all this ill The totall World on euery side doth fill With Bloud Oppression Cruelty and Hate To waste consume and winde each others state The Church deriued from the third borne child Is staind polluted with Caines Race defilde So that the World and all there in was found Besides the Arke were wash't away and drown'd VRania Soueraigne of the Muses nine Inspire my thoughts with sacred worke diuine Come down from Heauen within my Temples Rest Inflame my heart and lodge within my Brest Grant me the story of this World to sing The Glasse of Time vpon the Stage to bring Be Aye within me by thy powerfull might Gouerne my Pen direct my speech aright Euen in the birth and infancy of Time To the last Age season my holy Rime Oh leade me on into my Soule infuse Diuinest Worke and still be thou my Muse That all the World may wonder and behold To see Times passe in Ages manifold And that their wonder may produce this end To liue in loue their future liues to mend Then shall thy lookes with sacred luster shine The Muses all within thy Browes combine Richly adorn'd with all the Nimphes and Graces Shall sound thy prayse with louely pleasing faces Ioying to see thy glorious heauenly hap The golden Ball cast downe into thy lap To thy delight and great contentment more Then if the World were only thine in store Though cursed Enuy on thy Fortune frowne Yet thy chast Browes shall weare heau'ns lawrel crowne In future Ages as the Muses Queene Thy Temples wreath'd shall euer flowrish greene And what if Hymen something doe annoy Thy tender Fruit yet shalt thou liue in ioy And when pale death shall close vp both thine eyes Thy fame shall mount aboue the lofty skyes And yet Vrania how canst thou be glad To see this Age wherein we liue so bad All ouergrowne far worse then at the first Bemir'd in sin as if it were accurst Nothing but bloud contention Brides and braules The Serpent still vpon his belly crawles And round about on enery side doth winde With cunning sleights the Infants face to grinde Nay thouthy selfe noble Vrania deere Since first thy landing and ariuall heere Hast thou not beene on euery side turmoyl'd Tost too and fro by Enuy ouertoyl'd Whose viprous tongue within a sacred place Hath belcht her venome aim'd at thy disgrace Like to the Diuell in Paradise at first Simile That banefull poyson in his Brest hath nurst To wrong thy person weaken much thy state Enrich himselfe to satisfie his hate Tooke all aduantage working on thy youth Suggested lies instead of naked truth Lock't thee vp close Immur'd within a Wall When not a Groate was due to him at all But by the order of this noble Land He in that place for debt to-thee should stand Great God of Heauen it makes me weepe and waile To see Iuiustice oftentimes preuaile To domineere and catch into her hand When Innocence must at her mercy stand Then doth she squeese wring wrest extort and lurch When seldome times oppression comes at Church Deare friends perswasion once can ne're preuaile To worke a peace till all be set to saile Then swallowes all into a griping purse Not satisfied continues ten times worse Vowing to wast and Ruine all thy state Oh cursed malice hatcht by enuious fate When thy false heart hath made the act thy worst What art thou then more then a beast accurst Nay farre more worse for thou must count at large For euery soule committed to thy charge If by thy fault the least of them be lost Thy soule in hell the price of it will cost But yet my Muse vnfold to me the cause Why thou didst fall into the trecherous pawes Of hatefull foes deuouring Tigers fierce False hearted friends which in thy state did pierce That thou shouldst thus be tost on euery side Compeld oft times to be from home and ride To see if Enuy with her viperous face Hath foysted lies in sacred Iustice place I know no cause nor could I euer tell Why she should thus against thee alwayes swell Winding her selfe her mallice best to smother Ier. 23. 12. 10. 11. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Into the habit of thine elder brother One thou hast lou'd inough to make me doate To see vice lurke vnder a formall coate And thou thy selfe that yet didst neuer hurt To harme a childe or throw a worme i'th'durt Or take delight to glory in the fall Of any one much lesle thy tongue to gall Bite scandall blurre to Iniury defame The worth of any in their goods or
name By wicked wayes the Infants face to grinde Nor in thy hands thy neighbors liuing wind But to thy power hast shewd thy best endeauour To loue the Saints withall thy heart for euer Vrania deere thy very case is mine How did my Foes still to this day combine Backe sliding friends much like to slippery Eles Haue vndermind to turne vp both mine heeles With fawning tearmes my company haue sought Inuerted that which yet I neuer thought Reported words the which were neuer spake Let euery man by this a warning take And carefull be whom they conuerse withall The Bird oft times in Fowlers nets doth fall Euen when Alas not any hurt she thinkes Then is she caught vnder their burthen Sinkes How oftentimes haue I bin tost and tir'd Plung'd in the deepe and all with durt bemir'd Tost too and fro by those in Ambush lay With secret Gins to trap me in my way Vow'd my destruction all my state to baine Much to my Trouble Iniury and paine Swallow'd my goods within a griping purse Haue I not cause all Romaine wolues to curse When all I haue can scarcely giue content Vnlesse my life and liuing both be spent Were it for debt or title of my Land That thus my foes did in their furie stand If possibly they could me more abuse Yet in some sort I would then here excuse Deere Muse the cause why I am thus perplext Turmoyld about on euery side and vext To waste my state and passe through dangers many Is not for wrong that I haue done to any But by fel Enuy hatcht in hell below In Eden nurc't now ore the Earth doth flow When Adam least suspected her intent Then was her mind on mischiefe fully bent And euer since hath labour'd what she may Eues seede to baine her secret traps to lay But all the spight against me she can vse May waste my State and hinder thee my Muse For this alone by her I am misused Hurried about by slandrous tongues abused Kept long from home vnto my great expence Weakened my Lands and liuing euer since On all sides crost by Greatnesse ouer sway'd By guile and cunning treacherously betray'd Of smooth fac't friends abandon'd and forsaken And all God knowes but for a Word mistaken Nay had I beene sole Author of that thing Which some vntimely to my hands did bring And blaz'd it forth why should I thus be blam'd When no man liuing in the same is nam'd Nor any scandall in those words alone Intended are but by a man i' th Mooue Yet I turmoyl'd against all right and reason Am vs'd by some as if it were High Treason Sacred Religion brought from Heau'n aboue Thou shouldst be constant full of Grace and Loue From God himselfe thou hast a holy taske O let not vice vnder a Surplisse maske By this alone Christs Flock are scattred all O're all the Earth in euery place do fall Some runne to Rome and some renounce their Creede Simile And come againe like to a stinking Weede That beares a Flower a womans Loue to win But yet the seed contagious all within All powerfull God when both by Night and Day Incessantly my Heart to thee did pray To ease my Griefe and if it were thy will To send me Peace to walke vp Sion hill That in thy House where all thy Saints do meet My Soule might sing and offer Odours sweet To heare thy Word come purling from the Rocke Feeding thy Sheepe and building vp thy Flocke Where none at all should haue a cause to fall Simile Christs Coate was wouen without a Seame at all In stead of Peace which I desird in haste Thou sentst me downe a louely Virgin chaste Noble Vrania soberly attired Which when I saw with Ioy I much admired Finding a Friend copartner thus to be A fit Companion in my miserie Great God of Heauen vpon my bended knees Before that Face which euery actions sees Let me but know what good I euer wrought That thou in Mercy thus on me hast thought Or haue I not offended much thy will That thou my Brâ—st dost with Vrania fill Sending her Downe as thou didst send thy Son To saue those sheepe which from thy Fould did run Eternall God what shall I giue to thee For thy great Loue and Fauour shewd to me If all the World within my power did stand And all therein were sole at my command If all the waues within the Seas which boyle And all the Riuers on this Earth were oyle With all those things that ere I did behold Vnder Heauens Cope were fram'd of beaten gold In Thankefulnesse for all thy Mercies sweet I de all Surrender lay them at thy feet But soft my Muse whilst thee and I am playning Ech others griefes and still but little gaining Time posts away as if it had forgot What Adam did after the Gates were shut In Paradise I meane that sacred dore Which in my Worke I told you of before Adam and Eue about the glistring walls Of Paradise with mournfull cryes and calls Repenting sore lamenting much their Sin Longing but once to come againe within In vaine long time about the wals did grope Not in Dispaire as those are out of hope But all about in euery place did feele His louing Wife still following at his heele To find the Dore with all their care and paine To come within their former state to gaine Like to a man that in a Pallace built Simile Of Iasper stone and couered rich with guilt One euery side lin'd with a golden wall And no Towne neare nor any house at all In such a place suppose one should abide Be entertaind like to a louely bride Yet in the night for some abuse absurd Perchance for drinke or some distastefull word If he should be fast by the shoulders caught Lead forth a dores and set by all at naught Haild all along euen in the Euening late Betweene his foes and thrust quite out of gate In no place neere hearing a Dog to barke All comfortlesse wanders about i' th' darke Gropes euery where if he can find a dore And enter in he will offend no more Or like a man that venters for a prize Simile Hoodwinckt and made starke blind in both his eyes Wheeles round about in euery place doth reele At euery post and corner house doth feele To find the dore where he should enter in With all his toyle his Wager for to win Euen so is Adam in that vncked place The flaming Sword still blazing in his face On euery side the glistering walls to shine The Sun himselfe iust vnderneath the line The radiant Splendor of those Cherubims Dazles amates his tender eye sight dims Simile Like to a man that gazeth at the Sun Is then vnfit farre any way to run Least whilest his lookes aboue the Clowds he pitch He chance to fall and tumble in a ditch Such is the state of Adam and his Wife And euery Man within this mortall
could scarce support containe The Inundation of his furious raine But sunke shranke in vnder the water diues As loath to saue the wicked treacherous liues Of hatefull men that neuer liu'd at Rest But when they bloud spilt on her crimson brest This was the cause which made the Clouds to drop Sad sudden showres downe from Dame Natures shop And all the fountaines of the greatest deepe To be broke vp o're all the Earth to creepe Gen. 7. 11. Heauens Windowes ope the ratling Aire to sound With fearefull stormes like to a Chaos drown'd simile Rumbling and tumbling iumbling all together As we haue seene in sudden sulphery Weather Gods voyce to teare Heauens Curtaine to our wonder Psal 29. 23 Out from a darke black horrid dreadfull thunder But yet before God doth to Iudgement passe Esa 40. 67 simile 1. pet 1. 24. psal 90 56 simile He meditates and sees that mans but grasse Like to a flower that in the morning cut Is yet ere night with their dead bodies put Into the Graue and so consume together Euen in a Moment changed hither thither Dride vp to nothing by Heauens altring time When yesterday they flourisht in their prime God re-ascends and lets the world alone Takes Enoch vp that liu'd therein to mone Waile grieue lament the abuses which he saw Committed were against the conscience law Of noble Nature in that sinfull age Small hope to mend when all could not asswage The furious current of their streame and tide Too good sweete Saint with these foule men to bide The Angels bright and all the powers diuine Enoch taken vp Before thy face in glittring Robes do shine Their number more then are the stars and sands With golden Censors in their pure white hands Winged with Fame to mount the highest Heauens Ranck 't all in order mustring iust by seauens Descending sweetely on thy louely Brest To bring both soule and body to their Rest By safe conueyance in a Charriot fram'd Of burnisht gold the Horse with loue inflam'd Mount vp the Aire with stately stomack fierce And at the last the brazen Wall doth pierce Where like a Prince that Paradise had gain'd Of Eue and Adam thou art entertain'd With farre more loue within so braue a field Then all the World and all therein can yeeld There thou dost liue when they are wrapt in dust Gen. 5. 24 Jude 14. The seuenth from them Tipe of our Sabaoth iust Now thou art gone what can be heere expected But Enuy Hate with all good deedes neglected Pride Cruelty Extortion ouer-rules Making the Earth Vermilion dyde with gules And sable shewes of foule inueterate spleene Hatch 't in Hels vaults whose like was neuer seene Before this time so strongly to abound And ouerflow the Vniuersall Round As that small hope there is at all to mend Till God to Iustice shall from Heauen descend And view the world not as he made it first But as it is poluted stain'd accurst Contagious vile in Caines adulterous race And ouerspred with all damn'd actions base When what we should not in our pawes we get As bad and worse as ere I told you yet But cease deare Muse for thou at large hast layd Their sins wide ope and all their spight betray'd Vnmask 't the Browes of all that wicked Rout Which diu'd to Hell to bring their plots about The rest preseru'd I meane those Children deare That liue in Loue and worshipt God in feare Whose bloud ascended Mounted vp the skye And for iust Vengeance at his Throne did cry God heares their moane and re-descends againe And sees that Sin the totall Earth did staine In stead of Flowers and wholesome pleasing fruite He finds but Weedes and barbarous actions bruite The weake poore man still by the greater cast In far worse case then when he view'd it last Now Cruelty doth grinde the Infants face To swallow all with griping proiects base Corruption Bribes the World it selfe doth fill From Sodoms Vale to Sions sacred Hill Comes neere the Church to enter in her walls To fill it full of deadly poysoned galls But one man liuing on this spacious Round From Sols first sight till where his teame is drown'd In all the Earths large goodly plenteous scope From Colmogro vnto the Cape of Hope That God could find to haue an vpright heart Which from his Loue could not be drawne to start By ill examples of that froward Race Which ouerswarm'd the World in euery place With Guile Oppression Cruelty and Hate As in this Worke I told you of but late Him God selects and graciously culs out From the rude Rabble of that murdring Rout Gen. 19. 16 24 25 Psal 34 6 7 19. 22 Psal 83. 35. As in the dayes when Sodom was destroy'd Iust righteous Lot was not at all annoy'd But well brought forth by Angels safe and sure Preserued was from their curst hands impure The harmelesse man may suffer extreme wrong Amongst those men that are perchance too strong In Wealth Friends Kindred Combination Coate To draw slye oathes to cut the poore mans throate Yet this may be a comfort to his soule For all their tricks and treacherous actions foule Damn'd Pollicies vnto their vtmost might Although he fall he shall not perish quight So art thou iust in all thy works O God When the World feeles the burden of thy rod And heauy weight of thy all powerfull hands The vpright man still at thy mercy stands Although sometimes thou shewst thy hinder part To let him taste that which his mind thinks tart Exo. 33. 23 1. Pet. 4. 12 13 14. Thes 4. 6 Esay 26. 16 17 18 19 Yet as thy Word in many places saith Thou dost but try to proue his vtmost faith And when oft-times his courage failes and sinkes As brought neere to their dangerous pits and brinkes Then dost thou keepe him from their murdring pawer Base cruell curst deuouring griping iawes And full of Loue compassion pitty grace Vnuailsthy Browes to shew thy glorious Face Ah dearest God euen whilst my Muse was working Vpon this Place how were my foes all lurking About my house to vndermine my state With secret traines close to my dores and gate But thou didst wake when I was fast asleepe To make me know that thou dost alwayes keepe Thy sheepe from danger of a Wolfe most fierce Which in my bloud next to my state would pierce Then didst thou giue me at that instant howre A Vision strange to shew thy secret powre That in a dreame when once my body wak't My inward thoughts and all my sences shak't But Reason guides and swayes me downe her streame To make me prize it boue an vsuall dreame Whereat I went lockt vp my dores most sure To keepe me safe from treacherous pawes impure Which neuer yet in all my life was done The hatefull lawes of cruell foes to shun But Heauenly God when least I knew ofharme How did they then about my house all swarme On
were within thy fault at first Chain'd to thy Act and in thy folly nurst What may we thinke of that ambitious Pope Which dar'd to scoffe vnder heauens glorious Cope Against that God that in his sacred frowne Turns vp his heeles and hurles his pride soone downe When hauing mist a simple childish toy A Peacocke bird which seem'd his onely ioy Distempered much began in heate to chide That few men could his holy presence bide And afterward asham'd of what was past To shew his choller not long time did last Excusde himselfe that he might angry be As well for that as was the Trinitie When discontented for an Apple lost Both Eue and Adam to their paine and cost From Paradise were thrust quite out and beaten And much disgrac't for one poore Apple eaten Now tell me Rome that thinkst thy selfe the minion Christs onely Vicar in thine owne opinion And shouldst his sheepe still to this day haue fed Where was thy Church when Iulius was thy head Thy Papacy I may not here dispute As yet my tongue must of that thing be mute And backe to Adam whence I last digrest Too fortunate my Muse had beene and blest Had it but sung thy first estate and all And neuer knowne the horror of thy fall A greater loue on man was neuer showne Nor on the earth as yet was euer knowne Then all the world to be at thy command Still to this day to serue thy turne and stand All that againe for this he did require To keepe the Garden that was his desire At other times to his immortall fame That thou shouldst praise his glorious holy Name Here was thy calling Adam naught beside His owne example must thy actions guide Sixe dayes to worke to till that holy ground And in the seuenth thy Makers prayses sound For as at first thou wast a body framde So time and place himselfe he hath ordainde Design'd appointed for his seruice pure Not for a day but euer to endure By this thou know'st that he thy person blest To giue thee then his holy sacred Rest And sanctifie the Sabaoth to thy good Aye to be kept in all thy future blood Those that refuse to keepe his Sabaoth holy Gods owne example may conuince of folly But soft I heare some Laodicean make Reu. 3. sinon inuenter of the horse of Troy Euen Sinon like the ground of all to shake To stay my pen with such a question strange As first from Rome now ore the world doth range How God could Rest which neuer wrought as yet For he that workes his labour must be great To frame a matter of so huge a worth As is the Fabrike of the spatious Earth The Sea and Heauens the Firmaments and all Which euer yet within thy sight could fall Oh righteous God that sinfull man should make Within his mouth thy holy word to take And by the same thy sacred actions taxe To wring them now like to a Nose of Waxe simile Too make a doubt and question of that Rest Which to the world for euer thou hast blest T is true I know when God first fram'd the world The waters all within their limits curl'd The firmaments and euery liuing thing Out from the dust he then did Adam bring Made him a man a demi-God in byrth Plac't him his Vice-roy here vpon the earth And by his power all sacred and diuine So fram'd the world as if he had wrought by line Set all in order working in their time Like to the wheeles within a clocke or chime To serue the turne of Adam and his race And all these made but full in sixe dayes space Then did he rest and sate him downe to view And to the heauens vp againe he flew And from the worke which by his word he wrought In sixe dayes space and seeing none was nought But from creating any further matter He onely ceast and least the same might scatter And so returne to what it was at first His prouidence his works hath euer nurst Aye by his power his wisedome and his might The heauens and earth are gouerned aright He worketh still preseruing what was made Far more then can by any man be sayd His armes supporting all this weighty ball Else would the same dissolue againe and fall O God thy Rest hath euer bin admired Seene of thy Saints and of my soule desired The Pagan people to this day that slept In ignorance haue yet a Sabaoth kept Exod. 16. 23. 26. Num. 15. 32. Eze. 20. 13. 20. 24. The Iew at first with Manna wondrous fed His Sabaoth kept by thy example led Though now in error great he snores and sleeps The Saterday his Sabaoth still he keepes No Christian state is so vnciuill rude But keeps thy Rest as thou hast him endude With grace and goodnesse from the Prince of peace The Sunday he from all worlds works doth cease Lead thereunto by that all rising Son On Easter day that rose againe and won The eternall crowne in Paradise first lost A bloody prize to his great paine and cost Besides the examples of thy deerest Saints Thine institution and the holy plaints Of all th' Apostles famous men and Martyrs In all the world within her vtmost quarters Which euer vsde to preach thy word and pray And sanctifie the sacred Sabaoth day The Ethiopian least he should offend To breake thy Rest in superstition pend The Saterday and Sunday both he keeps And in those dayes he often prayes and weeps That thou wouldst pardon all his former sins There is his Rest his happinesse begins In childish toyes in gaming sports and playes He spends small time but keeps his Sabaoths dayes Their royall Queene which came so many miles With cunning questions witty speeches wiles 1. Kin. 10. 1. to the 11. 2. Chr. 9. 1. To tempt to heare and see the courtly guise The wit and words of Solomon the wise May rise in iudgement at that dradfull hower When Christ may also on our faces lower That more respect our pleasures worke and play Then him to serue vpon his sacred day What shall we thinke when Christ the Lord of life Luk. 11. 31. Which shed his bloud to end our mortall strife Shall speake these words out of his holy lips And not a word as yet that euer slips But still hath beene most weighty powerfull round One iot thereof hath neuer fell to th'ground When he himselfe shall thus picke out their Prince To warne vs all our follyes to conuince May we not thinke aswell he meant her land Now at this day as it is knowne to stand Shall like wise rise at his last trumpe and call To staine our liues and shame our actions all Father of Lights which dwellest in a Light That farre exceeds our Owely bleared sight What will become of all our learned wit When Iesus Christ at thy right hand shall sit To make our peace and step twixt thee and vs And we in Vice to run our
proceede With fearefull Evah and her timerous seede Her naked husband that himselfe excuz'd And said his wife his loue had much abuz'd O silly woman to be thus beguil'd Gods iudgement on Euah In sorrow now that shalt bring forth thy child A hard conception with an extreme paine Sick loathsome vomits at my hands shall gaine Thy husband now shall ouerrule thee still Thy fond desires bee subiect to his will A constant loue shall hardly once be found Within the brest of any on this ground And from this day the most of all vnkind Fickle vncertaine as the wauering wind Tost too and fro with euery blast that blowes Entangled straight with gawdy curious shewes That most of you your husbands will forsake A golden bribe or licorish thing to take Heauens glorious iudge to Adam also said Gods iudgement on Adam Because thy wife thou hast an I doll made To trace her steps which leade to deadly sin Thou dost but now to feele thy woe begin Curst is the earth and curst is for thy sake The fruite thereof accursed will I make In great vexation extreme labour paine Toyle sweate and dust thou shalt much sorrow gaine The earth henceforth shall now no more endure Vnlesse thou till and much her sides manure And when thou think'st thy barnes top full to fill Thy Vintage stor'd with plenty at thy will In monstrous Mows to pile a wondrous heape Then thistles thornes instead thereof thou'lt reape Much like the beast which on his belly feedes Soe shalt thou liue by hearbs and garden seedes Till thou returne vnto the earth againe And that therein thy limbs all cold be laine This is the mother that thy body nurst Out from the same thou taken wast at first Sorrow and sicknesse shall thy body burne For dust thou art to dust thou shalt returne O heauenly God heere is a iudgement past Throughout this world eternally to last No writ of errour can the same reuoke When as the words by thine owne mouth are spoke Heere is a sentence with a sacred seale No inhibition can thy law repeale Nor all the tricks deuises subtill shifts Of greedy Lawyers with their bribes and gifts Can once dissolue a knot so surely knit With all their braines and cunning peeuish wit But that the same for euermore must stand A iust decree by heauens diuinest hand Drawne vp aboue in Eden ratified With all the Angels in the world beside And all the powers of firmament and all To this decree consented at thy call Heauens deerest Babe whose fame shall perish neuer Hath with his bloud confirm'd the same for euer The Register that vp this order drew Tempus veritas ear descriptio Was Time it selfe clad all in Azure blew Wing'd like an Angel shadowed with a vaile And Truth his Daughter bearing vp his traile Nobly attended with a Lady kind More quick and nimble then the swift foote hinde Within his mouth a lofty Trumpe doth stand And a sharpe sith or sickle in his hand A glasse of sand continually that runs Within his way no liuing thing he shuns Lock't long before his head behind all bald To shew what 's past can neuer be recal'd O Time preseruer of all ages past How are mens eyes on all thy actions cast Thou shouldst be true and constant in thy course Why should base gold thy mind to ill inforce Allure thy sence and reasons temporize Alter an order daube vp both thine eyes When God the King and all the Lords decree A Iudgement iust to all eternitee In open court pronounce the same at large Commit it safe to thy sole care and charge Yet for a bribe within thy griping fist Thou l't ad substract and set downe what thou list Princes and peeres graue Iudges of the Land Let euer Iustice in your actions stand Looke well to time for time it selfe doth call It may deceiue and goe beyond you all Dispatch the poore and heare the widdowes cause Let not the Orphant perish by your lawes The Innocent is oftentimes vndone But in defending of a sute begun By mighty foes that ouer dares his youth And lies suggest instead of naked truth Then is he posted too and froin hast His life lands liuing all he hath to wast And neuer left so long as worth a groate His weary limbs oft times in prison rot All by delayes when golden angels houer Within the fist of euery seruile louer That but attends and comes before your face By bribing liues vnto your foule disgrace O to be sway'd with euery glistring fee This is iniustice in the worst degree But you are wise to you a word is more Then all the workes to this day kept in store Can be to those that little vnderstand And more respect some feeling in their hand Trace that great God in all your actions out Let him be still to bring the day about Your only starre sole leuell and your square The seuerall frames of all your works to reare But you are men your memories may faile Let not your seruants set your worth to saile Iustice and Mercy Time and all for gold ' Gainst Natures lawes outright are bought and sold And why should man thus to base bribing fall There is a God which takes account of all And oftentimes what by the diuill is got Vnder his feete he treades it till it rot And yet what reason haue we to complaine When England thou hast got the richest gaine Iacobus Rex The deerest treasure and the welcom'st fee That euer any land attain'd but thee A royall King deriued from the race Of Edens Monarch in her greatest grace Within whose face true Maiesty doth shine Iustice and Mercy in his browes combine His temples chast with lawrell boughes are wreathed The sacred Muses in his brest haue breathed Vpon his head three famous crownes do stand Gods deerest booke is euer in his hand Whose Angels still his person hath protected And all his daughters him for King elected Too weake alas I must my selfe confesse O that my Muse could but his worth expresse Though in this place I doe but giue a glance Of that which after in my worke may chance His fame renowne shall euer flourish greene Sire to a Prince and father to a Queene So shall the fame of his illustrious sonne Carolus Princeps Mount vp the aire in Phoebus chariot run About the earth on euery side shall sound As far as Eden and the Indian ground And still his Glory all the world shall passe And be ingrauen in monuments of brasse That Time for euer shall his worth adorne The greatest prince that euer yet was borne Braue Prince of peace from heauen it selfe descended How hath this land beene by thy birth befriended To haue a spirit of such noble wit heereafter sway within her lap to sit When England thou maist ioy delight and court thee Vnder his wings maist sit thee downe and sport thee Sollace thy labours with a glad content
thee humble thankes For staying Adam in thy siluerd floud When he neglected all his future bloud Lost wilfully his neerest deerest wife Carelesse of all endangring much his life This may be true and yet I cannot thinke Confutation of the former opinion That those whom God in Paradise did linke Brought them together by his powerfull might Should thus be parted each from others sight Eue in the South by fearefull Negro Land Adam i' th East on Ganges goodly strand Betweene both these a wondrous weary space For two to trauell in so poore a case Vnshod all bare mongst horrid thunder dints Through woods to walkevpon the thornes and flints He in a maze not knowing where to find His louing Wife like to a man starke blind Simile Toyles out himselfe for that he neuer saw To find a needle in a heape of straw She all alone wandring she knew not whether Blowne euery where much like vnto a Feather simile Inconstant light and wauering apt to vexe As is the Nature of her timerous sexe It is not like in all mens Iudgement sound They rambled farre from Edens fruitfull ground Or that but two so kind and tender hearted In all their liues should for a yeare be parted Besides the opinion of the learned wits Graue ancient fathers euermore that sits Reuoluing of the highest deepest works That in Gods Booke diuinely lies and lutkes The sacred stories of all Ages past Which euermore eternally shall last Haue made it cleere for euery man to tell That in this place our Parents both did dwell Liu'd long secure about the Garden kept Ioy'd with the sight yet for their fall they wept Though they were bard to come againe within By reason of their fowle contagious sin Yet they desir'd for all their past disgrace But for to liue neere to that louely place Heere first with boughs and such like broken stuffe They built a House vnder a simple Ruffe Then like a couple that but late did wed With Pelts and leaues they make a homely Bed Where they enioy'd more pleasure true content Then in the Courts of greatest Kings are spent Himselfe all naked in a Sheepes skin curl'd The sole Commander of this totall World Is glad to worke to passe his time in peace To serue his God from further sin to cease Thus ouer-ioyd vpon a time it fell The circumstance I must forbeare to tell Playing with 〈◊〉 within that shady bowre And in his armes his loueliest sweetest flowre Embracing toying smiling kissing sweete The sports most chaste vnto a Spouse bed meete Thinking the time he had with her beguil'd Forgets himselfe and she conceiues with child Strange is the change she in her selfe doth find An extreme Passion working in her mind Longing oft times some sops in Tarre to lick Her bodies altred and her stomack sick Black vgly Berries fulsome vnripe Plums And euery thing that in her way next comes The goodly fruits which are within the walls Of Paradise she to her husband calls Desires intreates him as he loues his Wife Forth with to hast and fetch to saue her life Full forty weekes she liued in this case Feeding on toyes and greenest drugs most base On Durt and Trash on Ashes Hips and Hawes She finds shee s ill and yet she knowes no cause At length it fell whilst he was forth of dores Chasing the Deere hunting the furious Bores To get some Venison or such dainty dish To satisfie his Wiues desired wish Like Hercules that in a strange disguize Simile Retired home with such a welcome prize Findes his deare Darling full of mirth and ioy Caine borne And in her armes a goodly infant Boy Th' Admiration wondrous great content To see a Child thus fortunately sent Sweete liuing Picture module of himselfe The World and all he now esteemes as pelfe With Ioy o're cloyd vpon the face doth gaze Like to a man astonisht in amaze Simile All mute he stands not knowing what to thinke No Reason yet into his head can sinke How it can be conceiued in the brest Of Eue sweete woman whom he loued best When once reuiu'd out of that pleasing trance The tender Babe he in his armes doth dance Smiles on his face and questions with his Wife How first was sent thus to prolong his life The Child she said to her immortall fame She knew not well how first to her it came But that she thought although her sence was weake This was the Seed the Serpents head should breake Tould him in words and gentle speeches mild That by the Lord she had conceiu'd that Child Gen. 4 1. True are thy words deere Eue most true thy heart Why should a Man thy meaning pure I nuert It cannot sinke into thy sacred thought How of thy selfe an Infant thou hast brought As well might Adam in thy sences seeme To beare a Child for ought that thou canst deeme When of the World t was in the early morne And the first Babe that euer yet was borne How damn'd prophane are those accursed lips Renegado proselites Which in Gods Church shall make such dangerous slips Within the same to belch to thy disgrace Euen in a sacred and most publike place Behinde thy back when thou art dead and past And canst not answere what their mouth out cast Thus to be lye mens soules to sin allure Wresting thy speech with banefull breath impure Not terrifide with Heauens all threatning Rod But dares to teach that thou didst sweare by God Gen. 4. 1. Thou hadst a Child and oftentimes to speake it If it were true vnto the world to breake it Is worse then was that Serpent damn'd accurst In Paradise which wrong'd thy Person first Ah thus we see the cursed enuious Snake Simile That sleepes to goodnesse but to euill doth wake To lurke all close vnder the sweetest flowre When Goddesse Flora all her pride doth powre Vpon the Earth within the midst of May To suck fell poyson from the holesom'st gay When the deere painefull wise laborious Bee Ten thousand wayes about heauens blossoms flee On euery flower within the Garden sits And out from them the wax and honey gets Conueys it safely to her well wrought Hiue To pleasure Friends and keepe her selfe aliue Let Serpent snake and all the viperous seede That euer Enuy in her wombe did breede Hacht in the Bowells of th' infernall vault Where none but Diuels and damned Atheists hault Twixt God and Belial still thy speech oppose Yet shall thy words smell as the fragrant Rose Or like those Flowers in Paradise were plaunted Simile By God himselfe when he the Garden haunted Deare Eue thy worth I euer must admire Thou sitst aboue within the Angels Quire Tuning thy voyce vnto their sacred layes To sound forth Glory to the Prince of prayse Simile Like Gods owne Daughter whom he loues most deare Warbling sweet Musicke in th' Almighties eare Or that pale Virgin with her glimmering lampe That
true And he affirmes the likeliest place of all This goodly spatious wide delitious Ball Where Adams corpes was by his children laide Was not i th' mount as late before I sayd But in the sweet and dainty pleasant vale Of Hebron plaine hemd in with such a Rale And lofty border of braue mounting Trees With fragrant Flowers to feede the hony Bees And all Heauens guifts vpon this holy ground As search the world the like was neuer found Here afterwards was Sarahs body layd Both Abraham and his sonne Isaacke stayd Gen. 23. 12. 4. 7. 9. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Cha 25. 9. 10. Cha. 35. 29. cha 50. 13. Rebecca Iacob Patriarkes and all Were here inter'd as in a Brazen wall And many a Iew wrapt vp within this plaine That till Doomes day shall neuer rise againe This is the place that Abraham admired Which more then gold his very soule desired And made him purchase on his bended knee That with his Fathers all his seed might bee And there remaine vntill the trumpe shall sound Then rise together from that holy ground And so mount vp the throane of God aboue And scale the Heauens vpon the wings of Loue. But yet deere Muse amongst the dead mens graues With piles of sculs in hollow vaults and caues Ghast fearefull sights we must no longer stay But post with speed to some more pleasing way Though all the Earth be but the sinke of sin For Adams Race to tumble wallowin Yet is it better euery way beside With liuing men then with the dead to bide Shew therefore now what afterwards befell How most men liu'd worse then the diuels of hell In blood oppression feud and deadly hate Base cruelty to wast ech others state Making no conscience of th' eternall Law When Adam's dead that kept yet some in awe The Father Mother Sister Friends and Brother Like treacherous Wolues deuoure vp one th' other Each man cries out the little ones as fishes Can scarcely liue to serue the great mens dishes All sinne abounds from poore to men of worth Like to a Streame which ouerflowes the Earth Simile Or generall deluge from great Neptunes hand That on a sudden ouerflowes the Land In such aboundance with that powerfull sway That nothing now can this maine current stay But Heauens great Maker of Earths totall frame If he discend and but behold the same When least of all the World shall thereof dreame Then may he Alter turne their tide and streame T is true as then they had no Law beside The Law of Nature in their Conscience dide Grauen in their hearts and stamp't within their mind By him whose Image in our Soules we find The sin the lesse yet not to be excuz'd When God himselfe hath in our Brests infuz'd Both in our birth succeding infant youth His holy Spirit to leade vs in all Truth But yet if God so sharpe a Iudgement tooke As shall be shew'd heereafter in this Booke Vpon these men the monsters of their time Whose haiuous sins vp to the Clouds did clime What may we thinke of this last Age of ours Wherein we liue not many dayes nor howres Yet we exceede the former Ages all And God to Iudgement ready is to call The Glasse neere run mans dated Time expired Doomes fearefull day when all things must befired Drawes neere at hand Earths candle light doth blinke When all the World must vnder Iustice sinke And giue account of euery action past This Age of ours it cannot long time last For now Oppression ouerflowes the Earth Farre more and worse then in her Infant birth Fowle Cruelty Extortion Enuious Pride Hypocrisie and smooth fac't sinnes beside I etting and masking vnder formall Coates That hard it is to know the Sheepe from Goates The Puritant which hates the name of Mammon Act. 2. 44. Is yet content to hold mens goods in common And all the rest in this my tedious taske When Time shall serue I hope for to vnmaske Meane while Romes Wolfe hath entred in our Ile Deuoured some by Craft Dissembling Guile Base Couetousnesse the monster of our Age How doth she creepe vpon the Graue and Sage When Mony swayes and Charity is cold What is it not but some will do for gold O Plague O Poyson hatcht in Hell below Thy banefull Breath o're all the World doth flow The Earth it selfe within her bowels pent Her proper wombe is ript for thee and rent The sacred lap of Thetis cut and slic'st Aboue the clouds with Belzabub thou fly'st Thou gnawst the minds of holy men like Mice Ier. 6. 13 Chap. 3. 10. 2. Pet. 2. 3. Eclus 40 12. Thy sight doth sting worse then the Cockatrice How hast thou spoyl'de corrupted in all Ages The purest minds of greatest Personages Whose Seruants painted with foule leperous Kibes Now sell their soules and all they haue for bribes Like curst Gehazies base polluted pawes simile 2. King 5. 22. 26 27. Which wrong'd his God and holy Masters lawes And runs apace to catch into his hands A little gold to purchase Nabaoths lands Perchance to hang vpon his gawdy back When Wife and Children staru'd at home may lack Or else to spend in drinking drunke and play ' Mongst beastly Wbores to cast the same away But God aboue that spyes the inmost thought Discernes the fact which is in secret wrought Vpon the top of damn'd Gehazies head Showres downe his Iudgements as Elisha said And in an instant all his body o're From top to toe is pestred with a sore An Irkesome Scab vpon his skin doth grow A Leprosie as white as any snow Nor this alone vnto his body sticks A mates his mind and seared conscience pricks But all his kindred best acquainted friends Forsake him quight and none vnto him sends And to this day his of-spring and his Race Are leperous tainted in that cursed case Father of Lights and God of Spirits all Power downe thy Iustice let thy Iudgements fall Vpon the hairy Scalpes of those that wrest Dishonestly their Friends or Neighbours beast Their goods their Lands their liuing or their life Not satisfied continue still in strife Great God that all the world may see thy good Taint thou their Issue of-spring and their bloud These are the Cankars of the common wealth Base Caterpillars powling best by stealth That neuer care so they may haue their will Mens bloud their liues their state and all to spill If thy good pleasure sayes my prayers nay Thy Will be done Lord fat them for thy day But holy God what will become of those Which in an open publike place shall chose To giue occasion first to shew their gall Do call a man both this and that and all And afterwards shall lye vpon the catch Their friends estate into their hands to snatch By Deedes Conueyance Obligations Bonds To wring and wrest to make them sell their Lands Before such time as any thing is due To clap vp such with Cerberus his crue In
In some I meane and not in all his worke For pleasant folly couch't therein may lurke Yet the allusion and the meaning sure May reference haue vnto the Scripture pure And though it shines as Tytans westerne rayes By some 't is held but wanton in our dayes But most of all the ripenesse of these times The heauenly works vp to the clouds that climes The enuious eye which ouerlookes our deeds When each mans taste on sundry dishes feedes The snarling cur at euery thing that bites The slandring Mome which no good worke endites The monster curst with his vile forked tongue That from Hels vault vp to the earth first sprung With Hidra heads and Ianus double face To fawne before then wound to our disgrace Hath made my Muse vnwilling heere to sing As loath her selfe vpon the stage to bring To each mans view and her owne painefull toyle But that the sight may many vices spoyle When sin we see vnmasked brought to light And damn'd offences naked to our sight Like lezabel that did the Clouds aspire 1. Kin. 4. 18 19 Chap. 19. 2 Cha. 21. 10 23 In rusling silks and glorious braue atire Vnder a holy outward forme and rite Gods chosen flock are fleec't and murthered quite But once vnmask't the Minions of her court Hurle heri'th durt pash out her braines in sport And as a foule mishapen painted monster 2. Kin 9. 30 33 35 37. Conceit of her as all the world doth conster Then is she seene disrob'd disrank't of all The map of folly in her sudden fall Her cup with poyson damned Enuy fills Her cursed eyes haue seene those seuen built hills Where all the Saints Apostles Martyrs stood With crimson colours all imbru'd in bloud O glorious God inspiror of my Muse Grant that thy Word my soule may dayly vse And that what learning painefully it got Still from the truth may neuer swerue a iot That in her spring beginning and her bud May sing thy glory to the Churches good And in foule folly none asleepe I rock Nor giue offence to any of thy flock But that my speech as generall to all May like a Sermon in the Pulpit fall And not to wade in curious questions deepe But feede thy flock and edifie thy sheepe That none at all may haue a iust excuse By such examples as I shall produce And all that see their faults their liues may mend That to thy glory I this Worke may end Then shall the world with admiration see Her face vnmask't to all eternitee The famous actions heeretofore lay dead Shall then be rouz'd out from obliuions bed And all the noblest kingdoms euer knowne Will be reuiu'd within my verse be showne Their manners customes nature and their state Their end beginning fortune and their fate From Adam first throughout in euery age Shall heere be mustred on this publike Stage In Rurall Robes to giue the earth content How heeretofore the ages past weee spent O that my Muse might once but rest in peace Then would she sing diuinely neuer cease But worke out Truth within her holy Rimes Glyding along descending to our times And deare Vrania Soueraigne of my verse Should heere the glory of this world rehearse Vnfoulding still to Gods immortall glory The heauenly sweetenesse of a sacred story What may we thinke of all the iudgements iust Of great Iehouah buried in the dust Beside all those in holy Scriptures pend Which humane wit as yet could neuer mend Nor all the Rabbies in their learned fame Could euer tell how to correct the same Shall we go on and still be bold to thinke Hee 'le punish them and on vs alwayes winke For some of them the earth it selfe did gape How can we know that we are sure to scape The Angels which against the Lord did swell He quite casheer'd and cast them downe to hell Where being bound eternally in chaines They feele the torments of ten thousand paines Farre more then can expressed be in inke And all the world and sinfull man can thinke Adam what made thee wilfully at first To leaue thy of-spring to this day accurst So wicked foule and ouer growne with Sinne And in thy person all of it beginne That hadst thou stood in Innocenie fram'd Death Sin and Hell the world and all thou hadst tam'd Then hadst thou beene a Monarch from thy birth Gods onely Darling both in heauen and earth The world and all at thy command to bend And all heauens creatures on thee t' attend The sweetest life that euer man could liue What couldst thou aske but God to thee did giue Protected kept thee like a faithfull Warden As thy companion in that pleasant Garden No canckred mallice once thy heart did moue Free-will thou hadst endude from him aboue What couldst thou wish all worlds content and more The best Diuine that ere the Earth yet bore Gods onely Sonne the Prince of Peace except For thy sad fall how oft mine eyes haue wept Alas weakeman hadst thou in honour stood How heauenly blest thrice happy beene thy blood And all thy aged issue to this day Had liu'd secure as in the Month of May. What need had we that any should haue dy'd Vpon the Crosse our sinfull soules reuiu'd And that Messias God himselfe the Son Should here descend to put our nature on To liue deiected poore contemn'd forlorn'd Derided beate tost vpside downe and scorn'd And more to beare for this thy wofull fall Then euer man which liu'd vpon this ball Curst be that Diuell that first thy sence bely'd If thou hadst liu'd then we had neuer dy'd Oh God! to purchase with that bloody cost Our soules redeem'd when they were fully lost Here is a loue which farre surmounts the skies My sences rapts and dazles both mine eyes But tell me Adam what might be the cause That thou shouldst breake thy holy Makers lawes When of a thousand which might make vs weepe In all the world thou hadst but one to keepe And that but light Alas couldst thou not see But touch and taste that one forbidden tree Which in the midst of all the garden grew An ill knowne tree to make thy ofspring rew What pleasant tast or relish had the same How were thy senses dim'd and much to blame That had the Garden sole at thy command And all the fruits within thy sight to stand Farre better pure more daintier euery way Then such an Apple painted like a gay Fit for a woman or some lickorish foole A silly child or one that goes to schoole Thy wilfull foule absurd and grosse abuse Against thy God admits no iust excuse T is not the losse of one poore Apple mist That thou didst grapple in thy sinfull fist Could be the cause his anger to procure Fierce heauy wrath eternall to endure It was not that he did so much respect But thy foule error wilfull bad neglect Contempt of Him rebellion treason pride And all the sinnes within the world beside That linked
Christian City chast R Iohnson Within the Duke of Sauoyes country plast Whose people wise religious sober true Not giuen to wine with drunken Bacchus crue Nor to those foule abuses which abounds Within our land and ore the earth now sounds But euer beene of ciuill chast behauiour Neate in attire and of a comely fauour Soe decent in the actions which they wrought That euery man which saw their citty thought Ierusalem before it was abated Had beene deuinely to that place translated And yet these men which haue the rest outstript In one thing still themselues haue ouerslipt Vpon Gods rest his sacred Sabbaoth Day To shoote in Guns about the fields and play Vntill a custome in a lawfull pleasure Vpon that day grew far beyond all measure So that their Churchmen reuerent Preachers graue Let them alone carelesse their soules to saue But God aboue to shew his anger iust Vpon these people for their lawlesse lust In violating of his sacred rest A fury sent their country to moiest Fierce horrid warre now thunders on their land The Pope the Spaniard and the French King stand All link't alike to vndermine her wall Expecting thus a conquest by her fall Alas Geneua how art thou beset With three such foes as in Europa yèt Were neuer knowne so strongly to combine To sack a towne extracted from their line What can thy shooting in those Guns auaile If God for sakes thee how thy foes preuaile Weakens thy strength abateth much thy store Mewes vp thy Campe and makes thee extreame poore Ransackes thy Country all thy land belurches And brings thee now to be relieu'd in Churches These eyes of ours haue seene the worst and best And iudgement past for breaking of his rest That Antechrist which in the scriptures pure Is propheci'd to come amongst vs sure Began to shew his cursed face on earth Sixe hundred yeeres after the glorious birth Of that sweete Babe the Man God Christ and King Which came on earth our soules to Heauen to bring By the Alcoran on his Sabbaoth day Discardeth quite all gaming sports and play Denounceth Iudgement on the heads of all Which on that day in those offences fall And brands the Diuell an actor in all games Voyd of Religion yet such sports he blames As good for litle but to sweare and cup Fit Instruments to bring new quarrels vp The parrable of Christ vpon the earth Is of such weight and glorious heauenly worth Mat 13 3. to 44. Which by the sea to multitudes he spake What liuing man but at the same must wake To see how God like to a husbandman Works vp his ground as well as e're he can Winnowes the seede and sifteth euery graine In hope at haruest by the same to gaine But that the Diuelli'th instant followes hard Whose cursed seede the goodly field hath mard Throwes round about as much as in him dares In euery place to sowe his wicked tares How can we thinke to scape Gods Iudgementiust Fond men alas that are but earthly dust Weake silly wormes when he shall on vs lowre Then are we but a Winters withered flowre That such conceits within our hearts should lurke To tempt his loue examine thus his worke And what himselfe from heauen aboue hath taught To sleight it ore and hold it idle naught Although most true in Paradise at first His owne example hath the Sabaoth nurst The Patriarcks and all the holy men Before the law obseru'd their Restas then And his command to keepe vs more from sinning Hath a Memento in the first beginning The heathen men euen from the worst to best In euery age still kept a seemely Rest And all the Saints Apostles men and Martyrs Throughout the world in all her vtmost quarters The generall counsells learned fathers graue Those God aboue elected hath to saue The greatest Kings and noblest personages Throughout the world in all her former ages The fearefull iudgements on that holy Land Which he did plant against all foes to stand The Lord of life Christ Iesus on the earth Then all before we prize him better worth Ordain'd himselfe our Rest vpon this day To come to Church to heare the Word and pray Yet we contemne and not respect the least But others leade to breake the Sabaoths rest Grant heauenly God that euer more my heart May vpright be and from thee neuer start But that my soule the purest of my thought May be with loue like to an Anuill wrought To make a conscience of thy sacred day To reade thy word within the Church to pray That all my life vntill my glasse be run Be not offensiue to thy deerest Son Which sits triumphant farre aboue the skies Grant that I may behold him with mine eyes And when I shall appeare before thy face Then may I find thy mercy goodnes grace And not thy Iustice for offenses past But let thy Loue be euer on me cast Euen in the day that some men dreame of least Place him betwixr vs giue my soule her Rest And yet great God thou hast not so restraind Our liberty but that thou hast ordaind 1 Cor. 10. 31. 1. Pet 4. 11. At vacant times from serious meditations To ease our selues in honest recreations Such that all others to no vice allure Nor in our minds shall adde a thought impure But that our sports our actions and our playes May prayse thy name the Rest of all our dayes The Puritant he is againe as nice As these vnciuill in their clamorous vice 1. Cor. 6. 12. 2. Cor. 3. 13. 17 Gal. 3. 11. Gal. 2. 14. 16. 17. That all the weeke with superstition fed To good conceits of others scarce are led Adopted sons elected brethren wise To thinke all damn'd beside their sect precise Pure hypocrite vnder a formall cloke That on Gods Rest must draw the Iewish yoke And walke to Church as if his steps he told To make no fire but sup his broath vp cold And many things which if I here should tell I might too long vpon the matter dwell But whither is my Muse transported now Beyond her compasse farre away and how Comes it to passe that she hath rambled thus About the earth these questions to discusse In euery Age her sacred holy Rimes To walke along descending to our times And taxe the world of vnbeseeming playes To reprehend the abuses of these dayes And all this while is Adam still alone In Paradise and company hath none Vnlesse somtimes God comes himselfe and sallies Before his eyes within those pleasant Allies Simile Then is he glad his heart doth leape for ioy He runs and skips much like a little boy That goes to schoole al weary at his booke Is glad to peeke in euery bush and looke With those his fellowes for some bird or nest Their company his mind still pleaseth best So art thou Adam when thou art all alone Then dost thou grieue complaine and make thy mone Vnto the Earth the Aire the
in their holy furious rage Aduentured forth with admiration grace But to behold thy ancient sacred face And none of them as yet haue euer found Or came in sight of thy most heauenly ground Which farre in Eden in the orient lies Vnfit for man to see with sinfull eyes Some men there be which are perswaded plaine Papistes Bellermine and others That reall place doth to this day remaine Where holy Enoch deare Elias pure And Iohn the Saint shall till doomes day endure In far more pleasures then can be exprest Their bodies liuing with their soules at rest Transported safe within that sacred wall But in what climate of this spacious Ball The same should be far in the aire haue gaz'd Their learning knowledge wits and all amaz'd The goodly Region in the Sirian land Esay 7 3. Iulian Tzet ad â—uo pag. 100 Hierâ—com in Eze. lib. 8 Is thought the place wherein the same did stand Where rich Damascus at this day is built And Habels bloud by Caine was after spilt The wondrous beauty of whose fruitfull ground The great content which some therein haue found The sweete encrease of that delightfull soile Yeelding a world with little care and toile The dammaske Roses and the fragrant flowers The louely fields and pleasant arbour'd bowers And euery thing that in aboundance breede Haue made some thinke this was the place indeede Where God at first did on the earth abide With holy Adam and his louely Bride And some there be that in the Orient waded Barbasa Which to this day are certainely perswaded The goodly land that farre in India lies Whose rich renowne through all the world now flyes Vnder the Line and famous Zeilan call'd On euery side with mighty Neptune wal'd May be the place where first our Parents stai'd The earth it selfe with all heauens gifts arai'd Besides the treasures of that pleasant land Linschotten An Corsali The fruitfull regions in the same which stand The goodly riuers and braue mounting hills Sweete temperate aire on euery side that fills The downy plaines with such a fragrant smell As winged fame vnto our eares doth tell The spicy Trees and braue delightfull flowers The dainty walkes and guilt aspiring towers And all things else that man can well desire Or discontent of nature may require Long life of dayes plenty of cates and cheere All which she powers as on her daling deere Within her lap hath plaste a wonder strange For euery man which to that place shall range Perswading all that euer saw the same That Eue and Adam forth from thence first came Iust the midst of this delicious land Within the center of the same doth stand A lofty mount whose top doth pierce the skies And round about on euery side there lies The goodliest plaine which euer man beheld That foure foote deepe with water fresh is fild And eighteene miles in bredth the same is ouer Simile Much like the Sea from Calis strand to Douer Vpon the top of this admired hill Maffrus lib. 5. Stands yet a Table fixed firmely still Of sollid stone that long time there hath beene In which the forme of Adams foote is seene The Mores beleeuing that that stamp and print Was first by him indented on the flint The mount it selfe Piramid like is built Vpon whose top are stately buildings guilt Plenty of wealth of rarest iewels store The height thereof full twenty miles and more The people all on euery side which dwell Haue still affirm'd and for a truth doe tell That this indeede was Paradise at first Whose fatall fruit made all of vs accurst And to this day hath superstition led Vertoman lib. 3. Chap. 4 A world of Pilgrims with blind errour fed By Mahomet that antechristian beast Which Paradise plaste in the radiant east Whose fond conceits of this religious place Made some men come three thousand miles apace With great deuotion extreme labour paine To wash their sins within this miry plaine Thinking the water in this vally lies Distil'd at first from Eue and Adams eyes When great with griefe and far surcharg'd with teares They shed so much as all the ground heere beares In woe bewayling of their wilfull sins The ioyfull end where true content begins From sin first wash't then vp the hill they clime With labours great in prayers spend their time And sacrifize to Mauors God their fill Which plaste their feete vpon this holy hill Though their mistakings may be wail'd and blam'd Yet Adams hill the lofty mount is nam'd And that which better may confirme their hope That this indeede vnder heauens starry cope Of all the earth may be the likeliest place Where Adam first receiu'd his great disgrace Not farre from hence is seene a flaming hill Of euery man cald Balananus still Which sends forth smoake and hideous brands of fire Threatning the clowds and elements to tire Much like the sword the tree of life did guard As if with heauen the earth and all it ward This makes them thinke confirmes their fancies more Then all the rest I told you of before But if in India on this famous mount Adam at first receiued his sacred count And so from thence his fruitfull spawne at last Vpon the face of all the earth are cast What may we thinke of that renowned hill Whose matchlesse fame full all the world doth fill Within the midst of Ethiopia fram'd In Africa and Amara still man'd Where all the Gods may sit them downe and dine Iust in the East and vnderneath the line Pomona Ceres Venus Iuno chast And all the rest their eyes haue euer cast Vpon this place so beautifull and neate Of all the earth to make it still their seate A christall riuer downe to Nilus purl'd Wonder of Nature Glory of this world Deere Amara thy amorous name doth cite My lowly pen thy lofty prayse to write If all the world and all therein were mine All were to weake to match themselues with thine In all the earth and all the rest to loose Thy seat to loue instead of all I de choose There are the Temples couered all with guilt The Pallaces and glorious buildings built A Library so famous rich and round As that the like on earth was neuer found There are the Muses and the learned Nymphes The royall issue and the best borne Imppes The seed of kings vpon thy body nurst The Preet himselfe kept long within the first Admired mount how hast thou in all ages Beene still renownde for rarest personages Thy treasures rich beyond compare that lyes Within thy wals may dazle both mine eyes Two famous Queenes in Maiesty and grace With Lawrell boughs haue much adornd thy face As if themselues with Nature did combine To wreath thy browes with sacred worke diuine The first of those was faire Magueda cald Braue gallant Queene within thy towre instald 1. King 10. to 11. That let the rest and wenther selfe to see 2. Chro. 9.
braines confuz'd as in a maze are led Darke vnbeliefe thy cloudy sence hath fed The heauenly light thou canst not well discerne From Sodome first to loose thy selfe dost learne In all the earth that euer eye did see How well these men we may compare to thee But stay whilst they about the world are seeking Paradise discribed To find the Garden Adam had in keeping My sacred Muse with lofty nimble flight On Paradise the place it selfe doth light From Rome transported tyrant of the west To Nimrods Tower within the orient east Neere Eden plaste within Assiria land On Euphrates and Tygris goodly strand By Babilon first Empresse of the earth Mother of Arts most glorious in her birth Whose towring fame as Monarch of the world Where golden flouds in siluer streames haue purld My sences wrapt in admirations wonder To thinke how she hath all the world brought vnder Making her seate the glory of her time Franciscus Iunius Curtius Plinui Solinus Braue star of Fortune subiect of my Rime Heere was the seate the likeliest place indeede Where Ene at first did of the Apple feede By learned iudgement of those worthy men Whose high desart fames lofty quill doth pen Which far and neere about the world haue ventred And but at last within her walls haue entred O Paradise that first our Parents stai'd Ptol Geor. lib 65. chap. 20 strabo lib. 16 Vntill such time Gods will they disobay'd How far my pen doth of thy worth come vnder Mirrour of earth of all the world the wonder Where sacred Thetis from her louely lap Hath power'd her treasures much inrich't thy hap Which Euphrates and Tigris hath combin'd Their Source deuided in foure parts to winde About thy borders as heauens dearest worke Within thy bowels glide along and lurke Venting such Iewels as were neuer found A welcome tribute to thy holy ground Nature her selfe hath much impald thy head plin lib. 2 Chap. 1â—6 And wreath'd thy browes as fortune hath her led With such a ridge of rocky mountaines small To hemme thee in as with a sacred wall Vpon the top toward the east still there stands A smoky hill which sends forth fiery brands Gfburning oyle from hels infernall deepe Much like the sword the tree of life did keepe Deuinest land the sunne hath euer seene How fortunate thrice happy hast thou beene To haue that God which fram'd the world and all Frequent thy walkes before thy fearefull fall Yet as thou art and as thou dost remaine The totall earth on on euery side dost staine Where can a man in all this world below Find Bdelium that pleasant tree to grow Whose fragrant branches sweet delightfull fruite And lofty height hath made my sences mute The Onix stone and other things to bide In all the earth scarce in one place beside How is thy ground exceeding rich and faire A region seasoned with a temperate aire Thy channels crawling full of golden Ore The fruitful'st soile that e're the earth yet bore Neptune himselfe with foure great riuers greeing To deck the bosome which gaue Adam being Vpon thy temples all their treasures powr'd And all their wealth at once vpon thee showr'd After the floud when all the world was kild In Noahs time there man began to build When hauing rambled in the sacred keele About the world on euery side did feele Thy fragrant scent so pleasing rich and neate Of all the earth to make thy Throne their seate Heere was religion planted in her prime The golden age and infancy of time When mans worst actions like the Turtle Doue In all the world was little else but loue Deere Paradise how famous was thy name When God himselfe crected first thy frame Endude thy Land with such things in it set As time for euer neuer can forget The fabling Prayses of Elizium fields The Turkes Eutopia nothing to it yeelds The Paradise of Romes fantastike braine Is but a iest a little wealth to gaine And Aladeules with his place of pleasure Comes far behind and still is short of measure Worth honor grace when brought into comparâ— With this so rich and glorious garden rare The persian fancies of their heauenly land In sight of this not able is to stand The world it selfe and all that is therein I could forsake that very place to win And all the greatest Kingdomes euer found But dung and trash to that most holy ground The lofty walls were all of lasper built Lin'd thick with gould and couered rich with gui Like a quadrangle seated on a hill With twelue braue gates the curious eye to fill The sacred luster as the glistring Zoane And euery gate fram'd of a seuerall stone On stately columes reared by that hand Which grau'd the world and all that in it stand The Chalsedony and the Iacinth pure The Emrald greene which euer will endure The Sardonix and purple Amethist The Azurd burnish't Saphire is not mist The Chrisolite most glorious to behold And Tophaze stone which shines as beaten gold The Chrisophrasus of admired worth The Sardius Berill seldome found on earth The dores thereof of siluer'd Pearle most white Do shew that none by wrong oppression might Be crost by cunning wringing wresting guile By wicked plodding in all actions vile By foule offences like base enuy faste Can passe the dores but those are pure and chaste That sweete Disciple which the Gospell wrate Reu. 21. 10. to ihe 6. verse of the 22. chap. And lent at supper when Christ lesus sate Vpon the bosome of his Lord and King He from the heauens this Paradise did bring Perus'd the walls and view'd the same within Describ'd it largely all our loues to win The christall riuer with the Tree of Life Gods deerest lamb and sacred Spouse his wife The various fruits that in the garden growes And all things else which in aboundance flowes Hath rapt my sence to thinke how God at first Fram'd all for Adam and his of-spring curst To come within how can we but admire Why should our minds to view the same a spire It being sacred tipe of heauen it selfe Our sinfull thoughts worse then the vilest pelfe That all diuine by God himselfe first wrought Aboue the Cloudes and then by Angels brought Simile Like to an Infant in his timely birth Into the Church and plaste vpon this earth The midwife there which did attend the same Was deare Vrania that braue noble Dame Whose glorious worth my weakenesse can't rehearse Queene of the Muses Soueraigne of my verse But yet Vrania be not bold to pry Into the secrets of this treasury Lock't vp from vs and bard from all to enter Where none but thee may without danger venter Least thy great God thou tracest in thy step Should from the Heauens downe on a sudden leap As if from sleepe he had beene rowz'd and waked And find thy selfe like Eue and Adam naked Adam what made thee fearefully to hide Entangled in the allurement of thy
venom'd carkasse in thy pride shall barnish An vgly creature shalt thou be vncouth Thy teeth all blacke within thy lying mouth Out of that hollow irkesome vast abisse Vpon thy belly shalt thou crawle and hisse Dust shalt thou eate and canckred be thy skin Thy body swolne with poyson all within Thy viperous seed in vgly enuy borne To all the world shall be the hatefull scorne In euery path and out of euery hedge Their poyson fell in humane flesh shall wedge That when they time and place to purpose feele Their venom'd tongue shall bite them by the heele Thus till the earth shall mould away and fall Where men least thinke there shall they lie and crawle The Womans seed in iust reuenge againe Thy head shall breake and cursed actions baine When that sweet Babe shall to the world be borne That heauen and earth with glory shall adorne Then shall he trample on thy cursed hide And on the clowds with winged fame shall ride Before his face shall ratling cracks of thunder Amaze thy sense and reasons false bring vnder To see when he shall on the earth descend How thou in chaines and fetters shalt be pend Tormented in those paines no tongue can tell Scorcht all to cinders with dam'd diuels in hell Curst is thy life thrice cursed is thy race Voyde of all goodnes mercy loue and grace Here is thy doome vpon thy Snakie head That others with thee hast to sinne misse-lead Scarse these last words were spake by God himselfe Of his sad iudgement gainst this cursed Elfe And but beginning of Eues dismall speech When suddenly she gan to cry and screech When in the instant from the lofty skyes Miscricordia Mercy comes downe and into Eden hies Prostrated falls vpon her bended knees But God himselfe his daughter deare that sees With weeping eyes before his face to craue That but on Eue he would compassion haue Began to stay his minde to alter cleane And to the woman now began to leane But that hard by stood Iustice in the place And vrg'd him much to prosecute the case When all the reason Mercy well could render Was that her selfe was of the female gender Whilest both of these each other do oppose Iustitia Misericordia Loath each of them their humble suite to lose Contending still as aduocates at Barre Or combatants in furious fearefull Warre And altogether iudgement speedy feares Natura Gods eldest daughter in the place appeares Nature diuine like to Aurora fac't A noble Lady beautifull and chast Simile Naturae descriptio Braue famous Queene a royall person borne Whom heauen and earth and all therein adorne Her haire disheueld trailing to the ground And in the same the rarest secrets bound Without all art in curious manner curld And in her hand the Globe of all the world Ten thousand colours in her gowne are seene Wrought by her selfe vpon a ground of greene In all her iewels of admired gaine With fower braue Ladies bearing vp her traine The Elements She sober enters in that sacred place And downe she fals before the Almighties face Father sayd she deare Father here behold Oratio Giue me but leaue to be a little bold Finding my sisters iarring neuer cease To reconcile and set them both at Peace A holy worke which thou hast euer loued My selfe thereto by charity first moued One of my deare affected sisters sweete That from this place to heauen did lately fleete Brought me such newes when at the first we met Till all dissolue I neuer shall forget And like it is this massie weighty ball Which hangs so euen iust in the midst of all Would soone returne to what it was at first If all thereon for this one fault were curst Behold this Fabricke here within my hand The mighty Gloabe of all the world doth stand What will become of all thy Noble workes This goodly frame and all that euer lurkes Within the compasse of the heauen and earth If now destroyd within their prime and birth All will consume and vnterly decay If Iustice once thy Mercy ouersway Iustice I know doth vrge thy sacred word Which from the Truth as yet hath neuer stird Thy penalty on Adam and his Race For foule offending in this holy place The execution of thy Law diuine In the least tittle of each Statute line Which hath ordaind that in that dismall day In which the woman did the diuell obay To taste the fruite and sucke it with her breath That both of them should die a fearefull death Mercy againe as being full of Loue Pittie compassion from thy throane aboue Presents her selfe before thy sacred face Imploring Goodnes Maiestie and Grace To be a meanes to mediate a peace And that for once all further iudgement cease When by the Enuie of a viperous tong Hatcht by the diuell this cursed malice sprung And their offence to take it at the worst By Iustice weigh'd will yet be found the first O then deare Father let me speake my minde Be lust and Louing Mercifull and Kinde Punish all sinne according to thy word The Truth preserue that none at Iustice gird But yet let Mercy at thy right hand sit Thy noble workes in sacred holy writ Shall then be blaz'd vnto their vtmost worth And thou be knowne a God vpon this earth Then shall large volumes with thy prayses swell Thy Mercy drop to infant soules in hell Which neuer haue offended much thy minde But borne in sinne and neuer knowne vnkinde Whose cursed parents crost thy heauenly will The sperme of those that liue in errour still Thy sentence past cannot againe be call'd And truth must stand before thy face instal'd That very day according to thy word In which the tree of Knowledge first was stird By Eue and Adams wilfull treachery Both of them then a cruell death should dye If mercy now had not come downe in hast And at thy feete her humble sute had cast Before this time that iudgement had beene giuen Both of their liues might well haue beene beriuen O then what would become of all this frame And all thereon too infinite to name The famous actions by thy spirit nurst All must returne to what it was at first One day with thee is as a thousand yeeres The hower of death Incertaine full of feares First saue the seede and let them liue in awe Then dye a death for breaking of thy Law So is thy word confirm'd my sisters pleaz'd The world remaine and iudgement somewhat eaz'd Then shall thy creatures in all ages stand The worke diuine of thy all powerfull hand And euery thing that on the earth is bred Shall shew thy glory both aliue and dead That all may stand to all eternity Thy only Son offers himselfe to dye But silenc'st once by Gods commanding Word The iarring sisters neuer after stird But satisfied and resting well content They spent the time in haplesse merriment And God aboue to iudgement doth
guard thy person with her flaming sword Not long before if you remember well When Adam first with Eue his darling fell Charitas And both all naked iustly for it blam'd Loues bashfull Lady was thereof asham'd And as offended in that sacred place Mounts vp the clowds with discontented face Bewailes mans fall with teares bedewes her cheeeks Most louely looks and round about she seekes If she can find with all her toyle a friend To set all right and past offences mend When she had past to siluer Cinthia fayre Through the cold Region of the liquid Aire And crost the way that Phaeton begun With his prowd Teame about the world to run Aboue the stars and fiery regions hot With extreame labour paine and trauell got On euery side through danges great had ventred Yet at the last within heauens wals she entred Where she beheld a goodly glorious sight Ten thousand candles all the world to light Carryed in course about the earth to reele And Nature nobly turning of their wheele After those kind imbraces euer vsde Twixt Ladies faire dame Nature smiling musde To see her sister with her louely face Thus rapt alone within that sacred place To passe the clowds and firy frozen Ayre The earth to leaue vnto her to repayre Euen in an instant at that happy time What heauen so high but loue diuine will clime Scale vp the throane of God himselfe aboue Thrise noble Lady full of grace and loue Nature amaz'd as wondring what it ment To see thy lookes bewray a discontent Enquires the cause that makes thy face so sad The newes below she thinks is worse then bad But when she heard and vnderstood the cause That Eue and Adam brake their Makers lawes Incurr'd a curse on all their future seed She thought the world and all therein would bleed And that Gods anger for so foule offence Would not be pleasde vnlesse she went from thence Not staying now to heare the matter scand She takes her sister by her louely hand Descending both in all their rich attire Downe the hot region of heauens burnisht fire Through the cold Aire beneath the Moone they diued And at the last in Paradise arriued Here she stood by and saw Gods iudgement past And oftentimes forth from her eyes she cast A Sea of salt and driery briny teares Her loue alas was euer full of feares To make her venter in the heate and cold And mount the skies as euen but late I told Bring Nature downe in speedy postapace To appease Gods Iustice in that sacred place Time spies her forth and takes her by the hand Which louely there within that place did stand And as before he vsde each other Sister So now this Lady first of all he kist her Then leades her foorth much like a louely Queene Spangled in Iewels wrought with gold in greene Brings her to Iustice plac't her by her side In future ages euermore to bide That till this world by power diuine shall stand These sisters both should be on either hand To guide the earth and keepe her feete vpright And gouerne all vnder the Prince of might When Mercy Iustice both from Loue do flow The Scarlet garment seemes as white as Snow Time backe retires as heretofore he did When now the place was of the Ladyesrid And on a Dame of Noble birth doth light Cald Truth his daughter cloathed all in white Veritas He takes her gently by her lilly hand Wherein Gods booke did at that instant stand Brought her along as all the rest before Ouer the gate vpon the sacred dore In all her roabes with comely pompe and grace And plac't her right before dame Iustice face O heauenly God may I not well resemble Iusticia The flaming Sword which made the earth to tremble When all the world thy sacred Iustice saw To deare Elias liuing in the Law Rapt vp a liue within a flaming Cart His coate imblazde might be a bleeding heart 2. Kin. 18. 40. 2. King 1. 10. 2. Kiug 2. 11. When Iesabel the monster of her sexe His harmelesse soule vpon the earth did vexe Her Prophets false to Babylon that ran He quite consum'd and scarcely left a man To carry newes of that vn wonted fire Which fell vpon them at his iust desire That Cherubin vpon the right hand plac't Misericordia Which time himselfe hath with his fauour grac't In all the world how well I may compare To aged Henoch walking in the Ayre Within whose dayes when God his body rapt Aboue the clouds in innocency lapt Before such time as Moses Law was gaued By Mercy onely all the world was saued The other damsell which my pen doth lim Charitas The sweetest fast and louelyest Cherubim That Time himselfe vpon the left hand set And which my Muse can neuer well forget If that we reade the holy sacred Booke How neare her person all diuine doth looke To that Disciple which the rest suruiu'd In Pathmos I le into the heauens a riu'd Rauisht in spirit on a sacred day Within a coffin did his body lay And round about a light there shined bright The coffin caught quite out of all their sight The lesson still that he did euer preach Both in his life and by example teach In all his workes like to the Turtle doue Throughout his bookes was little else but loue That Cherubin which stood before the face Veritas Ofsacred Iustice in that reuerent place Like to an infant that his Nurse doth weane Whose face is smiling fingers ends are cleane All full of Truth not knowing how to faine Dissemble falsly all the world to gaine How well I may compare her setled looke To Gods eternall euer blessed booke These Cherubins all glorious to behold Surpassing farre the purest burnisht gold The radiant splendor of whose sacred rayes Resemble those ador'd within our dayes Iustice diuine much like to God himselfe Iustitia That scorneth bribing and all ill got pelfe And shewes by iudgements fearefull past examples How all the world vnder his feete he tramples Mercy againe much like to Christ his son Miserecordia That hath the crowne of glory for vs won And from the heauens descended to the earth To make vs happy in his welcome birth Whose panting soule had neuer minutes rest Suffring those torments not to be exprest Surpassing farre the greatest learned wits To see how he at Gods right hand now sits Triumphing ouer sin world death and hell In ioyes eternall which no tongue can tell Thrice euer blessed be his glorious name It was his mercy made him do the same Then Charity much like the God of loue Charitas I meane no Cupids which to folly moue But that great spirit ere the world was made Vpon the waters through the deepe did wade Gen. 1. 2 Mat. 1. 13. 20. By whom the Virgin happily conceiued To bring forth him that lustice wrath appeased When afterwards by
lights the world vnder heauens starry Campe The Vertues which within thy brest were bred Shall neare be stained by any viperous head So long as Fame can sound thy glorious worth Chast Paragon the richest Iem on Earth Take all the Ladies breathing on this Ball The sweetest fac't the noblest borne and all The famous Queenes and Monarchs of the World Which on the wheele of Fortnne haue beene hurld That euer liu'd vpon this earthly frame Now gone and past too infinite to name The saints themselues and all the blessed troope Those that now liue within heauens burnisht hoope Though thou art blam'd as Author of their fall Yet art thou still the mother to them all Like to the Vine so is thy fruitfull Wombe Psal 128. 3. Simile Thy speech more sweet then is the honey combe Thy Breath all pure which from thy lips comes out Thy Browes impalde with Chastnesse round about From thee at first were peopled euery land Like O liue Plants thy tender Infants stand simile About thy Table in a seemely sort To ouer-ioy and make thee gladsome sport But why should I runne farther in thy praise Vpon Fames wings thy liuing name to raise Blazing thy parts maintaining of thee still And fowle detraction aymes to worke thy ill Aye to deface thy modest speeches pure With scandals vile for euer to endure When as thy worth exceeds the learnedst thought That by thy meanes into the world is brought And still the Truth conuinceth brings to light The actions false obscurd in enuyes night 1. Cor. 3. 12. Dissolues to naught the morter made of clay The buildings fram'd of stubble trash and hay The good from bad the sheepe from wolues doth seuer And brands the diuell in his false tongue for euer And yet we see the sacred Truth not free From viperous tongues gnawne in the worst degree simile Taxt oftentimes and squeesed like a Spunge By Romish Tygers at her sides that hunge Inuerting stretching construing all her words With error falshood damned wayes and girds Chaste vertuous Eue now she is past and dead The Serpents seed must breake the Womans seed But in the heauens th' eternall God of powre At Iustice barre will on their faces lowre And on their heads thunder his iudgements downe When Eue shall stand adorned with a Crowne Then shall their actions in his dradfull ire Be purged all and tride as gold i' th fire The wickeds words their enuious tong hath spake To her disgrace shall make them yearne and quake And in the end the sword shall iust diuide The good from those which haue her worth belide Whose feet shall totter on hels fatall wheele And headlong downe to damned diuels shall reele Whilst Eue shall sit triumphant on the skies Viewing their fall hearing their moanes and cryes Ioying to see the sacred Truth preuaile Her meaning clear'd her foes to weepe and waile And yet deare Eue I must not leaue thee there But bring thee downe more children for to beare If but with one thou hadst begun and ended Yet had the World beene by thy meanes befriended But to replenish with thy fruitfull spawne From Sols first rising where his teame doth dawne The totall earth on euery side and round Here is a loue the like was neuer found Within the brest of any woman kind Our thoughts hearts actions all our zeale to bind In true deuotion to thy reuerent name Much to admire so sweet a noble Dame When thy first child into the world was borne Straight he began to take delight in Corne In large possessions working vp the soyle Neare Paradise with painfull labour toyle Tilling the ground and planting of the graine His name thereby was fitly called Cain Whilst thou againe conceiu'st a second child A sweet borne babe of countenance more mild And after that about some threescore more Of sons and daughters which thy body bore All nurst by thee after their timely birth To fill the world and people all the earth Thus with thy husband in that arbour'd Tent Thou spentst thy dayes in wondrous great content In true Religion Sacrifices Rites Such as thy heart vnto thy God indites Ioying in him and he againe in thee The sweetest life that euer eye could see When as together in your children small You trayne them vp on Edens God to call And teach them yong by your owne steps allure Them to all good chaste honest actions pure The golden ground the heauenly starre and guide From which but few do euer after slide Happy thrice happy are those children borne A crowne of Glory shall their browes adorne Whose infant yeares are by their parents first With the pure milke of true Religion nurst In riper dayes when blustring blasts assaile The mountaines high that ouertops the dale Their Faith stands firme as fixt vpon a Rocke Not easly stird by euery wauing shocke But constant bides most permanent and sure The assaults of Sathan strongly to endure In Elder Time when Age doth threaten death At latest gaspe euen when our vitall breath Begins to faile in hastning on our end And kinsfolks friends vpon vs all attend With sad lamenting discontented eyes To see our Soule how vp to heauen it flies Forsakes the Earth willing the world to lose Incombred with a thousand cares and woes That in this life dayly attend the sheepe Vntill with Christ aboue the clouds they keepe O then the comfort sweet delight and ioyes When all things else seems to their sense but toyes There the good shepheard in his armes embraceth All those that loue him wondrously he graceth With this kinde welcome Come ye blessed Soules Come drinke the Nectar kept in Christall bowles Eate this Ambrosia as a sacred token That for thy sin my body once was broken Receiue heauens crowne th' eternall kingdome kept For all those Saints which from the world haue slept But soft my Muse what makst thou now aboue Out of this world thus on a sudden moue Adam to leaue his fruitfull wife and all His pleasures ioyes and both his children small Euen in the spring and glory of their birth Weary of all thus to forsake the Earth As if thou tookst more pleasure true delight Within the heauens then in their sinfull sight Stay yet a while and as thou hast begun So to the end thy course directly run Leaue them not thus O do not now surcease Till thou hast brought them to their graues in Peace Shew all their liues the chiefe of euery thing Their Crosses Griefes do thou diuinely sing But yet at first tell how in louing sort The Brothers liu'd and made their Parents sport Those that long time without a childe haue beene And neuer issue of their owne haue seene But without kindred friends and those which may With some content succeed at latter day If these I say when least of all they thought Should children haue so fortunately brought To prittle prattle euery word by chance And vp and downe about the house
the Earth ascendeth like a Ghost Conueyes her selfe into the promist coast By Paradise where Caine was sacrificing Some of his corne his double heart disguising Watches the Time when as she thought most best And windes her close in his dissembling brest No sooner she was in his heart acquainted But his best bloud was with her venome tainted His vaines swolne vp and all his body puft His Head Heart Lungs infectuously were stuft With Enuy Malice Wrath and deadly Rage Nothing could now his stomack fell asswage Finding no ease his countenance falls downe His cankred mind discerned by his frowne Now Father Mother Brother none he brookes That Heauen it selfe takes notice of his lookes Since first the light from darkenesse was discouered Or that the Clouds within the Aire haue houered The Heauens and Earth the Sea and all begun And Phaeton his endlesse Race hath run About the World in twice twelue howers right Or siluer Cinthia shew'd her pale fac't light Neuer was seene a more delightfull day The glittring Sunne in burnish't bright aray Nor Heauen it selfe more pleasing euer smil'de Then when the brothers on Loues Alter pilde The Sacrifice before their Fathers face To God aboue within that holy place But when Medusa from Hells deepest vaults Began but once to spy mans secret faults And from her Den in darke Obliuion pent The bowels of her Mother Earth had rent To come aloft into the open Ayre With her foule breath infectious poysoned haire And Rags most base as late before I told To seate her selfe in Caines securest hold Then Heauen and Earth and all began to change The winged clouds about this Ball to range The burning lampes within the firmament Seem'd for to winke as if their oyle were spent The glorious Sun to hide his glistring face Asham'd of Enuy in a sacred place And all at once most fearefully to lowre To threaten tempests or some sudden showre When instantly on Caines dissembling head A sable cloud from all the rest out shed Began to stand himselfe and all iust vnder Hearing this voyce out from a dreadfull thunder False Hippocrite how canst thou simulize Before my face thy actions fowle disguize Gen. 4. 6. 7. To thinke that I which all the World adorne Would thus be fed with riffe raffe of thy Corne Or yet in bloud to satiate my selfe To liue as thou by base and Earthly pelfe And not conceiue that Holy thing is ment Within the same which giues me full content Why is thy Soule thus pestred with a sore Ranckled bespaked like a rotten core Simile Thy conscience deedes false enuious mind so bad Thy lookes cast downe and countenance so sad Dost thou not know that if thy heart be right Thy actions good and pleasing in my sight That thou shalt be accepted best and more That other wise sin lyeth at thy dore Think on my Words halt not within my sight I am that God which brings the Truth to light Amend thy life at cursed Enuy hisse Repent thy selfe of what is done amisse Let her not once be harbourd in thy brest Nor in thy Heart her banefull poyson rest Redeeme the Time behold the lofty skyes Where Loue and Mercy for offences lyes One comfort more then thou deseru'st I giue Thy Brother yet shall at thy seruice liue Thou like a Lord shalt ouer-rule him still And his desire according to thy will Shall subiect be deuoted euer stand To run and goe with Ioy at thy command But yet take heede do not too high aspire Goe sinne no more and adde no coles to fire Caueat The Heauenly voyce down from the Clouds descending In these sad words sweetely diuinely ending The day cleer'd vp and Sol began againe To shew his face vpon the sacred Plaine The Aire all still the lofty Winds quight calme Adam and Abell singing of a Psalme Caines sacrifize alone vpon the ground Vntouch't at all still to their view they found Whereat with Ioy to see the God of powre To smile on one and on the other lowre To vaile his face vnto their sinfull sight Hearing his voyce out from the dradfull light Home they depart in wonderment and peace Minding a while from further worke to cease Whilst Caine alone retireth discontent Forsakes his God and to the field he went His enuious mind still runs on his disgrace First Apostasy in Caine. False to be found before his fathers face All working Power deepe searcher of the Reines Discerner of the in ward heart and Veines What secret Art can from thy sight be hid Thine Eye still saw what either Brother did How iust art thou and full of mercies sweete The eyes of all are cast downe at thy feete The greatest men and Monarches of the earth The first borne seede and noblest in their birth The proud Commanders in their formall coates The homebred Sheepe thou dost deuide from Goates The eldest Brother yongest in thy sight Are both alike so that their hearts be right No outward forme can make thee partialize Thou look'st vpon the inward sacrifize Beholding Habels willing gtatefull gift Which thou art pleas'd vp to the Clouds to lift When Caine false hearted though he was first borne Him thou forsakst leauing his Gift forlorne O wofull fearefull is the dangerous state Of euery man so ouerswolne with Hate Whom God by this cannot to good conuert But giues quight ouer to a storry Heart Apostacy making a man to quake God Father friends all vtterly forsake Prince Country Kingdome all the Land in hope To run perhaps vnto the Turke or Pope In discontent for conscience gaine or pelfe To sell their soules vnto the Diuell himselfe Some to their shame haue had small cause to boast Mat. 12. 31. Luke 12. 9. 10. Mar. 3. 29. Pro. 26. 11. Of this foule sin against the Holy Ghost Accurst and damn'd of all that euer fell But few I know but quick went downe to hell Amongst the Diuels in euerlasting paines Loaden with Boults of heauy burning chaines Whilst those return'd like to a Dog that gurnes Simile That back againe vnto his vomit turnes Or beastly Sow bemir'd in dirty tilth simile Cleere water shuns to scoure away her filth But in a ditch with some vnsauory Bore She layes her downe far worse then ere before How can we thinke or well conceiue in heart That those which once do from their country start And shall distast the grounds wherein at first With Pastors pure they were train'd vp and nurst Heb. 6 4 5 6. That do renounce their Faith and euery thing Their Oath Alegiance to the State and King And in this sinne without Repentance fall How of that man can there be hope at all When as his case what shew so ere he gaine Is but the same with cursed enuious Caine I must confesse Repentance is a worke Repentance Of Gods great loue which caunot lye and lurke Within the Heart but that it forth must shine Like to a
Light vpon a Hill diuine Simile Kindled by faith a conscience cleane and pure That cannot once her former wayes indure But by good works doth blaze the same abroad Without all Guile Hipocricy or Fraud Full of true Loue auoyding babbling suites A Tree that 's good is euer knownebi'th fruits Mat. 12. 33 But yet for him that from the Church is sold And in his Heart is neither hot nor cold Reuel 3. 16. With God and Mammon can with both indent Whose mind on mischiefe is full set and bent That what he can into his hands doth get And all is Fish which commeth to his net That doth forsake his owne Religion first The same I meane wherein he hath bin nurst Inconstantly another shall imbrace What ere he thinke he is in wofull case Well may one iudge his conscience may be pang'd For that one thing how many haue bin hang'd And he againe that in his ripest yeares Forsakes the same as plaine by Caine appeares And both of them he hath distasted quite May be in 's Age demned Pagan right Besides examples in the Scriptures pure Which aye shall last eternally endure Of cursed Athiests in their bitter gall That Iulian like from God and Christ did fall The Monster vile within the Gospell curst Which hang'd himselfe when all his bowels burst And diuers others tedious here to name Whose ends haue shewd iust iudgements to their shame Act 1. 14. Hath not Experience in this Age of ours Branded Apostates of the heauenly powers With fearefull Vengeance wofull to behold Vpon the earth for being impious bold As amongst many infinite to write But one neere vs in steade of all I le cite Whose scandall foule about the world is blowne His Story rife amongst vs all well knowne Faustus by name by birth a Germaine bred The story of D. Faustus Whose minor yeares were with Religion fed In liberall Arts his minde but yong did wade A schoole Diuine and Doctor after made Traind vp as well as euer man could be In learnings Lore and sweet Diuinitie So was this Caine the like was Iudas fell All three no doubt with damned diuels in hell The foremost two with bolld their hands defilde But this a man which neuer hurt a childe How with a knife made he his veines to bleed Then with his blood to write the diuell a deed Conuaying Soule and Body by the same To be tormented in eternall flame Neuer repenting till it was too late Damn'd wofull fearefull in a desperate state Cursing the howre of his vntimely birth By God for saken taken from the Earth With exclamations hideous fearefull cries Sprites Ghosts and diuels about the house there flyes His braines thrasht out on euery post and wall Sad spectacle dire mournfull fearfull fall When soule life learning all at once he lost A wofull purchase to his painefull cost His bowels mangled carrion like and tore Imbrude in filth and stinking poysoned gore Next day tormented in this case was found By diuels cast out vpon a dunghill ground When once the Prince of darknesse in the deep By power diuine enioyned was to keep And that the Serpent hatefull and accurst Was in the center of the Earth downe thrust Their vgly spawne then hacht the vilest Elfe That euer crawld besides the diuell himselfe Foule furious Enuy as but late I told With viperous snakes about her head all rold And she againe outfrom their banefull breath Hath brought an Impe like gastly fearefull Death Limbe of the diuell still worse then all the rest Mishapen vile base Antichristian beast Monster of Nature false in euery part Apostacie with crablike crawling heart simile Contagious fell most dangerous in her tong From whom all treasons in this world first sprung The hatefull deeds which some haue pacht together Vnder Religion may be brought all hither The secret actions infinite that lurke Which in mans heart and gall together worke The poysonings murders euery cursed rape For whom this Earth doth yawne her mouth and gape Seeking to swallow in her Iawes deuowre Within the midst of her darke wombe to powre The actors damn'd vnder obliuions night Not fit to breath or to behold heauens light Base scum and dregs the works of darkenesse first Proceeding from Apostacie at first But what make I with damned Atheists vile My sacred verse with Antechrist defile To rowze from hell tormented hideous sprites Foule gastly Ghosts which all the world afrights That my deare Muse should thus by freinds be crost From heauen of late within the deepe be tost Hels vgliest Monster to vnmaske and lay All open thus falling within my way That little taste to euery Palate yeelds And all this while Caine wanders in the fields With passions working in his hatefull brest Sad discontent may in his face be guest Reuenge all bloody with a poysoned dart Reuenge Starts vp from hell enters within his hart Base cursed Furie hacht by Enuie first Apostacie this damned heil hound nurst The masked traine that all her life befriend her Are Guile Deceit and Falshood to attend her This monster Caine close in his brest did hide With all the rest of that damn'd rout beside And home returns as if he had forgot The discontent of his discouered blot The blurre late made in his Religious cote As out of minde he seemes not now to note But full of forme and outward complement As if his minde was all to goodnesse bent With much respect vnto his father first And duty shewd to her his body nurst Vpon his brother fawningly he lookes And learns him then to make the shepheard hookes To catch a sheepe running with all her speed And he againe helps him his land to weed Thus Caine continues for a certaine space Before his fathers and his mothers face In outward guise formality and speach As if his heart had had no further reach Vntill that Act foule barbarous deed befell Which makes me mute almost afraid to tell But that from God the same at first I heard Described plaine in his drad sacred Word Gen. 4. 3. Caine but few nights in this bad meaning slept For Fire in Flaxe can but a while be kept And not long after as may well be guest When father friends and all suspected least Euen then he takes Occasion by her lock Singles forth Habel from his harmelesse flock With flattring wordes traines him along to walke The fragrant fields holds him on still with talke Vntill at last Inhumane wretch vnkind Base Villaine curst he staid a while behind To find a Leauer that he late had laid Within the corne which wondrous heauy waid This on his shoulders vp from thence he takes His fatall way to his deare brother makes Who all this while lay in a slumber sweete Vpon the grasse resting his weary feete Thinking no hurt full of all Peace and Loue His mind in Heauen walking with God abouc Which when the Caitife varletvile had spide No
longer then he could his Enuy hide But with a blow on Habels head downe right With both his hands and all his maine and might The Leauer laid him in that wofull case That Bloud and Braines flew round about the place And least his deede might afterwards be found He takes his body rakes it vp i' th ground Damn'd Miscreant vnworthy that thine eyes Should once behold the cleerenesse of the skyes What hast thou done vnto thy brother deare That thou shouldst thus about the corne fields leere And watch a time to worke that fearefull fact For which t were pitty but thy neck were crack't What art now the better to haue seene His crimson bloud bedew'e the ground all greene His Body mangled Skull to pieces beate How canst thou Vengeance from the Heauens defeate Dost thou not see that all begins to lowre The Clouds to wrack vpon thy head to powre Downe sulphery flames of hot consuming fiers The Sunne for shame his glorious face retires All to grow darke the singing birds to weepe To see man brought thus to his latest sleepe The Furies loose the Diuels from Hell to roule Aboue the Earth gaping for this thy Soule How canst thou thinke to hide thy cursed deede When as the Foules within the Aire which breede The creatures all presented to thy sight Will murthers shew and bring the truth to light Nemesis the Goddesse of Reuenge Acts 28. 4. Great Nemesis the Lady of the skyes Without a Maske before her nimble eyes On Pegasus the Horse of Fame doth ride With Iustice Sword close to her valliant side Scowres through the Aire iust at that instant time When as the steame of Habels bloud did clime Vp to the Heauens like to a smoke ascending simile The Clouds in sunder all betearing rending Casts downe her lookes vpon his crimson bloud Beholds the gore like to a streaming floud No longer stayes but mounteth vp the Throne Simile Of God aboue making a fearefull mone Tells all the cause discouereth this thy deede Desires iust Iudgement on thy selfe and seede Imploreth all the sacred powers diuine That they would now but with her selfe combine And grant her leaue to take Reuenge on this So foule a murther as thy fact now is Behold a voyce downe from the God of might Reuenger of the poore mans cause and right Rom. 12. 19. That seldome sleepes but in the Heauens he heares The wrongs oppressions mournefull cryes and teares Of Innocents by greatnesse ouersway'd By Guile and Treason oftentimes betray'd Brought to their ends by the malicious guilt Of Enuious men that others bloud haue spilt Wasted their State consum'd their lands and life Swallow'd their goods contending still in strife The sacred voyce out from a thunder-clap Of dradfull lightnings at that hard mishap Thus spake to Caine hard by that fat all place Where Habels bloud lay couered in that case With clods and moulds as euen but late I told By that vile Wretch ouer his body rold Come tell me Caine the thing I shall demand Seeke not to hunt on no excuses stand Halt not before me as of late thou didst When a false heart vnder thy coate thou hidst What mad'st thou heere thus wandring all alone Where is thy brother whither is he gone What is become of Habel lou'd thee deare That next thy Parents was to thee more neare Then all the World and all that therein moued Whos 's faithfull mind thy presence euer loued The gracelesse Villaine impudently bold As if he scorn'd of God to be controld Or ask't a question from that heauenly lip This answere straight out of his mouth let slip I cannot tell for what haue I to doe To take account of Habell yea or no Or in his presence to be tyde to stay Within the fields as heretofore to play T is like enough if that the Sun had shin'd About the foulds you might him chance to find It may be that hee 's feeding of his sheepe Vpon the downes or fallen fast asleepe Or else you may go looke a little deeper How can I tell am I my brothers keeper Blasphemous Wretch what hast thou done quoth God Art not afraid of my reuenging Rod But thus to spill thy deerest brothers blood Vpon the ground in thy inhumane moode Why Varlet hast thou to my face belide How canst thou thinke thy fact from me to hide When as the bloud of this thy Brother shed For Vengeance iust vpon thy murdering head Cryde from the Earth making afearefull moane With pitteous shreeks ascended vp my throne That downe I came from heauen aboue with speed To giue thee Iudgement for thy damned deed Curst therefore art thou in thy chiefest worth Curst from the heauens and curst from all the Earth That kindnesse shewd her mouth hath opened wide Within her wombe thy brothers blood to hide Hereafter now when thou the ground shalt till It shall not yeeld not yet thy barnes shall fill With that encrease which heretofore it gaue To thy content that thou desirdst to haue A vacabond vpon the spatious face Of all the earth Roming from place to place With euery Rascall thou shalt now cologue Base Runnagate no better then a Rogue Thy dayes shall waste thy glasse shall hourely run Vntill the thread of this thy life be spun Content with peace quiet thou shalt haue neuer A Scared conscience shall torment thee euer And in the end euen in thy fearefull sight Hels Furies curst before thy face shall light The damned diuels with all their hideous rout Shall wind thee in hemming thy Soule about Attending on thee till thine eyes be shut And so deuoure thee in their greedy gut The sturdy villaine with these last words stroke In woefull feare his heart is welnigh broke Despairing quite of any helpe at all To this sad speech doth most prophanely fall O who shall rid me from these torments fell Hacht in the Bowels of the deepest Hell Nurc't in my brest harbourde within my hart That now I feele much to my paine and smart The Furies damn'd about my head I heare My punishment is more then I can beare A vacabond I am cast out this day Both from the earth and from thy face for aye I shall be hid from all the world beside Wretch that I am which know not where to bide My Father friends will euer after hate The foule disaster of my enuious fate And whosoeuer finds me one or other Will murder me as I haue done my brother The voyce Diuine left him not thus alone In Desperation making of his mone But from the Clouds yet once againe it spake Perchance for Habel or his Fathers sake Goe where thou wilt for he that dares to lay Reuenging hands vpon thy head for aye Vpon the earth to murder slay or kill Which in his wrath shall seeke thy blood to spill That damned wreth both in his goods and fame In life and death and all that thou canst name Euen in his lands his basket
royall Empresse borne That all the World with glory didst adorne Vntill the second Habels deerest bloud Ran downe thy streetes like to a crimson floud Simile Titus in Iosep Adri. Aelius Then was thy fields with bloud and slaughter dide And made the Stage to all the World beside Whereon fierce Tyrants in their barbarous hearts With murdring minds haue acted all their parts So hath Damascus seldome beene at rest Whose fatall name bewrayes her bloudy brest When Benhadad Hazael Rezin fierce 2. King 16 9. The scarlet sinewes of her Heart did pierce There were the Titans murthered by the Blade Of Iupiter that all their army laid In such a sleepe as till the Earth be shak't By powre diuine will neuer more be wak't Great Babilon the Tyrant of the East The Sarazens and Aegypt in her pierst Braue Pompey wan it in sad mournefull sort And Tamberlaine he made them all amort Ierusalem which lou'd her deerely well Euen in her streetes hath tol'd her passing Bell. Haalon the Tartar in his lowring warre Ch. Adricom Theatrum â—ter sanct Within her bowels made a fearefull skarre The Persian Grecian Christian Romane last The cruell Turkes haue all their fortunes cast And fill'd the Ayre with pitteous shreikes and grones Piling vp heapes of dead mens Skuls and bones As if the place where Habels bloud was laid The buriall ground of all the World were made Euen as the bloud of deere Adonis slaine Simile By cruell Mars faire Venus loue to gaine Stain'd all the ground bedyde the crimson graue That powers diuine willing his worth to saue From darke Obliuions black forgetfull night Which smothers all in silence from the light With Nature ioyn'd to bring forth such a signe As shall for euer to all Ages shine In memory of that detested fact Which murthering Mars did in his fury act Vpon the body of that louely youth Though some perhaps will hardly thinke it truth But rarher by the ancient Poets fain'd Yet they I say haue to this day ordain'd That from the bloud of deere Adonis young The Safron flowers of all the Earth first sprung So may I say that from the scarlet blood Of Habel shed like to a crimson flood Within the midst of rich Damasco plains When Caine vnkindly pasht out all his braines It pleased God to his immortall Fame That still the Soyle should testifie the same With fragrant flowres adorning all the ground As no where else in all the world is found That some haue thought by this vile deed accurst The Damaske Rose sprang from his graue at first Ah dearest Muse here in this world of woes Mongst Tigres fell and cruell barbarous foes Prodigeous men Inhumain in their minds Deuouring Beasts that all to powlder grinds The Infants face the Innocent to hurt The Lambe to teare and throw him in the durt How blest are we which haue such wholesome lawes To keepe vs safe out from the murdring pawes Of rancorous men that in their deadly rage Would else no doubt straight shorten all our age By macerating blowes to wound and braine And spill our blood as did that damned Caine. But yet we cannot say that we liue free From as fowle sinnes and hatefull treacherie Now Murders Treasons enuious deeds begun Must close be kept and priuately be done We diue to Hell and sound the deepest pits Ransacke the Graues and vse our vtmost wits To find a Diuel or some small sugred Gall To witch a friend or poyson him withall Or else perchance if we do hap to faile As some there be will not set all to sale Yet that which curbes them from this damned vse I meane the Law how do they it abuse Making the same the poore mans feet to tye The instrument of all their villanie How are some men by greatnesse ouer swayd Their Liues Lands Goods and all they haue betrayd The Foote-ball made tost vp and downe by foes Turmoyld and vext plung'd in a world of woes Neuer at Peace forc't all their state to sell Vnfortunate by enuious men to dwell Clapt vp in Prison all their dayes to spend In wrangling Iangling brangling to noe end There is the Law where Purses well are linde To wrong the weake to satisfie their minde The louing Wise the selfe same course must run The Children small all vtterly vndone When once mans heart infected is with gall How doth it then to all foule vices fall Baines the whole house leauing them all forlone Much better farre if they were neuer borne Then here to liue subjected toyld with paine But neare the dore to some fell enuious Caine Yet sacred Muse euen in this mortall life The Iudgement iust of those delight in strife Thou often seest vpon their heads to fall Some breake their neckes off from their horse and all And some there be which wanting of their will Haue sought themselues their owne heart blood to spill With Poyson strong hastned their way to death Or with a Rope strangled their cruell breath Vsde all ill meanes to make away their liues To childrens griefe and terrour of their wiues Rauing inuoaking all the Damned fiends That all the world takes notice of their ends Others there be that toucht before their death With some remorse lye languishing in breath Out of this life cannot at all depart Till they haue crau'd forgiuenesse from their heart To ease their soule their conscience ouer pang'd Haue sent for those whom they before haue wrong'd Confest the Truth desirde them all to pray To God aboue for to be pleasde to lay No further torments Iudgements full of feare Vpon their backes then they can welnigh beare Those that run on their current with the tide And all their life in enuious courses bide Deare Muse thou knowst their lowring daye is neere When pale fac't death shall to their eyes appeare Then shall the diuell take them within his powre With gastly lookes euen at that dismall howre Tortring their soules in euerlastling woes Heauens iust Reward for all damn'd enuious foes Meane while the Ioyes that are layd vp aboue For those delight in quiet Peace and Loue Which haue bin wrongd with Patience much enurde Earths stormy brunts haue to their paine endurde That yet do liue suffring the wofull smart Vexation griefe trouble of mind and hart And to their end like Christian Martyrs bold Holde on their Race as I before haue told How is there in the Heauens aboue the line A sacred Crowne of purest gold most fine Inlayd with Iems and orient Pearles of worth More richer farre then all vpon this Earth Iam. 1. 12. Reu. 2. 10. Preseru'd for those and layd vp safe in store When all theirfoes must stand without the dore In endlesse paines with all the Diuels of hell And they with God aboue the clouds shall dwell Possessing there this conquering crowne of life Free from all care vexation trouble strife To muster here vpon a Sacred stage The Murders Treasons Plots in euery age
Iustice alwayes in mans life or death Will yet at length her flaming sword vnsheath Lamech the fifth from his own bloud descended With one hard blow his vitall life straight ended Iust Iudgement of the Highest euer still To make the blind to execute his will That though man runs vnpunisht all his dayes Yet in the end he payes him many wayes And when the least of all his time he thinkes Then is he caught vnder Gods vengeance sinkes For as the Rabbyes of the Iewes do tell This monster Caine about these parts did dwell And was the first that euer City built Led thereunto by his fowle murthering guilt More to secure him in so strong a Wall And shun the curse then any thing at all Euen where sinne most of all the earth was bred He layes him downe and makes that place his bed There wallowes tumbles spends his aged dayes In wicked workes ten thousand kind of wayes When at the last he for a beast was slaine By Heauens iust Act in treacherous Tubal-Caine Guiding the hand of Lamech being blind To murther Caine against his fathers mind And Tubal-caine had his iust Guerdon paid For Lamech struck him that all dead he laid His bleeding corps vpon the cold greene ground What they wrought others they themselues haue found The City Caine by Henocks name did call His eldest Sonne whom most he lou'd of all Some say the same by Libanus was fram'd But afterwards by others Oenus nam'd And some affirme the building Iesca leed Great Iebab Mauly were his only deede And Tehe Celet Cities sixe in number Were raiz'd by him with such a world of lumber As in our dayes those that behold the place May see their ruines in Caines wofull case You Cities all how were you fram'd at first But in the sin of wicked Caine accurst Was not your Morter tempered with the bloud And slaughter vile of righteous Abel good Is not the Earth her bowels rent and torne Your walls to build and lofty towers adorne Great Thetis lap is all beslic't and cut To bring forth treasures in your wombs to put The lofty Ceders Timber Trees of worth Are hack't downe flat and leuel'd with the earth Base gold and siluer that mans mind appals Where doth it rust but in your cankred walls How are your streetes with Paracides bepestred With noysome Air contagious fowly festred So banesull growne that from you all or some Hels Antechrist the Prince of Diuels shall come So Babilon the tyrant of the earth Dan. 7. 8. And Rome Vsurper since her Popish birth How were they built but in the crimson gore Of thrice ten millions of mens soules and more Nimrod the hunter of Gods fearefull flock First raiz'd that Tower which seem'd the heauens to mock By tyranizing on the feeble weake As in my worke heereafrer I shall speake And Romulus the monster of his age How did he murther in his barbarous rage His brother Remus in whose scarlet bloud Rome first was built by Tybers treacherous floud And since the sincke of superstition made For euery wretch within her walls to trade Idoll of Nature sprang at first from hell As afterwards I shall haue cause to tell But what make we deareMuse within the walls Oftraiterous Townes and Citties full of braules Where nothing sauours wholesome sweete and faire But earthly bad to putrifie the Ayre Let vs retire into the country coates To heare Heauens birds to chirp ten thousand noates About the woods on euery side along Sweete Nightingales to warble forth their song The Lennet Larke the Blackbird Thrush and all How night and day their smooth sweete tunes do call Melodiously vnto the God offame To sound forth prayses to his glorions name And where our Grandsire Adam last was left When Caine his brother of his life bereft Whether the Soule of Habels body slaine By the curst hand of treacherous damned Caine His Genius spirit Angell bloud or Saint Or God himselfe did Adam first acquaint With the sad newes of this so vile a deede Or that suspicion in his brest might breede Abroad he walkes and findes the bleeding quarre Of Habell slaine vnder a fatall starre Weepes and laments grieues to haue lost his sonne Caine Daughter Brother all of them vndone He louing Father piles a wondrous heape Collossus like of massy stones not cheape Simile And with much care his dying name to saue Builds a huge Mount vpon his crimson graue From thence as one distracted for the time With deepe conceit of this so foule a crime Surcharg'd with sorrow ouergrowne with griefe He hates the place as Author of it chiefe And with his Wife and all his children left He bids adien vnto the ground and wept Trauels along like to a Pilgrim poore Or as a Hermit with small litlle store Simile Till at the last it was their chance to stay In Canaan and there their bones to lay As in this rugged ragged rurall verse I hope ere long diuinely to rehearse But sacred Muse here we must stay awhile seth borne And with Sethes birth the posting time beguile That sweete borne Babe of Heauen it selfe befriended From whom the Church is lineally descended Iust as a hundred twenty yeares and ten Of Adams age into this world of men He was begat Tipe of that promist Lambe To saue the World into the World first came Preaching Repentance all our liues to mend Whose Gouernment shall neuer earthly end Vntill the Trumpet in the skyes shall sound To summon soules from their dead sleepe i' th ground How did the Heauens euen in his infant birth Reioyce and dance about the Ball i' th earth Melodiously their sacred Organs went To see young Seth into the World thus sent In Minor yeeres their fortunes on him showred And on his head their deerest blessings powred Enduing him with towardnes and wit That on his temples all the Arts did sit About his Browes the Lawrell wreath haue wound As the first man that euer letters found How did the Saints at this thy Fortune smile True Isralite in whom there is no guile Ioh. 1. 47. Thy manly dayes they were not ouersway'd Gen. 4. 26. Chap. 5. 34. With fond conceits but in Religion stay'd Enuy Opression Lust and Rauine base Within thy heart could neuer find a place Nor yet the thought of any deede vnkind Could once be found to harbour in thy mind But full of peace like to thy father deare Or God himselfe in all his workes most cleare Simile So art thou blest to bring forth such a Sonne From whom the Church successiuely must runne True Picture of thy Body Mind and Thought Enoch the man to God himselfe that brought Enoch borne Thee sacred flock which wandring almost lame And taught them first to call vpon his Name By prayer preaching Heauen blest dearest Muse Which on the Sabaoth they did dayly vse Yet some do say the Church againe did fall In this mans dayes to wicked
Medly sprang those Gyants first Gen. 6. 4. 5. 12. 13. Monsters of men that made the Earth accurst Base diuelish minds with big aspiring lookes When as a man his neighbour hardly brookes But sheds his bloud squeeseth the flesh and gall Licks vp the gore worse then a Canniball Nature prodigious in their mungrell birth Made them adord yet demy Gods on earth Whilst feare restraind the weaker men in aw To Idolize against her sacred law They spend their dayes to treade the selfe same trace Or worse if may be in this barbarous case That in the end with Brazen cotes of maile They tempt the heauens and seeke the clouds to scale To pull downe God from his triumphant throne By their damn'd Pride and hellish power alone Thus whilst oppression ouerflowes the world The little men still by the greater hurld Their states consum'd their lands and liues all spoyl'd Their cause though iust by greatnesse crost and foyl'd Themselues by others basely bought and sold And hardly vs'd as I before haue told Adam he grieues at this accursed Race Eue she laments with discontented face Both prostrate fall before the God of power To take their soules and send them happy howre So deerest Muse heere in this mortall life The Author That swarmes in troupes of those delight in strife Which neuer rest till all my state be spent But at my Ruine all their aime is bent How could I wish that my last dayes were come Or that my foes were Cardinals of Rome Or that my Peace which almost cost the best Of Lands and Life to liue in quiet rest Were granted me I car'd not which of all But in my way would fortunately fall So should I rest no liuing man annoy Or to the Heauens translate my soule with ioy But why do I cast stones against the wind Thus to disclose the secrets of my mind To waile my woes lay open all my griefe My foes wish well as Authors of it chiefe And all this while no comfort yet I haue But still fell Enuy more and more doth raue To wound my Soule with such inueterate hate As murders all to swallow vp my State O pardon me God may an Angell send To worke my Peace or else some welcome friend Conuert my Foes their Conscience touch with feares Or bring my Cause vnto my Soueraignes eares Oh then how ioyfull shall that happy howre Be to my Soule more sweet then sweetest flowre And glad me more then if I treasures found The greatest Riches on this Earthly ground My future life shall warble sacred layes To sound my God and then my Soueraignes prayse But Adam yet according to thy minde Thou dost Gods loue and all his fauours finde Though in thy youth thou wastvntimely croft When Paradise was by thy folly lost Thy first borne sonnes before thine eyes both slaine Thy daughter stole thy dayes to end in paine And worst of all that these vile Monsters base Should but descend and come from this thy Race That thou shouldst liue but to behold the sinnes The wrongs Oppressions in thâ—…â—…nd begins The Horrors Griefes Vexations howrely fall Vpon the heads of this thy of spring all And last these Gyants heauens blew vaile to rend To treade in blood without all hope to mend Made thee desire that thou thy wish mighst haue To come in Peace to this thy welcome Graue God heares thy cry and sends his Angels bright Clad in white garments of heauens sacred light Attir'd like Nymphs of chaste Dianaes traine With glistring wings a Crowne of life to gaine All to be spangled in rich costly Iems From the crowns top vnto their skirts and hems With Lawrels wreathd close to their Temples chaste And Trumpets dangling by ech louely waste These all came downe thy sorrowes to aswage In thine nine hundreth thirtie yeares of Age To guard the soules both of thy selfe and wife From this worlds care vexation griefe and strife Of from the earth vp to the lofty skies When they haue cheerd and clozd vp both thine eyes Then all their Trumpets in the ayre doth sound From Heauens blew wall downe to the lowest ground Melodiously about the clouds resounding The hils and dales with Eccho all rebounding Till at the last they brought both safe and sure Two welcome soules into Gods presence pure Seth yet suruiues grieues for his parents losse Mourns weeps laments at this sad heauy crosse So he conceiues the Loue of two such friends From this worlds poynt vnto hervtmost ends On euery side of all the Earth and Round Can hardly well be parareld and found He sheds salt teares downe from his cheeks distilling Plaining his woes shewing himselfe vnwilling To part with both stoops downe oft times and kisses Their dead pale lips and from his soule he wishes That his liues blood deare tender hearted Seth Had gone before and but excusd their death His friends come in and brothers sisters all Some cheare him vp others to weeping fall Euen as we see the case oft times our owne The losse of friends to cast our courage downe Amate our minds and makes vs vaile our face Knowing that we must tread the selfe same trace Then vp they take their withered bodyes dead Imbalme them both and wrap them close in lead But first with Nitre Orient spices meet And Mummia Cedar fragrant rich and sweet They all perfume and dresse their bodyes cold Then winde them vp as I before haue told And lay them seemly on a Sable Hearse Sad heauenly sight a bleeding heart to pierce To see the Parents of the totall world Before their eyes thus vp to nothing curld Foure of Seths brothers on their shoulders take The Sable trunke and so from thence they make Procession like a solemne sacred way To Caluerie vpon our Lady day For as the Church doth euermore begin Since God heauens crowne for all our sakes did win Vpon that day to count the Christian yeare So some still say he did mans body reare Out of the dust iust at that instant howre The day and time in which himselfe did powre His holy Spirit in the Virgins wombe And did therein the second Adam tombe And true it is that Adam fram'd by God Liu'd yeares compleate no months nor dayes as od By which we gather that that very day They were both buryed wrapt vp cold in clay The Ceremonies and the sacred Rites The forme and manner all my Sences cites Which Seth then vsde and holy Henoch pure Drawes on my Muse as with a golden lure To sing the same vnto all future times In these rude ragged harsh vnpolisht rimes But that my course another way must bend As one that trauells neare his iourneys end And that my Muse may chance for to be curst When this shall grow and swell beyond my first But yet one thing I may not ouer-slip And leaue the Vales vp to the Mounts to skip For certaine t is that euermore the Iew Hath stedfast held his owne opinion
wofull prison sick to lye and rot Not once to case assawge their griefes a iot And all the while in Equity and Right There 's nothing due but what is got by might By Wrong Oppression diuelish traps and guile And wicked plodding in such actions vile Lord pardon them forgiue their great offences Call once againe illuminate their sences Waken their carelesse too secure a slumber Forget their faults too infinite to number Let them Restore what they haue wrongly got Else will those goods consume away and rot And aye the Infant yet vnborne will cry For Vengeance iust on their posterity But let not vs good Lord O let not vs Trace out their steps to giue examples thus Make vs auoyde to fall into the like Lest suddenly thy Iudgements do vs strike With farre more terror on our bodyes knowne Then euer was vpon Gehezi showne Or all thy chosen people thou didst make A warning sad for vs in Time to take Besides the losse eternall of thy Grace Where such a one shall neuer see thy face But chaste Vrania Soueraigne of my Muse In whom the Heauens do their best guifts infuse Why dost thou now thy loue so farre ingage As to descend downe to our times and Age Leauing the world that at the first was drownd To ramble out beyond thy scope to sound Damn'd Vice vnmaske with those that wrest and lurch And all this while thus to forget the Church Retire againe and stay not with vs long Thou maist be blam'd for this thy wholesome song For 't is most true one harldly scapes of ten That hunts the Foxe too neare the Lions den Auoyde begone contend not much with these For feare perhaps thou dost some men displease And so incurre some danger on thy selfe For taxing those which are in loue with pelfe Come to the Church deare Muse where last of all Thou Henoch leftst vpon this goodly Ball. There thou art tide O do not much abound Take sanctuary in their holy ground And from these things till time shall serue surcease Then shalt thou Rest and liue in perfect Peace Henoch the seuenth from Adams pupillage Gen. 5. 21. Iud. 14. At sixtie fiue yeares of his manly Age Begat a childe whose like was neuer found From this worlds birth in all her spatious Round That liu'd to see so many weekes of dayes As this man did and yet no strength decayes Methuselah the wonder of his time Whose age may claime of all the earth the prime Which liu'd to see with Simeons heart inflam'd The Arke of Noah before his death all fram'd Luk. 2. 25. 26. 27. Tipe of that Church which from mount Sion purl'd When Caesars scepter swayd the Westerne world Methuselah both ancient graue and sage One hundred fourescore and seauen yeares of Age All chaste doth liue and then begets a Son Vpon whose death the world was quite vndon Lamech the father of that faithfull child Which sau'd seauens Soules and all the rest beguild When that the Arke was by the waters heaued O then they knew their wits were all deceiued Great Noahs selfe from Lamechs loynes descended When full one hundred eightie yeares were ended And that the Sun had foure times crost the line Then is he borne and in his birth did shine Like to a glimpse of that all sacred light Simile Which in these dayes may dazle all our sight His name fore-tiping from his mothers brest That he was borne to be the Churches Rest Ioh 1. 19. Fiue hundred yeares or neare vpon he past His manly dayes both continent and chaste And then espowsed to his future Fame A Noble Faire and courteous louely Dame Some thinke the sister of great Tubal-Caine Genebrard in Cron Iew Rab. Sweete Naamah his loue at first did gaine Though from the Line of cursed Caine descended Yet of the Heauens she was so highly friended As that her Lot before the world was drown'd Fell lucky forth within the Churches ground Oh God thy workes are farre beyond our reach The least of them may all our Sences teach Thou hast thy sheepe disperst in euery place From Henochs Seths and Caines proud enuious Race It is thy pleasure bad mens sins to pay To saue some yet and cast not all away The Flowres oft times which do mongst Cockle grow May smell more sweet then any plant we sow And tender Seeds out from the Popish Seate May yet at length proue Eares of perfect wheate Chiefly when Noah Gods husbandman shall till And worke the ground according to his will With pruning planting in that forme and manner As was the Church once vnder Caesars Banner So Abraham was out from Chaldee cald Gen. 12. 28. Chap. 12. 2. Cha 41. 42. 43 44. Iob. 1. Exod. 2. 5. 6. 11. 13. 15. Hest 2. 17. cha 7. 6. 10. And Ioseph great in Egypts Court instald Iob in the land of Vz amongst those men Where so he liu'd that grieues my soule to pen And Moses milde amongst the murdring sort Was nurst brought vp within king Pharohs Court Hester the Queene that made her foes a scorne Was marryed tide vnto a Pagan borne And Paul hims elfth ' Apostle of vs all Yet first was bred within prowd Tarsus wal And diuers others which my Muse could name Were traind vp thus and yet deseru'd no blame For he that builds vpon the slippery sand Yet Time may serue to make his fabricke stand And these were such as from the rest reculde The weaker sexe are by the greater rulde Though some perhaps haue tride the same and mist Yet wise men still do winde them as they list As by example from Noahs happy choyce This world of ours may euer iust reioyce To haue a mother without blurre or staine When all were lost to store the Earth againe But what make wee deare Muse with Noahs wife Chaste Matron graue preseruer of our life Whose Fame deserues heauens azurd richest gowne A garland deckt and Lawrell wreathed Crowne And in her lap the Frame of all to hold I fall were made of solid beaten gold What if she be deriued from the Race Of cursed Caine yet hath she better face A Conscience cleane Religion in her brest Within whose Soule Heauens dearest guifts do rest Tipe of the Church now to perfection wrought Which was at first but out of darknesse brought Looke backe againe and post not one too fast For feare thou beest beyond thy compasse cast Tell what befell to Adams issue left What misdemeanours all his ofspring kept Ech man his neighbor deadly hates and wounds Sin ouerflowes in euery place abounds The greater still deuouring vp the small That in the end th' oppressed blood doth call For vengeance iust vnto the God of Powre Who doth descend and on the world doth lowre Repents himselfe that ere he did begin To frame the same thus poysoned all with sin Whose true repentance from his eyes did draw That streame of teares which wofully they saw When all the Earth
euery side with rauing speeches hot Like Sodomits about the walls of Lot Gen. 19. 4 5 9 10 11. Till thou protectedst broughtst me safely out From the curst fury of that griping Rout Stroke them with blindnesse all like Tygers lay While thou conueydst my body sure away To sound thy prayse and blaze thy glorious name To end this worke to thy renowned fame So dost thou now to make vs all admire Thy fauour shewde vnto our reuerent Sire Descend to Noah the wonder of his Time When Nemesis vp to thy Throne did clime To craue iust Vengeance at thy hands for all The bloud shed spilt vpon this spacious Ball Told him an end of all mens barbarous liues With the sad fall of their incestuous Wines The cruell Race of monstrous Giants great That like to Wolues the flock did tare and beate And wound them so as now not one was left Besides himselfe that from his birth had kept His mind vnspotted Conscience cleane and pure Not tainted stain'd with euery golden Lure And euery beast which on the earth doth feede The fowles of Heauen that in the Aire do breede With all flesh liuing on this goodly frame The young and old too tedious heere to name With those hard hearted which the weake anoyd Should by a floud be all of them destroyd And that himself would alter turne their glasse Before a hundred twenty yeeres should passe Those which repented in that time and space Should respite haue to find his loue and grace And all the rest within this boundlesse round Should then be washt consum'd away and drown'd God wills him further to prouide in time Against the Floud that highest Mounts will clime And frame an Arke for to secure his life His children deare and tender hearted wife From the fell furious raging tide and streames Of Neptune proud that vndermines her seames To pierce her Ioynts and lay them open all When blustring waues vpon her sides do fall Maesia in Asia minor Bids him go poast to Maesia land with speed And fell those Pines which now the world did need whose wondrous height may dazle all our sight To see them grow two hundred foot vpright Firme from the ground and to be parted plaine Into the three parts and then vnite againe Tipe of that Church whose ground was layd by Paul When three make one and one but all in all So was the Arke diuided into parts To amaze the minds of true Religious harts Three stories high the same was fully fram'd To hold the sorts of creatures wild and tam'd Made all of Pine pitcht both without and in To suckor none that perisht for their sin And that the rest as God had iust decreed The Male and Female in the same should breed To store the world replenish it againe With fruite more milde then first the earth did staine The Arke once fram'd according to the forme That God had layd before the furious storme Fell crosly forth contrary to the minde Of those great men which did the weaker grind They wondred all at this so huge a frame Derided scoft too bitter here to name And at the last attempted barbarous rude Their hands polluted all with bloud imbrude To teare it downe and make it but the scorne To all those men hereafter should be borne But God aboue perceiuing that their pride The totall earth on euery side had dide With crimson gore and that they ment outright To spoyle his Worke deface it vtter quight Powers down his Iudgements sends those feareful showers That all the Aire i' th instant thunders lowers With sable clouds and sulphery flames of fire Tearing the Heauens making the World admire To see the Earth the Aire Fire Waters all Flock altogether round about this Ball Ioyne all as one euen in an instant soone To stop mans breath sending a night at noone Thatin a Moment all their liues are dround Their pride much like the Aegyptian army found That in the Sea vpon the crimson sands Against Gods sheepe heau'd vp their murdring hands The Arke protected from their trecherous pawes Damn'd Enuious fowle base curst deuouring Iawes Heau'd from the Earth vpon the Water bides Secure from hurt when God her Pilot guides Triumphant marches in all stormes it stands Their vnbeliefe bold impudency brands With that iust scourge which if they had repented All had beene well his Iudgements staid and stented Full sixteene hundred complete yeares were ended And fifty sixe when God in sunder rended The sable clouds and made the Waters mount To drowne the World according to the count Of all the Hebrewes glory of the Earth Whose sacred stories of admired worth Haue purchast fame and aye deserued well Before the rest to beare away the Bell. Heere could I sing th' afflictions sorrowes griefe Vexations troubles sundry mischiefes reife That dayly hapned to Noahs sacred Arke Tost too and fro as is a little Barke Vpon the wings of enuious Eols rage And some good men within this iron Age The Surges Waues vpon her sides all beate The sturdy Rocks to split her wombe do threate The Sands to choake the stormes to batter downe As all the Rest so she her selfe to drowne But still protected by Gods powerfull hands Against the streame of all these rubs she stands And on the Waters Waues foule mischiefes all She passes through and viewes this spacious Ball Vntill at last she chanst her selfe to ease From the fell fury of the enuious Seas Vpon the top of that admired Hill Ararat Gen. 8. 4. Whose worthy fame the totall Earth doth fill As more at large shall be described plaine In my next Booke when once my peace I gaine Meane time deare Muse with Noahs sacred Pile Let vs but stay and rest our selues a while FINIS
Winds and trees But God aboue thy present want that sees Comes downe himselfe to giue thee all content One of thy ribs out of thy body rent And made a creature of such wondrous fame That heauen and earth haue since admird the same To be thy sollace in his absence pure And glad thy heart binding thy loue more sure To him at first without thine owne direction Gaue thee a Phenix of such rare perfection Simile So sweete an eye and pretty pleasing looke Like Adamant and glittring sugred hooke She drawes thy loue to mind her speeches more Then God himselfe that gaue thee her in store Now art thou compleat Adam all beside May not compare to this thy louely bride Whose radiant tresse in siluer rayes to waue Before thy face so sweet a choyce to haue Of so diuine and admirable mould More daintier farre then is the purest gold And all the Iewels on the earth are borne With those rich treasures which this world adorne Though God at first this earth for thee hath made The creatures all at thy command to trade The Sunne and Moone ordaind to be thy light The Stars and all vnto their vtmost might The world it selfe and Paradise the place Where still his loue hath euer giuen thee grace Yet all of them compar'd in euery part Cannot content and satisfie thy heart Vntill thy God euen with his sacred Rest Had giuen thee this to make thee perfect blest For presuppose as then thou stoodst before Though all the world thou hadst in ample store Plenty of wealth and gold at thy command And all the creatures in the earth to stand Before thy face subiected to thy will And thou the Lord of Paradise yet still No man besides which dare oppose thy power Hem'd in with Angels in that sacred tower And God himselfe within that holy place Vnmaskt his browes to shew his glorious face Yet at the best that euer wit can scan Thou leadst thy life but like a single man But now thy God hath perfect made thy state Linck't thee in marriage with so choyce a mate Himselfe the Priest which brought her to thy hand And knit the knot that euer more must stand Ring'd her with vertue glorious beauty chaste Vpon thy selfe and no man else to waste Made her the Tipe our sences all to rouse Of Christ himselfe and of the Church his Spouse And charg'd the Angels for thy fence and guard Of nothing now but one thing thou art bard As the two lights within the Firmament simile So hath thy God his glory to thee lent Compoz'd thy body exquisite and rare That all his works cannot to thee compare Like his owne Image drawne thy shape diuine With curious Pencill shadowed forth thy line Within thy Nosthrils blowne his holy breath Impal'd thy head with that inspiring wreath Which binds thy front and eleuates thine eyes To mount his throne aboue the lofty skyes Summons his Angels in their winged order About thy browes to be a sacred border Giues them in charge to honour this his frame All to admire and wonder at the same But Lucifer that soard aboue the skye And thought himselfe to equall God on high Enuies thy fortune and thy glorious birth Wis 2. 24. In being fram'd but of the basest earth Himselfe compacted of pesteferous fire Assumes a Snake to execute his ire Windes him within that winding crawling beast And enters first whereas thy strength was least Damn'd wicked Diuell what made thee thus to spight Our grandame Eue and holy Adams Right What hurt haue they or either of them said That thou a trap and secret snare hast laid To bane their youth and vndermine their wall To gaine a curse vpon their wofull fall Thy false proceedings in thy actions best How doth the world thy cunning sleights detest Which since that time in many ages past In euery corner of the earth are cast How hast thou mallist one that hurt thee not When all thy enuy vpon Iob was shot Transforming thus thy cursed scourge and rod Iob. 16. Into the shape iust of the child of God At other times thy nimblenesse and slight Ephe. 2. 2. Rom. 12. 7. 9. Aboue the clouds will be an Angell bright And through the aire close in a fiery Waggon Thou l't sometimes mount as monstrous as a Dragon And when thou list thou any shape canst take Euen from an Angell to an vgly Snake The fowre maine wheeles on which thy cart doth moue Are Rauin Lust and want of grace and loue The sable horses which thy charriot led Haue beene at Rome or else neere Tiber bred For first Ambition with a lofty pace Then cursed Enuy with a pale leane face And Cruelty that tramples best in bloud The next is Guile which neuer yet did good Appostacy that will his faith renounce A stony heart by all of these will bounce The Coachmen which do driue them with their rod Are treason oft and want of feare of God In these and such like shapes thou lyest in waight Mat. 4. 1 to the 12. To gull the world as with a poysoned baight That being tane mans vitall life straight baines Infects his bloud and runs through all his vaines And as thou art dost cozen lye and lurch Transform'd sometimes into a man i' th Church Mar. 8. 33. Vnder that holy habit maske and guise Thou setst abroach thy cancred venom'd lyes And thus thou camstvnto our grandame Eue Gen. 3. 1. And as a Diuell into her thoughts dost diue Seeming a Serpent crawling on thy brest Much like a simple foule mishapen beast simile Iust in the midst of all the garden faire Thou singlest forth the happy blessed paire And watching Time when Adam stept aside Euen but a little from his louely Bride To pluck perhaps a Nut vpon the Trees Or get a combe amongst the hony Bees Or some such thing to giue his welcome Spouse Euen iust to Eue thou dostthy body rouse And questions with her of much idle prattle As women they delight to talke and tattle What they may not and what it is they eate And what is best within that pleasing seate What Tree it is that was to them forbidden They dare not eate for feare they may be chidden Then Eue againe which thought no hurt at all Or once suspect the venome of thy gall As a kind woman full of pleasing loue Told thee indeede that God in heauen aboue Had licenst them to eate of euery Tree Beast fish and foule with all that they can see Within the compasse of the spacious aire And that were liuing in the garden faire Only the tree that was before their eyes They might not touch and taste in any wise For in the day that they thereof should eate Their God in Heauen would both their bodies beate Plague them with paine and punishment extreame Subiect to Sicknesse Choller Pangs and Phleame Casheire them both out of that louely place To dye a