thick-round Cloud ditect When not of force to thrust their rayes through-out-it In a round Crown they cast them round about-it Like as almost a burning candle put Simile Into a Closet with the door close shut Not able through the boords to send his light Out at the edges round about shines bright But in 's declining when Sols countenance Direct vpon a wat'rish Cloud doth glance A wat'rish Cloud which cannot easily Hold any longer her moist Tympany On the moist Cloud he limns his lightsom front Of the Rainbow and how it is made And with a gawdy Pencill paints vpon 't A blew-green-gilt Bowe bended ouer vs For th' aduerse Cloud which first receiueth thus Apollos rayes the same direct repells On the next Cloud and with his gold it mells Her various coulours like as when the Sun Simile At a bay-window peepeth in vpon A boule of water his bright beams aspect With trembling lustre it doth far reflect Against th' high seeling of the lightsom Hall With stately Fret-work ouer-crustod all On th' other side if the Cloud side-long sit And not beneath or iustly opposite How it comes to passe that sometimes appear diuers Suns and Moones at once To Sun or Moon then either of them Forms With strong aspect double or trebble Forms Vpon the same The Vulgar's then affright To see at once three Chariots of the Light And in the Welkin on Nights gloomy Throne To see at once more shining Moons then one But O fond Mortals Wherefore doo yee striue A check to mans Pride in striuing to yeeld reason in Nature of all these accidents With reach of Sense Gods wonders to retriue What proud desire rather what Furie's drift Boldens you God-less all Gods works to sift I lle not deny but that a learned man May yeeld some Reason if he list to scan Of all that moues vnder Heav'ns hollow Cope But not so sound as can all scruple stop And though he could yet should we euermore Praysing these tools extoll His fingers more Who works withall and many-waies doth giue To deadest things instantly soules to liue True Philosophy for Christians to apply all to their conscience for amendment of life Me thinks I hear when I doo hear it Thunder The voice that brings Swayns vp and Caesars vnder By that Towr-tearing stroak I vnderstand Th' vndaunted strength of the Diuine right hand When I behold the Lightning in the Skies Me thinks I seeth ' Almighties glorious eyes When I perceiue it Rain-down timely showrs Me thinks the Lord his horn of Plenty pours When from the Clouds excessiue Water spins Me thinks God weepes for our vnwept-for sins And when in Heav'n I see the Rain-bow bent I hold it for a Pledge and Argument That neuer more shall Vniuersall Floods Presume to mount ouer the tops of Woods Which hoary Atlas in the Clouds doth hide Or on the Crowns of Caucasus doo ride But aboue all my perced soule inclines When th' angry Heav'ns threat with Prodigious Signes When Natures order doth reuerse and change Preposterously into disorder strange Let all the Wits that euer suckt the brest All the learned in the World cannot out of the school of Nature giue reason for many things that are created in the High and Middle Regiōs of the Aire Of sacred Pallas in one Wit be prest And let him tell me if at least he can By rule of Nature or meer reach of man A sound and certain reason of the Cream The Wooll and Flesh that from the Clouds did stream Let him declare what cause could yerst beget Amid the Aire those drizzling showers of Wheate Which in Carinthia twice were seene to shed Wherof that people made them store of Bread God the great God of Heav'n sometimes delights The true cause of these Prodigies From top to toe to alter Natures Rites That his strange Works to Nature contrary May be fore-runners of some misery The drops of Fire which weeping Heav'n did showr Vpon Lucania when Rome sent the Flowr Exāples drawne out of the Historie of the Romās Iews Turks French both Ecclesiasticall and profane Of Italy into the wealthy Clime Which Euphrates fatts with his fruitfull slime Persag'd that Parthians should the next yeer tame The proud Lucanians and nigh quench their Name The clash of Arms and clang of Trumpets heard High in the Aire when valiant Romans warr'd Victoriously on the now-Canton'd Suisses Cymbrians and Almans hewing all in peeces Gainst Epicures profane assertions showe That 't is not Fortune guides this World belowe Thou that beheld'st from Heav'n with triple Flashes Cursed Olympius smitten all to ashes For Blasphemies 'gainst Th' ONE Eternall-THREE Dar'st thou yet belch against the TRINITIE Dar'st thou profane spit in the face of God Who for blasphemers hath so sharpe a rod Iews no more Iews no more of Abr'ham Sons But Turks Tartarians Scythians Lestrigons Say what you thought what thought you when so long A flaming Sword ouer your Temple hung But that the Lord would with a mighty arm The righteous vengeance of his wrath perform On you and yours that what the Plague did leaue Th' insatiate gorge of Famine should bereaue And what the Plague and Famine both did spare Should be clean gleaned by the hand of War That sucking Infants crying for the teat Self-cruell Mothers should vnkindely eat And that yer long the share and coultar should Rub off their rust vpon your Roofs of gold And all because you cursed crucifi'd The Lord of life who for our ransom dy'd The ruddy Fountain that with bloud did flowe Th' huge Fiery Rock the thundring Heav'ns did throwe Into Liguria and the Bloudy Crosses Seen on mens garments seem'd with open voices To cry aloud that the Turks swarming hoast Should pitch his proud Moons on the Genoan coast The Poet seuere ly taxeth his Countrymen for not marking or not making vse of strange exextrarordinary tokens of Gods imminent displeasure O Frantick France why dost not Thou make vse Of strangefull Signes whereby the Heav'ns induce Thee to repentance Canst thou tear-lesse gaze Euen night by night on that prodigious Blaze That hairy Comet that long streaming Star Which threatens Earth with Famine Plague and War Th' Almighty's Trident and three-forked fire Wherwith he strikes vs in his greatest Ire But what alas can Heauens bear threatnings vrge Sith all the sharpe Rods which so hourely scourge Thy sens-lesse back cannot so much as wrest One single sigh from thy obdurate brest Thou drink'st thine own bloud thine owne flesh thou eatest In what most harms theethy delight is greatest O sens-less Folk sick of a Lethargy Who to the death despise your Remedy Like froward Iades that for no striking stur But wax more restif still the more we spur The more your wounds more your securenes growes Fat with afflictions as an Asse with blowes And as the sledge hardens with strokes the steel So the more beaten still the less ye feel
fury and the Prelats gall Serv'd all as organs to repair the Fall Of Edens old Prince whose luxurious pride Made on his seed his sin for euer slide 4 He turneth the malice of Sathan and his instruments to his own glory and the good of his of whom he hath alwaies speciall care Th' Almighties Care doth diuersly disperse Ore all the parts of all this Vniuerse But more precisely his wide wings protect The race of Adam chiefly his Elect. For ay he watcheth for his Children choice That lift to him their hearts their hands and voice For them he built th' ay-turning Heav'ns Theater For them he made the Fire Aire Earth and Water He counts their hairs their steps he measureth Handles their hands and speaketh with their breath Dwels in their hearts and plants his Regiments Of watchfull Angels round about their Tents A remedy for temptation of the godly seeing the prosperity of the wicked and the afflictions of Gods children But heer what hear I Faith-less God-less men I meruail not that you impugn my pen But O! it grieues me and I am amaz'd That those whose faith like glistering Stars hath blaz'd Even in our darkest nights should so obiect Against a doctrin of so sweet effect Because alas with weeping eyes they see Th' vngodly-most in most Prosperity Clothed in Purple crown'd with Diadems Handling bright Scepters hoording Gold and Gems Croucht-to and courted with all kinde affection As priuiledged by the Heav'ns protection So that their goods their honours their delights Excell their hopes exceed their appetites And opposite the godly in the storms Of this Worlds Sea tost in continuall harms In Earth less rest then Euripus they finde Gods heauy Rods still hanging them behinde Them shame and blame trouble and loss pursues As shadows bodies and as night the deawes Peace peace deer friends I hope to cancel quite The same cōforted in diuers sorts with apt Similitudes cōfirming the reason declaring the right end of God diuers dea ling with men This profane thought from your vnsettled Sp'rit Know then that God to th' end he be not thought A powr-less Iudge heer plagueth many a fault And many a fault leaues heer vnpunished That men may also his last iudgement dread On th' other side note that the Crosse becoms A Ladder leading to Heav'ns glorious rooms A Royall Path the Heav'nly Milken way Which doth the Saints to Ioues high Court convay O! see you not how that a Father graue Curbing his Son much shorter then his Slaue Doth th' one but rare the other rife reproue Th' one but for lucre th' other all for loue As skilfull Quirry that commands the Stable Of som great Prince or Person honourable Giues oftest to that Horse the teaching spur Which he findes fittest for the vse of War A painfull School-master that hath in hand To institute the flowr of all a Land Giues longest Lessons vnto those where Heav'n The ablest wits and aptest wills hath giv'n And a wise Chieftain neuer trusts the waight Of th' execution of a braue Exploit But vnto those whom most he honoureth For often proof of their firm force and faith Such sends he first t' assault his eager foes Such 'gainst the Canon on a Breach bestowes Such he commands naked to scale a Fort And with small number to re-gain a Port. God beats his Deer from birth to buriall To make them know him and their pride appall Affliction profitable to the Faithfull To draw deuout sighes from calamitie And by the touch to try their Constancy T' awake their sloath their minds to exercise To trauail cheer'ly for th' immortall Prize A good Physician that Arts excellence Can help with practice and experience They are necessary to cure the diseases of the soule Applies discreetly all his Recipés Vnto the nature of each fell-disease Curing this Patient with a bitter Potion That with strict Diet th' other with a Lotion And sometime cutteth off a leg or arm So sharply sweet to saue the whole from harm Euen so the Lord according to th' ill humours That vex his most-Saints with soule-tainting tumours Sends somtimes Exile somtimes lingring Languor Somtimes Dishonour somtimes pining Hunger Somtime long Law-suits somtime Loss of good Somtimes a Childes death or a Widdow-hood But ay he holdeth for the good of His In one hand Rods in th' other Remedies The Souldier slugging long at home in Peace Without them Gods children decline His wonted courage quickly doth decrease The rust doth fret the blade hangd vp at rest The Moath doth eate the garment in the Chest The standing Water stinks with putrefaction And Vertue hath no Vertue but in action All that is fairest in the World we finde Subiect to trauail So with storms and winde Th' Air still is tost the Fire and Water tend This still to mount that euer to descend The spirit is spright-less if it want discourse Heavn's no more Heav'n if it once cease his Course The valiant Knight is known by many scars The Crosse an honorable mark But he that steals-home wound-less from the Wars Is held a Coward void of Valours proof That for Deaths fear hath fled or fought a-loof The Lord therfore to giue Humanitie Rare presidents of daunt-less Constancy God will be glorified in the constant sufferings of his Seruants And crown his deer Sons with victorious Laurels Won from a thousand foes in glorious quarrels Pours downe more euils on their hap-less head Then yerst Pandora's odious Box did shead Yet strengthning still their hearts with such a Plaister That though the Flesh stoop still the Spirit is Maister But wrongly I these euils Euill call There is nothing euill in Mans life but sinne vertue is best perceiued in the proofe Sole Vice is ill sole Vertue good and all Besides the same is selfly simply had And held indifferent neither good nor bad Let enuious Fortune all her forces wage Against a constant Man her fellest rage Can never change his godly resolution Though Heav'n it self should threaten his confusion A constant man is like the Sea whose brest True constantie liuely represented by two comparisons Lyes ever open vnto every guest Yet all the Waters that she drinks can not Make her to change her qualities a iot Or like a good sound stomack not soon casting For a light surfet or a small dis-tasting But that vntroubled can incontinent Convert all meats to perfect nourishment Though then the Lords deep Wisedom to this day God Resting on the seuenth Day and blessing it teacheth vs that in resting one day of the Week we should principally imploy it in his seruice That we should cease from our worldly and wicked workes to giue place to his grace and to suffer his Spirit to worke in vs by the Instrument of his holy word Work in the Worlds vncertain-certain Sway Yet must we credit that his hand compos'd All in six Dayes and that He then Repos'd
swouns and many others Eternall fellows of all future mothers Vnder his yoak thy husband thee shall haue Tyrant by thee made the Arch-tyrants slaue Against Man And thou disloyall which hast harkned more To a wanton fondling then my sacred lore Hence forth the sweat shall bubble on thy brow Thy hands shall blister and thy back shall bow Ne'r shalt thousend into thy branchievains A bit but bought with price of thousand pains For the earth feeling euen in her th' effect Of the doom thundred 'gainst thy foul defect In stead of sweet fruits which she selfly yeelds Seed-less and Art-less ouer all thy fields With thorns and burrs shall bristle vp her brest In short thou shalt not taste the sweets of rest Till ruth-less Death by his extreamest pain Thy dust-born body turn to dust again Heer I conceiue that flesh and bloud will brangle Obiection to excuse the Sinne of Man And murmuring Reason with th' almighty wrangle Who did our parents with Free-will indue 1. Though he fore-saw that that would be the clew Should lead their steps into the wofull way Where life is death ten thousand times a day Now all that he fore-sees befalls and further Hee all euents by his free powr doth order Man taxeth God of too-vniust severity For plaguing Adams sin in his posterity So that th' old yeers renewed generations Cannot asswage his venging indignations Which haue no other ground to prosecute But the mis eating of a certain fruit O dusty wormling dar'st thou striue and stand Answeres to the first obiection With Heav'ns high Monarch wilt thou wretch demand Count of his deeds Ah! shall the Potter make 1. His clay such fashion as him list to take And shal not God Worlds Founder Natures Father Dispose of man his own meer creature rather The supream King who Iudge of greatest Kings By number weight and measure acts all things Vice-loathing Lord pure Iustice patron strong Law 's life Right 's rule will he doo any wrong Man holdest thou of God thy frank Free-will 2. But free t' obay his sacred goodnes still Freely to follow him and doe his hest Net Philtre-charm'd nor by Busiris prest God arms thee with discourse but thou O wretch By the keen edge the wound-soule sword doost catch Killing thy self and in thy loyns thy line O banefull Spider weaving wofull twine All Heav'ns pure flowrs thou turnest into poyson Thy sense reaues sense thy reason robs thy reason For thou complainest of Gods grace whose Still Extracts from dross of thine audacious ill 3. Three vnexpected goods prayse for his Name Bliss for thy self for Satan endless-shame Sith but for sin Iustice and Mercy were But idle names and but that thou didst erre CHRIST had not com to conquer and to quell Vpon the Cross Sin Satan Death and Hell Making thee blessed more since thine offence Then in thy primer happy innocence Thē might'st thou dy now death thou doost not doubt Now in the Heav'n then didst thou ride without In earth thou liv'dst then now in Heav'n thou beest Then thou didst hear Gods word it now thou seest Then pleasant fruits now Christ is thy repast Then might'st thou fall but now thou standest fast Now Adams fault was not in deed so light As seems to Reason's sin-bleard Owlie sight But 't was a chain where all the greatest sinns Were one in other linked fast as Twinns Ingratitude pride treason gluttony Too-curious skill-thrist enuy felony Too-light too-late beleef were the sweet baits That made him wander from Heav'ns holy straights What wouldst thou Father say vnto a Son Of perfect age to whom for portion Witting and willing while thy self yet livest All thy possessions in the earth thou givest And yet th' vngratefull grace-lesse insolent In thine own Land rebellion doth invent Map now an Adam in thy memory By Gods own hand made with great maiesty Not poor nor pined but at whose command The rich aboundance of the world doth stand Not slaue to sense but having freely might To bridle it and range it still aright No idiot fool nor drunk with vain opinion But Gods Disciple and his deerest Minion Who rashly growes for little nay for nought His deadly foe that all his good had wrought So mayst thou ghess what whip what rope what rack What fire were fit to punish Adams lack Answeres to the second obiection Then sith Mans sin by little and little runs End-less through every Age from Sires to Sons 1. And still the farther this foul sin-spring flowes It still more muddy and more filthy growes Thou ought'st not marvail if even yet his seed Feel the iust wages of this wicked deed For though the keen sting of concupiscence Cannot yer birth his fell effect commence The vnborn Babe hid in the Mothers womb Is Sorrow's seruant and Sin 's servile groom As a frail Mote from the first Mass extract Which Adam baen'd by his rebellious fact Sound off-spring coms not of a Kinde infected Parts are not fair if to tall be defected And a defiled stinking sink doth yeeld More durt then water to the neighbour field While nights black muffler hoodeth vp the skies 2. The silly blind-man misseth not his eys Simile But when the day summons to work again His night eternall then he doth complain That hee goes groping and his hand alas Is fain to guide his foot and guard his face So man that liveth in the wombs obscurity Knowes not nor maketh knowen his lusts impurity Which for't is sown in a too-plentious ground Takes root already in the Caues profound Of his infected Hart with 's birth it peers And growes in strength as he doth growe in years And waxt a Tree though proyn'd with thousand cares An execrable deadly fruit it bears Thou seest no wheat Helleborus can bring 3. Nor barly from the madding Morrell spring Simile Nor bleating Lambs braue Lyons doe not breed The leprous Parents raise a leprous seed Even so our Grand-sire living Innocent Had stockt the whole World with a Saint-descent But suffering sin in EDEN him inuade His sons the sons of Sin and Wrath he made For God did seem t'indow with glory and grace 4. Not the first Man so much as all mans race And after reaue again those gifts diuine Not him so much as in him all his line For if an odious Traytour that conspires Simile Against a Prince or to his state aspires Feel not alone the laws extremity But his sons sons although somtimes they be Honest and vertuous for their Fathers blame Are hap-less scarr'd with an eternall shame May not th' Eternall with a righteous terror In Adams issue punish Adams error May he not thrall them vnder Deaths command And sear their brows with everlasting brand Of infamy who in his stock accurst Haue graft worse slips then Adam set at first Mans seed then iustly by succession Conclusion of the former Disputations and execution of Gods Decree
defence 'Gainst the tri-pointed wrathfull violence Of the drad dart that flaming in his hand Shall pash to powder all that him withstand And 'gainst the rage of flames eternal-frying Where damned soules ly ever-never-dying Sith the least Flies and Lice and Vermin too Out-braue your braves and Triumph over you Gallop to Anian sail to Iucatan Man caÌ„not hide him froÌ„ the hand of God nor auoid his vengeance Visit Botongas dive beyond the Dane Well may you fly but not escape him there Wretches your haltars still about you bear Th' Almighties hand is long and busie still Having escap't his Rod his Sword you feel He seems somtimes to sleep and suffer all But calls at last for Vse and Principall With hundred sorts of Shafts his Quiver's full Som passing keen som som-what sharp som dull Som killing dead som wounding deep som light But all of them do alwayes hit the White Each after other Now th' Omnipotence At Egypt shoots his Shafts of Pestilence Th' Ox falls-down in his yoak Lambs bleating dy 5. With the Plague of Pestilence The Bullocks as they feed Birds as they fly Anon he covers Man and Beast with cores Of angry Biles Botches and Scabs and Sores 6. With Vlcers grieuous Scabs or Murrain Whose vlcerous venoms all inflaming spread O're all the body from the foot to head Then Rain and Hail and flaming Fire among Spoyl all their fields their Cattel great with young 7. With hail Fire froÌ„ Heauen All brain'd with hail-stones Trees with tempest cleft Robd of their boughs their boughs of leaues bereft And from Heav'ns rage all to seek shelter glad The Face of Egypt is now dradly-sad The SoÌ„ in Virgins tear-their Beauties honour Egyptians amazed at this extraordinary scourge Not for the waste so much as for the manner For in that Country never see they Clowd With waight of Snowes their trees are never bow'd They knowe no Ice and though they haue as we The Year intire their Seasons are but three They neither Rain-bowe nor fat Deaws expect Which from else-where Sol's thirsty raies erect The naturall fruitfulnesse and prosperity of Egypt in it selfe maruailous Rain-les their soyl is wet and Clowd-les fat Itself 's moist bosom brings it this and that For while else-where the River's roaring pride Is dryed-vp and while that far and wide The Palaestine seeks for his thirsty Flock Iordan in Iordan Iaboc in Iaboc Their floud o'reflowes and parched Mâ—sraim A season seems in a rich Sea to swim Niles billows beat on the high-dangling Date And Boats do slice where Ploughs did slide of late Steep snowy Mounts bright Stars Etesian gales You cause it not no those are Dreams and Tales Th' Eternall-Trine who made all compassly Makes th' vnder waues the vpper's want supply And Egypts Womb to fill with fruits and Flowrs Gives swelling Nile th' office of heavenly Showrs Then the Thrice-Sacred with a sable Clowd Of horned Locusts doth the Sun be-clowd And swarmeth down on the rebellious Coast 8. They are vexed with Grashoppers The Grass-hoppers lean dam-devouring Hoast Which gleans what Hail had left and greedy crops Both Night and Day the Husband's whole-year's hopes Then gross thick Darkness over all he dight And three fair Dayes turns to one fearfull Night 9. With palpable darknesse With Ink-like Rheum the dull Mist's drouzy vapours Quench their home-Fires and Temple-sacred Tapers If hunger drive the Pagan from their dens One 'gainst a settle breaketh both his shins Another groping vp and down for bread Falls down the stayrs and there he lies for dead But though these works surmount all Natures might Though his owne Sages them of guile acquight Though th' are not casuall sith the holy-man The Israelites in all these plagues vntoucht yet Pharao still hardned Fore-tels prefixtly What and Where and Whan And though that living in the midst of His The Israelites be free from all of This Th' incensed Tyrant strangely-obstinate Retracts the Leave he granted them of late For th' Ever-One who with a mighty hand Would bring his People to the plentious Land Of Palestine Who providently-great Before the eyes of all the World would set A Tragedy where wicked Potentates Might see a Mirror of their owne estates And who most-iust must haue meet Arguments To showe the height of his Omnipotence Hardens the King and blinding him self-blinde Leaues him to Lusts of his owne vicious minde For God doth never ever purely bent Cause sin as sin but as Sin 's Punishment For the last Charge an Angell in one night 10. Therefore al the first borne of Egypt are slain in one night by the Angel All the first born through all the Land doth smite So that from Suës Port to Birdene Plain Ther 's not a House but hath som body slain Saue th' Israelites whose doors were markt before With sacred Pass-Lamb's sacramentall gore And therfore ever-since on that same day Yeerly the Iewes a Yearling Lamb must slay A token of that Passage and a Type Of th' Holy-Lamb which should in season ripe By powring-forth the pure and plentious Flood Of his most precious Water-mixed Blood Preserue his People from the drad Destroyer That fries the wicked in eternall fier Through all the Land all in one instant cry All for one cause though yet all knowe not why Night heaps their horrors and the Morning showes Their privat griefs and makes them publike woes Scarce did the glorious Governour of Day After so many grieuous plagues the Egyptianâ—ery out vpon their King to let the Israelites goe O're Memphis yet his golden tress display When from all parts the Maydens and the Mothers Wiues Husbands Sons and Siers Sisters and Brothers Flock to the Court where with one common voice They all cry-out and make this mournfull noyse O stubborn stomach cause of all our sadnes Dull Constancy or rather desperat Madnes A Flood of Mischiefs all the Land doth fill The Heav'ns still Thunder th' Ayr doth threaten stil Death ghastly death triumpheth every-where In every house and yet without all fear Without all feeling we despise the Rod And scorn the Iudgements of the mighty God Great King no more bay with thy wilfullings His Wrath 's dread Torrent He is King of Kings And in his sight the Greatest of you all Are but as Moats that in the Sun do fall Yield yield alas stoop to his powrfull threat He 's warn'd enough that hath been ten times beat Go get you gon hence hence vn-lucky race They hasten and importune them to be gone Your eyes bewitch our eyes your feet this Place Your breath this ayr Why haste you not away Hebrews what lets you wherfore do you stay Step to our houses if that ought you lack Choose what you like and what you like go take Gold Plate or Iewels Ear-rings Chains or Ouches Our Girdles Bracelets Carkanets or Brouches Bear them vnto your gods not in the sands Where the
Mardochey and the five Maccabees All the right heirs of heart and zeal paternall Receiue their guerdon from the great Eternall And vp again their stooping standards raise 13 Before these Warriours and the Royall band March holy Fathers that with vertue rare And holy Doctrine did the Diuell dare Foyling the force of his infernall hand 14 Enos by whom this World 's great Archi-tect Was call'd vpon leadeth religious That holy Father God took vp from vs Henoch Noah And him whose ship did saue the world Elect. 15 Then Sem and Iapheth and great Abraham Isaak The Faithfull's Father and his faithfull Son And then his Nephew that saw Angels run Iacob Both vp down froÌ„ Heav'n to th' earthly frame 16 Aron Eleazar Phinees full of zeal Good Ioyada and hundred Priests select That were by Heav'n by zeal and Church elect To keep the law the Lord did once reveal 17 His Father who was sent to sweep the way Zacharias Ioseph Of sweet Messias then the man suppos'd To be His Sire then He that Him inclos'd In 's ioyfull arms and sung a Swan-like Lay. Simeon 18 Then Barnabas Titus and Timothy Paul's famous Friends Sins fierce and deadly Foes And he that did by Sol's Eclipse suppose Som greater Sun to be Eclips't than he 19 Then this brave Triumph to adorn the more All on a rowe a hundred Prophets com Which haue so sure fore-told the things to-com As if indeed they had been don before 20 There first coms he that in the Coach of fire Elias By Gods strong Spirit was rapt above the Air Elizeus And then his Seruant that was made his heir Of cloak and knowledge as he did desire 21 He that reproov'd old Ishay's Sceptred Son Nathan For double fault Amos Ezechiel Ioel Semyah Abdiah Daniel And he that three dayes in the Sea did won Ionas 22 With these I see the Sonn of Barachie Zachariah Both Michais Baruc Iehu Ieremias Agg ' Abacuc Nahum and Sophonias Ahias Hosè Esdras Malachie 23 The glorious troop that march before this troop Are Martyrs all who full of constant zeal Their faith infract with their owne blouds did seal And never did to any Tyrant stoop 24 Their blessed bloud is like the morning dewe To make more fertil all the Churches field These are the weapons that inforce to yield The furious foe examples not a fewe 25 For as a fruit-Treelopped in December For one old Trunk many new twigs returns Which Nature kindely with sweet fruit adorns So one sole Martyr many doth ingender 26 First Abel goes then Ioyad's zealous Son That neer the Altar constant yielded breath Esay Iohn Baptist. The next goes he Manasses put to death Then he whose head th' incestuous Dancer won 27 Next Salone and her Sons who rather chose To cross the King than God strengthning each other Even in their death Sons worthy such a Mother And Mother worthy of such Sons as those 28 That Proto-Martyr the yong faithfull Steven Whom th' hatefull Iews with hellish rage did stone Who dying saw Christ Iesus on his Throne Leads those that for like cause their lives have given 29 Som smear'd with honey for the Flies were feasts Som men did eat som were on Gridirons broyl'd Som nayl'd on Crosses som in Caldrons boyl'd And som were throwen to most devouring beasts 30 After the Champions of this humble Troop I see fair Sara Rebecca Rachel Then Debora stout Iudeth and Iahel Who Faiths Viragoes their proud Foes did stoop 31 Then she that rais'd to Royall state and stile â—ester Preserv'd her people in a rank she goes With Naomi Ruth and the Dame that chose Rather to die than Nuptiall bed defile Susanna 32 From these mineeie no sooner trauerseth But I discern three Ladies zealous-led That sought their living Lord among the dead Then Anna Martha and Elizabeth 33 But my weak eyes cannot indure to gaze The Virgin Mary On beaming beauties of that Mother-Maid Who Sier-less bore her Sire yet ever-maid Of Faith and Loue th' inimitable maze 34 This this my Muse this is th' Aurora cleer Which brought the Sun to light the world vnkinde A Virgin pure in body and in minde Christ's Mother Sister Spouse and Daughter deer 35 God's holy Temple and the happy stair Wher-by the Heav'ns came down to dwell with Earth Rich-fraighted Ship Vessell of rarest worth Where Phoebus hid his beams most bright and fair Canto IIII. 1 I Thought to haue been now at my Races end T' haue though vnworthy born away the prise But I fall short my task doth longer rise For half the Trophè is yet hardly penn'd 2 Before Faith's Coach born in convenient height Are curious Tables draw'n by cunning hand Where after guise of warlik Romans stand The Victories of never-conquer'd Faith 3 Heer Iericho's cloud-kissing Towrs doo fall Iosua 6. 20. Batter'd alone by Faith's great Ordinance A coumpt-less hoast of craking Idolants 2. King 18 13 2. Chron. 32 20 Esa. 37 21 By Esaâ—e's Faith is heer confounded all 4 By Faith meek Moses with a zeal-full ire Arms smallest Worms th' Egyptian King to vex Exod. 7 8 9 Daniel by Faith fierce Lyons fury checks Dan. 6. 12 And quenches Dragons hot impoysoning fire 5 Heer Paul by Faith fears not in Mitylene Act. 28 5 The deadly sting of th' vgly Viper-worm Heer myching Ionas sunk in suddain Storm Ionas 22 Of his Deliverance finds a fish the mean 6 Then in another Table that was fram'd By Art exceeding Art I did espie Pale Death blithe Health and frail Infirmity That had by Faith a thousand times been tam'd 7 Moses by Faith doth Myriam leperize Num. 12 10 By Faith Elisha curing Naaman 2. King 6 14 17 The Syrian Prince strikes instantly his man With his Disease for Bribing Covetize 8 A man of God by Faith first strangely dri'd 1. King 13 4 6 Then heal'd again that King 's vnholy hand Who made ten Tribes of God's then chosen Land From God and from their lawfull Prince to slide 9 By Faith Saint Paul stark-blinded Elymas Act. 13 11 By Faith Saint Peter full of iust disdaign With suddain death did smite those periur'd twain That durst dissemble with the Spirit of Grace Act. 5 5 16 10 By Faith young Toby kindely doth restore Tob. 11 11 Act. â— 6 14 10. His Father's sight by sacred Faith likewise Two crooked Cripples are made straight to rise In Listra th' one th' other at Templedore 11 By Faith Saint Paul did a rich Maltois cure Of grievous Flix that him afflicted sore Act. 21 8 By Faith Saint Peter likewise did restore A Palsie-sick that eight yeers did indure Act. 9. 34 12 By Faith Saint Paul did Eutichus re-lyue Act. 20 10 1. King 17 21 2. King 4 33 By Faith Elias rais'd the Sareptite Elisha raysed the young Sunamite At Ioppa Peter Dorcas did
doth so sweet inspire Are euen the Bellows whence they blow the fire Of raging Lust before whose wanton flashes A tender brest rak't-vp in shamefaç't ashes Our Poets modest purpose Therefore for my part I haue vow'd to Heav'n Such wit and learning as my God hath giv'n To write to th' honour of my Maker dread Verse that a Virgine without blush may read Again he calleth vpon God for assistance in the descriptioÌ„ of the 2. Dayes worke Clear Source of Learning soule of th' Vniuerse Sith thou art pleas'd to chuse mine humble verse To sing thy Praises make my Pen distill Celestiall Nectar and this Volume fill With th' Amalthéan Horn that it may haue Som correspondence to a Theam so graue Rid thou my passage and make clear my way From all incumbers shine vpon This Day That guided safely by thy sacred Light My Rendez-vous I may attain yer night Which is thè Fir mament meÌ„tioned by Moseâ— in the 1. Ch. of Gen. V. 6 7 8. Comprehending the Heauens and all the Elementary Region Of the foure Elements simple in theÌ„selues wherof all things subiect to our sense are composed THAT HVGE broad-length that long-broad height-profound Th' infinite finit that great moundless Mound I mean that Chaos that self-iarring Mass Which in a moment made of Nothing was Was the rich Matter and the Matrix whence The Heav'ns should issue and the Elements Now th' Elements twin-twins two Sons two Daughters To wit the Fire the Aire the Earth and Waters Are not compounded but of them is all Compounded first that in our sense can fall Whether their qualities in euery portion Of euery thing infuse them with proportion Whether in all their substance they confound And so but one thing of their foure compound As in a Venice Glass before our eyne Diuers similes We see the water intermix with wine Or in our stomack as our drink and food Doe mingle after to conuert to blood This in a Fire-brand may wesâ—e whose Fire Doth in his flame toward 's natiue Heav'n aspire His Ayre in smoak in ashes falls his Earth And at his knots his Water wheezes forth Euen such a War our Bodies peace maintains For in our Flesh our Bodie 's Earth remains Our vitall spirits our Fire and Aire possess And last our Water in our humours rests Nay ther 's no Part in all this Bulk of ours Where each of these not intermix their powers Though 't be apparant and I needs must graunt That ayesom one is most Predominant The pure red part amid the Mass of Bloud The Sanguine Aire commaunds the clotted mud Sunk down in Lees Earths Melancholy showes The pale thin humour that on th' out-side flowes Is watery Phlegme and the light froathy scum Bubbling aboue hath Fiery Cholers room Not that at all times one same Element In one same Body hath the Regiment A vicissitude of the Elements praedominance But in his turn each raigning his subiects draws After his Lore for still New Lords new Lawes As sans respect how rich or Noble-born Each Citizen rules and obayes by turn In chart'red Towns which seem in little space Changing their Ruler euen to change their face For as Chameleons vary with their obiect So Princes manners do transform the Subiect So th' Element in Wine predomining It hot and cold and moist and dry doth bring By 's perfect or imperfect force at length Inforcing it to change the taste and strength So that it doth Grapes sharp-green iuice transfer To Must Must t'wine and Wine to Vineger As while a Monarch to teach others aw ExcelleÌ„t Similes shewing the commodity or discoÌ„modity of the proportioÌ„ or excesse of euery of the Elemente Subiects his own selfs-Greatnes to his Law He ruleth fearless and his Kingdoms flourish In happy Peace and Peace doth Plenty nourish But if fell Tyrant his keen sword be euer Vniustly drawn if he be sated neuer With Subiects blood needs must his Rage at last Destroy his State and lay his Countrey waste So or much like the while one Element Ouer the rest hath modest Gouernment While in proportion though vnequall yet With Soueraign Humours Subiect Humours fit The Body's â—ound and in the very face Retains the Form of beauty and of grace But if like that inhumane Emperour Who wisht all People vnderneath his Power Had but one head that he might butcher so All th' Empires Subiects at one onely blowe It Tyrannizing seek to wrack the rest It ruines soon the Prouince it possest Where soon appears through his proud vsurpation Both outward change and inward alteration So too-much Moist which vnconcoct within Excesse of moisture The Liuer spreads betwixt the flesh and skin Puffs vp the Patient stops the pipes pores Of Excrements yea double bars the dores Of his short breath and slowely-swiftly curst In midd'st of Water makes him euer thirst Nor giues man Rest nor Respite till his bones Be raked vp in a cold heap of stones Of Drought So too-much Drought a lingring Ague drawes Which seeming painless yet much pain doth cause Robbing the nerues of might of Ioy the heart Of mirth the face of moisture euery part Much like a Candle fed with it own humour By little and little it own selfs consumer Nor giues mans Rest nor Respite till his bones Be raked vp in a colde heap of stones So too-much Heat doth bring a burning Feuer Of Heate Which spurrs our Pulse and furrs our Palat euer And on the tables of our troubled brain Fantastikely with various pensill vain Doth counterfait as many Forms or mo Then euer Nature Art or Chance could showe Nor giues man Rest nor Respite till his bones Be raked vp in a cold heap of stones So too-much Cold couers with hoary Fleece Of Colde The head of Age his flesh diminishes Withers his face hollowes his rheumy eyes And makes himself euen his own self despise While through his marrow euery where it enters Quenching his natiue heat with endless Winters Nor giues man Rest nor Respite till his bones Be taked vp in a coldheap of stones Of the continuance of the Elements maintaining that whatso euer is now nâ—w formed hath stil his substance froÌ„ the Materia prima what soeuer dissolues resolues into the same changing onely forme And also consuting the contrary Errors Yet think not that this Too-too-much remises Ought into nought it but the Form disguises In hundred fashions and the Substances Inly or outly neither win nor leese For all that 's made is made of the First Matter Which in th' old Nothing made the All-Creator All that dissolues resolues into the same Since first the Lord of Nothing made This Frame Nought's made of nought and nothing turns to nothing Things birth or death change but their formall clothing Their Forms doe vanish but their bodies bide Now thick now thin now round now short now side For if of Nothing anything could spring Th' Earth without
this Sea belowe Which round about our Earthly Globe doth flowe Remains still round and maugre all the surly Aeolian Slaves and Water's hurly burly Dares not to levell her proud liquid Heap Neuer so little past her limits leap Why then beleeue we not that vpper Sphear May without falling such an Ocean bear Vncircumcised O hard hearts at least Lett 's think that God those Waters doth digest In that steep place for if that Nature heer 5. Diuers effects continual admirable in Nature Can form firm Pearl and Crystall shining cleer Of liquid substance let 's beleeue it rather Much more in God the Heav'ns and Natur 's Father Let vs much more much more lett 's peiz and ponder Th' Almighties Works and at his Wisedom wonder Let vs obserue and double-waigh it well That this proud Palace whear we rule and dwell Though built with match-less Art had fall'n long since Had 't not ben seel'd-round with moist Elements For like as in Man's Little-World the Brain Doth highest place of all our Frame retain And tempers with it's moistfull coldnes so Th' excessive heat of th' other parts belowe Th' eternall Builder of this beautious Frame To enter-mingle meetly Frost with Flame And cool the great heat of the Great-Worlds Torches This-Day spred Water over Heav'ns bright Arches These Seas they say leagu'd with the Seas belowe Hiding the highest of the Mountains tho Had drown'd the whole World had not Noah builded A holy Vessell where his house was shielded Taking occasioÌ„ by his former discourse he treateth of the incouÌ„ ter of the vpper waters with the lower whence followed the general stood in the daies of Noah Which hâ—re he liuely representeth Where by direction of the King of Kings He sav'd a seed-payr of all liuing things No sooner shipâ— but instantly the Lord Down to th' Aeolian dungeon him bestirr'd There muzled close Cloud-chasing Boreas And let loose Auster and his lowring race Who soon set forward with a dropping wing Vpon their beard for every hair a spring A night of Clouds muffled their brows about Their wattled locks gusht all in Rivers out And both their hands wringing thick Clouds asunder Send forth fierce lightning tempest rain and thunder Brooks Lakes and Floods Rivers and foaming Torrents Sodainly swell and their confused Currents Losing their old bounds break a neerer way To run at randon with their spoyls to Sea Th' Earth shakes for fear and sweating doth consume her And in her veins leaues not a drop of humour And thou thy self O Heav'n didst set wideope Through all the Marshes in thy spacious cope All thy large sluces thy vast Seas to shed In sodain spouts on thy proud sisters head Whose aw-less law-less shame-les life abhord Onely delighted to despight the Lord. Th' Earth shrinks sinks now th' Ocean hath no shore Now Rivers run to serue the Sea no more Themselues are Sea the many sundry Streams Of sundry names deriv'd from sundry Realms Make now but one great Sea the World it self Is nothing now but a great standing Gulf Whose swelling surges strive to mix their Water With th' other Waves above this round Theater The Sturgeon coasting over Castles muses Vnder the Sea to see so many houses The Indian Manat and the Mullet float O'r Mountain tops where yerst the bearded Goat Did bound and brouz the crooked Dolphin seuds O'r th' highest branches of the hugest Woods Nought boots the Tigre or the Hart or Hors Or Hare or Grey-hound their swift speedy cours For seeking Land the more they strain breath them The more alas it shrinks and sinks beneath them The Otter Tortois and fell Crocodile Which did enioy a double house yer-while Must be content with only water now The Wolf and Lamb Lions and Buçks do rowe Vpon the Waters side by side suspect-less The Glead and Swallow laboring long effect-less 'Gainst certain death with wearied wings fall down For want of Perch and with the rest do drown And for mankinde imagine som get vp To som high Mountains over-hanging top Som to a Towr som to a Cedar tree Whence round about a World of deaths they see But wheresoeuer their pale fears aspire For hope of safety th' Ocean surgeth higher And still-still mounting as they still do mount When they cease mounting doth them soon surmount One therefore ventures on a Plank to rowe One in a Chest another in a Trough Another yet half-sleeping scarce perceives How 's bed and breath the Flood at once bereaves Another labouring with his feet and hands A while the fury of the Flood withstands Which by his side hath newly droun'd his Mother His Wife his Son his Sister Sire and Brother But tyr'd and spent weary and wanting strength He needs must yeeld too to the Seas at length All all must die then but * Parcae à non parcendo Thenone-sparing Fates that is to say Death th' impartiall Maids Who wont to vse so sundry tools for ayds In execution of their fatall slaughters Had only now the furious foaming Waters Safely the while the sacred Ship did float On the proud shoulders of that boundless-Moat Though mast-les oar-les and from Harbour far For God was both her Steers-man and her Star Thrice fifty dayes that Vniuersall Flood Wasted the World which then the Lord thought good To re-erect in his Compassion great No sooner sounds he to the Seas retreat But instantly wave into wave did sink With sodain speed all Rivers gan to shrink Th' Ocean retires him to his wonted prison The Woods are seen the Mountain tops are risen Out of their slimy Bed the Fields increase And spread apace so fast the waters cease And briefly th' onely thundring hand of God Now Earth to Heav'n Heav'n vnto Earth re-show'd That he again Panchaian Fumes might see Sacred on Altars to his Maiesty He concludeth with a most godly prayer accommodated to the state of the Church in our time Lord sith't hath pleas'd thee likewise in our Age To saue thy Ship from Tyrants stormy rage Increase in Number Lord thy little Flock But more in Faith to build on thee the Rock So Morn and Euen the second Day conclude And God perceiu'd that All his Works were good THE THIRD DAIE OF THE FIRST WEEK THE ARGVMENT The Sea and Earth their various Equipage Seuer'd a-part Bounds of the Oceansrage ' Timbraceth Earth it doth all Watersowe Why it is salt How it doth Ebb and Flowe Rare streams and Fountains of strange operation Earth's firmnes greatnes goodnes sharp taxation Of Bribes Ambition Treason Auarice Trees Shrubs Plants Mines Metals Gemms of price Right vse of Gold the Load-stones rare effects The Countrey-life preferr'd in all respects MY sacred Muse that lately soared high Among the glist'ring Circles of the Sky FroÌ„ the Heauen Regions of the Aire the Poet descendeth to the Earth and Sea Whose various dance which the first Moover driues Harmoniously this Vniverse revives Commanding all the Windes and sulphry
lately From Ferdinando as a famous Work Vnto Bizantium to the Greatest Turk Wherein a spirit still mouing to and fro Made all the Engin orderly to go And though th' one Sphear did alwaies slowely slide And opposite the other swiftly glide Yet still their Stars kept all their Courses ev'n With the true Courses of the Stars of Heav'n The Sun there shifting in the Zodiack His shining Houses neuer did forsake His pointed Path there in a Month his Sister Fulfill'd her course and changing oft her lustre And form of Face now larger lesser soon Follow'd the Changes of the other Moon O compleat Creature who the starry Sphears Of mans resemblance to his first Paterne which is God Canst make to moue who ' boue the Heav'nly Bears Extend'st thy powr who guidest with thy hand The Day 's bright Chariot and the nightly Brand This curious Lust to imitate the best And fairest Works of the Almightiest By rare effects bears record of thy Linage And high descent and that his sacred Image Was in thy Soule ingrav'n when first his Spirit The spring of life did in thy limms inspire-it For as his Beauties are past all compare So is thy Soule all beautifull and fair As hee 's immortall and is neuer idle Thy Soule 's immortall and can brook no bridle O◠sloath to curb her busie Intellect He ponders all thou peizest each effect And thy mature and settled Sapience Hathsom alliance with his Prouidence He works by Reason thou by Rule Hee 's glory Of th' Heav'nly Stages thou of th' Earthly Story Hee 's great High-Priest thou his great Vicar heer Hee 's Souerain Prince and thou his Vice-Roy deer For soon as euer he had framed thee Other testimonies of the excellency of Man constituted Lord of the World Into thy hands he put this Monarchy Made all the Creatures knowe thee for their Lord And com before thee of their own accord And gaue thee power as Master to impose Fit sense-full Names vnto the Hoast that rowes In watery Regions and the wandring Heards Of Forrest people and the painted Birds O too-too happy had that Fall of thine Not cancell'd so the Character diuine But sith our Soules now-sin-obscured Light Wherein consisteth Mans selicitie Shines through the Lanthorn of our Flesh so bright What sacred splendor will this Starr send forth When it shall shine without this vail of Earth The Soule heer lodg'd is like a man that dwels In an ill Aire annoy'd with noysom smells Excellent comparisons In an old House open to winde and weather Neuer in Health not half an hour together Or almost like a Spider who confin'd In her Webs centre shak't with euery winde Moues in an instant if the buzzing Flie Stir but a string of her Lawn Canapie You that haue seen within this ample Table Of the Creation of Woman made for an ayd to Man and without whom Mans life were miserable Among so many Modules admirable Th' admired beauties of the King of Creatures Com com and see the Womans rapting features Without whom heer Man were but half a man But a wilde Wolf but a Barbarian Brute ragefull fierce moody melancholike Hating the Light whom nought but naught could like Born solely for himself bereft of sense Of heart of loue of life of excellence God therefore not to seme less liberal To Man then else to euery animal For perfect patern of a holy Loue To Adams half another half he gaue Ta'en from his side to binde through euery Age With kinder bonds the sacred Mariage Euen as a Surgeon minding off-to-cut Simile Som cure-less limb before in vre he put His violent Engins on the vicious member Bringeth his Patient in a sense-less slumber And grief-less then guided by vse and Art To saue the whole sawes off th' infected part So God empal'd our Grandsiers liuely look Through all his bones a deadly chilness strook Siel'd-vp his sparkling Eys with Iron bands Led down his feet almost to Lethè Sands In brief so numm'd his Soul's and Body's sense That without pain opening his side from thence He took a rib which rarely he refin'd And thereof made the Mother of Mankinde Grauing so liuely on the liuing Bone All Adams beauties that but hardly one Could haue the Louer from his Loue descry'd Or know'n the Bridegroom from his gentle Bride Sauing that she had a more smiling Ey A smoother Chin a Cheek of purer Dy A fainter voice a more inticing Face A Deeper Tress a more delighting Grace And in her bosom more then Lillie-white Two swelling Mounts of Ivory panting light Now after this profound and pleasing Traunce Their Mariage No sooner Adams rauisht eyes did glaunce On the rare beauties of his new-com Half But in his heart he gan to leap and laugh Kissing her kindely calling her his Life His Loue his Stay his Rest his Weal his Wife His other-Self his Help him to refresh Bone of his Bone Flesh of his very Flesh. Source of all ioyes sweet Hee-Shee-Coupled-One Their Epithalamie or wedding Song Thy sacred Birth I neuer think vpon But rauisht I admire how God did then Make Two of One and One of Two again O blessed Bond O happy Mariage Which doost the match 'twixt Christ and vs presage O chastest friendship whose pure flames impart Two Soules in one two Hearts into one Hart O holy knot in Eden instituted Not in this Earth with bloud and wrongs polluted Profan'd with mischiefs the Pre-Scaene of Hell To cursed Creatures that ' gainst Heav'n rebell O sacred Cov'nant which the sin-less Son Of a pure Virgin when he first begun To publish proofs of his drad Powr Diuine By turning Water into perfect Wine At lesser Cana in a wondrous manner Did with his presence sanctifie and honour By thy deer Fauour after our Decease The commodities of Mariage We leaue behinde our liuing Images Change War to Peace in kindred multiply And in our Children liue eternally By thee we quench the wilde and wanton Fires That in our Soule the Paphian shot inspires And taught by thee a loue more firm and fitter We finde the Mel more sweet the Gall less bitter Which heer by turns heap vp our human Life Eu'n now with ioyes anon with iars and strife This done the Lord commands the happy Pair Propagation by the blessing of God With chaste embraces to replenish Fair Th' vnpeopled World that while the World endures Heer might succeed their liuing Pourtraitures He had impos'd the like precept before On th' irefull Droues that in the Desarts roar The fethered Flocks and fruitfull-spawning Legions That liue within the liquid Crystal Regions Thence-forth therefore Bears Bears ingendered The Dolphins Dolphins Vulturs Vulturs bred Men Men and Nature with a change-less Course Still brought forth Children like their Ancestors Vnnaturall Cōiunctions produce monstrous Births Though since indeed as when the fire hath mixt-them The yellow Gold and Siluer pale betwixt them Another Metall
arm shaking his Fawchin keen Wher-with he seems inspight of Heav'n and Hell To fight with Death and menace Israel At last he sinks all vnder water quite Spurning the sand again he springs vpright But from so deep a bottom to the top So clogg'd with arms can cleaue no passage vp As the poor Partridge cover'd with the net Simile In vain doth striue struggle and bate and beat For the close meshes and the Fowler 's craft Suffer the same no more to whuâ—e aloft I to your selues leaue to conceiue the ioy Of IACOB'S heirs thus rescu'd from annoy Seeing the Sea to take their cause in hand And their dead Foes shuffled vpon the sand Their shields and staues and Chariots all-to-tore Floating about and flung vpon the shoar When thus th' Almighty glorious God most High For them without them got the Victory They skip and dauâ—ce and marying all their voices To Timbrels Hawbois and lowd Cornets noyses Make all the shoars resound and all the Coasts With the shril Praises of the Lord of Hoasts 2. Part of this Tract where is discoursed of the estate of the People of Israell in the Wildernesse vntill the death of Moses Eternall issue of eternall Sire Deep Wisedom of the Father now inspire And shewe the sequell that from hence befell And how He dealt with his deer Israell Amid the Desart in their Pilgrimage Towards the Promis'd plentious Heritage Tell for I knowe thou know'st for compast ay With Fire by Night and with a Clowd by Day Thou my soul's hope wert their sole guide and guard Their Meat and Drink in all their Iourney hard Marching amid the Desart nought they lack Heaven still distils an Ocean for their sake Of end-les-good and every Morn doth send Sufficient Food for all the day to spend When the Sun riseth and doth haste his Race Half ours half theirs that vnderneath vs pase To re-beholde the bewty number order And prudent Rule preventing all mis-order Of th' awefull Hoast lodg'd in the Wilderness So favour'd of the Sun of Righteousness Each coms but forth his Tent and at his dore Findes his bread ready without seeking more A pleasant bread which from his plentious clowd Like little Haile Heav'ns wakefull Steward strow'd The yellow sands of Elim's ample Plain Were heaped all with a white sugred grain Sweet Corianders Iunkets not to feed God giueth them Manna This Hoast alone but even a World for need Each hath his part and euery one is fed With the sweet morsels of an vn-bought bread It is giuen from day to day It never rains for a whole year at-once But daily for a day's prouisions To th' end so great an Hoast so curbed straight Still on the Lord 's wide open hand should wayt And every Dawning haue due cause to call On him their Founder and the Fount of all Each for his portion hath an Omer-full The sur-plus rots mould knead it how they will The Holy-one iust Arbitrer of wrong Allows no less vnto the weak than strong On Sabbaoth's Eve he lets sufficient fall To serue for that day and the next with-all That on his Rest the sacred Folk may gather Not Bodie 's meat but spirituall Manna rather Thou that from Heav'n thy daily White-bread hast Thou for whom Haruest all the Year doth last That in poor Desarts rich aboundance heap'st That sweat-les eat'st and without sowing reap'st That hast the Ayr for farm and Heav'n for field Which sugred Mel or melled sugar yield That for taste-changing do'st not change thy cheer God's Pensioner and Angel's Table-peer It is a liuely figure of Christ the true bread of life O Israell see in this Table pure In this fair glass thy Saviour's pourtraiture The Son of God MESSIAS promised The sacred seed to bruize the Serpents head The glorious Prince whose Scepter ever shines Whose Kingdom 's scope the Heav'n of Heavens confines And when He shall to light thy Sin-full load Put Manhood on dis-knowe him not for God This Grain is small but full of substance though The same demoÌ„strated by particular conference CHRIST strong in working though but weak in showe Manna is sweet Christ as the Hony-Comb Manna from high and CHRIST from Heaven doth com With that there falls a pleasant pearly deaw CHRIST comming-down doth all the Earth be-streaw With spirituall gifts That vnto great and small Tastes to their tastes and CHRIST is all to all Food to the hungry to the needy wealth Ioy to th' afflicted to the sickly health Pardon to those Repent Prop to the bow'd Life's savour to the Meek Death 's to the Prowd That 's common good and Christ communicate That 's purely-white and Christ immaculate That gluts the wanton Hebrews at the last Christ and his Word the World doth soon dis-taste Of that they eat no less that haue one measure Than who haue hundred and in Christ his Treasure Of Divine Grace the faith-full Proselite Hath no less part than Doctors deep of sight That 's round Christ simple and sincerely-round That in the Ark Christ in his Church is found That doth with certain stinking worms becom Christ th' Ever-Word is scandall vnto som. That raineth not but on the sacred Race Christ to his Chosen doth confine his Grace That 's broken every grain Christ Lamb of God Vpon his Cross-press is so torn and trod That of his Blood the pretious Flood hath purl'd Down from Mount Sion over all the World The people lust for flesh Yet glutted now with this ambrosiall Food This Heav'nly bread so holy and so good Th' Hebrews do lust for flesh a fresh South-winde Brings shoals of Fowls to satisfie their minde God sends them Quailes A clowd of Quails on all the Camp is sent And every one may take to his content For in the Hoast and all the Country by For a days-iourney Cubit thick they lie But though their Commons be thus delicate Although their eyes can scarce look out for fat Although their Bellies strout with too much meat Though Epicures they vomit as they eat Yet still they howl for hunger and they long For Memphian hotch-potch Leeks and Garlick strong They long for the Garlike Onions of Egypt As Childe-great Women or green Maids that miss Their Terms appointed for their flourishes Pine at a Princely feast preferring far Red Herrings Rashers and som sops in Tâ—r Simile Yea coals and clowts sticks stalks and durt before Quail Pheasant Partridge and a hundred more So their fantastick wearisom disease Distastes their tastes and makes them strange to please But when the Bull that lately tost his horn In wanton Pride hangs down his head for lorn For lack of Water and the Souldier bleak Growes without Arms for his owne waight too-weak When fiery Thirst through all their veins so fierce Consumes their blood into their bones doth pearce Sups-vp their vitall humour and doth dry Their whilom-beauties to Anatomy They weep and wail and but their voyce
Conquest Iordan self-divides Re Circumcision what and where and why Sackâ— Iericho Hai won so Achan die Gabaonites guile strange Hail the Sun stands still Nature repines Iews Guide-les prone to ill Adoni-Bezec Sangar DEBORA Barac and Iahel conquer SISARA Samuel succeeds Iews craue a KING a vie Of People-Sway States-Rule and MONARCHIE HAil holy IORDAN and you blessed Torrents Canaan â—alâ—ted Of the pure Waters of whose crystal Currents So many Saints have sipt O Walls that rest Fair Monuments of many a famous Guest O Hills O Dales O Fields so flowry sweet Where Angels oft have set their sacred feet And thou O sacred Place which wert the Cradle Of th' onely MAN-GOD and his happy Swadle And thou O Soil which drank'st the crimsin Showâ— That for our health out of his veins did pour And you fat Hillocks which I take as given For a firm pledge of the full ioyes of Heav'n Where Milk and Hony flowe I see you all Vnder the conduct of my Generall NVN's valiant Son and vnder Gâ—DEO's Sway SANGAR and SAMSON BARAC DEBORA For heer braue Heroes your high Feats I sing Argument of this Tract Thrice sacred Spirit thy speedie succour bring O Spirit which wert their Guide Guard strength stay Let not my Verse their Vertue 's praise betray IOSVAH by Favour nor by Bribes obtains A higher Rank then Royall Soveraigns Iosuah his iust authority over the People of Israell Who buies in gross he by retail must sell And who gives Favour Favour asks as well He gets it not by Fortune she is sight-les Neither by Force for who so enters Right-les By Force is forced to go out with shame Norsodain climbs he raw vnto the same For to high Place who mounts not step by step He coms not down but head-long down doth leap But even as that grave-gracefull Magistrate Simile Which now with Conscience Law doth Moderate Was first a Student vnder others aw Then Barister then Counseller at-Law Then Queens-Solicitor then Roules Arbitrer And then Lord-Keeper now LORD CHANCELER He coms to 't by degrees and having first Show'n himself wise inspying Canaan yerst Faith-full to MOSES in his Ministrings And Stout in Fight against the Heathen Kings God makes him CAPTAIN and the sacred Priests Pronounce him so the People pleased is But in his State yer he be stall'd almost His first Oration to the People Set in the midst of God's beloved Hoast He thus dilates O happy Legions deer Which sacred Arms vnder Heav'ns Ensignes bear Fear not that I yet forty years again Your wandring Troops in these vast sands should train 'Twixt Hope and Fear th' vn-hallowed Offerings The proud revolts blasphemous Murmurings Of your stiff Fathers have with-holden rather Then whole with-draw'n th' aid of your heav'nly Father God tenders it in time and pacifi'd Nills the set Term without effect should slide Serve him therfore now take him at his word And now to Canaan march with one accord And bravely showe that th' Hoast of ISRAEL In Valour far doth his drad Fame excell Courageous IACOB ARAD's stoutest hearts And strongest Holdes have prov'd thy Pikes and Darts The Madianits have thine Arms thunder knowen Th' hast razed Bazan ransackt Hezebon Scap't scaly Serpents in these Desarts vast Crost the Red-Sea and Heav'n-prop SINA past And sent to Hell thy draddest Foes Lo now God offers thee the Crown accept it thou He vrgeth particularly Ruben Gad and Manasses to take part with their Brethren in prosecuting the Conquest of Canaan Then turning him to RVBEN and to GAD And to MANASSES who their Portion had By MOSES grant on Iordan's Eastern verge War-eloquent he thus proceeds to vrge Can you my Harts finde in your hearts to leave Your Ranks and vs thus of your aids bereave Will you ly wrapped in soft beds a-sleep While in colde Trenches your poor Brethren keep Will you sit washing when your Feasts be don In sweet Rose-water while that Orion His cloudy store in storm-full fury pours And drowns your Brethren with continuall showrs Will you go Dance and dally to and fro While in the Field they march to charge the Foe Will you expect a part with them in gain While they the blowes and all the brunt sustain God shield you should dishonour so your Blood Nay rather leaving on this side the Flood Your Wives and Children and vnfit for Battell Your aged Parents and your Heards of Cattell Com arm your selves t' advance our Victories The general and â—oifull answer of the people And share with vs in Perill as in Prize O noble Prince then all the Hoast repli'd March-on a Gods name and good Hap betide Were Canaan turn'd another Wildernes Were there before vs yet more crimsin Seas Were Horeb Carmel and Mount Seâ—r set Each vpon other vpto Heav'n to get We 'll follow thee through all and onely th' end Of our owne lyves shall our brave Iourney end After the Ark then march they in aray Direct to Iordan praising all the way That living God whose match-les mighty hand Parted the Sea that they might pass by land Hoar-headed Iordan neatly lodged was A Poeticall and pleasant description of the River Iordan In a large Cave built all of beaten Glass Whose waved Seeling with exceeding cost The Nymphs his Daughters rarely had imbossâ— With Pearls and Rubies and in-lay'd the rest With Nacre checks and Corall of the best A thousand Streamlings that n'er saw the Sun With tribute silver to his seruice run There IRIS AVSTER and Clowds blewly black Continually their licour leave and take There th' aged Flood lay'd on his mossie bed And pensive leaning his flag-shaggie head Vpon a Tuft where th' eating waves incroach Did gladly wait for ISRAELS approach Each hair he hath is a quick-flowing stream His sweat the gushing of a storm extream Each sigh a Billow and each sob he sounds A swelling Sea that over-flowes his bounds His weak gray eyes are alwaies seen to weep About his loins a rush-Belt wears he deep A Willow Wreathe about his wrinkled brows His Father NEREVS his complexion showes So soon as He their welcom rumour heard His frosty head aboue the Waues he rear'd With both his hands strook back behinde his ears The waving Tresses of his weeping hairs And then perceiuing IACOB's Army stay'd By his prowd streams he chid them thus and said Presumptuous Brook dar'st thou ingratefull Torrent Prosopopoeia Lift-vp thy horn lash-out thy swelling Current Against the Lord and over-flowe thy bound To stop his passage Shall the Floods profound Of the proud Ocean to his Hoast giue-way Shall Egypt's honour shall that Gulf I say That long large Sea which with his plentious waues A third or fourth part of the World be-laues Shall That yield humbly at his Servant's beck And thou poor Rill or gutter in respect Resist himself his glorious self that Inns Heer in his Ark between the Cherubins And saying so he on his shoulder flung His deep
are rough-cast with the richest Stones Cast in Deuises Emblems Scutchions Yet leaving all this Greatnesse of her owne She comes to view the State of SALOMON To hear his Wisedom and to see his Citty Refuge of Vertues School of Faith and Pitty A iust Reproose of all obstinate Recusants You that doo shut your eyes against the rayes Of glorious Light which shineth in our dayes Whose spirits self-obstin'd in old musty Error Repulse the Truth Th' Almighties sacred Mirror Which day and night at your deaf Doors doth knock Whose stubbornnesse will not at all vn-lock The sacred Bible nor so much as look To talke with God into his holy Book O fear you not that this great Princesse shall Of thank-les Sloath one-day condemn you all Who both a Woman Queen and Pagan born Ease Pleasures Treasures doth despise and scorn To passe with great pains and with great expence Long weary Iourneys full of diffidence And nobly trauels to another Land To hear the words but of a mortall Man Her Time 's not lost there rapt she doth contemple The sumptuous bewties of a stately TEMPLE The lofty Towers of hundred Towns in one A pompous Palace and a peer-les Throne Wals rich with-out furnisht in richer sort Number of Servants doth adorn the Court But more their Order there no noise is heard Each his owne Office only doth reguard And in one instant as the quaverings Of a quick Thumb moues all the divers strings Of a sweet Guittern and its skill to grace Causeth a Trebble sound a Mean a Base So SALOMON discreetly with a beck A wink a word doth all the Troop direct Each of his Servants hath his proper Lesson And after his Degree each hath his fashion This Queen yer parting from her fragrant Iles Arm'd her with Riddles and with witty Wyles T' appose the King and she resolues she wil With curious Questions sift and sound his Skill But lo what Oedipus The Law-learn'd Sage Which at the Bar hath almost spent his age Cannot so soon a common Doubt decide Where Statutes Customs and Book-Cases guide As he dissolues her Gordian-knots and sees Through all her nights and even at pleasure frees Such Doubts as doubt-les might haue taskt t'vntwist The Brachman Druïde and Gymnosophist And knowing Good becomes more Good the more It is en-common'd he applies there-fore T' instruct her in the Faith and enuious-idle His brains rich Talent buries not in Idle Alas I pity you alas quoth He Poore Soules besotted in Idolatry Who worship Gold and Silver Stocks and Stones Mens workmanship and Fiends Illusions And who by your sage Mages Lore miss-led So-many Godlings haue imagined Madame there is but one sole God most-High Th' Eternall King nay self-Eternity Infinite All in all yet out of all Of Ends the End of Firsts Originall Of Lights the Light Essencesur-passing Essence Of Powers pure Act of Acts the very Puissance Cause of all Causes Ocean of all Good The Life of Life and of all Bewty Flood None-seen All-Seer Starr's-guide Sight of Seeing The Vni-forme which giues all Formes their Beeing God and One is all One whoso the Vnitie Denies he Atheist disannuls Diuinity Th' Vnity dwels in God i th' Fiend the Twine The greater World hath but one Sun to shine The lesser but one Soule both but one God In Essence One in Person Trinely-odde Of this great Frame the Parts so due-devis'd This Body tun'd so measur'd sympathiz'd This TEMPLE wheresuch Wealth and Order meet This Art in every part cannot proceed But from one Pattern and that but from one Author of all who all preserues alone Else should we see in set Batalions A hundred thousand furious Partizans The World would nource civill intestine Wars And wrack itself in itselfs factious Iars Besides God is an Infinite Divinity And who can think of more than one Infinity Seeing the one restrains the others might Or rather reaues its name and being quight Therfore O Pagans why doo you confine The Infinite in narrow Walls of lime Why shut you Him in a base Trunk or Tree Why paint you Whom no mortall eye can see Why offer you your carnall seruices Vnto the Lord who a meer Spirit is Why then doo you sayd she by our example Incloseth ' Immortall in this Earthly TEMPLE Lock him within an Arke and worse than we Feed him with Fumes and bloody Butcherie This Sacred House so fair reply'd he then Is not to contain God but godly men Which worship him and we doo not suppose That He whose Arms doo Heav'n and Earth inclose Is closed in a Chest but th' ancient Pact The solemne Couenant and the sure Contract Which leagues vs with our God and each with other And holy Bond holds Heav'n and Earth together As for our Incense Washings Sacrifices They are not as is thought Our vain Devices But God 's their Aurthor and himself Ordains These Elements wherby he entertains And feeds our vnderstanding in the hope Of his deer Son of all these Things the Scope Setting before vs th' Only Sacrifice Which in CHRIST'S Blood shall wash-out all our vice Come then O Lord Come thou Lawes finisher Great King great Prophet great Selfs-Offerer Come come thou thrice-thrice-Great Refuge of our State Come thou out Ran çome Iudge and Advocate Milde Lambe Salue-Serpent Lion generous Vn-challeng'd Vmpire betwixt Heav'n and Vs Come thou the Trueth the Substance and the End Of all our Offrings whither all doo tend Come ô MESSIAS and doo now begin To Raign in Sion to triumph of Sinne And worshipped in Spirit and Truth restore Vpon the Earth the Golden Age of yore Accept this Queen as of all Heathen Princes The deer First-Fruits take on thee our Offences That stript of Adam's Sinfull sute in fine With sacred Angels we in Heav'n may shine The Queen nigh sunk in an Amaze-full Swoun Bespake him thus My Lord prattling Renown Is wont in flying to increase so far That she proclaims things greater than they are Simile And rarest Spirits resemble Pictures right Wherof the rarest seem more exquisite Far-off then neer but so far as thy Fame Ezcels all Kings thy Vertues passe the same Thy peer-les Prayse stoops to thy Learned tongue And envious bruit hath done thy Wisedom wrong So may I say even so ô SCOTISH King Application to the Kings Maiestie Thy winged Fame which far and wide doth ring From th' edge of Spain hath made me venturously To crosse the Seas thy Britain's end to see Where Lord what saw I nay what saw I not O King Heav'n-chosen for som special Plot Worlds Miracle ô Oracle of Princes I saw so much my Soule mistrusts my Senses A gray-beards Wisedom in an amber-bush A Mars-like Courage in a Maid-like blush A settled Iudgement with a supple Wit A quick Discourse profound and pleasing yet Virgil and Tully in one spirit infus'd And all Heav'ns Gifts into one Head diffus'd Persist O King glory on glory mount And as thy Vertues thine owne Fame surmount So
called the Gulfe of Negrepont Stentorian Homer reports him to haue had the voice of 50. men Signories Lordships Dominions Sues a Port in the East part of Egypt vpon the red Sea Seir a mountaine in Idumaea betweene Asphaltis and Egypt Siddim the place where Lot with the Princes of Sodom was taken prisoner by Chedor Laomer Sanctum SanctoruÌ„ the inmost Sanctuarie the Holy of Holies where onely the high Priest might enter once a yeare Stratian War-like Scammonie alias Diagridium an hearbe purging Choler mightily T TAgus the Riuer of Lisbone in Portugall Tanais a mighty Riuer diuiding Asia from Europe Tantalus a King of Phrygia whom they fained to stand in Hel vp to the chin in water and to haue delicate Fruits dangling ouer his vpperlip yet can touch neither either to ease his hunger or allay his thirsâ— Tambut A Country of the Negros which is a part of Africa extending to the vttermost bounds therof toward the South and East Taprobane An Iland vnder the Equinoctiall now called Sumatra Situate betweene Malaca and Iaua Maior aboue 450. leagues long and aboue 120. broade abounding in Golde very plentifull in other excellent CoÌ„modities Tarentum a famous Citie in Calabria Tarnasser is in the East Indies neere the gulfe of Bengala Thebes a Citty in Baeotia where Hercules was borne it was first built built by Cadmus but more beautifully restored by Amphion Thetis the Sea Themis Iustice. Thersites the foulest Lubber in al the GreciaÌ„ Campe whoÌ„ Achilles slew with his fist Theseus for valour another Hercules but most famous for his kinde and constant friendship to Perithous Thesiphone one of the Furies Thisbes Tree the mulberie Thule an Iland beyond the Orcades the farthest North that was knowen to the Romanes therfore then called Ultima Thule Timanthes one of the most excelleÌ„t of the ancieÌ„t Painters Tindarides Castor and Pollux Tigris a Riuer in Asia passing by the East of Mesopotamia throgh Armenia Media Titan the Sun Tirrhenian the Tuscan Seas Tyrians Marchant men of Tyrus a Citie of Syria anciently flowrishing in trade and famous for the excellent purple-Die Tiuoli a village neere Rome where the Cardinall of Ferrara hath a sumptuous house of pleasure furnished with infinite Curiosities Torpedo the Cramp-fish Tresor-troue Gold monie or other Riches found vnder ground Troglodytes a people of Aethiopia that dwel vnder grouÌ„d go naked and eate Serpents Tropicks two great Circles in heauen in equall distance from the Equinoctiall the one called the Tropik of Cancer the other of Capricorne at the which the Sun turneth either higher hauing been at the lowest or lower hauing beene at the highest wherof they are so called TrytoÌ„s Neptunes Trumpeters Tuscan Italian Tyber the Riuer of Rome Typhis the master or Captaine of the Ship Argos that saild with Iason to Colchis for the Golden Fleece Tymothy an excellent caruer that wrought on Mausolus Tombe Typhon a huge Giant that in deuoured to pull Iupiter out of Heauen Type a figure or stampe of any thing Tesiphone or Thesiphone one of the Furies TROPHETS glorious Monuments erected in honour of some famous victorie Timothius Milesius an excellent musician that flowrished vnder Philip of Macedon and Alexander his son Theorie Contemplation study Tullie Cicero the Prince of Roman Orators Teâ—yphone look Furies Thalia look Graces Muses Tabernacle properly a Tent or Pauilion V VAlois one of the Royall families of France extinguished in the late Henry the third slaine by a Frier before Paris who in his Monsieurship with his mother and the Duke of Guise had beene too busie an Actor in the bloodie Massacre Uenus the Goddesse of Loue and Beautie also one of the planets Uenus Esâ—uage Knights or Nights seruice to Ladies Venerean mirth Idem Uer the Spring Vertumnus animagined God of the Romanes that tooke on him all shapes Vespucio Americus Vespucius a Florentine first discouerer of America of whom it was so called Viginere a learned Frenchman of late times translator of Caesar Liuius and other Latine writers Vienna a Citie in Austria where vsually the Emperor keeps his Court. Vrania one of the Muses especially handling Heauenly things therefore called the Heauenly Muse. Vrim and Thummim 2. words grauen in the Brest-plate of Aaron signifying Illumination and integritie Ulysses the politike Prince of Ithaca husband of Penelope Vulcan the God of Fier and forge-men Vranascopus a fish alwayes gazing vp to heauen X XAnth called also Scamander the Riuer of Troy there is also an Iland in the Archipelago so called Xenian hospitious mild-entertainer Z. ZEbut an Iland in the west Indies exceeding rich in Gold Sugar Ginger Zenith the point verticall the point of Heauen right ouer our heads the contrarie point is called Nadir Zeno the chiefe of the Stoicke Philosophers Zeuxis a most cunning and exceeding rich Painter Zodiak a byaz or sloaping Circle in the Heauens wherin are the 12. Signes thorough which all the planets passe Zones Imagined Circles diuiding the World into fiue parts Zopyrus a Persian that strange ly disfigured himselfe to do his Prince an important seruice Zephirus the West the West-winde FINIS THE HISTORIE OF IVDITH IN FORME OF A POEME Penned in French by the Noble Poet G. SALVST Lord of BARTAS Englished by Tho. Hudson Ye learned binde your browes with Laurer hand I prease but for to touch it with my hand ET VSQVE AD NVBES VERITAS TVA 1611. The Printer to the Reader PErceiuing our diuine du BARTAS so generally applauded euen of the greatest and the grauest of this Kingdome and all His workes so welcome vnto all to make the same in this second Edition more compleat I haue presumed to annex This Peece indeed no part of his incomparable WEEKS neither heer apparalled by the same Workman yet doubt-les a Child of the same Parent and if I be not deceiued one of his first borne which arriuing long-since in Scotland was there among the rest royally receiued and thus as you see suited somewhat to that Countrie fashion Whose Dialect and Orthography considering vnder what authoritie it was first published now the rather respecting our happie vnion by the same established I haue not dar'd at all to alter Accept it therefore gentle Reader as it is and allow at least of my good will who wishing thee the profit of these happy labours haue aduentured to doo thee pleasure to incur I doubt double displeasure Thine H. L. TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE IAMES the Sixt King of Scotland his Maiesties most humble Seruant THO. HVDSON wisheth long life with euerlasting felicitie AS your Maiestie Sir after your accustomed and vertuous maner was sometime discoursing at Table with such your Domestiques as chaunced to be attendant It pleased your Highnesse not onelie to esteeme the peereless stile of the Greeke Homer and the Latin Uirgill to be inimitable to vs whose tongue is barbarous and corrupted But also to alledge partly thorow delight your Maiesty tooke in the Hautie stile of those most famous Writers
יהוה HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DU BARTAS HIS Deuine Weekes and Workes Translated And Dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Josuah Syluester Now thirdly corrected augm ANAGRAMMATA REGIA Regi IACOBVS STVART Iusta Scrutabo IAMES STVART A iust Master FOr A iust Master haue I labour'd long To A iust Master haue I vow'd my best By A iust Master should I take no wrong With A iust Master would my life be blest In A iust Master are all Vertues met From A iust Master flowes aboundant grace But A iust Master is so hard to get That A iust Master seems of Phoenix race Yet A iust Master haue I found in fine Of A iust Master if you question This Whom A iust Master I so iust define My Liege IAMES STVART A iust Master is And A iust Master could my Work deserue Such A iust Master would I iustly serue Voy Sire Saluste Au Tres-puissant tres-prudent tres-Auguste IAQVES par la grace de Dieu Roy de la Grande Britaigne de France d' Irlande Defenseur de lay Foy vnique Catholique Apostolique Christiene * ⎠* VOY SIRE ton SALVSTE habillé en Anglois Anglois encore plus de Coeur que de language Qui cognoistant loyal ton Royal Heritage En çes beaux Liz dorez au Sceptre des Gaulois CoÌ„me au vray Souverain des vrays Subiects François Cy a tes pieds sacrez te faict son sainct Hommage De ton Hoeur Grandeur eternal tesmoignage Miroir de touts Heros Miracle de touts Roys VOY SIRR toÌ„ SALVSTE ou pour le moins son ombre Ou l'ombre pour le moins de se Traicts plus divins Qui ores trop noyrçis par moÌ„ pinçeau trop sombre S'esclair çiront aux Raiz de tes Yieux plus benins Donques d'vn oeil benin d'vn accueil Auguste Reçoy ton cher Bartas VOY SIRE SALVSTE Anagrammatisme de IOSVA SYLVESTRE de vostre Maiestè Tres humble Subiect Seruiteur A l'istessa sua Mäestá serenisma NEptun ' gielozo de La Musa Ingléze L'immura si del Braccio crystallino Ch'il piu divin del Canto suo divino Poco s'intende fuòr del suo Paëze â—erò Signor Come già la Francèze T'à Celebrato di-quà l' Apenino Di-là l' ITALICA al Peregrino Anche farà l' alte tue Lodi intèse Siche la Sèna el Pà do prestaranno Lor Chori sacri per Cantà r l' immenza Alma Virtù Valòr Pietà Prudénza Di GIACOMO gran SALOMON Britanno Per di tua Gloria vdita qualâ—e quanta Rapir il Mondo in maraviglia santa L'istesso Osseruantissimo I. S. INSCRIPTIO To England's Scotland's France Ireland's KING Great Emperour of EVROPE'S greatest Iles Monarch of Hearts and Arts and euery thing Beneath BOOTES manie thousand myles Vpon whose Head Honour and Fortune smiles About whose brows clusters of Crowns do spring VVhose Faith Him Champion of the FAITH en-stiles VVhos 's VVisdome's Fame O're all the World dooth ring MNEMOSYNE Her faire Daughters bring The DAPHNEAN Crown To Crowne Him Laureat VVhole and sole Soueraigne Of the THE SPIAN Spring Prince of PARNASSVS Piërian State And with their Crown their kingdoms Arms they yeelde Thrice three Penns Sun-like in a Cynthian field Sign'd by TIMES-SELVES and their high Treasorer BARTAS the great Ingrosst by SYLVESTER Our SVNNE did Set and yet no NIGHT ensew'd Our WOE-full losse so IOY-full gaine did bring In teares wee smile amid our sighes we Sing So suddainely our dying LIGHT renew'd As when the ARABIAN only Bird doth burne Her aged body in sweete FLAMES to death Out of Her CINDERS A newe Birde hath breath In whom the BEAVTIES Of the FIRST returne From Spicie Ashes of the sacred VRNE Of our dead Phoenix dear ELIZABETH A new true PHOENIX liuely flourisheth Whom greater glories than the First adorne So much O KING thy sacred Worth presum-I-on IAMES thou iust Heire of England's ioyfull VNION IAMES Thou iust Heire of England's ioyfull VNION VNITING now too This long sever'd I LE Sever'd for Strangers from it Selfe the while Vnder one Scepter in One Faith's Communion That in our Loues may never bee dis-vnion Throughout-all Kingdomes in thy Regall Stile Make CHRIST thy Guide In whom was neuer guile CLIO To RVLE thy Subiectes In his GOSPEL'S Vnion So on thy Seate thy Seede shall euer Florish To SION's Comfort and th' eternall Terror Of GOG and MAGOG Athëisme Error So shal one TRVTH thy people train nourish In meeke Obedience of Th' Almightie's Pleasure And to give CEASAR what belongs to CAESAR And to give CEASAR what belongs to CAESAR To sacred Thee drad Soveraigne deerest IAMES While sad-glad ENGLAND yields Hir Diadems To be dispos'd at Thine Imperiall Pleasure While Peers States expose their pomp treasure To entertaine thee from thy Tweed to THAMES VVith Royall Presentes And rare-pretious Gemmes THALIA As Mindes and Meanes Concurre in happy measure Heer gracious Lord lowe prostrate I present you The richest Iewell my poore FATE affoords A Sacrifice that long long since I meant you Your Minion BARTAS masked in My words With Him my Selfe my Seruice Wit and Arte With all the SINNEVVES of a Loyall Heart With all the SINNEWES of a Loyall Heart Vnto Your Royall Handes I humblie Sacre These weeks the works of the worlds glorius Maker Diuinely warbled by LORD BARTAS Art Though through my rudenes heer mis-tun'd in part For to whom meeter should This Muse betake her Than to Your Highnesse Whom as chiefe Partaker MELPOMENE All MVSES Crowne For Principall Desarte To whom should sacred Arte and learned Pietie In Highest Notes of Heauenly Musike Sing The Royall Deedes of the redoubted Dëitie But to a learned and religious KING To whom but You should Holy FAITH coÌ„mend-her Great king of ENGLAND christiaÌ„ FAITH' 's defender Great king of ENGLAND ChristiaÌ„ FAITH'S defender No Selfe-presuming of my Witt 's perfection In what is mine of this Diuine Confection Boldens mee thus to You the Same to tender But with the Rest the Best I haue to render For loyall Witnesse of my glad affection My MITE I offer To Your High Protection CALLIOPE Which MORE it needs The more it selfe is slender But for mine AVTHOR in his Sacred-fury I know your Highnes knows him Prince of Singers And His rare Workes worthy Your Royall fingers Though heer His lustre too-too-much obscure-I For His sake therefore and Your Selfes Benignitie Accept my ZEALE and pardon mine indignitie Accept my ZEALE and pardon mine Indignitie Smoothing with smiles sterne Maiesties Seueritie Sith from this Errour of my bolde temeritie Great good may grow through heav'ns and your benignitie For farre more equall to your BARTAS Dignitie This may prouoke with more diuine dexteritie Some NOBLER Wit To SING to our Posteritie TERPSICHORE This NOBLEST Worke After it Self's Condignitie Or else the sweete Rayes of your Royall Fauour May shine so warme on these wilde Fruites of mine As much may
Siluester Anagr Uerè Os Salustij OStu SYLVESTER nostro cur Ore vocaris An quòd in ORE fer as Mel quòd in Aure Mel-os An quòd BARTASSI faciem dum pingis et ORA ORA tui pariter quaelibet ora colit Nempe licèt duram praete fers nomine SILVAM Silvas et salebr as carmina nulla tenent Sed quod Athenarum COR dux Salaminius olim Dixit Inest libris Osque vigorque tuis Ergo OS esto alijs mihi Suadae LINGVA videris Musis et Phoebo charus OCELLVS eris Ad Gallum de Bartassio iam toto Anglicè donato Quòd Gallus factus modò sit mirare Britannus Galle novum vide as nec tamen invide as Silvester vester noster Bartassius ambo Laude quidem gemina digni vt et ambo pari In Detractores ad Authorem Tace at malevolum OS malè strepent is Zoïli Monstrum bilingue septuplex Hydrae caput Dum Septimanam septies faustam canis Te Septimana septies faustum facit Quaevis nec vlla deleat Iosuam Dies Nempe ORE fari Vera si licet meo OS ipse VERE diceris SALVSTII Qui si impetar is dentibus mordentibus Impurioris ORIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theon OS non carere dentibus sciat tuum E. L. Oxon. In duo Poetarum lumina Bartam Sylvesterum carmen Asclepiadeum Gliconicum dicol Distroph TE Barta caneret Melpomenes melos Vel Germana soror nympha Polymnia Musarúmuâ— potens pater Pulsans plectra sonantia Syluestere meam tusuperas lyram Et linguam modulum dum rudis obstrepit Vatem commeruit decus Illustrem ingenij tui Nemo fronte gerâ—ns Daphnidis arborem Vel Martem valuit scribere bellicum Digne vel Veneris rosae Vultum purpureae parem Nec vestram valeo tollere versibus Laudem ter geminam Sicaelidum meis Sacra progenies satis Non vos aequiparem modis Gallorum Dâ—uidas hospites arborum Bartas grandiloqui carminis alite Praestat noster amat sui Ponti vincere Naiadas Ambo sic proprias viribus ingenî Divas ruricolas ponticolas simul Vicistis trivij meum Vicistis miserum melos Coelum percutiat Gallia vertice Ipsos coelicolas terra Britannica Quae vates tulerint duos Claros prae reliquis novos G. B. Cantabrig EPIGRAM To M. Iosuah Syluester IF to admire were to commend my Praise Might then both thee thy work and merit raise But as it is the Child of Ignorance And vtter stranger to all ayre of France How can I speak of thy great paines but erre Since they can onlie iudge that can confer Behold The reuer end Shade of BARTAS stands Before my thought ana in thy right commaunds That to the world I publish for him This BARTAS doth wish thy English now were His. Son ell in that are his inuentions wrought As His will now be the Translation thought Thine the Originall and France shall boast No more those mayden glories she hath lost B. Iohnson In prayse of the Translator IF diuine BARTAS from whose blessed Braines Such Works of grace or gracefull works did stream Were so admir'd for Wit 's celestiall Strain 's As made their Uertues Seate the high'st Extream Then IOSVAH the Sun of thy bright praise Shall fixed stand in Arts fair Firmament Till Dissolution date Times Nights and Daies Sith right thy Lines are made to BARTAS Bent Whose Compass circumscribes in spacious Words The Vniuersall in particulars And thine the same in other Tearms affords So both your Tearms agree in friendly Wars If Thine be onely His and His be Thine They are like God eternall sith Diuine Iohn Dauies of Hereford To M. Iosuah Syluester of his Bartas Metaphrased I Dare confesse of Muses more than nine Nor list nor can I enuy none but thine Shee drencht alone in Sion's sacred Spring Her Makers praise hath sweetly chose to sing And reacheth neerest th' Angels notes aboue Nor lists to sing or Tales or Warrs or Loue. One while I finde hir in hir nimble flight Cutting the brazen spheares of heav'n bright Thence straight she glides before I be aware Through the three regions of the liquid ayre Thence rushing down through Nature's Closet-dore She ransacks all her Grandame's secret store And diuing to the darknes of the Deep Sees there what wealth the waues in prison keep And what shee sees aboue belowe betweene She showes and sings to others eares and eyne T is true thy Muse another's steps doth presse The more 's her paine nor is her praise the less Freedom giues scope vnto the rouing thought Which by restraint is curb'd Who wonders ought That feet vnfettred walken farre or fast Which pent with chains mote want their wonted haste Thou follow'st Bartasses diuiner streine And singst his numbers in his natiue veine BARTAS was some French Angell girt with Bayes And thou a BARTAS art in English Layes Whether is more Me seems the sooth to say'n One BARTAS speaks in Tongues in Nations twayn Ios. Hall To my good friend M. Sylvester in honour of this sacred Work THus to aduenture forth and re-conuay The best of treasures from a forraine Coast And take that wealth wherein they gloried most And make it ours by such a gallant pray And that without iniustice doth bewray The glory of the Work that we may boast Much to haue wonn and others nothing lost By taking such a famous prize away As thou industrious SYLVESTER hast wrought And heer enricht vs with th' immortall store Of other's sacred lines which from them brought Coms by thy taking greater than before So hast thou lighted from a flame deuout As great a flame that neuer shall goe out Samuel Daniel To M. Iosuah Syluester A SONNET THe glorious Salust morall true diuine Who all inspired with a Holy rage Makes Heav'n his subiect and the Earth his stage The Arts his Actors and the Triple-Trine Who his rich language gildes and graceth fine His Countries honour wonder of our age Whose World 's blest Birth and blessed Pupillage Gain him a world of fame for euerie line Hath heer obtain'd a true Interpreter Whom fame nor gaine but loue to Heav'n and vs Mov'd to vn-French his learned labours thus Thus loues thus liues all-loued SYLVESTER Forward sweet friend Heav'n Nature Arts and Men All to this task prefer thine only Pen. G. Gay-Wood Dilectissimo Io Syluestri GAllica visa fuit Princeps modo lingua necvlla Illi vel similis vel mihi maior erat Credideram magni nullo sermone referri BARTASI ingenium posse vel eloquium Cum subito clarum dedit alma Britannia solem Ingenij tenebras abstulit ille mei Carmina BARTASI SYLVESTER carmine vertit Et sisuccessu non mellore pari O ter felicem venam Dulceisque Camoenas Queis tanto Vati contigit esse pares Incepto felix SYLVESTER tramite perge Tam bene ne coeptum destituatur opus Sic pia Sicaelides aspirent Numina Musae Sic faueat coeptis doctus Apollo
my self may learn And also graunt great Architect of Wonders The TraÌ„slator knowing and acknowledging his owne insufficieÌ„cy for so excellent a labor craueth also the ayde of the All sufficient God Whose mighty Voice speaks in the midst of Thunders Causing the Rocks to rock and Hills to tear Calling the things that Are not as they were Confounding Mighty things by means of Weak Teaching dumb Infants thy dread Praise to speak Inspiring Wisedom into those that want And giuing Knowledge to the Ignorant Graunt mee good Lord as thou hast giv'n me hart To vndertake so excellent a Part Graunt me such Iudgement Grace and Eloquence So correspondent to that Excellence That in some measure I may seem t' inherit Elisha-like my dear Elias Spirit CLEAR FIRE for euer hath not Ayre imbraç't The World was not from euerlasting Nor Ayre for-ay inuiron'd Waters vast Nor Waters always wrapt the Earth therein But all this All did once of nought begin Once All was made not by the hand of Fortune As fond Democritus did yerst importune With iarring Concords making Motes to meet Inuisible immortall infinite Th' immutable diuine Decree which shall Neither made by Chance But created together with Time by the almighty wisedome of God Cause the Worlds End caus'd his Originall Neither in Time nor yet before the same But in the instant when Time first became I mean a Time confused for the course Of years of months of weeks of daies of howrs Of Ages Times and Seasons is confin'd By th' ordred Daunce vnto the Stars assign'd Before all Time all Matter Form and Place God all in all and all in God it was God was before the World was Immutable immortall infinite Incomprehensible all spirit all light All Maiesty all-self Omnipotent Inuisible impassiue excellent Pure wise iust good God raign'd alone at rest Himself alone selfs Palace host and guest Thou scoffing Atheist that enquirest what He consuteth the Atheists questioning what God did before he created the World Th' Almighty did before he framed that What waighty Work his minde was busied on Eternally before this World begun Sith so deep Wisedom and Omnipotence Nought worse beseems then sloath and negligence Knowe bold blasphemer that before he built A Hell to punish the presumptuous Guilt Of those vngodly whose proud sense dares cite And censure too his Wisedom infinite Can Carpenters Weauers and Potters passe And liue without their seuerall works a space And could not then th' Almighty All-Creator Th' all-prudent BEE without this frail Theater Shall valiant Scipio Thus himself esteem Neuer lesse sole then when he sole doth seem And could not God O Heav'ns what frantike folly Subsist alone but sink in melancholy Shall the Pryénian Princely Sage auerr That all his goods he doth about him bear And should the Lord whose Wealth exceeds all measure Should he be poor without this Worldly treasure God neuer seeks out of himself for ought He begs of none he buies or borrows nought But aye from th' Ocean of his liberall Bounty Hee poureth out a thousand Seas of Plenty What God did before he created the World Yer Eurus blew yer Moon did Wax or Wain Yer Sea had Fish yer Earth had grass or grain God was not void of sacred exercise He did admire his Glorie's Mysteries His Power his Iustice and his Prouidence His bountious Grace and great Beneficence Were th' holy obiect of his heav'nly thought Vpon the which eternally it wrought It may be also that he meditated The Worlds Idëa yer it was Created Alone he liv'd not for his Son and Spirit Of 3. Persons in one only Essence of God of the eternall generation of the Son Were with him ay Equall in might and merit For sans beginning seed and Mother tender This great Worlds Father he did first ingender To wit His Son Wisedom and Word eternal Equall in Essence to th' All-One Paternal Of the Holy-Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne The which three Persons are one onely and the same God Out of these Two their common Power proceeded Their Spirit their Loue in Essence vndiuided Onely distinct in Persons whose Diuinity All Three in One makes One eternall Trinitie Soft soft my Muse launch not into the Deep Sound not this Sea see that aloof thou keep From this Charybdis and Capharean Rock Where many a ship hath suffered wofull wrack While they haue fondly vent red forth too-far Following frail Reason for their only Star Who on this Gulf would safely venture fain How to think speak of God Must not too-boldly hale into the Main But longst the shoar with sails of Faith must coast Their Star the Bible Steers-man th' Holy-Ghost How many fine wits haue the World abus'd Because this Ghost they for their Guide refus'd The Heathen Philosophers lost themselues and others in their curâ—osities weening to be wise became fooles And scorning of the loyall Virgins Thred Haue them and others in this Maze mis-led In sacred sheetes of either Testament 'T is hard to finde a higher Argument More deep to sound more busie to discuss More vse-full knowne vnknowne more dangerous So bright a Sun dazles my tender sight So deep discourse my sense confoundeth quite My Reason's edge is dull'd in this Dispute And in my mouth my fainting words be mute This TRINITY which rather I adore God the Father Sonne Holy-Ghost created of Nothing the Worlds goodly frame In humblenes then busily explore In th' infinit of Nothing builded all This artificiall great rich glorious Ball Wherein appears in grav'n on euery part The Builders beauty greatnes wealth and Art Art beauty wealth and greatnes that confounds The hellish barking of blaspheming Hounds Climb they that list the battlements of Heav'n Leaâ—ing curious speculations the Poet teacheth how to contemplate God in his Workes And with the Whirl-wind of Ambition driv'n Beyond the World's wals let those Eagles flie And gaze vpon the Sun of Maiestie Let other-some whose fainted spirits do droop Down to the ground their meditations stoop And so contemplate on these Workmanships That th' Authors praise they in Themselues eclipse My heedfull Muse trained in true Religion Diuinely-humane keeps the middle Region Least if she should too-high a pitch presume Heav'ns glowing flame should melt her waxen plume Or if too-lowe neer Earth or Sea she flag Laden with Mists her moisted wings should lag It glads me much to view this Frame wherein As in a Glasse God's glorious face is seen I loue to look on God but in this Robe Of his great Works this vniuersall Globe For if the Suns bright beams doo blear the sight Of such as fixtly gaze against his light Who can behold aboue th' Empyriall Skies The lightning splendor of God's gloriouseies O who alas can finde the Lord without His Works which bear his Image round about God of himself incapable to sense God makes himselfe as it were visible in his Workes In 's
Works reueales him t' our intelligence There-in our fingers feel our nostrils smel Our palats taste his vertues that excel He shewes him to our eyes talks to our ears In th' ord'red motions of the spangled Sphears The World 's a School where in a generall Story Sundrie comparisons shewing what vse Christians should make in considering the workes of God in this mighty World God alwayes reads dumb Lectures of his Glory A pair of Stairs whereby our mounting Soule Ascends by steps aboue the Arched Pole A sumptuous Hall where God on euery side His wealthy Shop of wonders opens wide A Bridge whereby we may pass-o're at ease Of sacred Secrets the broad boundless Seas The World 's a Cloud through which there shineth cleer Not faire Latona's quiv'red Darling deer But the true Phoebus whose bright countenance Through thickest vail of darkest night doth glance The World 's a Stage where Gods Omnipotence His Iustice Knowledge Loue and Prouidence Do act their Parts contending in their kindes Aboue the Heav'ns to rauish dullest mindes The World 's a Book in Folio printed all With God's great Works in letters Capitall Each Creature is a Page and each Effect Afaire Character void of all defect But as young Trewants toying in the Schools In steed of learning learn to play the fools We gaze but on the Babies and the Couer The gawdy Flowrs and Edges gilded-ouer And neuer farther for our Lesson look Within the Volume of this various Book Where learned Nature rudestones instructs That by His wisedome God the World conducts To read This Book we need notvnderstand Although the world discouer sufficiently euen to the most rude the Eternity and Power of God Yet only the true Christians do rightly conceiue it Each strangers gibbrish neither take in hand Turks Characters nor Hebrue Points to seek Nyle's Hieroglyphikes nor the Notes of Greek The wandring Tartars the Antartiks wilde Th' Alarâ—ies fierce the Scythians fel the Childâ— Scarce seav'n year old the bleâ—red aged eye Though void of Art read heer indifferently But he that wears the spectacles of Faith Sees through the Sphears aboue their highest heighth He comprehends th' Arch-moouer of all Motions And reads though running all these needfull Notions Therefore by Faith's pure rayes illumined These sacred Pandects I desire to read And God the better to beholde beholde Th' Orb from his Birth in 's Ages manifolde Th' admired Author's Fancy fixed not On some fantastik fore-conceited Plot Much less did he an elder World elect God needing no Idea nor premeditatioÌ„ nor Pattern of his work of nothing made all the World By form whereof he might this Frame erect As th' Architect that buildeth for a Prince Some stately Palace yer he do commence His Royall Work makes choise of such a Court Where cost and cunning equally consort And if he finde not in one Edifice All answerable to his queint deuice From this fair Palace then he takes his Front From that his Finials here he learns to mount His curious Stairs there findes he Frise and Cornish And other Places other Peeces furnish And so selecting euery where the best Doth thirty Models in one House digest Nothing but Nothing had the Lord Almighty Whereof wherewith whereby to build this Citie Yet when he Heav'ns Aire Earth and Sea did frame He sought not far he swet not for the same A fit Simile to that purpose As Sol without descending from the sky Crowns the fair Spring in painted brauery Withouten trauaile causeth th' Earth to bear And far off makes the World young euery year The Power and Will th' affection and effect The Work and Proiect of this Architect March all at once all to his pleasure ranges Who Alwaies-One his purpose neuer changes Yet did this Nothing not at once receiue Of Nothing God created the matter whereunto afterward he gaue the form and figure which now we behold in the creatures Matter and Forme For as we may perceiue That Hee who means to build a warlike Fleet Makes first prouision of all matter meet As Timber Iron Canuase Cord and Pitch And when all 's ready then appointeth which Which peece for Planks which plank shall line the waste The Poup and Prow which Fir shall make a Mast As Art and Vse directeth heedfully His hand his tool his iudgement and his eye So God before This Frame he fashioned I wote not what great Word he vttered From 's sacred mouth which summon'd in a Masse Whatsoeuer now the Heav'ns wide arms embrace But where the Shipwright for his gainful trade Findes all his stuffe to 's hand already made Th' Almightie makes his all and euery part Without the help of others Wit or Art That first World yet was a most formless Form A confus'd Heap a Chaos most deform What that new created Chaos was before God gaue it forme figure place and situation A Gulf of Gulfs a Body ill compact An vgly medly where all difference lackt Where th' Elements lay iumbled all together Where hot and colde were iarring each with either The blunt with sharp the dank against the drie The hard with soft the base against the high Bitter with sweet and while this brawl did last The Earth in Heav'n the Heav'n in Earth was plac't Earth Aire and Fire were with the Water mixt Water Earth Aire within the Fire were fixt Fire Water Earth did in the Aire abide Aire Fire and Water in the Earth did hide For yet th' immortall mightie Thunder-darter The Lord high-Marshall vnto each his quarter Had not assigned the Celestiall Arks Were not yet spangled with their fiery sparks As yet no flowrs with odours Earth reuiued No scaly shoals yet in the waters diued Nor any Birds with warbling harmony Were born as yet through the transparent Sky All All was void of beauty rule and light Genes 1. 2. All without fashion soule and motion quite Fire was no fire the Water was no water Aire was no aire the Earth no earthly matter Or if one could in such a World spy forth The Fire the Ayre the Water and the Earth Th' Earth was not firm the Fier was not hot Th' Aire was not light the Water cooled not Briefly suppose an Earth poore naked vain All void of verdure without Hill or Plain A Heav'n vn-hangd vn-turning vn-transparant Vn-garnished vn-gilt with Stars apparant So maist thou ghesse what Heav'n and Earth was that Where in confusion raigned such debate A Heav'n and Earth for my base stile most fit Not as they were but as they were not yet This was not then the World 't was but the Matter The Nurcery whence it should issue after Or rather th' Embryon that within a Weeke The Chaos how to be considered Was to be born for that huge lump was like The shape-less burthen in the Mothers womb A simile Which yet in Time doth into fashion com Eyes eares and nose mouth fingers hands and feet And euery member in proportion
And in this Store-house of his Wonders treasure Observ'd in all things number waight and measure For had the Water next the Fire been plaç't Fire seeming then moro wrongd and more disgraç't Would sodainly have left his Aduersary And set vpon the Vmpire more contrary But all the Links of th' holy Chain which tethers The many Members of the World togethers Are such as none but only he can breake them Who at the first did of meere nothing make them Water as arm'd with moisture and with cold The cold-dry Earth with her one hand doth hold With th' other th' Aire The Aire as moist and warm The disposing combining of the Elements Holds Fire with one Water with th' other arm As Country Maidens in the Month of May Merrily sporting on a Holy-day And lusty dancing of a lively Round A Similitude About the May-pole by the Bag-pipes sound Hold hand in hand so that the first is fast By means of those between vnto the last For sith 't is so that the dry Element Not onely yeelds her owne Babes nourishment But with the milke of her aboundant brests Doth also feede th' Aires nimble winged guests And also all th' innumerable Legions Of greedy mouths that haunt the Bryny Regions So that th' Earth's Mother or else Nurse of all That run or fly or swim or slide or crawl 'T was meet it should be it self's Counterpoize To stand still firm against the roaring noise Of wrack full Neptune and the wrathfull blasts Of parching South and pinching Boreas 'T was meet her sad-slowe body to digest Why the Earth is the lowest and enuironed with the other three Elements wherof it is the center Farther from Heav'n than any of the rest Least of Heav'ns Courseth ' Eternall swift Careers Rushing against her with their whirling Sphears Should her transport as swift and violent As ay they do their neighbour Element And sith on th' otherside th' harmonious Course Of Heav'ns bright Torches is th' immortall source Of earthly life and sith all alterations Almost are caus'd by their quick agitations In all the World God could not place so fit Our Mother Earth as in the midst of it For all the Stars reflect their lively rayes On Fire and Aire and Water diuers wayes Dispersing so their powerfull influence On in and through these various Elements But on the Earth they all in one concurr And all vnite their seuered force in her As in a Wheel which with a long deep rut Simile His turning passage in the durt doth cut The distant spoaks neerer and nearer gather And in the Navevnite their points together As the bright Sun shines thorough smoothest Glass Simile The turning Planets influence doth pass Without impeachment through the glist ' ring Tent Of the tralucing Fierie Element Th' Aires triple Regions the transparent Water But not the firm Base of this fair Theater And therefore rightly may we call those Trines Fire Aire and Water but Heav'ns Concubines For neuer Sun nor Moon nor Stars inioy The love of these but only by the way As passing by whereas incessantly The lusty Heav'n with Earth doth company And with a fruitfull seed which lends All life With-childs each-moment his owne lawfull wife And with her louely Babes in form and nature The Water between the Earth and Aire So diuers decks this beautifull Theater The Water lighter then the Earthy Masse Heauier then Aire betwixt them both hath place The better so with a moist-cold to temper Th' ones over-driness th' others hot distemper But my sweet Muse whither so fast away Leauing the Earth and Sea till the next Booke hee comes to treate of the Aire Soft soft my Darling draw not dry To-Day Castalian Springs defer the Cirque and Seat The power and praise of Sea and Earth as yet Do not anticipate the Worlds Beginning But till To-Morrow leaue the enter-blinning Of Rocky Mounts and rouling Waues so wide For euen To-Morrow will the Lord diuide With the right hand of his Omnipotence These yet confus'd and mingled Elements And liberally the shaggy Earth adorn With Woods and Buds of fruits of flowers and corn 'T is time my Loue 't is time mine onely Care To hie vs hence and Mount vs in the Aire 'T is time or neuer now my dearest Minion To imp strong farcels in thy sacred pinion That lightly born vpon thy Virgin back Safe through the Welkin I my course may take Com com my Ioy lend me thy lillie shoulder That thereon raised I may reach the bolder Before the rest of my deer Country-men Of better wit but worse-applied pen At that green Laurel which the niggard Skies So long haue hidden from my longingeies Th' Aire hoste of Mists the bounding Tennis-ball That stormy Tempests toss and play with all The Aire distinguished into 3 Regions Of winged Clouds the wide inconstant House Th' vnsetled kingdom of swift Aeolus Great Ware-house of the Windes whose traffik giues Motion of life to euery thing that liues Is not throughout all one our Elder Sages Have fitly parted it into Three Stages Wherof because the Highest still is driv'n With violence of the First-mouing Heav'n The High From East to West and from West returning To th' honored Cradle of therosiall Morning And also seated next the Fiery vault It by the learned very hot is thought That which we touch with times doth variate Now hot now cold and sometimes temperate The Lowe Warm-temp'red showers it sendeth in the Spring In Autumn likewise but more varying In Winter time continuall cold and chill In Sommer season hot and soultry still For then the Fields scorched with flames reflect The sparkling rayes of thousand Stars aspect And chiefly Phoebus to whose arrows bright Our Globy Grandame serues for But and White The Middle Region of the Aire But now because the Middle Region's set Far from the Fiery seelings flagrant heat And also from the warm reuerberation Which aye the Earth reflects in diuers fashion That Circle shiuers with eternall colde For into Hail how should the Water molde Of the causes of Haile Euen when the Sommer hath gilt Ceres Gowne Except those Climes with Ycicles were sowen So soon as Sol leaving the gentle Twins With Cancer or thirst-panting Leo Inns The mid-most Aire redoubleth all his Frosts Being besieged by two mighty Hoasts Of Heat more fierce ' gainst his Cold force then ever Calls from all quarters his chil troups together T' incounter them with his vnited Powr Which then dispersed hath far greater powr As Christian Armies from the Frontiers far And out of fear of Turks outrageous War March in disorder and become disperst As many Squadrons as were Souldiers yerst So that somtimes th' vntrained Multitude With bats and boawes hath beat them and subdu'd But if they once perceive or vnderstand The Moony Standards of proud Ottoman To be approaching and the Sulph'ry thunder Wherewith he brought both Rhodes and Belgrade vnder They
Then sodainly turnd studious Platonist I hold the Heav'ns of Elements consist What vse of Elements in the Heauens 'T is Earth whose firm parts make their Lamps apparant Their bodies fast Aire makes them all transparant Fire makes their rest-les circles pure and cleer Hot lighsom light and quick in their career And Water ' nointing with cold-moist the brims Of th' enter-kissing turning Globes extreams Tempers the heat caus'd by their rapid turning Which els would set all th' elements a-burning Not that I doo compare or match the Matter Difference between the Elements whereof the Heauens are composed and these inferiour Elements Whence I compose th' All-compassing Theater To those gross Elements which heer belowe Our hand and ey doth touch and see and knowe 'T's all fair all pure a sacred harmony Those bodies bindes in end-less Vnity That Aier's not flitting nor that Water floating Nor Fire inflaming nor Earth dully doating Nor one to other aught offensiue neither But to conclude Celestiall altogether See see the rage of humane Arrogance Detesting the presumption of those curious wits searching these secrets He limits himselfe within the bounds of Christian Sobriety See how far dares man's erring ignorance That with vnbridled tongue as if it oft Had try'd the mettle of that vpper Loft Dares without proof or without reason yeelded Tell of what timber God his Palace builded But in these doubts much rather rest had I Then with mine errour draw my Readerwry Till a Saint Paule doore-descend from Heav'n Or till my self this sinfull roab be reav'n This rebell Flesh whose counterpoize oppresses My pilgrim Soule and euer it depresses Shall see the beauties of that Blessed Place If then I ought shall see saue Gods bright Face But ev'n as many or more quarrels cumber Diuers opinions of the number of the Heauens Th' old Heathen Schools about the Heav'ns number One holds but one making the Worlds Eys shine Through the thin-thicknes of that Crystal line As through the Oceans cleer and liquid Flood The slippery Fishes vp and down doosâ—ud Another iudging certain by his ey And seeing Seav'n bright Lamps moov'd diversly ' Turn this and that way and on th' other side That all the rest of the Heav'ns twinkling pride Keep all one course ingeniously he varies The Heav'ns rich building into eight round Stories Others amid the Starriest Orb perceiuing A triple cadence and withall conceiuing That but one naturall course one body goes Count nine som ten not numbring yet with those Th' empyreall Palace where th' eternall Treasures Of Nectar flowe where ever-lasting Pleasures Are heaped-vp where an immortall May In bliss-full beauties flourisheth for ay Where Life still liues where God his * Assises Sises holds Environ'd round with Seraphins and Soules Bought with his precious blood whose glorious Flight Yerst mounted Earth above the Heav'ns bright Nor shall my faint and humble Muse presume So high a Song and Subiect to assume O fair fiue-double Round sloath's Foe apparant He stoppeth at the contemplation and praise of the Heauens Which he considereth as distinguished into ten stages or Heauens Life of the World Dayes Months and yeers own Parent Thine own selfs model never shifting place And yet thy pure wings with so swift a pase Fly over vs that but our Thought alone Can as thy babe pursue thy motion Infinite finite free from growth and grief Discord and death dance-louer to be brief Still like thy self all thine own in thee all Transparent cleer light law of this lowe Ball Which in thy wide bout bound-les all doost bound And claspâ—st all vnder or in thy Round Throne of th' Almighty I would fain rehearse Thy various Dauies in this very Verse If it were time and but my bounded Song Doubteth to make this Second Day too-long For notwithstanding yet another day I fear som Critick will not stick to say My babbling Muse did sail with every gale And mingled yarn to length her web withall But knowe what e'r thou be that heer I gather The summe of what hath been handled in this booke what is to be vnderstood by the firmament which Moyses describeth in the first of Gen. â— 6 Iustly so many of Gods works together Because by th' Orbe of th' ample Firmament Which round This-Day th' Eternall Fingers pent Between the lower Waters and the higher I mean the Heav'ns the Aire and th' vpper Fire Which separate the Oceans waters salt From those which God pour'd o'r th' Ethereal Vault Yet haue I not so little seen and sought Against those that think there are no waters aboue the firmament Whom he confuteth by diuers Reasons Simile The Volums which our Age hath chiefest thought But that I knowe how suttly greatest Clarks Presume to argue in their learned Works T'o ' r-whelm these Floods this Crystal to deface And dry this Ocean which doth all imbrace But as the beauty of a modest Dame Who well-content with Natures comly Frame And native Fair as it is freely giv'n In fit proportion by the hand of Heav'n Doth not with painting prank nor set-it-out With helps of Art sufficient Fair without Is more prayse-worthy then the wanton glance Th' affected gait th' alluring countenance The Mart of Pride the Periwigs and painting Whence Courtisans refresh their beauties fainting 1. The word of God to be preser red before the voice of man So doe I more the sacred Tongue esteem Though plain and rurall it doe rather seem Then school'd Athenian and Diuinity For onely varnish have but Verity Then all the golden Wit-pride of Humanity Wherewith men burnish their erroneous vanity I 'l rather give a thousand times the ly 2. Gods word meÌ„tioneth waters aboue the firmament To mine own Reason then but once defy The sacred voice of th' ever-lasting Spirit Which doth so often and so loud averr-it That God above the shining Firmament Gen. 1 7 Psal. 104 3 Psal. 148 4 I wot not I what kinde of Waters pent Whether that pure super-celestiall Water With our inferiour haue no likely nature Whether turnd Vapour it haue round embow'd Heav'ns highest stage in a transparent Cloud Or whether as they say a Crystall case Do round about the Heav'nly Orb embrace But with coniectures wherefore strive I thus Can doubtfull proofs the certainty discuss I see not why Mans reason should withstand 3. The power of God ought to be of greater authority then Mans Reason Or not beleeve that Hee whose powrfull hand Bay'd-vp the Red-Sea with a double Wall That Israels Hoast might scape Egyptian thrall Could prop as sure so many waves on high Above the Heav'n Star-spangled Canapy See we not hanging in the Clouds each howr So many Seas still threatning down to pour 4. The consideration of the waters which hang in the Aire and of the Sea which compasseth the Earth Supported only by th' Aier's agitation Selfly too weak for the least waight's foundation See wee not also that
Or may 't not be because the surly Banks Keep Waters captiue in their hollow flanks Or that our Seas be buttrest as it were With thousand Rocks dispersed heere and there Or rather Lord is' t not Thine onely Powr That Bows it round about Earths branchy Bowr Doubt-less great God 't is doubt-less thine owne hand The second part of this 3. Book intreating of the Element of earth and first of the firmnes thereof Whereon this Mansion of Mankinde doth stand For thogh it hang in th' Aire swim in the water Though every way it be a round Theater Though All turn round about it though for ay Itselfs Fundations with swist Motions play It rests vn-mooueable that th' Holy Race Of Adam there may finde fit dwelling place The Earth receiues man when he first is born Earth is the Mo ther Nurse and Hostessâ— of mankinde Th' Earth nurses him and when he is forlorn Of th' other Elements and Nature loaths-him Th' Earth in her bosom with kinde burial cloaths-him Oft hath the Aire with Tempests set-vpon-vs Oft hath the Water with her Floods vndon-vs Oft hath the Fire th' vpper as well as ours With wofull flames consum'd our Towns and Towrs Onely the Earth of all the Elements Vnto Mankinde is kinde without offence Onely the Earth did neuer iot displace From the first seat assign'd it by thy grace Yet true it is good Lord that mov'd somtimes Of Earth quakes and of the opening of the earth With wicked Peoples execrablecrimes The wrathfull power of thy right hand doth make Not all the Earth but part of it to quake With ayd of Windes which as imprisoned deep In her vast entrails furious murmurs keep Fear chils our hearts what hart can fear dissemble When Steeples stagger and huge Mountains tremble With wind-less winde and yawning Hell devours Somtimes whole Cities with their shining Towrs Sith then the Earth's and Waters blended Ball The Globe of the Earth Sea is but as a little point in comparison of the great circumference of Heauen Is center heart and nauel of this All And sith in reason that which is included Must needs beless then that which doth include it 'T is question-less the Orb of Earth and Water Is the least Orb in all the All-Theater Let any iudge whether this lower Ball Whose endless greatnes we admire so all Seem not a point compar'd with th' vpper Sphear Whose turning turns the rest in their Career Sith by the Doctrine of Astronomers the least Starre in the â—â—rmnment is â—8 times bigger then al the earth Sith the least Star that we perceiue to shine Aboue disperst in th' Arches crystalline If at the least Star-Clarkes be credit worth Is eighteen times bigger then all the Earth Whence if we but substract what is possest From North to South from the East to West Vnder the Empire of the Ocean Atlantike Indian and American And thousand huge Arms issuing out of these With infinites of other Lakes and Seas And also what the Two intemperate Zones Doo make vnfit for habitations What will remaine Ah! nothing in respect Lo heer O men Lo wherefore you neglect By consideration wherof the Poet taketh occasion to censure sharply the Ambition Bribery Vsury Extortion Deceipt and generall Couetousnes of Mankinde Heav'ns glorious Kingdom Lo the largest scope Glory can giue to your ambitious hope O Princes subiects vnto pride and pleasure Who to enlarge but a hair's breadth the measure Of your Dominions breaking Oaths of Peace Couer the Fields with bloudy Carcases O Magistrates who to content the Great Make sale of Iustice on your sacred Seat And broaking Laws for Bribes profane your Place To leaue a Leek to your vnthankfull Race You strict Extorters that the Poor oppress And wrong the Widdow and the Father-less To leaue your Off-spring rich of others good In Houses built of Rapine and of Blood You City-Vipers that incestuous ioyn Vse vpon vse begetting Coyn of Coyn You Marchant Mercers and Monopolites Gain-greedy Chap-men periur'd Hypocrites Dissembling Broakers made of all deceipts Who falsifie your Measures and your Weights T' inrich your selues and your vnthrifty Sons To Gentillize with proud possessions You that for gain betray your gracious Prince Your natiue Country or your deerest Friends You that to get you but an inch of ground With cursed hands remoue your Neigbours bound The ancient bounds your Ancestors haue set What gain you all alas what do you get Yea though a King by wile or war had won All the round Earth to his subiection Lo heer the Guerdon of his glorious pains A needles point a Mote a Mite he gains A Nit a Nothing did he All possess Or if then nothing anything beless When God whose words more in a moment can God hauing discouered the earth commands it to bring forth euery green thing hearbs trees flowers and fruits Then in an Age the proudest strength of Man Had seuered the Floods leuell'd the Fields Embas't the Valleys and embost the Hils Change change quoth he O fair and firmest Globe Thy moutning weed to a green gallant Robe Cheer thy sad brows and stately garnish them With a rich fragrant flowry Diadem Lay forth thy locks and paint thee Lady-like With freshest colours on thy sallow cheek And let from hence-forth thy aboundant brests Not only Nursethine own Wombs natiue guests But frankly furnish with fit nourishments The future folk of th' other Elements That Aire and Water and the Angels Court May all seem iealous of thy praise and port Of Trees growing in Mountains and in Valleys No sooner spoken but the lofty Pine Distilling-pitch the Larch yeeld-Turpentine Th' euer-green Box and gummy Cedar sprout And th' Airy Mountaines mantle round about The Mast-full Oke the vse-full Ash the Holm Coat changing Cork white Maple shady Elm Through Hill and Plain ranged their plumed Ranks The winding Riuers bordered all their banks With slice-Sea Alders and green Osiars smal With trembling Poplars and with VVillows pase And many Trees beside fit to be made Fewell or Timber or to serue for Shade The dainty Apricock of Plums the Prince Of fruit-trees The veluet Peach gilt Orenge downy Quince All-ready bear grav'n in their tender barks Gods powerfull prouidence in open marks The sent-sweet Apple and a stringent Pear The Cherry Filberd VVal-nut Meddeler The milky Fig the Damson black and white The Date and Olyue ayding appetite Spread euery-where a most delightfull Spring And euery-where a very Eden bring Heer the fine Pepper as in clusters hung Of shrubs There Cinamon and other Spices sprung Heer dangled Nutmegs that for thrifty pains Yearly repay the Bandans wondrous gains There growes th' Hesperian Plant the precious Reed Whence Sugar sirrops in aboundance bleed There weeps the Balm and famous Trees from whence Th' Arabians fetch perfuming Frankincense There th' amorous Uine coll's in a thousand sorts With winding arms her Spouse that her supports The Vine as far
stately Toombes externly gilt and garnisht With dust and bones inwardly fill'd and furnisht But inwardly shee 's no less fraught with riches Of the riches vnder or within the Earth Nay rather more which more our soules bewitches Within the deep folds of her fruitfull lap So bound-less Mines of treasure doth she wrap That th' hungry hands of humane avarice Cannot exhaust with labour or device For they be more then ther be Starrs in Heav'n Or stormy billows in the Ocean driv'n Or ears of Corn in Autumn on the Fields Or Savage Beasts vpon a thousand Hills Or Fishes diving in the silver Floods Or scattred Leaves in Winter in the Woods Slat Iet and Marble shall escape my pen Of Minerals I over-pass the Salt-mount Oromene I blanch the Brine-Quar Hill in Aragon Whence there they pouder their provision I 'le onely now emboss my Book with Brass Dye't with Vermilion deck't with Coperass With Gold and Siluer Lead and Mercury Tin Iron Orpine Stibium Lethargy And on my Gold-work I will onely place The Crystall pure which doth reflect each face The precious Ruby of a Sanguin hew Of pretious stones The Seal-fit Onyx and the Saphire blew The Cassidonie full of circles round The tender Topaz and rich Diamond The various Opal and green Emerald The Agate by a thousand titles call'd The skie-like Turquez purple Amethists And fiery Carbuncle which flames resists I knowe to Man the Earth seems altogether No more a Mother but a Step-dame rather Because alas vnto our loss she bears Blood-shedding Steel and Gold the ground of cares As if these Mettals and not Man 's amiss Had made Sin mount vnto the height it is But as the sweet bait of aboundant Riches Bodies and Soules of greedy men bewitches The vse or abuse of things makes theÌ„ good or euill helpfull or hurtful to Mankinde Gold gilds the Vertuous and it lends them wings To raise their thoughts vnto the rarest things The wise not onely Iron well apply For houshold turns and Tools of Husbandry But to defend their Country when it calls From forrain dangers and intestine bralls But with the same the wicked never mell But to do seruice to the Haggs of Hell To pick a Lock to take his neighbours Purse To break a House or to doo somthing worse To cut his Parents throat to kill his Prince To spoyl his Country murder Innocents Even so profaning of a gift divine The Drunkard drowns his Reason in the Wine So sale-tongu'd Lawyers wresting Eloquence Excuse rich wrong and cast poor Innocence So Antichrists their poyson to infuse Miss-cite the Scriptures and Gods name abuse For as a Cask through want of vse grow'n fusty Makes with his stink the best Greek Malmsey musty So God's best gifts vsurpt by wicked Ones To poyson turn through their contagious But shall I baulk th' admired Adamant Of the rare vertue of the Loadstone Whose dead-live power my Reasons power doth dant Renowned Load-stone which on Iron acts And by the touch the same aloof attracts Attracts it strangely with vnclapsing crooks With vnknow'n cords with vnconceived hooks With vnseen hands with vndiscerned arms With hidden Force with sacred secret charms Wherewith hee wooes his Iron Misteriss And never leaves her till he get a kiss Nay till he fold her in his faithfull bosom Never to part except we love-less loose-em With so firm zeal and fast affection The Stone doth love the Steel the Steel the Stone And though somtime som Make bate com betwixt Still burns their first flame 't is so surely fixt And while they cannot meet to break their mindes With mutuall skips they shew their loue by signes As bashfull Suters seeing Strangers by Parley in silence with their hand or eye Who can conceiue or censure in what sort One Loadstone-touched Annlet doth transport Another Iron-Ring and that another Till foure or fiue hang dangling one in other Greatest Apollo might he be me thinks Could tell the Reason of these hanging links Sith Reason-scanners haue resolved all That heavie things hangd in the Aire must fall I am not ignorant that He who seeks In Romane Robes to sute the Sagest Greeks Whose iealous wife weening to home-revoke-him With a Love-potion did with poyson choak-him Hath sought to showe with arguing subtilty The secret cause of this rare Sympathy But say Lucretius what 's the hidden cause That toward the North-Star still the needle draw's Whose point is toucht with Load-stone loose this knot And still-green Laurell shall be still thy Lot Yea Thee more learned will I then confess Then Epicurus or Empedocles W' are not to Ceres so much bound for Bread Of the excellent vse of the Mariners Compasse Neither to Bacchus for his Clusters red As Signor Flauio to thy witty triall For first inuenting of the Sea-mans Diall Th' vse of the Needle turning in the same Diuine deuâ—â— e O admirable Frame Whereby through th' Ocean in the darkest night Our hugest Caraques are conducted right Whereby w' are stor'd with Truch-man Guide and Lamp To search all corners of the watery Camp Whereby a Ship that stormy Heav'ns haue whurld Neer in one Night into another World Knowes where she is and in the Card descries What degrees thence the Equinoctiall lies Cleer-sighted Spirits that cheer with sweet aspect My sober Rymes though subiect to defect If in this Volume as you ouer-read it You meet som things seeming exceeding credit Because perhaps heer proued yet by no-man Their strange effects be not in knowledge common Think yet to som the Load-stone's vse is new And seems as strange as we haue try'd it true Let therefore that which Iron draw's draw such To credit more then what they see or touch Nor is th' Earth onely worthy praise eternall Of medicinable Earthes For the rare riches on her back externall Or in her bosom but her own selfs worth Solicits me to sound her glory forth I call to witnes all those weak diseased Whose bodies oft haue by th' effects been eased Of Lemnos seal'd earth or Eretrian soil Or that of Chios or of Melos I le All-hail fair Earth bearer of Towns and Towrs Of Men Gold Grain Physik and Fruits and Flowrs The Earths Encomion Fair firm and fruitfull various patient sweet Sumptuously cloathed in a Mantle meet Of mingled-colour lac't about with Floods And all imbrodered with fresh blooming buds With rarest Gemmes richly about embost Excelling cunning and exceeding cost All-hail great Heart round Base and stedfast Root Of All the World the Worlds strong fixed foot Heav'ns chastest Spouse supporter of this All This glorious Buildings goodly Pedestall All hail deer Mother Sister Hostess Nurse Of the Worlds Soverain of thy liberall purse W' are all maintained match-less Emperess To doo thee seruice with all readiness The Sphears before thee bear ten thousand Torches The Fire to warm thee foldes his heatfull arches In purest flames aboue the floating Cloud Th' Aire to refresh thee willingly
Preacher not the Parasite So Morn and Euening the Third Day conclude And God perceiv'd that All his Works were good THE FOVRTH DAIE OF THE FIRST WEEK THE ARGVMENT The twinkling Spangles of the Firmament The wandring Seav'n Each in a seuerall Tent Their Course their Force their Essence is disputed That they as Beasts doe eat and drink refuted Heav'ns not the Earth with rapid motion roule The famous Stars observ'd in either Pole Heav'ns sloaping Belt the Twelue celestiall Signes Whear Sol the Seasons of the Year confines Dayes glorious Prince Nights gloomy Patroness His Light and Might Her constant Change-fulnes PVre Spirit that rapt'st aboue the Firmest Sphear In the beginning of the fourth booke calling vpon the God of Heauen our Poet prayeth to be lift vp in the Heauens that he may discoursâ— as he ought of the starrs fixed and wandring In fiery Coach thy faithfull Messenger Who smiting Iordan with his pleighted Cloak Did yerst diuide the Waters with the stroak O take me vp that far from Earth I may From Sphear to Sphear see th' azure Heav'ns To-Day Be thou my Coach-man and now Check by Ioule With Phoebus Chariot let my Chariotroule Driue on my Coach by Mars his flaming Coach Saturn and Luna let my wheels approach That having learn'd of their Fire-breathing Horses Their course their light their labour and their forces My Muse may sing in sacred Eloquence To Vertues Friends their vertuous Excellence And with the Load-stone of my conquering Verse Aboue the Poles attract the most perverse And you fair learned soules you spirits diuine To whom the Heav'ns so nimble quils assigne As well to mount as skilfully to limn The various motion of their Taperstrim Lend me your hand lift mee aboue Parnassus With your loud Trebbles help my lowly Bassus For sure besides that your wit-gracing Skill Bears in itself itself's rich guerdon still Our Nephews free from sacrilegious brauls Where Horror swims in bloud about our wals Shall one day sing that your deer Song did merit Better Heav'n better hap and better time to hear-it And though alas my now new-rising Name Can hope heer-after none or little Fame The time that most part of our betterwits Mis-spend in Flattery or in Fancy-Fits In courting Ladies or in clawing Lords Without affection in affected words I mean to spend in publishing the Story Of Gods great works to his immortall glory My rymes begot in pain and born in pleasure Thirst not for Fame the Heathen hope 's chief treasure 'T shall me suffice that our deer France doo breed In happy season som more learned sced That may record with more diuine dexterity Then I haue don these wonders to Posterity Much less may these abortiue Brats of Mine Expect Respect but in respect of Thine Yet sith the Heav'ns haue thus entaskt my layes As darkly Cynthia darts her borrow'd rayes To shadow Thine and to my Countrey render Som small reflection of thy radiant splendor It is inough if heer-by I incite Som happier spirit to do thy Muse more right And with more life giue thee thy proper grace And better follow great du BARTAS trace GOD'S NONE of these faint idle Artizens Heere resuming his course he presecutes the worke of the Creation Who at the best abandon their designes Working by halfs as rather a great deal To do much quickly then to do it well But rather as a workman neuer weary And all-sufficient he his works doth carry To happy end and to perfection With sober speed brings what he hath begun Hauing therfore the Worlds wide Curten spread About the circuit of the fruitfull Bed In the fourth day God created the fixed Stars the two great Lights vid. the Sunne and the Moone together with the other fiue Planets Where to fill all with her vnnumbred Kin Kinde Natures self each moment lyeth in To make the same for euer admirable More stately-pleasant and more profitable He th' Azure Tester trimm'd with golden marks And richly spangled with bright glistring sparks I knowe those Tapers twinkling in the sky Doo turn so swiftly from our hand and eye That man can neuer rightly reach to seeing Their Course and Force and much-much less their Being Of their Course Force Essence and Substance But if coniecture may extend aboue To that great Orb whose mouing All doth moue Th' imperfect Light of the first Day was it Which for Heavn's Eyes did shining matter fit For God selecting lightest of that Light Garnisht Heav'ns seeling with those Torches bright Or else diuided it and pressing close The parts did make the Sun and Stars of those But if thy wits thirst rather seek these things Opinion of the Greek touching the matter of the Stars In Greekish Cisterns then in Hebrew Springs Then I conclude that as of moistfull matter God made the people that frequent the Water And of an Earthy stuff the stubborn droues That haunt the Hills and Dales and Downs and Groues So did he make by his Almighty might The Heav'ns and Stars of one same substance bright To th' end these Lamps dispersed in the Skies Might with their Orb it with them sympathize And as with vs vnder the Oaken bark The knurry knot with branching vains we mark Simile To bee of substance all one with the Tree Although far thicker and more rough it bee So those gilt studs in th' vpper story driven Are nothing but the thickest part of Heav'n When I obserue their Light and Heat yblent Their substance is of Fire Meer accidents of th' vpper Element I thinke them Fire but not such Fire as lasts No longer then the fuel that it wastes For then I think all th' Elements too-little To furnish them only with one days victual And therefore smile I at those Fable-Forges Resutation of such as haue thought that the Stars were liuing creatures that did eat and drinke Whose busy-idle stile so stifly vrges The Heavn's bright Cressets to be living creatures Ranging for food and hungry fodder-eaters Still sucking-vp in their eternall motion The Earth for meat and for their drink the Ocean Sure I perceive no motion in a Star But natural certain and regular Wher-as Beasts motions infinitely vary Confus'd vncertain diuers voluntary I see not how so many golden Postes Should scud so swift about Heav'ns azure coasts But that the Heav'ns must ope and shut som-times Subiect to passions which our earthly climes Alter and toss the Sea and th' Aire estrange From it selfs temper with exceeding change I see not how in those round blazing beams One should imagine any food-fit limbs Nor can I see how th' Earth and Sea should feed So many Stars whose greatnes doth exceed So many times if Star-Diuines say troth The greatnes of the Earth and Ocean both Sith heer our Cattle in a month will eat Seav'n-times the bulk of their owne bulk in meat These Torches then range not at random o're The lightsom thicknes of an vn-firm Floor As heer
will admire In whose cleer channel mought at pleasure swim Those two bright Fishes that doo follow him Pisces in mid-February But that the Torrent slides so swift away That it out-runs them euer euen as they Out-run the Ram who euer them pursues And by renewing Yearely all renues The names of the Principall stars of the North-Pole Besides these Twelue toward the Artik side A flaming Dragon doth Two-Bears diuide After the Wainman coms the Crown the Spear The Kneeling Youth the Harp the Hamperer Of th' hatefull Snake whether we call the same By Aesculapius or Alcides name Swift Pegasus the Dolphin louing man Ioues stately Aegle and the siluer Swan Andromeda with Cassiopeia neer-her Her father Cepheus and her Perseus deerer The shining Triangle Medusa's Tress And the bright Coach-man of Tindarides Toward th' other Pole Orion Eridanus The names of the Stars of the South-Pole The Whale the Whelp and hot-breath't Sirius The Hare the Hulk the Hydra and the Boule The Centaure VVolf the Censer and the Foul The twice-foul Rauen the Southern Fish and Crown Through Heav'ns bright Arches brandish vp and down Thus on This-Day working th' eightth azure Tent The fixed stars are in the eight Heauen With Art-les Art diuinely excellent Th' Almighties fingers fixed many a million Of golden Scutchions in that rich Pauilion But in the rest vnder that glorious Heav'n But one a-peece vnto the seuerall Seav'n And the seauen Planets vnder them each in his proper Spheare Least of those Lamps the number-passing number Should mortall eyes with such confusion cumber That we should neuer in the cleerest night Starrs diuers Course see or discern aright And therfore also all the fixed Tapers He made to twinkle with such trembling capers Why the Planets twinkle not and the fixed stars do twinkle But the Scaven Lights that wander vnder them Through various passage neuer shake a beam Or he perhaps made them not different But th' hoast of Sparks spred in the Firmament Far from our sense through distance infinite Seems but to twinkle to our twinkling sight The firmament much farther from the Earth then the sphears of the Planets Wheras the rest neerer a thousand fold To th' Earth and Sea we doo more brim behold For the Heav'ns are not mixtly enterlaced But th' vndermost by th' vpper be imbraced And more or less their roundels wider are As from the Center they be neer or far As in an Egg the shell includes the skin Simile The skin the white the white the yolk with-in Two similes representing the motion of the eight inferiour Heav'ns throgh the swift turning of the ninth which is the Primum Mobile Now as the Winde buffing vpon a Hill With roaring breath against a ready Mill Whirls with a whiff the sails of swelling clout The sails doo swing the winged shaft about The shaft the wheel the wheel the trendle turns And that the stone which grindes the flowry corns Or like as also in a Clock well tended Iust counter-poize iustly thereon suspended Makes the great Wheel goe round and that anon Turns with his turning many a meaner one The trembling watch and th' iron Maule that chimes The intire Day in twice twelue equall times So the grand Heav'n in foure and twenty houres Surueying all this various house of ours With his quick motion all the Sphears doth moue Whose radiant glances gild the World aboue And driues them euery day which swiftnes strange-is From Gange to Tagus and from Tay to Ganges But th' vnder-Orbs as grudging to be still Each of the 8. Heauens so traÌ„sported by the Primum Mobilâ— hath also his proper oblique and distinct course each from other So straightly subiect to anothers will Still without change still at anothers pleasure After one pipe to dance one onely measure They from-ward turn and traversing aside Each by himself an oblique course doth slide So that they all although it seem not so Forward and backward in one instant goe Both vp and down and with contrary pases At once they poste to two contrary places Like as my self in my lost Marchant-years A loss alas that in these liues appears Waâ—ting to Brabant Englands golden Fleece The same explaned by a proper Simile A ritcher pryze then Iason brought to Greece While toward the Sea our then Swan-poorer Thames Bare down my Bark vppon her ebbing streams Vpon the hatches from the Prow to Poup Walking in compass of that narrow Coop Maugre the most that Winde and Tide could doo Haue gone at once towards LEE and LONDON too Why som of these Heauens haue a slower course shorter compasse then other some But now the neerer any of these Eight Approach th' Empyreall Palace walls in height The more their circuit and more daies they spend Yeâ— they return vnto their Iourneys end It 's therefore thought That sumptuous Canapy The terme of the reuolution of the Firmament The which th' vn-niggard hand of Maiesty Poudred so thick with Shields so shining cleer Spends in his voyage nigh seaven thousand year Ingenious Saturn spouse of Memory Of the seuenth which is the Spheare of Saturn Father of th' Age of Gold though coldly dry Silent and sad bald hoary wrinkle-faced Yet art thou first among the Planets placed And thirty years thy Leaden Coach doth run Yeâ— it arrive where thy Career begun Thou rich benign Ill-chasing Iupiter Of the 6 which is the Sphear of Iupiter Art worthy next thy Father sickle-bear And while thou doost with thy more milde aspect His froward beams disast'rous frouns correct Thy Tinnen Chariot shod with burning bosses Through twice-six Signes in twice six twelue months crosses Braue-minded Mars yet Master of mis-order Of the 5. which is the spheare of Mars Delighting nought but Battails blood and murder His surious Coursers lasheth night and day That he may swiftly passe his course away But in the road of his eternall Race So many rubs hinder his hasty pase That thrice the while the lively Liquor-God With dabbled heels hath swelling clusters trod And thrice hath Ceres shav'n her amber tress Yeâ— his steel whels haue done their business Pure goldie-locks Sol States-friend Honour-giuer Of the 4. which is the Sphear of Sol. Light-bringer Laureat Leach-man all Reviver Thou in three hundred threescore daies and five Doost to the period of thy Race arrive For with thy proper course thou measur'st th' Year And measur'st Daies with thy constrain'd career Fair dainty Venus whose free vertues milde Of the 3. which is the spheare of Venus With happy fruit get all the world with-childe Whom wanton dalliance dancing and delight Smiles wittâ—e wiles youth loue and beauty bright With soft blind Cupids evermore consort Of light som Day opens and shuts the port For hardly darâ— her siluer Doves go far From bright Apollos glory-beaming Car. Not much vnlike so Mercury the wittie Of the 2. which is the sphear of
The true Image of Ciuill warre That stocked thear he now can stir no furder While th' Elephant but to no purpose strives With 's winding Trunk t' vndoo his wounding gyves His furious fo thrusts in his nose his nose Then head and all and thear-withall doth close His breathing passage but his victory Hee ioyes not long for his huge Enimy Falling down dead doth with his waighty Fall Crush him to death that caus'd his death withall Like factious French-men whose fell hands pursue Simile In their own brests their furious blades t' imbrew While pitty-les hurried with blinded zeal In her own bloud they bathe their Common-weal When as at Dreux S t. Denis and Mountcounter Their parricidiall bloody swords incounter Making their Country as a Tragik Tomb T'interr th' Earths terror in her hap-les womb Or like our own late YORK and LANCASTER Simile Ambitious broachers of that Uiper-War Which did the womb of their own Dam deuour And spoyl'd the freshest of fair ENGLAND'S Flowr When WHITE and RED ROSE against ROSE they stood Brother'gainst Brother to the knees in blood While WAKE-FIELD BARNET and S t. ALBON'S streets Were drunk with deer blood of PLANTAGENETS Whear either Conquer'd and yet neither Won Sith by them both was but their Owne vndon Neer th' Elephant coms th' horned * Alias Gyraffa alias Anabula an Indian Sheep or a wilde Sheep The Hirable Camell Bull. Asse Horse Hirable Stream-troubling Camell and strong-necked Bull The lazy-pased yet laborious Asse The quick proud Courser which the rest doth passe For apt address Mars and his Master loving After his hand with ready lightnes moving This out of hand will self aduance and bound Corvet pase manage turn and trot the Round That follows loose behind the Groom that keeps-him This kneeleth down the while-his Master leaps-him This runns on Corn-Ears and ne'r bends their quills That on the Water and ne'r wets his heels In a fresh Troup the fearful Hare I note The Hare The Connie Goat Sheep Swine Deere Th' oblivious Conney and the brouzing Goat The sloathfull Swine the golden-fleeced Sheep The light-foot Hart which every yeer doth weep As a sad Recluse for his branched head That in the Spring-time hee before hath shed O! what a sport to see a Heard of them Take soyl in Sommer in som spacious stream One swims before another on his chine Nigh half-vpright doth with his brest incline On that another and so all doo ride Each after other and still when their guide Growes to be weary and can lead no more He that was hindmost coms and swims before Like as in Cities still one Magistrate Bears not the Burthen of the common State But having past his Yeer he doth discharge On others shoulders his sweet-bitter Charge But of all Beasts none steadeth man so much As doth the Dog his diligence is such A faithfull Guard a watchfull Sentinell A painfull Purvayor that with perfect smell Provides great Princes many a dainty mess A friend till death a helper in distress Dread of the Wolf Fear of the fearfull Thief Fierce Combatant and of all Hunters chief There skips the Squirrell seeming Weather-wise Squirrel Without beholding of Heav'ns twinkling eyes For knowing well which way the winde will change Hee shifts the portall of his little Grange Ther 's th' wanton Weazell and the wily Fox Weazell Foxe Monkey Ciuit Cat. The witty Monkey that mans action mocks The sweat-sweet Ciuet deerly fetcht from far For Courtiers nice past Indian Tarnassar There the wise Beuer who pursu'd by foes Beuer or Bezar Tears-off his codlings and among them throwes Knowing that Hunters on the Pontik Heath Doo more desire that ransom then his death There the rough Hedge-hog who to shun his thrall Hedgehog Shrinks vp himself as round as any Ball And fastning his slowe feet vnder his chin On 's thistly bristles rowles him quickly in But th' Ey of Heav'n beholdeth nought more strange Then the Chameleon who with various change Chameleon Receiues the colour that each obiect giues And food-les else of th' Aire alonely liues My blood congeals my sodain swelling brest Can hardly breathe with chill cold cakes opprest My hair doth stare my bones for fear do quake My colour changes my sad heart doth shake And round about Deaths Image ghastly-grim Before mine eys all-ready seems to swim O! who is he that would not be astound To be as I am heer environ'd round With cruell'st Creatures which for Mastery Creatures venomous and offensiue to man Haue vow'd against vs end-less Enmity Phoebus would faint Alcides self would dread Although the first drad Python conquered And th' other vanquisht th' Erymanthian Boar The Némean Lion and a many more What strength of arm or Art-full stratagem From Nile's fell Rover could deliver them The Crocodile Who runs and rowes warring by Land and Water 'Gainst Men and Fishes subiect to his slaughter Or from the furious Dragon which alone Dragon Set on a Roman Army whearupon Stout Regulus as many Engines spent As to the ground would Carthage walls haue rent What shot-free Corslet or what counsail crafty 'Gainst th' angry Aspick could assure them safety Aspick Who faithful husband over hill and Plain Pursues the man that his deer Pheer hath slain Whom he can finde amid the thickest throng And in an instant venge him of his wrong What shield of Aiax could avoid their death By th' Basilisk whose pestilentiall breath Basilisk Doth pearce firm Marble and whose banefull ey Wounds with a glance so that the soundest dy Lord if so be thou for mankinde didst rear Why God created such noysom and dangerous creatures Sin the occasion of the hurt they can do vs. This rich round Mansion glorious every whear Alas why didst thou on This Day create These harmfull Beasts which but exasperate Our thorny life O! wert thou pleas'd to form Th' innammel'd Scorpion and the Uiper-worm Th' horned Cerastes th' Alexandrian Skink Th' Adder and Drynas full of odious stink Th' Eft Snake and Dipsas causing deadly Thirst Why hast thou arm'd them with a rage so curst Pardon good God pardon mee 't was our pride Not thou that troubled our first happy tyde And in the Childehood of the World did bring Th' Amphisbena her double banefull sting Before that Adam did revolt from Thee And curious tasted of the sacred Tree He lived King of Eden and his brow Was never blankt with pallid fear as now The fiercest Beasts would at his word or beck Bow to his yoak their self-obedient neck As now the ready Horse is at command Simile To the good Rider's spur or word or wand And doth not wildely his own will perform But his that rules him with a steddy arm Yea as forgetfull of so foul offence God hath giuen v◠wisedome to auoid and vanquish them Thou left'st him yet sufficient wisdom whence He might subdue and to his seruice stoop
his courage ' gan to gather When he perceiv'd no rage but pitty rather In his new Hoast who with milde looks and meek Seem'd as it were succour of him to seek Showing him oft one of his paws wherein A festering thorn for a long time had been Then though still fearfull did the Slaue draw nigher And from his foot he lightly snatcht the Bryer And wringing gently with his hand the wound Made th' hot impostume run vpon the ground Thenceforth the Lion seeks for Booties best Through Hill and Dale to cheer his new-com Guest His new Physician who for all his cost Soon leaues his Lodging and his dreadfull Hoast And once more wanders through the wildernes Whether his froward Fortune would address Vntill re-taen his fell Lord brought him home For Spectacle vnto Imperiall Rome To be according to their barbarous Laws Bloudily torn with greedy Lions paws Fell Canniball Flint-harted Polyphem If thou would'st needs exactly torture him Inhumane Monster hatefull Lestrigon Why from thine owne hand hast thou let him gon To Bears and Lions to be giuen for prey Thy self more fell a thousand-fold then they African Panthers Hyrcan Tigres fierce Cleonian Lions and Panonian Bears Be not so cruell as who violates Sacred Humanity and cruciates His loy all subiects making his recreations Of Massacres Combats and sharp Taxations ' Boue all the Beasts that fill'd the Martian Field With bloud and slaughter one was most beheld One valiant Lion whose victorious fights Had conquered hundreds of those guilty wights Whose feeble skirmish had but striv'n in vain To scape by combat their deserued pain That very Beast with faint and fearfull feet This Runnagate at last is forç't to meet And being entred in the bloody List The Lion rowz'd and ruffles-vp his Crest Shortens his body sharpens his grim ey And staring wide he roareth hideously Then often swindging with his sinnewy train Somtimes his sides somtimes the dusty Plain Hewhets his rage and strongly rampeth on Against his foe who nigh already gon To drink of Lethè lifteth to the Pole Religious vows not for his life but soule After the Beast had marcht som twenty pase He sodain stops and viewing well the face Of his pale foe remembred rapt with ioy That this was he that eased his annoy Wherefore conuerting from his hatefull wildenes From pride to pitty and from rage to mildenes On his bleak face he both his eyes doth fix Fawning for homage his lean hands he licks The Slaue thus knowing and thus being knowen Lifts to the Heav'ns his front now hoary growen And now no more fearing his tearing paws He stroaks the Lion and his poule he claws And learns by proof that a good turn at need At first or last shall be assur'd of meed THER 's vnder Sun as Delphos God did showe No better Knowledge then Our self to Knowe Noscete ipsuÌ„ Ther is no Theam more plentifull to sean Then is the glorious goodly Frame of MAN The second part of this sixt book Wherein is discoursed at large of the creatioÌ„ of Man For in Man's self is Fire Aire Earth and Sea Man 's in a word the World's Epitomé Or little Map which heer my Muse doth try By the grand Pattern to exemplifie A witâ—y Mason doth not with rare Art And of the wonders of Gods wisedom appearing both in his body and Soule Into a Palace Paros Rocks conuert Seel it with gold and to the Firmament Rayse the proud Turrets of his Battlement And to be brief in every part of it Beauty to vse vse vnto beauty fit To th' end the Skrich-Owl and the Night-Rav'n should In those fair walls their habitations hold But rather for som wise and wealthy Prince Able to iudge of his arts excellence Even so the Lord built not this All-Theater For the rude guests of Air and Woods and Water The world made for Man But all for Him who whether he survey The vast salt kingdoms or th' Earth's fruitfull clay Or cast his eys vp to those twinkling Eys That with disordered order gild the Skyes Can every-where admire with due respect Th' admired Art of such an Architect Now of all Creatures which his Word did make Man was created last why MAN was the last that living breath did take Not that he was the least or that God durst Not vndertake so noble a Work at first Rather because he should haue made in vain So great a Prince without on whom to Raign A wise man never brings his bidden guest Fit comparison Into his Parlour till his Room be drest Garnisht with Lights and Tables neatly spred Be with full dishes well-nigh furnished So our great God who bountious euer keeps Heer open Court and th' ever-bound-les Deeps Of sweetest Nectar on vs still distills By twenty-times ten thousand sundry quills Would not our Grandsier to his Boord inuite Yer he with Arras his fair house had dight And vnder starry State-Cloaths plaç't his plates Fill'd with a thousand sugred delicates All th' admirable Creatures made beforn Which Heav'n and Earth and Ocean doo adorn All other creatures nothing in respect of Man made to the Image of God with as it were great preparation not all at once but by interims first his Body and then his reasonable Soule Are but Essays compar'd in every part To this divinest Master-Piece of Art Therefore the supream peer-les Architect When of meer nothing he did first erect Heav'n Earth and Aire and Seas at once his thought His word and deed all in an instant wrought But when he would his own selfs Type create Th' honour of Nature th' Earths sole Potentate As if he would a Councell hold he cyteth His sacred Power his Prudence he inuiteth Summons his Loue his Iustice he adiourns Calleth his Goodnes and his Grace returns To as it were consult about the birth And building of a second God of Earth And each a-part with liberal hand to bring Some excellence vnto so rare a thing Or rather he consults with 's onely Son His own true Pourtrait what proportion Gen. 1 16 What gifts what grace what soule he should bestowe Vpon his Vice-Roy of this Realm belowe When th' other things God fashion'd in their kinde The Sea t' abound in Fishes he assign'd The Earth in Flocks but having Man in hand His very self he seemed to commaund He both at-once both life and body lent To other things but when in Man he meant In mortall limbs immortall life to place Hee seem'd to pawse as in a waighty case And so at sundry moments finished The Soule and Body of Earth's glorious Head Admired Artist Architect divine Innocation Perfect and peer-les in all Works of thine So my rude hand on this rough Table guide To paint the Prince of all thy Works beside That graue Spectators in his face may spy Apparant marks of thy Divinity Almighty Father as of watery matter It pleas'd thee make the people of the Water
end-less simple vnpalpable For whether that the Soule the Mint of Art The Seat of the Soule Be all in all or all in euery part Whether the Brain or Heart doo lodge the Soule O Seneca where where could'st thou enroule Those many hundred words in Prose or Verse Which at first hearing thou could'st back rehearse Notable examples of excellent Memories Where could great Cyrus that great Table shut Wherein the Pictures and the names he put Of all the Souldiers that by thousands wander'd After the fortunes of his famous Standard In what deep vessell did th' Embassader Of Pyrrhus whom the Delphian Oracler Deluded by his double-meaning Measures Into what Cesterns did he pour those Treasures Of learned store which after for his vse In time and place he could so fit produce The Memorie is th' Eyes true Register The Peasants Book Times wealthy Treasorer Keeping Records of Acts and accidents What s' ever subiect vnto humane sense Since first the Lord the Worlds foundations laid Or Phoebus first his golden locks displaid And his pale Sister from his beaming light Borrow'd her splendor to adorn the Night So that our Reason searching curiously Through all the Roules of a good Memory And fast'ning closely with a Gordian knot To past euents what Present Times allot Fore-sees the Future and becomes more sage More happily to lead our later age And though our Soule liue as imprison'd here In our frail flesh or buried as it were Of the quicke swiftnes and sodain motion of the Soule comprehending all things in HeaueÌ„ and Earth In a dark Toomb Yet at one flight she flies From Caipè t' Imaus from the Earth to Skies Much swifter then the Chariot of the Sun Which in a Day about the World doth run For somtimes leauing these base slymy heaps With cheereful spring aboue the Clouds she leaps Glides through the Aire and there she learns to knowe Th' Originalls of Winde and Hail and Snowe Of Lightning Thunder Blazing-Starrs and storms Of Rain and Ice and strange Exhaled Forms By th' Aires steep-stairs she boldly climbs aloft To the Worlds Chambers Heav'n she visits oft Stage after Stage she marketh all the Sphears And all th' harmonious various course of theirs With sure account and certain Compasses She counts their Starrs she metes their distances And differing pases and as if she found No Subiect fair enough in all this Round She Mounts aboue the Worlds extreamest Wall Far far beyond all things corpóreall Where she beholdes her Maker face to face His frowns of Iustice and his smiles of Grace The faithfull zeal the chaste and sober Port And sacred Pomp of the Celestiall Court What can be hard to a sloath-shunning Spirit Spurr'd with desire of Fames eternall merit Of learned curious pleasant marueilous and more then humane inuention of mans wit Look if thou canst from East to Occident From Island to the Moors hot Continent And thou shalt nought perfectly fair behould But Pen or Pencill Grauing-tool or Mould Hath so resembled that scarce can our ey The Counterfait from the true thing descry The brazen Mare that famous Myron cast Which Stallions leapt and for a Mare imbraç't The liuely picture of that ramping Vine Which whilom Zeuxis limn'd so rarely fine That shoals of Birds beguiled by the shapes Of Caruing and Painting Peckt at the Table as at very Grapes The Marble Statue that with strangest fire Fondly inflam'd th' Athenian Youths desire Apelles Uenus which allur'd well-neer As many Loues as Venus self had heer Are proofs enough that learned Painting can Can Goddess-like another Nature frame But th' Art of Man not only can compack Features and forms that life and Motion lack The subtle conclusions of the Mathematikes witnes Archytas Doue But also fill the Aire with painted shoals Of flying Creatures Artificiall Fowls The Tarentines valiant and learned Lord Archytas made a wooden Doue that soar'd About the Welkin by th' accorded sleights The Eagle and the Flie of Iohn de Monte-Regio or Regi-Montanus And counterpoiz of sundrie little weights Why should I not that wooden Eagle mention A learned Germanes late-admir'd inuention Which mounting from his fist that framed her Flew far to meet an Almain Emperour And hauing met him with her nimble train And weary wings turning about again Follow'd him close vnto the Castle Gate Of Noremberg whom all the Showes of State Streets hangd with Arras Arches curious built Loud-thundring Canons Columns richly gilt Gray-headed Senate and Youth's gallantise Graç't not so much as onely This Deuise Once as this Artist more with mirth then meat Feasted some friends that he esteemed great From vnder 's hand an iron Flie flew out Which hauing flowen a perfect Round-about With weary wings return'd vnto her Master And as iudicious on his arm she plaç't-her O diuine wit that in the narrow womb Of a small Flie could finde sufficient room For all those Springs wheels counterpoiz and chains Which stood in stead of life and spur and rains Yea you your selues ye bright Celestiall Orbs Astronomy Although no stop your rest-less Daunce disturbs Nor stays your Course yet can ye not escape The hands of men that are but men in shape A Persian Monarch not content well-nigh The king of Per sia his Heauen of Glass With the Earths bounds to bound his Empery To raign in Heav'n rais'd not with bold defiance Like brauing Nimrod or those boistrous Giants Another Babel or a heap of Hills But without mouing from the Earth he builds A Heav'n of Glass so huge that there-upon Somtimes erecting his ambitious Throne Beneath his proud feet like a God he saw The shyning Lamps of th' other Heav'n to draw Down to the Deep and thence again aduance Like glorious Brides their golden Radiance Yet had the Heav'n no wondrous excellence Saue Greatnes worthy of so great a Prince But who would think that mortall hands could mould Admirable Dialls Clocks namely at this Day that of Straesbourg New Heavn's new Stars whose whirling courses should With constant windings though contrary waies Mark the true mounds of Years and Months and Daies Yet 't is a story that hath oft been heard And by graue Witnes hundred times auerr'd That that profound Briareus who of yore As selfly arm'd with thousands hands and more Maintain'd so long the Syracusian Towrs 'Gainst great Marcellus and his Roman Powrs The Engines of Archimedes and his Spheare Who fier'd his foes Fleet with a wondrous Glass Who hugest Vessels that did euer pass The Tiâ—rhen Seas turn'd with his onely hand From Shoar to Sea and from the Sea to Land Framed a Sphear where euery Wandring Light Of lower Heav'ns and th' vpper Tapers bright Whose glistering flames the Firmament adorn Did of themselues with ruled motion turn Nor may we smother or forget ingrately The Heauen of Siluer sent by the Emperour Ferdinand to Solyman the great Turk The Heav'n of Siluer that was sent but
our seruice deaf vnto our sighs A Pagan Idol void of powr and piety A sleeping Dormouse rather a dead Deïtie For though alas somtimes I cannot shun But som profane thoughts in my minde will run I neuer think on God but I conceiue Whence cordiall comforts Christians soules receiue Of the Prouidence of God In God Care Counsail Iustice Mercy Might To punish wrongs and patronize the right Sith Man but Image of th' Almightiest Without these gifts is not a Man but Beast Fond Epicure thou rather slept'st thy self Epicurus and his followers denying the same consuted by sundry Reasons When thou didst forge thee such a sleep-sick Elf For life's pure Fount or vainly fraudulent Not shunning th' Atheïsts sin but punishment Imaginedst a God so perfect-less In Works defying whom thy words profess God is not sitting like som Earthly State In proud Theátre him to recreate With curious Obiects of his ears and eys Without disposing of the Comoedies Content t' haue made by his great Word to moue So many radiant Starrs as shine aboue And on each thing with his owne hand to draw The sacred Text of an eternall Law Then bosoming his hand to let them slide With reans at will whether that Law shall guide Like one that hauing lately forç't som Lake Simile Through som new Channell a new Course to take Takes no more care thence-forth to those effects But lets the Stream run where his Ditch directs The Lord our God wants neither Diligence 1 Gods power goodnes wisdom shine gloriously in gouerning the world Nor Loue nor Care nor Powr nor Prouidence He prov'd his Power by Making All of nought His Diligence by Ruling All he wrought His Care by Ending it in six Daies space His Loue in Building it for Adams Race His Prouidence maugrè Times wastefull rages Preseruing it so many Yeers and Ages For O! how often had this goodly Ball By his own Greatnes caus'd his proper Fall How often had this World deceast except Gods mighty arms had it vpheld and kept 2 In him and through him all things liue and moue and haue their Beeing God is the soule the life the strength and sinnew That quickens moues and makes this Frame continue God's the main spring that maketh euery way All the small wheels of this great Engin play God's the strong Atlas whose vnshrinking shoulders Haue been and are Heav'ns heauie Globes vpholders God makes the Fountains run continually 3. All things particularly are guided by his Ordinance and Power working continually The daies and Nights succede incessantly The Seasons in their season he doth bring Summer and Autumn Winter and the Spring God makes th' Earth fruitfull and he makes the Earth's Large loignes not yet faint for so many births God makes the Sun and Stars though wondrous hot That yet their Heat themselues inflameth not And that their sparkling beams preuent not so With wofull flames the Last great Day of wo And that as mov'd with a contrary wrest They turn at-once both North and East and West Heavn's constant course his heast doth neuer break The floating Water waiteth at his beck Th' Air 's at his Call the Fire at his Command The Earth is His and there is nothing fand In all these Kingdoms but is mov'd each howr With secret touch of his eternall Powr God is the Iudge who keeps continuall Sessions 4 God is the Iudge of the World hauing all Creatures visible and invisible ready armed to execute his Iudgements In every place to punish all Transgressions Who void of Ignorance and Avarice Not won with Bribes nor wrested with Deuice Sins Fear or Fauour hate or partiall zeal Pronounceth Iudgements that are past appeal Himself is Iudge Iury and Witnes too Well knowing what we all think speak or doo He sounds the deepest of the doublest hart Searcheth the Reins and fifteth euery part Hee sees all secrets and his Lynx-like ey Yet it be thought doth euery thought descry His Sentence giuen neuer returns in vain For all that Heavn Earth Aire and Sea contain Serue him as Sergeants and the winged Legions That soar aboue the bright Star-spangled Regions Are euer prest his powrfull Ministers And lastly for his Executioners Sathan assisted with the infernall band Stands ready still to finish his Command God to be brief is a good Artizan That to his purpose aptly mannage can Good or bad Tools for for iust punishment Yea he makeeh euen the wicked this instruments to punish the wicked and to proue his Chosen He arms our sins vs sinners to torment And to preuent th' vngodly's plot somtime He makes his foes will-nill-they fight for him Yet true it is that human things seem slide Vnbridledly with so vncertain tide That in the Ocean of Euents so many Somtimes Gods Iudgements are scarce seen of any Rather it seems that giddy Fortune guideth Againe against Epicures who hold that all things happen in the World by Chance All that beneath the siluer Moon beâ—ideth Yet art thou euer iust O God though I Cannot alas thy Iudgements depth descry My wit 's too shallow for the least Designe Of thy drad Counsails sacred and diuine And thy least-secret Secrets I confess To deep for vs without thy Spirit 's address Yet oftentimes what seemeth at first sight 1 Gods Iudgements past our search yet euer iust in theÌ„selues Vniust to vs and past our reason quite Thou mak'st vs Lord acknowledge in due season To haue been don with equity and reason So suffering th' Hebrew Tribes to sell their brother Gen 45. ver 6. 7 and Gen. 50. vâ— 20. Thy eternall Iustice thou didst seem to smother But Ioseph when through such rare hap it chanced Him of a slaue to be so high aduanced To rule the Land where Nilus fertill flood Dry Heav'ns defects endeuours to make good Learn'd that his enuious brethrens treacherous drift Him to the Stern of Memphian State had lift That he might there prouide Relief and Room For Abraham's Seed against then time to com When thy strong arm which plagues the Reprobate 2. In executing his iudgements on the rebellious he sheweth mercie on his Seruants The World and Sodom did exterminate With flood and flame because there liued then Som small remains of good and righteous men Thou seem'dst vniust but when thou sauedst Lâ—t From Fire from Water Noah and his Boat 'T was plainly seen thy Iustice stands propstious To th' Innocent and smiteth but the vicious He wilfull winks against the shining Sun 5 He sheweth his power in the coÌ„fusion of the Mightiest and in the deliuerance of his Church That see 's not Pharao as a mean begun Forth ' Hebrews good and that his hardned hart Smoothed the passage for their soon-depart To th' end the Lord when Tyrants will not yeeld Might for his Glory finde the larger field Who sees not also that th' vniust Decree Of a proud Iudge and Iudas treachery The Peoples
Knight Almoner of Scotland and one of his Maiesties Privy Councell there THE COLVMNS YOVNG Ancient Seruant of our Soueraign Lord Graue Maister of thy Maister 's minor-years Whose Prudence and whose Piety appears In his Perfection which doth Thine record Whose loyall Truth His royall Trusts approue By oft Embassage to the greatest Peers Whose Duty and Deuotion He endeers With present Fauours of his Princely Loue In Honour of these Honours many-fold And for memoriall of Thy kinde regard Of these poore Orfanes pyn'd in Hope-les cold Accept these Thanks for thy firm Loues reward Wher-in so Heav'ns prosper what we haue sung Through euery Age thou shalt liue euer YOVNG I. S. To the right vertuous fauorer of Vertue furtherer of Learning Sir Thomas Smith of Lonaon Knight late Lord Embassadour for his Maiesty to the Emperour of Russia IONAS TO thee long tost in a fell Storm of State Cast out and swallowed in a Gulf of Death On false-suspect of thine vn-spotted Faith And flying frō thy Heav'n-giuen Charge of late For much resemblance of thy troublous Fate Much like in Case to that he suffereth Though in effect thy Cause far differeth I send my IONAS to congratulate Thy happy Rescue and thy holy Triall Wher by as Fire doth purifie the Gold Thy Loyalty is more notorious Loyal And worthy th' Honours which thou now doo'st hold Thus Vertue 's Palms oppressed mount the more And Spices bruz'd smell sweeter than before I. S. To the most Honourable learned and religious Gent. M r. Anthony Bacone * ⎠* THE FVRIES BOund by thy Bounty and mine own Desire To tender still new Tribute of my zeal To Thee whose fauour did the first repeal My proto-BARTAS from Self-doomed Fire Hauing new-tuned to du BARTAS Lyre These tragik murmurs of His FVRIES fell Which with the Horrors of an Earthly Hell The Sinn curst life of wretched Mortals tire To whom but Thee should I present the same Sith by the breath of Thine incouragement My sacred fury thou didst first inflame To prosecute This sacred Argument Such as it is accept it as a signe Of Thankfull Loue from Him whose all is Thine I. S. To the same most Honourarable Gentleman Maister Anthony Bacone * ⎠* BABYLON THy friendly censure of my first ESSAIE Du Bartas FVRIES and his BABYLON My faint Endeuours hath so cheared on That Both His WEEKS are also Ours to-day Thy gracious hand repriuing from decay My fame-les Name doom'd to Obliuion Hath so stirr'd-vp my Soule 's deuotion That in my Songs thy Name shall liue for ay Thy milde acceptance of my simple myte Pattern and Patron of all vertuous drifts Doth heer again my gratefull Muse inuite To re-salute thee with mine humble gifts Indeed no Gifts but Debts to Thy desart To whom I owe my hand my head my hart I. S. ADAM The FIRST DAIE Of The SECOND WEEK Containing 1. EDEN 2. The IMPOSTVRE 3. The FVRIES 4. The HANDY-CRAFTS Acceptam refero יהוה EDEN THE I. PART OF THE I. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT Our Poet first doth Gods assistance seek The Scope and Subiect of his Second Week Adam in Eden Edens beauties rare A reall Place not now discerned where The Tree of Life and Knowledge-Tree with-all Knowledge of Man before and since his Fall His exercise and excellent Delights In 's Innocence of Dreams and Ghostly Sights Nice Questions curb'd Death Sins effect whereby Man else Immortall mortall now must Dy. GReat God which hast this World's Birth made me see Inuocation of the true God for assistance in Description of the Infancie first estate of the World Vnfold his Cradle shew his Infancy Walk thou my Spirit through all the flowring alleis Of that sweet Garden where through winding valleys Foure liuely flouds crauld tell mee what mis-deed Banisht both Edens Adam and his seed Tell who immortall mortalizing brought-vs The Balm frō Heav'n which hoped health hath wrought-vs Grant me the story of thy Church to sing And gests of Kings Let me this Totall bring From thy first Sabbaoth to his fatall toomb My stile extending to the Day of Doom Lord I acknowledge and confess before This Ocean hath no bottom nor no shoar But sacred Pilot thou canst safely steer My vent'rous Pinnasse to her wished Peer Where once arriv'd all dropping wet I will Extoll thy favors and my vows fulfill And gratious Guide which doost all grace infuse The Translator cōsidering his own weaknesse and insufficiency for a Worke so rare excellent as all the World hath worthily admired craueth also the assistance of the Highest that at least his endeuour may both stir-vp some abler Spirit to vndertake this Taske and also prouoke all other good Wits to take in hand some holy Argumēt and with-all that Him-self may be for euer sincerely affected and as it were throughly seasoned with the sweet relish of these sacred and religious discourses Simile Since it hath pleas'd thee task my tardy Muse With these high Theams that through mine Art-les Pen This holy Lamp may light my Country-men Ah teach my hand touch mine vnlearned lips Least as the Earths grosse body doth Eclipse Bright Cynthia's beams when it is interpos'd Twixt her and Phoebus so mine ill-dispos'd Dark gloomy Ignorance obscure the rayes Of this diuine Sun of these learned dayes O! furnish me with an vn-vulgar stile That I by this may we an our wanton I LE From Ouids heirs and their vn-hallowed spell Heer charming senses chayning soules in Hell Let this prouoke our modern Wits to sacre Their wondrous gifts to honour thee their Maker That our mysterious ELFINE Oracle Deep morall graue Inuentions miracle My deer sweet DANIEL sharp-conceipted brief Ciuill sententious for pure accents chief And our new NASO that so passionates Th' heroike sighes of loue-sick Potentates May change their subiect and aduance their wings Vp to these higher and more holy things And if sufficient rich in self-inuention They scorn as I to liue of Strangers Pension Let them deuise new Weeks new works new wayes To celebrate the supreme Prince of praise And let not me good Lord be like the Lead Which to som City from som Conduit-head Brings holsom water yet self-wanting sense It self receiues no drop of comfort thence But rather as the thorough-seasoned But Wherein the tears of death-prest Grapes are put Simile Retains long after all the wine is spent Within it self the liquors liuely sent Let me still sauour of these sacred sweets Till Death fold-vp mine earth in earthen sheets Least my young layes now prone to preach thy glory To BRVTVS heyres blush at mine elder Story GOD Supreme Lord committed not alone Narration Tour Father Adam this inferiour Throne God hauing Created and established Man Lord of the Crea tures lodgeth him in the faire Gardē of Eden Ranging beneath his rule the scaly Nation That in the Ocean haue their habitation Those that in horror of the Desarts lurk And those that capering in the Welk
their auncient hate Which suffers not O date-less discord th' one Live in that ground where th' other first hath growen O strange instinct O deep immortall rage Whose fiery fewd no Laethé floud can swage So at the sound of Wolf-Drums rattling thunder Th' affrighted Sheep-skin-Drum doth rent in sunder So that fell Monsters twisted entrails cuts By secret powr the poor Lambs twined guts Which after death in steed of bleating mute Are taught to speak vpon an Yvory Lute And so the Princely Eagles ravening plumes The feathers of all other Fowls consumes The First-mov'd Heav'n in ' tself it self still stirring The estate of Man before Sin Rapts with his course quicker then windes swift whirring All th' other Sphears and to Alcides Spyres From Alexanders Altars driues their Fires But mortall Adam Monarch heer beneath Erring draws all into the paths of death And on rough Seas as a blinde Pylot rash Against the rock of Heav'ns iust wrath doth dash The Worlds great Vessell sayling yerst at ease With gentle gales good guide on quiet Seas For yer his fall which way so e'r he rowl'd His estate after Sinne. His wondering eys God every-where behold In Heav'n in Earth in Ocean and in Ayr He sees and feels and findes him every-where The World was like a large and sumptuous Shop Where God his goodly treasures did vnwrap Or Crystall glass most liuely representing His sacred Goodnes every-where frequenting But since his sin the wofull wretch findes none Herb garden groue field fountain stream or stone Beast mountain valley sea-gate shoar or haven But bears his Deaths doom openly ingraven In brief the whole scope this round Centre hath Is a true store-house of Heav'ns righteous wrath Al creatures froÌ„ the highest to the lowest enemies to Man Rebellious Adam from his God revolting Findes his yerst-subiects 'gainst himself insulting The tumbling Sea the Ayr with tempests driven Thorn-bristled Earth the sad and lowring Heav'n As from the oath of their allegeance free Revenge on him th' Almighties iniury The Starrs coniur'd through enuious Influence The Heauens with all ther in By secret Hang-men punish his offence The Sun with heat the Moon with cold doth vex-him Th' Air with vnlookt-for suddain changes checks-him With fogs and frosts hails snowes and sulph'ry thunders Blasting and storms and more prodigious wonders Fire fall'n from Heav'n or else by Art incited Al the ElemeÌ„ts Fire Aire Or by mischance in som rich building lighted Or from som Mountains burning bowels throw'n Repleat with Sulphur Pitch and Pumie stone With sparkling fury spreads and in fewe hours The labour of a thousand years devours The greedy Ocean breaking wonted bounds Sea Vsurps his heards his wealthy Iles and Towns The grieved Earth to ease her as it seems Earth Of such profane accursed weight somtimes Swallows whole Countries and the airie tops Of Prince-proud towrs in her black womb she wraps And in despight of him abhord and hatefull Earth brings forth weeds She many wayes proues barren and ingratefull Mocking our hopes turning our seed-Wheat-kernel To burn-grain Thistle and to vapourie Darnel Cockle wilde Oats rough Burs Corn-cumbring Tares Short recompence for all our costly cares Yet this were little if she more malicious Venemous plants Fell stepdame brought vs not Plants more pernicious As sable Henbane Morell making mad Cold poysoning Poppy itching drowsie sad The stifning Carpesâ— th' eyes-foe Hemlock stinking Limb-numming belching and the sinew-shrinking Dead-laughing Apâ—um weeping Aconite Which in our vulgar deadly Wolfs-bane hight The dropsie breeding sorrow-bringing Psylly Heer called Flea-Wurt Colchis banefull Lilly With vs Wild-Saffron blistring byting fell Not Napell making lips and tongue to swell Blood-boyling Yew and costiue Mâ—sseltoe With yce-cold Mandrake and a many mo Such fatall plants whose fruit seed sap or root T'vntimely Graue doe bring our heed-less foot Besides she knowes we brutish value more Poyson hidden among the Metals Then Liues or Honours her rich glittering Ore That Auarice our bound-less thought still vexes Therfore among her wreakfull baits she mixes Quick-siluer Lithargie and Orpiment Wherwith our entrails are oft gâ—awn and rent So that somtimes for Body and for Minde Torture and torment in one Mine we finde What resteth more the Masters skilfull most The excellency of Mans Dominion ouer the Creatures before his Fall With gentle gales driv'n to their wished Coast Not with less labour guide their winged waynâ— On th' azure fore-head of the liquid plains Nor crafty Iugglers can more easily make Their self-liv'd Puppets for their lucres sake To skip and scud and play and prate and praunce And fight and fall and trip and turn and daunce Then happy we did rule the sealy Legions That dumbly dwell in stormy water-Regions Then fethered singers and the stubborn droues That haunt the Desarts and the shady Groues At every word they trembled then for aw And every wink then serv'd them as a law And always bent all duty to obserue-vs Without command stood ready still to serue-vs But now alas through our fond Parents fall The Creatures now becomn Tyrants and â—raytors to Him whose slaues and seruants they were before Sin They of our slaues are growen our tyrants all Wend we by Sea the dread Leuiathan Turns vpside-down the boyling Ocean And on the suddain sadly doth in toomb Our floting Castle in deep Thetis womb Yerst in the wel kin like an Eagle towring And on the water like a Dolphin scowring Walk we by Land how many loathsom swarms Of speckled poysons with pestiferous arms In every corner in close Ambush lurk With secret bands our sodain banes to work Besides the Lion and the Leopard Boar Bear and Wolf to death pursue vs hard And ielous vengers of the wrongs divine In peeces pull their Soverains sinfull line The huge thick Forrests haue nor bush nor brake But hides som Hang-man our loath'd life to take In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death of every leaf affright Rest we at home the Masty fierce in force Th' vntamed Bull the hot courageous Horse With teeth with horns and hooues besiege vs round As griev'd to see such tyrants tread the ground And ther 's no Fly so small but now dares bring Her little wrath against her quondam King What hideous sights what horror-boading showes An admirable description of Mans miserable Punishments tortured by himselfe Alas what yels what howls what thund'ring throws O! am I not neer roaring Phlegoton Alecto sad Moger ' and Thesiphon What spels haue charm'd ye from your dreadfull den Of darkest Hell Monsters abhord of men O Nights black daughters grim-faç't Furies sad Stern Plutos Posts what make ye heer so mad O! feels not man a world of wofull terrors Besides your goaring wounds and ghastly horrors So soon as God from Eden Adam draue To liue in this Earth rather in this Graue Where raign a thousand deaths he summon'd-vp With thundering call the damned Crew
Plessis Vain Paganisme and stubborn Iudaïsme With their own arms and sacred-graue and short His plain-prankt stile he strengthens in such sort That his quick reasons wingd with grace and Art Pearce like keen arrows euery gentle hart Our English Tongue three famous Knights sustain 9 The English by Sir Thomas Moore Sir Nicholas Bacone Sir Phil. Sidney Moore Bacone Sidney of which former twain High Chancellors of England weaned first Our Infant-phrase till then but homely nurst And childish toys and rudenes chasing thence To ciuill knowledge ioyn'd sweet eloquence And World-mourn'd Sidney warbling to the Thames His Swan-like tunes so courts her coy proud streams That all with-childe with Fame his fame they bear To Thetis lap and Thetis every-where But what new Sun dazels my tender eyes What suddain traunce rapts me aboue the skies What Princely Port O what imperiall grace What sweet-bright-lightning looks what Angels face And the incomparable Queene Elizabeth Say learned Heav'n-born Sisters is not this That prudent Pallas Albions Misteris The Great Eliza making hers disdaign For any Man to change their Maydens raign Her prudence Piety Iustice Religion Lear ning and Eloquence Who while Erynnys weary now of hell With fire and Sword her neighbours States doth quell And while black Horror threats in stormy rage With dreadfull down-fal th' vniuersall stage In happy Peace her Land doth keep and nourish Where reuerent Iustice and Religion flourish Who is not onely in her mother-voyce Rich in Oration but with phrases choice So on the sodain can discourse in Greek French Latin Tuscan Dutch and Spanish eek That Rome Rhyne Rhone Greece Spayn and Italy Plead all for right in her natiuitie Bright Northren pearl Mars-daunting martialist To grace the Muses and the Arts persist And O! if euer these rude rimes be blest But with one glaunce of Nature's onely Best Or lucky light between those Yuory palms Which hold thy State 's stern in these happy calms View them with milde aspect and gently read That for thy praise thine eloquence wee need Then thus I spake O spirits diuine and learned Whose happy labours haue your lauds eterned O! sith I am not apt alas nor able With you to bear the burthen honourable Of Albions Fame nor with my feeble sight So much as follow your Heav'n-neighbouring slight At least permit me prostrate to imbrace Your reuerend knees permit me to inchace Your radiant crests with Aprils flowrie Crown Permit I pray that from your high renown My freble tunes eternall fames deriue While in my Songs your glorious names suruiue Granting my sute each of them bowd his head 〈…〉 the The valley vanisht and the pillers fled And there-with-all my Dream had flow'n I think But that I lym'd his limber wings with ink FINIS The COLONIES THE III. PART OF THE II. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT To stop Ambition Strife and Auarice Into Three Parts the Earth diuided is To Sem the East to C ham the South the West To Iapheth falls their seuerall scopes exprest Their fruitfull Spawn did all the World supply Antiquites vncertain Search and why Assyria sceptred first and first imparts To all the rest Wealth Honour Arms and Arts The New-found World Mens diuers humors strange The various World a mutuall Counter-change VVHile through the Worlds vn-haunted wildernes Being heer to intreat of the Transmigration of so many Nations issued out of the loignes of Noah our Poet desireth to be ad dressed by some speciall Fauour of God I th' old first Pilots wandring House address While Famous DRAKE like coasting euery strand I do discouer many a New-fouÌ„d-Land And while from Sea to Sea with curious pain I plant great Noahs plentious Vine again What bright-brown cloud shall in the Day protect me What fiery Pillar shall by Night direct me Toward each Peoples primer Residence Predestin'd in the Court of Prouidence Yer our bi-sexed Parents free from sin In Eden did their double birth begin O sacred Lamp that went'st so brightly burning Before the Sages from the spycie Morning To shew th' Almightie Infants humble Birth O! chace the thick Clouds driue the darknes forth Which blindeth me that mine aduenturous Rime Circling the World may search out euery Clime For though my Wits in this long Voyage shift From side to side yet is my speciall drift The true only drift of all his indeuours My gentle Readers by the hand to bring To that deer Babe the Man-God Christ our King As WHEN the lowring Heav'ns with loudest raps A comparison expressing the ef fect of the astonishment which the confusion of Tongues brought into the Babel-builders Through Forrests thrill their roaring thunder-claps The shiuering Fowls do sodainly forgo Their nests and perches fluttering to and fro Through the dark ayr and round about there rings A whistling murmur of their whisking wings The grissel Turtles seldoom seen alone Dis-payer'd and parted wander one by one And euen the feeble downie feathered Yong Venter to flie before their quils be strong Euen so the Builders of that Babel-Wonder Hearing Gods voice a-loud to roar and thunder In their rude voices barbarous difference Take all at once their fearfull flight from thence On either hand and through th' Earth voidly-vast Each packs a-part where God would haue him plaç't For Heav'ns great Monarch yer the World began Why God would not that the seed of Noah should reside in the Plain of Shynar Hauing decreed to giue the World to man Would not the same a nest of theeues should be That with the Sword should share his Legacie And bruitly mixt with mongrell stock to stoar Our Elements round solid slimie floar But rather fire of Couetize to curb Into three Parts he parts he parts this spacious Orb 'Twixt Sem and Cham and Iapheth Sem the East C ham South and Iapheth doth obtain the West That large rich Country from Perosite shoars The Earth distributed among the Sonnes of Noah Where stately Ob the King of Riuers roars In Scythian Seas voyding his violent load But little less then six dais sayling broad To Malaca Moluques Iles that bear To Sem the South Cloues and Canele well-tempered Sumater Sub-equinoctiall and the golden streams Of Bisnagar and Zeâ—lan bearing gemms From th' Euxin Sea and surge of Chaldean Twins To th' Anian Streight the sloathfull slymy Fens Where Quinzay stands Chiorze where Bulls as big As Elephants are clad in silken shag Is great Sems Portion For the Destinies Or rather Heav'ns immutable Decrees Assur t' Assyria send that in short time Chale and Rhesen to the Clouds might climbe And Niniue more famous then the rest Aboue them raise her many-towred Crest The sceptred Elam chose the Persian Hills And those fat fields that swift Araxis fills Lud Lydia Aram all Armenia had And Chalde fell to learned Arphaxad C ham becam Souerain ouer all those Realms To C ham the South South-bounded round with Sun-burnt Guinne streams
And Lees of All doth hold the lowest place Whom prudent Nature girdeth ouer-thwart With azure Zone or rather euery part Couers with Water winding round about Saue heer and there som Angles peeping out For th' Oceans liquid and sad slyding Waues Sinking in deepest of Earths hollow Caues Seek not within her vast vnequall height The Centre of the wideness but the weight Ther should be th' Ayr the Fire and wandring Seauen The Firmament and the first-mouing Heav'n Besides th' Empyreall Palace of the Saincted Each ouer other if they could be painted But th' Artist faining in the steed of these His 10. Circles Ten Circles like Heav'ns Superficies To guide vs to them by more easie Path In hollow Globe the same described hath ' Mid th' amplest Six whose crossing difference 1 The Equi-noctiall Diuides in two the Sphears Circumference Stands th' Equinoctial equi-distant all From those two Poles which do support this Ball. Therefore each Star that vnderneath it slides A rest-les long and weary Iourney rides Goes larger Circuit and more speedy far Then any other steady fixed Star Which wexeth slowe the more it doth aduaunce Neer either Pole his God-directed Daunce And while Apollo driues his Load of Light Vnder this Line the Day and dusky Night Tread equall steps for learned Natures hand Then measures them a-like in euery Land The next which there beneath it sloaply slides And his fair Hindges from the World's diuides Twice twelue Degrees is call'd the Zodiack 2 The Zodiak The Planets path where Phoebus plies to make Th' Yeers Reuolution through new Houses ranging To cause the Seasons yeerly foure-fold changing Th' other which crossing th' Vniuersall Props 3 The 1. Colure And those where Titans whirling Chariot sloaps Rect-angles forms and crooking cuts in two Heer Capricorn there burning Cancer too Of the Sun's stops it Colure hath to name Because his Teem doth seem to trot more tame On these cut points for heer he doth not ride Flatling a-long but vp the Sphears steep side Th' other which cuts this equi-distantly 4 The 2. Colure With Aries Poles and Scale is like-wisely The Second Colure The Meridian This 5 The Meridian Which neuer in one Point of Heav'n persists But still pursues our Zenith as the light 6 The Horizon Inconstant Horizon our shifting sight For the foure small ones heer the Tropiks turn 7 and 8 The Tropiks Both that of Cancer and of Capricorn And neerer th' Hindges of the golden Sphear Heer 's the South-Circle the North-Circle there 9 and 10 The South and North Circles Which Circles cross not as you see at all The Center-point of th' Vniuersall Ball But parting th' Orb into vn-equall ells ' Twixtth ' Equi-nox and them rest Parallels The Celestiall Globes The other Ball her left hand doth support Is Heav'ns bright Globe for though that Art com short Of Nature far heer may ingenious soules Admire the stages of Star-seeled Poles O what delight it is in turning soft The diuers aspects of the celestiall Bodies The bright Abbridgement of that Vpper Loft To seem to see Heav'ns glorious Host to march In glistring Troops about th' Aethereal Arch Where one for Arms bears Bowe and Shafts a Sword A second hath a trembling Launce a third One fals another in his Chariot rowles On th' azure Brass of th' euer-radiant Bowles This serues a-foot that as a Horseman rides This vp that down this back that forward slides Their Order order-less and Peace-full Braul With-child's the World fils Sea and Earth and All. I neuer see their glaunces inter-iect Simile In Triangle Sextile or Square aspect Now milde now moody but me thinks I see Som frollik Swains amid their dauncing glee Where Men and Maids together make them merry With Iigs and Rounds till Pipe and all be weary Where on his Loue one smiles with wanton eye Wher-at his Riuall frowns for Iealousie But why quoth Phalec hath th' All-Fair who frames Question Nought heer below but 's full of Beauties flames Ingrav'n on th' Orbs of th' azure ' Crystalline Where Beauties self and Loue should euer shine So many hideous Beasts and Monsters fell Fellows more fit for th' vgly Fiends in Hell Surely saith Heber God's all-prudent pleasure Answere Makes nothing Art-less nor without iust measure And this the Worlds chief praise of Beauty carries That in each part it infinitly varies Our learned Elders then who on this Sphear The reason of the names giuen to the 12. Signes of the Zodiak Heav'ns shining Signes imagin'd fitly-fair Did vnto each such Shape and Name deuise As with their Natures neerly symbolize In form of Ram with golden Fleece they put 1. Aries The bi-corn'd Signe which the Yeers bounds doth ' butt Because the World vnder his temp'rate heat In fleece of flowrs is pranked richly neat Of Bull the next because the husband-men 2. Taurus With yoaks of slowe-paç't smoking Bullocks then Tear-vp their Fallows and with hope-full toyl Furbush their Coultars in the Corn-fit soyl Of Twins the third because then of two Sexes 3. Gemini Kinde-cruell Cupid one whole body mixes Then all things couple then Fruits double growe Then Flowrs do flourish and corn Fields do showe The fourth a Lobstars name and frame they made 4. Cancer Because then South-ward Sol doth retrograde Goes Crab-like backward and so neuer stinteth But still his wheels in the same track reprinteth The fift a Lion for as Lions breath 5. Leo. Is burning hot so likewise vnderneath This fiery Signe th' Earth sparkles and the streams Seem sod-away with the Suns glowing beams 6. Virgo The sixt a Maid because with Maid-like honour Th' Earth loatheth then the Suns Loue-glances on her T' inflame her loue and reclus'd as it were This Virgin Season nought at all doth bear Ballance the seuenth because it equall weighs 7. Libra Nights louing-silence and grief-guiding Daies And Heat and Cold and in Must-Month the Beam Stands equi-poiz'd in equipeizing them Scorpion the next because his percing sting 8 Scorpio Doth the first tydings of cold Winter bring The ninth an Archer both in shape and Name 9 Sagittarius Who day and night follows his fairest game And his keen Arrows every-where bestowes Headed with Yce featherd with Sleet and Snowes The next a Kid because as Kids do clime And frisk from Rock to Rock about this Time 10 Capricornus The Prince of Planets with the locks of Amber Begins again vp towards vs to clamber And then because Heav'n alwayes seems to weep Vnder th' ensuing Signes on th' Azure steep 11 Aquarius 12 Pisces A deeper and more curious reason of the same Our Parents plaç't a Skinker and by him Two silver Fishes in his floods to swim But if my Son this superficiall gloze Suffice thee not then may we thus suppose That as before th' All-working Word alone Made Nothing be All 's womb and
Embryon Th' eternall Plot th' Idea fore-conceiv'd The wondrous Form of all that Form receiv'd Did in the Work-mans spirit divinelyly And yer it was the World was wondrously Th' Eternall Trine-One spreading even the Tent Of th' All-enlightning glorious Firmament Fill'd it with Figures and in various Marks The repourtray'd Tables of his future Works See heer the pattern of a silver Brook In heauen are patterns of all things that are in earth Which in and out on th' azure stage doth crook Heer th' Eagle plays there flyes the rav'ning Crowe Heer swims the Dolphin there the Whale doth rowe Heer bounds the Courser there the Kid doth skip Heer smoaks the Steer the Dragon there doth creep There 's nothing precious in Sea Earth or Ayr But hath in Heav'n som like resemblance fair Yea even our Crowns Darts Launces Skeyns and Scales Are all but Copies of Heav'ns Principals And sacred patterns which to serue all Ages Th' Almighty printed on Heav'ns ample stages Yea surely durst I but why should I doubt A third witty pleasant and elegant reaso of the names aforesayd To wipe from Heav'n so many slanders out Of profane Rapin and detested Rapes Of Murder Incest and all monstrous Scapes Wher-with heerafter som bold-fabling Greeks Shall foully stain Heav'ns Rosy-blushing cheeks Heer could I showe that vnder euery Signe Th' Eternall grav'd som Mystery divine Of 's holy City where as in a glass To see what shall heer-after com-to-pass As publik and autentik Rowles fore-quoting Confusedly th' Euents most worthy noting In his deer Church his Darling and Delight O! thou fair Chariot flaming braue-ly bright Plaustrum Which like a Whirl-winde in thy swift Career Rapt'st vp the Thesbit thou do'st alwayes veer About the North-pole now no more be-dabbling Thy nimble spoaks in th' Ocean neither stabling Thy smoking Coursers vnder th' Earth to bayt Boâ—tes The while Elisha earnestly doth wayt Burning in zeal ambitious to inherit His Masters Office and his mighty Spirit That on the starry Mountain after him He well may manage his celestiall Teem Close by him Dauid in his valiant Fist Hercules Holds a fierce Lions fiery flaming Crest Heer shines his golden Harp and there his Crown Lyra. Corona Borealis Vrsa minor Pleiades Cuspis There th' vgly Bear bears to his high renown Seav'n shining Stars Lo heer the whistling Launce Which frantick Saul at him doth fiercely glaunce Pure Honours Honour Prayse of Chastity O fair Susanna I should mourn for thee And moan thy tears and with thy friends lament Andromeda Cassiopeia Cepheus With Heav'n-lift-eyes thy wofull punishment Saue that so timely through Heav'ns prouidence Yong Daniel saues thy wronged Innocence Perseus And by a dreadfull radiant splendor spread From Times-Child Truth not from Medusa's head Caput Medusa Condemns th' old Leachers and eft-soons vpon Their cursed heads there hayls a storm of stone Also as long as Heav'ns swift Orb shall veer A sacred Trophee shall be shining heer In the bright Dragon of that Idoll fell Draco Which the same Prophet shall in Babel quel Wher-to more fit may Pegasus compair Pegasus Than to those Coursers flaming in the ayr Before the Tyrant of less-Asia's fury Vsurps the fair Metropolis of Iury Wher-to the Coach-man but Ezechiel That so well driues the Coach of Israel Wher-to the Swan but to that Proto-Martyr Cygnus The faithfull Deacon which endureth torture Yea death for his dead Lord whom sure to meet So neer his end sings so exceeding sweet Wher-to the Fish which shineth heerso bright Piscis Borealis But to that Fish that cureth Tobies sight Wher-to the Dolphin but to that meek Man Delphinus Who dry-shod guides through Seas Erythean Old Iacobs Fry And Iordans liquid glass Makes all his Host dry without boat to pass And furthermore God hath not onely graven On the brass Tables of swift-turning Heav'n His sacred Mot and in Triangle frame Trigonos His Thrice-One Nature stamped on the same Ophiucus But also vnder that stout Serpent-Slayer His Satan-taming Son Heav'ns glorious heir Who with the Engin of his Cross abates Th' eternall Hindges of th' infernall Gates And vnder that fair Sun-fixt-gazing Foul Aquila The God of Gods deer Minion of his Soule Which from his hand reaves Thunder often-times His Spirit his Loue which visits earthly Climes In plumy shape for this bright winged Signe In head and neck and starry back in fine No less resembles the milde simple Doue Than crook-bild Eagle that commands aboue What shall I say of that bright Bandeleev Which twice-six Signs so richly garnish heer Th' Years Vsher doth the Paschal Lamb fore-tell Aties The Bull the Calf which erring Israell Taurus Sets vp in Horeb. These fair shining Twins Gemini Those striving Brethren Isaacs tender Sons The fourth is Salomon who Crab-like crawls Cancer Backward from Vertue and fowl Swine-like fals In Vices mire profanest old at last In soule and body growen a-like vn-chaste Leo. The fift that Lion which the Hair-strong Prince Tears as a Kid without Wars instruments Virgo The sixt that Uirgin euer-maiden Mother Bearing for vs her Father Spouse and Brother The next that Beam which in King Lemuels hand Libra So iustly weighs the Iustice of his Land The next that Creature which in Malta stings Scorpio Th' Apostles hand and yet no blemish brings For 't is indifferent whether we the same A spotted Scorpion or a Viper name Th' Archer is Hagars Son The Goat I ghess Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Is Arons Scape-Goat in the Wildernes The next the deer Son of dumb Zacharias Gods Harbinger fore-runner of Messias Who in clear Iordan washeth clean the sin Of all that rightly do repent with-in These Two bright Fishes those wher-with the Lord Pisces Through wondrous blessing of his powtfull Word Feeds with fiue Loaues vpon Asphaltis shoar Abundantly fiue thousand Folk and more But turn we now the twinkling Globe and there Let 's mark as much the Southern Hemi-sphear Ah! know'st thou not this glorious Champion heer Orion Which shines so brightly by the burning Steer Eridanus 'T is Nun's great Son who through deep Iordan leads His Army dry-shod and triumphant treads Canis Canicula â—epus On Canaan Currs and on th' Ammorrean Hare Eoyl'd with the fear of his victorious war See th' ancient Ship which over windes and waues Triumphing safe the Worlds seed-remnant saues Lo heer the Brasen Serpent shines whose sight Hydra Cures in the Desart those whom Serpents bite Heer th' happy Rau'n that brings Elias cates Corvus Heer the rich Cup where Ioseph meditates Cratera Centaurus His graue Predictions Heer that Heav'nly Knight Who prest appearing armed all in white To Maccabeus with his flaming spear So deep at last the Pagan Wolf doth tear Lupus Ara. That on Gods Altar yerst profan'd so long Sweet Incense
fumeth and the sacred Song Of Leuits soundeth in his House again Corona australis Piscis australis And that rich Crown th' Asmonean Race doth gain To rule the Iewes Lo there the happy Fish Which payes Christs Tribute who our Ransom is And heer the Whale within whose noysom breast Balaena The Prophet Ionas for three dayes doth rest A notable correction of the Poet vpon these last Discourses But while my spoaks-man or I rather his Thus Heber comments on Heav'ns Images Through path-less paths his wandring steps doth bring And boldly quavers on a Maiden string Suppose not Christians that I take for grounds Or points of Faith all that he heer propounds Or that old Zeno's Portall I sustain Or Stöâ—k Fate th' Almighties hands to chain Or in Heav'ns Volume reading things to-com Erroneously a Chaldee-Wise becom No no such thing but to refresh again Your tyred Spirits I sung this novell strain That hither-to having with patience past Such dreadfull Oceans and such Desarts vast Such gloomy Forrests craggy Rocks and steep Wide-yawning Gulfs and hideous Dungeons deep You might at last meet with a place of pleasure Wher-on the Heav'ns lavish their plentious treasure Where Zephyre puffs perfumes and silver Brooks Embrace the Meads smiling with wanton Looks Yet curteous Readers who is it can say Whether our Nephews yet another-day More zealous than our selues in things Divine This curious Art shall Christianly refine And giue to all these glistring Figures then Not Heathen names but names of Holy men He â—rocâ—edes to discouer the secrets of Astronomie But seek we now for Heber whose Discourse Informs his Phalec in the Planets course What Epicicle meaneth and Con-centrik With Apogé Perigé and Eccentrik And how fell Mars the Seedster of debate Dayes glorious Torch the wanton Uulcans Mate Saturn and Ioue three Sphears in one retain Smooth Hermes five fair Cynthia two-times-twain For the Divine Wits whence this Art doth flowe Finding their Fires to wander to and fro Now neer now far from Natures Nave above Confusion voyd and rupture to remove Which would be caused through their wanderment In th' Heav'ns inclos'd within the Firmament Have more then men presum'd to make within Th' Eternall Wheels where th' erring Tapers been Sundry small Wheels each within other closed Such equi-distance each-where inter-posed That though they kiss they crush not but the base Are vnder th' high the high the lowe imbrace Simile Like as the Chest-nut next the meat within Is cover'd last with a soft slender skin That skin inclos'd in a tough tawny shel That shel in-cas't in a thick thistly fell Then taks he th' Astrolabe wher-in the Sphear The vse of the Astrolabe Is flat reduced he discovers there The Card of Heights the Almycantharats With th' Azimynths and the Almadarats Pardon me Muse if ruder phrase defile This fairest Table and deface my stile With Barbarism For in this Argument To speak Barbarian is most eloquent On th' other side vnder a veering Sight A Tablevcers which of each wandring Light Showes the swift course and certain Rules includes Dayes names of Months and scale of Altitudes Removing th' Alhidade he spends som leasure To shewe the manner how a Wall to measure A Fountains depth the distance of a place A Countries compass by Heav'ns ample face In what bright starry Signe th' Almighty dread Dayes Princely Planet daily billeted In which his Nadir is and how with-all To finde his Eleuation and his Fall How long a time an entire Signe must wear While it ascendeth on our Hemi-sphear Poles eleuation The Meridian line And divers Hours of Day and night to finde These learned wonders witty Phalec marks And heedfully to every Rule he harks Wise Alchymist he multiplies this Gold This Talent turns encreasing many-fold And then prsents it to his Noble seed Who soon their Doctor in his Art exceed But even as Mars Hermes and Uenus bright Simile Go visit now the naked Troglodite Then Iaue then Guynney and inclin'd to change Oft shifting House through both the Worlds do range Astronomy by whom and how maintained Both Worlds ev'n-halv'd by th' Equinoctiall Line So the perfection of this Art divine First vnder th' Hebrews bred and born anon Coms to the Chaldes by adoption Scorning anon th' olde Babylonian Spires It leaves swift Tigris and to Nile retires And waxen rich in Egypt it erects A famous School yet firm-less in affects It falls in loue with subtil Grecian wits And to their hands awhile it self commits But in renowmed Ptolomeus Raign It doth re-visit the deer Memphian Plain Yet Thence re-fled it doth th' Arabians try From thence to Rome From Rome to Germany O true Endymions that imbrace above Vpon mount Latmos your Imperiall Love Great Queen of Heav'n about whose Bed for Guard The prayse of learned Astronomers and the profit of their Doctrine Millions of Archers with gold Shields do ward True Atlasses You Pillars of the Poles Empyreall Palace you fair learned soules But for your Wrightings the Starrs-Doctrine soon Would sink in Laethe of Oblivion 'T is you that Marshall months and yeers and dayes 'T is you that quoat for such as haunt the Seas Their prosperous Dayes and Dayes when Death ingraven On th' angry Welkin warns them keep their Haven 'T is you that teach the Plough-man when to sowe When the brave Captain to the Field shall goe When to retire to Garrison again When to assault a batter'd Peece and when To conuoy Victuals to his valiant Hoast 'T is you that shewe what season fitteth most For every purpose when to Purge is good When to be Bathed when to be Let-blood And how Physicians skilfully to mix Their Drugs on Heav'n their curious eys must fix 'T is you that in the twinkling of an ey Through all the Heav'nly Provinces do fly 'T is you that greater then our greatest Kings Possess the whole World in your Governings And to conclude you Demi-Gods can make Between your hands the Heav'ns to turn and shake O divine Spirits for you my smoothest quill His sweetest hony on this Book should still Srill should you be my Theam but that the Beauty Of the last Sister drawes my Love and Duty For now I hear my Phalec humbly crave The fourth Mayds name his Father mildely-grave Replyes him thus Obserue my deerest Son Those cloud-less brows those cheeks vermilion Those pleasing looks those eyes so smiling-sweet The description of Musike That grace-full posture and those prety feet Which seem still Dancing all those Harps and Lutes Shawms Sag-buts Citrons Viols Cornets Flutes Plaç't round about her prove in every part This is the noble sweet Voice-ord'ring Art Breath's Measurer the Guide of supplest fingers On living-dumb dead-speaking Sinnew-singers Th' Accord of Discords sacred Harmony And Numb'rie Law which did accompany Th' Almighty-most when first his Ordinance Appointed Earth to Rest and Heav'n to Dance The Heauens Harmony For as they say
should drop What booted all to me that am alone Alas my Lord I have enough for one That hath no issue after to inherit But my good seruant ELEAZAR'S merit Not so my Son replies th' Omnipotent Mistake not so my bountifull intent I 'll not disparage to a Servants Fee The rich estate and royall Dignitie That in my People shall heereafter shine No no mine ABRAM even a stock of thine Thine owne deer Nephews even thy proper Seed Shall be thine Heirs and in thy state succeed Yea thine owne Son 's immortal-mortall Race Shall hold in gage the treasures of my Grace The Patriarch then rapt with sodain Ioy Made answer thus Lives then my wandring Boy Lives IS MAEL is IS MAEL alive O happy news Lord let him everthrive And shall his Seed succeed so eminent Ah! let me die then then I die content IS MAEL indeed doth live the Lord replies And lives to father mighty Progenies For from the Day when first his Mother flying Thy ieloux SARA'S curst and threatfull crying To the dry Desarts sandy horror hi'd I have for both been carefull to provide Their extream Thirst due-timely to refresh Conducting them vnto a Fountain fresh In liquid Crystall of whose Mayden spowt Bird never dipt hir bill nor Beast his snowt And if I err not but I cannot err For what is hid from Hearts-Artificer What can the sight of the Sight-maker dim Another Exile yet attendeth him Where-in he shall in season feel and finde How much to him I will be good and kinde He shall growe Great yet shall his rest be small All shall make war on him and He on all Through Corslets Rivets Iacks and Shirts of Mail. Ismaels mightinesse His shaft shall thril the Foes that him assail A swift Hart's heart he shall even running hit A Sparrows head he shall even flying split And in the air shall make the Swallow cease His sweet-sweet note and slicing nimblenesse Yea O Saints-Firstling only for thy sake Twelue mighty Princes will I shortly make Spring from his Loigns whose fruitfull seed shall swaie Even vnto Sur from golden Havila Yet 't is not He with whom I mean to knit Mine inward Covenant th' outward seal of it ISMAEL may bear but not the efficace Thy Son but after flesh not after Grace But to declare that vnder Heavens Frame I hold nought deerer then mine ABRAHAM I 'll open SARA'S dry and barren womb Isaac promised From whence thine ISAAC Earths delight shall com To glad the World a Son that shall like thee Support the Faith and prop her Family Com from thy Tent com forth and heer contemple The golden Wonders of my Throne and Temple Number the Stars measure their bigness bright With fixed ey gaze on their twinkling Light Exactly mark their ordered Courses driven In radiant Coaches through the Lists of Heaven Then mai'st thou also number thine own Seed And comprehend their Faith and plainly read Their noble Acts and of their Publike-State Draw an Idea in thine owne conceit This This is He to and with whom I grant Th' eternall Charter of my Covenant In him the Covenant ratified Which if he truly keep vpon his Race I 'll pour an Ocean of my plentious Grace I 'll not alone giue him these Fields heer seen But even from India all that flowreth green To th' vtmost Ocean's vtmost sand and shelf I 'll give him Heav'n I 'll give him even my Self Hence hence the High and mighty Prince shall spring Of his ligne shall come Christ the Redeemer Sin 's Death's and Hell 's eternall taming King The sacred Founder of Man's soveraign Bliss World's peace world's ransom and world's righteousness Th' Eternal seem'd then towards Heav'n to hie Th' olde-man to followe him with a greedy eie The suddain dis-appearing of the Lord Seem'd like to Powder fired on a boord When smokingly it mounts in suddain flash With little flame giving a little clash Plenty and Pleasure had o're-whelm'd the while Prosperity plungeth the Sodomites in all manner of abhominations Sodom and Gomor in all Vices vile So that already the most ruth-less Rape Of tender Virgins of the rarest shape Th' Adulterous kiss which Wedlocks bands vnbindes Th' Incestuous Bed confounding Kindreds kindes Where Father wooes the Daughter Sister Brother Th' Vnkle the Niece and even the Son the Mother They did not hate nor as they ought abhor But rather scorn'd as sports they car'd not for Forbear deer Younglings pray a-while forbear Stand farther from me or else stop your ear At th' obscene sound of th' vnbeseeming words Which to my Muse this odious place affords Or if it's horror cannot drive you hence Hearing their Sin pray hear their Punishments These beastly Men rather these man-like Beasts Could not be fill'd with VENVS vulgar Feasts Fair Nature could not furnish their Desire Their most execrable sinne Som monstrous mess these Monsters did require An execrable flame inflam'd their hearts Prodigiously they play'd the Womens parts Male hunted Male and acted openly Their furious Lusts in fruitless Venery Therefore to purge Vlcers so pestilent Two heav'nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent 2. Angels sent down received and guested by Lot Whom deeming Mortals Lot importunates To take his Lodging and to taste his Cates. For Angels being meer Intelligences Have properly no Bodies nor no senses But sacred Legats of the Holy-One Of the nature and essence of Angels To treat with vs they put our Nature on And take a body fit to exercise The Charge they haue which runs and feeds and flies Dures during their Commission and that past Turns t'Elements whence it was first amasst A simple Spirit the glittering Childe of Light Vnto a bodie doth not so vnite As to the Matter Form incorporates But for a season it accommodates As to his Tool the quaint Artificer That at his pleasure makes the same to stir Yet in such sort that th' instrument we see Holds much of him that mooves it actively But alwaies in som place are Angels though Not as all filling God alone is so The spirit which all good spirits in spirit adore In all on all with-out all evermore Nor as environ'd that alone agrees To bodies bounded with extremities Of the next substance and whose superfice Vnto their place proportionable is But rather as sole selfly-limited And ioyn'd to place yet not as quantiti'd But by the touch of their liue efficace Containing Bodies which they seem t' embrace So visibly those bodies move and ost By word of Mouth bring arrands from aloft And eat with vs but not for sustentation Nor naturally but by meer dispensation Such were the sacred Guests of this good Prince Such courteous ABRAHAM feasted in his Tents When seeing three he did adore but one Which comming down from the celestiall Throne Fore-tolde the sad and sodain Tragedy Of these loose Cities for their Luxury You that your Purse do shut and doors do bar Exhortation to Hospitality
much as dayly doth still newly growe This Monster wuns not in the Cel she wont Description of the Palace of Enuy. Sh' hath rear'd her Palace on the steepest Mount Whose snowy shoulders with their stony pride Eternally do Spain from France divide It hath a thousand loop-holes every-way Yet never enters there one sunny ray Or if that any chance so far to pass 'T is quickly quenched by her cloudy face At every Loop the Work-man wittily Hath plaç't a long wide hollow Trunk wher-by Prattling Renown and Fame with painted wing News from all corners of the World do bring Buzzing there-in as in a Sommer Even Simile From clefts of Medows that the Heat hath riven The Grass-hoppers seeming to fain the voyces Of little Birds chirp-out ten thousand noyses It fortun'd now that a swift-flying Fame To whom Fame reporteth Israels prosperity Which lately but from stately Memphis came Sweating and dusty and nigh breath-less fills With this Report one of hir listening Quills O curious Nymph lives there a Wit with vs Acute and quick that is not curious Most wakefull Goddess Queen of mortall hearts Consort of Honour Wealth and High-Deserts Doo'st thou not knowe that happy ISRAEL Which promiseth the Conqueror of Hell That twice-born King here-after to bring-forth Who dead shall liue again and by his Worth Wipe-out Man's Forfait and God's Law fulfill And on his Cross th' envy of Envy kill Doth even in sight abundantly increase That Heav'n and Earth conspire his happiness That seaventy Exiles with vn hallowed Frie Couer the face of all the World well-nigh And drunk with wealth waigh not thy force a iot Envie thou scest it but fore-seest it not Swolne like a Toad between her bleeding iaws â—â—â—y incenseth Pharaoh to oppresse them Her hissing Serpents wriggling tails she chaws And hasting hence in ISIS form she iets A golden vessell in one hand she gets In th' other a sweet Instrument her hood Was Peacocks feathers mixt with Southernwood A silver Crescent on her front she set And in her bosom many a fostering teat And thus disguis'd with pride and impudence She presses-in to the Bubastik Prince Who slumbring then on his vn-quiet Couch With ISRAEL's greatness was disturbed much Then she the while squinting vpon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre And snuffing with a wrythed nofe the Amber The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the Chamber 'Gan thus to greet him Sleep'st thou sleep'st thou son And see'st thou not thy self and thine vn-don While cruell Snakes which thy kinde brest did warm Sting thee to death with their vngratefull swarm These Fugitiues these out-casts do conspire Against rich Egypt and ingrate aspire With odious Yoak of bondage to debase The noble PHARAOH's Godd's immortall Race With these last words into his brest she blowes A banefull ayr whose strength vnfeltly flowes Through all his veins and having gain'd his heart Makes Reason stoop to Sense in every part Simile So th' Aspick pale with too-right aim doth spit On his bare face that coms too-neer to it The froth that in her teeth to bane she turns A drowzy bane that inly creeps and burns So secretly that without sense of pain Scar wound or swelling soon the Partie 's slain What shall I farther say This Sorrow's-Forge This Rack of Kings Care 's fountain Courtier 's scourge Besides her sable poyson doth inspire Enuies two Twins With Hate and Fear the Princes fell desire Hence-forth therefore poor ISRAEL hath no peace Not one good day no quiet nap no ease Still still opprest Tax vpon Tax arose After Thefts Threats and after Threats com blowes Slauery of the Israelites The silly wretches are compell'd som-while To cut new Chanels for the course of Nile Somtimes som Cities ruins to repair Somtimes to build huge Castles in the air Somtimes to mount the Parian Mountains higher In those proud Towrs that after-worlds admire Those Towrs whose tops the Heav'ns have terrified Those Towrs that scuse th' audacious Titan's pride Those Towrs vain Tokens of a vast expence Tropheis of Wealth Ambition's Monuments To make with their owne sweat and blood their morter To be at-once Brick-maker Mason Porter They labour hard eat little sleeping less No sooner layd but thus their Task-lords press Villains to work what are yee growen so sloth Wee 'll make ye yeeld vs wax and hony both In brief this Tyrant with such servitude Pharao his rain policy Thought soon to waste the sacred multitude Or at the least that over-layd with woe Weakned with watching worn with toyling so They would in time becom less service-able In VENUS Battails and for breed less able Their spirits disperst their bodies over-dri'd And Cypris sap vn-duly qualified But when he saw this not succeed so well But that the Lord still prosper'd ISRAEL Inhumane he commands on bloudy Pain His cruell Edict against the male children That all their male-babes in their birth be slain And that because that charge had don no good They should be cast in CAIRO's silver Flood O Barbarism learned in Hel belowe Those that alas nor steel nor stream do knowe Must Die of steel or stream cruell Edicts That with the Infant 's bloud the Mother's mix That Childe and Mother both at once cut-off Him with the stroke her with the grief therof With two-fold tears Iews greet their Native Heav'n The day that brings them life their life hath reav'n But IOCHEEED would fain if she had durst Her deer son MOSES secretly haue nourç't Yet thinking it better her Babeforgo Than Childe and Parents both to hazard so At length she layes it forth in Rush-boat weaves-it And to God's Mercy and the Flood 's she leaves-it Though Rudder-les not Pilot-les this Boat Among the Reeds by the Floods side did float And saues from wrack the future Legislator Lighting in hands of the Kings gracious Daughter His Daughter finding Moses exposed causeth him to be Princely brought vp Who opening it findes which with ruth did strike-her A lovely Babe or little Angel liker Which with a smile seem'd to implore the ayd And gentle pity of the Royall Mayd Love and the Graces State and Maiesty Seem round about the Infants face to fly And on his head seem'd as it were to shine Presagefull rayes of som-what more diuine She takes him vp and rears him royal-like And his quick Spirit train'd in good Arts is like A wel breath'd Body nimble sound and strong 2. Similes That in the Dance-school needs not teaching long Or a good Tree set in as good a soyl Which growes a-pace without the Husband's toyl In time he puts in Practice what he knowes With curteous Mildnesse manly Courage showes H' hath nothing vulgar with great happiness In choice discourse he doth his minde express And as his Soul's-type his sweet tongue affoords His gracefull Works confirm his gracious Words His Vertues make him even the Empire 's heir So means the Prince
Sea-drying Lord I knowe no Gods aboue my glittering Sword This sayd he sallies and assaults the Foe With furious skirmish and doth charge them so As stormy billows rush against a Rock 3. Similes As boystrous windes that haue their prison broak Roar on a Forrest as Heav'ns sulph'ry Flash Against proud Mountains surly brows doth dash The sacred Troops to conquer alwayes wont Could not sustain his first Tempestuous brunt But turn their backs and as they fly amain Four less than fourty of their band were slain The son of NVN then with th' Isacian Peers Iosuah and the Princes of Israel humbled before the Lord in Prayer Before the Ark in postrate wise appears Sack on his back dust on his head his eyes Even great with tears thus to the Lord he cries O! what alas what haue we don O Lord The People destin'd to thy Peoples sword Conquers thy people and the Cananites Against thy Promise chase the Israelites O Lord why did not Iordans rapid Tyde Still stay our Hoast vpon the other side Sith heer in hope to get the Promis'd more We hazzard all that we had won before Regard and guard vs nay regard thy Name O! suffer not the seed of Abraham Almighty Father O thou God most high To be expos'd to Heathen's Tyranny Much less thy sacred Ark for them to burn And least of all thy glorious Self to scorn IOSVAH sayd God let th' Hoast be sanctifi'd And let the Church-thief die that dar'd to hide Th' vn-lawfull Pillage of that cursed Town Thy Mayden Conquest prime of thy Renown Then shalt thou vanquish and the lofty Towrs Of HAI shal fall vnder thy war-like powrs The morrow next after the great Assise ACHAN convicted not by bare surmize AchaÌ„ executed But by God's Spirit which vndermines our mindes And cleerly sees our secretest designes To whom Chance is no Chance and Lot no Lot To whom the Die vncertain rouleth not Is brought without the Hoast with all hee hath And sacrifiç'd vnto th' Almighties wrath Now between Bethel and HAI's western wall There lies a valley close inviron'd all Between the forking of a Hill so high That it is hidden from all passers-by Whose horned clifts belowe are hollowed And with two Forrests arbour'd over-head 'T is long and narrow and a rapid Torrent Bounding from Rock to Rock with roaring Current Deaffens the Shepheards so that it should seem Nature fore-cast it for som stratagem Thither the Duke soon after mid-night guides Aâ— ambush His choycest Bands and them there war'ly hides Ech keeps his place none speaks none spits none coughs But all as still as if they marchton moss So fallow Wolues when they intend to set Simile On fearfull flocks that in their Folds do bleat Through silent darkness secret ways do groap Their feet are feathered with the wings of hope They hold their breath and so still vn-descri'd They pass hard by the watchfull Mastie's side Mean-while the howrs opened the doors of Day To let out Titan that must needs away Whose radiant tresses but with trayling on Began to gild the top of Libanon When with the rest of all his Hoast the * Signifieth but an Earle but here â—â—â—â— vsurâ—ed for the chiefe Captain Ioâ—uah GRAVE Marcheth amain to giue the Town a braue They straight re-charge him as in season warm The hony-makers busie-buzzing swarm With humming threats throngs from the little gates Simile Of their round Towr and with their little hates Fiercely assail and wound the naked skins Of such as come to rob their curious Inns. Why Cowards dare you com again for blowes Or do you long your wretched liues to lose Com we are for you wee 'll dispatch you soon And for the many wrongs that you haue don Vnto ourselues our Neighbours and our Friends This day our swords shall make vs full amends Cry th' Amorites and th' Hebrew Captain then â—â—â—ratagem Flies as affraid and with him all his men Disorderly retire still faining so Till politik he hath in-trayn'd the Foe Right to his Ambush then the Souldiers there Hid in the Vale hearing their noyse so neer Would fain be at them were they not with-held By threatning gestures of Commanding Eld So haue I seen on LAMBORN's pleasant Douns Simile When yelping Begles or sons deeper Hounds Haue start a Hare how milk-white Minks and Lun Gray-bitches both the best that ever run Held in one leash haue leapt and strain'd and whin'd To be restrain'd till to their masters minde They might be slipt to purpose that for sport Watt might haue law neither too-long nor short But when the Heathen had the ambush past The Duke thus cheers his sacred Troops as fast Sa sa my Hearts turn turn again vpon-them They are your owne now charge and cheerly on-them His ready Souldiers at a beck obay And on their Foes courageous load they lay Hâ—i conquered They shoot they shock they strike they stab they kill Th' vnhallowed Currs that yet resisted still Vntill behinde them a new storm arose With horrid noyse which daunts not only those But with the fury of it's force doth make The Hills and Forrests and even Hell to quake Pagans what will you do if heer you fly You fall on Caleb where y' are sure to dy If there on Iosuah O vnfortunate Your help-less Gods in vain you invocate Y' are O forlorn like Rabbets round be-set With wily Hunters Dogs and deadly Net Simile With shrill Sa-haw heer-heer-ho heer-again The Warren rings th' amazed Game amain Runs heer and there but if they scape away From Hounds staues kill them if from staues the Hay Yield yield and die then striue not to retire For even in death behold your Town a-fire Then Gabaon a mighty City neer That these Exploits of Heav'ns drad hand did hear Sent subtilly to League with Israel No y' are deceiv'd sayd then th' Arch-Colonel The Cananites are destin'd long ago To Fire and Sword and vtter Over-throwe From Heav'ns high Iudge the sentence doth proceed Man may not alter what God hath decreed Alas my Lord reply'd th' Embassadors The Gabaonites cunning policie to make League with Israel You may perceiue we are no Borderers Vpon these countries For our sutes our slops Our hose and shoos were new out of the shops When we set forth from home and even that day This Bread was baked when we came away But the long Iourney we haue gon hath wore Our cloaths to rags and turn'd our Victuals hoar W' adiure you therefore in the sacred name Of that drad GOD to whom your vows you frame By the sweet ayr of this delightfull Coast By the good Angell that conducts your Hoast By deer Embraces of your deerer Wiues And by your Babes even deerer then your liues By each of these and all of these together And by your Arms whose Fame hath drawen vs hither T' haue pitty on vs and to swear vnto-vs To saue our liues and not so
to vndo-vs As these neer Nations Israel accords And with an Oath confirms the solemn words So I good Lord perceiving all the Seed A sacred application of their profane example Of Sin-full Adam vnto Death decreed Doom'd to the Vengeance of thy Fury fell And damn'd for ever to the deepest Hell Would fain be free but if I should alas Com as I am before thy glorious face Thou righteous God wilt turn thine eyes away For Flesh and Blood possess not Heav'n for ay And the strict Rigour of thy Iustice pure Cannot O Lord the least of sins endure Oh then what shall I do I 'll similize These Gabaonites I will myself disguize To gull thee Lord for even a holy Guile Findes with thee grace and fauour often-while I'll put-on crafty not the cloak of Pride For that was it whereby our Grandsires di'd And Lucifer with his associates fell From Ioys of Heav'n into the Pains of hel But th' humble Fleece of that sweet sacred Lamb Which for our sakes vpon the Cross became So torn and tatter'd which the most refuse Scorn of the Gentiles Scandal of the Iewes And as a piece of Silver Tyn or Lead Simile By cunning hands with Gold is covered I that am all but Lead or dross more base In fervent Crusible of thy free Grace I 'll gild me all with his pure Beautie 's Gold Born a new man by Faith I 'll kill mine old In Spirit and Life Christ shall be mine example His Spirit shall be my spirit and I his Temple I beeing thus in Christ and Christ in me O! wilt thou canst thou driue vs farre from thee Deprive from promis'd new Ierusalem Christ thine owne Likenes and me like to him Bannish from Heav'n whose Blisâ— shal never vade Thy Christ by whom and me for whom 't was made But O presumption O too rash Designe Alas to Will it only is not mine And though I Would my flesh too-Winter-chill My Spirit 's small sparkles doth extinguish still O! therfore thou thou that canst all alone All-sacred Father's like all-sacred Son Through thy deep Mercy daign thou to transform Into thy Self me sin-full silly worm That so I may be welcom to my God And liue in Peace not where the Iewes abode But in Heav'n Sion and that thou maist be Th' vniting glew between my God and me Now Eglon's Hebron's Iarmuth's Salem's Lords And Lachis Kingling after these Accords Wroth that their Neighbours had betrayed so Their common Country to their common Foe Had made so great a breach and by the hand Led as it were th' Hebrews into their Land Set-vpon Gabaon but th' Isacian Prince As iust as valiant hastes to hunt them thence And resolute to rescue his Allies He straight bids Battail to their Enemies The Fight growes fierce and winged Victory The Battaile of the fiue Kings Shaking her Laurels rusht confusedly Into the midst she goes and coms and goes And now she leans to these and now to those Auster the while from neighbour Mountains arms A hundred Winters and a hundred storms With huge great Hail-shot driving fiercely-fell In the stearn visage of the Infidel The roaring Tempest violently retorts Extraordinary Volleys of Hail-shot froÌ„ Heauen vpoÌ„ the Infidels Vpon themselues the Pagans whirling darts And in their owne breasts their owne Launces bore Wher-with they threatned th' Hoast of God before And even as if it enuied the Renown Of valiant Iosuah now by Ganges knowen With furious shock the formost Ranks it whirr'd Vpon the next the second on the third Even as a Bridge of Cards which Play-full Childe Simile Doth in an evening on a Carpet build When som Wag by vpon his Work doth blowe If one Arch fail the rest fall all arowe Each vpon other and the Childe he Cries For his lost labour and again he tries If any resting on his knotty Spear Gainst Arms and storms yet stand out stifly there Th' Hail which the Winde full in his face doth yerk Smaâ—ter than Racquets in a Courtre-ierk Balls 'gainst the Walls of the black-boorded house Beats out his eyes battters his nose and brows Then turn the Pagans but without a vail For instantly the stony storm of Hail Which flew direct a-front direct now falls Plumb on their heads and cleaues their sculs and cauls And ever as they waver to and fro Over their Hoast the Haily Clowd doth go And never hits one Hebrue though between But a sword's length or not so much be seen A bluckler one another a bright helm Over his threatened or sick head doth whelm But the shield broken and helm beaten in Th' Hail makes the hurt bite on the bloody green Those that escape be take them to their heels Iosuah pursues and though his sweat distills From every part he wounds he kills he cleaues Neither the Fight imperfect so he leaues But full of faithfull zeal and zealous faith Thus O strange language thus alowd he saith Beam of th' Eternall daies bright Champion At the command of Iosuah the Sun staÌ„dâ—th stil. Spiall of Nature O all-seeing Sun Stay stand thou still stand still in Gabaon And thou O Moon i' th' vale of Aialon That th' Ammorites now by their hare-like flight Scape noâ— my hands vnder all-hiding Night As a Caroche draw'n by foure lusty steeds Simile In a smooth way whirling with all their speeds Stops suddainly if 't slip into a slough Or if it cross som Log or massie bough The Day-reducing Chariot of the Sun Which now began towards his West to run Stops instantly and giues the Hebrews space To rid the Pagans that they haue in chase Nature amaz'd for very anger shakes DescriptioÌ„ of Na ture who offended therat makes her complaint to GOD. And to th' Almighty her complaint she makes Seemly she marches with a measur'd pase Choler puts colour in her lovely face From either nipple of her bosom-Twins A liuely spring of pleasant milk their spins Vpon her shoulders Atlas-like she bears The frame of All down by her side shee wears A golden Key wher-with shee letteâ—h-forth And locketh-vp the Treasures of the Earth A sumptuous Mantle to her heels hangs down Wher-in the Heavens the Earth and Sea is showen The Sea in Silver woven the Earth in Green The Heav'ns in azure with gold threds between All-quickning Loue fresh Beauty smiling Youth And Fruitfulness each for her fauour su'th Grace still attends ready to do her honour Riches and Plenty alwayes wait vpon her Accoutred thus and thus accompani'd With thousand sighs thus to the Lord she cri'd Prosopopoeia Shall it be sayd a Man doth Heav'n command Wilt thou permit a braving Souldiers hand To wrong thine eldest Daughter ah shall I Haue the bare Name and He th' authority To Govern all and all controul O Lord With the bare winde of his ambitious word Shall I the World's Law then receiue the Law At others hands of others stand in aw If 't be thy pleasure or
Tissue with too-mean supplies You all the year long doo not spend your wing But during only your delightfull Spring Like Nightingales from bush to bush you play From Tuneto Tune from Myrtle spray to spray But I too-bold and like the Swallow right Not finding whereto rest me at one flight A bound-les ground-les Sea of Times I passe With Auster now anon with Boreas Your quick Career is pleasant short and eath At each Lands-end you sit you down and breathe On som green bank or to refresh you finde Som Rosie-arbour from the Sun and winde But end-les is my Course for now I glyde On Ice then dazled head-long down I slyde Now vp I climbe then through the Woods I craul I stray I stumble somtimes down I fall And as base Morter serveth to vnite Simile Red white gray Marble Iasper Galactite So to con-nex my queint Discourse somtimes Imix loose limping and ill-polisht Rimes Yet wil I not this Work of mine giue o're The Labour 's great my Courage yet is more My hart 's not yet all voyd of sacred heat Ther 's nothing Glorious but is hard to get Hils were not seen but for the Vales betwixt The deep indentings artificiall mixt Amid Musaïks for more ornament Haue prizes sizes and dyes different And O God grant the greatest spot you spie In all my Frame may be but as the Fly Which on her Ruff whiter than whitest snowes To whiten white the fairest Virgin fowes Or like the Veluet on her brow or like The dunker Mole on Venus dainty Cheek And that a few faults may but lustre bring To my high furies where I sweetest sing DAVID waxt old and cold and 's vitall Lamp Lacking it's oyl of Natiue moist grew damp But by degrees when with a dying voice But liuely vigor of Discretion choise He thus instructs his yong Son SALOMON And as Heav'n cals instals him in his Throne Whom with-out Force Vproar or Ryualing Dauids instructions to his Son Salomon Nature and Law and Fortune make a King Euen He my Son must be both Iust and Wise If long He look to Rule and Royalize But he whom onely Fortunes Fauours rears Vnto a Kingdom by some new-found stairs He must appear more than a man and cast By rarest Worth to make his Crown sit fast My SALOMON thou know'st thou art my Yongest Thou know'st besides out of what Bed thou sprungest Thou seest what loue all Izrael bears thy Brother To honour Thee what wrong I doo to other Yea euen to Nature and our Natiue Law 'T is thy part therefore in all points to draw To full Perfection and with rare effect Of Noblest Vertues hide thy Births defect Thou Izraels King serue the great King of All A king first of all ought to bee Religious And only on his Conducts pedestall Found thine Affaires vpon his Sacred Lore Thine eyes and minde be fixed euermore The barking rage of bold Blasphemers hate Thy Soueraign's Manners Vice-Roy imitate Nor think the thicknes of thy Palace Wals Thine iron Gates and high gold-seeled Halls Can let his Eye to spie in euery part The darkest Closets of thy Mazie Hart. If birth or Fate my Son had made thee Prince Of Idumeans or of Philistins Valorous If Pharaoh's Title had be-fall'n to thee If the Medes Myter bowed at thy knee Wert thou a Sophy yet with Vertues lustre Thou oughtst at least thy Greatnes to illustre But to Command the Seed of Abraham The Holy Nation to Controul and tame To bear a Iosuahs or a Samsons load To be Gods Vice-Roy needs a Demi-God Before old Seruants giue not new the start Impartial in bestowing Preferments Kings-Art consists in Action more then Art Old Wine excelleth new Nor giddily Will a good Husband grub a goodly Tree In his faire Orchards midst whose fruitfull store Hath graç't his Table twenty years and more Simile To plant a Graft yer e'r he taste the same Saue with the teeth of a perhaps false Fame These Parasites are euen the Pearls and Rings Pearls said I Perils in the eares of Kings For O what Mischief but their Wiles can work Impatient of Parasites Flatterers Sith euen within vs to their aid doth lurk A smoother Soother euen our owne Selfs-loue A malady that nothing can remoue Which with these strangers secretly Combin'd In League offensiue to the firmest Minde Perswades the Coward he is Wisely-meek The drunkard Stout the Periure Politick The cruel Tyrant a iust Prince they call Sober the Sot the Lauish Liberal And quick-nos'd Beagles senting right his lore Trans-form'd into him euen his Faults adore Fly then those Monsters and giue no accesse To banish Atheists and all notoriously wicked persons from his presence To men infamous for their wickednesse Endure no Atheist brook no Sorcerer Within thy Court nor Thief nor Murderer Least the contagion of their banefull breath Poyson the publike fountain and to death Infect Thy manners more of force then Law The spring whence Subiects good or bad will draw To over-Rule his owne Passiōs Affections Rule thine Affects thy fury and thy fear Hee 's no true King who no self's-sway doth bear Not what thou could'st but what thou shouldst effect And to thy Lawes first thine owne-self subiect For ay the Subiect will fear set a-side Through thick and thin hauing his King for guide To be milde and gratious Shew thy Self gracious affable and meek And be not proud to those gay godlings like But once a year from their gilt Boxes tane To impetrate the Heav'ns long wisht-for raine To fail his Word a King doth ill beseem To be faithful of his promise Who breaks his faith no faith is held with him Deceipt's deceiu'd Iniustice meets vniust Disloy all Prince armes subiects with distrust And neighbour States will in their Leagues commend A Lion rather then a Foxe for Friend Be prodigall of Vertues iust reward To be readier to Reward then Punish Of punishments be sparing with regard Arm thou thy brest with rarest Fortitude Things Eminent are euer most pursu'd On highest Places most disgraces threat The roughest windes on widest gates do beat Not to be Quarellous yet quick and couragious in a iust Cause Toil not the World with Wars ambitious spite But if thine Honour must maintain thy Right Then shew thee DAVID's Son and wisely-bold Follow't as hot as thou beginst it cold Watch Work Deuise and with vn-weary limb Wade thorough Foords and ouer Chanels swim Let tufted Planes for pleasant shades suffice His exercises in Warre In heat in Cold thy Fier be Exercise A Targe thy Table and a Turf thy Bed Let not thy Mouth be ouer-dainty fed Let Labour be thy sauce thy Cask thy Cup Whence for thy Nectar some ditch-water sup Let Drums and Trumpets and shril Fifes and Flutes Serue thee for Citterns Virginals and Lutes Trot vp a Hill Run a whole Feeld for Race Leap a large Dike Tosse a
long Pike a space Perfume thy head with dust and sweat appeer Captain and Soldier Soldiers are on fire Hauing their King before them Marching forth Fellow in Fortune witnes of their Worth I should inflame thy hart with Learnings loue In Peace not to be over-studious yet to vnderstand the Principals of all Prince-fit Sciences Saue that I know what diuine habits moue Thy profound Spirit only let th' ornament Of Letters wayt on th' Art of Regiment And take good heed least as excesse of humor In Plants becomes their Flowring Lifes consumer So too-much Study and delight in Arts Quench the quick vigour of thy Spiritual parts Make thee too-pensiue ouer-dull thy Senses And draw thy Minde from Publike cares of Princes With a swift-winged soule the Course suruay Of Nights dim Taper and the Torch of Day Sound round the Cels of th' Ocean dreadly-deep Measure the Mountains snowie tops and steep Ferret all Corners of this nether Ball But to admire the Makers Art in all His Power and Prudence and resemble not Simile Some simple Courtier or the silly Sot That in the base-Court all his time hath spent In gazing on the goodly Battlement The chamfred Pillers Plinths and antique Bosses Medals Ascents Statues and strange Colosses Amaz'd and musing vpon euery piece Of th' vniforme fair stately Frontispice Too-too-self-rapt through too-self-humoring Losing him-self while others finde the King Hold euen the Balance with clean hands clos'd eyes The principal peculiar office of a King Reuenge seuerely Publike Iniuries Remit thine Owne Heare the Cries see the Tears Of all distressed poor Petitioners Sit oft thy Self in Open Audience Who would not be a Iudge should be no Prince For Iustice Scepter and the Martiall Sword Ought neuer seuer by the Sacred Word Spare not the Great neither despise the Small Let not thy Lawes be like the Spiders Caul Simile Where little Flyes are caught and kild but great Passe at their pleasure and pull-down the Net Away with Shepheards that their Flocks deface Chuse Magistrates that may adorn their Place Such as fear God such as will iudge vprightly Men by the seruants iudge the Master lightly Giue to the Vertuous but thy Crown-Demain Diminish not giue still to giue again For there too-deep to dip is Prodigality And to dry-vp the Springs of Liberality But aboue all for Gods sake Son beware Hic labor hoc Opus Be not intrapt in Womens wylie snare I fear alas good Lord supreamly sage Auert from Mine th' effect of this Praesage Alas I fear that this sweet Poyson wil My House here-after with all Idols fil But if that neither Vertu 's sacred loue Nor Feare of Shame thy wanton Minde can moue To watch in Arms against the Charms of Those At least be warned by thy Fathers Woes Fare-wel my Son th' Almightie cals me hence I passe by Death to Lifes most excellence And to go Raign in Heav'n from World-cares free The Crown of Izrael I resigne to thee O thou that often for a Princes Sin Transport'st the Scepter euen from Kin to Kin From Land to Land Let it remaine with Mine And of my Sons Sons in successiue Ligne Let that Al-Power full deer-drad Prince descend Whose glorious Kingdom neuer shal haue end Whose iron Rod shall Satans Rule vn-doo Whom Iacob trusts in Whom I thirst for too ' DAVID deceast His Son him tracking right Initium Regni SALOMON With heart and voice worships the God of Might Enters his Kingdom by the Gate of Pietie Makes Hymâ—s and Psalms in Laud of the true Deïtie Offers in Gabeon where in Spirit he sees While his Sense sleepes the God of Maiesties His Vision The Lord of Hoasts who Crownd with radiant flames Offers him choise of these foure louely Dames First Glory shaking in her hand a Pike Not Maid-like Marching but braue Souldier-like Description of Glory Among the Stars her stately head she beares A siluer Trumpet shril a slope she wears Whose Winde is Praise and whose Stentorian sound Doth far and wide o'r all the world redound Her wide-side Robes of Tissue passing price All Story-wrought with bloody Victories Tryumphs and Tropheis Arches Crowns and Rings And at her feet there sigh a thousand Kings Not far from her coms Wealth all rich-bedight Of Riches In Rhéa's Thetis Pluto's Treasures bright The glittering stuff which doth about her fold Is rough with Rubies stiff with beaten Gold With either hand from hollow steans she powrs Pactolian surges and Argolian showrs Fortune and Thrift and Wakefulnes and Care And Diligence her dayly Seruants are Then cheerfull Health whose brow no wrinkle bears Of Health Whose cheek no palenesse in whose eye no tears But like a Childe shee 's pleasant quick and plump Shee seems to fly to skip to daunce and iump And Life 's bright Brand in her white hand doth shine Th' Arabian Birds â—are plumage platted â—ine Serues her for Suâ—-coat and her seemly â—â—ain Mirth Exercise and Temperance sustain Last Wisedom comes with sober countenance Of Wisedom To th' euer-Bowrs her oft a-loft t' aduance The light Mamuques wing-les wings she has Her gesture cool as comly-graue her pase Where e'r she go she neuer goes with-out Compasse and Rule Measure and Waights about And by her side at a rich Belt of hers The Glasse of Nature and her-Self she wears Hauing beheld their Bewties bright the Prince Seems rapt all-ready euen to Heauen from hence Sees a whole Eden round about him shine And ' mid so many Benefits Diuine Doubts which to chuse At length he thus begun O Lord sayth he what hath thy Seruant don That so great Blessings I should take or touch Or thou shouldst daign to honour me so much Thou doost preuent my Merit or deer Father Delight'st to Conquer euen my Malice rather Fair Victorie's a noble Gift and nought Is more desired or is sweeter thought Than euen to quench our Furie's thirst with blood In iust Reuenge on those that wrong our Good But oft alas foul Insolence comes after And the long Custome of in humane Slaughter Transforms in time the myldest Conquerors To Tigers Panthers Lions Bears and Boars Happy seems He whose count-les Herds for Pasture Dis-robe alone Mount Carmels moatly Vesture For whom alone a whole rich Countrey torn With timely Tools brings forth both Wine and Corn That hath soft Sereans yellow Spoils the Gems And precious stones of the Arabian streams The Mines of Ophir th' Entidorian Fruits The Saban Odours and the Tyrian Sutes But yet we see where Plenty chiefly sways There Pride increases Industry decays Rich-men adore their Gold whoso aspires To lift to Heav'n his sight and Soules Desires He must be Poor at least-wise like the Poor Riches and Fear are fellows euer-more I would liue long and I would gladly see My Nephews Nephews and their Progeny But the long Cares I fear and Cumbers rife Which commonly accompany Long-Life Who well liues long liues for this age of
ours Should not be numbred by yeers dayes and howrs But by our braue Exploits and this Mortality Is not a moment to that Immortality But in respect of Lady Wisedomes grace Euen at their best the rest are all but base Honour is but a puffe Life but a vapour Salomons choise Wealth but a wish Health but a sconce of paper A glistering Scepter but a Maple twig Gold Drosse Pearls Dust how-euer bright and big Shee 's Gods owne Mirror shee 's a Light whose glance Springs from the Lightning of his Countenance Shee 's mildest Heav'ns most sacred influence Neuer decays her Bewties excellence Aye like her-Self and shee doth alwayes trace Not only the same path but the same pase Without her Honour Health and Wealth would proue Three Poisons to me Wisedom from aboue Is th' only Moderatrix spring and guide Organ and honour of all Gifts beside Her her I like her only Lord I craue Her Company for-euer let me haue Let me for-euer from her sacred lip Th' Ambrosial Nard and rosial Nectar sip In euery Cause let me consult with her And when I Iudge be Shee my Counsailer Let with her Staffe my yet-Youth gouern wel In Pastures fair the Flock of Izrael A compt-les Flock a Flock so great indeed As of a Shepherd sent from Heav'n had need Lord giue her me alas I pine I die Or if I liue I liue her * Pyrausta Flame-bred-Flie And new Farfalla in her radiant shine Too-bold I burne these tender wings of mine Hold take her to thee said the Lord and sith No Bewty else thy soule enamoreth For ready hand-maids to attend vpon her I 'll giue thee also Health and Wealth and Honor For'tis not meet so High-descended Queen So great a Lady should alone be seen The rather that my Bounty may inuite Thee seruing Her to serue Me day and night King SALOMON awaked plainly knew That this Diuine strange Uision neuer grew From the sweet Temper of his sound Complexion But that it was some Peece of more Perfection Some sacred Picture admirably draw'n With Heav'nly pencil by an Angels hand For happy He had without Art the Arts And learning without learning in all parts A more then humane Knowledge bewtifies His princely actions vp to Heav'n he flies He dyues to Hell he sounds the Deeps he enters To th' in most Cels of the Worlds lowest Centers The secret Riddles of the sacred Writ His excellent Uisedome and vnderstanding in all things Are plain to him and his deep-pearcing Wit Vpon few Words of the Heav'n-prompted stile In a few Dayes large Volumes can compile He learned sees the Sun's Eclipse sans terror He knowes the Planets neuer erring Error And whether Nature or some Angel moue Their Sphears at once with triple Dance aboue Whether the Sun self-shine his Sister not Whether Spring Winter Autumn Summer hot Be the Suns Sons what kinde of mounting Vapor Kindles the Comet and the long-taild Taper What boy strous Lungs the roaring Whirlers blow'n What burning Wings the Lightning rides vpon What Curb the Ocean in his bounds doth keep What power Night's-Princesse powrs vpon the Deep Whether the Heav'ns sweet-sweating Kisse appear To be Pearls parent and the Oyster's pheer And whether dusk it makes them dim withall Cleer breeds the cleer and stormy brings the pale Whether from Sea the Amber-greece be sent Or be some Fishes pleasant excrement He knowes why th' Earth's immoueable and round The lees of Nature Center of the Mound He knowes her measure And he knowes beside How Coloquintida duely apply'd With-in the darknes of the Conduit-Pipes Amid the windings of our in-ward Tripes Can so discreetly the White humor take Rheubarb the Yellow Hellebore the Black And whether That in our weak Bulks be wrought By drawing 't to them or by driuing't out In brief from th' Hysop to the Cedar-Tree He knowes the Vertues of all Plants that be He knowes the Reason why the Woolfs fell tooth Giues a Horse swiftnes and his footing sloath Why thy Sex-changing fierce Hyena's eye Puts curstest Curres to silence suddenly Why th' irefull Elephant becommeth tame At the approaching of the fleecie Lamb Why th' eye-bold Eagle neuer fears the flash Or force of Lightning nor the Thunder-clash Why the wilde Fen-Goose which keeps warm her egs With her broad feet vnder her heatfull legs And tongue-les cries as wing-lym'd cannot flie Except she glad Seas brynie glasse descrie He knoweth also whether that our Stone Be baked Earth or Exhalation Whether the Metals that we dayly see Be made of Sulphur and of Mercurie Or of some Liquor by long Cold condens't And by the Heat well purified and cleans'd Or of a certain sharp and cindrous humor Or whether He that made the Wauing Tumor The motly Earth and th' Heav'nly Sphears refin'd All-mighty made them such as now we finde He comprehends from whence it is proceeding That spotted Iasper-stones can staunch our bleeding Saphires cure eyes the Topaz to resist The rage of Lust of drink the Amethist And also why the clearest Diamant Ielous impugns the thefts of th' Adamant Tunes Measures Numbers and Proportions Of Bodies with their Shadowes al 's ' he kons And fild with Nectar-Deaws which Heav'n drips The Bees haue made Honie within his lips But he imbraceth much more earnestly The gain-full Practice than cold Theorie Nor reaks he so of a Sophistick pride Of prattling Knowledge too-self-magnifi'd As of that goodly Art to gouern well The sacred Helms of Church and Common-weal And happily to entertain in either A harmony of Great and Small together Especially Hee 's a good Iusticer And to the Lawes dooth Life and strength confer Simile And as the highest of Bigaurian Hils Ay bears his head vp-right and neuer yeelds To either side scorns Winde and Rain and Snowe Abides all weathers with a cheerfull brow Laughs at a Storme and brauely tramples vnder His steddy Knees the prowd lowd rowling Thunder So Hee 's a Iudge inflexibly-vpright No Loue nor Hatred of the Guilty wight What e'r he wear for Calling small or great His Venging blade can either blunt or whet He spurneth Fauors and he scorneth Fears And vnder foot he treadeth priuate Tears Gold 's radiant Lustre neuer blears his Eye Nor is he led through Ignorance a-wry His Voice is held an Oracle of all The soule of Lawes he wisely can exhale In doubtfull Cases he can subtilize And wyliest pleaders harts anatomize Scarce fifteen times had Ceres since his Birth With her gilt Tresses glorifi'd the Earth When he decides by happy Wisedoms means The famous Quarrel of Two crafty Queans Is' t possible O Earth thus cries the first But that alas thou should'st for anger burst The Controuersie between the 2. Harlots for the liue Child And swallow quick this execreable Quean Is' t possible O gracious Soueraign That comming new from dooing such a deed So horrible she shame-les dares proceed T' approach thy sight thy sacred Throne t' abuse Not begging Pardon
but euen bent t' accuse Last night with surfet and with sleep sur-cloyd This care-les step-dam her own Child o'r-layd And softly then finding it cold and dead Layes it by me and takes mine in the stead Here old bold strumpet take thy bastard brat Hence with thy Carion and restore me that Restore me mine my louely liuing Boy My hope my hap my Loue my life my Ioy. O cruell Chance O sacrilegious Shall thy foullips my little Angell busse At thy fond prattling shall he pret'ly smile And tug and touze thy greasie locks the-while And all his Child-hood fill thy soule with glee And grow'n a man sustaine thine age and thee While wretched I haue only for my share His Births hard Trauail and my burthen's Care His rest-les rocking wyping washing wringing And to appease his way ward Cries with singing O most vnhappy of all Woman-kinde O Childe-les mother O! why is my Minde More passion-stirred than my hand is strong But rather than I 'll pocket vp this wrong To be reueng'd I 'll venter two for one I 'll haue thy Life although it cost mine owne O filthy Bitch Vile Witch sayes th' other tho O! who would think that Wine could mad one so O impudent though God thou fear'st not fear The Kings cleer iudgement who Gods place doth bear Art not content t' haue call'd or rather cry'd Me Whore and Thief Drunkard and Paricide But thou wilt also haue my Childe my deer Whom with so strong a knot Loue links so neer My Babe my Blisse Yea marry Minks and shall Who takes my Childe shall take my life with-all Iust Dauids iust Son for thy Father's sake For his deer loue for all that he did make Of thee a Childe when he re-childing sought With childish sport to still thy cryes and taught Or'gan to teach with language soft and weak Thy tender tongue some easie tearm to speak Or when all bloody breath-les hot he came Laden with spoils of Kings he ouercame He ran t' imbrace thee rockt thee in his Targe And when thou Cry'dst vpon his shoulder large Did set thee vp while thou his beard didst tug Play'dst with his nose about his neck didst hug Gap'tst on his glittering Helm and smil'dst to see Another SALOMON there smile on thee And vnderneath his dancing Plume didst play Like Bird in bush sporting from spray to spray I doe adiure thee to attend my Plea By the sweet name of thy deer Bersabe Who in the night shiuering for cold so oft Hath bow'd her self ouer thy Cradle soft Who both the Bottles of her Nectar white Hath spent vpon thee hundred times a night Who on thy head hath set hir pearly Crown And in Thy life liv'd more than in her Owne I doo adiure thee O great King by all That in the World we sacred count or call To doo me Right and if too-mylde alas Too mercifull thou wilt not Sentence passe Of iust reuenge for my receiued wrong Yet reaue me not what doth to me belong What liberall Nature hath bestow'd on me What I am seis'd-of without thank to thee For pitty doo not my heart blood depriue Make me not Childe-les hauing Childe a-liue While both at once thus to the King they Crie 'T is mine 'T is mine thouly'st and thou doost lie The partial People diuers Verdict spend Some fauour th' one others the other friend Simile As when two Gamesters hazard in a trice Fields Vine-yards Castles on the Chance of Dice The standers-by diuersly stird with-in Wish some that This and some that That maie win Wauer twixt Hope and Fear and euery-one's Moou'd with the moouing of the guile-ful Bones Only the King demurres his prudent ears Finde like both reasons both Complaints both tears The Infants face could not discipher whether Of both should be the very Mother neither Could calculation of their ages cleer The Iudges doubt nor any proof appear Then thus He waighs but as in dreaming wise Th' industrious Iudge when all proofs fail him flies Vnto Coniectures drawn the probablest Out of the book of Natures learned brest Or to the Rack Now Mothers loue thinks he Is Natures owne vnchangeable Decree And there 's no Torture that exceeds the pains Which a kinde Mother in her Childe sustains Then as awake Come come no more a-doo The Doubt admirably decided Dispatch saith he Cleaue the quick Child in two Look that the Sword be sharp in such a case Needs must our Pittie giue our Iustice place Iustice yee see can iudge him whole to neither Diuide him therefore and giue half to either O difficult but thus the King descries Their harts deep secrets all discouered lyes The vizor's off their Tongues sincerely prest With true instinct their very Thoughts exprest Bee 't said the stepdam so sith't must be so Diuide him iustly from the top to toe No said the other rather I renounce My Right in him take thou him all at once Enjoy him all I 'll rather haue him Thine A-liue and whole than dead and mangled Mine Thine quoth the King hee 's Thine by Birth I see Thine by thy Loue and thine by my Decree Now as with Gold growes in the self-same Mine Simile Much Chrysocolle and also Siluer fine The wonderfull Prosperitie of Salomon and his People So supream Honour and Wealth matcht by none Second the Wisedom of great SALOMON He far and neer commands by Land and Seas A hundred Crowns doo homage vnto His His neerest Bounds Nile's Sea and Sidon seem And Euphrates bows his moyst horns to him Peru they say supposing Ophir so By yeerly Fleets into his Fisk dooth flowe In Sion Gold 's as common as the Sand As Pebbles Pearls Through-out all Iury-Land There seems an Ocean of all happinesse To ouer-flowe and all doo all possesse Each vnder his owne Vine and his owne Tree His Grapes and Figs may gather quietly Thus he abounds in Blisse not so to change-ill Man into Beast but make of Man an Angel To praise th' Immortall who to him hath giuen Euen here a Taste of the delights of Heauen This great wise wealthy and wel-spoken King His sweet renown o'r all the World doth ring The Tyrian for Confederate desires him Pharao for Son th' Alien no lesse admires-him Than his owne Subiect and his eyes sweet flames As far as Nilus fire the flower of Dames O SALOMON see'st thou not O miss-hap Misse-Matches iustly taxed This Marriage is no Marriage but a Trap That such a mongrel Match of differing Creed Of mortall quarels is th' immortall seed That Oxe and Asse can neuer well be broak To drawe one Plough together in one yoak Who-euer weds a Miscreant forth-with Diuorceth God our Faith still wauereth It needs an Aide and not a Tempter nigh Not th' instrument of th' old Deceiuer slie Not deadly Poyson in our Couch to couch Sleep in our bosome and our breast to touch And breathe into vs in a kind of kissing An Ir-religion of the Serpents hissing Shee that
saw'd in Transomes Beams and Somers Great Rocks made little what with Sawes and Hammers The sturdy Quar-man with steel-headed Cones And massie Sledges slenteth out the Stones Digs through the bowels of th' earth baked stiff Cuts a wide Window through a horned Cliff Of ruddy Porphire or white Alabaster And masters Marble which no Time can Master One melts the White-stone with the force of Fire Another leveld by the Lesbian Squire Deep vnder ground for the Foundation ioynes Wel-polisht Marble in long massie Coines Such both for stuff and for rare artifice As mought beseem som royall Frontispice This heaws a Chapter that a Frize doth frame This Carues a Cornich that prepares a Iambe This formes a Plynth that fits an Architraue This planes a Plank and that the same doth graue Giues life to Cedars dead and cunningly Makes Wood to moue to sigh and speak wel-nigh And others rearing high the sacred Wal By their bold Labours Heav'n it self appall Cheerly they work and ply it in such sort As if they thought long Summer-dayes too-short As in Grape-Harvest with vnweary pains Simile A willing Troup of merry-singing Swains With crooked hooks the strouting Clusters cut In Frails and Flaskets them as quickly put Run bow'd with burthens to the fragrant Fat Tumble them in and after pit-a-pat Vp to the Waste and dauncing in the Must To th' vnder-Tub a flowry Shower doo thrust They work a-vie to th' eye their Work doth growe Who saw 't i' th' Morning scarce at Night can knowe It for the same and God himself doth seem T' haue ta'en to Taske this Work and work for them While in the Night sweet Sleep restores with rest The weary limbs of Work-men ouer-prest Great King whence came this Courage Titan-like So many Hils to heap vpon a rick What mighty Rowlers and what massie Cars Could bring so far so many monstrous Quars And what huge strength of hanging Vaults embow'd Bears such a waight aboue the winged Clowde If on the out-side I doo cast mine eye The Stones are ioyn'd so artificially That if the Maçon had not checkerd fine * Syrian Syre's Alabaster with hard Serpentine And hundred Marbles no lesse fair than firm The whole a whole Quar one might rightly tearm If I look In then scorn I all with-out Surpassing Riches shineth all about Floore Sides and Seeling couerd triple-fold Stone lyn'd with Cedar cedar limn'd with Gold And all the Parget carv'd and branched trim With Flowrs and Fruits and winged Cherubim I over-passe the sacred Implements In worth far passing all these Ornaments Th' Art answers to the stuff the stuff to th' vse O! perfect Artist thou for Mould didst chuse The Worlds Idea For as first the same Was sever'd in a Three-fold divers Frame And God Almighty rightly did Ordain One all Divine one Heav'nly one Terrene Decking with Vertues one with Stars another With Flowrs and Fruits and Beasts and Birds the other And playd the Painter when he did so gild The turning Globes blew'd Seas and green'd the field Gaue precious Stones so many-coloured lustre Enameld Flowers made Metals beam and glister The Caruer when he cut in leaues and stems Of Plants such veins such figures files and hems The Founder when he cast so many Forms Of winged Fouls of Fish of Beasts of Worms Thou doost divide this Sacred House in Three Th' HOLY OF HOLIES wher-in none may bee But God the Cherubims and once a yeer The Sacred Figure of Perfection deer Of Gods eternall Son Sins sin-les check The ever-lasting true MELCHISEDEC The fair mid-TEMPLE which is ope alone To Sun-bright Leuites who on Izrael shone With Rayes of Doctrine and who feeding well On the Lawes Hony seem in Heav'n to dwell And th' vtter PORCH the Peoples residence The Vulgars Ile the World of Elements And various Artist honour'st all the Parts With Myron's Phydias and Apelles Arts. This Pattern pleas'd thee so th' hast fram'd by it Th' eternall Watch-births of thy sacred Wit Thy pithy Book of Prouerbs richly-graue Vnto the PORCH may rich relation haue For that it giues vs Oeconomike Lawes Rules Politike and Priuate civill Sawes And for the most those Lessons general At Humane matters aim the most of all Ecclesiastes the Mid-TEMPLE seems It treadeth down what ever Flesh esteems Fair pleasant precious glorious good or great Drawes vs from earth and vs in Heav'n doth seat And all the World proclaiming Uain of Vains Mans happinesse in Gods true Fear maintains SANCTVM-SANCTORVM is thy Song of Songs Where in Mysterious Verse as meet belongs Thou Mariest Iacob to Heav'ns glorious King Where thou devoted doost divinely sing CHRIST'S and his CHVRCHES Epithalamie Where sweetly rapt in sacred Extasie The faith-full Soule talks with her God immense Hears his sweet Voice her self doth quintessence In the pure flames of his sweet-pearcing eyes The Cabinets where Grace and Glory lies Enioyes her Ioy in her chaste bed doth kisse His holy lips the Loue of Loues her Blisse When he had finisht and had furnisht full The House of God so rich so bewtifull O God sayd Salomon great Only-Trine Dedication of the Temple Which of this Mystike sacred House of Thine Hast made me Builder build Mee in the same A living Stone For thy deer DAVIDS name On DAVIDS branches DAVIDS blisse reviue That on his Throne his Issue still may thriue O All-comprising None-comprised Prince Which art in Heav'n by thy Magnificence In Hell by Iustice each-where by thy Powers Dwell here deer Father by thy Grace to Ours If in a doubtfull Case one needs must swear Loose thou the Knot and punish thou severe Th' audacious Periure that hence-forth none chance Taxe thee of Malice or of Ignorance If our dis-flowred Trees our Fields Hail-torn Our empty Ears our light and blasted Corn Presage vs Famine if with ten-fold chain Thy hand hath lockt thy Water-gates of Rain And towards this House we humbled cast our eye Hear vs O Lord hear our complaint and cry If Captiues we in a strange Land bewayl If in the Wars our Force and Fortune fail And towards this House we humbled cast our eye Hear vs O Lord hear our complaint and cry If Strangers moov'd with rumor of thy Miracles Com heer to Offer to consult thine Oracles And in this House to kneel religiously Hear them O Lord hear their complaint and cry Hear them from Heav'n and by thy Favors prest Draw to Thy TEMPLE North South East and West The passe-Man Wisedom of th' Isacian Prince A Light so bright set in such eminence Vn-hideable by envious Arrogance Vnder the Bushell of black Ignorance Shines every where illustres every place Among the rest it Lightens in the Face Of the fair Princesse that with prudent hand The soft Arabian Scepter doth command The Queen of Saba where continuall Spring The Queene of Saba Red Cinamom Incense and Myrrhe doth bring Where private men doo Prince-like Treasures hold Where Pots be Silver Bedsteds beaten Gold Where Wals
Chaos shall again return And on thine Altars none shall incense burn O therfore spare Lord spare the Ninivites Forgiue their Sins and in their humbled sprights From this time forth thy sacred Laws ingrave Destroy them not but daign them Lord to save Look not alas what they have been before But vs regard or thine owne mercy more Then God reacht out his hand vnfolds his frowns Dis-arms his arm of Thunder brusing-Crowns Bows graciously his glorious flaming Crest And mildely grants in th' instant their request FINIS THE DECAY THE IIII. BOOK OF THE IIII. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT Ambition's bitter fruit fel Achab's Stock With his proud Queen a painted Beauty-mock Extirpt by IEHV IEHV's ligne likewise Shallum supplants King-killing Treacheries Succeed a-rowe with Wrack of ISRAEL Time-suiting Batts Athaliah Tigress fel. IOASH well-nurtur'd natur'd-ill doth run After his kinde he kills his Tutor's Son ZENACHERIB life-lengthned EZECHIAH NABVCHADNEZAR Captiue ZEDECHIAH HVff-pufft AMBITION Tinder-box of WAR Ambition pourtrayed to the life Down-fall of Angels Adam's murderer Patent of Treasons Reason's Contradiction Earth's Enemie and the Heav'ns Malediction O! how much Blood hath thy respect-lesrage Shed in the World showred on every Age O! Scepter 's Throne 's and Crown 's insatiat Thirst How-many Treasons hast thou hatched yerst For O! what is it that he dares not do Who th' helm of Empire doth aspire vnto He to beguile the simple makes no bone To swear by God for he beleeues ther 's none His Sword 's his Title and who scapes the same Shall haue a Pistol or a Poysonie dram Hee fear'd of all fears all he breaks at once The chains of Nature and of Nations Sick of the Father his kinde hart is woe The good Old-man travails to Heav'n so slowe His owne deer Babes yet Cradled yet in Clouts Haste but too-fast are at his heels hee doubts He passeth to his promis'd Happiness Vpon a Bridge of his Friends Carcases And Mounts in fine the golden Throne by stayrs Built of the Sculs of his owne Country's heirs Yet thou permit t'st it Lord nay with thy wings Coverest such Tyrants even the shame of Kings But not for nothing doo'st thou them for bear Their cruell scalps a cruell end shall tear And when the Measure of their Sin is full Thy Hands are iron though thy Feet be woll The Throne of Tyrants totters to and fro The blood-gained Scepter lasts not long we knowe Nail driveth Nail by tragik death device Ambitious harts doo play at * A kinde of Christmas play wherein each hunteth other from his Seat The name seemes deriued from the French leuez sus in English arise vp leuel sice Prov'd but too plain in both the Houses Royall Of Iacobs issue but too-too dis-loyall As if thou further with thy grace divine My Verse and Vows shall heer appear in time GOD NOVV no longer could support th' excess Of Achab's House whose cursed wickedness Was now top-full and Doggs already stood Fawning and yawning for their promis'd blood Heav'ns haste their Work Now in tumultuous wise 'Gainst Achab's Son doo his owne Soldiars rise Ichù Iehu's their Captain who fore-sees afar How-much dispatch advantageth in War And politik doubles his Armie's speed To get before yea before Fame indeed Ioram surpris'd in feeble Bull-warks then Vnfurnished of Victualls and of Men And chiefly wanting royall fortitude Vn-kingly yeelds vnto the Multitude Bold Nimshi's Son Sir Iehu what 's this Thing What mean these Troups what would you of the King Where shall the bolt of this black Thunder fall Say bring'st thou Peace or bring'st thou War withall Sayd Ioram lowd but Iehu lowder saith No wretch no Peace but bloody Wars and death Then fled the King and as a Ship at Sea Simile Hearing the Heav'ns to threaten every way And Winter Storms with absent Stars compact With th' angrie Waters to conspire her wrack Strives not to ride it out or shift abroad But plyes her Oares and flyes into the Road He ierks his Iades and makes them scour amain Through thick and thin both over Hill and Plain Which Iehu spying and well eying too As quick resolved what he hath to doo Cryes Boy my Bowe then nocks an Arrow right His left hand meets the head his brest the right As bends his Bowe he bends le ts go the string Through the thin air the winged shaft doth sing King Ioram's Dirgé and to speed the more Pearces behinde him and peeps-out before The Prince now hurt that had before no hart Fall's present dead and with his Courtly-Cart Bruis'd in the Fall as had the Thisbite sayd The Field of Naboth with his blood berayd And Salem's King had also there his dew For ioyning hands with so profane a Crew Then the proud Victor leads his loyall Troops Towards the Court that all in silence droops And more for Self's loue than for God's pure zeale Means to dispatch th' Earth's burthen Iezabel Iezabel The Queen had inkling instantly she sped To curl the Cockles of her new-bought head Th' Onyx the Saphyr Garnet Diamand In various forms cut by a curious hand Hang nimbly dancing in her hair as spangles Or as the fresh red-yellow Apple dangles In Autumn on the Tree when to and fro The Boughs are waved with the windes that blowe The vpper garment of the stately Queen Her Pride Is rich gold Tissu on a ground of green Where th' art-ful shuttle rarely did encheck The * Changeable cangeant colour of a Mallards neck T is figur'd o're with sundrie Flowrs and Fruits Birds Beasts and Insects creeping Worms and Nâ—uts Of Gold-Smith's Work a fringe of Gold about With Pearls and Rubies richly rare set-out Borders her Robe and euery part descries Cunning and Cost contending for the prize Her neat fit startups of green velvet bee Flourisht with silver and beneath the knee Moon-like indented but t'ned down the side With Orient Pearls as big as Filberd's pride But besides all her sumptuous equipage Her Painting Much fitter for her State then for her age Close in her Closet with her best Complexions She mends her Face's wrinkle-full defections Her Cheek she cherries and her Ey she cheers And fains her fond a Wench of fifteen yeers Whether she thought to snare the Dukes affection Or dazle with her pompous Prides reflection His daring eyes as Fowlers with a Glass Make mounting â—arks com down to death apace Or were it that in death she would beseen As 't were interi'd in Tyrian Pomp a Queen Chaste Lady-Mayds heer must I speak to you That with vile Paynting spoyl your natiue hue A iust Iâ—vectiue against those 2. Predominant Court-Qualities Not to inflame yonglings with wanton Thirst But to keep fashion with these Times accurst When one new taen in your seem-Beauties snare That day and night to Hymen makes his Prayer At length espies as who is it but spyes Your painted brests your painted cheeks and eyes His Cake is dough
Husband deerest Lord can wee Can we survive absented quight from Thee And slaues to those whose Talk is nothing els But thy Disgrace thy Gyves and Israels Can we alas exchange thy Royall bed With cunning-cost rare richly furnished For th' vgly Cabbin and the louzie Couch Of som base Buffon or som beastly Slouch Can we alas can wretched we I say We whose Commands whole Kingdoms did obay We at whose beck even Princes knees did bend We on whose Train ther dayly did attend Hundreds of Eunuchs and of Maids of Honour Kneeling about vs in the humblest manner To dress vs neat and duly every Morn In Silk and Gold our Bodies to adorn Dress others now work on disgrace-full frame Weeping the while our SION's wo-full flame Dragging like Moyls drudge in their Mills and hold Brooms in our hands for Sceptre-Rods of gold Com Parrots com y' haue prated now enough The Pagans cry in their insulting ruff On Chaldè shoars you shal go sigh your fill You must with vs to Babel there at will You may bewail there this shal be your plight Our Mayds by day our Bed-fellows by night And as they spake the shame-les lust-full crew With furious force the tender Ladies drew Even from between th' arms of the woe-full King Them haling rough and rudely hurrying And little lackt the act of most despight Ev'n in their Father's and their Husbands sight Who his hard Fortune doth in vain accuse In vain he raves in vain he roars and rews Even as a Lion prisoned in his grate Whose ready dinner is bereft of late Roars hideously but his fell Fury-storm May well breed horror but it brings no harm The proud fell Pagans doo yet farther pass They kill they tear before the Father's face The more to gore what Marble but would bleed They massacre his miserable seed O! sayd the Prince can you less pitious be To these Self-yielders prostrate at your knee Than sternly-valiant to the stubborn-stout That 'gainst your rage courageously stood-out Alas what haue they don what could they doo To vrge revenge and kindle wrath in you Poor silly Babes vnder the Nources wing Haue they conspir'd against the Chaldean King Haue these sweet Infants that yet cannot speak Broak faith with you Haue these so yong and weak Yet in their Cradle in their Clouts bewayling Their Woes to-come to all Man-kinde vnfayling Dis-ray'd your Ranks Haue these that yet doo craul Vpon all fowre and cannot stand at all With-stood your Fury and repulst your Powrs Frustred your Rams fiered your flying Towrs And bravely sallying in your face almost Hew'n-out their passage thorough all your Hoast O! no Chaldeans only I did all I did complot the King of Babels fall I foyld your Troups I filld your sacred Flood With Chaldean bodies dy'd it with your blood Turn therfore turn your bloody Blades on-me O! let these harm-less Little-ones go free And stain not with the blood of Innocents Th' immortall Tropheis of your high Attents So ever may the Riphean Mountains quake Vnder your feet so ever may you make South East and West your owne on every Coast So ay victorious march your glorious Hoast So to your Wiues be you thrice welcom home And so God bless your lawfull-loved womb With Self-like Babes your substance with increase Yourselues at home with hoary haires in Peace Simil◠But as a Rock gainst which the Heav'ns do thunder Th' Air roars about the Ocean rageth vnder Yields not a iot no more this savage Crew But rather muse to finde-out Tortures new Heer in his sight these cruell Lestrigons Between them take the eldest of his Sons With keenest swords his trembling flesh they heaw One gobbet heer another thear they streaw And from the veins of dead-lyve limbs alas The spirit-full blood spins in his Father's face Thear by the heels his second Son they take And dash his head against a Chimnies back The skull is pasht to peeces like a Crock Or earthen Stean against a stony Rock The scatterd batterd Brains about besmeard Som hang O horror in the Fathers beard Last on himself their savage fury flyes And with sharp bodkins bore they out his eyes The Sun he loses and an end-les night Beclowds for euer his twin-balled sight He sees no more but feels the woes he bears And now for crystall weeps he crimsin tears For so God would and iustly too no doubt That he which had in Iuda clean put-out Th' immortall Lamp of all religious light Should have his eyes put-out should lose his sight And that his body should be outward blinde As inwardly in holy things his minde O Butchers sayd he satiat your Thirst Swill swill your fill of Blood vntill you burst O! broach it not with bodkin but with knife O! reaue me not my bodie 's light but life Give me the sight not of the Earth but Skies Pull-out my heart O! poach not out mine eyes Why did you not this barbarous deed dispatch Yer I had seen me an vn-sceptred Wretch My Cittie 's sackt my wealthy subiects pilld My Daughters ravisht and my Sonns all killd Or else why stayd you not till I had seen Your Beast-like Master grazing on the Green The Medes conspiring to supplant your Throne And Babel's glory vtter ouerthrowne Then had my soule with Fellow-Falls bin eas'd And then your pain my pain had part appeas'd O ragefull Tyrants moody Monsters see See heer my Case and see yourselues in me Beware Contempt tempt not the Heav'nly Powrs Who thunder-down the high-aspiring Towrs But mildely pardon and permit secure Poor Cottages that lie belowe obscure Who Pride abhor who lift vs vp so high To let vs fall with greater infamy Th' Almighty sports him with our Crowns and vs Our glorie stands so fickle-founded thus On slippery wheels alreadie rowling down He gives vs not but only shewes the Crown Our Wealth our Pleasure and our Honour too Wher at the Vulgar make so much a-doo Our Pomp our State our All that can be spoken Seems as a glass bright-shining but soon broken Thrice-happy He whom with his sacred arm Th' Eternall props against all Haps of harm Who hangs vpon his prouidence alone And more preferrs GOD'S Kingdom than his owne So happy be great BRITTANNE Kings I pray Our Soveraigne IAMES and all his Seed for ay Our hope-full HENRY and a hundred mo Good faithfull STVARTS in successiue rowe Religious righteous learned valiant wise Sincere to Vertue and seuere to Vice That not alone These dayes of Ours may shine In Zeal-full Knowledge of the TRVTH divine And We illightned with her sacred rayes May walk directly in the Saving wayes Offaith-full Seruice to the ONE true Deitie And mutuall Practise of all Christian Pietie But that our Nephews and their Nephews till Time be no more may be conducted still By the same Cloud by day and Fier by night Through this vast Desart of the World's despight Towards their Home the heav'nly CANAAN Prepared for vs yer the World began That
not oft nor doo I often praise Yet must I needs praise the praise-worthie still I cannot hold my free and forward quill From those whom Heauen adorns with speciall rayes Now all that God doth by retail bestowe On perfect'st men to thee in grosse he giues Therefore my Muse thy praise so often driues For duties sake but not to flatter so Our Age's wonder when thy tongue refin'd By vse and Art in our King's name dilates With Counsails Germain or furr'd Polish States The sweet-tongu'd Cyneas thou doost make vs minde In Priuy counsell when our miseries Thou doost be-moan most Nestor-like thou art And when in Paris Parlament thy part Of Lawes thou plead'st thou seem'st to Scaeuolize Thy Latine Prose dooth match smooth Salusts stile And when thy Pen distils the Nectar sweet Of Helicon where all the Muses meet Me thinks I read sweet Virgill all the while In honour of these gifts this gift I bring Small for my pains great for the Argument But if the Heav'ns had richer treasure lent Thy New-yeeres-gift should be som better thing THE TRIVMPH OF FAITH THE TRIVMPH OF FAITH Canto I. 1 NEer th' hour that Erycin ' Aurora calls And she the Sun sad Morpheus entring in Through 's hornie gate to shew me did begin A sacred Virgin 's stately TRIVMPHALS 2 Then Faith for so she hight bids with celeritie Of Pen and Paper that I make provision To wright the summ of this celestiall Vision To be recorded vnto all Posterity 3 I knowe my taske to be impossible I knowe in this mans eyes are beetle-blinde His eares quite deaf clean voide of sense his minde But hardest things Faith makes most possible 4 Eternall Sun O scatter with thy Light All mistie clouds that make me not to see Thy health-full face and giue true Faith to mee Since Faith sans Faith cannot be knowen aright 5 FAITH sits triumphant on a Carr of gold Of Tubals making where blew Saphires shine Rich Diamonds and many Rubies fine And if ought els the world more costly hold 6 Her glorious Charret's rowling wheels are like The holy wheels the great Ezekiel saw For one self spirit self winde and will doth draw Their restless courses equall both a-like 7 The Bird that led the Roman Standards out The Bird that fixtly can oppose his eyes Against the greatest light in all the skies High through the ayr drawes this rich Coach about 8 Faith flaunts it not in silver silk nor gold Nor pretious scarlet of the Tyrian Die Nor paints her face to hide deformity But as she is she doth her self vnfold 9 Her body that all bodies doth disgrace Like Iuno's Bird is full of watchfull eyes Whose holy glaunces pearce the lofty skies Pearce Air and Heav'n and see God face to face 10 Sh' hath many sweet and flowing tongues to prayse The Lord of Hoasts sh' hath strong and mighty wings Passing the swiftnes of all earthly things That in a moment vp to Heav'n her rayse 11 Her glorious head is compast with a Crown Not made of Olive Pine or Lawrell bough Nor Parsly Wreath which Grecians did allow Th' Olympian games for signals of renown 12 But of fresh Roses pluckt from Honours Tree That never shrink for Winters chilling frost Nor wither not when Titan patcheth most For by the Lord they ever watred be 13 Now stain-les Truth for Standards doth display Two Testaments next Courage marshals right Th' vndaunted Troops that are prepar'd to fight Vnder her Colours into baâ—â—ail-ray 14 Then Constancy bears a two-edged Blade And Patience an impenetrable Shield Whose brightnes hath inforç't more Monsters yield Then that which of grim Gorgon's head was made 15 Next Charity that kindely doth prefer Her neighbours good before her owne vtility Repentance Hope and hearty-milde Humility Doo flank the wings of Faith's triumphant Carr. 16 For Faith indeed without her Maids were vain But as the Sun can never lack his light Nor fire want heat so if we mark-aright Faith cannot want these Hand-mayds in her train 17 Before this Coach there is a Beldam gon That seems at first fairer then Hellen was But neerer view'd she is more foul alas Then fell Megera Alecto ' r Tesiphon 18 She never goes like Faith with open face But seeks for masks vizards and garments gay For cloke on cloke to keep the light away Of her loath'd limbs to hide the foul disgrace 19 Sh' hath tongues like Faith with which she boldly chats Blaspheming Heav'n with filthy vanities Sh' hath eyes like Faith but yet alas those eyes See clear by night by day are blinde as Bats 20 Sh' hath wings like Faith with which she soars on hie Like Icarus she proudly mounts aloft Forgetting that her feathers are so soft Till Phoebus force her waxen wings dofriâ— 21 She whom sans reason men haue Reason hight Since first in Fire the Lord the Air inclos'd In Air the Sea in Sea the Earth dispos'd Hath with milde Faith maintain'd continuall fight 22 Now arming Kings and putting in their brains That nothing less beseems their Royall State Than vnder Faith their Scepters to abate Then to indure her gentle-ruling reans 23 Another-while she puffs with poysony pride Whom their Disciples onely Doctors deem Such as I grant have spent much oyl and time To draw mens soules from the true way too-wide 24 Yet still the Lord who still vpholds the iust Hath still the cause of holy Faith maintain'd Hath still so well her holy side sustayn'd That still her Foes lie groveling in the dust 25 A thousand Princes bound in fetters fast Before her march that her milde Yoak disdeign'd That all the Earth with blood of Saints disteyn'd And Christ his Church with Fire and Sword did waste 26 He that the first in this worlds Pupillage Brain'd his owne brother leads this bloudy crew Cain Then th' hardned Tyrant that did dare pursue Through the Red-Sea Gods chosen Heritage Pharaoh 27 Then saw I him that Zachary did stone Ioash Athalia Ahab wicked Abian Occozias Amon Ahaz and Ioram Then all that sate on the Samarian Throne 28 I saw Senacherib and Him whose Grace Nebuchadnezar Was turn'd to grass proud Hammon and with-all Braue Holophernes and who on the Wall Read how his Kingdom to the Medes should passe Baltsazar 29 Annas and Caiaphas and he that set His hatefull Idoll in the holy Place Which five Iew-brethren bravely did deface Antiochus illustris These all too-late in sad repentance fret 30 The Tyrant too that at our Saviours birth Herod In Cradles kill'd so many Innocents And that vile Iudge whose seared conscience Pilat Condemn'd the guilt-les Iudge of all the earth 31 That viperous Monster of Man-kinde the shame Nero. Who Mother Wives Brethren and Sisters slue Then from a lofty Towr did laugh to view Rome's glittering Spires all on a burning flame 32 With Seuenth Seuerus came accompanied Iule Maximin with fell Maximian Cruell Gallerian fond Domitian That God-less would
presages that the Flood abates The dismal flood where blood and tears did flowe And Ianus now locks-vp his Temple gates Iustice and Faith doo kindly kisse each other And Mars appeas'd sits down by Cupids Mother SONNET 3. Fair fruitfull Daughter of th' Omnipotent Great Vmpire that doost either World sustain Without whose help all would return again Like hideous Chaos to confusion bent O Mother of the living second Nature Of th' Elements Fire Water Earth and Air O Grace whereby men climbe th' heav'nly stair Whence void this world harbors no happy creature Pillar of Lawes Religions pedestall Hope of the godly glory of th' Immortall Honour of Cities Pearl of Kingdomes all Thou Nurse of Vertues Muses chief supportall Patron of Artes of Good the speciall spring All hail deer Peace which vs all heale doost bring SONNET 4. Comforth deer Fraunce from thy dark Cell of mone Com as new-born from Warrs vnkindly quarrels Turn tragick Cypresse to triumphant Laurels Change black to green and make thy Graue a Throne Let Cores dwell vpon thy Desart Plain Bacchus and Dian on thy Hills and Groues Pomana in Gardens Pan among thy Droues Secure all Rhoades and ope all Gates again Resume O Cities Rule and Reverence Revest yee States your Robes of dignity Rise-vp yee Ruines in fair Battlements Com Muses Pallas Themis Mercurie Restore vs Lawes Learning and Arts and Trade And let our Age a golden Age be made SONNNET 5. Most Christian Kingdom thou wert ne're so near Drown'd in the deep Gulphes of thy Civill warre As in the tempest of this later lar Which past conceit of calming did appear When all the windes adversly armed were Though selfly-foes yet friends to work thy wrack Thy Ship a helm thy self a heart didst lack On troubled waters tossed here and there Then from aboue O bounty most admired Saint Hermes shin'd whose gentle light presageth That then the anger of the Heav'ns asswageth O happy PEACE lesse hoped then desired O grace much honour'd little yet conceiv'd O blessed guile that thus our sense deceiv'd SONNET 6. Who could expect but past all expectation So suddain order from so sad confusion So loyall friendship from false emulation So firm possession from so fierce intrusion Who could expect but past all likelihood From such a storm such and so sweet a calme From Fraunce her cyndars such a Phoenix-brood Pandoras boxe to yeeld so rare a balme Who could expect but past all humane thought So frank a freedom from a thrall so late Or certain Rudder of so rent a State True Aesculapius thou alone hast wrought This MIRACLE not on Hyppolitus But on this Kingdom much more wonderous SONNET 7. Th' vnlookt-forworking of all things almost Inconstant-constant in succession strange Amazeth those whose wits we chiefly boast To see this suddain vn-expected change Each feels th' effect but none the cause descries No though he haue with starrs intelligence God to himself reserues such Mysteries Disposing Kingdoms by his Prouidence O end-less Bounty In the midst of Broyls He giues vs PEACE when Warr did vs inflame And reaues the mischief we pursu'd yer-whiles But this doth most extoll his glorious Name That when most sharply this extreamest Fit Stroue to be cure-les soon he cured it SONNET 8. Som reasoned thus No violence can last Revolted Subiects of themselues will quail Iust Soveraignty can never be displac't And lawfull Princes first or last preuail But who could think that the conioyned powers Of Spain and Rome with an exceeding number Of rebell Cities and false States of ours So weak a King so little should encumber Others discoursed in another sort While all things sorted to another end Then their imaginations did purport That earth may knowe it cannot comprehend The secret depths of Iudgements all-divine No there 's no ground beginning midst nor fine SONNET 9. Admire we onely Gods Omni-potence His deep-deep Wisedom and his Mercy deer For with these three he hath surmounted heer Our hatefull foes our hopes and all our sense His power appears vpon our Lord and King As yerst on Dauid for they both attain By war-like broyls their pre-appointed Raigne Strangers and subiects and selues conquering His Prudence shines when to preserue vs thus All humane wit his wisedom doth convince His gracious bounty in our bountious Prince Ovarious wonders mel delicious Flowes from a living Lion Mars is quiet Valour relenting Conquest void of ryot SONNET 10. This was no action of a humane hand But th' only work of the great Thunderer Who wise-directing all the things that are In vs divinely works his owne command Som men vnwilling benefit their Land Or vn-awares their Countries good preferr Another motions PEACE but mindeth Warr And PEACE succeeds what-ever drifts withstand Th' Arch-Architect the matchles Artizan All instruments vnto good vses prooues Man 's but a wheel which that great Moover moues Each gracious gift in that first cause began Each good 's a gleam of that first light alone If Ill approach vs onely that 's our owne SONNET 11. If God dart lightning soon he dewes down rain A dreadfull Iudge and yet a gentle Father Whose wrath slowe-kindled is soon quencht again To moue vs sinners to repent the rather 'Gainst Hel-bred Hydra Heav'n-born Theseus brings The great Alcides arm and armory Of greatest Ill a greater Good there springs And Mercy still doth Rigour qualifie Ah Fraunce so many Monsters to suppresse Thou hadst great need of Royall fortitude Els had'st thou been an Afrik Wildernes O happy lost Realm for it hath ensude That now thy gain is more in restauration Then was thy losse in all thy desolation SONNET 12. But if I sing great Henries fortitude Shall I not then be blam'd for ouer-daring If over-slip it then be taxt for fearing Of silent dread and dumbe in gratitude What e're befall my youth-bold thoughts conclude Like Icarus my nimble Muse to raise And if I fall in such a Sea of praise What rarer Mausole may my bones include A sacred rage of som sweet-furious flame Will-nill-I rapts me boldly to rehearse Great Henries Tropheis and his glorious name Then roule thou Torrent of my tender verse Though his high Theam deserue a consort rather Of all the Muses and all musikes Father SONNET 13. Great Prince not pleas'd with a vain vertue-seeming Great Victor prone to pardon humblenes Happy all Hap Heav'ns onely gift esteeming Warriour whose warrs haue wrought his Coūtries PEACE Noble by deeds and noble by descent Ancient Achilles youthfull Nestor sage Whose ripe-experienç't courage confident To knocks knits counsail and giues rule to rage As hard in toyle as in compassion soft Inur'd to that by nature born to this Who sheds no blood but sheddeth tears as oft Who never fights but still the field is his So like to Mars that both in loues and warres Bellona and Uenus take him still for Mars SONNET 14. A spirit to vertues cheerfully addrest Apt to all goodnes to no ill inclin'd Quick to conceiue ingenious
to digest Whose tongue is still true Trumpet of the minde A body testing when it hath no rest A waxen mildnes in a steely minde A soule tra-lucent in an open brest Which others thoughts through boany wals can finde Whose front reflects maiestical-humillity Whose graue-sweet looke commandingly-intreats Which in one instant fear and loue begets A King still warring to obtain tranquillity To saue his Country scorning thousand dangers Mirrour of Fraunce and miracle of Strangers SONNET 15. If that before thee fall rebellious Towers If battered walls before thy Souldiers loofe If hugest Rocks be pearced by thy powers If 'gainst thine Armes no armour be of proof If that our fields flowe with Iberian blood If that thy Campe compos'd of many a Caesar Can by no dismall dangers be withstood Iousting with Gyants as it were at pleasure If lofty Mountains to thine homage vail If valleys rise to bulwarke thee about If for thy sake rivers doo flowe and fail 'T was neither Canons nor our conflicts stout Nor strength nor stomack got these victories No 't was thy presence Henry and thine eyes SONNET 16. They be to blame then that thy boldnes blame For having put thy self so oft in danger Sith against Rebels and against the Stranger Thy looks like lightning did thy Troops inflame Fraunce fought before all bloody faint and lame Craving thine aid to venge her hatefull wrong When like a Lion to preserue her yong Thou lay'dst about thee to redeem the same Then had'st thou cause to hazard so thy life In extream perils extream remedies But spare thee now thy State is free from strife Soveraign our safety in thy safety lies Codrus could keep his onely by his death Thou thine alone by thine owne living breath SONNET 17. What wreath were worthy to becom thy Crown What Carr-Triumphant equall with thy worth What marble statue meet for thy renown Thou that hast rais'd the Lilly of the Earth What honourable Title of Addition Dost thou deserue who ioyning might with mildenes Hast sav'd this great Ship from a sad perdition Nigh lost in th' Ocean of warrs civill wildenes O modern Hercules thy Countries Father Hope not of vs thy iust-deserved meed Earth is too-base in Heav'n expect it rather Our Laurels are too-pale to crown thy deed Who thus hast salv'd the vniversall Ball For th' health of Fraunce imports the health of all SONNET 18. Pardon me Henry if Heav'ns siluer raine Dewing thy Pearles impearle mine humble Laies And if my verse void both of price and paine Presume thy Vertues passing-price to praise Pardon great King if that mine Infant Muse Stutter thy name and if with skill too-scant I limne thee heare let zeale my crime excuse My steel's attracted by thine Adamant For as the Sunne although he doo reflect His golden Rayes on grosser Elements Doth neuer spot his beautiful aspect So though the praises of thine Excellence Doo brightly glister in my gloomie stile They nothing lose of their first grace the while SONNET 19. Now sith as well by conquest as succession France is thine owne O keepe it still therefore 'T is much to conquer but to keepe possession Is full as much and if it be not more Who well would keepe so plentifull a portion Must stablish first the Heav'nly Discipline Then humane Lawes restraining all extortion And Princely wealth with publike weale combine A Princes safety lyes in louing People His Fort is Iustice free from Stratagem Without the which strong Cittadels are feeble The Subiects loue is wonne by louing them Of louing them n' oppression is the triall And no oppression makes them euer loyall SONNET 20. Bold Martialists braue Imps of noble birth Shining in steele for Fraunce and for your King Yee Sonnes of those that heretofore did bring Beneath their yoke the pride of all the earth It is an honour to be high-descended But more t' haue kept ones Country and fidelitie For our owne vertues make vs most commended And Truth 's the title of all true Nobilitie Your shoulders shoar'd vp Fraunce euen like to fall You were her Atlas Henry Hercules And but for you her shock had shaken All But now she stands stedfast on Ciuill PEACE Wherefore if yet your war-like heat doo worke With holy Armes goe hunt the hatefull Turk SONNET 21. But you that vaunt your antike Petigrees So stately tymbring your surcharged shields Perking like Pines aboue the lower Trees Ouer the Farmers of your neighbour fields Is' t lack of loue or is it lack of courage That holds you Snaile-like creeping in your houses While ouer all your Countries Foes doo forrage And rebell out-rage euery corner rouses If no example of your Ancesters Nor present instance of bright-armed Lords The feeble Temper of your stomack stirres If in your liues yee neuer drew your swords To serue your King nor quench your Countries flames Pardon me Nobles I mistooke your names SONNET 22. You sacred Order charg'd the Church to watch And teach the holy Mysteries of Heav'n From hence-forth all seditious plots dispatch And Father-like to all be alwaies euen Through superstition stirre to strife againe Reuolts a mischiefe euermore pernicious Pluck vp abuses and the hurtfull graine Sprung from the Ignorant and Auaricious Auoid Ambition common cause of strife Your reuerend Robe be free from staines of blood Preach holy Doctrine prooue it by your life Fly Idlenes choose exercises good To wit all workes of liuely faith and pietie So to your fold shall flock the blest Societie SONNET 23. You graue assembly of sage Senators Right Oracles yee Ephori of Fraunce Who for the States and Iustice maintenance Of Sword and Balance are the Arbitrers That from hence-forth against all enemies Our PEACE may seat her in a setled Throne Represse the malice of all mutinies Which through th' aduantage of these times haue growne At a lowe tyde 't is best to mend a breach Before the flood returne with violence 'T is good in health to counsaile with a Leach So while a People's calme from insolence 'T is best that Rulers bridle them with awe And for the future curbe the lewd with law SONNET 24. People lesse setled then the sliding sand More mutable then Proteus or the Moone Turn'd and return'd in turning of a hand Like Euripus ebbe-flowing euery Noone Thou thousand-headed head-les Monster-most Oft slaine like Antheus and as oft new rising Who hard as steele as light as winde arttost Chameleon-like each obiects colour prysing Vnblinde thy blinde soule opethine inward sight Be no more Tinder of intestine flame Of all fantastike humors purge thy spright For if past-follies vrge yet griefe and shame Lo like Obliuions law to cure thy passion State-stabling Peace brings froward minds in fashion SONNET 25. Engins of Uulcan Heav'n-affrighting wonders Like brittle glasse the Rocks to cyndars breaking Deafning the windes dumbing the loudest thunders May yee be bound a thousand yeeres from speaking Yee hate-peace Hacksters flesht in Massacres Be you for euer banisht from our
soile Yee steeled Tooles of slaughter wounds and warres Be you condemn'd to hang and rust a while Or not to languish in so fruit-lesrest Be you transform'd to husband-furniture To plow those fields you haue so oft deprest Of if you cannot leaue your wonted vre Leaue at the least all mutinous alarmes And befrom hence-forth Iustice lawfull Armes SONNET 26. O Paris know thy selfe and know thy Master As well thy heav'nly as thine earthly guider And be not like a Horse who proud of pasture Breakes Bit and Reanes and casts his cunning Rider Who nill be Subiects shall be slaues in â—ine Who Kings refuse shall haue a Tyrant Lord Who are not moou'd with the milde rods diuine Shall feele the furie of Heav'ns venging Sword Thy greatnes stands on theirs that weare the Crowne Whereof th' hast had now seuentie sauing seuen Thinke one sufficient soone to pull thee downe Kings greatnes stands on the great King of Heav'n Knowing these two then Paris know thy selfe By Warres afflictions and by PEACES wealth SONNET 27. Swell not in pride O Paris Princely Dame To be chiefe Citie and thy Soueraignes Throne Citie nay modell of this totall Frame A mighty Kingdome of thy selfe alone The scourge that lately with paternall hand For thine amendment did so mildely beat-thee If any more against thy Kings thou stand Shall proue that then God did but only threat-thee Wert thou a hundred-thousand-fold more mighty Who in th' Olympike Court commands the thunders In his least wrath can wrack thee most Almighty Thebes Babel Rome those proud heav'n-daring wonders Lowe vnder ground in dust and ashes lie For earthly Kingdomes euen as men doe die SONNET 28. But O my sorrowes â— whither am I tosâ— What shall I bloodie sweet ASTREAS Songs Re-open wounds that are now heal'd almost And new-remember nigh-forgotten wrongs Sith stormes are calmed by a gentle Starre Forget we Muse all former furie-moods And all the tempests of our viper-Warre Drown we those thoughts in deep-deep Lethe floods O but alas I cannot not-retaine So great notorious common miseries Nor hide my plaint nor hold my weeping raine But ' mid these hidious hellish out-rages I 'le showe and prooue by this strange spectacle Our ciuill PEACE asacred Miracle SONNET 29. As he that scap't from Ship-wrack on a planke Doubts of his health and hardly yet beleeues Still faintly shiuering on the feare-les banke That through that fraile helpe certainly he liues As he that new freed from strange seruitude Returnes againe to tread his natiue allies Seemes still to feare his Patrons rigour rude And seemes still tugging chayned in the Gallies So alwaies ruth ruine and rage and horror Of troubles past doo haunt me euery-where And still I meete Furies and gastly Terror Then to my selfe thus raue I rapt with feare From pleasures past if present sorrow spring Why should not past cares present comfort bring SONNET 30. We must not now vp braid each others crimes Committed wrongly in the time of Warre For we haue all alas too often-times Prouok't the vengeance of the Lord too farre Some robbing Iustice vnder maske of Reason Some blowing coles to kindle-vp Sedition Some 'gainst their King attempting open Treason Some Godding Fortune Idol of Ambition Alas we know our cause of maladie All apt t' accuse but none to cleanse th' impure Each doth rebuke but none doth remedie To know a griefe it is but halfe a cure Is it our sinnes let 's purge away that bane For what helps Physicke if it be not tane SONNET 31. Who cloake their crimes in hoods of holines Are double villaines and the Hypocrite Is most-most odious in Gods glorious sight That takes his Name to couer wickednes Prophane Ambition blinde and irreligious In quest of Kingdomes holding nothing holy Think'st thou th' Eternall blinde as thou in folly Or weake to punish Monsters so prodigious O execrablevizard canst thou hide thee From th' All-pierce Eye are treason rape and murder Effects of Faith or of the Furies-order Thy vaile is rent the rudest haue descride thee 'T is now apparant to each plaine Opinion Thy hot Deuotion hunted but Dominion SONNET 32. 'T is strange to see the heat of Ciuill brands For when we arme vs brother against brother O then how ready are our hearts and hands And Wits awake to ruine one another But come to counter-mine 'gainst secret treason Or force the forces of a stranger foe Alas how shallow are we then in reason How cold in courage and in camping slowe Fraunce onely striues to triumph ouer Fraunce With selfe-kill Swords to cut each others throat What swarmes of Souldiers euery where doo float To spend and spoile a Kingdomes maintenance But said I Souldiers ah I blush for shame To giue base Theeues the noble Souldiers name SONNET 33. Is' t not an endles scandall to our daies If possible our heires can credit it That th' holy name of PEACE so worthy praise Hath been our Watch-word for a fault vnfit That the pure Lilly our owne natiue flower Hath been an odious obiect in our eyes That kingly Name and Kings heav'n-stablisht power Hath been with vs a marke of trecheries T' haue banisht hence the godly and the wise Whose sound direction kept the State from danger Yea made their bodies bloody Sacrifice And to conclude seeking to serue a Stranger T' haue stab'd our owne but O Muse keepe that in The fault 's so foul to speake it were a sinne SONNET 34. I waile not I so much warres wastefull rigours Nor all thy ruines make me halfe so sorie As thy lost honour Fraunce which most disfigures Losing thy loyaltie thy Natiue glory From Moores to Moscouites O cursed change The French are called Faith-les Parricides Th' yerst-most-prince-â—oyall people O most strange Are now Prince-treachers more than all besides With vs Massacres passe for Pietie Theft rape and wrong for iust-attaind possessions Reuolt for Merit Rage for Equitie Alas must we needs borrow the transgressions And imperfections of all other Nations Yerst onely blamed for inconstant fashions SONNET 35. Not without reason hath it oft been spoken That through faire Concord little things augment And opposite that mightiest things are broken Through th' vgly Discord of the discontent When many tunes doe gently symphonize It conquers hearts and kindly them compounds When many hearts doe gentle sympathize In sacred frendship there all blisse abounds Alas if longer we diuide this Real me Loosing to euerie Partizan apart Farewell our Lillies and our Diadem For though it seeme to breath now somewhat peart Our sinnes I feare will worke worse after-claps And ther 's most danger in a re-relaps SONNET 36. O how I hate these partializing words Which showe how we are in the Faith deuised Is' t possible to whet so many Swords And light such flames 'mong th' In-one-Christ-baptized Christians to Christians to be brute and bloody Altars to Altars to be opposite Parting the limmes of such a perfect Body While Turkes with Turkes doo better faâ—revnite We
doth so assaile-them And if their feare fall true that their Good-fortune faile-them Then swell their sullen hearts with sorrow till they burst And then poor desperate soules they deem theÌ„selues accurst And so indeed they are but yet they erre in this In blaming other things for their owne selfe-amisse Other indifferent things that neither make nor marre But to the good be good to th' euill euill are Is' t not great foolishnes for any to complaine That somthing is not don which doth him nought coÌ„strain Sith if he vse the same soule-health it hurteth not Or if he doo not vse t it helpeth not a iot But needs must we complain say some for we haue cause Then at your perill be 't for that which chiefly drawes You thereto 't is in truth your brutenesse in mis-deeming Things euill that are good for sense-contrary seeming And while that in the darke of this foule errors mist Your drowsie spirits doo droope alas what maruell is' t If euill follow you and if iniurious still To others you impute your selfe-ingendred ill Happy are they to whom the Lord vouch safeth sight To see the louely beames and life-infusing Light Of his sweet sacred Truth whereby we may perceiue And iudge a-rightly what to loue and what to leaue Such men within their soules their goods haue wholly plac't Such goods as neuer fire can either burne or waste Nor any Theefe can steale nor Pyrate make his praie Nor vsurie consume nor Tyrant take away Nor times all-gnawing tooth can fret away nor finish Nor any accident of sad mischance diminish For it is built on God a Rock that euer stands Not on the vanities of these inconstant sands Which are more mutable then wind and more vnstable And day by day doo make so many miserable O to what sweet content to what high ioyes aspires He that in God alone can limit his desires He that in him alone his hopes can wholly rest He that for onely end waites for the wages blest Wherewith he promiseth for euer sans respect Of their selfe-meriting to guerdon his Elect What is it can bereaue the wealth of such a man What is it that disturbe his perfect pleasures can What is it can supplant his honours and degrees Sith all his treasures his delights his dignities Are all laid vp in Heauen where it were all in vaine For all the sonnes of earth to warre with might and maine No doubt will some man say each Christian doth aspire After their bodies death to those deere treasures higher That are reserv'd in Heauen whereof the sweet possession Feares not the violence of all the worlds oppression But while that heere below this fraile flesh-burthen ties-him But the bare hope he hath which how can it suffice-him Against the sharpe assaults of passions infinite Whose glad-sad crosse conflicts afflict him day and night Needs must I graunt indeed that that same perfit ioy We cannot perfitly vpon this earth enioy But that that Hope alone doth not sufficiently Blesse his life where it liues for my part I denie Some doo not feare we see to spend their stock and store To vnder-take the taske of many trauailes sore To hazard limmes and liues in seruice of some Lord Depending oft vpon his foole-fat-feeding word Or waiting els perhaps without all other hold Vntill it please himselfe his franknes to vnfold Not reaking all their paine they are so inly pleas'd With hoped benefit whereof they are not seaz'd And shall th' assured hope of euer-blisses then For which we haue the word not of vaine mortall men That teach their tongues to lie but of the highest God The God of truth truth's selfe where truth hath still abode Shall that I say not serue to settle our faint hearts Against I will not say like dangers and like smarts But 'gainst these petty griefes that now and then do pain-vs No more like those then heauen neer earth that doth sustain-vs Ah shall we then despise all trouble and vexation Supported by a prop of doubtfull expectation And while for earthly things we can indure all this Shall we not do asmuch for an immortall blisse Indeed not of our selues for selfly nought we can But God when pleaseth him doth giue this strength to man Whereby he standeth stout euen like a mightie rocke Amid the mounting waues when Eole doth vnlocke Sterne Austers stormie gate making the waters wrastle And rush with wrathfull rage against the sturdie castle While it for all the force of their fell furie showne Is not so much as moou'd and much lesse ouerthrowne So fareth such a man for if from high degree He sodainly do slide to liue contemnedly With the vile vulgar sort that cannot make him wauer For well he is assur'd that Gods high holy fauour Depends not on the pomp nor vaine-proud state and port That for the grace of Kâ—ngs adornes the courtly sort If he be kept in bands thrâ—l to the tyrannies And extreame-cruell lawes of ruthless enimies Both voide of helpe and hope and of all likelihood Of being euer freed from their hands thirsting-blood Inspight of them he knowes that one day he shall die And then he shall inioy an endles Libertie If he be forc't to flie from his deere country-clime In exile to expire the remnant of his time He doth suppose the World to be a Country common From whence no tyranny till death can banish no-man If that he must forsake his Parents and his Kin And those whose amitie he most delighteth in He knowes that where he finds a man he findes a Kins-man For all mankind is come from oneselfe Father sinnes-man If being spoil'd of wealth wanton-pampering plentie He find vpon his boord two dishes scant of twenty And to his back one coate to keepe the cold away Whereas he had before a new for euery day He learneth of Saint Paul who bids vs be content With food and furniture to this life competent Sith nothing as saith Iob into this world we brought Nor with vs when we die can we hence carrie ought If he be passing poore and in exceeding glack Of euery needfull thing for belly and for back He learneth of the Sonne that God the Father heedeth To giue to euery one in time the thing he needeth And that the Fowles of Heauen and Cattel small and great Doo neither sowe nor reape yet find they what to eate Yea that the Lillies faire which growe among the grasse Doo neither spin nor worke and yet their garments passe For colour and for cost for Art and ornament The glorious Salmon's rich robes of Parlament If so that he be sicke or wounded in the arme In body back or brest or such like kind of harme If in extremitie of angry paine and anguish Enfeebled still by fits he bed-rid lye and languish If all the miseries that euer martyr'd man At once on euery side afflict him all they can The more that he endures the more his comforts growe Sith so
supposed our Ling-wort and Bears-foot Heroik noble but anciently appropriate to those which were counted Demi-Gods supposed to be born begot of a heauenly an earthly Parent as Aeneas of Venus and Anchyses Hebridian Waue the Sea about the Iles Hiberides to the North from Ireland I IAnus an auncient King of Italy whome in respect of his wisedome prouideÌ„ce they figured with 2. faces as looking backe into thinges past and foreseeing thinges to come Iaffa anciently Ioppa a notable Hauen-Towne in Syria wher they land that Trauail to Ierusalem Iapetus a Thessalian more famous by his two sons Prometheus and Epimetheus then for any great worth of his owne Iaeson Captain of the Argonau tes by the fauour of Medea surmounting all daungers brought home the golden Fleece Ibis a certain high Bird with a long Bill and stiffe legâ— worshipped by the olde Egyptians Ibnu-farid a learned Arabian Not much knowne in these parts Iberians Spaniards Icarus the son of Dedalus who presuming to flie was drowned in that Sea which after bore his name Ichneumon Pharaohs Ratte a little Beast enemy to the Crocodile Idalian Fire the burning heate of Loues desire Idea an Image or Patterne of things conceiued in the FaÌ„cie Idioma a proper and peculiar forme of speech Iessean Harpe the holy musick of Dauid the Son of Ishai commonly called Iesse Iliaca Passio a kinde of Collicke Illium and Ilion Troy Imaus a Hill in India part of Caucasus Impartiall maydes the Fatal sisters Clotho Lachesis and Atropos I le of Iron or Isola di-Ferro one of the fortunate Ilands now called Canaries Incubus a disease oppressing the stomach in our sleepe which the ignorant haue thought to be a spright it is commonly called the Night Mare Indiuidunm a body that cannot be diuided Ioues Bird the Eagle Iris-bowe the Rain-bowe Iunos bird the Peacocke Isleban glory of Wittinberg Martin Luther Isthmus a narrow-strait of land between two Seas Isther Danubius Ithacan Vlysses the prudent husband of the most chaste Penelope Iupiter the cheefe God of the Pagans Iubile a yeer of liberty and releafe which was euery fiftieth yeere Iustinian a learned Emperor Compiler of the Ciuill lawes Iuturna the North part of Scotland towards the Orcades Iaboc a little Brooke running into the Riuer Iordan Isis the wife of Osiris both Idols of the Egyptians Iuadan Ioue Iupiter chiefe of the Heathen Gods Iuno the sister wife of Ioue Goddesse of Dominion and wealth and supposed helper to woemen in trauaile sometimes taken for the Aire Iris the Rain-bow Iaphean or Iaffian Seas beate vpon the Coast of Zabulon towardes Tyre and Sydon on the farthest North of Iudea heere opposed to Tigris in Mesopotamia the farthest South of the same Iaffa of olde called Ioppa Isaacians children of Isaac Israelites Izeland an Iland in the farthest North towards Groonland Iebusites the Heathen inhabitants of Ierusalem before it came to the Possession of the Israelites K KAros a drowsie and stupifying disease in the head Kennet a pleasant Riuer running through Barkshire neere vnto whose flowery bankes our callow Cignets had their nest L LAcedaemoÌ„ called also Spar ta a Citty and a Common-wealth most famous and flowrishing vnder the Lawes of Lyâ—urgus Laconia the Countrie where that City stood Lachesis looke Parcae Laeda the wife of Tyndarus who by the help of Iupiters Swan laid 2. egges whereof were hatched double Twins of the one Pol-lux and Helena of the other Castor Clytemnestra Latmos a Hill in Ionia where Cynthia is sayde to haue imbraced her deer Endymion Latona the Mother of Diana and Apollo Latonian Twinnes those Children of hers the Sunne and Moone Lais a beutiful costly Harlot of Corynth frequented by many gallants of Greece Lee a neat little Towne in Essex in the mouth of the Thames Leander a yong man of Abydus beloued of Hero drowned in Hellespont while hee was swimming to her Lers a riuer in France of most strange quality Lethe a riuer in Hell which causeth forgetfulnesse Lethargie the sleepy disease Lestrigons a cruell people of Campania in Italy which were said to feed on Mans Flesh. Lyguria the Territorie of Genoa Lycurgus the famous Law-Maker of the Lacedaemonians Lemnos Vulcans Iland Now called Stalimene Limbo Hell Linus an excellent ancieÌ„t Musician maister of Orpheus Linx a beast of exceeding quick pearcing sight Leucippus a Philosopher that imagined infinite worlds Leucothoe a Sea Goddesse Liquour-God Bacchus Lopez a late Iew-spanish Physician executed for infinite Treasons against this State Lotos an admirable plant straÌ„gely sympathizing with the Sun Lucania a prouince of Italy now called Basilicata Lucina Iuno and Diana supposed of olde to be assistant to women in their trauell Lucrâ—â—ta the chaste wife of Collatinus rauished by Tarquin Poet. Lucretius a very ancieÌ„t Latine Luna the Moonâ—e Lupercales Sacrifices Feasts solemnized to Pan. Lyceum the Schoole of Aristotle Legislator a Law-Maker or a Law-giuer Lesbian Squire the Lesbians were so perfect Workemen that they made Rules and Squires by their Worke and not their Worke by the Rule Loumond a great Lake in Scot land wherein they say there is a floating Iland Lucâ—for the Prince of the proud Angels that fell from heauen The Diuell also the morning-starre Lachesis looke Parcaes Locusts a kind of Grashoppers Libanus and Libanon a mountaine in Syria famous for the fairest Cedar Trees M MAdera one of the Canaries from whence com excellent Sugars Malta an Iland in the Mediterranean Sea where the Knights that were of Rhodes now keep their resideÌ„ce Manie a disease in the head causing madnesse Martian-field a fielde between Tiber the City of Rome where they vsed to beholde the fight of condemned men with wilde Beasts Mars the God of warre Mark Pole a not able Venetian Nauigator and Discouerer Maiz Indian wheat Mausole a sumptuous Tombe built by Artemisia Queen of Caria for her husband Mausolus Marcellus a most noble Romane Captaine Conqueror of Syracusa and fiue times Consul Mah omite the Turkish Emperour worshipping Mahomet Mantuan Muse the Poet Virgil Massacres horrible murders Medea a sorceresse or as some call them a cunning-woman Meanders crooked turnings so called of the Riuer Meandex for his exceeding crookednesse Medices the late Queene mother of France being of the house of Florence Medusas Tresse a head with snake-like hairs turning the beholders into stones Mein a Riuer in Germany wher on stands Frankfort the famous Mart of the World Meonian Bard Homer Mecaenas a noble Romane liberall fauourer of Virgil. Megera one of the Furies Melt an admirable Tree in Mexico a mighty kingdom of America Egyptians Memphians Memphites Memphists Memphitists Mercurie one of the Planets the God of wit eloquence inuention and subtilty and the messenger of the Gods Mercurial as it were a Chancerie controuling and reuoking false iudgements of inferiour Courts Meridian the south circle Metaphoras borrowed speeches Metempsychosis transmigration of soules from one body to another after Pythagoras Metaphiâ—icall supernaturall Milo a man of
prodigious strength that carried a Bull on his back killed him with his fist eat him vp in one day Mince a Riuer neere Mantua where Virgil was borne Minerua the same that Pallas Goddesse of wit and warre Moly an herbe brought from heaueÌ„ by Mercury to Vlysses supposed to be our Rue or herbe-grace Moloch the Idoll of the Ammonites Moluques rich Ilands in the East Indies plentifull in all kind of excellent Spices other Treasures Moores the people of Ethiopia subiects of Prester Iohn Morpheus the God of Dreams Mummie a drugg takeÌ„ for part of ancient imbalmed bodies Musculus a little Fish most officious to the Whale Musulmans Arabians Mycaena Agamemnons Kingdome Midas a wealthy King of Phry gia whose touch by the graÌ„t of Bacchus turned all things into Gold so that at last his Gold-turned meate in his mouth choaked him Myrmecides a cunning curious Caruer in small works Myron an excellent statuarie or Image-maker Mounte banks Iugglers Meroe an Iland in the Riuer Nilus Megera look Furies Mages Sages Wise-men Sooth-sayers Morisâ—o and Mattachine Antike fantastike daunces Moderatrix a Regent or Gouernesse MAGNIFICENCE Greatnes State glory pomp MunificeÌ„ce bounty liberality Medalls Images of wood stone or metall Musaik work a kinde of painting so curiously shadowed that it seemes in some places imbost in some carv'd in som in-layde in som grauen c. Meteors or exhalatioÌ„s strange apparitions of comets or other figures in the aire Megarian where flowrished the Philosopher Euclides in the same time that Socrates in Athens N NAcre the Pearle-shell or mother of Pearl Nadir the point directly vnder vs iust opposite to the Zenith or point verticall Natolia Asia minor now whol ly vnder the Turke Nectar the drink of the Gods Neptune the Sea Nephelian Crook-horne the Signe Aries Nepenthe an herbe which being steeped in wine is thought to expell sadnesse Nereus the Sea Nero a most cruell Emperour of Rome the monster of nature shame of mankinde Nestor a wise eloqueÌ„t Greek who being nigh 300. yeers old came to the siege of Troy Nile and Nilus the famous Riuer of Egypt vsed often for Egypt it selfe Nimrod the builder of Babel the first ambitious vsurper of soueraignty Niphates a mountaine from whence the Riuer Tigris hath his source Nitre a light white spongie mater much like salt which som haue falsely thought to be salt-peter Noremberg a City in Germany especially famous for curious handy-crafts Nubian of a Kingdome fronting on the South of Egypt Numidianâ— people of a part of Affrica accustomed to liue continually in the fieldes with their flocks heards remoouing often for fresh pastures Numa Pompileus 2. from Romulus King of the Romanes and their first law-giuer O OBsequies funerall ceremonies Ocean and Oceanus the Sea Odipus a Riddle-Reader of Thebes Oedems thinne waterish and flegmatik swellings Olympius an Arrian Bishoppe strook dead with Lightning for blaspheming the Deitie of Christ. Olympus a very high hill fronting on Macedonia it is often vsed for Heauen Ophthalmy a disease in the Eye through inflamation of the vttermost tunicle Optick sinnew is that which bringeth sight vnto the Eye Orgies Sacrifices to Bacchus Oracles Mysteries of the heathen Gods deliuered by diuers meanes and in diuers manners Orion a tempest-boading star Orpheus an excellent Poet Musician of Thrace Oromene a Mountain in India full of Salt-quarres Ortygian Delos a floating IlaÌ„d where Diana and Apollo were borne Orithias loue Boreas the North-winde Ottoman the first Emperour of Turkes Ouids heires wanton Poets Oxygone a sharp-Triangle Omer a certaine measure among the Hebrues Ophir supposed to be Peru. Onyx a red pretious stone fit for Seales Cleer Orient the East Sun-Rising Oran a Port-Towne in Barbarie within the Streictes of Gibraltar P PActolus a riuer in Lydia which after the washing of King Midas is sayd to haue Golden sands Pallas the Goddesse of Arts Wisedome Palaemon a Sea God called also Melicertes Palestine Iudea the holy land first called Cannan Pan the God of Shepheards Pandects Books treating of all manner of Arguments Panchayaâ— Fumes Incense Pannonia Hungary Austria Panope a Sea-Nymph Pandora fayned by Hesiodus to be the first woman and made by Vulcan indued by all the Gods with seueral excellent gifts but afterwarde by Iupiter in his displeasur sent to hir spouse Epimetheus with a Box full of al maÌ„ner of miseries Paphos Archer Cupid the little God of loue Paphian Fier or shott his Arrowes Parrhasius a most excellent painter of Ephesus Parthians a people of Asia excellent Archers and notorious enemies to the Romans Parâ—s an Iland in the Archipelago which diuideth Europe Asia minor wherein is excellent white Marble or Alablaster Parcas Parcae à non parcendo the Destinies or 3. fatal Sisters viz Clotho Lachesis and Atropos Death it selfe the eneuitable end of all Parallels lines euery wher like distant Paradox an argument maintained contrary to the common and receiued opinion Pegasus the flying Horse of Bellerophon which strayning to flye vp to Heaven with his hoofe rased the top of Helicon whence immediatly gushed out a spring which therefore is called Hyppocrene Penelope the most chaste wife of the wandring Prince Vlysses Peneian Uale is Tempe a most pleasant valley in Thessaly on the verge of the Riuer Peneus Pentheus a young Prince who for contemning the drunkeÌ„ feasts of Bacchus was by his owne mother Agaue murdered Peripneumonie the Impostume of the Lungs Perige that point of Heaven wherein the Sun or other planet is neerest to the center of the Earth Persiphone or Proserpine the Queen of Hell and Horror Perseus a most triumphant ChampioÌ„ that rescued Andromeda from the Sea-moÌ„ster who for his prowesse is both by Poets and Astronomers magnified as a God and placed among the Starres Pernassus the mountain of the Muses Persian Monark with the heauen of glasse was Sapores Peru one of the largest and richest parts of America Phaeton the Son of Phoebus who presuming to guide his fathers Chariot set the world on fire and fell himselfe headlong into the Riuer Eridanus Phoebus the Sunne Phalaris a most cruell Tyrant of Agrigent Phalec the sonne of Heber Pharos a Lanthorne Tower to beare a light for the guide of Saylors in a hauen by night also an Iland Phlegon one of the horses of the Sunnes Chariot Phlegeton a Riuer in Hell taken oft for Hell it selfe philtre-charmd inchanted with loue-potions Phantik such as are haunted with strange illuding Visions Philirian Scout the signe Sagittarius Philometor an ancient king of Egypt much giuen to husbandry and delighting in the Countrie life Phlebotomie Bloodletting Phlegmons hot red inflammations of bloud Phrygian Skinker the signe Aquarius Phrixus sister was Helle drowned in Hellespont which of her is so called Phrenzie a most violent and daungerous disease of the braine Phthisik The consumption of the Lungs Phthiriasis the lowsie disease Pica the longing disease of women with childe Physon one of the Riuers in the garden of
bands of Chus on Gerar greene Shall I forget him who preparing fight Iosaphat 'Gainst Ammon Seir and Moabs Idoll might Saw ech of their three hoasts on others fall And with them selfs their selfs disconfit all Yet for their sinnes God gaue them in the hands Of Calde Kings who conquered all their Lands And took King Zedekee and made an end Of that Impire till God did Cyrus send Who set them free and gaue them of his grace Two rulers of their owne And now this place Is kept by sacred Ioachim whose powers Consists not onely within Sions towers But Edom Sidon Moab and we all Do knowe his strength and knowes him principall Now Sir you hear the progresse first and last Of Isâ—acs race in order as it past One while the Lord enhaunst them to the skie One while he drew them downe in deepe to lie ' But were he Iudge or Prince or King of might ' Who reul'd the Hebrews policie aright ' While they observ'd th' alliance made before ' By their forefathers who to God them swore ' In happy state all others they surpast ' And vnderfoote their proudest foes were cast ' And all the world that their destruction sought ' Against their state and name preuailed nought ' But contrary as oft as they astraide ' From God their guide he on their shoulders laid ' The Barbare yock of Moâ—b and oft-times ' Of Palestine and Ammon for their crimes ' The heauie hand of God was seen to be ' On their ingratefull infidelity Now if so be that any odious sinne Prouoke their Lord his Iustice to begin Then mine not you their towers and tourets tall Nor bring the wrack som engine to their wall Nor place thy battries braue nor yet aduenter With thy courageous camp the breach to enter For if Libanus mount or Carmell faire Or Niphathaei should parke them from repaire If Ynde and Nilus with the Rhene and Rhone To close them round about should run in one For their defence yet shall they notwithstand With all their force thy flurious fighting â—and But if they haue not broke the â—and indeed That God with Abraham made and with his seede Beware my Lord beware to touch or moue These people that the Lord so much doth loue For though south Aùtan would dispeople his Lands And bring the blackest Moores to swarme in bands If Northren Boreas vnder his banners colde Would bring to field his hideous Souldiers bold If Zephyrus from sweet Hesperia coste Would send his chosen armed men to Hoste If Eurus for to aide thine enterprise Would bring his men from whence the sun doth rise Yet all their numbers hudge and forces strong Can neuer do to Israell any wrong Nor hurt one hair if their great God say nay That God will them defend because he may With one small blast confound all Kings that darre As thou doest now prouoke him vnto warre Then like as ye behold the quiet see Not raging when the windes ingendring be But blauncheth first then growes in little space In wallowing waves to flowe with fomy face And lastly beates the banks and ships vnshrouds With wrackfull waues vphoist to highest clouds So almost all the princes of that hoste With inward anger gan to be emboste As oft as they the prayse of God did heare So to his speech encreast their spitefull chear Which in the end to blasphemy them brought Th' immortall God of Gods to set at nought Kill and cut off quoth they this traytour fine Whose subtill talke with all his whole engine Pretends to saue these Hebrews from our hands And threats vs with vaine Gods of forraine Lands For if it please you noble prince to send But twenty men of value that are â—end Within your camp these recklesse rebels then Shall be a pray to all your warlike men O wicked wight but then the Uizroy stout With power appeasde the murmur of the route And to him said O shameles Prophet thou What Sibyll or what charmer tell me now What Diuell or Daemon so doth thee inspire That Izrell shall of vs haue his desire Such men as with no God can be content But such as pleased Moses to inuent Of his owne head a God that hath no power â—lasphemic For to deliuer them nor thee this hower Haue we an other God or king of kings Then our great Persian Monark now that rigns Whose barded horse ore runns the Nations all Whose armed men out of these mountaines tall Shall rake these Rebels that from Egypt came To this where they vniustly keep the same Dye dye thou shalt O wretch thy toung vntrue And double heart shall haue their wages due But foole what speake I thus no haste a while Thy blood O villaine shall not me defile So iust a paine so soone thou shalt not haue For thy deceipt so soone to go to graue ' For in a wretches sodaine death at ones ' Their long some ill is buried with their bones But to that end I may prolong thy strife In Bethull town I will prolong thy life Where euerie howre thou shalt haue such affraye To dye vndead a thousand times a day Till time with them who thou so strong hast thought To shamefull end with them thou shalt be brought What wherefore temblest thou and art so pale What sorrow makes thy heart so soone to faile If God be God as thou right now hast said Then of thy faith giue witnesse vndismaid A marshall of the campe then being prest Who was not yet so cruell as the rest There tooke this demy Pagan Ammons Lord And sent him bound to Bethull with a cord Then euen as in his clawes the kite doth beare The chirping chicken throu the weather cleare While that the cackling hen belowe on ground Bewayles her bird with vaine lamenting sound So in like woe his worthy men were left For that so worthy a chief was them bereft The Townsmen then beholding neere their wall These Miscreants to armour straight they fall Yâ—lad in plate and mail and runnes in bands And fearcely fronts their foes with steele in hands As fast as done the riuers doun the hils That with their murmur hudge the deepes vpfils The Heathen seeing this retirde away And left the Lord of Ammon for a pray To th' Hebrew soldiers who did him constraine Though he was willing with them to remaine When all the folke with prease about him past His eyes and hands vp to the pole he cast ' And thus he spake O God that great abides ' Vpon th' Immortall seat and iustly guides ' The ruled course of heav'n whose liuing spreete ' Reuiuing spreds and through all things doth fleete ' I render thee O God immortall prayse ' For that before I end my wofull dayes ' Now from th' vnfruitfull stock thou doest me race 'To graft me in thy fruitfull tree of grace ' Where in despite of all contrary strife ' I shall bring forth the fruits of lasting life And ye O Iacobs sonnes
Hermon with thy burning blast Or why doest thou on carefull Carmell cast Thy dreadfull darts forgetting all the space These Giants that thy Scepter would displace Ah wretch what say I Lord apardon me Thy burning zeale and none hypocrisie That frets my heauy heart at euery howre Compels my toung this language out to powre O thou the euerliuing God and Guide Of all our race I know thou wilt prouide For our reliefe against this furious boste And iustly kill the Captaine of this hoste I knowe that thou wilt help my onely hand To be the wrack of all this heathen Band. FINIS THE SVMMARIE OF The V. BOOKE HOlophernes being surprised with the sweete language and excellent beautie of the chaste Iudith becommeth altogether negligent of his charge and gouernement Wherein is represented the vnhabilitie of the reprobate who cannot withstand such temptations as the Lord sendeth vpon them But as they become slaues to their owne affections so by the same they are enforced to fall into perdition In place of some faithfull seruant to warne him of his vices Holophernes conferreth with Bagos an Eunuch who feedeth him in his humour bringeth Iudith to his Tent. And here the Poet reprooues all flatterers and bawdes with the vices of all Courts in Generall Iudith seeing her chastitie in perill and the time vnmeete to execute her enterprise subtilie drawes the Tyrant to talke of other affaires He thinking to insinuate himselfe the more into her fauour taketh pleasure to crack of his conquests and of his speciall worthinesse discoursing so long till suppertime approached she auoyded the inconuenience And here is to be noted that whilest the tyrants boast of their cruelty against the Church God prouideth for his owne preserueth them for that worke that he hath ordained by them to be done THE FIFT BOOKE of IVDITH IN stead of marrow-in bone and blood in vaines Great Holopherne doth feede his cruell paines He bootlesse flees and feeles but he ne knowes The quenched fire that of his ashes growes For so the charming Image of this Dame The onely marke where at his soule did ame Transported him in passions of despaire That of his mighty camp he quits the care And goes no more his matters to dispatch Nor vewes his corpsgard nor relieues his watch Nor Councell cals nor sent to spy the coste Nor vewes the quarters of his spacious hoste But as the sheep that haue no hirde nor guide But wandring strayes along the riuers side Throw burbling brookes or throw the forrest grene Throw meadowes closures or throw shadows shene Right so the Heathen hoste without all bridle Runns insolent to vicious actions ydle Where none obeyes ech one commanding speaks Eche one at pleasure from his banner breaks What do you Hebrews now within your wall Now time to fight or neuer time at all To pay these Pagans whose confused corse Combats against themselfs with deadly force Nay stay a while of such a great victory Your onely God will haue the onely glory Before this tyrant was with loue yblent To winne the towne he plide his whole entent But now both night and day his minde doth frame To conquer this most chast vnconquest Dame So lust him led th' vndaunted Theban knight With waighty mace had neuer him affright But now a womans look his hart enfeares And in his brest the curelesse wound he beares Ambition erst so had him ouercumme That made him dayly ryse by sound of drumme Now Cupid him awaks with hote alarmes That him with holds to do the Hebrews harmes Before he rulde aboue both Prince and King Now can he not himselfe in order bring Alas quoth he what life is this I haue Complaint Becomming captiue to my captiue slaue Vnhappy chance what life is this I say My vertue gone my forces fals away Nay sure no life it is more pain I feele Then Ixion torn vpon th' Eternall wheele Prometheus My life is like the theefs that stole the fire On whose mortall hart there doth alwayes tire A rauenous fowle that gnawes him to the bone Reuiuing still bound to the Scythian stone What serues it me t' haue won where I haue haunted What serues my victor arme for to haue daunted The people situate tween Hydaspe large And port where Cydnus doth in sea discharge Since I am vanquisht by the feeble sight Of captiue Iudith what auailes my might My targe of steele my Burguinet of Brasse My guard of warriours stout whereso I passe Since her sweet eye hath sent the pointed dart Throgh men and weapons pearcing throu my hart What serues my coursers who with swiftnes light Exceeds the swallow swiftest bird of flight Since I on him cannot auoide one ynch The care that night and day my heart doth pinch Then change O Hebrewes change your tears in song And triumph ore my hoste and army strong I am no more that Duke whose name alone Hath made great warriours quake both lim and bone But I am he whose hart was sometime braue Now lesse then nought the slaue but of a slaue I com not here your Isaac to annoy With fire and sword your houses to destroy But to require your Iudith her to render More milde to me What is my wit so slender Berapt with loue haue I not heer my ioy That onely may relieue me from annoy Yet neuerthelesse I clieue the aire in vain With plaints and makes myne eyes but fountains twain I wretch am like the wretched man indeed Tantalus The more he hath the greater is his need Although he deeply plonge in water cleare To quench his thirst yet he is not the neare For so do I respect the heavenly grace That largely is bestowde vpon her face That with mine eyes I dare not her behold My toung doth stay and in the palat folde Why haue not I a heart of Crystall cleare Tronsparent through to let my paine appeare That there she might of all my torments reed Which loue with holds within my heart in dreed Now since that Iudith to this camp arriv'd The light of heav'n had thrise his course reviv'd And darkned thrise and gan with saffron hew To light the Ynds the fourth day to renewe When thus the Duke who leftrepast and rest Vnto his Eunuch this like porpos drest O Bagos sonne adoptife not by chaunce Whom I haue chose of nought thee to aduance By speciall grace and made thee though I boaste First of my hart and second of myne Hoaste I rage I burne I dye in desp'rate thought Through loue by this same strangers beuty brought Go seek her then and shortly to her say What secret flame torments me day by day Shew that I shall her to such honours bring As he that beares the Scepter of a King But chiefly see thy talke be framed thus That she do come this night and suppe with vs. Now should it not to me be folly and shame To haue within my holde the fairest dame That ground doth heare if I
Incessantly beset with battell great One while her feare refeld her first entent One while her action iust her courage lent Then sayd she Iudith now is time go to it And saue thy people Nay I will not do it I will I will not Go fear not again Wilt thou the sacred gestning then prophane Not it prophane but holier it shall stand When holy folke are helped by my hand But shamefull liues the tray tour euermore No trayt or she who doth her towne restore But murdrers all are of the heav'n forsaken All murder-is not for murder alwayes taken Alas are they not murdrers sleyes their Prince This tyrant is no prince of my prouince But what if God will haue vs vnder his-awe Hee 's not of God that fights against his lawe For then should Ahud Iahell and Iehew Be homiâ—ids because they tyrants slew But what they were commanded of the Lord To such an act my hart should soone accord Alas my hart is weak for such a deed Th' are strong ynough whom God doth strength at need But when 't is done who shall my warrant be God brought me here God will deliuer me What if the Lord leaue thee in Heathen hands Were this Duke dead I fear no death nor bands But what if they pollute thee like a slaue My body with my hart they shall not haue Thus she resolued in her minde at last Her hands and eyes vnto the heauen she cast And with an humble voyce to God she prayd O gratious God that alwayes art the ayd To thy beloued Izak I thee pray To strength my hand euen my right hand this day That I may make this bloody tyrant dye That to discepter thee would skale the skye But since thy goodnesse hath preserued me And brought my bote so near the shoare to be Grant that some sleepy drinke I may prouide To dull this tyrants hart and daunt his pride To th' end that I may free thy congregation Vnto thy honour and our consolation This prayer done she looked round about And heard this dronken prince in sleeping rout Then stept she to his sword that by him stood Which oft had bath'd the world with humain blood But as she preast this tyrant for to quell Fear reft the sword from her and downe she fell And lost at once the strength of hart and corse O God quoth she now by thy mighty force Restore my strength This said with pale annoy She rudly rose and stroke this sleeping Roy So fell that from his shoulders flew his powle And from his body fled his Ethnique â—owle Hie way to hell His bulk all blood bestaind Lay still his head in Iudiths hand remaind The which her maid put vp into a sack Thus throw the camp they close away do pack Empeacht of none For those that had her seen Supposde she went as she had wonted been The nights before vnto the valley whear They thought she went to serue Diana clear When Iudith chaste came near the Hebrew wall Let in quoth she for our great God of all Hath broke this night the whole Assyrian power And raysd the horne of Izak at this hower Then men amazde of her vnhoped state About her ran assembling at the gate Where holy Iudith on a hill was mounted And all her chaunce from point to point recounted And there discov'ring drew out of the sack The bloody head of th' enmy of Izak The Citizens that saw how she did stand With th' end of Assurs head in her right hand They praysed God who by her hand had slain And punished that traytour in humain ' But most of all Duke Ammon did admire ' The worke of God Then he t' escape they re ' Of Iacobs God who aydes the weakest part ' He shortly circumcis'd his flesh and hart ' O God that rightly by foresight diuine ' Repels the purpose of all mens engine ' Who for to lead th' elect to destnyed health ' Even when it seemes them fardest from their wealth ' Of ill thou drawes the good and som in ill ' Thou lets them runne thy Iustice to fulfill ' O Lord the vile desire of blood and sak ' Made Holopherne to warre vpon Izak ' But where that he would Izaks blood haue shed ' He lost his owne for Izak on his bed ' Thus thy good grace hath made his vain inuention 'To take effect contrary his intention ' So Paul became a Saint who was a Pharisee ' And of a tyrant teacher of thy veritee ' So was the theefe that hong with our Messias ' For all his sinne preserued with Elias ' His vitious corps could haue no life here downe ' His soule by grace yet got a heav'nly crowne ' Change then O God the harts of christian princes ' Who sheds the faithfuls blood in their prouinces ' Let thou that sword that thou giues them to guide ' Vpon thy enmies onely be applyde ' Vpon those tyrants whose vnrighteous horne ' Deteins the Land where thy dear sonne was borne ' Not on the backs of those who with humilitie ' Adores the Triple one great God invnitie Then at commandement of this widow chaste A soldier tooke the tyrants head in haste And for to giue the Hebrews hart withall He fixed it vpon the foremost wall Their fathers came and sonnes and wiues and mayds Who erst had lost amongst the Heathen blayds Their sonnes their parents maks and louers dear With heauie harts and furious raging chear They pild and paird his beard of paled hew Spet in his face and out his tongue they drew Which vsde to speak of God great blasphemies And with their fingers poched out his eyes The rife remembrance of so late an ill Made vulgar folke such vengeance to fulfill This while Aurora ceased to embrace Her ancient loue and rose with ruddy face Vpon the Indian heaven the warriours strong That kept the towne now sorted forth in throng Enarmed all with such a hydeous sound As seemde the elements foure for to confound And break the bands that keeps them in their border Retyring them vnto their olde disorder The Pagan watches next the Cities side Awaked with this din start vp and cryde Alarme Alarme like fearfull men agast Then through the Camp the hote Alarum past Som takes his neighbours armour first he findes Confusion And wrong on armes the braceâ—â— both he bindes Som takes a staf for hast and leaues his launce Som madling runnes som trembles in a traunce Som on his horse ill sadled ginnes to ride And wants his spurres som boldly do abide Som neither wakes nor sleeps but mazing stands Som braue in words are beastly of their hands This brute from hand to hand from man to man Vnto the Pagans Court at last it ran Then Bagos Eunuch sadly forth he went T' awake the sleeping Ethnique in his tent And knockt once twise or thrise with trembling hand But such eternall sleep his temples band That he had past already miserable Of Styx so black the
huge That in our Age three men could hardly bouge Vnder whose waight his flying Foes he dashes And in their flesh bones stones and steel he pashes Somtimes he shoots somtimes he shakes a Pike Which death to many dread to all doth strike Som in the breast he wounds som in the backs Som on the hanch som on the head he hacks He heaws down all and maketh where he stood A Mount of bodies in a Moat of blood The Pagans wholly put to flight At length the Pagans wholly left the place Then both sides ran these chased those do chase These onely vse their heels those heels and hands Those wish but a fair way these that the sands Would quickly gape and swallow quick to Hell Themselues that fled and them that chaç't so fell These render nought but blowes those nought but blood Both sides haue broak their Ranks pel-mel they scud Choakt-vp with dust disordered dis-aray'd Neither Command Threat nor Intreat obay'd Thou that late bragdst that thy White Wormly braue Could dry-foot run vpon the liquid Waue And on the sand leaving no print behinde Out-swifted Arrows and out-went the Winde With a steel Dart by ABRAH'M stifly sent Art'twixt thy Cuirace and thy Saddle slent And thou that thrice neer Tygris silver source Hadst won the Bell as best in every Course Art caught by LOT and thrild from side to side Loosest thy speed-praise and thy life beside It seems no Fight but rather as befalls An execution of sad criminals Whoso escapes the sword escapes notso His sad destruction or if any tho Escap't at all they were but few at least To rue the fatall ruine of the rest For th' Vnkle and the Nephew never lin Till out of Canaan they haue chaç't them clean Like to a Cast of Falcons that pursue Simile A flight of Pigeons through the welk in blew Stooping at this and that that to their Louver To saue their lyues they hardly can recouer At his return from Fight the Kings and Lords The Kings of Caâ—â—â—n receiued Abraham and his company with great ioy and the gratefull offer of their homage vnto him Of Palestine with glad and humble words Do welcom Abram and refresh his Troop To 's knees their heads to 's feet their knees they stoop Ovaliant Victor for thy high deserts Accept the homage of our humble hearts Accept our grateful zeal or if ought more As well thou maist thou doest expect therfore Accept said they our Lands our goods our golde Our wiues our lyues and what we deerest holde Take all we haue for all we haue is thine No wrong to vs to take thy Valours fine Melthisedec Gods sacred Minister Melchisedech blesseth Abraham And King of Salem coms to greet him there Blessing his bliss and thus with zealous cry Devoutly pearç't Heav'ns starfull Canopey Blest be the Lord that with his hand doth roule The radiant Orbs that turn about the Pole And Rules the Actions of all Humane-kinde With full command and with one blast of winde Razes the Rocks and Rends the proudest Hills Dries-vp the Ocean and the Empty fils Blest be the great God of grear Abraham From Age to Age extolled be his Name Let every Place vnto him Altars build And euery Altar with his Praise be fill'd And every Praise above the Welkin ring As loud or louder then the Angels sing Blessed be He that by an Arm-less crew Of Art-less Shepheards did so quick subdue And tame the Tamers of Great Syria so And to the servants of an exil'd Foe Hath given the Riches and the royall store Both of their Booty and their Owne before Of such an Hoast of Nations that first see Sol's early rising from Aurora's knee But Abraham to prove that not for Prey Abraham distributes the booty reseruing only a portion for the Amorites that were his confederates He put-on arms divides the Spoils away The Tythe's the Priests the Rest of all the things Yerst lost in field he renders to the Kings Save but the Portion He participates To th' Amorites his stout Confederates Shewing himself a Prince as politicke Prudent and iust as stout and Souldier-like That with his Prowess Policy can mel And Conquering can vse his Conquest wel Magnanimous in deeds in words as meek That scorning Riches true Renown doth seek So from the Sea even to th' Euphratean-source And even from Dan to Nilus crystall course Rings his renown Of him is all the speech He is famous far and neere At home abroad among the poor and rich In war and peace the Fame of his high deeds Confirms the Faithfull in their fainting Creeds And terrifies the Tyrant Infidels Shaking the sides of their proud Citadels That with their fronts the seat of IOVE do scorn And with their feet at I'luto's crown do spurn Voice Harp and Timbrel sound his praise together He 's held a Prophet or an Angel rather They say that God talks with him face to face Hoasts at his house and to his happy Race Givs in Fee-simple all that goodly Land Even from the Sea as far as Tygris strand And it is certain the Thrice-sacred-One God appeares vnto him and maketh covenant with him The King of Kings by Dream or Vision Speaks with him oft and calls him thus by name Faint not my servant fear not ABRAHAM I an no fiend that with a fained lip Seek guilefully thy simpleness to trip Nor to intice thee with a baen-full breath To bite like ADAM a new fruit of death 'T is I that brought thee from thy Native V R From night to day from death to life thus far I brought thee hither I have blest thee heer I with thy flocks have covered far and neer Canaan's fat Hills I have preserv'd thy Wife From Strangers lust and thee from Tyrants knife When thy faint heart and thy false tongue affrai'd To tel the Truth her and thy self betray'd 'T is I that have so oft from Heathens powr Preserv'd thy person and as Conquerour Now made thee Trivmph over th' Eastern Kings Whereof so far thy famous Valour rings I am in brief I am the Lord thy God Thy help at home thy Guide and Gard abroad Keep thou my Covenant and to signifie That to the World thou di'st to live to Me Circumcision instituted Go Circumcise forth-with thy Self and Thine Lead holy Life walk in my Wayes divine With vpright-foot so shall my favour haunt Thy House and thee and thou shalt nothing want No I will make thee Lord of all the Land Which Canaans Children haue with mighty hand Canaan promised to Abraham So long possest a happy Land that flowes With milk and hony a rich Land where growes Even of itself all kinde of Fruit and Corn Where smiling Heav'ns pour-down their Plenties-Horn I 'le heap thee there with Honor Wealth and Powr I will be thy Reward thy Shield and Towr O Lord said ABRAM though into my lap In shours of Gold ev'n all the Heav'ns