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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09545	The glasse of time, in the two first ages. Diuinely handled, by Thomas Peyton, of Lincolnes Inne, Gent	Peyton, Thomas, 1595-1626.	1620 (1620)	STC 19824; ESTC S114595	86,637	182

THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE two first Ages Diuinely handled By Thomas Peyton of Lincolnes Inne Gent. LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop and are to be had at Laurence Chapmans shop ouer-against Staple Inne 1620. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE Charles Prince of Wales MOst hopefull Prince Europaes richest Iem Successor to these famous westerne Iles Chast Oliue Branch descended of that Stem Whose what he hath all on thy fortune smiles Inheritor to such a Potent King As no Age yet his Like could euer bring Braue Pearle of men within whose louely Face The sacred Muses learned Arts combine And all Heauens gifts from great Apollos Race Apparant seeme within thy Browes to shine Thy Fathers Doran kingly workes of State This more then needs as borne but out of date Yet Royall Prince let but thine eyes behold This lofty Subiect in these Rurall Rimes T' will more encourage then Earths purest gold To make my Muse to all succeeding times Blaze forth thy parts and high deserued Fame That thy rare worth may all the World inflame As in a Garden of sweete fragrant flowers Where each man takes what to his mind seemes best Then sits him downe within their pleasant Bowers Peruseth all and for a Time doth Rest Contented Ioy'd Admiring to haue found So great a change in one small piece of Ground So deerest Prince within thy Fathers workes What Poesies sweete Graue sentences diuine Sad morrall matter in each Subiect lurkes To draw thy youth to trace him line by line Whilst this may chance to recreate thy mind As glimmering Luna in Sols absence shin'd Persist go on and as thy Vertues won The Loyall Loue of euery faithfull heart So to the end thy course directly run And winged Fame shall from thee neuer start But scale the Cloudes and mount the lofty Skyes To sound thy worth as farre as India lyes Your Highnesse in all humblenesse Thomas Peyton TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE FRANCIS Lord Verulam Lord Chancelor of England MOst Honor'd Lord within whose reuerend face Truth Mercy Iustice Loue and all combine Heauens deerest Daughters of Iehouahs Race Seeme all at full within thy Browes to shine The King himselefe T'immortalize thy fame Hath in thy Name Foretiped out the same Great Verulam my Soule hath much admirde Thy Courtly carriage in each comely part Worth Merrit Grace when what the land desirde Is powr'd vpon thee as thy iust desart Graue liberall mind contending with the rest To seate them all in thy Iuditious brest Thrice noble Lord how dost thou prize of gold Wealth Treasures Mony and such Earthly cash For none of them thou hast thy Iustice sold But held them all as base infected trash To snare allure out from a dunghill wrought The seared conscience of each muddy thought Weigh but my cause referre me not to those That from the first were partiall in my right Ah this is more then once thine Honour knowes Thou seest mine owne hath now vndone me quight Whilst by a trick they got me in their paw Against the Order of thy Court and Law If I were such as some would haue thee thinke I meane my Foes which vtterly defame Mine Innocence and all together linke To wound my state and blemish much my name Yet Iustice wils what in their hands hath laine Thus to my losse should be restord againe Ah deerest Lord hold but the Scales vpright Let Court nor fauour ouersway my cause To presse me more then is beyond my might Is but their Reach to crosse thy former Lawes Let me have Peace or that which is mine owne And thy iust worth shall o're the World be blowne Your Lordships in all humblenesse Thomas Peyton TO THE READER The Title described VNto the Wise Religious Learned Graue Iudicious Reader out this Worke I send The tender sighted that small knowledge haue Can litle loose but much their weaknesse mend And generous spirits which from heauen are sent May Solace here and finde all true content A Paradise presented to ech eye Within the Vinnet of the Title page Where Iustice Mercie Nature Loue do lye Beforeth ' Almightie in the first found Age. Time stands betwixt and Truth his daughter beares His traine behind a world of Aged yeares Fierce Nemesis she mounts within the Ayre On Pegasus that winged Horse of Fame And by her side a Sword all naked bare Graue Iustice sits a sable lowring Dame Vnder her feete the worlds most spatious Globe And weighs mens Actions in a scarlet Robe This may denote the goodly glorious worth The pretious Value Maiestie and Grace Of all the Sisters Glory of this Earth Gods deerest daughters in their seuerall place Aboue the world heauens crowne their browes adorne To shew at full how they do bribing scorne Peruse it well for in the same may lurke More obscure matter in a deeper sence To set the best and learned wits on worke Then hath as yet in many Ages since Within so small a little Volumne beene Or on the sudden can be found and seene Vrania deere attired in her silke To draw thee on with more attentiue heede The weaker sort she sometime feedes with milke All guiltie mens damn'd vices vp to weede Th' enuious Momes that her chaste Muse doth tuch She hopes to mend but cares not for them much Thine to his power Tho. Peyton HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Beati Pacifici THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE FIRST AGE The Argument The Author first doth Gods assistance craue Throughout the worke that he his helpe may haue The sacred Sabbaoth Sathans enuious gall The Woman fram'd and Mans most dismall fall The Tree of Life protected from the Brute The Tree of Knowledge with her fatall Fruit For feare the World should finally be ended Gods deerest Daughters downe in hast descended The flaming Sword the Tree of Life which garded The Cherubins vpon the walls that warded The Land of Eden is discrib'd at large Heauens iudgement iust to all men's future charge SInce true examples in Gods holy Booke Are found of those that in it loue to looke Of men whose Image portraiture and soule Haue beene transform'd to monstrous shapes and foule According as their liues haue pleasing beene Gen. 19 26 To him whose sight their secret thoughts hath seene And as his goodnesse sacred is that some Dan. 4. 30 Should be examples for these times to come His Church to comfort Pagans to appall To teach to vs what did to them befall Within the stories of the new and old Rom. 15 4 Of many more then can by me be told And since that Ouid in a pleasing verse Doth pretty Tales and Metaphors rehearse Of men to birds and then againe to beasts To make you parly at your welcome feasts Whose fabled fictions warbled in that age The infancy and sacred pupill-age Of the Religion which we heare maintaine Vnder our Soueraignes thrice most happy raigne May seeme from Moses and the rest diuine In 's Metaphors to trace them line by line

proceede With fearefull Evah and her timerous seede Her naked husband that himselfe excuz'd And said his wife his loue had much abuz'd O silly woman to be thus beguil'd Gods iudgement on Euah In sorrow now that shalt bring forth thy child A hard conception with an extreme paine Sick loathsome vomits at my hands shall gaine Thy husband now shall ouerrule thee still Thy fond desires bee subiect to his will A constant loue shall hardly once be found Within the brest of any on this ground And from this day the most of all vnkind Fickle vncertaine as the wauering wind Tost too and fro with euery blast that blowes Entangled straight with gawdy curious shewes That most of you your husbands will forsake A golden bribe or licorish thing to take Heauens glorious iudge to Adam also said Gods iudgement on Adam Because thy wife thou hast an I doll made To trace her steps which leade to deadly sin Thou dost but now to feele thy woe begin Curst is the earth and curst is for thy sake The fruite thereof accursed will I make In great vexation extreme labour paine Toyle sweate and dust thou shalt much sorrow gaine The earth henceforth shall now no more endure Vnlesse thou till and much her sides manure And when thou think'st thy barnes top full to fill Thy Vintage stor'd with plenty at thy will In monstrous Mows to pile a wondrous heape Then thistles thornes instead thereof thou'lt reape Much like the beast which on his belly feedes Soe shalt thou liue by hearbs and garden seedes Till thou returne vnto the earth againe And that therein thy limbs all cold be laine This is the mother that thy body nurst Out from the same thou taken wast at first Sorrow and sicknesse shall thy body burne For dust thou art to dust thou shalt returne O heauenly God heere is a iudgement past Throughout this world eternally to last No writ of errour can the same reuoke When as the words by thine owne mouth are spoke Heere is a sentence with a sacred seale No inhibition can thy law repeale Nor all the tricks deuises subtill shifts Of greedy Lawyers with their bribes and gifts Can once dissolue a knot so surely knit With all their braines and cunning peeuish wit But that the same for euermore must stand A iust decree by heauens diuinest hand Drawne vp aboue in Eden ratified With all the Angels in the world beside And all the powers of firmament and all To this decree consented at thy call Heauens deerest Babe whose fame shall perish neuer Hath with his bloud confirm'd the same for euer The Register that vp this order drew Tempus veritas ear descriptio Was Time it selfe clad all in Azure blew Wing'd like an Angel shadowed with a vaile And Truth his Daughter bearing vp his traile Nobly attended with a Lady kind More quick and nimble then the swift foote hinde Within his mouth a lofty Trumpe doth stand And a sharpe sith or sickle in his hand A glasse of sand continually that runs Within his way no liuing thing he shuns Lock't long before his head behind all bald To shew what 's past can neuer be recal'd O Time preseruer of all ages past How are mens eyes on all thy actions cast Thou shouldst be true and constant in thy course Why should base gold thy mind to ill inforce Allure thy sence and reasons temporize Alter an order daube vp both thine eyes When God the King and all the Lords decree A Iudgement iust to all eternitee In open court pronounce the same at large Commit it safe to thy sole care and charge Yet for a bribe within thy griping fist Thou l't ad substract and set downe what thou list Princes and peeres graue Iudges of the Land Let euer Iustice in your actions stand Looke well to time for time it selfe doth call It may deceiue and goe beyond you all Dispatch the poore and heare the widdowes cause Let not the Orphant perish by your lawes The Innocent is oftentimes vndone But in defending of a sute begun By mighty foes that ouer dares his youth And lies suggest instead of naked truth Then is he posted too and froin hast His life lands liuing all he hath to wast And neuer left so long as worth a groate His weary limbs oft times in prison rot All by delayes when golden angels houer Within the fist of euery seruile louer That but attends and comes before your face By bribing liues vnto your foule disgrace O to be sway'd with euery glistring fee This is iniustice in the worst degree But you are wise to you a word is more Then all the workes to this day kept in store Can be to those that little vnderstand And more respect some feeling in their hand Trace that great God in all your actions out Let him be still to bring the day about Your only starre sole leuell and your square The seuerall frames of all your works to reare But you are men your memories may faile Let not your seruants set your worth to saile Iustice and Mercy Time and all for gold ' Gainst Natures lawes outright are bought and sold And why should man thus to base bribing fall There is a God which takes account of all And oftentimes what by the diuill is got Vnder his feete he treades it till it rot And yet what reason haue we to complaine When England thou hast got the richest gaine Iacobus Rex The deerest treasure and the welcom'st fee That euer any land attain'd but thee A royall King deriued from the race Of Edens Monarch in her greatest grace Within whose face true Maiesty doth shine Iustice and Mercy in his browes combine His temples chast with lawrell boughes are wreathed The sacred Muses in his brest haue breathed Vpon his head three famous crownes do stand Gods deerest booke is euer in his hand Whose Angels still his person hath protected And all his daughters him for King elected Too weake alas I must my selfe confesse O that my Muse could but his worth expresse Though in this place I doe but giue a glance Of that which after in my worke may chance His fame renowne shall euer flourish greene Sire to a Prince and father to a Queene So shall the fame of his illustrious sonne Carolus Princeps Mount vp the aire in Phoebus chariot run About the earth on euery side shall sound As far as Eden and the Indian ground And still his Glory all the world shall passe And be ingrauen in monuments of brasse That Time for euer shall his worth adorne The greatest prince that euer yet was borne Braue Prince of peace from heauen it selfe descended How hath this land beene by thy birth befriended To haue a spirit of such noble wit heereafter sway within her lap to sit When England thou maist ioy delight and court thee Vnder his wings maist sit thee downe and sport thee Sollace thy labours with a glad content