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Apparant seeme within thy Browes to shine Thy Fathers Doran kingly workes of State This more then needs as borne but out of date Yet Royall Prince let but thine eyes behold This lofty Subiect in these Rurall Rimes T' will more encourage then Earths purest gold To make my Muse to all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
Christian City chast R Iohnson Within the Duke of Sauoyes country plast Whose people wise religious sober true Not giuen to wine with drunken Bacchus crue Nor to those foule abuses which abounds Within our land and ore the earth now sounds But euer beene of ciuill chast behauiour Neate in attire and of a comely fauour Soe decent in the actions which they wrought That euery man which saw their citty thought Ierusalem before it was abated Had beene deuinely to that place translated And yet these men which haue the rest outstript In one thing still themselues haue ouerslipt Vpon Gods rest his sacred Sabbaoth Day To shoote in Guns about the fields and play Vntill a custome in a lawfull pleasure Vpon that day grew far beyond all measure So that their Churchmen reuerent Preachers graue Let them alone carelesse their soules to saue But God aboue to shew his anger iust Vpon these people for their lawlesse lust In violating of his sacred rest A fury sent their country to moiest Fierce horrid warre now thunders on their land The Pope the Spaniard and the French King stand All link't alike to vndermine her wall Expecting thus a conquest by her fall Alas Geneua how art thou beset With three such foes as in Europa yèt Were neuer knowne so strongly to combine To sack a towne extracted from their line What can thy shooting in those Guns auaile If God for sakes thee how thy foes preuaile Weakens thy strength abateth much thy store Mewes vp thy Campe and makes thee extreame poore Ransackes thy Country all thy land belurches And brings thee now to be relieu'd in Churches These eyes of ours haue seene the worst and best And iudgement past for breaking of his rest That Antechrist which in the scriptures pure Is propheci'd to come amongst vs sure Began to shew his cursed face on earth Sixe hundred yeeres after the glorious birth Of that sweete Babe the Man God Christ and King Which came on earth our soules to Heauen to bring By the Alcoran on his Sabbaoth day Discardeth quite all gaming sports and play Denounceth Iudgement on the heads of all Which on that day in those offences fall And brands the Diuell an actor in all games Voyd of Religion yet such sports he blames As good for litle but to sweare and cup Fit Instruments to bring new quarrels vp The parrable of Christ vpon the earth Is of such weight and glorious heauenly worth Mat 13 3. to 44. Which by the sea to multitudes he spake What liuing man but at the same must wake To see how God like to a husbandman Works vp his ground as well as e're he can Winnowes the seede and sifteth euery graine In hope at haruest by the same to gaine But that the Diuelli'th instant followes hard Whose cursed seede the goodly field hath mard Throwes round about as much as in him dares In euery place to sowe his wicked tares How can we thinke to scape Gods Iudgementiust Fond men alas that are but earthly dust Weake silly wormes when he shall on vs lowre Then are we but a Winters withered flowre That such conceits within our hearts should lurke To tempt his loue examine thus his worke And what himselfe from heauen aboue hath taught To sleight it ore and hold it idle naught Although most true in Paradise at first His owne example hath the Sabaoth nurst The Patriarcks and all the holy men Before the law obseru'd their Restas then And his command to keepe vs more from sinning Hath a Memento in the first beginning The heathen men euen from the worst to best In euery age still kept a seemely Rest And all the Saints Apostles men and Martyrs Throughout the world in all her vtmost quarters The generall counsells learned fathers graue Those God aboue elected hath to saue The greatest Kings and noblest personages Throughout the world in all her former ages The fearefull iudgements on that holy Land Which he did plant against all foes to stand The Lord of life Christ Iesus on the earth Then all before we prize him better worth Ordain'd himselfe our Rest vpon this day To come to Church to heare the Word and pray Yet we contemne and not respect the least But others leade to breake the Sabaoths rest Grant heauenly God that euer more my heart May vpright be and from thee neuer start But that my soule the purest of my thought May be with loue like to an Anuill wrought To make a conscience of thy sacred day To reade thy word within the Church to pray That all my life vntill my glasse be run Be not offensiue to thy deerest Son Which sits triumphant farre aboue the skies Grant that I may behold him with mine eyes And when I shall appeare before thy face Then may I find thy mercy goodnes grace And not thy Iustice for offenses past But let thy Loue be euer on me cast Euen in the day that some men dreame of least Place him betwixr vs giue my soule her Rest And yet great God thou hast not so restraind Our liberty but that thou hast ordaind 1 Cor. 10. 31. 1. Pet 4. 11. At vacant times from serious meditations To ease our selues in honest recreations Such that all others to no vice allure Nor in our minds shall adde a thought impure But that our sports our actions and our playes May prayse thy name the Rest of all our dayes The Puritant he is againe as nice As these vnciuill in their clamorous vice 1. Cor. 6. 12. 2. Cor. 3. 13. 17 Gal. 3. 11. Gal. 2. 14. 16. 17. That all the weeke with superstition fed To good conceits of others scarce are led Adopted sons elected brethren wise To thinke all damn'd beside their sect precise Pure hypocrite vnder a formall cloke That on Gods Rest must draw the Iewish yoke And walke to Church as if his steps he told To make no fire but sup his broath vp cold And many things which if I here should tell I might too long vpon the matter dwell But whither is my Muse transported now Beyond her compasse farre away and how Comes it to passe that she hath rambled thus About the earth these questions to discusse In euery Age her sacred holy Rimes To walke along descending to our times And taxe the world of vnbeseeming playes To reprehend the abuses of these dayes And all this while is Adam still alone In Paradise and company hath none Vnlesse somtimes God comes himselfe and sallies Before his eyes within those pleasant Allies Simile Then is he glad his heart doth leape for ioy He runs and skips much like a little boy That goes to schoole al weary at his booke Is glad to peeke in euery bush and looke With those his fellowes for some bird or nest Their company his mind still pleaseth best So art thou Adam when thou art all alone Then dost thou grieue complaine and make thy mone Vnto the Earth the Aire the
Winds and trees But God aboue thy present want that sees Comes downe himselfe to giue thee all content One of thy ribs out of thy body rent And made a creature of such wondrous fame That heauen and earth haue since admird the same To be thy sollace in his absence pure And glad thy heart binding thy loue more sure To him at first without thine owne direction Gaue thee a Phenix of such rare perfection Simile So sweete an eye and pretty pleasing looke Like Adamant and glittring sugred hooke She drawes thy loue to mind her speeches more Then God himselfe that gaue thee her in store Now art thou compleat Adam all beside May not compare to this thy louely bride Whose radiant tresse in siluer rayes to waue Before thy face so sweet a choyce to haue Of so diuine and admirable mould More daintier farre then is the purest gold And all the Iewels on the earth are borne With those rich treasures which this world adorne Though God at first this earth for thee hath made The creatures all at thy command to trade The Sunne and Moone ordaind to be thy light The Stars and all vnto their vtmost might The world it selfe and Paradise the place Where still his loue hath euer giuen thee grace Yet all of them compar'd in euery part Cannot content and satisfie thy heart Vntill thy God euen with his sacred Rest Had giuen thee this to make thee perfect blest For presuppose as then thou stoodst before Though all the world thou hadst in ample store Plenty of wealth and gold at thy command And all the creatures in the earth to stand Before thy face subiected to thy will And thou the Lord of Paradise yet still No man besides which dare oppose thy power Hem'd in with Angels in that sacred tower And God himselfe within that holy place Vnmaskt his browes to shew his glorious face Yet at the best that euer wit can scan Thou leadst thy life but like a single man But now thy God hath perfect made thy state Linck't thee in marriage with so choyce a mate Himselfe the Priest which brought her to thy hand And knit the knot that euer more must stand Ring'd her with vertue glorious beauty chaste Vpon thy selfe and no man else to waste Made her the Tipe our sences all to rouse Of Christ himselfe and of the Church his Spouse And charg'd the Angels for thy fence and guard Of nothing now but one thing thou art bard As the two lights within the Firmament simile So hath thy God his glory to thee lent Compoz'd thy body exquisite and rare That all his works cannot to thee compare Like his owne Image drawne thy shape diuine With curious Pencill shadowed forth thy line Within thy Nosthrils blowne his holy breath Impal'd thy head with that inspiring wreath Which binds thy front and eleuates thine eyes To mount his throne aboue the lofty skyes Summons his Angels in their winged order About thy browes to be a sacred border Giues them in charge to honour this his frame All to admire and wonder at the same But Lucifer that soard aboue the skye And thought himselfe to equall God on high Enuies thy fortune and thy glorious birth Wis 2. 24. In being fram'd but of the basest earth Himselfe compacted of pesteferous fire Assumes a Snake to execute his ire Windes him within that winding crawling beast And enters first whereas thy strength was least Damn'd wicked Diuell what made thee thus to spight Our grandame Eue and holy Adams Right What hurt haue they or either of them said That thou a trap and secret snare hast laid To bane their youth and vndermine their wall To gaine a curse vpon their wofull fall Thy false proceedings in thy actions best How doth the world thy cunning sleights detest Which since that time in many ages past In euery corner of the earth are cast How hast thou mallist one that hurt thee not When all thy enuy vpon Iob was shot Transforming thus thy cursed scourge and rod Iob. 16. Into the shape iust of the child of God At other times thy nimblenesse and slight Ephe. 2. 2. Rom. 12. 7. 9. Aboue the clouds will be an Angell bright And through the aire close in a fiery Waggon Thou l't sometimes mount as monstrous as a Dragon And when thou list thou any shape canst take Euen from an Angell to an vgly Snake The fowre maine wheeles on which thy cart doth moue Are Rauin Lust and want of grace and loue The sable horses which thy charriot led Haue beene at Rome or else neere Tiber bred For first Ambition with a lofty pace Then cursed Enuy with a pale leane face And Cruelty that tramples best in bloud The next is Guile which neuer yet did good Appostacy that will his faith renounce A stony heart by all of these will bounce The Coachmen which do driue them with their rod Are treason oft and want of feare of God In these and such like shapes thou lyest in waight Mat. 4. 1 to the 12. To gull the world as with a poysoned baight That being tane mans vitall life straight baines Infects his bloud and runs through all his vaines And as thou art dost cozen lye and lurch Transform'd sometimes into a man i' th Church Mar. 8. 33. Vnder that holy habit maske and guise Thou setst abroach thy cancred venom'd lyes And thus thou camstvnto our grandame Eue Gen. 3. 1. And as a Diuell into her thoughts dost diue Seeming a Serpent crawling on thy brest Much like a simple foule mishapen beast simile Iust in the midst of all the garden faire Thou singlest forth the happy blessed paire And watching Time when Adam stept aside Euen but a little from his louely Bride To pluck perhaps a Nut vpon the Trees Or get a combe amongst the hony Bees Or some such thing to giue his welcome Spouse Euen iust to Eue thou dostthy body rouse And questions with her of much idle prattle As women they delight to talke and tattle What they may not and what it is they eate And what is best within that pleasing seate What Tree it is that was to them forbidden They dare not eate for feare they may be chidden Then Eue againe which thought no hurt at all Or once suspect the venome of thy gall As a kind woman full of pleasing loue Told thee indeede that God in heauen aboue Had licenst them to eate of euery Tree Beast fish and foule with all that they can see Within the compasse of the spacious aire And that were liuing in the garden faire Only the tree that was before their eyes They might not touch and taste in any wise For in the day that they thereof should eate Their God in Heauen would both their bodies beate Plague them with paine and punishment extreame Subiect to Sicknesse Choller Pangs and Phleame Casheire them both out of that louely place To dye a
guard thy person with her flaming sword Not long before if you remember well When Adam first with Eue his darling fell Charitas And both all naked iustly for it blam'd Loues bashfull Lady was thereof asham'd And as offended in that sacred place Mounts vp the clowds with discontented face Bewailes mans fall with teares bedewes her cheeeks Most louely looks and round about she seekes If she can find with all her toyle a friend To set all right and past offences mend When she had past to siluer Cinthia fayre Through the cold Region of the liquid Aire And crost the way that Phaeton begun With his prowd Teame about the world to run Aboue the stars and fiery regions hot With extreame labour paine and trauell got On euery side through danges great had ventred Yet at the last within heauens wals she entred Where she beheld a goodly glorious sight Ten thousand candles all the world to light Carryed in course about the earth to reele And Nature nobly turning of their wheele After those kind imbraces euer vsde Twixt Ladies faire dame Nature smiling musde To see her sister with her louely face Thus rapt alone within that sacred place To passe the clowds and firy frozen Ayre The earth to leaue vnto her to repayre Euen in an instant at that happy time What heauen so high but loue diuine will clime Scale vp the throane of God himselfe aboue Thrise noble Lady full of grace and loue Nature amaz'd as wondring what it ment To see thy lookes bewray a discontent Enquires the cause that makes thy face so sad The newes below she thinks is worse then bad But when she heard and vnderstood the cause That Eue and Adam brake their Makers lawes Incurr'd a curse on all their future seed She thought the world and all therein would bleed And that Gods anger for so foule offence Would not be pleasde vnlesse she went from thence Not staying now to heare the matter scand She takes her sister by her louely hand Descending both in all their rich attire Downe the hot region of heauens burnisht fire Through the cold Aire beneath the Moone they diued And at the last in Paradise arriued Here she stood by and saw Gods iudgement past And oftentimes forth from her eyes she cast A Sea of salt and driery briny teares Her loue alas was euer full of feares To make her venter in the heate and cold And mount the skies as euen but late I told Bring Nature downe in speedy postapace To appease Gods Iustice in that sacred place Time spies her forth and takes her by the hand Which louely there within that place did stand And as before he vsde each other Sister So now this Lady first of all he kist her Then leades her foorth much like a louely Queene Spangled in Iewels wrought with gold in greene Brings her to Iustice plac't her by her side In future ages euermore to bide That till this world by power diuine shall stand These sisters both should be on either hand To guide the earth and keepe her feete vpright And gouerne all vnder the Prince of might When Mercy Iustice both from Loue do flow The Scarlet garment seemes as white as Snow Time backe retires as heretofore he did When now the place was of the Ladyesrid And on a Dame of Noble birth doth light Cald Truth his daughter cloathed all in white Veritas He takes her gently by her lilly hand Wherein Gods booke did at that instant stand Brought her along as all the rest before Ouer the gate vpon the sacred dore In all her roabes with comely pompe and grace And plac't her right before dame Iustice face O heauenly God may I not well resemble Iusticia The flaming Sword which made the earth to tremble When all the world thy sacred Iustice saw To deare Elias liuing in the Law Rapt vp a liue within a flaming Cart His coate imblazde might be a bleeding heart 2. Kin. 18. 40. 2. King 1. 10. 2. Kiug 2. 11. When Iesabel the monster of her sexe His harmelesse soule vpon the earth did vexe Her Prophets false to Babylon that ran He quite consum'd and scarcely left a man To carry newes of that vn wonted fire Which fell vpon them at his iust desire That Cherubin vpon the right hand plac't Misericordia Which time himselfe hath with his fauour grac't In all the world how well I may compare To aged Henoch walking in the Ayre Within whose dayes when God his body rapt Aboue the clouds in innocency lapt Before such time as Moses Law was gaued By Mercy onely all the world was saued The other damsell which my pen doth lim Charitas The sweetest fast and louelyest Cherubim That Time himselfe vpon the left hand set And which my Muse can neuer well forget If that we reade the holy sacred Booke How neare her person all diuine doth looke To that Disciple which the rest suruiu'd In Pathmos I le into the heauens a riu'd Rauisht in spirit on a sacred day Within a coffin did his body lay And round about a light there shined bright The coffin caught quite out of all their sight The lesson still that he did euer preach Both in his life and by example teach In all his workes like to the Turtle doue Throughout his bookes was little else but loue That Cherubin which stood before the face Veritas Ofsacred Iustice in that reuerent place Like to an infant that his Nurse doth weane Whose face is smiling fingers ends are cleane All full of Truth not knowing how to faine Dissemble falsly all the world to gaine How well I may compare her setled looke To Gods eternall euer blessed booke These Cherubins all glorious to behold Surpassing farre the purest burnisht gold The radiant splendor of whose sacred rayes Resemble those ador'd within our dayes Iustice diuine much like to God himselfe Iustitia That scorneth bribing and all ill got pelfe And shewes by iudgements fearefull past examples How all the world vnder his feete he tramples Mercy againe much like to Christ his son Miserecordia That hath the crowne of glory for vs won And from the heauens descended to the earth To make vs happy in his welcome birth Whose panting soule had neuer minutes rest Suffring those torments not to be exprest Surpassing farre the greatest learned wits To see how he at Gods right hand now sits Triumphing ouer sin world death and hell In ioyes eternall which no tongue can tell Thrice euer blessed be his glorious name It was his mercy made him do the same Then Charity much like the God of loue Charitas I meane no Cupids which to folly moue But that great spirit ere the world was made Vpon the waters through the deepe did wade Gen. 1. 2 Mat. 1. 13. 20. By whom the Virgin happily conceiued To bring forth him that lustice wrath appeased When afterwards by
name By wicked wayes the Infants face to grinde Nor in thy hands thy neighbors liuing wind But to thy power hast shewd thy best endeauour To loue the Saints withall thy heart for euer Vrania deere thy very case is mine How did my Foes still to this day combine Backe sliding friends much like to slippery Eles Haue vndermind to turne vp both mine heeles With fawning tearmes my company haue sought Inuerted that which yet I neuer thought Reported words the which were neuer spake Let euery man by this a warning take And carefull be whom they conuerse withall The Bird oft times in Fowlers nets doth fall Euen when Alas not any hurt she thinkes Then is she caught vnder their burthen Sinkes How oftentimes haue I bin tost and tir'd Plung'd in the deepe and all with durt bemir'd Tost too and fro by those in Ambush lay With secret Gins to trap me in my way Vow'd my destruction all my state to baine Much to my Trouble Iniury and paine Swallow'd my goods within a griping purse Haue I not cause all Romaine wolues to curse When all I haue can scarcely giue content Vnlesse my life and liuing both be spent Were it for debt or title of my Land That thus my foes did in their furie stand If possibly they could me more abuse Yet in some sort I would then here excuse Deere Muse the cause why I am thus perplext Turmoyld about on euery side and vext To waste my state and passe through dangers many Is not for wrong that I haue done to any But by fel Enuy hatcht in hell below In Eden nurc't now ore the Earth doth flow When Adam least suspected her intent Then was her mind on mischiefe fully bent And euer since hath labour'd what she may Eues seede to baine her secret traps to lay But all the spight against me she can vse May waste my State and hinder thee my Muse For this alone by her I am misused Hurried about by slandrous tongues abused Kept long from home vnto my great expence Weakened my Lands and liuing euer since On all sides crost by Greatnesse ouer sway'd By guile and cunning treacherously betray'd Of smooth fac't friends abandon'd and forsaken And all God knowes but for a Word mistaken Nay had I beene sole Author of that thing Which some vntimely to my hands did bring And blaz'd it forth why should I thus be blam'd When no man liuing in the same is nam'd Nor any scandall in those words alone Intended are but by a man i' th Mooue Yet I turmoyl'd against all right and reason Am vs'd by some as if it were High Treason Sacred Religion brought from Heau'n aboue Thou shouldst be constant full of Grace and Loue From God himselfe thou hast a holy taske O let not vice vnder a Surplisse maske By this alone Christs Flock are scattred all O're all the Earth in euery place do fall Some runne to Rome and some renounce their Creede Simile And come againe like to a stinking Weede That beares a Flower a womans Loue to win But yet the seed contagious all within All powerfull God when both by Night and Day Incessantly my Heart to thee did pray To ease my Griefe and if it were thy will To send me Peace to walke vp Sion hill That in thy House where all thy Saints do meet My Soule might sing and offer Odours sweet To heare thy Word come purling from the Rocke Feeding thy Sheepe and building vp thy Flocke Where none at all should haue a cause to fall Simile Christs Coate was wouen without a Seame at all In stead of Peace which I desird in haste Thou sentst me downe a louely Virgin chaste Noble Vrania soberly attired Which when I saw with Ioy I much admired Finding a Friend copartner thus to be A fit Companion in my miserie Great God of Heauen vpon my bended knees Before that Face which euery actions sees Let me but know what good I euer wrought That thou in Mercy thus on me hast thought Or haue I not offended much thy will That thou my Brâ—st dost with Vrania fill Sending her Downe as thou didst send thy Son To saue those sheepe which from thy Fould did run Eternall God what shall I giue to thee For thy great Loue and Fauour shewd to me If all the World within my power did stand And all therein were sole at my command If all the waues within the Seas which boyle And all the Riuers on this Earth were oyle With all those things that ere I did behold Vnder Heauens Cope were fram'd of beaten gold In Thankefulnesse for all thy Mercies sweet I de all Surrender lay them at thy feet But soft my Muse whilst thee and I am playning Ech others griefes and still but little gaining Time posts away as if it had forgot What Adam did after the Gates were shut In Paradise I meane that sacred dore Which in my Worke I told you of before Adam and Eue about the glistring walls Of Paradise with mournfull cryes and calls Repenting sore lamenting much their Sin Longing but once to come againe within In vaine long time about the wals did grope Not in Dispaire as those are out of hope But all about in euery place did feele His louing Wife still following at his heele To find the Dore with all their care and paine To come within their former state to gaine Like to a man that in a Pallace built Simile Of Iasper stone and couered rich with guilt One euery side lin'd with a golden wall And no Towne neare nor any house at all In such a place suppose one should abide Be entertaind like to a louely bride Yet in the night for some abuse absurd Perchance for drinke or some distastefull word If he should be fast by the shoulders caught Lead forth a dores and set by all at naught Haild all along euen in the Euening late Betweene his foes and thrust quite out of gate In no place neere hearing a Dog to barke All comfortlesse wanders about i' th' darke Gropes euery where if he can find a dore And enter in he will offend no more Or like a man that venters for a prize Simile Hoodwinckt and made starke blind in both his eyes Wheeles round about in euery place doth reele At euery post and corner house doth feele To find the dore where he should enter in With all his toyle his Wager for to win Euen so is Adam in that vncked place The flaming Sword still blazing in his face On euery side the glistering walls to shine The Sun himselfe iust vnderneath the line The radiant Splendor of those Cherubims Dazles amates his tender eye sight dims Simile Like to a man that gazeth at the Sun Is then vnfit farre any way to run Least whilest his lookes aboue the Clowds he pitch He chance to fall and tumble in a ditch Such is the state of Adam and his Wife And euery Man within this mortall
to dance With many toyes that in their minor yeares Giues great content the Parents loue endeares Let these men speake but with a Iudgement sound What high content themselues haue often found In the like sports of tender Infants sweet That hardly yet can crawle vpon their feet The fame we may of Eue and Adam thinke And ten times more then in our heads can sinke How in their Babes they ioyd and tooke delight And neuer well when they were out of sight Caine in the blossoms of his blooming youth As t is recorded in the sacred truth Takes much delight in planting of the seeds The fruitfull Vine and all that Nature breeds The choycest rarest daintiest and the best That euer yet she bare vpon her brest Walkes all about and viewes the richest ground By Paradise on euery side and round With shou'ls and spades he tumbles vp the earth His chiefest ayme to be a man of worth And Lord it ore his other brethren all That they may bowe within his presence fall To that intent he labours workes and toyles In sweate and dust i'th'durt oft times he moyles Like a meere worldling spends his youthfull dayes His minde oft runs a thousand kinde of wayes If he can finde some new contriued tricke To ease himselfe the soyle vp cleane to stricke And bring the same in temper for the graine That he may play and yet possesse the gaine Industry Reason all the Arts conspire To frame an Engin fiercest horse to tire The Oxen Cattle and the strongest Waines That euer wrought vpon the fertill plaines Himselfe and all in labouring with this plough His Ioynts grow stiffe and brawny hands all rough Yet in the same he finds so much content That his best dayes in this hard worke are spent His brother Habell doth not idly liue But to some Art his toward mind doth giue Whose chiefe delight is in the harmelesse sheepe The bleating flockes vpon the downes to keepe To follow them when oftentimes his eyes Are vpwards fixt towards the lofty skies Obseruing thus a thousand seuerall things That heauenly matter to his sences brings Their number Order with their great encrease And quiet life spending their dayes in peace By faith perceiuing hidden mysteries The sum of that which in the Scripture lies Esa 53. 67. How from the fould a Lambe shall forth be taken Which would be one day of the rest forsaken That he should be the sacrifice and guide Sole Ransome full for all the world beside Thus these two brothers liu'd and spent their dayes Oft times in worke sometimes in sport and playes In as much loue delight content and all As euer two that breath'd vpon this Ball. If you should ramble ore the totall Earth You le hardly finde two brethren from their birth Throughout the world in all the Ages spent In true bred Loue an euener course that went At Bed at Boord at Home abrode i' th' weather They seldome part but alwayes keepe together Walke talke discourse euen all the day and night They are not well but one i' th' others sight All the weeke long delightfully they passe The time away in browzing vp the grasse In husbandrie and such as I haue told But on Gods Rest pins them within a fold Or ground well fenc't on euery side about That they may feed but yet not wander out Vpon which Day when once out of their bed By the example of their Parents led They altogether meete to Rest and Pray To sanctifie the sacred Sabaoth day To thinke on God craue pardon for their sins Where Adam then to teach them all begins Instructs them well in true Religion first Tels them the cause which made them thus accurst To vse their wits to labour worke and toyle In the wide fields to spend their dayes and moyle To keepe the sheepe and by their cunning sleight To frame an Engine of such wondrous weight Whereas God knowes before their fearefull fall In Paradise they needed none at all Wils them to loue intirely void of strife The Heauenly way vnto the Tree of Life This is their worke and holy practise pure Sweete exercise for euer to endure Thus they continue running of their race Whilst shearing day and Haruest comes apace Then they bestir them toyle it out all day Inning their corne making the new Mowne Hay And in the end they altogether feast So giue God thanks and from their labour Rest When the next Sabaoth clad in seemely suites They Sacrifice the first of both their fruits In shew of thanks for all the plenteous store That flocks and fields to their content hath bore Habell begins to shew his gratefull mind Seekes all the flock the chiefest Lambs to find The first falne fruits the goodliest fat and faire That all the World cannot with them compare The golden prize that Iason brought to Greece From Câ—â—châ—s Ile was not so fine a fleece As each of these vpon their backs did bring To fleede and cloath in Earth the greatest King He brings them freely with a willing heart Euen glad with them and all the rest to part And layes them downe before the God of might Both in his fathers and his brothers sight Offring them vp a sacrifice most pure Vnspotted cleane his sinfull soule to cure Implores th' eternall praying euer still For to be pleas'd thus to accept his will As a meere figure and a sacred Tipe Of that deare Lamb whose bloud away shall wipe The scarlet sinnes that in the Earth shall flowe With Isop wash clense them as white as Snow The Prayers speeches heauenly gratefull words The inward heart and meaning all accords The ascending sauour sweete perfuming scent With that pure Lambe which in the same is meant Climes vp the Aire and mounts to God aboue An Offring free accepted full of Loue Which thing to shew that he was partly pleaz'd His anger past and all his wrath appeaz'd Iust at that instant downe from Heauen did shine A burning fire and sacred light diuine Which in their sight conuey'd the Sacrisice Of from the Earth vp to the lofty skyes When presently a voyce was downeward cast This I accept for thine offences past Caine more for shew then either Loue or zeale To God Religion or his owne soules weale Stands by beholding of the sacred light And voyce diuine downe from the Prince of might Expecting that his formall sacrifice Stuft with all Guile Hippocrisie and Lyes Ambition Pride base Couetousnesse accurst Yet thought his gift should he accepted first As comming from the eldest first borne Peere The Son and Heire whom Adam loued deere Medusa damn'd in foule black vgly cloathes That all the world most deadly hates and loathes Swolne like a Toade her lookes cast downe to hell Where none but fiends and hatefull monsters dwell Whose cursed haire about her shoulders falls Powdred with Serpents full of poysoned Galls Hissing and crawling round about her head Hatcht by a Viper in her wombe that bred Rends vp
wofull prison sick to lye and rot Not once to case assawge their griefes a iot And all the while in Equity and Right There 's nothing due but what is got by might By Wrong Oppression diuelish traps and guile And wicked plodding in such actions vile Lord pardon them forgiue their great offences Call once againe illuminate their sences Waken their carelesse too secure a slumber Forget their faults too infinite to number Let them Restore what they haue wrongly got Else will those goods consume away and rot And aye the Infant yet vnborne will cry For Vengeance iust on their posterity But let not vs good Lord O let not vs Trace out their steps to giue examples thus Make vs auoyde to fall into the like Lest suddenly thy Iudgements do vs strike With farre more terror on our bodyes knowne Then euer was vpon Gehezi showne Or all thy chosen people thou didst make A warning sad for vs in Time to take Besides the losse eternall of thy Grace Where such a one shall neuer see thy face But chaste Vrania Soueraigne of my Muse In whom the Heauens do their best guifts infuse Why dost thou now thy loue so farre ingage As to descend downe to our times and Age Leauing the world that at the first was drownd To ramble out beyond thy scope to sound Damn'd Vice vnmaske with those that wrest and lurch And all this while thus to forget the Church Retire againe and stay not with vs long Thou maist be blam'd for this thy wholesome song For 't is most true one harldly scapes of ten That hunts the Foxe too neare the Lions den Auoyde begone contend not much with these For feare perhaps thou dost some men displease And so incurre some danger on thy selfe For taxing those which are in loue with pelfe Come to the Church deare Muse where last of all Thou Henoch leftst vpon this goodly Ball. There thou art tide O do not much abound Take sanctuary in their holy ground And from these things till time shall serue surcease Then shalt thou Rest and liue in perfect Peace Henoch the seuenth from Adams pupillage Gen. 5. 21. Iud. 14. At sixtie fiue yeares of his manly Age Begat a childe whose like was neuer found From this worlds birth in all her spatious Round That liu'd to see so many weekes of dayes As this man did and yet no strength decayes Methuselah the wonder of his time Whose age may claime of all the earth the prime Which liu'd to see with Simeons heart inflam'd The Arke of Noah before his death all fram'd Luk. 2. 25. 26. 27. Tipe of that Church which from mount Sion purl'd When Caesars scepter swayd the Westerne world Methuselah both ancient graue and sage One hundred fourescore and seauen yeares of Age All chaste doth liue and then begets a Son Vpon whose death the world was quite vndon Lamech the father of that faithfull child Which sau'd seauens Soules and all the rest beguild When that the Arke was by the waters heaued O then they knew their wits were all deceiued Great Noahs selfe from Lamechs loynes descended When full one hundred eightie yeares were ended And that the Sun had foure times crost the line Then is he borne and in his birth did shine Like to a glimpse of that all sacred light Simile Which in these dayes may dazle all our sight His name fore-tiping from his mothers brest That he was borne to be the Churches Rest Ioh 1. 19. Fiue hundred yeares or neare vpon he past His manly dayes both continent and chaste And then espowsed to his future Fame A Noble Faire and courteous louely Dame Some thinke the sister of great Tubal-Caine Genebrard in Cron Iew Rab. Sweete Naamah his loue at first did gaine Though from the Line of cursed Caine descended Yet of the Heauens she was so highly friended As that her Lot before the world was drown'd Fell lucky forth within the Churches ground Oh God thy workes are farre beyond our reach The least of them may all our Sences teach Thou hast thy sheepe disperst in euery place From Henochs Seths and Caines proud enuious Race It is thy pleasure bad mens sins to pay To saue some yet and cast not all away The Flowres oft times which do mongst Cockle grow May smell more sweet then any plant we sow And tender Seeds out from the Popish Seate May yet at length proue Eares of perfect wheate Chiefly when Noah Gods husbandman shall till And worke the ground according to his will With pruning planting in that forme and manner As was the Church once vnder Caesars Banner So Abraham was out from Chaldee cald Gen. 12. 28. Chap. 12. 2. Cha 41. 42. 43 44. Iob. 1. Exod. 2. 5. 6. 11. 13. 15. Hest 2. 17. cha 7. 6. 10. And Ioseph great in Egypts Court instald Iob in the land of Vz amongst those men Where so he liu'd that grieues my soule to pen And Moses milde amongst the murdring sort Was nurst brought vp within king Pharohs Court Hester the Queene that made her foes a scorne Was marryed tide vnto a Pagan borne And Paul hims elfth ' Apostle of vs all Yet first was bred within prowd Tarsus wal And diuers others which my Muse could name Were traind vp thus and yet deseru'd no blame For he that builds vpon the slippery sand Yet Time may serue to make his fabricke stand And these were such as from the rest reculde The weaker sexe are by the greater rulde Though some perhaps haue tride the same and mist Yet wise men still do winde them as they list As by example from Noahs happy choyce This world of ours may euer iust reioyce To haue a mother without blurre or staine When all were lost to store the Earth againe But what make wee deare Muse with Noahs wife Chaste Matron graue preseruer of our life Whose Fame deserues heauens azurd richest gowne A garland deckt and Lawrell wreathed Crowne And in her lap the Frame of all to hold I fall were made of solid beaten gold What if she be deriued from the Race Of cursed Caine yet hath she better face A Conscience cleane Religion in her brest Within whose Soule Heauens dearest guifts do rest Tipe of the Church now to perfection wrought Which was at first but out of darknesse brought Looke backe againe and post not one too fast For feare thou beest beyond thy compasse cast Tell what befell to Adams issue left What misdemeanours all his ofspring kept Ech man his neighbor deadly hates and wounds Sin ouerflowes in euery place abounds The greater still deuouring vp the small That in the end th' oppressed blood doth call For vengeance iust vnto the God of Powre Who doth descend and on the world doth lowre Repents himselfe that ere he did begin To frame the same thus poysoned all with sin Whose true repentance from his eyes did draw That streame of teares which wofully they saw When all the Earth