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A11408	Part of Du Bartas English and French, and in his owne kinde of verse, so neare the French Englished, as may teach an English-man French, or a French-man English. With the commentary of S.G. S. By William L'Isle of Wilburgham, Esquier for the Kings body.; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1625 (1625)	STC 21663; ESTC S116493	251,817	446

Surmounteth euery head whereas it makes a stay Behold then some their liues to floting plankes commit And some in troughes and some in coffers tottring sit One halfe asleepe perceiues the wat'r away to iogge His bed and life at once another like a frog Casts out his hands and feet in equall bredth and time And striuing still with head aboue the slood to clime Sees nere him how before it newly drownd his brother His only child his wife his father and his mother At length his weary limbes no longer fit to scull Vnto the mercy yeeld of wat'r vnmercifull All all now goes to wracke yet Fates and deadly seare That earst with hundred kindes of weapons armed were To spoile the fairest things now only by the force And foamy sway of Sea make all the world a corse Meane while the Patriarch who should the world refill Plowes vp the fallow-waue aboue the proudest hill And th'Arche on dapled backe of th' ocean swoln with pride Without or mast or oare doth all in safety ride Or ankers ankerlesse although from hav'n so farre For God her pylot was her compasse and her starre A hundred fiftie daies in generall profound Thus is the world ywrackt and during all the flound 7 Good Noe abridgeth not the space of night or day Nor puts-off irksomnesse with vaine discourse or play But as in dog-day seas'n a raine shed west-by-south When Earth desires to drink thirst hath parcht her mouth Reflowreth euery stalke regreeneth all the field That sunne and southerne wind with drought before had peild So from his pleafull tongue falls cheering dew and aire R'alliuing all his house and beating downe despaire And thus he washt their face and wyp'd away their teares And raised vp their heart opprest with vgly feares He incourageth his familie with consideration of Gods great mercies who neuer forgets his children Good ●heere my lads quoth he the Lord will soone rebinde And stop the murdring Seas which his fierce angers winde Hath whirled ore the world and as his ang'r I finde Hath armed Sea and Aire and Heau'n against our kinde So shall sure er 't be long his mercy more renownd Cleare heau'n vnghust this ayre bring the Seas to bound Still follow one anoth'r his Anger and his Grace His anger lightning-like it stay 's not long in place But th' other vnder wing it broodeth as an Hen The manifold descents of faithfull-hearted men The Lord the gracious Lord bestowes his wroth by waight And neuer waighes his grace he whips vs throwes straight His rod into the fire wer 't on our body laid Or soule or childe or goods he makes vs only afraid With fingers tyck and strikes not with his mightfull arme More often thunders he then shoots a blasting harme And wise-housholder-like giues them that bend him knees His angers wholsome wine and enemies the lees This wise that holy man sire of the second age Discourseth on the praise of Gods both loue and rage Wicked Cham replies vpon his father and diuers waies opposes the wise and blamelesse prouidence of God and the good and humble deuotion of Noe. 8 But Cham in whose foule heart blind roots were lately sone Of godlesse vnbeleefe that thought ere this t'vnthrone The mighty God of heau'n and beare the scept'r himselfe To hold in Africke sands with helpe of hellish Elfe By name of Hammon Ioue some temple stately built Where as a God he might haue Altars bloudy-guilt With anger-bended brow and count'nance ill apaid Thus in disdainfull tone his father checkd and said 9 Fie fath'r I am asham'd to see on you lay hold These slauish thoughts that seize base minds and flie the bold This fained angry Iudge thus alway will you feare As peyzing words and thoughts and counting euery heare A Censour faine you still that beares in hand the keyes Of yours and euery heart to search out when he please Yours and all hidden thoughts yea all your sighs t'enroule And present faults and past together to controule That ayming at your necke with bloud-embrued knife Is hangman-like at hand to cut the strings of life Alas perceiue you not how this hood-winked zeale And superstitious heat to reason I appeale Makes errours many and foule your wits bright lampe to smother How light beleefe you driues from one extreame t'another You make a thousand qualmes your great Gods heart to strike You make him fell as Beare Thus Atheists presumptuously censure the mercie and Iustice of God and queasie woman-like Let any sinner weepe his tender heart will melt As if a wretches harme the great Commander felt He sees no drop of bloud but ere we know what ailes him Swoons and in manly brest his female courage failes him And yet you make him fierce and suffring oft the sway And foamy streame of wroth to beare his reason away With heart of sauage Beare in manly shape he freats He rages then he roares he thunders out his threats Thus if your naile but ake your God puts fing'r ith'eye Againe he kills burnes drownes all for as light a why A wilde Boares tusked rage but only one forrest harries A Tyrant but a Realme when angers tempest carries Your God against the world with such a spightfull ghust As if his Realme of All should out of All be thrust Here 's Iustice here 's good Right what other can ensue it Some one or two perhaps haue sinn'd and all doe rue it Nay nay his venging hand alacke for our offence The Atheists cōspiring with the Philosophers ascribe vnto naturall reason all that is done by the iust reuenging hand of God Destroys the very beasts for all their innocence O fath'r it cannot be that God's so passionate So soone in diuers fits peace and warre loue and hate Or so giu'n to reuenge that he for one default Should hurt his owne estate and bring the world to naught The many watrie mists the many floating clowds That heau'n hath stored vp and long kept vnder shrowds By selfe-waight enterprest and loosned of their bands Now gush out allatonce and ouer-flow the lands Then Aire amightie deale that vnder looser ground As thinne it is a way by secret leaking found And lay in wind-shot hilles by cold turn'd crystall waue At first well'd vp the skie then downward gau to rane And drownd the corny rankes at length so sweld and wox It pass'd the green-lock heads of tallest vpland okes Nots answer vnto all the blasphemies of Cham and his like 10 By this the father gauld with griefe and godly smart A long sigh yexed-out from deepe cent'r of his heart And ha vile Cam quoth he head of disloyall race Discomfort of myne age my houses soule disgrace Vndon th' art and deceiu'd thy sence is growne vnsownd By trusting to thy selfe without the Spirits ground And sure I feare but o God let me proue a lyar I feare with heauie hand the lofty-thundring Syre Will blast thy godlesse head and at thee

such as hurt him P. Marlyr of Millaine in the 8. booke of his 3. Decade tels great wonders of one that was tamed and made so familiar with a certaine Cassike or Lord of India that he would play and make sport like an Ape and sometimo would carry ten Indians at once on his backe and passe or ferry them in that wise from one side of a great Lake there to the other And for as much as hauing foure feet like a Sea-dog he liued on the land as well as in the water he would now and then wrestle with Indians and take meat at their hand but would in no wise be reconciled vnto the Christians there because one of them whom he knew it seems very strangely by his face and clothes had once strooke him with a lance though hurt him not by reason of his hard and thicke hyde Ouiede in the 13. booke and 10. chap. f his History describes one but not as a creature liuing both at Sea and Land nor yet foure-footed Howbeit he saith the name of Manat is giuen to this fish by the Spaniards because he hath as t' were manus duas two hands neere his head which doe serue him for fynnes to swim withall he tels further many things of singular note and that this Manat or Seabullocke is found about the Isle of Hispaniola As for other fishes here mentioned they shall be handled in another place hereafter but who so desires to know more of the history and nature of them let him reade Gesner Rondeletius Bellon So much out of the second day of the first weeke Now let vs goe on with this booke of the Arke 7 Good Noe. In the history of Moses Gen. 7. there are certaine points worthy noting to proue that the faithfull and holy Patriarck Noes heart failed him not though he saw then the Arke tossed vp and downe the boundlesse waters of this generall Flood though all the fountaines of the great deepe broke forth and the flood-gates of Heauen were opened so as the raine fell amaine and without ceasing vpon the face of the earth forty daies and forty nights together and the water swelled fiftie cubits aboue the highest of all hills The first is that he entred the Arke himselfe with his wife and children and their wiues also at the commandement of God The second is that after all the beasts paire by paire were also come in God himselfe shut the doore vpon them For this shewes that the holy Patriarke with a liuely faith obeyed the voice of God and vpon his only wise prouidence wholly rested And therefore good reason had the Poet to set downe such holy exercises as were likely to be vsed by Noe being now close prisoner as it were for the space of a whole yeare and ten daies as may be gathered by the 11. and 13. verses of the seauenth chapter of Genesis and by the 13. and 14. verses of the chapter following The summe of his discourse is grounded vpon consideration of the great mercy of God who neuer forgetteth his children and such as feare him and rest vpon his goodnesse This goodnesse and mercy well shewed it selfe vnto Noe and his among so many fearefull shapes of death while in the Arke they were so preserued aliue from the Deluge together with the whole seminarie of the world next to ensue The Almighty now held all creatures obedient vnto the Patriarke as he had before disposed them to come and range themselues by couples into the Arke where they were during this imprisonment to be fed and kept cleane Let the Reader duely consider how many wayes the faith patience and constancie of Noe was exercised in so waighty a charge and how needfull it was that God who had shut vp his seruant in this prison of wood should be there also with him from time to time to strengthen and make him rich in faith as hee was whereby he onercame all these dangers God therefore doubtlesse was the Patron of his ship the sterne Load starre Ancor and Hauen of this Arke sloating amid the waters now hurried after a strange manner To this purpose saith a learned Father Noah iactatur procellis nec meigitur serpentibus beslijs sociatur nec terretur ei serae colla submittunt alites famulantur It was the great mercy of God toward Noe that hee gaue him the skill and knowledge how to fit the seuerall places in the Arke for the creatures and their food as also that vnder one man and so few more as were saued with him he held in obedience so many beasts and for the most part one contrary to another that the men were not cho●ked vp with this close ayre and ill sauour of excrements that amid so many fearefull apprehensions they were able to keepe life and soule together But the blessing of God is the stay and sure hold of all his children 8 But Cham. I will not speake here now of the questions arising about the time when began or how long continued the Flood nor curiously examine the Hebrew words lest these Annotations grow too long And the Poet hath chosen matter of more importance to be considered I haue said else-where that it graceth much a Poem where the certame truth appeares not there to stand vpon likelyhoods C ham shewed himselfe a profane wretch and a scosser straight after the Flood whereupon both he and his posteritie were accursed The Poet therefore with great probabilitie supposeth he could not long conceale and hold-in the poyson whereof his heart was full but began to vent and vomit it euen in the Arke Noe then a man endued with the feare of God was surely not silent the space of a whole yeare and ten dayes and his care was not employed altogether vpon the beast it must needs be therefore that he spent some time in teaching and comforting his familie C ham was certainly gracelesse and had no feeling of the Spirit and fitly then doth the Poet personate in him all that are profane striuers against the iudgements of God For whatsoeuer is here imputed vnto Cham may be gathered for likely by that which he and his posteritie did after the Deluge Noe who liued yet three hund●ed and fiftie yeares longer returned it seemes from the Armenian hills where the Arke staid into his own former habitation about Damascus where his fore-fathers were buried It is held for certaine that Sem also came againe thither and that his issue peopled the lands thence reaching toward the East the South Cham drew to the South West Iaphet to the North and West whereof reade yee the 10. chap. of Genesis C ham had one sonne called Cus whose posteritie inhabited a part of Arabia and that of Ethiopia which is vnder Egypt another called Mitsraim of whom came the Egyptians and another called Canaan father of the Cananites He had also Put a fourth sonne but of his posteritie Moses hath not a word Iosephus in the sixt chapter

law for their degrees of blood Ludouicus Viues affirmeth he saw the man in Spaine There died also lately an honourable Lady in Germanie who saw of her selfe and hers borne a hundred and threescore children notwithstanding many died vnmarried and those that were married are yet like to haue more 55 Who knowes not that within Loe another notable example of a few Arabian families set downe at large by Iohn Lyon in his historie of Affrick and cited also by Philip Morney in his 26. chapter de Veritate And wee see saith he how the threescore Families that for the Sect of Califa moued out of Arabia in lesse then three hundred yeares haue peopled all Affrick so as at this day the countries there are surnamed after them Beni Megher Beni Guariten Beni Fensecar c. that is The sonnes of Megher the sonnes of Guariten the sonnes of Fensecar c. as each of them grew-vp to a people In like sort the East-Indies that were discouered now a hundred yeares agoe and straight ahnost vnpeopled within another hundred will be stored againe and repeopled by the Spaniards 56 Now if they so increase A strong conclusion from the Lesse to the More gathered out of the example next aforegoing thus If the people of Affrick that are not very fit to engender were able in few yeares to store so huge countries how much more might the Northerne and Asiaticke people increase and if a small number of weaklings how much rather an infinite sort of lustie and fruitfull men This is grounded vpon naturall reason regarding the climats and site of each countries together with daily experience of the matter Hipocrates in his booke de Acre aquis locis and his enterpreters discourse at large thereon It were long to follow their steps and I haue been too long in this matter already 57 And thence the Cambrians For a further proofe of the last conclusion hee alleadgeth and no man can denie that the North hath alway brought forth most and most warlike people and diuers he reckons-vp of whom we haue spoken heretofore whereas from the South haue hardly euer come aboue two Armies worth naming The one vnder command of Hanibal whom the Poet noteth by the name of Borgne which is as much to say as Blind or bad-eyed because he lost an eye by ouer-watching himselfe in the passage of certaine great marrish grounds into Hetruria Liuie 22. He it was that enlarged the Empire of Carthage by meanes of the great ouerthrowes he gaue the Romans but was after driuen out of Italic and in Affrick quite vanquished at Zama field where the Carthaginians were forced to yeeld themselues wholly to the Romans mercy so had their Citie razed and their State viterly destroyed The other Armie of the South was of Sarasens no lesse then foure hundred thousand strong led by their King and Captaine Abderame they set out of Affrick into Spaine from thence marched forward into Aquitaine and came wasting all the way as farre as the Citie of Tours there three hundred thousand of them with the King himselfe were slaine by the French who had for Generall the Duke or Prince Charles that for this great and happy victorie was after surnamed Martel the Maul because he broke and battered the force of that Southerne people as a great maul or hammer doth Iron Looke the Histories and Chronicles of France in the life of Charles Martel A l'occasion du propos precedent il entre au beau discours des merueilles de Dieu en la diueise temperature complexion des peuples Que tu es ô Nature en merueilles feconde On ne void seulement en chaque part du monde Les hommes differens en stature en humeurs En force en poil en teint ainçois mesmes en moeurs Ou soit que la coustume en nature se change Qu' à l'exemple des vieux la ieunesse se range Que le droict positif change diuersement En Royaumes diuers que le temperament Qu'ici bas nous humons des tousiours-viues flammes Semble comme imprimer ses effects en nos ames Differences des hommes Septentrionaux Meridionaux L'homme du Nort est beau celui du Midi laid L'vn blanc l'autre tannè l'vn fort l'autre foiblet L'vn a le poil menu l'autre gros frizé rude L'vn aime le labeur l'autre cherit l'estude L'vn est chaut humide l'autre sec chaut L'vn gay l'autre chagrin L'vn entonne bien haut L'autre a gresle la voix L'vn est bon facile L'autre double malin L'vn lourd l'autre habile L'vn d'vn esprit leger change souuent d'auis Et l'autre ne demord iamais ce qu'il a pris L'vn trinque nuict iour l'autre aime l'abstinence L'vn prodigue le sien l'autre est chiche en despence L'vn se rend sociable l'autre chaque fois Ainsi qu'vn Lougarou se perd dedans les bois L'vn s'habille de cuir l'autre de riche estofe L'vn est né Martial l'autre Philosofe Naturel des peuples entre le Septentrion Midi Mais celui du milieu a part aux qualitez Du peuple qui se tient aux deux extremitez Ayant le corps plus fort mais non l'ame si viue Que celui qui du Nil seme la grasse riue Moins robuste au contraire mille fois plus sin Que les hommes logez de là l'Istre le Rhin Le peuple de Midi represente la vie contemplatiue Car dans le clos sacré de la cité du Monde Le peuple de Midi qui curieux se fonde En ectases profonds songes rauissemens Qui mesure du ciel les reglez mouuemens Et qui contemplatif ne peut son ame paistre D'vn vulgaire sçauoir tient la place du Prestre Celui du Septentrion la vie actiue manuelle Cil du Nort dont l'esprit s'enfuit au bout des doigts Qui fait tout ce qu'il veut du metal du bois Et qui peut Salmonee imiter le tonnerre Y tient rang d'artisan rang d'homme de guerre Celui d'entredeuxla vic politique Le tiers comme sachant bien regler vn Estat Tient grauement accort le lieu du Magistrat Et bref l'vn studieux admire la science L'autre a les Arts en main l'autre la prudence Restriction de la reigle precedente Bien est vray que depuis quelques lustres Pallas Phebus Themis Mercure les Muses n'ont pas Dressé moins leur eschole en la prouince Arctique Que Bellone sa lice Vulcan sa boutique Diuersitez no tables entre les peoples de l'Europe specialement le François l'Alemain l'Italien l'Espagnol Mesme ne void-on pas entre nous qui viuons Quasi pesle-meslez qui pauures n'auons Pour partage à peu pres

s'orgueillisse Vn Catay de ma gloire vn Peru de mes vers Tu veux estre ma tombe aussi bien que mon bers L'ouanges de la France pays royaume exellent par dessus tous au ●es qui a produit les guerriers les artisans les doctes O mille mille fois terre heureuse feconde O perle de l'Europe ô Paradis du Monde France ie te saluë ô mere des guerriers Qui iadis ont planté leurs triomphans lauriers Sur les riues d'Euphrate sanglanté leur glaiue Où la torche du iour se couche se leue Mere de tant d'ouuriers qui d'vn hardi bon-heur Taschent comme obscurcir de Nature l'honneur Mere de tant d'esprits qui de sçauoir espuisent Egypte Grece Rome sur les doctes luisent Comme vn iaune esclattant sur les palles couleurs Sur les astres Phebus sa fieur sur les fleurs Tes sleuues sont de mers Ses grandes commoditez des prouinces tes villes Orgueilleuses en murs non moins qu'en moeurs ciuiles Ton terroir est fertil temperez tes airs Tu as pour bastious deux monts deux mers Le Crocodile sier tes riuages n'infeste Exemple des dangers qui ruinent plusieurs autres pays Des piolez Serpens la race porte-peste Sur le verd de tes fleurs à rompu-dos-rempant N'aune de sa longueur la longueur d'vn arpent Le Tigre aux pieds volans ne fait ses brigandages Dans tes monts cauerneux le Lyon ses carnages Dans tes bruslants deserts le Cheual de l'eau Ne traine tes enfans sous vn vagueux tombeau Ses rich esses estriuent de la preference contre les thresors biens des autres pays Que si le riche flot de tes fleuues ne roule L'or auecses caillous si de tes monts ne coule Vn Argent espuré si nous n'y trouuons pas Le Grenat le Ruby la Perle à chaque pas Tes toiles tou Pastel tes Laines tes Salines Ton froment ton Vin sont d'assez riches mines Pour te faire nommer Reine de l'Vniuers La seule paix te manque Elle a rout sors la paix que le Poëte demande à celui qui la peut donner O Dieu qui tiens ouuers Tousiours les yeux sur nous de l'eau de ta Clemenco Amortile brasier qui consume la France Balaye nostre ciel remets ô Pere doux Remets dans ton carquois les traicts de ton courroux A fine discourse vpon the wonderfull wisdome of God that appeareth in the diners temper complexion of people O world of sundry kinds O Nature full of wonders For euery part thereof as from the rest it sunders It hath not only men of diuers haire and hew Of stature humor force but of behauiour new Be 't that some custome held at length a nature makes Or that the younger sort still after th' elder takes Or that the proper lawes of diuers-coasted Realmes Doe greatly disagree or these enflowing beames Of h'umour-alering lights that whirling neuer stint Here in our minds below their heau'nly force imprint The Northen man is faire the Southern fauor'd hard One strong another weake one white another sward This hath haire fine smooth that other grosse and twinde He loues the bodies paine and he the toile of minde Some men are hot and moist some other hot and drie Some merry and other sad one thunders out on hie Another speaketh low one dudgen is and spightfull Another gentl ' and plaine one slow another slightfull Some are vnconstant so they often change their thought And others ne'r let goe conceits they once haue caught He tipples day and night and he loues abstinence A penyfath'r is one and one spares no expence One is for company another hath his moods And like a Buggle-bo straies eu'r amids the woods One goes in leathern pelch another richly dight On 's a Philosopher another borne to fight The middle man takes part of all the qualities Of people dwelling neere the two extremities In bodie strong'r is made but not of minde so franke As they who till the gleabes of Nyle his fruitfull banke Againe he 's not so strong but many waies more fine Then they that dwell betwixt the Donaw and the Rhine For in the wide precinct of th' vniuersall Towne The Southern men that oft with ouer-musing sowne That fall in t ' extasies that vse to dreame and proue That measure how the heau'ns by rules appointed moue And are so curious none other knowledge base May satisfie their minds they hold the Priest his place The Northen whose conceit in hand and finger lurkes That all what ere he list in wood and mettall workes And like Salmoneus with thunder-sound compares He 's for the man of warre and makes all cunning wares The meane as knowing well to gouerne an Estate Sits with a grauer grace in throne of Magistrate And to be short the first seeks knowledge wondrously The second handie-crafts the third good policie Though fourescore yeeres ago Themis that mends abuses Apollo Mercurie Minerua with her Muses Haue taught their holy schooles as neer the Northen coast As Vnlcan euer forg'd or Mars encamp'd his hoast How the French Dutch Jtalian and Spanish nations differ in many points Now eu'n among our selues that altogether mell And haue of all the world no more whereon to dwell Then as it were a clot how diuers are the fashions How great varietie the Dutch of all our Nations Most stout is hir'd to warre the Spaniard soft and neat Th'Italian mercilesse the Frenchman soone on heat The Dutch in counsaile cold th' Italian all things weeting The Spaniard full of guile the Frenchman euer-sleeting Th'Italian finely feeds the Spaniard doth but minse The Dutch feeds like a swine the Frenchman like a Prince The Frenchman gently speaks the Spaniard fierce and braue The German plaine and grosse the Roman fine and graue The Duch attire is strange the Spanish is their owne Th'Italian sumptuous and owers neuer knowne We braue an enemie th' Italian friendly looks him The Duchman strikes him straight the Spaniard neuer brooks him We sing a cheerefull note the Tuscan like a sheep The German seems to howle the Lusitan to weep The French march thick short the Duch like battel-cocks The Spaniards Fencer like the Romans like an Oxe The Duch in loue is proud th' Italian enuious The Frenchman full of mirch the Spaniard furious Why it pleas●d God the world sho●●d be inhabited of so diuers natur'd people Yet would th' Immortall pow'r appoint so strange a race Of this great earthie bowle to couer all the face To th' end he clensing all his children from the foile Of sinne which had as 't were bestain'd their natiue foile His mercy might vnfold and shew how heaun'ly signes A