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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

of his first booke of Antiquities saith he peopled Lybia And it was indeed in the sandie deserts thereof that the children of Cham held the Temple and Oracle of Iupiter Hammon or Chammon For the doctrine of truth by little and little being corrupted and at last quite abolished amongst them as among the Cananites the Scripture shewes Idolaters Magitians and persons euery way debauched and profane these now blind and ignorant of the true God make to themselues a God and giue him a double name one drawne from the name of the true God Ichoua turned into Jupiter and the other from their great Auncestor Cham. After this the Deuill plaid terrible pranks in this Temple and it became the most renowmed among the Gentiles as you may reade in the second booke of Herodotus And it is not vnlikely that Cham euen at the time of the Floud was plotting in his heart for such honours to be done him by his posteritie preiudiciall to the glory of Almighty God As for his obiections here they tend all as all Chamites or Atheists reasons doe first to controll the wise and vnblameable prouidence of the All good and Almighty God Secondly to shake the foundation of deuout humilitie in his Church Thirdly to censure both the mercy and iustice of the Lord. Fourthly to make the order of Nature his buckler to keepe off all apprehension of the vengeance of God whose wayes though the wicked thinke to follow them with naturall reason are all past finding out as witnesseth the Prophet Isay and S. Paul 9. Fie Father I come now to set downe in briefe the reproches and foule speeches vttered here by Cham whereof I need say but little because the Reader may very easily distinguish them sithence there is nothing in the Poets words but easie to be vnderstood The chiefe point is to consider well of Noes answers which I haue one by one obserued as they stand in the Text. 10. By this the father gauld After he hath witnessed his griefe in preface hee bestowes vpon this scoffer such titles as he deserued and then layes open the well-head of Atheisme which is for man to trust ouermuch in himselfe and little regard what is taught by the Spirit of God then foretelling the miserable end of all Atheists he answers the obiections of Cham very punctually enriching and beautifying his discourse with descriptions comparisons inductions and proofes necessarie which well considered afford much instruction and comfort vnto men of an vpright heart The two last answers are very remarkable whereunto the Patriarke most fitly adioynes the calling on the name of God of purpose to shew vnto whom the faithfull ought to flie in all their troubles and tentations I will not adde hereunto what Iosephus hath in the first of his Antiquities because there are many things little to the purpose and such as sort not with the state and maiestie of that sacred historie set downe by Moses Something it is that Philo Iudaeus hath written of Moses and the Deluge in his second booke of the life of Moses toward the end Vpon this historie of the Flood haue the Heathen people forged that fable of Deucalion described by Ouid in the first of his Metamorphosis But in these answers by our Author put vpon Noc the Reader may finde wherewithall to stop the mouth of all Atheists Epicures which are so bold to censure all that the holy Scripture saith as well of the Essence and Nature of God as of his workes whether they concerne the creation and preseruation of the world with the redemption of Mankinde or his iust iudgements vpon the profane and reprobate vnbeleeuers C'est ainsi que NoÃ« sa prison adoucit Enchante sa tristesse Dieu fait cesser le deluge le temps acourcit Nayant espoir qu'en Dieu quiresserrant les veines D'oÃ¹ surgeonnoyent sans fin tant de viues fontaines Arrestant l'eau du ciel faisant que les airs Raffermissent tancez les digues de leurs mers Met les vents en besongne Pour cest effect il coÌ„mande auxvents de faire retirer les caux dessecher la terre O balais de la terre Frais esuentaus du ciel Ã´ des forests la guerre O mes herauts dit-il postes messagers O mes nerfs Ã´ mÃ¨sbras vous oiscaux qui legers Parl'air trainÃ© mon char quand ma bouche allumee Ne souffle que brassiers que souffre que sumce Que le foudre est monsceptre que l'effroy le bruit L'horreur roule Ã trauers l'espesseur d'vne nuict Esueillez-vous courez humez de vos haleines L'eau qui desrobe au ciel les monts les plaines Labrigade des vents Ã sa voix obeit Fin du deluge arrest de l'arche sur les montagnes d'Ararat L'orgueil plus escumeux de l'eau s'esuanouit La mer fait saretraite la Carraque saincte Prend terre sur vn mont dont les astres ont crainte Qui se perd dans le ciel qui void sourcilleux Presque dessous ses pieds mille monts orgueilleux Noe Le corbeau mis hors l'arche pour descouurir la terre La colombe Ã la seconde fois apporte au bec vn rameau d'oliuier signe de paix qui ce-pendant a'vn doux espoir s'allete Donne la clef des champs au Corbeau qui volete Antour des monts voisins voyant tout noyÃ© Varetrouuer celuy qui l'auoit enuoyÃ© La Colombe sortant par la fenestre ouuerte Fait quelques iours apres vne autre descouuerte Et coguoissant qu'encore la marine est sans bort Lasse de tant ramer se sauue dans le Fort. Mais sept-fois par le ciel Phebus n'a fait la ronde Qu'elle reprend le vol pour espier le Monde Et rapporte Ã la fin en son bec vnrameau D'Oliuier palle-gris encore mi-couuert d'eau O bien-heureux presage O plaisante nouuelle O mystere agreable Io la Colombelle Paisible port au bec le paisible rainseau Dieu fait paix auec nous d'au si sacre seau Authorize benin son auguste promesse Qu'au combat on verrasans rage la Tigresse Le Lyon sans audace le Lieure sans peur Plus-tost qu'Ã nos despens il se monstre trompeur O primice des fruicts Ã´sacrÃ©-saincte Oliue Branche annonce-salut soit que turestes viue Apre's le long degast d'vn Deluge enragÃ© Ie m'esgaye que l'eau n'apoint tout rauagÃ© Soit que baisÃ© le slot ta verdeur rebourgeonne I'admire la bontÃ© du grand Dieu qui redonne L'ame Ã tant darbres morts dans moins d'vn moment Decore l'Vniuers d'vn nouueau parement NoÃ© parle en la sorte NoÃ© ne vent sortir sans conmandemeÌ„t expres de Dieu qui l'auoit enclos en l'arche Or combien que le Monde Monstrast ja la plus part de ses Iles sur l'onde Luy presentant logis qu'enuieilli

and Winter Season holds the Basse our Phleme like the Autume time and Element of Water the Tenor our Blood like the Spring and Aire the Counter-tenor which runnes through all kinde of Notes our Choller as the Summer time and Fire the Treble as for all other parts vsed in Musicke they are euer correspondent to some one of these foure 51. See then the cause He speakes now of the effect and power of Musicke The Platonicks held the soule of Man to be composed of numbers and proportions the excellence whereof is chiefely in the heauens whereupon it ensues that Musicall harmony somewhat partaking with the nature of I se and soule diuersly mooues and affects all liuing Creatures capable thereof The Poet plaies vpon this opinion but still with a caueat that the truth and ground of this doctrine be rightly vnderstood For mans Soule is not made of numbers as the word is simply taken but thus much onely meanes the Platonist that these spirituall substances enclosed in mans body are so exquisite and as it were harmonious that all harmony concord and proportion delights them and contrariwise all discord and disproportion or confused noyse offends them as we see by daily experience Furthermore he that hath created all things in perfect concord and proportion would euen in such as seeme farthest from well agreeing haue the force of Musicke shew it selfe â—y the attention it commandeth of hearers and by their loue and reuerence thereof Whereupon I boldly dare auouch that soule not well ordered in it selfe or not well fitted with a body which cannot abide sweet harmony 52. Sweet Harmony In twelue verses here the Poet sets-out the force of Musicke both in regard of men and beasts whereof we finde in ancient History very notable examples as Teâ—â—aâ—der Timotheus Ariâ—â— and others whâ—â—by their Musicke haue done great wonders made the most offended to be friends one with another the most melancholy and sad to bee merry fooles to be wise and sum as were like to runne mad for loue to be stayed and what not It is reported also that against the Phâ—lâ—â—gies poyson there â—â—n helpe to ready and oueraigne as the well ordered sound of Musicall Instruments See what Aeâ—â—an Pâ—â—â—y and Plutarch â—y thereof 53. O what 's to Musicke hard He goes on yet further and shewes how Musicke is able to preuaâ—e euen with God himselfe And this he proues by three examples the first of Soul 1. Sam. 10. who meeting a company of Prophets with Instruments of Musicke began also to prophesie among them the second of Elizeus 2. King 3. who called for a Minstrell and when the Minstrell played the hand of the Lord that is his Spirit came vpon the Prophet the third of God anger appeased by deuout singing of Psalmes and namely those of Dauid which in the mouth of Gods faithfull seruants are of wonderfull power as by many particulars of these and former times may well be proued For God indeed hath promised to be neere vnto all those that call vpon him faithfully Psal 145.18 And it becommeth well the righteous to reioyce in the Lord and be thankfull Psal 33.1 To conclude here is the effect of a zealous prayer wherein heart voice and accent runne together most liuely set-out by the Poet describing with most elegant similitudes the fierce wrath of God against sinne and the sweetnesse of his mercy when he is appeased 54. But now as Heb'r had thought The Poet intending to make here an end of the second day of his second weeke brings-in Canan the sonne of Cham to seeke as it were by Fate along the bankes of Iordaine for the Countrey that was after to be inhabited by his posteritie So he comming toward the Pillar breakes-off the learned conference that was betwixt the other two And here therefore shall end our Commentary-Notes vpon these high conceits of this excellent Poet. FINIS The Epistle to the Lord Admirall 1596. WEighing how neare it concernes your Honourable Charge what strangers passe the Seas into England I was thereby and otherwise in humble dutie moued to giue your Lordship first intelligence of this Gentleman whom I haue newly transported out of Frame and also thought it necessary to craue your fauourable protection of him in this his trauell A worthy man is he my Lord in his owne Countrie howsoeuer here disguised and one of the sonnes of that Noble and Diuine Poet LE SIEVR DV BARTAS in my simple iudgement the properest and best learned of them all I am sure the best affected to England and the gracious Empresse thereof for which cause I made speciall choise of him and doe therefore the rather hope to finde fauour on his behalfe with your Honourable Lordship whose loyaltie to the Crowne the Prince by trust of so high an Office whose loue to the Land the people by ioynt consent of daily felt vertues haue so fully witnessed that the fame thereof hath spred it selfe farre beyond that your admirable Regiment In so much as this gentle stranger though he were at the first vnwilling Vlâ—sses-like to leaue his natiue soile especially now in this dangerous sea-faring time while all the world is in a manner troubled with Spanish Fleets yet after he called to minde what he had heard and written of the mightie Goddesse of the English Ocean and who there swayed the Trident vnder her trusting vpon such a Neptune he went aboord with a good courage and doubting not at all but that the proud Spanish Carackes if they be not yet sufficiently dismaid by the wracke they suffered in their former aduenture but dare againe attempt the like be they neuer so many more or greater than they were if more and greater they can be shall againe by the grace of God directing as before the courage and wisdome of Englands renowned Admirall be dispersed ouer the frowning face of our disdainfull Seas and drunken with salt waues regorge the bodies of their presumptuous Pilots And so my Lord with a fauourable wind breathing directly from the French Helicon by the safe conduit of your Honourable name and helpe of the Muses at length I landed my stranger in England Where since his arriuall he hath gladly encountred diuers of his elder brethren that were come ouer before some in a princely Scottish attire others in faire English habits and to the intent he might the better enioy their company whh by this time had almost forgotten their French he was desirous to learne English of me therefore I kept him a while about mee was his teacher at home and enterpreter abroad and now that he hath gotten such a smattering of the tongue as hee can so as hee can speake for himselfe may it please your good Lordship to talke with him at your leisure though I know you vnderstand very well his naturall speech I am of opinion it will much delight you to heare him vtter such counterfeit English as in so little time I was able to teach him He can say somewhat of the godly gouernment of good Princes the wicked practises of Tyrants as well in compassing as maintaining a Scepter both worthy your Lordships hearing for the manner sake though the matter be not vnknowne to your wisdome But some other things he doth report very strange as of NIMROD that was the first Tyrant of the world after the time of Noah the first Admirall of the world his aspiring minde and practises in seeking the peoples fauour his proud and subtile attempt in building the Tower of Babel and Gods iust punishment thereof in confounding the language of the builders Very truly reckoneth he that which few doe consider the great and manifold inconueniences that are befallen mankinde by the diuersitie of tongues Further he can tell of speech in generall whether man speake by nature or haue but onely an aptnesse to speake by vse and whether any other creature haue the like as for seuerall speeches he can prooue with many goodly reasons which is the best and most ancient of them all what altereth each tongue what continueth each in account what languages are in greatest regard now-adaies and what Authors haue most excelled in them And vpon occasion of the English tongue my Lord he setteth-out in such manner the Queenes princely Majesty her learning wisdome eloquence and other excellent vertues that I know your noble and loyall heart will greatly reioice to heare it at the mouth of such a stranger The rest if it be more curious then for the States weightie affaires your L. may intend to heare I wish referred vnto those goodly young Gentlewomen your noble and father-like-minded Sonnes whom after your L. I doe most of all honour there shall they finde profit so blended with pleasure learning with delight as it may easily win their hearts already vertuously aspiring from the wanton and faining Cantoes of other Syren-Poets wherewith many young Gentlemen and chiefely those of greatest hope are long and dangerously mis-led vnto a further acquaintance with this heauenly-Poeticall Writer of the truth who is now growne into such a liking of this Country chiefely for the peaceable gouernment thereof blessed be that Gouernor and free course of the Gospell God continue it and send the like into France that he is desirous to become a Freedenizen and hoping further to be an eye-witnesse of Gods wonderfull mercies towards this Land whereof in France he spake but by heare say to behold that precious Northerne Pearle and kisse her Scepter-bearing hand whose worthy praise he hath sung so sweetly he humbly beseecheth your gracious fauour to be enfranchised which if it may please you to grant my Lord vouchsafing also the patronage of him that vnder seale of your Honorable name he may escape the carping censures of curious fault-finders and enioy all honors priuileges liberties and lawes that belong euen to the naturall inhabitants of this noble Isle my selfe will vndertake to Fine for him at least hearty praiers for your daily encrease of honor and all such obedience as it shall please your L. to impose Whose I rest euer at command WILLIAM L'ISLE

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 â—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 coÌ„spiring 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

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 Ã´ 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 ainÃ§ois mesmes en moeurs Ou soit que la coustume en nature se change Qu' Ã 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 tannÃ¨ l'vn fort l'autre foiblet L'vn a le poil menu l'autre gros frizÃ© 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 nÃ© 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 lÃ l'Istre le Rhin Le peuple de Midi represente la vie contemplatiue Car dans le clos sacrÃ© de la citÃ© 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 sÃ§auoir 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 DressÃ© 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 FranÃ§ois l'Alemain l'Italien l'Espagnol Mesme ne void-on pas entre nous qui viuons Quasi pesle-meslez qui pauures n'auons Pour partage Ã peu pres

the breath and Spirit all-aliuing Stirres of the tuned heau'n these wheeles all louely striuing And as their wonted way eternally they trace Some of them trill the Treblâ— and some bomb-out the Base Now all these counter-notes so charmy-sweet Musicke in our Humours Seasons and Elements Bâ—ssâ— appeere Yet not so plainly in heau'n as eu'n among vs heere Th' humour Melancholike the Wint'r and cold dry ground They beare the Bases part and soft and slowly sound The white phleame th'Autom-time the water cold and wet They all aleauell run Tenr and are for Tenor set The Blood the prime of yere the moist and luke-warme Aire Play Descant florisher deuider painter Countertenor strayer The Choller Summer Fire that are so hot and dry Treble Resembl ' a strained chord that soundeth eu'r on high The reason and force of Musicke See then the cause my son why song doth ofteÌ„ win them That are most fierce by kinde there are inclos'd within them The seeds of numb'r and time nor can their life hold-out But by the Spirits helpe that whirleth heau'n about With wisemen Sweet harmony it makes the fiercest Army stay Their deadly fewd and force the griefe it doth allay Of eu'ry pained soule and with a gentle charme And Fooles Withdraweth by degrees the Foole from trickes of harme It bridleth hot desire and putteth-out the flame That makes a louers-heart Idolatrize a dame It heales a man that 's hurt with fly Phalangy's sting That eu'n at point of death will madly daunce and fling With Beasts The Swan delights therein deceiu'd thereby we finde The shye discoullard fowle and fearefull starting hinde The Dolphin loues the Leere th'vnhiued swarme of Bees With tinkling sound of brasse are clustred on the trees With God himselfe O what 's to Musick hard which wont so much to merit Which wont so to preuaile eu'n with th'enspiring Spirit As bring him downe on Saul and in Elisha wed The Spirit rauisher vnto the rauished Yea when th' eternall God to sharpest anger bent Smoakes thunders lightens hailes with all his pow'rs assent And with his heau'd-vp arme and with his backe enfoul't Is ready to discharge his forest blasting-boult Th'armonyons accord that hearts deuout shall weepe His sinnowes albenombes and brings his ang'r asleepe Then sweet-ey'd mercy steales as well shee wont and can From vnd'r his hand the rod deseru'd by rebell man But now as Heb'r had thought t' haue further gon told The practise and the skill of all the Musicke old See Canan searching-out his Iordans fatall walke Vnto the Pillernies and breakes-off all the talke Nor can I further goe this iourneyes irksome length In weaknesse vndertooke hath wasted all my strengthe I must anew entreat some helpe of heau'nly grace And somewhat need recoile to leape a greater space 48 For you Ã´ heauenly wits Shewing that he had a good minde to dilate vpon the praise of this Art he breaks-off to come to the description of the fourth Image which is Musick and her he sets-out with all the most necessarie and gracefull attire both for voice and instruments of diuers sorts It requires a long dispute and hard to resolue what manner of Instruments and how framed they were which we reade by translated names to haue beene in vse among the Hebrues Greeks and other people of old time This would take-vp a whole Volume as also that other question what was their vocall Musicke whereof Plutarch and Boetius both haue treated I perswade my selfe they had in those dayes a kinde of skill in making and managing their musicall Instruments and ioyning voice thereto which is hardly well knowne or conceiued now of vs though some of our Musicians we finde both in voice and vpon instrument so exceeding skilfull that they are able much to moue our affections but short of that wonderfull power which hath been ascribed to the ancient Musicke 49. Sith eu'ry Sphere they say The Poet vpon this occasion of Musicke raiseth himselfe to consider the accord and harmony of the Heauens borrowing his discourse from the Philosophie of Plato whereof I shall endeuour here to set downe the summe He saith then that our Musicke on earth is but a shadow of that superlatiue harmonie which God hath ordained the great Cymbals as it were of heauen to make by their so swift and orderly mouing sithence vnlikely it is but that the Primovable and other Spheres that whirle-about continually and haue done so long should make some noise answerable to their compasse and cadence so proportionall And rather may we presume they make a most excellent melody and far exceeding our earthly Musicke which from that heauenly borroweth her perfection For so it being that God hath made all things in number weight and measure very likely it is that he kept a due proportion in the heauens and that more exactly than on the earth because this is the lowest part of all for habitation of the meanest creatures when they as their English name signifies are heauen-vp on high to make a beautifull and glorious palace for th'All-Creator To consider the matter yet more particularly the Platonikes doe say that God who is the Voice Soueraigne and giueth voice sound and harmony to all things high and low hath in euery Sphere of heauen set an Intelligence some call it Scule some Angell some morion quickned by the Primouable whereby the heauens are moued to their cadence appointed so exactly as no melody can be more pleasing As for mine owne opinion hereof I thinke the Platonicks who say also that God still exerciseth Geometry meant hereby to commend the perfection of Mathematicks and chiefely Astronomy which is most excellent and certaine of them all And because the minde is maruellously delighted with Musicall proportions which no where can be found more perfect then in the heauens who so hath the gift to vnderstand them enioyes a contentment surpassing all sweetnesse of earthly and eare-pleasing Musicke Now to the end this heauenly Musicke may be the better conceiued our Poet here vseth a very choice and daintie comparison and saith the Spirit of God giues the heauens a Musicall motion which breeds a sweet harmony among them euen as an Organist by due fingring the keys of his Instrument stirres vp therein a melodious sound Thus much by the way that the Reader may thereby take occasion to stop his eares against the tempestuous broyles and discords of this world and raise-vp himselfe toward this heauenly concord or rather to fly-vp thither with the wings of faith and learne in the company of Saints and blessed Soules to vnderstand those excellent Songs which are partly set-downe for vs in diuers passages of the Apocalyps 50. Now all these counter-notes Leauing that heauenly Musicke of the Spheres he shewes now that we haue a Musicke also contained euen in the humors of our bodies answerable to the foure Seasons of the yeare and the Elements Our Melancholy like the Earth

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