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
course on thus To anger thee so good and iust a God Not once afrayd of thy reuenging Rod But in the day that thou didst early rise Of death and hell to get th' immortall prize In which we were partakers of thy blood And body both vnto our soueraigne good And when we should repent vs of our sins By true contrition which thy mercy wins Engrafted made the members of that head Whose precious bloud our soules but then hath fed Relieue the poore examine well our fall In meditation spend the day and all And when we should thy sacred prayses sing To make thy people all the while to ring Whilst we at Bowles shall sometimes curse and fret And all for threepence which we cannot get And shall maintaine our sinfull deedes in Churches And run our selues to gather vp the Lurches Those that behold vs with repentant eyes We call them fooles and Puritants precise And when the best our companie do shun Home to their house we send for them and run Pardon vs Lord forgiue our great misdeedes Cull out thy Wheate and pluck out all the weedes Which wrong thy people by their ill example The truth neglectin vgly vice to trample Though our Religion we may seeme to halue Like to the Iewes which made the golden calue simile Exod. 32. 4. 5 6 10. In Aarons time and on their holy day Did eate and drinke and rose againe to play If these men by their rude vnciuill sport Thy Maiesty did anger in such sort That had not Moses knowing of their fall In zeale besought them they had perish't all His great desire thy fury could not stay But that three thousand fell within one day Their guerdon iust no liuing man can tell But very like they had gone downe to hell All quick aliue amongst the damned bad The punishment which after Korah had Num. 16. 32. We see alas both grace and goodnesse lurkes scal li. 5. Within the hearts of fierce and crewell Turkes Of Sarazens and Pagan people rude Which with thy truth were neuer yet indude Before such time as their seducer nurst By Sergius helpe most dangerously at first A banefull poyson to infect their bloud O'reflowes the earth much like to Noahs floud Yet these alone by thy example led Or by the light of Nature in them bred Haue euer kept the Fryday in that worth Long time before the most vntimely birth Of Mahomet that Antechrist indeede Who found it so and left it to their seede Besides a world of other people more That heere I could produce in ample store Which euer kept a holy resting day Abstayning then from all rude workes and play The Indian people haue a rest alow'd Ind. Hist gasp Balb. guin dis 〈◊〉 â—d â—cot And those of Iaua that to Idols bowd The Negro black and rich Peguan left Haue each of them a seuerall Sabaoth kept The sacred Sibils with their frantike mother Haue still prefer'd one day before another We haue great God that which these neuer knew Thine owne example and the scriptures true Thy all diuine and holy morrall law Ex. 20. 8 9. 10 Cha. 31. 14 15 Cha. 34. 1. 21. Which these as yet haue neuer heard or saw Ingrost in Sinah writ twice by thy hand To shew the same for euermore should stand Both in the Law and in the Gospells light To come to Church and praise thy name aright Els how should we thy glorious worth extoll But like to Swine liue all at home and loll And neuer thinke how thou at first didst take A little earth and so our bodyes make Our soules infuse in Paradise vs plaste Till for our sins we soone from thence were cast ' Gau'st vs this world Christ Iesus sent besides Which wrought our life out from his bleeding sides But soft I heere that some vpon this clause Haue ventur'd farre to abbrogate the lawes The holy rest a Iewish Sabaoth call Haue vs liue free tide to no law at all But then alas what would become of vs That sift Gods actions tempt his highnesse thus Of all the lawes that to the Iewes he gaue But ten of them in all the world we haue And those reduc'st for feare they may be lost May be compil'd but into two at most These farre more weighty ponderous then the rest Were by his glorious sacred mouth exprest And Christ himselfe that death and hell did tame Hath not abolish't but confirm'd the same Else what meant he when oftentimes he said The heauens and earth the sea and all shall fade Before such time that Gods eternall Word One iot or tittle shall thereof be stird Did this his coming breede a doubt and flaw Still to destroy and not fullfill the law Haue not the Prophets told long since before Of this our Sabaoth which we now adore T is true that some euen in our christian Law Which haue the arts and learned Muses saw Yet haue alledg'd as their assertion Vpon this place anticipation Affirming Moses when those words were writ In Genesis and still are extant yet Gen. 2. 3. Then knew the rest and Sabaoth of the Iewes But this to me seemes rather vncouth newes For can we thinke that Moses did intend When first of all that Genesis was pend These should forgoe and be incerted best As an introduction to the Sabaoths rest That the command cannot be firme and strong Vnlesse these words did guide it all along Vpon this place still trained vp and nurst As grounding it on Gods example first What can they say to all the ancient men The Patriarkes and holy fathers then Before the law which liued long and blest Yet euer kept a sacred seemely rest To serue their God to giue him thanks and pray That late preseru'd them from that lowring day In which the world and all therein was found Besides the Arke were washt away and droun'd And to the Iewes that were with Manna fed Ouer the mountaines forty yeeres were led Which in the Arabian vasty desarts weare Tipe of our Church that God himselfe did reare Out of affliction hunger heate and cold O're hils and dales and highest mountaines rold Vntill at length with wandring hither thither Like sheepe dispearst fould all at last together When oft they murmur'd much repin'd and grieu'd Vntill their God their bodies had releeu'd By sending Quailes more thick then any haile Vpon their fields quite ouer hill and dale And showring downe a pearely dew at neede In shew much like to Coriander seede Sixe dayes together did this Manna fall And in the seauenth was sent them none at all But in the day before the Sabaoths Rest Full twice so much as other dayes at least They gathred vp and till the morrow kept In which they eat and prayd to God and wept To pardon those which on that sacred day Durst seeke the fields to finde the same and play But yet admit the holy Law be past And that in Christ the same
In some I meane and not in all his worke For pleasant folly couch't therein may lurke Yet the allusion and the meaning sure May reference haue vnto the Scripture pure And though it shines as Tytans westerne rayes By some 't is held but wanton in our dayes But most of all the ripenesse of these times The heauenly works vp to the clouds that climes The enuious eye which ouerlookes our deeds When each mans taste on sundry dishes feedes The snarling cur at euery thing that bites The slandring Mome which no good worke endites The monster curst with his vile forked tongue That from Hels vault vp to the earth first sprung With Hidra heads and Ianus double face To fawne before then wound to our disgrace Hath made my Muse vnwilling heere to sing As loath her selfe vpon the stage to bring To each mans view and her owne painefull toyle But that the sight may many vices spoyle When sin we see vnmasked brought to light And damn'd offences naked to our sight Like lezabel that did the Clouds aspire 1. Kin. 4. 18 19 Chap. 19. 2 Cha. 21. 10 23 In rusling silks and glorious braue atire Vnder a holy outward forme and rite Gods chosen flock are fleec't and murthered quite But once vnmask't the Minions of her court Hurle heri'th durt pash out her braines in sport And as a foule mishapen painted monster 2. Kin 9. 30 33 35 37. Conceit of her as all the world doth conster Then is she seene disrob'd disrank't of all The map of folly in her sudden fall Her cup with poyson damned Enuy fills Her cursed eyes haue seene those seuen built hills Where all the Saints Apostles Martyrs stood With crimson colours all imbru'd in bloud O glorious God inspiror of my Muse Grant that thy Word my soule may dayly vse And that what learning painefully it got Still from the truth may neuer swerue a iot That in her spring beginning and her bud May sing thy glory to the Churches good And in foule folly none asleepe I rock Nor giue offence to any of thy flock But that my speech as generall to all May like a Sermon in the Pulpit fall And not to wade in curious questions deepe But feede thy flock and edifie thy sheepe That none at all may haue a iust excuse By such examples as I shall produce And all that see their faults their liues may mend That to thy glory I this Worke may end Then shall the world with admiration see Her face vnmask't to all eternitee The famous actions heeretofore lay dead Shall then be rouz'd out from obliuions bed And all the noblest kingdoms euer knowne Will be reuiu'd within my verse be showne Their manners customes nature and their state Their end beginning fortune and their fate From Adam first throughout in euery age Shall heere be mustred on this publike Stage In Rurall Robes to giue the earth content How heeretofore the ages past weee spent O that my Muse might once but rest in peace Then would she sing diuinely neuer cease But worke out Truth within her holy Rimes Glyding along descending to our times And deare Vrania Soueraigne of my verse Should heere the glory of this world rehearse Vnfoulding still to Gods immortall glory The heauenly sweetenesse of a sacred story What may we thinke of all the iudgements iust Of great Iehouah buried in the dust Beside all those in holy Scriptures pend Which humane wit as yet could neuer mend Nor all the Rabbies in their learned fame Could euer tell how to correct the same Shall we go on and still be bold to thinke Hee 'le punish them and on vs alwayes winke For some of them the earth it selfe did gape How can we know that we are sure to scape The Angels which against the Lord did swell He quite casheer'd and cast them downe to hell Where being bound eternally in chaines They feele the torments of ten thousand paines Farre more then can expressed be in inke And all the world and sinfull man can thinke Adam what made thee wilfully at first To leaue thy of-spring to this day accurst So wicked foule and ouer growne with Sinne And in thy person all of it beginne That hadst thou stood in Innocenie fram'd Death Sin and Hell the world and all thou hadst tam'd Then hadst thou beene a Monarch from thy birth Gods onely Darling both in heauen and earth The world and all at thy command to bend And all heauens creatures on thee t' attend The sweetest life that euer man could liue What couldst thou aske but God to thee did giue Protected kept thee like a faithfull Warden As thy companion in that pleasant Garden No canckred mallice once thy heart did moue Free-will thou hadst endude from him aboue What couldst thou wish all worlds content and more The best Diuine that ere the Earth yet bore Gods onely Sonne the Prince of Peace except For thy sad fall how oft mine eyes haue wept Alas weakeman hadst thou in honour stood How heauenly blest thrice happy beene thy blood And all thy aged issue to this day Had liu'd secure as in the Month of May. What need had we that any should haue dy'd Vpon the Crosse our sinfull soules reuiu'd And that Messias God himselfe the Son Should here descend to put our nature on To liue deiected poore contemn'd forlorn'd Derided beate tost vpside downe and scorn'd And more to beare for this thy wofull fall Then euer man which liu'd vpon this ball Curst be that Diuell that first thy sence bely'd If thou hadst liu'd then we had neuer dy'd Oh God! to purchase with that bloody cost Our soules redeem'd when they were fully lost Here is a loue which farre surmounts the skies My sences rapts and dazles both mine eyes But tell me Adam what might be the cause That thou shouldst breake thy holy Makers lawes When of a thousand which might make vs weepe In all the world thou hadst but one to keepe And that but light Alas couldst thou not see But touch and taste that one forbidden tree Which in the midst of all the garden grew An ill knowne tree to make thy ofspring rew What pleasant tast or relish had the same How were thy senses dim'd and much to blame That had the Garden sole at thy command And all the fruits within thy sight to stand Farre better pure more daintier euery way Then such an Apple painted like a gay Fit for a woman or some lickorish foole A silly child or one that goes to schoole Thy wilfull foule absurd and grosse abuse Against thy God admits no iust excuse T is not the losse of one poore Apple mist That thou didst grapple in thy sinfull fist Could be the cause his anger to procure Fierce heauy wrath eternall to endure It was not that he did so much respect But thy foule error wilfull bad neglect Contempt of Him rebellion treason pride And all the sinnes within the world beside That linked
the Earth ascendeth like a Ghost Conueyes her selfe into the promist coast By Paradise where Caine was sacrificing Some of his corne his double heart disguising Watches the Time when as she thought most best And windes her close in his dissembling brest No sooner she was in his heart acquainted But his best bloud was with her venome tainted His vaines swolne vp and all his body puft His Head Heart Lungs infectuously were stuft With Enuy Malice Wrath and deadly Rage Nothing could now his stomack fell asswage Finding no ease his countenance falls downe His cankred mind discerned by his frowne Now Father Mother Brother none he brookes That Heauen it selfe takes notice of his lookes Since first the light from darkenesse was discouered Or that the Clouds within the Aire haue houered The Heauens and Earth the Sea and all begun And Phaeton his endlesse Race hath run About the World in twice twelue howers right Or siluer Cinthia shew'd her pale fac't light Neuer was seene a more delightfull day The glittring Sunne in burnish't bright aray Nor Heauen it selfe more pleasing euer smil'de Then when the brothers on Loues Alter pilde The Sacrifice before their Fathers face To God aboue within that holy place But when Medusa from Hells deepest vaults Began but once to spy mans secret faults And from her Den in darke Obliuion pent The bowels of her Mother Earth had rent To come aloft into the open Ayre With her foule breath infectious poysoned haire And Rags most base as late before I told To seate her selfe in Caines securest hold Then Heauen and Earth and all began to change The winged clouds about this Ball to range The burning lampes within the firmament Seem'd for to winke as if their oyle were spent The glorious Sun to hide his glistring face Asham'd of Enuy in a sacred place And all at once most fearefully to lowre To threaten tempests or some sudden showre When instantly on Caines dissembling head A sable cloud from all the rest out shed Began to stand himselfe and all iust vnder Hearing this voyce out from a dreadfull thunder False Hippocrite how canst thou simulize Before my face thy actions fowle disguize Gen. 4. 6. 7. To thinke that I which all the World adorne Would thus be fed with riffe raffe of thy Corne Or yet in bloud to satiate my selfe To liue as thou by base and Earthly pelfe And not conceiue that Holy thing is ment Within the same which giues me full content Why is thy Soule thus pestred with a sore Ranckled bespaked like a rotten core Simile Thy conscience deedes false enuious mind so bad Thy lookes cast downe and countenance so sad Dost thou not know that if thy heart be right Thy actions good and pleasing in my sight That thou shalt be accepted best and more That other wise sin lyeth at thy dore Think on my Words halt not within my sight I am that God which brings the Truth to light Amend thy life at cursed Enuy hisse Repent thy selfe of what is done amisse Let her not once be harbourd in thy brest Nor in thy Heart her banefull poyson rest Redeeme the Time behold the lofty skyes Where Loue and Mercy for offences lyes One comfort more then thou deseru'st I giue Thy Brother yet shall at thy seruice liue Thou like a Lord shalt ouer-rule him still And his desire according to thy will Shall subiect be deuoted euer stand To run and goe with Ioy at thy command But yet take heede do not too high aspire Goe sinne no more and adde no coles to fire Caueat The Heauenly voyce down from the Clouds descending In these sad words sweetely diuinely ending The day cleer'd vp and Sol began againe To shew his face vpon the sacred Plaine The Aire all still the lofty Winds quight calme Adam and Abell singing of a Psalme Caines sacrifize alone vpon the ground Vntouch't at all still to their view they found Whereat with Ioy to see the God of powre To smile on one and on the other lowre To vaile his face vnto their sinfull sight Hearing his voyce out from the dradfull light Home they depart in wonderment and peace Minding a while from further worke to cease Whilst Caine alone retireth discontent Forsakes his God and to the field he went His enuious mind still runs on his disgrace First Apostasy in Caine. False to be found before his fathers face All working Power deepe searcher of the Reines Discerner of the in ward heart and Veines What secret Art can from thy sight be hid Thine Eye still saw what either Brother did How iust art thou and full of mercies sweete The eyes of all are cast downe at thy feete The greatest men and Monarches of the earth The first borne seede and noblest in their birth The proud Commanders in their formall coates The homebred Sheepe thou dost deuide from Goates The eldest Brother yongest in thy sight Are both alike so that their hearts be right No outward forme can make thee partialize Thou look'st vpon the inward sacrifize Beholding Habels willing gtatefull gift Which thou art pleas'd vp to the Clouds to lift When Caine false hearted though he was first borne Him thou forsakst leauing his Gift forlorne O wofull fearefull is the dangerous state Of euery man so ouerswolne with Hate Whom God by this cannot to good conuert But giues quight ouer to a storry Heart Apostacy making a man to quake God Father friends all vtterly forsake Prince Country Kingdome all the Land in hope To run perhaps vnto the Turke or Pope In discontent for conscience gaine or pelfe To sell their soules vnto the Diuell himselfe Some to their shame haue had small cause to boast Mat. 12. 31. Luke 12. 9. 10. Mar. 3. 29. Pro. 26. 11. Of this foule sin against the Holy Ghost Accurst and damn'd of all that euer fell But few I know but quick went downe to hell Amongst the Diuels in euerlasting paines Loaden with Boults of heauy burning chaines Whilst those return'd like to a Dog that gurnes Simile That back againe vnto his vomit turnes Or beastly Sow bemir'd in dirty tilth simile Cleere water shuns to scoure away her filth But in a ditch with some vnsauory Bore She layes her downe far worse then ere before How can we thinke or well conceiue in heart That those which once do from their country start And shall distast the grounds wherein at first With Pastors pure they were train'd vp and nurst Heb. 6 4 5 6. That do renounce their Faith and euery thing Their Oath Alegiance to the State and King And in this sinne without Repentance fall How of that man can there be hope at all When as his case what shew so ere he gaine Is but the same with cursed enuious Caine I must confesse Repentance is a worke Repentance Of Gods great loue which caunot lye and lurke Within the Heart but that it forth must shine Like to a
Light vpon a Hill diuine Simile Kindled by faith a conscience cleane and pure That cannot once her former wayes indure But by good works doth blaze the same abroad Without all Guile Hipocricy or Fraud Full of true Loue auoyding babbling suites A Tree that 's good is euer knownebi'th fruits Mat. 12. 33 But yet for him that from the Church is sold And in his Heart is neither hot nor cold Reuel 3. 16. With God and Mammon can with both indent Whose mind on mischiefe is full set and bent That what he can into his hands doth get And all is Fish which commeth to his net That doth forsake his owne Religion first The same I meane wherein he hath bin nurst Inconstantly another shall imbrace What ere he thinke he is in wofull case Well may one iudge his conscience may be pang'd For that one thing how many haue bin hang'd And he againe that in his ripest yeares Forsakes the same as plaine by Caine appeares And both of them he hath distasted quite May be in 's Age demned Pagan right Besides examples in the Scriptures pure Which aye shall last eternally endure Of cursed Athiests in their bitter gall That Iulian like from God and Christ did fall The Monster vile within the Gospell curst Which hang'd himselfe when all his bowels burst And diuers others tedious here to name Whose ends haue shewd iust iudgements to their shame Act 1. 14. Hath not Experience in this Age of ours Branded Apostates of the heauenly powers With fearefull Vengeance wofull to behold Vpon the earth for being impious bold As amongst many infinite to write But one neere vs in steade of all I le cite Whose scandall foule about the world is blowne His Story rife amongst vs all well knowne Faustus by name by birth a Germaine bred The story of D. Faustus Whose minor yeares were with Religion fed In liberall Arts his minde but yong did wade A schoole Diuine and Doctor after made Traind vp as well as euer man could be In learnings Lore and sweet Diuinitie So was this Caine the like was Iudas fell All three no doubt with damned diuels in hell The foremost two with bolld their hands defilde But this a man which neuer hurt a childe How with a knife made he his veines to bleed Then with his blood to write the diuell a deed Conuaying Soule and Body by the same To be tormented in eternall flame Neuer repenting till it was too late Damn'd wofull fearefull in a desperate state Cursing the howre of his vntimely birth By God for saken taken from the Earth With exclamations hideous fearefull cries Sprites Ghosts and diuels about the house there flyes His braines thrasht out on euery post and wall Sad spectacle dire mournfull fearfull fall When soule life learning all at once he lost A wofull purchase to his painefull cost His bowels mangled carrion like and tore Imbrude in filth and stinking poysoned gore Next day tormented in this case was found By diuels cast out vpon a dunghill ground When once the Prince of darknesse in the deep By power diuine enioyned was to keep And that the Serpent hatefull and accurst Was in the center of the Earth downe thrust Their vgly spawne then hacht the vilest Elfe That euer crawld besides the diuell himselfe Foule furious Enuy as but late I told With viperous snakes about her head all rold And she againe outfrom their banefull breath Hath brought an Impe like gastly fearefull Death Limbe of the diuell still worse then all the rest Mishapen vile base Antichristian beast Monster of Nature false in euery part Apostacie with crablike crawling heart simile Contagious fell most dangerous in her tong From whom all treasons in this world first sprung The hatefull deeds which some haue pacht together Vnder Religion may be brought all hither The secret actions infinite that lurke Which in mans heart and gall together worke The poysonings murders euery cursed rape For whom this Earth doth yawne her mouth and gape Seeking to swallow in her Iawes deuowre Within the midst of her darke wombe to powre The actors damn'd vnder obliuions night Not fit to breath or to behold heauens light Base scum and dregs the works of darkenesse first Proceeding from Apostacie at first But what make I with damned Atheists vile My sacred verse with Antechrist defile To rowze from hell tormented hideous sprites Foule gastly Ghosts which all the world afrights That my deare Muse should thus by freinds be crost From heauen of late within the deepe be tost Hels vgliest Monster to vnmaske and lay All open thus falling within my way That little taste to euery Palate yeelds And all this while Caine wanders in the fields With passions working in his hatefull brest Sad discontent may in his face be guest Reuenge all bloody with a poysoned dart Reuenge Starts vp from hell enters within his hart Base cursed Furie hacht by Enuie first Apostacie this damned heil hound nurst The masked traine that all her life befriend her Are Guile Deceit and Falshood to attend her This monster Caine close in his brest did hide With all the rest of that damn'd rout beside And home returns as if he had forgot The discontent of his discouered blot The blurre late made in his Religious cote As out of minde he seemes not now to note But full of forme and outward complement As if his minde was all to goodnesse bent With much respect vnto his father first And duty shewd to her his body nurst Vpon his brother fawningly he lookes And learns him then to make the shepheard hookes To catch a sheepe running with all her speed And he againe helps him his land to weed Thus Caine continues for a certaine space Before his fathers and his mothers face In outward guise formality and speach As if his heart had had no further reach Vntill that Act foule barbarous deed befell Which makes me mute almost afraid to tell But that from God the same at first I heard Described plaine in his drad sacred Word Gen. 4. 3. Caine but few nights in this bad meaning slept For Fire in Flaxe can but a while be kept And not long after as may well be guest When father friends and all suspected least Euen then he takes Occasion by her lock Singles forth Habel from his harmelesse flock With flattring wordes traines him along to walke The fragrant fields holds him on still with talke Vntill at last Inhumane wretch vnkind Base Villaine curst he staid a while behind To find a Leauer that he late had laid Within the corne which wondrous heauy waid This on his shoulders vp from thence he takes His fatall way to his deare brother makes Who all this while lay in a slumber sweete Vpon the grasse resting his weary feete Thinking no hurt full of all Peace and Loue His mind in Heauen walking with God abouc Which when the Caitife varletvile had spide No