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A11404	The third dayes creation. By that most excellent, learned, and diuine poet, VVilliam, Lord Bartas. Done verse for verse out of the originall French by Thomas VVinter, Master of Arts; Sepmaine. Day 3. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Winter, Thomas, Master of Arts.	1604 (1604)	STC 21660; ESTC S110634	26,100	49

dealog de Libero a●…bitrio one most rarely wise For want of skill the reason to comprise How seuen times a day * Plin. lib. 2 c 97 Pomp. M●…la li. 2. Euripus floweth And seuen times t' his ebbing prison goeth Egd with despaire and with great shame confounded Drownd him in flouds more fadomed then sounded What would he do if he should beate his braines About the spring that waters Masere plaines Rising at Belestat neare th'hill of Fois That stores with wood the people of Toloise As oft as Phoebus ending his carrier Each horizon with welcome light doth cheare His burthen-bearing streames months fiue or foure Doth runne and stay by turne in each halfe houre For one halfe houre you may passe ouer drie The other halfe it runnes so stickerly As none can passe his waters as they rise The most renowmed streames would equalize A learned streame that doth Nature her guide Without a clocke count euerie time and tide Now the great God by his eternall hand Of the 〈◊〉 o●… the earth and the sea Most wisely plac'd the water and the land For one requiring many moistning drops The other chanels banks and vnderprops He enterlin'd them so that the earth widing Her bosome to the sea and the sea gliding About throughout vnder this earthie round That the earth and the water are the center of the world and why Both make the perfect center of the Mound For if their mingled selues be prou'd to be Beside the mid of the worlds axeltree 1 All climats should not haue the silent night In equall ballance counterpoise the light The ill deuided horizons decline 2 Would stretch too farre on one side of the line Th' Antipodes or we should see by night 3 More then sixe signes to shed their glistering light No certaine time should shew th' eclipsed Moone 4 The heauens deboshd should seasons alter soone This doth suffise to shew that so compound The earth and the water make one round globe Into one masse they yet are fully round Which by a turning art made like a ball See day and night successiuely to fall For Americ Doue Pole surnamed Marke The reason Nor anie cunning pilot of a barke One pole to th' other euer could subdue Or liuing on the seas find countries new Nor euer lose the Northerne starre to view The Southerne pole if so the ocean blew To fashion with the earth one globie tumor Did not each where circle his fleeting humor But ô thou heauenly workman whose essayes Why the water is of a sphearicall figure Are nere in vaine what arches or what stayes Couldst thou inuent the sea to vnderprop That by a downward line it should not drop O God is it because the watrie masse 1 Would by his nature to the center passe And striuing so the deepest depth to sound By falling by a line remaineth round Or is' t because the shoares and coasting banks 2 Captiue the seas within their prouder flanks Or is' t because the Sea some stay doth winne 3 By millions of rocks scattered therein Or is' t alonely thy all-working grace 4 That makes it thus the tressed earth embrace It is thy hand thy hand O God alone A transition frō the water to th' earth wherof the figure situation and stablenesse is described That firmes with piles mans habitation For though it hang in th' aire or else be found To swim vpon the sea though it be round And round about it each thing turne nay more Though her foundations haue bene mou'd of yore Yet it vnmoued is that Adams race Might here obtaine a peacefull biding place The earth the dearest mother the tenderest nource and the kindest hostesse that man finds It is the earth receiues man being borne Receiued fosters him become the scorne Of other elements by Natures enmitie Her lap yeelds place for his last obsequie The aire against vs often doth rebell The whelming waters shew their malice fell Gainst wretched men gainst men supernall fire As well as this below displayes his ire But of the foure onely the humble earth Is mans alone best friend after his birth T is she alone that neuer leaues the place Which earst was her assigned by thy grace Yet is it true that execrable folke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of the earthquak●… With their deboshed manners do prouoke Thy angrie hand O Lord some piece to shake Although the totall frame do neuer quake Aided with Northerne winds which being pent Within her bowels cause mad rumblement ●…eare chils our hearts and makes our faces pale The wind doth stirre the woods without a gale High turrets tremble and th' infernall caue De●…oures in choler many a citie b●…aue Sith then the earthie and the watrie Round The whole 〈◊〉 earth and the sea is but 〈◊〉 point 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 he●…uens whereof the least 〈◊〉 is eighteen times b●…gger then the earth Is center heart and nombrill of the mound And that by reason nothing closde about Equals the thing enclosing it without Who doubts but that this earthie watrie spheare Doth lesse proportion then the others beare Iudge who so will the greatnesse of this round Which we admiring doth vs so astound Seemes but a point to that high * spheare aboue Which forceth all the rest with him to moue Sith the least twinkling starre that with our eye We see to glitter in the vaulted skye If so Astronomers count not amisse Then the whole earth twise nine times greater is And if we count all that the Midland maine The Indian seas and all their armes do gaine Beside what other riuers do possesse Or desert is by heate or colds excesse This Little will be nought Lo here ●… men the earth bears to the heauens should reach men not to make a heauen of the earth The place for which you heauen do contemne See with what confines your great'st renomie Bounds your best actions proudest memorie Ye Monarches thral'd to pride that for the gaines Of one haires breadth hide th' earth with slaughtred swains Corrupted Magistrates that on your chaires Sell causes as in markets or in faires Who traffiquing the Law prophane your states To leaue some trifle to your thanklesse brats You that do vse vpon vse multiplie You that do waights and measures falsifie That so for you the yoaked Oxe may beare The coulter that the clodded earth doth teare You that do sell your wals you that would faine Some inch of land vpon your neighbour gaine Mouing by stealth and sacrilegious hands The ma●…kes that bounded out your grandsires lands Alas what get you When a warlike prince By force or fraud shall all the world euince A needles point a moate an atomie Shall be his vertues largest salarie A point his Empire yea a very nought Yea lesse then nothing if that lesse were ought When God whose word doth more of nothing make Then all the paines that

the ayre that forced Iordans course Iosuah 3. 16. Backe to retire toward his double source That drown'd the world become deuoid of good Gen. 7. 21. That made the rocke gush foorth a litle floud Exod. 17. 8. The Earth the great ●…land of the world Lo then the waters crooked circling path An Iland of this world yformed hath As boyling lead pour'd on a place vnplaine Simil. Doth diuers formes and sundrie fashions gaine Here runneth straight there windeth like a snake Here breaking hands there hands againe doth take And in an instant makes his small hote riuers Within the mould to shew themselues so diuers So God did spread the waters on the ground In steeple forme croysure and figure round Crooked and square that in the water cleare The earth might faire more rich and faire appeare Such is the Germaine arme the bay of Ganges The Gulfe of Persia and the sea that ranges By Happie Arabie such the whole Ocean That parts in three this All by od proportion And though that euerie arme how long soeuer Why the ●…mes of the Sea are subdiuided into lesser chanels Compar'd vnto the whole be but a riuer Yet makes a hundred seas in course and name By 's nookes and crookes the water still the same To slake the thirstie drinesse of the plaines With welcome moisture of their secret veines To rampire in the nations and to daunt The proudest champion Princes when they vaunt To confine kingdomes with eternall borders To ease the trauell of the trading orders Shortning their way the wind helping to get With in a month from th' East to the Sun-set Nor doth the earth giue to the sea alone The most renowned riuers of the world relie used These bigger armes she giues the riuer Don And Nilus Egypts store house which doth hide Himselfe so often in the deserts wide She giues the Rhene Danubius and Euphrates Proud Tigris issue of the hill Niphates Broad Ganges riuer of such ample same That Easterne India takes of it her name The golden Tagus Thames Mariza Rhone Tartarian Rha Po Seina and Garone Garone whose name shall sound so in my verse As shall perchance ring through the Vniuerse She giues * R●…o de la Plata Parana yeelding siluer matter Great Darien which doth new Castile water Maraignon too flouds of that new-found All Which men for wealth the Golden land may call The fruitfull earth from her doth draw her streames And all the water running in her veines Which she not thanklesse doth in time and place Repay both wayes as it receiued was S●…ll For as the Lembicke heated oft doth hap T'exhale a vapor to his vpmost cap And wanting meanes to draw that fragrant sweat Higher doth gently thicken it and let That cleare as christall humor drop by drop Replenish the receiuer to the top So the thin humor of the brinie streames Is drawne into the aire by sunnie beames Which turn'd to water showres it downe and maketh That to the sea through th' earth a course it taketh For the drie earth this falling water straines Howe the springs are engendred Through the thin boulter of her hollow veines Then makes it way and from the rockie mountaines Makes bubble daily millions of fountaines Of these the litle gurgling brookes do grow Which ioyn'd do make the wasting torrents flow The wasting torrents do proud riuers forme Of which the sailing floud is eftsoones borne The snowie hils that border neare the skie Vnto this grouth contribute willingly How the torrents or land-flouds riuers are engendred For Titans taske begun anew at times Which bring the faire spring to the colder climes He melts vpon their backes the heapes of snow Their tops turne greene each where the waters flow Tumbling and bubling as they froathing runne Along steepe trackes of craggie mountaine stone They make a hundred torrents one of which Seeing his brother ouergo him mich Hastens his course to make with him an vnion Whiles that a third and fourth help their communion Running the same carier and quickly drowne Of their falling into the sea Their names and selues in streames of more renowne Those streames of some great riuer are deuoured Which ouerswaying fields at length is powred Into that Rendez-vous where God assigned They should discharge the taxes they were fined Yet all these riuers running to the sea Why the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 of the fresh water●… Do not a whit enlarge that watrie Lea For besides that these flouds heap't all t 'one top Compar'd to it are lesse then one poore drop Yet doth the Sunne and Aeolus his race Sweeping eftsoones great Neptunes sweating face Exhale as much from that broad wauing field As th' aire and earth vnto the same do yeeld But as the quaking heate and shiuering cold Of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the ●…ea And gnashing teeth which do the feavrous hold Come not hap-hazard but in time and order Bring the weake trembling members in disorder So doth the sea by sits approach to lond And coming to forsakes againe the strond Whether the sea moued with Gods right hand The thre●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to●…ching the ●…luxe and 〈◊〉 of the sea Simile Tooke first this motion and may not stand Idle not any while from 's mouing course Like as a whirlegig once turn'd doth force It selfe to moue around and vertue takes From him that formerly the motion makes Or that the sea which men the Midland call 2 Be but a parcell of that liquide All Whose waues falling into some higher ocean Do dash themselues in their so angrie motion Against the rockie hils whose solid strength Quelling their force makes them recueile at length Or that the Moone whose influence aboue 3 Ruling moist bodies cause it so to moue And to speake truth we see the sea to slow Why this last opinion is most probable When on our Hemisphaere the Moone doth show And suddenly to ●…bbe when toward Spaine The Cressant takes her backward course againe Againe soone as her face constant in changing Encreasing shew's th' Antipodes her ranging It marches foorth and when her waning fire Doth passe the other noone it doth retire Yea which is more the Midland sea we know Why some armes of the sea haue greater tides then othersome Doth farther then the Tuscane ocean flow Or that hight Bosphorus and no such motion Doth stirre some duller places of the ocean Because the * Luna siluer Planet which will haue Rule of the flowing and the ebbing waue With lesser force doth shed her influence Vpon a sea where the circumference Is mountainous or streightened twixt two stronds Then where the ocean seemes to want such bonds As in the Sommer if the windie traine Simile Of A Eolus be calme with lesser paine The Delphian flame the champion fields doth drie Then dales immur'd with hils and mountaines hie If so this fluxe do shew

it selfe more plaine Why the eb●…ing 〈◊〉 is better percei●…ed neare the sh●…e then in the maine sea Hard by the shoare then in the deeper maine The pulse Natures true clocke it doth resemble Whose extreame part more then the mid doth tremble At least it seemes so Now the starrie king Is equall to the queene in gouerning The waters For his hote light-giuing beames How the saltnesse of the sea is caused Scorching the fishie vessel-bearing streames And sucking vp in 's each dayes iournement The sweeter iuice of that cold element Leaues tart and thickened liquor in the Deepe A transition frō the sea to the consideration of 〈◊〉 admirable effects of sund●…ie springs and riuers With salt that on the vpmost top doth fleet But see how heare the sea doth pull me downe Into deepe seas where I am like to drowne See how his fluxe makes my words ouerflow Well then let 's hie to land that sitting low Beside the brim of riuer lake and brooke Our thoughts into their strange effects may looke Whose maruels nigh exceeding saith and wonder Astound our wits our eyes our eares like thunder The spring of * Med●…o tu ●… corniger 〈◊〉 vn●… die 〈◊〉 est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 15. Meta●… Hamon while the Sun giues light Is cold as ice and contrarie by night Though the cold Cressant make the night lesse hot Yet boiles and fumes like water in a pot Some hold for certaine that the boughs of wood Which being wind-broke fall into the floud Of * In stumi●…e Silaro vltra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non virgul●… modo immersa verum ●…o l●…a lapidescunt Pli lib 2. c. 103. Silaris or of Eurimedon Are turn'd both wood and barke and leafe to stone Ah can my verse omit that streame in * Iosephus lib. 7. bell Iu●… cap. 24. Iurie That euery Sabbath stayes his running furie Religiously vnwilling to be pained That seuenth day which God for rest ordained If so the shepheard chaunt his louely rounds By th' Eleusina brooke those musickes sounds Do make the water boile and dance and skip And point by point the rusticke measures keepe * Plin lib 2. cap. 1 ●…3 Cephis turnes white Ceron blacke Xanthus red The fleecie troupes which there are watered Like an * Solin●…s cap 40. Arabian spring that bordring neare To the red sea turnes red their woolly weare You * Vide Ph●… lib. 2 cap 103. vbi de 〈◊〉 so●…e loquitur Solan waters and * In Andro 〈◊〉 sula templo Liaberi pa●… so●…tem nonu Ianuarijs ●…per vini sap●…e flu●…re 〈◊〉 ter co●… credit Plin. lib. 2. c. 103. Andreian riuer Whence comes that oyle and wine which you yeeld euer Once in a yeare art thou O earthie Dame So fruitfull or beneath this worldly frame Are vines and gardens and in them do lurke Men that for Bacchus and Minerua worke What shall I say of thee Sclauonian spring Pl●…●…id 〈◊〉 ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●… Or what of thee Dodonian fountaine sing When one burnes cloth the other wood doth stench Halfe burnt and kindles what it earst did quench Faith I should place these vertues admirable In the false Register of euery fable Wer 't not for due respect which young I giue To vnreproued Writers that did liue And that the greedie Pilots of our daies Had not found riuers stranger many wayes In this great number of such differing brookes A continuation of the f●…rmer argument confirmed by ocu lar witnesse of later ages Of which a scholer might compile great bookes I le choose farre hence in places harbourlesse Some fiue or sixe as true as held truthlesse In th'Ile of Fer mong other t is an I le Which men of old with * Insulae formatae the Canatie Ilands Happie name did stile The sauage folke draw not their watrie food As others do from spring or running floud Their drinke is in the aire their waters source Takes from a weeping tree his dropping course A weeping tree growing in a drie field Doth make his sweating leaues sweet liquor yeeld And as the vine late cut more fruite to beare Distilleth gently many a pearled teare Ceaslesse it droppeth downe a water cleare Where round about the people pressen neare Yet faile with all the vessels that they bring T' exhaust the streames of this one woodden spring In * Thule Ice-land men do find two wondrous springs The one yeelds waxe the other changeth things Cast in to stone although his water hot Regurgeth bubbles like a boyling pot In golden Peru neare Saint Helens mount Defyling pitch doth issue from a fount What should I say this is that new-found All Whose riuers running to their Westerne fall Know bet then we what right vse should be made Of working day-time and the chillie shade Of th' idle night and therefore runne by day And spend the night in idle resting play Great God I feare I iealous should be counted 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 me●…ble for the bodie Of thy great praise if there were not recounted In my vnthankfull verse such streames as runne Through Alume Lime Salt-peter and Brimstone Whose vertues perfect medecines are held For maladies that strike vs into eld In th'Aprill of our age and with great strife Would antedate the period of our life Now as my Gascoigne is the happiest field A particular description of the pleasant 〈◊〉 profitable 〈◊〉 of Gascoine ●…or corne and wine and men the world doth yeeld So free-cost baths do there abounden most There stranger people flocke from euery coast There the drie wombe the paralyticall The gowtie vlc'rous deafe sciaticall Comming from East and Westerne parts do gaine The speedie cure of their tormenting paine Witnesse Barege Eucausse and the hote vaines Of Aigue-caud Caudret and Baigner plaines Baigner the beautie paradise and praise Of those high hils on whom in alder dayes The Hercules of France with child did bring Pyrene daughter to the * sire and King Bebrix Of Gascoins whose attempts so generous Shew they deseru'd a sire so valorous The mountaines whited with eternall snow Do slanker in a part in stately row Th' immortall verdure of a smiling plaine Excelling * A valley ●…n ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of whose ●…tion do ●… c●…use other pl●…asant ●…ces to be hyperbolically so called Tempe hemmes it in againe On th' other side the houses new appeare The verie tiles do shine a riuer cleare As Chrystall so transparantly doth glide In each streete that the pauement may be spide And though that yeie riuer runne hard by A bath that cureth euerie maladie It keepes her nature scorning all desire Voyez le neuf Mu●…es ●…y 〈◊〉 a●… sune des 〈◊〉 p●… 165 To mixe her coolenesse with the others fire But all these strange effects match not at all Strauge Lers that from a rockie stone doth fall If it be true that * Aristoteles non capit Euripi●… Euripu●… capiet Aristotelem Lauren. Valle