thy Soule Poore sinfull Wretch who then art toss'd with Breath Whilst desp'rat Anguish no way can controule The raging Torrent of consuming Wrath In euery Corner where thy Eyes can roule Their sweetest showes more bitter are then Death Who can expresse thy Feelings or thy Feares Which euen Repentance can not helpe with Teares 43 To looke aloft if thou dare raise thy Sight Weigh'd down as damn'd by guiltie actions gone What Horrour Terrour Errour all affright Thee trembling thee who out of tyme do'st grone Oft shall thou wish that thee falne Mountaines might Hyde from his Face who sittes vpon the Throne But ah in vaine a lurking Place is sought Nought can be couered now no not one Thought 44 The dreadfull Noyse which that great Day proclaimes When mix'd with Sighes and Shouts from Mortalls here O how deform'd a Forme Confusion frames None can well thinke till that it selfe appeare Whilst Clouds of Smoake deliuered are of Flames They darken would their Birth it them would cleare But whilst Both striue None Victorie attaines This endlesse Darkenesse bodes that endlesse Paines 45 If seeking Helpe from thy first Parent slyme Lo Plutoes Palace Dongeons of Despaire As fyr'd by Furies kindled by thy Cryme Ben to encroach on interdicted Aire Do gape to swallow thee before the tyme Whom they foresee damn'd for a Dweller there Heauen ouer thy Head Hell burnes beneath thy Feet As both in Rage to fight with Flammes would meet 46 With Owlie Eyes which horride Lightnings blind This to admire the Reprobat not neede Match'd with the Horrours of a guiltie Mind Nought from without but Pleasure can proceed Sinke in their Bosomes Hells and they shall find More vglie things a Iuster feare to breed Of all most loath'd since first the World began No greater Monster then a Wicked Man 47 All sorts of Creatures soone consum'd remaine Crush'd by their death whose lyues on them depend Their treasons partners whom they entertaine Mans Forfeiture doth too towards them extend Whom since they can no further serue againe True Vassalls thus they with their Lords will end Though oft they them like Tyrants did abuse Whom as Ingrate their Dusts that day accuse 48 Ere it we can call com'd that which is past Charg'd with Corruption flowlie I pursue Since without Hope to reach though following fast That which like lightning quickly scapes the view I where I cannot walke a compasse cast And must seeke wayes to common knowledge due For Mortalls eares my Muse tunes what she sings With earthly Colours painting Heauenly things 49 The last Deluge of Vniuerfall Wrath To wash the Earth defiled all with Sinne So to prolong their litle pufts of Breath High Mountaines Tops both Sexes striu'd to winne But of accesse what Fort can frustrat death Death did attend them there where they did runne With Paine and feare choak'd dash'd ere dying dead Death doubled so was but more grieuous made 50 So when the flamming waues of wasting Fyre Ouer all the World do riotouslie rage Some to the Depths for safetie shall retire As Thetis kisse could Vulcans Wrath asswage But that Lieutenant of his Makers Ire Makes all the Elements straight beare his Badge Scorch'd Earth being op'ned swallowes Thousands down Aire thickned choakes with smoake and Waters drown 51 The halting Lemnian highly shall reuenge The ancient Scorne of other equall Powers Both strong and swift though lame what Wonder strange He in his Madnesse all the Rest deuoures His Fiercenesse first his Mother toyles to change But hauing him embrac'd she likewise lours And with her Sonne doth furiously conspire Straight from pure Air being All transform'd in Fire 52 This Heat with Horrour may congeale all Harts Lifes Bellowes toss'd by Breath which still doth moue That Fanne which doth refresh the inward Parts Euen it shall make the Brest a Fornace proue That Signe of Life which oft arriues and partes Boyles all within else burnes it selfe aboue At that dread Day denouncing endlesse Night All smoake not breath whilst Flames giue only Light 53 That stormie Tyrant which vsurpes the Air Whilst Woll rain'd downe from Heauen doth him enfold A liquid Pillar hinging at each Hair Sneez'd fiercely forth when shaking all for Cold He clad with Flames a firie Leader thair Makes feeble Vulcan by his Aide more bold Whose Bellowes fostred by the Others Blast May soone forge Ruine Instruments to wast 54 The Lands Great Creature Nurceling of the East Which Ioues extreamely and with Zeale adores In Spirit and Nature both aboue a Beast Whilst charg'd with Men he through the Battell roares And his arm'd Match of Monsters not the least Whose Scales defensiue Horne inuasiue gores Whilst foming Flames as other to prouoke Straight joyn'd in Dust their Battell ends in Smoke 55 The craftie Foxe which Numbers doth deceaue To get not be a Prey shall be a Prey The Embrions Enemie Womens that conceaue As who might giue him Death their Birth to stay That rauenous Wolfe which Blood would alwayes haue All then a Thought more quickly shall decay No Strength then stands such Weaknesse went before Nor yet base Slight meere Foolishnesse and more 56 The Hart whose Hornes as Greatnesse is to all Do seeme to grace are Burdens to his Head With swift though slender Legges when Wounds appall Which cures himselfe where Nature doth him lead And with great Eyes weake Heart oft Dangers Thrall The warie Hare whose Feare oft Sport hath made Do seeke by Swiftnesse Death in vaine to shunne As if a Flight of Flames could be outrunne 57 The painted Panther which not fear'd doth gore Like some whose beauteous Face foule Minds defame The Tiger Tigrish past expressing more Since crueltie is noted by his Name The able Ounce strong Beare and fooming Bore Mans Rebells since GOD did Man his proclaime Though fierce all faint and know not where to turne They see their old Refuge the Forrests burne 58 The mildest Beasts importing greatest Gaine Which others Crimes made Altars only touch By whom they cloth and feede not crying slaine The Christians Image only true when such Their growing Snowes which Arts fraile Colours staine Was wrong'd when faind of Gold since worth more much But precious things the Owners Harmes oft breede The Fleeces Flames the Bodies doe succede 59 The Flocks for Profite vs'd in euery Part Though them to serue they make their Masters bow And are the Idoles of a greedy Hart Which as old Egypt doth adore a Cow Like Hannibals which Fabius mock'd by Art As walking Torches all runne madding now By Phoebus tickled they to startle vs'd But Vulcan ruder makes them rage confus'd 60 Their Martiall Cheiftan Mastiues Rage to stay Pasiphaes Louer Venus dayly Slaue With brandish'd Hornes as mustering first doth stray Then throwes them downe in Guard a Match to craue Straight like the Colchian Bulles ere Iasons Prey He Flames not fain'd doth breath but not to braue Like that of Phalaris whom one did fill He tortur'd bellowing doth ly bullering still
61 Of all the Beasts by Men domesticke made The most obsequious and obedient still The fawning Dog which where we list we leade And wants but Words to doe all which we will Which loues his Lord extreamly euen when dead And on his Tomb for Griefe himselfe doth kill He then with Tongue stretch'd forth doth panting rin Which straight when fir'd drawn backe burnes all within 62 The generous Horse the Gallants greatest Friend In Peace for Show and in effect for Warre Which to his Lord when wearie Legges doth lend To flie or chase in Sport or earnest Farre A Pegasus he through the Air would bend Till that his Course turn'd Centaure Man doth marre His wauing Treasures fir'd to flie from Death He first the wind outrunnes and then his Breath 63 This squadrons King that doth for Fight prepare As if he wrack'd the World doth raging goe His Foote doth beate the Earth Taile whippes the Aire Mad to be hurt and yet not find a Foe But soone his Shoulders rough the Fire makes bare And melts his Strength which was admired so Death doth to Rest arrest his rouling Eyes Loe in a litle Dust the Lyon lyes 64 Those Poysnous Troupes in Africks Fields which stray In Death all fertill as the first began By Look by Touch by Wound and euery Way True Serpents Heires in Hatred vnto Man Which GOD still good in Deserts maks to stay To waste the World still doing what they can But whilst they houle scritch barke bray hurle hisse spout Their inward Fire soone meetes with that without 65 The Crocodile with running Depthes in Loue By Land and Water of Tyrannicke powr With vpmost Iawes which and none else do moue Whose Cleansing first is sweet oft after sowr And whyls his Crime his Punishment doth proue Whilst a deuouring Baite train'd to deuoure He neither now can fight nor yet retire His scalie Armour is no Proofe of Fire 66 The Beast though haunting Depthes not there confin'd Whose Haires as precious decke each Great Mans Head Before like Eagles Gooses like behind Whose Feet as Oares to manage Streames are made To waste the liquid Wayes not needing Wind Whose Taile his Course doth as a Rudder leade A Sparke falne from a Tree may then confound Him with his Teeth that now strikes Trees to Ground 67 The Otter black where sinne-wing'd troupes repaire Fresh Riuers Robber which his prey doth chuse And all that kinde nor Fish nor Flesh which are But do two Elements Amphibions vse Not able to touch Earth nor to draw Aire In Waters they their kindled Skinnes infuse But yet refuge can find in neither Soile They burne on Earth and in the Depths do boyle 68 Floods seem'd to grone which beasts Incursion maimes All altered then which lookt of late like Glasse And murmure at the flamming of their streames By Carcasses flot-flotting in a Masse A mouing Bridge whilst euery Channell frames When as there are no Passengers to passe With Beasts all buried Waters are press'd down Whilst both at once their Burdens burne and drown 69 The Crystalls quicke which slowlie vs'd to go And others Heat by coldnesse did allay As if being grieu'd to be polluted so Grown red with rage boyld vp pop-popling stay And tread in Triumph on their breathlesse Fo Whoses Ashes with their Sands they leuell lay But Vulcan now a Victor in each place By Violence doth all their Nymphes embrace 70 The Dwellers of the Depths not harm'd in ought When first Vyce all and next the Waters drown'd So since by some more sacred still are thought As whom Sinnes Scourge did onely not confound The Elements not pure to purge being brought They likewise fall kill'd by this generall Wound The Fishes sodden are in euery Flood Yet find no Eaters though a callour Food 71 All which Corruption only serues to feed When it doth end doth end so Heauen designes Nought saue the Soule which doth from GOD proceede Ouer death triumphes and still is pleas'd else pynes Death nor mans Essence but his Sinne did breed And it with it the end of Tyme confines Then Death and Lyfe shall neuer meet againe The State then taken alwayes doth remaine 72 Salt Seas fresh Streames the Fish which loues to change The Riuers Prince esteem'd by daintie Tastes Which through the Ocean though he yearelie range The bounds him bred to see yet yearelie hastes Ah Man whyles wants O Monster more then strange This kind Affection common vnto Beasts That Salmon fresh for which so many stryue May then be had boyld where it liu'd alyue 73 The Trout the Eele and all that Watrie Brood Which without Feet or Wings can make much Way Then leape aloft forc'd by the raging Flood Not as they vs'd before for sport or prey That which whyles freez'd their Glasse to gaze in stood Now turn'd to Flammes makes what it bred decay Those which to take Men did all Snares allow All without Baites or Nets are taken now 74 Those Floods which first did Fields with Streames array The Riuers foure by sacred Write made known Which since farre sundrie makes their Wits to stray Who Paradise drawn by their Dreames haue shown As turn'd from it or it from them away In all the Earth their strength shall be ou'r-thrown VVhom first high Pleasures Horrours huge last bound As if for Griefe they vanish from the Ground 75 The fertile Nilus neuer rashlie mou'd Which ag'd in trauell manie Country knowes Whose Inundation by the Labourer lou'd As Barrennesse or Plentie it fore-showes From diuerse meanes but doubtfull all is prou'd Oft Natures worke all Reasons Power ouer-throwes The Ancients wondred not to find his Head But it shall all inuisible be made 76 Heauens Indignation seazing on all things The greatest Waters languish in their Way The litle Brookes exhausted in their Springs For Pouertie can not their Tribute pay Of Moisture spoyl'd the Earth craues Help not brings The Mightie thus left to themselues decay Great powers compos'd make but of manie one Whose weaknesse showes it selfe when left alone 77 That Flood whose Fame more great then Waters straide Whose Race like it more then their owne would ow Which from the Appennins oft gathering aide Would those ouer-throw who did the world ou'r-throw VVhich though vnstable onely stable staide In that great Citie where all else fell low It which so long familiar was with Pame Shall be dry'd vp an vnregarded streame 78 The Sheep-heards Mirrours all like Siluer pure VVhich curious Eyes delighted were to see VVhen Flammes from Heauen fraile Beauties shall combure No Creature then being from Confusion free Euen they shall grow more vglie and obscure Then the infernall Floods are fain'd to be Of their long course there shall no signe remaine VVorse then that Lake where Brimstone once did raine 79 Whilst Thetis bent to court those Streames as vaine That on themselues to gaze stryue Time to win And liquid Serpents wynding through the Plaine As if to sting the Earth oft gathered in
Maker crau'd If that his Will had bene by him transgress'd The Woman LORD whom I from thee receau'd She made me eat as who my Soule possess'd The Woman said the Serpent me deceau'd Both burdend Others None the Fault confess'd Which Custome still their faultie Race doth vse All first do rinne to hide next to excuse 67 But he who tries the Reines and viewes the Hart As through the Clouds doth through fraile Bodies see And is not mock'd by Mens ridiculous Art By which their Crimes made more more odious be Who proudly sinne they must submissely smart Loe GOD crau's compt of what he did decree And those who joyn'd in Sinne are punish'd all All Adams Partners crush'd were with his Fall 68 GOD thus first damn'd the Fountaine of Deceate O most accurst of all the Beasts which breede Still wallowing in the Dust a lothsome state Drawn on thy Belly basely shall thou feede The Woman Thee thou shall the Woman hate Which Hatred still inherite shall her Seede Whose fierce Effects both mutually shall feele Whilst he shall breake thy Head thou bruise his Heele 69 And Woman weake whose Thoughts each Fancie blowes I will encrease thy Griefe thy Ioyes restraine And since thy Iudgement doth depend on showes Thou to thy Husband subject shall remaine And bringing forth thy Brood with bitter Throwes What was with Pleasure sown shall reape with Paine Those Beauties now which mustred are with Pride In withred Wrinckles ruinous Age shall hide 70 Fond Adam thou obeying thus thy Wife What I commanded violat who durst Cares shall exhaust thy Dayes Paines ende thy Life Whilst for thy Cause the Earth becomes accurst With Thornes and Thistles guerdoning thy Strife Who sweating for thy Food art like to burst And looke no more for Rest for Toyle thou must Till whence thou came thou be turn'd backe to Dust 71 By Angels arm'd barr'd from the pleasant Place When wretched Adams Pilgrimage was past The Tree of Sinne ou'rshaddowing all his Race They from their minds all Loue of GOD did cast Them to reclaime who did contemne his Grace Who wearie was with striuing at the last Of all the VVorld a Haruest made by Raine He did resolue to trie new Seede againe 72 Yet since that Noah vprightly had liu'd He and his Race stood safe on Horrours hight And when all Creatures Ruine was contriu'd They liu'd secure the fourtie-day-long Night To make the World repent that good Man striu'd His swelling Bulwarke battering in their Sight But with the Wicked nought can well succeede In whom Perswasions Obstinacie breede 73 As the Worlds sinnes ou'rflow'd GODS Wrath ou'rflam'd VVhich when rais'd high down Floods of Vengeance pours As Noahs Preaching oft times had proclaim'd Heauens threatning straight to drown the highest Tours Clouds clustred Darkenesse Lightnings Terrour stream'd And rumbling Thunders vshered vgly Shours Whilst rauenous Tempests swallow'd vp the Light Day dead for Feare brought forth abortiue Night 74 From Guests prophane that Earth might be redeem'd The Lights of Heauen quensh'd in their Lanterns lay The Azure Vaults all but one Cisterne seem'd Whilst safe the Waters All things did decay The Fire drown'd out Heauens all dissolu'd were deem'd Air Water grew the Earth as wash'd away By monstrous Stormes whilst All things were ou'rturn'd Then safe GODS Wrath in all the World nought burn'd 75 Men to the Mountaines did for Helpe repaire Whence them the Waues did violently chace In Natures Scorne came scallie Squadrouns thair The Forrests Guests inheriting their place By too much Water no for lacke of Air All were confounded in a litle Space The Elements with Anguish we enjoy All must nurse one One thus may all destroy 76 That vaulting Vault against the Storme did striue VVhich all the Creatures of the VVorld contain'd And whyls through Depthes whyls through the Clouds did driue Not by the Compasse nor the Rudder rain'd No Port no Land was where it could ariue VVhilst Earth with VVaters leuell all remain'd The VVaues the VVorld all else being hush'd at once Roar'd forth a Consort with Mens dying Grones 77 But when ouer all GODS Breath did Ruine blow The Arke with others Sinne from Death did saue Him whom the raging Floods did not ou'rthrow VVho of GODS Iudgements Iudge did all perceaue A litle Liquor did at last ou'rthrow VVhich to his Sonne to mocke Occasion gaue Thus Drunkennesse disdainfull scorne doth breede A fertile Vyce which Others still succeede 78 As the first World did first by Pryde offend Whose burning Rage to such a hight did win That it to quensh GOD did the Waters bend O Drunkennesse the second Worlds first sinne The course of Vice that Element must end Which is oppos'd to it which did beginne In euery thing GODS Iustice we may spy As Floods drown'd Pryde Flames Drunkennesse must dry 79 When Men againe to fill the World did weare Straight in their Soules did Satan raise his Throne O what a Burden Nature dost thou beare Since that to Sinne and Liue seeme both but one Men Babels Towres against the Starres did reare Since lyke deseruing fearing what was gone As though that GOD could but one Plague command Ah Fooles what Strength against his Strength can stand 80 Whilst fondly They proud weaknesse did bewray Who can the Depths of His high Iudgements sound By making their owne Tongues their Hearts betray Those Titans straight the Thund'rer did confound Here diuerse Tongues the Worke of Men did stay Which afterwards the Worke of GOD did ground The Mind not meanes effectuall doth remaine What help'd Apostles hindred the Prophane 81 When purpos'd to dissolue quicke Clouds of Dust GODS Wrath as stubble Sinners doth deuoure That Towne to sacke which had not tenne Men just He Brimstone rain'd O most prodigious Showre Their Bodies burn'd whose Soules were burn'd with Lust What faire was vglie what was sweet grew sowre Yet of that Fyre Lot scap'd the great Deluge GODS holy Mountaine is a sure Refuge 82 I recken not the ruine of those States Which being but Strangers to the ground of Grace Were caried head-long with their own Conceits And euen though brightly blindlie ranne their Race GODS firme Decrees which fondlie they call'd Fates Did bound their Glory in a litle Space Whil'st Tempests huge toss'd their tumultuous Mindes Lyke Reeds by Riuers wauering with all Windes 83 Such rais'd not for their good but for GODS ends When bent his owne to punish or support Do as his Arrowes hit but where he tends Else of themselues their power doth nought import When he his spotted Flocke to purge intends They are but Tooles vs'd in a seruile sort To fanne or cleanse as Fannes or Beesomes they Which when the Worke is done are throwne away 84 Proud Ashur first did daunt all other Soyles Till barbarous Persia did become her Head The Greekes did glory in the Persians spoyles Whose Prince at last Rome did in Triumph lead Rome rauishing the Earth bred bloody Broyles Yet was by whom she scorn'd a Widow
This Serpent bruise this Liuiathan raine 95 The Sunne and Moone now often-times looke pale As if asham'd the Shame of Men to see Or else grown old their force beginnes to faile That thus so oft eclips'd their Beauties be And ouer their Glory Darkenesse doth preuaile Whilst faint for Griefe their Ruine they foresee For as superfluous they must shortly fall When as the light of Light doth lighten all 96 The Heauenlie Bodies as being grown lesse strong Do seeme more slacke as wearie of their Race So that Tyme rests reform'd as being runne wrong All Climats still new Temperatures embrace What strange Effects must follow then ere long Some Starres seeme new and others change their place So altred is the starrie Courts Estate Astrologues want intelligence of late 97 Each element by diuerse Signes hath showne That shortly euill must be discern'd from good The Earth ag'd Mother now is Barren grown Whose Wombe oft worne now torne doth fâ—ile in Brood And may since staggering else be soone ou'rthrowne What wonder Weake through Age and drunke with Blood With Blood which still to GOD for Vengeance cryes And as o'reburden'd groning groueling lyes 98 The liquid Legions by tumultuous Bands Whose bellowing Billowes to transcend contend Do whyles vsurpe whyles leaue possessed Lands In Monsters fertill fishes rarely lend Whilst crown'd with Clouds each murmuring Mountain stands Which acted first but suffer must in end A mighty Change Heauens Monarch novv concludes Floods first quensh'd flams flams straight shall kindle floods 99 The Aire whose Power impetuous Nought can bound Doth cite all Soules to GODS Great Parliament Whilst thundring Tempests roare a rumbling Sound And the last Trumpets Terrour represent Those Blasts denounce the Ruine of this Round Which Heauen in Showres seemes weeping to lament Thus Waters wash Winds wipe and both conspire That Earth so purg'd may be prepar'd for Fire 100 The Water Earth the Aire would it ou'rthrow Whose Rage by Ruine only is represt The High things still insulting ou'r the Low Till once the Highest haue consum'd the Rest The fourth must end what the first three fore-show Whose proofe is last reseru'd as being the Best A firie Triall euery thing defines And All at last to a Perfection fines 101 Then Natures Selfe not strong as of before Yeeldes Fruits deform'd as from a bastard Seede That monstrous Minds may be admir'd no more Whilst monstrous Bodies more Amazement breede All the Portentuous Brood of Beasts abhorre And since prodigious ominously dreade From their first Forme since all things thus decline All in another Shape must shortly shine 102 Few Signes or none remaine Mens Minds to moue Till of the Sonne of Man the Signe craue Sight That Glory which vnspeakable doth proue CHRISTS Substance no his Shaddow yet our Light Whose Majestie and Beautie from aboue Shall ere he shine make all about be bright The Comming of the LORD that Signe bewrayes As Lightning Thunder as the Sunne his Rayes 103 Yet this vile Age what Rage some Mockers breeder That big with Scorne disdainfully dare say What change mad Minds with such fond Fancies feedes From the first Forme since nought below doth stray The Sommer Haruest Winter Spring succedes The Moone doth shine by Night the Sunne by day Males procreat and Females do conceaue Some dayly Life do lose some it receaue 104 O Atheists vile else Christians voyde of Care From GODS Tribunall who in vaine appeale That CHRIST to judge the World doth straight prepare You thus contemning Signes a Signe reueale Whose Harts obdur'd the Nearenesse doth declare Of your Damnations our Saluations Seale And whilst your Hart both Heauen and Hell derides Your Iudgement Heauen your Torment Hell prouides 105 Yet foolish Soules their Pleasures still affect And marrying Wiues what Mirth may moue deuise But whilst asleepe their Safetie they neglect CHRIST as a Theefe against them shall arise And in a Rage when they Him least exspect Shall slouthfull Seruants suddainly surprise As Such shall wish their Talents strictly try'd That from his Face them Hilles them Hells might hide 106 O Multitude O multitude as Sand A day of Horrour strange shall straight appeared Come down and in the threshing Valley stand The threshing Valley lo the LORD drawes neare And else doth take take heed his Fanne in Hand Light Soules as Chaffe with Wind euanish heere The Haruest is ripe and the Wine-presse is full Yea Wickednesse ou'rflowes all Harts are dull 107 Seale Viall Trumpet Seuenth opens poures sounds What doth not intimate GODS Great Decree Which Natures Course Mans Faith GODS Mercy bounds Euen in a time when Time no more should be The Fire is kindling else which All confounds GODS Hand lo writes his Ballance rais'd we see When Souls are weigh'd GODS wondrous Works to crown The Weightie must mount vp the Light fall down 108 But ere the Depthes of Wrath I enter in When as Repentance shall no more haue place As GOD a while deferres some Soules to winne I will suspend my Furie for a Space That ere the Hight of Horrour do beginne My Thoughts may bath amidst the Springs of Grace To cleare some Soules which Sathan seekes to blind LORD purge my Spirit illuminat my Mind DOOMES-DAY OR THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORDS IVDGEMENT The third Houre THE ARGVMENT WHilst Angels Him conuoy Saints attend The Heauens as Smoak all fled before his Face CHRIST through the Cloud With Glory doth descend With Majestie and Terrour Power and Grace What flie walke grow swim All What may ende do end Earth Air and Sea All purg'd in litle Space Strange Preparations that great Court preceede Where All must meet whom any Age did breede 1 IMmortall MONARCH Ruler of the Rounds Embaume my Bosome with a secret Grace Whilst lifted vp aboue the vulgar Bounds A Path not pau'd my Spirit aspires to trace That I with brasen Breath may rore forth SouÌ„ds To shake the Hart fixe Palenesse in the Face LORD make my swelling Voyce a mighty Winde Lift vp the Low beate downe the lofty Mind 2 What dreadfull Sound doth thunder in my Eares What pompous Splendor doth transport mine Eyes I wot not what aboue my selfe me beares He comes He comes who all Hearts Secrets tries Showt showt for Ioy who long haue rain'd down Teares Houle houle for Griefe in Ease who wallowing lies Now shall be built and on Eternall Grounds The Hight of Horrour Pleasure passing Bounds 3 Now no more firme the Firmament doth flie As leapes the Deere fled from the Hunters face Loe lyke a Drunkard reels the Crystall Skie As Garments olde degraded from their grace All folded vp the Azure Pallions spy Which with a noyse doth vanish from the Place The Lanterne burnt Light vtters vtter Worth Drawne are the Hingings MAIESTIE comes forth 4 Who can abide the Glory of that fight Which kils the Liuing and the Dead doth raise With Squadrons compass'd Angells flamming bright Whom Thousands serue ten thousand Thousands praise My Soule entranc'd Rest rauish'd with
Who hauing life what dead things proue doe doubt Who first did found the Doungeons of the Deepes But one in all ouer all aboue about The Floodes for our delight first calme were set But storme and roare since men did God forget 11 Who partes the swelling Spoutes which sifte the Raine Who raines the Windes the Waters doth empale Who frownes in Tempests smiles in Calmes againe And doth dispense the Treasures of the Haile Whose Coach of Cloudes doth driu'd by Windes remaine Whose Darts dread Thunder-bolts makes men looke pale Euen this to shew those workes themselues haue wonne As smoke doth fire as shaddowes doe the Sunne 12 God visibly invisible who raignes Soule of all soules whose Light each light reflects All from confusion freed and still retaines The greatest rules yet not the least neglects Fore-knowes the end of all which he ordaines His Will each Cause each cause breeds fit Effects Who did make all all thus could only leade None could make all but who was neuer made 13 Vile Dog of Truth who would the ground ouerthrow Thou thee to marke thy darkned Iudgement leade For if thy Selfe thou must thy Maker know Who all thy members prouidently made Thy Feet tread Earth to be contemn'd laid low To looke on Heauen exalted was thy Head That there thou might the stately Mansion see From whence thou art where thou should seeke to be 14 The World in Soules Gods Image cleare may see Though Mirrours bruis'd whē fallen sparks dimm'd far flown They in strict Bounds strict Bonds kept captiue be Yet walke ouer all this All and know not known Yea soare to Heauen whiles from their Fetters free And there see things which can not well be shown None can conceaue all must admire his Might Of whom each Atome giues so great a light 15 When troubled Conscience reades accusing Scroules Which witness'd are euen by the brests owne brood O what a Terrour wounds remording Soules Who Poyson find what seem'd a pleasant Food A secret power their wandring thoughts controules And damning Euill an Author proues of Good Thus heere some Mindes a Mappe of Hell do lend To shew what Horrours damned Soules attend 16 To grant a God the Deuill may men entyfe By Magicke when conjur'd such to vpbrayd Who borrowing bodies Horrour doth disguyse Lest some his vglinesse might make afrayd Whyles in more monstrous Formes doth roaring ryse Till euen as charm'd the Charmer stands dismayde He bellowing foorth abominable lyes Blood in his Mouth and Terrour in his Eyes 17 Who saues the World lest that it ruin'd be By him whose thoughts as Arrowes ayme at ill Saue One who is more great more good then he Who makes His Power repugnant to his Will Of this with which oft Sathans words agree He forc'd affords a Testimonie still From euerything thus springs to GOD some praise Men Angels Deuils all must his Glory raise 18 Though trusting more yet some transgresse as much As those who vnto GOD draw neuer neare For what the Fitst not see the Last not touch Ones Eyes are blind the others are not cleare Their Mindes false Mirrours figure GOD but such As Waters straight things crooked make appeare Their Faith is neuer firme their Loue not bright As Ankers without holdes Fyres without light 19 Their Iudgements Fond by Frailtie being confind Whose Soule as Water Vanitie deuoures Doe faine in GOD what in themselues they find And by their Weakenesse judge the POWER of POWERS Then the Vnbounded bounding by their Mind Would staine Heauens Garden with terrestriall Flowres Men still imagine Others as They are And measure all things by Corruptions Square 20 They thinke that GOD soft Pleasure doth affect And Iocund Loftie Lul'd in Ease as Great Doth scorne contemne or at the least neglect Mans sickle abject and laborious State That he disdaines to guerdon or correct Mans good or euill Toyes free from Loue or Hate That when Earth is his prospect from the Skyes As Men on Beasts on Men he casts his Eyes 21 No high in Heauen from whence he bindes and frees He in voluptuous Ease not wallowing lyes What Was what Is what Shall be all he sees Weighs euery Worke each Heart in secret tryes All Registers then filling first Decrees Giues or abstracts his Grace Cause End both spyes His Contemplation farre transcends our reach Yet what fits vs to know his Word doth teach 22 Then to confirme what was affirm'd before That no GOD is or GOD doth not regard Who do blaspheme say fooles or who adore This oft due Vengeance wants and that Reward Then Godly Men the Wicked prosper more Who still presume where they haue oft despair'd Such as they thinke feele Paine and dreame but Ioy Whilst they what can be wish'd do all enjoy 23 The Sunne in all lyke Comfort doth infuse The Raine to all by equall portions parts Heauens Treasures all alyke both haue and vse Which GOD to all as one to him imparts Each Mindes free State lyke Passions do abuse Each bodies Bondage by like Sicknesse smarts Thus all aliue alike all Fortunes trie And as the Bad euen so the Best do die 24 O Men most Simple and yet more then Mad Whose Soules your Hearts whose Hearts Sinne hath subdu'd Whilst good Men now are grieu'd though you be glad They weake yet pure you strong yet stain'd and lewd Huge are the oddes betwixe the Best and Bad Which darkely here hence shall be clearely view'd When of GODS Wrath the Wind sifts Soules at last They shall abide you vanish at a blast 25 GODS Benefites though lyke to both design'd On outward Eyes whilst Iudgement doth depend The inward Eyes a mighty difference find To ballance both whilst spirituall Thoughts ascend The Gift is one but not the Giuers Mind The Vse is one but not the Vsers end GOD so would clogge the one the other raise Those take themselues to please They Him to praise 26 The Good oft euill the Euill oft good may haue And by the contrarie both may be cloyd But as they are all make what they receaue Not reall of it selfe but as employ'd Those temporall Treasures Monuments do leaue As by a Blessing or a Curse convoy'd But this is sure what euer GOD doth send To Good-Mens good to Euil-Mens euill doth tend 27 GOD to cure Soules doth diuerse Baulmes applie Whilst his intent still the euent doth crowne Some are press'd downe lest they should swell too hie Some are rais'd high lest that they should sinke down Some must haue Wealth their Charitie to trie Some Pouertie their Patience to renowne He who made all knowes all and as they neede Not as they wish makes things with his succeede 28 Since Worldly things GOD makes both sorts possesse Ingratitude or Gratefulnesse to moue Let vs seek greater things though seeming lesse Which to one sort doth only proper proue That secret Grace whose power none can expresse Whose fruits are Vertue Zeale Faith Hope and Loue The Wickeds Treasures Godly men may gaine But
and worne with Paines And yet it last which ail this Trouble wrought From molten Mountaines shall ou'rflow the Plaines Ah ah curst Gold what mak'st thou not Men doe Being sought ouer all the Earth and in it to 24 Fond Coueting made our first Parents fall And since the same hath still held downe their Race Whose Iudgements were to senslesse things made thrall Which GOD most low and they most high do place Nought in themselues to vs by vs made All The which we first and then they all things grace But straight dissolu'd they shall to Hell repaire To braue a Multitude by them drawn th aire 25 At Heauen when hence if certaine to arriue These barbarous Soules were well who free from Noy Walke naked feede on Herbes and for Nought striue But scorne our Toyles whose Treasure is their Toy As Adam first when innocent they liue And goldlesse thus the golden Age enjoy We barbarous are in Deedes and they in Show Too litle they and ah too much we know 26 What huge Deluge of Flames enflames my Mind Whilst inward Ardour that without endeeres A Light ou'rflowing Light doth make me blind The Sea a Lanterne Earth a Lampe appeares That crystall Couering burn'd which it confin'd The Way to Ruine fatall Lightning cleares Dust equalls all which vnto it returne All Creatures now one funerall Fire doth burne 27 The stately Birds which sacred were to Ioue Whos 's Pourtraits did great Emprours Powers adorne Whilst generously their Race they striu'd to proue Which Titans Beames with bended Eyes had borne Shall fall down headlongs burning from aboue As Phaeton was faind Ambitions scorne As fit to fall who of themselues presume Those raging Wrath doth at the first consume 28 The sixt and last of that vnmatched Kind If each of them doth liue a thousand Yeeres Shall Sabboth haue in Ashes still confin'd Whose Birth Death Nest and Tombe all one appeares That only Bird which ouer all others shin'd As ouer all Lights that which Nights Darkenesse cleares He from renuing of his Age by Fire Shall be preuented ere that it exspire 29 The Salamander which still Vulcan lou'd And those small Wormes which in hote Waters dwell This liues in Fire that dies from it remou'd But those last Flames shall both from Breath expell Those Creatures thus by burning Heat oft prou'd Show tortur'd Soules may pine yet breath in Hell If those in Fire and with Delight remaine May not the Wicked liue in Fire with Paine 30 That pompous Bird which still in Triumph beares Rould in a Circle his ostentiue Taile With Starres as if to braue the starrie Spheares Then seemes at once to walke to flie to saile His Flesh which kept nought to Corruption weares Against Destruction shall not now preuaile Those painted Fowles shall then be Baites for Fire As painted Fooles be now for endlesse Ire 31 The Indian Griphon Terrour of all Eyes That flying Giant Nimbrod of the Air The scalie Dragon which in Ambush lyes To watch his Enemie with a Martiall Care Though breathing Flames touch'd by a Flame straight dies And all wing'd Monsters made since hurtfull rare Types of strong Tyrants which the Weake oppresse Those rauenous great Ones Prey vpon the Lesse 32 Their nimble Feathers then shall nought import Which with their Wings both leuell Sea and Land The Faulcon fierce and all that actiue Sort Which by their Burden grace a Princes Hand And they for Prey their Bearers bent for Sport Do thrall great Monarches which euen Men command Ere fallen on Earth their Ashes quenshed be Whom soard of late aloft Men scarse could see 33 Those Birds but turn'd to Dust againe shall raine Which mutinous Israel with a Curse receau'd And those for Sport so prodigally slaine For which what shame some Belly-monsters crau'd Long Necks like Crans their Tastes to entertaine From which the PHENIX hardly can be sau'd In Bodies base whose Bellies still are full The Soules are made choak'd with grosse Vapours dull 34 The feathred Flockes which by a Notion strange I know not how inspir'd or what they see Or if their inward Following outward Change As true Astrologues gathering Stormes foresee In quaking Cloudes their murmuring Troupes which range To waile or warne the World hiu'd on some Tree Nought vnto them this Generall Wracke fore-showes Men Angels no not CHRIST as Man fore-knowes 35 The rage of Tyme those Changelings to appease Like fained Friends who Fortune only wooe Which haunt each soyle whilst there they find their Ease Though I confesse this showes their Greatnesse too Who at their Will vse Kingdomes as they please Euen more then Monarches with great Hostes can do But yet where ere they be they then shall fall GODS Armie I his Arme doth stretch ouer All. 36 Those which themselues in Ciuill Warres do match Whose sound triumphall Lyons puts to flight The Mornings Vshers vrging Sleepes dispatch Whose Wings applaud their Voyce saluting Light The Labourers Horloge ordinarie Watch Whose Course by Nature rul'd goes alwayes right Those Trumpeters dissoluing many Dreame May then not see the Day which they proclaime 37 So suddainlie all shall with Ruine meet That euen the Fowle which still doth streames pursue As if to wash or hyde her loath'd black Feet Then swimmes in state proud of her snowie hue Who vs'd with Tragick Notes though sad yet sweet To mak Meanders Nymphes her dying rue She being surprys'd not dreaming of her death Shall not haue time to tune her plaintiue Breath 38 The winged Squadrons which by feeling find A Body though Inuisible of Aire Both solid waste clos'd open free confin'd Whilst weigh'd by lightnesse stayes by mouing there As Swimmers Waues those Fliers beat the Wind Borne by their Burdens Miracles if rare The Feathers fyr'd their stretched Armes do shrink And by being lighter heauier down they sinke 39 That sort which diuing deep and soaring hie Lyke some too subtill trusting double wayes Which swimme with Fishes and with Fowles do flie Whilst still their course the present Fortune swayes At last in vaine their liquid Fortresse trie Of Wrath the Weapons nought saue Ruine stayes To flie the Aire down in the Depthes they bend For want of Aire down in the Depthes they end 40 Wing'd Alchimists which quintessence the Flowres As oft-tymes drown'd before then burn'd shall be Then measuring Artists by their nombrous Powers Whose workes proportions better do agree Which do by Colonies vncharge their Bowres Kill Idle one sting Foes what needs fore-see Men talke of Vertue Bees do practise it Euen Iustice Temperance Fortitude and Wit 41 What Agonie doth thus my Soule inuest I thinke I see Heauen burne Hells Gulfes all gape My panting Heart doth beat vpon my Brest As vrging Passage that it thence may scape Reft from my selfe yet no where else I rest Of what I was reseruing but the shape My Haires are bended vp swolne are mine Eyes My Tongue in silence Myndes amazement tyes 42 Who can but dreame what Furies plague
surpryse Such in such Sinnes which do from GOD rebell But euen all those who euills by Night deuise And louing Darknesse shall in Darknesse dwell Who with a Conscience calme all Feares despise As when that Cerberus slept they might take Hell Such to an Owle make GOD inferiour be As if by Night Nights Maker nought could see 13 Wing'd Messengers may then euen some arrest Who rioting till quite exhausted all Whilst in their Vomits wallowing they rest From Men to Beasts from Beasts to nought do fall Those dead though liuing who can but detest As Natures Monsters Mankind to appall In them who haue their Reason drown'd in Wine No Sparke of GODS nor Natures Light doth shine 14 Some rating Pleasure at too high a pryce Who with the Light do lay all Shame asyde Do prostitute their Soules to euery Vyce If not then free by beastlinesse from Pryde Then their whole States oft venter on the Dyce As who in nought but Fortune do confide By manie odious Oath then mock GODS Migh True workes of Darknesse worthie of the Night 15 Fond Worldlings there inuolu'd in vaine Delight Who to the Senses fraile indulgent are And as soft Sounds the Courage do inuite With measur'd Madnesse march vpon the Aire Whilst from themselues by Pleasure rauish'd quite What it prouokes no kind of sport they spare Their Eares attending Musickes soule to haue Of this dread Blast the first assault receaue 16 By Stratagems a Captain boldly wise His Enemies Campe not look't for whyles confounds But when he first doth Sentinells surpryse That all about the Neighbouring Bounds rebounds In Brests vnarm'd what Terrour strange doth ryse Whilst Drummes yeeld deadly Trumpets liuely Sounds Whilst Showtes make deafe Amazement dumb Dust blind Ere Swords the Bodie feare doth kill the Mind 17 So shall it be with all those broken Bands As for the Godlie they watch still prepar'd Then when Lifes LORD doth come to judge all Lands Like Fishes angled or like Beasts ensnar'd Those whom Hells Badge for endlesse Darkenesse brands Not hauing Power to wish are straight despar'd And soone do see what now they not attend Ere thought by them begunne all at an end 18 What hideous Charge all to compeare compells Whose sound may show what Breath the Blast doth feed No Canons Thunders Tempests Trumpets Bells Nor yet all joyn'd so huge a Noyse could breed Since heard in Heauen on Earth and in the Hells Till dreadfull Silence doth ouer all succeede The harkning World seemes all become one Eare The Graue giues place the Dead His Voyce do heare 19 All you who on or in the dull do lodge A Great-great Court I cite you to attend Euen at CHRISTS Instance where himselfe is Iudge To heare that sentence which none can suspend Of boundlesse Ioyes or else of Anguish huge Which he design'd and you deseru'd in end What from his seruants mouth none would conceaue Heare from himselfe euen what doch damne or saue 20 Passe passe swift Angells ouer all quarters range Force all to ryse who euer down did ly What in their Essence Elements did change Bid them restore that CHRIST all flesh may spy You are the gatherers this that Vintage strange Which in all Soules what Stuffe hath bene must try Twixt Heauen and Hell this is a Iudgement great To Iudge each one their own Contentions date 21 The Word them giues by which they thus are sought Power to obey else were the charge but vaine That Word which first did make them all of nought May now of some thing make them soone againe Past numbring Numbers are together brought That some may thinke what Bounds can them containe Who makes the Dead to rise at his Decree May make a Roome where they may marshald be 22 The Heauenly Soules which with fraile Bodies bound Did act together on this earthlie Stage Though subtill-they oft diuerse Depths did sound In which grosse Organs could not then engadge Yet in all Actions equall Partners found By Reason led or head-long borne by Rage Though once diuorc'd they marrie must againe To ioyne in Ioy or in eternall Paine 23 Those heauenly Sparkes which are flown vp aboue To shine in Glory and in Zeale to burne And shall of Pleasure the Perfection proue With mortall Vailes which mask'd of late did mourne They from their Place a Moment must remoue With CHRIST in Triumph glorious to returne Their twise-borne Bodies when put on they haue First from the Bellie last now from the Graue 24 Those gather vp their Garments from the Dust Which prison'd are in Plutoes vgly Celles Though loth to part thence where returne they must Since by their Conscience being committed else They know their Iudge as terrible as just Will but confirme their holding of the Helles Yet all their Processe must deduced be That Saints GODS Iustice and their Faultes may see 25 Foure Elements with foure Complexions make This mortall Masse soone rais'd and soone ouerthrowne And when that it turnes to Corruption backe With what accrest each doth craue backe the owne The Waters all the liquid Substance take Aire Breath Fire actiue Heat Earth Earth well knowne Which all though thus in their first Fountaines drown'd Not take nor leaue but are the same still found 26 The LORD doth not which some would fondly doubt As once in EDEN a Creation vse As if the first consum'd were all worne out That he not knowes their Substance where to chuse No these same Bodies which we beare about The LORD will raise and cleare or else accuse When done by GOD then Wonders are not strange The Qualitie and nothing else doth change 27 Of our fraile Spoyles each Part where made a Prey Who ouer our Dust doth watch will straight require That which the Waters washed haue away What was in Flames exhausted by the Fire That which Winds scorne toss'd through the Air did stray And what to Earth all rotten did retire All at an Instant shall together rinne To recontinue not againe beginne 28 The Husbands Hopes which Ceres first renown'd Must buried rot made lesse to be made more Yet wrestle vp though in the Earth still bound In Forme more pleasant multiplied in Store So shall our Dust though swallow'd in the Ground Spring from Corruption brighter then before In Bodies new whose State none can surmise Laid mortall downe but must immortall rise 29 Those creeping Creatures which with Silkes conceaue Bred first of Seede their Food with Toyles acquite Then what they win must all to others leaue And lye stretcht out wrapt vp in Funerall white Yet straight reuiu'd where buried burst the Graue And mount aloft with Wings all altered quite In Wormes Mens Types those who do marke this Change How can they thinke the Resurrection strange 30 As Man like Milke was at the first pour'd out Then straight like Cheese turn'd all to Cruds at once Till clad with Skinne his Sexe being free from Doubt With Sinewes joyn'd and fortified with Bones When as the Moone
Mountaines moue As Townes for Trafficke Palaces for Ease And of all Sorts did furnish forth a Band As if to People not to winne a Land 68 To braue the Heauens whilst Giants would assay The LORD their Power would wonderfully bounds One litle Barke their Nauie did dismay The mightie Man a VVoman did confound All Elements did arme their Course to stay That VVicked Men might not pollute our Ground For Pride disdain'd for Crueltie abhorr'd Spaine beg'd a Slaue where looking to be Lord 69 O happie those for whom the Heauens will fight Of Angels Armies campe about them still VVhilst Haile and Thunder from Heauens Store-house light Rush armed VVinters forth sterne Tempests kill The stormie VVinds conjur'd in Time charge right As traind in VVarre to spend their Power with Skill Still to the Author Mischiefe doth returne And in the Fires they make the VVicked burne 70 The tumid State a Number doth afford VVho only there could quensh ambitions Fire And Auarice with many hath it stor'd VVho only there could bound their waste Desire Though of the VVealth of diuerse Lands made Lord Who by no Meanes Contentment could acquire Till like themselues still taking fill'd with Nought The Sea and Hell them to Aboundance brought 71 What fearfull thoughts their quaking Stomacks fling When with each Waue a Wound Death seemes to giue That so to charge do for a vantage striue Saue Lightnings whyles some suddaine glances bring Clouds masking Heauen ouer all do darknesse driue That whilst they nothing see and too much heare Falne on the Depths Hells Shaddow doth appeare 72 Some scap'd such Stormes whilst they secure remaine Whose cruell Couetice to render vaine They yield as faint till Foes toward them repaire Then Powder kindled by a lingering traine They all at once are thundred through the Aire In Water burn'd weake thralls kill Victors strong And suffring act reuenge preuenting wrong 73 Thus by the Sea a number is bewray'd Whose dying Eyes a friend did neuer close Not in their Fathers no in no tombe layde Which had when dead no part where to repose But are by Waues to euery Rocke betray'd Till this last Day do of all Flesh dispose Which as would seeme most readie those may find Whom Earth not burdens Wynding-sheets not bind 74 The Face of Earth like those a number yeelds Who for last lodgings could not get a Graue Yet where they fell as hauing wonne the Fields Them dead a tyme from all who liu'd did reaue Thrown in the Dust drawne from their bloodie Shields Whilst naked there they what they clad did saue Till Beasts with some did runne with some Fowles flie As Bodies first Bones bare at last did lie 75 The Bloud of some did staine that golden age To stryke with Iron ere malice did inuent On Ruines Altar offring vp to rage Wrath wants not Weapons when for mischiefe bent Then Indignation Mortalls did asswage With Stones sharpe Stings and what by force was rent From gored Bellies Puddings did gush out And Heads with Braines were compassed about 76 But when Man spud whilst venging wrong by chance That Life was lodg'd in such a fortresse fraile To Court Vaine-Glory which to fooles did glance Some as for Sport their Neighbours did assaile Then last their State of purpose to aduance Stray'd Valour would by violence preuaile All Armies first were by Ambition led Till Auarice a greater furie bred 77 Who first from Death by Deeds redeem'd their Names And eminent magnanimously grew Their fancies frying in ambitions Flames They onely Praise not Profit did pursue And as for Glory who contend in games Sought others to exceed not to subdue Such Scythia one another Egypt gaue From conguer'd Lands who did but Honour craue 78 Those Weapons first were fond which pierc'd or brus'd Ere dreadfull Cyclops made their Hammers reele Of Mars chiefe Minions Sword and Lance were vs'd Ere Men did marche as Statues all of Steele What furie in proud Mindes this rage insus'd That they would suffer to make others feele And striue to further ere to hinder ill Then saue themselues more bent their Mates to kill 79 What Mountaines were of murthred Bodies made Which till falne dust the dust did not receaue Of Ashur Persia Greeks and Romanes dead Who whilst that they more Earth them Earth would haue Whilst of the World each striuing to be Head Those Members main'd which it to rule did craue Then though all Lands one onely did adore As pent in too strict bounds whilst one sought more 80 Of Bones vnburied what huge Heapes were rear'd By Teutons Cimbers Gaules great by doing harmes By Vandalls Allam Hunnes and Gothes long fear'd Danes Longobards and Sarazens in swarmes For which long tyme those Fields could not be ear'd Where they to death had offred vp their Armes Whilst where to lieu to winne more Lands being set Where they might die they onely Land could get 81 Then Nature strong as in her perfite Age As Bees their Swarmes Lands Colonies sent forth Which forc'd by wants else moou'd by generous Rage In Tempests huge inunded from the North Else that high Hopes dream'd Richesse might asswage They sought the South as held of greatest worth To what it pleas'd whilst Power a right did clame Oft with their Dwellers Countries chang'd the Name 82 That Heathnish Hoste by Juda so abhorr'd Whose Captaines railing Vengeance to contriue A godly King did spread before the Lord Whose Wrong his Soule did most of peace depriue Till that an Angell with iust Wrath being stor'd Did kill of thousands thryse threescore and fiue Those who blaspheming GOD by him were slaine Must ryse with feare to looke on GOD againe 83 Thence thousands ryse with Strangers or their own Where still to Broyles the Grecians were inclind Where all the VVorld at Fortunes Dyce was thrown Twixt Syr and Sonne in Law not loue combind By Vertues Clients fall which Fields were known Of all who onely the Scates good design'd None Vertue should adore all reuerence must Men should delight in it not in it trust 84 Thence neuer buried many Bodie springs Where of all Lands oft Armies did contend Slaue by the Senat Emperours or Kings But most by Him who did to Carthage send Reft from Romes Nobles Bushels full of Rings And by Barbarians Lord s of all in end Thus Italie all Nations did obey And to all Nations was expos'd a prey 85 That Field yeelds thousands where VVrong squaring Right For famous Captains twyse a fatall Stage Great Pompey did with Mithridates fight And Tamberlane the Terrour of that age On lightning Bajazet did thundring light Tam'd for a Foot-stoole in an Iron Cage Thus that great Monarch was made worse then thrall Pryde hated stands and doth vnpitied fall 86 All then must marche at this last Trumpets sound Who Fields entomb'd damn'd Floods and Ditches fill'd Whilst Ottoman to make his Crescent round Blood as but Water prodigallie spill'd His Bassaes dash'd ryse groning from the Ground Which oft by