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A06202	Ecclesiastes, othervvise called The preacher Containing Salomons sermons or commentaries (as it may probably be collected) vpon the 49. Psalme of Dauid his father. Compendiously abridged, and also paraphrastically dilated in English poesie, according to the analogie of Scripture, and consent of the most approued writer thereof. Composed by H.L. Gentleman. Whereunto are annexed sundrie sonets of Christian passions heretofore printed, and now corrected and augmented, with other affectionate sonets of a feeling conscience of the same authors.	Lok, Henry.; Lok, Henry. Sundry Christian passions contained in two hundred sonnets.	1597 (1597)	STC 16696; ESTC S104588	172,130	348

neighbour loue he owes Vnto those lower regions forth doth call From hils and dales exhaled breaths whence growes As many winds as on earths compasse blowes Which cleansing clouds and drying dampish soile Do whistling through earths hollow vaults recoile verse 7 Fresh waters from the sea thence flowes their ebs yet fill not it verse 8 All is but toyle man sees or heares with his insatiat wit 7. 〈…〉 The liquid streames of waters which arise Fro out the Cesterne of the Centors deepe Whose winding channels in a wondrous wise Through hils and dales in curbed wise do creepe A constant progresse do by nature keepe Till they the Ocean their deere mother meet Whose brackish tears for thē their drops make sweet Whose fruitfull wombe in gratefull wise repaies The yeelding earth the tribute of her loue By sending strayned springs through forced waies And Porus passages for mans behoue That so her selfe in bounds might mildly moue Who yeelds likewise to beare earths heauy brood And breeds her selfe some store of humaine food 8. All things are full of labour man can not vtter it the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the eare filled with hearing And not these compound elements alone Are subiect to this intercourse of change But euen the foure pure elements ech one Doe from themselues to th' others natures range Though contrary by kind with motion strange Earth into water turnes moist into aire Pure aire to fire Condenst they backe repaire So all things labour euermore and tend Vnto their end which when they once attaine That forme doth chaunge and to another bend Which likewise in his time hath end againe And nothing in one state doth long remaine Whose wondrous frame in vaine man seekes to find Whilst no mans studie can suffise his mind verse 9 What euer hath bene shall be done for there is nothing new verse 10 What may we say is now the which was not before thinke you 9. What is it that hath bene that that shall be and what is it that hath bene done that which shall be done and there is no new thing vnder the Sun For proofe let me demaund but this of you Who most haue searched natures secret powre And you who are conuerst in stories true And you obseruers of ech day and howre Haue ye not found that time doth all deuour And that new times the like things doth produce As any former ages had in vse We dreame of secrets daily newly found And of inuentions passing former wits We thinke our world with wisedome doth abound And fame for knowledge vs much rather fits But ouer-weening thoughts this toy begits Their longer liues more temperately led In holy studie sure more knowledge bred 10. Is there any thing whereof one may say behold this it is new it hath bene already in the old time that was before vs. What one thing can we say is new indeed Excepting time it selfe which still renewes New sinnes perhaps this wicked age would breed Yet can not other then first age did vse The name of new indeede we do abuse By calling new the thing we newly know Which rather ignorance of skill doth show Those elder times no doubt in golden age When natures strength was in her youthfull prime When Will on Wisedome tended as a Page And loue of vertue banisht many a crime When humble thoughts did not for glory clime Then all things flourisht sure that now we see And actions all that are or that may bee verse 11 Things past forgotten are we see and future so shal bee verse 12 In Ierusalem Israels king I was who teacheth thee 11. There is no memorie of the former neither shall there be a remembrance of the latter that shall be with them that shal come after But they forgotten are as ours once shall Mans few and euill dayes with cares of mind Make many worthy things to dust to fall And vs to predecessors grow vnkind Whose fames with theirs shall vanish with the wind And as our stealing wits would clips their fame Deuouring time shall desolate our name For what more equall recompence is due To such as others merits doe depraue Then that like base contempt do them insue And of successors they like guerdon haue And so we see fame leaues vs at the graue Build then his happinesse on earth who will He but himselfe with care and scorne shall fill 12. I the Preacher haue bene king ouer Israell in Ierusalem By proofe I speake who once a mighty King Did sway the Scepter of the holy seed Whose blessed name of peace true peace did bring And publike wealth which happinesse did breed And all delights whereon the world doth feed From Dan to Bersaba there bound before And from Euphrates vnto Nylus shore My seat in Centor of earths Paradice In blest Ierusalem Gods dwelling place Neare to whereas mount Sion doth arise The holy hill which doth the countrey grace Wherein I ruled not a litle space For fortie yeares I raigned still in peace And in a ripened age I did decease verse 13 I gaue my heart God gaue this care true wisedome out to find verse 14 My studie found all vnder sunne to be but griefe of mind 13. And I haue giuen mine heart to search and find out wisedome by all things that are done vnder the heauen this sore trauell hath God giue to the sonnes of men to humble them thereby And all this time I bent my power and will To find faire wisedomes pallace that I there My homage due might pay vnto her still And trophes to her in my heart might reare Her loue made me all other loue forbeare Welth I and honour health and euery thing Disdaind that did not me true wisedome bring I therefore first did God most humbly craue To guide my steps in such a holy care Who thenceforth thereof such a measure gaue As none for wisedome might with me compare To proue all things I did my heart prepare Insatiat still as man by nature is Of skill so doomd for Adams first amis 14. I haue considered all the works that are done vnder the sunne and behold all is vanitie vexation of the Spirit What euer nature of her selfe brings forth Or skilfull Art by practise could produce What euer did to any seeme of worth Or for necessitie might seeme of vse Was still the obiect of my studious Muse Which out of all to gather did desire That happinesse whereto we would aspire But for my paines on earth did nought attaine But losse of time and agony of Spright A vaine desire replete with skill more vaine A carefull life disguisd with vaine delight A puft vp braine with dreames of wisedomes sight But to my heart vnfruitfull of content To wearied life a lode of time mispent verse 15 The crooked thing can none make straight or nūber things amis verse 16 I thought and said in power or wit none like me was or is 15. That which is crooked can none make

but small For in those points the best knowe nought at all verse 15 He tyres himselfe in highest points yet knowes not common way verse 16 O wretched land ruld by such child whose peeres do feast by day 15. The labour of the foolish doth weary him for he knoweth not to go into the citie Thus do the foolish vainely take in hand To vexe their braines with things for them to hie They know that future things none vnderstand Yet they their faculties therein will try Such wise fooles fondly wise the world hath many It fares with them if it be rightly scand As with the blind that would the seeing guide As if one wandring in an vncouth land Would those instruct the way dwell hard beside They silly fooles know not their next way home And yet their wits would ouer all things rome 16. Wo to thee ô land when the king is a child and thy Princes eat in the morning Wo be to such that by such ruled are But speciall wo be to thee land where they Do beare the Scepter least they all do marre As ill as infants when they beare the sway Who not themselues much lesse thy state can stay And doubled is thy woe and mischiefe farre If that thy Magistrates who should aduise Their Prince in highest points of peace or warre To banqueting and surfets early rise Neglecting common good which first of all With temperate braine they should to counsell call verse 17 But blest ô land where honor rules where Nobles feed to liue verse 18 By sloth the house decays rain through top of roofe doth driue 17. ●lessed art thou ● land when thy king is the sonne of Nobles and thy Princes eat in time for strength and not for drunkennesse And thou thrice happy soyle whose Prince descends Of pedegree of Emp'rors and of Kings Of auncient honor which to vertue bends Whose rule both peace and plenty to thee brings Where through thy fame mōgst forrē regions rings And happy Prince whom God a Councell sends Of noble Peeres and wise whose watchfull eyes Thy subiects from all forren foes defends And ciuill broyles that might at home arise Such do in temperate wise their plentie vse And feed for strength and plenty not abuse 18. By slothfulnes the roofe of the house goeth to decay by the idlenes of the hand the house droppeth through They cause the Pesant in sweet peace manure The land the treasury of wealths encrease Vnto the needy they do worke procure And see the poore with wealthy liue in peace And all oppression in the land to cease Their waking eyes doth Princes state assure Doth to the people courage giue to toyle Gaines to themselues a fame shall aye indure Giues to the foe the most disgracefull foyle All this with paine and diligence is wonne Slouth ruines all makes all to hauock ronne verse 19 Bread strēgthens hart wine cheers the mind but siluer al doth by verse 20 Curse not thy king or Peeres in thought lest birds the same descry 19. They prepare bread for laughter and wine comforteth the liuing but siluer answereth to all They giue the safetie for to vse thy owne And peace of plentie that thou mayest feed Thou feedst by them of best on earth hath growne Of fatlings which thy flocks and heards do breed To recreate thy soule at time of need And for by gold and siluer wealth is showne They do inrich the land with purest quine By which thy trafficke farre and neere is knowne And Indian gems and Arabian drugs are thine Gold gayneth all and Ophire gold thou hast Then happie thou if hap in wealth be plast 20. Curse not the king no not in thy thought neither curse the rich in thy bed chamber for the heauen shall carry thy voice and that which hath wings shall declare the matter Then slander not such Prince that counsell graue By whom so many benefits we find Their many merits many thankes do craue Each honest hart to reuerent loue they bind And base backbiters only are vnkind The lawes of God and nature willed haue The Magistrate should reuerenced bee The lawes of man the bounds vnto thee gaue Of words and deeds but God the thought doth see In deed then word and thought them honor aye Least flying fowles of ayre thy guilt bewray Chap. 11. verse 1 Cast bread on waters freely spend ere long thou shalt it find verse 2 To seuen seuen giue if they need earths wants are great behind 1. Cast thy bread vpō the waters for after many days thou shalt find it NOw since no lesse discretion is requir'd In vsing wealth then getting of the same And that the bounteous mind is most admir'd Doth profit others most and gaines best name I therefore wish thereto thy hart to frame I would not haue thy hand too quickly tyrde Nor too respectiue vnto whom to giue Some I haue seene for shame haue not desyrde An almes whom greatest need to craue might driue Though water powred in the sea seeme vaine Yet needlesse gift a gratefull hart may gaine 2. Giue a portion to seuen also to eight for thou knowest not what euill shall be vpon the earth Some giue in hope a gift to gaine thereby Such gifts I rather bribes then gifts do call Some feare to giue least they themselues may try Like want ere long and so giue nought at all Some sometimes giue but yet their gifts are small But I would haue thy almes giuen cheerefully Vnaskt sometimes if crau'd to none denide Let none lacke to thy powre in need that lye And to preuent their need some goods deuide For God all bountie is and so should we Dispose our goods if like him we would be verse 3 If clouds be full raine fals on earth and trees in north south verse 4 Who sowes and reapes by rules of wind but little land he plow'th 3. If the clo●des be full they wil powre forth raine vpon the earth and if the tree do fall toward the South or toward the North in the place that the tree falleth there it shal be Yea looke how plenteously thou seest the raine Fro out the deaw-fild clouds on earth distill So long as any drops in them remaine Wherewith earths dryed cesterns vp to fill So in thy almes be thou as forward still And as each soile some sap from heauen doth gaine And euery tree and shrub of deaw hath part So thinke thou not thy gift bestowd in vaine To whom or when so ere thou giuing art And if thy store be great more mayst thou spend If lesse yet some vnto more needy lend 4. He that obserueth the wind shall not sow and he that regardeth the clouds shal not reape Take all occasions to be doing well Let euery season for it proper seeme The husbandmen that most in skill excell Though sometimes they to sow more fit do deeme Yet to be too precise vnfit esteeme Who marketh alwaies where the wind doth dwell And