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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

To the vertuous Lady the Lady Woollie FArre fet deare bought doth fit a Lady best Such you deserue such would my will bestow Good things are rare rare things esteem'd you know Rare should yours be as you rare of the rest Such hold this gift fetcht from a forraine land Which wisest King as pretious did prouide Who viewing all the earth hath nought espide Whose worth herewith cōpar'd may longer stand The price I dare assure is very deare As puchasd by your merit and my care Whose trauell would a better gift prepare If any better worthy might appeare Then this accept as I the same intend Which dutie to the dead would will me send 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 Psal. 144. 3 Lord what is man that thou regardest him or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vpon him 4 Man is like to vanitie his dayes like a shadow that vanisheth LONDON Printed by Richard Field dwelling in the Blacke-friers neare Ludgate 1597. TO THE RIGHT EXCELLENT AND NOBLE PRINCESSE LADIE OF RAREST VERTVES Queene Elizabeth our most gracious Soueraigne her Highnes faithfull subiect Henrie Lok wisheth perfect and perpetuall felicitie THE purest liquor drawne out of the heauenly fountaine of SALOMONS inspired wisdom I here with all zeale of your Highnesse seruice in most hūble dutie offer to your thrise sacred Maiestie vnder whose most glorious Empire hauing first receiued the breath of this life and by whose shining beames of most gracious gouernement that life hauing tasted part of the common comfort of your many happie subiects and peculiar fauor of your most princely countenance I cannot but as I acknowledge all my powers of right to pertain to your Highnesse disposition so to force my weake indeuours to testifie the sinceritie of the same This my present which in a rustie caske in steed of a golden cup I haue ventured to purchase for your Highnesse is I confesse farre vnworthie your Maiesties tasting of though in the benignitie of Dauids spirit I doubt not your Highnes will accept the same which as it is borrowed from the labours of so mightie and worthie a king as was Salomon the true Author therof it seems most fit the dedication to your Maiestie who in Empire being a peere vnto him in election a partner in happinesse a riuall and in wisedome a Sabian obseruer of his soundest doctrines can perfectliest iudge and will kindliest I assure my selfe welcome this his child for his fathers sake which must be and so I desire his onely grace For with me it is true that in the composition hereof it fared as with more worthie Nehemias when he attempted the repaire of the holy Citie who being oftentimes disturbed therein by the practise and malice of Sanballat Tobia and Geshem was sometimes forced to desist from his attempt and in the end to effect it with sword in one hand and mattock in the other so whilest common cares and domestik duties the direct enemies to all ingenious actions and proper poyson of pure inuention did many times confound my iudgement disturbe my leisure in a maner vtterly disable my disposition for so waighty an affaire remouing so often my hand from my mind and my minde almost from the affection of my heart I with half my weak selfe haue bene driuen thus to peece together this often broken off now vnworkmanly perfected taske VVhich yet as a well fauoured person euen in meane attires seemes yet euer comely will I doubt not shew some excellencie of the cōposers spirit though it be not artificially clothed with borowed bewties frō my barren braine And your Highnesse whose course of life so wel conformeth with this his discourse teaching vs your subiects by holy practise what he by deuine precepts instructed his may as iustly chalenge me seemeth the publication of the like discourse as we without defrauding God of his honor your Highnesse of your due may not conceale the perfect resemblance your Highnes hath of him in name disposition and fortune we with his subiects in honor prosperitie and peace which albeit we your inferior subiects as the weake sighted eyes which cannot behold perfectly the face of the sunne but looking downe in the water nor see his first appearing in the East but by looking for the shadow in the VVest knowing our disabilities iudicially to obserue the cleare brightnes of your shining vertues referring to bordering Princes and attendant Peeres the more fit recording of the same we take palpable assurāces of the blessed Spirit of God working in you by the like frute of peace prosperitie and plenty deriued by your Maiesties most excellent gouernement and wisdome vnto vs whos 's first worke of building vp the Church of Christ prouiding for learning restoring the decayd strēgth and munitions of the realme enriching the treasurie of the land by refined coine retaining with most princely magnanimity the ancient ample bounds of your Empire the establishment of so many profitable factories for vnfrequented trafficke the chargeable discoueries of so many vnknown parts the honorable repulsiō of so many foes the bounteous purchase of so many neighbor friēds the charitable relief of so many Christians oppressed the equal distribution of iustice vnto all all tending to the glory of God prosperitie of your raigne do sensibly without any disparagement of the greatnesse of that mightie Prince draw on a certaine liuely comparison of both your ꝓperties blessings which therfore might excuse me of flatterie if in a few words I should point thereat But I wil leaue the ampler relatiō hereof to future posterities herein hūbly crauing pardon of your Maiestie for this my presumption which indeed hath bene founded on your Highnesse gracious acceptance of my former Passionate present and recommending them anew to your Maiesties fauor herewithall augmented and reformed I will with all feruencie of prayer cōmend your Highnes to the protection of the Almightie who as he hath confirmed your throne these now nigh fortie yeares amongst vs to the vniuersall peace and comfort of his Israell the Church of Europe so may he redouble and continue euen to the end if so his Highnesse please your Maiesties most happie raigne ouer vs for euer Your Maiesties most dutifull and loyall subiect HENRY LOK To the Christian Reader IT is the most fit subiect for the nobility of mans spirit to meditate of felicitie and a true saying of Aristotle that Omnia appetunt bonum Yea the common practise of our high minded age is to striue for the same in the

may no more tormented bee Lest that my soule eternally he kill But from the force of Satan make me free These brutish sinnes in swine more fit to dwell Drowne in repentant seas of teares which swell SON XLIII IN deadly sleepe ô Lord sin hath me cast Wherein secure I lye and so remaine Raise me ô Lord out of this dreame at last And let me sight and light of heauen attaine The heauie humors which my iudgment staine And dazell so the reason of my minde Grant that they may their proper vse attaine And comfort in thy grace and promise finde All fleshly wisedome of it selfe is blinde Till thou by knowledge cleare their wandring sight Out of the snare of sin flesh cannot winde Vnlesse by faith they see thy Sonne so bright Him let me still both see and eke admire And thee in him ô Lord I thee desire SON XLIIII MY wicked flesh ô Lord with sin full fraight Whose eye doth lust for euerie earthly thing By couetise allurde hath bit the baight That me to Satans seruitude will bring By violence I vertues right would wring Out of possession of the soule so weake Like vineyard which the wicked Achab king Possest by tyrants power which lawes do breake Let Prophets thine Lord to my soule so speake That in repentant sackcloth I may mone The murther of thy grace which I did wreake Whilst to my natiue strength I trust alone And let my Sauiour so prolong my daies That henceforth I may turne from sinfull waies SON XLV IF thou vouchsafdst Lord of thy goodnesse rare To sanctifie with holie presence thine The Cana marriage where thou didst not spare First miracle of water turnd to wine Then be thou present at this wedding mine Which twixt thy Church and me by faith is ment To see the want in me thy eyes encline Whose wine of grace by wanton youth is spent But being toucht with view thereof repent And craue that water of earthes healthles well May issue forth from heart with sorrow rent And turnd to wine may so with grace excell That all that see and tast this change in me May grant this worke of thee alone to be SON XLVI SInce it hath pleased thee ô Lord to send Now in my barren age of hope and grace Repentant childe from ruine to defend My name and soule to liue before thy face Thy blessings I do thankfully embrace And in thy feare will frame his tender yeare The worlds regard in me shall haue no place If once thy word and will my heart do heare And when thou calst we both will then appeare Before thy Aulter in Moriath land To offer vp thy gift my sonne so deare Obedient childe to faithfull fathers hand Which sacrifice not worthie gift for thee With Christ my Sauiors suffrings quit let bee SON XLVII OF euerie creature vncleane to fore Whereof thy holy people might not tast Thou didst present ● Lord to Peter store Which were from heauen in sheet before him plast Which he at first refusde with mind most chast Not touching things polluted or defilde But afterward thy counsell he embrast And saw himselfe had bene before beguilde To thinke all sinners were for aye exilde From presence of thy mercies which abound Whom oft thou doest receiue as father milde If faith in Christ thy sonne in them be found By praiers faith by faith thy grace doth grow Cornelius blessing Lord on me bestow SON XLVIII HOw hard it is ô Lord for man to frame His minde corrupt to be preparde for thee With tongue vncleane to praise thy holie name With fleshly eies thy glorie for to see Homeward I bring thy blessings vnto me And make my soule their dwelling place to rest But so forgetfull of thy lawes we be That this my action Lord I see not blest Pride and contempt the waies haue so opprest That danger is the carriage ouerthrow Grant that thy grace to staie it may be prest That so my soule thy sauing health may know For to my flesh vnsanctified to trust Were aie to hasten death by iudgement iust SON XLIX MY traitrous heart which long time hath rebeld Against thy spirit which should feed me still A secret counsell in it selfe hath held To contrarie thy knowne reuealed will Whose mutinie my sences so do fill With deeds repining to thy holie law That raging pride and lust lead me to ill Forgetting tokens of thy wrath they saw As Dathan and Abyram had no awe Of Moyses and of Aron thine elect But sought a way thy people how to drawe And Prophets thine by pride for to reiect So doth my soule alas thy grace resist And in the follies of the flesh persist SON L. A Tenant most vntrue ô Lord to thee In vineyard of my bodie haue I bin To craue thy rent thy seruants came to me But nothing but intreatie bad they win My trauell therein was to nourish sin And wast the wine of thy abounding plant The more to call me backe thou didst begin The more to thee my gratitude did want Ne would my lacke of grace let me recant When thou thy onely Sonne to me didst send For sin and Satan did me so supplant That to his ruine I did also bend But Lord me lend In time repentant hart That from this vineyard I may not depart SON LI. WHilst in the garden of this earthly soile My selfe to solace and to bath I bend And fain wold quench sins heat which seems to boile Amidst my secret thoughts which shadow lend My sence and reason which should me defend As iudges chosen to the common weale Allur'd by lust my ruine do pretend By force of sin which shamelesse they reueale They secretly on my affections steale When modestie my maides I sent away To whom for helpe I thought I might appeale But grace yet strengthens me to say them nay Yet they accuse me Lord and die I shall If Christ my Daniell be not iudge of all SON LII I Iustly am accusde and now am brought By law and gilt of conscience I confesse Before thy throne conuict by deed and thought Of sinfull lust which did me so possesse That quickning graces thine I did suppresse By fading loue of world procliue to ill Whose dome eternall death and nothing lesse My soule doth see to threaten to me still But since that frailtie so the world doth fill That no one fleshly wight thereof is free For mercy Lord to thee repaire I will Who seest the hart and canst best comfort me Quit me from death grant I may fall no more But remnant of my daies thy grace implore SON LIII A Husbandman within thy Church by grace I am ô Lord and labour at the plough My hand holds fast ne will I turne my face From following thee although the soile be rough The loue of world doth make it seeme more tough And burning lust doth scorch in heat of day Till fainting faith would seeke delightfull bough To shade my soule from danger of decay