'Gainst Ezechias and that he would give The godly King fifteen years more to live Transgressing Heav'ns eternall Ordinance Thrice in one Day thou through one path didst prance And as desirous of another nap In thy ver million sweet Aurora's Lap Thy Coach turn'd back and thy swift sweating Horse Full ten degrees lengthned their wonted Course Dials went false and Forrests gloomy black Wondred to see their mighty shades go back So when th' incensed Heav'ns did fight so fell Of the Sunnes standing still in the time of Iosuah Ios. 12. 13 Vnder the Standard of deer Israel Against the Hoast of odious Ammorites Among a million of swift-Flashing Lights Rayning down Bullets from a stormy Cloud As thick as Hail vpon their Armies proud That such as scaped from Heav'ns wrathfull thunder Victorious swords might after heaw in-sunder Coâ—â—ur'd by Iosuah thy brave steeds stood still â—â—â—ull Career stopping thy whirling wheel And one whole Day in one degree they stayd In midst of Heav'n for sacred Armies ayd Least th' Infidels in their disordred Flight Should save themselues vnder the wings of Night Those that then liv'd vnder the other Pole Seeing the Lamp which doth enlight the Whole To hide so long his lovely face away Thought never more to haue re-seen the Day The wealthy Indians and the men of Spain Never to see Sun Rise or Set again In the same place Shadows stood still as stone And in twelue Houres the Dials shew'd but one THE FIFT DAIE OF THE FIRST WEEK THE ARGVMENT Fish in the Sea Fowls in the Aire abound The Forms of all things in the Waters found The various Manners of Sea-Citizens Whose constant Friendship far exceedeth Mens Arions strange escape The Fowls attend On th' only Phoenix to her end-less end Their kindes their customs and their plumes variety Som presidents of Prudence som of Piety The gratefull Aegle burning in the Fláme With her dead Mistress the fair Sestian Dáme LAtónian Lamps conducting divers ways After a Poeticall maner he craueth time opportunity to discourse in this Day of the creation of Fishes of Fowles About the World successiue Nights and Days Parents of winged Time haste haste your Carrs And passing swiftly both th' opposed Barrs Of East and West by your returning Ray Th' imperfect World make elder by a Day Yee Fish that brightly in Heav'ns Baldrik shine If you would see the Waters waving brine Abound with Fishes pray Hyperion T' abandon soon his liquid Mansion If he expect in his prefixt Career To hoast with you a Month in every Yeer And thou eternall Father at whose wink To which purpose â—specially he calleth on the true God The wrathfull Ocean's swelling pride doth sink And stubborn storms of bellowing Windes be dumb Their wide mouthes stopt and their wilde pinions num Great Soverain of the Seas whose books can draw A man aliue from the Whales monstrous maw Provide me Lord of Steers-man Star and Boat That through the vast Seas I may safely float Or rather teach me dyue that I may view Deep vnder water all the Scaly crew And dropping wet when I return to land Laden with spoils extoll thy mighty hand IN VAIN had God stor'd Heav'n with glistring studs The first part of this Book wherin he handleth how by the Commandement of the Lord thâ— Fishes began to moue in the Waters The Plain with grain the Mountain tops with woods Sever'd the Aire from Fire the Earth from Water Had he not soon peopled this large Theatre With living Creatures Therefore he began This-Day to quicken in the Ocean In standing Pools and in the straggling Riuers Whose folding Channell fertill Champain severs So many Fishes of so many features That in the Waters one may see all Creatures And all that in this All is to be found As if the World within the Deeps were drown'd Seas haue as wel as Skies Sun Moon and Stars The Seas no lesse stored with priui ledges and presidents of Gods glorious power then Heauen Earth and of the strange Fishes that liue therin As well as Aire Swallows and Rooks and Stares As well as Earth Vines Roses Nettles Millions Pinks Gilliflowrs Mushroms and many millions Of other Plants more rare and strange then these As very Fishes living in the Seas And also Rams Calfs Horses Hares and Hogs Wolves Lions Vrchins Elephants and Dogs Yea Men and Mayds and which I more admire The Mytred Bishop and the Cowled Fryer Wherof examples but a few yeers since Were showen the Norways and Polonian Prince You divine wits of elder Dayes from whom The deep Inuention of rare Works hath com Took you not pattern of your chiefest Tools Out of the Lap of Thetis Lakes and Pools Which partly in the Waues part on the edges Of craggy Rocks among the ragged sedges Bring-forth abundance of Pins Pincers Spoaks Pikes Percers Needles Mallets Pipes and Yoaks Owers sayls and swords saws wedges Razors Rammers Plumes Cornets Kniues Wheels Vices Horns Hammers And as if Neptune and fair Panâ—pé Palaeâ—on Triton and Leucothoé Kept publik Roules there is the Calamary Who ready Pen-knife Pen and Ink doth cary As a rare Painter draws for pleasure heer Why God created so many sorts of strange Fishes A sweet Adonis a foul Satyre there Heer a huge Cyclop there a Pigmè Elf Somtimes no less busying his skilfull self Vpon som vgly Monster seldom seen Then on the Picture of fair Beauties Queen Even so the Lord that in his Work 's variety We might the more admire his powerfull Dëity And that we might discern by differing features The various kindes of the vast Oceans creatures Forming this mighty Frame he every Kinde With diuers and peculiar Signet sign'd Som haue their heads groveling betwixt their feet Examples The Pour-Cuttle Cuttle Crab. Sea Harâ— Oyster As th' inky Cuttles and the Many-feet Som in their breast as Crabs som head-less are Foot-less and finn-les as the bane-full Hare And heat-full Oyster in a heap confus'd Their parts vnparted in themselues diffus'd The Tyrian Marchant or the Portuguez Can hardly build one Ship of many Trees The Tortoise But of one Tortoise when he list to float Th' Arabian Fisher-man can make a Boat And one such Shell him in the stead doth stand Of Hulk at Sea and of a House on land Shall I omit the monstrous Whirl-about Which in the Sea another Sea doth spout Where-with huge Vessels if they happen nigh Are over-whelm'd and funken sodainly Shall I omit the Tunnies that durst meet The Tunnyâ— Th' Eöan Monarchs neuer daunted Fleet And beard more brauely his victorious powrs Then the Defendants of the Tyrian Towrs Or Porus conquered on the Indian Coast Or great Darius that three Battails lost When on the Surges I perceiue from far Th' Ork Whirl-pool Whale or huffing Physeter Diuers kindes of Whales Me thinks I see the wandring Ile again Ortygian Delos floating on the Main And when in Combat these fell Monsters
the vast deep dreadfull Seas The increasing of Brooks and Riuers and of their falling into the sea And all the highest Heav'n-approaching Rocks Contribute hither with their snowie locks For soon as Titan having run his Ring To th' ycie climates bringeth back the Spring On their rough backs he melts the hoary heaps Their tops grow green and down the water leaps On every side it foames it roares it rushes And through the steep and stony hilles it gushes Making a thousand Brooks wherof when one Perceives his fellow striving to be gone Hasting his course he him accompanies After another and another hies All in one race ioynt-losing all of them Their Names and Waters in a greater stream And He that robs them shortly doth deliver Himself and his into a larger River And That at length how euer great and large Lord of the Plain doth in som Gulf discharge His parent-Tribute to Oceanus According to th' Eternall Rendez-vous Yet notwithstanding all these Streams that enter Why the sea receiueth no increase of all the Waters that fall therein In the Main Sea do nought at all augment her For that besides that all these Floods in one Matcht with great Neptune seem as much as none The Sun as yerst I said and Windes withall Sweeping the sur-face of the Brinie-Ball Extract as much still of her humours thin As weeping Aire and welling Earth pours in But as the swelting heat and shivering cold Gnashing and sweat that th' Ague-sick do hold Come not at hazzard but in time and order Afflict the body with their fell disorder Of the Ebbing Flowing of the sea sundry causes therof The Sea hath fits alternate course she keepes From Deep to Shoar and from the Shoar to Deeps Whether it were that at the first the Ocean From Gods owne hand receiv'd this double Motion By means whereof it never resteth stound Simile But as a turning Whirli-gig goes round Whirls of it self and good-while after takes Strength of the strength which the first motion makes Whether the Sea which we Atlantick call Be but a peece of the Grand Sea of all And that his Floods entring the ample Bed Of the deep Main with fury hurried Against the Rocks repulsed with disdain Be thence compelled to turn back again Or whether Cynthia that with Change-full laws Commands moist bodies doth this motion cause As on our Shoar we see the Sea to rise Soon as the Moon begins to mount our skies And when through Heav'ns Vaultvailing toward Spayn Proofe of the third cause viz. that the waxing and wauing of the Moon causeth the flowing and ebbing of the Sea The Moon descendeth then it Ebbs again Again so soon as her inconstant Crown Begins to shine on th' other Horizon It Flowes again and then again it falls When she doth light th' other Meridionalls We see more-over that th' Atlantik Seas Doo Flowe far farther then the Genöese Or both the Bosphores and that Lakes which growe Out of the Sea do neither Ebb nor Flowe Because they say the siluer fronted Star That swells and shrinks the Seas as pleaseth her Pours with less powr her plentious influence Vpon these straight and narrow streamed Fennes And In-land Seas which many a Mount immounds Then on an Ocean vast and void of bounds Euen as in Sommer her great Brothers Ey When windes be silent doth more easily dry Simile Wide spreading Plains open and spacious Fields Then narrow Vales vaulted about with Hills If we perceive not in the Deep so well Why the tide is not so well perceiued at sea as by the shoare As by the shoar when it doth shrink and swell Our sprightfull Pulse the tide doth well resemble Whose out-side seems more then the midst to tremble Nor is the glorious Prince of Stars less mighty Then his pale Sister on vast Amphitrité For Phoebus boyling with his lightsom Heat The Fish-full Waves of Neptunes Royall Seat And supping vp still with his thirsty Rayes The cause of the faltnes of the sea All the fresh humour in the floting Seas In Thetis large Cells leaveth nought behind Save liqvid Salt and a thick bitter Brine But see the while see how the Sea I pray Through thousand Seas hath caried me away In fear t' have drown'd my self and Readers so The Floods so made my words to over-flowe Therfore a-shoar and on the tender Lee Of waters separated from the Sea Of Lakes and Pools Rivers and Springs let 's see The soverain vertues of their severall Waters Their strange effects and admirable natures That with incredible rare force of theirs Confound our wits ravish our eyes and ears Th' Hammonâ—an Fount while Phoebus Torch is light Wonderfull effects of diuers Fountaines Is cold as Ice and opposite all night Though the cold Crescent shine thereon is hot And boiles and bubbles like a seething Pot. They say forsooth the Riuer Silarus And such another call'd Eurimenus Conuert the boughs the barke the leaves and all To very stone that in their Waters fall O! should I blaunch the Iewes religious River Which every Saboth dries his Chanell over Keeping his Waues from working on that Day Which God ordain'd a sacred Rest for ay If neer vnto the Eleusinian Spring Som sport-full Iig som wanton Shepheard sing The Ravisht Fountain falls to daunce and bound Keeping true Cadence to his rustick sound Cerona Xanth and Cephâ—sus do make The thirsty-Flocks that of their Waters take Blacke red and white And neer the crimsin Deepe Th' Arabian Fountain maketh crimsin Sheep Solonian Fountain and thou Andrian Spring Out of what Cellars do you daily bring The Oyl and Wine that you abound-with so O Earth do these within thine entrails grow What be there Vines and Orchards vnder ground Is Bacchus Trade and Pallas Art there found What should I of th' Illyrian Fountain tell What shall I say of the Dodónean Well Whereof the first sets any cloathes on-fire Th' other doth quench who but will this admire A burning Torch and when the same is quenched Lights it again if it again be drenched Sure in the Legend of absurdest Fables I should enroule most of these admirables Save for the reverence of th' vnstayned credit Of many a witnes where I yerst have read it And sauing that our gain-spurr'd Pilots finde In our dayes Waters of more wondrous kinde Of all the Sources infinite to count Which to an ample Volume would amount A continuation of the admirable effects of certain Waters Far hence on Forrain vnfrequented Coast I 'le onely chuse som five or sixe at most Strange to report perhaps beleev'd of few And yet no more incredible then true In th' I le of Iron one of those same seav'n Whereto our Elders * Insulae fortunatae Happy name had giv'n The Savage people neuer drink the streams Of Wells and Riuers as in other Realms Their drink is in the Aire their gushing spring A weeping Tree out of it self
Or may 't not be because the surly Banks Keep Waters captiue in their hollow flanks Or that our Seas be buttrest as it were With thousand Rocks dispersed heere and there Or rather Lord is' t not Thine onely Powr That Bows it round about Earths branchy Bowr Doubt-less great God 't is doubt-less thine owne hand The second part of this 3. Book intreating of the Element of earth and first of the firmnes thereof Whereon this Mansion of Mankinde doth stand For thogh it hang in th' Aire swim in the water Though every way it be a round Theater Though All turn round about it though for ay Itselfs Fundations with swist Motions play It rests vn-mooueable that th' Holy Race Of Adam there may finde fit dwelling place The Earth receiues man when he first is born Earth is the Mo ther Nurse and Hostessâ— of mankinde Th' Earth nurses him and when he is forlorn Of th' other Elements and Nature loaths-him Th' Earth in her bosom with kinde burial cloaths-him Oft hath the Aire with Tempests set-vpon-vs Oft hath the Water with her Floods vndon-vs Oft hath the Fire th' vpper as well as ours With wofull flames consum'd our Towns and Towrs Onely the Earth of all the Elements Vnto Mankinde is kinde without offence Onely the Earth did neuer iot displace From the first seat assign'd it by thy grace Yet true it is good Lord that mov'd somtimes Of Earth quakes and of the opening of the earth With wicked Peoples execrablecrimes The wrathfull power of thy right hand doth make Not all the Earth but part of it to quake With ayd of Windes which as imprisoned deep In her vast entrails furious murmurs keep Fear chils our hearts what hart can fear dissemble When Steeples stagger and huge Mountains tremble With wind-less winde and yawning Hell devours Somtimes whole Cities with their shining Towrs Sith then the Earth's and Waters blended Ball The Globe of the Earth Sea is but as a little point in comparison of the great circumference of Heauen Is center heart and nauel of this All And sith in reason that which is included Must needs beless then that which doth include it 'T is question-less the Orb of Earth and Water Is the least Orb in all the All-Theater Let any iudge whether this lower Ball Whose endless greatnes we admire so all Seem not a point compar'd with th' vpper Sphear Whose turning turns the rest in their Career Sith by the Doctrine of Astronomers the least Starre in the â—â—rmnment is â—8 times bigger then al the earth Sith the least Star that we perceiue to shine Aboue disperst in th' Arches crystalline If at the least Star-Clarkes be credit worth Is eighteen times bigger then all the Earth Whence if we but substract what is possest From North to South from the East to West Vnder the Empire of the Ocean Atlantike Indian and American And thousand huge Arms issuing out of these With infinites of other Lakes and Seas And also what the Two intemperate Zones Doo make vnfit for habitations What will remaine Ah! nothing in respect Lo heer O men Lo wherefore you neglect By consideration wherof the Poet taketh occasion to censure sharply the Ambition Bribery Vsury Extortion Deceipt and generall Couetousnes of Mankinde Heav'ns glorious Kingdom Lo the largest scope Glory can giue to your ambitious hope O Princes subiects vnto pride and pleasure Who to enlarge but a hair's breadth the measure Of your Dominions breaking Oaths of Peace Couer the Fields with bloudy Carcases O Magistrates who to content the Great Make sale of Iustice on your sacred Seat And broaking Laws for Bribes profane your Place To leaue a Leek to your vnthankfull Race You strict Extorters that the Poor oppress And wrong the Widdow and the Father-less To leaue your Off-spring rich of others good In Houses built of Rapine and of Blood You City-Vipers that incestuous ioyn Vse vpon vse begetting Coyn of Coyn You Marchant Mercers and Monopolites Gain-greedy Chap-men periur'd Hypocrites Dissembling Broakers made of all deceipts Who falsifie your Measures and your Weights T' inrich your selues and your vnthrifty Sons To Gentillize with proud possessions You that for gain betray your gracious Prince Your natiue Country or your deerest Friends You that to get you but an inch of ground With cursed hands remoue your Neigbours bound The ancient bounds your Ancestors haue set What gain you all alas what do you get Yea though a King by wile or war had won All the round Earth to his subiection Lo heer the Guerdon of his glorious pains A needles point a Mote a Mite he gains A Nit a Nothing did he All possess Or if then nothing anything beless When God whose words more in a moment can God hauing discouered the earth commands it to bring forth euery green thing hearbs trees flowers and fruits Then in an Age the proudest strength of Man Had seuered the Floods leuell'd the Fields Embas't the Valleys and embost the Hils Change change quoth he O fair and firmest Globe Thy moutning weed to a green gallant Robe Cheer thy sad brows and stately garnish them With a rich fragrant flowry Diadem Lay forth thy locks and paint thee Lady-like With freshest colours on thy sallow cheek And let from hence-forth thy aboundant brests Not only Nursethine own Wombs natiue guests But frankly furnish with fit nourishments The future folk of th' other Elements That Aire and Water and the Angels Court May all seem iealous of thy praise and port Of Trees growing in Mountains and in Valleys No sooner spoken but the lofty Pine Distilling-pitch the Larch yeeld-Turpentine Th' euer-green Box and gummy Cedar sprout And th' Airy Mountaines mantle round about The Mast-full Oke the vse-full Ash the Holm Coat changing Cork white Maple shady Elm Through Hill and Plain ranged their plumed Ranks The winding Riuers bordered all their banks With slice-Sea Alders and green Osiars smal With trembling Poplars and with VVillows pase And many Trees beside fit to be made Fewell or Timber or to serue for Shade The dainty Apricock of Plums the Prince Of fruit-trees The veluet Peach gilt Orenge downy Quince All-ready bear grav'n in their tender barks Gods powerfull prouidence in open marks The sent-sweet Apple and a stringent Pear The Cherry Filberd VVal-nut Meddeler The milky Fig the Damson black and white The Date and Olyue ayding appetite Spread euery-where a most delightfull Spring And euery-where a very Eden bring Heer the fine Pepper as in clusters hung Of shrubs There Cinamon and other Spices sprung Heer dangled Nutmegs that for thrifty pains Yearly repay the Bandans wondrous gains There growes th' Hesperian Plant the precious Reed Whence Sugar sirrops in aboundance bleed There weeps the Balm and famous Trees from whence Th' Arabians fetch perfuming Frankincense There th' amorous Uine coll's in a thousand sorts With winding arms her Spouse that her supports The Vine as far
cross Meseems som Tempest all the Sea doth toss Our fear-less Saylers in far Voyages More led by Gain's hope then their Compasses Of their monstrous shape and huge greatnes On th' Indian shoare haue somtime noted som Whose bodies couered two broad Acres room And in the South-Seas they haue also seen Som like high-topped and huge-armed Treen And other-som whose monstrous backs did bear Two mighty wheels with whirling spokes that were Much like the winged and wide spreading sayls Of any Winde-mill turn'd with merry gales But God who Nature in her nature holdes Not onely cast them inso sundry moldes But gaue them manners much more differing Of the diuers qualities of Fishes As well our wits as our weak eyes to bring In admiration that men euermore Praysing his Works might prayse their Maker more Som loue fresh Waters som the salt desire Som from the Sea vse yeerly to retire To the next Rivers at their own contenting So both the Waters with free Trade frequenting Having like Lords two Houses of receipt For Winter th' one th' other for Sommers heat As Citizens in som intestine braul Simile Describing the custome of certain sea-Sea-Fishes frequenting the fresh Waters in some seasons of the yeare Long cooped vp within their Castle wall So soon as Peace is made and Siedge remov'd Forsake a while their Town so strong approv'd And tir'd with toyl by leashes and by payrs Crowned with Garlands go to take the ayrs So dainty Salmons Châ—uins thunder-scar'd Feast-famous Sturgeons Lampreys speckle-starr'd In the Spring Season the rough Seas for sake And in the Rivers thousand pleasures take And yet the plenty of delitious foods Their pleasant Lodging in the crystall floods The fragrant sents of flowry banks about Cannot their Countreys tender loue wipe out Of their remembrance but they needs will home In th' irefull Ocean to go seek their Tomb Likâ— English Gallants that in Youth doo go To visit Rhine Sein Ister Arn and Po Comparison Where though their Sense be dandled Days and Nights In sweetest choise of changeable Delights They neuer can forget their Mother-Soyl But hourly Home their hearts and eyes recoyle Long languishing with an extream Desire To see the smoak of their deer Natiue Fier One like a Pirat only liues of prizes That in the Deep he desperatly surprises The Fishes feeding Another haunts the shoar to feed on foam Another round about the Rocks doth roam Nibbling on Weeds another hating thieuing Eats nought at all of liquor only liuing For the â—alt humor of his Element Serues him alone for perfect nourishment Som loue the clear streams of swift tumbling Torrents Which through the rocks straining their struggling currents Break Banks and Bridges and doo neuer stop Till thirsty Sommer com to drink them vp Som almost alwayes pudder in the mud Of sleepy Pools and neuer brook the flood Of Crystall streams that in continuall motion Bend toward the bosom of their Mother Ocean As the most part of the Words Peers prefer â—â—oyls before Rest and place their Peace in War And som again of a far differing humour Holde Rest so deer that but the only â—umour Of War far off affrights them at the first And wanting Peace they count their States accurst O watry Citizens what Vmpeer bounded Of the prouideÌ„ce of God in their diuers and notable manner of liuing affording many Lessons to Man-kinde Your liquid Liuings O! what Monarch mounded With walls your City What severest Law Keeps your huge Armies in so certain aw That you encroach not on the neighbouring Borders Of your swim-brethren as against all Orders Men dayly practice ioyning Land to Land House vnto House Sea to Sea Strand to Strand Mountain to Mountain and most-most insaci'ble World vnto World if they could work it possible And you wise Fishes that for recreation Or for your seeds securer propagation Doo somtimes shift your ordinary Dwelling What learned Chaldè skill'd in Fortune-telling What cunning Prophet your fit Time doth showe What Herralds Trumpet summons you to go What Guide conducteth Day and Night your Legions Through path-lâ—â—s paths in vnacquainted Regions What Captain stout what Loadston Steel and Star Measures your course in your Adventures far Surely the same that made you first of Nought Who in your Nature som Idéas wrought Of good and Euill to the end that we Following the Good might from the Euill flee Th' adulterous Sargus doth not onely change Strange nature of the fish Sargus Wiues every day in the deep streams but strange As if the honey of Sea-loues delights Could not suffice his ranging appetites Courting the Shee-Goats on the grassie shoar Would horn their Husbands that had horns before Contrary to the constant Cantharus Of Cantharus Who ever faithfull to his deerest Spouse In Nuptiall Duties spending all his life Loues never none but his own onely wife But for her Loue the Mullet hath no Peer Of the Mullet For if the Fisher haue surpriz'd her Pheer As mad with wo to shoar she followeth Prest to consort him both in life and death As yerst those famous louing Thracian Dames Simile That leapt aliue into the funeral flames Of their dead Husbands who deceast and gon Those loyall Wiues hated to liue alone O! who can heer sufficiently admire That Gaping Fish whose glistering eyes aspire Still toward Heav'n as if beneath the skies The Vrano-Sâ—opâ—â— He found no Obiect worthy of his eyes As the Wood-pecker his long tongue doth lill Out of the clov'n-pipe of his horny bill To catch the Emmets when beguil'd with-all The busie swarms vpon it creep and crawl Th' Vrano-scope so hid in mud doth put Out of his gullet a long limber gut Most like vnto a little Worm at sight Wher-at est-soons many small Fishes bite Which ther-with all this Angler swallows straight Alwayes self armed with hook line and bait The suttle * The Ozena Smell-strong-Many-foot that â—ain A dainty feast of Oister-flesh would gain Swims softly down and to him slily slips Wedging with stone his yet wide-yawning lips Least else before that he haue had his pray The Oyster closing clip his limbs away And where he thought t' haue ioy'd his victories Himself becom vnto his prize a prize The Cramp-fish knowing that shee harboureth The Torpedo A plague-full humour a fell banefull breath A secret Poppy and a sense-less Winter Benumming all that dare too-neer hâ—r venter Pours forth her poyson and her chilling Ice On the next Fishes charm'd so in a tâ—icâ— That shee not onely stayes them in the Deep But stuns their sense and â—ulâ— them fast a sleep And then at fill she with their flesh is fed Whose frozen limbs stil liuing seem but dead 'T is this Torpedo that when she hath took Into her throat the sharp deceitfull hook Doth not as other Fish that wrench and wriggle When they be prickt and plunge and striue and struggle And by their stir thinking to scape
therfore He lodgeth safe for finding on the shoar Som handsom shell whose Natiue Lord of late Was dispossessed by the Doom of Fate Therein he enters and he takes possession Of th' empty Harbour by the free concession Of Natures Law who Goods that Owner want Alwaies allots to the first Occupant In this new Cace or in this Cradle rather He spends his Youth then growing both together In age and Wit he gets a wider Cell Wherin at Sea his later Daies to dwell But Clio wherefore art thou teadious In numbering Neptunes busie Burgers thus If in his Works thou wilt admire the worth Of the Seas Soverain bring but only forth One little Fish whose admirable Story The strange and secret property of the Remora or Stop-ship Sufficeth sole to shewe his might and glory Let all the Windes in one Winde gather them And seconded with Neptunes strongest stream Let all at once blowe all their stiffest gales A-stern a Galley vnder all her sails Let her be holpen with a hundred Owers Each lively handled by fiue lusty Rowers The Remora fixing her feeble horn Into the tempest-beaten Vessels stern Stayes her stone-still while all her stout Consorts Sail thence at pleasure to their wished Ports Then loose they all the sheats but to no boot For the charm'd Vessell bougeth not a foot No more then if then if three fadom vnder ground A score of Anchors held her fastly bound No more then doth an Oak that in the Wood Hath thousand Tempests thousand times with stood Spreading as many massy roots belowe As mighty arms aboue the ground do growe O Stop-ship say say how thou canst oppose Thy self alone against so many foes O! tell vs where thou doo'st thine Anchors hide Whence thou resistest Sayls Owers Wind and Tide How on the so dain canst thou curb so short A Ship whom all the Elements transport Whence is thine Engin and thy secret force That frustrates Engins and all force doth force I had in Harbour heav'd mine Anchor o're And ev'n already set one foot a-shoar Dolphin When lo the Dolphin beating gainst the bank 'Gan mine obliuion moodily mis-thank Peace Princely Swimmer sacred Fish content-thee For for thy praise th' end of this Song I meant-thee Braue Admirall of the broad briny Regions Triumphant Tamer of the scaly Legions Who liuing ever liv'st for neuer sleep Deaths liuely Image in thy eyes doth creep Louer of Ships of Men of Melody Thou vp and down through the moyst World doest ply Swift as a shaft whose Salt thou louest so That lacking that thy life thou doest forgo Thou gentle Fish wert th' happy Boat of yore Which safely brought th' Amiclean Harp a-shoar Arion match-less for his Musiks skill Among the Latines hauing gain'd his fill The strange aduenture of Ariō saued by a Dolphin Of gold and glory and exceeding fain To re-salute his learned Greece again Vnwares imbarks him in a Pyrates ship Who loath to let so good a Booty slip Soon waighes his Anchors packs on all his fail And Windes conspiring with a prosperous gale His winged Fregat made so speedy-sight Tarentum Towers were quickly out of fight And all saue Skies and Seas on euery side Where th' onely Compass is the Pylots guide The Saylours then whom many times we finde Falser then Seas and fiercer then the Winde Fall straight to strip him ryfling at their pleasure In euery corner to finde out his treasure And hauing found it all with one accord Hoist th' Owner vp to heaue him ouer-boord Who weeping said O Nereus noble issue Not to restore my little gold I wish you For my chief Treasure in my Musick lyes And all Apollo's sacred Pupils prize The holy Virgins of Parnassus so That vnder-foot all worldly wealth they throwe No braue Triumphers ouer Winde and Waue Who in both Worlds your habitation haue Who both Heav'ns Hooks in your aduentures view 'T is not for That with broken sighes I sue I but beseech you offer no impieties Vnto a person deer vnto the Deities So may Messenian Sirens for your sake Be euer mute when you your voyage make And Tritons Trumpet th' angry Surges swage When iustly Neptune shall against you rage But if alas cannot this obtain As my faint eye reads in your frowns too plain Suffer at least to my sad dying voice My dolefull fingers to consort their noise That so the Sea-Nimphs rapt in admiration Of my diuine sweet sacred lamentation Dragging my corps to shoar with weeping showrs May deaw the same and it entoomb in flowrs Then play said they and giue vs both together Treasure and pleasure by thy comming hither His sweetest strokes then sad Arion lent Th' inchanting sinnews of his Instrument Wherewith he charm'd the raging Ocean so That crook tooth'd Lampreys and the Congers rowe Friendly together and their natiue hate The Pike and Mullet for the time forgate And Lobstars floated fear-less all the while Among the Polyps prone to theft and guile But among all the Fishes that did throng To daunce the Measures of his Mournfull song There was a Dolphin did the best accord His nimble Motions to the trembling Chord Who gently sliding neer the Pinnass side Seem'd to inuite him on his back to ride By this time twice the Saylours had essayd To heaue him o're yet twice himself he staied And now the third time stroue they him to cast Yet by the shrowds the third time held he fast But lastly seeing Pyrats past remorse And him too-feeble to withstand their force The trembling Dolphins shoulders he bestrid Who on the Oceans azure surges slid So that far-off his charge so cheered him One would haue thought him rather fly then swim Yet fears he euery shelf and euery Surge Not for himself but for his tender charge And sloaping swiftly ouerthwart those Seas Not for his owne but for his Riders ease Makes double haste to finde som happy strand Where his sweet Phoebus he may safely land Mean-while Arion with his Musick rare Paies his deer Pylot his delighfull fare And heauing eyes to Hea'vn the Hav'n of Pity To his sweet Harp he tunes this sacred Ditty O thou Almightie who Mankinde to wrack Of thousand Seas didst whilom one Sea make And yet didst saue from th' vniuersall Doom One sacred Houshold that in time to com From Age to Age should sing thy glorious praise Look down O Lord from thy supernall rayes Look look alas vpon a wretched man Half Toomb'd already in the Ocean O! bee my Steers-man and vouch safe to guide The stern-les Boat and bit-less Horse I ride So that escaping Windes and Waters wrath I once again may tread my natiue path And hence-forth heer with solemn vowes I sacre Vnto thy glory O my God and Maker For this great fauour 's high Memoriall My heart and Art my voyce hand Harp and all Here-with the Seas their roaring rage refrain The Clowdy Welkin waxed cleer again And all the Windes did so dainly conuert Their mouths to
steams Stopt with dead bodies so that never-more It should haue seen the Ocean as before Nor payd the Tribute that his Duty craues Saue that the crimsin holp the crystall waues Praysed be God sayd Iuda praysed be The Lord of Hoasts the King of Maiesty That moawes his Foes that doth his owne protect That holds so deer the blood of his elect That fights for vs and teacheth vs to fight Conquer and triumph of the Pagan's might And finally doth punish Tyrants fel With their owne swords to saue his Israel But notwithstanding Ieroboam's Plot Wicked generatioÌ„ of the wicked His third Successor yet succeeds him not A barbarous Fury raigneth in his Race His bloudy Scepter shifteth hands apace Nadab his son and all his seed beside Feels cursed Baasha's cruell Paricide And Baasha's issue is by Zimri slain Zimri by Zimri then doth Omri raign Omri accursed for his owne transgression But more accursed for the foule succession Of such a Son as Achab sold to Sin That boldly brings Sidonian Idols in Builds vnto Baal and of all Kings the worst Weds Iezabel adds Drunkenness to Thirst. Blinde Superstition's like a drop of Oyl 2. Similes Still spreading till it all a Garment spoyl Or like a spark fall'n in a floor of Mat Which soon inflameth all the Chamber that Fiers the whole House the House the Town about Consuming all and never going-out Till Goods and Bodies Towrs and Temples high All in a Toomb of their owne ashes lye When one begins how little be 't to stray From the diuine Law 's little-beaten way We cursed fall into the black Abysse Of all foul Errrors every Sin that is Donns sacred Mask and monsters most ahhord Killing the Saints we think to please the Lord As Achab did who vanquisht with the spel Speach grace and face of painted Iezabel Presumes to lay his sacrilegious hand On th' oyled Priests that in Gods presence stand Of honest Men his Towns depopulates Lessens the Number of his Noble States T' augment his Lands and with the bloud of His Wrights th' Instruments of his new Purchases But slain at last by th' Hoast of Benhadad His Son * Ahaziah succeeds him and almost as bad He breaks his neck and leaues his fatall place To 's brother Ioram last of Achab's race An odious race th' alliance of whose blood Corrupts the Heirs of Iosaphat the good Causing his Son charm'd with Athalia's wile In 's Brother's bloud his armed arms to file And Ahaziah's giddy brain t' infect With the damn'd Error of Samarian Sect. But though these Kings did openly oppugn And stubbornly the King of Heav'n impugn Though Abrah'ms issue now degenerate Did but too-neer their Princes imitate Though over all a Chaos of confusion A Hell of Horror Murder and Delusion A Sea of Sins contempt of God and Good Cover'd these Kingdoms as another Flood God left not yet that Age without his Oracles A hundred Prophets strong in word and miracles Resist their rage and from sad drowning keep The wracked planks on th' Idol-Ocean deep Cleer Sommer Noons need not a candle-light Simile Nor sound Physician but clean opposite So in our Soules the more Sin 's Floods do flowe The more God makes his Mercie 's Gulf to growe For his Embassage in sad Achab's dayes Elijah the Prophet Thes bite Elijah did th' Almighty rayse Who burning-bold in spirit and speach cries-out In Achab's ears and all his Court about O impious Achab fear'st thou not quoth he The sulphury flames and Thunder-bolts that be Already roaring in the dreadfull fist Of God the Lord that doth the proud resist Revengeth wrongs th' outrageous Heathen's Hammer Terror of Terrors and all Tyrants Tamer Doost thou not knowe He threats to Israel A Heav'n of Brass if they his grace repel Reiect his loue and get them other Loues Whoring about with forrain Gods in Groves God cannot lie His dreadfull Threatnings ever Draw dreadfull Iudgements if our Sin persever As the Lord lives this thirsty yawning Plain In seav'n six Month's drinks not a drop of Rain No sooner spoken but in present view Description of the extreame Drought in Israel for three years and a half The Heav'ns begin to change their wonted hew Th' Aire deadly thick doth quickly vanish quight To a sad Day succeeds a sadder Night A bloudy vapour and a burning cloud By day begirt the Sun all coaly-browd By night the Moon denies to fading Flowrs Her silver sweat and pearly-purled showrs The Welkin 's studded with new Blazing-Stars Flame-darting Lances fiery crowns and Cars Kids Lions Bears wrapt in prodigious Beams Dreadfull to see and Phoebus as it seems Weary of travail in so hote a time Rests all the while in boyling Cancer's clime Hills lately hid with snowe now burn a main May hath no Deaw nor February Rain Sad Atlas Nieces and the Hunter's Star Have like effect as the Canicular Zephyre is mute and not a breath is felt But hectik Auster's which doth all things swelt And panting-short puffs every-where vpon The withered Plains of wicked Shomeron Th' vnsavorie breath of Serpents crawling o're The Lybians pest-full and vn-blest-full shoar Now Herbs to fail and Flowrs to fall began The miserable effects therof Mirtles and Bayes for want of moist grew wan With open mouth the Earth the aid doth crave Of black-blew Clouds cleer Kishon's rapid wave Wars now no more with Bridges arched round Sorek for shame now hides him vnder ground Mokmur whose murmur troubled with the noise The sleeping Shepheards hath nor stream nor voice Cedron's not Cedron but late Cedron's bed And Iordan's Current is as dry as dead The beam-brow'd Stag and strong-neckt Bull do ly On palc-faç't banks of Arnon also dry But neither sup nor see the Crystal Wave Ouer the which so often swom they have The lusty Courser that late scorn'd the ground Now lank and lean with crest and courage downd With rugged tongue out of his chained mouth With hollow-flanks panting for inward drouth Rouling his Bit but with a feeble rumor Would sweat for faintnes but he wanteth humour The Towr-backt Camel that best brooketh Thirst And on his bunch could have transported yerst Neer a whole Houshold now is able scant To bear him self he is so feebly-faint Both yong and olde both of the base and best Feel a fel Aetna in their thirstie brest To temper which they breath but to their wo For for pure air they sup into them so A putride thick and pestilentiall fume Which stuffs their Lights and doth their lives consume Ther 's not a Puddle though it strangely stink But dry they draw't sea-Sea-Water's dainty Drink And fusty-Bottles from beyond-beyond-Sea South Bring Nile to Somer for the Kings owne mouth For though the Lord th' whole Land of Syria smights Th' heat of his Anger on Samaria lights With greatest force whose furious Prince implies The Prophet Cause of all these miseries Therefore he fearing Achab's ragefull hate Down to Brook Châ—rith's hollow
And in this Store-house of his Wonders treasure Observ'd in all things number waight and measure For had the Water next the Fire been plaç't Fire seeming then moro wrongd and more disgraç't Would sodainly have left his Aduersary And set vpon the Vmpire more contrary But all the Links of th' holy Chain which tethers The many Members of the World togethers Are such as none but only he can breake them Who at the first did of meere nothing make them Water as arm'd with moisture and with cold The cold-dry Earth with her one hand doth hold With th' other th' Aire The Aire as moist and warm The disposing combining of the Elements Holds Fire with one Water with th' other arm As Country Maidens in the Month of May Merrily sporting on a Holy-day And lusty dancing of a lively Round A Similitude About the May-pole by the Bag-pipes sound Hold hand in hand so that the first is fast By means of those between vnto the last For sith 't is so that the dry Element Not onely yeelds her owne Babes nourishment But with the milke of her aboundant brests Doth also feede th' Aires nimble winged guests And also all th' innumerable Legions Of greedy mouths that haunt the Bryny Regions So that th' Earth's Mother or else Nurse of all That run or fly or swim or slide or crawl 'T was meet it should be it self's Counterpoize To stand still firm against the roaring noise Of wrack full Neptune and the wrathfull blasts Of parching South and pinching Boreas 'T was meet her sad-slowe body to digest Why the Earth is the lowest and enuironed with the other three Elements wherof it is the center Farther from Heav'n than any of the rest Least of Heav'ns Courseth ' Eternall swift Careers Rushing against her with their whirling Sphears Should her transport as swift and violent As ay they do their neighbour Element And sith on th' otherside th' harmonious Course Of Heav'ns bright Torches is th' immortall source Of earthly life and sith all alterations Almost are caus'd by their quick agitations In all the World God could not place so fit Our Mother Earth as in the midst of it For all the Stars reflect their lively rayes On Fire and Aire and Water diuers wayes Dispersing so their powerfull influence On in and through these various Elements But on the Earth they all in one concurr And all vnite their seuered force in her As in a Wheel which with a long deep rut Simile His turning passage in the durt doth cut The distant spoaks neerer and nearer gather And in the Navevnite their points together As the bright Sun shines thorough smoothest Glass Simile The turning Planets influence doth pass Without impeachment through the glist ' ring Tent Of the tralucing Fierie Element Th' Aires triple Regions the transparent Water But not the firm Base of this fair Theater And therefore rightly may we call those Trines Fire Aire and Water but Heav'ns Concubines For neuer Sun nor Moon nor Stars inioy The love of these but only by the way As passing by whereas incessantly The lusty Heav'n with Earth doth company And with a fruitfull seed which lends All life With-childs each-moment his owne lawfull wife And with her louely Babes in form and nature The Water between the Earth and Aire So diuers decks this beautifull Theater The Water lighter then the Earthy Masse Heauier then Aire betwixt them both hath place The better so with a moist-cold to temper Th' ones over-driness th' others hot distemper But my sweet Muse whither so fast away Leauing the Earth and Sea till the next Booke hee comes to treate of the Aire Soft soft my Darling draw not dry To-Day Castalian Springs defer the Cirque and Seat The power and praise of Sea and Earth as yet Do not anticipate the Worlds Beginning But till To-Morrow leaue the enter-blinning Of Rocky Mounts and rouling Waues so wide For euen To-Morrow will the Lord diuide With the right hand of his Omnipotence These yet confus'd and mingled Elements And liberally the shaggy Earth adorn With Woods and Buds of fruits of flowers and corn 'T is time my Loue 't is time mine onely Care To hie vs hence and Mount vs in the Aire 'T is time or neuer now my dearest Minion To imp strong farcels in thy sacred pinion That lightly born vpon thy Virgin back Safe through the Welkin I my course may take Com com my Ioy lend me thy lillie shoulder That thereon raised I may reach the bolder Before the rest of my deer Country-men Of better wit but worse-applied pen At that green Laurel which the niggard Skies So long haue hidden from my longingeies Th' Aire hoste of Mists the bounding Tennis-ball That stormy Tempests toss and play with all The Aire distinguished into 3 Regions Of winged Clouds the wide inconstant House Th' vnsetled kingdom of swift Aeolus Great Ware-house of the Windes whose traffik giues Motion of life to euery thing that liues Is not throughout all one our Elder Sages Have fitly parted it into Three Stages Wherof because the Highest still is driv'n With violence of the First-mouing Heav'n The High From East to West and from West returning To th' honored Cradle of therosiall Morning And also seated next the Fiery vault It by the learned very hot is thought That which we touch with times doth variate Now hot now cold and sometimes temperate The Lowe Warm-temp'red showers it sendeth in the Spring In Autumn likewise but more varying In Winter time continuall cold and chill In Sommer season hot and soultry still For then the Fields scorched with flames reflect The sparkling rayes of thousand Stars aspect And chiefly Phoebus to whose arrows bright Our Globy Grandame serues for But and White The Middle Region of the Aire But now because the Middle Region's set Far from the Fiery seelings flagrant heat And also from the warm reuerberation Which aye the Earth reflects in diuers fashion That Circle shiuers with eternall colde For into Hail how should the Water molde Of the causes of Haile Euen when the Sommer hath gilt Ceres Gowne Except those Climes with Ycicles were sowen So soon as Sol leaving the gentle Twins With Cancer or thirst-panting Leo Inns The mid-most Aire redoubleth all his Frosts Being besieged by two mighty Hoasts Of Heat more fierce ' gainst his Cold force then ever Calls from all quarters his chil troups together T' incounter them with his vnited Powr Which then dispersed hath far greater powr As Christian Armies from the Frontiers far And out of fear of Turks outrageous War March in disorder and become disperst As many Squadrons as were Souldiers yerst So that somtimes th' vntrained Multitude With bats and boawes hath beat them and subdu'd But if they once perceive or vnderstand The Moony Standards of proud Ottoman To be approaching and the Sulph'ry thunder Wherewith he brought both Rhodes and Belgrade vnder They
grow'n Yet from their birth-place take they diuersly A diuers name and diuers quality Feeling the fower Windes that with diuers blast Of the Windes whereof there are foure principall compared to the foure Seasons the foure Complexions the foure Elements and the foure Ages of man assigned to the foure Corners of the World And called East West North South From the fower corners of the World doo haste In their effects I finde fower Temp'raments Foure Times foure Ages and foure Elements Th' East-winde in working follows properly Fire Choler Summer and soft Infancy That which dries-vp wild Affrick with his wing Resembles Aire Bloud Youth and liuely Spring That which blowes moistly from the Western stage Like Water Phlegme Winter and heauy Age That which comes shiv'ring from cold Climates solely Earth withered Eld Autumn and Melancholy Not but that Men haue long yeâ— this found-out More then these foure Windes East West North and South Those that at Sea to see both Poles are wont Vpon their Compass two and thirty count Though they be infinite as are the places Whence the Heav'n-fanning Exhalation passes But wheresoeuer their quick course they bend As on their Chiefs all on these Foure depend One while with whisking broom they brush and sweep Diuers effects of the Windes The cloudy Courtains of Heav'ns stages steep Anon with hotter sighes they dry the Ground Late by Electra and her sisters drownd Anon refresh they with a temperate blowing The soultry Aier vnder the Dog-star glowing On Trees anon they ripe the Plum and Pear In cods the Poulse the Corn within the ear Anon from North to South from East to West With ceas-less wings they driue a Ship addrest And somtimes whirling on an open Hill The round-flat Runner in a roaring Mill In flowry motes they grinde the purest grain Which late they ripened on the fruitfull Plain Diuers effect of hot exhalations If th' Exhalation hot and oily proue And yet as feeble giueth place aboue To th' Airy Regions euer-lasting Frost Incessantly th' apt-tinding fume is tost Till it inflame then like a Squib it falls Or fire-wingd shaft or sulp'hry Powder-Balls Of Comeâ—s But if This kinde of Exhalation tour Aboue the walls of Winters icy bowr ' T-inflameth also and anon becoms A new strange Star presaging wofull dooms And for this Fier hath more fewell in 't Then had the first 't is not so quickly spent Whether the Heav'ns incessant agitation Into a Star transforming th' Exhalation Kindle the same like as a coal that winkt On a sticks end and seemed quite extinct Tost in the dark with an industrious hand To light the night becoms a fier-brand Or whether th' vpper Fire doo fire the same As lighted Candles doo th' vnlight inflame According as the vapour 's thick or rare Of other fiery impressions in the regions of the Aire Euen or vn-even long or large round or square Such are the Forms it in the Aire resembles At sight whereof th' amazed Vulgar trembles Heer in the night appears a flaming Spire There a fierce Dragon folded all in fire Heer a bright Comet there a burning Beam Heer flying Launces there a Fiery Stream Heer seems a horned Goat environ'd round With fiery flakes about the Aire to bound There with long bloody hair a Blazing Star Threatens the World with Famin Plague and War To Princes death to Kingdoms many crosses To all Estates ineuitable Losses To Heard-men Rot to Plough-men hap-less Seasons To Saylers Storms to Cities ciuill Treasons But hark what hear I in the Heav'ns me thinks A liuely description of thunder and lightning The Worlds wall shakes and his Foundation shrinks It seems euen now that horrible Pâ—rsiphoné Loosing Meger Alecto and Tysiphoné Weary of raigning in black Erebus Transports her Hell between the Heav'n and vs. 'T is held I knowe that when a Vapour moist How they are ingendred As well from Fresh as from Salt water 's hoist In the same instant with hot-Exhalations In th' Aiery Regions secondary stations The Fiery Fume besieged with the Croud And keen-cold thicknes of that dampish Cloud Strengthens his strength and with redoubled Volleys Of ioyned Heat on the the Cold Leagher sallies Like as a Lion very late exil'd A simile From 's natiue Forests spit-at and reuil'd Mock't moov'd and troubled with a thousand toyes By wanton children idle girls and boyes With hideous roaring doth his Prison fill In 's narrow Cloistre ramping wildely still Runns to and fro and furious less doth long For liberty than to reuenge his wrong This Fire desirous to break forth again From 's cloudy Ward cannot itself refrain But without resting loud it grones and grumbles It roules and roars and round-round-round it rumbles Till hauing rent the lower side in sunder With Sulph'ry flash it haue shot-down his thunder Though willing to vnite in these alarms To 's Brothers Forces his own fainting arms And th' hottest Circle of the World to gain To issue vp-ward oft it striues in vain But 't is there fronted with a Trench so large And such an Hoast that though it often charge On this and that side the Cold Camp about With his Hot Skirmish yet still still the stout Victorious Foe repelleth ev'ry push So that despairing with a furious rush Forgetting honour it is fain to fly By the back-door with blushing Infamy Then th' Ocean boyls for fear the Fish doo deem Their effects The Sea too shallow to safe-shelter them The Earth doth shake the Shepheard in the field In hollow Rocks himself can hardly shield Th' affrighted Heav'ns open and in the Vale Of Acheron grim Plutoes self looks pale Th' Aire flames with Fire for the loud-roaring Thunder Renting the Cloud that it includes asunder Sends forth those Flashes which so blear our sight As wakefull Students in the Winters night Against the steel glauncing with stony knocks Simile Strike sodain sparks into their Tinder-box Moreouer Lightning of a fume is fram'd Admirable effects of lightning Through ' tselfs hot-dryness euermore inflam'd Whose powr past-credit without razing skin Can bruiz to powder all our bones within Can melt the Gold that greedy Mizers hoord In barred Cofers and not burn the boord Can break the blade and neuer sindge the sheath Can scorch an infant in the Womb to death And neuer blemish in one sort or other Flesh bone or sinew of th' amazed Mother Consume the shooes and neuer hurt the feet Empty a Cask and yer not perish it My yonger eyes haue often seen a Dame To whom the flash of Heav'ns fantastike flame Did els no harm saue in a moment's space With windy Rasor shaue a secretplace Shall I omit a hundred Prodigies Of Crownes and circles about the Sunne Moone and other Planets Oft seen in forehead of the frowning Skies Somtimes a Fiery Circle doth appear Proceeding from the beautious beams and clear Of Sun and Moon and other Stars aspect Down-looking on a
Then sodainly turnd studious Platonist I hold the Heav'ns of Elements consist What vse of Elements in the Heauens 'T is Earth whose firm parts make their Lamps apparant Their bodies fast Aire makes them all transparant Fire makes their rest-les circles pure and cleer Hot lighsom light and quick in their career And Water ' nointing with cold-moist the brims Of th' enter-kissing turning Globes extreams Tempers the heat caus'd by their rapid turning Which els would set all th' elements a-burning Not that I doo compare or match the Matter Difference between the Elements whereof the Heauens are composed and these inferiour Elements Whence I compose th' All-compassing Theater To those gross Elements which heer belowe Our hand and ey doth touch and see and knowe 'T's all fair all pure a sacred harmony Those bodies bindes in end-less Vnity That Aier's not flitting nor that Water floating Nor Fire inflaming nor Earth dully doating Nor one to other aught offensiue neither But to conclude Celestiall altogether See see the rage of humane Arrogance Detesting the presumption of those curious wits searching these secrets He limits himselfe within the bounds of Christian Sobriety See how far dares man's erring ignorance That with vnbridled tongue as if it oft Had try'd the mettle of that vpper Loft Dares without proof or without reason yeelded Tell of what timber God his Palace builded But in these doubts much rather rest had I Then with mine errour draw my Readerwry Till a Saint Paule doore-descend from Heav'n Or till my self this sinfull roab be reav'n This rebell Flesh whose counterpoize oppresses My pilgrim Soule and euer it depresses Shall see the beauties of that Blessed Place If then I ought shall see saue Gods bright Face But ev'n as many or more quarrels cumber Diuers opinions of the number of the Heauens Th' old Heathen Schools about the Heav'ns number One holds but one making the Worlds Eys shine Through the thin-thicknes of that Crystal line As through the Oceans cleer and liquid Flood The slippery Fishes vp and down doosâ—ud Another iudging certain by his ey And seeing Seav'n bright Lamps moov'd diversly ' Turn this and that way and on th' other side That all the rest of the Heav'ns twinkling pride Keep all one course ingeniously he varies The Heav'ns rich building into eight round Stories Others amid the Starriest Orb perceiuing A triple cadence and withall conceiuing That but one naturall course one body goes Count nine som ten not numbring yet with those Th' empyreall Palace where th' eternall Treasures Of Nectar flowe where ever-lasting Pleasures Are heaped-vp where an immortall May In bliss-full beauties flourisheth for ay Where Life still liues where God his * Assises Sises holds Environ'd round with Seraphins and Soules Bought with his precious blood whose glorious Flight Yerst mounted Earth above the Heav'ns bright Nor shall my faint and humble Muse presume So high a Song and Subiect to assume O fair fiue-double Round sloath's Foe apparant He stoppeth at the contemplation and praise of the Heauens Which he considereth as distinguished into ten stages or Heauens Life of the World Dayes Months and yeers own Parent Thine own selfs model never shifting place And yet thy pure wings with so swift a pase Fly over vs that but our Thought alone Can as thy babe pursue thy motion Infinite finite free from growth and grief Discord and death dance-louer to be brief Still like thy self all thine own in thee all Transparent cleer light law of this lowe Ball Which in thy wide bout bound-les all doost bound And claspâ—st all vnder or in thy Round Throne of th' Almighty I would fain rehearse Thy various Dauies in this very Verse If it were time and but my bounded Song Doubteth to make this Second Day too-long For notwithstanding yet another day I fear som Critick will not stick to say My babbling Muse did sail with every gale And mingled yarn to length her web withall But knowe what e'r thou be that heer I gather The summe of what hath been handled in this booke what is to be vnderstood by the firmament which Moyses describeth in the first of Gen. â— 6 Iustly so many of Gods works together Because by th' Orbe of th' ample Firmament Which round This-Day th' Eternall Fingers pent Between the lower Waters and the higher I mean the Heav'ns the Aire and th' vpper Fire Which separate the Oceans waters salt From those which God pour'd o'r th' Ethereal Vault Yet haue I not so little seen and sought Against those that think there are no waters aboue the firmament Whom he confuteth by diuers Reasons Simile The Volums which our Age hath chiefest thought But that I knowe how suttly greatest Clarks Presume to argue in their learned Works T'o ' r-whelm these Floods this Crystal to deface And dry this Ocean which doth all imbrace But as the beauty of a modest Dame Who well-content with Natures comly Frame And native Fair as it is freely giv'n In fit proportion by the hand of Heav'n Doth not with painting prank nor set-it-out With helps of Art sufficient Fair without Is more prayse-worthy then the wanton glance Th' affected gait th' alluring countenance The Mart of Pride the Periwigs and painting Whence Courtisans refresh their beauties fainting 1. The word of God to be preser red before the voice of man So doe I more the sacred Tongue esteem Though plain and rurall it doe rather seem Then school'd Athenian and Diuinity For onely varnish have but Verity Then all the golden Wit-pride of Humanity Wherewith men burnish their erroneous vanity I 'l rather give a thousand times the ly 2. Gods word meÌ„tioneth waters aboue the firmament To mine own Reason then but once defy The sacred voice of th' ever-lasting Spirit Which doth so often and so loud averr-it That God above the shining Firmament Gen. 1 7 Psal. 104 3 Psal. 148 4 I wot not I what kinde of Waters pent Whether that pure super-celestiall Water With our inferiour haue no likely nature Whether turnd Vapour it haue round embow'd Heav'ns highest stage in a transparent Cloud Or whether as they say a Crystall case Do round about the Heav'nly Orb embrace But with coniectures wherefore strive I thus Can doubtfull proofs the certainty discuss I see not why Mans reason should withstand 3. The power of God ought to be of greater authority then Mans Reason Or not beleeve that Hee whose powrfull hand Bay'd-vp the Red-Sea with a double Wall That Israels Hoast might scape Egyptian thrall Could prop as sure so many waves on high Above the Heav'n Star-spangled Canapy See we not hanging in the Clouds each howr So many Seas still threatning down to pour 4. The consideration of the waters which hang in the Aire and of the Sea which compasseth the Earth Supported only by th' Aier's agitation Selfly too weak for the least waight's foundation See wee not also that
this Sea belowe Which round about our Earthly Globe doth flowe Remains still round and maugre all the surly Aeolian Slaves and Water's hurly burly Dares not to levell her proud liquid Heap Neuer so little past her limits leap Why then beleeue we not that vpper Sphear May without falling such an Ocean bear Vncircumcised O hard hearts at least Lett 's think that God those Waters doth digest In that steep place for if that Nature heer 5. Diuers effects continual admirable in Nature Can form firm Pearl and Crystall shining cleer Of liquid substance let 's beleeue it rather Much more in God the Heav'ns and Natur 's Father Let vs much more much more lett 's peiz and ponder Th' Almighties Works and at his Wisedom wonder Let vs obserue and double-waigh it well That this proud Palace whear we rule and dwell Though built with match-less Art had fall'n long since Had 't not ben seel'd-round with moist Elements For like as in Man's Little-World the Brain Doth highest place of all our Frame retain And tempers with it's moistfull coldnes so Th' excessive heat of th' other parts belowe Th' eternall Builder of this beautious Frame To enter-mingle meetly Frost with Flame And cool the great heat of the Great-Worlds Torches This-Day spred Water over Heav'ns bright Arches These Seas they say leagu'd with the Seas belowe Hiding the highest of the Mountains tho Had drown'd the whole World had not Noah builded A holy Vessell where his house was shielded Taking occasioÌ„ by his former discourse he treateth of the incouÌ„ ter of the vpper waters with the lower whence followed the general stood in the daies of Noah Which hâ—re he liuely representeth Where by direction of the King of Kings He sav'd a seed-payr of all liuing things No sooner shipâ— but instantly the Lord Down to th' Aeolian dungeon him bestirr'd There muzled close Cloud-chasing Boreas And let loose Auster and his lowring race Who soon set forward with a dropping wing Vpon their beard for every hair a spring A night of Clouds muffled their brows about Their wattled locks gusht all in Rivers out And both their hands wringing thick Clouds asunder Send forth fierce lightning tempest rain and thunder Brooks Lakes and Floods Rivers and foaming Torrents Sodainly swell and their confused Currents Losing their old bounds break a neerer way To run at randon with their spoyls to Sea Th' Earth shakes for fear and sweating doth consume her And in her veins leaues not a drop of humour And thou thy self O Heav'n didst set wideope Through all the Marshes in thy spacious cope All thy large sluces thy vast Seas to shed In sodain spouts on thy proud sisters head Whose aw-less law-less shame-les life abhord Onely delighted to despight the Lord. Th' Earth shrinks sinks now th' Ocean hath no shore Now Rivers run to serue the Sea no more Themselues are Sea the many sundry Streams Of sundry names deriv'd from sundry Realms Make now but one great Sea the World it self Is nothing now but a great standing Gulf Whose swelling surges strive to mix their Water With th' other Waves above this round Theater The Sturgeon coasting over Castles muses Vnder the Sea to see so many houses The Indian Manat and the Mullet float O'r Mountain tops where yerst the bearded Goat Did bound and brouz the crooked Dolphin seuds O'r th' highest branches of the hugest Woods Nought boots the Tigre or the Hart or Hors Or Hare or Grey-hound their swift speedy cours For seeking Land the more they strain breath them The more alas it shrinks and sinks beneath them The Otter Tortois and fell Crocodile Which did enioy a double house yer-while Must be content with only water now The Wolf and Lamb Lions and Buçks do rowe Vpon the Waters side by side suspect-less The Glead and Swallow laboring long effect-less 'Gainst certain death with wearied wings fall down For want of Perch and with the rest do drown And for mankinde imagine som get vp To som high Mountains over-hanging top Som to a Towr som to a Cedar tree Whence round about a World of deaths they see But wheresoeuer their pale fears aspire For hope of safety th' Ocean surgeth higher And still-still mounting as they still do mount When they cease mounting doth them soon surmount One therefore ventures on a Plank to rowe One in a Chest another in a Trough Another yet half-sleeping scarce perceives How 's bed and breath the Flood at once bereaves Another labouring with his feet and hands A while the fury of the Flood withstands Which by his side hath newly droun'd his Mother His Wife his Son his Sister Sire and Brother But tyr'd and spent weary and wanting strength He needs must yeeld too to the Seas at length All all must die then but * Parcae à non parcendo Thenone-sparing Fates that is to say Death th' impartiall Maids Who wont to vse so sundry tools for ayds In execution of their fatall slaughters Had only now the furious foaming Waters Safely the while the sacred Ship did float On the proud shoulders of that boundless-Moat Though mast-les oar-les and from Harbour far For God was both her Steers-man and her Star Thrice fifty dayes that Vniuersall Flood Wasted the World which then the Lord thought good To re-erect in his Compassion great No sooner sounds he to the Seas retreat But instantly wave into wave did sink With sodain speed all Rivers gan to shrink Th' Ocean retires him to his wonted prison The Woods are seen the Mountain tops are risen Out of their slimy Bed the Fields increase And spread apace so fast the waters cease And briefly th' onely thundring hand of God Now Earth to Heav'n Heav'n vnto Earth re-show'd That he again Panchaian Fumes might see Sacred on Altars to his Maiesty He concludeth with a most godly prayer accommodated to the state of the Church in our time Lord sith't hath pleas'd thee likewise in our Age To saue thy Ship from Tyrants stormy rage Increase in Number Lord thy little Flock But more in Faith to build on thee the Rock So Morn and Euen the second Day conclude And God perceiu'd that All his Works were good THE THIRD DAIE OF THE FIRST WEEK THE ARGVMENT The Sea and Earth their various Equipage Seuer'd a-part Bounds of the Oceansrage ' Timbraceth Earth it doth all Watersowe Why it is salt How it doth Ebb and Flowe Rare streams and Fountains of strange operation Earth's firmnes greatnes goodnes sharp taxation Of Bribes Ambition Treason Auarice Trees Shrubs Plants Mines Metals Gemms of price Right vse of Gold the Load-stones rare effects The Countrey-life preferr'd in all respects MY sacred Muse that lately soared high Among the glist'ring Circles of the Sky FroÌ„ the Heauen Regions of the Aire the Poet descendeth to the Earth and Sea Whose various dance which the first Moover driues Harmoniously this Vniverse revives Commanding all the Windes and sulphry
Storms The lightning Flashes and the hideous Forms Seen in the Aire with language meetly brave Whilom discourst vpon a Theam so grave But This-Day flagging lowely by the Ground She seems constrain'd to keep a lowely â—ound Or if somtimes she somwhat raise her voice The sound is drown'd with the rough Oceans noise O King of grassie and of glassie Plains He calleth vpon the true God be assisted in the description of thâ—se two Elements and the things therein Whose powrfull breath at thy drad will constrains The deep Foundations of the Hills to shake And Seas salt billows 'gainst Heav'ns vaults to rake Grant me To-Day with skilfull Instruments To bound a right these two rich Elements In learned numbers teach me sing the natures Of the firm-Earth and of the floating Waters And with a flowring stile the Flowrs to limn Whose Colours now shall paint the Fields so trim All those steep Mountains whose high horned tops God in this third Day gathers together the Waters separates them from the Earth The misty cloak of wandring Clouds enwraps Vnder First Waters their crump shoulders hid And all the Earth as a dull Pond abid Vntill th' All-Monarch's bountious Maiesty Willing t'enfeof man this worlds Empery Commaunded Neptune straight to Marshall forth His Floods a-part and to vnfold the Earth And in his Waters now contented rest Thaue all the World for one whole day possest As when the muffled Heav'ns have wept a main By an apt coÌ„parison he sheweth how the Water withdrewe from off the Earth And foaming streams assembling on the Plain Turn'd Fields to Floods soon as the showrs do cease With vnseen speed the Deluge doth decrease Sups vp it self in hollow sponges sinks And 's ample arms in straighter Chanell shrinks Even so the Sea to ' tself it self he took Mount after Mount Field after Field forsook And sodainly in smaller cask did tun Her Waters that from every side did run Whether th' imperfect Light did first exhale Much of that primer Humour where withall God on the Second-Day might frame and found The Crystall Sphears that he hath spred so round Whether th' Almighty did new place provide To lodge the Waters whether op'ning wide Th' Earth's Hollow Pores it pleas'd him to conueigh Of the lodging and bed of the sea Deep vnder ground som Arms of such a Sea Or whether pressing waters gloomy Globe That cov'red all as with a cloudy Robe He them impris'ned in those bounds of brass Which to this day the Ocean dares not pass Without his licence For th' Eternall knowing The Seas commotive and inconstant flowing The Sea kept within her bouÌ„ds by the Almighty power of God Thus curbed her and 'gainst her enuious rage For-ever fenç't ouâ— Flowry-mantled Stage So that we often see those rowling Hils With roaring noise threatning the neighbour Fields Through their owne spite to split vpon the shore Foaming for fury that they dare no more For what could not that great high Admirall Work in the Waues sith at his Seruants call His dreadfull voice to save his ancient Sheep Did cleave the bottom of th' Erythrean Deepe Exod. 14 11 Iosuah 3 16 Gen. 7 21 Exod. 17. 6 And toward the Crystall of his double source Compelled Iordan to retreat his course Drown'd with a Deluge the rebellious World And from dry Rocks abundant Rivers purl'd Lo thus the waighty Water did yer-while With winding turns make all this world an I le For like as molten Lead being poured forth A fit Simile shewing the winding turns of the Sea abouâ— the Earth Vpon a leuell plot of sand or earth In many fashions mazeth to and fro Runs heer direct thear crookedly doth go Heer doth diuide it self there meets again And the hot Riv'let of the liquid vain On the smooth table crawling like a worm Almost in th' instant euery form doth form God pour'd the Waters on the fruitfull Ground In sundry figures somin fashion round Some square som crosse som long som lozenge-wise Som triangles som large som lesser size Amid the Floods by this fair difference To giue the world more wealth and excellence Such is the German Sea such Persian Sine Such th' Indian Gulf and such th' Arabian Brine And such Our Sea whose divers-brancht * Windings retortions Divide the World in three vnequall Portions And though each of these Arms how large soever The arms of the Sea distinguished into smaller members with coÌ„modities and vse thereof To the great Ocean seems a little Riuer Each makes a hundred sundry Seas besides Not sundry in waters but in Names and Tides To moisten kindely by their secret Vains The thirsty thickness of the neighbour Plains To bulwark Nations and to serue for fences Against the inuasion of Ambitious Princes To bound large Kingdomes with eternall limits To further Traffick through all Earthly Climates T' abbridge long Iourneys and with ayd of Winde Within a month to visit eyther Inde But th' Earth not only th' Oceans debter is A Catalogue of most of the most famous Riuers in the World For these large Seas But sh' owes him TanaÌ„is Nile Aegypts treasure and his neighbour stream That in the Desart through his haste extream Loseth himself so oft swift Euphrates And th' other proud Son of cold Niphates Fair spacious Ganges and his famous brother That lends his name vnto their noble Mother Gold-sanded Tagus Rhyne Rhóne Volga Tiber Danubius Albis Pô Sein Arne and Iber The Darian Plate and Amazónian River Where SPAIN'S Gold-thirsty Locusts cool their liver Our siluer Medway which doth deep indent The Flowrie Medowes of My natiue KENT Still sadly weeping vnder Pensherst walls Th' Arcadian Cygnet's bleeding Funerals Our Thames and Tweed our Severn Trent and Humber And many moe too infinite to number Of him she also holds her Silver Springs And all her hidden Crystall Riverlings And after greatly in two sorts repaies Th' Humour she borrows by two sundry waies Fountains Springs and Riuers welling out of the Earth For like as in a Limbeck th' heat of Fire Raiseth a Vapour which still mounting higher To the Still's top when th' odoriferous sweat Above that Miter can no further get It softly thickning falleth drop by drop A Similie shewing how the waters of the Earth are exhaled by the Sun then powred into the Sea And Cleer as Chrystall in the glass doth drop The purest humour in the Sea the Sun Exhales in th' Aire which thear resolv'd anon Returns to water and descends again By sundry waies vnto his Mother Main For the dry Earth having these waters first Through the wide sive of her void entrails searst Giving more room at length from Rockie Mountains How the Fountains come to breake forth of the Earth She night and day pours forth a thousand Fountains These Fountains make fresh Brooks with murmuring currents These murmuring Brooks the swift violeÌ„t Torrents These violent Torrents mighty Rivers These These Riuers make
is bow'd About the Waues and well content to suffer Milde Zephyrs blasts and Boreas bellowing rougher Water to quench thy thirst about thy Mountains Wraps her moist arms Seas riuers lakes and fountains O how I grieue deer Earth that given to gays Commendations of the Country-life Most of best wits contemn thee now-a-days And noblest hearts proudly abandon quight Study of Hearbs and Country-lifes delight To brutest men to men of no regard Whose wits are Lead whose bodies Iron-hard Such were not yerst the reuerend Patriarks Whose prayse is penned by the sacred Clarks Noah the iust meek Moses Abraham Who Father of the Faithfull Race becam Were Shepheards all or Husbandmen at least And in the Fields passed their Dayes the best Such were not yerst Attalus Philemetor Archelaus Hiero and many a Pretor Great Kings Consuls who haue oft for blades And glistering Scepters handled hooks and spades Such were not yerst Cincinnatus Fabricius Serranus Curius who vn-self-delicious With Crowned Coultars with Imperiall hands With Ploughs triumphant plough'd the Roman lands Great Scipio sated with fain'd curtsie-capping With Court Eclipses and the tedious gaping Of golden beggers and that Emperour Of Slave turn'd King of King turnd Labourer In Country Granges did their age confine And ordered there with as good Discipline The Fields of Corn as Fields of Combat first And Ranks of Trees as Ranks of Souldiers yerst O thrice thrice happy He who shunns the cares Of City-troubles and of State-affairs And seruing Ceres Tills with his own Teem His own Free-land left by his Friends to him Never pale Enuie's poysonie heads doo hiss To gnaw his heart nor Vultur Auarice Free from enuy ambition auarice and consequently from the diuelish practises of MachiauiliaÌ„ Politikes His Field's bounds bound his thoughts he never supps For Nectar poyson mixtin silver Cups Neither in golden Platters doth he lick For sweet Ambrosia deadly Arsenick His hand 's his boaul better then Plate or Glass The siluer Brook his sweetest Hypocrasse Milk Cheese and Fruit fruits of his own endeuour Drest without dressing hath he ready ever False Counsailours Concealers of the Law Not vâ—xed with counterfait wrestings of wrangling Laywers Turn-coat Attourneys that with both hands draw Sly Peti-Foggers Wranglers at the Bar Proud Purse-Leaches Harpies of Westminster With fained chiding and foul iarring noyse Break not his brain nor interrupt his ioyes But cheerfull Birds chirping him sweet Good-morrows With Natures Musick doo beguile his sorrows Teaching the fragrant Forrests day by day The Diapason of their Heav'nly Lay. His wandring Vessell reeling to and fro Not dreading shipwracke nor in danger of Pirates On th' irefull Ocean as the Windes doo blowe With sodain Tempest is not ouer-whurld To seek his sad death in another World But leading all his life at home in Peace Alwaies in sight of his own smoak no Seas No other Seas he knowes nor other Torrent Then that which waters with his siluer Corrent His Natiue Medowes and that very Earth Shall giue him Buriall which first gaue him Birth To summon timely sleep he doth not need Not diseased in body through delicious Idlenes Aethyop's cold Rush nor drowsy Poppy-seed Nor keep in consort as Mecaenas did Luxurious Villains Viols I should haue sayd But on green Carpets thrumd with mossy Beuer Frendging the round skirts of his winding Riuer The streams milde murmur as it gently gushes His healthy limbs in quiet slumber hushes Drum Fife and Trumpet with their loud A-larms Not drawen by factions to an vntimely Death Make him not start out of his sleep to Arms Nor deer respect of som great Generall Him from his bed vnto the block doth call The crested Cock sings Hunt is vp to him Limits his rest and makes him stir betime To walk the Mountains or the flowry Meads Impearld with tears that sweet Aurora sheads Never gross Aire poysond in stinking Streets Not choaked with contagion of a corrupted Aire To choak his spirit his tender nostrill meets But th' open Sky where at full breath he liues Still keeps him sound and still new stomack giues And Death drad Seriant of th' eternall Iudge Coms very late to his sole seated Lodge His wretched yeers in Princes Courts he spends not Nor Chamelâ—â—like changing with euery obiect the colour of his conscience His thralled will on Great mens wils depends not He changing Master doth not change at once His Faith Religion and his God renounce With mercenary lies hee doth not chaunt Praysing an Emmet for an Elephant Nor soothing Sin nor licking the Tayl of Greatnesse Sardanapalus drown'd in soft excess For a triumphant vertuous Hercules Thersites foul for Venus louely Loue And every Changeling for a Turtle-Doue Nor lavishes in his lascivious layes On wanton Flora chaste Alcestes prayse But all self-priuate serving God he writes Fear-less and sings but what his heart in dites No sallow Fear doth day or night afflict-him Vnto no fraud doth night or day addict-him Neither prest with Fear nor plotting Fraud Or if he muse on guile 't is but to get Beast Bird or Fish in toil or snare or net What though his Wardrobe be not stately stuft With sumptuous silks pinked and powne't and puft With gold-ground Velvets and with siluer Tissue And all the glory of old Eues proud Issue What though his feeble Cofers be not cramd With Misers Idols golden Ingotsramd He is warm-wrapped in his own-growen Wooll Of vn-bought Wines his Cellar 's everfull His Garner's stor'd with grain his Ground with flocks His Barns with Fodder with sweet streams his Rocks For heer I sing the happy Rustiks weal Whose handsom house seems as a Common-weal And not the needy hard rack-rented Hinde Or Copy-holder whom hard Lords doo grinde The pined Fisher or poor-Daiery-Renter That liues of whay for forfeiting Indenture Who scarce haue bread within their homely Cotes Except by fits to feed their hungry throats Let me good Lord among the Great vn-kend My rest of daies in the calm Countrey end Let me deserue of my deer AEGLE-Brood For Windsor Forrest walks in Almes-wood Bee Hadley Pond my Sea Lambs-bourn my Thames Lambourn my London Kennet's siluer streams My fruitfull Nile my Singers and Musicians The pleasant Birds with warbling repetitions My company pure thoughts to work thy will My Court a Cottage on a lowely Hill Where without let I may so sing thy Name That times to-com may wonder at the same Or if the new North-star my Souerain IAMES The secret vertue of whose sacred beams Attracts th' attentiue seruice of all such Whose mindes did euer Vertue 's Load-stone touch Shall euer daign t' inuite mine humble Fate T'approoch the Presence of his Royall State Or if my Duty or the Grace of Nobles Shall driue or draw me neer their pleasing-Troubles Let not their Fauours make me drunk with folly In their Commands still keep my Conscience holy Let me true Honour not the false delight And play the
the Angle Faster and faster on the hooke doo tangle But wily clasping close the Fishing Line Sodainly spews into the Silver Brine Her secret-spreading sodain-speeding bane Which vp the Line and all along the Cane Creeps to the hand of th' Angler who with-all Benumm'd and sens-less sodainly le ts fall His hurtfull pole and his more hatefull prize Simile Becomn like one that as in bed he lies Seems in his sleep to see som gastly Ghost In a cold sweat shaking and swelt almost He cals his wife for ayd his friends his folks But his stuft stomack his weak clamour â—hoaks Then would he strike at that he doth behold But sleep and fear his feeble hands doo hold Then would he run away but as he strives Hee feels his feet fetterd with heauy Gyues But if the Scolopendra haue suckt-in The Scolopendra The sowr-sweet morsell with the barbed Pin She hath as rare a trick to rid her from-it For instantly she all her guts doth vomit And having clear'd them from the danger then She fair and softly sups them in again So that not one of them within her womb Changeth his Office or his wonted room The thriuing Amia neer Abydos breeding The Amia And suttle Sea-Fox in Steeds-loue exceeding The Sea-Fox Without so vent ring their dear life and lyning Can from the Worm-clasp compass their vntwining For sucking-in more of the twisted hair Aboue the hook they it in sunder shear So that their foe who for a Fish did look Lifts vp a bareline robd of bait and hooke But timerous Barbels will not taste the bit The Barbel Till with their tails they haue vnhooked it And all the baits the Fisher can deuise Cannot beguile their wary iealousies Euen so almost the many spotted Cuttle The Cuttle Wel-neer insnared yet escapeth suttle For when she sees her self within the Net And no way left but one from thence to get She sodainly a certain Ink dothspew Which dies the Waters of a sable hew That dazling so the Fishers greedy sight She through the Clouds of the black Waters night Might scape with honour the black streams of Styx Wherof already almost lost she licks And as a Prisoner of som great transgression Conuict by Witness and his owne Confession Simile Kept in dark Durance full of noysom breath Expecting nothing but the Day of Death Spies euery corner and pries round about To finde som weake place where he may get out The delicate cud-chewing Golden-Eye The Golden-eye or Guilt-head Kept in a Weyre the widest space doth spy And thrusting-in his tail makes th' Osiars gape With his oft flapping and doth so escape But if his fellow finde him thus bâ—â—â—ed He lends his tail to the Imprisoned That thereby holding fast with gentle law Him from his Durance he may friendly draw Or if before that he were captiuate He see him hooked on the biting bait Hasting to help he leapeth at the line And with his teeth snaps-off the hairy twine You stony hearts within whose stubborn Centre Sundry in structions that Fishes giue to men Could neuer touch of sacred friendship enter Look on these Seas my Songs haue calmed thus Heer 's many a Damon many a Thâ—seâ—s The gilden Sparlings when cold Winters blast The Sparlings Begins to threat themselues together cast In heaps like balls and heating mutually Liue that alone of the keen Cold would die Those small white Fish to Venus consecrated Though without Venus ayd they be created Of th' Ocean scum seeing themselues a pray Expos'd in euery Water-Rouers way Swarming by thousands with so many a fold Combine themselues that their ioint strength doth hold Against the greediest of the Sea-thieues sallies Yea and to stay the course of swiftest Gallies As a great Carrak cumbred and opprest Simile With her selfs-burthen wends not East and West Star-bood and Lar-boord with so quick Careers As a small Fregat or swift Pinnass steers And as a large and mighty limbed Steed Another Either of Friseland or of German breed Can neuer manage half so readily As Spanish Iennet or light Barbarie So the huge VVhale hath not so nimble motion Of the the Whale and his friend Musculus As smaller Fishes that frequent the Ocean But somtimes rudely ' gainst a Rock he brushes Or in som roaring Straight he blindly rushes And scarce could liue a Twelue-month to an end But for the little Musculus his friend A little Fish that swimming still before Directs him safe from Rock from shelf and shoar Much like a Childe that louing leads about Simile His aged Father when his eyes be out Still wasting him through euery way so right That rest of eyes he seems not rest of sight Waues-Mother Thetis though thine arms embrace Strange League betweene the Pearl-Fish and the Prawne The World about within thine ample space A firmer League of friendship is not seen Then is the Pearl-fish and the Prawn betweene Both haue but one repast both but one Palace But one delight one death one sorrow and one solace That lodgeth this and this remunerates His Land-lords kindnes with all needfull Cates. For while the Pearl-Fish gaping wide doth glister Much Fry allur'd with the bright siluerlustre Of her rich Casket flocks into the Nacre Then with a prick the Prawn a sign doth mak-her That instantly her shining shell she close Because the Prey worthy the pain he knowes Which gladly done she ev'nly shareth-out The Prey betwixt her and her faithfull scout And so the Sponge-Spye warily awakes Also betweene the Sponge and his Spye The Galley Fish The Sayle-Fish Boat-Crab Sea-Vrchin The Sponges dull sense when repast it takes But O! what stile can worthily declare O! Galley-Fish and thou Fish-Mariner Thou Boat-Crab and Sea-Vrchin your dexteritie In Saylers Art for safeness and celeritie If Iaffa Marchants now Comburgers seem With Portingalls and Portingalls with them If Worlds of Wealth born vnder other Sky Seem born in Ours if without wings we fly From North to South and from the East to West Through hundred sundry way-less waies addrest If to be brief this World's rich compass round Seem as a Common without hedge or mound Where at his choice each may him freely store With rarest fruits You may we thank therefore For whether Typhis or that Pride of Greece That sayl'd to Colchos for the Golden-Fleece Or Belus Son first builded floating bowrâ— To mate the Windes Storms and the Waters Stowrs What e'r he were he surely learn'd of you The Art of Rowing and of Sayling too Heer would I cease saue that this humorous song The Hermite-Fish compels me to prolong The sea Hermit A man of might that builds him a Defence 'Gainst Weathers rigour and Warr's insolence First dearly buies for What good is good-cheap Both the rich Matter and rare Workmanship But without buying Timber Lime and stone Or hiring men to build his Mansion Or borrowing House or paying Rent
with lips the Fruit forbod so much Thus yet in league with Heav'n and Earth he liues Description of the beauties of the Garden of Eden Enioying all the Goods th' Almighty giues And yet not treading Sins false mazy measures Sails on smooth surges of a Sea of pleasures Heer vnderneath a fragrant Hedge reposes Full of all kindes of sweet all-coloured Roses Which one would think the Angels daily dress In true loue-knots tri-angles lozenges Anon he walketh in a leuell lane The Orchard On either side beset with shady Plane Whose arched boughs for Frize and Cornich bear Thick Groues to shield from future change of air Then in a path impal'd in pleasant wise With sharp-sweet Orange Limon Citron trees Whose leauy twigs that intricately tangle Seem painted walls whereon true fruits do dangle Now in a plentious Orchard planted rare With vn-graft trees in checker round and square Whose goodly fruits so on his will doe wait That plucking one another's ready straight And hauing tasted all with due satiety Findes all one goodnes but in taste variety Anon he stalketh with an easie stride The Brooks By som cleer Riuer's lilly-paued side Whose sand's pure gold whose pebbles precious Gemms And liquid siluer all the curling streams Whose chiding murmur mazing in and out With Crystall cesterns moats a mead about And th' art-less Bridges ouer-thwart this Torrent Are rocks self-arched by the eating current The Bridges Or louing Palms whose lusty Femals willing Their marrow-boyling loues to be fulfilling And reach their Husband-trees on th' other banks Bow their stiff backs and serue for passing-planks Then in a goodly Garden 's alle is smooth The Alleis beds and Borders Where prodig Nature sets abroad her booth Of richest beauties where each bed and border Is like pide posies diuers dies and order Now far from noise he creepeth couertly Into a Caue of kindly Porphyry The Caues Which rock-fall'nspowts congeald by colder air Seem with smooth anticks to haue sceled fair There laid at ease a cubit from the ground Vpon a Iaspir fring'd with yâ—ie round Purfled with vains thick thrumm'd with mossie Beuer He falls asleep fast by a silent Riuer Whose captiue streams through crooked pipes still rushing The pleasant murmur of the Waters Make sweeter Musick with their gentle gushing Then now at Tiuoli th' Hydrantik Braul Of rich Ferrara's stately Cardinall Or Ctesibegrave s rare engines framed there Where as they made of Ibis Iupiter Musing anon through crooked Walks he wanders The Maze Round-winding rings and intricate Meanders False-guiding paths doubtfull beguiling strays And right-wrong errors of an end-less Maze Not simply hedged with a single border Of Rosenoary cut-out with curious order In Satyrs Centaurs Whales and half-men-Horses And thousand other counterfaited corses But with true Beasts fast in the ground still sticking The wonderfull Plants Feeding on grass and th' airy moisture licking Such as those Bonarets in Scythia bred The Bonarets Of slender seeds and with green fodder fed Although their bodies noses mouths and eys Of new-yeand Lambs haue full the form and guise And should be very Lambs saue that for foot Within the ground they fix a liuing root Which at their nauell growes and dies that day That they haue brouz'd the neighbour grass away O wondrous vertue of God only good The Beast hath root the Plant hath flesh bloud The nimble Plant can turn it to and fro The nummed Beast can neither stir norgoe The Plant is leaf-less branch-less void of fruit The Beast is lust-less sex-less fire-less mute The Plant with Plants his hungry paunch doth feede Th' admired Beast is sowen a slender seede Then vp and down a Forrest thick he paseth The Trees of the Garden of Eden Which selfly opening in his presence baseth Her trembling tresses neuer-vading spring For humble homage to her mightie King Where thousand Trees wauing with gentle puffs Their plumy tops sweep the celestiall roofs Yet enuying all the massie Cerbas fame The Cerbas Sith fiftie pases can but clasp the same There springs the Shrub three foot aboue the grass The Balme Which fears the keen edge of the Curtelace Whereof the rich Egyptian so endears Root bark and fruit and much-much more the tears There liues the Sea-oake in a little shel There growes vntill'd the ruddy Cochenel The Sea-Oak The Cochenel The Chermez And there the Chermez which on each side Arms With pointed prickles all his precious arms Rich Trees and fruitfull in those Worms of Price Which pressed yeeld a crimsin-coloured juice Whence thousand Lambs are died so deep in grain That their own Mothers knowe them not again There mounts the Melt which serues in Mexico For weapon wood needle and threed to sowe The admirable Melt Brick hony sugar sucket balm and wine Parchment perfume apparell cord and line His wood for fire his harder leaues are fit For thousand vses of inuentiue wit Som-times ther-on they graue their holy things Laws lauds of Idols and the gests of Kings Som-times conioyned by a cunning hand Vpon their roofs for rowes of tyle they stand Som-times they twine them into equall threeds Small ends make needles greater arrow-heads His vpper sap the sting of Serpentscutes His new-sprung bud a rare Conserue indures His burned stalks with strong fumosities Of pearcing vapours purge the French disease And they extract from liquor of his feet Sharpevinegar pure hony sugar sweet There quakes the Plant which in Pudefetan Is call'd the Shame-fac't for asham'd of man The shame-faced If towards it one doo approach too much It shrinks his boughs to shun our hatefull touch As if it had a soule a sense and sight Subiect to shame fear sorrow and despight And there that Tree from off whose trembling top Both swimming shoals and flying troups doe drop A Tree whose leaues transform to fowl and fish I mean the tree now in Iuturna growing Whose leaues disperst by Zephyr's wanton blowing Are metamorphos'd both in form and matter On land to Fowls to Fishes in the Water But seest thou not deer Muse thou treadst the same A modest correction of our Poet vnwilling to wade farther in curious search of hidden secrets Too-curious path thou dost in others blame And striv'st in vain to paint This Work so choice The which no humane spirit nor hand nor voice Can once conceiue less pourtray least express All ouer-whelm'd in gulfs so bottomless Who matching Art with Nature likeneth Our grounds to EDEN fondly measureth By painted Butter-flies th' imperiall Eagle And th' Elephant by euery little Beagle This fear to fail shall serue me for a bridle Or to wander vnprofitably in nice Questions concerning the Garden of Eden and mans abode there Least lacking wings and guide too busie-idle And ouer-bold Gods Cabinet I clime To seek the place and search the very time When both our Parents or but one was ta'en Out of our Earth into that fruitfull Plain
furious thrist of proud aspiring dies not Whose hands transported with fantastike passion Bear painted Scepters in imagination Then Auarice all-arm'd in hooking Tenters And clad in Bird-lime without bridge she venters Through fell Charybdis and false Syrtes Nesse The more her welth the more her wretchedness Cruell respect-less friend-less faith-less Elf That hurts her neighbour but much more her self Whose foule base fingers in each dunghill poar Like Tantalus starv'd in the midst of store Not what she hath but what she wants she counts A wel-wingd Bird that neuer lofty mounts Then boyling Wrath stern cruell swift and rash That like a Boar her teeth doth grinde and gnash Whose hair doth stare like bristled Porcupine Who som-times rowles her ghastly-glowing eyn And som-time fixtly on the ground doth glaunce Now bleak then bloody in her Countenance Rauing and rayling with a hideous sound Clapping her hands stamping against the ground Bearing Bâ—cconi fire and sword to slay And murder all that her for pitty pray Baning her self to bane her Enemy Disdaining Death prouided others dy Like falling Towrs o'r-turned by the winde That break themselues on that they vnder-grinde And then that Tyrant all-controuling Loue Whom heer to paint doth little me behooue After so many rare Apelleses As in this Age our Albion nourishes And to be short thou doest to battail bring As many Souldiers 'gainst the Creatures King Yet not his owne as in this life Mankinde True very Goods or seeming Goods doth finde Now if but like the Lightning in the sky These sudden Passions past but swiftly by The horrible effects of the Passions of the soule far more dangerous then the diseases of the body The fear were less but O! too-oft they leaue Keen stings behinde in Soules that they deceiue From this foul Fountain all these poysons rise Rapes Treasons Murders Incests Sodomies Blaspheming Bibbing Theeuing False-contracting Church-chaffering Cheating Bribing and Exacting Alas how these far-worse then death Diseases Exceed each Sicknes that our body seises Which makes vs open war and by his spight Giues to the Patient many a holsom light Now by the colour or the Pulles beating Or by som Fit som sharper dolor threatning Whereby the Leach neer-ghessing at our grief Not seldom findes sure means for our relief But for these Ills raign in our Intellect Which only them both can and ought detect They rest vnknown or rather self-conceal'd And soule-sick Patients care not to be heal'd Besides we plainly call the Feuer Feuer The Dropsie Dropsie ouer-gilding neuer With guile-full flourish of a fained phraze The cruell Languors that our bodies craze Whereas our fond self-soothing Soule thus sick Rubs her owne sore with glozing Rhetorik Cloaking her vice and makes the blinded Blain Not fear the touch of Reasons Cautere vain And sure if euer filthy Vice did iet The miserable corruption of our Times worse then all former Ages In sacred Vertues spot-less mantle neat 'T is in our days more hatefull and vn-hallow'd Then when the World the Waters wholly swallow'd I le spare to speak of foulest Sins that spot Th' infamous beds of men of mighty lot Least I the Saints chaste tender ears offend And seem them more to teach then reprehend Who bear vpon their French-sick backs about All riotous Prodigalitie disguised with the name of Liberalitie Farms Castles Fees in golden shreads cut-out Whose lauish hand at one Primero-rest One Mask one Turney or one pampering Feast Sends treasures scrap't by th' Vsury and Care Of miser Parents Liberall counted are Who with a maiden voice and mincing pase Quaint looks curl'd locks perfumes and painted face Effeminate curiofitie luxuvious Pride miscalled Cleanlines Base coward-hart and wanton soft array Their man-hood only by their Beard bewray Are Cleanly call'd Who like Lust-greedy Goates Insatiate lust and Beast like Loosenes surnamed Loue. Brothel from bed to bed whose Siren-notes Inchaunt chaste Susans and like hungry Kite Fly at all game they Louers are behight Who by false bargains and vnlawfull measures Extream Extortion counted Thrist Robbing the World haue he aped kingly treasures Who cheat the simple lend for fifty fifty Hundred for hundred are esteemed Thrifty Blasphemous Quarrels brauest Courage Who alwaies murder and reuenge affect Who feed on bloud who neuer doe respect State Sex or Age but in all humane lyues In cold bloud bathe their paricidiall kniues Are stiled Valiant Grant good Lord our Land Inhuman Murder highest Manhood May want such valour whose self-cruell hand Fights for our foes our proper life-blood spils Our Cities sacks and our owne Kindred kils Lord let the Launce the Gun the Sword Shield Beturn'd to tools to furrow-vp the field And let vs see the Spyders busie task Wov'n in the belly of the plumed Cask But if braue Lands-men your war-thirst be such If in your brests sad Enyon boyl so much What holds you heer alas what hope of crowns Our fields are flocks-less treasure-less our Towns Goe then nay run renowned Martialists Re-found French-Greece in now Natolian lists Hy hy to Flanders free with conquering stroak Your Belgian brethren from th' Iberians yoake To Portingal people Galizian-Spain And graue your names on Lysbon's gates again FINIS THE HANDI-CRAFTS THE IIII. PART OF THE I. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT The Prayse of Peace the miserable states Of Edens Exiles their vn-curious Cates Their simple habit silly habitation They finde out Fire Their formost Propagation Their Childrens trades their offerings enuious Cain His better Brother doth vnkindly brain With inward horror hurried vp and down He breaks a Horse he builds a homely Town Iron 's inuented and sweet Instruments Adam fore-tells of After-Worlds euents HEavn's sacred Imp fair Goddess that renew'st The Poet heere welcometh peace which after long absence seems about this time to haue returned into France The Benefits she brings with Her Th' old golden Age and brightly now re-blew'st Our cloudy sky making our fields to smile Hope of the vertuous horror of the vile Virgin vnseen in France this many a yeer O blessed Peace we bid thee welcom heer Lo at thy presence how who late were prest To spur their Steeds couch their staues in rest For fierce incounter cast away their spears And rapt with ioy them enter-bathe with tears Lo how our Marchant-vessels to and fro Freely about our trade-full Waters go How the graue Senate with iust-gentle rigour Resumes his Robe the Laws their ancient vigour Lo how Obliuions Seas our strifes do drown How walls are built that war had thundred down Lo how the Shops with busie Crafts-men swarm How Sheep and Cattle cover every Farm Behold the Bon-fires waving to the skies Hark hark the cheerfull and re-chaunting cries Of old and young singing this ioyfull Dittie Iö reioyce reioyce through Town and Citie Thanks-giuing to God for peace Let all our ayr re-eccho with the praises Of th' everlasting glorious God who raises Our ruin'd State who
The Pines and Cedars haue but boughs to showe The shoars do shrink the swelling waters growe Alas so-many Nephews lose I heer Amid these deeps that but for mountains neer Vpon the rising of whoseridges lofty The lusty climbe on every side for safety I should be seed-less but alas the Water Swallows those Hils and all this wide Theater Is all one Pond O children whither fly-you Alas Heav'ns wrath pursues you to destroy-you The stormy waters strangely rage and roar Rivers and Seas haue all one common shoar To wit a sable water-loaden Sky Ready to rain new Oceans instantly O Sonn-less Father O too fruitfull haunches O wretched root O hurtfull hatefull branches O gulfs vnknowen O dungeons deep and black O worlds decay O vniversall wrack O Heav'ns O Seas O Earth now earth no more O flesh O bloud Heer sorrow stopt the door Of his sad voice and almost dead for woe The prophetizing spirit forsook him so NOAH The SECOND DAY Of The SECOND WEEK Containing 1. THE ARK 2. BABYLON 3. THE COLONIES 4. THE COLVMNES Acceptam refero The ARKE THE I. PART OF THE II. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT Noah prepares the Ark and thither brings With him a Seed-payr of all liuing things His exercise a ship-board Atheist Cham His holy Fathers humble Zeal doth blame And diversly impugns Gods Prouidence Noah refells his Faith-less arguments The Flood surceast Th' Ark-landed Blood forbid The Rain-bowe bent what it pre-figured Wine drowneth Wit Cham scoffs the Nakednes Of 's sleeping Sire the Map of Drunkennes IF Now no more my sacred rimes distill A Preamble wherin by a modest Complaint the Poet stirs vp the Readers attention and makes himselfe way to the inuocation of the name of God With Art-less ease from my discustom'd quill If now the Laurell that but lately shaded My beating temples be dis-leav'd and vaded And if now banisht from the learned Fount And cast down head-long from the lofty Mount Where sweet Vrania sitteth to indite Mine humbled Muse flag in a lowely flight Blame these sad Times ingratefull cruelty My houshold cares my healths infirmity My drooping sorrows for late grieuous losses My busie suits and other bitter crosses Lo there the clogs that weigh down heavily My best endevours whilom soaring high My harvest's hail the pricking thorns and weeds That in my soule choak those diviner seeds O gracious God! remove my great incumbers Kindle again my faiths neer-dying imbers Asswage thine anger for thine own Sons merit And from me Lord take not thy holy Spirit Comb gild and polish more then ever yet This latter issue of my labouring wit And let not me be like the winde that proudly Begins at first to roar and murmur loudly Against the next hils over-turns the Woods With furious tempest tumbles-vp the floods And fiercely-fell with stormy puffs constrains The sparkling flints to roule about the Plains But flying faints and every league it goes One nimble feather of his wing doth lose But rather like a River poorly-breeding In barren Rocks thence drop by drop proceeding Which toward the Sea the more he flies his source With growing streams strengthens his gliding course Rowles roars and foams raging with rest-less motion And proudly scorns the greatnes of the Ocean THE DOOMS of Adam lackt not long effect For th' angry Heav'ns that can without respect The comming of the Flood and Building of the Ark. Of persons plague the stubborn Reprobate In Waters buried th' Vniuersall-state And never more the nimble painted Legions With hardy wings had cleft the ayrie Regions We all had perisht and the Earth in vain Had brought such store of fruits and grass and grain If Lamechs Son by new-found Art directed That huge vast vessell had not first erected Which sacred refuge kept the parent-payrs Of all things moving in the Earth and Ayrs Now while the Worlds-re-colonizing Boat Noahs exercises aboord the Ark. Doth on the waters over Mountains float Noe passeth not with tales and idle play The tedious length of dayes and nights away But as the Sommers sweet distilling drops Vpon the medowes thirsty yawning chops Re-greens the Greens and doth the flowrs re-flowr All scorcht and burnt with Auster's parching powr So the care-charming hony that distills From his wise lips his house with comfort fils Flatters despair dries tears calms inward smarts And re-aduanceth sorrow-daunted harts Cheer ye my children God doth now retire These murdering Seas which the revenging ire Of his strict Iustice holy indignation Hath brought vpon this wicked generation Arming a season to destroy mankinde The angry Heav'ns the water and the winde As soon again his gracious Mercy will Clear cloudy Heav'ns calm windes and waters still His wrath and mercy follow turn by turn That like the Lightning doth not lightly burn Long in a place and this from age to age Hides with her wings the faithfull heritage Our gracious God makes scant-weight of displeasure And spreads his mercy without weight or measure Somtimes he strikes vs to especiall ends Vpon our selues our Children or our friends In soule or body goods or else good names But soon he casts his rods in burning flames Not with the fist but finger he doth beat vs Nor doth hethrill so oft as he doth threat-vs And prudent Steward giues his faithfull Bees Wine of his wrath to rebell Drones the Lees. And thus the deeds of Heav'ns Iust-gentle King The Second Worlds good Patriarch did sing Cham full of impiety is brought-in answering his Father and diuersly impugning the wisdom irreprohensible Prowidence of God Almighty and All-mercifull and the humble religious Zeal of Noah But brutish Cham that in his brest accurst The secret roots of sinfull Atheisme nurst Wishing already to dis-throne th' Eternall And self-vsurp the Maiesty supernall And to himself by name of Iupiter On Afrik sands a sumptuous Temple rear With bended brows with stout and stern aspect In scornfull tearms his Father thus be-checkt Oh! how it grieves me that these servil terrors The scourge of Cowards and base vulgars errors Haue ta'n such deep root in your feeble brest Why Father alwayes selfly thus deprest Will you thus alwaies make yourself a drudge Fearing the fury of a fained Iudge And will you alwaies forge your self a Censor That weighs your words and doth your silence censure A sly Controuler that doth count your hairs That in his hand your hearts keys ever bears Records your sighes and all your thoughts descries And all your sins present and past espies A barbarous Butcher that with bloudy knife Threats night and day your grieuous-guilty life O! see you not the superstitious heat Of this blinde zeal doth in your minde beget A thousand errors light credulity Doth drive you still to each extreamity Faining a God with thousand storms opprest Fainter then Women fiercer then a Beast Who tender-hearted weeps at others weeping Wails others woes and at the onely peeping Of others bloud in suddain swoun deceases In
Who lacks a member yet persevereth To liue we see but members cut away From their own head do by and by decay 9. A Traytor deserues to haue his house razed to the ground Nor was God cruell when he drown'd the Earth For sit hence man had from his very birth Rebeld against him was 't not equity That for his fault his house should vtterly Be rent and raz'd that salt should there besow'n That in the ruins for instruction We for a time might read and vnderstand The righteous vengeance of Heav'ns wrathfull hand That wrought this Deluge and no hoorded waves Of ayry clouds or vnder-earthly caves If all blew Curtins mixt of ayr and water 10. The Flood was no naturall accident but a most iust iudgement of God Round-over-spreading this wide All-Theater To som one Climate all at once should fly One Country they might drown vndoubtedly But our great Galley hauing gone so far So many months in sight of either Star From Pole to Pole through sundry Climats whorld Showes that this Flood hath drowned all the world Now non-plust if to re-inforce thy Camp 11. The waters of the Flood sprung not from a naturall motion only but proceeded frō other then naturall Causes which cannot produce such effects Thou fly for succour to thine Ayery Damp Showe in the concave of what Mountains steep We may imagine Dens sufficient deep For so much ayr as gushing out in fountains Should hide the proud tops of the highest Mountains Sith a whole tun of ayr scarce yeelds in tryall Water ynough to fill one little Viall And what should then betide those empty spaces What should succeed in the forsaken places Of th' air's thin parts in swift springs shrinking thence Sith there 's no voyd in th' All-circumference Whence wilt thou say then coms this raging flood 12. The consideratiō of the power of God in subiecting the creatures to Noah in sustaining feeding them so long in the Arke which was as a Sepulchre confuteth all the obiections of Atheists That over-flowes the windy Ryphean Wood Mount Libanus and enviously aspires To quench the light of the celestiall fires Whence shall I say then whence-from coms it Cham That Wolves and Panthers waxing meek and tame Leaving the horror of their shady home Adiourn'd by Heav'n did in my presence com Who holding subiect vnder my command So many creatures humbled at my hand And now restor'd to th' honour and estate Whence Adam fell through sin and Satans hate Whence doth it com or by what reason is' t That vn-mann'd Haggards to mine empty fist Com without call Whence coms it that so little Fresh water fodder meal and other victuall Should serue so long so many a greedy-gut As in the dark holds of this Ark is shut That heer the Partridge doth not dread the Hauk Nor fearfull Hare the spotted Tiger baulk That all these storms our Vessell haue not broak That all this while we doe not ioyntly choak With noysom breath and excrementall stink Of such a common and continuall sink And that ourselues ' mid all these deaths are sav'd From these All-Seas where all the rest are Grav'd In all the compass of our floating Inns 13. The Arke full of Miracles which confound the wits stop the mouthes of profane wranglers Are not so many planks and boords and pins As wonders strange and miracles that ground Mans wrangling Reason and his wits confound And God no less his mighty powr displayd When he restor'd then when the World he made O sacred Patron pacifie thine ire Bring home our Hulk these angry floods retire A-liue and dead let vs perceiue and proove Thy wrath on others on our selues thy love Thus Noah sweetens his Captivity God causeth the Flood to cease Beguiles the time and charms his misery Hoping in God alone who in the Mountains Now slopping close the veins of all the Fountains Shutting Heav'ns sluees causing th' ayr controul'd Close-vp his channels and his Seas with-hould Cals forth the windes O Heav'ns fresh fans quoth he Earths sweeping Brooms O Forrests enmity O you my Heralds and my Harbengers My nimble Postes and speedy Messengers Mine arms my sinews and mine Eagles swift That through the ayr my rowling Chariot lift When from my mouth in my iust-kindled ire Fly Sulphry fumes and hot consuming fire When with my Lightning Scepters dreadfull wonder I muster horror darknes clouds and thunder Wake rise and run and drink these waters dry That hills and dales haue hidden from the sky Th' Aeolian Crowd obays his mighty call The Arke resteth on the Mountain Ararat in Armenia The surly surges of the waters fall The Sea retreateth and the sacred Keel Lands on a Hill at whose proud feet doo kneel A thousand Hills his lofty horn adoring That cleaues the clouds the starry welkin goaring Then hope-cheer'd Noah first of all for scout What Noah did before he went forth Sends forth the Crowe who flutters neer-about And finding yet no landing place at all Returns a-boord to his great Admirall Som few dayes after from the window flyes The harm-less Doue for new discoveries But seeing yet no shoar she almost tyr'd A-boord the Carrack back again retyr'd But yer the Sun had seav'n Heav'n-Circuits rode To view the World a-fresh she flyes abroad And brings a-boord at evening in her bill And Oliue branch with water pearled still O happy presage O deer pledge of loue O wel-com newes behold the peacefull Doue Brings in her beak the Peace-branch boading weal And truce with God who by this sacred seal Kindely confirms his holy Couenant That first in fight the Tiger rage shall want Lions be cowards Hares couragious Yer he be false in word or deed to vs. O sacred Oliue firstling of the fruits Health-boading branch be it thy tender roots Haue lived still while this strange Deluge lasted I doe reioyce it hath not all things wasted Or be it since the Ebb thou newly spring Prays'd be the bounty of th' immortall King That quickens thus these dead the World induing With beauty fresh so suddainly renuing Thus Noah spake And though the World gan lift He exspecteth Gods commandement to goe forth whereby at the first hee was shut vp in the Ark Most of his Iles above the waters drift Though waxen old in his long weary night He see a friendly Sun to brandish bright Though choak't with ill ayr in his stinking staul Hee 'l not a-shoar till God be pleas'd with-all And till devout from Heav'n he vnderstand Som Oracle to licence him to land But warn'd by Heav'n he commeth from his Cave Or rather from a foul infectious grave With Sem Cham Iapheth and their twice-two Brides And thousand pairs of living things besides Vnclean and clean for th' holy Patriark Had of all kinds inclosed in the Ark. But heer I hear th' vngodly that for fear Late whispered softly in each others ear With silent murmurs muttering secretly Now trumpet
from thence toward the bright Leuant That vast Extent where now fell Tartars hant In wandring troops and towards th' other side Which neer her source long Volga doth divide Moscouy Coast Permia Liuonia Prussia Biarmia Scrisinia White-Lake Lappia Russia How the New-found World discouered in our Time came peopled A double question But whence say you had that New-World his Guests Which Spain like Delos floting on the Seas Late digg'd from darknes of Obliuions Graue And it vndoing it new Essence gaue If long agoe how should it hap that no-man Knew it til now no Persian Greek no Roman Whose glorious Peers victorious Armies guiding O're all the World of this had never tyding If but of late how swarm their Cities since So full of Folk how pass their Monuments Th' Aegyptian Spires Mausolus stately Toomb The Walls and Courts of Babylon and Rome Why thinke yee fond those people fell from Heav'n â— Answere All-ready-made as in a Sommer Ev'n After a swelting Day som sultry showr Doth in the Marshes heaps of Tadpals pour Which in the ditches chapt with parching weather Lie crusht and croaking in the Mud together Or else that setting certain slips that fixt Their slender roots the tender mould betwixt They saw the light of Phoebus lyuening face Having for milk moist deaws for Cradle grass Or that they grew out of the fruitfull Earth As Toad-stools Turneps Leeks and Beets haue birth Or like the bones that Cadmus yerst did sowe Were brauely born armed from top toe That spacious Coast now call'd America Was not so soon peopled as Africa Th' ingenious Towr-full and Law-louing Soil Which Ioue did with his Lemans name en-stile And that which from cold Bosphorus doth spread To pearl'd Auroras Saffron-coloured Bed Because they ly neerer the diapry verges Of tear-bridge Tigris Swallow-swifter surges Whence our amaz'd first Grand-sires faintly fled And like sprung Patridge euery-where did spred Except that World where vnder Castiles King Famous Columbus Force and Faith did bring But the rich buildings rare magnificence Th' infinit Treasures various Governments Showe that long since although at sundry times 'T had Colonies although from sundry Climes Whether the violence of tempestuous weather Som broken Vessels haue inforced thither Whether som desperat dire extremity Of Plague War Famin orth ' Authority Of som braue Typhis in aduenture tost Brought weary Caruels on that Indian Coast. Who maketh doubt but yerst the Quinzay Fraights Conictures touching the Peopling of the same As well might venture through the Anian Straights And finde as easie and as short a way From the East Indies to the Tolguage Bay As vsually the Asian Ships are wont To pass to Greece a-cross the Hellespont Spaniards to Fez a-thwart the Straight Abilia Through Messine stream th' Italians to Sicilia From Tolm and Quiuir's spacious Plains wherein Bunch-backed Calues with Horse-like manes are seen And Sheep-like Fleece they fill Azasia Toua Topir Canada Cossia Mecchi Avacal Calicuaz Bacalos Los Campos de Labor where Floods are froze On th' other side Xalisco soyl they Mann Wonders of the New-found World Now new Galizia Cusule Mechuacan And cunningly in Mexik Sea they pile Another Uenice or a City I le Strange things there see they that amaze them much Green Trees to wither with their very touch And in Nicaragua a Mountain top That Aetna-like bright Flashes belches vp Thence reach they th' Isthmos of rich Panama And on their right hand build Oucanama With Cassamalca Cusco Quito and In famous Perv's very golden Strand Admire the Lake that laueth Colle about Whose Waues be salt within and fresh without And streams of Cinca that with vertue strange To hardest stone soft Mud and Chalk do change Then seiz they Chili where all day the Deep Runs roaring down and all the night doth sleep Chinca the Patagons and all the shoar Where th' azure Seas of Magellan do roor Left-ward they spread them ' longst the Darians side Where through th' Vrabian Fields the Huo doth slide Neer Zenu's stream which toward the Ocean drags Pure grains of Gold as big as Pullets Eggs To new Granada where the Mount embost With Emeralds doth shine Cumanean Coast Where noysom vapours like a dusky night Bedimms their eyes and doth impair their sight Therefore som troops from Cumana they carrie To Caripana Omagu and Pari By Maragnon all over fell Brasile And Plate's fat Plains where flowes another Nile Ghesse too that Grotland yerst did Picne store And Ireland fraught Los Campos de Labor As Tombut Melli Gago and Terminan Planted the Plains and shoars of Corican Yet happily thou'lt gladly grant me this That mans ambition ay so bound-les is How it was possible that Noah and his 3. Sonnes should so multiply That steepest Hills it over-climbs with ease And runs as dry-shod through the deepest Seas And maugre meagre Thirst her Carvells Lands On Afrik Tolmon and Arabian sands But hardly credit'st that one Family Out of foure couples should so multiply That Asia Europ Africa and All Seems for their off-spring now too streight and small If thouset-light by th' everlasting Voyce 1. Answere Which now again re-blest the Loue-full Choyce Of sacred Wedlocks secret-binding band Saying Increase Flourish and Fill the Land And if profane thou hold it for a Fiction 2. That Seauenty Iews in Aegypt in affliction Within foure hundred yeers and half three-score Grew to fiue-hundred-thousand soules and more Consider yet that being fed that while 3. With holesom Fruits of an vn-forced soyl And kindely meats not marred by the Book And wanton cunning of a sawcy Cook Waigh furthermore that being not cut-down With bloody swords when furious neighbours frown Nor worn with Trauail nor infeebeled With hatefull Sloath Our Grand-sires flowrished Hundreds of yeers in youth and even in Age Could render duly Venus Escuage And that Polygamy in those dayes common Most Men vsurping more then one sole Woman Made then the World so mightily augment In vpright Creatures and in continent From fruitfull Loigns of one old Father-stock So many branches of man-kinde to flock Comparison to that purpose Even as an ear of Corn if all the yield Be yeerly sow'n still in a fertill Field Fills Barns at length and spreads in spacious Plain Millions of millions of like ears again Or as two Fishes cast into a Meer With fruitfull Spawn will furnish in fewe yeer A Town with victuall and serue furthermore Their neighbour Waters with their Fry to store Haue not our Dayes a certain Father know'n An example of our dayes Who with the fruit of his own body grow'n Peopled a Village of a hundred Fires And issue-blest the Crown of Old Desires In his owne life-time his owne off-spring saw To wed each other without breach of Law So far the branches of his fruitfull Bed Past all the Names of Kindreds-Tree did spread 'T is know'n that fewe Arabian Families Another example New-planted Lybia with their Progenies In
perfect Six whose iust proportions gather 6 To make his Whole his members altogether For Three 's his half his Sixt One Two his Third And One Two Three make Six in One conferd The Criticall and double-sexed Seav'n 7 The Number of th' vnfixed Fires of Heav'n And of th' eternall sacred Sabbaoth Which Three and Foure containeth ioyntly both Th' Eight double-square The sacred note of Nine 8. 9. Which comprehends the Muses Triple-Trine The Ten which doth all Numbers force combine 10. The Ten which makes as One the Point the Line The Figure th' Hundred Thousand solid corps 100. 1000. Which oft re-doubled on th' Atlantik shoars Can summ the sand and all the drops distilling From weeping Auster or the Ocean filling See many Summes heer written streight and euen Addition Each ouer other are in one contriuen See here small Numbers drawn from greater count Subtraction Multiplication Heer Multiplid they infinitly mount And lastly see how on the other side Diuision One Summ in many doth it self Diuide That sallow-faç't sad stooping Nymph whose ey Still on the ground is fixed stedfastly Seeming to draw with point of siluer Wand Geometrie Som curious Circles in the sliding sand Who weares a Mantle brancht with flowrie Buds Embost with Gold trayled with siluer Floods Bordered with greenest Trees and Fringed fine With richest azure of Seas storm-full brine Whose dusky Buskins old and tattered out Showe she hath trauail'd far and neer about By North and South it is Geometrie The Crafts-mans guide Mother of Symmetrie The life of Instruments of rare effect Law of that Law which did the World erect Heer 's nothing heere but Rules Squires Compasses Her Instrumēts and Figures Waights Measures Plummets Figures Ballances Lo where the Workman with a steddy hand Ingeniously a leuell Line hath drawn War-like Triangles building-fit Quadrangles And hundred kindes of Forms of Manie-Angles Sraight Broad and Sharp Now see on th' other side Other whose Tracts neuer directly slide As with the Snayl the crooked Serpenter And that which most the learned do prefer The compleat Circle from whose euery-place The Centre stands an equi-distant space See heer the Solids Cubes Cylinders Cones Pyramides Prismas Dodechaedrons And there the Sphear which Worlds Type comprehends In't-selfit-self hauing nor midst nor ends Arts excellence praise of his peers a wonder Wherein consists in diuers sort a hundred Firm Mobile an vp-down-bending-Vault Sloaping in Circuit yet directly wrought See how so soon as it to veer begins Both vp and down forward and back it wends And rapt by other not it self alone Moues but moues others with its motion Witnes the Heav'ns yea it doth seem beside When it stands still to shake on every side Because it hath but one small point wher-on His equal halves are equi-peiz'd vpon And yet this goodly Globe where we assemble Though hung in th' Ayr doth neuer selfly tremble For it 's the midst of the Con-centrik Orbs Whom neuer Angle nor out-nook disturbs All Solids else cast in the Ayr reflect Vn-self-like-forms but in a Globe each tract Seems still the same because it euery-where Is vniform and differs not a hair More-ouer as the Buildings Amblìgon May more receiue then Mansions Oxigon Because th' acute and the rect-Angles too Stride not so wide as obtuse Angles doo So doth the Circle in his Circuit span More room then any other Figure can Th' other are eas'ly broke because of ioints Ends and beginnings edges nooks and points But th' Orb 's not subiect vnto such distress Because 't is ioint les point-les corner-less Chiefly my Phalec hither bend thy minde And learn Two Secrets which but fewe shall finde Two busie knots Two labyrinths of doubt Where future Schools shall wander long about Beating their brains their best endeuours troubling The Circles Squareness and the Cubes Re-doubling Print euer faster in thy faithfull brain The certainty of Geometry Then on brass leaues these Problemes proued plain Not by Sophistick subtle Arguments But euen by practise and experience Vn-disputable Art and fruitfull Skill Which with new wonders all the World shall fill Heer-by the Waters of the lowest Fountains Her rare inuentions Mills Shall play the Millers as the Windes on Mountains And grain so ground within a rowling Frame Shall pay his duty to his niggard Dame Heer-by a Bullet spewd from Brazen brest In fiery fume against a Town distrest Gunnes With roaring powr shall pash the Rocks in sunder And with the noise euen drown the voice of Thunder Heer-by the Wings of fauourable Windes Shall bear from Western to the Eastern Indes Ships From Africa to Thule's farthest Flood A House or rather a whole Town of Wood While sitting still the Pilot shall at ease With a short Leauer guide it through the Seas Heer-by the PRINTER in one day shall rid Printing More Books then yerst a thousand Wrighters did Heer-by a Crane shall steed in building more The Crane Then hundred Porters busie pains before The Iacobs-staff to measure heights and Lands The Staffe Shall far excell a thousand nimble hands To part the Earth in Zones and Climats euen And in twice-twenty-and-foure Figures Heav'n A Wand Sand Water small Wheels turning ay Dials and Clocks In twice-twelue parts shall part the Night and Day Statues of Wood shall speak and fained Sphears Sphears Showe all the Wonders of true Heav'n in theirs Men rashly mounting through the emptie Skie With wanton wings shall cross the Seas wel-nigh And doubt-less if the Geometrician finde Another World where to his working minde To place at pleasure and conuenience His wondrous Engines and rare Instruments Euen like a little God in time he may To som new place transport this World away Because these Two our passage open set To bright Vrania's sacred Cabinet Wherin she keeps her sumptuous Furniture Pearls Diamonds Rubies and Saphires pure Because to climbe starrie Parnassus top None can vnless these Two doo help him vp For whoso wants either of these Two eyes In vain beholds Heav'ns glistering Canapies The Caruer heer close by Geometry Astronomie And Numbring Art hath plaç't Astronomie A siluer Crescent wears she for a Crown A hairy Comet to her heels hangs down Brows stately bent in milde-Maiestik wise Beneath the same two Carbuncles for eyes An Azure Mantle wauing at her back With two bright Clasps buckled about her neck From her right shoulder sloaping ouer-thwart-her A watchet Scarf or broad imbrodered Garter Flourisht with Beasts of sundry shapes and each With glistering Stars imbost and poudred rich And then for wings the golden plumes she wears Of that proud Bird which starrie Rowells bears Bur what fair Globes quoth Phalec seems she thus Her 2. Globes With spreading arms to reach and offer vs My Son quoth Heber that round Figure there 1. The Terrestrial With crossing Circles is the Mundane Sphear Wherin the Earth as the most vile and base
their bare bones be seen We must still keep them short and clip their wings Pare neer their nails and pull out all their stings Lade them with Tribute and new Towle and Tax And Subsidies vntill we break their backs Tire them with travail flay-them pole-them pil-them Suck bloud and fat then eat their flesh and kil-them 'T is good for Princes to haue all things fat Except their Subiects but beware of that Ha Miscreants ha rascal excrements That lift your heel against your gracious Prince Hence-forth you get nor wood nor straw no more To burn your Bricks as you haue had before Your selues shal seek it out yet shal you stil The number of your wonted task fulfill I have Commission from the King of Kings Moses reply Maker Preserver Ruler of all things Replies the Hebrew that to knowe the Lord Thou feel his hand vnless thou fear his word In th' instant AARON on the slippery sand Aaron casteth downe his Rod which immediatly turnes into a Serpent Casts down his Rod and boldly thus began So shall thy golden Scepter down be cast So shall the Iudgements of the Lord at last Now deemed dead revive to daunt thy powr So ISRAEL shall Egypts wealth devour If thou confess not God to be the Lord If thou attend not nor obserue his Word And if his People thou do not release To go and serue him in the Wildernes Before that AARON this Discourse had done A green-gold-azure had his Rod put-on It glistered bright and in a fashion strange Into a Serpent it did wholly change Crawling before the King and all along Spetting and hissing with his forked tongue The Magicians of Egypt counterfet that miracle and bewitch the eyes of the King The Memphian Sages then and subtill Priests T' vphold the Kingdom of their OSIRIS Vpbrayd them thus Alas is this the most Your God can do of whom so much you boast Are these his Wonders Go base Montè-banks Go shew els-where your sleights and Iuggling pranks Such tricks may blear som vulgar innocents But cannot blinde the Counsell of a Prince Who by the Gods instructed doth contain All Arts perfection in his sacred brain And as they spake out of their cursed hands They all let-fall their strange-inchanted Wands Which instantly turn into Serpents too Hissing and spetting crawling to and fro The King too much admires their cunning Charms The place with Aspicks Snakes and Serpents swarms Creeping about as an ill-Huswife sees The Maggots creeping in a rotten Cheese Simile You you are Jugglers th' Hebrew then repli'd You change not Nature but the bare out-side And your Enchantments onely do transform The face of things not the essentiall form You Sorcerers so mock the Princes ey And his Imagination damnifie That common Sense to his externall brings By re-percussion a false shape of things My Rod's indeed a Serpent not in showe As heer in sight your selues by proof shall knowe Immediatly his Dragon rear'd his head Roul'd on his brest his body wriggelled Som-times aloft in length somtimes it sunk Into it self and altogether shrunk It slides it sups the air it hisses fell In steed of eyes two sparkling Rubies swell And all his deadly baens intrenched strong Within his trine Teeth and his triple Tongue Moses rod-Serpent deuoureth the Serpents of the Egyptians Call for the Combat and as greedy set With sodain rage vpon those Counterfet Those seeming-Serpents and them all devour Euen as a Sturgeon or a Pike doth scour The Creeks and Pills in Rivers where they lie Of smaller Fishes and their feeble fry But at high Noon the Tyrant wilfull-blinde Pharao and his people hardened Therefore God plagued Egypt And deaf to his owne good is more inclin'd To Satans tools the people like the Prince Prefer the Night before Light 's excellence Wherfore the Lord such proud contempts to pay Ten sundry plagues vpon their Land doth lay Redoubling so his drad-full strokes that there Who would not love him milde him rough should fear Smiting the Waves with his Snake-wanded wood 1. By turning their Waters into bloud AARON anon converts the Nile to blood So that the stream from fruitfull MEROE Runs red and bitter even vnto the Sea The Court re-courst to Lakes to Springs and Brooks Brooks Springs and Lakes had the like taste and looks Then to the Ditches but even to the brink There flow'd alas in steed of Water ink Then to the likeliest of such weeping ground Where with the Rush pipe-opening Fern is found And there they dig for Water but alas The wounded soyl spets bloud into their face O iust-iust Iudgement Those proud Tyrants fell Those bloudy Foes of mourning ISRAEL Those that delighted and had made their game In shedding bloud are forç't to drink the same And those that ruthe-les had made Nile the slaughter Of th' Hebrew Babes now die for want of Water Anon their Fields Streets Halls and Courts he loads 2 Couering their Land with Frogs With foul great Frogs and vgly croking Toads Which to the tops of highest Towrs do clamber Even to the Presence yea the priuy Chamber As starry Lezards in the Sommer time Vpon the walls of broken houses climbe Yea even the King meets them in every dish Of Privy-diet be it Flesh or Fish As at his Boord so on his royall Bed With stinking Frogs the silken quilts be spred The Magicians counterfait the same but their deceipts are vain The Priests of PHARAO seem to do the same AARON alone in the Almighties Name By Faith almighty They for instruments Vse the black Legions of the Stigian Prince He by his Wonders labours to make knowen The true Gods glory only they their owne He seeks to teach they to seduce awry He studies to build vp they to destroy He striking Strangers doth His people spare They spoil their owne but cannot hurt a hair Of the least Hebrew they can onely wound He hurts and heals He breaks and maketh sound And so when PHARAO doth him humbly pray Re-cleers the Floods and sends the Frogs away But as in Heav'n ther did no Iustice raign The King eased of his punishmēt is again hardned The Kings repentance endeth with his pain He is re-hardned like a stubborn Boy That plies his Lesson Hypocritely-coy While in his hand his Master shakes the Rod But if he turn his back doth flowt and nod Therefore the Lord this Day with loathsom Lice Therefore 3. Egypt is plagued with Lyce Plagues poor and rich the nasty and the nice Both Man and Beast For AARON with his wand Turns into Lice the dust of all the Land The morrow after with huge swarms of Flies Hornets and Wasps he hunts their Families 4. With Flies c. From place to place through Medows Fens and Floods Hills Dales and Desarts hollow Caves and Woods Tremble therefore O Tyrants tremble ay Poor worms of Earth proud Ashes Dust and Clay For how alas how will you make
Heav'n-kissing Clowd-browd Sina stands But much much farther and so far that here We never more your odious newes may hear Go Hebrews go in God's Name thriue amain By loosing you we shall sufficient gain With the Kings leaue then th' Hebrews Prince collects After their departure Pharao immediately pursues them His Legions all and to the Sea directs Scarce were they gon when Pharaoh doth retract And arms all Egypt to go fetch them back And camping neer them execrably-rude Threatens them death or end-less Seâ—uitude Even as a Duck that nigh som crystall brook Simile Hath twice or thrice by the same Hawk bin strook Hearing aloft her gingling siluer bels Quivers for fear and looks for nothing els But when the Falcon stooping thunder-like With suddain souse her to the soyl shal strike And with the stroak make on the sense-less ground The gut-less Quar once twice or thrice rebound So Israel fearing again to feel Pharao's fell hands who hunts him at the heel Quivers and shivers for despair and dread And spits his gall against his godly Head O base ambition This false Politick The Israelites feare and murmuring against Moses Plotting to Great himself our deaths doth seek He mocks vs all and makes vs fortune-less Change a rich Soyl for a dry Wilderness Allur'd with lustre of Religious showes Poor soules He sels vs to our hatefull Foes For O! what strength alas what stratagem Or how good God shall we encounter them Or who is it or what is it shall saue vs From their fell hands that seek to slay or slaue-vs Shall we dis-armed with an Army fight Can we like Birds with still-steep-rising flight Surmount these Mountains haue we Ships at hand To pass the Sea this half a Sea half sand Or had we Ships and Sails and Owers and Cable Who knowes these Waters to be navigable Alas som of vs shall with Scithes be slasht Som with their Horse-feet all to pieces pashâ— Som thrill'd with Swords or Shafts through hundred holes Shall ghastly gasp-out our vntimely soules Sith die we must then die we voluntary Let 's run our selues where others would vs carry Com Israelites com let vs die together Both men and women so we shall in either Prevent their rage content their avarice And yield perhaps to MOSES even his Wish Moses instruction to incourage them with assured confidence in God Why brethren knowe ye not their Ruler saith That in his hand God holdeth life and death That He turns Hils to Dales and Seas to Sands That He hath prest a thousand winged Bands T' assist his Children and his Foes t' assail And that He helps not but when all helps fail See you this mighty Hoast this dreadfull Camp Which dareth Heav'n and seems the Earth to damp And all inrag'd already chargeth ours As thick or thicker than the Welkin powrs Simile His candi'd drops vpon the ears of Corn Before that Ceres yellow locks be shorn It all shall vanish and of all this Crew Which thinks already to haue swallowed you Of all this army that in Armour bright Seems to out-shine the Sun or shame his light There shall to-morrow not a man remain Therfore be still God shall your side sustain Then zealous calling on th' immortall God Calling vpoÌ„ God he parts the Red Sea so that the people passe thorough as on dry land He smot the Sea with his dead-living Rod The Sea obay'd as bay'd the Waues controul'd Each vpon other vp to Heav'n do folde Between both sides abroad deep Trench is cast Dri'd to the bottom with an instant blast Or rather 't is a Valley paved els With golden sands with Pearl and Nacre-shels And on each side is flanked all along With walls of crystall beautifull and strong This flood-less Foord the Faithfull Legions pass And all the way their shoo scarce moisted was Dream we sayd they or is true we try The Sea start at a stick The Water dry The Deep a Path Th' Ocean in th' ayr suspending Bulwarks of Billows and no drop descending Two Walls of Glass built with a word alone Afrik and Asia to con-ioyn in one Th' all-seeing Sun new bottoms to beholde Children to run where Tunnies lately roll'd The Egyptians following them are swallowed in the Sea Th' Egyptian Troops pursue them by the track Yet wayts the patient Sea and still stands back Till all the Hoast be marching in their ranks Within the lane between his crystall banks But as a wall weak'ned with mining-vnder The Piles consum'd falls suddainly a-sunder O're-whelmeth all that stand too neer the breach Simile And with his Ruines fils-vp all the ditch Evenso Gods finger which these Waters bay'd Beeing with-drawen the Ocean swell'd and sway'd And re-conioyning his congealed Flood Swallows in th' instant all those Tyrantswood Heer one by swimming thinks himself to saue But with his scarf tangled about a Naue He 's strangled straight and to the bottom sinking Dies not of too-much drink but for not drinking While that in vain another with lowd lashes Scours his prowd Coursers through the scarlet Washes The streams wher-on more Deaths than waues do swim Bury his Chariot and his Chariot him Another swallowed in a Whirl-Whales womb Is layd a-liue within a living Tomb Another seeing his Twin-brother drowning Out of his Coach his hand to help him downing With both his hands grasping that hand his Twin Vnto the bottom hales him head-long in And instantly the Water covers either Right Twins indeed born bred and dead together Nile's stubborn Monarch stately drawen vpon Pharao profanely blaspheming prowdly brauing Moses and the Sea is notwithstanding drowned with the rest A curious Chariot chaç't with pearl and stone By two prowd Coursers passing Snowe for colour For strength the Elephants Lions for valour Curseth the Heav'ns the Ayr the Windes and Waues And marching vp-ward still blasphemes and braues Heer a huge Billow on his Targe doth split Then coms a bigger and a bigger yet To second those The Sea growes ghastly great Yet stoutly still He thus doth dare and threat Base roaguing Iuggler think'st thou with thy Charm Thou shalt preuaile against our puissant arms Think'st thou poor shifter with thy Hel-spels thus To cross our Counsels and discomfit vs And O proud Sea false trayterous Sea dar'st thou Dar'st thou conspire 'gainst thine owne Neptune now Dar'st thou presume 'gainst vs to rise and roar I charge thee cease be still I say no more Or I shall clap thine arms in Marble stocks And yoak thy shoulders with a Bridge of Rocks Or banish thee from Ethans far for ay Through som new Chanel to go seek thy way Heer-at the Ocean more than ever frets All topsi-turuy vp-side-down it sets And a black billow that aloft doth float With salt and sand stops his blasphemous throat What now betydes the Tyrant Waters now Haue reft his neck his chin cheeks eyes and brow His front his fore-top now there 's nothing seen But his prowd
ground still woorm-like basely crawling Dare not attempt nor scarcely think precise Any great Act or glorious Enterprise Because Ambition Custom and the Law From high Estate hath bounded them with aw Where He that never rightly learn'd t obay Commandeth not with heavy Sword of Sway Where each i' th' Publik having equall part All to save all will hazard life and hart Where Liberty as deer as life and breath Born with vs first consorts vs to our Death Shall savage Beasts like-better Nuts and Mast Simile In a free Forrest than our choise Repast In iron Cages and shall we poor Sots Whom Nature Masters of our selues allots And Lords of All besides shall we go draw On our owne necks an ease-les Yoak of Aw Rather O IACOB chuse we all to die Than to betray our Native Libertie Than to becom the sporting Tennis-ball Of a proud Monarch or to yeeld vs thrall To seive or honor any other King Than that drad LAVV which did from SINA ring Another then whom Age made venerable 2. Another of a reverent Senator for Aristocracy or the rule of a chosen Synâ—de of the best men Knowledge admir'd and Office honorable Stands-vp and speaks maiestically-milde On other Piles the COMMON-WEAL to build Doubt-les said he with waste of Time and Soap Y'have labour'd long to wash an AETHIOPE Y'have drawn vs heer a goodly form of STATE And well we have had proof of it of late Shall we again the Sword of IVSTICE put In mad mens hands soon their owne throats to cut What Tiger is more fierce what Bear more fel Comparisons What Chaff more light What Sea more apt to swel Than is th' vnbridled Vulgar passion-toss't In calms elated in foul-weather lost What boot deep Proiects if to th' eyes of all They must be publisht in the common Hall Sith knowen Designs are dangerous to act And th' vn-close Chief did never noble fact DEMOCRACY is as a tossed Ship Void both of Pole and Pilot in the Deep Simile A Senate fram'd of thousand Kinglings slight Where voices pass by number not by waight Where wise men do propound and Fools dispose A Fair where all things they to sale expose Simile A Sink of Filth where ay th' infamousest Simile Most bold and busie are esteemed best A Park of savage Beasts that each-man dreads Simile A Head-les Monster with a thousand heads What shall we then do shall we by and by In Tyrants paws deiect vs servilely Nay rather shunning these extremities Let vs make choise of men vp right and wise Of such whose Vertue doth the Land adorn Of such whom Fortune hath made Noble-born Of such as Wealth hath rais'd above the pitch Of th' abiect Vulgar and to th' hands of such Such as for Wisedom Wealth and Birth excell Let vs commit the Reans of ISRAEL And ever from the sacred Helm exclude The turbulent base moody Multitude Take away Choise and where is Vertue 's grace What shall not Chance vnto Desert give place And Lots to Right Shall not the blinde be led Simile By those whose eyes are perfect in their head Chiefly amid ' such baulks and blocks and Pits As in best State-paths the best States-man meets Who may be better trusted with the key Comparison Of a great Chest of Gold and gems than they That got the same And who more firm and fit At carefull Stern of POLICIE to sit Than such as in the Ship most venture bear Such as their owne wrack with the State 's wrack fear Such as Content and having Much to lose Even Death it self rather than Change would chuse While he discourst thus on a Theam so grave 3. The Oration of a Noble yong Prince for Monarchy or the sole Soveraintiâ— of a KING Vp-rose a Gallant noble yong and brave Fo to the Vulgar one that hop't perchance One-day t' attain a Scepters governance And thus he speaks Your RVLE is yet too Free. Y'have proin'd the leaves not boughs of Publik-Tree Y'have qualified but not yet cur'd our Grief Y'have in our Field still left the tares of Strife Of Leagues and Factions For plurality Of Heads and Hands to sway an Emperie Is for the most part like vntamed Bulls One this way hales another that way pulls Simile All every-way hurried with Passion 's windes Whither their Lust-storms do transport their mindes At length the strongest bears the weakest down And to himself wholly vsurps the Crown And so in fine your Aristocracie He by degrees brings to a Monarchie In brief the Scepter Aristocratike And People-Sway have * A passion following any sicknesse symptomes both a-like And neither of them can be permanent For want of Vnion which of Gouernment Is both the Life-bloud and Preservative Wherby a STATE yong strong and long doth thrive But MONARCHY is as a goodly Station Built skilfully vpon a sure Foundation A quiet House wherin as principall One Father is obey'd and serv'd of all A well-rigd Ship where when the danger 's neer A many Masters strive not who shall steer The world hath but One God Heav'n but One Sun Quails but One Chief the Hony-Birds but One One Master-Bee and Nature natively Graves in our hearts the Rule of MONARCHY At sound of whose Edicts all ioynt-proceed Vnder whose Sway Seditions never breed Who while consulting with Colleagues he stands Le ts not the Victory escape his hands And that same Maiesty which as the Base And Pedestal supports the waight and grace Greatnes and glory of a well-Rul'd State It not extinguisht nor extenuate By being parcelliz'd to a plurality Of petty Kinglings of a mean Equality Like as a goodly River deep and large Simile Able to bear Ships of the greatest Charge If through new Dikes his trade-full Waters guided Be in a hundred little Brooks divided No Bridge more fears nor Sea more waighs the same But soon it loses both his trade and name And to conclude a wise and worthy Prince A KING compleat in Royall excellence Is even the Peoples prop their powrfull nerves And lively Law that all intire preserves His Countrie 's life and soule sight and fore-sight And even th' Almightie's sacred Picture right While yet he spake the People loudly cri'd A KING a KING wee 'll have a KING for Guide He shall command He shall conduct our Hoasts And make vs Lords of th' IDVMEAN Coasts Ingrate said SAMVEL will you then reiect Th' Almighties Scepter do you more affect New POLICY than his olde PROVIDENCE And change th' Immortall for a mortall Prince Well Rebels well you shall you shall have one A KINGs Prerogatiue But do ye knowe what followes ther-vpon He from your Ploughs shall take your Horses out To serve his Pomp and draw his Train about In gilden Coaches a wilde wanton sort Of Popiniayes and Peacocks of the Court He shal your choisest Sons and Daughters take To be his Servants nay his slaves to make You shall plant Vineyards
doth wring A Tree whose tender-bearded Root being spred In dryest sand his sweating Leaf doth shed A most sweet liquor and like as the Vine Vntimely cut weeps at her wound her wine In pearled tears incessantly distills A Crystall stream which all their Cisterns fills Through all the Iland for all hither hy And all their vessels cannot draw it dry In frosty Island are two Fountains strange Th' one flowes with Wax the other stream doth change All into Iron yet with scalding steam In thousand bubbles belcheth vp her stream In golden Perû necre Saint Helens Mount A stream of Pitch comes from a springing Fount What more remains That New-found World besides Toward the West many a fair River guides Whose floating Waters knowing th' vse aright Of Work-fit Day and Rest-ordained Night Better then men run swiftly all the Day But rest all Night and stir not any way Great Enginer Almighty Architect I fear of Enuy I should be suspect Of Bathes and Medicinable Waters Enuy of thy Renown and and sacred glory If my ingratefull Rimes should blaunch the Story Of Streams distilling through the Sulphur-Mines Through Bitumen Allom and Nitre veins Which perfect Leaches with their vertaes cure A thousand Greefs we mortals heere endure Old in th' April of our age therewith Whose rigour striues to ante-date our death Now as my happy Gascony excells Of the excellent Bathes in Gascony In Corne Wine Warriours every Country els So doth she also in free Bathes abound Where strangers flock from every part around The barren womb the Palsie-shaken wight Th' vlcerous gowtie deaf and decrepit From East and West arriving fetch from hence Their ready help with small or no expence Witnes Ancossa Caud'rets Aiguescald Barege Baigners Baigners the pride of all The pride the praise the onely Paradise Of all those Mountains mounting to the skies Where yerst the Gaulian Hercules begot Wanton Alomena's Bastard meane I not On faire Pirén◠as the fame doth go The famous Father of the Gascons who By noble deeds do worthily averr Their true descent from such an Ancester On th' one side Hils hoar'd with eternal Snowes And craggy Rocks Baigneres do inclose The other side is sweetly compast-in With fragrant skirts of an immortall Green Whose smiling beauties far excell in all The famous praise of the Peneīan Vale There 's not a House but seemeth to be new Th' even-slated Roofs reflect with glistring blew To keep the Pavement ever cleane and sweet A Crystall River runs through every Street Whose Siluer stream as cold as Ice doth slide But little off the Physick Waters side Yet keeps his nature and disdaines a iot To intermix his cold with th' others hot But all these Wonders that adorn my Verse Yet come not neer vnto the wondrous Lers If it be true that the Stagyrian Sage With shame confus'd and driv'n with desperate rage Because his Reason could not reach the knowing Of Euripus his seav'n-fold Ebbing-flowing Leapt in the same and there his life did end Compriz'd in that he could not comprehend Of the most won derfull Fountain of Belestat What had he done had he beheld the Fountain Which springs at Belstat neere the famous Mountain Of Foix whose Floods bathing Masérian Plains Furnish with wood the wealthy Tholousains As oftas Phoebus in a compleat Race On both th' Horizons shews his radiant Face This wondrous Brook for foure whole months doth flowe Foure-times-six-times and Ebbs as oft as lowe For half an houre may dry-shod past that list The next half houre may none his course resist Whose foaming stream striues proudly to compare Euen in the birth with Fame-fullst Floods that are O! learned Nature-taught Arithmetician Clock-less so iust to measure Time's partition And little LAMBS-BOVRN though thou match not Lers Nor hadst the Honor of DU BARTAS Verse If mine haue any Thou must needs partake Both for thine Owne and for thine Owners sake Whose kinde Excesses Thee so neerely touch That Yeerely for them Thou doost weep so much All Summer-long while all thy Sisters shrink That of thy teares a million dayly drink Besides thy Waast which then in haste dothrun To wash the feet of CHAVCER's Donnington But while the rest are full vnto the top All Winter-long Thou never show'st a drop Nor send'st a doi◠of need-less Subsidie To Cramm the Kennet's Want-less Treasurie Before her Store be spent Springs be staid Then then alone Thou lendst a liberall Ayd Teaching Thy wealthy Neighbours Mine of late How When and VVhere to right-participate Their streams of Comfort to the poore that pine And not to greaz still the too-greazy Swine Neither for fame nor forme when others doo To giue a Morsel or a Mite or two But seuerally and of a selfly motion When others miss to giue the most devotion The intermedling of the Earth and Sea and of the commodities thence arising contrariwise of the confusion that would follow if they were separated Most wisely did th' eternall All-Creator Dispose these Elements of Earth and Water For sith th' one could not without drink subsist Nor th' other without stay bottom and list God intermixt them so that th' Earth her brest Op'ning to th' Ocean th' Ocean winding prest About the Earth a-thwart and vnder it For the Worlds Center both together fit For if their mixt Globe held not certainly Iust the iust midst of the Worlds Axle-tree All Climats then should not be serv'd a-right With equall Counter poiz of day and night The Horizons il-leuell'd circle wide Would sag too-much on th' one or th' other side Th' Antipodes or we at once should take View of more Signes then half the Zodiack The Moon 's Eclipses would not then be certain And setled Seasons would be then vncertain The Masse of the Earth and Water together make a perfect Globe This also serueth for probation sound That th' Earths and Waters mingled Mass is Round Round as a Ball seeing on euery side The Day and Night successiuely to slide Yea though Vespucio famous Florentine Mark Pole and Columb braue Italian Trine Our Spain's Dread Drake Candish and Cumberland Most valiant Earle most worthy High Command And thousand gallant modern Typheis else Had neuer brought the North-Poles Parallels Vnder the South and sayling still about So many Nex-worlds vnder vs found out Nay neuer could they th' Artik Pole haue lost Nor found th' Antartik if in euery Coast Seas liquid Glass round-bow'd not euery-where With sister Earth to make a perfect Sphear But perfect Artist with what Arches strong How it commeth to passe that the Sea is not flat nor leuel but rising round and bowed about the Earth Props staies and Pillars hast thou stay'd so long This hanging thin sad slippery Water-Ball From falling out and ouer-whelming all May it not be good Lord because the Water To the Worlds Center tendeth still by nature And toward the bottom of this bottom bound Willing to fall doth yet remain still round