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A11402	The second day of the First vveeke of the most excellent, learned, and diuine poet, VVilliam, Lord Bartas. Done out of French into English heroicall verse by Thomas VVinter, Maister of Artes; Sepmaine. Day 2. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Winter, Thomas, Master of Arts.	1603 (1603)	STC 21659; ESTC S110833	26,697	50

remaine And in each part of each mixt bodie raigne Or their essentiall formes be all combined These foure as one sole bodie are defined Si●ile As in a chrystall glasse we see the bloud Of grapes allaide with Achelou● floud Or as the meate and drinke which we haue singled Out for our nouriture in vs is mingled And by our inward heate yeelds moisture good To be conuerted into purest bloud This in a burning brand we see full plaine Example His firetowers vp his heauenly home t' attaine His aire to smoake hi● earth to ashes goeth Out of his knobs the boiling water floweth Like warre our bodies quiet peace maintaineth For fire and aire in vitall spir●ts remaineth The flesh is earth the humors water be Yea in each particle we plainely see Each of these mingled though some ones minority Among his brethren beares not like authority So in the bloud those muddie lees which craue As being earthie lowest place to haue Are melancholy in the middle swimmes The purest bloud like aire about the brimmes Lies watrie phlegme and on the top there ●ubbles That firie choler which so many troubles Yet in the bodie no one element One element ●lvv●●es predomin●nt in ●ixt bodies Doth daily play the king but is content To take his turne and so his subiect● awes As if they take new Lord he makes new lawes As each good townse-man bloud or wealth nought heeding Simile Is rul'd which earst in ruling made proceeding In a free citie which doth lose his fashion Soone as the rulers suffer alteration For the light vulgar tost with euerie wind Are to their princes humors still enclind Cameleon-like which change of colours weareth As oft as change of obiect him anneareth Example So th' element of which wine most partaketh Now moist now dry now hote now cold it maketh And as these foure are coupled more or lesse So do th' effects and tast the same expresse So that in time the iuyce of grapes vnripe Becomes new wine to fill the emptie pipe And that same new growes good as it growes old Which kept too long for vineger is sold. Any ele●ent excessi●ely predomi●●nt i● dangerous to t●e bodie Now whiles the Prince which keepes the rest in aw Doth subiugate his greatnesse to the law He rules in safetie and doth still increase His commons ioy for their so happie peace But if of subiects bloud which he doth spill By dint of sword he neuer take his fill At length his rage dispeopling so his land Must leaue his realme to sauage beasts command Right so as long as some one element Doth rule the rest with modest gouernment And a proportion in the humors found Though some do more then other some abound The bodie 's in faire plight as those faire lines Drawne on the surface are thereof good signes Caligula But if that cruell king it represent Who wisht that all of his great regiment Had one sole necke that at one chop he might Butcher all Rome in furious despight Then doth it breed corruption of the rest And th' house whereof the tyrant is possest Doth by degrees decay so that the eye The bodies totall change may soone descrie Excesse o● moist●re c●●set● the dropsie So whensoere the liuer is opprest With moisture which it cannot well digest Which runs along the flesh it makes it swell And stops the conduit pipes which should e●pell Moist excrements and bolteth fast the dore Which to the panting breath should euermore Yeeld backe and in the water doth torment The dropsie-sicke with thirstie languishment Nor doth it leaue the patient any rest Vntill the graue be of his corps possest Excesse of dri●esse causeth the Hectique ●●●er So too much drought a lingring feuer breeds Which with some paine on th' Hectique daily feedes Feebles the sinewes clads the heart with griefe The face with sadnesse playes the very thiefe In stealing from the limmes their moist reliefe Like as the flaming torch which is the chiefe Cause of his peecemeale burning cleane away Feeds by his life liues by his owne decay Nor doth it l●nd the patient any rest Vntill the graue be of his corps possest So too much heate doth breed the feauer lourdane Excess● of h●at● the cause of th● quarta●e ague The tongue surcharging with a slimie burthen And makes the drudging pulse to trot apace And in the braine more diuerse shapes doth trace With a fantasticke pencill then can art Or chance or Nature to the eye impart Nor doth it lend the burning patient rest Vntill the graue be of his corps possest So too much cold vpon the aged pate Excesse of cold causeth old age Doth clap a hoarie fleece and doth abate The flesh and furrowes vp the late-smooth forehead Hollowes the eyes and makes a man abhorred Vnto himselfe and gliding through each part Doth by his winters freeze the very heart Nor doth it lend the aged any rest Vntill the graue be of his corps possest Yet thinke not that this great excesse doth bring Nibil in ●ibilum riducitur Annihilation vnto any thing It onely doth diuersifie the fashion So as the matter by this commutation Do it within or else without remaine Nor can be sayd to lose nor yet to gaine What ere is made is of that matter fram'd Which in the ancient nought the * M●t●ri●●rima First was nam'd And whatsoeuer is resolu'd againe Vnto that former matter runnes amaine For since that God of nothing made this All ●x ni●il●●i●il fit Of nought is nothing made nor euer shall Ought vnto nought be brought but all that 's borne Or dyes againe doth onely change his forme His bodie sometimes shrinkes sometimes is lengthened Sometimes is thickened sometimes straightened 〈◊〉 And if in sooth of nothing bodies were The earth vntild should fruit abundant beare Desired children virgins should enioy And each thing grow each where without annoy The thirstie hart should in the Ocean lie The monstrous whale should dwell vpon the drie The fleecie sheepe should grase amid the aire The seruice tree and eke the pine-tree faire Should take their rooting in the raging floud Out of the oke the ches-nut tree should bud And from the ches nut tree should achornes fall And natures lawes being violated all The eagle with the silly doue should match And each of these the others broode should hatch Nothing can enlarge it selfe by it self● And if that bodies of themselues could grow Then man which in his growing is so slow Should instantly be of that very stature Which in full age is giuen him by nature Vnplanted trees with leauie branches dight Should rob the shaded groues of Phoebus light The suckling elephant his backe should yeeld Vnto the warlike castle for the field The yongling Colt couragiously should neigh Bucephal-like in warre to breake the ray Contrariwise if ought annihild be Then whatsoere we touch or tast or see Still losing something of his

can in prose performe But when the tongues on numbred feete do sticke It 's hard two tongues discordant to conforme Who word for word and phrase for phrase translates In verse may vaunt he earnes his Authors fame But but few tongues are tyde t' our English pates That can with ease directly do the same Many translators haue we but not many That turne not th' Authors meaning with his words Famous were England if she had not any That to them selues such libertie affords To translate so is to adulterate And all Adulterers God and men do hate Omne bonum Dei donum The Argument OVr Poet intending a D●scou●se of the worlds creation and hauing in the first day of this Weeke indiciously declared that the world had a beginning against the absurd paradoxes of some doting philosophers which held that it was from all eternity and ha●ing both taxed and answered their a● heisticall curiositie which busie their ●dle and addle brains about enquiring what God did before the creation prouing also that there can be but one world and confuting diuerse oth●r errors of the anci●nts sheweth that God ●irst made some cònfused matter or Chaos of which he afterward framed the particular parts of the whole body of this world And then shortly and sweetly discoursing of the light the d●y and the night ●ith the singular commodities redounding to mākind by their successiue reuolutions he ends that booke with the creation of the Angels All which being learnedly perfourmed ●e addresseth himselfe in this second booke to the d●ciphering of the second dayes creation Wherei● first he layeth open th● vanitie of the lasciuious and wenching pamphleters of our age which prodigally spend their precious time in adorning some degenerate imp● or loose-liuing Lady with those honors which should be onely confined to vertuous design●ments Then he inuoketh the ass●stance of Gods spirite and briefly proposing his chast intention fals directly to the handling of the ●lements their number and composition in mixt bodies of the commoditie and inconuenience of their agreeing or disagreeing proportions in mans bodie then reasoning of their continuance he refutes di●erse errors touching the generation corruption and alteration of things in their matter and forme After breathing a while he enters a discourse of the Aire shewing how it is deuided what the temperature of each region is with the causes of the same and how the mists the blasts the clouds the deaw the yee and other waterie meteors are ingendred and consequently intreateth of the falling starres and comets with the rest of the fiery impressions which are often seene in the two extreme regions of the aire Hereunto he adioyneth a philosophicall narration of the thunder and lightning touching in briefe their strange yet certaine effects not omitting for the more absolute complement of his discourse to assigne probable reasons of the raine-bow the circles about the Sunne and Moone and the many Sunnes and Moones which affright the ignorant with their appearance But albeit he shewes himself a Philosopher in producing these naturall reasons yet he would haue euery man to shew himselfe a Christian in not wholy resting satisfied with these second causes but euer so to acknowledge the wisedome of the Almighty that he rather admire the creator then adore the creature adding thereunto the religious vse which Christians should make of these impressions and prodigious signes And that he may clip the wings of mans pride which is wont to soare beyond it selfe in self-conceits he demonstrates how it is impossible for the most cunning naturalist to render sound reasons of all accidents Then leauing the aire he ouerthrowes their opinion which hold but three elements and shewes the difference between that elementarie and our compounded fire adioyning therunto a briefe treatise of the matter the motion and number of the celestial spheares And answering those which are of opinion that there are no waters aboue the firmament he assumes a fit occasion to mention the generall floud with an elegant description whereof he ends this second dayes worke All which excellent points he adornes with such pleasant illustrations that Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. The second day of the first Weeke of the Lord Bartas THose Learned wits whose soothing rimes do change The v●nity of lasciuious Poets Fowle into faire and lewd with chast do range And of a bastard dwarfe blind ●●irting boy Do make a god nay all the gods to sway They lose both seed and trauell of their hand In plowing of th' vngratefull fruitlesse sand And setting nets for to intrap the winde Of some vaine praise which doth their wisedome blinde They imitate the Spiders curious paine Which weaues a needlesse web withou●en gaine But though more deare then time we nought possesse Yet would I grieue their losse of that the lesse If by their guilefull verse their too much Art Made not their hearers share with them a part The sugred baite of those their learned writs Doth shrowd that poison which the yonger wits Quaffe downe with breathlesse draughts and loues hote wine Making them host at drunken Bacchus signe Distempers so their stomacks that they feede On such ill meats as no good humours breede Their charming numbers with a mightie glaunce Cast headlong downe fresh readers to mischaunce Which by a vaine desire soone make them ●lide From this liues mountaine where they might abide The songs to which their Muse sweete notes doth frame Are bellowes of lewd lust which do enflame That wanton heate which yet yong tender age In modest ashes keepes in vassallage The chast in●ētion of the L. Ba●tas Now all such as I am I haue deuoted That art and wit which heauen hath me allotted To th' honor of great Ioue such verse to frame As virgins reading need not blush for shame Inuocatio Thou Learnings spring soule of this worldly round Sith thou wilt haue my low-tun'd verse to sound Of thy great praise graunt that my keaking quill Celestiall Nectar euer may distill And fill this volume with her hornes store Which cherisht once a god then late y bore That in some rate it may be correspondent To the greatnesse of so graue an argument Rid cleane the path which now I am to tread From bushie brakes which do it ouer-spread Throughout my course so lend me still thy ligh● That to my Inne I may arriue ere night The chaos created of nothing That endlesse end broade length and heigth profound Which yet no world yet was a worldly round That massie lumpe which nourisht ciuill hatred Was instantly of verie nought created And was that fertile soile from which should grow Earth water aire the fire and heauen also Th● compositiō of ●he fo●●e ●lement● i● mixt ●odies Now these foure brethren two-twind generation Thus made not onely keepe their seuerall station But are the simples too to make the mixt Of euery thing whereon our sense is fixt Whether their onely qualities