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A20055	Dekker his dreame In which, beeing rapt with a poeticall enthusiasme, the great volumes of heauen and hell to him were opened, in which he read many wonderfull things.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1620 (1620)	STC 6497; ESTC S105244	20,833	46

North Seas Seas and shoares were One Ten thousand wild Waues hardned in the Aire Rattling like Isicles on his grizly Haire And in his driueling Beard Snow ten-times more Than e're the bald-pate Alpes in Periwigs wore When from his Caues of brasse bound there in Giues Of Adamant out he whorries and ' fore him driues In whirlewindes Haile Frosts Sleete and Stormes and With rugged Winter whom he Roaring greetes meetes Then clapping their obstreperous Squallid Wings Each of them on the frozen Russian dings Such bitter blasts downe that they flye in Droues Though swadled all in furres to Sweltring Stoues The Muffe the Scythian nor the Freeze-land-boore Nor the Laplandian Witch once peeping o're A threshold left their Noses Cheekes and Eyes Pinch'd off by his Clumzy Nailes be made a prize To snarling Boreas O yet all this cold Were it pil'd vp in heapes a hundred fold In stifned Clowdes to freeze ten thousand yeere Is a Warme Thaw to'th piercing Horrors heere Hells Cold so biting so Inuincible Insufferable Inexpressible That from all cold else the sharpe nips doth steale Should fire come neare it it would fire congeale Till Flames turne icy Flakes and force fire leese His Vertue so that coales Red-hot will freeze Here I beheld mee thought Soules Scar-crow-like Some bound some hang by th heeles whose heads did strike The Icy-knobbed-roofe toss'd too and fro By Gusts implacable able downe to throw Rampires of Brasse which still beate out the Braines And still Renewde them with Plangiferous Paines Here I beheld Kennels of fat-paunch'd Dogges From one to one howling in Dialogues Of Hellish Language cursing that they sat At prowd Voluptuous Tables yet forgat Numm'd Charity when at their gawdy gates She begg'd but Scraps of their worst Delicates Yet staru'd for want whilst they at Toasting fires Bath'd their Ranke Guts and with sharpe whips of Wires But nothing else heated her Shiuering limbes They quaffing Bowles i th' mean time crown'd to'th Brims And when ragg'd Souldiers of their Bodies making Anatomies in Wounds with chill blasts quaking And shrunke-vp mawes did to their Worships come A Whipping-Poast and Halter was their Doome Or when Thin-pale-cheek'd Schollers held but forth Their Thread-bare armes and did beseech their Worth To pittie haplesse Learning once so much As not to see her beg No they 'd not Touch A Poore bookes couer though within it lay Their Soules wealth but in scorne Shuffled away O Diuine Vengeance how most Iust thou art What they Stung ochers with is Now their smart Bleake Agues Apoplexies Murres Catarrhes Coughes Dropsies Rhewmes diseases that make wars And in cold bloud kill Health did here reigne rife And though they could not Wast yet Worried life Death from his earthy hands flung here and there Cold Snakes and Scorpions which did piece-male teare Frost-bitten Soules and spewd them vp againe Wanting Disgestion And to whip Paine with Paine Ten thousand Salamanders whose chill thawing Puts Bonfires out their stark-stiffe lunges were gnawing Harsh was their Musicke therefore on no string But Yels Teeth-gnashing Chattring Shiuering When thus farre I was transported by my Dreame I called to minde me thought that vpon earth I had heard many great Schollers defend that there was no Cold in hell But then turning ouer the leaues of my memory I found writteu there that Iob once spake thus They shal passe from the waters of Snow to too much Heate And that vpon those wordes Reuerend Bede did inferre that Iob seemed to point with his finger as it were at Two Hels the one of Fire the other of Cold. And that S. Hierome vpon the tenth of Mathew did auouch the same thing And againe that Hugo Victorinus in his Booke De Anima had ser downe that in Hell there was a Passage from the waters of Snow to the heate of Fire and both of these were Insufferable c. Iob 24. I likewise me thought remembred that the Author of the Booke intituled De Triplici Habitaculo that is to say Of Heauen Earth and Hell being thought to be the worke of Saint Augustine had these wordes There are two principall Torments in Hell viz. Intollerable Colde and Intollerable Heate Whereupon the Euangelists wrote there shall bee in Hell Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth Teares melting from the eyes through the extremity of Fire and that of the Teeth proceeding from the Sharpenesse of Colde Then called I to minde that Iustinianus in his Booke De casto Connubio Animae sayd thus There is in Hell a Fire Corporeall Inextinguible wanting Combustible matter to nourish it It shines to Punishment not to Consolation In that place there is Colde Incomparable Gnashing of Teeth and Smoake most Horrible-Stinking c. And that Haymo commenting vpon Mathew sung the same Tune thus That among all the Tortures in Hell the greatest were Heate and Cold. My memory me thought amongst these mustred Anselmus in his Elucidary Innocentius with his booke De Contempta Mundi with many others all fighting vnder the same Opinion Againe I tooke hold vpon the 39. Chapter of Ecclesiasticus speaking thus They are Spirits created for Reuenge and in their fury they haue fortified their Torments when the finall Day shall come they shall powre forth the force and rage of him that created them Fire Hayle Famine c. These other Fortifications of Reading defending me were Armors sufficient of proofe that there was Cold in Hell And that haply the Infernall torments did so change that some times the Soules of men were scorched in fires and anon as grieuously plagu'd with inexpressible anguish of cold yet considering with my selfe that it was no Pillar for Saluation to leane vpon to beleeue that there was or was not any such thing it could me thought be no offence to Perswade It was so or not so and the rather because it was but a Dreame My Mephostophilan Nag which foam'd before With a white frothy Sweate by scudding o're The Fields of Flames had now the Glanders got Through sudden Cold when he was Extreame hot Foundred he was besides halting downe-right So that I durst nor on nor yet Allight My selfe mee thought being almost frozen dead Back therefore did I reyne his stubborne Head When quick as Thought he gallopp'd thence away And came againe where Soules all broyling lay Vpon them fell downe stormes of burning Speares Trumpets red-hot blowing Flames into their Eares Each Sence and Member that on earth had bin An Armour in the quarrell of Damn'd Sin To fight ' gainst Heauen were here in pieces rent And Faults weigh'd out with equall punishment The Glutton roar'd for Cookes to giue him meate Drunkards for Wine to quench their scalding Heate Adulterers for their Whoores to coole those Fires Which now burnt hotter then their old Desires Some for Caroches cry'd some for their Trayne Of Vassailes to attend but cry'd in vaine They shall cry to the gods whom they serued in this

Nor Riches a bewitching swallowing streame Nor Learning laugh'd at as the Beggers Dower Nor beauties painted cheeke a Summers Flower No no life endlesse was yet without loathing Honor and Greatnesse wore Immortall cloathing Riches were Subiect to no base Consuming Learning burnt bright without Contentious fuming Beauty no painting bought but still renew'd Each one had heere his full Beatitude O my weake eyes how did your Balls me thought Burne out their Ielly when they had but caught One little-little glimpse of those Diuine And in-accessible Beames which did out-shine Hot-glowing coales of Fire no mortall Sight Can stand a Maiesty so infinite That Face whose Picture might haue ransom'd Kings Yet put vp Spettings Baffulings Bufferings Esa. 50. Ierem. 3. Math. 26. Marke 14. Luk. 22. That Head which could a Crowne of Starres haue worne Yet spightfully was wrench'd with wreathes of Thorne Math. 27. Mark 15. Iohn 19. Those Hands and Feete where Purest stamps were set Yet Naild-vp like to Pieces Counterfet Psal. 77. Those Lippes which though they had Command o're All Being thirsty Vineger had to drinke and Gall. Luk. 23. That Body scourg'd and torne with many a wound That his deere Bloud like Balme might leaue vs Sound Luk. 23. Psal. 129. Zach. 13. The Well of Life which with a Speare being tride Two Streames Mysterious gush'd out from the Side Iohn 19. Messias great Iehouah God on hie Yet Haild King of the Iewes in Mockery Math. 27. Mark 15. Luk. 23. The Manger-Cradled Babe the Begger borne The poorest Worme on earth the Heighth of Scorne Math. 2. Psal. 22. That Lord by his Owne Subiects Crucified Lo at this Grand Assize comes Glorified With troopes of Angels who his Officers are To call by sound of Trumpe his Foes to a Bar. Thus stood be Arm'd Iustice his Breast-plate was Iudgement his Helmet stronger farre than Brasse On his Right Arme Truths Shield he did aduance And turnde his Sharpned Wrath into a Lance Out of his Mouth a Two-edg'd Sword did flie To Wound Body and Soule eternally Arm'd Cap-a-pe thus who 'gainst him durst fight There was no ground for Strength nor yet for Flight At this me thought All Graues that euer held Dead Coarses yawn'd wide-open and compell'd The bones of Dead-men vp with Flesh to rise Yea those on whom the Seas did tyrannize And drown'd in wrackes and which were peece-meale eaten With liuely bodies to the shoares were beaten Whom Sword or Fire Iibbets or Wheeles had torne Had their owne limbes againe and new were borne From the first Man God made to'th last that died The Names of All were here Examplified Emp'rours and Kings Patriarches and Tribes forgotten The Conquerors of the world moldred and rotten Lords beggers Men and Women young and old Vp at a Bar set forth their Hands did hold The Iudge being set in open Court were layd Huge Bookes at sight of which All were dismaid Would faine haue shrunck back and fell downe with feare In sheetes of Brasse all Stories written were Which those Great volumes held Charactred deepe With Pens of Steele Eternall Files to keepe Of euery Nation since the Earth began And euery Deede Word thought of euery Man Sins hatch'd in Caues or such whose Bawd was Night The Minutes of the Act were here set right Great men whose secret Damn'd sins vizards wore so close that none vpon their Browes could score The least Black line because none durst had here A Bill of Items in particular What their Soules owed for Sin to Death and Hell Or if it happened that they e're did well In these True Iournals it at large was found And with rich promise of Reward was Crown'd The Bookes were opened c. Apoc. 20. Which done me thought the Sessions thus began Conscience the Cryer cald forth euery Man To make appearance and though to my sight The Numbers that were there were infinite In an Eies-twinkling yet they parted were The Good from Bad the Spotted from the cleare The Wolues and Goates to th' left Hand howling went The Lambs and Harmelesse Sheep to th' Right were sent After this Separation vp did rise Heauens-Lord-chiefe-Iustice and this Sentence flies Out of his Dreadfull Breast O you quoth he That haue my Lambs bin and did follow me As your true Shepheard and did know my Voyce As I in you you shall in Mee reioyce And now is come the day this is the Houre In which my Blessings on your Heads I poure Beloued of my Father Come and Take A Kingdome layd vp onely for your sake For me you haue bin Mock'd Reuil'd and Beate Mount therefore now into a Glorious Seate O blessed word which none but he can speake O word of Loue Diuine when not with weake But Armes Omnipotent-strong spread ope'-wide He cries Come Come How is Man dignifide Being but a Vassaile groueling on the ground Next to his Kings owne Throne thus to sit Crown'd Come and possesse O what shall you possesse A Kingdome whose vast Boundes none can expresse Had all the Peebles in the world bin cut Into Rich Diamonds and both Indies put Into Two Hils of Siluer and fine Gold Nor all Kings hoorded Treasures downe being sold Can this Inheritance buy which for your Good Is purchast at a High Rate Christs deere blood Come and Possesse what Time can neuer Rot Theeues steale Warres spoyle or Cank'rous Enuy blot Come and possesse a State whose Title Law Attorneys Wiles no nor the Scarlet Awe Of corrupt Iudges euer can Intangle No Bawling Pleader at the Barre shall wrangle To proue the Right of This being Stronglier Grounded Than Descents Lineall by which Realmes are Bounded Sit at his Table which doth Euer lie Couered with banquets of Eternitie Saluations Cup stands fill'd for you to'th Brim Come Drinke where Immortality doth swim Come and Possesse you blessed Blest in This The deere Sonne giues you a Coelestiall Kisse For welcome Come you blessed and possesse Wealth Honor Glories Pleasures numberlesse Forth-with me thought they All were Crownd with Gold Set thick with Starres and in their hands did hold Scepters of sparkling Diamonds which out shinde Sun-beames or Siluer seuen times being Re-finde The Ioy at this was wondrous All the Skies Danc'd to the soundes of seuerall Harmonies Both Angels and Arch-angels loudly sung All Heauen was but One Instrument well strung But They who on the Left-hand were set by As Out-casts shooke and trembled fearefully Like falling Towers their Sinnes and Soules were black And troopes of Hel-hounds waited at their Back They beat their breasts they tore their flesh and haire And curs'd that houre in which they first drew aire And then with Grones able to split in sunder Their very Soules like trees riuen through with Thunder They wrung their hands sobd shrik'd howl'd prai'd That Rocks and Hils might on their backs be layd And they to dust be grinded so that they Might from the Iudges face but turne