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A00012
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Ioseph, or, Pharoah's fauourite; Joseph.
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Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?
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1623
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STC 1001; ESTC S118664
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and state Those that liue Godly here the world will hate But God doth euer them most highly prize Who here are meanest in the wickeds eyes The World will you deride and say that this But some vaine peeuish single humor is Or some light idle motion which doth rise From some meane ignorant conceited wise Despise their censures for I certaine know The spirit whence such heau'nly motions flow What care I how their worldly wisdome deeme Of them So they with God be in esteeme Oh! were my words now written in a booke That who so list to learne on them might looke Or with a Diamonds point engrauen plaine On Adamant for euer to remaine I know that my Redeemer true and iust Liues and shall raise vs at the last from dust And though the wormes my skin and flesh destroy I God shall in my body see with ioy Eu'n with mine owne and with no other eyes But now my spirit begins so high to rise As if she meant to leaue this habitation And flye to heau'n by holy contemplation Oft hath she striu'd to rise before this day As weary of her brittle Tent of Clay But hath beene by the weight thereof deprest But now shee feeles her selfe from thence releast I cannot last my Lampe so fast doth spend And now burnes clearest nearest to the end Farewell deare sonnes my Blessing on you all Continue to your after-Ages shall Oh God of Life now thou dost me denie The Powre to liue me willing make to die These all are those twelue Tribes of Israel Which good old Iacob blest and wished well Besides the blessing to each seuerall Wherein he told them what should after fall And now as Ioseph erst he made to sweare So chargeth he eu'n all his Children there To lay him in that place of Buriall Where his fore-fathers were interred all Thus when his swan-like song was at an end And all commanded that he did intend He plucked vp his feete into the Bed And was vnto his people gathered Oh happy man saith Pharoh God me send Eu'n such a life and such a happy end Lo farther Pharoh did that day command That all his Peeres and Nobles of the Land Should goe with Ioseph and his Brethren all To honour holy Iacobs funerall Where they seu'n dayes made so great Lamentation They draue the Cananites to admiration And after he was buried in this sort Ioseph returnes againe to Pharohs Court His Brethren vnto Goshen where in peace They Liued and did mightily increase Till Ioseph was an hundred ten yeares old So that he Ephraims children did behold To their third Generation and the seede Of Machir eldest of Manasses Breed Sate on his knees Then saith he lo I die But God will visit you assuredly And in that Land a place for you prepare As he to Abram Isaack Iacob sware Then as I sware to Iacob to me sweare Thither my Bones with you from hence to beare His Brethren sware So Ioseph as I told Dide honourably being very old Whose Body they imbalmed in a Chest And after carryed to the land of Rest Where they erect a Pillar on his graue And thereupon this Epitaph engraue FINIS IOSEPHS Epitaph HIs Fathers Darling mothers deare delight Obiect of Satans malice Brethrens spite To Master iust chaste faithful to his Dame In Prison free coÌ„demn'd yet void of blame From Dungeon raisd to highest reputation By Wisdome Counsell Dreames and DiuinatioÌ„ Thus God by him a great deliuerance wrought In sauing them who his destruction sought A diligent wise prouident Obseruer And therefore of Mankinde a great preseruer In Padan borne In Canaan nourished In Midian bound in Aegypt honoured From whence his soule flew to eternall Rest His Bones here in like expectation rest He sau'd from Famine King Priests People all For which his seede and Nation they enthrall Vnworthy Aegypt of this sacred Vrne Who such rewards for merits dost returne SVSANNA was of all thy Poems best But IOSEPH her excels as shee the rest 1. Kin. 4.21 Gen. 15.18 called there the riuer of Egypt A cittie so called Gen. 25.13 Called Ostracina or Cheres Plin lib. 5. cap. 22. Iosephus ad Heroum oppidum Iacobo occurrit Ios. lib. 2. Antiq. ca. 4. Iosephus ibidem a Sex aut septem miliaeria a capite Delta admare rubrum Gorop Hisp. lib. 6. Herod plus distantiae poâ—it lib. 2. b Psamni thus Egyptorum Rex hoc tentauit sed oraculo interpellatus desutit Herod ibidem c Eedam significat aggerem perpetuuÌ„ nullo modo rumpendum Gorop lib. 6. Hisp. d Cimbrica seu Germanica Gorop e Dam significat aggerem fluctibus Maris aquarum oppositum Gorop Herm lib 4. Ee. significat firmum f Hebraite sic vocatur sic vocandae est g Etham dicitur vel ab Hebraeo Thaam permecathesin qd significat geminum quiae inter duo maria positum est vel ab Ethah quod significat curro quia EthaÌ„ olim futurus est locus vbi mare currat h Athas mons celissimus factus est nauigabilis à Xerxe Plut. Iust. alij i Quales sunt obelisci 4. quorum v. nusquisque erat 480. cubitorum longitudine 1 Ruben 2 Simeon 3 Leui. 4 Iudah 5 Zabulon 6 Isachar 7 Dan. 8 Gal. 9 Aser 10 Napthalim 11 Ioseph 12 Beniamin