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A11395	Du Bartas his deuine weekes and workes translated: and dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Iosuah Syluester; Sepmaine. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.; Pibrac, Guy du Faur, seigneur de, 1529-1584. Quatrains. English.; La Noue, Odet de, seigneur de Téligny, d. 1618. Paradoxe que les adversitez sont plus necessaires que les prosperités. English.; Hudson, Thomas, 16th/17th cent.; Hole, William, d. 1624, engraver.	1611 (1611)	STC 21651; ESTC S110823	556,900	1,016

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

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 doos●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 clasp●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. ● 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 mētioneth 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

Preacher not the Parasite So Morn and Euening the Third Day conclude And God perceiv'd that All his Works were good THE FOVRTH DAIE OF THE FIRST WEEK THE ARGVMENT The twinkling Spangles of the Firmament The wandring Seav'n Each in a seuerall Tent Their Course their Force their Essence is disputed That they as Beasts doe eat and drink refuted Heav'ns not the Earth with rapid motion roule The famous Stars observ'd in either Pole Heav'ns sloaping Belt the Twelue celestiall Signes Whear Sol the Seasons of the Year confines Dayes glorious Prince Nights gloomy Patroness His Light and Might Her constant Change-fulnes PVre Spirit that rapt'st aboue the Firmest Sphear In the beginning of the fourth booke calling vpon the God of Heauen our Poet prayeth to be lift vp in the Heauens that he may discours● as he ought of the starrs fixed and wandring In fiery Coach thy faithfull Messenger Who smiting Iordan with his pleighted Cloak Did yerst diuide the Waters with the stroak O take me vp that far from Earth I may From Sphear to Sphear see th' azure Heav'ns To-Day Be thou my Coach-man and now Check by Ioule With Phoebus Chariot let my Chariotroule Driue on my Coach by Mars his flaming Coach Saturn and Luna let my wheels approach That having learn'd of their Fire-breathing Horses Their course their light their labour and their forces My Muse may sing in sacred Eloquence To Vertues Friends their vertuous Excellence And with the Load-stone of my conquering Verse Aboue the Poles attract the most perverse And you fair learned soules you spirits diuine To whom the Heav'ns so nimble quils assigne As well to mount as skilfully to limn The various motion of their Taperstrim Lend me your hand lift mee aboue Parnassus With your loud Trebbles help my lowly Bassus For sure besides that your wit-gracing Skill Bears in itself itself's rich guerdon still Our Nephews free from sacrilegious brauls Where Horror swims in bloud about our wals Shall one day sing that your deer Song did merit Better Heav'n better hap and better time to hear-it And though alas my now new-rising Name Can hope heer-after none or little Fame The time that most part of our betterwits Mis-spend in Flattery or in Fancy-Fits In courting Ladies or in clawing Lords Without affection in affected words I mean to spend in publishing the Story Of Gods great works to his immortall glory My rymes begot in pain and born in pleasure Thirst not for Fame the Heathen hope 's chief treasure 'T shall me suffice that our deer France doo breed In happy season som more learned sced That may record with more diuine dexterity Then I haue don these wonders to Posterity Much less may these abortiue Brats of Mine Expect Respect but in respect of Thine Yet sith the Heav'ns haue thus entaskt my layes As darkly Cynthia darts her borrow'd rayes To shadow Thine and to my Countrey render Som small reflection of thy radiant splendor It is inough if heer-by I incite Som happier spirit to do thy Muse more right And with more life giue thee thy proper grace And better follow great du BARTAS trace GOD'S NONE of these faint idle Artizens Heere resuming his course he presecutes the worke of the Creation Who at the best abandon their designes Working by halfs as rather a great deal To do much quickly then to do it well But rather as a workman neuer weary And all-sufficient he his works doth carry To happy end and to perfection With sober speed brings what he hath begun Hauing therfore the Worlds wide Curten spread About the circuit of the fruitfull Bed In the fourth day God created the fixed Stars the two great Lights vid. the Sunne and the Moone together with the other fiue Planets Where to fill all with her vnnumbred Kin Kinde Natures self each moment lyeth in To make the same for euer admirable More stately-pleasant and more profitable He th' Azure Tester trimm'd with golden marks And richly spangled with bright glistring sparks I knowe those Tapers twinkling in the sky Doo turn so swiftly from our hand and eye That man can neuer rightly reach to seeing Their Course and Force and much-much less their Being Of their Course Force Essence and Substance But if coniecture may extend aboue To that great Orb whose mouing All doth moue Th' imperfect Light of the first Day was it Which for Heavn's Eyes did shining matter fit For God selecting lightest of that Light Garnisht Heav'ns seeling with those Torches bright Or else diuided it and pressing close The parts did make the Sun and Stars of those But if thy wits thirst rather seek these things Opinion of the Greek touching the matter of the Stars In Greekish Cisterns then in Hebrew Springs Then I conclude that as of moistfull matter God made the people that frequent the Water And of an Earthy stuff the stubborn droues That haunt the Hills and Dales and Downs and Groues So did he make by his Almighty might The Heav'ns and Stars of one same substance bright To th' end these Lamps dispersed in the Skies Might with their Orb it with them sympathize And as with vs vnder the Oaken bark The knurry knot with branching vains we mark Simile To bee of substance all one with the Tree Although far thicker and more rough it bee So those gilt studs in th' vpper story driven Are nothing but the thickest part of Heav'n When I obserue their Light and Heat yblent Their substance is of Fire Meer accidents of th' vpper Element I thinke them Fire but not such Fire as lasts No longer then the fuel that it wastes For then I think all th' Elements too-little To furnish them only with one days victual And therefore smile I at those Fable-Forges Resutation of such as haue thought that the Stars were liuing creatures that did eat and drinke Whose busy-idle stile so stifly vrges The Heavn's bright Cressets to be living creatures Ranging for food and hungry fodder-eaters Still sucking-vp in their eternall motion The Earth for meat and for their drink the Ocean Sure I perceive no motion in a Star But natural certain and regular Wher-as Beasts motions infinitely vary Confus'd vncertain diuers voluntary I see not how so many golden Postes Should scud so swift about Heav'ns azure coasts But that the Heav'ns must ope and shut som-times Subiect to passions which our earthly climes Alter and toss the Sea and th' Aire estrange From it selfs temper with exceeding change I see not how in those round blazing beams One should imagine any food-fit limbs Nor can I see how th' Earth and Sea should feed So many Stars whose greatnes doth exceed So many times if Star-Diuines say troth The greatnes of the Earth and Ocean both Sith heer our Cattle in a month will eat Seav'n-times the bulk of their owne bulk in meat These Torches then range not at random o're The lightsom thicknes of an vn-firm Floor As heer

are rough-cast with the richest Stones Cast in Deuises Emblems Scutchions Yet leaving all this Greatnesse of her owne She comes to view the State of SALOMON To hear his Wisedom and to see his Citty Refuge of Vertues School of Faith and Pitty A iust Reproose of all obstinate Recusants You that doo shut your eyes against the rayes Of glorious Light which shineth in our dayes Whose spirits self-obstin'd in old musty Error Repulse the Truth Th' Almighties sacred Mirror Which day and night at your deaf Doors doth knock Whose stubbornnesse will not at all vn-lock The sacred Bible nor so much as look To talke with God into his holy Book O fear you not that this great Princesse shall Of thank-les Sloath one-day condemn you all Who both a Woman Queen and Pagan born Ease Pleasures Treasures doth despise and scorn To passe with great pains and with great expence Long weary Iourneys full of diffidence And nobly trauels to another Land To hear the words but of a mortall Man Her Time 's not lost there rapt she doth contemple The sumptuous bewties of a stately TEMPLE The lofty Towers of hundred Towns in one A pompous Palace and a peer-les Throne Wals rich with-out furnisht in richer sort Number of Servants doth adorn the Court But more their Order there no noise is heard Each his owne Office only doth reguard And in one instant as the quaverings Of a quick Thumb moues all the divers strings Of a sweet Guittern and its skill to grace Causeth a Trebble sound a Mean a Base So SALOMON discreetly with a beck A wink a word doth all the Troop direct Each of his Servants hath his proper Lesson And after his Degree each hath his fashion This Queen yer parting from her fragrant Iles Arm'd her with Riddles and with witty Wyles T' appose the King and she resolues she wil With curious Questions sift and sound his Skill But lo what Oedipus The Law-learn'd Sage Which at the Bar hath almost spent his age Cannot so soon a common Doubt decide Where Statutes Customs and Book-Cases guide As he dissolues her Gordian-knots and sees Through all her nights and even at pleasure frees Such Doubts as doubt-les might haue taskt t'vntwist The Brachman Druïde and Gymnosophist And knowing Good becomes more Good the more It is en-common'd he applies there-fore T' instruct her in the Faith and enuious-idle His brains rich Talent buries not in Idle Alas I pity you alas quoth He Poore Soules besotted in Idolatry Who worship Gold and Silver Stocks and Stones Mens workmanship and Fiends Illusions And who by your sage Mages Lore miss-led So-many Godlings haue imagined Madame there is but one sole God most-High Th' Eternall King nay self-Eternity Infinite All in all yet out of all Of Ends the End of Firsts Originall Of Lights the Light Essencesur-passing Essence Of Powers pure Act of Acts the very Puissance Cause of all Causes Ocean of all Good The Life of Life and of all Bewty Flood None-seen All-Seer Starr's-guide Sight of Seeing The Vni-forme which giues all Formes their Beeing God and One is all One whoso the Vnitie Denies he Atheist disannuls Diuinity Th' Vnity dwels in God i th' Fiend the Twine The greater World hath but one Sun to shine The lesser but one Soule both but one God In Essence One in Person Trinely-odde Of this great Frame the Parts so due-devis'd This Body tun'd so measur'd sympathiz'd This TEMPLE wheresuch Wealth and Order meet This Art in every part cannot proceed But from one Pattern and that but from one Author of all who all preserues alone Else should we see in set Batalions A hundred thousand furious Partizans The World would nource civill intestine Wars And wrack itself in itselfs factious Iars Besides God is an Infinite Divinity And who can think of more than one Infinity Seeing the one restrains the others might Or rather reaues its name and being quight Therfore O Pagans why doo you confine The Infinite in narrow Walls of lime Why shut you Him in a base Trunk or Tree Why paint you Whom no mortall eye can see Why offer you your carnall seruices Vnto the Lord who a meer Spirit is Why then doo you sayd she by our example Incloseth ' Immortall in this Earthly TEMPLE Lock him within an Arke and worse than we Feed him with Fumes and bloody Butcherie This Sacred House so fair reply'd he then Is not to contain God but godly men Which worship him and we doo not suppose That He whose Arms doo Heav'n and Earth inclose Is closed in a Chest but th' ancient Pact The solemne Couenant and the sure Contract Which leagues vs with our God and each with other And holy Bond holds Heav'n and Earth together As for our Incense Washings Sacrifices They are not as is thought Our vain Devices But God 's their Aurthor and himself Ordains These Elements wherby he entertains And feeds our vnderstanding in the hope Of his deer Son of all these Things the Scope Setting before vs th' Only Sacrifice Which in CHRIST'S Blood shall wash-out all our vice Come then O Lord Come thou Lawes finisher Great King great Prophet great Selfs-Offerer Come come thou thrice-Great Refuge of our State Come thou out Ran çome Iudge and Advocate Milde Lambe Salue-Serpent Lion generous Vn-challeng'd Vmpire betwixt Heav'n and Vs Come thou the Trueth the Substance and the End Of all our Offrings whither all doo tend Come ô MESSIAS and doo now begin To Raign in Sion to triumph of Sinne And worshipped in Spirit and Truth restore Vpon the Earth the Golden Age of yore Accept this Queen as of all Heathen Princes The deer First-Fruits take on thee our Offences That stript of Adam's Sinfull sute in fine With sacred Angels we in Heav'n may shine The Queen nigh sunk in an Amaze-full Swoun Bespake him thus My Lord prattling Renown Is wont in flying to increase so far That she proclaims things greater than they are Simile And rarest Spirits resemble Pictures right Wherof the rarest seem more exquisite Far-off then neer but so far as thy Fame Ezcels all Kings thy Vertues passe the same Thy peer-les Prayse stoops to thy Learned tongue And envious bruit hath done thy Wisedom wrong So may I say even so ô SCOTISH King Application to the Kings Maiestie Thy winged Fame which far and wide doth ring From th' edge of Spain hath made me venturously To crosse the Seas thy Britain's end to see Where Lord what saw I nay what saw I not O King Heav'n-chosen for som special Plot Worlds Miracle ô Oracle of Princes I saw so much my Soule mistrusts my Senses A gray-beards Wisedom in an amber-bush A Mars-like Courage in a Maid-like blush A settled Iudgement with a supple Wit A quick Discourse profound and pleasing yet Virgil and Tully in one spirit infus'd And all Heav'ns Gifts into one Head diffus'd Persist O King glory on glory mount And as thy Vertues thine owne Fame surmount So

Than Pies to Syrens Geese to Nightingalls 17 Then take Me BARTAS to conduct thy ●e● Soar-vp to Heav'n Sing-me th' Almightie's prayse And tuning now the Iessean Harp again Gayn thee the Garland of eternall Bayes 18 I cannot grief-less see my Sisters wrongs Made Bawds to Louers in deceitfull faynings In forged sighes false tears and filthy Songs Lascivious shewes and counterfait complaynings 19 Alas I cannot with dry eyes behold Our holy Songs solde and profaned thus To grace the grace-less praising too-too bold Caligula Nero and Commodus 20 But most I mourn to see r●●e Verse apply'd Against the Author of sweet Composition I cannot brook to see Heav'ns King defy'd By his own Souldiers with his own Munition 21 Man's eyes are ●ield-vp with Cimmerian mist And if ought pretious in his Life he reach Through sundry hands by the Heav'ns bounty is' t But God himself the Delphian Songs doth teach 22 Each Art is learn'd by Art but PO●SI● Is a meer Heavenly gift and none can taste The Deaws we drop from Pindus plentiously If sacred Fire have not his brest imbraç't 23 Thence is' t that many great Philosophers Deep-learned Clarks in Prose most eloquent Labour in vain to make a grace-full Verse Which many a Novice frames most excellent 24 Thence is' t that yerst the poor Meonian Bard Though Master means and his owne eyes he misses Of Olde and New is for his Verse preferd In 's stout Achilles and his wise Vlysses 25 Thence is' t that Ovid cannot speak in Prose Thence is' t that Dauid Sheapheard turned Poet So soon doth learn my Songs and Youths compose After our Art before indeed they knowe-it 26 Dive day and night in the Castalian Fount Dwell vpon Homer and the Mantuan Muse Climb night and day the double-topped Mount Where the Pierian learned Maydens vse 27 Read while thou wilt read ouer every Book In Pergamus and in the famous Citie That her great name of Alexander took Still ply thy Pen practise thy language wittie 28 Take time inough choose seat and season fit To make good Verse at best aduantage place thee Yet worthy fruit thou shalt not reap of it For all thy toil vnless Minerua grace thee 29 For out of Man Man must him all advance That time-proof Poëms ever hopes to vtter And extased as in a holy Trance Into our hands his Sensiue part must put-her 30 For as a humane Fury makes a man Less than a man so Diuine-Fury makes-him More than himself and sacred Phrenzie than Above the Heav'ns bright-flaming Arches takes-him 31 Thence thence it is that Divine Poets bring So sweet so learned and so lasting Numbers Where Heav'ns and Nature's secret works they sing Free from the powr of Fates eternall slumbers 32 True Poets right are like winde-Instruments Which full do sound emptie their noise surceases For with their Fury lasts their Excellence Their Muse is silent when their Fury ceases 33 Sith therfore Verses have from Heav'n their spring O rarest spirits how dare you damned scorners Profanely wrest against Heaven's glorious King These sacred gifts given for your lives adorners 34 Shall your ingratefull Penns be alwayes waiting As Seruants to the Flesh and slaues to Sin Wil you your Volumes evermore be fraighting With Dreams and Fables idle Fame to win 35 Still will you fill the World with Loue-sick groans Still will you fawn on Fools and flatter Euill Still will you parbreak loathsom passions Still will you make an Angell of a Diuell 36 Still will you comment on this common Storie And Spider-like weaue idle Webs of folly O! shall we neuer hear you sing the glory Of God the great the good the iust the holy 37 Is' t not enough that in Your soules yee feel Your Paphian Fire but every Brothel-Lover T' inchaunt the wanton with his wanton stile Must Strumpet-like his lust full flame discover 38 Is' t not enough that you your selues do wallow In foul delights but that you must intice Your heed-less Readers your loose Race to follow And so for Vertue make them fall to Uice 39 Tunes Notes and Numbers whence we do transfer Th' harmonious powr that makes our Verse so pleasing The sternest Catoes are of force to stir Mans noblest spirits with gentle Fury seazing 40 And as a Seal printeth in wax almost Another Seal A learned Poet graveth So deep his passions in his Readers ghost That oft the Reader th' Authors form receiveth 41 For Verse's vertue slyding secretly By secret pipes through th' intellectuall Notions Of all that 's pourtraid artificially Imprinteth there both good and evill motions 42 Therfore did Plato from his None-Such banish Base Poëtasters that with vicious verse Corrupted manners making vertue vanish The wicked worse and even the good perverse 43 Not those that car'd to match their gracefull Phrazes To grave-sweet matters singing now the praise Of iustest Ioue anon from errors mazes Keeping th' vn-steady calling-back the strayes 44 O prophane Wrighters your lascivious Rime Makes our best Poëts to be basely deemed As Iugglers Iesters and the scum of Time Yea with the Vulgar less than these esteemed 45 You make chaste Clio a light wanton Minion Mount Helicon a Stews your ribaldrie Makes prudent Parents strict in their opinion To bar their Children reading Poëtry 46 But if you would yet'at the last inure-yee Your Gnidian Idols in the dust to trample And rouze the Genius of your sacred-Furie To shewe the World som holy Works example 47 All would admire your Rimes and doo you honour As Secretaries of the Heav'nly Court And Maiesty would make you waite vpon-her To manage Causes of the most import 48 The chain of Verse was at the first inuented To handle onely sacred mysteries With more respect and nothing else was chanted For long time after in such Poësies 46 So did my Dauid on the trembling strings Of his divine Harp onely sound his God So milde-soul'd Moses to lehouah sings Iacobs deliverance from th' Egyptian's Rod. 50 So Debora and Iudith in the Camp So Iob and Ieremy in cares oppressed In tune-ful Verses of a various stamp Their ioys and sighs divinely-sweet expressed 51 And therfore Satan who transforms him slily T' an Angel of the Light the more t' abuse In 's Oracles and Idols speaking wily Not common Prose but curious Verse did vse 52 So the fond Maid-Priests of Apollo sung His Oracles in sweet Hexameters With doubtfull Riddles from a double tongue To hap-less-hopefull conquered-Conquerers 53 So th' ancient voice in Dodon worshipped So Aesculapius Hamon and the fair And famous Sibyls spake and prophecied In Verse in Verse the Priest did make his prayer 54 So Orpheus Linus and Hesiodus Wher of the first charm'd stocks and stones they say In sacred Numbers dar'd to profit vs Their divine secrets of deep skill conuaigh 55 O! you that long so for the Laurel Crown Where 's possible a richer Theam to take Than his high praise who makes the Heav'ns go round The Mountains tremble and

will admire In whose cleer channel mought at pleasure swim Those two bright Fishes that doo follow him Pisces in mid-February But that the Torrent slides so swift away That it out-runs them euer euen as they Out-run the Ram who euer them pursues And by renewing Yearely all renues The names of the Principall stars of the North-Pole Besides these Twelue toward the Artik side A flaming Dragon doth Two-Bears diuide After the Wainman coms the Crown the Spear The Kneeling Youth the Harp the Hamperer Of th' hatefull Snake whether we call the same By Aesculapius or Alcides name Swift Pegasus the Dolphin louing man Ioues stately Aegle and the siluer Swan Andromeda with Cassiopeia neer-her Her father Cepheus and her Perseus deerer The shining Triangle Medusa's Tress And the bright Coach-man of Tindarides Toward th' other Pole Orion Eridanus The names of the Stars of the South-Pole The Whale the Whelp and hot-breath't Sirius The Hare the Hulk the Hydra and the Boule The Centaure VVolf the Censer and the Foul The twice-foul Rauen the Southern Fish and Crown Through Heav'ns bright Arches brandish vp and down Thus on This-Day working th' eightth azure Tent The fixed stars are in the eight Heauen With Art-les Art diuinely excellent Th' Almighties fingers fixed many a million Of golden Scutchions in that rich Pauilion But in the rest vnder that glorious Heav'n But one a-peece vnto the seuerall Seav'n And the seauen Planets vnder them each in his proper Spheare Least of those Lamps the number-passing number Should mortall eyes with such confusion cumber That we should neuer in the cleerest night Starrs diuers Course see or discern aright And therfore also all the fixed Tapers He made to twinkle with such trembling capers Why the Planets twinkle not and the fixed stars do twinkle But the Scaven Lights that wander vnder them Through various passage neuer shake a beam Or he perhaps made them not different But th' hoast of Sparks spred in the Firmament Far from our sense through distance infinite Seems but to twinkle to our twinkling sight The firmament much farther from the Earth then the sphears of the Planets Wheras the rest neerer a thousand fold To th' Earth and Sea we doo more brim behold For the Heav'ns are not mixtly enterlaced But th' vndermost by th' vpper be imbraced And more or less their roundels wider are As from the Center they be neer or far As in an Egg the shell includes the skin Simile The skin the white the white the yolk with-in Two similes representing the motion of the eight inferiour Heav'ns throgh the swift turning of the ninth which is the Primum Mobile Now as the Winde buffing vpon a Hill With roaring breath against a ready Mill Whirls with a whiff the sails of swelling clout The sails doo swing the winged shaft about The shaft the wheel the wheel the trendle turns And that the stone which grindes the flowry corns Or like as also in a Clock well tended Iust counter-poize iustly thereon suspended Makes the great Wheel goe round and that anon Turns with his turning many a meaner one The trembling watch and th' iron Maule that chimes The intire Day in twice twelue equall times So the grand Heav'n in foure and twenty houres Surueying all this various house of ours With his quick motion all the Sphears doth moue Whose radiant glances gild the World aboue And driues them euery day which swiftnes strange-is From Gange to Tagus and from Tay to Ganges But th' vnder-Orbs as grudging to be still Each of the 8. Heauens so trāsported by the Primum Mobil● hath also his proper oblique and distinct course each from other So straightly subiect to anothers will Still without change still at anothers pleasure After one pipe to dance one onely measure They from-ward turn and traversing aside Each by himself an oblique course doth slide So that they all although it seem not so Forward and backward in one instant goe Both vp and down and with contrary pases At once they poste to two contrary places Like as my self in my lost Marchant-years A loss alas that in these liues appears Wa●ting to Brabant Englands golden Fleece The same explaned by a proper Simile A ritcher pryze then Iason brought to Greece While toward the Sea our then Swan-poorer Thames Bare down my Bark vppon her ebbing streams Vpon the hatches from the Prow to Poup Walking in compass of that narrow Coop Maugre the most that Winde and Tide could doo Haue gone at once towards LEE and LONDON too Why som of these Heauens haue a slower course shorter compasse then other some But now the neerer any of these Eight Approach th' Empyreall Palace walls in height The more their circuit and more daies they spend Ye● they return vnto their Iourneys end It 's therefore thought That sumptuous Canapy The terme of the reuolution of the Firmament The which th' vn-niggard hand of Maiesty Poudred so thick with Shields so shining cleer Spends in his voyage nigh seaven thousand year Ingenious Saturn spouse of Memory Of the seuenth which is the Spheare of Saturn Father of th' Age of Gold though coldly dry Silent and sad bald hoary wrinkle-faced Yet art thou first among the Planets placed And thirty years thy Leaden Coach doth run Ye● it arrive where thy Career begun Thou rich benign Ill-chasing Iupiter Of the 6 which is the Sphear of Iupiter Art worthy next thy Father sickle-bear And while thou doost with thy more milde aspect His froward beams disast'rous frouns correct Thy Tinnen Chariot shod with burning bosses Through twice-six Signes in twice six twelue months crosses Braue-minded Mars yet Master of mis-order Of the 5. which is the spheare of Mars Delighting nought but Battails blood and murder His surious Coursers lasheth night and day That he may swiftly passe his course away But in the road of his eternall Race So many rubs hinder his hasty pase That thrice the while the lively Liquor-God With dabbled heels hath swelling clusters trod And thrice hath Ceres shav'n her amber tress Ye● his steel whels haue done their business Pure goldie-locks Sol States-friend Honour-giuer Of the 4. which is the Sphear of Sol. Light-bringer Laureat Leach-man all Reviver Thou in three hundred threescore daies and five Doost to the period of thy Race arrive For with thy proper course thou measur'st th' Year And measur'st Daies with thy constrain'd career Fair dainty Venus whose free vertues milde Of the 3. which is the spheare of Venus With happy fruit get all the world with-childe Whom wanton dalliance dancing and delight Smiles witt●e wiles youth loue and beauty bright With soft blind Cupids evermore consort Of light som Day opens and shuts the port For hardly dar● her siluer Doves go far From bright Apollos glory-beaming Car. Not much vnlike so Mercury the wittie Of the 2. which is the sphear of

Mercury For ship for shop book bar or Court or Citie Smooth Orator swift Pen-man sweet Musician Rare Artizan deep-reaching Politician Fortunat Marchant fine Prince-humour-pleaser To end his course takes neer a twelue-months leasure For all the while his nimble winged heels Dare little bouge from Phoebus golden wheels And lastly Luna thou cold Queen of night Regent of humours parting Months aright Of the 1. which is the Sphear of Lun● The lowest Planet nearest the Earth Chaste Emperess to one Endymion constant Constant in Love though in thy looks in constant Vnlike our Loues whose hearts d●ssemble soonest Twelue times a year through all the Zodiak runnest Now if these Lamps so infinite in number Should stil stand-stil as in a sloathfull slumber Then should som Places alwaies in one plight Have alwaies Day and ●om haue alwaies Night Of the necessitie of diuers motions of the Heauens Then should the Sommers Fire and Winters Frost Rest opposite still on the self same Coast Then nought could spring and nothing prosper would In all the World for Want of Heat or Cold. Or without change of distance or of dance If all these Lights still in one path should prance Th' inconstant parts of this lowe Worlds contents Should neuer feel so sundry accidents As the Con●unction of celestiall Features Incessantly pours vpon mortall Creatures I 'll n'er beleeve that the Arch-Architect Of the force and influence of the C●lestiall body vpon the terrestriall With all these Fires the Heav'nly Arches deckt Onely for Shewe and with these glistering shields T' amaze poor Shepheards watching in the fields I 'll n'er beleeve that the least Flowr that pranks Our Garden borders or the Common banks And the least stone that in her warming Lap Our kind Nurse Earth doth covetously wrap Hath som peculiar vertue of it owne And that the glorious Stars of Heav'n have none But shine in vain and haue no charge precise But to be walking in heav'ns Galleries And through that Palace vp and down to clamber As Golden Gulls about a PRINCES CHAMBER Sens-less is he who without blush denies What to sound senses most apparant lies And 'gainst Experience he that spets Fallacians Is to be hisst from learned Disputations And such is he that doth affirm the Stars To have no force on these inferiours Though heav'ns effects we most apparant see In number more then heav'nly Torches be I nill alleadge the Seasons alteration Sundry proofes of the same 1 The diuers seasons 2 The fearefull accidēts that cōmonly succeede Eclipses Caus'd by the Sun in shifting Habitation I will not vrge that neuer at noon daies His enuious Sister intercepts his Raies But som great State eclipseth and from Hell Alecto looses all these Furies Fell Grim lean-fac't Famine foul infectious Plague Blood-thirsty VVar and Treason hatefull Hag Heere pouring down Woes vniuersall Flood To drown the World in Seas of Tears and Blood I 'l overpass how Sea doth Eb and Flowe 3 The ebbing flowing of the sea As th' Horned Queen doth eyther shrink or growe And that the more she Fills her forked Round The more the Marrow doth in bones abound The Bloud in Veins the sap in Plants the Moisture 4 The increase and decrease of marrow bloud and humours in diuers creatures And lushious meat in Creuish Crab and Oyster That Oak and Elm and Firr and Alder cut Before the Crescent have her Cornets shut Are neuer lasting for the builders turn In Ship or House but rather fit to burn 5. The apparant alterations in the bodies of sick persons And also that the Sick while shee is filling Feele sharper Fits through all their members thrilling So that this Lamp alone approoves what powrs Heav'ns Tapers have even on these soules of ours Temp'ring or troubling as they be inclin'd Our mind and humours humours and our minde Through Sympathy which while this Flesh we carie Our Soules and Bodies doth together marry I 'l only say that sith the hot aspect Of th' Heav'nly Dog-Star kindles with effect A particular proose by the effects of certaine notable stars ordinarily noted in some Moneth of ●he yeare A thousand vnseen Fires and dries the Fields Scorches the Vallies parches-vp the Hills And often times into our panting hearts The bitter Fits of burning Fevers darts And opposit the Cup the dropping Pleiades Bright-glistering Orion and the weeping Hyades Neuer almost look down on our aboad But that they stretch the Waters bounds abroad With Clowdy horror of their wrathfull frown Threatning again the guilty World to drown And to be brief sith the gilt azure Front Of Firmest Sphear hath scarce a spark vpon 't But poureth down-ward som apparant change Toward the Storing of the Worlds great Grange We may coniecture what hid powr is given T' infuse among vs from the other Seaven From each of those which for their vertuerare Th' Almighty placed in a proper Sphear Reiecting the Stoiks he sheweth that God as the first Cause doth order all things and what vse we should make of the force Course Light of the coelesti all bodies Not that as Stoiks I intend to tye With Iron Chains of strong Necessitie Th' Eternal's hands and his free feet enstock In Destinies hard Diamantin Rock I hold that God as The first Cause hath giv'n Light Course and Force to all the Lamps of Heav'n That still he guides them and his Providence Disposeth free their Fatall influence And that therefore the rather we belowe Should study all their Course and Force to knowe To th' end that seeing through our Parents Fall T' how many Tyrants we are waxen thrall Euer since first fond Womans blind Ambition Breaking made Adam break Heav'ns High-Commission We might vnpuff our Heart and bend our Knee T' appease with sighs Gods wrathfull Maiestie Beseeching him to turn away the storms Of Hail and Heat Plague Dearth and dreadfull Arms Which oft the angry Starrs with bad Aspects Threat to be falling on our stubborn necks To give vs Curbs to bridle th' ill proclivitie We are inclin'd-to by a hard Nativitie To pour som Water of his Grace to quench Our boyling Fleshes fell Concupiscence To calm our many passions spirituall tumours Sprung from corruption of our vicious humours Latonian Twinns Parents of Years and Months Heer proceeding to the second part of this book he treateth at large of the Sun and Moon Alas why hide you so your shining Fronts What nill you shew the splendor of your ray But through a Vail of mourning Clouds I pray I pray pul-off your mufflers and your moorning And let me see you in your native burning And my deer Muse by her eternall flight Shal spread as far the glory of your Light As you your selues run in alternat Ring Day after Night Night after Day to bring Thou radiant Coach-man running end-les course Of the Sun entring into the descriptiō wherof he confesseth that he knowes not well where to begin Fountain