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B00633
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A theater of delightfull recreation.
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Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?
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STC 21408; ESTC S94970
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in his bones appeare That worlds commaunder while he liued here Come Nero with a sheete about thine eares See who thy tyrannie regards or feares Achilles rowse thy selfe from out thy toombe And see what man will giue thy weapon roome Hector with that renowmed Hanniball What are you now but rotten fellowes all You had a time of greatnesse now t is fled And euen as such had neuer bin y' are dead I knew you when with dread you made men bow Then dy'd turn'd dust and so are nothing now Euen with the worlds creation I began And haue seene all the course of sinfull man His state in Paradise that glorious place His disobedience and his fall from grace His banishment forth Eden for offending And so from age to age all times descending Vntill this instant yeare sixe hundred fiue All that are dead and euery one aliue Is in my register I note them well There 's not a deed they do but Time can tell Earth is a stage and mortals actors be That play before my fellow Death and me All tragedies for not a day you haue But some are kild and caried to their graue There goes the King from his imperiall seate Euen with the begger for to be wormes meate There noble and ignoble foole and wise Shall lie and rot till the first dead man rise And there all that haue bin do certaine show That all which are to come must thither go What one man likes another lothes VNto himselfe as each man hath his mind Seuerall distinguisht in his appetites So are his thoughts as variously inclind One liking these another those delights Some greedy hindes account the greatest pleasure Onely consisteth in the gaining treasure One loues no life but where the trumpet sterne Breaths deadly summons to oppressiue armes Caring not where gainst Spaniard or the Kerne So he may liue in martiall hot alarmes He with Tiphous dares to giue aduenture To raise a mount the frame of heauen to enter One being wrapt with forraine admiration Of lawes of customes and of peoples natures Longing to know the climates variation Of monuments remote to see the statures How dangerous so ere delights to range Till proofe approues the worst in greatest change Others to chase the timerous Hart delight Cheering the hounds with hornes rechanting blast When some applaud the towring Faulcons flight That now hath ceaz'd the moore-bred Mallard fast And some account as lost to be that day When their estates they hazard not at play But thou Calliope my Muse diuine Mak'st me neglect these fruitlesse vanities Thou doest my spirits from grosse earth refine Making my thoughts at future glory rise For when the hinde the souldier wandring knight Starues fals clay clothes shall poesie giue light The Araignement of the world at Gods generall Sessions WHen that great day of sinners dolefull feare The day of iudgement for the quicke dead Shall bring to doome all deeds that euer were With terror trembling horror woe and dread The world shall be reduc'd to ashes quite And all flesh stand amaz'd to see that sight What man by tongue or pen can make it knowne The horror that mens hearts shall then partake When the great Iudge of men sits on his throne And euery one a iust account must make In this distressed state what 's to be done Which way shall sinners flie or whither runne The Prophets do giue witnesse to this day And haue affirmed it will certaine come Our Sauiour warneth vs to watch and pray With preparation for that fearfull doome When sounding trumpe shall summon to appeare And yeeld account what liues we liued here Both Death and Nature shall amazed stand To see reuiued humane creatures rise The sea shall yeeld her dead as well as land All those that in her watery bosome lies Must make apparance at the Angels sound As well as they had graues vpon the ground Then shall each secret conscience be reuealed The bookes of humane life be opened wide Not the least thought can passe away concealed But all in publike knowledge shall abide All hidden things obscur'd within the hart And each receiue his merit and desart What can the sin-defiled creature say What aduocate will serue his case to pleade Since the vprightest man that liues this day Is debtor vnto hell and endlesse dread Worthy of nothing for his best done deeds If God in iustice gainst his sin proceeds O thou that freely doest of mercy saue Vprightest Iudge whom bribes cannot seduce Pardon of thee on my soules knees I craue My guilt is great and I haue no excuse Remember Lord thou didst to earth repaire Of sinfull man thou hadst such louing care Wilt thou permit O Lord thy grieuous paine Thy hunger thirst thy tortures wounds and death Shall all be spent on my poore soule in vaine Yea that same willing yeelding vp thy breath To God thy Father to procure my peace Shall vtterly in power and vertue cease Suffer not Lord the true effect to perish Of thy most bitter grieuous bloudy passion My fainting sprite thereby reuiue and cherish Thy bitter death 's my sweet'st consolation Mild Iesus I most meekly do intreate Shew mercy on me from thy iudgements seate Guiltie I am my guilt I do confesse Therefore I sigh and vnto thee retire Refuse me not thy mercies are not lesse Then when the theefe obtained his desire And sinfull Magdalene did fauour find Thy pitie is the same thou still as kind For in a danger so extreme as this To whom for succor might I safely flie To find assured comfort and not misse But vnto thee thou supreme of the skie Worthlesse my prayers to come before thy face Vnlesse thy mercy sit in iustice place Direct my feete that stray and wander wide And shadow me with thy protections wings Set me from goates vpon the right hand side And place me where thy Saints and Angels sings To speake thy praises with a heauenly voyce Where soule and body endlesse may reioyce FINIS