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Israel's troubles and triumph, or, The history of their dangers in and deliverance out of Egypt as it is recorded by Moses in Exod. and turned into English verse by George Lesly.
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Lesly, George, d. 1701.
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1699
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Wing L1176; ESTC R30934
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' doptive Mother to displease He sees and hears their Miseries and cries Without concern Court Gaudy Butterflies Dazled his youthful Eyes the silken Nets Of honour wreath him so that he forgets Himself his name and for some time confin'd His heart and hands from that he had design'd But all those charms were loathsome when he spy'd A wounded Hebrew of which wound he dy'd Bathed in Blood What Slave said he none by Must these men work and yet your Victims lye Thy life shall pay for his this fatal Dart Thrown by my hand shall pierce thy env'ous heart And shall expel thy Soul that all may see The just reward of this thy cruelty Return'd to Court his grief next night did break His wonted rest he must rise and go back To see his friends and to suppress their foes Thus did commence his hardships and his woes Night-Tapers were not yet extinguished Nor Titan started from his watry bed When he in haste unto the Kilns repairs With pensive mind and head perplext with cares About his Brethrens usage Bondage snares He comes and sees a sad amazing sight Two Jews in hot dispute and fiercer fight With whom he mildly did expostulate About the rise of their unkind debate Say'ng is it not enough that en'mies beat Kill and abuse you this unnat'ral heat Will work your ruin He that gave the cause Said you begin too soon to frame new Laws What must a beardless stripling be our Judge Who is more fit with us to be a drudge If that suffice to expiate his crime Committed yesterday about this time ' When Heav'n designs for men things great and good ' They are despis'd because not understood ' Moses is sent to free them from their woes ' Yet they 're the first proclaim themselves his foes ' That scorn his Counsel threat'ning to declare ' How Pharaoh's Servants by him treated are This like a rapid Cataract o'reflow'd His Soul with fear which his sad count'nance show'd Who sighing from a bleeding heart thus said The thing is known alas I am betray'd Pharoah will hear 't who me already hates I will not fall into his hands the fates Shall guide my wandring steps none knows what he Who only knows events will do with me His Providence may find a safer place VVith Foreigners perhaps of milder Race VVhose pity will preserve me from disgrace Egypt Farewel He is no sooner gone But his escape unto the King is flown And cause assign'd which they thus aggravate This is the fruit of pity our poor State VVill quickly dwindle to an empty name Unless you find out means to quench this flame It is unsufferable Our great Monarch's blood VVill be as cheap if they be not withstood And we their slaves The King enraged said Hark! foolish Girl your Son so magnify'd Is turn'd already Traytor to my Crown Slights your Relation Favours doth disown My Subjects he hath killed for their care No man can tell what his pretensions are But I 'll prevent him lest he go too far His death when found shall let the Hebrews see That dreams are vain their visions fallacy And that their famed God may sometimes lie Strict search is made for him about the Court City and Suburbs where he did resort But all in vain his Angel-Providence Before next light convey'd him far from thence And made him strange invisible to all VVho sought his blood who sought his Nations fall The Desart now 's his Inn the Rocks his Bed He must no more with delicates be fed But travel hard and eat such nat'ral fare As by kind Sol and Earth produced are Lemmons and Chase-nuts Mellons Mangoes Rice Oranges Almonds Nutmegs and their Spice His Drink the Milk of Coco's mixt with Wine That thro Earth's bosom secretly doth twine 'A gen'rous Breast is equally content ' With Plenty Poverty or Banishment He sings of his adventures by the Well Near unto which the Midian Priest did dwell He sings his Birth his Cradle Rapid Nile He sings his rescue with a pleasant smile The Princess fondness and her Father's care He sings the cause why all these blasted were And then the quiet of a Hermit-life Free from the cares at Court and Country strife The joys accruing by a virtuous wife This Jethro's Daughter heard whose daily care Was that their Herds and Flocks well water'd were Tho to their grief they often were constrain'd To wait the rising of the VVell when drain'd By surly Swains who with their Cattle came Because that water had the praise of fame 'Twixt frown and smile this noble Soul disdain'd To see the daily wrongs the Maids sustain'd He said dull Souls is this your carriage To these fair Nymphs Doth neither Sex nor Age Nor beauty charm you Will you ne'er be brave And shew that Shepherds scorn both Clown and Knave Cold Mists and Dews their florid beauties break When Frost and Hail your Faces fairer make For shame forbear if you be Great Pan's race Fill up the Troughs and give these Maidens place Sir we are yours since they with you find grace The Shepherdesses soon dispatched are Who hastening home the first that did appear Was the old Priest whose fears dispersed were What! come so early are the Flocks all well You look as if you hadsome News to tell Yes Reverend Sir a noble Personage Of aspect fair courteous above his Age By 's Habit nothing else Egyptian Drew all our water after we began And curb'd our Rivals for their insolence VVhere is the Hero stood in your defence ' He 's great and good the Gods themselves you know ' Have Human Shapes and Actions when below Haste to the Well he may â—…em thence remove And say our Parents must requite his love Arm'd with Command they ran in winged haste To their deliverer and him thus addrest Fair stranger we such favours thought was due From every Swain much more from such as you VVho for the matchless Glories of your face Your sprightly looks your grave and graceful pace My justly claim precedence of your race VVe home-bred bashful wenches went away VVithout thanks giv'n not knowing what to say But coming timely home we did relate To our old Father Raguel our fate How you our quarrel boldly did debate Water'd our Flocks and bid us all adieu Who said I blush to hear such things from you Ingratitude makes all things black you know Go say I 'm restless till I see his face T' excuse your rudeness know his name and race ' The Rosie morn such Beauties ne're display'd ' Such blushes and such smiles as did the Maid ' And Stranger who reciprocally dart ' Equal desires as if they 'd had on heart Bold with the charm he took and kist her hand Say'ng Fair Nymph since you 've received command To offer me this honour I will go As they desire my name and race I 'll shew That and much more I to you beauty owe. ' The sighs the smiles and the endearing strains '
The Horse shall leave his prancing and his head Shall giddy turn run round and fall down dead Asses shall bray and Camels breathe their last And dizzy'd Sheep themselves in Ditches cast The nimble Dogs shall howl forget their meat And teaming Ewes for pain their Breasts will beat All which will his unhappiness compleat He acts as if he knew not what I meant This shall not be a gen'ral punishment His only shall it feel my people's Beasts Must be exempted from these carrion Feasts They shall continue healthy fat as ever Mercy shall be the Skreen by which I 'll sever Their Herds and Flocks from thine that thou mayst see He must be loser that opposeth me All 's done and yet his heart doth harder grow Heav'n must him wonders more and greater shew ' If Souldiers when their Breaches open lye ' Can neither them defend nor fortify ' Do still refuse to make a fair surrender ' On honourable terms despise the tender ' Of Lives and Arms or what else is thought fit 'To grant the next resolve is storming it ' With res'lute bravery so that they may know From Justice what they did to Mercy owe. Thus Heav'n proceeds against him when secure Moses nor Aaron must make overture But suddenly call out a fixt Brigade Of Granadiers who ne'er yet mercy had Where Justice was Commander Water Earth Are both too mild the Tyrants settled wrath To mittigate the fiery element Must act its part in Pharaoh's punishment I 'll give no warning Go and Cinders take Out of the Furnace of which you shall make Large Hand granado's and them upward throw Which kindling there shall ashes turn below Ashes that may breed Boils on Beast and Man Then let his wise men cure them if they can They throw it 's done the dusty ashes fell The Magi cry we ne'er saw such a spell For they like Causticks such Blisters made Such Boils and Blains as Egypt never had The Sorcerers for shame pulled in their Crests Because their Boils grew on their Heads Hands and Breasts By which their Monarch might most plainly see That it was no enchantment but decree For their destruction Yet the blinded man Acted by God persists as he began Not mov'd by Blood Frogs Lice nor Flies nor Murrain The Boils and Scabs do not his pride restrain This angry Heav'n resents and gives command To Moses saying Early rise and stand Before the King to morrow ' nd let him know That Jacobs God will have his Servants go To sacrifice Bid him look to his State I will no more with him Capitulate But one great plague after another send Until his pride with 's life is at an end And Kingdom ruin'd that the world may see There 's none on Earth hath equal pow'r with me The Murrain I will turn to pestilence That he and his may death receive from thence His stubborness admits of no suspence My first plague could his pride have conquered Second or third but all by me forbid Struck gently that his case might warning be To all are haughty stubborn false as he Each Tyrant shall receive this Tyrants doom Either in this or in the world to come Tell him he holds of me his Crown His rise Was to inform the faithful and the wise Of my great pow'r and mercy that they may Tremble at that and for this ever pray Thinks he fond man that I can always see And not redress my peoples misery No he shall find about this time to morrow The Heav'ns arm to magnify his sorrow Clouds dark and pregnant fortifi'd with Thunder A stormy shower shall hurl down to his wonder Hail of such unknown bigness and such weight As him and his with present Death will fright Bid him his Wise men call to assign the cause Of such a rupture in great Nature's Laws Ask if they can at once raise such a show'r As may begin such day and end such hour And in that time surround th' Egyptian Coasts Then bid defiance to the Lord of Hosts Go now proud Pharaoh try thy utmost skill To save thy people from this threatned ill If thou wilt yet be wise thy Cattle gather Out of the Fields since thou art Egypt's Father Pity thy Children with their Herds and Flocks Afford them shelter from the frozen Rocks Else by this plague such Slaughters will be seen Thro all thy Land as never yet hath been ' Behold the natures of the obdurate ' Tho all of them slight mercy yet ill fate ' Makes some distinction fear of punishment ' Forceth a few into acknowledgment ' Of pow'r divine and for their safety cry ' Whilst others fear'd and mad do still deny ' Obedience to their great superior ' Hush 't will be o'er said they t is but a shower Impending woe mov'd such as yet had sence To view the Fields in haste and bring from thence Shepherds and Herdsmen saying quickly fly Home with your herds and flocks or all must die Moses hath said it and we do believe That he from God not Satan did receive His Rod his fearful Rod hath such things done As show they were not wrought by him alone However we will for our safety try 'T is no great trouble if we live or dye Others who no regard had for his word Said what Egyptians believe the Lord Faint-hearted Fools unworthy such a King Who laughs at all the Messages they bring From their fam'd Gods our herds shall stay and graze And so like men we 'll dare him to his face Unheard of boldness said the Thunderer Unto his Servant now my mercy's ear Is shut for ever Therefore lift thy hand To Heaven I must send down a starry band Of Bow-men with such Bullets as shall beat Out of their hearts this irreligious heat Man Beast and Herbs thro all the Land shall feel The weighty Stones the keenness of my Steel Make no delay to Heav'n thy Rod stretch forth That I may send from the East West South and North Thunder and Hail and Fire these all around Shall fly aloft and run upon the ground With so great fury that the Waters face Bright horrour shall adorn and ev'ry place Look like it self transparent as the Fire And mixed Hail as if they were entire One body bright yet terrible to see Two el'ments joyn'd that never did agree The Rod's lift up then from the Clouds a voice Rendeth the Sky with such a dreadful noise That Earth tho heavy cannot longer stand But reels and staggers when it feels the hand Omnipotent who gave it its first base It gapes and opens so that there 's no place For Pasture Corn for Cattle Herbs and Trees All sink away unto their destinies Only in Goshen all-wise Providence Against this storm maketh a stout defence He that the troubled Ocean commands Forbid the Hail to fall upon those Lands This unlook'd for this great discrimination Betwixt th' Egyptian and the Hebrew Nation Made the King serious who doth now begin With forc'd