and his store That man I say I le punish seuen times more Because thou shalt not need that thing to feare My badge diuine for euer thou shalt weare A fearefull Signe which whosoere shall eye But in thy face my dradfull Iudgements spye Shall see and know that I haue markt thy hide And branded thee from all the world beside Great powerfull God Creator of this Ball The heauens and earth the firmaments and all How good art thou in euery action iust Thou Habels blood beholdest in the dust Com'st downe below examinst first the deed To Iudgement then thou dost at large proceed And lest the same might chance neglected bee Thou dost thy selfe the execution see Searing Cains conscience body heart and liuer And marking him as now I tolde for euer Yet holy Father let vs know the pith The Badge and Signe that thou didst brand him with Some men there be which thinke the marke of Caine Was that foule horrid irkesome fearefull paine Scabd Leprosie or wofull falling Euill As if possessed with some spirit or Diuell Or shiuering shaking of his sturdy ioynts That euery way his body reels and poynts Feares quauers trembles in that dradfull case As most of vs haue seene before our face Or some such thing apparant to ech eye That euery man may his foule fact espye Yet what it was who sound this vaste abbisse When Reason blinde leades euery man amisse T is true the world in euery States Dominion Is now of this and then of that opinion For none aliue which on the Earth do well Can shew what 't was or yet for certaine tell But by coniecture likelyest to be guest The ground and sum of all mens Iudgements best Reueald by studie in the Arts diuine To all the Sisters learned Muses nine That Cains most fearefull punishment and marke For raking vp his brother in the darke Was that his skin was all to blackensse turn'd Like to a Coale within the fire halfe burnd simile Ah cursed Caine the scourge of all thy Race Now thou hast got a blacke and murdring face For God aboue in Iustice hath ordaind Thy ofspring all should to this day be staynd Vnto the griefe and terror of their Soules For laying Habel in could dusty mouldes No other cause the world could euer tell To make them looke as if they came from hell Amongst the diuels at euery step to start The fatall place where thou vile wretch now art Some haue alledg'd out of their brains and wit Alex Prob. Celius Rhod. The Sun himselfe to be the cause of it That in the hot and torrid burning Zone Vnder the line there Phaeton alone Must driue his Cart and teame a little hire Or else againe the world would be on fire The heate extreame their bodyes doth enflame Their flesh it parches and their stomackes tame Their blood it dries their humors all adust As if their skin were ouergrowne with rust If this be true how is it that there bee In Africa America to see Vnder the line both people white and faire As many men that now in Europe are There borne and bred by courteous Natures lawes A pregnant Signe that cannot be cause Againe the Sun with labour great and paine If that the line but once he doth attaine Though to the Earth he seemeth somewhat nigher Yet in his Spheare he mounted farre more higher More temperate there the people liue and well Then do the men vnder the Tropicks dwell And twice a yeere he vseth there to burne When once a yeere i' th Tropicks serues his turne And other men haue other Reasons found To shew the cause which to like purpose sound There be that say the drynesse of the Soile May be the cause that doth their bodies foyle To make them looke worse then a Colliers Elfe simile Much like the Diuell and cursed Cuine himselfe From top to toe from heade vnto the foote As if with grease they were besmeard and soote Vnto such men I would but know and try If the Libian desarts be not far more dry Whose people parch't the very Sun doth rost Yet are they white or tawny at the most The want of water with the Sun and Sand May be the cause that they so much are tand But yet in Negro land the people haue Of water store in euery ditch and Caue For Niger great euen from his very source Iust through the midst hath euer kept his course And all the land on euery side and round Euen like to Nilus ouerflowes the ground The drinesse of their Reason we may waue Because t is knowne they water plenty haue Those that ascribe it proper to the Earth And see vs there euen from our very birth How we and they are borne within one place And we are white and they are black and base May sit them downe and well may take a pause To thinke with vs that cannot be the cause And some there be which to this day affirme That t is the blacknesse of the Parents sperme To be the cause and for a ground it take But how came they so close a search to make If it be black which some men haue denide How came it so Imprinted on their hide That in their youth iust in their prime and bud Then is their skin as red as any bloud And in their age when perisht is their sight From top to toe they are all yellow quight And if you try to throw one in a ditch To wash him white hee 'le be as black as pitch Others there be aboue the clouds do fly To search the secrets of their destiny Whose wits and learning sure must wander farre To a Constellation or some fixed Starre I would the cause they would vnto vs teach And not to flye to farre aboue our reach Vntill which time I shall be well content To thinke it was Gods righteous punishment On cursed Caine and all his of-spring lewd For doing that which I before haue shew'd I must confesse vpon the vpper face Of this wide Ball almost in euery place Variety we see in strange attire Complexion Colour Nature and Desire Shape gesture face the belly limbs and back But none more differ then the white from black The Indian borne there where the Sun doth rise Is palefast Ashey with red flaming eyes The American which we but late haue seene Is Oliue coloured of a sad french greene The Libian dusky in his parched skin The More all tawny both without and in The Southerne man a black deformed Elfe The Northerne white like vnto God himselfe And thus we see euen still vpon the earth God shewes his workes both in our liues and birth The fatall place where Habels bloud washed Esay 7. 8. Is call'd Damascus Arams chiefest head Iem of the Earth the eye of all the East Pearle of the World where Iupiter did rest In Siria Land the goodliest Citty seene And sister to Ierusalem the Queene Eze. 23. 4 Sweete Parragon a
longer then he could his Enuy hide But with a blow on Habels head downe right With both his hands and all his maine and might The Leauer laid him in that wofull case That Bloud and Braines flew round about the place And least his deede might afterwards be found He takes his body rakes it vp i' th ground Damn'd Miscreant vnworthy that thine eyes Should once behold the cleerenesse of the skyes What hast thou done vnto thy brother deare That thou shouldst thus about the corne fields leere And watch a time to worke that fearefull fact For which t were pitty but thy neck were crack't What art now the better to haue seene His crimson bloud bedew'e the ground all greene His Body mangled Skull to pieces beate How canst thou Vengeance from the Heauens defeate Dost thou not see that all begins to lowre The Clouds to wrack vpon thy head to powre Downe sulphery flames of hot consuming fiers The Sunne for shame his glorious face retires All to grow darke the singing birds to weepe To see man brought thus to his latest sleepe The Furies loose the Diuels from Hell to roule Aboue the Earth gaping for this thy Soule How canst thou thinke to hide thy cursed deede When as the Foules within the Aire which breede The creatures all presented to thy sight Will murthers shew and bring the truth to light Nemesis the Goddesse of Reuenge Acts 28. 4. Great Nemesis the Lady of the skyes Without a Maske before her nimble eyes On Pegasus the Horse of Fame doth ride With Iustice Sword close to her valliant side Scowres through the Aire iust at that instant time When as the steame of Habels bloud did clime Vp to the Heauens like to a smoke ascending simile The Clouds in sunder all betearing rending Casts downe her lookes vpon his crimson bloud Beholds the gore like to a streaming floud No longer stayes but mounteth vp the Throne Simile Of God aboue making a fearefull mone Tells all the cause discouereth this thy deede Desires iust Iudgement on thy selfe and seede Imploreth all the sacred powers diuine That they would now but with her selfe combine And grant her leaue to take Reuenge on this So foule a murther as thy fact now is Behold a voyce downe from the God of might Reuenger of the poore mans cause and right Rom. 12. 19. That seldome sleepes but in the Heauens he heares The wrongs oppressions mournefull cryes and teares Of Innocents by greatnesse ouersway'd By Guile and Treason oftentimes betray'd Brought to their ends by the malicious guilt Of Enuious men that others bloud haue spilt Wasted their State consum'd their lands and life Swallow'd their goods contending still in strife The sacred voyce out from a thunder-clap Of dradfull lightnings at that hard mishap Thus spake to Caine hard by that fat all place Where Habels bloud lay couered in that case With clods and moulds as euen but late I told By that vile Wretch ouer his body rold Come tell me Caine the thing I shall demand Seeke not to hunt on no excuses stand Halt not before me as of late thou didst When a false heart vnder thy coate thou hidst What mad'st thou heere thus wandring all alone Where is thy brother whither is he gone What is become of Habel lou'd thee deare That next thy Parents was to thee more neare Then all the World and all that therein moued Whos 's faithfull mind thy presence euer loued The gracelesse Villaine impudently bold As if he scorn'd of God to be controld Or ask't a question from that heauenly lip This answere straight out of his mouth let slip I cannot tell for what haue I to doe To take account of Habell yea or no Or in his presence to be tyde to stay Within the fields as heretofore to play T is like enough if that the Sun had shin'd About the foulds you might him chance to find It may be that hee 's feeding of his sheepe Vpon the downes or fallen fast asleepe Or else you may go looke a little deeper How can I tell am I my brothers keeper Blasphemous Wretch what hast thou done quoth God Art not afraid of my reuenging Rod But thus to spill thy deerest brothers blood Vpon the ground in thy inhumane moode Why Varlet hast thou to my face belide How canst thou thinke thy fact from me to hide When as the bloud of this thy Brother shed For Vengeance iust vpon thy murdering head Cryde from the Earth making afearefull moane With pitteous shreeks ascended vp my throne That downe I came from heauen aboue with speed To giue thee Iudgement for thy damned deed Curst therefore art thou in thy chiefest worth Curst from the heauens and curst from all the Earth That kindnesse shewd her mouth hath opened wide Within her wombe thy brothers blood to hide Hereafter now when thou the ground shalt till It shall not yeeld not yet thy barnes shall fill With that encrease which heretofore it gaue To thy content that thou desirdst to haue A vacabond vpon the spatious face Of all the earth Roming from place to place With euery Rascall thou shalt now cologue Base Runnagate no better then a Rogue Thy dayes shall waste thy glasse shall hourely run Vntill the thread of this thy life be spun Content with peace quiet thou shalt haue neuer A Scared conscience shall torment thee euer And in the end euen in thy fearefull sight Hels Furies curst before thy face shall light The damned diuels with all their hideous rout Shall wind thee in hemming thy Soule about Attending on thee till thine eyes be shut And so deuoure thee in their greedy gut The sturdy villaine with these last words stroke In woefull feare his heart is welnigh broke Despairing quite of any helpe at all To this sad speech doth most prophanely fall O who shall rid me from these torments fell Hacht in the Bowels of the deepest Hell Nurc't in my brest harbourde within my hart That now I feele much to my paine and smart The Furies damn'd about my head I heare My punishment is more then I can beare A vacabond I am cast out this day Both from the earth and from thy face for aye I shall be hid from all the world beside Wretch that I am which know not where to bide My Father friends will euer after hate The foule disaster of my enuious fate And whosoeuer finds me one or other Will murder me as I haue done my brother The voyce Diuine left him not thus alone In Desperation making of his mone But from the Clouds yet once againe it spake Perchance for Habel or his Fathers sake Goe where thou wilt for he that dares to lay Reuenging hands vpon thy head for aye Vpon the earth to murder slay or kill Which in his wrath shall seeke thy blood to spill That damned wreth both in his goods and fame In life and death and all that thou canst name Euen in his lands his basket
Iustice alwayes in mans life or death Will yet at length her flaming sword vnsheath Lamech the fifth from his own bloud descended With one hard blow his vitall life straight ended Iust Iudgement of the Highest euer still To make the blind to execute his will That though man runs vnpunisht all his dayes Yet in the end he payes him many wayes And when the least of all his time he thinkes Then is he caught vnder Gods vengeance sinkes For as the Rabbyes of the Iewes do tell This monster Caine about these parts did dwell And was the first that euer City built Led thereunto by his fowle murthering guilt More to secure him in so strong a Wall And shun the curse then any thing at all Euen where sinne most of all the earth was bred He layes him downe and makes that place his bed There wallowes tumbles spends his aged dayes In wicked workes ten thousand kind of wayes When at the last he for a beast was slaine By Heauens iust Act in treacherous Tubal-Caine Guiding the hand of Lamech being blind To murther Caine against his fathers mind And Tubal-caine had his iust Guerdon paid For Lamech struck him that all dead he laid His bleeding corps vpon the cold greene ground What they wrought others they themselues haue found The City Caine by Henocks name did call His eldest Sonne whom most he lou'd of all Some say the same by Libanus was fram'd But afterwards by others Oenus nam'd And some affirme the building Iesca leed Great Iebab Mauly were his only deede And Tehe Celet Cities sixe in number Were raiz'd by him with such a world of lumber As in our dayes those that behold the place May see their ruines in Caines wofull case You Cities all how were you fram'd at first But in the sin of wicked Caine accurst Was not your Morter tempered with the bloud And slaughter vile of righteous Abel good Is not the Earth her bowels rent and torne Your walls to build and lofty towers adorne Great Thetis lap is all beslic't and cut To bring forth treasures in your wombs to put The lofty Ceders Timber Trees of worth Are hack't downe flat and leuel'd with the earth Base gold and siluer that mans mind appals Where doth it rust but in your cankred walls How are your streetes with Paracides bepestred With noysome Air contagious fowly festred So banesull growne that from you all or some Hels Antechrist the Prince of Diuels shall come So Babilon the tyrant of the earth Dan. 7. 8. And Rome Vsurper since her Popish birth How were they built but in the crimson gore Of thrice ten millions of mens soules and more Nimrod the hunter of Gods fearefull flock First raiz'd that Tower which seem'd the heauens to mock By tyranizing on the feeble weake As in my worke heereafrer I shall speake And Romulus the monster of his age How did he murther in his barbarous rage His brother Remus in whose scarlet bloud Rome first was built by Tybers treacherous floud And since the sincke of superstition made For euery wretch within her walls to trade Idoll of Nature sprang at first from hell As afterwards I shall haue cause to tell But what make we deareMuse within the walls Oftraiterous Townes and Citties full of braules Where nothing sauours wholesome sweete and faire But earthly bad to putrifie the Ayre Let vs retire into the country coates To heare Heauens birds to chirp ten thousand noates About the woods on euery side along Sweete Nightingales to warble forth their song The Lennet Larke the Blackbird Thrush and all How night and day their smooth sweete tunes do call Melodiously vnto the God offame To sound forth prayses to his glorions name And where our Grandsire Adam last was left When Caine his brother of his life bereft Whether the Soule of Habels body slaine By the curst hand of treacherous damned Caine His Genius spirit Angell bloud or Saint Or God himselfe did Adam first acquaint With the sad newes of this so vile a deede Or that suspicion in his brest might breede Abroad he walkes and findes the bleeding quarre Of Habell slaine vnder a fatall starre Weepes and laments grieues to haue lost his sonne Caine Daughter Brother all of them vndone He louing Father piles a wondrous heape Collossus like of massy stones not cheape Simile And with much care his dying name to saue Builds a huge Mount vpon his crimson graue From thence as one distracted for the time With deepe conceit of this so foule a crime Surcharg'd with sorrow ouergrowne with griefe He hates the place as Author of it chiefe And with his Wife and all his children left He bids adien vnto the ground and wept Trauels along like to a Pilgrim poore Or as a Hermit with small litlle store Simile Till at the last it was their chance to stay In Canaan and there their bones to lay As in this rugged ragged rurall verse I hope ere long diuinely to rehearse But sacred Muse here we must stay awhile seth borne And with Sethes birth the posting time beguile That sweete borne Babe of Heauen it selfe befriended From whom the Church is lineally descended Iust as a hundred twenty yeares and ten Of Adams age into this world of men He was begat Tipe of that promist Lambe To saue the World into the World first came Preaching Repentance all our liues to mend Whose Gouernment shall neuer earthly end Vntill the Trumpet in the skyes shall sound To summon soules from their dead sleepe i' th ground How did the Heauens euen in his infant birth Reioyce and dance about the Ball i' th earth Melodiously their sacred Organs went To see young Seth into the World thus sent In Minor yeeres their fortunes on him showred And on his head their deerest blessings powred Enduing him with towardnes and wit That on his temples all the Arts did sit About his Browes the Lawrell wreath haue wound As the first man that euer letters found How did the Saints at this thy Fortune smile True Isralite in whom there is no guile Ioh. 1. 47. Thy manly dayes they were not ouersway'd Gen. 4. 26. Chap. 5. 34. With fond conceits but in Religion stay'd Enuy Opression Lust and Rauine base Within thy heart could neuer find a place Nor yet the thought of any deede vnkind Could once be found to harbour in thy mind But full of peace like to thy father deare Or God himselfe in all his workes most cleare Simile So art thou blest to bring forth such a Sonne From whom the Church successiuely must runne True Picture of thy Body Mind and Thought Enoch the man to God himselfe that brought Enoch borne Thee sacred flock which wandring almost lame And taught them first to call vpon his Name By prayer preaching Heauen blest dearest Muse Which on the Sabaoth they did dayly vse Yet some do say the Church againe did fall In this mans dayes to wicked
could scarce support containe The Inundation of his furious raine But sunke shranke in vnder the water diues As loath to saue the wicked treacherous liues Of hatefull men that neuer liu'd at Rest But when they bloud spilt on her crimson brest This was the cause which made the Clouds to drop Sad sudden showres downe from Dame Natures shop And all the fountaines of the greatest deepe To be broke vp o're all the Earth to creepe Gen. 7. 11. Heauens Windowes ope the ratling Aire to sound With fearefull stormes like to a Chaos drown'd simile Rumbling and tumbling iumbling all together As we haue seene in sudden sulphery Weather Gods voyce to teare Heauens Curtaine to our wonder Psal 29. 23 Out from a darke black horrid dreadfull thunder But yet before God doth to Iudgement passe Esa 40. 67 simile 1. pet 1. 24. psal 90 56 simile He meditates and sees that mans but grasse Like to a flower that in the morning cut Is yet ere night with their dead bodies put Into the Graue and so consume together Euen in a Moment changed hither thither Dride vp to nothing by Heauens altring time When yesterday they flourisht in their prime God re-ascends and lets the world alone Takes Enoch vp that liu'd therein to mone Waile grieue lament the abuses which he saw Committed were against the conscience law Of noble Nature in that sinfull age Small hope to mend when all could not asswage The furious current of their streame and tide Too good sweete Saint with these foule men to bide The Angels bright and all the powers diuine Enoch taken vp Before thy face in glittring Robes do shine Their number more then are the stars and sands With golden Censors in their pure white hands Winged with Fame to mount the highest Heauens Ranck 't all in order mustring iust by seauens Descending sweetely on thy louely Brest To bring both soule and body to their Rest By safe conueyance in a Charriot fram'd Of burnisht gold the Horse with loue inflam'd Mount vp the Aire with stately stomack fierce And at the last the brazen Wall doth pierce Where like a Prince that Paradise had gain'd Of Eue and Adam thou art entertain'd With farre more loue within so braue a field Then all the World and all therein can yeeld There thou dost liue when they are wrapt in dust Gen. 5. 24 Jude 14. The seuenth from them Tipe of our Sabaoth iust Now thou art gone what can be heere expected But Enuy Hate with all good deedes neglected Pride Cruelty Extortion ouer-rules Making the Earth Vermilion dyde with gules And sable shewes of foule inueterate spleene Hatch 't in Hels vaults whose like was neuer seene Before this time so strongly to abound And ouerflow the Vniuersall Round As that small hope there is at all to mend Till God to Iustice shall from Heauen descend And view the world not as he made it first But as it is poluted stain'd accurst Contagious vile in Caines adulterous race And ouerspred with all damn'd actions base When what we should not in our pawes we get As bad and worse as ere I told you yet But cease deare Muse for thou at large hast layd Their sins wide ope and all their spight betray'd Vnmask 't the Browes of all that wicked Rout Which diu'd to Hell to bring their plots about The rest preseru'd I meane those Children deare That liue in Loue and worshipt God in feare Whose bloud ascended Mounted vp the skye And for iust Vengeance at his Throne did cry God heares their moane and re-descends againe And sees that Sin the totall Earth did staine In stead of Flowers and wholesome pleasing fruite He finds but Weedes and barbarous actions bruite The weake poore man still by the greater cast In far worse case then when he view'd it last Now Cruelty doth grinde the Infants face To swallow all with griping proiects base Corruption Bribes the World it selfe doth fill From Sodoms Vale to Sions sacred Hill Comes neere the Church to enter in her walls To fill it full of deadly poysoned galls But one man liuing on this spacious Round From Sols first sight till where his teame is drown'd In all the Earths large goodly plenteous scope From Colmogro vnto the Cape of Hope That God could find to haue an vpright heart Which from his Loue could not be drawne to start By ill examples of that froward Race Which ouerswarm'd the World in euery place With Guile Oppression Cruelty and Hate As in this Worke I told you of but late Him God selects and graciously culs out From the rude Rabble of that murdring Rout Gen. 19. 16 24 25 Psal 34 6 7 19. 22 Psal 83. 35. As in the dayes when Sodom was destroy'd Iust righteous Lot was not at all annoy'd But well brought forth by Angels safe and sure Preserued was from their curst hands impure The harmelesse man may suffer extreme wrong Amongst those men that are perchance too strong In Wealth Friends Kindred Combination Coate To draw slye oathes to cut the poore mans throate Yet this may be a comfort to his soule For all their tricks and treacherous actions foule Damn'd Pollicies vnto their vtmost might Although he fall he shall not perish quight So art thou iust in all thy works O God When the World feeles the burden of thy rod And heauy weight of thy all powerfull hands The vpright man still at thy mercy stands Although sometimes thou shewst thy hinder part To let him taste that which his mind thinks tart Exo. 33. 23 1. Pet. 4. 12 13 14. Thes 4. 6 Esay 26. 16 17 18 19 Yet as thy Word in many places saith Thou dost but try to proue his vtmost faith And when oft-times his courage failes and sinkes As brought neere to their dangerous pits and brinkes Then dost thou keepe him from their murdring pawer Base cruell curst deuouring griping iawes And full of Loue compassion pitty grace Vnuailsthy Browes to shew thy glorious Face Ah dearest God euen whilst my Muse was working Vpon this Place how were my foes all lurking About my house to vndermine my state With secret traines close to my dores and gate But thou didst wake when I was fast asleepe To make me know that thou dost alwayes keepe Thy sheepe from danger of a Wolfe most fierce Which in my bloud next to my state would pierce Then didst thou giue me at that instant howre A Vision strange to shew thy secret powre That in a dreame when once my body wak't My inward thoughts and all my sences shak't But Reason guides and swayes me downe her streame To make me prize it boue an vsuall dreame Whereat I went lockt vp my dores most sure To keepe me safe from treacherous pawes impure Which neuer yet in all my life was done The hatefull lawes of cruell foes to shun But Heauenly God when least I knew ofharme How did they then about my house all swarme On