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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01341	Davids hainous sinne. Heartie repentance. Heavie punishment. By Thomas Fuller Master of Arts of Sidnye Colledge in Cambridge	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1631 (1631)	STC 11463; ESTC S102822	16,950	78

out-worne His name they'se beare in minde that are not borne 34 But he that gave this counsell did not speed Who speeding home on witlesse asse amaine Asse that for wit his rider did exceed 'Cause he his will at Court could not obtaine Did make his Will at home the peevish el●e Amongst his houshold parts his cursed pel●e Carefull of that but carelesse of himselfe 35 Oh suddaine thought of thy mortality Thou art not yet so thorough worne with age None in thy sace such Symptoms can espy Which should so neare approaching death praesage Thy state is not distempered with heate Thy working pulse doth moderatly beate All outward things seeme whole seeme all compleate 36 But ghostly is thy g●iefe thou that by treason Against thy Leige so lately wast combin'd Thy passions now rebell against thy Reason Reason that is the Soveraigne of thy minde And seeke for to disturbe it from the throne Strive strive to set these civill broyles at one Order thy selfe and let thy house alone 37 A chayne of hempe he to his necke made fast By tying of which knot hee did vntye The knot of Soule and Body and at last Stopping the passage of his breath thereby A passage for his Soule wide opened hee Thus traytors rather than they should goe free Themselves the hangmen of themselves will bee 38 His friends to balme his body spare no cost With spices seeking to perfume a sinke For certs I know their labour was but lost His rotten memory will ever stinke His soule thereby was nothing bettered Because his corps were bravely buried Tombes please the living profit not the dead 39 How many worthy Martyrs vilely slaine Made meate for fowles or for the fire made fuell Though ground they could not for a grave obtaine Were not lesse happy but their foes more cruell Vnburied bodies made not them unblest Their better halfe did finde an heavenly rest And doth injoy joyes not to be exprest 40 Leave we the Traytor thus vpon whose hearsse My Muse shall not a precious ●eare mis-spe●d Proceeding to bemoane in dolefull verse How two great bands with cruell blowes contend Whole clouds of arrowes made the skye to lowre Dissolv'd at length into a bloody showre Till Steele kill'd many wood did more devo●re 41 Oh let it not be publish't in the path That leads unto th' incestuous seed of Lot Tell not these tidings in the towne of Gath In Ascalon see ye proclaime it not Least these rejoyce at this calamity Who count your fame their greatest infamy Your wofull jarrs their wellcome melody 42 Had Rachel now reviv'd her sonnes to see Their bloody hands would make her heart to bleed Each a Benoni unto her would be Had Lea● liv'd to see herselfe agree'd To fall out with herselfe with teares most sure She would have made her tender eyes past cure Who ever wonn she must the losse endure 43 The conquest which her verdict long suspended Hover'd aloft not knowing where to light But at the last the lesser side befreinded With best successe the other put to flight More trusted a swift foote than a strong fist Most voices oft of Verity have mist Nor in most men doth Victory consist 44 The gracelesse sonne was plung'd in deepe distresse For earth his weight no longer would endure The angry heavens denied all accesse Vnto a wretch so wicked so impure At last the heavens and earth with one consent A middle place vnto the monster lent Above the earth beneath the firmament 45 His skittish Mule ran roving in the fields And up high hills downe dales o're woods did prance Seeming with neighing noyse and wanton heeles In token of great joy to sing and dance That now her maister she should beare no more An heauy bulke whose sinnes did weigh so sore Now rid of him that rid on her before 46 Cry Absolon cry Absolon amaine And let thy winged prayers pierce the skye Oh to the spring of pitty soone complaine That ne're is dammed up not drained dry Thy fault confesse his favour 〈◊〉 implore Much is thy misery his mercy more Thy want is great but greater is his store 47 Condemne thyselfe and he shall thee acquitt Doe thou but pray hee 'le pitty thy estate Confesse thy debt he will the same remit It never was too soone it s ne're to late Alas long sinners scarse at last relent Hee gives not all offenders to repent That granteth pardon to all penitent 48 Whilst thus his life suspended was on high Bold-ventrous loab opened his heart Heart where much treason lurked privily And peir'ct his body with a triple dart Then Crimson blades of grasse whereon he bleeds Did straitwayes dye and in their roome succeeds A fruitfull wildernesse of fruitlesse weeds 49. When David heard the Victory was gain'd But his sonne lost as Iordan waxing ranke Or'e flowes the land and scornes to be restrain'd To have his Tide ti'de in a narrow banke Surges of sorrow in his heart did rise And brake the watry sluces of his eyes Who lightned thus himselfe with heauy cryes 50 My sonne whose body had of grace the fill My sonne whose soule was so devoid of grace Without my knowledge and against my will My sonne in cause so bad so strange a place My sonne my sonne for which I most complaine I feare in soule as in the body slaine Would I might dye that thou migh'st live againe 51 Now when this griefe was swallow'd not digested The subjects ●lock't King David to restore Who in an instant love what they detested Detest in th' instant what they lo●'d before People like weather-cocks wav'd with the wind We constant in unconstancy may finde As time counts minutes so they change their mind 52 Amongst the rest that came the King to meete Lam●-●egd Mephibosheth but loyall hearted Was one that never washt his cloaths or ●eete Except with teares since David first departed Feete which by fall from nur●e● armes began To halt with him a child so fast she ran That he could never goe when growne a man 53. Not much unlike if it give no distaste That reall truths I doe with trifles match Whilst that my posting Muse with headlong haste Doth strive her rurall Layes for to dispatch Halting Invention for the want of heede And lame unjoynted lines from her proceede And seldome things done speedily doe speed 54. But here an vnexpected jarre arose Whilst people for most part in Prince contended Which grew from bitter words to bloody blowes The King quoth Iudah of our Tribe descended Hee of our flesh is flesh bone of our bone Nay answer'd Israel in the King wee owne Ten parts a single share is yours alone 55 Whilst sparkes of discord thus began to smoake To ●inde the bellowes Sheba did conspire Sheba that proudly did disdaine the yoke And blowing of a trumpet blew the fire Then those that claimed ten disdain'd all part In David taught by his seducing art They discontented to their tents depart 56

This Rebell Ioab whilst to quell he strives A nameles woman in the booke of life Her name is kept that kept so many lives Procur'd that he who stirred up the strife The body of the Common-wealth to rend From Prince the head whereon it did depend With head from body rent his life did end 57 By his death many Citizens surviv'd The losse of Traytors blood did prove their gaine Soone cea'st the flood of Discord thence deriv'd When they the factious fountaine did restraine This warre a vile man with a word did rayse Vnto his shame which to her endlesse prayse A worthy Woman with a word allaies 58 So in our land a noble Queene arose As we have heard our fathers oft relate A Maide yet Manly to confound her foes A Maide and yet a Mother to the State Which she weake like to crumbling bricke did finde Which strong as lasting marble she resign'd Gold and Gods worship both by her refin'd 59 She having florished in great renowne In spite of power and policy of Spaine Did change her earthly for an heavenly crowne And cea'st to rule o're men with God to raigne Fourty and foure Novembers fully past Aie me that winged time should post so fast To Christ her love she wedded was at last 60 This Sunne thus set there followed no Night In our Horizon strait another Sunne Most happily continued the light Which by the first was hopefully begunne And what might most amaze all mortall eyes Never before out of the Northen skies Did men behold bright Phoebus to arise 61. Arts did increase his fame he did increase The fame of Arts and counting twice eleven Twelve months upon his throne this Prince of peace By falling to the Earth did rise to Heaven Then downe our chee● stears hot cold did flow Those for the Sire decea'st expre'st our woe Those joy for his succeeding Sonne did show 62. Live gracious Leige whose Vertues doe surmount All flattery and Envy them admires C●nter of grace and greatnesse liv●●o Cou●t Till that thy kingdome with the world expires Wee subjects wish thee worst that love thee best Who here long to injoy thee ●oe request That late thou mayst injoy an heavenly rest 63 And thou young Prince hope of the future age Succeed to Fathers Vertues Name and Crowne A new Starre did thy Saviours birth praesage His death the Sun eclipsed did renowne But both of these conjoyned to adorne Thy wellcome birth the Sun with ag● so worne Did seeme halfe dead and a young starr was borne 64 But what dost thou my ventrous Muse praesume So far above thy dwarf-like strength to straine Such soaring soone will melt thy waxen plume Let those heroike sparks whose learned braine Doth merit chapletts of victorious bayes Make Kings the subjects of their lof●y layes Thy worthlesse praysing doth their worth dispraise 65 Strike saile and to thy matter draw more neare And draw thy matter nearer to an end Though nought prayse-worthy in thy verse appeare Yet strive that shortnesse may the same commend Returne to see where Ioah homeward goes To see his Friends that had subdu'd his foes His souldiers and himselfe there to repose 66 Thus when two adverse winds with strong command Summon the Sea the waves that both do feele Dare follow neither but in doubt do stand Whilst that the shipps with water drunke doe reele With men for griefe of drowning drown'd in griefe Vntill at length a Calme brings them reliefe And stills the storme that had so long beene briefe 67 Oh that I might but live to see the day Day that I more desire than hope to see When all these bloody discords done away Our Princes in like manner might agree When all the world might smile in perfect peace And these long-lasting broyls at length might cease Broyles which alas doe dayly more increase 68 ●he Neatherlands with endlesse warrs are tost ●ike in successe to their unconstant tide ●osing their gettings gaining what they lost ●enmarke both sword and Ba●tick seas divide More blood than juice of grape nigh Rhine is shed And Brunswicke Land will not be comforted But cryes My Duke alas my Duke is dead 69 The warrs in France now layd aside not ended Are onely skinned ouer with a scarre Yea haughty Alps that to the clouds ascended Are ouer-climbed with a bloody Warre And Maroes birth place Mantua is more Made famous now for Mars and battell sore Than for his Muse it famed was before 70 Sweden to stopp th' Imperiall flood provides May his good cause be crown'd with like successe And they that now please none to please both sides May they themselves his trusty friends expresse But Turks the Cobweb of their Truce each howr● Doe breake they wayte a time but want no powre Nor will warr-wearied Christians to deuoure 71 But let the cunning Chymicke whose exact ●kill caused Light from darknesse to proceed Out of disorder order can extract Make in his due time all these jars agree'd Whose greiuances may be bemoan'd by men By God alone redressed and till then ● hey more befitt my Prayers than my Pen. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS * The Tower of Eder nigh Bethlē 7. miles from Ier●sale● * Deut. 32. 15. * Rabba 2 Sam. 12. 27. * Thou art the man * The man that hath done this thing shal dye * ●●dges 20. 16. * The death of King David's Child * The deflowring of Thamar * The murdering of Amnon * Absolons aspiring to the kingdome * Luk● 19. 4● * Ac●itophel hanging himselfe * The battell betwixt Absalon and Davids men * The sonne of Belial * What part have we in David c. * His head shall be thrown c.