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cause_n	cold_a	heat_n	hot_a	2,925	5	7.7399	4	true

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A11402	The second day of the First vveeke of the most excellent, learned, and diuine poet, VVilliam, Lord Bartas. Done out of French into English heroicall verse by Thomas VVinter, Maister of Artes; Sepmaine. Day 2. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Winter, Thomas, Master of Arts.	1603 (1603)	STC 21659; ESTC S110833	26,697	50

that in the heate of winters cold We feele the chimney hotter many-fold Then in the sommer and that Scythia Saluted often by Orithia Her blustering louer euermore doth breed Children whose stomackes crauing still to feed Continually digest more store of meate Both in the winter and in sommers heate Then those leane scranlings whom the Delphian torch Vpon the Lybian sand doth alway scorch This makes that we which haue the happie lucke Sweete aire into our spongie lungs to sucke More liuely heate within our stomackes hide When freezing Ianiuere doth here abide Then when the Sunne is banisht for a while From Chus and to our tropicke doth recuile Gods mightie hand did thus the aire deuide That in the middle lo●t there might reside The mists the comets and the windie traine The tempests and the dew the y●e and raine Some of the which appointed are to make The earth to yeeld her fruit the rest to take Weapons against our sinnes that so they might Engraue in hardest hearts each day and night The awfull loue the sweet-alluring feare Of him which of this All the crowne doth weare Simil. As in a cupping-glasse a litle flame To shunne a vacuum which is natures shame Or 〈◊〉 it selfe from cupped partes doth bring Th●abounding humor which lies pestering The flesh which being thinne and too subtile Doth by the ruddie eyes distill each while Right so the Sunne whose yellow golden haire Doth daily guild this and that hemispheare Two sorts of vapors euermore exhales From wauing fields and from the flowrie dales E●●●atio The one is thinne pure nimble burning dry Vapor T●e other hote moist rising heauily Which runne amid the aire throughout the yeare And make the world vnlike it selfe appeare O●●he blasts o● n●l d●vv If then a vapor do so thinly rise As that it cannot be in any wise To water turned and his heauie wing G●ued with cold lie onely houering Vpon the earth his gaudy flowred weed A blacknesse in the aire it straight doth breed And the●ewithall a sluggish mi●tie blast Vpon the hearbes and flowers hangeth fast O● the d●vv a●● the ye● If so this vapor lingringly do flie Scarce to the middle region of the sky Yet higher then the clouds it 's in a trice In Aprill dew in Ianuarie y●e 〈◊〉 the raine But if this vapor actiuely do get Vnto the shiuering winters cabinet The water which hath got the highest place Is turned in a verie litle space By cold into a ●loud and through the skie Vpon the winged winds doth swiftly flie Vntill his waters dropping downe amaine Do find their grandame riuers once againe Whether one cloud be driuen by the wind Coni●c●urall reason●of the raine Against another in a furious kind And with a stubborne shocke are forc'd againe To shed their water in a showre of raine As oftentimes a wanton lad doth dash Simil. The brittle vessels seruing for to wash B●tweene his waggish hands and so doth spill The water which the vessels earst did fill Or whether it be a gentler gale do play Amid the aire and sighing in his way Wrings out their teares as after a great raine Another showre stilleth downe againe From tops of forrests trees when as the wind Among their bushy boughes doth pleasure find And sports to crispe their wauing leauie tresses Or whether it be a higher cloud that presses The vnder cloud with a moist heauie waight And that the humor se●kes an issue straight Prest by another water as is s●ene The more that * Grapes Bacchus presents piled bene Vpon the hurdle in the vintage time The faster doth the new sweet ●uming wine Streame from the bottome pierced all below And to the froathie tub amaine doth flow Then many heauenly streames our flouds augment Saue teares is nothing scene the firmament Darkned with clouds in drops doth seeme to still And stinking frogs the earthie plaines to fill Hovv frogs may b●●nge●dred v●●●h t●● raine Whether the vapor that doth vpward ●lie Be of it selfe both cold hote moist and drie Whose mixture quickneth euerie liuing thing Or whether it be the Easterne blustering Sweeping the earth do heape into the sky Some fertile dust whereof confusedly These ougly things are made as neare the brimme Where some new mountaine floud doth swiftly swimme The froathy mud is turn'd in a strange kind Into a frog which yet vnshhap't behind Within the dirt enioys some small pastime Halfe dead and halfe aliue halfe flesh halfe slime Of the snovv S●●●times it hapneth that the freezing cold Congeales the totall cloud then we behold Great lockes of heauenly wooll to tumble downe The trees vnleau'd no grasse vpon the ground The world hath all one die aboue the snow The stagge his horned head can hardly shew Of the ●aile Sometimes it chanceth otherwise againe Soone as the cloud is turned into raine Th' excessiue cold that 's in the middle loft To haily bullets hardneth it full oft Which falling downe alas they so should fall Our hoped vintage greedily forestall Without a sickle reape our vnripe graine Vnblossome all our trees and do constraine The birds to leaue the neasts they lately made Do rob the woods and groues of wonted shade Do bruise our bullockes grazing as they go Do make our verie houses cracke for woe Of t●e vvinds hovv they are caused If so the starres which Gods creating hand Sow'd scatteringly vpon the heauenly land Draw fumes from off the earth both hote and dry Their actiue fire would lodge them instantly In Phoebus lap but t●ey no sooner gaine The loft where freezing cold doth still remaine And feele the strength of their audacious foes But straight they striue to gaine a sweete repose Vpon the earth from whence they did ascend Assisted by the waight she did them lend But from the fields there fumes another fire Which comes to aide them in their backe re●ire Which stops their downeward course restores their hearts And weapons to their trembling hands imparts With these fresh souldiers they fiercely fight Now tumbling downe now towring bolt vpright Driuing now here now there our aire along According as the matter 's weake or strong This holds but for a while for in this fray The heate and cold both bearing equall sway To end this stirre one lets their vpward flight The other stops their fall with all his might So that this vapour taking litle rest To moue in circled wise doth hold it best And buzzing flies from pole to pole from Spaine To Easterne India and backe againe These puffing winds although they quickned be The f●ur● thi●● winds rese●bled t● th● foure seasons of the yeare the fo●re hum●●s of a man● bodie the foure elements and t●e fo●re ages By spirit and vapour of like qualitie Yet doth the diuerse place where they are borne With diuerse names and power them all adorne Whiles I obserue the foure winds principall Which quarter out the cantons of this All

creatures which in the same do flourish But which is more doth with her dugs supply Foode to the winged people of the skie And gluts the scaly troupe with longed food Wh●ch cleaue the billowes of the briny floud So that what ere doth creepe runne swimme or flie Is by this Mother nourced carefully It did behoue that she should counter-waigh Her selfe that so she might the firmer stay Against the barking of the stonnie maine And might the anger-swollen cheekes disdaine Of Auster who in parching heate delighteth And Boreas who with freezing cold still fighteth It did behoue her body dull and flow Should farthest be from heauen here below That she might nere be wheel'd about by force Of heauens swift and neuer-resting course Which doth with strong and stubborne rauishment Pull round about the highest element And sith againe that the harmonious course Of heauenly planets is th' immortall source Of life in earthly things and that their changing Is caused by the starres their circled ranging Th' Almightie could no fitter lodge prouide Whereas our grandame earth might well abide Then in the center of this worldly round For vitall beames wherewith the starres abound Do shatter downe their powerfull influence Vpon the aire his waving residence On th' arched fire and on the swelling maine Where scaly people wanting lungs remaine But they in fine vnite their forces all Within the circle of this earthy ball Simil. Which is the worlds naue like as we may See in a wheele which chalketh out his way Amid the mudde whose widest spoakes do meete Within the button by their ioyned feete Simil. And as the Sunne doth pierce the window glasse So do these starrie influences passe Through euerie part without impediment Of the transparant firie element The regions of the aire and water bright But not the earth wherein is firmely pight The worlds foundation so that we name And iustly too the water aire and flame The concubines of euer-mouing heauen For that his Sunne and Moone and Starry-seuen Neuer inioy their loue but when by chance By these three regions along they glance When heauen husband-like hath no intent To be diuorc'd from the driest element And with such seed as still doth animate Each liuing thing he doth engrauidate The fruitfull earth his lawfull wedded bride And with a bodie so diuersifide In disposition and in outward forme He doth the structure of this All adorne VVhy the vva●er is placed betvveene the earth and the aire The water lighter then the earthie lumpe And heauier then the aire doth pitch his iumpe Betweene them both that being moist and cold By those two qualities he may be bold To slacke the thirstie drinesse of our Mother And coole the feruor of his airie brother Apostrophe ad Musam suam But whither away my Muse thou wanton stay Spend not thy Poetry at one essay Surcease to day to sing of sea and land Their compasse power and praise and where they stand Do not too hastily preuent the time Wherein the world was in his flowing prime Le●ue mountaine rockes with waters ouer-spread Till Phoebus rise againe from 's easterne bed For when he shewes againe his blushing face Then shall Gods powerfull hand asunder place These mingled bodies and shall richly dight The earth with bushie trees of goodly height It 's time my loue my ioy and onely deare To soare aloft to lodge no longer here Or neuer now t is time to graft my wings On thy immortall virgin-pin●onings That on thy backe I being nimbly light May safely vnto heauen take my flight Come come then luckily thy shoulder lend That mounted on the same I hence may wend To gaine that crowne to win that wreathed bay Which neuer Poets that in Fraunce did sway Did weare and which the heauens nigardize Hath long concealed from my longing eyes The aire which foggie mists doth entertaine The aire hov● and vvhy it is d●uided into three r●g●o●s The play-game of the tempests and the raine Th' inconstant house where winged clouds abide Swift Aeol●s his kingdome and his pride The shop where winds are sold whose trafficke maketh That euerie mouing thing of life partaketh Is not all one for men by learning guided Into three lofts hau 't rightf●lly deuided Whereof the high'st for that the restlesse course Regi● suprema Of the first Mouer puls it round by force From Ea●t to West and likewise from the West Vnto the place where faire Aurora's drest And for it bounds vpon the burning ●●ame The learned do this loft the hottest name That loft wherein we breath by turne doth hold Regio infima Now melting heate now all-congealing cold Now neither so his waters in the Spring Are coldly hote in Autumne wauering In winter cold and hote in sommers raigne For then the earth rebat●th backe againe Those beames which starrie bow-men shoote apace Especially the Sunne the heauens chiefe grace Who for his shafts doth eue●●ore d●light To make the circled earth his but tand white Medi●●●●io The middle-loft for that it still remaineth Farre from the burning ●eeling which containeth This lower world in his firie seate Vnable also to partake the heate Which from the earth is banded bolt-vpright Doth in continuall freezing take delight For how could water hardned be to haile Euen when the sommer heate doth so preuaile That haruest fields looke white if y●ie cold His shiuering climates did not all enfold VVhy the middle region is th● c●ld●st Assoone as Phoebus hath his court remoued From the * T●● sig●● Gemini two twinnes so mutually beloued And takes his lodging with his * Cancer Crabbed hoste Or panting Lyon then this middle coast His cold redoubleth for enuironed With heate of armies newly mustered Which more then ere are now encouraged To haue his coldest times vnwintered Delayes the time to traine his men no longer His forces ioyn'd together are the stronger S●mil As Christians leauing farre their natiue land Feare not the furie of the Turkish band Marching disorderly make now and then As many squadrons as there be of men So that sometime the clownes with bils and bowes Driue them before them with their stubborne blowes But when they see the Mooned flags appeare Armes of old Ottoman and when they heare The horrid thunder of cannons sound Which by their shocke do leuell with the ground The strongest wals that euer yet immured Rhodes and Belgrada while their prime indured Straight they retire and in some neighbour plaine Do set themselues in order all againe Their warlike courage doth increase their strength Their bloud doth boile for heate and at the length The bordring circumcised peoples aide Doubling their forces makes their foes afraid This antiperistasis for t is no danger T●e effe●●s of the A●tip●ris●a●●s of the ●i●●le r●gio● To naturalize a word that is a stranger Yea in this worke where we haue no one word That doth so strong an emphasis afford Doth cause