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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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abode I that was like my all-creating God I being endude with admirable feature I that had Lordly rule of euery creature Oh I to whom all graces did abound Of all God made am most ingratefull found Come wofull Eue as I shar'd sinne with thee Bring euery teare thou hast and mourne with mee I tooke the fruite with thee that brought these feares Do thou take woe with me oh ioyne in teares We that in grace and glory late haue bin Are falne from God by disobedient sin Weepe thou for hearkning what the Serpent sayd And I will weepe for being both betrayd Weepe thou for yeelding first to his perswasion And I will weepe for giuing me occasion Let both our soules with sorrow be repleate Because we both haue bene seduc'd to eate When in the coole of day Gods voice I heard O how my senses trembled then I feard And sought to hide me from his angry face Foole as I was he sees in eu'ry place Where art thou Adam said he that where art Was euen a hell of horror to my hart With fig-leaues wrapt I to the Lord replide For shame of nakednesse I do me hide Who told thee of thy nakednes said hee Hast thou not eate of the forbidden tree Concerning which I said thou shouldest not Then for my selfe this bad excuse I got The woman that thou gau'st with me to liue Why she did of that fruite vnto me giue Then said he Woman why hast thou done this She said The Serpent causd me do amisse But these excuses no way could vs free Gods curses were ponounc'd against all three Yea euen the earth was cursed for my sake And I enioyned paines therewith to take By toylsome labour and in weary sweate To make my hands the earners of my meate Then did my dreadfull sin-incensed Lord Appoint a Cherubin with fiery sword To keepe the passage to the tree of life Driuing me forth of Eden with my wife Death at my heeles and Misery beside me My enemy the Diuell to deride me Cloath'd with a leather coate of dead beasts skins Which garment made me mindfull of my sins And the reward due to me for the same My outside death my inside sinne and shame Now seruile labour for my selfe I found I got a spade and fell to dig the ground For from earths bountie nothing I could gaine Vnlesse I bought it with the price of paine If I in Paradise had neuer bin Farre lesse perplexitie I should be in My doubts and feares and all my sorrowes grow That I true happinesse did tast and know To say I had to thinke If I had knowne Are of themselues torments enough alone Yet hope encounters comfort by the way Iehouah to the Serpent thus did say Betwixt you shall an enmitie be bred The womans seed shall breake the Serpents head This confidence preuents hels friend Despaire A second Adam shall with grace repaire The ruines that the first hath sinfull made On this foundation let the faith be laid Of all my ofspring sinne from me ensude Sinne death and hell by him shall be subdude When man was ouercome by Sathans euill He lost the Paradice where he was placed When man by grace shall ouercome the diuell He shall gaine heauen whence that fiend was chased He conquering vs did cause Gods wrath increase We conquering him with God shall be at peace Caines horror of minde for the inhumane murder of his Brother BEhold the wretched heire of all the earth Most gracelesse man bloudy accursed Caine The first that in this world hath had his birth The worst that euer shall be borne againe In conscience so tormented and distrest I haue not one calme thought of quiet rest If wofull Adam when he fell from grace In such a feare of his transgression stood That he did hide him from Iehouahs face What shall I do being all imbrude in blood Whose blood My brothers what a wicked man Oh no most iust my conscience witnesse can I did present the Lord with my oblation My brother offered vp his sacrifice And that of his was held in estimation Mine nothing set by in th' Almighties eyes Whereat affection from him I estranged And vnto wrath my countenance I changed Why art thou angry said the Lord to me Why doth thy lookes seeme other then to fore If thou do well it will returne to thee If thou do ill sinne lieth at the dore Vnto dominion and to rule aspire And Abel shall incline to thy desire But what he spake my heart regarded not Wrath stopt mine eares and would not let me heare For when my brother in the field I got I lifted vp my hand against him there And that same stroke which did his life controule Kild him a body and my selfe a soule What heard I then oh this Caine Where 's thy brother When desp'rate wretch I did this answer make Am I his keeper do we gard each other What charge do we of one another take What hast thou done said God thy deed is found For Abels blood cries vengeance from the ground Euen from the earth thou art accursed now Whose mouth receiu'd the blood thy hand hath shed No profit though thou till shall it allow The strength of it shall from thy vse be fled Be thou a vagabond and fugitiue That neuer shalt in any action thriue Then in the horror of my soule I spake As desp'rate most vnworthy wretch to liue No sute of mercy purposing to make My sinne is greater then thou canst forgiue Nothing but vengeance I expect to find For there 's no roome for sorrow in my mind Behold this day I am an outcast made And from the vpper face of th' earth I go Thy countenance thou likewise hast denaid One looke of fauour neuer to bestow And whosoeuer findes me out he will Euen murder me as I did Abel kill Feare and Despaire and I all three in one My wofull heart do into shares deuide But greedy Feare would haue it all alone Till I and blacke Despaire grew stronger side And then we two together did incline That all my heart should be Despaires and mine And now I do all that Despaire would haue me Being resolute resolu'd on euill thus For my iniquitie God cannot saue me There is no grace that can do good for vs Leade on Despaire with sinne I will go hide me Gods iustice comes his grace can nere abide me The dreadfull burning of sinfull Sodome IT was about meridian of the day When Phoebus in his height of burning sway Did like vnto a giant runne his race About the spheare of his celestiall place That Abraham the blessed man of God At his tent doore for his repose abode Where lifting vp his eyes behold stood three Of Angels nature seeming men to bee With reuerence he bowed to the ground And said my Lord if I haue fauour found Passe not away but here refresh with mee Vnder the shadow of this pleasant tree Then presently with greatest speed he went