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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03210	The history of Susanna Compiled according to the Prophet Daniel, amplified with convenient meditations; sung by the devoted honourer of the divine muses, George Ballard.	Ballard, George, writer of verse.	1638 (1638)	STC 1333; ESTC S114851	36,368	150

to her father's house Commanding upon pain of fines that none Should speak with her til morning Phoebus shone Where she good heart lie's pickled up in teares While to her parents she her conscience cleeres The vulgar people these aspersions cast Susanna is more beautifull then chast And as Diana kist with loving skill Shepheard Endimion upon Latmos hill Susanna so in wanton-bowers did spend Her houres in dalliance with a nimble friend These torrents of unjust defame and wrongs Of derogating vulgar-taunting tongues Like swelling flouds that to the Ocean roule Adde fresher troubles to her vexed soule Some men of Babylon begin to scorn Lord Ioachim pointing at him the horn But his true friends cōjoyn'd with him in prayer Knowing Susanna chast as she is faire They in compassion of this Innocent A silver-sea in brinish showers spent Till sable night had with her Ebon-robe Darkned the surface of this earthen Globe And drowsie Morpheus with his leaden key Had lockt the doores of many a mortall eye Night being waxen old and drunk with teares No golden star was seen to gild the Spheares Titan to their Antipodites being gone To luminate another Horizon Now did these Elders hold a parolment To practise mischiefe ' gainst this innocent Where they determin'd when the morning came They would condemne this good distressed dame So they departed bed-wards guilty feares Ringing like larums in their frightned eares In them the terrours of th' internall worme Ten thousand kinds of living deaths did forme Dissembling Satan tempting them 'till day To have them take Susannas life away Which they resolv'd yet did their bosomes quake Fearing of men whom they afraid should make MEDIT. IX Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus WHat shall I laugh that Fortune like a ball Bandies the Globe of this inconstant All Shall loud Abderian laughter fill my tongue Or shall I sing Ephesian mourning song Because the world 's a wel concordant jarre Like fained Perseus wedding bringing warre Nothing subsists beneath the Cynthian flame But somewhat live's to terrifie the same The Emperour and Peazant have their foes Aswell as friends world's Epidemick woee And casuall joyes denoting great men know Few reall friends from friends in fained show Too day unconstant worldlings will dispraise Whom they to morrow to the Heavens raise And presently their judgements will condemne The persons whilome in esteeme of them 'T is necessary that offences come But woe and many woes to them by whom 'T were better they with milstones heavy tied About their necks had in the Ocean died 'T is necessary that offences come To make us mindfull of supernall home Should be continuall Summer all things faire And plentifull few soules for heav'n would care Should Fortune cheere us with still smiling eye We should condoat on this vain world and die Therefore all things beneath-expansed Heaven God hath to change and revolution given The Sun attain'd to his Meridian throne Declines again till he from thence be gone The gentle calmes bring rougher stormes and all Hot gleames of Titan cause cold showers to fall Mild Zeph'ry Summer part●s in Summers roome I hill Winter with Aeolian rufflers come Age follow 's youth death life night followes day So vanisheth world's glory clean away Calamity and comfort comes and goes From man to man like Neptune's ebbe and flowes Now caroll we like Nightingales of May Anon like Pellicans we pine away In humane things a pow'r divine doth play This changfull world attend's her changing day We prostrate lie on dunghils and anon Ascend in triumph upon Honour's throne Earth-joyes are false they bid us soon adue Her during-sorrowes are most certain true Our wise forefathers doted not on this Deceitfull round where Satan's kingdome is Though living in the golden age of joy Hundreds of yeeres they counted earth a toy But in these Iron-generations some Prize it on whom world's worser ends are come My soule contemnes this world which over flowes Me like a Sea with tydes of briny woes Where griefe 's Vorago's upon either hand Worser then Scylla with Charybdis stand Lord daigne we may by trouble-stormes 〈◊〉 Hence to our soule-contenting rest in heaven Sith we to Eden must through Bochim goe Thy will be done deere God that wil 's it so For one sweet day within the Courts of Heaven Will recompence all torts on earth receiven Sect. X. ARGUMENT Susan arraign'd the Bench before Falsly accus'd to be a whore Iudgment against her rashly given She prayes unto the Iudge of Heaven WHen day had with his early dawning light Earth uninvelopt from the cloudy night And rising Titan gloriously had shon Upon the golden Tow'rs of Babylon Firing the pine-trees on the Eastern Mountains Dancing a while on warme Eoan Fountains These scarlet-judges with their purple-brothers With swarmes of Babylonians Iewes and others Assemble in Lord Ioachim's great Hall Where to the Bar Susanna they do call Who thither comes and on her train attends 〈…〉 friends 〈…〉 in that place to wrong That places Owner whose mild kindnesse long There suffred them to make a Senat-roome O Devillish to pronounce a murdrous doome A sentence there to rifle her of Fame And in the Scroll of death describe her name Which in life's golden roll Angels on high Fore-registred above the shining skie Hence gentle eyes your teares again will drown Her story teer-already overflown The veile which modest Hebrew-women weare They gave command should be ta'ne from her there Forgetting all humanity and duty To glut their wicked eyes upon her beauty The sight whereof transpierced soules so deep All her spectators could not choose but weep The most obdurate Hinds in all that Nation Shed plenteous teares in this collachrimation Such sighes and grones came from her kindred pale As once were heard in Hadadeimmon-vale When as she heav'nwards looking Elders lai'd Their cursed hands upon her head and said Her accusation and condemnation AS we two were in Ioachim's garden-places One to another putting doubtfull cases Susanna with two Damsels yesterday Came there to walk sending her Maids away Who shut her Garden-dores and inwards went Then came a young man from enambushment Unto Susanna we beheld them in The Goatish action of Venerian sinne Which thing perceiving gently we drew neere If possibly to apprehend him there But the young Ruffian spying us forsook His Paramour and to his heels betook Him suddenly whom we persu'd a main With loudest hubbubs that he might be tane For he was lusty nimbler far then we And from us through the upper doore went he So he escapt this apprehended woman Deni'd the Fact affirming there was no man And urg'd by us disdained to confesse The runnaway's Name unto which wickednes She multiplieth more saying to wit We two with her Adult'ry would commit Thus scandall bringing on us but my Lords As there 's a powre divine discerning words And deeds of Mortals we prolate no lies T' is true so doom us he that fram'd the skies Here at the