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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20831	The Muses Elizium lately discouered, by a new way ouer Parnassus. The passages therein, being the subiect of ten sundry nymphalls, leading three diuine poemes, Noahs floud. Moses, his birth and miracles. David and Golia. By Michael Drayton Esquire.	Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.; Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631. Moyses in a map of his miracles. aut	1630 (1630)	STC 7210; ESTC S109889	101,886	216

Grandsire with exceeding care In all the host there hardly could be showne That with those Boyes for beauty could compare Such mirth and feasting as for them was seene For this graue Father and this goodly Dame Vnto this day in Israel had not beene Since to kinde Ioseph righteous Iacob came The day mild Moses scarcely can sustice To tell this man the troubles they had past The wonders God had acted in their eyes Since they in Midian kindly parted last Iethro that mark'd the paines that Moses tooke In rising early and in resting late That did himselfe into all causes looke And in his person censure each debate This Princely Priest a man exceeding wise And long experienc'd in this great affaire For at that time few States or Monarchies Whose gouernment he could not well declare Reproues good Moses in this zealous deed Quoth he me thinks thou dost not well in this The course wherein I see thou dost proceed Trouble to thee and to the people is Appoint out Iudges and inferiour Courts Twixt the Plebeans and thy selfe to bee From them receiue those matters by report Speake thou to God and let them speake to thee In things importa t be thou still in place In lesser causes leauing them to deale So may you both your quietnes embrace By an exact and perfect Common-weale Now when to Sina they approched neare God calls vp Moyses to the mount aboue And all the rest commaundeth to forbeare Nor from the bounds assign'd them to remoue Nor who those limits lonsely did exceede Which were by Moses mark'd them out beneath The Lord had irreuocably decreed With darts or stones should surely die the death Where as the people in a wondrous fright With hearts transfixed euen with frosen blood Beheld their Leader openly in sight Passe to the Lord where he in glory stood Thunder and Lightning led him downe the ayre Trumpets celestiall sounding as he came Which struck the people with astounding feare Himselfe inuested in a splendorous flame Sina before him fearfully doth shake Couered all ouer in a smouldring smoake As ready the foundation to forsake On the dread presence of the Lord to looke Erect your spirits and lend attentiue care To marke at Sina what to you is said Weake Moses now you shall not simply heare The sonne of Amram and of lacobed But he that Adam imparadise And lent him comfort in his proper blood And saued Noah that did the Arke deuise When the old world else perish'd in the flood To righteous Abraham Canaan franckly lent Aud brought forth 〈◊〉 so extreamly late Iacob so faire and many children sent And rais'd chast Ioseph to so high estate He whose iust hand plagu'd Egypt for your sake That Pharaohs power so 〈◊〉 did mock Way for his people through the Sea did make Gaue food from Heauen and water from the Rock Whilst Moses now in this cloud-couered hill Full forty dayes his pure aboade did make Whilst that great God in his almighty will With him of all his Ordinances brake The Decalogue from which Religion tooke The being sinne and righteousnesse began The different knowledge and the certaine booke Of testimony betwixt God and man The Ceremoniall as Iudicious lawes From his high wisdome that receiu'd their ground Not to be altred in the smallest clause But as their Maker wondrously profound The composition of that sacred phane Which as a Symbol curiously did shew What all his six dayes workmanship containe Whose perfect modell his owne finger drew Whose absence thence gaue leasure to their lust Oppugning Aaron Idols them to frame And by their power still strengthen this disgust In him denouncing the Almighties name A gold-made God how durst you euer name For him so long had led you from the Skie In sight of Sina crowned with a flame His glory thence 〈◊〉 in your eye Such things might melt mortality to see That euen the very Elements did fright He that in Egypt had perform'd for thee What made the world amazed at his might Thy soule 〈◊〉 ne'r before thou felt'st But like a Quarry't euen claue thy breast Comming from Sina when as thou breast Th'elected Israel kneeling to a Beast Him sence for sooke his 〈◊〉 strengthlesse are He came so much amazed there-withall The stony Tables slip'd him vnaware That with their owne weight brake them in the fall Downe this proud lump ambitiously he flung Into base dust dissoluing it-with fire That since they for variety did long They should thereby euen surfet their desire And sent the minerall through their hatefull throats 〈◊〉 late those horrid blasphemies did flie On bestiall figures when they fell to doate In prostitution to idolatrie Now when this potion that they 〈◊〉 tooke This Chymick medicine their deserued sare Vpon their beards and on their bosome stooke He doth their slaughter presently prepare What 's he himselfe to Leuis could allie Before this Calfe not sinfully did fall Girds not his broad blade to his sinewie thie When he heares Moyses vnto Armes to call Killing not him appointed he should slay Though they had slep'd in eythers armes before Though in one wombe they at one burthen lay Yea when this dead though that could be no more You whom not Egypts tyranic could wound Nor Seas nor Rockes could any thing denie That till this day no terrour might astound On the sharpe points of your owne swords to die When Moyses now those Tables to renew Of that essentiall Deitie doth merit Which from his hands he dissolutely threw In the deepe anguish of his grecued spirit When forty dayes without all nat'rall food He on mount Sina fixed his abode Retayning strength and feruour in his blood Rap'd with the presence of that glorious God Who in his high estate whilst he passed by In the cleft rocke that holy man did hide Lest he should perish by his radiant eye When Moyses seeing but his glorious side Celesliall brightnesse ceazed on his face That did the wondring Israelites amaze When he returned from that souereigne place His browes encireled with splendidious rayes That their weake sight beholding of the same He after couer'd from the common eyes Lest when for answer vnto him they came The lusting people should idolatrize Might we those mustred Israclites admire From plaines of Sina mighty Moyses led Or else to view that opulence desire To that rich Arke so freely offered The meruailous modell of that rarest peece Th'ingrauings caruings and embroderies tell The cunning worke and excellent deuice Of neat Aholiah and Bexaliell But we our Moyses seriously pursue And our strong nerues to his high praise applie That through this maze shall guide vs as a Clue And may his vertues absolutely trie Whose charge being weary of their mighty Armes And much offended they had march'd so long As oft disturbed with their sterne Alarmes Suppose by Moyses to haue suffered wrong When with the luggage such as lagd behinde And that were set the Cariages to keepe Gainst God and Moyses 〈◊〉