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A11408	Part of Du Bartas English and French, and in his owne kinde of verse, so neare the French Englished, as may teach an English-man French, or a French-man English. With the commentary of S.G. S. By William L'Isle of Wilburgham, Esquier for the Kings body.; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1625 (1625)	STC 21663; ESTC S116493	251,817	446

raigne without some habitations for himselfe and his subiects and considering that Moses in the selfe-same place affirm●th that the Cities founded by Nimrod were in the countrey of Sennaar and that in the 12. verse of the 11. Chapter he saith that these builders of Babel dwelt on a plaine in the countrey of Sennaar by good reason the inuention and beginning thereof is here ascribed to Nimrod who by this meanes sought to set his state on foot Also this Monarchie of Babylon was one of the first and with it that of Niniuie as may be gathered out of the words of Moses But the more particular discourse of these matters and diuers other questions concerning Nimrod and his outrages require a larger commentatie 5. Like as the Vulcan weake The Poet saith that as a small deale of fire let fall by some Shepherds among the drie leaues of a great Forrest setting it selfe and hatching as it were the heat a while at length with helpe of the wind groweth to so great a flame that it taketh the whole Forrest and leaueth not a Driad that is not a tree in his proper or naturall barke So the words first vttered by Nimrod then blowne with the bellowes of his Minions and fauourites set the hearts of the people on fire that he soone obtained his purpose This is it that Moses noteth in the eleuenth Chapter of Genesis the third and fourth verses They said one to another the chiefe men hauing put it in their heads Come let vs make bricke and burne in well in the fire so had they bricke in stead of stone and s●●me had they in stead of morter Then said they Goe let vs build vs a Citie and a Tower whose top may reach vnto the heauens that we may get vs a name lest we be scattered vpon the whole earth The Poet in his verse discourseth vpon this deuise It is thought that this proud building was begun about an hundred and fiftie yeares after the Floud The good Patriarch Noe that liued yet long time after saw his posteritie confounded and scattered for so it was the Lords will to exercise the patient faith of his seruant to whom in recompence he shewed the effect of his blessings in the family of Sem where still remained the Hebrew tongue together with the doctrine and discipline of the true Church Now out of this history of Moses touching the building of the Towne and the confusion of the builders is sprong as it seemeth the fabulous discourse of the Poets set downe by Ouid in his first booke of Metamorphosis touching the Giants that heaped hilles one vpon another to scale heauen and dispossesse Iupiter of his throne Thus hath Satan endeuoured to falsifie the truth of sacred historie Well this arrogant building sheweth vs how vaine are the imaginations of worldly men namely to set at naught the true renowne of heauenly life and seeke after the false of earth Carnall men haue no care at all to worship and reuerence the name of the true God they regard only to be accounted-of themselues and so to write their names in the dust Against the attempts of the men of Babel and all their successours let vs oppose these sentences the 18. and 21. of Prouerbs The name of the Lord is a strong tower thither shall the iust repaire and be exalted There is no wisdome nor vnderstanding nor force can preuaile against the Lord and that which is written Psal the 127. Except the Lord doe build the house the builders labour but in vaine 6. God seeing this Moses in the 5. and 6. verses of the 11. chapter saith Then the Lord came downe to see the Citie and Towre which the sonnes of men had built And the Lord said Behold the people is one and they all haue one language and this they begin to doe neither can they now bee stopped from whatsoeuer they haue imagined to doe come on let vs goe downe and there confound their language that they vnderstand not one another Then he addeth the execution of the sentence saying So the Lord scattered them from thence vpon all the earth and they left off to build the Citie Therefore the name of it was called Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth and scattered them from thence ouer all the world God that is all in all neuer changeth his place he goeth neither vpward nor downward but the Scripture saith hee goeth downe then when he worketh any thing on earth which falling out beyond and against the ordinary course of nature witnesseth his particular presence Vnder these few words of Moses a many things are to be considered chiefly he noteth the great sinnes of the builders in that he bringeth in the Lord iudge of the whole world vouchsafing to bow downe his eyes particularly vpon that foolish people For it is not without cause that the great God of heauen and earth should arise from his throne and if I durst so say leaue the palace of his glory to come and view these durt-dawbers or morter-makers By this manner of speech Moses sheweth and giueth vs to vnderstand that long time before these Babylonians had built in their hearts most wonderfull high and stately towers and that long agoe they had bak'd in the sire of their concupiscence some maruellous brickes to wit they had much counsailed one with another and discoursed of meanes to get renowme and found no better way to attaine their purpose then to raise a tower vp to the heauens to rauish with astonishment all those that should behold it So Moses saith that this pride and froward selfe trust deserued a grieuous punishment but as God is perfectly iust so layeth he vpon the builders a chastisement proportionable vnto their offence 7. Thus had he said and straight In God it is all one to will and to doe And further he sendeth not lightning winde nor tempest against the tower but contenteth himselfe to strike the proud and puffed-vp braines of the builders and so the building founded vpon their folly was ouerthrowne by their foolish iangling that God mingled with their language and the vainglorious masons insteed of their imagined renowne haue gotten themselues euerlasting shame Who would haue thought that God had had so ready such kinde of rods to punish mankinde withall But let the Reader consider whether the world at this day be not full of Babel-towers Marke what a number of men doe in euery kinde of vocation Sith I doe not take vpon mee but to write bare Annotations I leaue it to the Readers consideration who may see now more then euer that the world continueth the building of Babel that is men madly gainset their owne wisedome and power against the wisedome and power of God who treading as it were with woollen feet and stealing on softly is able with an arme of Iron to surprise and seize vpon these builders and turne by diuers meanes their vaine purposes and weake endeuours to

and her people in the second booke here and that of France in the third both laid together betokning as it were some new bond of Loue shortly to come betwixt that Realme and this which we all pray the Lord to prosper To make way then yet more for this mutuall acquaintance by communication of Language thus much of that Noble Poet I thought meet to counterpage with French and English Not all both because the Kings happie match growing on so fast I had no time to finish and print so great a volume and for that I may say of this Author as of Homer know foure of his bookes and know them all for thus much onely may suffice I presume to helpe an Englishman vnderstand the whole French of Bartas or a Frenchman the whole English of Siluestor If you aske me why I keepe this kind of Hexameter verse I need say no more but that it is the same which the Author kept in the originall and he doubtlesse for the more graue made choice thereof with great reason according to the counsell of Horace who aduiseth all writers Descriptas seruare vices operumque colores his reason followes which with little alteration of the verse I may hereto fitly applie Indignantur enim communibus propè socco Dignis carminibus dici primordia Mundi And what is our English Pentameter but the same kind of verse which is vsed in our Comedi●s Besides I had a desire to trie how French and English would go hand in hand for enter changeable helpe and teaching of the one by the other now both Nations are so well inclined to learne and conferre together For which purpose I found this worke very fit and readiest on such a sodain to present my Lord the King withall at the here celebration of his marriage And herefore onely if there were none other cause yet gentle Readers my hope is yee will hold me excused I was about to end but may not forget to let you vnderstand that this Bartassian verse not vnlike herein to the Latin Pantameter hath euer this propertie to part in the mids betwixt two wordes so much doe some French prints signifie with a stroke interposed as here in the first two pages you may see for example The neglect of this hath caused many a braue Stanza in the F●irie Queene to end but harshly which might haue beene preuented at the first but now the fault may be sooner found then amended I doe but note it vnto you that you may the better obserue the true cadence of this our Authors verse and so craning your fauourable construction of these and all my like endeauours I rest willing to doe you what further seruice I am able VV. L. Iusqu'a la fin du Mond la lys Francoise Fleurisse iointe auec la Rose Angloise Fin d' Adam commencement de Noe. The end of Adam and beginning of Nöe PVis il commence ainsi ‑ La branlante cité Des peuples escaillez ‑ tout ce lambris vouté Ou du grand Foudroyeur ‑ la puissance eternelle Mit Phebus Phebé ‑ par tour en sentinelle Adam declaire ason fils en cōbien de iours le monde a esté creé L'air des nues la lice ‑ le camp assiné Oùle coler● Autan ‑ le Nort mutiné Se donnent le battaille ‑ siers iettent par terre Maint bois qui moytoien ‑ veut esteindre leur guerre Des fragiles humains ‑ le diapré sciour Fut fait en six Solcils ‑ le septiesme iour Fut le sacré Sabat ‑ Ainsi la terre l'onde L'air l'azur dore ‑ des pauillons du Monde Subsisteront six iours ‑ mais longs touts diuers Des iours bornez du cours ‑ de l'oeil de l'Vniuers Combien d'aages il dureia L'vn cōmence par moy ‑ L'autre a pour son Aurore Le pere inuente-nef ‑ qui les coutaux decore D'vn pampre cultiué ‑ L'autre ce grand Berger Qui suit le Tout-puissant ‑ en pays estranger Et dounant plus de foy ‑ à la saincte parole De Dieu Le premier aage du monde sous Ad● Le second sous Noe. Le troifiesme sous Abraham Le quatriesme sous Dauid ses success●s qu' à la raison ‑ son fils vnique immole L'autre vn autra Pasteur ‑ dextrement courageux A qui la fonde-sert ‑ d'vn canon orageux Et qui change veinceur ‑ en septre sa houlette Grand Prophete grand Roy ‑ grand Chantre grand Poêts Celui la qui le suit ‑ prend-son commencement Par lannict de ce Roy qui void cruellement Massacrer ses enfans sur la riue grasse D' Euphrase transporter la Iudaique race Le cinquiesme sous la capti●i●e d● Zedechias Le ●●xiesme sous Iesus Christ Le de●nier qui sera le repos du monde Et lautre a pour Soleil le Messie attendis Qui batu qui chassé qui moque qui pendu Qui mis dans le cercueil a de nostre iniustice Blen que iuste souffert l'execrable supplice Mais le dernier sera le vray iour da Repos L'air deuiendra muet de Neptune les flots Chommeront paresseux le ciel perdra sadance Le Soliel saclar●é la terre sa chena●u●e Et nous estans plongez en eternels esbats Celebrerons au ciel le Sabat des Sabats Las que doy-te esperer de larace voisine Du seu qui doit vengeur cendroyer la machine Considerations d'Adam sur ce qui doit auenir à ses descendans iusques à la sin du premier mōde exterminé par le deluge comme le rout est expose par Moses Des hommes qui n' auront que leur dosir pour loy Et qui n' orront parler nide Dieu nide moy Puis que pleins de sureur ceux qui prindrent naissance Dessus le sacré sueil Enos ●establi● le 〈…〉 Qui sentent bruire e●cor le diuin iudgement Et sont comme tesmoins de mon bannissement Semblent despiter Dieu Ame traistre mutine Hé 〈◊〉 est ce ass●z d'auoir fuit triple l'Androgyne N' est c● assez O Lamech d'auoir ton lict souillé Si tis n'auois encor ten çoutclas mouillé Dans le sang hisayeul sans que ni la defence De cil sou qui sleschit l'internale puissance Ni la marque qu' au front l'Assassin inhumain Port●il p●ur saufconduit ait retenu tamain 〈…〉 O saint Enos sus courage redresse L' est 〈…〉 la soy Enos ●establi● le 〈…〉 que l'humaine sagesse Foulois la sous les pieds inuoque l'Immortol Pourpre d'v●l●e le sang les coins de son autel D' vn enceas vaporeux son nez sacré parfume Et l'amor●i slambcau de Verité r ' allume V●●● 〈◊〉 ●●sciple Henoe du monde

all sorts of needfull instruments they may well be likened vnto the actiue and trading life and the middle sort vnto the ciuill gouernment and politicke life which is a meane betwixt the other two Yet this the Poet well restraineth saying that the northerne people also in these latter dayes haue beene renowmed for the Tongues the Lawes the Mathematicks Poesie Oratorie and all good learning as well as in times past they were and are still for warlike valour and cunning hand-works Not without cause for in England Scotland Polonie Denmarke and other such countries are and haue beene diuers very learned men flourishing and Germanie especially which is as it were Vuleans forge and the Campe of Mars hath brought forth many men excelent well seene in all kinde of learning it were needlesse to name them they are so well knowne 62 But eu'n among our selues The more to magnifie the vnsoundable wisdome of God appearing in the creation of so diuers-disposed people he noteth out many points of great difference euen among those Nations that liue neare together and are seuered only by certaine hilles riuers and forrests as the French Dutch Jtalian and Spanish He paints them out all in their kinde for such properties as are daily seene in them and may be easily gathered out of their owne Histories for there are not the like-differing neighbour-nations in all Europe no not in the world Let me consider and all my Countrey-men with me what he saith of the French the other three may doe the like by themselues if they list The French he saith is in Warre impatient in Counsaile wauering in Diet sumptuous gentle in Speech diuers in Apparell out-facing his Enemie a sweet Singer a swift Paser a merty Louer If any man can draw a righter counterfeit of our Nation let him take the pensill 63 Yet would the immortall God He shewes for what cause it pleased God the earth should be inhabited by men of so diuers natures As first to the end he might shew forth his mercy and louing kindnesse in raising his chosen out of the sincks of sinne wherewith each of their birth soiles were bestained Secondly That it might appeare how neither the soiles nor yet the heauenly Signes though they haue great power ouer earthly bodies can force the minds of men especially such as God himselfe hath blessed Thirdly That there might be some in all places of the world to acknowledge his manifold goodnesse and glorifie his Name And fourthly that whatsoeuer needfull things the earth any where by his gartious blessing bringeth forth proper and seuerally they might be enterchanged and carried from place to place for the vse of man 64 For as a Citie The last consideration giues the Author occasion to compare the world vnto a great Citie such as Paris Roan Tolouse Lyons or any other like where there are merchants and craftesmen for all kinde of wares each in their seuerall wards buying selling changing and trading one with another And euen so one Countrey affordeth Suger another Spice another Gummes and Gold Alabaster Iuory Heben-wood Horses Amber Furres Tynne and Silke they are brought from diuers coasts all the more to furnish with things necessary this great Citie of the world Whereby we may note that no Countrie be it neuer so well appointed can say that it needs not the commodities of another And againe that there is no Land so barren but hath some good thing or other which the rest want For euen in men we see the like there is none so poore but hath some speciall gift none so rich but hath need of the poorest Our Poet therefore hauing so fitly resembled the world by a great Citie he brings-in thereupon a sine example of the Persian Queene who as Herodotus Xenophon and Plutarch report called one Prouince her lewell-house another her Wardrope c. for euen so may euery man say that hath the true knowledge and feare of God such a man may say Peru brings forth Gold for me the Moluckes or Chaldea Spice Damaske Alabaster and Italy Silke Germany sends me great Horses Moscouie rich Furres Arabia sweet Parfumes Spaine Saffron Prusse Amber England Cloth and Tinne France Corne and Wine Yea more the childe of God may say the Earth the Sea the Aire and all that is therein the Sunne the Moone the Heauens are mine for he that needeth nothing made all things of nothing to serue me and mee to worship him But of this let the Diuines discourse more at large I will goe on with the Poet who saith further against the carping Atheist that nothing was created in vaine but euen the most vnlikely places bring forth many good fruits and very necessary for the life of Man And hee proues it plainly by some notable particulars that follow 65 The Moores enameled First The Fenny Valleyes though too moist they are and ouer-low for men to build and dwell vpon yet are they so beset with diuers harbes and flowers so lagged garded and enter-trailed with riuers that they are as it were the common gardens of the world as also the plaine fields are our seed-plots and the stony grounds our Vineyards Secondly The huge Mountaines about whose tops are engendred thunders lightnings and tempests for which cause the Atheists count them hurtfull or at least superfluous or made by chance and errour they are in truth cleane contrary as Th●odoret hath long agoe shewed in his Sermons of Gods Prouidence ●uen the sure standing Bounds and Land-markes of euery Kingdome and Countrie they beare great store of timber-trees for ships and houses and fuell to burne from them spring the great riners that breed much fish and helpe the conueyance of prouision and other merchandise vnto many people dwelling farre-off by them are stayed and gathered the clowdes and thicke mists that manure and fatten the lower grounds the Wind-milles are much helped by them as if they were the the store houses of winde like rampiers and bulwarkes they keepe-of the sudden force of warlike neighbours and to conclude they are as it were the very morter that ioynes Land and Sea together Thirdly The great Deserts and wast-grounds that are for men by reason of some wants searse habitable yet like huge Commons they feed an infinit sort of beasts great and small whereof we haue good vse and commoditie Fourthly The Sea it breeds fish maintaines many Cities encreases Trafficke and makes the wayes for trauell easier and shorter And lastly thereout the Sunne draweth vapours which after turned into raine doe refresh the Aire and make the ground fruitfull The like good vses may be found in all other the Creatures of God how vnlikely foeuer they seeme to wicked Atheists Looke more in S. Basil Chrysostome Ambrose and others who write of the Creation and at large haue declared what excellent commodities man may reape of euery creature 66 But shall I still be toss'd Fitly and in very good time the Poet hauing ouerslipt nothing worthy note in this discourse

that I need say no more of them 4 For the fourth Article we must consider this that the Earth so enuironed with Sea is a spongie poicus body full of channels conduit-pipes both neare her ouer-face and thorow her inner parts euery way whereby it comes to passe that all the great streams arising of little springs and fountaines farre from Sea and before they come there encountring and bearing with them an ininite company of land flouds brookes and small tides yet encrease not the Sea which affords so much water to the whole Earth by her secret waies afore-said As for the Snow and Raine which falleth sometime in great plentie to encrease the waters this is but an exchange that the Aire still makes in paying that againe which it borrowed of the Sea Yet aboue all is the power and wisdome of God the Creator to be thought-on who by his onely will and command keepes so the waters heapt-together in his great Magazin of the Sea which otherwise both by reason of their nature and daily encrease would ouerflow all as they did before God commanded the dry-land to shew it selfe then fled they at the voice of their Maker as it is said in the 104. Psalme And beholding the shore stopt their course there yea ran againe backward as fearing their Master 5 Hereupon it folleth out fit that I speake somewhat of the Seas Ebbe and Flow. This is the right and proper motion thereof considered not as water but as the Sea The Poet in the third day of his first weeke shewes diuers opinions concerning this Ebbe and Flow. Some thinke that when the waters were first commanded to retire and shew the dry-land God gaue them this perpetuall motion which as a ballance whereof the Equator is beame doth rise and fall without ceasing and hath this vertue from the Primouable and shall continue it to the worlds end But the learneder sort hold the Moone by her diuers apparitions of waxing and waining to cause this motion of the Sea Whereunto the Poet also in place aboue-quoted seemes to encline Some say also the Sunne helpes it forward and breeds great alteration in the masse of waters by his great heat and brightnesse because it is obserued that alwaies when the Sunne and Moone are in coniunction the Seas Ebbe and Flow is greatest but this also comes specially by the Moone as by some reasons here following shall further appeare The holy Scripture indeed here as all where else mining the wonderous order of Nature teacheth vs to lift vp our thoughts to God the Creator who stirres and stayes the Sea how and when it pleaseth him yet may we say neuerthelesse that herein he commonly doth vse the seruice of second causes though keeping still to himselfe the soueraigne authority ouer them all so as he can hinder change and vtterly destroy them at his pleasure With this acknowledgement consider we these Inseriour causes Plutarch in his third booke of the Philosophers Opinions Chap. 17. showes what they thought of old time concerning the T●des and alterations of the Sea Some he saith ascribe the cause of them to the Sunne and Winds others to the Moone a third sort to the high-rising of waters in generall a fourth to the swelling of the Atlanticke Sea Now he distinguishes the motion into three kinds to wit the Streame and that is naturall the Floud and that is violent the Ebbe and that is extraordinarie As for the Floud it is a motion of the Sea water rising and falling twice in some and twentie houres whereby the Sea is purged and cleansed by certaine periods answerable to the rising and setting of the Moone It is in the n●ame Ocean open to the winds that the sloud is strongest but appears chiefe●y by the shore-side where it is not checkt or staid by some islāds The Midland Sea hath not the Tide In the Adriatike and other like Bayes there is searse any The Baltique hath none at all because it is so straightned and bound with land euery way and is so full of Islands If the Moone be in the waine or past the first qua●ter the Tide is euery where weake but neare the new Moone or full it waxeth very strong and this is held to be the reason because this Planet being so neere vnto vs and hauing Domimon ouer all moisture encreaseth the waters and drawes them to and fro as she riseth or setteth for where she setteth vnto vs shee riseth vnto the other Hemisphere The Ebbe and Flow is sometime more slow and gentle sometime more swift and violent according as the Moone waineth or waxeth but herein must we note also the diuers seasons of the yeare together with the winds which helpe or hinder much the Tides and cause them to runne more swift or slow This power hath the Moone by motion of the Primouable which maketh her tise and set as the Sunne and other Starres doe in the space of a day When she riseth the sea begins to swell till shee come to the Medridian or Moone-line of any place and from thence abateth all the while she is tending to the set then the Sea descends with her till she come toward the Counter-Meridian where the water is againe at the highest and falles till she rise againe to this our Hemisphere So whereas the Tides keepe no certaine hower but are sometime sooner sometime later the cause is that though the Moone be whirled about with motion of the Primouable yet hauing proper motion in latitude of the Zodiacke thwarting that other she riseth not alwaies at the same time nor in the same Signe not with the same light and distance from the Sunne nor with the same coniunction and aspect of other Planets and fixed Stars all which cause a difference and are some more some lesse disposed to the encrease of waters And these Sea-waters doe also much differ in nature Some are cleare and purified and haue roome enough these flow moderately but higher others muddy thicke and kept-in with straights which runne with more violence though not with so high a Tide This hath God appointed to cleanse and preserue the waters for in time of calmes they grow ranke and the Sea sends-vp ill vapours being the great sinke as it were of corrupt matter which is to be scummed and cleansed by the Tides and winds These also doe serue for Nauigation but chiefly to magnifie the Creators wonderfull power when wee see thereby and consider how truly it is said in the Psalme 107.23 and 24. They that goe dawne to the Sea in sh●ps and occupie their busiaesse in great waters doe see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deepe c. For that huge masse of salt-water yeelds it selfe captiue as it were to the Moone-beames and thereby is easily commanded I will enter no further into the cause of this Miracle but lest I be too long in these notes leaue those to search it deeper that are more able 6 Concerning

and Winter Season holds the Basse our Phleme like the Autume time and Element of Water the Tenor our Blood like the Spring and Aire the Counter-tenor which runnes through all kinde of Notes our Choller as the Summer time and Fire the Treble as for all other parts vsed in Musicke they are euer correspondent to some one of these foure 51. See then the cause He speakes now of the effect and power of Musicke The Platonicks held the soule of Man to be composed of numbers and proportions the excellence whereof is chiefely in the heauens whereupon it ensues that Musicall harmony somewhat partaking with the nature of I se and soule diuersly mooues and affects all liuing Creatures capable thereof The Poet plaies vpon this opinion but still with a caueat that the truth and ground of this doctrine be rightly vnderstood For mans Soule is not made of numbers as the word is simply taken but thus much onely meanes the Platonist that these spirituall substances enclosed in mans body are so exquisite and as it were harmonious that all harmony concord and proportion delights them and contrariwise all discord and disproportion or confused noyse offends them as we see by daily experience Furthermore he that hath created all things in perfect concord and proportion would euen in such as seeme farthest from well agreeing haue the force of Musicke shew it selfe ●y the attention it commandeth of hearers and by their loue and reuerence thereof Whereupon I boldly dare auouch that soule not well ordered in it selfe or not well fitted with a body which cannot abide sweet harmony 52. Sweet Harmony In twelue verses here the Poet sets-out the force of Musicke both in regard of men and beasts whereof we finde in ancient History very notable examples as Te●●a●der Timotheus Ari●● and others wh●●by their Musicke haue done great wonders made the most offended to be friends one with another the most melancholy and sad to bee merry fooles to be wise and sum as were like to runne mad for loue to be stayed and what not It is reported also that against the Ph●l●●gies poyson there ●●n helpe to ready and oueraigne as the well ordered sound of Musicall Instruments See what Ae●●an P●●●y and Plutarch ●y thereof 53. O what 's to Musicke hard He goes on yet further and shewes how Musicke is able to preua●e euen with God himselfe And this he proues by three examples the first of Soul 1. Sam. 10. who meeting a company of Prophets with Instruments of Musicke began also to prophesie among them the second of Elizeus 2. King 3. who called for a Minstrell and when the Minstrell played the hand of the Lord that is his Spirit came vpon the Prophet the third of God anger appeased by deuout singing of Psalmes and namely those of Dauid which in the mouth of Gods faithfull seruants are of wonderfull power as by many particulars of these and former times may well be proued For God indeed hath promised to be neere vnto all those that call vpon him faithfully Psal 145.18 And it becommeth well the righteous to reioyce in the Lord and be thankfull Psal 33.1 To conclude here is the effect of a zealous prayer wherein heart voice and accent runne together most liuely set-out by the Poet describing with most elegant similitudes the fierce wrath of God against sinne and the sweetnesse of his mercy when he is appeased 54. But now as Heb'r had thought The Poet intending to make here an end of the second day of his second weeke brings-in Canan the sonne of Cham to seeke as it were by Fate along the bankes of Iordaine for the Countrey that was after to be inhabited by his posteritie So he comming toward the Pillar breakes-off the learned conference that was betwixt the other two And here therefore shall end our Commentary-Notes vpon these high conceits of this excellent Poet. FINIS The Epistle to the Lord Admirall 1596. WEighing how neare it concernes your Honourable Charge what strangers passe the Seas into England I was thereby and otherwise in humble dutie moued to giue your Lordship first intelligence of this Gentleman whom I haue newly transported out of Frame and also thought it necessary to craue your fauourable protection of him in this his trauell A worthy man is he my Lord in his owne Countrie howsoeuer here disguised and one of the sonnes of that Noble and Diuine Poet LE SIEVR DV BARTAS in my simple iudgement the properest and best learned of them all I am sure the best affected to England and the gracious Empresse thereof for which cause I made speciall choise of him and doe therefore the rather hope to finde fauour on his behalfe with your Honourable Lordship whose loyaltie to the Crowne the Prince by trust of so high an Office whose loue to the Land the people by ioynt consent of daily felt vertues haue so fully witnessed that the fame thereof hath spred it selfe farre beyond that your admirable Regiment In so much as this gentle stranger though he were at the first vnwilling Vl●sses-like to leaue his natiue soile especially now in this dangerous sea-faring time while all the world is in a manner troubled with Spanish Fleets yet after he called to minde what he had heard and written of the mightie Goddesse of the English Ocean and who there swayed the Trident vnder her trusting vpon such a Neptune he went aboord with a good courage and doubting not at all but that the proud Spanish Carackes if they be not yet sufficiently dismaid by the wracke they suffered in their former aduenture but dare againe attempt the like be they neuer so many more or greater than they were if more and greater they can be shall againe by the grace of God directing as before the courage and wisdome of Englands renowned Admirall be dispersed ouer the frowning face of our disdainfull Seas and drunken with salt waues regorge the bodies of their presumptuous Pilots And so my Lord with a fauourable wind breathing directly from the French Helicon by the safe conduit of your Honourable name and helpe of the Muses at length I landed my stranger in England Where since his arriuall he hath gladly encountred diuers of his elder brethren that were come ouer before some in a princely Scottish attire others in faire English habits and to the intent he might the better enioy their company whh by this time had almost forgotten their French he was desirous to learne English of me therefore I kept him a while about mee was his teacher at home and enterpreter abroad and now that he hath gotten such a smattering of the tongue as hee can so as hee can speake for himselfe may it please your good Lordship to talke with him at your leisure though I know you vnderstand very well his naturall speech I am of opinion it will much delight you to heare him vtter such counterfeit English as in so little time I was able to teach him He can say somewhat of the godly gouernment of good Princes the wicked practises of Tyrants as well in compassing as maintaining a Scepter both worthy your Lordships hearing for the manner sake though the matter be not vnknowne to your wisdome But some other things he doth report very strange as of NIMROD that was the first Tyrant of the world after the time of Noah the first Admirall of the world his aspiring minde and practises in seeking the peoples fauour his proud and subtile attempt in building the Tower of Babel and Gods iust punishment thereof in confounding the language of the builders Very truly reckoneth he that which few doe consider the great and manifold inconueniences that are befallen mankinde by the diuersitie of tongues Further he can tell of speech in generall whether man speake by nature or haue but onely an aptnesse to speake by vse and whether any other creature haue the like as for seuerall speeches he can prooue with many goodly reasons which is the best and most ancient of them all what altereth each tongue what continueth each in account what languages are in greatest regard now-adaies and what Authors haue most excelled in them And vpon occasion of the English tongue my Lord he setteth-out in such manner the Queenes princely Majesty her learning wisdome eloquence and other excellent vertues that I know your noble and loyall heart will greatly reioice to heare it at the mouth of such a stranger The rest if it be more curious then for the States weightie affaires your L. may intend to heare I wish referred vnto those goodly young Gentlewomen your noble and father-like-minded Sonnes whom after your L. I doe most of all honour there shall they finde profit so blended with pleasure learning with delight as it may easily win their hearts already vertuously aspiring from the wanton and faining Cantoes of other Syren-Poets wherewith many young Gentlemen and chiefely those of greatest hope are long and dangerously mis-led vnto a further acquaintance with this heauenly-Poeticall Writer of the truth who is now growne into such a liking of this Country chiefely for the peaceable gouernment thereof blessed be that Gouernor and free course of the Gospell God continue it and send the like into France that he is desirous to become a Freedenizen and hoping further to be an eye-witnesse of Gods wonderfull mercies towards this Land whereof in France he spake but by heare say to behold that precious Northerne Pearle and kisse her Scepter-bearing hand whose worthy praise he hath sung so sweetly he humbly beseecheth your gracious fauour to be enfranchised which if it may please you to grant my Lord vouchsafing also the patronage of him that vnder seale of your Honorable name he may escape the carping censures of curious fault-finders and enioy all honors priuileges liberties and lawes that belong euen to the naturall inhabitants of this noble Isle my selfe will vndertake to Fine for him at least hearty praiers for your daily encrease of honor and all such obedience as it shall please your L. to impose Whose I rest euer at command WILLIAM L'ISLE