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city_n	age_n	king_n	zion_n	30	3	8.6011	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13386	Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The recouerie of Hierusalem An heroicall poeme written in Italian by Seig. Torquato Tasso, and translated into English by R.C. Esquire: and now the first part containing fiue cantos, imprinted in both languages.; Gerusalemme liberata. Book 1-5. English and Italian	Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.; Carew, Richard, 1555-1620.	1594 (1594)	STC 23697A; ESTC S118160	108,399	240

him speed For stay were now his most vnseemely deed Come not with him thy selfe but tarry there With Greekish king so to procure vs ayde Which more then once he hath vs promisde faire And by our league thus ought not be delayde So speakes he so informes and giues to beare Letters the which with greetings credence prayd Henryck for speed a present congey takes And with his thoughts a truce time Godfrey makes Th'ensewing day when of the lightsome east The gates are opned to the Sunnes approch The Drums and Trumpets gaue the eare no rest Exhorting warriours on the way t' encroch Thunder in heat is no such welcome guest Which hope of nere showre to the world doth broch As all the hardy souldiers pleasing found Of warlicke instruments this shrilly sound Straightway ech one pricked with great desire Clothed his lims with his oft-worne spoyles Straightway ech one musters in complet tire Straightway ech one to his chieftaine recoyles And the well-marshald army ioyned nyre His ensignes all displayes to Eols broyles And the Emperiall Standard stately-large A crosse triumphant ouer all doth charge This while the Sunne which in the heau'nly ground Still vauntage winnes and vp ascendeth hie On th'armour beates and flashes makes rebound And quaking lightnings cleere which bleare the eye The aire with sparckles seemes enflamed round And shines like burning fire that vp doth flie And with the neighings fierce accordes the noyse Of clashing armour and the fields accloyes The generall who from the en'mies snares Desires his troups in safetie may remaine Store of light horse from the maine armie pares And round to scoure the coast employes their paine And Pioners to send before he cares So for his campe an easie march to gaine The pits to fil the cragges away to take And passages foreclosde wide ope to make There are no Painim forces leauide yet No walles enuironed with trenches steepe No riuer broad no combrous hill to get No forrest thicke their voyage backe to keepe Eu'n so the king of streames on priding set When as he growes past measure high and deepe Beyond his banckes abroad all wrackfull goes And nought is found that dare it selfe oppose Onely the King of Trypoli who kept Within well guarded walles coyne men and armes Athwart the Frankish army might haue stept Yet durst he not by warre to stirre vp harmes But he by presents to their fauour crept And by his fires at home them gladly warmes And such conditions of a peace doth take As vertuous Godfrey likes with him to make There from Mount Seyr which vplifted hie Neere to the Citie stands on easterne side Of true beleeuing wights a companie Mingled in age and Sexe downe slocking hide And Christens presents brought for victorie And glad them view and with them talking bide Admiring vncouth armes and to Godfrey They prou'd true faithfull guides to shew the way He euer butting on the salt-sea waue By wayes directest doth conduct his hoast Well weeting that th'associat shipping haue Resolu'd to sayle still hard aboord the coast Which course vnto his armie plenty gaue Of vittaile and what else was needfull most For him ech I le of Greece their haruest rept And Creete and rocky Scio vintage kept The bordering Sea vnder the waight did grone Of the tall ships and of the lightest pines So as safe passage there was open none In Midland Sea to any Saracines For mand out not from Marck and George alone In the Venetian and the Gene confines Came fleetes But England France Holland some Do send and some from fruitfull Sicil come And these which now together are combinde With soundest knot of loue in one consent At diuers shores had loden in ech kind What by the Campe should needfully be spent So when the frontire coast they freed finde From en'mies shipping which are close vp pent With canvas spred at full they thither goe Where Christ for mortall men bare mortall woe But fame foreran ' the ready carrier Of true reports and rumours fraught with lyes That safe is ioyn'd the army conquerer And now sets forth and all delaying flyes She of ech band makes a perticular She showes their names whose prayse doth highest rise She showes their vaunts and terrible of face Sions vsurpers ceasles doth menace And ill lookt for perhaps brings greater ill Then selfe ill doth when it is present beare On ech vncertaine breath of rumour still Doubtfull hangs eu'ry mind and eu'ry eare Muttring confusde within without doth fill The fields and dolefull Citie all with feare But th' aged King neere perill of such losse Counsels sauage in doubtfull hart doth tosse Aladine is his name who of that realme Newe Soueraigne liued in continuall thought A man earst cruell but that mood extreame His riper age part had to mildnesse wrought He that conceau'd whereat the Latines ayme Who of his towne the walles to batter sought To auncient feare adioyneth new suspectes And dreads his foes and dreadeth his subiectes For in one Citie mingled dwellings fall Of people contrarie in faith the lesse And weaker part on Christ their Sauiour call The great and stronger Mahomet professe But when the king first conquer'd Sion wall And there his seat to stablish did addresse From common taskes the Painims he set free And double lodes the Christians miserie The thought of this his natiue sauage mood Which couched lay and languisht cold with yeares Angring eneigres and it makes new wood That thirst of bloud now more then aye appeares So gentle seemd a while the Snakish brood That to his fiercenesse turnes as Sommer neares And so the tamed Lion takes againe His natiue fury if he wrong sustaine I see sayes he of new conceiued ioy Vndoubted signes in this vnfaithfull race What their sole good that proues our chiefe annoy Sole they do laugh in this our common case Of woe and now perhaps their wits employ To guile and treason and discourse apace How me to slay or to consorted mates Mine enemies how they may d'ope the gates But soft not so I will preuent I trow Their wicked purposes I 'le glut my will I 'l hew them downe I 'l sharpe examples show I 'l sucklings in their mothers bosoms kill I 'l fire in ech their house and temples throw Such funerals shall their death rights fulfill I 'l offer on that Sepulchre of theirs Their Priests for sacrifice amid their Preyrs So did this tyrant reason in his mind But thought so ill conceiu'd tooke no successe Yet if these innocents a pardon finde Base hart not pittie doth him thereto presse For if one feare to crueltie him tinde Another greater doubt bridles no lesse He dreads all wayes of concord to debarre And armes of conqu'ring foes t' incense too farre This fellon then his mad rage tempereth Or rather seekes elsewhere the same to wrake The countrey houses downe he ruyneth And places well manur'd a pray doth make To flames Nought leaues he whole or soūd vnneath Where any