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A03379	The muses threnodie, or, mirthfull mournings, on the death of Master Gall Containing varietie of pleasant poëticall descriptions, morall instructions, historiall narrations, and divine observations, with the most remarkable antiquities of Scotland, especially at Perth By Mr. H. Adamson.	Adamson, Henry.	1638 (1638)	STC 135; ESTC S100435	48,230	108

shovv Which I have found in an old manuscript But in our late records is overslipt Which storie no lesse probable is than true And my good Monsier I vvill show it you I leave to speak vvhat Hollinshed hath told Of Cunidag vvas Britaine king of old The time Vzziah was of Iuda king And Ieroboam did ov'r Israel reigne Ere Rome a citie was yeers fourtie five Ere sons of Rhea did for masterie strive Hovv that this Heathen built three cels of stone To Mercurie at Bongor built he one His vvay for to direct then to Apollo At Cornuel another did he hallovv For favourable response the third to Mars Where Perth novv stands for to assist his wars But good Monsier this storie is too old Therefore I leave the rest of it untold The time vvill not permit me to out-read it I 'm sure in Hollinshed yee often read it I will a storie of no lesse credite tell In after ages truely what befell When mightie Romaines came into this soile With endlesse labour and undaunted toile After great conflicts and uncertaine chance Of Fortunes dye they did in armes advance At length unto these parts where Perth doth stand Under the conduct and victorious hand Of that most valiant Chieftain of great fame Brave Iulius Agricola by Name And there hard by a river side they found The fairest and most pleasant plot of ground That since by bank of Tiber they had beene The like for beautie seldome had they seene Of eighteene hundreth paces good in length From Muretowne brays to foot of Carnaks strength King of the Pights which stood on Moredune hill The foot thereof from Friers dwelt thereintill Now named is in breadth eight hundreth paces Painted with white red yellow flowrie faces So equall fair which when they did espy Incontinent they Campus Martius cry And as an happie presage they had seene They fixt their tents amidst that spatious greene Right where now Perth doth stand and cast their trenches Even where Perths fowsies are between these inches The south and north and bastalies they make The power and strength of Scots and Pights to brake Who presently would fight by wise cunctation They frustrat all their hope and expectation For well this most victorius Romaine knew T' abate his Enemies rage and courage too Finding the place even to their hearts desire With grasse for pasture stor'd and wood for fire The river likewise verie opportune For lighter vessels to passe up and downe And correspondence with their Navie make As Souldiers wise they all occasions take And do conclude to winter in that place To foile their foes by voluntarie chace Meane while couragiously they do advise A bridge to build for further enterprise Then forthwith fall they with redoubling stroaks To fell the tall firre trees and aged oaks Some square the timber with a stretched line Some do the tenons and the morties joine Some frame an ovall others make a cub Some cut a section other some do grub Some with great compasse semicircles forme Some drive the wadges painfullie some worme Some do hoyse up the standers others fixe them And some lay goodly rafters ov'r betwixt them What strength or skill can work from point to point They cunningly contrive with angular joint And do most strongly binde these contignations To make them stand against all inundations All men are set on frame all hands are working And all ingines are bussied without irking Thus in short space a bridge they strongly make With passage fair and for their safeties sake A mightie strength to be they frame withall On either end a bridge to lift and fall That souldiers might within it keep at ease Admitting or repelling as they please Thus fortified lest that they should neglect Due honour to their gods they did erect To Mars a temple rather did restore The temple built by Cunidag before For time on all things worketh demolition And heathen men maintaine like superstition Then did this valiant chiftaine name the river In Italies remembrance Neo-Tiber Which afterwards it kept for many a day How long I know not now it s called Tay. Likewise an house of mightie stone he framed From whence our Castell-gavell as yet is named And if Domitian had not cald him home I think he should have built another Rome But all these monuments were worne away Ere did King William Perths foundation lay Only Mars temple stood upon that greene And th' house built by Agricola was seene And some characters cunningly incisde With Iulius Agricola imprisde In solid marmor and some print was found Where camped had an armie and the ground Where there had beene a bridge all which did yeeld Occasion to King William for to beild After old Bertha's overthrow that citie These ancient walls and famous bridge ah pitie If they were as But what doth not the rage Of men demolish and consuming age For good King William seeing where had beene Of old a passage forthwith did ordaine A mightie bridge of squaired stone to be These famous wals and fusies which we see Perth his chief strength to make and seat of power Did with most ample priviledge indue her These be the first memorials of a bridge Good Monsier that we truely can alledge Thus spake good Gall and I did much rejoice To heare him these antiquities disclose Which I remembring now of force must cry Gall sweetest Gall what ailed thee to die The fourth Muse. THis time our boat passing too nigh the land The vvhirling streame did make her run on sand Aluif vve cry'd but all in vain t' abide We were constrain'd till flowing of the tide Then Master Gall quod I even for my blessing Now let us go the pretious pearles a fishing Th' occasion serveth well while heere we stay To catch these mussels you call toyts of Tay It 's possible if no ill eye bewitch us We jewels finde for all our dayes t' enrich us The waters here are shald and clear and warme To bath our armes and lims will do no harme For these sweet streames have power to bring back Our spirits which in outward parts make slake Our naturall strength but when these sprits retire They multiplie our heat and inbred fire Helping our vitall and our naturall parts Our lungs our levers stomachs and our hearts And mightily refrigerat our reanes But above all they do refresh our spleans For such a bathing bravely doth expell Melancholie which makes the splean toswell More than it should causing an atrophie That we like skelets rather seeme to be Then men and Atropos appears to laugh Thinking we look liker an Epitaph Then marriage song likewise it doth us make Both supper and collation freshly take Content said Gall Then off our shoes we drew And hose and from us we our doublets threw Our shirt sleeves wreathing up without more speeches And high above our knees pulling our breeches In waters go then streight mine armes I reach Unto the ground whence

sheepheards from the hyrelings voice Which as they did foretell did come to passe Some sixteene yeeres or thereby more or lesse Thus with cleare signes by Gods own Sprit exprest In full assurance of heavens blesse they rest Meane while Saint Catharins Chaplan standing by Wringing his eyes and hands did often cry Alace alace for this unhappie turn I feare for it one day we shall all mourn And that by all it shall be plainlie said That we blind guides the blinded long have led Some Churchmen there bad pack him heretick Else certainelie they should cause burne him quicke This done friends take their bodies and with mourning Do carie them towards the town returning With heavie hearts them to this chappell bring But no Soule Masse nor Dirigé durst sing Yet this good Priest did lay them on the altar And all night read the pistle and the psalter With heart devote and sad from th' evening vapers Placing upon the altar burning tapers Unto the dawning exequies thus ended Their bodies to the Earth are recommended This Chapell some time stood by our theater Where I my self sprinkled with holie water After these dayes did often heare the Messe Albeit I knew not what it did expresse But this I saw a man with a shaven crown Raz'd beard and lips who look't like a baboun Perfum'd with odours and in Priestlie vestures Did act this mimik toy with thousand gestures A misterie indeed nor which no fable Acted on stage to make you laugh more able After these innocents were martyred thus As you have heard Churchmen were odious And when occasion serv'd so did they finde For so soone as did blow a contrare winde The houre was come and then our Knox did sound Pull down their idols throw them to the ground The multitude even as a spear did rush then In poulder beat and cald them all Nehushtan Our blak Friers Church and place white friers and gray Prophan'd and cast to ground were in one day The Charterhouse like a Citadale did hold Some tvvo dayes more untill these nevves vvere told We should be raz'd and sackt and brought to ground Not so much as a footstep should be found Where vvas such citie neither sexe nor age Should saved be untill the cruell rage Of fire and svvord should satiat that moud Quenching the fire vvith Citizens ovvne bloud And vvith destructions besome svveep from station And savv vvith sault perpetuall desolation To signifie These nevves made great commotion The fearfull people ran to their devotion Doctrine and prayers done chief men advise To take in hand first vvhat great enterprise Said one This place hard by our tovvn doth stand A mightie strength vvhich easely may command And vvrake our citie therefore let us go In time and to the ground it overthrovv For sure our Enemies vvill possesse the same And us from thence destroy vvith svvord and flame Even at their pleasure Then they all conclude In armes to rise and rushing as a floud VVhich overflovves the banks and headlongs hurles The strongest bulvvarks vvith devouring vvhirles Svvallovving the mightie ships them overvvhelme Nothing availes his skill that guides the helme Even so the multitude in armes arise VVith noise confusde of mirth and mourning cryes For that fair Palace then sexscore nine yeeres VVhich had continued turning of the spheres The fatall period brought to ground it must And all its pomp and riches turne to dust Even as these Martyrs truelie did foretell In everie point the judgement so befell Towres fall to ground Monks flee to hide their heads Nothing availe their rosaries and beads Then all men cry'd Raze raze the time is come Avenge the guiltlesse bloud and give the doome Courage to give was mightilie then blown Saint Iohnstons huntsup since most famous known By all Musitians when they sweetlie sing With heavenly voice and well concording string O how they bend their backs and fingers tirle Moving their quivering heads their brains do whirle With diverse moods and as with uncouth rapture Transported so doth shake their bodies structure Their eyes do reele heads armes and shoulders move Feet legs and hands and all their parts approve That heavenlie harmonie while as they threw Their browes O mightie straine that 's brave they shew Great phantasie quivering a brief some while With full consent they close then give a smile With bowing bodie and with bending knee Me think I heare God save the Companie But harmonie which heavens and earth doth please Could not our Enemies furious rage appease Cruell Erinnis reignes destruction shoring Ten thousand souldiours like vvilde Lyons roaring Against our tovvn do merch fame desolation Proclaimes the church then nam'd the Congregation Makes for defence But ah the Burghs distractions Papists and Protestants make diverse factions The town to hold impossible they finde The fields to take they purpose in their minde Factions within munition victuall scarce Hardly to hold eight dayes they finde by search Amids these doubts these valiant fellowes come In armes aray'd and beatting of the drum With coards about their necks Come come they cry We be the men who are resolv'd to die First in this quarrell we to death will fight So long as courage will afford us might And who so yeeldes alive this tow portends Streight must he hing where did our dearest friends Who suffered for the truth nothing we skunner This certainlie we count our chiefest honour Thus as Manasses half tribe Ruben Gad Do leave their cattell and mount Gilead Before their brethren over Iordan go In armes to fight against their cursed fo So these three hundred do abandon quite Their citie houses goods and chief delite Resolv'd to die all for the Gospels light Armed before their brethren merch to fight And having gain'd a place meet to abide Their enemies to resist courage they cride Be merrie fellowes all leave sad complaints Dine cheerefullie for sup we shall with Saints Fame spreads the brave attempt all martiall hearts Inflam'd with divine zeale flock to these parts From places most remote in armes they rise T' assist the matchlesse happie enterprise God giveth hearts to Men and mightiest things By weakest meanes he to confusion brings Our enemies ears are fild that all our feare Was into courage turned from despare Their fierie rage is quencht their hearts do faile Where God forsakes nought doth mans strength availe Then what their open force could not work out By sleight they endevour to bring about They treat of peace peace flees with joyfull wings But under it was hatcht most lewd designes When time should serve But he whose thought doth rule This Worlds great frame their madnesse did controule And gratiouslie through his aboundant pitie Preserv'd our Innocents and sav'd our citie ded When by small means they found themselves confoun Even to their verie heart roots were they wounded Then they began to raile and shew their passion Saying Such riband's meet for such profession And in contempt when any rogue