In some I meane and not in all his worke For pleasant folly couch't therein may lurke Yet the allusion and the meaning sure May reference haue vnto the Scripture pure And though it shines as Tytans westerne rayes By some 't is held but wanton in our dayes But most of all the ripenesse of these times The heauenly works vp to the clouds that climes The enuious eye which ouerlookes our deeds When each mans taste on sundry dishes feedes The snarling cur at euery thing that bites The slandring Mome which no good worke endites The monster curst with his vile forked tongue That from Hels vault vp to the earth first sprung With Hidra heads and Ianus double face To fawne before then wound to our disgrace Hath made my Muse vnwilling heere to sing As loath her selfe vpon the stage to bring To each mans view and her owne painefull toyle But that the sight may many vices spoyle When sin we see vnmasked brought to light And damn'd offences naked to our sight Like lezabel that did the Clouds aspire 1. Kin. 4. 18 19 Chap. 19. 2 Cha. 21. 10 23 In rusling silks and glorious braue atire Vnder a holy outward forme and rite Gods chosen flock are fleec't and murthered quite But once vnmask't the Minions of her court Hurle heri'th durt pash out her braines in sport And as a foule mishapen painted monster 2. Kin 9. 30 33 35 37. Conceit of her as all the world doth conster Then is she seene disrob'd disrank't of all The map of folly in her sudden fall Her cup with poyson damned Enuy fills Her cursed eyes haue seene those seuen built hills Where all the Saints Apostles Martyrs stood With crimson colours all imbru'd in bloud O glorious God inspiror of my Muse Grant that thy Word my soule may dayly vse And that what learning painefully it got Still from the truth may neuer swerue a iot That in her spring beginning and her bud May sing thy glory to the Churches good And in foule folly none asleepe I rock Nor giue offence to any of thy flock But that my speech as generall to all May like a Sermon in the Pulpit fall And not to wade in curious questions deepe But feede thy flock and edifie thy sheepe That none at all may haue a iust excuse By such examples as I shall produce And all that see their faults their liues may mend That to thy glory I this Worke may end Then shall the world with admiration see Her face vnmask't to all eternitee The famous actions heeretofore lay dead Shall then be rouz'd out from obliuions bed And all the noblest kingdoms euer knowne Will be reuiu'd within my verse be showne Their manners customes nature and their state Their end beginning fortune and their fate From Adam first throughout in euery age Shall heere be mustred on this publike Stage In Rurall Robes to giue the earth content How heeretofore the ages past weee spent O that my Muse might once but rest in peace Then would she sing diuinely neuer cease But worke out Truth within her holy Rimes Glyding along descending to our times And deare Vrania Soueraigne of my verse Should heere the glory of this world rehearse Vnfoulding still to Gods immortall glory The heauenly sweetenesse of a sacred story What may we thinke of all the iudgements iust Of great Iehouah buried in the dust Beside all those in holy Scriptures pend Which humane wit as yet could neuer mend Nor all the Rabbies in their learned fame Could euer tell how to correct the same Shall we go on and still be bold to thinke Hee 'le punish them and on vs alwayes winke For some of them the earth it selfe did gape How can we know that we are sure to scape The Angels which against the Lord did swell He quite casheer'd and cast them downe to hell Where being bound eternally in chaines They feele the torments of ten thousand paines Farre more then can expressed be in inke And all the world and sinfull man can thinke Adam what made thee wilfully at first To leaue thy of-spring to this day accurst So wicked foule and ouer growne with Sinne And in thy person all of it beginne That hadst thou stood in Innocenie fram'd Death Sin and Hell the world and all thou hadst tam'd Then hadst thou beene a Monarch from thy birth Gods onely Darling both in heauen and earth The world and all at thy command to bend And all heauens creatures on thee t' attend The sweetest life that euer man could liue What couldst thou aske but God to thee did giue Protected kept thee like a faithfull Warden As thy companion in that pleasant Garden No canckred mallice once thy heart did moue Free-will thou hadst endude from him aboue What couldst thou wish all worlds content and more The best Diuine that ere the Earth yet bore Gods onely Sonne the Prince of Peace except For thy sad fall how oft mine eyes haue wept Alas weakeman hadst thou in honour stood How heauenly blest thrice happy beene thy blood And all thy aged issue to this day Had liu'd secure as in the Month of May. What need had we that any should haue dy'd Vpon the Crosse our sinfull soules reuiu'd And that Messias God himselfe the Son Should here descend to put our nature on To liue deiected poore contemn'd forlorn'd Derided beate tost vpside downe and scorn'd And more to beare for this thy wofull fall Then euer man which liu'd vpon this ball Curst be that Diuell that first thy sence bely'd If thou hadst liu'd then we had neuer dy'd Oh God! to purchase with that bloody cost Our soules redeem'd when they were fully lost Here is a loue which farre surmounts the skies My sences rapts and dazles both mine eyes But tell me Adam what might be the cause That thou shouldst breake thy holy Makers lawes When of a thousand which might make vs weepe In all the world thou hadst but one to keepe And that but light Alas couldst thou not see But touch and taste that one forbidden tree Which in the midst of all the garden grew An ill knowne tree to make thy ofspring rew What pleasant tast or relish had the same How were thy senses dim'd and much to blame That had the Garden sole at thy command And all the fruits within thy sight to stand Farre better pure more daintier euery way Then such an Apple painted like a gay Fit for a woman or some lickorish foole A silly child or one that goes to schoole Thy wilfull foule absurd and grosse abuse Against thy God admits no iust excuse T is not the losse of one poore Apple mist That thou didst grapple in thy sinfull fist Could be the cause his anger to procure Fierce heauy wrath eternall to endure It was not that he did so much respect But thy foule error wilfull bad neglect Contempt of Him rebellion treason pride And all the sinnes within the world beside That linked
venom'd carkasse in thy pride shall barnish An vgly creature shalt thou be vncouth Thy teeth all blacke within thy lying mouth Out of that hollow irkesome vast abisse Vpon thy belly shalt thou crawle and hisse Dust shalt thou eate and canckred be thy skin Thy body swolne with poyson all within Thy viperous seed in vgly enuy borne To all the world shall be the hatefull scorne In euery path and out of euery hedge Their poyson fell in humane flesh shall wedge That when they time and place to purpose feele Their venom'd tongue shall bite them by the heele Thus till the earth shall mould away and fall Where men least thinke there shall they lie and crawle The Womans seed in iust reuenge againe Thy head shall breake and cursed actions baine When that sweet Babe shall to the world be borne That heauen and earth with glory shall adorne Then shall he trample on thy cursed hide And on the clowds with winged fame shall ride Before his face shall ratling cracks of thunder Amaze thy sense and reasons false bring vnder To see when he shall on the earth descend How thou in chaines and fetters shalt be pend Tormented in those paines no tongue can tell Scorcht all to cinders with dam'd diuels in hell Curst is thy life thrice cursed is thy race Voyde of all goodnes mercy loue and grace Here is thy doome vpon thy Snakie head That others with thee hast to sinne misse-lead Scarse these last words were spake by God himselfe Of his sad iudgement gainst this cursed Elfe And but beginning of Eues dismall speech When suddenly she gan to cry and screech When in the instant from the lofty skyes Miscricordia Mercy comes downe and into Eden hies Prostrated falls vpon her bended knees But God himselfe his daughter deare that sees With weeping eyes before his face to craue That but on Eue he would compassion haue Began to stay his minde to alter cleane And to the woman now began to leane But that hard by stood Iustice in the place And vrg'd him much to prosecute the case When all the reason Mercy well could render Was that her selfe was of the female gender Whilest both of these each other do oppose Iustitia Misericordia Loath each of them their humble suite to lose Contending still as aduocates at Barre Or combatants in furious fearefull Warre And altogether iudgement speedy feares Natura Gods eldest daughter in the place appeares Nature diuine like to Aurora fac't A noble Lady beautifull and chast Simile Naturae descriptio Braue famous Queene a royall person borne Whom heauen and earth and all therein adorne Her haire disheueld trailing to the ground And in the same the rarest secrets bound Without all art in curious manner curld And in her hand the Globe of all the world Ten thousand colours in her gowne are seene Wrought by her selfe vpon a ground of greene In all her iewels of admired gaine With fower braue Ladies bearing vp her traine The Elements She sober enters in that sacred place And downe she fals before the Almighties face Father sayd she deare Father here behold Oratio Giue me but leaue to be a little bold Finding my sisters iarring neuer cease To reconcile and set them both at Peace A holy worke which thou hast euer loued My selfe thereto by charity first moued One of my deare affected sisters sweete That from this place to heauen did lately fleete Brought me such newes when at the first we met Till all dissolue I neuer shall forget And like it is this massie weighty ball Which hangs so euen iust in the midst of all Would soone returne to what it was at first If all thereon for this one fault were curst Behold this Fabricke here within my hand The mighty Gloabe of all the world doth stand What will become of all thy Noble workes This goodly frame and all that euer lurkes Within the compasse of the heauen and earth If now destroyd within their prime and birth All will consume and vnterly decay If Iustice once thy Mercy ouersway Iustice I know doth vrge thy sacred word Which from the Truth as yet hath neuer stird Thy penalty on Adam and his Race For foule offending in this holy place The execution of thy Law diuine In the least tittle of each Statute line Which hath ordaind that in that dismall day In which the woman did the diuell obay To taste the fruite and sucke it with her breath That both of them should die a fearefull death Mercy againe as being full of Loue Pittie compassion from thy throane aboue Presents her selfe before thy sacred face Imploring Goodnes Maiestie and Grace To be a meanes to mediate a peace And that for once all further iudgement cease When by the Enuie of a viperous tong Hatcht by the diuell this cursed malice sprung And their offence to take it at the worst By Iustice weigh'd will yet be found the first O then deare Father let me speake my minde Be lust and Louing Mercifull and Kinde Punish all sinne according to thy word The Truth preserue that none at Iustice gird But yet let Mercy at thy right hand sit Thy noble workes in sacred holy writ Shall then be blaz'd vnto their vtmost worth And thou be knowne a God vpon this earth Then shall large volumes with thy prayses swell Thy Mercy drop to infant soules in hell Which neuer haue offended much thy minde But borne in sinne and neuer knowne vnkinde Whose cursed parents crost thy heauenly will The sperme of those that liue in errour still Thy sentence past cannot againe be call'd And truth must stand before thy face instal'd That very day according to thy word In which the tree of Knowledge first was stird By Eue and Adams wilfull treachery Both of them then a cruell death should dye If mercy now had not come downe in hast And at thy feete her humble sute had cast Before this time that iudgement had beene giuen Both of their liues might well haue beene beriuen O then what would become of all this frame And all thereon too infinite to name The famous actions by thy spirit nurst All must returne to what it was at first One day with thee is as a thousand yeeres The hower of death Incertaine full of feares First saue the seede and let them liue in awe Then dye a death for breaking of thy Law So is thy word confirm'd my sisters pleaz'd The world remaine and iudgement somewhat eaz'd Then shall thy creatures in all ages stand The worke diuine of thy all powerfull hand And euery thing that on the earth is bred Shall shew thy glory both aliue and dead That all may stand to all eternity Thy only Son offers himselfe to dye But silenc'st once by Gods commanding Word The iarring sisters neuer after stird But satisfied and resting well content They spent the time in haplesse merriment And God aboue to iudgement doth
royall Empresse borne That all the World with glory didst adorne Vntill the second Habels deerest bloud Ran downe thy streetes like to a crimson floud Simile Titus in Iosep Adri. Aelius Then was thy fields with bloud and slaughter dide And made the Stage to all the World beside Whereon fierce Tyrants in their barbarous hearts With murdring minds haue acted all their parts So hath Damascus seldome beene at rest Whose fatall name bewrayes her bloudy brest When Benhadad Hazael Rezin fierce 2. King 16 9. The scarlet sinewes of her Heart did pierce There were the Titans murthered by the Blade Of Iupiter that all their army laid In such a sleepe as till the Earth be shak't By powre diuine will neuer more be wak't Great Babilon the Tyrant of the East The Sarazens and Aegypt in her pierst Braue Pompey wan it in sad mournefull sort And Tamberlaine he made them all amort Ierusalem which lou'd her deerely well Euen in her streetes hath tol'd her passing Bell. Haalon the Tartar in his lowring warre Ch. Adricom Theatrum â—ter sanct Within her bowels made a fearefull skarre The Persian Grecian Christian Romane last The cruell Turkes haue all their fortunes cast And fill'd the Ayre with pitteous shreikes and grones Piling vp heapes of dead mens Skuls and bones As if the place where Habels bloud was laid The buriall ground of all the World were made Euen as the bloud of deere Adonis slaine Simile By cruell Mars faire Venus loue to gaine Stain'd all the ground bedyde the crimson graue That powers diuine willing his worth to saue From darke Obliuions black forgetfull night Which smothers all in silence from the light With Nature ioyn'd to bring forth such a signe As shall for euer to all Ages shine In memory of that detested fact Which murthering Mars did in his fury act Vpon the body of that louely youth Though some perhaps will hardly thinke it truth But rarher by the ancient Poets fain'd Yet they I say haue to this day ordain'd That from the bloud of deere Adonis young The Safron flowers of all the Earth first sprung So may I say that from the scarlet blood Of Habel shed like to a crimson flood Within the midst of rich Damasco plains When Caine vnkindly pasht out all his braines It pleased God to his immortall Fame That still the Soyle should testifie the same With fragrant flowres adorning all the ground As no where else in all the world is found That some haue thought by this vile deed accurst The Damaske Rose sprang from his graue at first Ah dearest Muse here in this world of woes Mongst Tigres fell and cruell barbarous foes Prodigeous men Inhumain in their minds Deuouring Beasts that all to powlder grinds The Infants face the Innocent to hurt The Lambe to teare and throw him in the durt How blest are we which haue such wholesome lawes To keepe vs safe out from the murdring pawes Of rancorous men that in their deadly rage Would else no doubt straight shorten all our age By macerating blowes to wound and braine And spill our blood as did that damned Caine. But yet we cannot say that we liue free From as fowle sinnes and hatefull treacherie Now Murders Treasons enuious deeds begun Must close be kept and priuately be done We diue to Hell and sound the deepest pits Ransacke the Graues and vse our vtmost wits To find a Diuel or some small sugred Gall To witch a friend or poyson him withall Or else perchance if we do hap to faile As some there be will not set all to sale Yet that which curbes them from this damned vse I meane the Law how do they it abuse Making the same the poore mans feet to tye The instrument of all their villanie How are some men by greatnesse ouer swayd Their Liues Lands Goods and all they haue betrayd The Foote-ball made tost vp and downe by foes Turmoyld and vext plung'd in a world of woes Neuer at Peace forc't all their state to sell Vnfortunate by enuious men to dwell Clapt vp in Prison all their dayes to spend In wrangling Iangling brangling to noe end There is the Law where Purses well are linde To wrong the weake to satisfie their minde The louing Wise the selfe same course must run The Children small all vtterly vndone When once mans heart infected is with gall How doth it then to all foule vices fall Baines the whole house leauing them all forlone Much better farre if they were neuer borne Then here to liue subjected toyld with paine But neare the dore to some fell enuious Caine Yet sacred Muse euen in this mortall life The Iudgement iust of those delight in strife Thou often seest vpon their heads to fall Some breake their neckes off from their horse and all And some there be which wanting of their will Haue sought themselues their owne heart blood to spill With Poyson strong hastned their way to death Or with a Rope strangled their cruell breath Vsde all ill meanes to make away their liues To childrens griefe and terrour of their wiues Rauing inuoaking all the Damned fiends That all the world takes notice of their ends Others there be that toucht before their death With some remorse lye languishing in breath Out of this life cannot at all depart Till they haue crau'd forgiuenesse from their heart To ease their soule their conscience ouer pang'd Haue sent for those whom they before haue wrong'd Confest the Truth desirde them all to pray To God aboue for to be pleasde to lay No further torments Iudgements full of feare Vpon their backes then they can welnigh beare Those that run on their current with the tide And all their life in enuious courses bide Deare Muse thou knowst their lowring daye is neere When pale fac't death shall to their eyes appeare Then shall the diuell take them within his powre With gastly lookes euen at that dismall howre Tortring their soules in euerlastling woes Heauens iust Reward for all damn'd enuious foes Meane while the Ioyes that are layd vp aboue For those delight in quiet Peace and Loue Which haue bin wrongd with Patience much enurde Earths stormy brunts haue to their paine endurde That yet do liue suffring the wofull smart Vexation griefe trouble of mind and hart And to their end like Christian Martyrs bold Holde on their Race as I before haue told How is there in the Heauens aboue the line A sacred Crowne of purest gold most fine Inlayd with Iems and orient Pearles of worth More richer farre then all vpon this Earth Iam. 1. 12. Reu. 2. 10. Preseru'd for those and layd vp safe in store When all theirfoes must stand without the dore In endlesse paines with all the Diuels of hell And they with God aboue the clouds shall dwell Possessing there this conquering crowne of life Free from all care vexation trouble strife To muster here vpon a Sacred stage The Murders Treasons Plots in euery age
wofull prison sick to lye and rot Not once to case assawge their griefes a iot And all the while in Equity and Right There 's nothing due but what is got by might By Wrong Oppression diuelish traps and guile And wicked plodding in such actions vile Lord pardon them forgiue their great offences Call once againe illuminate their sences Waken their carelesse too secure a slumber Forget their faults too infinite to number Let them Restore what they haue wrongly got Else will those goods consume away and rot And aye the Infant yet vnborne will cry For Vengeance iust on their posterity But let not vs good Lord O let not vs Trace out their steps to giue examples thus Make vs auoyde to fall into the like Lest suddenly thy Iudgements do vs strike With farre more terror on our bodyes knowne Then euer was vpon Gehezi showne Or all thy chosen people thou didst make A warning sad for vs in Time to take Besides the losse eternall of thy Grace Where such a one shall neuer see thy face But chaste Vrania Soueraigne of my Muse In whom the Heauens do their best guifts infuse Why dost thou now thy loue so farre ingage As to descend downe to our times and Age Leauing the world that at the first was drownd To ramble out beyond thy scope to sound Damn'd Vice vnmaske with those that wrest and lurch And all this while thus to forget the Church Retire againe and stay not with vs long Thou maist be blam'd for this thy wholesome song For 't is most true one harldly scapes of ten That hunts the Foxe too neare the Lions den Auoyde begone contend not much with these For feare perhaps thou dost some men displease And so incurre some danger on thy selfe For taxing those which are in loue with pelfe Come to the Church deare Muse where last of all Thou Henoch leftst vpon this goodly Ball. There thou art tide O do not much abound Take sanctuary in their holy ground And from these things till time shall serue surcease Then shalt thou Rest and liue in perfect Peace Henoch the seuenth from Adams pupillage Gen. 5. 21. Iud. 14. At sixtie fiue yeares of his manly Age Begat a childe whose like was neuer found From this worlds birth in all her spatious Round That liu'd to see so many weekes of dayes As this man did and yet no strength decayes Methuselah the wonder of his time Whose age may claime of all the earth the prime Which liu'd to see with Simeons heart inflam'd The Arke of Noah before his death all fram'd Luk. 2. 25. 26. 27. Tipe of that Church which from mount Sion purl'd When Caesars scepter swayd the Westerne world Methuselah both ancient graue and sage One hundred fourescore and seauen yeares of Age All chaste doth liue and then begets a Son Vpon whose death the world was quite vndon Lamech the father of that faithfull child Which sau'd seauens Soules and all the rest beguild When that the Arke was by the waters heaued O then they knew their wits were all deceiued Great Noahs selfe from Lamechs loynes descended When full one hundred eightie yeares were ended And that the Sun had foure times crost the line Then is he borne and in his birth did shine Like to a glimpse of that all sacred light Simile Which in these dayes may dazle all our sight His name fore-tiping from his mothers brest That he was borne to be the Churches Rest Ioh 1. 19. Fiue hundred yeares or neare vpon he past His manly dayes both continent and chaste And then espowsed to his future Fame A Noble Faire and courteous louely Dame Some thinke the sister of great Tubal-Caine Genebrard in Cron Iew Rab. Sweete Naamah his loue at first did gaine Though from the Line of cursed Caine descended Yet of the Heauens she was so highly friended As that her Lot before the world was drown'd Fell lucky forth within the Churches ground Oh God thy workes are farre beyond our reach The least of them may all our Sences teach Thou hast thy sheepe disperst in euery place From Henochs Seths and Caines proud enuious Race It is thy pleasure bad mens sins to pay To saue some yet and cast not all away The Flowres oft times which do mongst Cockle grow May smell more sweet then any plant we sow And tender Seeds out from the Popish Seate May yet at length proue Eares of perfect wheate Chiefly when Noah Gods husbandman shall till And worke the ground according to his will With pruning planting in that forme and manner As was the Church once vnder Caesars Banner So Abraham was out from Chaldee cald Gen. 12. 28. Chap. 12. 2. Cha 41. 42. 43 44. Iob. 1. Exod. 2. 5. 6. 11. 13. 15. Hest 2. 17. cha 7. 6. 10. And Ioseph great in Egypts Court instald Iob in the land of Vz amongst those men Where so he liu'd that grieues my soule to pen And Moses milde amongst the murdring sort Was nurst brought vp within king Pharohs Court Hester the Queene that made her foes a scorne Was marryed tide vnto a Pagan borne And Paul hims elfth ' Apostle of vs all Yet first was bred within prowd Tarsus wal And diuers others which my Muse could name Were traind vp thus and yet deseru'd no blame For he that builds vpon the slippery sand Yet Time may serue to make his fabricke stand And these were such as from the rest reculde The weaker sexe are by the greater rulde Though some perhaps haue tride the same and mist Yet wise men still do winde them as they list As by example from Noahs happy choyce This world of ours may euer iust reioyce To haue a mother without blurre or staine When all were lost to store the Earth againe But what make wee deare Muse with Noahs wife Chaste Matron graue preseruer of our life Whose Fame deserues heauens azurd richest gowne A garland deckt and Lawrell wreathed Crowne And in her lap the Frame of all to hold I fall were made of solid beaten gold What if she be deriued from the Race Of cursed Caine yet hath she better face A Conscience cleane Religion in her brest Within whose Soule Heauens dearest guifts do rest Tipe of the Church now to perfection wrought Which was at first but out of darknesse brought Looke backe againe and post not one too fast For feare thou beest beyond thy compasse cast Tell what befell to Adams issue left What misdemeanours all his ofspring kept Ech man his neighbor deadly hates and wounds Sin ouerflowes in euery place abounds The greater still deuouring vp the small That in the end th' oppressed blood doth call For vengeance iust vnto the God of Powre Who doth descend and on the world doth lowre Repents himselfe that ere he did begin To frame the same thus poysoned all with sin Whose true repentance from his eyes did draw That streame of teares which wofully they saw When all the Earth
course on thus To anger thee so good and iust a God Not once afrayd of thy reuenging Rod But in the day that thou didst early rise Of death and hell to get th' immortall prize In which we were partakers of thy blood And body both vnto our soueraigne good And when we should repent vs of our sins By true contrition which thy mercy wins Engrafted made the members of that head Whose precious bloud our soules but then hath fed Relieue the poore examine well our fall In meditation spend the day and all And when we should thy sacred prayses sing To make thy people all the while to ring Whilst we at Bowles shall sometimes curse and fret And all for threepence which we cannot get And shall maintaine our sinfull deedes in Churches And run our selues to gather vp the Lurches Those that behold vs with repentant eyes We call them fooles and Puritants precise And when the best our companie do shun Home to their house we send for them and run Pardon vs Lord forgiue our great misdeedes Cull out thy Wheate and pluck out all the weedes Which wrong thy people by their ill example The truth neglectin vgly vice to trample Though our Religion we may seeme to halue Like to the Iewes which made the golden calue simile Exod. 32. 4. 5 6 10. In Aarons time and on their holy day Did eate and drinke and rose againe to play If these men by their rude vnciuill sport Thy Maiesty did anger in such sort That had not Moses knowing of their fall In zeale besought them they had perish't all His great desire thy fury could not stay But that three thousand fell within one day Their guerdon iust no liuing man can tell But very like they had gone downe to hell All quick aliue amongst the damned bad The punishment which after Korah had Num. 16. 32. We see alas both grace and goodnesse lurkes scal li. 5. Within the hearts of fierce and crewell Turkes Of Sarazens and Pagan people rude Which with thy truth were neuer yet indude Before such time as their seducer nurst By Sergius helpe most dangerously at first A banefull poyson to infect their bloud O'reflowes the earth much like to Noahs floud Yet these alone by thy example led Or by the light of Nature in them bred Haue euer kept the Fryday in that worth Long time before the most vntimely birth Of Mahomet that Antechrist indeede Who found it so and left it to their seede Besides a world of other people more That heere I could produce in ample store Which euer kept a holy resting day Abstayning then from all rude workes and play The Indian people haue a rest alow'd Ind. Hist gasp Balb. guin dis 〈◊〉 â—d â—cot And those of Iaua that to Idols bowd The Negro black and rich Peguan left Haue each of them a seuerall Sabaoth kept The sacred Sibils with their frantike mother Haue still prefer'd one day before another We haue great God that which these neuer knew Thine owne example and the scriptures true Thy all diuine and holy morrall law Ex. 20. 8 9. 10 Cha. 31. 14 15 Cha. 34. 1. 21. Which these as yet haue neuer heard or saw Ingrost in Sinah writ twice by thy hand To shew the same for euermore should stand Both in the Law and in the Gospells light To come to Church and praise thy name aright Els how should we thy glorious worth extoll But like to Swine liue all at home and loll And neuer thinke how thou at first didst take A little earth and so our bodyes make Our soules infuse in Paradise vs plaste Till for our sins we soone from thence were cast ' Gau'st vs this world Christ Iesus sent besides Which wrought our life out from his bleeding sides But soft I heere that some vpon this clause Haue ventur'd farre to abbrogate the lawes The holy rest a Iewish Sabaoth call Haue vs liue free tide to no law at all But then alas what would become of vs That sift Gods actions tempt his highnesse thus Of all the lawes that to the Iewes he gaue But ten of them in all the world we haue And those reduc'st for feare they may be lost May be compil'd but into two at most These farre more weighty ponderous then the rest Were by his glorious sacred mouth exprest And Christ himselfe that death and hell did tame Hath not abolish't but confirm'd the same Else what meant he when oftentimes he said The heauens and earth the sea and all shall fade Before such time that Gods eternall Word One iot or tittle shall thereof be stird Did this his coming breede a doubt and flaw Still to destroy and not fullfill the law Haue not the Prophets told long since before Of this our Sabaoth which we now adore T is true that some euen in our christian Law Which haue the arts and learned Muses saw Yet haue alledg'd as their assertion Vpon this place anticipation Affirming Moses when those words were writ In Genesis and still are extant yet Gen. 2. 3. Then knew the rest and Sabaoth of the Iewes But this to me seemes rather vncouth newes For can we thinke that Moses did intend When first of all that Genesis was pend These should forgoe and be incerted best As an introduction to the Sabaoths rest That the command cannot be firme and strong Vnlesse these words did guide it all along Vpon this place still trained vp and nurst As grounding it on Gods example first What can they say to all the ancient men The Patriarkes and holy fathers then Before the law which liued long and blest Yet euer kept a sacred seemely rest To serue their God to giue him thanks and pray That late preseru'd them from that lowring day In which the world and all therein was found Besides the Arke were washt away and droun'd And to the Iewes that were with Manna fed Ouer the mountaines forty yeeres were led Which in the Arabian vasty desarts weare Tipe of our Church that God himselfe did reare Out of affliction hunger heate and cold O're hils and dales and highest mountaines rold Vntill at length with wandring hither thither Like sheepe dispearst fould all at last together When oft they murmur'd much repin'd and grieu'd Vntill their God their bodies had releeu'd By sending Quailes more thick then any haile Vpon their fields quite ouer hill and dale And showring downe a pearely dew at neede In shew much like to Coriander seede Sixe dayes together did this Manna fall And in the seauenth was sent them none at all But in the day before the Sabaoths Rest Full twice so much as other dayes at least They gathred vp and till the morrow kept In which they eat and prayd to God and wept To pardon those which on that sacred day Durst seeke the fields to finde the same and play But yet admit the holy Law be past And that in Christ the same
deathin miserable case But thou againe that euer didst deuise In nothing else but execrable lies Straight told the woman that they need not feare To eate the fruite that pleasant tree did beare For in the day that they should thereof eate The Gods themselues they would indeed defeate Attaine much knowledge farre aboue mans reach And all the Gods in many things would teach To thinke of death they need not feare at all For why their eyes should opened be withall The goodly fruite would breed this wondrous ods Neuer to die but euer liue as Gods O cursed damned execrable Diuell Delighting best in that thing which is euill What made thee now thy banefull speech to blow Out of that canckred venom'd mouth below Thus to entice by thy allurements working Within so slie an vgly creature lurking That Eue must reach and in her hand to grapple So faire a fatall curst bewitching Apple And not content herselfe thereof to eate But reacht another as a daintie meate And in her sweet delightfull louely hands Runs to her Lord where all alone he stands Plaining and grieuing that he her had mist Takes her in 's armes and both together kist Then she began in smiling wanton sort To shew that Apple which before in sport She late had taken from that fatall tree The better now to make her eyes to see And in the hands of her beloued Lord The same she put according to her word And milde perswasions gentle speeches plaine In hope much knowledge by the same to gaine The gawdy lookes and curious pleasing sight She takes the same and so of it doth bite Oh curst oh cruell wofull fearefull deed What hast thou done now Adam to thy seed Baind all thy of-spring in thy folly nurst And left them all still to this day accurst What canst thou be euen at thy very best But little better then the vilest beast How is thy sight which thought to pierce the skies Dazl'd and dimd oft times in both thine eyes Before thou canst to fiftie yeares attaine Diseases Rhumes do in the same remaine Out of thy head such slimy stuffe doth fall That oftentimes thou canst not see at all What hath thy knowledge purchast to thy race Thy nakednesse thou feest before thy face The thorny Brambles all thy skin beschratches Now thou canst tell to make a woman breaches How hath the fruite yet to this day amaz'd The wandring minds of curious men that gaz'd So farre aboue the top of that same tree That still the wood for trees they cannot see In euery corner of this spatious ball To name the tree that thus made Adam fall Alas weakeman what can it do thee good To know the tree that thus hath baind thy blood What can the sight of that all dismall fruite But discontent and make thee much more bruite Thou feest the world in wandring strange opinions And euery land within her owne dominions Still to this day maintaining errours plaine To tell the fruite that thus themselues did baine The Iewes this day that Cabalists are cald Rich Epit. de Talmud The highest Rabbies in their art instald They still affirme and for a truth do tell That Adams sinne when first from God he fell Was nothing but the sweet delicious wine Extracted from the sprawling crawling Vine That all Eues faults and foule offensiue skapes Was nothing but the wringing forth of grapes Within her hand vnto her husband deere That supt it vp in stead of wholesome beere The which no sooner had the braines assaild But that his wit and memory both faild His senses drown'd with such a sottish feast God comes himselfe and finds him like a beast The Sarazens and all the Turkes this day Bosk ara coeli lib. 5. c. 4. Alcarâ—n From Mahomet in euery age do say The fruite that Eue and Adam both did eate Was but an Eare of perfect Indian Wheate Which Adam pluckt and rubd it in his hand Smiling on Euah that hard by did stand Two graines whereof he did vnto her giue Eate two himselfe to make him euer liue And that remaind which was but one in all Away he tooke out of the garden wall And farre in India where he rambled long The desert fields and sauage beasts among This as the cause mayn obiect of his shame He hid i'th'ground and that brought forth the same The Southerne people and the Indian Bold Do still affirme and oftentimes haue told That neere to Indus and braue Ganges streame Which yeeld all sorts of excellent fish and breame Is to be seene a gallant tree this day Vnder whose shade a thousand men may play The fruite thereof not very pleasant pure But as it is it will long time endure Much like to Oliues both in shape and taste The Indian birds this famous figge doth waste That on this tree doth grow the very meate And onely foode which Eue and Adam eate The antient Iew and Arabian borne They still do thinke that Adam well might scorne To taste the fruite that growes on Ganges shore The which but late I told you of before And that more like and probable it is If that their iudgements do not erre amis The dainty tree that in their country growes And twice a yeare his pleasant fruite that showes Yeelding a fragrant and a louely sent If but the same be either crusht or rent A Cucumber much like it is in shew Of pleasing tast and sweet delightfull hew If with a knife the fruite in two you reaue A perfect crosse you shall therein perceaue The spatious leaues are full a fadome long In breadth three spans that I may do it wrong If in this place their errour I should blame But much admire and wonder at the same By which the Christians in those parts that dwell Perswaded are and for a truth it tell That this indeed was that delitious fruite Which Eue brought Adam whose inticing suite The Opall colour and perfumed sent Made him do that which all of vs repent And other countryes in their rouing sits Their lofty prowd and high aspiring wits Haue labourd much vpon this point to write To shew the fruite that Adam ill did bite As though themselues in Paradise had beene And at the first the very tree had seene That bare this cursed euer dismall fruite Which make our soules still to this day to ruite Let them seeke still to find the same and mone I le sit me downe and let them all alone And yet the place I must not thus forget Wherein at first our parents both were set Whose glorious worth and euer during fame Gen. 28. These rurall lines can but obscure the same Oh Paradise where is thy louely seate Whilome so famous wondrous rich and neate That all the stately buildings curious things And goodly prospects of the greatest kings The pompe and pleasures various decking rare In all the world cannot to thee compare The Lords of these haue still in euery age As carryed
lights the world vnder heauens starry Campe The Vertues which within thy brest were bred Shall neare be stained by any viperous head So long as Fame can sound thy glorious worth Chast Paragon the richest Iem on Earth Take all the Ladies breathing on this Ball The sweetest fac't the noblest borne and all The famous Queenes and Monarchs of the World Which on the wheele of Fortnne haue beene hurld That euer liu'd vpon this earthly frame Now gone and past too infinite to name The saints themselues and all the blessed troope Those that now liue within heauens burnisht hoope Though thou art blam'd as Author of their fall Yet art thou still the mother to them all Like to the Vine so is thy fruitfull Wombe Psal 128. 3. Simile Thy speech more sweet then is the honey combe Thy Breath all pure which from thy lips comes out Thy Browes impalde with Chastnesse round about From thee at first were peopled euery land Like O liue Plants thy tender Infants stand simile About thy Table in a seemely sort To ouer-ioy and make thee gladsome sport But why should I runne farther in thy praise Vpon Fames wings thy liuing name to raise Blazing thy parts maintaining of thee still And fowle detraction aymes to worke thy ill Aye to deface thy modest speeches pure With scandals vile for euer to endure When as thy worth exceeds the learnedst thought That by thy meanes into the world is brought And still the Truth conuinceth brings to light The actions false obscurd in enuyes night 1. Cor. 3. 12. Dissolues to naught the morter made of clay The buildings fram'd of stubble trash and hay The good from bad the sheepe from wolues doth seuer And brands the diuell in his false tongue for euer And yet we see the sacred Truth not free From viperous tongues gnawne in the worst degree simile Taxt oftentimes and squeesed like a Spunge By Romish Tygers at her sides that hunge Inuerting stretching construing all her words With error falshood damned wayes and girds Chaste vertuous Eue now she is past and dead The Serpents seed must breake the Womans seed But in the heauens th' eternall God of powre At Iustice barre will on their faces lowre And on their heads thunder his iudgements downe When Eue shall stand adorned with a Crowne Then shall their actions in his dradfull ire Be purged all and tride as gold i' th fire The wickeds words their enuious tong hath spake To her disgrace shall make them yearne and quake And in the end the sword shall iust diuide The good from those which haue her worth belide Whose feet shall totter on hels fatall wheele And headlong downe to damned diuels shall reele Whilst Eue shall sit triumphant on the skies Viewing their fall hearing their moanes and cryes Ioying to see the sacred Truth preuaile Her meaning clear'd her foes to weepe and waile And yet deare Eue I must not leaue thee there But bring thee downe more children for to beare If but with one thou hadst begun and ended Yet had the World beene by thy meanes befriended But to replenish with thy fruitfull spawne From Sols first rising where his teame doth dawne The totall earth on euery side and round Here is a loue the like was neuer found Within the brest of any woman kind Our thoughts hearts actions all our zeale to bind In true deuotion to thy reuerent name Much to admire so sweet a noble Dame When thy first child into the world was borne Straight he began to take delight in Corne In large possessions working vp the soyle Neare Paradise with painfull labour toyle Tilling the ground and planting of the graine His name thereby was fitly called Cain Whilst thou againe conceiu'st a second child A sweet borne babe of countenance more mild And after that about some threescore more Of sons and daughters which thy body bore All nurst by thee after their timely birth To fill the world and people all the earth Thus with thy husband in that arbour'd Tent Thou spentst thy dayes in wondrous great content In true Religion Sacrifices Rites Such as thy heart vnto thy God indites Ioying in him and he againe in thee The sweetest life that euer eye could see When as together in your children small You trayne them vp on Edens God to call And teach them yong by your owne steps allure Them to all good chaste honest actions pure The golden ground the heauenly starre and guide From which but few do euer after slide Happy thrice happy are those children borne A crowne of Glory shall their browes adorne Whose infant yeares are by their parents first With the pure milke of true Religion nurst In riper dayes when blustring blasts assaile The mountaines high that ouertops the dale Their Faith stands firme as fixt vpon a Rocke Not easly stird by euery wauing shocke But constant bides most permanent and sure The assaults of Sathan strongly to endure In Elder Time when Age doth threaten death At latest gaspe euen when our vitall breath Begins to faile in hastning on our end And kinsfolks friends vpon vs all attend With sad lamenting discontented eyes To see our Soule how vp to heauen it flies Forsakes the Earth willing the world to lose Incombred with a thousand cares and woes That in this life dayly attend the sheepe Vntill with Christ aboue the clouds they keepe O then the comfort sweet delight and ioyes When all things else seems to their sense but toyes There the good shepheard in his armes embraceth All those that loue him wondrously he graceth With this kinde welcome Come ye blessed Soules Come drinke the Nectar kept in Christall bowles Eate this Ambrosia as a sacred token That for thy sin my body once was broken Receiue heauens crowne th' eternall kingdome kept For all those Saints which from the world haue slept But soft my Muse what makst thou now aboue Out of this world thus on a sudden moue Adam to leaue his fruitfull wife and all His pleasures ioyes and both his children small Euen in the spring and glory of their birth Weary of all thus to forsake the Earth As if thou tookst more pleasure true delight Within the heauens then in their sinfull sight Stay yet a while and as thou hast begun So to the end thy course directly run Leaue them not thus O do not now surcease Till thou hast brought them to their graues in Peace Shew all their liues the chiefe of euery thing Their Crosses Griefes do thou diuinely sing But yet at first tell how in louing sort The Brothers liu'd and made their Parents sport Those that long time without a childe haue beene And neuer issue of their owne haue seene But without kindred friends and those which may With some content succeed at latter day If these I say when least of all they thought Should children haue so fortunately brought To prittle prattle euery word by chance And vp and downe about the house
Iustice alwayes in mans life or death Will yet at length her flaming sword vnsheath Lamech the fifth from his own bloud descended With one hard blow his vitall life straight ended Iust Iudgement of the Highest euer still To make the blind to execute his will That though man runs vnpunisht all his dayes Yet in the end he payes him many wayes And when the least of all his time he thinkes Then is he caught vnder Gods vengeance sinkes For as the Rabbyes of the Iewes do tell This monster Caine about these parts did dwell And was the first that euer City built Led thereunto by his fowle murthering guilt More to secure him in so strong a Wall And shun the curse then any thing at all Euen where sinne most of all the earth was bred He layes him downe and makes that place his bed There wallowes tumbles spends his aged dayes In wicked workes ten thousand kind of wayes When at the last he for a beast was slaine By Heauens iust Act in treacherous Tubal-Caine Guiding the hand of Lamech being blind To murther Caine against his fathers mind And Tubal-caine had his iust Guerdon paid For Lamech struck him that all dead he laid His bleeding corps vpon the cold greene ground What they wrought others they themselues haue found The City Caine by Henocks name did call His eldest Sonne whom most he lou'd of all Some say the same by Libanus was fram'd But afterwards by others Oenus nam'd And some affirme the building Iesca leed Great Iebab Mauly were his only deede And Tehe Celet Cities sixe in number Were raiz'd by him with such a world of lumber As in our dayes those that behold the place May see their ruines in Caines wofull case You Cities all how were you fram'd at first But in the sin of wicked Caine accurst Was not your Morter tempered with the bloud And slaughter vile of righteous Abel good Is not the Earth her bowels rent and torne Your walls to build and lofty towers adorne Great Thetis lap is all beslic't and cut To bring forth treasures in your wombs to put The lofty Ceders Timber Trees of worth Are hack't downe flat and leuel'd with the earth Base gold and siluer that mans mind appals Where doth it rust but in your cankred walls How are your streetes with Paracides bepestred With noysome Air contagious fowly festred So banesull growne that from you all or some Hels Antechrist the Prince of Diuels shall come So Babilon the tyrant of the earth Dan. 7. 8. And Rome Vsurper since her Popish birth How were they built but in the crimson gore Of thrice ten millions of mens soules and more Nimrod the hunter of Gods fearefull flock First raiz'd that Tower which seem'd the heauens to mock By tyranizing on the feeble weake As in my worke heereafrer I shall speake And Romulus the monster of his age How did he murther in his barbarous rage His brother Remus in whose scarlet bloud Rome first was built by Tybers treacherous floud And since the sincke of superstition made For euery wretch within her walls to trade Idoll of Nature sprang at first from hell As afterwards I shall haue cause to tell But what make we deareMuse within the walls Oftraiterous Townes and Citties full of braules Where nothing sauours wholesome sweete and faire But earthly bad to putrifie the Ayre Let vs retire into the country coates To heare Heauens birds to chirp ten thousand noates About the woods on euery side along Sweete Nightingales to warble forth their song The Lennet Larke the Blackbird Thrush and all How night and day their smooth sweete tunes do call Melodiously vnto the God offame To sound forth prayses to his glorions name And where our Grandsire Adam last was left When Caine his brother of his life bereft Whether the Soule of Habels body slaine By the curst hand of treacherous damned Caine His Genius spirit Angell bloud or Saint Or God himselfe did Adam first acquaint With the sad newes of this so vile a deede Or that suspicion in his brest might breede Abroad he walkes and findes the bleeding quarre Of Habell slaine vnder a fatall starre Weepes and laments grieues to haue lost his sonne Caine Daughter Brother all of them vndone He louing Father piles a wondrous heape Collossus like of massy stones not cheape Simile And with much care his dying name to saue Builds a huge Mount vpon his crimson graue From thence as one distracted for the time With deepe conceit of this so foule a crime Surcharg'd with sorrow ouergrowne with griefe He hates the place as Author of it chiefe And with his Wife and all his children left He bids adien vnto the ground and wept Trauels along like to a Pilgrim poore Or as a Hermit with small litlle store Simile Till at the last it was their chance to stay In Canaan and there their bones to lay As in this rugged ragged rurall verse I hope ere long diuinely to rehearse But sacred Muse here we must stay awhile seth borne And with Sethes birth the posting time beguile That sweete borne Babe of Heauen it selfe befriended From whom the Church is lineally descended Iust as a hundred twenty yeares and ten Of Adams age into this world of men He was begat Tipe of that promist Lambe To saue the World into the World first came Preaching Repentance all our liues to mend Whose Gouernment shall neuer earthly end Vntill the Trumpet in the skyes shall sound To summon soules from their dead sleepe i' th ground How did the Heauens euen in his infant birth Reioyce and dance about the Ball i' th earth Melodiously their sacred Organs went To see young Seth into the World thus sent In Minor yeeres their fortunes on him showred And on his head their deerest blessings powred Enduing him with towardnes and wit That on his temples all the Arts did sit About his Browes the Lawrell wreath haue wound As the first man that euer letters found How did the Saints at this thy Fortune smile True Isralite in whom there is no guile Ioh. 1. 47. Thy manly dayes they were not ouersway'd Gen. 4. 26. Chap. 5. 34. With fond conceits but in Religion stay'd Enuy Opression Lust and Rauine base Within thy heart could neuer find a place Nor yet the thought of any deede vnkind Could once be found to harbour in thy mind But full of peace like to thy father deare Or God himselfe in all his workes most cleare Simile So art thou blest to bring forth such a Sonne From whom the Church successiuely must runne True Picture of thy Body Mind and Thought Enoch the man to God himselfe that brought Enoch borne Thee sacred flock which wandring almost lame And taught them first to call vpon his Name By prayer preaching Heauen blest dearest Muse Which on the Sabaoth they did dayly vse Yet some do say the Church againe did fall In this mans dayes to wicked
Iniurious dealings treacherous actions base Sly cunning traps to grind the poore mans face Vexations wrongs fell viperous proiects vile As bad and worse then those which do defile Their fowle blacke hands in Christian crimson blood Waste others State to do themselues no good The damned rout of hell spurd Furies curst That from Caines fact tooke all beginning first Would tire my Muse and weary all your eares Amaze your thoughts and fill you full of feares With Wonder strike you as a man halfe dead And set your haire vpright vpon your head To see since first this world by God was fram'd The enuious deeds not fitting to be nam'd But Time diuider of ech day from night Will all disclose and bring the Truth to light Successiuely shall lay them open all Iust as Occasion in my way may fall Meane while deare Muse let vs retire againe To shew the life of cursed enuious Caine And tell what course after this deed he tooke How round about on euery side his looke Was fearfull gazing least his fathers eye Might glance that way and so the fact espye And see Gods iudgement on his branded skin His blacke foule face for this vile murdring sin Asham'd and shamelesse barbarous wretch vnkind From thence he goes leaues Habel dead behind Steales out away and pryes in euery nooke For feare his fact should be bewraid by 's looke At length by chance as he was lingring late He finds his sister by his fathers gate Takes her away euen in the euening darke simile As doth a Kite a simple harmelesse Larke And when Alas she could not well descrye His foule blacke colour by her clowded eye His speech she knew which made her willing more To leaue her Iewels kindred and her store And go with him then all the rest beside She little thought his hands with blood were dide Simile All night they walkt talking of this and that She louely fayre he like an vgly Bat That shuns the light is neither bird nor beast Of both partakes a monster at the least Or like to those that in our dayes do hie From vs to Rome from thence againe do flye And little care so they may haue their will Mens Soules their Liues their State and all to spill As was the case of that damn'd murdring rout Which from Hels bowels brought their treasons out Vntill at last with wandring weary growne And want of sleepe together both lay downe Whilst he euen then layes open all his mind Tels her his loue he mindes with hers to binde That she shall be the Obiect of his eye His darling deare from her to neuer flye By meanes of which adulterous flattring wilde Incestuously he gets her there with childe But when Aurora glory of the World Heauens candle bright about the Earth had purld And but began to shew a burnisht face Vpon these two in that polluted place From slumbring sleepe his Sister sodaine wakt Starts vp and cryes most fearefully she quakt So foule a sight by her was neuer seene Thinking the diuell in shape of Caine had beene Vpright she stands her hayre vpon her head Rowzd in the light from her adulterous bed Faine would she run wishing her selfe at home Cursing the Time when she from thence did come And glad would be no longer here to stay But that from thence she knew not well the way Like to a Lady in an euening darke 〈◊〉 Walking alone within her pleasant Parke Thinking to meet her louing husband deere Her father brother or some welcome Peere Is by a villaine suddenly surprisde In shape speech gesture all of them disguisde Carryed away traynd on a long to walke Misdoubts no hurt in all his trecherous talke But freely spends the sable lowring night Her ioyes toyes pleasures in her loues delight Vntill the morning of the day appeares Draws wide heauens Curtain all the skies it cleares And makes her see how she hath bin misled By folly guile brought to an vnknowne bed Weeps mourns laments teareth her Amber hayres Raues frets and grieues as one distracted stares That once her body louely chaste and pure Should now be staind thus by a wretch impure And that her corpes when Heauens bright Candle winkt Should be but found close to a Monster linkt So may we iudge was this young Virgins case Traynd as I told you from that louely place Where father friends acquaintance all she had To cast her fortunes on a Varlet bad Damn'd homicide dame Natures vglyest marke To be betrayd thus trecherously i'thdarke The vnblowne Rose defended by the thorns Vermillion blush that both her cheeks adorns Chaste modest thoughts to giue the soule content When these shall be all ech in sunder rent Deflowr'd defac't by treason cropt and staind To haue i'th'end none but a Mungrell gain'd Thus in a maze astonisht all the while Caine looketh vp and on her face doth smile Gently entreats perswades her not to feare The Sun burnt colour that his skin did beare Tels her his face was nothing else but tan'd With walking much about his new plow'd land And that the colour on his face which lay Would cleane be washt and skowred all away She him beleeues and so from thence they went Like Vagabonds without a pasport sent Simile Roming about vntill at last they found A pleasant sweet delitious dainty ground Iust to the East hard to the lowring face Of sacred Iustice in that Orient place Far from their Friends their Country Church and God To liue with ease within the Land of Nod Heere first they stayd and to secure their state They built a house of timber stones and slate Turfe Morter Durt and euery thing they finde They pile vp close to keepe off showers and winde And at the length as if they were afraid That after wards their liues might be betrayd By sauage beasts in humane monsters feil Such as himselfe hath hatch't below in Hell Reuengefull Tyrants murthering men and all About his house he builds a spacious Wall And in the same he liues for many yeares His conscience stuft with horrour drad and feares At length his Wife brings forth her first borne child A bloudy Elfe deformed fowle and wild Like to the Sire so is his picture drawne Simile Brought vp to sweare cheate couzen lye and fawne No God to know his tongue to curse and fret With enuious face for like doth like beget And he againe his sister rude doth take Makes choyce of her to be his onely make That she and he and all the rest beside Which in that place within the walls did bide The cursed spawne of Caines adulterous race Did in short time soouerswarme the place With multitudes of that incestuous rout Poligamy from this vile Race sprangout That in seuen hundred twenty yeares and ten Their hatefull stocke grew to a world of men This was this Age that Caine did liue some say Genebrard â—x Rab. sol When then began his fatall lowring day For