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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06869	The holie historie of King Dauid wherein is chieflye learned these godly and whosome lessons, that is: to haue sure patience in persecution, due obedience to our prince without rebellion: and also the true and most faithfull dealings of friendes. Drawne into English meetre for the youth to reade; by Iohn Marbeck.	Merbecke, John, ca. 1510-ca. 1585.	1579 (1579)	STC 17302; ESTC S120587	57,181	74

vp of thine owne stock and race Such as shall take by violence thy wiues before thy face And giue them to thine enemie who shall in thy despight Misuse them to thine vtter shame yea openly in sight Thou diddest thy sinne most secretly to hide the same from me But I will do this openly that all the world shall sée Here Dauid with repentant hart his wickednes confest And prayed God to send him grace to rectifie the rest Then Nathan béeing at his hande said to him by and by The Lord hath put away thy sinne be sure thou shalt not dye Yet since by thée and thy default thy God sustayneth shame The child that now is borne to thée shall dye beare the blame And Nathan so departing home the child did sicken sore Whose paine and griefe in eury place increased more and more Then Dauid fasting for the child besought the Lord with teares To giue it health and life withall to runne his race of yeares Great mourning made he for the childe none could him intreate To rise from ground but there he lay absteining frō his meate The seuenth day came then the child did end his fatal thread But none durst signifie so much or tell that he was dead For al the while he was aliue he would not heare them speake And now to tel him of his death would cause his hart to breake But Dauid through the whispering he saw among his men Perceiued well the child was dead and asked of them then If that the child did liue or no who told him how it was How God had wrought his will in him frō life to death to pas Then from the earth he lift him vp and washed all away Annoynting him and putting on apparell fresh and gay And gat him first vnto the house of God to giue him prayse And béeing turned home to eate his seruauntes to him sayes We maruell why thou didst lamēt thy child while it was here And now that he is gone from hence to be of so good chere So long quod he as it had life I did both fast and wéepe For this I thought that God alwaies doth mercy with him kéepe And who could tell if that he would his mercy to him show And saue the child from cruell death if that his will were so But now he is departed hence it booteth not to fast Nor yet to wéepe for nothing here on earth is made to last I can not bring his life agayne but rather I shall go To him then he shall come to me no doubt the truth is so Then Dauid knowing Bethsabe to be in heauynesse Went in to her and sought the meanes her sorowes to redresse Who at her time brought forth a sonne one Salomon to name Whom God appoynted to him selfe his temple for to frame While Ioab Rabba to besiege with all his army lay He sent to Dauid messengers thus willing them to say How he had take the chiefest place of all the Citie strong Where that the pallace of the king and Condites lye along Wherfore he willed Dauid now to come and giue the fall That he might haue the prayse him selfe and Ioab none at all Then Dauid with an armie went to Ioab his true man And ioyning both the hoastes in one the Citie so he wanne When he had now the Citie got and eke the king in holde He tooke the Crowne of from his head a talent weight of golde And therwith crounde him selfe as king to thē whō he did foyle As for the riches of the lande his souldiours had the spoyle And calling to his mind the shame which to his mē they wrought By all the meanes he could deuise a iust rewarde he sought And plaged them with sundry deathes for to increase their wo With sword with saw with fire with rope many tormentes mo Now Dauid as a conquerer returned with his pray Unto Ierusalem the place where most he made his stay Now after this the Lord began to stirre his sonnes to strife And him to plague for his offence commit with Vries wife For Ammon with his sister fayre whom Thamar they did call Did fall so farre in loue that he was very sicke withall And could no maner way deuise his purpose to obtaine For that within her fathers house she alwayes did remayne Then Ionadab a friend of his and one of subtill witte Came vnto him and counsell gaue for such a purpose fit How commeth this to passe quod he that thou art wasted so With inward pensiuenes of minde and will not let me know Then Ammon said O Ionadab I am in loue so sore With Thamar as no earthly man can be with woman more Why then quod he do fayne you sicke and kepe your chāber to And when the king your father comes to sée you how you do Then aske him leaue that Thamar may on you attendāce giue And dresse good meates to nourish you if he will haue you liue This counsell his good friend did giue and he did like the same And so he lay and kept his bed vntill his father came Whom he in humble wise besought his sister might take payne To dresse him some good prety meates to get his health agayne The king did graunt and did commaunde the maiden so to do And bad her dresse such holesome meates as he had phansy to So Thamar came vnto his house and tooke a litle paste Wherwith she made him deinty meate that had a pleasant tast And came brought the same to him where he was laide alone For he of purpose order tooke that eury man was gone Then Ammon said come lye with me good sister I thée pray No man is here that can vs sée thou shalt not say me nay O good my brother force me not that were too foule a fact And neuer yet in Israel was heard of such an act This would be such a blot as I should neuer purge the same And thou likewise a great reproch shuldst purchase to thy name Yet rather speake vnto the king we may in wedlocke dwell And liue according to the law and then it will be well But Ammon stroue and would not cease vntill that he had got His filthy pleasure satisfied would she or would she not And after this vngodly fact all fansy gan abate His loue was not before so much but more was now his hate For when he had defiled her he made no longer stay But in a fume and chasing heate he had her packe away This spitefull vsage of thy part is very much quod she And is as ill as was thy force and worse if worse may be He gaue no eare vnto her talke but like a Bedlem brayne He turnes her out lockes the doore least she returne agayne And so poore soule away she goes as one without reliefe With ashes cast vpon her head and crying out for griefe Then said her brother Absalon hath Ammon bene with thée Well

two wiues the one a Iezralite The other Nabals wife that was the welthy Carmalite He tooke the men also with him that of his troubles felt Who with their housholds al within the towne of Hebron dwelt Then came the men of Iuda forth to him with one accorde And did annoynt him for to be their king and soueraigne lorde And told him of the faithfulnes of Iabes done of late In burying Saul as did become a prince of high estate Then Dauid sent Ambassadours the Iabites to commende For their great loue and kindnes shewd to Saul at his last ende The Lord quod he do blesse you all with mercy for your fact And I will do the like to you for this your godly act Therfore now let your hands be strong turne your hearts to me For Saul is dead Iuda hath me chose their king to be So Iuda onely claue to him the rest of Israel To Isboseth the sonne of Saul they stacke to him aswell Now Dauid Ioab did appoynt his generall to bée And Isboseth did Abner choose his men to ouersée The wars betwéene these houses two increased more more But Dauid had the stronger hande the other weakned sore For Abner went from Isboseth vpon displeasure take And with king Dauid secretly a faythfull bande did make And Michol he brought home agayne the kings beloued wife Whom Psaltiel did neuer touche by way of spotted life But or he could the rest all bring about effectually He was by Ioab murdered and that most Iudasly Which sore agréeued Dauids heart as one that giltles was Of Ioabs shamefull wicked act which he had brought to passe Wherfore to Ioab then he wisht that for his small regard Both blood and plagues on him his might fal for his rewarde And that he should go with the rest bring the coarse to graue In sackcloth in mourning wede he straite cōmandemēt gaue Him selfe all full of heauynes with sad and heauy chéere Came after Abner as he went euen next vnto the béere And as they layd him in the graue according in Hebron The king and people all they wept to sée the earth put on But Dauid mourned most of all since treason did him kill And knowing that by natures course he might haue liued still Now when the people came to feast as they were wont to do At burials the king to eate they could not bring vnto By that they knew that Abners death the king had neuer ment But Ioabs grudge did worke it out without the kings consent It so befell that Baana and Rechab sought the way How they their lord king Isboseth might craftely betray The meane was this they faynd thē selues gret marchants for to bée Came to the pallace of the king his corne grayne to sée Where they by chaunce found him a sléepe slue him as he lay Upon his bed brought from thence his head with them away To Hebron where king Dauid was and sayd beholde and sée Here is the head of Isboseth thy mortall enemie For through the might that god hath giuen in working of this déede Thou art auenged both of Saul also of his séede Then Dauid sayd vnto the men that brought to him the head As truely as the Lorde doth liue ye are as good as dead As you do now so one did once Sauls death to me report And made account such newes as those should please me in like sort And looked for some great reward for the good newes he brought But al the matter went awry agaynst his meane and thought For he was slayne and put to death for his most wicked prank And so he lost both life and all his labour and his thanke So shall the wickednes of you which haue the righteous slayne Upon his bed be recompencd with blood for blood agayne Then hauing féete and hands cut off for eury man to sée Were hanged ouer Hebrons poole as other felons be As for the head of Isboseth the kings good pleasure wilde It should in Hebron be entombd with Abner that was kilde Then came the Tribes of Israel to Dauid flockingly As to their king and soueraigne lord with him to liue and dye So béeing now the lorde and king of all the Israelites He gat him to Ierusalem and to the Iebusites Who bragging much vpon their hold of Sion where they dwelt By force of armes he wanne the same as many of them felt The Philistines now hearing tell of Dauids power and might Came to the vale of Raphaim agaynst him for to fight Who then demaunded of the Lorde to know his will therein And whether that the Philistins or he should honour win Go vp sayd God and linger not while they be in thy lande For I assuredly will giue them all into thy hande So Dauid went him forth and came to Baal Perazim Where that he smote the Philistines as God had said to him Then gan he say O Lorde my God thou hast mine enemies all Deuided them as waters do deuide them when they fall The Philistines for hast do leaue their Idols all behinde And Dauid and his men do burne as many as they finde Yet once agayne the Philistines came forth to fight with him And brought their armie whole into the vale of Raphaim Now compasse thē behinde said God watch thē well when They come against the Mulbery trées the onset giue you then So Dauid then obeying God a conquest did obteine From Geba vnto Gazer towne the Philistines were slayne Soone after this the king prepard to fet the Arke of God With thirty thousand chosen men of Israel and od And so out of Ierusalem he went his men with him To set and bring away the Arke from Kiriath Iarim And that he set with carefull héede vpon a Charret new And from Abinadab his house he decently it drew Two of his sonnes draue forth the same Vza and Ahio The one before thother behinde the Chariot did go The king and all the Israelites made melody and played Triumphantly before the Lorde as they the Arke conuayed But when the king did sée the hande of God on Vza light And strike him dead because he toucht the Arke that wēt not right He was aferd and durst not séeme to driue it as before But left it Edom for to kéepe till he had learned more Where it remaynd about thrée months wherby both him his The Lord of hoasts with great increase abundantly did blis Then was it tolde to Dauid how the Lord had Edom blest And all his house since that the Arke of God had bene his gest Then Dauid went and brought the Arke of God frō him away With all the triumph and the ioy that could be had that day For as the Leuites bare the Arke and had sixe paces gone An Oxe and eke a fatted beast was offred vp alone And Dauid daunst before the Arke as it was driuen there And had a linnen Ephod