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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16741	A diuine poeme diuided into two partes: the rauisht soule, and the blessed vveeper. Compiled by Nicholas Breton, Gentle-man.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1601 (1601)	STC 3648; ESTC S104780	13,485	48

A Diuine Poeme diuided into two Partes The Rauisht Soule and the Blessed VVeeper Compiled by Nicholas Breton Gentle-man Imprínted at London for Iohn Browne and Iohn D●●ne 1601. ❧ TO THE RI●HT Honourable discreete and vertuous Lady the Nourisher of the Learned and fauourer of the Godly my singuler good Lady the Lady Mary Countesse of Penbrooke Nich Breton wisheth all the good that the heauens will the world can giue to the pleasure of the Highest and her worthy heartes desire RIght Honorable matter of most worth to most worthy mindes is most worthily presented What matter in worth may compare with diuine meditation What minde more worthy honour then the heauenly enclined and whose minde more truly worthy of that blessed Title then your Ladiships I would there were many but I know too fewe Being th●n in that excellent sense truly your selfe whom for more worth then I will speake of the wise admire the learned followe the vertuous loue and the honest serue vouchsafe me leaue among those poore people that being throwen from the world looke only towards heauen heauenly graces to lay before your eyes a diuine humour of a rauisht soule which being aboue it selfe caried into the heauenly meditations of the mercies of the Almightie by the blessing of his Holy Spirit hath brought forth such fruits of his praise as I hope wil be pleasing to your good fauour To the honour of whose commaundement auowing the duty of my hearts seruice in al humble thāk●●lnesse for your bountifull vndeserued goodnesse praying for your eternall happinesse I take my leaue Your Ladiships in all humblenesse Nicholas Breton To the Reader YOV that with a zealous loue of Religion with an indifferent regard of Learning and without disdaine of Poetry will vouchsafe to bestow a little time in the perusing of this little volume of verses it may be you wil not repent you of your Labour nor thinke much of your cost but when you haue once read it ouer perhaps beginne it againe and ende it without wearinesse If you note it well you may finde matter of comforte and nothing to the contrarie God truely glorified in his manifould blessinges and man greatly blessed that being endued with his Graces by faithe taketh hould of his mercies the Athists confounded in their follies and the vertuous blessed in their election This if you finde not blame either your selfe or me but if you note what I write much good doe you in the Reading and God encrease you in his blessing And so in the best nature of loue leauing you to the ioy of the best life I end Your frend Nicholas Breton In Auctorem TWo hopefull Twinnes ●oynt issues of one braine A ●auisht Soule and longing Spirit sends Into your bosomes high and heauenly traine That are wits k●nsemen and the Muses friends Embrace them loue them and with iudgements view Eye them Beleeue me Re●der thou shalt finde Their limmes well measur'd and proportions t●u● No part dissenting from their perfect kinde Onely the fashion sits not on their clothes To make them sightly to fantasticke eyes Pallas not Venus did the worke dispose Cutting their garments from Angellickè skies Plaine is their habite yet Diuine and sweete Fit for the wise but for the wisest meete H. T. Gent. The rauisht Soule Gloria in excelsis Deo SIng my soule to God thy Lord All in glories highest keye Laie the Aungells quier aboorde In their highest holy daie Craue their helps to tune thy heart Vnto praises highest parte Tell the world no wo●ld can tell What the hand of heauen deserueth In whose onely Mercies dwell All that heauen and earth preserueth Deaths confounding Sinnes forgiuing Faiths relieuing Comforts liuing Grace and glory life and loue Be the su●me of all thy dittie Where a sinners teare● may proue Comforts ●oy in merci●s pitty Euery note in lou● alluding Endlesse glory in concluding Prayse of prayses where thou dwelles● Tell me if the world may know thee In what sense thou most ●xcellest When thy wonder worth doeth shew thee In that state of honours story Where thou gain'st thy highest glorie ●●s not earth nor earthly wonder Can discerne thy dearest honour All her praises are put vnder When thy glory lookes vpon her No● in heauen thy glorie dwelleth Where thy wonder most excelleth Yet in heauen was neuer liuing Virgin Saint nor Angels spirit VVhere thy Grace may haue the giuing Of thine honours highest Merite T is their glories admiration That deserues thy commendation Since then by all consequences In the notes of Glories nature And the Graces influences T is no earth nor heauenly creature In my God alone on high Is this onely mysterie And since in his Maiestie All and onely euer dwelleth That most glorious Deity That all prayses praise excelleth Say although thy soule attend him It can neuer comprehend him If thou speak'st of power all powers To his power are in subiection If thou speak'st of time all houres Run their course by his direction If of wisedome all is vanitie But in his Diuine humanitie If of trueth it is his triall If of loue it is his treasure If of life it is his diall If of grace it is his pleasure If of goodnesse t is his storie If of mercy t is his glorie If of iustice Iudgement sheweth His proceeding is impartiall If of valour all hell knoweth Who is heauens high Marshall If of bountie t is his blessing If of place t is his possessing If of pat●ence his perfection If of comfort t is his fauour If of vertue his affection If of sweete it is his ●auour If of triumph t is his merite If perfection t is his spirit If aboue all these thou singest Rauisht in thy reasons glory Tell the world what ere thou bringest Admirations wonders story To such height my Sauiour raiseth As aboue all praises prayseth Let all kings and princes then In submission fall before him Virgins Angels holy men Both in heauen and earth adore him In his onely mercie seeing All and onely all your being Babes and children shew his Glory In your silly soules preseruing Men and Women note this storie Of the life of loues deseruing Heauen and earth be euer reading Of this essence of exceeding Sunne and Moone and euery creature In that shining starrie skie All confesse your brightnesse feature In the hand of mercies eye And for all your blessed powers Shew it Gods and none of yours And when all the world together Ioyne with Angels harmonie Let my soule come singing thither With that blessed company God in mercies power victorious Be aboue all Glory glorious Amen Sacred Muse that onely sittest In the Spirits of the Blessed And the faithfull onely fittest With their thoughts to heauen addressed Helpe my humble soule to sing To my Glorious heau'nly King All abandon earths coniecture Thinke not on so meane an instance Make thine honours Architecture But on Graces glorious substance There in comforts confirmation Build thy heauenly habitation

Study not Astronomy Least to darkenesse turne thy light But tha● high Diuinitie Where the day hath neuer night There finde out that worke of worth That may bring thy wonder forth In the teares of true contrition Think on Mercies blessednes And in care of loues condition Of perfections holinesse Then in notes of Graces glory Make the state of all thy story Il Christiano al honore di Christo. BEfore there was a light there was a light Which saw the world the world could neuer see From which the world receiues his brightest sight Yet cannot see what brightnesse there may be From this faire light there came a liuing loue A loue which giues the liuing all their seeing And in the life of all th●ir seeing prooue The onely essence of their onely being From this bright loue there came a liuing word A word that doeth in wisedome signifie What heauen and earth in wonder can afford Is but in life this loue to dignifie For in this Word was that Almightie power Which was before that power was euer named Begun before the first beginning houre Framing each substance that was euer framed And in that word that onely wisedome dwelleth That onely knowes what onely may be knowne And in that knowle●ge knowledge all excelleth Because it knowes all knowledge is his owne This worthy word of wisedomes wonderment To giue some notice of his powerfull nature In wisedome made his will an instrument To shew himselfe vnto his silly creature This holy essence of the Deitie In Virgins wombe did take the vaile of flesh Bringing the dewe of blessed charitie Our withring spirits sweetly to refresh This highest height of heauenly Maiestie This word of wisedomes gracious glorious loue Inuested in all vertues vnitie That perfect God and perfect man approue From the sweet bosome of his Fathers brest Eternall Babe of all eternall blisse All blessed babe that made the mother ble●t By that sweet blessed holy loue of his From the high Throne of heau'nly glories seate Vnto this world this worthlesse world descended With their crosse spirits kindely to intreat For their owne good that highly him offended This blessed Infant of Eternitie And onely glorious Essence of the same By the cleare light of his all-seeing eye Beholding all things all so out of frame Vnto his seruants to make knowne his loue And to redeeme what lacke of loue had lost In tender age and elder yeeres did prooue How patience care might be in passions crost When first sweet Infant in the mothers armes Fed with the milke of pure Virginitie How did he scape the Tyrant Herods harmes That little knew of his Diuinitie But Oh when first his presence sweet appear'd Vnto the silly shepheards in the field With how much ioy were all their spirits chear'd Whose humble eyes his heauenly face beheld While in the heauens the Angels sung for ioy That peace by him vnto the world was come By him who should both death and hell destroy And be the Sauiour of his Chosen summe The Virgin mother ioyed in her childe And in her ioy did call her sonne her Sauiour Whose gracious spirit in her countenance milde Did shew the blessing of her meeke behauiou● Oh blessed Sonne the Fathers best belou'd In whom he all and onely did delight How many wayes his workes in wonder proou'd He held the scepter of his Fathers right In simplenesse all harmelesse as the Doue In learning putting all the Doctours downe In power the hand of highest heau'ns behoue In state the king of kings in glories crowne In patience the true proofe of su●●erance In truth the touch-stone of all vertues trialll In loue director of lifes ordinance In life the hande of the eternall Diall In charitie the giuer of all good In bountie the bestower of all blisse In mercie faithes eternall blessed food In grace the guide that cannot leade amisse In wisedome founder of all wit and sense In will the worker of all wonders worth In essence all the Summe of excellence In all that good that bringes all glorie forth This essence all incomprehensible Yet willing in his mer●ies to be knowne That glorie might not be offensible That in a shadowe onely should be showne First in the time of feeble Infancie When natures weaknesse fled a feared force Then in the yeeres of Reasons constancie When gratious mercie gloried in Remorse Came to the worlde to call the worlde to come Vnto his Call that had the heauens at Call Healing the sicke the blinde lame deafe and dumme And rais'd them vp that readie were to fall Contented with the badge of pouertie Who might commaund both heauen and earth at wil Lodg'd in a manger in humilitie Who in himselfe both heauen and earth did fill Threatned with death who was the life of life Sought to be slaine who was the death of death The ground of peace yet with the world at strife And suffred death yet gaue the liuing breath Seeke heauen and earth and finde out such another So might command and so would be commanded Who was our King yet would become our brother Might strike all dumbe and yet wold be demanded VVould leaue such pleasure and endure such paine And for their liues that crucified his loue VVith losse of life to make their liuing gaine That prooued Turkies to their Turtle-doue VVho euer crau'd his help and was denied VVho loued him so but left him at his death VVho euer fail'd whose faith on him relied Yet who for him would spare one fauours breath Oh Lord what madnesse could be more in men Then when they knew the trueth to make a doubt And long in darkenesse hauing light euen then To blinde themselues to put the candle out And blessed women that his death bewailed While hearts deepe griefe found comforts high perfection When passions teares so much with loue preuailed As first to them reueal'd his resurrection The mother wept to see her sonne so vsed The sinner wept to see her Sauiour dying The cousin wept to see her kin abused All for his death fell to a deadly crying The Sunne eclipst the day did loose his light And stones did rise against their makers foes The Temple rent the people were affright And from the graues the troubled spirits rose All these were tokens of his holy trueth To make men know how they were woe begon them But gracelesse spirits voyd of gracious ruth Ventred to take the guiltlesse blood vpo● them Here then behold th● m●iestie of blisse That pray'd for them that pre●'d vpon him so Content with all might come to him amisse So his with him might to their comfort goe His life the Lantherne of eternall light His death the p●●●age ●o eternall rest His grace ●h●●●rke of the most blessed sight His loue the life of the eternall bl●st His miracles the witnesse of his power His Sacraments remembrance of his loue His resurrection his triumphant houre And his Ascension Angels ioyes aboue His trauaile all to bring our soules to rest