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A19889 Davids troubles remembred in 1. Absolons sheep-shearing. 2. Ioab projecting. 3. Bathsheba bathing. 4. Israel rebelling. 5. Ahitophel hanging. 6. David returning. Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?, attributed name. 1638 (1638) STC 6316; ESTC S109315 54,594 126

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like the tide And ever fall unto the stronger side Like drunken men they to and fro do reel And change as oft as Fortune turns her wheel I therefore do advise whilst thou dost stand In Grace with all the people of the Land For who is he that if thou dost but say Come to mine aid but will thy word obey Thou muster all the people in the Land From Dan even to Bersheba like the sand And that thou forth in person go to fight Thus will we come against him with such might And multitudes wee 'l set upon him all Thick as the dew upon the grasse doth fall And if he get within a walled Town We will with ropes pull all the City down Not ●uffering a stone upon a stone Of all his men we will not leave him one By these devices Hushai did refell The dangerous counsell of Achi●ophel Which though for best the Elders do approve Yet Hushai's more the King and people move Oh sure saith David God would th●s confound By weake the Counsels politicke profound He will me re-establish in my Throne And overthrow the plots of Absolon Lo Hushai shew'd himself a faithfull friend And brought to passe the thing we did intend But how did you these counsels understand Hushai saith Ionathan them out of hand Unto the Priests our fathers close convai'd Who gave us notice of them by a Maid I and Ahimaaz lay in a Well Neere to the City called En-Rogell To which a Maid as if she went for water Comes and enformeth us of all the matter Into the City durst we not adventure For no man might come out that in did enter Yet could we not this thing so closely hide But we were by a young-man both descri'd Who telling it to Absolon the King He servants sent us back again to bring But as we had before at En-Rogell So at Bahurim lay we in a Well Upon whose mouth a good old woman spred Ground Corn that so we might be covered And when the servants of King Absalom Inquir'd of her what was of us become Like that good Rahab which did hide the spies To save us she excuses did devise When therefore they had search'd and nothing found They back return'd we came out safe and sound And hasted hither thee this newes to bring That thou mightst know the danger of the King For who doth know but wise Achitophel May win thy son and men of Israel To take his counsell and thee follow fast Before that thou hadst over Iordan past Whilst Ionathan yet speakes one comes to tell Another project of Achitophel Who seeing Hushai's counsell highly priz'd And that his own though better was despis'd Rides hom on 's sadled Asse and in despight The King such Oracles profound should slight His house and family first ordered His dayes ev'n with a halter finished And was interred in his fathers grave Such end saith David wicked Traytors have Their worldly wisdom is to folly brought And with their breath their thoughts all com to nought This man that able was to rule a State His furious passions cannot moderate And he that for the publike was so wise Now like a wicked fool turns mad and dyes Thus whilst he strives for wisdomes highest roome He falls into extreamest follies doome This is the life of all and this their end That here on worldly wisdome do depend Wisdome and folly ay their life attend And them accompany even in their end They Cities can in peace and wealth maintain But let ther hearts be irreligious vain Their worldly states they like Achitophel Can order but their soules let hang in hell Vain wisdome that doth so our thoughts molest Abroad not caring what is in our brest Fond fool in order thus his house to set And both his soul and body to forget But Hushai's counsell now is followed And all the men of Israel mustered By Absolon in number like Sea-sands The foulest Treasons want no helping hands For as at first a little ball of snow By turning oft doth great and greater grow Till it unto so huge a heap doth rise There many dayes it after melting lies Ev'n so this Traitor who at first began With those two hundred men who with him ran To Hebrons sacrifice in time is grown To mighty heaps and multitudes unknown Who over Iordan now do passe with him Ev'n as the King comes to Mehanaim And now lo both these mighty armies lye In Gileads Plaines resolv'd the day to try Where Amasa by Absolon is made The Captain of the host in Ioabs stead But he that was expel'd from house and home By his own people and son Absolon Now findes abroad all duty and respect God never his doth finally neglect For as Gods Angels at Mehanaim met Good Iacob with his enemies beset Esau before his face Laban behind And ministred sweet comforts to his mind So there an host of men come to the King And earthen vessels Beds and Basins bring Beanes Barly Lentiles Flowre parcht Corn Wheat Cheese Hony Butter Sheep and Beeves to eat The son of that discourteous Ammonite That Davids Legates did so foule despight And Machir of Lodebar who was all Till lately to advance the house of Saul For there was lame Mephibosheth maintain'd Who sole of Ionathan alive remain'd With old Barzillai that rich Gileadite Where Ishbosheth so long maintain'd his right Did all these things abundantly supply To Princely David and his company For they were weary in the wildernesse Faint hungry thirsty and in great distresse Oh who doth know the happinesse of Rest And Peace but they whom civill warres infest Where beating of the Drums and Trumpets sounds Are like the dreadfull callings of the hounds When in the morning they the fearefull heare In open field do summon to appeare Who thinks each bush she sees stands to belay her And every one she meets comes to betray her Most direfull are th' effects of civill warres Where son of his own loynes no father spares Brother embrewes his hands in bloud of Brother And dearest friends do butcher one another One by an Engine bullets casts and stones Wherewith he breaks his wives and childrens bones Whilst they cast stones down from the City wall Which on their husbands head or parents fall Here servants for the duty which they owe Their masters pay them with a mortall blow And they are paid for wages from their master With broken pates which never need a plaster Here Kings whom duty bindeth to defend Their subjects seek their ruine and their end And subjects count it honour law and right Against their Soveraigns dreaded face to fight All is with horrible confusion fill'd Farmes uninhabited their Lands untill'd Their Kine whose Milk doth yeeld abundant food Suckle the hungry Souldiers with their bloud And Shepheards that the plaines all over stock Are glad to save their lives and lose their flock All Lawes are silent Armes do all in all And strongest put the weakest to the wall