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A11406	Babilon, a part of the Seconde vveeke of Guillaume de Saluste seigneur du Bartas, with the commentarie, and marginall notes of S.G.S. Englished by William L'Isle; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. Part 2. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1595 (1595)	STC 21662; ESTC S110840	52,878	76

BABILON A PART OF THE SECONDE WEEKE OF GVILLAVME DE SALVSTE SEIGNEVR DV BARTAS With the Commentarie and marginall Notes of S. G. S. Englished by WILLIAM L'ISLE Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. Imprinted at London by Ed. Bollifant for Richard Watkins 1595 TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE CHARLES LORD HOWARD BARON OF Effingham Knight of the most renowmed order of the Garter one of hir Maiesties priuie Councell and Lord high Admirall of England c. WAying how neere it concernes your Honourable Charge what straungers passe the Seas into England I was thereby and otherwise in humble duty moued to giue your Lordship first intelligence of this Gentilman whom I haue newly transported out of Fraunce and also thought it necessarie to craue your fauorable protection of him in this his trauell A woorthie man is he my Lord in his owne country howsoeuer here disguised and one of the sonnes of that noble and diuine Poet LE SIEVR DV BARTAS in my simple iudgment the properest and best learned of them all I am sure the best affected to England and the gracious Emperesse thereof for which cause I made speciall choise of him and doe therefore the rather hope to finde fauour on his behalfe with your honorable Lordship whose loyaltie to the Crowne the Prince by trust of so high an office whose loue to the land the people by ioint-consent of daily-felt vertues haue so fully witnessed that the fame thereof hath spred it selfe far beyond that your admirable Regiment In so much as this gentle stranger though he were at the first vnwilling Vlisses-like to leaue his natiue soile especially now in this dangerous sea-faring time while all the world is in a maner troubled with Spanish Fleetes yet after he called to minde what he had heard and written of the mightie Goddesse of the English Ocean and who there swaied the Trident vnder hir trusting vpon such a Neptune he went aboord with a good courage doubting not at al but that the proud Spanish Caracks if they be not yet sufficiently dismaid by the wracke they suffered in their former aduenture but dare againe attempt the like be they neuer so many more or greater than they were if more and greater they can be shall againe by the grace of God directing as before the courage and wisedome of Englands renoumed Admirall be dispersed ouer the frowning face of our disdainfull Seas dronken with salt waues regorge the bodies of their presumptuous Pilots And so my Lord with a fauorable winde breathing directly from the French Helicon by the safe conduit of your Honourable name and helpe of the Muses at length I landed my stranger in England Where since his arriuall he hath gladly encountred diuers of his elder brethren that were come ouer before some in a princely Scottish attire others in faire English habits and to th' entent he might the better enioy their companie who by this time had almost forgotten their French he was desirous to learne English of me therefore I kept him a while about me was his teacher at home and enterpreter abroad and now that he hath gotten such a smattering of the toong as he can so as he can speake for himselfe may it please your good L. to talke with him at your leisure though I know you vnderstand very well his naturall speech I am of opinion it wil much delight you to heare him vtter such counterfait English as in so little time I was able to teach him He can say somwhat of the godly gouernment of good princes the wicked practises of Tyrants as well in compassing as maintaining a Scepter both woorthy your L. hearing for the manner sake though the matter be not vnknowne to your wisdome But som other things he doth report verie strange as of NIMROD that was the first Tyrant of the world after the time of Noah the first Admiral of the worlde his aspiring minde practises in seeking the peoples fauour his proud and subtle attempt in building the Tower of Babel Gods iust punishment thereof in confounding the language of the builders Verie truly reckoneth he that which few do consider the great and manifold inconueniences that are befallen mankinde by the diuersitie o● tongs Further he can tel of speech in general whether man speake by nature or haue but onelie an aptnes to speake by vse whether any other creature haue the like as for seuerall speeches he can prooue with many goodly reasons which is the best most ancient of them all what altereth each toong what continueth each in account what languages are in greatest regard now-adaies what Authors haue most excelled in them And vpon occasion of the English toong my Lord he setteth out in such maner the Queenes princely maiestie hir learning wisdome eloquence and other excellent vertues that I know your noble loyall hart wil greatly reioice to heare it at the mouth of such a stranger The rest if it be more curious then for the states waightie affaires your L. may intend to hear I wish referred vnto those goodly yong gentlemē your noble fatherlike-minded Sons whō after your L. I do most of all honor there shal they find profit so blended with pleasure learning with delight as it may easilie winne their harts alreadie vertuously aspiring from the wanton and faining Cantoes of other Syren-Poets wherewith manie yoong gentlemen and chiefely those of greatest hope are long and dangerously mis-led vnto a further acquaintance with this heauenly-poeticall writer of the truth who is now growne into such a liking of this countrey chiefely for the peaceable gouernment thereof blessed be that Gouernour and free course of the Gospell God continue it and sende the like into Fraunce that he is desirous to become a Freedenizen and hoping further to to be an eie-witnes of Gods woonderfull mercies towards this Land whereof in Fraunce he spake but by heare-saie to behold that pretious Northren Pearle and kisse hir Scepter-bearing hand whose woorthy praise he hath soong so sweetely he humblie beseech your gratious fauour to be enfranchised which if it may please you to graunt my Lorde vouchsafing also the patronage of him that vnder seale of your honourable name he may escape the carping censures of curious fault-finders and enioy all honours priuiledges liberties and lawes that belong eu'n to the naturall inhabitants of this noble Isle my selfe will vndertake to Fine for him at least harty praiers for your daily encrease of honour and all such obedience as it shall please your L. to impose Whose I rest euer at commaund VVilliam L'isle Th' Argument of the two first dayes of the second weeke of Guil. de SALVSTE Seigneur Du Bartas MOses saith that in sixe daies God created the heauen and the earth the sea and all in them contained then rested the seuenth day c. Which the Poet hath at large expounded in his first wéeke * The whole second weeke And hauing with

miserie the Poet sheweth that if this disorder had not happened a man might haue learned in short time all the Liberall sciences and gained the top of that hill where Encyclopaedia that is the full compasse of all Arts crowneth all such lawfull aspiring mindes and in a word obtained the parfait knowledge of all things wheras now we spende our whole life in the learning wordes of th'Hebrue Gréeke Latine toongs that 's nothing else but babling and in stead of being wel séene in the heauenly Philosophie and that of this lower worlde we must take paines in syllables words circuits of spéech and other like exercises vntill we be gray-headed and white-bearded and so end our liues scarse hauing yet attained any sufficient knowledge of Law Physicke or Diuinitie that are the chiefe professions The learned know how hard a matter it is to haue a good stile which is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the measure of learning and that Aristotle who hath so excellently well set it downe in that woonderfull worke of his commonly called the Organ is vnderstood but of a few What may a man say then of the most part of the discourses and spéech of men now adayes liuing It is nothing but babble it is Babel it selfe I speake not héere of the substance of things but of the fashion order and manner that is vsed to make them be conceiued of those to whom we speake be they neuer so cunning in the toong themselues Then of Barbarisme and ignorance what shall a man thinke 9 What shall I tell you more The Hebrue toong generally spoken before the confusion of toongs Men spoke in eu'ry place That holy Dialect the language of Gods grace A parfit toong that hath no Letter no small tyttle But is embellished with mysteries not lyttle Now since this proud reuolt seu'rally people prate Depraued bibble-babbles bastard effeminate That eu'ry day do chaunge and loosing all their light Scarse vtter any sound of that first language right 10 Long since the Phrygians and those by Nilus dwelling Nilus that nourisheth and fats the ground by swelling Desirous to haue tri'de which was of more antiquitie Of their two languages trusted against all equitie The right of eloquence to tender stammering And those that iudgement lackt made iudges of the thing To wit two sucking Babes whom their two Mothers dombe In Hermitages kept where go man else did come No humain charming voice was heard sound neare the place Of their toong-ty'de aboad for whol three twelmonth space Then being called foorth and set betweene the people Of Xanthus and of Nile they cry with voices feoble And often cry they Bec bec bec is all the ground That either toong can frame or else their mouth will sound Whereat the Phrygians that knew bec signify'de In their owne language Bread their countenances dy'de With ioy their hart conceiu'd bicause they were so blest To haue on their behalfe obtain'd natures arrest 11 O fooles that litle thought how those bec-bleating flocks That shore the tender flowres from off the neybour rocks Had school'd them to this terme that the words Roomish French Latin Hebrue Greeke Egyptian or English Are not brought-forth with vs but well may be discern'd That each language by haunt and by long vse is learn'd Onely remaines a powre this or that sound to place Gift naturall to men as eeke that other grace * To speak diuers languages Men only speake An answere to the obiection taken from the vndistinct voice of beasts Which variably rich and richly variable Vs rendreth most vnlike heards brute and miserable And if thou list oppose how that the Bull doth bellow The slothfull Asse doth bray the Lion cruell fellow Now treble rores now base and by those tunes we finde They seeme right eloquent to make vs know their minde Surely those are no words they are but declarations Of their disquiet stur by meanes of some few passions Confused signes of griefe and tokens of their sadnes Of ioyfulnes of loue of hunger thirst and madnes An answere to a second obiection taken from the chirping of birds The like may well be said of that light winged quier That to the verdaunt boughes of bushes doth retier Chirping before the sunne for though against faire weather Two by two three by three they seeme to talke together Though their voice bends it selfe a hundred thousand wayes Though they can descant bold a hundred wanton layes Though great Apolloes selfe within their schoole was taught 'T is but a groundlesse tune of notes intending naught A thousand times a day the selfesame song repeated A dombe discourse amids the trembling trees defeated But onely man hath powre to preach of modestie Of honour of wisedome of force of equitie Of God of heau'n of earth of water and of aire With words of good import diuers and chosen faire Vnfolding all his thoughts not by some one language But like to Scaliger the woonder of our age The lampe of learned men can wisely speake and much In Latine Hebrue Greeke English Italian Dutch Spanish Arabian French and Slauonian Chaldean Syrian and Aethiopian Who like Chameleon maketh his transformation O rich O pliant wit to any auctors facion Great Iulies worthy sonne great Siluies yonger brother In Gasconie renowmd more than was euer other Now as for Popinjayes that passing all their ages Within the pearced grates of thorow-aired cages An answere to the third obiection touching Parrets Doubt not in eloquence to plead with vs for chiefe Pronounce all thorowout the Christian beliefe Repeat the praire deuout that from our Sauiour came And all the houshold call togither name by name They like to th'eccho be our sounding voices daughter That through the vaulted Vales importune bableth after Not weening what she saith in vaine this aire they breake And speaking without sense they speake and nothing speake Not hearing their owne voice bicause the right language Naught is but of the minde the right sounding image Chiefly when it is short when it is sweete and painted As that wherewith All were ere Nimrods time acquainted 9. What shall I tell you more Moses saith in the beginning of the 11. Chapter that then that is many yéeres after the flood and about the same time when Chams posteritie left the East parts to come and dwell in the plaine of Sennaar the whole earth was one language and one spéech to wit Noe and his children and all the families from them issued though they dwelt not togither yet spake they all the same language All of them parted not from the East to the foresaid plaine of Sennaar but likely enough is their opinion that holde that Noe and Sem parted not so soone so farre a sunder and especially that they accompanied not these builders of Babel who sought renowme and set vp their rest in this worlde A man may aske now what was that onely language they spoke in the worlde before the flood