HVNNIES RECREATIONS Conteining foure goâ—… lie and compendioâ—… 〈◊〉 courses 〈◊〉 Adams Banishment Christ his â—…râ—…b The lost Sheepe The complaint of old Age. Whereunto is newly adioyned these two notable and pithâ—… Treatises The Creation or first Weeke The life and death of Ioseph Compiled by William Hunnis one of the GentlemeÌ„ of hir Maiesties chappel and maister to the children of the same Printed by P. S. for W. Iaggard and are to be sold at his shoppe at the east end of S. Dunstons church 1595. The Muse to hir Author W WHy fearest thou this gift to giue though gift of gifts be small I If loue and zeale thy gift surmount No cause of feare at all 〈◊〉 Let loue with guist the triall make and so it shall appeare I If troth be foreman of the quest wiâ—… 〈◊〉 iâ—… passeth cleere A And wâ—…y to whom the gift is giuen such one as loue doth hold M More deere than gem of richest pricâ—… or wall of beaten gold H HVmble thy selfe in awfull sort and doubtlesse thou shalt find V Vnto thy choise a patron such to thy desired mind N Now fare thou well be of good cheere blush not ne be afraid N Nor care for frowne of frumping soâ—… remember what is said I It may so fall yer it be long I will be heere with speed S Such thing to bring as best shall fit thine humour for to feed â—…o the right Honourable sir Thomas Heneage knight one of â—…ir Maiesties priuy counsel Vizechamberlen to hir Highnesse and tresuror of hir Maiesties chamber prosperous health long life with much increase of honor Where spring is small great streams may not be â—…ail Yes as it is doe make the owner glad I one me compels a cup thereof to bring If honor please to tast of this poore spring And dip your â—…p a little in the sâ—…ne My ioy were great though boldnesse â—…ris blame Heere I present vnto your honors view â—…timely fruit as in my orchard grew No better choise therein that I could find Nor other thing that fitted to my mind 〈◊〉 better yeare some better fruit may grâ—…w â—…uch as shall be are yours my selfe also The Creation of the World How Heauen and earth the light and skie The Sun the Moone and starres so hie How beasts and fowles how Fish Man Created was of God and whan The worke of the first day HeÌ„ God which no beginning had the heauen earth gan frame â—…d void and emptie it beheld â—…ith darkenesse on the same â—…nd on the waters which he made â—…at then aloft did stand â—…d ouerwhelm'd the earth so farre â—…s yet appeard no land forth â—…en at his word there light came â—…iuided from the shade â—…d so the Euening and the morne â—…y him one daâ—… was made The worke of the second day THe firmament he framd and fiâ—… betweene the waters so As part aboue * the same did rest the other part * below And gaue a name therto and said it heauen * shall called be The euening and the morning ekâ—… the second day you see The worke of the third day THe third day at his holy hest the waters vnderneath Compelled were togither goe in one place of the earth And then the land appeared dry which * Earth was called tho And bad it should bring forth grâ—… ingendring seed to gro * hâ—… And fruitful trees of sundry sorâ—… that seed might still retaine And bring forth fruit ech after kiâ—… that on the earth remaine Thus eu'ry thing came so to passe as God before did say fruit The earth brought herb tree with that still engender may The worke of the fourth day ANd that there shuld a diâ—…'reÌ„ce be betweene the daies and nights God bad that in the firmament there should be placed * lights which shuld remain froÌ„ tim to time appointed signes to be â—…s day from day and yeare from year in order as we see The sun he made the day to rule the moone the night to guide â—…nd shining starres in heauen he set whose light doth aye abide The worke of the fift day THis mightie maker then gan say let waters now forth briâ—… â—…ch * creaturs as with life may 〈◊〉 and fowle to fly with wing Vpon the earth and in the face of heauen or starrie skie Strait way both fish foule was madâ—… in kind â—…o multiplie God* blessed both bad them grâ—… the fish the sea to fill And feathered foule vpon the earth their kind increasing still The worke of the Sixt Day Now let y e earth bring forth said Goâ—… each liuing thing by kind As cattel beasts worm that creepâ—… his power the same assign'd Thus wheÌ„ God saw his handy woâ—… was good and pleasd him well Let vs make man like vs said he the rest of all t'xcell To haue the rule of fish and soule of cattell and the earth And euery creeping thing on grouÌ„â—… that liues and draweth breath And in the image of himselfe did* God create 〈◊〉 â—…han Both male and female form'd he thâ—… but first he made the man And* blessed them the earth to fil their sex still to renew â—…nd gaue them power vpon the earth the same for to subdue 〈◊〉 And said behold I haue you* giueÌ„ of euery hearbe to eate â—…nd euery tree wherein is fruit likewise to be your meat 〈◊〉 Also to euerie beast on earth and euery bird that flies haue â—…nd creeping worme green herb shal to feed vpon likewise 〈◊〉 Al what he said so came to passe and he the same did see â—…ch kind of thing that he had made was good so for to be The hallowing of the sabboth day The fower flouds of Paradise gay How in the same man had his seate The tree forbidden him to eate How Adam named Creatures al How Eue was made that first did fall And how that mariage did begin Betweene them twaâ—…ne yer they did sin THus was the heauens y e earth y e seâ—… and creatures all therein In six daies made and in the seuenth did God our God begin To* rest from all his labours doneâ—… and sanctified the same To be a day of rest to man therein to praise his name God made 〈◊〉 plant in field y e groâ—… before 〈◊〉 it was And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…efore it grew 〈◊〉 â—…uery other grasse And â—…s before that any raine vpon the earth was found Or any man to haue in vse the tillage of the groud A mightie mist 〈◊〉 vp from off the eaâ—… 〈◊〉 Bewatered the 〈◊〉 the earth and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The man that of the earth was made a liuing soule became By breath of life that God did breath in nostrils of the man And from the first god planted had a garden faire to see Wherein he set this man he made the keeper for to be And froÌ„ y e earth god made to spring all fruitfull trees so plac't As both might well the eie delight and please the
truth and thou by fault shalt iudged be and tride Adam Adam hold vp thy hand this is thy iudgement day Adam O Lord vouchsafe to licence dust a little more to say â—…ehold how prostrate I doe lie before thy blessed face â—…ehold my fearefull quiuering hart most humbly crauing grace â—…ehold the sobs greeuous grones my inward soule doth make â—…nd let not perish thou hast made for thy great glories sake â—…f needs thou wilt thy iustice shew by iudgement to proceed â—…hen let the party made th' offence be punisht for the deed 〈◊〉 was not I the fruit first toucht nor pluckt it from the tree 〈◊〉 was the woman thou me gau'st my helper for to be â—…he pluckt it off and tasting it she gaue it me and said â—…ehold how faire and sweet it is to eate be not afraid â—…he first did eate and after I did eate thereof also â—…raue with all humilitie thou wilt no rigor show GOD. And wouldst thou now thy self exâ—… and put on hir the blame Whereas you both offenders be and guilty of the same When she a rib was in thy side I gaue the charge to thee And bad thee eate of euery fruit saue onely of that tree And now is she bone of thy bone and flesh of thine also Not fleshes twaine but both one flâ—… togither for to go So both are guiltie of the crime whereof thou art Accusde And ofspring yours shall in like foâ—… thereof not be excusde But woman why didst thou this dâ—… your selues with death to greeuâ—… WOMAN O Lord the serpent me deceiu'd whose wordes I did beleeue GOD. The Serpent â—…ursed THou subtill guilfull serpent thâ—… because thou thus hast don Thou art accurst aboue all beasts that in the fields doe won Vpon thy bellie thou shalt go and dust shall be thy meat And all the daies thou hast to liue no other thing shalt eat Twixt thee and hir of enmitie I will the seeds forth sowe As that betweene thy seed and hirs continuall strife shall grow The seed of hir shall crush thy head and tread in peeces small And thou shalt tread vpon his heele but not preuaile at all The Womans Iudgement BVt Woman vnto thee I say thy iudgement shall be this Because thou hast intised man by sinne to doe amisse Thy sorrowes vvill I multiplie when thou conceiued art â—…nd thou thy children shalt bring forth with dolor paine and smart â—…nd vnderneath thy husbands povver shalt alvvaies subiect be â—…nd he shall haue the charge and rule and gouernement of thee ADam Adam hold vp thy hand this iudgement shalt thou haue Because thou hast transgrest the law that I vnto thee gaue And bent thine eare vnto thy wife to harken what she said And tane and eaten of the fruit that I to thee denaid I cursse the ground euen for thy sake and cursed shall it be In sorrow shalt thou eate thereof while life is lent to thee Wild thorne also and thistleweed it shall bring sorth and yeeld And thou shalt feed vpon the fruit that groweth in the field With painefull trauel great and strong with sweat vpon thy face Thy bread shalt eate till thou returne to earth thy former place For of the earth and from the earth thou earth doost still remaine And from the earth vnto the earth thou earth shalt go againe TO thinke what pitious more they maâ—… what clamors and what cries Such time as God theÌ„ both draue foorth from heauenlie paradise What wringing hads what folding arms what teares from blubbering eies How oft they set them downe to weepe how oft againe they rise How oft their heauy heads they reare and faces to the skies How oft each other could embrace in lamentable guise How oft deepe sighes the hart seÌ„ds forth where all the sorrow lies Might vrge vs all from them that sprang to waile with them likewise Againe to thinke how euery beast and euery fowle withall Which heretofore obedient were and came at Adams call â—…oo now from Adams presence flie as fearefull of his sight â—…nd in the woods and desarts wilde doo take their whole delight â—…o thinke whereas he was before each thing did grow by kind â—…hich he as then might take at wil to pleasure of his mind â—…e tree of life to be his meat by death no time to fall And euery creature that was made to solace him withall How he likewise deuoid of shame might children there beget And woman to bring sorth the same without all greefe and let Must now with painfull trauell sore go dig and delue the earth Yer it can yeeld him any food wherewith to feed his breath To thinke how many hundred yeares his trauell did him greeue And how each day broght sorrowes 〈◊〉 the time he had to liue Might moue with ruth a marble mind it selfe to mollifie But euen to thinke or heare of this poore Adams tragedie Christ his Crib WHat fury haunteth vs that we so much delight To staÌ„d gaze on monumeÌ„ts of auncient former sight Of pleasure what find we in sumptuous buildings new â—…uch as our ancestors before the like nere saw nor knew â—…ehold the time is such vanitie beareth sway â—…nd fancie fond the wit doth rule till both come to decay â—…or euery priuate man a modull takes in hand â—…here wit and will and wealth do meet are many platformes scand â—…ome costly buildings reare and pull them downe againe â—…nd othersome altar and change as fansie feedes the braine â—…nd some foundation laies and yer the worke be done Doth take his leaue and goeth his waie and leaues it to his sonne The sonne doth much mislike the worke the father wrought And yer his fancie can be fed consumes himselfe to nought Of other some there be hauing of treasure store Which when a worke they finisht haue yet still deuiseth more What pleasure now haue such in lieu of cost and paine For only but to seed the eie is vanitie most vaine But if you faine would see a monument indeed Then goe with me and run apace the better shall we speed I will you shew a sight more worth to view and see Then all the buildings on the earth what euer so they be And such a sight it is as all the fathers old And ancestors before their time the like did nere behold And all that liue this day and on the earth remaine Nor any after age that comes shall see the same againe Behold loe here it is a Cabin poore God knowes Beerent and torne a rustie thing vnfurnished with showes Of outward sight to see a simple thatched cot Where â—…leet snow and raine driues in a ruynde place God wot And yet within the same a blessed babe doth lie Which yeeldeth sorth as insants doe many a tender crie This babe euen at whose becke the thunder makes to quake The earth beneath in trembling sort and lofty skie to shake Euen here this insant doth being a mightie prince And soueraigne ruler of the world
that shall his foes conuince Sucke milke from tender breast of blessed Mary sure Being his mother and a wife and yet a virgine pure 〈◊〉 am no whit afraid comparison to make This homelie Cabin to prefer for this sweet Babies sake Before the buildings great of stately Temples all And sumptuous courts and palaces of princes great and small This stable dooth surmount the costly Temple wrought With curious worke by Salomon which as of right it ought Must yeeld and base it selfe and stoope this place vnto In which was borne the sonne of God as was his will to doe So must that glorious court of that high potentat King Cresus he of Lydia stand backe to this estate And let the Capitols that dedicated were In olde time past with Idols theirs Vnto Dan Iupiter Which though they garnisht were most magnificentlie With fine and curious workmanship of marble imag'rie Now yeeld this stable to as subiects bond and thrall As no whit to compared be to this in ought at all Let Lady Rome strike saile and vnder hatches go With stately turrets of defense hir wals and gates also And let hir capitoll with glasse and gold araide And temple Olauitrium now shake and be afraid And let hir house of gold bedeckt with pretious stone Giue place with all humility to this poore cot alone â—…or now is falne to ground the Image made of gold â—…n likenesse to king Romulus which should together hold And stand for euermore vntill such time a child â—…hould forth proceed and so be borne of virgin meeke and mild The image made oâ—… brasse in womans portraiture â—…o high so great and hugie was for euer to endure Which now is likewise falne euen at the artsman said Yet stil shall stand vntill a child proceedeth from a maide ALl Haile most rovall house possessor of all grace That was so highly dignifide to be the only place Of such an holy birth whereby thou art to see More happy then the heauen it selfe by this Natiuitie And neither may this cot be thought a whit the lesse Meet to receiue the Sauiour of all our trespasses For that the walles thereof were broken or berent Subiect to wind and weather such as stormes and tempest sent Neither for that it was without all furniture As sheetes and other-needfull things as dayly be in vre Hauing but only this which there by chance they found Offtebble rough and thistle hay that lay vpon the ground And notwithstanding this as you haue heard beforne Did yet receiue this little babe so soone as it was borne For such an homely crib and stable poore and thin Did well become our sauiour Christ for to be borne therein As he that to the world came hyther purposely To giue example vnto vs of great humilitie And to condemne dame pride and thrust hir vnder foot Which is of sinne and vices all both branches tree and root In this poore thatched house here is no rich aray As hangings faire of purple hue nor cloth of arras gaâ—…e In this poore silly cot there is no stusâ—…e at all No chamber great nor parlor sruas no kitchen ne no hall Within this homely cell there was not to be seene Of any fuell wood or cole a â—…ier for to teene There is not in this cooch expected for to see Of delicates and iunkets fine nor daintie cheere to be Within this cabin poore yee shall not here behold Great troopes of men for to attend in siluer silke ne gold Nor yet the childwife lie in soft and stately bed With quilts of silke to keepe hir warme nor pillow for hir hed No no but here doth lie in manger hard and cold An amiable in fant sweet more sweet than may be told Bewrapt and lapt in clouts both poore and bare God wot And swathed in such swathing clothes as then there might be got And though that he now borne in homely sort thus laie Yet was his diuine maiestie declared that same day For to the Shepheards came that watcht their flocks by night The angell of the most high God shining with beames so bright As made them so afraid they stood in doubtfull stay â—…till the angell of the Lord â—…hus wise to them could say â—…re not behold I bring â—…o you such gladsome newes 〈◊〉 all the world shall ioy thereat â—…eaue off therefore to muse 〈◊〉 vnto you this day 〈◊〉 sauiour Christ is borne â—…u shall him finde in manger laid â—…he walles be rent and torne â—…orthwith with th'angell was 〈◊〉 maru'lous multitude â—…heauenly fouldiors praising God â—…n this sort to conclude â—…orie to God on high â—…nd peace on earth below â—…d vnto men reioysing great â—…hat this beleeue and shew â—…fter came to passe When th'angels went awaie 〈◊〉 into heauen from whense they came â—…he shepheards then did say 〈◊〉 vs to Bethleem go â—…hese tidinges to behold â—…d so went out and when they came â—…hey found as th'angell told â—…e babe in manger laid â—…nd Ioseph that good man Was hard him by who prostrately this worke of God to scan Gan with a lowlie hart and humble spirit most mild Fal on his knees and worshipped his new borne softer child The shepheards seeing this did publish vnto all What th'angell said and they had seâ—… each thing as did befall And backe againe they went and praised God on hie That they had seene the sonne of Goâ—… in manger thus to lie Then with their warbling pipes they wont to play vpon Before their seuerall flockes of sheeâ—… togither as they gone Do chaunt it now aloft with sound of shepheards laie And thus with ioy solemnise they this blessed babes birth-day The virgine so likewise that Iesus mother was Which first was brought into a musâ—… how it might come to passe That she a child should beare and knew no man at all 〈◊〉 now agnize the worke of God â—…nd let hir eie downe fall â—…n hir little babe â—…hich God to hir had sent â—…e hir sauiour and of all â—…ho euer doe repent 〈◊〉 then she tooke hir babe â—…nd dandled it a while â—…ther while she gaue it sucke â—…is crying to beguile 〈◊〉 many kisse it gaue 〈◊〉 it lay in hir arme 〈◊〉 theÌ„ with clothes such as they were â—…elapt it well and warme 〈◊〉 while the breast she giues â—…e quieter to keepe â—…ther while she lulleth it â—…d husheth it asleepe 〈◊〉 thus in most sweet guise â—…d amiable sort 〈◊〉 time they passe with mirth and ioy â—…d many another sport The lost Sheepe SIth that the heauen of heauens where God and angels be Is made the seate wheron I sit by mightyest power decree â—…d that the Earth beneath where hearbe and grasse doth growe â—…ere men and beasts and liuing things do creepe thereon and goe â—…or my foot the stoole ordeined long before â—…r world was wrought or angell made or ought else lesse or more â—…th I am Lord thereof and all these thinges be mine â—…en tell me man what moueth thee from me thus to decline
memorie is weaker than before The Thebans held a law who threescore yeares did liue If after that he then fell sicke none might him physicke giue That age obtainde say they himselfe ought not to bend Longer to liue but hasten forth vnto his iournies end Experience dooth confirme and proueth this too true That lately such as lustie were in valor strength and hue Are now through age become all crooked to behold Their heads with white bespeckled are their heat is turnde to cold The frost their beards hath caught which maketh them to thinke How that the spring of their greene age is past and still doth shrinke OFlitting youth adieu age makes all things decline O too too short a fading floure of transitorie time Which by no waie nor art can be repair'd againe The winter cold the heat hath nipt and ransackt euerie vaine O greene and sprouting yeares ô gallant youth that 's past What sweet and pleasant merry daies were spent while you did last O happy time of life how slily doth it passe And steales away making exchange for purest gold but brasse How closely is it gone and not perceiu'd at all And glides away as doe the streames which downe a riuer fall More swift it may be said than emptie clouds that flie By force of winds that tosse them rounâ—… in compasse of the skie Like dreames that passe awaie within our sleepes we see When we awake nothing there is of that we dreamt to bee The sweet and fragrant rose now delicate in sight Within short time all withered is and turnd as daie to night And so likewise of man from child to man doth grow From man againe a childe becoms old age will haue it so WHile that the little boy with top and scurge gan plaieâ—… And while the stripling goes to schoolâ—… his grammer part to say While those of further yeares phylosophie doe read And cull the bloomes of Rhetorike and figures finely spread While they themselues delight 〈◊〉 in poets fables vaine â—…nd while they range in arguments 〈◊〉 which Logicke can maintaine â—…hile they the time imploie 〈◊〉 to publish matters small â—…hough of no weight by eloquence 〈◊〉 to shew their skill withall â—…hile like the bee they skip 〈◊〉 from bloome to blossome blowne â—…nd for their purpose sucke the fruit 〈◊〉 by sundrie authors sowne â—…hile they disposed so 〈◊〉 by studie to attaine â—…e knowledge of the liberall arts 〈◊〉 no labor doe refraine â—…d while that without end 〈◊〉 their troubled braines they beat 〈◊〉 find out euerie facultie 〈◊〉 grafted in science seat â—…ile they the Greeke translate 〈◊〉 in Latine for to goe â—…d Latine into Greeke likewise 〈◊〉 their cunning forth to shew â—…ile forren toongs they seeke 〈◊〉 their knowledge to maintaine â—…d feare not to transfret the seas 〈◊〉 and Alpes to clime with paine â—…ile they themselues acquaint with countries that be strange With forreÌ„ courts with things vnknâ—… and other things of change While they thus busie be stifle age comes stealing in And laies his crutch vpon their bacâ—… and dooth the maistrie win So much that they be driuen to maruell and to muse How that their strength so suddenly should them faile or refuse And though the same they feele yet not perswaded are That lustie gallant youth of theirs should be remoou'd so far ALas why should we then so carefullie appeare As to consume our golden age with search of trifles here As pearles and gems of price of gold and siluer pure Of scarlet silke and cloth of gold which may not long endure And wast fully consume and wilfully to spend Our golden yeares in vanities and all to no good end Againe if that those things which transitorie be â—…re lost or stolne or burnt with fire there is a meane we see â—…e same may be in time recouered againe â—…hou as poore as Codrus were â—…or Irus did remaine â—…t hope to be as rich â—…as Crassus heretofore 〈◊〉 that thy substance and thy wealth may match with Croesus store â—…t as for creeping age when Clotho hath begun â—…on hir clew thy thred to wind that Lachesis had spun â—…n neuer be reuok't againe to be vntwinde â—…no inchantment charme or force that wit of man can finde NOt Circes with hir charme nor Mercurie with his rod â—…or yet Medea with hir drugs can stay this worke of God Iupiter himselfe thy bellie full would fill â—…ith Nectar and Ambrosia which some of learned skil â—…aue writ that by such things youth still they might maintaine And banish old age in exile for euer to remaine No no it will not be though that Aurora faire Would day by daie thy bodie bath with deaw of heauenly aire No though ten thousand times sweet Venus for to please Thou paine thy selfe as Phao did to ferry Chyos seas No though Chiron himselfe should vnto thee applie All soueraigne hearbs that spring or 〈◊〉 on earth beneath the skie Nothing there is can stop the course of yeares that slide Nor keepe them from our weary backe but must the same abide In deed of tales we read and fables haue beene told How Orpheus and Amphion with other poets old Haue by their magicke art made riuers still to staie And to returne vnto those springs backeward another waie Diana stopt hir coach Phoebus his steeds so staid â—…ade his chariot still to stand 〈◊〉 listen what they said 〈◊〉 let these idle tales 〈◊〉 thought vpon no more wroght â—…f they could such things haue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is said before 〈◊〉 might they bring â—…e age thou once possest keepe thee in the age thou art â—…ile life is in thy breast 〈◊〉 yet the sunne goes downe â—…d takes his beames awaie doth arise most gloriouslie â—…e next insuing day moone a waining hath â—…t afterward a change 〈◊〉 doth receiue hir former light â—…d reuolution strange â—…er growes yong againe 〈◊〉 frostie cold once spent â—…er turn'd into a spring â—…at doth vs well content yet the state of age â—…at flits awaie so fast 〈◊〉 when the summer time thereof 〈◊〉 once consum'd and past 〈◊〉 that the winter sharpe â—…th horie frost and cold 〈◊〉 the head and withered face with snow hath taken hold No hope is then at all for any spring to crie Nor yet for any Ver to come where root and stocke is drie THere resteth now but this of remedies the best Which is that death those euils shalâ—… and set the soule at rest We learne for to be wise too late when youth is gone And doe begin to muse thereof when remedie is none We then bewaile our life in vanitie mispent And doo detest those wilfull waies we did in youth frequent We curse that now in age which youth delighted in And that which then most sweet didâ—… is now most bitter sin The thoughts thereof torment our guiltie conscience sore With greefe and paine we doe lamenâ—… our youth abusde before And to our selues gan saie what treasure haue we spilt And reapt thereby vnto our selues 〈◊〉 sorrow death