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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06962	The poem of poems. Or, Sions muse contayning the diuine song of King Salomon, deuided into eight eclogues.; Poem of poems.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1596 (1596)	STC 17386; ESTC S119690	13,654	74

THE Poem of Poems OR SIONS MVSE Contayning the diuine Song of King Salomon deuided into eight Eclogues Bramo assai poco spero nulla chieggio AT LONDON Printed by Iames Roberts for Mathew Lownes and are to be solde at his Shop in Saint Dunstones Church Vnto the sacred Virgin diuine Mistres Elizabeth Sidney sole daughter and heyre to the euer admired Sir Phillip Sydney Knight BOund to your eternall seruice diuinest of all Virgine creatures both in honour of your renowned Grandfather to whom my Name was euer immortallie obliged and your excellence admired as farre as admiration hath force to conuay true praises and lastlie coniured by an vnresistable edict from them to whom my lifes course is all onelie enthralled with humble reuerence I offer to your mayden censure these hallowed lines metamorphosed by mine vnhallowed sences daine thē deare flower of deare virginnitie with gracious aspect to smile vpon mine infant Muses deuotion and in dispight of tirannizing time lende life to my labour and loue to Salomon Then your selfe no power is greater and with your power is equall no worke of Nature bee then your selfe the powerfull Engine to sustaine my fortunes and my fortunes the first created to make knowne your power that when mine vnfeathered Muse shall be impt by your graces shee may straine her vntuned numbers to sing of you and your adored Father whom heauen holds to make happie her habitation earth wants to giue wonder to her age and men wishe to make mightie their fortunes Happie inough if I please inough I. M. To the Readers RApt in admiration Gentlemen vvith the excellencies of our English Poets whose wondred spirits haue made wonderfull the workes of prophane loue I gaue my selfe ouer to the study of inchaunting Poesie in which I so much the more delighted my selfe by how much the farther I found me from attaining the celestiall secrets of her soule-pleasing Arte and in that amazement willinglie became an eternall Prentise to the Muses At length finding Nature an enemy to mine Arte denying mee those affections which in others make more then immortall the most earthly imaginations I betooke mee to Diuinitie in which labouring my sunne-burnt conceits I found Poesie which I so much reuerenced created but a hand-maide to attend Diuinitie and that as Poesie gaue grace to vulgar subiects so Diuinitie gaue glorie to the best part of a Poets inuention Proude in this opinion I made loue to Salomons holy Song dissoluing my spirits in applause of that excellence sought to attract it within the compasse of our most vsuall stanzaes which hauing done though worse then Millions can doe I commit to your gentle censures If the manner displease the matter was Salomons if the descant dislike the plaine-song was Salomons if the lines bee vnsmooth the words were Salomons howe euer set foorth the inuention was Salomons Be Salomon then my Rock to defend me from the rayling of the enuious and my mediator to purchase fauour with the curteous so shall the one kicke against the pricks and the other bring grace to thēselues in being gracious This Song was not tuned for vulgar Musicke but thought to haue beene reserued for a priuate Consort onely nowe commaunded by those which may compell it is made publique Sweet Gentlemen let it haue gentle passage through your eares that it may bee endow'd with good hap and I with good fortune both with your fauours and all with your prayse Yours I. M. To his deere Mistris Mistris Elizabeth Sidney ALl the worlds glorie and the earths delight Created for to teach Phylosophie That ther's a greater Essence of more might Then Grandam Natures old-taught dietie Looke on these lines deere issues of a King The Song of Songs that lent inuention eies VVhich great Iehouahs or Querrister did sing Vnto the Sphearie Organ of the skies Learne not but learne by this celestiall bride To entertaine espoused happines Yet let thy Virgine-Taper euer bide Like mid-day Sunne to light true holines For though the world and all things fade away Thy Vertues and this Song shall nere decay E. W. ¶ The Argument of the whole Booke IN this Song Salomon by most sweete and comfortable allegories and parables describeth the perfit loue of Iesus Christ the true Salomon and King of peace and the faithfull soule or his Church which he hath sanctified and appointed to bee his spouse holie chast and without reprehension So that heere is declared the singular loue of the bridegrome toward the bride and his great and excellent benefits wherewith hee doth enrich her of his pure bountie and grace without any of her deseruings Also the earnest affection of the Church which is inflamed with the loue of Christ desiring to be more and more ioyned to him in loue and not to be forsaken for any spot or blemish that is in her Faults escaped in the printing IN Ecloga tertia the 10 stanza and the last line for liu'd with Syons Loue reade lin'd with Syons loue In Ecloga quarta before you reade O fountaine of the garden c. read Ecclesia for the Speaker in that place ECLOGA PRIMA Th'argument Betweene Thaumastos and his loue darke louely talke doth passe Shee of her home-begotten woes bemoanes the wronged case ECCLESIA THAVMASTOS Ver●● 1. IMprint vpon my lips pure liuorie The hony pleasure of thy mouthes deere kisse For why thy loue bounded in no degree Exceedes the sence-inchaunting sugred blisse VVhich from the taste of wine attracted is 2. Like ayre-perfuming Odors is thy smell And like rich Vnguents is thy glorious Name Powred diuinely from a precious VVell VVhence loe a brand of kind affection came Kindling Y e Virgins harts with thy loues flame 3. Drawe me my deare entice me with thine eie Then shal my after flight Times flight ore-runne And when the King in pompous royaltie Shall mine afflictions fetters haue vndone Inhousing in his Chamber my selfes sonne Then shall my ioy in thee be compleat fram'd And thine eternall happy-making loue Then iuice of swelling grapes or what is nam'd By sweeter stile I will record aboue All reach because the iust in thee doe moue 4. You Daughters of Ierusalem behold The sable tinckture of my spotted face Yet note youths features in decaying old For I am louelie ritch in comelie grace More thē the twins which sprung frō Kedar's race Kedar the large desent of I smaells line From whom the tent-inclosd Arabians sprang And of more beautie then the silken twine Of Salomons curtaine when thereon doth hang Th'vnualued Iems of which all Syon rang 5. Disdaine me not because of blacke attaint For why the scorching Sunne hath kist my brow And with his eieballs on my cheeks doth paint What sinne-inflicting nature doth alow Through the corruption of her broken vow Not for my Brothers deare in my pure sight Th'vnkindest ofspring of my Mothers wombe Against me forst the hosts of wrath to fight Making me keepe a forraine vine by dombe Whilst I mine