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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03860	Hunnies recreations: conteining foure godlie and compendious discourses, intituled Adams Banishment: Christ his crib. The lost sheepe. The complaint of old age. Whereunto is newly adioyned these two notable and pithie treatises: The creation or first weeke. The life and death of Ioseph. Compiled by William Hunnis, one of the gentleme[n] of hir Maiesties chappel, and maister to the children of the same.	Hunnis, William, d. 1597.	1595 (1595)	STC 13973; ESTC S118813	20,823	70

mouth in tast Two trees amid this garden grew by power of sacred skill The one of life the other was of knowledge good ill From Eden went a riuer forth to moist this garden than Which afterward deuided was and in foure heads became And Pishon is the first of foure which round about doth go The golden land of Hauilah where th' Onix stone doth gro The second head is Gi●…on calde which compasseth throughout The land of Ethyopia with water round about The third is named Hidekell that passeth downe along The east side of Assyria with mightie streame and strong And Euphrates the fourth is cald which fruitfulnesse doth shew And in the same doth many gems and pretious stones forth grow Almighty God this Adam tooke and in this garden set The same to dresse the same to keep and of the fruit to eate Of euery tree that therein was God bade him eate his fill Except the tree that 's in the midst of knowledge good and ill God said y e day thou eat'st thereof thou for the same shalt die Therefore see that thou touch it not the tast thereof to try It is not good said God that ma●… should be alone I see I will an helper make to him companion his to be Out of y e ground did god thē mak●… each beast vpon the earth And euery foule in th' ayre that flies and all that draweth breath And God did bring al beasts and foules to view of Adams eie ●…hich was to see what kind of name he then would call them by And Adam called euery beast and euery sowle by name ●…s we doe vse at this same day to nominate the same In slumber then was Adam cast and God a rib did take ●…om forth his side of the same a woman did he make ●…nd fild the place with flesh againe and when he did awake This is said he bone of my bones and flesh of mine I see ●…rago shall she called be as taken out of me And for this cause shal euery one his parents deere forsake ●…nd cleaue vnto his wife alone and both one flesh shall make FINIS Adams banishment The person of God IAm and wil be as I was before the world was wrought I made the heauens the earth ●…and all therein of naught sea ●…nely for thy vse O man these mighty works did frame ●…d made thee Lord and gouernor ●…and ruler of the same ●…ae't thee here in Paradise ●…and gaue thee will to chuse ●…ether my word thou wouldst obay ●…or else the same refuse ●…t thou vnkind and most vnkind through infidelitie ●…dst tast the fruit I thee forbad of good and euill to be ●…d yet by death I threatned thee that thou therefore shouldst die ●…hou presumdst the fruit to eate that I did thee deny ●…ere didst thou shew thy vnbeleefe ●…nd thoughtst my wordes vntrue And thereupon did pride arise and foule ambition grew Ingratefull wast thou found thee●… for that thou couetdst more then I thee gaue yet for the sam●… not thankfull wast therefore Dost thou the son of slime and eart●… thinke it a thing but small To make thee like vnto our selfe but wouldst thou therewithall Be like to vs in Deitie to know what we doo know This mou'd our wrath frō heauen our angels down to throw bo●… The person of Adam O Lord giue earth and ashes le●… with feare to speak to thee Thou knewst before that I should 〈◊〉 yer time was knowne to be And yer the angels kind were mad●… thou knewst the fall of man And of all things didst see the end yer thou the same began Thou mightst y e same preuēted ha●… if so had beene thy will And I in great felicitie might haue continued still GOD. ●…as my foreknowledge then y e cause of this thy wilfull fall ●…r dar'st thou yet so proudly thinke as me the causer call ●…hou art thy selfe both fault cause and thou the same shalt find ●…o be thy disobedience and proud aspiring mind ●…hou hadst my law for to obserue which law if thou hadst kept ●…here had bin no transgressiō made nor sinne in thee had crept ●…ost true it is I see the end of euery thing I make ●…efore it was as proofe there is when I did vndertake ●…o fashion thee and creatures all in heauen and earth that be ●…ho then could tell but I alone and other twaine with me ●…nd where thou saist I might thy fal haue holpen to the best might not with my iustice stand nor with my glorie rest ●…or I am truth and truth I speake and truth shall witnesse be That thou shalt die for eating fruit of the forbidden tree What canst thou say now for thy self thou should not iudgement haue And die the death for thine offense as I thee warning gaue Adam O Lord my God I sory was when I my fault did see And was surprisde with shame fe●… for so offending thee I hid my selfe among the trees ne durst I be so bold Before thy presence to appeare nor yet my selfe behold Such shame and feare had cōpast 〈◊〉 about on euery side I knew not where my selfe bestow nor where my selfe to hide If sorrow mine if shame and feare may not thy fauor win Alas what else to thinke or speake I know not to begin GOD. SVch sorrow fear shame as thi●… but agrauates mine ire ●…ou shuldst haue feard before y e seltst the fruit thou didst desire ●…nd yet before thou didst it touch thou hadst committed sin ●…cause thou couetdst in thy selfe more higher to haue bin ●…nce in thy will and choise it lay to leaue or else to take ●…nd y e hast tane thou shuldst haue left I must for iustice sake ●…ue sentence on thy sinfull deed as I before haue said ●…st thou ought else more for to say why iudgement should be staid ADAM O Lord my God what shall the pot vnto the potter say ●…ou hast me made of filth and slime of brittle earth and clay ●…d as the potter turnes his wheele with lumpe of clay in hand ●…ereof to shape a vessell pure before his eie to stand th' end that vessel should be vsde with iuice of grapes the best 〈◊〉 thense to drink such thirst to 〈◊〉 as bideth in the brest So Lord if that abused be and filth therein remaine Yet can the potter when he please the same make cleane againe And being cleane may be imploy●… vnto the potters will To eate or drinke in as shall please the cunning potters skill Yet with all meekenesse I confesse with no lesse feare I speake If pot the potter he mislike may soone in peeces breake But if it would the potter please to proue his power withall And see how weake the vessell is the conquest were but smal GOD. THe greatest conquest I do ma●… my truth is to maintaine I am the truth and onely truth for euer to remaine The word I speake is verament and may not be denide As I by

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 roun●… 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 plaie●… And while the stripling goes to school●… 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 ●…nd while they range in arguments 〈◊〉 which Logicke can maintaine ●…hile they the time imploie 〈◊〉 to publish matters small ●…hough of no weight by eloquence 〈◊〉 to shew their skill withall ●…hile like the bee they skip 〈◊〉 from bloome to blossome blowne ●…nd for their purpose sucke the fruit 〈◊〉 by sundrie authors sowne ●…hile they disposed so 〈◊〉 by studie to attaine ●…e knowledge of the liberall arts 〈◊〉 no labor doe refraine ●…d while that without end 〈◊〉 their troubled braines they beat 〈◊〉 find out euerie facultie 〈◊〉 grafted in science seat ●…ile they the Greeke translate 〈◊〉 in Latine for to goe ●…d Latine into Greeke likewise 〈◊〉 their cunning forth to shew ●…ile forren toongs they seeke 〈◊〉 their knowledge to maintaine ●…d feare not to transfret the seas 〈◊〉 and Alpes to clime with paine ●…ile they themselues acquaint with countries that be strange With forrē courts with things vnkn●… and other things of change While they thus busie be stifle age comes stealing in And laies his crutch vpon their bac●… 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 ●…re lost or stolne or burnt with fire there is a meane we see ●…e same may be in time recouered againe ●…hou as poore as Codrus were ●…or Irus did remaine ●…t hope to be as rich ●…as Crassus heretofore 〈◊〉 that thy substance and thy wealth may match with Croesus store ●…t as for creeping age when Clotho hath begun ●…on hir clew thy thred to wind that Lachesis had spun ●…n neuer be reuok't againe to be vntwinde ●…no inchantment charme or force that wit of man can finde NOt Circes with hir charme nor Mercurie with his rod ●…or yet Medea with hir drugs can stay this worke of God Iupiter himselfe thy bellie full would fill ●…ith Nectar and Ambrosia which some of learned skil ●…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 ●…ade his chariot still to stand 〈◊〉 listen what they said 〈◊〉 let these idle tales 〈◊〉 thought vpon no more wroght ●…f they could such things haue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is said before 〈◊〉 might they bring ●…e age thou once possest keepe thee in the age thou art ●…ile life is in thy breast 〈◊〉 yet the sunne goes downe ●…d takes his beames awaie doth arise most gloriouslie ●…e next insuing day moone a waining hath ●…t afterward a change 〈◊〉 doth receiue hir former light ●…d reuolution strange ●…er growes yong againe 〈◊〉 frostie cold once spent ●…er turn'd into a spring ●…at doth vs well content yet the state of age ●…at flits awaie so fast 〈◊〉 when the summer time thereof 〈◊〉 once consum'd and past 〈◊〉 that the winter sharpe ●…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 shal●… 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 did●… is now most bitter sin The thoughts thereof torment our guiltie conscience sore With greefe and paine we doe lamen●… our youth abusde before And to our selues gan saie what treasure haue we spilt And reapt thereby vnto our selues 〈◊〉 sorrow death