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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11416	The colonies of Bartas VVith the commentarie of S.G.S. in diuerse places corrected and enlarged by the translatour.; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. Part 3. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1598 (1598)	STC 21670; ESTC S110847	58,951	82

THE COLONIES OF BARTAS VVith the Commentarie of S.G.S. in diuerse places corrected and enlarged by the Translatour ANCHORA SPEI Mores hominum multorum narrat vrbes LONDON Printed by R. F. for Thomas Man 1598. AD ILLVSTRISSIMVM HEROA CAROLVM NOTINGHAMIAE COMItem Equitem Georgianum Regineae Maiestati Regni consultum magnum Angliae Admirallium c. PAR MER ET PAR TERRE Multa audire nequis per summa negotia Regni Qui Leo per terram es Ancora qui per aquas Viue igitur praelustris vtes Terraque Marique Et liber hic tibi sit gratus vt alter erat Viue vince hostem vicisti vt semper Iberum Semper in Christo Carole Magne vale Tui Nominit studiosissimus Guilielmus de Insula AGAINE TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE CHARLES EARLE of Nottingham Knight of the Garter Priuie Counseller to her sacred Maiestie Lord high Admirall of England c. EXcellent and most worthy-aduanced the hard and troublesome studie of the lawes whereunto I am by place deuowed affoords me so short onely and broken times to shew and satisfie the desire I haue of honoring your Lordship that through the continuall enaction of your vertue your honours daylie encreasing do farre surmount and outstrip these enterspaced labours of my pen. bound yet my L. by many titles to loue and honour your House euer honorable now in your Lordship repossessed of the great name your auncestours had for some token of the great ioy my hart conceiues thereat and especiallie at this time I haue to the Babilon of Bartas which you did so graciouslie receiue at my hands further Englished and do here present vnto your excellent Honor this booke next ensuing the other which the Auctor entituled The Colonies a work my L worthie also to be countenaunced by your honorable name and not vnmeet for a noble Knight Statesman and Admirall though he were of all the world to read if the great cares of so high place gaue leaue For here in lesse roome then might be thought able to containe so great and sundrie matters are plainlie set downe and euen tabled-out vnto vs the seuerall partes peoples and policies of the whole earth as they began first and grew in time further to be distinguished by the three sonnes of Noe the diuerse ouer-creases of their families But Englands great negocies will not let Your Lordship reade or heare much prose or song For as in Embleme I before haue set To paint in short what honours you belong BY SEA AND LAND you are the Fense of Sion By SEA her Ancor and By LAND her Lion Liue then renoumed both BY SEA AND LAND And daunt the Spaniard as you haue to fore That England fast may with your Ancor stand And by your Lion enimies be tore So shall you ridde the world of Tyrants threat Therfore be tytled Englands Charles the Great And alway for so guarding this her Isle Of Prince be graced lou'd and song of Lisle VVho still remaines your Lordships ready at commaund THE COLONIES Being to speak of so many peoples remoues as came frō Noe a hard matter ●ee desires the furtherance of Gods spe●●● fauour WHile ore th' vnpeopled vvorld I loade the fruitfull stocke Of him that first assay'd the vvaters vvrackfull shocke While I by sea and land all in their places range Discou'ries fortunate of manie a kingdome strāge And while of mighty Noe I toyle to spread and twine Fro th' one to th' other sea the many-branched vine O 1 what twy-lightie cloud by day shall guide my sight What firie piller shall my course direct by night To Seats each peopl'ordain'd before the Paire-of-man Their twyfold-one estate in paradise began 2 Thou holie-holie Flame that ledst the Persian Wises Who left the coast parfum'd vvherout faire Tytan rises To view the cradl'of him vvhose youth in liuing light For euer flourisheth driue hence the gloomy night That seeleth vp mine eyes and so my Muse it shall Search all the darker nookes of this great earthie Ball. For though my wandring sprite althrough this iourney long Waue here and there yet I no vvay more bend my song Nor aught do more desire then to direct and waine My readers to the Childe that was Diuine-humaine 1 What twilighty cloud The Poet being to make in out so manie wayes and crosse so manie seas and countries huge and vnknowne good cause he had to demand as hee doth a greater help then mans wit can affoord such as the children of Israell had a cloud by day and a piller of fire by night to guide them through the wildernesse and surely God gaue him a verie extraordinarie gift otherwise he had neuer bene able so well and brieflie to haue comprised so many hard and worthie matters as hee hath done in lesse then sixe hundred verses He saith here further that each peoples place of abode was ordained of God before the paire of man that is Adam and Eue had receiued in paradise their twifold-one beginning that is before Adam was created of earth and Eue of one of his ribbes noting thereby how of one they were made two in creation and after of two one by marriage And so before the world was made the Lord had in his eternall decree marked and skored out the dwelling places of all people it remained therefore that the same decree should be accomplished as appeared afterward 2 Thou holy-holy Flame The Pole-starre is the marriners guide but here the Poet asketh another maner helpe to shew him the right way in his trauell and glancing at the maruellous new starre that appeared to the wisemen that came out of the East to see and worship our Sauiour Iesus Christ then borne in Bethlem he calleth on the holy Ghost the true light of our vnderstanding auerring that although the matter which hee hath taken in hande constraines him to discourse somtime of one thing and sometime of another yet is Iesus Christ the chiefe marke he aymeth at vnto whom his desire is to lead his readers as also whatsoeuer is set vs downe in the doctrine of Moses the Prophets and Apostles tendeth to the selfe same end This the Poets holie desire makes much to the shame of those that hauing themselues an vnclean heart by setting their filthy workes in print defile also the eyes and eares of many whom as much as in them lies they lead vnto the diuell A comparison ●●●ly shewing th' effect of that astonishment befel the buil●ers of Babell As when the skie orecast vvith darkesome cloudy racke A vvoods heart thorow-strikes vvith some great thunder-cracke The birdes eu'n all at once their neast and pearch forsake And through the troubled aire they flote for feare and quake One here another there their pinions whizzing sound Is noysed all about no gre●sell Turtl'is found Together with her make with downie callow feather Some yong ones dare assay to vvrastl'against the vveather Right so 3 the men vvho