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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13512	Taylors Vrania, or His heauenly muse With a briefe narration of the thirteene sieges, and sixe sackings of the famous cittie of Ierusalem. Their miseries of warre, plague, and famine, (during their last siege by Vespasian and his son Titus.) In heroicall verse compendiously described.; Urania	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1616 (1616)	STC 23806; ESTC S118287	24,950	88

Whil'st the besieged that within did dwell Amongst themselues to fell sedition fell Like neigh'bring bauins lyeng neere each other One burnes and burning each one burne another So did the Iewes each other madly kill And all the streets with their slaide corpses fill Eleazer Simon Iohn all disagree And rend Ierusalem in peeces three These each contending who should be the chiefe More then the Romans caus'd their Contries griefe Iohn scorn'd Eleazer should be his superior And Eleazer thought Iohn his inferior And Symon scornd them both and each did scorne By any to be rul'd or ouer-borne The Citie sundred thus in triple factions Most horride bloody and inhumane actions Were still committed all impieties In sundry sorts of vile varieties All sacrilegious and vngodly acts Were counted Noble meritorious facts They striu'd each other to surpasse in euill And labor'd most most how to serue the deuill These men of grace and goodnes had no thought But daily madly gainst each other fought They hurly burly all things ouerturn'd Their store-houses with victuals downe they burn'd With hearts more hard then Adamantine rocks They drailed Virgins by the Amber locks The Reuerend Aged they did rend and teare About the streets by snowie antient haire Yong Infants some their harmles braines dash out And some on points of Launces borne about That 't is not possible to write with pen The barb'rous outrage of these deuilish men For they vnmindfull of the Roman force Themselu's did waste and spoyle without remorce Their cruell slaughters made their furious foes Relent and weep in pittie of their woes Whil'st they relentles Villaines voyde of pitty Consume and ruinate their mother-Citty The Channels all with purple gore o're flowde The streets with murdred carkasses were strowde The Temple with vnhallowed hands defilde Respect was none to age sex man or childe Thus this three-headed hellish multitude Did waste themselu's themselu's themselu's subdude Whil'st they within still made their strength more weak The Roman Rams th'oposed walls did break Whose dreadfull battry made the Cittie tremble At which the Factious all their powers assemble And all together like good friends vnite And 'gainst their foes they sally forth and fight Like a swolne Riuer bounded in with banks Opposed long with Pike-like Reedy Ranks At last th' ambitious torrent breakes his bounds And ouer-runs whole Lordships and confounds The liuing and the liueles that dares bide The furie of his high insulting pride Euen so the Iewes from out the Cittie venter'd And like a flood the Roman Army enter'd O'rewhelming in their desp'rate madnes all That durst withstand them or assault the wall They set the fearefull Engines all on fire And brauely fighting made their foes retire The battell done back came these hare-braind men And each the others foe deuide agen Pell mell confusion then againe began All order straight vnto disorder ran Their corne and victualls all consum'd with fire Their hunger-starued bodies 'gins to tire Prouision in a moment spoyld and wasted Which kept might well for many yeers haue lasted Then Famine like a Tyrant roames and rages Makes faint yet furious hauock of all ages The Rich the poore the old the yong all dies All staru'd and fleshles bare Anatomies This was a plague of plagues a woe of woes On euery side their death did them inclose But yet the manner how to lose their breaths Did more torment them then an host of deaths To sallie forth the Romans shed their blood To stay within they starue for want of food And if they would go forth the gates were shut And if they staid within their throats were cut That if they stay or go or go or stay Th' are sure to meet destruction euery way But of all torments hunger is the worst For through the stonie walls they say 't will burst These people with war woe and want beset Did striue how they might to the Romans get They hopde to finde more mercy in their swords Then their still-dying famisht state affords Mans wit is sharpest when he is opprest And wisdom amongst euills likes the least They knew Vespasian for a Noble foe And one that did not glory in their woe They thought it best his clemencie to trie And not immurde with hungry famine die Resolued thus dispairing in their hopes A number slyding downe the walls with ropes Fled vnto Tytus who bemoand their case Relieuing them and tooke them to his Grace Thus fortie thousand neere with famine staru'd Were all vnhop'd for by their foes preseru'd The Cittie soldiers search'd each house to see Where any victuals might conuayed be And if they any found they thought it fit To beat the owners for concealing it But if they saw a man looke plump and fat His throat they presently would cut for that They thought him too much pamperd too wel fed And to saue meat and drinke they strike him dead Some men and women Rich and Nobly borne Gaue all they had for one poore strike of corne And hid themselues and it below the ground In some close vault they eat the same vn-ground If any could get slesh they eat it raw The strongest still the weakest ouer-awe For hunger banisht naturall respect It made the husband his owne wife reiect The wife doth snatch the meat from out his hand Which would and should hir loue and life cōmand All pitty from the Mother was exilde She teares and takes the victuals from hir Childe The Childe doth with the Parents play the theefe Steales all their food and lets them pine in griefe Nor Free or Bond-man Fathers nor yet Mothers Wiues Husbands Seruants masters sisters brothers Propinquitie or strong Affinitie Nor all the rights of Consanguinitie No Law or Rule or Reason could beare sway Where strength cōmands there weaknes must obay The pining seruant will no master know The son his father will no duty show The Commons did no Magistrate regard Each one for one and but for one he carde Disordred like the Cart before the horse All reu'rence and respect did yeeld to force These Miscreants with vigilance all watch'd Where they could see a dore or lock'd or latch'd There they supposd the people were at meat And in their outrage ope the dores they beat Where entring if they found them feeding fast From out their throats they teare the meat in haste Halfe eaten halfe vneaten they constraine The wretched people cast it vp againe They halde them by the eares the house about To force them bring supposed victuals out Some by the thumbs hang'd vp some by the toes Some prick'd with bodkins some with many blowes Tormented were to force them to reueale Meat when they had not any to conceale Now all was fish that fell into the net And all was food that fraud or force could get Grasse hay barke leaues of trees and Dogs and Cats Toades Frogs wormes snailes flies maggots Mice and Rats All filthy stinking and contagious Rootes The couers of their Coaches shooes and