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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

Christ is dead and rizen I know no greater sinner then Iohn Taylor Of all his Death did Ransome out of Prizzen And therefore heere 's my Pride if it be Pride To know Christ and to know him Crucifide Thine in all humilitie Iohn Taylor TAYLORS VRANIA 1 ETernall God which in thine armes do'st Graspe All past all present and all future things And in ineuitable doome dost claspe The liues and deaths of all that dies and springs And at the doomefull day will once vnhaspe Th' acusing booke of Subiects and of Kings In whom though ending nor beginning be Let me ô Lord beginne and end in thee 2 All cogitations vaine from me remooue And clense my earthly and polluted heart Inspire me with thy blessings from aboue That to thy honour I with Artlesse Art May sing thy Iustice Mercy and thy Loue Possesse me with thy Grace in euery part That no profane word issue from my pen But to the Glorie of thy name Amen 3 I do beseech thee Gracious louing father Reiect me not in thy sharpe iudging Ire But in thy multitude of mercies Rather Recall me to thee Recolect me Nigher My wandring Soule into thy bosome Gather And with thy Grace my gracelesse heart Inspire Dictate vnto my minde what it may thinke Write with thy spirit what I may write with inke 4 Thou all things wast eu'n then when nothing was And then thou all things did'st of nothing make Of nothing All thou still hast brought to passe And all againe to nothing must betake When sea shall burne and land shall melt like brasse When hills shall tremble and the mountaines quake And when the world to Chaos turnes againe Then thou Almighty All shalt all remaine 5 And since this vniuersall massie ball This earth this aire this water and this fire Must to a ruine and a period fall And all againe to nothing must retire Be thou to me my onely All in All Whose loue and mercy neuer shall expire In thee I place my treasure and my trust Where Fellon cannot steale or canker rust 6 All things but only God at first began The vncreated God did all Create In him Alone is equall will and can Who hath no ending or commencing date To whose Eternitie all time 's a span Who was is shal be euer in one state All else to nothing howerly doth decline And onely standes vpon support diuine 7 Our high Creator our first Parents form'd And did inspire them with his heau'nly spirit Our Soules seducer Sathan them deform'd And from Gods fauour did them disinherit Our blest Redeemer them againe reform'd And ransom'd them by his vnbounded merit Thus were they form'd deform'd reform'd againe By God by Sathan and our Sauiours paine 8 Mans Generation did from God proceed A mortall Body and a Soule Eternall Degeneration was the Deuils deed With false delusions and with lies infernall Regeneration was our Sauiours meede Whose death did satisfie the wrath supernall Thus was man found and lost and lost was found By Grace with Glory euer to be crownd 9 Man was produc'de seduced and reduc'de By God by Sathan and by God agen From good to ill from ill he was excusd'e By merit of th' immortall man of men The vnpolluted bloud from him was sluc'de To saue vs from damnations dreadfull den Thus man was made and marde and better made By him who did sinne death and hell inuade 10 Let man consider then but what he is And contemplate on what he erst hath bin How first he was created heyre of blisse And how he fell to be the Childe of sinne How of himselfe he howerly doth amisse And how his best workes do no merit winne Except acceptance make them be esteem'd Through his obedience that our Soules redeem'd 11 Before thou wast remember thou wast nought And out of nought or nothing thou wast fram'de And how thy Body being made and wrought By God was with a liuing Soule inflam'de And how th' eternall Nomenclator taught Thee name all Creatures that were euer nam'de And made thee Stuard of the worlds whole treasure And plac'de thee in a paradice of pleasure 12 Then wast thou Viceroy to the King of heau'n And great Lieuetenant to the Lord of hosts The rule of all things vnto thee was giu'n At thy command all creatures seru'd like posts To come or go and at thy becke were driu'n Both neere and farre vnto the farthest coasts God all things made as seruants vnto thee Because thou only shouldst his seruant be 13 He gaue life vnto herbes to plants and trees For if they wanted life how could they grow A beast hath life and sence moues feeles and sees And in some sort doth good and euill know But man 's before all Creatures in degrees God life and sence and reason did bestow And least those blessings should be transitory He gaue him life sence reason grace and glory 14 Then let our meditations scope be most How at the first we were created good And how we wilfull Grace and goodnes lost And of the sonnes of God were Sathans broode Then thinke the price that our redemption cost Th' eternall sonne of Gods most precious bloud Remember this whilst life and sence remaine Else life and sence and reason are in vaine 15 Thou to requite thy God that all thee gaue Ingratefully against him didst rebell Whereby from Regall state thou turnedst slaue And heau'nly Iustice doomb'd thee downe to hell As thy rebellion from thy God thee draue So 'gainst thee all things to rebellion fell For when to heau'n thy due obedience ceast Thy disobedience taught each brutish beast 16 Now see thy miserable wretched state Thou and the earth is eake with thee accurst All worldly things which thee obaide of late In stiffe commotion now against thee burst And thou for euer droue from Eden gate To liue an exilde wretch and which is worst Thy soule Gods darling fell from her preferment To be the Deuils thrall in endlesse torment 17 But Mercies sea hath quenched Iustice fire And Heau'ns high heyre in pittie of mans case In person came and satisfide Gods ire And Gracelesse man new Repossest in Grace The sonne of God came downe to raise vs higher To make vs Glorious he himselfe made base To draw vs vp downe vnto earth he came And honor'd vs by putting on our shame 18 Who can conceiue the Glory he was in Aboue the heau'n of heau'ns in throan'd in blisse Who can conceiue the losse that he did winne To rectifie and answere our amisse Who can conceiue the Mountaines of our sinne That must be hid with such a sea as this No heart no tongue no pen of mortall wight These things can once conceiue or speake or write 19 Man may collect th' abundance of his vice And the deare loue his God to him did beare In thinking on th' inestimable price Was paide his sinne polluted soule to cleare To gaine him an immortall paradice And to Redeeme his foes to pay so

bootes All vermine and the dung of Fowles and Beasts Were these poore wretches miserable feasts Things loathsom to be nam'd in time of plenty Amongst the staru'd distressed Iewes were dainty This famine ran beyond all Natures bounds All motherly affection it confounds No blood or birth with it compassion won It forc'd a Woman kill hir onely Son She rip'd him and dis-ioynted lim from lim She drest she boyld she broyld and rosted him She eat him she interr'd him in hir wombe She made his births place his vntimely tombe From hir by Nature did his life proceed On him vnnaturall she hir selfe did feed He was hir flesh hir sinewes bones and blood She eating him hirselfe hirselfe made food No woe hir miserie can equallize No griefe can match hir sad calamities The Soldiers smelt the meat and straight assemble Which when they saw with horror made thē trēble Each one with staring haire and ghastly looke Affrighted and amaz'd the house forsooke This horride action quickly ouercame These men whom force of man could neuer tame Thou that dost liue like to a fatted Brawne And cramst thy guts as long as thou canst yawne Thou that dost eat and drinke away thy time Accounting Gluttonie a God no Crime Thou must haue Fowle as high as heau'n that pearc'd And hast the bowels of the Ocean search'd And from all places neere so far remore Hast dainties for thy all-deuouring throat Whose pamperd paunch ne're leaues to feed quaff Till it be made a Hogs trogh filld with draff Thinke on Ierusalem amidst thy Riot Perhaps t will moue thee to a temp'rate diet And you braue Dames adorn'd with Iems Iewels That must haue Cawdles Cullisses and Grewells Conser●'s and Marchpanes made in sundry shapes As Castles Towers Horses Beares and Apes You whom no Cherries like your lickrish tooth But they must be a Pound a pound forsooth Thinke on Ierusalem amidst your glory And then you 'le be lesse dainty and more sorry What there auaild their bewty strength or riches Three things which all the spacious world bewitches Authoritie and Honor help'd them not Wrong trod downe Right and Iustice was forgot Their greatest chiefest only earthly good Was t was no matter how they got it Food One little peece of bread they reckond more Then erst they did of bags of Gold before One scrap which full fed crops away do fling With them had bin a ransom for a King The loathsom garbadge which our Dogs refuse Had been a dish of state amongst the Iewes Whilst Famine playd the Tyrant thus within The Romane Army striu'd the walls to win Their Enginers their Pioners and all Did mine and batter and assault the wall Ierusalem had three strong walls of stone And long t was ere the Romans could get one The dearth and death of sword and famine spread The streets that liuing trod vpon the dead And many great mens houses full were filld With carkases which the seditious killd That with the stench of bodies putrifyde A number numberles of people dyde And buriall to the dead they yeelded not But where they fell they let them stinke and rot That plague and sword and famine all three stroue Which shold most bodies from their soules remoue Vnsensible of one anothers woes The soldiers then the liueles Corpses throwes By hundreds and by thousands o're the walls Which when the Romans saw their dismall falls They told to Titus which when he perceiu'd He wept and vp t'ward heau'n his hands he heau'd And calld on GOD to witnes with him this These slaughters were no thought or fault of his Those wretches that could scape from out the Citie Amongst their foes found both reliefe and pittie If the seditious any catcht that fled Without remorse they straightway stroke him dead Another miserie I must vnfold A many Iewes had swallow'd store of gold Which they supposd should help them in their need But from this Treasure did their bane proceed For being by their en'myes fed and cherisht The Gold was cause that many of them perisht Amongst them all one poore vnhappy Creature Went priuately to do the needs of Nature And in his Ordure for the Gold did looke Where being by the stragling soldiers tooke They ript him vp and searcht his maw to finde What Gold or Treasure there remain'd behinde In this sort whilst the soldiers gap'd for gaine Was many a man and woman ript and slaine In some they found Gold and in many none For had they Gold or not Gold all was one They were imbowelld by the barb'rous foe And search'd if they had any gold or no. But now my storie briefly to conclude Vespasians forces had the walls subdude And his triumphant Banner was displaide Amidst the streets which made the Iewes dismaid Who desp'rate to the Temple did retire Which with vngodly hands they set on fire Whilst Noble Titus with exceeding care Entreated them they would their Temple spare Oh saue that House quoth he ô quench oh slake And I will spare you for that Houses sake Oh let not after times report a storie That you haue burnt the worlds vnmatched glory For your owne sakes your Children your wiues If you do looke for pardon for your liues If you expect grace from Vespasians hand Then spare your Temple Titus doth command The Iewes with hearts hard offred mercy heard But neither mercy or themselues regard They burnd and in their madnes did confound King Salomons great Temple to the ground That Temple which did thirty Millions cost Was in a moment all consum'd and lost The blest Sanctum Sanctorum holiest place Blest oft with high Iehouahs sacred Grace Where at one offring as the Text saies plaine Were two and twentie thousand oxen slaine One hundred twenty thousand sheep beside At the same time for an oblation dide That house of GOD which raignes aboue the thūder Whose glorious fame made all the world to wonder Was burnt and ransackt spight of humane aide And leuell with the lowly ground was laid Which when Vespasian and yong Titus saw They cride kill kill vse speed and marshall Law The Roman soldiers then inspirde with rage Spard none slew all respect no sex or age The streets were drowned in a purple flood And slaughterd carcasses did swim in blood They slew whilst there were any left to slay The ablest men for slaues they bare away Iohn Simon and Eleazer wicked fiends As they deseru'd were brought to violent ends And from the time the Romanes did begin The siege vntill they did the Citie win Sedition sword fire famine all depriues Eleuen hundred thousand of their liues Besides one hundred thousand at the least Were tane and sold as each had been a beast And from the time it was at first erected Till by the Romanes it was last deiected It stood as it in histories appeares Twentie one hundred seuenty and nine yeares But yet ere GOD his vengance downe did throw What strange prodigious wonders did he show As warnings how they should destruction shun And cause them to repent for deeds misdon First in the Firmament Th' offended Lord Shewd them a Commet like a fiery sword The Temple and the Altar diuers nights Were all enuiron'd with bright burning lights And in the middest of the Temple there Vnnat'rally a Cow a Lambe did beare The Temples brazen gate no bolts restraine But of it selfe it open flew amaine Arm'd Men and Chariots in the Ayre assembled The pondrous Earth affrighted quak'd trēbled A voyce cride in the Temple to this sense Let vs depart let vs depart from hence These supernat'rall accidents in sum Foretold some fearefull Iudgment was to come But yet the Iewes accounted them as toyes Or scarcrow bugg-beares to fright wanton boyes Secure they reuelld in Ierusalem They thought these signes against their foes not thē But yet when warre and death had all perform'd When ruine spoyle and furious flames had storm'd Who then the desolated place had seen Would not haue knowne there had a Citie been Thus Iuda and Ierusalem all fell Thus was fulfilld what Christ did once foretell Sad desolation all their ioyes bereft And one stone on another was not left FINIS ERRATA In the 23 staffe of Vrania line 7 for adornd read ador'de In the 30 staffe lin 5. for Cretian read Cretan In the 39 staffe lin 1. for Memory read Memory's In the 40 staffe lin 2. for truth read troath In the 45 staffe lin 5. for slings read flings In the first part of Ierusalem pag. 6. lin 17. for shooke read strooke