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A21066
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Englands hope, against Irish hate
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J. G. E.
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STC 7434.7; ESTC S2576
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be a Lord Although his honors purchace be a cord Those ciuill hartes that stoope to iust commaund Allow Religion and imbrace their God They seriously with all their might withstand Afflicting them with warres deepe wounding rod Accounting still the number to be od Vntill such Subiectes they haue ouerthrowne As are vnfaigned friendes vnto the Crowne Banquets wherein their appetites may broach The crymsen veynes of kinne to quench their thirst In rage they wrecke not Natures neare approach Who is the last appeareth to be first If he can glory most of deedes accurst All their delight is generall annoy And by most harmes acrues their greatest ioy Fruite Fieldes ore-runne and stately Cities burning Order disordered Iustice in the wayne The current of sweete Peace to discord turning Women lamenting Children cryes in vayne What ere is got accounted honest gayne Blasphemie to God to Men a scandall This Irish Kerne allowes else they condemne all Their will submits not to their Princes will Obedience is a word they neuer heard Their hope is for to be magnifide for ill The Law 's a chastitie a taske too hard Prayer and all good exercise is bard And sooner they will lift a hand to kill Then once intreat remission of that ill Humilitie is natiue arrogance Retaine from time of their Conception Three thinges accompanie their essence Neuer retaine but by subuersion Feare Shame and Guilt of Consience But if it chaunce they do out-liue their pride Then comes Repentance else they are neuer tride Feare of his Iudgement that appeares aboue Shame of the worldes reprochfull censure The mindes fell torment that doth euer moue And wrappes the body in perpetuall torture This is a duetie growing euery quarter Exactes a pention if it be denide Dispaire assayles the partie so exilde And then proceedes the sport as at a feast Blindnes goes on and their delight is prest More rude in Nature then the sauage Beast Obseruing these three qualities detest Impudencie Craft and Couetousnes Whereof the first assures them voyde of shame The second wealth the third a victors name When though the boosome of Affection ope The eye of Pittie smyle them in the face The tongue pronounce sweete Liberties free scope And Armes expantion offer kind imbrace Though all resolue to doe them any grace As what on earth is more to be extolde Then Princes loue out valuing finest golde Yet they contemne with Aesops Cocke the Pearle Esteeming more some dirtie Graine rake vpp Then all the blessinges gratious Heauens do sell To such as thirst to drinke of Vertues cuppe Treading the open way that leades to Hell Rather then enter at the Narrow gate Whose Iorney is the blessednes of fate Nature besides abhorres this loathed vice Opening her wombe in monsterous prodigies Whose better fauours melt away like yce Supplanting them with harder penuties The earth all barren and forsaken lyes In stead of holsome fruites ranckest of weedes Albeit their labour cast in better seedes Heauen lowres in Tragicke collours of disdaine His marble face hath no relenting motion The day expectes her wonted light in vaine Or if it deigne the world her beames of notion It is with fiery meteors perturbation The angery Sunne refraines to shine on those VVhich are to God and men such brainsicke foes The dropsy-sicke infeebled ayre a boundes VVith mystie vapours filling all her partes The Siluans their mellodious cheerefull soundes To dismall Skreech-Owle Elegies conuertes Downe the blacke vesture of sad Fos ' skyrtes A Deluge from her raynie cheekes distilles To see the earth replenisht with such diuelles Looke towards the mountaines in modest lothing They shrinke aside not able to indure The hidious proude vnnaturall incroching Of such their pleighted loyaltie abiure The sauage Beastes hold this as most impure They follow the iust instinction of their kind Men are to all lycentiousnes inclind The raging Waters of the boysterous Seas A litle banke of Sand doth circle in Although it seeme nought may his threats appease Yet to exceed his boundes was neuer seene The Sunne the Moone Starres obsequious beene The Cloudes depart not out their station But gliding keepe their first creation More neare to come peruse the bodyes frame How all thinges keepe their mutuall harmonie VVithout the least commotion in the same The one disturbing not the others duetie But loue induceing friendly amitie Causeth a sweete consent of many stringes That to the whole exceeding comfort bringes The Hand giues not direction to the Head But seruiceable takes his charge from it The Foote instructeth not the Eye to guide But from his beames receiues his borrowed light Contemplate on the flaming vitall bright VVithin the Hart the motiue in the Brayne The naturall power the Liuer doth contayne VVho sees not yf the least of these reuolt Presuming to supplant his neighbour brother Ruine destruction doth the rest assault And that becomes their murther was their mother Moysture contending lyuely Heate to smother Cold conquering Heate and what was spirit life Quite profligate by such intestine strife May droopes not straight yf but in qualitie The bodyes temperature retaine excesse As say the blood inflamd with Luxurie Increase beyonde his wonted greatnes What sodaine pricking yrksomnes Nettles the Veynes as but some Delphian art Rebuke disorder health is desperat Obedience ioynes Disorder seperates Obedience pitties but Disorder scornes Obedience plantes vineyardes of sweete Grapes Disorder planted with sharpe pricking Thornes This many cut-throate Ministers subbornes That styrres direct Astras golden Helme And makes a peacefull want excluding Realme Yet these blind reprobates Megara's brats These Safforne-shirts these party-pleited lackes These wod borne Sauages these dunghill Gnats Had rather beare war-armour on their backes So they may practise rapes and tru-mens wrackes Then freely take fayre Mercy by the hand To glad themselues and dignifie their land But if the end of Theft be Iâ—bbet-capering Or if the Scorpion haue a glosing face Yet in her tayle conceale 2 deadly sting If Iudgement do a while giue Ryot place And in the end pay home with deepe disgrace If Treasons period be confusion Quelling the proudest Why not then Terone The valiant hand of ESSEX honored line Already once display de great Mars his Banner Ringing the â—â—owtes of these rebellious Swine Within their Confines teaching them the manner Of mylde obedience humbly to surrender Their necks to yoak though fircely they withstood And know the penalty of sheddyng blood A Vollume would but serue a readyer Pen Then my slow feathered Muse to celebrate The golden Trophies were erected then VVhen that renowmed Knight vphelde the state Sir HENRY SIDNEY gratious by his fate A throng of Rebels to his mercy crowched And who refus'd the scaffold dead auouched The Bogges yet tremble and the leaued Trees Shake their high branches in memoriall Of his sharpe censure and seuere decrees The warlike GRAY whose actions Tragicall Did likewyse curbe their mindes Imperiall Giues document Fitzwilliams and the rest In those proceedinges euer highly blest Preuaylde they then Our quarrell 's still the same Our wrong no lesse nay rightly vnderstood Who sees not merite of farre greater blame By lauish late expence of English blood This ioyned with th' abuse of Traytor-hood Incites reuenge deafes-heauen with clamorous cryes Till they goe downe and we in conquest rise For this vile ribble rabble vp-start crew Mis-led by Treasons treacherous commaunde And that rebellion teacher that late drew His Countrey gainst their head to lift vp hand Will know what t' is to dwell in warres false band And will with cause cry woe woe one by one VVoe to thee that misled'st vs woe Terone