huge That in our Age three men could hardly bouge Vnder whose waight his flying Foes he dashes And in their flesh bones stones and steel he pashes Somtimes he shoots somtimes he shakes a Pike Which death to many dread to all doth strike Som in the breast he wounds som in the backs Som on the hanch som on the head he hacks He heaws down all and maketh where he stood A Mount of bodies in a Moat of blood The Pagans wholly put to flight At length the Pagans wholly left the place Then both sides ran these chased those do chase These onely vse their heels those heels and hands Those wish but a fair way these that the sands Would quickly gape and swallow quick to Hell Themselues that fled and them that chaç't so fell These render nought but blowes those nought but blood Both sides haue broak their Ranks pel-mel they scud Choakt-vp with dust disordered dis-aray'd Neither Command Threat nor Intreat obay'd Thou that late bragdst that thy White Wormly braue Could dry-foot run vpon the liquid Waue And on the sand leaving no print behinde Out-swifted Arrows and out-went the Winde With a steel Dart by ABRAH'M stifly sent Art'twixt thy Cuirace and thy Saddle slent And thou that thrice neer Tygris silver source Hadst won the Bell as best in every Course Art caught by LOT and thrild from side to side Loosest thy speed-praise and thy life beside It seems no Fight but rather as befalls An execution of sad criminals Whoso escapes the sword escapes notso His sad destruction or if any tho Escap't at all they were but few at least To rue the fatall ruine of the rest For th' Vnkle and the Nephew never lin Till out of Canaan they haue chaç't them clean Like to a Cast of Falcons that pursue Simile A flight of Pigeons through the welk in blew Stooping at this and that that to their Louver To saue their lyues they hardly can recouer At his return from Fight the Kings and Lords The Kings of Caâ—â—â—n receiued Abraham and his company with great ioy and the gratefull offer of their homage vnto him Of Palestine with glad and humble words Do welcom Abram and refresh his Troop To 's knees their heads to 's feet their knees they stoop Ovaliant Victor for thy high deserts Accept the homage of our humble hearts Accept our grateful zeal or if ought more As well thou maist thou doest expect therfore Accept said they our Lands our goods our golde Our wiues our lyues and what we deerest holde Take all we haue for all we haue is thine No wrong to vs to take thy Valours fine Melthisedec Gods sacred Minister Melchisedech blesseth Abraham And King of Salem coms to greet him there Blessing his bliss and thus with zealous cry Devoutly pearç't Heav'ns starfull Canopey Blest be the Lord that with his hand doth roule The radiant Orbs that turn about the Pole And Rules the Actions of all Humane-kinde With full command and with one blast of winde Razes the Rocks and Rends the proudest Hills Dries-vp the Ocean and the Empty fils Blest be the great God of grear Abraham From Age to Age extolled be his Name Let every Place vnto him Altars build And euery Altar with his Praise be fill'd And every Praise above the Welkin ring As loud or louder then the Angels sing Blessed be He that by an Arm-less crew Of Art-less Shepheards did so quick subdue And tame the Tamers of Great Syria so And to the servants of an exil'd Foe Hath given the Riches and the royall store Both of their Booty and their Owne before Of such an Hoast of Nations that first see Sol's early rising from Aurora's knee But Abraham to prove that not for Prey Abraham distributes the booty reseruing only a portion for the Amorites that were his confederates He put-on arms divides the Spoils away The Tythe's the Priests the Rest of all the things Yerst lost in field he renders to the Kings Save but the Portion He participates To th' Amorites his stout Confederates Shewing himself a Prince as politicke Prudent and iust as stout and Souldier-like That with his Prowess Policy can mel And Conquering can vse his Conquest wel Magnanimous in deeds in words as meek That scorning Riches true Renown doth seek So from the Sea even to th' Euphratean-source And even from Dan to Nilus crystall course Rings his renown Of him is all the speech He is famous far and neere At home abroad among the poor and rich In war and peace the Fame of his high deeds Confirms the Faithfull in their fainting Creeds And terrifies the Tyrant Infidels Shaking the sides of their proud Citadels That with their fronts the seat of IOVE do scorn And with their feet at I'luto's crown do spurn Voice Harp and Timbrel sound his praise together He 's held a Prophet or an Angel rather They say that God talks with him face to face Hoasts at his house and to his happy Race Givs in Fee-simple all that goodly Land Even from the Sea as far as Tygris strand And it is certain the Thrice-sacred-One God appeares vnto him and maketh covenant with him The King of Kings by Dream or Vision Speaks with him oft and calls him thus by name Faint not my servant fear not ABRAHAM I an no fiend that with a fained lip Seek guilefully thy simpleness to trip Nor to intice thee with a baen-full breath To bite like ADAM a new fruit of death 'T is I that brought thee from thy Native V R From night to day from death to life thus far I brought thee hither I have blest thee heer I with thy flocks have covered far and neer Canaan's fat Hills I have preserv'd thy Wife From Strangers lust and thee from Tyrants knife When thy faint heart and thy false tongue affrai'd To tel the Truth her and thy self betray'd 'T is I that have so oft from Heathens powr Preserv'd thy person and as Conquerour Now made thee Trivmph over th' Eastern Kings Whereof so far thy famous Valour rings I am in brief I am the Lord thy God Thy help at home thy Guide and Gard abroad Keep thou my Covenant and to signifie That to the World thou di'st to live to Me Circumcision instituted Go Circumcise forth-with thy Self and Thine Lead holy Life walk in my Wayes divine With vpright-foot so shall my favour haunt Thy House and thee and thou shalt nothing want No I will make thee Lord of all the Land Which Canaans Children haue with mighty hand Canaan promised to Abraham So long possest a happy Land that flowes With milk and hony a rich Land where growes Even of itself all kinde of Fruit and Corn Where smiling Heav'ns pour-down their Plenties-Horn I 'le heap thee there with Honor Wealth and Powr I will be thy Reward thy Shield and Towr O Lord said ABRAM though into my lap In shours of Gold ev'n all the Heav'ns
clowd And yet his hand still quauers light and lowd But at the last it sinks and offring fair To strike the Base strikes but the empty ayr His soule descending to th' Infernall Coasts Goes to conclude his Song vnto the Ghosts Dolefull it was nor for the Argument For 't was of Loue but for the sad event Another wak'ned with those lowd alarms Starts-vp and groapeth round about for arms Which ah too soon he findeth for his part For a keen poignard stabs him to the heart Simile Like as a Tigress having with the gore Of Bulls and Heifers made her spots the more And pav'd a Plain with Creatures mangled lims Views on each side her valiant stratagems Treads on the vanquisht and is prowdly-sad That no more Foes nor no more Maw she had So th' Hebrew stalking round-about the slain Braues but it boots not and would very fain That those dead bodies might their ghosts re-gather Or that those Mountains would produce him rather Som Foes more wakefull that more manfully In blood-drown'd Valleis might his valour try Amor's three sons did no less slaughter make Abram for zeal they but for Furies sake This nayls a Souldier with his sword to th' ground That at a blowe th' heads of two Heads dis-crown'd This vnderneath a Chariot kils the Driuer That lops off legs and arms and heads doth shiver The Tents already all in blood do swim Gushing from sundry Corps from severall lim In brief so many ravening Woolves they seem Within whose breast fierce Famine biteth keen Who softly stealing to som fold of sheep While both the Shepheard and his Curr doth sleep Furbush their hungry teeth tear kill and prey Vpon the best to eat and bear-away Yet at the length the vanquished awake And re-aray'd the Victors vnder-take Putting the three prowd Amorites to flight Who but for Abram had been routed quite Sleep sleep poor Pagans sith you needs must die Go sleep again and so die easily Die yer you think on death and in your Dreams Gasp-out your soules Let not your dazled beams Behold the havock and the horrour too Of th' Execution that our swords shall doo Hacking your bodies to heaw-out your breaths Yer Death to fright you with a thousand deaths Said Abraham and pointing every word With the keen point of his quick-whirled sword As swift in doing as in saying so More fiercely chargeth the insulting Foe Than ever Storm-full cloud which fed with Water's Thin moist-full fumes the snowy Mountains daughters Comparison Showr'd heaps of hail-shot or pour'd floods of rain On slender stems of the new tender Grain Through blood and blades through danger dust and death Through mangled Corps and carrs he traverseth And partly in the shock part with â—â—â— blowes He breaketh in through thickest of his Foes And by his trauail topsi-turneth then The liue and dead and half-dead horse and men His bright-keen Fauchin neuer threats but hits Nor hits but hurts nor hurts but that it splits Som priuy postern whence to Hel in post Som groaning Pagan may gasp out his ghost He all assayls and him so braue bestowes That in his Fight he deals more deaths than blowes As the North-winde re-cleering-vp the front Simile Of clowdy Heav'ns towards the South doth hunt The showrs that Austers spungy thirst exhales Out of those seas that circle Orans walls So wher-so-e're our Hebrew Champion wield His war-like weapon and his glistring Shield Whose glorious splendor darts a dreadfull light Elamites ouâ—rthrowen by Abraham All turn their backs and all be-take to flight Forgetting Fame Shame Vertue Hope and all Their hearts are don and down their weapons fall Or if that any be so strangely-stout As not to faint but brauely yet holde out Alas it boots not for it cannot stop The victory but haste his own mishap But in what Fence-schoole of what master say God giueth victory Braue pearl of Souldiers learnd thy hands to play So at so sundry weapons such passados Such thrusts such foyns stramazos and stoccados Even of that mighty God whose sacred might Made Heav'n and Earth and them so braue bedight Of meerly nothing of that God of Powr Who swore to be thy Target and thy Towr Of that high God who fortifies the weak Who teacheth His even steely bowes to break Who doth his Childrens zealous hearts inflame But daunts the prowd and doth their courage tame Abraham follows the execution Thy sword abates th' armed the strong the stout Thou cleav'st thou kill'st The faint dis-armed rout The lightning of thine eyes thy voyces thunder And thy prowd dreadfull port confounds with wonder Death and Despair Horror and Fury fight Vnder thine Ensignes in this Dismal Night Thou slayest this and that thou threat'st as much This thou pursu'st that thou disdaign'st to touch In brief thou blest Knight braue thou quelst at once Valiant and vile arm'd and vnarmed ones Heer thine even hand even in a twinkling trice In equall halves a Pagans head doth slyce Down on each shoulder looketh either half To gaze vpon his ghastly Epitaph In lines of blood writ round about him fair Vnder the curtain of his parted hair Heer through a Ierkin more then Musket-proof Made twelue fold double of East-country Buff Clean through and through thy deadly shaft doth thril A Gyants bulk the wounded hulk doth reel The head behinde appears before the feathers And th' Ethnick soule flies both-waies out togethers Heer thou do'st cleaue with thy keen Fauchins force The Bards and Breast-plate of a furious Horse No sooner hurt but he recoyleth back Writing his Fortune in a bloody track Thy barbed dart heer at a Chaldee flies And in an instant lardeth both his thighes While he blaspheming his hard starrs and state Hops like a Pie in stead of wonted gate Now LOT the while escap't from ELAMS hands Lot rescâ—ed revengeth brauely his captivity Free from the burthen of his yron bands With iust reuenge retorts his taken wrong His feet growe swift his sinnews waxen strong His heart reviues and his reviued heart Supplies new spirits to all and euery part And as a wilde and wanton Colt got out Simile Of som great Stable staring scuds about Shakes his prowd head and crest yerks out his heels Butts at the ayr beats on the humble fields His flying shadow now pursues amain Anon amaz'd flies it as fast again Again beholds it with self-prowd delight Looks on his legs sets his stiff tayl vpright And neighs so lowd to Mares beyond the Mound That with the noyse the neighbour Hils resound So one while LOT sets on a Troup of Horse A Band of Sling-men he anon doth force Anon he pusheth through a Stand of Pikes A Wing of archers off anon he strikes Anon he stalks about a steepfull Rock Where som to shun Death's never shunned stroak Had clambred-vp at length a path he spies Where vp he mounts and doth their Mount surprize Whence stones he heaues so heavy and so
he the Wine shall sup You shall sowe Fields and he shall reap the Crop You shall keep Flocks and he shall take the Fleece And PHARAO'S Yoak shall seem but light to his But IZARAEL doth wilfull still perseuer And SAMVEL prest and importun'd ever Saul anointed King of Israell Anointeth SAVL the son of CIS a Man Whose cursed end marr'd what he well began You too-too-light busie ambitious wits That Heav'n and Earth confound with furious fits Fantastik Frantiks that would innovate A check to busie seditious and ambitious Malcontents in any State And every moment change your form of STATE That weening high to fly fall lower still That though you change your bed change not your Ill See See how much th' Almighty the most High Heer-in abhors your fond inconstancy The PEOPLE-STATE the ARISTOCRACY The authority of every kinde of Government is from God And sacred KINGDOM took authority A-like from Heav'n and these three Scepter-forms Flourish a-vie as well in Arts and Arms As prudent Laws Therefore you stout Helvetians Grisons Genevians Ragusins Uenetians Maintain your Liberties and change not now Therefore every People to persist in the State established Your sacred Laws rooted so deep with you On th' other side we that are born and bred Vnder KINGS Aw vnder one Supreme Head Let vs still honor their drad Maiesties Obey their Laws and pay them Subsidies Let 's read let 's hear no more these factious Teachers These shame-les Tribunes these seditious Preachers That in all places alwayes belch and bark Aloud a-broad or whisper in the dark Railing at Princes whether good or bad The true Lieutenants of Almighty God And let not vs before a KING prefer A Senate-sway nor Scepter Popular 'T is better bear the Youth-slips of a KING I' th' Law som fault I' th' State som blemishing Than to fill all with Blood-flouds of Debate While to Reform you would Deform a STATE One cannot with-out danger stir a stone In a great Building 's olde foundation And a good Leach seeks rather to support With ordered dyet in a gentle sort A feeble Body though in sickly plight Than with strong Med'cines to destroy it quight And therefore Cursed ever Cursed be Our * A iust Execration of the Popish Powder-Plot on the fift of November 1605. Hell spurr'd PERCIE' 's fel Conspiracy And every head and every hand and heart That did Conceiue or but Consent his part POPE prompted Atheists faining Superstition To cover Cruelty and cloak Ambition Incarnat Divels Enemies of Man Dam-Murdering Vipers Monsters in-humane Dis-natur'd NERO'S impious EROSTRATES That with one Puff would blowe-vp all Estates Prince's and Peer's and Peoples Government For of all Three consists our PARLIAMENT Religion Order Honesty and all And more then all that Fear can fear to fall And therfore Blessed ever Blessed be Our glorious GOD's immortall Maiesty ENGLANDS Great Watch-Man he that Israel keeps Who neuer slumbers and who neuer sleeps Our gratious Father whose still-firm affection Defends vs still with wings of his Protection Our louing Saviour that thus Saues vs still Vs so vnworthy vs so prone to ill Our sacred Comforter the Spirit of Light Who steers vs still in the True FAITH aright The TRINITIE th' Eternall THREE in ONE Who by his Powr and Prouidence alone Hath from the Furnace of their Fiery Zeal Preserv'd our PRINCE our PEERS our PVBLIK-WEAL Therefore O PRINCE our nostrils deerest breath Thou true Defender of true Christian FAITH O! let the Zeal of GOD'S House eat thee vp Fill BABYLON her measure in her Cup Maim the King-maiming Kinglings of Bezec Pittie not Agag spare not Amalech Hunt hunt those Foxes that would vnder-mine Root Body Branches of the Sacred Vine O! spare them not To spare Them is to spoil Thy Self thy Seed thy Subiects and thy Soil Therfore O PEERS Prince-loyall Paladines True-noble Nobles lay-by by-Designes And in God's quarrel and your Countries bring Counsail and Courage to assist your KING To counter-mine against the Mines of ROME To conquer Hydra and to ouer-com And clean cut-off his Horns and Heads and all Whose hearts do Vow or knees do Bow to Baal Be Zealous for the LORD and Faith-full now And honor Him and He will honour you FATHERS and Brethren Ministers of CHRIST Cease civill Warrs war all on Anti-Christ Whose subtle Agents while you strive for shels Poyson the kernel with Erronious Spels Whose Envious Seed-men while you Silent Sleep Sowe Tares of Treason which take root too-deep Watch watch your Fold Feed feed your Lambs at-home Muzzle these Sheep-clad bloudy Wolves of ROME Therfore O PEOPLE let vs Praise and Pray Th' Almighty-most whose Mercy lasts for ay To giue vs grace to euer-keep in minde This MIRACLE of his Protection kinde To true Repent vs of our hainous Sin Pride Lust and Loosness we haue wallowed in To stand still constant in the pure Profession Of true RELIGION with a due discretion To try the Spirits and by peculiar choice To knowe our Shepheards from th' Hyana's voice And ever loyall to our PRINCE t' expose Goods Lands and Liues against his hate-full Foes Among whom Lord â—f yet of Thine be found Conuert them quickly and the rest Confound And to Conclude PRINCE PEERS PEOPLE too Praise all at once and selfly each of you His Holy Hand that like as long-agoe His Sidrach Misach and Abednego From the hot Furnace of POPE-Powder'd Zeal Hath Sav'd our PRINCE our PEERS our PVELIK-weal The End of the THIRD DAIâ— of the SECOND WEEK DAVID The FOVRTH DAY Of The SECOND WEEK Containing 1. THE TROPHEIS 2. THE MAGNIFICENCE 3. THE SCHISM 4. THE DECAY Translated Dedicated To Prince HENRY his Highness Acceptam refere To Prince HENRY his Highness A SONNET HAuing new mustred th' HOAST of all this ALL Your Royall Father In our Fore ward stands Where Adam-like Himself alone Commands A WORLD of Creatures ready at his Call Our Middle-ward doth not vnfitly fall To famous Chiefs whose graue-braue heads hands In Counsail'd Courage so Conduct our Bands As at a brunt affront the force of Baal Our Rere-Ward Sir shal be your Princely Charge Though last not least sith it most Honour brings Where Honour 's Field before you lies more large For Your Command is of a Camp of KINGS Some good some bad Your Glory shall be heer To Chuse and Vse the good the bad Cassier A STANZA IEwel of NATVRE Ioy of ALBION To whose perfection Heav'n and Earth conspire That in Timeâ— fulnes Thou mayst bless this Throne Succeeding in the Vertues of thy Sire As happily thou hast begun goe-on That as thy Youth we may thine Age admire Acting our Hopes which shall revive our hearts Pattern Patron both of Arms Arts. Iosuah Syluester THE TROPHEIS THE FIRST BOOKE OF the fourth Day of the second Week of BARTAS THE ARGVMENT Saul's fall from Fauour into Gods Disgrace Dauid design'd Successor in his Place Brauing Goliah and the Philistins He brauely foyles He flyes
below diuersly mooving them The painted Birds between two aires do swim But rather fixed vnto turning Spheares Ay will-they nill-they follow their careeres Simile As Cart-nails fastned in a wheel without Selfs-motion turn with others turns about As th' Ague-sicke vpon his shivering pallet A comparison Delaies his health oft to delight his palat When wilfully his taste-les Taste delights In things vnsauory to sound Appetites Even so som brain-sicks liue ther now-adaies That lose themselves still in contrary waies Preposterous Wits that cannot rowe at ease On the smooth Chanell of our common Seas And such are those in my conceit at least Those Clarks that think think how absurd a iest That neither Heav'ns nor Stars do turn at all Nor dance about this great round Earthly Ball But th' Earth it self this Massie Globe of ours Turns round-about once euery twice-twelue houres And wee resemble Land-bred nouices New brought aboord to venture on the Seas Who at first launching from the shoar suppose The ship stands still and that the ground it goes So twinkling Tapers that Heav'ns Arches fill Opinion of Copernicus coÌ„futed Equally distant should continue still So neuer should an Arrow shot vpright In the same place vpon the shooter light But would doo rather as at Sea a stone Aboord a Ship vpward vprightly throw'n Which not within-boord fall's but in the Flood A-stern the Ship if so the winde be good So should the Fouls that take their nimble flight From Western Marshes toward Mornings Light And Zephyrus that in the Summer time Delights to visit Eurus in his clime And Bullets thundred from the Canons throat Whose roaring drowns the Heavn'ly thunders note Should seem recoyl sithens the quick career That our round Earth should daily gallop heer Must needs exceed a hundred-fold for swift Birds Bullets Windes their wings their force their drift Arm'd with these reasons 't were superfluous T' assail the reasons of Copernicus Who to salve better of the Stars th' appearance Vnto the Earth a three-fold motion warrants Making the Sun the Center of this All Leauing to dispute farther vppon the former Paradox he pro ccedeth in his discourse and by a liuely comparison representeth the beautifull ornament of the Heavens about the Earth Moon Earth and Water in one only Ball. But sithens heer nor time nor place doth sute His Paradox at length to prosâ—cute I will proceed grounding my next discourse On the Heav'ns motions and their constant course I oft admire Greatnes of mighty Hills And pleasant beauty of the flowry Fields And count-les number of the Oceans sand And secret force of sacred Adamant But much-much more the more I mark their course Stars glistering greatnes beauty number force Euen as a Peacock prickt with loues desire Simile To woo his Mistress strowting stately by her Spreads round the rich pride of his pompous vail His azure wings and starry-golden tail With rattling pinions wheeling still about The more to set his beautious beautie out The Firmament as feeling like aboue Displays his pomp pranceth about his Loue Spreads his blew curtain mixt with golden marks Set with gilt spangles sow'n with glistring sparks Sprinkled with eyes specked with Tapers bright Poudred with Starrs streaming with glorious light T' inflame the Earth the more with Louers grace To take the sweet fruit of his kinde imbrace Hee that to number all the Stars would seek The number of Stars vnder both the Poles innumerable Had need inuent som new Arithmetick And who to cast that Reck'ning takes in hand Had need for Counters take the Ocean's sand Yet haue our wise and learned Elders found And why the ancient Astronomers obserued 48. Foure-dozen Figures in the Heav'nly Round For aid of memory and to our eyes In certain Howses to diuide the Skyes Of those are Twelue in that rich Girdle greft Of the fignes in the Zodiacke Which God gaue Nature for her New-yeres-gift When making All his voice Almighty most Gaue so fair Laws vnto Heav'ns shining Hoast To wear it biaz buckled ouer-thwart-her Not round about her swelling waste to girt-her This glorious Baldrick of a Golden tindge Imbost with Rubies edg'd with Siluer Frindge Buckled with Gold with a Bend glistring bright Heav'ns biaz-wise enuirons day and night For from the period whear the Ram doth bring The Zodiacke The day and night to equall ballancing Ninetie degrees towards the North it wends Thence iust as much toward Mid-Heav'n it bends As many thence toward the South and thence Towards th' Years Portall the like difference Nephelian Crook-horn with brass Cornets crown'd Aries in Mid-March begins the Spring Thou buttest brauely 'gainst the New-yeres bound And richly clad in thy fair Golden Fleece Doo'st hold the First House of Heav'ns spacious Meese Taurus in mid-Aprill Thou spy'st anon the Bull behinde thy back Who least that fodder by the way he lack Seeing the World so naked to renewg't Coats th' infant Earth in a green gallant sute And without Plough or Yoak doth freely fling Through fragrant Pastures of the flowry Spring Gemini in mid-May The Twins whose heads arms shoulders knees and feet God fill'd with Starrs to shine in season sweet Contendin Course who first the Bull shall catch That neither will nor may attend their match Then Summers-guide the Crab coms rowing soft Cancer in mid-Iune begins the sommer With his eight owres through the Heavn's azure loâ—t To bring vs yeerely in his starry shell Many long daies the shaggy Earth to swele Almost with like pase leaps the Lion out Leo in mid-Iuly All clad with flames bristled with beams about Who with contagion of his burning breath Both grass and grain to cinders withereth The Virgin next sweeping Heav'ns azure Globe Virgo in mid-August With stately train of her bright Golden robe Milde-proudly marching in her left hand brings A sheaf of Corn and in her right hand wings Libra in mid-September begin neth Autumn After the Maiden shines the Balance bright Equall druider of the Day and Night In whose gold Beam with three gold rings there fastens With six gold strings a payr of golden Basens The spitefull Scorpion next the Skale addrest With two bright Lamps couers his loathsom brest Scorpio in mid-October And fain from both ends with his double sting Would spet his venom ouer euery thing Sagittarius in mid-Nouember But that the braue Half-horse Phylirean Scout Galloping swift the heav'nly Belt about Ay fiercely threats with his flame-feathered arrow To shoot the sparkling starry Viper thorough And th' hoary Centaure during all his Race Capricornus in mid-December beginneth Winter Is so attentiue to this onely chase That dread-less of his dart Heav'ns shining Kid Coms iumping light iust at his heels vnspid Aquarius in mid-Ianuary Mean-whilethe Skinker from his starry spout After the Goat a siluer stream pours-out Distilling still out of his radiant Fire Riuers of Water who but
in charge And so the Sparrow with her angry bill Defends her brood from such as would them ill I hear the Crane if I mistake not cry The Crane Y Who in the Clouds forming the forked Y By the brave orders practiz'd vnder her Instructeth Souldiers in the art of War For when her Troops of wandring Cranes for sake Frost-firmed Strymon and in Autumn take Truce with the Northern Dwarfs to seek adventure In Southren Climats for a milder Winter Afront each Band a forward Captain flies Whose pointed Bill cuts passage through the skies Two skilfull Sergeants keep the Ranks aright And with theirvoice hasten their tardy Flight And when the honey of care-charming sleep Sweetly begins through all their veins to creep One keeps the Watch and ever carefull-most Walks many a Round about the sleeping Hoast Still holding in his claw a stony clod Whose fall may wake him if he hap to nod Another doth as much athird afourth Vntill by turns the Night be turned forth There the faâ—r Peacock beautifully brave The Peacock Proud portly-strouting stalking stately-grave Wheeling his starry Trâ—yn in pomp displayes His glorious eyes to Pâ—â—bus goldenrayes Close by his side stands the courageous Cock The Cock Crest-peoples King the Peasants trusty Clock True Morning Watch Aurora's Trumpeter The Lyons terror true Astronomer Who dayly riseth when the Sun doth rise And when Sol setteth then to roost he hies There I perceive amid the flowry Plain The Estridge The mighty Estridge striving oftin vain To mount among the flying multitude Although with fethers not with flight indu'd Whose greedy stomack steely gads digests Whose crisped train adorns tryumphant crests Thou happy Witnes of my happy Watches Blush not my Book nor think it thee dismatches Of Insects in the Creation wherof the wisedom of their Makershineth admirably To bear about vpon thy paper-Tables Flies Butterflies Gnats Bees and all the rabbles Of other Insects end-less to rehearse Limn'd with the pencill of my various Verse Sith These are also His wise Workmanships Whose fame did never obscure Work eclipse And sith in These he showes vs every howr More wondrous proofs of his Almighty powr Then in huge Whales or hideous Elephants Or whatsoever other Monster haunts In storm-less Seas raising a storm about While in the Sea another Sea they spout For if olde Times admire Callicrates For Ivory Emmets and Mermécides For framing of a rigged Ship so small That with her wings a Bee can hide it all Though th' Artfull fruits of all their curious pain Fit for novse were but inuentions vain Admire we then th' All-wise Omnipotence Which doth within so narrow space dispence Of Flyes So stiff a sting so stout and valiant hart So loud a voyce so prudent wit and Art For where 's the State beneath the Firmament That doth excell the Bees for Government Of Bâ—â—â— No no bright Phoebus whose eternall Race Once every Day about the World doth pase Sees heer no City that in Rites and Laws For Equity neer to their Iustice draws Not * Venice That which flying from the furious Hun In th' Adriâ—n Sea another World begun Their well-rul'd State my soule so much admires That durst I loose the Rains of my desires I gladly could digress from my designe To sing a while their sacred Discipline But if of all whose skilfull Pencils dare To counterfait th' Almightie's Models rare None yet durst finish that fair Peece wherein Learned Apelles drew Lâ—ues wanton Queen Shall I presume Hymetus Mount to climbe And sing the Bees prayse in mine humble rime Which Latian Bards inimitable Prince Hath warbled twice about the banks of Mince Yet may I not that little * Worm pass-by The Silk-worm Of Flyturn'd Worm and of a Worm a Fly Two births two deaths heer Nature hath assign'd-her Leaving a Post-hume dead-live seed behinde-her Which soon transforms the fresh and tender leaves Of Thâ—sbes pale Tree to those slender sleaves On ovall clews of soft smooth Silken flakes Which more for vs then for her self shee makes O precious fleeceâ— which onely did adorn The sacred loyns of Princes heertoforn But our proud Age with prodigall abuse Hath so profan'd th' old honorable vse That Shifters now who scarce haue bread to eat Disdain plain Silk vnless it be beset With one of those deer Metals whose desire Burns greedy soules with an immortall fire Though last not least brave Aegle no contempt Made me so long thy story hence exempt Nor LESS-E Xtold shall thy true vertues be For th' Eyrie's sake that owes my Muse and mee Whâ—ar Iov's and Iuno's stately Birds be billing Their azure Field with fairest Eaglets filling Azure they hear three Eaglets Argentine A Cheuron Ermin grailed Or between WIâ—t CHiefâ—ie RICHess to THem all I Wish In Earth in Heav'n th' immortall Crown of Bliss For well I knowe thou holdest worthily That place among the Aëry flocks that fly As doth the Dragon or the Cocatrice Among the bancfull Creeping companies The noble Lion among savage Beasts And gentle Dolphin 'mong the Dyving guests I knowe thy course I knowe thy constant sight Can fixly gaze against Heav'ns greatest Light But as the Phoenix on my Front doth glister Thou shalt the Finials of my Frame illustre On Thracian shoar of the same stormy stream A strange and notable story of the loue and death of an Eagle Which did inherit both the bones and name Of Phryxus Sister and not far from thence Whear love-blind Heros hap-less diligence In steed of Loves lamp lighted Deaths cold brand To waft Leanders naked limbs to land There dwelt a Maid as noble and as rich As fair as Hero but more chaste by much For her steel brest still blunted all the Darts Of Paphos Archer and eschew'd his Arts. One day this Damsell through a Forest thick Hunting among her Friends that sport did seek Vpon a steep Rocks thorny-thrummed top Whear one almost would fear to clamber vp Two tender Aeglets in a nest espies Which 'gainst the Sun sâ—te trying of their eyes Whose callow backs and bodies round about With soft short quils began to bristle out Who yawning wide with empty gorge did gape For wonted fees out of their Parents rape Of these two Fowls the fairest vp she takes Into her bosom and great haste she makes Down from the Rock and shiuering yet for fear Tripps home as fast as her light feet can bear Even as a Wolf that hunting for a pray And having stoln at last som Lamb away Flies with down-hanging head and leereth back Whether the Masâ—y doo pursue his track In time this Aegle was so throughly mann'd That from the Quarry to her Mistress hand At the first call 't would com and faun vpon-her And bill and bow in signe of love and honour On th' other side the Maiden makes as much Of her deer Bird stroking with gentletouch Her wings and train and with a want on voice It want only doth
like to neither make Which yet of eithers ritches doth partake So oft two Creatures of a diuers kinde Against the common course through All Assign'd Confounding their lust-burning seeds together Beget an Elf not like in all to either But bastard Mongrel bearing marks apparant Of mingled members ta'en from either Parent God not contented to each Kinde to giue Of things ingendered without seed or commixtion of sexes And to infuse the Vertue Generatiue Made by his Wisdom many Creatures breed Of liue-less bodies without Venus deed So the cold humour breeds the Salamander Who in effect like to her births Commander With-childe with hundred Winters with her touch Quencheth the Fire though glowing ne'r so much So of the Fire in burning furnace springs The Fly Pyrausta with the flaming Wings Without the Fire it dies within it ioyes Liuing in that which each thing else destroyes So slowe Boötes vnderneath him sees In th' ycy Iles those Goslings hatcht of Trees Whose fruitfull leaues falling into the Water Are turn'd they say to liuing Fowls soon after So rotten sides of broken Ships doo change To Barnacles O Transformation strange 'T was first a green Tree then a gallant Hull Lately a Mushrum now a flying Gull So Morn and Euening the Sixt Day conclude And God perceiv'd that All his Works were good THE SEAVENTH DAIE OF THE FIRST WEEK THE ARGVMENT In sacred Rest vpon This sacred Day Th' Eternall doth his glorious Works suruay His only Powr and Prouidence perseuer T' vphold maintain and rule the World for euer Maugre Mens malice and Hells raging mood God turneth all things to his Childrens good Sabbaoths right vse From all Worlds-Works to cease To pray not play and hear the Word of Peace Instructions drawn from dead and liuing things And from our selues for all Estates for Kings THe cunning Painter that with curious care By an excellent Similitude of a Painter delighted with the sight of a curious table which he hath lately finished our Poet sheweth how God rested the seauenth Day and saw as saith the Scripture that all that he had made was Good Limning a Land-scape various rich and rare Hath set a-work in all and euery part Inuention Iudgement Nature Vse and Art And hath at length t'immortalize his name With weary Pencill perfected the same Forgets his pains and inly fill'd with glee Still on his Picture gazeth greedily First in a Mead he marks a frisking Lamb Which seems though dumb to bleat vnto the Dam Then hee obserues a Wood seeming to waue Then th' hollow bosom of som hideous Caue Heere a High-way and there a narrow Path Heer Pines there Oaks torn by tempestuous wrath Heer from a craggy Rocks steep-hanging boss Thrumm'd half with Iuy half with crisped Moss A siluer Brook in broken streams doth gush And head-long down the horned Cliff doth rush Then winding thence aboue and vnder ground A goodly Garden it be-moateth round There on his knee behinde a Box-Tree shrinking A skilfull Gunner with his left ey winking Leuels directly at an Oak hard by Whereon a hundred groaning Culuers cry Down falls the Cock vp from the Touch-pan flies A ruddy flash that in a moment dies Off goes the Gun and through the Forrest rings The thundering bullet born on fiery wings Heer on a Green two Striplings stripped light Run for a prize with labour som delight A dusty Cloud about their feet doth flowe Their feet and head and hands and all doo goe They swelt in sweat and yet the following Rout Hastens their haste with many a cheerfull shout Heer six pyed Oxen vnder painfull yoak Rip vp the folds of Ceres Winter Cloak Heer in the shade a pretty Shepheardess Driues softly home her bleating happiness Still as she goes she spins and as she spins A man would think som Sonnet she begins Heer runs a Riuer there springs forth a Fountain Heer vails a Valley there ascends a Mountain Heere smoks a Castle there a City fumes And heer a Ship vpon th' Ocean looms In brief so liuely Art hath Nature shap't That in his Work the Work-mans self is rapt Vnable to look off for looking still The more he looks the more he findes his skill So th' Architect whose glorious Workmanships God rested the seauēth Day contemplates on his Works My cloudy Muse doth but too-much eclipse Hauing with pain-less pain and care-less care In These Six Days finisht the Table fair And infinite of th' Vniuersall Ball Resteth This Day t' admire himself in All And for a season eying nothing els Ioyes in his Work sith all his Work excels If my dull stutting frozen eloquence May dare coniecture of his high Intents One while hee sees how th' ample Sea doth take A briefe recapitulation and cōsideration of the Works of God in the whole World and a learned Exposition of the words of Moses Gen. 1. 31 God saw that al that he had made was perfectly good The Liquid homage of each other Lake And how again the Heav'n sexhale from it Aboundant vapours for our benefit And yet it swels not for those tribute streams Nor yet it shrinks not for those boyling beams There see 's he th' Ocean-peoples plentious broods And shifting Courses of the Ebbs and Floods Which with inconstant glaunces night and day The lower Planets forked front doth sway Anon vpon the flowry Plains he looks Laced about with snaking siluer brooks Now he delights to see foure Brethrens strife Cause the Worlds peace and keep the World in life Anon to see the whirling Sphears to roule In rest-less Danses about either Pole Whereby their Cressets caried diuers waies Now visit vs anon th' Antipodés It glads him now to note how th' Orb of Flame Which girts this Globe doth not enfire the Frame How th' Airs glib-gliding firmless body bears Such store of Fowls Hail-storms and Floods of tears How th' heauy Water pronest to descond 'Twixt Air and Earth is able to depend And how the dull Earth's prop-less massie Ball Stands steddy still iust in the midst of All. Anon his nose is pleas'd with fragrant sents Of Balm and Basill Myrrh and Frankincense Thyme Spiknard Hysop Sauory Cinamon Pink Violet Rose and Cloue-Carnation Anon his ear 's charm'd with the melody Of winged Consorts curious Harmony For though each bird guided with Art-less Art After his kinde obserue a song a-part Yet the sole burden of their seuerall Layes Is nothing but the Heav'n-Kings glorious praise In brief th' Almightie's ey and nose and ear In all his works doth nought see sent or hear But showes his greatnes sauours of his grace And sounds his glory ouer euery place But aboue all Man 's many beautious features Detain the Lord more then all other Creatures Man 's his owne Minion Man 's his sacred Type And for Man's sake he loues his Workmanship Not that I mean to fain an idle God That lusks in Heav'n and neuer looks abroad That Crowns not Vertue and corrects not Vice Blinde to
to lurk For Nature framing our soules enemies Of bodies light and in experience wise In malice crafty curious they assemble Small Elements which as of kin resemble Whereof a Mass is made and there vnto They soon giue growth and liuely motion too Not that they be Creators for th' Almighty Who first of nothing made vast Amphitriâ—â— The World 's dull Centre Heavn's ay-turning frame And whirling Ayr sole merits that high name Who onely Beeing Being giues to all And of all things the seeds substantiall Within their first-borne bodies hath inclos'd To be in time by Nature's hand dispos'd Not those who taught by curious Art or Nature Haue giv'n to things Heav'n-pointed form and stature Hastned their growth or wakened learnedly The forms that formless in the Lump didly But to conclude I think 't was no conceipt â— No fained Idoll nor no iuggling sleight Nor body borrowed for this vses sake But the self Serpent which the Lord did make In the beginning for his hatefull breed Bears yet the pain of this pernicious deed â— Yet 't is a doubt whether the Diuell did Gouern the Dragon not there selfly hid To raise his courage and his tongue direct Locally absent present by effect As when the sweet strings of a Lute we strike Another Lute laid neer it sounds the like Nay the same note through secret simpathy Vntoucht receiuing life and Harmony Or as a staâ— which though far distant pours Vpon our heads hap-less or happy showrs Or whether for a time he did abide Within the doubling Serpents damask hide 6. Holding a place-less place as our soule deor Through the dimlanthorn of our flesh shines cleer And bound-less bounds itself in so streight space As foâ—m in body not as body in place But this stands sure how euer else it went Th' old Serpent serv'd as Satans instrument To charm in Eden with a strong illusion Conclusion of the former opinions A comparison Our silly Grandam to her selfs confusion For as an old rude rotten tune-les Kit If famous Dowland daign to finger it Makes sweeter Musik then the choicest Lute In the gross handling of a clownish Brute So whiles a learned Fiend with skilfull hand Doth the dull motions of his mouth command This self-dum Creatures glozing Rhetorike With bashfull shame great Orators would strike So Faiery Trunks within Epyrus Groue Mov'd by the spirit that was inspir'd by Ioue With fluent voice to euery one that seeks Fore-tell the Fates of light-beleeuing Greeks So all incenst the pale Engastromith Rul'd by the furious spirit hee 's haunted with Speakes in his womb So well a workmans skill Supplies the want of any organ ill So doth the Phantike lifting vp his thought On Satans wing tell with a tongue distraught Strange Oracles and his sick spirit doth plead Euen of those Arts that he did neuer read O ruth-less murderer of immortall soules Alas to pull vs from the happy Poles The sundry suttle and horrible endâ—uours of thâ— diuell putting on diuers formes to ouerthrowe Man-kinde And plunge vs headlong in thy yawning hell Thy ceas-less frauds and fetches who can tell Thou play'st the Lion when thou doost in gage Bloud-thirsty Nero's barbarous heart with rage While flesht in murthers butcher-like he paints The Saint-poor world with the deer bloud of Saints Thou play'st the Dog when by the mouth profane Of som false Prophet tâ—ou doost beleh thy bane While from the Pulpit harkingly he rings Bold blasphemies against the king of kings Thou play'st the Swine when plung'd in pleasures vile Som Epicure doth sober mindes defile Transforming lewdly by his loose impiety Strict Lacedaemon to a soft society Thou play'st the Nightingale or else the Swan When any famous Rhetorician With captious wit and curious language draws Seduced hearers and subuerts the laws Thou plaist the Fox when thou dost fain a-right The face and phrase of som deep Hypocrite True painted Toomb dead-seeming coals but quick A Scorpion fell whose hidden tail doth prick Yet this were little if thy spight audacious Spar'd at the least the face of Angels gracious And if thou didst not Ape-like imitate Th' Almighties works the wariest Wits to mate The Poet resumeth his Discourse touching the Temptation of Eue. But without numbring all thy suttle baits And nimble iuggling with a thousand sleights Timely returning where I first digrest I 'le onely heer thy first DECEIPT digest The Dragon then Mans Fortress to surprise Follows som Captains martiall policies Who yer too neer an Aduerse place he pitch Comparison The situation marks and sounds the ditch With his eys leuell the steep wall he metes Surueies the flanks his Camp in order sets And then approaching batters sore the side Which Art and Nature haue least fortifi'd So this old Souldier hauing marked rife The first-born payrs yet danger-dreadless life Mounting his Canons suttly he assaults The part he findes in euident defaults Namely poor Woman wauering weake vnwise Light credulous news-louer giuen to lies Eue Second honour of this Vniuerse Sathans Oration Is' t true I pray that iealous God peruerse Forbids quoth he both you and all your race All the fair Fruits these siluer Brooks imbrace So oft bequeath'd you and by you possest And day and night by your own labour drest With th' ayr of these sweet words the wily Snake A poysoned ayr inspired as it spake In Eues frail brest who thus replies O! knowe Eues Answer What eâ—r thou be but thy kinde care doth showe A gentle friend that all the fruits and flowrs In this earths-heav'n are in our hands and powrs Except alone that goodly fruit diuine Which in the midst of this green ground doth shine But all-good God alas I wote not why For bad vs touch that Tree on pain to dy She ceast already brooding in her heart A curious wish that will her weal subuert Aâ—sit coÌ„parison As a false Louer that thick snares hath laid T' intrap the honour of a fair young Maid When she though little listning ear affoords To his sweet courting deep-affected words Feels som asswaging of his freezing â—â—ame And sooths himself with hope to gain his game And rapt with ioy vpon this point persists That parleing Citie neuer long resists Euen so the Serpent that doth counterfet A guilefull Call â—â—allure vs to his net Perceiuing Eue his flattering gloze digest He prosecutes and locund doth not rest Till he haue try'd foot hand and head and all Vpon the Breach of this new-battered wall The Diuels reply No fair quoth he beleeue not that the care God hath mankinde from spoyling death to spare Makes him forbid you on so strict condition This purest fairest rarest Fruits fruition A doubtfull fear an enâ—le and a hate His iealous heart for euer cruciate Sith the suspected vertue of This Tree Shall soon disperse the cloud of Idiocy Which dims your eys and further make you seem Excelling vs euen equall Gods to him O Worlds
relents stopt worthily By the pains horror and sins tyranny But one day drawing with dissembled loue His harm-less brother far into a Groue Vpon the verdure of whose virgin-boughs Bird had not pearcht nor neuer beast did brouz With both his hands he takes a stone so huge That in our age three men could hardly bouge And iust vpon his tender brothers crown With all his might he cruell casts it down The murdred face lies printed in the mud And lowd for vengeance cries the martyr'd blood The battered brains fly in the murd'rers face The Sun to shun this Tragike sight a-pace Turns back his Teem th' amazed Parrsâ—ide Doth all the Furies scourging whips abide Externall terrors and th' internall Worm A thousand kindes of liuing deaths doe form All day he hides him wanders all the night Flies his owne friends of his owne shade affright Scarr'd with a leaf and starting at a Sparrow And all the World seems for his fear too-narrow By reason of the multiplying of Mankinde the Children of Adam begin to build houses for their commodity and retreat But for his Children born by three and three Produce him Nephews that still multiply With new increase who yer their age be rise Becom great-Grand-sires in their Grand-sires life Staying at length he chose him out a dwelling For woods and floods and ayr and soyl excelling One fels down Firs another of the same With crossed poles a little Lodge doth frame Another mounds it with dry walls about And leaues a breach for passage in and out With Turf and Furse som others yet more grosse Their homely Sties in stead of walls inclose Som like the Swallow mud and hay do mix And that about their silly Cotes they fix Som make their Roofs with fearn or reeds or rushes And som with hides with oase with boughs and bushes Hee that still fearfull seeketh still defence Cain thinking to finde sum quiet for the tempests of his conscience begins to fortifie and builds a Towne Shortly this Hamlet to a Towne augments For with keen Coultar hauing bounded witty The four-faç't Rampire of his simple Citty With stones soon gathered on the neighbour strand And clayie morter ready there at hand Well trode and tempered he immures his Fort A stately Towr erecting on the Port Which awes his owne and threats his enemies Securing som-what his pale tyrannies O Tigre think'st thou hellish fratricide Because with stone-heaps thou art fortifi'd Prince of som Peasants trained in thy tillage And silly Kingling of a simple Village Think'st thou to scape the storm of vengeance dread That hangs already o'r thy hatefull head No wert thou wretch incamped at thy will On strongest top of any steepest Hill Wert thou immur'd in triple brazen Wall Hauing for aid all Creatures in this All If skin and heart of steel and yron were Thy pain thou could'st not less auoid thy fear Which chils thy bones and runs through all thy vains Racking thy soule with twenty thousand pains Kain as they say by this deep fear disturbed Supposeth to secure himselfe by the strength and swiftnes of a Horse which hee begins to tame Then first of all th' vntamed Courser curbed That while about on others feet he run With dusty speed he might his Deaths-man shun Among a hundred braue light lusty Horses With curious ey marking their comly forces He chooseth one for his industrious proof Description of a gallant Horse With round high hollow smooth brown ietty hoof With Pasterns short vpright but yet in mean Drie sinnewie shanks strong flesh-less knees and lean With Hart-like legs broad brest and large behinde With body large smooth flanks and double-chin'd A crested neck bowd like a half-bent Bowe Whereon along thin curled mane doth flowe A firm full tail touching the lowely ground With dock between two fair fat buttocks drownd A pricked ear that rests as little space As his light foot a lean bare bony face Thin joule and head but of a middling size Full liuely-flaming quickly rowling eys Great foaming mouth hot-fuming nosthrill wide Of Chest-nut haiâ— his fore-head starryfi'd Three milky feet a feather on his brest Whom seav'n-years-old at the next grass he ghest This goodly Iennet gently first he wins The manner how to back to break make a good Horse And then to back him actiuely begins Steady and straight he sits turning his sight Still to the fore-part of his Palfrey light The chafed Horse such thrall ill-suffering Begins to snuff and snort and leap and fling And flying swift his fearefull Rider makes Like som vnskilfull Lad that vnder-takes To hold som ships helm while the head-long Tyde Simile Carries away the Vessell and her Guide Who neer deuoured in the iaws of Death Pale fearefull shivering faint and out of breath A thousand times with Heav'n erected eys Repents him of so bold an enterprise But sitting fast less hurt then feared Cain Boldnes himself and his braue Beast again Brings him to pase from pasing to the trot From trot to gallop after runs him hot In full career and at his courage smiles And sitting still to run so many miles The ready speed of a swift Horse presented to the Reader in a pleasant and liuely description His pase is fair and free his trot as light As Tigres course as Swallows nimble flight And his braue gallop seems as swift to goe As Biscan Darts or shafts from Russian bowe But roaring Canon from his smoaking throat Neuer so speedy spews the thundring shot That in an Army mowes whole squadrons down And batters Bulwarks of a summon'd Town As this light Horse scuds if he doe but feel His bridle slack and in his side the heel Shunning himself his sinewie strength he stretches Flying the earth the flying ayr he catches Born whirl-wind-like he makes the trampled ground Shrink vnder him and shake with doubling sound And when the sight no more pursue him may In fieldy clouds hee vanisheth away The wise-waxt Rider not esteeming best To take too-much now of his lusty Beast Good Horsemanship Restrains his fury then with learned wand The triple Coruet makes him vnderstand With skilfull voice he gently cheers his pride And on his neck his flattering palm doth slide He stops him steady still new breath to take And in the same path brings him softly back But th' angry Steed rising and reaning proudly Striking the stones stamping and neighing loudly The CountenaÌ„ce Pride aud Port of a couragious Horse when he is chased Calls for the Combat plunges leaps and praunces Befoams the path with sparkling eys he glaunces Champs on his burnisht bit and gloriously His nimble fetlocks lifteth belly-high All side long iaunts on either side he iustles And 's wauing Crest courageously he bristles Making the gazers glad on euery side To giue more room vnto his portly Pride Cain gently stroakes him and now sure in seat The Dexteritie of a skilfull Rider Ambitiously seeks still som fresher
can the Steer The whistling Goad-man's guiding language hear It rain'd indeed but not such fertil rain The manner of their punishment by fire and brimstone from Heaven and the reason thereof As makes the Corn in Sommer sprout amain And all things freshed with a pleasant air To thrive and prove more lively strong and fair But in this sink of Sin this stinking Hel A rain of Salt of Fire and Brimston fel. Salt did consume the pleasant fruitfulness Which serv'd for fewel to their Wantonness Fire punished their beastly Fire within And Brimstone's stink the stench of their foul Sin So as their Sin was singular of right Their Punishment was also exquisite Heer open Flames and there yet hidden Fires Burn all to ashes sparing neither Spires Of Brick nor Stone nor Columns Gates nor Arches Nor Bowrs nor Towrs nor even their neighbour-Marches In vain the-while the People weep and cry The same most liuely represented To see their wrack and knowe no remedy For now the Flame in richest Roofs begun From molten gutters scalding Lead doth run The Slats and Tyles about their ears do split The burning Rafters Pitch and Rosin spit The whirling Fire re-mounteth to the Skie About the fields ten thousand sparks do flie Half-burned Houses fal with hideous fray And VVLCAN makes Mid-night as bright as Day Heaven flings-down nought but flashing Thunder-shot Th' Air 's all a-fire Earth's exhalations hot Are spewing AETNA'S that to Heaven aspire All th' Elements in brief are turn'd to fire Heer one perceiving the next Chamber burning With suddain leap towards the window turning Thinks to cry Fire but instantly the smoke And Flame with-out his with-in Voice do choke Another sooner feels then sees the Fire For while O horror in the stinking mire Of his foul Lust he lies a Lightning flash Him and his Love at-once to dust doth dash Th' abhorred Bed is burnt and they aswell Coupled in Plague as Sin are sent to Hell Another yet on tops of Houses crawls But his foot slips and down at last he falls Another feeling all his cloathes a-fire Thinking to quench them yer it should come nigher Leaps in a Lake but all the Lake began To boyl and bubble like a seething Pan Simile Or like a Chaldron that top-full of Oyl Environ'd round with fume and flame doth boyl To boyl to death som cunning counterfait That with false stamp som Princes Coyn hath beat Another seeing the City all in Cinders Himself for safety to the fields he renders But flakes of Fire from Heav'n distilling thick There th' horror of a thousand Deaths do strike Through Adamah's and Gomor's goodly Plains Sodom and Seboim not a soule remains Horse Sheep and Oxen Cows and Kids partake In this revenge for their vile Masters sake Thus hath the hand of the Omnipotent Inroll'd the Deed of their drad Punishment With Diamantin Pen on Plates of Brass With such an Ink as nothing can deface The molten Marble of these cindred Hills Asphaltis Lake and these poor mock-fruit Fields Keep the Record and cry through every Age How God detesteth such detested rage O chastisement most dradly-wonderfull Th' Heav'n-cindred Cities a broad standing Pool O're-flowes yet flowes not whose infectious breath Corrupts the Ayr and Earth dis-fertileth A Lake whose back whose belly and whose shoar Nor Bark nor Fish nor Fowl hath ever bore The pleasant Soyl that did even shame yer-while The plentious beauties of the banks of Nile Now scarr'd and collowed with his face and head Cover'd with ashes is all dri'd and dead Voyd of all force vitall or vegetive Vpon whose brest nothing can live or thrive For nought it bears save an abortiue suit Of seeming-fair false vain and fained fruit A fruit that feeds theey and fills the hand But to the stomach in no steed doth stand For even before it touch the tender lips Or Ivory teeth in empty smoak it slips So vanishing only the nose receiues A noysom savour that behinde it leaues Heer I adiure you vent'rous Trauailours Exhortation to Trauailers that haue seene to others that shall reade or heare these fearefull monuments of Gods seuere Iustice to make right vse of this fearefull Example That visit th' horror of these cursed shoars And taste the venom of these stinking streams And touch the vain fruit of these wythered stems And also you that do beholde them thus In these sad Verses pourtray'd heer by vs To tremble all and with your pearly tears To showr another Sea and that your hairs Staring vpright on your affrighted head Heave-vp your Hats and in your dismall dread To think you hear like Sulph'ry Storms to strike On our nâ—w Monsters for Offences like For the Almightie's drad all-daunting arm Not only strikes such as with Sodom swarm In these foul Sins but such as sigh or pity Sodoms destruction or so damn'd a City And cannot constant with dry eyes observe God's iudgements iust on such as such deserve LOT hies to SEGOR but his wife behinde Lots wise metamorphozed Lagged in body but much more in minde She weeps and wails O lamentable terror O impicus Pity O kind-cruell error The dire destruction of the smoking Cities Her Sons-in-Law which should haue been she pities Grieves so to leave her goods and she laments To lose her Iewels and habiliments And contrary to th' Angels Words precise Towards the Town she turns her wofull eyes But instantly turn'd to a whitely stone Her feet alas fast to the ground be growen The more she stirs she sticks the faster in As silly Bird caught in a subtil gin Simile Set by som Shepheard neer the Copses side The more it struggles is the faster ty'd And as the venom of an eating Canker Simile From flesh to flesh runs every day the ranker And never rests vntill from foot to head O're all the Body his fell poyson spread This Ice creeps-vp and ceaseth not to num Till even the marrow hard as bones becom The brain be like the seul and bloud convert To Alablaster over every part Her Pulse doth cease to beat and in the air The Windes no more can wave her scattered hair Her belly is no belly but a Quar Of Cardon Rocks and all her bowels are A pretious Salt-Mine supernaturall Such as but Salt I wot not what to call A Salt which seeming to be fall'n from Heav'n To curious Spirits hath long this Lesson given Not to presume in Divine things to pry Which seav'n-times seal'd vnder nine Locks do lie She weeps alas and as she weeps her tears Turn into Pearls fro'rn on her twinkling hairs Fain would she speak but forced to conceal In her cold throat her guilty words congeal Her mouth yet open and her arms a-cross Though dumb declare both why and how she was Thus Metamorphos'd for Heav'n did not change Her last sad gestures in her suddain Change No gorgeous Maâ—sole grac't with flattering verse Eternizeth her Trunk her House and Herse But to
defence 'Gainst the tri-pointed wrathfull violence Of the drad dart that flaming in his hand Shall pash to powder all that him withstand And 'gainst the rage of flames eternal-frying Where damned soules ly ever-never-dying Sith the least Flies and Lice and Vermin too Out-braue your braves and Triumph over you Gallop to Anian sail to Iucatan Man caÌ„not hide him froÌ„ the hand of God nor auoid his vengeance Visit Botongas dive beyond the Dane Well may you fly but not escape him there Wretches your haltars still about you bear Th' Almighties hand is long and busie still Having escap't his Rod his Sword you feel He seems somtimes to sleep and suffer all But calls at last for Vse and Principall With hundred sorts of Shafts his Quiver's full Som passing keen som som-what sharp som dull Som killing dead som wounding deep som light But all of them do alwayes hit the White Each after other Now th' Omnipotence At Egypt shoots his Shafts of Pestilence Th' Ox falls-down in his yoak Lambs bleating dy 5. With the Plague of Pestilence The Bullocks as they feed Birds as they fly Anon he covers Man and Beast with cores Of angry Biles Botches and Scabs and Sores 6. With Vlcers grieuous Scabs or Murrain Whose vlcerous venoms all inflaming spread O're all the body from the foot to head Then Rain and Hail and flaming Fire among Spoyl all their fields their Cattel great with young 7. With hail Fire froÌ„ Heauen All brain'd with hail-stones Trees with tempest cleft Robd of their boughs their boughs of leaues bereft And from Heav'ns rage all to seek shelter glad The Face of Egypt is now dradly-sad The SoÌ„ in Virgins tear-their Beauties honour Egyptians amazed at this extraordinary scourge Not for the waste so much as for the manner For in that Country never see they Clowd With waight of Snowes their trees are never bow'd They knowe no Ice and though they haue as we The Year intire their Seasons are but three They neither Rain-bowe nor fat Deaws expect Which from else-where Sol's thirsty raies erect The naturall fruitfulnesse and prosperity of Egypt in it selfe maruailous Rain-les their soyl is wet and Clowd-les fat Itself 's moist bosom brings it this and that For while else-where the River's roaring pride Is dryed-vp and while that far and wide The Palaestine seeks for his thirsty Flock Iordan in Iordan Iaboc in Iaboc Their floud o'reflowes and parched Mâ—sraim A season seems in a rich Sea to swim Niles billows beat on the high-dangling Date And Boats do slice where Ploughs did slide of late Steep snowy Mounts bright Stars Etesian gales You cause it not no those are Dreams and Tales Th' Eternall-Trine who made all compassly Makes th' vnder waues the vpper's want supply And Egypts Womb to fill with fruits and Flowrs Gives swelling Nile th' office of heavenly Showrs Then the Thrice-Sacred with a sable Clowd Of horned Locusts doth the Sun be-clowd And swarmeth down on the rebellious Coast 8. They are vexed with Grashoppers The Grass-hoppers lean dam-devouring Hoast Which gleans what Hail had left and greedy crops Both Night and Day the Husband's whole-year's hopes Then gross thick Darkness over all he dight And three fair Dayes turns to one fearfull Night 9. With palpable darknesse With Ink-like Rheum the dull Mist's drouzy vapours Quench their home-Fires and Temple-sacred Tapers If hunger drive the Pagan from their dens One 'gainst a settle breaketh both his shins Another groping vp and down for bread Falls down the stayrs and there he lies for dead But though these works surmount all Natures might Though his owne Sages them of guile acquight Though th' are not casuall sith the holy-man The Israelites in all these plagues vntoucht yet Pharao still hardned Fore-tels prefixtly What and Where and Whan And though that living in the midst of His The Israelites be free from all of This Th' incensed Tyrant strangely-obstinate Retracts the Leave he granted them of late For th' Ever-One who with a mighty hand Would bring his People to the plentious Land Of Palestine Who providently-great Before the eyes of all the World would set A Tragedy where wicked Potentates Might see a Mirror of their owne estates And who most-iust must haue meet Arguments To showe the height of his Omnipotence Hardens the King and blinding him self-blinde Leaues him to Lusts of his owne vicious minde For God doth never ever purely bent Cause sin as sin but as Sin 's Punishment For the last Charge an Angell in one night 10. Therefore al the first borne of Egypt are slain in one night by the Angel All the first born through all the Land doth smite So that from Suës Port to Birdene Plain Ther 's not a House but hath som body slain Saue th' Israelites whose doors were markt before With sacred Pass-Lamb's sacramentall gore And therfore ever-since on that same day Yeerly the Iewes a Yearling Lamb must slay A token of that Passage and a Type Of th' Holy-Lamb which should in season ripe By powring-forth the pure and plentious Flood Of his most precious Water-mixed Blood Preserue his People from the drad Destroyer That fries the wicked in eternall fier Through all the Land all in one instant cry All for one cause though yet all knowe not why Night heaps their horrors and the Morning showes Their privat griefs and makes them publike woes Scarce did the glorious Governour of Day After so many grieuous plagues the Egyptianâ—ery out vpon their King to let the Israelites goe O're Memphis yet his golden tress display When from all parts the Maydens and the Mothers Wiues Husbands Sons and Siers Sisters and Brothers Flock to the Court where with one common voice They all cry-out and make this mournfull noyse O stubborn stomach cause of all our sadnes Dull Constancy or rather desperat Madnes A Flood of Mischiefs all the Land doth fill The Heav'ns still Thunder th' Ayr doth threaten stil Death ghastly death triumpheth every-where In every house and yet without all fear Without all feeling we despise the Rod And scorn the Iudgements of the mighty God Great King no more bay with thy wilfullings His Wrath 's dread Torrent He is King of Kings And in his sight the Greatest of you all Are but as Moats that in the Sun do fall Yield yield alas stoop to his powrfull threat He 's warn'd enough that hath been ten times beat Go get you gon hence hence vn-lucky race They hasten and importune them to be gone Your eyes bewitch our eyes your feet this Place Your breath this ayr Why haste you not away Hebrews what lets you wherfore do you stay Step to our houses if that ought you lack Choose what you like and what you like go take Gold Plate or Iewels Ear-rings Chains or Ouches Our Girdles Bracelets Carkanets or Brouches Bear them vnto your gods not in the sands Where the
venge God's honor and Our shame acquight Who spurrd with anger but more stirrd with Zeale Shall foile this Pagan and free Izrael O! who shall being me this Wolf 's howling head That Heav'n and Earth hath so vn-hallowed What e're he be that lauish of his soule Shall with his blood wash-out this blot so foule I will innoble him and all his House He shall inioy my Daughter for his Spouse And euer shall a Deed so memorable Be with the Saints sacred and honorable â—â— Yet for the Duel no man dares appeer All wish the Prize but none will win 't so deer Big-looking Minions braue in vaunts and vows Lions in Court now in the Camp be Cows But euen the blast that cools their courage so That makes my DAVID's valiant rage to glowe My Lord saith He behold this hand shall bring Dauids offer Th' heav'n-scorning head vnto my Lord the King Alas my Lad sweet Shepheard answers Saul Thy heart is great although thy limbs be small High flie thy thoughts but wee haue need of more More stronger Toyles to take so wilde a Boare To tame Goliah needs som Demi-god Some Nimrod rather then a Shepheard-Lad Of slender growth vpon whose tender Chin The budding doun doth scarcely yet begin Keep therefore thine owne Rank and draw not thus Death on thy self dis-honor vpon vs With shame and sorrow on all Izrael Through end-les Thral dom to a Fo so fel. The faintest Harts God turns to Lions fierce His assurance To Eagles Doues Vanquisht to Vanquishers God by a Womans feeble hand sub dews Iabins Lieutenant and a Iudge of Iews God is my strength therfore O King forbear For Izrael for Thee or Mee to fear No self-presumption makes me rashly braue Assured pledge of his prowd head I haue Seest thou these arms my Lord these very arms Steeld with the strength of the great God of Arms Haue bath'd Mount Bethlem with a Lions blood These very arms beside a shady Wood Haue slain a Bear which greedy after prey Had torn and born my fattest sheep away My God is still the same this sauage Beast Which in his Fold would make a Slaughter-feast All-ready feels his furie and my force My foot al-ready tramples on his Corps With his owne sword his cursed length I lop His head al-ready on the geound doth hop The Prince beholds him as amaz'd and mute To see a mind so yong foresolute Then son saith he sith so confirmd thou art Go and Gods blessing on thy valiant hart God guide thy hand and speed thy weapon so That thou return triumphant of thy Fo. Hold take my Corslet and my Helm and Launce And to the Heav'ns thy happy Prowes aduance The faithfull Champion being furnisht thus Is like the Knight which twixt Eridanus And th' heav'nly Star-Ship marching brauely-bright Hauing his Club his Casque and Belt bedight With flaming studs of many a twinkling Ray Turns Winters night into a Summers day But yer that hee had half a furlong gon The massie Launce and Armour hee had on Did load him so he could not freely mooue His legs and arms as might him best behooue Euen so an Irish Hobby light and quick Simile Which on the spur ouer the bogs they prick In highest speed If on his back he feel Too-sad a Saddle plated all with steel Too-hard a Bit with in his mouth behind Crooper and Trappings him too-close to binde He seems as lame he flings and will not go Or if he stir it is but stiff and slowe DAVID therefore lays-by his heauie load And on the grace of the great glorious GOD Who by the weakest can the strongest stoop Hee firmly founding his victorious hope No Arrows seeks nor other Arcenall But by the Brooke that runnes amid the Vale Hee takes fiue Pebbles and his Sling and so Courageously incounters with his Foe What Combat's this On the one side I see A moouing Rocke whose looks do terrifie Euen his owne Hoast wbose march doth seem to make The Mountaine tops of Sucoth euen to shake On th' other side a slender tender Boy Where grace and beautie for the prize doo play Shaue but the doun that on his Chin doth peer And one would take him for Anchises Pheer Or change but weapons with that wanton Eâ—â— And one would think that it were Cupids self Gold on his head skarâ—er in either Cheek Grace in each part and in each gest alike In all so louely both to Foe and Friend That very Enuy cannot but commend His match-les beauties and though ardent zeale Flush in his face against the Infidel Although his Fury fume though vp and down He nimblie trauerse though he fiercely frown Though in his breast boyling with manly heat His swelling heart do strongly pant and beat His Storme is Calm and from his modest eyes Euen gratious seems the grimmest flash that flies Am I a Dog thou Dwarf thou Dandiprat To be with stones repell'd and palted at Or art thou weary of thy life so soon O foolish boy fantasticall Baboone That never saw'st but sheep in all thy life Poore sotte 't is heer another kind of strife We wrastle not after your Shepheards guise For painted Sheep-hooks or such pettie Prize Or for a Cage a Lamb or bread and cheese The Vanquisht Head must be the Victors Fees Where is thy sweatie dust thy sun-burnt scars The glorious marks of Soldier strain'd in Warres That make thee dare so much O Lady-Cow Thou shalt no more be-star thy wanton brow With thine eyes rayes Thy Mistress shall no more Curl the quaint Tresses of thy Golden ore I 'll trample on that Gold and Crowes and Pyes Shall peck the pride of those sweet-smiling eyes Yet no my guirle-boy no I will not file My feared hands with blood so faintly-vile Go seek thy match thou shalt not dy by me Thine honor shall not my dishonor be No silly Lad no wert thou of the Gods I would not fight at so vn-knightly ods Come barking Curre the Hebrew taunts him thus That hast blasphem'd the God of Gods and vs The ods is mine villain I scorne thy Boasts I haue for Aide th' almighty Lord of Hoasts Th' Ethnik's a-fier and from his goggle eyes All drunk with rage and blood the Lightning flies Out of his beuer like a Boare he foames A hellish Fury in his bosom roames As mad he marcheth with a dreadfull pase Death and destruction muster in his face He would a-fresh blaspheam the Lord of Lords With new despights but in the steed of words Simile He can but gnash his teeth Then as an Oxe Straid twixt the hollow of steep Hils and Rocks Through craggie Coombs through dark ragged turnings Lowes hideously his solitary Moornings The Tyrant so from his close helmet blunders With horrid noise and this harsh voice he thunders Thy God raignes in his Ark and I on Earth I Chalenge Him Him if he dare come forth Not Thee base Pigme Villain saies the Iew That blasphemy thou
ours Should not be numbred by yeers dayes and howrs But by our braue Exploits and this Mortality Is not a moment to that Immortality But in respect of Lady Wisedomes grace Euen at their best the rest are all but base Honour is but a puffe Life but a vapour Salomons choise Wealth but a wish Health but a sconce of paper A glistering Scepter but a Maple twig Gold Drosse Pearls Dust how-euer bright and big Shee 's Gods owne Mirror shee 's a Light whose glance Springs from the Lightning of his Countenance Shee 's mildest Heav'ns most sacred influence Neuer decays her Bewties excellence Aye like her-Self and shee doth alwayes trace Not only the same path but the same pase Without her Honour Health and Wealth would proue Three Poisons to me Wisedom from aboue Is th' only Moderatrix spring and guide Organ and honour of all Gifts beside Her her I like her only Lord I craue Her Company for-euer let me haue Let me for-euer from her sacred lip Th' Ambrosial Nard and rosial Nectar sip In euery Cause let me consult with her And when I Iudge be Shee my Counsailer Let with her Staffe my yet-Youth gouern wel In Pastures fair the Flock of Izrael A compt-les Flock a Flock so great indeed As of a Shepherd sent from Heav'n had need Lord giue her me alas I pine I die Or if I liue I liue her * Pyrausta Flame-bred-Flie And new Farfalla in her radiant shine Too-bold I burne these tender wings of mine Hold take her to thee said the Lord and sith No Bewty else thy soule enamoreth For ready hand-maids to attend vpon her I 'll giue thee also Health and Wealth and Honor For'tis not meet so High-descended Queen So great a Lady should alone be seen The rather that my Bounty may inuite Thee seruing Her to serue Me day and night King SALOMON awaked plainly knew That this Diuine strange Uision neuer grew From the sweet Temper of his sound Complexion But that it was some Peece of more Perfection Some sacred Picture admirably draw'n With Heav'nly pencil by an Angels hand For happy He had without Art the Arts And learning without learning in all parts A more then humane Knowledge bewtifies His princely actions vp to Heav'n he flies He dyues to Hell he sounds the Deeps he enters To th' in most Cels of the Worlds lowest Centers The secret Riddles of the sacred Writ His excellent Uisedome and vnderstanding in all things Are plain to him and his deep-pearcing Wit Vpon few Words of the Heav'n-prompted stile In a few Dayes large Volumes can compile He learned sees the Sun's Eclipse sans terror He knowes the Planets neuer erring Error And whether Nature or some Angel moue Their Sphears at once with triple Dance aboue Whether the Sun self-shine his Sister not Whether Spring Winter Autumn Summer hot Be the Suns Sons what kinde of mounting Vapor Kindles the Comet and the long-taild Taper What boy strous Lungs the roaring Whirlers blow'n What burning Wings the Lightning rides vpon What Curb the Ocean in his bounds doth keep What power Night's-Princesse powrs vpon the Deep Whether the Heav'ns sweet-sweating Kisse appear To be Pearls parent and the Oyster's pheer And whether dusk it makes them dim withall Cleer breeds the cleer and stormy brings the pale Whether from Sea the Amber-greece be sent Or be some Fishes pleasant excrement He knowes why th' Earth's immoueable and round The lees of Nature Center of the Mound He knowes her measure And he knowes beside How Coloquintida duely apply'd With-in the darknes of the Conduit-Pipes Amid the windings of our in-ward Tripes Can so discreetly the White humor take Rheubarb the Yellow Hellebore the Black And whether That in our weak Bulks be wrought By drawing 't to them or by driuing't out In brief from th' Hysop to the Cedar-Tree He knowes the Vertues of all Plants that be He knowes the Reason why the Woolfs fell tooth Giues a Horse swiftnes and his footing sloath Why thy Sex-changing fierce Hyena's eye Puts curstest Curres to silence suddenly Why th' irefull Elephant becommeth tame At the approaching of the fleecie Lamb Why th' eye-bold Eagle neuer fears the flash Or force of Lightning nor the Thunder-clash Why the wilde Fen-Goose which keeps warm her egs With her broad feet vnder her heatfull legs And tongue-les cries as wing-lym'd cannot flie Except she glad Seas brynie glasse descrie He knoweth also whether that our Stone Be baked Earth or Exhalation Whether the Metals that we dayly see Be made of Sulphur and of Mercurie Or of some Liquor by long Cold condens't And by the Heat well purified and cleans'd Or of a certain sharp and cindrous humor Or whether He that made the Wauing Tumor The motly Earth and th' Heav'nly Sphears refin'd All-mighty made them such as now we finde He comprehends from whence it is proceeding That spotted Iasper-stones can staunch our bleeding Saphires cure eyes the Topaz to resist The rage of Lust of drink the Amethist And also why the clearest Diamant Ielous impugns the thefts of th' Adamant Tunes Measures Numbers and Proportions Of Bodies with their Shadowes al 's ' he kons And fild with Nectar-Deaws which Heav'n drips The Bees haue made Honie within his lips But he imbraceth much more earnestly The gain-full Practice than cold Theorie Nor reaks he so of a Sophistick pride Of prattling Knowledge too-self-magnifi'd As of that goodly Art to gouern well The sacred Helms of Church and Common-weal And happily to entertain in either A harmony of Great and Small together Especially Hee 's a good Iusticer And to the Lawes dooth Life and strength confer Simile And as the highest of Bigaurian Hils Ay bears his head vp-right and neuer yeelds To either side scorns Winde and Rain and Snowe Abides all weathers with a cheerfull brow Laughs at a Storme and brauely tramples vnder His steddy Knees the prowd lowd rowling Thunder So Hee 's a Iudge inflexibly-vpright No Loue nor Hatred of the Guilty wight What e'r he wear for Calling small or great His Venging blade can either blunt or whet He spurneth Fauors and he scorneth Fears And vnder foot he treadeth priuate Tears Gold 's radiant Lustre neuer blears his Eye Nor is he led through Ignorance a-wry His Voice is held an Oracle of all The soule of Lawes he wisely can exhale In doubtfull Cases he can subtilize And wyliest pleaders harts anatomize Scarce fifteen times had Ceres since his Birth With her gilt Tresses glorifi'd the Earth When he decides by happy Wisedoms means The famous Quarrel of Two crafty Queans Is' t possible O Earth thus cries the first But that alas thou should'st for anger burst The Controuersie between the 2. Harlots for the liue Child And swallow quick this execreable Quean Is' t possible O gracious Soueraign That comming new from dooing such a deed So horrible she shame-les dares proceed T' approach thy sight thy sacred Throne t' abuse Not begging Pardon
Amber Elixir an Arabian word signifying Quintessence the Philosophers stone Elisium the fayned Paradise of hethen Poets Eldebag a learned Arabian Satyricall Poet. Embryon the Childe in the mothers Womb before it haue receiued shape Encyclopedie that learning which comprehendeth all liberall Sciences Endimion a young shephearde the fauourite of Cinthya Engastromith one possessed which seems to speak in his belly Empyema an impostume in the Breast Enyon the same that Bellona sister to Mars Goddesse of Battaile Enthousiasmos poeticall fury Eoan Monarke Alexander the great Eolian scoutes the windes Ephemerides Day-books Registers Iournals Ephesian Temple the Temple of Diana in Ephesus Ephesian moan Heraclitus weeping at the worlds miseries Ephori a kinde of Magistrates protectors of the people Epiâ—emik ilâ—es Vniuersall Diseases Epicicle a lesser Circle whose center is in the circumfereÌ„ce of a greater Epicurus a Philosopher that placed mans felicitie in the pleasures of the Sense belee uing no God but Fortune Epilepsis the Falling-sicknesse Epithalamie a nuptiall song Epitaph a funerall song or an Inscription on a Tombe or Graue Epithets additions to nownes expressing some quality Epitome an Abbridgement Epirus a Countrie in Greece now called Albania famous in late times by the Noble exploites of G. Castrâ—ot sir-named Scanderbeg against the Turke Equinoctiall a Circle in HeaueÌ„ through which when the Sun passeth the dayes and nights be of equall length Eroetrian soile medicinable Earth brought from Eretria Erebus a Riuer in hell Hell Erythrean Deep the red Sea Erynnis one of the Furies Eridanus a figuâ—e in HeaueÌ„ the Riuer Po in Lumbardie Eurus the East winde Euripus a narrowe Sea which ebbeth and floweth seauen times in 24. houres Euphrates one of the Riuers of Eden that runnes through Babylon Europa Christendome or this Westerne part of the world Eccentrik that hath his center wholly separated from the Center of the Earth Erysipiles hot red swellings called S. Anthonies fire Erycina Venus Euphrosyne looke Graces Euphorbium a certaine medicinable Plant found and named by Euphorbus King Iubas Physician Ethâ—ik see Pagan Entidorian Etesian gates easterly windes Ephod a linnen garment worne by the Priests and Leuites of Israel Edom and Idumea a part of Palaestine Elâ—utherian Deliuerer Epicarpian Fruit-keeper F FAbritius a famous Roman contemner of Riches and in extreame pouerty most puissaÌ„t for vertuous valour and integrity Faustina a most Iasâ—iuious Em presse wife to Marcus Aurelius and daughter of Antous Pius Fez. a Kingdome in Barbarie Finland a Dukedom vnder the king of Sweden Flamine a Sacrificer or high Priest among the Heathen Flauio Melphio a Neapolitan inuenter of the needle in the Mariners compasse and the vse thereof Foix a Countrey belonging to Nauarr neere the Pyrene Mountains Flora a faire and rich harlot which made the people of Rome her Heire in respect whereof they made her God desse of Flowers and kept yeerely Feasts in honor of of her Furies 3 viz. Alecto Megera and Tesiphone sometimes also called Persyphone which are said to be TormeÌ„ters of the damned in Hell wittily fained to express the fear and Fury of a guilty coÌ„science Frize and Cornich the crests furniture finishing at the vpper end of a column Farfalla a Candle flye Fergusius Euenus Donaldus famous ancient Kings of Scotland Fanes Temples consecrated Places Funambulant a Rope-walker Feretrian Peace-bringer or dread-striker G GAlen a famous Physician born at Pergamus whose learned workes through all ages haue been honoured Galenite one skilfull in Physicke wherein Galen excelled Ganges a great Riuer in India Gaules the ancient name of the French men Genius a mans spirit or naturall instinct or inclination Gemonide or Gemonian Ladders a place in Rome from whence condemned persons were throwne downe Ghion one of the riuers in EdeÌ„ Gnidian Idols Venus and Cupid for in Gnidos shee was worshipped Gonorrhaea a foule and inuoluÌ„tary Fluxe of seed the Running of the Reines Gordian knot a knot thought impossible to bee vndone wherewith Gordius had fastened his Oxe-yoake in the Temple of Apollo Gorgons vgly hellish monsters in forme of scaly Dragons with crooked teeth one eye Iron talents and mighty wings Graces look Charites Gymnosophists Philosophers of India so called because they went naked Groon-land an exceeding colde Countrey butting vpon the Sea beyond Izland Graue is as much as an Earle with vs but in this place vsed for the General and Gouernor IOSVAH Galactite a kind of white Marble or Alabaster H HAlcyon a little water-bird thought to be the kings fisher Harpies rauenous Birdes with faces like woemen Hecatombes HeatheÌ„ Sacrifices wherein were offered 100. Beasts Hebe Ioues Cup-bearer the Goddesse of youth Heber of whome the Hebrues and Hebrue Tongue are so called the great great Grand-Childe of Sem the sonne of Noah Hecuba the Frantike and disfigured olde wythered wife of Priamus King of Troy and heere opposed to the fresh young beautifull Helena the fatall Prize of their sonne Paris Helicon a Mountaine sacred to Apollo and the Muses Helena the wanton wife of Menelaus cause of the tedious siege finall sack of Troy Hemisphear half the compasse of heauen which we beholde Hercules the most renowned Monster-Tamer of Thebes Hermes Mercurie Hero the faire Sestian Nunne for whose sake Leander was drowned in Hellespont Heroes halfe Gods excellent Men for valour and vertue Herophilus a very ancient Phy sician Herodotus an Eloquent Greek Historiographer Hesiodus an ancieÌ„t Greek Poet Hesperian Plant Golden fruit-Trees garded by a Dragon which was slain by Hercules but heer it is vsed for the Sugar Cane a richer Plant theÌ„ those fayned golden fruits Hexameters verses of sixe feet Hiades 5. starres some holde 7. in the head of the Bull. Hiero a king of Sicilia after Agathocles greatly delighted in husbandry Hieroglyphiks secret Cyphers strange characters mysticall wrighting by sundry formes of things Hiram King of Tyrus remem bred in the Scripture for sending Timber and workmen to Salomon to the building of the Temple in Ierusalem Homer so called for his blindnes the most excellent of all the Greek Poets Horizon a Circle diuiding the halfe-spheare of the firmament which wee see â—uer vs from the other halfe vnder vs which we see not Hun furious Attyla who sirnamed himself the scourge of God and Terror of the World Hyantian Fount springs sacred to the Muses Hydrantik braule Musicke artificially made with the fall of waters Hyaena a horrible Beast that counterfaiteth mans voice Hydrargire quick-siluer Hydra a Serpent with 50. heads slain by Hercules Hybla MouÌ„tains abouÌ„ding in bees and hony Hymetus MouÌ„tains abouÌ„ding in bees and hony Hymen the God of Mariage Hyper-borean aboue or beyoÌ„d the blowing of the North-winde Hyppocrates a most excellent Physician Hyppolitus the sonne of Theseus who shunning the waÌ„ton inticements of his stepdame Phaedra was through her false accusations torne in pieces Hyren a faire Greeke Mayden Captiue on whome Mahomâ—t the 2. extreamely doated Hesperus the Euening-starre the Euening Helleborus an herbe whereof be 2. kindes
to battell drew Thus 'tweene them two did cruell war ensew Arphaxaâ— armed all the yles of Greece Where Iason was but sought no golden fleece But golden lingots with aboundant gaine Wher Phasis streame bedeawes the pleasant Plaine The Harmastans and Albans strong and wise That sowes but once and haue their haruest thrise The men that neer to Oxus banks abydes And those that Antitaurus horns diuydes And those that mans the mount vpon whose brest The ship that scap't the genrall flood did rest And those that are not hid within the Reame Wher proude Iaxartes flowes with furious streame In short the Medes brought men to ayde their plea From Pontus far beyond the Caspian sea And of this Hoste Arphaxat was commander With hope and heart more high then Alexander My prince desirous then to winne or dy Left nought vndone that furthred to supply His troubled state He armed Syttacene And waged Archers out of Osrohene Ye Lords of Lands that yelds the hundreth corne Leaue Euphrates and bounds where ye were borne Ye Carmans bolde that all on fish do feede And of their pelts do make your warlike weede Leaue Hytan bounds go seek the golden sands Ye Parths ye Cosses Arabs and ye lands That of your Magi Prophets thinks ye knowe Their spells diuine yourself for pâ—kmen showe O Calde chaunge thine Astrolab and square To speare and shield for we no wight will spare Of able age of high or lowe degrie That trails the pike or launce layes on his thie Let women Children and the burghers olde At home alone let them their houses holde We sommond eke the Persians and Phoenicians The soft Aegyptians Hebrews and Cilicians To come in haste and ioyne their force to ours But they disdainfully deteind their powrs And with their wicked hands and words vnsage They did our sacred messengers outrage My maister for a time putvp this wrong Attending time to quite these enmies strong With purpose more at leasure to prouide T' abate this sacrilegious peoples pride Two greater kings were neuer seen beforne Battell Then camped was in Ragau field at morne With hauty harts enarmed all in yre Ech soldier set another so on fire That scarsly they could keep them in their bound Till pipe or Cymball or the trumpets sound Denounce the choke but with their furious faces They thret their foes afarre with fell menaces And strokes at hand two thousand Lads forlorne To blunt the sword were down in battell borne Vpon their flanks flew feruently the stones That bet their bucklers to their brused bones The squadrons then steps sternly to the strokes With harts in humain all the battell yokes And are supplide with many mighty bands Som counters them and sternly them withstands With foot to foot ech other ouer plyes Both Meds and Caldes clasp with gastly cryes Like Nilus stream that from the rocks doth romble Or Encelade when he in tombe doth tomble Here som lies headles som that cannot stand Trails on his wombe and wants both foot and hand Cut off with stroks some perâ—'t throu plate and mails Some shoulder-â—lasht some panched in th' entrails Some brains outbet some in the guts were gor'd Some dying vomit blood and some were smor'd Some neither quick nor dead do yet attend What place it pleaseth God their soules to send So loth the little life that doth abyde Is from the dying body to diuide The ground that erst was yellow greene and blew Is ouercled with blood in purpure hew While this man giues some one his deadly baine He of another gets the like againe The rage encreasing growes with yrefull flame The field is spred with bodies dead and lame Like as ye see the wallowing sea to striue Flood after flood and waue with vvaue to driue Comparison Then waues with vvaues the floods with floods do chase And eft returnes vnto their former place Or like the crops of corne in mids of May Blowne vvith the vvestren wind aside doth sway Both to and fro as force doth them constraine And yet their tops redresseth vp againe So whiles the Syrians are by Medes displaced And whiles the Medes by Syrianâ— are rechased Then like two raging floods that down do fall From two contrarie mutine mountains tall Downe bearing bridge and bank and all destroyes And striues which one may do the most annoyes So these two kings in force and courage stout Excels the rest with slaughter them about Wherso they'preast they left on either side Behinde them two long opened wayes and wide For all their bucklers Moâ—ions and Quiraces Were of no proofe against their peisant maces Yet for the time the Medeâ— so fearcely fought That they th' Assyrian bands in terrour brought And pauld his soldiers harts and brak their might Who ouercome tooke them to shamefull flight The Medes pursewd and wounded in that chace Ten thousand men but none vpon the face In short this day our Scepter had depriued Had I not like the thunder dint arriued In battels brunt Their male and their vantbras Their helme and shield before my Coutelas Were fraile as glas and neuer a stroke I lent But deadly was and them more terrour sent Then all our camp The soldier then in feare With trembling hand could scarsly weild his speare The pal-hewd knight with hart in brest that quakes His thyes in saddle and feet in stirrops shakes For dread of me There some with trenchant glaiue From hight of head to middle down I claiue And some so farre I foyned through the Iack The blade aperde a foote behinde his back So that the Medes afrayd at such a thing In heat of fight they fled and left their king Who seing himself betrayd his clothes he rent And bloodie towards Ragau towne he went Where we him met yet Braue did him defend And sought amongst his foes a famous end As doth the Tyger wilde who sees her den Beset about with hunters dogs and men That turns her feare to furious raging rife And will not vnreuenged lose her life So he them thunderbet wherso he went That neuer a stroke in vaine his right hand spent But er with murdring blade they could him quell Full many-a bold precursor he sent to hell At last Arphaxat gan of slaughter tyre And wounded sore left both his life and yre And fell as doth some huge high planted oak That long hath byde the winds and many-a stroak Of many an axe yet stoutly doth sustaine Their trauels long and frustrats all their paine The roote doth sigh the dale doth roring sound And to the heauen the noyse doth high rebound His head now here now there seemes to incline And threats him here and there with great ruine Yet stands vpright aboue the highest okes Till vanquisht with a thousand thousand strokes He falls at last and brings with him to ground Both trees and cattell to the Plaine profound So with Arphaxat fell the Medes empyre My king the king of kings then in his yre Ras'd