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B00633
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A theater of delightfull recreation.
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Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?
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STC 21408; ESTC S94970
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To vertuous Sara being in the tent And will'd her make some cakes of finest meale Feasting themselues with butter milke and veale Vnder the arbors coole delightfull leaues Where he the promise of a sonne receiues Then rising thence to Sodome-ward they looke And as they toward the place their iourney tooke Said God Shall I the thing from Abram hide That I intend he feares me and beside He will instruct his children keepe my hest And all earths nations shall in him be blest Then said the Lord because that Sodomes crie Is very great and doth ascend the skie Yea and their sinne exceeding grieuous is I will go see how deeds agree with this Then Abram said Lord shall the righteous fare In punishment like those that wicked are Farre be it from the Iudge of all mens sight To do the thing that were not iust and right If fiftie good therein abode do make Wilt thou not spare it for those fifties sake If forty fiue or thirtie twentie ten Wilt thou not spare it for those righteous men Yes said the Lord if onely ten there bee For all the rest thou shalt preuaile with me With that the Lord departed mou'd to grace And Abraham return'd vnto his place Then in the euening suns declining state As righteous Lot did sit at Sodome gate There came two Angels which when he espide He did inuite them kindly to abide Within his house that night and wash their feete But they refusing would remaine in streete Yet he importunate they did consent And in with him those guests of heauen went Where he did entertaine them with a feast But ere the time was come they should take rest The Sodomites in multitudes were found Both old and yong the house enuiron'd round And calling Lot said Bring vnto our sight Those men that harbor in thy house to night Let them come forth to vs we may them know Then Lot intreates My brethren do not so I haue two daughters virgins both they be Which in affection are right deare to me Yet rather them I le yeeld vnto your will Then these men should endure such hainous ill Oh let not sinne so wickedly incense Vnder my roofe they came for their defence With that they thrust the holy man aside And said Stand backe for this wee le not abide Our furie shall the more towards thee appeere Art thou a Iudge that cam'st to soiourne here Wilt thou controule in that we go about Wee le breake thy doore our force shall fetch them out But pressing forth they could no entrance find For on a sodaine all were stricken blind Blind bodies now that had blind soules before Tiring themselues in seeking out the dore Then said the Angels vnto righteous Lot What friends hast here that we destroy them not Besides thy daughters and thy sonnes in law Out of the citie all thou hast withdraw The crie is great before th' Almighties face And he hath sent vs to destroy the place Lot did aduise his children and the rest But to his sonnes in law it seem'd a iest They were as at this day most sinners bee Carelesse till vengeance they do feele and see When morning did darke nights blacke curtaines draw Last morning that the Sodomites ere saw The Angels hastned Lot to speed away But as he did prolong the time with stay They caught him vp his children and his wife And brought him out and bad him saue his life Looke not behind nor in this plaine abide Least thou do perish wherewith Lot replide My Lords if fauour I haue found take pitie And graunt me to enioy but yonder citie How should I to the mountaines safely flie Some euill may betide there I shall die Onely but Soar to thy seruant giue That litle Soar and my soule shall liue Thou hast preuaild said they thy sute obtaine Go thither and in safetie remaine Now was the Sunne new risen on earths face And Lot new entred in his refuge place When sodainly a shewre from heauen fell Made Sodome seeme as Sodome had bene hell T was no such element as washt the ground When all the world excepting eight were drownd Then waters were the workers of Gods ire But now in vengeance he employes the fire An element of farre more fearfull kind Did sinfull Sodome turn'd to ashes find No common fier fit for needfull things But flames that dread terror and anguish brings Of cruell torments grieuous to be felt Of sulphur sauour lothsome to be smelt Of terrible amazement to the eie A flaming citie and a burning skie All was destroyd of timber worke and stones All was consum'd composde of flesh and bones And Sodome which at euening did appeare As if a Paradise of God it were Seemd in the morning vnto Abrams eies As smoake that from a fornace doth arise Obdurate Pharaoh in his hardnesse of heart MOses what message doest thou bring Am I not Pharaoh Aegypts King I will not let the people go For all the wonders thou canst show Not Arons serpent-turning rod Shall make my heart obey your God My Sorcerers the like can doo 〈◊〉 tē plagues Come Coniurers make Serpents too The waters changing into blood The fishes dying in the flood The frogs through all the land increast The lice offending man and beast Th'intolerable swarmes of flies The cattell that in Aegypt dies The swelling botches sores and blaines The thunder haile and fire that raines Grashoppers that all greene things wast The darknesse that three dayes did last The striking all the first-borne dead To true conuersion cannot lead Hard is my heart and vnrelenting T is vnacquainted with repenting Moses euen by my kingly might I charge thee to depart my sight Vpon thy life see me no more For if thou doest thou di'st therefore My trust doth in my strength consist Put confidence in whom thou list On horse and chariot I depend Trust in your God let him defend Vnto the sea I will pursue Thy Israelites that slauish crue And there I will them all confound Or there let me and mine be drownd The mirrour of Chastitie FAire Hebrew pleasure of mine eyes To whom my loue I sacrifice Thou hast found fauour in her sight Whose loue doth thy loue kind inuite To what delights I can afford To Putiphar great Pharoes Lord Before all loues in Aegypt bee Thy Ladie makes her choise of thee Why then inioy and full possesse Vnto my bed haue free accesse Where all the welcomes loue can make Shall entertaine thee for my sake Be not so bashfull and a man Thou shouldst court better then I can Being so louely euery part Except thy tongue that wanteth art Yet she that may bids thee be bold If I say seaze presume take hold Why doest thou on vaine credit stand Vrging what trust is in thy hand In that thy Lord exceeding large Committeth all things to thy charge Excepting me all things beside Do vnder trust with thee abide What of all this I offer more Then will