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A11402	The second day of the First vveeke of the most excellent, learned, and diuine poet, VVilliam, Lord Bartas. Done out of French into English heroicall verse by Thomas VVinter, Maister of Artes; Sepmaine. Day 2. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Winter, Thomas, Master of Arts.	1603 (1603)	STC 21659; ESTC S110833	26,697	50

creatures which in the same do flourish But which is more doth with her dugs supply Foode to the winged people of the skie And gluts the scaly troupe with longed food Wh●ch cleaue the billowes of the briny floud So that what ere doth creepe runne swimme or flie Is by this Mother nourced carefully It did behoue that she should counter-waigh Her selfe that so she might the firmer stay Against the barking of the stonnie maine And might the anger-swollen cheekes disdaine Of Auster who in parching heate delighteth And Boreas who with freezing cold still fighteth It did behoue her body dull and flow Should farthest be from heauen here below That she might nere be wheel'd about by force Of heauens swift and neuer-resting course Which doth with strong and stubborne rauishment Pull round about the highest element And sith againe that the harmonious course Of heauenly planets is th' immortall source Of life in earthly things and that their changing Is caused by the starres their circled ranging Th' Almightie could no fitter lodge prouide Whereas our grandame earth might well abide Then in the center of this worldly round For vitall beames wherewith the starres abound Do shatter downe their powerfull influence Vpon the aire his waving residence On th' arched fire and on the swelling maine Where scaly people wanting lungs remaine But they in fine vnite their forces all Within the circle of this earthy ball Simil. Which is the worlds naue like as we may See in a wheele which chalketh out his way Amid the mudde whose widest spoakes do meete Within the button by their ioyned feete Simil. And as the Sunne doth pierce the window glasse So do these starrie influences passe Through euerie part without impediment Of the transparant firie element The regions of the aire and water bright But not the earth wherein is firmely pight The worlds foundation so that we name And iustly too the water aire and flame The concubines of euer-mouing heauen For that his Sunne and Moone and Starry-seuen Neuer inioy their loue but when by chance By these three regions along they glance When heauen husband-like hath no intent To be diuorc'd from the driest element And with such seed as still doth animate Each liuing thing he doth engrauidate The fruitfull earth his lawfull wedded bride And with a bodie so diuersifide In disposition and in outward forme He doth the structure of this All adorne VVhy the vva●er is placed betvveene the earth and the aire The water lighter then the earthie lumpe And heauier then the aire doth pitch his iumpe Betweene them both that being moist and cold By those two qualities he may be bold To slacke the thirstie drinesse of our Mother And coole the feruor of his airie brother Apostrophe ad Musam suam But whither away my Muse thou wanton stay Spend not thy Poetry at one essay Surcease to day to sing of sea and land Their compasse power and praise and where they stand Do not too hastily preuent the time Wherein the world was in his flowing prime Le●ue mountaine rockes with waters ouer-spread Till Phoebus rise againe from 's easterne bed For when he shewes againe his blushing face Then shall Gods powerfull hand asunder place These mingled bodies and shall richly dight The earth with bushie trees of goodly height It 's time my loue my ioy and onely deare To soare aloft to lodge no longer here Or neuer now t is time to graft my wings On thy immortall virgin-pin●onings That on thy backe I being nimbly light May safely vnto heauen take my flight Come come then luckily thy shoulder lend That mounted on the same I hence may wend To gaine that crowne to win that wreathed bay Which neuer Poets that in Fraunce did sway Did weare and which the heauens nigardize Hath long concealed from my longing eyes The aire which foggie mists doth entertaine The aire hov● and vvhy it is d●uided into three r●g●o●s The play-game of the tempests and the raine Th' inconstant house where winged clouds abide Swift Aeol●s his kingdome and his pride The shop where winds are sold whose trafficke maketh That euerie mouing thing of life partaketh Is not all one for men by learning guided Into three lofts hau 't rightf●lly deuided Whereof the high'st for that the restlesse course Regi● suprema Of the first Mouer puls it round by force From Ea●t to West and likewise from the West Vnto the place where faire Aurora's drest And for it bounds vpon the burning ●●ame The learned do this loft the hottest name That loft wherein we breath by turne doth hold Regio infima Now melting heate now all-congealing cold Now neither so his waters in the Spring Are coldly hote in Autumne wauering In winter cold and hote in sommers raigne For then the earth rebat●th backe againe Those beames which starrie bow-men shoote apace Especially the Sunne the heauens chiefe grace Who for his shafts doth eue●●ore d●light To make the circled earth his but tand white Medi●●●●io The middle-loft for that it still remaineth Farre from the burning ●eeling which containeth This lower world in his firie seate Vnable also to partake the heate Which from the earth is banded bolt-vpright Doth in continuall freezing take delight For how could water hardned be to haile Euen when the sommer heate doth so preuaile That haruest fields looke white if y●ie cold His shiuering climates did not all enfold VVhy the middle region is th● c●ld●st Assoone as Phoebus hath his court remoued From the * T●● sig●● Gemini two twinnes so mutually beloued And takes his lodging with his * Cancer Crabbed hoste Or panting Lyon then this middle coast His cold redoubleth for enuironed With heate of armies newly mustered Which more then ere are now encouraged To haue his coldest times vnwintered Delayes the time to traine his men no longer His forces ioyn'd together are the stronger S●mil As Christians leauing farre their natiue land Feare not the furie of the Turkish band Marching disorderly make now and then As many squadrons as there be of men So that sometime the clownes with bils and bowes Driue them before them with their stubborne blowes But when they see the Mooned flags appeare Armes of old Ottoman and when they heare The horrid thunder of cannons sound Which by their shocke do leuell with the ground The strongest wals that euer yet immured Rhodes and Belgrada while their prime indured Straight they retire and in some neighbour plaine Do set themselues in order all againe Their warlike courage doth increase their strength Their bloud doth boile for heate and at the length The bordring circumcised peoples aide Doubling their forces makes their foes afraid This antiperistasis for t is no danger T●e effe●●s of the A●tip●ris●a●●s of the ●i●●le r●gio● To naturalize a word that is a stranger Yea in this worke where we haue no one word That doth so strong an emphasis afford Doth cause

In their effects as humming on they flie I find that they resemble properly Foure times of th'yeare foure humors that abound Foure simples whereof nature doth compound Each mingled bodie and the foure-fold age Which man runs ouer in his pilgrimage The wind which doth with faire Aurora dwell The Eastwind Resembles in his nature passing well● The naked sommer and the tender age The fire and choler apt to kindle rage The wind which barbrous Africa doth greet The Sout● Is like the ioyfull Spring the aire most sweet That age wherein man doth in strength excell The bloud wherein the soule of man doth dwell The wind which doth with drops bedew the West The VV●st The water and the phlegme resembles best The age wherein mans strength fals to decay The time when hoarie winter beareth sway The North. The wind which from the shiuering North doth flie May be compar'd and not iniuriously To Autumne earth and melancholie sad And to the age when man becomes a lad Not ●●at vntill this time we haue not learned More winds then East West North and South are tearmed The man that liues vpon the watrie plaine Hath on his compasse noted thirtie twaine Though as the places number do exceed From whence these exhalations do proceed So are the winds in number numberlesse Which cleanse the aire of mistie fogginesse Yet from what place so ere they sallie forth They mustred are by South East West or North. The eff●cts of the winds Sometimes they with a whizzing broome do sweepe The aire where duskie cloudes their court do keepe Sometimes they drie the fields which drowned bin With teares of Phaeton his weeping kin Sometimes they temper with a welcome cold The aire which while the fainting dog-daies hold Do frie for heate They ripe the ruddie peare The beane in huske the corne within the eare They make the winged ship to flie with ease Throughout the world vpon the raging seas And with a li●gring hast whirling around The milstone vnder which the graine is ground To vndeuided atomies they bring The seed which from the earth they made to spring Diuerse effects of th● hote exhalatio●● Now if the fume be hote and glutinous And yet vnable to be mutinous Against the ysicles ●hat rule and raigne Amid the aire then doth it still remaine Houering betweene vs and the middle skie Vntill it kindled be and downeward flie Iust like a squib that serues for sportfull games Or like an arrow feathered all with flames But when againe the exhalation Of the comets Surmounts cold winters habitation It lights it selfe and makes a blazing starre Foredooming some mischance that is not farre But then his flame hauing more nouriture Then th' other vapour longer doth endure Whether the fume ytost withouten stay Become a brand by heauens circled sway Kindling it selfe like coales that ouer-spread With straw do for a while lye seeming dead Which afterward the artisan doth shake Of darksome night a lightsome day to make Or whether from the highest element It do receiue his firie nutriment Like as the torch of flaming life depriued Is by the burning linke againe reuiued According as the vapour 's thicke or rare Of the other fierie impressions in the aire Long equall large vnequall round or square It makes those various shapes in th' aire appeare Whose sight doth make the sottish quake for feare Here doth a steeple seeme to flame by night There doth a cruell dragon come in sight Here is the torch and there the arrow flies The forked beame and speare here greet our eyes And there the dart which crossing in their waies Clashing together sparkle out their raies The wanton goate with firie tassels dight By often skips doth simple men affright The bloudie tresses of a twinkling starre Do threaten on the other side from farre To plague the neat-h●ards with tempestuous haile With stormes to souce the mariners that saile To punish shepheards with their flockes decay And citizens with many a bloudie fray What rumbling noise in heauen do I heare Of the thunder The wals of this great All as doth appeare In euery corner suffer batterment It seemes Proserpina hath some intent To set at large her furious daughters three And leaue her queenedome of blacke Tartarie And in the aire to hold her hellish raigne I know that some do studie ●o maintaine That when the vapour doth ascend on high Compact of aire and water euenly And burning vapours mounting vp likewise Into the middle region of the skies The hotter fume y compassed around With cold thicke cloudes which in the aire abound Doubles his heate and taking heart of grace Makes warre on his cold neighbour foes apace Simil. The lion banisht from the forrest wide His natiue home and forced to abide In some straight den where maides and idle boyes Do hisfe and mocke and anger him with toyes Doth fill his narrow parke with dreadfull sound Runs forth and backe in such his straightned pound And being mad doth not so much desire His libertie as to reuenge his ire Right so this fier crauing for to rent His floating prison cannot be content But ●till bestirs him running round about Wi●h grumbling rumbling and a thundring rout Vntill he make a renting breach below And thundring cannon-shot on vs do throw For longing in these sharpe and cruell warres To ioyne his weake enfeebled souldiers Vnto his brother forces and obtaine In Cynthia's lap that he may still remaine He snarlingly endeuours foorth to get But with so huge an host he is beset And so intrenched euery where about That though he striue on this side to get out And now on that side skirmish with the cold Yet finds he many a souldier that is bold Couragiously to stand against his strength And so despairing furiously at length Forgets his honour and doth backe retire With shame enough as wanting his desire The ocean boiles for feare and Neptunes band Effects of the thun●●r Finding the sea too straight do hie to land The earth doth quake the shepheard all alone Is hardly safe vnder the rockie stone The skie is rift in twaine and Plutoes selfe Lookes pale and bleake like some night-wandring elfe The aire doth slame throughout with firie flashes For then the lightning which so fiercely dashes Against the cloud the which it doth surprise Doth sparkle foorth those flames which dimme our eyes Right like the man on whom the Muses fawne Simil. Doth with his steele before the morning dawne Compell the sparkes to issue from the flint Vntill they kindle his halfe burned lint And which is more the lightning being framed Stran●e effe●●● of the lig●tning Of fumes which of themselues are still enflamed Can breake the bones with his admired art Yet keepe the flesh from feeling any smart Can melt the coine wherewith the niggard's blest Yet with his burning force not hurt the chest Can breake the foyning blade short off in twaine Yet

their standards as it did ensue O franticke Fraunce how is' t thou gainest nought An apos●op●● to his o●vne countrey of Fraunce By all those signes whereby thy God hath sought To call thee home canst thou with tearlesse eyes Behold those fearefull firie prodigies Wherewith the heauens do vs all affright That * He vnderstands the comet seene in the yeare 1577 blazing starre which threatens euerie night Our land with warre with pestilence and hunger Three deadly points of that prepared thunder Which when th' Almightie ginneth once to frowne On vs rebellious men he powreth downe But what alas can heauen vnarm'd preuaile When as thy backe thresh'd with so many a flaile Drawes not one sigh from thy obdurate heart Thou art delighted with thy painefull smart Thy hunger makes thee on thy flesh to feed And makes thy bloud thy drinke and thou indeed As dull as one that hath the lethargie Shunnest the salue might cure thy maladie The more thou feel'st the spurre the more thou tirest And voide of holy care thou lesse desirest T' amend thy wayes but like an Asse dost striue To fat thy selfe with blowes with losse to thriue And as the iron or the steeled blade So thou by hammering art harder made But better t were I see this talke to end Then speaking to the deafe my time mispend I see t were better tread my wonted way And in my verse Gods greatest workes display Of the elementarie fi●● As then in court the king is hemmed in With princes of his royall bloud and kin And next to them with nobles of his traine And after them with magistrates againe Marching along in order and degree As they are nearest to his Maiestie So God in order wisely did dispose That Cinthia should that element enclose Which did in his resplendent actiuenesse The nature of the heauens best expresse And after him the others as they bene Annear'd vnto the planets by their kin And yet foole-many crediting their eyes Aboue their reason many wayes deuise To pull this essence from his natiue place And with his want this lower All deface The fier giuing brightnesse heate and flame Ignis encomium Welspring of motion Alchymist of fame A cleanser quickner smith and souldier Bell-founder surgeon cooke and cannoner And goldsmith too which doth and can do all Embracing round the aire and earthie ball If so the fire say they encamped be Obi●ction Betweene the heauen and vs then should we see The same by night for then our eyes do marke The shining glowormes in the greatest darke Besides how should we see the worldes eyn● Throughout so great an element to shine Sith that with vs the sharpest sighted eye Can nothing through a candles flame espie You vnbeleeuing men if so the puffes Soluti●n Of wanton Zephirus or angrie snuffes Of rainie Auster made you not beleeue They haue a being you would credence giue That from the earth vnto the firmament There were a vacuum and no element And your opinion would aswell desire To thinke no aire as to conceiue no fire Those torches wherewith we prolong the dayes The di●f●r●n●e betvveene the elementarie and our mixt fire Which in the winter Capricorne assaies To drowne in Westerne seas t' enlarge the night Compar'd vnto the Sunne the heauens great light Are lesse by many hundreth times obscure Then is our mixt and compound fire impure Compar'd to that resplendent element This lower Vniuerse his chiefest ornament Our fire is nothing but a lightsome shade Of darksome thicke and pitchie grosenesse made But that aboue by being wholy pure From mixture of compounded nouri●ure And being farre remoued from our sight And vnacquainted with the blustering might Of Aeolus doth much resemblance beare Vnto the nature of the heauenly spheare Of the matter of the h●auens But heauenly God what matter may I name Of which thou didst the heauenly arches frame Vncertaine I resemble euerie howre The cocke that stands vpon some steepled towre Which doth as oft new place and maister find As in the aire we feele a change of wind Sometimes I am of Aristotles traine Sometimes I follow Plato's mind againe Tracking the foot-steps of the Stagirite I rob the firmament of mixture quite I do auerre that Gods omnipotence Did fashion heauen of a quintessence Sith that the elements directly flie Some to the center others to the skie But heauens course giuing no inch of ground Is euer turned in a circled round Their motion dures not but they so abide As God the worlds first day did them diuide But neuer-breathing heauen still doth runne That constant p●sting course it hath begun It treads one path mou'd with vnburdened waight And knowes not what it is a teeme to baite The earth and water fire and aire vnited Are with an inbred warring hate delighted Cau●ing in time their springing and their fall Increase and decrease suffring not at all Beneath the horned planet any forme For one halfe houre one subiect to adorne But heauen neuer knowes death's equall rigor Growing in year●s it groweth not in vigor Nor weares with vse but 's flowring eld may beare Resemblance to his childhood euery where Tracing againe the steps of Plato's skill Hovv a●d to vvhat vse the elements may be in the hea●e●s according to Platoes opinion The heau'nly orbes with elements I fill Th' earth makes them solid that they neuer craue A fleeting disposition to haue The aire transparant fire makes them light Hote nimble actiue and resplendant bright And all the eadges which do counter-kisse Their fellow-wheeling globes do neuer misse Of water whose cold humor stops the course Of burning heate arising from the source Of their swift motion lest the heauenly land Should be conuerted to a flaming brand Not that I equalize these elements The differenc● betweene those elements wherof the heauens and those wher●of the Sublunarie bodi●s are compounded Of which I frame the heau'nly tenements To those dull bodies which are here below Which men by sight and frequent handling know They are all pure a heau'nly harmonie Combines their substances eternally Their aire is free from tossing and their fire From burning and their earth doth not desire From his high mansion to tumble downe Nor doth their water fleete vpon the ground Lo here th'extent of humane surque drie Blinded with error and simplicitie Which dares as though his cunning could calcine The matter of the heau'nly orbes define With an vnbridled tongue what wood and stone Th' Almightie chose to carpenter his throne I rather had still doubtfull to remaine Then lead awrie the simple of my traine Waiting for holie Paul his rediscent Orfreed from the vicious pesterment Ofthis rebellious flesh which doth depresse My clogged soule with counter-heauinesse These eyes may see the beauties of that place Diuers●●●●nions touching the number of the sp●●ares If then I ought would see saue Gods bright face But men as manie curious questions moue About