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The lavvyers philosophy: or, Lavv brought to light Poetized in a diuine rhapsodie or contemplatiue poem. By Roger Tisdale, gent.; Lawyers philosophy.
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Tisdale, Roger.
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STC 24090; ESTC S106189
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the duty Of true-borne Subiects euer held in awe Vnder the Trine-Vne soueraigntie of Law Whereof that I may sing first giue me leaue The triple Region of this World to cleaue Iust in three parts as three Court Hals wherein Of Errors they the vpper hand doe winne And in disposing right to euery one Forbid withall that wrong be done to none The first and lowest is this earthly Stage The great Haâ—… hath 3. Coâ—… Whereon we tread in wandring equipage All richly hung about her flowry Stronds With precious Gemmes like Sparkes of Diamonds Dropt downe from heauen and is the coÌ„mon Hall Where diuers Courts are kept Kings Bench. Chancery Common Placâ—… that vnto All Giue common Right in Earth in Ayre in Seas With Royall Peacefull and with Common Pleas Whereof hereafter But aboue all these Ascending vpward by a few degrees â—tar-Chamber One Court in glorious State aboue the rest Opens her Gates equally East and West Wherein the Sunne of Maiestie doth guild Like Aprill Flowers in a Meddowy Field Her starry Thrones of Iudgement Heere doth sit The Power of Warre and true Promethean Wit The Iouialist and grauer Saturnine Milde Venus Doue and quick-eyd Serpentine In briefe this Court holds Planetary Station And is the great Star-Chamber Constellation â—arliament Next this vp higher throgh heau'ns Painted Chamber And Galaxia of the great Commander Of this round Vniuerse a third Court-Hall Sacred for State and made Imperiall Aboue all others entertaines the King Crown'd and inthron'd vpon whose right-hand wing His Sonne the Prince of Peace in Robes of State Sits richly cloth'd Where that they may debate The Kingdomes great affaires as from them sent The Breath of Maiestie cals a Parliament Of Angell-Senatours wise Intelligences Full of Diuine and sacred influences Poeticall â—…estie But stay my Muse dar'st thou aspire so high On waxen wings Or dar'st thou mount so nigh That pow'rfull Wisdome that All-sapient Power That made yeeres months weekes dayes eu'ry houre Yea eu'ry minute times smallest momeÌ„t To be the Register and stately Comment Of his admired workes and working Spirit Forbeare I say and and either climbe the Charrit Of true Seraphick Loue that doth vnite Wisedome and Power like a Fauourite Of that great King of Kings or be still mute And humbly kneeling offer vp thy sute Of true Obedience till that Arme descend To lift thee vp that Vertue doth defend A Poeticall incouragement And with the thought me thinkes already now I am all Fire and I know not how The darke confused Chaos of my braine And all those earthly Powers that restraine Mans climing Faculties in an instant are Like an inflamed Meteor in the Ayre And what was massie intricate and thicke Is now become light deleuer and quicke To mount through Heau'ns bright starry Regiment Into the highest Court of Parliament Where Power Wisdome Lone doe sit in acting Lawes truely good that suffer no detracting Law is all Order and Harmony Sing then of these and then thou sing'st of all That can within the Scale of Musicke fall For these are Musicke and that rauishing Tone That from the Chaos wrought all things to One And order'd all disorders with one Fiat Of heauenly sweetnesse the true Key of Quiet Whereto all Vnisons with one consent As strings are fitted on an Instrument Doe seu'rally in tune and order rise And altogether sweetly harmonize Moses Beginning In the Beginning O where am I now Eu'n at an ending For my Muse doth bow In Circle-wise whose first and last is One And All in All that neuer is alone And yet all One. In this Beginning was it When but Eternitie none did surpasse it Trine Elohim created Heau'n and Earth And to this Round-All gaue a timely Birth Chaos confusedly described Vntimely though it seem'd For darknesse then Surrounded All this Round-All eu'n as when A Point confus'dly multiplide doth cloud The Virgin paper whilst the Artsman proud Of his inacting Power doth blot it ouer All blacke intending after to discouer Lines Bodies Shapes sundry beauteons formes Drawne out of darknes as faire Peace froÌ„ stormes And Day from Night For in this darke Abysse Heau'n Earth and all therein contained is Confusedly in one Conglomoration Were symboliz'd as seeds of this Creation But in such strife and orderlesse disorder As therein nothing had his proper border But each did Warre to haue anothers place And fight to giue or get vnknowne disgrace That in the smooldring heate cold Earth Water In dogged wrangle did bring forth a Daughter Call'd the tempestuous Ayre And Aire and Fire Piercing the Chaos did themselues retire Into the Centrelesse bosome of the Deepe And through by-crannies heere and there did creepe Till at the last ioyning their lawlesse forces To stirre vp Warre like two vntamed Horses They shook with traÌ„pling all the formelesse Masse And with that Ague-fit did boldly passe Through euery humour eu'ry qualitie Of heate and cold drought and humiditie That altogether in an vprore were Yet to be sought out no man could tell where For yet there was no place but high and low Was all inforcement none his place did know Which was the cause turmoyle and hurly-burly Rose like a tempest and each thing was surly Vnto another without giuing way But proudly iustling and inforcing stay That as at Sea when Aeolus vnbindes The mustring clouds sends contrarious winds To rouze the fretful waues a sulpherous thunder With smoaky Lightning breakes the Aire asunder To meete those raging Tidelings and together All ioyne in conflict forcing stormy weather That doth not cloud but darke this Hemisphere And in a graue transparent Light interre Saue that vpon the liquid Ocean glasse The nimble Lightning now then doth passe And giues a a glim'ring light which who had seene it He could no more but as a twinkling deeme it So in this vndigested formelesse Matter Strife and Contention forcing vp the Water A smoaky breath froÌ„ out their sulph'rous bowels In dusky clouds and stormy vapour rowles Heere there and all about that with the fogge So forced from that deepe and myery Bogge Cymerian Darknes was that nothing-All And All-beginning Nothing saue withall That by odde starts and suddainties sometime In this hot tumult from the muddy slime A liquid sweate vpon the vpper face Of the vast Deepe like Pearle or Isinglasse Did issue forth casting a gleaming spangle Which by and by thicke darknes did intangle But now behold God moued vpon the face of the Waters for now 't is worth an Ecce When all was formelesse void and in perplexie Darke and obscure the Spirit of Elohim On the moist Superficies did swim Nay as the Text saith incubat and nessle To brood the vnborn who as then did wrestle Together in the teeming wombe of Nature Who should be first and who of highest stature And all this in the darke for Darknesse still The spacious Vault of Emptinesse did fill
the promulgation Of this great Law issued a Proclamation Commanding as it went to each degree This lowd proclaiming Summons Let there be Let is a word of Power There shewes the place Be is all Being Order and due Grace And altogether with one Let there be Giues vs faire Light for eu'ry one to see And with that Light doth summon conuent In Heau'n Aire Earth a Royall Parliament Of pow'rfull wise and gracefull Senators True Lamps of Light and Christall-shining Mirrors Who with that Word of Power no sooner had Their due creating summons but all glad Of such a Birth-right to that word of might Light threefold Intellectuall Celestiall Elementall Humbly did Eccho forth Let there be Light Light Intellectuall in th' Angellick Mansion Celestiall Light within the faire Expansion And in these Elementall Orbes downe lower A Light of Fire to cherish not deuoure And so as Light by Light created was From those true Lights an Act of Light did passe Approu'd in all three Courts and by the King Establisht as an euerlasting thing Not to be darkned for this Light was ment vs To be a Law to which Le Roy assentus And therefore is enacted vnto All Not to be broke but held perpetuall Thus was there Light which in the first Creation Commanded was vvith Royall approbation Light had not onely Being but Command Was laid vpon that Light that it should stand Still in the wayes of Light Light must be Light Not stooping downe to the Errors of the Night But hold dependance on the Word of Truth That made this Light and still this Light renu'th This Light thus made this cōmmandment giuen Behold vpon the glorious Thrones of Heau'n Great Elohim the Ancient of Dayes Dan. 7. And Father of Lights did himselfe vp-raise To sit and view the bright resplendent beauty Of this first worke and with what awfull dutie Each seu'rall Lampe shone in his proper Sphere About his Palace either dimme or cleere And what their Station was Gen. 1. Then Elohim saw The Lights he made and this commanding Law Were good And so from out the euening Chaos That he no longer might in darknesse stay vs He brought the Spring-light of a cheereful morne With Light were Angels created And with that Spring-light was the first day born Then in the Vpper House incontinent Of this so great and Royall Parliament Assembled was before the dreadfull Throne Of Heau'ns Maiestick State a beautious Zone Of many Lampes round-shining in a Ring Taking their Light from their creating King And shooting forth that Light in cheerfull beames To glad this lower world like dewy streames That from the dropping clouds sweetly abound Seraphim Cherubim Thrones And fruitfull make the dry and barren ground There shone Seraphick Loue and there againe Cherubick Wisedome and that ne'r doth wayne Stayd Iudgemēt sat on Thrones of heau'nly Light With Loue Wisdome iudging what was Right And these in Number numberlesse did shine In seu'rall Orders but with such Diuine And sacred Beauty farre aboue the rest As that in place both highest and the best These did before the sacred Trinitie Stand forth the prime-elected Hierarchy Dominations Next in the middle Order Rule and Power Without all seruile Feare and then the Flower Of all faire Vertues euer preualent Vertues Potestates Vndaunted Fortitude with whom forth went True Potent Magistracie ord'ring both That neither Tyran Cruelty nor Sloth Had any place this middle distribution Receiu'd all power and gouern'd by infusion The last and lowest if in Heau'n there be Place high and low as there is of degree Are three Diuine executory Graces Principalities Archangels Angels Of warlike power in their seu'rall places Leading forth Armies Legions Regiments To guard faire Truth and front all darke Euents Whereof some held prime Principalitie As Generall Leaders in Authoritie Some intermediat Officers aduising And through the royall campe Archangelizing By Order from aboue Whilst all the rest Of this so glorious Armie stand addrest Ready to doe and fairely execute Great Elohims will not making slowe dispute Thus was Heau'ns Palace hung with shining Lamps And thus about great Elohim incampes This Royall Hoast of Lights whom could wee see And well distinguish each in their degree What glory were it But what glory more Were it to see the euerlasting dore Of Heau'n set open and behold within Vpon his Thrones the mighty Elohim Shining in Maiestie like a flame of Fire Brighter then is the Sunne His whole attire Collucent like himselfe And from his voice Issuing a floud of Fire And then the choice Nine precious Stones alluding to the nine orders of Angels Ezech. 28. Of those Eternall Lights like beautyous Stones Set in fine gold shining about those Thrones The fiery Carbuncle and Topas greene The Diamond the Berill and Sardine The many-colour'd Iasper and the Saphin That casteth forth a bright resplendent Azur And amongst others not to ouerpasse Smaragdus and the golden Chrysopras These to behold with an inabled sight And how each Lampe giues to another Light And all doe from that heauenly Fiat take That first did light them and their beauties make Light set in Iudgement Were glory beyond greatnesse But to see The King of Lights sit in his Maiestie Commanding Light Truth and with what awe Those Lights receiue that first cōmanding Law Of Light and Truth and what melodious order In casting forth their beames they keep to further Each one anothers Light as in a Quire Of many Tones some low some meane some higher Each Voice doth grace another and all sing A rauishing Antheme to the heauenly King Of Wisedome Power Loue Iod Iah Iohoue The Law of Light and Truth that raignes aboue This were a sweet melodious Rhapsodie T'inchant the Soule in Diuine Extasie But yet againe what meanes you rising Cloud The fall of Lucifer from Light And smoakie Vapour what 's that noise so lowd As if some mayne Battallion were to ioyne And Souldiers striue to rapine and purloyne What horror doe I see Is darknesse yet Brought once againe out of the vasty Deepe And Light in mourning clad Or topsey-Turuy Is all reduc'd to the first Hurly-burly Of Chaos and Confusion O my Muse Recline that soaring compasse thou didst vse And stoope thy flight New stormes begin to rise And humble wings best then do fit the wise O see Ben-schachar that Luciferous Beauty Esay 14. Sonne of the Morning and bright Lampe of duty No sooner plac'd in Glory but anon Elated in himselfe he stands vpon His owne proud worth and with indignitie Shootes at the face of Heau'ns great Maiestie His swift-aspiring Beames Nor onely so But straight he doth a daring Trumpet blowe To all the Hoast of Heau'n proclaiming Warres And that he meanes to mount aboue the Starres Of mighty Elohim and there alone Exalt and raise himselfe vpon his Throne Vpon the holy Mount and place his worth Within the skirts and confines