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A11268 Adams complaint. The olde vvorldes tragedie. Dauid and Bathsheba Sabie, Francis. 1596 (1596) STC 21534; ESTC S110788 21,159 52

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the earth and all did quake He sighed and most sorrowfull he was That euer mortall man was brought to passe He grieu'd in heart th●…t euer he created Man who with sinne was so contaminated All things quoth he wherin remaineth breath I purpose to destroy 〈◊〉 sudden death This hand which 〈◊〉 all mortall things aliue All earthlie things of life sh●…ll now depriue From man to beasts from birds to things which creep All flesh shall taste of my displeasure deep The birds swift winges shall not his body saue The Lyons for●… nor G●…ants courage braue Thus am I minded thus doe I intend All liuing creatures now shall haue an end But yet on earth one only man there dwelled All other men in justice who excelled The third from Enoch was he in discent Enoch who all his life vprightly spent Enoch of life who neuer was bereauen Enoch ●…ho liuiug was rapt into heauen Methushelah who all men did surpasse In length of life his Grandsire cleped was It was just N●…ah Lamec●…s sonne vpright Three sonnes he had Sh●…m Ham Iaphet hight He loued vertue vice he did eschew Iehouah therfore ●…auour did him shew Againe Earths founder his all seeing eyes Cast on the world from top of Cerule skies Againe he saw all wickednes abound In all the earth no justice could be found The children bathed in their fathers blood All nought he saw and nothing that was good Vast fields of sin Abysses fraught with lewdnes Realmes full of errors mountaines huge of shrewdnes The height whereof vnto his throne ascended And with their stench his nostrils fore offended Then vnto Noah L●…mechs sonne he spake An end of all things now I meane to make All flesh wherin remaineth liuing spirit Of vitall breath I purpose to disherit Ah how it grieues me now that I haue framed Man who wi●…h sin the earth hath so defamed Make thee an Arke of Pine trees verie strong Three hundred cubits shalt thou make it long Threescore in breadth and thirty cubits hie Make rooms in it where seueral things may lie Three sundrie stories s●…lt thou in it frame And round about with pitch close vp the same For I vpon the earth a flood will bring Wherwith I will subuert ech liuing thing But vnto thee my couenant will I make My couenant which I neuer meane to breake Thou with thy wife thy sons thy sons wiues Shal in the arke be shut and saue your liues Of euery lining creature also twaine A male and female shall with thee remaine And lay vp food for thee and euery creature Euen seuerall food according to their nature The ark was made al things brought to passe As God commanded so it framed was Then spake Iehouah vnto him goe thou Into the arke with all thy houshold now For seu'n dayes hence shall mighty rain abound Wherwith I mean to couer al the ground Then Noah with his family also Iust eight persons into the arke did goe And now the hower was neer the fatal hower Wherin Iehouah meant to shew his power Sixe times Auror●… with her blushing hew Had seene the earth all darke with hoary dew Now pitchie night six times gan dim the skies Last night of sollace vnto mortall eyes O Luna still detaine thy blackish horse Let neuer dismall Tytan run his course Bright Vesper still continue thou thy race Let neuer fatall day-star thee deface Who can alas expresse the dole●…ull ruin And piteous horror of the day ●…nsuin Now fro her chamber comes the scowling morning Her selfe still in a night-gowne blacke adorning Tytan arose but yet his glorious head With pitch-resembling cloudes was ouerspread Blacke foggie mystes rose from the earthly mole Ascending vp vnto the a●…ry pole Windes thronged foorth and stroue in skies aloft As ciuill warres among them had been wrought As craggie hils had broken been by charmes As all E●…lia had beene vp in armes Windes ayre and cloudes all meant the ayre to sacke O now or neuer goes the world to wracke Then thou O woe heauens Architect began To poure thy feareful threats on mortall man The glowring skies re●…ounded like a thunder As though heauens sacred vault had cleft in sunder As though ten thousand Cannons huge discharged Their roaring sounds with fall offorts enlarged His right hand shoke the earth his left hand crushed The clouds then raine in great aboundance rushed Raine poured foorth yet not content his anger Enforced swelling tydes on earth to wander Then broken were the heads of watrie fountaines They gushed from the feet of craggie mountaines Seas lent them waues their courses to maintaine Earth made them passage to his vtter bane Now had the morne still clad in mourning weeds Thrise open'd gates to Phaebus fiery steeds Steeds smoking wet yet from his flaming carre No light did come blacke mystes his light did scarre And now the three dayes raine and flowing flouds Had spoyled quite green hearbs and pleasant buds And shortly did the husband man complaine That all his whole years trauell and his paine Were brought to ruin corne and goodly flowers Were prostrate laid with ouer-flowing showers The sillie birds with violence of weather In bushes thicke did ●…hroud themselues together Beasts shrinking vnder grouie hedges stood Halfe drown'd with wet halfe dead for want of food By this time waters all the earth did couer The falling raine and rising flouds ran ouer All champion countries where men lately plowed Now waters stood and Scullers might haue rowed O then on earth was heard a piteous crie Men crying out beasts roaring plaintiuely Then first of all began the Gyants sterne To shake for feare and flinty hearts to yerne Raine falling and seas rising without pi●…tie Made entrance into euerie house and cittie As when a Fort or sacked citties walles With violence of ●…ampir'd engines falles The furious foe runnes raging through the stree●…s With bloody weapons killing whom he meetes An hideous ●…ry and ●…ound arri●…eth then Of maymed women and distressed men Men seeing weapons come to worke their bane Yet could not shun them O what greater paine So fat'd it with the people of this time Some vpon roofes and turrets high did clime One takes the highest mountaine he can see Another sits a fishing in a tree One thrusts himselfe into a wherry boat And desperately vpon the waues doth floate And euery one did se●…ke to clyme alo●…t For eurie one to shun the waters sought They saw the waters come to stop their b●…eath Yet could not shun't O greater gri●…fe then death Their dollours might haue been compared well To one that dying heares the passing bell Some were already drown'd thus stood the case He liu'd the longest who had highest place And now were turrets high and mountaines couered And leauie trees which in the aire erst houered O lend me words the dollours to display The Fatall horrors of this dismall day There might you see how louingly the mother With her sweet daughter kissed one the other One piteously
and all thinges which th●…reon remaine That I will neuer drowne the world againe And to confirme my promised decree A certaine seale therof I giue to thee This is the seale a Bowe I meane to shrowde Of diuers collours in a pitchie clowd This is the seale and this shall be a token That this my league at no time shall be broken And when I shall all-hiding heauen cloake With clouds foorth-pouring mystie raine like smoke Then I in cloudes will place my certaine seale Mine euer-during promise to reueale With surging billowes and impartiall raine That earth shall neuer be destroy'd againe And this a signe infallible shall be Of mine eternall-durable decree FINIS Dauid and Beersheba SVch time as Tytan with his fiery beames In highest degree made duskish Le●… sweat Field-tilling Swains driue home their toiling teams Out-wearied with ardencie of heat And country heards to seeke a shadie seate All mortall things from feruency of weather In s●…ing shades doe shroud themselues together 〈◊〉 wife vnto Vri●… stou●… A Captaine vnder I●…ab of renowne Whom princely Dauid with a warring rout Had sent to beat the pride of A●…n downe And to besiege and ra●…sacke Rabbah towne Betooke her selfe into a garden faire Inricht with flowers which sent a pleasant ayre On euery side this garden was beset With choise of rare delights and Arbors geason The Lentisk fig-tree and Pomgranet great Grew there in order far surpassing reason The ground was deckt with Gyl●…flowers fine Carnations sweet and speckled sops in wine There might you heare vpon the pleasant trees The little birds melodiously to sing Vpon the blossoms wrought the painfull Bees Neere was it to the pallace of the King Within it also was a pleasant spring Whose liquid humour moystened the same A garden worthy of so worthy dame Now gathereth she the sweetest of the sweet And pretilie from flower to flower trippeth Soone after to the fountaine tu●…nes her feet Then daintily her hands of glo●…es she stiippeth And in the Chrystall waues her fingers dippeth She likes it well and calles it passing coole And minds to bath her bodie in the poole Then nimbly castes she off her Damaske frocke Her Satten stole most curiously made Her Partlet needle-wrought her Cambricke smocke And on a seat thereby them nicely ●…aid And so to wash her in the well assayd O shut thine eies Narcissus come not neete Least in the well a burning fire appeare Sleep still King Dauid in thy Princely bed Where now thou takst thine after-dinners nap O rouse not vp from sleep thy kingly head Least by mifchaunce thou fall into a ●…rap See heere of mans fragilitie a map Thou canst not Da●…id needs must thou vpstart Thy God will haue thee know how frayle thou art Now riseth he and vp in haste he fli●… Vpon the highest turret of his tow●… There standing all the 〈◊〉 ouerpries Her carued Bulwarkes and ech goodly bower But O vnlucky time O dismall hower Stop Ishas sonne thine eares keep sayles on hie Least Syrens songs doe drawe thy mind awry Sur●…aying thus his towne at length he cast His eye-lids downe and saw Beersheba naked His princely heart which neuer yet did tast Of euill stroke with burning feuer quaked A fire he caught by no waues to be slaked And as he striues to quench this flaming fire Still kindles it with bellowes of desire Much better hadst thou kept within thy pallace There on thy harpet'aue fed thy mind with joy Or entertain'd some pretie pleasing sollace But are the godly subject to annoy Must they be ruled by a wanton boy His eie approou'd his heart it gaue consent And both were spurres vnto his bad intent With washing waues her breast he saw her decke He cals it Nectar wherof Angels drinke With Iuory armes she rubs her milky necke White Doues which fall on snow he doth them thin●… He wisheth he himselfe were at the brinke But with the candle whilst he thus doth play At last his wings were burned quite away And now begins the combatant assault Betweene the willing flesh and nilling spirit The flesh alluring him vnto the fault The spirit tels him of a dreadfull merit And in the end flesh conquered the spirit He sends she came he wooes she gaue consent And did the deed not fearing to be shent What hast thou done O Psalmist blush for shame Thinkst thou thy sinne will neuer come to light No no Iehoua●… will reueale the same Though thou hadst don't in silence of the night Yet would he bring it into open sight T'was he would put thy piety in triall To see if thou wouldst yeeld or make denyall Now three times Cynthia in the Welkin bright Her circle full vnto the earth did lend Thrise had she lost againe her borrowed light Since Dauid with Beersheba did offend And now began ●…he feele her wombe extend What should she doe her fault she could not couer Of many dayes she had not seen her louer And now shee mo●… her to the King and sayes In mournfull fort shee feeles her selfe with child His guilty mind disturbed many wayes Wit waites on feare finds out a pretie wild Wherwith he hopes his maker to beguild But what can Prophets then so grofly slide And from their God suppose their sinnes to hide He sendeth word to Ioab presently His true estate in letters to expresse And therewith send Vrias speedilie Vrias comes he readeth their successe And bids him goe vnto his wife in peace But see the more he labour'd to conceale it So much the more God labour'd to reueale it Vrias would not goe vnto his house But gathered strawe and layd it in the yard And caring not to frolike with his spouse He laid him down to sleep amid the Gard. As soone as Dauid had these tydings hard He askes him why he rested not at home From toyling warres art thou not lately come No quoth Vrias tis for me vnfit To sleep within whilst Ioab is without Vnseemly tis to see the seruant ●…it And let his maister toyle and run about What lyeth not the Arke of God without I sweare by Dauids crowne and princelie head Whilst things goethus I will not come in bed And now is Dauid vexed worse and worse And euery way is forc'd his wits to sift By this be hath deuis'd a second course And means to put in vre a pretie shift To make Vrias diunken was his drift So thinkes he hee'ill forget his dutie quite And mooued be therewith to some delight He charg'd his ser●…tes entertaine him well To giue him store of wine and comfits daintie Before the King to banquetting they fell Sweet syrrops there they had and wine great plentie He dranke to twentie and he pledged twenty They quast off flagons full and spared not The third fell alwayes to Vrias lot Heere heer saith one I drinke vnto my brother Ile pledge him quoth Vrias hees my friend I drinke to such a Captaine quoth another And he to all a good carrouse would
requesting others help Yet neither of them knew to ayd himselfe The dying sonne now at the latest gaspe About his clasping f●…hers ●…eck did clasp●… And ready now to bid their l●…t farewell Were snatched both with seas and billows fel The Lord seruant both at one time snatched One furiously hold on the other catched And still in surging waues together cleft Till both of breath together were bereft The tyrannizing Giants bodies grim Now with the criples liuelesse corps did swim The subject with the ●…cepter-bearing king The murthring billows spar'd no liuing thing Some might you see half dead and halfe aliue Like water-fowles now rise now to diue Some turning round and violently borne Al headlong downe their lims in sund●…r torn The brisle-bearing bore and gentle sheepe Swam both together in the surging deep The silly Lambe was with the rauening Wolfe Drown'd in the vast no-pitie taking gulfe The liuelesse Lyon in the deep did swim Nought did the Tygers courage profit him Nought booted it the Beare to roar and grind No profit by his swiftnesse got the Hind And hauing long time with exceeding paine Flowne through the aire disturbed still with raine The wearie bird not finding any ground Fals downe in seas and at the last is drown'd And now the Arke where Noah did abide Was hoisted vp with ouer-swelling tide One while all hidden to the earth it fell As though it would haue gone to visit hell One while againe it seemed to arrise And suddenly would mount vp to the skies No sterne it had no mast no sayle no guide But caried was at pleasure of the tide Twise twenty dayes as blacke as any cole The murthering raine distilled from the Pole The tallest mountaines in the world so wide Now couered were with ouer-swelling tide The ayrie Alpes and eke Pernassus faire Now hidden were with waues a woonder rare Snow-bearing Pindus and Olympus steep Both at this time lay hidden in the deep Now first of all igniferous Aetnas caues And Ciclops flames were quench'd with salt-sea waues Sweet-smelling Ide and sacered Ismarus Aspiring Pelion and hard Caucasus In Scythian mounts where murthering Tygres hanted Now vgly shapes of monstrous sea-fish vanted The Dolphins woonders vnder watrie floods To see faire turrets and thicke grouie woods In steed of sacrifice on Altars faire Sit seemly Marmaydes combing of their haire In Churches eke their Organists now wanting Melodious Odes and ditties now recanting The vglie dog-fish and deuouring Whales Gainst pinacles did dash their shining skales And where the Goat was woont her food to swallow Foule Porposses and seaish monsters wallow Now from his glorious pallace heauens creator Look'd downe and saw the world a sea of water All was a sea yet wanted it a coast Then thought he on the Arke and N●…ah tost Through all the world and earth which manie a night Hid vnder seas had seen no cheerfull light Foorthwith he charg'd the foggie mysts to vanish Then all the windes tempestuous did he banish And ●…hen retreyt vnto the water soundes Commanding it to keepe within his bounds Commanding it his fountaines to restraine And them to stop their springing heads againe Clouds foorthwith fled and tempestes were appeased The seas return'd and running fountaines ceased The scowling morne now left his mourning robe And smilinglie blush'd on the watery globe And shortly might you see meane turrets peepe And tops of Pine-trees from the flouds to creepe The fleeting arke which long had cleft in sunder the vast deluge both caried vp and vnder Now vnto East and now vnto the west At length in mounts of Ar●…y did rest Twise twentie times had Phoebus drencht his beames And Car in graue Ocean●…s his streames When as the framer of the subtill Barke A window did set open in th Arke And foorth he sent a Rauen thence to know If waters still the land did ouerflow Foorth flew she but returned presently So went and came vntill the earth was drie Againe he sends a siluer-winged Doue To see if still the waters were aboue Out flies the Doue through the aire doth go As swift as any arrow ftom a bowe Much aire she cuts and in the earth not seeing One liuing creature any where haue being Nor any ground wheron she might remaine With weary wings returnes to him againe Then rested he vntill the day-star bright Seuen times remoou'd the canopie of night Then once againe the Doue he sendeth out She mounts aloft and flieth round about And finding much dry ground on earth presumes To fall theron and rouse her ruffled plumes Now shakes her selfe and with her bill them peckes Now layes them downe and orderly them deckes And hauing long time frolik'd at her will Returned with a green leafe in her bill By this knew Noah that the Flood decreased Yet other seuen dayes in the arke he rested And when bright Vesper in the Welkin pale Had thrise and foure times drawne the clowdy vale The third time forth againe he sends the Doue She swiftly in the aire her wings doth mooue And finding food her body to sustaine And ground to rest on neuer came againe Yet rested L●…chs osspring in the Arke Till seuen times againe in Welkin darke B●…otes guider of the greater Beare Had showne himself and then expelling feare Sets ope the doore and plainely did espie Floods quite decreas'd and face of earth all dry And then the lord commandment to him gaue That he with all things els the Arke should leaue No stay they made all things man bird aud beastes VVhom Tita●… saw from either of his restes Aliue on earth came foorth with from the arke There stre●…ht their limmes vnweldy yet and starke There Enochs ofspring to his God erected An altar who from Floods had him protected And theron for his preseruation Did of●…er vp a just oblation The smell wherof vnto his throne arose And cast a pleasant odour to his nose Expelling quite that detestable stinke VVhich erst ascended from worldes filthy sinke Delighted therfore in this pleasant ●…uour He blest all mankind with his gracious fauour Hencefoorth quo●…h he no more my wrathfull ●…urse Vpon the world or man I will disburfe For all his thoughts with wickednes are stayned Fuen from his birth to time that he is wayned Hencefoorth in ●…eason shall ●…e plant and sow In season shall he after reape and mowe In his due course hot Sommer will I send And winter till the earth shall haue an end Increase aboundantly bring foorth and breed And earth againe replenish with your seed Beholde your feare all creatures shall appall Rule thou as Lord and maister ouer all Whoso shall man bereaue of vitall breath His life shall be abridg'd with cruell death Blood will haue blood whoso shall cut manslife His also shall be cut with blooudy knife Encrease aboundantly bring foorth and breed The earth againe replenish with your seed Behold with thee I make a couenant sure A couenant which for euer shall endure With earth