euery side with rauing speeches hot Like Sodomits about the walls of Lot Gen. 19. 4 5 9 10 11. Till thou protectedst broughtst me safely out From the curst fury of that griping Rout Stroke them with blindnesse all like Tygers lay While thou conueydst my body sure away To sound thy prayse and blaze thy glorious name To end this worke to thy renowned fame So dost thou now to make vs all admire Thy fauour shewde vnto our reuerent Sire Descend to Noah the wonder of his Time When Nemesis vp to thy Throne did clime To craue iust Vengeance at thy hands for all The bloud shed spilt vpon this spacious Ball Told him an end of all mens barbarous liues With the sad fall of their incestuous Wines The cruell Race of monstrous Giants great That like to Wolues the flock did tare and beate And wound them so as now not one was left Besides himselfe that from his birth had kept His mind vnspotted Conscience cleane and pure Not tainted stain'd with euery golden Lure And euery beast which on the earth doth feede The fowles of Heauen that in the Aire do breede With all flesh liuing on this goodly frame The young and old too tedious heere to name With those hard hearted which the weake anoyd Should by a floud be all of them destroyd And that himself would alter turne their glasse Before a hundred twenty yeeres should passe Those which repented in that time and space Should respite haue to find his loue and grace And all the rest within this boundlesse round Should then be washt consum'd away and drown'd God wills him further to prouide in time Against the Floud that highest Mounts will clime And frame an Arke for to secure his life His children deare and tender hearted wife From the fell furious raging tide and streames Of Neptune proud that vndermines her seames To pierce her Ioynts and lay them open all When blustring waues vpon her sides do fall Maesia in Asia minor Bids him go poast to Maesia land with speed And fell those Pines which now the world did need whose wondrous height may dazle all our sight To see them grow two hundred foot vpright Firme from the ground and to be parted plaine Into the three parts and then vnite againe Tipe of that Church whose ground was layd by Paul When three make one and one but all in all So was the Arke diuided into parts To amaze the minds of true Religious harts Three stories high the same was fully fram'd To hold the sorts of creatures wild and tam'd Made all of Pine pitcht both without and in To suckor none that perisht for their sin And that the rest as God had iust decreed The Male and Female in the same should breed To store the world replenish it againe With fruite more milde then first the earth did staine The Arke once fram'd according to the forme That God had layd before the furious storme Fell crosly forth contrary to the minde Of those great men which did the weaker grind They wondred all at this so huge a frame Derided scoft too bitter here to name And at the last attempted barbarous rude Their hands polluted all with bloud imbrude To teare it downe and make it but the scorne To all those men hereafter should be borne But God aboue perceiuing that their pride The totall earth on euery side had dide With crimson gore and that they ment outright To spoyle his Worke deface it vtter quight Powers down his Iudgements sends those feareful showers That all the Aire i' th instant thunders lowers With sable clouds and sulphery flames of fire Tearing the Heauens making the World admire To see the Earth the Aire Fire Waters all Flock altogether round about this Ball Ioyne all as one euen in an instant soone To stop mans breath sending a night at noone Thatin a Moment all their liues are dround Their pride much like the Aegyptian army found That in the Sea vpon the crimson sands Against Gods sheepe heau'd vp their murdring hands The Arke protected from their trecherous pawes Damn'd Enuious fowle base curst deuouring Iawes Heau'd from the Earth vpon the Water bides Secure from hurt when God her Pilot guides Triumphant marches in all stormes it stands Their vnbeliefe bold impudency brands With that iust scourge which if they had repented All had beene well his Iudgements staid and stented Full sixteene hundred complete yeares were ended And fifty sixe when God in sunder rended The sable clouds and made the Waters mount To drowne the World according to the count Of all the Hebrewes glory of the Earth Whose sacred stories of admired worth Haue purchast fame and aye deserued well Before the rest to beare away the Bell. Heere could I sing th' afflictions sorrowes griefe Vexations troubles sundry mischiefes reife That dayly hapned to Noahs sacred Arke Tost too and fro as is a little Barke Vpon the wings of enuious Eols rage And some good men within this iron Age The Surges Waues vpon her sides all beate The sturdy Rocks to split her wombe do threate The Sands to choake the stormes to batter downe As all the Rest so she her selfe to drowne But still protected by Gods powerfull hands Against the streame of all these rubs she stands And on the Waters Waues foule mischiefes all She passes through and viewes this spacious Ball Vntill at last she chanst her selfe to ease From the fell fury of the enuious Seas Vpon the top of that admired Hill Ararat Gen. 8. 4. Whose worthy fame the totall Earth doth fill As more at large shall be described plaine In my next Booke when once my peace I gaine Meane time deare Muse with Noahs sacred Pile Let vs but stay and rest our selues a while FINIS
away be washt Yet the Apostles instituted sure A sacred day a holy Rest and pure The Church of God they planted well and watred And but the day they onely chang'd and altred In which the flocke they traind along and fed them As God aboue in 's holy Spirit led them And euer since the Christians kept that day To heare the word to come to Church and pray For God is good and wil be mockt of none His glorious face the Saints behold alone Paul the Apostle that was after cald When Iesus Christ was in th' heauens instald 1. Cor. 16. 13. Heb. 4. 9. Both with the word and holy Spirit annointed The Christian Sabaoth in Gods Church appointed To meete together heare his voyce diuine The Scriptures search to trace them line by line To preach and pray to lay vp for the poore For all the Saints to open wide the doore That sweete Disciple whom the Lord of life Ioh. 21. 7. 20. 33. More dearely loued then any faithfull wife Which euer yet vpon the earth was bred Could seeme to shew vnto her spouse and head The last of all more louing then the rest Which lean'd at suppervpon Christ his brest And stayd behind his holy Church to guide His fellowes thought he should haue neuer dide When by Domitians spightfull cruell word Vit. Sanct. Ore all the world hot persecution stir'd Though often times before he had scap'd the pawes Of barbarous Tyrants and their cursed Lawes Liu'd still secure as not afraid of fire Sword famine murder in their diuellish ire Yet at the length at his most damn'd command Againe he 's caught subiected to their hand And in a Tun of hot and scalding Oyle He hurles his body ore the fire to boyle But seeing that could do no good at all Worse then a Diuell most treacherously doth fall To stratagems inhumane actions vile To banish him in Pathmos wandring Ile Mongst sauage beasts which lurke in euery bowre With open mouth his body to deuoure Where solitary in that vnked place Christ Iesus shewd his glorious burnisht face Reu. 1. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14. Whose feete like Brasse and eyes as flames of fire Rauisht Iohns spirit made his soule admire To see the Lord which for our sins late dy'd His Christian Sabaoth from the Iewes diuide By that all powerfull sharpe two edged sword His glorious holy milde Maiesticke word His owne example to th' Apostles all That on this day was euer seene to call To come amongst them and to shew his face To distribute his goodnes and his grace This great Apostle to heauens potent Prince The Lords day he hath cald it euer since T is writ i' th' Hebrews if the law be ceast That to Gods people there remaines a Rest Heb. 4 9. From sin to cease his holy name to praise Together flocke our meditations raise Aboue the clouds to that commanding king Which out of darknes did our sences bring Disperst the Truth and by his sacred might Plac'd all our thoughts w'thin the Gospels light O let it neuer sinke within my brest That to Gods people should remaine no Rest But toyle and trauell painfull worke alway And Hoddy Loddy Topsie Turuy play T is true they say that Constantine the Great First Emperour of all the Christian Seate A learned wise religious Councell cald First Nicene Counsell Himselfe amongst them in his Robes instald An Order set abuses foule corrected Reform'd the Church which Arrians infected Establisht Peace ador'd the Royall Law Made Penalties to keepe them more in awe Iam. 2. 8. And by his power as head of all the Earth Christs gouernment was now but in her birth According to the word and Scriptures pure Confirm'd our Sabaoth euer to endure In euery Age since first the world was made God shew'd his iudgements on those men which wade Beyond the Truth prophanely still deuise To breake his Rest and publish wicked lies As for example though I could produce A multitude that none might plead excuse Before his Iustice at that dreadfull barre For leading others in a maze so farre And yet of them but three in all I le cite As fitting to the times wherein I write To shew how God hath euer hated curst The very place that Sabaoth breakers nurst The ancient Iewes which in Arabia walked Exod. 13. 16. Before the Law when God with Moses talked And bad him warne the people all that none Should dare to gather euery one alone More then a Omer of that blessed food Which fell from heauen vnto their soueraigne good And in the day before the Sabaoths rest Two Omers full as is before exprest Should then be gathered rosted bak'd and sod But in the rest minde nothing else but God How hath that food releeu'd the lingring mind Of those his people whom true loue did bind In awfull feare diuinely wondrous fed And onely in the light of nature led Those which abusde his sacred Rest and grace How did it then infect the aire and place With putrifaction loathsome deadly ranke In noy some manner ore the earth it stanke Vntill such time that God aboue did please To cleare the aire and send them better ease Causde all that was so lewd prophanely got To wast dissolue consume away and rot The next example of his iudgements great Was in those daies that Babylon did beate The chosen people and the holy Nation Ier. 17 21. to the last With such a scourge as since the worlds foundation Was neuer heard as yet in any land To feele the weight of his most heauy hand For prophanation of his sacred Day In carrying burdens toyling worke and play In reuell rout and such phantasticke sport Eu'n from the greater to the meaner sort All run from Church to damn'd offences foule Neglecting still the danger of their soule But God aboue although he often mand Their chosen Hoast by his victorious hand Brought them from Aegypt through the red seas waue When mighty Neptune fomes aloft and raues And in despight of enuious Fortunes fate Great powerfull riuals and their deadly hate Led them at length with al their ventrous hoast And plast their feete vpon the promist coast Yet for their foule abusing of his rest In all those things which are aboue exprest He sends the Plague pale Famine Sword and Fire Ier. 52. 67 Fowre furious foes to execute his Ire Raz'd downe their walls their temple desolated Their City sack't and Land depopulated That for the space of threescore yeeres and ten It lay vntild and had her rest as then O holy God was euer thing more plaine Then these thy iudgements on thy flock againe 2. Chr. 36. 21 Vpon thy land what stony heart but feares To giue them now a Sabbaoth iust of yeares For all their foule abuses wicked lewd As in my worke shall more at large be shew'd The third example of his wrathfull frowne Was lately shew'd vpon Geneua towne The Imperiall goodly
Christian City chast R Iohnson Within the Duke of Sauoyes country plast Whose people wise religious sober true Not giuen to wine with drunken Bacchus crue Nor to those foule abuses which abounds Within our land and ore the earth now sounds But euer beene of ciuill chast behauiour Neate in attire and of a comely fauour Soe decent in the actions which they wrought That euery man which saw their citty thought Ierusalem before it was abated Had beene deuinely to that place translated And yet these men which haue the rest outstript In one thing still themselues haue ouerslipt Vpon Gods rest his sacred Sabbaoth Day To shoote in Guns about the fields and play Vntill a custome in a lawfull pleasure Vpon that day grew far beyond all measure So that their Churchmen reuerent Preachers graue Let them alone carelesse their soules to saue But God aboue to shew his anger iust Vpon these people for their lawlesse lust In violating of his sacred rest A fury sent their country to moiest Fierce horrid warre now thunders on their land The Pope the Spaniard and the French King stand All link't alike to vndermine her wall Expecting thus a conquest by her fall Alas Geneua how art thou beset With three such foes as in Europa yèt Were neuer knowne so strongly to combine To sack a towne extracted from their line What can thy shooting in those Guns auaile If God for sakes thee how thy foes preuaile Weakens thy strength abateth much thy store Mewes vp thy Campe and makes thee extreame poore Ransackes thy Country all thy land belurches And brings thee now to be relieu'd in Churches These eyes of ours haue seene the worst and best And iudgement past for breaking of his rest That Antechrist which in the scriptures pure Is propheci'd to come amongst vs sure Began to shew his cursed face on earth Sixe hundred yeeres after the glorious birth Of that sweete Babe the Man God Christ and King Which came on earth our soules to Heauen to bring By the Alcoran on his Sabbaoth day Discardeth quite all gaming sports and play Denounceth Iudgement on the heads of all Which on that day in those offences fall And brands the Diuell an actor in all games Voyd of Religion yet such sports he blames As good for litle but to sweare and cup Fit Instruments to bring new quarrels vp The parrable of Christ vpon the earth Is of such weight and glorious heauenly worth Mat 13 3. to 44. Which by the sea to multitudes he spake What liuing man but at the same must wake To see how God like to a husbandman Works vp his ground as well as e're he can Winnowes the seede and sifteth euery graine In hope at haruest by the same to gaine But that the Diuelli'th instant followes hard Whose cursed seede the goodly field hath mard Throwes round about as much as in him dares In euery place to sowe his wicked tares How can we thinke to scape Gods Iudgementiust Fond men alas that are but earthly dust Weake silly wormes when he shall on vs lowre Then are we but a Winters withered flowre That such conceits within our hearts should lurke To tempt his loue examine thus his worke And what himselfe from heauen aboue hath taught To sleight it ore and hold it idle naught Although most true in Paradise at first His owne example hath the Sabaoth nurst The Patriarcks and all the holy men Before the law obseru'd their Restas then And his command to keepe vs more from sinning Hath a Memento in the first beginning The heathen men euen from the worst to best In euery age still kept a seemely Rest And all the Saints Apostles men and Martyrs Throughout the world in all her vtmost quarters The generall counsells learned fathers graue Those God aboue elected hath to saue The greatest Kings and noblest personages Throughout the world in all her former ages The fearefull iudgements on that holy Land Which he did plant against all foes to stand The Lord of life Christ Iesus on the earth Then all before we prize him better worth Ordain'd himselfe our Rest vpon this day To come to Church to heare the Word and pray Yet we contemne and not respect the least But others leade to breake the Sabaoths rest Grant heauenly God that euer more my heart May vpright be and from thee neuer start But that my soule the purest of my thought May be with loue like to an Anuill wrought To make a conscience of thy sacred day To reade thy word within the Church to pray That all my life vntill my glasse be run Be not offensiue to thy deerest Son Which sits triumphant farre aboue the skies Grant that I may behold him with mine eyes And when I shall appeare before thy face Then may I find thy mercy goodnes grace And not thy Iustice for offenses past But let thy Loue be euer on me cast Euen in the day that some men dreame of least Place him betwixr vs giue my soule her Rest And yet great God thou hast not so restraind Our liberty but that thou hast ordaind 1 Cor. 10. 31. 1. Pet 4. 11. At vacant times from serious meditations To ease our selues in honest recreations Such that all others to no vice allure Nor in our minds shall adde a thought impure But that our sports our actions and our playes May prayse thy name the Rest of all our dayes The Puritant he is againe as nice As these vnciuill in their clamorous vice 1. Cor. 6. 12. 2. Cor. 3. 13. 17 Gal. 3. 11. Gal. 2. 14. 16. 17. That all the weeke with superstition fed To good conceits of others scarce are led Adopted sons elected brethren wise To thinke all damn'd beside their sect precise Pure hypocrite vnder a formall cloke That on Gods Rest must draw the Iewish yoke And walke to Church as if his steps he told To make no fire but sup his broath vp cold And many things which if I here should tell I might too long vpon the matter dwell But whither is my Muse transported now Beyond her compasse farre away and how Comes it to passe that she hath rambled thus About the earth these questions to discusse In euery Age her sacred holy Rimes To walke along descending to our times And taxe the world of vnbeseeming playes To reprehend the abuses of these dayes And all this while is Adam still alone In Paradise and company hath none Vnlesse somtimes God comes himselfe and sallies Before his eyes within those pleasant Allies Simile Then is he glad his heart doth leape for ioy He runs and skips much like a little boy That goes to schoole al weary at his booke Is glad to peeke in euery bush and looke With those his fellowes for some bird or nest Their company his mind still pleaseth best So art thou Adam when thou art all alone Then dost thou grieue complaine and make thy mone Vnto the Earth the Aire the
THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE two first Ages Diuinely handled By Thomas Peyton of Lincolnes Inne Gent. LONDON Printed by Bernard Alsop and are to be had at Laurence Chapmans shop ouer-against Staple Inne 1620. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE Charles Prince of Wales MOst hopefull Prince Europaes richest Iem Successor to these famous westerne Iles Chast Oliue Branch descended of that Stem Whose what he hath all on thy fortune smiles Inheritor to such a Potent King As no Age yet his Like could euer bring Braue Pearle of men within whose louely Face The sacred Muses learned Arts combine And all Heauens gifts from great Apollos Race Apparant seeme within thy Browes to shine Thy Fathers Doran kingly workes of State This more then needs as borne but out of date Yet Royall Prince let but thine eyes behold This lofty Subiect in these Rurall Rimes T' will more encourage then Earths purest gold To make my Muse to all succeeding times Blaze forth thy parts and high deserued Fame That thy rare worth may all the World inflame As in a Garden of sweete fragrant flowers Where each man takes what to his mind seemes best Then sits him downe within their pleasant Bowers Peruseth all and for a Time doth Rest Contented Ioy'd Admiring to haue found So great a change in one small piece of Ground So deerest Prince within thy Fathers workes What Poesies sweete Graue sentences diuine Sad morrall matter in each Subiect lurkes To draw thy youth to trace him line by line Whilst this may chance to recreate thy mind As glimmering Luna in Sols absence shin'd Persist go on and as thy Vertues won The Loyall Loue of euery faithfull heart So to the end thy course directly run And winged Fame shall from thee neuer start But scale the Cloudes and mount the lofty Skyes To sound thy worth as farre as India lyes Your Highnesse in all humblenesse Thomas Peyton TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE FRANCIS Lord Verulam Lord Chancelor of England MOst Honor'd Lord within whose reuerend face Truth Mercy Iustice Loue and all combine Heauens deerest Daughters of Iehouahs Race Seeme all at full within thy Browes to shine The King himselefe T'immortalize thy fame Hath in thy Name Foretiped out the same Great Verulam my Soule hath much admirde Thy Courtly carriage in each comely part Worth Merrit Grace when what the land desirde Is powr'd vpon thee as thy iust desart Graue liberall mind contending with the rest To seate them all in thy Iuditious brest Thrice noble Lord how dost thou prize of gold Wealth Treasures Mony and such Earthly cash For none of them thou hast thy Iustice sold But held them all as base infected trash To snare allure out from a dunghill wrought The seared conscience of each muddy thought Weigh but my cause referre me not to those That from the first were partiall in my right Ah this is more then once thine Honour knowes Thou seest mine owne hath now vndone me quight Whilst by a trick they got me in their paw Against the Order of thy Court and Law If I were such as some would haue thee thinke I meane my Foes which vtterly defame Mine Innocence and all together linke To wound my state and blemish much my name Yet Iustice wils what in their hands hath laine Thus to my losse should be restord againe Ah deerest Lord hold but the Scales vpright Let Court nor fauour ouersway my cause To presse me more then is beyond my might Is but their Reach to crosse thy former Lawes Let me have Peace or that which is mine owne And thy iust worth shall o're the World be blowne Your Lordships in all humblenesse Thomas Peyton TO THE READER The Title described VNto the Wise Religious Learned Graue Iudicious Reader out this Worke I send The tender sighted that small knowledge haue Can litle loose but much their weaknesse mend And generous spirits which from heauen are sent May Solace here and finde all true content A Paradise presented to ech eye Within the Vinnet of the Title page Where Iustice Mercie Nature Loue do lye Beforeth ' Almightie in the first found Age. Time stands betwixt and Truth his daughter beares His traine behind a world of Aged yeares Fierce Nemesis she mounts within the Ayre On Pegasus that winged Horse of Fame And by her side a Sword all naked bare Graue Iustice sits a sable lowring Dame Vnder her feete the worlds most spatious Globe And weighs mens Actions in a scarlet Robe This may denote the goodly glorious worth The pretious Value Maiestie and Grace Of all the Sisters Glory of this Earth Gods deerest daughters in their seuerall place Aboue the world heauens crowne their browes adorne To shew at full how they do bribing scorne Peruse it well for in the same may lurke More obscure matter in a deeper sence To set the best and learned wits on worke Then hath as yet in many Ages since Within so small a little Volumne beene Or on the sudden can be found and seene Vrania deere attired in her silke To draw thee on with more attentiue heede The weaker sort she sometime feedes with milke All guiltie mens damn'd vices vp to weede Th' enuious Momes that her chaste Muse doth tuch She hopes to mend but cares not for them much Thine to his power Tho. Peyton HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Beati Pacifici THE GLASSE OF TIME IN THE FIRST AGE The Argument The Author first doth Gods assistance craue Throughout the worke that he his helpe may haue The sacred Sabbaoth Sathans enuious gall The Woman fram'd and Mans most dismall fall The Tree of Life protected from the Brute The Tree of Knowledge with her fatall Fruit For feare the World should finally be ended Gods deerest Daughters downe in hast descended The flaming Sword the Tree of Life which garded The Cherubins vpon the walls that warded The Land of Eden is discrib'd at large Heauens iudgement iust to all men's future charge SInce true examples in Gods holy Booke Are found of those that in it loue to looke Of men whose Image portraiture and soule Haue beene transform'd to monstrous shapes and foule According as their liues haue pleasing beene Gen. 19 26 To him whose sight their secret thoughts hath seene And as his goodnesse sacred is that some Dan. 4. 30 Should be examples for these times to come His Church to comfort Pagans to appall To teach to vs what did to them befall Within the stories of the new and old Rom. 15 4 Of many more then can by me be told And since that Ouid in a pleasing verse Doth pretty Tales and Metaphors rehearse Of men to birds and then againe to beasts To make you parly at your welcome feasts Whose fabled fictions warbled in that age The infancy and sacred pupill-age Of the Religion which we heare maintaine Vnder our Soueraignes thrice most happy raigne May seeme from Moses and the rest diuine In 's Metaphors to trace them line by line
In some I meane and not in all his worke For pleasant folly couch't therein may lurke Yet the allusion and the meaning sure May reference haue vnto the Scripture pure And though it shines as Tytans westerne rayes By some 't is held but wanton in our dayes But most of all the ripenesse of these times The heauenly works vp to the clouds that climes The enuious eye which ouerlookes our deeds When each mans taste on sundry dishes feedes The snarling cur at euery thing that bites The slandring Mome which no good worke endites The monster curst with his vile forked tongue That from Hels vault vp to the earth first sprung With Hidra heads and Ianus double face To fawne before then wound to our disgrace Hath made my Muse vnwilling heere to sing As loath her selfe vpon the stage to bring To each mans view and her owne painefull toyle But that the sight may many vices spoyle When sin we see vnmasked brought to light And damn'd offences naked to our sight Like lezabel that did the Clouds aspire 1. Kin. 4. 18 19 Chap. 19. 2 Cha. 21. 10 23 In rusling silks and glorious braue atire Vnder a holy outward forme and rite Gods chosen flock are fleec't and murthered quite But once vnmask't the Minions of her court Hurle heri'th durt pash out her braines in sport And as a foule mishapen painted monster 2. Kin 9. 30 33 35 37. Conceit of her as all the world doth conster Then is she seene disrob'd disrank't of all The map of folly in her sudden fall Her cup with poyson damned Enuy fills Her cursed eyes haue seene those seuen built hills Where all the Saints Apostles Martyrs stood With crimson colours all imbru'd in bloud O glorious God inspiror of my Muse Grant that thy Word my soule may dayly vse And that what learning painefully it got Still from the truth may neuer swerue a iot That in her spring beginning and her bud May sing thy glory to the Churches good And in foule folly none asleepe I rock Nor giue offence to any of thy flock But that my speech as generall to all May like a Sermon in the Pulpit fall And not to wade in curious questions deepe But feede thy flock and edifie thy sheepe That none at all may haue a iust excuse By such examples as I shall produce And all that see their faults their liues may mend That to thy glory I this Worke may end Then shall the world with admiration see Her face vnmask't to all eternitee The famous actions heeretofore lay dead Shall then be rouz'd out from obliuions bed And all the noblest kingdoms euer knowne Will be reuiu'd within my verse be showne Their manners customes nature and their state Their end beginning fortune and their fate From Adam first throughout in euery age Shall heere be mustred on this publike Stage In Rurall Robes to giue the earth content How heeretofore the ages past weee spent O that my Muse might once but rest in peace Then would she sing diuinely neuer cease But worke out Truth within her holy Rimes Glyding along descending to our times And deare Vrania Soueraigne of my verse Should heere the glory of this world rehearse Vnfoulding still to Gods immortall glory The heauenly sweetenesse of a sacred story What may we thinke of all the iudgements iust Of great Iehouah buried in the dust Beside all those in holy Scriptures pend Which humane wit as yet could neuer mend Nor all the Rabbies in their learned fame Could euer tell how to correct the same Shall we go on and still be bold to thinke Hee 'le punish them and on vs alwayes winke For some of them the earth it selfe did gape How can we know that we are sure to scape The Angels which against the Lord did swell He quite casheer'd and cast them downe to hell Where being bound eternally in chaines They feele the torments of ten thousand paines Farre more then can expressed be in inke And all the world and sinfull man can thinke Adam what made thee wilfully at first To leaue thy of-spring to this day accurst So wicked foule and ouer growne with Sinne And in thy person all of it beginne That hadst thou stood in Innocenie fram'd Death Sin and Hell the world and all thou hadst tam'd Then hadst thou beene a Monarch from thy birth Gods onely Darling both in heauen and earth The world and all at thy command to bend And all heauens creatures on thee t' attend The sweetest life that euer man could liue What couldst thou aske but God to thee did giue Protected kept thee like a faithfull Warden As thy companion in that pleasant Garden No canckred mallice once thy heart did moue Free-will thou hadst endude from him aboue What couldst thou wish all worlds content and more The best Diuine that ere the Earth yet bore Gods onely Sonne the Prince of Peace except For thy sad fall how oft mine eyes haue wept Alas weakeman hadst thou in honour stood How heauenly blest thrice happy beene thy blood And all thy aged issue to this day Had liu'd secure as in the Month of May. What need had we that any should haue dy'd Vpon the Crosse our sinfull soules reuiu'd And that Messias God himselfe the Son Should here descend to put our nature on To liue deiected poore contemn'd forlorn'd Derided beate tost vpside downe and scorn'd And more to beare for this thy wofull fall Then euer man which liu'd vpon this ball Curst be that Diuell that first thy sence bely'd If thou hadst liu'd then we had neuer dy'd Oh God! to purchase with that bloody cost Our soules redeem'd when they were fully lost Here is a loue which farre surmounts the skies My sences rapts and dazles both mine eyes But tell me Adam what might be the cause That thou shouldst breake thy holy Makers lawes When of a thousand which might make vs weepe In all the world thou hadst but one to keepe And that but light Alas couldst thou not see But touch and taste that one forbidden tree Which in the midst of all the garden grew An ill knowne tree to make thy ofspring rew What pleasant tast or relish had the same How were thy senses dim'd and much to blame That had the Garden sole at thy command And all the fruits within thy sight to stand Farre better pure more daintier euery way Then such an Apple painted like a gay Fit for a woman or some lickorish foole A silly child or one that goes to schoole Thy wilfull foule absurd and grosse abuse Against thy God admits no iust excuse T is not the losse of one poore Apple mist That thou didst grapple in thy sinfull fist Could be the cause his anger to procure Fierce heauy wrath eternall to endure It was not that he did so much respect But thy foule error wilfull bad neglect Contempt of Him rebellion treason pride And all the sinnes within the world beside That linked
deathin miserable case But thou againe that euer didst deuise In nothing else but execrable lies Straight told the woman that they need not feare To eate the fruite that pleasant tree did beare For in the day that they should thereof eate The Gods themselues they would indeed defeate Attaine much knowledge farre aboue mans reach And all the Gods in many things would teach To thinke of death they need not feare at all For why their eyes should opened be withall The goodly fruite would breed this wondrous ods Neuer to die but euer liue as Gods O cursed damned execrable Diuell Delighting best in that thing which is euill What made thee now thy banefull speech to blow Out of that canckred venom'd mouth below Thus to entice by thy allurements working Within so slie an vgly creature lurking That Eue must reach and in her hand to grapple So faire a fatall curst bewitching Apple And not content herselfe thereof to eate But reacht another as a daintie meate And in her sweet delightfull louely hands Runs to her Lord where all alone he stands Plaining and grieuing that he her had mist Takes her in 's armes and both together kist Then she began in smiling wanton sort To shew that Apple which before in sport She late had taken from that fatall tree The better now to make her eyes to see And in the hands of her beloued Lord The same she put according to her word And milde perswasions gentle speeches plaine In hope much knowledge by the same to gaine The gawdy lookes and curious pleasing sight She takes the same and so of it doth bite Oh curst oh cruell wofull fearefull deed What hast thou done now Adam to thy seed Baind all thy of-spring in thy folly nurst And left them all still to this day accurst What canst thou be euen at thy very best But little better then the vilest beast How is thy sight which thought to pierce the skies Dazl'd and dimd oft times in both thine eyes Before thou canst to fiftie yeares attaine Diseases Rhumes do in the same remaine Out of thy head such slimy stuffe doth fall That oftentimes thou canst not see at all What hath thy knowledge purchast to thy race Thy nakednesse thou feest before thy face The thorny Brambles all thy skin beschratches Now thou canst tell to make a woman breaches How hath the fruite yet to this day amaz'd The wandring minds of curious men that gaz'd So farre aboue the top of that same tree That still the wood for trees they cannot see In euery corner of this spatious ball To name the tree that thus made Adam fall Alas weakeman what can it do thee good To know the tree that thus hath baind thy blood What can the sight of that all dismall fruite But discontent and make thee much more bruite Thou feest the world in wandring strange opinions And euery land within her owne dominions Still to this day maintaining errours plaine To tell the fruite that thus themselues did baine The Iewes this day that Cabalists are cald Rich Epit. de Talmud The highest Rabbies in their art instald They still affirme and for a truth do tell That Adams sinne when first from God he fell Was nothing but the sweet delicious wine Extracted from the sprawling crawling Vine That all Eues faults and foule offensiue skapes Was nothing but the wringing forth of grapes Within her hand vnto her husband deere That supt it vp in stead of wholesome beere The which no sooner had the braines assaild But that his wit and memory both faild His senses drown'd with such a sottish feast God comes himselfe and finds him like a beast The Sarazens and all the Turkes this day Bosk ara coeli lib. 5. c. 4. Alcarâ—n From Mahomet in euery age do say The fruite that Eue and Adam both did eate Was but an Eare of perfect Indian Wheate Which Adam pluckt and rubd it in his hand Smiling on Euah that hard by did stand Two graines whereof he did vnto her giue Eate two himselfe to make him euer liue And that remaind which was but one in all Away he tooke out of the garden wall And farre in India where he rambled long The desert fields and sauage beasts among This as the cause mayn obiect of his shame He hid i'th'ground and that brought forth the same The Southerne people and the Indian Bold Do still affirme and oftentimes haue told That neere to Indus and braue Ganges streame Which yeeld all sorts of excellent fish and breame Is to be seene a gallant tree this day Vnder whose shade a thousand men may play The fruite thereof not very pleasant pure But as it is it will long time endure Much like to Oliues both in shape and taste The Indian birds this famous figge doth waste That on this tree doth grow the very meate And onely foode which Eue and Adam eate The antient Iew and Arabian borne They still do thinke that Adam well might scorne To taste the fruite that growes on Ganges shore The which but late I told you of before And that more like and probable it is If that their iudgements do not erre amis The dainty tree that in their country growes And twice a yeare his pleasant fruite that showes Yeelding a fragrant and a louely sent If but the same be either crusht or rent A Cucumber much like it is in shew Of pleasing tast and sweet delightfull hew If with a knife the fruite in two you reaue A perfect crosse you shall therein perceaue The spatious leaues are full a fadome long In breadth three spans that I may do it wrong If in this place their errour I should blame But much admire and wonder at the same By which the Christians in those parts that dwell Perswaded are and for a truth it tell That this indeed was that delitious fruite Which Eue brought Adam whose inticing suite The Opall colour and perfumed sent Made him do that which all of vs repent And other countryes in their rouing sits Their lofty prowd and high aspiring wits Haue labourd much vpon this point to write To shew the fruite that Adam ill did bite As though themselues in Paradise had beene And at the first the very tree had seene That bare this cursed euer dismall fruite Which make our soules still to this day to ruite Let them seeke still to find the same and mone I le sit me downe and let them all alone And yet the place I must not thus forget Wherein at first our parents both were set Whose glorious worth and euer during fame Gen. 28. These rurall lines can but obscure the same Oh Paradise where is thy louely seate Whilome so famous wondrous rich and neate That all the stately buildings curious things And goodly prospects of the greatest kings The pompe and pleasures various decking rare In all the world cannot to thee compare The Lords of these haue still in euery age As carryed
braines confuz'd as in a maze are led Darke vnbeliefe thy cloudy sence hath fed The heauenly light thou canst not well discerne From Sodome first to loose thy selfe dost learne In all the earth that euer eye did see How well these men we may compare to thee But stay whilst they about the world are seeking Paradise discribed To find the Garden Adam had in keeping My sacred Muse with lofty nimble flight On Paradise the place it selfe doth light From Rome transported tyrant of the west To Nimrods Tower within the orient east Neere Eden plaste within Assiria land On Euphrates and Tygris goodly strand By Babilon first Empresse of the earth Mother of Arts most glorious in her birth Whose towring fame as Monarch of the world Where golden flouds in siluer streames haue purld My sences wrapt in admirations wonder To thinke how she hath all the world brought vnder Making her seate the glory of her time Franciscus Iunius Curtius Plinui Solinus Braue star of Fortune subiect of my Rime Heere was the seate the likeliest place indeede Where Ene at first did of the Apple feede By learned iudgement of those worthy men Whose high desart fames lofty quill doth pen Which far and neere about the world haue ventred And but at last within her walls haue entred O Paradise that first our Parents stai'd Ptol Geor. lib 65. chap. 20 strabo lib. 16 Vntill such time Gods will they disobay'd How far my pen doth of thy worth come vnder Mirrour of earth of all the world the wonder Where sacred Thetis from her louely lap Hath power'd her treasures much inrich't thy hap Which Euphrates and Tigris hath combin'd Their Source deuided in foure parts to winde About thy borders as heauens dearest worke Within thy bowels glide along and lurke Venting such Iewels as were neuer found A welcome tribute to thy holy ground Nature her selfe hath much impald thy head plin lib. 2 Chap. 1â—6 And wreath'd thy browes as fortune hath her led With such a ridge of rocky mountaines small To hemme thee in as with a sacred wall Vpon the top toward the east still there stands A smoky hill which sends forth fiery brands Gfburning oyle from hels infernall deepe Much like the sword the tree of life did keepe Deuinest land the sunne hath euer seene How fortunate thrice happy hast thou beene To haue that God which fram'd the world and all Frequent thy walkes before thy fearefull fall Yet as thou art and as thou dost remaine The totall earth on on euery side dost staine Where can a man in all this world below Find Bdelium that pleasant tree to grow Whose fragrant branches sweet delightfull fruite And lofty height hath made my sences mute The Onix stone and other things to bide In all the earth scarce in one place beside How is thy ground exceeding rich and faire A region seasoned with a temperate aire Thy channels crawling full of golden Ore The fruitful'st soile that e're the earth yet bore Neptune himselfe with foure great riuers greeing To deck the bosome which gaue Adam being Vpon thy temples all their treasures powr'd And all their wealth at once vpon thee showr'd After the floud when all the world was kild In Noahs time there man began to build When hauing rambled in the sacred keele About the world on euery side did feele Thy fragrant scent so pleasing rich and neate Of all the earth to make thy Throne their seate Heere was religion planted in her prime The golden age and infancy of time When mans worst actions like the Turtle Doue In all the world was little else but loue Deere Paradise how famous was thy name When God himselfe crected first thy frame Endude thy Land with such things in it set As time for euer neuer can forget The fabling Prayses of Elizium fields The Turkes Eutopia nothing to it yeelds The Paradise of Romes fantastike braine Is but a iest a little wealth to gaine And Aladeules with his place of pleasure Comes far behind and still is short of measure Worth honor grace when brought into comparâ— With this so rich and glorious garden rare The persian fancies of their heauenly land In sight of this not able is to stand The world it selfe and all that is therein I could forsake that very place to win And all the greatest Kingdomes euer found But dung and trash to that most holy ground The lofty walls were all of lasper built Lin'd thick with gould and couered rich with gui Like a quadrangle seated on a hill With twelue braue gates the curious eye to fill The sacred luster as the glistring Zoane And euery gate fram'd of a seuerall stone On stately columes reared by that hand Which grau'd the world and all that in it stand The Chalsedony and the Iacinth pure The Emrald greene which euer will endure The Sardonix and purple Amethist The Azurd burnish't Saphire is not mist The Chrisolite most glorious to behold And Tophaze stone which shines as beaten gold The Chrisophrasus of admired worth The Sardius Berill seldome found on earth The dores thereof of siluer'd Pearle most white Do shew that none by wrong oppression might Be crost by cunning wringing wresting guile By wicked plodding in all actions vile By foule offences like base enuy faste Can passe the dores but those are pure and chaste That sweete Disciple which the Gospell wrate Reu. 21. 10. to ihe 6. verse of the 22. chap. And lent at supper when Christ lesus sate Vpon the bosome of his Lord and King He from the heauens this Paradise did bring Perus'd the walls and view'd the same within Describ'd it largely all our loues to win The christall riuer with the Tree of Life Gods deerest lamb and sacred Spouse his wife The various fruits that in the garden growes And all things else which in aboundance flowes Hath rapt my sence to thinke how God at first Fram'd all for Adam and his of-spring curst To come within how can we but admire Why should our minds to view the same a spire It being sacred tipe of heauen it selfe Our sinfull thoughts worse then the vilest pelfe That all diuine by God himselfe first wrought Aboue the Cloudes and then by Angels brought Simile Like to an Infant in his timely birth Into the Church and plaste vpon this earth The midwife there which did attend the same Was deare Vrania that braue noble Dame Whose glorious worth my weakenesse can't rehearse Queene of the Muses Soueraigne of my verse But yet Vrania be not bold to pry Into the secrets of this treasury Lock't vp from vs and bard from all to enter Where none but thee may without danger venter Least thy great God thou tracest in thy step Should from the Heauens downe on a sudden leap As if from sleepe he had beene rowz'd and waked And find thy selfe like Eue and Adam naked Adam what made thee fearefully to hide Entangled in the allurement of thy
venom'd carkasse in thy pride shall barnish An vgly creature shalt thou be vncouth Thy teeth all blacke within thy lying mouth Out of that hollow irkesome vast abisse Vpon thy belly shalt thou crawle and hisse Dust shalt thou eate and canckred be thy skin Thy body swolne with poyson all within Thy viperous seed in vgly enuy borne To all the world shall be the hatefull scorne In euery path and out of euery hedge Their poyson fell in humane flesh shall wedge That when they time and place to purpose feele Their venom'd tongue shall bite them by the heele Thus till the earth shall mould away and fall Where men least thinke there shall they lie and crawle The Womans seed in iust reuenge againe Thy head shall breake and cursed actions baine When that sweet Babe shall to the world be borne That heauen and earth with glory shall adorne Then shall he trample on thy cursed hide And on the clowds with winged fame shall ride Before his face shall ratling cracks of thunder Amaze thy sense and reasons false bring vnder To see when he shall on the earth descend How thou in chaines and fetters shalt be pend Tormented in those paines no tongue can tell Scorcht all to cinders with dam'd diuels in hell Curst is thy life thrice cursed is thy race Voyde of all goodnes mercy loue and grace Here is thy doome vpon thy Snakie head That others with thee hast to sinne misse-lead Scarse these last words were spake by God himselfe Of his sad iudgement gainst this cursed Elfe And but beginning of Eues dismall speech When suddenly she gan to cry and screech When in the instant from the lofty skyes Miscricordia Mercy comes downe and into Eden hies Prostrated falls vpon her bended knees But God himselfe his daughter deare that sees With weeping eyes before his face to craue That but on Eue he would compassion haue Began to stay his minde to alter cleane And to the woman now began to leane But that hard by stood Iustice in the place And vrg'd him much to prosecute the case When all the reason Mercy well could render Was that her selfe was of the female gender Whilest both of these each other do oppose Iustitia Misericordia Loath each of them their humble suite to lose Contending still as aduocates at Barre Or combatants in furious fearefull Warre And altogether iudgement speedy feares Natura Gods eldest daughter in the place appeares Nature diuine like to Aurora fac't A noble Lady beautifull and chast Simile Naturae descriptio Braue famous Queene a royall person borne Whom heauen and earth and all therein adorne Her haire disheueld trailing to the ground And in the same the rarest secrets bound Without all art in curious manner curld And in her hand the Globe of all the world Ten thousand colours in her gowne are seene Wrought by her selfe vpon a ground of greene In all her iewels of admired gaine With fower braue Ladies bearing vp her traine The Elements She sober enters in that sacred place And downe she fals before the Almighties face Father sayd she deare Father here behold Oratio Giue me but leaue to be a little bold Finding my sisters iarring neuer cease To reconcile and set them both at Peace A holy worke which thou hast euer loued My selfe thereto by charity first moued One of my deare affected sisters sweete That from this place to heauen did lately fleete Brought me such newes when at the first we met Till all dissolue I neuer shall forget And like it is this massie weighty ball Which hangs so euen iust in the midst of all Would soone returne to what it was at first If all thereon for this one fault were curst Behold this Fabricke here within my hand The mighty Gloabe of all the world doth stand What will become of all thy Noble workes This goodly frame and all that euer lurkes Within the compasse of the heauen and earth If now destroyd within their prime and birth All will consume and vnterly decay If Iustice once thy Mercy ouersway Iustice I know doth vrge thy sacred word Which from the Truth as yet hath neuer stird Thy penalty on Adam and his Race For foule offending in this holy place The execution of thy Law diuine In the least tittle of each Statute line Which hath ordaind that in that dismall day In which the woman did the diuell obay To taste the fruite and sucke it with her breath That both of them should die a fearefull death Mercy againe as being full of Loue Pittie compassion from thy throane aboue Presents her selfe before thy sacred face Imploring Goodnes Maiestie and Grace To be a meanes to mediate a peace And that for once all further iudgement cease When by the Enuie of a viperous tong Hatcht by the diuell this cursed malice sprung And their offence to take it at the worst By Iustice weigh'd will yet be found the first O then deare Father let me speake my minde Be lust and Louing Mercifull and Kinde Punish all sinne according to thy word The Truth preserue that none at Iustice gird But yet let Mercy at thy right hand sit Thy noble workes in sacred holy writ Shall then be blaz'd vnto their vtmost worth And thou be knowne a God vpon this earth Then shall large volumes with thy prayses swell Thy Mercy drop to infant soules in hell Which neuer haue offended much thy minde But borne in sinne and neuer knowne vnkinde Whose cursed parents crost thy heauenly will The sperme of those that liue in errour still Thy sentence past cannot againe be call'd And truth must stand before thy face instal'd That very day according to thy word In which the tree of Knowledge first was stird By Eue and Adams wilfull treachery Both of them then a cruell death should dye If mercy now had not come downe in hast And at thy feete her humble sute had cast Before this time that iudgement had beene giuen Both of their liues might well haue beene beriuen O then what would become of all this frame And all thereon too infinite to name The famous actions by thy spirit nurst All must returne to what it was at first One day with thee is as a thousand yeeres The hower of death Incertaine full of feares First saue the seede and let them liue in awe Then dye a death for breaking of thy Law So is thy word confirm'd my sisters pleaz'd The world remaine and iudgement somewhat eaz'd Then shall thy creatures in all ages stand The worke diuine of thy all powerfull hand And euery thing that on the earth is bred Shall shew thy glory both aliue and dead That all may stand to all eternity Thy only Son offers himselfe to dye But silenc'st once by Gods commanding Word The iarring sisters neuer after stird But satisfied and resting well content They spent the time in haplesse merriment And God aboue to iudgement doth
thee humble thankes For staying Adam in thy siluerd floud When he neglected all his future bloud Lost wilfully his neerest deerest wife Carelesse of all endangring much his life This may be true and yet I cannot thinke Confutation of the former opinion That those whom God in Paradise did linke Brought them together by his powerfull might Should thus be parted each from others sight Eue in the South by fearefull Negro Land Adam i' th East on Ganges goodly strand Betweene both these a wondrous weary space For two to trauell in so poore a case Vnshod all bare mongst horrid thunder dints Through woods to walkevpon the thornes and flints He in a maze not knowing where to find His louing Wife like to a man starke blind Simile Toyles out himselfe for that he neuer saw To find a needle in a heape of straw She all alone wandring she knew not whether Blowne euery where much like vnto a Feather simile Inconstant light and wauering apt to vexe As is the Nature of her timerous sexe It is not like in all mens Iudgement sound They rambled farre from Edens fruitfull ground Or that but two so kind and tender hearted In all their liues should for a yeare be parted Besides the opinion of the learned wits Graue ancient fathers euermore that sits Reuoluing of the highest deepest works That in Gods Booke diuinely lies and lutkes The sacred stories of all Ages past Which euermore eternally shall last Haue made it cleere for euery man to tell That in this place our Parents both did dwell Liu'd long secure about the Garden kept Ioy'd with the sight yet for their fall they wept Though they were bard to come againe within By reason of their fowle contagious sin Yet they desir'd for all their past disgrace But for to liue neere to that louely place Heere first with boughs and such like broken stuffe They built a House vnder a simple Ruffe Then like a couple that but late did wed With Pelts and leaues they make a homely Bed Where they enioy'd more pleasure true content Then in the Courts of greatest Kings are spent Himselfe all naked in a Sheepes skin curl'd The sole Commander of this totall World Is glad to worke to passe his time in peace To serue his God from further sin to cease Thus ouer-ioyd vpon a time it fell The circumstance I must forbeare to tell Playing with 〈◊〉 within that shady bowre And in his armes his loueliest sweetest flowre Embracing toying smiling kissing sweete The sports most chaste vnto a Spouse bed meete Thinking the time he had with her beguil'd Forgets himselfe and she conceiues with child Strange is the change she in her selfe doth find An extreme Passion working in her mind Longing oft times some sops in Tarre to lick Her bodies altred and her stomack sick Black vgly Berries fulsome vnripe Plums And euery thing that in her way next comes The goodly fruits which are within the walls Of Paradise she to her husband calls Desires intreates him as he loues his Wife Forth with to hast and fetch to saue her life Full forty weekes she liued in this case Feeding on toyes and greenest drugs most base On Durt and Trash on Ashes Hips and Hawes She finds shee s ill and yet she knowes no cause At length it fell whilst he was forth of dores Chasing the Deere hunting the furious Bores To get some Venison or such dainty dish To satisfie his Wiues desired wish Like Hercules that in a strange disguize Simile Retired home with such a welcome prize Findes his deare Darling full of mirth and ioy Caine borne And in her armes a goodly infant Boy Th' Admiration wondrous great content To see a Child thus fortunately sent Sweete liuing Picture module of himselfe The World and all he now esteemes as pelfe With Ioy o're cloyd vpon the face doth gaze Like to a man astonisht in amaze Simile All mute he stands not knowing what to thinke No Reason yet into his head can sinke How it can be conceiued in the brest Of Eue sweete woman whom he loued best When once reuiu'd out of that pleasing trance The tender Babe he in his armes doth dance Smiles on his face and questions with his Wife How first was sent thus to prolong his life The Child she said to her immortall fame She knew not well how first to her it came But that she thought although her sence was weake This was the Seed the Serpents head should breake Tould him in words and gentle speeches mild That by the Lord she had conceiu'd that Child Gen. 4 1. True are thy words deere Eue most true thy heart Why should a Man thy meaning pure I nuert It cannot sinke into thy sacred thought How of thy selfe an Infant thou hast brought As well might Adam in thy sences seeme To beare a Child for ought that thou canst deeme When of the World t was in the early morne And the first Babe that euer yet was borne How damn'd prophane are those accursed lips Renegado proselites Which in Gods Church shall make such dangerous slips Within the same to belch to thy disgrace Euen in a sacred and most publike place Behinde thy back when thou art dead and past And canst not answere what their mouth out cast Thus to be lye mens soules to sin allure Wresting thy speech with banefull breath impure Not terrifide with Heauens all threatning Rod But dares to teach that thou didst sweare by God Gen. 4. 1. Thou hadst a Child and oftentimes to speake it If it were true vnto the world to breake it Is worse then was that Serpent damn'd accurst In Paradise which wrong'd thy Person first Ah thus we see the cursed enuious Snake Simile That sleepes to goodnesse but to euill doth wake To lurke all close vnder the sweetest flowre When Goddesse Flora all her pride doth powre Vpon the Earth within the midst of May To suck fell poyson from the holesom'st gay When the deere painefull wise laborious Bee Ten thousand wayes about heauens blossoms flee On euery flower within the Garden sits And out from them the wax and honey gets Conueys it safely to her well wrought Hiue To pleasure Friends and keepe her selfe aliue Let Serpent snake and all the viperous seede That euer Enuy in her wombe did breede Hacht in the Bowells of th' infernall vault Where none but Diuels and damned Atheists hault Twixt God and Belial still thy speech oppose Yet shall thy words smell as the fragrant Rose Or like those Flowers in Paradise were plaunted Simile By God himselfe when he the Garden haunted Deare Eue thy worth I euer must admire Thou sitst aboue within the Angels Quire Tuning thy voyce vnto their sacred layes To sound forth Glory to the Prince of prayse Simile Like Gods owne Daughter whom he loues most deare Warbling sweet Musicke in th' Almighties eare Or that pale Virgin with her glimmering lampe That
and his store That man I say I le punish seuen times more Because thou shalt not need that thing to feare My badge diuine for euer thou shalt weare A fearefull Signe which whosoere shall eye But in thy face my dradfull Iudgements spye Shall see and know that I haue markt thy hide And branded thee from all the world beside Great powerfull God Creator of this Ball The heauens and earth the firmaments and all How good art thou in euery action iust Thou Habels blood beholdest in the dust Com'st downe below examinst first the deed To Iudgement then thou dost at large proceed And lest the same might chance neglected bee Thou dost thy selfe the execution see Searing Cains conscience body heart and liuer And marking him as now I tolde for euer Yet holy Father let vs know the pith The Badge and Signe that thou didst brand him with Some men there be which thinke the marke of Caine Was that foule horrid irkesome fearefull paine Scabd Leprosie or wofull falling Euill As if possessed with some spirit or Diuell Or shiuering shaking of his sturdy ioynts That euery way his body reels and poynts Feares quauers trembles in that dradfull case As most of vs haue seene before our face Or some such thing apparant to ech eye That euery man may his foule fact espye Yet what it was who sound this vaste abbisse When Reason blinde leades euery man amisse T is true the world in euery States Dominion Is now of this and then of that opinion For none aliue which on the Earth do well Can shew what 't was or yet for certaine tell But by coniecture likelyest to be guest The ground and sum of all mens Iudgements best Reueald by studie in the Arts diuine To all the Sisters learned Muses nine That Cains most fearefull punishment and marke For raking vp his brother in the darke Was that his skin was all to blackensse turn'd Like to a Coale within the fire halfe burnd simile Ah cursed Caine the scourge of all thy Race Now thou hast got a blacke and murdring face For God aboue in Iustice hath ordaind Thy ofspring all should to this day be staynd Vnto the griefe and terror of their Soules For laying Habel in could dusty mouldes No other cause the world could euer tell To make them looke as if they came from hell Amongst the diuels at euery step to start The fatall place where thou vile wretch now art Some haue alledg'd out of their brains and wit Alex Prob. Celius Rhod. The Sun himselfe to be the cause of it That in the hot and torrid burning Zone Vnder the line there Phaeton alone Must driue his Cart and teame a little hire Or else againe the world would be on fire The heate extreame their bodyes doth enflame Their flesh it parches and their stomackes tame Their blood it dries their humors all adust As if their skin were ouergrowne with rust If this be true how is it that there bee In Africa America to see Vnder the line both people white and faire As many men that now in Europe are There borne and bred by courteous Natures lawes A pregnant Signe that cannot be cause Againe the Sun with labour great and paine If that the line but once he doth attaine Though to the Earth he seemeth somewhat nigher Yet in his Spheare he mounted farre more higher More temperate there the people liue and well Then do the men vnder the Tropicks dwell And twice a yeere he vseth there to burne When once a yeere i' th Tropicks serues his turne And other men haue other Reasons found To shew the cause which to like purpose sound There be that say the drynesse of the Soile May be the cause that doth their bodies foyle To make them looke worse then a Colliers Elfe simile Much like the Diuell and cursed Cuine himselfe From top to toe from heade vnto the foote As if with grease they were besmeard and soote Vnto such men I would but know and try If the Libian desarts be not far more dry Whose people parch't the very Sun doth rost Yet are they white or tawny at the most The want of water with the Sun and Sand May be the cause that they so much are tand But yet in Negro land the people haue Of water store in euery ditch and Caue For Niger great euen from his very source Iust through the midst hath euer kept his course And all the land on euery side and round Euen like to Nilus ouerflowes the ground The drinesse of their Reason we may waue Because t is knowne they water plenty haue Those that ascribe it proper to the Earth And see vs there euen from our very birth How we and they are borne within one place And we are white and they are black and base May sit them downe and well may take a pause To thinke with vs that cannot be the cause And some there be which to this day affirme That t is the blacknesse of the Parents sperme To be the cause and for a ground it take But how came they so close a search to make If it be black which some men haue denide How came it so Imprinted on their hide That in their youth iust in their prime and bud Then is their skin as red as any bloud And in their age when perisht is their sight From top to toe they are all yellow quight And if you try to throw one in a ditch To wash him white hee 'le be as black as pitch Others there be aboue the clouds do fly To search the secrets of their destiny Whose wits and learning sure must wander farre To a Constellation or some fixed Starre I would the cause they would vnto vs teach And not to flye to farre aboue our reach Vntill which time I shall be well content To thinke it was Gods righteous punishment On cursed Caine and all his of-spring lewd For doing that which I before haue shew'd I must confesse vpon the vpper face Of this wide Ball almost in euery place Variety we see in strange attire Complexion Colour Nature and Desire Shape gesture face the belly limbs and back But none more differ then the white from black The Indian borne there where the Sun doth rise Is palefast Ashey with red flaming eyes The American which we but late haue seene Is Oliue coloured of a sad french greene The Libian dusky in his parched skin The More all tawny both without and in The Southerne man a black deformed Elfe The Northerne white like vnto God himselfe And thus we see euen still vpon the earth God shewes his workes both in our liues and birth The fatall place where Habels bloud washed Esay 7. 8. Is call'd Damascus Arams chiefest head Iem of the Earth the eye of all the East Pearle of the World where Iupiter did rest In Siria Land the goodliest Citty seene And sister to Ierusalem the Queene Eze. 23. 4 Sweete Parragon a