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A11395	Du Bartas his deuine weekes and workes translated: and dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Iosuah Syluester; Sepmaine. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.; Pibrac, Guy du Faur, seigneur de, 1529-1584. Quatrains. English.; La Noue, Odet de, seigneur de Téligny, d. 1618. Paradoxe que les adversitez sont plus necessaires que les prosperités. English.; Hudson, Thomas, 16th/17th cent.; Hole, William, d. 1624, engraver.	1611 (1611)	STC 21651; ESTC S110823	556,900	1,016

in our Truth finde doubts whence follow Schismes They whose fond Law doth all of Lies consist Abide confirm'd in their vaine Paganismes One nought beleeues another what him list One ouer-Creeds another Creeds too-short Each makes his Church rather his Sect a-part SONNET 37. Put-off deere French all secret grudge and gall And all keen stings of vengeance on all parts For if you would haue PEACE proclaim'd to all It must be first faire printed in your hearts Henry the mildest of all Conquerers Your perfect glasse for Princely clemencie He to appease and calme the State from ●arres For his friends sake hath sav'd his enemie Let 's all be French all subiects to one Lord Let Fraunce from hence-forth be one onely State Let 's all for Gods sake be of one accord So through true zeale Christs praise to propagate May the most Christian King with prosperous power On Sion walls re-plant our Lilly-flower SONNET 38. O Christian cor'siue that the Mahomite With hundred thousands in Vienna Plaine His Mooned Standards hath already pight Prest to ioyne Austrich to his Thracian Raigne Malth Corfu Candie his proud Threats disdaine And all our Europe trembles in dismay While striuing Christians by each other slaine Each other weak'ning make him easieway Rhodes Belgrade Cyprus and the Realmes of Greece Thrall'd to his barbarous yoke yet fresh-declare That while two striue a third obtaines the fleece Though name of Christian be a title faire If but for Earth they all this while haue striu'n They may haue Earth but others shall haue Heau'n SONNET 39. May I not one day see in Fraunce againe Some new Martellus full of stout actiuitie To snatch the Scepter from the Saracen That holds the Holy Land in strait captiuitie May I not see the selfe-weale-wounding La●nce Of our braue Bloods yerst one another goring Turn'd with mo●e valour on the Musulmans A higher pitch of happy prowesse soaring But who deare Fraunce of all thy men-at-armes Shall so farre ●e●ce renue thine ancient Laurels Sith here they plot thine and their proper harmes I rather feare that through these fatall quarrels That hate-Christ Tyrant will in time become The Lord and Soueraigne of all Christendome SONNET 40. Mid all these mischiefes while the friend foe Strangers With vs. against vs had intelligence Henry our King our Father voides our dangers And O Heav'ns wonder planteth PEACE in Fraunce Thou Iudge that sitt'st on th● supernall Throne O quench thy furie keepe vs from hostilitie With eyes of mercy looke thou still vpon Our PEACE and found it on a firme stabilitie Sith in despight of discord thou alone Inward and outward hast thus salv'd vs Lord Keepe still our Fraunce or rather Lord thine owne Let Princes loue and liue in iust accord Dis-arme them Lord or i● Armes busie them Be it alone for thy Ierusalem FINIS A Dialogue vpon the Troubles past BETWEENE HERAclitus and Democritus the weeping and the laughing Philosophers Acceptam refero A DIALOGVE Heraclitus ALas thou laugh'st perhaps not feeling well The painfull torments of this mortall Hell Ah! canst thou teare-les in this iron Age See men massacred Monsters borne to rage Democritus Ha but why weep'st thou wherefore in this sort Doost thou lament amid this merry sport Ha canst thou chuse but laugh to see the State Of mens now-follies and the freaks of Fate Heraclitus He hath no heart that melts not all in teares To see the treasons murders massacres Sacks sacrileges losses and alarmes Of those that perish by their proper armes Democritus Who all dismayed swouneth sodainly To heare or see some fained Tragedie Held in these dayes on euery Stage as common Is but a heart-les man or but a woman Heraclitus O! would to God our Countries tragick ruth Were but a fable no effected truth My soule then should not sigh to angry Heav'n Nor for her plagues my tender heart be riv'n Democritus I take the world to be but as a Stage Where net-maskt men doo play their personage 'T is but a mummerie and a pleasant showe Sith ouer all strange vanities doo flowe Heraclitus Those vanities I haue in detestation As cursed causes of Gods indignation Which makes me alwayes weepe sith on the earth I see no obiect for the meanest mirth Democritus Thus from one Subiect sundry sequels spring As diuersly our wits conceiue a thing I laugh to see thee weepe thou weep'st to see Me laugh so much which more afflicteth thee Heraclitus Laugh while thou list at mortall miseries I cannot chuse but euen weepe out mine eyes Finding more cause for teares in bloody slaughter Then for thy sense-les ill-beseeming laughter Democritus Melt thee distill thee turne to waxe or snowe Make sad thy gesture tune thy voice to woe I cannot weepe except sometimes it hap Through laughing much mine eyes let fall a drop Heraclitus I weepe to see thus euery thing confused Order disordred and the Lawes abused Iustice reuerst and Policie peruerted And this sicke State neere vtterly subuerted Democritus I laugh to see how Fortune like a ball Playes with the Globe of this inconstant All How she degradeth these and graceth those How whom she lifts-vp downe againe she throwes Heraclitus I raine downe Riuers when against their King Cities rebell through subiects bandying When Colledges through Armes are rest of Art When euery Countie Kingdomes-it a-part Democritus I burst with laughter when confounding State I see those Rebels hunt their Magistrate When I heare Porters prate of State-designes And make all common as in new-found Indes Heraclitus I weepe to see Gods glory made a vaile To couer who his glory most assaile That sacred Faith is made a maske for sinne And men runne headlong to destructions ginne Democritus I laugh with all my heart at the transforming Of Iugling Proteis to all times Conforming But most I laugh t' haue seene the world so mad To starue and die when those damn'd Atheists bad Heraclitus I weepe alas to see the People weepe Opprest with rest-les waight in danger deepe Crying for PEACE but yet not like to get-her Yet her condition is not greatly better Democritus I laugh to see all cause of laughter gone Through those which yerst thou said'st haue caus'd thy mone Noting th' old guise I laugh at all their new I laugh at more but dare not tell it you Heraclitus Som sorrowes also I in silence keepe But in the Desart all my woes shall weepe And there perhaps the Rocks will helpe me then For in these dayes they are more milde then men Democritus I 'le dwell in Cities as my Genius guides To laugh my fill for smiling PEACE prouides Such plentious store of laughing-stuffe to fill me That still I 'le laugh vn-les that laughing kill me FINIS AN ODE OF THE LOVE AND beauties of Astraea To the most matchles-faire and vertuous M. M. H. TETRASTICON THou for whose sake my freedome I forsake Who murdring me doost yet maintain my life Heere vnder PEACE thy beauties Type I make Faire war-like

is nothing sure But th' vnseen soules resounding purtrature And chiefly when'tis short sweet painted-plain As it was all yer that rough-hunters raign Now when I note how th' Hebrew breuity Euen with fewe words expresseth happily The Hebrew Tongue the principall Deepest conceits and leads the hearing part Through all the closets of the mazy hart Better then Greek with her Synonimaes First reason Fit Epithets and fine Metaphoraes Her apt Coniunctions Tenses Moods and Cases And many other much esteemed graces When I remember how the Rabbins fet Second reason Out of the sacred Hebrew Alphabet All that our faith beleeues or eys behold That in the Law the Arts are all inrold Whether with curious pain we do transport Her letters turn'd in many-various sort For as in ciphering th' onely transportation Simile● Of figures still varies their valuation So th' Anagram strengthens or slacks a name Giuing a secret twist vnto the same Or whether wee euen as in gross bestowing The numbers which from one words letters flowing Vnfold a secret and that word again Another of like number doth contain Whether one letter for a word be put Or all a sentence in one word be shut As Egypts silence sealed-vp mysterious In one Character a long sentence serious When I obserue that from the Indian Dawning Third reason Euen to our Irish Aetna's fiery yawning And from hot Tambut to the Sea Tartarian Thou seest O Sun no Nation so barbarian Nor ignorant in all the Laws diuine But yet retains som tearms of Palestine Whose Elements how-so disguiz'd draw-nigh The sacred names of th' old Orthogaphy When I consider that Gods antient WILL Fourth reason Was first enrowled by an Hebrew quill That neuer Vrim Dream or Vision sung Their Oracles but all in Isaaks tongue That in the same the Lord himself did draw Vpon two Tables his eternall Law And that long since in Sions Languages His heav'nly Postes brought downe his messages Fift reason And to conclude when I conceive how then They gaue not idle casuall names to men But such as rich in sense before th' euent Markt in their liues some speciall accident And yet we see that all those words of old Of Hebrew still the sound and sense doe hold For Adam meaneth made of clay his wife Eua translated signifieth life Cain first begot Abel as vain and Seth Put in his place and he that vnderneath The generall Deluge saw the World distrest In true interpretation soundeth Rest. To th' Hebrew Tongue how-euer Greece do grudge The sacred right of Eldership I iudge All hail therefore O sempiternall spring Praise of the Hebrew Tōgue Mother and Queene of all the Rest. Of spirituall pictures speech of Heav'ns high King Mother and Mistress of all Tongues the Prime Which pure hast past such vast deep gulfs of Time Which hast no word but weighs whose Elements Flowe with hid sense thy points with Sacraments O sacred Dialect in thee the names Of Men Towns Countries register their fames In brief abbridgements and the names of Birds Of Water-guests and Forrest-haunting Heards Are open Books where euery man might read Their natures story till th' Heav'n-shaker dread In his iust wrath the flaming sword had set The passage into Paradise to let Adam gaue Hebrew names to all the Creatures For Adam then in signe of mastry giuing Peculiar names vnto all creatures liuing When in a generall muster ranged right They marcht by couples in his awfull sight He framed them so fit that learned ears Bearing the soule the sound the maruails bears Where-with th' All-forming voice adorned fair Th' Inhabitants of Sea and Earth and Ayr. And for each body acts or suffers ought He inriched the Language with the composition of verbs and Clauses Hauing made Nowns his Verbs he also wrought And then the more t' enrich his speech he brings Small Particles which stand in lieu of strings The master members fitly to combine As two great boards a little glew doth ioyn And serue as plumes which euer dancing light Deck the proud crests of helmets burnisht bright Frenges to mantles ears and rings to vessels To marble statues bases feet and tressels The Hebrew Tongue cōtinued from Adam to the tim of Nim ro● Since whē it rested in the house of Heber of whom it is called Hebrew This Adams language pure persisted since Til th' iron Age of that cloud-climbing Prince Resounding onely through all mortall tents The peer-les accents of rich eloquence But then as partiall it it self retyr'd To Hebers house whether of the conspir'd Rebels he were not but in sober quiet Dwelt far from Shinar and their furious ryot Or whether thither by compulsion brought With secret sighes hee oft his God besought So with vnwilling hands helping to make The walls he wisht deep sunk in Stygian Lake As wretched Galley-slaues beating the Seas With forced oars fighting against their ease Simile And liberty curse in their grieued spright Those for whose sake they labour day night Or whether else Gods liberall hand for euer As it were meeting holy mens indeuour For his owne sake of his free grace and pleasure To th' Hebrew race deposited this treasure While the proud remnant of those scattered Masons Had falsed it in hundred thousand fashions When euery one where Fate him called flew Bearing new words into his Country new But slippery Time enuiously wasting all Disfigur'd soon those Tongues authenticall A sub-diuision of the Lāguages first diuided Which ' mid the Babel-builders thunder bred On Tygris banks o're all the earth were spred And ay the world the more confus'd to leaue The least of them in many Tongues did cleaue Each language alters either by occasion Wherof proceede the sundry changes in one selfe same Language Of trade which causing mutuall commutation Of th' Earths and Oceans wares with hardy luck Doth words for words barter exchange and truck Or else because Fame-thirsting wits that toyl In golden tearms to trick their gracious stile With new-found beauties prank each circumstance Or at the least doe new-coyn'd words in haunce With currant freedom and again restore Th' old rusty mouldy worm-gnawn words of youre Simile For as in Forrests leaves doe fall and spring Euen so the words which whilom flourishing In sweet Orations shin'd with pleasing lustre Like snowe-white Lillies in a fresh green pasture Pass now no more but banisht from the Court Dwel with disgrace among the Country sort And those which Eld's strict doom did disallow And damn for bullion goe for current now A happy wit with gracious iudgementioyn'd The liberty of a witty learned and iudicious Wrighter May giue a Pasport to the words new coyn'd In his own shop also adopt the strange Ingraft the wilde inriching with such change His powerfull stile and with such sundry ammell Paynting his phrase his Prose or Verse enammel One language hath no law but vse and still Runs blinde vnbridled

wooing wherso'er thou wend Whose Robe's imbrodered with Pomgranet boughs Button'd with Saphires edg'd with Beryl rowes Whose capering foot about the starrie floor The Dance-guide Prince now followes now 's before Art thou not Shee that with a chaste-sweet flame Didst both our Brides harts into one hart frame And was not He that with so curious steps Mercurie Next after thee so nimblie turns and leaps Say was not He the wittie Messenger Their eloquent and quick Interpreter How strange a suit His medly Mantle seems Scarlet Waue-laced with Quick-siluer streams And th' end of euery Lace for tuft hath on A pretious Porphyre or an Agate stone A Cry of Hownds haue heer a Deer in Chase There a false Foxe heer a swift Kid they trace There Larks and Linots-and sweet Nightingals Fain'd vpon fayned Trees with wings and tails Loose hanging seem to swell their little throats And with their warblings shame the Cornets notes Light Fumitorie Parsly Burnets blade And winding leaf his crispie Locks beshade Hee 's light and liuely al in Turns and Tricks In his great Round hee many small doth mixe His giddy course seems wandring in disorder And yet there 's found in this disorder order Auoid base Vulgar back Profane stand-by These sacred Reuels are not for your eye Come gentle Gentiles Noble Spirits draw neer Preace through the Preace come take your places heer To see at full the Bride-groom and the Bride A louely paire exactly bewtifi'd With rare perfections passing all the rest Sole-happy Causes of this sumptuous Feast Lo where they come O what a splendor bright Mine eyes doo dazle O thou primer Light Sun of the Sun thy Rayes keen point rebate Thy dread-spread Fire a little temperate O dart direct on thy fair Spouse a-space Thine eyes pure light the lustre of thy Face For I no longer can endure it I Am burnt to ashes ô I faint I dye But blessed Couple sith alas I may-not Behold you both vnmasked nor I can-not Yet in these Verses let me tell I pray Your Dance your Courting and your rich Aray The Queen 's adorn'd down to her very heels Luna In her fair hair whence still sweet deaw distils Half changing down the rest in rings and curls Platted with strings of great round orient Pearls Her gown is Damask of a Siluer-ground With Siluer Seas all deeply-frenged round With Gourds and Moon-wort branched richly-fair Flourisht with Beasts that only eat the Aier But why my Muse with Pencil so precise Seek'st thou to paint all her rich Rarities Of all the Bewties Graces Honors Richesse Where-with rich Hev'n these Maskers all inriches Shee 's even the Mother and then as a Glasse On the Beholders their effects she casts A Garland braided with the Flowry folds Sol. Of yellow Citrons Turn-Sols Mary-golds Beset with Bal'nites Rubies Chrysolites The royall Bride-groom's radiant brows be-dights His saffron'd Ruffe is edged richly-neat With burning Carbuncles and every set Wrought rarely-fine with branches draw'n vpon Of Laurel Cedar Balm and Cinamon On his Gold-grounded Robe the Swan so white Seems to his honour som new Song t'indight The Phoenix there builds both her nest and toomb The Crocodile out of the Waues doth come Th' amazed Reaper down his Sickle flings And soudain Fear grafts to his Ankles wings There the fierce Lion from his furious eyes His mouth and nosthrils fierie-Flames let-flyes Seems with his whisking train his rage to whet And wrath-full ramping ready even to set Vpon a Heard of fragrant Leopards When lo the Cock that light his rage reguards A purple Plume tymbers his stately Crest On his high Gorget and broad hardy Brest A rich Coat-Armour Or and Azure shines A frenge of raveld gold about his Loins In lieu of bases Beard as red as blood A short Beak bending like the Egles brood Green-yellow eyes where Terrors Tent is pight A martiall gaite and spurred as a Knight Into two arches his prowd Train diuides With painted wings he claps his cheerfull sides Sounds his shrill Trumpet and seems with his sight The Lions courage to haue danted quight These happy Lovers with a practiz'd pase For-ward and back-ward and a-side do trace They seem to dance the Spanish Pauane right And yet their Dance so quick and liuely-light Doth never passe the Baldricks bounds at all Which grav'n with Star-Beasts ouer-thwarts the Hall When the braue Bride-groom towards Mount Silo traces A thousand Flowers spring in his spright-full pases When towards Mount Oliu●t he slides there growes Vnder his Feet a thousand Frosty Snowes For the Floor beaten with his Measures ever Seems like the Footing of the nimble Weaver This louely Couple now kisse now recoil Now with a lowring eye now with a smile Now Face to Face they Dance now side by side With Course vn-equall and the tender Bride Receiues strange Changes in her Countenance After her Lovers divers-seeming glance If vnawares som Enuious come between Her and her Loue then is she sad be-seen She shuts her eye she seems even to depart Such force hath true Loue in a noble hart But all that 's nothing to their musicke choice Tuning the warbles of their Angel-Voice To Foot and Viole and Care-charming Lute In amorous Ditty they doo thus dispute O bright-ey'd Virgin ô how fair thou art The Epithalamy O how I loue thee My Snowe-winged Doue O how I loue thee Thou hast rapt my hart For thee I Die For thee I liue my Loue. How fair art thou my Deer How dear to me Deer Soule awake I faint I sink I sownd At thy deer Sight and when I sleep for Thee Within my brest still wakes my sharp-sweet Wound My Loue what Odours thy sweet Tresse it yeelds What Amber-greece what Incense breath'st thou out From purple fillets and what Myrrhe distils Still from thy Fingers ring'd with Gold about Sweet-Hart how sweet is th' Odour of thy Prayse O what sweet aiers doth thy sweet air deliuer Vnto my burning Soule What hony Layes Flowe from thy throat thy throat a golden River Among the Flowers my Flower 's a Rose a Lilly A Rose a Lilly this a Bud that blow'n This fragrant Flower first of all gather wil-I Smell to it kisse it wear it as mine owne Among the Trees my Loue 's an Apple-Tree Thy fruit-full Stem bears Flower and Fruit together I'll smell thy Flower thy Fruit shall nourish me And in thy Shadow will I rest forever While Hesperus in azure Waggon brought Millions of Tapers ouer all the Vault These gorgeous Revels to sweet Rest giue place And the Earths Venus doth Heav'ns Venus trace These Spousals past the King doth nothing minde But the Lords House there is his Care confin'd His Checker's open he no Cost respects But sets a-work the wittiest Architects Millions of hands be busie labouring The building of the TEMPLE Through all the Woods wedges and beetles ring The Tufted Tops of sacred Libanon To climb Mount Sion down the stream are gon Forests are

whom he hath erected aboue vs and aboue all things not to abuse the law of humane hospitality and other holy bands for to giue place to these frenetike opinions so to abolish a pretended tyranny I haue also to warne thee of two different sorts of men of the which one sort is so depraued that they can heare nothing but that which is altogether prophane and the other is so supersticious that they make conscience not onely to write but also to read of holy things in verse as though that the measure and iointure of syllabes were so constrained as it were vnpossible to keepe the sense vnperuerted or at least not excessiuely obscured Now if I perceiue that this my first assay may bee to thee agreeable I shall continue more gladly my newe commenced race in such sort that thou shalt not repent thine indulgence nor I my passed pains But if contrarie fall in time to come I wil be ware to lày out my smalpack in this ample Theatre of France where there is almost as many Iudgements as beholders A Dieu GSSDB The Argument of the whole Historie of Iudith AFter that the Children of Israel were deliuered from captiuitie and returned to their land the Citty of Ierusalem reedified the Temple builded and prepared to the seruice of the Lord the multitude of the people being scattered in sundry towns and places of the Land where they liued in peaceable rest the Lord knowing man to be negligent of GOD and his saluation chiefly when he liues at ease and all things frames vnto his fraile desire to th' end that his people should not fal in such an inconuenience would exercise them with a feareful affliction and temptation sending vpon their Countrey an army so great in number and puissance that made the whole earth to tremble This expedition was vnder the Persian Monark named in the historie Nebuchadnezar which neuerthelesse is not his right name His chiefe Lieutenant generall and Conducter of the whole Armie was Holophernes who wheresoeuer hee came ouerthrewe all religion permitting none to inuocate or acknowledge any other God but Nebuchadnezar his Maister whome hee enforced to constitute and establish for the onely God So entred hee Iudea with intent to destroy it all which the people perceiuing and that his power was so great that no nation could resist him and also knowing his cruell hatred were sore affraied and almost driuen to extreame desperation seeing none other thing present before them but ruine and destruction And this the Lord suffered to showe in time his worke to bee more wonderfull For the people being humbled and hauing called to the Lord for mercie and succour at his hand hee both heard and succoured them at neede The meane was not through strength or stoutnesse of some worthy Captaine but by the hand of Iudith a tender feeble woman to the shame of this most proud and cruell tyrant and all his heathen hoste For shee cut off his head put all his campe to slight destroyed his men of Armes in such wise that they fled here and there and seeking to saue their liues left all their tentes and baggage Thus the Lorde by the weake and those that are not regarded makes his workes admirable By one selfe meane hee saued his owne and executed his iustice against his enemies In which wee haue to consider his singular ptouidence and goodnesse and the care which he hath in especiall for his faithfull and all his whole Church This Historie is intituled by the name of Iudith because it containes the narration of her great vertues and for that the Lorde vsed her as an instrument for the deliuerance of his people It is not certaine who was the first Author hereof neuerthelesse the reading of it hath beene receiued in the Church for the doctrine and vtility of the same THE SVMMARIE OF The I. BOOKE HOLOPHERN●● Lieutenant generall and chief of the army of Nebuch●dnezza● K o● the Assyrians was in the fielde for to subdue diuers people and amongst others the Iewes All the Nation is seazed with great feare for the cruelties committed by the enemy Then as it fals out ●n bruits of war al the whole people were troubled som sauing themselues in corners for feare others attending in great perplexity some sad and Tragicall ende the last sort calls vpon God This while IOACHIM the chiefe Priest gouerned the people h● by his letters and expresse commandement recalls those that were fled and scattered and made them returne to Ierusalem where in presence of the Le●its hee made sacrifice earnest prayer vnto God to withdrawe his ire and to bee mercifull to his people which done he enters in counsell and requires his Princes to consult vpon the cause and consider what i● most 〈◊〉 and to preferre the loue of Gods law and the count● i● before all priuate things the first that gainstands this exhortation is an hypocrite and fauourer of the enemy who giues coūsell to render them to HOLOPHERNE● calling him a Prince gratious to those that applauds to him and inuincible in battell to those that dare resist him But the second Lord replying ●●alously againe detecteth his false hypocri●ie and carelesse securitie exposing the people to the mercy of a barbarous godless enemy before the duty they ought to their God and their countrey and to establish in place of the true God a wicked N●MROD con●ummat in all impiety and wickednes to abolish all vertue and godlinesse For he proues that if the nations should be rooted out for the right religiō God should be more honored in the death of the Iewes then in their liues and that it is more worthy to die Hebrewes then to liue infidels and free men then slaues Shortly that they ought to prefer honor and duty before feare and a vaine hope to prolong their dolefull dayes This reply encouraged all the a●●ist●ts wherof IOACHIM gaue thankes to God and resoluing himselfe vpon a iust defence for the onseruation of the seruice of God and the freedome of his nation and the liues of the innocent against this villanous inuatision wise by de●a●●ed the regiments of towns to persons conuenient who past to their ●●●igned places each one preparing according to their power vnto the warre with courage paine and diligence The first Booke of Iudith I Sing the vertues of a valiant Dame Propositiō summe of this worke Who in defence of Iacob ouercame Th' Assyria● Prince and slew that Pagan stout Who had beset Bethulia walles about O thou who kept thine Izak from the thrall Inuocation of the true God Of infidels and steeld the courage small Of feeble Iudith with a manly strength With sacred furie fill my heart at length And with thy Holy spirit my spirit enspire For matter so diuine Lord I require No humain stile but that the Reader may Great profit reape I ioy thou praise alway And since in vulgar verse I prease to sing Dedicatiō of the Author altred by the

translatour This godly Pooeme to a Christian King To him who God in goodnesse hath erect For princely Piller to his owne elect For lawfull Lord to raign with trueth and right For louesom Laurer to the vertuous wight Him I beseech this trauell to defend That to his pleasure I the same may end VVHen Izrell was in quiet rest and peace And fruitfully the ground gaue her encreise Which seauenty yeer vntilled lay beforne And nothing bare but thistle weed and thorne It pleased God vpon his iust correction T' awake his owne that were of his election Least that the longsom peace should them withholde And dull their spirits as doth the warriour bolde Who spoyls his horse with pampring in the stable That makes him for the manaige more vnable He spred their land with bands of enemies stout Whose cloudes of shot bedimd their land about Their Hoaste with arrowes pikes and standards stood The Army of Holopherne As bristle-pointed as a thorni● wood Their multitude of men the riuers dri'd Which throw the wealthy Iuda sweet did slide So that flood Iordane finding dry his banke For shame he blusht and down his head he shrank● For woe that he his credit could not keep To send one waue for tribute to the deep Scarse had the Haruest-man with hook in hand Dispoylde the fruit and let the stubble stand Scarse had the hungry Gleaner put in bindc The scattered grain the Shearer left behinde And scarse the flapping flaile began to thresh When vnto Iacob newes was brought afresh That Holophern his frontiers did inuade And past all Rivers straits and murders made So vile that none he left that drew the breath But olde and young he put to sodain death The sucking babes vpon their mothers knee His cruell cut-throates made them all to dee Then like a flock of sheep that doth beholde A wolfe come from the wood vpon their fold Shapes no defence but runnes athwart the lands And shortly makes of one a hundreth bands So Isaaks sonnes indreading for to feel This tyrant who pursued them at the heel The Hebrews Dissundring fled and sought their liues to saue In hils and dales and euery desert caue The sheep heard of his flocke had now no care Fear of the enemy But fearing death fled to som mountain bare The Crafts man now his lumes away hath layde The Marchant lest his traffike and his trade To hide himself more safely in a vault Then in a Rampier to sustain th' assault The Lords esteemde them selfes in surer holde In Dennes of beasts then castles gilt with golde Fear lent the wings for aged folke to flie And made them mount to places that were hie Fear made the wofull women for to bear Their cradles sweet to hilles that highest were Fear made the wofull childe to waile and weep For want of speed on foot and hand to creep All where was nothing heard but hideous cries And pitious plaints that did the harts agrise O Lord sayd they wilt thou still day by day The arrowes of thine anger neuer stay Affliction causeth prayer Wilt thou that Calde conquere vs again Shall Iuda yet the Heathen yoke sustain Wilt thou again that they make every towne But stony heaps of houses casten down Again shall sacrilegious fire deuoure Thy holy house where we do thee adore Then Ioachim the priest of God most hie Who ouer Iuda then had chief degrie Stood like a Pylot stout in tempest great Who seeing winde and weather for to threat Yet to his mates his fear no terrour drawes Nor leaues his ship vnto the wrackfull wawes But with disguising fear his face vp casts And stoutly doth gain-stand the balefull blasts Right so this prudent prelate sent in haste Two hundreth men to passe where men were plac't In places strong and thence commanded them For to repair vnto Ierusalem Now since th' Erernall did reueale his will Vpon the sacred top of Syna Hill The Arke of God which wisedom more did holde In Tables two then all the Greeks haue tolde And more then euer Rome could comprehend In huge of learned books that they pend Sam. 1. 4. Long wandred it throw trybes throw kin and kin Sam. 2. 6. And found no certain place of resting in Yea somtime it the shamefull spoyl hath been To sacrilegious hands of Palestine Vntill that time that Iessies holy race For euer lodged it in Iebus place But for that Dauids hands with blood were fi●d Ierusalem Throu infinits of humains he had kild The king of peace would haue a king of rest To build his Temple farre aboue the best Sam. 2. 7. His house whose front vpreard so high and eaven That lightlied earth and seem'd to threat the heaven Vntill that wicked time a tyrant vile Of name and deed that bare the semble stile Nabuchadnezar That did this king that building braue he wrackt And to the sacred ground all whole it sackt Yet when long after Abrahms holy race Of Tyger banks had left the captiue place Esd. 6. With combers great they redified with pain That most renowmed house of God again Which though vnto the first it seemd as small As to a Princes house a shepheards hall And though the hugenes were not as it was Yet sure the height and beauty did surpas And overseilde the famous work of Pharie Ephesus Temple and the tombe of Carie The Rhodian Collos and the Caldean wall That Semirame set vp with tourrets tall Also the wondrous work of this same Temple Might serue a C●esiphon for his exemple Lysippus eke to carue by square and line Or guide Apelles pensile most divine Heer in this place all Izrel most deuoute Withdrew themselues to Salem round about As when the Heav'n his sluces opens wide And makes the floods vpon the ground to glide The brooks that breaks adoun from diuers hils With course impetuous till one deep distils Amongst the Dames that there deuoutest were The holy Iudith fairest did appear Like Phoebus that aboue the starre doth shine It seem'd that she was made on moulde diuine This primate then assisted with the kinne Of great Eleazar priests whose head and chinne Was neuer shav'n deuoutly on he preast A pearled Myter on his balmed creast And with a holy Alb with garnettes spred And golden Belles his sacred bodie cled And slew and burnt the bulks as was the guise Of many a kid and kalfe for sacrifise And with their blood the Altars hornes he dyed And praying thus to God immortall cryed O Lord of Hoastes we com not vnto thee Prayer To wey our merits with thy maiestie Nor to protest before thy heauenly might That sacklesly thy scourge doth on vs light But rather we confesse as true it is Our sinnes haue iustly merite more then this But Lord if thou thy couenant would forget Which thou with Abrahm made and so wilt set For mercy great thy iustice most seuear Thou should a greater plague vpon vs rear Change then our proces from thy iustice seat And

came the Scythique rampier neare The Tombe of her whose milk had such a hap To feede the twise borne Denis in her lap I heard their wilfull rage first in that place Which doubtles will destroy all Abrahams race FINIS THE SVMMARIE OF The VI. BOOKE IVdith hauing escaped the perill of her chastity is brought to a sumptuous banquet prepared by Holophernes for the in●ert unmēt of her farther prouocation of his filthy lust In which the abhominable vice of gluttonie is by the Poet viuely descriued and sharply reprehended And whereas the Tyrant thought by such excesse to ouercome the chaste widow himself is so ouer come with wine that vpon a very simple delay he lets her goe till he was in his bed And here is noted that the snares that the wicked laies for others they fal in them their selfs Whiles the Tyrant contemplated his lust Iudith in trouble called vpon her God who made way for her works through the Tyrants owne wickednesse who heaping sin vpon sin approched at last to the end of his tragoedy and mounting vpon the skaffolde of the yre of God falls asleep in his sinfull bed and is by Iudith beheaded in his beastly drunkennes True it is that in this execution she felt her great infirmity but likewise she found that God was able to strengthen the most feeble for the execution of his Iustice. And as before she was preserued in the midst of her enemies so the Lord to make a miraculous end of his work brings her safe home to her people The Bethulians giues thankes to God The Ammonit ranished with this miracle embraced the true religiō The head of Holophernes that Iudiths seruant brought being set vp for a terrible spectacle to the Heathen encouraged the Cittezens to giue assault vpon the camp Bagos who had beene an instrument of the Tyrants wickednes is the first that finds his masters headles C●●kas and puts the camp in such affray that they fled all before Israell in such sort that scarce one was left to bring newes to Niniue of the fortune of the battell And that was Gods Iustice that those that had followed this Tyrant in his wickednes should be companions of his death Iudith last of all celebrates the deliuerance of God with a song to the honour and glorie of his almighty name THE SIXT BOOKE of IVDITH BEfore the Pagan had his purpose ended The night obscure from mountains high descended And sewers set the boord with costly meate Of passing price so delicate to eate That Holopherne vnto his ioyous feast Aperd t' haue cald the kings of west and east O glutton throtes O greedy guts profound Exclamatiō The chosen meats within the world his bound By th' Abderois inuented may not staunch Nor satisfie your foule deuouring paunch But must in Moluke seek the spices fine Canary suger and the Candy wine Your appetits O gluttons to content Gluttonie The sacred brest of Thetis blew is rent The Aire must be dispeopled for your mawes The Phoenix sole can scarse escape your iawes ' O plague O poyson to the warriour state ' Thou makes the noble harts effeminate ' While Rome was rul'd by Curioes and Fabrices ' Who fed on roots and sought not for delices ' And when the onely Cresson was the food ' Most delicate to Persia then they stood ' In happy state renowmde in peace and ●arre ' And throu the world their triumphs spred afarre ' But when they after in th' Assyrian hall ' Had learnd the lessons of Sardanapall ' And when the other giuen to belly chear ' By Galbaes Neroes Vitells gouernd weare ' Who gloried more to fill a costly plate ' Then kill a Phyrrhus or a Mythridate ' Then both of them were seen for to be sacked ' By nations poore whom they before had wracked ' Of little Nature liues superfluous meat ' But duls the sprite and doth the stomack freat ' When they were set then throw that Royall rout The Maluesie was quaffed oft about One drinkes out of an Alabastar Cuppe One out of Crystall doth the Nectar suppe Som out of curious shells of Vnicorne Som spills the wine and som to beds were borne But namely there the Vizroy would not tyre But more he drank the more he had desire Like to the Ocean-Sea though it resaues All Nilus floods yea all fresh water craues From East to West yet growes he not a grain But still is ready for asmuch again One glas drawes on another glas and whan The butler ment to cease he but began To skink god Bacchus thus this dronken wight Among his dronkards tippled till midnight Then each of them with stackring steps out went And groping hands retyring to his tent This tyrant wisht them oft away before To whom ech moment seemd to be a skore Assone as they were gone then gan he prease The trembling Iudith Cease great prince O cease The widow sayd what hast need you to make To reap the flowre that none can from you take My Lord go to your bed and take your ease Where I your sweet embracings will complease Assoone as I my garments may remoue That bindes my body brunt with ardent loue Now if that sober wits and wylie brains Cannot auoide the female tricks and trains Abash not reader though this reckles Roy Bewitcht by Semels sonne and Venus boy Was thus beguilde considering both these twain Confounds the force of those that them retain So letting Iudith slide out of his arme He gins to loose his garments soft and warme But throw his hast his hand came lesser speed And though he was deceiv'd yet tooke no heed But wening well t'vntruss his peeuish points He knits them twyfold with his trembling ioints So long till he with anger discontent Cuts me them all and off his clothes he rent And naked went to bed Then as ye see The bloody boweman stand behind a tree Who warely watches for the wandring deare To euery part where de doth thinke to heare Some trembling bush some beast or Lezard small That motion makes so turneth he withall His face and hand to shoot but all in vaine For to relieue his long aspecting paine Euen so this foolish tyrant when he hard Some rat or mouse then thought he to himward His Mistris came and when he heard no more Yet thought she came whom most he did adore While vp he lifts his head while lets it fall While lookes about while counts the pases all That she should passe to come vnto his bed Thus turning oft as ardent lust him led He thought his bed was sowen with pricking thorne But now the drink that he had dronke beforne Brewd in his braine and from his mind it took The sweet remembrance of her louing look So fell on sleepe and then to him appears Ten thousand flames ten thousand dinnes he hears And dreams of Diuels and Daemons dark and dim Medusas Minotaurs and Gorgons grim This while the hart of Iudith gan to beat