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majesty_n	honourable_a	lord_n	viscount_n	3,313	5	11.4579	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07523	The wisdome of Solomon paraphrased. Written by Thomas Middleton	Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.	1597 (1597)	STC 17906; ESTC S110004	68,372	186

THE WISDOME of Solomon Paraphrased Written by Thomas Middleton A Joue surgit opus Printed at London by Valentine Sems dwelling on Adling hil at the signe of the white Swanne 1597. ❧ To the right Honourable and my very good Lord Robert Deuoreux Erle of Essex and Ewe Vicount of Hereford Lorde Ferrers of Chartley Boutcher and Louayne Maister of her Maiesties Horse and Ordonance Knight of the honourable order of the Gartor and one of her Maiesties most hon●rable priuie Counsell THe Summers Haruest right Honourable is long since reapt now it is sowing time againe behold I haue scattred a few seedes vpon the yong ground of vnskilfulnesse if it beare fruit my labour is well bestowed but if it be barren I shall haue lesse ioy to set more The husbandman obserues the courses of the Moone I the forces of your fauor he desireth sun-shine I cheerefull countenance which once obtayned my haruest of ioy will soone bee ripened My seedes as yet lodge in the bosome of the earth like Infantes vpon the lappe of a Fauourite wanting the budding spring-time of their growth not knowing the Est of their glorie the west of their quietnesse the South of their summer the North of their winter but if the beames of your aspectes lighten the small moytie of a smaller implanting I shall haue an euery-day-haruest a fruition of content a braunch of felicitie Your Honours addicted in all obseruance Thomas Midleton To the Gentlemen Readers GEntlemen I giue you the surueyaunce of my new-bought grounde and will only stand vnto your verdicts I feare me that the acres of my fielde passe the anchers of my seed if wanting seed then I hope it wil not be to much seeded this is my bare excuse but trust me had my wit been sufficient to maintaine the freedome of my will then both should haue been answerable to your wishes yet neuerthelesse thinke of it as a willing though not a fulfilling moity But what meane I while I thus argue Momus and Zoylus those two Rauens deuoure my seede because J lacke a Scarre-crowe indeede so J may haue lesse than I haue when such fowle-gutted Rauens swallowe vp my portion if you gape for stuffing hie you to dead carrion carkasses and make them your Ordinaries J beseeche you Gentlemen let mee haue your ayde and as you haue seene the first practise of my husbandry in sowing so let me haue your helping hands vnto my reaping Yours deuoted in friendship Thomas Middleton The Wisedome of Solomon paraphrased CHAP. 1. verse 1 WIsedome Elixer of the purest life Hath taught hir lesson to iudicial views To those that iudge a cause end a strife Which sits in Iudgements seat Iustice vse A lesson worthy of diuinest eare Quintessence of a true diuinest scare Vnwilling that exordium should retaine Her life-infusing speech doth thus begin You quoth shee that giue remedy or paine Loue Iustice for iniustice is a sin Giue vnto God his due his reuerent stile And rather vse simplicity then guile For him that guides the radiant eie of day verse 2 Sitting in his star-chamber of the Skie The Horizons and hemespheres obay And windes the fillers of vacultie Much lesse shuld man tempt God when all obay But rather be a guide and leade the way For temting argues but a sins attempt Temptation is to sin associate So doing thou from God art cleane exempt Whose loue is neuer placde in his loues hate He will be found not of a tempting minde But found of those which he doth faithfull finde verse 3 Temptation rather seperates from God Conuerting goodnes from the thing it was Heaping the indignation of his rod To bruse our bodies like a brittle glasse For wicked thoughts haue still a wicked end In making God our foe which was our frend They muster vpreuenge encamp our hate Vndoing what before they meant to do Stirring vp anger and vnluckie fate Making the earth their friend the heauen their foe But when heauens guide makes manifest his power The earth their frinds doth them like foes deuoure verse 4 O foolish men to warre against your blisse O hatefull harts where wisedome neuer raignd O wicked thoughts which euer thought amisse What haue you reapt what pleasure haue you gaind A fruite in shew a pleasure to decay This haue you got by keeping follies way For wisedomes haruest is with follie nipt And with the winter of your vices frost Her fruite all scattered her implanting ript Her name decayed her fruition lost Nor can she prosper in a plot of vice Gaining no summers warmth but winters ice verse 5 Thou barren earth where vertues neuer bud Thou fruitles wombe where neuer fruits abide And thou drie-withered sap which bears no good But the dishonor of thy prowd hearts pride A seate of al deceit deceit deceaude Thy blisse a woe thy woe of blisse bereaude This place of night hath left no place for day Here neuer shines the sunne of discipline But mischiefe clad in sable nights array Thoughts apparition euill Angel●s signe These raigne enhoused with their mother Night To cloude the day of clearest wisedomes light Oh you that practise to be chiefe in sinne verse 6 Loues hate hates friend friends foe foes follower What doe you gaine what merit do you winne To be blaspheming vices practiser Your gaine is wisedomes euerlasting hate Your merit griefe your griefe your liues debate Thou canst not hide thy thoght god made thy thoght Let this thy caucat be for thinking ill Thou knowst that Christ thy liuing freedome boght To liue on earth according to his will God being thy creator Christ thy blisse Why dost thou erre why dost thou do amisse verse 7 Hee is both Iudge and witnesse of thy deeds Hee knowes the volume which thy hart containes Christ skips thy faults only thy virtue reades Redeeming thee from all thy vices paines O happy crowne of mortall mans content Sent for our ioye our ioye in being sent Then sham'st thou not to erre to sin to stray To come to composition with thy vice With new-purg'd feete to treade the ouldest way Lending new sence vnto thy ould deuice Thy shame might flowe in thy sin-flowing face Rather then ebbe to make an ebbe of grace verse 8 For hee which rules the Orbe of heauen and earth And the ineqall course of euery starre Did knowe mans thoughts and secreats at his birth Whither enclinde to peace or discords iarre He knowes what man will be ere he be man And all his deeds in his lifes liuing span Then t is vnpossible that earth can hide Vnrighteous actions from a righteous God For he can see their feete in sin that slide And those that lodge in righteousnesse abode Hee will extend his mercy on the good His wrath on those in whom no vertues bud verse 9 Many there bee that after trespasse done Will seeke a couert for to hide their shame And range about the earth thinking to shunne Gods heauie wrath and meritorious blame They thinking