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A10687
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The countrie mans comfort. Or Religious recreations fitte for all well disposed persons. Which was printed in the yeere of our Lord 1588. And since corrected, amended, and enlarged by the same author. I.R.
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Rhodes, John, minister of Enborne.
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1637
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STC 20961; ESTC S103457
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away the painefull day The horse and Mule with sound of bell Encouraged is to labour well The Head enfraught with frantike toies The tuned strings doe make full graue The heart opprest and voide of ioy Will greatly ioy Musicke to haue When studie deepe hath duld the braine Musicke will sharpe the edge againe We read how Dauid plaid full trimme Before the holy Arke of God And how his wife for mocking him By sentence iust was then forbod For hauing Children any more But barren should she be therefore The shepheards and the Angels eke When that our Sauiour Christ was borne With voice did laud that lambe so meeke That died for mankind without scorne We ought to praise the Lord also VVith musicks art in wealth and woe A song well set well sung with voice Or other musicke handled fine Farre passeth any earthly noyse Yea rather is a thing divine And some doe writ that Musicke euen Doth represent the ioyes of heauen Since Musick is a science such That God will honoured be withall A fish and fowle ioyes therein much And euery thing to nature thrall Hath he not then a stony heart That can dispraise this noble art Loue Musicke therefore in her use Loue Poetry void of abuse Heare songs and Instruments somtimes So as they lead not to ill crimes And thus an end of Musicks praise VVhich God aduance in all our dayes FINIS A song in commendation of diuers instruments of Musicke PRaise the Lord O man mortall Night and day upon him call Sing and say both great and small That God is good and iust Search and seeke the Scripture well It doth testifie and tell Euery one in ioy shall dwell That in the Lord doth trust Take the sounding Trumpet shrill Tabrell and the sweete Timbrill Winde the Flute with right good will That Saints on earth may heare Let the Drummer strike amaine Till our spirituall foes be slaine Then with ioy retire againe And serue the Lord in feare Bring the Bandora to blay Let the Bumberd come and Bray Put not Dulcimers away Nor pipes that praise the Lord Send the Cinfan and Simball Sacbuts long and virginall Let the Lute and Citterns small Agree with one accord Heare the Crumpehorne and the Harpe Hoboise and the Regale sharpe Let the Vialls come and carpe Our minds for to delight Sing with Shalmes and Psaltery Play vpon the Organes hie Cause the Cornets for to crie In skillfull peoples sight Learne in Gods word how you may Vse these Instruments in play Putting the abuse away That wicked men doe use Let your mirth and Musicke still Be according to Gods will Carnall lust for euer kill On good things alwayes muse March with Moses valiantly Answer Miriam singingly After Israels victorie On Pharaoh and his hoast Ioy with ioyfull Iaell shee Debora and Baruck hee VVho did Siseras downfall see Of whom there was much boast Brittaine thinke on things of waight Spaniards comming eighty eight VVith the Powder plot conceipt VVhere of all sorts should tast Dally not with God therefore Trust not Papists any more Banish them that blessings store May come to vs in hast Their Sinnes of Idolla-try Our Sinnes of impiety Both of them to God doth cry For vengeance night and day Let vs therefore now repent And all our sinfull wayes lament Let our minds to good be bent And we shall liue for aye FINIS A song against Fortune and those that haue or doe defend the same which may be sung to the Tune of Fortune my foe why dost thou frowne on me FOrtune shall bene God nor guide of mine Fortune to thee nothing I will resigne Fortune thou art the heathens Queene and Princesse How should a Christian take thee for his Mistres Fortune some say shee hath a restles wheele Turning the same that men her power may feele Fortune doth giue and take life as a Princesse Thus euery way is Fortune tooke for Mistres But shall I shew the folly of this thing And credit haue if I the truth doe bring Then giue me leaue I will proue this Heathnesse To be no Goddesse Princesse Queene or Mistresse Fortune what is it who can tell or shew It is no God nor Angell this we know No man nor woman no creature dumbe or senceles No vice nor vertue to be made a Princesse What world or worke did Fortune make or frame What law or Gospel comes forth in her name Whom doth shee call to count with as a Princesse Where will shee raigne when this world 's turnd to ashes Seeth no man can define what Fortune is Nor yet declare her workes of bale or blisse Seeth none did ever see or know this Princesse Why should a christian take her for his Mistres In God therefore that made both Sa and land Heaven earth and all things with his mightie hand In him alone the father of all mercies I put my trust aboue all earthly Princes Fortune and Fancy Hazz and Happe and chance Venture and Destiny Lucke an ignorance God will destroy and call account of Princesse Of young and old of servants and of Mistres Fortune ye see then is but even a name Which Heathen Nations to themselues did frame Of prophane people only she is Princesse And therefore christians should haue no such Mistres Where God is knowne and truely knowne indeed There Fortunes name is banisht with all speed Ye a all grosse sinne which doth our God offend Which thing I prayse and so my song shall end FINIS A song or Ditty made on this theame I know not what wherein is shewed how men ought not to set their mindes on worldy pleasure but on the living Lord. To the tune of Labandalashot and doth runne on the names of them that gaue the theame and his that made the song VVHo viewes the life of mortall man His state and where of he began Shall find such hugy heapes of woe As neither tongue nor penne can show Wherewith our mindes should daunted bee From vsing worldly mirth and glee And mooue vs to consider well What paines here are prepar'd in hell For wicked people as their lot which haue done heare they know not what If euerie man would heare Gods word and reuerently obey the Lord Then wickednesse would not abound But grace and vertue would be found In yong and old in hie and low In servants and in childre'n also In rich and poore in great and small In preachers and in people all Who delight in this and that And often doe they know not what Looke round about in each degree And marke what crimes and faults we see Behold the court and country too And then note well what great a doe There is in euery kind of state Few are content with simple rate But euery one will elime aloft Till triall hath them plainely taught T is vaine in hope of this or that To say or doe they know not what Loue is not found but here and there Leud lust doth flourish euery