were within thy fault at first Chain'd to thy Act and in thy folly nurst What may we thinke of that ambitious Pope Which dar'd to scoffe vnder heauens glorious Cope Against that God that in his sacred frowne Turns vp his heeles and hurles his pride soone downe When hauing mist a simple childish toy A Peacocke bird which seem'd his onely ioy Distempered much began in heate to chide That few men could his holy presence bide And afterward asham'd of what was past To shew his choller not long time did last Excusde himselfe that he might angry be As well for that as was the Trinitie When discontented for an Apple lost Both Eue and Adam to their paine and cost From Paradise were thrust quite out and beaten And much disgrac't for one poore Apple eaten Now tell me Rome that thinkst thy selfe the minion Christs onely Vicar in thine owne opinion And shouldst his sheepe still to this day haue fed Where was thy Church when Iulius was thy head Thy Papacy I may not here dispute As yet my tongue must of that thing be mute And backe to Adam whence I last digrest Too fortunate my Muse had beene and blest Had it but sung thy first estate and all And neuer knowne the horror of thy fall A greater loue on man was neuer showne Nor on the earth as yet was euer knowne Then all the world to be at thy command Still to this day to serue thy turne and stand All that againe for this he did require To keepe the Garden that was his desire At other times to his immortall fame That thou shouldst praise his glorious holy Name Here was thy calling Adam naught beside His owne example must thy actions guide Sixe dayes to worke to till that holy ground And in the seuenth thy Makers prayses sound For as at first thou wast a body framde So time and place himselfe he hath ordainde Design'd appointed for his seruice pure Not for a day but euer to endure By this thou know'st that he thy person blest To giue thee then his holy sacred Rest And sanctifie the Sabaoth to thy good Aye to be kept in all thy future blood Those that refuse to keepe his Sabaoth holy Gods owne example may conuince of folly But soft I heare some Laodicean make Reu. 3. sinon inuenter of the horse of Troy Euen Sinon like the ground of all to shake To stay my pen with such a question strange As first from Rome now ore the world doth range How God could Rest which neuer wrought as yet For he that workes his labour must be great To frame a matter of so huge a worth As is the Fabrike of the spatious Earth The Sea and Heauens the Firmaments and all Which euer yet within thy sight could fall Oh righteous God that sinfull man should make Within his mouth thy holy word to take And by the same thy sacred actions taxe To wring them now like to a Nose of Waxe simile Too make a doubt and question of that Rest Which to the world for euer thou hast blest T is true I know when God first fram'd the world The waters all within their limits curl'd The firmaments and euery liuing thing Out from the dust he then did Adam bring Made him a man a demi-God in byrth Plac't him his Vice-roy here vpon the earth And by his power all sacred and diuine So fram'd the world as if he had wrought by line Set all in order working in their time Like to the wheeles within a clocke or chime To serue the turne of Adam and his race And all these made but full in sixe dayes space Then did he rest and sate him downe to view And to the heauens vp againe he flew And from the worke which by his word he wrought In sixe dayes space and seeing none was nought But from creating any further matter He onely ceast and least the same might scatter And so returne to what it was at first His prouidence his works hath euer nurst Aye by his power his wisedome and his might The heauens and earth are gouerned aright He worketh still preseruing what was made Far more then can by any man be sayd His armes supporting all this weighty ball Else would the same dissolue againe and fall O God thy Rest hath euer bin admired Seene of thy Saints and of my soule desired The Pagan people to this day that slept In ignorance haue yet a Sabaoth kept Exod. 16. 23. 26. Num. 15. 32. Eze. 20. 13. 20. 24. The Iew at first with Manna wondrous fed His Sabaoth kept by thy example led Though now in error great he snores and sleeps The Saterday his Sabaoth still he keepes No Christian state is so vnciuill rude But keeps thy Rest as thou hast him endude With grace and goodnesse from the Prince of peace The Sunday he from all worlds works doth cease Lead thereunto by that all rising Son On Easter day that rose againe and won The eternall crowne in Paradise first lost A bloody prize to his great paine and cost Besides the examples of thy deerest Saints Thine institution and the holy plaints Of all th' Apostles famous men and Martyrs In all the world within her vtmost quarters Which euer vsde to preach thy word and pray And sanctifie the sacred Sabaoth day The Ethiopian least he should offend To breake thy Rest in superstition pend The Saterday and Sunday both he keeps And in those dayes he often prayes and weeps That thou wouldst pardon all his former sins There is his Rest his happinesse begins In childish toyes in gaming sports and playes He spends small time but keeps his Sabaoths dayes Their royall Queene which came so many miles With cunning questions witty speeches wiles 1. Kin. 10. 1. to the 11. 2. Chr. 9. 1. To tempt to heare and see the courtly guise The wit and words of Solomon the wise May rise in iudgement at that dradfull hower When Christ may also on our faces lower That more respect our pleasures worke and play Then him to serue vpon his sacred day What shall we thinke when Christ the Lord of life Luk. 11. 31. Which shed his bloud to end our mortall strife Shall speake these words out of his holy lips And not a word as yet that euer slips But still hath beene most weighty powerfull round One iot thereof hath neuer fell to th'ground When he himselfe shall thus picke out their Prince To warne vs all our follyes to conuince May we not thinke aswell he meant her land Now at this day as it is knowne to stand Shall like wise rise at his last trumpe and call To staine our liues and shame our actions all Father of Lights which dwellest in a Light That farre exceeds our Owely bleared sight What will become of all our learned wit When Iesus Christ at thy right hand shall sit To make our peace and step twixt thee and vs And we in Vice to run our
course on thus To anger thee so good and iust a God Not once afrayd of thy reuenging Rod But in the day that thou didst early rise Of death and hell to get th' immortall prize In which we were partakers of thy blood And body both vnto our soueraigne good And when we should repent vs of our sins By true contrition which thy mercy wins Engrafted made the members of that head Whose precious bloud our soules but then hath fed Relieue the poore examine well our fall In meditation spend the day and all And when we should thy sacred prayses sing To make thy people all the while to ring Whilst we at Bowles shall sometimes curse and fret And all for threepence which we cannot get And shall maintaine our sinfull deedes in Churches And run our selues to gather vp the Lurches Those that behold vs with repentant eyes We call them fooles and Puritants precise And when the best our companie do shun Home to their house we send for them and run Pardon vs Lord forgiue our great misdeedes Cull out thy Wheate and pluck out all the weedes Which wrong thy people by their ill example The truth neglectin vgly vice to trample Though our Religion we may seeme to halue Like to the Iewes which made the golden calue simile Exod. 32. 4. 5 6 10. In Aarons time and on their holy day Did eate and drinke and rose againe to play If these men by their rude vnciuill sport Thy Maiesty did anger in such sort That had not Moses knowing of their fall In zeale besought them they had perish't all His great desire thy fury could not stay But that three thousand fell within one day Their guerdon iust no liuing man can tell But very like they had gone downe to hell All quick aliue amongst the damned bad The punishment which after Korah had Num. 16. 32. We see alas both grace and goodnesse lurkes scal li. 5. Within the hearts of fierce and crewell Turkes Of Sarazens and Pagan people rude Which with thy truth were neuer yet indude Before such time as their seducer nurst By Sergius helpe most dangerously at first A banefull poyson to infect their bloud O'reflowes the earth much like to Noahs floud Yet these alone by thy example led Or by the light of Nature in them bred Haue euer kept the Fryday in that worth Long time before the most vntimely birth Of Mahomet that Antechrist indeede Who found it so and left it to their seede Besides a world of other people more That heere I could produce in ample store Which euer kept a holy resting day Abstayning then from all rude workes and play The Indian people haue a rest alow'd Ind. Hist gasp Balb. guin dis 〈◊〉 â—d â—cot And those of Iaua that to Idols bowd The Negro black and rich Peguan left Haue each of them a seuerall Sabaoth kept The sacred Sibils with their frantike mother Haue still prefer'd one day before another We haue great God that which these neuer knew Thine owne example and the scriptures true Thy all diuine and holy morrall law Ex. 20. 8 9. 10 Cha. 31. 14 15 Cha. 34. 1. 21. Which these as yet haue neuer heard or saw Ingrost in Sinah writ twice by thy hand To shew the same for euermore should stand Both in the Law and in the Gospells light To come to Church and praise thy name aright Els how should we thy glorious worth extoll But like to Swine liue all at home and loll And neuer thinke how thou at first didst take A little earth and so our bodyes make Our soules infuse in Paradise vs plaste Till for our sins we soone from thence were cast ' Gau'st vs this world Christ Iesus sent besides Which wrought our life out from his bleeding sides But soft I heere that some vpon this clause Haue ventur'd farre to abbrogate the lawes The holy rest a Iewish Sabaoth call Haue vs liue free tide to no law at all But then alas what would become of vs That sift Gods actions tempt his highnesse thus Of all the lawes that to the Iewes he gaue But ten of them in all the world we haue And those reduc'st for feare they may be lost May be compil'd but into two at most These farre more weighty ponderous then the rest Were by his glorious sacred mouth exprest And Christ himselfe that death and hell did tame Hath not abolish't but confirm'd the same Else what meant he when oftentimes he said The heauens and earth the sea and all shall fade Before such time that Gods eternall Word One iot or tittle shall thereof be stird Did this his coming breede a doubt and flaw Still to destroy and not fullfill the law Haue not the Prophets told long since before Of this our Sabaoth which we now adore T is true that some euen in our christian Law Which haue the arts and learned Muses saw Yet haue alledg'd as their assertion Vpon this place anticipation Affirming Moses when those words were writ In Genesis and still are extant yet Gen. 2. 3. Then knew the rest and Sabaoth of the Iewes But this to me seemes rather vncouth newes For can we thinke that Moses did intend When first of all that Genesis was pend These should forgoe and be incerted best As an introduction to the Sabaoths rest That the command cannot be firme and strong Vnlesse these words did guide it all along Vpon this place still trained vp and nurst As grounding it on Gods example first What can they say to all the ancient men The Patriarkes and holy fathers then Before the law which liued long and blest Yet euer kept a sacred seemely rest To serue their God to giue him thanks and pray That late preseru'd them from that lowring day In which the world and all therein was found Besides the Arke were washt away and droun'd And to the Iewes that were with Manna fed Ouer the mountaines forty yeeres were led Which in the Arabian vasty desarts weare Tipe of our Church that God himselfe did reare Out of affliction hunger heate and cold O're hils and dales and highest mountaines rold Vntill at length with wandring hither thither Like sheepe dispearst fould all at last together When oft they murmur'd much repin'd and grieu'd Vntill their God their bodies had releeu'd By sending Quailes more thick then any haile Vpon their fields quite ouer hill and dale And showring downe a pearely dew at neede In shew much like to Coriander seede Sixe dayes together did this Manna fall And in the seauenth was sent them none at all But in the day before the Sabaoths Rest Full twice so much as other dayes at least They gathred vp and till the morrow kept In which they eat and prayd to God and wept To pardon those which on that sacred day Durst seeke the fields to finde the same and play But yet admit the holy Law be past And that in Christ the same
Medly sprang those Gyants first Gen. 6. 4. 5. 12. 13. Monsters of men that made the Earth accurst Base diuelish minds with big aspiring lookes When as a man his neighbour hardly brookes But sheds his bloud squeeseth the flesh and gall Licks vp the gore worse then a Canniball Nature prodigious in their mungrell birth Made them adord yet demy Gods on earth Whilst feare restraind the weaker men in aw To Idolize against her sacred law They spend their dayes to treade the selfe same trace Or worse if may be in this barbarous case That in the end with Brazen cotes of maile They tempt the heauens and seeke the clouds to scale To pull downe God from his triumphant throne By their damn'd Pride and hellish power alone Thus whilst oppression ouerflowes the world The little men still by the greater hurld Their states consum'd their lands and liues all spoyl'd Their cause though iust by greatnesse crost and foyl'd Themselues by others basely bought and sold And hardly vs'd as I before haue told Adam he grieues at this accursed Race Eue she laments with discontented face Both prostrate fall before the God of power To take their soules and send them happy howre So deerest Muse heere in this mortall life The Author That swarmes in troupes of those delight in strife Which neuer rest till all my state be spent But at my Ruine all their aime is bent How could I wish that my last dayes were come Or that my foes were Cardinals of Rome Or that my Peace which almost cost the best Of Lands and Life to liue in quiet rest Were granted me I car'd not which of all But in my way would fortunately fall So should I rest no liuing man annoy Or to the Heauens translate my soule with ioy But why do I cast stones against the wind Thus to disclose the secrets of my mind To waile my woes lay open all my griefe My foes wish well as Authors of it chiefe And all this while no comfort yet I haue But still fell Enuy more and more doth raue To wound my Soule with such inueterate hate As murders all to swallow vp my State O pardon me God may an Angell send To worke my Peace or else some welcome friend Conuert my Foes their Conscience touch with feares Or bring my Cause vnto my Soueraignes eares Oh then how ioyfull shall that happy howre Be to my Soule more sweet then sweetest flowre And glad me more then if I treasures found The greatest Riches on this Earthly ground My future life shall warble sacred layes To sound my God and then my Soueraignes prayse But Adam yet according to thy minde Thou dost Gods loue and all his fauours finde Though in thy youth thou wastvntimely croft When Paradise was by thy folly lost Thy first borne sonnes before thine eyes both slaine Thy daughter stole thy dayes to end in paine And worst of all that these vile Monsters base Should but descend and come from this thy Race That thou shouldst liue but to behold the sinnes The wrongs Oppressions in thâ—…â—…nd begins The Horrors Griefes Vexations howrely fall Vpon the heads of this thy of spring all And last these Gyants heauens blew vaile to rend To treade in blood without all hope to mend Made thee desire that thou thy wish mighst haue To come in Peace to this thy welcome Graue God heares thy cry and sends his Angels bright Clad in white garments of heauens sacred light Attir'd like Nymphs of chaste Dianaes traine With glistring wings a Crowne of life to gaine All to be spangled in rich costly Iems From the crowns top vnto their skirts and hems With Lawrels wreathd close to their Temples chaste And Trumpets dangling by ech louely waste These all came downe thy sorrowes to aswage In thine nine hundreth thirtie yeares of Age To guard the soules both of thy selfe and wife From this worlds care vexation griefe and strife Of from the earth vp to the lofty skies When they haue cheerd and clozd vp both thine eyes Then all their Trumpets in the ayre doth sound From Heauens blew wall downe to the lowest ground Melodiously about the clouds resounding The hils and dales with Eccho all rebounding Till at the last they brought both safe and sure Two welcome soules into Gods presence pure Seth yet suruiues grieues for his parents losse Mourns weeps laments at this sad heauy crosse So he conceiues the Loue of two such friends From this worlds poynt vnto hervtmost ends On euery side of all the Earth and Round Can hardly well be parareld and found He sheds salt teares downe from his cheeks distilling Plaining his woes shewing himselfe vnwilling To part with both stoops downe oft times and kisses Their dead pale lips and from his soule he wishes That his liues blood deare tender hearted Seth Had gone before and but excusd their death His friends come in and brothers sisters all Some cheare him vp others to weeping fall Euen as we see the case oft times our owne The losse of friends to cast our courage downe Amate our minds and makes vs vaile our face Knowing that we must tread the selfe same trace Then vp they take their withered bodyes dead Imbalme them both and wrap them close in lead But first with Nitre Orient spices meet And Mummia Cedar fragrant rich and sweet They all perfume and dresse their bodyes cold Then winde them vp as I before haue told And lay them seemly on a Sable Hearse Sad heauenly sight a bleeding heart to pierce To see the Parents of the totall world Before their eyes thus vp to nothing curld Foure of Seths brothers on their shoulders take The Sable trunke and so from thence they make Procession like a solemne sacred way To Caluerie vpon our Lady day For as the Church doth euermore begin Since God heauens crowne for all our sakes did win Vpon that day to count the Christian yeare So some still say he did mans body reare Out of the dust iust at that instant howre The day and time in which himselfe did powre His holy Spirit in the Virgins wombe And did therein the second Adam tombe And true it is that Adam fram'd by God Liu'd yeares compleate no months nor dayes as od By which we gather that that very day They were both buryed wrapt vp cold in clay The Ceremonies and the sacred Rites The forme and manner all my Sences cites Which Seth then vsde and holy Henoch pure Drawes on my Muse as with a golden lure To sing the same vnto all future times In these rude ragged harsh vnpolisht rimes But that my course another way must bend As one that trauells neare his iourneys end And that my Muse may chance for to be curst When this shall grow and swell beyond my first But yet one thing I may not ouer-slip And leaue the Vales vp to the Mounts to skip For certaine t is that euermore the Iew Hath stedfast held his owne opinion
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
in their holy furious rage Aduentured forth with admiration grace But to behold thy ancient sacred face And none of them as yet haue euer found Or came in sight of thy most heauenly ground Which farre in Eden in the orient lies Vnfit for man to see with sinfull eyes Some men there be which are perswaded plaine Papistes Bellermine and others That reall place doth to this day remaine Where holy Enoch deare Elias pure And Iohn the Saint shall till doomes day endure In far more pleasures then can be exprest Their bodies liuing with their soules at rest Transported safe within that sacred wall But in what climate of this spacious Ball The same should be far in the aire haue gaz'd Their learning knowledge wits and all amaz'd The goodly Region in the Sirian land Esay 7 3. Iulian Tzet ad â—uo pag. 100 Hierâ—com in Eze. lib. 8 Is thought the place wherein the same did stand Where rich Damascus at this day is built And Habels bloud by Caine was after spilt The wondrous beauty of whose fruitfull ground The great content which some therein haue found The sweete encrease of that delightfull soile Yeelding a world with little care and toile The dammaske Roses and the fragrant flowers The louely fields and pleasant arbour'd bowers And euery thing that in aboundance breede Haue made some thinke this was the place indeede Where God at first did on the earth abide With holy Adam and his louely Bride And some there be that in the Orient waded Barbasa Which to this day are certainely perswaded The goodly land that farre in India lies Whose rich renowne through all the world now flyes Vnder the Line and famous Zeilan call'd On euery side with mighty Neptune wal'd May be the place where first our Parents stai'd The earth it selfe with all heauens gifts arai'd Besides the treasures of that pleasant land Linschotten An Corsali The fruitfull regions in the same which stand The goodly riuers and braue mounting hills Sweete temperate aire on euery side that fills The downy plaines with such a fragrant smell As winged fame vnto our eares doth tell The spicy Trees and braue delightfull flowers The dainty walkes and guilt aspiring towers And all things else that man can well desire Or discontent of nature may require Long life of dayes plenty of cates and cheere All which she powers as on her daling deere Within her lap hath plaste a wonder strange For euery man which to that place shall range Perswading all that euer saw the same That Eue and Adam forth from thence first came Iust the midst of this delicious land Within the center of the same doth stand A lofty mount whose top doth pierce the skies And round about on euery side there lies The goodliest plaine which euer man beheld That foure foote deepe with water fresh is fild And eighteene miles in bredth the same is ouer Simile Much like the Sea from Calis strand to Douer Vpon the top of this admired hill Maffrus lib. 5. Stands yet a Table fixed firmely still Of sollid stone that long time there hath beene In which the forme of Adams foote is seene The Mores beleeuing that that stamp and print Was first by him indented on the flint The mount it selfe Piramid like is built Vpon whose top are stately buildings guilt Plenty of wealth of rarest iewels store The height thereof full twenty miles and more The people all on euery side which dwell Haue still affirm'd and for a truth doe tell That this indeede was Paradise at first Whose fatall fruit made all of vs accurst And to this day hath superstition led Vertoman lib. 3. Chap. 4 A world of Pilgrims with blind errour fed By Mahomet that antechristian beast Which Paradise plaste in the radiant east Whose fond conceits of this religious place Made some men come three thousand miles apace With great deuotion extreme labour paine To wash their sins within this miry plaine Thinking the water in this vally lies Distil'd at first from Eue and Adams eyes When great with griefe and far surcharg'd with teares They shed so much as all the ground heere beares In woe bewayling of their wilfull sins The ioyfull end where true content begins From sin first wash't then vp the hill they clime With labours great in prayers spend their time And sacrifize to Mauors God their fill Which plaste their feete vpon this holy hill Though their mistakings may be wail'd and blam'd Yet Adams hill the lofty mount is nam'd And that which better may confirme their hope That this indeede vnder heauens starry cope Of all the earth may be the likeliest place Where Adam first receiu'd his great disgrace Not farre from hence is seene a flaming hill Of euery man cald Balananus still Which sends forth smoake and hideous brands of fire Threatning the clowds and elements to tire Much like the sword the tree of life did guard As if with heauen the earth and all it ward This makes them thinke confirmes their fancies more Then all the rest I told you of before But if in India on this famous mount Adam at first receiued his sacred count And so from thence his fruitfull spawne at last Vpon the face of all the earth are cast What may we thinke of that renowned hill Whose matchlesse fame full all the world doth fill Within the midst of Ethiopia fram'd In Africa and Amara still man'd Where all the Gods may sit them downe and dine Iust in the East and vnderneath the line Pomona Ceres Venus Iuno chast And all the rest their eyes haue euer cast Vpon this place so beautifull and neate Of all the earth to make it still their seate A christall riuer downe to Nilus purl'd Wonder of Nature Glory of this world Deere Amara thy amorous name doth cite My lowly pen thy lofty prayse to write If all the world and all therein were mine All were to weake to match themselues with thine In all the earth and all the rest to loose Thy seat to loue instead of all I de choose There are the Temples couered all with guilt The Pallaces and glorious buildings built A Library so famous rich and round As that the like on earth was neuer found There are the Muses and the learned Nymphes The royall issue and the best borne Imppes The seed of kings vpon thy body nurst The Preet himselfe kept long within the first Admired mount how hast thou in all ages Beene still renownde for rarest personages Thy treasures rich beyond compare that lyes Within thy wals may dazle both mine eyes Two famous Queenes in Maiesty and grace With Lawrell boughs haue much adornd thy face As if themselues with Nature did combine To wreath thy browes with sacred worke diuine The first of those was faire Magueda cald Braue gallant Queene within thy towre instald 1. King 10. to 11. That let the rest and wenther selfe to see 2. Chro. 9.
1. If Salomon could well compare with thee But when she saw and glutted had her eye With sight of that which farre and wide did flye Alone she leaues his glorious Temple guilt His stately Court and all that ere he built His pleasant land and curious deckings fine As all not worth for to compare with thine And so returnes within short space againe Within thy wals a royall Queene to raigne Gods true Religion in those dayes profest Away she brought and plac't it in thy brest The other Queene that hath adornd thy browes With Lawrell crowne of sacred Christian bowes Act 8. 27. Was Candace great Empresse of such fame As Enuy still cannot obscure her name When Indica her loyall Eunuch went To Iewry land vpon Ambassage sent Homewards returning on his weary way In Pilgrymage straight forced was to stay By God himselfe which by the faithfull bide And Philip sent to be his onely guide O matchlesse Queene braue pearle of women kind Renowned fame shall thy chast temples bind Which by thy meanes as old Records yet sayth Conuerted all vnto the Christian faith Baptized thy selfe within that sacred fount Which stands still firme vpon thy holy mount And in that Church whereas the God of loue Descended downe in shape of flaming Doue All sacred hill how can I choose but wonder To see the God of lightning flames and thunder That rends the rockes and all to powder pashes The sturdy mounts with sudden sulphery flashes Descend himselfe vpon thy glorious head When all thy Princes were baptiz'd and fed With that true Manna that from heauen was showred When Christ his bloud vpon thy browes was powred Within that Temple of immortall fame That till doomes dayes shall euer beare his name And which before his dearest bloud was spilt Vnto the Son was consecrate and built O Amara which thus hast beene beloued Still to this day thy foote was neuer moued But in the heat of most tempestuous warres God hem'd thee in with strong vnconquered barres Protected safe and kept thy feet vpright Against the world the flesh and all to fight No maruell then since man at first was humbled Vpon thy head hath falne himselfe and stumbled In admiration of thy gifts diuine When Nature Arts the Gods and all combine To cull thee out in farre aboundant measure And on thy browes to showre their dearest treasure If in thy walls as some this day haue thought Adam and Eue by God himselfe were brought And plast secure in pleasures wondrous well Till from thy top for wilfull sinne they fell Some men againe more farre then these are wide Whose large conceits in Eden cannot bide Fond franticke men the sacred truth to reach And Paradise ore all the world to streach Wolfangus Wissenburg Soropius Vadianus The land of Eden of that spatious worth To thinke it went quite ouer all the earth The lofty wals which hem'd the same in round To be the Spheres that in their vtmost bound On euery side about the world do passe And seeme to vs much like a wall of Brasse The flaming Sword that guards the tree of life From sinfull Adam and his likorish wife Haue presupposd in all the world alone To be the hot and horrid burning Zoane That mans exile by cursed enuious fate Was nothing but the changing of his state When at the first from God aboue he fell To be entombd within the graue and hell In ancient times when people were besotted Patricius van 10 lib. 20. Not in that vice which some of vs vs call potted But in blind errour of the heauenly light Till God by Christ enlightned had their sight Perswaded were that Paradise at first In which old Eue and Adam both were nurst A reall place vpon this earth was set Vntill for sin the world it selfe was wet With such a shower on euery side and round That all therein were quite consum'd and drownd Then Paradise his owne peculiar seate Gen. 7. 1. To Thelaste A pleasant place delightfull sweete and neate For feare the floud which o're the earth did flow When Noahs Arke did on the waters row Should ruinate the goodly sacred place And bring the walls iust in the selfe same ease That Henoch City in those dayes was found When all the world and all therein was drown'd Transported it within a instant quite Far from the earth and reach of this our sight And plaste the same euen in a moment soone Within the circle of the lofty Moone And some there be as far as Rome haue rambled The Manichees origen Rom. familestes ad Renegaoes Which back againe for want of meanes haue ambled Like vgly Bat the monster of his kind That vice can see but yet to goodnesse blind Happy were we when first they ran from hence Casting a mist vpon the Scriptures sence To thinke the place where Adam first did fall Was but a tale and no such place at all That holy Moses in his sacred worke Hath little true but only fictions lurke Damn'd wicked man the child of vnbeliefe Esa 33. 15 16 17. The Word distrust and thus to play the thiefe Gods Church to rob his chosen flock to fleece The truth to blur and heere to pick a peece Wringing the same or as we vse to squeese A Sponge with water or such kind of Leese Simile The Scriptures true and heauenly Hebrew Story Conuerting all into an allegory Thou soarest high heere is thy lofty flight Gen. 2. 8. 2. King 19. 12 False hearted Rome which canst not see the light That shineth cleere within the Scripture lyes The truth it selfe hath bleared both thine eyes Like to the Bird thou beareth in thy crest That seldome times vpon the earth can rest But mounts aloft with proud aspiring wings Simile The Eagle Till base desires downe to the ground him brings As if the light he could no more endure But falls and stoopes vnto a carrion lure The Sodomites which in the dayes of Lot About the walls where groaping very hot Gen. 19. 11. To find the Angels that his house possest Till fearefull blindnesse stayd their course to rest Were beaten downe with horrid sulphery smoke That instantly their cursed breath did choke Transform'd their townes in lesse then halfe an houre When God but once vpon their vice did lowre With fire and brimstone strange vnwonted thunder Of all the world the sad and fearefull wonder Amazing all which at this day behold it To see how God hath vp to nothing rold it Made it a puddle and infectious sinke Not fir for man once of her source to drinke Euen so thy wilfull cursed vnbeliefe Prophane abusing of the scriptures chiefe Thy Sabaoth breaking couetuousnesse and pride With all the sins within the world beside Haue made thee blind to find that louely place Where Adam first was in his greatest grace About the walls thou canst not find the dore To come withinland view the plenteous store Thy
to dance With many toyes that in their minor yeares Giues great content the Parents loue endeares Let these men speake but with a Iudgement sound What high content themselues haue often found In the like sports of tender Infants sweet That hardly yet can crawle vpon their feet The fame we may of Eue and Adam thinke And ten times more then in our heads can sinke How in their Babes they ioyd and tooke delight And neuer well when they were out of sight Caine in the blossoms of his blooming youth As t is recorded in the sacred truth Takes much delight in planting of the seeds The fruitfull Vine and all that Nature breeds The choycest rarest daintiest and the best That euer yet she bare vpon her brest Walkes all about and viewes the richest ground By Paradise on euery side and round With shou'ls and spades he tumbles vp the earth His chiefest ayme to be a man of worth And Lord it ore his other brethren all That they may bowe within his presence fall To that intent he labours workes and toyles In sweate and dust i'th'durt oft times he moyles Like a meere worldling spends his youthfull dayes His minde oft runs a thousand kinde of wayes If he can finde some new contriued tricke To ease himselfe the soyle vp cleane to stricke And bring the same in temper for the graine That he may play and yet possesse the gaine Industry Reason all the Arts conspire To frame an Engin fiercest horse to tire The Oxen Cattle and the strongest Waines That euer wrought vpon the fertill plaines Himselfe and all in labouring with this plough His Ioynts grow stiffe and brawny hands all rough Yet in the same he finds so much content That his best dayes in this hard worke are spent His brother Habell doth not idly liue But to some Art his toward mind doth giue Whose chiefe delight is in the harmelesse sheepe The bleating flockes vpon the downes to keepe To follow them when oftentimes his eyes Are vpwards fixt towards the lofty skies Obseruing thus a thousand seuerall things That heauenly matter to his sences brings Their number Order with their great encrease And quiet life spending their dayes in peace By faith perceiuing hidden mysteries The sum of that which in the Scripture lies Esa 53. 67. How from the fould a Lambe shall forth be taken Which would be one day of the rest forsaken That he should be the sacrifice and guide Sole Ransome full for all the world beside Thus these two brothers liu'd and spent their dayes Oft times in worke sometimes in sport and playes In as much loue delight content and all As euer two that breath'd vpon this Ball. If you should ramble ore the totall Earth You le hardly finde two brethren from their birth Throughout the world in all the Ages spent In true bred Loue an euener course that went At Bed at Boord at Home abrode i' th' weather They seldome part but alwayes keepe together Walke talke discourse euen all the day and night They are not well but one i' th' others sight All the weeke long delightfully they passe The time away in browzing vp the grasse In husbandrie and such as I haue told But on Gods Rest pins them within a fold Or ground well fenc't on euery side about That they may feed but yet not wander out Vpon which Day when once out of their bed By the example of their Parents led They altogether meete to Rest and Pray To sanctifie the sacred Sabaoth day To thinke on God craue pardon for their sins Where Adam then to teach them all begins Instructs them well in true Religion first Tels them the cause which made them thus accurst To vse their wits to labour worke and toyle In the wide fields to spend their dayes and moyle To keepe the sheepe and by their cunning sleight To frame an Engine of such wondrous weight Whereas God knowes before their fearefull fall In Paradise they needed none at all Wils them to loue intirely void of strife The Heauenly way vnto the Tree of Life This is their worke and holy practise pure Sweete exercise for euer to endure Thus they continue running of their race Whilst shearing day and Haruest comes apace Then they bestir them toyle it out all day Inning their corne making the new Mowne Hay And in the end they altogether feast So giue God thanks and from their labour Rest When the next Sabaoth clad in seemely suites They Sacrifice the first of both their fruits In shew of thanks for all the plenteous store That flocks and fields to their content hath bore Habell begins to shew his gratefull mind Seekes all the flock the chiefest Lambs to find The first falne fruits the goodliest fat and faire That all the World cannot with them compare The golden prize that Iason brought to Greece From Câ—â—châ—s Ile was not so fine a fleece As each of these vpon their backs did bring To fleede and cloath in Earth the greatest King He brings them freely with a willing heart Euen glad with them and all the rest to part And layes them downe before the God of might Both in his fathers and his brothers sight Offring them vp a sacrifice most pure Vnspotted cleane his sinfull soule to cure Implores th' eternall praying euer still For to be pleas'd thus to accept his will As a meere figure and a sacred Tipe Of that deare Lamb whose bloud away shall wipe The scarlet sinnes that in the Earth shall flowe With Isop wash clense them as white as Snow The Prayers speeches heauenly gratefull words The inward heart and meaning all accords The ascending sauour sweete perfuming scent With that pure Lambe which in the same is meant Climes vp the Aire and mounts to God aboue An Offring free accepted full of Loue Which thing to shew that he was partly pleaz'd His anger past and all his wrath appeaz'd Iust at that instant downe from Heauen did shine A burning fire and sacred light diuine Which in their sight conuey'd the Sacrisice Of from the Earth vp to the lofty skyes When presently a voyce was downeward cast This I accept for thine offences past Caine more for shew then either Loue or zeale To God Religion or his owne soules weale Stands by beholding of the sacred light And voyce diuine downe from the Prince of might Expecting that his formall sacrifice Stuft with all Guile Hippocrisie and Lyes Ambition Pride base Couetousnesse accurst Yet thought his gift should he accepted first As comming from the eldest first borne Peere The Son and Heire whom Adam loued deere Medusa damn'd in foule black vgly cloathes That all the world most deadly hates and loathes Swolne like a Toade her lookes cast downe to hell Where none but fiends and hatefull monsters dwell Whose cursed haire about her shoulders falls Powdred with Serpents full of poysoned Galls Hissing and crawling round about her head Hatcht by a Viper in her wombe that bred Rends vp
vices all Brough Mart. Luther Caluin Tremelius Perecius vpon Gen. 4. 26. That Sethes great sonne and all his future Race Did now begin dumb Idols to imbrace And that their rites and sacrifices slaine Were all intended vnto Charles his waine The Sunne and Moone the Starres about this border As blind Deuotion led them out of order Yet Enoch deere my Muse can hardly thinke Nor can it once within my Braines to sinke But that the Plant from whence rose Christ his flock Did yeeld forth fruit according to the stock And that the line from whence the Church is sprung But that must be vnspotted chast and young Cleane vndefiled pure in euery part In Ages all according to the Hart Euen in the time when Adam and Wife Liu'd both in peace deuoid of care and strife And Seth their Sonne though all the rest were bad Yet he the knowledge of the Godhead had And taught it thee to leaue vnto thy seede By which thy soule did hourely on it feede Vntill the last of this thy Glasse was runne Then didst thou dye and leftst it thy sonne And so from thence in euery Age it past Till Noahs Arke was on the waters cast Successiuely from whence it after went Till Christ himselfe vpon the Earth was sent And that the Crosse with crimson bloud was dide To pay the sinnes of all the world beside With such a Ransome of eternall fame As euermore must alwayes blaze his Name From whence the Church now in her latest night In many a place yet hath her Candlelight Full ninty yeares thou liuedst at the least When Kenan was conceiued in the brest Kenan bornâ— Of thy deare Spouse and thou wast all the while Quight out of hope not seene at once to smile In disperation as a man for lorne Till thy first Babe into the World was borne Thy name bewraying of thy discontent When Kenan be to glad thy heart was sent And made thee Father of a thriuing sonne Whose actions all vnto thy mind did run He at the age of threescore yeares and ten Psal 90. 10 Mahalaieel borne In Dauids dayes the dying age of men Did then beget great Mahalaleel young A sweete fac't Imp with nimble pleasing tongue Whose whole delight was working euer still To prayse the Lord and execute his will Whilst by examples void of enuious guile By smooth sweete preaching in a goulden stile And beating downe Oppression Pride and Hate The Churches eyes he did illuminate Iust at the age of threscore yeares and fiue Adam and Eue yet being both aliue Great Mahalaleel sonne of Kenan past He â—ared brings into the world at last Iared borne Whose whole delights were all to goodnesse bent As if that he was from the clouds downe sent To cheere vp Eue and Adam in their Caues And comfort them vnto their happy graues He long time liues the chastest man of all Loues darts were throwne but at a brazen wall Vntill at length it sanke into his brest The Churches Line vpon his Race should Rest Then doth he pause and vnto marriage goe Iust at a hundred threescore yeares and two And in the strength of this his body high Begat a child which neuer liu'd to dye Enoch the seuenth that euer yet was bred Enoch borne Gen. 6. 24. From whom the Church doth now deriue her head But Enoch stay I cannot but admire The chast condition of thy reuerent Sire To liue so long within so prime an Age When euery obiect as a pleasing Page Might rauish sence allure the chastest eye With lookes more cleere then is the purest dye And when the Angels if the Booke be true Book of Enoch Came downe from Heauen their beauties all to view Great powerfull God what can I thinke or speake When all my wits are for this point to weake But to conceiue thy glorious Angels bright How they can be intangled with the sight And pleasing lookes of this fond sinfull sex Though fram'd as t were out of the Virgins wax Yet drawne entiste to euery thing is ill Euen as occasion workes vnto their will I know some thinke their weake opinions sound Viues Euseb Lactan. That in those dayes few women chast were found But that Pride Enuy Lust Dissembling Guile Did their white hands with all foule things defile And that the Diuels with Lucifer which fell From Hell arose with woman kind to dwell By which their seede against dame Natures lawes Prodigiously thus mixed was the cause To bring forth Monsters in that fearefull case Huge Giants tall of Gog and Magogs Race Eze. 38. 23. Reuel 20. 8. Such as not now can any where be found For whom the world was shortly after drown'd Others there be that thinke the Angels bright Tertullian Sarazens l. 3. 5 Which then stood pure before the most of might With twelue great Princes of their royall band Came downe from Heauen in lareds dayes did stand Vpon the top of lofty Hermon Hill There curst and vowd for to obtaine their will Vpon mens Daughters which their eyes had seene Sweete louely faire delightfull young and greene And that the Mount from that time forth was nam'd The Hill of Hermon as not once asham'd That their foule plot to this vile Hidra growne Should by the name still to this day be knowne Semixas great which was their chiefest Prince Book of Enoch Iude. 6. 9. 14. Disswaded first from this foule curst offence Fearing the tortures of the Angells all Their sins and shame vpon his head would fall Till by Arachiell and the rest all ten That in this place my Muse is loath to pen He gaue consent and so from thence all went Euen as their minds on Hermon hill were bent But God aboue soone sendeth Michaell downe Who binds Semixa with a sacred frowne Reu. 12. 7. 8 9. Chaines him in hell and all his of-scum Race Ties to the hils as Fairy Goblins base The rest and all the selfe same cup do taste Heauens fowre Archangels these foule fiends so waste That all Earths monsters sprong from hell at first Must by the flood be washt away and curst A third opinion that our Age doth yeeld In this large goodly ample spatious field Amongst the Arabian Christian Turke and Iew Which sounds to reason likelyest to be true Is that Seths issue from the Church deriued Though in the depth of learned Arts they diued And seem'd Gods Sonnes adopted sweet of face Yet linck't themselues in Caines adulterous Race By which their Spawne from this vile mingle mangle Began with Pride contentiously to brangle With griping pawes to satiate their fill The harmelesse childs poore weake mans state to spill Most barbarously to trample on the head Of the chaste Virgine to deflowre her bed To feed on gore inhumanly to tare Mans flesh in peeces gnawe his bones all bare And tyranize the great to wrong the lesse To act those things which all the world may gesse Out from this