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A13512	Taylors Vrania, or His heauenly muse With a briefe narration of the thirteene sieges, and sixe sackings of the famous cittie of Ierusalem. Their miseries of warre, plague, and famine, (during their last siege by Vespasian and his son Titus.) In heroicall verse compendiously described.; Urania	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1616 (1616)	STC 23806; ESTC S118287	24,950	88

Whil'st the besieged that within did dwell Amongst themselues to fell sedition fell Like neigh'bring bauins lyeng neere each other One burnes and burning each one burne another So did the Iewes each other madly kill And all the streets with their slaide corpses fill Eleazer Simon Iohn all disagree And rend Ierusalem in peeces three These each contending who should be the chiefe More then the Romans caus'd their Contries griefe Iohn scorn'd Eleazer should be his superior And Eleazer thought Iohn his inferior And Symon scornd them both and each did scorne By any to be rul'd or ouer-borne The Citie sundred thus in triple factions Most horride bloody and inhumane actions Were still committed all impieties In sundry sorts of vile varieties All sacrilegious and vngodly acts Were counted Noble meritorious facts They striu'd each other to surpasse in euill And labor'd most most how to serue the deuill These men of grace and goodnes had no thought But daily madly gainst each other fought They hurly burly all things ouerturn'd Their store-houses with victuals downe they burn'd With hearts more hard then Adamantine rocks They drailed Virgins by the Amber locks The Reuerend Aged they did rend and teare About the streets by snowie antient haire Yong Infants some their harmles braines dash out And some on points of Launces borne about That 't is not possible to write with pen The barb'rous outrage of these deuilish men For they vnmindfull of the Roman force Themselu's did waste and spoyle without remorce Their cruell slaughters made their furious foes Relent and weep in pittie of their woes Whil'st they relentles Villaines voyde of pitty Consume and ruinate their mother-Citty The Channels all with purple gore o're flowde The streets with murdred carkasses were strowde The Temple with vnhallowed hands defilde Respect was none to age sex man or childe Thus this three-headed hellish multitude Did waste themselu's themselu's themselu's subdude Whil'st they within still made their strength more weak The Roman Rams th'oposed walls did break Whose dreadfull battry made the Cittie tremble At which the Factious all their powers assemble And all together like good friends vnite And 'gainst their foes they sally forth and fight Like a swolne Riuer bounded in with banks Opposed long with Pike-like Reedy Ranks At last th' ambitious torrent breakes his bounds And ouer-runs whole Lordships and confounds The liuing and the liueles that dares bide The furie of his high insulting pride Euen so the Iewes from out the Cittie venter'd And like a flood the Roman Army enter'd O'rewhelming in their desp'rate madnes all That durst withstand them or assault the wall They set the fearefull Engines all on fire And brauely fighting made their foes retire The battell done back came these hare-braind men And each the others foe deuide agen Pell mell confusion then againe began All order straight vnto disorder ran Their corne and victualls all consum'd with fire Their hunger-starued bodies 'gins to tire Prouision in a moment spoyld and wasted Which kept might well for many yeers haue lasted Then Famine like a Tyrant roames and rages Makes faint yet furious hauock of all ages The Rich the poore the old the yong all dies All staru'd and fleshles bare Anatomies This was a plague of plagues a woe of woes On euery side their death did them inclose But yet the manner how to lose their breaths Did more torment them then an host of deaths To sallie forth the Romans shed their blood To stay within they starue for want of food And if they would go forth the gates were shut And if they staid within their throats were cut That if they stay or go or go or stay Th' are sure to meet destruction euery way But of all torments hunger is the worst For through the stonie walls they say 't will burst These people with war woe and want beset Did striue how they might to the Romans get They hopde to finde more mercy in their swords Then their still-dying famisht state affords Mans wit is sharpest when he is opprest And wisdom amongst euills likes the least They knew Vespasian for a Noble foe And one that did not glory in their woe They thought it best his clemencie to trie And not immurde with hungry famine die Resolued thus dispairing in their hopes A number slyding downe the walls with ropes Fled vnto Tytus who bemoand their case Relieuing them and tooke them to his Grace Thus fortie thousand neere with famine staru'd Were all vnhop'd for by their foes preseru'd The Cittie soldiers search'd each house to see Where any victuals might conuayed be And if they any found they thought it fit To beat the owners for concealing it But if they saw a man looke plump and fat His throat they presently would cut for that They thought him too much pamperd too wel fed And to saue meat and drinke they strike him dead Some men and women Rich and Nobly borne Gaue all they had for one poore strike of corne And hid themselues and it below the ground In some close vault they eat the same vn-ground If any could get slesh they eat it raw The strongest still the weakest ouer-awe For hunger banisht naturall respect It made the husband his owne wife reiect The wife doth snatch the meat from out his hand Which would and should hir loue and life cōmand All pitty from the Mother was exilde She teares and takes the victuals from hir Childe The Childe doth with the Parents play the theefe Steales all their food and lets them pine in griefe Nor Free or Bond-man Fathers nor yet Mothers Wiues Husbands Seruants masters sisters brothers Propinquitie or strong Affinitie Nor all the rights of Consanguinitie No Law or Rule or Reason could beare sway Where strength cōmands there weaknes must obay The pining seruant will no master know The son his father will no duty show The Commons did no Magistrate regard Each one for one and but for one he carde Disordred like the Cart before the horse All reu'rence and respect did yeeld to force These Miscreants with vigilance all watch'd Where they could see a dore or lock'd or latch'd There they supposd the people were at meat And in their outrage ope the dores they beat Where entring if they found them feeding fast From out their throats they teare the meat in haste Halfe eaten halfe vneaten they constraine The wretched people cast it vp againe They halde them by the eares the house about To force them bring supposed victuals out Some by the thumbs hang'd vp some by the toes Some prick'd with bodkins some with many blowes Tormented were to force them to reueale Meat when they had not any to conceale Now all was fish that fell into the net And all was food that fraud or force could get Grasse hay barke leaues of trees and Dogs and Cats Toades Frogs wormes snailes flies maggots Mice and Rats All filthy stinking and contagious Rootes The couers of their Coaches shooes and

number Misvnderstanding tongues did there incumber Thus he that sits in Heau'n their plots derided And in their height of pride their tongues deuided For in this sudden vnexpected change The wife and husband Sire and sonne were strange The Brother could not vnderstand the Brother The Daughter stands amazed at hir Mother By euery one a seuerall part is acted And each vnto the other seems distracted Thus by the Iustice of the Lord of Hosts Each seuerall tongue was driu'n to seuerall coasts And GOD peculiar to himselfe did chuse His most beloued yet hard-hearted Iewes Iehouahs honor with them then did dwell His Name was only knowne in Israel Salem his habitation was of yore In Sion men his glory did adore Th' Eternall trine and trine Eternall one In Iurie then was called on alone The sonnes of Heber were th' adopted stocke Gods onely Chosen holy sacred flocke Amongst all Nations them he only lik'd And for his owne vse them he culd and pik'd Them his sin-killing sauing word he gaue T' instruct thē what condemn'd what wold saue To them he gaue his word his Couenants band His Patriarks his Prophets and his hand Did blesse defend instruct correct and guide The Iewes and no one Nation else beside For them a world of wonders hath he done To them he sent his blest begotten Sonne On them a Land he freely did bestow Where milke and honie plenteously did flow With them he was till they from him did turne And wilfully against his blessings spurne All heau'nly earthly Soules or Bodies good They lack'd no temp'rall or eternall food His Temple builded in Ierusalem Where he had daily sacrifice from them Where though their seruice was defect and lame Th' Almighties mercy did accept the same For though Mans sin is great God hath decreed To take his best endeuour for a deed And whilst they in his loue and feare abode They were his people he their gracious God But when impieties began to breed And ouergrow old Iacobs sacred seed When they from good to bad began to fall From ill to worse from worst to worst of all When GODS great mercies could not them allure And his sharp threatnings could not them procure When each ones body was vnto the soule A loathsom dungeon to a prisoner foule When sin all shameles the whole land o're spreads Then God threw dreadfull vengance on their heads And for their heynous heaping sin on sin Ierusalem hath oft assaulted bin First Shishack Egypts King with might and maine Made hauock there in Rehoboams Raigne The Citie Temple Golden vessells Shields All as a prey to the Egiptians yeelds Next Ioas came the King of Israel In Amaziahs daies with furie fell He brought Iudea to Samariaes thrall King Kingdom Princes Peeres and people all Then thirdly Rezin King of Aram came In Ahaz time with sword and furious flame Th' Assirian great Zenach'rib was the next By whom good Hezekiah was perplext But when blasphemous Pagans puft with pride Contemptuously the GOD of Gods defide The Lord of Lords whom no power can withstand Tooke his owne gracious glorious cause in hand He vsd no humane Arme or speare or sword But with his All-commanding mighty word One Angell sent to grisly Plutoes den A hundred eighty and fiue thousand men Then fiftly was Ierusalem subdude In Iudaes blood th' Assirians hands imbrude Manasses Godles glory did expire All yeeld vnto th' insulting foes desire Vsurping Conquest all did seaze vpon The King in chaines-bound sent to Babylon Till he Repenting to his GOD did call Who heard his cry and freed him out of thrall Then sixtly Pharaoh-Necho Egipts King To great distresse all Iudaes Land did bring With fell confusion all the Kingdom fill'd And with a dart good King Iosias kill'd The Shepheard for his wandring sheep was shooke The godly Prince from godles people tooke So this iust zealous and religious Prince Whose like scarce euer Raign'd before or since Th' Almighty to himselfe did take agen As knowing him too good for such bad men Nabuchadnezer next made them obay When Zedekiah did the Scepter sway King Kingdom Peeres and People all o'rethrowne All topsie-turuy spoyld and tumbled downe The curst Caldeans did the King surprise Then slew his Sons and next pluck'd out his eyes Then vnto Babilon he was conuayde In Chaines in Prison and in Darknes layde Till death his Corps did from his soule deuide He liu'd a slaue and sadly gladly dyde The Citie and the Temple burnt and spoyld With all pollution euery place was soyld The holy vessels all away were borne The sacred Garments which the Priests had worne All these the Caldies voide of all remorce Did carry vnto Babylon perforce Which seuenty yeeres in slauerie and much woe They kept and would by no meanes let them goe Till Persian Cirus did Earths glory gaine Who freede the Iewes and sent them home againe He rendred backe their vessells and their store And bad them build their Temple vp once more Which many yeeres in glorious state did stand Till Ptolomie the King of Egipts band Surprisde the Iewes and made them all obay Assaulting them vpon the Sabboth day Next after that from Rome great Pompey came And Iudaes force by force perforce did tame Then did the Caesars beare the earthly sway The vniuersall world did them obay And after that the Romane power did place The Idumean Herods graceles Grace Him they created Tetrarch demy King Gainst whom the Iewes did boldly spurne and fling For they had sworne that none but Dauids seed In the seat Royall euer should succeed But Sossius and King Herods armies strength Did ouer-run them all in breadth and length By hostile Armes they did them all prouoke To beare the burthen of their awfull yoke And lastly them the Romanes ouer-run By valiant Titus old Vespasians sonne Then fell they to an vnrecouer'd wane They all in generall were or slaine or tane Then was the extirpation of them all Their iust worst last most fatall finall fall Thus mercy being mock'd pluckd iudgmēt down Gods fauour being scorn'd prouokes his frowne Aboue all Nations he did them respect Below all Nations he did them deiect Most vnto them his fauour was addicted Most vpon them his furie was inflicted Most neere most deere they were to him in loue And farthest off his wrath did them remoue He blest he curst he gaue and then he tooke As they his word obayde or else forsooke How oft Iehouah seem'd his sword to draw To make them feare his precepts and his Law How oft he raisd them when they headlong fell How oft he pardond when they did rebell How long did Mercy shine and Iustice winke When their foule crimes before Gods face did stinke How oft Repentance like a pleasing sauour Repurchasd GODS abused gracious fauour When he did blessings vpon blessings heape Then they ingratefull held them meane cheape Their plenty made them too too much secure They their Creators yoke would not endure They