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Davids troubles remembred in 1. Absolons sheep-shearing. 2. Ioab projecting. 3. Bathsheba bathing. 4. Israel rebelling. 5. Ahitophel hanging. 6. David returning.
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Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?, attributed name.
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pills So Nathan doth this Parable apply A seeming-sweet but bitter remedy Pardon my Liege saith he if Iustice I Desire when sinnes to Heaven for vengeance cry Lo in a City were nay which is more Still are two men one rich the other poore The rich had mighty Heards and Flocks the poore A little Lambe had onely for his store Deare bought which he at home with him did cherish And even amongst his sonnes and daughters nourish Drank of his cup eate of his bread and ay As his own daughter in his bosome lay But lo a stranger to the rich man came Who secretly purloins the poore mans Lamb Whereof he for the stranger doth prepare And his own Heard and all his Lambs did spare Now as the Lord lives David doth reply The man that did the thing deserves to dye Besides he foure-fold shall the Lamb restore Because he was so cruell to the poore As he that doth besiege a mighty Tower Doth use at first more policy than power But when the breach is made and he got in To shew his strength and courage doth begin And as we see Ambassadours of Kings In formes are curteous but advance the things Which unto them their master doth command With resolution so doth Nathan stand The breach with as much courage to maintain As he the same by subtile meanes did gaine Thou art the man saith Nathan thou alone This vile abhominable thing hast done Thou art the rich Vriah was the poore Thou hast thy choise of wives he one no more Which thou hast ravisht and her husband slain The wicked stranger lust to entertain This is the thing I must make plainly known The words I speak are Gods and not mine own I have annointed thee the King of all My people and thee freed from hand of Saul I gave to thee thy Masters house and wives And to thy hand committed all the lives Of Israel and Iudah and would more To thee have given if thou hadst wanted store Oh! why shouldst thou my Precepts thus despise And do this wicked evill in mine eyes The stout Vriah by thy sword is dead And thou his wife hast taken to thy bed This Worthy oft escap'd more dangerous fights Thy sword hath kil'd him not the Ammonites The sword shall never from thine house depart Because thou hast despised me and art Defil'd with ravishing Vriahs wife And for thy pleasure took'st away his life Thus saith the Lord against thee I will raise Up evill in thine house even in thy dayes Thy fruit begotten in Adultery Shall onely breed thee sorrow and so dye Thy Sonne with incest shall defile the bed Of thine own daughter by him ravished Thy Sonnes shall rise up one against another And Brothers hands imbrew with bloud of Brother Thy Wives shall be defil'd in open light The Sun shall blush to see so foule a sight Thou sin'dst in secret but this shall be done In sight of all the people and the Sunne As tender Oakes shak'd with fierce blasts of wind Bâ— yeelding do the faster rooting find When stouter Oakes which give no way at all Are thrown quite down and ruine in their fall So it with David fares whose heart relents And shakes and trembles at Gods menacements His sinne confessing but his Faith holds fast And sings this Peniâ—entiall Psalme at last PSAL. 51. OF thy great goodnesse Lord some pitty take On me whom sinne Doth now awake If thou in loving kindnesse wilt begin All mine offences easely may Be by thy mercies done away â—hen wash me throughly from this staine Of sinfull guilt Till none remaine â—ow I confesse O Lord thou canst and wilt Cause sin which now me lyes before Never to rise against me more â—gainst thee I O Lord have sinn'd alone And in thy sight This evill done â—hat judg'd thou mightst be found most pure and right I full of sinne of good bereav'd Iust as my mother me conceiv'd Thou truth dost in the inward parts require Which to discern Lord me inspire So I of thee may secret wisdome learn With Hyssope purge me I shall grow More clean and pure than whitest snow Of joy and gladnesse make thou me to heare My broken bones Thus shalt thou cheare And into joyfull Ditties change my grones Thy face turn from my sins foul hew My heart make clean my spirit renew Cast me not out from thee for my demerit Nor take from me Thy holy Spirit Recomfort Lord my will conform to thee So shall I sinners teach thy way And them convert that go astray From guilt of blood O Lord deliver me Oh help or never Shall I be free So of thy goodnesse I shall sing for ever Ope thou my lips mine Organs raise Then shall my mouth set forth thy praise Thou sacrifice desir'st not else would I With all my might Thereto comply Nor dost thou in burâ—t-offerings delight A troubled spirit's best sacrifice Broak contrite hearts thou l't not despise Let thy protecting arms like walls embrace Hierusalem And Sion grace Then our burnt offerings thee shall please agen We will upon thine Altar lay Gifts and oblations every day Here Ioab ends when noble Abishai â—o thy discourse hath shortned much the way Beyond the River I discern the plain That Iair Manasses son by sword did gain Upon which bordereth the Geshurite Ride on we may see Talmai's Court to night And bring most welcome newes to Absolon I know saith Ioab well what I have done This is a project of mine own devising To please the setting Sun as well as rising Nothing more pleasing is to Davids mind No service more the Princes heart can bind Nor to King Talmai be more acceptable Who will us gratifie as he is able What 's he saith Abishai a petty King Saith Ioab here on Gilead bordering Great Hadadezar was Lord Paramount And here did but as Tributaries count These lesser Kings till we at Helam slew His Captain and his Army overthrew Since that they all are servants to our King Except old Talmai and him Presens bring But night encroacheth now so on the day They leave their talk and look unto their way By which that night to Geshurs Court they come Most welcome to the King and Absalom For this was their Ambassage from the King The young-man to Hierusalem to bring THE FOURTH BOOKE Israel rebelling SOL had no sooner haâ—nessed his horse Rejoycing Giant-like to run his course His longest journey froÌ„ the East to West When Talmai who that nigâ—t took little rest So were his thoughts â—a'ne up and fil'd with care For 's Grand-child Israels apparant heire And plotting both their powers to combine To subject to one head all Palestine To his Bed-side did send for Absolon And as a Father counsels thus his sonne Besides thy royall birth and riper age Thy strength of wit and goodly personage With vertues all which fit a man to raigne And with the people love and favour gaine Thou hast in highest Courts of Kings been bred And
silenc'd as his due At Court soon for his restitution sue Where want of years and indiscretion blame Thou of a zealous Prince shalt get the name It skils not if his cause be good or bad His sufferings will to his credit adde For all the people after him will run Commending highly all that thou hast done And say O had our Prince the Iudges place None but such zealous men should be in grace As when a Company desire to bring Renown and credit to some new-found Spring They give it our the water is most sure And medecineable for every cure Then women children men and all that heare To drink that water travell far and neere In some it such a strong conceit doth breed They of Diseases cured are indeed And as when we erect an Image new Of any Deity lo all the crew We speak of with their offerings thither flock And do their homage to a stone or stock Till daily use satiety doth bring To men both of the Image and the Spring So when the parents and neer kinsfolk bring A Levite that at th' Altar scarce can sing With wondrous wit and gravity to preach Oh then they all admire to heare him teach Yea giddy people run from far and nigh Whilst other neighbour Temples empty lye And by their violence and strong conceit Sublime his spirits to the very height Where he no longer can retain that grace Than till a new one like him comes in place Then doth their famous Prophets honour fall And like the spring and Idol is in all Let a great man run riot swagger sweare And for his lust and pleasure nothing spare If he familiarly himself acquaint With such they 'l publish him to be a Saint These are good meanes but I advise that thou Invent unto thy self some new-found vow Be it the vainest thing thou canst devise They 'l follow thee by droves to sacrifice As now you see them run most greedily To fasts maintain'd without authority Or t' heare a ratling shallow Lâ—vite prate Whose tongue is interdicted by the State Do but disgrace old rules and fashion new Thou shalt their heartsâ—o thee for ever glew For nothing doth the people so possesse As humouring their spirituall wantonnesse Nor can a Prince a project better cloke Than underneath a Sacrifice of smoke But now one tells the King that Ioab staid For Absolon and therefore humbly prai'd Him haste to horse So Talmai with a kisse And many blessings doth his son dismisse To David who consin'd him to his place Nor might he come at Court to see his face And now that private life which wont him bring Delight and solace fitting for a King Is ev'n of discontent become the nest His head can onely on Court pillowes rest His three years sojourning in Geshurs Courts Have made him loath all wonted Country sports He therefore sends for Ioab him to bring Unto the Court and presence of the King But David knowing well that men in place Encourage vice if they offenders grace For twice twelve months would not endure to heare That Absolon should in his sight appeare 'T is well the mutherer may save his head And not be countenanc'd though pardoned In this so strict was David to his son That Ioab dares not visit Absolon Untill he set on fire his field of graine So what love could not anger did constraine And now was Ioab more for feare than love Compel'd thus for his son the King to move Thou knowst two years are past since I O King Thy son unto Hierusalem did bring When thou consind'st him to his wonted place Nor ever since wouldst let him see thy face I well perceiving 't was against thy mind He should be grac'd and honour'd in this kind All visits have forborn though oft required Till now lo he my Barly field hath fired Lo thus your Gracâ— may see I am compel'd By fire unto his just requests to yeeld And yet indeed I finde thy sons desire To see his Father hotter than the fire When I approacht his solitary gate I found him walking all disconsolate But soon as unto him my face appears His heart powres from his eyes a floud of tears And he begins when thou me home didst bring I surely thought it would have pleas'd the King To have accepted me to former grace And that I should have serv'd before his face Else why should I from Geshurs Court have gone To live here solitary all alone Alas what do I by my comming gaine If in this prison I confin'd remaine The Sun hath full five times fulfil'd his race Since I beheld my fathers cheerfull face O bring me once again into his sight And let him heare my cause and judge upright Then if I seem unrighteous in his eye I willing am for my offence to dye Lo banishment and death is much more light Than live disgrac'd out of my Fathers sight Thus Ioab â—ubtly warms the melting heart Of lonâ—ing David whilst he doth impart This fiâ—all affection of his son And finds this parly hath the fortresse won As when an enemy besiegeth round A Castle which the Captain knows unsound Though at the first he valiantly pretend To hold the Fort out to the sieges end Yet if his foe him good conditions tenders He them accep's and soon the Fort up renders So here the King although for president He would not shew his heart once to relent For Absolon yet thinking he did find By Ioab how the young-man was inclin'd Lo his affections yeeld and grow more strong Because he them dissembled had so long And therefore for him sends and with a kisse His pardon seales for all that was amisse And now is Absolon as great as faire In hope now Israels apparent heire But as we evermore proud mortalls see In greater danger in prosperity Then when adversity their sailes do scant And prudence more appears in store than want So is 't with Absolon more surfetting Of Grace than with displeasure of a King Or of his former forraign banishment Great spirits loath all moderate content For though in humane judgement none indeed So likely was his Father to succeed If his ambition could it self contain Till age a period gave to Davids raign And that the Crown had fall'n to him by course Which now he sought to seize upon by force Yet his aspiring mind impatient That time should thrust 'twixt him and his content Begins ev'n now to travell with ambition That never finds lest stay or intermission Of pains and throws till like the vipers seed In comming forth it leaves the mother dead And now the rules of State old Talmai read By him in Iudahs Court are practised And like lusts stinking flame that all perverts He first takes peoples eyes and next their hearts Unwonted pompe and shews of splendour bright That us'd to take the peoples favour light Are with all State-magnificence prepar'd Lo fifty foot attend him for his Guard His Charrets thunder and his horses