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A11408	Part of Du Bartas English and French, and in his owne kinde of verse, so neare the French Englished, as may teach an English-man French, or a French-man English. With the commentary of S.G. S. By William L'Isle of Wilburgham, Esquier for the Kings body.; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1625 (1625)	STC 21663; ESTC S116493	251,817	446

be seene in Syria This doth Iosephus report vpon heare-say which the Poet termes an old Tradition or Cabala Thus Josephus thrusts-in many things among his Antiquities that haue no good ground but are taken vpon trust of the Caballists and Rabbins who neuer considering the maiestie and sufficiencie of holy Scripture thought to helpe out and adorne it with fillets and labels of their owne Many learned men thinke that Noe and his sonnes had the Arts well setled in their mindes and the Arke is a sufficient proofe of Noes skill in Arithmetike and Geometrie but the Reader may if he will ascribe the inuention to Noes predecessors so doth the Poet following the opinion of Iosephus For the rest he giues the whole discourse of Mathematikes to Heber and Phaleg because the earth being in their time diuided it was requisite that these Arts were knowne to be carried euery way for comfort and helpe of Colonies in peopling the world Cylinderwise it lay So I translate that is along the ground like a rouller supposing the waters had ouerthrowne it 3. Seth. Polidore Virgil in his first booke de Inuentoribus rerum chap. 14.17.18 19. speakes of the first finders-out of the liberall Sciences alledging the testimonie of diuers Authors But it came neuer into his minde to deriue all from the spring-head as here the Poet hath done who shewes with great probabilitie that Adam being endowed with excellent knowledge of hidden things concerning both great and little world taught it his sonne and schollar Seth and others that conuersed with him who also conueyed it ouer to their descendants And this was not hard to be done considering the long life of them all So the true Cabala of inheritance left to posteritie was the instruction which they receiued one from other by word of mouth and this might be so continued from father to sonne as it need not be graued in brick or stone But sithence the Poet was content to set-out the opinion of Iosephus rather then his owne I le say no more against it The meanes and order kept by Seths posteritie to continue the knowledge of the Mathematicks was not all of one sort though the Poet propounds but one which was very likely 4. Thus hauing said he went That is Heber Poets missing sometime the certaine truth are wont yet to stand-vpon that is likely wherefore this our Author hauing before spoke-of the pillar of stone which stood still vpright brings-in Heber opening the doore thereof by a sleight and finding therein a burning lampe or candle This secret of burning lamps of some vnquenchable stone or other matter of that nature hath beene vsed in the world long agoe and proued true by diuers ancient sepulchers found vnder the ground Selinus in his 12. chap. saith there is in Arcadia a certaine stone of the colour of Iron which once set a fire cannot be quenched and therefore is called Asbeslos which signifies as much Plutarch in the beginning of his booke De cessatione Oraculorum saith as much of the vnquenchable lampe in the Temple of Jupiter Hammon which was the most ancient and of most renowme among the Chamites who soone fell from the true Religion Plinie in the first chapter of his 19. booke tells also a great maruaile of a kinde of linnen cloth which consumes not in the fire I thinke the immediate successors of Adam and Noe had knowledge of many secrets in Nature which we now would thinke incredible impossible or altogether miraculous if we saw the experience thereof 5. As when a priuate man By an excellent comparison the Poet here describes the affection that Phaleg had to vnderstand these things and so makes way to his discourse of the Mathematike Arts which he faines to be sisters and one much like another because they are all composed as it were of numbers concords and proportions which by Addition Multiplication Substraction and Diuision doe bring forth great varietie of rare and dainty secrets 6. My sonne He shewes in few words the iust commendation of these Liberall Sciences called here Virgins because of their simplicitie and puritie Daughters of Heauen because they are placed in the vnderstanding the principall facultie of our soule which is from Heauen though the vnderstanding adorned with Mathematikes doe many times bring forth effects which depart farther and farther from their spring-head and so by little and little fall among the Mechanicks or Handycrafts He saith also further that these foure Sciences are the fairest which that one Spirit issuing from two that is the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne did euer beget or mans soule conceiue he speaks this only of such gifts as the Holy Ghost hath imparted vnto men for the maintenance of their societie For what were the life of man if it had neither number waight nor measure neither sight nor hearing well gouerned as needs it must be while it wants the Mathematikes whose due praise and profit ensuing with what other Arts depend thereon you may reade at large in the Prefaces before Euclide● especially in one of Christopher Clanius and another of our English Iohn Dee 7. She there The learned differ concerning the order and disposition of these foure Arts some set Geometrie in the first place Arithmeticke in the second Musicke in the third and Astronomie last Others cleane contrary Our Author hath followed the most receiued opinion Reade Scaliger against Cardan Exer. 321. The chiefe thing is to consider well the bounds and coherences of these Arts that we neither confound nor seuer them among themselues nor mingle them with others for this doing sometimes hath brought most dangerous errours both into Church and Common-wealth To proceed In this description which the Poet makes of Arithmetikes both habit and gesture we may see what is required to the right vnderstanding that abstract Arte now adayes farre out of the way or soyled with grosse materials 8. Vnitie In fortie verses or thereabouts the Poet hath set downe the grounds of infinite Arithmeticall secrets He that will search what the ancient and late Authors haue written shall finde matter enough for a good thicke booke I speake here but briefly so much as may serue for vnderstanding the text leauing the rest to a larger Commentarie First he calls Vnitie or One the root of all numbers because euery number great and small ariseth from One. Secondly he calls it also the root of Infinitie for the greatest numbers and such as vnto vs are vncountable or infinite what are they but multiplied Vnities Thirdly he tearmes Vnitie True friendships deare delight because the faithfull louer delights in one onely and seeks no more Fourthly The renowme of Harmonie which tends to one sweet consort of diuers voyces Fiftly The seed-plot of all that is because by one spice or kinde of man beast fish fowle c. was filled the whole world Sixtly he calls it the Aime of Polymnie I thinke by this he meanes the intent that all learned men

goes from hand to hand Vnto the baser sort of people through the land Who greatly bent to see the famous tower made Doe labour day and night in all and euery trade Some trip the speare-wood Ash with sharp-edg'd axes stroke And some the sailing Elme and some th'enduring Oke So they degrade the woods and shew vnto the Sunne The ground where his bright eye before had neuer shone Who euer did behold some forraine armie sacke A citie vanquished ther 's griefe and ioy no lacke Together hurly-burld he carts and he lays-hold He drags by force he leads and there the souldier bold Can finde no place too sure nor yet no locke too strong The whole towne in a day forth at the gates doth throng So quickly do these men pull-off with one assent From those Assyrian hills the shaking ornament The wildernesse of shade they take from off the rocks And sheare off albeswat the leuell countries locks The waynes and yoked Mules scarse one by the other wend A liuely description of a people busied about a great worke The groaning axeltrees with load surcharged bend Behold here one for mort'r is day and night abruing Of some thicke-slimic poole the water fatly gluing And here the Tyler bakes within his smoakie kell His clay to stone and here one hollows downe to hell So deep foundations that many a damned Spright Aggazeth once againe the Sunnes vnhoped light Hea●'n ecchoes out the sound of their mauls clitter-clatters And Tigris feeles his fish all trembling vnd'r his waters The ruddy-colourd walls in height and compasse grow They far-off cast a shade they far-off make a show The world 's all on toile and men borne all to die God being angry with the bold enterprise of Nimrod and his folowers determineth to breake of their enterprise by confounding their language Thinke at the first daies worke their hand shall reach the skie 6. Hereat began th'Lord to sowre his countenance And with dread thūders sound that storm-wise wont to glance Athwart the clowdie racks that hills wont ouerthrow And make heau'ns steddy gates flash often too and fro See see quoth he these dwarfes see this same rascall people These children of the dust O what a goodly steeple What mighty walls they build Is this the Cittadell So recklesse of my shot that shakes the gates of Hell I sware an oath to them henceforth the fruitfull ground Should neuer stand in feare of waters breaking bound They doubting fence themselues I would by their extent Haue peopled all the world they by themselues are pent In prison-walls of brick I would haue beene for euer Their master their defence their shepherd their law-giuer And they haue chose for King a sauage Liue-by-spoile A Tyrant seeking gaine by their great losse and toile Who doth my force despise and with vaine-glory swone Attempts to scale the walls of my most holy throne Come let 's defeat their drift and sith the bond of tong Of blood of will of law doth egge on all day long And hearten them in sin to stop their hastie intent Among them let vs send the Spirit of dissent Their language to confound to make both one and other The father strange to sonne the brother deafe to brother 7. The execution of Gods sentence Thus had he said and straight confusedly there went I know not what a brute throughout the buyldiment None other like I guesse then drunken peasants make Where Bacchus doth his launce with Ivy garland shake One doth his language too the another nose his note Another frames his words vnseemly through the throte One howleth one doth hisse another stuttereth Each hath his babbl ' and each in vaine endeuoureth To finde those loued termes and tunes before exprest That in their cradle-bands they drew from mothers brest Goe get thee vp betimes and while the morning gay A sit comparison With rainbow-glosse bedecks the portaile of the day Giue eare a while and marke the disagreeing moods Of winged quiristers that sing amid the woods Good-morrow to their loues where each one in his fashion Is pearched on a bough and chaunteth his Oration Then shalt thou vnderstand what mingle-mangle of sounds Confusedly was heard among the Mason-lounds A Trowell ho saith one his mate a beetl'him heaues Cut me saith he this stone and he some timber cleaues Come ho corne ho saith one and winde me vp this rope Then one vnwinding striues to giue it all the scope This scaffold bourd saith one one makes it downe to fare Giue me the line saith one and one giues him the square He shouts he signes in vaine and he with anger boyles And looke what one hath made forth with another spoiles VVith such confused cries in vaine they spend their winde And all the more they chafe the lesse is knowne their minde At length as men that stand an arched bridge to build In riuers channell deepe that wont surround the field Another excellent comparison declaring how neither counsell art force diligence nor multitude is able to resist God And sodainly behold how vnexpected raine Hath sent a hundred floods that downhill stretch amaine Their yoake-refusing waues they leaue with one aduise Some hasting here some there their carnest enterprise So when these Architects perceiu'd the stormy smart Of Gods displeasure come they straight were out of heart And there they ceas'd their work with hands malecontent Rules mallets plomets lines all downe the towre they sent 4. Now he enthroned is This is the exposition of the words mightie hunter before the Lord to wit that Nimred Chams nephew did proudly lift himselfe vp against God and man His buildings and the beginning of his raigne could not haue beene such without offering violence to the peace and libertie of diuers families ouer whom hee bare rule and there is no shew to the contrary but that by diuers practises from time to time he got the Soueraigntie The holy Scripture oftentimes by the names of hunters and chasers meaneth God enemies and the persecutours of his Church Psa ' 91. 124. Ezech. 32. Lament 3. The seuentie Interpreters translate the Hebrue text after this manner This Nimrod began to be a Giant on the earth and a huntesman or leader of hounds before the Lord God By the hounds of Nimrod may be vnderstood his guards and the fauourers of his tyrannie Moses called him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gi●or isaid that is Iustie strong or great and mightie chaser Which noteth not only the stature and height of bodie but also might and authoritie ioyned with violence in all those that want the feare of God Now although Moses in the cleuenth Chapter of Genesis where he speaketh of the Citie and Tower of Babel make no mention of Nimrod yet hath the Poet aptly gathered out of the Chapter aforegoing that Nimrod was the author and promoter of those buildings in as much as Babel is called the beginning of his raigne who could not any waies

sinnelesse yet for sinne of man is mockt beat The sixt vnder Iesus Christ hong And laid in graue The last is th'euerlasting rest Then shall th'embillowed Sea be downe a leuell prest The Sunne shall lose his light The last shal be the worlds rest Heau'n stay his whirling round All fruit shall cease to grow vpon th'all-bearing ground And we that haue on earth beiecued Heauenly troaths Shall keepe in Heau'nly ioy the Saboth of Sabothes What shall I hope alas of all the latter age Adam considers what shall betide his posteritie till the first world is ended by the Flood Or fierie vengeance sent to burne this worldly stage Or men who law'd by lust nere heard of God nor me What shall I hope of them when these whose pedegree So late from Eden draw'n continues liuely sense Of Heau'nly doome on me when these with mad offence Gods anger still prouoke Ha traitor and rebell soule Ha Lamech was 't a fault so light thy bed to soule To third the paire-of-man that yet more hellish wood Needs must thou dip thy blade in double-gransiers blood Nor could the Rogues pasport embrant betwixt his browes Nor his charge stay thine hand who power infernall bowes But Enos O thou Saint be bold Enos restablisheth Gods seruice and plant againe The standard of beleefe which mans vnsteddie braine Hath laied along the ground Call-on the Sou'raine Good Besprinkle his altars hornes with sacrificed blood Send vnto his sacred smell the sweet perfumie clouds And Truths bright lampe retinde in Errors ashie shroudes See Enoch thy disciple he with a godly strife Still dying to himselfe liues in the Lord of life Grace of the world Faithfull Enoch taken away to the Lord for pleasing him Heb. 11.5 Gen. 5.24 and sets t' abide th'ey daunting shine That blazeth lightning-like i'th'essence first diuine Lo how deliuered from yoake of bodies weight And sequestred from sense he meats the toplesse height Of Heau'n and borne on wing of Fasting Faith and Prayer Styes vp the tent of Saints embroyd'red all so faire He though a guest on earth in heau'nly trance doth fall Know'th all seeth all hath all in God that 's all in all He passing each degree from forme to forme ascends And O most happie man in Gods owne likenesse ends For lo th' All-goodly-faire him for his vertue loues And not in part but all from earth to heau'n remoues Gone art thou art thou gone vnto the starrie blew Adieu my sonne Enoch adieu my sonne adieu Liue happie there on high thy body now a sprite Or changed wondrously to shape of Angell bright Puts-on eternitie thine eyes now no more eyes But newly-flaming starres do beautifie the skies Thou drinkest now thy fill of Nectar wine thy day Of Saboth neuer ends the vaile now draw'n away Thou seest God face to face and holily vnite Vnto the Good Three-one thou liu'st i' th infinite An Angell new but lo thou leauest here behind The Patriarchs children corrupt themselues by marrying with the prosanerace of Cain Men of vnbounded lust their hands-rake all they find Their bellie like a gulfe is euer gluttonous Yea would a man beleeu 't the very chosen race And holy peopl ' of God th' adopted sonnes of grace They are alas the men most impudent of all They gallop after sinne with bit in teeth and fall T' embrace in lustfull heat mans daughters lewd and vaine Profanely tempering the blood of Seth and Cain So with a shamelesse eye they choose the gawdy face Before the godly mind From these foule beds a race Of Gyants God knowes what spring vp with bloodie minde Strong fierce plagues of the world and whips of humane kind Then God who sees that sinne more by the long delay Of his reuenging hand encreaseth day by day Is angrie and now no more will plead the reason why But man an all for man will sodainly destroy At least what ere with wing doth clip the yeelding aire Or haunt in mortall state the land so richly-faire With one hand sets he ope the windowes of the skie Whence on mens rebell heads there falleth from on hie A thousand showrie seas he gripes i'th'other hand The soaken spongie globe of th'all defiled land And sets it hard in presse and makes it cast anon What flouds it euer dronke sen first the world began From euery vaulted rocke great riuers gin to flow And downe-hill so encrease with flouds of moulten snow That Firre and Cedar trees scarce any bow do show The wat'r swol'n so hie and bankes are sunke so low O what posteritie for want of skill to swimme Loose I within these gulfes yet some full brauely climme The craggie peakes of hills t' escape the raging deepes And grapple about the rockes but ah the wat'r vp creeps And lesning all these hills makes all the world a meere My children whither now O whither can you steere From God but vnto God whose anger hath shooke the world Quite cut-off all your legs in flood your bodies horld Now grows the flood so high that th'erth is more then drownd The riuers and the sea haue all one onely bound To wit a clowdy skie a heau'n still full of raine As trauelling with child of many another maine To make me childerlesse O father miserable O too-to fruitfull reines O children dammageable O gulphes reuealed for me that were before vnknown O end of all O world en wrackt and ouerflow'n O Heau'n O mightie sea O land now no more land O flesh and blood but here his voice began to stand For sorrow stopt the pipe and ny of life berest him So fall'n a swoond with griefe the Prophet Spirit left him Annotations vpon the end of Adam and beginning of Noe. 1 THe wining Territorie The verses are graue and full of maiestie and agreeable to the person that speakes Adam sheweth vnto his sonne in how many daies the world was created and how many ages it shall endure To giue more weight to this declaration he brings in the first of Mankind to speake thereof as it were by the rauishing power of the holy Ghost for that his purpose was to ioine to the former discourse of Creation the sequele of diuers ages of the world which Adam could not speake of but by Spirit of prophecie 2 That first As God created Heauen and Earth in sixe daies and rested the seuenth so Adam shewes that the world shall continue sixe ages and in the seuenth shall be the eternall rest of the Church triumphant in Heauen Some there are both old and new writers who discoursing on this number of six and constring to their purpose the saying That a thousand yeares are as one day before the Lord haue imagined that the world from beginning to the end shall fulfill the number of six thousand yeares to wit two thousand before the law two thousand vnder the law and two thousand vnder Grace But this opinion hath so little foundation in holy Scripture that contrariwise