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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11404	The third dayes creation. By that most excellent, learned, and diuine poet, VVilliam, Lord Bartas. Done verse for verse out of the originall French by Thomas VVinter, Master of Arts; Sepmaine. Day 3. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Winter, Thomas, Master of Arts.	1604 (1604)	STC 21660; ESTC S110634	26,100	49

proudest kings can take Had seuerald the ●…louds equald the fields Sunke downe the valleys blowen vp the hils Change change quoth he o solid element Thy sadder weed t' a greene habilement A fragrant flowring girlond be ywreathed About thy forehead by my fingers weaued Display thy periwinke with finest paint Embellish now thy bleake and paler taint That from henceforth thy proper guests alone May not be fed with plentie of thy wombe But that thy stored lap may meate prouide For people of each element beside So that the water aire and Angels dwelling May of thy glorieiealously be telling He spake and straight the Firre that pitch doth drop The gummie Larix Cedar with high top And Boxe still greene are plac'd in trouped row And on the highest tops of hils do grow The aco●…ne-bearing Oake the Carpie white The barke-exchanging Corke and Elme vpright On litle hils and fields do pitch their ranks The writhing riuers border out their banks With sailing Alder with greene Osier With Willow pale and trembling Popular And manie other trees for fewell made For building carpentrie and beasts to shade Here hairie Peaches and the Orange golden Sweete Apricots the Quince faire to beholden With his white downe vpon their backs they beare Ywritten faire Gods all-prouiding care Sweet-smelling Apples Nuts of either kinde Idumean Dates and Peares still apt to binde The milkie Figge the double died Cherrie The sugred plumme the hungrie Oliue berrie Present a pleasant spring vnto the eyes And make each field a verie Paradise Here Pepper graines like clustered Grapes assemble There Cynamon doth grow here Nutmegs tremble With gentle gales which do each yeare pouruey For Bandan ylanders a publike pray There the white sweetnesse of moist sugar breeds Within the bowels of Canarie reeds There balme in teares doth drop there the rich * Vide Pl●… l. 12 cap. 14. wood Of Saba land weepes fuming incense good The louing Vine with winding armes embraceth The praise of the vine and w●…e takē with moderation Her bearing husband bout whose stocke she traceth The Vine for fairenesse t'other trees inferior As she for goodnes is their farre superior Her liquor sober-taken rarifies The spirits cheares the heart and purifies The braines brings colour and awaketh The appetite cleares passages and maketh Fresh heate pure bloud it breeds and subtilizeth The grosse and the duld vnderstanding wiseth Expels bad excrements the bladder cleareth Preserues our bodie that to death anneareth Though th' earth for sinne whereby our father old Though the degenerating earth be farre inferior to it selfe in respect of her primitiue beautie fertilitie during mans innocencie yet doth the present cōdition thereof minister more then sufficient matter to vndeseruing man for the celebration of the prudence and prouidence of the omnipotent creator Banisht his seed from heauen no longer hold Her former glorie hauing grau'd vpon her Th' eternall makers vndeseru'd dishonor Though with the world she strike her selfe in yeares Though her fertilitie much lesse appeares Like her who bruisd with many a wofull grone Of bearing child whose oft-conceiuing wombe Peopling almost the circuit of a parish At length becommeth barren drie and warish Yet doth it yeeld an ample argument To praise the author of her ornament The pleasing spring doth nere to me propose The blew-flour'd Flaxe or the carnation Rose The blushing Gellifloure in 's purple fold The snow-white Lillie or the Marigold But I admire the Painter that doth trace In them more colours then Aurorae's face Or in that Bow which on the thirstie plaine Doth promise to shoure downe his fruitfull raine God not content t' enrich with wholesome fruites Perfume with smels and cloath with flowrie sutes The plants hath in their rootes laid vp in store A perfect curing salue for euery sore Sure without them death fights so many wayes Man should not liue full twentie yeares of dayes But like the flowre of flaxe that dies in th'wombe In one selfe day his cradle should be 's tombe His spring his winter and his birth his death Good Lord how many draw their gasping breath By Stigian bankes and cur'd by hearbes againe Make greedie Pluto lose his hoped gaine By them young Phoebus bearded cunning a 〈◊〉 sonne Restor'd the b 〈◊〉 young man that to death was done That did preferre in modest chastitie His death before incestuous venerie c Medea by their iuice to please her Iason Made young againe cold and old aged Aeson You hearbs that do our life in life maintaine And when t is gone do call it backe againe T is not your iuice dispersed in your veines That cur●…s alone so many deadly paines But your meere smell your onely being by Gainst many daungers doth vs fortifie Working such wonders as exceede beliefe Vnlesse the hand and eyes do know the priefe The 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 V●…de P●…n lib. 20. cap 8. He that about his necke doth suckorie bind It doth expell the mists that make vs blind So a Cy●…minus Tradu●…t si prag●… radi●…em transgrediatur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 accelerat c. Diosc. lib 2. c. 155 Swines-bread hung doth not alonely bring Long trauell to a quicke deliuering But more if one with child do passe secure Ouer the root she 's forced to endure Abortment there th'vnwholesome scorching blast Th'envenimd glasse nay poison creeping fast That so dispeoples all Cyrenia land Hurts not the man hath b Artemisia Pl●…n lib. 25. cap. 7. Di●…sco li. 3. cap. 108. Mug-wort in his hand The Pionie tied to an infants necke It giues vnto that cruell c Morb●… comi●… Ill the checke That tamed Hercules If in thy braine God Bacchus chance excessiuely to raigne Cirkle thy front with d Qut ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 1. cap 24. Coro●…ae qu●…que ex co 〈◊〉 e●… 〈◊〉 lib. 21. cap. 20. Saffron gatherd new And thou shalt sodainely that storme subdew The Syrens with their subtil-charming times The dankish noy some gales from Southerne climes Hurt not at all those that alonely vse Betweene their teeth Angelica to bruse Angelica A heauenly simple by an Angell brought As both the name and force thereof haue taught So Burnet held within the hand doth stop 〈◊〉 The fluxe of bloud which from the sicke doth drop And so his vrine redly shall be varied That in his fist hath e Rul●… siue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a●… ud quosdam inquit 〈◊〉 morbu●… reg●…um sanar●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 etia●…si ad●…gatus spectet●…r tantū lib. 24. cap 11. An ●…mplification of this discourse by other admirable instances madder long time caried The force of Woad is strange which they that touch Do make the colour of their humors such You Plants your force doth not alone extend To men but your strange force doth make to bend The fiercest creatures and the Iron strong The legions blacke of the infernall throng The brightest lampes of heauen if all be right That of f Vide Pl●…n

the poore drudge that begs whereon to feede Or hungrie fisher-man whose foure-legd roome Hath but at pushes for to fill his wombe His conclusiue oraison Let me ô God of greatest Kings vnkend In solitarie woods my life-time end My pond my sea my groue let be Ardena Gimon my Nilus Sarrapin my Sena My Lutes and quiresters the winged sort Bartas my * The Kings house Paris so called Louver and my men my Court Where I vntroubled may thy praise so thunder As may strike dead succeeding men with wonder Or if my dutie and my Princes grace Shall call me vnto anie waiting place Grant with his fauor I nere drunken be But subiect to command may yet liue free False honour I may shunne true honour gaine Lou'd for no slatterie but for dealing plaine FINIS Effugiunt auidos carmina sola rogos Ouid. Amorum lib. 3. Eleg. 8. To the Translator REport that made me reade had thrise the power When I had heard thy tongue of siluer strike To make me once againe to spend that hower That twise before my heart did so much like But while my soule held his respectiue eye Vpon the Leaues of thy registerd fame My Heart constraind my pen to prophecie That Loue and Fortune shall enrich thy Name Thou mildest Winter that our age hath felt In midst of whom a Lillie freshly growes Put all thy heate and calmie power to melt From off this flower the frostie canded snowes That when thy hand hath drawne the curtaine round We may see Bartas picture Lawrel-crownd Thomas Mason Suffolciensis To the honorable Gentleman Sir Thomas Chaloner Knight TO thee true picture of humanitie Learnings deare friend wisdomes high fauorite That dost discerne twixt froathie vanitie Of want on rimes bellowes of lewd delight And learned straines of sacred poesie My Muse this shorter sonnet doth addresse Till for thy loue and gracefull courtesie She may in better Layes her zeale expresse For when of better growth she shall enroule The praise of Worthies in records of fame Forgetfulnesse shall not her pen controule For not enregistring thy worthie name For thy deserts do truly her assure Thou rightfully art he that Chaloner 〈◊〉 Hal'honneur Hal'honneur T. Winter To the right worthy Knight Sir George Somers ALthough braue Knight the cold and frozen pen Of Winter cannot paint out Somers praise Yet giue me leaue thou ornament of men Among these short and il-compos'd Essayes With thy rich name to cloath my naked verse And onely glance at thy deserued glorie Sith if I should thy famous deedes rehearse These lines would swell into an ample storie An ample storie that ensample might Braue minds to fixe their eyes on markes of honor Directed by thy true-directing light To find out vertue and attend vpon her But though I cannot as I would expresse The loue that vnto thy desert I owe Yet my desire increaseth nerethelesse That this my Muse may briefly let thee know As long as winter somer shall succeede Winter is thine in thought in word in deede T. Winter To the vertuous and nobly-descended Sir Thomas Lucy the younger Knight I Know 〈◊〉 well it hath bene held of yore That Fo●…ne in her largesse still is blind That there she giues her gifts in greatest store Where iudgement cannot any merit find But seeing Art and Nature haue conspir'd To make thee louely learned wittie wise Let Fortune in her iudgement be admir'd As hauing cleare and true-discerning eyes Therefore proceede thou happie hopefull Knight Keepe on thy course in one ecclipticke line Be constant in thy vertuous delight And if thou wilt in perfect glorie shine Shun all extreames doate not on worldly pelfe But in a word be still most like thy selfe T. Winter ¶ To the learned Ciuilian Doctor Iames Iustice of Peace and Quorum in the Countie of Somerset IF will and skill were true correlatiues Thy worth should neuer want dese●… 〈◊〉 For in vnflattering superlatiues I would thy vertues tell thy credit raise Thou floure of courtesie that dost embrace With both thine armes each wel-deseruing spirit Heaping the fauours of thy bounteous grace Where neuer-erring iudgement findeth merit I will not venture in a daring vaine To reckon vp thy each praise-worthie part They are too many for so short a straine But sith my heart is better then my art Let Winters heart obtaine this boone of thee This Winter-fruit yscorned may not be T. Winter Scinduntur vestes gemmae franguntur aurum Carmina quam tribuent fama perennis erit Ouid. Amor. lib. ●… Eleg 10.