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A69188 The ile of gulls As it hath been often acted in the Black Fryers, by the Children of the Revels. Day, John, 1574-1640?; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia. 1633 (1633) STC 6414; ESTC S109425 90,057 188

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you trust him Iul. Yes as farre as I see him and he that trusts him further my trust is he will be deceived Amin. Indeed he that will proue false to his maker will be true to no man Iul. Yes for the present time like a bawd to him that giues most Amin. That 's not for loue Iul. Yes of the money he that lookes for other loue in this age This is the place his Letter speakes of and here he comes himselfe Enter Dametas like a Huntsman Dam. Why so lo now is the web of my hopes upon the Loombe of perfection and in this quech of lashes Aminter Iulio See and see not all mum you know your cue The game 's your owne if you can hunt it true Enter the Duke Basilius Ba. Dametas were thine cares ever at a more musicall banquet how the hounds mouths like bels are tuned one under another like a slothfulnesse the speed of the cry out-ran my sense of hearing Dam. Crosse over the Forrest to Dianaes oake my liege there your grace advantag'd by the height of the ground shall not onely at pleasure heare but be eye-witnesse of their musicall contention Basil Thankes good Dametas bee thy directions our wiues convoy Enter Gynetia Violetta and Hippolita Gyn. Where is his highnesse Dametas Dam. At Adonis bower Madam where he expects your presence to see the fleshing of a couple of Spartane hounds in the wasting blood of the spent Deare Gyn. Thankes good Dametas mine eyes would not be good friends with my feet should they not bring 'em to that kingly sport Dam. Sweet Ladies to saue you the expence of much breath which must be laid out in the purchase of the game I haue provided you this stand from whence your eyes may be commanders of the sport such sport as you little dreame of Viol. We are your loues debters kind Dametas As I loue vertue I pitty these poore beasts These Syl●ane commoners to see what taskes Our covetous Forresters impose upon them Who not content with impost of their breath Poore hearts pursue them smiling to their death Dam. T was the end of their creation Madam Hip. So was the end of ours to liue in peace And not to tyrannise on harmelesse beasts But Forresters like Images set forth The tyrannie of greatnesse without pitty As they the Deare so covetous wealth pursues The trembling state of their inferiors And to claspe up the volume of their sinnes They drinke their blood and cloath them with their skins Then cease to presse poore beasts with tyrannie You loue your liues thinke they are loath to dye Dam. You are too tender-hearted to bee a good huntswoman Lady Viol. And some of you too hard-hearted but leaving this discourse of hunting haue all our gallantry of Lacedemon and Greece spent the vigor of their wits that not one dares venter Hip. For our loues sister you may see the properer women the worse lucke Dam. Tush you shall haue suters feare not Madam Hip. No at any hand sister for with a feare it comes Viol. Then I le feare of purpose because I would haue 'em come Dam. And they doe not they are notable cowards Hip. Then let them keepe away still for I haue vowed my maidenhead shall never doe homage to the bed of a coward Dam. Sweet Ladies will you beguile a minute or two with this discourse till I step up to the top of the hill and make discovery of the game Viol. Let your returne be speedy good Dametas Dam. I le put on wings and fly Exit Viol. Out of the Court and the whole Countrey shall haue a good riddance Amin. So he hath put 'em faire to the stand le ts issue surprise them Iulio Be resolute and suddaine Aminter and Iulio issue out and beare them away Viol. Murther treason rescue helpe Enter first Dametas and then the Duke Dam. Yes much reskue much helpe much Dametas why so this jest was drawen home close to the head it cannot chuse but cleaue the very white of our hopes the Dukes wit to thy tackle good wit some sudden sea roome or our stratagem is run a ground Basil Tell me Dametas was not the Deare a prodigall did hee not spend his breath freely amongst us Dam. And his blood too my liege but did you obserue how the hounds like politicians nos'd out the game Ba. True and comming to the losse Melampus but where are our daughters Da. Did you obserue that my liege that Melampus as a true hound is ever horce cheerd or hollow yet he kept time too Ba. Certaine Dametas but where are our daughters man Da. Busie my Lord under a brake bush disputing of the vertue of sweet water and ground Iuie Cry within treason murder reskue helpe Ba. What cry of treason 's that Dametas Pray God no danger sets upon my daughters Seeke out our wife I le haste unto their reskue Da. And my sword un-employd alleageance sayes nay to that my ●i●ge I am for the adventure my selfe if they be surpris'd I am a mad man your grace shall heare more if not I am the more sorry your grace shall heare more too make peace with your thoughts till my returne and doubt not their recovery Enter the Dutchesse with her daughters Demetrius Lisander c. Gyn. Speake where 's the Duke Basi Here my Gynetia What meane these weapons are our daughters ●afe Viol. As a thiefe in a mill father we thanke our redeemers Dam. The more my griefe were you surpris'd then madam Hip. Yes faith Dametas Da. And how sweet Ladies and how were you rescued Gyn. Being surpris'd this gallant Amazon Prest to their re●cue had you seene what worth She and this woodman spent in our defence Wonder would ha' bereft you of all sense She rai ' d her sword with such a manly grace As had not her mild sexe contrould my thoughts I could haue falne in loue with her high worth Lisan You over-prise us madam not our desert But the weake spirits of our opposites Gaue luster to the dimnesse of our worth Basil It pleaseth your modesty to lesson it But it shall still liue great in our regard What woodman 's that Dam. My follower my liege Basil What ere he be he hath deseru'd our loue Fellow be neere us and for this desert Perform'd against those Traytors to our blood Vnder thy master we giue thee an attendant To guard the life and safetie of our daughter Hip. Thanke you good father who ever loose by the bargaine I haue got me a servant by the match woo't serue me fellow Dem. In the best I can In heart your fellow though in show your man Hip. I le try your dutious service I command Your knee to ki●●e the ground your lip my hand Dem. Pardon me Madam Hip. Here 's hot loue no doubt I may command my man and goe without Basil Truce to this ayrie warre these paper bullets Better become a Closset then a Parke The Forrest musicke
out them to a perpetual shame that when it came to Ekron it did as much vnto the Ekronites that whē the milch kine brought it home it guided the kine in that their iourney it was as the rudder in a ship which though it be behind yet directeth all afore lastly we shal there find that when the men of Bethshemeth pried into it over boldly it slew aboue fiftie thousand at one time so exasperated was the Lord against them All that afterwards hapned by it as the slaying of Vzzah but for touching it the blessing of Obed Edom for entertaining it and some other things besides I now omit at this time as being done by all likelyhood after the composing of this Psalme and therefore not likely that the Prophet here had any relation to these events Thirdly concerning the Sanctuary we shall find it recorded there what pretious Iewels that had in it being the cabinet as it were and casket of them as first this aforesaid Arke and all the sacred things therein contained the golden pot wherein was Manna and Aronsrod that had budded and the Tables of the Testament secondly the golden Censer thirdly the mercy seat of gold fourthly the Cherubins of gold too fifthly the dishes cups coverings and candlestickes of gold We shall find it recorded there that the Lord from thence gaue forth his Oracles and told all things vnto Moses concerning the children of Israel We shall find it recorded there that the high Priest went into it once every yeare to make an attonement both for himselfe for the Priests and for the People Lastly we shall find it recorded there that it was called Sanctum Sanctorum that is The holiest of all for so is the Hebrew phrase in stead of the superlatiue like as our Saviour is called in holy Scripture Rex Regum Dominus Dominantium that is King of Kings and Lord of Lords according to that dialect And these are the excellent things recorded of that house wherevnto as this our Prophet no doubt had special reference here in these words so they may serue vs as a draught in some sort to knowe what manner of house this was There are that compare this house to this great world wherein we liue for it being devided say they into three parts the Outward Court the Inward and the Sanctuarie two of them signifie the Earth the Sea wherein al kind of creatures are and such were the Outward and Inward Court the third part which was the Sanctuarie signifies Heaven say they which was reserved for God alone in like sort as the Heaven is not to be come vnto by men In my conceit it may more fitly bee compared to the little world of man as man in holy Scripture is said to haue a Body a Soule and a Spirit the Soule being taken as sometime it is for the will affections the Spirit for the vnderstanding First then concerning the Tabernacle that J resemble to the Body my reason is for that so oftētimes in holy writ we find this Body of ours resembled to a Tabernacle In this Body is a Soule and in that Tabernacle an Arke which Arke containing principally the Two Tables of stone the ten Commandemēts what may we better resemble them vnto then to the will and affections over which they beare the sway The Sanctuarie I may wel resemble vnto the Vnderstanding though as the chiefest roome in this house it passed indeed all vnderstanding Nor may it seeme strange that the Temple here should thus be compared vnto man seeing man so often times in holy Scripture is called the Temple of God Knowe ye not saith the Apostle that ye are the Temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you If any man destroy the Temple of God him shall God destroy for the Temple of God is holy which ye are And againe in another place ye are the Temple of the leving God where vpon Tertullian very elegantly Being all of vs saith he the Temple of God the Parson Prelate of that Church is Chastitie which will not suffer any vncleane or prophane thing to be brought into it least that God that doth inhabit it should vtterly leaue the place by reason of such pollution But thus much of his house Now let vs see what it is to dwell in it Even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord. Hannah the mother of Samuel whē shee had beene long barren it was often cast her in the teeth she vowed a vow said O Lord of hosts if thou wile look on the trouble of thy handmaid and remember mee and not forget thy handmaid but giue vnto thy handmaid a man child thē will I giue him vnto the Lord all the daies of his life there shall no raiser come vpon his head Her meaning was that he should be brought vp in the house of the Lord in Shil●h there to do the Lord that service that Eli the Governor should enioin him Al things hapning to her desires that is the Lord looking on her trouble remembring and not forgetting her giving vnto her a man childe indeed shee gaue him indeed vnto the Lord he became a Nazarite and a Levite and dwelt in the house of the Lord al the daies of his life But this is not the dwelling here meant in this place This kinde of dwelling was for Prophets indeed and for the Children of the Prophets howbeit Dauid though he were a Prophet yet had he besides an other calling and by reason of that calling coulde not thus dwell in this house The dwelling then that David meant was in all publike assemblies both at Morning and Evening Sacrifice to tender his presence to the Lord to sort himself with those who gladded him so much when as they said vnto him we will goe into the house of the Lord to be alwaies praising of the Lord in those Assemblies according vnto that in an other of his Psalmes Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will bee alwaie praising thee And this because he coulde not now perfourme by reason of his banishment how dry was his soul within him what bitter moane doth he make My soule saith he is a thirst for God yea even for the liuing God when shall I come to appeare before the presence of God I for his banishmēt had berest him of the exceeding solace he there took ●e prefers before himself those very fowles of the heaven before which our Saviour in another case woulde haue preferred him so much The Sparrow saith he hath found her a house and the swallow a nest where shee may lay her yong even thy altars O Lord of hostes my king and my God I know there are of the Interpreters that take these words otherwise but since our Church thus readeth them I for my