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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00034	Susanna: or, the arraignment of the two vniust elders	Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?	1622 (1622)	STC 1003; ESTC S100330	23,050	50

to me this office gaue I know I did so well my selfe behaue As guiltlesse now I need not be afraid To begge vnto mine innocence your aid That you from me my dignity haue rent And brought me to the Barre I am content My shoulde●s of a burthen is well lighted For neuer I in Soueraignty delighted That which mine heart with griefe doth now aff●ct Is that you me of Falsity suspect That you should thinke I durst sweare to a Lye And not expect ●read lightning suddainely Young man God send thee honour in thy place Thy greatnesse build not yet on our disgrace What vs befalls may come to thee as soone We iudged in the morning thou at noone Therefore beware oh man thou iudgest right Thou knowst not who may iudge thy selfe ere ●igh● What profit is 't to me in this to lye And to condemne my true friends wife to dye Good Ioachims who were she chaste as faire They were a holy noble pearelesse paire But that whereof we now accuse this Dame I sweare is true who dares deny the same Then Daniel said Oh thou of Canaans seede And not of Iudas Beauty hath indeede Deceiued thee and lust doth eu'n thy heart And all the powers of thy soule peruert Thus you with Israels daughters dealt before And they for feare haue plaid with you the whore But Iudas daughter Ioachims chaste b●ide Could neuer such foule wickednesse abide But they that will haue one condemn'd to dye Ought of the time and place to testifie Then tell me truely vnderneath what tree Them companing together thou didst see Vnder a Pomegranate he then reply's Behold now all how this vile villaine lyes Saith then the Iudge the Angell with a sword Shall thee diuide of God and man abhord Had she in orchyard to your lust consented This crime against her had not beene inuented Well knew I this before by reuelation But would make 't plaine by their examination Before vnto iudgement did proceede Wherefore ● In Gods name this sentence reade I Daniel a iudge by your commission Hauing with diligence made inquisition In cause pretended of Adultery Betweene this Dame and these two Elders by And witnesses in diffrent tales so found That thereby one the other doth confound First doe absolue from guilt this chastest Dame Restoring her to her good name and fame Next I pronounce that who so vp shall rise And gainst his brother falsely testifi's Ought iustly to receiue that punishment Which wickedly he to his brother ment Do to him as he would haue done I say So ill from Israel is done away And so shall other heare of it and feare And henceforth no false testimony beare Let not your eyes of them take least compassion Respect not greatnesse person age or nation A hand for hand for tooth tooth eye for eye A foote for foote for murther let them dye Neuer did any people say Amen More gladly to the preachers prayer when He for the safety of our King doth pray And their confusion that would him betray Than all the multitude their shoutings raise To blisse his iustice and their maker praise God that from fraud deliuereth the iust And from the wicked all that in him trust And as when Faux that arcenall full fraught With treason mischiefe and rebellious thought Plotting the death and vtter desolation Of King Priests Nobles and of all our nation Because like Susan here we did deny To leaue our Lord and to accompany With Iezabel in foule abhomination With whom earths Princes commit fornication Condemned was by Iudges iustest dome Lo all the people doe together come With ioyfull hearts vnto his execution Where he receiueth iustest retribution Eu'n so when Daniel for false-witnesse-bearing The Elders had convict in peoples hearing Vpon them the whole multitude doth run And did to them eu'n as they would haue done To chastest Dame so sinne was done away And her blood innocent was sau'd that day My history is done but not my song For they that all this while haue held their tongue Vp now their voices vnto heauen raise And for this Dames deliuerance sing praise First old Helchias spirit doth ●euiue As Iacobs hearing Ioseph was aliu● And like to vpright godly Simeon old When he his Sauiour in his armes doth hold Sings nunc Dimittis Oh now let me dye In Susan s found not least dishonesty And next his wife like Miriam doth sing The noble praises of her heauenly King When as she saw her enemies confounded And all th' Egyptians in the red sea drowned Oh Ioachim who can the ioy descry That thou conceiud'st for her deliuery He onely that hath skill to touch the st●ing Of Dauids Harpe and Psalmes like his to sing Can here describe the heauenly melody Was made on earth by this whole company Father and mother for their daughter sung The children which about their mother hung Like f●ir●st clusters of the f●uitfull vine S●ng all with angelique sweete voice divine ●oe all her kindred and her seruants sing And eu'n Dame Eccho seem'd from heauen to ring But t' was not Eccho but sweete Angels voice That for this Dames deliu'rance did reioyce And now my Muse the Reader onely stayes To sing one ditty of this stories praise Ha●●e all chaste Ladies all iust Iudges heare Both old and young vnto my words giue eare Let them like dew vpon your hearts distill And siluer drops which heau'ns on meadowes spill Ioachim Susan Hel●hi with me sing The glorious bounty of the righteous king And babes who scarce haue learnd to tune your voice Yea sucklings in his noble strength reioyce He to whom earst you lifted vp your eyes Now heares your groanes and listens to your cryes And you deliuers from Beares cruell pawes The Lyons throate and Crocodiles foule iawes He in all ages past hath sau'd the iust And those that put in him their hope and trust But neuer plainer haue we heard or read Than here his prouidence discouered Susanna chaste to iustice I compare The Elders two corrupted Iudges are Who seeke for pleasure fauour gaine ambition Her to corrupt but to their owne perdition Iudges corrupt when you this story heare At Gods iust vengeance tremble quake and feare And iudging others for the like offence Condemne your owne soule guilty conscience And thinke not when you finde your selues vniust Such punishment is onely due for lust Who for ambition fauour feare or gaine Doe iudge vniustly merit equall paine You that proiect to prooue by witnesses Things false for gaine or for malciousnesse Lo here your Fate in this example see Your testimonies neuer shall agree Old letchers that in beastly lust delight See here your deeds of darknesse brought to light Who doth from heauen your secret sins behold Will one day to your shame them all vnfold Iudges and people diligently try The truth before you one condemne to dye For some for malice some will sweare for gaine Of enuy and ambition some will straine When as you see th'accusers violent And offer oath to prooue their owne intent Though it may seeme them little to concerne Yet wa●ily before you iudge discerne Chaste Dames who rather had endure the shame Th●n pr●u●●y your consciences to blame Waite on the Lord and in his lawes delight So he will bring all wickednesse to light Whilst Susan-like your innocence shall shine And be commended to succeeding time Henceforth let all the Ladies that liue chast Be with the title of Susannas grac't So far as Isaacks seede the Scepter swayes And Phoebus doth divide the nights from dayes So far shall honourd be chaste Susans name And all chaste Dames shall glory in the same And when as witnesses doe disagree Iudges shall praise her honourd chastity And Daniels prudent diligence admire And by this patterne out the truth enquire In this she suffers like that holy One Who though he neuer ill had thought or done Yet was accusd for cursed Blaspheme But neuer could the witnesses agree Lo wicked Pilate like these Elders stands Was●ing before iust iudge his guilty hands Yet nothing but hells lake shall wash from thence That guiltlesse blood the blood of innocence In thee two wicked Iudges I doe see The diuell and the world accusing me Whose malice surely had me ouercome Had not the Prophet to my rescue come I see in Daniel sitting on the throne A true resemblance of that holy One Who though he all things past as present knows By Spirit which the truth to Daniel shows Yet by discussing will make all things cleare That men and Angels which his Dome do heare May second it with finall approbation The Iusts reward the wickeds condemnation Go on braue Daniel in doing right And thou shalt fauour find in Princes sight Cyrus succeedes in Persian Monarchy Who thee shall raise to high Authority And like wise Ioseph place thee next his throne He Egypt thou shalt Persia rule alone IN all thy Poems thou dost wondrous well But thy Susanna doth them all excell R. C. FINIS Iustice. 2 Chr. 36.21 Exo. 18.21 A good wife described Prou. 31.10.11 c. 2. Sam. 13.11 Gen. ●● ● Kin. 25.57 1. King 21 8. Deut. 22.22 〈◊〉 19. ●● 〈◊〉 41.38 1. Sa● 12.3 1. King 2. ●3 1. Kin 2 4● Simile The sentence Deu. 19.16 Gun-powder treason Reu. Mark 14.58 59. Gen. 41.40

onely doth on Lust depend Doth like to Ammons with the Fury end This man was vertuous of noble race Rich beautifull in Body and in Face To him her parents gladly gaue consent And with her happy choise were well content Then see how Loue thus lawfully begun Betwixt this paire a holy course doth run A wise discreete man chaste and modest wife Liu'd as their Bodies both had but one Life One will one mouth to wish and to direct What one delights the other doth affect And he offends both that displeaseth one Thus are they truely both one flesh and bone The old man farther would his Tale haue told But now they at the Hall arriu'd Behold The officers and sergeants cry out Roome Make way for heere my Lords the Elders come As Iudges which the wicked Iesabel To get the field which Naboath would not sell Corrupted by her Li●es proclaime a fast And guiltlesse Naboath with the chiefest plac't Till that two wicked persons sweare this thing We heard this man blaspheme God and the King Wherea● the godly Iurours out doe cry We finde him guiltie guiltie let him die So came th●se wicked Elders to the Hall Resolu'd to wreake their Spite and Malice all But that they might themselues vpright pretend They cause the people for the Dame to send Who with her parents children and her kin Appear'd as faire without as cleare within As when the course of some much honour'd peere Vnto her tombe is brought vpon a Beere Couer'd with veluet blacke downe to the ground Her friends and kins-folkes all about her round Their late delights now all to Sorrow turne But most her parents and her children mourne For losse of their deare childe and carefull mother Who neuer had nor shall haue such another That all the lookers on and standers by Bewaile the last act of this Tragedie So was this Dame brought out in blacke array Vnto the funerall of this sad day Her faire blacke stole low-reaching to the ground Vnder which heau'nly Beauties all abound Follow'd by noble Dames of I●wish nation Who made for her exceeding Lamentation Y●a so her parents and her children mourne It doth all Iudas hearts to pittie turne Yet would the Elders Bowels not relent Th●●ugh eu'n the rockes and stones seeme to lament And sure none can the ashes in an vrne Bewaile more than they all for her doe mourne Herein the difference doth only lye A Co●rse is dead and Susan is to dye One's Soule is whole in heauenly habitation Hers there as yet only by contemplation The Elders burning in old lustfull fire To satisfie their beastly Lusts desire Command the Serieants streight her face vncouer And at the Barre the prisoner plaine discouer As when the Coffin which the Coarse containes With blacke all couer'd on the Herse remaines The mourners seeme their loud Laments to hould But when the Sexton doth the Same vnfould Preparing it for earths last habitation All send out loudest groanes and Lamentation So all her friends this liuing Coarse bewaile When from her tender eyes they pull the vaile Her Face then vnder Sorowes clouds doth shine As neere as mortals may like to diuine Her haire like wires of burnisht gold appeares Whereon like pearles do hang her cristall teares Malicious Curres looke off your Sight is ill You like the Basiliske by eying kill For her but yesterday your Liues you venterd And into her Lords orchyard closely enterd But now I see the flame which you then burn'd Is all to Malice Hate and Fury turn'd In briefe the Clerke doth her Inditement reade To which she truely doth non-guiltie pleade Yet so the Law is that vpon Deniall Her Life must stand vpon the peoples triall Poore wretch saith then the eldest Iudge confesse And aske God pardon for thy wickednesse The Euidence alasse too plaine will be The witnesses thee in the act did see But who feares not to act Adulterie In Gods sight feares not before men to lie Thou thought'st this thing in secret to haue done But God shall make it clearer then the Sunne Then on her guiltlesse head both lay their hands Whil'st shee like Iepthes virgine-daughter stands Looking to Heau'n expecting when priests knife Should for burnt-offering dispatch her life And thus they sweare A● last daies afternoone We two in shady arbour sate alone In at the foregate to the orchard came With maidens two attending her this Dame Whom at the back-gate soone away shee sends Whil'st some Deuotions priuate she pretends But in close shade we suddainly espie A yong man waiting with this Dame to lye And much asham'd of such most wicked fact Arise and take them in the very act The man escapes because he was too strong For we alas are old and he was yong Out of the gate he breakes from vs away But what hee was this Dame will not bewray This truth 'fore God and man we testifie Now heare the Law against adultery The Clerke then reades The man that 's lying found With any woman-kinde in wedlocke bound They both shall die as both together lay So sinne from Israel is done away Then as the chimes the clocke doe follow soone As it hath told her longest tale at noone Not caring whether it goe false or true So doe the idle-giddy headed crew At hearing of the Iudges witnesse cry We finde her guiltie guiltie let her die Oh Heau'ns chaste Susan die Thou maist cōplaine That thou thine heart hast clensed then in vaine In vaine hast wash'd thine hands in innocence And day and night endured chastisements But vnderstanding well the fearefull end Of those that so malitiously intend How they consume and perish suddainly Shee onely thus aloud to God doth cry Searcher of Secrets who from euer was And all things knowst before they come to passe Thou knowst they falsely these things testifie Against mee therefore Lo I guiltlesse die Thou knowst I neuer to such things consented As these men haue maliciously inuented As Bullet then which force of Powder sends Swiftly attaines the marke which it intends Eu'n so these words sent from a wounded Sprite Fly to the Lord that iudgeth all things right Who vnderstanding well by this appeale Guiltlesse Susann's wrong forthwith doth seale Without delay or fee an Inhibition And to a yong man grants a new commission For God as was seene often in those daies The Spirit of yong Daniel doth raise Who as shee 's led to execution cries I free am from this bloody Sacrifice The people which all noueltie desire Returne of him his meaning to enquire Who in the Spirit of Truth now waxing bold Before them all their errour doth vnfold O! Fooles of Israel who to discerne The Truth not able are nor seeke to learne You one of Israels daughters heere to die Condemned haue but know no reason why Before what Iudges did you her arraigne Who her accusers are and who againe Are witnesses What two false Elders shall Be Iudge accusers witnesses and all He that