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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	word_n	world_n	worship_n	620	4	6.7532	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11401	The first day of the worldes creation: or of the first weeke of that most Christian poet, W. Salustius, Lord of Bartas; Sepmaine. Day 1. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.	1595 (1595)	STC 21658; ESTC S110825	21,273	48

THE FIRST DAY OF THE WORLDES CREATION Or Of the first weeke of that most Christian Poet W. SALVSTIVS Lord of Bartas Etsi serò seriò Imprinted at London by I. Iackeson for Gregorie Seaton 1595. The Translator to the Author SO so Lord Bartas should all Arts be spent In truthes aduauncement and their Authors glorie Blush Christian Poets to seeme eloquent In setting foorth a lewd and lying storie Let Poets learne the sacred truth to write And Heathens take the lying Epithite There there Lord Bartas hath the truth hir grace Where God is Phoebus and his sprite the muse Where Poets follow Prophets heauenly trace And Parnase mount for Zion do refuse Let heathnish parasites that cog and flatter Call fained muses to their forged matter Then then Lord Bartas art and truth accord When truth is mistresse and those arts hir maides When subtill quirks and questions be abhord And damsels follow where their mistresse leades Truthes Poets let them not be vaine disputers But take hir Prophets for their onely tutors Thus thus Lord Bartas hast thou done and wonn Arts garland and truthes heauenly blessing She was thy dittie God did set thy tune His sprite did guide thee in that truthes expressing Now whiles thy works in Fraunce affoord a sunshine Vouchsafe this shadow may be Englands moonshine To the Right Worshipfull wise and learned M. Anthonie Bacon perfect health of bodie increase of vertues and worship to the honorable seruice of his countrie the aduancement of Religion and the euerlasting felicitie of his owne soule YOur long experience both of the French estate language Right worshipfull the report of your wisdome blossomed in youth and ripened in yeeres increased by learning at home and confirmed by trauaile abroad haue drawne me a poore nameles countriman of yours to make choyce of your woorthie title to countenance the forefront of this frame and your iudgement to censure the priuie conueiances thereof The peece of worke which I offer to your patronage and iudgement was vndertaken in the nonage of my studies before I was professed and perhaps had beene smothered from the world as an abortiue had not some my deere friends weaned it from my hands and fostered it in their affectionate bosoms promising it life and light if not with me without me yet not in respect either of the matter which is heauenly nor the Author which is excellent desired I to silence my infantlike pen from proceeding heerin but bicause this most Christian Poet and noble Frenchman Lord of Bartas might haue been naturalized amongst vs either by a generall act of a Poeticall Parliament or haue obtained a kingly translator for his weeke as he did for his Furies The king of Scots translated his Furies or rather a diuine Sidney a stately Spencer or a sweet Daniell for an interpreter thereof For so was I put in a false hope by some that the liuing Pen of that worthie deceased knight had amongst other his charitable legacies bequeathed a rich suit after our best English fashion vnto this honorable Poet and therefore suppressed my ragged weeds till I perceiued their promise shrunke my expectation still naked And yet if any of the forenamed Heroicall Spirits haue vndertaken the performance of that act I would not haue my seelie daies worke to preiudice their Weeke nor my moat to flutter in the presence of their bright beames wherefore though my rash quill hath tooke a further flight into this translation yet haue I pinioned vp the rest of hir fethers and suffered onely the first daies worke to passe abroad till I may vnderstand whether any of those sweete recording Swans haue waded in the deriuation of these streames or no which if it be true as I rather wish it then enuie at it I am content that my homely translation be cancelled onely this forefront would I haue preserued as an old ruinous wall not for the workmanship but for the monument of some famous inscription therein contained so may it stand as an heape of stones not onely rebounding a short eccho of Dubartas his stately voice but also lifting vp the accent in the sounding praises of Master Anthonie Bacon and subscribing to the manifold prayers for his health and happinesse with Amen The Argument THe most Christian Poet in a matter of truth hauing made his invocation vpon the true God addresseth himselfe to describe the creation of the world against the truth whereof bicause many opinions of heathenish Philosophers might be opposed he cutteth them downe as they stand in his way Some dreamed of eternitie and seeing the briers of antiquitie growing over the cleere account of the worlds age lost themselues as in a labyrinth for wane of a directorie thread to leade to the originall point of the first entrance of the same Others stumbled at the beginning thereof and did seeme to hold the circumstance of time and a former commencement of motion yet did they denie the substance and miscall the author therof for they affirmed the world to haue bene patched vp of meats and sodainely so iumbled together by a casuall concourse of the same Our Poet treading the steppes of the true Prophets findeth out an Immortall author and preseruer being the ancient of daies a Father of lights wich is he that protesteth of himselfe I am before the light was created And if the Epicure demand what that Author did before he made the world here is returned the same answere that Spiridion gaue to the like question in the councel of Neece He built a hel for curious questionists for his company he was alone and yet not solitarie he had his essentiall vertues his distinct persons all concurring in the fulnes of his Godhead which was al in all Some of the Philosophers harped vpon this point but their brains were out of tune and therfore neuer found out the perfect vnion of those three parts in one Our Poet expresseth the Author God the instrument his word being the very beginning and alpha of those lines written in the royall parchment of the heauens and made legible to all lands and languages This whole frame and organ of the world tuned by the finger of God and breathed into by his spirit serueth as vocall musicke to conueigh the significant dittie of his power and glorie into euerie sence Neither is this world a worke of Imitation seconded by any former and externall patern but of meere nothing was made a rude something at the first by sixe daies leasure polished extended in such ample compas as we behold to the intent there might be but one whole entire mound without whose pales there might neither be purleis nor pluralitie of worlds As it had a beginning so also must it haue an end though Plato of prophane men the most deuine shuld affirme the contrary al the stife conceited sect of Stoickes shuld necessarity implead a sempiternitie Yet such an end shall it haue as euerie venturous Astrologer is not