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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07523	The wisdome of Solomon paraphrased. Written by Thomas Middleton	Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.	1597 (1597)	STC 17906; ESTC S110004	68,372	186

gaine O double knot of treble miseries Oh treble knot twice thrice in villanies O idoll-worshipping thou mother art Shee procreatresse of a he offence I know thee now thou bearst a womans part Thou nature hast of her shee of thee sence These are thy daughters too too like the mother Black sins I dim you all with inckie smother verse 27 My pen shall be officious in this scene To let your harts blood in a wicked veine To make your bodies cleare your soules as cleane To cleanse the sinkes of sin with vertues reine Behold your cole-blacke blood my writing inke My papers poysoned meate my pens fowle drinke New christned are you with your owne new blood But madde before sauage and desperate Prophecying lies not knowing what was good Liuing vngodly euermore in hate Thundring out oathes pale Sergeants of despaire Swore and forswore not knowing what you were verse 28 Now looke vpon the spectacle of shame The well-limnd image of an ill-limnd thought Say are you worthy now of praise or blame That such selfe-scandall in your owne selues wrought You were heart-sicke before I let you blood But now heart-well since I haue done you good Now wipe blinde folly from your seeing eies And driue destruction from your happy mind Your follie now is wit not foolish-wise Destruction happinesse not mischiefe blinde You put your trust in idoles they deceiude you You put your trust in God and he receiude you verse 29 Had not repentance grounded on your soules The climes of good or ill vertue or vice Had it not flowde into the tongues enrowles Ascribing mischiefes hate with good aduice Your tong had spild your soul your soul your tong Wronging each function with a double wrong Your first attempt was placed in a show Imaginary show without a deed The next attempt was periury the foe To iust demeanors and to vertues seede Two sins two punishments and one in two Makes two in one and more than one can do verse 30 Foure scourges from one paine al comes from sin Single yet double double yet in foure It slayes the soule it hems the body in It spills the minde it doth the heart deuoure Gnawing vpon the thoughts feeding on blood For why she liues in sin but dies in good She taught their soules to stray their tongs to sweare Their thought to thinke amisse their life to die Their heart to erre their mischiefe to appeare Their head to sin their feete to treade awry This sceane might well haue bin destructions tent To pay with paine what sin with ioy hath spent Chapter XV. verse 1 But God will neuer die his hands with bloud His heart with hate his throne with crueltie His face with furies map his browe with cloud His raigne with rage his crowne with tyrannie Gratious is he long-suffering and true Which ruleth all things with his mercies view Gratious for where is grace but where he is The fountaine-head the euer-boundlesse streame Patient for where is patience in amisse If not conducted by pure graces beame Truth is the moderator of them both For grace and patience are of truest groth verse 2 For grace-beginning truth doth end in grace As truth-beginning grace doth end in truth Now patience takes the moderators place Yong-olde in suffering olde-yong in ruth Patience is olde in being alwaies yong Not hauing right nor euer offering wrong So this is moderator of Gods rage Pardoning those deeds which wee in sin commit That if wee sin shee is our freedomes gage And wee still thine though to be thine vnfit In being thine ô Lord wee will not sin That we thy patience grace and truth may win verse 3 O grant vs patience in whose grant we rest To right our wrong and not to wrong the right Giue vs thy grace ô Lord to make vs blest That grace might blesse blisse might grace our sight Make our beginning and our sequell truth To make vs yong in age and graue in youth Wee know that our demaunds rest in thy will Our will rests in thy word our worde in thee Thou in our orisons which dost fullfill That wished action which wee wish to bee T is perfect righteousnes to know thee right T is immortalitie to know thy might verse 4 5 In knowing thee we know both good and ill Good to know good and ill ill to know none In knowing all wee know thy sacred will And what to do and what to leaue vndone We are deceiu'd not knowing to deceiue In knowing good and ill wee take and leaue The glasse of vanitie deceit and showes The painters labour the beguiling face The diuers-coloured image of suppose Cannot deceiue the substance of thy grace Only a snare to those of common wit Which couets to be like in hauing it verse 6 The greedy lucre of a witlesse braine This feeding auarice on sencelesse minde Is rather hurt then good a losse then gaine Which couets for to loose and not to finde So they were coloured with such a face They would not care to take the idols place Then be your thoughts coherent to your words Your words as correspondent to your thought T is reason you should haue what loue affords And trust in that which loue so dearely bought The maker must needs loue what he hath made And the desirers free of either trade verse 7 Man thou wast made art thou a maker now Yes t is thy trade for thou a potter art Tempring softe earth making the clay to bow But clayie thou dost beare too stout a hart The clay is humble to thy rigorous hands Thou clay too tough against thy Gods commaūds If thou want'st slime beholde thy slimie faults If thou want'st clay beholde thy clayie breast Make them to be the deepest centres vaults And let all clayie mountaines sleepe in rest Thou bear'st an earthly mountaine on thy back Thy harts chiefe prison-house thy souls chief wrack verse 8 Art thou a mortall man and mak'st a God A God of clay thou but a man of clay O suds of mischiefe in destruction sod O vainest labour in a vainer playe Man is the greatest worke which God did take And yet a God with man is nought to make Hee that was made of earth would make a heau'n If heauen may be made vpon the earth Sins heires the ayres sins plants the planets seau'n Their God a clod his birth true vertues dearth Remember whence you came wither you goe Of earth in earth from earth to earth in woe verse 9 No quoth the potter as I haue beene clay So will I end with what I did begin I am of earth and I doe what earth may I am of dust and therefore will I sin My life is short what then I 'le make it longer My life is weake what then I 'le make it stronger Long shall it liue in vice though short in length And fetch immortall steps from mortall stops Strong shall it be in sin though weake in strength Like mounting Eagles on high

I know the chaunging courses of the yeares And the diuision of all differing climes The situation of the stars and spheres The flowing tides and the flow-ebbing times I know that euery yeare hath his foure courses I know that euery course hath seuerall forces I know that nature is in euery thing Beasts furious winds rough men wicked are whose thoghts their scurge whose deeds their iugmēts sling Whose words and works their perill and their care I know that euery plant hath difference I know that euery roote hath influence verse 21 True knowledge have I got in knowing truth True wisedome purchased in wisest wit A knowledge fitting age wit fitting youth Which makes me yong though olde with gaine of it True knowledge haue I and true wisedomes store True hap true hope what wish what wold I more Known things I needs must know sith not vnknown My care is knowledge she doth heare for me All secrets know I more because not showne My wisedome secret is and her I see Knowledge hath taught me how to heare knowne causes Wisedome hath taught me secrecies applauses verse 22 23 Knowledge and wisedome knowne in wisest things Is reasons mate discretions centinell More then a trine of ioyes from vertues springs More then one vnion yet in vnion dwell One for to guide the spring sommer the other One haruests nurse the other winters mother Foure mounts and foure high mounters all foure one One holy vnion one begotten life One manifolde affection yet alone All one in peaces rest all none in strife Sure stable without care hauing all power Not hurtfull doing good as one all foure This peacefull army of foure knitted soules verse 24 Is marching vnto peaces endles warre Their weapons are discretions written roules Their quarrell loue and amitie their iarre Wisedome director is captaine and guide All other take their places side by side Wisedome deuides the conflict of her peace Into foure squadrons of foure mutuall loues Each bent to war and neuer meanes to cease Her wings of shot her disputation moues Shee warres vnseene and pacifies vnseene Shee is wars victory yet peaces Queene verse 25 Shee is the martiall trumpet of alarmes And yet the quiet rest in peaces night Shee guideth martiall troupes she honours armes Yet ioyns she fight with peace and peace with fight Shee is the breath of Gods and heauens power Yet peaces nurse in being peaces flower A flowing in of that which ebbeth out An ebbing out of that which floweth in Presumption she doth hate in being stout Humilitie though poore her fauours win Shee is the influence of heauens flow No filth doth follow her where ere shee goe verse 26 Shee is that spring which neuer hath an ebbe That siluer-coloured brooke which hath no mud That loome which weaues and neuer cuts the webbe That tree which growes and neuer leaues to bud Shee constant is vnconstancie her foe Shee doth not flow and ebbe nor come and goe Phoebus doth weepe when watrie cloudes approach Shee keeps her brightnes euerlastingly Phoebe when Phoebus shines forsakes nights coach Hir day is night and day immortally The vndefiled mirrour of renowne The image of Gods power her vertues crowne verse 27 28 Discretion knowledge wit and reasons skill All foure are places in one only grace They wisedome are obedient to her will All foure are one one in all foures place And wisedome being one she can do all Sith one hath foure all subiect to one call Her selfe remaining selfe the world renewes Renewing ages with perpetuall youth Entring into the soules which death pursues Making thē Gods friends which were frends to truth If wisedome doth not harbour in thy minde God loues thee not and that thy soule shall finde For how canst thou be lead without thy light verse 29 30 How can thy eyles soule direct her way If wanting her which guides thy steps aright Thy steps from night into a path of day More beautifull then is the eye of heau'n Guilding her selfe with her selfe-changing steau'n The stars are twinckling handmaides to the moone Both moone and stars handmaids to wisdomes sunne These shine at middest night this at mid-noone Each new begins their light when each hath done Pale-mantled night followes red mantled day Vice followes both but to her owne decay Chapter VIII verse 1 WHo is the Empresse of the worlds confine The Monarchesle of the foure cornerd earth The Princesse of the seas life without fine Commixer of delight with sorowes mirth What soueraigne is shee which euer raignes Which Queene-like gouerns al yet none cōstrains Wisedome ó flie my spirit with that word Wisedome ó lodge my spirit in that name Fly soule vnto the mansion of her lord Although thy wings be findged in her flame Tell her my blacknes doth admire her beautie I le marie her in loue serue her in dutie verse 2 If marry her God is my father God Christ is my brother Angells are my kin The earth my dowrie heauen my aboade My rule the world my life without my sin Shee is the daughter of immortall Ioue My wife in heart in thought in soule in loue Happy for euer hee that thought in hart Happy for euer he that heart in thought Happy the soule of both which beares both part Happy that loue which thoght har● soule hath sought The name of loue is happiest for I loue her Soule heart and thoughts loues agents are to proue her verse 3 Ye parents that would haue your children rulde Here may they be instructed rulde and taught Ye children that would haue your parents schoolde Feeding their wanton thirst with follies draught See here the schoole of discipline erected See here how yong and old are both corrected Children this is the Mistris of your blisse Your schoolemistris reformer of your liues Parents you that do speake thinke do amisse Here 's she which loues and lifes direction giues She teacheth that which God knowes to be true She chuseth that which God would chuse for you verse 4 What is our birth poore naked needy cold What is our life poore as our birth hath beene What is our age forlorne in being old What is our end as our beginnings scene Our birth our life our age our end is poore what birth what life what age what end hath more Made rich it is with vanities vaine show If wanting wisedome it is follies game Or like a bended or vnbended bow Ill fortunes scoffe it is good fortunes shame If wisedome be the riches of thy minde Then can thy fortune see not seeing blinde verse 5 6 Then if good fortune doth begin thy state Ill fortune cannot end what she begins Thy fate at first will still remaine thy fate Thy conduct vnto ioyes not vnto sins If thou the bridegroome art wisedome the bride Ill fortune cannot swimme against thy tide Thou marrying her dost marry more than she Thy portion is not faculties but blisse Thou needst not teaching for she teacheth thee Nor no reformer she thy mistris