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A13273	All the small vvorkes of that famous poet Iosuah Siluester Gathered into one volume.; Selections	Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.; Bertaut, Jean, 1552-1611.; Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.; Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621.	1620 (1620)	STC 23575.5; ESTC S106634	207,883	650

All began Thou madest All and since re-madest Man The Mediatour and the Vmpire giv'n To reconcile reuolted Earth to Heav'n Who to impart to vs His Immortalitie Took part with Vs in this our fraile Mortalitie And in all things except all Sinne alone A perfect Man put all our Nature on Born in the World to make Vs Born-anew In pouertie Vs richly to endew Humbling himself that we might raised be In Seruant's Form to make vs euer Free Came down to Earth Vs vp to Heav'n to mount Was tempted ●eer our Tempter to surmount Dy'd to destroy the Strength of Death and Sin And Rose again our Righteousnes to win How oft did He visite the Poore and Sick Cure the Distracted and Paralitique Restore the Blinde Deaf Dumb and Dead reuiue And Satans Captiues from his rage repriue How many Idiots did He make excell The Wisest Masters in all Israel ●ow many rude plain silly Fisher-men ●are power-full Preachers Fishers then of Men. How-many Sin-sick did he inly cure ●nd deep Soule-wounded binde-vp and assure ●ow-many Proud Loose Cruell Couetous ●ade Hee Meek Modest Gentle Bountious By Him deer Father come we Thee to know ●hy Word thy Will to frame our owne Wils so ●y Him alone Wisedome we seek and finde ● Cares and Crosses to confirm our minde By Him alone Thy sacred Truth we learn ●om suttlest Errors cleerly to discern ●y Him all Cloudes of Darknes are dispell'd ●olatry and Heresie refell'd By Him We pray to Thee and what we craue liuely Faith we are assur'd to haue ●eav'ns Kingdom first Soules Feast Bodies Food ●race Comfort Peaee euery needfull Good By Him be We Thy Children of Adoption Coheires of Heav'n and Vessels of Election Becomming Man He is become our Brother So happy VVe haue also Thee our Father By Him of Thee Thine Holy Spirit we haue Which in our hearts thy Law doth lyuelie graue The Comforter the Spirit of Truth of Loue Of Power of Peace of Wisedome from aboue The Spirit which staies vs when in Storms we ride And steers vs steddie in our Calmer Tide VVhich kills the Flesh and chills infatuate Fires To quicken Soules and kindle Heav'ns-Desires Which brings the Strays home to Thy holy Fold Giues Stutters Tongues and makes the bashful bold Opens the Sense of Sacred Mysteries Giues Form or Life to euerie thing that is In Him Thou built'st Thy Heav'n of Heav'ns excelling Thy Court prepar'd for Saints eternall Dwelling In Him Thou mad'st the VVorld and All to moue In euery Part as doth it best behoue Hee to the fainting heart new heart procures Confirmes the feeble fearefull Soules assures Giues Faith and Hope Loue Grace godly Zeal Happy the Soules where He delights to dwel For Those Hee fills with his aboundant Treasures ●n diuers manners and in diuers measures ●s diuersly befits Thy Churches-state ●o Plant or Prune or Prop or Propagate To some he giues a cleer quick Apprehension ●o some deep Iudgement some Diuine Inuention ●o some the doore of gracefull Eloquence ●o some the store of Wisedoms Excellence Some to interpret with Diuine Dexterity ●he sacred Secrets of th' eternall Verity ●ome School-less Scholars Learned study-less ●o vnderstand and speak all Languages Som to confirm their Office and Thine Oracles ●o work strange Wonders great many Miracles ●euiue the dead recouer natiue Euils ●●re all Diseases and euen cast out Diuels Such are th' Effects Works Vertues gifts graces ●hich by degrees in diuers times and places ●hy Holy Spirit to sillie Men hath giv'n ●om Them to Thee to raise our hearts to Heav'n And as in our fraile Bodies through varietie ●f Members fitted into One Societie ●ne very Soule doth actions different ●●me more Some lesse Noble or Excellent So in the mystick Body of Thy Son Where many Members Loue vnites in One Thine Owne One Spirit works actions admirable Among themselues more or lesse honorable Yet orderly Each his owne Rank obserues And properly Each his owne Office serues Nor boasteth any other not to need For oft the least the most of all doth steed Therefore the stronger must the weak support The safe and sound cheer the afflicted sort The Rich and mighty not despise Inferiours Neither the mean enuie or hate Superiours Were All a Head in This faire Frame of Man Where were the Foot the Hand the Stomack than Were All a Tongue where should the Eye becom● Were All an Eye where should the Eare haue room O Spirit Eternall which hast All compos'd In number measure Order All dispos'd Make Charity Vs mutuall Members moue Vnite our Spirits in thy perpetuall Loue. Quench all Contentions Errors Heresies Which both our Mindes and Bodies tyranize Quench all Concupiscence and foule Desire Which both our Bodies and Soules Death conspir● Vouchsafe our Souls Rest w th out Schismik strife Our Bodies Health through chaste and sober Life What could we ask what should wee rather craue Then in sound Bodies as sound Soules to haue Sound is the Body kept by keeping Chaste With moderate Exercise and mean repast ●ound is the Soule which resteth sober-wise Content in Thee vn-vext in Vanities Sound is the Soule free from all Self-Sedition Of Pride Hate Enuie Auarice Ambition ●nd all the Crowd of Mans Concupiscence ●inding His Will to Thy Obedience Who is so bound Thy Seruant is most Free ●ost Rich who leaues all Riches else for Thee ●ost easie rests who most for Thee endures ●ost Self-distrusting most Thy Strength assures So Thee to Serue is euen to Raign in brief ●o to Obey is to Command in Chief ●o walke Thy Wayes is only Libertie ●o learn Thy Learning ENCYCLOPAEDIE O! happy Those that stand in such a state ●nd in Thy Statutes alwaies meditate ●r if they slip or trip or faile or fall ●eturn betimes and for Thy Mercy call For though thy Law in Firie Thunder-giv'n Threat still the Stubborn with Reuenge frō Heav'n Thy gracious Gospell offers Pardon free To humbled Soules that Sigh in Faith to Thee And Thou who wilt not Sinners die but liue Hast promis'd All so suing to forgiue Thy Word is Truth Thy Promise to fulfill Thou God of Truth hast euer Power and Will O! bountious Thou which doost so oft repaire Our broken Soules and keep'st them from Despair And blessed Wee whose Faith in Love's Physicion Assures our Hope of all our Sins Remission Who-so hath Sorrow for his Sinfulnes Purpose to mend Desire of Holiness Trust in Thy Mercy hath no need to doubt But by Thy Grace his Sins are wyped out O Cordial Word O Comfortable breath Reuiuing Soules euen in the Gates of Death From Iawes of Hell raising our Hopes to Heav'n Therefore deer Lord To Thee all Praise be giv'n Who shall accuse vs now if Thou acquight God being with vs what can vs affright Our Faith in Thee ô What can shake or shock So surely fixt vpon so firm a Rock What shall diuide vs Lord from Loue of Thee ●hall Shame shall Sorrow shall Aduersity ●hal

euer did good for meer Goodnes cause This Baen of Soules and that same Fopperie Of old sirnamed Dysidaimonié Whose hart deiect with Terrors ouer-strong To feare God 's Iustice doth his Mercie wrong Right Seruile Feare with Errors foolify'd Haue driuen Eusebia hence els wheare to bide Because th' one loues not th' other miss-beloues What best to fear and least presume behoues The Angell therefore ferrets euerie nook And narrowly her wonted haunts dooth looke In euerie Cloister and in euerie Cell Where Folk belieu'd that She did euer dwell Yet nothing findes hee of her anie-wheare Saue some old track or footing heer and there No though he visite the austerities Of famous Abbayes and faire Nunneries But in Her stead he meeteth euermore One of These Haggs in euerie Couent Doore Dresst in a habite of so humble showe That hard it was the difference to knowe Yet at the last prying on euerie side Her as conceald in a by-place hee spi'd Where with incessant teares shee stayd to rew And to bewaile our Errours old and new Amid an humble Troupe whom like Desire To loath the VVorld and from it to retire Had made preferre a poore and meane estate Yea Want itself in place so separate Before the Wealth the Honours and Delights Where-with the World inueigles as inuites As choosing rather heer to lose all These Then lose thereby their Soules eternall Ease In this sequestred place prostrate in Prayer Best Antidote gainst Hopes-pride and Despaire The Two grand Poisons of Soules Faculties The Angell found Eusebia on her knees Their Talk was short the Time inportun'd so In brief therefore hee doth his Message showe Acquaints her quickly VVhence and Why he came Then She eftsoones consenting to the same Away they post in a swift Aierie Coach Towards the place where all the rest approach The generall Rendez-vous for all This Act VVhere yet alas the Ladie Dice a lackt For th' Angell tasked to goe seek her forth Sees her no more conuersing on the Earth Nor findes her sitting as she wont of-old On Princes Thrones and Prelats vncontrould Nor among Magistrates which are the Tongue And Life of Lawe t' interpret Right and Wrong Where-at amazed and desiring more To sound what reason Men could yield therefore Assumes a Bodie bearing in his hands A bagg of VVritings and seem-Deeds for Lands Comes to a Hall all full of Murmuring Of people pricked with the angrie sting Of fel Eridea who her Venome sheds Euen into Boores and Paisants harts and heads By Her keen furie as wiith Brizes stung And by Merimnè and Dapania wrung In This great Hall vnknow'n vnto Repose Stalks that stern Furie either among those Of her owne Frye or 'mong the wretched Crew VVhom Her hard Gripes had made in vain to rew A Rank of Seats each vnto other fixt And euery-one a sundrie Name affixt Bordred the Walls smoakie with age'and foule Perches of manie plumie-pownced Fowle Whose nimble Quills haue learnd to flye for that Rich Minerall which makes men peace and prate There was no Order a lowd-buzzing Presse VVith whirling Eddies hurry'd without cease Full of all Sorts of Priests of Gentlemen Merchants Mechaniks Grooms and Husbandmen Each iustled other crowding to and fro As heer and there the stream did ebb and flowe This yauld that brauld another beat the Barr One woo'd the Iudge another vrg'd him farr This proues Default That pleads a Warrantie This auoides Witnes That appeals more high Another fleering dooth his Aduerse flowte With Rod in hand the Vshers trudge about A world of Lawyers swarm'd yet some had leasure As least imploy'd the Places length to measure All boyld with Discords one no sooner don But instantly another New begun With such a Noise as soundeth neer the Shoare When towards a Storm the Sea beginns to roare Hard-by this Ocean which Night only stilld Appeerd an Old-man as one deeplie illd And inly galled for some grieuous Losse With eyes lift-vp pale cheeks and armes acrosse Whom th'Angell spying towards him he speeds And seeming Mortall by his Shape and weeds Good Father sayd hee so to sound his minde Where might I think you Lady Dicea finde VVhom I haue sought already far and neer And surely thought now to haue found her heer Dicea my sonne said the Old-man well-nigh Gushing out Teares which stood in either eye And sending forth a deep-fet Sigh before Dicea alas is in the World no more That Fire which only Death hath power to quench That fel Desire no Deluge else can stanch The burning Thirst of Worldly Goods and Gold And all Sinns taught to warr against her bold Haue forc't her to forsake this wretched Frame And fly again to Heauen whence first she came Or if in Earth she yet haue anie Stance 'T is with the Chinois Turkes or Scythians But in This Climat hardlie dooth appeer Anie small signe to showe she hath bin heer Cruell Adicea in her Roome is sett Hate Fauour Fraude and Madame Counterfait Out of all Courts hunting all Conscience quight Make of Right crooked and of Crooked Right Art and Deceipt keep thear their open Schooles Reason and Lawe are but the phraze of Fooles For Law and Reason are now waigh'd by Sleight In golden Scales where only GOLD is waight Thus the Old-man proceeding still complaind Till th'Angell thus his Blasphemies restraind Alas good Father your fresh Grief I see For some great Suite late lost vnhappily From your sad lipps this bitter language drawes Excusable perhaps for your Grief's Cause But th' eye of Passion ill discernes the truth This hauing spoken the Celestiall youth Turns to another lesse disturb'd in minde And likewise askes Where he might Dicea finde Hee more discreet and milder-spoken farr Replyes My Sonne sure verie few there are Yea of the wisest who best vnderstand That easily can answer thy demand For One perhaps will think her to be there Whereas another seeming wrongd will swear By Heau'n and all that in it Heau'n containes That not a spark nor mark of her remaines Each holding her present or absent still As his owne Cause hath thryued well or ill But I 'll assure thee and past all Appeal That in this Place shee dooth not alwayes dwell Sometimes shee comes and brings for Companie Honor and Faith and old Integritie But the strange Tricks of a bold babbling Dame Call'd Quiddi-quirk as barbarous as her Name Molest her so that soon they driue her hence For Both at-once haue no-where Residence And Plutus too her many-times dismaies With that sweet Power whereby the world he swaies Causing her oft return with heauie cheer And that 's the Cause she stayes so seldom heer Oft haue I seen her on the souverain Seat In that high Senate whose Edicts compleat Sway all the Kingdome and if anie-where I sure belieue you yet shall find her There If those Abuses whose bold Tyrannie From other Thrones hath driuen her openly Haue not crept-in by some close Golden Port But farr bee That from such a

Blush besprent Trembling for Fear vntill inviting neerer The courteous General 's gentle words re-cheer-her Sweet-hart I am not I am not so fel ●s false Report hath told fond Israel Who Me for Father I for Children take ● love whom love my Lord their God to make And who do both may be assur'd to have What ever Good Mans heart can hope or crave Which Israel well should finde would they give care ●o that Kings Favour whose drad Power they fear ●hen fear not Thou my Love but tell me free ●he happy Cause that hither bringeth thee O Prince said She with the● firm Countenance ●preme for Fortune Wisedome Valiance Of all that ever had Command in Field Or ever manag'd martiall Sword and Shield Although my fraile Sex and weak bodie 's state No longer could endure the wretched fate Wants Labours Dangers and the deep Affright My fellow Towns-folk suffer day and night Yet is not That the Cause that drives me thence Nor That which drawes me to Your Excellence But 't is a never-never-dying Worm Which gnawes my Conscience a continual Storm A holy Fear least I be forc't to eat Among my People some vnlawfull meat For I foresee Sir that our Folk yer long With cruell Famine so extreamely wrung Wil be constrain'd to fill and file them too With vnclean Flesh which GOD forbids vs doo And that the Lord who strikes with iust Revenge Whom-ever dare his dread iust Lawes infrenge Will then without Fight give Thee vp their Place And one of Thine Thousands of Them shall chase Therfore my Lord GOD's Wrath and yours to fly Out of BETHVLIA to your Camp come I Beseeching humbly for your Honors sake That heer no Rigour neither Wrong I take Hee 's more then Wit-less that him wilfull throwes Winking in Dangers that he well fore-knowes And when he may live pain-less and secure ●n Toil-full Fears will his owne Death procure Now please thee grant me in this Vale away From noise and number nightly to go pray Hebrews no sooner shall GOD's Wrath incense But I inspir'd shall shew thine Excellence And then shall I thy valiant Legions lead Over all Iuda and thy Standards spread Shall swell in SION where not one shal dare Lift Launce against thee nor Defence prepare No not a Dog so much as barke at Thine Arms-clashing Army nor their Armors Shine Thy Name alone shall tame the stoutest Troup To Thee the Hils their proudest Tops shal stoup Rivers for Thee their rapid Course shall stay To yeeld Thine Hoste a new vn-wonted way The Prince replies O Worlds sole Ornament Lady as faire as wise and eloquent ●ight Welcome are You and we wish you ever ●n all Contentment with vs to persever ●nd if you proue in Truth and Loyalty ●s you are pleasing to mine Eare and Eye I shall from henceforth worship evermore The mighty GOD you Hebrewes do adore You shall from henceforth only Lady be Both of my Sceptre of my Soule and Me Hence-forth your Name with high Renown shal ring Where Heber Ister Nile and Ganges spring With Licence then soon as the Moon with light Of silver Rayes began to cleer the night The Widow hies to a dark Vale apart Where first she bathes her hands and then her heart Then from her Eyes a luke-warme Rill she showres Then from her Soule this fervent Prayer powres Lord GOD no longer now Thine Aide deny To those that only on Thine Aide rely Lord rescue Those that ready are to spend Their bloods and goods Thine Honor to Defend Lord let our Infants sad and cease-less Mones Our woefull Elders deep and dismall Grones Our Matron's Scrieches Cryes of Virgins faire Our sacred Levit's Day-and-nightly Prayer Perce to Thy Throne to wake thy slumbring Eye Drad GOD of Iustice glorious Father Why Do sulphury Bolts of thy best Thunder light On Carmel's Top and little Hermon smight And let th'Heav'n-threatning Sons of Eearth alone On proudest Ossa prouder Pelion Alas What said I Ah! forgive me Lord This idle rash and vnadvised Word Which in frail Passion my fond Lips did borrow ●rom fervent Zeale of mine vnfained Sorrow No ô Our Lignes sole Piller deerly dread 〈◊〉 knowe Thou shortly wilt their Head be head 〈◊〉 knowe This hand by Thy right hand led out ●hall at one Blowe This Heathen Army rout The end of the fourth Booke BETHVLIANS Rescue THE FIFT BOOKE FOr blood and marrow in his veines and bones The Vice-Roy feeds new Pains new Passions Which while he shuns he seeks feels yet not knows A dead-live Fire which of Self's Cinders growes For th' Hebrew Lady's rapting Rarities Being now sole Obiect of his Soule 's dimme Eyes Sad peevish pale soft drowsie dream-awake Care of his Hoste he doth no longer take Goes no more out a-nights to set his Watches And Courts of Gard about on all Approches Comes not to Counsail neither gives The Word Nor viewes the Quarters of his Camp nor stir'd As Sheep that misse their wonted Gard Guide Dispersed stray now by some Rivers side Or gurgling Brook now vp down the Downes Now in the Groves now on the Fallow grounds So th' Ethnik Army without Rule or Reine Pursue their Pleasures violent or vaine None will obey None but will now Command Each as him listeth dares him now dis-band Hebrews Why stay you now mew'd in your City Now now or never doth the Time befit-ye To sally on the Foe whose rank Disorder Among themselves themselves in Fight wil murder Nay bouge not though of such a Victory GOD will the Honor have and Author be Yet that blinde Cupid did this Tyrant blinde To take the Town was Day and Night his minde Now day and night he mindes but how to gain A Lady's grace Who taken is not taen Her Soul being temper'd more then Fancy-proof ●er-while th'vndanted mighty Theban rough Could not have fear'd Him with his massie Mace Now but a Glance of a weak Woman's Grace Dismaies him daunts him nay evē wounds him deep Past care of Cure and doth him Captive keep ●er-while Ambition with Drums rattling Din A wakt him earely yer the Day peept-in Now Love awakes him and with His Alarms Makes him neglect the Hebrews and their Arms ●er-while he had Princes and Kings at bay Now of Him Selfe hath neither Power nor Sway. Alas alas Vnhappy Change said Hee Must I live Captive to my Captive-Shee Is This alas to live the Body base't The minde as brute and both their Power defac't This 's not a Life or is worse Life to feel Then sad Ixion's on the brazen Wheel Eternall turning or a life in brief Most like the Life of that celestiall Thief Whose ever-never-dying heart and liver On Schythian Rocks feed a fel Vulture ever What boots me t' have subdew'd so many Lands What to have tam'd with my victorious hands All Nations lodg'd betwixt Hydaspes large And th'Haven where Cydnus doth in Sea discharge Sith I am vanquisht by the feeble Might Of Captive IVDITH's Glance What boots

you your Selues you all haue seen it too VVhy talk ye then thus vainly as yee doo This is with GOD the Portion the Part Of the Vngodly the Cruell heart This heritage shall impious Tyrants haue From the ●lmightie This they shall receaue If many Children be shall leaue behind As many shall the Sword or Famine find Or if that any in Remain be left They by the Plague shal vnbewayl'd be reft If He haue heaped Siluer as the Dust And Clothes as Clay he may but sure the Iust Shall ioy his Siluer his Treasures share And wear● his Ward-robe how-so rich rare If braue he build it is but like the Moth On others ground as that in others Cloth Soon dispossest or like a Watch-house soon To be set vp and suddainly pull'd-down Such Rich shall die and he without regard Vngather'd to his Fathers Toomb prepar'd Nothing of Him remains in Memorie He vanisheth in Twinkling of an eye Horrors shall seaze him as a Floud with Fright And as a Tempest hurry him in the night An Eastern Storm him quite away shal chase And as W●i●le-wind hurle him from his place So pittiless in wrathfull Ielousie VVhile glad fain he would his fingers flie VVil GOD pursue him Good men shal smile And clap their hands hiss at him the while SVre there are Mines veinlings vnder ground Whence Silver 's fetcht wherin Gold is found Ca● ● Iron out of Earth and out of Stone the Brass Is melted down into a purer mass Beyond the bounds of Darknes Man hath pry'd And th'Excellence of vnder-ground descry'd The rarest Stones richest Mineralls From deadly Damps horrid Darks he hales And if some Torrent come there rushing in Such as no Foot hath felt no Eye hath seen He can reuert it or diuert it soon Without Impeachment to his VVork begun Earth's surface yeelds him Corn Fruits for food Her vnder-folds some burning Sulphury flood Amid the Quarrs of Stone are Saphires store Among the Dust the precious Golden Ore VVhere neuer Bird before did Path discry VVhere neuer Vultur cast her greedy Eye VVhere sauage Whelps had neuer neuer trac't Nor furious Lion euer by had past On Cliffs of Adamant He layes his hands Their height hardnes He at will commands Slents them with Sledges crops their clowdy crown He by the roots turns Mountains vp-side down To let out Rills He cleaueth Rocks insunder His Eye perceiues all that is precious vnder He binds the VVaters that they shal not weep And diues for Riches in the deepest Deep All This more hath Man But where is found That souerain VVisedom sacred profound That Vnderstanding of the VVaies diuine Of GOD's supream and secret Discipline Man knowes it not nor kenns the worth of it It is not found in any liuing VVit The Deeps confess the Sea acknowledgeth T is not in Me nor with Me th' other saith Nor Gold nor Siluer nor all Gems that are Can purchase it nor equall it by farre No wedge of Ophir neuer so refin'd No Aethiopian Topaze Pearle of Inde No precious Onyx neither Saphire pure Corall and Crystall passe I as obscure No Carbuncle no Diamant so rare No One nor All with VVisedom may compare But Whence is then Where is to be found That sacred VVisedom secret profound Sith it is hidden from all humane Eyes And from the sight of euery Foule that flyes Death Destruction say VVe of the same Haue with our eares but onely heard the Fame GOD GOD alone doth vnderstand it Way And knowes the place where it abideth aye For He at once beholdeth All that is In all the VVorld All vnder Heav'n he sees To poize the Winds portion at his pleasure Vnto the Waters their due weight measure When for the Raine he stablisht a Decree And for the Thunder's Lightning Mutinie Then did Hee see it and fore-see it fit He numbred pondred prepared it And vnto Man This Maxime did apply GOD's Feare is Wisedom from Sin to flie 〈◊〉 ●9 IOB yet proceeded said furthermore O! were it with mee as it was of yore In my fore-passed Months my former Dayes When GOD preseru'd me when with gracious raies His Lightfull Lamp reflected on my head Whereby I walkt through Darknes void of Dread As in my younger times when yet the Lord Vouchsaf't me Blessings of my Bed Boord When yet the Lord was with me in my Tents And showred there his hidden Prouidence Whē where I went my waies were bath'd in Butter And Rocks about me Rills of Oile did gutter VVhen I had gon vnto the publique Gate To take my place where all our Senate sate At sight of Me would Young men hide them thence And th' Elder sort stand vp for reuerence Nobles were silent if I present were And if I spake they turn'd their ●ongue to Eare And th' Eare that heard me blessed me the Eye That saw me witnest mine Integritie For I deliuered euery Poore opprest The Orphan the Helpless I redrest He blessed me that was wel-neer vndon The Widowes heart I cheered I put-on ● put-on Iustice as a seemly Gowne ●t was vnto me as a Robe and Crowne ● as an Eye vnto the Blind became And as a Foot vnto the Halt and Lame A Father was I to the Poore and where The Case was Dark I would discusse it Cleer I also brake th'Oppressors greedy Iawes And took the Prey out of his Teeth and Pawes Then thought I sure to die at home in rest And said I shall with long good Daies be blest For by the Waters was my Root out-spred Vpon my Top Heav'ns nightly Deaw was shed My Wealth increast mine Honour daily grew My Bowe of Health my Strength did still renew When I had spoken euery Eare was prest To giue me eare and in my Counsels rest Without Reply and as the latter Rain The thirstie Earth my Words they entertain If I had laught or smil'd on any neer They took no notice nor would change my Cheer ● sate as Chief I onely rul'd the roast Dwelt as a King amid an armed Hoast And as a Man amid a mourning Rout That from his lips pours liuely Comforts out 〈◊〉 30 BVt now alas My Puisnès Me deride The meanest mock me Yea and Those beside Whos 's ragged Fathers I refus'd to keep My Shepheards Curs much more to cure my Sheep For to say truth what Seruice could they doo So idle bred both Young and Elder too Weakned with Sloath and wicked Conuersation And waxen old in wretched Desolation For Cold and Hunger wandring here and there With Mallowes fed and roots of Iuniper Pursewd as Theeues hunted from place to place With Hue and Cries and euer had in Chase And therefor fain for Shelter's sake to creep In Clifts and Caues in Rocks and Dungeons deep Among the Thorns and Thickets roaring rife Wild Out-lawes leading a most Beastiall life The Breed of Fooles the Fry of