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A11402	The second day of the First vveeke of the most excellent, learned, and diuine poet, VVilliam, Lord Bartas. Done out of French into English heroicall verse by Thomas VVinter, Maister of Artes; Sepmaine. Day 2. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Winter, Thomas, Master of Arts.	1603 (1603)	STC 21659; ESTC S110833	26,697	50

quantitie At length should come vnto a nulliti● If death could something to a nothing bring Then should that change be vtter perishing Exemplific●ti● Sometimes the mountaines prouder tops do fall But then the dales are filled therewithall And when as Rhone or Thesis swelling pride Doth ouerflow the field through which they glide No more on either side is drownd and lost Then is recouerd on the other coast The louely heauen doth showre downe many a floud That his beloued spouse the earth may bud Which she repa●es squirting them vp amaine Through hidden poares of hearbes and trees againe He that this only obseruation makes Simil. How waxe a hundred diuerse fashion takes Yet still the same to him the daily change Of this inferiour world cannot be strange The worlds First ma●ter is this waxe vnformed Which with a thousand formes is all adorned The forme is the seale and heauens great King Is this high Chancelor who with his ring His great or lesser seales doth print vpon her Which sometime bring her shame and somtimes honor With vs is nothing firme and constant here Both life and death in turne do dominere One bodie springs not till another fade Onely the matter is immortall made Gods writing table bodie of this All Receiuer of what accidents befall All like it selfe all in it selfe compacted It neither is enlarged nor contracted Whose essence is vuchanged but her shape No fewer outward fashions doth escape Then Proteus or the fish cald Manie-feete Which for to prey amid the watrie deepe Himselfe discolours and in imitation Fitly resembles our French-neighbour nation Mat●ri● prima Gall● similis Which like an ape doth euermore delight To be in stranger fashions alway dight Whose shirt no oftner suffers any change Then his apparell doth a fashion strange This Matter is a Lais whose delight Would chaunge a hundred louers in a night Who scarcely of some yonkers arme vnlaced Hath in her cogitation straight embraced Anothers culling and her nouell sport Doth cause her wish for plentie of that sort For this same matter prickt with strong desire Of change and yet vnable to attire Her selfe with euery shape doth by succession Receiue in euery part a new impression The cause of the trans●utation of the elemen●s The chiefest cause of these euanishments Is deadly fewd of our foure elements Which in their turne do prey one on the other As snow and water being maide and mother Do make a mutuall change each of these foure In two chiefe qualities doth shew his powre Whereof the one doth still the scepter sway To whom the other doth his homage pay Those elements whose forces disagree And wholy sauour of antipathie Maintaine a longer fight in open field Or either of them to the other yeeld The fire to water turnes not speedily Nor doth the aire rauen so greedily Vpon the earth for being deadly foes They fight both with their fingers and their toes But aire to water earth to fire likewise Doth sooner turne for that they symbolize Some qualitie and easier t is to quell One enemie then two that do rebell Sith then this worlds children none can see Vntill these elements conioyned be In holy wedlocke and that nothing dies Till by diuorce these foure are enemies Which by vnconstant changing of their place Produce those various formes wherwith the face Of this great All is so embellished Simil. Iust as a song is sweetly relished With some few notes in sundrie line and space Which by their charming sweet harmonious grace Do make the hearers eares the broad high way By which they may their soules from them conuey Or as the letters of the Alphabet Simil. By being in a diuerse order set Do make these words and then these words againe Which here do flow from my poëtike braine Changing their rancke enrich these sacred lines With choice of new discourse a thousand times It wants not reason why Gods caref●ll hand Sharing among them all their common land Gaue ea●h a place fit for his quantitie Which also might preserue his qualitie He then that sees a drossie wedge of gold Exampl● Mai●terd by V●l●an how it doth vnfold His wished riches and how lingringly The gold vnto the gold doth striue to sli● The siluer seekes the siluer and the brasse Betweene them both doth run and how that masse Composd of peeces neither like his fellow Doth branch it selfe in streames blacke white and yello● He doth conceiue that soone as God assigned A place to which each one should be confined The earth the fire the water and the aire Vnto their like do speedily repaire So then this Chaos muddie lees do sinke The situ●tio● of t●e ●arth the fi●e Right downeward by their naturall instinct The fire doth trie a new conclusion Runs through the chinkes of this Confusion And sparkleth vpward by his nimble pace And of this lower world gets highest place As one may see when as the dawne doth paint Simil. The Zenith of Catay with colours quaint Dead pooles to reake and from the poarie ground Exhaled vapours in the aire abound Th● situation of t●e vvat●r and the aire But least the fire which doth the rest inclose Should burne the earth by his too neare repose As arbiters betweene such deadly foes Did God the water and the aire dispose One of which two could neuer end their fight The water p●rent-like would take delight To helpe the earth the ayer would desire T'vphold the quarrell of his cousin fire But both of them their sundred loue vniting Might quickly end their quarrell and their fighting Which questionlesse if 't had not bene perfou●ned This new-made world to his first state had turned The aire is plac'd aboue the water vnder No chance but God so placing them asunder Who that each thing in other may take ple●sure Hath made his works in number waight and measure For if neare Vulcan Neptune had his place Th●t cholericke element would straight embrace Suspect of outrage and his place forsake That of his wrong some iudgement he might take Now then the linkes of this most holy chaine Which doth the members of this All containe Are such as he alone can them vntie Who linked them together cunningly The water armd with moisture and with cold Doth in one arme the cold-drie earth enfold And in the other doth the aire embrace The aire as hote and moist doth hie apace To ioyne himselfe by heate vnto the fire And by his moisture water doth desire Simil. As when the shepheardesses chaunce to meete Trampling the flowers with their tripping feete Marrying their pitches to the oaten sounds And sportfully do daunce their rusticke rounds Vnder the branches of some shadie tree By ioyning hand in hand so coupled be As that the first clinching her fellow fast Is ioyned by her fellowes to the last For sith the earth alonely doth not nourish VVhy th●●●rt● is th● c●●ter of th● vvorld Those

creatures which in the same do flourish But which is more doth with her dugs supply Foode to the winged people of the skie And gluts the scaly troupe with longed food Wh●ch cleaue the billowes of the briny floud So that what ere doth creepe runne swimme or flie Is by this Mother nourced carefully It did behoue that she should counter-waigh Her selfe that so she might the firmer stay Against the barking of the stonnie maine And might the anger-swollen cheekes disdaine Of Auster who in parching heate delighteth And Boreas who with freezing cold still fighteth It did behoue her body dull and flow Should farthest be from heauen here below That she might nere be wheel'd about by force Of heauens swift and neuer-resting course Which doth with strong and stubborne rauishment Pull round about the highest element And sith againe that the harmonious course Of heauenly planets is th' immortall source Of life in earthly things and that their changing Is caused by the starres their circled ranging Th' Almightie could no fitter lodge prouide Whereas our grandame earth might well abide Then in the center of this worldly round For vitall beames wherewith the starres abound Do shatter downe their powerfull influence Vpon the aire his waving residence On th' arched fire and on the swelling maine Where scaly people wanting lungs remaine But they in fine vnite their forces all Within the circle of this earthy ball Simil. Which is the worlds naue like as we may See in a wheele which chalketh out his way Amid the mudde whose widest spoakes do meete Within the button by their ioyned feete Simil. And as the Sunne doth pierce the window glasse So do these starrie influences passe Through euerie part without impediment Of the transparant firie element The regions of the aire and water bright But not the earth wherein is firmely pight The worlds foundation so that we name And iustly too the water aire and flame The concubines of euer-mouing heauen For that his Sunne and Moone and Starry-seuen Neuer inioy their loue but when by chance By these three regions along they glance When heauen husband-like hath no intent To be diuorc'd from the driest element And with such seed as still doth animate Each liuing thing he doth engrauidate The fruitfull earth his lawfull wedded bride And with a bodie so diuersifide In disposition and in outward forme He doth the structure of this All adorne VVhy the vva●er is placed betvveene the earth and the aire The water lighter then the earthie lumpe And heauier then the aire doth pitch his iumpe Betweene them both that being moist and cold By those two qualities he may be bold To slacke the thirstie drinesse of our Mother And coole the feruor of his airie brother Apostrophe ad Musam suam But whither away my Muse thou wanton stay Spend not thy Poetry at one essay Surcease to day to sing of sea and land Their compasse power and praise and where they stand Do not too hastily preuent the time Wherein the world was in his flowing prime Le●ue mountaine rockes with waters ouer-spread Till Phoebus rise againe from 's easterne bed For when he shewes againe his blushing face Then shall Gods powerfull hand asunder place These mingled bodies and shall richly dight The earth with bushie trees of goodly height It 's time my loue my ioy and onely deare To soare aloft to lodge no longer here Or neuer now t is time to graft my wings On thy immortall virgin-pin●onings That on thy backe I being nimbly light May safely vnto heauen take my flight Come come then luckily thy shoulder lend That mounted on the same I hence may wend To gaine that crowne to win that wreathed bay Which neuer Poets that in Fraunce did sway Did weare and which the heauens nigardize Hath long concealed from my longing eyes The aire which foggie mists doth entertaine The aire hov● and vvhy it is d●uided into three r●g●o●s The play-game of the tempests and the raine Th' inconstant house where winged clouds abide Swift Aeol●s his kingdome and his pride The shop where winds are sold whose trafficke maketh That euerie mouing thing of life partaketh Is not all one for men by learning guided Into three lofts hau 't rightf●lly deuided Whereof the high'st for that the restlesse course Regi● suprema Of the first Mouer puls it round by force From Ea●t to West and likewise from the West Vnto the place where faire Aurora's drest And for it bounds vpon the burning ●●ame The learned do this loft the hottest name That loft wherein we breath by turne doth hold Regio infima Now melting heate now all-congealing cold Now neither so his waters in the Spring Are coldly hote in Autumne wauering In winter cold and hote in sommers raigne For then the earth rebat●th backe againe Those beames which starrie bow-men shoote apace Especially the Sunne the heauens chiefe grace Who for his shafts doth eue●●ore d●light To make the circled earth his but tand white Medi●●●●io The middle-loft for that it still remaineth Farre from the burning ●eeling which containeth This lower world in his firie seate Vnable also to partake the heate Which from the earth is banded bolt-vpright Doth in continuall freezing take delight For how could water hardned be to haile Euen when the sommer heate doth so preuaile That haruest fields looke white if y●ie cold His shiuering climates did not all enfold VVhy the middle region is th● c●ld●st Assoone as Phoebus hath his court remoued From the * T●● sig●● Gemini two twinnes so mutually beloued And takes his lodging with his * Cancer Crabbed hoste Or panting Lyon then this middle coast His cold redoubleth for enuironed With heate of armies newly mustered Which more then ere are now encouraged To haue his coldest times vnwintered Delayes the time to traine his men no longer His forces ioyn'd together are the stronger S●mil As Christians leauing farre their natiue land Feare not the furie of the Turkish band Marching disorderly make now and then As many squadrons as there be of men So that sometime the clownes with bils and bowes Driue them before them with their stubborne blowes But when they see the Mooned flags appeare Armes of old Ottoman and when they heare The horrid thunder of cannons sound Which by their shocke do leuell with the ground The strongest wals that euer yet immured Rhodes and Belgrada while their prime indured Straight they retire and in some neighbour plaine Do set themselues in order all againe Their warlike courage doth increase their strength Their bloud doth boile for heate and at the length The bordring circumcised peoples aide Doubling their forces makes their foes afraid This antiperistasis for t is no danger T●e effe●●s of the A●tip●ris●a●●s of the ●i●●le r●gio● To naturalize a word that is a stranger Yea in this worke where we haue no one word That doth so strong an emphasis afford Doth cause

that in the heate of winters cold We feele the chimney hotter many-fold Then in the sommer and that Scythia Saluted often by Orithia Her blustering louer euermore doth breed Children whose stomackes crauing still to feed Continually digest more store of meate Both in the winter and in sommers heate Then those leane scranlings whom the Delphian torch Vpon the Lybian sand doth alway scorch This makes that we which haue the happie lucke Sweete aire into our spongie lungs to sucke More liuely heate within our stomackes hide When freezing Ianiuere doth here abide Then when the Sunne is banisht for a while From Chus and to our tropicke doth recuile Gods mightie hand did thus the aire deuide That in the middle lo●t there might reside The mists the comets and the windie traine The tempests and the dew the y●e and raine Some of the which appointed are to make The earth to yeeld her fruit the rest to take Weapons against our sinnes that so they might Engraue in hardest hearts each day and night The awfull loue the sweet-alluring feare Of him which of this All the crowne doth weare Simil. As in a cupping-glasse a litle flame To shunne a vacuum which is natures shame Or 〈◊〉 it selfe from cupped partes doth bring Th●abounding humor which lies pestering The flesh which being thinne and too subtile Doth by the ruddie eyes distill each while Right so the Sunne whose yellow golden haire Doth daily guild this and that hemispheare Two sorts of vapors euermore exhales From wauing fields and from the flowrie dales E●●●atio The one is thinne pure nimble burning dry Vapor T●e other hote moist rising heauily Which runne amid the aire throughout the yeare And make the world vnlike it selfe appeare O●●he blasts o● n●l d●vv If then a vapor do so thinly rise As that it cannot be in any wise To water turned and his heauie wing G●ued with cold lie onely houering Vpon the earth his gaudy flowred weed A blacknesse in the aire it straight doth breed And the●ewithall a sluggish mi●tie blast Vpon the hearbes and flowers hangeth fast O● the d●vv a●● the ye● If so this vapor lingringly do flie Scarce to the middle region of the sky Yet higher then the clouds it 's in a trice In Aprill dew in Ianuarie y●e 〈◊〉 the raine But if this vapor actiuely do get Vnto the shiuering winters cabinet The water which hath got the highest place Is turned in a verie litle space By cold into a ●loud and through the skie Vpon the winged winds doth swiftly flie Vntill his waters dropping downe amaine Do find their grandame riuers once againe Whether one cloud be driuen by the wind Coni●c●urall reason●of the raine Against another in a furious kind And with a stubborne shocke are forc'd againe To shed their water in a showre of raine As oftentimes a wanton lad doth dash Simil. The brittle vessels seruing for to wash B●tweene his waggish hands and so doth spill The water which the vessels earst did fill Or whether it be a gentler gale do play Amid the aire and sighing in his way Wrings out their teares as after a great raine Another showre stilleth downe againe From tops of forrests trees when as the wind Among their bushy boughes doth pleasure find And sports to crispe their wauing leauie tresses Or whether it be a higher cloud that presses The vnder cloud with a moist heauie waight And that the humor se●kes an issue straight Prest by another water as is s●ene The more that * Grapes Bacchus presents piled bene Vpon the hurdle in the vintage time The faster doth the new sweet ●uming wine Streame from the bottome pierced all below And to the froathie tub amaine doth flow Then many heauenly streames our flouds augment Saue teares is nothing scene the firmament Darkned with clouds in drops doth seeme to still And stinking frogs the earthie plaines to fill Hovv frogs may b●●nge●dred v●●●h t●● raine Whether the vapor that doth vpward ●lie Be of it selfe both cold hote moist and drie Whose mixture quickneth euerie liuing thing Or whether it be the Easterne blustering Sweeping the earth do heape into the sky Some fertile dust whereof confusedly These ougly things are made as neare the brimme Where some new mountaine floud doth swiftly swimme The froathy mud is turn'd in a strange kind Into a frog which yet vnshhap't behind Within the dirt enioys some small pastime Halfe dead and halfe aliue halfe flesh halfe slime Of the snovv S●●●times it hapneth that the freezing cold Congeales the totall cloud then we behold Great lockes of heauenly wooll to tumble downe The trees vnleau'd no grasse vpon the ground The world hath all one die aboue the snow The stagge his horned head can hardly shew Of the ●aile Sometimes it chanceth otherwise againe Soone as the cloud is turned into raine Th' excessiue cold that 's in the middle loft To haily bullets hardneth it full oft Which falling downe alas they so should fall Our hoped vintage greedily forestall Without a sickle reape our vnripe graine Vnblossome all our trees and do constraine The birds to leaue the neasts they lately made Do rob the woods and groues of wonted shade Do bruise our bullockes grazing as they go Do make our verie houses cracke for woe Of t●e vvinds hovv they are caused If so the starres which Gods creating hand Sow'd scatteringly vpon the heauenly land Draw fumes from off the earth both hote and dry Their actiue fire would lodge them instantly In Phoebus lap but t●ey no sooner gaine The loft where freezing cold doth still remaine And feele the strength of their audacious foes But straight they striue to gaine a sweete repose Vpon the earth from whence they did ascend Assisted by the waight she did them lend But from the fields there fumes another fire Which comes to aide them in their backe re●ire Which stops their downeward course restores their hearts And weapons to their trembling hands imparts With these fresh souldiers they fiercely fight Now tumbling downe now towring bolt vpright Driuing now here now there our aire along According as the matter 's weake or strong This holds but for a while for in this fray The heate and cold both bearing equall sway To end this stirre one lets their vpward flight The other stops their fall with all his might So that this vapour taking litle rest To moue in circled wise doth hold it best And buzzing flies from pole to pole from Spaine To Easterne India and backe againe These puffing winds although they quickned be The f●ur● thi●● winds rese●bled t● th● foure seasons of the yeare the fo●re hum●●s of a man● bodie the foure elements and t●e fo●re ages By spirit and vapour of like qualitie Yet doth the diuerse place where they are borne With diuerse names and power them all adorne Whiles I obserue the foure winds principall Which quarter out the cantons of this All

the number of the spheares aboue One holds but one through which he makes to glide The eyes wherewith this All is beautifide Like as amid the sea the scaly traine Diuide the surges of the watrie plaine Another iudging all things by his eye Marking the seauen planets in the skie To haue a diuerse course and that beside The other starres which fixed do abide Guilding by night the heau'nly firmament Runne but one way his wise experiment By such his obseruation hath found Eight ●undry lofts in the cele●tiall round Another ma●king in the starrie skie A three-fold motion dancing actiuely And that on● bodie hath but one sole race By naturall instinct doth forthwith place A ninth and tenth not numbring in that count Th imperiall spheare which doth the rest surmount Where streames of nectar neuer cease to flow Where soule-delighting pleasures euer grow Where one may see a● all times flourishing The pleasing beauties of a happie spring Where life doth neuer die through crooked eld Where Gods high parliament is alway held His glorious essence being hemmed in With troupes of many a flaming Seraphin And soules of men which he hath purchased By hauing of that bodie murthered Whose glorious resurrection and ascent Hath plac'd the earth aboue the firmament But here I le stop my ouer-posting teame Not daring to discusse so deepe a theame C●eli ●ncomion O faire and ten-fold round which hat'st to stay Life of this Vniuerse spring of the day Mould of thy selfe begetter of the yeare Which neuer changest place yet dost appeare To flie so fast that onely in our mind We can thy neuer-lingring motion find Finite yet infinite from growing free From discord death and hatefull miserie Which louest sound and dancing harmonie still like thy selfe in all eternitie Transparant light law of this lower round Which with thy limits euery thing dost bound And yet vnbounded art which dost enfold What euer thing this lower All doth hold Throne of great Ioue I willingly would sing The various orders of thy quauering If time would giue me leaue and that this Day Would not be ouer-long by that essay Besides I feare that some detracting tongue Will blab abroad among each vulgar throng That to each gale of wind for small auaile My tatling Muse doth spread her fardled saile And that a longer web she moughten weaue She quils each thread not caring when to leaue But thinke who ere thou be that reasonlesse I do not here so many workes expresse Of the creation sith I vnderstand By that great firmament which Gods right hand VVhat is v●derstood by the firmament Gen. 1.6 Did hang this day betweene our watrie plaine And that aboue the skie the whirling traine Of spheares and aire and th'hottest element Which make a large deuiding sunderment Betweene the waters of our azurde deepe And those which God aboue the skie doth keepe Now in the learned bookes of high esteeme Against ●hose ●hich hold no vvaters aboue the fir●ament My ignorance hath not so litle seene But we●l I know that their so curious skill Presumes with subtile arguments to fill Their volumes scoffing at the christall spheare And at the waters which are placed there And at that ocean which doth all containe Which vnderneath his compasse doth remaine Simil. But as a modest matrons beauteous face Who as contented with the bounteous grace Which nature franckly hath bestow'd vpon her Striues not with painting to increase her honour Of her so faire art-wanting countenance Deserues more praise then doth th'immodest glaunce The wanton gesture and the mincing pace The borrowed tresses and depainted grace Wherewith a curtisan of filthie trade Maintaines her beauty which begins to fade So of the holy tongue I more account Although the country phrase it not surmount And that bare truth be her sole ornaments Then of Athenian painted eloquence And guilded lines wherewith men striue to shade The errors which their vaine conceits haue made I rather had my reason oft should lie Then from the sacred truth once go awry Gen. 1.6 Psal 104.3.148.4 Which in so manie places loud doth crie That God hath plac'd some waters ore the skie Be it that their estranged qualitie With these below haue small affinitie Or turn'd vnto a cloudie element Do compasse round the starrie firmament Or be it as some say a christall spheare Embrace the golden firmament each where And why shall I tost with vncertainties Conclude of these as doubtlesse verities A●g a pari I see not why mans reasonable sence Should not beleeue that his omnipotence Who whilome made the sea like wals to stand For Iacobs troupe to passe as on dry land Could not aboue the wheeling globes compose That watrie spheare the others to enclose Thou seest that euerie howre the clouds cont●ine So many seas which threatning vs with raine Are only vnderpropt with feeble aire Tost with each wind that thither doth repaire And yet so weake that it can hardly beare The litlest burthen any one can reare Thou seest the sea which doth our mother bound Spite of all accidents remaineth round His waues not daring once their bounds to passe To equalize their circled watrie masse Why then beleeu'st thou not this vaulted spheare Vpon his backe a totall sea may beare Yet that the water firmely may abide O stonie heart perswade thy selfe beside That God sustaines those waters in that case And thinke if natures working take such place Arg. a mi●●●i That pearle and christall glasse are by her skill Compos'd of streames which droppingly distill What then at once can the Almightie do Which did create both heauen and nature too Perswade thy vnbeleeuing mind againe That this proud pallace where thou hold'st thy raigne Tho built with wondrous art would soone decay If on a watrie ground it did not stay For as the braine doth hold the highest seate Simil. Of mans small vniuerse t'alay the heate Which from the cordiall parts doth euer flow With his coole moisture altogether so That God might mixe the water with the flame And coole the ardor of the heau'nly frame He plac'd aboue the starrie firmament A vaulted sea of that moist element Me●ti●●ing t●e waters abo●● the firmament be assumes occas●●n to mention the floud which be describes mo●● elegantly These higher waters as the stories go Ioyning themselues vnto the flouds below And striuing with their ouer-swelling pride The proudest mountaine tops with waues to hide Had drown'd this All if dancing on the floud Noe had not shut the world into a wood Building an Arke a huge and mightie frame Keeping aliue all creatures in the same They were no sooner in but straight the Lord With onely power of his all-mightie word Opened the doore of that vast horrid caue Where Aeolus his crew their dwelling haue And bolted in the cloud-expelling North And let the rainy southerne issue forth Which gins forthwith to wag his dropping wing His beard hath no one haire