from thence toward the bright Leuant That vast Extent where now fell Tartars hant In wandring troops and towards th' other side Which neer her source long Volga doth divide Moscouy Coast Permia Liuonia Prussia Biarmia Scrisinia White-Lake Lappia Russia How the New-found World discouered in our Time came peopled A double question But whence say you had that New-World his Guests Which Spain like Delos floting on the Seas Late digg'd from darknes of Obliuions Graue And it vndoing it new Essence gaue If long agoe how should it hap that no-man Knew it til now no Persian Greek no Roman Whose glorious Peers victorious Armies guiding O're all the World of this had never tyding If but of late how swarm their Cities since So full of Folk how pass their Monuments Th' Aegyptian Spires Mausolus stately Toomb The Walls and Courts of Babylon and Rome Why thinke yee fond those people fell from Heav'n â— Answere All-ready-made as in a Sommer Ev'n After a swelting Day som sultry showr Doth in the Marshes heaps of Tadpals pour Which in the ditches chapt with parching weather Lie crusht and croaking in the Mud together Or else that setting certain slips that fixt Their slender roots the tender mould betwixt They saw the light of Phoebus lyuening face Having for milk moist deaws for Cradle grass Or that they grew out of the fruitfull Earth As Toad-stools Turneps Leeks and Beets haue birth Or like the bones that Cadmus yerst did sowe Were brauely born armed from top toe That spacious Coast now call'd America Was not so soon peopled as Africa Th' ingenious Towr-full and Law-louing Soil Which Ioue did with his Lemans name en-stile And that which from cold Bosphorus doth spread To pearl'd Auroras Saffron-coloured Bed Because they ly neerer the diapry verges Of tear-bridge Tigris Swallow-swifter surges Whence our amaz'd first Grand-sires faintly fled And like sprung Patridge euery-where did spred Except that World where vnder Castiles King Famous Columbus Force and Faith did bring But the rich buildings rare magnificence Th' infinit Treasures various Governments Showe that long since although at sundry times 'T had Colonies although from sundry Climes Whether the violence of tempestuous weather Som broken Vessels haue inforced thither Whether som desperat dire extremity Of Plague War Famin orth ' Authority Of som braue Typhis in aduenture tost Brought weary Caruels on that Indian Coast. Who maketh doubt but yerst the Quinzay Fraights Conictures touching the Peopling of the same As well might venture through the Anian Straights And finde as easie and as short a way From the East Indies to the Tolguage Bay As vsually the Asian Ships are wont To pass to Greece a-cross the Hellespont Spaniards to Fez a-thwart the Straight Abilia Through Messine stream th' Italians to Sicilia From Tolm and Quiuir's spacious Plains wherein Bunch-backed Calues with Horse-like manes are seen And Sheep-like Fleece they fill Azasia Toua Topir Canada Cossia Mecchi Avacal Calicuaz Bacalos Los Campos de Labor where Floods are froze On th' other side Xalisco soyl they Mann Wonders of the New-found World Now new Galizia Cusule Mechuacan And cunningly in Mexik Sea they pile Another Uenice or a City I le Strange things there see they that amaze them much Green Trees to wither with their very touch And in Nicaragua a Mountain top That Aetna-like bright Flashes belches vp Thence reach they th' Isthmos of rich Panama And on their right hand build Oucanama With Cassamalca Cusco Quito and In famous Perv's very golden Strand Admire the Lake that laueth Colle about Whose Waues be salt within and fresh without And streams of Cinca that with vertue strange To hardest stone soft Mud and Chalk do change Then seiz they Chili where all day the Deep Runs roaring down and all the night doth sleep Chinca the Patagons and all the shoar Where th' azure Seas of Magellan do roor Left-ward they spread them ' longst the Darians side Where through th' Vrabian Fields the Huo doth slide Neer Zenu's stream which toward the Ocean drags Pure grains of Gold as big as Pullets Eggs To new Granada where the Mount embost With Emeralds doth shine Cumanean Coast Where noysom vapours like a dusky night Bedimms their eyes and doth impair their sight Therefore som troops from Cumana they carrie To Caripana Omagu and Pari By Maragnon all over fell Brasile And Plate's fat Plains where flowes another Nile Ghesse too that Grotland yerst did Picne store And Ireland fraught Los Campos de Labor As Tombut Melli Gago and Terminan Planted the Plains and shoars of Corican Yet happily thou'lt gladly grant me this That mans ambition ay so bound-les is How it was possible that Noah and his 3. Sonnes should so multiply That steepest Hills it over-climbs with ease And runs as dry-shod through the deepest Seas And maugre meagre Thirst her Carvells Lands On Afrik Tolmon and Arabian sands But hardly credit'st that one Family Out of foure couples should so multiply That Asia Europ Africa and All Seems for their off-spring now too streight and small If thouset-light by th' everlasting Voyce 1. Answere Which now again re-blest the Loue-full Choyce Of sacred Wedlocks secret-binding band Saying Increase Flourish and Fill the Land And if profane thou hold it for a Fiction 2. That Seauenty Iews in Aegypt in affliction Within foure hundred yeers and half three-score Grew to fiue-hundred-thousand soules and more Consider yet that being fed that while 3. With holesom Fruits of an vn-forced soyl And kindely meats not marred by the Book And wanton cunning of a sawcy Cook Waigh furthermore that being not cut-down With bloody swords when furious neighbours frown Nor worn with Trauail nor infeebeled With hatefull Sloath Our Grand-sires flowrished Hundreds of yeers in youth and even in Age Could render duly Venus Escuage And that Polygamy in those dayes common Most Men vsurping more then one sole Woman Made then the World so mightily augment In vpright Creatures and in continent From fruitfull Loigns of one old Father-stock So many branches of man-kinde to flock Comparison to that purpose Even as an ear of Corn if all the yield Be yeerly sow'n still in a fertill Field Fills Barns at length and spreads in spacious Plain Millions of millions of like ears again Or as two Fishes cast into a Meer With fruitfull Spawn will furnish in fewe yeer A Town with victuall and serue furthermore Their neighbour Waters with their Fry to store Haue not our Dayes a certain Father know'n An example of our dayes Who with the fruit of his own body grow'n Peopled a Village of a hundred Fires And issue-blest the Crown of Old Desires In his owne life-time his owne off-spring saw To wed each other without breach of Law So far the branches of his fruitfull Bed Past all the Names of Kindreds-Tree did spread 'T is know'n that fewe Arabian Families Another example New-planted Lybia with their Progenies In
cross Meseems som Tempest all the Sea doth toss Our fear-less Saylers in far Voyages More led by Gain's hope then their Compasses Of their monstrous shape and huge greatnes On th' Indian shoare haue somtime noted som Whose bodies couered two broad Acres room And in the South-Seas they haue also seen Som like high-topped and huge-armed Treen And other-som whose monstrous backs did bear Two mighty wheels with whirling spokes that were Much like the winged and wide spreading sayls Of any Winde-mill turn'd with merry gales But God who Nature in her nature holdes Not onely cast them inso sundry moldes But gaue them manners much more differing Of the diuers qualities of Fishes As well our wits as our weak eyes to bring In admiration that men euermore Praysing his Works might prayse their Maker more Som loue fresh Waters som the salt desire Som from the Sea vse yeerly to retire To the next Rivers at their own contenting So both the Waters with free Trade frequenting Having like Lords two Houses of receipt For Winter th' one th' other for Sommers heat As Citizens in som intestine braul Simile Describing the custome of certain Sea-Fishes frequenting the fresh Waters in some seasons of the yeare Long cooped vp within their Castle wall So soon as Peace is made and Siedge remov'd Forsake a while their Town so strong approv'd And tir'd with toyl by leashes and by payrs Crowned with Garlands go to take the ayrs So dainty Salmons Châ—uins thunder-scar'd Feast-famous Sturgeons Lampreys speckle-starr'd In the Spring Season the rough Seas for sake And in the Rivers thousand pleasures take And yet the plenty of delitious foods Their pleasant Lodging in the crystall floods The fragrant sents of flowry banks about Cannot their Countreys tender loue wipe out Of their remembrance but they needs will home In th' irefull Ocean to go seek their Tomb Likâ— English Gallants that in Youth doo go To visit Rhine Sein Ister Arn and Po Comparison Where though their Sense be dandled Days and Nights In sweetest choise of changeable Delights They neuer can forget their Mother-Soyl But hourly Home their hearts and eyes recoyle Long languishing with an extream Desire To see the smoak of their deer Natiue Fier One like a Pirat only liues of prizes That in the Deep he desperatly surprises The Fishes feeding Another haunts the shoar to feed on foam Another round about the Rocks doth roam Nibbling on Weeds another hating thieuing Eats nought at all of liquor only liuing For the â—alt humor of his Element Serues him alone for perfect nourishment Som loue the clear streams of swift tumbling Torrents Which through the rocks straining their struggling currents Break Banks and Bridges and doo neuer stop Till thirsty Sommer com to drink them vp Som almost alwayes pudder in the mud Of sleepy Pools and neuer brook the flood Of Crystall streams that in continuall motion Bend toward the bosom of their Mother Ocean As the most part of the Words Peers prefer â—â—oyls before Rest and place their Peace in War And som again of a far differing humour Holde Rest so deer that but the only â—umour Of War far off affrights them at the first And wanting Peace they count their States accurst O watry Citizens what Vmpeer bounded Of the prouideÌ„ce of God in their diuers and notable manner of liuing affording many Lessons to Man-kinde Your liquid Liuings O! what Monarch mounded With walls your City What severest Law Keeps your huge Armies in so certain aw That you encroach not on the neighbouring Borders Of your swim-brethren as against all Orders Men dayly practice ioyning Land to Land House vnto House Sea to Sea Strand to Strand Mountain to Mountain and most-most insaci'ble World vnto World if they could work it possible And you wise Fishes that for recreation Or for your seeds securer propagation Doo somtimes shift your ordinary Dwelling What learned Chaldè skill'd in Fortune-telling What cunning Prophet your fit Time doth showe What Herralds Trumpet summons you to go What Guide conducteth Day and Night your Legions Through path-lâ—â—s paths in vnacquainted Regions What Captain stout what Loadston Steel and Star Measures your course in your Adventures far Surely the same that made you first of Nought Who in your Nature som Idéas wrought Of good and Euill to the end that we Following the Good might from the Euill flee Th' adulterous Sargus doth not onely change Strange nature of the fish Sargus Wiues every day in the deep streams but strange As if the honey of Sea-loues delights Could not suffice his ranging appetites Courting the Shee-Goats on the grassie shoar Would horn their Husbands that had horns before Contrary to the constant Cantharus Of Cantharus Who ever faithfull to his deerest Spouse In Nuptiall Duties spending all his life Loues never none but his own onely wife But for her Loue the Mullet hath no Peer Of the Mullet For if the Fisher haue surpriz'd her Pheer As mad with wo to shoar she followeth Prest to consort him both in life and death As yerst those famous louing Thracian Dames Simile That leapt aliue into the funeral flames Of their dead Husbands who deceast and gon Those loyall Wiues hated to liue alone O! who can heer sufficiently admire That Gaping Fish whose glistering eyes aspire Still toward Heav'n as if beneath the skies The Vrano-Sâ—opâ—â— He found no Obiect worthy of his eyes As the Wood-pecker his long tongue doth lill Out of the clov'n-pipe of his horny bill To catch the Emmets when beguil'd with-all The busie swarms vpon it creep and crawl Th' Vrano-scope so hid in mud doth put Out of his gullet a long limber gut Most like vnto a little Worm at sight Wher-at est-soons many small Fishes bite Which ther-with all this Angler swallows straight Alwayes self armed with hook line and bait The suttle * The Ozena Smell-strong-Many-foot that â—ain A dainty feast of Oister-flesh would gain Swims softly down and to him slily slips Wedging with stone his yet wide-yawning lips Least else before that he haue had his pray The Oyster closing clip his limbs away And where he thought t' haue ioy'd his victories Himself becom vnto his prize a prize The Cramp-fish knowing that shee harboureth The Torpedo A plague-full humour a fell banefull breath A secret Poppy and a sense-less Winter Benumming all that dare too-neer hâ—r venter Pours forth her poyson and her chilling Ice On the next Fishes charm'd so in a tâ—icâ— That shee not onely stayes them in the Deep But stuns their sense and â—ulâ— them fast a sleep And then at fill she with their flesh is fed Whose frozen limbs stil liuing seem but dead 'T is this Torpedo that when she hath took Into her throat the sharp deceitfull hook Doth not as other Fish that wrench and wriggle When they be prickt and plunge and striue and struggle And by their stir thinking to scape
seed should wheat and barly bring Pure Mayden-wombs desired Babes should bear All things at all times should grow euery where The Hart in Water should it self in gender The Whale on Land in Aire the Lambling tender Th' Ocean should yeeld the Pine and Cornell Tree On Hazels Acorns Nuts on Oaks should bee And breaking Natures set and sacred vse The Doues would Eagles Eagels Doues produce If of themselues things took their thriuing then Slowe-growing Babes should instantly be men Then in the Forests should huge boughs be seen Born with the bodies of vnplanted Treen Then should the sucking Elephant support Vpon his shoulders a well-manned Fort And the new-foaled Colt couragious Should neigh for Battail like Bucephalus Contrariwise if ought to nought did fall All that is felt or seen within this All Still loosing somwhat of it self at length Would com to Nothing If Death's fatall strength Could altogether Substances destroy Things then should vanish even as soon as dy In time the mighty Mountains tops be bated But with their fall the neighbour Vales are fatted And what when Trent or Auon ouer-flowe They reaue one field they on the next bestowe Loue-burning Heav'n many sweet Deaws doth drop In his deer Spouses fair and fruitfull lap Which after she restores straining those showrs Through th' hidden pores of pleasant plants and flowrs Whoso hath seen how one warm lump of wax Without increasing or decreasing takes By an apt similitude he sheweth the continuall Change of the World in the matter and form therof according to Gods pleasure in such sort yet that the matter remaines though it receiue infinite Formes A hundred figures well may iudge of all Th' incessant Changes of this nether Ball. The World 's own Matter is the waxen Lump Which vn-self-changing takes all kinde of stamp The Form's the Seal Heav'ns gratious Emperour The Liuing God 's the great Lord Chancellour Who at his pleasure setting day and night His great Broad Seales and Priuy Signets right Vpon the Mass so vast and variable Makes the same Lump now base now honourable Heer 's nothing constant nothing still doth stay For Birth and Death haue still successiues way Heer one thing springs not till another dy Onely the Matter liues immortally Th' Almighties Table body of this All Of change-full Chances common Arçenall All like itself all in itself contained Which by Times Flight hath neither lost nor gayned Change-less in Essence changeable in face Much more then Proteus or the subtile race Of rouing Polypes who to rob the more Transform them howrly on the wauing shore Sundry Similes to that purpose Much like the French or like our selues their Apes Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes Who louing nouels full of affectation Receiue the Manners of each other Nation And scarcely shift they shirts so oft as change Fantastik Fashions of their garments strange Or like a Laïs whose inconstant Loue Doth euery day a thousand times remooue Who 's scarce vnfolded from one Youths embraces Yer in her thought another she embraces And the new pleasure of her wanton Fire Stirs in her still another new desire Because the Matter wounded deep in heart With various Loue yet on the self same part Incapable in the same time at once To take all figures by successions Form after Form receiues so that one face Another faces features doth deface The chief motiue of this change of Formet in the matter Now the chief Motiue of these Accidents Is the dire discord of our Elements Truce-hating Twins where Brother eateth Brother By turns and turn them one into another Like Ice and Water that beget each other Enigma And still the Daughter bringeth-forth the Mother But each of these hauing two qualities One bearing Rule another that obayes Those whose effects do wholly contradict Longer and stronger striue in their Conflict The hot-dry Fire to cold-moist Water turns not The cold-dry Earth to hot-moist Aire returns not Returns not eas'ly for still opposite With tooth and nail as deadly foes they fight But Aire turn Water Earth may Fierize Because in one part they do symbolize And so in combate they haue less to doo For 't's easier far to conquer one then two Sith then the knot of sacred Mariage Of the Situation of the Elements of the effects therof compared to the Notes of Musick to the letters of the Alphabet Which ioynes the Elements from age to age Brings forth the Worlds Babes sith their Enmities With fell diuorce kill whatsoeuer dyes And sith but changing their degree and place They frame the various Forms wherewith the face Of this fair World is so imbellished As six sweet Notes curiously varied In skilfull Musike make a hundred kindes Of Heauenly sounds that rauish hardest mindes And with Division of a choise deuise The Hearers soules out at their ears intice Or as of twice-twelue Letters thus transpos'd This World of Words is variously compos'd And of these Words in divers order sowen This sacred Uolume that you read is growen Through gracious succour of th' Eternall Deïtie Rich in discourse with infinite Variety It was not cause-less that so carefully God did diuide their common Signory Assigning each a fit-confined Sitting Their quantity and quality befitting Whoso somtime hath seen rich Ingotstri'd A simile liuely representing the separation of the Elements When forç't by Fier their treasures they diuide How fair and softly Gold to Gold doth pass Siluer seeks Siluer Brass consorts with Brass And the whole Lump of parts vnequall seuers It self apart in white red yellow Rivers May vnderstand how when the Mouth Diuine Op'ned to each his proper Place t'assigne Fire flew to Fire Water to Water slid Aire clung to Aire and Earth with Earth abid Earth as the Lees and heauy dross of All After his kinde did to the bottom fall Situation of the earth and fire Contrariwise the light and nimble Fire Did through the crannies of th' old Heap aspire Vnto the top and by his nature light No less then hot mounted in sparks vpright As when we see Aurora passing gay With Opals paint the Seeling of Cathay Sad Floods doefume and the celestiall Tapers Through Earths thin pores in th' Aire exhale the vapours But least the Fire which all the rest embraces Being too neer should burn the Earth to ashes As chosen Vmpires the great All-Creator Of aire water plac't between the earth fire Between these Foes placed the Aire and Water For one suffiz'd not their stern strife to end Water as Cozen did the Earth befriend Aire for his Kinsman Fire as firmly deals But both vniting their divided zeals Took vp the matter and appeas'd the brall Which doubt-less else had discreated All. Th' Aire lodg'd aloft the Water vnder it Not casually but so disposed fit By him who Nature in her kind to keep Kept due proportion in his Workmanship Why the aire was lodged next the Element of Fire
soon vnite and in a narrow place Intrench themselues their courage growes apace Their heart 's on fire and Circumcised Powrs By their approach double the strength of ours 'T is doubt-less this * Contrary Circumstance The effects theâ— of in the middle Region of the Aire Antiperistasis Bear with the word I hold it not a miss T' adopt somtimes such strangers for our vse When Reason and Necessity induce As namely where our natiue Phrase doth want A Word so force-full and significant Which makes the Fireseem to our sense and reason Hotter in Winter then in Sommer season 'T is it which causeth the cold frozen Scythia Too-often kist by th' husband of Orithya To bring forth people whose still hungry brest Winter or Sommer can more meat digest Then those lean staruelings which the Sun doth broil Vpon the hot sands of the Libyan soyl And that our selues happily seated fair Whose spongy lungs draw sweet and holesom Aire Hide in our stomacks a more liuely heat While bi-front Ianus frosty frowns do threat Then when bright Phoebus leauing swarty Chus Mounts on our Zenith to reflect on vs. Th' Almighties hand did this Partition form Why the air was thus distinguished in the 3. Regions To th' end that Mist Comets and Winde and Storm Deaw drizling Showrs Hail slippery Ice Snowe In the Three Regions of the Aire might growe Wherof som pointed th' Earth to fertilize Other to punish our impieties Might dayly grave in hardest hearts the love And fear of him who Raigns in Heav'n above For as a little end of burning wax Of exhalations and whereunto they are appropriate by the Sun and the Regions of the Aire By th' emptiness or if it self attracts In Cupping-glasses through the scotched skin Behind the Poule superfluous humors thin Which fuming from the brain did thence descend Vpon the sight and much the same offend So the swift Coach-man whose bright flaming hair Doth euery Day gild either Hemisphear Two sorts of Vapours by his heat exhales From floating Deeps and from the flowry Dales Th' one somwhat hot but heauy moist and thick The other light dry burning pure and quick Which through the Welkin roaming all the year Make the World diuers to itself appear Now if a vapour be so thin that it Cannot to Water be transformed fit Of Mist. And that with Cold-lym'd wings it houer neer The flowry Mantle of our Mother deer Our Aire growes dusky and moist drowsy Mist Vpon the Fields doth for a time persist And if this vapour fair and softly sty Not to the cold Stage of the middle Sky Of Deaw and Ice But 'bove the Clouds it turneth in a trice In April Deaw in Ianuary Ice But if the Vapour brauely can aduenture Vp to th' eternall seat of shivering Winter The small thin humour by the Cold is prest Into a Cloud which wanders East and West Of Rain Vpon the Winde 's wings till in drops of Rain It fall into his Grandames lap again Whether som boistrous winde with stormy puff Ioustling the Clouds with mutuall counter-buff Do break their brittle sides and make them shatter In drizling Showres their swift distilling water As when a wanton heedless Page perhaps Diuers Similes shewing how the Rain is caused through the incounter of the Cloudes which are the matter of it Rashly together two full glasses claps Both being broken so dainly they pour Both their brew'd liquors on the dusty flour Whether som milder gale with sighing breath Shaking their Tent their tears disseuereth As after rain another rain doth drop In shady Forests from their shaggy top When through their green boughs whiffing Winds do whirl With want on pufs their wauing locks to curl Or whether th' vpper Clouds moist heauiness Doth with his waight an vnder Cloud oppress And so one humour doth another crush Till to the ground their liquid pearls do gush As the more clusters of ripe grapes we pack In Vintage-time vpon the hurdles back At 's pearced bottom the more fuming liquor Runns in the scummy Fat and falls the thicker Then many Heav'n-flouds in our Flouds do lose-am Whence it proceedeth that sometimes it raineth Frogs Nought's seen but Showers the Heav'ns sad sable bosom Seems all in tears to melt and Earths green bed With stinking Frogs is somtimes couered Either because the floating Cloud doth fold Within it self both moist dry hot and cold Whence all things heer are made or else for that The actiue windes sweeping this dusty Flat Somtimes in th' aire som fruitfull dust doo heap Whence these new-formed vgly creatures leap As on the edges of som standing Lake Which neighbour Mountains with their gutters make The foamy slime it self transformeth oft To green half-Tadpoles playing there aloft Half-made half-vnmade round about the Floud Half-dead half-liuing half-a frog half-mud Somtimes it happens that the force of Cold Freezes the whole Cloud then we may behold Of Snow In siluer Flakes a heav'nly Wooll to fall Then Fields seem grass-less Forests leafe-less all The World 's all white and through the heaps of Snowe The highest Stag can scarce his armour showe Somtimes befals that when by secret powr Of Haile The Cloud 's new-chang'd into a dropping showr Th' excessiue cold of the mid-Aire anon Candies-it all in bals of Icy-stone Whose violent storms somtimes alas doo proin Of fume Vapours or exhalations whirling in the Lowe and Middle Regions of the aire and whereof the windes are ingendred Without a knife our Orchard and our Vine Reap without sickle beat down Birds and Cattle Disgrace our woods and make our Roofs to rattle If Heav'ns bright Torches from Earth's kidneys sup Som somwhat dry and heatfull Vapours vp Th' ambitious lightning of their nimble Fire Would so dainly neer th' Azure Cirques aspire But scarce so soon their fuming crest hath raught Or toucht the Coldnes of the middle Vault And felt what force their mortall Enemy In Garrison keeps there continually When down again towards their Dam they bear Holp by the waight which they haue drawn from her But in the instant to their aid arriues Another new heat which their heart reuiues Re-arms their hands and hauing staied their flight Better resolv'd brings them again to fight Well fortifi'd then by these fresh supplies More brauely they renew their enterprize And one-while th' vpper hand with honour getting Another-while disgracefully retreating Our lower Aire they tosse in sundry sort As weak or strong their matter doth comport This lasts not long because the heat and cold Equall in force and Fortune equall bold In these assaults to end this so dain brall Th' one stops their mounting th' other stayes their fall So that this Vapour neuer resting stound Stands neuer still but makes his motion round Posteth from Pole to Pole and flies amain From Spain to India and from Inde to Spain But though these blustring spirits seem alwaies blow'n By the same spirit and of like Vapour
By his example giving vs behest On the Seaventh Day for evermore to Rest. For God remembred that he made not Man Of Stone or Steel or Brass Corinthian But lodg'd our soule in a frail earthen Mass Thinner then Water britteler then Glass He knowes our life is by nought sooner spent Then having still our mindes and bodies bent A Field left lay for som fewe Years will yield The richer Crop when it again is till'd A River stopped by a sluce a space Runs after rougher and a swifter pase A Bowe a while vnbent will after cast His shafts the farther and them fix more fast A Souldier that a season still hath layn Coms with more fury to the Field again Even so this Body when to gather breath One Day in Seav'n at Rest it soiourneth It re-collects his Powrs and with more cheer Falls the next morrow to his first Career But the chief End this Precept aims at is To quench in vs the coals of Covetize That while we rest from all profaner Arts Gods Spirit may work in our retired hearts That wee down-treading earthly cogitations May mount our thoughts to heav'nly meditations Following good Archers guise who shut one ey Simile That they the better may their mark espy For by th' Almighty this great Holy-day Was not ordain'd to daunce and mask and play Against profaners of the Sabaoth To slugg in sloath and languish in delights And loose the Reans to raging appetites To turn Gods Feasts to filthy Lupercals To frantike Orgies and fond Saturnals To dazle eys with Prides vain-glorious splendor To serue strange Gods or our Ambition tender As th' irreligion of loose Times hath since Chang'd the Prime-Churches chaster innocence We ought on the Lords Day atteÌ„d his seruice me ditate on the euerlasting Rest on the workes of God God would that men should in a certain place This Day assemble as before his face Lending an humble and attentiue ear To learn his great Name 's deer-drad Loving-Fear He would that there the faithfull Pastor should The Scriptures marrow from the bones vnfold That we might touch with fingers as it were The sacred secrets that are hidden there For though the reading of those holy lines In private Houses som-what move our mindes Doubtlesse the Doctrine preacht doth deeper pearce Proves more effectuall and more waight it bears The practise of the faithfull in all reformed Churches on the Sabaoth Day He would that there in holy Psalmes we sing Shrill prayse and thanks to our immortall King For all the liberall bounties he bestow'th On vs and ours in soule and body both He would that there we should confess his Christ Our onely Saviour Prophet Prince and Priest Solemnizing with sober preparation His blessed Seals of Reconciliation And in his Name beg boldly what we need After his will and be assur'd to speed Sith in th' Exchequer of his Clemency All goods of Fortune Soule and Body lie He would this Sabbaoth should a figure be The Corporall Rest a figure of the spirituall Of the blest Sabbaoth of Eternity But th' one as Legall heeds but outward things Th' other to Rest both Soule and body brings Th' one but a Day endures the others Date Eternity shall not exterminate Shadows the one th' other doth Truth include This stands in freedom that in seruitude With cloudy cares th' one 's muffled vp som-whiles The others face is full of pleasing smiles For never grief nor fear of any Fit Of the least care shall dare come neer to it 'T is the grand Iubilé the Feast of Feasts Sabbaoth of Sabbaoths end-less Rest of Rests Which with the Prophets and Apostles zealous The constant Martyrs and our Christian fellows Gods faithfull Seruants and his chosen Sheep In Heav'n we hope within short time to keep He would this Day our soule sequestered Meditation of the workes of God especially on the day of Rest. From busie thoughts of worldly cares should read In Heav'ns bow'd Arches and the Elements His bound-less Bounty Powr and Providence That every part may as a Master teach Th' illiterat Rules past a vulgar reach Com Reader sit com sit thee down by mee Exhortation to this Meditatiâ— with the vse and profit thereof Think with my thoughts and see what I doo see Hear this dumb Doctor study in this Book Where day and night thou mai'st at pleasure look And therby learn vprightly how to liue For every part doth speciall Lessons giue Even from the gilt studs of the Firmament To the base Centre of our Element Seest thou those Stars we wrongly Wandring call The Planets teach vs to follow the will of God Though diuers wayes they daunce about this Ball Yet ever more their manifold Career Follows the Course of the First Mouing Sphear This teacheth thee that though thine own Desires Be opposit to what Heav'ns will requires Thou must still striue to follow all thy dayes God the first Mover in his holy wayes The Moon teacheth that we haue not any thing that we haue not receiued Vain puff of winde whom vaunting pride bewitches For Bodies beauties or Mindes richer Riches The Moon whose splendor from her Brother springs May by Example make thee vail thy wings For thou no less then the pale Queen of Nights Borrow'st all goodnes from the Prince of Lights Wilt thou from Orb to Orb to th' Earth descend The Elementary fire and ours where our happinesse and where our misery consists Behold the Fire which God did round extend As neer to Heav'n the same is cleer and pure Ours heer belowe sad smoaky and obscure So while thy Soule doth with the Heav'ns converse It 's sure and safe from every thought perverse And though thou won heer in this world of sinn Thou art as happy as Heav'ns Angells been But if thy minde be alwayes fixed all On the foul dunghill of this darksom vale It will partake in the contagious smells Of th' vnclean house wherin it droops and dwells If enuious Fortune be thy bitter foe The Aire that afflictions are profitable for vs. And day and night do toss thee to and fro Remember th' Aire coâ—â—â—reth soon except With sundry Windes it be oâ—t swing'd and swept The Sea which somtimes down to Hell is driv'n The Sea that we ought for no respect to transgresse the Law of God And somtimes heaues afroathy Mount to Heav'n Yet never breaks the bounds of her precinct Wherin the Lord her boisterous arms hath linkt Instructeth thee that neither Tyrants rage Ambition's windes nor golden vassallage Of Auarice nor any love nor fear From Gods Command should make thee shrink a hair The Earth which never all at once doth moue The Earth that we should be constant Though her rich Orb received from aboue No firmer base her burthen to sustent Then slippery props of softest Element By her example doth propose to thee A needfull Lesson of true Constancy The Eares of Corne
that we should be humble Nay there is nought in our deer Mother found But Pythily som Vertue doth propound O! let the Noble Wise Rich Valiant Be as the base poore faint and ignorant And looking on the fields when Autumn shears There let them learn among the bearded ears Which still the fuller of the flowery grain Bow down the more their humble heads again And ay the lighter and the less their store They lift aloft their Chaffie Crests the more Let her that bound-less in her wanton wishes The Palme-Tree that we should be chast Dares spot the Spouse-bed with vnlawfull kisses Blush at the least at Palm-Trees loyalty Which never bears vnless her Male be by Thou thou that prançest after Honors prize Cinamon teacheth Diligence and Prudence While by the way thy strength and stomach dies Remember Honor is like Cinamon Which Nature mounds with many a million Of thorny pricks that none may danger-les Approach the Plant much less the Fruit possess Canst thou the secret Sympathy behold The Sunne and the Marigold direct vs vnto Christ the Sun of Righteousnes Betwixt the bright Sun and the Marigold And not consider that we must no less Follow in life the Sun of Righteousness O Earth the Treasures of thy hollow brest Are no less fruitfull Teachers then the rest For as the Lime doth break and burn in Water And swell and smoak crackle and skip and scatter Lyme in water teacheth vsto shew our vertue in extremitie Waking that Fire whose dull heat sleeping was Vnder the cold Crust of a Chalky Mass He that to march amid the Christian Hoast Yeelds his hearts kingdom to the holy-Ghost And for braue Seruice vnder Christ his Banner Looks to be crown'd with his Chief Champions honor Must in Affliction wake his zeal which oft In Calmer times sleeps too-securely soft And opposit as the rich Diamond The Diamond exhorteth to Constancy The Fire and Steel doth stoutly both withstand So the true Christian should till life expire Contemn proud Tyrants raging Sword and Fire Or if fell Rigour with som ruth-les smart A little shake the sinnews of his heart He must be like the richest Minerall Gold in the furnace to magnanimity purity Whose Ingots bow but never break at all Nor in the Furnace suffer any loss Of waight but Lees not of the Gold but dross The pretious Stone that bears the Rain-bowes name The stone Iris to edification of our Neighbour Receiues the bright face of Sols burnisht flame And by reflection after it displaies On the next obiect all those pointed rayes So whoso hath from the Empyreall Pole Within the centre of his happy Soule Receiv'd som splendor of the beams divine Must to his Neighbour make the same to shine Not burying Talents which our God hath giv'n To be imploy'd in a rich trade for Heav'n That in his Church he may receiue his Gold With thirty sixty and an hundred fold As th' Iron toucht by th' Adamant's effect The needle in the Mariners compasse sheweth that we shuld incessantly looke on Christ our onely load starre To the North Pole doth ever point direct So the Soule toucht once by the secret powr Of a true liuely Faith looks every howr To the bright Lamp which serues for Cynosure To all that sail vpon the Sea obscure These presidents from liue-les things collected Lessons from liuing Creatures Breed good effects in spirits well affected But lessons taken from the things that liue A liuelier touch vnto all sorts doo giue Vp vp ye Princes Prince and People rise Bees to subiects and to Princes And run to School among the Hony-Flies There shall you learn that an eternall law Subiects the Subiect vnder Princes aw There shall you learn that a courageous King To vex his humble Vassals hath no sting The Persian Prince that princely did conclude The Marlin to the vnthankeful So severe laws against Ingratitude Knew that the Marlin hauing kept her warm With aliue Lark remits it without harm And least her frend-bird she should after slay She takes her flight a quite contrary way Fathers if you desire your Children sage The Eagle so Parents Should by their Blessings bless your crooked age Train them betimes vnto true Vertues Lore By Aw Instruction and Example more So the old Eagle flutters in and out To teach his yong to follow him aboue If his example cannot timely bring His backward birds to vse their feeble wing He leaues them then som dayes vnfed whereby Sharp hunger may at length constiain them fly If that prevail not then he beats them both With beak and wings to stir their fearfull sloath You that to haste your hated Spouses end The Turtle to Wedlock-breakers Black deadly poyson in his dish doo blend O! can ye see with vn-relenting eyes The Turtle-Doue sith when her husband dies Dies all herioy for never loues she more But on dry bowghs doth her dead Spouse deplore Thou whom the freedom of a foolish tongue Wilde geese to Bâ—bblers Brings oft in danger for thy neighbours wrong Discreetly set a hatch before the door As the wise Wilde-geese when they over-soar Cilician Mounts within their bills doo bear A pebble-stone both day and night for fear Least rauenous Eagles of the North descry Their Armies passage by their cackling Cry O! Mothers can you can you O vnkinde Diuers Fishes to vnnaturall Mothers that will â— not nour se their owne Children Deny your Babes your breasts and call to minde That many Fishes many times are fain Receiue their seed into their wombs again Lucinas sad throes for the self-same birth Enduring oft it often bringing forth O! why embrace not we with Charity Dolphins to the cruell The living and the dead with Piety Giving these succour sepulture to those Even as the Dolphins doo themselues expose For their lyue fellows and beneath the Waues Cover their dead-ones vnder sandy Graues You Children whom past hope the Heav'ns benignity The wild Kid to children Hath heapt with wealth and heaved-vp to dignity Doo not forget your Parents but behold Th' officious Kids who when their Parents old With heavy Gyues Elds trembling fever stops And fetters-fast vpon the Mountain-tops As carefull purveyours bring them home to brouz The tendrest tops of all the slenderest boughs And sip self-thirst-les of the Riuers brink Which in their mouths they bring them home to drink For House-hold Rules read not the learned Writs Of the Stagirian glory of good wits The Spiders to Man and Wife Nor his whom for his honny-steeped stile They Proverbiz'd the Attik Muse yer-while Sith th' onely Spider teacheth euery one The Husbands and the Huswifes function For for their food the valiant Male doth roam The cunning Female tends her work at home Out of her bowels wooll and yarn she spitteth And all that else her learned labour fitteth Her waight's the spindle that doth twist the twine
called the Gulfe of Negrepont Stentorian Homer reports him to haue had the voice of 50. men Signories Lordships Dominions Sues a Port in the East part of Egypt vpon the red Sea Seir a mountaine in Idumaea betweene Asphaltis and Egypt Siddim the place where Lot with the Princes of Sodom was taken prisoner by Chedor Laomer Sanctum SanctoruÌ„ the inmost Sanctuarie the Holy of Holies where onely the high Priest might enter once a yeare Stratian War-like Scammonie alias Diagridium an hearbe purging Choler mightily T TAgus the Riuer of Lisbone in Portugall Tanais a mighty Riuer diuiding Asia from Europe Tantalus a King of Phrygia whom they fained to stand in Hel vp to the chin in water and to haue delicate Fruits dangling ouer his vpperlip yet can touch neither either to ease his hunger or allay his thirsâ— Tambut A Country of the Negros which is a part of Africa extending to the vttermost bounds therof toward the South and East Taprobane An Iland vnder the Equinoctiall now called Sumatra Situate betweene Malaca and Iaua Maior aboue 450. leagues long and aboue 120. broade abounding in Golde very plentifull in other excellent CoÌ„modities Tarentum a famous Citie in Calabria Tarnasser is in the East Indies neere the gulfe of Bengala Thebes a Citty in Baeotia where Hercules was borne it was first built built by Cadmus but more beautifully restored by Amphion Thetis the Sea Themis Iustice. Thersites the foulest Lubber in al the GreciaÌ„ Campe whoÌ„ Achilles slew with his fist Theseus for valour another Hercules but most famous for his kinde and constant friendship to Perithous Thesiphone one of the Furies Thisbes Tree the mulberie Thule an Iland beyond the Orcades the farthest North that was knowen to the Romanes therfore then called Ultima Thule Timanthes one of the most excelleÌ„t of the ancieÌ„t Painters Tindarides Castor and Pollux Tigris a Riuer in Asia passing by the East of Mesopotamia throgh Armenia Media Titan the Sun Tirrhenian the Tuscan Seas Tyrians Marchant men of Tyrus a Citie of Syria anciently flowrishing in trade and famous for the excellent purple-Die Tiuoli a village neere Rome where the Cardinall of Ferrara hath a sumptuous house of pleasure furnished with infinite Curiosities Torpedo the Cramp-fish Tresor-troue Gold monie or other Riches found vnder ground Troglodytes a people of Aethiopia that dwel vnder grouÌ„d go naked and eate Serpents Tropicks two great Circles in heauen in equall distance from the Equinoctiall the one called the Tropik of Cancer the other of Capricorne at the which the Sun turneth either higher hauing been at the lowest or lower hauing beene at the highest wherof they are so called TrytoÌ„s Neptunes Trumpeters Tuscan Italian Tyber the Riuer of Rome Typhis the master or Captaine of the Ship Argos that saild with Iason to Colchis for the Golden Fleece Tymothy an excellent caruer that wrought on Mausolus Tombe Typhon a huge Giant that in deuoured to pull Iupiter out of Heauen Type a figure or stampe of any thing Tesiphone or Thesiphone one of the Furies TROPHETS glorious Monuments erected in honour of some famous victorie Timothius Milesius an excellent musician that flowrished vnder Philip of Macedon and Alexander his son Theorie Contemplation study Tullie Cicero the Prince of Roman Orators Teâ—yphone look Furies Thalia look Graces Muses Tabernacle properly a Tent or Pauilion V VAlois one of the Royall families of France extinguished in the late Henry the third slaine by a Frier before Paris who in his Monsieurship with his mother and the Duke of Guise had beene too busie an Actor in the bloodie Massacre Uenus the Goddesse of Loue and Beautie also one of the planets Uenus Esâ—uage Knights or Nights seruice to Ladies Venerean mirth Idem Uer the Spring Vertumnus animagined God of the Romanes that tooke on him all shapes Vespucio Americus Vespucius a Florentine first discouerer of America of whom it was so called Viginere a learned Frenchman of late times translator of Caesar Liuius and other Latine writers Vienna a Citie in Austria where vsually the Emperor keeps his Court. Vrania one of the Muses especially handling Heauenly things therefore called the Heauenly Muse. Vrim and Thummim 2. words grauen in the Brest-plate of Aaron signifying Illumination and integritie Ulysses the politike Prince of Ithaca husband of Penelope Vulcan the God of Fier and forge-men Vranascopus a fish alwayes gazing vp to heauen X XAnth called also Scamander the Riuer of Troy there is also an Iland in the Archipelago so called Xenian hospitious mild-entertainer Z. ZEbut an Iland in the west Indies exceeding rich in Gold Sugar Ginger Zenith the point verticall the point of Heauen right ouer our heads the contrarie point is called Nadir Zeno the chiefe of the Stoicke Philosophers Zeuxis a most cunning and exceeding rich Painter Zodiak a byaz or sloaping Circle in the Heauens wherin are the 12. Signes thorough which all the planets passe Zones Imagined Circles diuiding the World into fiue parts Zopyrus a Persian that strange ly disfigured himselfe to do his Prince an important seruice Zephirus the West the West-winde FINIS THE HISTORIE OF IVDITH IN FORME OF A POEME Penned in French by the Noble Poet G. SALVST Lord of BARTAS Englished by Tho. Hudson Ye learned binde your browes with Laurer hand I prease but for to touch it with my hand ET VSQVE AD NVBES VERITAS TVA 1611. The Printer to the Reader PErceiuing our diuine du BARTAS so generally applauded euen of the greatest and the grauest of this Kingdome and all His workes so welcome vnto all to make the same in this second Edition more compleat I haue presumed to annex This Peece indeed no part of his incomparable WEEKS neither heer apparalled by the same Workman yet doubt-les a Child of the same Parent and if I be not deceiued one of his first borne which arriuing long-since in Scotland was there among the rest royally receiued and thus as you see suited somewhat to that Countrie fashion Whose Dialect and Orthography considering vnder what authoritie it was first published now the rather respecting our happie vnion by the same established I haue not dar'd at all to alter Accept it therefore gentle Reader as it is and allow at least of my good will who wishing thee the profit of these happy labours haue aduentured to doo thee pleasure to incur I doubt double displeasure Thine H. L. TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE IAMES the Sixt King of Scotland his Maiesties most humble Seruant THO. HVDSON wisheth long life with euerlasting felicitie AS your Maiestie Sir after your accustomed and vertuous maner was sometime discoursing at Table with such your Domestiques as chaunced to be attendant It pleased your Highnesse not onelie to esteeme the peereless stile of the Greeke Homer and the Latin Uirgill to be inimitable to vs whose tongue is barbarous and corrupted But also to alledge partly thorow delight your Maiesty tooke in the Hautie stile of those most famous Writers
and all his family To young and old of either Sexe that while Exod. 9 He sent a plage of scalding botches vile So that the Memphites layd on beds to rest VVith vncouth venim daily were opprest To Medciners the medcine valled not So sore the poisond plague did vnder cot He also smote the for rests herbs and grase The flocks of sheep and euery beast that was Throw poison of th' infected ground so â—ell The Morrain made them all to die or swell So that the Shepheard by the riuer side His flock hath rather dead then sick espide He earthly dust to lothly lice did change And dimd the Ayre with such a cloud so strange Of flyes grashoppers hornets clegs and clocks Exod. 10 That day and night throw houses flew in flocks That with incisions sharpe did sheare the skinnes Of Aegypt Panims throw their proudest ynnes And when the heauen most quiet seemd and fair Th' Eternall sent a tempest through the air And at this Hebrew 's prayer such a reare Of thunder fell that brought them all in feare Here lay a Bull that woodran while he brast There lay the Keeper burnt with thunder blast And now the forrest high that hid the air With many a spreeding arme is spoild and bair So that the sap that grafters keeps with paine Which should restore the stock and leafe againe Is lost alas in lesse then halfe a day The husbands hoped fruite gone to decaye What more th' Eternall darkned so the skye For three dayes space none could another spye That cloude so thick the Memphis rebels fand That they might firmly feele it with their hand It seemd that Phoebus left his ancient Round And dwelt three dayes with men of vnderground And as the sunne at one selfe time is felt With heate to harden clay and wax to melt So Amrams sacred sonne in these proiects Made one selfe cause haue two contraire effects For Izak humbly knew the Lord diuine But Pharo more and more did still repine Like to the corpslet colde the more 't is het With hammers hard more hardnes it doth get Yet when his son was slaine by th' Angels hand Exod. 11 Heyre Amongst the eldest heires of Aegypt Land He was afraide and let them go that night Where pleased them to serue their God of might Who sent a cloud before them all the day By night a Piller of fire to guide their way But so dainly this tyrant did gainstand His former graunt and armd all Aegypt Land With hote pursute against all Iacobs hoste That were encamped on the Red-sea coste Such noyse was neuer since the foraigne tide Brak throw Gibraltar when it did diuide The Calp from Abill or when Sicill strand Diuorced was from her Italia Land As was in these two campes that one with boste That other with their wailings fild the coast It seemd the sounds of furious horse and men With hornes and pypes to heaven resounded then Exod. 14. They murmure O Iuggler said the Iewes what hatefull strife Hath moued thee to change our happie life What are we fishes for to swimme the seas Or are we foules to fly whereas we please Beyond the Sea or ouer hilles to soare Was there not graues for vs on Gossen shoare But in this desart heer to dy or haue The blood-red Ocean Sea to be our graue Then Moses with his quickned rod that tide He smote the sea which fearfull did diuide Discouering land that sunne had neuerseene And staid the sea as there two walles had been Which made a passage dry of ample space For all to passe who were of Isaacs race But contrarie the Red-sea did deuower The barbrous tyrant with his mighty power Who proudly durst himselfe to that present Which opened but to saue the innocent O happy race since God doth arme for thee Both fire and aire the windes the clouds and see Which all vnto thy pay haue whole inclinde Let not consuming time weare out of minde So rare a grace but let thine elders shewe This to their noble seed that shall ensewe And let their sonnes vnto their sonnes recorde Throw all the world these wonders of the Lord. God with Coelestiall breade in time of need His loued Iacob fortie yeare did feede Exod. 6. And gaue them water from the solide stone Which of it selfe had neuer moisture none Their caps their coates and shooes that they did weare God kept all fresh and new full fortie yeer And farther least their soules for want of food Exod. 20. Should faint or faile he of his mercies good Gaue them his law pronounced by his voice His spirit to theirs in him for to reioice So teaching them and vs in precepts ten Our dutie first to God and next to men To th' end that man to man should truely stand And ioyne with God and neuer break that band This mightie Prophet dead Duke Iosua than Iosua Their Captaine stout this Palmy province wan Throw might of God he Scepters did subdew Of thirtie tyrant Kings whom all he slew At his commandement like the thunder sound The Rampers strong fell fearefully to ground Before the Tortuse or the horned Ramme Had bet or mined from their wall a dramme For euen of hornes full hoarse their simple blast An engine was their towres adoune to cast He pray'd the heaven for to prolong the day And made the horses of the sun to stay To th' end the night should not with cloud be cled To saue the faithles that before him fled Now when this Panim scourge with age at last Had left this life and vnto heauen past Then Isaac had of Rulers sundry men Whose glorious acts deserues eternall pen. Who knowes not Samgar Barac and Othoniell Iudges Tha valiant Delbor Ahud and good Samuell What Land O Sampson rings not thy renowne Who sole vnarmed bet an Army down What laude to Iephthe iustly might we low Had he not hurt his owne through hastie vow What hill or dale what flood or fixed ground 〈◊〉 not the famous Gedeons praise resound In later time their kings some good some bad Of all the Hebrew state the ruling had Had I the Harpe of Dauid holy King None other sound but Dauid would I sing 〈…〉 uen as all the deeds that Dauid did 〈…〉 ot be done by none but by Dauid So none but Dauid on his yv'rie harpe The glorious praise of God could onely carpe But here his praise I prease not to proclaime Least I throw want of skill obscure the same Yet leaue I not his Son whom grace diuine Salomon Made no lesserich then wondrous of engine Whose doctrine drew to Salem from all wheare A hundred thousand wyzards him to heare From Araby from Ynde to Affrik shore His toung entyste them with his cunning lore Iosias Shall I forget the kings who ouerthrew Idolatrie and plaç't religion dew Shall I forget that King who saw descend Hezekiah Ierusalem Asa. A winged Hoast Solyma to defend Shall I forget him who before his eene Enchast the
out their God they disobay Discyphring then their malice to be more To Gods contempt then was their zeale before And fights against the Lord with greater hate Then Celsus did or Iulian Apostate The Hebrewes now from heights of houses faire Who saw so many banners beat the aire And men to march against their forces small Who now might well decerne their feeble wall They swoune with fear and fand none other aid But of that God to whom their fathers praid O father quod they father holy king Who shields vs alwayes vnderneath thy wing Since now the world against vs doth conspire Defende vs mighty Lord we thee require Thus hauing humbly prayd the Lord of might The Gouernour renforc't his watches wight And fires at midnight built in euery way Which made the night appear as clear as day And wakerife through the corpsgard of the past And thought that Phoebe hyed her course too fast With horses paile to steale away the night To leaue the Hebrews to their enmies sight Again the Pagan thought she did but creep Or that with Latmies sonne she was on sleep But humain wishes neuer hath the powre To haste or hold the course of heaven one hower Then as Aurora rose with sanguine hew And our Horyzon did the day renew The Vizroy made a thousand trumpets sound To drawe his scattred Cornets to ◠Round Who from all parts with speed assembled weare About the Generals tent his will to hear As doth the hounds about their hunt at morne Com gladishing at hearing of his horne Now when the towne his sommonds did disdain Engins of Warre To conquer it perforce he plyde his pain And their th' Inginers haue the Trepan drest And reared vp the Ramme for batterie best Here bends the Briccoll while the cable cracks Their Crosbowes were vprent with yron Racks Here croked Coruies fleeing bridges tall Their scathfull Scorpions that ruynes the wall On euery side they raise with ioynture meet Thetymber towres for to command ech street The painfull Pioners wrought against their will With fleaks and fagots ditches vp to fill Or vnder ground they delue in dust with pain To raise a mount or make a mount a Plain Or Cauerns cut where they might soldiers hide T' assaile the towne at sodain vnespide Som ladders drest to seale the wall or els To steale vpon the sleeping Sentinels Som vndermines som other vndertook To fire the gates or smore the towne with smoke The greatest part did yet in trenches lurke To see what harme their engins first would wurke That if the wall were bet they would not faile With braue assault the Citie to assaile There Mars towre-myner there Bellona wood Enforced feeble Cowards to suck blood Their hidious horses braying loude and clear Their Pagans fell with clamor huge to hear Made such a dinne as made the heaven resound Retented hell and tore the sixed ground Yet God who keeps his watch aboue the skyes For his elect who neuer ydlelyes Took pity on his people in that tide Repressing part this cruell princes pride In causing all the chiefes of Moabites Of Edom strong and awfull Ammonites To speak him thus and thus him terrours drest O Prince that Scepter bears aboue the rest And giues them law and holds the world in thrall Set not thy soldiers to assault this wall For neither bowe nor sling nor weapons long Nor sword nor buckler will be found so strong And is this threatning rock whose mighty corse Sustains their wall of such eternall force That thou can make no skallade on no coste But on the corpses dead of half thine hoste ' The victor can no honour iustly clame 'To lose the men who should aduance the same ' O valiant Prince that fisher is not fine ' Who for a frog will lose a golden line ' The holy head band seems not to attyre ' The head of him who in his furious yre ' Preferrs the pain of those that haue him teend ' Before the health and safety of one freend You may my Lord you may in little fight Subdue these Roags and not to lose a knight Surprise me first their chiefest water spring From whence these rebels do their conduits bring Then drought shall driue them from their whole defence In cords to yeld them to thine excellence ' The noble Lyon neuer sleas the least ' But alway prayes vpon som worthy beast ' The thunder throwes his sulphred shafts adowne ' On Atlaeas high or colde Riphes crowne ' The tempest fell more feruently doth fall ' On houses high then on the homely hall So you my Lord need not to prease your powre Against such foes as will themselfs deuowre Sir this is not for fauour or for meede Nor that this Cities sack may causevs dread Nor that we mean thy high attempts to stay For ere we from thy standarts stirre away For thee th' immortall Gods we shall defie For thee we shall break down their altars hie For thee we frankly shall pursue and thole Th' eternall heat and colde of either Pole For thee our hardy hands shal help to tear From Ioue and Neptune both their Eagle and spear For thee the sonne for father shall not care Nor father sonne nor brother brother spare Now Holopherne to conquest whole enclynde And weighing well this counsell in his minde Dismissed from his camp a galliard rout Of men to guard the Riuers round about This stratageme the Hebrews wel might knowe To see their fountains run with passage slowe Then manfully their soldiers out they send Against their foes the water to defend There fought the Pagan for to winne him fame The Hebrew ment he would not dye with shame Together soon they shock with hatefull yre And first they forç't the heathen to retyre Who turning face again do them pursew And wins the victory from the victors new So doubtfull was the fight none could define Saue God to whom the victrie would encline Till Izrell was on all sides ouereled With clouds of short then to their town they fled As doth the Pilgrim passing through the Plain Who is beset with tempest haile or rain Who leaues his way and seeks himself to hide Within som caue or hollow mountain side The Panims them pursued without all pitty And Peslmell entred almost in the Citty At open gate Then rose the cry vnsweet Of fearfull folke who fled in euery street And rent their hair and their affrighted face As Panims els had wonne that holy place How flee you cowards now and leaues your Port The Captain sayes haue ye another Fort Thinke ye to finde for safety of your crowne In this Bethulia another Bethull towne Alas if ye make no defence at all While time this tyrant is without your wall How dare you him resist when he hath wunne This forte of yours from which ye feebly runne The commons with this check brought to their powers Where Cambris and Sir Carmis like two towers Stood at th' assaulted gate and did