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A20831	The Muses Elizium lately discouered, by a new way ouer Parnassus. The passages therein, being the subiect of ten sundry nymphalls, leading three diuine poemes, Noahs floud. Moses, his birth and miracles. David and Golia. By Michael Drayton Esquire.	Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.; Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631. Moyses in a map of his miracles. aut	1630 (1630)	STC 7210; ESTC S109889	101,886	216

strongly forc'd And euery where so generally done As in small time vnnaturally diuorc'd Many a deare Mother and as deare a Sonne Though her chast bosome that faire Altar were Where Loues pure vowes he dutifully pay'd His Armes to her a Sanctuary deare Yet they so much his tyranny obay'd By free consent to separate their bed Better at all no Children yet to haue Then their deare loue should procreate the dead Vntimely issue for a timelesse graue When in a vision whilst he slept by night God bids him so not lacobed to leaue The man that Egypt did so much affright Her pregnant wombe should happily conceaue Soone after finding that she was with child The same conceales by all the meanes she can Left by th' apparance she might be beguild If in the birth it prou'd to be a man The time she goes till her accompt was nie Her swelling belly no conception showes Nor at the time of her deliuery As other women panged in her throwes When lo the faire fruit of that prospering wombe Wounds the kinde parents in their prime of ioy Whose birth pronounceth his too timelesse doombe Accus'd by Nature forming it a boy Yet t is so sweet so amiably faire That their pleas'd cies with rapture it behold The glad sad parents full of ioy and care Faine would reserue their Insant if they could And still they tempt the sundrie varying howers Hopes and despaires together strangely mixt Distasting sweets with many cordiall sowers Opposed interchangeably betwixt If ought it ayl'd or hapleslie it cride Vnheard of any that she might it keepe With one short breath she did intreat and chide And in a moment she did sing and weepe Three lab'ring months them flatterer-like beguilde And danger still redoubling as it lasts Suspecting most the safety of the Childe Thus the kinde Mother carefully forecasts For at three moneths a scrutinie was held And searchers then sent euery where about That in that time if any were conceal'd They should make proofe and straitly bring them out To Pharoes will she awfully must bow And therefore hastens to abridge these feares And to the flood determines it shall goe Yet ere it went shee 'll drowne it with her teares This afternoone Loue bids a little stay And yet these pauses doe but lengthen sorrow But for one night although she make delay She vowes to goe vnto his death tomorrow The morning comes it is too early yet The day so fast not hast'ning on his date The gloomy Euening murther best doth fit The Euening come and then it is too late Her pretty Infant lying on her lap With his sweet eyes her threatning rage beguiles For yet he playes and dallyes with his pap To mock her sorrowes with his am'rous smiles And laugh'd and chuck'd and spred the pretty hands When her full heart was at the point to breake This little Creature yet not vnderstands The wofull language mothers teares did speake Wherewith surpriz'd and with a parents loue From his faire eyes she doth fresh couragetake And Natures lawes allowing doth reproue The fraile Edicts that mortall Princes make It shall not die she 'll keepe her child vnknowne And come the worst in spight of Pharoes rage As it is hers she will dispose her owne And if 't must it'st die at riper age And thus reuoluing of her frailties care A thousand strange 〈◊〉 throng her troubled minde Sounding the dangers 〈◊〉 what they are Betwixt the lawes of cruelty and kinde But it must die and better yet to part Since preordain'd to this 〈◊〉 fate His want will sit the neerer to the heart In riper and more flourishing estate The perfect husband whose 〈◊〉 soule Tooke true proportion of each 〈◊〉 throw Yet had such power his passion to controule As not the same immedintely to show With carriage full of comelinesse and grace As griefe not felt nor sorrow seem'd to lacke Courage and seare so temp'red in his face Thus his beloued Iacobed bespake Deare heart be patient stay these timelesse teares Death of thy Son shall neuer quite 〈◊〉 thee My soule with thine that equall burthen beares As what he takes my Loue againe shall giue thee For Israels sinne if Israels seed must suffer And we of meere necessity must leaue him Please yet to grace me with this gentle offer Giue him to me by whom thou didst conceyue him So though thou with so deare a 〈◊〉 part This yet remayneth lastly to 〈◊〉 thee Thou hast impos'd this hindrance on my heart Anothers losse shall need the lesse to grieue thee Nor are we 〈◊〉 abiect by our name Though thus in Egypt hatefully despised That we that blessing fruitlefly should clayme Once in that holy 〈◊〉 comprised It is not fit Mortality should know What his eternall prouidence 〈◊〉 That vnto Abraham 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 In happy Sara and her 〈◊〉 seed Nor shall the wrong to godly 〈◊〉 one In his remembranee euer he 〈◊〉 By Iacobs sighes for his lost little sonne A Captiu'd slaue to the Egyptians sould Reason sets limmets to the longest griefe Sorrow scarse past when comfort is returning He sends affliction that can lend releefe Best that is pleas'd with measure in our mourning Lost in her selfe her spirits are so distracted All hopes dissolu'd might 〈◊〉 her further Her minde seemes now of misery compacted That must consent vnto so deere a murther Of slime and twigs she makes a simple shread The poore last duty to her child she owes This pretty martyr this yet liuing dead Wherein she doth his little corps enclose And meanes to beare it presently away And in some water secretly bestow it But yet a while bethinkes her selfe to stay Some little kindnesse she doeth further owe it Nor will she in this cruelty perseuer That by her meanes his timelesse blood be spilt If of her owne she doth her selfe deliuer Let others hands be nocent of the guilt Yet if she keepe it from the ruthlesse flood That is by Pharo's tyranny 〈◊〉 it What bootes that wretched miserable good If so dispos'd where none doe come to finde it For better yet the Homicide should kill it Or by some beast in peeces to be rent Than lingring famine cruelly should spill it That it endure a double languishment And neighbouring neere to the Egyptian Court She knowes a place that neere the riuer side Was oft frequented by the worthier sort For now the spring was newly in her pride Thither she hastes but with a 〈◊〉 speed The ueerest way she possibly could get And by the cleere brimme mongst the flags and reede Her little Coffin carefully she set Her little Girle the Mother following neere As of her Brother that her leaue would take Which the sad woman vnexpecting there Yet it to helpe her kindely thus bespake Quoth she sweet Miriam secretly attend And for his death see who approacheth hether That once for all assured of his end His dayes and mine be consummate together It is some comfort to a wretch to die If there

naught Mankinde increasing greatly euery day Their sinnes increase in numbers more then they Seauen Ages had past Adam when men prone To tyranny and no man knew his owne His sensuall will then followed and his lust His onely law in those times to be iust Was to be wicked God so quite forgot As what was damn'd that in that age was not With one anothers flesh themselues they fil'd And drunke the bloud of those whom they had kil'd They dar'd to doe what none should dare to name They neuer heard of such a thing as shame Man mixt with man and Daughter Sister Mother Were to these wicked men as any other To rip their womens wombes they would not stick When they perceiu'd once they were 〈◊〉 quicke Feeding on that from their own loynes that sprong Such wickednesse these Monsters was among That they vs'd Beasts digressing from all kinde That the Almighty pondring in his minde Their beastlinesse from his intent began T'repent himselfe that he created man Their sinnes ascending the Almighties seate Th' eternall Throane with horror seeme to threat Still daring God a warre with them to make And of his power no knowledge seem'd to take So that he vow'd the world he would destroy Which he reuealed onely to iust Noy For but that man none worthy was to know Nor he the manner to none else would show For since with starres he first high heauen enchast And Adam first in Paradice had plac't Amongst all those inhabiting the ground He not a man so iust as Noe had found For which he gaue him charge an Arke to build And by those workemen which were deepliest skild In Architecture to begin the frame And thus th' Almighty taught iust Noe the same Three hundred cubits the full length to be Fifty the bredth the height least of the three Full thirty cubits onely with one light A cubit broad and iust so much in hight And in three Stories bad him to diuide The inner Roome and in the Vessels side To place a doore commanding Noe to take Great care thereof and this his Arke to make Of Gopher wood which some will needsly haue To be the Pine-tree and commandment gaue That the large plancks whereof it was compos'd When they by art should curiously be clos'd Should with Bitumen both within and out Be deepely pitcht the Vessell round about So strong a Glue as could not off be worne The rage of Winds and Waters that doth scorne Like to a Chest or Coffer it was fram'd For which an Arke most fitly it was nam'd Not like a Ship for that a Ship below Is ridg'd and narrow vpward but doth grow Wider and wider but this mighty Barque Built by iust Noah this vniuersall Arke Held one true breadth ' ith'bottome as aboue That when this Frame vpon the Flood should moue On the falne waters it should float secure As it did first the falling shower endure And close aboue so to beare out the weather For forty dayes when it should raine togeather A hundred yeares the Arke in building was So long the time ere he could bring to passe This worke intended all which time iust Noy Cry'd that th' Almighty would the world destroy And as this good man vsed many a day To walke abroad his building to survay These cruell Giants comming in to see In their thoughts wondring what this worke should be He with erected hands to them doth cry Either repent ye or ye all must dye Who else to mercy wholly is inclinde From Seth which God to Eva gaue in law Of her sonne Abel whom his brother slue That cursed Cain how hath th' Almighty blest The seed of Adam though be sotransgrest In Enos by whose godlinesse men came At first to call on the Almighties name And Enoch whose integritie was such In whom the Lord delighted was so much As in his yeers he suffered no decay But God to Heauen tooke bodyly away With long life blessing all that goodly Stem From the first man downe to Mathusalem Now from the loynes of Lamech sendeth me Vnworthy his Ambassadour to be To tell ye yet if ye at last repent He will lay by his wrathfull punishment That God who was so mercifull before To our forfathers likewise hath in store Mercy for us their Nephues if we fall With teares before him and he will recall His wrath sent out already therefore flye To him for mercy yet the threatning Skie Pauses ereit the 〈◊〉 downe will poure For euery teare you shed he 'll stop a shower Yet of th Almighty mercy you may winne He 'll leaue to punish if you leaue to sinne That God eternall which old Adam cast Out of the earthly heauen where he had plac't That first-made man for his forbidden deed From thence for euer banishing his seed For us his sinfull children doth prouide And with abundance hath vs still supplyd And can his blessings who respects you thus Make you most wicked most rebellious Still is your stubborne obstinacy such Haue ye no mercy and your God so much Your God said I O wherefore said I so Your words deny him and your works say 〈◊〉 O see the day doth but too fast approch Wherein heauens maker meanes to set abroach That world of water which shall ouer-flow Those mighty Mountaines whereon now you goe The Dropsied Clouds see your destruction threat The Sunne and Moone both in their course are set To warre by water and doe all'they can To bring destruction vpon sinfull man And euery thing shall suffer for your sake For the whole earth shall be but one whole Lake Oh cry for mercy leaue your wicked wayes And God from time shall separate those dayes Of vengeance comming and he shall disperse These Clouds now threatning the whole vniuerse And saue the world which else he will destroy But this good man this terror-preaching Noy The Beares and Tigers might haue taught aswell They laught to heare this godly man to tell That God would drowne the world they thought him mad For their great maker they forgotten had They knew none such th' Almighty God say they What might he be and when shall be the day Thou talk'st of to vs canst thou thinke that we Can but suppose that such a thing can be What can he doe that we cannot defeate Whose Brawny Fists to very dust can beate The solid'st Rock and with our breasts can beare The strong'st Streame backward dost thou thinke to feare Vs with these Dreames of Deluges to make Vs our owne wayes and courses to forsake Let vs but see that God that dares to stand To what thou speak'st that with his furious hand Dare say he 'll drowne vs and we will desye Him to his teeth and if he keepe the Skye We 'll dare him thence and if he then come downe And challenge vs that he the world will drowne We 'll follow him vntill his threats he stints Or we will batter his blew house with flynts The Arke

busie that had bin To place these creatures as they still came in Sem Ham and Iapheth with their Wifes assign'd To be the Parents of all humane kinde Seeing the Arke thus plentifully stor'd The wondrous worke of the Almighty Lord Behold their father looking euery houre For this all drowning earth-destroying showre When Noe their faith thus lastly to awake To his lou'd Wife and their sixe children spake The mighty hand of God doe you not see In these his creatures that so well agree Which were they not thus mastred by his power Vs silly eight would greedily deuoure And with their hoofes and pawes to splintersrend This only Arke in which God doth intend We from the Floud that remnant shall remaine T'restore the world in aged Adams straine Yee seauen with sad astonishment then seo The wondrous things the Lord hath wrought for me What haue I done so gracious in his sight Fraile wretched man but that I iustly might Haue with the earths abhominable brood Bin ouer-whelm'd and buried in the Floud But in his iudgement that he hath decreed That from my loynes by your successefull seed The earth shall be replenished agen And the Almighty be at peace with men A hundred yeares aro past as well you know Since the Almighty God his power to show Taught me the Modell of this mighty frame And it the Arks commanded me to name Be strong in faith for now the time is nye That from the conducts of the lofty skie The Floud shall fall that in short time shall beare This Arke we are in up into the ayre Where it shall floate and further in the end Shall fifteene cubits the high'st hils transcend Then bid the goodly fruitfull earth adue For the next time it shall be seene of you It with an ill complexion shall appeare The weight of waters shall haue chang'd her cheere Be not affrighted when ye heare the rore Of the wide Waters when they charge the shore Nor be dismad at all when you shall feele Th' unweeldy Arke from waue to waue to reele Nor at the 〈◊〉 of those that swimming by On Trees and Rafters shall for succour cry O ye most lou'd of God O take vs 〈◊〉 For we are guilty and confesse our sinne Thus whilst he spake the skyes grew thicke and darke And a blacke cloud hung houering o're the Arke Verus and Mars God puts this worke vpon Iupiter and Saturne in coniunction I' th tayle of Cancer inundations thret Luna disposed generally to wet The Hiades and Pliades put too Their helpes Orion doth what he can doe No starre so small but some one drop let downe And all conspire the wicked world to drowne On the wide heauen there was not any signe To watry Pisces but it doth incline Now some will aske when th' Almighty God but Noy And his by waters did the world destroy Wherher those seauen then in Arke were good And iust as he reserued from the Floud Or that th' Almighty for his onely sake Did on the other such compassion take 'T is doubtlesse Noe being one so cleerely iust Tha God did with his secret iudgements trust From the whole world one that so long had knowne That liuing Lord would likewise teach his owne To know him too who by this meane might be As well within the Couenant as he By this the Sunne had suckt vp the vaste deepe And in grosse clouds like Cesternes did it keepe The 〈◊〉 and signes by Gods great wisedome set By their coniunctions waters to beget Had wrought their vtmost and euen now began Th' Almighties iustice vpon sinfull man From euery seuerall quarter of theskye The Thunder rores and the fierce Lightnings flye One at another and together dash Volue on volue flash comes after flash Heauens lights looke sad as they would melt away The night is com'n i' th morning of the day The Card'nall Windes he makes at once to blow Whose blasts to buffets with such sury goe That they themselues into the Center shot Into the bowels of the earth and got Being condens'd and strongly stifned there In such strange manner multiply'd the ayre Which turn'd to water and increast the springs To that abundance that the earth forth brings Water to drowne her selfe should heauen deny With one small drop the Deluge to supply That through her pores the soft and spungy earth As in a dropsie or vnkindely birth A Woman swolne sends from her fluxiue wombe Her woosie springs that there was scarcely roome For the waste waters which came in so fast As though the earth her entrailes vp would cast But these seem'd yet but easily let goe And from some Sluce came softly in and slow Till Gods great hand so squees'd the boysterous clouds That from the spouts of heauens embatteld shrouds Euen like a Floud-gate pluckt vp by the height Came the wilde raine with such a pondrous weight As that the fiercenesse of the hurrying floud Remou'd huge Rockes and ram'd them into mud Pressing the ground with that impetuous power As that the first shocke of this drowning shower Furrow'd the earths late plumpe and cheerefull face Like an old Woman that in little space With ryueld cheekes and with bleard blubberd eyes She wistly look'd vpon the troubled skyes Vp to some Mountaine as the people make Driuing their Cattell till the shower should slake The Floud oretakes them and away doth sweepe Great heards of Neate and mighty flockes of Sheepe Downe through a valley as one streame doth come Whose roaring strikes the neighbouring Eccho dumbe Another meetes it and whilst there they striue Which of them two the other backe should driue Their dreadfull currents they together dash So that their waues like furious Tydes doe wash The head of some neere hill which falleth downe For very feare as it it selfe would drowne Some backe their Beasts so hoping to swimme out But by the Floud incompassed about Are ouerwhelm'd some clamber vp to Towers But these and them the deluge soone deuoures Some to the top of Pynes and Cedars get Thinking themselues they safely there should set But the rude Floud that ouer all doth sway Quickly comes vp and carrieth them away The Roes much swistnesse doth no more auaile Nor helpe him now then if he were a Snayle The swift-wing'd Swallow and the slow-wing'd Owle The fleetest Bird and the most flagging Fowle Are at one passe the Floud so high hath gone There was no ground to set a foot vpon Those Fowle that followed moystnesse now it flye And leaue the wet Land to finde out the dry But by the mighty tempest beaten downe On the blancke water they doe lye and drowne The strong-built Tower is quickly ouerborne The o're-growne Oake out of the earth is torne The subtile shower the earth hath softned so And with the waues the trees tost to and fro That the rootes loosen and the tops downe sway So that whole Forrests quickly swimme away Th' offended heauen had shut vp