Mardochey and the five Maccabees All the right heirs of heart and zeal paternall Receiue their guerdon from the great Eternall And vp again their stooping standards raise 13 Before these Warriours and the Royall band March holy Fathers that with vertue rare And holy Doctrine did the Diuell dare Foyling the force of his infernall hand 14 Enos by whom this World 's great Archi-tect Was call'd vpon leadeth religious That holy Father God took vp from vs Henoch Noah And him whose ship did saue the world Elect. 15 Then Sem and Iapheth and great Abraham Isaak The Faithfull's Father and his faithfull Son And then his Nephew that saw Angels run Iacob Both vp down froÌ„ Heav'n to th' earthly frame 16 Aron Eleazar Phinees full of zeal Good Ioyada and hundred Priests select That were by Heav'n by zeal and Church elect To keep the law the Lord did once reveal 17 His Father who was sent to sweep the way Zacharias Ioseph Of sweet Messias then the man suppos'd To be His Sire then He that Him inclos'd In 's ioyfull arms and sung a Swan-like Lay. Simeon 18 Then Barnabas Titus and Timothy Paul's famous Friends Sins fierce and deadly Foes And he that did by Sol's Eclipse suppose Som greater Sun to be Eclips't than he 19 Then this brave Triumph to adorn the more All on a rowe a hundred Prophets com Which haue so sure fore-told the things to-com As if indeed they had been don before 20 There first coms he that in the Coach of fire Elias By Gods strong Spirit was rapt above the Air Elizeus And then his Seruant that was made his heir Of cloak and knowledge as he did desire 21 He that reproov'd old Ishay's Sceptred Son Nathan For double fault Amos Ezechiel Ioel Semyah Abdiah Daniel And he that three dayes in the Sea did won Ionas 22 With these I see the Sonn of Barachie Zachariah Both Michais Baruc Iehu Ieremias Agg ' Abacuc Nahum and Sophonias Ahias Hosè Esdras Malachie 23 The glorious troop that march before this troop Are Martyrs all who full of constant zeal Their faith infract with their owne blouds did seal And never did to any Tyrant stoop 24 Their blessed bloud is like the morning dewe To make more fertil all the Churches field These are the weapons that inforce to yield The furious foe examples not a fewe 25 For as a fruit-Treelopped in December For one old Trunk many new twigs returns Which Nature kindely with sweet fruit adorns So one sole Martyr many doth ingender 26 First Abel goes then Ioyad's zealous Son That neer the Altar constant yielded breath Esay Iohn Baptist. The next goes he Manasses put to death Then he whose head th' incestuous Dancer won 27 Next Salone and her Sons who rather chose To cross the King than God strengthning each other Even in their death Sons worthy such a Mother And Mother worthy of such Sons as those 28 That Proto-Martyr the yong faithfull Steven Whom th' hatefull Iews with hellish rage did stone Who dying saw Christ Iesus on his Throne Leads those that for like cause their lives have given 29 Som smear'd with honey for the Flies were feasts Som men did eat som were on Gridirons broyl'd Som nayl'd on Crosses som in Caldrons boyl'd And som were throwen to most devouring beasts 30 After the Champions of this humble Troop I see fair Sara Rebecca Rachel Then Debora stout Iudeth and Iahel Who Faiths Viragoes their proud Foes did stoop 31 Then she that rais'd to Royall state and stile â—ester Preserv'd her people in a rank she goes With Naomi Ruth and the Dame that chose Rather to die than Nuptiall bed defile Susanna 32 From these mineeie no sooner trauerseth But I discern three Ladies zealous-led That sought their living Lord among the dead Then Anna Martha and Elizabeth 33 But my weak eyes cannot indure to gaze The Virgin Mary On beaming beauties of that Mother-Maid Who Sier-less bore her Sire yet ever-maid Of Faith and Loue th' inimitable maze 34 This this my Muse this is th' Aurora cleer Which brought the Sun to light the world vnkinde A Virgin pure in body and in minde Christ's Mother Sister Spouse and Daughter deer 35 God's holy Temple and the happy stair Wher-by the Heav'ns came down to dwell with Earth Rich-fraighted Ship Vessell of rarest worth Where Phoebus hid his beams most bright and fair Canto IIII. 1 I Thought to haue been now at my Races end T' haue though vnworthy born away the prise But I fall short my task doth longer rise For half the Trophè is yet hardly penn'd 2 Before Faith's Coach born in convenient height Are curious Tables draw'n by cunning hand Where after guise of warlik Romans stand The Victories of never-conquer'd Faith 3 Heer Iericho's cloud-kissing Towrs doo fall Iosua 6. 20. Batter'd alone by Faith's great Ordinance A coumpt-less hoast of craking Idolants 2. King 18 13 2. Chron. 32 20 Esa. 37 21 By Esaâ—e's Faith is heer confounded all 4 By Faith meek Moses with a zeal-full ire Arms smallest Worms th' Egyptian King to vex Exod. 7 8 9 Daniel by Faith fierce Lyons fury checks Dan. 6. 12 And quenches Dragons hot impoysoning fire 5 Heer Paul by Faith fears not in Mitylene Act. 28 5 The deadly sting of th' vgly Viper-worm Heer myching Ionas sunk in suddain Storm Ionas 22 Of his Deliverance finds a fish the mean 6 Then in another Table that was fram'd By Art exceeding Art I did espie Pale Death blithe Health and frail Infirmity That had by Faith a thousand times been tam'd 7 Moses by Faith doth Myriam leperize Num. 12 10 By Faith Elisha curing Naaman 2. King 6 14 17 The Syrian Prince strikes instantly his man With his Disease for Bribing Covetize 8 A man of God by Faith first strangely dri'd 1. King 13 4 6 Then heal'd again that King 's vnholy hand Who made ten Tribes of God's then chosen Land From God and from their lawfull Prince to slide 9 By Faith Saint Paul stark-blinded Elymas Act. 13 11 By Faith Saint Peter full of iust disdaign With suddain death did smite those periur'd twain That durst dissemble with the Spirit of Grace Act. 5 5 16 10 By Faith young Toby kindely doth restore Tob. 11 11 Act. â— 6 14 10. His Father's sight by sacred Faith likewise Two crooked Cripples are made straight to rise In Listra th' one th' other at Templedore 11 By Faith Saint Paul did a rich Maltois cure Of grievous Flix that him afflicted sore Act. 21 8 By Faith Saint Peter likewise did restore A Palsie-sick that eight yeers did indure Act. 9. 34 12 By Faith Saint Paul did Eutichus re-lyue Act. 20 10 1. King 17 21 2. King 4 33 By Faith Elias rais'd the Sareptite Elisha raysed the young Sunamite At Ioppa Peter Dorcas did
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
tuis Sic tandem felix te gaudeat Anglia vate Sic te Virgilium norit et ipsa suum Io Mauldaeus Germanus Amicissimo Iosuae Syluestri G. Salustij D. BARTASII interpreti Encomium QVod conspecta Pharus vario dat lumine vasta Aequora sulcanti cum vaga Luna silet Et quod lustratis Phoebi dat flammatenebris Erranti in syluis dum manifestat iter Hoc dat praestanti methodo SALVSTIVS illis Cognitio Sanctae queis placet Historiae Ille dedit Gallis quod nobis IOSVA noster Qui solus patrio ductus amore dedit Ingenium cupitis non fictaque flumina Vatum Hic magnum doctis Hortus acumen habet Musa tua est BARTAS dulcissima Musa videtur Ipsa tamen NOSTRI dulcior esse mihi Si. Ca. Gen. Flexanimo Salustij du Bartas interpreti Iâ— Syluestri carmen Encomiasticon OFt haue I seen sweet fancie-pleasing facts Consort themselues with swart misshapen features To grace the more their soule-subduing graces By the defect of such deformed creatures As Painters garnish with their shadowes sable The brighter colours in a curious Table So English Bartas though thy beauties heer Excell so far the glory of the rest That France and England both must hold thee deer Sith both their glories thou hast heer exprest Shewing the French tongues plenty to be such And yet that ours can vtter full as much Let not thy fairest Heav'n-aspiring Muse Disdaine these humble notes of my affection My faulty lines let faithfull loue excuse Sith my defects shall adde to thy perfection For these rude rimes thus ragged base and poore Shall by their want exalt thy worth the more E. G. In Commendation of du BARTAS and his Translator M. IOSVAH SYLVESTER A SONNET WHile nights black wings the dayes bright beauties hide And while fayre Phoebus diues in western deep Men gazing on the heav'nly stages steep Commend the Moon and many Stars beside But when Aurora's windowes open wide That Sol's clear rayes those sable clouds may banish Then sodainly those petty lights do vanish Vailing the glories of their glistring pride Sa while du Bartas and our Syluester The glorious light of England and of France Haue hid their beams each glowe-worme durst prefer His feeble glimpse of glimmering radiance But now thâ—se Suns begin to gild the day Those twinkling sparks are soon disperst away R. H. In Commendation of this worthy Work FOole that I was I thought in younger times That all the Muses had their graces sowen In Chaucers Spencers and sweet Daniels Rimes So good seems best where better is vnknowen While thus I dream'd my busie phantasic Bad me awake open mine eyes and see How SALVST's English Sun our SYLVESTER Makes Moon and Stars to vaile and how the Sheauâ—s Of all his Brethren bowing do prefer His Fruits before their Winter-shaken Leaues So much for Matter and for Manner too Hath He out gon those that the rest out goe Let Gryll be Gryll let Enuie's vip'rous seed Gnaw forth the brest which bred and fed the same Rest safe Sound truth from fear is euer freed Malice may bark but shall not bite thy Name IOSVA thy Name with BARTAS name shall liue For double life you each to other giue But Mother Enuie if this Arras spunne Of Golden threds be seen of English eyes Why then alas our Cob-webs are vndone But She more subtile than religious-wise Hatefull and hated proud and ignorant Pale swoln as Toade though customed to vaunt Now holds her Peace but O! what Peace hath She With Vertue none Therefore defie her frown Gainst greater force growes greater victory As Camomile the more you tread it down The more it springs Vertue despightfully Vsed doth vse the more to fructisie And so do Thou vntill thy Mausole rare Do fill this World with wonderment and that In Venus Form no clumsie fist may dare To meddle with thy Pencil and thy Plat I fear thy life more till thy goale be run Than Wife his Spouse or Father fears his Son R. R. Malum patienti lucrum An Acrostick Sonnet to his friend M. IOSVA SYLVESTER I IF profit mixt with pleasure merit Praise O Or Works diuine be 'fore profane preferr'd S Shall not this heauenly Work the Workers raise V Vnto the Clouds on Columnes selfly-rear'd A And though his Earth be lowe in Earth interr'd S Shall not du BARTAS Poetspride and glorie I In after Ages be with wonder heard L Liuely recording th' VNIVERSAL Story V Vndoubtedly He shal and so shalt Thou E Eare-charming Eccho of his sacred Voice S Sweet SYLVESTER how happy was thy choise T To Task thee thus and thus to quight thee now E End as thou hast begun and then by right R Rare Muses NON-SVCH shal thy Work be hight R. N. Gen. To the Same HAd golden Homer and great Maro kept In enuious silence their admired measures A thousand Worthies worthy deeds had slept They reft of prayse and we of learned pleasures But O! what rich incomparable treasures Had the world wanted had not this modern glory Diuine du BARTAS hid his heauenly ceasures Singing the mighty World's immortall story O then how deeply is our â—le beholding To Chapman and to Phaer but yet much more To thee deare SYLVESTER for thus vnfolding These holy wonders hid from vs before Those works profound are yet profane but thine Graue learned deepe delightfull and diuine R. N. Du BARTAS His FIRST VVEEK Or Birth of the WORLD Wher-in In SEAVEN DAYES The glorious Work Of The CREATION is diuinely handled In the 1. Day The CHAOS In the 2. Day The ELEMENTS In the 3. Day The SEA EARTH In the 4. Day The HE AVENS SVN MOON c. In the 5. Day The FISHES FOVLES In the 6. Day The BEASTS MAN In the 7. Day The SABAOTH Acceptam refero The first Daie of the First VVeek THE ARGVMENT GOD'S Ayde implor'd the Summ of All propos'd World not eternall nor by Chaunce compos'd But of meer Nothing God it essence gaue It had Beginning and an End shall haue Curst Atheists quipt the Heathen Clarks control'd Doom's glorious Day Star-Doctros blam'd for bold The Matter form'd Creation of the Light Alternate Changes of the Day and Night The Birth of Angels some for Pride deiected The rest persist in Grace and guard th' Elected THou glorious Guide of Heav'ns star-glistring motion The Poet imploreth the gracious assistance of the true God of Hea uen Earth Ayrc and Sea that he may happily finish the work he takes in hand Thou thou true Neptune Tamer of the Ocean Thou Earth's drad Shaker at whose only Word Th' Eolian Scoutes are quickly still'd and stirr'd Lift vp my soule my drossie spirits refine With learned Artenrich This Work of mine O Father graunt I sweetly warbleforth Vnto our seede the WORLD'S renowned BIRTH Graunt gracious God that I record in Verse The rarest Beauties of this VNIVERSE And grant therein Thy Power I may discern That teaching others I
my self may learn And also graunt great Architect of Wonders The TraÌ„slator knowing and acknowledging his owne insufficieÌ„cy for so excellent a labor craueth also the ayde of the All sufficient God Whose mighty Voice speaks in the midst of Thunders Causing the Rocks to rock and Hills to tear Calling the things that Are not as they were Confounding Mighty things by means of Weak Teaching dumb Infants thy dread Praise to speak Inspiring Wisedom into those that want And giuing Knowledge to the Ignorant Graunt mee good Lord as thou hast giv'n me hart To vndertake so excellent a Part Graunt me such Iudgement Grace and Eloquence So correspondent to that Excellence That in some measure I may seem t' inherit Elisha-like my dear Elias Spirit CLEAR FIRE for euer hath not Ayre imbraç't The World was not from euerlasting Nor Ayre for-ay inuiron'd Waters vast Nor Waters always wrapt the Earth therein But all this All did once of nought begin Once All was made not by the hand of Fortune As fond Democritus did yerst importune With iarring Concords making Motes to meet Inuisible immortall infinite Th' immutable diuine Decree which shall Neither made by Chance But created together with Time by the almighty wisedome of God Cause the Worlds End caus'd his Originall Neither in Time nor yet before the same But in the instant when Time first became I mean a Time confused for the course Of years of months of weeks of daies of howrs Of Ages Times and Seasons is confin'd By th' ordred Daunce vnto the Stars assign'd Before all Time all Matter Form and Place God all in all and all in God it was God was before the World was Immutable immortall infinite Incomprehensible all spirit all light All Maiesty all-self Omnipotent Inuisible impassiue excellent Pure wise iust good God raign'd alone at rest Himself alone selfs Palace host and guest Thou scoffing Atheist that enquirest what He consuteth the Atheists questioning what God did before he created the World Th' Almighty did before he framed that What waighty Work his minde was busied on Eternally before this World begun Sith so deep Wisedom and Omnipotence Nought worse beseems then sloath and negligence Knowe bold blasphemer that before he built A Hell to punish the presumptuous Guilt Of those vngodly whose proud sense dares cite And censure too his Wisedom infinite Can Carpenters Weauers and Potters passe And liue without their seuerall works a space And could not then th' Almighty All-Creator Th' all-prudent BEE without this frail Theater Shall valiant Scipio Thus himself esteem Neuer lesse sole then when he sole doth seem And could not God O Heav'ns what frantike folly Subsist alone but sink in melancholy Shall the Pryénian Princely Sage auerr That all his goods he doth about him bear And should the Lord whose Wealth exceeds all measure Should he be poor without this Worldly treasure God neuer seeks out of himself for ought He begs of none he buies or borrows nought But aye from th' Ocean of his liberall Bounty Hee poureth out a thousand Seas of Plenty What God did before he created the World Yer Eurus blew yer Moon did Wax or Wain Yer Sea had Fish yer Earth had grass or grain God was not void of sacred exercise He did admire his Glorie's Mysteries His Power his Iustice and his Prouidence His bountious Grace and great Beneficence Were th' holy obiect of his heav'nly thought Vpon the which eternally it wrought It may be also that he meditated The Worlds Idëa yer it was Created Alone he liv'd not for his Son and Spirit Of 3. Persons in one only Essence of God of the eternall generation of the Son Were with him ay Equall in might and merit For sans beginning seed and Mother tender This great Worlds Father he did first ingender To wit His Son Wisedom and Word eternal Equall in Essence to th' All-One Paternal Of the Holy-Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne The which three Persons are one onely and the same God Out of these Two their common Power proceeded Their Spirit their Loue in Essence vndiuided Onely distinct in Persons whose Diuinity All Three in One makes One eternall Trinitie Soft soft my Muse launch not into the Deep Sound not this Sea see that aloof thou keep From this Charybdis and Capharean Rock Where many a ship hath suffered wofull wrack While they haue fondly vent red forth too-far Following frail Reason for their only Star Who on this Gulf would safely venture fain How to think speak of God Must not too-boldly hale into the Main But longst the shoar with sails of Faith must coast Their Star the Bible Steers-man th' Holy-Ghost How many fine wits haue the World abus'd Because this Ghost they for their Guide refus'd The Heathen Philosophers lost themselues and others in their curâ—osities weening to be wise became fooles And scorning of the loyall Virgins Thred Haue them and others in this Maze mis-led In sacred sheetes of either Testament 'T is hard to finde a higher Argument More deep to sound more busie to discuss More vse-full knowne vnknowne more dangerous So bright a Sun dazles my tender sight So deep discourse my sense confoundeth quite My Reason's edge is dull'd in this Dispute And in my mouth my fainting words be mute This TRINITY which rather I adore God the Father Sonne Holy-Ghost created of Nothing the Worlds goodly frame In humblenes then busily explore In th' infinit of Nothing builded all This artificiall great rich glorious Ball Wherein appears in grav'n on euery part The Builders beauty greatnes wealth and Art Art beauty wealth and greatnes that confounds The hellish barking of blaspheming Hounds Climb they that list the battlements of Heav'n Leaâ—ing curious speculations the Poet teacheth how to contemplate God in his Workes And with the Whirl-wind of Ambition driv'n Beyond the World's wals let those Eagles flie And gaze vpon the Sun of Maiestie Let other-some whose fainted spirits do droop Down to the ground their meditations stoop And so contemplate on these Workmanships That th' Authors praise they in Themselues eclipse My heedfull Muse trained in true Religion Diuinely-humane keeps the middle Region Least if she should too-high a pitch presume Heav'ns glowing flame should melt her waxen plume Or if too-lowe neer Earth or Sea she flag Laden with Mists her moisted wings should lag It glads me much to view this Frame wherein As in a Glasse God's glorious face is seen I loue to look on God but in this Robe Of his great Works this vniuersall Globe For if the Suns bright beams doo blear the sight Of such as fixtly gaze against his light Who can behold aboue th' Empyriall Skies The lightning splendor of God's gloriouseies O who alas can finde the Lord without His Works which bear his Image round about God of himself incapable to sense God makes himselfe as it were visible in his Workes In 's
the Angle Faster and faster on the hooke doo tangle But wily clasping close the Fishing Line Sodainly spews into the Silver Brine Her secret-spreading sodain-speeding bane Which vp the Line and all along the Cane Creeps to the hand of th' Angler who with-all Benumm'd and sens-less sodainly le ts fall His hurtfull pole and his more hatefull prize Simile Becomn like one that as in bed he lies Seems in his sleep to see som gastly Ghost In a cold sweat shaking and swelt almost He cals his wife for ayd his friends his folks But his stuft stomack his weak clamour â—hoaks Then would he strike at that he doth behold But sleep and fear his feeble hands doo hold Then would he run away but as he strives Hee feels his feet fetterd with heauy Gyues But if the Scolopendra haue suckt-in The Scolopendra The sowr-sweet morsell with the barbed Pin She hath as rare a trick to rid her from-it For instantly she all her guts doth vomit And having clear'd them from the danger then She fair and softly sups them in again So that not one of them within her womb Changeth his Office or his wonted room The thriuing Amia neer Abydos breeding The Amia And suttle Sea-Fox in Steeds-loue exceeding The Sea-Fox Without so vent ring their dear life and lyning Can from the Worm-clasp compass their vntwining For sucking-in more of the twisted hair Aboue the hook they it in sunder shear So that their foe who for a Fish did look Lifts vp a bareline robd of bait and hooke But timerous Barbels will not taste the bit The Barbel Till with their tails they haue vnhooked it And all the baits the Fisher can deuise Cannot beguile their wary iealousies Euen so almost the many spotted Cuttle The Cuttle Wel-neer insnared yet escapeth suttle For when she sees her self within the Net And no way left but one from thence to get She sodainly a certain Ink dothspew Which dies the Waters of a sable hew That dazling so the Fishers greedy sight She through the Clouds of the black Waters night Might scape with honour the black streams of Styx Wherof already almost lost she licks And as a Prisoner of som great transgression Conuict by Witness and his owne Confession Simile Kept in dark Durance full of noysom breath Expecting nothing but the Day of Death Spies euery corner and pries round about To finde som weake place where he may get out The delicate cud-chewing Golden-Eye The Golden-eye or Guilt-head Kept in a Weyre the widest space doth spy And thrusting-in his tail makes th' Osiars gape With his oft flapping and doth so escape But if his fellow finde him thus bâ—â—â—ed He lends his tail to the Imprisoned That thereby holding fast with gentle law Him from his Durance he may friendly draw Or if before that he were captiuate He see him hooked on the biting bait Hasting to help he leapeth at the line And with his teeth snaps-off the hairy twine You stony hearts within whose stubborn Centre Sundry in structions that Fishes giue to men Could neuer touch of sacred friendship enter Look on these Seas my Songs haue calmed thus Heer 's many a Damon many a Thâ—seâ—s The gilden Sparlings when cold Winters blast The Sparlings Begins to threat themselues together cast In heaps like balls and heating mutually Liue that alone of the keen Cold would die Those small white Fish to Venus consecrated Though without Venus ayd they be created Of th' Ocean scum seeing themselues a pray Expos'd in euery Water-Rouers way Swarming by thousands with so many a fold Combine themselues that their ioint strength doth hold Against the greediest of the Sea-thieues sallies Yea and to stay the course of swiftest Gallies As a great Carrak cumbred and opprest Simile With her selfs-burthen wends not East and West Star-bood and Lar-boord with so quick Careers As a small Fregat or swift Pinnass steers And as a large and mighty limbed Steed Another Either of Friseland or of German breed Can neuer manage half so readily As Spanish Iennet or light Barbarie So the huge VVhale hath not so nimble motion Of the the Whale and his friend Musculus As smaller Fishes that frequent the Ocean But somtimes rudely ' gainst a Rock he brushes Or in som roaring Straight he blindly rushes And scarce could liue a Twelue-month to an end But for the little Musculus his friend A little Fish that swimming still before Directs him safe from Rock from shelf and shoar Much like a Childe that louing leads about Simile His aged Father when his eyes be out Still wasting him through euery way so right That rest of eyes he seems not rest of sight Waues-Mother Thetis though thine arms embrace Strange League betweene the Pearl-Fish and the Prawne The World about within thine ample space A firmer League of friendship is not seen Then is the Pearl-fish and the Prawn betweene Both haue but one repast both but one Palace But one delight one death one sorrow and one solace That lodgeth this and this remunerates His Land-lords kindnes with all needfull Cates. For while the Pearl-Fish gaping wide doth glister Much Fry allur'd with the bright siluerlustre Of her rich Casket flocks into the Nacre Then with a prick the Prawn a sign doth mak-her That instantly her shining shell she close Because the Prey worthy the pain he knowes Which gladly done she ev'nly shareth-out The Prey betwixt her and her faithfull scout And so the Sponge-Spye warily awakes Also betweene the Sponge and his Spye The Galley Fish The Sayle-Fish Boat-Crab Sea-Vrchin The Sponges dull sense when repast it takes But O! what stile can worthily declare O! Galley-Fish and thou Fish-Mariner Thou Boat-Crab and Sea-Vrchin your dexteritie In Saylers Art for safeness and celeritie If Iaffa Marchants now Comburgers seem With Portingalls and Portingalls with them If Worlds of Wealth born vnder other Sky Seem born in Ours if without wings we fly From North to South and from the East to West Through hundred sundry way-less waies addrest If to be brief this World's rich compass round Seem as a Common without hedge or mound Where at his choice each may him freely store With rarest fruits You may we thank therefore For whether Typhis or that Pride of Greece That sayl'd to Colchos for the Golden-Fleece Or Belus Son first builded floating bowrâ— To mate the Windes Storms and the Waters Stowrs What e'r he were he surely learn'd of you The Art of Rowing and of Sayling too Heer would I cease saue that this humorous song The Hermite-Fish compels me to prolong The sea Hermit A man of might that builds him a Defence 'Gainst Weathers rigour and Warr's insolence First dearly buies for What good is good-cheap Both the rich Matter and rare Workmanship But without buying Timber Lime and stone Or hiring men to build his Mansion Or borrowing House or paying Rent
against Adam Eue. They are driuen out of Eden Bears the hard penance of his high transgression And Adam heer from Eden banished As first offender is first punished Hence quoth the Lord hence hence accursed race Out of my Garden quick auoyd the place This beautious place pride of this Vniuerse A house vnworthy Masters so peruerse Those that in quarrell of the Strong of Strongs Simile And iust reuenge of Queen and Countries wrongs Were witnesses to all the wofull plaints The sighes and tears and pitifull complaints Of brauing Spaniards chiefly braue inword When by the valiant Heav'n-assisted sword Of Mars like ESSEX Englands Marshall-Earl Then Albions Patron and Eliza's Pearl They were expulst from Cad'z their deerest pleasure Losing their Town their honour and their treasure Woe worth said they woe worth our Kings ambition Woe worth our Cleargy and their Inquisition He seeks new Kingdoms and doth lose his old They burn for conscience but their thirst is gold Woe and alas woe to the vain brauados Of Typhon like-inuincible ARMADOS Which like the vaunting Monster-man of Gath Haue stirr'd against vs little Dauids wrath Wo-worth our sins wo worth our selues and all Accursed causes of our suddain fall Those well may ghess the bitter agonies And luke-warm Rivers gushing down the eys Of our first Parents out of Eden driv'n Of Repeal hope-less by the hand of Heav'n For the Almighty set before the dore The earthly Eden shut-vp for euer from Mankinde Of th' holy Park a Seraphin that bore A waving sword whose body shined bright Like flaming Comet in the midst of night A body meerly Metaphysioall Which differing little from th' ONE vnicall Th' Act-simply-pure the onely-beeing BEEING Approcheth matter ne'rtheless not being Of matter mixt or rather is so made So meerly spirit that not the murdering blade His ioyned quantity can part in two For pure it cannot Suffer ought but Doo FINIS THE FVRIES THE III. PART OF THE I. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT The World 's tranform'd from that it was at first For Adams Sin all Creatures else accurst Their Harmony dis-tuned by His iar Yet all again concent to make Him war As th' Elements and aboue all the Earth Three ghastly FVRIES Sicknes War and Dearth A generall Muster of the Bodies Griefs The Soules Diseases vnder sundry Chiefs Both full of Horror but the later most Where vgly Vice in Vertues Mask doth boast THis 's not the World O! whither am I brought Sin hath changed and disfigured the face of the World This Earth I tread this hollow-hanging Vault Which Dayes reducing and renuing Nights Renues the grief of mine afflicted sprights This Sea I sail this troubled Ayr I sip Are not The First-Weeks glorious workmanship This wretched Round is not the goodly Globe Th' Eternall trimmed in so various Robe 'T is but a Dungeon and a dreadfull Caue Of that First World the miserable graue All-quickning Spirit great God that iustly-strange Inuocation Iudge-turned-Father wrought'st his wondrous change Change and new-mould me Lord my hand assist That in my Muse appear no earthly mist Make me thine organ giue my voice dexterity Sadly to sing this sad Change to Posterity And bountious Giuer of each perfect gift So tune my voice to his sweet-sacred Clift That in each strain my rude vnready tong Be liuely Eccho of his learned Song And hence-forth let our holy Musik rauish All well-born Soules from fancies lewdly-lauish Of charming Sin the deep-inchaunting Syrens The snares of vertue valour-softning Hyrens That toucht with terrour of thine indignation Presented in this wofull Alteration We all may seek by Prayer and true Repentance To shun the rigour of thy wrathfull Sentence * The TraÌ„slator heere humbly vaileth-bonnet to the Kings Maiesty who many yeeres since for his princely exercile translated these FVRIES the VRANIA and some other Pecces of Du BARTAS But yer we farther pass our slender Bark Must heer strike top-sâ—ils to a Princely Ark Which keeps these Straights Hee hails vs threatfully Star-boord our helm Com vnderneath his Lee. Ho Whence your Bark of Zeal-land Whether bound For Vertues Cape What lading Hope This Sound You should not pass sauâ— that your voyage tends To benefit our Neighbours and our Frends Thanks Kingly Captain daign vs then we pray Som skilfull Pylot through this FVRIOVS Bay Or in this Chanell sith we are to learn Vouch safe to togh vs at your Royall Stern YER THAT our Sire O too too proudly-base Turn'd tail to God and to the Fiend his face This mighty World did seem an Instrument True-strung well-tun'd and handled excellent Happy estate of the World before Sinne set forth by a Similitude Whose symphony resounded sweetly-shrill Th' Almighties prayse who play'd vpon it still While man serv'd God the World serv'd him the lyue And liue-less creatures seemed all to striue To nurse this league and louing zealously These two deer Heads embraced mutually In sweet accord the base with high reioyc't The hot with cold the solid with the moist And innocent Astraea did combine All with the mastick of a Loue diuine For th' hidden loue that now a-dayes doth holde The Sympathy yet appearing between certain Creatures is but as a litle shadow of the perfect vnion which was among all Creatures before Mans Fall The Steel and Load-stone Hydrargire and Golde Th' Amber and straw that lodgeth in one shell Pearl-fish and Sharpling and vnites so well Sargons and Goats the Sperage and the Rush Th' Elm and the Vine th' Oliue and Myrtle-bush Is but a spark or shadow of that Loue Which at the first in every thing did moue When as th' Earth's Muses with Harmonious sound To Heav'ns sweet Musick humbly did resound But Adam being chief of all the strings Of this large Lute o're-retched quickly brings All out of tune and now for melody Of warbling Charms it yels so hideously That it affrights fell Enyon who turmoils To raise again th' old Chaos antik broils Heav'n that still smiling on his Paramour Of the Discord that Sinne hath brought among all things Still in her lap did Mel and Manna pour Now with his hail his rain his frost and heat Doth parch and pinch and over-whelm and beat And hoars her head with Snowes and ielous dashes Against her brows his fiery lightning flashes On th' other side the sullen enuious Earth Sundry notable Antipathies From blackest Cels of her foul brest sends forth A thousand foggy fumes which every where With cloudy mists Heav'ns crystall front besmear Since that the Woolf the trembling Sheep pursues The crowing Cock the Lion stout eschews The Pullein hide them from the Puttock's flight The Mastie's mute at the Hyaenas sight Yea who would think it these fell enmities Rage in the sense-less trunks of Plants and Trees The Vine the Cole the Cole-wort Swines-bread dreads The Fearn abhors the hollow waving Reeds The Olyue and the Oak participate Even to their earth signes of
giueth vs a good We sought not for or rather we with-stood So that to hear and see these consequences Of wonders strange we scarce beleeue our senses O! let the King let Mounsieur and the Sover'n That doth Nauarras Spayn-wrongd Scepter govern Gratefull remēbrance of the means therof Be all by all their Countries Fathers cleapt O! let the honour of their names be kept And on brass leaves ingrav'n eternally In the bright Temple of fair Memory For hauing quencht so soon so many fires Disarm'd our arms appeas'd the heav'nly ires Calm'd the pale horror of intestin hates And damned-vp the bi-front Fathers gates Much more let vs deer World-diuided Land Extoll the mercies of Heav'ns mighty hand An imitation thereof by the Translatour in honour of our late gracious Soverain Elizabeth in whose happy Raigne God hath giuen this Kingdom so long peace and rich prosperity That while the World Wars bloody rage hath rent To vs so long so happy Peace hath lent Maugre the malice of th' Italian Priest And Indian Pluto prop of Anti-christ VVhose Hoast like Pharao's threatning Israel Our gaping Seas haue swallowed quick to hell Making our Ile a holy Safe-Retreat For Saints exil'd in persecutions heat Much more let vs with true-heart-tuned breath Recorde the Praises of ELIZABETH Our martiall Pallas and our milde Astraea Of grace and wisdom the divine Idea Whose prudent Rule with rich religious Rest VVel-neer nine Lustres hath this Kingdom blest O! pray we him that from home-plotted dangers And bloody threats of proud ambitious Strangers So many years hath so securely kept her In iust possession of this flowring Scepter That to his glory and his deer Sonns honour All happy length of life may wait vppon her That we her Subiects whom he blesseth by-her Psalming his praise may sound the same the higher But waiting Lord in som more learned Laies To sing thy glory and my Soueraigns praise I sing the young Worlds Cradle as a Proëm Vnto so rare and so Divine a Poëm WHO FVL OF wealth and honours blandishment Among great Lords his younger years hath spent An Elegant cōparison representing the lamentable Condition of Adam and Eue driuen out of Paradise And quaffing deeply of the Court-delights Vs'd nought but Tilts Turneis and Masks and Sights If in his age his Princes angry doom With deep disgrace driue him to liue at home In homely Cottage where continually The bitter smoak exhales abundantly From his before-vn-sorrow-drained brain The brackish vapours of a siluer rain Where Vsher-less both day and night the North South East and West windes enter and goe forth Where round-about the lowe-rooft broken walls In stead of Arras hang with Spiders cauls Where all at once he reacheth as he stands With brows the roof both walls with both his hands He weeps and sighs and shunning comforts ay Wisheth pale Death a thousand times a day And yet at length falling to work is glad To bite a brown crust that the Mouse hath had And in a Dish instead of Plate or Glass Sups Oaten drink in stead of Hypocras So or much like our rebell Elders driuen For ay from Eden Earthly type of Heav'n Ly languishing neer Tigris grassie side With nummed limbs and spirits stupefied But powrfull NEED Arts antient Dame and Keeper The first Maner of life The early watch-clock of the sloathfull sleeper Among the Mountains makes them seek their liuing And foaming Riuers through the champain driuing For yet the Trees with thousand fruits y-fraught In formall Checkers were not fairly brought The Pear and Apple liued Dwarf-like there With Oakes and Ashes shadowed euery-where And yet al as their meanest simple cheer Our wretched Parents bought full hard and deer To get a Plum somtimes poor Adam rushes With thousand wounds among a thousand bushes If they desire a Medlar for their food They must goe seek it through a fearefull wood Or a brown Mulbery then the ragged Bramble With thousand scratches doth their skin be-scramble Wherefore as yet more led by th' appetite Great simplicity in their kinde of life Of th' hungry belly then the tastes delight Liuing from hand to mouth soon satisfi'd To earn their supper th' after noon they ply'd Vn-stor'd of dinner till the morrow-day Pleas'd with an Apple or som lesser pray Then taught by Ver richer in flowrs then fruit And hoary Winter of both destitute Nuts Filberds Almonds wisely vp they hoord The best prouisions that the woods affoord Touching their garments for the shining wooll Their Cloathing Whence the roab-spinning precious Worms are full For gold and siluer wov'n in drapery For Cloth dipt double in the scarlet Dy For Gemms brightlustre with excessiue cost On rich embroideries by rare Art embost Somtimes they do the far-spred Gourd vnleave Sometime the Fig-tree of his branch bereave Somtimes the Plane somtimes the Vine they shear Choosing their fairest tresses heer and there And with their sundry locks thorn'd each to other Their tender limbs they hide from Cynthias Brother Somtimes the Iuie's climing stems they strip Which lovingly his lively prop doth clip And with green lace in artificiall order The wrinkled bark of th' Acorn-Tree doth border And with his arms th' Oaks slender twigs entwining A many branches in one tissue ioyning Frames a loose Iacquet whose light nimble quaking Wagg'd by the windes is like the wanton shaking Of golden spangles that in stately pride Daunce on the tresses of a noble Bride But while that Adam waxen diligent Their Winter Sutes Wearies his limbs for mutuall nourishment While craggy Mountains Rocks and thorny Plains And bristly Woods be witness of his pains Eue walking forth about the Forrests gathers Speights Parrots Peacocks Estrich scattered feathers And then with wax the smaller plumes she sears And sowes the greater with a white horse hairs For they as yet did serue her in the steed Of Hemp and Towe and Flax and Silk and Threed And thereof makes a medly coatso rare That it resembles Nature's Mantle fair When in the Sunne in pomp all glistering She seems with smiles to woo the gawdie Spring When by stoln moments this she had contriv'd Leaping for ioy her cheerfull looks reviv'd Sh' admires her cunning and incontinent ' Sayes on herself her manly ornament And then through path-less paths she runs apace To meet her husband comming from the Chase. Sweet-heart quoth shee and then she kisseth him My Loue my Life my Blisse my Ioy my Gemm My souls deer Soule take in good part I pree-thee This pretty Present that I gladly giue-thee Thanks my deer All quoth Adam then for this And with three kisses he requites her kiss Then on he puts his painted garment new And Peacock-like himself doth often view Looks on his shadow and in proud amaze Admires the hand that had the Art to cause Eues industry in making a Gar ment for her Husband So many seuerall parts to meet in one To fashion thus the quaint Mandilion But when
feat To be more famous one while trots the Ring Another while he doth him back-ward bring Then of all foure he makes him lightly bound And to each hand to mannage rightly round To stoop to stop to caper and to swim To daunce to leap to hold-vp any lim And all so don with time-grace-ordered skill As both had but one body and one will Th' one for his Art no little glory gains Th' other through practise by degrees attains Grace in his gallop in his pase agility Lightnes of head and in his stop facility Strength in his leap and stedfast managings Aptnes in all and in his course new wings The vse of Horses thus discouered Each to his work more cheerly fetteled Each plyes his trade and trauails for his age Following the paths of painfull Tuball sage While through a Forrest Tuball with his Yew The inuention of yroâ— And ready quiver did a Bore pursue A burning Mountain from his fiery vain An yron River rowles along the Plain The witty Hunts-man musing thither hies And of the wonder deeply gan devise And first perceiving that this scalding mettle Becoming cold in any shape would settle And growe so hard that with his sharpned side The firmest substance it would soon divide He casts a hundred plots and yer he parts He moulds the ground-work of a hundred Arts Like as a Hound that following loose behinde Comparison His pensiue Master of a Hare doth finde Leaues whom he loues vpon the sent doth ply Figs to and fro and fals in cheerfull Cry And with vp-lifted head and nosthrill wide Winding his game snuffs-yp the winde his guide A hundred wayes he measures Vale and Hill Ears eys nor nose nor foot nor tail are still Till in her hot Form he haue found the pray That he so long hath sought for every way For now the way to thousand works reveald Which long shall liue maugre the rage of Eld Caesting of the first Instruments of Iron In two square creases of vnequall sises To turn two yron streamlings he deuises Cold takes them thence then off the dross he rakes And this a Hammer that an Anuill makes And adding tongs to these two instruments He stores his house with yron implements As forks rakes hatchets plough-shares coultars staples Boltes hindges hooks nails whittles spokes and grapples And grow'n more cunning hollow things he formeth He hatcheth Files and winding Vices wormeth He shapeth Sheers and then a Saw indents Then beats a Blade and then a Lock invents Happy device we might as well want all The excellent vses and commodities of Iron The Elements as this hard minerall This to the Plough-man for great vses serues This for the Builder Wood and Marble carues This arms our bodies against aduerse force This clothes our backs this rules th' vnruly Horse This makes vs dry-shod daunce in Neptunes Hall This brightens gold this conquers self and all Fift Element of Instruments the haft The Tool of Tools and hand of Handy-Craft While compast round with smoaking Cyclops rude Inuention of Musicke Half-naked Bronts and Sterops swarthy-hewd All well-neer weary sweating Tubal stands Hastning the hot work in their sounding hands No time lost Iubal th' vn-full Harmony Of vn-even Hammers beating diversly Wakens the tunes that his sweet numbery soule Yer birth som think learn'd of the warbling Pole Thereon he harps and ponders in his mindo And glad and fain som Instrument would finde Inuention of the Lute and other Instruments That in accord those discords might renew And th' Iron Anuils rattling sound ensew And iterate the beating Hammers noyse In milder notes and with a sweeter voice It chaunç't that passing by a Pond he found An open Tortoise lying on the ground Within the which ther nothing else remained Saue three dry sinewes on the shell stiff-strained This empty house Iubal doth gladly bear Strikes on those strings and lends attentiue ear And by this mould frams the melodious Lute That makes woods â—arken and the windes be mute The Hills to daunce the Heav'ns to retro-grade Lions be tame and tempests quickly vade His Art still waxing sweetly marrieth His quavering fingers to his warbling breath More little tongues to 's charm-care Lute he brings More Instruments he makes no Eccho rings ' Mid rocky concaves of the babbling vales And bubbling Rivers rowl'd with gentle gales But wyëry Cymbals Rebecks sinews twin'd Sweet Virginals and Cornets curled winde But Adam guides through paths but seldom gone While Cain and his Children are busie for the World Adam and his other Sons exercise themselues in Piety iustice and in searching the goodly secrets of Nature His other Sons to Vertues sacred throne And chiefly Seth set in good Abels place Staff of his age and glory of his race Him he instructeth in the wayes of Verity To worship God in spirit and sincerity To honour Parents with a reverentaw To train his children in religious law To loue his friends his Country to defend And helpfull hands to all mankinde to lend To knowe Heav'ns course and how their constant Swaies Divide the yeer in months the months in dayes What star brings Winter what is Sommers guide What signe foul weather what doth fair betide What creature 's kinde and what is curst to vs What plant is holesom and what venimous No sooner he his lessons can commence But Seth hath hit the White of his intents Draws rule from rule and of his short collations In a short time a perfect Art he fashions The more he knowes the more he craues as fewell Kils not a fire but kindles it more cruell While on a day by a cleer Brook they trauell Seth questions his Father concerning the state of the World froÌ„ the Beginning to the End Whose gurgling streams frizadoed on the gravell He thus bespake If that I did not see The zeal deer Father that you bear to me How still you watch me with your carefull eyn How still your voice with prudent discipline My Prentize ear doth oft reverberate I should misdoubt to seem importunate And should content me to haue learned how The Lord the Heav'ns about this All did bow What things haue hot and what haue cold effect And how my life and manners to direct But your milde Loue my studious hart advances To aske you further of the various chances Of future times what off-spring spreading wide Shall fill this World What shall the World betide How long to last What Magistrates what Kings With Iustice Mace shall govern mortall things Son quoth the Sire our thoughts internall ey Adams answer Things past and present may by means descry But not the future if by speciall grace It read it not in th' One-Trines glorious face Thou then that onely things to com dost knowe Not by Heav'ns course nor guesse of things belowe Nor coupled points nor flight of fatall Birds Nor trembling tripes of sacrificed Heards But by a clear and certain pre-science As Seer
The Pines and Cedars haue but boughs to showe The shoars do shrink the swelling waters growe Alas so-many Nephews lose I heer Amid these deeps that but for mountains neer Vpon the rising of whoseridges lofty The lusty climbe on every side for safety I should be seed-less but alas the Water Swallows those Hils and all this wide Theater Is all one Pond O children whither fly-you Alas Heav'ns wrath pursues you to destroy-you The stormy waters strangely rage and roar Rivers and Seas haue all one common shoar To wit a sable water-loaden Sky Ready to rain new Oceans instantly O Sonn-less Father O too fruitfull haunches O wretched root O hurtfull hatefull branches O gulfs vnknowen O dungeons deep and black O worlds decay O vniversall wrack O Heav'ns O Seas O Earth now earth no more O flesh O bloud Heer sorrow stopt the door Of his sad voice and almost dead for woe The prophetizing spirit forsook him so NOAH The SECOND DAY Of The SECOND WEEK Containing 1. THE ARK 2. BABYLON 3. THE COLONIES 4. THE COLVMNES Acceptam refero The ARKE THE I. PART OF THE II. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT Noah prepares the Ark and thither brings With him a Seed-payr of all liuing things His exercise a ship-board Atheist Cham His holy Fathers humble Zeal doth blame And diversly impugns Gods Prouidence Noah refells his Faith-less arguments The Flood surceast Th' Ark-landed Blood forbid The Rain-bowe bent what it pre-figured Wine drowneth Wit Cham scoffs the Nakednes Of 's sleeping Sire the Map of Drunkennes IF Now no more my sacred rimes distill A Preamble wherin by a modest Complaint the Poet stirs vp the Readers attention and makes himselfe way to the inuocation of the name of God With Art-less ease from my discustom'd quill If now the Laurell that but lately shaded My beating temples be dis-leav'd and vaded And if now banisht from the learned Fount And cast down head-long from the lofty Mount Where sweet Vrania sitteth to indite Mine humbled Muse flag in a lowely flight Blame these sad Times ingratefull cruelty My houshold cares my healths infirmity My drooping sorrows for late grieuous losses My busie suits and other bitter crosses Lo there the clogs that weigh down heavily My best endevours whilom soaring high My harvest's hail the pricking thorns and weeds That in my soule choak those diviner seeds O gracious God! remove my great incumbers Kindle again my faiths neer-dying imbers Asswage thine anger for thine own Sons merit And from me Lord take not thy holy Spirit Comb gild and polish more then ever yet This latter issue of my labouring wit And let not me be like the winde that proudly Begins at first to roar and murmur loudly Against the next hils over-turns the Woods With furious tempest tumbles-vp the floods And fiercely-fell with stormy puffs constrains The sparkling flints to roule about the Plains But flying faints and every league it goes One nimble feather of his wing doth lose But rather like a River poorly-breeding In barren Rocks thence drop by drop proceeding Which toward the Sea the more he flies his source With growing streams strengthens his gliding course Rowles roars and foams raging with rest-less motion And proudly scorns the greatnes of the Ocean THE DOOMS of Adam lackt not long effect For th' angry Heav'ns that can without respect The comming of the Flood and Building of the Ark. Of persons plague the stubborn Reprobate In Waters buried th' Vniuersall-state And never more the nimble painted Legions With hardy wings had cleft the ayrie Regions We all had perisht and the Earth in vain Had brought such store of fruits and grass and grain If Lamechs Son by new-found Art directed That huge vast vessell had not first erected Which sacred refuge kept the parent-payrs Of all things moving in the Earth and Ayrs Now while the Worlds-re-colonizing Boat Noahs exercises aboord the Ark. Doth on the waters over Mountains float Noe passeth not with tales and idle play The tedious length of dayes and nights away But as the Sommers sweet distilling drops Vpon the medowes thirsty yawning chops Re-greens the Greens and doth the flowrs re-flowr All scorcht and burnt with Auster's parching powr So the care-charming hony that distills From his wise lips his house with comfort fils Flatters despair dries tears calms inward smarts And re-aduanceth sorrow-daunted harts Cheer ye my children God doth now retire These murdering Seas which the revenging ire Of his strict Iustice holy indignation Hath brought vpon this wicked generation Arming a season to destroy mankinde The angry Heav'ns the water and the winde As soon again his gracious Mercy will Clear cloudy Heav'ns calm windes and waters still His wrath and mercy follow turn by turn That like the Lightning doth not lightly burn Long in a place and this from age to age Hides with her wings the faithfull heritage Our gracious God makes scant-weight of displeasure And spreads his mercy without weight or measure Somtimes he strikes vs to especiall ends Vpon our selues our Children or our friends In soule or body goods or else good names But soon he casts his rods in burning flames Not with the fist but finger he doth beat vs Nor doth hethrill so oft as he doth threat-vs And prudent Steward giues his faithfull Bees Wine of his wrath to rebell Drones the Lees. And thus the deeds of Heav'ns Iust-gentle King The Second Worlds good Patriarch did sing Cham full of impiety is brought-in answering his Father and diuersly impugning the wisdom irreprohensible Prowidence of God Almighty and All-mercifull and the humble religious Zeal of Noah But brutish Cham that in his brest accurst The secret roots of sinfull Atheisme nurst Wishing already to dis-throne th' Eternall And self-vsurp the Maiesty supernall And to himself by name of Iupiter On Afrik sands a sumptuous Temple rear With bended brows with stout and stern aspect In scornfull tearms his Father thus be-checkt Oh! how it grieves me that these servil terrors The scourge of Cowards and base vulgars errors Haue ta'n such deep root in your feeble brest Why Father alwayes selfly thus deprest Will you thus alwaies make yourself a drudge Fearing the fury of a fained Iudge And will you alwaies forge your self a Censor That weighs your words and doth your silence censure A sly Controuler that doth count your hairs That in his hand your hearts keys ever bears Records your sighes and all your thoughts descries And all your sins present and past espies A barbarous Butcher that with bloudy knife Threats night and day your grieuous-guilty life O! see you not the superstitious heat Of this blinde zeal doth in your minde beget A thousand errors light credulity Doth drive you still to each extreamity Faining a God with thousand storms opprest Fainter then Women fiercer then a Beast Who tender-hearted weeps at others weeping Wails others woes and at the onely peeping Of others bloud in suddain swoun deceases In
manly breast a womans heart possesses And who remorse-less lets at any season The stormy tyde of ragetransport his reason And thunders threats of horror and mishap Hides a Bears heart vnder a humane shape Yet of your God you one-while thus pretend He melts in tears if that your fingers end But akea-while anon he frets he frowns He burns he brains he kils he dams he drowns The wildest Boar doth but one Wood destroy A cruell Tyrant but one Landannoy And yet this Gods outrageous tyranny Spoyls all the World his onely Empery O goodly Iustice One or two of vs Have sinn'd perhaps and mov'd his anger thus All bear the pain yea even the innocent Poor Birds and Beasts incurr the punishment No Father no 't is folly to infer it God is no varying light inconstant spirit Full of revenge and wrath and moody hate Nor savage-fell nor suddain passionate Nor such as will for som small fault vndoo This goodly World and his owne nature too All wandring clouds all humid exhalations All Seas which Heav'n through many generations Hath hoorded-vp with selfs-weight enter-crusht Now all at once vpon the earth have rusht And th' endless thin ayr which by secret quils Had lost it self within the windes-but hils Dark hollow Caves and in that gloomy hold To ycy crystall turned by the cold Now swiftly surging towards Heav'n again Hath not alone drown'd all the lowly Plain But in fewe dayes with raging Flouds o're-flowen The top-less Cedars of mount Libanon Then with iust grief the godly Father gall'd Answers of Noah to all the blasphemies of ChaÌ„ and his fellow-Atheists A deep sad sigh from his harts centre hal'd And thus repli'd O false rebellious Cham Mine ages sorrow and my houses shame Through self-conceipt contemning th' holy-Ghost Thy sense is baend thine vnderstanding lost And O I fear Lord falsifie my fear The heavy hand of the high Thunderer Shall light on thee and thou I doubt shaltbe His Furies obiect and shalt testifie By thine infamous lifes accursed state What now thy shame-less lips sophisticate I God be prays'd knowe that the perfect CIRCLE 1. Answer God is infinit immutable Almighty and incomprehensible Whose Center 's every-where of all his circle Exceeds the circuit I conceiue aright Th' Al-mighty-most to be most infinit That th' onely ESSENCE feels not in his minde The furious tempests of fell passions winde That mooveless all he moves that with one thought He can build Heav'n and builded bring to nought That his high Throne 's inclos'd in glorious Fier Past our approach that our faint soule doth tier Our spirit growes spright-less when it seeks by sense To sound his infinit Omni-potence I surely knowe the Cherubins do hover With flaming wings his starry face to cover Nonesees the Great th' Almighty Holy-ONE But passing by and by the back alone To vs his Essence is in-explicable Wondrous his wayes his name vn-vtterable So that concerning his high Maiesty So that men caÌ„not speak of Him but improperly Our feeble tongues speak but improperly For if we call him strong the prayse is small If blessed spirit so are his Angels all If Great of greats he 's voide of quantity If good fayr holy he wants quality Sith in his Essence fully excellent All is pure substance free from accident Why we cannot speak of God but after the manner of men Therefore our voice too-faint in such a subiect T' ensue our soule and our weak soule her obiect Doth alwayes stammer so that ever when 'T would make Gods nameredoubted among men In humane phraze it calls him pittifull Repentant iealous fierce and anger-full Yet is not God by this repentance thus 2. Answere The Repentance and the change which the Scripture attributeth to God is far from Error and defect Of ignorance and error taxt likevs His iealous hatred doth not make him curious His pitty wretched nor his anger furious Th' immortall Spirit is ever calmly-cleer And all the best that feeble man doth heer With vehemence of som hot passion driv'n That withripeiudgement doth the King of Heav'n Two comparisons explaning the same Shall a Physician comfortably-bold Fear-less and tear-less constantly behold His sickly friend vext with exceeding pain And feel his pulse and give him health again And shall not th' euer-self-resembling God Look down from Heav'n vpon a wretched clod Without he weep and melt for grief and anguish Nor cure his creature but himself must languish And shall a Iudge self-angerless prefer To shamefull death the strange adulterer As onely looking fixly all the time Not on the sinner but the sinfull crime And shall not then th' Eternall Iusticer 3. Answer Iustice being a ver tue in Man cannot be a vice in God Condemn the Atheist and the Murderer Without selfs-fury O! shall Iustice then Be blam'd in God and magnifi'd in men Or shall his sacred Will and soverain Might Be chayn'd so fast to mans frail appetite That filthy sin he cannot freely hate But wrathfull Rage him self ly-cruciate Gods sacred vengeance serues not for defence 4. Answer God doth not punish Offenders for defence of his owne Estate but to maintain vertue coÌ„found vice Of his own Essence from our violence For in the Heav'ns above all reach of ours He dwels immur'd in diamantine Towers But to direct our lives and laws maintain Guard Innocence and Iniury restrain Th' Almighty past not mean when he subuerted Neer all the World from holy paths departed 5. The iniquitie of the world deserued exereame punishment For Adams Trunk of both our Worlds the Tree In two fair Branches forking fruitfully Of Cain and Seth the first brought forth a sute Of bitter wilde and most detested fruit Th' other first rich in goodnes afterward With those base Scyons being graft was marr'd And so produced execrable clusters Worthy so wicked and incestuous lusters And then alas what was ther to be found Pure iust or good in all this Earthly Round Cain's Line possest sinne as an heritage 6. When all are generally depraved all merite to be destroyed Seth's as a dowry got by mariage So that alas among all humane-kinde Those mongrell kisses marr'd the purest minde And we even we that have escaped here 7. The least imperfect passe condemnation euen then when they are most liuely chasticed This cruell wrack within our conscience bear A thousand Records of a thousand things Convincing vs before the King of kings Whereof not one for all our self-affection We can defend with any iust obiection God playd no Tyrant choaking with the floods 8. God destroying the workmaÌ„ doth no wrong to the Tools if he break and batter them wâ—th their Maister The earthly Bands and all the ayrie broods For sith they liv'd but for mans seruice sole Man raz'd for sin out of the Liuing Roule Those wondrous tools and organs excellent Their Work-man reft remain'd impertinent Man's only head of all that draweth breath
this Day strange will it seem to som One and the same is both the Corps and Tomb. Almighty Father Gracious God and Iust Mans pronenesse â—o fall without the support of Gods gracious faâ—â—our O! what hard-heartednes what brutish Lust Pursueth man if thou but turn thy face And take but from vs thy preventing grace And if provoked for our past offences Thou give vs vp to our Concupiscences O Harran'â— Nieces you LOTS daughters saw SODOM consumed in that Sulphury flaw Their Hills and Forrests calcined in fine Their liberall fields sowen with a burning brine Their stately houses like a coal-pitsmoaking The Sun it self with their thick vapours choking So that within a yard for stinking smother The Labourers could hardly knowe each other Their flowring Valley to a Fen exchang'd And your owne Mother to a Salt-stone chang'd Yet all alas these famous Monuments Of the iust rigour of God's Punishments Cannot deter you but even Sodom-like Incestuously a holy-man you seek Even your owne Father whom with wine you fill And then by turns intice him to your will Conceiving so O can Heav'n suffer it Lot drawen by his Daughter in drunkennesse to commit Incest with both of theÌ„ Even of that seed which did your selues beget Within your wombs you bear for nine months time Th' vpbraiding burden of your shame-less Crime And troubling Kindred's names and Nature quight You both becom even in one very Night Wives to your Fathers Sisters to your Sons And Mothers to your Brothers all at once All vnder colour that thus living sole Sequestred thus in an vnhaunted hole Heav'ns envy should all ADAM'S race have reft And LOT alone should in the World be left Had 't not been better never to haue bred Than t' have conceived in so foul a bed Had 't not been better never t' haue been Mothers Than by your Father to have born your Brothers Had 't not been better to the death to hate Then thus t' haue lov'd him that you both begate Him so much yours that yours he mought not be Sith of these Rocks God could immediatly Haue rais'd LOT Son-in-lawes or striking but Th' Earths solid bosom with his brazen foot Out of the dust haue reared suddain swarms Of People stay'd in Peace and stout in Arms. FINIS The FATHERS A PART OF THE II. PART OF THE III. DAY OF THE II. WEEK THE ARGVMENT The famous FATHER of the Faithfull heer Limn'd to the life in strife of Faith and Fear His Sonn 's sweet nature and his nurture such Endeer his TRIAL with a neerer Touch REASON'S best Reasons are by FAITH refell'd With GOD th' Affection for the Action held So counter-manding His command atchiev'd The Sire 's approoued and the Son repriev'd Heer had our Author liv'd to end his Works Should haue ensu'd the other PATRIARCHS O! 'T is a Heav'nly and a happy turn Of godly Parents to be timely born To be brought-vp vnder the watchfull eyn Of milde-sharp Masters awfull Discipline Chiefly to be even from the very first With the pure milk of true Religion nurst Such hap had Isaac but his Inclination Exceeds his Birth excels his Education His Faith his Wit Knowledge and Iudgement sage Out-stripping Time anticipate his age For yet a Childe he fears th' Eternall Lord And wisely waits all on his Fathers word Whose steady steps so duly he obserues That every look him for a lesson serues And every gesture every wink and beck For a command a warning and a check So that his toward Diligence out-went His Fathers hopes and holy document Now though that Abram were a man discreet Sober and wise well knowing what is meet Though his deer Son somtimes he seem to chide Yet hardly can he his affection hide For evermore his loue-betraying ey On 's darling Isaac glanceth tenderly Sweet Isaac's face seems as his Glasse it were And Isaac's name is musick in his ear But God perceiving this deep-settled Loue Thence takes occasion Abrams Faith to prooue And tempteth him But not as doth the Divell His Vassals tempt or Man his Mate to evill Satan still draws vs to Death's dismall Path But God directs where Death no entry hath Ay Satan ayms our constant Faith to foyl But God doth seal it never to recoyl Satan suggesteth ill God mooues to grace The Divell seeks our Baptisme to deface But God to make our burning Zeal to beam The brighter ay in his Ierusalem A Prince that means effectuall proof to make Simile Of som Man's Faith that he doth newly take Examins strictly and with much a-doo His Words and Deeds and every gesture too And as without within as well to spy-him Doth carefully by all means sift and try-him But God ne'r seeks by Triall of Temptation To sound Man's heart and secret cogitation For well he knowes Man and his ey doth see All thoughts of men yer they conceived be But this is still his high and holy driâ—t When through temptation he his Saints doth siâ—t To leaue for pattern to his Churches seed Their stedfast Faith and never-daunted Creed Yet out of season God doth never try His new-converted Children by and by Such novices would quickly faint and shrink Such ill-rigg'd Ships would even in launching sink Their Faith 's light blossoms would with every blast Be blowen away and bear no fruit at last Against so boistrous stroaks they want a shield Vnder such weight their feeble strength would yield But when his Words deer seed that he hath sowen Within their hearts is rooted well and growen And when they haue a broad thick Breast-plate on High peril-proof against affliction Such as our Abram Who now waxen strong Through exercise of many trials long Of faith of loue of fortitude and right Who by long weary wandrings day and night By often Terrors Lots Imprisonment His Wifes twice taking Ismaels banishment Beeing made invincible for all assaults Of Heav'n and Earth and the infernall Vaults Is tempted by the voyce which made all things Which sceptreth Shepheards and vn-crowneth Kings Giue me a voyce now O voyce all divine With sacred fire inflame this breast of mine Inuocation Ah! ravish me make all this Vniverse Admire thine Abram pourtrayd in my Verse Mine Abram sayd the Lord deer Abraham Thy God thy King thy Fee thy Fence I am Hie straight to Salem and there quickly kill Thine owne Son Isaac on that sacred Hill Heaw him in pieces and commit the same In Sacrifice vnto the rage-full Flame As he that slumbering on his carefull Bed Simile Seems to discern som Fancy full of dread Shrinks down himself and fearfull hides his face And scant draws breath in half an howrs space So Abraham at these sharp sounding words Which wound him deeper than a thousand swords Seised at once with wonder grief and fright Is well-nigh sunk in Deaths eternall night Death's ash-pale Image in his eyes doth swim A chilling Iee shivers through every lim Flat on the ground himself he groveling throwes A
such is the peoples prayer Thus while o're-whelmed with the rapid course Gods prouidence in his preseruation Of Mischief's Torrent and still fearing worse ISRAEL seems help-les and even hope-les too Of any help that Mortall hand can doo And while the then-Time's hideous face and form Boads them alas nothing but wrack and storm Their Castor shines their Saviour's sav'd and Hee That with high hand shall them from bondage free Scourging with Plagues scarring with end-les shame Th' Egyptian Court is raised by the same For though him there they as a God adore Moses affection and duty toward his Parents and care of his Brethren He scorns not yet his friends and kindred poor He feels their Yoak their mournings he laments His word and sword are prest in their defence And as ordain'd for their Deliverance And sent express by Heav'ns pre-ordinance Seeing a Pagan a proud Infidell A Patagon that tasted nought so well As ISRAEL's blood to ill-intreat a Iew Him bold incounters and him brauely slew But fearing then least his inhumane Prince He flies out of Egypt Should hear of it young MOSES flyes from thence And hard by Horeb keeping IETHRO'S sheep He Fasts and Prayes with Meditations deep His vertuous zeal he kindles more and more And prudently he lays-vp long-before Within his Soule his spirituall Armory All sacred Weapons of Sobriety Where-with t' incounter conquer and suppress All Insurrections of Voluptuousness Also not seldom som deep Dream or Trance God talketh to him in the Wildernes Him suddainly doth even to Heav'n advance And He that whilom could not finde the Lord On plentious shoars of the Pelusian Foord In walled Cities with their Towred Ports In learned Colledges nor sumptuous Courts In Desart meets him greets him face to face And on his brows bears tokens of his Grace For while he past his sacred Pentiship In Wildernes of th' Hebrews Shepheardship Moses vision of the flaming Bush In driving forth to kiss-cloud SINA'S foot His fleecy Flock and there attending too 't' He suddain sees a Bush to flame and fume And all a-fire yet not at all consume It flames and burns not cracks and breaks not in Kisses but bites not no not even the skin True figure of the Church and speaking Signe Which seemeth thus to of it self define What AMRAM'S son Doth IACOB'S bitter Teen Dismay thee so Behold this Haw-thorn green Is even an Image of thine ISRAEL Who in the Fire of his Afflictions fell Still flourishes on each side hedged round With prickly Thorns his hatefull Foes to wound This Fire doth seem the Spirit Omnipotent Which burns the Wicked tries the Innocent Who also addeth to the sacred Signe The more to move him his owne Word Divine The voyce of the Lord speaking out of the Bush. I AM I that I am in me for me by me All Beings els Be not or else vn-selfly be But from my Beeing all their Beeing gather Prince of the World and of my Church the Father Onely Beginning Midst and End of all Yet sans Beginning Midst and End at all All in my self compris'd and all comprising That in the World was is or shall be rising Base of this Vniverse th' vniting Chain Of th' Elements the Wisedom Soveraign Each-where in Essence Powr and Providence But in the Heav'ns in my Magnificence Fountain of Goodness ever-shining Light Perfectly Blest the One the Good the Bright Self-simple Act working in frailest matter Framer of Forms of Substances Creator And to speak plainer even that GOD I AM Whom so long since religious ABRAHAM ISAAC and IACOB and their Progenies Haue worshipped and prays'd in humble wise My sacred ears are tyred with the noyse God hath pity on his people afflicted in Egypt Of thy poor Brethren's iust-complayning voyce I haue beheld my Peoples burdens there MOSES no more I will nor can forbear Th' haue groan'd alas and panted all too-long Vnder that Tyrants vn-relenting wrong Now their Deliuerer I authorize thee He ordaineth Moses for their Deliverer giues him commission to goe to Pharao And make thee Captain of their Colony A sacred Colony to whom as mine I haue so oft bequeath'd rich Palestine Therfore from me command thou PHARAO That presently he let my People go Into the Dry-Arabian Wilderness Where far from sight of all profane excess On a new Altar they may sacrifice To ME the LORD in whom their succourlies Haste haste I say and make me no excuse On thy Tongue 's rudenes for the want of vse Nor on thy weaknes nor vnworthyness To vnder-go so great a Business What cannot He that made the lips and tongue Prompt Eloquence and Art as doth belong Vnto his Legat And who every thing Of Nothing made and All to nought shall bring Th' Omnipotent who doth confound for His By weak the strong by what is not what is That in his wondrous Iudgements men may more The Work-man then the Instruments adore Will he forsake or leaue him vn-assisted That in his service duly hath insisted Sith faithfull Servant to do-well affected Can by his Master never be reiected Moses accompanied with his brother Aaron sets forward in his high Embassage No sooner this the Divine Uoice had ended And vp to Heav'n the Bushy Flame ascended But MOSES with his fellow in Commission His Brother AARON wends with expedition First to his People and to PHARAO then The King of Egypt cruellest of Men And inly filled with a zealous flame Thus thus he greets him in th' Almighties name Great NILVS Lord thus sayth the Lord of Hoasts Let go my People out of all thy Coasts Mine ISRAEL PHARAO forth-with release Let them depart to HOREB'S Wildernes That vnto me without offence or fear Their Hearts and Heifers they may offer there Base Fugitiue proud slaue that art return'd Pharaos proud answere Not to be whipt but rather hangd or burn'd What Lord sayd PHARAO ha what Soveraign O seaven-horn'd Nile O hundred-pointed Plain O City of the Sun O Thebes and Thou Renowned Pharos do yee all not bow To vs alone Are yee not onely Ours Ours at a beck Then to what other Powrs Owes your great PHARAO homage or respect Or by what Lord to be controul'd and checkt I see the Drift These off-scums all at once Too idlely pampred plot Rebellions Sloth marrs the slave◠and vnder fair pretence Of new Religion Trayrours to their Prince They would Revolt O Kings how fond are we To think by Favours and by Clemency To keep men in their duty To be milde Makes them be mad proud insolent and wilde Too-much of Grace our Scepters doth dis-grace And smooths the path to Treason's plots a pace The dull Ass numbers with his stripes his steps Th' Ox over-fat too-strong and resty leaps About the Lands casteth his yoak and strikes And waxen wilde even at his Keeper kicks The true Anatomie of a tyrant Well to enioy a People through their skin With scourges slyç't must
ground still woorm-like basely crawling Dare not attempt nor scarcely think precise Any great Act or glorious Enterprise Because Ambition Custom and the Law From high Estate hath bounded them with aw Where He that never rightly learn'd t obay Commandeth not with heavy Sword of Sway Where each i' th' Publik having equall part All to save all will hazard life and hart Where Liberty as deer as life and breath Born with vs first consorts vs to our Death Shall savage Beasts like-better Nuts and Mast Simile In a free Forrest than our choise Repast In iron Cages and shall we poor Sots Whom Nature Masters of our selues allots And Lords of All besides shall we go draw On our owne necks an ease-les Yoak of Aw Rather O IACOB chuse we all to die Than to betray our Native Libertie Than to becom the sporting Tennis-ball Of a proud Monarch or to yeeld vs thrall To seive or honor any other King Than that drad LAVV which did from SINA ring Another then whom Age made venerable 2. Another of a reverent Senator for Aristocracy or the rule of a chosen Synâ—de of the best men Knowledge admir'd and Office honorable Stands-vp and speaks maiestically-milde On other Piles the COMMON-WEAL to build Doubt-les said he with waste of Time and Soap Y'have labour'd long to wash an AETHIOPE Y'have drawn vs heer a goodly form of STATE And well we have had proof of it of late Shall we again the Sword of IVSTICE put In mad mens hands soon their owne throats to cut What Tiger is more fierce what Bear more fel Comparisons What Chaff more light What Sea more apt to swel Than is th' vnbridled Vulgar passion-toss't In calms elated in foul-weather lost What boot deep Proiects if to th' eyes of all They must be publisht in the common Hall Sith knowen Designs are dangerous to act And th' vn-close Chief did never noble fact DEMOCRACY is as a tossed Ship Void both of Pole and Pilot in the Deep Simile A Senate fram'd of thousand Kinglings slight Where voices pass by number not by waight Where wise men do propound and Fools dispose A Fair where all things they to sale expose Simile A Sink of Filth where ay th' infamousest Simile Most bold and busie are esteemed best A Park of savage Beasts that each-man dreads Simile A Head-les Monster with a thousand heads What shall we then do shall we by and by In Tyrants paws deiect vs servilely Nay rather shunning these extremities Let vs make choise of men vp right and wise Of such whose Vertue doth the Land adorn Of such whom Fortune hath made Noble-born Of such as Wealth hath rais'd above the pitch Of th' abiect Vulgar and to th' hands of such Such as for Wisedom Wealth and Birth excell Let vs commit the Reans of ISRAEL And ever from the sacred Helm exclude The turbulent base moody Multitude Take away Choise and where is Vertue 's grace What shall not Chance vnto Desert give place And Lots to Right Shall not the blinde be led Simile By those whose eyes are perfect in their head Chiefly amid ' such baulks and blocks and Pits As in best State-paths the best States-man meets Who may be better trusted with the key Comparison Of a great Chest of Gold and gems than they That got the same And who more firm and fit At carefull Stern of POLICIE to sit Than such as in the Ship most venture bear Such as their owne wrack with the State 's wrack fear Such as Content and having Much to lose Even Death it self rather than Change would chuse While he discourst thus on a Theam so grave 3. The Oration of a Noble yong Prince for Monarchy or the sole Soveraintiâ— of a KING Vp-rose a Gallant noble yong and brave Fo to the Vulgar one that hop't perchance One-day t' attain a Scepters governance And thus he speaks Your RVLE is yet too Free. Y'have proin'd the leaves not boughs of Publik-Tree Y'have qualified but not yet cur'd our Grief Y'have in our Field still left the tares of Strife Of Leagues and Factions For plurality Of Heads and Hands to sway an Emperie Is for the most part like vntamed Bulls One this way hales another that way pulls Simile All every-way hurried with Passion 's windes Whither their Lust-storms do transport their mindes At length the strongest bears the weakest down And to himself wholly vsurps the Crown And so in fine your Aristocracie He by degrees brings to a Monarchie In brief the Scepter Aristocratike And People-Sway have * A passion following any sicknesse symptomes both a-like And neither of them can be permanent For want of Vnion which of Gouernment Is both the Life-bloud and Preservative Wherby a STATE yong strong and long doth thrive But MONARCHY is as a goodly Station Built skilfully vpon a sure Foundation A quiet House wherin as principall One Father is obey'd and serv'd of all A well-rigd Ship where when the danger 's neer A many Masters strive not who shall steer The world hath but One God Heav'n but One Sun Quails but One Chief the Hony-Birds but One One Master-Bee and Nature natively Graves in our hearts the Rule of MONARCHY At sound of whose Edicts all ioynt-proceed Vnder whose Sway Seditions never breed Who while consulting with Colleagues he stands Le ts not the Victory escape his hands And that same Maiesty which as the Base And Pedestal supports the waight and grace Greatnes and glory of a well-Rul'd State It not extinguisht nor extenuate By being parcelliz'd to a plurality Of petty Kinglings of a mean Equality Like as a goodly River deep and large Simile Able to bear Ships of the greatest Charge If through new Dikes his trade-full Waters guided Be in a hundred little Brooks divided No Bridge more fears nor Sea more waighs the same But soon it loses both his trade and name And to conclude a wise and worthy Prince A KING compleat in Royall excellence Is even the Peoples prop their powrfull nerves And lively Law that all intire preserves His Countrie 's life and soule sight and fore-sight And even th' Almightie's sacred Picture right While yet he spake the People loudly cri'd A KING a KING wee 'll have a KING for Guide He shall command He shall conduct our Hoasts And make vs Lords of th' IDVMEAN Coasts Ingrate said SAMVEL will you then reiect Th' Almighties Scepter do you more affect New POLICY than his olde PROVIDENCE And change th' Immortall for a mortall Prince Well Rebels well you shall you shall have one A KINGs Prerogatiue But do ye knowe what followes ther-vpon He from your Ploughs shall take your Horses out To serve his Pomp and draw his Train about In gilden Coaches a wilde wanton sort Of Popiniayes and Peacocks of the Court He shal your choisest Sons and Daughters take To be his Servants nay his slaves to make You shall plant Vineyards
he the Wine shall sup You shall sowe Fields and he shall reap the Crop You shall keep Flocks and he shall take the Fleece And PHARAO'S Yoak shall seem but light to his But IZARAEL doth wilfull still perseuer And SAMVEL prest and importun'd ever Saul anointed King of Israell Anointeth SAVL the son of CIS a Man Whose cursed end marr'd what he well began You too-too-light busie ambitious wits That Heav'n and Earth confound with furious fits Fantastik Frantiks that would innovate A check to busie seditious and ambitious Malcontents in any State And every moment change your form of STATE That weening high to fly fall lower still That though you change your bed change not your Ill See See how much th' Almighty the most High Heer-in abhors your fond inconstancy The PEOPLE-STATE the ARISTOCRACY The authority of every kinde of Government is from God And sacred KINGDOM took authority A-like from Heav'n and these three Scepter-forms Flourish a-vie as well in Arts and Arms As prudent Laws Therefore you stout Helvetians Grisons Genevians Ragusins Uenetians Maintain your Liberties and change not now Therefore every People to persist in the State established Your sacred Laws rooted so deep with you On th' other side we that are born and bred Vnder KINGS Aw vnder one Supreme Head Let vs still honor their drad Maiesties Obey their Laws and pay them Subsidies Let 's read let 's hear no more these factious Teachers These shame-les Tribunes these seditious Preachers That in all places alwayes belch and bark Aloud a-broad or whisper in the dark Railing at Princes whether good or bad The true Lieutenants of Almighty God And let not vs before a KING prefer A Senate-sway nor Scepter Popular 'T is better bear the Youth-slips of a KING I' th' Law som fault I' th' State som blemishing Than to fill all with Blood-flouds of Debate While to Reform you would Deform a STATE One cannot with-out danger stir a stone In a great Building 's olde foundation And a good Leach seeks rather to support With ordered dyet in a gentle sort A feeble Body though in sickly plight Than with strong Med'cines to destroy it quight And therefore Cursed ever Cursed be Our * A iust Execration of the Popish Powder-Plot on the fift of November 1605. Hell spurr'd PERCIE' 's fel Conspiracy And every head and every hand and heart That did Conceiue or but Consent his part POPE prompted Atheists faining Superstition To cover Cruelty and cloak Ambition Incarnat Divels Enemies of Man Dam-Murdering Vipers Monsters in-humane Dis-natur'd NERO'S impious EROSTRATES That with one Puff would blowe-vp all Estates Prince's and Peer's and Peoples Government For of all Three consists our PARLIAMENT Religion Order Honesty and all And more then all that Fear can fear to fall And therfore Blessed ever Blessed be Our glorious GOD's immortall Maiesty ENGLANDS Great Watch-Man he that Israel keeps Who neuer slumbers and who neuer sleeps Our gratious Father whose still-firm affection Defends vs still with wings of his Protection Our louing Saviour that thus Saues vs still Vs so vnworthy vs so prone to ill Our sacred Comforter the Spirit of Light Who steers vs still in the True FAITH aright The TRINITIE th' Eternall THREE in ONE Who by his Powr and Prouidence alone Hath from the Furnace of their Fiery Zeal Preserv'd our PRINCE our PEERS our PVBLIK-WEAL Therefore O PRINCE our nostrils deerest breath Thou true Defender of true Christian FAITH O! let the Zeal of GOD'S House eat thee vp Fill BABYLON her measure in her Cup Maim the King-maiming Kinglings of Bezec Pittie not Agag spare not Amalech Hunt hunt those Foxes that would vnder-mine Root Body Branches of the Sacred Vine O! spare them not To spare Them is to spoil Thy Self thy Seed thy Subiects and thy Soil Therfore O PEERS Prince-loyall Paladines True-noble Nobles lay-by by-Designes And in God's quarrel and your Countries bring Counsail and Courage to assist your KING To counter-mine against the Mines of ROME To conquer Hydra and to ouer-com And clean cut-off his Horns and Heads and all Whose hearts do Vow or knees do Bow to Baal Be Zealous for the LORD and Faith-full now And honor Him and He will honour you FATHERS and Brethren Ministers of CHRIST Cease civill Warrs war all on Anti-Christ Whose subtle Agents while you strive for shels Poyson the kernel with Erronious Spels Whose Envious Seed-men while you Silent Sleep Sowe Tares of Treason which take root too-deep Watch watch your Fold Feed feed your Lambs at-home Muzzle these Sheep-clad bloudy Wolves of ROME Therfore O PEOPLE let vs Praise and Pray Th' Almighty-most whose Mercy lasts for ay To giue vs grace to euer-keep in minde This MIRACLE of his Protection kinde To true Repent vs of our hainous Sin Pride Lust and Loosness we haue wallowed in To stand still constant in the pure Profession Of true RELIGION with a due discretion To try the Spirits and by peculiar choice To knowe our Shepheards from th' Hyana's voice And ever loyall to our PRINCE t' expose Goods Lands and Liues against his hate-full Foes Among whom Lord â—f yet of Thine be found Conuert them quickly and the rest Confound And to Conclude PRINCE PEERS PEOPLE too Praise all at once and selfly each of you His Holy Hand that like as long-agoe His Sidrach Misach and Abednego From the hot Furnace of POPE-Powder'd Zeal Hath Sav'd our PRINCE our PEERS our PVELIK-weal The End of the THIRD DAIâ— of the SECOND WEEK DAVID The FOVRTH DAY Of The SECOND WEEK Containing 1. THE TROPHEIS 2. THE MAGNIFICENCE 3. THE SCHISM 4. THE DECAY Translated Dedicated To Prince HENRY his Highness Acceptam refere To Prince HENRY his Highness A SONNET HAuing new mustred th' HOAST of all this ALL Your Royall Father In our Fore ward stands Where Adam-like Himself alone Commands A WORLD of Creatures ready at his Call Our Middle-ward doth not vnfitly fall To famous Chiefs whose graue-braue heads hands In Counsail'd Courage so Conduct our Bands As at a brunt affront the force of Baal Our Rere-Ward Sir shal be your Princely Charge Though last not least sith it most Honour brings Where Honour 's Field before you lies more large For Your Command is of a Camp of KINGS Some good some bad Your Glory shall be heer To Chuse and Vse the good the bad Cassier A STANZA IEwel of NATVRE Ioy of ALBION To whose perfection Heav'n and Earth conspire That in Timeâ— fulnes Thou mayst bless this Throne Succeeding in the Vertues of thy Sire As happily thou hast begun goe-on That as thy Youth we may thine Age admire Acting our Hopes which shall revive our hearts Pattern Patron both of Arms Arts. Iosuah Syluester THE TROPHEIS THE FIRST BOOKE OF the fourth Day of the second Week of BARTAS THE ARGVMENT Saul's fall from Fauour into Gods Disgrace Dauid design'd Successor in his Place Brauing Goliah and the Philistins He brauely foyles He flyes
feeds Divined truely it should never die Then what shall This that far the same exceeds He labour'd Lines which though they doe endure All turns of Time yet was their Stuf profane But These are drawne of STVF more heavenly-pure That most shall shine when Those are in the wane He though his Braines profanely were diuine And glorious Monuments of Art compos'd Was yet exil'd for many a looser Line That made them wantons chastly else dispos'd But Thou cleer BARTAS his dear SYLVESTER Whose Lines do lead to VERTVES only gain And with sweet Poesies strew'st the way to Her How should the World remunerate thy pain And if from Hearts Aboundance Tongues do speak And what we most affect we most do minde It argues thou this Argument didst seek Sith in thy Soule before thou didst it finde So BARTAS was but Mid-wife to thy Muse With greater ease to vtter her Conceits For whose deare birth thou didst all ease refuse Worlds-weal and being a Marchant thy Receits This pain so pleas'd thy labouring Thoughts that thou Forsook'st the Sea and took'st thee to the Soil Where from thy royall Trade thou fell'st to Plow Arts furrows with thy Pen that yeeld but toyl This stole thee from thy self thy self to finde In sacred Raptures on the Muses Hill And went'st out of thy Body with thy Minde More freely so to vse thy Wit and Will And O! how hapless had we Briâ—tans been Sith heer is stor'd such sweet Soule rauishments Hadst thou not made them to vs clearly seen Who giue thee for it praising Discontents If so great Art and Grace finde nought but Fame Of famous Men for grace the Press shall be Prest but for Vices Seruice Sourse of Shame So Times to come in Print our shame shall see But O bee 't farre from this so famous Isle For Armes and Learning either to neglect Sit it doth grace and glory quite exile And is the cause of many a bad effect O terren Gods as ye to State aspire Lift Learning vp with you especially If matcht with Wisedom and divine desire So shall yetwice be like the DEITY And weigh what powr the PENS of such possess Of such for others will but gild your Crimes Their PENS eternize can your worthiness And make ye glorious past succeeding Times But you do iustly to neglect and scorn The cursed crue that do the Muse abuse For they your praises to dispraises turn As Vice in praysing VERTVES grace doth vse Their wine-driuen Braines inuolv'd in Follies Cloud Fly here and there and where not with a trice And though both Beggars base yet passing proude Constant in nothing but in constant Vice Making loose lines forsooth their Scala Coeli A Tauerne for a Temple to adore Their only god their guts their beastly Belly To whom they offer all their slender Store The Laudes of such are odious like their Lives They Pitch pollute what-ere they do but touch Whose glory to the fowlest shame arrives Then well you fence your fame to keep off such But they whose liues and lauds and lines are SOVRCE Of Morall vertue running by each stone Men High and Hard that let them in their Course To Seas of glory like cleere Helicon O! these ye should support and still receiue Into the Ocean of your bound-less love For these like truest Friends will take and give No more but what true Vertue shall approve If these should pine away through your neglect Your memories shall dy or live with shame Sith such a Muse is the chief Architect To reare from Earth to Heav'n a lasting NAME Achilles fame with him had been interr'd Had HOMER'S lines notty'd it to the Starrs And of Aeneas we had never heard Had Virgils STRAINES not been his Trumpetters One of the NINE had been our Warwick's GVY The NINE whose worth all Times so much commend And so disrankt great BVLLENS GODFEREY Had he but had a TASSO for his friend LAVRA had nere so greenly growen above Hir Peeres as now she doth to after-times Had she not had a PETRARCH to hir Love Which made hir mount with Nâ—TCTAR dropping Rimes No no ye cannot but out-liue your Eame If yev phold not FAME'S best Notaries If these yescorn your glory is but game For when ye dye in game your glory dies And though blest PHACE hath turnd our Spears to Spades Let it not turn our Pens to Ploughes or worse By Learning som should live as som by Trades In blessed STATES that would incur no curse Where Vertue is not rais'd and Vice supprest There all to Vice will run and so to wrack For then the worst shall Lord it ore the best And where that is all goes to vtter sack Reward and Punishment like Armes of Steel Do still vphold each KING vpholding STATE For neither wants but it begins to reel But both imploy'd stands sure in spight of Hate Then may thy HOPES wingd by thy virtuous Muse Dear Syluester expect some cherishment In this blest State that still those Armes will vse To staie her Grace and grace her Gouernment But if thy paines acquire but pure renowne Thou art Christ's Image crost for Glories crown Beneficium dando accipit qui digno dedit The vnfained louer of thine Art honesty and vertue IOHN DAVIES of Hereford FINIS A briefe Index explayning most of the hardest words scattered through this whole Worke for ease of such as are least exercised in these kinde of readings A A Bysse a gulfe or bottomles pit Abderian Abderite Democritus the laughing Philosopher of Abdera a citie in Thracia Aben-Roes a learned Philosopher of Corduba sprung from Arabian parents Abidus Leanders Towne Academian Shades Platos Schoole Aceberon a riuer in Hell Acconite Libbards or Wolfes bane Achilles the most valiant captain of the Myrmidons Adonis a most beautiful yong man beloued of Venus Adrian Sea the gulfe of Uenice Adriatike Sea the gulfe of Uenice Aeson the father of Iaso made young againe by the skill of Medea Aethâ—riall heauenly Aesâ—ulapius an excellent Physician father of Apollo Africa the South-quarter of the World Aiax Shield a prouerb for asure defence Aiguescald a bath in Gasconie Alarbies and Alarbians wilde vpland Arabian theeues Albion England the I le of great Brittaine Alcestâ— the most chaste and louing wife of admetus that gaue her owne life to saue her husbands Alcides Hercules Alcides spires Hercules Pillers Alcides griefe the falling Sicknes Alcmaena the mother of Hercules Alcaron the Turks Law and Religion Aleband a Cittie in Caria of olde famous for the best Bowe-strings Alecto looke Furies Alexanders Altars were at the foot of the Ryphean Mountaines Almicâ—â—thâ—rats and Almadarats Arabian names of Circles which are imagined to passe through euerie degree of the Meridian Paralel to the Horizon vp to the Zenith Alhidade a Rule on the backe of the Astrelabe to measure heights breadths depths Amafrosse gutta serena a disease in the sinnewes of the Sight Amalthean Horne plenty of all things Amblygone a flat Triangle
prodigious strength that carried a Bull on his back killed him with his fist eat him vp in one day Mince a Riuer neere Mantua where Virgil was borne Minerua the same that Pallas Goddesse of wit and warre Moly an herbe brought from heaueÌ„ by Mercury to Vlysses supposed to be our Rue or herbe-grace Moloch the Idoll of the Ammonites Moluques rich Ilands in the East Indies plentifull in all kind of excellent Spices other Treasures Moores the people of Ethiopia subiects of Prester Iohn Morpheus the God of Dreams Mummie a drugg takeÌ„ for part of ancient imbalmed bodies Musculus a little Fish most officious to the Whale Musulmans Arabians Mycaena Agamemnons Kingdome Midas a wealthy King of Phry gia whose touch by the graÌ„t of Bacchus turned all things into Gold so that at last his Gold-turned meate in his mouth choaked him Myrmecides a cunning curious Caruer in small works Myron an excellent statuarie or Image-maker Mounte banks Iugglers Meroe an Iland in the Riuer Nilus Megera look Furies Mages Sages Wise-men Sooth-sayers Morisâ—o and Mattachine Antike fantastike daunces Moderatrix a Regent or Gouernesse MAGNIFICENCE Greatnes State glory pomp MunificeÌ„ce bounty liberality Medalls Images of wood stone or metall Musaik work a kinde of painting so curiously shadowed that it seemes in some places imbost in some carv'd in som in-layde in som grauen c. Meteors or exhalatioÌ„s strange apparitions of comets or other figures in the aire Megarian where flowrished the Philosopher Euclides in the same time that Socrates in Athens N NAcre the Pearle-shell or mother of Pearl Nadir the point directly vnder vs iust opposite to the Zenith or point verticall Natolia Asia minor now whol ly vnder the Turke Nectar the drink of the Gods Neptune the Sea Nephelian Crook-horne the Signe Aries Nepenthe an herbe which being steeped in wine is thought to expell sadnesse Nereus the Sea Nero a most cruell Emperour of Rome the monster of nature shame of mankinde Nestor a wise eloqueÌ„t Greek who being nigh 300. yeers old came to the siege of Troy Nile and Nilus the famous Riuer of Egypt vsed often for Egypt it selfe Nimrod the builder of Babel the first ambitious vsurper of soueraignty Niphates a mountaine from whence the Riuer Tigris hath his source Nitre a light white spongie mater much like salt which som haue falsely thought to be salt-peter Noremberg a City in Germany especially famous for curious handy-crafts Nubian of a Kingdome fronting on the South of Egypt Numidianâ— people of a part of Affrica accustomed to liue continually in the fieldes with their flocks heards remoouing often for fresh pastures Numa Pompileus 2. from Romulus King of the Romanes and their first law-giuer O OBsequies funerall ceremonies Ocean and Oceanus the Sea Odipus a Riddle-Reader of Thebes Oedems thinne waterish and flegmatik swellings Olympius an Arrian Bishoppe strook dead with Lightning for blaspheming the Deitie of Christ. Olympus a very high hill fronting on Macedonia it is often vsed for Heauen Ophthalmy a disease in the Eye through inflamation of the vttermost tunicle Optick sinnew is that which bringeth sight vnto the Eye Orgies Sacrifices to Bacchus Oracles Mysteries of the heathen Gods deliuered by diuers meanes and in diuers manners Orion a tempest-boading star Orpheus an excellent Poet Musician of Thrace Oromene a Mountain in India full of Salt-quarres Ortygian Delos a floating IlaÌ„d where Diana and Apollo were borne Orithias loue Boreas the North-winde Ottoman the first Emperour of Turkes Ouids heires wanton Poets Oxygone a sharp-Triangle Omer a certaine measure among the Hebrues Ophir supposed to be Peru. Onyx a red pretious stone fit for Seales Cleer Orient the East Sun-Rising Oran a Port-Towne in Barbarie within the Streictes of Gibraltar P PActolus a riuer in Lydia which after the washing of King Midas is sayd to haue Golden sands Pallas the Goddesse of Arts Wisedome Palaemon a Sea God called also Melicertes Palestine Iudea the holy land first called Cannan Pan the God of Shepheards Pandects Books treating of all manner of Arguments Panchayaâ— Fumes Incense Pannonia Hungary Austria Panope a Sea-Nymph Pandora fayned by Hesiodus to be the first woman and made by Vulcan indued by all the Gods with seueral excellent gifts but afterwarde by Iupiter in his displeasur sent to hir spouse Epimetheus with a Box full of al maÌ„ner of miseries Paphos Archer Cupid the little God of loue Paphian Fier or shott his Arrowes Parrhasius a most excellent painter of Ephesus Parthians a people of Asia excellent Archers and notorious enemies to the Romans Parâ—s an Iland in the Archipelago which diuideth Europe Asia minor wherein is excellent white Marble or Alablaster Parcas Parcae à non parcendo the Destinies or 3. fatal Sisters viz Clotho Lachesis and Atropos Death it selfe the eneuitable end of all Parallels lines euery wher like distant Paradox an argument maintained contrary to the common and receiued opinion Pegasus the flying Horse of Bellerophon which strayning to flye vp to Heaven with his hoofe rased the top of Helicon whence immediatly gushed out a spring which therefore is called Hyppocrene Penelope the most chaste wife of the wandring Prince Vlysses Peneian Uale is Tempe a most pleasant valley in Thessaly on the verge of the Riuer Peneus Pentheus a young Prince who for contemning the drunkeÌ„ feasts of Bacchus was by his owne mother Agaue murdered Peripneumonie the Impostume of the Lungs Perige that point of Heaven wherein the Sun or other planet is neerest to the center of the Earth Persiphone or Proserpine the Queen of Hell and Horror Perseus a most triumphant ChampioÌ„ that rescued Andromeda from the Sea-moÌ„ster who for his prowesse is both by Poets and Astronomers magnified as a God and placed among the Starres Pernassus the mountain of the Muses Persian Monark with the heauen of glasse was Sapores Peru one of the largest and richest parts of America Phaeton the Son of Phoebus who presuming to guide his fathers Chariot set the world on fire and fell himselfe headlong into the Riuer Eridanus Phoebus the Sunne Phalaris a most cruell Tyrant of Agrigent Phalec the sonne of Heber Pharos a Lanthorne Tower to beare a light for the guide of Saylors in a hauen by night also an Iland Phlegon one of the horses of the Sunnes Chariot Phlegeton a Riuer in Hell taken oft for Hell it selfe philtre-charmd inchanted with loue-potions Phantik such as are haunted with strange illuding Visions Philirian Scout the signe Sagittarius Philometor an ancient king of Egypt much giuen to husbandry and delighting in the Countrie life Phlebotomie Bloodletting Phlegmons hot red inflammations of bloud Phrygian Skinker the signe Aquarius Phrixus sister was Helle drowned in Hellespont which of her is so called Phrenzie a most violent and daungerous disease of the braine Phthisik The consumption of the Lungs Phthiriasis the lowsie disease Pica the longing disease of women with childe Physon one of the Riuers in the garden of