A Hyve Fvll of Hunnye Contayning the Firste Booke of Moses, called Genesis. Tvrned into English Meetre, by VViliam Hunnis |
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The Contents of the First Chapter.
How Heauen & Earth, the Light & SkyeThe Sunne & Moone & Starres so hye,
How Beastes & Fowles, how Fishe & Man,
Created was of God, and whan.
The VVorke of the first Daye.
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When God, which no beginninge had,The Heauē and Earth gan frame,
And voyde and empty it behelde,
With darkenesse on the same:
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And on ye Waters which hee made,that then aloft did stand,
And ouerwhelme the Earth so farre,
as yet appear'de no Lande:
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Then at his worde, there Light came foorth,deuided from the Shade:
And so the Eueninge and the Morne,
by him one Day was made.
The worke of the Second Daye.
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The Firmament he fram'de and fixteBetwene the Waters so,
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the other part belowe.
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And gaue a Name thereto, and sayd,it Heauen shall called bee:
The Eueninge, and the Morninge eke
the second Day you see.
The worke of the Third Day.
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The third Day at his holy hest,the Waters vnderneth
Compelled were together goe,
in one place of the Earth.
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And then the Land appeared dry,which Earth was called tho,
And bade it should bringe foorth greene herbe,
engendringe seede to groe:
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And fruictfull Trees, of sundry sortes,that seede might still retayne,
And bringe foorth fruicte, each after kinde
that on the Earth remayne.
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Thus euery thinge so came to passe,as God before did say:
The Earth brought Herbe and Tree with fruict,
that still ingender may.
The worke of the Fourth Day.
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And that there shoulde a diffrence beebetwene the Dayes, and Nightes,
God bade that in the Firmament,
there should bee placed Lightes:
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Which should remayne from time to tymeappoyncted Signes to bee:
As Day from Day, and Yeare from Yeare,
in order as wee see:
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The Sunne, hee made the Day to rule,The Moone, the Night to guide:
And shininge Starres in Heauen hee set
whose light doth aye abyde.
The worke of the Fifte Day.
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This Mighty Maker then gan saye,let waters nowe forth bring.
Such Creatures as with life may moue,
and Fowle to flye with Winge.
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Upon the Earth, and in the Faceof Heauen or Starry Skye,
Straight way, both Fishe, and Fowle was made,
in kinde to multiplye.
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God blessed both, and bade them growe,the Fishe the Sea to fill:
And feathered Fowle vpon the Earth,
their kinde encreasinge still.
The worke of the Sixte Daye.
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Now let the Earth, bringe foorth (sayd God)each liuinge thinge by kinde:
As Cattell, Beast, and worme that creepes,
his power the same assign'de.
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Thus when God sawe his handy workewas good, and pleas'de him well:
Let vs make Man like vs, sayd hee,
the rest of all t'excel:
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To haue the Rule of Fishe, of Foule,of Catell, and the Earth,
And euery creeping thinge on ground
that lyues and draweth breathe.
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And in the Image of him selfedid God Create him than,
Both Male, and Female, form'd hee them,
but first he made the Man:
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And blessed them, the Earth to fill,their Sex still to renewe:
And gaue them power vpon the Earth.
the same for to subdewe:
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And sayde, beholde, I haue you geuenof euery herbe to eate:
And euery Tree, wherein is fruicte,
likewise to be your Meate:
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Also to euery Beaste on Earthand euery Birde that flies:
And creepinge Worme, greene Herbe shall haue,
to feede vpon likewise.
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All what hee sayd, so came to passe,and he the same did see
Ech kinde of thinge which hee had made.
was good so for to bee.
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