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A Hyve Fvll of Hunnye

Contayning the Firste Booke of Moses, called Genesis. Tvrned into English Meetre, by VViliam Hunnis
Hunnis, William

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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE and his singuler good Lord, the Lorde Robert Dudley, Earle of Leycester, Baron of Denbigh, Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, Maister of the Queenes Maiesties Horse, and one of her Highnesse moste Honorable priuye Counsell,
  
To the friendlye Reader.
  
SPE ET LABORE.
  
T. N. In the Commendation of this his Frendes Trauayle.
  
THE ARGVMENT of this Booke.
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The Contents of the Sixt Chapter.

The cause of Floud that after fell,
How God the same did Noah tell,
And taught him how an Arke to frame,
And hee in tyme preparde the same.

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It came to passe when men began
on Earth to multiply:
And had begotten Daughters fayre,
as might delight the Eye:

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The Sonnes of God these daughters sawe
in Bewty to excell:
Did chuse amonge them all such Wiues
as pleased them right well.

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My Sprite (saith God) shall not still striue,
with Man that's Fleshe, I see:
For yet the space I wil them geue,
iust Sixscore yeares shalbe.

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Then after when the Sonnes of God
Daughters of Men had knowne:
And had begotten to them selues,
men Children of their owne:

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Those Children grewe, and Mighty were
the strongest men of all:
For in the World was none so badde,
Men did them Giantes call.

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But when that God Mens mallice sawe,
on Earth increasinge still:
And that the Thoughtes in heart of Man,
continually was ill:
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Hee did repent him that he made
this man vpon the Earth,
And sayd, his kinde he woulde destroye,
and all that draweth Breath.

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Both Man, and Beaste, will I destroye,
and creepinge Worme (sayth hee)
And Fowle that flies twen Heauen, and Earth,
shall all destroyed bee.

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But Noah was a righteous Man,
and perfect in his wayes:
Did walke with God, and in Gods sight
founde fauour, in those dayes.

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The Earth before the sight of God
Corrupted then was founde:
And all the Fleshe therein corrupt,
(such mischiefe did abounde.)

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Then God to Noah sayd, beholde,
Before me now is come
The ende of all the Fleshe on Earth,
with her corruption:
I will therefore vpon the Earth
and them, sende out destruction.

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But thou of Pinetree wood shalt frame
an Arke well clos'de about,
And Chambers let bee made therein,
wel pitcht within and out.

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This Arke three hundreth Cubits shall
in length bee leuell streight,
And fifty Cubits in the breadth,
and thirty in the height.

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A Windowe shalt thou make likewise,
a lofte aboue in th' Arke:
And in a Cubit compasse space,
shall finishe vp that warke.
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And in the side thereof prepare
a Dore that open may:
Also three Loftes do make therein,
thy Stuffe, and Store to lay.

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For I a Water Floude will bringe
vpon the Earth so hye,
That perishe shal all Flesh on Earth
that vnderneth shall lye:

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But I with thee, this cou'naunt make,
that in the Arke shalbe,
Thy selfe, thy Sonnes, thy Wife also,
and thy Sonnes Wyues with thee.

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And looke on Earth what euer lyues,
thou thether bringe also,
A payre of each, Male, and Female,
with thee to liue and goe.

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Both Birde, & Beaste, & Worme that creepes
each couple in their kinde
Shall come to thee, and in the Arke,
shall lyfe and lyuing fynde.

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And see thou take al maner meate,
and store it vp by thee,
That foode may be to thee and theym,
when tyme of neede shalbe.

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And as God bad in euery thing,
so Noah brought to passe:
Ech thing preparde, and did abyde
What Gods good pleasure was.
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