 | A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford |  |
The Glory of Divine Efficiency
Divine Efficiency of no mean shine
These Darksom Dayes too feeble are to Cover.
Whose golden track deserves a pen Divine
The same to pollish bright in this thick pother.
But now my quill attempts it as I stand
With Candle light and Lanthorn in my hand.
These Darksom Dayes too feeble are to Cover.
Whose golden track deserves a pen Divine
The same to pollish bright in this thick pother.
But now my quill attempts it as I stand
With Candle light and Lanthorn in my hand.
In Phoca's time, the whole world feels a blast
Of Corn, and Wine but chiefly Italy,
A Dreadfull Winter did their Vines so wast,
And Rustiness their Fruits, do much annoy.
In Pope Sabinians dayes a famine great,
Did all their flourisht Sirs at Rome entreate.
Of Corn, and Wine but chiefly Italy,
A Dreadfull Winter did their Vines so wast,
And Rustiness their Fruits, do much annoy.
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Did all their flourisht Sirs at Rome entreate.
At Alexandria Calligraphus
A Noble man, in going home, espi'de
At midnight brazen Statues which spake thus
Aloud Maurice and's Children are destroy'de.
And told all done at Byzant. And the same
As newes the ninth day after, thither came.
A Noble man, in going home, espi'de
At midnight brazen Statues which spake thus
Aloud Maurice and's Children are destroy'de.
And told all done at Byzant. And the same
As newes the ninth day after, thither came.
A blazing Star God hangs out in the Skie.
And now about a begger Crav'd an alms
Of Seamen: wee had nought save Stones, they Cry;
Then said the begger (and it prooves their Qualms)
Let all your Ships food turn to Stones, and loe,
All in't save Shape, and Colour hard Stones grow.
And now about a begger Crav'd an alms
Of Seamen: wee had nought save Stones, they Cry;
Then said the begger (and it prooves their Qualms)
Let all your Ships food turn to Stones, and loe,
All in't save Shape, and Colour hard Stones grow.
Plague, Famine, and great floods, made mortalls quaile.
When Boniface the fourth was pope, its said
The Heavens shew a bloody Speare (Hearts faile)
Held by an Angell: also there was made
A brightsom Light shining all night which frights
Theopert as he with King Clothair fights[.]
When Boniface the fourth was pope, its said
The Heavens shew a bloody Speare (Hearts faile)
Held by an Angell: also there was made
A brightsom Light shining all night which frights
Theopert as he with King Clothair fights[.]
When Deodate was Pope an Earthquake rose.
A Mang like to the Leprosie did rage.
The Lake of Dune boils with such heat it throws
Up fishes boild, which they as food ingage.
Theodobert, and Theodorick too
Did Scepter's hold in France, when this was so.
A Mang like to the Leprosie did rage.
The Lake of Dune boils with such heat it throws
Up fishes boild, which they as food ingage.
Theodobert, and Theodorick too
Did Scepter's hold in France, when this was so.
When th'Persian war brake out: and also when
Europe was ferkt by the barbarians,
A Dreadfull murrian ragd on Creatures then
With Plague and Famine; and a winter spans
The Sea with ice, for Cold, untill she threw
Up fishes dead, if histories say true[.]
Europe was ferkt by the barbarians,
A Dreadfull murrian ragd on Creatures then
With Plague and Famine; and a winter spans
The Sea with ice, for Cold, untill she threw
Up fishes dead, if histories say true[.]
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