Fovre bookes of Du Bartas I. The Arke, II. Babylon, III. The Colonnyes, IIII. The Columues or Pyllars: In French and English, for the Instrvction and Pleasvre of Svch as Delight in Both Langvages. By William Lisle ... Together with a large Commentary by S. G. S |
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Alas perceiue you not how this hood-winked zeale
And superstitious heat (to reason I appeale)
Makes errours many and foule your wits bright lampe to smother?
How light beleefe you driues from one extreame t'another?
You make a thousand qualmes your great Gods heart to strike:
You make him fell as Beare, and queasie woman-like.
Let any sinner weepe, his tender heart will melt;
As if a wretches harme the great Commander felt:
He sees no drop of bloud, but (ere we know what ailes him)
Swoons, and in manly brest his female courage failes him:
And yet you make him fierce, and suffring oft the sway
And foamy streame of wroth to beare his reason away:
With heart of sauage Beare in manly shape he freats;
He rages then, he roares, he thunders out his threats.
Thus if your naile but ake, your God puts fing'r ith'eye;
Againe he kills, burnes, drownes, all for as light a why.
And superstitious heat (to reason I appeale)
Makes errours many and foule your wits bright lampe to smother?
How light beleefe you driues from one extreame t'another?
You make a thousand qualmes your great Gods heart to strike:
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Let any sinner weepe, his tender heart will melt;
As if a wretches harme the great Commander felt:
He sees no drop of bloud, but (ere we know what ailes him)
Swoons, and in manly brest his female courage failes him:
And yet you make him fierce, and suffring oft the sway
And foamy streame of wroth to beare his reason away:
With heart of sauage Beare in manly shape he freats;
He rages then, he roares, he thunders out his threats.
Thus if your naile but ake, your God puts fing'r ith'eye;
Againe he kills, burnes, drownes, all for as light a why.
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