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Du Bartas

His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester
Sylvester, Josuah (1563-1618)

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Anagammata Regia: Regi.
Iacobvs Stvart: Iusta Scrutabo.
  
CORONA DEDICATORIA.
  
[These laureat Temples which the Laurel grace]
  
HIS LIFE, &c.
  
Lectoribus
  
INDIGNIS.
  
OPTIMIS.
  
EPIGRAM. To M. Iosuah Sylvester.
  
In praise of the Translator.
  
To M. Iosvah Sylvester, of his Bartas Metaphrased.
  
To my good friend, M. Sylvester, in honour of this sacred Work.
  
To M. Iosvah Sylvester. A SONNET.
  
Flexanimo Salustij du Bartus interpreti, Ios. Sylvesteri, carmen Encomiasticon.
  
In Commendation of du Bartas, and his Translator, M. Iosvah Sylvester. A Sonnet.
  
In Commendation of this worthie Worke.
  
An Acrostick Sonnet, to his friend M. Iosva Sylvester.
  
To the Same.
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Du BARTAS His FIRST WEEK, OR BIRTH OF THE WORLD:
 1. 
THE FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK.
 2. 
THE SECOND DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK.
 3. 
THE THIRD DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK.
 4. 
THE FOVRTH DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK.
 5. 
THE FIFT DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK.
 6. 
THE SIXT DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK.
 7. 
THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE FIRST WEEK.
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Du BARTAS HIS SECOND WEEKE, DISPOSED (After the proportion of his First) Into Seaven Dayes: (viz.)
  
[dedication]
 1. 
1. Sonnet.
 2. 
2. Sonnet.
  
TO THE RIGHT EXCELLENT, and most hopefull young Prince, Henry, PRINCE of WALES.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, the Lord High Chancelor of England.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, the Earle of Salisbury, Lord high Threasurer of England.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOBLE, the Earle of Dorset (late) Lord high Threasurer of England.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, the Earle of Pembroke.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE the Earle of Essex, Earle Marshall of England, &c.
  
TO THE SAME RIGHT Honourable Earle of ESSEX, &c.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Charles Lord Mount-ioy, Earle of Deuonshire.
  
TO THE SAME RIGHT Honourable Earle of Deuonshire, &c.
  
TO THE SAME RIGHT Honourable the Earle of Deuonshire, &c.
  
TO THE HONORABLE, learned, and religious Gentleman, Sir Peter Yovng of Seton, Knight, Almoner of Scotland, and one of his Maiesties Priuy Councell there.
  
TO THE RIGHT VERTVOVS (fauourer of Vertue, furtherer of Learning) Sir Thomas Smith (of London) Knight, (late) Lord Embassadour for his Maiesty, to the Emperour of Rvssia.
  
TO THE MOST HONORABLE, learned, and religious Gent. Mr. Anthony Bacone.
  
TO THE SAME MOST Honourable Gentleman, Master Anthony Bacone.
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ADAM.
 1. 
Eden.
 2. 
The Impostvre.
 3. 
The Fvries.
 4. 
The Handy-Crafts.
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NOAH.
 1. 
The Ark.
 2. 
Babylon.
 3. 
The Colonies.
 4. 
The Colvmnes.
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ABRAHAM.
 1. 
The Vocation.
 2. 
The Fathers.
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The Lavve.
  
The Argvment.
  
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 4. 
The Captaines.
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DAVID.
  
[dedication]
  
TO PRINCE HENRY HIS HIGHNES.
  
A Stanza.
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[DAVID.]
 I. 
The Tropheis.
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The Magnificence.
  
The Argvment.
  
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 III. 
The Schisme.
 4. 
The Decay.
  
Pibrac. Quad. 5.
  
TO MY EVER-MOST HONOVRED MISTRESS, Mris Essex, wife to the right worthy, William Essex of Lamborn, Esquier; and eldest Daughter of the right valiant, and Nobly-descended, Sir Walter Harecourt of Stanton-Hare-court, Knight Baron of Ellen-Hall.
  
TO VERTVES PATTERNE, AND BEAVTIES Paragon, Mris Ione Essex: now wife to the right worthy, William Anderson Esquier (second Son of the late Lord Anderson) and only Sister of the Honorably-descended William Essex of Lamborn, Esquire.
  
VRANIA. OR The Heauenly Muse.
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THE TRIVMPH OF FAITH
  
THE TRIVMPH of FAITH, former-ly DEDICATED, and now againe, for ever Consecrate to the gratefull Memorie of the first kinde Fosterer of our tender Muses, my neuer-sufficiently-Honored deer Vncle W. PLVMB, Esq.
  
To Guy de Faur, Lord of Pibrac; W. Salustius du Bartas.
  
THE TRIVMPH OF FAITH.
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TETRASTICHA. OR THE QVADRAINS OF GVY DE FAVR, Lord of Pibrac.
  
TO THE RIGHT EXCELLENT AND MOST Hopefull young Prince, Henry.
  
THE QVADRAINS OF PIBRAC.
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SONNETS Vpon THE LATE MIRACVLOVS PEACE IN FRANCE.
  
TO THE MOST HONORABLE, LEARNED, and religious Gentleman, Master Anthony Bacone.
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TO THE FRENCH KING, Henry the fourth.
 1. 
Sonnet 1.
 2. 
Sonnet 2.
 3. 
Sonnet 3.
 4. 
Sonnet 4.
 5. 
Sonnet 5.
 6. 
Sonnet 6.
 7. 
Sonnet 7.
 8. 
Sonnet 8.
 9. 
Sonnet 9.
 10. 
Sonnet 10.
 11. 
Sonnet 11.
 12. 
Sonnet 12.
 13. 
Sonnet 13.
 14. 
Sonnet 14.
 15. 
Sonnet 15.
 16. 
Sonnet 16.
 17. 
Sonnet 17.
 18. 
Sonnet 18.
 19. 
Sonnet 19.
 20. 
Sonnet 20.
 21. 
Sonnet 21.
 22. 
Sonnet 22.
 23. 
Sonnet 23.
 24. 
Sonnet 24.
 25. 
Sonnet 25.
 26. 
Sonnet 26.
 27. 
Sonnet 27.
 28. 
Sonnet 28.
 29. 
Sonnet 29.
 30. 
Sonnet 30.
 31. 
Sonnet 31.
 32. 
Sonnet 32.
 33. 
Sonnet 33.
 34. 
Sonnet 34.
 35. 
Sonnet 35.
 36. 
Sonnet 36.
 37. 
Sonnet 37.
 38. 
Sonnet 38.
 39. 
Sonnet 39.
 40. 
Sonnet 40.
  
A DIALOGVE VPON THE TROVBLES PAST:
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AN ODE OF THE LOVE AND BEAVTIES OF ASTRÆA.
  
TO THE MOST MATCHLESS. faire and vertuous, M.M.H.
  
AN ODE TO ASTRÆA.
 1. 
Sonnet 1.
 2. 
Sonnet 2.
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EPIGRAMS & EPITAPHES vpon Warre and Peace.
  
Vpon the League.
  
Vpon the taking of Paris.
  
Vpon the fall of the Millars-bridge.
  
Vpon the recouerie of Amiens.
  
Vpon the Reduction of Nantes.
  
Vpon Peace.
  
Vpon Captaine Cobbler.
  
Vpon Warre.
  
Vpon Rowland Rob-Church.
  
Vpon Captaine Catch.
  
Vpon Sir Nequam Neuter.
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THE PROFIT OF IMPRISONMENT.
  
TO HIS LONG APPROVED friend, M. R. Nicolson I. S. wisheth euer all true content.
  
A SONNET OF THE Author to his Booke.
  
A PARADOX, THAT ADVERSITY IS MORE necessary then Prosperity; and that, of all afflictions, Close-Prison is most pleasant, and most profitable.
  
OF THE VVORKE, AVTHOR, AND TRANSLATER.
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LITTLE BARTAS:
  
TO THE MOST ROYALL LADY ELIZABETHA, Infanta of England; Princess Palatine of Rhine.
  
LITTLE BARTAS.
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Micro-cosmo-graphia: THE LITTLE-WORLDES DESCRIPTION; OR THE MAP OF MAN
  
TO THE Right-RIGHT HONORABLE Honoria, Wife of Iames, Lord Hay, Sole Daughter and Heire of Edvvard Lord Denny.
  
THE MAP OF MAN.
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CERTAIN EPIGRAMS of the same Mr. H. S.
  
[I owe You Each a larger Summe]
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EPIGRAMMS.
 1. 
1. Of a King.
 2. 
2. Of a Lawyer.
 3. 
3. Of a Physician.
 4. 
4. Of a Divine.
 5. 
5. Of a Iudge.
 6. 
6. Of a Husbandman.
 7. 
7. Of a Captaine.
  
Of all the Seauen.
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THE MAIDENS BLVSH:
  
TO THE HIGH HOPEFVLL Happy Prince, Charles Prince of Wales, Dvke of Cornewall, and Earle of Chester.
  
PRINCE ARTHVRS CASTLE, Chiefest Arts Chast Lvre
  
THE MAIDENS BLVSH:
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THE PARLIAMENT OF VERTVES ROYALL:
  
To the Honourable, Sir Robert Carie: Sir Iames Fullarton: Sir Robert Carr: Sir Dauid Foulis: Master Thomas Murray.
  
TO THE HIGH-HOPEFVLL Charles, Prince of Great-Britanne
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Lords Spirituall and Temporall:
  
PANARETVS.
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A DIVINE & TRVE TRAGI-COMEDY; IOB TRIVMPHANT in his Triall:
  
[To Arthur's Castle (call'd by Art's Chast Lvre)]
  
To The Right Reverend & honorable Father, George Abbot, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, the Lord Elesmore. L. High Chancelour of England.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, William Harbert, Earle of Penbroke, Lord Chamberlaine, &c.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, Sir Edvvard Coke, Knight; Lord Chief Iustice of England and one of his Maiesties most Honorable Priuie Councell.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Lords Spirituall and Temporall;
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IOB TRIVMPHANT in his Triall.
  
The Proëm.
 2. 
IOB. The second Booke.
 3. 
IOB. The third Booke.
 4. 
IOB. THE FOVRTH BOOK.
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BETHVLIANS RESCVE.
  
[dedication]
  
TO THE RIGHT-RIGHT Honorable Ladies, Lucie, Marchioness of Winchester. Lucie, Countess of Bedford. Anne, Countess of Dorset. Frances, Countess of Exceter. Frances, Countess of Hartford. Katherin, Countess of Salisbury. Susan, Countess of Montgō. Barbara, Vi-Countess Lisle. Elizabeth, Vi-Countess Haddington. Elizabeth, Vi-Countess Fenton. Sara, Baroness Zouch. Margaret, Baroness Wotton. Honoria, Baroness Hay. Eliza. Baroness Knowles. Eliza. Baroness Cavendish. Iane. Baroness Roxborough.
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BETHVLIANS RESCVE.
 1. 
The First Booke.
 2. 
The Second Booke.
 3. 
The Third Booke.
 4. 
The Fovrth Booke.
 5. 
The Fift Booke.
 6. 
The Sixt Booke.
  
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A HYMN OF ALMS: OR THE BEGGERS BELL; heard, from beyond THE CHARTER-HOVSE,
  
TO MY LORD OF CANTERBURY His Grace.
  
AD EVNDEM PRÆSVLEM PÆOPTIMVM EPIGRAMMA Ex lat. I. O. 1611.
  
AD Reuerendissimum Dominum Episcopum Londinensem. EPIGRAMMA
  
A HYMN OF ALMS.
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MEMORIALS OF MORTALITIE.
  
[Shall it be said (I shame, it should be thought)]
  
MEMORIALS OF MORTALITIE.
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MEMORIALS OF MORTALITIE.
  
[Your double Title to My single heart]
  
MEMORIALS OF MORTALITIE.
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St. LEWIS; THE KING:
  
Translated; and Dedicated To My gracious Lord, Prince Charles.
  
AD EVNDEM PRINCIPEM Opt. Max.
  
[In Arthvr's Castle, lies My Hart's Last Cvre]
Eiusdem Augustissimi ANAGRAMMA Quadruplex. Carolvs Stvartvs, Princeps.
  
A HYMN OF St. LEWIS (The Ninth of that Name) King of France.
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HENRIE THE GREAT (The Fourth of that Name) LATE King of France and Navarr: HIS Tropheis and Tragedie. Written in French By Piere Mathiev.
  
To the Right Honorable William Cecill, Earle of Salisbury.
  
THE TROPHEIS OF THE VERTVES AND Fortune of Henrie the Great.
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THE BATTAIL OF YVRY:
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Earle of Dorset.
  
Ad eundem Comitem Illustrissimum (Nuper ex Gallijs reducem) EPIGRAMMA Ex Lat. I.O.
  
THE BATTAIL OF YURY.
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SIMILE NON EST IDEM: Seeming is not the Same.
  
To the worthily Honored Sir Henry Baker, Knight-Baronet.
  
SIMILE NON EST IDEM: Seeming is not the-Same.
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A GLIMSE OF HEAVENLY IOYES:
  
To the Worthy Friend of Worthiness, Sr. Peter Manvvood, K. of the Honbl. Order of the Bath.
  
NEW-HIERVSALEM.
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AVTO-MACHIA: OR The Self-Conflict of a Christian.
  
[Fair Heir of All Your Mothers Good]
  
TO THE RIGHT NOBLE, Vertuous and Learned Lady, the Lady Mary Nevil.
  
AVTO-MACHIA: OR Self-Civil-War.
  
A CVP OF CONSOLATION for the Christian in his Conflict.
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TOBACCO BATTERED;
  
To the right Honorable Sir George Viliers, Knight Baron of Whaddon: L. Vicount Viliers: Earle of Bvckingham: Mr of the Horse to his Maiesty: & Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, &c.
  
A Double Anagram.
  
To My Reverend and VVorthy Friend, Mr. William Loe, Batchelor of Divinity.
  
A VVarning-Piece.
  
TOBACCO BATTERED.
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LACRYMÆ LACRYMARVM:
  
LACRYMÆ LACRYMARVM. A Funeral Elegie.
  
AN EPITAPH.
  
ANOTHER.
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AN ELEGIAC-EPISTLE Consolatorie.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, the Lord Vi-count Lisle, and his most vertuous Lady:
  
AN ELEGIAC EPISTLE
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HONOR'S FARVVEL To Her Honorable Friends: Or The Ladie Hay's Last Will
  
TO The Right Honorable Executors & Ouerseers, EDWARD, Lord Denny; IAMES, Lord Hay; & MARY, Lady Denny.
  
HONOR'S FAREWELL.
  
Honours Epitaph.
  
To my Reverend Friend, Mr Doctour Hall.
  
A FVNERAL ELEGIE
  
To Gods Glory. IN PIOVS MEMORY OF the nobly vertuous and religious Matrone, Margarite, Wife of Robert Hill, Dr. of Divinity, and Pastor of this Parish.
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Vxor Felix. Loquitur post funera virtus.
  
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Maritus mœstissimus.
  
Margarita a Iewell.
  
Margarita, Margareta.
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A Brief Catechism.
  
The Preface.
 1. 
1. Of Faith.
 2. 
2. Of Obedience.
 3. 
3. Of Praier.
 4. 
4. Of Thanksgiving.
  
Of Baptism.
  
Of the Lords Supper.
  
The Praier.
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SPECTACLES
 1. 
1 Sol, Annus, Stellæ.
 2. 
2 Orbis Cœli & Terræ.
 3. 
3 Quatuor Elementa.
 4. 
4 Mare.
 5. 
5 Fontes et Flumina.
 6. 
6 Dies.
 7. 
7 Nox.
 8. 
8 Ver.
 9. 
9 Æstas.
 10. 
10 Autumnus.
 11. 
11 Hyems.
 12. 
12 Quinque Sensus.
 13. 
13 Vita & Mors.
 14. 
14 Eccho.
 15. 
15 Incarceratus & Mendicus.
 16. 
16 Fumus & Aura, convivium.
 17. 
17 Cupido & Timor, constitutum.
 18. 
18 Ambitio, Luxus, Avaritia.
 19. 
19 Avis & Navis.
 20. 
20 Fratres in Malo.
 21. 
21 Væ vobis.
 22. 
22 Punctus non dividendus.
 23. 
23 Onus cuique suum.
 24. 
24 Dulce venenum, vel sibi lædens.
 25. 
25 Aquæ, Sagittæ, Venti.
 26. 
26
 27. 
27 Mundus qualis.
 28. 
28 Aura, Flos, Vnda.
 29. 
29 Quam malë conveniunt!
 30. 
30 Emblema.
 31. 
31 Glacies.
 32. 
32 Rome (Conquerer) conquered.
 33. 
33 Arbor.
 34. 
34 Hortus.
 35. 
35 Avaritia, Invidia.
 36. 
36 Scientia & Ignorantia.
 37. 
37 Bona cur Mala.
 38. 
38 Quatuor Monarchiæ.
 39. 
39 Glacies.
 40. 
40 Diruit Edificans.
 41. 
41 Bellum cum vitijs.
 42. 
42 Naufragium.
 43. 
43 Mors in Olla.
 44. 
44 Somnium.
 45. 
45 Quasi non vtens.
 46. 
46 Monstrum horrendum.
 47. 
47 Sordescit & Surdescit.
 48. 
48 Sufficit Vnum.
 49. 
49 Variabile.
 50. 
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MOTTOES.
  
[The highest Rocks and Hils]
  
[What's the Wisdom of Mankinde?]
  
[Where, where are now the great Reports]
  
[Go, silly VVorms, drudge, trudge and travell]
  
[Art Thou, Man, no more now mindefull]
  
[I saw a childe with slender pipe of stubble]
  
[When I read, when I contemple]
  
[The World is full of Wrong and yet is serv'd too-well]
  
[This World is a Galley fraighted]
  
[What's the World's Progress? what our Gifts, heer living?]
  
[Monarch's greatest Greatnes heer]
  
[Why, why should I the World bee minding]
  
[What Beautie's This, so brave bedeckt in Riches?]
  
[The World and Flesh combin'd with Death and Sin]
  
[Death's dead indeed, the World yet is not]
  
[Why? why build Worlds their Hopes Assurance]
  
[The World's a Drumm, with loud Alarum stirring]
  
[Why sleest thou, World? Alas! to seek Assurance.]
  
[Friend Larkin, if the World you figure]
  
[Sooner shall all the Heav'ns bright Eies]
  
[The World and Death one day them cross-disguised]
  
[The World's Session, or Assize]
  
[You tanned Tiphyes, whom Gain's love bewitches]
  
[This World is but a Pilgrimaging]
  
An Appendix.
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THE WOOD-MANS BEAR.
  
To the VVorshipfull, his most approoved Friend, M. Robert Nicolson.
  
TO HIS DIVINE ARC TO A her devout Arctophilos.
  
THE WOOD-MANS BEAR.
  
EPITHALAMION.
  
A HOLY PREPARATION to a ioifull Resurrection.
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THE MYSTERIE OF MYSTERIES.
  
THE FATHER.
  
THE SONNE.
  
THE HOLY-GHOST.

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Wilt Thou go hunt, th'old Lioness to help;

Cap. 39.


Or fetch-in prey to fill her greedy whelp,
When they are couchant in their Den, or watch
For passant Heards, their wonted Boot to catch?
Who, for the Raven, provideth timely Food;
When as her hungry greedy-gaping Brood,
Wandring about, and wanting what to eat,
Doe (croaking) call, and cry to Me for meat?
Know'st Thou the time when mountain Goats and Hindes
Doe yean and calue according to their Kindes)?
Canst Thou keep reckning of the Months they go,
And how their Burdens to their Birth-time grow;
When they but bow them, and forthwith let fall
Their tender Fruit, and all their Pains withall?
Who hath sent out the Wilde Ass, free to feed;
Or let him loose (from serving humane need)
Whose house and haunt I haue ordaind express
Within the brackie barren Wilderness?
He scorns the Cities multitude and noyse:
He reaks not of the yawning Drivers voyce:
The craggy Cliffs his shaggy Pastures been;
Where, off he croppeth what he findeth green.
Will th'Vnicorn thee willingly obay?
Or, will hee come vnto thy Crib, for Hay?
Will he be brought to harrow or to plow?
Or, will he bring thy Corn vnto thy Mow?
Wilt Thou presume of Him, for strength in fight?
Orleane to him, thy Labour to acquite?
Didst Thou bestow the Peacocks goodly Fan?
Or, gav'st Thou Feathers to the Stork (or Swan)?
Or, to the Ostridge her delicious Tress
(Th'ambitious Badge as well of War as Peace)
Who layes her egges, and leaues them in the Dust,
To hatch them there, with radiant Heat adust,
Without her help, or heed; lest Tread or Track,
Of Man or Beast them all to peeces crack:
Vnkindest Dam, the labour of her wombe
That dares annull; while Hers not Hers become:
So void I made her of Intelligence,
And kinde instinct of Natures Influence:
Yet, with her Wings and Feet so fast she skips,
That Shee the Horse and Rider both out-strips.
Hast Thou indew'd the Horse with strengthfull wonder,
And cloath'd his crest, and fill'd his brest with thunder?
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Canst Thou affright Him, as a Grass-hopper;
Whose nostrils pride snorts Terrors every where?
He pawes the Plain, he stately stamps, and neighs,
And glad goes-on against the arm'd Arraies,
Disdaining Fear. For, for the Sword and Shield,
Dart, Pike, and Lance, He 'll not forsake the Field,
Nor turn his back (how-ever thick they shiver)
Nor for the Cross-bow, and the rattling Quiver.
He swallowes-vp the Earth in furious heat;
Nor will beleeue the Sound of the Retreat.
Among the Trumpets, sounds his cheerfull Laugh,
Ha-Ha-ha-ha: hee smelleth a far-off
The wished Battaile; hears the thundring Call
Of proud Commanders; and lowd Shouts of all.
Is 't by thy wisedom that the Hawk doth mew,
And to the Southward spreads her winged Clew?
Doth th'Eagle mount so high at thy Behest,
And build aloft (so neer the clowds) her Nest?
Shee dwels vpon the Rock and ragged Cliffe,
And craggy places the most steep and stiffe:
From whence, about to seek her prey she flies;
Which, from afar, her quick keen Sight espies:
Her young ones also, onely Blood doo suck:
And where the Slain are, thither doo they ruck.
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