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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 Contentes of the twentith Chapiter.

How Abraham as straunger went,
and did his wyfe denay,
And how the king of Gerar land,
tooke her from him away.

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And Abraham now left the Playne
of Mamre where hee dwelt,
And went in Countrye of the South,
where more Sunnes heate he felt,

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So there betweene Cades & Sur,
a further truth to tell,
In Gerar pitched hee his Tent,
to soiourne there and dwell.

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Abimelech was king thereof,
and hee for Sarai sent,
Because t'was sayd, a Woman fayre,
abydeth in his Tent.

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When Abraham demaunded was,
what woman shee should bee,
Shee is sayd hee none of my wyfe
but Syster is to mee.
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Abimelech had her away
in purenesse of his Harte:
And Abraham did seeme content,
to let her so depart:

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But God vnto Abimelech
by Night, in Dreame thus spake:
Beholde sayd hee thou now shalt die
for this same Womans sake:

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For shee is Wyfe vnto the Man
that thou hast tane her fro:
Abimelech yet toucht her not,
nor no time did her knowe.
O Lord, sayd he, and wilt thou slay
the righteouse People foe?

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Did they not both to mee affirme
his Sister shee to bee?
O Lord thou knowest with guiltlesse Heart
this thinge is done of mee.

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And God likewise by Dreame did say
I knowe it very well,
Thy Heart, and Handes were pure and cleane,
as thou to mee dost tell:

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I also thee preseru'de and kept,
agaynst mee not to sinne,
And therefore woulde not suffer thee,
to knowe what shee had bin.

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But see that thou deliuer nowe
the Man, his Wyfe agayne.
For hee is a Prophet, and shall praye
that thou maist liue and raigne:

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But if thou wilt not let her goe,
and set her from thee free:
Bea sure that thou shalt die the Death,
and all thou hast with thee.
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Abimelech betimes therfore
that Morning did aryse:
And all his seruauntes did commaund,
t'appeare before his eyes:

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And in their eares declared that
which God to him had sayd:
The hearing of the which in deede
did make them sore afrayde.

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Likewise for Abraham he cal'd
and sayd what hast thou done?
And what haue I offended thee?
that thou hast thus begonne?

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To bring on mee, and kingdome myne,
so great a Synne as this,
What didst thou see, in mee or these,
to do so much amisse?

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O King, sayd then this Abraham,
of truth such was the cace.
As I did thinke God was not knowne
nor feared in this place.

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And therfore hauing such a wyfe,
as fayre is to the eye,
Lest for her sake I perish should,
and so too tymely dye:

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I sayd she was and so shee is
my Sister as you see
By Father, but by mother not,
and Wife became to mee.

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And after from my Fathers house,
when God did byd mee goe:
Then to my wife in sort I sayd,
this kyndenesse do me showe,

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In places where wee wander in
if any aske and saye
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Is this thy Husband, yea or no,
thou shalt the same denay,

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And mee confesse a Brother thyne,
whome Nature doth compell,
To wander thus about wyth mee,
in Countries, where to dwell.

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Abimelech the kinge then tooke
of Sheepe, and Oxen store,
Of men seruauntes and Women too,
and brought them him before.

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And gaue them vnto Abraham,
for euer to remayne,
And with the same deliuered
Sara his wyfe agayne.

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And sayd, behold before thy face,
my Land doth open lye.
Choose where thou wilt therein to dwell,
as best shall please thyne eye.

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But vnto Sarah sayd the king
Sara behold and see:
I haue thy Brother Siluer geeuen,
a thousand pieces free.

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And hee the Ueyle is of thyne eyes,
to all that are with thee,
And al men els and therewithall,
reproued so was shee.

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So Abraham to God did praye,
and God his voyce did heare:
The King made whole: his Wyfe, and Maydes,
did Children after beare.

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For God thus plagued had the house
of Bimelech the King,
The Matrix of them all were stopt,
they might no issue bring.
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Till Abraham his Wyfe receiu'd,
thus happened the thinge.
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