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 |
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 | Du Bartas |  |
Should it bee question'd (as right well it may)
Whether Discouery of AMERICA,
That New-found World, have yeelded to our Ould
More Hurt or Good: Till fuller Answer should
Decide the Doubt, and quite determine it,
Thus for the present might wee answer fit:
That, Thereby Wee have (rightly vnderstood)
Both given and taken greater Hurt then Good:
And that on both sides, both for Christians
It had been better, and for Indians,
That onely Good men to their Coast had com,
Or that the Evill had still staid at home.
Whether Discouery of AMERICA,
That New-found World, have yeelded to our Ould
More Hurt or Good: Till fuller Answer should
Decide the Doubt, and quite determine it,
Thus for the present might wee answer fit:
That, Thereby Wee have (rightly vnderstood)
Both given and taken greater Hurt then Good:
And that on both sides, both for Christians
It had been better, and for Indians,
That onely Good men to their Coast had com,
Or that the Evill had still staid at home.
For, what our People have brought Thence to vs,
Is like the Head-peece of a Polypus,
Wherein is (quoted by sage Plutarch's Quill)
A Pest'lence great good, and great Pest'lence ill.
Is like the Head-peece of a Polypus,
Wherein is (quoted by sage Plutarch's Quill)
A Pest'lence great good, and great Pest'lence ill.
We had from Them, first, to augment our Stocks,
Two grand Diseases, Scurvy and The Pocks:
Then, Two great Cordials (for a Counterpeiz)
Gold and TOBACCO; both which, many waies,
Have don more Mischief then the former Twain;
And All together brought more Losse then Gain.
Two grand Diseases, Scurvy and The Pocks:
Then, Two great Cordials (for a Counterpeiz)
Gold and TOBACCO; both which, many waies,
Have don more Mischief then the former Twain;
And All together brought more Losse then Gain.
But, true it is, wee had this Trash of Theirs,
Onely in Barter for our broken Wares.
Ours, for the most part, carried out but Sin;
And, for the most part, brought but Vengeance, in:
Their Fraight was Sloth, Lust, Avarice and Drink,
(A Burthen able, with the Waight, to sink
The hugest Carrak; yea, those hallowed Twelve,
Spain's great Apostles, even to over-whelve)
They carried Sloth, and brought home Scurvy Skin:
They carried Lust, and brought home Pocks within:
They carried Avarice, and Gold they got:
They carried Bacchus, and TOBACCO brought.
Alas, poor indians! that, but English, None
Could put them down in their owne Trade alone!
That None, but English (more Alas! more strange!)
Could justifie their pitifull Exchange!
Onely in Barter for our broken Wares.
Ours, for the most part, carried out but Sin;
And, for the most part, brought but Vengeance, in:
Their Fraight was Sloth, Lust, Avarice and Drink,
(A Burthen able, with the Waight, to sink
The hugest Carrak; yea, those hallowed Twelve,
Spain's great Apostles, even to over-whelve)
They carried Sloth, and brought home Scurvy Skin:
They carried Lust, and brought home Pocks within:
They carried Avarice, and Gold they got:
They carried Bacchus, and TOBACCO brought.
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Could put them down in their owne Trade alone!
That None, but English (more Alas! more strange!)
Could justifie their pitifull Exchange!
Of All the Plants that Tellus bosom yields,
In Groves, Glades, Gardens, Marshes, Mountains, Fields,
None so pernicious to Man's Life is knowne;
As is Tobacco, saving Hemp alone.
Betwixt which Two there seems great Sympathy
To ruinate poor Adam's Progeny:
For, in them Both, a strangling vertue note,
And Both of them doo work vpon the Throte;
The one, within it; and without, the other;
And th'one prepareth Work vnto the tother.
For, There doo meet (I mean at Gail and Gallowes)
More of these beastly, base Tobacco-Fellowes,
Then else to any profane Haunt doo vse
(Excepting still The Play-house and The Stewes)
Sith 'tis their common Lot (so double-choaked)
Iust bacon-like, to bee hangd vp and smoaked:
A Destiny, as proper to befall
To morall Swine, as to Swine naturall.
In Groves, Glades, Gardens, Marshes, Mountains, Fields,
None so pernicious to Man's Life is knowne;
As is Tobacco, saving Hemp alone.
Betwixt which Two there seems great Sympathy
To ruinate poor Adam's Progeny:
For, in them Both, a strangling vertue note,
And Both of them doo work vpon the Throte;
The one, within it; and without, the other;
And th'one prepareth Work vnto the tother.
For, There doo meet (I mean at Gail and Gallowes)
More of these beastly, base Tobacco-Fellowes,
Then else to any profane Haunt doo vse
(Excepting still The Play-house and The Stewes)
Sith 'tis their common Lot (so double-choaked)
Iust bacon-like, to bee hangd vp and smoaked:
A Destiny, as proper to befall
To morall Swine, as to Swine naturall.
If there bee any Herb, in any place,
Most opposite to God's good Herb of grace,
'Tis doubt-less This: and this doth plainly prove-it;
That, for the most, most grace-less men doo love-it,
Or rather, doat most on this wither'd Weed,
Them Selves as wither'd in all gracious Deed.
'Tis strange to see (and vnto mee, a Wonder)
When the prodigious strange Abuse wee ponder
Of this vnruly, rusty Vegetal;
From modern Symmists Iesu-Critical,
(Carping at Vs, and casting in our Dish,
Not Crimes, but Crums: as eating Flesh for Fish:)
W'hear, in This Case, no Conscience-Cases holier.]
But, like to like; The Divell with the Collier.
Most opposite to God's good Herb of grace,
'Tis doubt-less This: and this doth plainly prove-it;
That, for the most, most grace-less men doo love-it,
Or rather, doat most on this wither'd Weed,
Them Selves as wither'd in all gracious Deed.
'Tis strange to see (and vnto mee, a Wonder)
When the prodigious strange Abuse wee ponder
Of this vnruly, rusty Vegetal;
From modern Symmists Iesu-Critical,
(Carping at Vs, and casting in our Dish,
Not Crimes, but Crums: as eating Flesh for Fish:)
W'hear, in This Case, no Conscience-Cases holier.]
But, like to like; The Divell with the Collier.
For a Tobacconist (I dare aver)
Is, first of all, a rank Idolater,
As any of th'Ignatian Hierarchy:
Next, as conformed to Their Foppery,
Of burning Day-light, and Good-night, at Noon,
Setting-vp Candles to enlight the Sun:
And last, the Kingdom of Nevv-Babylon
Stands in a Dark and Smoaky Region;
So full of such varietie of Smoaks,
That there-with-all all Piety it choaks.
Is, first of all, a rank Idolater,
As any of th'Ignatian Hierarchy:
Next, as conformed to Their Foppery,
Of burning Day-light, and Good-night, at Noon,
Setting-vp Candles to enlight the Sun:
And last, the Kingdom of Nevv-Babylon
Stands in a Dark and Smoaky Region;
So full of such varietie of Smoaks,
That there-with-all all Piety it choaks.
For, There is, first, the Smoak of Ignorance,
The Smoak of Error, Smoak of Arrogance,
The Smoak of Merit super-er'gatory,
The Smoak of Pardons, Smoak of Pvrgatory,
The Smoak of Censing, Smoak of Thurifying:
Of Images, of Satan's Fury-flying,
The Smoak of Stewes (for, Smoaking thence they com,
As horrid hot as torrid Sodom, som):
Then, Smoak of Povvder-Treason, Pistols, Knives,
To blowe-vp Kingdoms, and blowe-out Kings Lives;
And lastly, too, Tobacco's Smoaky-Mists,
Which (coming from iberian Baalists)
No small addition of Adustion fit
Bring to the Smoak of the Vnbottom'd Pit,
Yerst opened, first (as openeth Saint Iohn)
By their ABADDON and APOLLYON.
The Smoak of Error, Smoak of Arrogance,
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The Smoak of Pardons, Smoak of Pvrgatory,
The Smoak of Censing, Smoak of Thurifying:
Of Images, of Satan's Fury-flying,
The Smoak of Stewes (for, Smoaking thence they com,
As horrid hot as torrid Sodom, som):
Then, Smoak of Povvder-Treason, Pistols, Knives,
To blowe-vp Kingdoms, and blowe-out Kings Lives;
And lastly, too, Tobacco's Smoaky-Mists,
Which (coming from iberian Baalists)
No small addition of Adustion fit
Bring to the Smoak of the Vnbottom'd Pit,
Yerst opened, first (as openeth Saint Iohn)
By their ABADDON and APOLLYON.
But sith They are contented to admire
What They dislike not, if they not desire
(For, with good reason may wee ghess, that They
Who swallow Camels, swallow Gnatlings may);
'Tis ground enough for vs, in this Dispute,
Their Vanities, thus obvious, to refute
(Their Vanities, Mysterious Mists of Rome,
Which have so long be-smoaked CHRISTENDOM).
What They dislike not, if they not desire
(For, with good reason may wee ghess, that They
Who swallow Camels, swallow Gnatlings may);
'Tis ground enough for vs, in this Dispute,
Their Vanities, thus obvious, to refute
(Their Vanities, Mysterious Mists of Rome,
Which have so long be-smoaked CHRISTENDOM).
And for the rest, it shall suffize to say,
Tobacconing is but a Smoaky Play.
Strong Arguments against so weak a thing
Were need-less, or vnsuitable, to bring.
In this behalf there needs no more bee done,
Sith of it Self the same will vanish soon:
T'evaporate This Smoak, it is enough
But with a Breath the same aside to puff.
Tobacconing is but a Smoaky Play.
Strong Arguments against so weak a thing
Were need-less, or vnsuitable, to bring.
In this behalf there needs no more bee done,
Sith of it Self the same will vanish soon:
T'evaporate This Smoak, it is enough
But with a Breath the same aside to puff.
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