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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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[Cap. 33.]

The Contentes of the XXXIII. Chapiter.

Esau and Iacob are agreed,
and Esau goes to Seir.
And Iacob vnto Sichem went,
and set his Tentes vp there.

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Then Iacob lifting vp his eies
his Brother did behold,
And wyth hym came foure hūdreth men
as erst to hym was tolde.

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Then Iacob vnto both his Wyues,
and to his Maidens twayne
His Children put, ech by themselues
in order to remayne.

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The Maydens both and Children theyrs
that he by them did get,
The formost of the company
in order did hee set.

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And next to them he Lea plaste
and Children hers also:
And Rahell, last with her younge Sonne,
appointed was to goe:

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And then himselfe went them before,
as Guide vnto them all:
Seuen times ere hee his Brother mette,
vppon the Ground did fall.

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Esau hym met, embraced hym
and frendly did him kisse,
They both brast forth with Teares, and wept,
great Ioy to see was this:

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Then Esau lifted vp his eies
and did the women see,
And Children theyrs standing them by,
whence hast thou these? sayth he:

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And do these women and these youthes
belonge or no to thee?
They are (sayd he) thy Seruauntes Sonnes,
which God hath geuen to mee.

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Then came the Maydes wyth Children theirs
and did obeysaunce showe,
And Leah, wyth her Chyldren came:
and did her dutye knowe.

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And last of all came Ioseph forth
his Mother Rahell too,
Who gaue to him obeysaunce such
as duty bad them doe

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Sayd Esau vnto Iacob then
what Droue is that I met,
Of Goates, of Sheepe, of Camelles, Bulles,
of Kyne, and other Neate.

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My Lord sayd he, that fauour I
may finde in sight of thee,
I haue them sent vnto my Lord
as present geuen from me.

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Not so my Brother (Esau sayd)
enough haue I in store,
I neede them not, kepe that thou hast
vnto thy selfe therefore.

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Ah, nay, My Lord, but if I haue,
found fauor in thy sight,

Receyue this present from my handes
and therein do me right.

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For I this Day haue seene thy Face,
as though I should beholde
The Face of God, and thy good will
both makes mee glad, and bolde.

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Ah, take my blessinge that is brought,
for God hath mercy showne.
And so hee Esau did compell
to take it for his owne.

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When hee these Presentes had receiu'de,
let vs (sayd hee now go:
And I will leade the Waye before:
my Lord (sayde hee) not so,

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Thou know'ste the Children tender are,
the Ewes with Younge bee great,
So bee the Kine vnder my Hand:
I shall my Lord entreate:

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Least Men the Herd should ouerdriue,
but euen one Day to try:
Both Ewes, and Kine, and all the rest
would perish by and by,

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And therefore let my louinge Lord
goe on before, ift please,
And I will softly after come,
and driue the Herd with ease:

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So as the Cattell may endure,
and Children able bee:
I shall to Seir still follow on,
and there my Lord will see.

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Sayd Esau then, yet let mee leaue
some of my Folke with thee.

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What needeth it my Lord (sayd he)
this one thing graunt to mee,

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That I maye grace, and fauour finde,
before thy sight this Daye:
For thereof haue I nede, my Lord,
for which I humbly pray.

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So now agayne did Esau go
to Seir forthe on his way.
And Iacob did his Iourney take
to Suchot: which men say

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Was called so, by reason of
the Tentes and Bothes he made,
Wherein his Cattel from the heate
was cherisht in the shade.

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And Iacob built him there an howse
and so to Salem cam,
Of Sichem whych a City is
in Land of Canaan.

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And this was after he came from
Mesopotamia,
Which is a Country longe and brode
and sette in Asia.

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Before this City did be pitch,
his Tentes whereas he found
Of Hamors brode, of whom he bought
a certaine peece of Ground.
And for the same in mony payd
an hundreth peeces round.

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And Iacob built an Aulter there
to prayse the Lord wythal,
And on the God of Israell
continually did cal.