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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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All holy rites performd, our gransire Noe ne will

Noe tills the earth as he did before the flood:


That idlenesse and ease benome his armes, and kill
His muskles vnexersd; but hies-him to the field,
And wisely takes in hand the worke he learnd a child.
For all the tyran-stocke of brother-killing Cain,

Whereas the sons of Cain gaue themselues to policie.


More liking sinne with ease, then innocence with paine,