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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Preferd a citie-life, to rule the peoples wills
With Scepters, arts, and lawes, before fields, woods, or hills.
Whereas the race of Seth, well knowing nature will
With little be suffic'd, began the ground to till
For holy exercise, and kept on dales and rockes
The lowing hairie heards, and bleating woolly flockes.
A praise-worth vsurie, gaine void of enuie and strife,
Art nourishing all Arts, and life maintaining life.
With Scepters, arts, and lawes, before fields, woods, or hills.
Whereas the race of Seth, well knowing nature will
With little be suffic'd, began the ground to till
For holy exercise, and kept on dales and rockes
The lowing hairie heards, and bleating woolly flockes.
A praise-worth vsurie, gaine void of enuie and strife,
Art nourishing all Arts, and life maintaining life.
No sooner had the Sunne, grace of cœlestiall brands,
Dry'd with rebounding beame the water-soaken lands,
But he that kept in ship the worlds seed from a wracke,
Plowes vp with sweating brow his mothers fruitfull backe.
Dry'd with rebounding beame the water-soaken lands,
But he that kept in ship the worlds seed from a wracke,
Plowes vp with sweating brow his mothers fruitfull backe.
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