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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
Lisle, William (1579?-1637)

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A Pastorall Dedication to the King.
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[Fovre bookes of Du Bartas]
  
The end of Adam, and beginning of Nöe.
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The first Booke of Noe, called the Arke.
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The second Booke of Noe, called BABILON.
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The third Booke of Noe, or the Colonies.
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The Pillars, or fourth Booke of Noe.

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This countrry reaching forth as rich as it is large,
From Peake of Perosites, where doth himselfe discharge

Sem went toward the West.


The stately running Ob, great Ob, fresh waters King,
A riuer hardly crost in six daies trauelling,
To Malaca, to th'Isles from whence are brought huge masses
Of Calamus and Cloues: Samotra whereon passes
Heau'ns Equinoctiall line; and to the waters far
Of Pearly Zeilan Isle, and goldie Bisnagar:
And from the Pont-Eusine, and from the brother waues
Of those two Chaldee streames, vnto the Sea that raues
With hideous noise about the Straight of Aniens,
To Quinsies moorie poole, and to Chiorza, whence
Come Elephantick buls with silken-haired hides;
This hight the share of Sem: for Gods decree it guides
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Ashur t'Assyriland, that after some few daies

How and what Nations came of Sem.


Chal, Rezen, Niniué, their tow'rs to heau'n may raise.
The Persian hilles possest great Elams kingly race,
And those fat lands where-through Araxes bent his pace.
Lud held the Lydian fields, Aram th'Armenia,
And learned Arphaxad the quarter Chaldean.
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