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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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The end of Adam, and beginning of Nöe.

The first Booke of Noe, called the Arke.

The second Booke of Noe, called BABILON.

The third Booke of Noe, or the Colonies.

The Pillars, or fourth Booke of Noe.

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So from the Canar Isles the pleasant sugar comes,
And from Chaldea spice, and from Arabia gums,
That stand vs much in stead both for perfume and plaster,

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And Peru sends vs gold and Damaske Alabaster;
Our Saffron comes from Spaine, our Ivory from Inde,
And out of Germanie our horse of largest kinde;
The scorched land of Chus brings Heben for our chamber,
The Northren Baltike Sound imparts her bleakish Amber,
The frostie coasts of Russe her Ermyns white as milke,
And Albion her Tynne, and Italie her silke.
Thus eu'ry country payes her diuers tribute-rate
Vnto the treasurie of th'vniuersall state.

And as the Persian Queene this prouince call'd her chains,

Man Lord of the world.

And that her stomachers; her plate this, that her traines;