^A/^f^^/^f 1 — & ^ THE POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS IN YERSE: (including FIFTY-NINE HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS) OF THOMAS FULLEK D.D. ft AND HIS MUCH-WISHED FOEM OF PEAYEE; FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED AND EDITED WITH Ettttotmcttcm ant* States REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, LIVERPOOL. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 1868. hi CRAWFORD AND M'CABB, PRINTERS, GEORGE STREET. EDINBURGH. TO HIS GEACE Efje ^rcptsfjop of Staftlitu May it please your Grace, Having done me the honour to suggest that I should edit and re-print the 1 Pisgah-Sight of Palestine Skad which only the pressure of other engagements compelled me to deny myself of, — I cannot hesitate in regarding you as a lover of Thomas Fuller. I ask your kind acceptance, therefore, of the dedication of this little volume of his Poems and Verse- Translations. With much regard and gratitude for theo- logical and spiritual benefit received from your Works, I am, Very Faithfully your Grace's Obliged, ALEXAKDER B. GR03ART. INTEODUCTION. SUSPECT that the first impression of those who hear of the present little volume or who take it up, will be that it is some such literary quiz as Sir Walter Scott half-thought of perpetrating in relation to David Hume. A short quotation from his genial letter will explain: — 'We visited Corby Castle on our return to Scotland,' he writes to Morritt, ' which remains in point of situation as beautiful as when its walks were celebrated by David Hume, in the only rhymes he was ever know to be guilty of. Here they are, from a pane of glass in an inn at Carlisle — Here chickens in eggs for breakfast sprawl, Here godless boys God's glories squall, Here Scotchmen's heads do guard the wall, But Corby's walks atone for all.' Then playfully, ' Would it not be a good quiz to advertise the Poetical Works of David Hume, with notes, critical, historical, and so forth — with an historical inquiry into the use of eggs for breakfast, a physical discussion on the causes of INTRODUCTION. their being addled, a history of the English Church music and of the choir of Carlisle in particular; a full account of the affair of 1745, with the trials, last speeches and so forth, of the poor plaids who were strapped up at Carlisle ; and lastly, a full and particular description of Corby, with the genealogy of every family who ever possessed if? I think even without more than the usual ivaste of margin, the Poems of David would make a decent twelve shilling touch. I shall think about it when I have exhausted mine own century of inventions.' 1 Even students of Fuller I find have never so much as seen his longest ' Divine Poem/ are unfamiliar with his ' Panegyrick,' and have over- looked his lesser things. So that unless I much mistake this volume of f Poems and Translations' bearing his sunny name will come as a surprise — a pleasant surprise surely — to not a few of his lovers. But they will not be c bamboozled ' (if the slang word be allowable) with any such ' ' Notes ' and ' Inquiries ' as loveable Sir Walter jocosely designed for Hume's quatrain. I had resolved to edit and print a limited private edition of i David's Hainous Sinne, Heartie Repentance, Heavie Punishment,' and the 'Pane- 1 Life by Lockliart c. xxxv. INTRODUCTION. 7 gyrick,' as on talking with fellow-reverers of Fuller, I discovered that not one in a score had once met with them, while all were wishful to have them if only they might be purchased under Bibliomania-price. My own copy of the former had cost me £5, 5s., and the latter <£2, 2s.; 1 and inquiry soon satisfied that in the book- market they were deemed cheap at these (com- paratively) high prices, e.g. in the British Museum copy which is bound in saffron morocco, but cropped mended and soiled, there is a memo- randum that it had sold for <£17 at Brand's Sale (whose book-plate is on it) \ and for the 'Pane- gyrick' — which is in virgin state, uncut edges — I was soon offered <£3, 3s. So that — independent of intrinsic worth and interest — if these could be faithfully and worthily reproduced for fewer pence than the pounds they readily fetch in the original editions, I thought a little literary service should be rendered thereby. But on proceeding to carry this out it soon appeared that more was demanded. 1 A copy of David's Hainous Sinne, etc., was recently on sale by Mr Joseph Lilly (a bookseller of the fine old stamp), Covent Garden, London, thus described, ' a Poem, small octavo, calf extra, gilt edges, the last leaf containing the concluding (only) verses reprinted, £5, 5s.' I believe it was snapped up instantly. Bindley's copy brought £5, 15s. 6d. Hibbert's, which was the same copy, £6, 6s. O INTRODUCTION. For on turning to my marked copies of the 'Worthies,' ' Church-History,' 'Pisgah-Sight:' in short to Fuller's complete "Works, I came on many 'Verses' — mainly translations from the Latin — having, occasionally at least, the salt of wit, the dainty fancies, the inimitable word-play and alliteration, the brilliant conceits — as of ancient tores of gold — the kindly humour, the soft delicate pitifulness, of this most loveable of England's Worthies. [I don't — as usual — call him ' dear old Fuller : ' for alas ! he died aged only 53]. All this being so, I concluded to give the whole of his Poems and Verse-Translations. Still further : My attention having been oblig- ingly called by Mr W. C. Hazlitt to his com- munication to Notes and Queries (3d Series vii. pp. 352, 353), concerning a volume formerly belonging to him, wherein were written in a contemporary hand a large number of Epigrams by ' Mr Tho. Fuller,' inquiries were set on foot to discover its present possessor. By the kind zeal of Mr F. S. Ellis, Bookseller, 33 King Street, Covent Garden, London, I speedily re- covered the precious little book, and obtained unreserved permission to use whatever I might wish in it. The Epigrams authenticate them- selves : many being truly Fullerian. I congratu- late myself on my rare good fortune in having it INTRODUCTION. 9 in my power to add this treasure- trove to my collection. I beg to return right hearty thanks to its owner (H. H. Gibbs Esq., London), for his ready liberality that enables me to do this. Thus the present volume — as its title-page bears — not only furnishes Fuller's larger Poems, but 'for the first time' brings together the minor ' Verses ' scattered up and down his numerous prose writings, and no fewer than fifty-nine hitherto unpublished Epigrams by him. Regarding ' the Poems and Translations ' in- trinsically, I prefix — in its place — the Critcism of his longest poem by Oldys. P>ut he has missed its biographic interest and its most characteristic turns and touches. Biographically it is to be remembered that as 'David's Hainous Sinne,' etc. was published in 1631 it was probably composed when he was little out of his ' teens.' — So that his first known production confirms Charles Lamb's penetrative insight in his winsome words on his genius : ' The writings of Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint and with suffi- cient reason : for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not, upon most occasions, it would have been going out of his way to have expressed himself out of them.' In his earliest as in his last book is the same ' Roman hand,' the same inevitableness, naturalness and spontaneity 10 INTRODUCTION. of ' quaint ' thought and wording. I cull a few examples of word-play from ' David's Hainous Sinne : ' and sure I am that no one familiar with Fuller will fail to detect in them the very essentia of his after-style. Thus he puts poor Uriah's eager obedience in carrying the king's false and fatal ' Letter,' — On his journey past With speed, who needed not to make such hast Whose death had he gone slow did come too fast. [I. st. 33.] Again, wisely as well as wittily : Where Kings bid and God forbids, we must forbeare [Ibid. st. 44.] And of Uriah finely — Thus of his friends betray'd by subtill traine : Assaulted of his foes with might and maine He lost Ms life, not conquered but slain [Ibid. st. 46.] So of the 'infant newly borne, now neare to dye' very tenderly — See with what silent signes and sighes full faine Poore heart it would expresse where lies the paine Complaining that it knowes not to complaine [III. st. 3.] Again — His tongue did never lye that cannot speke. [Ibid, st. 5.] INTRODUCTION. 1 1 Then follows this dainty metaphor — As when a tender rose begins to blow Yet scarce unswadled is, some wanton maide Pleas'd with the smell, allured with the show Will not reprive it till it hath di splay' d The folded leaves : but to her brest applies Th' abortive budd, where coffined it lyes Losing the blushing dye before it dies, [Ibid. st. 7.] Here is a genuinely Fullerian and later George CRABBE-ian alliteration — on ' the poor larke imprison' d in the cage of a kite's claws' vainly pleading for escape On her that pray'd so long, doth prey at last. [Ibid. st. 14.]i Again : of Absalom's mock-condescension — He steales their hearts by taking of their hands. [Ibid. st. 25.] Incisively too A saint dissembled is a double devile. [Ibid. st. 28.] Asse, that for wit his rider did exceed. [Ibid. st. 34.] Then, more fully and with still more characteris- tic touches : 1 We have many like lines e.g. of the c asse ' whereon Absalom rode, set free Now rid of him that rid on her before. [III. st. 45.] So— A fruitfull wildernesse of fruitlesse weeds. [Ibid. st. 48.] Seldome things done speedily doe speed. [Ibid. st. 53.] Losing their gettings, gaining what they lost. [Ibid. st. 68. J 12 INTRODUCTION. A chayne of hempe lie to his necke made fast By tying of which knot he did untye The knot of soule and body, and at last Stopping the passage of his breath, thereby A passage for his soule wide opened hee : Thus traytors rather than they should goe free Themselves the hangman of themselves will bee. [Ibid. st. 37.] Again : My sonne ! whose body had of grace the fill My sonne ! whose soule was so devoid of grace. [Ibid. st. 50.] Further: This 'Divine poem' is of biographic interest and value in that it reveals Fuller's Calvinism at the time (at least) — on two leading ' doctrines ' e.g. Predestination or Election. . . Soone with a word the Lord appeas'd this strife Injoyning silence till he did vnfold That precious volume cald the Booke of Life Which He the Printer priviledg'd of old Containing those He freely did imbrace : Nor ever would I wish an higher grace Than in this Booke to hae the lowest place. Within this Booke he sought for David's name Which having found He proffered to blot (And David surely well deserv'd the same That did his nature so with sinne bespot) Though none are blotted out but such as never Were written in ; nothing God's love can sever ; Once written there are written there for ever. [II. st. 5, 6.] INTRODUCTION. 13 Similarly on Original Sin : — But ah ! this infant's gnilt from him proceeds That knew the least when most he sought to know : Who most was nak't when cloathed in his weeds Best cloathed then when naked he did goe : In vayne the wit of wisest men doth strive To cut off this intayle, that doth derive Death unto all when first they are alive. [III. st. 6.] It is only due to our "Worthy to add his ' charit- able ' stanza on the absence of the rite of baptism : So this babe's life, newly begun, did end Which sure receiv'd the substance though not sign'd With grace's seale : God freely doth attend His ordinance, but will not be confin'd Thereto when 'tis not neglected nor despis'd They that want water are by fire baptiz'd Those sanctify'd that ne're were circumcis'd. [III. st. 8.] Besides these theological opinions we have in this Poem — and elsewhere — unmistakeable utterances on kindred matters. I select these four — prefix- ing headings — 1. Drunkenness: My prayers for friends prosperity and wealth Shall ne're be wanting : but if I refuse To hurt myself by drinking others' health Oh let ingenious natures mee excuse : If men bad manners this esteeme, then I Desire to be esteem'd unmannerly That to live well will suffer wine to dye. [I. st. 27.] 14 INTRODUCTION. 2. Preaching : Goe fond affectors of a flanting straine Whose sermons strike at sinnes with slenting blowes ! Give me the man that's powerfull and plaine The monster Vice vnmasked to expose : Such preachers doe the soule and marrow part And cause the guilty conscience to smart Such please no itching eares but peirce the heart. [II. st. 22. J 3. Female-humility : Ah ! happy age when ladies learn't to bake And when kings daughters knew to knead a cake. Eebecka was esteem'd of comely hew Yet not so nice her comelinesse to keepe But that shee water for the cammells drew : Rachell was faire, yet fedd her father's sheepe But now for to supply Eebecka' s place Or doe as Eachell did is counted base : Our dainty dames would take it in disgrace. 1 [III. st. 11, 12.] 1 This reminds me of an anecdote of a quaint old Scotch ' minister ' of the last century (Mr Oomrie of Pennicuik). His Congregation had been engaged in making a pecuniary effort to pay off debt on the Church by a kind of anticipa- tion of what are now called Bazaars. It did not prove a success ; and mainly through the lack of zeal of the ladies. Chagrined, Mr Comrie in a speech afterwards, looking the gay-dressed fair ones full in the face remarked dryly, ' The leddies noo-a-days pit me in mind o' the Lilies [All atten- tion expecting a compliment] — they toil not neither do they spinS INTRODUCTION. 15 4. False-friendship : Before such kisses come vpon my face Oh ! let the deadly scorpion me sting Yea rather than such armes should me imbrace Let curling snakes about my body cling : Than such faire words I'de rather the fowle Vntuned schreeching of the dolefull owle Or heare the direfull mountaine-wolfe to howle. [Ibid. st. 26.] I must leave the reader to dig for like nuggets. Preceded by George Peele in his i Love of King David and Pair Bet'sabe with the Tra- gedie of Absalom' (1599) and coming into com- parison with the i Davideis ; a heroical poem on the troubles of David/ of Abraham Cowley — his contemporary and fellow-student at Cam- bridge — Puller's first Poem loses nothing beside them. The 'Panegyrick' has happy lines : and was the genuine utterance of our large-hearted Worthy's loyalty to his ideal of monarchy. Hence the transfiguration of Charles the Second. Histori- cally it is valuable as an evidence of the glowing hopes that centred in the i merry monarch.' The actual ' Life ' Puller did not witness. He was ' gone ' before the brightness of the exile-years paled into foulest Mght. High-pitched as is his praise it is low compared with innumerable con- 1 6 INTRODUCTION. temporary ' Welcomes ' still preserved in the British Museum and elsewhere. 1 The Translation-verses I have already char- acterized : though truth to tell many of them only two faithfully answer his own apologetic description, ' Yet because some love poetry, either very good or very had, that if they cannot learn from it, they may laugh at it, they are here in- serted.' 2 Others are in daintiness of wording and quaintness of their turns as the Songs of Shakespere and Jonson to their Plays. The ' Flowers ' must lose in their transplantation (or cutting) even with the words as so much living 1 One of the most astounding of these productions is the following KAPO'AOY rpe^fieyKTrov "T&iri(pavia : The Most Gloriovs Star or Celestial Constellation of the Pleiades or Charles Waine. Appearing and shining most brightly in a Miraculous manner in the Face of the Sun at Noon day at the Nativity of our Sacred Soveraign King Charles 2. Pre- saging his Majesties Exaltation to future Honour and Great- ness, Transcending not only the most potent Christian Prince, in Europe, but by Divine Designment ordained to be the most Mighty Monarch in the Vniverse. Never any Starre having appeared before at the birth of any (the Highest humane Herd) except our Saviour. Behold a King shall reign in righteousness. Psal. 32. 1. By Edw. Mathew of the Middle Temple Esq. London, Printed for the use and benefit of William Byron, Gent. 1662 [12°]— Title-page— Ep: Dedy pp. 12— Treatise pp. 156 — Two engravings adorn (!) the volume. 2 ' Worthies ' [London]. INTRODUCTION. 17 earth — Fuller's earth, Fuller himself would have said — attached : ay, were they put into ' Pots ' such as Keats' ' basil' grew in. Still I have given as much of the context in which the 1 Verses ' occur as to impart interest. I do not at all claim poetic genius for 6 rare ' Thomas Fuller, or for independent poetic fame. But everything that serves to furnish insight into the whole nature of a great man has its own use and worth. It is noticeable that while he did not follow up his ' David's Hainous Sinne,' etc., with other poems of like length and kin, he yet kept singing unto the end. There must have been a string that vibrated to the subtle ' breath' when the music — and words to it — was so inevitable and irrepressible. Biographers and critics have failed as it seems to us, to recognise this element in the large, rich, most winsome nature of our Worthy. I scrupulously adhere to the original text throughout, retaining Fuller's own orthography: 1 1 1 must ask the student, however, to keep in mind that with very few exceptions the present apostrophe of the possessive case was unemployed by Fuller and his contem- poraries— e.g., wo read not Truth's but Truths, Romes not Rome's. I have also somewhat modified the use of capitals and italics, which are used very arbitrarily. B 18 INTRODUCTION. agreeing herein with the venerated Keble that ' in one respect especially, i.e. as a specimen and monument of language, ancient hooks lose very much of their value by the neglect of ancient orthography.' 1 For popular, practical use, mo- dernization of spelling is not only permissible, but absolutely necessary. On the other hand, to the circle to whom this reprint addresses itself, faithfulness to the author is a sine qua non. I have used all the care that I could command : and I venture to hope not in vain. 2 A few Notes explanatory of names and references, bear my initial G. Those of Fuller himself, F. Of course in the Translation- Verses and originals from his prose Works the reader must turn to the several places for further information as to names and things introduced. It were mis- placed annotation to enlarge on these in such a small venture as the present. Besides the Poems and Verse-Translations 1 Keble's Hooker, Vol. I. : Preface page viii (edn. 1841, 3 vols. 8°). I have marked the noticeable words in foot- notes. 2 I cannot expect to be found faultless, for even so scholarly and able an editor as Dr Nuttall in his edition of the ' Worthies ' very often errs — e.g.., in No. LIV. of our extracts from the 'Worthies' he misreads 'paths for parts,' and reduces the sweet couplet to nonsense : in No. LXIV. for 'townsmen' reads 'townmen.' INTRODUCTION. 19 and Epigrams as enumerated, I give as an Appendix the ' Form of Prayer ' used by Dr Fuller. The book in which it is contained is of the very rarest : and hence in Notes and Queries and elsewhere this i Form ' has been repeatedly inquired for — in vain. To the eru- dite Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge (W. Aldis Wright, Esq., M.A.) I am indebted for this addition to the Eulleriana of our volume. I close this Introduction with some pat lines from that finely-touched old Translator— Arthur Golding, which I have chanced on unreferenced in my Common Place Book : — Whoso doth attempt this Author's works to read Must bring with him a stayed head and judgment to proceed ; For as there be most wholesome hests and precepts to be found So are there rocks and shallow shelves to run the ship a-ground. ALEXANDER B. GROSABT. 308 Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool. P.S. — As I send my Manuscript to the Printers there reaches me a reprint of i David's Hainous Sinne, etc., tacked on to Fuller's Party- coloured-Coat, a Comment on 1 Corinthians xi.,' etc. The volume is edited bv Mr 'William Mchols, 20 INTRODUCTION. and forms one of a number of Fuller-reprints from the house of Tegg — most welcome ! But the modernisation of the orthography of the Poem is inexcusable. In no respect can it come into competition with our volume apart from its giving only one of the poetic productions of the Author. G. CONTENTS. Page Introduction, 5 Oldys on ' David's Hainous Sinne,' etc., with Notes, . . 27 I. David's Hainous Sinne, 33 „ Heartie Eepentance, 54 „ Heavie Punishment, 64 II. A Panegyrick on His Majestie's Happie Eeturn, . . 91 HI. Verses prefixed to Sparkes' ' Scintilla Altaris,' . . . 106 IV. Ad Serenissimum Regem 110 V. From 'Rex Redux,' 111 VI. Echo-Song, 112 VH. From the 'Church History,' 112 Page 1. Alban: Martyr, . . 114 17. 2. St German, . . . 114 3. On a woman who would enter a Church from which women were 18. excluded, . . . 114 19. 4. Easter in Britain, . . 114 20. 5. Lines from Taliesen (?), 115 21. 6. Foundation of Univer- 22. sity of Cambridge, . 116 23. 7. Victory of Oswald, . 116 8. Oswald 117 24. 9. Wilfride's deprivation of the Bishopric of •25. York, . . .117 26. 10. Adelme,B'pofSherborn, 118 27. 11. Alba, since Rome, . 118 12. Martyrdom of King Ed- mond, .... 118 28. 13. Alfred and Edward, . 119 29. 14. Dunstan, . . .119 30. 15. The good daughter of a 31. bad father, . . 120 32. 16. Francis I. captive in 33. Spain, .... 121 34. . Translations of Scrip- ture, . . . .121 . Cuthbert receiving the Communion in the Cup, . . . 122 . Against Marriage, . . 122 . A'Beckett's Martyrdom, 123 . Henry II., . . .124 . Hugh Nevil, . . .124 . Richard the Lion- hearted, . . . 125 . Learned Writers, 'Bale and Pitts,' . . . 125 . Baconthorpe, . . . 126 , William Occam, . . 126 , Edward and ' native sub- jects,' . . .127 , Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, . . . 127 , Simon Sudbury, . . 128 , Chaucer ' Our Homer,' . 129 Chaucer, . . . .129 , Eton, . . . .129 , Retribution, . . . 130 . Jesuits, . . . . 131 22 CONTENTS. 35. Feasts of Ely Abbey. 36. Bells, . 37. Marshes of Mantua, 38. John Leland to Henry VIII., . 39. Against the Masse, 40. Dr Hugh Price, 41. Cox, Bishop of Ely, 42. Verses by Mary Queen of Scots, 131 132 132 133 133 135 136 . 136 Page 43. Epitaph on Luke Cha- loner, .... 137 44. Humphrey Eli, . . 137 45. Gunpowder Plot, . . 137 46. The Brothers Eainolds, 137 47. Intended Colledge, . 138 48. Prince Henry, . . 138 49. The Conference, . . 139 VHI. From ' History of University of Cambridge ' — 1. Cambridge, . . .139 3. Henry and Charles Bran 2. Humphery Necton, . 140 don, Dukes of Suffolk 140 IX. From ' Pisgah-Sight of Palestine '— (a) From letter-press. 10. Dew, . 144 1. Wine of Palestine, . . 141 11. Egypt, . . . . 145 2. Libanus' Yews, . . 142 12. Mock-tears, . 145 3. Dagon, . . . .142 13. Idols, . 146 4. Semiramis and the doves, 142 14. Idol-calf, 146 5. Levite's Concubine, . 143 (6) From the Maps. 6. Sepulchres, . . .143 1. Engraved title-page, 146 7. Tabernacle and Temple, 143 2. Palestine, 146 8. Giants, . . . .144 3. Jerusalem, 147 9. Horses in Sacrifice to 4. Fragmenta Sacra, . 147 the Sun, . . .144 X. From ' The Holy Warre '— 1. Issues, .... 148 7. King Guy, 152 2. Baldwine, . . .149 8. King Bichard ' prisoner,' 152 3. fAlexius, . . . .150 9. French Bhyme: Cru- 4. King Fulk, . . .150 sades, . 153 5. Frederick, . . . 151 10. The Pastorells killed in 6. tOonrade, . . .151 France, 153 XI. From ' The Holy State '— 1. The Elder Brother, . 153 13. Gravitie, . . . . 160 2. The Younger Brother, . 154 14. Grand Churches, . 160 3. Julius Scaliger, . . 154 15. The Good Bishop, . 160 4. The Faithful Minister, . 155 16. Augustine, 161 5. William Perkins, . . 155 17. Kidley and Hooper, 161 6. Simony, . . . .156 18. Lady Jane Grey, . 162 7. The Good Patron, . . 156 19. Queen Elizabeth and 8. Hope Disappointed, . 157 the Spanish 'Embas- 9. Tombes, . . . .158 sadour,' 162 10. The same, . . .159 20. Gustavus Adolphus, 163 11. fFinis 159 21. Heir-apparent, 164 12. Moderation, . . .159 XII. From ' The Profane State '- 1. The Harlot, . . .164 4. Jehu, . 165 2. Joan of Arc, . . .164 5. t Abolition of Universities 166 3. Atheist, . . . .165 6. The Liar, . 166 CONTENTS. 23 XIII. From ' Abel Kedevivus '- 1. Berengarius, . 2. John Huss, 3. Jerome of Prague, 4. Cranmer, Page . 166 I . 168 I . 169 I . 169 5. John Fox, 6. Fr: Junius, 7. William Perkins, Page . 170 . 171 . 172 XTV. From l Mixt Contemplations ' and ' Personal Meditations ' — 1. All for the Present, 172 2. Niniveh, . . 173 3. Good Augury, 173 4. Ovid's Line, 174 XV. From ' The Worthies '— 1. Scarlet Habit of Cardinals ,174 40. Higre and Adria, . 191 2. Lord Chancellors, . 174 41. Thomas de la More 191 3. Needless Books, 175 42. Charles Butler, . 191 4. Modern Pamphleteers, 175 43. William, 2d son of Ed- 5. fHenry Keble, 176 ward HI., . . 192 6. Charity, .... 177 44. Alexander Nequam . 192 7. Surnames, 178 4-3. tWilliam of Ware, . 193 8. Associates, 178 4(3. Wye-salmon, . . 193 9. Descents, 179 47. Adam de Easton, . 193 10. ' Haste makes Waste,' . 179 48. William Sempster, . 194 11. Episcopacy and Presby- 49. Humphrey Ely, . 194 tery, . 180 50. Bosamund, . 194 12. Living Persons, 180 51. Sir Bobert Cotton, . 194 13. Numerousness of Writers, 181 52. Interpretation of a Pro- 14. Birth-place, 181 verb, . . 195 15. English ape the French, 181 •53. Germans, . 195 16. tRoyal Children, . 181 54. fEdmund. voungest son 17. Sir John Mason, 182 of Henry VIL, . 195 18. Ancient Gentry, 182 55. Sir James Hales, . 195 19. tBichard Cox and Prince •53. Bichard Fletcher, . 195 Edward, 182 •57. Sir Thomas Wyat, . 196 20. Dame Hester Temple. 182 58. New Kings, . 196 21. Baskets, . . . . 183 59. Wills, . 196 22. Matthew Paris, 183 60. Worth, . . 196 23. Simon Steward, 183 61. Fleet-hounds, . . 196 24. Beestone Castle, 1S3 62. Grey-hounds, . . 197 25. fDaniel King, . 184 63. Mastiffs, . . 197 26. Dreams, .... 184 64. Lost ' Commons,' . 197 27. Tongilian, 185 6-5. Ayscough, Bp. of Sarum, 197 28. Cornish, .... 185 66. Thomas Goodrich, . 197 29. Michael Blaunpayn, 185 67. Hampton-Court, . 198 30. Kichard Carew and Sir 68. Fulke de Brent and his Philip Sidney, . 187 Wife, . . 198 31. Sympathy, 187 69. fKatherine, 3d dau ghter 32. John Salkeld, . 187 of Henry VHX, . 198 33. Ohatsworth, . 187 70. fWives of Henry VIIL, . 199 34. Buxton Well, . 188 71. William Cotton, D.D., . 199 35. Battle of Alcaser, 188 72. Edmund Spenser, . 199 36. Sir Francis Drake, 188 73. London, . . 199 37. Samuel Ward, 189 74. Charles H., . 200 38. Sir Henry Killigrew, . 190 75. Bishop Aylmer, . 200 39. fThomas Barington and 76. ' An end,' . 200 ' spouse,' 190 77. William Lilly, 200 24 CONTENTS. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. Sir Robert Dallington, . 201 John Fletcher, the Dramatist,' Peter Pateshull, Laxton, . Friars, . Thomas Magnus, Venison, Quarrels, 201 202 202 202 203 203 204 tWife of Peter Martyr, 204 "War, . . . .205 88. Sword, . . . .205 89. Kalph of Shrewsbury, . 205 90. fWilliam Adams, . . 205 91. William Grocine, . . 206 92. Staffordshire, . . 206 93. From Virgil, . . .207 94. tCathedral Churches, . 207 95. Bury, . . . .207 96. St Edmund, . . .207 97. Stephen G-ardiner, . 208 98. Lydgate's Epitaph, . 208 99. Samuel Ward, . . 208 100. Sir William Cordal, . 209 101. Parkhurst to Jewel, . 209 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. Page William Ockham, . 210 Epigram, . . . 210 Dr Barlow, . . .210 Sir Thomas Shirley, . 210 Heraldry-rhyme, . . 210 Baucis and Philemon: applied to Mr and Mrs Underhill, . . .210 Patrons, . . . .211 Customs, . . . 211 Queen Jane Seymour, . 211 Bonner, . . . .212 Geat 212 Daphne, . . . .212 Eustathius de Faucon- bridge, fThomas Johnson, Robert the Scribe, Rhyme, . Cathedral of York, Albane Hill, . Rhymes, William Breton, . Wonders, Richard Vaughan, 212 213 , 213 213 , 213 , 213 , 214 , 214 214 , 214 XVT. Epitaph on Denys Rolle, Esq., 215 XVH. From ' Andronicus,' 216 XVIII. Hitherto Unpublished Epigrams- 1. Adam, 221 24. Paul's Jorney to Damas- 2. Noah, .... 221 cus, 226 3. Leah, .... 221 25. Philistines, 226 4. Joseph and his Mistress 222 26. Michal's Mockinge, 227 5. Ziporah, . 222 27. On Peter's words 'shal 6. Moses smiteinge ye Rock, 222 I smite ? ' . 227 7. Batle with Amalecke, . 222 28. Bugbears, 227 8. Joshauah, 223 29. Sampson, 227 9. Alter Ed., 223 30. Manasse, . 227 10. Sampson's Jawe-bone, 223 31. Jacob, 227 11. Ephraimites, . 223 32. Noah's dove, . 228 12. Elijah, .... 223 33. A prayer, 228 -x 13. Zacheus, .... 224 34. Peter's Sinkinge, . 228 14. Powder-plot, . 224 35. On his Successors, . 228 15. Vaine Excuses, 224 36. On pride in cloaths, 228 16. Gallants Cloakes, . 224 37. Zacheus, . 228 17. Popish Interpretation of 38. Musculus, 228 Scripture, . 224 39. One more knave than 18. Sin, 224 foole, . 229 19. Whether Scripture or 40. David's three Worthys, 229 tradition ye mother of 41. Sampson, 229 faith, . 225 42. A prayer, 229 20. Pope Innocent, 225 43. On ye men of Sodom, . 229 21. Corn-hoarders, 226 44. Naboth accused, 230 22. On Joseph's Mistress, 226 45. Jacob, . 230 23. Jacob, .... 226 46. Ehud, . . 230 CONTENTS. 25 Page Page 47. Israelites in ye Wilder- 54. Isaac, . . . .232 ness, . . 230 55. Sampson's weapons, . 232 48. Perseverance, . . 230 56. Jepthse's daughter, . 232 49. James and John wish- 57. Ely ye priest, . . .232 inge fire on ye Samari- 58. Sampson and John Bap- tans, . 230 tist, . . . .232 50. Paul's danger, . 231 59. Christ Lookinge on Peter, 233 51. Jael, . 231 Notes on Epigrams, . . 233 52. Hezekiah, . 231 53. Jehoshaphat, . . 231 Appendix — Form of Prayer, 237 *** Owing to an oversight, the verses from the ' Profane State ' in our book are numbered XI. instead of XII., and those that follow ought to have continued XIII., XIV., XV., XVL, XVIL, XVIIL Notice that f opposite verses indicate that they are original, not translated. G. I LDYS on ' David's Hainous Sinne,' etc., from Biographia Britannica [Yol. iii. page 2050, folio.] ' The first per- formance of our author that has appeared to us in print, being a divine poem, very rare to be met with, and having had no description of it, the fol- lowing account may not be unacceptable to the curious. It is entitled . . A critical reader of poetry might find matters of remark in it; either to commend in some agreeable descriptions, natural similies, and instructive reflections ; or to censure in some few parts of the style, which were fashion- able elegancies in those times : but in the whole promising that had he persevered in the study and culture of poetry, his genius might have advanced him to some considerable rank among those con- temporaries who were then favorites of the Muses. His good sense and ingenuity at that age is dis- tinguishable enough; his versification is more compact or limited, and usually flows with smoother cadence than that of some riper wits 28 OLDYS ON of great name in those days. Among other observable parts, the very proposition and in- vocation are very comprehensive, solemn, and regular : the persuasions of David by the Spirit and the Mesh ; with the description of Uriah's drunkenness, are very natural : the obsequious offer of the Elements to destroy David upon his transgression, and after his restitution to relieve and cherish him, are somewhat picturesque, and touching upon Spencer's imag[e]ry in miniature : his comparison of those variable elements upon this occasion, to temporising courtiers, who will fawn upon a minister when he is restored to favour, as fast as they flouted him in disgrace, looks to have something in it perfectly alive ; and so does that figure wherein we may imagine that we see Absalom cringing with supple neck and knees about the court, to gather up what alms and fragments he could of popular favour and interest, by seizing upon one man's hand to steal away his heart, and sucking out the soul of another with deceitful kisses \ inquiring the name of this, the business of that, and the country of t'other, to serve them all ! prostituting his promises and enslaving himself to errant slaves : in whom also we have a further glimpse of pride itself, grovel- ling to be exalted to grandeur, and exercising all the abject spirit of the most beggarly poor, to david's hainous sinne. 29 worm itself into riches : or as one author reads it— 1 Proud men are base to compass their desires ; They lowest crouch that highest do aspire.' x But this is a picture not near so agreable as that of plain-dealing Nathan, in his state of modera- tion ; the knowing and communicative, the kind and compassionate Nathan, who being skilled in lancing a fester'd soul, in searching and tenting the sore, and stanching a "bleeding-hearted sinner, would heal his wounds with the sovereign balsam of counsel, or bind up the disjointed members of his troubled mind. He was neither oppressed with that plenty which made him envied nor distressed with that penury which made him despised : his pursuits were circumscribed to his possessions ; and as he was in no needful want, he thought wanton need most despicable ; or that want in sufficiency was the true mother of contempt : so, as his desires were planted within the most temperate situations of command, they 1 A similar turn of thought occurs in his Andronicus when the usurper ceremoniously kissed the feet of the young monarch. ' The spectators variously commented on his prodigious humility therein; some conceiving he meant to build high because he began so low.'' G. 30 OLDYS ON produced the sweetest fruits of content ; for, as our poet says : ' High hills are parch' d with heat or hid with snow, And humble dales, soon drown'd, that lie too low, Whilst happy grain on hanging hills doth grow.' x Descriptions more flowery might be hither trans- planted ; such as are so gently strewed over David's child in death, and others ; but as his gravity in this poem prevails over the natural gaiety of his genius, we have chosen in this histori- cal work to instance those few particulars which are rather in the edifying and profitable than 'to hunt after such as may run into a more pleasing and poetical vein. At the close of this per- formance our author having subsided into the characters of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles I., and lamented the loss of the 1 Campbell nses a somewhat similar figure where he speaks of the stations of life best fitted for Tragedy : 'Even situations far depressed beneath the familiar mediocrity of life are more picturesque and poetical, than its ordinary level. It is, certainly, on the virtues of the middling ranks of life that the strength and comforts of society chiefly depend, in the same manner as we look for the harvest, not in cliffs and precipices, but on the easy slope and uniform plain.' — Specimens. This sentiment well comports with F.'s moderate life. But he was no neuter ' of that lukewarm temper which heaven and hell doth hate.' — (Andronictis). G. = DAVID S HAINOUS SINNE. 31 Duke of Brunswick, with the discords then in Europe thro' the wars in the Netherlands, Den- mark, etc., he very properly and piously con- cludes that those grievances may he bewailed by mankind but till they are reversed by Pro- vidence, they are more befitting his prayers than his pen. 1 I. DAVID'S HAINOUS SINNE. NOTE. The original title-page of this * Divine Poem ' will be found below.* The collation is as follows : Title-page —Dedication 1 page— Poem pp. 73— [129-]— G. * ( Hainovs Sinne. David's < Heartie Repentance. ( Heavie Punishment. Exodus 35. 23. And every man, with whom was found Goates haire, and red skins of Rammes, and Badgers skins, brought them [to the building of the Tabernacle]. Ad Zoilum. Thy Laies thou vtt'rest not, yet carpest mine Carpe mine no longer, or else utter thine. By Thomas Fvller, Master of Arts of Sidnye Colledge in Cambridge. London, Printed by Tho. Cotes, for John Bellamie, dwelling at the three Golden Lyons in Cornehill, 1631. l 1 It may be noted that ' Thomas Cotes ' was the printer and publisher of Shakespere's folio of 1632 (Second edi- tion). G. To the honorable Mr Edward, Mr William, and Mr Christopher Montagu, sonnes to the Eight honourable Edward Lord Montagu of Boughton. 1 ATEE branches of a stock as faire Each a sonne and each an heire : Two Joseph-like from sire so sage, Sprung in autumne of his age ; But a Benjamin the other Gain'd with losing of his mother. This fruit of some spare hours I spent To your Honours I present. A king I for my subject have And noble patrons well may crave ; Things tripartite are fit for three, With youths, things youthful best agree ; Take them therefore in good part Of him that ever prayeth in heart That as in height ye waxe apace, Your souls may higher grow in grace. 1 Full information concerning this historic family, and these ' youths ' in particular, will be found in ' Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne. Edited from the Papers of Kimbolton by the Duke of Manchester,' 2 vols. 8vo. 1864. Cf: I. 266 seqq 273 seqq, et alibi. One of the maps in ' Pisgah-Sight ' is dedicated to the Montagus. G. 36 DEDICATION. Whilst your father (like the greene Eagle in his scutcheon seene : Which with bill his age doth cast) May longer still and longer last : To see your vertues o're increase Your yeares, ere he departs in peace. Thus I my booke to make an end To you : and you to God commend. Your Honours in all service Tho. Fuller. DAVID'S HAINOUS SIKNE. 1. OW Zion's Psalmist grievously ofFended How Israel's Harper did most foulely slide, Yet how that Psalmist penitent, amended And how that Harper patient did abide Deserved chastisement (so fitly stil'd Which wrath inflicted not hut love most mild Not for to hurt but heale a wanton child.) 2. How one by her owne brother was defiled And how that brother by a brother slaine ; And how a father by his sonne exiled : And by a subject, had a soveraigne : How peace procured after battels fierce As Sol at length doth sullen cloudes dispierce: My Muse intends the subject of her verse. Great God of might whose power most soveraigne Depends of none yet all of Thee depend, 38 david's hainous sinne. Time cannot measure, neither place containe Nor wit of man Thy being comprehend : For whii'st I thing on Three, I am confin'd To One, and when I One conceive in minde I am recal'd to Three in One comhin'd 4. Thy helpe I crave, Thy furtherance I aske My head, my heart, my hand direct and guide, That whii'st I vndertake this weighty taske I from Thy written lore start not aside : Alas ! 'tis nothing Lord with Thee to breake The strong : 'tis nothing to support the weake To make men dumbe, to make an infant speake, 5. Each one begotten by immortall seed Becomes the pitcht feild of two deadly foes ; Spirit and flesh, these never are agreed With trucelesse warre each other doth oppose ; And though the spirit oft the flesh doth quell It may subdue but can it not expell So stoutly doth the Jebusite rebell. 6. Now David when on Bathsheba loose eyes He fixt, his heavenly halfe did him disswade ; david's hainous sinne. 39 Turne, turne away thy sight from vanities Exchange thy object, else thou wilt be made Vnmindfull of thy soule, her corps 1 to mincle Made for to lose the truth, such toyes to finde, By looking long, made at the last, starke blinde. 7. What though her face and body be most faire, Behold, the sun her beauty doth surpass ; His golden beames surmount 2 her yellow hayre As far as purest cristall dyrtie glasse : Her skinne as is the skie not halfe so cleare Her curious veines for colour come not neare Those azure streaks that in the heavens appeare. 8. There let thy hungry sight her famine feede. Whereon it cannot surfet with excesse : WhiTst tongue, heart, harp are tuned vp with speed, The grand-contrivers glory to expresse : Framing with words to rayse his mighty name That with a mighty word did rayse this frame, And by his providence preserves the same. 1 The latin ' corpus ' body, not necessarily life-less. G. 2 Surpass e.g. Shakespere 1 Henry VI. v. 3, and Love's Labour Lost v. 2. G. 40 david's hainous sinne. 9. But let no lustfull thoughts lodge in thy minde, Before that they be borne, they must be kill'd, Or else the man is cruell that is kinde To spare the foes wherewith his soule is spill'd : And if a wanton motion may request, Leave for to lodge a limbe th' incroaching guest Will soone command roome to receive the rest. 10. Looke towards the mid-day sun, and thou shalt see A little tower 1 o're topps of hills to peepe ; That is the birth place of thy pedygree : Full oft there hast thou fed thy father's sheepe, And kept his ilockes vpon the Howry plaine : But now the sheepe-hook of a country swaine Is turn'd the scepter of a soveraigne. 11. God made thee great, oh doe not Him disgrace And by His weighty statutes lightly set : 1 The tower of Eder nigh Bethlehem 7 miles from Jeru- salem. F. david's hainous sinne. 41 Hee honour' d thee, oh doe not Him debase; Hee thee remembred, doe not Him forget : Why should fat 1 Jeshurun so wanton grow As at his maister's head his heeles to throw'? Maister : that all his feeding did bestow. 12. Behold high cedars in the valley set They in thy eyes like little shrubbs doe show, Whil'st little shrubbs vpon mount Oliuet Seeme lofty cedars : men whose states are low Their sinnes are not so obvious to sense : In princes, persons of great eminence A smaller fault doth seeme a great offence. 13. But grant, no man thy wickednes espies Surely the Searcher of the reines doth marke Even infant lust] can figg-leaves bleare his eyes'? Or can thy shame bee shrowded in the darke ? Darknes shall then be turned into light Yea darknes is no darknes, in His sight But seeme the same to Him both day and night. 1 Deut. xxxii. 15. F. _i z-:.l : Li: =: -_ -- _ _ _ - . L-ri david's haixous sixxe. -43 17. Alwayes the same doth glut the appetite But pleased is our palate with exchange ; Variety of dishes doth delight : Then give thy loose affections leave to range. Forbidden things are best, and when we eate What we have slily gotten by deceit : Those morsels onely make the daynty meate. 18. But oh reserve thy selfe. my maiden muse For a more modest subject, and forbeare To time such wanton toyes as may abuse And give distaste vnto a virgin's eare : Such rotten reasons first from hell did flow And thither, let the same in silence goe, Best knowne of them that did them never know. 19. Thus hee that conquer' d men and beast most cruell (\Vhose greedy pawes with fellon goods were found) Answer'd Goliath's challenge in a duell And lay'd the giant groveling on the ground : He that of Philistines two hundred slue Xo whit appalled at their grisly hue Him one fravle woman's beauty did subdue. 44 david's hainous sinne. 20. Man is a shippe, affections the sayle The world the sea, onr sinnes the rocks and shelves, God is the pylot, if He please to fayle And leave the stearing of us to ourselves Against the rugged rocks wee run amaine Or else the winding shelves doe us detaine Till God the Palinure returns againe. 21. Yet David bold to sinne, did fear the shame : He shunn'd the sheath that ran upon the knife : With a fine fetch 1 providing for his fame He fetcheth home Yriah to his wife : So under his chaste love to cloake his owne Vnlawful lust to fault most carelesse growne, Most carefull that his fault should not be knowne. 22. But in their plots God doth befoole the wise By wayes that none can trace, all must admire : Short of his house that nigh Yriah lyes, And David so came short of his desire : The man a nearer lodging place did use 1 Expedient. G. david's hainous sinne. 45 (Which made the king on further plots to muse) And sent home, home to goe, did thus refuse. 23. The pilgrime arke doth sojourne in a tent : In open fields Joab my lord doth lye, And all the souldiers of his regiment Have earth their beds, the heaven their canopy : Where bitter blasts of stormy winds are rife. Shall I goe feast, drink, dally with my wife 1 Mot, as I live, and by your lordship's life. 24. Then by his servants David did conspire Uriah's lust so dull, with wine to edge : (Venus doth freeze where Bacchus yeelds no fire) By their constraint, he condescends to pledge One common cup that was begun to all Captaines incamped nigh to Eabba wall ; One specially vnto the general! 25. Abishay next is drunke to Joab's brother And this cupp to a second paves the way ; That orderly doth vsher in another : Thus wine once walking knowes not where to stay: 46 david's hainous sinne. Yea such a course methodicall they take In ordering of cupps the same did make Yriah quite all order to forsake. 26. His false supporters soone began to slipp And if his faltring tongue doth chance to light On some long word hee speedily doth clip The traine thereof : yea his deceitfull sight All obiects paired doth present to him : As double faces ; both obscure and dim Seeme in a lying looking-glasse to swim. 27. My prayers for friends prosperity, and wealth Shall ne're be wanting, but if I refuse To hurt myself by drinking others health Oh let ingenious natures mee excuse : If men bad manners this esteeme, then I Desire to be esteem' d unmannerly That to live well will suffer wine to dye. 28. Well did blind Homer see, for to expresse The vice that spawnes all other, when he faines Dame Circe an in chanting sorceresse Whose cupps made many men foregoe their braines David's hainous sinne. 47 Whilst with the witlesse asse one purely 1 doats Others mishaped are, like lustfull goates, Or swil-ingrossing swine, with greedy throats. 29. Though had yet hetter was Yriah left : ISTot quite a beast though scarse a man; disturb'd In minde, but not distracted nor bereft Of witt ; though drunk yet soberly hee curb'd His lust ; being wise though ignorant, to crosse The kings designes who now new thoughts doth tosse Finding his former project at a losse. 30. The night with mourning-weeds the world becladd When restlesse David for to mend his matter Did make it worse : his naked sinne was bad More monstrous being maskt ; they oft doe scatter The chayne that of God's lawes vnloose a linke : Hee swam before in sinne nigh to the brinke But now he meanes in midst thereof to sinke. 31. Then for a light hee speedily did call (Thou Darknes with his project bst agree'd !) 1 Prettily. G. 48 david's hainous sinne. For paper, pen and inke, to write withall Though sure a poinard might have don the deed Better if hee in blood had dipped it And on a sheet of paper what he writ A winding sheet far better did befit. 32. This certs I know as sepian juice did sinke Into his spongy paper, sabling o're The same with various-formed specks of inke Which was so pure and lilly- white before : So spots of sinne the writers soule did staine Whose soylie tincture did therein remaine Till brinish tears had washt it out againe. 33. ^Next day when Day was scarce an infant growne Yriah (that no mischiefe did mistrust As none hee did decerve, but by his owne Did measure all men's dealings to bee just) Bearing this letter, on his journey past With speed, who needed not to make such hast Whose death had he gone slow did come too fast. 34. Thus crafty maisters when they minde to beate A carelesse boy to gather birch they send him ; david's hainous sinne. 49 The little lad doth make the rod compleat Thinking his maister therefore will commend him : But busily imploy'd, he little thought Hee made the net wherein himselfe was caught And must be beaten with the birch hee brought. 35. His journey came well to the welcome end Safe to the 1 towne of waters hee attaines Towne which to force Joab his force did bend (Nought is so hard but vincible by paines) Some with their heads did plot, some with their hands Did practise yea as ready was the band To serve as was the captaine to command. 36. So busie bees, some fly abroad at large Of flowry nectar for to fetch their fill : Some stay at home for to receive their charge And trustily the liquor doe distill : Or bottle it in waxe, whilst others strive Like sturdy martialls, far away to drive The drowsy droanes that harbour in the hive. 1 Rabba. 2 Sam. xii. 27. F. 50 david's hainous sinne. 37. The strong-arm' d archer from his crooked bow Made a strait shaft with dismall newes to speed Into the towne, which ne're return'd to show The sender how his message did succeed : Yea heavie bodies mounted were on high, Dull stones to which dame Nature did deny Feete for to goe, Art made them wings to fly. 38. Whilst in the towne one with his friend did talk A sudden stroake did take his tongue away • t Some had their leggs arrested as they walke By martiall law commanding them to stay : Here falls a massy beame, a mighty wall Comes tumbling there, and many men doth maule Who were both slaine and buried by the fall. 39. Were there not vsed in the days of yore Enough men-murdering engines 1 but our age Witty in wickednes must make them more, By new found plotts mens malice to inrage : So that fire-spitting canons to the cost Of Christian blood all valour have ingrost, Whose rinding makes that many a life is lost. david's hainous sinne. 51 40. Whilst thus the well-appointed army fought Winding in worm-like trenches neare the wall To humble the proud towers, Yriah brought The speaking paper to the generall Who when such language hee therein did hnde He thought himselfe or els the King vs blinde, Himself e in body or the King in minde. 41. Then hee the letter did peruse againe The words, the words of David could not bee And yet the hand, for David's hand was plaine, Hee thought it was and thought it was not hee : Each little line he thorowly did view Till at the length more credulous he grew And what he thought was false he found too true. 42. JSTow Joab thy valour be display'd Act not a midwife to a deed vnjust ; By feare or favour be not overs way' d To prove a pander to a prince's lust : Eeturne a humble answer back agane Let each word breath submission, to obtaine By prayers a conquest of thy soueraigne. 52 david's hainous sinne. 43. Shew how when God and countries good requires Thou substance, soule and body to ingage Is the ambition of thy best desires : Foes forraine to resist, to quell their rage How willingly would' st thou thy selfe despise, Count loosing of thy goods a gainfull prize Lavish thy blood and thy life sacrifice. 44. But when God's love directly doth withstand And where his lawes the contrary convince 1 . Wee must not breake the heavenly king's command Whilst we do seeke to please an earthly prince : The burdens they impose on us to beare Our dutie is to suffer them : but where Kings bid and God forbids we must forbeare. 45. Behold the man whose valour once surmounted In sacking Zion's mount (mount not so high As men therein were haughty !) and accounted Of worthies chiefe doth most unworthily : Hee that to summe the people of the land Withstood the King now with the King doth stand Too buxome 2 for to finish his command. 1 Cf. Wright's invaluable ' Bible Word-Book ' s. v. G. 2 Obedient. G. david's hainous sinne. 53 46. Next morne when early Phoebus first arose (Which then arose last in Yriah's sight) Him Joab in the forfront did dispose From whom the rest recoyled in the fight : Thus of his friends betray' d by subtill traine Assaulted of his foes with might and maine He lost his life, not conquered but slaine. 47. His mangled body they expose to scorne And now each cravin coward dare defie him, Outstaring his pale visage, which beforne x Were palsy-strook, with trembling to come nigh him : Thus heartlesse hares with purblind eyes do peere In the dead lyon's pawes, yea dastard deere Over his heartlesse corps dare domineere. 1 Sometimes spelled ' bef oren '=bef ore : Thus Spencer The time was once and may again retorn For ought may happen that hath been beforn. [Shepherds K. 103.] G. DAYID'S HEAETIE REPENTANCE. 1. HE tongue of guiltlesse blood is never ti'd In the earth's mouth, and though the greedy ground Her gaping crannies quickly did provide To drinke the liquor of Vriah's wound Yet it with moanes bescattered the skies And the revoicing eccho, with replies Did descant on the playn-song of the cries. 2. Hereat the Lord perceiving how the field Hee sow'd with grace, and compast with an heape Of many measures, store of sinnes did yeild "Where he expected store of thankes to reape, With flames of anger, furnace-like he burn'd : Eor patience long despis'd and lewdly spurn'd Is at the length to raging fury turn'd, DAVID'S HEAKTIE REPENTANCE. 55 3. Then all the creatures mustered their traine From angells vnto worms, the blinde did see Their Lord disgrac't, whose honour to maintaine Things wanting life most lively seeme to be ; Refusing all to serve man that refus'd To serve his God, all striving to be us'd To punish him, his Maker that abus'd. 4. Please it your Highnes for to give me leave I'le scorch the wretch to cinders said the Fire : Send me said Aire, him II' e of breath bereave ; No quoth the earnest Water I desire His soylie sinnes with deluges to scoure ; Nay let my Lord quoth Earth imploy my power With yawning chapps I will him quick devour. 5. Soone with a word the Lord appeas'd this strife Injoyning silence till He did vnfold That precious volume cald the Booke of Life Which He the Printer priuiledg'd of old Containing those He freely did imbrace : Nor ever would I wish an higher grace Than in this Booke to have the lowest place. 56 david's heaktie repentance. 6. Within this Booke hee sought for David's name Which having found He proffered to blot (And David surely well deserv'd the same That did his nature so with sinne bespot Though none are blotted out but such as never Were written in : nothing God's love can sever ; Once written there are written there for ever.) 7. Strait from His throne the Prince of Peace arose And with embraces did His Father binde Imprisoning his amies, He did so close (As loving iyve on an oake did winde And with her curling flexures it betraile) His Father glad to finde His force to fayle Strugel'd as one not willing to prevaile. Thus then began the Spotlesse Lambe to speake (One word of Whom would rend the sturdy rocke, Make hammer-scorning adamant to breake, And vnto sense perswade the senseles stocke, Yea God Himselfe that knowes not to repent Is made by His petitions penitent His Justice made with Mercy to relent.) david's heartie repentance. 57 9. Why doth my Father's fury burne so fierce ] Shall Persian lawes vnalterable standi And shall my Lord decree and then reverse, Enact and then repeale, and counter-mand % Tender Thy credit, gracious God, I crave And kill not him Thou didst conclude to save Can these hands blot what these hands did ingrave 1 10. Hath not Thy wisdom from eternity Before the worlds foundation first was lay'd Decree' d, the due time once expir'd, that I Should flesh become and man borne of a maide 1 To live in poverty and dye with paine That so Thy Sonne for sinners vilely slaine Might make vile sinners live Thy sonnes againe 1 11. Let Me, oh let Me Thy feirce wrath asswage And for this sinner begg a full discharge : What though hee j ustly doth provoke Thy rage? Thy justice I will satisfie at large. If that the Lord of Life must murder' d bee Let mee intreat this murd'rer may goe free My meritts cast on him, his sinnes on Me. 58 david's heartie repentance. 12. Thus speaking from His fragrant cloaths there went A pleasant breath whose odour did excell Myrrhe, aloes and cassia for sent And all perfum'd His Father with the smell Whereat His smothed face most sweetly smil'd And hugging in His arms His dearest child Eeturn'd those welcome words, with voyce most milde. 13. Who can so pleasing violence withstand % Thy craving is the hauing a request Such mild intreaties doe my heart command The 'mends is made and pacifi'd I rest : As far as earth from heaven doe distant lye As east is parted from the westerne skye So far his sinnes are sever'd from Mine eye. 14. Hereat the heavenly quire lift vp their voyce Angells and saints imparadis'd combine Ypon their golden vialls to rejoyce To rayse the prayse of the celestiall Trine, All in their songs a sacred strife exprest W^hich could sing better and surpasse the rest All did surpasse themselves and sang the best. david's heaetie kepentance. 59 15. Then said the Fire my fury I recant Life-hatching warmth I will for him provide : If David's breathlesse lungs do chance to pant Said Aire II' e fanne them with a windy tide : With moisture Il'e, said Water, quench his heat And I his hunger quoth the Earth, with meat Of marrow, fatnesse and the flower of wheat. 16. Thus when a lord long buried in disgrace A king to former favour doth restore With all respect the court doth him embrace Fawning as fast as they did nowte before : Where smiles or frownes are but the bare reflexion Of the king's face, and like to this direction Where hee affects they settle their affection. 17. Plaine-dealing jSTathan presently was sent Nathan, than whom was none more skill' d to lanch A festred soule, and with a searching tent 1 To sound the sore : more cunning; none to stanch 1 Eoll of lint used in searching or purifying a wound. Cf. my Glossary to Sibbes sv. G. 60 david's heartie repentance. A bleeding-hearted sinner nor more kinde With swadling cloaths of comfort for to binde Vnjoynted members of a troubled minde. 18. Hee did not flow with wealth which envye heeds !N"or yet was he with penury opprest : Want is the cause from which contempt proceeds : His meanes were in the meane, and that's the best. High hills are parent with heate or hid with snow And humble dales sone drown' d, that lie too low Whilst happy graine on hanging hills doth grow. 19. For sundry duties he did dayes devide Making exchange of worke his recreation ; For prayer he set the precious morne aside, The mid-day he bequeath' d to meditation : Sweete sacred stories he reserv'd for night To reade of Moses' meeknes, Sampson's might : These were his joy, these onely his delight. 20. But now dispensing with his dayly taske To Court he comes and wisely did invent david's heaktie repentance. 61 Vnder a parable his mind to maske Seeming to meane nought lesse than what he meant, And lapwing-like round fluttering a-while With far-fetcht praeface and a witty wile, Hee made the king himself e for to beguile. 21. Thus he that thought all mortall men to cheate And with, false shewes his secret sinnes to shade, Was couzned by the innocent deceite Of one plaine prophet, and directly made As he a judge sate on the bench, to stand At barr a prisoner, holding 1 up his hand But first condemned by his owne command. 2 22. Goe fond 3 affectors of a flanting straine Whose sermons strike at sinnes with slenting blowes, Give me the man that's powerfull and plaine The monster Yice vnmasked to expose : 1 * Thou art the man.' F. 2 ' The man that hath done this thing shal dye/ F. 3 Foolish. G. 62 david's heartie repentance. Such preachers doe the soule and marrow part And cause the guilty conscience to smart Such please no itching eares but peirce the heart. 23. This made King David's marble minde to melt And to the former temper to returne Thawing his frozen breast, whenas he felt The lively sparks of grace therein to burne Which vnder ashes cold were choakt before : And now hee weeps and wayles and sighs full sore Though sure such sorrow did his joy restore. 24. So have I seene one slumber' d in a swound "Whose sullen soule into his heart did hye His pensive friends soone heave him from the ground And to his face life-water doe apply : At length a long-expected sigh doth strive To bring the wellcome newes, the man's alive Whose soule at last doth in each part arive. 25. Then to his harpe he did himselfe betake (His tongue-tide harpe, long gowne out of request) david's heaetie repentance. 63 And next to this his glory 1 must awake The member he of all accounted best : Then with those hands which he for griefe did wring Hee also lightly striks the warbling string And makes one voice serve both to sob and 26. That heavenly voyce to heare, I more desire Than Syrens sweetest songs, than musicke made By Philomele chief e of the winged quire : Or him whose layes so pleasing, did perswade Stones for to lackey when he went before ; 2 Or that brave harper whom unto the shore His hackny dolphin safety did restore. 3 1 Tongue. G. 2 Orpheus. G. 3 Arion. G. DAVID'S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. 1. OST true it is when penitents by grace Acquitted are, the pardon of their sinnes And punishments release do both imbrace Like to a paire of vndivided twinns Parted they cannot be, they cleave so fast Yet when the tempest of God's wrath is past Still his afflicting hony-shower doth last. But let the Schooles these thorny points dispute Whose searching sight can naked truth discry, Skulking in errors arms, and are acute Fine-fingred with distinctions to untye Knots more than Gordian, these men never mist The slender marke, like 1 those in whose left fist There did so much dexterity consist. 1 Judges xx. 16. F. david's heavie punishment. $5 3. Meane time my Muse come see how prettily Trie patient infant doth, itself behave ; Infant but newly borne, now neare to dye, 1 That from the cradle posted to the grave. See with what silent signes and sighes full faine Poore heart it would expresse where lies the paine Complaining that it knowes not to complaine. 4. Stay cruell Death ! thy hand for pitty hold ! Against some aged grand-sire bend thy bow That now hath full twice forty winters told, Whose head is silver' d o're with ages snow : Dash out this babe, out of thy dismall bill And in exchange let him thy number fill So may he life, his friends enjoy him still. 5. These hands to hurt another never sought Which cannot helpe themselves they are so weake ; His heart did never hatch a wanton thought, His tongue did never lye that cannot speake : 1 The death of King David's child. F. E 66 david's heavie punishment. By wrong and violence lie ne're did wrest The goods wherewith, his neighbour is possest When strength scarse servs to suck the nurse's brest. 6. But ah ! this infant's guilt from him proceeds That knew the least when most he sought to know ; Who most was nak't when cloathed in his weeds Best cloathed then when naked he did goe : In vayne the wit of wisest men doth strive To cut off this intayle, that doth derive 1 Death unto all when first they are alive. As when a tender rose begins to blow Yet scarse unswadled is, some wanton niaide, Pleas' d with the smell, allured vith the show Will not reprive it till it hath display' d The folded leaves : but to her brest applies Th' abortive budd, where coffined it lye's Losing the blushing dye before it dies. 1 Communicate, transmit. G. david's heavie punishment. 67 8. So this babe's life, newly begun, did end Which sure receiv'd the substance though not sign'd With grace's seale : God freely doth attend His ordinance, but will not be confin'd Thereto when 'tis not neglected nor despis'd They that want water are by fire baptiz'd Those sanctify' d that ne're were circumcis'd. 9. Sweet babe one sabbath thou on earth didst see But endless sabbaths doest in heaven survive : Grant, Death of joyfull bowers deprived thee Thou hadst seene yeares of sorrowes if alive : True thou wast borne a prince but now art crown' d A king by death; sleepe therefore in the ground Sweetly untill the trumpet last shall sound. 10. By this child's death king David did sustaine One losse : but where this misery did end More miseries began : as in a chayne One link doth on another linke depend : His lust with lust, his slaying with a slaughter Must punish' t be : proportion' d therafter To mother sinne is punishment the daughter. 68 david's heavie punishment. II. 1 Amnon advis'd by Jonadab, a fit Of sicknesse fames : men wickedly inclin'd Worse counsellors (that with, great store of wit Have dearth of grace) most easily may find : And Thamar's hands his meate must onely make : Ah ! happy age when ladies learn't to bake And when kings daughters knew to knead a cake. 12. Eebecka was esteem' d of comely hew Yet not so nice her comelinesse to keepe Eut that shee water for the cam ni ells drew : Eachell was faire, yet fedd her father's sheepe But now for to supply Eebecka's place Or doe as Eachell did is counted base : Our dainty dames would take it in disgrace. 13. But quickly did his beastly lust declare That he to eate her daynties had no neede : He for the cooke not for the cates 2 did care Shee was the dish on whom he meant to feed : 1 The deflouring of Thamar. F. 2 Provisions. G. david's heavie punishment. 69 Oh how she pray'd and strove with might and maine And then from striving fell to prayers againe : But prayers and striving both alike in vaine. 14. Thus a poore larke imprison' d in the cage Of a kite claws most sweetly sings at large Her owne dirge whilst she seeks to calm his rage And from her jaylor sue's for a discharge : Who passing 1 for no musick that surpast To feede his eares whilst that his gutts doe fast On her that pray'd so long, doth prey at last. 15. Then with dust-powder' d haire she sore bewayles And punisht on herselfe her brother's sinne : Parting her maiden livery with nayles That parted was with colours, and wherein White streaks their owner's innocence did show The bashful red her modesty : the row Of sable sorrowed for the wearer's woe. 16. Comfort thyself e more virtuous than faire More faire than happy virgin, mourn with measure 1 ' Having regard for.' G. 70 david's heavie punishment. Sinnes unconsented to no soules impaire That must be done perchance with bodies plea- sure Which with the grief of soull maybe constraint : The casket broke the Jewell still remain' d Yntoucht which in the casket was contain' d 17. In his brest 1 Absalom records this wrong : Out of our minds good turnes doe quickly passe But injuries therein remaine too long Those scrawl' d in dust but these ingrav'd in brasse : One sunset for our anger should suffice Which in his wrath set oft, oft did arise With yearly race surrounding twice the skies. 18. Now when his fruitfull flocks which long had worne Their woolen coates for to make others hot Were now to forfeit them, and to be shorne (Sure from the silly sheepe his divelish plott Their owner never learn' d) hee finds a way To worke revenge, and called on that day His brothers to a feast which prov'd a fray. 1 The murdering of Amnon. F. david's heavie punishment. 71 19. What Amnon drunke in wine in blood lie spilt Which did the dainties marre and meate defile Cupps, carpetts, all with goary streaks were gilt Seeming to blush that cruely so vile So fowly savage should the banquet staine : Thus he that being well did sicknesse faine Not being sicke was on a suddenne slaine. 20. The rest refused on the meate to feede Whose bellies were so full with griefe and feare To feele what they had seene : away they speed To ride : but Fame did fly, Fame that doth weare An hundred listning eares, an hundred eyes ; An hundred prating tongues, she dayly plies Tongues that both tell the truth and tattle lyes. 21. She gets by going and doth gather strength As balls of snow by rolling more doe gaine She whisp'rd first but lowdly blaz'd at length All the kings sonnes, all the kings sonnes are slaine : The pensive Court in dolefull dumps did rue This dismall case till they the matter knew : Would all bad news like this might prove untrue. 72 david's heavie punishment. 22. Goe silly soules that doe so much, admire Court curious intertainment and fine fare May you for mee obtaine what you desire I for your fowles of Phasis 1 do not care If that such riots at your feasts he rife And all your meate so sowrely sauc'd with strife That guests to pay the shot must lose their life. 23. Happy those swaines that in some shady bower Making the grasse their cloath, the ground their board Doe feede on mellow fruite or milk's fine flower Ysing no wine but what their wells afford: At these did malice never bend her bow Their state is shot free, it is set so low They overlooke that would them overthrow 24. East unto Geshure flies the fratricide To shelter there himselfe • the sentence sore Of angry justice fearing to abide : Oh happy turne had he return' d no more 1 That is 'pheasants: ' the bird having been introduced into Europe from Phasis on the coast of the Euxine : hence phasianss aves : Aristophanes, Acharn 726 : Pliny N.H. &c. &c. G. david's heavie punishment. 73 Who wonted guise kept in a country strange : Those that abroad to forraine parts do range Their climate not conditions doe exchange. 25. Returned: at entrance of the Court 1 he stands If any sutors there he chanc't to finde Hee steales their hearts by taking of their hands And sucked out their soule with kisses kinde : He of their name, cause, citty doth inquire : Proud men prove base to compasse their desire They lowest crouch that highest doe aspire. 26. Before such kisses come vpon my face Oh let the deadly scorpion me sting Yea rather than such armes should me imbrace Let curling snakes about my body cling : Than such faire words I'de rather the fowle Ynt uned schreeching of the doiefull. owle Or heare the direfull mountaine-wolfe to howle. 27. Some men affirme that Absalom doth sound In the worlds oldest tongue [' of peace a father '] 1 Absalom's aspiring to the kingdom. P. 74 david's heavie punishment. But certs I know that such mistake their ground : [' Kebellious sonne '] sure it importeth rather : And yet why so ? sith 1 since I call to minde Than the clementes none were more unkind Than innocent more nocent none I finde. 2 28. Then borrowing the plausible disguise Of holinesse he mask't his plot so evill Ynder the good pretence of sacrifice (A saint dissembled is a double devill) But sure were those the vowes he went to pay His sire, that harmelesse sheepe he vow'd to slay Who o're mount Olivet weeping fled away 29. This makes mee call my Saviour's griefe to minde Who on 3 this mount because the Jewes were growne So wicked : those that said they saw so blind — Mourn' d for their sins that mourn' d not for their own : Much did He weepe for others that forbad Others to weepe for Him, whose being sad Hath made his saints for ever since full glad. 1 Cf. Wright, as before s. v. G. 2 The Popes so (mis)-named. G. 3 Luke xix. 42. F. DAVID S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. I 30. Downe comes the king to Jordan : on the sand If that the saylors chance to ground the boat A flood of teares they straitwayes did command Whose large accession made the vessell floate : And if a blaste of winde did chance to faile So greivously the people did bewayle Their very sighs might serve to stuffe the sayle. 31. Thus was the king on his own land exil'd His subjects were his hoast and he their guest Whose place was ill supplied by his child (Ynhappy bird defiling his owne nest) That tooke his fathers wives, in open sight: Those that do want of grace the sunshine bright Extinguish' t oft dim nature's candle light. 32. The blushing sun no sooner did behold So beastly lust but sought his face to shrowd And shrinking in his beames of burnish't gold Was glad to skulke within a sullen cloud : The shamefac't birds with one wing faine to fly Did hold their other fanne before their eye For feare they should such nlthinesse espie. 76 david's heavie punishment. 33. What needed he to keepe alive his name Erect a pillar ? Sure this damned deed Makes us remember and detect the fame That in the world's last doating age succeed : Yea when that brasse that seemeth Time to scorne Shall be by all-devouring Time out-worne His name they'le beare in minde that are not borne. 34. But 1 he that gave this counsell did not speed Who speeding home on witlesse asse amaine (Asse that for wit his rider did exceed) Cause he his will at Court could not obtaine Did make his will at home : the peevish elfe Amongst his houshold, parts his cursed pelfe Carefull of that but carelesse of himselfe. 35 Oh ! suddaine thought of thy mortality ! Thou art not yet so thorough worne with age, Nor in thy face such symptoms can espy Which should so neare approaching death pre- sage : 1 Ahitkophel hanging himselfe. F. david's heavie punishment. 77 Thy state is not distempered with, heate Thy working pulse doth moderately beate All outward things seeme whole, seeme all compleate. 36. But ghostly is thy griefe : Thou that by treason Against thy leige so lately wast combin'd Thy passions now rebell against thy reason Eeason that is the soveraigne of thy minde And seeke for to disturbe it from the throne : Strive, strive to set these civill broyles at one Order thyselfe and let thy house alone. 37. A chayne of hempe he to his necke made fast By tying of which knot hee did untye The knot of soule and body, and at last Stopping the passage of his breath, thereby A passage for his soule, wide opened hee : Thus tray tors rather than they should goe free Themselves the hangmen of themselves will bee. 38. His friends to balm his body spare no cost With spices seeking to perfume a sinke For certs I know their labour was but lost : His rotten memory will ever stinke 78 david's heavie punishment. His soule thereby was nothing bettered Because his corps were bravely buried : Tombs please the living profit not the dead. 39. How many worthy martyrs vilely slaine Made meate for fowles or for the fire made fuell Though ground they could not for a grave obtaine Were not lesse happy but their foes more cruell : Vnburied bodies made not them unblest Their better halfe did find an heavenly rest And doth injoy joyes not to be exprest. 40. Leave us the traytor thus vpon whose hearsse My Muse shall not a precious teare mispend Proceeding to bemoane in clolefull verse How 1 two great bands with cruell blowes con- tend : Whole clouds of arrowes made the sky to lowre Dissolv'd at length into a bloody showre Till Steele kill'd many, wood did more devoure. 41. Oh let it not be publish' t in the path That leads unto th' incestuous seed of Lot 1 The battell betwixt Absalom and David's men. F. david's heavie punishment. 79 Tell not these tidings in the towne of Gath In Ascalon see ye proclaime it not Least these rejoyce at this calamity Who count yonr fame their greatest infamy Your wofull jarrs their welcome melody. 42. Had Eachel now reviv'd her sonnes to see Their bloody hands would make her heart to bleed Each a Benoni unto her would be ; Had Leah liv'd to see herself e agree' d To fall out with herselfe, with teares, most sure She would have made her tender eyes past cure ; Who ever wonn she must the losse endure. 43. The conquest (which her verdict long suspended) Hover' d aloft not knowing where to light \ But at the last the lesser side befreinded With best successe : the other put to flight More trusted a swift foote than a strong fist Most voices oft of verity have mist Nor in most men doth victory consist. 44. The gracelesse sonne was plung'd in deepe dis~ tresse 80 david's heavie punishment. For earth, his weight no longer would endure The angry heavens denied all accesse Vnto a wretch so wicked, so impure At last the heavens and earth with one con- sent A middle place vnto the monster lent Above the earth, beneath the firmament. 45. His skittish mule ran roving in the fields And up high hills, downe dales, o're woods did prance Seeming with, neighing noyse and wanton heeles In token of great joy to sing and dance, That now her maister she should beare no more (An heavy bulke whose sinnes did weigh so sore) Now rid of him that rid on her before. 46. Cry, Absalom, cry, Absalom, amaine, And let thy winged prayers pierce the skye ! Oh to the spring of pitty soone complaine That ne're is dammed up nor drained dry ; Thy fault confesse, His favour eke implore Much is thy misery, His mercy more Thy want is great but greater is His store. david's heavie punishment. 81 47. Condemne thyselfe and He shall thee acquitt Doe then but pray He'll pitty thy estate, Confesse thy debt He will the same remit It never was too soone, it's ne're too late : Alas : long sinners scarse at last relent Hee gives not all offenders to repent That granteth pardon to all penitent. 48. Whilst thus his life suspended was on high Bold-ventrous Joab opened his heart (Heart where much treason lurked privily) And peir'ct his body with a triple dart : Then crimson blades of grasse whereon he bleeds Did straitwayes dye, and in their room succeeds A fruitfull wildernesse of fruitlesse weeds. 49. When David heard the victory was gain'd But his sonne lost (as Jordan waxing ranke O're Howes the land and scornes to be restrain' d To have his ti'de in a narrow banke) Surges of sorrow in his heart did rise And brake the watry sluces of his eyes . Who lightned thus himselfe with heavy cryes : F 82 david's heavie punishment. 50. My sonne, whose body had of grace 1 the fill ! My sonne, whose soule was so devoid of grace ! 2 Without my knowledge and against my will My sonne, in cause so bad, so strange a place : My sonne, my sonne for which I must com- plaine I feare in soule as in the body slaine Would I might dye that thou might'st live againe. 51. Now when this griefe was swallow' d not digested The subjects flock' t king David to restore Who in an instant love what they detested Detest in th' instant what they lov'd before : People like weather-cocks wav'd with the wind We constant in inconstancy may finde As time counts minutes so they change their minde. 52. Amongst the rest that came the king to meete Lame-leg'd Mephibosheth, but loyall-hearted Was one that never washt his cloaths or feete (Except with teares) since David first departed ; 1 ' Beauty.' G. 2 That is ' goodness,' holiness. G. david's heavie punishment. 83 Feete which, by fall from nurse's armes began To bait, with him a child so fast she ran That he could never goe when growne a man. 53. Not much unlike — if it give no distaste That reall truths I doe with trifles match — Whilst that my posting Muse, with headlong haste Doth strive her rurall layes for to dispatch Halting invention, for the want of heede And lame unjoynted lines from her proceede : And seldome things done speedily doe speed. 54. But here an vnexpected jarre arose Whilst people for most part in [th'] prince con- tended j Which grew from bitter words to bloody blowes : The king quoth Judah of our tribe descended Hee of our flesh is flesh, bone of our bone : Nay answer'd Israel in the king wee owne Ten parts, a single share is yours alone. 55. Whilst sparks of discord thus began to smoake To finde the bellowes Sheba did conspire 84 david's heavie punishment. (Sheba 1 that proudly did disdaine the yoke) And blowing of a trumpet, blew the fire : Then those that claimed ten disdain' d all part In David, taught by his seducing art They discontented to their tents depart. 56. This rebell Joab whilst to quell he strives, A nameles woman (in the booke of life Her name is kept that kept so many lives) Procur'd that he who stirred up the strife The body of the common-wealth to rend From prince the head whereon it did depend With head from body rent his life did end. 57. By his death many citizens surviv'd ; The losse of traytors bloud did prove their gaine ; Soone cea'st the flood of discord, thence deriv'd When they the factions fountaine did restraine. This warre a vile man with 2 a word did rayse Ynto his shame, which to her endlesse prayse A worthy woman with a word 3 allaies. 1 ' The sonne of Belial.' F. 2 ' What faith have we in David.' F. 3 ' His head shall be thrown,' etc. F. david's heavie punishment. 85 58. So in our Land a noble queene arose, As we have heard our fathers oft relate ; A maide yet manly to confound her foes, A maide and yet a mother to the State : Which she weake, like to crumbling bricke did finde, Which strong as lasting marble she resign' d Gold and God's worship both by her refin'd. 59. She having flourished in great renowne In spite of power and policy of Spaine, Did change her earthly for an heavenly crowne And cea'st to rule o're men, with God to raigne ; Fourty and foure Novembers fully past (Aie me that winged Time should post so fast) To Christ, her love, she wedded was at last. 1 60. This sunne thus set there followed no night In our horizon ; strait another sunne Most happily continued the light Which by the first was hopefully begunne : 1 Elizabeth. G. 86 david's heavie punishment. And what might most amaze all mortall eyes Never before out of the Northern skies Did men "behold bright Phoebus to arise. 61. Arts did increase his fame, he did increase The fame of arts ; and counting twice eleven Twelve months upon his throne, this prince oi peace By falling to the earth did rise to heaven : Then downe our cheeks teares hot and cold did flow Those for the sire deceast exprest our woe, Those joy for his succeeding sonne did show. 1 62. Live gracious leige whose vertues doe surmount All flattery, and envy them admires ; Center of grace and greatnesse, live to count Till that thy kingdom with the world expires : Wee subjects wish thee worst that love thee best Who here long to injoy thee, doe request That late thou mayst injoy an heavenly rest. 2 1 James I. G. 2 Charles I. G. david's heavie punishment. 87 63. And thou young prince, hope of the future age Succeed to fathers vertues, name and crowne ; A new starre did thy Saviour's birth praesage His death the sun eclipsed did renowne : But both of these conjoyned to adorne Thy wellcome birth, the sun with age so worne Did seeme halfe dead and a young starr was borne 1 64. But what dost thou my vent'rous Muse prassume So far above thy dwarf-like strength to strained Such soaring soone will melt thy waxen plume ; Let those heroike sparks whose learned braine Doth merit chapletts of victorious bayes Make kings the subject of their lofty layes Thy worthlesse praysing doth their worth dis- praise. 65. Strike saile, and to thy matter draw more neare And draw thy matter nearer to an end : Though nought prayse-worthy in thy verse appeare Yet strive that shortnesse may the same commend : 1 Charles II. G. Ob DAVID S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. Keturne to see where Joab homeward goes To see Ms friends that had subdu'd his foes ; His souldiers and himself there to repose. 66. Thus when two adverse winds with strong com- mand Summon the sea, the waves that both do feele, Dare follow neither but in doubt do stand, Whilst that the shipps, with water drunke, doe reele Withmen, for grief of drowning drown'd in grief e Yntill at length a calme brings them reliefe And stills the storme that had so long been briefe. 67. Oh ! that I might but live tho see the day (Day that I more desire then hope to see) When all these bloody discords done away Our princes in like manner might agree. When all the world might smile in perfect peace And these long-lasting broyls at length might cease Broyles which alas doe dayly more increase. 68. The Netherlands with endlesse warrs are tost david's heavie punishment. 89 Like in successe to their unconstant tide Losing their gettings, gaining what they lost. Denmarke both sword and Baltick seas divide : More blood than juice of grape nigh Ehine is shed And Brunswicke land will not be comforted But cryes my duke alas ! my duke is dead. 69. The warrs in France now layd aside not ended Are onely skimmed over with a scarre Yea haughty Alps that to the clouds ascended Are over-climbed with a bloody warre : And Maroes birth-place Mantua is more Made famous nor for Mars and battel sore Than for his muse it famed was before. 70. Sweden to stopp th' infernall flood provides (May his good cause be crown' d with like successe ; And they that now please none, to please both sides May they themselves his trusty friends expresse) But Turks the cobweb of their truce each howre Doe breake ; they wayte a time but want no powre Nor will, warr-wearied Christians to devore. 90 DAVID S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. 71. But let the cunning Chymicke whose exact Skill caused light from darknesse to proceed ; Out of disorder order can extract Make in his due time all these jars agree'd, Whose greivances may be bemoan' d by men, By God alone redressed : and till then They more befitt my prayers than my pen. TQ MONG AOSA 0EI2. FINIS. II. PANEGYRICK ON HIS MAJESTIES HAPPY RETURN. 1 1. J T Wor'ster great God's goodness to our Nation It was a conquest, your bare pre- servation. When 'midst your tierces foes on every side For your escape God did a lane provide ; They saw you gone, but whither could not tell Star-staring, though they ask'd both heaven and hell. 2 1 A Panegyrick to His Majesty on his Happy Eeturn. By Tho. Fuller B.D. London, Printed for John Playford at his shop in the Temple. 1660 [4°.] An earlier and very much shorter version of the c Panegyrick ' appeared in the 1 Worthies ' under Worcestershire with these truly Fullerian words ' And here my Muse craves her own Nunc dimittis, never to make verses more : and because she cannot write on a better, will not write on another occasion, but heartily pray in prose for the happiness of her lord and master. And now having taken our Vale of verses ' . . . G. 2 ' Lane ' (line 4th) is printed in large capitals LANE — Why? 'His sacred Majesty escaped, by royal oaks (and lv Wa 92 PANEGYMCK ON 2. Of forreign States you since have studied store And read whole libraries of princes o're. To you all forts, towns, towers and ships are known (But none like those which now become your own) And though your eyes were with all objects fill'd Onely the good into your heart distill' d. 3. Garbling men's manners, you did well divide, To take the Spaniard's wisdom not their pride : With French activity you stor'd your mind Leaving to them their ficklenesse behind ; And soon did learn, your temperance was such A sober industry even from the Duch. 1 4. But tell us, gracious sovereign, from whence Took you the pattern of your patience % other miraculous appliances well known to mankind : but Fourteen-thousand other men, sacred too after a sort though not majesties, did not escape. One could weep at such a death for brave men in such a Cause.' Carlyle's Cromwell : Battle of Worcester: [Vol. iii. p. 200 : edn 4 vols. 8vo 1850.] G. 1 Well that winsome Fuller lived not to see his ideal befouled and befouling. G. his majesty's happy return. 93 Learn't in affliction's School under the rod Which was both us'd and sanctifi'd by God ; From Him alone that lesson did proceed, Best tutor with best pupil best agreed. We your dull subjects must confess our crime Who learnt so little in so long a time, And the same School : thus dunces' poring looks Mend not themselves but only marre their books. How vast the difference 'twixt wise and fool ! The Master makes the schollar, not the school. 6. With rich conditions Eome did you invite Hoping to purchase you their proselyte (An empty soul's soon tempted with full coffers) Whilst you with sacred scorn refus'd their proffers : And for the Faith did earnestly contend 1 Abroad which now you do at home defend. 7. Amidst all storms, calm to yourself the while, Saddest afflictions you did teach to smile. 1 Jude 3 ' Contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.' F 94 PANEGYRICK ON Some faces best become a mourning dress And such your patience, which did grace distress, Whose soul, despising want of worldly pelf At lowest ebbe went not beneath itself. 8. God's justice now no longer could dispence With the abusing of his Providence ; To hear successe his approbation styl'd And see the bastard brought against the child. Scripture by such who in their own excuse Their actings 'gainst God's writings did produce. 9. The Independent doth the Papist shun Contrary ways their violence doth run : And yet in such a round at last they met That both their saints for mediators set i 1 We were not ripe for mercy, God he knows But ready for his justice were our foes. 10. The pillar which God's people did attend To them in night a constant light did lend, i Witness a sermon. F. [Query — Dr Thomas Goodwin and Peter Sterry ? The famous ' prayer ' of the former so perverted in one expression therein, doubtless simply used Jeremiah's sorrowful plaint : Jeremiah xx. 7. G. his majesty's happy return. 95 Though dark unto th' Egyptians behind ; Such was brave Monck : l in his reserved mind A riddle to his foes he did appear But to himself and you, sense plain and clear. 11. By means unlikely God atchieves his end And crooked wayes straight to his honour tend ; The great and ancient gates of London town (No gates no city) now are voted down And down were cast, happy day ! for all Do date our hopeful rising from their fall. 12. The matter of your Kestitution's good The manner better, without drop of blood : By a dry conquest, without forreign hand Self-hurt and now self-healed is our Land. This silent turn did make no noise, strange ! Few saw the changing — all behold the change. 13. So Solomon most wisely did contrive His temple should be still-born though alive. That stately structure started from the ground Unto the roof, not guilty of the sound i See Oarlyle, as above, sub nomine. G. 96 PANEGYRICK ON Of iron tool, all noise therein debarr'd : This virgin-Temple thus was seen not heard. 14. When two Protectors were of late proclaim'd Courting men's tongues, both miss't at what they aim'd : True English hearts did with just anger burn And would no echo of i God save ' return : Though smiling silence doth consent imply A tongue-tied sorrow flatly doth deny. 1 15. But at your majestie's first proclamation How loud a stentor did invoice our nation ! A mouth without a tongue was sooner found In all that crowd than tongue without a sound : Nor was't a wonder men did silence break When conduits did both French and Spanish speak. 2 i The ' two Protectors ' alluded to were Oliver Crom- well and Bichard Cromwell. It need scarcely be said that it is a Boyalist delusion that in either case but specially in ' that of Oliver the national ' welcome ' was less real or less warm than that to Charles II. G. 2 The ' Wines' of Spain and France 'ran 7 from the ' fountains ' of the citv. Gr. his majesty's happy return. 97 16. The bells aloud did ring for joy : they felt Hereafter sacriledge shall not them melt. The bonfires round about the streets did blaze And these new lights fanatiques did amaze : Thebrandisht swords this bo on begg'd before death Once to be shew'd then buried in the sheath. 17. The Spaniard looking with a serious eye Was forc'd to trespass on his gravity Close to conceal his wond'ring he desir'd But all in vain who openly aclmir'd. The French who thought the English mad in mind Now fear too soon they may them sober find. 18. The Germans seeing this your sudden power Freely confess another emperour. The joyful Dane to heav'ns cast up his eyes Presuming suffering kings will sympathize. The Hollanders — first in a sad suspence — Hop'd that good mercy was their innocence. 19. As aged Jacob with good news intranc'd That Joseph was both living and advanc'd : 98 PANEGYRICK ON The great surprize so deeply did prevail On the good patriarch that his heart did fail : Too little for to lodge so large a joy — For sudden happiness may much annoy. 20. But when he saw — with serious intent To fetch him home — the waggons his son sent That cordial soon his fainting heart did cure 'Twas past suspicion, all things then were sure : The father his old spirits did renew And found his fears were false, his joyes were true. 21. Such our condition : At the first express We could not credit our own happiness ; Told of the coming of your majesty Our fainting hearts did give their tongues the lye A boon too big for us — so ill we live — For to receive though not for God to give. 22. But when we saw the royal Fleet at Dover Voted to wait and waft your highness over And valient Montague — all vertue's friend 1 — Appointed on your person to attend : 1 See note to dedication of 'David's Iiainous^ Sinne,' p. 35. G. his majesty's happy return. 99 Joy from that moment did expell our grief Converted into slow but sure belief. 23. Th' impatient land did for your presence long : England in swarms did into Holland throng To bring your highness home, by th' Parliament Lords, Commons, Citizens, Divines were sent : Such honour subjects never had before And hope that never any shall have more. 24. With all degrees your carriage accords Most lord-like your reception of the lords : Your answer with the Commons so comply' d They were to admiration satisfi'd ; Civil the citizens you entertain' d — As if, in London born, y'ad there remain' d. 25. But oh ! your short, but thick expressive lines Which did both please and profit the Divines : Those pastors when returned to their charge For their next sermon had your words at large With some notes for your practice, who can teach Our miters by your living what to preach. L.ofC 100 PANEGYEICK ON 26. The States of Holland (or Low Countries now) Unto your sacred majesty did bow : What air, what earth, what water could afford Best in the kind, was crowded on their board : And yet when all was done, the royal guest And not the chear ; he, he did make the feast. 27. Th' officious wind to serve you did not fail But scour'd from west to east to fill your sail And fearing that his breath might be too rough Prov'd over-civil and was scarce enough ; Almost you were becalm' d amidst the main Prognostick of your perfect, peaceful reign. 28. Your narrow seas forreigners do wrong To claim them — surely doth the ditch belong JSTot to the common continent but isle Inclosed — did on you their owner smile : Not the least loss, onely the Naseby mar'ls To see herself now drowned in the Charles. 29. You land at Dover, shoals of people come And Kent alone now seems all Christendom. his majesty's happy return. 101 The Cornish rebels, eight score summers since At Black-heath fought against their lawful prince Henry the Seventh, which place with treason stain' d, Its credit now, by loyalty regain'd. 30. Great London the last station you did make You took not it but London you did take : "Where some who sav'd themselves amongst the croud Did lose their hearing, shoutings were so loud. Now at "Whitehall the guard which you attends Keeps out your foes : God keep you from your friends. 31. Thus far fair weather on your work attended Let showres begin now where the sunshine ended. Next day we smil'd at th' weeping of the skies With all concerns how Providence complies ! The city serv'd, next followeth the village And trading quickned, God provides for tillage. 32. One face, one forme in all the Land appears All, former foot now hors'd to cavaliers. As for your enemies their cursed crew 102 PANEGYEICK ON Are now more hard to find out than subdue. 'Tis very death to them they cannot dye Who do know whence not whither for to flie. 33. France flouts, Spain scorns and Italy denies them Any access : the Dane with Dutch defies them ; Unto New England they were known of old And now no footing for them on that mold. Eich Amsterdam — the staple of all sects These bankrupt rebels with contempt rejects. * 34. Thus cruell Cain who pious blood first, spilt Was pursevanted 1 after by his guilt, With murderer imbranded on his face Kept his condition though he chang'd his place : Wand'ring from land to land, from shore to shelf His guilty soul nere wandered from itself. 35. Let them themselves in unknown lands disperse Or if they please with canibals converse, Like unto like, that all the world may see 1 Followed as by ' pursuivant.' G. his majesty's happy return. 103 King-killers and men- eaters do agree : In no land they'l increase, 'tis nature's love Unto mankind : all monsters barren prove. 36. Long live our gracious Charles second to none In honour, who ere sate upon the throne : Be you above your ancestors renown' d, Whose goodness wisely cloth your greatness bound; And knowing that you may be what you would Are pleased to be onely what you should. 37. Europ's great arbitrator, in your choice Is plac'd of Christendom the casting voice ; Hold you the scales in your judicious hand And when the equal beam shall doubtful stand, As you are pleased to dispose one grain, So falls or riseth either France or Spain. 38. As Sheba's queen defective fame accus'd Whose nigardly relations had abus'd Th' abundant worth of Solomon, and told Not half of what she after did behold : 104 PANEGTRICK ON The same your case, fame hath, not done you right Our ears are far out-acted by our sight. 39. Your self's the ship return'd from forreign trading England's your port, experience the lading, God is the pilot \ and now richly fraught Unto the port the ship is safely brought : What's dear to you is to your subjects cheap You sav'd with pain, what we with pleasure reap.' 40. The most renowned Edward the Confessor Was both your parallel and predecessor, Exil'd he many years did live in France — Erom low foundations highest roofs advance: — The yoak in youth with patience he bore But in his age the crown with honour wore. 41. The common law, to him, the English owe On whom a better gift you will bestow : That which he made by you shall be made good That prince and people's rights both understood Both may be bankt in their respective station ; Which dare no fear of future inundation. HIS MAJESTY S HAPPY KETURN. 105 42. Oppression, the king's evil, long indur'd By others cans' d, by yon alone thns cnr'd : God onely have the glory, yon the praise And we the profit hy onr peaceful dayes, All forreigners the pattern for their State To anoy rather than to imitate. FINIS. III. ' Verses ' prefixed to the Scintilla Altaris of Edward Sparke D.D. 1 (a) ON THE WORTHY WORK OF MY RESPECTED FRIEND ED. SPARKE D.D. HEN pious Asa with his fathers slept How solemnly his funerals they kept! A curious bed's contriv'd hy art's devices 1 The following is the full title-page of the book in the edition of 1678 : — § tm" OYSIASTH'PION vel Scintilla Altaris. Primitive Devotion in the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of Eng- land. By Edward Sparke D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. The sixth edition, Eevised by .the Author. With Additions upon the Three Grand Solemnities last annexed to the Liturgy: consisting of prose, poems, prayers and sculp- tures. London, Printed by T. Hodgkin for T. Basset and H. Brome at the George near St Dunstans in Feet-street and at the Gun at the West-end of St Pauls, 1678,' cr. 8vo. Fuller's step-mother was daughter to Eob. Sparke: 'Coll. Eegal. 1557. Eob. Sparke electus scholaris, postea Theol. Bac. Eector de Burbage in comitatu Ley-cestr novercae mese (quse tamen amore verissima mater fuit) charissimus pater' Fuller's MS. in Jesus College, cited by Baker, M.S. vi. 275. G. spaeke's scintilla altakis. 107 Fill'd all with Indian gums, Arabian spices. This bed the case, wherein his corps, the jewel Is 1 for the burning 2 made the precious fuel As if that Asa's body did aspire To meet his soul and mount up in that fire- Dead saints dead days now put into their urn : See here a sweeter, brighter flame doth burn Kindled from Holy sparks when 3 doth arise No smoak to hurt, save only envious eyes : Whilst my admiring Muse at distance stands Desiring at his flame to warm her hands \ Wherewith emboldened nearer she presumes To steal a s[c]ent of these thy sweet perfumes. But I recant my words and pardon crave That I compar'd thy book unto the grave Or urn of saints : for by thy pen's perfection Saints are not buried but have resurrection. The cozening witch in counterfeit disguise Made but a seeming Samuel to rise ; (Whom cunningly she did with mantle hide To cloak her cheat, which else might be espide :) But who will not thy worthy Work applaud % No falshood here, no forgery or fraud ; Thou really dost from the dust retrive And make not one but all saints to revive. 1 Misprinted 'are.' G. 2 2 Chronicles xvi. 14. F 3 Query ' whence ' ? G. 108 VERSES PREFIXED TO Yea by the pains which thou on them expends Easter doth rise, Ascension-day ascends ) Thy poetry is pleasant, pictures fine Thy prose profound, but oh the prayers divine ! Thus hast thou pleased us in every part Our fancies, judgments, with our eyes and heart. 03) ON MY WORTHY FRIEND DR SPARKE, HIS LEARNED BOOK. BROOD of legendary saints of old Were 1 hatched in heads both bald and bold : Some saints in nature ne'r had face or features But only were their wild inventors creatures ; As mountain- like St Christopher thy glory No mole-hill yet of truth in all the story. Sure hard his face who told such lies so oft ! But who believes them sure his head is soft : Fiction of saints ne'er coyn'd so great a store But faction in our age hath minted more : Commend themselves, and there is half their trade; Condemn all others, then the saint is made. But here my friend presents a noble breed Of ancient saints, such as were saints indeed : 1 Misprinted 'where.' G. sparke's scintilla altaris. 109 And yet these saints in these our iron times When piety and learning both were crimes Haye had their Feasts and Fasts put down out- right And all their days extinct in envious night : Only the faithful fairs 1 did them retain : Exil'd the Church i' th' town they do remain. But how much doth this thy labour merit In these dead days thou put'st a quick'ning spirit : For us thou writ'st, for us thou tak'st this toy'l, To make us see this sparke 2 doth spend his oyl, i = ' fair ' ladies. G-. 2 With reference to Fuller's characteristic and inevitable playing on the name of ' Sparke ' it may be allowed me to record here an amusing coincidence that chanced in Scotland and the authenticity of which is beyond doubt — A clergy- man (in Scotland) was called upon to administer the ordinance of baptism to the child of a brother-clergyman whose name was ' Sparke,' who had already a very large family, with very short intervals between each. — After the rite it is usual in Scotland— among Presbyterians — to sing one of the versified Psalms or Paraphrases — and on the occasion in question the officiating clergyman selected with unconscious patness and to the excitement of the risibilities of his audience and the consternation of his clerical friend, the 5th Paraphrase, reading out ore rotundo, the second verse — ' As sparks in close succession rise, etc. Q. 110 AD SERISSIMUM REGEM. Live learned pen, converse with men below Some forty winters until ages' snow Candy thy reverend locks, and make them look White as thy soul and paper of thy book. But when that bankrupt nature shall deny To pay more moisture and when thou must dye. Mount gallant soul with saints in bliss survive Whose rites thy pen did in sad times retrive. IV. From i Genethliacum illustrissimorum Prim cipum Caroli et Mariae a Musis Cantabrigiensi- bus celebratum. 1631. [4°]. AD SEEENISSIMUM BEGEM. Eilia nata tibi sub quarta luce Novembris, Quintaque famosa est proditione dies. Septima post decimam sceptris sacratur Elisse, Nona ortu Eex est inclyte clara tuo. A Jano incipiet noster non amplius annus ; Tu manda, & primus jure November erit. Tho. Fuller, Coll. Sid. Suff. 1 i In this volume there are ' Verses ' by Milton's ' Edm. King: Coll. Christi, Socms' (p. 39)— Barnabas Oley (pp., 57-62) -Jo. Eandall (page 87). G. AD REGEM. Ill V. From extremity T. J. S.' This portion is partly in short-hand characters, and differs, I think, from the Epigram hand- writing. Who was T. J. S. — if I correctly read the initials? Lovelace himself has a poem to Lady A[nne] L[ovelace] 'My asylum in a great extremity,' of which, above words seem an echo. Again: on the blanks from p, 75 to p. 77, there are 18 numbered ' Epigrams ' which would seem to belong to Crashaw, though not assigned to him. Fuller's ' Epigrams * fill the blanks from p. 78 to 84. I adhere with literal fidelity to the manuscript — placing in brackets my filling up of less plain contractions — and I have to acknowledge the admirable help and rare insight of W. Aldis Wright, Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, in deciphering the somewhat intricate and difficult hand-writing and meaning. The figures 1, 2, etc., point to a few slight explanatory Notes appended. Under Epigrams 10, 40, 53 are references to ' Pisgah-Sight ' which confirm their Fullerian authority. These might be multiplied. But specially note Epigram 33 : and as bearing the true mint- mark Nos. 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 27,31, 34, 35, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 54, 55, 58, 59. G. XVI. "EPIGRAMS BY THO : FULLER" 1. On Adam. 1 When modest — sinful, w[he]n cloath'[d] — nak'd in minde, W? knoweinge — ignorant : w? seeinge — blinde (1). 2. On Noah. A ridle. No : wares he caried w[hi]ch he m[ean]t to sel Of pirats ferrelesse : for no harbor bound All winde tho turninge served his turn as wel He only wisht for to be run on ground. (2). 3. On Leah : Too tender were her eeys ; if God so please Would al mens harts were sicke of her disease. (3). 1 Cf. the quotation from ' Hainous Sinne ' etc. in our Intro- duction page 13 [III. st. 6], almost identical. G. 222 UNPUBLISHED EPIGEAMS. 4. On Joseph & his M.™ (4). He might have been oe'rcome by makeinge stay Who overcame by runninge quite away When Josep[h] to his m^ would not yeild Sure then he overcame in Loosecoat 1 field. 5. On Ziporah circum : her sons. (5). Sheddinge her sons blood sav'd her husband's life. But then her tongue cuts sharper then a knife : With her sons fore-skine so she thought to fit him Thrown at his feet she in y e teeth did hit him. 6. On Moses Smiteinge y e Eocke. (6). He formerly complain'd, my tongue's too slowe But surely then his tongue to[o] fast did goe. 7. On the Batle with Amelacke. (7). The wind i' th' victory, where did it stand p] Looke on y e weather co eke on Moses' hand : His hand's no weathercocke I cal to minde Yt's turned about, but this doth turny 6 winde. 1 A place near Stamford w[h]ere a Batle in Edw : 4 time [The preceding note is in the Manuscript. Mr Wright as before, has been good enough to send me the following ' Loosecoat-jield is mentioned by Speed as the scene of a battle fought near Stamford in the reign of Edward the Fourth — so called because the defeated party in the hurry of their flight threw away their coats — Speed, History of Great Britain p. 680 edi. 1611.' G.] UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 223 8. On Joshauah. (8). Weake faith y* one days station doth comand Brave Keplar (9) make y e sun for ever stand. 9. On y e Alter Ed. (10). This Alter they did piously Intend Pray God none ere be bu[i]lt to worser end. 10. Sampson's Jawe bone. (11). Water x from Horse-hoofe : 2 'tis a fable thinge 'Tis now an Asses Jawe did yei[l]d a Springe. 2 11. On Ephraimites fals pronnnc : Shiboleth (12). They wanted H in their pronnunciation Sure H : was then a heavy aspiration : Schin was their theta & much blood it spils To them y 6 word was true, y e letter kils. 12. On Elijah taken vp into heaven (13). He'es Israel's chariot : who y e like espi'de To see a chariot in a chariot ride. 1 Helicon. F. 2 Pegasus. F. 3 In ' Pisgah-Sight ' p. 229, we read ' 'tis true an Asses Jawe did yei[l]d a Springe ' p. 229. ed. 1650. G. 224 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 13. On Zacheus (14). Hee climb' d A fig-tree : this I dare ad more (15) No barren fig- tree then : good frute it bore 14. On y e Powder plot (16). The plot was onely in Intention wronght Y e plotters were to execution brought. 15. On Yaine Excuses. When men do sin themselves they blame y® divel Y e divel doth their sin : they do y e evil. 16. On Gallants cloakes. Without plaine cloath, within plush : but I doubt Y e wearer's worst within & best without. 17, On Popish Interpretation of Scripture. Christ : Drinke al of this at y e comunion table Pope : By al, y e clergy, their are only meant Paul : Mariage Amongst al men 's honorable Pope : All, there's y e Laity y ts paul's intent. Christ : Is't so indeed : w* X[t], saith or St Paul yts nothinge : w* y e pope saith, all in all. 18. On Sin. We paint y e divel blacke : us to requite The blackamore's do paint y e divel white : UNPUBLISHED EPIGEAMS. 225 Thus juglers count spendinge y e only (17) vice And spenders make it to be avarice And every man whereof himselfe is free Y* he conceives y e only sin to be. 19. Whether Scripture or tradition [is] y e mother of faith. Scr. Y e child is mine, of certaine S 1 ! I bare it Trad : S* , it's mine & I must therefore share it : Solomon: Y* then this matter better be decided Bringe forth a sword & let it be divided (18). Trad : wel s? S? y e Judgm* is wel spent Let it be hers & mine Indifferent. Scrip : O no not so, alive for pity save it Let me have't al or let her wholy have it. Solomon : now I see this woman is y e mother Give her y e . child and pack away y e other. 20. On Pope Innocent. Pope Innocent cheife of y e Eoman Eout Answers his name : but how if In : were out. p 226 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 21. On Corn hoarders. 1 Why do'st y? (19) hoard up corn for mice w n faine Y e people would it buy : oh knave in graine. 22. On Joseph's M™ (20). Bee : chast-minded Joseph did deny To ly with her, she wretch on him did ly. 23. On Jacob (21). Cheape rate he gave & always thinkes to gett For birthright, pottage : fore y e bless? meat. 24. On Paul's Jorney to Damascus (22). Blest blindnes w° h did ope his ghostly eyes And fal y*. made him into heaven rise. 25. On y e Philistins (23). Sampson's firebranded foxes vext them sore Our Pox (24) his firebrand vext y e papists more. duller would have agreed with like-minded Dr "William Smith in his memorable ' Blacksmith ' sermon, wherein he paraphrases St Basil 'in one of those sermons that he wrought against the covetous cormorants or corn-morants of his time ' [< The Blacksmith ' 1606.] G. UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 227 26. On Michal's mockeinge (25). W[ha]t Issue came there of a deed so bad Alas ! no issue : child she never had. 27. On Peter's words < shal I smite?' (26). He gave no eare to hear w[ha]t Christ would say But presently tooke Malchus' eare away. 28. On Bugbears. Scare not thy children w[it]h false and foolish fears But rather tel them of Elisha's beares (27). 29. On Sampson. Porter, who Gaza's (28) gates op'd without stay Porter who on his backe bore gates away. 30. On Manasse (29). W[he]n far from home this Cap[ti]f longe was sent Home came he to himselfe & did repent. 31. On Jacob (30). W[he]n to his thigh y e Lord a touch did send Jacob did halt before his dearest frend. 228 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 32. On Nosh's clove (31). The newes she brought by mouth, tho nothing spake Whose nothinge answer did in folio make. 33. A prayer. My soul is stained w[i]th a dusky colour Let thy Sonne be y e sope Tie be y e Fuller (32). 34. On Peter's Sinkeinge (33). Cephas : w[ha]ts y*. (?) a stone : yea so I thinke A heavey stone : for it began to sinke. 35. On his Successors. If in y e sea y e popes durst him succeed Where he was duckt, they would be drown'd indeed. 36. On pride in cloaths. Eagles have none but peacockes have brave traine Subjects goe fine in cloaths, y e kinge goes plaine. 37. On Zacheus. So I be good I care not to be tall I'de rather be Zacheus then A Saul (34). 38. On Musculus (35). This preacher turn'd A weaver forc't by need How many weavers preachers do proceed. UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 229 39. One more knave then foole. Nabal's a foole : read backeward & you have His nature truly, Laban, yts a knave (36). 40. On David's three Worthy's (37). Wast not stronge water w[hic]h 3 men so mighty Ventur'd their lives for : yes, 'twas Aqua vitse. x 41. On Sampson (38). Where lay y e strength of Sampson 1 even there Where Gallants pride now lys : in their longe hair. 42. A prayer. Hard is my heart, Lord, to my greife I feele Be yV y e Loadstone, it shal be y e Steele. 43. On y e Men of Sodom (39). Most bad is in A Lottery : good but one And y e good lot God drewe from thence alone. 1 Cf . * Pisgah-Sight ' as before p. 299 on Aqua Vitro. This peculiar wording is also found in the 'Divine Poems' of Thomas Washbourne D.D. (1654), e.g. of penitent tears. ' That Aqua vitas Thou dost prize (page 14). And at page 41 — • ' Th' Aqua vitas which from Christ's side came.' G. 230 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 44. On Naboth accused (40.) W[ha]t ground of such false crimes in hi[m] was found Alas, his vineyeard y* was All y e ground. 45. On Jacob. Stout souldier 1 who's yet 2 vnborn did fight (41). Great conqueror who queld y e lord of might. 46. On Ehud (42). Who so wel set himselfe to understand May see God's finger plaine in Ehud's hand. 47. On y e Israelites in y e Wildernes. Their sutes did hold til 40 yeares were past (43) Sure in our lawe some Sutes as longe do last. 48. On Perseverance. Joash relaps'd, Manasse did Amend Begin with Joash, with Manasse end (44). 49. On James & John wishinge fire on y e Samaritans (45). The sons of thunder was enough for you You need not to be sons of Lightning too. 1 A trisyllable. G. 2 Who as yet. G. UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 231 50. On Paul's danger (46). Shipwracke escap't, no sooner come to land But straight another danger is at hand : Him men a murderer count, a wondrous thing To bite him whom y 6 serpent would not sting. 51. On Jael (47). When Sisera sure as A naile was dead Then Jael truly hit y e naile o'th' head : He never dream' t of her, she boldly say (48) But yet she tooke hi[m] napking [napping] as he lay. 52. On Hezekiah (49). The sun In goeinge backe w[ha]t did it showe Y* Hezekiah's life should forward goe A fig to hi[m] restor'd his life Againe : How many popes have since by figs been slaine 53. On Jehosophat (50). W[he]n he with wicked Ahab tooke A part He sd to hi[m] I'me never x as y u art But w[it]h y e Aramites wel match't was he Who timely tooke hi[m] Ahab for to me. 1 Query — a mistake for ' I'm ever' or I'm even. See 1 Kings xxii 4 ; ' Pisgah-Sight' as before, p. 83. G. 232 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 54. On Isaace (51). Whilst patient Isaace, at y e Alter lyes Y e Lord himself e Alter' d y e Sacrifice : A willinge minde of God is not despis'd Isaacke was offer' d but not sacryfic'd. 55. On Sampson's weapons (52). The silliest creature we do count y e Asse Y e fox doth always for y e wisest passe : With Asse's Jawes Sampson his foes doth quaile & flaps he gave them w[it]h a foxes taile. 56. On Japthaes daughter (53). He kil'd her not say some but only stay'd Her fro[m] ill marryinge : oh y* kills a maide. 57. On Ely y e priest (54). The newes of th' Ark's captivity once spoken His hart was broke before his necke was broken No wonder Ely was so tender harted Y e priest must needs dy w[he]n y e Ark's dep'[ar]ted. 58. On Sampson & John Baptist (55). Much do I muse w[he]n I on Sampson thinke So stronge, whose mother tasted no stronge drink But yet John Baptist is A wonder rather A cryer's voice, begot of A dumb father. UNPUBLISHED EPIGKAMS. 233 59, On Christ Lookinge on Peter (56). Tho Peter w[it]h his tongue did Christ deny Yet Christ, he owned Peter with his eye : Peter who was with night of feares ore-drawn But w[he]n y e Cocke did crowe y e day did dawn. NOTES. 1. Adam : Cf . Genesis c. iii. w. 7, 8. 2. Noah : Cf. Genesis c. vii. 3. Leah : Of. Genesis c. xxix. 17. 4. Joseph : Cf. Genesis c. xxxix. 5. Zipporah : Cf. Exodus c. iv. 24-26. 6. Moses : Cf. Exodus c. iv. 10, with Numbers c. xx. 10 and Ps. cvi. 33. 7. Amelacke : Cf. Exodus c. xvii. 8-16. 8. Joshua: Spelled as ante, though I am not sure that the first '«' was not intended to be blotted out. In the MS. it is blackened. Cf. Joshua c. x. 12. y* = that. 9. Keplar : The great astronomer 'Kepler' who so advanced astronomical discovery. Query — make = for makes or made ? 10. Ed : Cf. Joshua xxii. 34. 11. Sampson : Cf. Jugdes c. xv. 16. 12. Shiboleth: Cf. Judges c. xii. 6. 13. Elijah : Cf. 2 Kings c. ii. 12. 14. Zacheus : = Zacchseus : Luke c. xix. 1-10. 15. Ad more = admire, with a play on the words l addmore. 16. Powder-Plot : so long celebrated in ' oth November ' anniversary Sermons and Prayers. 17. ' Greatest,' is here written above the line. 18. 'Divided:' Cf. 1 Kings c. iii. 25 seqq. 19. ' Y? ' = the Latin ' tu,' thou : repeated in the MS. 234 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS, 20. Joseph: Of. Note 4 supra. The 'Bee' is probably a contraction for ' because.' 21. Jacob : Cf. Genesis c. xxv. 29-34 and c. xxvii. 19 seqq. 22. Paul: Cf. Acts c. ix. 3-9. 23. Philistines : Cf. Judges c. xv. 4. 24. Fox = John Foxe the Martyrologist. 25. Michal: Cf. 2 Samuel c. vi. 16 and 20-23. 26. Peter : Cf. St John c. xviii. 10 : and the parallel pas- 27. Elishas bears: Cf. 2 Kings ii. 24. 28. Gaza in MS. is spelled ' Gara ' — Cf. Judges c. xvi. 1-3. 29. Manasse = Manasseh — Cf. 2 Chronicles c. xxxiii. 1-20. 30. Jacob: Cf Genesis c. xxxii. 25, 31, 32. 31. Noah's dove : Cf. Genesis c. viii. 8, 9. 32. A prayer : Perhaps this pun-wit even in prayer is as self-authenticating a characteristic as is to be found in these Epigrams. Our "Worthy delighted to play on his own name e.g. in ' his own epitaph ' Here lies Fuller's earth.' 33. Cephas: Cf. St John c. i. 42, with St Matthew c. xiv. 30. 34. Zacheus : Cf. supra note 14. 35. Musculus: a Memoir of this Eeformer and Scholar is given in ' Abel Redevivus.' 36. Nabal: Cf. 1 Samuel c. xxv. 3, 25. 37. David's three "Worthies : Cf. 2 Samuel c. xxiii. 9. 38. Sampson's hair : Cf. Judges c. xvi. 17 seqq. 39. Sodom : Cf. Genesis xix. 15 seqq. 40. Naboth : Cf. 1 Kings c. xxi. 1 seqq. 41. Jacob: Cf. Genesis c. xxv. 22. 42. Ehud : Cf. Judges iii. 15 seqq. 43. Israel in the "Wilderness : Cf. Deuteronomy c. xxix. 5. 44. Perseverance: Cf. Note 29 supra: and Judges vi. 31 et alibi. 45. James and John: Cf. St Luke ix. 24, with St Mark c. iii. 17. UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 235 46. Paul's danger : Cf. Acts c. xxviii. 3 seqq. 47. Jael: Cf. Judges iv. 21, 22. and v. 26. 48. Query — gay? 49. HezeMah : Of. 2 Kings xx. 7, 11 : and parallels in Isaiah. 50. Jehosophiat = Jehoshaphat. Cf. 2 Chronicles c. xviii. and 2 Chronicles xviii. 31 and xix. 2. 51. Isaac : Cf. Genesis c. xxii. 12. 52. Sampson : Cf. supra 11 and 38. 53. Jeptha's daughter : Cf. Judges c. xi. 30 seqq. 54. Ely the priest: Cf. 1 Samuel c. iv. 18. 55. Sampson and John the Baptist : Cf. Judges xiii. 5 with St Luke i. 20. G. APPENDIX. FULLEE'S FOEM OF PEAYEE. S stated in our Introduction there follows here the ' Focm' which our Worthy was wont to use in his extra-Prayer-Book ' devotions.' Concerning it, the rare anonymous 'Life' (1662) observes, ' A constant form of prayer he used as in his family so in his publique ministry ; onely varying or adding upon speciall occasions or occurences intervening required, because not only hesitation (which the good Doctor for all his strength of memory and invention, was afraid of before so awful a presence as the majesty of heaven) was in prayer more offensive than other discourse; but because such excursions in that duty, in the extempore way, was become the idol of the multitude' (p. 81). The < Form' itself is preserved in the exceedingly scarce volume whose title-page I now give. 238 fuller's form of prayer. PULPIT SPAEKS OR CHOICE POEMS . OF PEAYEE, BY SEVERAL EEVEEEND and GODLY DIVINES USED by them, both before and after SEEMON. WITH other PEAYEES, for extraordinary oocasions, TOGETHER, WITH Dr HEWYTTS, last PEAYEE, BY, Dr Reeve. M. Ball. Dr Gillingham. M. Goddard. Dr Jer. Taylor. M. Nat. Hardy. Dr Heioytt, M. Hall. Dr Wilde. M. Jo. Marston. Dr Griffith. M. Mackerness. Mr Tho. Fuller. M. Sparks. London, Printed for W. Gilbert- son at the Bible in Giltspur- street, 1659. FULLER S FORM OF PRAYER. 239 The date is 1659 though Mr Eussell [' Memo- rials of Fuller '] gives it as 1658. The preface ' To the judicious, and religious reader' is signed ' Tho. Beeve 1 — query author of that vivid and remarkable folio, ' The Plea of Niniveh' and various memorable Sermons.' The volume is a very small 12mo. and Fuller's Prayer occupies pp. 156-171. G. ME T. F. HIS PEAYEE. ET the Words of my mouth, and the thoughts of all our hearts be now and ever acceptable in thy sight, Lord our strength and our Eedeemer. Eternal Lord God, infinite in thy great- nesse, incomprehensible in thy glory, whose jrare and just Eyes cannot behold either sin or sinners with the least look of approbation; be not offended with thy servants ; it will be little comfort for us in these glorious attributes ; we come to them that may tender most consolation to us : Oh Lord God, who in Christ Jesus art a mercifull and a reconciled Father to all such sinners as sincerely from their Souls desire and endeavour to repent and believe; thy providence hath brought us unto this place to offer unto thy Majesty our evening sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving, and to be made partakers of a portion of thy most holy Word ; truly Lord we have just cause PRAYER. 241 to fear lest our prayers, instead of that blessing we now desire, draw down that curse which they deserve upon us ; we have inflamed the corrup- tions of our natures with the manifold rebellions of our lives, which have been nothing else but one constant breach of thy ten comman dements ; true Lord, the law in our minds, our spirit, our new creature, our regenerate half, our light, clearly knows and chearfully acknowledges all and every one of thy commandements for pure, and just, and holy ; but the law in our members, our darknesse, our flesh, our old Creature breaks them daily in thought, word, and deed ■ we all of us have been foul and flat Idolaters, erecting * the Idols of our own profit and pleasure in the Chapels and Closets of our hearts, and then and there have fallen down upon the bended knees of our Souls, and worshipt them, by regarding our lust more than the fulfilling of thy will in thy word ; that sacred name of thine whereby we hope to be saved, we have taken in vain ; we have done that on thy day, the Lord's day, which we can Justine or avouch on no day ; we have not given that reverence and respect to our Superiors placed over us which thou requirest at our hands ; we have broken all the commandements of the second Table in our demeanour towards our neighbours, and in our deportment to our Q 242 PRAYER. own Souls and bodies ; and here Lord we are ashamed to confesse the manifold circumstances of our sins in the presence and hearing of man, who, vile, bold wretches were no whit ashamed or afraid to commit them when we knew. full well that the high God of Heaven and Earth did at that instant behold us ; now lend us of thy Spirit effectually to admire at thy patience and longsuffering towards us, who permits such prophane and presumptuous sinners at this hour of our lives still to remain from Hell fire ; surely Lord there are many in that pit of perdition, whose sins against thee were never aggravated with those high circumstances ; Lord, we have no variety of reasons to move thee to mercy, we have no exchange of motives to per- swade thee to pitty, but only the same over and over again, for thy own sake, for thy names sake, for thy mercies sake, for thy Son and our Saviour Christ Jesus his sake forgive our sins, for they are great ; wash the guilt & filth of our sins away in his blood ; and Lord for the time to come give us grace to spend the re- mainder of our dayes in our several Callings to thy glory; Lord grant that we may not only labour to have our sins pardoned to us, but also strive to have so much favour with thee, that before our deaths we may have our sins forgive- PRAYER. 243 ness assured ; for our comfort, grant Lord that we may betake our selves to do the one thing necessary ; let us not have our oyl to buy when we should have it to burn ; teach us Lord that sicknesse is a time not to do but to sutler ; and gracious Lord grant that our work being done, and the books crost in the times of our healths, we may be comforted when we come to dye, and to resign our Souls into the hands of a faithfull Creator and gracious redeemer. 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