Du Bartas his Deuine weekes and workes / translated and Dedicated to the / Kings most excellent/ Maieste / by Josvah Sylvester.

  • Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
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[1613]
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Credit: Du Bartas his Deuine weekes and workes / translated and Dedicated to the / Kings most excellent/ Maieste / by Josvah Sylvester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For, ifof Nothing any thing could {pring, Th’Earthwithout(ced fhould wheat and barly bring, Pure Mayden-wombs defired Babes fhould bear: All things, at all times, fhould grow euery where, The Hart in Water fhould it felfingender 5 The Whale on Land 3in Airethe Lamblingtender: Th’ Ocean fhou!d yeeldthe PineandCornell Tree ; On Hazels Acorns,Nuts on Oaks fhouldbe: And breaking Naturesfet and facredvfe, The Doues would Eagles, Eagles Doues, produce. If of themfeluesthings took theirthriuing, chen Slowe-growing Babesfhouldinftantly be men: Then in the Forefts fhould huge boughsbefeen Bornwith the bodies of vnplanted Treen: Then fhouldthefucking Elephant{upport Vpon hisfhoulders a well-manned Fort: Andthenew-foaled Colt,couragious, Should neigh for Battail like Bucephalus, Contrariwife,ifought to nought did fall ; All, thatis felt or feen within this All, Still lofing (omwhat ofr (elf,at length Wouldcometo Nothing: If Death’s fatall ftrength Could altogether Subftances deftroy, Things then fhouldvanith even as foon as dy. Intime the mighty Mountains tops be bated ; But,withthéir fal!,tche neighbour Vales are fatted ; And what, when Trext or Avon ouer-flowe, They reaue one field, they onthenextbeftowe: Loue-burning Heav'n many {weet Deaws doth drop In his deer Spoufes fair and fruitfull lap ; Whichafter the reftores, {training thofe fhowrs Through th’hidden poresof pleafant plants and flowrs. Whofo hath feen,how one warm lump of wax (Withoutincreafing, or decreafing) takes A hundred figures ; well may iudge of all Th'inceffant Changes of thisnether Bal], The Worlds owne Matter isthe waxen Lump, By an apt fimili- tude he fheweth the continwall Change of the Worid, inthe matter and form . ema er weet ON Te, giiitighe. 02 arom. ow — : = ~ Ci a pee