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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    Keep all onecourfe; ingenioufly ,hevaries The Heay'ns rich building intoeight round Stories. Others,amid the Starrie{t Orb perceiving Atriplecadence,and withall conceiving That but one natural! courfe one body goes, Count nine,fom ten ;not numbring yer(with thofe} Thempyreal] Palace,whereth’eternall Treafures Of Neitar flowe,where cuer-lafting Pleafures Areheaped-vp,whereanimmortall Way In blifs-full beauties fourifheth foray, Where Life ftill liues,where God his* Sifes holds Environ’droundwith Seraphins,and Soules Bought with his precious bloud,whofe glorious Flighe Yerft mounted Earth aboue the Heav’ns bright. Nor fhall my faintand humble Mufe prefume So higha Song and Subicé to alfume, O fair, fiue-double R ovnd, Sloath’s Foe apparant, Life ofthe World, Dayes,Months,and Yeers owne Parent § Thine own felfs model,never fhifting place, Andyet,thy pure wings with fofwiftapafe Fly ouervs,that but our Thought alone Can(asthy babe)purfuethy motion : Infinite finite: freefrom growth and grief, Difcord and death; dance-louer ;to be brief, Still likethy felf,all thine ownein thee all, Tran{parent,cleer, light; law of this lowe Ball: Which in thy wide bout,bound-lesall dooft bound, And clafpeft all,vnder,or in thy Rounds Throne cf th’ Almighty,I would faine rehearfe Thy various Dances inthisvery Verfe, If it weretime,and butmy bounded Song Doubteth to make this Second-Daytoo-long. For,notwithftanding,yetanother day I fearfomCritick wijinot ftick to fay, My babbling Mufe did fail with every gale, And mingled yarn tolength herwebwithall. But knowe,what e’rthou be,that heerI gather Iuftlyio many of Gods works together; «. | € Alftfes, Ele foppeth ae the contemplatie on and proife of the Heauens. Which he confe= dereth as diffin~ guilhed into ten fragesor Hea- BENS, The fumme of what hath bees — = = Se Se ep ime aa ona A, le ia ee en ee — — ——