folio: 37 | |
ref.ed: 117 | |
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Gyrtt in my giltlesse gowne / As I sytt heare and sowe | |
I see that thinges are not in-dead / as to the owtward showe | |
And who-so lyst to looke / and note thinges somwhat neare | |
Shall fynde wheare playnnesse semes to haunte / nothing but craft appeare | |
5 | For with indifferent eyes / my-self can well discearne |
How som to guyd a shyppe in stormes / styckes not to take the stearne | |
Whose skill and Conninge tryed / in calme to steare a bardge | |
They wolde sone shau yow shold sone see / it weare to great a chardge | |
And some I see agayne / sytt still and say but small | |
10 | That can do ten tymes more than they / that say they can do all |
Whose goodlye gyftes are suche / the more they vnderstand | |
The more they seeke to learne and know / and take lesse chardge in hand | |
And to declare more playne / the tyme flyttes, not so fast | |
But I can beare right well in mynd / the song now sung and past | |
15 | The Awctour whearof cam / wrapt in a craftye cloke |
In will to force a flamyng fyre / wheare he could rayse no smoke | |
If powre and will had mett / as it appeareth playne | |
The truth nor right had tane no place / their vertues had bene vayne | |
So that you may perceave / and I may saflye see | |
20 | The innocent that gyltlesse is / condempned sholde have be |
Muche lyke vntruth to this / the storye doth declare | |
Wheare th'elders layd to Susans chardge / meete matter to compare | |
They did her both accuse / and eke condempne her to | |
And yet no reason right nor truthe / did lead them so to do | |
ref.ed: 118 | |
25 | And she thus iudg'd to dye / toward her death went forthe |
Fraughted with faith a pacient pase / taking her wrong in worthe | |
But he that dothe defend / all those that in hym trust | |
Did Raise a Childe for her defence / to shyeld her from th'uniust. | |
And Danyell chosen was / then of this wrong to weete | |
30 | How, in what place and eke with whome / she did this Cryme commytt |
He caws'd the Elders part / the one from th'others sight | |
And did examyne one by one / and chardge them bothe say right 'ed' added above line in another hand over cancelled 'e' of 'chardge', and 'them' cancelled | |
Vnd'ra Mvlberye-trye / it was fyrst sayd the one | |
The next nam'de a Pomegranate-trye / whereby the truth was knowne | |
35 | Than Susan was dischardg'd / and they condempen'd to dye |
As right requeares and they deserve / that fram'de so fowll a lye | |
And he that her preserv'd / and lett them of their lust | |
Hath me defendyd hetherto / and will do still I trust | |
Finis |
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ref.ed: 119 | |
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London hast thow accused me | |
Of breache of lawes the roote of stryfe | |
Within whose brest did boyle to see | |
So fervent hote thye dissolute lyf | |
5 | That even the hate of syns that groo |
Within thie wicked walls so ryfe | |
For to breake forthe did convert so | |
That terrour could it not represse | |
ref.ed: 120 | |
The whiche by wordes synce preachers knoo | |
10 | What hope is left for to redresse |
By vnknowen meanes it lyked me | |
My hydden bourden to expresse | |
Wherby it might appeare to the | |
That secreat synne hath secreat spight | |
15 | From iustice rodde no faulte is free |
But that all suche as workes vnright | |
In moste quyet are nexte ill rest | |
In secreat scylence of the night | |
This made me with a recklesse brest | |
20 | To wake thie sluggards with my bowe |
A fygure of the lordes behest | |
Whose skourdge for synne the scryptures shew scryptures] sceptures A | |
That as the fearefull thonder-clapp | |
By Suddayne flame at hand we know | |
25 | Of peoble-stones the sowndlesse rapp |
Ye dredfull plague might make the see | |
Of goddes wrathe that doth thee enwrapp | |
That pryde might know from conscience free terza rima modified here: two following lines wanting? Same arrangement in A | |
Howe loftie workes may her defend | |
30 | And envye fynde as he hath sought |
folio: 49v | |
How other seke hym to offend | |
And wrath tast of eache crewell thought | |
The iust shape hyer in the end | |
And ydle slowth that never wrought | |
35 | To heven his spirite lift may begyn |
And greedye luker lyve in dreed | |
To see what hate ill-gote goodes wynn | |
The lechers ye that lustes do feede | |
Perceave what secreacye is in syn | |
40 | And gluttons hartes for sorow bleede |
Awaked when their fault they fynde Terza rima resumes here | |
In lothsome vyce eache droncken wight | |
To styrr to god this was my mynd | |
Thie wyndowes hadd done me no spight | |
45 | But prowd people that dread no fall |
Clothed with falshed and vnright | |
Bredd in the closures of thie wall | |
But wrested to wrath in fervent zeale | |
Thow hast to strif my secreat call | |
50 | Endured hartes no warninge feele |
Oh shamelesse whore is dread then gon | |
By suche thie foes as meantt thie weale | |
ref.ed: 121 | |
Oh menbre of falce Babylon menbre =membre; membre A | |
The shopp of crafte, the den of yre | |
55 | Thye dreadfull dome drawes fast vppon |
Thie Martyres blood by sword and fyre | |
In heaven and earth for iustice call | |
The lord shall heare their iust desyre | |
The flambe of wrathe shall on the fall | |
60 | With famyne and pest lamentable lamentable] lamentablie A |
Stryken shall be thie Lechers all thie] they A | |
Thie prowd towers and turrettes hye | |
Enmyes to god beat stone from stone | |
Thyne Idolls burnt that wrought iniquitie | |
65 | When none thie ruyne shall bemone |
But render vnto the rightuous lord | |
That so hath iudged Babylon | |
Immortall prayse with one accorde | |
Finis |
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folio: 52v | |
ref.ed: 127 | |
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Wheare rechelesse youthe in a vnquyet brest | |
Sett on by wrathe revendge and Creweltie | |
After long warr patience had opprest | |
And iustice wrought by pryncelye equytie | |
5 | My Denny then myne errour depe imprest |
Began to worke dispaire of Lybertie | |
Had not David the perfect warriour taught | |
That of my fault thus pardon shuld be sought | |
folio: 53 | |
ref.ed: 128 | |
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The soudden stormes that heave me to and frow | |
Had welneare pearced faith my guyding saile | |
For I that on the noble voyage goo | |
To succour truthe and falshedd to assaile | |
5 | Constrayned am to beare my sayles ful low |
And never could attayne some pleasaunt gayle | |
For vnto suche the prosp'rous wynds do blow | |
As ronne from porte to porte to seke avayle | |
This bredd dispayre whearof suche doubtes did grow | |
10 | That I gan faynt and all my courage fayle |
But now my Blage myne errour will I see will] well A | |
Suche goodlye Light king david gyveth me | |
folio: 52 | |
ref.ed: 125 | |
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Thie name o Lord how greate / is fownd before our sight | |
Yt fills the earth and spreades the ayre / the great workes of thie might | |
For even vnto thie powre / the heavens have geven a place | |
And closyd it above their heades / a mightie lardge compace | |
5 | Thye prayse what Clowde can hyde / but it will sheene agayne |
Synce yonge and tender sucking-babes / have powre to shew it playne | |
Whiche in dispight of those / that wold thie glorie hyde | |
Hast put into suche Infantes mowthes / for to confound their pryde | |
Wherefore I shall beholde / thy fygur'de heaven so hye | |
10 | Whiche shewes suche printes of dyvers formes / within the Clowdye skye |
As hills and shapes of men / eke beastes of sondrie kynde | |
Monstruous to our outward sight / and fancyes of our mynde | |
And eke the wanishe moone / whiche sheenes by night also | |
And eache one of the wandring sterres / whiche after her doth goe | |
15 | And how to kepe their cource / and whiche are those that stands |
Because they be thie wond'rous workes / and labours of thie hands | |
But yet among all theise / I aske what thing is man | |
ref.ed: 126 | |
Whose tourne to serve in his poore neede / this worke thow first began | |
Or whate is Adames sonne / that beares his fathers marke | |
20 | For whose delyte and compfort eke / thow hast wrought all this warke |
I see thow mynd'st hym moche / that doste rewarde hym so | |
Beinge but earth to rule the earth / wheare-on hym-self doth go | |
From Aungells substance eke / thow mad'ste hym differ small | |
Save one dothe chaunge his lif a whyle / the other not at all | |
25 | The Sonne and Moone also / thow mad'ste to geve hym light |
And eache one of the wandring sterrs / to twynckle sparkles bright | |
The ayre to geve hym breathe / the water for his health | |
The earth to bring forth grayne and frute / for to encreace his wealth | |
And many mettalls to / for pleasure of the eye | |
folio: 52v | |
30 | Whiche in the hollow-sowndyd grownd / in previe vaynes do lye |
The sheepe to geve his wooll / to wrapp his boddie in | |
And for suche other needefull thinges / the Oxe to spare his skynne | |
The Horsse even at his will / to beare hym to and fro | |
And as hym list eache other beast / to serve his turne also | |
35 | The fysshes of the sea / lykewyse to feede hym ofte |
And eke the birdes whose Feathers serve / to make his sydes lye softe | |
On whose head thow hast sett / a Crowne of glorye to | |
To whome also thow did'st appoint / that honour shuld be do | |
And thus thow mad'ste hym lord / of all this worke of thyne | |
40 | Of man that goes, of beast that creapes / whose lookes doth downe declyne |
Of Fysshe that swymme below / of Fowles that flyes on hye | |
Of Sea that fyndes the ayre his rayne / and of the land so drye | |
And vnderneath his feete / thow hast sett all this same | |
To make hym know and playne confesse / that marveilous is thie name | |
45 | And Lord whiche art our Lord / how merveilouse is it fownd |
The heavens doth shew, the earth doth tell / and eke the world so rownd | |
Glorie therefore be geven / to thee first whiche art three | |
And yet but one almightie god / in substaunce and degree | |
As first it was when thow / the darcke c[o]nfused heape confused] cnfused H | |
50 | Clottid in one, did'st part in fowre / whiche Elementes wee cleape |
ref.ed: 127 | |
And as the same is now / even heare within our tyme | |
And ever shall heare-after be / when we be filth and slyme | |
Finis |
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folio: 53v | |
ref.ed: 130 | |
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Exaudi Deus orationem meam.
Ps: 55.
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Geave eare to my sute lord, fromward hyde not thie face | |
Beholde herken in greefe, lamenting how I praye herken] herking A | |
My fooes they bray so lowde, and eke threpe on so fast threpe: ='thrust', 'press', see OED s.v. threap, 4c | |
Buckeled to do me scathe, so is their malice bent | |
ref.ed: 131 | |
5 | Care pearceth my entrayles, and traveileth my spirit spirit] spryte A |
The greeslye feare of death, envyroneth my brest | |
A tremblinge colde of dread, cleane overwhealm'the my hart | |
O thinck I, had I winges lyke to the symple dove | |
This perill might I flye, and seeke some place of rest | |
10 | In wylder woodes, wheare I might dwell farr from theise cares |
What speedie way of wyng, my playntes shuld they lay on | |
To skape the stormye blast, that threatned is to me | |
Raine those vnbrydled tongues, breake that coniured league | |
For I descyphred have, amydd our towne the strif | |
15 | Guyle and wrong kepe walles, they warde both day and night kepe] do kepe A |
And myschief ioyn'de with care doth kepe the market-steede | |
Whyl'ste wickednes with crafte, in heapes swarme through the strete | |
Ne my declared foe / wrought me all this reproche | |
By harme so looked for / it wayeth half the lesse | |
20 | For thoughe myne en'myes happ, had bene for to prevayle |
I coulde haue hydd my face, from venome of his eye | |
It was a frendlye foe / by shadow of good-will | |
Myne olde feere and deare frend, my guyde that trapped me | |
Wheare I was wont to fetche, the cure, of all my care | |
folio: 54 | |
25 | And in his bosome hyde, my secreat zeale to god |
Suche soudden surpryse, quyck may hym-self devoure self] hell A | |
Whyl'ste I invoke the lorde / whose powre shall me defend | |
My prayer shall not seace / from that the sonne discendes | |
Till he his aulture wynne, and hyde them in the Sea aulture: ='height', see OED s.v. hauteur, 2 (1711); in A, 'h' cancelled from an original 'haulture' | |
30 | With wordes of whote effecte, that moves from hart contryte moves] moueth Awhote: =hot |
Suche h[u]mble sute o lorde, doth pearce thie pacient eare humble] hymble H, humble A | |
It was the lord that brake, the blooddie compactes of those | |
That prelooked on, with Ire to slawghter me and myne prelooked: OED, s.v. preloke, suggests an error; but see Hughey 2:110; A reads preloked | |
The everlasting god, whose kingdom hath no end | |
35 | Whome by no tale to dread, he could dyvert from synne |
The conscience vnquyet, he strykes with heavye hand | |
And proves their force in faith, whome he sware to defend | |
Butter falles not so softe / as doth his patience longe falles] fales A | |
And over-passeth fyne oyle / ronning not half so smothe | |
40 | But when his suffraunce fyndes, that brydled wrath provokes |
He threatneth wrath, he whettes more sharppe, then anye toole can fyle | |
Friowr whose harme and tongue / presentes the wicked sort Friowr: =friar | |
Of those falce wolves with Coa[t]es, whiche do their Ravyn hyde Coates] Coales H, cooles A | |
That sweare to me by heaven, the foote-stoole of the lorde | |
45 | Who thoughe force had hurt my fame, they did not touche my lif |
ref.ed: 132 | |
Such patching care I lothe, as feedes the wealth with lyes patching: ='deceiving', 'knavish', see OED s.v. patching, ppl.a.1 | |
But in the other psalme of david fynd I ease the other] the thother A | |
Iacta curam tuam super dominum et ipse te enutriet. / id est id est] A omits | |
Cast thie care vppon the Lord and he shall norishe thee / Cast thie care vppon the Lord and he shall norishe thee /] A omits | |
Finis |
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folio: 52v | |
ref.ed: 127 | |
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Domine deus salutis. Psal: [8]888] 98 H, A :
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O Lorde vppon whose will / dependith my welfare | |
To call vppon thie hollie name / syns day nor night I spare | |
folio: 53 | |
Graunt that the iust request / of this repentaunt mynde | |
So pearce thyne eares as in thie sight / some favour it may fynde as] that A, that 1549 | |
5 | My sowle is frawghted full / with greif of follies past |
My restlesse boddie doth consume / and death approchethe fast | |
Lyke them whose fatall threede / thye hand hath cutt in twayne | |
Of whome there is no further brute / whiche in their graves remayne further] farther 1549 | |
Oh Lorde thow hast me cast / headlong to please my fooe me cast] cast me A | |
10 | In-to a pitt all bottomelesse / wheare-as I playne my wooe |
The bourden of thye wrathe / it doth me sore oppresse | |
And sondrie stormes thow hast me sent / of terrour and distresse | |
The faithfull frendes are fledd / and banisht from my sight | |
And suche as I haue held full deare / haue sett my frendshipp light | |
15 | Mye durance dothe perswade / of freedom soche dispayre a 'u' surmounted by a tilde has been added above the 'a' of 'durance' |
That by the teares that bayne my brest / myne eye-sight doth appaire | |
Yet do I never ceace / thyne ayde for to desyre do] did A, dyd 1549 | |
With humble hart and stretched hands / for to appease thyne Ire thyne] thy A | |
Wherefore doste thow forbeare / in the defence of thyne | |
20 | To shew suche tokens of thie powre / in sight of Adames lyne |
Whearby eache feoble hart / with faith might so be fedd so be] be so 1549 | |
That in the mowthe of thye elect / thye mercyes might be spredd thye] thine 1549 | |
The flesshe that feedeth wormes / can not thie love declare | |
ref.ed: 128 | |
Nor suche set forth thie praise as dwell / in the land of dispaire praise] faith A, faieth 1549 | |
25 | In blynd endured hartes / light of thie lyvely name |
Can not appeare nor can not iudge / the brightnes of the same nor] as A, ne 1549 | |
Nor blazed may thie name / be by the mowthes of those blazed] blasted A, 1549; mowthes] mouth A, mouthe 1549 | |
Whome death hath shutt in scilence so / as they may not disclose shutt] shitt A, shitte 1549 | |
The lyvelye voyce of them / that in thie word delight thie word] thys worlde 1549 | |
30 | Must be the trumpp that must resownd / the glorie of thie might Must] Nor 1549 |
Wherefore I shall not ceace / in chief of my distresse | |
To call on the till that the sleape / my wearied lymbs oppresse wearied lymbs] wery bones 1549 | |
And in the morning eke / when that the sleape is fledd | |
With floodds of salt repentaunt teares / to washe my restlesse bedd | |
35 | Within this Carefull mynde / burd'nid with care and greif |
Whye doste thow not appeare o lorde / that shuld'st be his relief not appeare o lorde] lord appaese 1549; shuldst] shoulde 1549 | |
My wretchid state beholde / whome death shall streight assaile | |
Of one from youth afflicted still / that never did but wayle Of one from youth afflicted] Cast not from the th'aflicted 1549 | |
The dread loe of thyne yre / hath trode me vnder-feete | |
40 | The skourdges of thyne angrie hand / hath made deathe seeme full sweete |
Lyke to the roring waves / the Sunken Shipp surrownd to] as 1549 | |
Great heapps of care did swallow me / and I no Succour fownd swallow] folow 1549 | |
For they whome no mischaunce / could from my love devyde | |
Are forced to my greatter greif / from me their face to hyde. / to my] for my A | |
Finis |